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[ { "id": "5515585", "text": "Calculus (medicine) A calculus (plural calculi), often called a stone, is a concretion of material, usually mineral salts, that forms in an organ or duct of the body. Formation of calculi is known as lithiasis (). Stones can cause a number of medical conditions. Some common principles (below) apply to stones at any location, but for specifics see the particular stone type in question. Calculi are not to be confused with gastroliths. Calculi are usually asymptomatic, and large calculi may have required many years to grow to their large size. In kidney stones, calcium oxalate is the most common mineral", "title": "Calculus (medicine)" }, { "id": "5515587", "text": "the floor of the bladder. The care of this disease was forbidden to the physicians that had taken the Hippocratic Oath because Calculus (medicine) A calculus (plural calculi), often called a stone, is a concretion of material, usually mineral salts, that forms in an organ or duct of the body. Formation of calculi is known as lithiasis (). Stones can cause a number of medical conditions. Some common principles (below) apply to stones at any location, but for specifics see the particular stone type in question. Calculi are not to be confused with gastroliths. Calculi are usually asymptomatic, and large", "title": "Calculus (medicine)" }, { "id": "3838722", "text": "Nasal septum The nasal septum () separates the left and right airways in the nose, dividing the two nostrils. It is depressed by the depressor septi nasi muscle. The fleshy external end of the nasal septum is called the \"columella nasi\" or just columella, and is made up of cartilage and soft tissue. The nasal septum contains bone and hyaline cartilage. It is normally about 2 mm thick. The nasal septum is composed of five structures: At an early period the septum of the nose consists of a plate of cartilage, known as the \"ethmovomerine cartilage.\" The postero-superior part of", "title": "Nasal septum" }, { "id": "8096783", "text": "population. Persons aged 30–60 and males are more likely to develop sialolithiasis. The term is derived from the Greek words \"sialon\" (saliva) and \"lithos\" (stone), and the Latin \"-iasis\" meaning \"process\" or \"morbid condition\". A \"calculus\" (plural \"calculi\") is a hard, stone-like concretion that forms within an organ or duct inside the body. They are usually made from mineral salts, and other types of calculi include tonsiloliths (tonsil stones) and renal calculi (kidney stones). \"Sialolithiasis\" refers to the formation of calculi within a salivary gland. If a calculus forms in the duct that drains the saliva from a salivary gland", "title": "Sialolithiasis" }, { "id": "2112343", "text": "Mortar and pestle Mortar and pestle are implements used since ancient times to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them into a fine paste or powder in the kitchen, medicine and pharmacy. The \"mortar\" () is a bowl, typically made of hard wood, metal, ceramic, or hard stone, such as granite. The \"pestle\" () is a heavy and blunt club-shaped object. The substance to be ground, which may be wet or dry, is placed in the mortar, where the pestle is pressed and rotated onto it until the desired texture is achieved. Scientists have found ancient mortars and", "title": "Mortar and pestle" }, { "id": "6459632", "text": "Saddle nose Saddle nose is a condition associated with nasal trauma, congenital syphilis, relapsing polychondritis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, cocaine abuse, and leprosy, among other conditions. The most common cause is nasal trauma. It is characterized by a loss of height of the nose, because of the collapse of the bridge. The depressed nasal dorsum may involve bony, cartilaginous or both bony and cartilaginous components of the nasal dorsum. It can usually be corrected with augmentation rhinoplasty by filling the dorsum of nose with cartilage, bone or synthetic implant. If the depression is only cartilaginous, cartilage is taken from the nasal", "title": "Saddle nose" }, { "id": "1863688", "text": "teeth and the gingiva, where it is referred to as subgingival (\"below the gum\"). Calculus formation is associated with a number of clinical manifestations, including bad breath, receding gums and chronically inflamed gingiva. Brushing and flossing can remove plaque from which calculus forms; however, once formed, it is too hard (firmly attached) to be removed with a toothbrush. Calculus buildup can be removed with ultrasonic tools or dental hand instruments (such as a periodontal scaler). The word comes from Latin \"calculus\" \"small stone\", from \"calx\" \"limestone, lime\", probably related to Greek \"chalix\" \"small stone, pebble, rubble\" which many trace to", "title": "Calculus (dental)" }, { "id": "3838726", "text": "carcinoma. A nasal septum piercing is usually carried out through the fleshy columella close to the end of the nasal septum. Nasal septum The nasal septum () separates the left and right airways in the nose, dividing the two nostrils. It is depressed by the depressor septi nasi muscle. The fleshy external end of the nasal septum is called the \"columella nasi\" or just columella, and is made up of cartilage and soft tissue. The nasal septum contains bone and hyaline cartilage. It is normally about 2 mm thick. The nasal septum is composed of five structures: At an early", "title": "Nasal septum" }, { "id": "9673179", "text": "in a serrated nasal notch that articulates at the front with the paired nasal bones, and at the sides with the small lacrimal bones and with the frontal process of each maxilla. The nasal bones in the upper part of the nose are joined together by the midline internasal suture. They join with the septal cartilage at a junction known as the rhinion. The rhinion is the midpoint of the internasal suture at the join with the cartilage, and from the rhinion to the apex, or tip, the framework is of cartilage. Above and to the back, the bony upper", "title": "Human nose" }, { "id": "5822134", "text": "Osteoma An osteoma (plural: \"osteomata\") is a new piece of bone usually growing on another piece of bone, typically the skull. It is a benign tumor. When the bone tumor grows on other bone it is known as \"homoplastic osteoma\"; when it grows on other tissue it is called \"heteroplastic osteoma\". Osteoma represents the most common benign neoplasm of the nose and paranasal sinuses. The cause of osteomata is uncertain, but commonly accepted theories propose embryologic, traumatic, or infectious causes. Osteomata are also found in Gardner's syndrome. Larger craniofacial osteomata may cause facial pain, headache, and infection due to obstructed", "title": "Osteoma" }, { "id": "4696186", "text": "Nasal septum deviation Nasal septum deviation or deviated nasal septum (DNS) is a physical disorder of the nose, involving a displacement of the nasal septum. Some displacement is common, affecting 80% of people, most unknowingly. Only more severe cases of a deviated septum will cause symptoms of difficulty breathing and require treatment. Symptoms of a deviated septum include infections of the sinus and sleep apnea, snoring, repetitive sneezing, facial pain, nosebleeds, difficulty with breathing and mild to severe loss of the ability to smell. The nasal septum is the bone and cartilage in the nose that separates the nasal cavity", "title": "Nasal septum deviation" }, { "id": "1800632", "text": "Nose piercing Nose piercing is the piercing of the skin or cartilage which forms any part of the nose, normally for the purpose of wearing jewelry, called a nose-jewel. Among the different varieties of nose piercings, the nostril piercing is the most common. Nose piercing is the second most common variety of piercing after earlobe piercing. Nostril piercing is a body piercing practice for the purpose of wearing jewelry, much like nose piercing, which is most primarily and prominently associated with Indian culture and fashion since classical times, and found commonly in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Philippines,", "title": "Nose piercing" }, { "id": "12581633", "text": "Nasal fracture A nasal fracture, commonly referred to as a broken nose, is a fracture of one of the bones of the nose. Symptoms may include bleeding, swelling, bruising, and an inability to breathe through the nose. They may be complicated by other facial fractures or a septal hematoma. The most common causes include assault, trauma during sports, falls, and motor vehicle collisions. Diagnosis is typically based on the signs and symptoms and may occasionally be confirmed by plain X-ray. Treatment is typically with pain medication and cold compresses. Reduction, if needed, can typically occur after the swelling has come", "title": "Nasal fracture" }, { "id": "2198638", "text": "Rheum Rheum (; from Greek: ῥεῦμα \"rheuma\" 'a flowing, rheum'), also known as gound, is thin mucus naturally discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth during sleep (cf. mucopurulent discharge). Rheum dries and gathers as a crust in the corners of the eyes or the mouth, on the eyelids, or under the nose. It is formed by a combination of mucus (in the case of the eyes, consisting of mucin discharged from the cornea or the conjunctiva), nasal mucus, blood cells, skin cells, or dust. Rheum from the eyes is particularly common. Dried rheum is commonly called sleep, sleepy-seeds, sleepy", "title": "Rheum" }, { "id": "1863687", "text": "Calculus (dental) In dentistry, calculus or tartar is a form of hardened dental plaque. It is caused by precipitation of minerals from saliva and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) in plaque on the teeth. This process of precipitation kills the bacterial cells within dental plaque, but the rough and hardened surface that is formed provides an ideal surface for further plaque formation. This leads to calculus buildup, which compromises the health of the gingiva (gums). Calculus can form both along the gumline, where it is referred to as supragingival (\"above the gum\"), and within the narrow sulcus that exists between the", "title": "Calculus (dental)" }, { "id": "9673178", "text": "electively are carried out by cosmetic surgeries. Several bones and nasal cartilages make up the bony-cartilaginous framework of the nose, and the internal structure. The nose is also made up of types of soft tissue such as skin, epithelia, mucous membrane, muscles, nerves, and blood, and in the skin there are sebaceous glands. The framework of the nose is made up of bone and cartilage which provides strong protection for the internal structures of the nose. The arrangement of the cartilages allows flexibility through muscle control to enable airflow to be modified. The nasal part of the frontal bone ends", "title": "Human nose" }, { "id": "5515586", "text": "type (see Nephrolithiasis). Uric acid is the second most common mineral type, but an \"in vitro\" study showed uric acid stones and crystals can promote the formation of calcium oxalate stones. Stones can cause disease by several mechanisms: A number of important medical conditions are caused by stones: Diagnostic workup varies by the stone type, but in general: Modification of predisposing factors can sometimes slow or reverse stone formation. Treatment varies by stone type, but, in general: The earliest operation for curing stones is given in the \"Sushruta Samhita\" (6th century BCE). The operation involved exposure and going up through", "title": "Calculus (medicine)" }, { "id": "8096781", "text": "Sialolithiasis Sialolithiasis (also termed salivary calculi, or salivary stones), is a condition where a calcified mass or \"sialolith\" forms within a salivary gland, usually in the duct of the submandibular gland (also termed \"Wharton's duct\"). Less commonly the parotid gland or rarely the sublingual gland or a minor salivary gland may develop salivary stones. The usual symptoms are pain and swelling of the affected salivary gland, both of which get worse when salivary flow is stimulated, e.g. with the sight, thought, smell or taste of food, or with hunger or chewing. This is often termed \"mealtime syndrome\". Inflammation or infection", "title": "Sialolithiasis" }, { "id": "4059274", "text": "Tophus A tophus (Latin: \"stone\", plural tophi) is a deposit of uric acid crystals, in the form of monosodium urate crystals, in people with longstanding hyperuricemia (high levels of uric acid in the blood). Tophi are pathognomonic for the disease gout. Most people with tophi have had previous attacks of acute arthritis, eventually leading to the formation of tophi. Chronic tophaceous gout is known as Harrison Syndrome. Tophi form in the joints, cartilage, bones, and other places throughout the body. Sometimes, tophi break through the skin and appear as white or yellowish-white, chalky nodules. Without treatment, tophi may develop on", "title": "Tophus" }, { "id": "659581", "text": "may develop into chronic gout with destruction of joint surfaces, joint deformity, and painless tophi. These tophi occur in 30% of those who are untreated for five years, often in the helix of the ear, over the olecranon processes, or on the Achilles tendons. With aggressive treatment, they may dissolve. Kidney stones also frequently complicate gout, affecting between 10 and 40% of people and occur due to low urine pH promoting the precipitation of uric acid. Other forms of chronic kidney dysfunction may occur. Gout affects around 1–2% of the Western population at some point in their lifetimes and is", "title": "Gout" }, { "id": "19129300", "text": "Cementicle A cementicle is a small, spherical or ovoid calcified mass embedded within or attached to the cementum layer on the root surface of a tooth, or lying free within the periodontal ligament. They tend to occur in elderly individuals. There are 3 types: They may be visible on a radiograph (x-ray). They may appear singly or in groups, and are most commonly found at the tip of the root. Their size is variable, but generally they are small (about 0.2 mm – 0.3 mm in diameter). Cementicles are usually acellular, and may contain either fibrillar or afibrillar cementum, or", "title": "Cementicle" }, { "id": "778535", "text": "rivalry akin to that of binocular rivalry when there are two different inputs to the two eyes. Nostril A nostril (or naris , plural \"nares\" ) is one of the two channels of the nose, from the point where they bifurcate to the external opening. In birds and mammals, they contain branched bones or cartilages called turbinates, whose function is to warm air on inhalation and remove moisture on exhalation. Fish do not breathe through their noses, but they do have two small holes used for smelling, which may, indeed, be called nostrils. The Procellariiformes are distinguished from other birds", "title": "Nostril" }, { "id": "9673186", "text": "the large internal space of the nose. The cavity is divided into two cavities (fossae) by the nasal septum, which separates the nostrils. The division into two fossae enables the functioning of the nasal cycle that slows down the air conditioning process. The nasal vestibule is the frontmost part of the nasal cavity, and is enclosed by cartilages. On the lateral wall of each cavity are three shell-like bones called conchae, arranged as superior, middle, and inferior conchae. Below each concha is a corresponding superior, middle, and inferior nasal meatus. The conchae are also known as turbinates. Sometimes when the", "title": "Human nose" }, { "id": "5001540", "text": "Caliche Caliche () is a sedimentary rock, a hardened natural cement of calcium carbonate that binds other materials—such as gravel, sand, clay, and silt. It occurs worldwide, in aridisol and mollisol soil orders—generally in arid or semiarid regions, including in central and western Australia, in the Kalahari Desert, in the High Plains of the western USA, in the Sonoran Desert and Mojave Desert, and in Eastern Saudi Arabia Al-Hasa. Caliche is also known as calcrete or kankar (in India). It belongs to the duricrusts. The term \"caliche\" is Spanish and is originally from the Latin \"calx\", meaning lime. Caliche is", "title": "Caliche" }, { "id": "5937530", "text": "Stone massage A stone massage is a massage that uses smooth, flat, and heated rocks placed at key points on the body. Stones (usually basalt) are placed into an electric slow-cooker or a purpose-built device which is filled with water. The water is typically heated to . Once the stones have heated sufficiently, some are placed onto specific points on the body (such as the back, hands, etc.) and others are held by the massage therapist and used to work the muscles. Certain styles of stone massage also incorporate chilled stones into the routine. These stones are usually marble, and", "title": "Stone massage" }, { "id": "1984536", "text": "Gallstone A gallstone is a stone formed within the gallbladder out of bile components. The term cholelithiasis may refer to the presence of gallstones or to the diseases caused by gallstones. Most people with gallstones (about 80%) never have symptoms. When a gallstone blocks the bile duct, a crampy pain in the right upper part of the abdomen, known as biliary colic (gallbladder attack) can result. This happens in 1–4% of those with gallstones each year. Complications of gallstones may include inflammation of the gallbladder (cholecystitis), inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), jaundice, and infection of a bile duct (cholangitis). Symptoms", "title": "Gallstone" }, { "id": "1438870", "text": "Cartilage Cartilage is a resilient and smooth elastic tissue, a rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints, and is a structural component of the rib cage, the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes, the intervertebral discs, and many other body components. It is not as hard and rigid as bone, but it is much stiffer and much less flexible than muscle.The matrix of cartilage is made up of chondrin. Because of its rigidity, cartilage often serves the purpose of holding tubes open in the body. Examples include the rings of the trachea, such", "title": "Cartilage" }, { "id": "4059276", "text": "the course of the disease in people who are older. Although less common, tophi can also form in the kidneys and nasal cartilage. Tophus A tophus (Latin: \"stone\", plural tophi) is a deposit of uric acid crystals, in the form of monosodium urate crystals, in people with longstanding hyperuricemia (high levels of uric acid in the blood). Tophi are pathognomonic for the disease gout. Most people with tophi have had previous attacks of acute arthritis, eventually leading to the formation of tophi. Chronic tophaceous gout is known as Harrison Syndrome. Tophi form in the joints, cartilage, bones, and other places", "title": "Tophus" }, { "id": "1860482", "text": "bones of the tongue — a pair of stylohyoidea, a pair of thyrohyoidea, and unpaired basihyoideum — and associated, upper-gular connective tissues. In humans, the single hyoid bone is an equivalent of the hyoid apparatus. Hyoid bone The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) () is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage. At rest, it lies at the level of the base of the mandible in the front and the third cervical vertebra (C3) behind. Unlike other bones, the hyoid is only distantly articulated to other bones by", "title": "Hyoid bone" }, { "id": "8096787", "text": "is complete or partial, and how much resultant pressure is created within the gland. The development of infection in the gland also influences the signs and symptoms. Rarely, when stones form in the minor salivary glands, there is usually only slight local swelling in the form of a small nodule and tenderness. There are thought to be a series of stages that lead to the formation of a calculus (\"lithogenesis\"). Initially, factors such as abnormalities in calcium metabolism, dehydration, reduced salivary flow rate, altered acidity (pH) of saliva caused by oropharyngeal infections, and altered solubility of crystalloids, leading to precipitation", "title": "Sialolithiasis" }, { "id": "18543677", "text": "Submucous Resection Submucous Resection (Submucosal Resection, SMR) of the nose is a surgical procedure during which the bony and cartilaginous structures of the nasal septum or turbinates are partially removed from below the mucous membrane. It is usually intended to treat a deviated septum causing chronic nasal airway obstruction or chronic nosebleeds. Other reasons include nasal obstruction due to allergy or chronic sinus infections which have not responded to other treatments. SMR may be required for another nasal sinus surgery, when the deviated septum makes the access to other parts of the nose difficult. Sometimes it is performed as part", "title": "Submucous Resection" }, { "id": "17760733", "text": "Latin \"\"fossa\"\", ditch or trench) is a depression or hollow, usually in a bone, such as the hypophyseal fossa, the depression in the sphenoid bone. A \"meatus\" is a short canal that opens to another part of the body. A \"fovea\" () is a small pit, usually on the head of a bone. The most well-known example of a \"fovea\" is the fovea centralis, a depression in the retina of the eye. The following terms are used to describe the walls of a cavity: A \"labyrinth\" refers to the bony labyrinth and membranous labyrinth, components of the inner ear, due", "title": "Anatomical terms of bone" }, { "id": "11703791", "text": "Eyesore An eyesore is something that is largely considered to look unpleasant or ugly. Its technical usage is as an alternative perspective to the notion of landmark. Common examples include dilapidated buildings, graffiti, litter, polluted areas, and excessive commercial signage such as billboards. Some eyesores may be a matter of opinion such as controversial modern architecture (see also spite house), transmission towers or wind turbines. Natural eyesores include feces, mud and weeds. In the USA, the National Association of Realtors says an eyesore can shave about 10% off the value of a nearby listing. Clean-up programmes to improve or remove", "title": "Eyesore" }, { "id": "1452479", "text": "ureases are often the mode of pathogenesis for many medical conditions. They are associated with hepatic encephalopathy / Hepatic coma, infection stones, and peptic ulceration. Infection stones Infection induced urinary stones are a mixture of struvite (MgNHPO•6HO) and carbonate apatite [Ca(PO)6•CO]. These polyvalent ions are soluble but become insoluble when ammonia is produced from microbial urease during urea hydrolysis, as this increases the surrounding environments pH from roughly 6.5 to 9. The resultant alkalinization results in stone crystallization. In humans the microbial urease, \"Proteus mirabilis\", is the most common in infection induced urinary stones. Urease in hepatic encephalopathy / hepatic", "title": "Urease" }, { "id": "9673184", "text": "is above the bridge and below the glabella, forming an indentation known as the nasion at the frontonasal suture where the frontal bone meets the nasal bones. The nasal ridge (nasal dorsum) is the border between the root and the tip of the nose which in profile can be variously shaped. The ala of the nose (wing of the nose) is the lower lateral surface of the external nose, cartilaginous in makeup, and which flares out to form a rounded eminence around the nostril. The skin of the nose varies in thickness along its length. From the glabella to the", "title": "Human nose" }, { "id": "5811451", "text": "Nosean Nosean, also known as Noselite, is a mineral of the feldspathoid group with formula: NaAlSiO(SO). HO. It forms isometric crystals of variable color: white, grey, blue, green, to brown. It has a Mohs hardness of 5.5 to 6 and a specific gravity of 2.3 to 2.4. It is fluorescent. It is found in low silica igneous rocks. There is a solid solution between nosean and hauyne, which contains calcium. It was first described in 1815 from the Rhineland in Germany and named after the German mineralogist K. W. Nose (1753–1835). The mineral is rare but widespread, found in such", "title": "Nosean" }, { "id": "2633980", "text": "Lapilli Lapilli is a size classification term for tephra, which is material that falls out of the air during a volcanic eruption or during some meteorite impacts. \"Lapilli\" (singular: \"lapillus\") means \"little stones\" in Latin. By definition lapilli range from in diameter. A pyroclastic particle greater than 64 mm in diameter is known as a volcanic bomb when molten, or a volcanic block when solid. Pyroclastic material with particles less than 2 mm in diameter is referred to as volcanic ash. Lapilli are spheroid-, teardrop-, dumbbell- or button-shaped droplets of molten or semi-molten lava ejected from a volcanic eruption that", "title": "Lapilli" }, { "id": "1800646", "text": "dress code. The acceptance of more visible body modifications is attributable to its becoming a social norm. If companies did not hire employees with a tattoo or nose piercing, the number of future workers that the companies could hire would be limited. Nose piercing Nose piercing is the piercing of the skin or cartilage which forms any part of the nose, normally for the purpose of wearing jewelry, called a nose-jewel. Among the different varieties of nose piercings, the nostril piercing is the most common. Nose piercing is the second most common variety of piercing after earlobe piercing. Nostril piercing", "title": "Nose piercing" }, { "id": "867998", "text": "deep): the malleus, incus, and stapes, terms that in Latin are translated as \"the hammer, anvil, and stirrup\". Studies have shown that ear bones in mammal embryos are attached to the dentary, which is part of the jaw. These are ossified portions of cartilage—called Meckel's cartilage—that are attached to the jaw. As the embryo develops, the cartilage hardens to form bone. Later in development, the bone structure breaks loose from the jaw and migrates to the inner ear area. The structure is known as the middle ear, and is made up of the stapes, incus, malleus, and tympanic membrane. These", "title": "Ossicles" }, { "id": "1863691", "text": "include at least one species of archaea (\"Methanobrevibacter oralis\") and several species of yeast (e.g., \"Candida albicans\"). The organic extracellular matrix in calculus consists primarily of proteins and lipids (fatty acids, triglycerides, glycolipids, and phospholipids), as well as extracellular DNA. Trace amounts of host, dietary, and environmental microdebris are also found within calculus, including salivary proteins, plant DNA, milk proteins, starch granules, textile fibers, and smoke particles. The processes of calculus formation from dental plaque are not well understood. Supragingival calculus formation is most abundant on the buccal (cheek) surfaces of the maxillary (upper jaw) molars and on the lingual", "title": "Calculus (dental)" }, { "id": "4696756", "text": "Nasal septum perforation A nasal septum perforation is a medical condition in which the nasal septum, the cartilaginous membrane dividing the nostrils, develops a hole or fissure. This may be brought on directly, as in the case of nasal piercings, or indirectly, as by long-term topical drug application, including intranasal ethylphenidate, methamphetamine, cocaine, crushed prescription pills, or decongestant nasal sprays, chronic epistaxis, excessive nose picking and as a complication of nasal surgery like septoplasty or rhinoplasty. Much less common causes for perforated nasal septums include rare granulomatous inflammatory conditions like granulomatosis with polyangiitis. It has been reported as a side", "title": "Nasal septum perforation" }, { "id": "2826611", "text": "Nasal concha In anatomy, a nasal concha (), plural conchae (), also called a turbinate or turbinal, is a long, narrow, curled shelf of bone that protrudes into the breathing passage of the nose in humans and various animals. The conchae are shaped like an elongated seashell, which gave them their name (Latin \"concha\" from Greek \"κόγχη\"). A concha is any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in vertebrates. In humans, the conchae divide the nasal airway into 4 groove-like air passages, and are responsible for forcing inhaled air to flow in a steady, regular pattern around", "title": "Nasal concha" }, { "id": "2718306", "text": "Adenoid The adenoid, also known as a pharyngeal tonsil or nasopharyngeal tonsil, is the superior-most of the tonsils. It is a mass of lymphatic tissue located behind the nasal cavity, in the roof of the nasopharynx, where the nose blends into the throat. In children, it normally forms a soft mound in the roof and back wall of the nasopharynx, just above and behind the uvula. The term adenoid is also used to represent adenoid hypertrophy. The adenoid is a mass of lymphatic tissue located behind the nasal cavity, in the roof of the nasopharynx, where the nose blends into", "title": "Adenoid" }, { "id": "1970263", "text": "and partially forms the choanal opening into the nasopharynx, (the upper portion of the pharynx that is continuous with the nasal passages). The floor of the nose comprises the premaxilla bone and the palatine bone, the roof of the mouth. The nasal septum is composed of the quadrangular cartilage, the vomer bone (the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone), aspects of the premaxilla, and the palatine bones. Each lateral nasal wall contains three pairs of turbinates (nasal conchae), which are small, thin, shell-form bones: (i) the superior concha, (ii) the middle concha, and (iii) the inferior concha, which are the", "title": "Rhinoplasty" }, { "id": "9673181", "text": "horizontal, perforated cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone through which pass sensory fibers of the olfactory nerve (CN1). Below and behind the cribriform plate, sloping down at an angle, is the face of the sphenoid bone. The two maxilla bones join at the base of the nose at the lower nasal midline between the nostrils, and at the top of the philtrum to form the anterior nasal spine. This thin projection of bone holds the cartilaginous center of the nose. The nasal cartilages are the septal, lateral, major alar, and minor alar cartilages. The septal nasal cartilage, extends from the", "title": "Human nose" }, { "id": "1863710", "text": "lasers, where legislation permits. Calculus (dental) In dentistry, calculus or tartar is a form of hardened dental plaque. It is caused by precipitation of minerals from saliva and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) in plaque on the teeth. This process of precipitation kills the bacterial cells within dental plaque, but the rough and hardened surface that is formed provides an ideal surface for further plaque formation. This leads to calculus buildup, which compromises the health of the gingiva (gums). Calculus can form both along the gumline, where it is referred to as supragingival (\"above the gum\"), and within the narrow sulcus", "title": "Calculus (dental)" }, { "id": "13579011", "text": "Plug and feather Plug and feather, also known as plugs and wedges, feather and wedges, wedges and shims, pins and feathers and feather and tare, refers to a technique and a three-piece tool set used to split stone. Each set consists of a metal wedge (the plug), and two shims (the feathers). The feathers are wide at the bottom, and tapered and curved at the top. When the two feathers are placed on either side of the plug, the combined width of the set is the same at both ends. Multiple sets of plug and feathers are typically used to", "title": "Plug and feather" }, { "id": "8388827", "text": "the medial and lateral check ligaments. Charles Barrett Lockwood described a thickening of the lower part of the fascia bulbi, which he named the 'suspensory ligament of the eye'. It is slung like a hammock below the eyeball, being expanded in the center, and narrow at its extremities which are attached to the zygomatic and lacrimal bones respectively. Tenon's capsule may be affected by a disease called idiopathic orbital inflammation, a condition of unknown etiology that is characterized by inflammation of one or more layers of the eye. The disease is also known as orbital inflammatory pseudotumor, and sometimes may", "title": "Tenon's capsule" }, { "id": "2457857", "text": "Allergic rhinitis Allergic rhinitis, also known as hay fever, is a type of inflammation in the nose which occurs when the immune system overreacts to allergens in the air. Signs and symptoms include a runny or stuffy nose, sneezing, red, itchy, and watery eyes, and swelling around the eyes. The fluid from the nose is usually clear. Symptom onset is often within minutes following exposure and they can affect sleep, the ability to work, and the ability to concentrate at school. Those whose symptoms are due to pollen typically develop symptoms during specific times of the year. Many people with", "title": "Allergic rhinitis" }, { "id": "8152677", "text": "A urologist inserts a scope into the urinary tract to locate the stone. The scope may be a cystoscope, ureteroscope, renoscope or nephroscope. An optical fiber is inserted through the working channel of the scope, and laser light is directly emitted to the stone. The stone is fragmented and the remaining pieces are washed out of the urinary tract. The procedure is done under either local or general anesthesia and is considered a minimally-invasive procedure. It is widely available in most hospitals in the world. Laser lithotripsy (LL) has been evaluated against Extracorporeal Shock Wave lithotripsy (ESWL), finding both to", "title": "Laser lithotripsy" }, { "id": "9216849", "text": "Alveolar macrophage An alveolar macrophage (or dust cell) is a type of macrophage found in the pulmonary alveolus, near the pneumocytes, but separated from the wall. Activity of the alveolar macrophage is relatively high, because they are located at one of the major boundaries between the body and the outside world. They are responsible for removing particles such as dust or microorganisms from the respiratory surfaces. Alveolar macrophages are frequently seen to contain granules of exogenous material such as particulate carbon that they have picked up from respiratory surfaces. Such black granules may be especially common in smoker's lungs or", "title": "Alveolar macrophage" }, { "id": "12775608", "text": "Tom Birdseye Tom Birdseye (born Thomas Birdseye, 1951) is an American children's author. He is best known for writing books such as \"Attack of the Mutant Underwear\", \"Just Call Me Stupid\", and \"Tarantula Shoes\". He signs his name with an eye at the end. Attack of the Mutant Underwear <br> I'm Going To Be Famous <br> Tucker <br> Just Call Me Stupid <br> Tarantula Shoes <br> The Eye of the Stone <br> Oh Yeah! <br> Look Out Jack! The Giant Is Back <br> Air Mail to the Moon <br> A Regular Flood Of Mishap <br> A Song of Stars <br>", "title": "Tom Birdseye" }, { "id": "10791982", "text": "the crash barrier or Jersey barrier at entrance and exit ramps. The term bullnose originates from the rounded nose of a bull. Bullnose Bullnose is a term used in building construction for rounded convex trim, particularly in masonry and ceramic tile. Bullnose trim is used to provide a smooth, rounded edge for countertops, staircasesteps, building corners, verandahs, or other construction. Masonry units such as bricks, concrete masonry units or structural glazed facing tiles may be ordered from manufacturers with square or bullnosed corners. When referring to bullnose, it is sometimes modified by adding the word quarter or half. In the", "title": "Bullnose" }, { "id": "15541020", "text": "access was by a precarious [[Aerial lift|cable car]], which was maintained into the early 19th century. The rock is now a nature reserve, so access is still strictly limited. In the Middle Ages, Arabic physicians called it \"tarthuth\" and \"the treasure of drugs\". An \"aqrabadhin\", or medical formulary, compiled by [[Al-Kindi]] in the 9thcentury lists tarthuth as an ingredient in a salve to relieve skin irritation; later, [[Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi|Rhazes]] (Al-Razi) recommended it to cure [[Hemorrhoid|piles]], nosebleeds, and [[dysfunctional uterine bleeding]]. In Saudi Arabia, where \"Cynomorium\" is also called \"tarthuth\", in addition to the uses detailed above an infusion", "title": "Cynomorium" }, { "id": "7123027", "text": "\"The Silencers\" and the 1980 film \"Airplane\". Anacin had a large advertisement behind the center field fence of Yankee Stadium from the 1950s through 1973, until the stadium's 1974-75 renovation. Anacin covers a family of pain relievers. There are current two different formulations: Anacin's side effects may include dizziness, heartburn, irritability, nausea, nervousness, rashes, hives, bloody stools, drowsiness, hearing loss, ringing in the ears, and trouble sleeping. Anacin Anacin trade name for (Caffeine 30 MG+Paracetamol 500 MG) is a pain medication used in the treatment of Headache, and Toothache, originally developed by \"The Anacin Company\". Since 1930 it is being", "title": "Anacin" }, { "id": "3185329", "text": "Stone (unit) The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) is an English and imperial unit of mass now equal to 14 pounds (6.35029318 kg). England and other Germanic-speaking countries of northern Europe formerly used various standardised \"stones\" for trade, with their values ranging from about 5 to 40 local pounds (roughly 3 to 15 kg) depending on the location and objects weighed. The United Kingdom's imperial system adopted the wool stone of 14 pounds in 1835. With the advent of metrication, Europe's various \"stones\" were superseded by or adapted to the kilogram from the mid-19th century on. The stone continues", "title": "Stone (unit)" }, { "id": "8902673", "text": "Reading stone A reading stone was an approximately hemispherical lens that was placed on top of text to magnify the letters so that people with presbyopia could read it more easily. Reading stones were among the earliest common uses of lenses. The regular use of reading stones began around 1000 AD. Glass could be shaped and polished into stones used for viewing. The function of reading stones was replaced by the use of spectacles from the late 13th century onwards, but modern implementations are still used. In their modern form, they can be found as rod-shaped magnifiers, flat on one", "title": "Reading stone" }, { "id": "2051190", "text": "Contrary to popular misconception and misuse, mucus and phlegm are not always the same. Mucus is a normal protective layering around the airway, eye, nasal turbinate, and urogenital tract. Mucus is an adhesive viscoelastic gel produced in the airway by submucosal glands and goblet cells and is principally water. It also contains high-molecular weight mucous glycoproteins that form linear polymers. Phlegm is more related to disease than is mucus and can be troublesome for the individual to excrete from the body. Phlegm is a juicy secretion in the airway during disease and inflammation. Phlegm usually contains mucus with virus, bacteria,", "title": "Phlegm" }, { "id": "189699", "text": "Hail Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It is distinct from ice pellets (American English \"sleet\"), though the two are often confused. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Ice pellets fall generally in cold weather while hail growth is greatly inhibited during cold surface temperatures. Unlike other forms of water ice such as graupel, which is made of rime, and ice pellets, which are smaller and translucent, hailstones usually measure between and in diameter. The METAR reporting code for hail or greater is GR, while smaller hailstones and graupel", "title": "Hail" }, { "id": "13070547", "text": "Preauricular sinus and cyst A preauricular sinus (also known as a congenital auricular fistula, a congenital preauricular fistula, a Geswein hole, an ear pit, or a preauricular cyst) is a common congenital malformation characterized by a nodule, dent or dimple located anywhere adjacent to the external ear. Frequency of preauricular sinus differs depending the population: 0.1–0.9% in the US, 0.9% in the UK, and 4–10% in Asia and parts of Africa. Preauricular sinuses are inherited features, and most often appear unilaterally. They are present bilaterally in 25–50% of cases. Occasionally a preauricular sinus or cyst can become infected. Most preauricular", "title": "Preauricular sinus and cyst" }, { "id": "4609303", "text": "Lithotomy Lithotomy from Greek for \"lithos\" (stone) and \"tomos\" (cut), is a surgical method for removal of calculi, stones formed inside certain organs, such as the kidneys (kidney stones), bladder (bladder stones), and gallbladder (gallstones), that cannot exit naturally through the urinary system or biliary tract. The procedure, which is usually performed by means of a surgical incision (therefore invasive), differs from lithotripsy, wherein the stones are crushed either by a minimally invasive probe inserted through the exit canal, or by an acoustic pulse (extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy), which is a non-invasive procedure. Human beings have known of bladder stones", "title": "Lithotomy" }, { "id": "5822135", "text": "nasofrontal ducts. Often, craniofacial osteoma presents itself through ocular signs and symptoms (such as proptosis). Osteoma An osteoma (plural: \"osteomata\") is a new piece of bone usually growing on another piece of bone, typically the skull. It is a benign tumor. When the bone tumor grows on other bone it is known as \"homoplastic osteoma\"; when it grows on other tissue it is called \"heteroplastic osteoma\". Osteoma represents the most common benign neoplasm of the nose and paranasal sinuses. The cause of osteomata is uncertain, but commonly accepted theories propose embryologic, traumatic, or infectious causes. Osteomata are also found in", "title": "Osteoma" }, { "id": "9168470", "text": "Monster Island, Terror Island, and Chaos Island) each containing several levels. Big Nose the Caveman dies in a single hit unless he has stones. The stones can shoot out of his club, killing enemies. As many as three stones can come out of the club. There are also many pitfalls, traps and deadly lava/water since Big Nose can't swim. It was followed by the sequel \"Big Nose Freaks Out\" in 1992. Big Nose the Caveman Big Nose the Caveman is a NES game released in 1991 by Camerica. It is a side scroller. The character is \"Big Nose\", who is", "title": "Big Nose the Caveman" }, { "id": "4696187", "text": "into the two nostrils. The cartilage is called the quadrangular cartilage and the bones comprising the septum include the maxillary crest, vomer and the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid. Normally, the septum lies centrally, and thus the nasal passages are symmetrical. A deviated septum is an abnormal condition in which the top of the cartilaginous ridge leans to the left or the right, causing obstruction of the affected nasal passage. The condition can result in poor drainage of the sinuses. People can also complain of difficulty breathing, headaches, bloody noses, or of sleeping disorders such as snoring or sleep apnea.", "title": "Nasal septum deviation" }, { "id": "9673180", "text": "part of the nasal septum is made up of the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone, and the bony lower part is made up of the vomer bone that lies below. The floor of the nose is made up of the incisive bone and the horizontal plates of the palatine bones, and this makes up the hard palate of the roof of the mouth. The two horizontal plates join together at the midline and form the posterior nasal spine that gives attachment to the musculus uvulae in the uvula. The internal roof of the nasal cavity is composed of the", "title": "Human nose" }, { "id": "2083827", "text": "analysis from the tissue are extremely variable and to some extent unpredictable. However, the quantity of DNA available in dentin is affected by age and dental disease, whereas that in cementum is not. Cementum Cementum is a specialized calcified substance covering the root of a tooth. The cementum is the part of the periodontium that attaches the teeth to the alveolar bone by anchoring the periodontal ligament. The cells of cementum are the entrapped cementoblasts, the cementocytes. Each cementocyte lies in its , similar to the pattern noted in bone. These lacunae also have canaliculi or canals. Unlike those in", "title": "Cementum" }, { "id": "10448716", "text": "and presently means \"A composition made by mixing bitumen, pitch, and sand, or manufactured from natural bituminous limestones, used to pave streets and walks, to line cisterns, etc.\", used as an abbreviation for asphalt concrete. Until the 20th century, the Latinate term \"asphaltum\" was also used. \"Pissasphalt\" (from Greek \"pissasphaltus\" \"pitch\" and \"asphalt\") names \"A semi-liquid variety of bitumen, mentioned by ancient writers\". The medicinal use of bituminous mummia has a parallel in Ayurveda: \"shilajit\" or \"silajit\" (from Sanskrit \"shilajatu\" \"rock-conqueror\") or \"mumijo\" (from Persian \"mūmiyā\" \"wax\") is \"A name given to various solid or viscous substances found on rock", "title": "Mummia" }, { "id": "11417844", "text": "Mortar joint In masonry, mortar joints are the spaces between bricks, concrete blocks, or glass blocks, that are filled with mortar or grout. If the surface of the masonry remains unplastered, the joints contribute significantly to the appearance of the masonry. Mortar joints can be made in a series of different fashions, but the most common ones are raked, grapevine, extruded, concave, V, struck, flush, weathered and beaded. In order to produce a mortar joint, the mason must use one of several types of jointers (slickers), rakes, or beaders. These tools are run through the grout in between the building", "title": "Mortar joint" }, { "id": "6311569", "text": "Rhinarium The rhinarium (New Latin, \"belonging to the nose\"; plural: rhinaria) is the naked skin surface surrounding the external openings of the nostrils in most mammals. In common usage, for example among breeders of cats or dogs, the standard term is \"nose leather\". More informally people may speak of a \"wet snout\" or \"wet nose\" because its surface commonly is moist in a healthy cat or dog.In many species there is a philtrum, a groove down the middle. The study of the structure and of its associated functions has proved to be of considerable importance in mammalian evolution and taxonomy.", "title": "Rhinarium" }, { "id": "4284640", "text": "tube with an inflatable balloon to widen the duct and the stones are usually removed using either a balloon or tiny basket. If laparoscopy is unsuccessful, an open choledocholithotomy is performed. This procedure may be used in the case of large stones, when the duct anatomy is complex, during or after some gallbladder operations when stones are detected, or when ERCP or laparoscopic procedures are not available. Typically, the gallbladder is then removed, an operation called cholecystectomy, to prevent a future occurrence of common bile duct obstruction or other complications. Common bile duct stone Common bile duct stone, also known", "title": "Common bile duct stone" }, { "id": "2091007", "text": "Ethmoid bone The ethmoid bone (; from Greek \"ethmos\", \"sieve\") is an unpaired bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain. It is located at the roof of the nose, between the two orbits. The cubical bone is lightweight due to a spongy construction. The ethmoid bone is one of the bones that make up the orbit of the eye. The ethmoid bone is an anterior cranial bone located between the eyes. It contributes to the medial wall of the orbit, the nasal cavity, and the nasal septum. The ethmoid has three parts: cribriform plate, ethmoidal", "title": "Ethmoid bone" }, { "id": "1181055", "text": "this is that smoking has several effects on the immune response including: Ehlers–Danlos syndrome is a periodontitis risk factor and so is the Papillon–Lefèvre syndrome also known as palmoplantar keratoderma. If left undisturbed, microbial plaque calcifies to form calculus, which is commonly called tartar. Calculus above and below the gum line must be removed completely by the dental hygienist or dentist to treat gingivitis and periodontitis. Although the primary cause of both gingivitis and periodontitis is the microbial plaque that adheres to the tooth surfaces, there are many other modifying factors. A very strong risk factor is one's genetic susceptibility.", "title": "Periodontal disease" }, { "id": "20455751", "text": "and acute diverticulitis. Fecalith A fecalith is a stone made of feces (from Greek líthos=stone). It is a hardening of feces into lumps of varying size and may occur anywhere in the intestinal tract but is typically found in the colon. It is also called appendicolith when it occurs in the appendix and is sometimes concomitant with appendicitis. They can also obstruct diverticula. It can possibly form secondary to fecal impaction. A \"fecaloma\" is a more severe form of fecal impaction, and a hardened fecaloma may be considered to be a giant fecalith. Constipation. A small fecalith is one cause", "title": "Fecalith" }, { "id": "5937531", "text": "are placed into a bowl of iced water before use. Stone massage A stone massage is a massage that uses smooth, flat, and heated rocks placed at key points on the body. Stones (usually basalt) are placed into an electric slow-cooker or a purpose-built device which is filled with water. The water is typically heated to . Once the stones have heated sufficiently, some are placed onto specific points on the body (such as the back, hands, etc.) and others are held by the massage therapist and used to work the muscles. Certain styles of stone massage also incorporate chilled", "title": "Stone massage" }, { "id": "1661293", "text": "Margarita\"; Roger Swindon in \"Under Wildwood\", the second novel in Colin Meloy's \"Wildwood\" trilogy; and Dr.Eggman/Robotnik from Sonic the Hedgehog. Throughout Arthur Koestler's \"Darkness at Noon\" reference is made to the fact that the main character, Rubashov, wears pince-nez and uses them to tap on the pipes in his cell to communicate with fellow prisoners. Notes Pince-nez Pince-nez ( or ; ) is a style of glasses, popular in the 19th century, that are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose. The name comes from French \"pincer\", \"to pinch\", and \"nez\", \"nose\". Although pince-nez were used in", "title": "Pince-nez" }, { "id": "11173846", "text": "Nose cancer in cats and dogs The most common type of cancers affecting the animal's nose are carcinomas and sarcomas, both of which are locally invasive. The most common sites for metastasis are the lymph nodes and the lungs, but can also include other organs. Signs vary but may include bleeding from the nose, nasal discharge, facial deformity from bone erosion and tumor growth, sneezing, or difficulty breathing. Standard X-rays are still acceptable and readily accessible imaging tools but their resolution and level of anatomical detail are not as good as for computed tomography (CT) scan. In order to definitively", "title": "Nose cancer in cats and dogs" }, { "id": "3054736", "text": "Oolite Oolite or oölite (\"egg stone\") is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. The name derives from the Ancient Greek word \"ᾠόν\" for egg. Strictly, oolites consist of ooids of 0.25–2 millimetres' diameter; rocks composed of ooids larger than 2 mm are called pisolites. The term \"oolith\" can refer to oolite or individual ooids. Ooids are most commonly composed of calcium carbonate (calcite or aragonite), but can be composed of phosphate, clays, chert, dolomite or iron minerals, including hematite. Dolomitic and chert ooids are most likely the result of the replacement of the original", "title": "Oolite" }, { "id": "10432195", "text": "Scaling and root planing Scaling and root planing, also known as conventional periodontal therapy, non-surgical periodontal therapy, or deep cleaning, is a procedure involving removal of dental plaque and calculus (scaling or debridement) and then smoothing, or planing, of the (exposed) surfaces of the roots, removing cementum or dentine that is impregnated with calculus, toxins, or microorganisms, the etiologic agents that cause inflammation. This helps to establish a periodontium that is in remission of periodontal disease. Periodontal scalers and periodontal curettes are some of the tools involved. Plaque is a soft yellow-grayish substance that adheres to the tooth surfaces including", "title": "Scaling and root planing" }, { "id": "8096786", "text": "likely in the minor glands of the buccal mucosa and the maxillary labial mucosa. Submandibular stones are further classified as anterior or posterior in relation to an imaginary transverse line drawn between the mandibular first molar teeth. Stones may be radiopaque, i.e. they will show up on conventional radiographs, or radiolucent, where they not be visible on radiographs (although some of their effects on the gland may still be visible). They may also symptomatic or asymptomatic, according to whether they cause any problems or not. Signs and symptoms are variable and depend largely upon whether the obstruction of the duct", "title": "Sialolithiasis" }, { "id": "18543678", "text": "of a cleft lip and palate repair. Submucous Resection Submucous Resection (Submucosal Resection, SMR) of the nose is a surgical procedure during which the bony and cartilaginous structures of the nasal septum or turbinates are partially removed from below the mucous membrane. It is usually intended to treat a deviated septum causing chronic nasal airway obstruction or chronic nosebleeds. Other reasons include nasal obstruction due to allergy or chronic sinus infections which have not responded to other treatments. SMR may be required for another nasal sinus surgery, when the deviated septum makes the access to other parts of the nose", "title": "Submucous Resection" }, { "id": "14530246", "text": "Contact fuze A contact fuze, impact fuze, percussion fuze or direct-action (D.A.) fuze (\"UK\") is the fuze that is placed in the nose of a bomb or shell so that it will detonate on contact with a hard surface. Many impacts are unpredictable: they may involve a soft surface, or an off-axis grazing impact. The pure contact fuze is often unreliable in such cases and so a more sensitive graze fuze or inertia fuze is used instead. The two types are often combined in the same mechanism. The British Army's first useful impact fuze for high-explosive shells was the \"Fuze", "title": "Contact fuze" }, { "id": "8245422", "text": "Frey's syndrome Frey's syndrome (also known as Baillarger's syndrome, Dupuy’s syndrome, auriculotemporal syndrome, or Frey-Baillarger syndrome) is a rare neurological disorder resulting from damage to or near the parotid glands responsible for making saliva, and from damage to the auriculotemporal nerve often from surgery. The symptoms of Frey's syndrome are redness and sweating on the cheek area adjacent to the ear (see focal hyperhidrosis). They can appear when the affected person eats, sees, dreams, thinks about or talks about certain kinds of food which produce strong salivation. Observing sweating in the region after eating a lemon wedge may be diagnostic.", "title": "Frey's syndrome" }, { "id": "2825943", "text": "Rhinitis Rhinitis, also known as coryza, is irritation and inflammation of the mucous membrane inside the nose. Common symptoms are a stuffy nose, runny nose, sneezing, and post-nasal drip. The inflammation is caused by viruses, bacteria, irritants or allergens. The most common kind of rhinitis is allergic rhinitis, which is usually triggered by airborne allergens such as pollen and dander. Allergic rhinitis may cause additional symptoms, such as sneezing and nasal itching, coughing, headache, fatigue, malaise, and cognitive impairment. The allergens may also affect the eyes, causing watery, reddened, or itchy eyes and puffiness around the eyes. The inflammation results", "title": "Rhinitis" }, { "id": "9018770", "text": "of the nose also reflects sunlight on to the conjunctiva. As a result, pingueculae tend to occur more often on the nasal side of the eye. While most pingueculae are found in people over the age of 40, they are not uncommon in 20- and 30-year-old adults who spend significant time in the sun. The surface of the conjunctival tissue overlying a pinguecula interferes with the normal spreading of the tear film. The tear ferning test reveals abnormalities of the mucous component of the tear film, making it useful as a predictor of a person's tolerance of hydrophilic soft contact", "title": "Pinguecula" }, { "id": "1800637", "text": "cartilage itself is not pierced, but rather the small gap between the cartilage and the bottom of the nose (sometimes called the \"sweet spot\"), typically at 14ga (1.6 mm) although it is often stretched to a larger gauge (size). This piercing heals within a month and a half to three months also depending on the individual. It should only be stretched by 1mm at a time, and waiting at least a month between stretches is advisable. If a certain point is exceeded, usually about 8mm, the cartilage gets forced towards the top of the nose, which can be uncomfortable. Many", "title": "Nose piercing" }, { "id": "2597594", "text": "is formed in its upper third to one half by the nasal bone and more inferiorly by the junctions of the upper lateral cartilage and nasal septum. Connective tissue and skin cover the bony and cartilaginous components of the dorsum of the nose. The floor of the nasal cavities, which also form the roof of the mouth, is made up by the bones of the hard palate: the horizontal plate of the palatine bone posteriorly and the palatine process of the maxilla anteriorly. To the front of the nasal cavity is the nasal vestibule and external opening, while the back", "title": "Nasal cavity" }, { "id": "3185331", "text": "multiples of the Roman pound. Such weights varied in quality: the Yale Medical Library holds 10 and 50-pound examples of polished serpentine, while a 40-pound example at the Eschborn Museum is made of sandstone. The English stone under law varied by commodity and in practice varied according to local standards. The Assize of Weights and Measures, a statute of uncertain date from , describes stones of 5 merchants' pounds used for glass; stones of 8 lb. used for beeswax, sugar, pepper, alum, cumin, almonds, cinnamon, and nutmegs; stones of 12 lb. used for lead; and the of lb. used for", "title": "Stone (unit)" }, { "id": "6549813", "text": "Primary hypertrophic osteoathropathy Pachydermoperiostosis (PDP) or primary hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (PHO) is a rare genetic disorder that affects both bones and skin. Other names are idiopathic hypertrophic osteoarthropathy or Touraine-Solente-Golé syndrome. It is mainly characterized by pachydermia (thickening of the skin), periostosis (excessive bone formation) and finger clubbing (swelling of tissue with loss of normal angle between nail and nail bed). This disease affects relatively more men than women. After onset, the disease stabilizes after about 5–20 years. Life of PDP patients can be severely impaired. Currently, symptomatic treatments are NSAIDs and steroids or surgical procedures. In 1868, PDP was first", "title": "Primary hypertrophic osteoathropathy" }, { "id": "8765975", "text": "Foundation Stone The Foundation Stone ( \"Even ha-Shtiyya\" or \"Selā‛\", \"Sakhrah\" \"Rock\") is the name of the rock at the centre of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. It is also known as the Pierced Stone because it has a small hole on the southeastern corner that enters a cavern beneath the rock, known as the Well of Souls. There is a difference of opinion in classical Jewish sources as to whether this was the location of the Holy of Holies or of the Outer Altar. According to those that hold it was the site of the Holy of", "title": "Foundation Stone" }, { "id": "4284634", "text": "Common bile duct stone Common bile duct stone, also known as choledocholithiasis, is the presence of gallstones in the common bile duct (CBD) (thus \"choledocho-\" + \"lithiasis\"). This condition can cause jaundice and liver cell damage. Treatment is by cholecystectomy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Murphy's sign is commonly negative on physical examination in choledocholithiasis, helping to distinguish it from cholecystitis. Jaundice of the skin or eyes is an important physical finding in biliary obstruction. Jaundice and/or clay-colored stool may raise suspicion of choledocholithiasis or even gallstone pancreatitis. If the above symptoms coincide with fever and chills, the diagnosis of", "title": "Common bile duct stone" }, { "id": "1584165", "text": "Pica (disorder) Pica is a psychological disorder characterized by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive, such as ice (pagophagia); hair (trichophagia); paper (xylophagia); drywall or paint; metal (metallophagia); stones (lithophagia) or soil (geophagia); glass (hyalophagia); feces (coprophagia); and chalk. According to DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition) criteria, for these actions to be considered pica, they must persist for more than one month at an age where eating such objects is considered developmentally inappropriate, not part of culturally sanctioned practice and sufficiently severe to warrant clinical attention. It can lead to intoxication in children,", "title": "Pica (disorder)" }, { "id": "2130986", "text": "Inferior nasal concha The inferior nasal concha (inferior turbinated bone or inferior turbinal/turbinate) is one of the three paired nasal conchae in the nose. It extends horizontally along the lateral wall of the nasal cavity and consists of a lamina of spongy bone, curled upon itself like a scroll, (\"turbinate\" meaning inverted cone). The inferior nasal conchae are considered a pair of facial bones. As the air passes through the turbinates, the air is churned against these mucosa-lined bones in order to receive warmth, moisture and cleansing. Superior to inferior nasal concha are the middle nasal concha and superior nasal", "title": "Inferior nasal concha" }, { "id": "9673208", "text": "destruction of part of the nose (for example, the nasal bridge, or nasal septal perforation) are rhinophyma, skin cancer (for example, basal cell carcinoma), granulomatosis with polyangiitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, syphilis, leprosy and exposure to cocaine, chromium or toxins. The nose may be stimulated to grow in acromegaly. A common anatomic variant is an air-filled cavity within a concha known as a concha bullosa. In rare cases a polyp can form inside a bullosa. Usually a concha bullosa is small and without symptoms but when large can cause obstruction to sinus drainage. Chronic nasal obstruction resulting in", "title": "Human nose" }, { "id": "12206248", "text": "is usually considered to be more definitive and better at detecting facial injuries than X-ray. CT scanning is especially likely to be used in people with multiple injuries who need CT scans to assess for other injuries anyway. Soft tissue injuries include abrasions, lacerations, avulsions, bruises, burns and cold injuries. Commonly injured facial bones include the nasal bone (the nose), the maxilla (the bone that forms the upper jaw), and the mandible (the lower jaw). The mandible may be fractured at its symphysis, body, angle, ramus, and condoyle. The zygoma (cheekbone) and the frontal bone (forehead) are other sites for", "title": "Facial trauma" }, { "id": "9673183", "text": "cartilages, which swing outwards, from medial attachments, to the caudal septum in the midline (the medial crura) to an intermediate crus (shank) area. Finally, the major alar cartilages flare outwards, above and to the side (superolaterally), as the lateral crura; these cartilages are mobile, unlike the upper lateral cartilages. Furthermore, some persons present anatomical evidence of nasal scrolling—i.e. an outward curving of the lower borders of the upper lateral-cartilages, and an inward curving of the cephalic borders of the alar cartilages. The nasal root is the top of the nose that attaches the nose to the forehead. The nasal root", "title": "Human nose" }, { "id": "4696190", "text": "days to 4 weeks to heal completely. Septal bones never regrow. If symptoms reappear they are not related to deviations. Reappearance of symptoms may be due to mucosal metaplasia of the nose. Currently, the most gentle and effective is laser septochondroplasty for the septal cartilage segment deformity and ultrasound septoplasty — effective for the septal cartilage and bone deformation. Nasal septum deviation Nasal septum deviation or deviated nasal septum (DNS) is a physical disorder of the nose, involving a displacement of the nasal septum. Some displacement is common, affecting 80% of people, most unknowingly. Only more severe cases of a", "title": "Nasal septum deviation" }, { "id": "4696763", "text": "a high rate of closure choose perforations that are easier to close. An open rhinoplasty approach also allows for better access to the nose to repair any concurrent nasal deformities, such as saddle nose deformity, that occur with a septal perforation. Septal Perforation Information and Treatment Nasal septum perforation A nasal septum perforation is a medical condition in which the nasal septum, the cartilaginous membrane dividing the nostrils, develops a hole or fissure. This may be brought on directly, as in the case of nasal piercings, or indirectly, as by long-term topical drug application, including intranasal ethylphenidate, methamphetamine, cocaine, crushed", "title": "Nasal septum perforation" }, { "id": "16807222", "text": "Zack Norman Zack Norman (born Howard Jerrold Zuker, May 27, 1940) is an American actor, producer, writer, comedian, musician, film financier, painter, art collector and real estate developer. Born in Boston and raised in nearby Revere, Massachusetts, he is best known for his role as Ira in 20th Century Fox's \"Romancing the Stone\" (1984) and as Kaz Naiman in Paramount Classics' \"Festival in Cannes\" (2001). He has also co-starred in films such as \"Ragtime\" (1981), \"Cadillac Man\" (1990) and \"Chief Zabu\" (2016), which he also co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed. His latest starring role was in E.N.T.E.R. (2018), which won Best", "title": "Zack Norman" }, { "id": "1661290", "text": "Pince-nez Pince-nez ( or ; ) is a style of glasses, popular in the 19th century, that are supported without earpieces, by pinching the bridge of the nose. The name comes from French \"pincer\", \"to pinch\", and \"nez\", \"nose\". Although pince-nez were used in Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, modern ones appeared in the 1840s and reached their peak popularity around 1880 to 1900. Pince-nez spectacles were worn by both men and women. Since they can be uncomfortable to wear for extended periods if the wrong bridge size is chosen, and also because the constant wearing of", "title": "Pince-nez" }, { "id": "8676895", "text": "Jon Stone Jon Stone (April 13, 1932 – April 9, 1997) was an American writer, director and producer, who was best known for being an original crew member on \"Sesame Street\" and is credited with helping develop characters such as Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird. Stone won 18 television Emmy Awards Many regard him as one of the best children's television writers. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Stone graduated from Williams College in 1952. He received a master's degree from the Yale University School of Drama in 1955, at which time he joined a CBS training program.", "title": "Jon Stone" } ]

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[ { "id": "9295541", "text": "Danny Romalotti Danny Romalotti is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\", portrayed by Michael Damian. The character of Danny first appeared in Genoa City, the town where \"Y&R\" is set, in 1980. Damian and his character Danny exited the canvas in 1998, though the actor and character have returned on several occasions in 2002, 2003 to 2004, 2008 and 2012. A rock star, the character is known for his relationships with Lauren Fenmore, Christine \"Cricket\" Blair, and Phyllis Summers. Danny began his career at 16 years old in 1980 as a teenage rock", "title": "Danny Romalotti" }, { "id": "3301307", "text": "Michael Damian Michael Damian Weir (born April 26, 1962) is an American actor, recording artist and producer, best known for his role as Danny Romalotti on the soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\", which he played from 1981 to 1998 and again in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2013. Michael began his music career as a member of his family band, The Weirz, who released two self-titled albums, one in 1975 and one in 1979. After a 1981 appearance on American Bandstand in support of his debut single, a cover of the Eric Carmen tune \"She Did It\",", "title": "Michael Damian" }, { "id": "9295562", "text": "letter he received during the ceremony. Danny Romalotti Danny Romalotti is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\", portrayed by Michael Damian. The character of Danny first appeared in Genoa City, the town where \"Y&R\" is set, in 1980. Damian and his character Danny exited the canvas in 1998, though the actor and character have returned on several occasions in 2002, 2003 to 2004, 2008 and 2012. A rock star, the character is known for his relationships with Lauren Fenmore, Christine \"Cricket\" Blair, and Phyllis Summers. Danny began his career at 16 years old", "title": "Danny Romalotti" }, { "id": "16347467", "text": "Year's Eve. Sharon became the number one suspect in his murder. Frank's body was found after it washed out of the sewer. Cameron had set Sharon up for Frank's murder, but she was later exonerated. Brian Hamilton first appeared in 1995 as the biological father of Daniel Romalotti and former lover of Phyllis Summers. The role was originated by Steven Culp, who portrayed the role in 1995. William A. Wallace portrayed the role briefly in 1997 and again for one episode on December 11, 2002. History<br> In 1995, Danny Romalotti was devastated to discover that his son with Phyllis Summers,", "title": "The Young and the Restless characters (1990s)" }, { "id": "17047887", "text": "love to be cast in a musical film. He is currently busy writing his original screenplays; in hopes to bring them to fruition. Daniel Romer Daniel Romer a.k.a. Danny Romer (born April 1990, Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American actor and model. He has several international modeling campaigns to his name. He is known for his role in \"The Young and the Restless\" as Kieran Donnally, the law school drop-out turned drug dealer; and as Marcus \"Mark\" Anderson, a street photographer within the world of fashion blogging in \"Lookbook - The Series\". Romer was cast as Joe in a written", "title": "Daniel Romer" }, { "id": "3301310", "text": "the family film genre, he directed the films \"Moondance Alexander\", \"Flicka 2\", \"Marley & Me: The Puppy Years\", \"\", and \"A Princess for Christmas\". In 2012, he directed and co-wrote, again with his wife, the 90-minute romantic comedy \"The Sweeter Side of Life\". The film premiered on the Hallmark Channel on January 19, 2012. Michael Damian Michael Damian Weir (born April 26, 1962) is an American actor, recording artist and producer, best known for his role as Danny Romalotti on the soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\", which he played from 1981 to 1998 and again in 2002, 2003,", "title": "Michael Damian" }, { "id": "17662634", "text": "Come Between Us\". A music video for the 1984 single \"Victim\" starred Valentine with a young Michael Damian as the heart-breaker in the story. Damien would go on to play the character of Danny Romalotti on the daytime television series \"The Young and the Restless\". Valentine would also appear in episode 39 of the CBS television series \"Night Heat\" in 1986. The Pink Chiquitas (1987): Valentine appeared in the Sci-fi comedy film, \"The Pink Chiquitas\", featuring Frank Stallone and Eartha Kitt. Valentine played Stella Dumbrowski, a competent teenage intern working in the weather department. Drop Out Mother (1988): Valentine was", "title": "Cindy Valentine" }, { "id": "17047885", "text": "Daniel Romer Daniel Romer a.k.a. Danny Romer (born April 1990, Las Vegas, Nevada) is an American actor and model. He has several international modeling campaigns to his name. He is known for his role in \"The Young and the Restless\" as Kieran Donnally, the law school drop-out turned drug dealer; and as Marcus \"Mark\" Anderson, a street photographer within the world of fashion blogging in \"Lookbook - The Series\". Romer was cast as Joe in a written for TV Pilot, that was filmed in Italy. He played the bully Brad, a tennis camp kid, opposite Nikki Blonsky and Hayley Hasselhoff", "title": "Daniel Romer" }, { "id": "3267672", "text": "He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California. Burton married Sheree Gustin on January 16, 1999. They have three children, two daughters and a son. Burton appeared on \"High Stakes Poker\" season three, and donated his earnings to his fan club for the building of a clubhouse. Steve Burton (actor) Jack Stephen Burton (born June 28, 1970) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Jason Morgan on \"General Hospital\" from 1991 to 2012 and 2017 to present, and Dylan McAvoy on \"The Young and the Restless\" from 2013 to 2017. He also voiced the", "title": "Steve Burton (actor)" }, { "id": "17048361", "text": "and franchising offers from Corporate America. Desiree is faced with the ultimatum of selling out her father in order to return to her former lifestyle. Desiree finds that her re-emergence into the real-world has affected her sensibilities, she is now capable of consideration for others and receptive to a new relationship with Benny. Janeen Damian is known for her 2007 feature film \"Moondance Alexander\". Michael Damian is primarily known for his role as Danny Romalotti on the daytime television series \"The Young and the Restless\", playing the character of Joseph in the Broadway revival of \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor", "title": "The Sweeter Side of Life" }, { "id": "3267668", "text": "Steve Burton (actor) Jack Stephen Burton (born June 28, 1970) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Jason Morgan on \"General Hospital\" from 1991 to 2012 and 2017 to present, and Dylan McAvoy on \"The Young and the Restless\" from 2013 to 2017. He also voiced the character Cloud Strife in a wide range of Square Enix products, including \"\" and the \"Kingdom Hearts\" series. In 2017, Burton returned to \"General Hospital\" in the role of Jason Morgan, under the alias of \"Patient 6.\" Burton got his break as surfer boy Chris Fuller on \"Out of This", "title": "Steve Burton (actor)" }, { "id": "1841826", "text": "James MacArthur James Gordon MacArthur (December 8, 1937 – October 28, 2010) was an American actor best known for the role of Danny \"Danno\" Williams, the reliable second-in-command of the fictional Hawaiian State Police squad in the long-running television series \"Hawaii Five-O\". Born in Los Angeles, MacArthur was the adopted son of playwright Charles MacArthur, and his wife, actress Helen Hayes. He grew up in Nyack, New York, along with the MacArthurs' biological daughter, Mary. He was educated at Allen-Stevenson School in New York, and later at the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he starred in basketball, football", "title": "James MacArthur" }, { "id": "16684715", "text": "United States. The Weirz played their last tour in 1987, as the opening act for the Canadian release of the \"Michael Damian\" album. With Michael Damian Weir as a regular on The Young and the Restless, Weir was writing songs for Damian to perform as an artist and also as the Danny Romalotti character on the television show. In a Los Angeles Times interview, Damian explains the dynamics, \"My character was a starving singer who was working as a waiter--which was what I was doing at the time,\" he recalled. \"As my recording career developed, so did my role on", "title": "Larry Weir" }, { "id": "17556457", "text": "The Young and the Restless characters (2014) \"The Young and the Restless\" is an American television soap opera. It was first broadcast on March 26, 1973, and airs on CBS. The following is a list of characters that first appeared on the soap opera in 2014, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by executive producer Jill Farren Phelps and head writers Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante. Ian Ward, portrayed by Ray Wise, made his first appearance on January 23, 2014, as a former cult leader, believed to be the biological father of Dylan McAvoy (Steve Burton) and", "title": "The Young and the Restless characters (2014)" }, { "id": "5636044", "text": "has appeared in films such as \"Trainwreck\", \"Going the Distance\", \"Cedar Rapids\", \"Your Sister's Sister\" and \"The Fault in Our Stars\". He has also guest-starred in episodes of \"Girls\", \"Inside Amy Schumer\", and \"Broad City\". He played the role of Danny Pearson on the Netflix series \"Orange Is the New Black\" in its third and fourth season, with which he shared the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. In 2011, Birbiglia mounted his second one-man show, \"My Girlfriend's Boyfriend\", which ran for four months off-Broadway and won the Lucille Lortel Award", "title": "Mike Birbiglia" }, { "id": "13300483", "text": "Carmen had actually called the FBI. Angry, Danny vowed never to forgive his mother and left the family business. Danny Santos Danny Santos is a fictional character on the daytime soap opera \"Guiding Light\". He has been portrayed by Paul Anthony Stewart from November 11, 1998 to November 22, 2005. He briefly returned on July 2, 2009 and appeared on a recurring basis until the series finale on September 18, 2009. Daniel \"Danny\" Santos is the second child of Miguel Santos Sr. and Carmen Santos. The Santos family is heavy into the mob life and Danny often spent much of", "title": "Danny Santos" }, { "id": "5963723", "text": "Michael Graziadei Michael Graziadei (born September 22, 1979) is an American actor, known for his role as Daniel Romalotti on the CBS daytime soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\". Graziadei was born in Germany. He returned to the United States at 11 years old. He began acting in Germany, on stage, at the age of 5 in a production of \"The King and I\". While at The University of New Hampshire he also appeared in \"The Servant of Two Masters\" and \"History of the Devil\". In 2004, he was cast as Daniel Romalotti, Phyllis Summers' son, in the CBS", "title": "Michael Graziadei" }, { "id": "12668865", "text": "Daniel Romalotti Daniel Romalotti is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\". The role had most notably been portrayed by Michael Graziadei from 2004 to 2013. Daniel is the son of Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford, Gina Tognoni) and Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian), however a later storyline revealed that Daniel's biological father is a man named Brian Hamilton. Daniel's major storylines have included a love story and marriage with Lily Winters (Christel Khalil, Davetta Sherwood), of which their parents disapproved, as well as being married to Amber Moore (Adrienne Frantz). Most recently, Daniel fathered a", "title": "Daniel Romalotti" }, { "id": "13300479", "text": "Danny Santos Danny Santos is a fictional character on the daytime soap opera \"Guiding Light\". He has been portrayed by Paul Anthony Stewart from November 11, 1998 to November 22, 2005. He briefly returned on July 2, 2009 and appeared on a recurring basis until the series finale on September 18, 2009. Daniel \"Danny\" Santos is the second child of Miguel Santos Sr. and Carmen Santos. The Santos family is heavy into the mob life and Danny often spent much of his time trying to get away from that life. Danny has three siblings: his late older brother Mick Santos", "title": "Danny Santos" }, { "id": "10380982", "text": "involved in a love triangle with her rival Lauren and rock star Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian), before marrying gardener-turned-business executive Brad Carlton (Don Diamont). The Abbott and Newman family rivalry is further put the test in 2010 after Billy Abbott and Victoria Newman marry. A relatively controversial fixture on the show for several decades was Bell's daughter, Lauralee. Lauralee debuted in 1983 in a bit part as Christine \"Cricket\" Blair. As Lauralee grew up, her character became more and more prominent, to the point where in 1988 storylines had four different men in love with her. Longtime fan favorite Terry", "title": "The Young and the Restless storylines" }, { "id": "12668898", "text": "Bella. Daniel Romalotti Daniel Romalotti is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\". The role had most notably been portrayed by Michael Graziadei from 2004 to 2013. Daniel is the son of Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford, Gina Tognoni) and Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian), however a later storyline revealed that Daniel's biological father is a man named Brian Hamilton. Daniel's major storylines have included a love story and marriage with Lily Winters (Christel Khalil, Davetta Sherwood), of which their parents disapproved, as well as being married to Amber Moore (Adrienne Frantz). Most recently, Daniel fathered", "title": "Daniel Romalotti" }, { "id": "12810243", "text": "Brad Savage Brad Savage (born December 9, 1965) is an American actor best known for his role as Danny in the 1984 movie \"Red Dawn\", for which he received a nomination for the Young Artist Award in the category \"Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Musical, Comedy, Adventure or Drama\". Savage was born in Livonia, Michigan in 1965. His mother, Judy, became a talent agent after Brad began his acting career. His sister, Tracie Savage, is an actor. While known for \"Red Dawn\", Savage also appeared in many television shows in the 1970s and 1980s, including \"Salem's Lot\",", "title": "Brad Savage" }, { "id": "8288168", "text": "Gina Roma Gina Roma is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\", portrayed by Patty Weaver. The role was portrayed by Patty Weaver throughout her entire run on \"The Young and the Restless\". Weaver appeared from 1982 through 2005 when she was taken off contract, remaining on recurring until 2009. She made a guest visit for Katherine Chancellor's funeral in September 2013. In 1982, Gina went from being a con artist to a well-respected pillar of the Genoa City community, with the help of her brother, Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian). After spending five years", "title": "Gina Roma" }, { "id": "8506655", "text": "was brought over to \"The Bold and the Beautiful\" by executive producer Bradley Bell, the actress' real-life brother, for a short-term stint. In 2010, Bell returned to \"The Young and the Restless\", where she continues to make recurring appearances. Christine has been married to rock singer Danny Romalotti (Michael Damian), a union that lasted four years until he left her to be with Phyllis Summers (Michelle Stafford), a woman he believed to be pregnant with his child. This sparked an ongoing rivalry between the two women that continues to present time. The character was later involved with investigator Paul Williams", "title": "Christine Blair" }, { "id": "9100022", "text": "Matt Heath (actor) Matt \"Starlight Mackintosh\" Heath is an actor, producer, radio host, sports commentator, columnist, musician and all round punisher. He played Danny Parker on \"Back Of The Y Masterpiece Television\" and Dick Johansonson in the feature film \"The Devil Dared Me To\". He was guitarist and singer for the 2000s band Deja Voodoo which reportedly released two top twenty albums. He has worked on shows for MTV2 in the UK and appeared on \"Eating Media Lunch\". Heath hosts/pests around the Matt and Jerry Breakfast Show with Jeremy Wells on \"Radio Hauraki\". He has been a \"The New Zealand", "title": "Matt Heath (actor)" }, { "id": "5963726", "text": "roles on the Audience mixed martial arts drama series \"Kingdom\" and the Amazon Video historical period drama series \"Good Girls Revolt\". In 2018, Graziadei appeared in episode 3 of the remake of Magnum P.I.; he played Tara’s ex-boyfriend and kidnapper in the the episode entitled “The Woman Who Never Died”, originally airing on October 8, 2018. Michael Graziadei Michael Graziadei (born September 22, 1979) is an American actor, known for his role as Daniel Romalotti on the CBS daytime soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\". Graziadei was born in Germany. He returned to the United States at 11 years", "title": "Michael Graziadei" }, { "id": "3267671", "text": "October 6, 2016, Burton announced via social media that he would not renew his deal with the soap, and would exit the role of Dylan. He was subsequently awarded another Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for his \"The Young and the Restless\" role in 2017. In June 2017, ABC Daytime announced that Burton would be returning to \"General Hospital\". Burton was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Tory Burton, an optician, and father Jack Burton (after whom he is named), now divorced. He was raised in a suburb of Cleveland called Richmond Heights, before moving to Hollywood.", "title": "Steve Burton (actor)" }, { "id": "16347469", "text": "that Danny had been drugged that first time and never even made love with Phyllis as she had claimed. The court found her to be unstable and an unfit mother. Danny won custody of Daniel, whom he still considered his son, although Phyllis was allowed visitation. Brian left town soon after the custody agreement was finalized. George Summers was first seen in 1995 as the father of Phyllis Summers and Avery Bailey Clark. On January 18, 2012, it was announced that Ken Howard was cast in the role. He began taping on January 19, and aired from February 23 to", "title": "The Young and the Restless characters (1990s)" }, { "id": "3301308", "text": "Damian was offered the part of struggling singer, Danny Romalotti, on the daytime television series \"The Young and the Restless\". After twelve years with \"The Young and the Restless\", Damian landed the starring role in the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical, \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\". With Damian cast as Joseph, the production set a single day box-office record as well as a historical record for the highest weekly gross for a Broadway revival at the Minskoff Theatre. \"Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat\" had 231 performances at the Minskoff Theatre from November 10,", "title": "Michael Damian" }, { "id": "1461870", "text": "enough, I think that Rosie should be strung up for treason\", referring to Rosie O'Donnell. Movies Danny Bonaduce Dante Daniel \"Danny\" Bonaduce (born August 13, 1959) is an American radio/television personality, comedian, professional wrestler, and former child actor. Born in Broomall, Pennsylvania, Bonaduce is the son of veteran TV writer/producer Joseph Bonaduce (\"The Dick Van Dyke Show\", \"One Day at a Time\", etc.). The younger Bonaduce became famous as a child actor of the 1970s on the TV sitcom \"The Partridge Family\". He co-starred as Danny Partridge, the wisecracking, redheaded middle son of the singing pop band (headed by Shirley", "title": "Danny Bonaduce" }, { "id": "16347471", "text": "in March 1995 as a former co-worker of Phyllis Romalotti. The role was portrayed by Tina Arning until July 1996, and again from January 1997 to May 27, 1997, when the character died in an apartment fire. However, she returned in a dream had by Phyllis on December 11, 2002. History<br> Sasha came to town when her former co-worker, Phyllis Romalotti, contacted her in order for her to switch her son's, Daniel, paternity tests as her then-husband, Danny Romalotti, wanted one, feeling that Phyllis was not being honest about it. Christine Blair was also investigating Daniel's paternity for Danny. Sasha", "title": "The Young and the Restless characters (1990s)" }, { "id": "7102934", "text": "Reiley McClendon Reiley McClendon (born Eric Reiley McClendon II; March 11, 1990) is an American actor. He has appeared on such television shows as \"Will & Grace\", \"Zoey 101\", and \"Medium\", as well as in Disney Channel films such as \"Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off\" and \"Buffalo Dreams\". He also portrayed young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \"Pearl Harbor\". He played the young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \"Pearl Harbor\" with Jesse James, who played Rafe McCawley. He appeared in the \"\" episode \"\" in a dual role as identical twins Logan and Lindsay Stanton. He had a role", "title": "Reiley McClendon" }, { "id": "3258365", "text": "David Tom David Tom (born March 23, 1978) is an American actor. In 1993, Tom was nominated for two Young Artist Awards for his roles in \"Stepfather III\" and \"Stay Tuned\". In 1994, he was again nominated for \"Outstanding Youth Ensemble in a Motion Picture\" for \"Swing Kids\", alongside co-stars Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale and Frank Whaley. He portrayed Billy Abbott on the CBS soap opera, \"The Young and the Restless\", from 1999 to 2002. Tom received two Daytime Emmy nominations for \"Outstanding Younger Actor\" in 2000 and 2001, winning in the former year. He also won a Soap", "title": "David Tom" }, { "id": "1461848", "text": "Danny Bonaduce Dante Daniel \"Danny\" Bonaduce (born August 13, 1959) is an American radio/television personality, comedian, professional wrestler, and former child actor. Born in Broomall, Pennsylvania, Bonaduce is the son of veteran TV writer/producer Joseph Bonaduce (\"The Dick Van Dyke Show\", \"One Day at a Time\", etc.). The younger Bonaduce became famous as a child actor of the 1970s on the TV sitcom \"The Partridge Family\". He co-starred as Danny Partridge, the wisecracking, redheaded middle son of the singing pop band (headed by Shirley Jones). He and Shirley Jones were the only Partridge cast members whose actual first names were", "title": "Danny Bonaduce" }, { "id": "3267547", "text": "Paul Anthony Stewart Paul Anthony Stewart is an American stage and television actor who is best known for portraying Danny Santos in the daytime soap opera \"Guiding Light\". Stewart was born Paul Anthony Tamaccio on February 23, 1970 in Philadelphia. He was raised in the nearby suburb of Wayne, Pennsylvania where he attended Radnor High School. Upon high school graduation Stewart attended prestigious Princeton University where he graduated with a degree in drama with an influence on dramatic literature. Stewart's big break came with landing the role of Casey Bowman, a man with a troubled father, on the soap opera", "title": "Paul Anthony Stewart" }, { "id": "3830237", "text": "Scott Caan Scott Andrew Caan (born August 23, 1976) is an American actor. He currently stars as Detective Danny \"Danno\" Williams in the CBS television series \"Hawaii Five-0\" (2010–present), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Caan is also known for his recurring role as manager Scott Lavin in the HBO television series \"Entourage\" (2009–2011). He was also a part of 1990s rap group The Whooliganz with The Alchemist. The duo went by the names Mad Skillz and Mudfoot, respectively. Caan was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor James Caan and Sheila Marie Ryan,", "title": "Scott Caan" }, { "id": "7868115", "text": "Denice Duff Denice Marie Duff (born July 1, 1965 in New York City) is an American actress, director, and photographer, who is best known for her roles as Michelle Morgan in Full Moon Features' \"Subspecies\" series and as Amanda Browning in the long-running soap opera series \"The Young and the Restless\". Denice was discovered by manager Jay Bernstein during a Hollywood Talent Search contest. She worked as an office intern in the contest office and the judges convinced her to audition. She was the only actress of 2000 who auditioned that was picked by Mr. Bernstein for representation. Brought to", "title": "Denice Duff" }, { "id": "8506658", "text": "in June 2007. In 2008, Bell was asked for a short term reprisal, though declined the offer and explained that she would return when \"the show crafts a substantial storyline for her\". Bell explained in an interview that she'd \"never been pressured so much in the nicest way when she was asked to come back\". In 2010, it was announced that Bell would return to \"The Young and the Restless\" for a short-term stint. Since then, the actress has remained on a recurring status. In 2012, the actress returned for a reunion with her onscreen ex-husband, Danny Romalotti. Cricket Blair,", "title": "Christine Blair" }, { "id": "1066647", "text": "according to those who knew him. Their adopted son, James MacArthur, was also an actor, best known for playing Danny Williams on the American television series \"Hawaii Five-O\". His brother, John D. MacArthur, was an insurance-company owner and executive, and founded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the benefactor of the MacArthur Fellowships. Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story - \"The Scoundrel\" (shared with Ben Hecht) (1936) In 1983, MacArthur was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. MacArthur was portrayed by Matthew Broderick in the 1994 film \"Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle\". Charles", "title": "Charles MacArthur" }, { "id": "13040212", "text": "it was announced that Serrano was to exit the role, and his departure was \"storyline dictated\". Seven days later, it was announced that former model Greg Vaughan was Serrano's replacement. Vaughan was known for playing Dan Gordon on the serial drama series \"Charmed\" from 1999–2000. The recasting, according to executive producers, was due to a \"new direction\" they were taking with the character. Serrano exited on April 26, 2002 with Vaughan debuting four days later on April 30. In December, it was announced that Vaughan had been let go from \"The Young and the Restless\". His exit was reportedly due", "title": "Diego Guittierez" }, { "id": "3729027", "text": "Greg Vaughan James Gregory Vaughan, Jr. (born June 15, 1973) is an American actor and former fashion model, known for his roles in the soap operas \"The Young and the Restless\" (2002–03), \"General Hospital\" (2003–09), and \"Days of Our Lives\" (2012–Present). Vaughan also starred as Dan Gordon on the second season of the supernatural series \"Charmed\" (1999-2000). In 2016, Vaughan began starring in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series \"Queen Sugar\" as Detective Calvin. The actor and former male fashion model has starred in soap operas such as \"The Young and the Restless\" and \"General Hospital\". To date, his best-known", "title": "Greg Vaughan" }, { "id": "4107588", "text": "Ted Shackelford Theodore Tillman Shackelford III (born June 23, 1946) is an American actor. He played Gary Ewing in the CBS television series \"Knots Landing\" (1979–1993); since 2006, he has appeared in a recurring role on the CBS soap \"The Young and the Restless,\" portraying twin brothers William and Jeffrey Bardwell. Shackelford was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and went to college at the University of Denver. He appeared in the role as Ray Gordon on the daytime soap opera \"Another World\" from 1975 to 1977. He has also appeared in roles on \"Wonder Woman\" and most recently in \"The", "title": "Ted Shackelford" }, { "id": "5963725", "text": "Wanderley, a young boyfriend of Jessica Lange's character, and on The CW's \"The Secret Circle\". In 2013, after leaving daytime television, Graziadei was cast as a series regular in the ABC drama pilot \"Westside\". The pilot was not picked up for the continuing series. Later, he was cast as the male lead in the Lifetime drama series \"The Lottery\", opposite Marley Shelton. The show was cancelled after one season. In August 2016, Graziadei reprised his portrayal of Daniel Romalotti on \"The Young and the Restless\" for a limited run, in celebration of the soap's 11,000th episode. He also landed recurring", "title": "Michael Graziadei" }, { "id": "5060636", "text": "Courtland Mead Courtland Robert Mead (born April 19, 1987) is a former American child actor noted for his performances on-screen during the 1990s. Mead was born in Mission Viejo, California, the son of Denise and Robert Mead. He has two sisters, Lauren and Candice Mead. Courtland began acting at the age of 2, playing minor characters. His first noted achievement was when he played the part of young Johnny McGowan in the 1994 film \"Dragonworld\". In 1997, Mead took on the role of psychic child Danny Torrance in Stephen King's \"The Shining\" television mini-series. Later that same year, he appeared", "title": "Courtland Mead" }, { "id": "3202815", "text": "Josh Duhamel Joshua David Duhamel (; born November 14, 1972) is an American actor and former fashion model. After various modeling work, he made his acting debut as Leo du Pres on the ABC daytime soap opera \"All My Children\" and later starred as Danny McCoy on NBC's \"Las Vegas\". Duhamel has ventured into film, appearing as one of the main protagonists in four of the \"Transformers\" films, most recently in the fifth entry, \"\" (2017). He has also appeared in \"When in Rome\" (2010), \"Life as We Know It\" (2010), \"New Year's Eve\" (2011), \"Safe Haven\" (2013), and \"You're", "title": "Josh Duhamel" }, { "id": "12109081", "text": "Frank Runyeon Frank Runyeon (born August 23, 1953, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor who played Steve Andropoulos on CBS's \"As the World Turns\" from 1980 to 1987. He has also translated and performed in one-man plays of Scripture. After leaving CBS, Runyeon starred as Michael Donnelly on NBC's soap opera \"Santa Barbara\" from 1988 to 1991. He appeared as Simon Romero on ABC's soap \"General Hospital\" in 1992, and as Ed McClain on \"Another World\" in 1994 and a short appearance as Angel on \"The Young and the Restless\". He has also guest-starred on numerous prime-time television shows, including", "title": "Frank Runyeon" }, { "id": "10969825", "text": "Tim O'Kelly Tim O'Kelly (born Timothy Patrick Wright, March 12, 1941 – January 4, 1990) was an American actor best known for playing the homicidal sniper Bobby Thompson in the Peter Bogdanovich cult film \"Targets\" (1968). He was cast because of his boy-next-door looks and his similarity in appearance to killer Charles Whitman, on whom the character was loosely based. O'Kelly also played Detective Danny \"Danno\" Williams in the pilot episode of \"Hawaii Five-O\", but was replaced by James MacArthur. O'Kelly had a brief marriage to actress Evelyn Rudie, whom he married in 1968. After 1973, he did no further", "title": "Tim O'Kelly" }, { "id": "9532108", "text": "David Greenman David Greenman (born October 27, 1977 in Syracuse, New York) is an American actor best known for portraying the character of Danny McCall from 2004-2006 on the ABC daytime soap opera \"General Hospital\". David Greenman was born and raised in Manlius, New York, a suburb of Syracuse. His parents are a judge and nurse, and he has one younger sister. He graduated from Fayetteville-Manlius High School and attended Cornell University where he was a pre-med theatre arts major. He performed and directed theatre during college, and then moved to Los Angeles where he has worked as an actor", "title": "David Greenman" }, { "id": "12668868", "text": "3, 2013. However, Graziadei later reprised the role for four episodes from July 30 to August 2, 2013 to help usher his onscreen mother, Michelle Stafford, out of the series. In July 2016, \"Entertainment Weekly\" reported at Graziadei will briefly return on August 25, 2016, coinciding with \"The Young and the Restless\"'s 11,000 episode. Daniel was born off-screen on August 17, 1993; his birth year has since been revised to 1987. Daniel first arrived in Genoa City in 2004 after returning from boarding school to live with his mother, Phyllis Summers. Because she did not raise him as a child,", "title": "Daniel Romalotti" }, { "id": "1841841", "text": "Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. The episode \"Ho'apono\" from the 2010 version of \"Hawaii Five-0\" was dedicated to MacArthur. James MacArthur James Gordon MacArthur (December 8, 1937 – October 28, 2010) was an American actor best known for the role of Danny \"Danno\" Williams, the reliable second-in-command of the fictional Hawaiian State Police squad in the long-running television series \"Hawaii Five-O\". Born in Los Angeles, MacArthur was the adopted son of playwright Charles MacArthur, and his wife, actress Helen Hayes. He grew up in Nyack, New York, along with the MacArthurs' biological daughter, Mary. He was educated at Allen-Stevenson School", "title": "James MacArthur" }, { "id": "17031337", "text": "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2014 and 2016. In October 2016, Burton announced his decision to not renew his deal with \"The Young and the Restless\". He made his final appearance on January 27, 2017. In October 2012, Burton departed the role of fan favorite Jason Morgan on ABC Daytime's \"General Hospital\". That November, news broke that \"The Young and the Restless\" put out a casting call for a character named Dylan, who was slated to \"hit the airwaves\" in early 2013. The casting call described him as a \"rugged, dynamic, energetic man in his mid-30s\" who", "title": "Dylan McAvoy" }, { "id": "9184362", "text": "Enrique Murciano Enrique Ricardo Murciano is an American actor. He is known for his role as FBI agent Danny Taylor in the CBS mystery drama series \"Without a Trace\" from 2002 to 2009. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Murciano attended Christopher Columbus High School and then Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He originally studied at New England School of Law in Boston for a time, but ultimately decided to pursue an acting career and left. He moved to Los Angeles, and began his career, making his feature film debut in the 1997 action film \"\", which starred Sandra", "title": "Enrique Murciano" }, { "id": "13971513", "text": "had a small role in the 2013 film \"The Wolf of Wall Street\". His most recent roles have been as Management and Correction Corporation employee Jack Pearson who is also the father of Danny Pearson on the Netflix comedy-drama \"Orange is the New Black\" and Blake North on the ABC miniseries \"Madoff\". Michael Bryan French Michael Bryan French is an American stage, film and television actor known for his roles on \"Orange is the New Black, Prison Break, Madoff, \", and \"As the World Turns\". French was born in Lackawanna, New York and raised in Elmira, New York. In 1990,", "title": "Michael Bryan French" }, { "id": "5552768", "text": "Jeff Branson Jeffrey Dale Branson (born March 10, 1977) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Ronan Malloy on \"The Young and the Restless\", Jonathan Lavery on \"All My Children\", and Shayne Lewis on \"Guiding Light\". Branson originated the role of Jonathan Lavery on the ABC soap opera \"All My Children\" on June 15, 2004. Although he was off the air from mid-April until August 2005 while his character was believed dead in an explosion, Branson remained on contract the entire time. Branson's last appearance on \"All My Children\" aired on December 18, 2007. Branson's work", "title": "Jeff Branson" }, { "id": "8117933", "text": "Ashley Abbott Ashley Abbott is a fictional character from \"The Young and the Restless\" and \"The Bold and the Beautiful\", two American soap operas on the CBS network. She has been most notably portrayed by Eileen Davidson, who originated the role in June 1982 before departing in 1988. Brenda Epperson portrayed Ashley from 1988 to 1995, before Shari Shattuck portrayed the role for the next three years, until Davidson's return in 1999. Davidson was nominated in 2003 for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The character is the daughter of Dina Mergeron and Brent Davis,", "title": "Ashley Abbott" }, { "id": "11982536", "text": "BBC sitcom \"Absolutely Fabulous\" (2002); a Staten Island father in the first season of \"Louie\" (2010); he appeared as different characters in six episodes of the original NBC drama series \"Law & Order\" (1995–2015), and played the recurring part of Lolly Steinman on the HBO series \"Boardwalk Empire\" (2010–11). His film appearances include \"Transamerica\" (2005), \"Deception\" (2008), \"The Family Fang\" (2015), and \"Indignation\" (2016). Burstein was born in Mt. Kisco, New York, and was raised in New York City. Danny's biological parents separated when he was two months old. He was raised by his mother, Virginia (Vega), a painter, and", "title": "Danny Burstein" }, { "id": "5596526", "text": "Danny Lloyd Danny Lloyd (born October 13, 1972) is an American teacher and former child actor best known for his role as Danny Torrance in the horror film \"The Shining\" (1980), an adaptation of Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name. Lloyd's first and best-known role is that of Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's \"The Shining\" (1980). He was selected for the role due to his ability to maintain his concentration for extended periods. In the DVD commentary by Garrett Brown and John Baxter, they state that Kubrick was able to film all of Lloyd's scenes without the six-year-old", "title": "Danny Lloyd" }, { "id": "9532109", "text": "and screenwriter. In addition to his role on \"General Hospital\", he has recurred on Bones as \"FBI Forensic Tech Marcus Geier\" and in the role of \"Fred\" on \"Gilmore Girls\", and has also guest-starred on \"According To Jim\", \"Monk\", \"The Mentalist\", \"Weeds\", and \"The New Adventures of Old Christine\". David Greenman David Greenman (born October 27, 1977 in Syracuse, New York) is an American actor best known for portraying the character of Danny McCall from 2004-2006 on the ABC daytime soap opera \"General Hospital\". David Greenman was born and raised in Manlius, New York, a suburb of Syracuse. His parents", "title": "David Greenman" }, { "id": "9508463", "text": "Ted Wass Theodore \"Ted\" Wass (born October 27, 1952) is an American television director and former actor. He is best known for his roles as Danny Dallas on the series \"Soap\" (1977–1981) and as Nick Russo on the NBC sitcom \"Blossom\" (1991–1995). Since \"Blossom\" ended its run in 1995, Wass has retired from acting and has focused only on directing episodic television such as \"Spin City\", \"The Big Bang Theory\", \"Less than Perfect\" and \"2 Broke Girls\". Wass was born in Lakewood, Ohio (just west of Cleveland). He was raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, (about west of Chicago) and graduated", "title": "Ted Wass" }, { "id": "10664118", "text": "Danny Torrance Daniel Anthony \"Danny\" Torrance is a fictional character that first appears in the 1977 novel \"The Shining\" by Stephen King as a child with psychic powers called \"the shining\". His parents are father Jack Torrance and mother Wendy Torrance. The character also appears in the 1980 film adaptation \"The Shining\" and was played by Danny Lloyd. The character also appears in the 1997 TV miniseries \"The Shining\" and was played by Courtland Mead. In 2013, Stephen King released the novel \"Doctor Sleep\", a sequel to the 1977 novel that features an adult Danny Torrance as the protagonist. Warner", "title": "Danny Torrance" }, { "id": "10380983", "text": "Lester, who played Jack Abbott, left the show in 1989 and blamed her partly, claiming that the excessive airtime given to Cricket drowned out the other performers. Chris originally became the love interest of the character of Danny Romalotti and was involved in a love Quadrangle between him, Phillip Chancellor III and Nina Webster throughout most of 1987 and the first half of 1988. Chris, who was saving herself for marriage, then had an unconsummated romance with Scott Grainger (which ended abruptly when he was revealed to be her half-brother) and was later a victim of a \"date-rape\" where Derek", "title": "The Young and the Restless storylines" }, { "id": "6388158", "text": "he played for about four years, firstly as 'Flat-Top' (he can be heard in the original-cast recording) and afterwards in the bigger role of Electra the Electric Train. He was also in the funk band, Puppy Phat, who played at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and elsewhere. Mylan is best known as Oliver in the television sitcom \"Coupling\" (2004), Chris in \"Grownups\" (in 2007 and 2009) and Joe Andrews in BBC Wales drama \"Belonging\" (in 2006). Other television work has included the role of Danny Flint in \"Where the Heart Is\" (in 2005 and 2006), Harry in \"Wild West\" (2002-2004), \"Border", "title": "Richard Mylan" }, { "id": "16974085", "text": "Adam for sexual harassment. Her decision generates much bad publicity for Adam and Newman Enterprises. Before the case can go to court, Adam's ex-wife Chelsea Lawson (Melissa Claire Egan) convinces Melanie that Adam is not worth the lawsuit; she then drops the charges and disappears from Genoa City. Stitch Rayburn portrayed by Sean Carrigan, made his first appearance on June 28, 2013. His casting in the recurring role was announced in May; he was slated to be an \"old army buddy\" of Dylan McAvoy (Steve Burton). Errol Lewis of \"Soap Opera Network\" wrote that the soap opera was \"gaining another", "title": "The Young and the Restless characters (2013)" }, { "id": "17251568", "text": "Tony Oller Anthony Michael Oller (born February 25, 1991) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He had roles as Walt Moore on the Teen Nick TV show \"Gigantic\", and as \"Danny\" on Disney Channel's \"As the Bell Rings\". He appeared in the films \"Beneath the Darkness\" and \"The Purge\". He is also half of the group MKTO with his co-star Malcolm David Kelley. Oller was raised in Houston, Texas, the son of Mary Anne (Brown) and Jeff Oller. He graduated with honors in Debate from Cy-Fair High School in 2009. He appeared in both seasons of the Disney Channel", "title": "Tony Oller" }, { "id": "20635533", "text": "Ryan Ashton Ryan Ashton (born September 24, 1984) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Ashton is best known for his portrayal of Zack Sinnett on the CBS daytime soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\", which earned a nomination for the Daytime Emmy Award for Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2018. He appeared in the feature film, , and wrote, directed, and starred in the Bedsider series The Guys Guide to Birth Control, which was featured in The New York Times and The Huffington Post. He grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts before attending The University of North", "title": "Ryan Ashton" }, { "id": "13057125", "text": "the USA Network series \"Graceland\", which premiered on June 6, 2013. The show was canceled in October 2015. Tveit's next film role was in \"Big Sky\" which was released on August 14, 2015. In 2016, Tveit appeared as Danny Zuko in a live version of \"Grease\" that aired on Fox on January 31. Additionally, he is featured on the soundtrack for \"\" along with co-stars Julianne Hough and Vanessa Hudgens. Tveit then starred in \"Undrafted\" which was released on July 15. His next film \"Better Off Single\" was released in theaters and on demand on October 7. In October 2015", "title": "Aaron Tveit" }, { "id": "11982535", "text": "Danny Burstein Danny Burstein (born June 16, 1964) is an American actor of stage and screen, who made his Broadway debut in 1992. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee; for \"The Drowsy Chaperone\" (2006), \"South Pacific\" (2008), \"Follies\" (2012), \"Golden Boy\" (2013), \"Cabaret\" (2014), and \"Fiddler on the Roof\" (2016). He has also won two Drama Desk Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, and received two Grammy Award nominations. His other Broadway credits include \"The Seagull\" (1992), \"Saint Joan\" (1993), and \"Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown\" (2010). Burstein's television work includes a feature-length episode of the", "title": "Danny Burstein" }, { "id": "11610707", "text": "Winters (formerly played by Shemar Moore) with former \"Family Matters\" actor Darius McCrary, as well as Eden Riegel's turn as Heather Stevens and Maura West as Diane Jenkins. \"The Young and the Restless\" writing team won the WGA Award for Best Daytime Serial in February 2010 and again in 2013 for work airing under Bell's tenure. In 2011, Bell, along with her writing team, won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team. In December 2012 Bell was honored with the Women's Image Network Humanitarian Award for her contributions to arts and arts education. \"The Bold and the", "title": "Maria Arena Bell" }, { "id": "7102935", "text": "in \"Shangri-La Suite\" (2016) opposite Luke Grimes and Emily Browning. Reiley McClendon Reiley McClendon (born Eric Reiley McClendon II; March 11, 1990) is an American actor. He has appeared on such television shows as \"Will & Grace\", \"Zoey 101\", and \"Medium\", as well as in Disney Channel films such as \"Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off\" and \"Buffalo Dreams\". He also portrayed young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \"Pearl Harbor\". He played the young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \"Pearl Harbor\" with Jesse James, who played Rafe McCawley. He appeared in the \"\" episode \"\" in a dual role as", "title": "Reiley McClendon" }, { "id": "20819353", "text": "Danny Don't You Know \"Danny Don't You Know\" is a song by American musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party. It was released as a single along with a music video on June 25, 2018, and was later featured on their sixth studio album \"Cool Patrol\", released on August 17, 2018. Written by band members Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht as well as producer Jim Roach, the song is a power ballad based on Avidan's life, and tells the story of a young, troubled Danny Sexbang being visited by his older self, who convinces him of his worth and tells him", "title": "Danny Don't You Know" }, { "id": "8259664", "text": "role of Richard in the film \"The Ode\" (2008) based on the novel \"Ode to Lata\" by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla. He also appeared as \"Eddie Diaz\" with Rosie Perez, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and Tony Award winner Patti Lupone in Nancy Savoca's \"The 24 Hour Woman\". Serrano was in a long-term relationship with actress Cote de Pablo, but they were reported as having broken up in June 2015. Diego Serrano Diego Serrano (born February 5, 1973) is an Ecuadorian-born American actor. Serrano was born on February 5, 1973 in Quito, Ecuador. He has appeared on \"The Young and the Restless\" as Diego", "title": "Diego Serrano" }, { "id": "20657064", "text": "musical remake. In August 2018, Ramirez's casting was announced for \"\" slated to be released in the summer of 2020. Danny Ramirez Danny Ramirez (born September 17, 1997 in Chicago) is an American actor of Colombian and Mexican origin. Danny Ramirez made his television debut on Showtime's, \"The Affair\" followed by roles on NBC's \"Blindspot\" and the feature film, \"Rapid Eye Movement\" while attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He currently reoccurs as \"Wes\" on Fox's \"The Gifted\" and on Netflix series \"On My Block\". He also guest starred in \"Orange Is The New Black\". Some of", "title": "Danny Ramirez" }, { "id": "18805901", "text": "for the state of Connecticut from 1959 to 1971. He is of Italian, Irish, Hungarian, Slovak, and English ancestry. Daddario attended the Collegiate School, before studying business at Indiana University Bloomington, from which he graduated in 2010. Daddario made his major film debut as Aaron in the romantic drama film \"Breathe In\", directed by Drake Doremus. That same year, he had a supporting role as Channing in the Vince Vaughn-led comedy film \"Delivery Man\", directed by Ken Scott. In 2014, Daddario portrayed Danny Ladouceur in the sports drama film \"When the Game Stands Tall\", co-starring alongside Jim Caviezel, Laura Dern,", "title": "Matthew Daddario" }, { "id": "8259663", "text": "Diego Serrano Diego Serrano (born February 5, 1973) is an Ecuadorian-born American actor. Serrano was born on February 5, 1973 in Quito, Ecuador. He has appeared on \"The Young and the Restless\" as Diego Guittierez (2001–02) and the long-running, defunct soap opera \"Another World\" as Tomas Rivera (1993–97). In 2000, he starred alongside star Jennifer Love Hewitt on the Fox television series \"Time of Your Life\". He also appeared in the 2005 film \"The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green\" playing Kyle Underhill, a professional baseball player who comes out as gay and authors an autobiography. Serrano played the", "title": "Diego Serrano" }, { "id": "11982537", "text": "his stepfather, Harvey Burstein, a professor of Greek philosophy. His mother, who is from Costa Rica, is Catholic and of Spanish descent, and his stepfather is Jewish. Burstein attended the High School of the Performing Arts and Queens College in New York City. He received an MFA in Acting from the University of California, San Diego in 1990. Burstein's first acting job was in the chorus of \"The Music Man\" at The Muny in St. Louis during college. On Broadway, Burstein's sixteen appearances, which have garnered him six Tony Award nominations, have included \"A Little Hotel on the Side\" (1992),", "title": "Danny Burstein" }, { "id": "19054717", "text": "John Posey (actor) John Sanford Posey (born February 7, 1956) is an American actor and writer. He is known for his roles as Dr. Conrad Fenris in MTV's show \"Teen Wolf\" and Judge Bill Millstone in the primetime drama \"How to Get Away with Murder\". He was born John Sanford Posey in Hartford, Connecticut, to Joan (Armstrong) and William McCutcheon Posey Jr. He is father of three children; one of them is actor Tyler Posey. John Posey was chosen to play Danny Tanner on the television series \"Full House\" and was cast in the unaired pilot; however, he was replaced", "title": "John Posey (actor)" }, { "id": "17036579", "text": "Fergus Riordan Fergus James Riordan is a Scottish/Irish actor, best known for his role in \"\" as Danny. He was born in Madrid, and one of his parents is Irish and the other is Scottish. At the age of 7 he accompanied his mother, her friend, and her friend's son to a casting audition. His acting career started to take form with the part of Richard in \"Fragile\". Later he landed a major role in \"I Want to Be a Soldier\", a supporting role in \"El sueño de Iván\" and then a main role in \"\" portraying Danny, a teenage", "title": "Fergus Riordan" }, { "id": "8131082", "text": "of Control\" which won him the Best Young Actor award in the drama category (2002){drama category for which award?}, and Ricardo on the CBBC series \"Kerching!\" (2003). He also had roles in \"The Vice\" (2003), the award-winning \"Gone\" (2003) (a short film) and \"Wall of Silence\" (2004). He has since gone onto appear in the horror film \"Exposé\" (2009), the directorial début by Martin Kemp from Spandau Ballet, and \"The Rapture\" released in 2010. Also in 2010, he co-produced and starred in the horror film \"Stalker\", which was again directed by Martin Kemp. Also in 2011, Young announced he had", "title": "Danny Young (actor)" }, { "id": "15142300", "text": "out in theaters early 2014. Carl Weyant Carl Weyant (born October 4, 1983) is an American actor, producer, model and musician who has appeared in \"Karma: Crime, Passion and Reincarnation, \" \"The Young and the Restless\" and recently worked with Danny Glover, Michael Rooker, and famed actor Martin Landau in the psychological thriller Mysteria Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, Weyant received roles in numerous low-budget independent features including \"Stray\" directed by Johnny Yong Bosch, and The Memory Thief. He then appeared as Thad Warner in \"The Young and the Restless\". Since that time, Weyant has worked steadily in Hollywood,", "title": "Carl Weyant" }, { "id": "14126560", "text": "Liam Bergin Liam Bergin (born 24 November 1985) is a British actor of Irish and Trinidadian descent. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2008. He is currently best known for playing Danny Mitchell in \"EastEnders\" and Rupert in \"Trinity\". He has also had minor roles in \"Doctors\" and the 2009 remake of \"Minder\". On 26 December 2009 it was announced he had been cast in the role of Danny Mitchell in the long-running soap opera \"EastEnders\". The character was phased out by mutual consent from the show with executive producer Bryan Kirkwood in April", "title": "Liam Bergin" }, { "id": "20657063", "text": "Danny Ramirez Danny Ramirez (born September 17, 1997 in Chicago) is an American actor of Colombian and Mexican origin. Danny Ramirez made his television debut on Showtime's, \"The Affair\" followed by roles on NBC's \"Blindspot\" and the feature film, \"Rapid Eye Movement\" while attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He currently reoccurs as \"Wes\" on Fox's \"The Gifted\" and on Netflix series \"On My Block\". He also guest starred in \"Orange Is The New Black\". Some of his notable film credits include: Sam Levinson's \"Assassination Nation\" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and MGM's \"Valley Girl\"", "title": "Danny Ramirez" }, { "id": "9184363", "text": "Bullock. In 2000, Murciano appeared in the crime drama \"Traffic\". In 2001, he starred as Francesco Torres in the short-lived MTV soap opera \"Spyder Games\". That same year, he appeared in war thriller \"Black Hawk Down\". It was there that he met Jerry Bruckheimer, leading to him being offered a starring role as Danny Taylor in the CBS mystery drama \"Without a Trace\". The series centered around a missing persons unit of the FBI in New York City. The show ran for seven seasons from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009. This role earned him two nominations from the", "title": "Enrique Murciano" }, { "id": "8146324", "text": "previously auditioned for the role of \"Dylan\" on another CBS soap opera \"The Bold and the Beautiful\", making it to the final two casting options, but lost the role to Dylan Neal. The network later requested him to read for the part of Nick, which he won. Morrow, who worked in a restaurant prior to debuting on \"The Young and the Restless\", considered his change in profession a \"quantum leap in careers\". He said that accepting the role was \"a very easy decision\" considering how popular the show was. \"The Record\" newspaper described the role as being \"tailor-made\" for Morrow.", "title": "Nicholas Newman" }, { "id": "10380991", "text": "and Cane asked Mackenzie to act as a surrogate to help them start a family despite Lily's medical condition. From 1999 to 2004, David Lago played Raul Guittierez, a member of a Cuban family who became part of a circle of friends that included Billy, Mackenzie, J.T. Hellstrom (Thad Luckinbill), Rianna Miner (Rianna Loving/Alexis Thorpe) and Brittany Hodges (Vanessa Lee Evigan/Lauren Woodland). Raul's brother Diego (Diego Serrano/Greg Vaughan) arrived in town in 2001 after running away from the family several years prior. After helping his younger brother during a difficult time, Diego had flings with Nicholas' wife Sharon (Sharon Case)", "title": "The Young and the Restless storylines" }, { "id": "17556468", "text": "stop Paragon. Ian, distressed, agrees to do so. A month later, Patty is found by police, having been living on streets after Ian dumped her. Detective Mark Harding, portrayed by Chris McKenna, made his first appearance on February 17, 2014. McKenna, known for his portrayal of Joey Buchanan on \"One Life to Live\", announced his casting on social media site Twitter on January 17. According to the actor, the role was expected to last for \"a few episodes\". The casting was later officially confirmed by a spokesperson for the series on January 21. McKenna taped his first scenes on January", "title": "The Young and the Restless characters (2014)" }, { "id": "2222224", "text": "studied film and theatre at the University of Southern California. Strong is known for playing Jonathan Levinson on the television series \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" and Paris Geller's boyfriend Doyle McMaster on \"Gilmore Girls\", but he has also appeared in films such as \"Pleasantville\", \"Dangerous Minds\", \"Seabiscuit\", the spoof \"Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday The Thirteenth\", and was in the film \"Sydney White\" as the Grumpy dork, Gurkin. Strong has also had guest parts in sitcoms such as \"Seinfeld\", \"Clueless\", \"3rd Rock from the Sun\", \"Over the Top\", \"Grey's Anatomy\" and \"How I Met Your Mother\"", "title": "Danny Strong" }, { "id": "10505996", "text": "Brian Matthews (actor) Brian Matthews is an actor, best known for acting in daytime soap operas in the 1980s. Matthews and co-stars Holly Hunter, Jason Alexander, and Fisher Stevens all made their film debuts in \"The Burning\" (1981). That same year, he portrayed the Adult David in the 1981 Broadway musical \"Copperfield\", which flopped. He then played Eric Garrison on the soap opera \"The Young and the Restless\" from 1983-1985. He went on to portray Brother Martin on \"Days of Our Lives\" from 1985–1986 and David Laurent on \"Santa Barbara\" in 1986. Then, he guest-starred in television shows such as", "title": "Brian Matthews (actor)" }, { "id": "5335648", "text": "he played Ephraim Lipshitz, a Mossad agent infiltrating a community of Hasidic Jews. Also in that year, he starred in the film \"The Skateboard Kid\". In 1994, Busfield starred in the film \"Little Big League\". Other film appearances include \"Sneakers\" (1992), \"Field of Dreams\" (1989) with Kevin Costner, and \"First Kid\" (1996) with comedian Sinbad. In 1997, Busfield starred in the Canadian television film \"Trucks\". Recurring television roles include White House correspondent Danny Concannon on \"The West Wing\"; and the title character's incorrigible brother on the sitcom \"Ed\", a show on which he was a co-executive producer and supervising producer.", "title": "Timothy Busfield" }, { "id": "9162474", "text": "University, San Luis Obisbo, where equine studies was his major field of study. Ford was cast in the film \"Grease\" (1978) as Tom Chisum, but dropped out before filming began and was replaced by Lorenzo Lamas, citing stage fright. Ford joined the cast of \"The Young and the Restless\" in 1981, creating the role of Private Investigator Andy Richards. He was a regular member of the cast from 1981 to 1987 and briefly from 2002-2003. Ford has since appeared in minor roles in a number of films and television series, including \"Escape From New York\", \"\", \"Armageddon\", \"Black Hawk Down\",", "title": "Steven Ford" }, { "id": "16367394", "text": "in July 1981 and later became a love interest for Diane Jenkins (Alex Donnelley) and Farren Connor (Colleen Casey). He was portrayed by Steven Ford until November 20, 1987. However, Ford reprised his role from October 29, 2002 to May 9, 2003. History<br> In the 1980s, Andy worked as a partner in the Paul Williams Detective Agency, and originally dated Nikki Reed. In 1982, Andy, estranged from his alcoholic wife Karen, began seeing Jill Foster. Jill liked Andy, but was not content with the wages that he earned. She attempted to convince him to take a higher-paying job, and he", "title": "The Young and the Restless characters (1980s)" }, { "id": "19939234", "text": "The Young and the Restless characters (2017) \"The Young and the Restless\" is an American television soap opera. It was first broadcast on March 26, 1973, and airs on CBS. The following is a list of characters that first appeared on the soap opera in 2017, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by executive producer Mal Young and co-executive producer/head writer Sally Sussman. In October 2017, Sussman departed as co-executive producer and head writer; Young remained as executive producer and was promoted as head writer. Alex Dettmer, portrayed by Jessica Nicole Webb, was introduced on January 11", "title": "The Young and the Restless characters (2017)" }, { "id": "16206253", "text": "The Young and the Restless characters (2011) \"The Young and the Restless\" is an American television soap opera. It was first broadcast on March 26, 1973, and airs on CBS. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 2011, by order of appearance. All characters were introduced to the series by its head writer that year, Maria Arena Bell. Lucy Romalotti, Primrose DeVille and Caleb Atkinson all debuted in January, while Angelo Veneziano first appeared in February. Davis Holloway debuted in July while Moses Winters debuted in October. Lucy Romalotti is the daughter of Daniel Romalotti and", "title": "The Young and the Restless characters (2011)" }, { "id": "5734433", "text": "sheriff who later became one of the antagonistic entity's possessed hosts in the episode \"The Damned Thing\". In March 2010 he was cast in the lead role in the sci-fi horror film \"Mongolian Death Worm\". He also had a supporting role in 2010's \"Saw 3D\". Flanery appeared in The Black Keys' music video \"Howlin' For You\", which was released on February 10, 2011. In April 2011 Flanery headed to the CBS soap \"The Young and the Restless,\" playing the part of Sam, Sharon Newman's boyfriend from New Mexico. He is married to Playboy model and actress Lauren Michelle Hill and", "title": "Sean Patrick Flanery" }, { "id": "12668866", "text": "child named Lucy after the mother, Daisy Carter (Yvonne Zima), raped Daniel. Other storylines include his strong friendship with Kevin Fisher (Greg Rikaart), the death of Cassie Newman (Camryn Grimes), and short-lived romances with Abby Newman (Marcy Rylan, Melissa Ordway) and Eden Baldwin (Jessica Heap). The character was first portrayed by twins Desiree and Hannah Wheel from 1994 to 1996, after which Michael McElroy took over the recurring role from 1996 to 1997. Chase MacKenzie Bebak portrayed Daniel from 1997 to 1998, followed by Roland Gibbons, who had a brief stint until the character was written out. Subsequently, the character", "title": "Daniel Romalotti" }, { "id": "8521673", "text": "Cleveland Campbell Cleveland Campbell (born 1977 in Rochdale, UK) is an English actor. His family is originally from Kingston, Jamaica. He is best known for his role in ITV's \"Emmerdale\" as Danny Daggert. He played the part from 2001 until 2006, starring in 116 episodes. He has also appeared in \"The Bill\" and \"Sunshine\" with Steve Coogan. In 2007, he appeared in pantomime at the Tameside Hippodrome. Before entering show business, he had previously completed a performing arts course at Hopwood Hall College. On its completion Cleveland also began a course in Hairdressing, also at Hopwood Hall College, Rochdale. He", "title": "Cleveland Campbell" }, { "id": "9321860", "text": "Danny Sorenson Danny Sorenson is a fictional detective on the popular TV series, \"NYPD Blue\", appearing from season six (1998) through season eight (2001). The character was played by actor Ricky Schroder. Sorenson, a US Army Desert Storm veteran of approximately twenty-seven years of age, was introduced in episode six of the sixth season as the 15th squad's replacement for the deceased Bobby Simone. He was partnered with Detective Andy Sipowicz. In childhood Sorenson immigrated to the United States from Norway along with his younger sisters following the death of his father; They were raised by their aunt in Albany,", "title": "Danny Sorenson" }, { "id": "18888407", "text": "Hrach Titizian Hrach Titizian (; born May 26, 1979) is an American television, film and stage actor and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of CIA analyst Danny Galvez on the first two seasons of Showtime's \"Homeland\". Titizian was born in California to Armenian emigrant parents. His father was born in Lebanon and his mother in Jordan, while his grandparents were Armenians from Iraq and Syria. He grew up in Glendale, California. He attended Armenian school and is able to speak, read and write Armenian fluently. As a child, Titizian would entertain family friends by singing and doing", "title": "Hrach Titizian" }, { "id": "8865711", "text": "final season, Danny and Elena get married. Danny Taylor (Without a Trace) Special Agent Danny Taylor is a fictional character played by actor Enrique Murciano on the CBS television crime drama \"Without a Trace\". He is an FBI agent and a member of the FBI missing persons case squad in New York City. Danny, whose original name was Danny Alvarez, comes from a troubled background. His parents were killed in a car accident when he was a young boy. He blamed himself for the accident. Danny's father was yelling at his mother and Danny wanted him to stop. He began", "title": "Danny Taylor (Without a Trace)" }, { "id": "15796539", "text": "Tony Becker Tony Becker (born September 14, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor best known for his role as Private Daniel 'Danny' Purcell on the 1987-1990 CBS Vietnam War series \"Tour of Duty\". Becker's first television role was on the short-lived ABC network sitcom \"The Texas Wheelers\" at age 11, He also co-starred on the series \"The Oregon Trail\" and For Love and Honor and had a recurring role as Drew Cutler on \"The Waltons\", a role he later reprised in several reunion movies. In Addition, he also guest starred on numerous television series including \"Marcus Welby,", "title": "Tony Becker" }, { "id": "8610237", "text": "Randall Park Randall Park (born March 23, 1974) is an American actor, comedian and writer known for portraying North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un in the 2014 film \"The Interview\", Minnesota governor Danny Chung in \"Veep\", Eddie Huang's father, American restaurateur Louis Huang, in ABC's television show \"Fresh Off the Boat\" and most recently, FBI agent Jimmy Woo and Dr. Stephen Shin in the 2018 films \"Ant-Man and the Wasp\" and \"Aquaman\", respectively. Park was born to Korean immigrant parents in Los Angeles, California. He was raised in West Los Angeles. His mother was an accountant at UCLA, and his", "title": "Randall Park" } ]

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[ { "id": "1494316", "text": "Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. The company's primary business is its subscription-based streaming OTT service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house. As of October 2018, Netflix has 137 million total subscribers worldwide, including 58.46 million in the United States. It is available worldwide except in mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Crimea. The company also has offices in the Netherlands, Brazil, India, Japan, and South Korea. Netflix's initial business", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494330", "text": "total of global streaming subscribers at 40.4 million (31.2 million in the United States). By the fourth quarter of 2013, Netflix reported 33.1 million United States subscribers. By September 2014, Netflix had subscribers in over 40 countries, with intentions of expanding their services in unreached countries. By October 2018, Netflix’s customer base reached 137 million worldwide, confirming its rank as by far the world’s biggest online subscription video service. Netflix has played a prominent role in independent film distribution. Through its division Red Envelope Entertainment, Netflix licensed and distributed independent films such as \"Born into Brothels\" and \"Sherrybaby\". As of", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494338", "text": "more comfortable with the old interface. In July 2014, Netflix surpassed 50 million global subscribers, with 36 million of them being in the United States. At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix announced a major international expansion of its service into 150 additional countries. Netflix promoted that with this expansion, it would now operate in nearly all countries that the company may legally or logistically operate in. A notable exception was China, citing the barriers of operating Internet and media services in the country due to its regulatory climate. Reed Hastings stated that the company was planning to build relationships", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494318", "text": "content through its online library. By January 2016, Netflix services operated in more than 190 countries. Netflix released an estimated 126 original series and films in 2016, more than any other network or cable channel. Their efforts to produce new content, secure the rights for additional content, and diversity through 190 countries have resulted in the company racking up billions in debt: $21.9 billion as of September 2017, up from $16.8 billion from the previous year. $6.5 billion of this is long-term debt, while the remaining is in long-term obligations. In October 2018, Netflix announced it would raise another $2B", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494342", "text": "$100 billion in market capitalization, becoming the largest digital media and entertainment company in the world, bigger than every traditional media company except for AT&T, Comcast and Disney and the 59th largest publicly traded company in the US S&P 500 Index. On March 2, 2018, Netflix stock price surge to new all-time high of $301.05 beating it 12 month price target of $300.00, and finishing the session with a market capitalization of $130 billion putting it within shouting distance of traditional media giants like Disney ($155 billion) and Comcast ($169 billion). The milestone came a day after British satcaster Sky", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494345", "text": "studio to sign a deal with Netflix. A sequel to Awesomeness Films' \"To All the Boys I've Loved Before\" is currently in development at the studio for Netflix. As of 2017, Netflix shares were mainly held by institutional investors, including Capital Group Companies, The Vanguard Group, BlackRock and others. For the fiscal year 2017, Netflix reported earnings of 0.6 billion, with an annual revenue of 11.7 billion, an increase of 32.4% over the previous fiscal cycle. Netflix's shares traded at over $165 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over 136 billion in September 2018. Netflix ranked 261", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494374", "text": "accused of sexual harassment as of 2017 (see Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations), causing Netflix to withdraw from hosting the 75th Golden Globe Awards with TWC, and ending its Golden Globes partnership with the mini-major film studio), Sony Pictures Animation, and the Walt Disney Studios catalog. Other distributors who have licensed content to Netflix include Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, and The Walt Disney Studios. Netflix also holds current and back-catalog rights to television programs distributed by Disney–ABC Television Group, DreamWorks Classics, Kino International, Warner Bros. Television, 20th Television and CBS Television Distribution, along with", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494373", "text": "content, the company decided to attribute 85% of total $12 and $13 billion on original series and films. Netflix currently has exclusive pay TV deals with several studios. The pay TV deals give Netflix exclusive streaming rights while adhering to the structures of traditional pay TV terms. As of 2014, films catalogued in Netflix's United States library include recent releases from Relativity Media and its subsidiary Rogue Pictures, as well as DreamWorks Animation, Open Road Films (though this deal expired in 2017; Showtime has assumed pay television rights), FilmDistrict, The Weinstein Company (one of whose founders, Harvey Weinstein, has been", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "3921358", "text": "the impact of their promotion budgets and optimize their product assortment. They also can provide insights into how changes in product offerings, pricing or marketing would change sales. Major clients include The Coca-Cola Company, Nestlé S.A., The Procter & Gamble Company, Unilever Group, and Walmart. While the United States is the company's largest market, Nielsen is a global company. In the Buy business, it covers 106 countries representing more than 90% of the world's population. Nielsen's Watch segment (approx. 55% of global revenues) primarily measures what consumers are watching (and listening to) across most devices: TV, radio, computers, mobile, over-the-top,", "title": "Nielsen Holdings" }, { "id": "20840022", "text": "Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google (FAANG), a further extension of FANG (which originally did not include Apple), is both an acronym and a buzzword to entice investors, as popularised by Jim Cramer from CNBC's Mad Money and other talking heads for grouping together currently high performance technology companies currently listed on NASDAQ. While it usually refers to the five (or four) of these technology companies specifically, the term is now generally used to refer to the technology and consumer discretionary sectors consisting of highly-traded growth stocks of American technology and tech-enabled companies in", "title": "Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google" }, { "id": "1494379", "text": "film. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes in 2011 welcomed Netflix's ability to monetize older content that was previously not generating money for media companies. On January 14, 2013, Netflix signed an agreement with Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System and Warner Bros. Television to distribute Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation, and Adult Swim content, as well as TNT's \"Dallas\", beginning in March 2013. The rights to these programs, previously held by Amazon Video, were given to Netflix shortly after their deal with Viacom to stream Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. programs expired. However, Cartoon Network's ratings dropped by 10% in households that", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19445162", "text": "market meant Netflix had access to approximately 600 million people, or twice the number of people living in the United States. Although high speed internet in Latin America is not as accessible as it in the United States and Canada, upon the announcement of its expansion to Latin America, Netflix stock immediately surged 8%, bringing the company to a record share price of $291. Beginning in September 2011, the company began its expansion to 43 countries and territories in Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean, offering content in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Brazil became the first country", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494346", "text": "on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States companies by revenue. Netflix's video on demand streaming service, formerly branded as \"Watch Now\", allows subscribers to stream television series and films via the Netflix website on personal computers, or the Netflix software on a variety of supported platforms, including smartphones and tablets, digital media players, video game consoles and smart TVs. According to a Nielsen survey in July 2011, 42% of Netflix users used a standalone computer, 25% used the Wii, 14% by connecting computers to a television, 13% with a PlayStation 3 and 12% an Xbox 360.", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494387", "text": "As of November 2018, Netflix officially supports 22 languages for user interface and customer support purposes: Arabic (Modern Standard), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Romanian, Spanish (Castilian and Latin American), Swedish, Thai and Turkish. Netflix has encountered political controversy for some of its international productions, including \"The Mechanism\", \"Fauda\" and \"Amo\". Netflix's success was followed by the establishment of numerous other DVD rental companies, both in the United States and abroad. Walmart began an online rental service in October 2002 but left", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494317", "text": "model included DVD sales and rental by mail, but Hastings jettisoned the sales about a year after the company's founding to focus on the DVD rental business. Netflix expanded its business in 2007 with the introduction of streaming media while retaining the DVD and Blu-ray rental service. The company expanded internationally in 2010 with streaming available in Canada, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean. Netflix entered the content-production industry in 2012, debuting its first series \"Lilyhammer\". Netflix has greatly expanded the production and distribution of both film and television series since 2012, and offers a variety of \"Netflix Original\"", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494323", "text": "about 300,000 subscribers and relied on the U.S. Postal Service for the delivery of their DVDs, they were losing money and offered to be acquired by Blockbuster for $50 million. They proposed that Netflix, which would rename themselves Blockbuster.com, would handle the online business, while Blockbuster should take care of the DVDs, making them less dependent on U.S. Postal Service. The offer was declined. While they experienced fast growth in early 2001, both the dot-com bubble burst and the September 11 attacks would occur later that year, affecting the company badly and forcing them to lay off two thirds of", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494399", "text": "film. Netflix became the most nominated service at 2018 Primetime and Creative Arts Emmy Awards with 112 nominations breaking HBO's 17-years record of most nominated network at Emmys, who received 108 nominations. In 2010, Netflix's stock price increased 219% to $175.70 and it added eight million subscribers, bringing its total to 20 million. Revenue jumped 29% to $2.16 billion and net income was up 39% to $161 million. In April 2011, Netflix was expected to earn $1.07 a share in the first quarter of 2011 on revenue of $705.7 million, a huge increase compared to the year-earlier profit of 59¢", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19469368", "text": "detected 233 individual locations over six continents, with the largest amount of traffic in the USA, followed by Mexico. Netflix is committed to open source. Netflix both leverages and provides open source technology focused on providing the leading Internet television network. Their technology focuses on providing immersive experiences across all internet-connected screens. Netflix's deployment technology allows for continuous build and integration into our worldwide deployments serving members in over 50 countries. Their focus on reliability defined the bar for cloud based elastic deployments with several layers of failover. Netflix also provides the technology to operate services responsibly with operational insight,", "title": "Technical details of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494344", "text": "work with Coben to develop 14 existing titles and future projects. On the same day, the company inked an overall deal with Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch. According to Global Internet Phenomena Report Netflix consumes 15% of all Internet bandwidth globally, the most by any single application. In October 2018, Netflix acquired ABQ Studios, a film and TV production facility with eight sound stages in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The reported purchase price is under $30 million. In November 2018, Paramount Pictures signed a multi-picture film deal with Netflix as part of Viacom's growth strategy, making Paramount the first major film", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "20561946", "text": "top of the list in terms of the most globally streamed video services online. In 2016, Netflix represented 32.72% of all video streaming IP traffic, while YouTube represented 17.31%. The third spot is taken up by Amazon Prime Video where global data usage comes in at 4.14%. Currently, Netflix is the largest video streaming service in the world, accessible in over 200 countries and with more than 80 million subscribers. Streaming high definition video content through Netflix uses roughly 3 GB of data per hour, while standard definition takes up around 1 GB of data per hour. In North America,", "title": "Zettabyte Era" }, { "id": "19445159", "text": "International expansion of Netflix Netflix is a video on demand service which has expanded its business internationally from 2010 onwards. The company began offering streaming service to the international market on September 22, 2010 to Canada. At the time, Canadians could subscribe to Netflix for $7.99 a month, a rate that CEO Hastings called, \"the lowest, most aggressive price we've ever had anywhere in the world.\" However, despite the proclaimed low price, content selection in Canada was extremely limited. In 2012, data conducted by Josh Loewen for Canadian Business Online found that in the United States there were 10,625 unique", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494380", "text": "had Netflix, and so many of the shows from that channel and Adult Swim were removed in March 2015. However, most of these shows were added to Hulu in May of the same year. In Canada, Netflix holds pay TV rights to films from Paramount, DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox (shared with The Movie Network), distributing all new content from those studios eight months after initial release. In 2015, the company also bought the Canadian pay TV rights to Disney films. In 2014, opinion web blogger Felix Salmon wrote that Netflix couldn't \"afford the content that its subscribers most", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "5072221", "text": "following the company acquisition in 2011. Level 3 Communications delivers Netflix and Apple music and video content over the Internet. The company runs a content delivery network which it acquired from Savvis in 2006. In 2006, Level 3 Communications announced with Internet2, an academic network, that they would deploy a next generation nationwide research network. Level 3 distributes and sells its services through a mix of six independent sales channels: large enterprise, wholesale, federal, content and media, midmarket, and indirect. All six sales channels report to the president of sales Andrew Crouch. The top performing Level 3 indirect sales agencies", "title": "Level 3 Communications" }, { "id": "14884940", "text": "Over-the-top media services Over the top (OTT) is a term used to refer to content providers that distribute streaming media as a standalone product directly to viewers over the Internet, bypassing telecommunications, multichannel television, and broadcast television platforms that traditionally act as a controller or distributor of such content. The term is most synonymous with subscription-based video on demand services that offer access to film and television content (including existing series acquired from other producers, as well as original content produced specifically for the service), including but not limited to Amazon Video, fuboTV, Hulu, Netflix, Now TV, Sling TV and", "title": "Over-the-top media services" }, { "id": "1494337", "text": "Facebook implementation, letting United States subscribers access \"Watched by your friends\" and \"Friends' Favorites\" by agreeing. This was not legal until the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 was modified in early 2013. In April 2014, Netflix approached 50 million global subscribers with a 32.3% video streaming market share in the United States. Netflix operated in 41 countries around the world. In June 2014, Netflix unveiled a global rebranding: a new logo, which uses a modern typeface with the drop shadowing removed, and a new website UI. The change was controversial; some liked the new minimalist design, whereas others felt", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19445178", "text": "success, but was pulled by regulators. On April 25, 2017, Netflix announced that it had reached a licensing deal with the Baidu-owned streaming service iQiyi, although specifics of the deal were not announced, some Netflix original productions will be available on iQivi day-and-date with their premiere elsewhere. Netflix has encountered political controversy for some of its international productions, including \"The Mechanism\", \"Fauda\" and \"Amo\". International expansion of Netflix Netflix is a video on demand service which has expanded its business internationally from 2010 onwards. The company began offering streaming service to the international market on September 22, 2010 to Canada.", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494339", "text": "with local media companies that could serve as partners for distributing its content in the country (with a goal to concentrate primarily on its original content), but stated that they were in no hurry, and could thus take \"many years\". Also in January 2016 Netflix announced it would begin blocking virtual private networks, or VPNs. At the same time, Netflix reported 74.8 million subscribers and predicted it would add 6.1 million more by March 2016. Subscription growth has been fueled by its global expansion. By the end of the year, Netflix added a feature to allow customers to download and", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494340", "text": "play select movies and shows while offline. In February 2017, Netflix signed a music publishing deal with BMG Rights Management, where BMG will oversee rights outside of the United States for music associated with Netflix original content. Netflix continues to handle these tasks in-house in the United States. On April 17, 2017, it was reported that Netflix was nearing 100 million subscribers. On April 25, 2017, Netflix announced that it had reached a licensing deal in China with the Baidu-owned streaming service iQiyi, to allow selected Netflix original content to be distributed in China on the platform. The Los Angeles", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "5072222", "text": "in 2010 include Intelisys, Microcorp, CDW/AVANT Communications, PlanetOne, Advantage Communications Group, Telarus, and Presidio. On November 11, 2010 a dispute arose between Level 3 and Comcast, when Level 3 announced that they were \"selected to serve as a primary content delivery network (CDN) provider for Netflix, Inc. to support the company's streaming functionality.\" Apparently, as a result of this distribution agreement, Comcast sought to renegotiate the peering agreement with Level 3 and sought a recurring fee for carrying the increased Level 3 internet traffic to and from Comcast broadband customers. Claims and counter-claims were made as the two companies sought", "title": "Level 3 Communications" }, { "id": "3766227", "text": "having little or no choice on whether they receive the product. With the advent of broadband Internet connections multiple streaming providers have come onto the market in the last couple of years. The main providers are Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. Some of these providers such as Hulu advertise and charge a monthly fee. Other such as Netflix and Amazon charge users a monthly fee and have no commercials. Netflix is the largest provider; it has over 43 million members and its membership numbers are growing . The rise of internet TV has resulted in cable companies losing customers to a", "title": "Streaming television" }, { "id": "1494335", "text": "2011, and more losses were expected in Q4 2011. However Netflix's income jumped 63% for Q3 2011. Year-long, the total digital revenue for Netflix reached at least $1.5 billion. On January 26, 2012, Netflix added 610,000 subscribers in the United States by the end of the fourth quarter of 2011, totaling 24.4 million United States subscribers for this time period. On October 23, however, Netflix announced an 88% decline in profits for the third quarter of the year. In April 2012, Netflix filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to form a political action committee (PAC) called FLIXPAC. \"Politico\" referred", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19978237", "text": "online television, there is an upward trend towards OTT (over-the-top) streaming sites, which causes a disruptive effect on cable television. In 2013, 63% of the households in the United States have been using a video streaming and delivery service, and 22% of those households watch Netflix every week of the year. In English Canada, Netflix is owned by 25% of households, and that increases to 33% for households with teens. Having the ability to watch commercial-free episodes at any given time and however and wherever the consumer desires, Netflix is shifting the way viewers consume television to a more digitalized,", "title": "Television consumption" }, { "id": "1494389", "text": "in an effort to better compete with Blockbuster's online-only offerings. On October 4, 2012, Dish Network scrapped plans to make Blockbuster into a Netflix competitor. (Dish bought the ailing Blockbuster, LLC in 2011 and will continue to license the brand name to franchise locations, and keep its \"Blockbuster on Demand\" video streaming service open.) In 2005, Netflix cited Amazon.com as a potential competitor, which until 2008, offered online video rentals in the United Kingdom and Germany. This arm of the business was eventually sold to LoveFilm; however, Amazon then bought LoveFilm in 2011. In addition, Amazon now streams movies and", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19445172", "text": "time since it began its European expansion, making international expansion increasingly important. As media analyst Anthony Wible has been quoted as saying, \"There are only so many people in the United States. The rest of the world is far bigger and the addition of domestic subscribers will start to slow down at some point.\" At the end of 2013, the company had reached approximately 32 million users in the United States and had additionally had approximately 10 million users internationally. By September 19, 2014, the service was also available in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland and India.While reception throughout", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494333", "text": "paychecks in stock options. By 2010, Netflix's streaming business had grown so quickly that within months the company had shifted from the fastest-growing customer of the United States Postal Service's first-class service to the largest source of Internet streaming traffic in North America in the evening. In November, it began offering a standalone streaming service separate from DVD rentals. On September 18, 2011, Netflix announced its intentions to rebrand and restructure its DVD home media rental service as an independent subsidiary called Qwikster, separating DVD rental and streaming services. Andy Rendich, a 12-year Netflix veteran, was to be CEO of", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19469369", "text": "peak performance, and security. They provide technologies for data (persistent & semi-persistent) that serve the real-time load to our 62 million members, as well as power the big data analytics that allow us to make informed decisions on how to improve our service. Technical details of Netflix Netflix is an American-based company that offers a service for streaming movies and TV series over the Internet. Several technical development efforts were required to provide this service. Initial DVD discs sent to customers via US mail often received criticisms of being scratched and unable to fully play the rented movie. The popularity", "title": "Technical details of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494329", "text": "was an attribute that not only benefited Netflix, but also benefited its viewers and those studios which were minor compared to others. In January 2013, Netflix reported that it had added two million United States customers during the fourth quarter of 2012, with a total of 27.1 million United States streaming customers, and 29.4 million total streaming customers. In addition, revenue was up 8% to $945 million for the same period. That number increased to 36.3 million subscribers (29.2 million in the United States) in April 2013. As of September 2013, for that year's third quarter report, Netflix reported its", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19445176", "text": "announced that it would be continuing its expansion into Asia by launching in Pakistan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan in early 2016, and the Philippines and Southeast Asia in the near future. On January 6, 2016 at Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix announced a major international expansion into 130 new territories; with this expansion, the company promoted that its service would now be available nearly \"worldwide\", with the only notable exclusions including Mainland China, and regions subject to U.S. sanctions, such as Crimea, Syria, and North Korea. The company also announced a partnership with LG to market pre-paid services", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494401", "text": "scrapped. The reason being that \"two websites would make things more difficult\", he stated on the Netflix blog. On November 22, Netflix's share tumbled, as share prices fell by as much as 7%. By December 2011, as a consequence of its decision to raise prices, Netflix had lost over 75% of its total value from the summer. Describing their business model as \"broken\", Wedbush downgraded Netflix's stock rating to \"underperform\", the equivalent of sell. In May 2014, Netflix increased the fee for UK subscribers by £1. The price increase took effect immediately for new subscribers, but would be delayed for", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494341", "text": "Times stated:\" Its series and movies account for more than a third of all prime-time download Internet traffic in North America.\" On August 7, 2017, Netflix acquired Millarworld, the creator-owned publishing company of comic book writer Mark Millar, It is the first ever company acquisition in Netflix's history. Netflix plans to leverage Millar and his current and future work for future original content. Chief content officer Ted Sarandos described Millar as being a \"modern-day Stan Lee\". The following week, Netflix announced that it had entered into an exclusive development deal with Shonda Rhimes. On January 22, 2018, the company crossed", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494353", "text": "films are delivered individually via the United States Postal Service from regional warehouses. As of March 28, 2011, Netflix had 58 shipping locations throughout the United States The subscriber can keep the rented disc as long as desired, but there is a limit on the number of discs that each subscriber can have simultaneously via different tiers. To rent a new disc, the subscriber must return the previous disc in a metered reply mail envelope. Upon receipt, Netflix ships the next available disc in the subscriber's rental queue. Netflix offers pricing tiers for DVD rental. On November 21, 2008, Netflix", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494319", "text": "in debt to help fund new content. Netflix was founded on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California, by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings. Randolph worked as a marketing director for Hastings' company, Pure Atria. Randolph was a co-founder of MicroWarehouse, a computer mail order company, and was later employed by Borland International as vice president of marketing. Hastings, a computer scientist and mathematician, sold Pure Atria to Rational Software Corporation in 1997 for $700 million in what was then the richest acquisition in Silicon Valley history. They came up with the idea for Netflix while commuting between their homes", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19469364", "text": "most valuable, including Instant Watcher, Fanhattan, Yidio, and Nextguide. In 2010, Netflix moved to using Amazon EC2 for its information technology (IT) resources. Master copies of digital films from movie studios are stored on Amazon S3, and each film is encoded into over 50 different versions based on video resolution and audio quality using machines on the cloud. In total, Netflix has over 1 petabyte of data stored on Amazon, and the data is sent to content delivery networks (including Akamai Technologies, Limelight Networks and Level 3 Communications) that feed the content to local ISPs. Netflix uses a number of", "title": "Technical details of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494392", "text": "and Quickflix. In the Nordic countries, Netflix competes with Viaplay, HBO Nordic and C More. In Southeast Asia, Netflix competes with HOOQ, Astro On the Go, Sky on Demand, Singtel TV, HomeCable OnDemand, and iflix. In New Zealand, Netflix competes with local streaming companies including Television New Zealand (TVNZ), Mediaworks New Zealand, Sky Network Television, Lightbox, Neon and Quickflix. In Italy, Netflix competes with Infinity, Now TV and TIMvision. In South Africa, Netflix competes with Showmax. In the Middle East, Netflix competes with Starz Play Arabia. In Mexico, Televisa removed its content from Netflix in 2016 and moved it to", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19445174", "text": "Europe, its subscriber base has grown on average by 7 million people a year, making international expansion key to Netflix's continued growth in the global marketplace. Notably, the company has over 20 original shows planned for release in 2015 and 2016. In that bunch are Netflix's first non-English language series. In 2013, \"Forbes\" magazine estimated that international streaming accounted for 15% of the company's value. Netflix has subscribed approximately 30% of households in the United States. If able to replicate that in the United Kingdom and Scandinavia alone the company would add 12 million users. Expansion to Australia and New", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "id": "4375877", "text": "Canadian consumers have access to several other streaming systems, including a Canadian version of Netflix, Amazon Video and Crave, with Crave streaming some programming from Hulu. Hulu Hulu (stylized as hulu ) is an American entertainment company that provides \"over-the-top media services.\" It is primarily oriented towards instant streaming of television series, carrying current and past episodes of many series from its owners' respective television networks and other content partners. Hulu is owned by Hulu LLC, a joint venture with The Walt Disney Company (holds 30% stake), 21st Century Fox (holds 30% stake), Comcast (via NBCUniversal; holds 30% stake), and", "title": "Hulu" }, { "id": "19445166", "text": "launches in Canada and in Latin America happened (albeit barely) before Netflix's 2011 controversy in the United States. In September of that year, the company decided to switch to two separate plans (one for streaming and one for DVD), hiked its prices accordingly, and attempted a move to two websites (one for streaming and one for DVD rentals). The change to its business model was accompanied by a loss of approximately one million American users and a plunging stock price. Prior to announcing the change to service stock was valued at just around $300, after the price it plunged to", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494331", "text": "late 2006, Red Envelope Entertainment also expanded into producing original content with filmmakers such as John Waters. Netflix closed Red Envelope Entertainment in 2008, in part to avoid competition with its studio partners. Netflix has been one of the most successful dot-com ventures. In September 2002, \"The New York Times\" reported that, at the time, Netflix mailed about 190,000 discs per day to its 670,000 monthly subscribers. The company's published subscriber count increased from one million in the fourth quarter of 2002 to around 5.6 million at the end of the third quarter of 2006, to 14 million in March", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494375", "text": "titles from other companies such as Hasbro Studios, Saban Brands, Funimation, and Viz Media. Formerly, the streaming service also held rights to select television programs distributed by NBCUniversal Television Distribution and Sony Pictures Television. Netflix also previously held the rights to select titles from vintage re-distributor The Criterion Collection, but these titles were pulled from Netflix and added to Hulu's library. Epix signed a five-year streaming deal with Netflix. For the initial two years of this agreement, first-run and back-catalog content from Epix was exclusive to Netflix. Epix films would come to Netflix 90 days after their premiere on Epix.", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "9846984", "text": "non-linear, free flowing, and both one-to-many or one-on-one. The spread of information and awareness can occur across numerous channels, such as the blogosphere, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, and a variety of other platforms. Online communities and social networks allow individuals to easily create content and publicly publish their opinions, experiences, and thoughts and feelings about many topics and products, hyper-accelerating the diffusion of information. The Nielsen Global Connected Commerce Survey conducted interviews in 26 countries to observe how consumers are using the Internet to make shopping decisions in stores and online. Online shoppers are increasingly looking to purchase internationally,", "title": "Digital marketing" }, { "id": "3766211", "text": "18 to 29 cite it as their main method. As of 2018, Netflix is the world's largest streaming TV network and also the world's largest Internet media and entertainment company with 117 million paid subscribers, and by revenue and market cap. The Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) consortium of industry companies (such as SES, Humax, Philips, and ANT Software) is currently promoting and establishing an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast and broadband digital television and multimedia applications with a single-user interface. As of the 2010s, providers of Internet television use various technologies to", "title": "Streaming television" }, { "id": "1494350", "text": "would be supported by the feature over time. Netflix will partner with airlines to provide them with its mobile streaming technology. This will start in early 2018 as part of an effort to get airlines to provide better in-flight Wi-Fi. On October 1, 2008, Netflix announced a partnership with Starz to bring 2,500+ new films and shows to \"Watch Instantly\", under Starz Play. In August 2010, Netflix reached a five-year deal worth nearly $1 billion to stream films from Paramount, Lionsgate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The deal increased Netflix's annual spending fees, adding roughly $200 million per year. It spent $117 million", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "1494332", "text": "2010. Netflix's early growth was fueled by the fast spread of DVD players in households; in 2004, nearly two-thirds of United States homes had a DVD player. Netflix capitalized on the success of the DVD and its rapid expansion into United States homes, integrating the potential of the Internet and e-commerce to provide services and catalogs that bricks-and-mortar retailers could not compete with. Netflix also operates an online affiliate program which has helped to build online sales for DVD rentals as well. The company offers unlimited vacation time for salaried workers and allows employees to take any amount of their", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19469411", "text": "cannot offer in their region, due to geographical licensing restrictions. It is unclear whether accessing geo-blocked content via VPN violates local copyright laws, but content providers and other broadcasters have asserted that it is illegal because it infringes local rights to content that may have been sold to a competitor. GlobalWebIndex showed about 20 million of such VPN users came from China alone. As of November 2013, Canadian Netflix offered 3,600 titles compared to the U.S. service which had more than 10,000 which results in Canadians using VPNs so they can access the larger U.S. content selection. In a leaked", "title": "Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix" }, { "id": "482069", "text": "Disney currently has a publishing deal with Netflix to stream it's content, however, Disney has said that its' contract will end in 2019 and they won't renew it. Disney movies and franchises will only be available via the new Disney+ subscription. The service will have content from Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic. The Walt Disney Company operates four primary business units, which it calls \"business segments\": Studio Entertainment, Media Networks and Direct-To-Consumer & International Businesses, and Parks Experiences & Consumer Products, which includes the company's theme parks, cruise line, travel-related assets, consumer products", "title": "The Walt Disney Company" }, { "id": "6756841", "text": "over-the-top MVPD-style subscription service that would be available for United States customers at a price of US$35 per month. Initially launching in five major markets (New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco) on April 5, 2017, the service offers live streams of programming from the five major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC), as well as approximately 40 cable channels owned by the corporate parents of those networks, The Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation, 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and Turner Broadcasting System (including among others Bravo, USA Network, Syfy, Disney Channel, CNN, Cartoon Network,", "title": "YouTube" }, { "id": "5015834", "text": "an entire album from which there may only be one or two titles that the buyer enjoys. The number of downloaded single tracks rose from 160 million in 2004 to 795 million in 2006 which accounted for a revenue boost from US$397 million to US$2 billion. Many traditional network television shows, movies and other video content is now available online, either from the content owner directly or from third party services. YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Amazon Prime Video, DirecTV, SlingTV and other Internet-based video services allow content owners to let users access their content on computers, smart phones, tablets or", "title": "Digital distribution" }, { "id": "12441996", "text": "for the dollars expended. With the addition of new interactive and digital media technologies into the marketing industry, a significant emphasis has been put on the use of online content to generate buzz about a product, service, or company. Companies well known for this practice are Amazon and Netflix, both of which utilize individual customer patterns and usage trends on these sites to cater the customers' future experiences on the site around the individuals. As a result, this works towards one of the main goals of buzz marketing, to provide each customer with a unique experience that motivates them to", "title": "Marketing buzz" }, { "id": "19469401", "text": "OS platforms are essentially based upon Linux and other free software infrastructure, Netflix did not provide any crossover support for using its proprietary components to stream any of its content upon more free systems, such as Ubuntu and Fedora, although this changed in October 2014. On August 9, 2011, Netflix released a Google Chrome web store item for Chrome OS, Mac OS, and Windows; however, it did not initially enable Netflix streaming on Linux machines. On Linux systems running the Chrome browser, the extension simply redirects users to view Netflix.com. In June 2014, Netflix chose to switch from Silverlight to", "title": "Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix" }, { "id": "7595656", "text": "Canada, Eastern Europe, India, Mexico, Pakistan, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. HBO also licenses its programming to air on certain other broadcast, cable channels and video on demand services outside the United States, such as: HBO Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by the namesake unit Home Box Office, Inc., a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. The program which featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television shows, along with made-for-cable movies and documentaries, boxing matches, and occasional comedy and concert specials. HBO is the", "title": "HBO" }, { "id": "1494386", "text": "that had been empty for over six months when their previous CMO Leslie Kilgore left in January 2012. Netflix's website has 117.6 million subscribers as of 2018, with 8.3 million being added in the fourth quarter of 2017. As of January 28, 2018, Netflix's website ranked as the 30th most trafficked website in the world and 9th most trafficked website in the United States. Netflix has a Twitter feed, used to tweet about the new and upcoming shows that include hashtags to encourage engagement of their audience to not only watch the show but to contribute to the hashtag themselves.", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19469359", "text": "Technical details of Netflix Netflix is an American-based company that offers a service for streaming movies and TV series over the Internet. Several technical development efforts were required to provide this service. Initial DVD discs sent to customers via US mail often received criticisms of being scratched and unable to fully play the rented movie. The popularity of Netflix dramatically increased with the addition of streaming through an online queue. This led to the majority of Netflix users reliably streaming movies and television shows rather than receiving physical DVD discs by mail. Initially streaming starting in 2007 solely using Microsoft", "title": "Technical details of Netflix" }, { "id": "19445171", "text": "decided to slow expansion to control subscription costs. The company spent $3 billion on subscription content that year. Kelly Merryman, the company's Vice President of Content Acquisition, revealed that shows that performed well on BitTorrent networks and other pirate sites were more likely to be offered as part of the expansion. Netflix's CEO further explained that illegal downloading helps to create demand, as users may switch to legal services for an improved user experience. In the final quarter of 2013, Netflix gained more new subscribers from its pool of countries than it did from the United States for the first", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "id": "482068", "text": "ending Disney's last obstacle to buying it itself. on July 27, 2018 shareholders voted in favor of the merger, approving the company buyout, pending International regulatory approval. The new company formed by the merger will assume The Walt Disney Company name. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2019. In August 2017, Disney announced that they would be starting its own streaming service, known as Disney+, to compete with the longtime industry monopoly Netflix. Disney+ is currently scheduled to begin service in late 2019, with many series announced that will be using its many successful franchises.", "title": "The Walt Disney Company" }, { "id": "19445175", "text": "Zealand occurred on 24 March 2015. On February 4, 2015, expansion to Japan was announced to begin during the fall of 2015. In May 2015, Netflix revealed it was in talks with Jack Ma's Wasu Media Holding and other partners to enter China's online video market. On June 6, 2015, Reed Hastings announced, in an interview with the Portuguese newspaper \"Expresso\", that Netflix would enter the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish markets in October, and that it would install its Southern Europe support center (which will cover the previous three markets plus France) in Lisbon, Portugal. On September 9, 2015, Netflix", "title": "International expansion of Netflix" }, { "id": "1494391", "text": "March 2015 similar to Netflix but offering strictly nonfiction content in the areas of science, technology, civilization and the human spirit, has been dubbed the \"new Netflix for non-fiction\". Hulu Plus, like Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video, \"ink[s] their own deals for exclusive and original content\", requiring Netflix \"not only to continue to attract new subscribers, but also keep existing ones happy.\" Netflix and Blockbuster largely avoid offering pornography, but several \"adult video\" subscription services were inspired by Netflix, such as SugarDVD and WantedList. In Australia, Netflix competes with several local streaming companies, most notably locally operated services Stan", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "15601733", "text": "Hulu, to stream video content and television programming rather than subscribing to a cable television or satellite provider. The new service, HBO Now, was officially unveiled on March 9, 2015 for a launch in April of that year, with mobile and digital media player support exclusive to Apple devices at launch. The over-the-top service was launched in Latin America in June 2017, although under the name HBO Go. HBO Go streams a selection of theatrically released films (via film studios that maintain distribution deals with HBO including 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and network sister company Warner Bros. Pictures) with", "title": "HBO Go" }, { "id": "3565394", "text": "for instance, is a common plug-in available on most networked devices. Netflix has also struck deals with many consumer electronics makers to have their interface available for their streaming subscribers. This symbiotic relationship between Netflix and consumer electronics makers has helped propel Netflix to become the largest subscription video service in the U.S., using up to 20% of U.S. bandwidth at peak times. Other digital media retailers like Apple, Amazon.com and Blockbuster have purchase and rental options for video and music on demand. Apple in particular has developed a tightly integrated device and content management ecosystem with their iTunes Store,", "title": "Home theater PC" }, { "id": "1494410", "text": "when to watch the next episode at their own pace. In June 2016, Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky asserted that Netflix is part of a US government plot to influence the world culture, \"to enter every home, get into every television, and through that television, into the head of every person on earth\". This was part of his argument for the increase of funding of Russian cinema to pitch it against the dominance of Hollywood. Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "909219", "text": "downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also owns a publishing arm, Amazon Publishing, a film and television studio, Amazon Studios, produces consumer electronics lines including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo devices, and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS) through its AWS subsidiary. Amazon also sells certain low-end products under its in-house brand AmazonBasics. Amazon has separate retail websites for the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, India, Mexico, Singapore,", "title": "Amazon (company)" }, { "id": "20651715", "text": "entertainment content, which would launch after the company ends its existing distribution agreement with Netflix in 2019. In December 2017, Disney announced its intent to acquire key entertainment assets from 21st Century Fox. The acquisition is intended to bolster Disney's content portfolio for its streaming products. In January 2018, it was reported that former Apple and Samsung executive Kevin Swint had been appointed senior vice president and general manager of the new service reporting to BAMTech CEO. In June 2018, former Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures marketing president Ricky Strauss was named president of content and marketing for the service.", "title": "Disney+" }, { "id": "1780342", "text": "rated at the bottom. Internet providers EPB (Fiber Optics) and Google Fiber received top ratings for value. Of the smaller companies only Armstrong received top ratings and RCN, Hawaiian Telcom (bought by Cincinnati Bell in 2018), and Grande Communications received slightly higher ratings. The high price of current complete bundling, upwards of $180–200, along with poor customer service, surprise bills, and technical difficulties, resulted in Angie's List reporting that these things were the number two most complained about category. Streaming company Netflix offers different bundles, claims to have the largest content along with original programming, and offers downloading for offline", "title": "Product bundling" }, { "id": "1494321", "text": "tested the concept of selling or renting DVDs by mail, by mailing a compact disc to Hastings' house in Santa Cruz. When the disc arrived intact, they decided to take on the $16 billion home video sales and rental industry. Hastings is often quoted saying that he decided to start Netflix after being fined $40 at a Blockbuster store for being late to return a copy of \"Apollo 13.\" But this is an apocryphal story that he and Randolph designed to explain the company's business model and motivation. Netflix was launched on April 14, 1998, as the world's first online", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19469414", "text": "second utterance as \"confirm[ing] a deep lack of understanding\". Days later, an advertising campaign for Netflix launched, which emphasized its black talent. Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix Netflix is an American global provider of streaming films and television series. Since its launch in 1998, it has been at the centre of numerous legal issues and controversies. In 2006, Netflix held the first Netflix Prize competition to find a better program to predict user preferences and beat its existing Netflix movie recommendation system, known as Cinematch, by at least 10%. CEO Hastings did not necessarily expect a lot of quick", "title": "Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix" }, { "id": "19469405", "text": "providing equal access on entertainment. On November 11, 2011, the court denied Netflix a motion to dismiss the case. In 2015, the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals dismissed the suit, saying the Americans with Disabilities Act applies only to physical spaces, not online. In March 2012, Netflix increased the number of programs that are closed captioned. Almost all Netflix-ready devices in distribution today (including AppleTV, BD players, the Roku set-top box, and all the game consoles, phone apps, tablet apps, and TVs) are capable of rendering captions. In July 2012, Netflix formed an experimental project to crowdsource the closed-captioning", "title": "Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix" }, { "id": "18303693", "text": "entity, Amplify. GoDigital has distribution deals with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes. Video on demand partners include Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS. AdShare is a social media (primarily YouTube content) monetization service for entertainment industry rights-holders. ContentBridge (Content Bridge LLC) is a supply chain management (SCM), digital rights management (DRM), and encoding software provider for the entertainment industry. Content Bridge won the 2014 EMA's \"Industry Leadership\" Digital Award for software support for the SMPTE Interoperable Master Package (IMP), CableLabs and UltraViolet digital supply chain standards. GoDigital Media Group GoDigital Media Group (GDMG) is a California-based entertainment industry", "title": "GoDigital Media Group" }, { "id": "8918053", "text": "or RFP. These type of sites allow users to register and sell single items to a large number of items for a \"post-selling\" fee. In general, because marketplaces aggregate products from a wide array of providers, selection is usually more wide, and availability is higher than in vendor-specific online retail stores. Also prices may be more competitive. Since 2014, online marketplaces are abundant since organized marketplaces are sought after. Some have a wide variety of general interest products that cater to almost all the needs of the consumers, however, some are consumer specific and cater to a particular segment only.", "title": "Online marketplace" }, { "id": "1494381", "text": "want to watch.\" He cited as evidence the company's loss of rights to stream several major movies. According to journalist Megan McArdle, the loss of these movies was extremely problematic for the company; specifically, she said that \"[Netflix's] movie library is no longer actually a good substitute for a good movie rental place\". Netflix also began to acquire distribution rights to third-party films in 2017 into 2018. One of its first acquisitions was the film \"The Cloverfield Paradox\", which Netflix had acquired from Paramount Pictures in early 2018, and launched on its service on February 4, 2018, shortly after airing", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "15601732", "text": "following a trial of a similar service in Nordic Europe, HBO announced that it planned to launch an over-the-top subscription service in 2015, which would allow \"cord cutters\", \"cord nevers\", and subscribers to basic cable packages to subscribe to HBO without requiring either a subscription to a pay television provider or to a premium bundle. The decision marks a significant change to HBO's business model, as the service will be marketed directly to consumers rather than through television providers. The new offering will primarily target \"cord cutters\" and \"cord nevers\", who primarily use online video services, such as Netflix or", "title": "HBO Go" }, { "id": "19881082", "text": "(such as AT&T and Comcast) that connect consumers' homes to the internet, essentially no longer regulating them as utilities. These providers tend to have little competition in a geographic area. Advocates and critics argued whether the move would help or hurt consumers and how it would shift market power between broadband providers and content providers (e.g., Netflix). This reversed a 2015 decision by the FCC. The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, increased 20% in 2017 through December 27, 2017. Global stock markets increased 21%. During President Obama's first year in office, the stock market increased 37%. Results", "title": "Economic policy of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "1494320", "text": "in Santa Cruz and Pure Atria's headquarters in Sunnyvale while waiting for government regulators to approve the merger, although Hasting has given several different explanations for how the idea was created. Hastings invested $2.5 million in startup cash for Netflix. Randolph admired the fledgling e-commerce company Amazon and wanted to find a large category of portable items to sell over the Internet using a similar model. They considered and rejected VHS tapes as too expensive to stock and too delicate to ship. When they heard about DVDs, which were first introduced in the United States on March 31, 1997, they", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "19469383", "text": "Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix Netflix is an American global provider of streaming films and television series. Since its launch in 1998, it has been at the centre of numerous legal issues and controversies. In 2006, Netflix held the first Netflix Prize competition to find a better program to predict user preferences and beat its existing Netflix movie recommendation system, known as Cinematch, by at least 10%. CEO Hastings did not necessarily expect a lot of quick progress towards the prize, \"We thought we built the best darn thing ever.\" But by June 2007, Hastings said the competition is", "title": "Legal issues and controversies surrounding Netflix" }, { "id": "4515147", "text": "messages. With few exceptions, such as \"American Idol\", the Super Bowl and the Olympics, it is not common for a substantial audience to watch a program at once. Still, networks do target particular demographics. Lifetime targets women and MTV targets youth. Sports channels, for example, STAR Sports, ESPN, STAR Cricket, and Fox Sports, target the niche market of sports enthusiasts. Niche market A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focused. The market niche defines the product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and", "title": "Niche market" }, { "id": "1494326", "text": "next day. By 2005, they had acquired movie rights and designed the box and service, and was ready to go public with it. But after discovering YouTube, and witnessing how popular streaming services were despite the lack of high-definition content, the concept of using a hardware device was scrapped and replaced with a streaming concept instead, a project that was completed in 2007. Netflix developed and maintains an extensive personalized video-recommendation system based on ratings and reviews by its customers. On October 1, 2006, Netflix offered a $1,000,000 prize to the first developer of a video-recommendation algorithm that could beat", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "13165005", "text": "eMusic, Rhapsody and Spotify, via a partnership with Independent Online Distribution Alliance and The Orchard. Physical products are available to retailers in the United States and Canada such as Best Buy, Barnes & Noble and F.Y.E., and Independent music stores including the coalitions A.I.M.S., C.I.M.S. & Music Monitor Network, and One-Stop fulfillment including Amazon.com, Alliance Entertainment Corporation (A.E.C.), Baker & Taylor Inc. and Super D / Phantom. 24 Hour Distribution exports physical goods to vendors in Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and New Zealand. Among its distribution clients are Peter Hook's label Hacienda Records UK, and In a Circle Records,", "title": "24 Hour Service Station" }, { "id": "10538679", "text": "and services and goods with consumers. It can be distributed directly through the internet, for example, services in the sphere of gambling or software such as antivirus programs as such. Retailers, like Walmart and Target, buy the product from the manufacturer and sell them directly to the consumer. This channel works best for manufacturers that produce shopping goods like, clothes, shoes, furniture, tableware, and toys. Since consumers need more time with these items before they decide to purchase them, it is in the best interest of the manufacturer to sell them to another user before it gets into the hand", "title": "Marketing channel" }, { "id": "1494385", "text": "or later graphics cards, and running through Microsoft Edge web browser, or the Netflix universal app available on Microsoft Store. During Q1 2011, sales and rentals of DVDs and Blu-ray discs plunged about 35%, and the sell-through of packaged discs fell 19.99% to $2.07 billion, with more money spent on subscription than in-store rentals. This decrease was attributed to the rising popularity of Netflix and other streaming services. In July 2012, Netflix hired Kelly Bennett – former Warner Bros. Vice President of Interactive, Worldwide Marketing – to become its new Chief Marketing Officer. This also filled a vacancy at Netflix", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "2785615", "text": "or a combination of all three viewing methods. Web television providers in the United States include Hulu, Netflix (which was originally structured as a mail-order DVD rental service), MyTV, and many international websites such as YouTube, Myspace, Newgrounds, Blip and Crackle. Viewers can watch these programs from any web browser, whether on a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone. Mobile television services also include mobile apps for both traditional and new programming providers, usually optimized for a small screen and mobile bandwidth constraints. Mobile video is available for direct download or streaming (usually for a one-time download fee) from the", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "17711792", "text": "OVP providers that are also present in broadcast markets, serving video on demand set-top boxes. OVP product models vary in scale and feature-set, ranging from ready-made web sites that individuals can use, to white label models that can be customized by enterprise clients or media/content aggregators and integrated with their traditional broadcast workflows. The former example is YouTube. The latter example is predominantly found in FTA (Free-To-Air) or pay-TV broadcasters who seek to provide an OTT service that extends the availability of their content on desktops or multiple mobility devices. In general, the graphical user interface accessed by users of", "title": "Online video platform" }, { "id": "9188907", "text": "didn’t start with search engines; rather, they went directly to Amazon.com and other retail sites that, with their rich and expanding array of product-comparison information, consumer and expert ratings, and visuals, were becoming the most important influencers. Channel conflict Channel conflict occurs when manufacturers (brands) disintermediate their channel partners, such as distributors, retailers, dealers, and sales representatives, by selling their products directly to consumers through general marketing methods and/or over the Internet. Some manufacturers want to capture online markets for their brands but do not want to create conflicts with their other distribution channels. The Census Bureau of the U.S.", "title": "Channel conflict" }, { "id": "17962399", "text": "Cinedigm Cinedigm (or Cinedigm Corp.) is a North American entertainment company, headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Cinedigm is engaged in digital cinema, software, and content marketing and distribution. Cinedigm is an independent content distributor in the United States, with a library of 50,000 films and TV episodes, and direct relationships with over 60,000 physical stores and digital retailers, including Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, iTunes, Netflix, and Amazon, as well as the national video on demand platform on cable television. In addition, the company offers content marketing and distribution services in theatrical and ancillary home entertainment markets to alternative and independent", "title": "Cinedigm" }, { "id": "17700726", "text": "network that the IPTV service is delivered over, and network quality of service (QoS) guarantees are available for IPTV service delivery. As a result, the reach of a telecom company's IPTV service is generally restricted by the reach of the telecom company's access network. In contrast, services offered by non-traditional video content delivery service providers such as Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Video are considered access-independent services. Netflix's video content streaming service, for example, dynamically adapts to network conditions in real-time to strive for the best overall quality of experience (QoE) and does not assume guaranteed cooperation from the underlying IP", "title": "Access-independent services" }, { "id": "1494402", "text": "two years for existing members. Netflix applied similar increases in the United States (an increase of $1) and the Eurozone (an increase of €1). According to \"Forbes\", \"Netflix can add roughly $500 million in annual incremental revenues in the U.S. alone by 2017 with this move\" and \"roughly $200–250 million in incremental revenues from price changes in international markets\". However, Reuters' Felix Salmon is critical about Netflix's financial future, noting that \"any time that Netflix builds up a profit margin, the studios will simply raise their prices until that margin disappears\". In April 2016, Netflix announced it would be ending", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "4635067", "text": "Group in November 2015. Liberty CEO Mike Fries joined the Lion's Gate board of directors as part of the acquisition. Liberty invested £7.5million in global broadband cable network Technetix in July 2016. In November 2016, Liberty Global's Virgin Media subsidiary released its Netflix and other app-enabled set-top V6 box. At the end of 2017, Liberty Global announced the decision to sell its operations in Austria, UPC Austria – the country’s largest cable operator, to T-Mobile Austria for €1.9 billion. In January 2018, Liberty Latin America spun off from Liberty Global. The new publically-traded company, Liberty Latin America Ltd., operates independently", "title": "Liberty Global" }, { "id": "17700727", "text": "network, such as QoS. As a result, without considering content rights and different countries' government restrictions, the reach of Netflix's video content streaming service is, in theory, the reach of the Internet. Skype is another example of AIS, because Skype offers an IP-based telephony service over the Internet without depending on IP network cooperation guarantees other than basic IP network connectivity. In the context of telecom service delivery, the concept of access independent services is also commonly described by the term \"over-the-top\" (OTT) services. OTT service providers such as but not limited to Facebook, WeChat, and Netflix generally do not", "title": "Access-independent services" }, { "id": "1494348", "text": "of Hulu and to Apple's new video-rental services. Netflix later split DVD rental subscriptions and streaming subscriptions into separate, standalone services, at which point the monthly caps on Internet streaming were lifted. Netflix service plans are currently divided into three price tiers; the lowest offers standard definition streaming on a single device, the second allows high definition streaming on two devices simultaneously, and the \"Platinum\" tier allows simultaneous streaming on up to four devices, and 4K streaming on supported devices and Internet connections. The HD subscription plan historically cost US$7.99; in April 2014, Netflix announced that it would raise the", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "4635070", "text": "Center in Brussels, its second innovation hub alongside the Tech Campus near Amsterdam. The Innovation Center is focused on testing Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and mobile technologies, including the introduction and preparation of 5G networks. Liberty Global offers Netflix in several countries and other video-on-demand platforms as MaxDome in Germany, Play and Play More in Belgium, and MyPrime in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ireland, Switzerland Hungary and the Netherlands. In 2017, Liberty Global partnered with Starz and Lionsgate on a TV series, \"The Rook\". The upcoming show is based on Stephenie Meyer's novel of the same name. In February", "title": "Liberty Global" }, { "id": "10976237", "text": "of television, internet, and phone services delivered over a fiber-optic infrastructure. In 2006, AT&T followed suit with the introduction of U-verse. The subscription television market in the U.S. began to erode in the 2010s due to multiple factors. Some have cited higher costs due to deregulation of cable television and tied selling practices (which force subscribers to pay monthly for a large bundle of unwanted channels to receive a few desired programs). Over-the-top video on demand services, such as Netflix, have also appealed to changing viewing habits, such as the growth of mobile device usage for media consumption. The market", "title": "Multichannel television in the United States" }, { "id": "4306604", "text": "The Walt Disney Company and a new \"Star Wars\" trilogy was announced and was finalized on December 4. Later that year on December 4, Disney agreed to have Netflix as its exclusive U.S. subscription television service for first run Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios and Disneynature feature films starting in 2016 to replace its agreement ending in 2015 with Starz. In April 2013, The Walt Disney Studios laid off 150 workers including staff from its marketing and home entertainment units. In December of that same year, Disney purchased the distribution and marketing rights", "title": "Walt Disney Studios (division)" }, { "id": "1494378", "text": "in 2013. The agreement with Disney is scheduled to end in 2019, as the company is preparing to launch a new streaming service that will carry all Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Lucasfilm releases. Netflix will retain rights to continue streaming the Marvel series that were produced for the service. With the Disney-Fox merger, movie and TV titles from 20th Century Fox will likely follow suit after their deal with Netflix expires, except \"Two Lovers and a Bear\", which Netflix will likely retain U.S streaming rights to as Fox and Netflix jointly acquired the U.S distribution rights to the", "title": "Netflix" } ]

[ "Mary Jo Catlett" ]

[ { "id": "5669708", "text": "Dukes of Hazzard\", and \"General Hospital\". She received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination at the 1990 ceremony for her work in the latter. She also received an Annie Award nomination in 2001 for her voice-over work as Mrs. Puff. Catlett was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Cornelia M. (née Callaghan) and Robert J. Catlett. Catlett appeared on \"General Hospital\" (for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award) and in several episodes of the television sitcom \"M*A*S*H\". She provides the voice of Mrs. Puff in the animated series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", as well as the related film \"The", "title": "Mary Jo Catlett" }, { "id": "1864966", "text": "and girlfriend of Mr. Krabs. The character has received a positive critical reception and has become well known in popular culture for her distinctive voice and temperamental personality. Catlett received an Annie Award nomination in 2001 for her voice-over work as Mrs. Puff along with Tom Kenny as the title character, making them the first \"SpongeBob\" cast members to be nominated for an award. Mrs. Puff is featured regularly in a variety of merchandise, such as plush toys and video games, and has appeared at theme parks and in Toyota commercials. Mrs. Puff is an anthropomorphic blowfish who owns the", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "6008385", "text": "to tell us, 'hey, stop doing that, separate what you're saying!'\" Carolyn Lawrence voices Sandy Cheeks. When Lawrence was on a sidewalk in Los Feliz, Los Angeles with a friend who knew \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" casting director Donna Grillo, her friend said to Grillo that Lawrence had \"an interesting voice\". Grillo invited Lawrence to audition and she got the role. Mrs. Puff's voice is provided by American actress Mary Jo Catlett, who is known for her live-action roles on television programs from the 1970s such as \"Diff'rent Strokes\" and \"M*A*S*H\". As of 2017, voicing Mrs. Puff has become her only remaining", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "1864964", "text": "Mrs. Puff Mrs. Puff is a fictional character in the animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" and both films based on the franchise. She is voiced by actress Mary Jo Catlett and debuted in the season one episode \"Boating School\" on August 7, 1999. Mrs. Puff was created and designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. He developed the character in response to a request from Nickelodeon that the show star a schoolteacher. Hillenburg did not want to write SpongeBob SquarePants as a school-age child, so Mrs. Puff was introduced as his driving instructor rather than an elementary school educator.", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "5669707", "text": "Mary Jo Catlett Mary Jo Catlett (born September 2, 1938) is an American actress and comedian. She has been a main cast member on the animated series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" since its debut, providing the voice of Mrs. Puff. She is also known for originating the role of Ernestina in the 1964 Broadway production of \"Hello, Dolly!\" and for playing Pearl Gallagher, the third housekeeper on \"Diff'rent Strokes\". Catlett began her career as a theater actress in Off-Broadway and Broadway musicals. Since the late 1960s, Catlett has appeared in television shows such as \"M*A*S*H\", \"The Waltons\", \"The Bob Newhart Show\", \"The", "title": "Mary Jo Catlett" }, { "id": "1864987", "text": "Mrs. Puff should call her insurance agent if users channel their \"inner SpongeBob while remotely driving the thing\". In a satirical 2011 article, writers at \"The Washington Post\" pretended to interview SpongeBob about his trouble graduating from Mrs. Puff's boating school. Mrs. Puff Mrs. Puff is a fictional character in the animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" and both films based on the franchise. She is voiced by actress Mary Jo Catlett and debuted in the season one episode \"Boating School\" on August 7, 1999. Mrs. Puff was created and designed by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg. He developed the", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "1864978", "text": "for voicing SpongeBob, making them the first actors to earn an award nomination for their work on the show. Catlett and some other main cast members were also nominated for Best Vocal Ensemble at the 2013 Behind the Voice Actors Awards. During the controversy surrounding SpongeBob's sexuality, Mrs. Puff's name began to be criticized for supposedly referring to the slang term \"puff,\" a descriptor of gay men that can be derogatory or affectionate. The BBC first noted this in reports of the controversy in 2002 and again in 2004. In a 2005 issue of the \"Sarasota Herald-Tribune\", columnist David Grimes", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "1864974", "text": "she was created late in production, her design incorporates elements of the earlier characters' appearances, such as the same type of skirt as Pearl and the same rounded teeth as Squidward. The episode \"Doing Time\" was one of the first to be written specifically from Mrs. Puff's point of view; another early example was season two's \"No Free Rides.\" In his 2013 book \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Experience\", animation historian Jerry Beck argued that the former was what \"elevated Mrs. Puff to star status\". Mrs. Puff is voiced by American actress Mary Jo Catlett, who is known for her live-action roles", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "11154700", "text": "The show signed a marketing deal with Target Corporation and Burger King, expanding its merchandising, and SpongeBob's popularity translated well into sales figures. In 2002, the show was nominated at the Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Program. Tom Kenny and Mary Jo Catlett were individually nominated at the 29th Annie Awards for their voice performances as SpongeBob and Mrs. Puff, respectively. Peter Straus and Paul Tibbitt were also nominated at the ceremony for their work on the \"Christmas Who?\" special. The episodes \"The Secret Box\" and \"Band Geeks\" won at the 2002 Golden Reel Awards for Best Sound Editing", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2)" }, { "id": "6008386", "text": "regular television role; Catlett described herself as \"basically retired\" in 2013, since she feels that voicing Mrs. Puff requires less preparation than her performances in person. Lori Alan voices Pearl Krabs. During her audition for the role, Alan was shown an early drawing of the characters and took note of how Pearl was much larger than the rest of the cast. She decided to reflect the character's size in her voice by making it deep and full in tone. She aimed to make Pearl's voice invoke the sound of whales’ low vocalizations while also sounding \"spoiled and lovable.\" In an", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "1864971", "text": "other being his daughter Pearl, who he cares for more than his riches. He gives her a variety of pet names in the series and in spin-off media. In his review of the third season, Bryan Pope of \"DVD Verdict\" examined the two characters' relationship and mistook Mrs. Puff for Krabs' wife. Mrs. Puff was conceived and designed by series creator Stephen Hillenburg. She was the last of the principal \"SpongeBob\" characters to be designed, having not been conceptualized until after Hillenburg had completed his show bible. The June 2003 issue of \"Nickelodeon Magazine\" states that when Hillenburg pitched \"SpongeBob\"", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "1864984", "text": "as Mrs. Puff on \"The Best Day Ever\" album, titled \"Mrs. Puff's Boating School Ad\". It was released on September 12, 2006, by Nick Records. , who voices Mrs. Puff in the German dub of \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", recorded a single as her character titled \"Hinterher! (feat. Mrs. Puff)\". The song is a parody of Icona Pop's \"I Love It\" and was released in 2014 by Sony Music Entertainment. Mrs. Puff is mentioned in the book \"Shingaling\", a 2015 sequel to \"Wonder\". Mrs. Puff plays a small role in the 2004 film \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\" and its . Her lack", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "11154714", "text": "season, the second season received critical acclaim from critics and fans. In 2002, the show itself was nominated at the Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children's Program. At the 29th Annie Awards, the series was nominated three times, including Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female and Male Performer in an Animated Television Production categories for Mary Jo Catlett for her role as Mrs. Puff in \"No Free Rides\" and Tom Kenny for his role as SpongeBob SquarePants in \"Wormy\", respectively. Peter Straus and Paul Tibbitt were nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement for a Song in an Animated", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2)" }, { "id": "11154707", "text": "a squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter. Season two introduced various characters that would recur throughout the series. Mr. Krabs' mother, Mama Krabs, debuted in the episode \"Sailor Mouth\" and was voiced by writer Paul Tibbitt. However, voice actress Sirena Irwin overtook Tibbitt's role as the character reappeared in the fourth season episode \"Enemy In-Law\" in 2005. In the Christmas special \"Christmas Who?\", SpongeBob's voice actor, Tom Kenny, portrayed Patchy the Pirate, the president of the fictional \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" fan", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2)" }, { "id": "11154847", "text": "Lawrence as Plankton, a small green copepod and Mr. Krabs' business rival; Jill Talley as Karen, Plankton's sentient computer sidekick; Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter. In addition to the regular cast members, episodes feature guest voices from many ranges of professions, including actors, musicians, and artists. For instance, in the episode \"Have You Seen This Snail?\", American comedian and actress Amy Poehler guest starred as the voice of Grandma, a sweet old woman", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 4)" }, { "id": "5181530", "text": "and comical by Broadway World. Lori Alan Lori Alan is an American actress and voice actress. She has played a long-running role as Pearl Krabs on the animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She also voiced Diane Simmons on \"Family Guy\", the Invisible Woman on \"The Fantastic Four\", and The Boss in the \"Metal Gear\" video game series. Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland. She had a mixed-faith family: her mother is a Southern Baptist and her father is Jewish. Both of her parents were performers and supported her choice to be an actress. Alan currently lives in Los Angeles. She", "title": "Lori Alan" }, { "id": "5181525", "text": "Lori Alan Lori Alan is an American actress and voice actress. She has played a long-running role as Pearl Krabs on the animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She also voiced Diane Simmons on \"Family Guy\", the Invisible Woman on \"The Fantastic Four\", and The Boss in the \"Metal Gear\" video game series. Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland. She had a mixed-faith family: her mother is a Southern Baptist and her father is Jewish. Both of her parents were performers and supported her choice to be an actress. Alan currently lives in Los Angeles. She started acting at age five,", "title": "Lori Alan" }, { "id": "1864980", "text": "asking rhetorically, \"What's so offensive there? Well, 'puff' is a term often used to describe a gay man, as if Ukrainian children knew that.\" Mrs. Puff's quotes and voice have also become popular with fans and casual viewers. \"The Sun\" writer Esther Cepeda humorously referred to Mrs. Puff's catchphrase \"Oh, SpongeBob!\" as \"immortal words\" in a 2011 article. Her quote \"Oh, Neptune\" became part of an Internet meme in 2016. Various memes covered by the comedy websites Smosh and BuzzFeed have featured other quotes from the character. In an interview with \"San Diego Gay & Lesbian News\", the cast of", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "1864983", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants 400 in Kansas City. Mrs. Puff also made regular appearances at Nickelodeon Suites Resort and Nickelodeon Universe with Mr. Krabs. A section of the SpongeBob StorePants souvenir shop at the Universal Orlando Resort is modeled after Mrs. Puff's boating school. In 2011, Mary Jo Catlett provided the voice-over for a road traffic safety commercial hosted by Mrs. Puff. It was produced by Nickelodeon and Toyota as the first in a series of \"SpongeBob\" advertisements from the two companies. The 30-second infomercial incorporated clips from the fifth-season episode \"Boat Smarts\" along with new content. Catlett also sings a track", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "14497207", "text": "Mr. Krabs' business rival; Jill Talley as Karen, Plankton's sentient computer sidekick; Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter. In addition to the regular cast members, episodes feature guest voices from many ranges of professions, including actors, musicians, and artists. For instance, the season premiere \"Extreme Spots\" was guest starred by American stunt performer and \"Jackass\" actor Johnny Knoxville voicing the character of Johnny Krill. The writing staff wrote the episode specifically for Knoxville. Executive", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 9)" }, { "id": "11666917", "text": "squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter. In addition to the regular cast members, episodes feature guest voices from many ranges of professions, including actors, athletes, authors, musicians, and artists. For instance, in the episode \"House Fancy\", television personality Alton Brown guest starred as the character of Nicholas Whithers, the host and judge of a show of the same name. In an interview, Brown described the work as \"a blast.\" He said \"I came up with this voice that didn't sound", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)" }, { "id": "1864976", "text": "inspired by \"SpongeBob\", called Mrs. Puff his \"absolute favorite\" character in an interview with \"Women's Wear Daily\". In 2004, \"New York Times\" chief film critic A. O. Scott named Mrs. Puff as one of his favorite characters on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", along with Squidward Tentacles and Sandy Cheeks. Mrs. Puff was ranked second on \"Chilango\"s list of favorite cartoon teachers. KSL-TV listed Mrs. Puff in their countdown of \"13 teachers from pop culture you can't help but love\". Andrew Whalen of IBT Media called Mrs. Puff's role in the \"Doing Time\" episode \"a series highlight\". The \"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\" reported in 2002", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "11154848", "text": "who adopted Gary after he ran away. Musician Stew also appeared as a voice, performing the song \"Gary, Come Home\". Show writer C.H. Greenblatt made an appearance in the episode \"Selling Out\" as Carl. Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway returned in the episode \"Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy: VI The Motion Picture\", reprising their roles as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy, respectively. Brian Doyle-Murray reprised his role as the Flying Dutchman for \"Ghost Host\". In \"Mrs. Puff, You're Fired\", English actor Robin Sachs voiced Sergeant Sam Roderick, a driving instructor who took over Mrs. Puff in teaching SpongeBob. Christopher Ryan,", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 4)" }, { "id": "14277436", "text": "Krabs, a miserly crab obsessed with money who is SpongeBob's boss at the Krusty Krab; Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, a small green copepod and Mr. Krabs' business rival; Jill Talley as Karen, Plankton's sentient computer sidekick; Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter. In addition to the regular cast members, episodes feature guest voices from many ranges of professions, including actors, musicians, and artists. For instance, in the episode \"Ghoul Fools\", American actor and comedian", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 8)" }, { "id": "3726944", "text": "the Snail and the French Narrator, Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star, Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles, Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, Jill Talley as Karen, Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, and Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs. It also features Dee Bradley Baker as Perch Perkins, Carlos Alazraqui as King Neptune's squire, Aaron Hendry as the Cyclops, and Neil Ross as the voice of the Cyclops. In addition to the series' cast, it was reported on March 23, 2004 that Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Tambor and Alec Baldwin would play new characters", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "id": "14439132", "text": "major role in \"House Worming\". SpongeBob's greedy and money-obsessed employer at the Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs, is voiced by Clancy Brown. Rodger Bumpass played the voice of Squidward Tentacles, an arrogant and ill-tempered octopus, while SpongeBob's best friend Patrick Star is voiced by Bill Fagerbakke. Other members of the cast are Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, Mr. Krabs' business rival; Jill Talley as Karen, Plankton's sentient computer sidekick; Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter. In", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 10)" }, { "id": "4511640", "text": "Jill Talley Jill Talley (born December 19, 1962) is an American actress and comedian. She is known for her work as a cast member of \"Mr. Show\", voicing Karen on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", Sarah Dubois and various other characters on Adult Swim's \"The Boondocks\", Nina, Gretchen and Ms. Mucus on \"Camp Lazlo\", and Rita Loud on \"The Loud House\". She often collaborates with her husband and fellow actor Tom Kenny. In her twenties, Talley performed improv comedy in Chicago at the Improv Institute and The Second City. Talley and her husband, Tom Kenny, were both cast members of the cult short-lived", "title": "Jill Talley" }, { "id": "1864975", "text": "on television programs from the 1970s such as \"Diff'rent Strokes\" and \"M*A*S*H\". As of 2017, voicing Mrs. Puff is her only regular television role; Catlett described herself as \"basically retired\" in 2013 since voice acting requires less preparation than performances in person. The About Group's Nancy Basille noted in 2016 that Catlett's \"rich, low tones as teacher Mrs. Puff recall other roles she has had,\" citing \"Diff'rent Strokes\" and \"M*A*S*H\" as programs on which she had used a similar voice. The character has received positive reactions from critics and fans. Fashion designer Peter Jensen, who designed a line of sweatshirts", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "6008387", "text": "interview with AfterBuzz TV, Alan said that she knew Pearl \"had to sound somewhat like a child,\" but needed \"an abnormally large voice.\" In addition to the regular cast, episodes feature guest voices from many ranges of professions, including actors, athletes, authors, musicians, and artists. Recurring guest voices include: Ernest Borgnine, who voiced Mermaid Man from 1999 until his death in 2012; Tim Conway as the voice of Barnacle Boy; Brian Doyle-Murray as the Flying Dutchman; and Marion Ross as Grandma SquarePants. Notable guests who have provided vocal cameo appearances includes David Bowie as Lord Royal Highness in the television", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "11154679", "text": "Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, a small green copepod and Mr. Krabs' business rival; Jill Talley as Karen, Plankton's sentient computer wife; Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter. While Hillenburg, Derek Drymon, and Tim Hill were writing the pilot \"Help Wanted\", Hillenburg was also conducting auditions to find voices for the show characters. He had created the character of SpongeBob with Tom Kenny, in which he utilised Kenny's and other people's personalities to help", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)" }, { "id": "11891525", "text": "obsessed with money who is SpongeBob's boss at the Krusty Krab; Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, a small green copepod and Mr. Krabs' business rival; Jill Talley as Karen, Plankton's sentient computer sidekick; Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter. In addition to the regular cast members, episodes feature guest voices from many ranges of professions, including actors, musicians, and artists. For instance, in the episode \"Back to the Past\", Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway returned,", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 7)" }, { "id": "1864977", "text": "that episodes about Mrs. Puff's Boating School were fan favorites. Scott Lecter of \"DVD Talk\" said in his review of the show's first theatrical film that Mrs. Puff, Sandy and Squidward \"make for some of the biggest laughs in the episodes\". Francis Rizzo of \"DVD Talk\" called Mrs. Puff's voice \"spot-on\" thanks to \"the perfectly cast Mary Jo Catlett\". Mary Jo Catlett's voiceover work as Mrs. Puff was nominated for a 2001 Annie Award in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production. Tom Kenny was nominated at the same ceremony", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "1864981", "text": "\"Surprise Surprise\" (which starred Mary Jo Catlett) mentioned that \"not one cast or crew person on the movie let a day go by without calling some relative ... and handing their cell phones to Mary Jo to do her best 'Oh noooooooo, SpongeBob, nooooooooooo!'\" Mrs. Puff has appeared in many types of \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" merchandise, including action figures, aquarium ornaments, and video games. Tie-in books have prominently featured the character. Board games based on the show, such as \"The Game of Life\" and \"Bikini Bottom Book of Games\", use her schoolhouse as a playing location. In 2007, a Lego construction", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "19229729", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants (film series) SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated/live-action comedy film series based on the Nickelodeon television program of the same name, created by Stephen Hillenburg. It began in 2004 with the release of \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\". The series is distributed and owned by Paramount Pictures, a subsidiary of Nickelodeon's parent company Viacom. All films feature the regular television voice cast: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett and Lori Alan. The first installment is directed by Hillenburg, the second is directed by former showrunner Paul Tibbitt, and", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (film series)" }, { "id": "6008384", "text": "hear it? This is the character! This is the guy!'\" Jill Talley, Tom Kenny's wife, voices Karen Plankton. Being a Chicago native, she uses a Midwestern accent for the character. Electronic sound effects are underlaid by the series' audio engineers to create a robotic sound whenever she speaks. Talley and Mr. Lawrence often improvise Plankton and Karen's dialogue. Lawrence called improvisation his \"favorite part of the voice over\" in 2009. He elaborated in a 2012 interview, saying, \"I always enjoy the back-and-forth. [Talley and I] start to actually overlap so much talking to each other that [the voice directors] have", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "1864973", "text": "\"No, that's not the show.\" As a compromise, Hillenburg decided to \"put him in school - but it would be a [boat] driving school\"; this allowed him to keep writing SpongeBob as an adult while also using the school as a main plot element. Showrunner Vincent Waller suggested that if the network had creative control over the show, almost every episode would take place at Mrs. Puff's school, not at a variety of locations. The choice to make Mrs. Puff a blowfish, who inflates into a ball when SpongeBob crashes, was made to evoke the appearance of car airbags. Because", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "19194433", "text": "was made available on the NPR website. The cast recording was released in its physical form in stores as well as on streaming sites on September 22, 2017, two months prior to the show's Broadway premiere. All tracks written and composed by various artists listed below (additional music, arrangements and orchestrations by Tom Kitt; additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton.) The Chicago production received positive reviews. Dean Richards of WGN-TV gave it an A+, writing that \"the story is multi-layered for kids and adults. It all adds up to one of the most fun, well produced, and best acted shows Chicago", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (musical)" }, { "id": "14439127", "text": "show not to involve long-time crew member and former showrunner Paul Tibbitt. The showrunners for this season were Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller, who also acted as supervising producers. It is the shortest season, containing 11 episodes instead of the usual 26-episode length. The show received several accolades during the run of its tenth season, including the 2017 Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Cartoon. The series was also nominated in various international Kids' Choice Awards ceremonies for the same category. The show received a pending nomination at the BAFTA Children's Awards for the International category as well. The season aired", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 10)" }, { "id": "1864965", "text": "Mrs. Puff is SpongeBob's paranoid driving teacher and the owner of the town boating school, which is similar to a driver's education facility. She would like nothing more than to pass SpongeBob, as he is her most dedicated and hard-working student, but he routinely panics when he tries to drive a boat and fails every driving test he takes. His failures often result in crashes that lead to mass destruction and endanger Mrs. Puff. While she tries her best to be friendly and patient with her students, Mrs. Puff finds SpongeBob's unintentional recklessness exasperating. She is the long-standing love interest", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "3726945", "text": "Princess Mindy, King Neptune and Dennis, respectively, and David Hasselhoff would appear as himself. Johansson accepted the role because she likes cartoons and was a fan of \"The Ren & Stimpy Show\". When Jeffrey Tambor signed for his voice cameo, he saw his character (King Neptune) and joked, \"This is me.\" He remembered the first cartoon he saw, \"Bambi\": \"My first cartoon, I had to be carried out crying [...] It was \"Bambi\". It's like the great American wound: the death of Bambi's mother. 'Run, Bambi, run!'\" Another guest voice was Alec Baldwin; Stephen Hillenburg said that the actor recorded", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "id": "11154880", "text": "Bill Fagerbakke, while Rodger Bumpass played the voice of Squidward Tentacles, an arrogant and ill-tempered octopus. Other members of the cast were Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, a miserly crab obsessed with money who is SpongeBob's boss at the Krusty Krab; Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, a small green copepod and Mr. Krabs' business rival; Jill Talley as Karen, Plankton's sentient computer sidekick; Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, a squirrel from Texas; Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, SpongeBob's boating school teacher; and Lori Alan as Pearl, a teenage whale who is Mr. Krabs' daughter. In addition to the regular cast", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 5)" }, { "id": "7929507", "text": "Have You Seen This Snail? \"Have You Seen This Snail?\", also known as \"Where's Gary?\", is the third episode of the fourth season and the 63rd overall episode of the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". Its animation was directed by supervising director, Alan Smart and Tom Yasumi, written by Aaron Springer and Paul Tibbitt. Springer also functioned as storyboard director. The episode originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on November 11, 2005. Actress and comedian Amy Poehler guest starred in the episode as the voice of Grandma. Musician Stew performed the song \"Gary, Come Home\". The series", "title": "Have You Seen This Snail?" }, { "id": "11154671", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1) The first season of the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon from May 1, 1999 to April 8, 2000, and consists of 20 episodes. The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The show features the voices of Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett, and Lori Alan. Among the first guest stars to appear on the show were", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 1)" }, { "id": "11891519", "text": "Best Animated Television Production for Children. The season aired on Nickelodeon, which is owned by Viacom, and was produced by United Plankton Pictures and Nickelodeon. The season's executive producers were series creator Stephen Hillenburg and Paul Tibbitt, who also acted as the series' showrunner. On March 13, 2008, during the broadcast of the sixth season, the network renewed the show for a seventh season, with 26 episodes in order. Cyma Zarghami, president of Nickelodeon & MTVN Kids and Family Group, said, \"The strength of the Nickelodeon brand comes from how we embrace everything important to kids, and how we are", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 7)" }, { "id": "6596053", "text": "Sirena Irwin Sirena Irwin (born September 26, 1977) is an actress and voice actress whose credits include Nancy Suzy Fish and Margaret SquarePants on the American animated television series, \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She also voiced Mama Krabs in the episodes \"Enemy In-Law\" and \"Friend or Foe\" among many others and also voiced Squilvia in \"Love that Squid\" (SpongeBob SquarePants). She was a series regular on Stan Lee's \"Stripperella\" as Persephone Cliche and has guest and co-starred in multiple television shows. She was a lead in \"The Trip\", a popular gay film. She also provided the voices for Mera and Lois Lane", "title": "Sirena Irwin" }, { "id": "3624304", "text": "Paul Tibbitt Paul Harrison Tibbitt is an American animator, television producer, writer, storyboard artist, songwriter, voice actor, and director, best known for working on the animated series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". He was the co-executive producer of the show and was also the voice of Potty the Parrot; he has also voiced DoodleBob and previously voiced Betsy Krabs before Sirena Irwin took over. He made his feature film directorial debut directing \"\" as well as providing the voice of Kyle the Seagull in the same movie. Tibbitt studied in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. After creator", "title": "Paul Tibbitt" }, { "id": "3195812", "text": "Carolyn Lawrence Carolyn Lawrence is an American actress and comedian who is known for her long-running voice role as Sandy Cheeks on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". Lawrence left high school to take dance classes in Chicago. Since then, she began her long-running role as Sandy Cheeks on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She was also the voice of Cindy Vortex on \"\" and the title character, Orel Puppington, on \"Moral Orel\". Lawrence is the voice of Ashley Graham, the president's daughter, in the English version of the video game \"Resident Evil 4\". She plays Christy Allison on the video podcast Goodnight Burbank. In 2008, she", "title": "Carolyn Lawrence" }, { "id": "5181527", "text": "animal rescue organization in Los Angeles. Alan has done vocal work for over three decades. Her process of getting to the authentic personality of the character she is providing the voice for is to improvise and trust her own choices, something she learned at her first voice acting job. Alan voices Pearl the Whale on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", Sue Richards (the Invisible Woman) on Marvel Comics' \"The Fantastic Four\", newsreader-turned-murderer Diane Simmons on \"Family Guy\", and The Boss in the \"Metal Gear\" series. Lori has done voices in feature films: \"Monsters University\", \"Toy Story 3\", \"Despicable Me 2\", \"WALL·E\", \"Inside Out\",", "title": "Lori Alan" }, { "id": "6008378", "text": "Mr. Lawrence, Jill Talley, Carolyn Lawrence, Mary Jo Catlett, and Lori Alan. Most one-off and background characters are voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, Sirena Irwin, Bob Joles, Mark Fite and Thomas F. Wilson. Kenny voices \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" and a variety of other characters, including SpongeBob's pet snail Gary and the French narrator. He also physically portrays Patchy the Pirate in live-action segments of most special episodes. Kenny previously worked with Stephen Hillenburg on \"Rocko's Modern Life\" and, when Hillenburg created \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", he approached Kenny to voice the main character. Kenny originally used the voice of SpongeBob for a minor", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "14497203", "text": "high-definition in the season; the first episode \"Extreme Spots\", aired July 21, 2012. Episodes were written by a team of writers, which consisted of Casey Alexander, Josh Androsky, Brookshier, Ceccarelli, Zeus Cervas, Daniel Dominguez, Solomon Georgio, Andrew Goodman, Iversen, Clare O'Kane, Kyle McCulloch, Mr. Lawrence, Blake Lemons, Jack Pendarivs, and Kaz. The season was storyboarded by Alexander, Chris Allison, Ed Baker, Brookshier, Bob Camp, Ceccarelli, Cervas, Ryan Kramer, Chong Lee, Blake Lemons, Brian Morante, Lynne Naylor, Shellie O'Brien, Fred Osmond, Howie Perry, John Trabbic, and Joe Wierenga. The animation directors were Alan Smart and Tom Yasumi. As confirmed by Vincent", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 9)" }, { "id": "19863038", "text": "2016, along with the tenth season, and premiered on June 24, 2017. A total of 26 episodes were produced for the season, bringing the number of episodes up to 241. The season concluded with the airing of \"Goons on the Moon\" on November 25, 2018. On February 16, 2016, showrunner Vincent Waller said that season 11 would have 26 half-hour episodes, which will bring the amount of episodes to 241. On March 3, 2016, it was announced that the series had been renewed for an eleventh season. As with the previous season, most of the episodes are script-driven, and each", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 11)" }, { "id": "1864986", "text": "includes additional scenes starring Mrs. Puff and Squidward that were not in the motion picture. Mrs. Puff appears in the 2009 stage adaptation of \"The Sponge Who Could Fly\", which debuted at the Liverpool Empire Theatre. The 2016 musical based on the series stars Abby C. Smith as Mrs. Puff. SpongeBob's inability to pass Mrs. Puff's course has been referenced in popular culture. In 2011, ice hockey player Taylor Hall failed his driving test and likened it to SpongeBob's situation at Mrs. Puff's school. The writers of Engadget compared a remote-controlled, underwater camera to the boats in \"SpongeBob\", remarking that", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "8153683", "text": "Lennie Weinrib Lennie Weinrib (April 29, 1935 – June 28, 2006), also known as Lenny Weinrib, Leonard Weinrib, and Len Weinrib, was an American actor, voice actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show \"H.R. Pufnstuf\", the title role in \"Inch High, Private Eye\", the original voice of Scrappy-Doo on \"Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo\", Hunk and Prince Lotor on \"Voltron\", and Bigmouth on \"The Smurfs\". He also was the voice for Timer in the \"Time for Timer\" ABC public service announcements in the early 1970s. A native of the Bronx, Weinrib", "title": "Lennie Weinrib" }, { "id": "8502263", "text": "and directed by Dan Povenmire. It received divided reviews, with the negative reviews going to the \"personal driver\" plot and the positive going to the \"Rupert\" plot. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 8.8 million homes in its original airing. The episode feature guest performances by Max Burkholder, Phil LaMarr, Rob Lowe, Ted McGinley, Stephen Stanton, Connor Trinneer, Audrey Wasilewski, George Wendt and Dave Wittenberg. \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" voice actors Tom Kenny and Bill Fagerbakke lent their voices to the episode as SpongeBob and Patrick respectively from archive music of the \"Campfire Song\" from the episode \"The Camping Episode\",", "title": "Road to Rupert" }, { "id": "1868766", "text": "Tom Kenny Thomas James Kenny (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor, voice artist, and comedian. He is best known for voicing the title character in the \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" TV series, video games, and films. Kenny has voiced many other characters including Heffer Wolfe in \"Rocko's Modern Life\"; the Ice King in \"Adventure Time\"; the Narrator and Mayor in \"The Powerpuff Girls\"; Carl Chryniszzswics in \"Johnny Bravo\"; Dog in \"CatDog\"; and Spyro from the \"Spyro the Dragon\" video game series. His live-action work includes the comedy variety shows \"The Edge\" and \"Mr. Show\". Kenny has won a Daytime Emmy", "title": "Tom Kenny" }, { "id": "7826883", "text": "She has appeared in numerous films, including \"Scotch & Milk\", \"The Rich Man's Wife\", and \"Diabolique\". In 2000, she did the voice of Amy Lawrence in \"Tom Sawyer\". Lewis played Gina, a chatty ad agency worker, in 2007's \"Perfect Stranger\". She also voiced various characters in the Nickelodeon cartoon \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She also appeared on the short-lived \"Andy Barker, P.I.\" as Jenny Barker, the wife of the title character. Her somewhat nasal, squeaky voice has meant a great deal of animation voice-over work for Lewis, including in both television (ABC's Saturday morning cartoon, \"Pepper Ann\") and film (\"\"). She also", "title": "Clea Lewis" }, { "id": "15966012", "text": "include actress, production designer, set designer, and producer for Hollywood films and television programs, including the television comedy series, \"The Playbook\". Flores' first credited film in 2005 was \"West Bank Story\", the Academy Awards winning, fast-paced musical comedy. In 2006-2007 Flores worked in the art department of the television series, \"Heroes\", which received the 2007 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences nomination for the Art Director's Guild Award. From 2007 until 2010 she tried out animation at Nickelodeon on the kids' classic cartoon, \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", a television series that has been awarded numerous primetime Emmy Awards for outstanding animated programming.", "title": "Kristen Flores" }, { "id": "1864969", "text": "series is Mrs. Puff's extensive criminal record. SpongeBob regularly lands her in jail accidentally as a result of his reckless driving since she takes full responsibility for his actions as if she were his mother. This gag is introduced in \"Hall Monitor\", when Mrs. Puff is held responsible after SpongeBob inadvertently destroys Bikini Bottom. In \"Doing Time\", SpongeBob and Patrick attempt to break her out of prison to no avail. It is revealed that she prefers prison to working as a teacher because she does not have to drive with SpongeBob. In \"No Free Rides\", it is implied that Mrs.", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "3195813", "text": "appeared as herself, interviewed for the online comedy video series \"Abigail's X-Rated Teen Diary\". Carolyn Lawrence Carolyn Lawrence is an American actress and comedian who is known for her long-running voice role as Sandy Cheeks on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". Lawrence left high school to take dance classes in Chicago. Since then, she began her long-running role as Sandy Cheeks on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She was also the voice of Cindy Vortex on \"\" and the title character, Orel Puppington, on \"Moral Orel\". Lawrence is the voice of Ashley Graham, the president's daughter, in the English version of the video game \"Resident Evil", "title": "Carolyn Lawrence" }, { "id": "11666922", "text": "Rosario Dawson, Craig Ferguson, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, LeBron James, Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, and Robin Williams as guest actors appearing as themselves in the live action sequences, while Ricky Gervais provided vocal cameo as the narrator. The show itself received several awards and nominations for its sixth season, including the Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Cartoon in 2009 and 2010. \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" won the 2009 and 2010 Indonesia Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Cartoon, while being nominated at the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards Mexico for the same category. At the 2009 ASTRA Awards, the show was nominated for", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)" }, { "id": "12858370", "text": "and suspicious teenager in \"A Love Song for Bobby Long\", which is based on the novel \"Off Magazine Street\" by Ronald Everett Capps. \"Variety\" David Rooney wrote that Johansson's and Travolta's portrayals rescued the film. Johansson earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama nomination for the film. In her fourth release in 2004, the live-action animated comedy \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\", Johansson voiced Princess Mindy, the daughter of King Neptune. She took the part because of her love for cartoons and \"The Ren & Stimpy Show\". The film was her most commercially successful work that year.", "title": "Scarlett Johansson" }, { "id": "14439126", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 10) The tenth season of the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon in the United States from October 15, 2016 to December 2, 2017. It opened with \"Whirly Brains\", and finished airing with \"The Incredible Shrinking Sponge\". The season was first announced on May 21, 2012. The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The season was executive produced by series creator Hillenburg, and was the first season of the", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 10)" }, { "id": "1591212", "text": "it, but will go to great lengths to make Pearl happy. He tends to worry about his riches and neglect the needs of his employees, SpongeBob and Squidward. He is in a romantic relationship with Mrs. Puff and shares a rivalry with his former best friend Plankton, who owns a struggling restaurant called the Chum Bucket located across the street from the Krusty Krab. Critical reception for Mr. Krabs was positive upon the series' debut but has been mixed as the show progressed. Critics have offered praise toward his portrayal as a single father to Pearl but criticized a perceived", "title": "Mr. Krabs" }, { "id": "4217657", "text": "the Winsor McCay Award at the 45th Annie Awards, and a special recognition at the 45th Daytime Emmy Awards \"for his contribution and impact made in the animation field and within the broadcast industry.\" Stephen Hillenburg Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August21, 1961November26, 2018) was an American animator, cartoonist, and marine biology teacher. He was best known as the creator of the Nickelodeon animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" (1999), which he also directed, produced, and wrote. It has gone on to become the fifth longest-running American animated series. Born in Lawton, Oklahoma and raised in Anaheim, California, Hillenburg became fascinated with the", "title": "Stephen Hillenburg" }, { "id": "1864970", "text": "Puff once had to move to a new town and start a new school with a new name. Mrs. Puff was married to another blowfish named Mr. Puff in the past, but he was captured by humans and turned into a novelty lamp. Since then, she and Mr. Krabs have pursued a romantic relationship and gone on many dates together. As of the show's tenth season, Mrs. Puff and Mr. Krabs have been dating for sixteen years. Krabs' love for her is so strong that it temporarily transcends his greed for money; she is one of only two characters, the", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "6008373", "text": "Nickelodeon wanted more episodes, so Hillenburg appointed Paul Tibbitt, who previously served on the show as a writer, director, and storyboard artist, to take over his role as showrunner and produce further seasons. Hillenburg considered Tibbitt one of his favorite members of the show's crew, and \"totally trusted him\". On December 13, 2014, it was announced that Hillenburg would return to the series in an unspecified position. On November 26, 2018, at the age of 57, Hillenburg died from complications due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which he had been diagnosed with in March 2017. Nickelodeon confirmed via Twitter that", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "14497209", "text": "guest starred as the voice of Captain Frostymug. Rapper Biz Markie guest appeared as Kenny the Cat in the episode of the same name. In \"The Executive Treatment\", an American stage actor, comedian and director, Frank Ferrante, guest-starred as the voice of Stockholder Eel. In \"Sanctuary!\", former \"Price is Right\" host Bob Barker guest starred as the voice of Bob Barnacle. In \"Mall Girl Pearl\", comedian legend Betty White and Aubrey Plaza guest starred as the voices of Beatrice and Nocturna. In \"Sharks vs. Pods\", Michael McKean returned and he voiced a new different character, Lonnie the Shark, along with", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 9)" }, { "id": "20542634", "text": "Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 2012, Slater began dating his former high school classmate Lilly Jay. In 2018, the two were married. Ethan Slater Ethan Slater (born June 2, 1992) is an American actor, singer, writer, and composer best known for his role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical of the same name, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical category. Slater grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, with two older sisters, Sara Slater and Tamara Slater. His mother passed away when he was 7. His", "title": "Ethan Slater" }, { "id": "11891527", "text": "star. Sedaris appears in the episode \"Trenchbillies\" as the voice of Ma Angler. Goodwin also guest stars as the voice of a purple-haired mermaid in the episode \"Welcome to the Bikini Bottom Triangle\". She lends her voice to a teenage mermaid who steals from others through Bikini Bottom's version of the Bermuda Triangle. In \"The Curse of Hex\", \"Saturday Night Live\"s Kristen Wiig guest stars as the voice of Madame Hagfish. Marion Ross voiced her recurring role as Grandma SquarePants, SpongeBob's grandmother, in \"The Abrasive Side\". The series has received recognition, including the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Cartoon.", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 7)" }, { "id": "11220193", "text": "Design award. Performers included Stevie Nicks, Jennifer Hudson and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and the cast of Hamilton performing the opening number of . On April 24 and 25, 2017, the 31st Annual event raised $6,379,572. Sunset Boulevard raised the most money, followed by Sunday in the Park with George and Dear Evan Hansen. Celebrities included Patti LuPone, Bette Midler, Josh Groban and Ben Platt. The 32nd Annual edition was held April 23 and 24, 2018. Celebrity presenters included Bernadette Peters, Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield. The show included performances by the casts of SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, Dear Evan Hansen", "title": "Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS" }, { "id": "14497211", "text": "nomination at the 2013 Golden Reel Awards for the Best Sound Editing – Sound Effects, Foley, Dialogue and ADR Animation in Television category. The show itself also received recognition. At the 40th Daytime Emmy Awards, the series was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Animation. The show won the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Cartoon, and the ASCAP Film and Television Awards for Top Television Series. At the BMI Film & TV Awards, the show won the BMI Cable Award. Sarah Noonan was nominated at the Artios Awards of the Casting Society of America, and the episode", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 9)" }, { "id": "14497208", "text": "producer Paul Tibbitt said, \"[Nickelodeon] wanted to do a show about extreme sports and the first thing that came to mind was Johnny Knoxville, because there are few humans living that are as extreme as him.\" Knoxville accepted the role because he is a fan of the show. Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway returned, reprising their respective roles as Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy in \"Patrick-Man!\". The episode was Borgnine's last voice-over work for the series as, on July 8, 2012, he died at the age of 95. In \"License to Milkshake\", comedian and Spinal Tap band member Michael McKean", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 9)" }, { "id": "13767944", "text": "in \"Seinfeld\", \"Friends\" and other U.S. shows. The featured song, \"We've Got Scurvy\", was sung by American singer and actress Pink. \"Truth or Square\" stars the series main cast members including Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Rodger Bumpass, Clancy Brown, Carolyn Lawrence, and Mr. Lawrence. In addition to the series cast, it featured Rosario Dawson, Craig Ferguson, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, LeBron James, Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, and Robin Williams as guest actors appearing as themselves in the live-action sequences, while Ricky Gervais provided vocal cameo as the narrator. Nickelodeon animation president Brown Johnson said \"Over the past decade, SpongeBob", "title": "SpongeBob's Truth or Square" }, { "id": "11666915", "text": "Fey, Will Ferrell, Craig Ferguson, Robin Williams and P!nk, while Ricky Gervais provided opening and closing narration for the film. Animation was handled overseas in South Korea at Rough Draft Studios. Animation directors credited with episodes in the sixth season included Andrew Overtoom, Alan Smart, and Tom Yasumi. Episodes were written by a team of writers, which consisted of Casey Alexander, Steven Banks, Luke Brookshier, Nate Cash, Zeus Cervas, Sean Charmatz, Derek Iversen, Tom King, Dani Michaeli, Richard Pursel, Chris Reccardi, Aaron Springer, Eric Shaw, and Paul Tibbitt. The season was storyboarded by Alexander, Brookshier, Cash, Cervas, Charmatz, King, Reccardi,", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)" }, { "id": "20542633", "text": "Ethan Slater Ethan Slater (born June 2, 1992) is an American actor, singer, writer, and composer best known for his role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the musical of the same name, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical category. Slater grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, with two older sisters, Sara Slater and Tamara Slater. His mother passed away when he was 7. His father, Jay Slater, is remarried, and Slater has two step-brothers. He attended Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School and Georgetown Day School. He attended", "title": "Ethan Slater" }, { "id": "11154821", "text": "Krabs\". Radio disc jockey Rodney Bingenheimer guest starred in the episode \"Krab Borg\" as the DJ. In \"Party Pooper Pants\", American rock band the Cramps lead vocalist Lux Interior performed the voice of the lead singer of the all-bird rock band called the Bird Brains. Kevin Michael Richardson also appeared in the live action segments of the episode as King Neptune. Various other characters were voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Kehela, Frank Welker, and Thomas F. Wilson. During its third season, \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" passed \"Rugrats\" and earned the title of being the highest rated children's show on cable, with", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 3)" }, { "id": "1864982", "text": "set based on Mrs. Puff's school was released. \"SpongeBob's Boating Bash\", a 2010 racing video game, centers on Mrs. Puff and takes place at the boating school. Mrs. Puff is a playable character in the Wii version, and acts as a guide for the player in the Nintendo DS game. Theme parks and events have featured Mrs. Puff, often as a costumed character. She was included on a boating school float as part of Sea World Australia's SpongeBob ParadePants parade, which opened in December 2011. She appeared at Universal Studios Hollywood's \"SpongeBob Fan Shellabration\" in 2013, and at the 2015", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "11666921", "text": "Amphitrite especially for Beckham. The former Spice Girl accepted the role because her sons, Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz, love the show, were excited when their mother told them of the role, and looked forward to watching the episode with her. Beckham recorded the voice-over in late-2008 in a day, and claimed that she was \"thrilled\" to provide the vocal cameo. Other guests in the episode included \"Seinfeld\" actor John O'Hurley as King Neptune and Skid Row heavy metal vocalist Sebastian Bach as the voice of Triton. Moreover, in the television film \"SpongeBob's Truth or Square\", various celebrities guest appeared, including", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 6)" }, { "id": "6008348", "text": "Choice Awards. The series officially premiered on July 17, 1999. It has received worldwide critical acclaim since its premiere and gained enormous popularity by its second season. A feature film, \"The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\", was released in theaters on November 19, 2004, and was released on February 6, 2015. In 2018, the series began airing its twelfth season. The series has won a variety of awards, including six Annie Awards, eight Golden Reel Awards, four Emmy Awards, 15 Kids' Choice Awards, and two BAFTA Children's Awards. Despite its widespread popularity, the series has been involved in several public controversies, including", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "8819801", "text": "May 26, 2017, to August 6, 2017. In 2015, Urie wrote a song for the \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" musical. The musical made its debut in Chicago in the summer of 2016 and returned to the Palace Theater on Broadway in the winter of 2017. For the musical, Urie sings a song called, \"Not A Simple Sponge.\" Nickelodeon released a video in the spring of 2016 that includes details about the artists that they worked with to bring the score to life, including Aerosmith, John Legend, Plain White T's and Panic! at the Disco. Urie possesses a lyric tenor vocal range that", "title": "Brendon Urie" }, { "id": "5691885", "text": "Estelle Harris Estelle Harris (née Nussbaum; April 4, 1928) is an American actress and comedian. Easily recognized by her distinctive, high-pitched voice, she is best known for her roles as Estelle Costanza on \"Seinfeld\", the voice of Mrs. Potato Head in the \"Toy Story franchise\", and Muriel on \"The Suite Life of Zack & Cody\". Estelle Nussbaum was born in Manhattan, the younger of two daughters of Isaac and Anna Nussbaum, Polish Jewish immigrants who owned a candy store. Harris is best known for her supporting role as Estelle Costanza, George's (Jason Alexander) mother and Frank's (Jerry Stiller) wife on", "title": "Estelle Harris" }, { "id": "7810347", "text": "Erik Wiese Erik Wiese (born Eric Eldritch) is a prolific storyboard artist, director and writer who is best known for his work on the animated series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", beginning with his character development and design for the pilot episode, \"Help Wanted\", as well as the co-creator of \"The Mighty B!\", where he directed all of the episodes, and served as the creative director, executive producer, writer, voice director and storyboard artist for the series. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. He has been married to Cynthia True since May 10, 2007. Wiese's other credits include \"The", "title": "Erik Wiese" }, { "id": "1864972", "text": "to Nickelodeon, he \"had yet to come up with the idea that Mrs. Puff and SpongeBob would be on an endless quest to get SpongeBob a driver's license\". Thus, some early development artwork for the show depicted SpongeBob driving a submarine-esque vehicle with ease. Mrs. Puff's development originated with a request by Nickelodeon that SpongeBob attend a school. Nickelodeon initially wanted to make SpongeBob a child since their most successful cartoons at the time focused on young, school-age characters. Hillenburg stated that the network wanted SpongeBob to be like \"Arnold [from \"Hey Arnold!\"] under the sea,\" but he told them,", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "1864968", "text": "varies. She sympathizes with the short-tempered Squidward Tentacles, and considers him to be the prime example of an outstandingly good driver. Patrick, who has attended Mrs. Puff's class multiple times, is treated with respect by her in spite of his slow-wittedness (Patrick is an expert driver and has passed every time he appears, usually re-appearing in the school after losing his license in some way). Of all the residents of Bikini Bottom, she is closest to SpongeBob. While she normally dreads having to drive with SpongeBob, she often acts as a motherly figure towards him. A running gag in the", "title": "Mrs. Puff" }, { "id": "11154845", "text": "Patty\" was the first episode to be broadcast after the show's intermission. It was written by C.H. Greenblatt and Paul Tibbitt, while Alan Smart served as animation director. Animation was handled overseas in South Korea at Rough Draft Studios. Animation directors credited with episodes in the fourth season included Larry Leichliter, Andrew Overtoom, Smart, and Tom Yasumi. Episodes were written by a team of writers, which consisted of Casey Alexander, Steven Banks, Mike Bell, Luke Brookshier, Nate Cash, Zeus Cervas, Greenblatt, Tom King, Tim Hill, Kyle McCulloch, Dani Michaeli, Chris Mitchell, Mike Mitchell, Aaron Springer, Tibbitt, Vincent Waller, Tuck Tucker,", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 4)" }, { "id": "3726970", "text": "earned 37.48 percent of the film's final gross. It closed on March 24, 2005, failing to out-gross holiday animated competitors \"The Incredibles\" (from Disney-Pixar, grossing $261,441,092) and \"The Polar Express\" (from Warner Bros., grossing $183,373,735). It was still profitable for distributor Paramount Pictures and producer Nickelodeon Movies, earning $85,417,988 in the United States and $140,161,792 worldwide on a budget of $30 million. The film was the 29th-highest-grossing 2004 film domestically and is the sixth-highest-grossing animated TV adaptation of all time. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 69% based on 127 reviews and an average score of", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "id": "1403568", "text": "lead in many films, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor for \"Marty\" (1955). He achieved continuing success in the sitcom \"McHale's Navy\" (1962–1966), in which he played the title character, and co-starred as Dominic Santini in the action series \"Airwolf\" (1984–1986), in addition to a wide variety of other roles. Borgnine earned his third Primetime Emmy Award nomination at age 92 for his work on the 2009 series finale of \"ER\". He was known as the voice of Mermaid Man on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" from 1999 until his death in 2012. He had earlier replaced the late Vic Tayback as", "title": "Ernest Borgnine" }, { "id": "16376006", "text": "world. These scenes were shot in various locations throughout Savannah, Georgia and Tybee Island. Filming began on October 9, 2013, and completed in November. The film is dedicated to Ernest Borgnine, the original voice of Mermaid Man, who died in 2012. It also marks series creator Stephen Hillenburg's final film before his death in 2018. \"The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water\" was released in the United States on February 6, 2015 and received generally positive reviews. The film grossed over $325 million worldwide against its $74 million budget, making it the fifth-highest-grossing animated film of 2015. A third film,", "title": "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water" }, { "id": "3726959", "text": "were Motörhead, singing \"You Better Swim\" (a derivative of their 1992 song \"You'd Better Run\"); Prince Paul (\"Prince Paul's Bubble Party\"); Ween (\"Ocean Man\"), and the Shins (\"They'll Soon Discover\", partially written in 2001). \"The Best Day Ever\", written by Tom Kenny (SpongeBob's voice actor) and Andy Paley, was featured in the film and on its soundtrack. Kenny and Paley were working on what would become the album \"The Best Day Ever\", writing \"The Best Day Ever\" and \"Under My Rock\". The film's production team needed two more tracks for the soundtrack; Hillenburg heard the songs, and decided to include", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "id": "11154813", "text": "were nominated for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) category, while the entry \"SpongeBob B.C. (Ugh)\" won the same category. The season was also the first time the show received a nomination at the Kids' Choice Awards and won. It won the 2003 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Cartoon, and also won the following year's Kids' Choice Award for the same category. Celebrities—including Justin Timberlake, Kelly Osbourne, Britney Spears, Bruce Willis, Noel Gallagher, rapper Dr. Dre, and Mike Myers—have been reported to be fans of the show. Several compilation DVDs that contained episodes from the season were", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 3)" }, { "id": "19194429", "text": "before a Broadway run in late 2016. Its director, book author, and several of the musicians involved were also announced. The full cast list was released in April 2016. The majority of the cast members play more than one character. Rehearsals for the show's debut in Chicago began on April 11 in New York. Throughout early 2016, Nickelodeon executives met with Broadway theater owners to arrange its Broadway premiere. Michael Reidel of \"New York Post\" stated that Broadway representatives were \"impressed\" after seeing a presentation of the show. In late May 2016, technical rehearsals for the show were conducted. Chris", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (musical)" }, { "id": "9394034", "text": "May 20, 2011. Spring Sing returned to newly renovated Pauley Pavilion on May 17, 2013 to set a record breaking attendance for The Student Alumni Association. Celebrities have served as judges and master of ceremonies. They have included former President Ronald Reagan (1952), actor Jason Alexander, Fred MacMurray, conductor André Previn, Christopher Gorham (\"Ugly Betty\"), Ryan Carnes (\"Desperate Housewives\"), Amber Stevens (\"Greek\"), Dr. Bill Dorfman (\"Extreme Makeover\"), Tatyana Ali (\"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\"), Sarah Drew (\"Grey's Anatomy)\" and Todd White, a member of the lead animation team for \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". Others were: actors Sean Astin, Ian Buchanan, Dennis Haskins,", "title": "UCLA Spring Sing" }, { "id": "3624306", "text": "the involvement of the show's crew by a separate crew), with no plans to return following the movie. He did, however, return to the series during production of the third movie to voice the character DoodleBob in the episode \"Doodle Dimension\". Paul Tibbitt Paul Harrison Tibbitt is an American animator, television producer, writer, storyboard artist, songwriter, voice actor, and director, best known for working on the animated series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". He was the co-executive producer of the show and was also the voice of Potty the Parrot; he has also voiced DoodleBob and previously voiced Betsy Krabs before Sirena Irwin", "title": "Paul Tibbitt" }, { "id": "11891528", "text": "The series also won the same category at the succeeding year's Kids' Choice Awards and at the 2010 and 2011 Indonesia Kids' Choice Awards. At the Kids' Choice Awards Mexico 2010 and Kids' Choice Awards Argentina 2011, the show was nominated for Favorite Cartoon, but did not win. The episode \"That Sinking Feeling\" was nominated at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Short-format Animated Program. Furthermore, at the 38th Annie Awards, the show won for Best Animated Television Production for Children, while the crew members, Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, Nick Carr and Tuck Tucker, won the Music in a", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 7)" }, { "id": "5669709", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants Movie\" (2004). In 2002, she was nominated for The Annie Award for Best Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Production for \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She also provided the voice for Cousin Larry's mother on the animated series \"Kim Possible\". Mary Jo Cattlet has also provided voices for \"Rugrats\", \"The Smurfs\", \"Quack Pack\" and \"Extreme Ghostbusters\". She is also known, prior to her role on \"Diff'rent Strokes\", for the commercials she did for Black Flag and its pest-control products, particularly the Roach Motel brand. Her many television guest roles include appearances on episodes of \"That's So Raven\",", "title": "Mary Jo Catlett" }, { "id": "3266016", "text": "Rodger Bumpass Rodger Bumpass (born November 20, 1951) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for his long-running role as Squidward Tentacles on the American animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". He voices many other characters on the show, including Purple Doctorfish and various anchovies. He also voiced The Chief in the animated series \"Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?\", and Mr. Besser, the school principal in the animated series \"The Kids from Room 402\". Bumpass has many other credits in animated films, animated television series, and video games. Bumpass was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on", "title": "Rodger Bumpass" }, { "id": "3466910", "text": "Ross also starred in \"The Evening Star\" (1996), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Since the 1990s, Ross has been known for voice-over work on animated television series such as \"King of the Hill\" and \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" among others, and recurring roles on \"The Drew Carey Show\", \"That '70s Show\", \"Gilmore Girls,\" and \"Brothers & Sisters\", and guest spots. Marian Ross was born in Watertown, Carver County, Minnesota, the daughter of Gordon and Ellen (Hamilton) Ross, natives of Saskatchewan, Canada She lived in Waconia, then moved to Willmar, and eventually to Albert", "title": "Marion Ross" }, { "id": "14883730", "text": "The sound of Patrick's footsteps is recorded by the show's Foley crew, with a Foley talent wearing a slip-on shoe. Jeff Hutchins, show's sound designer said, \"[Going] barefoot makes it tough to have much presence, so we decided that Patrick would be performed with shoes on.\" Patrick's voice is provided by actor Bill Fagerbakke, who also does the voices of numerous other characters on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". While creating the show and writing its pilot episode in 1997, Hillenburg and Derek Drymon, the show's then-creative director, were also conducting auditions to find voices for the show's characters. Fagerbakke auditioned for the", "title": "Patrick Star" }, { "id": "6008346", "text": "SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. The series chronicles the adventures and endeavors of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The series' popularity has made it a media franchise, as well as the highest rated series to ever air on Nickelodeon, and the most distributed property of MTV Networks. As of late 2017, the media franchise has generated $13 billion in merchandising revenue for Nickelodeon. Many of the ideas for the series originated in an unpublished", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants" }, { "id": "11154703", "text": "cells, and every cell had to be part-painted, left to dry, paint some other colours. It's still a time-consuming aspect of the process now, but the digital way of doing things means it doesn't take long to correct.\" The animation was handled overseas in South Korea at Rough Draft Studios. Animation directors credited with episodes in the second season included Sean Dempsey, Edgar Larrazabal, Larry Leichliter, Andrew Overtoom, Leonard Robinson, Frank Weiss, and Tom Yasumi. The season was storyboarded by Walt Dohrn, C.H. Greenblatt, Chris Headrick, Chuck Klein, Carson Kugler, Jay Lender, Caleb Meurer, Dan Povenmire, William \"Bill\" Reiss, Octavio", "title": "SpongeBob SquarePants (season 2)" } ]

[ "Ivo Karlović" ]

[ { "id": "3661707", "text": "but was still the record for ATP events until John Isner broke the record in 2016. On 19 June 2015 Karlović broke the record for most aces in a three-set ATP Tour match during the quarterfinal of 2015 Gerry Weber Open. He served 45 aces in a 7–5, 6–7, 6–3 win over Tomáš Berdych. Karlović holds the record for the most aces in tennis history after surpassing Goran Ivanišević in October, 2015. As of November 2018, he has struck 12,936 aces in 657 matches. During Karlović's childhood, his mother Gordana worked in agriculture, while his father Vlado was a meteorologist.", "title": "Ivo Karlović" }, { "id": "4741481", "text": "matches are included here. John Isner has the most aces in a tournament with 214 during the 2018 Wimbledon, and he has the most in a single match with 113 during his 11 hour encounter with Nicolas Mahut. He is also second on the career list. Ivo Karlović has the most career aces with 12,936. He also has the most in a best-of-three-set match with 45 at Halle in 2015. Two weeks later, during Wimbledon, he became the only player to hit at least 40 aces in three consecutive matches. Goran Ivanišević has the most in a single season with", "title": "Ace (tennis)" }, { "id": "3661705", "text": "in the longest match in tennis history at the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, where Isner hit 113 aces and Mahut hit 103. In 2007 Karlović became the fourth player to serve 1,000 aces in a season. He finished the year with 1,318 aces, second all-time behind Goran Ivanišević, who hit 1,477 in 1996. In 2015 he became the third player (after Goran Ivanišević and Andy Roddick) to serve 9,000 career aces., and the second to notch 10,000 aces. Karlović's fastest official serve is , which he hit during his five-set loss in a Davis Cup first round", "title": "Ivo Karlović" }, { "id": "4741482", "text": "1,477 in 1996. He also has the second most in a tournament with 213 when he won the 2001 Wimbledon title. Roger Federer hit 50 aces in the 2009 Wimbledon final, the record for a Grand Slam final. He is also third on the career list. Serena Williams holds the record for most aces in a tournament with 102 en route to winning the 2012 Wimbledon title. Karolína Plíšková has the most aces in a single season with 530 in 2016, which broke her own record of 517 in 2015. Ace (tennis) In tennis, an ace is a legal serve", "title": "Ace (tennis)" }, { "id": "4741480", "text": "Ace (tennis) In tennis, an ace is a legal serve that is not touched by the receiver, winning the point. In professional tennis, aces are generally seen on a player's first serve, where the server can strike the ball with maximum force and take more chances with ball placement, such as the far corners of the service box. According to the International Tennis Hall of Fame, this term was coined by the sports journalist Allison Danzig. Aces have been officially recorded by the top-level professional tennis circuits since 1991, so these records start at that time. Only main draw singles", "title": "Ace (tennis)" }, { "id": "4640915", "text": "Meghann Shaughnessy Meghann Shaughnessy (April 13, 1979 in Richmond, Virginia) is a retired American tennis player. She achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 11 in 2001, and won six WTA Tour titles. Her best doubles ranking was world No. 4. She won 17 WTA Tour doubles titles, including the WTA Championships. She is best known for her serve, which was one of the most powerful on tour, and has produced as many as 22 aces in a match. Shaughnessy was coached by Rafael Font de Mora (managed by him since age 13 and coached by him for over", "title": "Meghann Shaughnessy" }, { "id": "13293859", "text": "John Feaver John Feaver (born February 16, 1952, in Fleet, Hampshire, England) is a former professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. After attending Millfield, Feaver enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he reached 10 doubles finals, achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 98 in October 1973, and a career-high doubles ranking of 104 in January 1983. He was a French Open doubles semi-finalist in 1982. For over 20 years (1976 to 1997), Feaver held the record for serving the most aces in a single Wimbledon match, 42, achieved against John Newcombe", "title": "John Feaver" }, { "id": "8279891", "text": "Sam Querrey Samuel Austin Querrey (; born October 7, 1987) is an American professional tennis player who (as of August 6, 2018) is ranked world No. 32 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Known for his powerful serve, Querrey holds the record for consecutive service aces in a match with 10. He is also a capable doubles player, with five doubles titles and a career-high doubles ranking of world no. 23. In singles, Querrey has won ten titles. His best performance in a Grand Slam singles event was at the 2017 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached", "title": "Sam Querrey" }, { "id": "11469850", "text": "Grand Slams (1986 US Open, 1988 Wimbledon, 1990 Australian Open and 1993 Wimbledon). Muller still holds the record for the most aces served in a three set match (54) in a 1993 Wimbledon Qualifying match against Peter Lundgren. After his retirement in 1997 Muller worked for eight years as an ATP Tour coach during which time he worked with Jonas Björkman, Stefan Koubek, Sargis Sargsian and Thomas Johansson. He has recently been spotted with top ten player, Dominic Thiem, and was with Thiem as his Touring Coach when he clinched the title in Rio in 2017. Muller was on the", "title": "Gary Muller" }, { "id": "3661704", "text": "play the last deciding match, again losing against Federico Delbonis. On 18 September 2009, Karlović hit 78 aces (77 aces on 1st serve) in a Davis Cup match against Radek Štěpánek, breaking his previous record of 51 (against Daniele Bracciali in the 2005 Wimbledon Championships) and 55 (against Lleyton Hewitt in the 2009 French Open). Only once in his ATP career has he failed to hit an ace during a match, which was in the 2008 Monte Carlo Masters against Frenchman Gaël Monfils. His record of aces in a single match was broken by both John Isner and Nicolas Mahut", "title": "Ivo Karlović" }, { "id": "11442392", "text": "record with a speed of 131 mph, a record previously held by Venus Williams at 129 mph. Her serve is often regarded as her main weapon and with it, for the year up to November 2013, she was ranked fifth in the WTA for first service points won, 70.7%, and fifth for service games won, 73.7%. She was ranked second in the aces count in 2013, only behind Serena Williams, and was ranked fifth in 2014. Lisicki also held the record for the most aces in a singles match. She broke the record of 24, held jointly by Serena Williams", "title": "Sabine Lisicki" }, { "id": "4587765", "text": "number 450 Erik Chvojka in the first round and world number 142 Matthias Bachinger in the second round. He defeated Alejandro Falla in the first round of the main draw, before losing to to Milos Raonic. He held the record for most aces served in one match as he aced Andre Agassi 51 times in the 4th round of the 2005 Australian Open (though he still lost the match in four sets). In the post-match press conference, Johansson said he felt he could have served better. Ivo Karlović equalled the record on 21 June 2005 at Wimbledon against Daniele Bracciali,", "title": "Joachim Johansson" }, { "id": "10654278", "text": "second longest match in major tournament history was Isner's loss to South African Kevin Anderson in the first men's semifinal at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. The Longest Match In History: Isner v Mahut, June 22–24, 2010 At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships, Isner faced [[Glossary of tennis#Qualifier|qualifier]] Nicolas Mahut in the first round. Isner won the match 6–4, 3–6, 6–7, 7–6, 70–68. The final set alone was longer than the previous longest match. In the match, Isner set the record for the most aces served in a match, breaking Ivo Karlović's record of 78; Mahut passed the old mark as well.", "title": "John Isner" }, { "id": "4587766", "text": "and at the 2009 French Open, Karlovic broke the record with 55 aces against Lleyton Hewitt in the first round but lost in five sets. Johansson still had a record – most aces served in 4-set match (51) until July 2014, when John Isner broke this record in Wimbledon (Isner served 52 aces, but lost too). Joachim Johansson Joachim Johansson (born 1 July 1982) is a former professional male tennis player from Sweden. He reached the semifinals of the 2004 US Open, won 3 singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 9 in February 2005. Johansson", "title": "Joachim Johansson" }, { "id": "2223133", "text": "year, Roddick teamed up with Mardy Fish and Bob and Mike Bryan on the U.S. Davis Cup team that lost to Spain in the final in Seville. Roddick lost his singles match against Rafael Nadal, who would in the following year win the French Open. Towards the end of 2004, Roddick fired his coach of 18 months, Brad Gilbert, and hired assistant Davis Cup coach Dean Goldfine. Roddick finished 2004 ranked as the No. 2, the U.S. No. 1, and the player with the most aces (2,017). In 2004, Roddick saved fellow tennis player Sjeng Schalken and other guests (including", "title": "Andy Roddick" }, { "id": "14690194", "text": "79th ace to take the final set to 39–38 with serve. This surpassed Ivo Karlović's 78 aces that he served on 2009 in a Davis Cup match against Radek Štěpánek. In all, Isner served 113 aces; Mahut also surpassed the previous record with 103 aces. At the 2012 edition of Wimbledon, Serena Williams had a women's record 102 aces for the entire tournament, falling short of both Isner's and Mahut's aces in a single round. The length of the match exceeded the total playing time of Serena Williams in every round combined in winning the previous year's Ladies Wimbledon title.", "title": "Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships" }, { "id": "11442314", "text": "tennis player. A serve was measured during her first-round encounter against Ana Ivanovic at the 2014 Bank of the West Classic. She also held the record for the most aces in a singles match, hitting 27 aces during her second-round encounter against Belinda Bencic at the 2015 Aegon Classic, until it was surpassed by Kristýna Plíšková at the 2016 Australian Open. Lisicki's parents emigrated to West Germany from Poland in 1979; her father, Dr. Richard Lisicki, is of German and Polish descent and her mother, Elisabeth, of Polish. They came to Germany as \"Spätaussiedler\", descended from German citizens who lived", "title": "Sabine Lisicki" }, { "id": "8140985", "text": "net play and clever placement of returns have also made him an exceptional doubles player. In what became a record-setting match, spanning three days, qualifier Mahut faced 23rd seed John Isner in the first round of the 2010 Wimbledon Championships on 22–24 June. Isner served a world record 112 aces in the single match alone, breaking Ivo Karlović's record of 78. Mahut would go on to surpass it as well with 103. Play was suspended at 21:11 on 23 June due to darkness at a score of 59–59. Isner took the match the following day, winning 6–4, 3–6, 6–7, 7–6,", "title": "Nicolas Mahut" }, { "id": "3661684", "text": "Ivo Karlović Ivo Karlović (; born 28 February 1979, Zagreb) is a Croatian professional tennis player. He has won eight ATP singles titles between 2007 and 2016. Karlović's height of 211 cm (6 ft 11 in) makes him one of the tallest professional tennis players in history. He is a serve-and-volleyer and officially held the record for the fastest serve recorded in professional tennis, measured at 251 km/h (156 mph), before being surpassed by Samuel Groth in 2012. In his prime, he was considered one of the best servers on tour, holding the all-time record for career aces with 12,936", "title": "Ivo Karlović" }, { "id": "752223", "text": "beating former world No. 1 and fellow American Jim Courier in the final. This was followed by his second US Open title. He finished the year as the clear No. 1 and set a new ATP Tour record that year by becoming the first player to serve more than 1,000 aces in a season. Sampras won the first of two Australian Open titles in 1994, defeating American Todd Martin in the final, and then defended his Wimbledon later that year. In 1995, Sampras battled with co-patriot Andre Agassi for the world No. 1 ranking. Sampras experienced one of the most", "title": "Pete Sampras" }, { "id": "13542048", "text": "Fastest recorded tennis serves This article lists serving speed record breaks for the men's and women's professional tennis. This list is not be historically complete. For instance, Roscoe Tanner's serve was clocked at 153 mph at Palm Springs in 1978 during the final against Raúl Ramírez. There are also reports that Bill Tilden had a serve that was clocked at 163.3 mph but there is nothing to verify that. Also, Ellsworth Vines in the Wimbledon finals of 1932 clocked 121 mph (without Radar). Udayachand Shetty's winning serve was clocked by radar at 120 mph using a wooden racquet, at the", "title": "Fastest recorded tennis serves" }, { "id": "11345630", "text": "Julián Alonso Julián Alonso Pintor (born 2 August 1977) is a retired tennis player from Catalonia, Spain, who turned professional in 1995 and retired in 2003. He was known in tennis because of his incredible serve, many times compared with the Goran Ivanisevic´s service. In 1997, playing against Ivanisevic (2nd seeded), in Long Island, beat him for first Top 10 victory en route to SF and in that match fired a 143 mph serve to become just third player (Philippoussis, Rusedski) to register a serve of at least 143. In these days Julian Alonso is the founder of \"Julian Alonso", "title": "Julián Alonso" }, { "id": "17724930", "text": "that being Rafael Nadal in 2010. To have accomplished any of these feats in a group of tournaments originating over 100 years ago underscores the degree of difficulty involved. These are some of the important records since the start of the first Grand Slam tournament held at The Wimbledon Championships. All statistics are based on the data at the ATP World Tour website, the ITF and other available sources, even if this isn't a complete list due to the time period involved. Active streaks and active players are in boldface. active players in boldface |- valign=top !!!Player!!width=350|Years at No. 1!!#", "title": "All-time tennis records – men's singles" }, { "id": "1725570", "text": "Gonzales, Tilden, Jimmy Connors, Fred Perry, and Lew Hoad. In a poll by the Associated Press in 2000, Laver was voted \"The Male Tennis Player of the Century\", ahead of Pete Sampras, Tilden, Borg, Budge, McEnroe and Hoad (tied), Rosewall and Roy Emerson (tied), and Kramer. In an article in \"Tennis Week\" in 2007, the tennis historian Raymond Lee statistically analysed the all-time best players. Laver topped his list ahead of Tilden and Borg (tied), Roger Federer, Gonzales, Rosewall, Budge, Ivan Lendl, Connors, Sampras, McEnroe, and Kramer. In 2009 it was written that Rod Laver \"is considered by most folks", "title": "Rod Laver" }, { "id": "20528485", "text": "Mario Tennis Aces Mario Tennis Aces is a tennis game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. An entry in the \"Mario Tennis\" series, it was released worldwide on June 22, 2018. The game sold over two million copies by September 2018, making it one of the best-selling games on the Switch. The gameplay of \"Mario Tennis Aces\" consists of playing matches of tennis with various characters from the \"Super Mario\" series. Players can pick from Mario, Luigi, Wario, Peach, Waluigi, Daisy, Rosalina, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Bowser, Toad, Toadette, Chain Chomp, Bowser Jr., Boo,", "title": "Mario Tennis Aces" }, { "id": "1901143", "text": "surfing as his new recreation. It seemed to work, as he made the 2003 Wimbledon final, finally losing to Roger Federer, 6–7(5), 2–6, 6–7(3). During a 2003 Wimbledon tennis match against Andre Agassi (6–3, 2–6, 6–7 (4–7), 6–3, 6–4), he set a new Australian tennis record of 46 aces served in a match, three aces short of the overall ATP Tour record then held by Richard Krajicek. Philippoussis broke a two-year singles-title drought by winning the Shanghai Open in 2003. On 30 November 2003, he defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain to win the fourth match of the Davis Cup", "title": "Mark Philippoussis" }, { "id": "5282044", "text": "the quarterfinal in the Beijing $75,000 ITF tournament and won the doubles title at the WTA International tournament in Suzhou partnering with Tímea Babos. In September she reconnected with her former Coach Eric van Harpen to work on her technique. At the Topshelf Open in Rosmalen, Krajicek served a tournament record 21 aces in her second round loss to Camila Giorgi, beating the 19 served by Coco Vandeweghe against Marina Erakovic the previous year. That tied her for eight on the all-time list of aces in a match at a WTA tournament. Giorgi served nine aces herself during the match.", "title": "Michaëlla Krajicek" }, { "id": "1586305", "text": "Jimmy Connors James Scott Connors (born September 2, 1952) is a retired American world No. 1 tennis player, often considered among the greatest in the history of the sport. He held the top ATP ranking for a then-record 160 consecutive weeks from 1974 to 1977 and a career total of 268 weeks. By virtue of his long and prolific career, Connors still holds three prominent Open Era men's singles records: 109 titles (he is the only man to win 100), 1535 matches played, and 1256 match wins. His titles include eight majors (five US Open, two Wimbledon, one Australian Open),", "title": "Jimmy Connors" }, { "id": "1406968", "text": "quarterfinal matchup to Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Despite the loss, Krajicek set several most aces records that day. In the 2000 U.S. Open, Krajicek met Sampras in the quarterfinals, winning the first set and being up 6-2 during the second-set tiebreaker, but then losing six straight points to lose the match. In 2000, Krajicek was awarded the ATP Arthur Ashe Humanitarian award for his efforts to help youth in his home country. He was named ATP Comeback Player of the Year in 2002. Krajicek retired from the professional tour in 2003. During his career, he won 17 singles titles and 3 doubles", "title": "Richard Krajicek" }, { "id": "11345633", "text": "team with Joan Ballcells during Manolo Santana captaincy, and several single matches. Julián Alonso Julián Alonso Pintor (born 2 August 1977) is a retired tennis player from Catalonia, Spain, who turned professional in 1995 and retired in 2003. He was known in tennis because of his incredible serve, many times compared with the Goran Ivanisevic´s service. In 1997, playing against Ivanisevic (2nd seeded), in Long Island, beat him for first Top 10 victory en route to SF and in that match fired a 143 mph serve to become just third player (Philippoussis, Rusedski) to register a serve of at least", "title": "Julián Alonso" }, { "id": "10654279", "text": "Isner set a new record of 113 aces, ahead of the 103 aces served by Mahut. The first four sets were played on June 22. At 21:13 [[British Summer Time|BST]] on June 23 the match was suspended due to darkness for a second day at 59–59 in the fifth set. The match resumed on June 24, at 15:30 BST, starting the third day of the match. Overall, the match lasted eleven hours and five minutes. Isner also set the record for the most games won in a Wimbledon match with 92. The match brought Isner a measure of fame, particularly", "title": "John Isner" }, { "id": "19922577", "text": "in his career that he has played five-setters in both the first and second rounds of a major tournament. He easily dispatched Spaniard Feliciano López in the third round with a straight sets win to improve his record against him to 13–0. During his victory, Federer moved into second place in the all-time aces list surpassing Croatian Goran Ivanisevic's 10,131 tally. He went on to improve to 12–0 in head-to-head matches by beating German Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets to set up an encounter with Argentine Juan Martín del Potro in the quarterfinals, which he lost in 4 sets. After", "title": "2017 Roger Federer tennis season" }, { "id": "401900", "text": "He had the most natural tennis mind with the most natural tennis physique.\" Before and during the open era, Rod Laver remains the only male player in history to have won the calendar year Grand Slam twice in 1962 and 1969 and also the calendar year Professional Grand Slam in 1967. More recently Björn Borg and Pete Sampras were regarded by many of their contemporaries as among the greatest ever. Andre Agassi, the first of two male players in history to have achieved a Career Golden Slam in singles tennis (followed by Rafael Nadal), has been called the best service", "title": "Tennis" }, { "id": "14351852", "text": "the tournament due to a leg-muscle tear prior to his match against Nishikori, after losses to Federer and Murray. Raonic ended the year at a career-high season-ending ranking of No. 8. He was one of just three players to reach the quarterfinals or better at seven of the nine ATP 1000 tournaments. Raonic finished with a career-high total of 1107 aces in 2014. At the time, this was the fifth highest single-year ace total in history. (It was surpassed by both Ivo Karlović and Isner in 2015.) Raonic began 2015 by reaching the final at the Brisbane International after defeating", "title": "Milos Raonic" }, { "id": "14248555", "text": "sister Karolína in doubles. She upsets Svetlana Kuznetsova in Wimbledon to reach the third round of a grand slam for the first time in her career. She went on to lose to Monica Niculescu in the next round. Plíšková defeated Samantha Stosur in the first round of the Australian Open, but lost to Monica Puig after setting a new WTA record for the most aces (31) in a match, but failed to convert five match points. In Tashkent Open later, she went on to win her maiden WTA level title defeating defending champion Nao Hibino. Pliskova started the season at", "title": "Kristýna Plíšková" }, { "id": "13694384", "text": "singles matches (61) and ATP Masters 1000 matches (23) than any other player this year and tied Agassi for the most singles titles won this season with five. He served a career-best 536 aces throughout the season, led his peers in terms of return games won and points won on his first serve and also earned $4,619,38 in prize money, which remains the highest amount he has earned in a single season. 2003 was a relatively disappointing season for Hewitt as he lost the World No. 1 ranking after spending seventy-five consecutive weeks at the top spot and ended his", "title": "Lleyton Hewitt career statistics" }, { "id": "16388296", "text": "women. The United States was credited with the most great players (38), followed by Australia (17), France (7), Great Britain (6) and Czechoslovakia (5). Forty-three players made the list from the Americas, 39 from Europe and 18 from Oceania. Note: Bolded players are still active today. Slams figures reflect number of wins in Singles draws and are up-to-date, meaning that they may now be higher than the numbers used to determine the March 2012 list. 100 Greatest of All Time 100 Greatest of All Time was a television series of five one-hour episodes, produced and first aired by Tennis Channel", "title": "100 Greatest of All Time" }, { "id": "10654217", "text": "John Isner John Robert Isner (born April 26, 1985) is an American professional tennis player who is the No. 10 ranked in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and has been ranked as high as No. 8. Considered one of the best servers ever to play on the ATP World Tour, Isner achieved his career-high singles ranking in July 2018 by virtue of his maiden Masters 1000 crown at the 2018 Miami Open and a semifinals appearance at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships. He currently has the second-most aces in the history of the ATP World Tour, having", "title": "John Isner" }, { "id": "13435591", "text": "Dallas Aces The Dallas Aces (initially the U.S. Aces, later simply the Aces) were the world's first professional bridge team, organized in 1968 by Dallas businessman Ira Corn. Corn was determined to return bridge supremacy to America, after its domination for more than a decade by the formidable Italian Blue Team. The Aces, in various formations during the years featured stars such as James Jacoby, Bobby Wolff, Billy Eisenberg, Bobby Goldman, Mike Lawrence, Paul Soloway, Eric Murray and Sami Kehela. They won the 1970, 1977 and 1983 Bermuda Bowls, as well as several other competitions. The team slowly disbanded after", "title": "Dallas Aces" }, { "id": "11915770", "text": "Grand Slam title defeating David Ferrer in the Roland Garros final in Paris, Toni Nadal assumed sole possession of the top position on the history of tennis with 12 Grand Slam title as a coach. He broke a tie with Lennart Bergelin who coached Björn Borg reaching 11 Grand Slam titles between 1974–1981. Solidifying his lead on the coaches' rank list, Toni Nadal has currently 16 Grand Slam titles with his nephew. In 2015, after Rafael Nadal lost in the second round at Wimbledon to Dustin Brown, who was ranked No. 102 at the time, former world No. 1 John", "title": "Toni Nadal" }, { "id": "7068485", "text": "Smokin' Aces Smokin' Aces is a 2006 British-American action thriller film written and directed by Joe Carnahan. The film centers on the chase for Las Vegas magician turned mafia informant Buddy \"Aces\" Israel (Jeremy Piven), on whom a one million dollar bounty is placed. The ensemble cast includes Ryan Reynolds, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Common, Andy García, Alicia Keys, Taraji P. Henson, Ray Liotta, Chris Pine, and Matthew Fox, all co-starring as the various individuals attempting to either capture or protect Israel. \"Smokin' Aces\" was the official acting debut of Keys and Common. The film is set in Lake Tahoe", "title": "Smokin' Aces" }, { "id": "2223150", "text": "Australian Open. In the first round, he defeated Lukáš Dlouhý of the Czech Republic. In the second round, he defeated German Michael Berrer in straight sets. He then lost to the 29th seed Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in the third round in a five-set match. Despite losing, Roddick served a career-high of 42 aces in the match. Roddick won his 24th career title and his third title of the year at the SAP Open in San Jose, California, defeating Czech Radek Štěpánek in straight sets. Roddick's next tournament was the Dubai Tennis Championships. He made it to the semifinals by", "title": "Andy Roddick" }, { "id": "11442379", "text": "round in straight sets. In the second round, after winning the first set, her opponent Daria Gavrilova retired, allowing Lisicki to advance to the third round, where she was defeated by eventual finalist, Lucie Šafářová in straight sets. Lisicki started her grass season at the Aegon Classic. In her second round win over Belinda Bencic, Lisicki broke the record for the most aces in a singles match, hitting a total of 27 aces. She then beat 2009 champion Magdaléna Rybáriková and 2013 champion Daniela Hantuchová to advance to the semifinals. She lost to fellow countrywoman and eventual champion Angelique Kerber", "title": "Sabine Lisicki" }, { "id": "3372706", "text": "1925 is ahead of Don Budge and Roy Emerson, and also his best win-loss single season coming in 1920 at 98.73%, 78–1, places him ahead of John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors. He, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal are the only players to reach 10 finals at a single Grand Slam event. At the Wimbledon Championships, he recorded a career 91.2% match record ranking him 3rd all-time behind Björn Borg and Don Budge. Bill Tilden William Tatem Tilden II (February 10, 1893 – June 5, 1953), nicknamed \"Big Bill,\" was an American male tennis player. He is often considered one of", "title": "Bill Tilden" }, { "id": "8121843", "text": "Valuable Player of the Pacific Coast League and earned all-American honors at the Junior Olympics. Blanton was also an All-State Basketball player who led Laguna Beach to the CIF Finals in 1990. He attended Pepperdine University where he was an All-American and guided The Waves to a National Volleyball Championship in 1992 as a sophomore. He is known for his fast serve holding the AVP record for 11 aces in a single game to 15 in Vail, Colorado in 1997. After winning gold at the 2000 Olympics, Blanton and Fonoimoana broke their partnership because of rule changes that went into", "title": "Dain Blanton" }, { "id": "9789088", "text": "tournaments were won by Ken Rosewall. The Open Era allowed all tennis players the opportunity to make a living by playing tennis. In 1968, a few professionals were independent, including Lew Hoad, Mal Anderson, Luis Ayala, and Owen Davidson, but most of the best players were under contract. George McCall operated the National Tennis League (NTL) and managed Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Andrés Gimeno, Pancho Gonzales, Fred Stolle and Roy Emerson. Dave Dixon (later succeeded by Lamar Hunt) ran World Championship Tennis (WCT) and managed the \"Handsome Eight\": John Newcombe, Tony Roche, Nikola Pilić, Roger Taylor, Pierre Barthès, Earl \"Butch\"", "title": "History of tennis" }, { "id": "18508094", "text": "hit 12 aces and surpassed the 9,000 aces mark in his career total, joining Goran Ivanišević, Ivo Karlović and Andy Roddick as the only players to achieve the mark since aces totals were recorded. As the No. 2 seed, Federer started his quest for a fifth title at the BNP Paribas Open with a victory over Argentinian Diego Schwartzman and avenged his earliest Australian Open defeat against Italian Andreas Seppi by beating him in windy conditions before claiming his 50th milestone win at the event by defeating American Jack Sock in straight sets. He then breezed past Tomáš Berdych in", "title": "2015 Roger Federer tennis season" }, { "id": "14351893", "text": "an ATP 1000 tournament, and in the first all-Canadian final in ATP history. They are frequent Davis Cup teammates, and they planned to play doubles together at the 2016 Rio Olympics until Raonic withdrew. Raonic is often compared to Isner and Karlović. The trio possess statistically dominant serves, leading the ATP in service games won and in aces per match in the period between 2012 and 2018. They have played each other infrequently, however. Raonic is 1–1 against Karlović and 1–5 against Isner. Karlović holds a 3–2 head-to-head advantage over Isner. \"This table is current through the 2018 Rolex Paris", "title": "Milos Raonic" }, { "id": "20528494", "text": "of December 2018, it has sold 381,800 physical copies in Japan. Mario Tennis Aces Mario Tennis Aces is a tennis game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. An entry in the \"Mario Tennis\" series, it was released worldwide on June 22, 2018. The game sold over two million copies by September 2018, making it one of the best-selling games on the Switch. The gameplay of \"Mario Tennis Aces\" consists of playing matches of tennis with various characters from the \"Super Mario\" series. Players can pick from Mario, Luigi, Wario, Peach, Waluigi, Daisy, Rosalina,", "title": "Mario Tennis Aces" }, { "id": "14248549", "text": "Kristýna Plíšková Kristýna Plíšková (; born 21 March 1992) is a Czech professional tennis player. Plíšková has won one singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as nine singles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 31 July 2017, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 35. On 15 September 2014, she peaked at No. 51 in the doubles rankings. Plíšková won the 2010 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles tournament, beating Sachie Ishizu in straight sets; She currently holds the record for the most aces (31) in a match on the", "title": "Kristýna Plíšková" }, { "id": "13550298", "text": "the match was suspended due to failing daylight for the second straight day, after a total of 9 hours and 58 minutes of play. Isner had already served a world record 98 aces by that time, with Mahut scoring 94 aces, both breaking Ivo Karlović's previous record of 78. The second day's play alone totalled 7 hours and 8 minutes, more than the longest previous complete match, therefore also making it the longest session of tennis ever played in a single day. Isner eventually defeated Mahut 6–4, 3–6, 6–7(7), 7–6(3), 70–68. The match lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes in", "title": "2010 Wimbledon Championships" }, { "id": "18337808", "text": "was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2004. Merwin Maier Merwin D. \"Jimmy\" Maier (August 14, 1908 – February 15, 1942) was an American attorney and bridge player from New York City, He was a member of the Four Aces from 1937 until his death in New York in 1942 from an unknown virus. Maier was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, the son of Julius Maier and Lydia B. Maier. All four of his grandparents emigrated from Germany. He attended Columbia Law School and was an editor on the Columbia Law Review. He died at age", "title": "Merwin Maier" }, { "id": "4500597", "text": "Rafael Nadal Rafael Nadal Parera (, ; born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently world No. 2 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Nadal has won 17 Grand Slam singles titles, the second most in history for a male player, as well as a record 33 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles, 20 ATP World Tour 500 tournaments, and the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles. In addition, Nadal has held the number one ranking for a total of 196 weeks. In majors, Nadal has won a record 11 French Open", "title": "Rafael Nadal" }, { "id": "18337807", "text": "Merwin Maier Merwin D. \"Jimmy\" Maier (August 14, 1908 – February 15, 1942) was an American attorney and bridge player from New York City, He was a member of the Four Aces from 1937 until his death in New York in 1942 from an unknown virus. Maier was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, the son of Julius Maier and Lydia B. Maier. All four of his grandparents emigrated from Germany. He attended Columbia Law School and was an editor on the Columbia Law Review. He died at age 33 after suffering from an illness for two months. Maier", "title": "Merwin Maier" }, { "id": "1612607", "text": "achieving the Career Grand Slam: Only six players have completed a Career Grand Slam in both singles and doubles: one male (Roy Emerson) and five female (Margaret Court, Doris Hart, Shirley Fry Irvin, Martina Navratilova, and Serena Williams). Court, Hart and Navratilova are the only three players to have completed a \"Career Boxed Set\", winning all four titles in singles, doubles, and mixed doubles; this has never been done by a male player. The remainder of this section is a complete list, by format, of all players who have won the Career Grand Slam. Players are ordered chronologically by their", "title": "Grand Slam (tennis)" }, { "id": "633247", "text": "Grand Slam titles (one each at the Australian Open, the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open), the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games and the WTA Championships. She also won 38 WTA Tour doubles titles, including three Grand Slam titles (the French Open partnering Mary Joe Fernández, Wimbledon partnering Corina Morariu, and the US Open partnering Jana Novotná), and three WTA Championships (partnering Fernández, Novotná, and Natasha Zvereva). She amassed career-earnings of $22,166,338 dollars; currently eighth in the all-time rankings among female tennis players and formerly first, prior to being surpassed by Serena Williams in January 2009. Davenport", "title": "Lindsay Davenport" }, { "id": "10270931", "text": "present, are: John McEnroe, Björn Borg, Mats Wilander, Henri Leconte, Pete Sampras, Mansour Bahrami, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Jim Courier, Thomas Muster, Marcelo Ríos, Goran Ivanišević, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Patrick Rafter, Ivan Lendl, Carlos Moyá, Jimmy Connors, Tim Henman and Andy Roddick. The following is a list of past participants on the ATP Champions Tour ATP Champions Tour The ATP Champions Tour is a men's tennis tour intended for former tennis professionals, who have since retired from mainstream professional tennis touring (The ATP). The Tour brings together many of the greatest tennis players in history for nostalgic, competitive and entertaining tournaments", "title": "ATP Champions Tour" }, { "id": "42560", "text": "first dominating \"big man\"; ball-handling wizard Bob Cousy and defensive genius Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics; charismatic center Wilt Chamberlain, who originally played for the barnstorming Harlem Globetrotters; all-around stars Oscar Robertson and Jerry West; more recent big men Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon and Karl Malone; playmakers John Stockton, Isiah Thomas and Steve Nash; crowd-pleasing forwards Julius Erving and Charles Barkley; European stars Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol and Tony Parker; more recent superstars LeBron James, Allen Iverson and Kobe Bryant; and the three players who many credit with ushering the professional game to its highest level of", "title": "Basketball" }, { "id": "4743566", "text": "David Endicott Putnam David Endicott Putnam (December 10, 1898 – September 12, 1918) was an American flying ace of World War I. He was known as the “Ace of Aces,” for thirteen confirmed kills, and thirty cumulative unconfirmed. He was shot down by German ace Georg von Hantelmann. A descendant of General Israel Putnam, he was born December 10, 1898 at Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, the son of Frederick H. Putnam and Jenet Hallowell. He attended Harvard University and was to graduate Harvard Class of 1920, but instead went overseas and joined the French Foreign Legion. He was posthumously awarded a", "title": "David Endicott Putnam" }, { "id": "4500725", "text": "/> Rafael Nadal Rafael Nadal Parera (, ; born 3 June 1986) is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently world No. 2 in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Nadal has won 17 Grand Slam singles titles, the second most in history for a male player, as well as a record 33 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 titles, 20 ATP World Tour 500 tournaments, and the 2008 Olympic gold medal in singles. In addition, Nadal has held the number one ranking for a total of 196 weeks. In majors, Nadal has won a record 11 French", "title": "Rafael Nadal" }, { "id": "401898", "text": "three times and the U.S. Championships seven times. In 1938, however, Donald Budge became the first person to win all four major singles titles during the same calendar year, the Grand Slam, and won six consecutive major titles in 1937 and 1938. Tilden called Budge \"the finest player 365 days a year that ever lived.\" In his 1979 autobiography, Jack Kramer said that, based on consistent play, Budge was the greatest player ever. Some observers, however, also felt that Kramer deserved consideration for the title. Kramer was among the few who dominated amateur and professional tennis during the late 1940s", "title": "Tennis" }, { "id": "18223755", "text": "only Aces player enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Chicago Aces The Chicago Aces were a charter franchise of World Team Tennis (WTT) founded by Jordon Kaiser. The Aces played only one season before being contracted by WTT on February 1, 1975. The Aces had 15 wins and 29 losses and finished in last place in the Gulf Plains Section. The Aces were founded as a WTT charter franchise in 1973, by Chicago brothers Jordon H. and Walter Kaiser who were involved in general contracting and real estate development. The team began play with the league's inaugural season", "title": "Chicago Aces" }, { "id": "5505988", "text": "Roscoe Tanner Roscoe Tanner (born October 15, 1951) is a retired American professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1972 and reached a career-high world singles ranking of World No. 4 on July 30, 1979. Tanner was famous for his big left-handed serve, which was clocked at 153 mph at Palm Springs in 1978 during the final against Raúl Ramírez. He is also known for winning the men's singles title at the first of two Australian Open tournaments held in 1977. Tanner won the tournament held in January, Vitas Gerulaitis won the December tournament. Tanner reached the Wimbledon final in", "title": "Roscoe Tanner" }, { "id": "20404174", "text": "MGM Resorts International. They are the fourth WNBA franchise not to share a market with an existing NBA team, following the Seattle Storm, Tulsa Shock and Connecticut Sun. As the Stars, the team qualified for the WNBA Playoffs in seven of their fourteen years in San Antonio. The franchise has been home to many high-quality players such as all-star point guard Becky Hammon, solid power-forward Sophia Young, former first-overall draft pick Ann Wauters, and seven-foot-two-inch center Margo Dydek. In 2008, the franchise went to the WNBA Finals but were swept by Detroit. One of the eight original WNBA teams, the", "title": "Las Vegas Aces" }, { "id": "16885031", "text": ", Juan Martín del Potro , and Marin Čilić , all known for their powerful serves. The Big Four in the current day are tall but not exceedingly in the way those mentioned prior are. Roger Federer , Rafael Nadal , Novak Djokovic , and Andy Murray , are all between and in height. Other top greats of the game in the 21st century have been tall players such as Goran Ivanišević and Andy Roddick . Lindsay Davenport , Maria Sharapova , Venus Williams , and Dinara Safina , are successful tall players on the women's side. For both sexes,", "title": "Height in sports" }, { "id": "13584625", "text": "reached a Premier 5 final on clay and also made it to the semifinals at the French Open, the only major currently played on clay. Keys uses her strong serve to dominate her service games. In 2016, she finished third in percentage of points won on serve behind only Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka, among all players with at least ten tour-level matches. That same year, she also hit the third-most aces with 300, trailing Serena who had 324 and Plíšková who led the tour with 530. Keys could serve at more than when she was 14, and was clocked", "title": "Madison Keys" }, { "id": "5786514", "text": "William P. Driscoll William P. \"Willy Irish\" Driscoll (born March 5, 1947) is a retired commander in the United States Navy. A Naval Flight Officer (NFO), Driscoll and his aircrewmate, Naval Aviator Duke Cunningham, became flying aces during the Vietnam War, the only naval aircrew to do so (along with two United States Air Force navigators and one pilot), and they remain the Navy's most recently minted aces. Driscoll received the service's second-highest decoration, the Navy Cross, for his role in a 1972 dogfight with North Vietnamese MiGs. Driscoll was born March 5, 1947, and received a Bachelor of Arts", "title": "William P. Driscoll" }, { "id": "5786508", "text": "William P. Driscoll William P. \"Willy Irish\" Driscoll (born March 5, 1947) is a retired commander in the United States Navy. A Naval Flight Officer (NFO), Driscoll and his aircrewmate, Naval Aviator Duke Cunningham, became flying aces during the Vietnam War, the only naval aircrew to do so (along with two United States Air Force navigators and one pilot), and they remain the Navy's most recently minted aces. Driscoll received the service's second-highest decoration, the Navy Cross, for his role in a 1972 dogfight with North Vietnamese MiGs. Driscoll was born March 5, 1947, and received a Bachelor of Arts", "title": "William P. Driscoll" }, { "id": "14178580", "text": "three sons, (Captain Jerry Lynn Pool was declared missing in action in Vietnam in 1970) and four daughters. Lafayette G. Pool Lafayette Green Pool (July 23, 1919 – May 30, 1991) was an American tank-crew and tank-platoon commander in World War II and is widely recognized as the US tank ace of aces, credited with 12 confirmed tank kills and 258 total armoured vehicle and self-propelled gun kills, over 1,000 German soldiers killed, and 250 more taken as prisoners of war all of which took place in a combat career that covered only 81 days in action from 27 June", "title": "Lafayette G. Pool" }, { "id": "1830004", "text": "Don Budge John Donald (\"Don\" or \"Donnie\") Budge (June 13, 1915 – January 26, 2000) was an American tennis player. He was a World No. 1 player for five years, first as an amateur and then as a professional. He is most famous as the first player, male or female, and only American male to win in a single year the four tournaments that comprise the Grand Slam of tennis and second male player to win all four Grand Slam events in his career after Fred Perry, and is still the youngest to achieve that feat. He won 10 majors,", "title": "Don Budge" }, { "id": "7068500", "text": "that production had been approved by Universal Pictures for a second \"Smokin' Aces\" film, which he would not direct. The film is a prequel to the original and was released straight to DVD on January 19, 2010. Smokin' Aces Smokin' Aces is a 2006 British-American action thriller film written and directed by Joe Carnahan. The film centers on the chase for Las Vegas magician turned mafia informant Buddy \"Aces\" Israel (Jeremy Piven), on whom a one million dollar bounty is placed. The ensemble cast includes Ryan Reynolds, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Common, Andy García, Alicia Keys, Taraji P. Henson, Ray", "title": "Smokin' Aces" }, { "id": "17279391", "text": "of her career overcoming prejudices and stereotypes, giving up millions of dollars in endorsements and sponsorships as a result of her insistence on living a life of integrity and honesty.\" Evert was described as the all-American girl next door. Today Navratilova is often cited as the greatest tennis player of all-time; she has won 167 singles titles, 177 doubles championships titles and 59 Grand Slam titles, she has been inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, was the WTA’s \"Tour Player of the Year\" seven times, was declared one of the \"Top Forty Athletes of All-time\" by Sports Illustrated", "title": "Unmatched" }, { "id": "1830020", "text": "best player ever to have been either Don Budge (for consistent play) or [[Ellsworth Vines]] (at the height of his game). The next four best were, chronologically, [[Bill Tilden]], [[Fred Perry]], [[Bobby Riggs]], and [[Pancho Gonzales]]. All of these sources were written after [[Rod Laver]] completed his second, and Open, Grand Slam in 1969. In early 1986 [[Inside Tennis]], a magazine edited in [[Northern California]], devoted parts of four issues to a lengthy article called \"Tournament of the Century\", an imaginary tournament to determine the greatest of all time. Twenty-five players in all were named by the 37 experts in", "title": "Don Budge" }, { "id": "13583659", "text": "American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Life Master #1 at the age of 36. Burnstine moved to Los Angeles in 1939, changed his name to David Bruce, and retired from regular tournament play. He died in 1965 and was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame as David Bruce in 1997. Thus he was the second recipient (after Sims) of the von Zedtwitz Award, a name for Hall of Fame recognition of players long out of the limelight. Burnstine won one unofficial world championship in 1935 as the Four Aces defeated a team from France during a December fortnight in New", "title": "David Bruce (bridge)" }, { "id": "12173319", "text": "Five Aces Five Aces is a 1999 black comedy/drama film written, produced and directed by David Michael O'Neill. It stars Charlie Sheen, Christopher McDonald, Aimée Leigh, Jeff Cesario, Michael McGrady, Tia Carrere, Geoffrey Lewis, Virginia Hamilton, Matt Clark, Hannes Jaenicke with John LaMotta and Elizabeth Morehead. It is one of the films where Charlie Sheen is credited as Charles Sheen. The film released direct-to-video in many countries. Chris Martin (Charlie Sheen) is a bachelor who wants to marry his long-time girlfriend. Wanting to enjoy his last few days as a bachelor, Chris spends several nights hanging out with his old", "title": "Five Aces" }, { "id": "6469682", "text": "a Grand Slam Doubles title before Michael Venus was successful in the 2017 French Open. Parun reached his career-high ATP singles ranking on 5 March 1975, when he became World No. 19. His brother, Tony Parun, also played professional tennis. In September 1974, he defeated Jimmy Connors in San Francisco to end the No. 1 world ranked player's run of 160 weeks atop the ATP rankings. In the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours, Parun was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to tennis. Since retiring from competition, Parun has been a coach, and trades shares", "title": "Onny Parun" }, { "id": "2926277", "text": "was generally considered the greatest player of all time. From 1934 through 1967, during the Golden Age of Tennis, when Vines, Perry, Budge, Riggs, Kramer, Gonzales, Segura, Sedgman, Trabert, Hoad, Rosewall, and Laver were the top tier players, Gonzales was considered the best of this period. Since 1968, with the first Grand Slam of the Open Era at the French Open, Champions such as Rod Laver, Jimmy Connors, Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Pete Sampras, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Roger Federer have been considered by their contemporaries to be greater players than Tilden or Gonzales. Many people connected with the", "title": "Pancho Gonzales" }, { "id": "2223209", "text": "what was then the fastest serve in professional tennis: 249.4 km/h (155 mph) during a Davis Cup semifinal match with Vladimir Voltchkov on hard court in Charleston, South Carolina. Roddick's record serve has since been superseded by Ivo Karlović, who served at 251 km/h (156 mph) playing at the Davis Cup in March 2011. Roddick also had the fastest serve in U.S. Open history: 244 km/h (152 mph) against American Scoville Jenkins, and against future No. 1 Rafael Nadal. Roddick also won the 2004 ESPY Award for Best Male Tennis Player. That same year he won the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian", "title": "Andy Roddick" }, { "id": "1612601", "text": "1983–1984. On the men's side, Novak Djokovic was the first singles player since Rod Laver to hold all four major titles at once, which he accomplished between Wimbledon 2015 and the 2016 French Open. Prior to the Open Era, Don Budge received the same accolades in winning the French Championships in 1938, but then completed the more prestigious Grand Slam at the 1938 US Championships, giving him six majors in a row, the only male to ever win more than four consecutive major tournaments. The Bryan brothers (Bob and Mike) were the last to achieve a non-calendar year Grand Slam", "title": "Grand Slam (tennis)" }, { "id": "10654238", "text": "match in tennis history, prevailing 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68. However, fatigued and having little time to recover his energy, Isner was beaten by [[Thiemo de Bakker]] in the second round, 0-6, 3-6, 2-6, having served no aces. He also pulled out of the doubles, where he and Querrey had been 12th seeds. Despite having been eliminated in the second round, Isner's total of 113 aces were more than any other player throughout the championship. His Wimbledon performance brought his ranking to a career-high no. 18 in the world. Isner's next tournament was the [[2010 Atlanta Tennis Championships – Singles|2010", "title": "John Isner" }, { "id": "2926219", "text": "Pancho Gonzales Ricardo Alonso González (May 9, 1928 – July 3, 1995), usually known as Pancho Gonzales, and sometimes as Richard Gonzales, was an American tennis player who has been rated one of the greatest in the history of the sport. He won 14 major singles titles (12 Pro Slam, 2 Grand Slam) and was the dominant professional of the 1950s; he still holds the men's all-time record of being ranked world No. 1 for eight years. Gonzales was a ruthless competitor with a fierce temper. Many of his peers on the professional circuit were intimidated by him, and he", "title": "Pancho Gonzales" }, { "id": "7693422", "text": "Hunt, Pauline Betz, Bobby Riggs, Bob Falkenburg, Pancho Gonzales, Ted Schroeder, Joe Hunt, Dave Freeman, Budge Patty, Dodo Cheney, Herb Flam, Hugh Stewart, Pat Yeomans, Gussie Moran, Louise Brough, Maureen Connolly, Beverly Baker, Alex Olmedo, Darlene Hard, Billie Jean King, Sally Moore, Karen Hantze, Mike Franks, Bill Bond, Rafael Osuna, Dennis Ralston, Jon Douglas, Allen Fox, Stan Smith, Charlie Pasarell, Bob Lutz, George Toley, and many others. Jack Kramer writes in his autobiography in 1979, that \"if you wanted top competition, you had to play at the LATC — especially since there were many fewer tournaments then and practice was", "title": "Los Angeles Tennis Club" }, { "id": "3661685", "text": "– and is one of only four players in history to surpass 10,000 aces. His height enables him to serve with high speed and unique trajectory. Karlović debuted for the Croatian Davis Cup team in 2000 against Ireland, where he won the dead rubber. Karlović appeared in a starting line-up for the first time in 2002 against Argentina in Buenos Aires, but he lost to Juan Ignacio Chela in the second rubber and to Gastón Gaudio in the fifth and decisive rubber. He has posted a 4–2 career record (2–2 in singles) in three ties since 2000. Karlović caused a", "title": "Ivo Karlović" }, { "id": "1725582", "text": "Greatest Male Tennis Players of All Time by John Bercow. The ITF confirms titles in 1975 (5) titles, Rod Laver Rodney George Laver (born 9 August 1938), better known as Rod Laver, is an Australian former tennis player. He was the No. 1 ranked professional from 1964 to 1970, spanning four years before and three years after the start of the Open Era in 1968. He also was the No. 1 ranked amateur in 1961–62. Laver's 200 singles titles are the most in tennis history. This included his all-time men's record of 10 or more titles per year for seven", "title": "Rod Laver" }, { "id": "13435595", "text": "Bowl in 1977 with the pairs Eisenberg–Eddie Kantar, Hamman–Wolff, and Soloway–John Swanson (same as 1975). As \"USA\" in the 1980 World Team Olympiad, the Aces played well and won the silver medal. Corn, who would die of a heart attack in April 1982, assembled one final Aces team in 1981. Now comprising Mike Becker–Ron Rubin and Alan Sontag–Peter Weichsel with Hamman–Wolff, it went on to win the 1982 Spingold and the 1983 Bermuda Bowl. It dedicated the victory to Corn and then disbanded. Dallas Aces The Dallas Aces (initially the U.S. Aces, later simply the Aces) were the world's first", "title": "Dallas Aces" }, { "id": "2681328", "text": "Ken Rosewall Kenneth Robert Rosewall (born 2 November 1934) is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia. He won a record 23 tennis Majors including 8 Grand Slam singles titles and, before the Open Era, a record 15 Pro Slam titles; overall, he reached a record 35 Major finals. He won the Pro Grand Slam in 1963. Rosewall won 9 slams in doubles with a career double grand slam. He is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time. He had a renowned backhand and enjoyed a long career at the highest", "title": "Ken Rosewall" }, { "id": "13236220", "text": "player Mel Hutchins. Coco first started playing tennis with her elder brother, Beau, at the age of eleven. Tennis was the last sport she chose in her early life, after trying among other things basketball and wrestling. Vandeweghe eventually turned pro in April 2008. Self-described as a \"total California girl\", she spends most of her off-season at the beach with her family. She is good friends with fellow American players Madison Keys, Irina Falconi and Shelby Rogers. Vandeweghe is known to have one of the strongest serves on the tour. In 2014, she hit 306 aces, third highest on the", "title": "CoCo Vandeweghe" }, { "id": "4637901", "text": "wanted to limit his time away from his family as much as possible. Woodbridge then took on India's Mahesh Bhupathi as his new partner, who had just been dumped by Belarusian Max Mirnyi. Coincidentally, Björkman and Mirnyi ended up partnering together. Woodbridge announced his retirement at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships after 17 years as a tennis professional and 83 ATP tournament doubles titles, an all-time record at the time now surpassed by the Bryan brothers. He was a member of the Australian Davis Cup Team, playing the most ties (32) of any player. According to the ATP website, he finished", "title": "Todd Woodbridge" }, { "id": "1432173", "text": "an ability to serve aces at critical moments. One of these instances was the 2013 French Open final, where in the last game of the match, she fired three aces, including one which clocked at 123 mph (198 km/h) on match point. She repeated the feat similarly against Angelique Kerber in the finals of the 2016 Wimbledon Championships to tie the Open Era record for Grand Slam singles titles. Williams fired three un-returnable serves in her final service game before winning the match and the title with a casual forehand volley on the next point. Williams's parents wanted their daughter", "title": "Serena Williams" }, { "id": "15160170", "text": "1978 album spawned a 45 single, \"Covered Up In Aces.\" Her self-titled album was given warm reviews by \"The Village Voice\"'s Robert Christgau as well as \"The Pittsburgh Press\". Barraclough performed \"Covered Up In Aces\" on \"The Old Grey Whistle Test\" during an episode documenting the 1977 Bearsville Picnic in Woodstock, New York. Elizabeth Barraclough Elizabeth Barraclough is an American musician whose songs span the genres of folk, country, rock and pop. She was managed by Bob Dylan's manager Albert Grossman, and is perhaps best known for having played both live and on record with Paul Butterfield, Charlie McCoy, Kenny", "title": "Elizabeth Barraclough" }, { "id": "16388295", "text": "100 Greatest of All Time 100 Greatest of All Time was a television series of five one-hour episodes, produced and first aired by Tennis Channel in March 2012. It presented a list of the \"100 greatest tennis players of all time\", both men and women. The series was hosted by Jack Nicklaus, Jerry Rice, Wayne Gretzky, Lisa Leslie and Carl Lewis. Many retired tennis luminaries provided commentary, including Rod Laver, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Björn Borg, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras, and Andre Agassi. An \"international panel of tennis experts\" determined this ranking of 62 men and 38", "title": "100 Greatest of All Time" }, { "id": "9789106", "text": "to be the women's fifth most prestigious event (after the four Grand Slam tournaments.) Sponsors have included Virginia Slims (1971–78), Avon (1979–82), Virginia Slims again (1983–94), J.P. Morgan Chase (1996–2000), Sanex (2001) Home Depot (2002), and Sony Ericsson (2006). In 1954, James Van Alen founded the International Tennis Hall of Fame, a non-profit museum in Newport, Rhode Island. The building contains a large collection of memorabilia as well as honoring prominent players and others. Each year, a grass-court tournament takes place on its grounds, as well as an induction ceremony honoring new members. History of tennis The game that most", "title": "History of tennis" }, { "id": "13435592", "text": "Corn's death in 1982. Corn recruited James Jacoby and Bobby Wolff, then Billy Eisenberg, Bobby Goldman, and Mike Lawrence, paying salaries ($800 per month for single players, $950 for married ones) plus expenses for major tournaments. Bob Hamman at first declined an invitation, but became the sixth team member in 1969. Jacoby paired with Wolff, Eisenberg with Goldman, and Lawrence with Hamman. The team practiced and analyzed hands for long hours. Corn hired coaches and provided a computer from one of his companies to assist analysis and to generate bridge s to order. In 1969, the team achieved its first", "title": "Dallas Aces" }, { "id": "17052429", "text": "weeks, Djokovic, the current No. 1, for 226 weeks (fifth since the inception of the ATP Rankings in 1973), Nadal for 196 weeks (6th since 1973), and Murray for 41 weeks. Federer and Djokovic lead among them with 5 year-end No. 1, followed by Nadal with 4 and Murray with 1. They were ranked year-end world top 4 consecutively from 2008 to 2012 which is the longest span of dominance for any quartet of players in tennis history. Since this time the term \"Big Four\", while used previously, became popular with the media and in tennis literature. The Big Four", "title": "Big Four (tennis)" }, { "id": "2039068", "text": "Ilie Năstase Ilie \"Nasty\" Năstase (, born 19 July 1946) is a Romanian former world No. 1 professional tennis player, and one of the world's top players of the 1970s. He was ranked world No. 1 from 23 August 1973 to 2 June 1974. Năstase is one of the ten players in history who have won more than 100 ATP professional titles (58 singles and 45 in doubles). He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991. Năstase won seven Grand Slam titles: two in singles, three in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He also", "title": "Ilie Năstase" }, { "id": "1616818", "text": "donated more than $25000 to Democrat campaigns. By winning the 1983 US Open title, Navratilova completed the Career Grand Slam. She became only the seventh female player in history to achieve this. In 2005, \"Tennis\" magazine selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1965 through 2005, directly over Steffi Graf. Billie Jean King, a former World No. 1 player, said in 2006 that Navratilova is \"the greatest singles, doubles and mixed doubles player who's ever lived.\" In 2008, tennis historian and journalist Bud Collins called Navratilova \"arguably, the greatest player of all time.\" In 2006, Martina", "title": "Martina Navratilova" }, { "id": "3661686", "text": "stunning upset at Wimbledon when he beat defending champion Lleyton Hewitt in his first match in a Grand Slam tournament. As of 2015, Karlović remains the only player in Open tennis history, and only the second player after Charlie Pasarell, to defeat the defending Wimbledon men's singles champion in the first round. He finished the 2003 year in the top 100 and as the Croatian No. 3, behind Ivan Ljubičić and Mario Ančić. He also averaged an ATP-best of 17.6 aces per match. He continued his success during the 2004 season, winning at Calabasas, California. He reached the round of", "title": "Ivo Karlović" }, { "id": "15226111", "text": "in her career before losing to Madison Keys. Garcia reached the quarterfinals in Dubai and Doha, semifinals in Stuttgart and Madrid, as well as quarterfinals in Rome, Montreal and Tokyo. Garcia is an offensive baseliner, with consistent and powerful groundstrokes, and a strong service game. Her forehand is her stronger wing, and she can hit many clean winners off it. She also possesses a consistent and strong two-handed backhand. She also has a strong first and second serve, known for its accuracy. She served the ninth most aces in 2016, with 218. Her doubles success means she also has a", "title": "Caroline Garcia" }, { "id": "20220573", "text": "aces (380) and service aces per game (0.76), fifth in assists (5,578) and sixth in assists per game (11.16). In the 2016 Pan-American Cup she was awarded Best Server after she set a new serving record in a single match, first with 11 aces in the pool play against Costa Rica, then 12 aces in the bronze medal match over Cuba. She was named Most Valuable Player in the 2017 Pan-American Cup. She was selected to play the Italian League All-Star game in 2017. Micha Hancock Micha Danielle Hancock (born November 10, 1992 in McAlester, Oklahoma) is an American indoor", "title": "Micha Hancock" }, { "id": "9206719", "text": "Irving Crane Irving Crane (November 13, 1913 – November 17, 2001), nicknamed \"the Deacon\", was an American pool player from Livonia (near Rochester), New York, and ranks among the stellar players in the history of the sport. Considered one of the all-time greats, he is best known for his mastery in the game of straight pool (14.1 continuous) at which he won numerous championships, including six world billiards titles. Crane's fascination with billiards started at age 11, sparked by play on a toy pool table his brother received as a Christmas gift. When he showed interest and ability, his father", "title": "Irving Crane" } ]

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These measurements can be used to locate weather fronts, monitor the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, determine the strength of tropical cyclones, study urban heat islands and monitor the global climate. Wildfires, volcanos, and industrial hot spots can also be found via thermal imaging from weather satellites. Weather satellites do not measure temperature directly. They measure radiances in various wavelength bands. Since 1978 microwave sounding units (MSUs) on National Oceanic and", "title": "Satellite temperature measurements" }, { "id": "15351807", "text": "radio and satellite communications. Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light. Like all other electromagnetic waves, they travel at the speed of light. Naturally occurring radio waves are made by lightning, or by astronomical objects. Artificially generated radio waves are used for fixed and mobile radio communication, broadcasting, radar and other navigation systems, satellite communication, computer networks and innumerable other applications. Different frequencies of radio waves have different propagation characteristics in the Earth's atmosphere; long waves may cover a part of the Earth very consistently, shorter waves can reflect", "title": "Non-ionizing radiation" }, { "id": "958487", "text": "by radio receivers, using antennas. Radio waves are very widely used in modern technology for fixed and mobile radio communication, broadcasting, radar and other navigation systems, communications satellites, wireless computer networks and many other applications. Different frequencies of radio waves have different propagation characteristics in the Earth's atmosphere; long waves can diffract around obstacles like mountains and follow the contour of the earth (ground waves), shorter waves can reflect off the ionosphere and return to earth beyond the horizon (skywaves), while much shorter wavelengths bend or diffract very little and travel on a line of sight, so their propagation distances", "title": "Radio wave" }, { "id": "1653061", "text": "sea surface temperature measurements between the two platforms as well, relating to the depth of the measurement and whether or not the water is heated by the ship which measures the quantity. Synoptic weather stations are instruments which collect meteorological information at synoptic time 00h00, 06h00, 12h00, 18h00 (UTC) and at intermediate synoptic hours 03h00, 09h00, 15h00, 21h00 (UTC). The common instruments of measure are anemometer, wind vane, pressure sensor, thermometer, hygrometer, and rain gauge. The weather measures are formatted in special format and transmit to WMO to help the weather forecast model. A variety of land-based weather station networks", "title": "Weather station" }, { "id": "1653051", "text": "Weather station A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation amounts. Wind measurements are taken with as few other obstructions as possible, while temperature and humidity measurements are kept free from direct solar radiation, or insolation. Manual observations are taken at least once daily, while automated measurements are taken at least once an hour. Weather conditions out at sea are taken by", "title": "Weather station" }, { "id": "9043107", "text": "The first weather buoy in the Southern Ocean was deployed by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) on March 17, 2010. Weather buoys, like other types of weather stations, measure parameters such as air temperature above the ocean surface, wind speed (steady and gusting), barometric pressure, and wind direction. Since they lie in oceans and lakes, they also measure water temperature, wave height, and dominant wave period. Raw data is processed and can be logged on board the buoy and then transmitted via radio, cellular, or satellite communications to meteorological centers for use in weather forecasting and climate study. Both", "title": "Weather buoy" }, { "id": "958486", "text": "Radio wave Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light. Radio waves have frequencies as high as 300 gigahertz (GHz) to as low as 30 hertz (Hz). At 300 GHz, the corresponding wavelength is 1 mm, and at 30 Hz is 10,000 km. Like all other electromagnetic waves, radio waves travel at the speed of light. They are generated by electric charges undergoing acceleration, such as time varying electric currents. Naturally occurring radio waves are emitted by lightning and astronomical objects. Radio waves are generated artificially by transmitters and received", "title": "Radio wave" }, { "id": "19904665", "text": "ISS-RapidScat ISS-RapidScat was an instrument mounted to the International Space Station \"Columbus\" module that measured wind speeds. It was launched aboard SpaceX CRS-4 in September 2014 and operated until August 2016. ISS-RapidScat was a scatterometer designed to support weather forecasting by bouncing microwaves off the ocean's surface to measure wind speed. It featured a rotating radar dish that operated at 13.4 GHz (K band). It could collect data between 51.6 degrees north and south latitude, with a swath . The ISS-RapidScat program was initiated in response to the failure of the QuikSCAT satellite's antenna rotation mechanism in November 2009. While", "title": "ISS-RapidScat" }, { "id": "3075729", "text": "mm (0.039 in), and at 3 kHz is 100 km (62 mi). Like all other electromagnetic waves, they travel at the speed of light. Naturally occurring radio waves are generated by lightning, or by astronomical objects. Artificially generated radio waves are used for fixed and mobile radio communication, broadcasting, radar and other navigation systems, communications satellites, computer networks and innumerable other applications. Radio waves are generated by radio transmitters and received by radio receivers. Different frequencies of radio waves have different propagation characteristics in the Earth's atmosphere; long waves can diffract around obstacles like mountains and follow the contour of", "title": "Radio spectrum" }, { "id": "1653062", "text": "have been set up globally. Some of these are basic to analyzing weather fronts and pressure systems, such as the synoptic observation network, while others are more regional in nature, known as mesonets. Weather station A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation amounts. Wind measurements are taken with as few other obstructions as possible, while temperature and humidity measurements are kept", "title": "Weather station" }, { "id": "10857909", "text": "radio occultation that relies on radio transmissions from GPS (Global Positioning System), or more generally from GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), satellites. This is a relatively new technique (first applied in 1995) for performing atmospheric measurements. It is used as a weather forecasting tool, and could also be harnessed in monitoring climate change. The technique involves a low-Earth orbit satellite receiving a signal from a GPS satellite. The signal has to pass through the atmosphere and gets refracted along the way. The magnitude of the refraction depends on the temperature and water vapor concentration in the atmosphere. GPS Radio occultation", "title": "Radio occultation" }, { "id": "10243073", "text": "range of phenomena from forest fires to El Niño. A weather station is a facility with instruments and equipment to make observations of atmospheric conditions in order to provide information to make weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation amounts. Wind measurements are taken as free of other obstructions as possible, while temperature and humidity measurements are kept free from direct solar radiation, or insolation. Manual observations are taken at least once daily, while automated observations are taken at least once an hour. Surface", "title": "Meteorological instrumentation" }, { "id": "9038234", "text": "TAMDAR TAMDAR (Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting) is a weather monitoring system that consists of an in situ atmospheric sensor mounted on commercial aircraft for data gathering. It collects information similar to that collected by radiosondes carried aloft by weather balloons. It was developed by AirDat LLC, which was acquired by Panasonic Avionics Corporation in April 2013 and now operates as Panasonic Weather Solutions based in the United States. In response to a government aviation safety initiative in the early 2000s, NASA, in partnership with the FAA, NOAA, and private industry, sponsored the early development and evaluation of a proprietary", "title": "TAMDAR" }, { "id": "10243072", "text": "to determine cloud cover, as well as wind. SODAR (SOnic Detection And Ranging) is a meteorological instrument as one form of wind profiler, which measures the scattering of sound waves by atmospheric turbulence. Sodar systems are used to measure wind speed at various heights above the ground, and the thermodynamic structure of the lower layer of the atmosphere. Radar and lidar are not passive because both use electromagnetic radiation to illuminate a specific portion of the atmosphere. Weather satellites along with more general-purpose Earth-observing satellites circling the earth at various altitudes have become an indispensable tool for studying a wide", "title": "Meteorological instrumentation" }, { "id": "269094", "text": "and are usually at a weather station, a ship or a weather buoy. The measurements taken at a weather station can include any number of atmospheric observables. Usually, temperature, pressure, wind measurements, and humidity are the variables that are measured by a thermometer, barometer, anemometer, and hygrometer, respectively. Professional stations may also include air quality sensors (carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, dust, and smoke), ceilometer (cloud ceiling), falling precipitation sensor, flood sensor, lightning sensor, microphone (explosions, sonic booms, thunder), pyranometer/pyrheliometer/spectroradiometer (IR/Vis/UV photodiodes), rain gauge/snow gauge, scintillation counter (background radiation, fallout, radon), seismometer (earthquakes and tremors), transmissometer (visibility), and a", "title": "Meteorology" }, { "id": "1917608", "text": "of tropical cyclone strength, intensification, and location during the 2000s and 2010s. Observation is typically made via different 'channels' of the electromagnetic spectrum, in particular, the visible and infrared portions. Some of these channels include: Visible-light images from weather satellites during local daylight hours are easy to interpret even by the average person; clouds, cloud systems such as fronts and tropical storms, lakes, forests, mountains, snow ice, fires, and pollution such as smoke, smog, dust and haze are readily apparent. Even wind can be determined by cloud patterns, alignments and movement from successive photos. The thermal or infrared images recorded", "title": "Weather satellite" }, { "id": "815619", "text": "ground level over land and from weather buoys at sea. The World Meteorological Organization acts to standardize the instrumentation, observing practices and timing of these observations worldwide. Stations either report hourly in METAR reports, or every six hours in SYNOP reports. Sites launch radiosondes, which rise through the depth of the troposphere and well into the stratosphere. Data from weather satellites are used in areas where traditional data sources are not available. Compared with similar data from radiosondes, the satellite data has the advantage of global coverage, however at a lower accuracy and resolution. Meteorological radar provide information on precipitation", "title": "Weather forecasting" }, { "id": "5497690", "text": "Advanced microwave sounding unit The advanced microwave sounding unit (AMSU) is a multi-channel microwave radiometer installed on meteorological satellites. The instrument examines several bands of microwave radiation from the atmosphere to perform atmospheric sounding of temperature and moisture levels. Level-1 radiance data are calibrated brightness temperatures. Level-2 geophysical data from AMSU include: AMSU data is also used together with infrared radiances from HIRS, AIRS, or IASI to produce blended MW/IR level-2 geophysical products such as: AMSU data is used extensively in weather prediction. Brightness temperatures are processed as quickly as possible and sent to numerical weather prediction (NWP) centers around", "title": "Advanced microwave sounding unit" }, { "id": "1917603", "text": "Weather satellite The weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting, covering the entire Earth asynchronously, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on the equator. Meteorological satellites see more than clouds and cloud systems: city lights, fires, effects of pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean currents, energy flows, etc. Other types of environmental information are collected using weather satellites. Weather satellite images helped in monitoring the volcanic ash cloud from Mount St. Helens and activity", "title": "Weather satellite" }, { "id": "1653053", "text": "box, usually a Stevenson screen, to keep direct sunlight off the thermometer and wind off the hygrometer. The instrumentation may be specialized to allow for periodic recording otherwise significant manual labour is required for record keeping. Automatic transmission of data, in a format such as METAR, is also desirable as many weather station's data is required for weather forecasting. A personal weather station is a set of weather measuring instruments operated by a private individual, club, association, or business (where obtaining and distributing weather data is not a part of the entity's business operation). Personal weather stations have become more", "title": "Weather station" }, { "id": "17803498", "text": "a slightly processed format as Wirephoto weather maps. By the mid 20th century, radio and television led to the next revolution in weather coverage. NOAA Weather Radio broadcasts began within the United States Weather Bureau in the 1950s, and expanded significantly during the 1970s, providing a more direct line of weather information from the government to the public. In 1975, NOAA Weather Radio was designated the sole government-operated radio system used to convey weather watches, warnings, and warning of nuclear attack. Local radio stations, particularly those that focus on the news, report on current weather conditions and the expected forecast", "title": "Weather media in the United States" }, { "id": "1737884", "text": "used with conical scanning for remote sensing of the Earth surface, e.g. AMSR, SSMI, WINDSAT, and sounding instruments that are operated in cross-track mode, e.g. AMSU/MHS. The first type uses lower frequencies (1–100 GHz) in atmospheric windows to observe sea-surface salinity, soil moisture, sea-surface temperature, wind speed over ocean, precipitation and snow. The second type is used to measure along absorption lines to retrieve temperature and humidity profile. Furthermore, limb sounders, e.g., MLS, are used to retrieve trace gas profiles in the upper atmosphere. Other examples of microwave radiometers on meteorological satellites include the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager, Scanning Multichannel Microwave", "title": "Microwave radiometer" }, { "id": "9043108", "text": "moored buoys and drifting buoys (drifting in the open ocean currents) are used. Fixed buoys measure the water temperature at a depth of . Many different drifting buoys exist around the world that vary in design and the location of reliable temperature sensors varies. These measurements are beamed to satellites for automated and immediate data distribution. Other than their use as a source of meteorological data, their data is used within research programs, emergency response to chemical spills, legal proceedings, and engineering design. Moored weather buoys can also act as a navigational aid, like other types of buoys. Weather buoys", "title": "Weather buoy" }, { "id": "15234336", "text": "MSU temperature measurements Microwave sounding unit temperature measurements have been obtained from the troposphere since 1979, when they were included within NOAA weather satellites. By comparison, the usable balloon (radiosonde) record begins in 1958 but has less geographic coverage and is less uniform. Satellites do not measure temperature. They measure radiances in various wavelength bands, which must then be mathematically inverted to obtain indirect inferences of temperature. The resulting temperature profiles depend on details of the methods that are used to obtain temperatures from radiances. As a result, different groups that have analyzed the satellite data have obtained different temperature", "title": "MSU temperature measurements" }, { "id": "1917611", "text": "can record or transmit images of the entire hemisphere below continuously with their visible-light and infrared sensors. The news media use the geostationary photos in their daily weather presentation as single images or made into movie loops. These are also available on the city forecast pages of www.noaa.gov (example Dallas, TX). Several geostationary meteorological spacecraft are in operation. The United States has five in operation; GOES-12, GOES-13, GOES-15, GOES-16 and GOES-17. GOES-12, previously designated GOES-East and now used for South America, is located at 60 degrees west. GOES-13 took over the role of GOES-East on April 14, 2010 and is", "title": "Weather satellite" }, { "id": "10243067", "text": "rain gauge. In 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit creates a reliable scale for measuring temperature with a mercury-type thermometer. In 1742, Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, proposed the 'centigrade' temperature scale, the predecessor of the current Celsius scale. In 1783, the first hair hygrometer is demonstrated by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. In 1806, Francis Beaufort introduced his system for classifying wind speeds. The April 1960 launch of the first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1, marked the beginning of the age where weather information became available globally. This was also used to measure the temperature of the surrounding air. A thermometer measures air temperature, or", "title": "Meteorological instrumentation" }, { "id": "6528828", "text": "Weather spotting Weather spotting is observing weather for the purpose of reporting to a larger group or organization. Examples include National Weather Service (NWS) co-op observers and Skywarn storm spotters. A storm spotter is a specific type of weather spotter. In the U.S., these volunteers are usually trained by the National Weather Service or local Skywarn group, and are given a phone number, internet outlet, or amateur radio frequency to report to if a severe weather event, such as a tornado, severe thunderstorm, or flash flood occurs where the spotter is located. They add ground truth information to remote sensing", "title": "Weather spotting" }, { "id": "958492", "text": "systems, information is carried across space using radio waves. At the sending end, the information to be sent, in the form of a time-varying electrical signal, is applied to a radio transmitter. The information signal can be an audio signal representing sound from a microphone, a video signal representing moving images from a video camera, or a digital signal representing data from a computer. In the transmitter, an electronic oscillator generates an alternating current oscillating at a radio frequency, called the \"carrier\" because it serves to \"carry\" the information through the air. The information signal is used to modulate the", "title": "Radio wave" }, { "id": "8745586", "text": "1.4. For example, according to the Irish Marine Institute: Although most measuring devices estimate the significant wave height from a wave spectrum, satellite radar altimeters are unique in measuring directly the significant wave height thanks to the different time of return from wave crests and troughs within the area illuminated by the radar. The maximum ever measured wave height from a satellite is 20.1m during a North Atlantic storm in 2011. The World Meteorological Organization stipulates that certain countries are responsible for providing weather forecasts for the world's oceans. These respective countries' meteorological offices are called Regional Specialized Meteorological Centers,", "title": "Significant wave height" }, { "id": "5807846", "text": "process of entering observation data into the model to generate initial conditions is called \"initialization\". On land, terrain maps available at resolutions down to globally are used to help model atmospheric circulations within regions of rugged topography, in order to better depict features such as downslope winds, mountain waves and related cloudiness that affects incoming solar radiation. The main inputs from country-based weather services are observations from devices (called radiosondes) in weather balloons that measure various atmospheric parameters and transmits them to a fixed receiver, as well as from weather satellites. The World Meteorological Organization acts to standardize the instrumentation,", "title": "Data assimilation" }, { "id": "1985542", "text": "on national and international circuits for use by meteorologists in weather forecasting, by oceanographers, ship routing services, fishermen, and many others. The observations are then forwarded for use by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina. Upper air weather data is essential for weather forecasting and research. The NWS operates 92 radiosonde locations in North America and ten sites in the Caribbean. A small, expendable instrument package is suspended below a wide balloon filled with hydrogen or helium, then released daily at or shortly after 1100 and 2300 UTC, respectively. As the radiosonde rises at about 300", "title": "National Weather Service" }, { "id": "3591399", "text": "monitor and predict the El Niño phenomenon. Weather satellites have been available to determine sea surface temperature information since 1967, with the first global composites created during 1970. Since 1982, satellites have been increasingly utilized to measure SST and have allowed its spatial and temporal variation to be viewed more fully. Satellite measurements of SST are in reasonable agreement with in situ temperature measurements. The satellite measurement is made by sensing the ocean radiation in two or more wavelengths within the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum or other parts of the spectrum which can then be empirically related to", "title": "Sea surface temperature" }, { "id": "350086", "text": "lower boundary at 1 GHz (30 cm), and the upper around 100 GHz (3mm). Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light. Like all other electromagnetic waves, they travel at the speed of light. Naturally occurring radio waves are made by lightning, or by certain astronomical objects. Artificially generated radio waves are used for fixed and mobile radio communication, broadcasting, radar and other navigation systems, satellite communication, computer networks and innumerable other applications. In addition, almost any wire carrying alternating current will radiate some of the energy away as radio", "title": "Radiation" }, { "id": "16385576", "text": "Temperature data logger A temperature data logger, also called temperature monitor, is a portable measurement instrument that is capable of autonomously recording temperature over a defined period of time. The digital data can be retrieved, viewed and evaluated after it has been recorded. A data logger is commonly used to monitor shipments in a cold chain and to gather temperature data from diverse field conditions. A variety of constructions are available. Most have an internal thermistor or thermocouple or can be connected to external sources. Sampling and measurement are periodically taken and digitally stored. Some have a built in display", "title": "Temperature data logger" }, { "id": "3175370", "text": "Weather radar Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.). Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the intensity of the precipitation. Both types of data can be analyzed to determine the structure of storms and their potential to cause severe weather. During World War II, radar operators discovered that weather was causing echoes on their screen, masking potential enemy targets. Techniques were developed to", "title": "Weather radar" }, { "id": "1065776", "text": "1991 to 2001 in the X-ray portion of the solar spectrum and was useful for both research and space weather prediction. Data from Yohkoh inspired the Solar X-ray Imager on GOES. Spacecraft with instruments whose primary purpose is to provide data for space weather predictions and applications include the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series of spacecraft, the POES series, the DMSP series, and the Meteosat series. The GOES spacecraft have carried an X-ray sensor (XRS) which measures the flux from the whole solar disk in two bands – 0.05 to 0.4 nm and 0.1 to 0.8 nm – since", "title": "Space weather" }, { "id": "1478576", "text": "Radiosonde A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver. Modern radiosondes measure or calculate the following variables: altitude, pressure, temperature, relative humidity, wind (both wind speed and wind direction), cosmic ray readings at high altitude and geographical position (latitude/longitude). Radiosondes measuring ozone concentration are known as ozonesondes. Radiosondes may operate at a radio frequency of 403 MHz or 1680 MHz. A radiosonde whose position is tracked as it ascends to give wind speed and direction information is called", "title": "Radiosonde" }, { "id": "1536351", "text": "from land stations and ships. On land, temperature sensors are kept in a Stevenson screen or a maximum minimum temperature system (MMTS). The sea record consists of surface ships taking sea temperature measurements from engine inlets or buckets. The land and marine records can be compared. Land and sea measurement and instrument calibration is the responsibility of national meteorological services. Standardization of methods is organized through the World Meteorological Organization (and formerly through its predecessor, the International Meteorological Organization). Most meteorological observations are taken for use in weather forecasts. Centers such as ECMWF show instantaneous map of their coverage; or", "title": "Instrumental temperature record" }, { "id": "545968", "text": "estimate their maximum sustained winds and their minimum central pressures. Along Track Scanning Radiometers aboard weather satellites are able to detect wildfires, which show up at night as pixels with a greater temperature than . The Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard the Terra satellite can detect thermal hot spots associated with wildfires, volcanoes, and industrial hot spots. From 1979 to 2005 the microwave sounding units (MSUs) and since 1998 the Advanced Microwave Sounding Units on NOAA polar orbiting satellites have measured the intensity of upwelling microwave radiation from atmospheric oxygen. The intensity is proportional to the temperature of broad vertical layers", "title": "Satellite temperature measurements" }, { "id": "487360", "text": "NESDIS's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archives data collected by the NOAA, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration, and meteorological services around the world and comprises the Center for Weather and Climate (previously NOAA's National Climatic Data Center) and the Center for Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics (created by a merger of NOAA's National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC), National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) and the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)). In 1960 TIROS-1, NOAA's first owned and operated geostationary satellite was launched. Since 1966 NESDIS has managed polar orbiting satellites (POES) and since 1974 it has", "title": "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration" }, { "id": "867813", "text": "Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system (GOES), operated by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service division, supports weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and meteorology research. Spacecraft and ground-based elements of the system work together to provide a continuous stream of environmental data. The National Weather Service (NWS) and the Meteorological Service of Canada use the GOES system for their North American weather monitoring and forecasting operations, and scientific researchers use the data to better understand land, atmosphere, ocean, and climate interactions. The GOES system uses geosynchronous", "title": "Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite" }, { "id": "5146289", "text": "Polarimetry Polarimetry is the measurement and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light waves. Typically polarimetry is done on electromagnetic waves that have traveled through or have been reflected, refracted or diffracted by some material in order to characterize that object. Polarimetry of thin films and surfaces is commonly known as ellipsometry. Polarimetry is used in remote sensing applications, such as planetary science, astronomy, and weather radar. Polarimetry can also be included in computational analysis of waves. For example, radars often consider wave polarization in post-processing to improve the characterization of", "title": "Polarimetry" }, { "id": "5146281", "text": "Polarimetry Polarimetry is the measurement and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light waves. Typically polarimetry is done on electromagnetic waves that have traveled through or have been reflected, refracted or diffracted by some material in order to characterize that object. Polarimetry of thin films and surfaces is commonly known as ellipsometry. Polarimetry is used in remote sensing applications, such as planetary science, astronomy, and weather radar. Polarimetry can also be included in computational analysis of waves. For example, radars often consider wave polarization in post-processing to improve the characterization of", "title": "Polarimetry" }, { "id": "15234354", "text": "value respectively. MSU temperature measurements Microwave sounding unit temperature measurements have been obtained from the troposphere since 1979, when they were included within NOAA weather satellites. By comparison, the usable balloon (radiosonde) record begins in 1958 but has less geographic coverage and is less uniform. Satellites do not measure temperature. They measure radiances in various wavelength bands, which must then be mathematically inverted to obtain indirect inferences of temperature. The resulting temperature profiles depend on details of the methods that are used to obtain temperatures from radiances. As a result, different groups that have analyzed the satellite data have obtained", "title": "MSU temperature measurements" }, { "id": "2724315", "text": "Operator generates the \"vertical data\" (also referred to as \"Drops\") needed by the NHC, receiving, analyzing and encoding the data for transmission by satellite. Between May 2007 and February 2008, all ten WC-130J were equipped with the Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR or \"Smurf\"), which continuously measures the surface winds and rainfall rates below the aircraft, mounted in a radome on the right wing outboard of the number four engine. The WC-130J provides data vital to tropical cyclone forecasting. The WC-130J usually penetrates hurricanes at an altitude of approximately to collect meteorological data in the vortex, or eye, of the storm.", "title": "Lockheed WC-130" }, { "id": "15305761", "text": "radar and satellite data and only provides information that is useful for short-term (up to four hours before launch or landing) but not long-term forecasting. Aerial reconnaissance often provides a more accurate assessment of weather conditions than radar or satellite imagery. Weather reconnaissance is also provided by weather balloons. Weather reconnaissance Weather reconnaissance is the acquisition of weather data used for research and planning. Typically the term reconnaissance refers to observing weather from the air, as opposed to the ground (for example, ground-based weather radar). Helicopters are not built to withstand the severe turbulence encountered in hurricane rainbands and eye", "title": "Weather reconnaissance" }, { "id": "1917609", "text": "by sensors called scanning radiometers enable a trained analyst to determine cloud heights and types, to calculate land and surface water temperatures, and to locate ocean surface features. Infrared satellite imagery can be used effectively for tropical cyclones with a visible eye pattern, using the Dvorak technique, where the difference between the temperature of the warm eye and the surrounding cold cloud tops can be used to determine its intensity (colder cloud tops generally indicate a more intense storm). Infrared pictures depict ocean eddies or vortices and map currents such as the Gulf Stream which are valuable to the shipping", "title": "Weather satellite" }, { "id": "10243071", "text": "of falling hydrometeors. Rain gauges are used to measure the precipitation which falls at any point on the Earth's landmass. Remote sensing, as used in meteorology, is the concept of collecting data from remote weather events and subsequently producing weather information. Each remote sensing instrument collects data about the atmosphere from a remote location and, usually, stores the data where the instrument is located. The most common types of remote sensing are radar, lidar, and satellites (also photogrammetry). The main uses of radar are to collect information concerning the coverage and characteristics of precipitation and wind. Satellites are chiefly used", "title": "Meteorological instrumentation" }, { "id": "9994425", "text": "scheduled for launch in October 2016. The launch of JPSS-1 is scheduled for no later than March 2017. In 1979 NOAA's first polar-orbiting environmental satellite was launched. Current operational satellites include NOAA-15, NOAA-18, NOAA-19, GOES 13, GOES 14, GOES 15, Jason-2, and DSCOVR. Since May 1998 NESIDS has operated the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites on behalf of the Air Force Weather Agency. NESDIS's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) archives data collected by the NOAA, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, the Federal Aviation Administration, and meteorological services around the world. NCEI comprises the Center for Weather and Climate", "title": "National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service" }, { "id": "1065758", "text": "limits are not engineering limits. In the U.S., they are treated as an upper limit of acceptability and not a regulatory limit. Measurements of the radiation environment at commercial aircraft altitudes above 8 km (26,000 ft) have historically been done by instruments that record the data on board where the data are then processed later on the ground. However, a system of real-time radiation measurements on-board aircraft has been developed through the NASA Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety (ARMAS) program. ARMAS has flown hundreds of flights since 2013, mostly on research aircraft, and sent the data to the ground", "title": "Space weather" }, { "id": "4589097", "text": "land, terrain maps available at resolutions down to globally are used to help model atmospheric circulations within regions of rugged topography, in order to better depict features such as downslope winds, mountain waves and related cloudiness that affects incoming solar radiation. The main inputs from country-based weather services are observations from devices (called radiosondes) in weather balloons that measure various atmospheric parameters and transmits them to a fixed receiver, as well as from weather satellites. The World Meteorological Organization acts to standardize the instrumentation, observing practices and timing of these observations worldwide. Stations either report hourly in METAR reports, or", "title": "Numerical weather prediction" }, { "id": "7042975", "text": "system transmits radio waves down to the ground and measures the time it takes them to be reflected back up to the aircraft. The altitude above the ground is calculated from the radio waves' travel time and the speed of light. Radar altimeters normally work in the E band, , or, for more advanced sea-level measurement, S band. Radar altimeters also provide a reliable and accurate method of measuring height above water, when flying long sea-tracks. These are critical for use when operating to and from oil rigs. Consider a radar pulse emanating from a radar beacon traveling downwards and", "title": "Radar altimeter" }, { "id": "346507", "text": "sophisticated methods of signal processing are also used in order to recover useful radar signals. The weak absorption of radio waves by the medium through which it passes is what enables radar sets to detect objects at relatively long ranges—ranges at which other electromagnetic wavelengths, such as visible light, infrared light, and ultraviolet light, are too strongly attenuated. Such weather phenomena as fog, clouds, rain, falling snow, and sleet that block visible light are usually transparent to radio waves. Certain radio frequencies that are absorbed or scattered by water vapour, raindrops, or atmospheric gases (especially oxygen) are avoided in designing", "title": "Radar" }, { "id": "7757864", "text": "that the satellite records discrete information for areas on the ground that are 1.1 × 1.1 kilometers. This smallest recorded unit is called a pixel. AVHRR data have been collected continuously since 1981. The primary purpose of these instruments is to monitor clouds and to measure the thermal emission of the Earth. These sensors have proven useful for a number of other applications, however, including the surveillance of land surfaces, ocean state, aerosols, etc. AVHRR data are particularly relevant to study climate change and environmental degradation because of the comparatively long records of data already accumulated (over 20 years). The", "title": "Advanced very-high-resolution radiometer" }, { "id": "1653054", "text": "advanced and can include many different sensors to measure weather conditions. These sensors can vary between models but most measure wind speed, wind direction, outdoor and indoor temperatures, outdoor and indoor humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall, and UV or solar radiation. Other available sensors can measure soil moisture, soil temperature, and leaf wetness. The quality, number of instruments, and placement of personal weather stations can vary widely, making the determination of which stations collect accurate, meaningful, and comparable data difficult. There are a comprehensive number of retail weather stations available. Personal weather stations typically involve a digital console that provides readouts", "title": "Weather station" }, { "id": "1917620", "text": "a tremendous asset in such situations. Nighttime photos also show the burn-off in gas and oil fields. Atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles have been taken by weather satellites since 1969. Weather satellite The weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. Satellites can be polar orbiting, covering the entire Earth asynchronously, or geostationary, hovering over the same spot on the equator. Meteorological satellites see more than clouds and cloud systems: city lights, fires, effects of pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean", "title": "Weather satellite" }, { "id": "10310317", "text": "pyranometers is 300 to 2800 nm wavelength and that of pyrgeometers is 4500 to 100000 nm wavelength. The surface of the upper receiver measures the direct solar radiation plus the diffuse one and the radiation at longer wavelengths emitted from the sky (clouds), while the lower receiving area measures the solar radiation reflected from the ground (albedo) and the radiation length wavelengths emitted from the earth. The instrument is designed and constructed to be used outdoors in any weather conditions. Besides its use in meteorology to measure energy balance, it can be used indoors for the measurement of radiant temperature", "title": "Net radiometer" }, { "id": "10243069", "text": "organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which also use these instruments to report weather conditions at their respective locations. A sounding rocket or rocketsonde, sometimes called a research rocket, is an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its suborbital flight. A pyranometer is a type of actinometer used to measure broadband solar irradiance on a planar surface and is a sensor that is designed to measure the solar radiation flux density (in watts per metre square) from a field of view of 180 degrees. A ceilometer is a device that uses a laser or", "title": "Meteorological instrumentation" }, { "id": "4424465", "text": "Argos system Argos is a satellite-based system which collects, processes and disseminates environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms worldwide. What makes Argos unique is the ability to clearly geographically locate the source of the data anywhere on the Earth utilizing the Doppler effect. Argos was established in 1978 and since that time, it has provided data to environmental research and protection communities that, in many cases, was otherwise unobtainable. The system is fully proven and highly reliable. Many remote automatic weather stations report via Argos. Argos is a key component of many global research programs including: Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere", "title": "Argos system" }, { "id": "11471483", "text": "of the reflection. The polarization and frequency of the return can sense the type of surface. Navigational radars scan a wide area two to four times per minute. They use very short waves that reflect from earth and stone. They are common on commercial ships and long-distance commercial aircraft. General purpose radars generally use navigational radar frequencies, but modulate and polarize the pulse so the receiver can determine the type of surface of the reflector. The best general-purpose radars distinguish the rain of heavy storms, as well as land and vehicles. Some can superimpose sonar data and map data from", "title": "Radio" }, { "id": "10243074", "text": "weather observations are the fundamental data used for safety as well as climatological reasons to forecast weather and issue warnings worldwide. They can be taken manually, by a weather observer, by computer through the use of automated weather stations, or in a hybrid scheme using weather observers to augment the otherwise automated weather station. The ICAO defines the International Standard Atmosphere, which is the model of the standard variation of pressure, temperature, density, and viscosity with altitude in the Earth's atmosphere, and is used to reduce a station pressure to sea level pressure. Airport observations can be transmitted worldwide through", "title": "Meteorological instrumentation" }, { "id": "6798086", "text": "alert broadcast has been completed. NOAA Weather Radio (NWR; also known as NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards) is an automated 24-hour network of about 133 radio stations in the United States that broadcast weather information directly from a nearby National Weather Service office. A complete broadcast cycle lasts about 3 to 8 minutes long, featuring weather forecasts and local observations, but is interrupted when severe weather advisories/warnings/watches are issued. It occasionally broadcasts other non-weather related events such as national security statements, natural disaster information, environmental and public safety statements (such as an AMBER Alert) sourced from the Federal Communications Commission's", "title": "Weather radio" }, { "id": "1917605", "text": "satellite data. Collectively, weather satellites flown by the U.S., Europe, India, China, Russia, and Japan provide nearly continuous observations for a global weather watch. As early as 1946, the idea of cameras in orbit to observe the weather was being developed. This was due to sparse data observation coverage and the expense of using cloud cameras on rockets. By 1958, the early prototypes for TIROS and Vanguard (developed by the Army Signal Corps) were created. The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, was launched on February 17, 1959. It was designed to measure cloud cover and resistance, but a poor axis", "title": "Weather satellite" }, { "id": "13363436", "text": "that installed the weather sensors. MesoWest MesoWest is an ongoing cooperative project, started in 1996, to provide access to current and archive weather observations across the United States. Weather observations include but are not limited to: temperature, humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation. Data are collected from a variety of organizations. Some stations participate in voluntary weather observing networks such as the Citizen Weather Observer Program. Others are part of mesonets that are managed by private firms or federal/state/local agencies. These data are available for a multitude of uses. Over 20,000 weather stations actively report to the MesoWest database.", "title": "MesoWest" }, { "id": "571290", "text": "Radio telescope A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to receive radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky in radio astronomy. Radio telescopes are the main observing instrument used in radio astronomy, which studies the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum emitted by astronomical objects, just as optical telescopes are the main observing instrument used in traditional optical astronomy which studies the light wave portion of the spectrum coming from astronomical objects. Radio telescopes are typically large parabolic (\"dish\") antennas similar to those employed in tracking and communicating with satellites and space probes.", "title": "Radio telescope" }, { "id": "1737869", "text": "Microwave radiometer A microwave radiometer (MWR) is a radiometer that measures energy emitted at millimetre-to-centimetre wavelengths (frequencies of 1–1000 GHz) known as microwaves. Microwave radiometers are very sensitive receivers designed to measure thermal electromagnetic radiation emitted by atmospheric gases. They are usually equipped with multiple receiving channels in order to derive the characteristic emission spectrum of the atmosphere or extraterrestrial objects. Microwave radiometers are utilized in a variety of environmental and engineering applications, including weather forecasting, climate monitoring, radio astronomy and radio propagation studies. Using the microwave spectral range between 1 and 300 GHz provides complementary information to the visible", "title": "Microwave radiometer" }, { "id": "1737887", "text": "Microwave radiometer A microwave radiometer (MWR) is a radiometer that measures energy emitted at millimetre-to-centimetre wavelengths (frequencies of 1–1000 GHz) known as microwaves. Microwave radiometers are very sensitive receivers designed to measure thermal electromagnetic radiation emitted by atmospheric gases. They are usually equipped with multiple receiving channels in order to derive the characteristic emission spectrum of the atmosphere or extraterrestrial objects. Microwave radiometers are utilized in a variety of environmental and engineering applications, including weather forecasting, climate monitoring, radio astronomy and radio propagation studies. Using the microwave spectral range between 1 and 300 GHz provides complementary information to the visible", "title": "Microwave radiometer" }, { "id": "15305756", "text": "mission at altitudes between and . The 53rd WRS Hurricane Hunters operate ten WC-130J aircraft for weather reconnaissance. The WP-3D Orion aircraft flown by the NOAA Hurricane Hunters are heavily instrumented flying laboratories specifically modified to take atmospheric and radar measurements within tropical cyclones and winter storms. The NOAA Gulfstream IV high altitude jet conducts hurricane surveillance flying upwards of each flight to document upper and lower level winds that affect the movement of tropical cyclones. The hurricane models (computer models predicting hurricane tracks and intensity) mainly utilize NOAA G-IV dropwindsonde data that is collected both day and night in", "title": "Weather reconnaissance" }, { "id": "11728001", "text": "has a direct effect on the Doppler resolution, resulting in a decreased ability to process live weather conditions. The main disadvantage of using an ASR-11 radar system is the reduction of Doppler Radar Resolution. Like the ASR-9, the ASR-11 has an on-site, dedicated weather reflectivity processor, with six separate levels of precipitation reflectivity. The limited number of pulses sent out by the radar system has a direct effect on its ability to measure weather conditions. Unlike the ASR-9, the ASR-11 is less suited for wind shear detection, Doppler wind measurement, and precipitation reflectivity. The ASR-11 radar system will remain as", "title": "ASR-11" }, { "id": "6528829", "text": "technology such as weather radar. Canwarn is the national storm spotting program of Canada, Skywarn Europe covers about a dozen countries (including the U.K., which is also covered by TORRO), and Australia also has a program organized by the Bureau of Meteorology. The National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) is a network of 11,000 volunteers that record official weather observations across the United States. Data is taken from a multitude of geographic regions and topography, and sent to the National Weather Service and National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) for official records. In making these reports, observers use a specialized", "title": "Weather spotting" }, { "id": "1478583", "text": "functions of pressure. It also gathered data on cloud thickness and light intensity in the atmosphere. Due to this and other improvements in cost (about $25), weight (> 1 kilogram), and accuracy, hundreds of thousands of NBS-style radiosondes were produced nationwide for research purposes, and the apparatus was officially adopted by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Diamond was given the Washington Academy of Sciences Engineering Award in 1940 and the IRE Fellow Award (which was later renamed the Harry Diamond Memorial Award) in 1943 for his contributions to radio-meteorology. The expansion of economically important government weather forecasting services during the 1930s", "title": "Radiosonde" }, { "id": "9266482", "text": "by land-based Doppler weather radar. Radar plays a crucial role around landfall by showing a storm's location and intensity every several minutes. In situ measurements, in real-time, can be taken by sending specially equipped reconnaissance flights into the cyclone. In the Atlantic basin, these flights are regularly flown by United States government hurricane hunters. The aircraft used are WC-130 Hercules and WP-3D Orions, both four-engine turboprop cargo aircraft. These aircraft fly directly into the cyclone and take direct and remote-sensing measurements. The aircraft also launch GPS dropsondes inside the cyclone. These sondes measure temperature, humidity, pressure, and especially winds between", "title": "Tropical cyclone" }, { "id": "5375161", "text": "sensors. CLAMPS contains a Doppler lidar, a multi-channel microwave radiometer, and an Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI). CLAMPS meets a NOAA/NWS operational and research need of for profiles of temperature, humidity, and winds near the surface of the earth. NSSL's Field Observing Facilities and Support group (FOFS) is responsible for a device called an Electric Field Meter (EFM) that is attached, along with other instruments, to a special research balloon and launched into thunderstorms. As they are carried up through electrified storms, these EFMs are designed to measure the strength and direction of the electric fields that build up before", "title": "National Severe Storms Laboratory" }, { "id": "32467", "text": "Anemometer An anemometer is a device used for measuring wind speed, and is also a common weather station instrument. The term is derived from the Greek word \"anemos\", which means wind, and is used to describe any wind speed instrument used in meteorology. The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450. The anemometer has changed little since its development in the 15th century. Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) is said to have invented the first mechanical anemometer around 1450. In following centuries, numerous others, including Robert Hooke (1635–1703), developed their own versions, with some", "title": "Anemometer" }, { "id": "7649336", "text": "Wind profiler A wind profiler is a type of weather observing equipment that uses radar or sound waves (SODAR) to detect the wind speed and direction at various elevations above the ground. Readings are made at each kilometer above sea level, up to the extent of the troposphere (i.e., between 8 and 17 km above mean sea level). Above this level there is inadequate water vapor present to produce a radar \"bounce.\" The data synthesized from wind direction and speed is very useful to meteorological forecasting and timely reporting for flight planning. A twelve-hour history of data is available through", "title": "Wind profiler" }, { "id": "3988295", "text": "as weather station M (\"Mike\"), which was removed from operation on January 1, 2010. Weather observations from ships continue from a fleet of voluntary merchant vessels in routine commercial operation. The primary purpose of an ocean weather vessel was to take surface and upper air weather measurements, and report them via radio at the synoptic hours of 0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). Weather ships also reported observations from merchant vessels, which were reported by radio back to their country of origin using a code based on the square in the ocean within which the ship was", "title": "Weather ship" }, { "id": "1985559", "text": "a satellite data collection and dissemination system operated by the National Weather Service, which was established in October 2000. Its purpose is to provide state and federal government, commercial users, media and private citizens with timely delivery of meteorological, hydrological, climatological and geophysical information. All products in the NWWS data stream are prioritized, with weather and hydrologic warnings receiving the highest priority (watches are next in priority). NWWS delivers severe weather and storm warnings to users in ten seconds or less from the time of their issuance, making it the fastest delivery system available. Products are broadcast to users via", "title": "National Weather Service" }, { "id": "2724313", "text": "almost . The crew collects and reports weather data as often as every minute. The Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer operates the computerized weather reconnaissance equipment, generates the \"horizontal data\" measurements (also known as \"Recco\"), and acts as flight director inside the storm environment. The weather officer also evaluates other meteorological conditions such as turbulence, icing, visibility, cloud types and amounts, and ocean surface winds. The ARWO uses the equipment to determine the storm's center and analyze atmospheric conditions such as pressure, temperature, dew point and wind speed to create a Vortex Data Message sent to the National Hurricane Center. A", "title": "Lockheed WC-130" }, { "id": "10243064", "text": "Meteorological instrumentation Meteorological instruments are the equipment used to sample the state of the atmosphere at a given time. Each science has its own unique sets of laboratory equipment.Meteorology, however, is a science which does not use much lab equipment but relies more on on-site observation and remote sensing equipment. In science, an observation, or \"observable\", is an abstract idea that can be measured and for which data can be taken. Rain was one of the first quantities to be measured historically. Two other accurately measured weather-related variables are wind and humidity. Many attempts had been made prior to the", "title": "Meteorological instrumentation" }, { "id": "4761252", "text": "AAI Aerosonde The AAI Aerosonde is a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed to collect weather data, including temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, and wind measurements over oceans and remote areas. The Aerosonde was developed by Insitu, and is now manufactured by Aerosonde Ltd, which is a strategic business of AAI Corporation. The Aerosonde is powered by a modified Enya R120 model aircraft engine, and carries on board a small computer, meteorological instruments, and a GPS receiver for navigation. It is also used by the United States Armed Forces for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). On August 21, 1998, a Phase", "title": "AAI Aerosonde" }, { "id": "1737871", "text": "vertical temperature and humidity profile, columnar water vapor amount, or columnar liquid water path with a high temporal resolution in the order of seconds to minutes under nearly all weather conditions. First developments of microwave radiometer were dedicated to the measurement of radiation of extraterrestrial origin in the 1930s and 1940s. The most common form of microwave radiometer was introduced by Robert Dicke in 1946 in the Radiation Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology to better determine the temperature of the microwave background radiation. This first radiometer worked at a wavelength 1.25 cm and was operated at the Massachusetts Institute", "title": "Microwave radiometer" }, { "id": "5375158", "text": "combined with measurements of the intensity of the rain from nearby WSR-57s to understand how thunderstorm echoes and turbulence are related, with the goal of improving short-term turbulence forecasts. Scientists and technicians from NSSL and the University of Oklahoma built their first Mobile Mesonet (MM) vehicles, a.k.a. “probes,” in 1992. Probes are modified minivans with a suite of weather instruments mounted atop a roof rack and a complex of computer and communication equipment inside. NSSL scientists drive these through storms and storm environments to make measurements of temperature, pressure, humidity and wind. NSSL's 2DVD takes high speed video pictures, from", "title": "National Severe Storms Laboratory" }, { "id": "11894519", "text": "Microwave humidity sounder The Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) is a five-channel passive microwave radiometer, with channels from 89 to 190 GHz. It is very similar in design to the AMSU-B instrument, but some channel frequencies have been altered. It is used to study profiles of atmospheric water vapor and provide improved input data to the cloud-clearing algorithms in IR/MW sounder suites. Instruments were launched on NOAA's POES satellite series starting with NOAA-18 launched in May 2005 and the European Space Agency's MetOp series starting with MetOp-A launched in October 2006, continuing with MetOp-B launched in September 2012. The Microwave Humidity", "title": "Microwave humidity sounder" }, { "id": "10243065", "text": "15th century to construct adequate equipment to measure atmospheric variables. Devices used to measure these three sprang up in the mid-15th century and were respectively the rain gauge, the anemometer, and the hygrometer. The 17th century saw the development of the barometer and the Galileo thermometer while the 18th century saw the development of the thermometer with the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales. The 20th century developed new remote sensing tools, such as weather radars, weather satellites and wind profilers, which provide better sampling both regionally and globally. Remote sensing instruments collect data from weather events some distance from the instrument", "title": "Meteorological instrumentation" }, { "id": "5755226", "text": "interpret the results; recorded results might differ among observers. Modern sunshine recorders use electronics and computers for precise data that do not depend on a human interpreter. Newer recorders can also measure the global and diffuse radiation. Sunshine recorder A sunshine recorder is a device that records the amount of sunshine at a given location or region at any time. The results provide information about the weather and climate as well as the temperature of a geographical area. This information is useful in meteorology, science, agriculture, tourism, and other fields. It has also been called a heliograph. There are two", "title": "Sunshine recorder" }, { "id": "6798080", "text": "Weather radio A weather radio is a specialized radio receiver that is designed to receive a public broadcast service, typically from government-owned radio stations, dedicated to airing weather reports on a continual basis, with the routine weather reports being interrupted by emergency weather reports whenever needed. Weather radios are typically equipped with a standby alerting function—if the radio is muted or tuned to another band and a severe weather bulletin is transmitted, it can automatically sound an alarm and/or switch to a pre-tuned weather channel for emergency weather information. Weather radio services may also broadcast non-weather-related emergency information, such as", "title": "Weather radio" }, { "id": "17904965", "text": "Sentinel-1A Sentinel-1A is a European radar imaging satellite launched in 2014. It is the first Sentinel-1 satellite launched as part of the European Union's Copernicus programme. The satellite carries a C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar which will provide images in all light and weather conditions. It will track many aspects of our environment, from detecting and tracking oil spills and mapping sea ice to monitoring movement in land surfaces and mapping changes in the way land is used. Copernicus is the long-term European Union Earth observation and monitoring programme under the former name of GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security)", "title": "Sentinel-1A" }, { "id": "1653059", "text": "\"Polarfront\" was removed from service January 1, 2010. Since the 1960s this role has been largely superseded by satellites, long range aircraft and weather buoys. Weather observations from ships continue from thousands of voluntary merchant vessels in routine commercial operation; the Old Weather crowdsourcing project transcribes naval logs from before the era of dedicated ships. Weather buoys are instruments which collect weather and oceanography data within the world's oceans and lakes. Moored buoys have been in use since 1951, while drifting buoys have been used since the late 1970s. Moored buoys are connected with the seabed using either chains, nylon,", "title": "Weather station" }, { "id": "2998653", "text": "EMWIN The Emergency Managers Weather Information Network (EMWIN) is a system for distributing a live stream of weather information in the United States. The backbone of the system is operated via satellite by the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS), but data are transmitted over radio repeaters by the NWS, citizens, and other organizations in many regions, and information can also be downloaded via the Internet. Local VHF/UHF radio rebroadcasts and older-generation EMWIN satellite systems operate at the speeds of 1200 and 9600 baud. EMWIN data consists of textual observational and forecast information, including a limited number of cloud and radar", "title": "EMWIN" }, { "id": "2918271", "text": "meteorological use have commonly been superseded (though not all) by electronic weather instruments that use computer methods to record the barometric pressure. These are not only less expensive than earlier barographs but they may also offer both greater recording length and the ability to perform further data analysis on the captured data including automated use of the data to forecast the weather. Older mechanical barographs are highly prized by collectors as they make good display items, often being made of high quality woods and brass. The most common weather Barograph found in homes and public buildings these days are the", "title": "Barograph" }, { "id": "3724854", "text": "Dropsonde A dropsonde is an expendable weather reconnaissance device created by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), designed to be dropped from an aircraft at altitude over water to measure (and therefore track) storm conditions as the device falls to the surface. The sonde contains a GPS receiver, along with pressure, temperature, and humidity (PTH) sensors to capture atmospheric profiles and thermodynamic data. It typically relays these data to a computer in the aircraft by radio transmission. Since the early 1970s, hurricane hunters have employed dropsondes while flying over the ocean to obtain meteorological data on the structure of", "title": "Dropsonde" }, { "id": "12542277", "text": "SBUV/2 The Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer, or SBUV/2, is a series of operational remote sensors on NOAA weather satellites in Sun-synchronous orbits which have been providing global measurements of stratospheric total ozone, as well as ozone profiles, since March 1985. The SBUV/2 instruments were developed from the SBUV experiment flown on the Nimbus-7 spacecraft which improved on the design of the original BUV instrument on Nimbus-4. These are nadir viewing radiometric instruments operating at mid to near UV wavelengths. SBUV/2 data sets overlap with data from SBUV and TOMS instruments on the Nimbus-7 spacecraft. These extensive data sets (January 1979", "title": "SBUV/2" }, { "id": "9043112", "text": "a warm bias of around due to the heat of the engine room. This bias has led to changes in the perception of global warming since 2000. Fixed buoys measure the water temperature at a depth of . Weather buoy Weather buoys are instruments which collect weather and ocean data within the world's oceans, as well as aid during emergency response to chemical spills, legal proceedings, and engineering design. Moored buoys have been in use since 1951, while drifting buoys have been used since 1979. Moored buoys are connected with the ocean bottom using either chains, nylon, or buoyant polypropylene.", "title": "Weather buoy" }, { "id": "32496", "text": "trees, and both natural canyons and artificial canyons (urban buildings). The standard anemometer height in open rural terrain is 10 meters. Anemometer An anemometer is a device used for measuring wind speed, and is also a common weather station instrument. The term is derived from the Greek word \"anemos\", which means wind, and is used to describe any wind speed instrument used in meteorology. The first known description of an anemometer was given by Leon Battista Alberti in 1450. The anemometer has changed little since its development in the 15th century. Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) is said to have invented", "title": "Anemometer" }, { "id": "1653052", "text": "ships and buoys, which measure slightly different meteorological quantities such as sea surface temperature (SST), wave height, and wave period. Drifting weather buoys outnumber their moored versions by a significant amount. Typical weather stations have the following instruments: In addition, at certain automated airport weather stations, additional instruments may be employed, including: More sophisticated stations may also measure the ultraviolet index, leaf wetness, soil moisture, soil temperature, water temperature in ponds, lakes, creeks, or rivers, and occasionally other data. Except for those instruments requiring direct exposure to the elements (anemometer, rain gauge), the instruments should be sheltered in a vented", "title": "Weather station" }, { "id": "6798082", "text": "that make them more useful in case of an emergency. Some models use crank power, in addition to mains electricity and batteries, in case of a power outage. Smaller hand-held weather receivers generally do not support the SAME alert type encoding, but allow hikers and other explorers to listen to weather reports without packing a heavy and bulky base station radio. Some models have a built-in flashlight and can double as a cellphone charger. Some also serve as a more general emergency radio and may include multiband and two-way communication capability. \"Scanner\" radios designed to continuously monitor the VHF-FM public", "title": "Weather radio" }, { "id": "1478590", "text": "vertical wind profile. Radiosonde data is a crucially important component of numerical weather prediction. Because a sonde may drift several hundred kilometers during the 90- to 120-minute flight, there may be concern that this could introduce problems into the model initialization. However, this appears not to be so except perhaps locally in jet stream regions in the stratosphere. According to \"article 1.109\" of the International Telecommunication Union´s (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR): Radiosonde A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to", "title": "Radiosonde" }, { "id": "6798081", "text": "in the event of a natural disaster, a child abduction alert, or a terrorist attack. They generally broadcast in a pre-allocated very high frequency (VHF) range using FM. Usually a radio scanner or a dedicated weather radio receiver is needed for listening, although in some locations a weather radio broadcast may be re-transmitted on an AM or FM broadcast station, on terrestrial television stations, or local public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels or during weather or other emergencies. Weather radios are generally sold in two varieties: home (stationary) or portable use. Portable models commonly offer specialized features", "title": "Weather radio" }, { "id": "1737874", "text": "like the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager / Sounder (SSMIS) are widely used on different satellites. Ground-based radiometers for the determination of temperature profiles were first explored in the 1960s and have since improved in terms of reduced noise and the ability to run unattended 24/7 within worldwide observational networks. Review articles, and a detailed online handbook are available. Solids, liquids (e.g. the Earth's surface, ocean, sea ice, snow, vegetation) but also gases emit and absorb microwave radiation. Traditionally, the amount of radiation a microwave radiometer receives is expressed as the equivalent blackbody temperature", "title": "Microwave radiometer" } ]

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[ { "id": "17710376", "text": "2013, Shulman was cast in a recurring role as \"Yoga Jones\" in the Netflix comedy-drama series, \"Orange Is the New Black\". Along with the rest of the cast, she received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2015. She is married to fellow actor Reed Birney, and their daughter Gus Birney is an actress. Her son Ephraim Birney is also an actor. Constance Shulman Constance Shulman (born April 4, 1958) is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Patti Mayonnaise on \"Doug\" and for her current role as Yoga", "title": "Constance Shulman" }, { "id": "17710374", "text": "Constance Shulman Constance Shulman (born April 4, 1958) is an American actress. She is best known for voicing Patti Mayonnaise on \"Doug\" and for her current role as Yoga Jones in \"Orange Is the New Black\". Shulman originated the role of Annelle in the first production of \"Steel Magnolias\" Off-Broadway. Shulman was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, to a Jewish family. In 1980, she graduated from the University of Tennessee with a bachelor's degree in both speech and theatre. She moved to New York City to study acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School and pursue an acting", "title": "Constance Shulman" }, { "id": "16157417", "text": "Orange Is the New Black Orange Is the New Black (sometimes abbreviated to OITNB) is an American comedy-drama web television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, \"\" (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. Produced by Tilted Productions in association with Lionsgate Television, \"Orange Is the New Black\" premiered on Netflix on July 11, 2013. In February 2016, the series was renewed for a fifth, sixth, and seventh season. The sixth season was released on July 27, 2018. On October 17, 2018, it was confirmed that the", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "16157431", "text": "prior to the series' premiere, Netflix renewed the show for a second season consisting of 13 episodes. For the second season, Uzo Aduba, Taryn Manning, Danielle Brooks, and Natasha Lyonne were promoted to series regulars. Laura Prepon did not return as a series regular for a second season because of scheduling conflicts, but returned for season 3 as a regular. On May 5, 2014, the series was renewed for a third season, as revealed by actress Laura Prepon. For the third season, several actors were promoted to series regulars, including Selenis Leyva, Adrienne C. Moore, Dascha Polanco, Nick Sandow, Yael", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "16157443", "text": "Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. The series has also received, among other accolades, six Writers Guild of America Award nominations, five Satellite Awards, four Critics' Choice Television Awards, a GLAAD Media Award, an American Cinema Editors Award, a Producers Guild of America Award, and a Peabody Award. The series began airing on broadcast television in New Zealand on TV2 on August 19, 2013. It premiered in Australia on October 9, 2013, on Showcase. The second season began on Showcase on July 16, 2014, and the third season premiered on June 11, 2015. The first season began airing on", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "18851180", "text": "Michael Chernus Michael Louis Chernus (born August 8, 1977) is an American actor. He has acted on film, television, and the stage. He is perhaps best known for his role as Cal Chapman on the Netflix original comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\" (2013–present). Chernus played Phineas Mason / Tinkerer in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film \"\", which was released on July 7, 2017. Chernus was born in Rocky River, Ohio. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School's Drama Division. An accomplished stage actor, Michael won a 2011 Obie Award and received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for", "title": "Michael Chernus" }, { "id": "16157437", "text": "reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: \"Thanks to its blend of potent comedy and rich character work, \"Orange is the New Black\" remains a bittersweet pleasure in its third season.\" The fourth season received critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it has a score of 86 out of 100 based on 19 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 96% rating with an average score of 8.46 out of 10 based on 47 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: \"\"Orange is the New Black\" is back and better than ever, with a powerful fourth season full of compelling performances by the ensemble", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "3328067", "text": "Laura Prepon Laura Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is an American actress, director, and author. She rose to fame with her role as Donna Pinciotti in the Fox sitcom \"That '70s Show\" (1998–2006). She is also known for her portrayal of Alex Vause in the Netflix comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\" (2013–present). Prepon made her film debut in 2001 with the independent drama \"Southlander\". Her other films include the romantic drama \"Come Early Morning\" (2006), the comedy \"Lay the Favorite\" (2012), the thriller \"The Girl on the Train\" (2016), and the drama \"The Hero\" (2017). Prepon was born", "title": "Laura Prepon" }, { "id": "19100417", "text": "trans major character in a scripted television drama series in America, after Laverne Cox on \"Orange is the New Black\" and Jamie Clayton on \"Sense8\". On February 22, 2017, Fox renewed the series for a second season, which premiered on September 27, 2017 and crossed over with other Fox series \"Empire\". On May 10, 2018, Fox renewed the series for a third season. Season 3 premiered on September 26, 2018 and airs on Fox Wednesdays at 9:00 PM. Internationally, new episodes premiere on Netflix in Canada the following Thursday. Star Davis, a teenage orphan, leaves foster care to save her", "title": "Star (TV series)" }, { "id": "16157435", "text": "in a world where a stick of gum could ignite either a romance or a death threat.\" Maureen Ryan, of \"The Huffington Post\", wrote: \"\"Orange\" is one of the best new programs of the year, and the six episodes I've seen have left me hungry to see more.\" The second season also received critical acclaim. Rotten Tomatoes gave a rating of 98%, with an average rating of 9.17 out of 10 based on 45 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: \"With a talented ensemble cast bringing life to a fresh round of serial drama, \"Orange Is the New Black's\" sophomore", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "19583037", "text": "Orange Is the New Black (season 4) The fourth season of the American comedy-drama television series \"Orange Is the New Black\" premiered on Netflix on June 17, 2016, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 54–60 minutes, with a 77-minute finale. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, \"\" (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. The series is created and adapted for television by Jenji Kohan. The season received critical acclaim, again winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 4)" }, { "id": "17521370", "text": "10 based on 42 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: \"With a talented ensemble cast bringing life to a fresh round of serial drama, \"Orange Is the New Black's\" sophomore season lives up to its predecessor's standard for female-led television excellence. Metacritic gave the second season a score of 89 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim.\" David Wiegland of the \"San Francisco Chronicle\" gave the season a positive review, calling the first six episodes \"not only as great as the first season, but arguably better.\" \"Orange Is the New Black\" was considered one of the best", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 2)" }, { "id": "18293477", "text": "Star Wars: The Last Jedi Star Wars: The Last Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi) is a 2017 American space opera film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is the second installment of the \"Star Wars\" sequel trilogy and the eighth installment of the main \"Star Wars\" film franchise, following \"\" (2015). It was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film's ensemble cast includes Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, and", "title": "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" }, { "id": "15505369", "text": "Stephanie Andujar Stephanie Andujar (born July 15, 1986) is an American actress, director, producer, singer and songwriter starring in theatre performances from \"The Wiz\", \"The Crucible\", and \"The Good Woman of Setzuan\". Her film career includes the Academy Award-winning film \"Precious\" (2009), \"Pariah\" (2011), \"See Girl Run\" (2012), \"Babygirl\" (2013), \"A Walk Among the Tombstones\" (2014), and the film \"Marjorie Prime\" (2017). Her television career includes NBC’s \"\" (2007), nurse drama \"Mercy\" (2010), and \"Blindspot\" (2015). Andujar received praise for her performance in \"Orange is the New Black\" Season 2 (2014) as young Miss Rosa. Andujar was born in Manhattan,", "title": "Stephanie Andujar" }, { "id": "20657064", "text": "musical remake. In August 2018, Ramirez's casting was announced for \"\" slated to be released in the summer of 2020. Danny Ramirez Danny Ramirez (born September 17, 1997 in Chicago) is an American actor of Colombian and Mexican origin. Danny Ramirez made his television debut on Showtime's, \"The Affair\" followed by roles on NBC's \"Blindspot\" and the feature film, \"Rapid Eye Movement\" while attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He currently reoccurs as \"Wes\" on Fox's \"The Gifted\" and on Netflix series \"On My Block\". He also guest starred in \"Orange Is The New Black\". Some of", "title": "Danny Ramirez" }, { "id": "16157418", "text": "seventh season would be its last and would be released in 2019. \"Orange Is the New Black\" has become Netflix's most-watched original series. It has received critical acclaim and many accolades. For its first season, the series garnered 12 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, winning three. A new Emmy rule in 2015 forced the series to change categories from comedy to drama. For its second season, the series received four Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series, and Uzo Aduba won for Outstanding Supporting Actress", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "16157446", "text": "most-watched original series. In 2016, a \"New York Times\" study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that \"Orange Is the New Black\" is one of the shows most watched in urban areas, and despite its \"minority-rich ensemble cast,\" the series \"appeals more to a white audience.\" Orange Is the New Black Orange Is the New Black (sometimes abbreviated to OITNB) is an American comedy-drama web television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, \"\" (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. Produced by", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "20657063", "text": "Danny Ramirez Danny Ramirez (born September 17, 1997 in Chicago) is an American actor of Colombian and Mexican origin. Danny Ramirez made his television debut on Showtime's, \"The Affair\" followed by roles on NBC's \"Blindspot\" and the feature film, \"Rapid Eye Movement\" while attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He currently reoccurs as \"Wes\" on Fox's \"The Gifted\" and on Netflix series \"On My Block\". He also guest starred in \"Orange Is The New Black\". Some of his notable film credits include: Sam Levinson's \"Assassination Nation\" which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and MGM's \"Valley Girl\"", "title": "Danny Ramirez" }, { "id": "16157436", "text": "season lives up to its predecessor's standard for female-led television excellence.\" Metacritic gave the second season a score of 89 out of 100 based on 31 critics, indicating \"universal acclaim.\" David Wiegland of the \"San Francisco Chronicle\" gave the season a positive review, calling the first six episodes \"not only as great as the first season, but arguably better.\" The third season received critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it has a score of 83 out of 100 based on 24 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 95% rating with an average score of 8.15 out of 10 based on 58", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "18900276", "text": "Series and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for Uzo Aduba, and numerous other awards. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> On May 5, 2014, the series was renewed for a third season. For the third season, several actors were promoted to series regulars, including Selenis Leyva, Adrienne C. Moore, Dascha Polanco, Nick Sandow, Yael Stone, and Samira Wiley. Both Jason Biggs and Pablo Schreiber were confirmed as not returning for the third season, but Schreiber appeared in the 10th episode of the third season. The third season received critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it has a score of 83 out of", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 3)" }, { "id": "18900277", "text": "100 based on 24 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 96% rating with an average score of 8.2 out of 10 based on 53 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: \"Thanks to its blend of potent comedy and rich character work, \"Orange is the New Black\" remains a bittersweet pleasure in its third season.\" For its third season, \"Orange Is the New Black\" won Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series (Aduba). It received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 3)" }, { "id": "16157433", "text": "series regulars. On October 17, 2018, Netflix announced that the seventh season would be the series' last and would be released in 2019. \"Orange Is the New Black\" has received critical acclaim. It has been particularly praised for humanizing prisoners and for its depiction of race, sexuality, gender and body types. The first season received positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Metacritic gave it a weighted average score of 79 out of 100 based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating favorable reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, season one has a 94% approval rating based on 47 reviews, with an average rating", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "20593732", "text": "York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Aisenberg co-founded a production company known as Deverge. Aisenberg made his on-screen debut in the 2007 horror film \"Unholy\". He later made his television debut in 2008 with a minor role in the Nickelodeon series \"The Naked Brothers Band\" before landing multiple roles in a number of films, as well as television series such as \"Mozart in the Jungle\" and \"Inside Amy Schumer\". In June 2015, Aisenberg began his recurring role as correctional officer Baxter \"Gerber\" Bayley on the Netflix comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\". On January 29, 2017, Aisenberg and", "title": "Alan Aisenberg" }, { "id": "4478072", "text": "version of \"the Star-Spangled Banner\", entitled \"Nuestro Himno\", alongside Wyclef Jean, Gloria Trevi and Olga Tañón. He hosted the Miss Universe 2006 pageant in Los Angeles, along with Shandi Finnessey, Nancy O'Dell and Carson Kressley. He also appears in the movie \"Just My Luck\", with Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine and McFly. Ponce was cast as Salvadore, a sexy yoga instructor, in the 2009 comedy \"Couples Retreat\". Carlos Ponce Carlos Ponce (born September 4, 1972) is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, composer and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo.", "title": "Carlos Ponce" }, { "id": "16157434", "text": "of 8.24 out of 10 . The site's critical consensus is \"\"Orange Is the New Black\" is a sharp mix of black humor and dramatic heft, with interesting characters and an intriguing flashback structure.\" Hank Stuever, television critic for \"The Washington Post\", gave \"Orange Is the New Black\" a perfect score. In his review of the series, he stated: \"In Jenji Kohan's magnificent and thoroughly engrossing new series, \"Orange Is the New Black\", prison is still the pits. But it is also filled with the entire range of human emotion and stories, all of which are brought vividly to life", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "17272789", "text": "is an independent feature film based on the novel by Augusta Trobaugh and adapted and directed by critically acclaimed filmmaker Maggie Greenwald (Songcatcher, Ballad Of Little Jo). The film stars Julianne Nicholson (August: Osage County, Masters of Sex, The Red Road), Margo Martindale (August: Osage County and Emmy Award winner for The Americans and Justified), Critics Choice Award winner Lorraine Toussaint (Orange Is the New Black, Rosewood), Diane Ladd (Joy, three-time Academy Award nominee for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Ramblin’ Rose and Wild at Heart) and Takashi Yamaguchi. The film is produced by Brenda Goodman (Ballad Of Little Joe,", "title": "Sophie and the Rising Sun" }, { "id": "16157440", "text": "stands as a marked improvement from its predecessor, even if some arcs are more inspired than others.\" \"Orange Is the New Black\" has received many accolades since its debut. The series has garnered 16 Emmy Award nominations and four wins. For its first season, it received 12 Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, winning three. Taylor Schilling received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama. In 2013, the American Film Institute selected the series as one of the Top", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "18144203", "text": "creator Liza Koshy. Kimiko Glenn Kimiko Elizabeth Glenn (born June 27, 1989) is an American actress, known for portraying Brook Soso in the Netflix series \"Orange Is the New Black\", Dawn Pinket in the Broadway musical \"Waitress\" and Ezor in \"\". Glenn was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, with her sister Amanda. Her father, Mark, is of German, Scottish and Irish descent, and her mother, Sumiko, is Japanese. Glenn began acting at the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, along with several other local theaters, when she was in the fifth grade. She was educated at Desert Vista High School,", "title": "Kimiko Glenn" }, { "id": "19567101", "text": "Adamson on \"Titans.\" Birney is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University. He is married to actress Constance Shulman, who appears in \"Orange is the New Black\", and they have two children together. Their daughter Gus Birney is an actress and his son Ephraim Birney is also an actor. Reed Birney Reed Birney (born September 11, 1954 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American actor, who has worked both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. Birney won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Erik Blake in \"The Humans\". Birney attended Boston University, the School", "title": "Reed Birney" }, { "id": "16157438", "text": "cast.\" James Poniewozik of \"The New York Times\" reviewed the fourth season as \"Do you measure the quality of a TV season as a beginning-to-end average or by how well it ends? By the first yardstick, Season 4 is ambitious but uneven; by the latter, it's the series' best.\" The fifth season received \"generally favorable reviews\". On Metacritic, it has a score of 67 out of 100 based on 20 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 73% rating with an average score of 7.19 out of 10 based on 41 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: \"\"Orange Is the", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "18144200", "text": "Kimiko Glenn Kimiko Elizabeth Glenn (born June 27, 1989) is an American actress, known for portraying Brook Soso in the Netflix series \"Orange Is the New Black\", Dawn Pinket in the Broadway musical \"Waitress\" and Ezor in \"\". Glenn was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, with her sister Amanda. Her father, Mark, is of German, Scottish and Irish descent, and her mother, Sumiko, is Japanese. Glenn began acting at the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, along with several other local theaters, when she was in the fifth grade. She was educated at Desert Vista High School, and the Interlochen", "title": "Kimiko Glenn" }, { "id": "7828864", "text": "and \"\". In 2014, Freeman was cast as Irma, one of \"The Golden Girls\", in the Netflix comedy-drama series, \"Orange Is the New Black\". Along with cast, Freeman received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Yvette Freeman Yvette Freeman (born October 1, 1957) is an American actress, singer and director. She is best known for her role as Haleh Adams in the NBC medical drama series \"ER\". Freeman was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. She later moved to New York City to pursue a career in graphic design. There she turned", "title": "Yvette Freeman" }, { "id": "13971511", "text": "Michael Bryan French Michael Bryan French is an American stage, film and television actor known for his roles on \"Orange is the New Black, Prison Break, Madoff, \", and \"As the World Turns\". French was born in Lackawanna, New York and raised in Elmira, New York. In 1990, he played the role of Sam on \"As the World Turns\". Throughout the 1990s he guest starred on \"L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, Matlock, Roseanne, The X-Files, Step by Step, Cybill, ER, The Drew Carrey Show, Sliders, Diagnosis Murder\", and \"The Pretender\". He played a doctor in the 1998 film \"I Know What", "title": "Michael Bryan French" }, { "id": "19583038", "text": "Series and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series for Uzo Aduba, and numerous other awards. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The series was renewed for a fourth season on April 15, 2015, prior to its third-season premiere. For the fourth season, Jackie Cruz and Lea DeLaria were promoted to series regulars; with Elizabeth Rodriguez also being promoted by the season's sixth episode. The fourth season received critical acclaim. On Metacritic, it has a score of 86 out of 100 based on 19 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 95% rating with an average score of 8.6 out of 10", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 4)" }, { "id": "16157439", "text": "New Black\"s fifth season offers up more of the sharp writing and dizzying tonal juggling acts that fans expect – albeit somewhat less successfully.\" The sixth season received positive reviews from critics, with many critics noting its improvement over the previous season. On Metacritic, it has a score of 69 out of 100 based on 14 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has an 84% rating with an average score of 7.3 out of 10 based on 32 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: \"Brutality and humor continue to mesh effectively in a season of \"Orange Is the New Black\" that", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "19372963", "text": "Orange Is the New Black (season 5) The fifth season of the American comedy-drama television series \"Orange Is the New Black\" premiered on Netflix on June 9, 2017, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 51–60 minutes. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, \"\" (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. The series is created and adapted for television by Jenji Kohan. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> In February 2016, the series was renewed for a fifth, sixth, and seventh season. The fifth season was released on June 9, 2017. In", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 5)" }, { "id": "13971513", "text": "had a small role in the 2013 film \"The Wolf of Wall Street\". His most recent roles have been as Management and Correction Corporation employee Jack Pearson who is also the father of Danny Pearson on the Netflix comedy-drama \"Orange is the New Black\" and Blake North on the ABC miniseries \"Madoff\". Michael Bryan French Michael Bryan French is an American stage, film and television actor known for his roles on \"Orange is the New Black, Prison Break, Madoff, \", and \"As the World Turns\". French was born in Lackawanna, New York and raised in Elmira, New York. In 1990,", "title": "Michael Bryan French" }, { "id": "18041149", "text": "Matt McGorry Matthew David McGorry (born April 12, 1986) is an American actor and activist. He is best known for his roles as John Bennett in the Netflix comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\", and as Asher Millstone on ABC's \"How to Get Away with Murder\". McGorry was born and raised in Manhattan (New York City), and began performing at age nine. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in New York, then Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. McGorry began his career as a personal trainer, fitness writer for \"Men's Journal\", and competitive bodybuilder. On television, McGorry made his", "title": "Matt McGorry" }, { "id": "18041147", "text": "Matt McGorry Matthew David McGorry (born April 12, 1986) is an American actor and activist. He is best known for his roles as John Bennett in the Netflix comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\", and as Asher Millstone on ABC's \"How to Get Away with Murder\". McGorry was born and raised in Manhattan (New York City), and began performing at age nine. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in New York, then Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. McGorry began his career as a personal trainer, fitness writer for \"Men's Journal\", and competitive bodybuilder. On television, McGorry made his", "title": "Matt McGorry" }, { "id": "18102909", "text": "had been promoted from a recurring role to a series regular for the show's third season, which was released in June 2015. She appeared in the comedy films \"The Cobbler\" (2014) and \"Joy\" (2015), and starred in the film \"The Perfect Match\" (2016). Dascha Polanco Dascha Polanco (born December 3, 1982) is a Dominican American actress known for playing the character Dayanara \"Daya\" Diaz on the Netflix series \"Orange Is the New Black\". As of January 2018, she has a recurring role on \"\" as Detective Lori Weider. Polanco was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and moved to the", "title": "Dascha Polanco" }, { "id": "18856196", "text": "Jackie Cruz Jackie Cruz (born August 8, 1986) is a Dominican–American actress, singer and former model. She is known for her role as Marisol \"Flaca\" Gonzales on the Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\". Cruz was born in Queens, New York, and grew up between Los Angeles, California, and in Santiago, Dominican Republic. She was raised by a single mother, and she speaks fluent English and Spanish. Cruz was inspired to become an entertainer at the age of seven after watching Whitney Houston in \"The Bodyguard\". She attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, where she was", "title": "Jackie Cruz" }, { "id": "2694167", "text": "Jason Biggs Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor and comedian best known for his roles as Jim Levenstein in the \"American Pie\" comedy film series, and Larry Bloom in the Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\". He also starred in \"Boys and Girls\", \"Loser\", \"Saving Silverman\", \"Anything Else\", \"Jersey Girl\", \"Eight Below\", \"Over Her Dead Body\", and \"My Best Friend's Girl\". Biggs initially gained recognition from his role in the soap opera \"As the World Turns\", for which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama", "title": "Jason Biggs" }, { "id": "13660201", "text": "don’t fit into a box — that’s too reductive … I’ve had a lot of love, and I don’t have any qualms about where it comes from.\" Schilling practices Transcendental Meditation. Taylor Schilling Taylor Schilling (born July 27, 1984) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Piper Chapman on the Netflix original comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\" (2013–present), for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Best", "title": "Taylor Schilling" }, { "id": "10043157", "text": "Peter Vack Peter S. Brown (born September 19, 1986), better known by the stage name Peter Vack, is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He is known for portraying Jason Strider in the MTV comedy series \"I Just Want My Pants Back\" (2011–12), and Alex Merriweather in the Amazon Video comedy-drama series \"Mozart in the Jungle\" (2014–2015). Vack was born in the West Village, New York City, to Jane (née Spivack) and Ronald Brown, a movie producer and writer. He has one younger sister who is an actress and writer. He grew up in New York City. Vack is", "title": "Peter Vack" }, { "id": "9175308", "text": "Laryssa Lauret Laryssa Kukrycka Lysniak Lauret (August 9, 1939 – July 5, 2015) was an American actress of Ukrainian descent. She worked on Broadway and off Broadway, as well as in television in long-running roles, such as Dr. Karen Werner in \"The Doctors\" and for one season of \"Guiding Light\" as Simone Morey. Her most notable film role was for \"Everything Is Illuminated\" as Lista. In 2013, she took on the role as Pavla in the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black. Lauret died on July 5, 2015, in New York. At the time of her death, she", "title": "Laryssa Lauret" }, { "id": "20593731", "text": "Alan Aisenberg Alan Aisenberg (born March 18, 1993) is an American actor and television producer. He is best known for his role as Baxter Bayley on the Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\". Aisenberg was born to Jewish doctors who migrated to New York from Argentina. His sister Gabriela is a voice actress known for voicing various characters on \"Dora the Explorer\" and \"Go, Diego, Go!\" He was raised in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and picked up acting at a Jewish Community Center in Tenafly, New Jersey at a very young age. While attending college at the New", "title": "Alan Aisenberg" }, { "id": "3307495", "text": "\"rowdy, funny, cheerfully cockeyed.\" A concert version of \"Broadway Bounty Hunter\", starring Golden, was presented at Joe's Pub in New York City on September 26, 2016. Annie Golden Annie Golden (born October 19, 1951) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for portraying mute Norma Romano in \"Orange Is the New Black\" since 2013. Golden was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. She sang in school and church choirs as a child. Her father died at age 52 and her mother died in 1974, at the age of 42. Golden on her family: \"My mom", "title": "Annie Golden" }, { "id": "18900275", "text": "Orange Is the New Black (season 3) The third season of the American comedy-drama television series \"Orange Is the New Black\" premiered on Netflix on June 11, 2015, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 53–60 minutes, with a 90-minute finale. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, \"\" (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. The series is created and adapted for television by Jenji Kohan. The season received critical acclaim, again winning the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 3)" }, { "id": "18154925", "text": "Madeline Brewer Madeline Kathryn Brewer (born c. 1991/1992) is an American actress who has appeared in the Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\" and \"Hemlock Grove\", the Hulu series \"The Handmaid's Tale\", and the Netflix horror film \"Cam\". Brewer grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, the daughter of Laurie and Mark Brewer, who is an actor and musician. She is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Brewer was crowned Miss Pitman in high school in 2010. In 2016, she appeared in \"Men Against Fire\", an episode of the anthology series \"Black", "title": "Madeline Brewer" }, { "id": "19372965", "text": "has received \"generally favorable reviews\". On Metacritic, it has a score of 67 out of 100 based on 20 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 76% rating with an average score of 7.47 out of 10 based on 33 reviews. Orange Is the New Black (season 5) The fifth season of the American comedy-drama television series \"Orange Is the New Black\" premiered on Netflix on June 9, 2017, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 51–60 minutes. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, \"\" (2010), about her experiences at FCI", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 5)" }, { "id": "19733122", "text": "a jury member at the Les Arcs European Film Festival. She starred in \"Thirst Street\" by Nathan Silver alongside Anjelica Huston, Lindsay Burdge, Damien Bonnard, Esther Garrel, Jacques Nolot, Françoise Lebrun. \"Thirst Street\" premiered in US Narrative competition at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. In February 2017, Bessis was cast in the \"Picnic at Hanging Rock\" reboot alongside \"Game of Thrones\" actress Natalie Dormer and \"Orange is the New Black\" star Yael Stone. Lola Bessis Lola Bessis (born 1992) is a French actress, screenwriter and director. She is known for the movie Swim Little Fish Swim in which she acted", "title": "Lola Bessis" }, { "id": "5636044", "text": "has appeared in films such as \"Trainwreck\", \"Going the Distance\", \"Cedar Rapids\", \"Your Sister's Sister\" and \"The Fault in Our Stars\". He has also guest-starred in episodes of \"Girls\", \"Inside Amy Schumer\", and \"Broad City\". He played the role of Danny Pearson on the Netflix series \"Orange Is the New Black\" in its third and fourth season, with which he shared the 2016 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. In 2011, Birbiglia mounted his second one-man show, \"My Girlfriend's Boyfriend\", which ran for four months off-Broadway and won the Lucille Lortel Award", "title": "Mike Birbiglia" }, { "id": "2020395", "text": "Andrew McCarthy Andrew Thomas McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor, travel writer and television director. He is most known for his roles in 1980s films such as \"St. Elmo's Fire\", \"Pretty in Pink\", and \"Less Than Zero\". He is ranked #40 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars of all-time list. As a director he is known for his work on the Emmy Award-winning series \"Orange Is the New Black\". McCarthy was born in Westfield, New Jersey. His mother worked for a newspaper and his father was involved in investments and stocks. McCarthy moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey,", "title": "Andrew McCarthy" }, { "id": "18734080", "text": "Frank L. Ridley Frank Ridley is an American film and television actor best known for his portrayal of satirical politician Honest Gil Fulbright. Born into a musical family in Michigan, he originally trained as an opera singer with Richard Conrad. After attending Boston Conservatory of Music, he started his career as a regular member of Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston. His television career started when he was cast as Terry Mulligan in the Showtime network series \"Brotherhood\". His other TV work includes roles on \"House of Cards\", \"Orange is the New Black\", \"Alpha House\", \"Olive Kitteridge\", \"The Night Of\",", "title": "Frank L. Ridley" }, { "id": "18637291", "text": "collaborated with Wan again in his film \"Death Sentence\", playing Judge Shaw. In 2013, Roberts appeared in Justin Timberlake's music video for \"Mirrors\". In 2014, she had the recurring role in the Netflix comedy-drama series, \"Orange Is the New Black\". Along with cast, Roberts received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. In 2015, she performed on Broadway in the play \"Airline Highway\". Roberts was married to actor Pernell Roberts from 1962 to 1971. Judith Roberts (actress) Judith Anna Roberts (born November 30, 1934) is an American actress, best known for her roles", "title": "Judith Roberts (actress)" }, { "id": "20127379", "text": "Basquiat and Keith Haring\". He has had commissions from, and formed partnerships with, celebrities and brand titans including Nike, Beyoncé's album \"Lemonade\", the Grammy Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. He has also partnered with Danielle Brooks (who plays Tasha Jefferson on the Netflix series \"Orange Is the New Black\"). In June 2015, Senbanjo's new mantra became \"everything is my canvas\" and he began painting on everything from shoes, to jackets, to people. He created the \"Sacred Art of the Ori Ritual\", which he describes and explains in a September 11, 2017, TED talk. Senbanjo and his Sacred Art of the", "title": "Laolu Senbanjo" }, { "id": "17986635", "text": "hungry to see more.\" \"Orange Is the New Black\" was considered one of the best shows of the year by many critics and journalists. The series began airing on broadcast television in New Zealand on TV2 on August 19, 2013. It premiered in Australia on October 9, 2013, on Showcase. Orange Is the New Black (season 1) The first season of the American comedy-drama television series \"Orange Is the New Black\" premiered on Netflix on July 11, 2013, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 51–60 minutes. The series is based on Piper", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 1)" }, { "id": "16157427", "text": "was in negotiations with Lionsgate for a 13-episode TV adaptation of Kerman's memoirs with Kohan as creator. In November 2011, negotiations were finalized and the series had been greenlit. Kohan had initially wanted to cast Katie Holmes in the role of Piper Chapman, and met with the actress to discuss it, but Holmes had other commitments. Casting announcements began in August 2012 with Taylor Schilling, the first to be cast, as Piper Chapman, followed by Jason Biggs as Piper's fiancé Larry Bloom. Laura Prepon and Yael Stone were next to join the series, as Alex Vause and Lorna Morello, respectively.", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "17492470", "text": "14, 2016. Lapkus married Mike Castle on October 5, 2018. Lauren Lapkus Dorthea Lauren Allegra Lapkus (born September 6, 1985) is an American actress and comedian known for portraying Susan Fischer in the Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\" and Jess in the HBO series \"Crashing\". She has also made appearances on such television shows as \"Jimmy Kimmel Live!\", \"The Middle\", \"Hot in Cleveland\", and \"@midnight\" and films such as \"Jurassic World\". She has appeared on many podcasts, including \"Comedy Bang! Bang!\", \"improv4humans\", and her own podcast \"With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus\". She was a main cast member", "title": "Lauren Lapkus" }, { "id": "18280012", "text": "Stars Season 4 are Emmy® Award nominee Laverne Cox of \"Orange Is the New Black\", Emmy winner Debra Messing who has a new television show \"The Mysteries of Laura\", \"Modern Family\" Ariel Winter, Academy Award® winner Mira Sorvino, singer Nicole Scherzinger, Emmy nominated host Cat Deeley, reality stars Snooki and JWoww, celebrity photographer Nigel Barker and QVC® Program Host Lisa Robertson. Fashion Designers Betsey Johnson, Michael Bastian, Elie Tahari and Ivanka Trump will serve as guest judges. \"Project Runway\" judges Nina Garcia and Zac Posen will make special appearances. Names and locales: \"Original airdate\": October 30, 2014 \"Original airdate\": November", "title": "Project Runway All Stars (season 4)" }, { "id": "18167053", "text": "song, we literally said 'nope, that's the right song. \"Billboard\" placed the track at number three in its list of the Top 10 Songs From World Cup Spots. The song was featured in a trailer for the second season of Netflix web television series \"Orange Is the New Black\". It was also used in trailers for the films \"Horrible Bosses 2\" (2014) and \"Project Almanac\" (2015) and the video game \"Battlefield Hardline\" (2015). It appeared in the crime thriller television series \"The Blacklist\". In April 2015, a promotional video featuring the cast of \"Pitch Perfect 2\" and basketball player Kyle", "title": "Jungle (X Ambassadors and Jamie N Commons song)" }, { "id": "12470558", "text": "Netflix series \"Orange Is the New Black\" (2015–16). She has also had large roles in the action films \"\" (2016), \"\" (2017) and \"\" (2017) and has co-starred in the musical comedy \"Pitch Perfect 3\" (2017) and the monster film \"The Meg\" (2018). Rose was born in Melbourne, the daughter of Katia Langenheim, a 20-year-old single mother and artist, whom she describes as one of her role models. As a young child, she travelled frequently, living in rural Victoria, Tasmania, and Surfers Paradise before finally settling in Melbourne. As a teenager, she attended University High School and Footscray City College.", "title": "Ruby Rose" }, { "id": "18004820", "text": "Danielle Brooks Danielle Brooks (born September 17, 1989) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Tasha \"Taystee\" Jefferson on the Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\". She received a Tony Award nomination for her portrayal of Sofia in the 2015 Broadway production of \"The Color Purple\". Brooks was born in Augusta, Georgia, and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, in a Christian family; her father was a deacon, and her mother, a minister. She began acting at the age of six in a nativity play put on by her church. For her final", "title": "Danielle Brooks" }, { "id": "17492465", "text": "Lauren Lapkus Dorthea Lauren Allegra Lapkus (born September 6, 1985) is an American actress and comedian known for portraying Susan Fischer in the Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\" and Jess in the HBO series \"Crashing\". She has also made appearances on such television shows as \"Jimmy Kimmel Live!\", \"The Middle\", \"Hot in Cleveland\", and \"@midnight\" and films such as \"Jurassic World\". She has appeared on many podcasts, including \"Comedy Bang! Bang!\", \"improv4humans\", and her own podcast \"With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus\". She was a main cast member on the TBS original sitcom \"Clipped\". Lapkus was born in", "title": "Lauren Lapkus" }, { "id": "3531661", "text": "Rodney Yee Rodney Yee is an American yoga instructor who rose to national prominence in the early 1990s when he began starring in a series of Gaiam/Living Arts yoga instructional videos and DVDs. More than thirty such programs now exist, selling in the millions worldwide. Yee has also been featured on calendars, magazines and natural product advertisements; narrated meditation audios; written a book; and done extensive charitable work. He has made guest appearances on \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\", CNN, PBS, and elsewhere. Rodney Yee was born in 1957, the Chinese-American son of an Air Force Colonel, and spent his childhood", "title": "Rodney Yee" }, { "id": "16157432", "text": "Stone, and Samira Wiley. Both Jason Biggs and Pablo Schreiber were confirmed as not returning for the third season, but Schreiber appeared in the 10th episode of the third season. The series was renewed for a fourth season on April 15, 2015, prior to its third-season release. For the fourth season, Jackie Cruz and Lea DeLaria were promoted to series regulars; with Elizabeth Rodriguez also being promoted by the season's sixth episode. On February 5, 2016, the series was renewed for a fifth, sixth and seventh season. In season six, Dale Soules, Laura Gómez, and Matt Peters were promoted to", "title": "Orange Is the New Black" }, { "id": "19583039", "text": "based on 39 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads: \"\"Orange is the New Black\" is back and better than ever, with a powerful fourth season full of compelling performances by the ensemble cast.\" James Poniewozik of \"The New York Times\" reviewed the fourth season as \"Do you measure the quality of a TV season as a beginning-to-end average or by how well it ends? By the first yardstick, Season 4 is ambitious but uneven; by the latter, it's the series' best.\" Orange Is the New Black (season 4) The fourth season of the American comedy-drama television series \"Orange Is the", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 4)" }, { "id": "17532058", "text": "Award, Best New Play and the 2018 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play (Bernstine). His play \"Log Cabin\" premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on June 1, 2018 in previews, officially on June 25. The play involves a tight-knit group of gays and lesbians and is directed by Pam MacKinnon with Jesse Tyler Ferguson starring. Harrison writes for the Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\". His play \"Marjorie Prime\" premiered at the Center Theatre Group Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, California in September 2014, under the direction of Les Waters. The play featured Lois Smith", "title": "Jordan Harrison" }, { "id": "12858378", "text": "alongside Penélope Cruz. The film was one of Allen's most profitable and received favorable reviews. A reviewer in \"Variety\" described Johansson as \"open and malleable\" compared to the other actors. She also played the \"femme fatale\" Silken Floss in \"The Spirit\", based on the newspaper comic strip of the same name by Will Eisner. It received poor reviews from critics, who deemed it melodramatic, unoriginal, and sexist. Johansson's only role in 2009 was as Anna Marks, a yoga instructor, in the ensemble comedy-drama \"He's Just Not That Into You\" (2009). The film was released to tepid reviews, but was a", "title": "Scarlett Johansson" }, { "id": "18101000", "text": "\"Girls\", and \"Elementary\". In 2013, Leyva began starring as Gloria Mendoza, a Latina leader in the jail, in the Netflix comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\". Her character was recurring for the first two seasons and she was promoted to series regular in Season 3. In 2015, she co-starred opposite Viola Davis and Catalina Sandino Moreno in the courtroom drama film \"Custody\" directed and written by James Lapine. Leyva has one daughter, Alina. She is a supporter of the LGBT community and revealed in June 2015 that her sister Marizol is transgender. Selenis Leyva Selenis Leyva (born May 26,", "title": "Selenis Leyva" }, { "id": "18154926", "text": "Mirror\". Madeline Brewer Madeline Kathryn Brewer (born c. 1991/1992) is an American actress who has appeared in the Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\" and \"Hemlock Grove\", the Hulu series \"The Handmaid's Tale\", and the Netflix horror film \"Cam\". Brewer grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, the daughter of Laurie and Mark Brewer, who is an actor and musician. She is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Brewer was crowned Miss Pitman in high school in 2010. In 2016, she appeared in \"Men Against Fire\", an episode of the anthology series", "title": "Madeline Brewer" }, { "id": "20593733", "text": "the rest of the cast of \"Orange Is the New Black\" won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. In October 2017, it was announced that Pop ordered a pilot for \"Sebastian Wakes Up\", an improv comedy series co-created by Aisenberg and produced by Deverge, Aisenberg's production company. In November 2017, it was announced that Aisenberg will be featured in \"Second Act\", a romantic comedy which is set to be released on November 21, 2018. Alan Aisenberg Alan Aisenberg (born March 18, 1993) is an American actor and television producer. He is", "title": "Alan Aisenberg" }, { "id": "13660196", "text": "Taylor Schilling Taylor Schilling (born July 27, 1984) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Piper Chapman on the Netflix original comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\" (2013–present), for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy and Best Actress – Television Series Drama. She made her film debut in the 2007 drama \"Dark Matter\". Schilling also starred in the short-lived NBC medical drama \"Mercy\" (2009–10). Her other films include", "title": "Taylor Schilling" }, { "id": "18102906", "text": "Dascha Polanco Dascha Polanco (born December 3, 1982) is a Dominican American actress known for playing the character Dayanara \"Daya\" Diaz on the Netflix series \"Orange Is the New Black\". As of January 2018, she has a recurring role on \"\" as Detective Lori Weider. Polanco was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and moved to the United States at a young age. She was raised in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York and Miami by her father, a mechanic, and mother, a cosmetologist. Polanco is the oldest of three children; she has a brother and sister. Polanco has two children,", "title": "Dascha Polanco" }, { "id": "17521371", "text": "shows of the year by many critics and journalists. In Australia, the second season began airing on Showcase on July 16, 2014. Orange Is the New Black (season 2) The second season of the American comedy-drama television series \"Orange Is the New Black\" premiered on Netflix on June 6, 2014, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 51–60 minutes, with a 90-minute finale. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, \"\" (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. The series is created and adapted for television by Jenji", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 2)" }, { "id": "18572721", "text": "Quentin Young. The movie was released in 2016 after its World Premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as a Competition Feature at Dances with Films Festival. It was well received by critics, and was given a five star review from the Examiner. The Huffington Post commented that as a director, \"... the key word when describing Brandy is unflinching.\" Women & Hollywood chose Lola's Last Letter as a VOD pick of the month, stating in its review that \"...If “Orange is the New Black” broke a barrier by shining a spotlight on and humanizing an ignored population —", "title": "Valerie Brandy" }, { "id": "17986633", "text": "of race, sexuality, gender and body types. The first season received positive reviews from critics, review aggregator Metacritic gave it a weighted average score of 79 out of 100 based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating favorable reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, season one has a 93% approval rating based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2 out of 10 . The site's critical consensus is \"\"Orange Is the New Black\" is a sharp mix of black humor and dramatic heft, with interesting characters and an intriguing flashback structure.\" Hank Stuever, television critic for \"The Washington Post\", gave \"Orange", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 1)" }, { "id": "5636038", "text": "finalist for the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Birbiglia has appeared in films such as \"Your Sister's Sister\" (2011), \"Cedar Rapids\" (2011), and \"Trainwreck\" (2015), played a recurring role in \"Orange Is the New Black\", and has guest starred in episodes of \"Girls\", \"Inside Amy Schumer\", and \"Broad City\". Birbiglia was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Jean (née McKenzie) and Vincent Paul Birbiglia. He is the youngest of four children. He is of part Italian descent. Birbiglia attended St. John's High School, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts for one year, and graduated from St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts in", "title": "Mike Birbiglia" }, { "id": "17986623", "text": "Orange Is the New Black (season 1) The first season of the American comedy-drama television series \"Orange Is the New Black\" premiered on Netflix on July 11, 2013, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen episodes, each between 51–60 minutes. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir, \"\" (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum-security federal prison. Created and adapted for television by Jenji Kohan. In July 2011, Netflix was in negotiations with Lionsgate for a 13-episode TV adaptation of Kerman's memoirs. The series began filming in the old Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 1)" }, { "id": "9906655", "text": "New Black\" as Desi Piscatella, a gay corrections officer at Litchfield Federal Penitentiary. He joined \"OITNB\" in the fourth season. He was part of the cast that won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for 2016. Henke was married to actress Katelin Chesna from 2001 to 2008. Brad William Henke Brad William Henke (born April 10, 1966) is an American actor and former National Football League and Arena Football League player. He is best known for his role as prison guard Desi Piscatella on \"Orange Is The New Black\", for which", "title": "Brad William Henke" }, { "id": "13564233", "text": "and the Invisibles\", playing Armand Montgomery, father to Freddie Highmore's Arthur, and \"Jason Bourne\". Stanton appeared in episodes of the television shows \"Law & Order\", \"\", \"\", \"Frasier\", \"Ed\", \"Third Watch\", \"Damages\", \"NYC 22\", \"The Good Wife\", and \"Orange Is the New Black\". He also played Anthony “Robi” Frobisher, boss to mass killer \"Mr. Mercedes\", in David E. Kelley’s 2017 television adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. Robert Stanton (actor) Robert Lloyd Stanton (born March 8, 1963) is an American film, television and stage actor, director and playwright. He may be best known for his role in the 1993 film \"Dennis", "title": "Robert Stanton (actor)" }, { "id": "15568223", "text": "Josh Segarra Joshua Segarra (born June 3, 1986) is an American actor who is best known for his television roles as police officer Billy Cepeda on \"Sirens\" (2014–2015), Hector Ruiz on \"The Electric Company\" (2009–2011), Justin Voight on \"Chicago P.D.\" (2014–2016) and Adrian Chase on \"Arrow\" (2016–2017). Segarra also appears on Netflix’s \"Orange is the New Black\" as CO D. Stefanovic. He has appeared many times on-and off-Broadway; he appeared in the original musical casts of \"Lysistrata Jones\" as Mick, Pasek and Paul's 2012 musical \"Dogfight\" based on the 1991 film of the same name, and \"On Your Feet!\" in", "title": "Josh Segarra" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "9906653", "text": "Brad William Henke Brad William Henke (born April 10, 1966) is an American actor and former National Football League and Arena Football League player. He is best known for his role as prison guard Desi Piscatella on \"Orange Is The New Black\", for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2016. Henke was born in Columbus, Nebraska. He attended the University of Arizona and played football as a defensive lineman. Henke was drafted by the New York Giants in the 1989 NFL Draft but got cut. He was", "title": "Brad William Henke" }, { "id": "18100999", "text": "Selenis Leyva Selenis Leyva (born May 26, 1972) is a Cuban-born American actress. She is known for her role as Gloria Mendoza in the Netflix comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\". Leyva was born in Baracoa, Cuba and raised in the Bronx, New York City. She is of Cuban and Dominican descent. She has appeared in a number of Off-Broadway productions. On television, Leyva had a recurring role of Detective Mariluz Rivera in \"Law & Order\", and also appeared in different roles on the show and on \"\". She has guest-starred on \"Third Watch\", \"The Sopranos\", \"The Good Wife\",", "title": "Selenis Leyva" }, { "id": "17618165", "text": "Michelle Hurst Michelle Hurst (born June 1, 1942) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Miss Claudette Pelage in the first season of the web television series \"Orange Is the New Black\". Hurst was born in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1974. She began her career in theatre, and in the 1990s began appearing in television and film. Hurst is known for her multiple roles in various \"Law & Order\" television shows. She co-starred in films like \"Airheads\", \"Smoke\", \"Stepmom\" and \"Sherrybaby\". Hurst starred as Miss Claudette Pelage in", "title": "Michelle Hurst" }, { "id": "6376301", "text": "the musical, which first premiered June 15, 2017 at The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, WA. In 2015, 2016 and 2017, she received an award BMI for her work on the Netflix show \"Orange Is The New Black\". In 2007, she received an award BMI for her work on the TV show \"Weeds\". In 2003, Sanford was recognized at \"LA Weekly\" Music Awards as the Best New Genre/Uncategorizable Artist. Also in 2003, Gwendolyn won KFPK radio's \"The Music Never Stops\" #1 Album of the Year\" award for \"Dew\" and Amoeba Music named Sanford as their \"Homegrown Artist Pick\". To date,", "title": "Gwendolyn Sanford" }, { "id": "18004821", "text": "two years of high school, she attended South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, a selective arts high school. She studied drama at the Juilliard School and graduated in 2011. After graduating from Juilliard, Brooks won roles in two theater productions: the Shakespeare Theatre Company's \"Servant of Two Masters\", and \"Blacken the Bubble\". She left both productions in 2013 to join the cast of the Netflix-produced television series \"Orange Is the New Black\", a show about a women's prison based on Piper Kerman's , as Tasha \"Taystee\" Jefferson. Her character Taystee was originally intended to be featured in", "title": "Danielle Brooks" }, { "id": "17521368", "text": "season consisting of 13 episodes. Jenji Kohan stated that the story for the second season would focus less on Piper Chapman and more in the cast as a whole. For the second season, Uzo Aduba, Taryn Manning, Danielle Brooks, and Natasha Lyonne were promoted to series regulars. Laura Prepon did not return as a series regular for a second season because of scheduling conflicts. In July, it was announced that Lorraine Toussaint had joined the cast in a recurring role. Toussaint said of the role: \"Jenji has written one of the more complex characters I've ever played, and probably one", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 2)" }, { "id": "18833897", "text": "Good Wife\", \"Law & Order\", and \"Orange Is the New Black\". Boyer went to Westerville North High School He also spent time at Columbus Junior Theatre, in his youth. He graduated from The Juilliard School, Drama Division in 2001 where he received the Michel Saint‐Denis Award for outstanding graduate. In 2014, the Actors’ Equity Association awarded him the Clarence Derwent Award In 2005, when acting roles dried up, Boyer toured colleges, universities, and venues as a stand up comic. Boyer also plays lead guitar in a rock band, The U.S. Open, with fellow NBC actor William Jackson Harper on drums.", "title": "Steven Boyer" }, { "id": "9697619", "text": "Liz Friedman Liz Friedman is an American television producer and television writer known especially for her work on \"\", \"Young Hercules\", \"House\" and \"Jessica Jones\". In 2014, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for co-writing the pilot episode of Netflix original series \"Orange Is the New Black\". She wrote and produced episodes of \"\", early in her writing career. Friedman was co-creator, writer, and executive producer of \"Young Hercules\". Soon after, she along with fellow \"House\" writers, Lawrence Kaplow, Leonard Dick, and Thomas L. Moran wrote episodes for \"Hack\". She wrote for \"The", "title": "Liz Friedman" }, { "id": "19915159", "text": "and Karl was wanted by the authorities. On February 10, 2016, Daniel Radcliffe joined the cast. On March 21, 2016, Thomas Kretschmann and Alex Russell also joined the cast. Principal photography began on March 19, 2016 and ended on April 13, 2016. The film premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 3, 2017. It was released in Australia on November 9, 2017, by Umbrella Entertainment. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 54%, based on 48 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 48 out", "title": "Jungle (2017 film)" }, { "id": "13163911", "text": "movement does nothing but help the cause. Many celebrities have spoken out in support of transgender rights and often in conjunction with overall support for the LGBTQ community. Numerous celebrities voice such support for the Human Rights Campaign, including Archie Panjabi, Lance Bass, Tituss Burgess, Chelsea Clinton, George Clooney, Tim Cook, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sally Field, Lady Gaga, Whoopi Goldberg, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Hudson, Caitlyn Jenner, Jazz Jennings, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Jennifer Lopez, Demi Lovato, Natasha Lyonne, Ellen Page, Brad Pitt, Geena Rocero, Bruce Springsteen, Jeffrey Tambor, Charlize Theron, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Wachowski. \"Orange Is the New Black\"", "title": "Transgender rights movement" }, { "id": "8523181", "text": "Jenji Kohan Jenji Leslie Kohan (born July 5, 1969) is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the creator of the Showtime comedy-drama series \"Weeds\" and the Netflix comedy-drama series \"Orange Is the New Black\". She has received nine Emmy Award nominations, winning one as supervising producer of the comedy series \"Tracey Takes On...\". Kohan was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Rhea Kohan (née Arnold), and Alan W. \"Buz\" Kohan. She is the youngest of three siblings, the other two being twins Jono and David. Much of the family", "title": "Jenji Kohan" }, { "id": "16293981", "text": "Baxter, replacing Alexandra Krosney who played the role in the first season. She is currently portraying Madison \"Badison\" Murphy on \"Orange Is the New Black\". Amanda Fuller graduated from Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California in 2002. Fuller currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Amanda Fuller Amanda Marie Fuller (born August 27, 1984) is an American television and film actress. She is best known for portraying Kristin Baxter on FOX's \"Last Man Standing\". In \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\", Fuller played Eve, one of the potential slayers who appeared in the final season. In \"'Til There Was You\", Fuller", "title": "Amanda Fuller" }, { "id": "18900278", "text": "Television Series – Musical or Comedy. The series has also received, among other accolades, six Writers Guild of America Award nominations, five Satellite Awards, four Critics' Choice Television Awards, a GLAAD Media Award, an American Cinema Editors Award, a Producers Guild of America Award, and a Peabody Award. In Australia, the third season began airing on Showcase on June 11, 2015. Orange Is the New Black (season 3) The third season of the American comedy-drama television series \"Orange Is the New Black\" premiered on Netflix on June 11, 2015, at 12:00 am PST in multiple countries. It consists of thirteen", "title": "Orange Is the New Black (season 3)" }, { "id": "17841547", "text": "the first season of her Comedy Central show, Inside Amy Schumer, which earned high ratings in 2013 and went on to win a Peabody Award in 2014. Snider's short play, A Weekend Conference, debuted as part of The Collective's Fourth Annual C:10 Play Festival in September 2016. The dark comedy follows three men on their way to a gay reparative therapy weekend. The piece was directed by Richard Masur (Transparent, The Good Wife) and starred Snider, Mike Houston (Orange is the New Black, Sneaky Pete) and Gabe Fazio (Place Beyond the Pines, Homeland). The short play is currently being developed", "title": "Brandon T. Snider" }, { "id": "6114264", "text": "Maiden and Black Sabbath, American bands such as Metallica, Slayer, Testament and Metal Church, and Canadian band Rush. His favourite drummers include Sean Reinert (Cynic), Neil Peart (Rush), Ian Mosley (Marillion), Terry Bozzio (Missing Persons and Frank Zappa), Vinnie Colaiuta, Gary Husband and Dave Weckl. c Haake is officially linked to actress/musician, Jessica Pimentel, singer of heavy metal band Alekhine's Gun, and star of \"Orange Is the New Black\", beginning their romantic relationship in 2013. Meshuggah Tomas Haake Tomas Haake (born July 13, 1971) is a Swedish musician. He is the drummer and main lyricist of the extreme metal band", "title": "Tomas Haake" }, { "id": "19228166", "text": "Harry Ford (actor) Harry Ford (born 1983) is an American actor. He starred in the CBS medical drama \"Code Black\" as third-year resident Dr. Angus Leighton. Ford was born Harrison Miller Ford in 1983 in Dyersburg, Tennessee. He began his acting career in middle school and attended high school at Memphis University School in Memphis. He received his bachelor's degree in fine arts in theater with an emphasis in acting from Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts, and a master's degree in fine arts in acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Currently, Ford resides", "title": "Harry Ford (actor)" }, { "id": "6017803", "text": "and appeared as Mel Gibson's character's wife in the science-fiction thriller, \"Signs\" that same year. She had guest roles on such television series as \"Touched by an Angel\", \"Gossip Girl\", \"The Good Wife\", \"Blue Bloods\", and \"Orange Is the New Black\". Kalember played two different characters in \"\"; in 2001, she appeared in an episode of the second season, and from 2004 to 2010, she played Judge Karen Taten. Kalember co-starred in such films as \"The Girl in the Park\", \"The Company Men\", \"Rabbit Hole\", and \"Limitless\". 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[ { "id": "6945942", "text": "an attempt to limit contaminants in the food supply. Traditionally, contaminants of greatest concern were pathogens. According to 2011 estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 48 million people are sickened, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases during each year. The top five offenders were norovirus, \"salmonella\", \"Clostridium perfringens\", \"Campylobacter\" spp., and \"Staphylococcus aureus\". The General Accounting Office has written numerous reports highlighting the dangers inherent in a fragmented approach to U.S. food safety. Federal regulation of food safety is split primarily among agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services and the", "title": "Food policy" }, { "id": "9177628", "text": "as the fact that pathogens can be introduced into foods no matter how many precautions are taken. The five key principles of food hygiene, according to WHO, are: Food safety issues and regulations concern: Food contamination happens when food are corrupted with another substance. It can happen In the process of production, transportation, packaging, storage, sales and cooking process. The contamination can be physical, chemical and biological. Physical contaminants (or ‘foreign bodies’) are objects such as hair, plant stalks or pieces of plastic and metal. When the foreign object comes into the food, it is a physical contaminant. If the", "title": "Food safety" }, { "id": "10612211", "text": "Food contaminant Food contamination refers to the presence of harmful chemicals and microorganisms in food, which can cause consumer illness. This article addresses the chemical contamination of foods, as opposed to microbiological contamination, which can be found under foodborne illness. The impact of chemical contaminants on consumer health and well-being is often apparent only after many years of processing and prolonged exposure at low levels (e.g., cancer). Unlike food-borne pathogens, chemical contaminants present in foods are often unaffected by thermal processing. Chemical contaminants can be classified according to the source of contamination and the mechanism by which they enter the", "title": "Food contaminant" }, { "id": "15471979", "text": "the process. While the bacteria itself may or may not be harmful, the waste products may be unpleasant to taste or may even be harmful to one's health. Yeasts can be responsible for the decomposition of food with a high sugar content. The same effect is useful in the production of various types of food and beverages, such as bread, yogurt, cider, and alcoholic beverages. Signs of food spoilage may include an appearance different from the food in its fresh form, such as a change in color, a change in texture, an unpleasant odour, or an undesirable taste. The item", "title": "Food spoilage" }, { "id": "15471980", "text": "may become softer than normal. If mold occurs, it is often visible externally on the item. Spoilage bacteria do not normally cause \"food poisoning\"; typically, the microorganisms that cause foodborne illnesses are odorless and flavourless, and otherwise undetectable outside the lab. Eating deteriorated food could not be considered safe due to mycotoxins or microbial wastes. Some pathogenic bacteria, such as \"Clostridium perfringens\" and \"Bacillus cereus\", are capable of causing spoilage. A number of methods of prevention can be used that can either totally prevent, delay, or otherwise reduce food spoilage. A food rotation system uses the first in first out", "title": "Food spoilage" }, { "id": "738191", "text": "decay, then focused on the diet and nutritional habits of the American public. It criticized the use of salt, sugar and fat in processed foods, noted problems with overeating and the high percentage of ads for junk food on TV, and stated that bad eating habits could be as deadly as smoking. The findings were heavily criticized and rebutted from many directions, including the food industry, the American Medical Association, and within the committee itself. In 1977, the committee issued public guidelines under the title, \"Dietary Goals for the United States\", which became the predecessor to \"Dietary Guidelines for Americans\",", "title": "Junk food" }, { "id": "8788171", "text": "Food microbiology Food microbiology is the study of the microorganisms that inhibit, create, or contaminate food, including the study of microorganisms causing food spoilage, pathogens that may cause disease especially if food is improperly cooked or stored, those used to produce fermented foods such as cheese, yogurt, bread, beer, and wine, and those with other useful roles such as producing probiotics. Food safety is a major focus of food microbiology. Numerous agents of disease, pathogens, are readily transmitted via food, including bacteria, and viruses. Microbial toxins are also possible contaminants of food. However, microorganisms and their products can also be", "title": "Food microbiology" }, { "id": "9177629", "text": "foreign objects are bacteria, the case will a physical and biological contamination. Common sources to create physical contaminations are: hair, glass or metal, pests, jewelry, dirt and fingernails. Chemical contamination happens when food is contaminated with a natural or artificial chemical substance. Common sources of chemical contamination can include: pesticides, herbicides, veterinary drugs, contamination from environmental sources (water, air or soil pollution), cross-contamination during food processing, migration from food packaging materials, presence of natural toxins or use of unapproved food additives and adulterants. Chemical contaminations usually share the following characteristics: Biological contamination refers to food that has been contaminated by", "title": "Food safety" }, { "id": "2001239", "text": "use should strictly adhere to guidelines set out by reliable sources, such as the United States Department of Agriculture. These guidelines have been thoroughly researched by scientists to determine the best methods for reducing the real threat of food poisoning from unsafe food storage. It is also important to maintain proper kitchen hygiene, to reduce risks of bacteria or virus growth and food poisoning. The common food poisoning illnesses include Listeriosis, Mycotoxicosis, Salmonellosis, E. coli, Staphylococcal food poisoning and Botulism. There are many other organisms that can also cause food poisoning. There are also safety guidelines available for the correct", "title": "Food storage" }, { "id": "203772", "text": "food and therefore alters the chemical makeup, nutritional content, and the sensory qualities of the food. Some of the potential secondary impacts of irradiation are hypothetical, while others are demonstrated. These effects include cumulative impacts to pathogens, people, and the environment due to the reduction of food quality, the transportation and storage of radioactive goods, and destruction of pathogens, changes in the way we relate to food and how irradiation changes the food production and shipping industries. The radiation source supplies energetic particles or waves. As these waves/particles pass through a target material they collide with other particles. Around the", "title": "Food irradiation" }, { "id": "64056", "text": "as bacteria and viruses, as well as various parasites such as tapeworms and \"Toxoplasma gondii\". Food poisoning and other illness from uncooked or poorly prepared food may be caused by bacteria such as of \"Escherichia coli\", \"Salmonella typhimurium\" and \"Campylobacter\", viruses such as noroviruses, and protozoa such as \"Entamoeba histolytica\". Bacteria, viruses and parasites may be introduced through salad, meat that is uncooked or done rare, and unboiled water. The sterilizing effect of cooking depends on temperature, cooking time, and technique used. Some food spoilage bacteria such as \"Clostridium botulinum\" or \"Bacillus cereus\" can form spores that survive boiling, which", "title": "Cooking" }, { "id": "738181", "text": "just another way of saying, 'I disapprove of it.' There are bad diets - that is, bad mixtures and quantities of food - but there are no 'bad foods' except those that have become bad through contamination or deterioration.\" Junk food in its various forms is extremely popular, and an integral part of modern popular culture. In the US, annual fast food sales are in the area of $160 billion, compared to supermarket sales of $620 billion (a figure which also includes junk food in the form of convenience foods, snack foods, and candy). In 1976, \"Junk Food Junkie\", the", "title": "Junk food" }, { "id": "15471978", "text": "Food spoilage Spoilage is the process in which food deteriorates to the point in which it is not edible to humans or its quality of edibility becomes reduced. Various external forces are responsible for the spoilage of food. Food that is capable of spoiling is referred to as perishable food. Harvested foods decompose from the moment they are harvested due to attacks from enzymes, oxidation and microorganisms. These include bacteria, mold, yeast, moisture, temperature and chemical reaction. Bacteria can be responsible for the spoilage of food. When bacteria breaks down the food, acids and other waste products are created in", "title": "Food spoilage" }, { "id": "20375231", "text": "negative health effects: Developmental Toxicant, Reproductive Toxicant, Cardiovascular or Blood Toxicant, Endocrine Toxicant, Gastrointestinal or Liver Toxicant, Immunotoxicant, Neurotoxicant, Respiratory Toxicant, Skin or Sense Organ Toxicant. This means it can: affect the development of an unborn child; affect fertility and may even cause the loss of a fetus during pregnancy; cause blood diseases or abnormal heartbeat; weaken the endocrine system leading to diabetes, hormone imbalances, reproductive disorders or cancer; cause liver damage and disease; weaken the immune system which can lead to disease or cancer; affect how the nerves carry information through the bodies peripheral nervous system which weakens the", "title": "Price Landfill" }, { "id": "13419393", "text": "chlorinated dioxins. Dioxins are recognized as a persistent environmental pollutant, regulated internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Dioxins are highly toxic, and health effects on humans include reproductive, developmental, immune and hormonal problems. They are known to be carcinogenic. Over 90% of human exposure is through food, primarily meat, dairy, fish and shellfish, as dioxins accumulate in the food chain in the fatty tissue of animals. Globally, 69% of GHGs come from the energy and transportation industries. The global print and paper industry accounts for about 1% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Greenhouse gas emissions from the", "title": "Environmental impact of paper" }, { "id": "134057", "text": "to the neediest countries are often coordinated by the World Food Programme. Foodborne illness, commonly called \"food poisoning\", is caused by bacteria, toxins, viruses, parasites, and prions. Roughly 7 million people die of food poisoning each year, with about 10 times as many suffering from a non-fatal version. The two most common factors leading to cases of bacterial foodborne illness are cross-contamination of ready-to-eat food from other uncooked foods and improper temperature control. Less commonly, acute adverse reactions can also occur if chemical contamination of food occurs, for example from improper storage, or use of non-food grade soaps and disinfectants.", "title": "Food" }, { "id": "2821774", "text": "Foodborne illness Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease and colloquially referred to as food poisoning) is any illness resulting from the food spoilage of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food, as well as toxins such as poisonous mushrooms and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes. Symptoms vary depending on the cause, and are described below in this article. A few broad generalizations can be made, e.g.: The incubation period ranges from hours to days, depending on the cause and on how much was consumed. The incubation period tends to", "title": "Foodborne illness" }, { "id": "7880945", "text": "as stored grains, meat, fish, vegetable and fruits are attacked by saprotrophic bacteria and spoiled. Similarly milk and products are easily contaminated by bacteria and spoiled. Economic importance of bacteria Bacteria are economically important as these microorganisms are used by humans for many purposes and are harmful in causing disease and spoiling food. The beneficial uses of bacteria include the production of traditional foods such as yoghurt, cheese, and vinegar; biotechnology and genetic engineering, producing substances such as drugs and vitamins; agriculture; fibre retting; human and animal digestion; and biological control of pests. Sourdough bread is made to rise by", "title": "Economic importance of bacteria" }, { "id": "203774", "text": "few of these products are unique, but not considered dangerous. Irradiation can also alter the nutritional content and flavor of foods, much like cooking. The scale of these chemical changes is not unique. Cooking, smoking, salting, and other less novel techniques, cause the food to be altered so drastically that its original nature is almost unrecognizable, and must be called by a different name. Storage of food also causes dramatic chemical changes, ones that eventually lead to deterioration and spoilage. A major concern is that irradiation might cause chemical changes that are harmful to the consumer. Several national expert groups", "title": "Food irradiation" }, { "id": "2821776", "text": "body tissues. Foodborne illness usually arises from improper handling, preparation, or food storage. Good hygiene practices before, during, and after food preparation can reduce the chances of contracting an illness. There is a consensus in the public health community that regular hand-washing is one of the most effective defenses against the spread of foodborne illness. The action of monitoring food to ensure that it will not cause foodborne illness is known as food safety. Foodborne disease can also be caused by a large variety of toxins that affect the environment. Furthermore, foodborne illness can be caused by pesticides or medicines", "title": "Foodborne illness" }, { "id": "20264221", "text": "Infant food safety Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease and colloquially referred to as food poisoning) is any illness resulting from the food spoilage of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food. Infant food safety is the identification of risky food handling practices and the prevention of illness in infants. Fooddborne illness is a serious health issue, especially for babies and children. Infants and young children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness because their immune systems are not developed enough to fight off foodborne bacterial infections. In fact, 800,000 illnesses affect children under the age of 10 in", "title": "Infant food safety" }, { "id": "9065237", "text": "gases. It is referred to as fats, oils, and grease (FOG) waste or more commonly \"brown grease\" (versus \"yellow grease\", which is fryer oil that is easily collected and processed into biodiesel) and is an overwhelming problem, especially in the USA, for the aging sewer systems. Per the US EPA, sanitary sewer overflows also occur due to the improper discharge of FOGs to the collection system. Overflows discharge – of untreated wastewater annually into local waterways, and up to 3,700 illnesses annually are due to exposure to contamination from sanitary sewer overflows into recreational waters. Nearly all global produce, eaten", "title": "Food waste" }, { "id": "11820942", "text": "internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Dioxins are highly toxic, and health effects on humans include reproductive, developmental, immune and hormonal problems. They are known to be carcinogenic. Over 90% of human exposure is through food, primarily meat, dairy, fish and shellfish, as dioxins accumulate in the food chain in the fatty tissue of animals. Some manufacturers have started using a new, significantly more environmentally friendly alternative to expanded plastic packaging. Made out of paper, and known commercially as PaperFoam, the new packaging has mechanical properties very similar to those of some expanded plastic packaging, but is", "title": "Paper" }, { "id": "4328064", "text": "by September 2014. Food trucks have unique health risks compared to regular land-based restaurants when it comes to food safety and the prevention of foodborne illness. Most food trucks do not have access to adequate clean and hot water necessary to wash hands or to rinse off vegetables, as required by most health codes or regulations. In June 2017, \"The Boston Globe\" reviewed the 2016 city health records and found food truck had been cited for violations 200 times, with half of the violations being minor in nature and the other half being serious violations. When compared to fixed location", "title": "Food truck" }, { "id": "20375236", "text": "have the following negative health effects: Developmental Toxicant, Reproductive Toxicant, Cardiovascular or Blood Toxicant, Endocrine Toxicant, Gastrointestinal or Liver Toxicant, Immunotoxicant, Kidney Toxicant, Neurotoxicant, Respiratory Toxicant, Skin or Sense Organ Toxicant. This means it can affect the development of an unborn child; affect fertility and may even cause the loss of a fetus during pregnancy; cause blood diseases or abnormal heartbeat; weaken the endocrine system leading to diabetes, hormone imbalances, reproductive disorders or cancer; cause liver damage and disease; weaken the immune system which can lead to disease or cancer; cause kidney disease which can lead to cancer; affect how", "title": "Price Landfill" }, { "id": "4812228", "text": "Scombroid food poisoning Scombroid food poisoning, also known as simple scombroid, is a foodborne illness that typically results from eating spoiled fish. Symptoms may include flushed skin, headache, itchiness, blurred vision, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea. Onset of symptoms is typically 10 to 60 minutes after eating and can last for up to two days. Rarely breathing problems or an irregular heart beat may occur. Scombroid occurs from eating fish high in histamine due to inappropriate storage or processing. Fish commonly implicated include tuna, mackerel, mahi mahi, sardine, anchovy, herring, bluefish, amberjack, and marlin. These fish naturally have high levels of", "title": "Scombroid food poisoning" }, { "id": "9065197", "text": "Food waste Food waste or food loss is food that is discarded or lost uneaten. The causes of food waste or loss are numerous and occur at the stages of producing, processing, retailing and consuming. Global food loss and waste amount to between one-third and one-half of all food produced. Loss and wastage occur at all stages of the food supply chain or value chain. In low-income countries, most loss occurs during production, while in developed countries much food – about per person per year – is wasted at the consumption stage. Generally, food loss or food waste is food", "title": "Food waste" }, { "id": "738176", "text": "Junk food Junk food is a pejorative term for food containing a large number of calories from sugar or fat with little dietary fiber, protein, vitamins or minerals. The term can also refer to high protein food like meat prepared with saturated fat. Food from many hamburger joints, pizza places and fried chicken outlets is often considered junk food. Concerns about the negative health effects resulting from a junk food-heavy diet, especially obesity, have resulted in public health awareness campaigns, and restrictions on advertising and sale in several countries. The term \"junk food\" dates back at least to the early", "title": "Junk food" }, { "id": "15362396", "text": "the affected area, sends it to public health partners and stakeholders and posts it on the FSIS Web site. In certain situations where a recall is not warranted, but there is still a risk to public health, FSIS may issue a public health alert. PHAs have been issued when a product was not considered adulterated, but illnesses were involved; when illnesses were associated with a meat or poultry product, but a source of contamination was not identified; or a product is no longer available in commerce, but may be held or in use by consumers. The FSIS also acts as", "title": "Food Safety and Inspection Service" }, { "id": "2821802", "text": "2018 by NBC's Minneapolis station using research by both the CDC and the Minnesota Department of Health concluded that foodborne illness is on the rise in the U.S. The CDC has reported approximately four thousand cases of food poisoning annually in the last few years. Experts cite increased handling of food by humans as a major contributor, leading to outbreaks of parasites such as \"E. coli\" and cyclospora which can only come from human fecal matter. The World Health Organization Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses (FOS) provides scientific advice for organizations and the public on issues concerning the safety", "title": "Foodborne illness" }, { "id": "530694", "text": "or contribute to a range of effects from reduced appetite and general malaise to acute illness or death in rare cases. Mycotoxins may also contribute to cancer. Dietary exposure to the mycotoxin aflatoxin B1, commonly produced by growth of the fungus \"Aspergillus flavus\" on improperly stored ground nuts in many areas of the developing world, is known to independently (and synergistically with Hepatitis B virus) induce liver cancer. Mycotoxin-contaminated grain and other food products have a significant impact on human and animal health globally. According to the World Health Organization, roughly 25% of the world's food may be contaminated by", "title": "Mold health issues" }, { "id": "18493614", "text": "under 50 and children under 15 are not advised to eat any fish caught south of the Palmer Falls Dam in Corinth, while others are advised to eat anywhere from one to four meals per month of Hudson River fish, depending on species and location caught. The Department of Health cites mercury, PCBs, dioxin, and cadmium as the chemicals impacting fish in these areas. PCBs are thought to be responsible for health issues that include neurological disorders, lower IQ and poor short-term memory (active memory), hormonal disruption, suppressed immune system, cancer, skin irritations, Parkinson’s disease, ADHD, heart disease, and diabetes.", "title": "Pollution of the Hudson River" }, { "id": "134063", "text": "form of an Epi-pen or Twinject. Human diet was estimated to cause perhaps around 35% of cancers in a human epidemiological analysis by Richard Doll and Richard Peto in 1981. These cancer may be caused by carcinogens that are present in food naturally or as contaminants. Food contaminated with fungal growth may contain mycotoxins such as aflatoxins which may be found in contaminated corn and peanuts. Other carcinogens identified in food include heterocyclic amines generated in meat when cooked at high temperature, polyaromatic hydrocarbons in charred meat and smoked fish, and nitrosamines generated from nitrites used as food preservatives in", "title": "Food" }, { "id": "935209", "text": "and vegetables can decrease the risk of developing cancer. Foodborne and infectious diseases can result in malnutrition, and malnutrition exacerbates infectious disease. Poor nutrition leaves children and adults more susceptible to contracting life-threatening diseases such as diarrheal infections and respiratory infections. According to the WHO, in 2011, 6.9 million children died of infectious diseases like pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and neonatal conditions, of which at least one third were associated with undernutrition. According to UNICEF, in 2011, 101 million children across the globe were underweight and one in four children, 165 million, were stunted in growth. Simultaneously, there are 43 million", "title": "Human nutrition" }, { "id": "9177631", "text": "strain . Several investigations show the contamination might have come from the Yuma, Ariz. growing region. This outbreak, which began April 10, is the largest US flare-up of E. coli in a decade. One person in California has died. At least 14 of the people affected developed kidney failure. The most common symptoms of E. coli include diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Proper storage, sanitary tools and work spaces, heating and cooling properly and to adequate temperatures, and avoiding contact with other uncooked foods can greatly reduce the chances of contamination. Tightly sealed water and air proof", "title": "Food safety" }, { "id": "4062008", "text": "1958 to ban certain chemicals from foods. With further research, she says she found that public discourse and public policy were chemophobic. Her first book, \"Panic in the Pantry\" (1976), challenged the notion, popular in the 1970s, that \"natural\" was better and that \"chemicals\" were dangerous. In 1978, along with Frederick J. Stare, founder of the Harvard Nutrition Department, Whelan invited 50 other scientists to \"bring the message of sound science to consumers, via the media\" in a \"consumer education consortium.\" Their first financial support came from the Scaife Foundation and the John M. Olin Foundation. By 2003, almost 400", "title": "American Council on Science and Health" }, { "id": "738185", "text": "behavioral science and economics, suggests that, faced with extreme economic uncertainty, where even the next meal may not be a sure thing, judgment is impaired and the drive is to the instant gratification of junk food, rather than to making the necessary investment in the longer-term benefits of a healthier diet. When junk food is consumed very often, the excess fat, simple carbohydrates, and processed sugar found in junk food contributes to an increased risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and many other chronic health conditions. A case study on consumption of fast foods in Ghana suggested a direct correlation between", "title": "Junk food" }, { "id": "15893208", "text": "toxicants depends on the genetic makeup of the mother and fetus. Some of the known developmental toxicants can be grouped under the following categories: Reproductive toxins: Anti-convulsants: Chemicals: Bioloical Agents Lifestyle: Maternal metabolic imbalances Developmental toxicity Developmental toxicity is any structural or functional alteration, reversible or irreversible, which interferes with homeostasis, normal growth, differentiation, development or behavior, and which is caused by environmental insult (including drugs, lifestyle factors such as alcohol, diet, and environmental toxic chemicals or physical factors). It is the study of adverse effects on the development of the organism resulting from exposure to toxic agents before conception", "title": "Developmental toxicity" }, { "id": "990096", "text": "product advertising for dietary supplements, and, in 2017, successfully sued nine manufacturers for deceptive advertising of dietary supplements. In the United States, manufacturers of dietary supplements are required to demonstrate safety of their products before approval is granted for commerce. Despite this caution, numerous adverse effects have been reported, including muscle cramps, hair loss, joint pain, liver disease, and allergic reactions, with 29% of the adverse effects resulting in hospitalization, and 20% in serious injuries or illnesses. By more than five-fold, the highest incidence of health problems derived from \"combination products\", whereas supplements for vitamins and minerals, lipid products, and", "title": "Dietary supplement" }, { "id": "203766", "text": "means of controlling insects and invasive pests. Food irradiation primarily extends the shelf-life of irradiated foods by effectively destroying organisms responsible for spoilage and foodborne illness and inhibiting sprouting. Although consumer perception of foods treated with irradiation is more negative than those processed by other means, because people imagine that the food is radioactive or mutated, all independent research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have confirmed irradiation to be safe. Food irradiation is permitted by over 60 countries, with", "title": "Food irradiation" }, { "id": "13575135", "text": "any objectionable substances in foods, such as foreign matter (for example, glass, metal, plastic, wood, stones, sand, cigarette butts), undesirable parts of the raw plant material (such as stems, pits in pitted olives, pieces of shell in canned oysters), and filth (namely, mold, rot, insect and rodent parts, excreta, decomposition). Under a strict reading of the FD&C Act, any amount of filth in a food would render it adulterated. FDA regulations, however, authorize the agency to issue Defect Action Levels (DALs) for natural, unavoidable defects that at low levels do not pose a human health hazard [21 C.F.R. § 110.110].", "title": "Adulterated food" }, { "id": "4333271", "text": "1993 \"E. coli\" outbreak associated with Jack in the Box hamburgers. The outbreak, which resulted in the death of four children and more than 700 people falling ill, garnered nationwide media attention. A myriad of government agencies oversee food safety—therefore there is a lack of effective communication between federal, state and local agencies. Although branches of the federal government were aware of emerging foodborne pathogens such as \"E. coli\" O157:H7, they did not have a comprehensive plan to combat them nor had they adequately informed the public of their dangers. Scientists and consumer advocates had been quietly warning the United", "title": "STOP Foodborne Illness" }, { "id": "9177662", "text": "future. The first major food recall in the US was caused by canned mushrooms in 1973. This outbreak of botulism produced the National Botulism Surveillance System. This system collected the data on all confirmed cases of botulism in the US This led to processing regulations for low-acid foods to ensure proper heat treating of canned foods. The Jack in the Box \"E. coli\" outbreak of 1993 led the Clinton administration to put $43 million into the Food Safety Initiative to create many of the common specific regulations in place today. This initiative produced regulations on seafood, meat, poultry, and shell-eggs.", "title": "Food safety" }, { "id": "4305422", "text": "continued use of artificial food coloring in the United States. The report estimated that over half a million children in the United States suffer adverse behavioral reactions as a result of ingesting food dyes, with an estimated cost exceeding $5 billion per year, citing data from by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report urges the Food and Drug Administration to take action to ban or curtail the use of such dyes. Pregnant women exposure to toxic chemicals in daily basis \"can impact the reproductive and developmental health\" during critical windows of development, this may lead to a", "title": "Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976" }, { "id": "9177630", "text": "substances produced by living creatures, such as humans, rodents, pests or microorganisms. This includes bacterial contamination, viral contamination, or parasite contamination that’s transferred through saliva, pest droppings, blood or faecal matter. Bacterial contamination is the most common cause of food poisoning worldwide. If an environment is high in starch or protein, water, oxygen, has a neutral PH level, and maintains a temperature between 5ºC and 60ºC (danger zone) for even a brief period of time (~0-20 minutes) , bacteria are likely to survive. Up to May, 2018, 26 states in the United States confirmed with an outbreak of the bacteria", "title": "Food safety" }, { "id": "384507", "text": "concerns surrounding the culinary traditions since the name was coined in the mid-twentieth century. Soul food has been criticized for its high starch, fat, sodium, cholesterol, and caloric content, as well as the inexpensive and often low-quality nature of the ingredients such as salted pork and cornmeal. In light of this, soul food has been implicated by some in the disproportionately high rates of high blood pressure (hypertension), type 2 diabetes, clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), stroke, and heart attack suffered by African-Americans. Figures who led discussions surrounding the negative impacts of soul food include Dr. Alvenia Fulton, Dick Gregory, and Elijah", "title": "Soul food" }, { "id": "16821267", "text": "also found to contain nano-particle pollutants, there could be adverse impacts on human well-being, according to scientists associated with the study. However, plastic tap water pollution remains under-studied, as are the links of how pollution transfers between humans, air, water, and soil. Plastic pollution has the potential to poison animals, which can then adversely affect human food supplies. Plastic pollution has been described as being highly detrimental to large marine mammals, described in the book \"Introduction to Marine Biology\" as posing the \"single greatest threat\" to them. Some marine species, such as sea turtles, have been found to contain large", "title": "Plastic pollution" }, { "id": "134058", "text": "Food can also be adulterated by a very wide range of articles (known as \"foreign bodies\") during farming, manufacture, cooking, packaging, distribution, or sale. These foreign bodies can include pests or their droppings, hairs, cigarette butts, wood chips, and all manner of other contaminants. It is possible for certain types of food to become contaminated if stored or presented in an unsafe container, such as a ceramic pot with lead-based glaze. Food poisoning has been recognized as a disease since as early as Hippocrates. The sale of rancid, contaminated, or adulterated food was commonplace until the introduction of hygiene, refrigeration,", "title": "Food" }, { "id": "12785264", "text": "insects, which can harbour gastrointestinal parasites, yellow fever, worms, the plague and other conditions for humans, and exposure to hazardous wastes, particularly when they are burned, can cause various other diseases including cancers. Toxic waste materials can contaminate surface water, groundwater, soil, and air which causes more problems for humans, other species, and ecosystems. Waste treatment and disposal produces significant green house gas (GHG) emissions, notably methane, which are contributing significantly to global warming. Waste management is a significant environmental justice issue. Many of the environmental burdens cited above are more often borne by marginalized groups, such as racial minorities,", "title": "Waste" }, { "id": "990095", "text": "building supplements were contaminated with anabolic steroids, and multiple products contained antidepressants and antihistamines. Despite these findings, fewer than half of the adulterated supplements were recalled. The United States Food and Drug Administration, Office of Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations, monitors supplement products for accuracy in advertising and labeling, and when finding violations, warns manufacturers of impending enforcement action, including search and seizure, injunction, and/or financial penalties, such as for a Maine supplement company in 2017. The United States Federal Trade Commission, which litigates against deceptive advertising, established a consumer center to assist reports of false health claims in", "title": "Dietary supplement" }, { "id": "1703031", "text": "TOXMAP's chemical and environmental health information is taken from NLM's Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET) and PubMed, and from other authoritative sources. Toxic waste Toxic waste is any unwanted material in all forms that can cause harm (e.g. by being inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin). Many of today's household products such as televisions, computers and phones contain toxic chemicals that can pollute the air and contaminate soil and water. Disposing of such waste is a major public health issue. Toxic materials are poisonous byproducts as a result of industries such as manufacturing, farming, construction, automotive, laboratories, and hospitals which", "title": "Toxic waste" }, { "id": "990092", "text": "2011, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) of the United States received 6,307 reports of health problems (identified as adverse events) from use of dietary supplements containing a combination of ingredients in manufactured vitamins, minerals or other supplement products, with 92% of tested herbal supplements containing lead and 80% containing other chemical contaminants. Using undercover staff, the GAO also found that supplement retailers intentionally engaged in \"unequivocal deception\" to sell products advertised with baseless health claims, particularly to elderly consumers. Consumer Reports also reported unsafe levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and mercury in several protein powder products. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation", "title": "Dietary supplement" }, { "id": "2275354", "text": "concerns ranging from claimed negative health effects, alleged animal cruelty, cases of worker exploitation, and claims of cultural degradation via shifts in people's eating patterns away from traditional foods. The intake of fast food is increasing worldwide. A study done in the city of Jeddah has shown that current fast food habits are related to the increase of overweight and obesity among adolescents in Saudi Arabia. In 2014, the World Health Organization published a study which claims that deregulated food markets are largely to blame for the obesity crisis, and suggested tighter regulations to reverse the trend. In the United", "title": "Fast food" }, { "id": "13177537", "text": "increased. Numerous cases of intentional food fraud have been discovered over the last few years. As of 2013, the foods most commonly listed as adulterated or mislabelled in the United States Pharmacopeia Convention's Food Fraud Database were: milk, olive oil, honey, saffron, fish, coffee, orange juice, apple juice, black pepper, and tea. The Food and Drug Administration, the primary regulatory body for food safety and enforcement in the United States, admits that the \"sheer magnitude of the potential crime\" makes prevention difficult, along with the fact that food safety is not treated as a high priority. They note that with", "title": "Counterfeit consumer goods" }, { "id": "738190", "text": "food and nutrition guidelines for healthy diets, regulating marketing and advertising of junk food, adopting consumer-friendly labelling of food products, and establishing accountability mechanisms for violations of the right to health.\" An early, high-profile and controversial attempt to identify and curb junk food in the American diet was launched by the so-called McGovern Committee, formally, the United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, between 1968 and 1977, chaired by Senator George McGovern. Initially formed to investigate malnutrition and hunger in the US, the committee's scope progressively expanded to include environmental conditions that affected eating habits, like urban", "title": "Junk food" }, { "id": "5678395", "text": "that exist. The majority of victims and perpetrators are teenagers and young adults, the population that exists within educational institutions. Hate crimes can result in physical or sexual assaults or harassment, verbal harassment, robbery, or even in death. The food industry has been criticized for promoting childhood obesity and ill-health by specifically targeting the child demographic in the marketing of unhealthy food products. The food products marketed often are deemed unhealthy due to their high calorie, high fat, and high sugar contents. Some common methods of junk food advertising include: In 2005, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies", "title": "Social issue" }, { "id": "4905585", "text": "as global demand for meat rises, so too will the demand for land. Ninety-one percent of all rainforest land deforested since 1970 is now used for livestock. Potential negative environmental impacts caused by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are rising global air temperatures, altered hydrogeological cycles resulting in more frequent and severe droughts, storms, and floods, as well as sea level rise and ecosystem disruption. Land degradation is a process in which the value of the biophysical environment is affected by a combination of human-induced processes acting upon the land. It is viewed as any change or disturbance to the", "title": "Human impact on the environment" }, { "id": "4913873", "text": "parasites or chemical substances — is responsible for more than 200 diseases, and is linked to the deaths of some 2 million people annually, mostly children. Changes in food production, distribution and consumption; changes to the environment; new and emerging pathogens; and antimicrobial resistance all pose challenges to food safety systems. The WHO works with countries and partners to strengthen efforts to prevent, detect and respond to foodborne disease outbreaks in line with the Codex Alimentarius, advocating that food safety is a shared responsibility — from farmers and manufacturers to vendors and consumers — and raising awareness about the importance", "title": "World Health Day" }, { "id": "8246991", "text": "watching TV and using computers than they spend exercising, the explosion of fast food restaurants, the enormous growth of portion sizes, the power of food advertising and marketing, and the junk food industry’s takeover of schools by selling unhealthy items in vending machines, cafeterias, and through school fundraisers. A main contributor to the notion of a toxic food environment is the marketing of it. Finding an advertisement that promotes “toxic” is not a difficult task. The Federal Trade Commission found, in 2008, that the food industry spent almost $10 billion per year on marketing food and beverages. And that $10", "title": "Toxic food environment" }, { "id": "1304273", "text": "soft furnishings. Air-borne fungi are usually associated with damp conditions, poor ventilation or closed air systems. Laundry hygiene involves practices that prevent disease and its spread via soiled clothing and household linens such as towels. Items most likely to be contaminated with pathogens are those that come into direct contact with the body, e.g., underwear, personal towels, facecloths, nappies. Cloths or other fabric items used during food preparation, or for cleaning the toilet or cleaning up material such as feces or vomit are a particular risk. Microbiological and epidemiological data indicates that clothing and household linens etc. are a risk", "title": "Hygiene" }, { "id": "10203118", "text": "Gibberella zeae Gibberella zeae, also known by the name of its anamorph Fusarium graminearum, is a plant pathogen which causes fusarium head blight, a devastating disease on wheat and barley. The pathogen is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. Infection causes shifts in the amino acid composition of wheat, resulting in shriveled kernels and contaminating the remaining grain with mycotoxins, mainly deoxynivalenol, which inhibits protein biosynthesis; and zearalenone, an estrogenic mycotoxin. These toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in livestock, and are harmful to humans through contaminated food. Despite great efforts to find", "title": "Gibberella zeae" }, { "id": "14473214", "text": "authorities claimed that reusing the powder decreased its nutritional value and that it was connected to cancer. Magnesium trisilicate is commonly used in medicines such as antacids, and is widely considered to be safe for human consumption with no known connections to cancer. In May 2007, The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine (AQSIQ) confirmed that two domestic companies had exported melamine-contaminated wheat gluten and rice protein blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats in the United States. In August 2007, AQSIQ introduced recall systems for unsafe food products and toys and on December 3, 2007, China", "title": "Food safety incidents in China" }, { "id": "2821783", "text": "hours. When food is reheated, it must reach an internal temperature of or until hot or steaming to kill bacteria. The term alimentary mycotoxicosis refers to the effect of poisoning by mycotoxins through food consumption. The term mycotoxin is usually reserved for the toxic chemical products produced by fungi that readily colonize crops. Mycotoxins sometimes have important effects on human and animal health. For example, an outbreak which occurred in the UK in 1960 caused the death of 100,000 turkeys which had consumed aflatoxin-contaminated peanut meal. In the USSR in World War II, 5,000 people died due to alimentary toxic", "title": "Foodborne illness" }, { "id": "19742772", "text": "in egg production, and the vaccination of laying hens to prevent \"Salmonella\" colonization. Various \"Salmonella\" serovars (strains) also cause severe diseases in animals. In February 2007, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning to consumers not to eat certain jars of Peter Pan or Great Value peanut butter, due to risk of contamination with \"Salmonella\" Tennessee.[http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01563.html <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>] In March 2007, around 150 people were diagnosed with salmonellosis after eating tainted food at a governor's reception in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Over 1,500 people attended the ball on March 1, and fell ill as a consequence of ingesting \"Salmonella\"-tainted sandwiches. About", "title": "Salmonellosis in the United States" }, { "id": "734061", "text": "UK's Food Standards Agency warned that two-thirds of all raw chicken bought from UK shops was contaminated with\" Campylobacter\", affecting an estimated half a million people annually and killing about 100. In June 2014, the Food Standards Agency started a campaign against washing raw chicken, as washing can spread germs by splashing. In May 2015, cumulative results for samples taken from fresh chickens between February 2014 and February 2015 were published by the FSA and showed 73% of chickens tested positive for the presence of \"Campylobacter\". \"Campylobacter\" infections increased 14% in the United States in 2012 compared to the period", "title": "Campylobacter" }, { "id": "20232216", "text": "and in extreme cases posing health risks by cutting whole food groups out of the diet. It has also been claimed that processed foods have been modified to prevent diseases and therefore have some health benefits (in the form of food safety) over a clean eating diet. Additional criticisms have said various diseases are linked to clean eating, such as osteoporosis and \"orthorexia nervosa\". Other health risks associated with this diet include food poisoning and diseases from parasites. Clean eating can cause an increase in the risk of osteoporosis due to a lack of calcium normally provided through the consumption", "title": "Clean eating" }, { "id": "7880939", "text": "Economic importance of bacteria Bacteria are economically important as these microorganisms are used by humans for many purposes and are harmful in causing disease and spoiling food. The beneficial uses of bacteria include the production of traditional foods such as yoghurt, cheese, and vinegar; biotechnology and genetic engineering, producing substances such as drugs and vitamins; agriculture; fibre retting; human and animal digestion; and biological control of pests. Sourdough bread is made to rise by fermentation, with a leaven that consists of bacteria, often combined with wild yeasts. The milk-souring bacterium \"Lactobacillus bulgaricus\" is used to make yoghurt and cheese. Bacteria", "title": "Economic importance of bacteria" }, { "id": "14666154", "text": "consume chocolate at toxic levels because they like the taste of chocolate products and are capable of finding and eating quantities much larger than typical human servings. There are reports that mulch made from cacao bean shells is dangerous to dogs and livestock. Health effects of chocolate The health effects of chocolate are the possible positive and negative effects on health of eating chocolate. Unconstrained consumption of large quantities of any energy-rich food, such as chocolate, without a corresponding increase in activity, increases the risk of obesity. Raw chocolate is high in cocoa butter, a fat removed during chocolate refining,", "title": "Health effects of chocolate" }, { "id": "1703011", "text": "Toxic waste Toxic waste is any unwanted material in all forms that can cause harm (e.g. by being inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin). Many of today's household products such as televisions, computers and phones contain toxic chemicals that can pollute the air and contaminate soil and water. Disposing of such waste is a major public health issue. Toxic materials are poisonous byproducts as a result of industries such as manufacturing, farming, construction, automotive, laboratories, and hospitals which may contain heavy metals, radiation, dangerous pathogens, or other toxins. Toxic waste has become more abundant since the industrial revolution, causing", "title": "Toxic waste" }, { "id": "20429492", "text": "levels in the 2016 update had been far greater than in 2004-2006. Upon a FOIA request, the Center for Food Science and Applied Nutrition could not find any records or communications of the coordinator investigating the possible cause of high levels of perchlorate in bologna, collard greens and salami lunchmeat nor receipts to identify brand and lot Total Diet Study The Total Diet Study is the US FDA´s ongoing annual assessment of U.S. consumers' average dietary intake of about 800 contaminants and nutrients since 1961. The Total Diet Study is the US FDA´s ongoing annual assessment of U.S. consumers' average", "title": "Total Diet Study" }, { "id": "582208", "text": "chemicals also play a role in human health, as consumption of tainted food (in processes called biomagnification and bioaccumulation) has been linked to issues such as cancers, neurological dysfunction, and hormonal changes. A well-known example of biomagnification impacting health in recent times is the increased exposure to dangerously high levels of mercury in fish, which can affect sex hormones in humans. In efforts to remediate the damages done by slow-degrading plastics, detergents, metals, and other pollutants created by humans, economic costs have become a concern. Marine litter in particular is notably difficult to quanitfy and review. Researchers at the World", "title": "Biodegradation" }, { "id": "20375228", "text": "top 10% of hazardous compounds. The chemical can negatively affect health in these areas: Developmental Toxicant, Cardiovascular or Blood Toxicant, Endocrine Toxicant, Gastrointestinal or Liver Toxicant, Immunotoxicant, Kidney Toxicant, Neurotoxicant, Reproductive Toxicant, Respiratory Toxicant, Skin or Sense Organ Toxicant. This means it can: affect the development of an unborn child; cause blood diseases or abnormal heartbeat; weaken the endocrine system leading to diabetes, hormone imbalances, reproductive disorders or cancer; cause liver damage and disease; weaken the immune system which can lead to disease or cancer; cause kidney disease which can lead to cancer; affect how the nerves carry information through", "title": "Price Landfill" }, { "id": "3027106", "text": "Turkey and from the Middle East. In a 2015 analysis of plant-based dietary supplements, the highest mycotoxin concentrations were found in milk thistle-based supplements, at up to 37 mg/kg. Some of the health effects found in animals and humans include death, identifiable diseases or health problems, weakened immune systems without specificity to a toxin, and as allergens or irritants. Some mycotoxins are harmful to other micro-organisms such as other fungi or even bacteria; penicillin is one example. It has been suggested that mycotoxins in stored animal feed are the cause of rare phenotypical sex changes in hens that causes them", "title": "Mycotoxin" }, { "id": "3785425", "text": "an infant’s sensitization to common food allergens and reduce the prevalence and severity of certain skin diseases in the first year of life. This effect may persist until adolescence with a reduction in prevalence and/or severity of eczema, hay fever and asthma. A 2014 Cochrane review found that, based on two large studies, fish oil supplements did not appear to be effective for maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease. Fish oil is a commonly used dietary supplement, with sales in the U.S. alone reaching $976 million in 2009. Problems of quality have been identified in periodic tests by independent researchers", "title": "Fish oil" }, { "id": "935208", "text": "fat intake and foods rich in dietary fiber, such as high consumption of fruits and vegetables and moderate intake of low-fat dairy products. The challenges facing global nutrition are disease, child malnutrition, obesity, and vitamin deficiency. The most common non-infectious diseases worldwide, that contribute most to the global mortality rate, are cardiovascular diseases, various cancers, diabetes, and chronic respiratory problems, all of which are linked to poor nutrition. Nutrition and diet are closely associated with the leading causes of death, including cardiovascular disease and cancer. Obesity and high sodium intake can contribute to ischemic heart disease, while consumption of fruits", "title": "Human nutrition" }, { "id": "738193", "text": "of caffeine per 100 ml. Norway taxes refined sugar, and Mexico has various excises on unhealthy food. On April 1, 2015, the first fat tax in the US, the Navajo Nation's Healthy Diné Nation Act of 2014, mandating a 2% junk food tax, came into effect, covering the of Navajo reservation; the Act targeted problems with obesity and diabetes among the Navajo population. Junk food that is targeted at children is a contentious issue. In \"The Impact of Advertising on Childhood obesity\", the American Psychological Association reports: \"Research has found strong associations between increases in advertising for non-nutritious foods and", "title": "Junk food" }, { "id": "4333272", "text": "States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Congress, and the media that a failure to inspect meat and poultry for bacteria would lead to a food safety disaster. In response, STOP's early message to American consumers was that certain foods had the potential to present a serious risk to their health and to the lives of their family members. Conversations with USDA and the meat industry focused on the devastation and significant illness that is caused by \"E. coli\" O157:H7. STOP pushed for warning messages to be delivered to consumers when food contamination was suspected and encountered significant resistance. However, after fighting", "title": "STOP Foodborne Illness" }, { "id": "18808095", "text": "by a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings with malathion, a pesticide. The contamination is speculated to have occurred because the employee was dissatisfied with pay and benefits. The contamination resulted in a recall of 6.4 million potentially tainted products. Nearly 1,800 people are estimated to have been affected, and public confidence in food quality was shaken. The reach and complexity of the food system has caused concern for its potential as a terrorist target. The first and largest food attack in the US is the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack. 751 individuals were poisoned in The Dalles, Oregon through the contamination", "title": "Food defense" }, { "id": "738189", "text": "hyperactivity in 33% of the subjects, leading to the conclusion that children consuming excess junk food at the age of seven are more likely to be in the top third of the hyperactivity scale. There was no significant correlation between junk food and the other scales. A number of countries have adopted, or are considering, various forms of legislated action to curb junk food consumption. In 2014, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, released his report, \"Unhealthy foods, non-communicable diseases and the right to health\", and called for governments to \"take measures, such as developing", "title": "Junk food" }, { "id": "16821274", "text": "prey. Their food sources often has already ingested plastic debris, thus transferring the plastic from prey to predator. Ingested trash can obstruct and physically damage a bird's digestive system, reducing its digestive ability and can lead to malnutrition, starvation, and death. Toxic chemicals called \"polychlorinated biphenyls\" (PCBs) also become concentrated on the surface of plastics at sea and are released after seabirds eat them. These chemicals can accumulate in body tissues and have serious lethal effects on a bird's reproductive ability, immune system, and hormone balance. Floating plastic debris can produce ulcers, infections and lead to death. Marine plastic pollution", "title": "Plastic pollution" }, { "id": "13140680", "text": "The Food Defect Action Levels The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans is a publication of the United States Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition detailing acceptable levels of food contamination from sources such as maggots, thrips, insect fragments, \"foreign matter\", mold, rodent hairs, and insect and mammalian feces. The publication details the acceptable amounts of contaminants on a per food basis, listing both the defect source (pre-harvest infection, processing infestation, processing contamination, etc.) and significance (aesthetic, potential health hazard, mouth/tooth injury,", "title": "The Food Defect Action Levels" }, { "id": "20648546", "text": "to diseases caused by direct infection by pathogens, some food borne diseases are caused by the presence of toxins produced by microorganisms in food. There are five main types of microbial pathogens which contaminate food and water: viruses, bacteria, fungi, pathogenic protozoa and helminths. Several bacteria, such as E. coli, Clostridium botulinum, and Salmonella enterica, are well-known and are targeted for elimination via various industrial processes. Though bacteria are often the focus of food safety processes, viruses, protozoa, and molds are also known to cause food-borne illness and are of concern when designing processes to ensure food safety. Although the", "title": "Food and biological process engineering" }, { "id": "18015156", "text": "and drinking water. Health problems resulting from these hazardous wastes affect humans by causing cancers, diabetes, alterations in neurochemical balances, hormone disruptions from endocrine disruptors, skin alterations, neurotoxicity, kidney damage, liver damage, bone disease, emphysema, ovotoxicity, reproductive damage, and many other fatal diseases. The improper disposal of these hazardous wastes creates fatal health problems, and is a serious public health risk. There have been various international responses to the problems associated with the global waste trade and multiple attempts to regulate it for over thirty years. The hazardous waste trade has proven difficult to regulate as there is so much", "title": "Global waste trade" }, { "id": "18598806", "text": "to contain traces of Salmonella Typhimurium, infecting 507 people. Relevant juice products were recalled and the contamination was eventually traced to fruit from one supplier. In March 2007, Long and Linda Fou, owners of the Homebush French Golden Hot Bakery in NSW, pleaded guilty to handling and selling unsafe food. They were fined $42,000. 319 people were poisoned during the incident. Around 500 people alleged they had suffered thyroid dysfunction after dangerous levels of iodine were found in Bonsoy brand soy milk, due to the formulation used in the product between 2004 and 2009, which replaced pure kombu seaweed with", "title": "Food safety in Australia" }, { "id": "69530", "text": "pneumonitis, pulmonary edema, and death. Cadmium is also an environmental hazard. Human exposure is primarily from fossil fuel combustion, phosphate fertilizers, natural sources, iron and steel production, cement production and related activities, nonferrous metals production, and municipal solid waste incineration. Bread, root crops, and vegetables also contribute to the cadmium in modern populations. There have been a few instances of general population poisoning as the result of long-term exposure to cadmium in contaminated food and water, and research into an estrogen mimicry that may induce breast cancer is ongoing. In the decades leading up to World War II, mining operations", "title": "Cadmium" }, { "id": "5329669", "text": "\"health food\", the FDA monitors and warns food manufacturers against labeling foods as having specific health effects when no evidence exists to support such statements, such as for one manufacturer in 2018. In conditions of malnutrition, ready-to-use therapeutic foods have been used successfully to improve the health of malnourished children. Health food Health food is food marketed to provide human health effects beyond a normal healthy diet required for human nutrition. Foods marketed as health foods may be part of one or more categories, such as natural foods, organic foods, whole foods, vegetarian foods or dietary supplements. These products may", "title": "Health food" }, { "id": "16439445", "text": "excessive heat. Food for human consumption is routinely heated by baking, boiling and frying to temperatures which destroy most pathogens. Thermal processes often cause undesirable changes in the texture, appearance and nutritional value of foods. Autoclaves generate steam at higher than boiling point and are used to sterilise laboratory glassware, surgical instruments, and, in a growing industry, medical waste. A danger inherent in using high temperatures to destroy microbes, is their incomplete destruction through inadequate procedures with a consequent risk of producing pathogens resistant to heat. (see Pascalization)<br> Water under very high hydrostatic pressure of up to 700 MPa (100,000", "title": "Physical factors affecting microbial life" }, { "id": "656343", "text": "were recalled from restaurants as well as supermarkets. The products contained Starlink genetically modified corn that was not approved for human consumption. It was the first-ever recall of a genetically modified food. The environmental group Friends of the Earth that had first detected the contaminated shells was critical of the FDA for not doing its own job. Fast food is commonly blamed for the obesity epidemic in the United States today. 60% of Americans today are either overweight or obese. With obesity especially being seen among children, places like McDonald's and other fast food restaurants take the majority of the", "title": "Fast food restaurant" }, { "id": "530671", "text": "Mold health issues Mold health issues are potentially harmful effects of molds. Molds (US usage; British English \"moulds\") are ubiquitous in the biosphere, and mold spores are a common component of household and workplace dust. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in its June 2006 report, 'Mold Prevention Strategies and Possible Health Effects in the Aftermath of Hurricanes and Major Floods,' that \"excessive exposure to mold-contaminated materials can cause adverse health effects in susceptible persons regardless of the type of mold or the extent of contamination.\" When mold spores are present in abnormally high quantities, they", "title": "Mold health issues" }, { "id": "4113581", "text": "can decrease the ability of plants to absorb water through their roots via osmosis, cause leaf burn and necrosis through increased levels of sodium and chloride, and create nutrient and ionic imbalances, resulting in poor growth, and death. Salinity can also adversely affect infrastructure such as roads and buildings, and underground pipes and cables through oxidation. \"Muehlenbeckia horrida subsp. abdita\", commonly known as the Remote Thorny Lignum, is a critically endangered species due to its intolerance to salinity. Currently 5% of New South Wales is affected by dry land salinity, and around 50% is under threat. 15% of current irrigated", "title": "Salinity in Australia" }, { "id": "13422563", "text": "surface from corrosion and prevents drag on the ship from any build-up of marine organisms. These paints have contained organotin compounds such as tributyltin, which are considered to be toxic chemicals with negative effects on humans and the environment. Tributyltin compounds are moderately to highly persistent organic pollutants that bioconcentrate up the marine predators' food chain. One common example is it leaching from marine paints into the aquatic environment, causing irreversible damage to the aquatic life. Tributyltin has also been linked to obesity in humans, as it triggers genes that cause the growth of fat cells. Tributyltin is harmful to", "title": "Environmental impact of paint" }, { "id": "9065212", "text": "they plan to produce more than actually required to meet the contract, to have a margin of error. Surplus production is often simply disposed of. Retailers usually have strict cosmetic standards for produce, and if fruits or vegetables are misshapen or superficially bruised, they are often not put on the shelf. In the United States, an estimated six billion pounds of produce is wasted each year because of its appearance. The USDA publishes guidelines used as a baseline assessment by produce distributors, grocery stores, restaurants and other consumers in order to rate the quality of food. These guidelines and how", "title": "Food waste" }, { "id": "134068", "text": "human dietary habits. This has led to the emergence of a movement with a preference for organic and local food. Between the extremes of optimal health and death from starvation or malnutrition, there is an array of disease states that can be caused or alleviated by changes in diet. Deficiencies, excesses, and imbalances in diet can produce negative impacts on health, which may lead to various health problems such as scurvy, obesity, or osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases as well as psychological and behavioral problems. The science of nutrition attempts to understand how and why specific dietary aspects influence health. Nutrients", "title": "Food" }, { "id": "20264235", "text": "bathroom, changing diapers, or handling pets. Caregivers of infants less than four months old: Infant food safety Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease and colloquially referred to as food poisoning) is any illness resulting from the food spoilage of contaminated food, pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food. Infant food safety is the identification of risky food handling practices and the prevention of illness in infants. Fooddborne illness is a serious health issue, especially for babies and children. Infants and young children are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness because their immune systems are not developed enough to fight off foodborne", "title": "Infant food safety" }, { "id": "10612212", "text": "food product. Agrochemicals are chemicals used in agricultural practices and animal husbandry with the intent to increase crop yields. Such agents include pesticides (e.g., insecticides, herbicides, rodenticides), plant growth regulators, veterinary drugs (e.g., nitrofuran, fluoroquinolones, malachite green, chloramphenicol), and bovine somatotropin (rBST). Environmental contaminants are chemicals that are present in the environment in which the food is grown, harvested, transported, stored, packaged, processed, and consumed. The physical contact of the food with its environment results in its contamination. Possible sources of contamination and contaminants common to that vector include: There are many cases of banned pesticides or carcinogens found in", "title": "Food contaminant" }, { "id": "15557448", "text": "fast food companies to make recommended healthier adjustments. Besides the risks posed by trans fats, high caloric intake, and low fiber intake, another cited health risk is food poisoning. In his book \"Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal\", Eric Schlosser argues that meatpacking factories concentrate livestock into feedlots and herd them through processing assembly lines operated by employees of various levels of expertise, some of which may be poorly trained, increasing the risk of large-scale food poisoning. Manure on occasion gets mixed with meat, possibly contaminating it with salmonella and pathogenic \"E. coli\". Usually spread through", "title": "Criticism of fast food" }, { "id": "530700", "text": "Drug Administration and the agriculture industry closely monitor mold and mycotoxin levels in grains and foodstuffs in order to keep the contamination of animal feed and human food supplies below specific levels. In 2005 Diamond Pet Foods, a US pet food manufacturer, experienced a significant rise in the number of corn shipments containing elevated levels of aflatoxin. This mold toxin eventually made it into the pet food supply, and dozens of dogs and cats died before the company was forced to recall affected products. In 2002, the U.S. International Trade Commission reported that according to one estimate, US insurers paid", "title": "Mold health issues" }, { "id": "8194071", "text": "strewn across the area. Contaminants include xylene, methyl ethyl ketone, methylene chloride, acetone, phthalates, anthracene, toluene, fluoranthene, alkyl benzene, vinyl chloride, dichloroethylene, and aliphatic acids. It is known as one of the primary motivations for the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or Superfund Act of 1980. VOC contamination of groundwater VOCs (volatile organic compounds) are a dangerous contaminant of groundwater, leading to groundwater pollution. They are generally introduced to the environment through careless industrial practices. VOCs are responsible for a number of adverse health effects especially for nursing and pregnant mothers. Many of these compounds", "title": "VOC contamination of groundwater" }, { "id": "10612215", "text": "of bad luck. Processing contaminants are generated during the processing of foods (e.g., heating, fermentation). They are absent in the raw materials, and are formed by chemical reactions between natural and/or added food constituents during processing. The presence of these contaminants in processed foods cannot be entirely avoided. Technological processes can be adjusted and/or optimized, however, in order to reduce the levels of formation of processing contaminants. Examples are: nitrosamines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), heterocyclic amines, histamine, acrylamide, furan, benzene, trans fat, 3-MCPD, semicarbazide, 4-hydroxynonenal (4-HNE), and ethyl carbamate. There is also the possibility of metal chips from the processing", "title": "Food contaminant" }, { "id": "11320465", "text": "Combining current limitations with water and transitions from practices such as agroforestry and shifting cultivation makes land susceptible to aeolian erosion by weakening soil composition and exposing larger areas of land to destructive wind. Aeolian erosion largely effects deserted areas, reducing air quality, polluting water sources, and limiting fertility of nearby land. Climate change is creating more extreme weather patterns, and agricultural practices are estimated to cause from 10 to 12 percent of greenhouses gas emissions. Warming will increase the previously mentioned rates of desertification and insect activity and agricultural zones near the equator may be lost. However, due to", "title": "Geography of food" } ]

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[ { "id": "4305532", "text": "Toyota 4Runner The is a compact, later mid-size sport utility vehicle produced by the Japanese manufacturer Toyota and sold throughout the world from 1984 to present. In Japan, it is known as the . The original 4Runner was a compact SUV and little more than a Toyota pickup truck with a fiberglass shell over the bed, but the model has since undergone significant independent development into a cross between a compact and a mid-size SUV. All 4Runners have been built at Toyota's Tahara plant at Tahara, Aichi, Japan, or at Hino Motors' Hamura, Japan plant. Hilux Surf models in Japan", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305568", "text": "Edition offers Toyota's Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System (KDSS) and Crawl Control which had previously only been available to premium Toyota vehicles, as well as a rear locking differential like the previous Trail Package. The 4.0-liter V6 adds Dual VVT-i which improves horsepower, torque and fuel economy, and comes standard in all models. A 2.7-liter I4 was available on 2WD models, but was discontinued after the 2010 model year. The 4.7-liter V8 from the previous generation was not carried-over to the fifth generation 4Runner. The 4Runner is built on the same platform as the FJ Cruiser. In 2013 (for the 2014", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305552", "text": "pickups which did not receive the same cosmetic changes. At this time a wide-body version was introduced featuring extended wheel arch flares along with wider wheels and tires. Additional cosmetic changes occurred between 1993 and 1995, the last year of the second generation. The first and second generation 4Runners were both targeted as unsafe SUVs. 1980s and early-1990s crash regulations in the United States were not very strict for light trucks, and all early model 4Runners were fitted with doors that offered little protection in the event of a side collision. In most areas, there was little more than two", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305560", "text": "4Runner incorporated serious changes to the chassis and body of the vehicle, but was targeted at approximately the same demographics as the third generation. Based on the Land Cruiser Prado 120 series, the new 4Runner retained the same basic exterior styling themes, and was still marketed as a mid-size semi-luxury SUV with off-road capabilities. Available trims were the SR5, Sport Edition, and Limited models. An all-new LEV certified 4.0 L \"1GR-FE\" V6 which produces and of torque is standard, but for the first time, a V8 became available, the ULEV certified 4.7 L \"2UZ-FE\" engine which in the US produced", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305571", "text": "'Inferno Orange' for the 2015 model year, 'Quicksand' for 2016, 'Cement' for 2017, 'Cavalry Blue' for 2018 and 'Voodoo Blue' for 2019. In 2016 (for the 2017 model year), the 4Runner Trail and Trail Premium were renamed to TRD Off-Road and TRD Off-Road Premium in the United States. These trim levels share the same mechanical functionality of the former Trail edition, but add aesthetic differences and TRD badging to differentiate themselves from the base model. They do not share the same suspension as the TRD Pro model. Toyota 4Runner The is a compact, later mid-size sport utility vehicle produced by", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305540", "text": "model year from May 1984. For this first year (March to July 1984 production), all models were equipped with black or white fiberglass tops. An SR5 trim package was offered that upgraded the interior: additional gauges, better fabrics, and a rear seat were standard with the package. All 1984 models were equipped with the carbureted 2.4 L 22R engine and were all available with a four-wheel-drive system that drove the front wheels through a solid front axle. 1985 (August 1984 production) saw the arrival of the electronically fuel-injected 2.4 L 22R-E (and 22R-EC with California emissions controls) I4 engine. This", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305548", "text": "rear of the previous models. Nearly all second generation 4Runners were four-door models; however, from launch in 1989 to May 1993, a two-door model was also produced. These models are similar to the four-door models of the time in that the bodies were formed as a single unit, instead of the fiberglass tops used in the first generation 4Runners. Two-door cars of the second generation are extremely rare. US sales ended in August 1992, but it continued to be available in the Canadian market through 1993, and Japan until May 1993. Because the drive train was still developed from the", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305561", "text": "and . In 2004, for the 2005 model year, the addition of VVT-i increased output to and . Fuel economy is estimated at 17 mpg city, 20 mpg highway for the V6 and 15/19 mpg for the V8. Towing capacity is on V6 models and on RWD V8 models (7000 pounds w/4WD). The 4Runner first entered dealer showrooms in October 2002 for the 2003 model year. Three trims levels were offered, SR5, Sport Edition, and Limited. When it was first introduced the SR5 and Sport Edition models used gray plastic cladding and bumpers. Sport models also featured a non-functional hood", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305569", "text": "model year), the 4Runner received a facelift, consisting of revised front and rear fascia with projector headlamps and clear-lensed, LED tail-lamps, as well as other minor exterior cosmetic changes. The interior was also updated, with soft-touch door trim, leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob, revised dashboard and center stack, and the inclusion of Toyota's Optitron instrument cluster as standard across all trim levels. Brake lines were upgraded for improved pedal feel, and electronic Trailer Sway Control programming included. No driveline changes were made. All 2014 model year 4Runner models are powered by a 4.0-liter V-6 engine with intelligent Variable Valve", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305567", "text": "Entertainment System (RSES) which used a nine-inch LCD screen and two wireless headphones. The fifth generation 4Runner was unveiled at the State Fair of Texas on September 24, 2009. It is available in 3 trim levels, 2 of which were available previously. The base SR5 trim as well as the top-of-the-line Limited trim are available as a 2WD or a 4WD. The new Trail Edition is only available as a 4WD. The SR5 and Trail Edition 4WDs will receive a part-time 4WD drive system, while the Limited will have full-time 4WD. All models will come with A-TRAC. The new Trail", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305557", "text": "in the Toyota Land Cruiser. 1997 models received a few minor updates, including the addition of a color keyed cargo cover. 1998 remained largely unchanged, save for a few changes in the electronics. More ergonomic switch control panels and a newly designed 4 spoke steering wheel, which also necessitated a redesign of the airbag system. 1999 models received both major cosmetic and interior enhancements. A new \"fat lip\" bumper was designed to allow for an extended crush zone on the front of the frame, as well as new multi-parabola style headlights, projector style fog lamps, and updated side marker lights", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305554", "text": "185T, in late 1995 (for the 1996 model year) a significant redesign of the 4Runner was introduced, with an all-new body shell on an all-new chassis. This time, it shared virtually nothing with the pickup it had originally evolved from, and shared its chassis with that of the Land Cruiser Prado four-door wagon. Whereas the transition to the second generation 4Runner was one that kept the build quality and options roughly on par with the rest of the mid-size SUV market, the changes made in the third generation turned the 4Runner into a more luxury-oriented vehicle. This move paralleled the", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305546", "text": "3Y engine, which was used in place of the 22R engine in New Zealand models, followed more rarely by the 4Y 2.2 petrol in later versions. This was a decision by Toyota New Zealand to reduce parts required to be stocked by dealers as no other Toyotas sold in New Zealand at the time utilised the R series engines. Small cosmetic and option changes were made in 1988 for the 1989 model year, but the model was left largely untouched in anticipation of the replacement model then undergoing final development. Toyota issued a second generation of Hilux Surf and 4Runner", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305533", "text": "are widely exported as used vehicles to Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. For Southeast Asia the Hilux Surf was replaced in 2005 by the similar Fortuner, which is based on the Hilux platform. , the 4Runner is sold in the United States, Canada, Central America, Bahamas, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. The 4Runner came in at number three in a 2016 study by iSeeCars.com ranking the top 10 longest-lasting vehicles in the US. The 4Runner had 5.2 percent of vehicles over , according to the study. The Trekker was one of the first prototype walk through", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305553", "text": "pieces of sheet-metal and the window to keep incoming vehicles from impacting passengers. The crash test rating for the second generation 4Runner was one star for the driver's side in a frontal collision while the passenger side received a 4-star rating. Later, more strict crash regulations mandated doors that offered as much protection as passenger car doors. In the United States, the 1994 and 1995 model years added side-impact beams in the doors. Airbags for both the driver and passenger were added in 1995 (1996 model year). Developed under chief Masaaki Ishiko from 1990 to 1995 under the project code", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305556", "text": "on a longer wheelbase, increased interior space, increased cargo space, dual airbags, ABS, lift-up tailgate, coil-spring suspension all around, rack and pinion steering, and aerodynamic contour designed glass headlights. Additionally, Hilux Surf versions immediately moved to 16-inch wheels and gained a center differential, enabling the use of four-wheel drive on hard surfaces without complication for the first time. The prior system was retained to give on-the-fly shifting between rear- and four-wheel drive as before. The new 4Runner was also available with a factory installed selectable electric locker in the rear differential, a first for the 4Runner but available since 1993", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305542", "text": "(necessary to fit larger engines, such as the V6 introduced in 1987) but arguably decreased the truck's off-road capabilities. The North American specification Toyota Pickup also adopted this new suspension, but the regular Hilux for other markets at this point retained the more rugged and capable, if less refined, solid axle configuration. With the 1986 update, the Surf/4Runner grille changed from the three segment type to the two segment grille. Tops were color-matched on blue, red and some gold models, while other body colors were still sold with black or white tops. A turbocharged version of the 22R-E engine (the", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305549", "text": "same source, the available engines were identical: The same 2.4 L four-cylinder (22R-E) and 3.0 L V6 (3VZ) engines were available in rear-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive layouts. The new 4Runner used the independent front suspension that had been developed on the previous generation. The older style gear driven transfer case was phased out on the V6 models and they now had a chain driven case. The older gear driven case was retained on the 4-cylinder models. The Hilux Surf version for the Japanese market was also available with a range of diesel engines, including a 2.4 L turbodiesel \"2L-TE\" I4 up", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305558", "text": "and front turn signals. Vehicles with \"Limited\" and \"Highlander\" (later called \"Sport Edition\") trim received color-keyed running boards, front and rear bumpers, mud flaps and flares. The ergonomics of the interior was completely changed, moving all the controls to the center of the dash for the rear window, and defrost, it also received a new instrument panel with a digital odometer. The Limited trucks also received a brand-new electronic temp control, and upgraded stereo. The multimatic transmission became available as an option for 4WD 4Runners in 1999, giving the option of AWD operation. 2001 models received new transparent tail lights", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305559", "text": "and new front grille design. The wheels were also changed to a five-spoke design rim. Limited models received newly designed five spoke wheels as well, however different from SR5 and base model. Also included was a new, sleeker side view mirror design. SR5 and base model 4Runners also have redesigned climate control units utilizing 3 knobs and 2 buttons, contrary to the 1999 model's 2 sliders and 2 knobs. 2001 models were equipped with Vehicle Stability Control standard, and 4WD models came standard with the multimatic transmission. The optional e-locker for the rear differential was dropped in 2001. The fourth-generation", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305562", "text": "scoop. The front suspension used a double wishbone while the rear is a solid rear axle type. The 4runner continued to use a body on frame construction design and a solid rear axle for strength and durability compromising interior room and on-road handling. Toyota's other mid-size SUV, the Highlander is a crossover which is not designed for off-roading. The optional 4WD systems were full-time on V8 models while \"Multi-Mode\" or part-time on V6 models, both systems used a lockable Torsen center differential. A new suspension system, X-Relative Absorber System (X-REAS), became standard on the Sport Edition and optional for SR5", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305565", "text": "a wider view when backing up. Some trim levels get two mirrors mounted on the interior D-pillars just inside the rear hatch. In 2009 with the end of this generation, Toyota Japan ceased production of the Hilux Surf, leaving only the 4Runner available in the subsequent model series. All 4Runners came with Toyota's Star Safety System which includes anti-lock brakes, electronic brakeforce distribution, brake assist, traction control and Vehicle Stability Control. Side torso airbags for the front rows as well as side curtain airbags for the front and rear rows were optional on 2003–2007 models and became standard on 2008", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305541", "text": "upped the horsepower numbers from 100 hp for the 22R, to 116 hp for the 22R-E Engine, though the carbureted engine remained available until 1988. Additionally, rear seats were available in all 1985 4Runner trim levels, not just the more upscale SR5. In 1986, the Surf/4Runner underwent a major front suspension design change as it was changed from a solid front axle to the Hi-Trac independent front suspension. Track width was also increased by three inches. These changes made the trucks more comfortable on-road, and improved stability and handling. The new suspension also increased the space in the engine compartment", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305570", "text": "Timing (VVT-i) that can develop and of torque. It is mated to a five-speed automatic ECT transmission. In 2014 (for the 2015 model year) the TRD Pro trim level was introduced in the United States, with Toyota badging on the front as well as an off-road package as part of the TRD Pro Series. The TRD Pro 4Runner included TRD Bilstein shocks with remote reservoirs, TRD-tuned front springs and TRD front skid plate. For each model year of the TRD Pro, beyond the two colors available on all trims, the TRD Pro is available in an exclusive color. This was", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305534", "text": "conversions done to Toyota trucks in the early 1980s. They were similar to the successive 4Runner conversions done by Toyota, which started production in 1984, but were designed and built by Winnebago Industries with the approval of Toyota. They were no longer a viable conversion when Toyota started producing the 4Runner in 1984. It was in essence the marketing test vehicle for Toyota to be able to introduce the 4Runner. The Trekker was produced from early 1981 through 1983. The Trekkers were all built on Toyota short box chassis'. All of the Trekkers were classified as SR5 by both Winnebago", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305547", "text": "in 1989 for the 1990 model year. Known as the N120/N130 series, these models continued their reliance on the Hilux pickup as a basis. It represented a fundamental departure from the first generation model. Instead of an enhanced pickup truck with fiberglass cap, the new 4Runners featured a freshly designed, full steel integrated body mounted on the existing frame. However, the 4Runner did remain virtually identical to the Hilux from the B-pillars forward. It also gained an all new coil spring rear suspension system, which unfortunately proved to be just as prone to sagging as the leaf springs on the", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "418833", "text": "released in the U.S. in November 2016. Unlike the first generation model, it is available in all 50 states.Sales in Japan started on February 15, 2017. The first generation Toyota RAV4 EV was leased in the United States from 1997 to 2003, and at the lessees' request, many units were sold after the vehicle was discontinued. A total of 1,484 were leased and/or sold in California to meet the state’s CARB mandate for zero-emissions vehicles. As of mid-2012, there were almost 500 units still in use. In May 2010, Toyota launched a collaboration with Tesla Motors to create electric vehicles.", "title": "Toyota" }, { "id": "4394337", "text": "used as a model name for the truck, even though the option package was also used on other Toyota models like the 1972 to 1979 Corolla. In 1984, the Toyota Trekker, the camper version of the Hilux, was renamed as the 4Runner in Australia and North America, and as the Hilux Surf in Japan. In 1995, Toyota introduced a new pickup model, the Tacoma in North America, thus discontinuing the Hilux/Pickup. The 4Runner is now a full SUV, and the more recent models of the Hilux are separate in appearance to the Tacoma. The Hilux started production in March 1968", "title": "Toyota Hilux" }, { "id": "3292534", "text": "Australian-made line, with unique New Zealand specification, in 1993 at which point the 2.2-liter I4 was offered as well. In late 1991, development on the XV20 commenced after launch of the XV10 under the 415T program. Design work was frozen in early 1994 and later launched in the United States in September 1996 and Japan in December 1996. It continued as a sedan and station wagon (called the Camry Gracia in Japan), though the latter model was not sold in the United States. This generation was launched in the US for the 1997 model year. In August 1999 for the", "title": "Toyota Camry" }, { "id": "6115704", "text": "1989 and was available in standard wheelbase and long wheelbase variants; a Grand Cabin; standard wheelbase and long wheelbase van; long wheelbase and super long wheelbase high roof van. The latter shares a body design with the Commuter, which is a 15 seat minibus. A range of engines were available in the 4th generation vehicles, ranging from 2.0-litre petrol engines to 3.0-litre turbo diesel engines. Most versions are rear-wheel drive, but part time or full time four-wheel drive versions were sold depending on specification level and market. The base model is typically the DX. Upmarket versions included CD, GL, and", "title": "Toyota HiAce" }, { "id": "1994648", "text": "Toyota Land Cruiser The is a series of four-wheel drive vehicles produced by the Japanese car maker Toyota. It is Toyota's longest running series. , it has sold more than 6.5 million worldwide. Production of the first generation Land Cruiser began in 1951 (90 units) as Toyota's version of a Jeep-like vehicle. The Land Cruiser has been produced in convertible, hardtop, station wagon and cab chassis versions. The Land Cruiser's reliability and longevity has led to huge popularity, especially in Australia where it is the best-selling body-on-frame, four-wheel drive vehicle. Toyota also extensively tests the Land Cruiser in the Australian", "title": "Toyota Land Cruiser" }, { "id": "4305555", "text": "changes to the 1996 Nissan Pathfinder, but moved the 4Runner into a distinctly different class from its older competitors, the Ford Explorer, Chevrolet Blazer, and Isuzu Rodeo. The third generation 4Runner did, however, look very similar to the second generation. The third generation 4Runner also featured new engines that are also installed in the first generation Toyota Tacoma pickup trucks: In 1996 the 4Runner was dropped from sale in the UK, to be replaced by the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, which was badged as the Toyota Land Cruiser Colorado. Significant changes from the second generation models include a larger body", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305550", "text": "to 1993, followed by a 3.0 L turbodiesel \"1KZ-TE\" I4. Small numbers were also made with a normally aspirated 2.8 L diesel \"3L\" I4, a 2.0 L \"3Y\" I4 naturally aspirated gasoline engine, and 2.4 L \"22R-E\" I4 gasoline engine. The majority of petrol versions of the Hilux Surf received the \"3.0 L V6\". Various trim levels were offered in Japan ranging from the base model 'SSR' through 'SSR Ltd', 'SSR-V' 'SSR-X' and 'SSR-X Ltd' to the range topping 'SSR-G'. Japanese models are distinguished from the export specification 4Runner by having a side opening tailgate as opposed to the 4Runner's", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305551", "text": "lift-up tailgate. Most other full-body SUVs produced at the time (e.g. Nissan Pathfinder, Ford Explorer) featured tailgates that opened upward with the glass closed. In contrast, the second generation 4Runner carried over the retractable-glass tailgate from the first generation. Opening these tailgates requires first retracting the rear window into the tailgate and then lowering the tailgate much like as on a pickup truck. In 1991 for the 1992 model year, the 4Runner received minor cosmetic updates, including one-piece front bumpers and modular headlamps instead of the increasingly outdated rectangular sealed beams. This facelift distanced the 4Runner somewhat from the Hilux", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "5461929", "text": "Toyota Highlander The , also known as the , is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by Toyota. It is built on the same platform as used on the Toyota Camry, but based on size of the Toyota Avalon chassis. Announced in April 2000 at the New York Auto Show and arriving in late 2000 in Japan and January 2001 in North America, the Highlander became one of the first car-based mid-size SUV or mid-size crossovers. The Highlander is the crossover counterpart to the more rugged, truck-based midsize 4Runner and became Toyota's best-selling SUV before being surpassed by the smaller RAV4", "title": "Toyota Highlander" }, { "id": "4305544", "text": "gauge. Turbocharged and naturally aspirated diesel engines were also available in the pickups at this time as well, but it appears that no diesel-powered 4Runners were imported to the United States. During 1984 to 1986 many 4Runners were imported to the US without rear seats. With only two seats the vehicle could be classified as a truck (rather than a sport vehicle) and could skirt the higher customs duties placed upon sport and pleasure vehicles. Most had aftermarket seats and seat belts added by North American dealers after they were imported. In 1988, the 22R-E engine was joined by an", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305539", "text": "regular Hilux did. In that sense, all three vehicles were not conventional pickup trucks with a fiberglass shell included. Thus, the first generation is nearly mechanically identical to the Toyota Hilux. All first generation 4Runners had two doors and were indistinguishable from the pickups from the dashboard forward. Nearly all changes were to the latter half of the body; in fact, because the rear springs were not upgraded to bear the additional weight from the rear seats and fiberglass top, these early models tended to suffer from a sagging rear suspension. In North America, they were sold from the 1984½", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4349456", "text": "went on sale in July 2000. Like the previous model, the XA20 was available in three- and five-door configurations and was constructed on a platform that shared Carina and Corolla elements. Development began in 1995, with a design freeze in the first half of 1998. Styling was done at Calty Design Research Incorporated (also simply known as Calty) by Yasuhide Hosoda and Kevin Hunter from 1996 to 1997. The second generation RAV4 was originally offered in a number of trim levels in the UK: NV was front-wheel drive, while NRG, GX, and VX were permanent four-wheel drive with differing levels", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "4305566", "text": "models. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety rated the 4Runner as \"Good\" overall in the frontal offset crash test, \"Good\" overall in the side impact test on vehicles with side airbags, and the 4Runner received a \"Poor\" rating for rear impact protection. An IIHS report published in April 2007 shows the 4Runner has one of the lowest death rates for all vehicles on the road at only 13 deaths per million registered vehicle years for the 2003 and 2004 model years. Only the Infiniti G35 and BMW 7 series had lower death rates. Later models offered a DVD Rear Seat", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4349452", "text": "equipment is an option in select countries. In most markets, the RAV4 is the only compact SUV or crossover available from Toyota. In other markets, it is the crossover counterpart of the Toyota FJ Cruiser. For the third generation model, Toyota offered both short- and long-wheelbase versions of the RAV4. Short-wheelbase versions are sold in Japan and Europe; long-wheelbase versions in Australia and North America. Toyota of Japan also sells the longer-wheelbase version as the , at \"Toyopet Store\" locations. Japanese versions are sold at two different Toyota Japanese dealerships, called \"Toyota Corolla Store\" and \"Toyota NETZ Store\". The first", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "2567766", "text": "in North America) were produced. The All-Trac system was later available on serial production Toyota Camry, Toyota Corolla, and Toyota Previa models. Some of the earliest mid-engined four-wheel-drive cars were the various road-legal rally cars made for Group B homologation, such as the Ford RS200 made from 1984 to 1986. In 1989, niche maker Panther Westwinds created a mid-engined four-wheel-drive, the Panther Solo 2. In the United States, as of late 2013, AWD vehicles comprised 32 per cent of new light vehicle sales, up five per cent since 2008. This is in large part due to the popularity of the", "title": "Four-wheel drive" }, { "id": "4305564", "text": "very low speeds, both electronic aids are standard on 4WD models. Major standard features included a tilt and telescoping steering wheel, remote keyless entry, single zone automatic climate control, power driver's lumbar support, power rear tailgate window, and on V8 models a tow hitch receiver bolted directly to the rear frame crossmember. Options included HomeLink, an electrochromic auto-dimming rearview mirror, power moonroof, third row seating, a DVD-based navigation system (loses in-dash CD changer), a 10-speaker JBL Synthesis stereo, and rear seat audio. An optional backup camera system on Limited models used two cameras mounted on the interiors D-pillars to give", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4349484", "text": "shared with eighth generation Camry, fifth generation Avalon and seventh generation Lexus ES. Both 4-cylinder gasoline-powered and gasoline-electric hybrid (Hybrid Synergy Drive) variants will remain available. It will have five gasoline variants which include the LE, XLE, XLE Premium, Adventure, and Limited models and four hybrid variants which include the LE, XLE, XSE, and Limited models. Both Adventure and Limited grades will have Torque Vectoring All Wheel Drive with Rear Drive Disconnect. The engine is a 2.5L inline-4 paired with an 8-speed Direct Shift Automatic which increases horsepower by up to 15% on gasoline models. It will have Multi Terrain", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "10093462", "text": "Space Cruiser\", but in Germany, Sweden, Norway, China and some countries of Latin America it was sold as the \"Toyota Model F\". Export models were replaced with the Toyota Previa in 1990. North American market sales started in 1983 for the 1984 model year as the \"Toyota Van\" with styling shared with the MasterAce Surf. The 2.0-liter \"3Y-U\" EFI () came at launch, but was replaced with the 2.2-liter \"4Y-E\" engine with for the 1986 model year facelift. Rear-wheel drive versions were sold in the United States between 1983 and 1989, while four-wheel drive models were sold between 1987 and", "title": "Toyota LiteAce" }, { "id": "4305543", "text": "22R-TE) was also introduced in 1986, although this engine is significantly rarer than the base 22R-E. It appears that all turbocharged 4Runner models sold in the US were equipped with an automatic transmission, though a five-speed manual could still be ordered in the turbocharged pickups. Most turbocharged 4Runners were equipped with the SR5 package, and all turbo trucks had as standard a heavier rear differential later used in the V6 model. Low-option models had a small light in the gauge cluster to indicate turbo boost, while more plush vehicles were equipped with an all-digital gauge cluster that included a boost", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4349453", "text": "generation RAV4, known as the XA10 series was constructed on a unique platform that shared Carina and Corolla elements. It launched in Japan in May 1994. Design and development commenced in 1989 under code-name 153T, with design approval and start of production development in the second half of 1991 on the 3-door version and in 1993 for the 5-door version. The XA10 series was available in both three and five door versions. In the US, a 2.0-liter straight-four producing was available . Both front-wheel drive and all-wheel drive were available, and the RAV4 could be had with either a five-speed", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "4349462", "text": "the United States with the possible exception of the Volkswagen New Beetle, according to 2003–2004 registration and survey data. The Toyota RAV4 was redesigned for the 2006 model year, using an all-new platform and was first unveiled at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show. The new RAV4 uses an Electric Power Steering (EPS) system. The third generation RAV4 is offered in two versions: a short- or a long-wheelbase model. The short-wheelbase model is sold only in Japan, Europe and New Zealand (diesel only in NZ), with the long-wheelbase RAV4 sold in Australia, New Zealand and North America. Since 2007, the extended-length", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "4349483", "text": "Toyota's Kansei design department, seats with black piping and V-shaped outline, two-tone double stitching and grey and black leather on the instrument panel and door panels. Both vehicles were unveiled at the March 2013 Geneva Motor Show. A production version of the RAV4 Adventure was added to the US lineup in September 2017. The fifth-generation RAV4 debuted in March 2018 at the New York International Auto Show. The design was previewed by the FT-AC concept shown at the December 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show. It will be based on the front-wheel-drive Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA-K) platform, which is also", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "418844", "text": "such as the xB and tC, are sold under the Scion brand. Toyota crossovers range from the compact Matrix and RAV4, to midsize Venza and Kluger/Highlander. Toyota SUVs range from the midsize 4Runner to full-size Land Cruiser. Other SUVs include the Prado, C-HR, FJ Cruiser, Fortuner, and Sequoia. Toyota first entered the pickup truck market in 1947 with the SB that was only sold in Japan and limited Asian markets. It was followed in 1954 by the RK (renamed in 1959 as the Stout) and in 1968 by the compact Hilux. With continued refinement, the Hilux (simply known as the", "title": "Toyota" }, { "id": "4305545", "text": "optional 3.0 L V6 engine, the 3VZ-E. This engine was significantly larger and more powerful although not as reliable as the original 4-cylinder offering. Trucks sold with the V6 engine were equipped with the same heavy duty rear differential that was used in the turbocharged trucks, as well as a completely new transmission and transfer case; the transfer case was chain driven, although considered less rugged, created less cab noise than the old gear-driven unit used behind the four-cylinder engine. An engine which was not used in the US market and rarely in the Japanese domestic market pickups was the", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4305535", "text": "and Toyota, regardless of the actual VIN denotation. Originally there were to be a SR5 and Deluxe version of the Trekker, one with vented windows and one without. All 1981 Trekkers had vented canopy windows. Non vented canopy windows were not installed on the Trekker until the 1982 model year. Non vented windows were installed due to the leaking issues of a forward facing vent on the 1981 Trekkers canopy windows rather than the classification of SR5 vs Deluxe. Toyota shipped all trucks from Japan as cab and chassis in order to avoid the 25% assembled truck customs tax. The", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4567536", "text": "Toyota FJ Cruiser The Toyota FJ Cruiser is a retro style, mid-size SUV. Introduced as a concept car at the January 2003 North American International Auto Show, the FJ Cruiser was approved for production after positive consumer response and debuted at the January 2005 North American International Auto Show in final production form. The FJ Cruiser was built by Toyota subsidiary Hino Motors in Hamura, Japan since 2006 and shares many structural underpinnings with the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado. The FJ Cruiser entered the Japanese market on 4 December 2010, announced on 25 November in that year. On 5 November", "title": "Toyota FJ Cruiser" }, { "id": "4305538", "text": "The Hilux had undergone a major redesign in 1983 for the 1984 model year. Changes included the removal of the panel with integrated rear window from behind the front seats, the addition of rear seats, and a removable fiberglass canopy. The implementation was borrowed from both the second generation Ford Bronco, and the Chevrolet K5 Blazer, both short-bed trucks with removable fiberglass shells over the rear sections and having bench seats installed in the back. Like the Bronco and the Blazer, the Hilux Surf/4Runner also did not have a wall attached to the front section behind front seats as the", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4567572", "text": "the Jeep Wrangler. Toyota hoped to rectify these concerns with an updated engine optimized to run on regular unleaded instead of premium with a slight boost in fuel economy for the 2010 model year. Toyota FJ Cruiser The Toyota FJ Cruiser is a retro style, mid-size SUV. Introduced as a concept car at the January 2003 North American International Auto Show, the FJ Cruiser was approved for production after positive consumer response and debuted at the January 2005 North American International Auto Show in final production form. The FJ Cruiser was built by Toyota subsidiary Hino Motors in Hamura, Japan", "title": "Toyota FJ Cruiser" }, { "id": "3292535", "text": "2000 model year, the sedan models received a mid-model upgrade to the front and rear fascias, but remained otherwise similar to the 1997 to 1999 models. In the United States, the Camry SE was dropped and the base model was renamed the \"CE\" for the 1997 model year. Both the \"LE\" and the \"XLE\" trims were carried over from the previous series. All trim levels were available with either the 2.2-liter I4 or the 3.0-liter V6 engine except the Solara SLE, which was only available with the V6. TRD offered a supercharger kit for 1997 through to 2000 V6 models", "title": "Toyota Camry" }, { "id": "4349471", "text": "the United States for the first time. No manual transmission or diesel engines are available on North American models. Facelifted for the 2009 model year, North American models include the choice of a new \"2AR-FE\" inline-four or \"2GR-FE\" V6 engine. The RAV4 was first introduced in 2004; and was only available in two trim levels: Base and L. This was already an outgoing generation but still sold pretty well and both came in 2WD only and both models had, as standard equipment 16-inch alloy wheels and a roof rack. The new generation RAV4, which is the current model, had more", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "3292510", "text": "year. Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, the first wholly owned Toyota plant in the US, began producing the Camry in May 1988. The country of manufacture can be found by looking at the first character of the VIN; a Camry manufactured in Japan has a VIN starting with \"J\", a model made in the US starts with \"4\" and a model made in Australia starts with \"6\". Three trim levels of the V20 Camry were made: the unbadged base model, the DX, and the LE. In 1991, anti-lock brakes became optional on the V6, LE, and station wagon models. The four-wheel-drive", "title": "Toyota Camry" }, { "id": "6148292", "text": "diagnosed. The valve stem seals, at least, can be replaced with silicone or Viton-based seals which last much longer. The 4E is a DOHC version. Bore and stroke was . Output ranged from at 6,400 rpm to at 6,600 rpm with of torque at 3,600 rpm to of torque at 4,000 rpm. It appeared in 1989, and was discontinued after 1998. The 4E engines appeared in fuel-injected applications. Applications: The first generation of 4E engines found in the Starlet GI, Soleil and Corolla models were produced from 1989 until 1996. The engine found in these two models produces at 6,600", "title": "Toyota E engine" }, { "id": "7640371", "text": "4Runner, which had been discontinued from sale. It was called this to distinguish it from the larger Land Cruiser – renamed as the Land Cruiser Amazon – which was already on sale. It dropped the Colorado name tag in 2003, when it was renamed simply Land Cruiser. In the Republic of Ireland most Land Cruisers were sold as commercials with the side windows and seats removed for tax reasons. Appearing in 2002, the third generation Prado has revised front suspension to improve reliability. Development began in 1997 and design work in 1998, with the winning proposal originating from Lance Scott", "title": "Toyota Land Cruiser Prado" }, { "id": "4081423", "text": "PreRunner model was introduced for the 1998 model year. The PreRunner is a two-wheel drive that shares the same taller suspension and lug pattern as the four-wheel drive. Along with the four-wheel drive model, it was also available with the TRD Off-Road Package that included a locking rear differential, also introduced in 1998. Designed through 1998 (by Yusuke Fukushima) as part of the MY2001 facelift (patented on September 22, 1998 at Japan Patent Office under #0890798) was a new crew cab (four-door) model added to the lineup in October 2000. The crew cab, officially dubbed as the Double Cab model,", "title": "Toyota Tacoma" }, { "id": "4349454", "text": "manual or four-speed automatic transmission. It was named the \"1997 Automobile of the Year\" by Automobile Magazine. In 1997 for the 1998 model year, the RAV4 was slightly restyled on the front and rear fascias, and a soft top three-door was made available. Power was increased slightly to . In June 1999, the two-door hardtop was dropped from the American lineup, leaving the five-door and soft top models. In Japan, the 2.0-liter \"3S-GE BEAMS\" engine with was also available. Some variants of the 1998 Toyota RAV4 were labeled as SXA11 rather than XA10, paired with an owner given name of", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "4349464", "text": "there by the Toyota C-HR. Toyota discontinued the Vanguard in November 2013 in favour of the redesigned Harrier XU60. As the RAV4 continued to grow, it became expensive to own in Japan due to the exterior dimensions and engine displacement placing it in the upper tax bracket as defined by Japanese Government dimension regulations and annual road tax obligations, and the C-HR became more affordable. It is also the first generation of RAV4 to be offered in regular (for Asian and European markets, dropping the spare wheel from the rear) and extended (for North American and Australian markets) versions. The", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "5822793", "text": "brakes, speed sensitive power steering, and a 4-speed automatic transmission with overdrive. Originally, sedans and wagons had S80-series chassis numbers, while the two- and four-door hardtops received the S90-series chassis numbers. After 1976 and concurrent with the introduction of new stricter emissions regulations, all Japanese market Crowns used S100-series chassis numbers. Export models continued to use the previous codes. Initially available with the \"old style\" 4M engine with rounded valve cover, later models switched to the new 4M engine with rectangular valve cover. This generation also saw the introduction of fuel injection on both the 2.6-liter 4M and the 2.0-liter", "title": "Toyota Crown" }, { "id": "3292487", "text": "August 1980, Toyota released high-end models with four-wheel independent suspension, denoted A50 (front MacPherson struts, rear semi-trailing arm setup; four-wheel disc brakes). For the TA57 series 1800 SX, Toyota fitted the 1.8-liter \"3T-EU\" engine. Toyota designated the new 2.0-liter grades, the \"21R-U\" powered 2000 SE and \"18R-GEU\"-based 2000 GT as RA56 and RA55, respectively. Toyota started production of the first generation series Camry in March 1982 at the Tsutsumi plant. Designated the model code V10, when fitted with S-series gasoline engines it was known as the SV10, SV11, or SV12 depending on the exact version. Likewise, the C-series diesel versions", "title": "Toyota Camry" }, { "id": "10409773", "text": "Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd", "title": "2007 Dallas Desperados season" }, { "id": "4349476", "text": "launched in June 2012, because Tesla Motors is the manufacturer of the powertrain. The fourth generation RAV4 was a complete redesign; it was revealed at the November 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show. US sales began in early January 2013. In the UK and Australia, the fourth generation RAV4 went on sale in February. Engine choices include a 2.0- and 2.5-liter four-cylinder gasoline, and 2.0- and 2.2-liter turbodiesels. Transmissions include a six-speed manual, Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT), and six-speed automatic. The RAV4 manufactured in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada has about 50 percent of its parts coming from Japan. The UK model went", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "4305537", "text": "factory Toyota vinyl cab headliner was replaced and matched to the custom rear canopy headliner. About 1500 of the Trekkers were built and sold in the United States. An additional unknown number of Trekker kits, likely less than 200, were shipped to Canada to be installed on Canadian trucks at the dealerships. 20 to 30 of the Trekker kits were sold and shipped to Saudi Arabia for installation. For the first generation N60 series Hilux Surf and export specification 4Runner introduced in 1983, Toyota, instead of developing an entirely new model, modified the existing Hilux (N50/N60/N70) with short-bed pickup body.", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "1994671", "text": "the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant had apparently acquired large numbers of Toyota Land Cruisers and Hiluxes. Mark Wallace, the CEO of the Counter Extremism Project said, \"Regrettably, the Toyota Land Cruiser and Hilux have effectively become almost part of the ISIS brand.\" Toyota Land Cruiser The is a series of four-wheel drive vehicles produced by the Japanese car maker Toyota. It is Toyota's longest running series. , it has sold more than 6.5 million worldwide. Production of the first generation Land Cruiser began in 1951 (90 units) as Toyota's version of a Jeep-like vehicle. The", "title": "Toyota Land Cruiser" }, { "id": "4567545", "text": "4Runner as well as suspension components used in the Prado, Hilux, Tacoma, and 4Runner. The 4x4 FJ Cruiser has of ground clearance, 34-degree approach and 30-degree departure angles, and a 27.4-degree breakover angle, with of front and of rear suspension travel. The FJ is also designed to ford up to of water and has a towing capacity for both 4x4 and 4x2 variants. On road, the FJ accelerates to in 7.8 seconds and has .69 G of lateral grip tested with stock Bridgestone Dueler tires. Structurally the FJ Cruiser incorporates a body on frame truck style design similar but not", "title": "Toyota FJ Cruiser" }, { "id": "4305563", "text": "and Limited models, a rear auto-leveling height adjustable air suspension is included with this option on Limited models. The X-REAS system links the dampers diagonally by means of hydraulic hoses and fluid using a mechanical center valve which reduces body roll during hard cornering. All 4runners were equipped with skid plates for the engine, transfer case, and fuel tank to prevent damage during off-roading. The Hill-Start Assist Control (HAC) system prevents the 4runner from rolling backwards on inclines and a Downhill Assist Control (DAC, 4WD only) modulates the brakes and throttle automatically without driver inputs for smooth hill descents at", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4005077", "text": "and two attempts (in 1998 and 1999) at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the GT-One. Toyota Australia introduced a TRD division in August 2007, with the supercharged Aurion V6, followed by a high-performance variant of the 4WD Hilux in April 2008. Speculation suggested a third model was likely to be a RAV4. TRD was aimed to compete with local in-house tuning shops Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) and Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV). However, in December 2008 Toyota Australia announced it would be ceasing production of its TRD range. The decision took effect on 31 March 2009. TRD offers bolt-on", "title": "Toyota Racing Development" }, { "id": "10409701", "text": "3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter:", "title": "2007 Orlando Predators season" }, { "id": "2548847", "text": "it too was discontinued.) In 1998, Toyota ceased sales of the fourth generation Supra in the United States and in 2002 Toyota officially stopped production of the Supra in Japan. In 2019, the fifth generation Supra, which is now related to the G29 BMW Z4, will be introduced. Generation names are A40, A60, A70, A80 and A90/J29. A trend started by American owners was to name the cars using Volkswagen Mark terms but this was never adopted by Toyota nor used in any of its publications. The official Toyota names refer to the chassis codes only. Toyota uses the name", "title": "Toyota Supra" }, { "id": "4349465", "text": "extended-length RAV4 is larger by 21% in interior volume from the last generation and now has an available third-row seat for children (North America and Japan only). The RAV4 can still be had in either front-wheel-drive or all-wheel-drive in North America and Japan; however most countries only sell the all-wheel-drive version. In 2008 (for the 2009 model year) RAV4 was given a mid-cycle refresh in some markets, featuring a number of changes, including an all-new 4-cylinder engine, and a redesigned front end and tweaked rear end. The Limited model gets a different front grille and bumper cover from other models.", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "3292495", "text": "1983), VL Super Extra (January 1985), VF-II (April 1985 and April 1986), and VL Grand Extra (December 1985 and April 1986). Wing mirrors became door-mounted as opposed to fender-mounted in May 1983. Facelifted models arrived in June 1984 featuring a new grille, redesigned bumpers, revised tail-lamps, updated dashboard, enlarged glovebox, and general trim alterations. The shift to smaller cars amid the oil crises doubled Japanese automobile market share from 10 to 20 percent in the United States between 1970 and 1980; thus, causing economic tensions between the two nations. Toyota then began investigating the option of building a US production", "title": "Toyota Camry" }, { "id": "4305536", "text": "trucks destined for production as Trekkers were shipped to the dealership handling the national distribution of the Trekker. From there they went to Winnebago to have the Trekker conversion installed, returned after completion to the dealership for national distribution. Most of the Trekker conversions sold went to the west coast of the United States. The Trekker conversion consisted of a fiberglass tub, bed sides, a non-removable canopy and rear hatch. The kit included a folding rear seat that could be folded forward to lay flat and add cargo space to the back. There was no tailgate on the Trekkers. The", "title": "Toyota 4Runner" }, { "id": "4349460", "text": "Stability Control made standard. The RAV4's 2.0-liter engine was upgraded with a new 2.4-liter engine in the US, producing and . Other countries got mostly 5-door models with the 2.0 liter VVT-i engine. Automatic electric air conditioning also became available. European models got a new catalytic converter because of the new European emission policy. The new model also got an electric throttle. In Australia, for the facelift, the base Edge was renamed CV, and gained standard air conditioning (previously an option). The CV also received painted bumpers, which came in either silver or body-colored shades, depending on the body color.", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "4349463", "text": "RAV4 is also sold alongside its shorter counterpart in Japan as the Toyota Vanguard, albeit with a revised front-end body work incorporating a revised grille, bumper, bonnet and headlamps. Japanese models went on sale in 2005 at \"Toyota NETZ\" dealers. The 3-door was dropped in the beginning of 2007, leaving Toyota without a mini SUV until the 2009 Toyota Urban Cruiser, which is sold in Europe, North America (as the Scion xD) and Japan (as the Toyota ist). The XA30 series RAV4 was sold in Japan until July 2016, where the XA40 is not to be offered and was replaced", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "4349459", "text": "a brand-new 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine featuring VVT (variable valve timing), resulting in improved power and torque, as well as fuel consumption. Permanent all-wheel-drive was a feature. Options were ABS brakes (on the Edge), and air conditioning (on all models). The second generation RAV4 enjoyed success in Australia, where it became the best-selling SUV in the country in 2001, overtaking its rival, the Honda CR-V, for the first time. In late 2003, the 2004 model RAV4 was given a styling update, improved equipment, and, in certain markets, a new engine. In the United States the safety structure was improved and Vehicle", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "11946882", "text": "Indonesia. Win Percy won the 1982 British Saloon Car Championship driving an E70 series Toyota Corolla GT. Toyota Corolla (E70) The Corolla E70 was the fourth generation of cars sold by Toyota under the Corolla nameplate. The fourth-generation model was released in March 1979 in Japan, and was the last generation to have the entire lineup in rear-wheel-drive configuration. Export sales commenced in August 1979. Although most of the fourth generation was replaced by 1984, the station wagon and van versions were offered into late 1987. In 1980 Corolla daily production reached an all-time high, averaging 2,346 units. The one-millionth", "title": "Toyota Corolla (E70)" }, { "id": "3292509", "text": "and E-Type levels of trim alongside a new sedan-only Camry Lumière. Also in August 1988, a diesel version of the Vista hardtop made its debut, and the 1.8-liter gasoline engine was upgraded to the twin-cam \"4S-Fi\" specification. Special editions for the Camry comprised: Lumière S sedan (January 1989), Prominent X hardtop (May 1989), Lumière G sedan (June 1989), and XT Saloon Special sedan (January 1990). In 1988 the Japan market Camry became the first Toyota equipped with a driver airbag. North American market V20 series Camry sedan and wagons came to the market in late 1986 for the 1987 model", "title": "Toyota Camry" }, { "id": "4055128", "text": "The seventh generation Sprinter was shared with the seventh generation Corolla range introduced in June 1991. This platform continued to be produced in North America as the Geo Prizm sedan, as the hatchback body style was discontinued. For this generation only, Toyota introduced the 4-door hardtop sedan (with frameless door windows) called the Sprinter Marino. The eighth generation Sprinter was shared with the eighth generation Corolla range from May 1995. This is the last time Toyota used the Sprinter badge. After this, Toyota used the Allex badge. The E110 Sprinter was only marketed in the Japanese market as a sedan.", "title": "Toyota Sprinter" }, { "id": "4567569", "text": "same newly designed TRD Midnight Black alloy wheels used on the FJ-S on the new TRD Pro Series 4Runner. The FJ debuted to both criticism and acclaim from the automotive press. Critics appreciated Toyota's drive to bring such an aggressively styled and purpose driven vehicle to market at a time when the company was focused on more conservative designs. The FJ was universally praised for its off-road performance with many reviewers also appreciating its on road manners, functional interior, and styling that paid homage to the original FJ40. The off-road community widely embraced the new addition of another Toyota off-road", "title": "Toyota FJ Cruiser" }, { "id": "4394350", "text": "stream lined appearance, the faceplate for the heater controls was also redesigned. A V6 engine was introduced in 1988. The Hilux-based 4Runner which made its entry in Australia, North America and the United Kingdom was based on this generation of the Hilux; in some other markets, such as Japan, it was called the Hilux Surf. Toyota introduced a new generation of the Hilux in most markets in late 1988 but the fourth generation remained in production until 1997 in South Africa. The company quoted that this was due to South African \"content laws\" which made it cheaper to continue tthe", "title": "Toyota Hilux" }, { "id": "4349485", "text": "Select giving drivers an ability to maximize traction when driving on sand, mud, rock, or dirt. A 7-inch multi-touch screen is available with standard Entune 3.0 is available with Apple Carplay, Amazon Alexa, JBL Audio System and a WIFI Hotspot. It will have QI Wireless Charging with up to 5 USB Ports. Like all 2019 models, it will have Toyota Safety Sense 2.0. In the US, the fifth-generation RAV4 gasoline model has been available since December 2018 for the 2019 model year. The hybrid model will be available in March 2019. Toyota RAV4 The is a compact crossover SUV (sport", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "10416126", "text": "Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance:", "title": "2007 Utah Blaze season" }, { "id": "3640241", "text": "Toyota RAV4 EV The RAV4 EV is an all-electric version of the popular RAV4 SUV produced by Toyota. Two generations of the EV model were sold in California, and to fleets elsewhere in the USA, with a gap of almost ten years between them. The first generation was leased from 1997 to 2003, and at the lessees' request, many units were sold after the vehicle was discontinued. A total of 1,484 were leased and/or sold in California to meet the state’s mandate for zero-emissions vehicle. A small number were sold or leased in fleet sales in other states. As of", "title": "Toyota RAV4 EV" }, { "id": "4349467", "text": "2012 model year) the RAV4 underwent another, light, facelift. The vehicles were built in Toyota's Tahara, Aichi assembly plant, and under contract by Toyota Industries in its Nagakusa, Obu, Aichi plant. Beginning in November 2008, vehicles for the North American market were built in the Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc., Second Plant. Beginning in March 2009, Chinese models began production by Tianjin FAW Toyota Motor Co. Ltd. in a joint-venture plant in Tianjin, China. In 2015, the XA30 series RAV4 was awarded the WheelsTV pre-owned vehicle of the year title. Model ranges include \"X\", \"G\", and \"Sport\", replacing \"RAV4 L\"", "title": "Toyota RAV4" }, { "id": "3640257", "text": "in, were allowed by Chevron-Texaco. The second generation RAV4 EV was released in September 2012 starting at a price of before any government incentives. Toyota also offered a 36-month lease option at per month with down payment of . The RAV4 EV was sold only in California, and sales began in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles/Orange County and San Diego. Production was limited to 2,600 during three years. The RAV4 EV was available to individual consumers and fleet customers. Due to the capacity of its battery pack the RAV4 EV qualified for the maximum federal tax credit and", "title": "Toyota RAV4 EV" }, { "id": "418788", "text": "companies Citroën and Peugeot a year after Toyota started producing cars in France. A youth-oriented marque for North America, Scion, was introduced in 2003. Toyota ranked eighth on Forbes 2000 list of the world's leading companies for the year 2005 but slid to 55th for 2011. The company was number one in global automobile sales for the first quarter of 2008. In 2007, Toyota released an update of its full-sized truck, the Tundra, produced in two American factories, one in Texas and one in Indiana. \"Motor Trend\" named the Tundra \"Truck of the Year\", and the 2007 Toyota Camry \"Car", "title": "Toyota" }, { "id": "418806", "text": "Roomy, Estima, Noah, Avensis, Sienta, TownAce, Pixis, Publica, Tercel, Windom, Scepter, Corolla Ceres, Origin, Nadia, WiLL, RAV4, Sports 800, Celica, Supra, Corolla Levin, Celica XX, Celica Camry. Vitz, SAI, Prius, Aqua, ist, Auris, bB, Avensis, Raum, Spade, Wish, Voxy, RAV4, C-HR, Kluger, Vellfire, iQ, Allex, Tank, Pixis, Fun Cargo, Pronard, Altezza, Verossa, Curren, Aristo, MR-S, MR2, Starlet, Vista, Cresta, Sprinter, Voltz, Blizzard, Chaser, Sprinter Marino, Carib, Granvia, Sprinter Trueno, LiteAce, Ipsum, GT-86, WiLL (1999–2004). Toyota sponsors several teams and has purchased naming rights for several venues, including: , Toyota is an official sponsor of Cricket Australia, the England and Wales", "title": "Toyota" }, { "id": "3292494", "text": "For lower trims, the \"Ci\" 1.8-liter \"1S-iLU\" arrived. The diesel was upgraded to the 2.0-liter \"2C-TL\" specification in August 1985 (). Japanese trims levels initially comprised LT, XT, SE, and ZX for Camry sedan. Lumiere and XE grades came to the market in June 1984, and the GLi TwinCam in May 1985. Vista sedan and liftback specification levels were at first VC (sedan only), VL, VE, and VX. The VF arrived in August 1982, and VR and VS models in June 1984 at the expense of the departing VE. Special edition models comprised: VE Extra (December 1982), VL Extra (January", "title": "Toyota Camry" }, { "id": "3292507", "text": "Japan, the V20 series Camry (sedan only) offered the following trim levels: LT, XT, XT Saloon, ZE, ZT, ZX, and GT. For the Vista sedan, Toyota offered: VC, VL, VE, VR, and VX. Hardtop versions comprised: VE, VR, VX, and GT. Flagship models of the Japanese specification Camry sedan, the Camry Prominent and Prominent G arrived in April 1987 with the 2.0-liter \"1VZ-FE\" V6 engine, a protruding chrome grille, larger North American-type bumpers, wood grain interior highlights, an electric seat function, plus electronic instrument cluster. Full-time four-wheel-drive became an option in October 1987 with select \"3S-FE\" manual variants (VL Extra,", "title": "Toyota Camry" }, { "id": "3640267", "text": "end of production in August 2014. Toyota RAV4 EV The RAV4 EV is an all-electric version of the popular RAV4 SUV produced by Toyota. Two generations of the EV model were sold in California, and to fleets elsewhere in the USA, with a gap of almost ten years between them. The first generation was leased from 1997 to 2003, and at the lessees' request, many units were sold after the vehicle was discontinued. A total of 1,484 were leased and/or sold in California to meet the state’s mandate for zero-emissions vehicle. A small number were sold or leased in fleet", "title": "Toyota RAV4 EV" }, { "id": "4055122", "text": "Sprinter received a corresponding update to become the E60 series. In 1978, the Sprinter saw a competitor introduced by Nissan called the Pulsar. The 1979 fourth generation Sprinter was based on the fourth generation Corolla coupe, 2 door sedan, 4-door sedan and liftback. As before, the differences were cosmetic—the Corollas had a simpler treatment of the grill, head lights and tail lights while the Sprinter used a slightly more complex, sculpted treatment. In August 1981, along with the 1.5 and 1.6-liter engines being changed to the new A engines, the Sprinter received a facelift with a wedge-shaped nose. Images of", "title": "Toyota Sprinter" }, { "id": "10409878", "text": "Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th", "title": "2007 New York Dragons season" }, { "id": "4274368", "text": "Toyota Sequoia The is a full-size SUV manufactured by Toyota and derived from its Tundra pickup truck. Introduced in 2000 and manufactured at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana in Princeton, Indiana, the Sequoia is the first vehicle from a Japanese marque in the popular mainstream full-sized SUV class in North America, and initial planning done by first-generation Sequoia chief engineer Kaoru Hosegawa aimed the Sequoia directly at the Ford Expedition, also competing with the Chevrolet Tahoe and the later Nissan Armada. The Sequoia slots in between the mid-size Toyota 4Runner and the premium Toyota Land Cruiser in the North American Toyota", "title": "Toyota Sequoia" }, { "id": "4941462", "text": "next-generation Carina ED four-door hardtop in 1985. In May 1983, minor changes were done to the whole range, excepting the vans. Power mirrors were added, while the front grille and the taillights were redesigned. The 1600GT sports model replaced the 2T-GEU engine with the all new 4A-GEU engine, also a 1,600 cc DOHC unit, but now with 16 valves. The 3T-EU engine was no longer offered. In August 1983, a series of minor changes to the van took place. The 12T-J 1,600 cc OHV engine was replaced with the lighter and more economical 1.5-liter 5K-J type. In May 1984, the", "title": "Toyota Carina" }, { "id": "4394345", "text": "from this collaboration were the Trekker (Winnebago), Wolverine, and the Trailblazer (Griffith). All three used the Hilux 4×4 RV cab and chassis, and an all-fiberglass rear section (the Trailblazer had a steel bed with a fiberglass top). There were at least 1,500 Trekkers, 400 Trailblazers and an unknown number of Wolverines sold in North America. Research and development work on the Trekker led to the development of the 4Runner/Hilux Surf, which was introduced in 1984. Toward the end of the SR5's production run (1983½ model year), Toyota introduced the luxury Mojave for the US market as a limited-production (3,500 units)", "title": "Toyota Hilux" }, { "id": "11326793", "text": "Toyota Venza The is a front-engine, front- or all wheel-drive mid-size five-passenger crossover SUV that was manufactured and marketed by Toyota in North America and unveiled at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The Venza was designed at the Calty Design studios in Newport Beach, California, based on the Toyota-FT-SX concept car and primarily engineered at Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Third-generation Lexus RX was based on the Venza platform. Venza production began at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) in Georgetown, Kentucky, in November 2008. Production of US models ended in June 2015, and", "title": "Toyota Venza" } ]

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[ { "id": "3659797", "text": "Fire and Rain (song) \"Fire and Rain\" is a folk rock song written and performed by James Taylor. Released on Warner Bros. Records as a single from his second album, \"Sweet Baby James\", in February 1970, the song follows Taylor's reaction to the suicide of Suzanne Schnerr, a childhood friend, and his experiences with drug addiction and fame. After its release, \"Fire and Rain\" peaked at number two on \"RPM\" Canada Top Singles chart and at number three on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. On the VH1 series \"Storytellers\", Taylor said the song was about several incidents during his early recording", "title": "Fire and Rain (song)" }, { "id": "1314261", "text": "James Taylor James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No. 3 single \"Fire and Rain\" and had his first No. 1 hit in 1971 with his recording of \"You've Got a Friend\", written by Carole King in the same year. His 1976 \"Greatest Hits\" album was certified Diamond and", "title": "James Taylor" }, { "id": "3163766", "text": "Sweet Baby James Sweet Baby James is the second album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, the album includes one of Taylor's earliest successful singles: \"Fire and Rain\", which reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The album itself reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Album Charts. \"Sweet Baby James\" made Taylor one of the main forces of the ascendant singer-songwriter movement. The album was nominated to a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, in 1971. The album was listed at #104 on \"Rolling Stone\" \"Magazine\"'s 500 Greatest Albums", "title": "Sweet Baby James" }, { "id": "17649639", "text": "I See Fire \"I See Fire\" is a song recorded and produced by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. The song was commissioned for the soundtrack of the 2013 film \"\", where it played over the closing credits. \"The Hobbit\" director, Peter Jackson, asked Sheeran to write a song for the movie, after Jackson's daughter, Katie, suggested Sheeran. Sheeran saw the film, wrote the song, and recorded most of the track elements on the same day. It plays at the 37:00 minute mark in the film. The song was released as a digital download on 5 November 2013; its music video was", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "3163769", "text": "on sides 1 and 2, respectively. The horn players are uncredited. Sweet Baby James Sweet Baby James is the second album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, the album includes one of Taylor's earliest successful singles: \"Fire and Rain\", which reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The album itself reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Album Charts. \"Sweet Baby James\" made Taylor one of the main forces of the ascendant singer-songwriter movement. The album was nominated to a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, in 1971. The album", "title": "Sweet Baby James" }, { "id": "1314281", "text": "October 1969 signed a new deal with Warner Bros. Records. Once he had recovered, Taylor moved to California, keeping Asher as his manager and record producer. In December 1969, he held the recording sessions for his second album there. Titled \"Sweet Baby James\", and featuring the participation of Carole King, the album was released in February 1970 and was Taylor's critical and popular triumph, buoyed by the single \"Fire and Rain,\" a song about both Taylor's experiences attempting to break his drug habit by undergoing treatment in psychiatric institutions and the suicide of his friend, Suzanne Schnerr. Both the album", "title": "James Taylor" }, { "id": "3659800", "text": "of the Century\" list, while voters for the National Endowment for the Arts and Recording Industry Association of America's Songs of the Century list, which comprises 365 songs of \"historical significance\" recorded from 1900 to 2000, placed \"Fire and Rain\" at number 85. In April 2011, the song was named at number 227 on \"Rolling Stone\"s list of 500 greatest songs of all time. In 2015, Taylor appeared on \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\", where he sang a version including numerous references to post-1970 popular culture. Fire and Rain (song) \"Fire and Rain\" is a folk rock song written", "title": "Fire and Rain (song)" }, { "id": "17649655", "text": "a power ballad version of the song on his compilation album \"The Ballads V\" in 2017. !scope=\"col\" colspan=\"3\"| Streaming I See Fire \"I See Fire\" is a song recorded and produced by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. The song was commissioned for the soundtrack of the 2013 film \"\", where it played over the closing credits. \"The Hobbit\" director, Peter Jackson, asked Sheeran to write a song for the movie, after Jackson's daughter, Katie, suggested Sheeran. Sheeran saw the film, wrote the song, and recorded most of the track elements on the same day. It plays at the 37:00 minute mark", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "12263383", "text": "studio album \"Sweet Baby James\" on Warner Bros. Records in 1970. Its lead single \"Fire and Rain\" became a significant international hit and gained Taylor his first major exposure as an artist. In April 1971, Taylor released his third studio album \"Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon\", which became his second album to certify multi-platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America and featured his first number one single \"You've Got a Friend\". In 1972 and 1973, he released his fourth studio album, \"One Man Dog\" and his fifth, \"Walking Man\"; both peaked within the Top 20", "title": "James Taylor discography" }, { "id": "3163768", "text": "strung together three unfinished songs into a \"suite\", and completed the album. The album produced two charting singles: \"Fire and Rain,\" backed by \"Anywhere Like Heaven,\" which peaked at #3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on 31 October 1970, and \"Country Road,\" backed by \"Sunny Skies,\" which peaked at #37 on 20 March 1971. An additional single, \"Sweet Baby James,\" backed by \"Suite for 20 G,\" did not chart. All songs by James Taylor unless otherwise noted. Side One Side Two Some copies of the album also feature \"Hi, James\" and \"That's All Folks\" etched into the inner dead wax", "title": "Sweet Baby James" }, { "id": "3669504", "text": "song \"Fire and Rain\" that \"I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.\" King's album was recorded in an overlap with Taylor's, and King, Danny Kortchmar, and Joni Mitchell perform on both. The song is included on both albums; King said in a 1972 interview that she \"didn't write it with James or anybody really specifically in mind. But when James heard it he really liked it and wanted to record it\". Taylor's version was released as a single, and reached number 1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The", "title": "You've Got a Friend" }, { "id": "17649640", "text": "released the same day. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 13 and reached number-one in New Zealand on its sixth week, marking Sheeran's first number-one single in the country. \"I See Fire\" was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Original Song. \"I See Fire\" plays over the first section of the closing credits of \"\", an epic fantasy adventure film directed by New Zealand filmmaker, Peter Jackson. Released on 13 December 2013, it is the second installment in the three-part film series based on the novel, \"The Hobbit\", by J. R. R. Tolkien. \"The Hobbit\" follows the", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "17649653", "text": "version of the song. Hollens had previously recorded \"Misty Mountain\" off the soundtrack for the first installment of \"The Hobbit\" series. His version of \"I See Fire\" features \"98 different sound tracks\" layered onto \"8–14 vocal parts\" that Hollens recorded. Norwegian DJ and record producer Kygo released a remixed version of the song which became viral. Kygo's success is attributed largely in part to the reception of his remixed version of \"I See Fire\". Less than two years later, the remix had been played 26 million plays on SoundCloud. As of May 2018, the version has been played over 62", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "19490478", "text": "Fire in the Rain \"Fire in the Rain\" is a song by Swedish singer Måns Zelmerlöw. It was released on 4 May 2016 as the lead single from the re-issued version of Zelmerlöw's sixth studio album, \"Perfectly Damaged\" (2015), ahead of Zelmerlöw's duties as one of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 hosts. The song was also released as the lead single from his seventh studio album \"Chameleon\" (2016). It premiered in a performance by Zelmerlöw during the final of Eurovision on 14 May. The song has peaked at number 31 on the Swedish Singles Chart and at number 3 in", "title": "Fire in the Rain" }, { "id": "3659799", "text": "explained to host Scott Simon that the song was written in three parts: Carole King played piano on the song. Drummer Russ Kunkel used brushes rather than sticks on his drum kit, and Bobby West played double bass in place of a bass guitar to \"underscore the melancholy on the song\". King has stated that her song \"You've Got a Friend,\" that Taylor recorded, was a response to the line in the refrain that \"I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend.\" Broadcast Music, Inc. ranked \"Fire and Rain\" at number 82 on its \"Top 100 Songs", "title": "Fire and Rain (song)" }, { "id": "1314263", "text": "and the aforementioned \"You've Got A Friend\", as well as originals such as \"Fire and Rain\". James Vernon Taylor was born at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 12, 1948, where his father, Isaac M. Taylor, worked as a resident physician. His father came from a wealthy Scottish family from the South, however, part of his ancestral roots are deep in Massachusetts Bay Colony and include Edmund Rice, one of the founders of Sudbury, Massachusetts. His mother, the former Gertrude Woodard (1921–2015), studied singing with Marie Sundelius at the New England Conservatory of Music and was an aspiring opera", "title": "James Taylor" }, { "id": "11090369", "text": "Kygo Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (born 11 September 1991), better known by his stage name Kygo (), is a Norwegian DJ, record producer, and songwriter. He garnered international attention with his remix of the track \"I See Fire\" by Ed Sheeran, which has received over 55 million plays on SoundCloud and 65 million views on YouTube and his single \"Firestone\" which has over 500 million views on YouTube with an additional 560 million plays on the music streaming service Spotify, as of August 2017. Kygo has accumulated over 2.5 billion views on his music on SoundCloud and YouTube. Kygo has since released", "title": "Kygo" }, { "id": "17255624", "text": "I See the Rain \"I See The Rain\" is a 1967 song recorded by The Marmalade, written by lead guitarist William Junior Campbell and vocalist Dean Ford ( born Thomas McAleese). This was the band's third CBS Records release, following their 1966 name change from Dean Ford and the Gaylords and change of label from Columbia (EMI) to CBS, and was one year before their first successful UK commercial release \"Loving Things\". The self-penned recording was praised by Jimi Hendrix as the \"best cut of 1967.\" The recording became a chart-topper in the Netherlands that same year. Graham Nash of", "title": "I See the Rain" }, { "id": "8858429", "text": "Fire (Arthur Brown song) \"Fire\" is a 1968 song written by Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Mike Finesilver and Peter Ker. Performed by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, it was released as a single and on the band's debut album, also called \"The Crazy World of Arthur Brown\". The single reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in August 1968 and in Canada. In October, it reached No. 2 in the United States \"Billboard\" charts and No. 19 in Australia. It also reached No. 3 in Germany, No. 4 in France, No. 6 in the Netherlands, No. 7 in Austria", "title": "Fire (Arthur Brown song)" }, { "id": "15077593", "text": "made it to number eight Easy Listening and number 18 UK. Gold certification was also bestowed upon \"Candida\", which went to number three pop, number eight Easy Listening, and number nine UK for Dawn, the group that eventually became known as Tony Orlando and Dawn. \"Fire and Rain\" had its biggest chart success as a recording by James Taylor that reached number three on the Hot 100, number seven Easy Listening, and number 42 UK. \"Rose Garden\" took Lynn Anderson to number one on the Country chart for five weeks, number five Easy Listening, number three pop, and number three", "title": "Love Story (Andy Williams album)" }, { "id": "17649651", "text": "number 1 for three weeks. It was certified triple platinum by the Recorded Music NZ, denoting sales of 45,000 copies. \"I See Fire\" is the 6th top-selling single in New Zealand in 2014. In Australia, the single peaked at number 10 for 3 non-consecutive weeks. It has been certified two-time platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association, denoting sales of 140,000 copies as of 2014. In Australia's 2014 year-end chart, \"I See Fire\" was ranked at number 78. According to commercial streaming company Spotify, \"I See Fire\" was the most streamed song from a soundtrack between 2013 and 2014, outperforming", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "7348120", "text": "video. Wilco, which had formed earlier in 1994, made their recorded debut on the compilation with their cover of Ernest Tubb's \"The T.B. is Whipping Me\", a duet with Syd Straw. The song would later appear on the band's 2014 rarities collection \"\". The rendition of \"Teach Your Children\" from this album, credited to The Red Hots, charted at number 75 on Hot Country Songs in October 1994. Although it was not released as a single, Sammy Kershaw's cover of \"Fire and Rain\" was made into a music video. Red Hot + Country Red Hot + Country (or RH+C) was", "title": "Red Hot + Country" }, { "id": "2704640", "text": "Marcia Hines Marcia Elaine Hines, AM (born 20 July 1953), is an American-Australian vocalist, actress and TV personality. Hines made her debut, at the age of 16, in the Australian production of the stage musical \"Hair\" and followed with the role of Mary Magdalene in \"Jesus Christ Superstar\". She achieved her greatest commercial successes as a recording artist during the late 1970s with several hit singles, including cover versions of \"Fire and Rain\", \"I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself\", \"You\" and \"Something's Missing (In My Life)\"; and her Top Ten albums \"Marcia Shines\", \"Shining\" and \"Ladies and", "title": "Marcia Hines" }, { "id": "1314316", "text": "usual theaters or amphitheaters. Ticket sales amounted to over 700,000 and the tour grossed over $59 million. It was one of the most successful tours of the year. On September 11, 2011, Taylor performed \"You Can Close Your Eyes\" in New York City at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. On November 22, 2011, Taylor performed \"Fire and Rain\" with Taylor Swift, who was named after him, at the last concert of her Speak Now World Tour in Madison Square Garden, as well as her own song, \"Fifteen\". Then, on July", "title": "James Taylor" }, { "id": "17649644", "text": "is \"known for songs that wouldn't fit in a \"Hobbit\" film\", attempted to follow in that direction. Sheeran wrote and recorded, in only one day, most of the elements present in the released version. Further revisions were made in a course of three days that Sheeran stayed in the facility. Sheeran revealed he was given complete freedom in the creative process, while receiving ready inputs from Jackson and his co-filmmakers. In particular, Sheeran notes: \"[Jackson] knows the colors and templates of what the song should be rather than how the melody should go.\" Sheeran also produced the song, playing all", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "11090384", "text": "to live with one's sexual orientation. That is not the situation in Uganda and quite a few other countries across the world\". Kygo Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll (born 11 September 1991), better known by his stage name Kygo (), is a Norwegian DJ, record producer, and songwriter. He garnered international attention with his remix of the track \"I See Fire\" by Ed Sheeran, which has received over 55 million plays on SoundCloud and 65 million views on YouTube and his single \"Firestone\" which has over 500 million views on YouTube with an additional 560 million plays on the music streaming service Spotify,", "title": "Kygo" }, { "id": "17255625", "text": "The Hollies, contributed to the session, but it did not chart in the UK, although the track, with its distinct mid-1960s psychedelic feel, has since attained a cult following and has been covered by artists such as Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles and Matthew Sweet (see \"Under the Covers, Vol. 1\"). The Marmalade's original recording also was used in an advertisement campaign by The Gap in 2002. A commercial was directed by the Coen brothers and featured Dennis Hopper and Christina Ricci. I See the Rain \"I See The Rain\" is a 1967 song recorded by The Marmalade, written by", "title": "I See the Rain" }, { "id": "1326342", "text": "\"I Got Your Love\". In 2004, Summer re-recorded the track with the Irish pop band Westlife (with a live performance) for the compilation album, Discomania. In 2008, Summer released her first studio album of fully original material in 17 years, entitled \"Crayons\". Released on the Sony BMG label Burgundy Records, it peaked at No. 17 on the U.S. Top 200 Album Chart, her highest placing on the chart since 1983. The songs I'm a Fire, Stamp Your Feet and Fame (The Game) all reached No. 1 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Dance Chart. The ballad Sand on My Feet was released", "title": "Donna Summer" }, { "id": "2704646", "text": "vocals were on the cover songs \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough\" and \"Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?\". Hines toured with Daly-Wilson Big Band from Australia to United States, supporting B. B. King and Wilson Pickett in Los Angeles, then to Europe and into Soviet Union for a month. During late 1974 Hines also performed as the backing vocalist on Jim Keays' solo concept album \"The Boy from the Stars\". A record contract with Robie Porter's Wizard Records in July 1974 led to Hines' first solo single, a cover version of James Taylor's \"Fire and Rain\",", "title": "Marcia Hines" }, { "id": "17649654", "text": "million times on SoundCloud. New Zealand musical trio Sole Mio released a cover of \"I See Fire\" in support of New Zealand's participation at the 2015 Rugby World Cup. An Australian singer-songwriter, Joe Moore, auditioned for the fourth series of \"The Voice Australia\" with a cover of \"I See Fire\". The cover was included as a bonus track and was released on his debut studio album \"A Thousand Lifetimes\". Irish musical ensemble Celtic Woman performed a cover of the song on their album , sung by debuting member Mairead Carlin. The German heavy metal guitarist Axel Rudi Pell has released", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "8858433", "text": "studio sessions recording Fire, but he must have confused it with the BBC session [of 8 April 1968].\" There is no bass guitar on the recording, only bass pedals. Fire (Arthur Brown song) \"Fire\" is a 1968 song written by Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Mike Finesilver and Peter Ker. Performed by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, it was released as a single and on the band's debut album, also called \"The Crazy World of Arthur Brown\". The single reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in August 1968 and in Canada. In October, it reached No. 2 in the", "title": "Fire (Arthur Brown song)" }, { "id": "17649642", "text": "daughter, Katie, who attended Sheeran's concert in Wellington, New Zealand, in March 2013. Jackson, having learned Sheeran's regard toward his films, met him over lunch the following day where they exchanged email addresses. In late 2013, Jackson and Fran Walsh, who co-produced and co-wrote the film, were searching for an artist who would write and record the song. Following Katie's advice, they decided to tap Sheeran. Jackson sent a message to Sheeran, who was in the Mediterranean island of Ibiza attending a wedding ceremony, asking if he would be interested in the project, which Sheeran accepted. Departing from London, Sheeran", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "11555079", "text": "to have the studio version of \"The Star Spangled Banner\" (that appeared on the \"Rainbow Bridge\" LP). All songs were written by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted. Cornerstones: 1967–1970 Cornerstones 1967–1970 is a 1990 compilation album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. It features 18 of his greatest hits, including live renditions of \"Fire\" and \"Stone Free\" from the Atlanta International Pop Festival, Byron, Georgia, July 4, 1970. It was released on the Polydor label in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. The album entered the UK Albums Chart in November 1990 at No. 5, its highest position during", "title": "Cornerstones: 1967–1970" }, { "id": "9885244", "text": "Jody Reynolds Jody Reynolds (December 3, 1932 – November 7, 2008) was an American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose song \"Endless Sleep\" was a major U.S. top-ten hit in the summer of 1958. His follow-up single, \"Fire of Love\", peaked at only #66 on the Billboard chart, but the song went on to become a blues-punk classic after being covered by the MC5 and the Gun Club. Reynolds was a regular on the \"oldies\" circuit and a successful businessman in the U.S. Southwest. Beginning in the 1980s several compilations of his music were issued in the U.S.", "title": "Jody Reynolds" }, { "id": "1614891", "text": "pressings were released on the Atlantic label proper.) The album peaked at No. 7 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart and at No. 2 on the UK charts. The album's first single, \"Fire,\" was a global success, reaching No. 1 in the UK in August 1968, No. 2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in North America in October 1968, No. 1 in Canada also in October, and No. 19 in Australia again in October. \"The Crazy World of Arthur Brown\" was the only album released by the band during its active tenure, and features the band's core members Arthur Brown (vocals),", "title": "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (album)" }, { "id": "17649649", "text": "trademark style, filled with dramatic crooning and quiet acoustic guitars.\" Delia Paunescu of Vulture.com found \"I See Fire\" \"so calming it may put you to sleep\". In December 2013, Sheeran said he would be promoting the song until end of the awards season, in his bid to bagging a nomination at the 2014 Academy Awards (although it was not nominated). \"I See Fire\" was nominated for Best Original Song at the 2014 Satellite Awards. It also received nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media from the 2015 Grammy Award. Since its release on 5 November 2013, \"I See Fire\"", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "5939377", "text": "the Billboard R&B charts. Far Corporation covered \"Fire and Water\" on their first album, \"Division One\", in 1985. XYZ covered the title song on their second album \"Hungry\" in 1991. Mr. Big, who took their name from the Free song, covered it on their 1993 album \"Bump Ahead\". Gov't Mule covered \"Mr. Big\" on their debut album \"Gov't Mule\", released in 1995. The Answer recorded \"Fire and Water\" on their 2011 release \"Revival\". Singer-songwriter and former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley performed the title track on his covers album, titled Origins, Vol. 1, which he released in 2016. The track featured", "title": "Fire and Water (Free album)" }, { "id": "10628781", "text": "is the Angela Winbush penned and produced \"Fire and Rain,\" a sultry, soulful and very Isley-ish slow number that we hope clicks at radio. Side One Side Two 2006 re-release bonus tracks The Lover in Me (album) The Lover in Me is the ninth studio album by Scottish singer Sheena Easton. It was released in November 1988 and was her debut for MCA. The album has a more Urban/R&B sound than Easton's previous recordings due to the production by well-known acts such as L.A. Reid, Babyface and John \"Jellybean\" Benitez. The album's title track became a major hit, reaching #2", "title": "The Lover in Me (album)" }, { "id": "17649648", "text": "The footage which shows Sheeran performing and recording the song is shot in black-and-white, while the rest shown in full color. The video, which is uploaded in the Warner Bros. Pictures channel in YouTube, had accumulated over 80 million views as of April 2017. \"I See Fire\" attracted critical commentaries. In his review of the single, Nick Catucci of the \"Entertainment Weekly\" stated that although looming in the song is a \"flame-broiled disaster\", Sheeran \"keeps his strumming cool, and a hopeful flame burning for Bilbo\". For \"Rolling Stone\", Ryan Reed wrote: \"The haunting track is right in line with Sheeran's", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "18503574", "text": "Top 100. The song was produced by Mario Machetti ( Demi Lovato, Jennifer Lopez). Natania co-wrote \"I See The Fire\" with Grayce that aired on TLC in Europe placed on the official promo/trailer for Caitlyn Jenner's show I Am Cait in 2015., She co-wrote the song \"When I Was Young\" by Neo Noir (Feat. Brooke Williams) that released April 6 on Lowly Palace and Trap Nation. The song climbed on Spotify's US Viral 50s Chart and peaked at No.3 and Global Viral 50 at No.23 Stolar's \"Feel Good\" was also penned by Lalwani that released on April 7 Natania was", "title": "Natania Lalwani" }, { "id": "4769591", "text": "early 1987, leaving many retailers overstocked. Two singles were released from the box set: \"War\" (a cover of the 1970 Edwin Starr hit), which was a #8 success on the U.S. pop singles chart, and \"Fire\" (a Springsteen song that was a top 10 hit for The Pointer Sisters in 1979), which only reached #46 on the \"Billboard\" charts, breaking Springsteen's string of eight consecutive Top 10 singles. Two non-album tracks—\"Incident on 57th Street\", recorded at Nassau Coliseum in December 1980, and \"For You\", taken from the July 1978 Roxy show—materialized on B-sides from the album's singles and on a", "title": "Live 1975–85" }, { "id": "13199189", "text": "on US pop charts and failed to chart in the UK. Indeed, Taylor had fallen back into addiction during the London recording sessions, and his line about being surrounded by Beatles had been immediately followed by \"Still I'm on the dark side of the moon.\" Following the success of Taylor's second album, \"Sweet Baby James\", and its hit single \"Fire and Rain\", \"Carolina in My Mind\" was reissued by Apple as a single in October 1970 and rose to No. 67 on the U.S. charts. (A previously unreleased acoustic demo of \"Carolina in My Mind\" was issued as a bonus", "title": "Carolina in My Mind" }, { "id": "17649646", "text": "\"touch reminiscent\" of \"The Parting Glass\", an Irish traditional song that is a bonus track in Sheeran's debut album, \"+\". The themes in \"The Hobbit\" are present in the song's lyrics, which refer to \"fire, mountains and brotherhood\". \"I See Fire\" was released on 5 November 2013 through iTunes, initially in the United States and then worldwide within the next 36 hours. It was later released on 10 December 2013 as part of the film's soundtrack, \"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug\", through WaterTower Music and Decca Records. Sheeran released \"I See Fire\" while on tour in support of his", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "11555078", "text": "Cornerstones: 1967–1970 Cornerstones 1967–1970 is a 1990 compilation album by American guitarist Jimi Hendrix. It features 18 of his greatest hits, including live renditions of \"Fire\" and \"Stone Free\" from the Atlanta International Pop Festival, Byron, Georgia, July 4, 1970. It was released on the Polydor label in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. The album entered the UK Albums Chart in November 1990 at No. 5, its highest position during a sixteen-week stay in the chart. All songs were recorded between October 23, 1966 and August 1970. This was the only compact disc release at the time", "title": "Cornerstones: 1967–1970" }, { "id": "17649645", "text": "the instruments except for the cello. Despite having never played the violin, he chose to perform it himself through overdubbing. Flight of the Conchords' touring cellist Nigel Collins added cello parts as dictated by Sheeran. Pete Cobbin of Abbey Road Studios mixed \"I See Fire\"; Cobbin was at Park Road Post at the same time, responsible for mixing the musical score of \"The Desolation of Smaug\". \"I See Fire\" is a folk ballad, characterized with gently strummed acoustic guitar. Sheeran revealed he took inspiration from the 1970s Irish folk band Planxty. According to \"Entertainment Weekly\" Jodi Walker, the song is", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "8047055", "text": "Precious Time (album) Precious Time is the third studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, released on July 6, 1981. It peaked at No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" 200, chart and produced the top 20 hit and lead single \"Fire and Ice\"; the song that would later win the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1982 and reached No. 17 on the U.S. Pop chart and No. 2 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart. The album's second single \"Promises in the Dark\" reached No. 38 on the U.S. Pop chart and No. 16 on the U.S.", "title": "Precious Time (album)" }, { "id": "17017613", "text": "James Taylor Move James Taylor Move was a briefly existing (1967–1968) Australian psychedelic pop, progressive rock group from Adelaide. It was formed by Kevin Peek on guitar (ex-Hurricanes, The Twilights, John E. Broome and the Handels), Trevor Spencer on drums, Alan Tarney on organ (John E. Broome and the Handels), and Robert John Taylor on lead vocals and bass guitar. Early in 1967 the group won the South Australian finals of the Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds and traveled to Melbourne to compete in the national final. During that year the group released two singles, \"And I Hear the Fire", "title": "James Taylor Move" }, { "id": "13524977", "text": "also a 1969 single release by Darius before returning to the charts in 1973 when it became a regional hit for Fire & Rain, a folk rock duo comprising veteran Tucson musician Manny Freiser and Patti McCarron, Freiser's then-wife who sang lead; their version, which featured Michael Omartian on keyboards, was arranged by Ben Benay who also played guitar. Benay had also been guitarist on the version of \"Hello Stranger\" by Darius. Manny Freiser would recall: \"Mercury [Records] released \"Hello Stranger\" as a single against our wishes. It became a legitimate hit at easy listening radio...Mercury then tried to cross", "title": "Hello Stranger" }, { "id": "2999893", "text": "success with hits such as \"Singin' in the Rain\", \"Love Me Baby\", \"You Light my Fire\" and \"Spacer\" (from the album \"King of the World\", produced by Chic). \"Spacer\" is one of her biggest hits with more than 5 million copies sold worldwide. According to different interviews, she often said her experience with Chic completely changed her way of working and singing. It was the beginning of a deep artistic disagreement with her French manager Carrère. She then decided to leave France, moved to New York \"to start all over again\" and studied at the Actors Studio. After her disco", "title": "Sheila (singer)" }, { "id": "8783350", "text": "was nominated for Best Original or Adapted Song at the 2004 Black Reel Awards for its appearance in the \"2 Fast 2 Furious\" movie. \"Fire (Yes, Yes Y'all)\", which features guest vocals by American rapper Busta Rhymes, was released as the second single from the album on July 15, 2003. The song peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart and number 48 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, as well as entering the UK Singles chart at number 128. Joe Budden has made a remix with fellow with rappers Paul Cain and Fabolous, which appeared", "title": "Joe Budden (album)" }, { "id": "9885251", "text": "saw a further increase of interest in his music. Reynolds died of liver cancer on November 7, 2008, in Palm Desert, California, at age 75. He was survived by Judy, his wife of 47 years, daughters Malinda and Marla, and son Mark. Jody Reynolds Jody Reynolds (December 3, 1932 – November 7, 2008) was an American rock and roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose song \"Endless Sleep\" was a major U.S. top-ten hit in the summer of 1958. His follow-up single, \"Fire of Love\", peaked at only #66 on the Billboard chart, but the song went on to become a", "title": "Jody Reynolds" }, { "id": "9845120", "text": "Fire Water Burn \"Fire Water Burn\" is the first single from The Bloodhound Gang's 1996 (re-released in 1998) album \"One Fierce Beer Coaster\". The chorus of the song is derived from the song \"The Roof Is on Fire\" by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three, yet sung considerably slower. The song ranked among the top songs on the Billboard Charts in 1997, reaching #18 on the Modern Rock Tracks, and also #28 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. It made number 4 on the Dutch Top 40. \"Fire Water Burn\" was remixed for the CD single by God Lives Underwater.", "title": "Fire Water Burn" }, { "id": "8495692", "text": "Dwight Twilley Dwight Twilley (born June 6, 1951) is an American pop/rock singer and songwriter, best known for the Top 20 hit singles \"I'm on Fire\" (1975) and \"Girls\" (1984). His music is associated with the power pop style. Twilley and Phil Seymour performed as the Dwight Twilley Band through 1978, and Twilley has performed as a solo act since then. His latest album, \"Always\", was released in November 2014 through Twilley's own label, Big Oak Records. Twilley was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He attended Edison High School and went to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College from 1971 to 1973. Twilley", "title": "Dwight Twilley" }, { "id": "19779131", "text": "Rain (Dragon song) \"Rain\" is a song by Australian-New Zealand rock group Dragon released in July 1983 as the first single ahead of their seventh studio album, \"Body and the Beat\" (June 1984). It is co-written by the group's brothers, Marc and Todd Hunter with Johanna Pigott, Todd's then-domestic partner. \"Rain\" peaked at number 2 and stayed in the Kent Music Report singles chart for 26 weeks. The song reached number 88 on the United States \"Billboard\" Hot 100 charts in mid-1984. For the original single version the group's Kerry Jacobson had provided drums and percussion; he left the group", "title": "Rain (Dragon song)" }, { "id": "17649652", "text": "other popular contemporaries. In April 2015, Spotify released a report of the most streamed tracks worldwide under the category sleep. \"I See Fire\" was placed at number 4, joining Sheeran's other 6 songs ranked in the top 20. Sleep is one of Spotify's most popular categories \"that people also use for general relaxation and to help themselves unwind\". \"The Guardian\" columnist Tim Dowling suggests that the report is an indication of \"very popular, slightly mellow songs that keep cropping up on sleep playlists\" but not a list of a \"carefully curated journey to unconsciousness\". American singer-songwriter Peter Hollens recorded a", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "8666535", "text": "is a cover of the Lee Ann Womack song. The band stated that the song was very uptempo and included wah-wah guitars. The song was later recorded by Ronan Keating. \"Light My Fire\" is not a cover. Both \"Light My Fire\" and \"I Hope You Dance\" were both performed live at Leicester Square in April 2002. \"Turnaround\" was recorded by Westlife and is the title track of their album. After the Rain (Bellefire album) After the Rain was the first album by Irish girl group Bellefire, recorded in 2001. It was prevented from being widely released in 2002 by Virgin", "title": "After the Rain (Bellefire album)" }, { "id": "17649650", "text": "has been listed for 727 weeks in 19 different charts. Its first appearance was on 7 November in the Ireland Singles Top 100, where it debuted at number 22. The song was successful in many European countries, with a peak position of number 1 in Norway and Sweden. In Sheeran's home country, the single peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart, spending 65 weeks on the chart. The British Phonographic Industry certified the single silver on 26 December 2014, denoting sales of 400,000 units. \"I See Fire\" was well received in Oceania. In New Zealand, single peaked at", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "1455351", "text": "2 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, and went on to sell 2,000,000 copies worldwide. The lead single \"Fireman\" became a hit in the US, peaking at 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Other singles included \"Grown Man\" with Currensy, \"Hustler Musik\", and \"Shooter\" with R&B singer Robin Thicke. Lil Wayne also appeared on a remix of Bobby Valentino's \"Tell Me\", which rose to No. 13 on the U.S. R&B Charts. In 2005, Lil Wayne was named president of Cash Money, and in the same year he founded Young Money Entertainment as an imprint of Cash Money. However, as", "title": "Lil Wayne" }, { "id": "11164495", "text": "Fire (Ohio Players song) \"Fire\" is a hit song by R&B/funk band Ohio Players. The song was the opening track from the album of the same name and hit #1 on both the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 (where it was succeeded by Linda Ronstadt's \"You're No Good\") and the Hot Soul Singles chart in early 1975. It spent five weeks atop the soul chart. \"Fire\" was the Ohio Players' only entry on the new disco/dance chart, where it peaked at #10. The tune is considered to be the band's signature song along with \"Love Rollercoaster.\" The song was recorded at Mercury", "title": "Fire (Ohio Players song)" }, { "id": "9885248", "text": "tragedy\" songs. Reynolds performed on \"American Bandstand\" and other TV shows, and was featured on concert tours organized by the legendary disc jockey/promoter Alan Freed. \"Endless Sleep\" would later be covered by the Judds, John Fogerty, and Billy Idol; Marty Wilde had a major hit with it in England, and Hank Williams, Jr.'s version was a modest country music chart success. Reynolds' self-penned follow up single, \"Fire of Love\", became a rock & roll classic years later, after being revived by the MC5 and the Gun Club, but only reached #66 on the Billboard chart when released in August 1958,", "title": "Jody Reynolds" }, { "id": "17015016", "text": "(And Eat It Too) on the Impression Label in July, 1967. Give Me Some Time, no B-Side, was released on the Splitsound Label in December of 1967. After Patti McCarron joined in Spring of 1968, the group renamed itself Spring Fever, and released the single, Sand, no B-Side, in June, 1968. The band broke up in August, 1968, when Patti McCarron and Manny Freiser became a duet, later recording as Fire & Rain in the 1970's. In 1967, drummer Rick Mellinger departed and was replaced by Pete Peterson. Kieth Craig came in on keyboards after Rick Lust left the band.", "title": "The Grodes" }, { "id": "15251340", "text": "to Sheeran, it was then his biggest tour and he added a scarlet RED tattoo to commemorate it. In October 2013, Sheeran headlined three sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden, which has a capacity of 18,200. At the concert, Sheeran debuted new songs including \"Tenerife Sea\", a future track on his second studio album. Sheeran released \"I See Fire\" on 5 November 2013. The song is featured in the end credits of the film \"\", the film's soundtrack, and on the deluxe version of his second album. Sheeran was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2014 Grammy", "title": "Ed Sheeran" }, { "id": "2942023", "text": "was produced by Moss and Lord-Alge; it was dedicated \"in loving memory of Geoff Moss 1911–1989\". Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, found the album displayed Moss' \"exemplary, controlled guitar technique, but also highlighted his soulful voice ... [he] handled all lead vocals with considerable style and authority\". Two further singles, \"Out of the Fire\" and \"Mr. Rain\" were released from the album and both charted on the Australian top 100. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1990 Moss won five categories Album of the Year, Best Male Artist and Breakthrough Artist – Album for \"Matchbook\"; and Single of the Year and", "title": "Ian Moss" }, { "id": "8878884", "text": "reach number 28 on the \"Billboard\" Adult Contemporary chart. Australian singer Tina Arena released her version of the song as the fifth single from her 1994 album \"Don't Ask\". Show Me Heaven \"Show Me Heaven\" is a song written by Maria McKee, Eric Rackin and Jay Rifkin, and recorded by McKee and produced by Peter Asher for the soundtrack to the Tom Cruise film \"Days of Thunder\", released in June 1990. It has since been covered by numerous other artists. Dave Sholin from the \"Gavin Report\" wrote about the song: \"There aren't many singers on the planet who can outdo", "title": "Show Me Heaven" }, { "id": "17649641", "text": "quest of a home-loving hobbit, a fictional, diminutive humanoid, to win a share of the treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug. Sheeran has a lifelong devotion to the novel of Tolkien. His grandfather owns a first edition copy. It was the first book Sheeran's father read to him as a child, and the first book that he read himself. On 5 November 2013, Sheeran announced his involvement in the soundtrack in a series of online posts, which included his thanking Jackson for the opportunity. He is also a fan of Jackson's films. Jackson was introduced to Sheeran's music through his", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "19538846", "text": "in 2015, \"Fire\" was featured in the Bradley Cooper movie \"Burnt\" and went on to receive airplay on American rock radio in 2016. To date, \"Fire\" has been streamed more than 26 million times on Spotify, while \"Glitter & Gold\" has been streamed more than 25 million times. Courtney played at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas, in a showcase for \"NME\" magazine in March 2016 and performed \"Fire\" on Conan O'Brien's TBS talkshow \"Conan\" in June. Another track, \"Hobo Rocket\", was included on the soundtrack of the EA Sports video game \"FIFA 17\". In early 2017, the It's", "title": "Barns Courtney" }, { "id": "4094091", "text": "Ann Peebles Ann Lee Peebles (born April 27, 1947) is an American singer and songwriter who gained celebrity for her Memphis soul albums of the 1970s for Hi Records. Two of her most popular songs are \"I Can't Stand the Rain\", which she wrote with her husband Don Bryant and radio broadcaster Bernie Miller, and \"I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down\". In 2014, Ann Peebles was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. She was born in Kinloch, Missouri, the seventh child of eleven. As a child she began singing in the choir of her father's church and with", "title": "Ann Peebles" }, { "id": "8495709", "text": "and rock'n'roll musicians like Ken Stringfellow, Timm Buechler and Mitch Easter. Dwight Twilley Dwight Twilley (born June 6, 1951) is an American pop/rock singer and songwriter, best known for the Top 20 hit singles \"I'm on Fire\" (1975) and \"Girls\" (1984). His music is associated with the power pop style. Twilley and Phil Seymour performed as the Dwight Twilley Band through 1978, and Twilley has performed as a solo act since then. His latest album, \"Always\", was released in November 2014 through Twilley's own label, Big Oak Records. Twilley was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He attended Edison High School and", "title": "Dwight Twilley" }, { "id": "4870450", "text": "Junior Campbell Junior Campbell (born William Campbell Jnr, 31 May 1947) is a Scottish composer, songwriter and musician. He was a founding member, lead guitarist, piano player, and singer with the Scottish band Marmalade and co-wrote and produced some of their biggest successes, including \"Reflections of My Life\", I See The Rain and \"Rainbow\". \"Reflections of My Life\" has produced sales of over two million units. In 1998 Campbell and co-writer Dean Ford (Thomas McAleese) were awarded a Special Citation of Achievement by the BMI for attaining radio broadcast performances in excess of one million in the US alone. He", "title": "Junior Campbell" }, { "id": "12892852", "text": "Angeles-based, all-female band Lo-Ball, using the stage name \"Pauley P.\" The song \"Can't Get Me Down\" by Lo-Ball is heard in the movie \"Legally Blonde\". Perrette appeared in \"The Unnamed Feeling\" video for heavy metal band Metallica from their album \"St. Anger\". In 2011, Perrette was the featured vocalist on a song called \"Fire in Your Eyes\" by B. Taylor, a Las Vegas-based hip-hop artist. Perrette was married in 2000 to actor and musician Coyote Shivers, separating within four years later, the divorce becoming final in 2006. She was granted restraining orders against him after leaving him; she has alleged", "title": "Pauley Perrette" }, { "id": "17649647", "text": "debut album; it was the first solo record that he released, two years since his last. Initially, the track was announced as a non-inclusion in his next album, subsequently titled \"x\". However, it appeared on the deluxe edition of that album. Sheeran announced the inclusion on 9 April 2014. The official music video for \"I See Fire\" directed by Shane Ramirez premiered on 5 November 2013, along with the release of the song. The video shows Sheeran performing and recording the vocals, the songwriting and recording of live instruments, behind the scenes, all throughout interspersed with shots from the film.", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "19700261", "text": "Earl (recording artist) Chris Earl Mathewson (born October 29, 1983), known professionally as Earl is an American recording artist who is best known for his single “Fire the Fuse” and is listed as a MTV Artist To Watch. Earl was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, the son of Glenn Mathewson, an engineer and marine, and Shelby Mathewson. When he was eight years old his family moved to Stafford, Virginia where he attended North Stafford High School. In 2014, after being a tattoo artist for eleven years, Earl began his career as a recording artist. He chose the name Earl after", "title": "Earl (recording artist)" }, { "id": "8047056", "text": "Mainstream Rock chart. \"Precious Time\" was also Benatar's first album to chart in the UK, reaching No. 30. It was reissued and remastered on Capitol Records in 2006. Precious Time (album) Precious Time is the third studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, released on July 6, 1981. It peaked at No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" 200, chart and produced the top 20 hit and lead single \"Fire and Ice\"; the song that would later win the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in 1982 and reached No. 17 on the U.S. Pop chart and No. 2", "title": "Precious Time (album)" }, { "id": "2216180", "text": "Arthur Brown in The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Their eponymous debut album, \"The Crazy World of Arthur Brown\" (1968) contained the song \"Fire\", a chart-topping hit single in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, with Crane's organ and brass arrangement to the fore. During their first tour of the United States in 1968, Crane suffered a nervous breakdown and returned to the United Kingdom where he spent 3 or 4 months in the mental hospital at Banstead. Crane rejoined the band but on a subsequent tour of the United States, the band disintegrated in June 1969 when", "title": "Vincent Crane" }, { "id": "17464839", "text": "the liner notes of \"Hall of Fame\". \"Fire\" peaked at number 19 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles component chart to the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, which represents the twenty-five songs that failed to reach the flagship \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It also reached number 46 on the \"Billboard\" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Fire (Big Sean song) \"Fire\" is a song by American recording artist Big Sean from his second studio album \"Hall of Fame\" (2013). It was released on August 20, 2013 by GOOD Music and Def Jam Recordings as the fourth single from the record. It was", "title": "Fire (Big Sean song)" }, { "id": "11016024", "text": "on the chart, the song jumped from #4 to #2 on the chart, being held from the top spot by Taylor Swift's \"Our Song\", which leapfrogged \"Firecracker\" when the former leaped from #6 to #1. The song held the position for two weeks. It was later ranked at #53 on the year-end chart. Firecracker (song) \"Firecracker\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Josh Turner. It was released in June 2007 as the lead-off single from Turner's album \"Everything Is Fine\", which was released on MCA Nashville on October 30, 2007. His fastest-climbing single, the song", "title": "Firecracker (song)" }, { "id": "5779214", "text": "financial trouble. Hendrix released \"\" in the United Kingdom in December 1967. The album appeared in the United States in January 1968 on Reprise. The Crazy World of Arthur Brown had a 1968 UK #1 hit with \"Fire\" which was co-produced by the Who's Pete Townshend and Kit Lambert. US versions of Arthur Brown's recordings were distributed by Atlantic Records; initial pressings of these records were branded with the Track Records imprint, and later ones with Atlantic's but retaining the same catalog numbers. \"Fire\" reached #2 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 singles chart. Brown has claimed that he was", "title": "Track Records" }, { "id": "6342660", "text": "The Greatest Hits (Lulu album) The Greatest Hits is a 2003 Lulu album charting her 40-year career in music from 1964's UK top-ten hit \"Shout\" through 2002's \"We've Got Tonight,\" a UK top-five duet with Ronan Keating. It also covers everything in between, including her 1967 US 1 Hit \"To Sir With Love\", the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest winner \"Boom Bang-a-Bang\", the 1974 James Bond theme \"The Man with the Golden Gun\", and the 1993 UK No. 1 Hit \"Relight My Fire\" (a duet with Take That). The album combines her UK hits such as \"The Boat That I Row\"", "title": "The Greatest Hits (Lulu album)" }, { "id": "15515106", "text": "its soundtrack album. It reached number seventeen on the Australian Singles Chart. \"Life\" was released as the album's lead single in the United Kingdom on 8 June 1998. It reached number one on the Ö3 Austria Top 40 and the Dutch Single Top 100, while reaching the top ten in Australia, Belgium, France, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. The song \"Fire\", a duet with Babyface and a cover of the Bruce Springsteen song was released in the US on 16 June 1998. A music video was made to accompany the release and it was featured on the \"Hav Plenty\"", "title": "Supernatural (Des'ree album)" }, { "id": "18780315", "text": "Summer Rain (Johnny Rivers song) \"Summer Rain\" is a song written by James Hendricks and performed by Johnny Rivers on his 1968 LP \"Realization.\" Of his several dozen releases, it is considered his sixth greatest hit internationally. The song reached No. 14 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100, No. 10 on the U.S. \"Cash Box\" Top 100, and No. 10 in Canada in early January, 1968. \"Summer Rain\" is a song about lifelong love during \"the summer of love.\" It was released in the winter, remembering the previous summer. The song twice references \"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,\" the", "title": "Summer Rain (Johnny Rivers song)" }, { "id": "7932483", "text": "Fire (Bruce Springsteen song) \"Fire\" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen in 1977 which had its highest profile as a 1978 single release by the Pointer Sisters. Bruce Springsteen envisioned \"Fire\" as a song which could be recorded by his idol Elvis Presley. It was written after Springsteen saw Presley perform at a May 28, 1977 concert at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Springsteen said, \"I sent [Elvis] a demo of it but he died before it arrived.\" Springsteen completed a studio recording of \"Fire\", which was one of 52 tracks at least partially recorded which did not make the", "title": "Fire (Bruce Springsteen song)" }, { "id": "17751513", "text": "2015 the group released a cover of \"Ed Sheeran's\" \"\" soundtrack song \"I See Fire\" in support of New Zealand's participation in the 2015 Rugby World Cup. The group's second album, \"On Another Note\", was released in October 2015 and is certified 3x platinum. At the NZ VMA's, the album won the highest selling album of 2016, being the third year in a row the group won the award. In November 2017, the group released a Christmas album titled \"A Very MΞRRY Christmas\" featuring covers of a number of classic Christmas songs as well as two original pieces written and", "title": "Sole Mio" }, { "id": "19490479", "text": "Poland. A lyric video to accompany the release of \"Fire in the Rain\" was first released onto YouTube on 5 May 2016 at a total length of three minutes and thirteen seconds. An official video to accompany the release of \"Fire in the Rain\" was first released onto YouTube on 12 May 2016 at a total length of three minutes and forty-two seconds. Fire in the Rain \"Fire in the Rain\" is a song by Swedish singer Måns Zelmerlöw. It was released on 4 May 2016 as the lead single from the re-issued version of Zelmerlöw's sixth studio album, \"Perfectly", "title": "Fire in the Rain" }, { "id": "17464832", "text": "it the catalogs of fellow rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z, and recognized it as a standout track from \"Hall of Fame\". The song peaked at number 19 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles component chart to the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and reached number 46 on the \"Billboard\" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. An accompanying music video was premiered through Vevo on August 2, 2013, and featured American recording artist Miley Cyrus; critics primarily focused on the continuation of the increasingly provocative image she established earlier in the year. When Sean was describing his second studio album \"Hall of", "title": "Fire (Big Sean song)" }, { "id": "19910785", "text": "praise from \"PopMatters,\" \"The Big Takeover\" and \"Magnet Magazine\". \"Fire In The Hero Building\" received airplay on independent stations WFMU and WFUV in New York City, and the band performed live on WFMU's \"Three Chord Monte\" show on June 5, 2017. In 2010 Leitera was American Songwriter Magazine's \"Writer of the Week\" while with his former band Low Water. In 2012 DJ/presenter Nic Harcourt featured the song \"Let 'Em In\" on his syndicated radio show \"Connections\". The band were named \"Artist of the Day\" in the UK blog Louder Than War in 2013 and played the Team Clermont CMJ Showcase", "title": "Tuff Sunshine" }, { "id": "1341566", "text": "his debut studio album in late 1995. In the summer of 1995, Busta Rhymes began working on his solo debut album \"The Coming\", and a month after recording was completed, he released it in March 1996. A month before the album was released, he broke out with a hit single, \"Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check\". Later, he started work on his second album, \"When Disaster Strikes\", which would not be released until September 1997. It produced the hit singles \"Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See\" and \"Fire It Up\". In 1998, Busta Rhymes recorded \"Extinction Level", "title": "Busta Rhymes" }, { "id": "9845124", "text": "heaven\". The song is also musically similar to the latter half of the Pixies song \"The Happening\" from their album \"Bossanova\". Fire Water Burn \"Fire Water Burn\" is the first single from The Bloodhound Gang's 1996 (re-released in 1998) album \"One Fierce Beer Coaster\". The chorus of the song is derived from the song \"The Roof Is on Fire\" by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three, yet sung considerably slower. The song ranked among the top songs on the Billboard Charts in 1997, reaching #18 on the Modern Rock Tracks, and also #28 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. It", "title": "Fire Water Burn" }, { "id": "3935292", "text": "chart), peaking at number 87. The song was largely written by the band's guitarist Robby Krieger, and was credited to the entire band. The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1967 for 500,000 units shipped. As of December 1971, it was the band's best-selling single; with over 927,000 copies sold. The single was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 2018 for 2,000,000 units shipped. A live version was released in 1983 on their album \"Alive, She Cried\", the first of several live albums released in subsequent decades to", "title": "Light My Fire" }, { "id": "16960420", "text": "song was recorded and mixed at Lansdowne Recording Studios, London, in September 1972. It was released on \"The Magician's Birthday\" in November of the same year. Rain (Uriah Heep song) \"Rain\" is a song by the English progressive rock/hard rock band Uriah Heep, which was originally released on their fifth studio album, \"The Magician's Birthday\", in 1972. Though the song was never released as a single, it is one of the most well-known songs from the album. It was written by Ken Hensley, who also performed the keyboard/piano element of the song, with vocals by David Byron. It was the", "title": "Rain (Uriah Heep song)" }, { "id": "14156080", "text": "Fire and Smoke \"Fire and Smoke\" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in April 1981 as the second single and title track from the album \"Fire and Smoke\". The song was Conley's fourth top 40 country hit, and continued his recent run of success, which had started with the previous single, \"Silent Treatment\" (his first top 10 hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart in the fall of 1980). \"Fire and Smoke\" topped the success of \"Silent Treatment,\". The single was his first No. 1 hit in July", "title": "Fire and Smoke" }, { "id": "2402744", "text": "also enjoyed success as an actor early in his career, appearing in the screen version of playwright Louis S. Peterson's \"Take a Giant Step\". Nash won a Silver Sail Award for his performance from the Locarno International Film Festival. In 1965, Johnny Nash and Danny Sims formed the JODA Records label in New York. One of the more interesting signings was four brothers from Newport, Rhode Island, ages 9, 11, 15 and 16, called The Cowsills; this was prior to their later signing with Mercury/Philips, and then MGM, for whom they had their first million-selling hit single, \"The Rain, The", "title": "Johnny Nash" }, { "id": "11125296", "text": "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown The Crazy World of Arthur Brown are an English psychedelic rock band formed by singer Arthur Brown in 1967. The band included Vincent Crane (Hammond organ and piano), Drachen Theaker (drums), and Nick Greenwood (bass). Their song \"Fire\" (released in 1968 as a single) was one of the one-hit wonders in the United Kingdom and United States in the 1960s. \"Fire\" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Brown quickly earned a reputation for both his powerful operatic voice (which spanned four octaves) and his outlandish performances, including the use", "title": "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" }, { "id": "7932488", "text": "[Springsteen] decided to keep the other one for himself.\" Springsteen played piano on Gordon's recording of \"Fire\" which was released on Gordon's 1978 album \"Fresh Fish Special\", recorded in December 1977 at Plaza Sound Studios in Manhattan with veteran rock 'n' roll producer Richard Gottehrer co-producing with Gordon. Gordon's version received airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations and his version of \"Fire\" spent 14 weeks in the \"Record World\" 101-150 Singles chart rising as high as no. 106 in September 1978. The first single by the Pointer Sisters as the trio of Anita, June and Ruth Pointer, \"Fire\" was recorded", "title": "Fire (Bruce Springsteen song)" }, { "id": "20194201", "text": "My Fire \"My Fire\" is a song recorded and performed by American Dance musicians Nile Rodgers and Tony Moran, featuring vocals from American singer (and Chic vocalist) Kimberly Davis. The song is co-produced by Rodgers, Moran and Georg Bissen. The collaboration marks Rodgers' fifth, Moran's seventh, and Davis' first number one, on \"Billboard's\" Dance Club Songs chart, reaching the summit in its July 29, 2017 issue. In an interview with \"Billboard\" the artists discussed how the collaboration came together, which began after Rodgers heard a rough demo of the song. \"The flame is burning, just waiting to be fanned,\" Davis", "title": "My Fire" }, { "id": "11983842", "text": "Marietta Waters Marietta Waters is an American singer and most known for her performance of \"Destination Unknown\" on the \"Top Gun\" soundtrack, where she is credited by the stage name Marietta. Her other soundtrack credits include \"By Design\" in the movie \"Perfect\", the title track of the movie \"Fire and Ice\", and \"Thunder and Lightning\" from its sequel, \"Fire, Ice And Dynamite\". \"Fire and Ice\" was released as a single in 1986, reaching #5 in Switzerland and #10 in Germany. She has also recorded several albums with Sérgio Mendes, Berlin, Harold Faltermeyer, and Animotion. Marietta has also recorded backup vocals", "title": "Marietta Waters" }, { "id": "19566767", "text": "Elena Baravilala Elena Baravilala (also known as Elena) is a Fijian singer-songwriter, Five singles performed by Baravilala, \"Fire\", \"Rain\", \"You Got You\", \"Home\" And \"Seven\" were nominated at the Fiji Performing Rights Association Music Awards. From which she has won Best Composition and Music video for \"Fire\" in 2014 and Best Composition for \"Seven\" in 2018. In Early 2014, Elena collaborated with Vanuatu Singer Vanessa Quai for her single titled \"Angel Over Me\", the song was later released in 2014. In 2017, Elena and Fiji Born composer DJ Ritendra collaborated and came up with the song \"Underdogs\". Later the same", "title": "Elena Baravilala" }, { "id": "9055374", "text": "Phil Seymour Phil Seymour (May 15, 1952 - August 17, 1993) was an American drummer, singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known for the singles \"I'm On Fire\" (with The Dwight Twilley Band), his own solo hit \"Precious to Me\" and for being the second voice on Tom Petty's hits \"American Girl\" and \"Breakdown.\" His solo work is revered among fans of power pop. In 1967, Seymour met fellow Tulsa musician Dwight Twilley at a theater where they had both gone to see a screening of \"A Hard Day's Night\". They soon began writing and recording together, going by the name", "title": "Phil Seymour" }, { "id": "17767837", "text": "Am Tour, to support the album, with an initial run of fourteen dates in Great Britain. The album's lead single, \"Fire Under My Feet\", was released on 7 June 2015. Written by Lewis and Toby Gad, the track peaked at number 51 on the UK Singles Chart following its release. In addition, it peaked at number 4 on the \"Billboard\" 100 Hot Dance charts. \"I Am\" was released to the iTunes Store in the UK on 17 July 2015 as the second single in the UK. \"Thunder\" was released as the third official single from \"I Am\" on 24 July", "title": "I Am (Leona Lewis album)" }, { "id": "1603343", "text": "Jonze and Kim Gordon, and the video for the album's second single \"Divine Hammer\" was directed by Jonze, Gordon and Richard Kern. A looped guitar sample of \"S.O.S.\" was used by the English electronic music band The Prodigy in their 1996 hit single \"Firestarter\". A sample from \"I Just Wanna Get Along\" was used in another track by The Prodigy called \"World's on Fire\" from the \"Invaders Must Die\" album. In 2003, \"Pitchfork\" listed the album at number 64 on their list of The Top 100 Albums of the 1990s. On May 13, 2013, 4AD released \"LSXX\", a deluxe 20th", "title": "Last Splash" }, { "id": "5878507", "text": "It\" and \"Is It Raining at Your House.\" \"Raining\" has been covered by Brad Paisley and Lorrie Morgan, and \"That Just About Does It\" by Willie Nelson. Gosdin continued writing and singing up until April 28, 2009, despite his battle and recovery from his first stroke in 1998. The final four songs he wrote and recorded were with a co-writer Joe Sins in 2009 of the country music duo The Sins. His final songs \"There's a Fire in Our Bedroom\", \"Let's Get Down to Business\", \"Santa's Driving a Chevrolet This Year\" and \"Dixie on My Mind\" were a testament of", "title": "Vern Gosdin" } ]

[ "2007" ]

[ { "id": "4843666", "text": "Minister hoists the Indian \"tricolour flag\" at the main gate of the fort and delivers a nationally broadcast speech from its ramparts. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007 as part of the Red Fort Complex. Its English name \"Red Fort\" is a translation of the Hindustani , deriving from its red-sandstone walls. As the residence of the imperial family, the fort was originally known as the \"Blessed Fort\" (). Agra Fort is also known as . Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned construction of the Red Fort on 12 May 1638, when he decided to shift his capital", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "6849433", "text": "been explored by earlier Mughal emperors, and this was the culmination of all those previous works into a national landmark. The 171 meter white tomb rises above a reflecting pool it is dream in marble just a time architect of Islamic culture The Red Fort is also a brilliant example of Mughal Architecture. It was built during the zenith of the Mughal Empire under Shah Jahan. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007. As one of the largest forts in India, it served as the official residence of the emperor for nearly 200 years. Indo-Islamic architecture Indo-Islamic", "title": "Indo-Islamic architecture" }, { "id": "10699312", "text": "to the monument once it was transferred to their complete jurisdiction and after completing the needed restoration works. The Army transferred the fort to ASI’s possession in December 2003 and thereafter, in 2006, the ASI submitted its proposal for World Heritage listing by UNESCO. Finally, the World Heritage Committee accepted Government of India’s request and accorded approval for inscription of the Red Fort Complex, Delhi in the World Heritage List, in its meeting held from 23 to 27 June 2007 at Christchurch, New Zealand. The Press release issued by the ASI, after UNESCO listing was approved, states:\"The core zone of", "title": "Salimgarh Fort" }, { "id": "10699299", "text": "several Mughal rulers including Emperor Shahjahan who is credited with completing Shahjahanabad in 1639 AD had camped at this fort. It is said that Humayun had camped at this fort for three days before launching his successful attack for recapturing Delhi. Aurangzeb, the Mughal Emperor, converted the fort into a prison, which practice was perpetuated by the British who took control of the fort in 1857. The Fort is part of the Red Fort Complex. The complex was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007, which obligates Archaeological Survey of India (ASl) to ensure well planned conservation measures", "title": "Salimgarh Fort" }, { "id": "555486", "text": "an overview of each participating nation's implementation of the World Heritage Convention and a \"snapshot\" of current conditions at World Heritage properties. A single text was agreed on by all parties, and the \"Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage\" was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972. The Convention came into force on 17 December 1975. As of May 2017, it has been ratified by 193 states parties, including 189 UN member states plus the Cook Islands, the Holy See, Niue, and the State of Palestine. Only four UN member states", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "4843663", "text": "Red Fort Red Fort is a historic fort in the city of Delhi in India. It was the main residence of the emperors of the Mughal dynasty for nearly 200 years, until 1856. It is located in the center of Delhi and houses a number of museums. In addition to accommodating the emperors and their households, it was the ceremonial and political center of the Mughal state and the setting for events critically impacting the region. Constructed in 1639 by the fifth Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan as the palace of his fortified capital Shahjahanabad, the Red Fort is named for", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "4843667", "text": "from Agra to Delhi. Originally red and white, the Shah's favourite colours, its design is credited to architect Ustad Ahmad Lahouri, who also constructed the Taj Mahal. The fort lies along the Yamuna River, which fed the moats surrounding most of the walls. Construction began in the sacred month of Muharram, on 13 May 1638. Supervised by Shah Jahan, it was completed on 6 April 1648. Unlike other Mughal forts, the Red Fort's boundary walls are asymmetrical to contain the older Salimgarh Fort. The fortress-palace was a focal point of the medieval city of Shahjahanabad, which is present-day Old Delhi.", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "4843676", "text": "broadcast nationally. After Indian Independence, the site experienced few changes, and the Red Fort continued to be used as a military cantonment. A significant part of the fort remained under Indian Army control until 22 December 2003, when it was given to the Archaeological Survey of India for restoration. In 2009 the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP), prepared by the Archaeological Survey of India under Supreme Court directions to revitalise the fort, was announced. Every year on India's Independence Day (15 August), the Prime Minister of India hoists the national flag at the Red Fort and delivers a nationally", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "4843681", "text": "unique Shahjahani style rich in form, expression and colour. Red Fort is one of the building complexes of India encapsulating a long period of history and its arts. Even before its 1913 commemoration as a monument of national importance, efforts were made to preserve it for posterity. The Lahori and Delhi Gates were used by the public, and the Khizrabad Gate was for the emperor. The Lahori Gate is the main entrance, leading to a domed shopping area known as the \"Chatta Chowk\" (covered bazaar). The most important surviving structures are the walls and ramparts, the main gates, the audience", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "555481", "text": "importance to the common culture and heritage of humanity. Under certain conditions, listed sites can obtain funds from the World Heritage Fund. The program began with the \"Convention Concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage\", which was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972. Since then, 193 state parties have ratified the convention, making it one of the most widely recognized international agreements and the world's most popular cultural program. As of July 2018, a total of 1,092 World Heritage Sites (845 cultural, 209 natural, and 38 mixed properties) exist across 167 countries.", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "13760981", "text": "monuments were built during the Mughal era by the Muslim emperors, especially Shah Jahan, including the Taj Mahal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site known to be one of the finer examples of Mughal architecture. Other World Heritage Sites include Humayun's Tomb, Fatehpur Sikri, the Red Fort, the Agra Fort, and the Lahore Fort. The palaces, tombs, and forts built by the dynasty stand today in Agra, Aurangabad, Delhi, Dhaka, Fatehpur Sikri, Jaipur, Lahore, Kabul, Sheikhupura, and many other cities of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. With few memories of Central Asia, Babur's descendants absorbed traits and customs of South Asia", "title": "Mughal Empire" }, { "id": "4843665", "text": "and gardens in Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, Kashmir, Braj, Rohilkhand and elsewhere. The fort was plundered of its artwork and jewels during Nadir Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire in 1747. Most of the fort's precious marble structures were subsequently destroyed by the British following the Revolt of 1857. The forts's defensive walls were largely spared, and the fortress was subsequently used as a garrison. The Red Fort was also the site where the British put the last Mughal Emperor on trial before exiling him to Yangon in 1858. Every year on the Independence day of India (15 August), the Prime", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "10699313", "text": "about hectare includes the Red Fort and Salimgarh Fort while the buffer zone measuring over 40 hectares includes the immediate surroundings of the Red Fort and Salimgarh Fort. The Red Fort Complex, Delhi is classified as a cultural property with an outstanding universal significance. The inscription of the Red Fort on the World Heritage List is very significant for Delhi since the Red Fort Complex would be the third World Heritage Site in the city, an honour that no other single location in the country can boast of.\" Further to the above listing, ASI at the directive of the Supreme", "title": "Salimgarh Fort" }, { "id": "6103317", "text": "family members and others in the Amer Fort to shift to the more redoubtable Jaigarh Fort. Annual tourist visitation to the Amer Palace was reported by the Superintendent of the Department of Archaeology and Museums as 5000 visitors a day, with 1.4 million visitors during 2007. At the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2013, Amer Fort, along with five other forts of Rajasthan, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the group Hill Forts of Rajasthan. Amer, or Amber, derives its name from the Ambikeshwar Temple, built atop the", "title": "Amer Fort" }, { "id": "7578151", "text": "its dominant hilltop location making the sprawling towers of its fortifications visible for many miles around. In 2013, at the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Jaisalmer Fort, along with 5 other forts of Rajasthan, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the group Hill Forts of Rajasthan. Legend has it that the fort was built by Rawal Jaisal, a Bhati Rajput, in 1156 CE. The story says that it superseded an earlier construction at Lodhruva, with which Jaisal was dissatisfied. Thus, a new capital was established when Jaisal founded the city of", "title": "Jaisalmer Fort" }, { "id": "4843664", "text": "its massive enclosing walls of red sandstone and is adjacent to the older Salimgarh Fort, built by Islam Shah Suri in 1546 AD. The imperial apartments consist of a row of pavilions, connected by a water channel known as the Stream of Paradise (\"Nahr-i-Bihisht\"). The fort complex is considered to represent the zenith of Mughal creativity under Shah Jahan, and although the palace was planned according to Islamic prototypes, each pavilion contains architectural elements typical of Mughal buildings that reflect a fusion of Timurid and Persian traditions. The Red Fort's innovative architectural style, including its garden design, influenced later buildings", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "2261692", "text": "most elegant dome of the Tāj Mahal has a diameter of , and rises to a height of ; directly under this dome is the tomb of Mumtāz Mahal. Shah Jahān's tomb was erected next to hers by his son Aurangzeb. The interiors are decorated with fine inlay work, incorporating semi-precious stones. Agra Fort (sometimes called the \"Red Fort\"), was commissioned by the conquering Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great in 1565, and is another of Agra's World Heritage Sites. A stone tablet at the gate of the Fort states that it had been built before 1000 but was later renovated", "title": "Agra" }, { "id": "8122431", "text": "of other local structures. The world-famous national monuments which are in list of unesco world heritage site in India are also made up of Dholpur red stone which is extracted from Bari area in capital Delhi, like the Dehli Red Fort, Humayun Tomb (Humayun ka Maqbara) located in Nizamuddin East, Delhi. Bari Red stone was used in rebuilding of Agra Fort by Akbar. This red sandstone was extracted from Barauli, a village in Bari subdivision. The modern and future monument The Swaminarayan Akshardham (Delhi) Temple in New Delhi, is constructed entirely from Rajasthani pink sandstone. \"On 17 December 2007, Michael", "title": "Bari, India" }, { "id": "485527", "text": "the large number of refugees who came following the partition in 1947 the recent migration from other parts of India has made it a melting pot. This is exemplified by many significant monuments in the city. Delhi is also identified as the location of Indraprastha, the ancient capital of the Pandavas. The Archaeological Survey of India recognises 1,200 heritage buildings and 175 monuments as national heritage sites. In the Old City, the Mughals and the Turkic rulers constructed several architecturally significant buildings, such as the Jama Masjid—India's largest mosque built in 1656 and the Red Fort. Three World Heritage Sites—the", "title": "Delhi" }, { "id": "2816721", "text": "was used as the residence of Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire. The fort then passed to British colonialists after they annexed Punjab following their victory over the Sikhs at the Battle of Gujrat in February 1849. In 1981, the fort was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its \"outstanding repertoire\" of Mughal monuments dating from the era when the empire was at its artistic and aesthetic zenith. The fort is located in the northern part of Lahore's old walled city. The fort's Alamgiri gate is part of an ensemble of buildings, which along with the Badshahi", "title": "Lahore Fort" }, { "id": "17620060", "text": "of Cultural Affairs). At the same time, it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site (July 7, 2008) as part of the Network of Major Sites by Vauban (mostly fortifications). It has been a private property since the end of the 19th century, but potential restoration work on the monument could be requested by the chief architect of historical monuments. The fort is open for public in July–August from 9am to 8 pm, in May–June from 10 am to 7 pm and from 10 am to 6 pm rest of the year. Fort Liberia Fort Libéria is situated in", "title": "Fort Liberia" }, { "id": "555480", "text": "or wilderness area). It may signify a remarkable accomplishment of humanity, and serve as evidence of our intellectual history on the planet. The sites are intended for practical conservation for posterity, which otherwise would be subject to risk from human or animal trespassing, unmonitored/uncontrolled/unrestricted access, or threat from local administrative negligence. Sites are demarcated by UNESCO as protected zones. The list is maintained by the international World Heritage Program administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 states parties which are elected by their General Assembly. The programme catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "2816752", "text": "to prevent further deterioration. \"Mai Jindan Haveli\" is of unknown origins and believed to be a Mughal structure but attributed to the Mai Jindan, Chand Kaur because of the extensive additions by the Sikhs. It is a two storied building where she is alleged to have been murdered. Presently this building is site of the Sikh Gallery Museum. In 1980, Government of Pakistan nominated the fort for inclusion in UNESCO World Heritage Site based on the criteria i, ii, and iii together with the Shalimar. In the fifth meeting session held in Sydney in October 1981, the World Heritage Site", "title": "Lahore Fort" }, { "id": "4843674", "text": "and artworks of the Red Fort were looted and stolen during Nadir Shah's invasion of 1747 and again after the failed Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British. They were eventually sold to private collectors or the British Museum, British Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum. For example, the Koh-i-Noor diamond, the jade wine cup of Shah Jahan and the crown of Bahadur Shah II are all currently located in London. Various requests for restitution have so far been rejected by the British government. 1911 saw the visit of the British king and queen for the Delhi Durbar. In", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "4361448", "text": "is one of Canada's UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador Red Bay is a fishing village in Labrador, notable as one of the most precious underwater archaeological sites in the Americas. Between 1530 and the early 17th century, it was a major Basque whaling area. Several whaling ships, both large galleons and small \"chalupas\", sunk there, and their discovery led to the designation of Red Bay in 2013 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Red Bay is a natural harbour residing in the bay that gives it its name, both names in reference to the red granite", "title": "Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador" }, { "id": "555483", "text": "International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia. This appeal resulted in the excavation and recording of hundreds of sites, the recovery of thousands of objects, as well as the salvage and relocation to higher ground of a number of important temples, the most famous of which are the temple complexes of Abu Simbel and Philae. The campaign, which ended in 1980, was considered a success. As tokens of its gratitude to countries which especially contributed to the campaign's success, Egypt donated four temples: the Temple of Dendur was moved to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City,", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "2832784", "text": "a protected monument under the Antiquities Act by Pakistan's Department of Archaeology whereas in 1981, as part of the larger Lahore Fort Complex, it became inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was not until 2006 that the problems of the ceiling were comprehensively resolved and the structure was restored. Sheesh Mahal (Lahore Fort) The Sheesh Mahal (; \" “The Palace of Mirrors”\") is located within the \"Shah Burj\" block in northern-western corner of Lahore Fort. It was constructed under the reign of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in 1631-32. The ornate white marble pavilion is inlaid with pietra dura", "title": "Sheesh Mahal (Lahore Fort)" }, { "id": "4812723", "text": "Empire itself. Agra fort is a UNESCO world heritage site in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. The major part of Agra fort was built by Akbar The Great during 1565 to 1574. The architecture of the fort clearly indicates the free adoption of the Rajput planning and construction. Some of the important buildings in the fort are Jahangiri Mahal built for Jahangir and his family, the Moti Masjid, and Mena Bazaars. The Jahangir Mahal is an impressive structure and has a courtyard surrounded by double-storeyed halls and rooms. Humayun's tomb is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun in Delhi, India. The", "title": "Mughal architecture" }, { "id": "10699311", "text": "by UNESCO. The multi control of the Fort was causing problems to the ASI in taking adequate conservation measures to protect and preserve this monument, along with the Red Fort and other monuments within the fort complex. ASI had petitioned the Courts through an affidavit stating: \"It is impossible to maintain these portions of the Fort unless and until they are completely vacated and handed over to the ASI for proper assessment of the damage already caused\". ASI had also stated that the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of India would approach the UNESCO to accord world heritage status", "title": "Salimgarh Fort" }, { "id": "4843678", "text": "closed to the public, although visitors can peer through their glass windows or marble latticework. Walkways are crumbling, and public toilets are available at the entrance and inside the park. The Lahore Gate entrance leads to a mall with jewellery and craft stores. There is also a museum of \"blood paintings\", depicting young 20th-century Indian martyrs and their stories, an archaeological museum and an Indian war-memorial museum. The Red fort appears on the back of the 500 note of the Mahatma Gandhi New Series of the Indian rupee. To prevent terrorist attacks, security is especially strict around the Red Fort", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "7539965", "text": "Jaisalmer Fort, Kumbhalgarh and Ranthambore Fort were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list during the 37th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Phnom Penh in June 2013. They were recognized as a serial cultural property and examples of Rajput military hill architecture. Chittor Fort The Chittor Fort or Chittorgarh is one of the largest forts in India. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The fort was the capital of Mewar and is located in the present-day town of Chittor. It sprawls over a hill in height spread over an area of above the plains of the", "title": "Chittor Fort" }, { "id": "13095990", "text": "rising membership fees. Following a change of government in 1997, the UK rejoined. The United States rejoined in 2003, followed by Singapore on 8 October 2007. Israel was admitted to UNESCO in 1949, one year after its creation. Israel has maintained its membership since 1949. In 2010, Israel designated the Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron and Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem as National Heritage Sites and announced restoration work, prompting criticism from the United States and protests from Palestinians. In October 2010, UNESCO's Executive Board voted to declare the sites as \"al-Haram al-Ibrahimi/Tomb of the Patriarchs\" and \"Bilal bin Rabah Mosque/Rachel's Tomb\"", "title": "UNESCO" }, { "id": "4843688", "text": "imperial baths, consisting of three domed rooms floored with white marble. The baoli or step-well, believed to pre-date Red Fort, is one of the few monuments that were not demolished by the British after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The chambers within the baoli were converted into a prison. During the Indian National Army Trials (Red Fort Trials) in 1945–46, it housed Indian National Army officers Colonel Shah Nawaz Khan, Colonel Prem Kumar Sahgal, and Colonel Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon. The Red Fort Baoli is uniquely designed with two sets of staircases leading down to the well. West of the hammam", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "4843689", "text": "is the \"Moti Masjid\", the Pearl Mosque. A later addition, it was built in 1659 as a private mosque for Aurangzeb. It is a small, three-domed mosque carved in white marble, with a three-arched screen leading down to the courtyard. The \"Hira Mahal\" is a pavilion on the southern edge of the fort, built under Bahadur Shah II and at the end of the \"Hayat Baksh\" garden. The \"Moti Mahal\" on the northern edge, a twin building, was destroyed during (or after) the 1857 rebellion. The \"Shahi Burj\" was the emperor's main study of the; its name means \"Emperor's Tower\",", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "12094066", "text": "Kondaveedu Fort Kondaveedu Fort is in Kondaveedu village in the Chilakaluripet constituency of Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India. It is located six miles west of Guntur City. It is a hill fortress located above m.s.l. Apart from this main fort, there are two other forts (names not known) nearby. Efforts are in progress to classify Kondaveedu Fort as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Kondaveedu Fort was constructed during the time of Telugu Chodas and was occupied by Kakatiya Ganapati Deva during his campaign in the coastal Andhra. After the capture of Prataparudra by Tughlaq in 1323 AD, his subordinate Prolaya", "title": "Kondaveedu Fort" }, { "id": "4843690", "text": "and it originally had a \"chhatri\" on top. Heavily damaged, the tower is undergoing reconstruction. In front of it is a marble pavilion added by Aurangzeb. The \"Hayat Bakhsh Bagh\" is the \"Life-Bestowing Garden\" in the northeast part of the complex. It features a reservoir, which is now dry, and channels through which the Nahr-i-Bihisht flows. At each end is a white marble pavilion, called the Sawan and Bhadon Pavilions, named after the Hindu months, Sawan and Bhadon. In the centre of the reservoir is the red-sandstone \"Zafar Mahal\", added in around 1842 by Bahadur Shah Zafar, and named after", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "9003046", "text": "Ranthambore Fort Ranthambore Fort lies within the Ranthambore National Park, near the town of Sawai Madhopur, the park being the former hunting grounds of the Maharajahs of Jaipur until the time of India's Independence. It is a formidable fort having been a focal point of the historical developments of Rajasthan. The fort was held by the Chahamanas (Chauhans) until the 13th century, when the Delhi Sultanate captured it. In 2013, at the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee, Ranthambore Fort, along with 5 other forts of Rajasthan, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the group Hill Forts", "title": "Ranthambore Fort" }, { "id": "4843682", "text": "halls and the imperial apartments on the eastern riverbank. The Lahori Gate is the main gate to the Red Fort, named for its orientation towards the city of Lahore. During Aurangzeb's reign, the beauty of the gate was spoiled by the addition of bastions, which Shahjahan described as \"a veil drawn across the face of a beautiful woman\". Every Indian Independence Day since 1947, the national flag is unfurled and the Prime Minister makes a speech from its ramparts. The Delhi Gate is the southern public entrance and in layout and appearance similar to the Lahori Gate. Two life-size stone", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "555489", "text": "or/amended several times since their creation. UNESCO designation as a World Heritage site provides \"prima facie\" evidence that such culturally sensitive sites are legally protected pursuant to the Law of War, under the Geneva Convention, its articles, protocols and customs, together with other treaties including the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and international law. Thus, the Geneva Convention treaty promulgates: \"Article 53. PROTECTION OF CULTURAL OBJECTS AND OF PLACES OF WORSHIP. Without prejudice to the provisions of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "1150025", "text": "remains a major tourist destination in Pakistan. The Walled City of Lahore was renovated in 2014 and is popular due to the presence of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Among the most popular sights are the Lahore Fort, adjacent to the Walled City, and home to the Sheesh Mahal, the Alamgiri Gate, the Naulakha pavilion, and the Moti Masjid. The fort along with the adjoining Shalimar Gardens has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981. The city is home to several ancient religious sites including prominent Hindu temples, the Krishna Temple and Valmiki Mandir. The Samadhi of Ranjit Singh, also", "title": "Lahore" }, { "id": "555499", "text": "label could have on tourism revenue at a previously designated UNESCO World Heritage site. A number of listed World Heritage locations such as George Town, Penang, and Casco Viejo, Panama, have struggled to strike the balance between the economic benefits of catering to greatly increased visitor numbers and preserving the original culture and local communities that drew the recognition. World Heritage Site A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "2816753", "text": "committee added both the monuments to the list. In 2000, Pakistan sent a letter to the organization to include both the sites in List of World Heritage in Danger and sought help to restore the damaged part of the outer walls and hydraulic works of Shalamar Gardens. In April 2006, it was reported that officials had urged UNESCO to remove the name of the fort from the list of endangered World Heritage Sites because of extensive restoration work funded by Norway, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and France. Restoration projects included works at the Sheesh Mahal, Alamgiri Gate, and Hazuri", "title": "Lahore Fort" }, { "id": "4843673", "text": "the fort's palaces. All furniture was removed or destroyed; the harem apartments, servants' quarters and gardens were destroyed, and a line of stone barracks built. Only the marble buildings on the east side at the imperial enclosure escaped complete destruction, but were looted and damaged. While the defensive walls and towers were relatively unharmed, more than two-thirds of the inner structures were destroyed by the British. Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, ordered repairs to the fort including reconstruction of the walls and the restoration of the gardens complete with a watering system. Most of the jewels", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "555488", "text": "nominated property on the World Heritage List and sometimes defers or refers the decision to request more information from the country which nominated the site. There are ten selection criteria – a site must meet at least one of them to be included on the list. Up to 2004, there were six criteria for cultural heritage and four criteria for natural heritage. In 2005, this was modified so that there is now only one set of ten criteria. Nominated sites must be of \"outstanding universal value\" and meet at least one of the ten criteria. These criteria have been modified", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "555482", "text": "Italy, with 54 sites, has the most of any country, followed by China (53), Spain (47), France (44), Germany (44), India (37), and Mexico (35). In 1954, the government of Egypt decided to build the new Aswan High Dam, whose resulting future reservoir would eventually inundate a large stretch of the Nile valley containing cultural treasures of ancient Egypt and ancient Nubia. In 1959, the governments of Egypt and Sudan requested UNESCO to assist their countries to protect and rescue the endangered monuments and sites. In 1960, the Director-General of UNESCO launched an appeal to the member states for an", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "11428454", "text": "of Muzaffarabad city. The architecture of the fort shows that great experts in design and structure participated in its construction. It is surrounded on three sides by the Neelum River formerly known as the Kishenganga River. The northern part of the fort had terraces with steps leading to the bank of the river. The eastern side was very well protected from the hazards of flood waters, but some parts on the north side have suffered damage. There used to be an inn at the entrance to the fort, but only traces of that structure remain now. In 1846, Maharaja Gulab", "title": "Red Fort, Muzaffarabad" }, { "id": "7578159", "text": "that Ray portrayed in the movie. Six forts of Rajasthan, namely, Amber Fort, Chittor Fort, Gagron Fort, Jaisalmer Fort, Kumbhalgarh and Ranthambore Fort were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list during the 37th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Phnom Penh during June 2013. They were recognized as a serial cultural property and examples of Rajput military hill architecture. The Jaisalmer Fort today faces manifold threats that are a result of the increasing population pressure on it. Water seepage, inadequate civic amenities, derelict houses and seismic activity around the Trikuta Hill are some of the major concerns", "title": "Jaisalmer Fort" }, { "id": "555479", "text": "World Heritage Site A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties. The sites are judged important to the collective interests of humanity. To be selected, a World Heritage Site must be an already classified landmark, unique in some respect as a geographically and historically identifiable place having special cultural or physical significance (such as an ancient ruin or historical structure, building, city, complex, desert, forest, island, lake, monument, mountain,", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "4843675", "text": "preparation of the visit, some buildings were restored. The Red Fort Archaeological Museum was also moved from the drum house to the \"Mumtaz Mahal\". The INA trials, also known as the \"Red Fort Trials\", refer to the courts-martial of a number of officers of the Indian National Army. The first was held between November and December 1945 at the Red Fort. On 15 August 1947, the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru raised the Indian national flag above the Lahore Gate. On each subsequent Independence Day, the prime minister has raised the flag and given a speech that is", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "17815182", "text": "Red Fort Archaeological Museum The Red Fort Archaeological Museum is currently located in the \"Mumtaz Mahal\" of the Red Fort in Delhi, northern India. The museum contains paintings, artifacts, calligraphy, fabrics and other objects dating from the Mughal era. Originally known as the \"Palace Museum\", this museum dates back to 1911 when it was located in the \"Naubhat Khana\". It was later moved to the \"Mumtaz Mahal\", originally used as a mess by the British occupiers. The museum is now under the aegis of the Archaeological Survey of India. Most of the Mughal belongings and jewels of the Red Fort", "title": "Red Fort Archaeological Museum" }, { "id": "17970082", "text": "the venue for an annual colourful fair held during the month of Moharram. There is also a monastery of Saint Pipaji across the confluence. Gagron Fort Gagron Fort (Hindi/Rajasthani: गागरोन का किला) is situated in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan, in the Hadoti region of India. It is an example of a hill and water fort. Six Hill forts of Rajasthan, namely, Amer Fort, Chittor Fort, Gagron Fort, Jaisalmer Fort, Kumbhalgarh and Ranthambore Fort were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list during the 37th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Phnom Penh during June 2013. They were recognized", "title": "Gagron Fort" }, { "id": "15345277", "text": "in the northwest section of the fort that was actually built by his predecessor Jahangir. In 1927, the building was listed by the Department of Archaeology of British India. In 1975, it was listed as a protected monument under the Antiquities Act by Pakistan's Department of Archaeology, whereas in 1981, as part of the larger Lahore Fort Complex, it became inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. More recently, the building and its materials have started showing signs of damage and discolouration due to the air pollution. The pollutants such as sulphur dioxide and other emissions, have already affected the", "title": "Naulakha Pavilion" }, { "id": "17970081", "text": "Gagron Fort Gagron Fort (Hindi/Rajasthani: गागरोन का किला) is situated in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan, in the Hadoti region of India. It is an example of a hill and water fort. Six Hill forts of Rajasthan, namely, Amer Fort, Chittor Fort, Gagron Fort, Jaisalmer Fort, Kumbhalgarh and Ranthambore Fort were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list during the 37th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Phnom Penh during June 2013. They were recognized as a serial cultural property and examples of Rajput military hill architecture. A mausoleum of Sufi Saint Mitthe Shah just outside the fort is", "title": "Gagron Fort" }, { "id": "2895785", "text": "to the ceiling. Some of the historical structures still standing in the fort include Oman House, which was the house for Sultan who governed the East African coast. Others are an open water cistern by the Portuguese for harvesting rain water, and a 76-foot deep well sunk by the Arabs (but its water was too salty to be used for anything but washing). The fort was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2011. Fort Jesus is now a popular destination for foreign and local tourists. As well as a tourist destination, the Fort is important as a host", "title": "Fort Jesus" }, { "id": "18228773", "text": "walls. Inside the walls are four residential complexes, and the largest mosque built in Algeria after that of Mansourah, similar to the Grand Mosque of Kairouan, with a tall minaret (20 m). The remains of the emir's palace, known as Dal al-Bahr, include three separate residences separated by gardens and pavilions. Excavations of the area have brought to light numerous terracotta items, jewels, coins and ceramics, including a number of decorative fountains using the lion as a motif. In 1980 the Beni Hammad Fort was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. In 945, as Abu Yazid besieged Sousse,", "title": "Hodna Mountains" }, { "id": "5707990", "text": "37th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Kumbhalgarh Fort, along with five other forts of Rajasthan, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the group Hill Forts of Rajasthan. With the walls of the fort extending over 38 km, it is claimed to be the second-longest continuous wall after the Great Wall of China; the fort is among the largest wall complex in the world, and the second largest fort in India after Chittor Fort. The early history of the fort could not be ascertained on account of lack of evidence. The earliest name", "title": "Kumbhalgarh" }, { "id": "4591846", "text": "gateways. Rohtas Fort was inscribed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1997 for being an \"exceptional example of the Muslim military architecture of Central and South Asia.\" The fort lies eight kilometers south of the Grand Trunk Road. It is approximately 16 km NW of Jhelum, and is near the city of Dina. The historic \"Shahrah-e-Azam\" road once passed adjacent to the outer northern wall of the fort. Rohtas Fort was built on a hill overlooking a gorge where the Kahan river meets a seasonal stream called \"Parnal Khas\" within the Tilla Jogian Range. The fort is about", "title": "Rohtas Fort" }, { "id": "6850157", "text": "Ranikot Fort Ranikot Fort (, ) (also known as Rannikot) is a historical Talpur fort near Sann, Jamshoro District, Sindh, Pakistan. Ranikot Fort is also known as The Great Wall of Sindh and is believed to be the world's largest fort. with a circumference of approximately . The fort's ramparts have been compared to the Great Wall of China. The site was nominated in 1993 by the Pakistan National Commission for UNESCO world heritage status, and has since been on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The fort is listed as a historical site under the Antiquities Act,", "title": "Ranikot Fort" }, { "id": "4361444", "text": "Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador Red Bay is a fishing village in Labrador, notable as one of the most precious underwater archaeological sites in the Americas. Between 1530 and the early 17th century, it was a major Basque whaling area. Several whaling ships, both large galleons and small \"chalupas\", sunk there, and their discovery led to the designation of Red Bay in 2013 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Red Bay is a natural harbour residing in the bay that gives it its name, both names in reference to the red granite cliffs of the region. Because of the sheltered", "title": "Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador" }, { "id": "555484", "text": "the Temple of Debod was moved to the Parque del Oeste in Madrid, the Temple of Taffeh was moved to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in the Netherlands, and the Temple of Ellesyia to Museo Egizio in Turin. The project cost $80 million, about $40 million of which was collected from 50 countries. The project's success led to other safeguarding campaigns: saving Venice and its lagoon in Italy, the ruins of Mohenjo-daro in Pakistan, and the Borobodur Temple Compounds in Indonesia. UNESCO then initiated, with the International Council on Monuments and Sites, a draft convention to protect the common cultural heritage", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "3991321", "text": "Agra Fort Agra Fort is a historical fort in the city of Agra in India. It was the main residence of the emperors of the Mughal Dynasty until 1638, when the capital was shifted from Agra to Delhi. The Agra fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal. The fort can be more accurately described as a walled city. After the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, Babur stayed in the fort, in the palace of Ibrahim Lodi. He later built a baoli (step well) in", "title": "Agra Fort" }, { "id": "12358068", "text": "UNESCO was first officially announced in 2003. It has been backed by the Scottish Government since 2005 and by Scotland's then Culture Minister Patricia Ferguson since 2006. It became the UK's official nomination in late January 2007, and MSPs were called to support the bid anew in May 2007. The Antonine Wall was listed as an extension to the World Heritage Site \"Frontiers of the Roman Empire\" on 7 July 2008. Though the Antonine Wall is mentioned in the text, it does not appear on UNESCO's map of world heritage properties. Several individual sites along the line of the wall", "title": "Antonine Wall" }, { "id": "4591879", "text": "time, its right bastion and supporting wall have collapsed as a result of permeated rainwater and the erosion of its foundations. Rohtas Fort was designated a World Heritage Site in 1997, having met the following inclusion criteria: Criterion (ii): \"Rohtas Fort blends architectural and artistic traditions from Turkey and the Indian subcontinent to create the model for Mughal architecture and its subsequent refinements and adaptations.\"<br> Criterion (iv): \"Rohtas Fort is an exceptional example of the Muslim military architecture of central and south Asia during the 16th century.\" The fort was also noted for its high-level of integrity, and authenticity. The", "title": "Rohtas Fort" }, { "id": "4843686", "text": "the riverbed below the imperial apartments and connected buildings was a space known as \"zer-jharokha\" (\"beneath the latticework\"). The two southernmost pavilions of the palace are \"zenana\"s (women's quarters), consisting of the \"Mumtaz Mahal\" and the larger \"Rang Mahal\". The \"Mumtaz Mahal\" houses the Red Fort Archaeological Museum. The \"Rang Mahal\" housed the emperor's wives and mistresses. Its name means \"Palace of Colours\", since it was brightly painted and decorated with a mosaic of mirrors. The central marble pool is fed by the \"Nahr-i-Bihisht\". The \"Khas Mahal\" was the emperor's apartment. Connected to it is the \"Muthamman Burj\", an octagonal", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "4843687", "text": "tower where he appeared before the people waiting on the riverbank. This was done by most kings at the time. A gate on the north side of the \"Diwan-i-Aam\" leads to the innermost court of the palace (\"Jalau Khana\") and the \"Diwan-i-Khas\" (Hall of Private Audience). It is constructed of white marble, inlaid with precious stones. The once-silver ceiling has been restored in wood. François Bernier described seeing the jewelled Peacock Throne here during the 17th century. At either end of the hall, over the two outer arches, is an inscription by Persian poet Amir Khusrow: The \"hammam\" were the", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "555495", "text": "previously thought and require immediate conservation action. There are 1092 World Heritage Sites located in 167 states. Of these, 845 are cultural, 209 are natural and 38 are mixed properties. The World Heritage Committee has divided the world into five geographic zones which it calls regions: Africa, Arab states, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Russia and the Caucasus states are classified as European, while Mexico and the Caribbean are classified as belonging to the Latin America & Caribbean zone, despite their location in North America. The UNESCO geographic zones also give", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "485528", "text": "Red Fort, Qutub Minar and Humayun's Tomb—are located in Delhi. Other monuments include the India Gate, the Jantar Mantar—an 18th-century astronomical observatory—and the Purana Qila—a 16th-century fortress. The Laxminarayan temple, Akshardham temple, Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, the Bahá'í Lotus Temple and the ISKCON temple are examples of modern architecture. Raj Ghat and associated memorials houses memorials of Mahatma Gandhi and other notable personalities. New Delhi houses several government buildings and official residences reminiscent of British colonial architecture, including the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Secretariat, Rajpath, the Parliament of India and Vijay Chowk. Safdarjung's Tomb is an example of the Mughal gardens style.", "title": "Delhi" }, { "id": "4843680", "text": "the news media described as an attempt to derail India-Pakistan peace talks. The Red Fort has an area of enclosed by of defensive walls, punctuated by turrets and bastions and varying in height from on the river side to on the city side. The fort is octagonal, with the north-south axis longer than the east-west axis. The marble, floral decorations and double domes in the fort's buildings exemplify later Mughal architecture. It showcases a high level of ornamentation, and the Kohinoor diamond was reportedly part of the furnishings. The fort's artwork synthesises Persian, European and Indian art, resulting in a", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "13512677", "text": "Bagrati Cathedral from its World Heritage Sites in 2017, considering its major reconstruction detrimental to its integrity and authenticity. Former UNESCO World Heritage Sites The designation of World Heritage Site is a highly prestigious affair. Such a designation bestows not only honor but also has economic implications as it enhances tourism. World Heritage Sites may lose their designation when the UNESCO World Heritage Committee determines that the designated site is not properly managed or protected. First, however, the committee would place a site it is concerned about on its list of World Heritage in Danger of losing their designation and", "title": "Former UNESCO World Heritage Sites" }, { "id": "13095975", "text": "move the Great Temple of Abu Simbel to keep it from being swamped by the Nile after construction of the Aswan Dam. During the 20-year campaign, 22 monuments and architectural complexes were relocated. This was the first and largest in a series of campaigns including Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan), Fes (Morocco), Kathmandu (Nepal), Borobudur (Indonesia) and the Acropolis (Greece). The organization's work on heritage led to the adoption, in 1972, of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. The World Heritage Committee was established in 1976 and the first sites inscribed on the World Heritage List in", "title": "UNESCO" }, { "id": "7539929", "text": "In 2013, at the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Chittorgarh Fort, along with five other forts of Rajasthan, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as a group called the Hill Forts of Rajasthan. Chittorgarh, located in the southern part of the state of Rajasthan, from Ajmer, midway between Delhi and Mumbai on the National Highway 8 (India) in the road network of Golden Quadrilateral. Chittorgarh is situated where National Highways No. 76 & 79 intersect. The fort rises abruptly above the surrounding plains and is spread over an area of . The", "title": "Chittor Fort" }, { "id": "2779804", "text": "A Sunset Ceremony is held every Wednesday in July and August, where a full program of historic drill, music and artillery is presented. During evenings year-round a tour company conducts tours of the fort that highlight the fort's supposedly haunted past. Fort Henry has been designated as a National Historic Site of Canada, and in 2007 was included in the designation of the Rideau Canal as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On 30 June 1983 Canada Post issued 'Fort Henry, Ont.' in the \"Forts Across Canada Series\" (1983 and 1985). The stamps are based on the designs by Rolf P.", "title": "Fort Henry National Historic Site" }, { "id": "17815183", "text": "were looted and stolen during Nadir Shah's invasion of India in 1747 and again after the failed Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British colonialists. They were eventually sold to private collectors or the British Museum, British Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum. For example, the Koh-i-Noor diamond, the jade wine cup of Shah Jahan and the crown of Bahadur Shah II are all currently located in London. Various requests for restitution have been rejected by the British government. The museum, therefore, is only able to show a very small fraction of Mughal property and heritage. The objects are", "title": "Red Fort Archaeological Museum" }, { "id": "17720028", "text": "x 80 feet. The construction material is red sandstone, the surface covered in white \"chunam\" plaster. The richly carved floral designs on its red sandstone walls appear to have been originally painted with gold. The interior was colourfully painted. Several layers of these paintings can be found at the entrance chamber. The British initially installed the museum of the fort in this gate. It was later moved to the \"Mumtaz Mahal\". The Indian War Memorial Museum is currently located in the first and second stories. Naubat Khana (Red Fort) The Naubat Khana, or \"Naqqar Khana\", is the drum house that", "title": "Naubat Khana (Red Fort)" }, { "id": "1356462", "text": "the residence of the Ruler of Ajman but turned over to Ajman Police as their barracks in 1967. It was subsequently converted into a museum and houses an eclectic collection of artefacts and exhibitions of traditional life in Ajman. The Red Fort was built during Sheikh Humaid bin Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi (1910-1928), and consists of four rooms in two towers. The fort was restored in 1986 and a third tower was added to the two older towers. Gravel and red plaster were used in the construction of the walls of the fort and hence it was named the Red", "title": "Emirate of Ajman" }, { "id": "6103338", "text": "a heritage town with many temples, palatial houses and mosques. The queen mothers and the Raja's consorts lived in this part of the palace in Zanani Deorhi, which also housed their female attendants. The queen mothers took a deep interest in building temples in Amer town. Six forts of Rajasthan, namely, Amber Fort, Chittor Fort, Gagron Fort, Jaisalmer Fort, Kumbhalgarh and Ranthambore Fort were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list during the 37th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Phnom Penh during June 2013. They were recognized as a serial cultural property and examples of Rajput military", "title": "Amer Fort" }, { "id": "7128603", "text": "Baltit Fort Baltit Fort () is a fort in the Hunza valley, near the town of Karimabad, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. Founded in the 8th CE, it has been on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative list since 2004. In the past, the survival of the feudal regime of Hunza was ensured by the impressive fort, which overlooks Karimabad. The foundations of the fort date back to 700 years ago, with rebuilds and alterations over the centuries. In the 16th century the local prince married a princess from Baltistan who brought master Balti craftsmen to renovate the building", "title": "Baltit Fort" }, { "id": "10699315", "text": "Fort at a cost of Rs 27.5 million (US$0.55 million) and at Salimgarh Fort at a cost of Rs 8 million (US$160,000) to be completed before the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The Swatantra Sangram Museum, which opened to the public on 2 October 1995, is located in the precincts of the Red Fort Complex within the Salimgarh Fort as it was the prison where the INA prisoners were incarcerated by the British from 1945 till Independence of India from British rule on 15 August 1947. Many of the prisoners had died within the jail premises. The place was chosen as the", "title": "Salimgarh Fort" }, { "id": "13738383", "text": "Fort named after its orientation towards Lahore, Pakistan. The southern public entrance to the Red Fort (Coordinates: 28.652148N 77.240112E). It was built on the north eastern side of the Shahajahanabad. It is located on the Ring Road near the Yamuna Bazaar. It derives its name Nigambodh Ghat from the burial ground here. The etymology of Nigambodh is derived from Sanskrit words ‘Nigam’ which means the “Ved” and ‘bodh’ means “knowledge”, meaning realization of knowledge. According to a folk legend, Lord Brahma (the creator) took a bath in the Yamuna River at this ghat to recover his lost memory and by", "title": "Gates of Delhi" }, { "id": "4843677", "text": "broadcast speech from its ramparts. The Red Fort, the largest monument in Delhi, is one of its most popular tourist destinations and attracts thousands of visitors every year. A sound and light show describing Mughal history is a tourist attraction in the evenings. The major architectural features are in mixed condition; the extensive water features are dry. Some buildings are in fairly-good condition, with their decorative elements undisturbed; in others, the marble inlaid flowers have been removed by looters. The tea house, although not in its historical state, is a working restaurant. The mosque and \"hamam\" or public baths are", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "1961264", "text": "Pagoda is an evolution of the Indian stupa. The most famous Indo-Islamic style is Mughal architecture. Its most prominent examples are the series of imperial mausolea, which started with the pivotal Tomb of Humayun, but is best known for the Taj Mahal. The Red Fort at Agra (1565–74) and the walled city of Fatehpur Sikri (1569–74) are among the architectural achievements of this time—as is the Taj Mahal, built as a tomb for Queen Mumtaz Mahal by Shah Jahan (1628–58). Employing the double dome, the recessed archway, the depiction of any animal or human—an essential part of the Indian tradition—was", "title": "Architecture of India" }, { "id": "6625794", "text": "Beni Hammad Fort Beni Hammad Fort, also called Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad () is a fortified palatine city in Algeria. Now in ruins, in the 11th century, it served as the first capital of the Hammadid dynasty. It is in the Hodna Mountains northeast of M'Sila, at an elevation of , and receives abundant water from the surrounding mountains. Beni Hammad Fort is near the town of Maadid (aka Maadhid), about southeast of Algiers, in the Maghreb. In 1980, it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, and described as \"an authentic picture of a fortified Muslim", "title": "Beni Hammad Fort" }, { "id": "1645549", "text": "of them built by Shivaji, founder of the Maratha state. A large majority of forts in India are in North India. The most notable forts are the Red Fort at Delhi, the Red Fort at Agra, the Chittor Fort and Mehrangarh Fort in Rajasthan, the Ranthambhor Fort in Rajasthan and Gwalior Fort in Madhya Pradesh. Large tempered earth (i.e. rammed earth) walls were built in ancient China since the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1050 BC); the capital at ancient Ao had enormous walls built in this fashion (see siege for more info). Although stone walls were built in China during the", "title": "Fortification" }, { "id": "4843684", "text": "were destroyed after the 1857 rebellion. In the east wall of the court stands the now-isolated \"Naubat Khana\" (also known as \"Nakkar Khana\"), the drum house. Music was played daily, at scheduled times and everyone, except royalty, was required to dismount. The inner main court to which the \"Nakkar Khana\" led was wide and deep, surrounded by guarded galleries. On the far side is the \"Diwan-i-Aam\", the Public Audience Hall. The hall's columns and engrailed arches exhibit fine craftsmanship, and the hall was originally decorated with white \"chunam\" stucco. In the back in the raised recess the emperor gave his", "title": "Red Fort" }, { "id": "5763675", "text": "Rajabai Clock Tower The Rajabai Clock Tower is a clock tower in South Mumbai India. It is located in the confines of the Fort campus of the University of Mumbai. It stands at a height of 85 m (280 ft or 25 storeys). The tower is part of The Victorian and Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai, which was added to the list of World Heritage Sites in 2018. The Rajabai Clock Tower was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, an English architect. He modeled it on Big Ben in London.The foundation stone was laid on 1 March 1869 and construction", "title": "Rajabai Clock Tower" }, { "id": "17505832", "text": "Order of Canada (1981) refers to the fact that, besides her discoveries in Labrador, she \"uncovered a period (1540-1600) in Canadian history about which almost nothing was known\". In 1993, Memorial University of Newfoundland awarded her an Honorary Doctorate for having \"sparked a wholesale revision of 16th-century Canadian history\". In 2009, she was elected Fellow of the international organization Wings WorldQuest, which \"recognizes and supports visionary women who are advancing scientific inquiry and environmental conservation\". In June 2013, the Red Bay National Historic Site was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This declaration reflects the importance of the contribution", "title": "Selma Barkham" }, { "id": "13768958", "text": "South-East Expedition for Early Man in 1937–1938, and geologist U Khin Maung Kyaw discovered the paintings in 1960. In 1969–1972, the Burmese government organized a more in-depth investigation, and another expedition to the caves was mounted in 2004. The site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on 4 October 1996 in the Cultural category. Red ochre paintings of human hands, fish, bulls, bison, deer and other objects are visible at the rock shelter. The art has not been directly dated. The walls of the cave have also been decorated with carved patterns. More than 300 cupules have", "title": "Padah-Lin Caves" }, { "id": "7072427", "text": "World Heritage Sites by country As of July 2018, there are a total of 1,092 World Heritage Sites located in 167 States Parties (countries that have adhered to the World Heritage Convention), of which 845 are cultural, 209 are natural and 38 are mixed properties. The countries have been divided by the World Heritage Committee into five geographic zones: Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The country with the largest number of sites (including sites shared with other countries) is Italy, with 54 entries. The country with the largest", "title": "World Heritage Sites by country" }, { "id": "2261695", "text": "Mughal architecture, effectively showing how the North Indian style of fort construction differed from that of the South. In the South, the majority of forts were built on the seabed like the one at Bekal in Kerala. The Mughal Emperor Akbar built Fatehpūr Sikrī about from Agra, and moved his capital there. Later abandoned, the site displays a number of buildings of significant historical importance. A World Heritage Site, it is often visited by tourists. The name of the place came about after the Mughal Emperor Bābar defeated Rāṇā Sāngā in a battle at a place called Sikrī (about from", "title": "Agra" }, { "id": "951796", "text": "Amer, India Amer, now a part of the Jaipur Municipal Corporation, was a city of the Rajasthan state, India. The picturesque situation of Amer at the mouth of a rocky mountain gorge, in which nestles a lake, has attracted the admiration of travellers, including Victor Jacquemont and Reginald Heber. It is seen to be a remarkable example for its combined Rajput-Mughal architecture. The Amer Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the top tourist attraction in the Jaipur area. The first structure was started by Raja Kakil Dev when Amer became his capital in 1036, on the site of present-day", "title": "Amer, India" }, { "id": "6229989", "text": "deal with illegal poaching activities. The said project would cost PHP 50 million pesos.. It was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in December 1993 and falls under the protective management of the Department of National Defense (DND) of the Philippines. It is under technical supervision by the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). In 1999, Ramsar listed Tubbataha as one of the Wetlands of International Importance because of the variety of its marine life species and valuable role as a habitat", "title": "Tubbataha Reef" }, { "id": "11428453", "text": "Red Fort, Muzaffarabad Red Fort - also known as the \"Muzaffarabad Fort\" was built by the Chak rulers of Kashmir in the 16th century. The current locality is called Center Plate. Locally, it is known as the \"Rutta Qila\" or just \"qila\". Chak rulers of Kashmir anticipated threat to the city from the Mughals. Construction was initiated in 1559 at a strategic location. The Mughal Empire annexed Kashmir in 1587, and the fort lost its importance. Finally, the construction of the fort was completed in 1646 in the reign of Sultan Muzaffar Khan of the Bomba Dynasty — the founder", "title": "Red Fort, Muzaffarabad" }, { "id": "19675167", "text": "named after the Red Burn. Three streets in Cumbernauld are named after the Red Burn and also use the older form of the name where \"Redburn\" is just one word. These are in the Abronhill part of the town. Similarly Redburn School takes its name from the stream. The Antonine Wall named after the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, crosses the Red Burn at Castlecary and Roman remains have been found on both sides of the river. The wall, built by Urbicus's men is named on the Unesco World Heritage list as a Frontier for the Roman Empire. However the land", "title": "Red Burn" }, { "id": "14310866", "text": "Qal'at al-Bahrain The Qal'at al-Bahrain (in ), also known as the Bahrain Fort or Portuguese Fort, is an archaeological site located in Bahrain, on the Arabian Peninsula. Archaeological excavations carried out since 1954 have unearthed antiquities from an artificial mound of height containing seven stratified layers, created by various occupants from 2300 BC up to the 18th century, including Kassites, Greeks, Portuguese and Persians. It was once the capital of the Dilmun civilization and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. The fort and the tell Qal'at al-Bahrain is built on, are located on the Bahrain island,", "title": "Qal'at al-Bahrain" }, { "id": "13738386", "text": "side was constructed only in 1854–55 by Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mogul ruler of India. The gate was built in brick masonry with moderate use of red sandstone. The fort was used during the Uprising in 1857 and also as prison, which housed Zebunnisa, daughter of Aurangzeb; the British imprisoned the freedom fighters of Indian National Army. The layout of the Red Fort was organized to retain and integrate this site with the Salimgarh Fort through the Bahadur Shah Gate. Delhi became the capital of British India after the seat of power was shifted from Calcutta in 1911. With", "title": "Gates of Delhi" }, { "id": "15122083", "text": "Hellenistic city. The temple and \"temenos\" were excavated by Theodor Wiegand from 1927. New archaeological studies were carried out from 2002 to 2005 under A. Hoffmann. Restoration efforts have also been pursued, first in the 1930s under O. Bayatlı, the Director of the Bergama Museum, and later in the 1950s and 1960s. Further restoration work was conducted on the main temple in 2006 and the south rotunda was restored between 2006 and 2009. The temple was built in the lower city of Pergamon at the foot of the hill on which the ancient city's acropolis stood. It was located at", "title": "Red Basilica" }, { "id": "10699298", "text": "Salimgarh Fort Salimgarh Fort (, ،literally \"Salim’s Fort\") was built in 1546 AD, in Delhi, in a former island of the Yamuna River, by Salim Shah Suri, son of Sher Shah Suri. There was a pause in Mughal rule when in 1540 AD Sher Shah Suri defeated the Mughal Emperor Humayun (and ousted him from Delhi) and established the Sur dynasty rule in Delhi. Sur dynasty rule lasted till 1555 AD when Humayun regained his kingdom by defeating Sikander Suri, the last ruler of the dynasty. During the Mughal period, in later years, while building the Red Fort and Shahjahanbad,", "title": "Salimgarh Fort" }, { "id": "390794", "text": "structures constructed during his reign. He was one of the greatest patrons of Mughal architecture. His most famous building was the Taj Mahal, which he built out of love for his wife, the empress Mumtaz Mahal. Its structure was drawn with great care and architects from all over the world were called for this purpose. The building took twenty years to complete and was constructed from white marble underlaid with brick. Upon his death, his son Aurangzeb had him interred in it next to Mumtaz Mahal. Among his other constructions are the Red Fort also called the \"Delhi Fort\" or", "title": "Shah Jahan" }, { "id": "555485", "text": "of humanity. The United States initiated the idea of cultural conservation with nature conservation. The White House conference in 1965 called for a \"World Heritage Trust\" to preserve \"the world's superb natural and scenic areas and historic sites for the present and the future of the entire world citizenry\". The International Union for Conservation of Nature developed similar proposals in 1968, and they were presented in 1972 to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm. Under the World Heritage Committee, signatory countries are required to produce and submit periodic data reporting providing the World Heritage Committee with", "title": "World Heritage Site" }, { "id": "18741001", "text": "wildlife sanctuary in 1958 and came under Project Tiger as Sariska Tiger Reserve in 1979. The park is 800 square kilometers, 480 square kilometers of which form the core area of the national park. It is located among the Aravalli hill ranges in the Alwar district of Rajasthan. It 106 km away from Hindaun City The city is known for its red stone and globally acclaimed for its sandstone. The largest mart of sandstone in subcontinent. Basically, the stone industries have blossomed here. Red Fort and Akshardham Temple of Delhi, Agra and The Swami Narain temple in Jaipur were built", "title": "Hindaun Block" } ]

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[ { "id": "2634760", "text": "Bagheera Bagheera (; \"Baghīrā\"/\"Bagīdah\") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the \"Jungle Book\" (coll. 1894) and the \"Second Jungle Book\" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the \"man-cub\" Mowgli. The word \"bagheera\" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of the Raja of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Bagheera begins to plan for his freedom after his mother dies. Once he is mature and strong enough, he breaks the lock on his cage and escapes", "title": "Bagheera" }, { "id": "2634785", "text": "worried about what his child will find around the next corner, the big cat who knows he has to let go just a little but can't find it in himself to do so\". Bagheera Bagheera (; \"Baghīrā\"/\"Bagīdah\") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the \"Jungle Book\" (coll. 1894) and the \"Second Jungle Book\" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the \"man-cub\" Mowgli. The word \"bagheera\" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of", "title": "Bagheera" }, { "id": "3185624", "text": "The Jungle Book (1967 film) The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical comedy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, it is the 19th Disney animated feature film. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. The plot follows Mowgli, a feral child raised in the Indian jungle by wolves, as his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear try to convince him to leave the jungle before the evil tiger Shere Khan arrives. The early", "title": "The Jungle Book (1967 film)" }, { "id": "18235689", "text": "success, grossing over $966 million, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2016 and the 40th-highest-grossing film of all time, and was praised for its visual effects, musical score, direction, faithfulness to the original animated film, and vocal performances, particularly those of Murray, Kingsley, and Elba. At the 89th Academy Awards, the film won the award for Best Visual Effects. Mowgli is a \"man cub\" raised by the wolf Raksha and her pack, led by Akela, in an Indian jungle ever since he was brought to them as a baby by the black panther Bagheera. Bagheera trains Mowgli to learn the", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "id": "3185626", "text": "the Sherman Brothers and one by Gilkyson, \"The Bare Necessities\". The film initially became Disney's second highest-grossing animated film in the United States and Canada, and was also successful during its re-releases. The film was also successful throughout the world, becoming Germany's highest-grossing film by number of admissions. Disney released a live-action remake in 1994 and an animated sequel, \"The Jungle Book 2\", in 2003; another live-action adaptation directed by Jon Favreau was released in 2016. Mowgli, a young orphan boy, is found in a basket in the deep jungles of India by Bagheera, a black panther who promptly takes", "title": "The Jungle Book (1967 film)" }, { "id": "3937609", "text": "Black Panther (comics) Black Panther is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Jack Kirby, first appearing in \"Fantastic Four\" #52 (cover-dated July 1966) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. Black Panther's real name is T'Challa, king and protector of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. Along with possessing enhanced abilities achieved through ancient Wakandan rituals of drinking the essence of the heart-shaped herb, T'Challa also relies on his proficiency in science, rigorous physical training, hand-to-hand combat skills, and access to wealth and advanced", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "17019346", "text": "nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. Following a motion capture role as Maz Kanata in the \"Star Wars\" sequel trilogy and a voice role as Raksha in \"The Jungle Book\" (2016), Nyong'o starred as Nakia in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film \"Black Panther\" (2018). In addition to acting, Nyong'o supports historic preservation. She is vocal about preventing sexual harassment and working for women and animal rights. In 2014, she was named the most beautiful woman by \"People\". Nyong'o was born in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o,", "title": "Lupita Nyong'o" }, { "id": "10914087", "text": "he was raised by wild animals and rediscovered humans again as a teenager. It was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures on September 29, 1998. In the jungle of India, a group of villagers are sightseeing. Later that night, Shere Khan the tiger (Sherman Howard), and his sidekick Tabaqui the hyena (Stephen Tobolowsky) attack the villagers. A young boy named Mowgli (Brandon Baker) runs off in search of his parents, only to get lost. He is eventually taken into a wolf pack by wolf parents, Akela (Clancy Brown) and Raksha (Peri Gilpin). Mowgli befriends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Chil", "title": "The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story" }, { "id": "12367426", "text": "Bagheera kiplingi Bagheera kiplingi is a species of jumping spider found in Central America, including Mexico, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. It is the type species of the genus \"Bagheera\", which includes three other species, including \"B. prosper\". \"B. kiplingi\" is notable for its peculiar diet, which is mostly herbivorous. No other known species of spider has such a thoroughly herbivorous diet. The genus name is derived from Bagheera, the black panther from Rudyard Kipling's \"The Jungle Book\", with the species name honoring Kipling himself. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters are \"Akela\", \"Messua\", and \"Nagaina\". All four were", "title": "Bagheera kiplingi" }, { "id": "3937683", "text": "\"Black Panther in ... The Visitor\". Black Panther (comics) Black Panther is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Jack Kirby, first appearing in \"Fantastic Four\" #52 (cover-dated July 1966) in the Silver Age of Comic Books. Black Panther's real name is T'Challa, king and protector of the fictional African nation of Wakanda. Along with possessing enhanced abilities achieved through ancient Wakandan rituals of drinking the essence of the heart-shaped herb, T'Challa also relies on his proficiency in science, rigorous physical training, hand-to-hand combat skills,", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "3937613", "text": "own feature in the omnibus title \"Jungle Tales\", from Marvel's 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics; and the Dell Comics Western character Lobo, the first black person to star in his own comic book. Previous non-caricatured black supporting characters in comics include U.S. Army infantry private Gabriel Jones of \"Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos\". In a guest appearance in \"Fantastic Four\" #119 (Feb. 1972), the Black Panther briefly tried using the name Black Leopard to avoid connotations with the Party, but the new name did not last. The character's name was changed back to Black Panther in \"Avengers\" #105, with T'Challa", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "18208773", "text": "as Baloo, Ben Kingsley as Bagheera, Idris Elba as Shere Khan, Scarlett Johansson as Kaa, Lupita Nyong'o as Raksha, Giancarlo Esposito as Akela, and Christopher Walken as King Louie. The film was released on April 15, 2016 to critical acclaim. After a fierce tiger threatens his life, Mowgli, an orphan boy raised by wolves, leaves his jungle home and, guided by a stern panther and a free-spirited bear, sets out on a journey of self-discovery. Following the film's early financial and critical successes, the studio has begun work on a sequel film. Favreau is reported to return as director, while", "title": "The Jungle Book (franchise)" }, { "id": "2454393", "text": "Baloo Baloo ( \"Bhālū\", \"bear\") is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's \"The Jungle Book\" from 1894 and \"The Second Jungle Book\" from 1895. Baloo, a sloth bear, is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack. His most challenging pupil is the \"man-cub\" Mowgli. Baloo and Bagheera, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of \"The Jungle Book\" stories. He is described in Kipling's work as \"the sleepy brown bear\". Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his", "title": "Baloo" }, { "id": "3273396", "text": "the tour group. That night Mowgli tells his father of a dream where he faced Shere Khan and showed no fear, becoming a tiger himself. Shere Khan attacks the encampment. He succeeds in killing the two soldiers, but when he tries to kill Buldeo, Nathoo defends him, who ungratefully leaves Nathoo to be mauled to death by the tiger. In the confusion, Mowgli is lost in the jungle with his pet wolf cub, Grey Brother. Brydon and his men believe Mowgli has been killed too. Mowgli is taken by Bagheera, a gentle black panther, to the wolf pack. Mowgli also", "title": "The Jungle Book (1994 film)" }, { "id": "18208768", "text": "Walt Disney, who died during its production. In this animated musical film adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's stories, Mowgli, an abandoned child raised by wolves, has his peaceful existence threatened by the return of the man-eating tiger Shere Khan. Facing certain death, Mowgli must overcome his reluctance to leave his wolf family and return to the \"man village.\" But he is not alone on his quest: Aided by Bagheera the wise panther, and later by the carefree bear Baloo, he braves the jungle's many perils. \"The Jungle Book 2\" is a 2003 animated adventure musical comedy film produced by DisneyToon Studios.", "title": "The Jungle Book (franchise)" }, { "id": "1626387", "text": "animation and its 2016 remake, and the 1989 Japanese anime \"Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli\". Stuart Paterson wrote a stage adaptation in 2004, first produced by the Birmingham Old Rep in 2004 and published in 2007 by Nick Hern Books. The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or \"man-cub\" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India;", "title": "The Jungle Book" }, { "id": "2634766", "text": "pigmentation, which is why he is commonly referred to as a black panther. In Disney's 1967 animated adaptation, Bagheera the panther is, as in the book, male, and voiced by Sebastian Cabot. The panther is portrayed as an intelligent, mature, and logical character, quite similar to the Bagheera in the books. In the film, it is Bagheera and not the wolves who first finds Mowgli, a young village child. It is Bagheera who brings Mowgli to the care of the wolves and ensures that the baby survives. He is also the one who takes him back to the village, for", "title": "Bagheera" }, { "id": "15146592", "text": "The Jungle Book (TV series) The Jungle Book is a 3D CGI animated television series. This series is based on the original book by Rudyard Kipling. The adventures of Mowgli, a human foundling raised by Akela's wolf pack, and his best friends, fatherly bear Baloo and playful panther Bagheera. They live in the Indian jungle where many dangers lurk, such as the mighty Bengal tiger Shere Khan. The inquisitive Mowgli often gets himself into trouble and can't resist helping animals in danger or solving other problems Tapaas Chakravarti, Chairman & CEO of DQ Entertainment, says: \"The second season of Jungle", "title": "The Jungle Book (TV series)" }, { "id": "15146594", "text": "In 2012, DQ Entertainment announced a 3D feature film based on the animated series which was released in 2013. The film is produced by Tapaas Chakravarti, and directed by Jun Falkenstein and Kevin Johnson. The Jungle Book (TV series) The Jungle Book is a 3D CGI animated television series. This series is based on the original book by Rudyard Kipling. The adventures of Mowgli, a human foundling raised by Akela's wolf pack, and his best friends, fatherly bear Baloo and playful panther Bagheera. They live in the Indian jungle where many dangers lurk, such as the mighty Bengal tiger Shere", "title": "The Jungle Book (TV series)" }, { "id": "3937671", "text": "is forced to refuse. An alternate version of Black Panther, called simply \"Panther\", is drafted onto the interdimensional superhero team the Exiles. The Panther is the son of T'Challa and Storm and named T'Chaka, after his grandfather. Originating from Earth-1119, he was ambushed by Klaw while examining some ruins. Caught in Klaw's blast, the Panther was plucked out of time and placed on the team. Unlike the stoic 616-Black Panther, The Panther is a wisecracking flirt. After his assumed death on Earth-1119, his sister took up the mantle of Black Panther. The Black Panther appears in issues #1 and #6–7", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "6054121", "text": "body, Buldeo arrives. He threatens Mowgli with a gun, but is attacked by Mowgli's friend Bagheera, the black panther. Buldeo becomes convinced that Bagheera is Mowgli himself, shape-shifted into panther form. He tells the villagers that Mowgli is a witch, as is his mother. Mowgli is chained up and threatened with death, but escapes with his mother's help. However, she and another villager who tries to defend her are tied up and themselves threatened with burning for witchcraft. Mowgli is followed by the greedy Buldeo and two friends, a priest and a barber, to the lost city. They find the", "title": "Jungle Book (1942 film)" }, { "id": "3937656", "text": "best warriors of the nation. This Black Panther appeared for the first time in Marvel Legacy #1 (November, 2017). This Black Panther is part of the Avengers in 1,000,000 BC, versions of Ghost Rider, Iron Fist, Phoenix, and Star Brand. Bashenga appeared for the first time in \"Black Panther\" Vol. 1 #7 (January 1978) by Jack Kirby (scripts and drawings). Wise warrior at the head of the Panther Tribe, according to legends, during the tumult where the vibranium meteorite fell on the soil of the village, then composed of various warring clans, he gathered all the aforementioned under his guide", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "1626366", "text": "The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or \"man-cub\" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is \"Seonee\" (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. The theme is echoed", "title": "The Jungle Book" }, { "id": "16091076", "text": "for two years and twenty two issues. Wheelahan's next title for Young's was \"The Panther\", which commenced in May 1957 and ran for 73 issues until June 1963. \"The Panther\", capitalised on the huge popularity of \"The Phantom\" but was based on \"Tarzan\" comics by Burne Hogarth. As a small boy, The Panther was left abandoned in the Congo after his parents had been killed by Mayzak warriors. He was adopted by a band of panthers and as he grew into manhood he was initiated into a native tribe. Because his pale skin hindered him in hunting and stalking he", "title": "Paul Wheelahan" }, { "id": "9346818", "text": "That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song) \"That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)\" is a song in the Walt Disney film \"The Jungle Book\" from 1967. It was sung by a quartet of \"mop top\" vultures who are making friends with Mowgli, the main character of the film. The song was written by Disney staff songwriters, Robert and Richard Sherman, and sung primarily by J. Pat O'Malley, Lord Tim Hudson, Digby Wolfe, and Chad Stuart. Bruce Reitherman and George Sanders both made cameo appearances in the song singing as Mowgli and Shere Khan the tiger, respectively, in", "title": "That's What Friends Are For (The Vulture Song)" }, { "id": "6377306", "text": "Jungle Action Jungle Action is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics and its 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics. The Marvel version contained the first series starring the Black Panther, the first black superhero in mainstream comics, created by the writer/artist team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in \"Fantastic Four\" #52 (July 1966). The first series – published during a time of few superheroes, when comics featured an enormous assortment of genres – was a multi-character omnibus that ran six issues (Oct. 1954 – Aug. 1955). Each starred the blond-haired, Tarzanesque Lo-Zar, Lord of the", "title": "Jungle Action" }, { "id": "3273394", "text": "The Jungle Book (1994 film) Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is a 1994 live-action American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman. It is the second film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from \"The Jungle Book\" and \"The Second Jungle Book\" by Rudyard Kipling. The film stars Jason Scott Lee and Lena Headey, and co-stars Cary Elwes, Sam Neill, John Cleese and Jason Flemyng. In this version, the animals do not speak. Released on December 25, 1994,", "title": "The Jungle Book (1994 film)" }, { "id": "3937621", "text": "Black Panther had been misused in the years after his creation. The last 13 issues (#50–62) saw the main character replaced by a multiracial New York City police officer named Kasper Cole, with T'Challa relegated to a supporting character. This Black Panther, who became the White Tiger, was placed in the series \"The Crew\", running concurrently with the final few \"Black Panther\" issues. \"The Crew\" was canceled with issue #7. In 2005, Marvel began publishing \"Black Panther\" vol. 4, which ran 41 issues (April 2005 – Nov. 2008). It was initially written by filmmaker Reginald Hudlin (through issue #38) and", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "17803026", "text": "Black Panther (film) Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole, and stars Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther, alongside Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis. In \"Black Panther\", T'Challa is crowned king of Wakanda", "title": "Black Panther (film)" }, { "id": "547541", "text": "to Sanskrit (\"snake\", \"tiger\" or \"panther\"), and probably derives from a Mediterranean language, such as Egyptian. The name was first used in the 13th century. Other vernacular names for the leopard include graupanther, panther and several regional names such as \"tendwa\" in India. The term \"black panther\" refers to leopards with melanistic genes. A term for the leopard used in Old English and later, but now very uncommon, is \"pard\". The scientific name of the leopard is \"Panthera pardus\". The generic name \"Panthera\" derives from Latin via Greek πάνθηρ (\"pánthēr\"). The term \"panther\", whose first recorded use dates back to", "title": "Leopard" }, { "id": "3937612", "text": "Freedom Organization (LCFO), nor the segregated World War II Black Panthers Tank Battalion. Stan Lee, co-creator of the comic, denied that the comic, which pre-dates the political usage of the term, was, or could have been, named after any of the political uses of the term \"black panther\", including the LCFO, citing \"a strange coincidence\". He is the first black superhero in American mainstream comic books; very few black heroes were created before him, and none with actual superpowers. These included the characters in the single-issue, low-distribution \"All-Negro Comics\" #1 (1947); Waku, Prince of the Bantu, who starred in his", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "3937628", "text": "Zeraze—the Wakandan secret police—and its leader, his adopted brother Hunter the White Wolf. He sold off small portions of vibranium to scientific institutions around the world, amassing a fortune which he used to arm himself with advanced technology. Later, to keep peace, he picked \"dora milaje\" (\"adored ones\") from rival tribes to serve as his personal guard and ceremonial wives-in-training. He then studied abroad for a time before returning to his kingship. In his first published appearance, the now-adult T'Challa invites the American superhero team the Fantastic Four to Wakanda, then attacks and attempts to neutralize them individually in order", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "3937672", "text": "of Marvel Comics/Fox Kids comic book series based on the TV show \"\". T'Challa appears in \"Marvel Mangaverse\" Volume 2 as a man with a pet panther. When summoning the spirits, T'Challa and his panther combine to become the Black Panther. He also became The Falcon. This Black Panther found himself the object of affection of the Mangaverse version of Tigra. T'Challa's sister, T'Chana, reveals herself to be this universe's Doctor Doom. In the Marvel 2099 continuity, a greatly weakened Wakanda is soon to be governed by its princess, Okusana. Fearing that she is not ready, she requests Doom's help", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "18235699", "text": "use of a shadowy jungle figure in \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979). The cast was announced between March and August 2014, with Idris Elba being announced to voice Shere Khan during early stages and Bill Murray eventually confirmed as the voice of Baloo in August 2014. Between then, Scarlett Johansson, Ben Kingsley, and Christopher Walken were confirmed to play Kaa, Bagheera, and King Louie. Favreau decided to cast Johansson to play Kaa, originally a male character, as he felt the original film was \"a little too male-oriented.\" Favreau and Marks noticed the lack of female characters in the 1967 film version and", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "id": "4347626", "text": "Wakanda Wakanda () is a fictional country located in Sub-Saharan Africa created by Marvel Comics. It is home to the superhero Black Panther. Wakanda first appeared in \"Fantastic Four\" #52 (July 1966), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. There are several theories for the name of Wakanda. The name may be inspired by a Siouan god called Wakanda, Wakonda, or Waconda, or Wakandas, a fictional African tribe from Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel \"The Man-Eater\", written in 1915 but published posthumously in 1957, or the Kenyan tribe Kamba, Akamba or Wakamba, or the word \"kanda\", which means \"family\"", "title": "Wakanda" }, { "id": "3937659", "text": "of Nanali) is called Azzuri the Wise and is presented in a completely different way from Chanda, leaving the doubt if it is only a sort of nickname or another character. T'Chaka appeared for the first time in \"Fantastic Four\" Vol. 1 #53 (August 1966) by Stan Lee (script) and Jack Kirby (art). The eldest son of King Azzuri and Queen Nanali, T'Chaka inherits the throne and the title of the Black Panther on his father's death by being helped in his monarch duties by his younger brother and trusted adviser S'Yan. After having married a woman named N'Yami, believing", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "5920250", "text": "Panther chameleon The panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) is a species of chameleon found in the eastern and northern parts of Madagascar in a tropical forest biome. Additionally, it has been introduced to Réunion and Mauritius. The panther chameleon was first described by French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1829. Its generic name (\"Furcifer\") is derived from the Latin root \"furci\" meaning \"forked\" and refers to the shape of the animal's feet. The specific name \"pardalis\" refers to the animals' markings, as it is Latin for \"leopard\" or \"spotted like a panther\". The English word chameleon (also chamaeleon) derives from Latin \"chamaeleō\",", "title": "Panther chameleon" }, { "id": "18235688", "text": "Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Christopher Walken. Favreau, Marks, and producer Brigham Taylor developed the film's story as a balance between Disney's animated adaptation and Kipling's original works, borrowing elements from both into the film. Principal photography commenced in 2014, with filming taking place entirely in Los Angeles. The film required extensive use of computer-generated imagery to portray the animals and settings. \"The Jungle Book\" was released in North America in Disney Digital 3-D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, D-Box, and premium large formats, on April 15, 2016. It became a critical and commercial", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18235687", "text": "The Jungle Book (2016 film) The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and written by Justin Marks. Based on Rudyard Kipling's eponymous collective works and inspired by Walt Disney's 1967 animated film of the same name, \"The Jungle Book\" is a live-action/CGI film that tells the story of Mowgli, an orphaned human boy who, guided by his animal guardians, sets out on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threatening Shere Khan. The film introduces Neel Sethi as Mowgli and also features the voices of Bill", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18208770", "text": "family, so his girlfriend, Shanti, along with his adopted younger brother, Ranjan, journeys into the jungle to find him. But all is not well there. Mowgli's old foe, the fierce tiger Shere Khan, is out to get revenge on him, being more determined to kill him than ever. \"Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book\" is a 1994 live-action film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, based on the Mowgli stories in \"The Jungle Book\" and \"The Second Jungle Book\" written by Rudyard Kipling. The film stars Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli, Cary Elwes as his adversary Captain Boone, and Lena Headey", "title": "The Jungle Book (franchise)" }, { "id": "7216024", "text": "Sabor nearly kills Tarzan, but is frightened off by the sudden cry of the Zugor. \"Sheeta\", the discarded original Burroughs designation, was later used in \"The Legend of Tarzan\" show as the name for one of two black panthers that attack together (the name of the other was \"Noru\"). Black panthers are actually a color variety of leopards and they do exist in African jungles, although they are rare. Sabor has been mentioned in the series. Despite being a leopard, Sabor was portrayed in a very stylized way, with a body and head with strange angles, very long thin fangs,", "title": "Sabor (Tarzan)" }, { "id": "3937615", "text": "in \"Fantastic Four Annual\" #5 (1967) and with Captain America in \"Tales of Suspense\" #97–100 (Jan.– April 1968), the Black Panther journeyed from the fictional African nation of Wakanda to New York City to join the titular American superhero team in \"The Avengers\" #52 (May 1968), appearing in that comic for the next few years. During his time with the Avengers, he made solo guest-appearances in three issues of \"Daredevil\", and fought Doctor Doom in \"Astonishing Tales\" #6–7 (June & Aug. 1971), in that supervillain's short-lived starring feature. He received his first starring feature with \"Jungle Action\" #5 (July 1973),", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "8172156", "text": "White Tiger (Kasper Cole) Kevin \"Kasper\" Cole is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is the third to use the name White Tiger. He has also adopted the moniker of the Black Panther. The character was created by Christopher Priest and Dan Fraga and introduced in \"Black Panther\" (vol. 3) #50. With sales numbers declining on the third volume of \"Black Panther\", the decision was made to retool the series. The original character - T'Challa T'Chaka, the king of Wakanda - would be replaced with a new character impersonating the Black Panther,", "title": "White Tiger (Kasper Cole)" }, { "id": "3937614", "text": "explaining that renaming himself made as much sense as altering the Scarlet Witch's name, and he is not a stereotype. Co-creator Stan Lee recounted that the name was inspired by a pulp adventure hero who has a black panther as a helper. Jack Kirby's original concept art for Black Panther used the concept name Coal Tiger. Influences on the character included historical figures such as 14th-century Mali Empire sultan Mansa Musa and 20th-century Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey, as well as Biblical figures such as Ham and Canaan. Following his debut in \"Fantastic Four\" #52–53 (July–Aug. 1966) and subsequent guest appearance", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "7360223", "text": "Udaipur was voted the Best City in the World in 2009 by the Travel + Leisure magazine, and is now amongst the favourite wedding destinations for Indian as well as foreign nationals. The city is a blend of sights, sounds and experiences, which have made it one of the top destinations for weddings and celebrations. Udaipur is mentioned under the spelling \"Oodeypore\" in Rudyard Kipling's \"The Jungle Book\" as the birthplace of Bagheera, the fictional panther in the king's Menagerie. Because of its picturesque and scenic locations, Udaipur has been the shooting location for many Hollywood and Bollywood movies. Indian", "title": "Udaipur" }, { "id": "8000290", "text": "Mowgli is a 10-year-old boy has been brought up in the jungle of India by his animal friends: the wolf pack, Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. However, Mowgli also has enemies in the jungle: Shere Khan, the vicious tiger who killed the boy's father; and the Bandar-log, who are hated by nearly all animals of the jungle. After being found by Shere Khan and running away, Mowgli hears a train coming his way on the train tracks. The conductor stops the train when Mowgli is seen by humans. An American circus scout named Harrison, who is traveling through", "title": "The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo" }, { "id": "18216240", "text": "The Panther (wrestler) Black Panther, formerly known as Cachorro, and The Panther is the ring name of a Mexican \"luchador enmascarado\", or masked professional wrestler currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) portraying a \"tecnico\" (\"Good guy\") wrestling character. Cachorro's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans. He is the son of Genaro Vazquez Nevarez, better known as Blue Panther, and the brother of wrestler Blue Panther, Jr.. Cachorro", "title": "The Panther (wrestler)" }, { "id": "18235702", "text": "power, but corrupt them as well as create destruction.\" The film is dedicated to Garry Shandling, who voiced a porcupine in the film and died of a pulmonary embolism before the film's release. The search for casting Mowgli was extensive, with thousands of children auditioning from the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada. Eventually, newcomer Neel Sethi was confirmed for the role, with casting director Rebecca Williams describing him as embodying \"the heart, humor, and daring of the character. He's warm and accessible, yet also has an intelligence well beyond his years and impressed us all with", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "id": "2634769", "text": "even though Baloo defends Mowgli while the protective black panther shelters the boy. No scars are visible on the cartoon Disney drawings of Bagheera to hint at his captive past either. Bagheera is also one of the major characters left out of the \"TaleSpin\" series which used several \"Jungle Book\" characters. However, many of Shere Khan's employees and military personnel are black panthers very similar in appearance to Bagheera. In the prequel cartoon series \"Jungle Cubs\", Bagheera was voiced by Elizabeth Daily and Dee Bradley Baker, and was often made fun of by his friends, especially the bully Shere Khan.", "title": "Bagheera" }, { "id": "3937611", "text": "of Wakanda is also given to T'Challa's sister Shuri for a short time. Black Panther has made numerous appearances in various television shows, animated films and video games. The character is portrayed in live action by Chadwick Boseman in the 2016 film \"\", and the 2018 films \"Black Panther\" and \"\", set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2011, Black Panther was ranked 51st overall on IGN's \"Top 100 Comic Books Heroes\" list. The Black Panther's name predates the October 1966 founding of the Black Panther Party, though not the black panther logo of the party's predecessor, the Lowndes County", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "7202749", "text": "Pink Panther (character) The Pink Panther is a fictional animated character who appeared in the opening and/or closing credit sequences of every film in the \"Pink Panther\" series except for \"A Shot in the Dark\" and \"Inspector Clouseau\". In the storyline of the original film, \"the Pink Panther\" was the name of a valuable pink diamond named for a flaw that showed a \"figure of a springing panther\" when held up to the light in a certain way; in the credits this was translated to an animated pink panther. The character's popularity spawned a spin-off franchise of theatrical shorts, television", "title": "Pink Panther (character)" }, { "id": "13560313", "text": "his imagination. Using his jungle skill and primal intelligence, Tarzan wins the help of Sheeta, the vicious panther, a tribe of great apes led by the moderately intelligent Akut, and a native warrior, Mugambi. With their aid, Tarzan reaches the mainland and begins a lengthy pursuit to find Jane (who is actively engineering her own extrication) and Jack. By the end of the story Rokoff is dead, while Paulvitch, his cohort, is presumed dead but manages to escape into the jungle. The Tarzan family returned to London along with Mugambi, who is offered a place at Tarzan's Waziri estate. The", "title": "Tarzan (book series)" }, { "id": "8900403", "text": "Erik Killmonger Erik Killmonger is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Don McGregor and Rich Buckler, the character first appeared in \"Jungle Action\" vol. 2, #6 (Sept. 1973). Killmonger, whose birth name is N'Jadaka, is an enemy of Black Panther. Michael B. Jordan portrays the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film \"Black Panther\" (2018). Erik Killmonger first appeared in the \"Panther's Rage\" storyline, initially in \"Jungle Action\" vol. 2, #6-8 (Sept. 1973 - Jan. 1974), and was created by writer Don McGregor and penciler Rich Buckler. The character subsequently appeared in", "title": "Erik Killmonger" }, { "id": "3273395", "text": "by Walt Disney Pictures, the film received generally positive reviews and grossed $43.2 million in theaters against a $30 million budget. In 1886, during the British Raj in India, Mowgli is the 5-year-old son of the widowed Nathoo, whose wife died in childbirth. Nathoo works as a tour guide. On one of his tours, he is leading Colonel Geoffrey Brydon and his men as well as Brydon's 5-year-old daughter Katherine. Unfortunately, fellow tour guide Buldeo and a few soldiers kill several animals for sport. This enrages Shere Khan, a tiger who serves as the jungle's keeper and begins to pursue", "title": "The Jungle Book (1994 film)" }, { "id": "4149208", "text": "Kaa's Hunting \"Kaa's Hunting\" is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli. Chronologically the story falls between the first and second halves of Mowgli's Brothers, and is the second story in \"The Jungle Book\" (1894) where it is accompanied by the poem \"Road Song of the Bandar-log\". The seven-year-old \"man-cub\" Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, is being tutored in the Law of the Jungle by Baloo the bear, but \"runs off in a temper\" when Baloo spanks him for inattention. Bagheera the panther, who disapproves of this corporal punishment, persuades Mowgli to return and recite", "title": "Kaa's Hunting" }, { "id": "3937610", "text": "Wakandan technology to combat his enemies. Black Panther is the first superhero of African descent in mainstream American comics, having debuted years before early African American superheroes such as Marvel Comics' the Falcon (1969), Luke Cage (1972) and Blade (1973), or DC Comics' John Stewart in the role of Green Lantern (1971). In one comic book storyline, the Black Panther mantle is handled by Kasper Cole, a multiracial New York City police officer. Beginning as an impersonator, Cole would later take on the moniker of White Tiger and become an ally to T'Challa. The role of Black Panther and leadership", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "7929381", "text": "Coast. Wearing a loin cloth and tribal headband, he is joined by a young war orphan named Bubba, and fights the villainous Doctor Blut Sangro. It wasn't until Waku, Prince of the Bantu in the omnibus \"Jungle Tales\" from Marvel Comics' 1950s predecessor Atlas Comics, that mainstream comic books depicted an African character as a strong, independent hero. Waku was an African chieftain in a feature with no regularly featured Caucasian characters. The first known Black superhero in mainstream American comic books is Marvel's the Black Panther, an African who first appeared in \"Fantastic Four\" #52 (July 1966). This was", "title": "African characters in comics" }, { "id": "3937623", "text": "featured player, with members of the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, in the Doctor Doom-based, six-issue miniseries \"Doomwar\" (April–Sept. 2010). T'Challa then accepted an invitation from Matt Murdock, the superhero Daredevil, to become the new protector of New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. He became the lead character in \"Daredevil\" beginning with issue #513 (Feb. 2011), when that series was retitled \"Black Panther: The Man Without Fear\". Under writer David Liss and artist Francesco Francavilla, he took on the identity of Mr. Okonkwo, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and becomes the owner of a small diner", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "3937630", "text": "then meets the American singer Monica Lynne, with whom he becomes romantically involved. He helps the Avengers defeat the second Sons of the Serpent, and then reveals his true identity on American television. He encounters Daredevil, and reveals to him that he had deduced Daredevil's true identity. After receiving numerous urgent official letters requesting him to return to his increasingly troubled homeland, the Panther eventually leaves his active Avengers membership to return to a Wakanda on the brink of civil war, bringing Lynne with him. After defeating would-be usurper Erik Killmonger and his minions, the Panther ventures to the American", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "17803030", "text": "at the 24th Critics' Choice Awards. A sequel is in development, with Coogler returning to write and direct. A thousand of years ago, five African tribes war over a meteorite containing vibranium. One warrior ingests a \"heart-shaped herb\" affected by the metal and gains superhuman abilities, becoming the first \"Black Panther\". He unites all but the Jabari Tribe to form the nation of Wakanda. Over centuries, the Wakandans use the vibranium to develop advanced technology and isolate themselves from the world by posing as a Third World country. In 1992, Wakanda's King T'Chaka visits his brother N'Jobu, who is working", "title": "Black Panther (film)" }, { "id": "6377315", "text": "third on its list of the \"Top 10 1970s Marvels\". Jungle Action Jungle Action is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics and its 1950s precursor, Atlas Comics. The Marvel version contained the first series starring the Black Panther, the first black superhero in mainstream comics, created by the writer/artist team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in \"Fantastic Four\" #52 (July 1966). The first series – published during a time of few superheroes, when comics featured an enormous assortment of genres – was a multi-character omnibus that ran six issues (Oct. 1954 – Aug.", "title": "Jungle Action" }, { "id": "9491670", "text": "from the skin of a dead giraffe. Soon afterwards, Rulah saves a local tribe from an evil woman; the grateful tribespeople declare her queen. Rulah decides to remain in the jungle as its protector. Rulah is often accompanied by her pet panther Saber. Her boyfriend, Tim Pointer, is introduced in issue #20. Rulah appeared in each issue of \"Zoot Comics\" after issue #7. By issue #17, \"Zoot\" was retitled \"Rulah, Jungle Goddess\". Rulah also appeared in \"All Top Comics\", alongside Dagar, the Desert Hawk, and the Blue Beetle. Rulah's last appearance in her own title was issue #27 (June 1949);", "title": "Rulah, Jungle Goddess" }, { "id": "11851482", "text": "Stone, the superhero Cyborg, best known as a member of the Teen Titans. Created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez, he first appeared in \"DC Comics Presents\" #26 (Oct. 1980). Following Luke Cage, a second black Marvel character headlined his own series: the Black Panther in \"Jungle Action\". This feature began within issue #5 with a reprint of the Panther-centric story in \"The Avengers\" #62 (March 1969). A new, critically acclaimed series followed, written by Don McGregor with art by pencilers Rich Buckler, Gil Kane, and Billy Graham, in #6-24 (Sept. 1973 - Nov. 1976). The earliest black", "title": "Portrayal of black people in comics" }, { "id": "16450348", "text": "the Mail\" (1941), at the U.S. post office in Bloomfield, Indiana (Missing as of 2016). She frequently supplied \"ceramic embellishments\" for her husband's architectural projects. She exhibited the sculpture \"Night\" (now called \"Bagheera\") at the 1939 World's Fair. It illustrates a scene from Rudyard Kipling's \"The Jungle Book\"—the panther Bagheera hunting an owl by night. Placed in the Boston Public Garden in 1986, it is a feature of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. She was part of her husband's design team that won the 1947 national competition to design the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri at the Gateway Arch", "title": "Lilian Swann Saarinen" }, { "id": "3937634", "text": "as the Black Panther in the fourth volume of his eponymous comic book series. He defeated his uncle during the Black Panther celebration, and during his walkabout when he met and fell in love with a street urchin named Ororo in Cairo, Egypt. Unbeknownst to him the US government is planning a coup in order to get access to the vibranium. They allow Klaw to recruit a team of villains in order to support his totalitarian neighbor, Niganda. Klaw recruits Rhino, Black Knight, Batroc the Leaper, and Radioactive Man to lead the invasion. The US government then deploys an army", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "6377310", "text": "assigning McGregor to write original material for \"Jungle Action\", with the only creative restriction being that the stories must be set in Africa. Thus an actual African protagonist, the superhero the Black Panther, took over the starring feature with issue #5, a reprint of the Panther-centric story in the superhero-team comic \"The Avengers\" #62 (March 1969). A new series began running the following issue, written by McGregor, with art by pencilers Rich Buckler, Gil Kane, and Billy Graham, and which gave inkers Klaus Janson and Bob McLeod some of their first professional exposure. Comics historian Les Daniels observed that, \"The", "title": "Jungle Action" }, { "id": "10996025", "text": "Rico and artist Ogden Whitney, succeeded by artist John Romita Sr. Waku, who predated mainstream comics' first black superhero, Marvel's Black Panther, by nearly a dozen years, headlined one of four regular features in each issue. It would take a decade for the first African-American series star, the Western character Lobo, to appear, and nearly two decades before the likes of the Black Panther, Luke Cage, and the Falcon would star in solo series. The other features were \"Jann of the Jungle\", created by writer Rico and penciler Art Peddy; \"Cliff Mason\" a.k.a. \"Cliff Mason, White Hunter\", created by Paul", "title": "Jungle Tales" }, { "id": "18235741", "text": "order for Favreau to instead focus mainly on \"The Lion King\". By January 12, 2018, Marks ended an early draft for the sequel, which he said will \"go further through\" Kipling's material, as well as feature elements of Bill Peet's rejected drafts for the 1967 film. The Jungle Book (2016 film) The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and written by Justin Marks. Based on Rudyard Kipling's eponymous collective works and inspired by Walt Disney's 1967 animated film of the same name, \"The Jungle Book\" is", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18235696", "text": "the aftermath, Raksha becomes the new leader of the wolf pack. Mowgli decides to utilize his equipment and tricks for his own use, having found his true home and calling with his wolf family, Baloo, and Bagheera. Emjay Anthony, Max Favreau, Chloe Hechter, Asher Blinkoff, Knox Gagnon, Sasha Schrieber, and Kai Schrieber voice the Young Wolves. Dee Bradley Baker, Artie Esposito, Sean Johnson, and Allan Trautman provide additional animal voices. On July 9, 2013, Walt Disney Pictures announced that a live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's short story collection \"The Jungle Book\" was in development, with Justin Marks set to write", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "id": "17824291", "text": "Kuppa Gudda Hill, he is attacked immediately from behind by a second panther. The panther comes in through the top of the hide and pins Donald to the floor in a fury, Donald only narrowly escapes a mauling or death by firing his rifle into the ground. Later returning to the site of the first panther kill with some villagers, they discover the dead panther to be a heavily pregnant female, and its fur has been wetted by its distraught mate having spent time by its side licking her. The unhappy mate of the panther soon turns to cattle lifting,", "title": "This is the Jungle" }, { "id": "17824290", "text": "wounding the animal, the tiger turned to man-eating. Anderson, whilst recovering from malaria takes a break from his home and visits the Windy Valley. Using a poorly constructed ground hide he sits over a bait for the man-eater. The tiger arrives, but at the same time as an angry elephant - and as the two animals face off ready to charge, Anderson is left in the middle of the two. The Lonely Panther of Kuppa Gudda Hill Anderon's son, Donald recounts the story of a panther kill that he greatly regrets. After shooting a panther from his hide in the", "title": "This is the Jungle" }, { "id": "19551920", "text": "Filmation's previous series \"Flash Gordon\"), Campbell Lane in the 1990s series, and by Brian Dobson in the 2002 series. In the 1980s live-action movie, Skeletor is portrayed by Frank Langella. Panthor is Skeletor's evil feline companion, a giant purple panther who serves as an evil counterpart to Battle Cat. Beast Man makes his debut in Mattel's very first illustrated books as a follower of Skeletor. As the toyline expanded, he stayed at Skeletor's side. Beast Man is a mandrill-like humanoid with orange and red fur, who can telepathically summon wild creatures of Eternia to aid Skeletor's schemes. He was frequently", "title": "Evil Warriors (Masters of The Universe)" }, { "id": "3937662", "text": "reclaim Wakanda. S'Yan The Fast first appeared in \"Black Panther\" Vol. 4 #2 (May 2005) and was created by Reginald Hudlin and John Romita Jr. The second son of King Azzuri and Queen Nanali, S'Yan is T'Chaka's younger and trusted advisor. Although he has no desire to reign, he agrees to ascend the throne after his brother's death until his nephew T'Challa becomes an adult, and becomes one of the most beloved monarchs in the history of Wakanda. When T'Challa returns home and obtains the title of Black Panther, he gladly returns to being a royal adviser. He dies during", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "14451911", "text": "Panther before he was cast as the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Chadwick Boseman Chadwick Aaron Boseman (born November 29, 1976) is an American actor, director, and producer known for his portrayals of real-life historical figures such as Jackie Robinson in \"42\" (2013), James Brown in \"Get on Up\" (2014) and Thurgood Marshall in \"Marshall\" (2017) and for his portrayal of the superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films \"\" (2016), \"Black Panther\" (2018), \"\" (2018) and the upcoming \"\" (2019). Boseman has also had roles in the television series \"Lincoln Heights\" (2008) and \"Persons Unknown\" (2010)", "title": "Chadwick Boseman" }, { "id": "3937624", "text": "in order to be close to the people. A new \"Black Panther\" series written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and drawn by Brian Stelfreeze was launched in 2016 and continues to be published with Coates as the head writer. In 2017, the afrofuturist writer Nnedi Okorafor wrote the series \"Black Panther: Long Live the King\". The Black Panther is the ceremonial title given to the chief of the Panther Tribe of the advanced African nation of Wakanda. In addition to ruling the country, he is also chief of its various tribes (collectively referred to as the Wakandas). The Panther habit is a", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "18208767", "text": "The Jungle Book (franchise) The Jungle Book is a Disney media franchise that commenced in 1967 with the theatrical release of \"The Jungle Book\". It is based on Rudyard Kipling's works of the same name. The franchise includes a 2003 sequel to the animated film and three live-action films produced by Walt Disney Pictures. \"The Jungle Book\" is a 1967 animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's classic book of the same name, it is the 19th Disney animated feature film. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last film to be produced by", "title": "The Jungle Book (franchise)" }, { "id": "6632058", "text": "black adventurer and others in separate features. Likewise, while Marvel Comics' 1950s predecessor Atlas Comics had included the feature \"Waku, Prince of the Bantu — starring an African chieftain in Africa, with no regularly featured Caucasian characters — as one of four features in the omnibus series \"Jungle Tales\" (Sept. 1954 - Sept. 1955). Aside from Lobo, there would be no black title star of a comic until \"Luke Cage, Hero for Hire\" (June 1972), though black supporting characters such as the Black Panther and the Falcon were introduced in the interim. Tallarico drew the one-shot \"Great Society Comic Book\"", "title": "Tony Tallarico" }, { "id": "3937674", "text": "featured in the Marvel Knights 2099 one shots, which were not tied to the main 2099 continuity. A new Black Panther, K'Shamba, rose to fight and thwart the mounting invasions by the successor of Doom. While the victory over the new Doom appeared triumphant, the new Wakandan king was ultimately revealed to be a puppet of Doom. Black Panther is, for the most part, one of the few uninfected superheroes in the alternate-universe series \"Marvel Zombies\", where he is kept as a food supply for the Zombie Giant-Man, who keeps the Panther imprisoned and cuts off various limbs so that", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "3304437", "text": "the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, first appearing in the 2015 film \"\" and reprising the role in the 2018 film \"Black Panther\". The character first appeared in \"Fantastic Four\" #53 (1966) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Ulysses Klaue is the son of Nazi war criminal Colonel Fritz Klaue of the Blitzkrieg Squad led by Baron Strucker. He was sent by Adolf Hitler to Wakanda to learn their secrets. After World War II, he moved back to Belgium, later anglicized his name to \"Klaw,\" and raised his son with tales of Wakanda. Klaw later becomes", "title": "Klaw (Marvel Comics)" }, { "id": "4347637", "text": "deity of the same name, appears to be an ancient and somewhat forgotten Wakandan deity. In 2016, Wakanda appears in the short film \"Black Panther in ... The Visitor\" released by Disney XD on YouTube channel. Wakanda Wakanda () is a fictional country located in Sub-Saharan Africa created by Marvel Comics. It is home to the superhero Black Panther. Wakanda first appeared in \"Fantastic Four\" #52 (July 1966), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. There are several theories for the name of Wakanda. The name may be inspired by a Siouan god called Wakanda, Wakonda, or Waconda,", "title": "Wakanda" }, { "id": "17565661", "text": "The Panther (poem) The Panther (subtitled: \"In Jardin des Plantes, Paris\") is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke written on 6 November 1902. It describes a captured panther behind bars, as it was exhibited in the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. It is one of Rilke's most famous poems and has been translated into English many times, including by many distinguished translators of Rilke, like Stephen Mitchell, C. F. MacIntyre, J. B. Leishman and Walter Arndt, Jessie Lamont and poets like Robert Bly. It is used in the film \"Awakenings\" (1990) by the protagonist Leonard Lowe as", "title": "The Panther (poem)" }, { "id": "6377312", "text": "maintained passable if modest sales and was popular with the desirable college-student demographic. Two decades later, writer Christopher Priest's 1998 series \"The Black Panther\" utilized Erik Killmonger, Venomm, and other characters introduced in this arc. Critic Jason Sacks has called the arc \"Marvel's first graphic novel\", saying, The second and final arc, \"Panther vs. the Klan\", ran as mostly 17-page stories in \"Jungle Action\" #19–24 (Jan.–Nov. 1976), except for issue #23, a reprint of \"Daredevil\" #69 (Oct. 1970), in which the Black Panther guest-starred. The subject matter of the Ku Klux Klan was considered controversial in the Marvel offices at", "title": "Jungle Action" }, { "id": "7914298", "text": "mentioned as being a rank in the Panther Cult. The name \"Coal Tiger\" was one of several that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were bandying back and forth as a possible name for the character who in mainstream continuity in the Marvel Universe became Black Panther. While the character has never appeared, in \"Ultimate Avengers 2\" the powers of the Coal Tiger seemed to be part of the Panther line. Both King T'Chaka and T'Challa transform into cat creatures during their fights with Kleiser. Coal Tiger Coal Tiger (Prince T'Chaka II) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books", "title": "Coal Tiger" }, { "id": "3679737", "text": "no superpowers, and was assisted by Chuck Marley, the son of a slain policeman. The Fox Black Fury character appeared in eight issues of \"Fantastic Comics.\" The third Black Fury appeared in \"Super-Magic Comics\" #1 (May 1941), published by Street & Smith Publications. There were no writing or artists credited. Black Fury was the secret identity of Rex King, a costumed adventurer who could glide through the air, using the wing-like underarm flaps of his costume. He defended the jungles of Africa with the help of his pet black panther, Kato. The fourth Black Fury was created by Matt Baker,", "title": "Black Fury (comics)" }, { "id": "17803043", "text": "from Black Panther's home nation Wakanda, was introduced in the Marvel Cinematic Universe; Marvel had considered showing Wakanda itself as early as \"Iron Man 2\" (2010), but were waiting until they had \"a full idea\" of how to depict it. In October 2014, Feige announced that \"Black Panther\" would be released on November 3, 2017, with Chadwick Boseman cast as T'Challa / Black Panther. Boseman did not audition for the role, instead discussing what he wanted to do with the part with Marvel, and earned $2 million for appearing in the film. The actor was set to first portray the", "title": "Black Panther (film)" }, { "id": "17803049", "text": "Nate Moore, serving as a producer on the film by the end of May, stated that filming would occur in Atlanta, Georgia, with Marvel \"definitely investigating shooting in Africa\" as well. At San Diego Comic-Con 2016, Nyong'o was confirmed for the film, in the role of Nakia, while Jordan's role was revealed to be Erik Killmonger. Also announced was Danai Gurira as Okoye. Coogler confirmed that filming would begin in January 2017. Additional casting occurred from September 2016 until the start of filming, with Winston Duke cast as M'Baku, a role that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II had also tested for; Forest", "title": "Black Panther (film)" }, { "id": "6377308", "text": "old-fashioned\", was drawn by Joe Maneely, John Forte, Al Hartley, and Paul Hodge, respectively. Two brethren titles were published by Atlas. The seven-issue \"Jungle Tales\" (Sept. 1954 – Sept. 1955) introduced Marvel's first African hero – Waku, Prince of the Bantu, who predated the Black Panther by nearly a dozen years. It was renamed and continued as \"Jann of the Jungle\" from #8–17 (Nov. 1955 – June 1957). The second title, \"Lorna, the Jungle Queen\", renamed \"Lorna, the Jungle Girl\" with issue #6, ran 26 issues (July 1953 – August 1957). The company's second series of this name premiered with", "title": "Jungle Action" }, { "id": "3937617", "text": "and final arc, \"Panther vs. the Klan\", ran as mostly 17-page stories in \"Jungle Action\" #19–24 (Jan.–Nov. 1976), except for issue #23, a reprint of \"Daredevil\" #69 (Oct. 1970), in which the Black Panther guest-starred. The subject matter of the Ku Klux Klan was considered controversial in the Marvel offices at the time, creating difficulties for the creative team. African-American writer-editor Dwayne McDuffie said of the \"Jungle Action\" \"Black Panther\" feature: Though popular with college students, the overall sales of \"Jungle Action\" were low, and Marvel relaunched the Black Panther in a self-titled series, bringing in the character's co-creator Jack", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "3273409", "text": "Louie's crown and the player must recover it to prevent the jungle from losing its magic. The player is aided by a Scotsman named Ilgwom (\"Mowgli\" spelled backwards) and his chimpanzee, Lahtee, while also guided by a spirit made from Mowgli's memories. The Jungle Book (1994 film) Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is a 1994 live-action American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Edward S. Feldman and Raju Patel, from a story by Ronald Yanover and Mark Geldman. It is the second film adaptation by The Walt Disney Company of the Mowgli stories from \"The Jungle", "title": "The Jungle Book (1994 film)" }, { "id": "3937657", "text": "to defeating the inhabitants transformed by the impact into fierce \"demonic spirits\", a company which has unified the nation by founding Wakanda and becoming its first ruler and the first to obtain the title of \"Black Panther\" as it tells of his \"spiritual connection\" with the Goddess Pantera Bast that led to the foundation of the Cult of the Panther. Chanda appeared for the first time in \"Fantastic Four Unlimited\" Vol. 1 #1 (March 1993) by Roy Thomas (scripts) and Herb Trimpe (drawings). Black Panther and ruler of Wakanda during the Second World War, Chanda is the husband of Nanali", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "20203652", "text": "The Panther (Sam Brushell) The Panther was a Mohegan Indian who lived in the Town of Richfield in Otsego County, New York in the beginning to mid 1800s. He was the son of an Indian named Captain John. After his father's death he moved back to the Connecticut Valley where he and his father had moved from. He remained there a few years and then returned to the grave of his father, and build a Wigwam on the Chamberlin Farm in the Town of Richfield. The Panther was a peaceful Indian who would frequently give bows and arrows to children.", "title": "The Panther (Sam Brushell)" }, { "id": "18216252", "text": "Bobby Fish. During a match on Arena Mexico's Tuesday show, the announcer kept calling The Panther \"Black Panther\", the first ring name of his brother. The Panther (wrestler) Black Panther, formerly known as Cachorro, and The Panther is the ring name of a Mexican \"luchador enmascarado\", or masked professional wrestler currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) portraying a \"tecnico\" (\"Good guy\") wrestling character. Cachorro's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from", "title": "The Panther (wrestler)" }, { "id": "3582594", "text": "and the Black Panther (Marvel). Bronze Tiger appeared in Year Five of the comic based on the video game of the same name. He is seen with Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Black Mask, Scarecrow, Man-Bat, and Mad Hatter who gang up on Damian Wayne and uses his skills to knock him out. Deadman then possesses Bronze Tiger to knock out the rest of the criminals as well as himself. Bronze Tiger Bronze Tiger (Ben Turner) is a fictional character, a supervillain and antihero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Michael Jai White portrays Bronze Tiger in the second", "title": "Bronze Tiger" }, { "id": "3937620", "text": "Erik Killmonger, Venomm, and other characters introduced in \"Panther's Rage\", together with new characters such as State Department attorney Everett Ross; the Black Panther's adopted brother, Hunter; and the Panther's protégé, Queen Divine Justice. The Priest-Texeira series was under the Marvel Knights imprint in its first year. Priest said the creation of character Ross contributed heavily to his decision to write the series. \"I realized I could use Ross to bridge the gap between the African culture that the Black Panther mythos is steeped in and the predominantly white readership that Marvel sells to,\" adding that in his opinion, the", "title": "Black Panther (comics)" }, { "id": "3185662", "text": "the King of Thieves\". In December 2010, a piece of artwork by British artist Banksy featuring \"The Jungle Book\" characters which had been commissioned by Greenpeace to help raise awareness of deforestation went on sale for the sum of £80,000. The Jungle Book (1967 film) The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical comedy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name, it is the 19th Disney animated feature film. Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, it was the last film to be produced by Walt Disney, who died during its production. The", "title": "The Jungle Book (1967 film)" }, { "id": "7248676", "text": "Jackie Gleason Show\", with a collection of some of those songs, which reached number one on \"Billboard\" magazine's Top LP's chart in 1963. Actor Lennie Weinrib imitated the \"Crazy Guggenheim\" character on \"The Dick Van Dyke Show\" episode \"The Sam Pomerantz Scandals\". He also was the voice of Rocky the Rhino in Walt Disney's \"The Jungle Book\" until Disney cut the creature from the picture. Fontaine was a lifelong non-drinker in his private life. Stan Freberg's voice characterization for Pete Puma, a would-be nemesis for Bugs Bunny in the 1952 cartoon short \"Rabbit's Kin\", was based on Fontaine's character voice,", "title": "Frank Fontaine" }, { "id": "7241198", "text": "dinner at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Aside from characters featured in the single-issue, small-press niche publication \"All-Negro Comics\" in 1947, the first mainstream comic book feature with a black star, albeit not African-American, was \"Waku, Prince of the Bantu\", an African tribal chief feature from Marvel Comics' 1950s predecessor Atlas Comics. This was one of four regular features in each issue of the omnibus title \"Jungle Tales\" (Sept. 1954 - Sept. 1955). Marvel introduced the first black superhero, the Black Panther, also an African, as a supporting character in a 1966 issue of \"Fantastic Four\". Comic books'", "title": "Lobo (Dell Comics)" }, { "id": "2794524", "text": "Shere Khan Shere Khan (; ) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's \"Jungle Book\" and its adaptations. According to The Kipling Society, the word \"Shere\" (or \"\"shir\"\") translates as \"tiger\" and \"Khan\" is a title of distinction, used together \"to show that he is chief among tigers.\" Other sources indicate \"Shere\" may mean \"tiger\" or \"lion\" in Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi, and that \"Khan\" translates as \"king\", or \"leader\", in a number of languages influenced by the Mongols, including Pashto and Urdu. Shere Khan was depicted by Kipling as being born with a crippled", "title": "Shere Khan" }, { "id": "2394424", "text": "Raksha (The Jungle Book) Raksha ( / \"Rakšā\" or Mother Wolf as initially named) is a fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories, collected in \"The Jungle Book\" and \"The Second Jungle Book\". She is a female Indian wolf, member of the Seeonee pack, who while suckling her own cubs decides also to adopt a human \"cub\" that her mate Father Wolf has found wandering in the jungle, naming him \"Mowgli\" (which means \"frog\" in the Speech of the Jungle) because of his hairlessness. Defying the tiger Shere Khan, who is determined to eat the man-cub, she reveals that", "title": "Raksha (The Jungle Book)" }, { "id": "14451904", "text": "Chadwick Boseman Chadwick Aaron Boseman (born November 29, 1976) is an American actor, director, and producer known for his portrayals of real-life historical figures such as Jackie Robinson in \"42\" (2013), James Brown in \"Get on Up\" (2014) and Thurgood Marshall in \"Marshall\" (2017) and for his portrayal of the superhero Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films \"\" (2016), \"Black Panther\" (2018), \"\" (2018) and the upcoming \"\" (2019). Boseman has also had roles in the television series \"Lincoln Heights\" (2008) and \"Persons Unknown\" (2010) and the films \"The Express\" (2008), \"Draft Day\" (2014) and \"Message from the", "title": "Chadwick Boseman" } ]

[ "Rev. Philip Rahming" ]

[ { "id": "2608988", "text": "is found at the bottom. The flamingo is located upon land, and the marlin upon sea, indicating the geography of the islands. The vibrant tinctures of the coat of arms are also intended to point to a bright future for the islands. They are also reputed to have been maintained for their attractiveness to tourists. The Coat of Arms was approved by Queen Elizabeth II on 7 December 1971. It was designed by Bahamian artist and clergyman, Dr. Hervis L. Bain, Jr., who is also a member of the Order of the British Empire. In addition to the National Coat", "title": "Coat of arms of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "699935", "text": "Pledge of Allegiance The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States of America. It was originally composed by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army Officer during the Civil War and later a teacher of patriotism in New York City schools. The form of the pledge used today was largely devised by Francis Bellamy in 1892, and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942. The official name of \"The Pledge of Allegiance\" was adopted in 1945. The most recent", "title": "Pledge of Allegiance" }, { "id": "699937", "text": "flag pledges of allegiance are required to be recited after this. The United States Flag Code says: The Pledge of Allegiance, as it exists in its current form, was composed in August 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855–1931), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850–1898). There did exist a previous version created by Captain George T. Balch, a veteran of the Civil War, who later became auditor of the New York Board of Education. Balch's pledge, which existed contemporaneously with the Bellamy version until the 1923 National Flag Conference, read:", "title": "Pledge of Allegiance" }, { "id": "39379", "text": "the Caribbean, the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. According to 1995 estimates, 98.2% of the Bahamian adult population is literate. The Bahamas The Bahamas (), known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago. The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the United States state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "699974", "text": "'so help me God' from every presidential oath since 1789, or than the prayer that has opened every congressional session of legislative business since 1787.” Pledge of Allegiance The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States of America. It was originally composed by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army Officer during the Civil War and later a teacher of patriotism in New York City schools. The form of the pledge used today was largely devised by Francis Bellamy in 1892,", "title": "Pledge of Allegiance" }, { "id": "501765", "text": "History of the Bahamas The earliest arrival of humans in the islands now known as The Bahamas was in the first millennium AD. The first inhabitants of the islands were the Lucayans, an Arawakan-speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 AD from other islands of the Caribbean. Their ancestors came from mainland South America, where Arawakan-language peoples were present in most territories, and especially along the northeastern coast. Recorded history began on 12 October 1492, when Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Guanahani, which he renamed San Salvador Island on his first voyage to the New", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "11692778", "text": "Department of State, the International Communication Agency, and the United States House of Representatives. Dobriansky briefly worked in an official capacity in Chile (1975–1976). On October 25, 1982, Dobriansky was nominated by President Ronald Reagan as Ambassador to the Bahamas, succeed the previous ambassador, William B. Schwartz. Dobriansky remained on this post until August 30, 1986. Dobriansky wrote the Captive Nations Week Resolution, which was adopted by the United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in July 1959. As a result of his activism, this resolution has been proclaimed every year by each successive president.", "title": "Lev Dobriansky" }, { "id": "39319", "text": "The Bahamas The Bahamas (), known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago. The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the United States state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The designation of \"the Bahamas\" can refer either to the country or to the larger island chain that it shares", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "2500742", "text": "within its colonial empire in 1717. Under colonial rule, the Bahama Islands used the British Blue Ensign and defaced it with the emblem of the territory. This was inspired by the ousting of the pirates, and consisted of a scene depicting a British ship chasing two pirate ships out at the high seas encircled by the motto \"\"Expulsis piratis restituta commercia\"\" (\"Pirates expelled, commerce restored\"). The emblem was designed in around 1850, but did not receive official approval until 1964. The Bahama Islands were granted internal autonomy in 1964. After the 1972 elections, the territory started negotiations on independence. A", "title": "Flag of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "2500741", "text": "Flag of the Bahamas The national flag of the Bahamas consists of a black triangle situated at the hoist with three horizontal bands: aquamarine, gold and aquamarine. Adopted in 1973 to replace the British Blue Ensign defaced with the emblem of the Crown Colony of the Bahama Islands, it has been the flag of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas since the country gained independence that year. The design of the present flag incorporated the elements of various submissions made in a national contest for a new flag prior to independence. The Bahamas became a crown colony of the United Kingdom", "title": "Flag of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "1581493", "text": "trod lead unto your God, March on, Bahamaland!</poem> March On, Bahamaland \"March On, Bahamaland\" is the national anthem of the Bahamas. It was composed by Timothy Gibson as part of a national competition and was adopted in July 1973. <poem> Lift up your head to the rising sun, Bahamaland; March on to glory, your bright banners waving high. See how the world marks the manner of your bearing! Pledge to excel through love and unity. Pressing onward, march together to a common loftier goal; Steady sunward, tho' the weather hide the wide and treachrous shoal. Lift up your head to", "title": "March On, Bahamaland" }, { "id": "39339", "text": "1968. The British House of Lords voted to give the Bahamas its independence on 22 June 1973. Prince Charles delivered the official documents to Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, officially declaring the Bahamas a fully independent nation on 10 July 1973. It joined the Commonwealth of Nations on the same day. Sir Milo Butler was appointed the first Governor-General of the Bahamas (the official representative of Queen Elizabeth II) shortly after independence. The Bahamas joined the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on 22 August 1973, and it joined the United Nations on 18 September 1973. Based on the twin", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "1581492", "text": "March On, Bahamaland \"March On, Bahamaland\" is the national anthem of the Bahamas. It was composed by Timothy Gibson as part of a national competition and was adopted in July 1973. <poem> Lift up your head to the rising sun, Bahamaland; March on to glory, your bright banners waving high. See how the world marks the manner of your bearing! Pledge to excel through love and unity. Pressing onward, march together to a common loftier goal; Steady sunward, tho' the weather hide the wide and treachrous shoal. Lift up your head to the rising sun, Bahamaland, 'Til the road you've", "title": "March On, Bahamaland" }, { "id": "39328", "text": "the command of Commodore Esek Hopkins. US Marines occupied the capital of Nassau for a fortnight. In 1782, following the British defeat at Yorktown, a Spanish fleet appeared off the coast of Nassau. The city surrendered without a fight. Spain returned possession of the Bahamas to Great Britain the following year, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris. Before the news was received, however, the islands were recaptured by a small British force led by Andrew Deveaux. After US independence, the British resettled some 7,300 Loyalists with their slaves in the Bahamas, including two thousand from New York and", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "18638300", "text": "Music Prize. All songs written by Afie Jurvanen. Bahamas Is Afie Bahamas Is Afie is the third album from Canadian musician Bahamas, released August 19, 2014 on Brushfire Records. The album features guest contributions by Don Kerr, Jason Tait and Felicity Williams. The album won the Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015, and Afie Jurvanen won Songwriter of the Year for \"All the Time\", \"Bitter Memories\" and \"Stronger Than That\". CBC Radio One's arts and culture magazine show \"Q\" also named the album as the best album of 2014. The album", "title": "Bahamas Is Afie" }, { "id": "39326", "text": "Puritans established the first permanent European settlement on an island which they named Eleuthera—the name derives from the Greek word for freedom. They later settled New Providence, naming it Sayle's Island after one of their leaders. To survive, the settlers salvaged goods from wrecks. In 1670, King Charles II granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas in North America. They rented the islands from the king with rights of trading, tax, appointing governors, and administering the country. In 1684 Spanish corsair Juan de Alcon raided the capital, Charles Town (later renamed Nassau). In 1703, a joint Franco-Spanish", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "2500743", "text": "search for a national flag began soon after, with a contest being held to determine the new design. Instead of choosing a single winning design, it was decided that the new flag was to be an amalgamation of the elements from various submissions. It was first hoisted at midnight on 10 July 1973, the day the Bahamas became an independent country. The new country also changed its name from the Bahama Islands to the Bahamas upon independence. The colours of the flag carry cultural, political, and regional meanings. The gold alludes the shining sun– as well as other key land-based", "title": "Flag of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "699961", "text": "Rabaut whose House Resolution 243 to add the phrase \"under God\" was signed into law on Flag Day, June 14, 1954. The composer, Irving Caesar, wrote and published over 700 songs in his lifetime. Dedicated to social issues, he donated all rights of the musical setting to the U.S. government, so that anyone can perform the piece without owing royalties. It was sung for the first time on the floor of the House of Representatives on Flag Day, June 14, 1955 by the official Air Force choral group the \"Singing Sergeants\". A July 29, 1955 House and Senate resolution authorized", "title": "Pledge of Allegiance" }, { "id": "880792", "text": "and belonged to the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. As a young man, he became a Baptist minister and, influenced by the vestiges of the Second Great Awakening, began to travel to promote his faith and help his community. Bellamy's travels brought him to Massachusetts, where he penned the \"Pledge of Allegiance\" for a campaign by the \"Youth's Companion\", a patriotic circular. Bellamy \"believed in the absolute separation of church and state\" and did not include the phrase \"under God\" in his pledge. Bellamy married Harriet Benton in Newark, New York, in 1881. They had three sons: John, who lived in", "title": "Francis Bellamy" }, { "id": "18638299", "text": "Bahamas Is Afie Bahamas Is Afie is the third album from Canadian musician Bahamas, released August 19, 2014 on Brushfire Records. The album features guest contributions by Don Kerr, Jason Tait and Felicity Williams. The album won the Juno Award for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2015, and Afie Jurvanen won Songwriter of the Year for \"All the Time\", \"Bitter Memories\" and \"Stronger Than That\". CBC Radio One's arts and culture magazine show \"Q\" also named the album as the best album of 2014. The album was a longlisted nominee for the 2015 Polaris", "title": "Bahamas Is Afie" }, { "id": "501790", "text": "Thirteen Colonies in North America. He also reported that over 2300 sumptuous houses were built and in 1768 Governor William Shirley filled in Mosquito breeding swamps and extended Nassau. During the American War of Independence the Bahamas fell to Spanish forces under General Galvez in 1782. A British-American Loyalist expedition led by Colonel Andrew Deveaux, recaptured the islands in 1783. After the American Revolution, the British issued land grants to American Loyalists who went into exile. The sparse population of the Bahamas tripled within a few years. The Loyalists developed cotton as a commodity crop, but it dwindled from insect", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "39336", "text": "\"tried to make the best of a bad situation\". He did not enjoy the position, and referred to the islands as \"a third-class British colony\". He opened the small local parliament on 29 October 1940. The couple visited the \"Out Islands\" that November, on Axel Wenner-Gren's yacht, which caused controversy; the British Foreign Office strenuously objected because they had been advised (mistakenly) by United States intelligence that Wenner-Gren was a close friend of the Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring of Nazi Germany. The Duke was praised at the time for his efforts to combat poverty on the islands. A 1991 biography", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "699950", "text": "not confuse loyalties between their birth countries and the US. The words \"of America\" were added a year later. Congress officially recognized the Pledge for the first time, in the following form, on June 22, 1942: Louis Albert Bowman, an attorney from Illinois, was the first to suggest the addition of \"under God\" to the pledge. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave him an Award of Merit as the originator of this idea. He spent his adult life in the Chicago area and was chaplain of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American", "title": "Pledge of Allegiance" }, { "id": "39357", "text": "the strength of the Bahamian people; its design reflects aspects of the natural environment (sun and sea) and economic and social development. The flag is a black equilateral triangle against the mast, superimposed on a horizontal background made up of three equal stripes of aquamarine, gold and aquamarine. The coat of arms of the Bahamas contains a shield with the national symbols as its focal point. The shield is supported by a marlin and a flamingo, which are the national animals of the Bahamas. The flamingo is located on the land, and the marlin on the sea, indicating the geography", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "39320", "text": "with the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas territory as encompassing of ocean space. The Bahamas is the site of Columbus's first landfall in the New World in 1492. At that time, the islands were inhabited by the Lucayan, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people. Although the Spanish never colonised The Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera. The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "4172925", "text": "following year, Jody Stecher and Peter Siegel made the trip to record Spence, recording tracks also featuring Edith and Raymond Pinder and their daughter Geneva, which were released on \"The Real Bahamas Volume One\". These tracks included Spence's arrangement of \"I Bid You Goodnight\", which was covered by The Grateful Dead and Ralph McTell, among others. The album was a success, and as a result Spence toured the United States. A second volume was released in 1978. Mike Heron, of the Incredible String Band, credited Spence as the inspiration for the \"Lay down, dear sister\" passage in \"A Very Cellular", "title": "Joseph Spence (musician)" }, { "id": "39371", "text": "traditional crop or food of that area, such as the \"Pineapple Fest\" in Gregory Town, Eleuthera or the \"Crab Fest\" on Andros. Other significant traditions include story telling. Bahamians have created a rich literature of poetry, short stories, plays and short fictional works. Common themes in these works are (1) an awareness of change, (2) a striving for sophistication, (3) a search for identity, (4) nostalgia for the old ways and (5) an appreciation of beauty. Some contributing writers are Susan Wallace, Percival Miller, Robert Johnson, Raymond Brown, O.M. Smith, William Johnson, Eddie Minnis and Winston Saunders. Bahamas culture is", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "13113451", "text": "held until 1978. He had to be sworn in before the Bahamian Independence Day (10 July 1973) because it was his duty to swear in the first prime minister. He was made CBE in 1963, and Knight Bachelor in the 1974 Birthday Honours. After his retirement, he moved to the United States to live with his son in Macon, Georgia. He died on 23 September 1999 and is buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Macon. Leonard Knowles Sir Leonard Joseph Knowles, CBE (15 March 1916 – 23 September 1999) was the first Chief Justice of the Bahamas of an independent", "title": "Leonard Knowles" }, { "id": "14434060", "text": "Year – Solo. Jurvanen released his second album, \"Barchords\" on February 7, 2012. The album received nomination at the 2013 Juno Awards for the Adult Alternative Album of the Year. Jurvanen received a nomination for Songwriter of the Year for the tracks \"Be My Witness\", \"Caught Me Thinking\", and \"Lost in the Light\". Jurvanen released his third album, \"Bahamas Is Afie\" on August 19, 2014. The album received first place on \"Q\"'s Top 20 Albums of 2014. \"Bahamas Is Afie\" received a nomination for Adult Alternative Album of the Year At the Juno Awards of 2015, and Jurvanen received nomination", "title": "Bahamas (musician)" }, { "id": "880791", "text": "Francis Bellamy Francis Julius Bellamy (May 18, 1855 – August 28, 1931) was a Christian socialist minister and author, best known for writing the original version of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance. Francis Julius Bellamy was born in Mount Morris, New York. His family was deeply involved in the Baptist church and they moved to Rome, New York, when Bellamy was only 5. Here, Bellamy became an active member of the First Baptist Church; which his father was minister of until his death in 1864. He attended college at the University of Rochester, in Rochester, New York, and studied theology", "title": "Francis Bellamy" }, { "id": "17419637", "text": "expedition led by University of Iowa zoology professor Charles Cleveland Nutting on the schooner \"Emily E. Johnson\". The 83-day expedition to the Bahamas stopped at Egg Island, Havana, Bird Key, the Dry Tortugas, and Spanish Wells. It gathered 15,000 specimens, providing material for decades of exhibitions and research. In October 1896, he married Mary Caroline Nash of Iowa, nine years younger than him, whom he met working in Chicago. Sabin began writing poetry and short stories for popular publications, including \"The Chautauquan\", \"St. Nicholas\", \"Country Life\", \"Everybody's Magazine\", \"McBride's Magazine\",\" The Saturday Evening Post\", \"Outing Magazine\", \"Outdoor Recreation\", \"The Sewanee", "title": "Edwin L. Sabin" }, { "id": "501780", "text": "England and Virginia came there to exchange needed supplies for pirate plunder. As mentioned above, the activities of pirates provoked frequent and brutal retaliatory attacks by the French and Spanish. Starting in 1713, Woodes Rogers had conceived the idea of leading an expedition to Madagascar to suppress the pirates there and establish it as a British colony. Rogers' friends Richard Steele and Joseph Addison eventually convinced him to tackle the pirates nest in the Bahamas, instead. Rogers and others formed a company to fund the venture. They persuaded the Proprietors of Carolina to surrender the government of the Bahamas to", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "39329", "text": "at least 1,033 whites, 2,214 blacks and a few Creeks from East Florida. Most of the refugees resettled from New York had fled from other colonies, including West Florida, which the Spanish captured during the war. The government granted land to the planters to help compensate for losses on the continent. These Loyalists, who included Deveaux, established plantations on several islands and became a political force in the capital. European Americans were outnumbered by the African-American slaves they brought with them, and ethnic Europeans remained a minority in the territory. In 1807, the British abolished the slave trade, followed by", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "16807845", "text": "Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy (3 February 1903 – 28 October 1970), count, U.S. Army Colonel. President F. D. Roosevelt's envoy in Tibet. He was one of the founders of Marineland of Florida, of the Bahamas National Trust, and he served on the Caribbean Conservation Commission. He was a grandson of count Lev Tolstoy. Count Ilya Tolstoy was born in 1903 at Toptivovo, Tula, Russia. His father was Count Andrey Lvovich Tolstoy, son of writer Lev Tolstoy, and his mother was Olga Diterichs, daughter of General of the Infantry Konstantin Diterichs (and sister of General Mikhail Diterikhs). Tolstoy attended", "title": "Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy" }, { "id": "20428943", "text": "Mary Ingraham Mary \"May\" Ingraham (July 30, 1901 – 1982), a Bahamian suffragist, was the founder and president of the Bahamas Women's Suffrage Movement. In 2012 a series of postage stamps were issued to honor the women of the suffrage movement on fiftieth anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Ingraham appeared on the 15 cent stamp. Mary Ingraham was born on 30 July 1901 in New Providence. She was married to Rufus Ingraham. Along with Georgianna Symonette, Eugenia Lockhart and Mabel Walker, Ingraham founded the Women's Suffrage Movement. In 1961, women gained the right to vote and serve", "title": "Mary Ingraham" }, { "id": "39341", "text": "were 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 rocks in the colony. The closest island to the United States is Bimini, which is also known as the gateway to the Bahamas. The island of Abaco is to the east of Grand Bahama. The southeasternmost island is Inagua. The largest island is Andros Island. Other inhabited islands include Eleuthera, Cat Island, Rum Cay, Long Island, San Salvador Island, Ragged Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, Exuma, Berry Islands and Mayaguana. Nassau, capital city of the Bahamas, lies on the island of New Providence. All the islands are low and flat, with ridges that usually", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "10062", "text": "true and faithful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb and terrene honour, and not to know or hear of any ill or damage intended him without defending him therefrom.\" This was thought to favour the doctrine of absolute non-resistance, and accordingly, the Convention Parliament enacted the form that has been in use since that time – \"I do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty ...\" In the United States and some other republics, the oath is known as the Pledge", "title": "Allegiance" }, { "id": "12861759", "text": "Nicole Avant Nicole A. Avant (born 1968) was United States Ambassador to the Bahamas from 2009–2011. Avant was appointed United States Ambassador to the Bahamas by President Barack Obama on June 16, 2009, and was sworn in on September 9, 2009 and served until November 22, 2011. At the invitation of Ambassador Avant, leading education reform activist and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, addressed Bahamian education officials at her residence. She has also worked closely with local advocacy groups for people with disabilities. Ambassador Avant hosted Eunice and Francesca Shriver, granddaughters of Special Olympic founder Eunice Kennedy", "title": "Nicole Avant" }, { "id": "1859278", "text": "the issuance of paper money in 1968, issuing the same denominations. The Central Bank of The Bahamas was established on 1 June 1974 and took over note issuance from that point forward. Its first issue of notes did not include the ½ and 3 dollar denominations but these were reintroduced in 1984. The dollar has undergone several revisions in the last twenty years, one of the more notable being an extremely colourful redesign in celebration of the quincentennial of the landing of Christopher Columbus on a Bahamian island he named San Salvador. All banknotes other than the fifty cent note", "title": "Bahamian dollar" }, { "id": "20211563", "text": "God Bless Our Sunny Clime \"God Bless our Sunny Clime\" is the National song of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Its music was composed by Timothy Gibson and E. Clement Bethel and lyrics by Rev. Philip Rahming. God bless our sunny clime, spur us to height sublime. To keep men free, let brothers, sisters stand firm, trusting hand in hand, throughout Bahamaland one brotherhood, one brotherhood. Let gratefulness ascend, courageous deeds extend from isle to isle. Long let us treasure peace, so may our lives increase, our prayers never cease. Let freedom ring! Let freedom ring! The long, long night", "title": "God Bless Our Sunny Clime" }, { "id": "14516379", "text": "Arthur Louis Schechter Arthur Louis Schechter (born December 6, 1939 Rosenberg, Texas) is an American attorney, philanthropist, diplomat, socialite and Senior Partner at Schechter, McElwee, Shaffer, and Harris based in Houston, Texas. Schechter previously served as the United States Ambassador to the Bahamas. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and was appointed by President Bill Clinton on October 29, 1998. On return, Schechter chaired the Harris County Metropolitan Transit Authority and has been instrumental in pioneering a light rail for the residents of Houston. Schechter has served on boards of philanthropic organizations, including Career and Recovery Resources. SEARCH Homeless", "title": "Arthur Louis Schechter" }, { "id": "6581203", "text": "reach a compromise with the London Government which kept the Parliamentary forces out, and preserved the status quo within the colony. William Sayle established the first English settlement of the Bahamas between 1646–48 on the island of Eleuthera, establishing England's claim to the Bahamas archipelago. He left Bermuda with seventy settlers, mostly Bermudians and some English, who were looking for a place where they could worship God freely. To this end they settled on the Island of Segatoo which they gave the name \"Eleuthera\", from the Greek word meaning \"freedom\". This settlement was planned and authorised from England, and did", "title": "William Sayle" }, { "id": "3278494", "text": "Hubert Ingraham Hubert Alexander Ingraham (born 4 August 1947) is a Bahamian politician who was Prime Minister of the Bahamas from August 1992 to May 2002 and again from May 2007 to May 2012. He is a member of the Free National Movement Party (FNM). Prior to the 2012 election, he was the FNM's Party Leader and was the Member of Parliament for the North Abaco constituency. He served as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Assembly from 2005 to 2007. In the historic election of August 1992, in which the FNM unseated the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP),", "title": "Hubert Ingraham" }, { "id": "7210029", "text": "the Qur'an. The tradition was continued by the caliphs. In subsequent ages, it was associated with Sufi orders, and spiritual masters would initiate their followers. The practice still exists in Sufi orders around the world. Bay'ah Bayʿah (, Pledge of allegiance\"), in Islamic terminology, is an oath of allegiance to a leader. It is known to have been practiced by the Islamic prophet Muhammad. \"Bayʿah\" is sometimes taken under a written pact given on behalf of the subjects by leading members of the tribe with the understanding that as long as the leader abides by certain requirements towards his people,", "title": "Bay'ah" }, { "id": "501776", "text": "the Spanish raided the Bahamas, the Bahamians in turn commissioned privateers against Spain, even though England and Spain were at peace. In 1684 the Spanish burned the settlements on New Providence and Eleuthera, after which they were largely abandoned. New Providence was settled a second time in 1686 by colonists from Jamaica. In the 1690s English privateers (England was then at war with France) made a base in the Bahamas. In 1696 Henry Every (or Avery), using the assumed name Henry Bridgeman, brought his ship \"Fancy\", loaded with pirates' loot, into Nassau harbor. Every bribed the governor, Nicholas Trott (uncle", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "501766", "text": "World. The earliest permanent European settlement was in 1648 on Eleuthera. During the 18th century slave trade, many Africans were brought to the Bahamas as labourers. Their descendants now constitute 85% of the Bahamian population. The Bahamas gained independence from the United Kingdom on July 10, 1973. Sometime between 500 and 800 AD, Taínos began crossing in dugout canoes from Hispaniola and/or Cuba to the Bahamas. Suggested routes for the earliest migrations have been from Hispaniola to the Caicos Islands, from Hispaniola or eastern Cuba to Great Inagua Island, and from central Cuba to Long Island (in the central Bahamas).", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "16623323", "text": "Cyril Stevenson Cyril St. John Stevenson (July 13, 1914 – November 6, 2006) was a Bahamian politician and newspaper publisher. Stevenson, Sir Henry Milton Taylor and William Cartwright, co-founded the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in 1953, the first national political party to be established in the Bahamas. Stevenson was born in Nassau, Bahamas, on July 13, 1914. He was the youngest child of Henry Macauley \"Harry\" Stevenson and Georgianna Louise \"Lulie\" Stevenson. His father died in 1915 when he was just fifteen months old. He began a career in journalism as a reporter for the \"Bahamas Weekly News\". In 1953,", "title": "Cyril Stevenson" }, { "id": "501771", "text": "East Florida. When Europeans first landed on the islands, they reported the Bahamas were lushly forested. Cleared to develop the land for sugarcane plantations, the forests have not regrown and have not been replanted. For many years, historians believed that The Bahamas was not colonized until the 17th century. However, recent studies show that there may have been attempts of colonization by groups from Spain, France, Britain, and the Netherlands. The French settled in Abaco in 1565, and tried again in 1625. In 1648 a group from Bermuda called 'The Company of Adventurers for the Plantation of the Islands of", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "527970", "text": "Indies after 10 September 1775. Such an embargo would mean the collapse of their intercolonial commerce, famine and civil unrest. Lacking political channels with Great Britain, the Tucker Family met in May 1775 with eight other parishioners, and resolved to send delegates to the Continental Congress in July, with the goal of an exemption from the ban. Henry Tucker noted a clause in the ban which allowed the exchange of American goods for military supplies. The clause was confirmed by Benjamin Franklin when Tucker met with the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety. Independently, Tucker's sons St. George and Thomas Tudor confirmed", "title": "History of Bermuda" }, { "id": "39322", "text": "that had reached the Bahamas due to weather. Today, Afro-Bahamians make up nearly 90% of the population. The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973, retaining the British monarch, then and currently Queen Elizabeth II, as its head of state. In terms of gross domestic product per capita, The Bahamas is one of the richest countries in the Americas (following the United States and Canada), with an economy based on tourism and finance. The name \"Bahamas\" is most likely derived from either the Taíno ' (\"big upper middle land\"), which was a term for the region used by the", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "12856906", "text": "J. Richard Blankenship James Richard Blankenship (born 1949) previously served as the United States Ambassador to the Bahamas. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and was appointed by President George W. Bush in the Spring of 2001. Before becoming Ambassador Richard Blankenship was a partner in the Capital Policy Group, an investment banking firm whose home office was in Jacksonville, Florida, and a close friend of Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida. He is currently the managing Director of Global Policy Advisers, an international business consulting group. He also served as President and CFO of St. John's Capital, a", "title": "J. Richard Blankenship" }, { "id": "10599052", "text": "who was to stand trial for refusing to submit to the military draft. Williams worked as a business developer with the Black Economic Union in Los Angeles, California, and served as a legislative aide for Los Angeles City Councilman David S. Cunningham Jr. He then served as the United States Ambassador to the Bahamas under the Clinton Administration from 1994 to 1998. Williams is the husband of Representative Maxine Waters, the U.S. Representative for . Sid Williams Sidney Williams (born March 3, 1942) is a diplomat and former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Cleveland", "title": "Sid Williams" }, { "id": "3689199", "text": "Cat Island, Bahamas Cat Island is in the central Bahamas, and is one of its districts. Cat Island also has the nation's highest point, Mount Alvernia (also known as Como Hill). It rises to and is topped by a monastery called \"The Hermitage\". This assembly of buildings was erected by the Franciscan \"Brother Jerome\" (John Hawes). The first European settlers were Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution, who arrived in 1783. The island may have been named after Arthur Catt, a pirate, or the name may refer to its one-time large population of feral cats. Current residents often complain about wanting", "title": "Cat Island, Bahamas" }, { "id": "20444226", "text": "Keva Bethel Keva Bethel, CMG (18 August 1935 – 15 February 2011) was a Bahamian educator and the first president of the College of the Bahamas. In 1995, she was honoured as a companion in the Order of St Michael and St George. Keva Marie Eldon was born on 18 August 1935 in Saint Matthews Parish, on New Providence, in The Bahamas, which at the time was a crown colony of the British Empire, to Rowena (née Hill) and Sidney Eldon. She attended Queen's College in Nassau, graduating in 1950. Following her only sibling, Michael Eldon abroad, Eldon to England", "title": "Keva Bethel" }, { "id": "1662674", "text": "funeral. In 2006, Nassau International Airport was renamed Lynden Pindling International Airport in his honour. He is also depicted on the one dollar note. Lynden Pindling The Right Excellent Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling (22 March 193026 August 2000), is regarded as the \"Father of the Nation\" of the Bahamas, having led it to majority rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973. He served as the first black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 1969 to 1992. He was leader of the", "title": "Lynden Pindling" }, { "id": "7210026", "text": "Bay'ah Bayʿah (, Pledge of allegiance\"), in Islamic terminology, is an oath of allegiance to a leader. It is known to have been practiced by the Islamic prophet Muhammad. \"Bayʿah\" is sometimes taken under a written pact given on behalf of the subjects by leading members of the tribe with the understanding that as long as the leader abides by certain requirements towards his people, they are to maintain their allegiance to him. \"Bayʿah\" is still practiced in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Sudan. In Morocco, \"bayʿah\" is one of the foundations of the monarchy. The tradition of \"bayʿah\"", "title": "Bay'ah" }, { "id": "11563945", "text": "Myles Munroe Myles Munroe, (20 April 1954 – 9 November 2014) was a Bahamian evangelist and ordained minister avid professor of the Kingdom of God, author, speaker and leadership consultant who founded and led the Bahamas Faith Ministries International (BFMI) and Myles Munroe International (MMI). He was chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the International Third World Leaders Association and president of the International Leadership Training Institute as well as the author of numerous books. Munroe died with his wife and 8 others in a private plane crash on 9 November 2014 en route to his leadership", "title": "Myles Munroe" }, { "id": "11961490", "text": "early 1950s, Audubon expert Robert Porter Allen scoured the Caribbean searching for flamingos. In his popular book, \"On the Trail of Vanishing Birds\", Allen found that the colonies on the island of Andros in the Bahamas had already disappeared. He determined that the largest surviving group of Caribbean flamingos inhabited the isolated back-waters of Lake Rosa on Inagua. That is where Allen and the Audubon Society decided to make a stand. A group of influential backers was recruited in Nassau to form a Society for the Protection of the Flamingo, with Arthur Vernay as its leader. Two wardens were hired", "title": "Bahamas National Trust" }, { "id": "5473092", "text": "administrative regulation promulgated by the executive branch. Under the Administrative Procedure Act, CIS could theoretically change the text of the oath at any time, so long as the new text reasonably meets the \"five principles\" mandated by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1953. These principles are: There has been some controversy about the wording of the oath, parts of which are based on the British Oath of Supremacy which was written in the 16th Century. As a result, some have suggested much of the language is antiquated and confusing. In the fall of 2003, CIS planned to change the", "title": "Oath of Allegiance (United States)" }, { "id": "11961492", "text": "the protection of marine areas in the same way that land areas were protected. Ray teamed up with Tolstoy to mount a new Bahamian expedition, to the Exuma cays, which was organised by January 1958. Allen and other well-known conservationists, including Donald Squires of the American Museum of Natural History and Bahamian experts Oris Russell and Herbert McKinney, were part of the team. They spent a week travelling by boat from Norman's Cay to Conch Cut and their report led to the creation of the world's first land and sea park in the Exumas, as well as to the formation", "title": "Bahamas National Trust" }, { "id": "12861762", "text": "Avant is married to Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer for Netflix, and is the stepmother to two children, Sarah and Tony Sarandos. Nicole Avant Nicole A. Avant (born 1968) was United States Ambassador to the Bahamas from 2009–2011. Avant was appointed United States Ambassador to the Bahamas by President Barack Obama on June 16, 2009, and was sworn in on September 9, 2009 and served until November 22, 2011. At the invitation of Ambassador Avant, leading education reform activist and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, addressed Bahamian education officials at her residence. She has also worked closely", "title": "Nicole Avant" }, { "id": "699939", "text": "pledge as Balch had written it, referring to the text as \"too juvenile and lacking in dignity.\" The Bellamy \"Pledge of Allegiance\" was first published in the September 8 issue of the popular children's magazine \"The Youth's Companion\" as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. The event was conceived and promoted by James B. Upham, a marketer for the magazine, as a campaign to instill the idea of American nationalism in students and to encourage children to raise flags above their schools. According to", "title": "Pledge of Allegiance" }, { "id": "39325", "text": "in 1986 by \"National Geographic\" writer and editor Joseph Judge, based on Columbus's log. Evidence in support of this remains inconclusive. On the landfall island, Columbus made first contact with the Lucayan and exchanged goods with them. The Spanish forced much of the Lucayan population to Hispaniola for use as forced labour. The slaves suffered from harsh conditions and most died from contracting diseases to which they had no immunity; half of the Taino died from smallpox alone. The population of the Bahamas was severely diminished. In 1648, the Eleutherian Adventurers, led by William Sayle, migrated from Bermuda. These English", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "39327", "text": "expedition briefly occupied the Bahamian capital during the War of the Spanish Succession. During proprietary rule, the Bahamas became a haven for pirates, including the infamous Blackbeard (\"circa\" 1680–1718). To put an end to the 'Pirates' republic' and restore orderly government, Great Britain made the Bahamas a crown colony in 1718 under the royal governorship of Woodes Rogers. After a difficult struggle, he succeeded in suppressing piracy. In 1720, Rogers led local militia to drive off a Spanish attack. During the US War of Independence in the late 18th century, the islands became a target for US naval forces under", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "13376090", "text": "came to Nassau with four Sisters of Charity from Mount St. Vincent, New York, who opened a free school for non-white children, and a select school. In June, 1890, Reverend D. P. O'Flynn was succeeded by Reverend B. J. Reilly. In February, 1891, Reverend Chrysostom Schreiner, OSB, of St. John's Abbey, Minnesota, took charge of the mission. In 1893 a new mission was opened at Salvador Point, Andros Island, and in 1897, the Sacred Heart mission was opened in the eastern portion of the city of Nassau.\" Today, the Archdiocese of Nassau encompasses the islands of the former British dependency", "title": "Catholic Church in the Bahamas" }, { "id": "6823497", "text": "The first known Black author from the Bahamas was a John Boyd who wrote a book of poetry called \"The Vision and Other Poems in Blank Verse.\", it was published in 1834. The population of the Bahamas is 95% Christian, of various denominations, primarily Methodist, Baptist, Anglican and Catholic. There are more churches per capita than in any other country. Bahamians' religious enthusiasm and high regard for education are a consequence of their Puritan heritage, derived from the Eleutheran Adventurers. Storytelling and folklore played a large role in the traditional entertainment of Bahamian communities, particularly before the advent of modern", "title": "Culture of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "3648691", "text": "Chic Hecht Mayer Jacob \"Chic\" Hecht (November 30, 1928May 15, 2006) was a Republican United States Senator from Nevada and U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas. Hecht was born into a Jewish family in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. His mother was born in Romania and his paternal grandparents were from Romania and Germany He received a Bachelor of Science degree in retailing from Washington University in St. Louis in 1949. Hecht attended Military Intelligence School at Fort Holabird and served as an intelligence agent with the U.S. armed forces during the Korean War, from 1951 to 1953. Hecht was a member of", "title": "Chic Hecht" }, { "id": "39324", "text": "southern Bahamas from Hispaniola and Cuba around the 11th century, having migrated there from South America. They came to be known as the Lucayan people. An estimated 30,000 Lucayan inhabited the Bahamas at the time of Christopher Columbus's arrival in 1492. Columbus's first landfall in the New World was on an island he named San Salvador (known to the Lucayan as \"Guanahani\"). Some researchers believe this site to be present-day San Salvador Island (formerly known as Watling's Island), situated in the southeastern Bahamas. An alternative theory holds that Columbus landed to the southeast on Samana Cay, according to calculations made", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "16623327", "text": "five children - William, Rae, Grace, Michael and Clarke. A state funeral was held at the Christ Church Cathedral in Nassau on November 16, 2006. Cyril Stevenson Cyril St. John Stevenson (July 13, 1914 – November 6, 2006) was a Bahamian politician and newspaper publisher. Stevenson, Sir Henry Milton Taylor and William Cartwright, co-founded the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in 1953, the first national political party to be established in the Bahamas. Stevenson was born in Nassau, Bahamas, on July 13, 1914. He was the youngest child of Henry Macauley \"Harry\" Stevenson and Georgianna Louise \"Lulie\" Stevenson. His father died", "title": "Cyril Stevenson" }, { "id": "3891255", "text": "Lucayan Archipelago The Lucayan Archipelago (named for the original native Lucayan people), also known as the Bahama Archipelago, is an island group comprising the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The archipelago is in the western North Atlantic Ocean, north of Cuba along with the other Antilles, and east and southeast of Florida. William Keegan writes that the Bahama archipelago includes the territories of both the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, adding: \"Modern political considerations aside, the islands form a single archipelago with common geological, ecological,", "title": "Lucayan Archipelago" }, { "id": "3022656", "text": "died, and the spongers left the island for Key West, and Tarpon Springs, Florida. Thousands of unemployed Bahamians moved to the village of Coconut Grove near Miami. From the 1950s through the 1970s, the Owens Lumber company, a US-owned company, deforested much of the indigenous pineyards that grew on North Andros. As a result of poor planning for sustainable harvests, the island today has overcrowded forests of mainly young trees. In the 1960s and 1970s the Bahamas, led by Sir Lynden Pindling, the Member of Parliament for Kemps Bay on South Andros, negotiated independence from the British. Self-rule was granted", "title": "Andros, Bahamas" }, { "id": "20211564", "text": "has passed, the morning breaks at last, from shore to shore, sunrise with golden gleam sons n' daughters, share the dream, for one working team one brotherhood, one brotherhood. Not for this time nor for this chosen few alone we pledge ourselves. Live loyal to our God. Love country, friend and foe, oh help us by thy might! Great God our King! Great God our King! God Bless Our Sunny Clime \"God Bless our Sunny Clime\" is the National song of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Its music was composed by Timothy Gibson and E. Clement Bethel and lyrics by", "title": "God Bless Our Sunny Clime" }, { "id": "11455017", "text": "all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford him or her every assistance and protection of which he or she may stand in need.\" A regular passport is navy blue, with the Coat of arms of The Bahamas emblazoned on the front cover. The words \"COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS\" and \"PASSPORT\" along with the international e-passport symbol are below. The passport contains 50 pages for entry/exit stamps and visas. The information ends with the Machine Readable Zone beginning in PABHS. Bahamian passport The Bahamian passport is issued to", "title": "Bahamian passport" }, { "id": "14216205", "text": "the Bahamas in exchange for East Florida under the Treaty of Paris. Capture of the Bahamas (1782) The Capture of the Bahamas took place in May 1782 during the Anglo-Spanish War when a Spanish force under the command of Juan Manuel Cajigal arrived on the island of New Providence near Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. The British commander at Nassau, John Maxwell decided to surrender the island without a fight when confronted by the superior force. Spain had entered the American War of Independence in 1779 and launched a campaign to drive the British out of the Gulf of", "title": "Capture of the Bahamas (1782)" }, { "id": "10568979", "text": "written by John Bettis and Michael Clark, with Conway Twitty making it a number one hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart the following year. Clark and Bettis also co-wrote Juice Newton's \"Heart of the Night\" and Donna Summer's \"The Woman in Me\". In 1983, Bettis gained his biggest achievement with \"Human Nature\", a ballad penned for Michael Jackson's multi-platinum album \"Thriller\". Originally a throwaway lyric and melody snippet composed by Toto's Steve Porcaro, the entire song was later written in its entirety by Bettis and Porcaro in two days. \"Thriller\" became the best selling record of all time,", "title": "John Bettis" }, { "id": "501795", "text": "many in Nassau and from the head of Sun Life, a Canadian insurance company, the movement failed. The failure of the movement was, in part, due to the British government's opposition to uniting a predominantly Black colony with a predominantly white country. In World War I organizations such as the Imperial Order of the Daughters of Empire and the Bahamas Red Cross Guild, began collecting money, food and clothing for soldiers and civilians in Europe. \"The Gallant Thirty\" Bahamians set out to join the British West Indies Regiment as early as 1915 and as many as 1,800 served in the", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "501803", "text": "Commonwealth of Nations on 10 July 1973. Sir Lynden O. Pindling, leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, became the first black Premier of the colony in 1967, and in 1968 the title was changed to Prime Minister. Sir Milo Butler was appointed the first Governor-General of the Bahamas (the official representative of Queen Elizabeth II) shortly after independence. Pindling was prime minister until 1992, during which the Bahamas benefited from tourism and foreign investment. He was succeeded by Hubert Ingraham, leader of the Free National Movement, who was prime minister until 2002. History of the Bahamas The earliest arrival of", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "501773", "text": "years. It was hampered because of poor soil, fighting between settlers, and conflict with the Spanish. In the mid-1650s many of the settlers returned to Bermuda. The remaining settlers founded communities on Harbour Island and Saint George's Cay (Spanish Wells) at the north end of Eleuthera. In 1670 about 20 families lived in the Eleuthera communities. In 1666 other colonists from Bermuda settled on New Providence, which soon became the center of population and commerce in the Bahamas, with almost 500 people living on the island by 1670. Unlike the Eleutherians, who were primarily farmers, the first settlers on New", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "20425033", "text": "cent stamp. Eugenia Lockhart Eugenia Lockhart O.B.E. (June 17, 1908–?) was a Bahamian suffragist who was the secretary of the Bahamian Women’s Suffrage Movement and secretary of the Women’s Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party. At the time The Bahamas were a Crown Colony so Lockhart, Doris Johnson and Henry Milton Taylor, national party chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party, argued the case for universal adult suffrage in London in 1960 to the Secretary of State to the Colonies. In 1961, women gained the right to vote and sit in the legislature. By 1967 black women had organized themselves into", "title": "Eugenia Lockhart" }, { "id": "7113512", "text": "native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera. In 1670 King Charles II granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented the islands from the king with rights of trading, tax, appointing governors, and administering the country. The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. A General Assembly was established in 1729; the first elections took place in September, and on 29 September 1729 twenty-four members representing the islands of", "title": "Parliament of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "11961491", "text": "on Inagua, brothers Samuel and James Nixon, and Audubon helped finance the entire operation. Explorer Ilia Tolstoy (a grandson of the 19th century Russian writer and a frequent visitor to the Bahamas) had been lobbying the colonial government to set aside some Bahamian islands as protected areas. In 1957 the government agreed to temporarily reserve a stretch of the Exuma cays, providing that some group would explore the possibility of creating a national park and make concrete recommendations. Meanwhile, Columbia University graduate Carleton Ray had written a book on The Bahamas called \"The Underwater Guide to Marine Life\", which recommended", "title": "Bahamas National Trust" }, { "id": "39333", "text": "over the protests of the Americans. There were 165 slaves on the \"Comet\" and 48 on the \"Encomium\". The United Kingdom finally paid an indemnity to the United States in those two cases in 1855, under the Treaty of Claims of 1853, which settled several compensation cases between the two countries. Slavery was abolished in the British Empire on 1 August 1834. After that British colonial officials freed 78 North American slaves from the \"Enterprise\", which went into Bermuda in 1835; and 38 from the \"Hermosa\", which wrecked off Abaco Island in 1840. The most notable case was that of", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "15765237", "text": "as an Elder of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Kirk from April 1963 until his death. In November 2010. At the celebration of the Kirk's 200th Anniversary, he received an achievement award for outstanding service to the Kirk and its mission. Sir Geoffrey died on 4 August 2017. Geoffrey Johnstone Sir Geoffrey Adams Dinwiddie Johnstone, (19 September 1927 – 4 August 2017) was a Bahamian politician and lawyer. Johnstone was born in Nassau, Bahamas on 19 September 1927, the eldest son of the late Bruce Eric Johnstone and Wilhelmina Helena Aline Johnstone née Kemp. He graduated from Queen’s College secondary school, Nassau,", "title": "Geoffrey Johnstone" }, { "id": "5532515", "text": "Richard Murphy (poet) Richard Murphy (6 August 1927 – 30 January 2018) was an Anglo-Irish poet. Murphy was born to an Anglo-Irish family at Milford House, near the Mayo-Galway border, in 1927. He spent much of his early childhood in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, where his father served in the Colonial Service and was active as mayor of Colombo and Governor General of the Bahamas (in succession to the Duke of Windsor). He first received his education at the King's School, Canterbury and Wellington College. He won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, at 17, where he studied English under", "title": "Richard Murphy (poet)" }, { "id": "15445379", "text": "Godsiff, Zac Goldsmith, James Gray, Mike Hancock, Tom Harris, Gordon Henderson, Kate Hoey, Lindsay Hoyle, Philip Hollobone, Adam Holloway, Kelvin Hopkins, George Howarth, Stewart Jackson, Edward Leigh, Julian Lewis, Caroline Lucas, Anne Main, Jason McCartney, Karl McCartney, William McCrea, Iain McKenzie, Patrick Mercer, Nigel Mills, Austin Mitchell, Anne-Marie Morris, Caroline Nokes, David Nuttall, Matthew Offord, Ian Paisley, Neil Parish, Priti Patel, Andrew Percy, Mark Reckless, John Redwood, Simon Reevell, Laurence Robertson, Andrew Rosindell, Jim Shannon, Richard Shepherd, David Simpson, Henry Smith, John Stevenson, Bob Stewart, Graham Stringer, Gerry Sutcliffe, Justin Tomlinson, Andrew Turner, Derek Twigg, Keith Vaz, Martin Vickers, Mike", "title": "People's Pledge" }, { "id": "16109233", "text": "an answer to the missives sent to Blackwell. It was published anonymously in English around February 1608, and was then translated into Latin and French. It was the work of James, supported by advice from Lancelot Andrewes, Richard Bancroft and James Montague. The cardinal answered with a \"Responsio\", using the pseudonym Matthaeus Tortus (i.e. Matteo Torti or Torto, his chaplain); he portrayed James as smooth in past correspondence with the papacy, but delivering little in practical terms. This accusation raked up a matter from before James's accession to the English throne; James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino was disgraced and sentenced", "title": "Oath of Allegiance of James I of England" }, { "id": "14434061", "text": "for Songwriter of the Year for \"All the Time\", \"Bitter Memories\" and \"Stronger Than That\". He won the awards in both categories. Jurvanen tours with drummer Jason Tait and backing vocalist Felicity Williams. Bahamas opened for Jack Johnson, Robert Plant, Wilco, The Lumineers and City and Colour. Jurvanen released his fourth album, \"Earthtones\" on January 19, 2018. Bahamas began their Canadian tour for Earthtones on January 18, 2018, the Earthtones World Tour and recruited Zach Gill to open the shows. Jurvanen lives in The Junction neighborhood of Toronto with his wife and two children. Bahamas (musician) Afie Jurvanen (born April", "title": "Bahamas (musician)" }, { "id": "7113511", "text": "Parliament of the Bahamas The Parliament of The Bahamas is the bicameral national parliament of Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The parliament is formally made up by the Queen (represented by the Governor-General), an appointed Senate, and an elected House of Assembly. It currently sits at Nassau, the national capital. The structure, functions, and procedures of the parliament are based on the Westminster system. Originally inhabited by the Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people, the Bahamas were the site of Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492. Although the Spanish never colonized the Bahamas, they shipped the", "title": "Parliament of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "12589735", "text": "such harsh conditions, and refusing to abandon their faith, the English planters like Francis Levett Jr. were forced to pack up everything and leave hurriedly. Their mood was bleak. \"I am totally ruined and see nothing but want and misery before me,\" wrote Francis Levett's son-in-law Yeats to his good friend James Grant. Following the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, Francis Levett Jr. was forced to transport all his goods, including 100 slaves and house frames and household silver, to the Bahamas on short notice. Much of Levett's loot was left behind on the docks when Levett's", "title": "Francis Levett" }, { "id": "8498152", "text": "slaveholder (a British loyalist originally from South Carolina in the colonies). In his 1807 will he makes specific references to his slaves on Abaco and New Providence Islands. In this will he states that it is his desire that his 24 slaves on Abaco Island be freed upon his death, which came within several months of his will. It is speculative at best - but not entirely unreasonable - to assume that this settlement was established by these freed slaves from Abaco Island. The (Eleuthera) Bluff settlement sponsors an annual homecoming event the second weekend of July which generally coincides", "title": "The Bluff, Bahamas" }, { "id": "14472325", "text": "Arthur Foulkes Sir Arthur Alexander Foulkes (born 11 May 1928) was the Governor-General of the Bahamas from 2012 to 2014. Foulkes was elected to the House of Assembly in 1967 and served in the government of Lynden Pindling as Minister of Communications and Minister of Tourism. In 1971, he was a founder of the Free National Movement, and he was appointed to the Senate in 1972 and 1977 before returning to the House of Assembly in 1982. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG) in 2001. He was promoted", "title": "Arthur Foulkes" }, { "id": "14216202", "text": "of Jamaica, Cagigal pressed ahead with his scheme and sailed from Havana on 18 April 1782. He had 2,500 troops which had left the garrison of Havana very low, and unable to send troops to support Gálvez's Jamaican expedition. He had managed to secure additional ships and transports from the South Carolina Navy led by Alexander Gillon. On 6 May Cagigal's ships came into view of Nassau. He convinced the British commander, Vice Admiral John Maxwell, to surrender without opening a formal siege of the town. Maxwell offered twelve articles of surrender, a list which was mildly revised by Cagigal", "title": "Capture of the Bahamas (1782)" }, { "id": "20528089", "text": "she married Emmanuel Komolafe who she met at the University of Buckingham, England in 2001. The couple have three children, two daughters and one son, Morgan, Alexandria and Joshua. Arinthia Komolafe is a Christian and worships at the parish of St. Mary's Anglican Church. In April 2014, Komolafe was recognised by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires to The Bahamas, John L. Armstrong for her nomination of the U.S. State's Department Global Leadership Mentorship Program. . In 2012, Komolafe was elected as the Chairperson of the New Providence Women's Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party. She previously served as the Secretary of the", "title": "Arinthia Komolafe" }, { "id": "699940", "text": "author Margarette S. Miller, this campaign was in line both with Upham's patriotic vision as well as with his commercial interest. According to Miller, Upham \"would often say to his wife: 'Mary, if I can instill into the minds of our American youth a love for their country and the principles on which it was founded, and create in them an ambition to carry on with the ideals which the early founders wrote into The Constitution, I shall not have lived in vain. Bellamy's original Pledge read: The Pledge was supposed to be quick and to the point. Bellamy designed", "title": "Pledge of Allegiance" }, { "id": "11564133", "text": "he still paints and is writing several albums. Torok married Gail Redd, a beauty queen from Lufkin, Texas, in 1951. Mitchell Torok Mitchell Torok (born October 28, 1929, in Houston) is an American country music singer, songwriter, artist, author and guitarist, best known for his 1953 hit \"Caribbean\". He also wrote \"Mexican Joe\", which catapulted Jim Reeves to stardom. They began to write together and charted many top 20 hits. Torok reached the Billboard charts several times: in 1957 with \"Pledge of Love\" (Billboard Top 20), written by his wife, Gail Redd; in 1959 with an updated version of \"Caribbean\"", "title": "Mitchell Torok" }, { "id": "16882095", "text": "John Jarrard John Jarrard (May 7, 1953 February 1, 2001) was an American country music songwriter. He wrote songs for Alabama, George Strait, Don Williams, and others. John Jarrard was born in Gainesville, Georgia on May 7, 1953. He worked as a disc jockey in his hometown, and moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1974 after being persuaded by a girlfriend to attend a convention there. While in Nashville, he worked at a motel and recorded demos with his friend, songwriter Bruce Burch. Jarrard stopped working at the motel in 1979 after complications of diabetes, which led to him losing his", "title": "John Jarrard" }, { "id": "36550", "text": "the Tucker Family met in May 1775 with eight other parishioners, and resolved to send delegates to the Continental Congress in July, with the goal of an exemption from the ban. Henry Tucker noted a clause in the ban which allowed the exchange of American goods for military supplies. The clause was confirmed by Benjamin Franklin when Tucker met with the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety. Independently, Tucker's sons St. George and Thomas Tudor confirmed this business arrangement with Peyton Randolph and the Charlestown Committee of Safety, while another Bermudian, Harris, did so with George Washington. Three American vessels, independently operating", "title": "Bermuda" }, { "id": "39352", "text": "the most seats in the House of Assembly. Executive power is exercised by the Cabinet, selected by the Prime Minister and drawn from his supporters in the House of Assembly. The current Governor-General is Dame Marguerite Pindling, and the current Prime Minister is The Rt. Hon. Hubert Minnis MP. Constitutional safeguards include freedom of speech, press, worship, movement and association. The Judiciary of the Bahamas is independent of the executive and the legislature. Jurisprudence is based on English law. The Bahamas has a two-party system dominated by the centre-left Progressive Liberal Party and the centre-right Free National Movement. A handful", "title": "The Bahamas" }, { "id": "501792", "text": "in a mass flight in 1823. While the flow was reduced by federal construction of a lighthouse at Cape Florida in 1825, slaves continued to find freedom in the Bahamas. In August 1834, the traditional plantation life ended with the British emancipation of slaves throughout most of its colonies. Freedmen chose to work on their own small plots of land when possible. In the 1830s and 1840s, tensions rose between Britain and the United States after American merchant ships, part of the coastwise slave trade, put into Nassau or were wrecked on its reefs. These included the \"Hermosa\" (1840) and", "title": "History of the Bahamas" }, { "id": "501782", "text": "those were Jacobites, supporters of the House of Stuart, who identified as enemies of the Hanoverian King George. Still others simply identified as rebels, or thought they were better off as pirates than trying to earn an honest living. When a Royal Navy ship brought official word to Nassau of the pardon offer, many pirates planned to accept. Soon, however, the recalcitrant parties gained the upper hand, eventually forcing the Navy ship to leave. Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Nicholas Brown and Edmond Condent left the Bahamas for other territories. Charles Vane, with \"Calico Jack\" Rackham and Edward England in his crew,", "title": "History of the Bahamas" } ]

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[ { "id": "3893595", "text": "series \"Weeds\", \"House\", \"Dr. Vegas\", and was one of the judges on \"America's Most Talented Kids\". Sabara also voiced the main character, Hero Boy, in the 2004 animated version of \"The Polar Express\". He then played a Jewish young boy trying to have a nice Bar Mitzvah in \"Keeping Up with the Steins\" (formerly known as \"Lucky 13\"), which received a limited release on May 12, 2006. He also guest starred in the Criminal Minds episode, \"P911\" where he played as a sexually molested child. He also provided the voice for Rex in \"Generator Rex\". He next appeared in the", "title": "Daryl Sabara" }, { "id": "3742936", "text": "and directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film features human characters animated using the live action performance capture technique. The film stars Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, Michael Jeter, Eddie Deezen and Tom Hanks. The film was first released in both conventional and IMAX 3D theaters November 10, 2004 and grossed $307 million worldwide. The Polar Express The Polar Express is a children's book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1985. The book is now widely considered to be a classic Christmas story for young children. It was praised for its detailed illustrations", "title": "The Polar Express" }, { "id": "6896278", "text": "The Polar Express (film) The Polar Express is a 2004 American 3D computer-animated film based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg, who also served as one of the executive producers on the film. Directed, co-written and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, the film features human characters animated using live action motion capture animation. The film stars Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, and Eddie Deezen, with Tom Hanks in six distinct roles. The film also included a performance by Tinashe at age 9, who later gained exposure as a pop singer in the 2010s,", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "6468117", "text": "Peter Falk and Tim Daly in the television film, \"Wilder Days\", playing Falk's grandson who accompanies him on a turbulent road trip. Daly was impressed with the young Hutcherson, remarking, \"He's an exceptional kid. He's a really good actor, and he's very smart and confident in himself.\" Hutcherson's next role was as a boy dressed as Robin in his first feature film appearance, the well-reviewed independent film \"American Splendor\", which won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. His character in 2004's fantasy film \"The Polar Express\", young Hero Boy, was created by motion-capture of his facial expressions", "title": "Josh Hutcherson" }, { "id": "3742930", "text": "department stores as a child. It was adapted as an Oscar-nominated motion-capture film in 2004 starring Tom Hanks and directed by Robert Zemeckis with Van Allsburg serving as an executive producer on the film. A young boy is awakened on Christmas Eve night by the sound of a train. To his astonishment, he finds the train is waiting for him. He sees a conductor who then proceeds to look up at his window. He runs downstairs and goes outside. The conductor explains the train is called the Polar Express, and is journeying to the North Pole. The boy then boards", "title": "The Polar Express" }, { "id": "8741857", "text": "the children from getting to the North Pole. The game is broken down into six chapters, giving the player the opportunity to explore areas like the train, the North Pole, and more. The player controls a young boy in each of the 6 chapters. The game also contains puzzle-solving as well as some minigame-styled elements. THQ unveiled the game at the E3 convention in 2004. The PlayStation 2 version contains EyeToy support. A portable version of the game was also in development for the Game Boy Advance, by developer Tantalus. The PC version received \"mixed\" reviews, while the rest of", "title": "The Polar Express (video game)" }, { "id": "6896280", "text": "all-digital capture film. The film also marks Michael Jeter's last acting role before his death, and the film was thus dedicated to his memory. On the night of Christmas Eve, a boy is growing bitterly skeptical of the existence of Santa Claus. As he struggles to sleep, he witnesses the arrival of a steam locomotive on the street outside his home, and dons his robe to investigate, tearing the robe's pocket as he retrieves it. Outside, the train's conductor introduces the train as the Polar Express, bound for the North Pole. The boy initially declines to board, but jumps aboard", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "6896298", "text": "this time, the Ebenezer Scrooge puppet who is set as the main antagonist of the game, attempts to prevent the children from believing in Santa Claus by stealing their tickets and trying to stop the children from making it to the North Pole. The Polar Express (film) The Polar Express is a 2004 American 3D computer-animated film based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg, who also served as one of the executive producers on the film. Directed, co-written and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, the film features human characters animated using live action motion", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "8095285", "text": "her that indeed there is a Santa: \"He lives, and he lives forever.\" Francis Pharcellus Church was the real-life editor and is played by Charles Bronson in the film. \"The Polar Express\" (2004), based on the children's book of the same name, also deals with issues and questions of belief as a magical train conducted by Tom Hanks transports a doubting boy to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus. Some less-than-serious films feature Santa Claus as a superhero-type figure, such as the 1959 film titled \"Santa Claus\" produced in Mexico with José Elías Moreno as Santa Claus. In this", "title": "Santa Claus in film" }, { "id": "6896279", "text": "as the CGI-model for the female protagonist. Castle Rock Entertainment produced the film in association with Shangri-La Entertainment, ImageMovers, Playtone, and Golden Mean for Warner Bros. Pictures, as Castle Rock's first animated production. The visual effects and performance capture were done at Sony Pictures Imageworks. The film was made with a budget of $165 million, a record-breaking sum for an animated feature at the time. The film was released in both conventional and IMAX 3D theaters on November 10, 2004. It grossed $310.6 million worldwide, and was later listed in the 2006 Guinness World Book of Records as the first", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "15747208", "text": "mall called City Center. City Center closed in 1994 after most of its shops closed. During the pre-Christmas shopping period, Herpolsheimer's operated the \"Santa Express\" miniature train on a monorail suspended from the ceiling of the basement in its downtown Grand Rapids store. The train is now located at the Grand Rapids Public Museum. Herpolsheimer's was also featured in the 2004 film, \"The Polar Express\". The film's \"Hero Boy\" has a picture from Herpolsheimer's of himself ripping the fake beard off the store's Santa Claus. Later, as the boy is riding the train to the North Pole, the \"Know-It-All kid\"", "title": "Herpolsheimer's" }, { "id": "6896295", "text": "20th in the Nielsen ratings that week, according to TVTango.com. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Sound Editing (Randy Thom and Dennis Leonard), Best Sound Mixing (Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis S. Sands and William B. Kaplan) and Best Original Song for \"Believe\" (music and lyrics by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri) The film was nominated at the 3rd Visual Effects Society Awards in the category of \"Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture.\" In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated \"The Polar Express\" for its Top 10 Animated Films list. In November", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "3742934", "text": "that Pere Marquette 1225, formerly owned by Michigan State University and now owned by the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, Michigan, was the inspiration for the story line. He played on the engine as a child when it was on display and was inspired by the number 1225, which to him was 12/25 - Christmas Day. The real 1225 was used to create the animated image of the engine and all the locomotive sounds were recorded from the 1225. The only exception to this is the whistle, which was recorded from Sierra Railway No. 3. In 1986, \"The Polar Express\"", "title": "The Polar Express" }, { "id": "5583632", "text": "Jimmy Pinchak Jimmy Jax Pinchak (born February 16, 1996) is an American actor and musician known for playing roles in television series and films. Born James Justin Pinchak, he grew up in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. He acted the movements for \"Know-It-All\" in the computer-animated movie \"The Polar Express\" (voice was provided by Eddie Deezen) and played the lead in made-for-TV movie \"All I Want For Christmas\", \"Hostage\" and \"Meteor\". He also played Eddy in \"Over There\" and Mark in \"Let Me In\", a remake of the Swedish film \"Let the Right One In\". In 2008, he starred in the", "title": "Jimmy Pinchak" }, { "id": "1687729", "text": "Actor for his portrayal of Chuck Noland. In 2004, Zemeckis reteamed with Hanks and directed \"The Polar Express\", based on the children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. \"The Polar Express\" utilized the computer animation technique known as performance capture, whereby the movements of the actors are captured digitally and used as the basis for the animated characters. As the first major film to use performance capture, \"The Polar Express\" caused \"The New York Times\" to write that, \"Whatever critics and audiences make of this movie, from a technical perspective it could mark a turning point in", "title": "Robert Zemeckis" }, { "id": "6896297", "text": "now open annually during the Christmas season. The 4D film, distributed by SimEx-Iwerks, has been shown at other amusement parks around the world including Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Dollywood (during the annual Smoky Mountain Christmas event), Vancouver Aquarium (2009 — 2010), and Warner Bros. Movie World (during the White Christmas events in 2010 and 2011). A video game based on the film was released on November 26, 2004 for GameCube, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation 2 and Windows, developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and published by THQ. The plot of the game is more different than the film version. Within", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "6896289", "text": "from recordings made of the 1225 operating under steam. The whistle, however, was taken from Sierra Railway #3. In addition to standard theatrical 35mm format, a 3-D version for IMAX was also released, generated from the same 3-D digital models used for the standard version. The film was released on DVD as separated widescreen and full-screen versions in single and two-disc special editions (with bonus features) and on VHS on November 22, 2005, one year after the film came out. It was released on Blu-ray with bonus features and presented in the original widescreen aspect ratio on October 30, 2007.", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "6468110", "text": "Josh Hutcherson Joshua Ryan Hutcherson (born October 12, 1992) is an American actor and producer. Hutcherson began his acting career in the early 2000s and appeared in several commercials and minor film and television roles before landing his first major role in 2002 in the pilot episode of \"House Blend\". His first film role was in \"Miracle Dogs\" (2003) on Animal Planet, followed by a motion-capture performance in \"The Polar Express\" (2004) and a voice-acting role in \"Howl's Moving Castle\" (2005). Hutcherson's other early film appearances include \"Little Manhattan\" and \"\" (both 2005), \"RV\" (2006), \"Bridge to Terabithia\" (2007), \"Journey", "title": "Josh Hutcherson" }, { "id": "6896284", "text": "the train to accelerate uncontrollably down a 179-degree grade and onto a frozen lake. Smokey uses his hairpin to repair the throttle as the train drifts across the ice to realign with the tracks moments before the ice breaks. The boy returns the girl's ticket for the conductor to punch, and as the three return to the passenger car, the boy is accosted by an Ebenezer Scrooge marionette, taunting him and calling him a doubter, in reality controlled by the hobo. The train finally arrives at the North Pole, where the conductor announces that one of the passengers will be", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "3742935", "text": "was awarded the Caldecott Medal and appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. By 1989 a million copies had been sold - more each year than the last - and the book had made the bestseller list four years in a row. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its \"Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children.\" It was one of the \"Top 100 Picture Books\" of all time in a 2012 poll by \"School Library Journal\". \"The Polar Express\" is a 2004 American computer-animated film based on the book. Written, produced,", "title": "The Polar Express" }, { "id": "5583634", "text": "Castle since 2007. Pinchak is currently studying Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. Jimmy Pinchak Jimmy Jax Pinchak (born February 16, 1996) is an American actor and musician known for playing roles in television series and films. Born James Justin Pinchak, he grew up in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. He acted the movements for \"Know-It-All\" in the computer-animated movie \"The Polar Express\" (voice was provided by Eddie Deezen) and played the lead in made-for-TV movie \"All I Want For Christmas\", \"Hostage\" and \"Meteor\". He also played Eddy in \"Over There\" and Mark in \"Let Me In\", a remake of", "title": "Jimmy Pinchak" }, { "id": "6243964", "text": "Friday\" starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. He appeared with Tom Hanks in a test film to develop the \"performance capture\" technology for \"The Polar Express\" in 2004. Malgarini appeared as Benjy in the 2006 film adaptation of \"How to Eat Fried Worms\", the beloved gross out children's novel by Thomas Rockwell. According to an interview with Malgarini on his official site, he starred as the main character Ugly in the musical \"Honk!\". He appeared in \"\" in 2004. He appeared in \"Gary Unmarried\" as Gary's (Jay Mohr) son Tom. Malgarini also appeared in \"Go Figure\" in 2005. In", "title": "Ryan Malgarini" }, { "id": "18565531", "text": "the trilogy, \"Return\", was released in August 2016. Among the many publications reviewing the book were the \"Financial Times\" on 19 August 2016 and the \"New York Times\" on 26 August 2016. Prior to his children's book work, Becker illustrated scenes in children's animated films, including \"The Polar Express\" (2004), \"Cars\" (2006), \"Monster House\" (2006), \"Beowulf\", and \"A Christmas Carol\". Becker was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Pomona College in 1996, and currently lives and works in Amherst, Massachusetts. Aaron Becker Aaron Becker (born 1974) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He is", "title": "Aaron Becker" }, { "id": "6896287", "text": "a present containing the bell. He and his younger sister Sarah ring the bell to their delight; their parents, not believing in Santa, lament how the bell is \"broken\". As an adult, the boy reflects on how his friends and his sister grew deaf to the bell as their belief faded over the years. However, the bell still rings for him, as it will do for all those who believe. The buildings at the North Pole refer to a number of buildings related to American railroading history. The buildings in the square at the city's center are loosely based on", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "1268596", "text": "Captain and the World of Tomorrow\" was released. It was notable for being filmed entirely in front of a bluescreen, with the background being completely computer generated; only the actors and some props were real. Robert Zemeckis' film \"The Polar Express\", starring Tom Hanks in five roles, was completely CGI animation, but used performance capture technology to animate the characters. Zemeckis followed \"The Polar Express\" with two other motion capture films: \"Beowulf\" and Disney's \"A Christmas Carol\". The use of CGI special effects in live-action film increased to the point where George Lucas considered his 2002 film \"\" to be", "title": "Modern animation in the United States" }, { "id": "6896290", "text": "On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 56% based on 202 reviews, with an average score of 6.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"Though the movie is visually stunning overall, the animation for the human characters isn't lifelike enough, and the story is padded.\" Roger Ebert gave the film his highest rating of four stars, saying, \"There's a deeper, shivery tone, instead of the mindless jolliness of the usual Christmas movie.\" And", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "540633", "text": "from the movie. At the age of 45, Hanks became the youngest-ever recipient of the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award on June 12, 2002. In 2004, he appeared in three films: The Coen brothers' \"The Ladykillers\", another Spielberg film, \"The Terminal\", and \"The Polar Express\", a family film from Zemeckis for which Hanks played multiple motion capture roles. In a \"USA Weekend\" interview, Hanks discussed how he chooses projects: \"[Since] \"A League of Their Own\", it can't be just another movie for me. It has to get me going somehow ... There has to be some all-encompassing desire or", "title": "Tom Hanks" }, { "id": "6896293", "text": "best disconcerting, and at worst, a wee bit horrifying\". Despite the polarized reception from critics, \"The Polar Express\" has been very popular among audiences. \"The Independent\" reported in 2011 that the film \"is now seen by many as a classic\". CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film a rare \"A+\" grade. The film opened at #2 and earned $23,323,463 from approximately 7,000 screens at 3,650 theaters, for a per-theater average of $6,390 and a per-screen average of $3,332 in its opening weekend. It also brought in a total of $30,629,146 since its Wednesday launch. The weekend total also included $2,100,000", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "14196011", "text": "Tinashe Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe (; born February 6, 1993), known mononymously as Tinashe, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Tinashe moved to Los Angeles as a child to pursue a career in entertainment. Her notable roles included as a motion-capture model in the animated film \"The Polar Express\" (2004) and recurring roles in \"Out of Jimmy's Head\" (2007–2008) and \"Two and a Half Men\" (2008–2009). Between 2007 and 2011, Tinashe was a member of the girl group the Stunners. Following their disbandment, she released the positively-reviewed self-recorded mixtapes \"In Case We Die\" (2012) and", "title": "Tinashe" }, { "id": "3742932", "text": "he could choose anything in the world, the boy asks for one bell from one of the reindeer's harnesses. The boy places the bell in the pocket of his robe and all the children watch as Santa takes off into the night for his annual deliveries. Later, on the train ride home, the boy discovers that the bell has fallen through a hole in his pocket. The boy arrives home and goes to his bedroom as the train pulls away. On Christmas morning, his sister finds a small package for the boy under the tree, behind all of the other", "title": "The Polar Express" }, { "id": "8741858", "text": "the console versions received \"unfavorable\" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. The Polar Express (video game) The Polar Express is an action-adventure platform game developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and published by THQ. Based on the film of the same name, the game follows the same plot. The game follows most of the main plot of the film. One major difference is that the Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet, who only makes a minor appearance in the film, plays a much bigger role as the main antagonist who attempts to prevent the children from believing in Santa Claus by stealing", "title": "The Polar Express (video game)" }, { "id": "3742933", "text": "gifts. The boy opens the box and discovers that It contains the bell, delivered by Santa, who found it on the seat of his sleigh. When the boy rings the bell, both he and his sister marvel at the beautiful sound. His parents, however, are unable to hear the bell and remark that it must be broken. The book ends with the following line: Van Allsburg based the story on a mental image of a child wandering into the woods on a foggy night and wondering where a train was headed. At the premiere of the movie, Van Allsburg stated", "title": "The Polar Express" }, { "id": "6896286", "text": "reindeers' reins; the boy initially cannot hear it ring, until he finds it within himself to believe. He shows the bell to Santa, and Santa selects the boy to receive the bell as the first gift of Christmas. The boy asks to keep the jingle bell, Santa says yes, and he places it in his robe pocket. The wayward rear car is returned to the train as the children board to return home, but then the boy discovers that he had lost the bell through the hole in his robe pocket. He returns home and awakens Christmas morning to find", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "7858624", "text": "The Polar Express (soundtrack) The Polar Express: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the animated film of the same name, released in 2004 through Warner Sunset Records. The song, \"Believe\", written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri, was nominated for Best Original Song at the 77th Academy Awards. It was sung at the 77th Academy Awards show by original performer Josh Groban with Beyoncé Knowles. It gained a Grammy Award in 2006. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in November 2007. Having sold 724,000 copies in the United States, it is the best-selling film soundtrack/holiday album", "title": "The Polar Express (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "6896281", "text": "the train as it pulls away. In a passenger car, he befriends a spirited and amicable girl, and a condescending know-it-all. The train stops to pick up an impoverished child, Billy, who also declines to board; Billy changes his mind, and the boy applies the emergency brake to allow him to board, much to the conductor's dismay. As Billy sits alone in the train's rear dining car, hot chocolate is served in the passenger car, and the girl saves her hot chocolate for Billy. As she and the conductor cross to the dining car, the boy notices she left her", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "3742929", "text": "The Polar Express The Polar Express is a children's book written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg and published by Houghton Mifflin in 1985. The book is now widely considered to be a classic Christmas story for young children. It was praised for its detailed illustrations and calm, relaxing storyline. For the work, Van Allsburg won the annual Caldecott Medal for illustration of an American children's picture book in 1986, his second. The book is set partially in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the author's home town, and was inspired in part by Van Allsburg's memories of visiting the Herpolsheimer's and Wurzburg's", "title": "The Polar Express" }, { "id": "6896292", "text": "criticized for dipping into the uncanny valley. Peter Travers of \"Rolling Stone\" gave the film a 1 out of 4 stars, and called it \"a failed and lifeless experiment in which everything goes wrong\". Stephanie Zacharek of \"Salon\" gave the film 1.5 stars out of 5 and said, \"I could probably have tolerated the incessant jitteriness of \"The Polar Express\" if the look of it didn't give me the creeps.\" Geoff Pevere of the \"Toronto Star\" stated, \"If I were a child, I'd have nightmares. Come to think of it, I did anyway.\" Paul Clinton from CNN called it \"at", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "1485088", "text": "studio released Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture film \"The Polar Express\" in IMAX 3D. \"Polar Express\" became the most successful film released in IMAX theaters, producing at least a quarter of the film's gross of $302 million from fewer than 100 IMAX screens. Success for Warner Bros. and IMAX followed in later years with \"I Am Legend\", \"Happy Feet\", \"Batman Begins\" and \"The Dark Knight\". Progressively other studios became further interested in releasing films in IMAX through the DMR process and have earned success through it. In May 2009, J. J. Abrams's \"Star Trek\" was released in IMAX venues for the initial", "title": "IMAX" }, { "id": "2657326", "text": "Chris Van Allsburg Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for \"Jumanji\" (1981) and \"The Polar Express\" (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for \"The Garden of Abdul Gasazi\". For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was 1986 U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition for creators of children's books. He received the honorary degree", "title": "Chris Van Allsburg" }, { "id": "6896282", "text": "ticket behind unpunched, but loses hold of the ticket between the cars when he attempts to return it. The ticket reenters the passenger car, but not before the conductor notices its absence and escorts the girl back to the rear car. The know-it-all claims that the conductor will jettison the girl from the back of the train; the boy recovers the ticket and dashes to the dining car in search of the conductor, climbing onto the roof from the rear platform. He meets a hobo camping on the roof, who offers him coffee and discusses the existence of Santa Claus", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "15407843", "text": "Cayden Boyd Cayden Boyd (born May 24, 1994) is an American actor. He is best known for his child roles as Max in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 film \"The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl\" and Ben Reynolds in the 2007 film \"Have Dreams, Will Travel\". Boyd was born in Bedford, Texas. His older sister, Jenna, is also an actor. Boyd plays violin and cello and played high school football. He recently graduated from Pepperdine University, studying business. Boyd landed his first roles, small television roles and commercials, as young as 6 and 7. He played Tim Robbins's son in \"Mystic River\".", "title": "Cayden Boyd" }, { "id": "5961271", "text": "song on the adult contemporary chart, under \"To Where You Are\" and \"O Holy Night\" in 2002 and \"You Raise Me Up\" earlier the same year. Believe (Josh Groban song) \"Believe\" is a popular 2004 adult contemporary Christmas song from the Christmas-themed performance capture film \"The Polar Express\". The words and music were written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri, and the song was performed by Josh Groban. The song is included on the film soundtrack. The song is also included on the 2011 album \"Heavenly Christmas\" performed by Jackie Evancho, and the deluxe edition of Groban's \"Noël\" album, marking", "title": "Believe (Josh Groban song)" }, { "id": "7858625", "text": "hybrid since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking music sales in 1991. The Polar Express (soundtrack) The Polar Express: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the animated film of the same name, released in 2004 through Warner Sunset Records. The song, \"Believe\", written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri, was nominated for Best Original Song at the 77th Academy Awards. It was sung at the 77th Academy Awards show by original performer Josh Groban with Beyoncé Knowles. It gained a Grammy Award in 2006. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in November 2007. Having sold 724,000 copies in", "title": "The Polar Express (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "2484663", "text": "received an honorary doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Boston. In 2003, he inducted AC/DC into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Later in the year, he went on tour with Aerosmith for the Rocksimus Maximus Tour with KISS. In 2004, Aerosmith released the blues cover album \"Honkin' on Bobo\" and launched a brief tour with Cheap Trick, focused on smaller markets. Tyler sang the National Anthem to kick off the 2004 World Series at Fenway Park. The 2004 film \"The Polar Express\" featured Tyler singing \"Rockin' on Top of the World\" alongside a group of computer-animated elves resembling", "title": "Steven Tyler" }, { "id": "8741856", "text": "The Polar Express (video game) The Polar Express is an action-adventure platform game developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and published by THQ. Based on the film of the same name, the game follows the same plot. The game follows most of the main plot of the film. One major difference is that the Ebenezer Scrooge Puppet, who only makes a minor appearance in the film, plays a much bigger role as the main antagonist who attempts to prevent the children from believing in Santa Claus by stealing their tickets, and trying to get them thrown off the train to keep", "title": "The Polar Express (video game)" }, { "id": "19175227", "text": "joined the cast. In September 2016, Tom Bateman, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Michael Pena, Judi Dench, Lucy Boynton and Derek Jacobi joined the cast. In October 2016, Josh Gad, and Marwan Kenzari joined the cast. In November 2016, Penelope Cruz joined the cast. In December 2016, Sergei Polunin joined the cast. In January 2017, William Dafoe and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo joined the cast with the latter replacing Pena, who had dropped out of the project. Principal photography on the film began on November 22, 2016, in the United Kingdom, and concluded in May 2017. It used some of the", "title": "Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)" }, { "id": "9584138", "text": "Juliette Lewis and Diane Keaton. From 1998 to 2002, Scotch Marmo attempted to get an original screenwriting project off the ground as her first feature-length directorial project. \"When Fritz Left Kate\" was developed by various producers, including James L. Brooks, who saw it as a vehicle for Woody Harrelson and Tea Leoni, but the film was not realized. In 2000, Castle Rock Entertainment and Playtone Company hired Scotch-Marmo to adapt Chris Van Allsburg's children's classic \"Polar Express\", to be directed by Rob Reiner and to star Tom Hanks. Polar Express, released in 2004, was ultimately directed by Robert Zemeckis. Scotch", "title": "Malia Scotch Marmo" }, { "id": "6896294", "text": "from 59 IMAX theaters, for an IMAX theater average of $35,593, and had a $3,000,000 take since Wednesday. In its second weekend, it grossed another $15,668,101, averaging $4,293 from 3,650 venues and boosting the 12-day cumulative to $51,463,282 and over Thanksgiving weekend made another $19,389,927, averaging $5,312 from 3,650 venues and raising the 19-day cumulative to $81,479,861. The film has made $186,493,472 domestically (including IMAX re-releases), and $124,140,582 overseas for a total worldwide gross of $310,634,054. The film had its network TV premiere on ABC, December 1, 2006. The airing brought in 13.2 million viewers, winning its timeslot and ranking", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "6896291", "text": "\"It has a haunting, magical quality ...\" Acknowledging comments by other reviewers, Ebert said, \"It's a little creepy. Not creepy in an unpleasant way, but in that sneaky, teasing way that lets you know eerie things could happen.\" Richard Roeper gave a glowing review to the film as well, saying that it \"remains true to the book, right down to the bittersweet final image.\" James Berardinelli gave it a 3.5/4, stating that it is \"a delightful tale guaranteed to enthrall viewers of all ages\", and ranked it as the 10th best film of 2004. The character design and animation were", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "5961269", "text": "Believe (Josh Groban song) \"Believe\" is a popular 2004 adult contemporary Christmas song from the Christmas-themed performance capture film \"The Polar Express\". The words and music were written by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri, and the song was performed by Josh Groban. The song is included on the film soundtrack. The song is also included on the 2011 album \"Heavenly Christmas\" performed by Jackie Evancho, and the deluxe edition of Groban's \"Noël\" album, marking the first time for inclusion on a Groban release. The songwriters received a Grammy Award in the category Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television", "title": "Believe (Josh Groban song)" }, { "id": "2948195", "text": "Robert Loggia Salvatore \"Robert\" Loggia (January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015) was an American actor and director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for \"Jagged Edge\" (1985) and won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for \"Big\" (1988). In a career spanning over sixty years, Loggia performed in many films including \"The Greatest Story Ever Told\" (1965), \"Revenge of the Pink Panther\" (1978), \"An Officer and a Gentleman\" (1982), \"Scarface\" (1983), \"Prizzi's Honor\" (1985), \"Oliver & Company\" (1988), \"Innocent Blood\" (1992), \"Independence Day\" (1996), \"Lost Highway\" (1997), \"Return to Me\" (2000), and \"Tim", "title": "Robert Loggia" }, { "id": "6896285", "text": "chosen to receive the first gift of Christmas, from Santa himself. The girl discovers Billy still alone in the rear car, and she and the boy persuade him to come along; however, the boy accidentally unhitches the car, sending it back along the line to a railway turntable in Santa's workshop. The children sneak through an elf command center and a gift sorting office before accidentally being dumped into a giant sack full of presents, where they discover that the know-it-all kid stowed away. The elves escort them out as Santa arrives. A jingle bell flies loose from the galloping", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "13730912", "text": "single, citywide celebration. \"Sculpture off the Pedestal\" was a public/private partnership, including financial support by the National Endowment for the Arts, educational support from the Michigan Council for the Arts, and in-kind contributions from individuals, business and industry. Fund-raising events, volunteers and locals housing artists contributed to the public character of the event. On November 10, 2004, the grand premiere of the film \"The Polar Express\" was held in Grand Rapids. It was adapted from the children's book by author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg, who lives in the city. His main character in the book (and movie) also lives", "title": "Grand Rapids, Michigan" }, { "id": "3656389", "text": "their \"Wealthiest Angelenos\" section of the magazine, which estimated his worth at $590 million, coming in at No. 46. After inheriting his fortune, Bing dropped out of Stanford University in his junior year to pursue a career in Hollywood. Bing reportedly invested $80 million in \"The Polar Express\", an animated film featuring the voice of Tom Hanks, which earned $285 million globally and was one of the year's top box office successes. He is also the financier of Robert Zemeckis' \"Beowulf\" (2007), and the producer/financier of \"Shine A Light\", a Rolling Stones concert film directed by Martin Scorsese. Bing also", "title": "Steve Bing" }, { "id": "15407845", "text": "boyfriend. Cayden Boyd Cayden Boyd (born May 24, 1994) is an American actor. He is best known for his child roles as Max in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 film \"The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl\" and Ben Reynolds in the 2007 film \"Have Dreams, Will Travel\". Boyd was born in Bedford, Texas. His older sister, Jenna, is also an actor. Boyd plays violin and cello and played high school football. He recently graduated from Pepperdine University, studying business. Boyd landed his first roles, small television roles and commercials, as young as 6 and 7. He played Tim Robbins's son in \"Mystic", "title": "Cayden Boyd" }, { "id": "6896283", "text": "and belief in ghosts. The hobo skis with the boy along the tops of the cars towards the train's coal tender, where the hobo disappears. In the locomotive's cab, the boy discovers that the girl has been made to supervise driving the train while engineers Steamer and Smokey replace the train's headlight. The train stops while the conductor witnesses a herd of caribou that is blocking their way, The conductor pulls Smokey's beard, causing him to let out animal-likes noises, therefore clearing the caribou horde. The train continues on, but at extreme speed. The throttle's split pin sheers off, causing", "title": "The Polar Express (film)" }, { "id": "2657330", "text": "S. Lewis's series \"The Chronicles of Narnia\", published by HarperCollins in 1994, as well as in three children's books written by Mark Helprin. Chris Van Allsburg Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. He has won two Caldecott Medals for U.S. picture book illustration, for \"Jumanji\" (1981) and \"The Polar Express\" (1985), both of which he also wrote; both were later adapted as successful motion pictures. He was also a Caldecott runner-up in 1980 for \"The Garden of Abdul Gasazi\". For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was 1986 U.S.", "title": "Chris Van Allsburg" }, { "id": "6294035", "text": "(1995), \"Antz\" (1998), \"Shrek\", and \"Monsters, Inc.\" (both 2001), and computer games such as \"Sims\". \"Casper\" (1995), a milestone in this decade, was the first movie in which a lead actor was produced exclusively using digital facial animation. The sophistication of the films increased after 2000. In \"The Matrix Reloaded\" and \"The Matrix Revolutions\", dense optical flow from several high-definition cameras was used to capture realistic facial movement at every point on the face. \"Polar Express (film)\" used a large Vicon system to capture upward of 150 points. Although these systems are automated, a large amount of manual clean-up effort", "title": "Computer facial animation" }, { "id": "1648769", "text": "the cast for a Screen Actors Guild Award. He was also a favorite with younger audiences in his role as Mr. Noodle's brother, Mister Noodle, on \"Sesame Street\" from 2000 to 2003. He appeared in an episode of \"Touched by an Angel\" in 1999 as Gus, an insurance salesman who arrives in Las Vegas in the episode \"The Man Upstairs\". His last two appearances were in the films \"Open Range\" and \"The Polar Express\". Both films were in post-production at the time of his death and, when released, contained a dedication to his memory. In 1990, Jeter won a Tony", "title": "Michael Jeter" }, { "id": "3742931", "text": "the train, which is filled with many other children in their pyjamas. The Polar Express races north over mountains and through boreal forests inhabited by wolves as well as rabbits, but the train never slowed down. When it arrives at the North Pole, the conductor explains that Santa will select one of them to receive the first gift of Christmas. The boy and the other children see thousands of Christmas elves gathered at the center of town waiting to send Santa Claus on his way. The boy is handpicked by Santa to receive the first gift of Christmas. Realizing that", "title": "The Polar Express" }, { "id": "13717523", "text": "where he played the lead role of Dennis Mitchell. In 2009, Cotton appeared in the movie \"Like Dandelion Dust\". In 2010, he appeared in two movies, \"Radio Free Albemuth\" from the story by Philip K. Dick, and \"Class\". In 2011, he appeared in \"Mr. Popper's Penguins\" as Billy Popper. In 2013, he played young Max (Max being played by Matt Damon) in \"Elysium\". He also voices a Civil War teenager Albertus McCreery in the documentary film \"The Gettysburg Address\". Maxwell Perry Cotton Maxwell Perry Cotton (born May 7, 2000) is an American child actor who portrayed Cooper Whedon in the", "title": "Maxwell Perry Cotton" }, { "id": "4175179", "text": "for the blockbuster holiday film \"The Polar Express\", playing the role of the nerdy \"Know-It-All\". He reprised this role for the subsequent video game. Deezen regularly lends his voice to radio and television commercials. In the late 1990s, he provided the voice of Pop (of Snap, Crackle and Pop) in commercials for Rice Krispies cereal, and Nacho, the mascot for Taco Bells kid's meals commercials, alongside Rob Paulsen as Dog. In 2011, Deezen was under consideration for succeeding Gilbert Gottfried as the voice of The Aflac Duck but did not win the role. Deezen still lives in Hollywood, where, according", "title": "Eddie Deezen" }, { "id": "5846513", "text": "(with Tom Hanks), \"The Polar Express\" (also with Tom Hanks), \"The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio\" (with Julianne Moore), \"Last Holiday\" (with Queen Latifah), \"Monster House\" (with Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke and Steve Buscemi) and \"Beowulf\" (with Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn and Angelina Jolie). In 2007, The Walt Disney Company and ImageMovers set up a joint venture animation facility known as ImageMovers Digital, a Marin County-based film company where Zemeckis would produce and direct 3D animated films using performance capture technology. On November 6, 2009, ImageMovers Digital released their first film \"A Christmas", "title": "ImageMovers" }, { "id": "19792830", "text": "Tyler Young (actor) Tyler Matthew Young (born December 17, 1990) is an American actor, known for his role as Philip Shea in the USA Network drama limited series \"Eyewitness\". He portrays Connor Bell in the horror film \"Polaroid\" (2018). Young was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in the suburb of Kildeer. He was educated at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, and graduated from DePaul University with a degree in advertising and public relations. Young studied acting at The Theatre School at DePaul and improvisational theatre at The Second City. He is of Jewish descent. In 2016, Young was", "title": "Tyler Young (actor)" }, { "id": "295537", "text": "the last three seasons, contributing the season five episode \"Day of the Dead\". Gaiman has also written at least three drafts of a screenplay adaptation of Nicholson Baker's novel \"The Fermata\" for director Robert Zemeckis, although the project was stalled while Zemeckis made \"The Polar Express\" and the Gaiman-Roger Avary written \"Beowulf\" film. Neil Gaiman was featured in the \"History Channel\" documentary \"Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked\". Several of Gaiman's original works have been optioned or greenlighted for film adaptation, most notably \"Stardust\", which premiered in August 2007 and stars Charlie Cox, Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Claire Danes, directed", "title": "Neil Gaiman" }, { "id": "5762884", "text": "footage were shot but have never been released. In August 2009, \"Variety\" reported that Walt Disney Pictures and director Robert Zemeckis were negotiating to produce a 3D computer animated remake of the film. Motion capture would be used, as with Zemeckis' previous animated films \"The Polar Express\", \"Beowulf\", and \"A Christmas Carol\". \"Variety\" also indicated Disney hoped to release the film in time for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Disney and Apple Corps officially announced the remake at the inaugural D23 Expo on 11 September 2009. Comedian Peter Serafinowicz was cast to voice Paul, Dean Lennox Kelly as John,", "title": "Yellow Submarine (film)" }, { "id": "1935433", "text": "Tim Conway Thomas Daniel \"Tim\" Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American actor, writer, director, and comedian. He portrayed the inept Ensign Parker in the 1960s World War II situation comedy \"McHale's Navy\", co-starred on the 1970s variety and sketch comedy program \"The Carol Burnett Show\", starred as the title character in the \"Dorf\" series of comedy films, and provided the voice of Barnacle Boy in the animated series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". Conway was born in Willoughby, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, and grew up in nearby Chagrin Falls. He is Irish on his father's side and Romanian on his", "title": "Tim Conway" }, { "id": "7810319", "text": "Paul Young (actor) Paul Young (born 3 July 1944) is a Scottish television actor and presenter. Young was born in Edinburgh, the son of the actor John Young. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. A former child actor (he played the eponymous hero of the film \"Geordie\" as a boy), he played First Officer William Murdoch in the 1979 tv movie \"S. O. S. Titanic\". Some of his later credits include \"The Tales of Para Handy\", \"No Job for a Lady\", \"Taggart\", \"The Crow Road\", \"Coronation Street\" and \"Still Game\". Young has gone on to find long-lasting", "title": "Paul Young (actor)" }, { "id": "3590105", "text": "Seann William Scott Seann William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is an American actor, comedian, and producer. His most recognized roles are Steve Stifler in the \"American Pie\" film series (1999–2012) and Doug Glatt in both \"Goon\" (2011) and \"\" (2017). He has also starred in films including \"Final Destination\" (2000), \"Road Trip\" (2000), \"Dude, Where's My Car?\" (2000), \"Evolution\" (2001), \"The Rundown\" (2003), \"The Dukes of Hazzard\" (2005), \"Role Models\" (2008), and \"Cop Out\" (2010). He voiced Crash the opossum in four theatrical films and two television specials within the \"Ice Age\" series (2006–2016). Scott was born in Cottage", "title": "Seann William Scott" }, { "id": "10006468", "text": ", the (now adult, as portrayed by Worden) son of Worf. In addition to onscreen appearances on film and television, Worden has done extensive voice work on animated series and films, starting with the \"Batman Beyond\" franchise in 1999, as well as numerous video games, starting with \"Blade Runner\" in 1997. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he continues his career as an on-camera actor and voice-over artist. He is married to Mari, and together they have three sons Nathan, Aidan and Ryder. Marc Worden David Marc Worden (born June 5, 1976) is a Canadian actor and voice", "title": "Marc Worden" }, { "id": "8428898", "text": "Kelly Ward Kelly Ward (born November 17, 1956) is an American actor and voice director for television animation. He is most famous for his role as T-Bird Putzie in \"Grease\" (1978). Ward was born in San Diego. He is the son of Don and Bonnie Ward, who have been active in theatre in San Diego for decades. His brother is the actor Kirby Ward. He first gained national attention as a character in the television film \"The Boy in the Plastic Bubble\", which starred John Travolta as the title character. The role began a short acting career for Ward; when", "title": "Kelly Ward" }, { "id": "2482876", "text": "several key scenes in Pullman. Harrison Ford was featured in a local bar, next running down an alley, and over the tops of several Pullman rowhouses. In April 2007, Universal Studios filmed \"The Express\", which also featured several scenes in Pullman. \"The Polar Express\" animated scenes at the North Pole were based on Pullman architecture. Santa Claus emerges from a building based on the Pullman Company Administration Building; other buildings are based on the architectural style in Pullman. Robert Zemeckis, who designed the movie, grew up in the Roseland neighborhood near Pullman. On November 12, 2006, Historic Pullman was the", "title": "Pullman, Chicago" }, { "id": "20118731", "text": "best. He is a true collaborator and an incredible actor and human being. He is so passionate about his work and, in my mind, he is an icon.\" \"The Hero\" also stars Laura Prepon, Nick Offerman, Katharine Ross and Krysten Ritter, and premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition category at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. It was released in the U.S. by The Orchard in June 2017. He co-wrote and directed the 2018 film \"Hearts Beat Loud\". It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and also played at the 2018 South By Southwest Film Festival. It was released in", "title": "Brett Haley" }, { "id": "873971", "text": "Disney channel was launched for the Nordic countries, as well as another one for Japan. A Hindi-language audio track was introduced on Toon Disney in India on September 1, 2005. The Toon Disney/Big Movie Show premiere of \"The Polar Express\" on December 22, 2006 was the channel's highest prime time rating with 1.35 million viewers. On January 27, 2007, Toon Disney launched its weekend afternoon programming block called \"The Great Toon Weekend.\" In February 2009, Toon Disney US switched over to the Disney XD format and name. Some shows that were formerly on Toon Disney US began airing on Disney", "title": "Toon Disney" }, { "id": "16523368", "text": "Zach McGowan Zachary Brendan McGowan (born May 5, 1980) is an American film and television actor and voice-over artist. He is known for his roles in television series \"Shameless\" as Jody, \"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\" as Anton Ivanov/The Superior, \"Black Sails\" as Charles Vane, and \"The 100\" as Roan. Other highlights include parts in the films \"Terminator Salvation\", \"The Hunt for Eagle One\", and the sequel \"\". He guest-starred in the television series \"Numbers\", \"\", and \"Cold Case\", with voice-over work for the \"Scream Awards\", \"Animal Planet\" and the video games \"\", \"\", and \"Iron Man\". McGowan was born in New", "title": "Zach McGowan" }, { "id": "19175215", "text": "Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film) Murder on the Orient Express is a 2017 mystery thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh with a screenplay by Michael Green, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. The film stars Branagh as Hercule Poirot, with Tom Bateman, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., Michelle Pfeiffer, and Daisy Ridley in supporting roles. The film is the fourth screen adaptation of Christie's novel, following the 1974 film, a 2001 TV film version, and a 2010 episode of the television series", "title": "Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)" }, { "id": "9646564", "text": "Ben Barnes (actor) Benjamin Thomas Barnes (born 20 August 1981) is a British actor and singer. He is best known for his roles as Prince Caspian in \"The Chronicles of Narnia\" film series, Logan Delos in \"Westworld\", and Billy Russo in \"The Punisher\". He has also played Tom Ward in the fantasy film \"Seventh Son\", Dorian Gray in \"Dorian Gray\", had supporting roles in \"The Words\", and \"The Big Wedding\", and portrayed Samuel Adams in the 2015 miniseries \"Sons of Liberty\". Barnes was born in London, to Tricia, a relationship therapist, and Thomas Barnes, a professor of psychiatry. He has", "title": "Ben Barnes (actor)" }, { "id": "7475099", "text": "Downes was born in London and now lives in Los Angeles. He has been married to actress Michael Ann Young since 2004. Robin Atkin Downes Robin Atkin Downes (born September 6, 1976) is an English actor and voice actor, who is primarily known for his work in animation, live-action and video games. Downes has appeared in the films \"How to Train Your Dragon\", \"Steamboy\" and \"Superman vs. The Elite\", TV shows including \"Angel\", \"\", \"Babylon 5\", \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\", \"Regular Show\", \"\" and \"ThunderCats\" as well as video games such as \"Gears of War\", \"Metal Gear\", \"No More Heroes\",", "title": "Robin Atkin Downes" }, { "id": "12870982", "text": "Ron Yuan Ronald Winston \"Ron\" Yuan (born February 20, 1973) is an American actor, voice actor, martial artist, action director, director and stunt choreographer of Chinese origin. He is known for his roles on Sons of Anarchy, Prison Break, Golden Boy, and . He also supplied the voice of Sgt. Fideltin Rusk in the video game series . Yuan was born in New York City, New York, the son of Theresa and Joseph Yuan, and the brother of actor Roger Yuan. Yuan has also recently appeared in Roland Emmerich's \"Independence Day\" sequel, \"\", playing Yeong, the main weapons engineer. Before", "title": "Ron Yuan" }, { "id": "4236068", "text": "Bruce Glover Bruce Herbert Glover (born May 2, 1932) is an American character actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of the assassin Mr. Wint in the James Bond film \"Diamonds Are Forever\". He is the father of actor Crispin Glover. Glover was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Eva Elvira (née Hedstrom) and Herbert Homan Glover. He is of English and Swedish descent. He began acting with numerous appearances on various television shows including \"My Favorite Martian\" (1963), \"Perry Mason\": \"The Case of the Golden Girls\" (1965), \"The Rat Patrol\" (1966), \"Hawk\" (1966), \"The Mod Squad\" (1968), \"Gunsmoke\" (1969), \"\"", "title": "Bruce Glover" }, { "id": "19955050", "text": "a score of 61 out of 100, based on 28 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". The Hero (2017 film) The Hero is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed and edited by Brett Haley and written by Haley and Marc Basch. It stars Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman and Katharine Ross and follows an aging movie star who deals with his terminal illness. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2017 and was released on June 9, 2017, by The Orchard. Lee Hayden (Sam Elliott) is an aging Western icon with a golden voice,", "title": "The Hero (2017 film)" }, { "id": "11179073", "text": "Edan Gross Edan Gross (born October 10, 1978) is an American former child actor, voice actor and former president of 3TAC Distribution, Inc.. He appeared in many guest spots on many popular television programs in the 1980s and 1990s including \"Cheers\", \"Murphy Brown\", \"The Golden Girls\", \"Empty Nest\", \"Newhart\", \"Highway to Heaven\", \"Married... with Children\", \"Northern Exposure\", and \"Herman's Head\". He was also featured as a regular on the short-lived sitcoms \"Sweet Surrender\" (NBC, 1987), \"Free Spirit\" (ABC, 1989–1990) and \"Walter & Emily\" (NBC, 1991–1992). Additionally, Gross was the voice of the Good Guy dolls in \"Child's Play\", the \"Corky", "title": "Edan Gross" }, { "id": "18921284", "text": "Gabriel Bateman Gabriel Bateman (born September 10, 2005) is an American child actor, known for his role as Martin in the horror film \"Lights Out\". He also starred in the CBS series \"Stalker\" as Ethan Taylor, and portrays Jack Hawthorne in \"American Gothic\". Bateman was raised in Turlock, California, but has moved to southern California since he started his career in acting. He is the brother of actress Talitha Bateman. In 2014, Bateman had a supporting role as Robert in the horror film \"Annabelle\", the spin-off to \"The Conjuring\". From 2014 until its cancellation the following year, he starred as", "title": "Gabriel Bateman" }, { "id": "20200915", "text": "Olaf's Frozen Adventure Olaf's Frozen Adventure is a 2017 American 3D computer-animated featurette, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is directed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers, who previously directed the holiday-themed \"Prep and Landing\" shorts. The film features the voices of Josh Gad, Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, and Jonathan Groff reprising their roles from the original 2013 film \"Frozen\". It premiered in 3D in theaters for a limited time engagement in front of Pixar's \"Coco\" on November 22, 2017, and made its television debut on ABC on December 14, 2017. It is", "title": "Olaf's Frozen Adventure" }, { "id": "1868766", "text": "Tom Kenny Thomas James Kenny (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor, voice artist, and comedian. He is best known for voicing the title character in the \"SpongeBob SquarePants\" TV series, video games, and films. Kenny has voiced many other characters including Heffer Wolfe in \"Rocko's Modern Life\"; the Ice King in \"Adventure Time\"; the Narrator and Mayor in \"The Powerpuff Girls\"; Carl Chryniszzswics in \"Johnny Bravo\"; Dog in \"CatDog\"; and Spyro from the \"Spyro the Dragon\" video game series. His live-action work includes the comedy variety shows \"The Edge\" and \"Mr. Show\". Kenny has won a Daytime Emmy", "title": "Tom Kenny" }, { "id": "5846512", "text": "ImageMovers ImageMovers is an American independent film production company founded by director Robert Zemeckis and producers Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey in 1997. The company is known for producing such films as \"Cast Away\" (2000), \"What Lies Beneath\" (2000) and \"The Polar Express\" (2004). From 2007 to 2011, The Walt Disney Company and ImageMovers founded a joint venture animation facility known as ImageMovers Digital which produced two performance captured animated films: \"A Christmas Carol\" (2009) and \"Mars Needs Moms\" (2011) for Walt Disney Pictures. ImageMovers' first seven films were \"What Lies Beneath\" (with Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer), \"Cast Away\"", "title": "ImageMovers" }, { "id": "18662893", "text": "the Top 100 cultural influencers of 2012. Steven Ilous is based in Los Angeles, California. Ilous began in visual effects at the age of 18 working with Stan Lee at Stan Lee Media, where he became a Senior Animator. One year later, he became a part of the visual effects team on The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. In 2004, Ilous helped create facial motion capture technology used in The Polar Express, Monster House, and Beowulf. In 2008, Ilous teamed up with Michael Davidoff, Bill Rosenthal, and Steve Freeman to write \"The Life and Times of Jimmy Jaxx\" for", "title": "Steven Ilous" }, { "id": "4843523", "text": "Michael Rapaport Michael David Rapaport (born March 20, 1970) is an American actor and comedian. He has appeared in over sixty films since the early 1990s, and starred on the sitcom \"The War at Home\". He also appeared in \"Boston Public\", \"Friends\", \"Prison Break\", \"Justified\", and \"Atypical\". Some of his notable film roles include \"True Romance\" (1993), \"Higher Learning\" (1995), \"Metro\" (1997), \"Cop Land\" (1997), \"Deep Blue Sea\" (1999), \"The 6th Day\" (2000), \"Dr. Dolittle 2\" (2001), \"Big Fan\" (2009), and \"The Heat\" (2013). He also directed the documentary \"\" (2011). Rapaport was born in New York City, the son", "title": "Michael Rapaport" }, { "id": "4412850", "text": "of the Apes\" (2001), \"Unfaithful\" (2002), \"The Polar Express\" (2004), \"Jarhead\" (2005), and \"Flags of Our Fathers\" (2006). Broyles continues to write, and he has recently begun his next feature film, \"Lost Shadows\". He currently lives and works in New Mexico. William Broyles Jr. William Dodson \"Bill\" Broyles Jr. (born October 8, 1944) is an American screenwriter, who has worked on the television series \"China Beach\", and the films \"Apollo 13\", \"Cast Away\", \"Entrapment\", \"Planet of the Apes\", \"Unfaithful\", \"The Polar Express\", and \"Jarhead\". He also assisted in the screenplay of \"Saving Private Ryan\". He was married to the actress", "title": "William Broyles Jr." }, { "id": "3012419", "text": "Jason Patric Jason Patric (born June 17, 1966) is an American film, television and stage actor. He is known for his roles in the films \"The Lost Boys\", \"Rush\", \"Sleepers\", \"\", \"Your Friends & Neighbors\", \"Narc\", \"The Losers\", \"The Alamo\", and \"\". His father was actor/playwright Jason Miller and his maternal grandfather was actor Jackie Gleason. Patric was born in Queens, New York, the son of Academy Award-nominated actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jason Miller (born John Anthony Miller Jr.) and actress Linda Miller (born Linda Mae Gleason). His maternal grandfather was actor/comedian Jackie Gleason. His half-brother is actor Joshua", "title": "Jason Patric" }, { "id": "12190509", "text": "How to Train Your Dragon (film) How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated action fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Loosely based on the 2003 book by Cressida Cowell, the film was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the duo who wrote and directed Walt Disney Animation Studios' 2002 film \"Lilo & Stitch\". It stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T. J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. The story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (film)" }, { "id": "9175915", "text": "Seth Adkins Seth Elijah Adkins (born October 30, 1989) is an American actor. He made his debut as a child actor in the TV shows \"Small Talk\" and \"Sabrina, the Teenage Witch\" in 1996 and the films \"...First Do No Harm\" and \"Titanic\" in 1997. He later made a successful transition to portraying adult characters. Adkins played Pinocchio in the film \"Geppetto\" (2000) and appeared in the film \"Let Me In\" (2010) directed by Matt Reeves. Adkins was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has two elder brothers, Zachary (b. 1978) and Josh (b. 1981). His father is a principal", "title": "Seth Adkins" }, { "id": "1832409", "text": "\"Aliens of the Deep\" IMAX (2005), and \"The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D\" (2005). In 2004, Las Vegas Hilton released which included two films. One of the films, \"Borg Invasion 4-D\" (Ty Granoroli), was in 3D. In August of the same year, rap group Insane Clown Posse released their ninth studio album \"Hell's Pit\". One of two versions of the album contained a DVD featuring a 3D short film for the track \"Bowling Balls\", shot in high-definition video. In November 2004, \"The Polar Express\" was released as IMAX's first full-length, animated 3D feature. It was released in 3,584", "title": "3D film" }, { "id": "6083990", "text": "Andrew Francis Andrew Michael Scott Francis (born May 27, 1985) is a Canadian actor and voice actor from Vancouver, British Columbia. He has appeared in many television shows and films including \"\", \"Lamb Chop's Play Along\", Hero 108, Sushi Pack, \"\", \"Dark Angel\", \"Twilight Zone\", \"The L Word\", \"Smallville\", \"Kyle XY\" and \"Chesapeake Shores\". He has also appeared in theatrical releases such as \"Knockaround Guys\", \"Agent Cody Banks\", \"Final Destination 3,\" and, more recently, \"The Invisible\". Andrew has also been voice acting since the age of 9, starring in over 20 animated series, including many anime series, such as: \"\",", "title": "Andrew Francis" }, { "id": "11481130", "text": "from stage plays by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson to roles in television series such as \"Modern Family\" and \"Boardwalk Empire\", as well as in popular movies including \"The Polar Express\" (2004, directed by Robert Zemeckis). Onstage in 2003 in Lee Breuer's production of Henrik Ibsen's \"A Doll's House\", retitled \"Mabou Mines DollHouse\", Povinelli drew praise from \"The New York Times\": \"The men embody small-minded convention and stunted possibilities...Mr. Povinelli makes us feel Torvald's repressive sexual virility at every turn.\" He has characterized his approach to acting for \"The Village Voice\": \"\"Being so tremendously different provides you with an analytical", "title": "Mark Povinelli" }, { "id": "16417218", "text": "Josh Gad; Whoopi Goldberg; Kelsey Grammer; Richard E. Grant; Kerry Howard; Jeremy Irons; Sir David Jason; Carole King; Steve Martin; Brian May; Sir Paul McCartney; Kevin McKidd; Alan Menken; Piers Morgan; Matthew Morrison; Wendi Peters; Sir Tony Robinson; Jonathan Ross; William Shatner; David Suchet; Zoë Wanamaker; Levison Wood. The singing contributions on 'The Hero' were recorded by West End & Broadway Performers: Stephen Ashfield (Book Of Mormon Broadway); Sam Bailey (X-Factor Winner); David Bedella (Rocky Horror Show); Norman Bowman (42nd Street West End); Christina Bianco (Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat); Alan Burkitt (Kiss Me Kate West End); Sophia Anne", "title": "Daniel and Laura Curtis" }, { "id": "4335039", "text": "Jon Heder Jonathan Joseph Heder () (born October 26, 1977) is an American actor and producer. His feature film debut came in 2004 as the title character of the comedy film \"Napoleon Dynamite\". He has also acted in the films \"The Benchwarmers\", \"School for Scoundrels\", \"Blades of Glory\", \"Mama's Boy\", \"When in Rome\", and \"Walt Before Mickey\" as Roy Disney, and provided voice talents in the animated films \"Monster House\", \"Surf's Up\" and \"Pinocchio\", as well as the \"Napoleon Dynamite\" animated series. Heder was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, the son of Helen (née Brammer) and Dr. James Heder, a", "title": "Jon Heder" }, { "id": "3273355", "text": "Phil Harris Wonga Philip Harris (June 24, 1904 – August 11, 1995) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and jazz musician. He was an orchestra leader and a pioneer in radio situation comedy, first with Jack Benny, then in a series in which he co-starred with his wife, singer-actress Alice Faye, for eight years. Harris is also noted for his voice acting in animated films. He played Baloo the bear in \"The Jungle Book\" (1967), Thomas O'Malley in \"The Aristocats\" (1970), and Little John in \"Robin Hood\" (1973). In 1981, he sang \"Back Home Again in Indiana\" before the Indianapolis", "title": "Phil Harris" }, { "id": "3893593", "text": "Daryl Sabara Daryl Christopher Sabara (born June 14, 1992) is an American actor, perhaps best known for playing Juni Cortez in the \"Spy Kids\" film series, as well as for a variety of television and film appearances, including \"Generator Rex\", \"Wizards of Waverly Place\", \"Father of the Pride\", \"The Polar Express\", \"Keeping Up with the Steins\", \"Halloween\", \"World's Greatest Dad\", \"Grimm\", and \"America's Most Talented Kids\" (on which he was a judge). Sabara was born in Torrance, California, and was raised by his mother, Sandra \"Sandy\" (Krebs), a Los Angeles social worker. Daryl graduated from West Torrance High School in", "title": "Daryl Sabara" }, { "id": "2397692", "text": "character models. \"The Polar Express\" used motion capture to allow Tom Hanks to perform as several distinct digital characters (in which he also provided the voices). The 2007 adaptation of the saga \"Beowulf\" animated digital characters whose appearances were based in part on the actors who provided their motions and voices. James Cameron's highly popular \"Avatar\" used this technique to create the Na'vi that inhabit Pandora. The Walt Disney Company has produced Robert Zemeckis's \"A Christmas Carol\" using this technique. In 2007, Disney acquired Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital (that produces motion capture films), but then closed it in 2011, after a", "title": "Motion capture" } ]

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[ { "id": "282270", "text": "traps of nationalism and class sectarianism. Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (\"In Search of Lost Time\"; earlier rendered as \"Remembrance of Things Past\"), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Proust was born in the Paris Borough of Auteuil (the south-western sector of the then-rustic", "title": "Marcel Proust" }, { "id": "282246", "text": "Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (\"In Search of Lost Time\"; earlier rendered as \"Remembrance of Things Past\"), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. He is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Proust was born in the Paris Borough of Auteuil (the south-western sector of the then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of", "title": "Marcel Proust" }, { "id": "11948152", "text": "Remembrance of Things Past (play) Remembrance of Things Past is the 2000 collaborative stage adaptation by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis of Harold Pinter's as-yet unproduced \"The Proust Screenplay\" (1977), a screen adaptation of \"À la recherche du temps perdu\", the seven-volume novel by Marcel Proust. In November 2000, the play premiered at the Royal National Theatre, in London, under the direction of Trevis, who also produced and directed it with a student cast at the Victorian College of the Arts Drama School, in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2002. There also were foreign-language productions of the play in Denmark", "title": "Remembrance of Things Past (play)" }, { "id": "11948155", "text": "and planned to finish cataloguing in late 2008; the catalogue went online on 2 February 2009 and was first accessible the following day. Michael Bakewell adapted Pinter's screenplay into a radio play also titled \"The Proust Screenplay\" directed by Ned Chaillet and featuring Pinter as narrator, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 31 December 1995 and as an extended repeat on 11 May 1997. The stage version, which premiered at the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre on 23 November 2000 and ran there through 7 February 2001, was directed by Di Trevis and starred Sebastian Harcombe (Marcel), Duncan Bell (Charles Swann),", "title": "Remembrance of Things Past (play)" }, { "id": "8002561", "text": "30 to be weak, perfunctory, trite and gives an appearance of intellectual collapse. The second line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30 provided the source of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's title, \"Remembrance of Things Past\", for his English translation (publ. 1922-1931) of French author Marcel Proust's monumental novel in seven volumes, \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (publ. 1913-1927). It is now generally better known as \"In Search of Lost Time\". Sonnet 30 Sonnet 30 is one of the 154 sonnets written by the English poet and playwright William Shakespeare. It was published in the Quarto in 1609. It is also part", "title": "Sonnet 30" }, { "id": "11948154", "text": "France, Pinter finished his first draft of the screenplay in November 1972 (Billington, \"Harold Pinter\" 224–330). \"The Proust Screenplay\", in Billington's view \"a masterpiece ... [which] captures Proust's merciless social comedy\" (\"Harold Pinter\" 230), was eventually published by Grove Press in both hardback and paperback in 1977 and by Faber and Faber in hardback in 1978 (Baker and Ross 115–18). The stage play was published by Faber and Faber in 2000. Pinter's unpublished manuscripts for both the screenplay and the play are held in The Harold Pinter Archive in the British Library, which the BL acquired permanently in December 2007", "title": "Remembrance of Things Past (play)" }, { "id": "4188778", "text": "staple of the diet of the French bourgeoisie. Madeleines were chosen to represent France in the Café Europe initiative of the Austrian presidency of the European Union, on Europe Day 2006. In \"In Search of Lost Time\" (also known as \"Remembrance of Things Past\"), author Marcel Proust uses madeleines to contrast involuntary memory with voluntary memory. The latter designates memories retrieved by \"intelligence\", that is, memories produced by putting conscious effort into remembering events, people, and places. Proust's narrator laments that such memories are inevitably partial, and do not bear the \"essence\" of the past. The most famous instance of", "title": "Madeleine (cake)" }, { "id": "11532318", "text": "original descriptions, and the film shares the traditional plot points from the book. Connor Mead (Matthew McConaughey) is a famous photographer and confirmed womanizer. He takes a break from his playboy lifestyle to attend his brother Paul's wedding, where he becomes reacquainted with Jenny Perotti (Jennifer Garner), Connor's childhood friend and the only girl who's ever captured his heart. After Connor delivers a drunken speech at the rehearsal dinner where he says that love isn't real, he's met in the bathroom by the ghost of his uncle Wayne (Michael Douglas), a roué who taught Connor everything he knows about seducing", "title": "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" }, { "id": "15481314", "text": "was one of the inspirations for the figure of Swann in Marcel Proust's \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (\"In Search of Lost Time\"; titled \"Remembrance of Things Past\" in the first translation). All of this changed with the Dreyfus affair in 1894, which polarized France and caused many doors to be closed to Jews. The Ephrussi family was very prominent and thus became the target of anti-Semitic attacks. Charles died in 1905, before Dreyfus was exonerated. He had never married, and left much of his estate to his niece Fanny Kann and her husband Théodore Reinach. Charles Ephrussi Charles", "title": "Charles Ephrussi" }, { "id": "11948153", "text": "and Slovenia in 2004. In writing \"The Proust Screenplay\", Pinter adapted the seven volumes of Marcel Proust's magnum opus \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" for a film commissioned by the late director Joseph Losey to be directed by Losey (Billington, \"Harold Pinter\" 224–330). According to Pinter in conversation with Jonathan Croall and with Michael Billington, his official biographer, Losey and Pinter were not able to find the financing for the film and there were unsurmountable casting difficulties; yet, after a year's work and other cultural complications pertaining to negotiations about permission to adapt Proust's great work from principals in", "title": "Remembrance of Things Past (play)" }, { "id": "11948158", "text": "1994. 14-53. (Includes an Appendix listing the holdings of the Archive through 64 boxes, including the unpublished manuscripts pertaining to \"The Proust Screenplay: À la recherche du temps perdu\", adapt. by Pinter, and \"Remembrance of Things Past\", adapt. collaboratively from Pinter's \"The Proust Screenplay\", by Pinter and Di Trevis.) Pinter, Harold. \"The Proust Screenplay: À la recherche du temps perdu\". New York: Grove Press (Dist. Random House), 1977. (10). London: Faber and Faber, 1978. (10). (Adapt. for the screen of the 7-vol. novel by Marcel Proust.) –––, and Di Trevis. \"Remembrance of Things Past\". London: Faber and Faber, 2000. (10).", "title": "Remembrance of Things Past (play)" }, { "id": "19661299", "text": "Finn Wolfhard Finn Wolfhard (born December 23, 2002) is a Canadian actor and musician. His acting roles include Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series \"Stranger Things\" and Richie Tozier in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's \"It\". As a musician, he is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the rock band Calpurnia. Wolfhard was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to a family of French, German and Jewish descent. His father, Eric Wolfhard, is a researcher on aboriginal land claims. He has an older brother named Nick. Wolfhard got his first acting job from Craigslist. He made his television", "title": "Finn Wolfhard" }, { "id": "15760384", "text": "Daria Galateria Daria Galateria is an Italian writer and professor. Daria Galateria was born in Rome, Italy, in 1950. She graduated in Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on monologue in Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry. She has taught French Literature and Language at the Sapienza University of Rome since 1975. Over the years her research has focused in particular on the female memoir. She also edited the first Italian commented edition of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. In 1996 she was awarded the \"Grinzane Cavour\" for the book \"Fughe dal re Sole\". In 2005 she", "title": "Daria Galateria" }, { "id": "4676505", "text": "the cycle that began with \"The Winds of War\". The story includes historical occurrences at Midway, Yalta, Guadalcanal, and El Alamein as well as the Allied invasions at Normandy and the Philippines. The action moves back and forth between the characters against the backdrop of World War II: Victor \"Pug\" Henry takes part in various battles while separating from his wife. Pug's older son Warren, a naval aviator, and younger son, Byron, a submarine officer, also participate in combat. Warren is killed at the battle of Midway. Byron's wife Natalie is trapped in Axis territory with her uncle, celebrated author", "title": "War and Remembrance" }, { "id": "782424", "text": "In Search of Lost Time In Search of Lost Time ()—previously also translated as Remembrance of Things Past—is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871–1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the \"episode of the madeleine\" which occurs early in the first volume. It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as \"Remembrance of Things Past\", but the title \"In Search of Lost Time\", a literal rendering of the French, has", "title": "In Search of Lost Time" }, { "id": "19661300", "text": "debut as Zoran in \"The 100\", followed by a role as Jordie Pinsky in \"Supernatural\". In 2016, Wolfhard began to play the role of Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series \"Stranger Things\". He auditioned for the role via video after seeing an open casting call. The cast of the series won a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. He played Richie Tozier in the film adaptation of Stephen King's \"It\", which was released on September 8, 2017. The casting of Wolfhard in both \"Stranger Things\" and \"It\", both set in the '80s, had been", "title": "Finn Wolfhard" }, { "id": "19661303", "text": "and its imprint, paradYse, for Europe and the United Kingdom. Finn Wolfhard Finn Wolfhard (born December 23, 2002) is a Canadian actor and musician. His acting roles include Mike Wheeler in the Netflix series \"Stranger Things\" and Richie Tozier in the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King's \"It\". As a musician, he is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the rock band Calpurnia. Wolfhard was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to a family of French, German and Jewish descent. His father, Eric Wolfhard, is a researcher on aboriginal land claims. He has an older brother named Nick. Wolfhard got", "title": "Finn Wolfhard" }, { "id": "7188003", "text": "C. K. Scott Moncrieff Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, (25 September 1889 – 28 February 1930) was a Scottish writer, most famous for his English translation of most of Proust's , which he published under the Shakespearean title \"Remembrance of Things Past\". His family name is the double-barrelled name \"Scott Moncrieff\". Charles Kenneth Michael Scott Moncrieff was born at Weedingshall, Stirlingshire, in 1889, the youngest son of William George (1846–1927), Advocate, Sheriff Substitute, and Jessie Margaret Scott Moncrieff (1858–1936). He had two elder brothers Colin William (1879–1943), the father of the Scottish author and playwright George Scott Moncrieff, and John Irving", "title": "C. K. Scott Moncrieff" }, { "id": "11948159", "text": "(13). (Adapt. for the stage of \"The Proust Screenplay: À la recherche du temps perdu\", by Harold Pinter.) –––, and Jonathan Croall. \"Time Present and Time Past\". \"National Theatre\" Official Website. Spring 2001. Accessed 28 Sept. 2008. (\"Harold Pinter talks to Jonathan Croall about the daunting task of adapting Marcel Proust's masterpiece for the theatre.\") Remembrance of Things Past (play) Remembrance of Things Past is the 2000 collaborative stage adaptation by Harold Pinter and director Di Trevis of Harold Pinter's as-yet unproduced \"The Proust Screenplay\" (1977), a screen adaptation of \"À la recherche du temps perdu\", the seven-volume novel by", "title": "Remembrance of Things Past (play)" }, { "id": "7188011", "text": "of the original French. It is, in fact, taken from the second line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30: \"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past\". By the autumn of 1921 Scott Moncrieff had resigned his employment and determined to live from then on by translation alone. He had already successfully published his \"Song of Roland\" and \"Beowulf\", and now undertook to translate Proust's huge masterpiece in its entirety. He persuaded Chatto & Windus Publishers to issue the complete \"Remembrance of Things Past\" (as he now christened the novel in English). On 9", "title": "C. K. Scott Moncrieff" }, { "id": "15804419", "text": "Terence Kilmartin Terence Kevin Kilmartin CBE (10 January 1922 – 17 August 1991) was an Irish-born translator who served as the literary editor of \"The Observer\" between 1952 and 1986. He is best known for his 1981 translation of \"Remembrance of Things Past\" by Marcel Proust. Kilmartin was born on 10 January 1922 in the Irish Free State. Moving to England as a child, he was educated at Xaverian College in Mayfield, East Sussex. His limited knowledge of French developed when, at the age of 17, he was recruited to teach English to a French family's children. During the Second", "title": "Terence Kilmartin" }, { "id": "4041933", "text": "blue sails. Harrison seems to have been the inspiration for the character \"C,\" in Proust's attempted first novel \"Jean Santeuil\"; along with aspects of the character \"Elstir\" the painter, in \"Remembrance of Things Past\". His brother, L. Birge Harrison (1854–1929), also a painter, particularly successful in snow scenes, studied at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris, under Cabanel and Carolus-Duran; his \"November\" (honourable mention, 1882) was purchased by the French government. Another brother, Butler Harrison (died 1886), was a figure painter. T. Alexander Harrison Thomas Alexander Harrison (January 17, 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 13, 1930 in Paris, France),", "title": "T. Alexander Harrison" }, { "id": "3408918", "text": "\"Weir of Hermiston\" (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first translation into English of Marcel Proust's novel \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (\"Remembrance of Things Past\", C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1922), amongst others. In 1946, the company took over the running of the Hogarth Press, founded in 1917 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged with Jonathan Cape, it published broadly in the field of literature, including novels and poetry. It is not connected, except in the loosest historical fashion, with Pickering & Chatto Publishers. Norah Smallwood was appointed to", "title": "Chatto & Windus" }, { "id": "14598297", "text": "Woodson, to explain major events and important characters. It was followed by a sequel, \"War and Remembrance,\" in 1988, also based on a novel written by Wouk and also directed and produced by Curtis. The film follows the plot of Wouk's novel closely, depicting events from March 1939 until the entry of the United States into World War II in December 1941. It tells the story of Victor \"Pug\" Henry, and his family, and their relationships with a mixture of real people and fictional characters. Henry is a Naval Officer and friend of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Author Herman Wouk", "title": "The Winds of War (miniseries)" }, { "id": "121530", "text": "would be easy, and pointless, to describe emotions; he sculpted collages of images in order to grasp \"the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or in ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always\". This use of an image as an objective correlative is characteristic of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Proust. Hemingway's letters refer to Proust's \"Remembrance of Things Past\" several times over the years, and indicate he read the book at least twice. The popularity", "title": "Ernest Hemingway" }, { "id": "16131807", "text": "Furthermore, there is a distortion of the storyline, as the narrative structure and plot patterns are highlighted by positioning chapter 18 and 19 after chapter 25 (Klarer 2004, p. 78). The same can be noticed in Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past in which he tells the entire novel retrospectively, from the past to the present (Ryan 2011, p. 2). While in Russian Formalism and Prague structuralism literary texts were seen as the ones that use language in aesthetic and estranged ways, non-literary texts were those that used everyday language precisely and accurately. They consisted of everyday texts, such as", "title": "Literariness" }, { "id": "13132509", "text": "of the Fellowship and spend much of \"The Two Towers\" with their own story line. Impetuous and curious, he enlists (in \"The Return of the King\") as a soldier in the army of Gondor and fought in several battles during the War of the Ring. In the epilogues to the main story, Pippin returns to the Shire and becomes \"Thain\" or hereditary leader of the land before dying and being buried as a hero in Gondor. Peregrin was the only son and heir of Paladin Took II, the Thain of the Shire. His best friend Meriadoc Brandybuck, more commonly known", "title": "Peregrin Took" }, { "id": "10912962", "text": "Redintegration Redintegration refers to the restoration of the whole of something from a part of it. In cognitive psychology the word is used in reference to phenomena in the field of memory. The everyday phenomenon is that a small part of a memory can remind a person of the entire memory. In contemporary memory research it is defined as \"the use of long-term knowledge to facilitate recall.\" The great literary example of redintegration is Marcel Proust's novel \"Remembrance of Things Past\". The conceit is that the entire seven-volume novel consists of the memories triggered by the taste of a madeleine", "title": "Redintegration" }, { "id": "14012067", "text": "played Edward \"Tip\" Dorrit in the BBC serial \"Little Dorrit\". Darvill had a minor role as a stable groom in Ridley Scott's \"Robin Hood\", and played Mick Gallagher in \"Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll\". In summer 2011, he appeared in \"Doctor Faustus\" at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. After his departure from \"Doctor Who\" he was cast in the drama \"Broadchurch\" as vicar Paul Coates, alongside David Tennant and Olivia Colman. In March 2015, it was announced that Darvill had been cast as the time-traveller Rip Hunter in the series \"Legends of Tomorrow\". Darvill is also a musician", "title": "Arthur Darvill" }, { "id": "4889783", "text": "Sert by Renoir is now in the Tate Gallery. Marcel Proust used Sert as the prototype for the characters of \"Princess Yourbeletieff\" and \"Madame Verdurin\" in his roman à clef \"À la recherche du temps perdu\", (Remembrance of Things Past). Natanson’s \"La Revue blanche\" coupled with his political activism required an influx of capital, which he alone was unable to supply. Needing a benefactor, he approached Alfred Edwards, a newspaper magnate, the founder of the foremost newspaper in Paris, \"Le Matin.\" Edwards had become enamored with Sert and had taken her as his mistress in 1903. He would supply money,", "title": "Misia Sert" }, { "id": "12018539", "text": "Georges Clemenceau, Prof. Samuel-Jean Pozzi, Dr. Paul-Louis Couchoud, Aristide Briand, Léon Blum, Jean Jaurès, Léopold Kaher, Pierre Mille, Charles Maurras and Raymond Poincaré. Léontine Lippmann Léontine Lippmann (1844–1910), better known by her married name of Madame Arman or Madame Arman de Caillavet was the muse of Anatole France and the hostess of a highly fashionable literary salon during the French Third Republic. She is the model of Madame Verdurin in Proust's \"Remembrance of Things Past\". Born into a wealthy Jewish family as a banker's daughter, she married Albert Arman. Arman's mother's maiden name was Caillavet and so they called themselves", "title": "Léontine Lippmann" }, { "id": "782427", "text": "\"Jean Santeuil\" (1896–99), though the perspective and treatment there are different, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essay and story, \"Contre Sainte-Beuve\" (1908–09). The novel had great influence on twentieth-century literature; some writers have sought to emulate it, others to parody it. In the centenary year of the novel's first volume, Edmund White pronounced \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" \"the most respected novel of the twentieth century\". The novel was initially published in seven volumes: The novel recounts the experiences of the Narrator (who is never definitively named) while he is growing up, learning about art, participating in", "title": "In Search of Lost Time" }, { "id": "3863399", "text": "Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Daniel Cudmore, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, and Lucas Till. Newcomers Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Adan Canto, Fan Bingbing, Booboo Stewart and Evan Peters were also signed to play Bolivar Trask, Bishop, Sunspot, Blink, Warpath and Quicksilver, respectively. Although Wolverine is the one to actually return to his \"younger\" body, director Bryan Singer described Pryde as the prime facilitator and it is Pryde's phasing ability that enables time travel to happen. In this film, the catalyst for the Sentinel-dominated future was Mystique's assassination of Bolivar Trask and", "title": "Days of Future Past" }, { "id": "13986681", "text": "at the height of his fame. In \"A Peep into the Past\" Beerbohm portrays Wilde as a staid old gentleman with a somewhat suspicious procession of page-boys passing backwards and forwards through his neighbourhood in Chelsea: \"Once a welcome guest in many of our Bohemian haunts, he lives a life of quiet retirement in his little house in Tite Street with his wife and two sons, his prop and mainstay, solacing himself with many a reminiscence of the friends of his youth\"... \"The old gentleman\" (Wilde was 39) continues to write; indeed, he \"has not yet abandoned his old intention", "title": "A Peep into the Past" }, { "id": "18783364", "text": "death of Alphonse Daudet in 1897. In 1913, through her son Lucien Daudet, who was a good friend of Marcel Proust, she was one of the first readers of the manuscript of \"Remembrance of Things Past\". She was immediately taken with the text and encouraged the author to persevere at a time when he was doubting his talent, since the novel had been rejected by many editors. In 1922 she became a chevalier of the Legion of honour. She died at the age of 95. Julia Daudet Julia Daudet, born Julia Allard on 13 July 1844 and died on 23", "title": "Julia Daudet" }, { "id": "18428221", "text": "'Endlessly fascinating, written with flair and a feel for the drama of the moment' said the \"Financial Times\". ‘A side-splitting brilliance, that only a truly gifted writer can achieve … up there with Proust as a shimmering example of classic remembrance of things past' said the \"Daily Mail\". ‘You start to see where all gardeners get their pleasures and compulsions’ – \"The Times\". 'I set out determined to dislike the book, and I completely failed to do so. There can be no higher praise than that.' – \"The Spectator\". \"The Garden in the Clouds\" was a winner of the National", "title": "Antony Woodward" }, { "id": "7188010", "text": "Square. In 1923 his health compelled him to move to Italy, where he divided his time between Florence and Pisa, and later, Rome. He subsequently supported himself with literary work, notably translations from medieval and modern French. Scott Moncrieff published the first volume of his Proust translation in 1922, and continued work on the enormous novel until his death in February 1930, at which time he was working on the final volume of the \"Remembrance\". His choice of the title \"Remembrance of Things Past\", by which Proust's novel was known in English for many years, is not a literal translation", "title": "C. K. Scott Moncrieff" }, { "id": "3049268", "text": "speculated that Lyautey might have provided Marcel Proust with the model for the character of the homosexual Baron de Charlus in his \"magnum opus\" \"Remembrance of Things Past\". The actual evidence for Lyautey being a homosexual is primarily circumstantial, but it was widely regarded as an open secret at the time, one which some historians claim Lyautey did not take any effort to hide. Robert Aldrich writes that he liked hot climates and \"the masculine company of young officers\". Lyautey's wife is said to have told a group of her husband's young officers that \"I have the pleasure of informing", "title": "Hubert Lyautey" }, { "id": "10638307", "text": "Lucien Daudet Lucien Daudet (11 June 1878 – 1946) was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet and Julia Daudet. Although a prolific novelist and painter, he was never really able to trump his father's greater reputation and is now primarily remembered for his ties to fellow novelist Marcel Proust (\"Remembrance of Things Past\"). Daudet was also friends with Jean Cocteau. The Daudet family was composed of the father, Alphonse, the mother Julia (née Allard), Léon, the older brother, Edmée, and Lucien. Every member of the family wrote books: father, mother, brother, sister, sister-in-law (Marthe Allard under the pseudonym", "title": "Lucien Daudet" }, { "id": "14036644", "text": "NBC hit drama \"\", opposite special guest star Cybill Shepherd. In 2014, Chan completed \"Descendants of the Past, Ancestors of the Future\", a film he wrote and directed, starring Golden Globe, Emmy, and Drama Desk nominee Tina Chen, which won \"Best Screenplay\" and \"Best Actress\" at the 2015 NYC Downtown Short Film Festival. The film, based on the immigration history of Chan's family, was awarded a Puffin Foundation Grant and named a finalist for the Roy W. Dean Film Grant. In 2016, Chan was cast in the Boston Marathon bombing film \"Patriots Day\" starring Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Bacon and", "title": "Albert M. Chan" }, { "id": "282247", "text": "his great-uncle on 10 July 1871, two months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Franco-Prussian War. He was born during the violence that surrounded the suppression of the Paris Commune, and his childhood corresponded with the consolidation of the French Third Republic. Much of \"In Search of Lost Time\" concerns the vast changes, most particularly the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the \"fin de siècle.\" Proust's father, Adrien Proust, was a prominent pathologist and epidemiologist, studying cholera in Europe and Asia. He wrote", "title": "Marcel Proust" }, { "id": "2812366", "text": "her baccalauréat on the second attempt, at the cours Hattemer, and was admitted to the Sorbonne in the fall of 1952. She was an indifferent student, and did not graduate. The pseudonym \"Sagan\" was taken from a character (\"Princesse de Sagan\") in Marcel Proust's \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (\"In Search of Lost Time\"). Sagan's first novel, \"Bonjour Tristesse\" (\"Hello Sadness\"), was published in 1954, when she was 18 years old. It was an immediate international success. The novel concerns the life of a pleasure-driven 17-year-old named Cécile and her relationship with her boyfriend and her adulterous, playboy father.", "title": "Françoise Sagan" }, { "id": "14350168", "text": "Losey on the screenplay for \"Galileo\" (1975), which was an adaptation of the play by Bertolt Brecht. During the same decade, they collaborated on the script for a biographical film about Ibn Sa'ud, the founder of Saudi Arabia and (with Harold Pinter), she wrote an adaptation of Proust's \"Remembrance of Things Past\". Bray also worked extensively with Samuel Beckett, developing a professional as well as personal relationship that continued for the rest of his life. Bray was one of the few people with whom the playwright discussed his work. Bray suffered a stroke at the end of 2003. In late", "title": "Barbara Bray" }, { "id": "18989705", "text": "is combined with the struggle for survival among men (the red blood) and those creatures born of mud (the black blood) that had once ruled the lands that men now rule. Love, secrets, betrayal, and unthinkable and incomprehensible ties between red blood and black blood, are the forces that drive each of the inhabitants of this remote land. On 12 March 2015, Kieran Bew was cast in the series to play the title role; other cast included William Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Ed Speleers, David Ajala, Ian Puleston-Davies, Ellora Torchia, Gísli Örn Gardarsson, Susan Aderin, Kirsty Oswald, Laura Donnelly, Edward Hogg,", "title": "Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands" }, { "id": "282249", "text": "nine, Proust had had his first serious asthma attack, and thereafter he was considered a sickly child. Proust spent long holidays in the village of Illiers. This village, combined with recollections of his great-uncle's house in Auteuil, became the model for the fictional town of Combray, where some of the most important scenes of \"In Search of Lost Time\" take place. (Illiers was renamed Illiers-Combray in 1971 on the occasion of the Proust centenary celebrations.) In 1882, at the age of eleven, Proust became a pupil at the Lycée Condorcet, but his education was disrupted by his illness. Despite this", "title": "Marcel Proust" }, { "id": "3713473", "text": "previews, but both parts were cut during the pre-Broadway run. Several pairs of characters originally played by the same Monty Python member were reduced to one: the Dead Collector and Sir Robin (Idle), the Large Man with a Dead Body and Sir Lancelot (Cleese), and Dennis the Active Peasant and Sir Galahad (Michael Palin). Notable Broadway cast replacements included: Notable West End cast replacements have included Peter Davison and Bill Ward in 2007 and Marin Mazzie, in early 2008. Sanjeev Bhaskar (King Arthur), Michael Xavier (Sir Galahad) and Nina Söderquist (Lady of the Lake) were part of the closing cast.", "title": "Spamalot" }, { "id": "3337471", "text": "cold-hearted and tight-fisted man named Ebenezer Scrooge, vignettes from his childhood and early adult life to teach him that joy does not necessarily come from wealth. The past is the object of study within such fields as history, memory, flashback, recollection, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, chronology, geology, historical geology, historical linguistics, law, ontology, paleontology, paleobotany, paleoethnobotany, palaeogeography, paleoclimatology, terminology and cosmology. Past The past is the set of all events that occurred before a given point in time. The past is contrasted with and defined by the present and the future. The concept of the past is derived from the linear fashion", "title": "Past" }, { "id": "976903", "text": "as \"Dead Again\" (1991), in which he also starred, \"Swan Song\" (1992) (Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film), \"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein\" (1994) in which he also starred, \"The Magic Flute\" (2006), \"Sleuth\" (2007), the blockbuster superhero film \"Thor\" (2011), the action thriller \"\" (2014) in which he also co-stars, the live-action film \"Cinderella\" (2015), and the mystery drama adaptation of Agatha Christie's \"Murder on the Orient Express\" (2017), in which he also starred as Hercule Poirot. He narrated the series \"Cold War\" (1998), the BBC documentary miniseries \"Walking with Dinosaurs\" (1999) (as well as \"The Ballad of", "title": "Kenneth Branagh" }, { "id": "14265652", "text": "Jeremy Irvine Jeremy William Fredric Smith (born 1 July 1990), better known as Jeremy Irvine, is an English actor who made his film debut in the epic war film \"War Horse\" (2011). In 2012, he portrayed Philip \"Pip\" Pirrip in the film adaptation of \"Great Expectations\". Irvine earned a reputation as a method actor after he went for two months without food, losing around , and performed his own torture scene stunts in \"The Railway Man\" (2013). He has since starred in \"\" (2015), and portrayed Daniel Grigori in the direct-to-video film adaptation of the young adult novel \"Fallen\" (2016).", "title": "Jeremy Irvine" }, { "id": "2367117", "text": "James Badge Dale James Badgett Dale (born May 1, 1978), known professionally as James Badge Dale, is an American actor. He is known for playing Simon in \"Lord of the Flies\", Chase Edmunds in \"24\", State Trooper Barrigan in Martin Scorsese's \"The Departed\", Robert Leckie in \"The Pacific\", and Eric Savin in \"Iron Man 3\". Born in New York City, Dale is the only child of actor, dancer, and choreographer Grover Dale (born 1935) and actress and singer Anita Morris (1943–1994). At age 10, he was picked out of his fifth grade class at Wonderland Elementary School in Laurel Canyon,", "title": "James Badge Dale" }, { "id": "9277148", "text": "to steal an old woman's pears. Set in small-town America, the film stars Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Barrymore plays Julian Northrup (\"Gramps\"), a wheelchair user (Barrymore had broken his hip twice and was now using a wheelchair, though he continued to act), who, with his wife Nellie, played by Bondi, are raising their orphaned grandson, Pud. Hardwicke plays Mr. Brink, the personification of death. Brink (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) has recently taken Pud's (Bobs Watson) parents in an auto wreck. Brink later comes for Gramps (Lionel Barrymore). Believing Brink to be an ordinary stranger, the crotchety old", "title": "On Borrowed Time" }, { "id": "17221226", "text": "in the United States and Canada on February 21, 2014. This is the last film by FilmDistrict before merging with Focus Features. In Britannia, 62 AD, a tribe of Celtic horsemen are brutally wiped out by Romans led by Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland). The only survivor is a boy named Milo, whose mother Corvus personally killed. The boy is captured by slave traders. Seventeen years later, in Londinium in 79 A.D., a slave owner named Graecus (Joe Pingue) watches a class of gladiators battle. He is unimpressed until he sees the grown Milo (Kit Harington), a talented gladiator the crowds call", "title": "Pompeii (film)" }, { "id": "4804047", "text": "he won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor. Tom Noonan Tom Noonan (born April 12, 1951) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his role as Francis Dollarhyde in \"Manhunter\" (1986), Frankenstein's Monster in \"The Monster Squad\" (1987), Cain in \"RoboCop 2\" (1990), The Ripper in \"Last Action Hero\" (1993), Bill Lacey in \"Tales from the Darkside\" (1984), Sammy Barnathan in \"Synecdoche, New York\" (2008) and as the voice of everyone else in \"Anomalisa\" (2015). Noonan was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of Rosaleen and Tom Noonan, a jazz musician", "title": "Tom Noonan" }, { "id": "19946173", "text": "Channel. It features two new songs from Alan Menken, who wrote the score and songs for the original movie, and Glenn Slater: \"Life After Happily Ever After\" and \"Wind in My Hair\". \"Wind in My Hair\" would go on to become the opening theme of \"Tangled: The Series\". Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and M.C. Gainey reprise their roles from \"Tangled\" as Rapunzel, Eugene Fitzherbert and the Captain of the Guard respectively. It is the fourth animated Disney Channel Original Movie following \"\", \"The Proud Family Movie\", and \"\". Six months after the events of \"Tangled\", Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) is set", "title": "Tangled: Before Ever After" }, { "id": "282264", "text": "and edited by his brother Robert. The book was translated into English by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, appearing under the title \"Remembrance of Things Past\" between 1922 and 1931. Scott Moncrieff translated volumes one through six of the seven volumes, dying before completing the last. This last volume was rendered by other translators at different times. When Scott Moncrieff's translation was later revised (first by Terence Kilmartin, then by D. J. Enright) the title of the novel was changed to the more literal \"In Search of Lost Time\". In 1995 Penguin undertook a fresh translation of the book by editor", "title": "Marcel Proust" }, { "id": "1421460", "text": "Bob Hoskins Robert William Hoskins (26 October 1942 – 29 April 2014) was an English actor. His work included lead roles in \"Pennies from Heaven\" (1978), \"The Long Good Friday\" (1980), \"Mona Lisa\" (1986), \"Who Framed Roger Rabbit\" (1988), \"Mermaids\" (1990), and \"Super Mario Bros.\" (1993), and supporting performances in \"Brazil\" (1985), \"Hook\" (1991), \"Nixon\" (1995), \"Enemy at the Gates\" (2001), \"Mrs. Henderson Presents\" (2005), \"A Christmas Carol\" (2009), \"Made in Dagenham\" (2010), and \"Snow White and the Huntsman\" (2012). He also directed two feature films. Hoskins received the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, the BAFTA Award", "title": "Bob Hoskins" }, { "id": "5598908", "text": "\"Man of Steel\" (2013), \"\" (2016), and \"Justice League\" (2017). He went on to star in the action spy film \"\" (2018). Cavill was born the fourth of five boys on Jersey in the Channel Islands. His mother, Marianne (Dalgliesh), was a secretary in a bank, and his father, Colin Cavill, was a stockbroker. He was educated at St Michael's Preparatory School in Saint Saviour, Jersey, before attending Stowe School in Stowe, Buckinghamshire. Cavill began his film career with a role in \"Laguna\" (2001) and Kevin Reynolds' adaptation of \"The Count of Monte Cristo\" (2002). He continued with appearances in", "title": "Henry Cavill" }, { "id": "20273561", "text": "To All the Boys I've Loved Before (film) To All the Boys I've Loved Before is a 2018 American teen romance film directed by Susan Johnson and starring Lana Condor, Noah Centineo, Janel Parrish, Anna Cathcart, Madeleine Arthur, Emilija Baranac, Israel Broussard and John Corbett. Based on Jenny Han's 2014 novel of the same name, it was released by Netflix on August 17, 2018. High school junior Lara Jean Covey writes letters to boys she feels an intense passion for before locking the letters away in her closet. Her latest letter is to her childhood friend Josh, who is dating", "title": "To All the Boys I've Loved Before (film)" }, { "id": "12264492", "text": "Conrad thought C.K. Scott Moncrieff's English translation of Marcel Proust's \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (\"In Search of Lost Time\"—or, in Scott Moncrieff's rendering, \"Remembrance of Things Past\") to be preferable to the French original. The necessity of making choices, and therefore of interpretation, in translating (and in other fields of human endeavor) stems from the ambiguity that subjectively pervades the universe. Part of the ambiguity, for a translator, involves the structure of human language. Psychologist and neural scientist Gary Marcus notes that \"virtually every sentence [that people generate] is ambiguous, often in multiple ways. Our brain is so", "title": "Translation" }, { "id": "5481675", "text": "the Prairie\" as Andrew \"Andy\" Garvey from 1977–81, and on the CBS hit series \"JAG\" as Lt. Cmdr. Bud Roberts from 1995 to 2005, a role he reprised in three episodes of \"JAG\"s spin-off, \"NCIS\". Other TV shows on which he has made guest appearances include \"Starsky & Hutch\", \"21 Jump Street\", \"Living Single\", \"Yes, Dear\", \"\", \"The Love Boat\", \"Ghost Whisperer\", and \"iCarly\". He starred in films as well. He played Peter, great-nephew to Lucille Ball in the 1974 film \"Mame.\" One of his well-known roles is in the 1987 comedy film \"Summer School\" as football player Kevin Winchester", "title": "Patrick Labyorteaux" }, { "id": "2685273", "text": "television series as \"Burn Notice\", \"NCIS\" and \"True Blood\", among others. From 2012 to 2013, he also starred in \"Last Resort\" as Chief of the Boat Joseph Prosser. He played a supporting character in \"Identity Thief\" (2013). From 2014 to 2016, he starred in Robert Rodriguez's \"\" as Jacob Fuller. He also played Agent Cabe Gallo on the CBS drama series \"Scorpion\" from 2014 to 2018. On March 28, 2017, Patrick was cast in upcoming Amazon Video horror anthology series \"Lore\", which is based on the award-winning and critically acclaimed podcast of the same name. \"Lore\" recounts true stories of", "title": "Robert Patrick" }, { "id": "19573395", "text": "fits the template is seen as valid, and that which doesn't is rejected. Culture of Remembrance Erinnerungskultur (from German), or Culture of Remembrance, is the interaction of an individual or a society with their past and history. In the strictest sense, Remembrance Culture is all the behavioral configurations and socially approved or acquired manners of a society or group used to keep parts of the past in their consciousness and thus deliberately make it present. The central theme is not the display of historical and objective knowledge but primarily collective and subjective perceptions of historical connections to the past from", "title": "Culture of Remembrance" }, { "id": "9150486", "text": "in 2009. McCarthy has also tutored and lectured at various institutions including the Architectural Association, Central Saint Martins School of Art, the Royal College of Art, London Consortium and Columbia University. \"Remainder\" tells the story of an unnamed hero traumatised by an accident which \"involved something falling from the sky\". Eight and a half million pounds richer due to a compensation settlement but hopelessly estranged from the world around him, \"Remainder\"'s protagonist spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting vaguely remembered scenes and situations from his past, such as a large building with piano music in the distance,", "title": "Tom McCarthy (novelist)" }, { "id": "3337464", "text": "Past The past is the set of all events that occurred before a given point in time. The past is contrasted with and defined by the present and the future. The concept of the past is derived from the linear fashion in which human observers experience time, and is accessed through memory and recollection. In addition, human beings have recorded the past since the advent of written language. The first known use of the word \"past\" was in the fourteenth century; it developed as the past participle of the middle english verb \"passen\" meaning \"to pass.\" In Grammar, actions are", "title": "Past" }, { "id": "2936747", "text": "That same year, he had a minor role in the film \"Paul\" with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, reprised his \"Hangover\" role for its sequel, and was featured in \"Flypaper\", with Patrick Dempsey and Ashley Judd. In 2012, Tambor co-starred as Walt, Pete's aspiring musician father on the sitcom \"Bent\" starring Amanda Peet and David Walton. In May 2013 he returned to \"Arrested Development\" for season 4. In May 2017, Tambor released, \"Are You Anybody? A Memoir\". In February 2014, Amazon premiered its original series \"Transparent\", which starred Tambor as Maura Pfefferman (born Morton Pfefferman), a transgender, divorced, Jewish parent", "title": "Jeffrey Tambor" }, { "id": "793374", "text": "\"Hedda\", and the \"I, Claudius\" miniseries. From the 1980s onward, Stewart began working in American television and film, with prominent leading roles such as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in \"\" and its successor films, as Professor Charles Xavier in the \"X-Men\" series of superhero films, the lead of the Starz TV series \"Blunt Talk\", and voice roles such as CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock in \"American Dad!\" and the narrator in \"Ted\". Having remained with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 2008 Stewart played King Claudius in \"Hamlet\" on the West End and won a second Olivier Award. In 1993, \"TV Guide\"", "title": "Patrick Stewart" }, { "id": "3201142", "text": "Paul Rudd Paul Stephen Rudd (born April 6, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, writer and film producer who studied theatre at the University of Kansas and the American Drama Academy, before making his acting debut in 1992 with NBC's drama series \"Sisters\". He is known for his starring roles in the films \"Clueless\" (1995), \"Romeo + Juliet\" (1996), \"Wet Hot American Summer\" (2001), \"\" (2004), \"The 40-Year-Old Virgin\" (2005), \"Knocked Up\" (2007), \"Role Models\" (2008), \"I Love You, Man\" (2009), \"This Is 40\" (2012), \"The Perks of Being a Wallflower\" (2012), \"\" (2013), \"The Fundamentals of Caring\" (2016), \"Mute\"", "title": "Paul Rudd" }, { "id": "5421640", "text": "well as a sizable number of titles in the \"Star Wars\" audio book library. He made brief appearances in \"Miami Vice\" (\"The Prodigal Son\"), \"\" (2006 film), and the \"Cheers\" series finale \"One for the Road\". He later appeared on the \"Cheers\" spin-off \"Frasier\" in a recurring role. He appeared in \"Unaccompanied Minors\" as a distressed, Christmas-hating airport employee. Heald lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife Robin (daughter of violist Karen Tuttle) and children Zoe and Dylan. He has converted to Judaism, his wife's faith. He regularly performs in productions of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. During the 2010 season", "title": "Anthony Heald" }, { "id": "10638310", "text": "1943, he married Marie-Thérèse, the younger sister of Pierre Benoit. Lucien Daudet Lucien Daudet (11 June 1878 – 1946) was a French writer, the son of Alphonse Daudet and Julia Daudet. Although a prolific novelist and painter, he was never really able to trump his father's greater reputation and is now primarily remembered for his ties to fellow novelist Marcel Proust (\"Remembrance of Things Past\"). Daudet was also friends with Jean Cocteau. The Daudet family was composed of the father, Alphonse, the mother Julia (née Allard), Léon, the older brother, Edmée, and Lucien. Every member of the family wrote books:", "title": "Lucien Daudet" }, { "id": "4289208", "text": "it was entirely recast, with the exception of Tedde Moore, who returns as Ralphie's teacher, Miss Shields. Charles Grodin stars as the Old Man (Mr. Parker), Mary Steenburgen plays Mrs. Parker, and Kieran Culkin plays Ralphie. Shepherd provides the narration, just as he had done for \"A Christmas Story\". The film takes place in the summer of 1941, after the events of \"A Christmas Story\", which took place in December 1940. It has several plot lines, one each for Ralphie, his father, and his mother, followed by one involving him and his dad on a fishing trip. His quest for", "title": "My Summer Story" }, { "id": "782469", "text": "way he sees Charlus, now a mere shell of his former self, being helped by Jupien. The paving stones at the Guermantes house inspire another incident of involuntary memory for the Narrator, quickly followed by two more. Inside, while waiting in the library, he discerns their meaning: by putting him in contact with both the past and present, the impressions allow him to gain a vantage point outside time, affording a glimpse of the true nature of things. He realizes his whole life has prepared him for the mission of describing events as fully revealed, and (finally) resolves to begin", "title": "In Search of Lost Time" }, { "id": "10224000", "text": "members of the council are presented. Series regular Aidan Gillen, known for his roles in \"Queer as Folk\" and \"The Wire\" takes the role of Lord Petyr Baelish, the king's master of coin known as \"Littlefinger.\" Gethin Anthony plays the king's youngest brother Renly Baratheon, and veteran actor Julian Glover, well known to science fiction and fantasy fans after appearing in films such as \"The Empire Strikes Back\" and \"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade\", was cast as Grand Maester Pycelle after actor Roy Dotrice had to be replaced for medical reasons. Author George R. R. Martin wrote on the", "title": "Lord Snow" }, { "id": "1756332", "text": "Robert Vaughn Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor noted for his stage, film and television work. His best-known television roles include suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series \"The Man from U.N.C.L.E.\"; wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s series \"The Protectors\"; Morgan Wendell in the 1978–79 mini series \"Centennial\"; formidable General Hunt Stockwell in the fifth season of the 1980s series \"The A-Team\"; and grifter and card sharp Albert Stroller in the British television drama series \"Hustle\" (2004–2012), for all but one of its 48 episodes. He also appeared in", "title": "Robert Vaughn" }, { "id": "18470892", "text": "crime stories \"The Friends of Eddie Coyle\", \"The Yakuza\" and \"Farewell, My Lovely\" (in which he played Philip Marlowe), along with David Lean's epic drama, \"Ryan's Daughter\". His later roles in the 1980s up until 1995 included \"Nightkill\" (1980), \"That Championship Season\" (1982), \"Mr. North\" (1988), \"Scrooged\" (1988), \"Cape Fear\" (1991), and \"Waiting for Sunset\" (1995). He was also the narrator for the 1993 western film \"Tombstone\". His television work included playing Capt. Victor \"Pug\" Henry in the mini-series \"The Winds of War\" (1983) and again in \"War and Remembrance\" (1988). He was also in the 1985 miniseries \"North and", "title": "Robert Mitchum filmography" }, { "id": "1280331", "text": "white oppressor. Prospero Prospero ( ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play \"The Tempest\". Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, whose usurping brother, Antonio, had put him (with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda) to sea on a \"rotten carcass\" of a boat to die, twelve years before the play begins. Prospero and Miranda survived and found exile on a small island. He has learned sorcery from books, and uses it while on the island to protect Miranda and control the other characters. Before the play has begun, Prospero frees the spirit Ariel from entrapment within", "title": "Prospero" }, { "id": "19661301", "text": "a coincidence. According to Wolfhard, he had been initially cast as Richie when Cary Fukunaga was attached as director and co-writer, but when Fukunaga left the project over creative differences, the role fell through which allowed him to pursue \"Stranger Things\". Once Andy Muschietti became attached to \"It\", Wolfhard had to re-audition for the role of Richie. In the Netflix animated series \"Carmen Sandiego\", he will voice \"Player\", the titular character's chief accomplice and friend. The series, consisting of twenty episodes, is due to premiere in 2019. On September 22, 2017, it was announced that Wolfhard had been cast as", "title": "Finn Wolfhard" }, { "id": "424486", "text": "Islands – also called \"Caspian the Seafarer\" and \"Caspian the Navigator\" — is the title character of the second book in the series, first introduced as the young nephew and heir of King Miraz of Narnia. \"Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia\" is set 1300 years after the rule of High King Peter and his siblings, when Old Narnians have been driven into hiding by Caspian's ancestors the Telmarines. Caspian is also a central character in \"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader\", and appears briefly at the beginning and end of \"The Silver Chair\". Trumpkin the Dwarf is the narrator", "title": "The Chronicles of Narnia" }, { "id": "2795179", "text": "\"Montecristo\". In 2011, ABC debuted the television drama \"Revenge\", billed as a loose adaptation of Dumas' \"The Count of Monte Cristo\". In it, the character of Dantès is envisioned as a female protagonist by the name of Emily Thorne (portrayed by actress Emily VanCamp). Edmond Dantès appears in season six of \"Once Upon a Time\" portrayed by Craig Horner. He originates from a fictional 19th Century France-themed world. Edmond Dantès was referenced in the final scenes of \"V for Vendetta\" (2005); protagonist Evey Hammond describes terrorist V as Edmond Dantès after he martyrs himself to bring down the tyrannical Norsefire", "title": "Edmond Dantès" }, { "id": "14979096", "text": "Flash, Spring Heeled Jack, Iacchus and Captain Jack Carter (a legendary World War I hero in one of the parallel worlds in which the novel is set); Thomas Messenger, also known as Puck, Tamuz and Matthew Shepard; Phreedom Messenger, known as Anna, Anaesthesia and Inanna; Guy Fox, who is also Guy Fawkes (although closer to his representation in \"V for Vendetta\" than to the historic character), Guy Reynard, the Prussian Baron Reinhardt); Joey Pickering (also Pechorin, Joey Narchosis and Judas); Don MacChuill (also Don Coyote, Don Quixote) and Seamus Finnan (Shammus, Finnegan, Prometheus, Samuel Hobbsbaum, Sammael). From a psychoanalytic point", "title": "Ink (novel)" }, { "id": "18697003", "text": "Stranger Things Stranger Things is an American science fiction-horror web television series created, written, and directed by the Duffer Brothers and released on Netflix. The Duffer Brothers, Shawn Levy, and Dan Cohen serve as executive producers. The first season stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Cara Buono, and Matthew Modine, with Noah Schnapp and Joe Keery in recurring roles. For the second season, Schnapp and Keery were made series regulars, along with the additions of Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, Sean Astin, and Paul Reiser; Maya Hawke joined the", "title": "Stranger Things" }, { "id": "10306409", "text": "David Harbour David Kenneth Harbour (born April 10, 1975) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction horror series \"Stranger Things\" (2016–present), which has earned him a Critics' Choice Television Award in 2018. He has also received Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for the role. Harbour was born in White Plains, New York to parents Kenneth and Nancy (née Riley) Harbour. Both of his parents work in real estate, his mother in residential and his father in commercial. He attended Byram Hills High School in Armonk,", "title": "David Harbour" }, { "id": "15544459", "text": "Guilt Is My Shadow Guilt Is My Shadow is a 1950 British drama film directed by Roy Kellino and starring Elizabeth Sellars, Patrick Holt and Peter Reynolds. In the film, a woman is haunted by her conscience after she kills a man and hides the body. It is based on the novel \"You're Best Alone\" by Norah Lofts. Jamie (Reynolds) is the getaway driver for a gang of robbers, but when the robbery goes wrong he drives off and makes his way by car and then train to a rural village, Welford, in Devon, where his estranged uncle, Kit (Holt),", "title": "Guilt Is My Shadow" }, { "id": "18297496", "text": "temps perdu\" (\"In Search of Lost Time\") both thematically and in its plot, although it is more plainly autobiographical than Proust's later works. Jean Santeuil tells the story of a young man, Jean Santeuil, who loves literature and poetry. The novel chronicles his childhood and his entry into the broader world. This includes his movement into high society within late nineteenth century Paris and his adventures in other places, such as Illiers and Brittany. The novel deals with the relationship between writers and society. Jean Santeuil Jean Santeuil () is an unfinished novel written by Marcel Proust. It was written", "title": "Jean Santeuil" }, { "id": "6601259", "text": "Sherlock Holmes is on the suspects list. In \"Fate/Grand Order\", released in Japan in 2015, Holmes briefly appears in the Camelot singularity. Then he appears in the Shinjuku singularity as an ally. He is a Ruler class servant. These stories treat Sherlock Holmes as an historical character but concern themselves with one of his successors — biological or spiritual — who usually take after him in some way, e.g. being good detectives. In the 1977 spoof \"The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It\", John Cleese plays Arthur Sherlock Holmes, grandson of the famous sleuth, alongside", "title": "Sherlock Holmes pastiches" }, { "id": "6238605", "text": "Reminiscence Reminiscence is the act of recollecting past experiences or events. An example of the typical use of the reminiscence is when a person shares his personal stories with others or allows other people to live vicariously through stories of family, friends, and acquaintances while gaining an authentic meaningful relationship with a person. An example of reminiscence may be grandparents remembering past events with friends or their grandchildren, sharing their individual experience of what the past was like. ---Reminiscence Therapy--- Reminiscence can be defined as the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, memories, etc. Anyone can reminiscence about", "title": "Reminiscence" }, { "id": "7574961", "text": "for his work in \"Uncle Vanya\" at the Gate Theatre. He was featured in \"King Charles III\" on Broadway in 2015. He made his television debut in the 1982 \"Doctor Who\" episode \"The Visitation\", he would return to the series 35 years later in the 2017 episode \"Empress of Mars\". Also in 1982, he landed the role of Digby Geste in a television adaptation of \"Beau Geste\". His other television credits include the part of novelist Lawrence Durrell in \"My Family and Other Animals\", Pip in \"Great Expectations\" and Colonel Fitzwilliam in the 1995 BBC adaptation of \"Pride and Prejudice\".", "title": "Anthony Calf" }, { "id": "3178827", "text": "on the meals; also that a valet there used to sell English books left by the tenants. La Tour d'Argent is mentioned by Marcel Proust in his novel \"À la recherche du temps perdu\" (\"In Search of Lost Time\" earlier translated as \"Remembrance of Things Past\") in the volume \"In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower\". The restaurant inspired scenes in the 2007 Pixar movie \"Ratatouille,\" and received an \"unexpected boost\" from the film. The restaurant was also mentioned in the book, \"The Wright Brothers\" by David McCullough, page 148, as a place where a dinner was held for", "title": "La Tour d'Argent" }, { "id": "6601139", "text": "dilemmas, Watson hires Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine), an alcoholic, womanizing, ne'er-do-well actor to impersonate Holmes. The twenty-third film in the VeggieTales series is entitled \"Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler\", and features Larry the Cucumber as Holmes and Bob the Tomato as Watson. Robert Downey, Jr. appears as the detective in the Guy Ritchie–directed \"Sherlock Holmes\" (2009) and its sequel \"\" (2011), with Jude Law as Dr. Watson, Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, and Jared Harris as Moriarty. \"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows\" is the highest-grossing Sherlock Holmes film, grossing $545 million worldwide. In 2010, low-budget film company the", "title": "Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes" }, { "id": "1212176", "text": "their final encounter that Stevens tragically becomes aware of his life's lost potential when thinking about Miss Kenton in a romantic light. As with his other works, Ishiguro uses the structural devices of memory and perspective within this novel. Past events are presented from the viewpoint of the main protagonist, the ageing Stevens; elements of the past are presented as fragments, apparently subconsciously censored by Stevens to present (explicitly) a description of past occurrences as he would have the reader understand them and (implicitly) to relay the fact that the information supplied is subjective. On occasion the narrator acknowledges the", "title": "The Remains of the Day" }, { "id": "637742", "text": "Martin Scorsese. He was acclaimed for his performances in the political war thriller \"Blood Diamond\", the neo-noir crime drama \"The Departed\" (both 2006), the espionage thriller \"Body of Lies\" (2008), the drama \"Revolutionary Road\" (2008), the psychological thriller \"Shutter Island\" (2010), the science fiction thriller \"Inception\" (2010), the biographical film \"J. Edgar\" (2011), the western \"Django Unchained\" (2012), and the period drama \"The Great Gatsby\" (2013). DiCaprio's portrayals of Howard Hughes in \"The Aviator\" (2004) and Hugh Glass in \"The Revenant\" (2015) won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. His performance as Jordan Belfort", "title": "Leonardo DiCaprio" }, { "id": "1400553", "text": "Puig wrote that its \"well-worn storybook features are woven effectively into an appealing tale of youthful empowerment\". The following year, Thompson appeared in the surreal American comedy–drama \"Stranger than Fiction\", playing a novelist whose latest character (played by Will Ferrell) is a real person who hears her narration in his head. Reviews for the film were generally favourable. Following a brief, uncredited role in the post-apocalyptic blockbuster \"I Am Legend\" (2007), Thompson played the devoutly Catholic Lady Marchmain in a 2008 film adaptation of \"Brideshead Revisited\". Critics were unenthusiastic about the film, but several picked Thompson out as its highlight.", "title": "Emma Thompson" }, { "id": "11532326", "text": "for him and move on to marry Brad, while Paul ends up not marrying Sandra and remains alone. Moreover, further into the future, an elderly Paul ends up being the only mourner at Connor's funeral. Wayne appears and tells Connor that this is his future if he continues on the same path, pushing him into the grave to be buried by his many ex-girlfriends. Connor awakens in the Mead home and learns that Sandra has called off the wedding and is on her way to the airport. He intercepts the bridal party and convinces Sandra to forgive Paul by sharing", "title": "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" }, { "id": "12522285", "text": "develops itself. One can say that there is a fragmentation of sensorial space and its gradual replacement by an existential and personal space-time, which most certainly evokes Proust’s \"Remembrance of Things Past\". In the later works the painter’s language becomes increasingly stylized. Colors and shapes exist more and more in themselves and for themselves. The subjective elements arising from personal memory are superseded by imperatives of an initiatory and metaphysical nature\", Françoise Gilot wrote in her analysis, adding that these increasingly closed compositions require time and patience on the part of the viewer to reveal their profound richness. Endre Rozsda", "title": "Endre Rozsda" }, { "id": "2881258", "text": "Roberts Blossom Roberts Scott Blossom (March 25, 1924July 8, 2011) was an American theatre, film and television character actor, and poet. He was best known for his roles as Old Man Marley in \"Home Alone\" (1990) and as Ezra Cobb in the horror film \"Deranged\" (1974). He is also remembered for his supporting roles in films such as \"The Great Gatsby\" (1974), \"Close Encounters of the Third Kind\" (1977), \"Escape from Alcatraz\" (1979), \"Christine\" (1983), and \"The Last Temptation of Christ\" (1988). Roberts Scott Blossom was born on March 25, 1924, in New Haven, Connecticut, to John Blossom, an athletic", "title": "Roberts Blossom" }, { "id": "3331923", "text": "Peter Pevensie Peter Pevensie is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis's \"The Chronicles of Narnia\" book series. Peter appears in three of the seven books; as a child and a principal character in \"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\" and \"Prince Caspian\", and as an adult in \"The Last Battle\". He is only mentioned in \"The Horse and His Boy\" in which he is away on the northern frontier fighting giants and in \"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader\" in which he is studying under the tutelage of Professor Kirke. In Disney's live-action films, \"\", Peter is portrayed", "title": "Peter Pevensie" }, { "id": "8746211", "text": "describes the central character Ben Turnbull in his semi-idyllic, upper class rural home as \"a Thoreau run through the meat grinder of the 20th century.\" She notes his frequent brutality (both towards himself and others), but also notes his rueful, evenhanded powers of observation that \"[fall] alike on everything: on flowers, animals, grandchildren, corpses, copulations; on ancient Egypt and plastic peanuts; on memory, disgust, dread, lust and spiritual rapture.\" She ends with the claim that \"As memento mori and its obverse, carpe diem, \"Toward the End of Time\" could scarcely be bettered.\" Critic James Wood was typically dismissive, as he", "title": "Toward the End of Time" }, { "id": "17123617", "text": "The Past (film) The Past (, \"Gozašte\") is a 2013 French–Italian–Iranian drama film, written and directed by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and starring Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim and Ali Mosaffa. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and won the festival's Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. Bejo also won the festival's Best Actress Award. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film was nominated", "title": "The Past (film)" }, { "id": "11052054", "text": "of Hercule Poirot was played by Francis L. Sullivan who had previously played the role in Christie's 1930 play \"Black Coffee\". Ridley changed the name of two of the characters from the novel. Freddie Rice was renamed Frances Rice and Jim Lazarus (who in the novel was Jewish and was the subject of some Semitic references) became Terry Ord. Freddie's drug-addicted husband was billed as \"A Stranger\". The action of the play takes place at St. Loo in Cornwall during the course of five days. ACT I ACT II ACT III \"(During the course of this Act, the curtain is", "title": "Peril at End House (play)" }, { "id": "16689725", "text": "costume designer Louise Mingenbach who also did \"X2\" and \"\". In February 2013, John Ottmanwho aside from \"X-Men\", collaborated on all of Singer's works since the 1995 film \"The Usual Suspects\"was confirmed to work on the music and the editing of the film. Singer used the online social networking service Twitter to announce casting of the film. In November 2012, he announced that James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult would reprise their roles from \"X-Men: First Class\". Later the same month, he announced that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen would reprise their respective roles as the older", "title": "X-Men: Days of Future Past" }, { "id": "90218", "text": "More\", which explores the cutthroat world of premium auction houses. Elwes plays Arthur Davenport, a shrewd and eccentric world-class collector of illegal art and antiquities. The series debuted on 19 November and has been picked up for a second season. In April 2018 Elwes was cast as Mayor Kline for the third season of the Netflix series \"Stranger Things\" which is set to première in 2019. Elwes' voice-over work includes the narrator in James Patterson's audiobook \"The Jester\", as well as characters in film and television animations such as \"Quest for Camelot\", \"Pinky and The Brain\", \"Batman Beyond\", and the", "title": "Cary Elwes" } ]

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[ { "id": "9592005", "text": "May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although the Convention was purportedly intended only to revise the Articles, the intention of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. The convention convened in the Pennsylvania State House, and George Washington of Virginia was unanimously elected as president of the convention. The 55 delegates who drafted the Constitution are among the men known as the Founding Fathers of the new nation. Thomas Jefferson, who was Minister to France", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592000", "text": "United States Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights in the United States is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically delegated to Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people. The concepts codified in these amendments", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9428064", "text": "known as the Bill of Rights. On March 4, 1794, in response to the ruling in \"Chisholm v. Georgia,\" Congress approved an amendment to the United States Constitution clarifying judicial power over foreign nationals, and limiting the ability of citizens to sue states in federal courts and under federal law, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification. The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified by the requisite number of states (then 12) on February 7, 1795, to become part of the Constitution. In 1790, the Pennsylvania Abolition Society engaged in an unprecedented lobbying campaign to", "title": "Presidency of George Washington" }, { "id": "9592031", "text": "1873 in protest of an unpopular Congressional pay raise. A century later, on March 6, 1978, the Wyoming Legislature also ratified the article. Gregory Watson, a University of Texas at Austin undergraduate student, started a new push for the article's ratification with a letter-writing campaign to state legislatures. As a result, by May 1992, enough states had approved Article Two (38 of the 50 states in the Union) for it to become the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution. The amendment's adoption was certified by Archivist of the United States Don W. Wilson and subsequently affirmed by a vote", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592051", "text": "declare principles that stand above every earthly power—the equality of each person before God, and the responsibility of government to secure the rights of all.\" In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared December 15 to be Bill of Rights Day, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. In 1991, the Virginia copy of the Bill of Rights toured the country in honor of its bicentennial, visiting the capitals of all fifty states. United States Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights in the United States is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "6683514", "text": "state conventions in 1788. The federal government was reorganized into three branches, on the principle of creating salutary checks and balances, in 1789. George Washington, who had led the revolutionary army to victory, was the first president elected under the new constitution. The Bill of Rights, forbidding federal restriction of personal freedoms and guaranteeing a range of legal protections, was adopted in 1791. Although the federal government criminalized the international slave trade in 1808, after 1820, cultivation of the highly profitable cotton crop exploded in the Deep South, and along with it, the slave population. The Second Great Awakening, especially", "title": "United States" }, { "id": "209809", "text": "James Madison James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. He is hailed as the \"Father of the Constitution\" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Born into a prominent Virginia planting family, Madison served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Continental Congress during and after the American Revolutionary War. In the late 1780s, he helped organize the Constitutional Convention, which produced", "title": "James Madison" }, { "id": "9592028", "text": "have been a federal Constitution without Madison but certainly no Bill of Rights.\" The twelve articles of amendment approved by congress were officially submitted to the Legislatures of the several States for consideration on September 28, 1789. The following states ratified some or all of the amendments: Having been approved by the requisite three-fourths of the several states, there being 14 States in the Union at the time (as Vermont had been admitted into the Union on March 4, 1791), the ratification of Articles Three through Twelve was completed and they became Amendments 1 through 10 of the Constitution. President", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592002", "text": "25, 1789, Congress approved twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution, each consisting of one one-sentence paragraph, and submitted them to the states for ratification. Contrary to Madison's original proposal that the articles be incorporated into the main body of the Constitution, they were proposed as supplemental additions (codicils) to it. Articles Three through Twelve were ratified as additions to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, and became Amendments One through Ten of the Constitution. Article Two became part of the Constitution on May 5, 1992, as the Twenty-seventh Amendment. Article One is still pending before the states. Although Madison's", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592016", "text": "would it replace the existing government under the Articles of Confederation and would apply only to those states that ratified it. Following contentious battles in several states, the proposed Constitution reached that nine-state ratification plateau in June 1788. On September 13, 1788, the Articles of Confederation Congress certified that the new Constitution had been ratified by more than enough states for the new system to be implemented and directed the new government to meet in New York City on the first Wednesday in March the following year. On March 4, 1789, the new frame of government came into force with", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592024", "text": "members such as Fisher Ames warned that a prolonged \"dissection of the constitution\" before the galleries could shake public confidence. A procedural battle followed, and after initially forwarding the amendments to a select committee for revision, the House agreed to take Madison's proposal up as a full body beginning on July 21, 1789. The eleven-member committee made some significant changes to Madison's nine proposed amendments, including eliminating most of his preamble and adding the phrase \"freedom of speech, and of the press\". The House debated the amendments for eleven days. Roger Sherman of Connecticut persuaded the House to place the", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592020", "text": "acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free government, and as they become incorporated with the national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion\". Historians continue to debate the degree to which Madison considered the amendments of the Bill of Rights necessary, and to what degree he considered them politically expedient; in the outline of his address, he wrote, \"Bill of Rights—useful—not essential—\". On the occasion of his April 30, 1789 inauguration as the nation's first president, George Washington addressed the subject of amending the Constitution. He urged the legislators, James Madison introduced a series of Constitutional", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "1568602", "text": "citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment, and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. The legislation had been proposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, but opposed by filibuster in the Senate. After Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed the bill forward, which in its final form was passed in the U.S. Congress by a Senate vote of 73–27 and House vote of 289–126. The Act was signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, at the White House.", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1964" }, { "id": "4305796", "text": "and Second Amendment did not apply to state governments. However, beginning in the 1920s, a series of United States Supreme Court decisions interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment to \"incorporate\" most portions of the Bill of Rights, making these portions, for the first time, enforceable against the state governments. The United States Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the oftentimes bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the United States Constitution, and crafted to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms", "title": "Incorporation of the Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592013", "text": "and Anti-Federalist Elbridge Gerry when the latter was not allowed to speak. The impasse was resolved only when revolutionary heroes and leading Anti-Federalists Samuel Adams and John Hancock agreed to ratification on the condition that the convention also propose amendments. The convention's proposed amendments included a requirement for grand jury indictment in capital cases, which would form part of the Fifth Amendment, and an amendment reserving powers to the states not expressly given to the federal government, which would later form the basis for the Tenth Amendment. Following Massachusetts' lead, the Federalist minorities in both Virginia and New York were", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592001", "text": "are built upon those found in several earlier documents, including the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the English Bill of Rights, along with earlier documents such as Magna Carta (1215). In practice, the amendments had little impact on judgments by the courts for the first 150 years after ratification. On June 8, 1789, Representative James Madison introduced nine amendments to the Constitution in the House of Representatives. Madison proposed inserting specific rights limiting the power of Congress in Article One, Section 9. Seven of these limitations would become part of the ten ratified Bill of Rights amendments. Ultimately, on September", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "428338", "text": "the original thirteen states had ratified it. The remaining four states later followed suit, although the last two states, North Carolina and Rhode Island, ratified only after Congress had passed the Bill of Rights and sent it to the states for ratification. James Madison drafted what ultimately became the Bill of Rights, which was proposed by the first Congress on June 8, 1789, and was adopted on December 15, 1791. The debate surrounding the Constitution's ratification is of practical importance, particularly to adherents of originalist and strict constructionist legal theories. In the context of such legal theories and elsewhere, it", "title": "Second Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "9592018", "text": "controlled the Virginia House of Delegates, had gerrymandered a hostile district for Madison's planned congressional run and recruited Madison's future presidential successor, James Monroe, to oppose him. Madison defeated Monroe after offering a campaign pledge that he would introduce constitutional amendments forming a bill of rights at the First Congress. Originally opposed to the inclusion of a bill of rights in the Constitution, Madison had gradually come to understand the importance of doing so during the often contentious ratification debates. By taking the initiative to propose amendments himself through the Congress, he hoped to preempt a second constitutional convention that", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "739760", "text": "of southern representatives in Congress, especially as slavery was extended into the Deep South through removal of Native Americans and transportation of slaves by an extensive domestic trade. To assuage the Anti-Federalists who feared a too-powerful national government, the nation adopted the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. Comprising the first ten amendments of the Constitution, it guaranteed individual liberties such as freedom of speech and religious practice, jury trials, and stated that citizens and states had reserved rights (which were not specified). George Washington – a renowned hero of the American Revolutionary War, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army,", "title": "History of the United States" }, { "id": "9592026", "text": "to the preamble. On September 21, 1789, a House–Senate Conference Committee convened to resolve the numerous differences between the two Bill of Rights proposals. On September 24, 1789, the committee issued this report, which finalized 12 Constitutional Amendments for House and Senate to consider. This final version was approved by joint resolution of Congress on September 25, 1789, to be forwarded to the states on September 28. By the time the debates and legislative maneuvering that went into crafting the Bill of Rights amendments was done, many personal opinions had shifted. A number of Federalists came out in support, thus", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "739713", "text": "new Constitution that was adopted in 1789. In 1791, a Bill of Rights was added to guarantee inalienable rights. With Washington as the first president and Alexander Hamilton his chief adviser, a strong central government was created. Purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 doubled the size of the United States. A second and final war with Britain was fought in 1812, which solidified national pride. Encouraged by the notion of manifest destiny, U.S. territory expanded all the way to the Pacific coast. While the United States was large in terms of area, its population in 1790 was", "title": "History of the United States" }, { "id": "9592025", "text": "amendments at the Constitution's end so that the document would \"remain inviolate\", rather than adding them throughout, as Madison had proposed. The amendments, revised and condensed from twenty to seventeen, were approved and forwarded to the Senate on August 24, 1789. The Senate edited these amendments still further, making 26 changes of its own. Madison's proposal to apply parts of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as the federal government was eliminated, and the seventeen amendments were condensed to twelve, which were approved on September 9, 1789. The Senate also eliminated the last of Madison's proposed changes", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "11229184", "text": "amendments that critically endangered any prospects for its passage. An outraged president called congressional leaders to the White House and by the following day the original bill, without the additions, had enough votes to get it out of the House committee. Gaining Republican support, Senator Everett Dirksen promised the legislation would be brought to a vote, preventing a Senate filibuster. The following summer, on July 2, the guarantees Kennedy proposed in his June 1963 speech became federal law, when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the aftermath of the Soviet launch of \"Sputnik 1\", the first", "title": "Presidency of John F. Kennedy" }, { "id": "4421200", "text": "Massachusetts, agreed to add a group of Amendments to the Constitution after its ratification that would serve as a Bill of Rights. Later, six more states likewise recommended the addition of a Bill of Rights, and the idea also gained the support of Jefferson and Madison. When the First Federal Congress met in 1789, Madison implemented the idea by introducing 17 Amendments to the Constitution. By December 1791, ten of his Amendments were ratified by the necessary three quarters of the states, and they became part of the US Constitution, thereafter becoming known as \"the Bill of Rights\". The Establishment", "title": "Establishment Clause" }, { "id": "9592021", "text": "amendments in the House of Representatives for consideration. Among his proposals was one that would have added introductory language stressing natural rights to the preamble. Another would apply parts of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as the federal government. Several sought to protect individual personal rights by limiting various Constitutional powers of Congress. Like Washington, Madison urged Congress to keep the revision to the Constitution \"a moderate one\", limited to protecting individual rights. Madison was deeply read in the history of government and used a range of sources in composing the amendments. The English Magna Carta", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "11826417", "text": "in March 1789 and the inauguration of Washington the following month. In September 1789, Congress approved the United States Bill of Rights, a group of Constitutional amendments designed to protect individual liberties against federal interference, and the states ratified these amendments in 1791. After Congress voted for the Bill of Rights, North Carolina and Rhode Island ratified the Constitution in 1790 and 1791, respectively. Confederation Period The Confederation Period was the era of United States history in the 1780s after the American Revolution and prior to the ratification of the United States Constitution. In 1781, the United States ratified the", "title": "Confederation Period" }, { "id": "4987373", "text": "South Carolina by Michael Moore while researching the film \"\". The footage shows Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights address in its entirety as well as a shot of the eight rights printed on a sheet of paper. Second Bill of Rights The Second Bill of Rights is a list of rights that was proposed by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 11, 1944. In his address, Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize and should now implement, a second \"bill of rights\". Roosevelt's argument was that the \"political", "title": "Second Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "14179630", "text": "previous condition of servitude\". On February 3, 1870, the amendment reached requisite number of state ratifications (then 27) and was certified as the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Grant hailed its ratification as \"a measure of grander importance than any other one act of the kind from the foundation of our free government to the present day\". Many in the south, however, were determined that the African American males' right to vote would be unenforceable. On June 22, 1870, Grant signed a bill into law passed by Congress that created the Department of Justice and to aid the", "title": "Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant" }, { "id": "9428062", "text": "affect elections, and party affiliations remained in flux. Congress approved 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution on September 25, 1789, establishing specific constitutional guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically delegated to Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people, and submitted them to the state legislatures for ratification. Congressional approval of the amendments was led by James Madison. Madison had previously opposed amending the constitution, but he hoped to prevent more far-reaching reforms by passing his own", "title": "Presidency of George Washington" }, { "id": "2733959", "text": "method proposed. \"The Federalist Papers\" provided background and justification for the Constitution. Some states agreed to ratify the Constitution only if the amendments that were to become the Bill of Rights would be taken up immediately by the new government, and they were duly proposed in the first session of the First Congress. Once the Confederation Congress certified that eleven states had ratified the Constitution, elections were held, the new government began on March 4, 1789, and the Articles Congress dissolved itself. Later Amendments address individual liberties and freedoms, federal relationships, election procedures, terms of office, expanding the electorate, ending", "title": "History of the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "11228935", "text": "the 18 year-old vote. Sent to the states for ratification on March 23, 1971, the proposal became the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution on July 1, 1973, after being ratified by the requisite number of states (38). Nixon also endorsed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which passed both houses of Congress in 1972 and was submitted to the state legislatures for ratification. The amendment failed to be ratified by 38 states within the period set by Congress for ratification. Nixon had campaigned as an ERA supporter in 1968, though feminists criticized him for doing little to help the", "title": "Presidency of Richard Nixon" }, { "id": "4987364", "text": "Second Bill of Rights The Second Bill of Rights is a list of rights that was proposed by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 11, 1944. In his address, Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognize and should now implement, a second \"bill of rights\". Roosevelt's argument was that the \"political rights\" guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had \"proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness\". His remedy was to declare an \"economic bill of rights\" to guarantee these specific rights:", "title": "Second Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "427804", "text": "shared process of constitutional amendment. Article Seven establishes the procedure subsequently used by the thirteen States to ratify it. It is regarded as the oldest written and codified national constitution in force. Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended 27 times, including an amendment to repeal a previous one, in order to meet the needs of a nation that has profoundly changed since the eighteenth century. In general, the first ten amendments, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, offer specific protections of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government.", "title": "United States Constitution" }, { "id": "785707", "text": "to resolve numerous differences between the House and Senate Bill of Rights proposals. On September 24, 1789, the committee issued its report, which finalized 12 proposed amendments for the House and Senate to consider. The House agreed to the conference report that same day, and the Senate concurred the next day. What would become the Twenty-seventh Amendment was listed second among the twelve proposals sent to the states for their consideration on September 25, 1789. Ten of these, numbers 3–12, were ratified fifteen months later and are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. The remaining proposal, the Congressional Apportionment", "title": "Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "9592034", "text": "Americans promptly forgot about the first ten amendments to the Constitution.\" The Court made no important decisions protecting free speech rights, for example, until 1931. Historian Richard Labunski attributes the Bill's long legal dormancy to three factors: first, it took time for a \"culture of tolerance\" to develop that would support the Bill's provisions with judicial and popular will; second, the Supreme Court spent much of the 19th century focused on issues relating to intergovernmental balances of power; and third, the Bill initially only applied to the federal government, a restriction affirmed by \"Barron v. Baltimore\" (1833). In the twentieth", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "427861", "text": "set in 1789, when Congress considered and proposed the first several Constitutional amendments. Among these, Amendments 1–10 are collectively known as the Bill of Rights, and Amendments 13–15 are known as the Reconstruction Amendments. Excluding the Twenty-seventh Amendment, which was pending before the states for , the longest pending amendment that was successfully ratified was the Twenty-second Amendment, which took . The Twenty-sixth Amendment was ratified in the shortest time, days. The average ratification time for the first twenty-six amendments was 1 year, 252 days, for all twenty-seven, 9 years, 48 days. A proposed amendment becomes an operative part of", "title": "United States Constitution" }, { "id": "2734041", "text": "between power and liberty\" had begun anew. Since the beginning of federal operations under the Constitution in 1789 through the beginning of 2013, approximately 11,539 proposals to amend the Constitution have been introduced in the United States Congress. Of these, thirty-three have been approved by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. Twenty-seven of these amendments have been ratified and are now part of the Constitution. The first ten amendments were adopted and ratified simultaneously and are known collectively as the Bill of Rights. Prior to the Twenty-seventh Amendment, which languished for 202 years, 7 months, 12 days before", "title": "History of the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "11228990", "text": "Emanuel Celler, Congress, on July 5, 1965, approved an amendment to the U.S. Constitution addressing succession to the presidency and establishing procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice president, and for responding to presidential disabilities, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification. It was ratified by the requisite number of states (38) on February 10, 1967, becoming the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Johnson made two appointments to the Supreme Court while in office. Anticipating court challenges to his legislative measures, Johnson thought it would be advantageous to have a close", "title": "Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson" }, { "id": "5668932", "text": "in the world. Only on December 15, 1791 the Bill of Rights comprising the first 10 Amendments became part of the U.S. Constitution. Later on, other 17 Amendments were added. Thus, the U.S Constitution is summing a total of 27 Amendments and 7 Articles. During all this time, only one amendment overturned a previous one, more precisely the twenty-first Amendment ratified on December 5, 1933 repealed the prohibition of alcohol established by the eighteenth Amendment on January 16, 1919. The provisions providing for rights under the Bill of Rights were originally binding upon only the federal government. In time, most", "title": "Constitutional right" }, { "id": "1568608", "text": "situation. Kennedy's successor as president, Lyndon Johnson, made use of his experience in legislative politics, along with the bully pulpit he wielded as president, in support of the bill. In his first address to a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963, Johnson told the legislators, \"No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.\" Judiciary Committee chairman Celler filed a petition to discharge the bill from the Rules Committee; it required the support of a majority of House members", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1964" }, { "id": "9592022", "text": "of 1215 inspired the right to petition and to trial by jury, for example, while the English Bill of Rights of 1689 provided an early precedent for the right to keep and bear arms (although this applied only to Protestants) and prohibited cruel and unusual punishment. The greatest influence on Madison's text, however, was existing state constitutions. Many of his amendments, including his proposed new preamble, were based on the Virginia Declaration of Rights drafted by Anti-Federalist George Mason in 1776. To reduce future opposition to ratification, Madison also looked for recommendations shared by many states. He did provide one,", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "427911", "text": "was a one-term President. As Chief Justice, he advocated the Judiciary Act of 1925 that brought the Federal District Courts under the administrative jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Taft successfully sought the expansion of Court jurisdiction over non- states such as District of Columbia and Territories of Alaska and Hawaii. In 1925, the Taft Court issued a ruling overturning a Marshall Court ruling on the Bill of Rights. In \"Gitlow v. New York\", the Court established the doctrine of \"incorporation which applied the Bill of Rights to the states. Important cases included the \"Board of Trade of City of Chicago", "title": "United States Constitution" }, { "id": "209843", "text": "ratified as additions to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, were renumbered one through ten, and became the Bill of Rights. Proposed Article Two became part of the Constitution in 1992 as the Twenty-seventh Amendment, while proposed Article One is technically still pending before the states. Madison was disappointed that the Bill of Rights did not include protections against actions by state governments, but passage of the document mollified some critics of the original constitution and shored up Madison's support in Virginia. In proposing the Bill of Rights, Madison considered over two hundred amendments that had been proposed at the", "title": "James Madison" }, { "id": "7898756", "text": "Consumer Bill of Rights On March 15, 1962, President John F. Kennedy presented a speech to the United States Congress in which he extolled four basic consumer rights, later called the Consumer Bill of Rights. The United Nations through the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection expanded these into eight rights, and thereafter Consumers International adopted these rights as a charter and started recognizing March 15 as World Consumer Rights. Before the mid-twentieth century, consumers had limited rights with regard to their interaction with products and commercial producers. Consumers had limited ground on which to defend themselves against faulty or", "title": "Consumer Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "209811", "text": "in drafting the first ten amendments to the Constitution during the 1st Congress, Madison is known as the \"Father of the Bill of Rights.\" Though he had played a major role in the enactment of a new constitution that created a stronger federal government, Madison opposed the centralization of power sought by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during Washington's presidency. To oppose Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party, which became one of the nation's two first major political parties alongside Hamilton's Federalist Party. After Jefferson won the 1800 presidential election, Madison served as Jefferson's Secretary of State from", "title": "James Madison" }, { "id": "1568605", "text": "his television address to the nation that evening. Two days later, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield both voiced support for the president's bill, except for provisions guaranteeing equal access to places of public accommodations. This led to several Republican Representatives drafting a compromise bill to be considered. On June 19, the president sent his bill to Congress as it was originally written, saying legislative action was \"imperative\". The president's bill went first to the House of Representatives, where it was referred to the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Emanuel Celler, a Democrat from New York.", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1964" }, { "id": "11229177", "text": "and marginalize black citizens from politics so far as practicable without violating the Fifteenth Amendment. Several civil rights groups opposed the proposed amendment on the grounds that it \"would provide an immutable precedent for shunting all further civil rights legislation to the amendment procedure.\" The amendment was passed by both houses of Congress in August 1962, and sent to the states for ratification. It was ratified on January 23, 1964, by the requisite number of states (38), becoming the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Disturbed by the violent reaction to the civil rights campaign in Birmingham, and eager", "title": "Presidency of John F. Kennedy" }, { "id": "11228616", "text": "Republicans and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, was anxious to reach an understanding with the president. He ushered through Congress a bill extending the Freedmen's Bureau beyond its scheduled abolition in 1867, as well as a civil rights bill. The civil rights bill granted birthright citizenship to all individuals born in the United States, with the exception of Native Americans, and declared that no state could violate the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens. Trumbull met several times with Johnson and became convinced that the president would sign the measures. To the delight of white Southerners and the puzzled anger of", "title": "Presidency of Andrew Johnson" }, { "id": "1311107", "text": "impose tariffs, fearing that this power would cut into his home state's main source of income. He became one of the most prominent opponents to the ratification of the proposed United States Constitution, which would grant several new powers to the federal government. After New York and other states had ratified the Constitution, Clinton focused on passing constitutional amendments designed to weaken the powers of the federal government. In 1791, three years after the ratification of the Constitution, the states ratified the United States Bill of Rights. Twentieth-century historian Herbert Storing identifies Clinton as \"Cato\", the pseudonymous author of the", "title": "George Clinton (vice president)" }, { "id": "428506", "text": "remains applicable despite the inflation that has occurred since the 18th century. The amendment as proposed by Congress in 1789 reads as follows: After several years of comparatively weak government under the Articles of Confederation, a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia proposed a new constitution on September 17, 1787, featuring a stronger chief executive and other changes. George Mason, a Constitutional Convention delegate and the drafter of Virginia's Declaration of Rights, proposed that a bill of rights listing and guaranteeing civil liberties be included. Other delegates—including future Bill of Rights drafter James Madison—disagreed, arguing that existing state guarantees of civil liberties", "title": "Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "4987366", "text": "September 23, 1932 during his campaign. The speech was written with Adolf A. Berle, a professor of corporate law at Columbia University. A key passage read: Throughout Roosevelt's presidency, he returned to the same theme continually over the course of the New Deal. Also in the Atlantic Charter, an international commitment was made as the Allies thought about how to \"win the peace\" following victory in the Second World War. During Roosevelt's January 11, 1944 message to the Congress on the State of the Union, he said the following: Roosevelt saw the economic Bill of Rights as something that would", "title": "Second Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592014", "text": "able to obtain ratification in convention by linking ratification to recommended amendments. A committee of the Virginia convention headed by law professor George Wythe forwarded forty recommended amendments to Congress, twenty of which enumerated individual rights and another twenty of which enumerated states' rights. The latter amendments included limitations on federal powers to levy taxes and regulate trade. A minority of the Constitution's critics, such as Maryland's Luther Martin, continued to oppose ratification. However, Martin's allies, such as New York's John Lansing, Jr., dropped moves to obstruct the Convention's process. They began to take exception to the Constitution \"as it", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "150941", "text": "and begin exploration of Mars. Although a space station was eventually constructed (work on the International Space Station began in 1998) other projects were quashed due to NASA budgetary issues. In 1998, Bush received the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement's National Space Trophy for his pioneering leadership of the U.S. space program. During his presidency, Bush signed a number of major bills into law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; this was one of the most pro-civil rights bills in decades. He was also the only president to successfully veto a civil rights act, the job-discrimination protection", "title": "George H. W. Bush" }, { "id": "4987365", "text": "Roosevelt stated that having such rights would guarantee American security and that the United States' place in the world depended upon how far the rights had been carried into practice. In the runup to the Second World War, the United States had suffered through the Great Depression following the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Roosevelt's election at the end of 1932 was based on a commitment to reform the economy and society through a \"New Deal\" program. The first indication of a commitment to government guarantees of social and economic rights came in an address to the Commonwealth Club on", "title": "Second Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "428568", "text": "indicated by Madison in his speech introducing the Bill of Rights (emphasis added): The First through Eighth Amendments address the means by which the federal government exercises its enumerated powers, while the Ninth Amendment addresses a \"great residuum\" of rights that have not been \"thrown into the hands of the government,\" as Madison put it. The Ninth Amendment became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791 upon ratification by three-fourths of the states. The final form of the amendment ratified by the states is as follows: The Ninth Amendment has generally been regarded by the courts as negating any", "title": "Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "139028", "text": "The rapid expansion of government programs that occurred during Roosevelt's term redefined the role of the government in the United States, and Roosevelt's advocacy of government social programs was instrumental in redefining liberalism for coming generations. Roosevelt firmly established the United States' leadership role on the world stage, with his role in shaping and financing World War II. His isolationist critics faded away, and even the Republicans joined in his overall policies. He also created a new understanding of the presidency, permanently increasing the power of the president at the expense of Congress. His Second Bill of Rights became, according", "title": "Franklin D. Roosevelt" }, { "id": "5459360", "text": "forces prevailed only after promising to add a Bill of Rights. The Virginia Ratifying Convention approved the Constitution by a vote of 89–79 on June 25, 1788, making it the tenth state to enter the Union. Madison played a central role in the new Congress, while Washington was the unanimous choice as first president. He was followed by the Virginia Dynasty, including Thomas Jefferson, Madison, and James Monroe, giving the state four of the first five presidents. The Revolution meant change and sometimes political freedom for enslaved African Americans, too. Tens of thousands of slaves from southern states, particularly in", "title": "History of Virginia" }, { "id": "14117739", "text": "citizenship by arguing that Englishmen had historically enjoyed such rights. The Petition of Right 1628, the Declaration of Right, 1689 and the Bill of Rights 1689 established certain rights in statute. In America, the English Bill of Rights was one of the influences on the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, which in turn influenced the United States Declaration of Independence later that year. Inspired by the Age of Enlightenment, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen asserted the universality of rights. It was adopted in 1789 by France's National Constituent Assembly, during the period of the", "title": "Bill of rights" }, { "id": "9592008", "text": "motion, however, later endangered the entire ratification process. Author David O. Stewart characterizes the omission of a Bill of Rights in the original Constitution as \"a political blunder of the first magnitude\" while historian Jack N. Rakove calls it \"the one serious miscalculation the framers made as they looked ahead to the struggle over ratification\". Thirty-nine delegates signed the finalized Constitution. Thirteen delegates left before it was completed, and three who remained at the convention until the end refused to sign it: Mason, Gerry, and Edmund Randolph of Virginia. Afterward, the Constitution was presented to the Articles of Confederation Congress", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592012", "text": "people ... being in a state of uncertainty, they will assume rather than give up powers by implication.\" Other anti-Federalists pointed out that earlier political documents, in particular the Magna Carta, had protected specific rights. In response, Hamilton argued that the Constitution was inherently different: In December 1787 and January 1788, five states—Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut—ratified the Constitution with relative ease, though the bitter minority report of the Pennsylvania opposition was widely circulated. In contrast to its predecessors, the Massachusetts convention was angry and contentious, at one point erupting into a fistfight between Federalist delegate Francis Dana", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "661418", "text": "Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the Civil Rights Movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. Designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Act secured the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South. According to the", "title": "Voting Rights Act of 1965" }, { "id": "7898764", "text": "a charter. Subsequently, the organization began recognizing the date of Kennedy's speech, March 15, as World Consumer Rights Day. As of May 2014, the UK Government has introduced proposed legislation before Parliament. The bill is the \"Consumer Rights Bill\", and it will consolidate and develop Unfair Contract Terms provisions and Consumer Protection provisions. Consumer Bill of Rights On March 15, 1962, President John F. Kennedy presented a speech to the United States Congress in which he extolled four basic consumer rights, later called the Consumer Bill of Rights. The United Nations through the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection expanded", "title": "Consumer Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "1740066", "text": "the Constitution. Both chambers had a Pro-Administration majority. Twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution were passed by this Congress and sent to the states for ratification; the ten ratified as additions to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, are collectively known as the Bill of Rights. Held March 4, 1789, through September 29, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City Held January 4, 1790, through August 12, 1790, at Federal Hall in New York City Held December 6, 1790, through March 3, 1791, at Congress Hall in Philadelphia There were no political parties in this Congress. Members are", "title": "1st United States Congress" }, { "id": "428292", "text": "troops was cited as one of the colonists' grievances in the United States Declaration of Independence. After several years of comparatively weak government under the Articles of Confederation, a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia proposed a new constitution on September 17, 1787, featuring a stronger chief executive and other changes. George Mason, a Constitutional Convention delegate and the drafter of Virginia's Declaration of Rights, proposed that a bill of rights listing and guaranteeing civil liberties be included. Other delegates—including future Bill of Rights drafter James Madison—disagreed, arguing that existing state guarantees of civil liberties were sufficient and that any attempt to", "title": "Third Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "9592041", "text": "and social discourse, the Second Amendment has been at the heart of several Supreme Court decisions. The Third Amendment restricts the quartering of soldiers in private homes, in response to Quartering Acts passed by the British parliament during the Revolutionary War. The amendment is one of the least controversial of the Constitution, and, , has never been the primary basis of a Supreme Court decision. The Fourth Amendment guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the writ", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "20398", "text": "to call the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. It adopted a new Constitution that provided for a much stronger federal government, including an effective executive in a check-and-balance system with the judiciary and legislature. The Constitution was ratified in 1788, after a fierce debate in the states over the nature of the proposed new government. The new government under President George Washington took office in New York in March 1789. Amendments to the Constitution were spearheaded in Congress by James Madison as assurances to those who were cautious about federal power, guaranteeing many of the inalienable rights that formed a foundation", "title": "American Revolution" }, { "id": "14179765", "text": "of the 15th Amendment and signed into law the Civil Rights Bill of 1875 that gave all citizens access to places of public enterprise. He leaned heavily toward the Radical camp and often sided with their Reconstruction policies, signing into law Force Acts to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan. In foreign policy Grant won praise for the Treaty of Washington, settling the Alabama Claims issue with Britain through arbitration. Economically he sided with Eastern bankers and signed the Public Credit Act that paid U.S. debts in gold specie, but was blamed for the severe economic depression that lasted 1873–1877. Grant,", "title": "Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant" }, { "id": "14179613", "text": "secretary, Orville E. Babcock. Secretary of War William W. Belknap resigned in disgrace in February 1876 after he was impeached by the House for taking kickbacks. Grant continued to support Reconstruction, and he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which banned discrimination in public accommodations. However, by the end of Grant's presidency, white Southern Democrats, called Redeemers by their supporters, had regained political control of state governments, often through killings and other physical violence, fraud, and the suppression of black voters. The United States was at peace with the world throughout Grant's eight years in office, but his handling", "title": "Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant" }, { "id": "4305797", "text": "and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically delegated to Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people. The concepts codified in these amendments are built upon those found in several earlier documents, including the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the English Bill of Rights 1689, along with earlier documents such as Magna Carta (1215). Although James Madison's proposed amendments included a provision to extend the protection of some of the Bill of Rights to the states, the amendments that were finally submitted", "title": "Incorporation of the Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "322328", "text": "States which is not decided by popular vote. Nine vice presidents became president by virtue of a president's intra-term death or resignation. Donald Trump of New York is the 45th and current president. He assumed office on January 20, 2017. During the American Revolution in 1776, the Thirteen Colonies, acting through the Second Continental Congress, declared political independence from Great Britain. The new states were independent of each other as nation states and recognized the necessity of closely coordinating their efforts against the British. Congress desired to avoid anything that remotely resembled a monarchy and negotiated the Articles of Confederation", "title": "President of the United States" }, { "id": "7797012", "text": "B. Johnson, Kennedy's successor, took up the mantle and pushed the landmark Civil Rights Act through a bitterly divided Congress by invoking the slain president's memory. President Johnson then signed the Act into law on July 2, 1964. This civil rights law ended what was known as the \"Solid South\" and certain provisions were modeled after the Civil Rights Act of 1875, signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. Kennedy's continuation of Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower's policies of giving economic and military aid to South Vietnam left the door open for President Johnson's escalation of", "title": "John F. Kennedy" }, { "id": "3563888", "text": "through the Declaration the new United States now rejected the legitimacy of the monarchy to demand allegiance. The war raged for seven years, with effective American victory, followed by formal British abandonment of any claim to the United States with the Treaty of Paris. The Philadelphia Convention set up the current United States; the United States Constitution ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a limited central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791. The decolonization of the Americas was the", "title": "Modern history" }, { "id": "17057924", "text": "with a terse \"I have no further communication.\" On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson became the first President in over a quarter century to use the President's Room for its intended purpose, signing the 1965 Voting Rights Act into law after a stirring and emotional ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda. Johnson had appeared before a Joint Session of Congress on March 15, 1965, to urge passage of the bill guaranteeing equal voting rights for African American citizens. He returned to the Capitol to sign the act, a gesture that, as he explained in his memoirs, was intended to", "title": "President's Room" }, { "id": "428409", "text": "Madison, along with the other amendments in the Bill of Rights, in response to Anti-Federalist objections to the new Constitution. Congress submitted the amendment to the states on September 28, 1789. By December 15, 1791, the necessary three-fourths of the states had ratified it. On March 1, 1792, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson announced that it was officially part of the Constitution. Because the Bill of Rights did not initially apply to state or local governments, and federal criminal investigations were less common in the first century of the nation's history, there is little significant case law for the Fourth", "title": "Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "428579", "text": "Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791. It expresses the principle of federalism and states' rights, which strictly supports the entire plan of the original Constitution for the United States of America, by stating that the federal government possesses only those powers delegated to it by the United States Constitution. All remaining powers are reserved for the states or the people. The amendment was proposed by the 1st United States Congress in 1789 during its first", "title": "Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "428200", "text": "restrained but by despotic Governments.\" Eight of the other twelve states made similar pledges. However, these declarations were generally considered \"mere admonitions to state legislatures\", rather than enforceable provisions. After several years of comparatively weak government under the Articles of Confederation, a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia proposed a new constitution on September 17, 1787, featuring among other changes a stronger chief executive. George Mason, a Constitutional Convention delegate and the drafter of Virginia's Declaration of Rights, proposed that the Constitution include a bill of rights listing and guaranteeing civil liberties. Other delegates—including future Bill of Rights drafter James Madison—disagreed, arguing", "title": "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "9592035", "text": "century, however, most of the Bill's provisions were applied to the states via the Fourteenth Amendment—a process known as incorporation—beginning with the freedom of speech clause, in \"Gitlow v. New York\" (1925). In \"Talton v. Mayes\" (1896), the Court ruled that Constitutional protections, including the provisions of the Bill of Rights, do not apply to the actions of American Indian tribal governments. Through the incorporation process the United States Supreme Court succeeded in extending to the States almost all of the protections in the Bill of Rights, as well as other, unenumerated rights. The Bill of Rights thus imposes legal", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "4741950", "text": "laws, in segregation of school and public facilities, and in employment. The new legislation was proposed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his message to the 86th Congress on February 5, 1959, when he stated \"that every individual regardless of his race, religion, or national origin is entitled to the equal protection of the laws.\" Toward the end of his presidency, President Eisenhower supported civil rights legislation. In his message to Congress, he proposed seven recommendations for the protection of civil rights: The bill, H.R. 8601, began in the House of Representatives under jurisdiction of the House Judiciary Committee. The", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1960" }, { "id": "2734047", "text": "of Rights reserves for the people any rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution and reserves all powers not specifically granted to the federal government to the people or the States. Amendments to the Constitution subsequent to the Bill of Rights cover a wide range of subjects. Several have added significant content to the original document. One of the most far-reaching is the Fourteenth, ratified in 1868, which establishes a clear and simple definition of citizenship and guarantees equal treatment under the law. Also significant are the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-sixth, which were enacted to extend the right to", "title": "History of the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "4305794", "text": "Incorporation of the Bill of Rights Incorporation, in United States law, is the doctrine by which portions of the Bill of Rights have been made applicable to the states. When the Bill of Rights was ratified, courts held that its protections only extended to the actions of the federal government and that the Bill of Rights did not place limitations on the authority of state and local governments. However, the post-Civil War era, beginning in 1865 with the Thirteenth Amendment, which declared the abolition of slavery, gave rise to the incorporation of other Amendments, providing more rights to the states", "title": "Incorporation of the Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "427832", "text": "critics during the debates of 1788. The English Bill of Rights (1689) was an inspiration for the American Bill of Rights. Both require jury trials, contain a right to keep and bear arms, prohibit excessive bail and forbid \"cruel and unusual punishments\". Many liberties protected by state constitutions and the Virginia Declaration of Rights were incorporated into the Bill of Rights. Neither the Convention which drafted the Constitution, nor the Congress which sent it to the thirteen states for ratification in the autumn of 1787, gave it a lead caption. To fill this void, the document was most often titled", "title": "United States Constitution" }, { "id": "1568603", "text": "The bill was called for by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in his Report to the American People on Civil Rights of June 11, 1963, in which he asked for legislation \"giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public—hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments\"—as well as \"greater protection for the right to vote\". Kennedy delivered this speech in the aftermath of the Birmingham campaign and the growing number of demonstrations and protests throughout the southern United States. Kennedy was moved to action following the elevated racial tensions and wave of", "title": "Civil Rights Act of 1964" }, { "id": "2734040", "text": "by Congress were allayed by amendments passed under the floor leadership of James Madison during the first session of Congress. These first ten Amendments became known as the Bill of Rights. Objections to a potentially remote federal judiciary were reconciled with 13 federal courts (11 states, plus Maine and Kentucky), and three federal riding circuits out of the Supreme Court: Eastern, Middle and South. Suspicion of a powerful federal executive was answered by Washington's cabinet appointments of once-Anti-Federalists Edmund Jennings Randolph as Attorney General and Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State. What Constitutional historian Pauline Maier termed a national \"dialogue", "title": "History of the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "427827", "text": "September 13, 1788, to put the new Constitution into operation with the eleven states that had then ratified it. The federal government began operations under the new form of government on March 4, 1789. However, the initial meeting of each chamber of Congress had to be adjourned due to lack of a quorum. George Washington was inaugurated as the nation's first president weeks later, on April 30. The final two states, North Carolina and Rhode Island, both subsequently ratified the ConstitutionNovember 21, 1789, and May 29, 1790, respectively. Several ideas in the Constitution were new. These were associated with the", "title": "United States Constitution" }, { "id": "661450", "text": "out of committee. The House approved this conference report version of the bill on August 3 by a 328-74 vote (Democrats 217-54, Republicans 111-20), and the Senate passed it on August 4 by a 79-18 vote (Democrats 49-17, Republicans 30-1). On August 6, President Johnson signed the Act into law with King, Rosa Parks, John Lewis, and other civil rights leaders in attendance at the signing ceremony. Congress enacted major amendments to the Act in 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006. Each amendment coincided with an impending expiration of some or all of the Act's special provisions. Originally set to", "title": "Voting Rights Act of 1965" }, { "id": "9592027", "text": "silencing the Anti-Federalists' most effective critique. Many Anti-Federalists, in contrast, were now opposed, realizing that Congressional approval of these amendments would greatly lessen the chances of a second constitutional convention. Anti-Federalists such as Richard Henry Lee also argued that the Bill left the most objectionable portions of the Constitution, such as the federal judiciary and direct taxation, intact. Madison remained active in the progress of the amendments throughout the legislative process. Historian Gordon S. Wood writes that \"there is no question that it was Madison's personal prestige and his dogged persistence that saw the amendments through the Congress. There might", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "4305805", "text": "of no elections.\" The 14th Amendment has vastly expanded civil rights protections and is cited in more litigation than any other amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In the 1940s and 1960s the Supreme Court gradually issued a series of decisions incorporating several of the specific rights from the Bill of Rights, so as to be binding upon the States. A dissenting school of thought championed by Justice Hugo Black supported that incorporation of specific rights, but urged incorporation of all specific rights instead of just some of them. Black was for so-called mechanical incorporation, or total incorporation, of Amendments 1", "title": "Incorporation of the Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "17991493", "text": "bill's Senate committee report, and the report was not filed until six days after the bill's passage. The Senate report differed in significant ways from the House report, and in their own statement, Senate Democrats objected to parts of the Senate report that they believed highlighted evidence that could jeopardize the bill's constitutionality. The day after the committee report was filed, President George W. Bush signed the bill in a morning ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on July 27, 2006, one year in advance of the 2007 expiration date. The audience at the signing ceremony included", "title": "Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965" }, { "id": "209842", "text": "its own, and condensing their number to twelve. Madison's proposal to apply parts of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as the federal government was eliminated, as was his final proposed change to the preamble. A House–Senate Conference Committee then convened to resolve the numerous differences between the two Bill of Rights proposals. On September 24, 1789, the committee issued its report, which finalized 12 Constitutional Amendments for the House and Senate to consider. This version was approved by joint resolution of Congress on September 25, 1789. Of the proposed twelve Amendments, Articles Three through Twelve were", "title": "James Madison" }, { "id": "11229157", "text": "presidency. Kennedy called his domestic program the \"New Frontier,\" which included initiatives such as medical care for the elderly, federal aid to education, and the creation of a department of housing and urban development. His New Frontier program was strongly influenced by Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 \"Second Bill of Rights\" address, as well as Harry Truman's Fair Deal. Kennedy also called for a large tax cut as an economic stimulus measure. However, many of his programs were blocked by the conservative coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats. The conservative coalition, which controlled key congressional committees and made up a majority", "title": "Presidency of John F. Kennedy" }, { "id": "9592003", "text": "proposed amendments included a provision to extend the protection of some of the Bill of Rights to the states, the amendments that were finally submitted for ratification applied only to the federal government. The door for their application upon state governments was opened in the 1860s, following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Since the early 20th century both federal and state courts have used the Fourteenth Amendment to apply portions of the Bill of Rights to state and local governments. The process is known as incorporation. There are several original engrossed copies of the Bill of Rights still in existence.", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "9592010", "text": "individual rights and that the President would become a king. Jefferson wrote to Madison advocating a Bill of Rights: \"Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.\" The pseudonymous Anti-Federalist \"Brutus\" wrote, He continued with this observation: Supporters of the Constitution, known as Federalists, opposed a bill of rights for much of the ratification period, in part due to the procedural uncertainties it would create. Madison argued against such an inclusion, suggesting that state governments were sufficient guarantors of personal liberty, in No. 46 of \"The Federalist", "title": "United States Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "2636713", "text": "the 1st Congress at Federal Hall. Foremost was the proposal and initial ratification of the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution; twelve amendments to the Constitution were initially drafted (ten were later adopted), and on September 25, 1789, the United States Bill of Rights was proposed in Federal Hall, establishing the freedoms claimed by the Stamp Act Congress on the same site 24 years earlier. Also, the Judiciary Act of 1789 was enacted in the building, which set up the United States federal court system that is still in use today. In 1790, the United States capital was moved", "title": "Federal Hall" }, { "id": "11229011", "text": "the 1964 Civil Rights Act to bring charges against them. A federal jury convicted three of Liuzzo's murderers, and they were given 10-year prison terms. In doing so, Johnson became the first president in over 90 years, since Ulysses S. Grant, to prosecute members of the Klan. Johnson chose to pursue a housing discrimination bill as his final major legislative goal of the 89th Congress. In April 1966, Johnson submitted a bill to Congress that barred owners from refusing to enter into agreements on the basis of race; the bill immediately garnered opposition from many of the Northerners who had", "title": "Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson" }, { "id": "4987367", "text": "at least initially be implemented by legislation, but that did not exclude either the Supreme Court's development of constitutional jurisprudence or amendments to the Constitution. Roosevelt's model assumed that federal government would take the lead, but that did not prevent states improving their own legislative or constitutional framework beyond the federal minimum. Much of the groundwork had been laid before and during the New Deal, but left many of the Second Bill of Rights' aspirations incomplete. Internationally, the same economic and social rights were written into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. In federal legislation, the key planks", "title": "Second Bill of Rights" }, { "id": "427831", "text": "In his \"The Spirit of the Laws\", Montesquieu argues that the separation of state powers should be by its service to the people's liberty: legislative, executive and judicial. A substantial body of thought had been developed from the literature of republicanism in the United States, including work by John Adams and applied to the creation of state constitutions. The constitution was a federal one, and was influenced by the study of other federations, both ancient and extant. The United States Bill of Rights consists of 10 amendments added to the Constitution in 1791, as supporters of the Constitution had promised", "title": "United States Constitution" }, { "id": "2734035", "text": "attempt to attach conditions to ratification almost succeeded, but on July 26, 1788, New York ratified, with a recommendation that a bill of rights be appended. The vote was close – yeas 30 (52.6%), nays 27 – due largely to Hamilton's forensic abilities and his reaching a few key compromises with moderate anti-Federalists led by Melancton Smith. Following Massachusetts's lead, the Federalist minorities in both Virginia and New York were able to obtain ratification in convention by linking ratification to recommended amendments. A minority of the Constitution's critics continued to oppose the Constitution. Maryland's Luther Martin argued that the federal", "title": "History of the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "13480652", "text": "be.\" On November 22, 1963 Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson was immediately sworn in as President and addressed a joint session of Congress, saying, \"No memorial oration or eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.\" After an intense legislative effort, the bill passed Congress and was signed into law by Johnson as the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964. The address was Kennedy's most dramatic statement on African-American civil rights. It transformed the subject from a legal issue", "title": "Report to the American People on Civil Rights" }, { "id": "428339", "text": "is important to understand the language of the Constitution in terms of what that language meant to the people who wrote and ratified the Constitution. The Second Amendment was relatively uncontroversial at the time of its ratification. Robert Whitehill, a delegate from Pennsylvania, sought to clarify the draft Constitution with a bill of rights explicitly granting individuals the right to hunt on their own land in season, though Whitehill's language was never debated. There was substantial opposition to the new Constitution, because it moved the power to arm the state militias from the states to the federal government. This created", "title": "Second Amendment to the United States Constitution" }, { "id": "11229012", "text": "supported the last two major civil rights bills. Though a version of the bill passed the House, it failed to win Senate approval, marking Johnson's first major legislative defeat. The law gained new impetus after the April 4, 1968, assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the civil unrest across the country following King's death. On April 5, Johnson wrote a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives urging passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. With newly urgent attention from legislative director Joseph Califano and Democratic House Speaker John William McCormack, the bill passed the House by a", "title": "Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson" } ]

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[ { "id": "12525239", "text": "Cress Williams Cress Williams (born July 26, 1970) is an American actor, known for his roles in \"Prison Break\" and \"Close to Home\". His most recent roles include Mayor Lavon Hayes on The CW series \"Hart of Dixie\" as well as the title character on The CW's \"Black Lightning\". Williams is also best known for his recurring role as Terrence \"Scooter\" Williams on Fox's \"Living Single\". Williams was born in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, to American parents. He attended Fullerton College and UCLA. On October 14, 2000, Williams married actress Simbi Khali in Malibu, California. The couple have two children", "title": "Cress Williams" }, { "id": "7440136", "text": "Lawrence Gilliard Jr. Lawrence Gilliard Jr. (born September 22, 1971) is an American character actor who has appeared in films, television series and theatre. He portrayed D'Angelo Barksdale on the HBO drama series \"The Wire\", a role which earned him critical acclaim. He is also known for his role as Bob Stookey in the AMC horror drama \"The Walking Dead\". He is in the cast of David Simon's HBO TV series, \"The Deuce\", that premiered in September 2017. Gilliard was born in New York City. He and his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland when he was seven years old. Gilliard", "title": "Lawrence Gilliard Jr." }, { "id": "8479978", "text": "etc.). Marion Ramsey Marion Ramsey (born May 10, 1947) is an American actress and singer. She was a regular on the series \"Cos\" but is best known for her role as the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in the \"Police Academy (film series)\". Recently she has also appeared in the films \"Recipe for Disaster\" and \"Return to Babylon\", and in the television films for SyFy, such as \"Lavalantula\" and \"2 Lava 2 Lantula!\". Marion is a highly talented singer and songwriter, who has written songs with Haras Fyre (composer of \"Supernatural Thing,\" \"This Time I'll Be Sweeter,\" \"Satan's Daughter\" for Gary", "title": "Marion Ramsey" }, { "id": "8427069", "text": "Clarke Peters Peter Clarke (born April 7, 1952), known professionally as Clarke Peters, is an American actor, singer, writer and director, best known for his roles as detective Lester Freamon and Albert \"Big Chief\" Lambreaux on the David Simon HBO dramas \"The Wire\" and \"Treme\", respectively. More recently, Peters has portrayed Alonzo Quinn on the CBS crime drama \"Person of Interest\" and Isaiah Page on \"The Divide\". Peters was born Peter Clarke, the second of four sons, in New York, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. At the age of 12, he had his first theater experience, in a", "title": "Clarke Peters" }, { "id": "8153221", "text": "including an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. While growing up in Hawaii, Corboy would play poker with his friends. His affinity for the game led to him becoming the lead commentator for the Professional Poker Tour in 2006. In mid–2017, Corboy was cast in the recurring character Jared Preston Jr. on the ABC soap opera \"General Hospital\" to help facilitate Rebecca Budig's character Hayden Barnes exit off of the soap. Corboy has been married to Kara McNamara Corboy since August 4, 2001. They have a son, Finn (born 2006). Matt Corboy Matt Corboy (born June 4, 1973) is an", "title": "Matt Corboy" }, { "id": "6373058", "text": "In January 2016, Overall endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President, but has stated she will support whoever is the Democratic nominee. Park Overall Park Overall (born March 15, 1957) is an American actress, environmental and women's rights activist, and former U.S. Senate candidate, known for her trademark heavy Southern accent. Her best-known role was as nurse Laverne Higby Todd Kane in the sitcom \"Empty Nest\", though she has appeared in a number of feature films, including \"Biloxi Blues\", \"Mississippi Burning\", \"Talk Radio\", and more recently, \"In the Family\". Overall was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and raised in Greeneville, Tennessee. She", "title": "Park Overall" }, { "id": "8479977", "text": "Marion Ramsey Marion Ramsey (born May 10, 1947) is an American actress and singer. She was a regular on the series \"Cos\" but is best known for her role as the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in the \"Police Academy (film series)\". Recently she has also appeared in the films \"Recipe for Disaster\" and \"Return to Babylon\", and in the television films for SyFy, such as \"Lavalantula\" and \"2 Lava 2 Lantula!\". Marion is a highly talented singer and songwriter, who has written songs with Haras Fyre (composer of \"Supernatural Thing,\" \"This Time I'll Be Sweeter,\" \"Satan's Daughter\" for Gary Glitter,", "title": "Marion Ramsey" }, { "id": "15931500", "text": "Brenton Thwaites Brenton Thwaites (born 10 August 1989) is an Australian actor who is known for his portrayal of Luke Gallagher in the Fox8 teen drama series \"Slide\" (2011), and later Stu Henderson in the soap opera \"Home and Away\" (2011–2012). Since moving to the United States, Thwaites has had major roles in the films \"\" (2012), \"Oculus\" (2013), \"The Giver\" (2014), \"Gods of Egypt\" (2016), and \"\" (2017). He also stars as Dick Grayson in the DC Universe television series \"Titans\" in 2018. Thwaites was born on 10 August 1989 in Cairns, Queensland, to Fiona and Peter Thwaites. He", "title": "Brenton Thwaites" }, { "id": "3489794", "text": "Ron Perlman Ronald Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor and voice actor. He played the role of Vincent on the television series \"Beauty and the Beast\" (1987–1990), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, the comic book character Hellboy in both \"Hellboy\" (2004) and its sequel \"\" (2008), and Clay Morrow on the television series \"Sons of Anarchy\" (2008–2013). Perlman is known as a collaborator of \"Hellboy\" director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films \"Cronos\" (1993), \"Blade II\" (2002), and \"Pacific Rim\" (2013). He is also known for his voice-over work as", "title": "Ron Perlman" }, { "id": "18896520", "text": "nominations, the film expanded to 3,136 theaters on January 27, 2017 (an increase of 1,271 from the week before) and grossed $12.1 million (up 43% from its previous week's $8.4 million). During the weekend of February 24–26 (the weekend of the Academy Awards) the film grossed $4.6 million, exactly the same amount it grossed the previous weekend. The next week, following its six Oscar wins, the film grossed $3 million. Critics praised the film's screenplay, direction, acting, score, and the chemistry of Gosling and Stone. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 91% based on", "title": "La La Land (film)" }, { "id": "6373047", "text": "Park Overall Park Overall (born March 15, 1957) is an American actress, environmental and women's rights activist, and former U.S. Senate candidate, known for her trademark heavy Southern accent. Her best-known role was as nurse Laverne Higby Todd Kane in the sitcom \"Empty Nest\", though she has appeared in a number of feature films, including \"Biloxi Blues\", \"Mississippi Burning\", \"Talk Radio\", and more recently, \"In the Family\". Overall was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and raised in Greeneville, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Thomas Wesley \"Jack\" Overall, Jr., a federal magistrate and Frances (née Bernard), a professor of English. She", "title": "Park Overall" }, { "id": "19060800", "text": "Alex Boniello Alex Boniello is an American actor best known for his portrayal of the voice of Moritz in the 2015 Broadway revival of \"Spring Awakening\". In 2018, he replaced Tony Nominee Mike Faist as Connor Murphy in \"Dear Evan Hansen\" on Broadway. Boniello grew up in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey and attended Wood-Ridge High School, where he started acting and excelled in such roles as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast and Mark Cohen in Rent, before he enrolled at Wagner College, majoring in drama. His start in professional theatre came with the touring company of \"American Idiot.\" He was", "title": "Alex Boniello" }, { "id": "7125792", "text": "Eden (born 2016), and a son, Aubrey (born 2012). Actress Rebecca Hall is godmother to his daughter Willow. Stevens endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Dan Stevens Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV acclaimed period drama series \"Downton Abbey\" (2010–12). He also starred as David in the thriller film \"The Guest\" (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film \"\" (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live action adaptation of \"Beauty and the Beast\" (2017), Lorin Willis", "title": "Dan Stevens" }, { "id": "15723174", "text": "Rising Star Award. Teller received further recognition when he portrayed Peter Hayes in the commercially successful \"Divergent\" (2014), followed by the film's sequels \"\" (2015) and \"\" (2016). He also starred as Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic in the film \"Fantastic Four\" (2015). Teller played real life arms dealer David Packouz, opposite Jonah Hill, in the Todd Phillips-directed film \"War Dogs\" (2016), and headlined the biopic \"Bleed for This\" (2016), playing boxer Vinny Paz. In January 2014, Teller was cast to portray Dan Aykroyd in Steven Conrad's untitled John Belushi biopic. Teller is a loyal fan of the Philadelphia Phillies,", "title": "Miles Teller" }, { "id": "2148904", "text": "Rob Margolies' weight loss comedy \"Weight\" (2018), which premiered at the SOHO International Film Festival in June 2018. After the film's September 2018 screening at the Northeast Film Festival, Quaid was nominated for their award for \"Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film\". In 1981 Quaid co-starred in the two part television film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel \"Of Mice and Men\", playing the character of Lenny. Quaid's other television appearances include a season as a \"Saturday Night Live\" (SNL) cast member (1985–1986), the role of gunslinger John Wesley Hardin in the miniseries \"Streets of Laredo\" and starring roles in", "title": "Randy Quaid" }, { "id": "3489804", "text": "a requested handshake with Harvey Weinstein at a charity event. Ron Perlman Ronald Perlman (born April 13, 1950) is an American actor and voice actor. He played the role of Vincent on the television series \"Beauty and the Beast\" (1987–1990), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, the comic book character Hellboy in both \"Hellboy\" (2004) and its sequel \"\" (2008), and Clay Morrow on the television series \"Sons of Anarchy\" (2008–2013). Perlman is known as a collaborator of \"Hellboy\" director Guillermo del Toro, having roles in the del Toro films \"Cronos\" (1993), \"Blade II\" (2002), and \"Pacific Rim\"", "title": "Ron Perlman" }, { "id": "19527727", "text": "Only the Brave (2017 film) Only the Brave is a 2017 American biographical drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, based on the \"GQ\" article \"No Exit\" by Sean Flynn. The film tells the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew of firefighters who lost 19 of 20 members while fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire in June 2013, and is dedicated to their memory. It features an ensemble cast, including Josh Brolin, James Badge Dale, Jeff Bridges, Miles Teller, Alex Russell, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Hardy, Thad Luckinbill, Geoff Stults, Scott", "title": "Only the Brave (2017 film)" }, { "id": "19265959", "text": "Kyle Scatliffe Kyle Scatliffe (born July 18, 1986) is an American stage actor best known for playing Enjolras in the 2014 Broadway revival of \"Les Misérables\", and Harpo in the 2015 Broadway Revival of \"The Color Purple\". He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 2014 for his performance in \"The Scottsboro Boys.\" Scatliffe is currently portraying the role of Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson in the second U.S. tour of \"Hamilton\", which began performances in February 2018. Scatliffe grew up in Westwood, New Jersey, as the youngest of five children, and attended Westwood Regional High School. Scatliffe", "title": "Kyle Scatliffe" }, { "id": "4158407", "text": "Treat Williams Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television. He first became well known for his starring role in the 1979 film \"Hair\", and later also starred in the films \"Prince of the City\", \"Once Upon a Time in America\", \"The Late Shift\" and \"127 Hours\". From 2002 to 2006, he was the lead of the television series \"Everwood\" and was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Williams was born in Rowayton, Connecticut, the son of Marian (née Andrew), an antiques dealer, and", "title": "Treat Williams" }, { "id": "6281970", "text": "J. C. MacKenzie John Charles MacKenzie (born October 17, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Skip Fontaine on the HBO series \"Vinyl\" (2016) and Reagan \"Normal\" Ronald on the Fox series \"Dark Angel\" (2000–2002). John Charles MacKenzie was born in Peterborough, Ontario on October 17, 1970, one of four sons born to nurse Mary and pharmacist Bill MacKenzie. He was raised in Ottawa, Ontario, and attended Pinecrest Public School and Sir John A. Macdonald High School. He later studied at Concordia University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). MacKenzie spent several", "title": "J. C. MacKenzie" }, { "id": "790635", "text": "Netflix on November 16, 2018 after a limited theatrical release and received positive reviews from critics, with many highlighting Nelson's performance and his overall segment as a highlight of the film. Nelson resides in New York City with his wife, Lisa Benavides, and their three sons. On May 8, 2009, he was inducted as an honorary member of the University of Tulsa's Beta of Oklahoma chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa national collegiate honor society. Tim Blake Nelson Timothy Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American actor, writer and director. His most famous roles include Delmar O'Donnell in", "title": "Tim Blake Nelson" }, { "id": "18761193", "text": "the voices of primary and secondary characters. Jon Daly, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Gillian Jacobs and Nicki Rapp reprised their roles from the pilot as King Rufus, Queen Eleanor, Rosalind and Alex respectively, whilst Kieran Culkin will take over from Jeremy Redleaf as the voice of Peter. Additional characters were voiced by Fred Armisen, Ellie Kemper, Ken Marino, Alfred Molina, Horatio Sanz, and Peter Serafinowicz. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> \"Long Live the Royals\" premiered on Cartoon Network channels in Africa on December 19, 2015 and in Australia and New Zealand on January 26, 2016. \"Long Live The Royals\" premiered on Cartoon Network UK and", "title": "Long Live the Royals" }, { "id": "14728642", "text": "year he played American pickpocket Michael Mason in the 2016 action movie \"Bastille Day\", starring alongside Idris Elba. Madden received widespread critical acclaim and recognition for his role as Sergeant David Budd in the 2018 BBC drama series \"Bodyguard\". After achieving high levels of popularity in the United Kingdom, the show was released to a worldwide audience on Netflix in October 2018. Madden had a previous relationship with English actress Jenna Coleman, which ended in 2015. He has since dated TV presenter Laura Whitmore and model Suki Waterhouse. His current partner is actress and model Ellie Bamber, whom he has", "title": "Richard Madden" }, { "id": "19888915", "text": "Justin Hurwitz Justin Gabriel Hurwitz (born January 22, 1985) is an American film composer and a television writer. He is best known for scoring the 2016 film \"La La Land\". He also scored Damien Chazelle's three other features, \"First Man\", \"Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench\", and \"Whiplash\". For \"La La Land\", he won two Academy Awards: Best Original Score and Best Original Song (for \"City of Stars\") as well as the Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song (for \"City of Stars\"), and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. Hurwitz was born in", "title": "Justin Hurwitz" }, { "id": "7125781", "text": "Dan Stevens Daniel Jonathan Stevens (born 10 October 1982) is an English actor. He first drew international attention for his role as Matthew Crawley in the ITV acclaimed period drama series \"Downton Abbey\" (2010–12). He also starred as David in the thriller film \"The Guest\" (2014), Sir Lancelot in the adventure film \"\" (2014), The Beast/Prince in Disney's live action adaptation of \"Beauty and the Beast\" (2017), Lorin Willis in the biographical legal drama \"Marshall\" (2017), and Charles Dickens in the biographical drama \"The Man Who Invented Christmas\" (2017). Since 2017, he has starred as David Haller in the FX", "title": "Dan Stevens" }, { "id": "14446843", "text": "\"The Best Offer\" in 2013. In 2012 he starred in a new series \"Hunted\" for BBC One and HBO. He played \"George Ballard\", a MI6 Spy Chief in episodes 4 and 5. Crowley often appears on BBC radio in drama such as \"Mind's Eye\". In 2013, he played Pay Whyte in \"Father Figure\". In 2017, he played the role of Lazar Kaganovich in the critically acclaimed political satire, \"The Death of Stalin\". Dermot Crowley Dermot Crowley (born 19 March 1947, Cork) is an Irish stage, film and television actor. Crowley's stage work has included a leading role in an Olivier", "title": "Dermot Crowley" }, { "id": "16021111", "text": "Lincoln Younes Lincoln Younes (born 31 January 1992) is an Australian actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Romeo Kovac in \"Tangle\" and Casey Braxton in the long-running soap \"Home and Away\" (2011-2014). He has also appeared in \"Hiding\" and \"Love Child\" as Chris Vesty. Lincoln Younes was born in Sydney, but grew up in Bendigo, Victoria. He is half Lebanese. Younes attended Flora Hill Secondary College. After playing soccer for 14 years, Younes initially chose to pursue a sporting career. However, he later realised he preferred acting when he starred in a school production of \"Peter Pan\". He", "title": "Lincoln Younes" }, { "id": "20962026", "text": "A day later, it was announced that Joel Fields had joined the production as an additional writer and executive producer. Alongside the series order announcement, it was confirmed that Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams had been cast in the lead roles of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, respectively. On November 19, 2018, it was announced Margaret Qualley and Norbert Leo Butz had been cast in series regular roles and that Aya Cash, Nate Corddry, Susan Misner, Bianca Marroquín, Kelli Barrett, Evan Handler, Rick Holmes, Paul Reiser, Ethan Slater, Byron Jennings, and Laura Osnes had joined the cast cast in a", "title": "Fosse/Verdon" }, { "id": "14210730", "text": "the Leader of the Labour Party, and later voiced his support for Corbyn in a post on Instagram. Finn Jones Finn Jones (born Terence Jones; 24 March 1988) is an English actor known for his roles as Loras Tyrell in the HBO series \"Game of Thrones\" and as Danny Rand in the Netflix television shows \"Iron Fist\", \"The Defenders\" and \"Luke Cage\", which are set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jones trained at the Arts Educational Schools on a three-year acting course. Prior to this he was a Sixth Form student at Hayes School in Bromley. In October 2009, Jones", "title": "Finn Jones" }, { "id": "9359392", "text": "Vincent De Paul (actor) Vincent De Paul (born September 2, 1968) is an American actor and model. He has acted in several movies, including \"Poseidon\" (2006), \"Hitch\" (2005), and \"Hairspray\" (1988). Vincent De Paul was born Salvatore Vincent De Paul Zannino on September 2, 1972 in Baltimore, Maryland. De Paul received his first Emmy in 2015 and second consecutive Emmy in 2016 for producing The Bay the series created by Gregori J. Martin. He is the president and co-founder of FIVE ARTS PRODUCTIONS. The other producers with his company are Chris G. Maier, Marco Marezza, Aaron Lee actor and prolific", "title": "Vincent De Paul (actor)" }, { "id": "9956090", "text": "Dallas Roberts Dallas Mark Roberts (born May 10, 1970) is an American actor. He played Milton Mamet in season three of AMC's \"The Walking Dead\" (2012–2013). He was a regular on Seasons 2 and 3, and guest on Season 4 of \"Unforgettable\" as Eliot Delson, and had a recurring role as Owen Cavanaugh on \"The Good Wife\" since Season 2. He stars in the Netflix comedy \"Insatiable\". Roberts was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where he attended Paul Revere Middle School and Robert E. Lee High School. He moved to Sarasota, Florida, where he graduated from Sarasota High School", "title": "Dallas Roberts" }, { "id": "7613302", "text": "Taran Killam Taran Hourie Killam (born April 1, 1982) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his television work on shows such as \"The Amanda Show\", \"Wild 'n Out\", \"Mad TV\", and \"Saturday Night Live\". Killam is also known for his portrayal of a teen pop star in the 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie \"Stuck in the Suburbs\". Killam performed the role of King George III in the Broadway production of \"Hamilton\" at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, ending his run on the evening of April 13, 2017. Killam was born on April 1, 1982 in", "title": "Taran Killam" }, { "id": "18611395", "text": "Quincy (actor) Quincy Taylor Brown (born June 4, 1991) is an American actor, entrepreneur, model and recording artist who performs under the mononym Quincy. He is best known for his debut starring role in the 2015 film \"Brotherly Love\", and his music single \"Friends First\". More recently, he is a regular on the television musical drama \"Star\". He is the son of the former model Kim Porter and singer, songwriter and record producer Al B. Sure!. Quincy Taylor Brown was born in New York City to late model Kimberly Porter and singer Albert Joseph Brown III (Al B. Sure!). He", "title": "Quincy (actor)" }, { "id": "11433921", "text": "Ritchie Coster Ritchie Coster (born 1 July 1967) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Dietrich Banning in \"The Tuxedo\" (2002), Chechen in \"The Dark Knight\" (2008), Elias Kassar in \"Blackhat\" (2015), Mayor Austin Chessani on the second season of the HBO anthology television series \"True Detective\" and Francisco Scaramucci / Mr. Blue on the SyFy television series \"Happy!\". Coster was born in London, England. He attended the Latymer School, Edmonton and later trained in acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Coster has played varies roles throughout his career, in the", "title": "Ritchie Coster" }, { "id": "18858554", "text": "LBJ (film) LBJ is a 2016 American political drama film about the beginning of the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was directed by Rob Reiner and written by Joey Hartstone, whose script was on the 2014 Black List. The film stars Woody Harrelson as the titular President, along with Richard Jenkins, Bill Pullman, Kim Allen, Michael Stahl-David, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey Donovan, Doug McKeon, C. Thomas Howell, and Michael Mosley. Principal photography on the film began in New Orleans on September 21, 2015, and it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival", "title": "LBJ (film)" }, { "id": "11297727", "text": "Boyd Holbrook Robert Boyd Holbrook (born September 1, 1981) is an American actor and model. He has appeared in films such as \"Milk\", \"Out of the Furnace\", \"Run All Night\", \"A Walk Among the Tombstones\" and \"Gone Girl\", and starred as DEA Agent Steve Murphy in Netflix series \"Narcos\". In 2012, he starred in the series \"Hatfields & McCoys\" as \"Cap\" Hatfield, and in 2017 he portrayed villain Donald Pierce in \"Logan\". Holbrook was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, the son of Ellen and Don Holbrook. He is also the nephew of Hal Holbrook. Holbrook was discovered while working part-time as", "title": "Boyd Holbrook" }, { "id": "5881138", "text": "Clarence Williams III Clarence Williams III (born August 21, 1939) is an American actor. He played the character \"Linc Hayes\" in the \"hippie\" cop show \"The Mod Squad\" (1968–1973). Born in New York City, Williams is the son of a professional musician, Clarence \"Clay\" Williams Jr., and grandson of jazz and blues composer/pianist Clarence Williams, and his singer-actress wife, Eva Taylor. Raised by his paternal grandmother, he became interested in acting after accidentally walking onto a stage at a theater below a Harlem YMCA. Williams began pursuing an acting career after spending two years as a paratrooper in C Company,", "title": "Clarence Williams III" }, { "id": "15931511", "text": "has been dating Chloe Pacey since 2015, after the two had been roommates while Thwaites was in Australia filming \"Pirates\". Their daughter was born in March 2016. Brenton Thwaites Brenton Thwaites (born 10 August 1989) is an Australian actor who is known for his portrayal of Luke Gallagher in the Fox8 teen drama series \"Slide\" (2011), and later Stu Henderson in the soap opera \"Home and Away\" (2011–2012). Since moving to the United States, Thwaites has had major roles in the films \"\" (2012), \"Oculus\" (2013), \"The Giver\" (2014), \"Gods of Egypt\" (2016), and \"\" (2017). He also stars as", "title": "Brenton Thwaites" }, { "id": "10828447", "text": "Sterling K. Brown Sterling Kelby Brown (born April 5, 1976) is an American actor. He rose to prominence in 2016 after portraying prosecutor Christopher Darden in the FX drama \"\", for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He currently stars as Randall Pearson on the NBC drama \"This Is Us\". The role has earned Brown his second Emmy, in 2017, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, as well as his first Screen Actors Guild", "title": "Sterling K. Brown" }, { "id": "10828441", "text": "Sterling K. Brown Sterling Kelby Brown (born April 5, 1976) is an American actor. He rose to prominence in 2016 after portraying prosecutor Christopher Darden in the FX drama \"\", for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He currently stars as Randall Pearson on the NBC drama \"This Is Us\". The role has earned Brown his second Emmy, in 2017, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, as well as his first Screen Actors Guild", "title": "Sterling K. Brown" }, { "id": "2030848", "text": "not officially authorized by FOX or Warner Bros. TV, Sucker Love Productions' musical was supported by the show's cast and producers, with Autumn Reeser portraying Julie Cooper and briefly reprising her role as Taylor Townsend for the first time in 8 years. Creator Josh Schwartz and stars Rachel Bilson, Melinda Clarke, and Kelly Rowan also reunited at the musical. The cast included \"Awkward\" star Greer Grammer as Summer Roberts and \"Pretty Little Liars\" star Brendan Robinson as Seth Cohen. The O.C. The O.C. is an American teen drama television series created by Josh Schwartz that originally aired on the Fox", "title": "The O.C." }, { "id": "2460921", "text": "Judd Hirsch Judd Seymore Hirsch (born March 15, 1935) is an American actor known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series \"Taxi\" (1978–1983), John Lacey on the NBC series \"Dear John\" (1988–1992), and Alan Eppes on the CBS series \"NUMB3RS\" (2005–2010). He is also well known for his career in theatre and for his roles in films such as \"Ordinary People\" (1980), \"Running on Empty\" (1988), \"Independence Day\" (1996), and \"A Beautiful Mind\" (2001). He twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in", "title": "Judd Hirsch" }, { "id": "8417843", "text": "On October 16, 2017, Lerner was cast as Ronnie in the Blumhouse supernatural thriller film \"Truth or Dare\". The film was released in theaters on April 13, 2018. Lerner was born in Riverside, California, the son of Patti (née Klein), a reporter, and Ken Lerner, an actor. His uncle is actor Michael Lerner, and their family is of Jewish descent. He is in a relationship with Smosh member Olivia Sui. Sam Lerner Samuel Bryce \"Sam\" Lerner (born September 27, 1992) is an American actor who is most known for his recurring role as Geoff Schwartz on \"The Goldbergs\", and his", "title": "Sam Lerner" }, { "id": "16679262", "text": "Mo McRae Mo McRae (born July 4, 1982) is an American actor, writer and producer, best known for his recurring role as Tyler in the FX hit series \"Sons of Anarchy\" as well as Leon Hayes in the 2006 film \"Gridiron Gang\". He starred in Fox Broadcasting Company's \"Pitch\". Raised in South Los Angeles, McRae turned to acting for solace. After enrolling in a drama class at Washington Preparatory High School, McRae opted to forgo his spot on the basketball team, when he landed the lead in the school play. After high school, McRae pursued his new found dream as", "title": "Mo McRae" }, { "id": "19007481", "text": "Chris McCarrell Chris McCarrell (born January 9, 1991) is an American theater and television actor. He is best known for portraying Marius Pontmercy in the Broadway revival of \"Les Misérables,\" and for portraying the titular character in \"\" in its Off-Broadway premiere and soon to be revived and to go on tour. McCarrell grew up in Aurora, Ohio. His mother, DeAnna McCarrell, worked as a guidance counselor in Aurora City Schools, and his father, Bernie McCarrell, a wood shop teacher in Ravenna, Ohio. McCarrell attended University School, an all boys private high school in Hunting Valley, OH. Shortly before his", "title": "Chris McCarrell" }, { "id": "5521711", "text": "Wood Harris Sherwin David \"Wood\" Harris (born October 17, 1969) is an American actor. He has portrayed the drug kingpin Avon Barksdale on the HBO crime drama \"The Wire\", cocaine dealer Ace in \"Paid in Full\" and high school football player Julius Campbell in the 2000 film \"Remember the Titans\". He is also known for playing Brooke Payne on the BET miniseries \"The New Edition Story\" in 2017. As of 2016, he plays Barry Fouray on VH1 miniseries \"The Breaks\". Harris was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of seamstress Mattie and bus driver John Harris. He holds a Bachelor", "title": "Wood Harris" }, { "id": "7716068", "text": "Arliss Howard Arliss Howard (born Leslie Richard Howard; October 18, 1954) is an American actor, writer and film director. Howard was born in Independence, Missouri and has a younger brother, Jim Howard (b. 1956). He graduated from Truman High School and Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri. Howard established his career with stand-out roles in \"Natural Born Killers\", \"Full Metal Jacket\", and \"Ruby\". In \"Till Death Us Do Part\" (1992), he portrayed author and attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who led the prosecution in the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. In 1997, he co-starred in \"Jurassic Park\"s sequel, \"\", as Hammond's conniving nephew Peter Ludlow,", "title": "Arliss Howard" }, { "id": "9382779", "text": "Brian Geraghty Brian Timothy Geraghty (born May 13, 1975) is an American actor, known for his role in the Academy Award–winning film \"The Hurt Locker\", for his role alongside Denzel Washington in the 2012 film \"Flight\", and for his recurring role in the acclaimed HBO drama series \"Boardwalk Empire\". He appeared as a regular on NBC's \"Chicago P.D.\" from 2014 to 2016. Geraghty was born in Toms River, New Jersey, and is of Irish descent. He graduated from Toms River High School East in 1993 and then studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre before beginning his professional", "title": "Brian Geraghty" }, { "id": "3565830", "text": "Tyler Christopher (actor) Tyler Christopher (born Tyler Christopher Baker; November 11, 1972) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Nikolas Cassadine (1996–1999, 2003–2011, 2013–2016) and Connor Bishop (2004–2005) on the ABC soap opera \"General Hospital\". In August 2017, it was announced that Christopher would be joining the cast of the NBC soap opera \"Days of Our Lives\" as the son of long-time villains Stefano DiMera and Vivian Alamain. His tenure on the show began December 29, 2017. Christopher was born in Joliet, Illinois and grew up in Delaware, Ohio, the youngest of four children. Both", "title": "Tyler Christopher (actor)" }, { "id": "14210726", "text": "Finn Jones Finn Jones (born Terence Jones; 24 March 1988) is an English actor known for his roles as Loras Tyrell in the HBO series \"Game of Thrones\" and as Danny Rand in the Netflix television shows \"Iron Fist\", \"The Defenders\" and \"Luke Cage\", which are set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jones trained at the Arts Educational Schools on a three-year acting course. Prior to this he was a Sixth Form student at Hayes School in Bromley. In October 2009, Jones played Jamie, a young man who found love with Hannah Ashworth in the second series of \"Hollyoaks Later\".", "title": "Finn Jones" }, { "id": "9448616", "text": "Christian Camargo Christian Camargo (né Minnick; born July 7, 1971) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Brian Moser in the Showtime drama \"Dexter\", Michael Corrigan in the Netflix drama \"House of Cards\", Petty Officer Pavel Loktev in \"\" and Eleazar in \" and \". Camargo was born Christian Minnick in New York City, the son of actress Victoria Wyndham and grandson of actor Ralph Camargo. He is a 1992 graduate of Hobart College. He was the program director of WEOS, the college's public radio station. Camargo is a graduate", "title": "Christian Camargo" }, { "id": "20305169", "text": "TV and wondered what that must be like\". In 2007, his girlfriend convinced him to attend Actors, Models & Talent For Christ which got him into New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts where he met his agent DebraLynn Findon. He graduated from NYC in 2009 and since then earned roles in films such as \"Camp X-Ray\" and \"When the Game Stands Tall\". Blain played Anthony “Fridge” Johnson in the sequel \"\" (2017), and appeared in director James Kicklighter's short film \"Angel of Anywhere\", starring Briana Evigan and David A. Gregory. In February 2018, Blain was cast in a regular role", "title": "Ser'Darius Blain" }, { "id": "16347864", "text": "role of Avery Barkley. On February 23, Emmy Award winner Powers Boothe joined the cast as Lamar Wyatt, father of lead character. On February 29, it was announced that Hayden Panettiere had landed the role of Juliette Barnes, originally planned as the primary antagonist of the series. On March 1, 2012 Robert Wisdom was cast as Coleman Carlisle, one of the supporting regular characters. On March 5 Eric Close joined the ensemble cast as Teddy Conrad, Rayna's husband. On March 6, it was announced that Connie Britton would play leading role of Rayna Jaymes, 40-year-old fading country superstar. Britton also", "title": "Nashville (2012 TV series)" }, { "id": "12671096", "text": "at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival, with WME Global dealing with distribution rights for its North American release. Two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster starred in the film, alongside a strong ensemble cast, including Sterling K. Brown, Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Jenny Slate, Charlie Day, Zachary Quinto, Brian Tyree Henry and Kenneth Choi. Filming began in Los Angeles in May 2017, and \"Hotel Artemis\" was released on June 8, 2018 in North America, by Global Road Entertainment. In March 2012, Pearce directed the music video for the song \"Rearrange\" by Miles Kane. By March 2018, it had received", "title": "Drew Pearce" }, { "id": "7606481", "text": "Craig Robinson (actor) Craig Phillip Robinson (born October 25, 1971) is an American actor, comedian, and singer. He is best known for his roles as Darryl Philbin on \"The Office\" (2005–2013), Doug Judy (the \"Pontiac Bandit\") on \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" (2013–) and Matheson in \"Pineapple Express\" (2008). Robinson has appeared in numerous other television shows and films including \"Zack and Miri Make a Porno\" (2008), \"Hot Tub Time Machine\" (2010), \"This Is the End\" (2013), and \"Sausage Party\" (2016). Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a music teacher mother and an attorney father. He was raised on the South Side", "title": "Craig Robinson (actor)" }, { "id": "18553291", "text": "were revealed to be in talks to play Gaston and the Beast respectively, and Watson confirmed their casting the following day through tweets. The rest of the principal cast, including Josh Gad, Emma Thompson, Kevin Kline, Audra McDonald, Ian McKellen, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ewan McGregor and Stanley Tucci were announced between March and April to play LeFou, Mrs. Potts, Maurice, Madame de Garderobe, Cogsworth, Plumette, Lumière and Cadenza, respectively. Susan Egan, who originated the role of Belle on Broadway, commented on the casting of Watson as \"perfect\". Paige O'Hara, who voiced Belle in the original animated film and its sequels, offered", "title": "Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)" }, { "id": "965881", "text": "Michael McKean Michael McKean (born October 17, 1947) is an American actor, comedian, and musician, known for a variety of roles played since the 1970s. McKean's first big role was playing annoying neighbor Lenny Kosnowski on the sitcom \"Laverne & Shirley\". In the mid-1990s he was a repertory cast member on \"Saturday Night Live\". He has played roles in several Christopher Guest ensemble films, particularly as David St. Hubbins, lead vocalist and co-lead guitarist of the fictional rock band Spinal Tap in \"This Is Spinal Tap\". He co-wrote the song \"A Mighty Wind\" (from the film of the same name),", "title": "Michael McKean" }, { "id": "12748403", "text": "Ron Butler Ronald \"Ron/Ronnie\" Butler, Jr. is a Bahamian-born American television actor, director and comedian who is best known for portraying Oscar, the clever receptionist, on the television series \"True Jackson, VP\", from 2008 to 2011. He often portrays former President Barack Obama in comedy sketches. He has performed with the Atlantic Theater Company for over 20 years. Butler is originally from the Bahamas. He is named after his father Ronnie Butler, Sr., a calypso singer, songwriter, and recording artist. As a child, Butler sometimes performed with his father. Butler grew up partly in the United States (Washington, D.C., Virginia,", "title": "Ron Butler" }, { "id": "20607139", "text": "days in jail. Jamil asserted the casting as being a case of . Additional casting which included the additions of Spencer Garrett, James Remar, Brenda Vaccaro and Mike Moh was announced in July. In August 2018, additional castings were made, including Damon Herriman as Charles Manson, and Lena Dunham, Austin Butler, Danny Strong, Rumer Willis, Dreama Walker, and Margaret Qualley cast in supporting roles. Principal photography began on June 18, 2018, in Los Angeles, California and wrapped on November 1, 2018. Reynolds died in September 2018 before filming any of his scenes; Bruce Dern was cast as George Spahn in", "title": "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" }, { "id": "970096", "text": "Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film \"Glory\" (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller \"Training Day\" (2001). Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1980s, including his portrayals of real-life figures, such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in \"Cry Freedom\" (1987), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in \"Malcolm", "title": "Denzel Washington" }, { "id": "15132078", "text": "2017, Lacy co-stars in \"I'm Dying Up Here\", a comedy series on Showtime. Lacy married long-time girlfriend Lauren Deleo on August 22, 2015 in Dorset, Vermont. Lacy endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Jake Lacy Jake Lacy (born February 14, 1985) is an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of Casey Marion Davenport on the ABC sitcom \"Better with You\" and Pete Miller on the ninth and final season of \"The Office\". He starred with Jenny Slate in the 2014 film \"Obvious Child\" and opposite Rooney Mara in \"Carol\" (2015). He plays", "title": "Jake Lacy" }, { "id": "14890086", "text": "Vanessa Bayer Vanessa Polster Bayer (born November 14, 1981) is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for being a cast member on \"Saturday Night Live\", which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, from 2010 to 2017. Bayer also appeared in films such as \"Trainwreck\" (2015), \"Office Christmas Party\" (2016), \"Carrie Pilby\" (2016), and \"Ibiza\" (2018). Bayer was born and raised in Orange, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, to a Reform Jewish family. She is the daughter of Carolyn (née Polster) and Todd Bayer. She has a brother, Jonah, who is a music journalist and the drummer", "title": "Vanessa Bayer" }, { "id": "3129225", "text": "Sean Kanan Sean Kanan (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor and TV Host, best known for his portrayals of A. J. Quartermaine on \"General Hospital\", Deacon Sharpe on \"The Bold and the Beautiful\" and \"The Young and the Restless\", and Mike Barnes in \"The Karate Kid Part III\". Kanan was born Sean Perelman to Dale and Michele Perelman in Cleveland, Ohio. His family later relocated to New Castle, Pennsylvania. He attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, Boston University and UCLA where he earned a degree in political science. Kanan received his big break working for Academy Award-winning director John", "title": "Sean Kanan" }, { "id": "18813208", "text": "Emmy and Directors Guild Award for directing a drama series. In 2018, Morano directed and shot \"I Think We're Alone Now\", a post-apocalyptic drama based on the companionship between Del (Peter Dinklage) and Grace (Elle Fanning). The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and was later released to theaters on September 14, 2018. Morano married fellow cinematographer and gaffer Matt Walker in 2008. They divorced in 2018. They have two sons together. Reed lives with her sons in Brooklyn, New York. Elder son Casey played Olivia and Luke's son in \"Meadowland\". In 2011, Morano was honored at the", "title": "Reed Morano" }, { "id": "13381072", "text": "Zach Roerig Zachary George Roerig (born February 22, 1985) is an American actor who is known for his roles as Casey Hughes on \"As the World Turns\", Hunter Atwood on \"One Life to Live\" and Matt Donovan on \"The Vampire Diaries\". Roerig was born in Montpelier, Ohio, to Andrea and Dan Roerig. He has a younger sister, Emily, who was born in 1989. Roerig attended the Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Cleveland and went on to participate in the International Modeling and Talent Association where he signed with his late talent manager. He graduated from Montpelier High School where", "title": "Zach Roerig" }, { "id": "18818706", "text": "Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture with his co-actors in \"Traffic\" (2000). He reprised the role of Gekko in \"\" (2010) and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for the same. Douglas' portrayal of Liberace in \"Behind the Candelabra\" (2013) earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. For his contributions to the film industry, Douglas won the 2004 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award and the 2009 AFI Life Achievement Award. Michael Douglas on stage and", "title": "Michael Douglas on stage and screen" }, { "id": "6831809", "text": "Daragh O'Malley Daragh Gerard Marion O'Malley (born 25 May 1954) is an Irish actor, director, producer. He was born in Limerick, Ireland. Among a multitude of TV appearances O'Malley is known for his portrayal of Patrick Harper in the long-running [1993-2009] \"Sharpe\" TV series with Sean Bean. O'Malley first appeared in roles in the films \"The Long Good Friday\" and \"Withnail and I\", leading guest roles in many UK television series including \"Tales of the Unexpected\", \"Waking The Dead\", \"Wire in the Blood\", \"Silent Witness\" and \"Vera\", and roles in \"Longitude\", \"Cleopatra\" for ABC and \"The Magnificent Seven\" for CBS", "title": "Daragh O'Malley" }, { "id": "7503410", "text": "of \"Over the Hedge\". Will Finn Will Finn (born November 1, 1958) is an American animator, voice actor, and director whose work in animation includes characters from Disney and Don Bluth films such as \"The Secret of NIMH\", \"Oliver & Company\", \"The Little Mermaid\", \"The Rescuers Down Under\", and \"Pocahontas\". His characters he animated are Cogsworth in \"Beauty and the Beast\", Iago in \"Aladdin\", and Laverne in \"The Hunchback of Notre Dame\". Finn wrote and directed \"Home on the Range\" and did some voice acting the Hollywood Fish in \"Chicken Little\". In 2006, Finn directed the computer animated short Hammy's", "title": "Will Finn" }, { "id": "17142227", "text": "3 (\"Walk of Punishment\" and \"Kissed by Fire\"). Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson was cast as Ser Gregor Clegane, called \"The Mountain\". Hafþór replaces Ian Whyte, who portrayed the character in season 2. After an absence of at least a season, Owen Teale returns as Alliser Thorne, Kate Dickie as Lysa Arryn, Dominic Carter as Janos Slynt, Tony Way as Dontos Hollard, Andy Beckwith as Rorge, Gerard Jordan as Biter, Andy Kellegher as Polliver, Lino Facioli as Robin Arryn and Brian Fortune as Othell Yarwyck. Filming for the season began on July 8, 2013, in Northern Ireland. The series also returned to", "title": "Game of Thrones (season 4)" }, { "id": "4158416", "text": "Vermont with his wife, Pam Van Sant, and two children, Gill and Ellie. Treat Williams Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television. He first became well known for his starring role in the 1979 film \"Hair\", and later also starred in the films \"Prince of the City\", \"Once Upon a Time in America\", \"The Late Shift\" and \"127 Hours\". From 2002 to 2006, he was the lead of the television series \"Everwood\" and was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Williams was born", "title": "Treat Williams" }, { "id": "16474587", "text": "Los Rey Los Rey (\"It All Stays in the Family\") is a Mexican telenovela produced by Elisa Salinas for Azteca. It stars Leonardo Garcia, with Michel Brown and Rossana Najera as the protagonists, both dubbed as \"\"La pareja\"\" in the face card, alongside Juan Alfonso Baptista, Ana Belena, Fernando Alonso, Cecilia Ponce, José Alonso, Ofelia Medina, Fernando Luján, Ariel López Padilla, Victor Huggo Martin, and Elizabeth Cervantes. Rafael Gutiérrez and Rodrigo Cachero serve as the directors. \"Los Rey\" is written by Luis Felipe Ybarra who is also the associate producer. From 3 September 2012 to 22 February 2013, Azteca 13", "title": "Los Rey" }, { "id": "5717842", "text": "John Hawkes (actor) John Hawkes (born John Marvin Perkins; September 11, 1959) is an American actor, known for his portrayal of the merchant Sol Star on the HBO series \"Deadwood\", Dustin Powers on \"Eastbound & Down\", backwoods meth addict Teardrop Dolly in \"Winter's Bone,\" for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and his Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated portrayal of Mark O'Brien in \"The Sessions\". Other notable works of his include \"Martha Marcy May Marlene\", \"Low Down\" and \"From Dusk Till Dawn\". Hawkes was born John Marvin Perkins in Alexandria, Minnesota,", "title": "John Hawkes (actor)" }, { "id": "6914061", "text": "Sheila Kelley (American actress) Sheila Kelley (born October 9, 1961) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Gwen Taylor on \"L.A. Law\" and as Dr. Charlotte \"Charley\" Bennett Hayes on \"Sisters\". Kelley was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, to Catherine Holway Thom Kelley, a registered nurse, and Dr. Jay Hilary Kelley, professor emeritus, College of Mineral and Energy Resources, West Virginia University. Kelley studied ballet at a young age and then matriculated at New York University's Tisch School of Arts after graduating from Hempfield Area High School. After doctors cautioned her about the effects of rigorous dance", "title": "Sheila Kelley (American actress)" }, { "id": "20150585", "text": "out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". LA to Vegas LA to Vegas is an American sitcom that was broadcast on Fox. The series debuted on January 2, 2018, as a midseason entry in the 2017–18 television season. Starring Dylan McDermott, Kim Matula, Ed Weeks, Nathan Lee Graham, Olivia Macklin, and Peter Stormare, the series follows the crew and regular passengers of the Los Angeles to Las Vegas route of budget airline Jackpot Airlines. On January 9, 2018, Fox picked up three additional episodes for a total of 15. On May 21, 2018, Fox canceled", "title": "LA to Vegas" }, { "id": "13381075", "text": "a federal prison. Zach Roerig Zachary George Roerig (born February 22, 1985) is an American actor who is known for his roles as Casey Hughes on \"As the World Turns\", Hunter Atwood on \"One Life to Live\" and Matt Donovan on \"The Vampire Diaries\". Roerig was born in Montpelier, Ohio, to Andrea and Dan Roerig. He has a younger sister, Emily, who was born in 1989. Roerig attended the Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Cleveland and went on to participate in the International Modeling and Talent Association where he signed with his late talent manager. He graduated from Montpelier", "title": "Zach Roerig" }, { "id": "5240568", "text": "also co-starred in feature film \"Freedom Writers\" opposite Hilary Swank. In 2008, Herrera had quit acting. Her last acting role was on the soap opera \"General Hospital\". On July 15, 2016 Herrera announced via Instagram that she is engaged. She married Daniel Novak on April 28, 2018 in Camarillo, California. Kristin Herrera Kristin Lisa Herrera (born February 21, 1989) is an American former actress. She is best known for her role as Dana Cruz on the first season of the Nickelodeon series \"Zoey 101\" and as Lourdes Del Torro on \"General Hospital\". Herrera was born in Los Angeles, California on", "title": "Kristin Herrera" }, { "id": "9171740", "text": "was announced to guest star in FX comedy series \"Wilfred\", a role which later turned into a recurring one. The following year, Carbonell briefly appeared in \"The Dark Knight Rises\", reprising his role as Mayor Anthony Garcia in the final installment of Christopher Nolan's \"Dark Knight\" trilogy. From 2013 to the series' ending in 2017, he portrayed Sheriff Alex Romero in the A&E \"Psycho\" prequel series \"Bates Motel\", opposite Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore. In the first season, he starred in a recurring capacity, but was upgraded to a main cast member starting with the second season. Carbonell also directed", "title": "Nestor Carbonell" }, { "id": "17742401", "text": "19th Critics' Choice Awards The 19th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 16, 2014 at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, honoring the finest achievements of 2013 filmmaking. The ceremony was broadcast on The CW and hosted by Aisha Tyler. The nominees were announced on December 16, 2013. 12 Years a Slave Alfonso Cuarón – \"Gravity Matthew McConaughey – \"Dallas Buyers Club\" as Ron Woodroof Cate Blanchett – \"Blue Jasmine\" as Jeanette \"Jasmine\" Francis Jared Leto – \"Dallas Buyers Club\" as Rayon Lupita Nyong'o – \"12 Years a Slave\" as Patsey Adèle Exarchopoulos – \"Blue Is the", "title": "19th Critics' Choice Awards" }, { "id": "20714398", "text": "10 PM time slot. In February 2018, it was announced that Roselyn Sanchez and Chris Warren had joined the pilot's main cast. In March 2018, it was reported that Demián Bichir, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Shalim Ortiz, Denyse Tontz, Anne Winters, Bryan Craig, Lincoln Younes, Feliz Ramirez, and Justina Adorno had been cast in the pilot's additional main roles. In September 2018, it was announced that Eva Longoria had been cast in a guest starring role and that Jencarlos Canela would appear in a recurring capacity. On November 15, 2018, it was reported that John Marshall Jones, Richard Burgi, and Adrian", "title": "Grand Hotel (U.S. TV series)" }, { "id": "17339320", "text": "Graham Rogers (actor) Graham Rogers (born December 17, 1990) is an American actor, known for his roles as Scott Thomas in the comedy film \"Struck by Lightning\" (2012), Danny Matheson in NBC's science fiction series \"Revolution\", Al Jardine in the biopic \"Love and Mercy\" (2014), Carson in the thriller \"Careful What You Wish For\" (2015), and Tyler Stone in Hulu's comedy series \"Resident Advisors\". He has a recurring role as Evan Chapin in the Netflix series \"Atypical\", and previously starred as Caleb Haas in ABC's drama-thriller series \"Quantico\". Rogers was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, to John and Susan Rogers.", "title": "Graham Rogers (actor)" }, { "id": "16289885", "text": "Alex Russell (actor) Alexander Russell (born 11 December 1987) is an Australian actor. He is best known for starring in the films \"Chronicle\" (2012) and \"Believe Me\" (2014). Russell was born in Brisbane and grew up in Rockhampton, Queensland. He is the son of surgeon Dr. Andrew Russell and nurse Frances Russell. He has a younger brother, Dominic, and a younger sister, Georgiana. He graduated from Rockhampton Grammar School in 2004 and afterward attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney. Russell made his debut in the 2010 film \"Wasted on the Young\". In 2011, he appeared in", "title": "Alex Russell (actor)" }, { "id": "3129232", "text": "States. Sean Kanan Sean Kanan (born November 2, 1966) is an American actor and TV Host, best known for his portrayals of A. J. Quartermaine on \"General Hospital\", Deacon Sharpe on \"The Bold and the Beautiful\" and \"The Young and the Restless\", and Mike Barnes in \"The Karate Kid Part III\". Kanan was born Sean Perelman to Dale and Michele Perelman in Cleveland, Ohio. His family later relocated to New Castle, Pennsylvania. He attended Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, Boston University and UCLA where he earned a degree in political science. Kanan received his big break working for Academy Award-winning director", "title": "Sean Kanan" }, { "id": "6412947", "text": "Jeffrey DeMunn Jeffrey DeMunn (born April 25, 1947) is an American stage, film and television actor known for playing Captain Esteridge in \"The Hitcher\" (1986), Sheriff Herb Geller in \"The Blob\" (1988), Andrei Chikatilo in \"Citizen X\" (1995), Harry Terwilliger in \"The Green Mile\" (1999), Dale Horvath in \"The Walking Dead\" (2010–2012) and Chuck Rhoades, Sr. in \"Billions\" (2016–present). DeMunn was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Violet (née Paulus) and James DeMunn, and a stepson of actress Betty Lutes DeMunn. He graduated from Union College with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He moved to Britain in", "title": "Jeffrey DeMunn" }, { "id": "8831932", "text": "the Vampire Slayer\". He is also known among \"Smallville\" fans as playing the role of Nam-Ek, and D.L. Hawkins on the NBC science-fiction drama \"Heroes\". Roberts is credited with the role of Leo in the 2011 film, \"Pizza Man\". He plays a very small role in season 1 NCIS as a member of a navy base. Leonard Roberts Leonard Roberts (born November 17, 1972) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Sean Taylor in \"Drumline\" and for playing Forrest Gates in the fourth season of \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" and DL Hawkins in the first", "title": "Leonard Roberts" }, { "id": "3032176", "text": "David Hart (actor) David Hart (born February 6, 1954) is an American actor and singer best known for his portrayal of Sgt. Parker Williams on the smash-hit television series \"In the Heat of the Night\" (1988 to 1995). He has appeared in numerous films. Hart continues to perform in theater around the country, most recently performing as Charlemagne in \"Pippin\" and Oscar in \"The Odd Couple\". He has also appeared in numerous commercials, including IHOP Restaurants, Maxwell House Coffee, Coors Light Silver Bullets, John Deere and GE. Hart was raised primarily by his mother, Jeanette Lassiter Anderson, in Panama City,", "title": "David Hart (actor)" }, { "id": "16021116", "text": "on a Spanish format. The series centres on a family and the staff who own and run a Miami Beach hotel. Lincoln Younes Lincoln Younes (born 31 January 1992) is an Australian actor, perhaps best known for his roles as Romeo Kovac in \"Tangle\" and Casey Braxton in the long-running soap \"Home and Away\" (2011-2014). He has also appeared in \"Hiding\" and \"Love Child\" as Chris Vesty. Lincoln Younes was born in Sydney, but grew up in Bendigo, Victoria. He is half Lebanese. Younes attended Flora Hill Secondary College. After playing soccer for 14 years, Younes initially chose to pursue", "title": "Lincoln Younes" }, { "id": "18931281", "text": "Elena Kampouris Elena Kampouris (born September 16, 1997) is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Allison Doss in the 2014 drama \"Men, Women & Children\", Maya Decker in the NBC drama series \"American Odyssey\", Paris Miller in the 2016 romantic comedy \"My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2\", and Juliet Sykes in the 2017 drama \"Before I Fall\". In 2016, Kampouris made her Broadway debut in \"Les Liaisons Dangereuses\" as Cécile Volanges. Kampouris was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Ivey Barry, a fashion illustrator and designer, and Alexander Kampouris, who owns a", "title": "Elena Kampouris" }, { "id": "10116231", "text": "Chris\" and others. Robert Cicchini Robert Cicchini is an American film and television actor and director. Among Cicchini's film appearances are his roles as Lou Pennino, Vincent Corleone's bodyguard, in \"The Godfather Part III\" (1990), Bill Guidone in \"Light Sleeper\" (1992), Jimmy Ozio in \"Primary Colors\" (1998), and Mitch Casper in \"The Watcher\" (2000). On television he has played recurring roles on \"Maybe This Time\" (as Nick Sr.), \"Providence\" (as Alex Mendoza), \"24\" (as Howard Bern) and \"Six Feet Under\" (as Todd). Other television appearances include episodes of \"Law & Order\", \"ER\", \"Chicago Hope\", \"The Sopranos\", \"NYPD Blue\", \"Gilmore Girls\",", "title": "Robert Cicchini" }, { "id": "637777", "text": "It's a romance horror film very loosely based on the folk tale \"Little Red Riding Hood.\" It stars Amanda Seyfried in the title role. Co-stars include Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Virginia Madsen, Shiloh Fernandez, etc. He was also an executive producer for \"The Ides of March\" (2011), an American political drama film directed by George Clooney. The film is an adaptation of Willimon's 2008 play \"Farragut North\". It stars Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, and Jeffrey Wright. In 2012, DiCaprio starred as villainous Calvin Candie in Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti western, \"Django", "title": "Leonardo DiCaprio" }, { "id": "20607138", "text": "in the film. In May 2018, Burt Reynolds, Tim Roth, Kurt Russell, and Michael Madsen joined the cast with the latter three in small roles. Timothy Olyphant was also cast. In June 2018, Damian Lewis, Luke Perry, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Clifton Collins Jr., Keith Jefferson, Nicholas Hammond, Pacino, and Scoot McNairy joined the cast. Actress Jameela Jamil used Twitter to condemn the casting of Hirsch, who had been cast as Jay Sebring two days prior, as he had assaulted her friend, studio executive Daniele Bernfeld during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Hirsch had been convicted and sentenced to 15", "title": "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" }, { "id": "10813152", "text": "Joe Lo Truglio Joseph Lo Truglio (born December 2, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his role as Charles Boyle on the NBC sitcom \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" and as a cast member on \"The State\" and \"Reno 911!\" His notable film roles include \"Wet Hot American Summer\", \"I Love You Man\", \"Superbad\", \"Paul\", \"Role Models\", and \"Wanderlust\". Joseph Lo Truglio was born in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, on December 2, 1970. He is of Italian and Irish descent. He grew up in Margate, Florida, and graduated from Coconut Creek High School. He", "title": "Joe Lo Truglio" }, { "id": "18345558", "text": "was able to attract financiers for his musical \"La La Land\". The film opened the Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2016 and began a limited release in the United States on December 9, 2016, with a wider release on December 16, 2016. It has received rave reviews from critics and numerous awards. Chazelle was particularly praised for his work on the film and received several top honors, including a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Director, making Chazelle the youngest director to win both awards at age 32. Chazelle next reunited with Gosling on the film", "title": "Damien Chazelle" }, { "id": "7262633", "text": "Jared Martin Jared Christopher Martin (December 21, 1941 – May 24, 2017) was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Steven \"Dusty\" Farlow in the 1978 series \"Dallas\" and for roles on two science fiction TV series, \"The Fantastic Journey\" and \"War of the Worlds\". Martin was born in Manhattan to Charles Elmer Martin, a cover artist and cartoonist for \"The New Yorker\", and his wife, Florence Taylor, an artist and homemaker. He began acting at the age of ten in a local children's theater group. After graduating from the Putney School and", "title": "Jared Martin" }, { "id": "10072631", "text": "in the 2000 film \"All the Pretty Horses\". He also appeared as Hoffman's son in the 2012 film \"The Master\". When Plemons appeared on \"Breaking Bad\", he acquired the nickname \"Meth Damon\" from fans. Plemons began dating his \"Fargo\" co-star Kirsten Dunst in 2016. They are currently engaged. Their son, Ennis Howard Plemons, was born on May 3, 2018. Jesse Plemons Jesse Lon Plemons (born April 2, 1988) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for playing Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series \"Friday Night Lights\", Todd Alquist in the AMC crime drama series \"Breaking Bad\", and", "title": "Jesse Plemons" }, { "id": "7681271", "text": "roles in the Paul Verhoeven film \"Starship Troopers\" (1997) and in \"Ted Bundy\" (2002). He is sometimes credited as Eric Da Re, Eric DaRae or Eric Dare. Eric attended Horace Mann elementary and Beverly Hills High School with fellow actor Nicolas Cage. Eric Da Re Eric Da Re (born March 3, 1965) is an American actor who played the notorious criminal Leo Johnson on the TV show \"Twin Peaks\" and its prequel, \"\". Eric Da Re was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. He is the son of the late actor Aldo Ray, and is of Italian descent on", "title": "Eric Da Re" }, { "id": "18345551", "text": "Damien Chazelle Damien Chazelle (born January 19, 1985) is a French-American director, film producer, and screenwriter. He made his feature film directorial debut with the musical \"Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench\" (2009) and followed it with his breakthrough film, \"Whiplash\" (2014). The latter received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Chazelle received widespread recognition in 2016 for writing and directing the musical film \"La La Land\", starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. It emerged as one of the highest-grossing musicals of all time and received a record-tying fourteen Oscar nominations, winning six, including", "title": "Damien Chazelle" }, { "id": "20650607", "text": "Matthew Ludwinski Matthew Ludwinski (born 22 September 1980) is an American actor, model, and writer. Notable film appearances include in \"Going Down in LA-LA Land\" (2011), \"Seek\" (2014), \"Kiss Me, Kill Me\" (2015), and \"The Good Waiter\" (2016), the latter of which he wrote. Ludwinski is signed to Wilhelmina Models in Los Angeles, CA. Ludwinski was born on September 22, 1980, in Manassas, Virginia. He graduated from Catholic University of America. In 2010, Ludwinski appeared in the off-Broadway show \"Naked Boys Singing\" in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Ludwinski is signed to Wilhelmina Models in Los Angeles. He has modeled for a number", "title": "Matthew Ludwinski" }, { "id": "19894294", "text": "top honors: Best Picture, Best Director (Barry Jenkins), Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), and the Russell Smith Award. \"La La Land\" and \"Manchester by the Sea\" both won two awards. \"Manchester by the Sea\" won Best Actor (Casey Affleck) and Best Screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan), while \"La La Land\" won Best Cinematography (Linus Sandgren) and Best Musical Score (Justin Hurwitz). Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. Other films ranked by the annual poll are listed in order. While most categories saw 5 honorees named, categories ranged from as many as 10 (Best Film) to as few as 2 (Best", "title": "Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 2016" }, { "id": "1932553", "text": "John Goodman John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor. Early in his career, he was known for playing Dan Conner on the ABC TV series \"Roseanne\" (1988–1997; 2018), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in 1993. He is also a regular collaborator with the Coen brothers on such films as \"Raising Arizona\" (1987), \"Barton Fink\" (1991), \"The Big Lebowski\" (1998), \"O Brother, Where Art Thou?\" (2000), and \"Inside Llewyn Davis\" (2013). Goodman's voice roles in animated films include Rex in Steven Spielberg's \"We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story\", Pacha in Disney's \"The", "title": "John Goodman" }, { "id": "14874485", "text": "Burgess Jenkins Burgess Jenkins (born October 24, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for work in the film \"Remember the Titans\" opposite Academy Award winner Denzel Washington; and as Hilary Swank's husband David Winter in \"The Reaping\" (2007). Jenkins was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and a graduate of Richard J. Reynolds High School and Lenoir-Rhyne University. Jenkins portrayed religious leader John Wesley in the award-winning independent film \"Wesley\" (2009) with Kevin McCarthy and June Lockhart. On television, Jenkins played Bobby Irons throughout season six on the hit CW series \"One Tree Hill\", recurred on \"Marry", "title": "Burgess Jenkins" } ]

[ "Pretty Little Liars" ]

[ { "id": "10492160", "text": "Pretty Little Liars (book series) Pretty Little Liars is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. Beginning with 2006's initial novel of the same name, the series follows the lives of four girls – Spencer Hastings, Hanna Marin, Aria Montgomery and Emily Fields. The novels have appeared on \"The New York Times\" Best Seller list. A television series adaptation loosely based on the novels debuted on June 8, 2010, on ABC Family. The franchise has been licensed by Amazon.com's Kindle Worlds range of non-canon ebooks. The series is loosely divided into four arcs, chronicling the introduction and reveal", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (book series)" }, { "id": "15573218", "text": "Pretty Little Liars (novel) Pretty Little Liars is the first book in the \"Pretty Little Liars\" series by Sara Shepard. It tells the story of four girls - Hanna, Aria, Emily and Spencer - after the disappearance of their clique leader, Alison. The book was written for the book packaging company Alloy Entertainment, the idea originally developed as a TV series. The story introduces an exclusive group of friends: Alison DiLaurentis, the perfect yet manipulative queen bee, Aria Montgomery, an independent girl who is considered to be the weirdo in Rosewood, Emily Fields, a swimmer who holds secret feelings for", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (novel)" }, { "id": "15573222", "text": "DiLaurentis knew). Pretty Little Liars (novel) Pretty Little Liars is the first book in the \"Pretty Little Liars\" series by Sara Shepard. It tells the story of four girls - Hanna, Aria, Emily and Spencer - after the disappearance of their clique leader, Alison. The book was written for the book packaging company Alloy Entertainment, the idea originally developed as a TV series. The story introduces an exclusive group of friends: Alison DiLaurentis, the perfect yet manipulative queen bee, Aria Montgomery, an independent girl who is considered to be the weirdo in Rosewood, Emily Fields, a swimmer who holds secret", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (novel)" }, { "id": "10492166", "text": "face and her neck is caught between rocks. However, a new \"A\" rises, this time even more determined to hurt the Liars. This A is revealed to be Alison herself who wanted revenge on the Liars for ruining her life and Nick, who is revealed to be her accomplice. Pretty Little Liars (book series) Pretty Little Liars is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. Beginning with 2006's initial novel of the same name, the series follows the lives of four girls – Spencer Hastings, Hanna Marin, Aria Montgomery and Emily Fields. The novels have appeared on \"The", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (book series)" }, { "id": "14201337", "text": "poster and logo of the 2006 first novel in the \"Pretty Little Liars\" series was released on the date of the show's premiere, as was the final book of the original book series, \"Wanted\". \"Wanted\" later decidedly became the eighth book of the series, as Shepard later confirmed she would extend the series. A TV tie-in of the second book \"Flawless\" featuring an altered Season 3 poster was released on December 28, 2012. The theme song for \"Pretty Little Liars\" is \"Secret\" by The Pierces, which was suggested by one of the show's stars, Ashley Benson. The series featured music", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "14201331", "text": "by book packaging company Alloy Entertainment, the idea was described as \"\"Desperate Housewives\" for teens.\" Alloy met with author Shepard and gave her the property to develop into a book series. With Alloy and Warner Horizon Television interested in producing \"Pretty Little Liars\" as a television series for years, it was first planned for The WB in 2005 with a different writer until the network shut down in early 2006 and reestablished as The CW later that year. The first novel was published by HarperTeen in October 2006. In June 2008, Alloy noted that it was developing a \"Pretty Little", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "10492162", "text": "and facing many dangerous obstacles and twists as they do so. The series has many characters, most of them recurring. The main characters are: Spencer Hastings: Spencer is a headstrong, intelligent, overachieving girl who comes from the wealthy Hastings family. Aria Montgomery: Aria is a quirky and artsy girl who, at the beginning of the books, is trying to find herself. Emily Fields: Emily is considered the jock of the group, being a physical, loyal girl who struggles with her sexuality. Alison DiLaurentis: Alison is the former \"Queen Bee\" of her clique, consisting of Spencer, Hanna, Aria and Emily. She", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (book series)" }, { "id": "14201327", "text": "as Hanna Marin, Shay Mitchell as Emily Fields, Sasha Pieterse as Alison DiLaurentis and Janel Parrish as Mona Vanderwaal. The series premiered on June 8, 2010 on Freeform, formerly known as ABC Family, and ended on June 27, 2017. After an initial order of 10 episodes, ABC Family ordered an additional 12 episodes on June 28, 2010. The ratings success of the first 10 episodes prompted the book series to be extended beyond the initial eight novels. Since its debut, the series has received mixed reviews from television critics, but remained a relative success for Freeform, garnering a large fandom,", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "10492161", "text": "of each \"A\". Set in the suburbs of Philadelphia, the series follows the lives of four teenage girls nicknamed \"the Pretty little Liars\" or simply \"the Liars\", whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their Queen bee leader, \"Alison DiLaurentis\". Three years after her disappearance, the girls begin receiving threatening messages from an anonymous character named \"A,\" who threatens to expose their secrets, including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew. Shortly after the messages begin, Alison's body is discovered buried in her yard. The books progress with the four girls trying to figure out the identity of \"A\"", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (book series)" }, { "id": "15573219", "text": "Alison, Hanna Marin, the overweight girl who strives to be thin and popular like Alison, and Spencer Hastings, an ambitious girl who is brave enough to stand up against Alison's manipulative ways. Alison mysteriously disappears during a sleepover with the girls at the end of their seventh grade school year after a fight with Spencer. The story then restarts three year later, where the girls are now separated. Aria returns to Rosewood from a three-year trip to Iceland with her family and comes back much more sophisticated. Her brother Mike, a typical Rosewood popular guy, was happy to be back.", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (novel)" }, { "id": "12521231", "text": "Sara Shepard Sara Shepard (born April 8, 1977) is an American author. She is known for the bestselling \"Pretty Little Liars\" and \"The Lying Game\" book series, both of which have been turned into television shows on Freeform. Shepard's father, Larry, was American, and her mother, Mindy, was born in Toronto. Shepard grew up with a sister named Alison. She graduated from Downingtown High School in Downingtown, Pennsylvania in 1995. She attended New York University, where she graduated with a B.S. degree in 1999 and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College in 2004. From 2000 to 2005, Shepard", "title": "Sara Shepard" }, { "id": "14201326", "text": "Pretty Little Liars Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama mystery thriller television series developed by I. Marlene King and is loosely based on the novel series of the same name written by Sara Shepard. The series follows the lives of four girls whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader. One year later, the estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure named \"A\" who threatens to expose their deepest secrets. The series features an ensemble cast, headed by Troian Bellisario as Spencer Hastings, Lucy Hale as Aria Montgomery, Ashley Benson", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "14831311", "text": "the original series. \"Pretty Little Liars\" is a series of books which revolves around the lives of four teenagers in Rosewood, Pennsylvania whom each struggle with different physical and psychological issues, as well as living in danger because of a dangerous stalker who emerges after the four's best friend and leader Alison DiLaurentis vanishes and is found dead. The twin sisters Alison and Courtney Day-DiLaurentis were born on June 6, 1990, the fruits of a secret sexual relationship between Jessica DiLaurentis and Peter Hastings. They were identical, but completely opposite in personality. Both were popular in her hometown, but Alison", "title": "Alison DiLaurentis" }, { "id": "12521232", "text": "worked at Time, Inc. Custom Publishing and produced lifestyle magazines for corporate clients. She started ghostwriting as a freelancer in 2002 and writing her own books in 2005. Shepard currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Shepard's book series \"Pretty Little Liars\" and \"The Lying Game\" have both been turned into television series by ABC Family (now under the name of Freeform). The \"Pretty Little Liars\" series of novels is \"loosely based on her experiences growing up in Chester County. The adaptation television series \"Pretty Little Liars\" lasted for 7 seasons. It also had a short-lived spin-off starring cast member Tyler Blackburn", "title": "Sara Shepard" }, { "id": "2117515", "text": "is picked up in the church used as a drug den, from under a mattress, when character Madison Clark indicates it belongs to her son, Nick. Nick is shown reading and discussing the book in season 2, episode 1, which takes its title from the book's opening story. In the ABC television series, \"Pretty Little Liars\", the book is given to the character Aria Montgomery by her English teacher, Ezra Fitz, with whom she is having an affair. He writes the inscription \"When you need to leave Rosewood... Ezra\" on the first page. In the 13th and final episode of", "title": "Winesburg, Ohio" }, { "id": "3249893", "text": "A Game of Thrones A Game of Thrones is the first novel in \"A Song of Ice and Fire\", a series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award. The novella \"Blood of the Dragon\", comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella. In January 2011 the novel became a \"New York Times\" Bestseller and reached #1 on the list", "title": "A Game of Thrones" }, { "id": "15573220", "text": "She meets and ends up making out with a guy in a local bar who is revealed later to be her English teacher, Ezra Fitz, but her brother tries to set her up with Noel Khan, another popular guy who is also her brother's best friend. Emily befriends the new girl in town, Maya St. Germain, and soon develops romantic feelings for her, and tries to hide these feelings from her family and her boyfriend. Hanna lost the weight and is the new popular girl in town alongside the former nerd, Mona Vanderwaal. She and Mona sometimes shoplift designer clothing,", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (novel)" }, { "id": "14201330", "text": "Alison DiLaurentis, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin and Emily Fields, whose clique falls apart after the leader of the group, Alison, goes missing. One year later, the remaining estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious villain named \"A\" and later from \"A.D.\", who threatens and tortures them for the mistakes they have made before and after Alison's death. At first, they think it is Alison herself, but after her body is found, the girls come to a realization that it is someone else who is sending threatening messages to them. Originally developed as a television series", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "14201332", "text": "Liars\" television pilot for ABC Family, with the novels adapted for television. After the pilot was shot in Vancouver in December 2009, filming for the rest of the series moved to Los Angeles. The series was primarily filmed at the Warner Bros. studio and backlot in the city of Burbank, near Los Angeles. In June 2012, the series was selected by lottery for a California film and TV tax credit. ABC Family began casting for a \"Pretty Little Liars\" television pilot in October 2009. Lucy Hale was cast as Aria Montgomery in the project, followed by Troian Bellisario as Spencer", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "10492163", "text": "had supposedly been killed at the beginning of the series however is revealed to have been alive and also their tormentor \"A\" as she was mistaken for her twin sister Courtney who pretended to be like her and was sent to The Preserve at Addison-Stevens, which she believed was the Liars' fault and has been plotting revenge ever since. Her identical twin sister Courtney DiLaurentis is not crazy but she debuted in\"Wanted\" after the TV show began in 2010. In the prequel, Courtney-as-Ali started disappearing in the last chapter and getting almost killed numerous times, until the end of the", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (book series)" }, { "id": "15573221", "text": "but one night get caught doing it. This is where Hanna gets a text from \"A\". Hanna battles urges to turn back to bulimia, and struggles to manage the stress of keeping her \"Queen Bee\" status. Her father left her and she is very depressed. Spencer continues to struggle due to the rivalry with her and Melissa Hastings, her perfect older sister. Problems occur when she extremely starts to feel attracted to Melissa's new boyfriend, Wren Kim, when he is introduced to the family. They are all trying to identify who's \"A\" (a blackmailer that knows dark secrets only Alison", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (novel)" }, { "id": "10492164", "text": "series (\"Vicious\") when Ali-as-Courtney came out and started becoming friends with her twin \"Ali\" again after rehab with Iris and Tabitha, two lookalikes of Ali, all in the penultimate chapter. In the book, their older brother's name is Jason DiLaurentis and their half-sisters are Melissa and Spencer Hastings. Courtney DiLaurentis: Alison is really Courtney in the books. She used to be sweet, until she started pretending to be her twin, where her personality morphed into her. She is the third child to Jessica and Kenneth and was sent to The Preserve at Addison-Stevens after a physical argument with Alison who", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (book series)" }, { "id": "14858660", "text": "best characters on television in 2014. During the TV series' run, producer I. Marlene King acknowledged Mona as a \"beloved character.\" By the end of the show's run, Dana Getz of \"Bustle.com\" declared that Mona had become \"the most important character in the series.\" Mona Vanderwaal was introduced in the first four \"Pretty Little Liars\" novels. A teenage resident of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, she has white-blonde hair, light blue eyes, and a few freckles. She is a formerly unpopular girl who was teased by Alison DiLaurentis and her friends, longing to be in their group. After Alison went missing, Mona befriended", "title": "Mona Vanderwaal" }, { "id": "14201339", "text": "\"Siempre Tú\" (English: \"Always You\") (from \"The Homecoming Hangover\") and Blackburn's \"All Comes Down to You\" (from \"Crash and Burn, Girl!\") and \"Find a Way\" (from \"The Kahn Game\"). The series' soundtrack was released by WaterTower Music on February 15, 2011. \"Pretty Little Liars\" premiered on June 8, 2010 in the United States, becoming ABC Family's highest-rated series debut on record across the network's target demographics. It ranked number one in key 12–34 demos and teens, becoming the number-one scripted show in Women 18–34, and Women 18–49. The premiere was number two in the hour for total viewers, which generated", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "10492165", "text": "she eventually turned into and befriended the Liars up until the night of her infamous disappearance when she was killed and buried by the real Alison DiLaurentis and her accomplice Nick Maxwell. A: A is the main antagonist of the series, being, for the most part, an anonymous character who relentlessly torments many characters, in particular the Liars. Mona Vanderwaal, Alison DiLaurentis and Nick Maxwell are discovered to be A. Mona became A due to Alison and the Liars being responsible for The Jenna Thing, which burned her too. However, she is killed when Spencer pushes her off a cliff", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (book series)" }, { "id": "14201350", "text": "episodes \"The Lady Killer\" and \"This Is a Dark Ride\". Set in a Rosewood's costume store, as the residents of Rosewood prepared for Halloween. An Turkish adaptation was titled \"Tatlı Küçük Yalancılar\" premiered on Star TV on July 6, 2015. The Turkish series served as a remake to the American series. The series ran for one season. Pretty Little Liars Pretty Little Liars is an American teen drama mystery thriller television series developed by I. Marlene King and is loosely based on the novel series of the same name written by Sara Shepard. The series follows the lives of four", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "14489038", "text": "The WB in 2005 with a different writer. The first novel was published by HarperTeen in October 2006. In June 2008, Alloy noted that it was developing a \"Pretty Little Liars\" television pilot for ABC Family. The novels are being adapted for television by I. Marlene King. ABC Family began casting for a \"Pretty Little Liars\" television pilot in October 2009. Lucy Hale was cast as Aria Montgomery in the project, followed by Troian Bellisario and Ian Harding (as Spencer Hastings and Ezra Fitz, respectively) in November 2009. In December 2009 The Futon Critic confirmed the casting of Ashley Benson", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (season 1)" }, { "id": "14831240", "text": "fighting with herself in order to keep her beauty look. In early novels, the character is also written as bulimic. Hanna is one of four primary protagonists in all sixteen of the \"Pretty Little Liars\" novels, starting with \"Pretty Little Liars\". Before Alison DiLaurentis disappeared, Hanna is shown as a shiny girl with an eating disorder. She is best friends with Alison DiLaurentis along with Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery and Emily Fields. Like the other girls, Hanna and Alison had a secret between them: Alison witnessed Hanna purging with a toothbrush in order to thrill herself when she realizes she's", "title": "Hanna Marin" }, { "id": "1529890", "text": "was the first in a series of fictional chapter books about Henry, his dog Ribsy, his neighborhood friend Beezus and her little sister Ramona. Like many of her later works, \"Henry Huggins\" is a novel about people living ordinary lives and is based on Cleary's own childhood experiences, the kids in her neighborhood growing up, as well as children she met while working as a librarian. Cleary's first book to center a story on the Quimby sisters, \"Beezus and Ramona\", was published in 1955. A publisher asked her to write a book about a kindergarten student. Cleary resisted, because she", "title": "Beverly Cleary" }, { "id": "16488532", "text": "Mothers and Other Liars Mothers and Other Liars is the debut novel from Amy Bourret. It is about a woman who finds an abandoned baby at a rest stop and decides to raise the child as her own. The book was published in August 2010 by St. Martin's Griffin. The story focuses on Ruby Leander, a nineteen-year-old runaway, who finds a baby in the trash at an Oklahoma rest stop. She makes a split-second decision to take the child as her own, rescuing it from a life of abandonment like her own. Ten years later, she has built a life", "title": "Mothers and Other Liars" }, { "id": "16998915", "text": "Maxwell, Alison's boyfriend when she was hospitalized. Nick was caught by the police when he and Alison planned to kill the Liars via poisoning. However, months later, the Liars visit Nick in the prison in order to discover some clues about Alison's whereabouts, and he gives them some information. Original A was the first \"A\" and revealed to be Mona Vanderwaal. Mona began torturing Alison by sending her gifts, threats and soon attacking her while wearing a zombie costume. \"A\" continued to mess with Ali and her mother Jessica DiLaurentis, whom she believed it to be Spencer Hastings. After Alison's", "title": "A (Pretty Little Liars)" }, { "id": "1604106", "text": "a writer, wife, and mother is explored through interviews with scholars and historians, archival photography, paintings by frontier artists, and dramatic reenactments. , including the complete text of the first eight \"Little House\" books Little House on the Prairie The \"Little House\" Books is a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, based on her childhood and adolescence in the American Midwest (Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Missouri) between 1870 and 1894. Eight of the novels were completed by Wilder, and published by Harper & Brothers. The appellation \"Little House\" books comes from the first and", "title": "Little House on the Prairie" }, { "id": "1604054", "text": "Little House on the Prairie The \"Little House\" Books is a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, based on her childhood and adolescence in the American Midwest (Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Missouri) between 1870 and 1894. Eight of the novels were completed by Wilder, and published by Harper & Brothers. The appellation \"Little House\" books comes from the first and third novels in the series of eight published in her lifetime. The second novel was about her husband's childhood. The first draft of a ninth novel was published posthumously in 1971 and is commonly", "title": "Little House on the Prairie" }, { "id": "2033870", "text": "river so she may escape. When the wolf follows Red over the bridge of cloth, the sheet is released and the wolf drowns in the river. And in another version the wolf is pushed into the fire, while he is preparing the meat of the grandmother to be eaten by the girl. The earliest known printed version was known as \"Le Petit Chaperon Rouge\" and may have had its origins in 17th-century French folklore. It was included in the collection \"Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals. Tales of Mother Goose\" (\"Histoires et contes du temps passé, avec des", "title": "Little Red Riding Hood" }, { "id": "15249468", "text": "1988: Pete Dexter — \"Paris Trout\" 1989: John Casey — \"Spartina\" 1990: Charles Johnson — \"Middle Passage\" 1991: Norman Rush — \"Mating\" 1992: Cormac McCarthy — \"All the Pretty Horses\" 1993: E. Annie Proulx — \"The Shipping News\" 1994: William Gaddis — \"A Frolic of His Own\" 1995: Philip Roth — \"Sabbath's Theater\" 1996: Andrea Barrett — \"Ship Fever and Other Stories\" 1997: Charles Frazier — \"Cold Mountain\" 1998: Alice McDermott — \"Charming Billy\" 1999: Ha Jin — \"Waiting\" 2000: Susan Sontag — \"In America\" 2001: Jonathan Franzen — \"The Corrections\" 2002: Julia Glass — \"Three Junes\" 2003: Shirley Hazzard", "title": "National Book Award for Fiction" }, { "id": "18963472", "text": "The Baby-Sitters Club The Baby-Sitters Club (also known as BSC) is a series of novels written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic between 1986 and 2000, that sold 176 million copies. Martin wrote the first 35 novels in the series, but the subsequent novels were written by ghostwriters, such as Peter Lerangis and many uncredited others. \"The Baby-Sitters Club\" is about a group of friends who live in the fictional, suburban town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. These friends run a local babysitting service called the \"Baby-Sitters Club.\" The original four members were Kristy (founder and president), Mary Anne (secretary),", "title": "The Baby-Sitters Club" }, { "id": "14489037", "text": "them with secrets only Alison would have known. The girls suspect Alison is the one sending the texts, until her body is found buried in her old backyard. The girls begin to search for answers since Alison's body has been found. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Originally developed as a television series by book packaging company Alloy Entertainment, the idea was described as \"\"Desperate Housewives\" for teens.\" Alloy met with author Shepard, and gave her the property to develop into a book series. With Alloy and Warner Horizon interested in producing a \"Pretty Little Liars\" television series for years, it was first planned for", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (season 1)" }, { "id": "14891586", "text": "Merriman and Keegan Allen, respectively. After the pilot was shot in Vancouver, filming for the rest of the series has since moved to Los Angeles. The series is primarily filmed at the Warner Bros. studio and backlot in the city of Burbank (near Los Angeles). The pilot was broadcast on June 8, 2010. It was watched by 2.47 million viewers, scoring a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic. \"Pilot\" was received with mixed opinions, although the series has gotten a more positive critique over its progression. Metacritic gave the pilot episode 52 out of 100, based upon 14 critical reviews.", "title": "Pilot (Pretty Little Liars)" }, { "id": "13470202", "text": "history was published in Venice by the Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola in his \"The Facetious Nights of Straparola\" (c. 1550-53) in XIV-XV. His original title was \"Costantino Fortunato\" (lit. \"Lucky Costantino\"). \"Le Maître Chat, ou le Chat Botté\" was later published by Barbin in Paris in January 1697 in a collection of tales called \"Histoires ou contes du temps passé\". The collection included \"La Belle au bois dormant\" (\"The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood\"), \"Le petit chaperon rouge\" (\"Little Red Riding Hood\"), \"La Barbe bleue\" (\"Blue Beard\"), \"Les Fées\" (\"The Enchanted Ones\", or \"Diamonds and Toads\"), \"Cendrillon, ou la", "title": "Puss in Boots" }, { "id": "14201349", "text": "The Perfectionists\" is an upcoming teen drama mystery series, based on the novel \"The Perfectionists\" by Sara Shepard. Set in another fictional town of Beacon Heights, Washington, where everything seems perfect, from their top-tier college to their overachieving residents and the stress of needing to be perfect leads to the town’s first murder. Sasha Pieterse and Janel Parrish will return to their roles as Allison DeLaurentis and Mona Vanderwaal. The series will also star Sofia Carson, Sydney Park, Eli Brown, Kelly Rutherford and Hayley Erin. \"Pretty Dirty Secrets\" is a web series, which taking place between the events of two", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "15844763", "text": "denied that they did so over the character's sexual identity. The character debuted on After Ellen's Hot 100 at number seven. Emily Fields Emily Catherine Fields is a fictional character created in 2006 by author Sara Shepard. She is a character of both \"Pretty Little Liars\" books and television series, and initially appears as a \"jock girl\" and one of the main protagonists of the stories. She is part of the group known as the Liars; and is best friend to the four other members, whose are also protagonists. Emily is known for her description and shyness, as well as", "title": "Emily Fields" }, { "id": "12521235", "text": "Perfectionists\", as Ava Jalali, Caitlin Martell-Lewis, Dylan Wright and Claire Hotchkiss, respectively. Moreover, Hayley Erin has committed to the show but her character is kept in mystery. If picked up for a series order by Freeform, the show will release in 2019. On September 29, 2017, it was announced that Shepard's 2014 book \"The Heiresses\" would be adapted into a television series for ABC, with Shay Mitchell starring as Corrine Saybrook. Sara Shepard Sara Shepard (born April 8, 1977) is an American author. She is known for the bestselling \"Pretty Little Liars\" and \"The Lying Game\" book series, both of", "title": "Sara Shepard" }, { "id": "15844715", "text": "Emily Fields Emily Catherine Fields is a fictional character created in 2006 by author Sara Shepard. She is a character of both \"Pretty Little Liars\" books and television series, and initially appears as a \"jock girl\" and one of the main protagonists of the stories. She is part of the group known as the Liars; and is best friend to the four other members, whose are also protagonists. Emily is known for her description and shyness, as well as for being member of a conservative family, the Fields. Emily's characteristics and stories have the same methodology in both books and", "title": "Emily Fields" }, { "id": "14489034", "text": "Pretty Little Liars (season 1) The first season of Pretty Little Liars, based on the books of the same name by Sara Shepard, premiered on June 8, 2010 and concluded on March 21, 2011 on ABC Family. The show premiered to 2.47 million viewers and retained a regular audience of 2.5 million viewers during its summer run. The summer finale scored 3.07 million viewers, achieving a series high. The show went on hiatus and returned with its winter premiere on January 3, 2011, with 4.20 million viewers, becoming one of ABC Family's top telecasts to date. Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery,", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (season 1)" }, { "id": "14831238", "text": "Hanna Marin Hanna Olivia Rivers (née Marin) is a fictional character created by Sara Shepard for the \"Pretty Little Liars\" book series, and later developed for the Freeform television series adaptation by I. Marlene King and portrayed by Ashley Benson. The character has also appeared in the spin-off series \"Ravenswood\". Hanna is one of the four protagonists of the franchise, and the stories depicts her life with her friends while they receive messages in form of threats from an omnipresent anonymous person, nicknamed as \"A\". In both books and television, Hanna is shown as a former overweight shiny girl who", "title": "Hanna Marin" }, { "id": "178454", "text": "heard as a child. Initially his original fairy tales were not met with recognition, due partly to the difficulty of translating them. In 1835, Andersen published the first two installments of his \"Fairy Tales\" (; lit. \"fantastic tales\"). More stories, completing the first volume, were published in 1837. The collection comprises nine tales, including \"The Tinderbox\", \"The Princess and the Pea\", \"Thumbelina\", \"The Little Mermaid\" and \"The Emperor's New Clothes\". The quality of these stories was not immediately recognized, and they sold poorly. At the same time, Andersen enjoyed more success with two novels, \"O.T.\" (1836) and \"Only a Fiddler\"", "title": "Hans Christian Andersen" }, { "id": "18963496", "text": "president Kristy Thomas. One hundred and twenty-two \"Baby-Sitters Little Sister\" novels and six \"Baby-Sitters Little Sister\" Super Special novels were published. The series ran from 1988 to 2000. \"The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class\" series was a spin-off of the \"Baby-Sitters Little Sister\" series and covered Karen Brewer's second grade classmates at Stoneybrook Academy, and their adventures in Ms. Colman's classroom. Twelve novels were published. The series ran from 1995 to 1998. The titles are \"Teacher's Pet\", \"Author Day\", \"Class Play\", \"Second Grade Baby\", \"The Snow War\", \"Twin Trouble\", \"Science Fair\", \"Summer School\", \"Halloween Parade\", \"Holiday Time\", \"Spelling Bee\", and", "title": "The Baby-Sitters Club" }, { "id": "658581", "text": "in the UK \"whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands and given the age its character\". Dahl's first published work, inspired by a meeting with C. S. Forester, was \"A Piece of Cake\", on 1 August 1942. The story, about his wartime adventures, was bought by \"The Saturday Evening Post\" for US$1,000 (a substantial sum in 1942) and published under the title \"Shot Down Over Libya\". His first children's book was \"The Gremlins\", published in 1943, about mischievous little creatures that were part of Royal Air Force folklore. The", "title": "Roald Dahl" }, { "id": "14489035", "text": "Hanna Marin, Emily Fields, and Alison DiLaurentis are enjoying a sleep-over at Spencer's family's barn in her backyard. The girls drink alcohol and tell secrets, before passing out. When the girls wake up they discover Alison and Spencer missing, however Spencer returns claiming she heard Alison scream and went to look for her. Following Alison's disappearance, the four remaining girls drift apart without their clique leader and Aria's family moves to Iceland for a year. One year later, Aria returns to Rosewood, and hooks up with Ezra Fitz at a bar and later discovers he is her new English teacher.", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (season 1)" }, { "id": "14489040", "text": "Also in April, Holly Marie Combs was cast as Ella Montgomery. Pretty Little Liars (season 1) The first season of Pretty Little Liars, based on the books of the same name by Sara Shepard, premiered on June 8, 2010 and concluded on March 21, 2011 on ABC Family. The show premiered to 2.47 million viewers and retained a regular audience of 2.5 million viewers during its summer run. The summer finale scored 3.07 million viewers, achieving a series high. The show went on hiatus and returned with its winter premiere on January 3, 2011, with 4.20 million viewers, becoming one", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (season 1)" }, { "id": "17986054", "text": "The 100 (novel series) The 100 is a series of young adult science fiction novels by Kass Morgan. The first book in the series, The 100, was published on September 3, 2013, by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Day 21, its sequel, was released on September 25, 2014, and Homecoming was released on February 26, 2015. A fourth novel, Rebellion, was released on December 6, 2016. Prior to the publication of the first book, television producer Jason Rothenberg became interested in adapting the story for the screen. The eponymous TV series adaptation premiered on March 19, 2014, on The", "title": "The 100 (novel series)" }, { "id": "11448072", "text": "The Liars' Club The Liars' Club is a memoir by American author Mary Karr. Published in 1995, it tells the story of Karr's childhood in the 1960s in a small industrial town in Southeast Texas. The title refers to her father and his friends who would gather to drink and tell stories when not working at the oil refinery or the chemical plant. The book became a New York Times bestseller. In addition to winning the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, the memoir was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005, a 10-year anniversary edition was published with", "title": "The Liars' Club" }, { "id": "20512352", "text": "from the Xeric Foundation in 1998. Dawn Brown was nominated the for the Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent at the Lulu Awards in 1999 for her work on \"Little Red Hot\". \"Little Red Hot\" was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2006 for \"Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition\". Little Red Hot Little Red Hot is an American comic book series created, written and drawn by film concept artist Dawn Brown. The book is published by Image Comics. The series currently consists of two mini-series: \"Chane of Fools\", published in 1999, and \"Bound\", published in 2001. The series revolves", "title": "Little Red Hot" }, { "id": "14489036", "text": "Hanna has taken Alison's role as the most popular girl at Rosewood High School, along with formerly nerdy Mona Vanderwaal. The girls regularly shoplift from the local mall, until Hanna is caught, and her mother resorts to beginning a sexual relationship with Detective Darren Wilden so Hanna isn't charged. Spencer develops romantic feelings for her older sister Melissa's fiance, British doctor Wren Kingston, while Emily befriends a new girl named Maya, whose family has moved into Alison's former home. As the story unfolds, each of the girls receive text messages from an anonymous blackmailer, known only as \"-A\", who threatens", "title": "Pretty Little Liars (season 1)" }, { "id": "2033876", "text": "True History of Little Goldenhood\" in \"The Red Fairy Book\" (1890). He derived it from the works of Charles Marelles, in \"Contes of Charles Marelles\". This version explicitly states that the story had been mistold earlier. The girl is saved, but not by the huntsman; when the wolf tries to eat her, its mouth is burned by the golden hood she wears, which is enchanted. James N. Barker wrote a variation of Little Red Riding Hood in 1827 as an approximately 1000-word story. It was later reprinted in 1858 in a book of collected stories edited by William E Burton,", "title": "Little Red Riding Hood" }, { "id": "12392703", "text": "and Ashley Newbrough. The series is based on the book \"How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls\" by Zoey Dean and was cancelled by the network due to low ratings. In 2009, Hale appeared in two films, the comedy-drama \"Sorority Wars\" and the mystery-thriller \"Fear Island\". In October 2009, Hale was cast as Aria Montgomery in \"Pretty Little Liars\", based on the book series of the same name by Sara Shepard. The television series lasted seven seasons from 2010 to 2017, with Hale's performance was being praised by critics. She also received a number of awards and nominations. In January 2010,", "title": "Lucy Hale" }, { "id": "5450940", "text": "a witch disguised as a cheerleader in a 2008 episode of The CW series \"Supernatural\". In 2009, Benson starred in ABC's short-lived supernatural comedy television series \"Eastwick\". The show was based on John Updike's novel, \"The Witches of Eastwick\", and the 1987 film adaption of the same name. The series only lasted 13 episodes before ABC cancelled the series due to low ratings but has since gained a cult following. In December 2009, Benson was cast as Hanna Marin in the ABC Family mystery-thriller teen drama series \"Pretty Little Liars\", based on the novel series by Sara Shepard. Hanna is", "title": "Ashley Benson" }, { "id": "5093357", "text": "and Scholastic. She is now a full-time writer. In 1983, she published her first book, \"Bummer Summer\", which earned the Children’s Choice Award in 1985. She began writing \"The Baby-Sitters Club\" series in 1985 while working for Scholastic as a children’s book editor. After Martin wrote the first 35 novels in \"The Baby-Sitters Club\" series she has since concentrated on writing single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s. One of those novels, \"A Corner of the Universe\", won a Newbery Honor in 2003. In 2010, Martin published a prequel to \"The Baby-Sitters Club\" series titled \"The Summer", "title": "Ann M. Martin" }, { "id": "14725614", "text": "The next day Aria and Ezra happily get married. While the girls are saying goodbye, Aria shares her and Ezra's plans for their honeymoon as well as their plans to look at adoption agencies when they return. Aria Montgomery Aria Marie Montgomery is a fictional character in the \"Pretty Little Liars\" series created by American author Sara Shepard. She is portrayed by Lucy Hale in the television adaptation, which premiered on ABC Family in June 2010. Lucy Hale was named Favorite Cable TV Actress at the 2014 People's Choice Awards for her role in the series. In the book series,", "title": "Aria Montgomery" }, { "id": "206070", "text": "working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she conceived the idea for the \"Harry Potter\" series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until the first novel in the series, \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\", was published in 1997. There were six sequels, of which the last, \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\", was released in 2007. Since then, Rowling has written five books for adult readers:", "title": "J. K. Rowling" }, { "id": "16998932", "text": "Charlotte's arrest, but later discloses to Alison that she lied under oath, also admitting that she and Charlotte were in fact close friends and she felt as though they were sisters. Later, Sara was possibly enlisted by Jenna Marshall and Noel Kahn (and possibly \"A.D.\") to work with them. However, Sara was killed by Noel after she tried to reveal more than she should to Emily. Sydney is Uber A's helper for a brief while. She is first seen communicating with them through text messages, when she makes a donation under their name at the Vogel Vision Institute. When Aria", "title": "A (Pretty Little Liars)" }, { "id": "5284113", "text": "Ann Patchett Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel \"Bel Canto\". Patchett's other novels include \"The Patron Saint of Liars\" (1992), \"Taft\" (1994), \"The Magician's Assistant\" (1997), \"Run\" (2007), \"State of Wonder\" (2011), and \"Commonwealth\" (2016). Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. She was the younger of two daughters of Frank Patchett, a Los Angeles police captain and Jeanne Ray, a nurse (who later became a novelist). The couple divorced and her mother remarried, moving the family", "title": "Ann Patchett" }, { "id": "6489723", "text": "anytime, on anyone — regardless of nationality. Although gremlins predated Murphy's Law that \"whatever can go wrong, will\", they were obviously motivated by the same principles. The Gremlins is a children's book, written by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1943 by Random House for Walt Disney and serialized in \"Cosmopolitan\". It was Dahl's first children's book, and was written for Walt Disney Productions, as a promotional device for a feature-length animated film that was never made. With Dahl's assistance, a series of gremlin characters was developed, and although pre-production began, the film project was eventually abandoned, in part because", "title": "Fifinella" }, { "id": "20512350", "text": "Little Red Hot Little Red Hot is an American comic book series created, written and drawn by film concept artist Dawn Brown. The book is published by Image Comics. The series currently consists of two mini-series: \"Chane of Fools\", published in 1999, and \"Bound\", published in 2001. The series revolves around the adventures of Chane, a bounty hunter who tracks down people who have broken their deal with the Devil. Bored and frustrated with her life, Chane accepts an unusual assignment. A miserly billionaire, Mr. Ball, learns he is dying, and wants forgiveness for his years of corruption and selfishness.", "title": "Little Red Hot" }, { "id": "13671821", "text": "twelve prequel novels were published in 1994, following the adventures of young Ariel living under the sea with her sisters and father. The titles are: \"Green-Eyed Pearl\" and \"Nefazia Visits the Palace\" by Suzanne Weyn; \"Reflections of Arsulu\" and \"The Same Old Song\" by Marilyn Kaye; \"Arista's New Boyfriend\" and \"Ariel the Spy\" by M. J. Carr; \"King Triton, Beware!\", \"The Haunted Palace\" and \"The Boyfriend Mix-Up\" by Katherine Applegate; \"The Practical-Joke War\" by Stephanie St. Pierre; \"The Dolphins of Coral Cove\" by K. S. Rodriguez; and \"Alana's Secret Friend\" by Jess Christopher. Also published in 1994 is \"Tales from", "title": "The Little Mermaid (franchise)" }, { "id": "3377909", "text": "Gossip Girl (novel series) Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged socialite teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City's Upper East Side. The books primarily focus on best friends Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen, whose experiences are among those chronicled by the eponymous gossip blogger. The novel series is based on von Ziegesar's experiences at Nightingale-Bamford School and", "title": "Gossip Girl (novel series)" }, { "id": "3377918", "text": "Gossip Girl (novel series) Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged socialite teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite private school in New York City's Upper East Side. The books primarily focus on best friends Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen, whose experiences are among those chronicled by the eponymous gossip blogger. The novel series is based on von Ziegesar's experiences at Nightingale-Bamford School and", "title": "Gossip Girl (novel series)" }, { "id": "16998898", "text": "focuses on the mystery of \"A\". However, \"Big A\" also sported different disguises, including that of Red Coat, while their ally disguised themselves as The Black Widow, while also donning the Red Coat identity on certain occasions. Uber A also dressed up as several disguises, including those of a gardener, a maid and a surgeon. They later costume themselves with the traditional look. One year after the disappearance of Alison DiLaurentis, her four friends, Aria Montgomery, Spencer Hastings, Emily Fields, and Hanna Marin, each receive messages from someone calling themselves \"A.\" The girls had drifted apart over the year, so", "title": "A (Pretty Little Liars)" }, { "id": "20227932", "text": "Charlotte that Alison bullied him and the other girls did nothing to prevent her out of loyalty. An anonymous individual proceeded to return the graphic novel to Gottesman, along with a note instructing him to meet them at The Radley or else his former friendship with Charlotte would be exposed. The person who gave him the ultimatum failed to show up, prompting Lucas to run back to his loft. As it turns out, Gottesman was concerned about a second graphic novel that had never been completed because it continued his first book's revenge storyline, only this time turning the events", "title": "Alex Drake (Pretty Little Liars)" }, { "id": "14554959", "text": "The Carrie Diaries The Carrie Diaries is a young adult novel, the first in a series of the same name by American author Candace Bushnell. The series is a prequel to Bushnell's 1997 collection \"Sex and the City\", and follows the character of Carrie Bradshaw during her senior year of high school during the early 1980s and part of her life in New York City working as a writer. The \"Los Angeles Times\" described it as \"[a]n addictive, ingenious origin story.\" \"The Carrie Diaries\" focuses on Carrie Bradshaw, a high-school student who lives in Castleberry, Connecticut. Carrie is followed through", "title": "The Carrie Diaries" }, { "id": "18469199", "text": "The Maze Runner (series) The Maze Runner is a series of young adult dystopian science fiction novels written by American author James Dashner. The series consists of \"The Maze Runner\" (2009), \"The Scorch Trials\" (2010) and \"The Death Cure\" (2011), as well as two prequel novels, \"The Kill Order\" (2012) and \"The Fever Code\" (2016), and a companion book titled \"The Maze Runner Files\" (2013). The series, revealing details in non-chronological order, tells how the world was devastated by a series of massive solar flares and coronal mass ejections. \"The Maze Runner\" is the first book in the series and", "title": "The Maze Runner (series)" }, { "id": "4624050", "text": "All the Pretty Horses (novel) All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is also the first of McCarthy's \"Border Trilogy\". The book was adapted as a 2000 film, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The novel tells of John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old who", "title": "All the Pretty Horses (novel)" }, { "id": "2042759", "text": "obtain an immortal soul. Because of her selflessness, she is given the chance to earn her own soul by doing good deeds to mankind for 300 years and will one day rise up into the Kingdom of God. \"The Little Mermaid\" was written in 1836 and first published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen on 7 April 1837 in \"Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection. Third Booklet. 1837\" (\"Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. Første Samling. Tredie Hefte. 1837\"). The story was republished on 18 December 1849 as a part of \"Fairy Tales. 1850\" (\"Eventyr. 1850\") and again on 15 December 1862", "title": "The Little Mermaid" }, { "id": "18484276", "text": "While My Pretty One Sleeps While My Pretty One Sleeps is a 1989 novel by Mary Higgins Clark. It takes place in New York City. It was number 10 in the \"Publishers Weekly\" best selling book list that year. It is listed in the OCLC top 1000 works most widely held by libraries. Neeve Kearney runs a dress shop. One of her popular customers, Ethel Lambston, a writer, is found dead in a small cave. The character of Bishop Stanton is based on Father Joseph A. O'Hare, president of Fordham University. \"While My Pretty One Sleeps\" was made into a", "title": "While My Pretty One Sleeps" }, { "id": "2033873", "text": "King entertained with extravagant parties, presumably would take from the story the intended meaning. In the 19th century two separate German versions were retold to Jacob Grimm and his younger brother Wilhelm Grimm, known as the Brothers Grimm, the first by Jeanette Hassenpflug (1791–1860) and the second by Marie Hassenpflug (1788–1856). The brothers turned the first version to the main body of the story and the second into a sequel of it. The story as \"Rotkäppchen\" was included in the first edition of their collection \"Kinder- und Hausmärchen\" (Children's and Household Tales (1812)). The earlier parts of the tale agree", "title": "Little Red Riding Hood" }, { "id": "14891576", "text": "Pilot (Pretty Little Liars) \"Pilot\" is the series premiere of the mystery drama series \"Pretty Little Liars\". It introduces each of the main characters, as well as establishes the basic premises of the series. The episode aired on June 8, 2010 on ABC Family. In the episode, the main characters find themselves apprehensive one year after the disappearance of Alison DiLaurentis. When Aria Montgomery returns to Rosewood, she rediscovers her old friends and secrets of the past begin to haunt them. Alison's body is then found in her former home, and after the funeral, the girls receive a frightening anonymous", "title": "Pilot (Pretty Little Liars)" }, { "id": "14891589", "text": "it, and that's not a bad thing at all.\" Pilot (Pretty Little Liars) \"Pilot\" is the series premiere of the mystery drama series \"Pretty Little Liars\". It introduces each of the main characters, as well as establishes the basic premises of the series. The episode aired on June 8, 2010 on ABC Family. In the episode, the main characters find themselves apprehensive one year after the disappearance of Alison DiLaurentis. When Aria Montgomery returns to Rosewood, she rediscovers her old friends and secrets of the past begin to haunt them. Alison's body is then found in her former home, and", "title": "Pilot (Pretty Little Liars)" }, { "id": "6661228", "text": "Night of the Solstice\", written during high school and college, was published by MacMillan in 1987, followed by \"Heart of Valor\" in 1990. They sold poorly, as they were labeled for 9 to 11-year-olds and not for young adults, as Smith wanted. \"The Vampire Diaries\" series was commissioned by Elise Donner, editor of \"Alloy Entertainment\" in 1990: Smith immediately wrote the scene when Elena, Bonnie and Meredith are decorating the gym and the heroine meets Damon (scene later included in the first novel), while, as for the other characters, she adapted those of \"The Garden of Earthly Delights\", an adult", "title": "L. J. Smith (author)" }, { "id": "5250912", "text": "The Gremlins The Gremlins is a children's book, written by Roald Dahl and published in 1943. It was Dahl's first children's book, and was written for Walt Disney Productions, as a promotional device for a feature-length animated film that was never made. With Dahl's assistance, a series of gremlin characters were developed, and while pre-production had begun, the film project was eventually abandoned, in part because the studio could not establish the precise rights of the \"gremlin\" story, and in part because the British Air Ministry was heavily involved in the production because Dahl, who was on leave from his", "title": "The Gremlins" }, { "id": "5180431", "text": "sale on various media. The original \"Little Prince\" novella was first published in 1943, and is the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Count Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944). It is a poetic tale self-illustrated in watercolours in which a pilot stranded in the desert meets a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid. The story is philosophical and includes societal criticism, remarking on the strangeness of the adult world. Though ostensibly a children's book, \"The Little Prince\" makes several profound and idealistic observations about life and human nature. For example, Saint-Exupéry tells", "title": "The Little Prince (1974 film)" }, { "id": "18963474", "text": "babysitter's club, and created the characters, plots, and settings for the series. It was initially planned as a four-book series, but after the first four novels were moderately successful, Scholastic ordered two more, followed by twelve more as the series grew in popularity. By the time the sixth novel was published, the first printing was up to 100,000 copies. When publishing ceased in 2000, there had been 213 novels published in the series. Of these, Martin estimates she wrote from 60 to 80. With the exception of Super Specials and Super Mysteries, the novels are written and narrated from one", "title": "The Baby-Sitters Club" }, { "id": "15424586", "text": "\"talented new writer\". The LA Times said it was a \"skillful, psychologically acute tale\", concluding that \"... the payoff is more than worth the slow-building suspense\". So Much Pretty So Much Pretty is the debut novel of Cara Hoffman, published by Simon & Schuster and released on March 15, 2011. \"So Much Pretty\" is about a young woman, Wendy White, who goes missing from her small town and is found murdered several months later. The novel then focuses on the investigation into her life, disappearance, and death by reporter Stacey Flynn. Publishers Weekly gave the novel a starred review, calling", "title": "So Much Pretty" }, { "id": "12800951", "text": "a fan of fantasy fiction when young but had not read the books before. The literary agent then sent the first four books of \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" to Benioff. Benioff read a few hundred pages of the first novel, \"A Game of Thrones\", shared his enthusiasm with D. B. Weiss and suggested that they adapt Martin's novels into a television series; Weiss finished the first novel in \"maybe 36 hours\". They pitched the series to HBO after a five-hour meeting with Martin (himself a veteran screenwriter) in a restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard. According to Benioff, they", "title": "Game of Thrones" }, { "id": "15402544", "text": "Pretty Little Things Pretty Little Things is a 2010 novel by Jilliane Hoffman. It was released in the USA on September 7, 2010, and deals with the topics of internet crime and missing and exploited children and is set in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area. In addition to the US release, the book has enjoyed a considerable success on the German market, titled \"Mädchenfänger\", with a #5 rank among new novel releases. Hoffman wrote the book based on her own professional experience; before her career as a writer, she worked in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement consulting with", "title": "Pretty Little Things" }, { "id": "11530958", "text": "and Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd. Many of her colleagues and competition thought her books were ahead of their time, yet Harper's books received three Newbery Medals and two Caldecott Medals during her tenure. Nonetheless, Nordstrom edited some of the milestones of children's literature, including E. B. White's \"Stuart Little\" (1945) and \"Charlotte's Web\" (1952), Margaret Wise Brown's \"Goodnight Moon\" (1947), Crockett Johnson's \"Harold and the Purple Crayon\" (1955), Syd Hoff's \"Danny and the Dinosaur\" (1958), Karla Kuskin's \"Roar and More\" (1956), and Shel Silverstein's \"Where the Sidewalk Ends\" (1974). Other authors she edited included Laura Ingalls Wilder, Ruth", "title": "Ursula Nordstrom" }, { "id": "14201338", "text": "from artists such as Sara Bareilles, Rachel Platten, OneRepublic, Jessie J, McFly, Passion Pit, Lady Antebellum and Florence and the Machine. 2AM Club made a guest appearance in the first season episode \"There's No Place Like Homecoming\", with some of the songs appeared on their album, \"What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?\" and ZZ Ward performed with two songs \"Til the Casket Drops\" and \"Last Love Song\" from her debut album, \"Til the Casket Drops\" to promote the series' third and fifth seasons. The series' actors Diego Boneta and Tyler Blackburn had songs featured in episodes, with Boneta's", "title": "Pretty Little Liars" }, { "id": "16998912", "text": "her home. She asks them if she could reenact the night of the sleepover and hypnotize them. Everyone reluctantly agrees, and minutes later they wake up to find Ali gone and the door of the room locked. A letter is slid underneath, informing the girls of the horrible truth: The Alison that they had been friends with had been Courtney all along and the real Ali killed her. Courtney was mentally unsound and wanted to be Ali so badly that she tried to drown her when they were children. One day, when she was home from the mental institute, Courtney", "title": "A (Pretty Little Liars)" }, { "id": "11680538", "text": "All the Pretty Little Horses \"All the Pretty Little Horses\" (also known as \"Hush-a-bye\") is a traditional lullaby from the United States. It has inspired dozens of recordings and adaptations, as well as the title of Cormac McCarthy's 1992 novel \"All the Pretty Horses\". The origin of this song is not fully known. The song is commonly thought to be of African-American origin. The author Lyn Ellen Lacy is often quoted as the primary source for the theory that suggests the song was \"originally sung by an African American slave who could not take care of her baby because she", "title": "All the Pretty Little Horses" }, { "id": "1604227", "text": "2012 article in the \"New Yorker\", \"When Roosevelt was elected, she noted in her diary, 'America has a dictator.' She prayed for his assassination, and considered doing the job herself.\" Whatever Lane's politics, \"attacks on [Wilder's] authorship seem aimed at infusing her books with ideological passions they just don’t have.\" The original Little House books, written for elementary school-age children, became an enduring, eight-volume record of pioneering life late in the 19th century based on the Ingalls family's experiences on the American frontier. \"The First Four Years\", about the early days of the Wilder marriage, was discovered by her literary", "title": "Laura Ingalls Wilder" }, { "id": "1604069", "text": "the first book in the series, \"Little House in the Big Woods\", revolves around the life of the Ingalls family in their small home near Pepin, Wisconsin. The family includes mother Caroline Ingalls, father Charles Ingalls, elder daughter Mary Amelia Ingalls, and younger daughter (and protagonist), Laura Ingalls Wilder. Also in the story, though not yet born historically, is Laura's baby sister Carrie. In the book, Laura herself turns five years old, when the real-life author had only been three during the events of the book. According to a letter from her daughter, Rose, to biographer William Anderson, the publisher", "title": "Little House on the Prairie" }, { "id": "8229476", "text": "(1971), \"Tomorrow\" (1972), \"The Exorcist\" (1973), \"Man on a Swing\" (1974) and \"Gardens of Stone\" (1987). Masterson co-wrote (with Larry L. King) the books for the hit musical \"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas\" (1978) and its short-lived sequel \"The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public\" (1994). In 1985 he directed \"The Trip to Bountiful\", for which Geraldine Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress. His directing credits additionally include \"Full Moon in Blue Water\" (1988), \"Night Game\" (1989), \"Blood Red\" (1989), \"Convicts\" (1991), \"Arctic Blue\" (1993), \"The Only Thrill\" (1997), \"Lost Junction\" (2003) and \"Whiskey School\" (2005). Masterson died", "title": "Peter Masterson" }, { "id": "16469984", "text": "Other Liars\" was Bourret's debut novel. It is about a woman who discovers a baby at a rest stop and raises the child as her own. Years later, she is forced to confront this secret. Her work for child advocacy organizations was part of what inspired this book. Amy Bourret Amy Jo Bourret (July 20, 1962 - November 26, 2015) was an American attorney and author. Her best known work is the novel, \"Mothers and Other Liars\". Bourret was born in Denver, Colorado to Carole Wedemeyer Bourret and John Lowell Bourret. She attended schools in Salt Lake City, Kansas City", "title": "Amy Bourret" }, { "id": "2033855", "text": "Little Red Riding Hood \"Little Red Riding Hood\" is a European fairy tale about a young girl and a Big Bad Wolf. Its origins can be traced back to the 10th century by several European folk tales, including one from Italy called \"The False Grandmother\" (), later written among others by Italo Calvino in the \"Italian Folktales\" collection; the best known versions were written by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. The story has been changed considerably in various retellings and subjected to numerous modern adaptations and readings. Other names for the story are: \"\"Little Red Ridinghood\"\", \"\"Little Red Cap\"\"", "title": "Little Red Riding Hood" }, { "id": "15424585", "text": "So Much Pretty So Much Pretty is the debut novel of Cara Hoffman, published by Simon & Schuster and released on March 15, 2011. \"So Much Pretty\" is about a young woman, Wendy White, who goes missing from her small town and is found murdered several months later. The novel then focuses on the investigation into her life, disappearance, and death by reporter Stacey Flynn. Publishers Weekly gave the novel a starred review, calling it a \"remarkable debut\". Booklist compared it to a mixture of \"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo\" and \"The Lovely Bones\", and said Hoffman was a", "title": "So Much Pretty" }, { "id": "16998939", "text": "the team as he was the Queens of Hearts responsible for trying to kill Spencer. He also murdered Garrett Reynolds fearing he'd expose him as a crooked cop and placed his corpse in a box beside a fainted Aria. Wilden's reasoning for helping the team is unknown but implied to be blackmail. Jenna was a member of the A-Team during the reign of Big A and was also working anonymously for Uber A. She remains around Rosewood in \"Along Comes Mary\" and befriends Sara Harvey. Meanwhile, Aria Montgomery and Emily Fields discover that Jenna was on Archer's payroll for unknown", "title": "A (Pretty Little Liars)" }, { "id": "5367183", "text": "Little Iliad The Little Iliad (Greek: , \"Ilias mikra\"; ) is a lost epic of ancient Greek literature. It was one of the Epic Cycle, that is, the \"Trojan\" cycle, which told the entire history of the Trojan War in epic verse. The story of the \"Little Iliad\" comes chronologically after that of the \"Aethiopis\", and is followed by that of the \"Iliou persis\" (\"Sack of Troy\"). The \"Little Iliad\" was variously attributed by ancient writers to Lesches of Pyrrha (7th century BCE), Cinaethon of Sparta (8th century BCE), Diodorus of Erythrae, Thestorides of Phocaea, or Homer himself (8th century", "title": "Little Iliad" }, { "id": "18963497", "text": "\"Baby Animal Zoo\". The \"California Diaries\" series centered on Dawn Schafer and her friends after her return to California, and targeted a slightly older audience, with a darker feel. Fifteen novels were published focusing on the characters Dawn, Ducky McCrae, Amalia Vargas, Maggie Blume, and Sunny Winslow. Examples of subjects dealt with are anorexia, sexual orientation, and racism, along with the characters' personal problems and family disputes. In 2006, Graphix, a division of Scholastic, released a graphic novel version of the first novel, \"Kristy's Great Idea\". The novel is a contemporary yet faithful adaptation illustrated by Raina Telgemeier, an Eisner", "title": "The Baby-Sitters Club" }, { "id": "19519673", "text": "place. While the television series shares many of the same characters as the book series of the same name, there are important differences (chief among them that Sutton is deceased in the books): ABC Family green-lit a pilot for \"The Lying Game\", which was written and executive produced by Charles Pratt Jr. and which was based upon the then upcoming novel by \"Pretty Little Liars\" author Sara Shepard, in October 2010. Alexandra Chando was cast in the dual lead role in November 2010. ABC Family ordered \"The Lying Game\" to series in February 2011. It premiered on Monday, August 15,", "title": "The Lying Game" }, { "id": "19411590", "text": "Legally Blonde (novel) Legally Blonde is a 2001 comedy novel by American author Amanda Brown, with a copyright credit also going to Brigid (Bridget) Kerrigan. The novel was the basis of the 2001 film \"Legally Blonde\" which starred Reese Witherspoon and its 2003 sequel \"\", as well as the musical \"Legally Blonde\" and the 2009 direct-to-video film \"Legally Blondes\". The novel was based on Brown's experiences while enrolled in Stanford Law School. \"Legally Blonde\" is also the basis of a series of young adult fiction novels featuring the character of Elle Woods written by Natalie Standiford. Elle Woods, a blonde", "title": "Legally Blonde (novel)" }, { "id": "16488534", "text": "in a car seat dumped in a trash can, that she is not her biological mother, and that the childcare authorities were not involved in any way with her apparently illegitimate adoption. The inspiration for this book came from Bourret's work with child advocacy organizations. She often wrote about lost children from a young age and it is a recurring theme in her recent work. Bourret made a few half-hearted attempts at getting her manuscript published directly, before stowing it away. After encouragement from fellow members of a writing group, Bourret began once more trying to find an agent for", "title": "Mothers and Other Liars" } ]

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[ { "id": "419544", "text": "The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first stable line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Mick Jagger (lead vocals), Keith Richards (guitar, backing vocals), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ian Stewart (piano). Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. Brian Jones was the original leader of the group. The band's primary songwriters, Jagger and Richards, assumed leadership after Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager. Their musical focus shifted from covering blues songs to", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419550", "text": "eight consecutive No. 1 studio albums in the US. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart. In 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary. Keith Richards and Mick Jagger became childhood friends and classmates in 1950 in Dartford, Kent. The Jagger family moved to Wilmington, Kent, away, in 1954. In the mid-1950s, Jagger formed a garage band with his friend Dick Taylor; the group mainly played material by Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Howlin' Wolf and Bo Diddley. Jagger met Richards again on 17 October 1961 on platform two of Dartford", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419672", "text": "of the beach, to keep the sound in sync with the music from the stage; for every of beach, the sound had to be delayed an additional second. Current members Former members Early members Current touring members Former touring musicians Selected studio albums The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first stable line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Mick Jagger (lead vocals), Keith Richards (guitar, backing vocals), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ian Stewart (piano). Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419546", "text": "bands that became popular in the United States in 1964 and were identified with the youthful and rebellious counterculture of the 1960s. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the band started out playing covers but found more success with their own material; songs such as \"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction\" and \"Paint It Black\" became international hits. After a short period of experimentation with psychedelic rock in the mid-1960s, the group returned to its \"bluesy\" roots with \"Beggars Banquet\" (1968), which along with its follow-ups \"Let It Bleed\" (1969), \"Sticky Fingers\" (1971) and \"Exile on Main St.\" (1972),", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419597", "text": "complex financial structure in 1972 to reduce the amount of their taxes. Their holding company, Promogroup, has offices in both The Netherlands and the Caribbean. The Netherlands was chosen because it does not directly tax royalty payments. The band have been tax exiles ever since, meaning they can no longer use Britain as their main residence. Due to the arrangements with the holding company, the band has reportedly paid a tax of just 1.6% on their total earnings of £242 million over the past 20 years. In November 1972 the band began recording sessions in Kingston, Jamaica, for the album", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "10128897", "text": "Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones song) \"Play with Fire\" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones, originally released as B-side to the song \"The Last Time\". It was later included on the American release of their 1965 album \"Out of Our Heads\". \"Play with Fire\" is credited to Nanker Phelge, a pseudonym used when tracks were composed by the entire band, even though lead singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards are the only Rolling Stones to appear on the track. The song was recorded late one night in January 1965 while the Stones were in", "title": "Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones song)" }, { "id": "419552", "text": "they visited the Ealing Jazz Club where they met the members of Blues Incorporated, who included slide guitarist Brian Jones, keyboardist Ian Stewart and drummer Charlie Watts. After a meeting with Korner, Jagger and Richards started jamming with the group. Jones, no longer in a band, advertised for bandmates in \"Jazz Weekly\", while Stewart found them a practice space; together they decided to form a band playing Chicago blues. Soon after, Jagger, Taylor and Richards left Blues Incorporated to join Jones and Stewart. The first rehearsal included guitarist Geoff Bradford and vocalist Brian Knight, both of whom decided not to", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "12136085", "text": "The Rolling Stones concerts Since forming in 1962, the English rock band The Rolling Stones have performed more than two thousand concerts around the world, becoming one of the world's most popular live music attractions in the process. In their early years of performing, the band would undertake numerous short tours of the United Kingdom and North America, playing in small- and medium-size venues to audiences composed largely of screaming girls. As time moved on, their audience base expanded (in terms of both size and diversity) and they would increasingly favour larger arenas and stadiums. For many years, the group", "title": "The Rolling Stones concerts" }, { "id": "10679193", "text": "Winter (The Rolling Stones song) \"Winter\" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1973 album \"Goats Head Soup\". It bears many similarities to \"Moonlight Mile\" from their 1971 album \"Sticky Fingers\". Credited to singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, \"Winter\" is actually the work of Jagger and the Stones' lead guitarist at the time, Mick Taylor. It was the first song recorded for the album and does not feature Richards. About the song, Bill Janovitz says in his review, \"Here they were in sunny Jamaica, and the Stones were writing and", "title": "Winter (The Rolling Stones song)" }, { "id": "10128901", "text": "is based on the Rolling Stones' song. Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones song) \"Play with Fire\" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones, originally released as B-side to the song \"The Last Time\". It was later included on the American release of their 1965 album \"Out of Our Heads\". \"Play with Fire\" is credited to Nanker Phelge, a pseudonym used when tracks were composed by the entire band, even though lead singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards are the only Rolling Stones to appear on the track. The song was recorded late one night in", "title": "Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones song)" }, { "id": "419664", "text": "band and individually. They are also credited with changing the \"whole business model of popular music\". The band has received, and been nominated for multiple awards during their 55 years together including: three Grammy awards (and 12 nominations), the Juno award for International Entertainer of the Year in 1991, U.K.'s Jazz FM Awards Album of the Year (2017) for their album \"Blue & Lonesome\", and \"NME\" (\"New Musical Express\") awards such as best live band and the NME award for best music film, for their documentary \"Crossfire Hurricane\". On Mick Jagger's 75th birthday, scientists named seven fossil stoneflies after present", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419638", "text": "material, while the post-1994 material was to be handled by Interscope Records (once a subsidiary of Atlantic). During the autumn, Jagger and Richards worked with producer Don Was to add new vocals and guitar parts to ten unfinished songs from the \"Exile on Main St.\" sessions. Jagger and Mick Taylor also recorded a session together in London where Taylor added lead guitar to what would be the expanded album's single, \"Plundered My Soul\". On 17 April 2010, the band released a limited edition 7-inch vinyl single of the previously unreleased track \"Plundered My Soul\" as part of Record Store Day.", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419545", "text": "writing original material, a decision with which Jones did not agree. Jones left the band less than a month before his death in 1969, having already been replaced by Mick Taylor, who remained until 1974. After Taylor left the band, Ronnie Wood took his place in 1975 and continues on guitar in tandem with Richards. Following Wyman's departure in 1993, Darryl Jones joined as their touring bassist. The Stones' touring keyboardists have included Nicky Hopkins (1967–1982), Ian McLagan (1978–1981), Billy Preston (through the mid-1970s) and Chuck Leavell (1982–present). The Rolling Stones were at the forefront of the British Invasion of", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "708169", "text": "The Rolling Stones (novel) The Rolling Stones (also published under the name Space Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. A condensed version of the novel had been published earlier in \"Boys' Life\" (September, October, November, December 1952) under the title \"Tramp Space Ship\". It was published in hardcover that year by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein juveniles. The Stones, a family of \"Loonies\" (residents of the Moon, known as \"Luna\" in the book [from the Roman goddess]), purchase and rebuild a used spaceship and go sightseeing around the Solar", "title": "The Rolling Stones (novel)" }, { "id": "15386713", "text": "Instruments played by the Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones, an English rock band, have been active since 1962. Originally a counterpoint to The Beatles, the group took influences from the Blues, rock'n'roll and R&B. Most of their recordings feature a core of drums, bass, two guitars and a lead vocal, though there have been numerous variations on this in the studio. Keith Richards used a Harmony H72 Meteor on early tours, before switching to an Epiphone Casino. After the Stones became successful in the US, Richards acquired a Gibson Firebird and a 1959 Les Paul with a Bigsby Tremolo system.", "title": "Instruments played by the Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "342970", "text": "Rolling Stone Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the magazine's publisher, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its musical coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content. Rolling Stone Press is the magazine's associated book publishing imprint. Straight Arrow Press", "title": "Rolling Stone" }, { "id": "3743235", "text": "wasn't released to stores until May 29, 2012. Their fifth studio album, \"Picture Perfect\", was released on July 14, 2017. The title track was premiered on Loudwire on June 14, 2017. Current members Current touring musicians Former members Former touring musicians Timeline 12 Stones 12 Stones is an American Christian rock and post-grunge band that was formed in 2000 in Mandeville, Louisiana. The band currently consists of Paul McCoy, Eric Weaver and Sean Dunaway. The band members met in Mandeville, Louisiana, a small suburb north of New Orleans, and within 15 months were signed to a record deal with Wind-up", "title": "12 Stones" }, { "id": "419553", "text": "join the band. They objected to playing the Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs preferred by Jagger and Richards. In June 1962 the addition of the drummer Tony Chapman completed the line-up of Jagger, Richards, Jones, Stewart and Taylor. According to Richards, Jones named the band during a phone call to \"Jazz News\". When asked by a journalist for the band's name, Jones saw a Muddy Waters LP lying on the floor; one of the tracks was \"Rollin' Stone\". Jones, Jagger, Richards, Stewart, and Taylor played a gig billed as \"the Rollin' Stones\" on 12 July 1962, at the Marquee", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419644", "text": "concert took place on 8 December at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York. The last two dates were at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on 13 and 15 December. Bruce Springsteen and blues rock band the Black Keys joined the band on the final night. They also played two songs at \"\". The Stones played nineteen shows in the U.S. in spring 2013, before returning to the UK. They returned to Hyde Park in July, though it was not free like the 1969 concert. On 29 June, the band performed at the 2013 Glastonbery Festival. \"Hyde Park Live\",", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "3849458", "text": "of SuperHeavy was secret until May 2011. Mick Jagger, English musician and the lead vocalist of rock band The Rolling Stones, announced its formation on 20 May 2011. SuperHeavy was Dave Stewart's idea. Inspired by the sounds washing into his home in St Ann's Bay, Jamaica, Stewart urged Jagger to fuse their sound with that of Indian orchestras. Stewart and Jagger had mutual liking for Indian orchestrations; thus, A. R. Rahman was added to the supergroup, as well as British singer Joss Stone. The name of the band is said to be inspired by Muhammad Ali. The group began recording", "title": "Damian Marley" }, { "id": "419605", "text": "the audience. Jagger had booked live recording sessions at the El Mocambo, a club in Toronto, to produce a long-overdue live album, 1977's \"Love You Live\", the first Stones live album since \"Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!\". It reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 5 in the US. Richards' addiction to heroin delayed his arrival in Toronto; the other members had already arrived. On 24 February 1977, when Richards and his family flew in from London, they were temporarily detained by Canada Customs after Richards was found in possession of a burnt spoon and hash residue. Three days later,", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419665", "text": "and former members of the band. Two species, Petroperla mickjaggeri and Lapisperla keithrichardsi, were placed within a new family Petroperlidae. The new family was named in honour of the Rolling Stones, derived from the Greek \"petra\" that stands for \"stone\". The scientists referred to the fossils as \"Rolling Stoneflies\". The Rolling Stones' first concert was on 12 July 1962 at the Marquee Club in London. The most documented of the band's concerts is the Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont Speedway in 1969. The Hells Angels biker gang provided security. Believing he was armed, they stabbed and beat an audience", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419596", "text": "1974) document the subsequent highly publicised 1972 North American Tour. The band's double compilation, \"Hot Rocks 1964–1971\", was released in 1972; it reached No. 3 in the UK and No. 4 in the US. It is certified Diamond in the US having sold over 12 million copies, and spent over 264 weeks on the Billboard album chart. In 1974 Bill Wyman was the first band member to release solo material, his album \"Monkey Grip\". As of 2018 Wyman has released five solo albums, with the most recent, \"Back to Basics\", released in 2015. Members of the band set up a", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419661", "text": "the words of the \"Telegraph\", \"changed music\" through his contributions to it as a pioneer of the modern music industry. Since their formation in 1962, the Rolling Stones have survived multiple feuds. They have released 30 studio albums, 23 live albums, 25 compilation albums and 120 singles. According to OfficialCharts.com, the Stones are ranked the fourth bestselling group of all time. Their top single is \"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction\", regarded by many at the time as \"the classic example of rock and roll\". The Stones contributed to the blues lexicon, creating their own \"codewords\" and slang, such as \"losing", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "11216893", "text": "25×5: the Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones 25x5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones is a documentary featuring rock group The Rolling Stones, charting the period between the band's formation in 1962 and the release of its then latest album, 1989's \"Steel Wheels\". It was directed by acclaimed British documentary-maker Nigel Finch. Alongside much archive footage, the film also featured extensive original interviews with band members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood. The band's two guitarists who preceded Ronnie Wood, Brian Jones and Mick Taylor are featured in archive interviews only. Jones died", "title": "25×5: the Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "1598255", "text": "Exile on Main St. Exile on Main St. is a double album by English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released on 12 May 1972 in LP format by Rolling Stones Records. The record was the band's first double album and tenth studio album released in the United Kingdom. The album was partially recorded in sessions at a rented villa named Nellcôte in the south of France while the band lived abroad as tax exiles. The recording was completed at Los Angeles's Sunset Sound and included additional musicians such as pianist Nicky Hopkins, saxophonist Bobby Keys, drummer Jimmy Miller,", "title": "Exile on Main St." }, { "id": "5172957", "text": "Jade Jagger Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger (born 21 October 1971) is a British jewellery designer, socialite and former model. Jagger was born in Paris, France. She is the only child of Bianca (née Pérez-Mora Macías), a Nicaraguan model, actress and philanthropist, and Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones. In her early years, Jagger and her family lived on London's fashionable Cheyne Walk in Chelsea. Jagger's parents divorced in 1978 and she spent most of her time living in Manhattan with her jet-set mother and was often dropped off at The Factory to be babysat by her mother's", "title": "Jade Jagger" }, { "id": "419663", "text": "worldwide and have held over 48 tours of varying length, including three of the highest-grossing tours of all time: \"Bridges to Babylon\" Tour, \"Voodoo Lounge\" Tour, and \"A Bigger Bang\" Tour. In May 2013, \"Rolling Stone\" magazine declared them the \"most definitional band that rock & roll has produced\". \"The Telegraph\" called Mick Jagger \"the Rolling Stone who changed music\". The band has been the subject of numerous documentaries and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Pete Townshend in 1989. The Rolling Stones have inspired and mentored new generations of musical artists both as a", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "6644687", "text": "Chuck Leavell Charles Alfred Leavell (born April 28, 1952) is an American musician. A member of The Allman Brothers Band throughout their commercial zenith in the 1970s, he subsequently became a founding member of the jazz rock ensemble Sea Level. He has served as the principal touring keyboardist and \"de facto\" musical director of The Rolling Stones since 1982. As a session musician, Leavell has performed on every Rolling Stones studio album released during his tenure with the exception of \"Bridges to Babylon\" (1997). He has also toured and recorded with Eric Clapton, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Gov't Mule and", "title": "Chuck Leavell" }, { "id": "20255607", "text": "are The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Little Richard, Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. In 2011, \"Rolling Stone\" published a revised edition of the list, with changes from 27th position onwards. The updated list features artists not present in the original (including Queen, Metallica, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, R.E.M., Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Jay-Z), removing a number of other artists (including Etta James, Miles Davis, Roxy Music, N.W.A., and Martha & The Vandellas). The list consists primarily of American or British artists, with following exceptions: AC/DC (Australia), The Band (Canada/US), Bob Marley (Jamaica), Joni Mitchell", "title": "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" }, { "id": "419554", "text": "Club in London. Shortly afterwards, the band went on their first tour of the UK, which they called a \"training ground\" tour, because it was a new experience for all of them. Their material included the Chicago blues as well as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley songs. The band's original rhythm section did not include bassist Bill Wyman, who joined in December 1962, or drummer Charlie Watts, who joined in January 1963. By 1963 they were finding their musical stride as well as popularity. In 1964 two unscientific opinion polls rated the band as Britain's most popular group, outranking even", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419650", "text": "with 13 shows set to run from April to June. The Rolling Stones have assimilated various musical genres into their own collective sound. Throughout the band's career, their musical contributions have been marked by a continual reference and reliance on musical styles including blues, psychedelia, R&B, country, folk, reggae, dance, and world music, exemplified by Jones' collaboration with the Master Musicians of Jajouka, as well as traditional English styles that use stringed instruments like harps. Brian Jones experimented with the use of non-traditional instruments such as the sitar and slide guitar in their early days. The group started out covering", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "4381736", "text": "Dick Taylor Richard Clifford Taylor (born 28 January 1943) is an English musician, best known as the guitarist and founding member of the Pretty Things. Taylor was an early bassist for the Rolling Stones, but left the band to resume his studies at Sidcup Art College. While there he formed the Pretty Things in September 1963. He now lives on the Isle of Wight, England. Taylor was born in Livingstone Hospital, Dartford, and attended Dartford Grammar School. In July 1962, while he was at Sidcup Art College, the Rolling Stones was formed when Taylor, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' three-piece", "title": "Dick Taylor" }, { "id": "419586", "text": "Watts and himself at Jones' house, Jones admitted that he was unable to \"go on the road again\", and left the band saying, \"I've left, and if I want to I can come back.\" On 3 July 1969, less than a month later, Jones drowned under mysterious circumstances in the swimming pool at his home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex. Several guitarists were auditioned as a replacement for Jones including Paul Kossoff before settling on Mick Taylor following a recommendation from John Mayall to Jagger. The Rolling Stones were scheduled to play at a free concert for Blackhill Enterprises", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419551", "text": "railway station. The Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records Jagger was carrying revealed a shared interest. A musical partnership began shortly afterwards. Richards and Taylor often met Jagger at his house. The meetings moved to Taylor's house in late 1961 where Alan Etherington and Bob Beckwith joined the trio; the quintet called themselves the Blues Boys. In March 1962, the Blues Boys read about the Ealing Jazz Club in \"Jazz News\" newspaper, which mentioned Alexis Korner's rhythm and blues band, Blues Incorporated. The group sent a tape of their best recordings to Korner, who was favourably impressed. On 7 April,", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419657", "text": "Jagger/Richards as the Stones' songwriters, the band members occasionally were given collective credit under the pseudonym Nanker Phelge. Some songs attributed to Nanker Phelge have been re-attributed to Jagger/Richards. Beginning with Jones and continuing with Wood, the Rolling Stones have developed what Richards refers to as the \"ancient art of weaving\" responsible for part of their sound – the interplay between two guitarists on stage. Unlike most bands, the Stones follow Richards' lead rather than the drummer's (Watts). Likewise, Watts is primarily a jazz player who was able to bring that genre's influences to the style of the band's drumming.", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "225860", "text": "Kentucky. The R&B group Midnight Star and Hip-Hop group Nappy Roots were both formed in Kentucky, as were country acts The Kentucky Headhunters, Montgomery Gentry and Halfway to Hazard, The Judds, as well as Dove Award-winning Christian groups Audio Adrenaline (rock) and Bride (metal). Heavy Rock band Black Stone Cherry hails from rural Edmonton, Indie rock band My Morning Jacket with lead singer and guitarist Jim James also originated out of Louisville, on the local independent music Scene. Rock bands Cage the Elephant, Sleeper Agent, and Morning Teleportation are also from Bowling Green. The bluegrass groups Driftwood and Kentucky Rain,", "title": "Kentucky" }, { "id": "419549", "text": "in rhythm-and-blues and soul music\", while \"more ephemeral pop fashions have come and gone\". The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. \"Rolling Stone\" magazine ranked them fourth on the \"100 Greatest Artists of All Time\" list and their estimated record sales are above 250 million. They have released 30 studio albums, 23 live albums and numerous compilations. \"Let It Bleed\" (1969) marked the first of five consecutive No. 1 studio and live albums in the UK. \"Sticky Fingers\" (1971) was the first of", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "8445157", "text": "reference point is the Otis Redding-ballad \"I've Been Loving You Too Long\", a song that the Stones themselves had recorded in 1965 and very similar in style and buildup. Recorded during the months of March through May 1970, the song features Mick Jagger on lead vocals, Keith Richards on harmony vocals, Mick Taylor and Richards on guitars, Bill Wyman on bass, Charlie Watts on drums, and Billy Preston on Hammond organ. Stones' recording veterans Bobby Keys and Jim Price performed on the saxophone and trumpet, respectively. I Got the Blues \"I Got the Blues\" is a song from the Rolling", "title": "I Got the Blues" }, { "id": "10703738", "text": "All Down the Line \"All Down the Line\" is a song by rock band the Rolling Stones, which is included on their 1972 album \"Exile on Main St.\". Although at one point slated to be the lead single from the album, it was ultimately released as a single as the B-side of \"Happy.\" Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, \"All Down the Line\" is a straight-ahead electric rock song which opens side four of \"Exile on Main St.\". An acoustic version of the song was recorded in 1969 during the early sessions of what would become \"Sticky Fingers\". Recording", "title": "All Down the Line" }, { "id": "419666", "text": "member, Meredith Hunter to death. Albert and David Maysles documented part of the tour and the Altamont concert in their film \"Gimme Shelter\". From small clubs and hotels in London with little room for Jagger to move around to selling out stadiums worldwide, Rolling Stones tours have changed significantly over the decades. The Stones' early setups were simple compared to what they became later in the band's career when elaborate stage designs, pyrotechnics and giant screens were used. By the time the Stones toured America in 1969, they began to fill large halls and arenas, such as The Forum in", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "9877974", "text": "Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones is a concert movie featuring the British rock band The Rolling Stones that was first released in 1974. Directed by Rollin Binzer and produced by Binzer and Marshall Chess, it was filmed in 16mm by Bob Freeze and Steve Gebhardt of Butterfly Films during four shows in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Tarrant County Convention Center and Houston, Texas, at the Hofheinz Pavilion, from the band's 1972 North American Tour in support of their classic 1972 album \"Exile on Main St.\" The film was blown up to 35", "title": "Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "257384", "text": "has sold 28 million records in the United States. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006. In January 2018, Lynyrd Skynyrd announced their farewell tour. In Jacksonville, Florida during the summer of 1964, Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, and Gary Rossington became acquainted while playing on rival baseball teams and decided to jam together one afternoon after Burns was injured by a ball hit by Van Zant. The trio set up their equipment in the carport of Burns' parents' house and played The Rolling Stones' then-current hit \"Time Is on My Side\".", "title": "Lynyrd Skynyrd" }, { "id": "16080818", "text": "Chris Jagger Chris Jagger (born 19 December 1947 in Dartford, Kent) is an English musician. He is the younger brother of the Rolling Stones' frontman, Mick Jagger. Jagger was born into a middle-class family in Dartford, Kent. His father, Basil Fanshawe \"Joe\" Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and grandfather, David Ernest Jagger, were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, of English descent, was a hairdresser. After studying dramatic art, Jagger has worked in many fields, including theatre, cinema, clothes design, and", "title": "Chris Jagger" }, { "id": "419645", "text": "a live album recorded at the two Hyde Park gigs on 6 and 13 July, was released exclusively as a digital download through iTunes later that month. It peaked at No. 16 in the UK and No. 19 in the US. A live DVD, \"\", was released on 11 November. In February 2014, the band embarked on their 14 On Fire tour spanning the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Europe, scheduled to last through to the summer. On 17 March, Jagger's long-time partner L'Wren Scott died suddenly, resulting in the cancellation and rescheduling of the opening tour dates to October.", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "4927525", "text": "Oldham and Eric Easton. The album was originally released by Decca Records in the UK, while the US version appeared on the London Records label. The majority of the tracks reflect the band's love for R&B. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (whose professional name until 1978 omitted the \"s\" in his surname) were fledgling songwriters during early 1964, contributing only one original composition to the album: \"Tell Me (You're Coming Back)\". Two songs are credited to \"Nanker Phelge\" – a pseudonym the band used for group compositions from 1963 to 1965. Phil Spector and Gene Pitney both contributed to the", "title": "The Rolling Stones (album)" }, { "id": "737381", "text": "he contributed to American music\". A Mississippi Blues Trail marker has been placed in Clarksdale, Mississippi, by the Mississippi Blues Commission designating the site of Muddy Waters' cabin. In June 2017, a massive mural in downtown Chicago was dedicated to him. The Rolling Stones named themselves after his 1950 song \"Rollin' Stone\" (also known as \"Catfish Blues\", which was covered by Jimi Hendrix). \"Rolling Stone\" magazine took its name from the same song. Hendrix recalled that \"the first guitar player I was aware of was Muddy Waters. I first heard him as a little boy and it scared me to", "title": "Muddy Waters" }, { "id": "676733", "text": "he later ran into a \"loosely knit version\" of Blues Incorporated. Jagger and Richards began to jam with the group, where Jagger eventually became a featured singer. This resulted in him, Richards, and Jones beginning to practice on their own, which eventually laid the foundation of the Rolling Stones. In their earliest days, the Rolling Stones played for no money in the interval of Alexis Korner's gigs at a basement club opposite Ealing Broadway tube station (subsequently called \"Ferry's\" club). At the time, the group had very little equipment and needed to borrow Korner's gear to play. The group's first", "title": "Mick Jagger" }, { "id": "342999", "text": "band. The first 10 issues featured, in order of appearance, the following: Rolling Stone Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the magazine's publisher, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first known for its musical coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors, and popular music. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content. Rolling", "title": "Rolling Stone" }, { "id": "419595", "text": "members and their entourage. Using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, they held recording sessions in the basement. They completed the new tracks, along with material dating as far back as 1969, at Sunset Studios in Los Angeles. The resulting double album, \"Exile on Main St.\", was released in May 1972, and reached number one in both the US and the UK. Given an A+ grade by critic Robert Christgau and disparaged by Lester Bangs—who reversed his opinion within months—\"Exile\" is now accepted as one of the Stones' best albums. The films \"Cocksucker Blues\" (never officially released) and \"\" (released in", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419563", "text": "the appeal to teenage audiences. Jagger and Richards decided to write songs together. Oldham described the first batch as \"soppy and imitative\". Because the band's songwriting developed slowly, songs on their first album \"The Rolling Stones\" (1964; issued in the US as \"England's Newest Hit Makers\"), were primarily covers, with only one Jagger/Richards original—\"Tell Me (You're Coming Back)\"—and two numbers credited to Nanker Phelge, the pen name used for songs written by the entire group. The Rolling Stones' first US tour in June 1964 was \"a disaster\" according to Wyman. When we arrived, we didn't have a hit record [there]", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "2669677", "text": "Mick Taylor Michael Kevin Taylor (born 17 January 1949) is an English musician, best known as a former member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (1966–69) and the Rolling Stones (1969–74). He has appeared on some of the Stones' classic albums including \"Let It Bleed\", \"Sticky Fingers\" and \"Exile on Main St.\". Since leaving the Rolling Stones in December 1974, Taylor has worked with numerous other artists and released several solo albums. From November 2012 onwards he participated in the Stones' 50th-Anniversary shows in London and Newark, and in the band's 50 & Counting World Tour, which included North America, Glastonbury Festival", "title": "Mick Taylor" }, { "id": "12136088", "text": "The biggest concert the band gave was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the \"Bigger Bang Tour\", in 2006. In bold, the tours which, when completed became the highest-grossing of all time. Works cited The Rolling Stones concerts Since forming in 1962, the English rock band The Rolling Stones have performed more than two thousand concerts around the world, becoming one of the world's most popular live music attractions in the process. In their early years of performing, the band would undertake numerous short tours of the United Kingdom and North America, playing in small- and medium-size venues to audiences", "title": "The Rolling Stones concerts" }, { "id": "1377970", "text": "the sound he wants. Below is a list of the officially released Rolling Stones tracks on which Richards sings lead vocals or shares lead-vocal duties: Keith Richards Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943), sometimes credited as Keith Richard, is an English musician and songwriter, best known as a guitarist and founder member of the Rolling Stones. \"Rolling Stone\" magazine called Richards the creator of \"rock's greatest single body of riffs\" on guitar and ranked him fourth on its list of 100 best guitarists in 2011, and the magazine lists fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist", "title": "Keith Richards" }, { "id": "419555", "text": "the Beatles. The band's name was changed shortly after their first gig to \"The Rolling Stones\". The group's then acting manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, secured a Sunday afternoon residency at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, London, in February 1963. He claimed this triggered an \"international renaissance for the blues\". In May 1963, The Rolling Stones signed Andrew Loog Oldham as their manager. His previous clients, the Beatles directed the former publicist to the band. Because Oldham was only nineteen and had not reached the age of majority—he was also younger than anyone in the band—he could not obtain an agent's licence", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "8314752", "text": "Connection (The Rolling Stones song) \"Connection\" is a song by British rock and roll band The Rolling Stones, featured on their 1967 album \"Between the Buttons\". It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (but mostly Richards), features vocals by both of them and is said to be about the long hours the band spent in airports. The lyrics contain much rhyming based on the word \"connection\". The lyrics also reflect very heavily the pressures the band was under by 1967: The song was written before Jagger, Richards and fellow Rolling Stone Brian Jones were arrested by the police", "title": "Connection (The Rolling Stones song)" }, { "id": "17704714", "text": "French restaurant which is listed in The Good Food Guide and is Michelin-listed. There is a pub in Sutton High Street called the Winning Post, at the time known as the Red Lion, in which The Rolling Stones played several gigs and where they were spotted in 1963 by Giorgio Gomelsky, a noted music manager, who was in the audience during a historic early gig there. It was also at the Winning Post that, on 23 January 1963, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman became permanent members of the band. In 2011, the Winning Post was added to a list of", "title": "Sutton High Street" }, { "id": "470520", "text": "Band\", and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Seven of the group's albums appeared on \"Rolling Stone\"s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, more than any act except the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. The Who The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964. Their classic line-up consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide and holding a reputation", "title": "The Who" }, { "id": "419648", "text": "The album consisted of 12 blues covers of artists like Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed and Little Walter. Recording took place in British Grove Studios, London, in December 2015, and featured Eric Clapton on two tracks. The album reached No. 1 in the UK, the second-highest opening sales week for an album that year. It also debuted at No. 4 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In July 2017, the \"Toronto Sun\" reported the Stones were getting ready to record their first album of original material in more than a decade. The album \"On Air\", a collection of 18 recordings the band performed", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "28252", "text": "Alexis Korner Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner (19 April 1928 – 1 January 1984), known professionally as Alexis Korner, was a British blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as \"a founding father of British blues\". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in the formation of several notable British bands including The Rolling Stones and Free. Koerner was born in Paris, to an Austrian Jewish father and a Greek mother. He spent his childhood in France, Switzerland and North Africa and arrived in London in 1940", "title": "Alexis Korner" }, { "id": "4074813", "text": "us for all the years that you hoe'd us.\" In October 2002, member Money Ray died. In 2008, \"At the Dixie\" from Wild Style was ranked at number 77 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. The Cold Crush Brothers The Cold Crush Brothers are an American hip hop group that formed in 1978 in the Bronx, New York City, New York. They were especially known for their memorable routines which included harmonies, melodies and stage-stomping performances. The Cold Crush Brothers set the standard for emceeing and became known as \"the Rolling Stones of hip hop\". The Cold Crush", "title": "The Cold Crush Brothers" }, { "id": "20095121", "text": "The Rolling Stones Museum The Rolling Stones Museum is a museum in Portorož in Slovenia. It is dedicated to the British rock band The Rolling Stones. The music television programme \"VH1\" proclaimed it in 2013 one of the \"10 Truly Insane Music Museums + Shrines\". The origin of the collection goes back to 1964 when Slavko Franca (born 1949 ) bought his first LP of the band. It was the start of the largely extended collection of memorabilia that can be seen in the museum today. His profession as ship chief engineer, enabled him to collect items from all over", "title": "The Rolling Stones Museum" }, { "id": "2248804", "text": "Bill Wyman Bill Wyman (born William George Perks Jr., 24 October 1936) is an English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer. He was the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993. Since 1997 he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. He has worked producing records and films, and has scored music for film in movies and television. Wyman has kept a journal since he was a child after World War II. As an author, he has written seven books. Wyman is also a photographer, and", "title": "Bill Wyman" }, { "id": "20095122", "text": "the world. He started his museum at his home in Portorož, a coastal village in the Slovenian part of Istria. Franca is a fan since the band began. Even one of his cats is called \"Paint It Black\", after the song with the same name (1966) of the Rolling Stones. He has travelled to around fifty concerts worldwide to see shows of them. The first one was in Milan in Italy. The band, which has given more than 1,700 concerts in 40 countries, has never played in Slovenia. The 50th anniversary in London, since the first concert of the Stones", "title": "The Rolling Stones Museum" }, { "id": "419590", "text": "Johnson's \"Love in Vain\". Jones and Taylor are both featured on the album. Just after the US tour ended, the band performed at the Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont Speedway, about east of San Francisco. The Hells Angels biker gang provided security. A fan, Meredith Hunter, was stabbed and beaten to death by the Angels after they realised he was armed. Part of the tour, and the Altamont concert, was documented in Albert and David Maysles' film \"Gimme Shelter\". In response to the growing popularity of bootleg recordings (in particular \"Live'r Than You'll Ever Be\", recorded during the 1969", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419654", "text": "the ballad originally written for Marianne Faithfull, was one of the first songs written by Jagger and Richards and one of many written by the duo for other artists. Jagger said of the song, \"It's a relatively mature song considering the rest of the output at the time. And we didn't think of [recording] it, because the Rolling Stones were a butch blues group.\" The Rolling Stones did later record a version which became a top five hit in the US. Of their early writing experience, Richards said, The amazing thing is that although Mick and I thought these songs", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419562", "text": "was written and given to the Stones when John Lennon and Paul McCartney visited them in the studio as the two Beatles liked giving the copyrights to songs away to their friends. It reached No. 12 on the UK charts. The Beatles 1963 album, \"With the Beatles\", includes their version of the song. The third single by the Stones, Buddy Holly's \"Not Fade Away\", reflecting Bo Diddley's style, was released in February 1964 and reached No. 3. Oldham saw little future for an act that lost significant songwriting royalties by playing songs of what he described as \"middle-aged blacks\", limiting", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "4074800", "text": "The Cold Crush Brothers The Cold Crush Brothers are an American hip hop group that formed in 1978 in the Bronx, New York City, New York. They were especially known for their memorable routines which included harmonies, melodies and stage-stomping performances. The Cold Crush Brothers set the standard for emceeing and became known as \"the Rolling Stones of hip hop\". The Cold Crush Brothers still perform across the United States. The Cold Crush brothers formed as a group in 1978. DJ Tony Tone was originally a member of The Brothers Disco featuring DJ Breakout, DJ Baron and the original Funky", "title": "The Cold Crush Brothers" }, { "id": "419628", "text": "band took part in The Concert for New York City, performing \"Salt of the Earth\" and \"Miss You\". In 2002, the Stones released \"Forty Licks\", a greatest hits double album, to mark forty years as a band. The collection contained four new songs recorded with the core band of Jagger, Richards, Watts, Wood, Leavell and Jones. The album has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. It reached No. 2 in both the US and UK. The same year, \"Q\" magazine named the Rolling Stones one of the 50 Bands To See Before You Die, and the 2002–2003 Licks Tour", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419660", "text": "and became more present in decision making, Jagger was not used to it and did not like his authority diminished. This led to the period Richards has referred to as \"World War III\". Musical collaboration between members of the band and supporting musicians was key, due to the fluid lineups typically experienced by the band in the studio, as tracks tended to be recorded \"by whatever members of the group happened to be around at the time of the sessions.\" Over time, Jagger has developed into the template for rock frontmen and, with the help of the Stones, has, in", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419603", "text": "American session players Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel also tried out, but Richards and Jagger preferred for the band to remain purely British. When Ronnie Wood auditioned, everyone agreed he was the right choice. He had already recorded and played live with Richards, and had contributed to the recording and writing of the track \"It's Only Rock 'n Roll\". He had declined Jagger's earlier offer to join the Stones, because of his commitment to the Faces, saying \"that's what's really important to me\". Faces' lead singer Rod Stewart went so far as to say he would take bets that Wood", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "12949108", "text": "the Rolling Stones. The foundation of the Valentinos started in church where the five Womack brothers – Friendly, Jr. (born 1941), Curtis (1942–2017), Bobby (1944–2014), Harry (1945–1974) and Cecil (1947–2013) – performed at their father Friendly's church located from the East 85th & Quincy area of Cleveland. The group started out around 1952 when eight-year-old Bobby Womack played guitar for his father after he had broken a string. Following this, he discovered that all five of his sons could sing, forming the Womack Brothers. Attracting a gospel following, in 1954, the group, under the name Curtis Womack and the Womack", "title": "The Valentinos" }, { "id": "1413801", "text": "the Lincoln Cemetery, in Worth, Illinois. Reed was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. The Rolling Stones have cited Reed as a major influence on their sound, and their early set lists included Reed's songs \"Ain't That Lovin' You Baby\", \"The Sun Is Shining\" (played by the Stones at the 1969 Altamont concert), \"Bright Lights, Big City\", and \"Shame, Shame, Shame\". \"Little by Little\", the B-side of their February 1964 UK hit single \"Not Fade Away\" was a pastiche of \"Shame, Shame, Shame\". \"Honest I Do\"", "title": "Jimmy Reed" }, { "id": "2248808", "text": "taking the surname of a friend with whom he had done national service in the Royal Air Force from 1955 to 1957. He legally changed his surname to Wyman in August 1964. When drummer Tony Chapman told him that a rhythm and blues band called the Rolling Stones needed a bass player, he auditioned and was hired on 7 December 1962 as a successor to Dick Taylor. The band was impressed by his instrument and amplifiers (one of which Wyman modified himself). Wyman was the oldest member of the group. In addition to playing bass, Wyman frequently provided backing vocals", "title": "Bill Wyman" }, { "id": "676726", "text": "Mick Jagger Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones. Jagger's career has spanned over five decades, and he has been described as \"one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll\". His distinctive voice and performances, along with Keith Richards' guitar style have been the trademark of the Rolling Stones throughout the band's career. Jagger gained press notoriety for his admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was", "title": "Mick Jagger" }, { "id": "10412661", "text": "\"Billboard\" 200 album chart. It also appears on several Cooke compilation albums, including \"\", which was released in 2003. Chess Records Chicago artists, including Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, influenced the Rolling Stones, with the band taking their name from a Muddy Waters tune and playing from a repertoire of blues songs at the beginning of their career. In 1962, before they had recorded as a group, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, and Keith Richards, attended the first American Folk Blues Festival, whose performers included Howlin' Wolf. Willie Dixon, another Festival player, later recalled \"When the Rolling Stones came to Chess", "title": "Little Red Rooster" }, { "id": "18075131", "text": "Prince Rupert Loewenstein Rupert Louis Ferdinand Frederick Constantine Lofredo Leopold Herbert Maximilian Hubert John Henry zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Count of Loewenstein-Scharffeneck (24 August 1933 – 20 May 2014) was a Spanish-born Bavarian aristocrat and the longtime financial manager of the rock band The Rolling Stones. His affectionate nickname was \"Rupie the Groupie\". Loewenstein was named to the International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame in 2001. A scion of the royal houses of Wittelsbach and Löwenstein-Wertheim, Loewenstein was born in Palma, Majorca, Spain, the son of Prince Felicien \"Leopold\" Friedrich Ludwig Hubertus zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg (1903–1974) and his wife, \"Bianca\" Henrietta Maria Fischler, Countess", "title": "Prince Rupert Loewenstein" }, { "id": "8406466", "text": "Dandelion (song) \"Dandelion\" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and first released as a B-side to \"We Love You\" in August 1967. With lyrical references to British counting or nursery rhymes, it reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart and number 14 on the US \"Billboard\" 100 singles chart. The first demo version of “Dandelion” was recorded in November 1966. Originally titled “Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Blue”, it had different lyrics and was sung and played by Keith Richards. On the released version, Mick Jagger sings the lead", "title": "Dandelion (song)" }, { "id": "419649", "text": "on the BBC between 1963 and 1965, was released in December 2017. The compilation featured eight songs the band had never recorded or released commercially. In May 2017, a new tour across Europe was announced, called the No Filter Tour, with fourteen shows in twelve different venues across Europe in September and October of the same year. It was later extended throughout July 2018, adding fourteen new dates across the UK and Europe, making it the band's first UK tour since 2006. In November 2018, the Stones announced plans to bring the No Filter Tour to U.S. stadiums in 2019,", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "5948595", "text": "Jimi Hendrix, Queens of the Stone Age, Bon Jovi, Teenage Head, Shakin' Natives, Etta Royal and Congress Court. On March 4, 1977, looking for an unprepossessing venue to record in, The Rolling Stones played the first of two performances at the club, billing themselves pseudonymously as \"The Cockroaches\". It was their first live club date in 14 years. Their opening act was Canadian rockers April Wine of Montreal. The Stones show was recorded and released as one side (Side 3) of the double album \"Love You Live\", which reached #3 in the UK, #5 in the US. April Wine took", "title": "El Mocambo" }, { "id": "8526686", "text": "to quit his day job, it did not appear in the record charts. In 1951, he used the guitar figure from \"Rollin' Stone\" for \"Still a Fool\". The song was more successful, reaching number nine in the Billboard R&B chart. Rather than a solo piece, Little Walter (second guitar) and Leonard Chess (bass drum) accompanied Muddy (vocal and guitar). Subsequent versions of \"Rollin' Stone\" or \"Catfish Blues\" often use some lyrics from \"Still a Fool\" (sometimes called \"Two Trains Running\" after the opening verse). English blues rock group the Rolling Stones and the music magazine \"Rolling Stone\" took their names", "title": "Rollin' Stone" }, { "id": "855785", "text": "concert to him appears in Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's \"\" in its second issue, \"Paint it Black\". His exceptional musicianship as well as contribution to the band is featured heavily in the documentary \"Crossfire Hurricane\". With the Rolling Stones With the Beatles With Jimi Hendrix With Peter and Gordon With McGough and McGear With Marianne Faithfull With The Andrew Oldham Orchestra With Hapshash and the Coloured Coat Solo discography Brian Jones Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician, best known as the founder and the original leader of the Rolling Stones.", "title": "Brian Jones" }, { "id": "4925363", "text": "Gary Rossington Gary Robert Rossington (born December 4, 1951) is an American musician best known as a founder of southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, in which he is the sole constant member. He plays lead and rhythm guitar. He was a founding member of the Rossington Collins Band along with former bandmate, Allen Collins. Rossington's mother recalled that he had a strong childhood interest in baseball and aspired as a child to one day play for the New York Yankees. Rossington recalled that he was a \"good ball player\" but upon hearing The Rolling Stones in his early teens he", "title": "Gary Rossington" }, { "id": "8526682", "text": "Rollin' Stone \"Rollin' Stone\" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1950. It is his interpretation of \"Catfish Blues\", a Delta blues that dates back to 1920s Mississippi. Although the single (with \"Walkin' Blues\" as the B-side) did not appear in the national record charts, it sold about 70,000 copies. \"Still a Fool\", recorded by Muddy Waters a year later using the same arrangement and melody, reached number nine on the Billboard R&B chart. \"Rollin' Stone\" has been recorded by a variety of artists, and both \"Rolling Stone\" magazine and the rock group the Rolling Stones are named", "title": "Rollin' Stone" }, { "id": "419547", "text": "is generally considered to be the band's best work and is seen as their \"Golden Age.\" It was during this period they were first introduced on stage as \"The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World.\" The band continued to release commercially successful albums through the 1970s and early 1980s, including \"Some Girls\" (1978) and \"Tattoo You\" (1981), the two best-sellers in their discography. From 1983 to 1987 tensions between Jagger and Richards almost caused the band to split; however, they overcame their differences and rekindled their friendship after a temporary separation to work on solo projects. The Stones", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "6644706", "text": "which he discusses sustainability and conservation issues, and \"In The Green Room,\" a series in which he interviews fellow celebrities about the environment and their philanthropic work. Chuck Leavell Charles Alfred Leavell (born April 28, 1952) is an American musician. A member of The Allman Brothers Band throughout their commercial zenith in the 1970s, he subsequently became a founding member of the jazz rock ensemble Sea Level. He has served as the principal touring keyboardist and \"de facto\" musical director of The Rolling Stones since 1982. As a session musician, Leavell has performed on every Rolling Stones studio album released", "title": "Chuck Leavell" }, { "id": "20969702", "text": "Stone Country: Country Artists Perform the Songs of the Rolling Stones Stone Country: Country Artists Perform the Songs of the Rolling Stones is a 1997 tribute album to the English rock band The Rolling Stones. It was released in September 1997 via Beyond Music. The album includes eleven different country music artists performing renditions of the band's songs. The Tractors' rendition of \"The Last Time\" was the project's first single release. It charted at number 75 on Hot Country Songs dated for the week ending October 4, 1997. The project took nearly 18 months to complete. Jon Johnson of \"Country", "title": "Stone Country: Country Artists Perform the Songs of the Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "14636570", "text": "the basement of the house. The Rolling Stones song, \"It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It),\" also released in 1974, was written at the house, emerging out of a jam between Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, David Bowie, and Mick Jagger. Pete Townshend bought the house from Wood in 1996. Writer and musician Nikki Sudden was working on a history of The Wick before he died suddenly in 2006. The Wick The Wick is a house in Richmond, Greater London, located at the corner of Nightingale Lane and Richmond Hill in Surrey. The house was at one time owned", "title": "The Wick" }, { "id": "2177491", "text": "Ian Stewart (musician) Ian Andrew Robert Stewart (18 July 1938 – 12 December 1985) was a Scottish keyboardist and co-founder of the Rolling Stones. He was removed from the line-up in May 1963 at the request of manager Andrew Loog Oldham who felt he did not fit the band's image. He remained as road manager and pianist and was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the rest of the band in 1989. Ian Andrew Robert Stewart was born at Kirklatch Farm, Pittenweem, East Neuk, Fife, Scotland, and raised in Sutton, Surrey. Stewart (often called", "title": "Ian Stewart (musician)" }, { "id": "4091991", "text": "Rolling Stones Records Rolling Stones Records was the record label formed by the Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman in 1970, after their recording contract with Decca Records expired. The label was initially headed by Marshall Chess, the son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. It was first distributed in the United States by Atlantic Records subsidiary Atco Records. Beginning in 1973 it signed a distribution deal with Atlantic Records for the United States until 1984. In the UK, it was distributed by WEA Records from 1971 to 1977 and by EMI", "title": "Rolling Stones Records" }, { "id": "7466796", "text": "Sweet Black Angel “Sweet Black Angel” (sometimes known as “Black Angel”) is a song by the Rolling Stones, included on their 1972 album \"Exile on Main St.\" It was also released on a single as the B-side to \"Tumbling Dice\" prior to the album. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “Sweet Black Angel” is one of the few outright political songs written by the Rolling Stones. A country-blues ballad, it is about civil rights activist Angela Davis, who was facing murder charges at the time. Steve Kurutz writes in his review: Davis is not mentioned by name in the", "title": "Sweet Black Angel" }, { "id": "419651", "text": "early rock 'n' roll and blues songs, and have never stopped playing live or recording cover songs. Jagger and Richards had a shared admiration of Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, and Howlin' Wolf. Little Walter influenced Brian Jones. Richards recalls, \"He was more into T-Bone Walker and jazz blues stuff. We'd turn him onto Chuck Berry and say, 'Look, it's all the same shit, man, and you can do it.'\" Charlie Watts, a traditional jazz drummer, was also introduced to the blues through his association with the pair. \"Keith and Brian turned me on to Jimmy Reed and people like that.", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "427080", "text": "music videos to YouTube and other online sources since reuniting. Current members Former members American Music Awards Grammy Awards MTV Europe Music Awards MTV Video Music Awards Studio albums The Smashing Pumpkins The Smashing Pumpkins (or Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois. Formed in 1988 by frontman Billy Corgan (lead vocals, guitar), D'arcy Wretzky (bass guitar), James Iha (guitar), and Jimmy Chamberlin (drums), the band has undergone many line-up changes. The current lineup features Corgan, Chamberlin, Iha and guitarist Jeff Schroeder. Disavowing the punk rock roots of many of their alt-rock contemporaries, they have a", "title": "The Smashing Pumpkins" }, { "id": "419548", "text": "experienced a comeback with \"Steel Wheels\" (1989), promoted by a large stadium and arena tour. Since the 1990s, the group has lost much of their mainstream relevancy and new material has been less frequent. Despite this, the Rolling Stones continue to be a huge attraction on the live circuit. By 2007, the band had four of the top five highest-grossing concert tours of all time: Voodoo Lounge Tour (1994–1995), Bridges to Babylon Tour (1997–1998), Licks Tour (2002–2003) and A Bigger Bang Tour (2005–2007). Musicologist Robert Palmer attributes the endurance of the Rolling Stones to their being \"rooted in traditional verities,", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "4395096", "text": "The Rolling Stones, Now! The Rolling Stones, Now! is the third American studio album by the Rolling Stones, released in February 1965 by their initial American distributor, London Records. Although it contains two previously unissued tunes and an alternative version, the album mostly consists of songs released earlier in the United Kingdom, plus the group's recent single in the United States, \"Heart of Stone\" backed with \"What a Shame\". Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote four of the songs on the album (including the US single), with the balance composed by American rhythm and blues and rock and roll artists.", "title": "The Rolling Stones, Now!" }, { "id": "1377916", "text": "song, as the Stones are generally known for their guitar interplay of rhythm and lead (\"weaving\") between Richards and the other guitarist in the band – Brian Jones (1962–1969), Mick Taylor (1969–1975), and Ronnie Wood (1975–present). In the recording studio Richards sometimes plays all of the guitar parts, notably on the songs \"Paint It Black\", \"Ruby Tuesday\", \"Sympathy for the Devil\", and \"Gimme Shelter\". He is also a vocalist, singing backing vocals on many Rolling Stones songs as well as occasional lead vocals, such as on the Rolling Stones' 1972 single \"Happy\", as well as with his side project, the", "title": "Keith Richards" }, { "id": "419634", "text": "two of the 21 shows scheduled for July–September 2006. The Stones returned to North America for concerts in September 2006, and returned to Europe on 5 June 2007. By November 2006, the Bigger Bang tour had been declared the highest-grossing tour of all time. Martin Scorsese filmed the Stones performances at New York City's Beacon Theatre on 29 October and 1 November 2006 for the documentary film, \"Shine a Light\", released in 2008. The film features guest appearances by Buddy Guy, Jack White, and Christina Aguilera. An accompanying soundtrack, also titled \"Shine a Light\", was released in April 2008 and", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419594", "text": "with the line \"the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside, making our music there\". Following the release of \"Sticky Fingers\", the Rolling Stones left England after receiving advice from their financial manager Prince Rupert Loewenstein. He recommended they go into tax exile before the start of the next financial year. The band had learned, despite being assured that their taxes were taken care of, they had not been paid for seven years and the UK government was owed a relative fortune. The Stones moved to the South of France, where Richards rented the Villa Nellcôte and sublet rooms to band", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "419621", "text": "released in 1991. The tour was Bill Wyman's last. After years of deliberation he decided to leave the band, although his retirement was not made official until January 1993. He then published \"Stone Alone\", an autobiography based on scrapbooks and diaries he had kept since the band's early days. A few years later he formed Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings and began recording and touring again. After the successes of the Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle tours, the band took a break. Watts released two jazz albums; Wood recorded his fifth solo album, the first in 11 years, called \"Slide On This\"; Wyman", "title": "The Rolling Stones" }, { "id": "8407968", "text": "Hurts\", twisting the song's impact with female vocals provided by Sally Timms. The Allman Brothers Band covered the song on their 2003 album \"Hittin' the Note\", their first release with slide guitar player Derek Trucks. The Texas, USA band The Outcasts covered the song in 1965. Sonic's Rendezvous Band has also played the song. Heart of Stone (The Rolling Stones song) \"Heart of Stone\" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones, released as a single in 1964 in the United States, and on an extended-play single in Europe (pictured). It was not released in the United", "title": "Heart of Stone (The Rolling Stones song)" } ]

[ "The Shadowboxers", "Francesco Yates", "TBA" ]

[ { "id": "17763720", "text": "caught his attention and Timberlake posted a tweet about the video. The trio met with Timberlake a couple of weeks later during his 20/20 Tour and he offered to mentor them and help them shape their sound. Later, he signed them to his artist development label, Villa 40, and in June 2017, the band joined Justin Timberlake and K-Kov at a studio in New York to record new music. In 2018, The Shadowboxers were asked to join Timberlake on his Man of the Woods tour, as openers from March 13 2018 - January 29 2019. On May 5, 2016, the", "title": "The Shadowboxers" }, { "id": "20522869", "text": "The Man of the Woods Tour The Man of the Woods Tour is the ongoing sixth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake. Launched in support of his fifth studio album, \"Man of the Woods\" (2018), the tour began on March 13, 2018 in Toronto and is currently scheduled to end on April 13, 2019 in Uncasville. It was the sixth-highest grossing tour of 2018, selling over 1,175,216 tickets and grossing over $149.3 million. The tour was first announced in January 2018, and due to demand additional dates were released soon after. On February 5, 2018, the day following Timberlake's", "title": "The Man of the Woods Tour" }, { "id": "777489", "text": "it sound modern – at least that's the idea right now.\" His fifth studio album \"Man of the Woods\" was released on February 2, 2018, two days before he headlined the Super Bowl LII halftime show in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 4, where Timberlake performed a medley of his songs featuring both the Tennessee Kids and the Minnesota Marching Band alongside him, as well as a duet of \"I Would Die 4 U\" with a video projection of late singer Prince on screen. The show contained multiple selections from \"Man of the Woods,\" which is named after his son Silas,", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "20578035", "text": "Hot 100, debuting at number 56. As of April 2018, the song's peak on the list was number 11. Bazzi also released three new singles in 2018, \"Why?\", \"Gone\" and \"Honest\". He is currently working on a collaboration with Marshmello. On March 13, 2018, Bazzi was announced as the special guest on Camila Cabello's Never Be the Same Tour's North American leg. On April 17, 2018, \"Cosmic\" debuted at number 35 and later peaked at number 14 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart. Bazzi joined the Justin Timberlake's Man of the Woods Tour as the opening act for the", "title": "Bazzi (singer)" }, { "id": "777487", "text": "his eighth U.S. Mainstream Top 40 number-one song, at the moment being the most among male artists. It became the best-selling song of the year in the U.S. with 2.4 million copies sold. On February 26, 2017, Timberlake opened the 89th Academy Awards with a performance of \"Can't Stop the Feeling!\", since the song earned him a nomination. Also that year, Timberlake starred with Kate Winslet and Juno Temple in Woody Allen's drama film \"Wonder Wheel\", and headlined several festivals and live sets, including Rock in Rio, the United States Grand Prix, and the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival, which", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "20522870", "text": "Super Bowl LII halftime show, Timberlake announced European tour dates, as well as second and third North American tour dates. Timberlake will tour Europe after the first North American leg, then will tour North America again starting in the fall. The third North American leg will begin in January 2019. From November to December 2018, due to Timberlake suffering from bruised vocal cords, he was forced to postpone all remaining 2018 tour dates, now concluding the tour in April 2019. During a portion of the concert, Timberlake and his band the \"Tennessee Kids\" sing around a campfire. The \"Stage Bar\"", "title": "The Man of the Woods Tour" }, { "id": "20522879", "text": "the years.\" \"Billboard\" critics ranked \"The Man of the Woods Tour\" as one of the best live shows of 2018. The following set list is from the show on March 13, 2018, in Toronto. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour. The Man of the Woods Tour The Man of the Woods Tour is the ongoing sixth concert tour by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake. Launched in support of his fifth studio album, \"Man of the Woods\" (2018), the tour began on March 13, 2018 in Toronto and is currently scheduled to end on April", "title": "The Man of the Woods Tour" }, { "id": "17030853", "text": "in a medley with other of his songs at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards. The song is part of the set list of Timberlake's 2013/15 The 20/20 Experience World Tour. A shortened selection of \"Suit & Tie\" was included in Timberlake's Super Bowl LII halftime show performance in 2018, and featured the University of Minnesota Marching Band playing backup instrumentals. Engineering and mixing Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"The 20/20 Experience\", RCA Records. Suit & Tie \"Suit & Tie\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake from his third studio album \"The 20/20 Experience\" (2013).", "title": "Suit & Tie" }, { "id": "20436443", "text": "speculated as the opening act because her Never Be the Same Tour dates didn't coincide with Swift's tour dates; Portland's Live 95.5 also announced her in a sweepstake for the concert of June 22, 2018 at the Wembley Stadium in London through a since-deleted post on Twitter, a day before Swift confirmed her as the opening act. On May 8, 2018, Swift announced two shows in Tokyo, with Charli XCX as the opening act. In September 2018, Broods was announced as an opening act for the Oceania leg of the tour. The tour has received rave reviews, being commonly labeled", "title": "Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour" }, { "id": "777452", "text": "ten Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Brit Awards, and nine Billboard Music Awards. According to \"Billboard\" in 2017, he is the best performing male soloist in the history of the Mainstream Top 40. \"Time\" named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2007 and 2013. His other ventures include record label Tennman Records, fashion label William Rast, and the restaurants Destino and Southern Hospitality. Justin Randall Timberlake was born on January 31, 1981 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Lynn (Bomar) Harless and Charles Randall Timberlake, a Baptist church choir director. Timberlake grew up in Shelby", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "777490", "text": "whose name means \"from the forest.\" The album's first single, \"Filthy\", was released on January 5, along with its accompanying video directed by Mark Romanek. The electro-funk song has reached number 9 in the US and number 5 in Canada. The songs \"Supplies\", \"Say Something\" featuring Chris Stapleton and \"Man of the Woods\" were also released along with music videos ahead of the album. His collaboration with Stapleton also reached the top 10 in the US and Canada. An accompanying tour of the same name began in March in Toronto, Canada and is scheduled to end in January 2019, in", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "777515", "text": "2013, including \"Billboard\" 200 Artists and \"Billboard\" 200 Albums. For 2014, Timberlake was named \"Billboard\" Top Male Artist. \"Billboard\" published a list of \"Greatest of All Time Pop Songs Artists\" in 2017, where Timberlake ranked at number 5, being the top male soloist. The magazine also ranked him 25 on their \"The Top 60 Male Artists of All-Time\" list in 2018, and 64 on \"The Hot 100's Top Artists of All Time.\" Timberlake has co-owned or provided celebrity endorsement for three restaurants in the United States: \"Chi\" opened in West Hollywood, California in 2003, and \"Destino\" and \"Southern Hospitalty\" in", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "20436442", "text": "cities. Furthermore, the singer also announced extra shows in North America for Pasadena, Chicago, East Rutherford, Foxborough, Toronto, and Atlanta due to popular demand before the pre-sale began. On December 3, Swift announced five dates for Oceania. In January 2018, due to huge demand, Swift went on to add second dates in Santa Clara, Landover, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Arlington and third dates in East Rutherford and Foxborough, totalling 40 shows for the tour's North American leg. On March 1, 2018, Swift officially announced Camila Cabello and Charli XCX as the opening acts for the Reputation Stadium Tour. Cabello was previously", "title": "Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour" }, { "id": "18892967", "text": "an opening act for Canadian pop rock band Hedley on their Hello World Tour with Carly Rae Jepsen. On February 2, 2018 his single \"Come Over\", was released, alongside the announcement that Francesco was going to be the opening act on the Canadian leg of Justin Timberlake's Man Of The Woods Tour. His next song, \"Do You Think About Me\", was released on April 6. This is the first song which Francesco wrote, produced and performed entirely by himself. He released his latest single, \"Somebody Like You\", on July 20. The three songs are expected to be on his debut", "title": "Francesco Yates" }, { "id": "777512", "text": "\"Dead and Gone\", \"Suit & Tie\", \"Mirrors\", \"Holy Grail\", and \"Can't Stop the Feeling!\". According to \"Billboard\", FutureSex/LoveShow was the third highest-grossing concert tour of 2007 and highest solo. The 20/20 Experience World Tour was an international success and became Timberlake's most successful tour to date. The tour was the highest-grossing led by a solo artist in 2014, and one of the highest grossing tours of the decade. For its associated album, \"The 20/20 Experience\", Timberlake was named Artist of the Year with the top-selling album by Apple Inc.'s annual list of best-sellers. Throughout his solo career, Timberlake has sold", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "16824927", "text": "charts in Spain, Ecuador, Chile and El Salvador, while reaching number three on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart. Her success led her to collaborate with artists such as Daddy Yankee, French Montana and David Guetta, in addition to being the opening act for girl group Fifth Harmony, for the Latin American leg of their PSA Tour, with shows in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, that same year. In April 2018, she released another hit single \"Sin Pijama\" with singer Natti Natasha, which also entered the top five of the Hot Latin Songs, peaked at number one in Spain and the", "title": "Becky G" }, { "id": "3092738", "text": "the album, he commenced his first headlining tour of the UK. After completing his UK tour, Lemar was the opening act for Justin Timberlake's UK tour dates. Thus, he is considered the \"most successful graduate. On 12 November 2004 Lemar guested on \"Radio 1's\" \"Live Lounge\" and performed a cover of U2's song \"Vertigo\". He has also performed for \"Prince Charles' Prince's Trust\". In early November 2004, Lemar released his first single from the album \"Time to Grow\". \"If There's Any Justice\" reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, and has become one of Lemar's most recognised songs. \"Time", "title": "Lemar" }, { "id": "777451", "text": "for the albums, he began performing with his band The Tennessee Kids, composed by instrumentalists and dancers. Timberlake voiced the lead character in DreamWorks Animation's \"Trolls\" (2016), whose soundtrack includes his fifth \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart-topping single, \"Can't Stop the Feeling!\". His fifth studio album \"Man of the Woods\" (2018) became his fourth number one album in the US. Throughout his solo career, Timberlake has sold over 32 million albums and 56 million singles globally, making him one of the world's best-selling music artists. Often cited as a pop icon, Timberlake is the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "20518494", "text": "It also marked Timberlake's seventh number one in Digital Songs, and first since \"Can't Stop the Feeling!\" in 2016. The song has sold 431,000 downloads in the country as of June 2018. In 2018, \"Say Something\" was ranked as the 85th most popular song of the year on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. On February 5, 2018, Timberlake and Stapleton performed \"Say Something\" on the post-Super Bowl episode of \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\". On February 21, 2018, both artists performed the song at the 2018 Brit Awards. Say Something (Justin Timberlake song) \"Say Something\" is a song recorded by", "title": "Say Something (Justin Timberlake song)" }, { "id": "777467", "text": "iTunes, and beat Coldplay's record for the biggest one-week sales of a digital album. The album was produced by Timbaland and Danja (who produced a bulk of the album), will.i.am, Rick Rubin and Timberlake himself, and features guest vocals by Snoop Dogg, Three 6 Mafia, T.I. and will.i.am. A studio representative described it as being \"all about sexiness\" and aiming for \"an adult feel\". The album's lead single, \"SexyBack\", was performed by Timberlake at the opening of the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards and reached number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, where it remained for seven consecutive weeks. \"My", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "20522871", "text": "VIP Experience on the tour includes a bar near the center stage, and a drink ticket. A disco dance floor is near the stage, where Timberlake performs \"Rock Your Body\" In May 2018, \"Billboard\" reported grosses totalling $36.6 million from the first five weeks, with 255,780 attendees at 16 shows, thus reaching number one on the magazine's weekly ranking Hot Tours. The magazine expects the tour to reach a total of $275 million and 2 million attendees by the time it concludes. Timberlake’s sold-out Orlando concert on May 14 was the highest-grossing, single-day concert in Amway Center history with $2,387,112", "title": "The Man of the Woods Tour" }, { "id": "20301969", "text": "and Auckland. The tour opened to positive critical reception. Fish Griwkowsky of the \"Edmonton Journal\" called the tour Twain's best, while Matt Olsen of the \"StarPhoenix\" complimented the show saying it was \"filled with extravagance and punctuated with genuine emotion\". On April 11, 2018, Swiss singer Bastian Baker confirmed he would be the opening act for all of the tour's 77 dates. Baker previously opened for Twain on the final two dates of her 2015 Rock This Country Tour. The Shires will join Twain and Baker for the UK and Ireland dates. This set list is representative of the show", "title": "Now Tour (Shania Twain)" }, { "id": "17276000", "text": "made Timberlake the highest-grossing solo touring artist of the year. It is also Timberlake's most successful tour to date. Directed by Jonathan Demme, the concert film—titled \"Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids\"—premiered on September 13 at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. It showcases the final date of the 20/20 tour at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena. The streaming service Netflix announced its acquisition ahead of the film's debut at film festival and released it on October 12, 2016. It was the final film to be directed by Demme before his death in April 2017. Since its debut, The", "title": "The 20/20 Experience World Tour" }, { "id": "19424419", "text": "the tour saw most shows opened up by Wolfmother and/or Rose Tattoo, and Man with a Mission and Babymetal also opened shows. Leg 5 saw support from Royal Blood, The Darkness, Mark Lanegan, Phil Campbell & The Bastard Sons, The Kills, Virgin, Killing Joke, Biffy Clyro, and Backyard Babies. Michael Monroe also supported, as well as Wolfmother and Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown. Leg 6 featured Deftones, Sturgill Simpson, Live, Our Lady Peace, ZZ Top, The Kills and Royal Blood opening for the band. On Leg 7, The Who joined the band as co-headliners. The eighth leg of the tour", "title": "Not in This Lifetime... Tour" }, { "id": "20518483", "text": "Say Something (Justin Timberlake song) \"Say Something\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake featuring vocals by American singer Chris Stapleton. It was released on January 25, 2018 as the third single from his fifth studio album \"Man of the Woods\" (2018) along with its music video. The song was written and produced by Timberlake, Larrance Dopson, Floyd Nathaniel Hills, and Timbaland, with additional songwriting by Stapleton. It debuted at number 9 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, becoming Timberlake's 19th top 10 single as a solo artist and Stapleton's first. It also reached number one in Slovakia", "title": "Say Something (Justin Timberlake song)" }, { "id": "2797213", "text": "Jamelia’s baby girl was 4 weeks old, she stopped breathing. This resulted in her having to dial 999 and Jamelia having to perform mouth-to-mouth and CPR with the help of her two older children. It was caused by a reflux problem which can occur again at any time. In 2018, Jamelia blamed TV projects being \"taken away\" from her on the coverage of her stepbrother, Tafarwa Beckford, who was convicted of a gang-related murder. Jamelia has also been the opening act for artists such as Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake and Usher as well as her own sold out tour. Jamelia", "title": "Jamelia" }, { "id": "20259691", "text": "was released. Brothers Osborne, Lucie Silvas, Brent Cobb, Anderson East, Margo Price and Marty Stuart joined Stapleton as special guests playing selected dates. The 2018 dates were announced on January 29, 2018, with Cobb and Stuart set to return as special guests. Writing for \"Atlanta Journal-Constitution\", Melissa Ruggieri reviewed the opening night, considering Stapleton generated \"pure country warmth,\" and adding that his performances of \"Fire Away\" and \"Traveller\" demonstrated \"both his versatility and commitment to authentic and unpretentious country.\" Chuck Yarborough for \"The Plain Dealer\" opined Stapleton \"actually sings like the love child of Marvin Gaye, Joe Cocker and the", "title": "Chris Stapleton's All-American Road Show Tour" }, { "id": "3753393", "text": "Metric served as the opening act for the North American dates of The Smashing Pumpkins' \"Shiny and Oh So Bright\" reunion tour, which ran from July through September 2018. On September 6, 2018, Metric, Dizzy and The Elwins played at Danforth Music Hall in Toronto to help their hometown's Indie 88 radio station celebrate their fifth birthday. Metric are touring Europe and the United States during fall 2018 and winter 2019 in promotion of Art of Doubt. Timeline Studio albums Metric (band) Metric is a Canadian rock band founded in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario. The band consists of Emily Haines", "title": "Metric (band)" }, { "id": "20522872", "text": "and 17,839 attendees. Timberlake's September 20 night concert at Rupp Arena grossed $2 million, making it the highest-grossing one-night concert in the arena's history, besting the previous record set by the Eagles, which grossed $1.8 million in June 2015. StubHub named Timberlake the fifth-best selling live artist in the US in 2018. According to \"Billboard\", \"The Man of the Woods Tour\" was the sixth-highest grossing tour of the year, selling over 1,175,216 tickets and grossing over $149 million in 2018. The tour received a nomination for Best Pop Tour at the 30th Pollstar Awards. \"Toronto Star\" journalist Nick Krewen, who", "title": "The Man of the Woods Tour" }, { "id": "8814886", "text": "Bank Stadium on the university's campus, the band's game-day performances moved back to campus and to an outdoor field for the first time since leaving Memorial Stadium in 1981. On February 4, 2018, the Minnesota Marching Band performed alongside Justin Timberlake in the halftime show of Super Bowl LII. The band was featured in Timberlake’s R&B hit “Suit & Tie”, and performed additional choreography and drill during “Mirrors\" and the show’s finale, \"Can't Stop the Feeling!\". When it was originally formed, the band consisted of exclusively males. Women were first allowed to perform with the band in 1943-1945, when they", "title": "University of Minnesota Marching Band" }, { "id": "2734559", "text": "That's all there was. Janet Jackson,\" adding \"Janet don't pull that thing open herself. He did it. We were surprised that they didn't say anything to Justin about it.\" Timberlake would eventually be invited back to the Super Bowl halftime show when he was named headlining act for the Super Bowl LII halftime show in February 2018. During his performance, Timberlake again sang a portion of \"Rock Your Body,\" but stopped right before reaching the \"I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song\" lyric, saying \"hold up! Stop!\" and smiling. Some commentators interpreted this as a subtle", "title": "Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy" }, { "id": "18318070", "text": "In 2017 and 2018, EarthGang co-headlined in the North American and European Never Had Shit Tour with J.I.D, and guests Lute, Chaz French, and Mereba. A year after serving as the opening act on the European leg of J. Cole's 4 Your Eyez Only World Tour, EarthGang were also the supporting act on 36 shows of the North American KOD Tour in 2018. On September 4, 2018, EarthGang premiered the song \"Up\" on the Berlin platform \"Colors Studio\". In a Reddit post, the duo announced that their forthcoming third album Mirrorland would be released in February 2019. On September 21,", "title": "EarthGang" }, { "id": "20516908", "text": "track \"Man of the Woods\" was also accompanied by a music video. The album debuted atop the US \"Billboard\" 200, while \"Filthy\" and \"Say Something\" reached the top 10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. To promote the album, Timberlake embarked on his sixth concert tour, Man of the Woods Tour in March 2018. The single \"Say Something\" received a nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. After completing the successful world tour for his previous records \"The 20/20 Experience\" and \"The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2\", Timberlake took a one-year break and later returned", "title": "Man of the Woods" }, { "id": "777484", "text": "May 14, 2014, a music video was also released featuring clips of Jackson, with Timberlake accompanied by a number of Jackson's fans performing some of Jackson's signature moves. The video was directed by Timberlake and Rich Lee. During 2015, Timberlake performed along with Jimmy Fallon the \"Saturday Night Live\" 40th Anniversary's cold open, returned to \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\" as a guest to perform a sixth edition of the sketch \"History of Rap\", and performed along with Chris Stapleton at the Country Music Association Awards. Showcasing the final date of The 20/20 Experience World Tour at Las Vegas'", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "6853789", "text": "tour. Lone Justice was still given emphasis in this role, as they had been on the Unforgettable Fire Tour, but it was not enough to give them a successful career. Other openers included The Pretenders, Big Audio Dynamite, UB40, Little Steven, The BoDeans, Mason Ruffner, World Party, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Spear of Destiny, The Waterboys, Hurrah!, Los Lobos, Buckwheat Zydeco, The Pogues, The Alarm, The Silencers, and Lou Reed. On 1 November in Indianapolis, U2 appeared as their own support act, disguised as \"The Dalton Brothers\", playing between sets by the Bodeans and Los Lobos. They were dressed in Western", "title": "The Joshua Tree Tour" }, { "id": "13495020", "text": "Thug, Jaden Smith, EarthGang and Kill Edward will serve as the supporting acts. The tour will include 34 North American dates, starting in Miami, on August 9 and concluding in Boston, on October 10, 2018. Cole performed \"Intro\" and \"Friends\" at the 2018 BET Awards on June 24, 2018. Singer Daniel Caesar performed part of \"Intro\" and the chorus to \"Friends\", rapper Wale was also part of the set. On August 7, 2018, Cole released a freestyle titled, \"Album of the Year\" over the instrumental to Nas' and the Bravehearts' 2001 single, \"Oochie Wally\". The freestyle was accompanied by a", "title": "J. Cole" }, { "id": "777470", "text": "YouTube at the time. \"Rolling Stone\" listed the skit at number three on their \"50 Greatest 'Saturday Night Live' Sketches of All Time\". The song earned him an Emmy Award and was later featured on The Lonely Island's debut album \"Incredibad\". In January 2007, Timberlake embarked on the FutureSex/LoveShow tour. Following singles off the album, \"LoveStoned/I Think She Knows (Interlude)\" and \"Until the end of Time\", peaked within the top 20 on the Hot 100, while the sixth single \"Summer Love\" reached the top 10. The song \"Give It to Me\", a Timbaland single on which Timberlake guests with Nelly", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "2721127", "text": "Lamar as headlining artists. Beyoncé was originally announced as a headliner but was forced to withdraw at the advice of her doctors after she became pregnant; she announced that she would instead headline the 2018 festival. Other artists who performed at the festival included The xx, Travis Scott, Father John Misty, Empire of the Sun, Dillon Francis, Mac Miller, Bon Iver, Kygo, Future, DJ Snake, Martin Garrix, Schoolboy Q, Gucci Mane, Two Door Cinema Club, Lorde, Justice, New Order, Dreamcar, Porter Robinson & Madeon, Future Islands, Hans Zimmer, PNL and DJ Khaled. Tickets sold out within a few hours of", "title": "Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival" }, { "id": "9009946", "text": "her tour into Europe and Australia, playing predominately in arenas. As her album gained momentum in the US, she joined Justin Timberlake as the opening act on his FutureSex/LoveShow tour at select venues in the US. Pink returned to Europe during the summer of 2007, playing open air/amphitheater festivals. She concluded her tour in South Africa. The tour became one of the most successful tours in both 2006 and 2007. In Australia, she became the most successful female artist during that time. The Australian leg grossed about $42 million and was Pink's most successful tour until her Funhouse Tour in", "title": "I'm Not Dead Tour" }, { "id": "19158028", "text": "released in October 2017. She later opened for Horan on his 2018 Flicker World Tour. She collaborated with Zedd and Grey on \"The Middle\", released in January 2018. That single, which combined elements of country, pop, and electronic dance music, reached No. 5 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In December 2015, Morris began dating fellow country singer Ryan Hurd, who she had first met in a co-write back in 2013. They became engaged in July 2017. The two were married on March 24, 2018, in Nashville, Tennessee. Headlining Opening In July 2018, it was announced that Morris will be one", "title": "Maren Morris" }, { "id": "18191184", "text": "was released on the compilation \"Kitsuné AMERICA 2\" by French record label Kitsuné. Ghost Loft is featured on a Wiz Khalifa version of \"So High\" on the rapper's 2014 album Blacc Hollywood. In 2016, Ghost Loft produced the opening music for Justin Bieber's Purpose World Tour. On 23 May 2018, Chicago Rapper Juice Wrld released his debut album Goodbye & Good Riddance. Juice Wrld's track titled \"Scared of Love\" contains a sample of Ghost Loft's \"So High\". Ghost Loft Danny Choi, better known by his stage name Ghost Loft, is an American songwriter, record producer and recording artist based in", "title": "Ghost Loft" }, { "id": "13734794", "text": "King, Queen Kwong, Demob Happy, Girli, Beaty Heart and Miamigo. 2018 Following 2017's event, it was announced that the festival had been re-branded under the name Neverworld. Clean Bandit were announced as headliners, with performances from Tom Grennan, Declan McKenna and Sub Focus also advertised. Isobel, Jamo at the Disco!, Kyrill, BLT, Femme Fatale, Matt Squared, Fin & Charlie Dot By Miro, Jade Fox, Isobel, Atomic Face, Civilian, Park Bench Politics, Martyn Snow Band, BLT, Charlie Allen, Rich Legate, Adam Santer, Andrew Gummer The Skints, Linchpin, DJ Hatsey, One Way To Kanasas, Snish, Catfish Blue, SouthBound, The Over Dramatics, Mr", "title": "LeeFest" }, { "id": "13396065", "text": "Deoro and with the Craig St Ramblers. 2017-2018 Saw Mr. Eggar on tour with Evanescence worldwide as part of the \"Synthesis\" Tour. Summer 2018 Eggar collaborative project \"Cellogram\" With Chuck Palmer opened for the Evanescence/Lindsey Stirling co-bill tour in 31 Cities. Cellogram's self-titled EP peaked at no 2 on the World Music Itunes Charts. Mr. Eggar's own record, Kingston Morning (produced by Chuck Palmer) was nominated for a Grammy in 2011 for their version of Michael Brecker's epic song \"Itsbynne Reel\". The team's subsequent record \"Deoro XX\" won the Popular Voting Award for World Beat at the Independent Music awards", "title": "Dave Eggar" }, { "id": "18789921", "text": "Atlantic Records on January 27, 2017. On December 5, 2017, Hip-hop artist Eminem revealed that Kehlani would be collaborating on the song \"Nowhere Fast\" for his ninth studio album \"Revival\". Kehlani's third annual Tsunami Christmas tour concluded in Santa Ana, California on December 18, 2017. Kehlani served as an opening act on Demi Lovato's Tell Me You Love Me World Tour in North America, which started on February 26, 2018 and concluded on April 2, 2018. She then opened on Halsey's Hopeless Fountain Kingdom World Tour in Oceania, which started on April 19, 2018. She was also featured on the", "title": "Kehlani" }, { "id": "19491763", "text": "audience on night rehearsal to perform both songs. On February 26, 2017, Timberlake opened the 89th Academy Awards with a performance of \"Can't Stop the Feeling!\", which included an R&B breakdown and a cover of Bill Withers' \"Lovely Day\" at the end. Timberlake began the performance in the front corridor of the Dolby Theater, dancing his way to the stage with his backup dancers. The song was also the closing number of his Super Bowl LII halftime show performance. In June 2016, \"Billboard\" named it the wedding DJs' fourth most popular party song in the US. Numerous fan-made videos followed", "title": "Can't Stop the Feeling!" }, { "id": "20516907", "text": "Man of the Woods Man of the Woods is the fifth studio album by American actor and singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake. It was released on February 2, 2018. The production of the album was handled by Timberlake, The Neptunes, Timbaland, Danja, J-Roc, Eric Hudson, and Rob Knox. The record sees Timberlake experimenting with elements of R&B, funk, pop, soul, and Americana. The album is named after his son Silas, whose name means \"Man of the forest\". The album's first single \"Filthy\" was released on January 5, 2018, followed by \"Supplies\" and \"Say Something\" on January 19 and 26, respectively. The album", "title": "Man of the Woods" }, { "id": "18567776", "text": "Super Bowl LII halftime show The Super Bowl LII Halftime Show (officially known as the Pepsi Super Bowl LII Halftime Show) took place on February 4, 2018 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of Super Bowl LII. Justin Timberlake was the featured performer, as confirmed by the National Football League (NFL) on October 22, 2017. It was televised nationally by NBC. It received four nominations at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. The show began with Jimmy Fallon introducing Justin Timberlake, followed by a video screen depicting Timberlake performing \"Filthy\" in a club setting below the field level", "title": "Super Bowl LII halftime show" }, { "id": "21012167", "text": "Fall Out Boy's Australian tour, Waax opened for them as a support band at four shows from February to March. Signing a label deal with Dew Process, Waax released their single \"Labrador\" in April 2018, a month after announcing they would perform a national twelve-show tour for it. The band traveled to Adelaide, the Gold Coast, Perth, Fremantle, Wollongong, Sydney (including an all ages show), Newcastle, Geelong, Frankston, Melbourne and Brisbane between May and June. They also supported Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro on their Australian tour. In December, Waax performed at the inaugural Good Things festival at all three", "title": "Waax (band)" }, { "id": "7613234", "text": "ignored.\" The tour notably promoted Justin Timberlake and Usher when Jackson selected both as its opening acts during their early careers, exposing them to a wider audience. Both artists credit Jackson as a major showmanship influence from both \"an entertainment and evolution perspective.\" While Timberlake was part of 'N Sync, Jackson personally selected them to open for the tour, helping to introduce the relatively unknown group to the public. Timberlake said \"I had her poster on my wall so I'm psyched\", later describing the experience as \"fulfilling.\" Jackson performed with the group on several dates, including joining them for a", "title": "The Velvet Rope Tour" }, { "id": "19200946", "text": "EP titled \"Pho\". Ari Lennox later appeared on J. Cole's song \"Change\", and performed as an opening act on the 4 Your Eyez Only Tour during 2017. In 2018, she went on to guest feature on two songs with her label-mates: EarthGang on \"Nothing but the Best\", and Bas on \"Iracus\". On July 16, 2018, Ari Lennox releases the first single, “Whipped Cream”, for her debut album, with an accompanied music video on September 5. On November 9, she released two more singles called \"40 Shades of Choke\" and \"Grampa\". On November 13, she then released two more singles called", "title": "Ari Lennox" }, { "id": "21008102", "text": "Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake) – keyboards, Nick Werth (Galaxe, Yak Attack) – xylosynth, Alvin Ford Jr. (Pretty Lights, Dumpstaphunk) – drums, and Cody Wright (Eric Gales) – bass. In 2018, the touring ensemble includes former Prince and Ne-Yo collaborator, Dywane “MonoNeon” Thomas Jr. (bass), Xavier Taplin (keys), Vaughn “V.Keys” Henry (keys), Peter Knudsen (guitar) and Jonathan Mones (alto sax/flute). Festivals are a big part of Ghost-Note's live schedule, and the group has played, among others of this type of shows, Edmonton International Jazz Festival, EFG London Jazz Festival, TD Ottawa JazzFest, and Montreal Jazz Fest. The same year, they embarked", "title": "Ghost-Note (band)" }, { "id": "777448", "text": "Justin Timberlake Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, dancer, and record producer. Born and raised in Tennessee, he appeared on the television shows \"Star Search\" and \"The All-New Mickey Mouse Club\" as a child. In the late 1990s, Timberlake rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. Timberlake began to adopt a more mature image as an artist with the release of his debut solo album, the R&B-focused \"Justified\" (2002), which yielded the successful singles", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "983089", "text": "as the Finn Brothers. In 2006, after the death of drummer Paul Hester, Finn reformed Crowded House (adding Beck's former drummer Matt Sherrod) and released their first studio album in over 13 years, \"Time on Earth\", and the band began a world tour. In 2010, Finn commenced another world tour with Crowded House in support of their 2010 release, \"Intriguer\". In February 2014, Finn released his third solo album, \"Dizzy Heights\". On 9 April 2018, it was announced that Finn would perform with Fleetwood Mac as part of their forthcoming tour in 2018, replacing Lindsey Buckingham. Finn was born the", "title": "Neil Finn" }, { "id": "17959740", "text": "+ The Machine, Muse, Metric, Danko Jones, and Hollerado, and the dual male-female lead vocals of Kochberg and Vakharia are reminiscent of bands like Of Monsters and Men and July Talk. The band has toured throughout Canada and Europe, and has performed at Canadian Music Week, North by Northeast, and Indie Week Europe. In May 2018, Goodnight, Sunrise was selected by Q107 to be the opening act for Bon Jovi at the Air Canada Centre on May 12. This was followed by a cross-Canada summer tour supporting their new single \"Runaways\" with performances at Evolve Festival, Riverfest Elora, and Dawson", "title": "Goodnight, Sunrise" }, { "id": "14359898", "text": "Timberlake's studio album \"Man of the Woods\" (2018), including their collaboration \"Say Something\", which officially reached the top ten list on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart. Stapleton was the musical guest on \"Saturday Night Live\" for a second time on January 27, 2018, where he performed songs from \"From a Room: Volume 2\" with Sturgill Simpson. In March, \"Broken Halos\" off \"From A Room: Volume 1\" reached the top of the Country Airplay chart. It earned him the accolades for Song and Single of the Year at the 52nd CMAs, while he won Male Vocalist of the Year for", "title": "Chris Stapleton" }, { "id": "6130066", "text": "Celtic, M.A.K.U. Soundsystem, The Red Elvises, Irish Stars Parker School of Dance, Burning Bridget Cleary, Andy Shaw Band, PhillyBloco, Southern Culture on the Skids, Common Bond, Monarch Dance Company, Eco del Sur, Yahn Arkestra, Amish Outlaws, Marla & Juniper Street Band, Allegro Dance Company, SoulRagga, Djembe Jam, The Mickey Fins, Start Making Sense, Zaire, Sharon Plessl School of Dance, Roger Latzgo – Reflections in the Wine Dark Sea, Red Sea Pedestrians, Star and Micey, Gangstagrass, Buckwheat Zydeco, Good Time Charlie, Blue Ribbon Cloggers, African Benga Stars, Black Masala, Mama Jama, Moondog Medicine Show, Ball in the House, The Steel Wheels,", "title": "Musikfest" }, { "id": "7613237", "text": "influence on Justin's music, but he is only one of a number of influential artists who have shaped the musical style of Mr. JT, and he is not even the most influential member of the Jackson clan. That accolade firmly belongs to Janet Jackson\", who was \"one of the most successful artists of the last twenty years.\" Following the tour, Timberlake and Jackson became \"good friends\", ultimately leading to Timberlake performing alongside Jackson during a segment of Jackson's controversial Super Bowl Halftime Show performance. Usher described opening for Jackson as \"the biggest event\" of his career and an \"honor\", saying", "title": "The Velvet Rope Tour" }, { "id": "17990232", "text": "of 2017 to focus on his family, but reconsidered after his Grammy nominations. He began touring again in May 2017 by playing a show at the Wharf Amphitheater in Orange Beach, Alabama, with Margo Price. Simpson also performed as the opening act for three shows during the Guns N' Roses \"Not in this Lifetime\" tour in the summer of 2017. Simpson helped produce fellow Kentucky singer/songwriter Tyler Childers' 2017 album \"Purgatory\" after being introduced to Childers by drummer Miles Miller. In a March 5, 2018 interview on \"The Joe Rogan Experience\" podcast, Simpson revealed that he is working on his", "title": "Sturgill Simpson" }, { "id": "12206326", "text": "which included headline dates and support dates with Forever The Sickest Kids, He Is We, For The Win, and The New Low. Rookie signed to Cardigan Records in April 2018. A new album is expected for early 2019. In late 2018, the band toured in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Sweet Attention, completed another headlining tour, and toured as direct support for Tooth & Nail Records' mae, with additional support from LOYALS. Ryan Dunson will do a solo acoustic tour in December 2018 to close out the year. Ryan Dunson - Lead Vocals, Guitar<br> Jeff Nations - Drums,", "title": "Rookie of the Year (band)" }, { "id": "3058288", "text": "the Road Again Tour\" as well as Luke Bryan and his \"Kick the Dust Up Tour\". U2 performed at FirstEnergy Stadium July 1, 2017 as part of \"The Joshua Tree Tour 2017\". Tickets for the concert went on sale January 17 and were sold out the following day. Concerts held at the stadium in 2018 included Taylor Swift in Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour on July 17, followed by Beyoncé and Jay-Z on July 25 as part of their On the Run II Tour. FirstEnergy Stadium FirstEnergy Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, primarily for American", "title": "FirstEnergy Stadium" }, { "id": "20740602", "text": "also toured with Kublai Khan and I Am. In 2018, they toured in support of Emmure alongside Counterparts. In late-2018, they opened for Counterparts and Being as an Ocean, alongside Have Mercy on the Private Room Tour. Varials has gained comparisons to Knocked Loose by the media, and Knocked Loose vocalist Bryan Garris guested on the Varials song \"Empire of Dirt\". Varials also toured with Knocked Loose in December 2015. The band has listed many artists and genres as influences, such as Slipknot, Deftones, Limp Bizkit, Sevendust, System of a Down, Linkin Park, Coheed and Cambria, Chiodos, Rise Against, Rage", "title": "Varials" }, { "id": "16219292", "text": "Back to You\", selling out 32 out of the 41 shows they played. That was followed up with a tour opening for John Mayer in early 2017, which hit such iconic venues as Madison Square Garden, the Boston Garden and the United Center in Chicago. The band then immediately left for tours of Australia and Europe - and soon followed with numerous festival appearances and the band’s first ever show at the world-famous Red Rocks in the summer of 2017. In the spring of 2017, they followed up with “Baby, I’m Broken,” which reached No. 6 on the Adult Alternative", "title": "The Record Company" }, { "id": "17619373", "text": "James Fauntleroy James Edward Fauntleroy II is an American singer, songwriter and record producer from Inglewood, California. He is best known for featuring on tracks by high profile artists such as Frank Ocean, Drake, J. Cole, and Big Sean as well as writing songs for artists including Bruno Mars, Beyonce, Rihanna and Justin Timberlake. In 2014 and 2018, Fauntleroy won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. In 2016, Fauntleroy co-wrote 7 tracks on Bruno Mars' third studio album \"24K Magic.\" In 2014, Fauntleroy won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for co-writing \"Pusher Love Girl\", for Justin Timberlake's", "title": "James Fauntleroy" }, { "id": "777498", "text": "includes guitarists, dancers, background singers, drummers, bassists, keyboardists, trumpeters, a music coordinator, a percussionist, a saxophonist, among others musicians. The 20/20 Experience allowed Timberlake to throw back to the big-band era, its stage production embraced a vintage sheen and everyone in classic suits. For the tour, Timberlake had a horn section onstage with him called The Regiment Horns. \"The Hollywood Reporter\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Emily Zemler described him as a performer who is \"genuinely having fun,\" whereas Jon Pareles of \"The New York Times\" commented that the singer \"reveals something darker, more fiery and intense\" while performing post-breakup revenge songs, such as \"Cry", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "20875370", "text": "This Is America Tour The This Is America Tour is the fifth and final headlining tour by American musician Childish Gambino, the rap alias of Donald Glover. It's in support of his album \"Awaken, My Love!\" and also features songs from his album \"Because the Internet\", extended play \"Kauai\", and various singles from the past year such as the hit single \"This is America\" and the extended play \"Summer Pack\". The tour began on September 6, 2018, in Atlanta, Georgia, Glover's hometown, and concluded on December 17, 2018, in Los Angeles, California. Rae Sremmurd opened the tour between September 6", "title": "This Is America Tour" }, { "id": "20679100", "text": "single from the album on August 31, 2018, alongside a lyric video. It debuted at number 90 on the Scottish Singles Chart for the week of September 8, 2018, and number 30 on the US Hot Country Songs chart for the week of September 15, 2018. On September 7, 2018, \"End Up with You\" was released as a promotional single. On August 8, 2018, Underwood announced the \"Cry Pretty Tour 360,\" scheduled to begin on May 1, 2019, in Greensboro, North Carolina and conclude on October 31 in Detroit, Michigan, playing 54 shows. Runaway June and Maddie & Tae are", "title": "Cry Pretty" }, { "id": "1897463", "text": "All five members were present. All five members also performed at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View CA on October 13, 2018 with Too Short & Ice Cube on the How the West Was Won tour, and on Friday October 19th at the Stockton Arena in Stockton, CA with JJ Fad, Tag Team, Lighter Shade of Brown, Digital Underground, and DJ Quik. Bone Thugs are still currently on tour and have 12 concerts scheduled 2018-2019. Formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1991, the group was originally called \"Baind Aid-Boys\". They then formed B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e, which consisted of four members — Krayzie Bone,", "title": "Bone Thugs-n-Harmony" }, { "id": "12950365", "text": "recording were donated to the charity War Child. Act I Act II Performances in Brazil featured \"Human Nature\" after \"I Just Can't Stop Loving You\" The international tour sometimes replaces \"Human Nature\" with \"Never Can Say Goodbye\". Cast Changeover 29th May, 2018 Vocalist: Kieran Alleyne Vocalist: Charlotte Berry Vocalist: Wayne Anthony-Cole Vocalist: Vivienne Ekwulugo Vocalist: Haydon Eshun Vocalist: David Julien Vocalist: Jonah Mayor Vocalist: John Moabi Vocalist: Florivaldo Mossi Swing Dancer and Resident Director: Aisling Duffy Swing Dancer and Dance Captain: Ebony Clarke Swing Dancer: Vivian Gayle Swing Dancer: Simone Moncada Dancer and Vocalist Cover: David Devyne Dancer: Daniel Blessing", "title": "Thriller – Live" }, { "id": "20518479", "text": "Supplies (song) \"Supplies\" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake for his fifth studio album, \"Man of the Woods\" (2018). It was written and produced by Timberlake with Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo of The Neptunes, and released on January 18, 2018. Its music video was directed by Dave Meyers. The song was serviced to rhythmic radio on January 23, as the album's second single. \"Supplies\" was the second single released from the album \"Man of the Woods\", after the Timbaland- and Danja-produced \"Filthy\". \"Supplies\" was produced by Timberlake and The Neptunes. Despite The Neptunes' prolific production on", "title": "Supplies (song)" }, { "id": "20854013", "text": "June 26, 2019 in Toronto at Scotiabank Arena. Pre-sale for the tickets of the first leg of the tour took place between November 1 and November 3, 2018. On November 5, 2018, tickets were opened to the general public, and Grande announced Normani and Social House as her opening acts. On December 10, 2018, due to popular demand, second shows were added in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Brooklyn, New York City, Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia, and Toronto. On December 14, 2018, Grande announced the European dates for the tour. A special show is being planned in Manchester. The second leg", "title": "Sweetener World Tour" }, { "id": "12398671", "text": "Jesse Elias, Boots Riley, Glynn Washington, DJ Purple August 8–10 \"Lineup announced April 8, 2014\" Kanye West, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Killers, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Arctic Monkeys, Tiësto, Death Cab For Cutie, Disclosure, The Flaming Lips, Ray LaMontagne, Spoon, Atmosphere, Cut Copy, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Tegan and Sara, Duck Sauce, Haim, Chromeo, Ben Howard, Lykke Li, Chvrches, Paolo Nutini, Capital Cities, Kacey Musgraves, Local Natives, Jenny Lewis, Grouplove, John Butler Trio, Tycho, The Kooks, SBTRKT, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, Boys Noize, Phosphorescent, Run the Jewels (El-P & Killer Mike), Deer Tick, Holy Ghost!, Warpaint, Flume, Lucius,", "title": "Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival" }, { "id": "3493242", "text": "in 2012, Lee Brice in 2013, Darius Rucker twice (in 2014 and 2017), R. Kelly four times, Usher in 2011 with Akon, Drake with Kendrick Lamar in 2012, Chris Brown in 2014, The Weeknd w/Gucci Mane in 2017, Trey Songz, Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Coolio, Skillet, Nickelback with Chevelle in 2006, Pearl Jam twice (first with Kings of Leon in 2008, and in 2016), Red Hot Chili Peppers twice (in 2012 and 2017), Maroon 5 twice (in 2016 w/Tove Lo), the Foo Fighters with The Struts in 2017, and Imagine Dragons in 2018, among others. Kanye West's return to", "title": "Colonial Life Arena" }, { "id": "4403598", "text": "be completed in August 2017. The band toured with Avenged Sevenfold and Bullet For My Valentine on their North American tour, following with a U.S. mini-tour with 10 Years, and then a tour with Five Finger Death Punch beginning in the second quarter of 2018. In December 2017, \"Ember\" and its lead single \"Red Cold River\" were announced for release in the second quarter of 2018 and January 5, 2018, respectively. On January 26, \"Feed the Wolf\" was released as a pre-order bonus, along with a release date for the album of April 13, 2018. Three subsequent songs—\"Blood\", \"Psycho\", and", "title": "Breaking Benjamin" }, { "id": "20635364", "text": "debut extended play of the same name. \"Hurt Somebody\" was re-recorded later in 2017 featuring Grammy nominated artist Julia Michaels. \"Hurt Somebody\" was released in January 2018. Kahan opened for Ben Folds and Anderson East in the United States in February 2017 and then went on to open for Milky Chance in March 2017. Later opening on an East Coast tour with The Strumbellas that began on October 12, 2017, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and concluded on November 14, 2017, in Buffalo, New York. He performed at \"Billboard\"'s Industry Night on November 16, 2017, at the Ludlow House in New York", "title": "Noah Kahan" }, { "id": "20515452", "text": "Filthy (song) \"Filthy\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake. It was released on January 5, 2018, as the lead single from his fifth studio album, \"Man of the Woods\" (2018). The electro-funk song was written and produced by Timberlake, Timbaland, and Danja, with additional songwriting from James Fauntleroy and Larrance Dopson. Its music video was released on same day, which is set at a futuristic technology conference and shows Timberlake staging a proof-of-concept demo for a robot. It was serviced to contemporary hit radio on January 9, 2018. \"Filthy\" debuted at number 9 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot", "title": "Filthy (song)" }, { "id": "9993881", "text": "half of the project, \"The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2\".<ref name=\"20/20part2release\"></ref> It produced three singles including \"Not a Bad Thing\", which reached number eight on the Hot 100 chart. In 2016, Timberlake serves as the executive music producer for the soundtrack to DreamWorks Animation's \"Trolls\", accompanied by the release of \"Can't Stop the Feeling!\", his fifth chart-topping single on the Hot 100. It was certified Diamond in France and Poland. On February 2, 2018, Timberlake released his fifth studio album, \"Man of the Woods\". It topped the \"Billboard\" 200 with the biggest first week sales of the year at", "title": "Justin Timberlake discography" }, { "id": "20806322", "text": "added onto the challenge by encouraging fans to share three ways in which they want to \"level up\" or better themselves. Fans and celebrities alike participated in the challenge, including Chris Pratt, Kelly Clarkson, Serena Williams, Macklemore, Janelle Monae, Missy Elliott, Jennifer Hudson, and Ciara's husband, Russell Wilson. Ciara also performed the song as a part of her set list as an opening act for singer, Bruno Mars' \"24K Magic World Tour\" (2018). On July 26, 2018, Ciara premiered the song's official remix, featuring Missy Elliott and Fatman Scoop. The three of them previously worked together on Elliott's single \"Lose", "title": "Level Up (Ciara song)" }, { "id": "20516912", "text": "be released weekly beginning January 18, with \"Supplies\" being the first, followed by the Chris Stapleton-featuring \"Say Something\" and \"Man of the Woods\". He also performed at the 2018 Brit Awards. With the announcement of \"Filthy\", \"Variety\" confirmed guest appearances by Stapleton, The Neptunes and Alicia Keys on the album. The cover art was photographed by Ryan McGinley. An exclusive version of the album and its vinyl edition will be available at Target; both were made available for presale the day \"Filthy\" was released. In February, Timberlake opened a pop-up shop in New York City with limited edition merchandise featuring", "title": "Man of the Woods" }, { "id": "2917499", "text": "Beatles. \"Concrete and Gold\" also features Justin Timberlake on the vocals for \"Make It Right\", Shawn Stockman of Boyz II Men on backing vocals for the song \"Concrete and Gold\", and Paul McCartney on the drums for \"Sunday Rain\". The band began touring in June 2017, including headlining the Glastonbury Festival 2017. The tour in support of \"Concrete and Gold\" was later extended into October 2018. Foo Fighters have been described as grunge, alternative rock, post-grunge and hard rock. When Grohl first started the band, its music was often compared to that of his previous group, Nirvana. Grohl acknowledged that", "title": "Foo Fighters" }, { "id": "20312303", "text": "and released \"Eyes Closed acoustic\", \"Feel This Christmas\", and \"I'll Be Home Christmas\" in 2017. and being on \"Jimmy Kimmel Live\" in February 2018, and performed \"How Badly\" on \"Despierta América\" in April 2018. In 2018, the band released several singles, starting with \"Tattoo (How 'Bout You)\", which peaked at number 29 on Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart for radio play. In May 2018, it was announced that In Real Life would open in a supporting slot in July and August on the 2018 \"American Idol\" summer tour. In September 2018 they started the \"Tonight Belongs To You\" headline tour", "title": "In Real Life (band)" }, { "id": "20518484", "text": "and Slovenia and the top 10 in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It was serviced to contemporary hit radio on February 13, 2018. A live version of the song was released on March 31. \"Say Something\" received a nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton first collaborated at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards, performing \"Tennessee Whiskey\" and \"Drink You Away\". Stapleton was initially only writing songs with Timberlake for the album, before being asked to sing on \"Say", "title": "Say Something (Justin Timberlake song)" }, { "id": "19051823", "text": "new songs \"Higher\" and \"Miracle\". On September 8 they released \"Never Going Back\" as the lead single from their debut album, \"Atlas\", released on October 13. As a part of this album, songs such as \"Shakedown\", \"Who I Am\", \"Strange\", \"Only One\", \"Believe\" and \"Tightrope\" were released. In 2018, the band opened for Echosmith to support their Inside A Dream tour. In the fall of 2018, they were scheduled to return in their Revolution Tour with special guests The Orphan The Poet and Birthday. On June 29, 2018, The Score released their single \"Glory\". The Score released the single, \"Stronger\",", "title": "The Score (band)" }, { "id": "20263800", "text": "promote the album. The tour began on September 29, 2017, in Santiago, Chile, at the Movistar Arena and ended on May 11, 2018, at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. Becky G was announced as a supporting act for some of the Latin American dates and the Lost Kings were planned to support the group in Australia but the Australian concerts were canceled. The tour's setlist included all ten songs from the album and several of the group's songs from previous albums. This set list is representative of the concert on September 29, 2017 in Santiago. It does not", "title": "Fifth Harmony (album)" }, { "id": "20157782", "text": "million with 452,387 tickets sold in 36 shows only in North America. Following a pair of Coachella gigs and a performance at Quebec City Summer Festival, the rapper will bring his new album on the road in the summer of 2017. The first announcement had 17 dates across North America slowly adding to 20 after adding shows in Brooklyn and Los Angeles having Travis Scott and DRAM as the opening acts. The second announcement added 15 shows having YG as the opening act. On September 30, he added a leg of European dates to the tour. On April 29, 2018,", "title": "The Damn Tour" }, { "id": "20537553", "text": "was the opening act for U2 for their 2017 the Joshua Tree Tour, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from May to August in 2017 on select shows. Cleopatra World Tour The Cleopatra World Tour was a tour of the US band The Lumineers. To support their second album Cleopatra, they started touring from Bristol, England, and ended at Inglewood, California, across through Europe, Asia Pacific, South Africa and North America. This setlist represents select shows during the tour, may not represent all shows. Several opening acts appeared throughout the tour, including Langhorne Slim & The Law, Rayland Baxter, BØRNS,", "title": "Cleopatra World Tour" }, { "id": "16654106", "text": "Adam Blackstone Adam Blackstone (born December 4, 1982, in Trenton, NJ) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and bassist. He is currently the musical director for Nicki Minaj and Justin Timberlake. Adam has also directed and played in performances with a star-studded list of cliental that includes Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, Janet Jackson, Dr. Dre,The Jonas Brothers, The Roots, Ms.Marilyn Marshall, Al Green, The Isley Brothers , Angie Stone, Mike Posner, Steve Tirpak, Al Jarreau, Maroon 5, Demi Lovato, and Jill Scott. Adam began his musical journey playing drums at the age of 4 at El Bethel church on Euclid Avenue", "title": "Adam Blackstone" }, { "id": "20444437", "text": "\"A Tsnmi Christmas\" tour and at the Red Bull Sound Select Presents: 30 Days in Chicago event. Marteen released his major label debut EP titled \"NOTHANKYOU.\" on February 23, 2018 Marteen Marteen Estevez (better known mononymously as Marteen) is an R&B singer and songwriter currently signed to Warner Bros. Records. He has opened for acts like Kehlani, Bryson Tiller, Fifth Harmony, and Dua Lipa. Record producer, J.R. Rotem, discovered Marteen and has produced many of his songs. Marteen Estevez was born in Berkeley, California. He and his family lived in Alameda and El Cerrito in the Bay Area prior to", "title": "Marteen" }, { "id": "16900369", "text": "charts with the first two singles from a debut studio album. In April 2018, Cabello embarked on the Never Be the Same Tour, her first as a solo artist. In May 2018, she began performing as the opening act for Taylor Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour in between the European leg of the Never Be the Same Tour. She headlined an arena for the first time on July 31, 2018 at the Mohegun Sun Arena. On October 8, Cabello released the video single, \"Consequences\", having first surprised 12 of her biggest fans in advance, with a \"Most Amazing Mystery Gift &", "title": "Camila Cabello" }, { "id": "16936254", "text": "Mendes and Justin Bieber as their biggest inspirations. Max & Harvey joined singer Zach Clayton on his \"Nothin’ But Love Tour\" in the US in May 2017. This was the first time they had performed in the United States. They kicked off a seven date tour in the UK in February 2018. In June 2018, Max & Harvey opened for New Hope Club at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Arena. In July 2018, they announced their headlining tour in the UK, \"The (we wanted to name our tour something really cool but couldn't think of anything so please see us and hangout", "title": "Max and Harvey" }, { "id": "15673521", "text": "time in Europe as the opening act on Drake's Boy Meets World tour. Popcaan announced his second album \"Forever\" on 11 May 2018. It was preceded by the singles \"Body So Good\", \"Wine For Me\", and \"Firm and Strong\". The album was released on 20 July, premiered on a live stream hosted by Boiler Room. Popcaan headlined Reggae Sumfest the following day. \"Forever\" entered the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart at number 2. Popcaan Andrae Hugh Sutherland (born 19 July 1988), known professionally as Popcaan, is a Jamaican dancehall artiste, singer and songwriter from the parish of St. Thomas. In 2008,", "title": "Popcaan" }, { "id": "20642196", "text": "the Broccoli City Festival 2018 on April 28, 2018; she was also supposed to perform at the Wireless Festival in July, however, the performance was cancelled due to her pregnancy. Her summer tour in support of the album, which would run from May 4 until July 29, 2018 in the United States, Norway and Ireland, and all performances until September were also cancelled. Cardi B was also originally scheduled to be the opening act on Bruno Mars's 24K Magic World Tour in North America during September and October 2018, however, she withdrew as she just had her baby, Kulture. The", "title": "Invasion of Privacy (album)" }, { "id": "777497", "text": "of personal albums.\" Moments of emotional pain after betrayal influenced the songwriting of some previous records. Longtime critic Robert Hilburn for the \"Los Angeles Times\" praised Timberlake's act after attending the Justified and Stripped Tour in 2003, considering him \"born for the stage (with) the savvy instincts to put together a show that works. Rather than make himself the constant center of attention, he was comfortable enough at times simply to be part of a talented ensemble.\" In 2013, Timberlake introduced his big-band orchestra called the Tennessee Kids for Legends of the Summer and The 20/20 Experience World Tour which", "title": "Justin Timberlake" }, { "id": "5211441", "text": "Know It All\", Hunter Hayes' \"Wanted\", and Florida Georgia Line's \"Cruise\". Sam Hunt has also earned significant crossover appeal. His 2014 debut album \"Montevallo\" reached #1 on Top Country Albums and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200. His 2017 single \"Body Like a Back Road\" reached #1 on Hot Country Songs, #6 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and #11 on Adult Top 40. In 2018, many country achieved international pop hit singles in collaborations with mainstream pop artists. This included Chris Stapleton who collaboration with Justin Timberlake on UK & Hot 100 top ten single \"Say Something\"; Urban-pop star Bebe Rexha", "title": "Country pop" }, { "id": "3767321", "text": "Pa'rriba)\". Pitbull announced via Twitter that he would release the extended play to his studio album Global Warming, named on November 25, featuring guest appearances from Kesha, Kelly Rowland, Inna, Mohombi and Mayer Hawthorne. The lead single, \"Timber\", featuring recording artist and tourmate Kesha, was released on October 7. The song peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 18 different countries. Pitbull was featured on the early summer single \"Live It Up\", marking his third collaboration with Jennifer Lopez and Redone. Lopez and Pitbull performed the song at the Billboard Music Awards, \"American Idol\" and \"Premios Juventud\". He", "title": "Pitbull (rapper)" }, { "id": "20496043", "text": "Voicenotes Tour The Voicenotes Tour was the third concert tour by Charlie Puth, in support of his second studio album \"Voicenotes\" (2018). The tour began in Toronto at the Budweiser Stage on July 11, 2018, and concluded in Chiba, Japan at Makuhari Event Hall on November 21, 2018. On December 18, 2017, Puth announced his first major headlining tour after opening for Shawn Mendes on his Illuminate World Tour. Hailee Steinfeld will serve as the opening act. On May 11, 2018, the day the album was released, the tour was officially announced as part of the 2018 Honda Civic Tour.", "title": "Voicenotes Tour" }, { "id": "17690554", "text": "Feet\", and another single, \"Wake up Call\", was released a week later on New Year's Day 2018. On February 12, 2018, SoMo released a new single called \"Nov 12\", prior to embarking on The Reservations Tour, a headlining run across the US. On August 6, 2018, SoMo released \"I'm Comin' Home\" as the lead single from his upcoming third studio album, \"A Beautiful November\". He will embark on the tour of the same name beginning in the fall. On September 24, 2018, SoMo released a single titled \"Better Me\". On October 15, 2018, SoMo released another single titled \"All the", "title": "SoMo" }, { "id": "16774621", "text": "by director Sandy Stenzel in Los Angeles, premiered on \"Huffington Post\" and received an official nomination for a Hollywood Music In Media Award. During the summer of 2017, Mackey hit the road supporting grammy nominated musician David Bromberg, following up with a set of European dates with Americana artist Ron Pope in the fall. Brian opened 2018 with a slot as direct support for musicians Jon McLaughlin and Howie Day, prior to the release of his single “Don’t Own Much” during the summer. Mackey supported this release with another tour in Europe alongside \"One Tree Hill\" stars Kate Voegele and", "title": "Brian Mackey" }, { "id": "1506240", "text": "shifted to RCA. Between 2010 and 2018, RCA released million and multi-million selling albums by artists including A$AP Rocky, Cage the Elephant, Chris Brown, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, D'Angelo, Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters, G-Eazy, Jennifer Hudson, R. Kelly, Kesha, Khalid, Alicia Keys, Kings of Leon, Miguel, Pentatonix, P!nk, Pitbull, Shakira, Sia, Britney Spears, Bryson Tiller, Justin Timberlake, T-Pain, Tinashe, and Zayn. In 2015 RCA reinstated its 1968 space-age RCA styled logo after using its lightning bolt logo for a second run from 1987. The lightning bolt logo is still used by its Nashville division. John Fleckenstein and Joe Riccitelli", "title": "RCA Records" }, { "id": "16497963", "text": "Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD. In addition to their touring success in the United States, the band toured worldwide and sold over 100,000 tickets between Canada, The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Australia and South Africa. On January 9, 2017, Irish supergroup U2 announced that The Lumineers would be among their guests during the North American leg of the \"Joshua Tree Tour 2017\", opening shows at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, NRG Stadium in Houston, AT & T Stadium in Dallas, Soldier Field in Chicago, Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, FedEx", "title": "The Lumineers" }, { "id": "19507162", "text": "song \"The Human Race\" which hit #4 on the iTunes Hot Tracks Chart on November 29, 2016. Other artists on the track include Kelsea Ballerini, LOCASH, and Scotty McCreery. Chris has headlined both a National Anti-Bullying Tour and Walmart Tour. Her National Anti-Bullying Tour included her headlining an arena show in Toms River, NJ, on April 28, 2018 at the RWJBarnabas Health Arena with special guest Nina Lee performing as the opening act, as well as pre-show performances by four local students selected by Chris and her team through a panel-judged competition. Chris was also one of the faces of", "title": "Jessie Chris" } ]

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[ { "id": "86272", "text": "French and US forces in north-eastern France and Belgium. There was no unified treaty ending the war; the Central Powers were dealt with in separate treaties. Central Powers The Central Powers (; ; / ; ), consisting of Germany, , the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria—hence also known as the Quadruple Alliance ()—was one of the two main coalitions that fought World War I (1914–18). It faced and was defeated by the Allied Powers that had formed around the Triple Entente. The Powers' origin was the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1879. Despite having joined the alliance before, Italy refused", "title": "Central Powers" }, { "id": "86247", "text": "Central Powers The Central Powers (; ; / ; ), consisting of Germany, , the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria—hence also known as the Quadruple Alliance ()—was one of the two main coalitions that fought World War I (1914–18). It faced and was defeated by the Allied Powers that had formed around the Triple Entente. The Powers' origin was the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1879. Despite having joined the alliance before, Italy refused to take part in World War I on the side of the Central Powers; the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria did not join until after World War", "title": "Central Powers" }, { "id": "7594616", "text": "under this, Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August. On 12 August, Britain and France also declared war on Austria-Hungary; on the 23rd, Japan sided with the Entente, seizing the opportunity to expand its sphere of influence by capturing German possessions in China and the Pacific. The war was fought in and drew upon each powers' colonial empires as well, spreading the conflict across the globe. The Entente and its allies would eventually become known as the Allied Powers, while the grouping of Austria-Hungary and Germany would become known as the Central Powers. The German advance into France was", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "111434", "text": "War I was fought between 1914 and 1918. It started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by the Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip. Most European nations were drawn into the war, which was fought between the Entente Powers (France, Belgium, Serbia, Portugal, Russia, the United Kingdom, and later Italy, Greece, Romania, and the United States) and the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire). The war left more than 16 million civilians and military dead. Over 60 million European soldiers were mobilised from 1914 to 1918. Russia was plunged into the Russian Revolution, which threw down the", "title": "Europe" }, { "id": "20830978", "text": "and Britain--who would eventually crush it unless Germany acted defensively with the preemptive strike. As the war started, Germany stood behind its ally Austria-Hungary in a confrontation with Serbia, but Serbia was under the protection of Russia, which was allied to France. Germany was the leader of the Central Powers, which included Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and later Bulgaria; arrayed against them were the Allies, consisting chiefly of Russia, France, Britain, and in 1915 Italy. There were several main causes of World War I, which broke out unexpectedly in June-August 1914, including the conflicts and hostility of the previous four", "title": "German entry into World War I" }, { "id": "7594618", "text": "In 1915, Italy joined the Allied Powers and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers. After the sinking of seven US merchant ships by German submarines, and the revelation that the Germans were trying to incite Mexico to make war on the United States, the US declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917. The 1917 February Revolution in Russia replaced the Tsarist autocracy with the Provisional Government, but continuing discontent at the cost of the war led to the October Revolution, the creation of the Soviet Socialist Republic, and the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk by the new government, ending", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "18694519", "text": "nations of the German Empire, Austria Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the British Empire, France, the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, and the United States of America. The first three represent the Central Powers and the latter 5 represent the Allied Powers. These countries compete with units for territories producing IPC's (Industrial Production Credits). Victory conditions are similar for both sides. For the Allies, if they capture the German capital of Berlin and one other Central Powers capital, they win the game. For the Central Powers, if they capture two allied capitals, one of which is the British capital of", "title": "Axis & Allies: World War I 1914" }, { "id": "7594740", "text": "war effort, particularly by Jews, Socialists, and Bolsheviks. The Allies had much more potential wealth they could spend on the war. One estimate (using 1913 US dollars) is that the Allies spent $58 billion on the war and the Central Powers only $25 billion. Among the Allies, the UK spent $21 billion and the US $17 billion; among the Central Powers Germany spent $20 billion. In the aftermath of the war, four empires disappeared: the German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian. Numerous nations regained their former independence, and new ones were created. Four dynasties, together with their ancillary aristocracies, fell as", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594611", "text": "World War I World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as \"the war to end all wars\", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. An estimated nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a direct result of the war, and it also contributed to later genocides and the", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "86253", "text": "reneged. Subsequently, several states declared war on Germany in late August 1914, with Italy declaring war on Austria-Hungary in 1915 and Germany on 27 August 1916, the United States declaring war on Germany on 6 April 1917 and Greece declaring war on Germany in July 1917. Upon its founding in 1871, the German Empire controlled Alsace-Lorraine as an \"imperial territory\" incorporated from France after the Franco-Prussian War. It was held as part of Germany's sovereign territory. Germany held multiple African colonies at the time of World War I. All of Germany's African colonies were invaded and occupied by Allied forces", "title": "Central Powers" }, { "id": "454796", "text": "European map, with the defeat of the Central Powers—including Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire—and the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, which eventually led to the founding of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, the victorious Allies of World War I, such as France, Belgium, Italy, Romania and Greece, gained territory, and new nation-states were created out of the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman and Russian Empires. To prevent a future world war, the League of Nations was created during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The organisation's primary goals were to prevent armed conflict through collective security, military", "title": "World War II" }, { "id": "86249", "text": "United Kingdom in the west. Finland, Azerbaijan, and Lithuania joined them in 1918 before the war ended and after the Russian Empire collapsed. The Central Powers were composed of the following nations: In early July 1914, in the aftermath of the assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the immediate likelihood of war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, Kaiser Wilhelm II and the German government informed the Austro-Hungarian government that Germany would uphold its alliance with Austria-Hungary and defend it from possible Russian intervention if a war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia took place. When Russia enacted a general mobilization, Germany viewed", "title": "Central Powers" }, { "id": "686784", "text": "also been used to describe the coalition of the Gulf War, as opposed to forces the Multi-National Forces in Iraq which are commonly referred to as \"Coalition forces\" or, as by the George W. Bush administration, \"the coalition of the willing\". The Allied Powers in World War I (also known as the Entente Powers) were initially the United Kingdom, France, the Russian Empire, Belgium, Serbia, Montenegro and Japan, joined later by Italy, Portugal, Romania, the United States, Greece and Brazil. Some, such as the Russian Empire, withdrew from the war before the armistice due to revolution or defeat. Scholars are", "title": "Alliance" }, { "id": "7594706", "text": "Council to co-ordinate planning. Previously, British and French armies had operated under separate commands. In December, the Central Powers signed an armistice with Russia, thus freeing large numbers of German troops for use in the west. With German reinforcements and new American troops pouring in, the outcome was to be decided on the Western Front. The Central Powers knew that they could not win a protracted war, but they held high hopes for success based on a final quick offensive. Furthermore, both sides became increasingly fearful of social unrest and revolution in Europe. Thus, both sides urgently sought a decisive", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "20820445", "text": "Russia and France, and invaded France through Belgium. Britain had an understanding and military and naval planning agreements with France, but no formal treaty obligations. Britain did have a treaty obligation toward Belgium, and as a result Britain joined France and Russia (the Allies) and declared war on Germany and Austria (the Central Powers). Japan, allied with Britain, joined the Allies. The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) joined the Central Powers. Italy, instead of joining Germany and Austria-Hungary with whom it had treaties, entered the war on the side of the Allies in 1915. The United States tried unsuccessfully to broker peace", "title": "French entry into World War I" }, { "id": "7594672", "text": "persuading Bulgaria to join the attack on Serbia. The Austro-Hungarian provinces of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia provided troops for Austria-Hungary in the fight with Serbia, Russia and Italy. Montenegro allied itself with Serbia. Bulgaria declared war on Serbia on 12 October 1915 and joined in the attack by the Austro-Hungarian army under Mackensen's army of 250,000 that was already underway. Serbia was conquered in a little more than a month, as the Central Powers, now including Bulgaria, sent in 600,000 troops total. The Serbian army, fighting on two fronts and facing certain defeat, retreated into northern Albania. The Serbs suffered", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "19056453", "text": "along with trench warfare and disease eventually led to the defeat of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Imperialism before World War I had been on the rise since the mid-nineteenth century because industrialization had caused a growing need for natural resources. Regions like Africa and India had been settled by European countries in order to make profit and extend power. Tensions began to rise as nations formed alliances with one another to improve their strength. Due to geographical closeness, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy came together as the Triple Alliance and later became the Central powers due to their central positioning in Europe.", "title": "Role of geography in World War I" }, { "id": "9013145", "text": "Arthur Link, Carranza's successful handling of the American intervention in Mexico left the country free to develop its revolution without American pressure. The incident also made Pershing a national figure and led to Wilson choosing him to command the American forces in Europe in 1918. It also gave the American army some needed experience in dealing with training, planning and logistics. World War I broke out in July 1914, pitting Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria) against the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, Russia, and several other countries). The war fell into a long stalemate after the", "title": "Presidency of Woodrow Wilson" }, { "id": "454787", "text": "late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or controlled much of continental Europe, and formed the Axis alliance with Italy and Japan. Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories of their European neighbours, Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic states. Following the onset of campaigns in North Africa and East Africa, and the fall of France in mid 1940, the war continued primarily between the European Axis powers and the British Empire. War in the Balkans, the aerial Battle of Britain, the Blitz, and", "title": "World War II" }, { "id": "5500672", "text": "Allies of World War I The Allies of World War I or Entente Powers is the term commonly used for the coalition that opposed the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria during the First World War (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the major European powers were divided between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. The Entente was made up of France, the United Kingdom and Russia. The Triple Alliance was originally composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, which remained neutral in 1914. As the war progressed, each coalition", "title": "Allies of World War I" }, { "id": "7594695", "text": "the aid of embattled Austro-Hungarian units in Transylvania while a German-Bulgarian force attacked from the south; Bucharest was taken by the Central Powers on 6 December and Romania knocked out of the war. Meanwhile, unrest grew in Russia as the Tsar remained at the front. The increasingly incompetent rule of Empress Alexandra drew protests and resulted in the murder of her favourite, Rasputin, at the end of 1916. In March 1917, demonstrations in Petrograd culminated in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the appointment of a weak Provisional Government, which shared power with the Petrograd Soviet socialists. This arrangement", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "164730", "text": "France built the largest empires, while diplomats ensured there were no major wars in Europe, apart from the Crimean War of the 1850s. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 was precipitated by the rise of nationalism in Southeastern Europe as the Great Powers took sides. The 1917 October Revolution led the Russian Empire to become the world's first communist state, the Soviet Union. The Allies, led by Britain, France, and the United States, defeated the Central Powers, led by the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, in 1918. During the Paris Peace Conference the Big Four imposed their terms", "title": "History of Europe" }, { "id": "7594626", "text": "major European powers had tried to maintain a tenuous balance of power among themselves, resulting in a complex network of political and military alliances. The biggest challenges to this were Britain's withdrawal into so-called splendid isolation, the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the post-1848 rise of Prussia under Otto von Bismarck. Victory in the 1866 Austro-Prussian War established Prussian hegemony in Germany, while victory over France in the 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War unified the German states into a German Reich under Prussian leadership. In 1873, to isolate France and avoid a war on two fronts, Bismarck negotiated the League of", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594697", "text": "unopposed, the new government acceded to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918. The treaty ceded vast territories, including Finland, the Baltic provinces, parts of Poland and Ukraine to the Central Powers. Despite this enormous German success, the manpower required by the Germans to occupy the captured territory may have contributed to the failure of the Spring Offensive, and secured relatively little food or other materiel for the Central Powers war effort. With the adoption of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Entente no longer existed. The Allied powers led a small-scale invasion of Russia, partly to stop Germany from", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "2315424", "text": "alliances: the Allies (the United Kingdom and France at first in Europe, China in Asia since 1937, followed in 1941 by the Soviet Union and the United States) and the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan). During World War II, the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union controlled Allied policy and emerged as the \"Big Three\". The Republic of China and the Big Three were referred as a \"trusteeship of the powerful\" and were recognized as the Allied \"Big Four\" in Declaration by United Nations in 1942. These four countries were referred as the \"Four Policemen\" of the Allies", "title": "Great power" }, { "id": "7594835", "text": "the pocketwatch, which requires a free hand to operate. Military funding of advancements in radio contributed to the postwar popularity of the medium. World War I World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously described as \"the war to end all wars\", it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history. An estimated nine", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7576529", "text": "Balkans Campaign (World War I) The Balkans Campaign, or Balkan Theatre of World War I was fought between the Central Powers, represented by Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Allies, represented by France, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, and the United Kingdom (and later Romania and Greece, who sided with the Allied Powers) on the other side. The prime cause of World War I was the hostility between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. Consequently, some of the earliest fighting took place between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. Serbia held out against Austria-Hungary for more than a year before it was", "title": "Balkans Campaign (World War I)" }, { "id": "7594721", "text": "appointed as supreme commander of the Allied forces. Haig, Petain, and Pershing retained tactical control of their respective armies; Foch assumed a co-ordinating rather than a directing role, and the British, French, and US commands operated largely independently. Following Operation Michael, Germany launched Operation Georgette against the northern English Channel ports. The Allies halted the drive after limited territorial gains by Germany. The German Army to the south then conducted Operations Blücher and Yorck, pushing broadly towards Paris. Germany launched Operation Marne (Second Battle of the Marne) on 15 July, in an attempt to encircle Reims. The resulting counter-attack, which", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "19056454", "text": "France and Britain became allies along with Russia in order to defend their borders and support each other in case of war. Conflicts in the Balkans grew steadily, and after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, alliances drew almost all European nations and colonies into what would become known as World War I. Due to the geographical positioning of the Triple Entente, the Central Powers were faced on all sides by their enemies. Once Italy had joined in on the side of the Allies, the war became a three front war. The big Western front was in France, and Italian", "title": "Role of geography in World War I" }, { "id": "17423439", "text": "between Austria and Serbia became increasingly bitter. Russia felt humiliated after Austria and Germany prevented it from helping Serbia. Bulgaria and Turkey were also dissatisfied, and eventually joined Austria and Germany in the First World War. The main causes of World War I, which broke out unexpectedly in central Europe in summer 1914, included many factors, such as the conflicts and hostility of the four decades leading up to the war. Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and ethnic nationalism played major roles. However the immediate origins of the war lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the Crisis of", "title": "International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919)" }, { "id": "7594770", "text": "which drove the Bulgarians out of the war, and at Vittorio Veneto, the final blow for the Austro-Hungarians. The area occupied in East by the Central powers on 11 November 1918 was . Germany deployed U-boats (submarines) after the war began. Alternating between restricted and unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic, the Kaiserliche Marine employed them to deprive the British Isles of vital supplies. The deaths of British merchant sailors and the seeming invulnerability of U-boats led to the development of depth charges (1916), hydrophones (passive sonar, 1917), blimps, hunter-killer submarines (HMS \"R-1\", 1917), forward-throwing anti-submarine weapons, and dipping hydrophones", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594694", "text": "that unfolded. By the spring of 1915, the Russians had retreated to Galicia, and, in May, the Central Powers achieved a remarkable breakthrough on Poland's southern frontiers with their Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive. On 5 August, they captured Warsaw and forced the Russians to withdraw from Poland. Despite Russia's success in the June 1916 Brusilov Offensive against the Austrians in eastern Galicia, the offensive was undermined by the reluctance of other Russian generals to commit their forces to support the victory. Allied and Russian forces were revived only temporarily by Romania's entry into the war on 27 August. German forces came to", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594613", "text": "Crisis. In response, on 23 July Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia. Serbia's reply failed to satisfy the Austrians, and the two moved to a war footing. A network of interlocking alliances enlarged the crisis from a bilateral issue in the Balkans to one involving most of Europe. By 1914, the great powers of Europe were divided into two coalitions: the Triple Entente—consisting of France, Russia and Britain—and the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (the Triple Alliance was primarily defensive in nature, allowing Italy to stay out of the war in 1914). Russia felt it necessary to back", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "20090214", "text": "Diplomatic history of World War I The Diplomatic history of World War I covers the non-military interactions among the major players during World War I. For the domestic histories see Home front during World War I. For a longer-term perspective see International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919) and Causes of World War I. For the following era see International relations (1919–1939). The major allied players included Great Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (starting in 1915) and the United States (from 1917). The major Central Powers included Germany and the Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). Other countries—and their colonies—were", "title": "Diplomatic history of World War I" }, { "id": "7594735", "text": "and French. Wilson demanded a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary control over the German military. There was no resistance when the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann on 9 November declared Germany to be a republic. The Kaiser, kings and other hereditary rulers all were removed from power and Wilhelm fled to exile in the Netherlands. Imperial Germany was dead; a new Germany had been born as the Weimar Republic. The collapse of the Central Powers came swiftly. Bulgaria was the first to sign an armistice, the Armistice of Salonica on 29 September 1918. On 30 October, the Ottoman Empire capitulated, signing the", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594689", "text": "London Pact. By the end of hostilities in November 1918, Admiral Enrico Millo declared himself Italy's Governor of Dalmatia. Austria-Hungary surrendered on 11 November 1918. Romania had been allied with the Central Powers since 1882. When the war began, however, it declared its neutrality, arguing that because Austria-Hungary had itself declared war on Serbia, Romania was under no obligation to join the war. On August 4, 1916, Romania and the Entente signed the Political Treaty and Military Convention, that established the coordinates of Romania’s participation in the war. In return, it received the Allies' formal sanction for Transylvania, Banat and", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594612", "text": "1918 influenza pandemic, which caused between 50 and 100 million deaths worldwide. Military losses were exacerbated by new technological and industrial developments and the tactical stalemate caused by gruelling trench warfare. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history and precipitated major political changes, including the Revolutions of 1917–1923, in many of the nations involved. Unresolved rivalries at the end of the conflict contributed to the start of World War II about twenty years later. On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb Yugoslav nationalist, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, leading to the July", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594673", "text": "defeat in the Battle of Kosovo. Montenegro covered the Serbian retreat towards the Adriatic coast in the Battle of Mojkovac in 6–7 January 1916, but ultimately the Austrians also conquered Montenegro. The surviving Serbian soldiers were evacuated by ship to Greece. After conquest, Serbia was divided between Austro-Hungary and Bulgaria. In late 1915, a Franco-British force landed at Salonica in Greece to offer assistance and to pressure its government to declare war against the Central Powers. However, the pro-German King Constantine I dismissed the pro-Allied government of Eleftherios Venizelos before the Allied expeditionary force arrived. The friction between the King", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "20830979", "text": "decades. Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and ethnic nationalism played major roles. However the immediate origins of the war lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the Crisis of 1914, which was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to the throne of Austria Hungary) by a Serbian secret organization, the Black Hand. Since the 1870s or 1880s all the major powers had been preparing for a large-scale war, although none expected one. Britain focused on building up its Royal Navy, already stronger than the next two navies combined. Germany, France, Austria, Italy and Russia, and some", "title": "German entry into World War I" }, { "id": "7594620", "text": "military no longer willing to fight, Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated on 9 November and Germany also signed an armistice on 11 November 1918. World War I was a significant turning point in the political, cultural, economic, and social climate of the world. As a result of the war, the Russian Empire, the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist. Revolutions and uprisings in the aftermath of the war became widespread, being mainly socialist or anti-colonial in nature. The Big Four (Britain, France, the United States and Italy) imposed their terms in a series of treaties agreed at the", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594676", "text": "The disappearance of the Macedonian Front meant that the road to Budapest and Vienna was now opened to Allied forces. Hindenburg and Ludendorff concluded that the strategic and operational balance had now shifted decidedly against the Central Powers and, a day after the Bulgarian collapse, insisted on an immediate peace settlement. The Ottomans threatened Russia's Caucasian territories and Britain's communications with India via the Suez Canal. As the conflict progressed, the Ottoman Empire took advantage of the European powers' preoccupation with the war and conducted large-scale ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christian populations, known as the", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "17850960", "text": "Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers On 15 December 1917, an armistice was signed between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) on the one side and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria, the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire—the Central Powers—on the other. The armistice took effect two days later, on 17 December. (These were 2 December and 4 December, respectively, in the Old Style [O.S.] calendar in use in Russia at the time.) By this agreement Russia \"de facto\" exited World War I, although fighting would briefly resume before the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed on 3 March 1918", "title": "Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers" }, { "id": "12682405", "text": "Ireland and World War I During World War I (1914–1918), Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which entered the war in August 1914 as one of the Entente Powers, along with France, and the Russian Empire. In part as an effect of chain ganging, the UK decided due to geopolitical power issues to declare war on the Central Powers, consisting of the German Empire, the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Occurring during Ireland's revolutionary period, the Irish people's experience of the war was complex and its memory of it", "title": "Ireland and World War I" }, { "id": "165011", "text": "Lösung\", the greater Germany solution (Germany with Austria), the former prevailing. The new \"Reichstag\", an elected parliament, had only a limited role in the imperial government. Germany joined the other powers in colonial expansion in Africa and the Pacific. Germany was the dominant power on the continent. By 1900, its rapidly expanding industrial economy passed Britain's, allowing a naval race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I (1914–1918) against France, Great Britain, Russia and (by 1917) the United States. Defeated and partly occupied, Germany was forced to pay war reparations by the Treaty of Versailles and was stripped", "title": "History of Germany" }, { "id": "7594705", "text": "harsh measures were not immediately implemented. The French Army Mutinies eventually spread to a further 54 French divisions, and 20,000 men deserted. However, appeals to patriotism and duty, as well as mass arrests and trials, encouraged the soldiers to return to defend their trenches, although the French soldiers refused to participate in further offensive action. Robert Nivelle was removed from command by 15 May, replaced by General Philippe Pétain, who suspended bloody large-scale attacks. The victory of the Central Powers at the Battle of Caporetto led the Allies to convene the Rapallo Conference at which they formed the Supreme War", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594643", "text": "August declared war on France; on the same day, they sent the Belgian government an ultimatum demanding unimpeded right of way through any part of Belgium, which was refused. Early on the morning of 4 August, the Germans invaded; King Albert ordered his military to resist and called for assistance under the 1839 Treaty of London. Britain demanded Germany comply with the Treaty and respect Belgian neutrality; it declared war on Germany at 19:00 UTC on 4 August 1914 (effective from 23:00), following an \"unsatisfactory reply\". The strategy of the Central Powers suffered from miscommunication. Germany had promised to support", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594619", "text": "Russia's involvement in the war. This allowed the transfer of large numbers of German troops from the East to the Western Front, resulting in the German March 1918 Offensive. The offensive was initially successful, but the Allied Powers rallied and drove the Germans back in the Hundred Days Offensive. Bulgaria was the first Central Power to sign an armistice—the Armistice of Salonica on 29 September 1918. On 30 October, the Ottoman Empire capitulated, signing the Armistice of Mudros. On 4 November, the Austro-Hungarian empire agreed to the Armistice of Villa Giusti. With its allies defeated, revolution at home, and the", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "5500673", "text": "added new members. Japan joined the Entente in 1914. After proclaiming its neutrality at the beginning of the war, Italy also joined the Entente in 1915. The United States joined as an \"associated power\" rather than an official ally. 'Associated members' included Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Montenegro and Romania. When the war began in 1914, the Central Powers were opposed by the Triple Entente, formed in 1907 by the British Empire, the Russian Empire and the French Third Republic. Fighting commenced when Austria invaded Serbia on 28 July 1914, purportedly in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to", "title": "Allies of World War I" }, { "id": "7594827", "text": "three Allies (Britain, Italy, and the United States), but decreased in France and Russia, in neutral Netherlands, and in the three main Central Powers. The shrinkage in GDP in Austria, Russia, France, and the Ottoman Empire ranged between 30% and 40%. In Austria, for example, most pigs were slaughtered, so at war's end there was no meat. In all nations, the government's share of GDP increased, surpassing 50% in both Germany and France and nearly reaching that level in Britain. To pay for purchases in the United States, Britain cashed in its extensive investments in American railroads and then began", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "17423459", "text": "The U.S. demanded it stop, and Germany did so. Admiral Henning von Holtzendorff (1853-1919), chief of the admiralty staff, argued successfully in early 1917 to resume the attacks and thus starve the British. The German high command realized the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare meant war with the United States but calculated that American mobilization would be too slow to stop a German victory on the Western Front. The First World War was a global conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918. It saw the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary, later joined by the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria), fighting the", "title": "International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919)" }, { "id": "7594629", "text": "settling long-standing colonial disputes, they made British entry into any future conflict involving France or Russia a possibility; these interlocking bilateral agreements became known as the Triple Entente. Victory in the 1871 Franco-Prussian War and the creation of the German Reich led to a massive increase in Germany's economic and industrial strength. Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz and Wilhelm II, who became Emperor in 1890, sought to use that to create a \"Kaiserliche Marine\" or Imperial German Navy to compete with Britain's Royal Navy for world naval supremacy. Their rationale was based on the ideas of US naval strategist Alfred Mahan,", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "3563958", "text": "the United States after 1917, defeated the [[Central Powers]], led by the [[German Empire]], [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]]. The war caused the disintegration of four empires—the Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman, and Russian ones—as well as radical change in the European and West Asian maps. The Allied powers before 1917 are referred to as the [[Triple Entente]], and the Central Powers are referred to as the [[Triple Alliance (1882)|Triple Alliance]]. [[File:Chemical Warfare in the Twentieth Century Q54781.jpg|left|thumb|[[Chemical warfare|Chemical Warfare]] was used for the first time in WWI. Soldiers used [[Gas mask|gas-masks]] to protect themselves]]Much of the fighting in World War", "title": "Modern history" }, { "id": "20090226", "text": "arrived at.\" The two sides had strikingly different approaches to diplomacy. The military leadership of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his deputy General Erich Ludendorff increasingly controlled Germany and the other Central Powers. They worked around the Kaiser and largely ignored the politicians and diplomats; they focused on military supremacy. The most dramatic example came when military command decided on unrestricted submarine warfare against Britain in early 1917, over the objections of Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg and other civilian leaders. Historian Cathal Nolan says their strategy was, \"Germans must win fast and win everything or lose everything in a war of", "title": "Diplomatic history of World War I" }, { "id": "86248", "text": "I had begun, even though the Ottoman Empire had retained close relations with both Germany and Austria-Hungary since the beginning of the 20th century. The Central Powers consisted of the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the war. The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers later in 1914. In 1915, the Kingdom of Bulgaria joined the alliance. The name \"Central Powers\" is derived from the location of these countries; all four (including the other groups that supported them except for Finland and Lithuania) were located between the Russian Empire in the east and France and the", "title": "Central Powers" }, { "id": "469552", "text": "technology, popular music and other influences of Western culture, international corporations, and what was arguably a truly global economy by the end of the 20th century. Technological advancements during World War I changed the way war was fought, as new inventions such as tanks, chemical weapons, and aircraft modified tactics and strategy. After more than four years of trench warfare in Western Europe, and 20 million dead, the powers that had formed the Triple Entente (France, Britain, and Russia, later replaced by the United States and joined by Italy and Romania) emerged victorious over the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the", "title": "20th century" }, { "id": "7594617", "text": "halted at the Battle of the Marne and by the end of 1914, the Western Front settled into a battle of attrition, marked by a long series of trench lines that changed little until 1917. The Eastern Front was marked by much greater exchanges of territory, but though Serbia was defeated in 1915, and Romania joined the Allied Powers in 1916 only to be defeated in 1917, none of the great powers were knocked out of the war until 1918. In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, opening fronts in the Caucasus, Mesopotamia and the Sinai Peninsula.", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594658", "text": "were developed by Britain and France and were first used in combat by the British during the Battle of Flers–Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme) on 15 September 1916, with only partial success. However, their effectiveness would grow as the war progressed; the Allies built tanks in large numbers, whilst the Germans employed only a few of their own design, supplemented by captured Allied tanks. Neither side proved able to deliver a decisive blow for the next two years. Throughout 1915–17, the British Empire and France suffered more casualties than Germany, because of both the strategic and tactical", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594651", "text": "Force landed on the island of Neu Pommern (later New Britain), which formed part of German New Guinea. On 28 October, the German cruiser sank the Russian cruiser Zhemchug in the Battle of Penang. Japan seized Germany's Micronesian colonies and, after the Siege of Tsingtao, the German coaling port of Qingdao on the Chinese Shandong peninsula. As Vienna refused to withdraw the Austro-Hungarian cruiser from Tsingtao, Japan declared war not only on Germany, but also on Austria-Hungary; the ship participated in the defence of Tsingtao where it was sunk in November 1914. Within a few months, the Allied forces had", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594627", "text": "the Three Emperors (German: \"Dreikaiserbund\") between Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany. Concerned by Russia's victory in the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War and their influence in the Balkans, the League was dissolved in 1878, with Germany and Austria-Hungary subsequently forming the 1879 Dual Alliance; this became the Triple Alliance when Italy joined in 1882. The practical details of these alliances were limited, since their primary purpose was to ensure cooperation between the three Imperial Powers and isolate France. Attempts by Britain in 1880 to resolve colonial tensions with Russia and diplomatic moves by France led to Bismarck reforming the League in 1881. When", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594826", "text": "have existed except in the minds of unknown agitators and crackpots. One of the most dramatic effects of the war was the expansion of governmental powers and responsibilities in Britain, France, the United States, and the Dominions of the British Empire. To harness all the power of their societies, governments created new ministries and powers. New taxes were levied and laws enacted, all designed to bolster the war effort; many have lasted to this day. Similarly, the war strained the abilities of some formerly large and bureaucratised governments, such as in Austria-Hungary and Germany. Gross domestic product (GDP) increased for", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "86271", "text": "the war with them. Bulgaria signed an armistice with the Allies on 29 September 1918, following a successful Allied advance in Macedonia. The Ottoman Empire followed suit on 30 October 1918 in the face of British and Arab gains in Palestine and Syria. Austria and Hungary concluded ceasefires separately during the first week of November following the disintegration of the Habsburg Empire and the Italian offensive at Vittorio Veneto; Germany signed the armistice ending the war on the morning of 11 November 1918 after the Hundred Days Offensive, and a succession of advances by New Zealand, Australian, Canadian, Belgian, British,", "title": "Central Powers" }, { "id": "7594741", "text": "a result of the war: the Romanovs, the Hohenzollerns, the Habsburgs, and the Ottomans. Belgium and Serbia were badly damaged, as was France, with 1.4 million soldiers dead, not counting other casualties. Germany and Russia were similarly affected. A formal state of war between the two sides persisted for another seven months, until the signing of the Treaty of Versailles with Germany on 28 June 1919. The United States Senate did not ratify the treaty despite public support for it, and did not formally end its involvement in the war until the Knox–Porter Resolution was signed on 2 July 1921", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "32221", "text": "was also under \"de facto\" joint occupation during that period but the Austro-Hungarian army withdrew as part of their annexation of Bosnia. The annexation of Bosnia also led to Islam being recognized as an official state religion due to Bosnia's Muslim population. Austria-Hungary was one of the Central Powers in World War I which started when it declared war on the Kingdom of Serbia on July 28, 1914. It was already effectively dissolved by the time the military authorities signed the armistice of Villa Giusti on 3 November 1918. The Kingdom of Hungary and the First Austrian Republic were treated", "title": "Austria-Hungary" }, { "id": "7594769", "text": "role in both of these assaults, as they had the year before at Cambrai. The areas in the East were larger. The Germans did well at the First Masurian Lakes driving the invaders from East Prussia, and at Riga, which led the Russians to sue for peace. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans joined for a great success at Gorlice–Tarnów, which drove the Russians out of Poland. In a series of attacks along with the Bulgarians they occupied Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and most of Romania. The Allies successes came later in Palestine, the beginning of the end for the Ottomans, in Macedonia,", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "10977927", "text": "War I. In August 1914, World War I began when alliance obligations arising from the war between Serbia and Austria-Hungary brought Germany and Russia to war, while Germany's invasion of Belgium directly triggered Britain's entry. After a series of military events and political intrigues, Russia declared war on Turkey in November. Turkey then joined the Central Powers in fighting the Entente Powers. In response to the war with Russia and Britain, and further motivated by its alliance with Turkey, Germany accelerated its plans to weaken its enemies by targeting their colonial empires, including Russia in Turkestan and Britain in India,", "title": "Niedermayer–Hentig Expedition" }, { "id": "4669335", "text": "a diplomatic crisis, resulting in Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia and sparking the First World War. Due to a variety of reasons, within weeks the major powers of Europe—divided into two alliances known as the Central Powers and the Triple Entente—went to war. As the conflict progressed, additional countries from around the globe became drawn into the conflict on both sides. Fighting would rage across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia for the next four years. On 8 January 1918, United States President Woodrow Wilson issued a statement that became known as the Fourteen Points. In part, this speech", "title": "Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles" }, { "id": "7594680", "text": "Germans were aided by Kurdish and Azeri forces, together with a large number of major Iranian tribes, such as the Qashqai, Tangistanis, Luristanis, and Khamseh, while the Russians and British had the support of Armenian and Assyrian forces. The Persian Campaign was to last until 1918 and end in failure for the Ottomans and their allies. However, the Russian withdrawal from the war in 1917 led to Armenian and Assyrian forces, who had hitherto inflicted a series of defeats upon the forces of the Ottomans and their allies, being cut off from supply lines, outnumbered, outgunned and isolated, forcing them", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594787", "text": "were to prisoner status; for Austria-Hungary 32%, for Italy 26%, for France 12%, for Germany 9%; for Britain 7%. Prisoners from the Allied armies totalled about 1.4 million (not including Russia, which lost 2.5–3.5 million men as prisoners). From the Central Powers about 3.3 million men became prisoners; most of them surrendered to Russians. Germany held 2.5 million prisoners; Russia held 2.2–2.9 million; while Britain and France held about 720,000. Most were captured just before the Armistice. The United States held 48,000. The most dangerous moment was the act of surrender, when helpless soldiers were sometimes gunned down. Once prisoners", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594645", "text": "thrown back with heavy losses, which marked the first major Allied victories of the war and dashed Austro-Hungarian hopes of a swift victory. As a result, Austria had to keep sizeable forces on the Serbian front, weakening its efforts against Russia. Serbia's defeat of the Austro-Hungarian invasion of 1914 has been called one of the major upset victories of the twentieth century. When the war began, the German Order of Battle placed 80% of the army in the West, with the remainder acting as a screening force in the East. The plan was to quickly knock France out of the", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "14138926", "text": "and was replaced by a Russian Provisional Government. This helped overcome Wilson's reluctance to having the US fight alongside a country ruled by an absolutist monarch. Pleased by the Provisional Government's pro-war stance, the US accorded the new government diplomatic recognition on March 9, 1917. Although the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, it did not initially declare war on the other Central Powers, a state of affairs that Woodrow Wilson described as an \"embarrassing obstacle\" in his State of the Union speech. Congress declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire on December 7, 1917, but never", "title": "United States in World War I" }, { "id": "7594678", "text": "from Ottoman attacks in 1915 and 1916; in August, a German and Ottoman force was defeated at the Battle of Romani by the ANZAC Mounted Division and the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division. Following this victory, an Egyptian Expeditionary Force advanced across the Sinai Peninsula, pushing Ottoman forces back in the Battle of Magdhaba in December and the Battle of Rafa on the border between the Egyptian Sinai and Ottoman Palestine in January 1917. Russian armies generally had success in the Caucasus. Enver Pasha, supreme commander of the Ottoman armed forces, was ambitious and dreamed of re-conquering central Asia and areas", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594687", "text": "offensives, centred on the Banjšice and Karst Plateau east of Gorizia. The Central Powers launched a crushing offensive on 26 October 1917, spearheaded by the Germans, and achieved a victory at Caporetto (Kobarid). The Italian Army was routed and retreated more than to reorganise, stabilising the front at the Piave River. Since the Italian Army had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Caporetto, the Italian Government ordered conscription of the so-called \"99 Boys\" (\"Ragazzi del '99\"): all males born in 1899 and prior, who were 18 years old or older. In 1918, the Austro-Hungarians failed to break through in", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594698", "text": "exploiting Russian resources, and to a lesser extent, to support the \"Whites\" (as opposed to the \"Reds\") in the Russian Civil War. Allied troops landed in Arkhangelsk and in Vladivostok as part of the North Russia Intervention. The Czechoslovak Legion fought with the Entente; its goal was to win support for the independence of Czechoslovakia. The Legion in Russia was established in September 1914, in December 1917 in France (including volunteers from America) and in April 1918 in Italy. Czechoslovak Legion troops defeated the Austro-Hungarian army at the Ukrainian village of Zborov, in July 1917. After this success, the number", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "17833303", "text": "to the complete withdrawal of Allied forces from Serbia, thus enabling the Central Powers to build the Berlin to Constantinople rail line. The Allies in the meantime concentrated on solidifying their defenses in Greece. The 28 June 1914, assassination of Austro-Hungarian heir presumptive Archduke Franz Ferdinand precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia. The conflict quickly attracted the involvement of all major European countries, pitting the Central Powers against the Entente coalition and starting World War I. After the entry of the Ottoman Empire into the war on the side of the Central Powers (November 1914), the decisive factor in", "title": "Battle of Kosturino" }, { "id": "12055563", "text": "should not be required to serve in other regions except in time of war. The situation, however, lost momentum and took a blow with the events that unfolded next. In 1914, the Ottoman Empire allied itself with the German Empire and formed the Ottoman–German Alliance. It was this binding alliance that ultimately led the Ottoman Empire to enter the First World War in August 1914 on the side of the Central Powers (composed of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Kingdom of Bulgaria) in battling the Triple Entente or the Allied Forces of Britain, France and Russia later", "title": "Martyrs' Day (Lebanon and Syria)" }, { "id": "4432396", "text": "World War II by country Nearly every country and territory in the world participated in World War II, with the exception of only a few nations which remained neutral. The Second World War pitted two alliances against each other, the Axis powers and the Allied powers. The leading Axis powers were Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Japan; while the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and China were the \"Big Four\" Allied powers. The countries involved in or affected by World War II are listed here alphabetically, with a description of their role", "title": "World War II by country" }, { "id": "454792", "text": "conducted in the wake of the war both against the Germans and the Japanese. World War II changed the political alignment and social structure of the globe. The United Nations (UN) was established to foster international co-operation and prevent future conflicts; the victorious great powers—China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States—became the permanent members of its Security Council. The Soviet Union and United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the nearly half-century long Cold War. In the wake of European devastation, the influence of its great powers waned, triggering the decolonisation of", "title": "World War II" }, { "id": "20820443", "text": "was not sincere in seeking peace. The French consensus was that war was inevitable. The war arose from conflict between two alliances: the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria and Italy, and the Triple Entente of France, Russia and Britain. France had had a military alliance with Russia since 1894, designed primarily to neutralize the German threat to both countries. Germany had a military alliance with Austria-Hungary. In June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated. The government of Austria decided to destroy Serbia once and for all, for stirring up trouble among ethnic Slavs. Berlin", "title": "French entry into World War I" }, { "id": "7594813", "text": "most part, wartime diplomacy focused on five issues: propaganda campaigns; defining and redefining the war goals, which became harsher as the war went on; luring neutral nations (Italy, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Romania) into the coalition by offering slices of enemy territory; and encouragement by the Allies of nationalistic minority movements inside the Central Powers, especially among Czechs, Poles, and Arabs. In addition, there were multiple peace proposals coming from neutrals, or one side or the other; none of them progressed very far. The first tentative efforts to comprehend the meaning and consequences of modern warfare began during the initial phases", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594677", "text": "Armenian Genocide, Greek Genocide, and Assyrian Genocide. The British and French opened overseas fronts with the Gallipoli (1915) and Mesopotamian campaigns (1914). In Gallipoli, the Ottoman Empire successfully repelled the British, French, and Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs). In Mesopotamia, by contrast, after the defeat of the British defenders in the Siege of Kut by the Ottomans (1915–16), British Imperial forces reorganised and captured Baghdad in March 1917. The British were aided in Mesopotamia by local Arab and Assyrian tribesmen, while the Ottomans employed local Kurdish and Turcoman tribes. Further to the west, the Suez Canal was defended", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594633", "text": "the First Balkan War was fought between the Balkan League and the fracturing Ottoman Empire. The resulting Treaty of London further shrank the Ottoman Empire, creating an independent Albanian state while enlarging the territorial holdings of Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece. When Bulgaria attacked Serbia and Greece on 16 June 1913, it sparked the 33-day Second Balkan War, by the end of which it lost most of Macedonia to Serbia and Greece, and Southern Dobruja to Romania, further destabilising the region. The Great Powers were able to keep these Balkan conflicts contained, but the next one would spread throughout Europe", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "3563957", "text": "Magdhaba]]), 1917.12 (British troops take Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire), and 1918.11.11 (World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies).Allies and Central Powers in the First World War Allied powers and areas Central powers and colonies or occupied territory Neutral countries]] [[File:General gouraud french army world war i machinegun marne 1918.JPEG|thumb|French Army, 1918]] The First World War began in 1914 and lasted to the final [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)|Armistice]] in 1918. The [[Allies of World War I|Allied Powers]], led by the [[Britain in World War I|British Empire]], [[French Third Republic|France]], Russia until March 1918, Japan and", "title": "Modern history" }, { "id": "7594753", "text": "Britain declared war in 1914, the dominions were automatically at war; at the conclusion, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were individual signatories of the Treaty of Versailles. Lobbying by Chaim Weizmann and fear that American Jews would encourage the United States to support Germany culminated in the British government's Balfour Declaration of 1917, endorsing creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. A total of more than 1,172,000 Jewish soldiers served in the Allied and Central Power forces in World War I, including 275,000 in Austria-Hungary and 450,000 in Tsarist Russia. The establishment of the modern state of Israel", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "20820446", "text": "negotiations, and entered the war on the Allied side in April 1917. After very heavy losses on both sides, the Allies were decisively victorious, and divided the spoils of victory, such as the German and Ottoman colonies. France was a winner, while the German, Russian and Ottoman Empires disintegrated. By the late 1880s Bismarck's League of the Three Emperors was in disarray. Germany remained closely allied to Austria-Hungary (since 1879) but there was growing friction between Russia and Austria-Hungary. Bismarck, in the hope of making the Tsar more amenable to his wishes, had forbidden German banks to lend money to", "title": "French entry into World War I" }, { "id": "7594702", "text": "territories, reparations for France, Russia and Romania, and a recognition of the principle of nationalities. This included the liberation of Italians, Slavs, Romanians, Czecho-Slovaks, and the creation of a \"free and united Poland\". On the question of security, the Allies sought guarantees that would prevent or limit future wars, complete with sanctions, as a condition of any peace settlement. The negotiations failed and the Entente powers rejected the German offer on the grounds that Germany had not put forward any specific proposals. Events of 1917 proved decisive in ending the war, although their effects were not fully felt until 1918.", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "57585", "text": "the Balkans in 1914 when members of Mlada Bosna, a revolutionary organization with predominantly Serbian and pro-Yugoslav members, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital, Sarajevo. That caused a war between the two countries which—through the existing chains of alliances—led to the First World War. The Ottoman Empire soon joined the Central Powers becoming one of the three empires participating in that alliance. The next year Bulgaria joined the Central Powers attacking Serbia, which was successfully fighting Austro-Hungary to the north for a year. That led to Serbia's defeat and the intervention of", "title": "Balkans" }, { "id": "7594751", "text": "parts of the Kingdom of Hungary, became a new nation. Russia became the Soviet Union and lost Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, which became independent countries. The Ottoman Empire was soon replaced by Turkey and several other countries in the Middle East. In the British Empire, the war unleashed new forms of nationalism. In Australia and New Zealand the Battle of Gallipoli became known as those nations' \"Baptism of Fire\". It was the first major war in which the newly established countries fought, and it was one of the first times that Australian troops fought as Australians, not just subjects", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "1995048", "text": "alliance system as one of the causes of World War I. At the start of World War I in 1914, all three Triple Entente members entered it as Allied Powers against the Central Powers: Germany and Austria-Hungary. However, the Triple Entente, unlike the Triple Alliance or the Franco-Russian Alliance, was not an alliance of mutual defense. Thus, Britain felt free to make its own foreign policy decisions in the 1914 July Crisis. Russia had previously been a member of the League of the Three Emperors, an alliance in 1873 with Austria-Hungary and Germany. The alliance was part of German Chancellor", "title": "Triple Entente" }, { "id": "540178", "text": "air force, the Luftwaffe, and naval force, the Kriegsmarine in 1935. Germany annexed Austria in 1938, the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and the Memel territory from Lithuania in 1939. Germany then invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia in 1939, creating the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the country of Slovakia. On 23 August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, which contained a secret protocol dividing eastern Europe into spheres of influence. Germany's invasion of its part of Poland under the Pact eight days later triggered the beginning of World War II. By the end of 1941, Germany", "title": "Axis powers" }, { "id": "511155", "text": "World War I. In November 1916 the Emperor died, leaving the relatively inexperienced Charles (Karl) in command. The defeat of the Central Powers in 1918 resulted in the disintegration of Austria-Hungary, and the Emperor went into exile. The First World War effectively ended for Austria on 3 November 1918, when the defeated army signed the Armistice of Villa Giusti at Padua following the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. (Technically this applied to Austria-Hungary, but Hungary had withdrawn from the conflict on 31 October 1918, and most other states within the empire, such as Czechoslovakia and the South Slavs, had also done", "title": "History of Austria" }, { "id": "7576544", "text": "nationalist and anti-Turkish government in Athens, led to Greek mobilization in the cause of the \"Great Idea\" - the recovery of the Greek empire in the east - which would complicate the Allied effort to resettle the peace of Europe for years after the war ended.\" Balkans Campaign (World War I) The Balkans Campaign, or Balkan Theatre of World War I was fought between the Central Powers, represented by Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany and the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Allies, represented by France, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, and the United Kingdom (and later Romania and Greece, who sided with", "title": "Balkans Campaign (World War I)" }, { "id": "405551", "text": "\"Versailles Conference\", only the actual signing of the treaty took place at the historic palace. Most of the negotiations were in Paris, with the \"Big Four\" meetings taking place generally at the Quai d'Orsay. On 28 June 1914 the Bosnian-Serb Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in the name of Serbian nationalism. This caused a diplomatic crisis, resulting in Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia and sparking the First World War. Due to a variety of reasons, within weeks the major powers of Europe—divided into two alliances known as the Central Powers and the", "title": "Treaty of Versailles" }, { "id": "5500676", "text": "1916, while Romania commenced hostilities against Austria on 27 August. On 6 April 1917, the United States entered the war as a co-belligerent, along with the associated allies of Liberia, Siam and Greece. After the 1917 October Revolution, Russia left the Entente and agreed to a separate peace with the Central Powers with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918. Romania was forced to do the same in the May 1918 Treaty of Bucharest but on 10 November, it repudiated the Treaty and once more declared war on the Central Powers. These changes meant the Allies", "title": "Allies of World War I" }, { "id": "7594671", "text": "combat, with launching Sopwith Camels in a successful raid against the Zeppelin hangars at Tondern in July 1918, as well as blimps for antisubmarine patrol. Faced with Russia in the east, Austria-Hungary could spare only one-third of its army to attack Serbia. After suffering heavy losses, the Austrians briefly occupied the Serbian capital, Belgrade. A Serbian counter-attack in the Battle of Kolubara succeeded in driving them from the country by the end of 1914. For the first ten months of 1915, Austria-Hungary used most of its military reserves to fight Italy. German and Austro-Hungarian diplomats, however, scored a coup by", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594692", "text": "the local assembly of that territory on its unification with Romania. Romania officially made peace with the Central Powers by signing the Treaty of Bucharest on 7 May 1918. Under the treaty, Romania was obliged to end the war with the Central Powers and make small territorial concessions to Austria-Hungary, ceding control of some passes in the Carpathian Mountains, and to grant oil concessions to Germany. In exchange, the Central Powers recognised the sovereignty of Romania over Bessarabia. The treaty was renounced in October 1918 by the Alexandru Marghiloman government, and Romania nominally re-entered the war on 10 November 1918.", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "20872479", "text": "Russian entry into World War I Russia entered into World War I on August 1, 1914, when Germany declared war on it. In accordance with its war plan, Germany ignored Russia and moved first against France--declaring war on August 3 and sending its main armies through Belgium to attack Paris from the north. The invasion of Belgium caused Britain to declare war on Germany on August 4. The main parties were now at war. Soon Turkey joined on Germany's side, and later Italy on the Allied side. Historians on the origin of the First World War has emphasized the role", "title": "Russian entry into World War I" }, { "id": "20868953", "text": "Austro-Hungarian entry into World War I On 28 July 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Within days, long-standing mobilization plans went into effect to initiate invasions or guard against them and Russia, France and Britain stood arrayed against Austria and Germany in what at the time was called the \"Great War\", and was later named \"World War I\" or \"First World War.\" Austria thought in terms of one small limited war involving just the two countries. It did not plan a wider war such as exploded in a matter of days. British historian John Zametica argued that Austria-Hungary was primarily", "title": "Austro-Hungarian entry into World War I" }, { "id": "7696585", "text": "between the Alps and the Adriatic, near the town of Trieste. The fighting primarily involved Italy and Austria-Hungary but also included smaller contingents from France, the UK, and the US (who fought on the side of Italy), and Germany (who was allied with Austria-Hungary). The Balkans Front covered all of Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, and Romania. It also covered northern Greece, the western part of Bulgaria, and the south and eastern parts of Austria-Hungary. Very little fighting took place in this theatre for long periods of time. It was considered a lesser theatre of war by the Great Powers. The Central", "title": "European theatre of World War I" }, { "id": "7594652", "text": "seized all the German territories in the Pacific; only isolated commerce raiders and a few holdouts in New Guinea remained. Some of the first clashes of the war involved British, French, and German colonial forces in Africa. On 6–7 August, French and British troops invaded the German protectorate of Togoland and Kamerun. On 10 August, German forces in South-West Africa attacked South Africa; sporadic and fierce fighting continued for the rest of the war. The German colonial forces in German East Africa, led by Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, fought a guerrilla warfare campaign during World War I and only surrendered", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "150064", "text": "World War I. After four years of warfare, in which approximately two million German soldiers were killed, a general armistice ended the fighting on 11 November, and German troops returned home. In the German Revolution (November 1918), Emperor Wilhelm II and all German ruling princes abdicated their positions and responsibilities. Germany's new political leadership signed the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. In this treaty, Germany, as part of the Central Powers, accepted defeat by the Allies in one of the bloodiest conflicts of all time. Germans perceived the treaty as humiliating and unjust and it was later seen by historians", "title": "Germany" } ]

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[ { "id": "5396368", "text": "attachment so the surgeon may use a hex-like screw to place into the device to push from anterior to posterior to start spreading the bony segments. The expansion of the maxilla may take up to 8 weeks with the surgeon advancing the expander hex lock, sideways (← →), once a week. After orthognathic surgery, patients are often required to adhere to an all-liquid diet for a time. Weight loss due to lack of appetite and the liquid diet is common. Normal recovery time can range from a few weeks for minor surgery, to up to a year for more complicated", "title": "Orthognathic surgery" }, { "id": "5800675", "text": "can begin. This usually consists of careful exercises to regain flexibility and small amounts of strength. One of the more important benchmarks in recovery is the twelve weeks post-surgery period. After this, the patient can typically begin a more aggressive regimen of exercises involving stress on the knee, and increasing resistance. Jogging may be incorporated as well. After four months, more intense activities such as running are possible without risk. After five months, light ball work may commence as the ligament is nearly regenerated. After six months, the reconstructed ACL is generally at full strength (ligament tissue has fully regrown),", "title": "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" }, { "id": "2150905", "text": "lactation period can vary between nine and eighteen months. Dromedaries are induced ovulators. Oestrus may be cued by the nutritional status of the camel and the daylength. If mating does not occur, the follicle, which grows during oestrus, usually regresses within a few days. In one study, 35 complete oestrous cycles were observed in five nonpregnant females over 15 months. The cycles were about 28 days long; follicles matured in six days, maintained their size for 13 days, and returned to their original size in eight days. In another study, ovulation could be best induced when the follicle reaches a", "title": "Dromedary" }, { "id": "1208974", "text": "decades ago. Still, losses to the aquifer between 2001 and 2011 equated to a third of its cumulative depletion during the entire 20th century. The Ogallala is recharged primarily by rainwater, but only about one inch of precipitation actually reaches the aquifer annually. Rainfall in most of the Texas High Plains is minimal, evaporation is high, and infiltration rates are slow. In 2008, TransCanada Corporation proposed the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to carry oil from the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta to refineries near Houston, Texas. The proposed route of the pipeline crosses the eastern part of the", "title": "Ogallala Aquifer" }, { "id": "4952697", "text": "tests and ultrasound exams to determine the donor's reaction to the hormones and the progress of follicle growth. Once the doctor decides the follicles are mature, he/she will establish the date and time for the egg retrieval procedure. Approximately 36 hours before retrieval, the donor must administer one last injection of HCG hormone to ensure that her eggs are ready to be harvested. The egg retrieval itself is a minimally invasive surgical procedure lasting 20–30 minutes, performed under sedation (but sometimes without any). A small ultrasound-guided needle is inserted through the vagina to aspirate the follicles in both ovaries, which", "title": "Egg donation" }, { "id": "20555740", "text": "11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 15 June 17 June 19 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 July 5 July 6 July 26 July 27 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 August", "title": "Timeline of the 2018 Pacific hurricane season" }, { "id": "3929312", "text": "Aquifer test An aquifer test (or a pumping test) is conducted to evaluate an aquifer by \"stimulating\" the aquifer through constant pumping, and observing the aquifer's \"response\" (drawdown) in observation wells. Aquifer testing is a common tool that hydrogeologists use to characterize a system of aquifers, aquitards and flow system boundaries. A slug test is a variation on the typical aquifer test where an instantaneous change (increase or decrease) is made, and the effects are observed in the same well. This is often used in geotechnical or engineering settings to get a quick estimate (minutes instead of days) of the", "title": "Aquifer test" }, { "id": "2517907", "text": "before the onset of effects than when it is insufflated. Oral ingestion generally takes roughly 45–75 minutes for the effects to be felt, plateau lasts 2–4 hours, and coming down lasts 1–2 hours. Rectal administration onset varies from 5–20 minutes. Insufflated onset takes 1–10 minutes for effects to be felt. The duration can last from 4 to 12 hours depending on route of administration, dose, and other factors. With insufflation, the effects are more abrupt and intense but have a significantly shorter duration, while oral usage results in a milder, longer experience. When insufflated, the onset happens very rapidly, usually", "title": "2C-B" }, { "id": "1406159", "text": "during which the ovarian follicles mature. The follicular phase lasts from the beginning of menstruation to the start of ovulation. For ovulation to be successful, the ovum must be supported by the corona radiata and cumulus oophorous granulosa cells. The latter undergo a period of proliferation and mucification known as cumulus expansion. Mucification is the secretion of a hyaluronic acid-rich cocktail that disperses and gathers the cumulus cell network in a sticky matrix around the ovum. This network stays with the ovum after ovulation and has been shown to be necessary for fertilization. An increase in cumulus cell number causes", "title": "Ovulation" }, { "id": "10409773", "text": "Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd", "title": "2007 Dallas Desperados season" }, { "id": "10409878", "text": "Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th", "title": "2007 New York Dragons season" }, { "id": "615536", "text": "dependent on their mother's milk for 30 weeks and will reach independence at 16–18 months. At the age of six weeks, they attain , by the age of eight weeks they reach and by the age of six months they weigh . They reach sexual maturity at the age of three years and attain their full growth at the age of five years. The average lifespan in the wild is 18 years, though it is quite possible for wild specimens to survive for more than 23 years. The record age of a wild specimen was 39 years, while that in", "title": "American black bear" }, { "id": "10416126", "text": "Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance:", "title": "2007 Utah Blaze season" }, { "id": "10409701", "text": "3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter:", "title": "2007 Orlando Predators season" }, { "id": "12773890", "text": "male orgasm lasts several seconds. After the start of orgasm, pulses of semen begin to flow from the urethra, reach a peak discharge and then diminish in flow. The typical orgasm consists of 10 to 15 contractions, although the man is unlikely to be consciously aware of that many. Once the first contraction has taken place, ejaculation will continue to completion as an involuntary process. At this stage, ejaculation cannot be stopped. The rate of contractions gradually slows during the orgasm. Initial contractions occur at an average interval of 0.6 seconds with an increasing increment of 0.1 seconds per contraction.", "title": "Ejaculation" }, { "id": "444756", "text": "Vaginal births are more common, but if there is a risk of complications a caesarean section (C-section) may be performed. The vaginal mucosa has an abnormal accumulation of fluid (edematous) and is thin, with few rugae, a little after birth. The mucosa thickens and rugae return in approximately three weeks once the ovaries regain usual function and estrogen flow is restored. The vaginal opening gapes and is relaxed, until it returns to its approximate pre-pregnant state six to eight weeks after delivery, known as the postpartum period; however, the vagina will continue to be larger in size than it was", "title": "Vagina" }, { "id": "18066443", "text": "27 July 28 July 29 July 31 August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 17 August 18 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 September 2 September 4 September 6 September 7 September 7 September 8 September 10 September 11 September 13 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 18 September 22 September 24 September 25 September 27 September 29 September 30 October 1 October 2 October", "title": "Timeline of the 2014 Pacific hurricane season" }, { "id": "5396370", "text": "elastics) for approximately 1–4 weeks. However, the jaw will still requires two to three months for proper healing. Lastly, if screws were inserted in the jaw, bone will typically grow over them during the two to three month healing period. Patients also may not drive or operate vehicles or large machinery during the consumption of painkillers, which are typically taken for six to eight days after the surgery, depending on the pain experienced. Immediately after surgery, patients must adhere to certain infection preventing instructions such as daily cleaning, and the consumption of antibiotics. Cleaning of the mouth should always be", "title": "Orthognathic surgery" }, { "id": "1208966", "text": "caliche, making these some of the few areas where the aquifer can recharge. The destruction of playas by farmers and development decreases the available recharge area. The prevalence of the caliche is partly due to the ready evaporation of soil moisture and the semiarid climate; the aridity increases the amount of evaporation, which in turn increases the amount of caliche in the soil. Both mechanisms reduce the amount of recharge water that reaches the water table. Recharge in the aquifer ranges from per year in parts of Texas and New Mexico to per year in south-central Kansas. The regions overlying", "title": "Ogallala Aquifer" }, { "id": "1208960", "text": "The aquifer system supplies drinking water to 82% of the 2.3 million people (1990 census) who live within the boundaries of the High Plains study area. The deposition of aquifer material dates back two to six million years, from the late Miocene to early Pliocene ages when the southern Rocky Mountains were still tectonically active. From the uplands to the west, rivers and streams cut channels in a generally west to east or southeast direction. Erosion of the Rockies provided alluvial and aeolian sediment that filled the ancient channels and eventually covered the entire area of the present-day aquifer, forming", "title": "Ogallala Aquifer" }, { "id": "19683197", "text": "an episode. The two had previously co-starred in \"A Million Ways to Die in the West\". \"The Orville\" episode 5, titled \"Pria\", is the one in which Theron guest-starred. On February 12, 2018, Jessica Szohr was cast as a regular for season two. On February 21, Chris Johnson was cast in a recurring role. On August 24, 2016, Jon Favreau signed on to direct the pilot. Production on the pilot episode began in late 2016, and the rest of the episodes began filming on March 27, 2017. Production wrapped on August 23, 2017. \"Star Trek\" veterans Jonathan Frakes and Robert", "title": "The Orville" }, { "id": "582101", "text": "many freshwater aquifers, especially in the United States. The Ogallala Aquifer of the central United States is one of the world's great aquifers, but in places it is being rapidly depleted by growing municipal use, and continuing agricultural use. This huge aquifer, which underlies portions of eight states, contains primarily fossil water from the time of the last glaciation. Annual recharge, in the more arid parts of the aquifer, is estimated to total only about 10 percent of annual withdrawals. According to a 2013 report by research hydrologist Leonard F. Konikow at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the depletion", "title": "Aquifer" }, { "id": "684020", "text": "a significantly reduced risk of multiple gestation and OHSS. When the ovarian follicles have reached a certain degree of development, induction of final oocyte maturation is performed, generally by an injection of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). Commonly, this is known as the \"trigger shot.\" hCG acts as an analogue of luteinising hormone, and ovulation would occur between 38 and 40 hours after a single HCG injection, but the egg retrieval is performed at a time usually between 34 and 36 hours after hCG injection, that is, just prior to when the follicles would rupture. This avails for scheduling the egg", "title": "In vitro fertilisation" }, { "id": "5396369", "text": "surgery. For some surgeries, pain may be minimal due to minor nerve damage and lack of feeling. Doctors will prescribe pain medication and prophylactic antibiotics to the patient. There is often a large amount of swelling around the jaw area, and in some cases bruising. Most of the swelling will disappear in the first few weeks, but some may remain for a few months. All dentofacial osteotomies require an initial healing time of 2–6 weeks with secondary healing (complete bony union and bone remodeling) taking an additional 2–4 months. If the jaw is sometimes immobilized (movement restricted by wires or", "title": "Orthognathic surgery" }, { "id": "2533013", "text": "taken if the eyebrow is pierced further in than directly above the eye, because of the presence of supra-orbital nerves. Piercing the eyebrow is safe. After the piercing is completed, the healing process takes a minimum of six weeks to eight weeks for the wound to close properly around the piercing, and it may be six months to a year before the jewellery can be removed for any length of time without the hole closing. It is common for an eyebrow piercing to produce a sticky white discharge or a crust around the jewellery during the healing process. Complications, when", "title": "Eyebrow piercing" }, { "id": "13179054", "text": "typically lasts for approximately 20 hours, while the second instar lasts for 16 hours followed by the third instar for 72 hours. After the larvae have completed their development and stored as much energy as possible, they disperse to a safe area to complete their next stage, the pupal stage. This stage lasts for about 9 days before the fly finally emerges as an adult. The total lifecycle of \"C. cadaverina\" can take anywhere from 17–19 days depending on the temperature. PMI estimation is used to figure out how much time has elapsed since a person died by using insects", "title": "Cynomya cadaverina" }, { "id": "4015410", "text": "therapy is most beneficial in the first week of the eruption. A 2007 meta-analysis concluded that there is insufficient evidence for the effectiveness of most treatments. Oral erythromycin was found to be effective for treating the rash and relieving the itch based on one early trial; however, a later study could not confirm these results. In most patients, the condition lasts only a matter of weeks; in some cases it can last longer (up to six months). The disease resolves completely without long-term effects. Two percent of patients have recurrence. The overall prevalence of PR in the United States has", "title": "Pityriasis rosea" }, { "id": "4282835", "text": "collarbone, and was officially placed on injured reserve the next day. A total of 13 screws were inserted to stabilize his collarbone. Rodgers returned to practice on December 2, 2017, making him eligible to play in the upcoming Week 15 game. On December 12, 2017, it was announced that Rodgers was medically cleared by doctors and was set to start the next game against the Carolina Panthers. He was officially activated on December 16, 2017. Rodgers returned during Week 15 against the Panthers, where he finished with 290 passing yards, 3 touchdowns, and 3 interceptions as the Packers lost 24–31.", "title": "Aaron Rodgers" }, { "id": "5800676", "text": "and the patient may return to activities involving cutting and twisting if a brace is worn. Recovery varies highly from case to case, and sometimes resumption of stressful activities may take a year or longer. If the proper rehabilitation procedure is not followed out post surgery, the ACL becomes less mobile and the bones begin to rub against each other. The abnormal bone movement can also damage the tissue, this damage can lead to osteoarthritis. The recovery process for the ACL is usually broken down into different phases of rehabilitation. Each phase has its own objectives, however is intertwined with", "title": "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" }, { "id": "10411020", "text": "Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd", "title": "2007 Nashville Kats season" }, { "id": "10409721", "text": "Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: \"at the St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Florida The Destroyers entered the playoffs for the first time since their move to", "title": "2007 Columbus Destroyers season" }, { "id": "14569673", "text": "Latest Specification Version: 1.4 Latest Specification Version: 1.4 Latest Specification Version: 1.1 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.1 Latest Specification Version: 2.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.1 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.1 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.1 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.1 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.1 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.0 Latest Specification Version: 1.0", "title": "OSGi Specification Implementations" }, { "id": "3485954", "text": "777 Total votes: 34,141 Total votes: 29 939 Total votes: 23 972 Total votes: 29 835 Total votes: 27,478 Total votes: 32 202 Total votes: 34 111 Total votes: 33 692 Total votes: 36 474 Total votes: 28 785 Total votes: 36 176 Total votes: 39 701 Total votes: 29 070 Total votes: 33 640 Total votes: 36 537 Total votes: 36 195 Total votes: 36 504 Total votes: 31 802 Total votes: 38 883 Total votes: 30 646 Total votes: 31,138 Total votes: 34 047 Total votes: 30 116 Total votes: 29 358 Total votes: 27,675 Total votes: 34", "title": "1990 Ontario general election" }, { "id": "10409720", "text": "participate in their first ever ArenaBowl XXI. Doug Kay started his second season as head coach of the Destroyers. Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring", "title": "2007 Columbus Destroyers season" }, { "id": "8405290", "text": "Apertura division begins in the middle of Mexico's summer and ends before the official start of winter. The Clausura division begins during the New Year, and concludes in the spring season. In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: In: Out: Mexican football transfers 2006–07 This is a list of Mexican football transfers in the Mexican Primera División during the summer 2006-07 transfer window, grouped by club. Football has been played professionally in Mexico", "title": "Mexican football transfers 2006–07" }, { "id": "5117856", "text": "Slug test A slug test is a particular type of aquifer test where water is quickly added or removed from a groundwater well, and the change in hydraulic head is monitored through time, to determine the near-well aquifer characteristics. It is a method used by hydrogeologists and civil engineers to determine the transmissivity/hydraulic conductivity and storativity of the material the well is completed in. The slug of water can either be added to or removed from the well — the only requirement is that it be done as quickly as possible (the interpretation typically assumes instantaneously), then the water level", "title": "Slug test" }, { "id": "17300213", "text": "July 9 July 25 July 27 July 30 July 31 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 16 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 5 September 6 September 7 September 13 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 20 October 6 October 7 October 9 October 10 October 12 October 13 October 14 October 15 October 16 October 20 October 21 October 22 October 23", "title": "Timeline of the 2013 Pacific hurricane season" }, { "id": "5800682", "text": "a return to activity, however it requires an ability to perform some functional performance tests such as: This is the last phase of the recovery rehabilitation. Phase V includes returning to sports after being cleared by therapist or surgeon. In order for this to happen the patient must have full range of motion, continue maintaining strength and endurance, and be able to increase proprioception with agility drills. Patient is still to be aware that going down hill or down stairs while the knee is aggravated may cause further injury like a meniscus tear. The cost of an ACL reconstruction surgery", "title": "Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction" }, { "id": "582084", "text": "an aquifer, the anisotropy is to be taken into account lest the resulting design of the drainage system may be faulty. To properly manage an aquifer its properties must be understood. Many properties must be known to predict how an aquifer will respond to rainfall, drought, pumping, and contamination. Where and how much water enters the groundwater from rainfall and snowmelt? How fast and what direction does the groundwater travel? How much water leaves the ground as springs and evaporation? How much water can be sustainably pumped out? How quickly will a contamination incident reach a well or spring? Computer", "title": "Aquifer" }, { "id": "1450944", "text": "Common year starting on Monday A common year starting on Monday is any non-leap year (i.e., a year with 365 days) that begins on Monday, 1 January, and ends on Monday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is G. The current year, 2018, is a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. The last such year was 2007 and the next such year will be 2029, or likewise, 2013 and 2019 in the obsolete Julian calendar. The century year, 1900, was also a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar. See below for more. Any common", "title": "Common year starting on Monday" }, { "id": "4837644", "text": "This section of the system is called the \"header pipe\" (the exhaust port length is considered part of the header pipe for measurement purposes). By keeping the header pipe diameter near constant, the energy in the wave is preserved because there is no expansion until needed later in the cycle. The flow leaving the cylinder during most of the blowdown process is sonic or supersonic, and therefore no wave could travel back into the cylinder against that flow. Once the exhaust pressure has fallen to near-atmospheric level, the piston uncovers the transfer ports. At this point energy from the expansion", "title": "Expansion chamber" }, { "id": "3485953", "text": "Total votes: 23 806 Total votes: 25 337 Total votes: 17 417 Total votes: 22 729 Total votes: 29 956 Total votes: 29 706 Total votes: 35 178 Total votes: 31 660 Total votes: 26 270 Total votes: 33 810 Total votes: 21 384 Total votes: 24 949 Total votes: 33,462 Total votes: 39 985 Total votes: 32 520 Total votes: 38 523 Total votes: 27,503 Total votes: 31 684 Total votes: 33 442 Total votes: 32 652 Total votes: 47 584 Total votes: 31,304 Total votes: 25 358 Total votes: 28 336 Total votes: 37 629 Total votes: 32", "title": "1990 Ontario general election" }, { "id": "19280319", "text": "June 2 June 3 June 4 June 5 June 7 June 19 June 20 June 21 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 6 August 17 August 19 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 27 August 28 August 29 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 3 September 12 September 13 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 19 September 20 September 21 September 22 September 23 September 25 September 28 September 29 September 30 October 1 October 4 October 5 October 6 October 7 October 8 October 9 October 11 October 12 October 13", "title": "Timeline of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season" }, { "id": "3773667", "text": "used ways to specify expected sensor life span: The time in months at room temperature in air, or volume percentage oxygen hours (Vol%Oh). Storage at low oxygen partial pressure when not in use would seem an effective way to extend cell life, but when stored in anoxic conditions the sensor current will cease and the surface of the electrode may be passivated, which can lead to sensor failure. High ambient temperatures will increase sensor current, and reduce cell life. In diving service a cell typically lasts for 12 to 18 months, with perhaps 150 hours service in the diving loop", "title": "Electro-galvanic oxygen sensor" }, { "id": "16429744", "text": "and enter a nasal sinus. During this time it will develop, grow and moult into a second larval stage or instar. It then continues to develop up to 20mm (apprx. 4/5 inch) in length with a dark stripe across each segment. When the larva is fully developed it moves down the nasal passage and drops to the ground where it buries itself and pupates. The length of time the larva takes to mature depends on the ambient temperature. This may be 25–35 days in warm weather but up to 10 months in colder climates. The pupa takes from 3–9 weeks", "title": "Oestrus ovis" }, { "id": "137946", "text": "1972–73, 1982–83, 1997–98, and 2014–16. Typically, this anomaly happens at irregular intervals of two to seven years, and lasts nine months to two years. The average period length is five years. When this warming occurs for seven to nine months, it is classified as El Niño \"conditions\"; when its duration is longer, it is classified as an El Niño \"episode\". There is no consensus on whether climate change will have any influence on the occurrence, strength or duration of El Niño events, as research supports El Niño events becoming stronger, longer, shorter and weaker. During strong El Niño episodes, a", "title": "El Niño" }, { "id": "2069126", "text": "his surgery, John had won 124 games. He won 164 games after surgery, retiring in 1989 at age 46. For baseball players, full rehabilitation takes about one year for pitchers and about six months for position players. Players typically begin throwing about 16 weeks after surgery. While eighty percent of players return to pitching at the same level as before the surgery, for those Major League pitchers who receive the surgery twice, thirty five percent do not return to pitch in the majors at all. The ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) can become stretched, frayed, or torn through the repetitive stress", "title": "Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction" }, { "id": "3960234", "text": "place. After attempting to possess Jaris, the entity returns to the body of Hengist, which is immediately tranquilized. Kirk carries Hengist to the Transporter Room, where he is beamed into space at \"maximum dispersion\". Spock notes that the entity will survive only as separate bits of energy before perishing. He then suggests that the tranquilized crew resume their shore leave. Decades later, many critics consider the episode offensive because of the sexual objectification of women; Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club commented that \"women are treated like a completely different species\". A repeated point for denunciation is Spock's infamous remark", "title": "Wolf in the Fold" }, { "id": "10376006", "text": "at Apache Corp.'s Forties Charlie platform. The pipeline carries crude oil , routing through the Forties Unity riser platform, to the terminal at Cruden Bay. From there unstabilised crude is co-mingled with natural gas condensate from the St Fergus terminal and pumped to the processing facility at Kinneil, Grangemouth. The onshore pipeline has three intermediate pumping stations at Netherley, Brechin and Balbeggie. FPS was out of service from 11 December 2017 due to a crack found the prior week, and returned to full capacity on 30 December 2017. Forties pipeline system The Forties pipeline system (FPS) is a major pipeline", "title": "Forties pipeline system" }, { "id": "19919784", "text": "meaning that data from post-storm reviews by the National Hurricane Center, such as a storm that was not initially warned upon, has been included. April 19 April 20 April 21 June 1 June 18 June 19 June 20 June 21 June 22 June 23 July 5 July 6 July 7 July 17 July 18 July 31 August 2 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 10 August 13 August 15 August 16 August 17 August 19 August 20 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1", "title": "Timeline of the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season" }, { "id": "4547924", "text": "assess if an infection is present. Antibiotics are not used long-term due to the risk of antimicrobial resistance. The incision usually takes 6 months to reach 80% strength, while intestinal healing following resection and anastomosis is much faster, at a rate to 100% strength in 3 weeks. After the incision has healed adequately, the horse is turned out in a small area for another 2–3 months, and light exercise is added to improve the tone and strength of the abdominal musculature. Weight loss of 75–100 pounds is common after colic surgery, secondary to the decreased function of the gastrointestinal tract", "title": "Horse colic" }, { "id": "6724936", "text": "floor) and a Courthouse of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (on the second floor). It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1979. The Hippodrome has 7 performances a week with different showtimes per day. Showtimes are T/W/Th @7:00 p.m. Fri @ 8:00 p.m. Sat @ 5:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. and Sun @ 2:00 p.m. The shows typically rehearse for two and a half weeks and perform for three weeks with Mondays as \"dark days\". Season 46 (2018-2019) The Wolves (Aug 31 - Sept 23) - Directed", "title": "Hippodrome State Theatre" }, { "id": "12644112", "text": "August 13 August 14 August 20 August 22 August 23 August 24 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 5 September 7 September 8 September 9 September 10 September 11 September 12 September 13 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 21 September 22 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 30 October 2 October 3 October 4 October 5 October 6 October 7 October 8 October 9 October 10 October 11 October 12 October 14 October 17 October 19 October 20", "title": "Timeline of the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season" }, { "id": "2122935", "text": "Common year starting on Wednesday A common year starting on Wednesday is any non-leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Wednesday, 1 January, and ends on Wednesday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is E. The most recent year of such kind was 2014, and the next one will be 2025 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2015 and 2026 in the obsolete Julian calendar. The century year, 1800, was also a common year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar, see below for more. Any common year that starts on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday has", "title": "Common year starting on Wednesday" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "1450719", "text": "Common year starting on Friday A common year starting on Friday is any non-leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Friday, 1 January, and ends on Friday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is C. The most recent year of such kind was 2010 and the next one will be 2021 in the Gregorian calendar, or, likewise, 2011 and 2022 in the obsolete Julian calendar. The century year, 2100, will also be a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar. See below for more. Any common year that starts on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday", "title": "Common year starting on Friday" }, { "id": "1776213", "text": "outside of the hospital and an emergency medical technician (EMT) clamps and cuts the cord, a longer segment up to in length is left attached to the newborn. The remaining umbilical stub remains for up to 10 days as it dries and then falls off. A Cochrane review in 2013 came to the conclusion that delayed cord clamping (between one and three minutes after birth) is \"likely to be beneficial as long as access to treatment for jaundice requiring phototherapy is available\". In this review delayed clamping, as contrasted to early, resulted in no difference in risk of severe maternal", "title": "Umbilical cord" }, { "id": "20822989", "text": "age: 12 weeks and 0 days until 15 weeks and 6 days old. Embryonic age: 10 weeks and 0 days until 13 weeks and 6 days old. Gestational age: 20 weeks old. Embryonic age: 18 weeks old. Gestational age: 22 weeks old. Embryonic age: 20 weeks old. Gestational age: 24 weeks old. Embryonic age: Week nr 25. 24 weeks old. Gestational age: 30 weeks old. Embryonic age: Week nr 29. 28 weeks old. Gestational age: 34 weeks old. Embryonic age: Week nr 33. 32 weeks old. Gestational age: 35 and 0 days until 39 weeks and 6 days old. Embryonic", "title": "Timeline of human prenatal development" }, { "id": "1678687", "text": "border and the inferior angle are cartilaginous. From the 15th to the 18th month after birth, ossification takes place in the middle of the coracoid process, which as a rule becomes joined with the rest of the bone about the 15th year. Between the 14th and 20th years, the remaining parts ossify in quick succession, and usually in the following order: first, in the root of the coracoid process, in the form of a broad scale; secondly, near the base of the acromion; thirdly, in the inferior angle and contiguous part of the vertebral border; fourthly, near the outer end", "title": "Scapula" }, { "id": "17792434", "text": "Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818 1822 1823 1826 1827 1829 1831 1834 1834 1837 1839 1841 1842 1843 1844 1847 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870: 1871 1872: 1873: 1874: 1875: 1876: 1877: 1878: 1878: 1879: 1880: 1881: 1882: 1883: 1885: 1886: 1887: 1889: 1890: 1891: 1892: 1893: 1894: 1895: 1896: 1898: 1900: 1901: 1902: 1903: 1904: 1905: 1906:", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "2070214", "text": "the glenoid through the use of surgical anchors. Recovery is often a lengthy process. The first four or so weeks the patient is required to wear a sling. Following this, there is a month of physical therapy to regain range of motion. At two months limited strength training occurs. At six months the patient is typically released to full active use, although many patients find that full recovery takes longer than this. As the name implies, movement of the shoulder is severely restricted in people with a \"frozen shoulder\". This condition, which doctors call adhesive capsulitis, is frequently caused by", "title": "Shoulder problem" }, { "id": "3136658", "text": "and the animals keep moving forward until the female hits it with her cloaca, after which she stops and stands still. The spermatophore sticks to her and the sperm cells swim inside her cloaca where they attempt to fertilize her eggs. The courtship ritual can be repeated several times over a couple of hours. Longevity is estimated at up to 58 years. A study published in \"Biology Letters\" estimated that they have a maximum lifespan of over 100 years and that the lifespan of an average adult is around 68.5 years. When compared to the longevity and body mass of", "title": "Olm" }, { "id": "4222748", "text": "the balloon. A rip line simultaneously tears open the top of the balloon. The balloon quickly deflates and falls to the ground, to be recovered and disposed of (balloons are single use). The payload descends, suspended by the parachute, and is recovered by the ground crew. Conventional payloads typically have a float duration at altitude of 72+ hours. Long Duration Ballooning payloads float at durations of 42+ days. Ultra long duration balloons (ULDB) are being developed which can operate at float for +100 days. The limiting factor is the diurnal cycle of the sun, rising and setting. Heat during the", "title": "Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility" }, { "id": "13669688", "text": "13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 moovirunthali", "title": "Sankarankoil taluk" }, { "id": "14824781", "text": "August 10 August 11 August 21 August 22 August 23 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 5 September 6 September 7 September 8 September 9 September 10 September 12 September 14 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 20 September 21 September 22 September 23 September 24 September 25 September 26 September 28 September 29 October 6 October 7 October 8 October 9 October 10 October 11 October 12 October 13 October 14 October 15 October 20 October 21 October 24", "title": "Timeline of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season" }, { "id": "17957721", "text": "1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982", "title": "Commonwealth Games results index" }, { "id": "4241537", "text": "Thursday nights on FOX. Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2001-02: Returning series New series: Not returning from 2001-02: Returning series New series: Not returning from 2001-02: Returning series New series: Not returning from 2001-02: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2001-02: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2001-02: 2002–03 United States network television schedule This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all six commercial television networks for the fall season beginning in September 2002. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as \"Monday Night Football\". New series are highlighted in bold.", "title": "2002–03 United States network television schedule" }, { "id": "1767734", "text": "by some per day just before delivery, and by per day during suckling. Before weaning, the calf increases its body weight by and grows from at birth to long. When it reaches sexual maturity after 5–10 years, it will be long and possibly live as long as 80–90 years. Calves are born precocial, needing to be able to swim to the surface at the moment of their birth. Most rorquals mate in warm waters in winter to give birth almost a year later. A 7-to-11 month lactation period is normally followed by a year of rest before mating starts again.", "title": "Baleen whale" }, { "id": "1266877", "text": "might approach a period of one million years. By limiting the compliance time to 10,000 years, EPA did not respect a statutory requirement that it develop standards consistent with NAS recommendations. EPA published in the Federal Register a final rule in 2009. The new rule limits radiation doses from Yucca Mountain for up to 1,000,000 years after it closes. Within that regulatory time frame, the EPA has two dose standards that would apply based on the number of years from the time the facility is closed. For the first 10,000 years, the EPA would retain the 2001 final rule's dose", "title": "Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository" }, { "id": "2300823", "text": "at the small end of the egg. Occasionally, the eggs are almost unmarked or have faint scribblings on them. The nestling period varies from 38 to 50 days with brooding primarily by the female. Males fledge at 38 to 40 days and the females as late as 50 days after hatching, or 10 days later than their male siblings as they take longer to develop. Nestlings lie or sit for the first two weeks, stand at about three weeks and walk soon after. By 16 or 18 days, they are able to feed on their own. Wing flapping starts about", "title": "Ferruginous hawk" }, { "id": "16750980", "text": "in real time on Easy mode and one hour on Normal and Hard modes. The timer starts out at seven in-game days, but can be extended to a maximum of thirteen days. The timer stops during cutscenes, conversations and battles. Lightning can also pause time using an ability called Chronostasis. Quests are directly linked to Lightning's growth: as she completes quests, her stats are boosted, with the main story quests yielding the biggest boosts. Many side quests can only be obtained at certain times, since the real-time build of the world means NPCs are in constant movement, and only appear", "title": "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII" }, { "id": "20214140", "text": "Education: Marcie Wolfe, Mt. 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The rate at which recharge water enters the aquifer is limited by several factors. Much of the plains region is semiarid, with steady winds that hasten evaporation of surface water and precipitation. In many locations, the aquifer is overlain, in the vadose zone, with a shallow layer of caliche that is practically impermeable; this limits the amount of water able to recharge the aquifer from the land surface. However, the soil of the playa lakes is different and not lined with", "title": "Ogallala Aquifer" }, { "id": "20924856", "text": "does not air network programming on Saturday nights. Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2018–19: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2018–19: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2018–19: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2018–19: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2018–19: 2019–20 United States network television schedule The 2019–20 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States will cover the prime time hours from September 2019 to August 2020. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled", "title": "2019–20 United States network television schedule" }, { "id": "1208964", "text": "While groundwater is a renewable source, reserves replenish relatively slowly. The USGS has performed several studies of the aquifer, to determine what is coming in (groundwater recharge from the surface), what is leaving (water pumped out and baseflow to streams), and what the net changes in storage are (rise, fall or no change). Withdrawals from the Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation amounted to in 2000. As of 2005, the total depletion since before development amounted to . Some estimates indicate the remaining volume could be depleted as soon as 2028. Many farmers in the Texas High Plains, which rely particularly on", "title": "Ogallala Aquifer" }, { "id": "8949471", "text": "0 Country Code: +61 8 9162 – part of the Australian numbering system International Call Prefix: 0011 Trunk Prefix: 0 Country Code: +672 3 International Call Prefix: 00 Trunk Prefix: Country Code: +56 32 International Call Prefix: 00 Trunk Prefix: Country Code: +670 International Call Prefix: 00 Trunk Prefix: Country Code: +691 International Call Prefix: 00 Trunk Prefix: Country Code: +679 International Call Prefix: 00 Trunk Prefix: Country Code: +689 International Call Prefix: 00 Trunk Prefix: Country Code: +686 International Call Prefix: 00 Trunk Prefix: Country Code: +692 International Call Prefix: 00 Trunk Prefix: Country Code: +674 International Call Prefix:", "title": "Telephone numbers in Oceania" }, { "id": "2860396", "text": "spend around two weeks accumulating fat before moulting because they do not feed during the moult, as they cannot enter the water to forage for food without feathers. The process typically takes three to four weeks, which they spend sitting ashore. Once finished, they go back to sea and return to their colonies to mate in the spring. Overall survival rates are poorly known; the successful return of breeding adults at South Georgia Island varied between 49% and 78% over three years, and around 10% of those that did return did not breed the following year. A 1993 review estimated", "title": "Macaroni penguin" }, { "id": "20163199", "text": "instincts.\" Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the series a score of 65 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews.\" On April 3, 2018, the official series premiere drew 1.8 million total viewers, with 882K in the key 18-49 demo in Live + same day. This was the largest cable comedy premiere since 2016, the largest scripted cable comedy premiere since 2015, and the strongest TBS original debut ever. In addition, more than 6.9 million total viewers tuned into the show over a three-night, five-telecast launch on TBS and TNT following the NCAA Men’s Basketball", "title": "The Last O.G." }, { "id": "1208968", "text": "system transformed into one of the most agriculturally productive regions in the world. Ground water levels decline when the rate of extraction by irrigation exceeds the rate of recharge. At places, the water table was measured to drop more than 5 ft (1.5 m) per year at the time of maximum extraction. In extreme cases, the deepening of wells was required to reach the steadily falling water table. In the 21st century, recognition of the significance of the aquifer has led to increased coverage from regional and international journalists. The USGS estimated that total water storage was about in 2005.", "title": "Ogallala Aquifer" }, { "id": "5047202", "text": "depending on the distribution range. However, the differences are usually no longer than a day. In Tuva, the pinnae open on the first day of birth and are completely open after three days of development. However, in Mongolia, the same process occurs between two and four days of development. Fur first grows on the crown, back, and abdomen. The young usually have a full coat of fur after seven days of development. Offspring born in captivity have a shorter development time than those born in the wild. Specifically, the growth and development of the head and body, tail, hind feet,", "title": "Campbell's dwarf hamster" }, { "id": "3929315", "text": "in the aquifer that feeds that well declines. This decline in pressure will show up as drawdown (change in hydraulic head) in an observation well. Drawdown decreases with radial distance from the pumping well and drawdown increases with the length of time that the pumping continues. The aquifer characteristics which are evaluated by most aquifer tests are: Additional aquifer characteristics which are sometimes evaluated, depending on the type of aquifer, include: An appropriate model or solution to the groundwater flow equation must be chosen to fit to the observed data. There are many different choices of models, depending on what", "title": "Aquifer test" }, { "id": "304039", "text": "shows his dominance by extending his neck, tossing his head, and protruding one leg forward. This is followed by mounting and copulation. The gestational period is around 440 to 450 days long, following which usually a single calf is born, weighing . The udder of the pregnant female starts swelling two months before parturition, and vulval discharges may occur. Parturition takes 3–4 hours, and the female stands throughout this period, though she may rest during brief intervals. The mother consumes the afterbirth and extensively grooms the infant. Her milk is very rich in proteins and low in fat. As in", "title": "Okapi" }, { "id": "17957718", "text": "2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934", "title": "Commonwealth Games results index" }, { "id": "19861861", "text": "Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2016–17: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2016–17: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2016–17: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2016–17: 2017–18 United States network television schedule The 2017–18 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers prime time hours from September 2017 to August 2018. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2016–17 season. NBC was the first to announce its fall schedule, on May 14, 2017, followed", "title": "2017–18 United States network television schedule" }, { "id": "9476707", "text": "colleagues have calculated the probability that a change in the AMO will occur within a given future time frame, assuming that historical variability persists. Probabilistic projections of this kind may prove to be useful for long-term planning in climate sensitive applications, such as water management. Assuming that the AMO continues with a quasi-cycle of roughly 70 years, the peak of the current warm phase would be expected in c. 2020, or based on a 50–90 year quasi-cycle, between 2000 and 2040 (after peaks in c. 1880 and c. 1950). A 2017 study predicts a continued cooling shift beginning 2014, and", "title": "Atlantic multidecadal oscillation" }, { "id": "17155468", "text": "The Checkout The Checkout is an Australian consumer affairs television series. The show's first series of 10 episodes premiered on 21 March 2013 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television station ABC TV. A second series consisting of 16 episodes commenced airing on 20 February 2014. On 9 April 2015, a third series consisting of 12 episodes began airing. The series was renewed for a fourth series, which began airing on 7 April 2016 consisting of 12 episodes. The series returned for a fifth series, airing twelve episodes between 6 April 2017 and 29 June 2017. \"The Checkout\", with a", "title": "The Checkout" }, { "id": "11783685", "text": "Angle Lake and twelfth southbound station from University of Washington, and is situated between Rainier Beach and Columbia City stations. Central Link trains serve Othello twenty hours a day on weekdays and Saturdays, from 5:00 am to 1:00 am, and eighteen hours on Sundays, from 6:00 am to 12:00 am; during regular weekday service, trains operate roughly every six to ten minutes during rush hour and midday operation, respectively, with longer headways of fifteen minutes in the early morning and twenty minutes at night. During weekends, Central Link trains arrive at Othello station every ten minutes during midday hours and", "title": "Othello station" }, { "id": "17957720", "text": "1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966", "title": "Commonwealth Games results index" }, { "id": "6565057", "text": "anterolateral margins usually convex and posterolateral margins concave; cervical grooves short but well defined. Anal grooves: Ill-defined anteriorly and do not converge behind Legs: Coxae with small external spurs; tarsus I 0.14 mm in length, tarsus IV 0.14 mm in length Nymphs are very active and on average 5–6 days (but possibly up to 31 days) after moulting attach to another host. Nymphs feed for 4–7 days, then drop to the ground. After a further 3–11 weeks the nymphs moult to become adult males or females. Again the period is temperature dependent: it may, for example, take 20 days at", "title": "Ixodes holocyclus" }, { "id": "17957717", "text": "2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 1930 1934 1938 1942 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014", "title": "Commonwealth Games results index" }, { "id": "16947792", "text": "deployment time is about four to seven days. The duration is about five weeks until the next rotation of ERU members arrives and overtake the operation. An ERU deployment normally has a maximum of six month, because after that normally the mission becomes more and more the character of rebuilding. Because normally the mission is funded of donation which is committed to the disaster and after six month it's hard to argue that the situation is still an impact of the disaster. Most the time rebuild projects will be started after that. It is also common that the equipment stay", "title": "Emergency Response Unit (IFRC)" }, { "id": "7741435", "text": "and precision of observed companion orbits, but the calculated value will be further refined using future measurements. The companion's orbit is decaying via the emission of gravitational radiation and it is expected to merge with the central black hole within approximately 10,000 years. In order to reproduce all the known outbursts, a recent study shows that the rotation of the primary black hole has to be 28% of the maximum allowed rotation for a Kerr black hole. OJ 287 OJ 287 is a BL Lac object located 3.5 billion light-years away that has produced quasi-periodic optical outbursts going back approximately", "title": "OJ 287" }, { "id": "5713226", "text": "much of its extent, though is brackish and saline south of Lake Okeechobee. The Floridan aquifer system crops out in central and southern Georgia where the limestone, and its weathered byproducts, are present at land surface. The aquifer system generally dips below land surface to the south where it becomes buried beneath surficial sand deposits and clay. In areas depicted in brown in the image at the right, the Floridan aquifer system crops out and is again exposed at land surface. These regions are particularly prone to sinkhole activity due to the proximity of the karstified limestone aquifer to land", "title": "Floridan aquifer" }, { "id": "2135932", "text": "Common year starting on Thursday A common year starting on Thursday is any non-leap year (i.e. a year with 365 days) that begins on Thursday, 1 January, and ends on Thursday, 31 December. Its dominical letter hence is D. The most recent year of such kind was 2015 and the next one will be 2026 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2010 and 2021 in the obsolete Julian calendar, see below for more. This common year contains the most Friday the 13ths; specifically, the months of February, March, and November. Leap years starting on Sunday share this characteristic. From February", "title": "Common year starting on Thursday" }, { "id": "19262735", "text": "27 July 28 August 3 August 5 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 18 August 19 August 20 August 21 August 23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August 27 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 September 1 September 2 September 3 September 4 September 5 September 6 September 7 September 11 September 12 September 13 September 15 September 16 September 17 September 18 September 19 September 20 October 23 October 24 October 25 October 26 October 27 October 28 November 13 November 14 November 25 November 26 November 30 Timeline of the 2016 Pacific hurricane season", "title": "Timeline of the 2016 Pacific hurricane season" }, { "id": "8938753", "text": "Not returning from 2000-01: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2000-01: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2000-01: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2000-01: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2000-01: Returning series: New series: Not returning from 2000-01: 2001–02 United States network television schedule The 2001–2002 United States network television schedule is for United States broadcast television on all six commercial television networks for the fall season beginning in September 2001. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as \"Monday Night Football\". New fall series are highlighted in bold. Note: The", "title": "2001–02 United States network television schedule" }, { "id": "3929322", "text": "contain some material on aquifer test analysis or the theory behind these test methods. Aquifer test An aquifer test (or a pumping test) is conducted to evaluate an aquifer by \"stimulating\" the aquifer through constant pumping, and observing the aquifer's \"response\" (drawdown) in observation wells. Aquifer testing is a common tool that hydrogeologists use to characterize a system of aquifers, aquitards and flow system boundaries. A slug test is a variation on the typical aquifer test where an instantaneous change (increase or decrease) is made, and the effects are observed in the same well. This is often used in geotechnical", "title": "Aquifer test" }, { "id": "13181073", "text": "mean duration of development, at constant pressure and 25 °C, between oviposition and hatching is 1.83 days. From first to second instar, approximately 2.92 days pass. About 6.17 days pass between the second and third instar, and 8.0 days between the third instar and the post-feeding stage. The wandering maggot takes around 9.67 days to reach the pupal stage. Lastly, emergence of this blowfly occurs about 15.83 days after pupation. In fluctuating conditions such as those around crime scenes, there is a tendency for development to slow down. Under-approximation of age is therefore a common mistake. The development of \"P.", "title": "Protophormia terraenovae" }, { "id": "9012552", "text": "occurred during the period 2014 -2017. After the surgery the person is taken to a post-operative intensive care unit for monitoring. A respirator may be required for the first few hours or days after surgery. After a day, the patient should be able to sit up in bed. After two days, the patient may be taken out of the intensive care unit. Patients are usually discharged after about seven to ten days. If the mitral valve replacement is successful, patients can expect to return to their regular condition or even better. Patients who have biological valve are prescribed blood thinners", "title": "Mitral valve replacement" }, { "id": "17023178", "text": "the average global aragonite saturation state was 390%, a range commonly experienced since the last glacial period and a percentage above which calcification rates plateaued. However, there is a precipitous drop in calcification rate with aragonite saturation state dropping below 380%, with a three-fold decrease in calcification accompanying a drop to 98% saturation. By 2100, pCO of 560 and pH drop to 7.93 (global ocean average) will reduce the saturation state to 293%, which is unlikely to cause calcification decreases. 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[ "Consumer Value Store" ]

[ { "id": "2930728", "text": "CVS Pharmacy CVS Pharmacy (sometimes stylized as CVS/pharmacy) is a subsidiary of the American retail and health care company CVS Health, headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It was also known as, and originally named, the Consumer Value Store and was founded in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1963. The chain was owned by its original holding company Melville Corporation since its inception until its current parent company (CVS Health) was spun off into its own company in 1996. CVS Pharmacy is currently the largest pharmacy chain in the United States by number of locations (over 9,600 as of 2016) and total prescription", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930735", "text": "CVS acquired Soma.com, the first online pharmacy, and renamed it CVS.com. The same year, CVS launched their CVS ProCare Pharmacy for complex drug therapies. In 1990 CVS bought the 23-store Rix Dunnington chain. In 1993 CVS withdrew from the southern California market. Formerly traded as MVL on the New York Stock Exchange, the company now trades as CVS. CVS bought Stadtlander Pharmacy of Pittsburgh from Bergen Brunswig/AmerisourceBergen in 2000. As of December 2009, CVS Caremark had over 7,000 locations. In 2004, CVS purchased 1,268 Eckerd drug stores and Eckerd Health Services, a PBM/mail-order pharmacy business, from J. C. Penney. Most", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "9976127", "text": "1980s and 1990s, CVS Corporation spun off from Melville in 1996, becoming a standalone company trading on the New York Stock Exchange as It later completed a merger with the pharmacy benefit management company Caremark Rx in 2007 and was renamed CVS Caremark Corporation. The company was renamed CVS Health in 2014 following its decision to remove tobacco products from CVS Pharmacy store shelves. CVS Health's assets include CVS Pharmacy, CVS Caremark, CVS Specialty, and the retail clinic MinuteClinic. In 2018, it ranked seventh on the Fortune 500 and 17th on the Fortune Global 500 list with $184B in annual", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "9976126", "text": "CVS Health CVS Health Corporation (previously CVS Corporation or CVS Caremark Corporation) is an American retail pharmacy and health care company headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The company began in 1964 with three partners who grew the venture from a parent company, Mark Steven, Inc., that helped retailers manage their health and beauty aid product lines. The business began as a chain of health and beauty aid stores, but within several years, pharmacies were added. To facilitate growth and expansion, the company joined The Melville Corporation, which managed a string of retail businesses. Following a period of growth in the", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "2930743", "text": "favor the MCX system, which was still under development, and of which CVS was a founding member. On May 21, 2015, it was announced that CVS Health would acquire Omnicare, Inc. the leading provider of pharmacy services to long term care facilities, for $98.00 per share in cash, for a total enterprise value of approximately $12.7 billion, which includes approximately $2.3 billion in debt. The transaction is expected to close near the end of 2015. On June 15, 2015, CVS Health announced its agreement to acquire Target Corporation's pharmacy and retail clinic businesses. The deal expanded CVS to new markets", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930730", "text": "are located within CVS stores. CVS Pharmacy used to be a subsidiary of Melville Corporation, where its full name was initially Consumer Value Stores. Melville later changed its name to CVS Corporation in 1996 after Melville sold off many of its nonpharmacy stores. The last of its nondrugstore operations were sold in 1997. CEO Tom Ryan has said he now considers \"CVS\" to stand for \"Convenience, Value, and Service.\" During the company's days as a regional chain in the Northeast, many CVS stores did not include pharmacies. Today, the company seldom builds new stores without pharmacies and outside of New", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "7620790", "text": "Omnicare Omnicare was an American company working in the health care industry, established in April 1981 as a spinoff of healthcare businesses from Chemed and W. R. Grace and Company. It is currently a pharmacy specializing in nursing homes. In 2015, Omnicare was acquired by CVS Health. In 2012, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued Omnicare to block its hostile takeover of its rival PharMerica under federal anti-trust law. The FTC alleged that the acquisition would boost drug costs and inflate Medicare expenditures by consolidating the industry and reducing price competition. PharMerica owned 97 long-term-care pharmacies, while Omnicare owned approximately", "title": "Omnicare" }, { "id": "9976137", "text": "is a retail pharmacy chain with approximately 40 drug stores throughout the state of Hawaii. The company was acquired by CVS Health in October 2008 and is operated as a separate brand. Navarro Discount Pharmacies is a pharmacy chain, photo service, and pharmacy benefit manager in the United States. The company was acquired by CVS Health in September, 2014 and is operated as a separate brand of CVS Health. The company mainly operates in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties and currently has 33 stores. Accordant provides rare disease case management and care management services for patients with rare, chronic diseases and", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "2930729", "text": "revenue. Its parent company ranks as the 7th largest U.S. corporation by FY2017 revenues in the Fortune 500. The parent company of CVS Pharmacy's leading competitor ranked 19th for the same time period. CVS sells prescription drugs and a wide assortment of general merchandise, including over-the-counter drugs, beauty products and cosmetics, film and photo finishing services, seasonal merchandise, greeting cards, and convenience foods through their CVS Pharmacy and Longs Drugs retail stores and online through CVS.com. It also provides healthcare services through its more than 1,100 MinuteClinic medical clinics as well as their Diabetes Care Centers. Most of these clinics", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930738", "text": "American Drug Stores. Many of the stores CVS gained in January 2006 had been the stores it owned prior to 1993. Before their re-acquisition, these stores were operated under the name Sav-On Express (the Express name was used to help customers identify these stores that did not carry all the lines of merchandise as compared to the larger, traditional Sav-On Drugs locations). CVS now operates over 6,200 stores in 43 states and the District of Columbia. In some locations, CVS now has two stores less than two blocks apart. On July 13, 2006, CVS announced that it had entered into", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930742", "text": "received 59 percent of Rhode Island's tax credits. On July 14, 2014, it was announced that CVS Caremark would acquire the Miami-based Navarro Discount Pharmacies when the deal closes, the 33 stores will remain untouched and will stay under the Navarro name. On September 3, 2014, CVS Caremark changed its name to CVS Health and announced that it would stop selling tobacco products. On October 25, 2014, CVS Health disabled near field communication NFC payments, disallowing customers from using Apple Pay or Google Wallet payment methods. A reason was not immediately given. Analysts suggested that it was a way to", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930752", "text": "in tobacco revenue. In a videotaped message, CEO Larry J. Merlo said ending tobacco sales \"is the right thing to do\". On September 3, 2014, CVS officially stopped selling cigarettes in its stores. A \"Forbes\" magazine article cited the move to remove tobacco products coincides with CVS's decision to change its corporate name from CVS Caremark to CVS Health. This move reflects “its broader health care commitment” and desire to change the future health of Americans. In February 2008, CVS settled a large civil lawsuit for deceptive business practices. The Kaiser Family Foundation reported: CVS Caremark has agreed to a", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930736", "text": "of the former Eckerd stores, which were converted to CVS stores by June, are located in Florida, Texas, and other southern states. Because JCPenney credit cards were accepted at Eckerd locations, CVS continues to accept them as well. On January 23, 2006, CVS announced that it had agreed to acquire the freestanding drug store operations of supermarket chain Albertsons. The deal included the acquisition of 700 drug stores trading under the Osco Drug and Sav-On Drugs banners, mostly in the midwestern and southwestern United States (with a concentration of stores in southern California and the Chicago area), and was formally", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930759", "text": "longer protected by the federal Privacy Rule.\" Stores had to fulfill a quota of a number of customers in the program each week. Walgreens and Rite Aid also offer rewards for filling prescriptions, although they do not require a signed HIPAA waiver. On April 1, 2011, the James Randi Educational Foundation awarded CVS Pharmacy the tongue-in-cheek Pigasus Award for selling homeopathic remedies alongside medicines recognized by science. In July 2018 the Center for Inquiry filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against CVS for consumer fraud over its sale of homeopathic medicines. According to Nicholas", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "9976131", "text": "it was announced that CVS as of midnight on Tuesday September 2, 2014 will no longer sell tobacco at all of its 7,700 locations nationwide, which is a month earlier than previously planned. The company also announced that it would change its corporate name to CVS Health, in order to reflect \"its broader health care commitment\", and also a desire to change the future health of Americans, although all retail stores will continue to be called \"CVS/pharmacy\". The first Consumer Value Store (CVS), selling health and beauty products, was founded in 1963 in Lowell, Massachusetts by brothers Stanley and Sidney", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "9976133", "text": "2018, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon informed CVS Health Corp and the insurer Aetna that they have to keep their management separate until he weighs in on their $69 billion merger. The judge gave CVS and Aetna until December 14, 2018 to explain why the companies should not hold off on their consolidation. CVS Pharmacy is one of the largest retail pharmacy chains in the United States, with 9,600 stores located in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, operating primarily under the CVS Pharmacy, CVS, Longs Drugs, Navarro Discount Pharmacy and Drogaria Onofre names. CVS Pharmacy", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "2930745", "text": "Soma; that domain now resides with the lingerie brand of the same name owned by clothing retailer Chico's. By 2004 all CVS stores were able to receive electronic prescriptions. In 2015, CVS Pharmancy launched a unique version of their CVS Pharmacy stores called CVS Pharmacy y más specifically aimed at attracting Hispanic shoppers. The first stores were launched in Florida and have since expanded to California and Texas. In 2005 CVS participated in a program to reduce the pollution of Maine's waterways. CVS agreed to accept drugs for disposal so that people would not dispose of them in ways that", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930744", "text": "in Seattle, Denver, Portland and Salt Lake City. The acquisition includes more than 1,660 pharmacies in 47 states. CVS will operate them through a store-within-a-store format. Target’s nearly 80 clinic locations will be rebranded as MinuteClinic, and CVS plans to open up to 20 new clinics in their stores within three years. CVS started rebranding the pharmacies within the Target stores on February 3, 2016. The domain \"CVS.com\" attracted at least 26 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey. CVS no longer owns the soma.com domain name, which it acquired with the purchase of online drugstore pioneer", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930806", "text": "a miscarriage. The woman said she was left \"in tears and humiliated\". Walgreens responded that its policy \"allows pharmacists to step away from filling a prescription for which they have a moral objection\". Walgreens Walgreen Company or simply Walgreens is an American company that operates as the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS Health. It specializes in filling prescriptions, health and wellness products, health information, and photo services. As of August 31, 2018, the company operated 9,560 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was founded", "title": "Walgreens" }, { "id": "2930733", "text": "Drug chain. The chain had more than 400 stores by 1981. Sales reached $1 billion in 1985, partly due to the pharmacies being added to many of CVS's older stores. In 1980 CVS became the 15th largest pharmacy chain in the U.S., with 408 stores and $414 million in sales. In 1988, CVS celebrated its 25th anniversary, finishing the year with nearly 750 stores and sales of about $1.6 billion. In 1990 CVS acquired the 490-store Peoples Drug chain from Imasco, which established the company in new mid-Atlantic markets including Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. In 1994, CVS started", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930737", "text": "completed on June 2, 2006.<ref name=\"CVS-Caremark-Aug-2006-8-K/A\"></ref> Transition of Sav-On and Osco stores to the CVS brand was completed by December 2006. CVS now dominates the southern California market. Also included were Albertsons Health'n'Home (now CVS Home Health) durable medical equipment stores. Approximately 28 CVS Home Health locations are present in Arizona, California, and the Kansas City area, representing CVS's first venture into the specialized DME market.<br>CVS had previously operated stores in southern California but completely withdrew from the market in 1993. CVS sold virtually all of the locations to Sav-On's then owner American Stores, who operated them under the name", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "9976139", "text": "of pharmacy services to the long-term care market for patients in skilled nursing and assisted living facilities throughout North America. The company was acquired by CVS Health in August 2015 and is operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of CVS Health Corporation. CVS Health offers a number of over-the-counter private label brands in their retail pharmacy stores, including grocery brands Gold Emblem™ and Gold Emblem Abound™; household products under the Total Home name; preservative-free vitamins and supplements under the radiance® PLATINUM line; and beauty and skin products through the Beauty 360, Nuance Salma Hayek, Makeup Academy, Skin+Pharmacy, and Essence of", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "2930740", "text": "the United States, most of which are within CVS Pharmacy locations. On November 1, 2006, CVS announced that it was entering into a purchase agreement with Nashville-based Caremark Rx Inc., a pharmacy benefits manager. The new company is called \"CVS Caremark Corporation\" and the corporate headquarters remains in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The new pharmacy services business, including the combined pharmacy benefits management (PBM), specialty pharmacy, and disease management businesses, is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The new CVS Caremark Corporation is expected to achieve about $75 billion in yearly revenue for 2007. The merger was formally completed on March 22, 2007.", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930783", "text": "Walgreens Walgreen Company or simply Walgreens is an American company that operates as the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS Health. It specializes in filling prescriptions, health and wellness products, health information, and photo services. As of August 31, 2018, the company operated 9,560 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901. The Walgreens headquarters office is in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois. In 2014 the company agreed to purchase the remaining 55% of Switzerland-based Alliance Boots that it", "title": "Walgreens" }, { "id": "9103632", "text": "unions and government agencies. By 2002 CVS' specialty pharmacy ProCare, the \"largest integrated retail/mail provider of specialty pharmacy services\" in the United States, was consolidated with their pharmacy benefit management company, PharmaCare. Caremark Rx was founded as a unit of Baxter International and in 1992 spun off from Baxter as a publicly traded company. In March 2007, CVS Corporation acquired Caremark to create CVS Caremark, later re-branded as CVS Health. In 2011 Caremark Rx was the nation's second-largest PBM. Caremark Rx was subject to a class action lawsuit in Tennessee, which alleged that Caremark kept discounts from drug manufacturers instead", "title": "Pharmacy benefit management" }, { "id": "2930760", "text": "Little, CFI’s Vice President and General Counsel: \"... [CVS] have a responsibility to their customers and to the law to make sure that the products are not falsely marketed, and that customers are told what they are: unproven treatments which cannot work under any current understanding of science.\" CVS responded by describing the lawsuit as \"having no merit\", and stating that they were \"... committed to assuring that the products [CVS] offer are safe, work as intended, comply with regulations and satisfy customers.\" On October 25, 2014, CVS disabled NFC (near field communication) payments from the newly-initiated Apple Pay mobile", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930746", "text": "reach rivers and other bodies of waters. In 2013 CVS agreed to pay Connecticut $800,000 due to alleged mismanagement of hazardous waste. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection agency found that CVS had improperly identified, managed, and disposed of hazardous materials. CVS was required to pay the United States government $2.25 million in 2009 for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that CVS did not appropriately dispose of sensitive patient", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930758", "text": "would be \"counseled and trained.\" According to Lee's attorney, \"[The employee] should have been terminated immediately. She never got an apology. She never got anything further after she complained.\" On April 16, 2013, Lee filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against CVS and sought $1 million. She settled for an undisclosed sum. In 2013 CVS introduced a program that rewarded customers up to $50 per year in ExtraCare Bucks in exchange for filling their prescriptions. In order to enroll in the program, customers had to sign a HIPAA waiver acknowledging, \"my health information may potentially be re-disclosed and thus is no", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "19130642", "text": "feet in size, serving patients with chronic diseases and conditions that require complex and expensive drug regimens.\" CVS was an early pioneer in online mail-delivery prescription filling service which it operated through CVS.com, a rebranded website it acquired with the 1999 purchase of Soma.com, the first major online pharmacy. By September 2000 when CVS acquired Stadtlander for $124 million Stadtlanders had become \"one of the largest employers\" in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. By 1999, the market for specialty pharmaceuticals was estimated at about $16 billion and it was \"a particularly fast-growing segment of the drug industry.\" CVS became a consolidator in", "title": "Specialty pharmacy" }, { "id": "5198151", "text": "CCVS CCVS, or Credit Card Verification System, was a credit card processing system designed for Posix-based operating systems, including Unix, Linux, and a version for Palm OS shown at trade shows. It was originally sold by Hell's Kitchen Systems, Inc. from 1997 onward and was acquired along with the company by Red Hat in January 2000. In 2002, Red Hat decided to exit the eCommerce market as an ISV, discontinued support for CCVS, and recommended that customers transition to MCVE. The CCVS API supported use under PHP, Java, Perl, Tcl, and C to allow merchants to communicate directly with the", "title": "CCVS" }, { "id": "2930732", "text": "time in 1964. That year, they had 17 retail locations, and 40 stores only five years later. In 1967, CVS began operation of its first stores with pharmacy departments, opening locations in Warwick and Cumberland, Rhode Island. CVS was acquired by the now-defunct Melville Corporation in 1969, boosting its growth. By 1970 CVS operated 100 stores in New England and the Northeast. In 1972 CVS acquired 84 Clinton Drug and Discount Stores, which introduced CVS to Indiana and the Midwest. By 1974 CVS had 232 stores and sales of $100 million. In 1977, CVS acquired the 36-store New Jersey-based Mack", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930761", "text": "payment system. Apple Pay was officially launched on October 21, 2014, and was available at CVS for the first few days after its launch, allowing customers to make purchases securely using their iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. This followed the pharmacy chain Rite Aid's similar decision two days earlier. On October 11, 2018, Apple Pay was enabled again at all CVS stores, following an announcement by Tim Cook during Apple's July 31, 2018, earnings call. On July 17, 2015, CVS shut down its online photo processing services, blaming a third party vendor, believed to be PNI Digital Media. According", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "2930763", "text": "pharmacist also refused to return the prescription notes to her or transfer them to another pharmacy. She filed a complaint with CVS, which was not acknowledged. In an email to \"The Arizona Republic\" on the day they published the story, CVS apologized to her, stating that the pharmacist had violated company policies and is no longer employed by CVS, and that the incident \"does not reflect our values or our commitment to inclusion, nondiscrimination and the delivery of outstanding patient care.\" Notes CVS Pharmacy CVS Pharmacy (sometimes stylized as CVS/pharmacy) is a subsidiary of the American retail and health care", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "9976138", "text": "their caregivers. Clients are primarily health plans, employers, and third party administrators (TPAs). The company is operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of CVS Health Corporation. Coram is one of the nation's largest providers of infusion services, clinical and compliance monitoring and individual patient counseling and education. Coram cares for 140,000 patients annually through a national network of more than 85 locations as well as the largest home infusion network in the United States. The company was acquired by CVS Health in August 2015 and is operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of CVS Health Corporation. Omnicare is a provider", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "9976136", "text": "Specialty is the specialty pharmacy division that provides specialty pharmacy services for individuals with chronic or genetic diseases who require complex and expensive drug therapies. CVS Health operate 24 retail specialty pharmacy stores and 11 specialty mail order pharmacies, making them the largest specialty pharmacy in the United States. Drogaria Onofre is a Brazilian drug chain acquired by CVS Health in February 2013. It has 47 stores in five states in the country and operates branches in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, São José do Rio Preto, Sao Jose dos Campos and Santos. Longs Drugs", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "9103623", "text": "government programs striving to maintain or reduce the pharmacy expenditures of the plan while concurrently trying to improve health care outcomes.\" As of 2016, PBMs managed pharmacy benefits for 266 million Americans. PBMs operate inside of integrated healthcare systems (e.g., Kaiser or VA), as part of retail pharmacies (e.g., CVS Pharmacy or Rite-Aid), and as part of insurance companies (e.g., UnitedHealth Group). In 2016 there were fewer than 30 major PBM companies in this category in the US, and three major PBMs (Express Scripts, CVS Health, and OptumRx of UnitedHealth Group) comprise 78% of the market and cover 180 million", "title": "Pharmacy benefit management" }, { "id": "9976155", "text": "website, it even suggests homeopathics to you, CVS is making no distinction between those products that have been vetted and tested by science, and those that are nothing but snake oil.” The filing in part contends that apart from being a waste of money, choosing homeopathic treatments to the exclusion of evidence-based medicines can result in worsened or prolonged symptoms, and in some cases, even death. CVS Health CVS Health Corporation (previously CVS Corporation or CVS Caremark Corporation) is an American retail pharmacy and health care company headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The company began in 1964 with three partners", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "2930734", "text": "PharmaCare Management Services. The parent company decided to focus on CVS in 1995, selling off Marshalls and This End Up. The following year, they let go of Footaction/Footstar, Meldisco, Linens 'n' Things, and KB Toys. The company, then decided to change its name from Melville Corporation to CVS Corporation. In 1997, Bob's Stores were also sold, and CVS nearly tripled its 1,400 stores after purchasing the 2,500-store Revco chain. CVS bought 200 Arbor Drugs locations in 1998, opened approximately 180 new stores, closed about 160 stores, and relocated nearly 200 existing stores from strip malls to freestanding locations. In 1999,", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "12178186", "text": "now. Navarro Discount Pharmacies Navarro Discount Pharmacies, Inc., frequently referred to as Navarro is a pharmacy chain, photo service, and pharmacy benefit manager in the United States. The company was acquired by CVS Pharmacy in September, 2014 and is operated as a separate brand and business of CVS, headquartered in Miami, Florida. The company mainly operates in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties and currently has 28 stores. Navarro Discount Pharmacies has a 17% market share in South Florida, ahead of Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy. The company has more than 2,000 employees and annual sales of more than $350 million. Navarro leads the", "title": "Navarro Discount Pharmacies" }, { "id": "3362805", "text": "Eckerd Corporation Eckerd Corporation was an American drug store chain that was headquartered in Largo, Florida, and toward the end of its life, in Warwick, Rhode Island. The chain had approximately 2,800 stores in 23 states as far west as Arizona. In 2004 it was the fourth largest drug chain in the U.S. In April 2004, the company (then a subsidiary of JCPenney) was broken up in a $4.52 billion deal, with approximately 1269 stores in Florida, Louisiana and Texas, along with Eckerd's $1.3 billion mail order pharmacy, sold to CVS Corporation (now CVS Health). The deal enabled CVS to", "title": "Eckerd Corporation" }, { "id": "2930750", "text": "other possible violations under Chapter 35 of the Business and Commerce Code. CVS settled by paying $315,000 to the state and agreeing to overhaul its information security system. In common with other US pharmacies, CVS originally stocked cigarettes for sale to the public. Some campaigners in the United States advocate the removal of tobacco from pharmacies due to the health risks associated with smoking and the apparent contradiction of selling cigarettes alongside smoking cessation products and asthma medication. CVS and other pharmacies which continued to sell tobacco products have been subject to criticism, and attempts have been made to introduce", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "7040244", "text": "Caremark currently has approximately 16,000 employees. It is the second largest prescription management and pharmaceutical services business in the United States. In March 2007, Caremark merged with CVS Corporation to create CVS Caremark, later re-branded as CVS Health. Today the company is one of the nation's leading pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies, provides comprehensive prescription benefit management services to over 2,000 health plans, including corporations, managed care organizations, insurance companies, unions and government entities. With net revenue of approximately $37 billion (including approximately $5.8 billion of retail copayments) in 2006, they are also one of the largest PBMs. Caremark operates", "title": "CVS Caremark" }, { "id": "6194252", "text": "Longs Drugs Longs Drugs is an American chain with approximately 40 drugstores throughout the state of Hawaii. Before being acquired by CVS Health in 2008, it was a chain of over 500 stores, located primarily on the West Coast of the United States. Besides Hawaii, it had stores located in California, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, and was headquartered in Walnut Creek, California. The first store was founded in 1938 as Longs Self-Service Drugs, by brothers Thomas and Joseph Long (son-in-law of Marion Barton Skaggs, co-founder of Safeway Inc.), when they opened their first store on Piedmont Avenue", "title": "Longs Drugs" }, { "id": "2930731", "text": "England is gradually phasing out any such shops. Any new non-pharmacy store is usually built in a more urban setting where another CVS with a pharmacy exists within walking distance such as downtown Boston or Providence. These stores usually lack a pharmacy and a photo center but carry most of the general merchandise items that a normal CVS Pharmacy carries such as health and beauty items, sundries, and food items. CVS Pharmacy announced the closure of 70 stores in early 2017; nearly all 70 stores had already been closed by that time. The CVS name was used for the first", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "12178183", "text": "Navarro Discount Pharmacies Navarro Discount Pharmacies, Inc., frequently referred to as Navarro is a pharmacy chain, photo service, and pharmacy benefit manager in the United States. The company was acquired by CVS Pharmacy in September, 2014 and is operated as a separate brand and business of CVS, headquartered in Miami, Florida. The company mainly operates in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties and currently has 28 stores. Navarro Discount Pharmacies has a 17% market share in South Florida, ahead of Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy. The company has more than 2,000 employees and annual sales of more than $350 million. Navarro leads the industry", "title": "Navarro Discount Pharmacies" }, { "id": "4209765", "text": "\"Vicks\" or \"Vick\". In Latin America, the brand name is simply Vick. Vicks Vicks is an American brand of over-the-counter medications owned by the American company Procter & Gamble. Vicks manufactures NyQuil and its sister medication, DayQuil. The Vicks brand also produces Formula 44 cough medicines, cough drops, Vicks VapoRub, and a number of inhaled breathing treatments. For much of its history, Vicks products were manufactured by the family-owned company Richardson-Vicks, Inc., based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Richardson-Vicks, Inc., was eventually sold to Procter & Gamble in 1985. In 1890, pharmacist Lunsford Richardson of Selma, North Carolina, took over the", "title": "Vicks" }, { "id": "2930739", "text": "a definitive agreement to acquire Minneapolis-based MinuteClinic, the pioneer and largest provider of retail-based health clinics in the U.S. MinuteClinic operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of CVS Corporation. MinuteClinic health care centers are staffed by board-certified nurse practitioners and physician assistants who are trained to diagnose and treat common family illnesses such as throat, ear, eye, sinus, bladder, and bronchial infections, and provide prescriptions when clinically appropriate. MinuteClinic also offers common vaccinations, such as flu shots, tetanus, and Hepatitis A & B. The clinics are supported by physicians who collaborate with the staff. There are over 550 locations across", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "4265591", "text": "technicians working in retail or independent pharmacies is $12.26 and for pharmacy technicians working in hospital setting is $14.57. CPhT is the abbreviation for Certified Pharmacy Technician. The CPhT works directly under a pharmacist, R.Ph or a PharmD. (An R.Ph is a Registered Pharmacist, who is a licensed pharmacist in that state and may have either a bachelor's degree in pharmacy or a Pharm.D.) The profession has different educational and certification requirements in different locales, set by each state's Board of Pharmacy. For example, in order to remain licensed, all Illinois pharmacy technicians hired on Jan 1, 2008 (and after)", "title": "Pharmacy technician" }, { "id": "2930741", "text": "Tom Ryan, CVS's Chairman and CEO, remains president and CEO of the combined company, while Caremark's President and CEO, Mac Crawford, is Chairman of the Board. On November 7, 2007, Mac Crawford stepped down as Chairman of the Board for CVS Caremark. He was replaced by President and CEO of CVS Caremark, Tom Ryan. On August 12, 2008, CVS Pharmacy announced that it would acquire Longs Drugs for $2.9 billion. Walgreens made a counteroffer but dropped it. The deal closed October 30, 2008. Longs Drugs stores outside Hawaii were rebranded to CVS Pharmacy in September 2009. In 2012, CVS Caremark", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "5724132", "text": "in New England. Hook's-SupeRx was acquired by Revco in 1994. Revco was subsequently acquired by CVS in 1997. Many former Hook's locations are now CVS Pharmacies. A restored 19th-century Hook's drug store stands at the Indiana State Fairgrounds, and is a popular attraction at the annual Indiana State Fair. It was originally built in 1849 and has been restored with authentic 19th century cabinets. In 2000, the great-grandchildren of John A. Hook opened Hook's Apothecary in Evansville, Indiana. The store specializes in compounding prescriptions. It has no corporate ties to CVS. After Hook's was sold to Revco, the Oxygen and", "title": "Hook's Drug Stores" }, { "id": "5724129", "text": "Hook's Drug Stores Hook's Drug Stores was an Indianapolis, Indiana-based drug store chain which was founded in 1900 by John A. Hook. The chain flourished throughout central Indiana for most of the 20th-century. Hook's did business under its own banner, the SupeRX Drug Stores banner outside its core market, and the Brooks Pharmacy banner after acquiring the New England pharmacy chain. The entire company was eventually purchased by fellow Midwestern drugstore chain Revco. Most former Hook's locations that are still open operate as CVS, which bought out Revco in the late 1990s and rebranded their stores as CVS. The Brooks", "title": "Hook's Drug Stores" }, { "id": "9103633", "text": "of sharing them with member benefit plans, secretly negotiated rebates for drugs and kept the money, and provided plan members with more expensive drugs when less expensive alternatives were available. CVS Caremark paid $20 million to three states over fraud allegations. OptumRx, one of the Optum businesses of UnitedHealth Group Inc, has been a leading PBM. In March 2015 UnitedHealth Group acquired Catamaran Corporation for about $12.8 billion to extend this PBM business. In 1998, PBMs were under investigation by Assistant U.S. Attorney James Sheehan of the federal Justice Department and their effectiveness in reducing prescription costs and saving clients", "title": "Pharmacy benefit management" }, { "id": "15438030", "text": "legal reprisal, thus enabling the price of the drug to remain in the $10–20 range. After this announcement, K-V's stock dropped by more than 60% on March 30, 2011, and the company cut the price of Makena to $690 per dose. KV Pharmaceutical filed a petition for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Act on August 4, 2012 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan. The petition listed the company’s assets as $237 million and its debts as $728 million. The filing came on the same day that the company failed to make", "title": "KV Pharmaceutical" }, { "id": "14710645", "text": "Sri Sri Ayurveda Sri Sri Ayurveda (SSA), now known as Sri Sri Tattva, is a GMP certified Ayurvedic medicine manufacturing company started by Sri Sri Ravishankar. It is part of the Art of Living Foundation group of organizations. Sri Sri Ayurveda trust, was established in January 2003, near the Art of Living International Centre, Bengaluru. The Pharmaceutical Unit is operating a production unit, R & D division, quality control unit and marketing department. The facility has the GMP and HACCP certification (GMP: Good Manufacturing Practice, HACCP: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) and manufactures classical Ayurvedic medicines, proprietary medicines, cosmetics", "title": "Sri Sri Ayurveda" }, { "id": "19034442", "text": "to stop selling cigarettes and tobacco products, citing the need for CVS to better position itself as a healthcare company. She oversaw the company's philanthropic endeavors, and developed digital strategies to help consumers learn how to fulfill their pharmaceutical needs. In 2015, \"Fortune\" magazine included her on its list of Most Powerful Women, citing Foulkes' role in the \"$1.9 billion purchase of Target's prescription-filling business—a deal that will give CVS the most pharmacy locations in the U.S.—and launching upgraded beauty and healthy food sections in many of the stores\". On February 5, 2018, Hudson's Bay Co., owner of Saks Fifth", "title": "Helena Foulkes" }, { "id": "9913291", "text": "Cosmetic Ingredient Review The Cosmetic Ingredient Review (CIR), based in Washington, D.C., assesses and reviews the safety of ingredients in cosmetics and publishes the results in peer-reviewed scientific literature. The company was established in 1976 by the Personal Care Products Council (then called the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association), with support of the Food and Drug Administration and the Consumer Federation of America. In 2013, Dr. F. Alan Andersen, the CIR’s director, said that its annual budget \"is not a matter of public record\". The CIR does not file Form 990s, which show annual revenues and expenses. Overall funding for", "title": "Cosmetic Ingredient Review" }, { "id": "2930751", "text": "regional bans on the practice, notably by the City and County of San Francisco. In 2007 CEO Thomas Ryan stated that the company was considering halting the sale of cigarettes within its pharmacies, acknowledging that the issue was problematic for the company, but had not done so, citing internal market research that discovered ceasing cigarette sales will not change consumer behavior (of buying cigarettes). In February 2014 CVS announced that it would stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its stores, challenging other retailers to follow its lead. The decision meant the company would forfeit $1.5 billion a year", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "6697277", "text": "ViroPharma ViroPharma Incorporated was a pharmaceutical company that developed and sold drugs that addressed serious diseases treated by physician specialists and in hospital settings. The company focused on product development activities on viruses and human disease, including those caused by cytomegalovirus (CMV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections. It was purchased by Shire in 2013, with Shire paying around $4.2 billion for the company in a deal that was finalized in January 2014. ViroPharma was a member of the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index and the S&P 600. The company had strategic relationships with GlaxoSmithKline, Schering-Plough, and Sanofi-Aventis. ViroPharma acquired Lev Pharmaceuticals", "title": "ViroPharma" }, { "id": "7040245", "text": "a national retail pharmacy network with over 60,000 participating pharmacies, as well as 56 retail specialty pharmacy stores, 20 specialty mail order pharmacies and 9 mail service pharmacies located in 26 states and the District of Columbia. CVS Caremark CVS Caremark (formerly Caremark Rx) (stylized as CVScaremark, previously CVS/caremark) is the prescription benefit management subsidiary of CVS Health, headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Caremark was founded in 1993 in Birmingham, Alabama as MedPartners, Inc. by HealthSouth Corporation along with Richard Scrushy, former CEO of HealthSouth, and one time HealthSouth Chief Operating Officer Larry House as a physician practice management (PPM)", "title": "CVS Caremark" }, { "id": "18584990", "text": "President of CVS Pharmacy (January 2007 to January 2010), and Chief Operating Officer (May 2010 to March 2011). He was appointed chief executive officer in 2011. In 2014, after CVS refined its purpose of \"helping people on their path to better health\", Merlo announced that CVS would be the first major retail pharmacy to discontinue tobacco sales in all of its stores. He also announced that CVS would attempt to expand its line of “MinuteClinics,” which are walk-in health clinics, from 800 locations to 1,500 by 2017. In 2017, Merlo was also behind the decision that CVS would limit access", "title": "Larry Merlo" }, { "id": "5810246", "text": "The strip is set in the year 2531. The Solar System is engaged in a war of survival against an alien species known as \"Geeks\". Steve Smith, a raw recruit, has just completed his training and signed on with the Global Combat Corps as a star-trooper, but is quickly thrown in at the deep end: he is assigned to the hard-bitten crew of a space patrol ship crewed by the \"Vacuum Cleaners\" or V.C.s for short; so called because of their penchant for clean kills, with little to no debris. The twist is that Smith is the only Earth-born crew", "title": "The V.C.s" }, { "id": "19014970", "text": "Surescripts Surescripts is an Arlington, Virginia based information technology company that supports e-prescription, the electronic transmission of prescriptions between health care organizations and pharmacies, as well as general health information exchange (HIE) of medical records. Under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, Surescripts took part in a pilot program with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to employ the SCRIPT standard. In 2008, Surescripts merged with RxHub which was formed by a consortium of pharmacy benefit management companies comprising CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions. According to the U.S. Department of Health", "title": "Surescripts" }, { "id": "14340792", "text": "was bought by CVS Corp., which closed several locations and renamed the others as Peoples Drug stores. CVS had purchased the Washington, D.C.-based Peoples in 1990, renovating and expanding most of the stores, but had retained the Peoples name. At the time of the company's purchase of Standard, plans already were under way to change the Peoples locations to CVS/Pharmacy stores. That name change happened in May 1994. Instead of keeping the Standard name until the change to CVS, the company made the temporary change to Peoples, as the stores' designs would be much closer to the future look of", "title": "Standard Drug Company (Richmond, Virginia)" }, { "id": "19427885", "text": "exam required for domestic and U.S. graduates who wish to seek certification. Domestic and U.S. graduates of a pharmacy program accredited by the CCAPP or ACPE respectively, are eligible to take the Pharmacist Qualifying Examination, and upon successful completion, will be issued a Certificate of Qualification. The Pharmacist Qualifying Examination has evolved considerably since the inception of the PEBC, and currently consists of 2 Parts: Part I (MCQ) and Part II (OSCE). Part I (MCQ) is a 300-question multiple-choice exam taken on two half-day sittings. Part II (OSCE) is an objective structured clinical examination whereby candidates rotate through a series", "title": "Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada" }, { "id": "2930757", "text": "\"her customers often requested certain brands of oxycodone using street slang,\" an indicator that the drugs were being diverted and not used for legitimate pain management. In response, CVS in a statement issued Feb 17 in response to opioid trafficking questions from USATODAY said the company is committed to working with the DEA and had taken \"significant actions to ensure appropriate dispensing of painkillers in Florida.\" In 2013 a Korean customer, Hyun Lee, was identified as \"Ching Chong Lee\" on her receipt from a CVS in New Jersey. Lee contacted CVS and received an email response saying that the employee", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "5810249", "text": "the V.C.s punishment by sending them on near-suicidal duties. Much in the style of \"The Dirty Dozen\" this results in a high fatality rate and over the course of the series all of the V.C.s save Smith and Jupe are killed off. Ultimately Smith, the sole member of the original V.C.s who remains fighting fit, leads a heroic attack on the Geek homeworld that ends the war. The VCs were revived in \"2000 AD\" in 2002 and are still active. The new series is written by Dan Abnett and initially drawn by Henry Flint, later replaced by Anthony Williams. In", "title": "The V.C.s" }, { "id": "2930747", "text": "information or provide the necessary training on disposal to their employees. Former CVS executives John R. Kramer and Carlos Ortiz were charged with bribery, conspiracy, and fraud (including mail fraud) by a federal grand jury for allegedly paying State Senator John A. Celona (D-RI) to act as a \"consultant\" for the company. Between February 2000 and September 2003, CVS paid Celona $1,000 a month, and he received tickets to golf outings and sporting events and compensation for travel to Florida and California. In August 2005, he pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges, and in January 2007, he was fined a", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "19081836", "text": "was used as early as 1988 in a \"New York Times\" article about Eastman Kodak Company's acquisition of the New York-based Sterling Drug Inc., maker of specialty drugs along with many and diverse other products. When Shire Pharmaceuticals acquired BioChem Pharma in 2000 they created a specialty pharmaceuticals company. By 2001 Shire was one of the fastest growing specialty pharmaceutical companies in the world. By 2001 CVS's specialty pharmacy ProCare was the \"largest integrated retail/mail provider of specialty pharmacy services\" in the United States. It was consolidated with their pharmacy benefit management company PharmaCare in 2002. In their 2001 annual", "title": "Specialty drugs in the United States" }, { "id": "14676797", "text": "MinuteClinic MinuteClinic (stylized as minute clinic) is a division of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS), the largest pharmacy health care provider in the United States. MinuteClinic was initially started as QuickMedx by Dr. Douglas Smith and his patient Rick Krieger, along with Stephen Pontius in Minneapolis, MN. This was the first of the \"Retail Clinics\" in the United States. MinuteClinic launched the first walk-in clinic in the country in 2000, and is the largest provider of retail clinics with more than 1,100 locations in 33 states and the District of Columbia. Nationally, the company has cared for more than 20 million", "title": "MinuteClinic" }, { "id": "9976150", "text": "other incentives. On February 18, 2009, CVS Caremark agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to take reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect the sensitive financial and medical information of its customers and employees, in violation of federal law. In a separate but related agreement, the company's pharmacy chain also has agreed to pay $2.25 million to resolve Department of Health and Human Services allegations that it violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). On January 12, 2012, CVS Caremark paid $5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misrepresented the prices", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "4986684", "text": "Medco Health Solutions Medco Health Solutions, Inc. was an American Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) company which served more than 65 million people, before it was ultimately acquired by Express Scripts in April 2012. Medco provided pharmacy services for private and public employers, health plans, labor unions, government agencies, and individuals served by Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans. Medco was a member of the S&P 500 and ranked number 34 on the 2011 Fortune 500 list, with 2011 revenues of more than $70 billion. It earned the No. 1 ranking in the Healthcare: Pharmacy and Other Services category on Fortune", "title": "Medco Health Solutions" }, { "id": "7878013", "text": "completed in June 2008. All Brooks and Eckerd locations were either rebranded as Rite Aid (in some locations with a Rite Aid within a mile of the old store, usually another pharmacy company, such as CVS/pharmacy or Walgreens buys that location), sold to comply with FTC antitrust regulations, or were closed. Brooks Pharmacy Brooks Pharmacy was a chain of more than 330 pharmacies located throughout New England and New York and has been a well-recognized name in the New England pharmacy industry for several decades. The corporate headquarters were located in Warwick, Rhode Island. During its heyday in the late", "title": "Brooks Pharmacy" }, { "id": "9976130", "text": "those patients to its services. Some doctors earned as much as $80,000 a year from the kickbacks, according to government documents.\" In 1992, Baxter spun off Caremark as a public company. Caremark sold its home infusion service and successfully branched out to four units, \"a physician practice management unit, a prescription benefits management unit, a disease state management service aimed at treating high-cost, chronic diseases and an international division.\" In 1996, Caremark merged with Birmingham, Alabama, based MedPartners/Mullikin, Inc., with the combined company being called MedPartners, Inc. In 1998, MedPartners changed its name to Caremark Rx. On September 3, 2014,", "title": "CVS Health" }, { "id": "4117145", "text": "years after the acquisition, the Genovese name ceased to exist when all the remaining stores were rebranded as Eckerd. The former Genovese stores that have remained open currently do business as Rite Aid, who bought Eckerd's eastern U.S. operations in 2007 (these locations are distinguishable as having blue signs instead of red signs). One Rite Aid store in Astoria is now a CVS/pharmacy. Genovese Drug Stores had no connection to the Genovese crime family, one of the \"Five Families\" of the city's Mafia. Genovese Drug Stores Genovese Drug Stores was a pharmacy chain located in the New York City-Long Island", "title": "Genovese Drug Stores" }, { "id": "6337476", "text": "can issue any prescription for controlled dangerous substances (CDS). Physicians have to seek for federally approved CSPs in order to receive a two-factor authentication credential or digital certificates. The CPSs conduct identity proofing that meets National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-63-1 Assurance Level 3. The federal government is currently the CSP for e-government transactions. However, the government plans to focus all their attention in the applications and leave the credential management business to other industries. In 2004, the US government proposed an E-authentication initiative. The goals of the initiative include: As a result of this initiative, campuses", "title": "Credential service provider" }, { "id": "9103631", "text": "Company was the largest pharmacy benefit management (PBM) organization in the United States. with 2013 revenues of $104.62 billion. In October 2015 Express Scripts began reviewing pharmacy programs run by AbbVie Inc and Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd regarding the potential use of tactics that \"can allow drugmakers to work around reimbursement restrictions\" from Express Scripts and other insurers. These reviews resulted from investigations into \"questionable practices\" at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc's partner pharmacy, Philidor Rx Services. In 1994, CVS launched PharmaCare, a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company providing a wide range of services to employers, managed care organizations, insurance companies,", "title": "Pharmacy benefit management" }, { "id": "19081851", "text": "three specialty therapy classes—inflammatory conditions, multiple sclerosis and oncology—contributed 55.9% of the spend for all specialty medications billed through the pharmacy benefit in 2014. The U.S. spent 742.6% more on hepatitis C medications in 2014 than it did in 2013; this therapy class was not among the top 10 specialty classes in 2013. As the market demanded specialization in drug distribution and clinical management of complex therapies, specialized pharma (SP) evolved.„ By 2001 CVS' specialty pharmacy ProCare was the \"largest integrated retail/mail provider of specialty pharmacy services\" in the United States. It was consolidated with their pharmacy benefit management company,", "title": "Specialty drugs in the United States" }, { "id": "4209761", "text": "Vicks Vicks is an American brand of over-the-counter medications owned by the American company Procter & Gamble. Vicks manufactures NyQuil and its sister medication, DayQuil. The Vicks brand also produces Formula 44 cough medicines, cough drops, Vicks VapoRub, and a number of inhaled breathing treatments. For much of its history, Vicks products were manufactured by the family-owned company Richardson-Vicks, Inc., based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Richardson-Vicks, Inc., was eventually sold to Procter & Gamble in 1985. In 1890, pharmacist Lunsford Richardson of Selma, North Carolina, took over the retail drug business of his brother-in-law Dr. Joshua Vick, of Greensboro, North", "title": "Vicks" }, { "id": "836550", "text": "Aetna Aetna Inc. () is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance plans and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, primarily through employer-paid (fully or partly) insurance and benefit programs, and through Medicare. Since November 28, 2018, the company has been a subsidiary of CVS Health. The company's network includes 22.1 million medical members, 12.7 million dental members, 13.1 million pharmacy benefit management services members, 1,200,000 health-care professionals, over 690,000 primary care doctors and specialists, and over 5,700 hospitals. Aetna is the direct descendant", "title": "Aetna" }, { "id": "2930748", "text": "record $130,000 by the Rhode Island Ethics Committee. The investigation was led by the FBI and the Rhode Island State Police, and the case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Gerard B. Sullivan and Dulce Donovan. Kramer and Ortiz were acquitted after a jury trial, in May 2008. During 2005 a rash of prescription mistakes came to light in some of CVS Corporation's Boston-area stores. An investigation confirmed 62 errors or quality problems going back to 2002. In February 2006, the state Board of Pharmacy announced that the non-profit Institute of Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) would monitor all Massachusetts stores", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "5198152", "text": "credit card clearing house instead of using Internet-based intermediaries. Along with Red Hat's decision to discontinue support for this extension, it has also been removed from PHP and is no longer available since version 4.3.0. An alternative to CCVS is MCVE. CCVS CCVS, or Credit Card Verification System, was a credit card processing system designed for Posix-based operating systems, including Unix, Linux, and a version for Palm OS shown at trade shows. It was originally sold by Hell's Kitchen Systems, Inc. from 1997 onward and was acquired along with the company by Red Hat in January 2000. In 2002, Red", "title": "CCVS" }, { "id": "628813", "text": "its Shaw's and Star Market pharmacies. On June 2, 2006, the sale of Albertsons essentially split the company into three parts. The SuperValu owned Albertsons stores and the chains it acquired were in turn sold to Cerberus in 2013 and Osco and Sav-On pharmacies moved their operations to the base of Albertsons LLC in Boise, Idaho. Certain store support functions exist in the Franklin Park, Illinois office. Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs were the names of a pair of chain pharmacies that operated in the United States. Osco Drug was founded by the Skaggs family.", "title": "Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs" }, { "id": "8202665", "text": "Peoples Drug Peoples Drug was a chain of drugstores based in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1905, Peoples was subsequently purchased by Lane Drug in 1975, Imasco in 1984, and finally by CVS in 1990, which continued to run the stores under the Peoples banner until 1994, at which time the stores were converted to CVS, marking the end of the use of the Peoples Drug name. Peoples Drug was founded by Malcolm Gibbs in 1905 at 824 7th Street, NW. By 1930, it had 110 stores operating under the Peoples Drugs, Days Drug, and Shearer", "title": "Peoples Drug" }, { "id": "9376369", "text": "Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties: The Canadian Drug Reference for Health Professionals, more commonly known by its abbreviation \"CPS\", is a reference book that contains drug monographs and numerous features which help healthcare professionals prescribe and use drugs safely and appropriately. A print version of \"CPS\" is released annually by the Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA). The CPhA is a nonprofit organization that advocates for pharmacists in Canada. An external Editorial Advisory Committee of Canadian physicians and pharmacists advises CPhA about the strategic direction of their publications including \"CPS\". \"CPS\" is also available online by", "title": "Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties" }, { "id": "15604559", "text": "Relative value unit Relative value units (RVUs) are a measure of value used in the United States Medicare reimbursement formula for physician services. RVUs are a part of the resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS). Before RVUs were used, Medicare paid for physician services using \"usual, customary and reasonable\" rate-setting which led to payment variability. The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 enacted a Medicare fee schedule, and as of 2010 about 7,000 distinct physician services were listed. The services are classified under a nomenclature based on the Current Procedural Terminology to which the American Medical Association holds intellectual property rights.", "title": "Relative value unit" }, { "id": "628794", "text": "Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs were the names of a pair of chain pharmacies that operated in the United States. Osco Drug was founded by the Skaggs family. Alpha Beta grocery store was purchased by American Stores in 1961. Skaggs Drug Centers bought American Stores in 1979 and assumed the American Stores name. Sav-on Drugs was a California-based pharmacy chain that was acquired by Osco's parent company in 1980. Both Osco and Sav-on stores eventually came under the ownership of American Stores, then Albertsons, and finally SuperValu before the stores were sold off. The Osco", "title": "Osco Drug and Sav-on Drugs" }, { "id": "13593819", "text": "without increasing risk of hypoglycemia. The MiniMed Paradigm 522 and 722 Insulin Pumps have a list price of $6,195 while the optional starter kit for the CGM components list for US $999. Insurance coverage for the CGM system is possible under pharmacy benefits (vs. durable medical benefits which have typically a 20% co-pay). Approximately 30% of American patients with typical \"commercial\" coverage can process their CGM under pharmacy, while 90% of American patients are actually eligible for coverage if they meet plan requirements. The estimated out-of-pocket cost is US $0.86 per day for pharmacy benefit or US $2.33 per day", "title": "Minimed Paradigm" }, { "id": "9103627", "text": "majority of the large managed prescription drug benefit expenditures were conducted by about 60 PBMs. Few PBMs are independently owned and operated. PBM´s operate inside of integrated healthcare systems (e.g., Kaiser or VA), as part of retail pharmacies, major chain drug stores (e.g., CVS Pharmacy or Rite-Aid), and as subsidiaries of managed care plans or insurance companies (e.g., UnitedHealth Group). However in 2016 fewer than 30 major PBM companies were in this category in the US, and only three major PBMs (Express Scripts, CVS Health, and OptumRx of UnitedHealth Group) comprised 78% of the market, covering 180 million enrollees. in", "title": "Pharmacy benefit management" }, { "id": "15294744", "text": "Star Market, Stop & Shop, Target, Walgreens, Walmart and various independent pharmacies. A number of the Massachusetts municipalities listed extend the tobacco sales ban in pharmacies to include the sale of \"nicotine delivery products\", including electronic cigarettes. \"Nicotine delivery products\" are defined as manufactured products that contain nicotine, but not tobacco, and are not FDA approved. On February 5, 2014, CVS Pharmacy, (7600 locations) announced that by October 2014 its stores will stop selling all tobacco products including cigarettes and cigars. In a statement explaining the change, CVS President & CEO Larry J. Merlo said, \"We came to the decision", "title": "Tobacco-Free Pharmacies" }, { "id": "17166855", "text": "considerably improved in the 2015 forecast versus the 2009 forecast per the Trustees Report. Doctors and hospitals are generally funded by payments from patients and insurance plans in return for services rendered (fee-for-service or FFS). In the FFS payment model, each service provided is billed as an individual item, which creates an incentive to provide more services (e.g., more tests, more expensive procedures, and more medicines). This is in contrast to bundled payments, in which the amount the insurer will pay to the service providers is bundled per episode (e.g., for a heart attack patient, a total amount will be", "title": "Health care finance in the United States" }, { "id": "7634468", "text": "Henry Schein Henry Schein Inc. is a distributor of health care products and services with a presence in 34 countries. The company is a Fortune World’s Most Admired Company and is ranked number one in its industry for social responsibility by \"Fortune\" magazine. Henry Schein has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as the World's Most Ethical Company six times as of 2017. In 1932, Henry Schein, a graduate of Columbia University College of Pharmacy, borrowed $500 and opened a pharmacy in Queens, New York. The company expanded into dental supplies in the 1960s, and by the late 1980s, Henry", "title": "Henry Schein" }, { "id": "15467348", "text": "Vaccines for Children Program The Vaccines for Children Program (VFC) is a federally funded program in the United States providing no-cost vaccines to children who lack health insurance or who otherwise cannot afford the cost of the vaccination. The VFC program was created by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 and is required to be a new entitlement of each state's Medicaid plan. The program was officially implemented in October 1994. From 1989 through 1991, a measles epidemic in the United States resulted in several tens of thousands of cases of measles and hundreds of deaths. Upon investigation, CDC", "title": "Vaccines for Children Program" }, { "id": "7391032", "text": "CVS/Pharmacy are two of its primary competitors. The company's slogan is \"America's Low Price Drug Store\". Steve LaFrance stepped down as CEO on October 20, 2006 and named Joe Courtright CEO of the company. Courtright was named president of the company in September and was vice president of pharmacy for Region 2 previous to that. LaFrance maintained a presence with the company as chairman. On July 5, 2012, Walgreens announced the Acquisition of USA Drug. In September 2012, Walgreens announced that they will be closing 76 USA Drug affiliated stores by November. Walgreens took ownership on September 15, 2012. Steve", "title": "USA Drug" }, { "id": "19626153", "text": "an icky aftertaste\". Genzlinger also called \"this star-filled parody [...] a hilarious home run\". The \"Los Angeles Times\" Robert Lloyd wrote, \"it's a sketch, essentially, effectively blown out to 40 minutes — not too short, not too long.\" Tour de Pharmacy Tour de Pharmacy is a 2017 sports doping mockumentary television film directed by Jake Szymanski, starring Andy Samberg, Orlando Bloom, Freddie Highmore, Daveed Diggs, and John Cena. It premiered on HBO on July 8, 2017. On the first day of the 1982 Tour de France, Italian cyclist JuJu Peppi (Orlando Bloom) accidentally causes a pileup after attempting to grope", "title": "Tour de Pharmacy" }, { "id": "9376379", "text": "Some have called for the creation of an independent, nonprofit organization to manage the CPS. Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties The Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties: The Canadian Drug Reference for Health Professionals, more commonly known by its abbreviation \"CPS\", is a reference book that contains drug monographs and numerous features which help healthcare professionals prescribe and use drugs safely and appropriately. A print version of \"CPS\" is released annually by the Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA). The CPhA is a nonprofit organization that advocates for pharmacists in Canada. An external Editorial Advisory Committee of Canadian physicians and pharmacists advises CPhA", "title": "Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties" }, { "id": "9376378", "text": "of e-CPS in 2004. With each passing year there are more drug monographs and information in \"CPS\", which has resulted in a steadily increasing volume size. Sales have continued to grow as \"CPS\" remains the most comprehensive and frequently used reference for safely and accurately prescribing drugs in Canada. In the past, the CPS has been criticized for being heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry and for lacking important information, such as efficacy and price. Pharmaceuticals in the CPS are listed by their brand name, as opposed to by the International Nonproprietary Name (INN) or United States Adopted Name (USAN).", "title": "Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties" }, { "id": "2930753", "text": "$38.5 million settlement in a multi-state civil deceptive-practices lawsuit against pharmacy benefit manager Caremark filed by 28 attorneys general, the \"Chicago Tribune\" reports. The attorneys general, led by Lisa Madigan (D) of Illinois and Douglas Ganslar (D) of Maryland, allege that Caremark \"engaged in deceptive business practices\" by informing physicians that patients or health plans could save money if patients were switched to certain brand-name prescription drugs (Miller, \"Chicago Tribune\", 2/14). However, the switch often saved patients and health plans only small amounts or increased their costs, while increasing Caremark's profits, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) said (Levick, \"Hartford", "title": "CVS Pharmacy" }, { "id": "9376370", "text": "subscription at www.pharmacists.ca. Most of the drug monographs in \"CPS\" are provided by manufacturers, though numerous monographs—usually for drugs which are available as generic brands— are written by CPhA editorial staff and peer reviewed. 2010 marked the 50th anniversary of the first edition of \"CPS\". The following sections appear in \"CPS\". The Brand and Generic Name Index is located at the front of \"CPS\". It is the most comprehensive list of current brand and generic drugs in Canada, and also includes discontinued products. This section is also referred to as the green section because of the green border on the", "title": "Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties" }, { "id": "19193445", "text": "Diplomat Pharmacy Diplomat Pharmacy, Inc., is the largest independent provider of specialty pharmacy services in the United States. The company partners with manufacturers, payers, providers, hospitals, and more. Headquartered in Flint, Michigan, Diplomat has facilities across the United States and dispenses drugs in all 50 states. Diplomat offers specialized medication and medication management programs for patients with complex and chronic conditions such as cancer, hepatitis, multiple sclerosis, HIV and others. In October 2014, Diplomat Pharmacy launched an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange after raising $173 million. Diplomat is the only publicly traded company in the", "title": "Diplomat Pharmacy" }, { "id": "5524622", "text": "Melville was under pressure to reorganize and shed its diverse portfolio. Many of the chains the company operated were underperforming. The chain shed all of its retail chains, except for CVS, which accounted for 40% of Melville's revenue. Its Peoples, Standard Drug, and Austin Drug pharmacies were converted to the CVS identity. Most of the company's units that were unrelated to its pharmacy business were shed in 1996. Many of the retail divisions that Melville once owned still operate either as independent companies or as subsidiaries of other companies. During the height of Melville's success, the company operated the following", "title": "Melville Corporation" } ]

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[ { "id": "1374771", "text": "fulfilled the promises he had given to Ruth, and when his kinsman (the sources differ as to the precise relationship existing between them) would not marry her because he did not know the \"halakah\" which decreed that Moabite women were not excluded from the Israelitic community, Boaz himself married her (\"Ruth Rabba\" to iv. 1). Boaz was eighty and Ruth forty years old (idem to iii. 10), but their marriage did not remain childless, though Boaz died the day after his wedding (Midrash \"Zutta\", ed. Buber, 55, below). In the early years of Jewish settlement, the term \"a boaz\" (plural", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "49878", "text": "field through the remainder of barley and wheat harvest. Boaz was a close relative of Naomi's husband's family. He was therefore obliged by the Levirate law to marry Mahlon's widow, Ruth, in order to carry on his family's inheritance. Naomi sent Ruth to the threshing floor at night and told her to go where he slept, and \"uncover his feet and lie down. He will tell you what you are to do.\" (3:4). Ruth did so. Boaz asked her who she was, and she replied: \"I am your handmaid Ruth. Spread your robe over your handmaid, for you are a", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "15008023", "text": "Ruth (biblical figure) Ruth (; ), is the title character of the Book of Ruth. In the narrative, she is not an Israelite but rather is from Moab; she marries an Israelite. Both her husband and her father-in-law die, and she helps her mother-in-law, Naomi, find protection. The two of them travel to Bethlehem together, where Ruth wins the love of Boaz through her kindness. She is one of five women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew, alongside Tamar, Rahab, the \"wife of Uriah\" (Bathsheba), and Mary. Elimelech, a man of Bethlehem-Judah, with his", "title": "Ruth (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "15008034", "text": "priestess prior to her religious conversion. Sherry Morris portrayed her in \"\" (2009). Ruth (biblical figure) Ruth (; ), is the title character of the Book of Ruth. In the narrative, she is not an Israelite but rather is from Moab; she marries an Israelite. Both her husband and her father-in-law die, and she helps her mother-in-law, Naomi, find protection. The two of them travel to Bethlehem together, where Ruth wins the love of Boaz through her kindness. She is one of five women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew, alongside Tamar, Rahab, the", "title": "Ruth (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "20002133", "text": "Ruth 4 Ruth 4 is the fourth (and the last) chapter of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This chapter contains the story of how Boaz goeth up to the gate, calleth his kinsman; inquires whether he would redeem and marry Ruth, Ruth 4:1-5. He refuseth, Ruth 4:6-8. Boaz, the people witnessing and congratulating, buyeth the inheritance, and marrieth Ruth, Ruth 4:9-12. She beareth Obed the grandfather of David, Ruth 4:13-17. The genealogy from Pharez unto David, Ruth 4:18-22. It is a part of the Ketuvim (\"Writings\"). Some most ancient", "title": "Ruth 4" }, { "id": "8299744", "text": "biblical women had what anthropology terms \"informal power.\" Ruth is the title character of the Book of Ruth. In the narrative, she is not an Israelite but rather is from Moab; she marries an Israelite. Both her husband and her father-in-law die, and she helps her mother-in-law, Naomi, find protection. The two of them travel to Bethlehem together, where Ruth wins the love of Boaz through her kindness. She is one of five women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew, alongside Tamar, Rahab, the \"wife of Uriah\" (Bathsheba), and Mary. Esther is described in", "title": "Women in the Bible" }, { "id": "20002134", "text": "manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language: Ancient translations in Koine Greek: NKJV groups this chapter into: Ruth 4 Ruth 4 is the fourth (and the last) chapter of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This chapter contains the story of how Boaz goeth up to the gate, calleth his kinsman; inquires whether he would redeem and marry Ruth, Ruth 4:1-5. He refuseth, Ruth 4:6-8. Boaz, the people witnessing and congratulating, buyeth the inheritance, and marrieth Ruth, Ruth 4:9-12. She beareth Obed the grandfather of David, Ruth 4:13-17. The genealogy", "title": "Ruth 4" }, { "id": "49883", "text": "Boaz. She instructs Ruth to uncover Boaz' feet after he has gone to sleep and lie down. When Boaz wakes up, surprised to see a woman at his feet, Ruth explains she wants him to redeem (and thus marry) her. Many modern commentators see sexual allusions in this part of the story, arguing that 'feet' is a euphemism for genitals. Since there was no heir to inherit Elimelech's land, custom required a close relative (usually the dead man's brother) to marry the widow of the deceased in order to continue his family line (Deuteronomy 25:5–10). This relative was called the", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "49880", "text": "\"so and so\". The unnamed relative is unwilling to jeopardize the inheritance of his own estate by marrying Ruth, and so relinquished his right of redemption, thus allowing Boaz to marry Ruth. They transferred the property and redeemed it, ratified by the nearer kinsman taking off his shoe and handing it over to Boaz. Ruth 4:7 notes for later generations that: Boaz and Ruth were then married and have a son. The women of the city celebrate Naomi's joy, for Naomi found a redeemer for her family name, and Naomi takes the child and places it in her bosom. The", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "15008030", "text": "converted to Judaism for the sake of marrying Mahlon but did not fully accept the faith until later. Josephus viewed the Book of Ruth as historical and referenced it in his \"Antiquities of the Jews\". Yitzhak Berger suggests that Naomi's plan was that Ruth seduce Boaz, just as Tamar and Lot's daughters all seduced \"an older family member in order to become the mother of his offspring.\" At the crucial moment, however, \"Ruth abandons the attempt at seduction and instead requests a permanent, \"legal\" union with Boaz.\" Ruth is one of five women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus found", "title": "Ruth (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "1374770", "text": "hair of her head, since devils were believed to be bald (Tan., l.c.). When he perceived the pure and holy intentions of Ruth he not only did not reprove her for her unusual behavior, but he blessed her, and gave her six measures of barley, indicating thereby that six pious men should spring from her, who would be gifted by God with six excellences (cf. ; \"Sanhedrin\" 93b; \"Numbers Rabba\" xiii. 11; \"Ruth Rabba\" and \"Targum to Ruth\" iii. 15; the names of the six men differ in these passages, but David and the Messiah are always among them). Boaz", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "1374773", "text": "connotations. In the 1960 film adaptation \"The Story of Ruth\", Boaz is played by Stuart Whitman. Boaz Boaz (; Modern Hebrew: בועז Bốʿaz; Massoretical Hebrew: בֹּ֫עַז \"Bṓʿaz\"; ) is a biblical figure appearing in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible and in the genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament and also the name of a pillar in the portico of the historic Temple in Jerusalem. The word is found 24 times in the Scriptures, two being in Greek (in the form \"Booz\"). The root בעז, just used in the Bible in relation to \"Boaz\" (see \"The Temple\"),", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "1374762", "text": "the strength of\", or \"bo'oz\", \"in him (is) strength\" from the root 'zz, \"to be strong\", hence the use of the name \"Boaz\" for one of the pillars at the portico of the temple (), although Biblical scholar Martin Noth preferred \"of sharp mind\". The son of Rahab (who may be Rahab of Jericho) and Salmon, Boaz was a wealthy landowner of Bethlehem in Judea, and kinsman of Elimelech, Naomi's late husband. He noticed Ruth, the widowed Moabite daughter-in-law of Naomi, a relative of his (see family tree), gleaning grain in his fields. He soon learns of the difficult circumstances", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "1374761", "text": "Boaz Boaz (; Modern Hebrew: בועז Bốʿaz; Massoretical Hebrew: בֹּ֫עַז \"Bṓʿaz\"; ) is a biblical figure appearing in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible and in the genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament and also the name of a pillar in the portico of the historic Temple in Jerusalem. The word is found 24 times in the Scriptures, two being in Greek (in the form \"Booz\"). The root בעז, just used in the Bible in relation to \"Boaz\" (see \"The Temple\"), perhaps expresses 'quick(ness)'. The etymology of the name has been suggested by many as \"be'oz\", \"in", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "14283176", "text": "of the Bethlehemites' initial disapproval of Ruth's pagan past and Naomi's closest kinsman rejecting Ruth as his wife. As the next of kin after him, Boaz successfully obtains Ruth's hand in marriage. As the film concludes, the final verses of the Book of Ruth are quoted. In 1957, Simon Windelburg was announced as the film's screenwriter. Michael Kanin and his wife, Fay Kanin, who were later hired to write the screenplay, wrote treatments for the film. Frank G. Slaughter wrote a screenplay based on his 1954 novel \"The Song of Ruth: A Love Story From the Old Testament\". Norman Corwin", "title": "The Story of Ruth" }, { "id": "49885", "text": "says he will purchase Elimelech's (now Naomi's) land, but, upon hearing he must also take Ruth as his wife, withdraws his offer. Boaz thus becomes Ruth and Naomi's \"kinsman-redeemer.\" The book can be read as a political parable relating to issues around the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (the 4th century BCE). The fictional nature of the story is established from the start through the names of the participants: the husband and father is Elimelech, meaning \"My God is King\", and his wife is Naomi, \"Pleasing\", but after the deaths of her sons Mahlon, \"Sickness\", and Chilion, \"Wasting\", she asks", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "15008026", "text": "estate of Elimelech and that it would be necessary for this kinsman to renounce his right before Boaz could proceed in the matter. Accordingly he called this kinsman to the gate of the city before the elders, and told him of Ruth's situation and his right to redeem the estate and to marry Ruth. The kinsman declared that he did not desire to do so, and drew off his shoe in token that he had renounced his rights in favor of Boaz. Boaz bought the estate from Naomi and married Ruth. Ruth and Boaz became the parents of Obed, who", "title": "Ruth (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "1374767", "text": "was not in the habit of inquiring after women (\"Ruth Rabba\" to ii. 5; Talmudic tractate \"Shabbat\" 113b). In the conversation that followed between Boaz and Ruth, the pious proselyte said that, being a Moabite, she was excluded from association with the community of God (). Boaz, however, replied that the prohibition in the Scripture applied only to the men of Moab — and not to the women. He furthermore told her that he had heard from the prophets that she was destined to become the ancestress of kings and prophets; and he blessed her with the words: \"May God,", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "15008031", "text": "in the Gospel of Matthew, alongside Tamar, Rahab, the \"wife of Uriah\" (Bathsheba), and Mary. Katharine Doob Sakenfeld argues that Ruth is a model of loving-kindness (\"hesed\"): she acts in ways that promote the well-being of others. In , she demonstrated \"hesed\" by not going back to Moab but accompanying her mother-in-law to a foreign land. She chose to glean, despite the danger she faced in the field () and the lower social status of the job. Finally, Ruth agrees with Naomi’s plan to marry Boaz, even though she was free of family obligations, once again demonstrating her loyalty and", "title": "Ruth (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "1374768", "text": "who rewards the pious, also reward you\" (Targum \"Ruth\" ii. 10, 11; \"Pesiḳ\", ed. Buber, xvi. 124a). Boaz was especially friendly toward the poor stranger during the meal, when he indicated to her by various symbolic courtesies that she would become the ancestress of the Davidic royal house, including the Messiah (\"Ruth R.\" to ii. 14; \"Shab.\" 113b). As toward Ruth, Boaz had also been kind toward his kinsmen, Naomi's sons, on hearing of their death, taking care that they had an honorable burial (\"Ruth Rabba\" to 2.20). Although Boaz was the prince of the people, he personally supervised the", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "1374765", "text": "into consideration, however, that Boaz \"of Ruth\" was from Judah, whereas the two chieftains immediately ulterior to Ibzan were from Zebulun. A legend is given that he lost all his sixty children during his lifetime because he did not invite Manoah, Samson's father, to any of the marriage festivities at his house. Since Manoah was at that time without children, Boaz thought that he did not need to consider on such occasions a childless man who could not pay him back in kind (\"Bava Batra\" 91a). The \"Talmud\" tells that Boaz was a just, pious, and learned judge. The custom", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "3407654", "text": "the living brother would be entitled to inherit an increased share; or if he is the oldest surviving son he would be entitled to a double share of the increased share. Another example of an analogous arrangement to \"yibbum\" is recounted in the Book of Ruth. After the death of her husband, Ruth is noticed and welcomed by her husband's kinsman, Boaz. After Ruth is rejected by an anonymous \"Ploni Almoni\" who performs \"halizah\", Boaz marries her. In this case as well, the kin in question would not have been subject to the biblical levirate marriage obligation, as neither Ploni", "title": "Yibbum" }, { "id": "2938831", "text": "Ibzan Ibzan ( \"’Iḇṣān\"; ; , meaning \"illustrious\") appears in the Hebrew Bible as the tenth of the Judges of Israel. Very little is said about him, except the following: Many scholars believe that the Bethlehem referred to in this passage is the Bethlehem in the territory of the Tribe of Zebulun, in Galilee, rather than the more famous Bethlehem in the Tribe of Judah. However, the Talmud (\"Bava Batra\" 91a) asserts that Ibzan is to be identified with Boaz from the Book of Ruth, who lived in the Bethlehem in Judah, and that he consummated his marriage with Ruth", "title": "Ibzan" }, { "id": "15008025", "text": "his brethren, but, unless a Goel could be found, Naomi would be compelled to sell it. Elimelech had a prosperous relative in Bethlehem whose name was Boaz, and who, like others, was engaged in the harvest. Naomi sent Ruth to glean in his fields, and, after he had spoken kindly to her and shown her some favors, she, still acting upon the advice of her mother-in-law, approached Boaz at night and put herself in his power. Boaz was attracted to her, but informed her that there was a kinsman nearer than he who had the first right to redeem the", "title": "Ruth (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "49877", "text": "you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus and more may the Lord do to me if anything but death parts me from you.\" (Ruth 1:16–17 NJPS). The two women returned to Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest, and in order to support her mother-in-law and herself, Ruth went to the fields to glean. As it happened, the field she went to belonged to a man named Boaz, who was kind to her because he had heard of her loyalty to her mother-in-law. Ruth told Naomi of Boaz's kindness, and she gleaned in his", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "1374763", "text": "her family is in and Ruth's loyalty to Naomi. In response, Boaz invites her to eat with him and his workers, as well as deliberately leaving grain for her to claim while keeping a protective eye on her. Ruth approaches Boaz and asks him to exercise his right of kinship and marry her. Boaz accepts, provided that another with a superior claim declines. Since the first son of Ruth and a kinsman of her late husband would be deemed the legal offspring of the decedent and heir to Elimelech, the other kinsman defers to Boaz. In marrying Ruth, Boaz revives", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "15008027", "text": "became the father of Jesse, the father of David. Boaz of Judah blessed Ruth for her extraordinary kindness both to Naomi of Judah and to the Judean People (Ruth 3:10). \"And he [Boaz] said, 'May you be blessed of the Lord, my daughter; your latest act of kindness is greater than the first, not to follow the young men, whether poor or rich.'\" Commentary of Rashi (c. 1040-1105 CE) regarding the first act of kindness: \"that you did with your mother-in-law\". Ruth's kindness as noted in the Book of Ruth by Boaz is seen in the Jewish Tradition as in", "title": "Ruth (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "49879", "text": "redeeming kinsman\" (3:9 NJPS). Boaz blessed her and agreed to do all that is required, and he noted that, \"all the elders of my town know what a fine woman you are\" (3:11 NJPS). He then acknowledged that he was a close relative, but that there was one who was closer, and she remained in submission at his feet until she returned into the city in the morning. Early that day, Boaz went to the city gate to meet with the other male relative before the town elders. The relative is not named: Boaz addresses him as \"ploni almoni\", literally", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "19490647", "text": "Ruth 2 Ruth 2 is the second chapter of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This chapter contains the story of Ruth gleaning in the fields of Boaz, her deceased husband's near kinsman, and he taketh knowledge of her, Ruth 2:1-7; Boaz showeth her great kindness, and blesseth her, Ruth 2:8-16; that which she got she brings to Naomi; and telleth her what had befallen her; she giveth God thanks, and exhorteth Ruth to continue in the field, Ruth 2:17-23. It is a part of the Ketuvim (\"Writings\"). Some most", "title": "Ruth 2" }, { "id": "20001733", "text": "Ruth 3 Ruth 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This chapter contains the story of how by Naomi's advice, Ruth lieth at Boaz's feet, Ruth 3:1-7; Boaz awaking commendeth what she had done, and acknowledgeth the right of a kinsman; tells her there was a nearer kinsman, to whom he would offer her, who refusing, he would redeem her, Ruth 3:8-13; Boaz sends her away with six measures of barley, Ruth 3:14-18. It is a part of the Ketuvim (\"Writings\"). Some most ancient manuscripts", "title": "Ruth 3" }, { "id": "14283178", "text": "was cast as Ruth, changed her name from \"Elana Cooper\" to \"Elana Eden,\" and signed a \"term pact\" with the studio. Stephen Boyd was first cast as Boaz but later turned down the role and said: \"I think the picture would be much better without me.\" Boyd later played Nimrod in John Huston's \"\" (1966), another biblical epic released by 20th-Century Fox. Stuart Whitman replaced Boyd as Boaz in December 1959. Helen Hayes and Irene Dunne were offered the role of Naomi before Peggy Wood was cast. \"The Story of Ruth\" premiered on June 17, 1960, at the Paramount Theatre", "title": "The Story of Ruth" }, { "id": "49875", "text": "rabbinic literature. The Book of Ruth also functions liturgically, as it is read during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (\"Weeks\"). The book is structured in four chapters: Act 1: Prologue and Problem: Death and Emptiness (1:1–22) Act 2: Ruth Meets Boaz, Naomi's Relative, on the Harvest Field (2:1–23) Act 3: Naomi Sends Ruth to Boaz on the Threshing Floor (3:1–18) Act 4: Resolution and Epilogue: Life and Fullness (4:1–22) Genealogical appendix (4:18–22) During the time of the Judges when there was a famine, an Israelite family from Bethlehem – Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon and Chilion –", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "19490648", "text": "ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language: Ancient translations in Koine Greek: NKJV groups this chapter into: Masoretic text Transliteration Ruth 2 Ruth 2 is the second chapter of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This chapter contains the story of Ruth gleaning in the fields of Boaz, her deceased husband's near kinsman, and he taketh knowledge of her, Ruth 2:1-7; Boaz showeth her great kindness, and blesseth her, Ruth 2:8-16; that which she got she brings to Naomi; and telleth her what had befallen her; she giveth God", "title": "Ruth 2" }, { "id": "49884", "text": "go'el, the \"kinsman-redeemer\". As Boaz is not Elimelech's brother, nor is Ruth his widow, scholars refer to the arrangement here as \"Levirate-like\". A complication arises in the story: another man is a closer relative to Elimelech than Boaz and has first claim on Ruth. It is resolved through the custom that required land to stay in the family: a family could mortgage land to ward off poverty, but the law required a kinsman to purchase it back into the family (Leviticus 25:25ff). Boaz meets the near kinsman at the city gate (the place where contracts are settled); the kinsman first", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "49874", "text": "the Israelites as her God and the Israelite people as her own. In Ruth 1:16–17, Ruth tells Naomi, her Israelite mother-in-law, \"Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.\" The book is held in esteem by Jews who fall under the category of Jews-by-choice, as is evidenced by the considerable presence of Boaz in", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "1374766", "text": "of using the Divine Name in greeting one's fellow-man (Rt-2.4) formulated by him and his \"bet din\" (\"court [of] law\") received the approval of even the heavenly \"bet din\" (\"Babylonian Talmud\" \"Makkot\" 23b; \"Yerushalmi Talmud\" Ber. ix. 14c; Midrash \"Ruth Rabbah\" to ii. 4). The midrash \"Ruth Rabbah\" states that being a pious man, Boaz on his first meeting with Ruth perceived her conscientiousness in picking up the grain, as she strictly observed the rules prescribed by the Law. This, as well as her grace and her chaste conduct during work, induced Boaz to inquire about the stranger, although he", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "1374769", "text": "threshing of the grain in his barn, in order to circumvent any immorality or theft, both of which were rife in his days (Tan., Behar, ed. Buber, viii.; \"Ruth Rabba\" to iii. 7). Glad in his heart that the famine was over in Israel, he sought rest after having thanked God and studied for a while in the \"Torah\" (Tan., l.c.; Targum \"Ruth\" iii. 7; and \"Ruth Rabba\" ib.). Aroused out of his first sleep by Ruth, he was greatly frightened, as he thought that she was a devil; and he was convinced of the contrary only after touching the", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "3246872", "text": "other hand, asserts that \"Naomi has such innate nobility of character that she immediately elicits from us our most sincere sympathy.\" The Book of Ruth depicts the struggles of Naomi and Ruth for survival in a patriarchal environment. The arrival of Naomi and Ruth in Bethlehem coincides with the barley harvest. Naomi gives Ruth permission to glean those fields where she is allowed. Ruth is working in the field of Boaz, when a servant identifies her to him as Naomi's daughter-in-law. It happens that Boaz is a kinsman of Naomi's late husband. He tells her to work with female servants,", "title": "Naomi (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "3246874", "text": "points out Naomi's \"feminine scheming\" in forcing Boaz's hand. Yitzhak Berger suggests that Naomi's plan was that Ruth seduce Boaz, just as Tamar and the daughters of Lot all seduced \"an older family member in order to become the mother of his offspring.\" At the crucial moment, however, \"Ruth abandons the attempt at seduction and instead requests a permanent, \"legal\" union with Boaz.\" Ruth marries Boaz, and they have a son, whom Naomi cares for, and so the women of the town say: \"Naomi has a son\" (Ruth 4:17). In this way, the book can be seen to be Naomi's", "title": "Naomi (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "20001734", "text": "containing this chapter in Hebrew language: Ancient translations in Koine Greek: NKJV groups this chapter into: [Naomi said to Ruth:] Ruth 3 Ruth 3 is the third chapter of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This chapter contains the story of how by Naomi's advice, Ruth lieth at Boaz's feet, Ruth 3:1-7; Boaz awaking commendeth what she had done, and acknowledgeth the right of a kinsman; tells her there was a nearer kinsman, to whom he would offer her, who refusing, he would redeem her, Ruth 3:8-13; Boaz sends her", "title": "Ruth 3" }, { "id": "3407655", "text": "Almoni nor Boaz were brothers of Ruth's late husband. \"Halakha\" (Jewish law) has a rich tradition around \"yibbum\". These laws were first recorded in the Mishna and Talmud in Yevamot, and were later codified by Maimonides in the \"Mishneh Torah\". The subject is considered one of the most intricate in Jewish law, partly because of the complication that arise from multiple brothers and multiple wives. \"Yibbum\" is an exception to the biblical prohibition for a man to have sexual relations with \"his brother's wife\" found for example in . (See Incest in the Bible.) According to \"halakha\", when a married", "title": "Yibbum" }, { "id": "9988714", "text": "and his bride, or Amsterdam poet Miguel de Barrios and his wife. Also considered are several couples from the Old Testament, including Abraham and Sarah, Boaz and Ruth, or Isaac and Rebekah, which is supported by a drawing by the artist several years prior. While technical evidence suggests that Rembrandt initially envisioned a larger and more elaborate composition, the placement of his signature at lower left indicates that its current dimensions are not significantly different from those at the time of its completion. According to Rembrandt biographer Christopher White, the completed composition is \"one of the greatest expressions of the", "title": "The Jewish Bride" }, { "id": "14283173", "text": "The Story of Ruth The Story of Ruth is a 1960 American historical romance film directed by Henry Koster, shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color, and released by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay, written by Norman Corwin, is an adaptation of the biblical Book of Ruth. The film stars Stuart Whitman as Boaz, Tom Tryon as Mahlon, Peggy Wood as Naomi, Viveca Lindfors as Eleilat, Jeff Morrow as Tob, and introduces 19-year old Elana Eden as Ruth. The first part of the film revolves around Ruth, visualized as a pagan idolatress in her youth who serves as the spiritual teacher", "title": "The Story of Ruth" }, { "id": "5063857", "text": "of which only Boaz is notable. It also mentions two women, Rahab and Ruth, both of whom are prominent Old Testament figures. \"For a full discussion of the women mentioned in Matthew's genealogy see \". William F. Albright and C.S. Mann note that the author of Matthew spells Rahab's name as \"Rachab\", a departure from the Septuagint spelling Matthew usually uses. The \"Rachab\" form also appears in the works of Josephus. They speculate that this indicates a change in pronunciation during this period. Another problem, pointed out by Raymond E. Brown, is that Rahab's position in this verse does not", "title": "Matthew 1:5" }, { "id": "13430607", "text": "of her sons, Naomi set up the stipulation that her financial redeemer also marry her former daughter-in-law. The first potential redeemer declined, lest this [marriage] ruin his inheritance. Boaz, the next of kin and descendant of Tamar, became Naomi’s redeemer, married Ruth and became the father of Obed. And Naomi took the child and placed him in her bosom, and she became his nurse. And the women neighbors gave him a name, saying, \"A son has been born to Naomi,\" and they called his name Obed- he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. Naamah, \"who lived centuries", "title": "Matrilineality in Judaism" }, { "id": "6271923", "text": "will be considered as if it were Mahlon's child. Actually, she marries a relative of Elimelech, Boaz. Her child, Obed (biologically Boaz's but counted as if Mahlon's), becomes the paternal grandfather of David ha-Melech (King David). Mahlon and Chilion Mahlon ( \"Maḥlōn\") and Chilion (כִּלְיוֹן \"Ḵilyōn\") were two brothers mentioned in the Book of Ruth. They were the sons of Elimelech of the tribe of Judah and his wife Naomi. Together with their parents, they settled in the land of Moab during the period of the Israelite Judges. On foreign soil, Mahlon married the Moabite convert Ruth (Ruth 4:10) while", "title": "Mahlon and Chilion" }, { "id": "2938832", "text": "on the last night of his life. Ibzan Ibzan ( \"’Iḇṣān\"; ; , meaning \"illustrious\") appears in the Hebrew Bible as the tenth of the Judges of Israel. Very little is said about him, except the following: Many scholars believe that the Bethlehem referred to in this passage is the Bethlehem in the territory of the Tribe of Zebulun, in Galilee, rather than the more famous Bethlehem in the Tribe of Judah. However, the Talmud (\"Bava Batra\" 91a) asserts that Ibzan is to be identified with Boaz from the Book of Ruth, who lived in the Bethlehem in Judah, and", "title": "Ibzan" }, { "id": "49886", "text": "to be called Mara, \"Bitter\". The reference to Moab raises questions, since in the rest of the biblical literature it is associated with hostility to Israel, sexual perversity, and idolatry, and excluded an Ammonite or a Moabite from \"the congregation of the ; even to their tenth generation\". Despite this, Ruth the Moabitess married a Judahite and even after his death still regarded herself a member of his family; she then married another Judahite and bore him a son who became an ancestor of David. Contrary to the message of Ezra-Nehemiah, where marriages between Jewish men and non-Jewish women were", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "5063858", "text": "meet other traditions. No other source has her marrying Salmon and giving birth to Boaz. Jewish tradition has her as the wife of Joshua, and thus, also in a different time period. Matthew 1:5 Matthew 1:5 is the fifth verse of the Matthew 1 of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The verse is part of the section where the genealogy of Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, is listed. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: This genealogy matches that given in several other places", "title": "Matthew 1:5" }, { "id": "8210672", "text": "hereafter give them to drink of the wine that is preserved in its grapes since the six days of Creation, and will let them bathe in rivers of milk. Midrash Rabbah—Ruth V:6 6. And Boaz said unto her at meal time: come hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers; and they reached her parched corn, and she did eat and was satisfied and left thereof (II, 14). R. Jonathan interpreted this verse in six ways. The first refers it to David... The fifth interpretation makes it refer to", "title": "Isaiah 53" }, { "id": "15008029", "text": "sister and the two were daughters of Eglon, the king of Moab; according to the same text, Eglon was the son of Balak. Tamar Meir of the Jewish Women's Archive writes that Ruth and David being descended from these two men is seen as a \"reward\" for them. For Balak, it is his reward for building altars and for Eglon, it is his reward for \"arising upon hearing the name of God from Ehud son of Gera\". The same text says that Ruth did not convert during her marriage to Mahlon, contradicting other rabbinic literature, which says that Ruth formally", "title": "Ruth (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "7279712", "text": "some Jewish rites, a person called up to the Torah says \"Adonai immachem\"; the sense is identical. The salutation is taken from the verses and in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible. In Ruth, the phrase appears in the sentence, \"\"Et ecce ipse veniebat de Bethlehem dixitque messoribus: 'Dominus vobiscum'. Qui responderunt ei: 'Benedicat tibi Dominus'.\"\" (\"Boaz himself came from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, 'The Lord be with you!' and they replied, 'The Lord bless you!'\"). II Chronicles recounts that Azariah, filled with the spirit of God, said, \"Audite me, Asa et omnis Iuda et Beniamin!", "title": "Dominus vobiscum" }, { "id": "4656926", "text": "a Cochin Jew folk song of about Joseph, it is described that when the biblical figure of Ruth goes to meet her lover Boaz, she is washed, well groomed, and clad in white, exactly like a Malayalee girl and Cochin Jew bride. In this way the Jews and the Knanaya make the stories of the bible not something of far away and long ago but of the immediate present and of the neighborhood. The tradition of Passover or \"Pesaha\" is practiced every Holy Thursday in the homes of the Knanaya. On the night of Holy Thursday the \"Pesaha Appam\" or", "title": "Knanaya" }, { "id": "49876", "text": "emigrated to the nearby country of Moab. Elimelech died, and the sons married two Moabite women: Mahlon married Ruth and Chilion married Orpah. After about ten years, the two sons of Naomi also died in Moab (1:4). Naomi decided to return to Bethlehem. She told her daughters-in-law to return to their own mothers and remarry. Orpah reluctantly left; however, Ruth said, \"Do not urge me to leave you, to turn back and not follow you. For wherever you go, I will go; wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "19816725", "text": "Midrash Rabbah—Ruth V:6 6. And Boaz said unto her at meal time: come hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers; and they reached her parched corn, and she did eat and was satisfied and left thereof (II, 14). R. Jonathan interpreted this verse in six ways. The first refers it to David... The fifth interpretation makes it refer to the Messiah. \"Come hither\": approach to royal state. \"And eat of the bread\" refers to the bread of royalty; \"And dip thy morsel in the vinegar\" refers to his", "title": "Isaiah 52" }, { "id": "779513", "text": "in each of these passages. A different spelling of the name, Rachab (as transliterated in the King James translation of the Greek \"Ῥαχάβ\") is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew as one of the ancestors of Jesus (). She married Salmon of the tribe of Judah and was the mother of Boaz. Most other English Bibles transcribe her name as Rahab, suggesting an attempt to differentiate between the figures. At least one apologist has argued that linguistic and textual evidence suggests that the two women were not the same. Rahab Rahab (; Arabic: رحاب, a vast space of a land)", "title": "Rahab" }, { "id": "15008024", "text": "wife, Naomi, and his two sons, Mahlon and Chilion, went in time of famine and sojourned in the land of Moab. There Elimelech died, and the two sons married, Mahlon taking Ruth as his wife, and Chilion taking Orpah—both women of Moab, where both sons likewise died. Naomi heard that the famine in Judah had passed, and determined to return home. Ruth, in spite of the dissuasion of Naomi, accompanied her mother-in-law to Bethlehem. The two women arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest in a state of dire poverty. Elimelech had had an inheritance of land among", "title": "Ruth (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "107723", "text": "is not named in any book of the Bible, but the Talmud identifies her as Nitzevet daughter of Adael. When the story was retold in 1 Chronicles (4th century BCE) he was made the youngest of seven sons and given two sisters, Zeruiah and Abigail. The Book of Ruth (possibly also 4th century BCE) traces his ancestry back to Ruth the Moabite. David is described as cementing his relations with various political and national groups through marriage. King Saul initially offered David his oldest daughter Merab. David did not refuse the offer, but humbled himself in front of Saul to", "title": "David" }, { "id": "1374764", "text": "Elimelech's lineage, and the patrimony is secured to Naomi's family. Their son was Obed, father of Jesse, and grandfather of David. According to Josephus, he lived at the time of Eli. \"Boaz\" was the name of the left one of the two frontal columns of Solomon's Temple, the other being \"Jachin\". Its meaning is a subject of controversy. Boaz is mentioned in both the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke as an ancestor of Jesus. In the Talmud, some rabbis identify Boaz with the judge Ibzan of Bethlehem. \"I.e., Bethlehem in Zebulun\"; cf. . Let it be taken", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "10969465", "text": "permissible. There are several instances of transnational marriages in the Bible, such as Joseph being given Egyptian wives by Pharaoh, Rahab of Jericho marrying one of the Israelite spies she hid, Ruth the Moabite taking care of her mother-in-law Naomi, and King Solomon marrying Pharaoh's daughter, as well as many other foreign wives. King Solomon married to make alliances and keep the peace, and the others because they lived by each other. However, the difference in reaction to the transnational marriages is how the newcomers responded to the Abrahamic God. King Solomon was punished by God for facilitating his wives'", "title": "Transnational marriage" }, { "id": "5063856", "text": "Matthew 1:5 Matthew 1:5 is the fifth verse of the Matthew 1 of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. The verse is part of the section where the genealogy of Joseph, the legal father of Jesus, is listed. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: This genealogy matches that given in several other places in the Bible, including . It covers the period after the Exodus to around the founding of the Kingdom of Israel. The passage carries the genealogy through Salmon, Boaz, Obed, and Jesse", "title": "Matthew 1:5" }, { "id": "6822701", "text": "woman. One hot night at the local lake, Ruth meets Ruby Dahl, a local male ne'er do well. When Ruby later takes Ruth out on a date, he takes advantage of her naiveté, but Ruth continues to see him and after several dates they decide to get married. Ruby moves in with Ruth and May, and May's oppression and Ruby's stubborn laziness frequently come to a head, causing frequent tension at home. Ruth's life is bleak and somber, and even the birth of her son fails to bring the joys Ruth expected. Seasonally, winter brings on bitter cold, both in", "title": "The Book of Ruth (novel)" }, { "id": "11721579", "text": "including Saint Joseph (though he was much older than the rest). The High Priest ordered them to each bring a rod; he that owned the rod which would bear flowers was divinely ordained to become Mary's husband. After the Holy Spirit descended as a dove and caused Joseph's rod to blossom, he and Mary were wed according to Jewish custom. The account, quoted in its entirety, runs thus: In fact, neither the \"Golden Legend\" nor any of the early apocryphal accounts describe the actual ceremony, and they differ as to its timing, other than that it preceded the \"Journey to", "title": "Marriage of the Virgin" }, { "id": "790900", "text": "only the normal prohibition of a convert marrying a kohen (priest) applying. However, the prohibition was not followed during the Exile, and Ezra and Nehemiah sought to compel a return to the law because men had been marrying women who had not been converted at all. The heir of King Solomon was Rehoboam, the son of an Ammonite woman, Naamah. On the other hand, the marriages of the Bethlehem Ephrathites (of the tribe of Judah) Chilion and Mahlon to the Moabite women Orpah and Ruth, and the marriage of the latter, after her husband's death, to Boaz who by her", "title": "Moab" }, { "id": "4921655", "text": "over others such as the matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah, has been much discussed. There may be a common thread among these four women, to which Matthew wishes to draw attention. He sees God working through Tamar's seduction of her father-in-law, through the collusion of Rahab the harlot with Joshua's spies, through Ruth the Moabite's unexpected marriage with Boaz, and through David and Bathsheba's adultery. Some have suggested their possible Gentile origins. Rahab was a prostitute in Canaan, Bathsheba was married to a Hittite, Ruth resided in Moab, and Tamar had a name of Hebrew origin. The women's nationalities are", "title": "Genealogy of Jesus" }, { "id": "14999764", "text": "remarried and settled in Lancaster, California. Her third husband, George Marian, owned a milk-delivery business which Ruth helped him to manage. In the mid-1950s, she became interested in acting and earned the starring role in a local play. In 1954, at a psychic event in California, Ruth was introduced to Ernest Norman, who told her that in a past life she had been the daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh and had protected Moses. Members of the organization they later established, the Unarius Academy of Science, affirm that Ernest and Ruth married on the day they met, and the group celebrates", "title": "Ruth Norman" }, { "id": "804999", "text": "Mary was given to service as a consecrated virgin in the Temple in Jerusalem when she was three years old, much like Hannah took Samuel to the Tabernacle as recorded in the Old Testament. Some apocryphal accounts state that at the time of her betrothal to Joseph, Mary was 12–14 years old, and he was ninety years old, but such accounts are unreliable. According to ancient Jewish custom, Mary could have been betrothed at about 12. Hyppolitus of Thebes claims that Mary lived for 11 years after the death of her son Jesus, dying in 41 AD. The earliest extant", "title": "Mary, mother of Jesus" }, { "id": "3246870", "text": "Naomi (biblical figure) Naomi (; Hebrew: } Standard Hebrew \"Noʻomi\", Tiberian Hebrew \"nåʿå̆mī\") is Ruth's mother-in-law in the Old Testament Book of Ruth. The etymology of her name is not certain, but it is possible that it means \"good, pleasant, lovely, winsome.\" Naomi is married to a man named Elimelech. A famine causes them to move with their two sons, from their home in Judea to Moab. While there Elimelech dies, as well as his sons who had gotten married in the meantime. Near destitute, Naomi returns to Bethlehem with one daughter-in-law, Ruth, whom she could not dissuade from accompanying", "title": "Naomi (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "790901", "text": "was the great-grandfather of David, are mentioned with no shade of reproach. The Talmudic explanation, however, is that the language of the law applies only to Moabite and Ammonite \"men\" (Hebrew, like all Semitic languages, has grammatical gender). The Talmud also states that the prophet Samuel wrote the Book of Ruth to settle the dispute as the rule had been forgotten since the time of Boaz. Another interpretation is that the Book of Ruth is simply reporting the events in an impartial fashion, leaving any praise or condemnation to be done by the reader. The Babylonian Talmud in Yevamot 76B", "title": "Moab" }, { "id": "16589759", "text": "assisted in one of Boas's most famous studies, an examination of head circumference and changes in head shape among immigrants. She then began studying growth and anthropometrics of young children; her doctoral thesis on that topic \"remains a standard study widely quoted today\". She was hired by the anthropology department at the University of Iowa in 1930. She married Wilson Dallam Wallis, a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, in 1931, and took an assistant professorship in sociology at Hamline University. Ruth was later dismissed because \"it was unthinkable to have two employed academics in one family during", "title": "Ruth Sawtell Wallis" }, { "id": "49873", "text": "Book of Ruth The Book of Ruth (, \"Megilath Ruth\", \"the Scroll of Ruth\", one of the Five Megillot) is included in the third division, or the Writings (Ketuvim), of the Hebrew Bible; in most Christian canons it is treated as a history book and placed between Judges and 1 Samuel, as it is set \"in the days when the judges judged\", although the Syriac Christian tradition places it later, between Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs. It is named after its central figure, Ruth the Moabitess, the great-grandmother of David. The book tells of Ruth's accepting the God of", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "1374772", "text": "\"boazim\"), derived from the Biblical character, was used to refer to a rich private farmer or landowner, such as the ones who flourished during the First Aliya. The term was often used with a pejorative connotation by adherents of Socialist Zionism, who were strongly opposed to \"the boazim\" and counterposed to them the collective Kibbutz and cooperative Moshav forms of agricultural settlement. This use of \"Boaz\" became obsolete in later stages of Jewish and Israeli history, and is hardly remembered today. In contemporary Israel, \"Boaz\" is commonly used as a male first name and carries no special political or social", "title": "Boaz" }, { "id": "4921656", "text": "not necessarily mentioned. The suggestion is that Matthew may be preparing the reader for the inclusion of the Gentiles in Christ's mission. Others point out an apparent element of sinfulness: Rahab was a prostitute, Tamar posed as a prostitute to seduce Judah, Bathsheba was an adulteress, and Ruth is sometimes seen as seducing Boaz—thus Matthew emphasizes God's grace in response to sin. Still others point out their unusual, even scandalous, unions—preparing the reader for what will be said about Mary. None of these explanations, however, adequately befits all four women. Nolland suggests simply that these were all the known women", "title": "Genealogy of Jesus" }, { "id": "13860838", "text": "in Europe where the popularity of American jazz persisted Olay returned to the USA and gradually phased into retirement and withdrew from singing altogether. Olay's parents divorced when she was six, her father going on to become the Head of Research at Warner Bros.. Ruth was married three times, firstly to Lionel Olay from 1947–1949, and whose name she adopted as her stage name. They had a daughter, Amy, born in 1949, and there is a son from a subsequent marriage. Her second divorce was in 1961. In 1963 she married her manager Lee Magid (Earl Grant, Lou Rawls, Della", "title": "Ruth Olay" }, { "id": "49400", "text": "Yankees on October 2, getting his first major league hit, a double. Ruth finished the season with a record of 2–1 as a major leaguer and 23–8 in the International League (for Baltimore and Providence). Once the season concluded, Ruth married Helen in Ellicott City, Maryland. Creamer speculated that they did not marry in Baltimore, where the newlyweds boarded with George Ruth Sr., to avoid possible interference from those at St. Mary's—both bride and groom were not yet of age and Ruth remained on parole from that institution until his 21st birthday. In March 1915, Ruth reported to Hot Springs,", "title": "Babe Ruth" }, { "id": "14283175", "text": "flees. The Moabites condemn Mahlon, his father Elimelech, and brother Chilion. Chilion and Elimelech die in the prison, while Mahlon's punishment is to work at the quarries for the rest of his life. Ruth, however, attempts to escape with Mahlon, but he is wounded before he flees the quarries and dies in a cave afterwards, marrying Ruth just prior to his death. The biblical storyline begins as Naomi (who was married to Elimelech), Orpah (who was married to Chilion), and Ruth are widowed. The second part is based more on the Book of Ruth, although a subplot is added, that", "title": "The Story of Ruth" }, { "id": "12811337", "text": "met while attending Far Rockaway High School. She worked for some time as her husband's bookkeeper. Bernard and Ruth Madoff had two sons: Mark (March 11, 1964 – December 11, 2010), a 1986 graduate of the University of Michigan; and Andrew (April 8, 1966 – September 3, 2014), a 1988 graduate of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Both of her sons predeceased her: Mark, by suicide, in 2010, and Andrew, from lymphoma, in 2014. According to a March 13, 2009, filing by Madoff, he and his wife were worth up to $138 million, plus an estimated $700 million for the", "title": "Ruth Madoff" }, { "id": "3246873", "text": "warns the young men not to bother her, and at mealtime invites her to share his food. When Naomi learns that Ruth has the attention and kindness of Boaz, she counsels Ruth to approach him directly: \"... [P]ut on your best attire and go down to the threshing floor. Do not make yourself known to the man before he has finished eating and drinking. But when he lies down, take note of the place where he does so. Then go, uncover a place at his feet, and lie down. He will tell you what to do.\" (Ruth 3: 3-4) Webb", "title": "Naomi (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "16713789", "text": "closer to her parents' home in Yattendon, both of them now suffering from ill health. In 1942 she married Bill Mott, whom she had known since her teen years. Bill was serving in the British Army at the time, and they were married in front of a small congregation in the local church. They moved in with her parents to take care of them and Mott took a job collecting insurance premiums for the Prudential. When her daughter, Bertha, was born, Mott became a housewife, only returning to employment in 1957 when Bertha was in school. Mott took an office", "title": "Ruth Mott" }, { "id": "12316528", "text": "Sde Boaz Sde Boaz (, lit. \"Boaz's Field\") is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Located on a hill above Neve Daniel, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gush Etzion Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. The settlement was established in 2002 by Hananel Shear-Yashuv, who claimed the land by moving a shipping container to the top of the hill and moving into it. It is named after Boaz from the Book of Ruth. In its charter, Sde Boaz proclaims its desire to", "title": "Sde Boaz" }, { "id": "12811336", "text": "Ruth Madoff Ruth Madoff (née Alpern; born May 18, 1941) is the wife of Bernie Madoff, the convicted American financial fraudster. She was director of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities. Madoff was born in Queens, New York, and raised in Laurelton, to a practicing Jewish family. She has one sister, Mrs. Joan Roman. She is a graduate of Far Rockaway High School and a 1961 graduate of Queens College. In 1992, she graduated from New York University with a Master of Science degree in nutrition. On November 28, 1959, at age 18, she married Bernard \"Bernie\" Madoff, whom she had", "title": "Ruth Madoff" }, { "id": "5194846", "text": "Gomer Gomer is the name of two people in the Hebrew Bible: Gomer (גֹּמֶר, Standard Hebrew \"Gómer\", Tiberian Hebrew \"Gōmer\", ; ) was the eldest son of Japheth (and of the Japhetic line), and father of Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah, according to the \"Table of Nations\" in the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 10). Gomer was also the wife of the prophet Hosea, and the daughter of Diblaim: mentioned in the Book of Hosea. Hosea 1:2 refers to her alternatively as a \"promiscuous woman\" (NIV), a \"harlot\" (NASB), and a \"whore\" (KJV) but Hosea is told to marry her according to Divine", "title": "Gomer" }, { "id": "49882", "text": "seen in Ezra 9:1 and Nehemiah 13:1). A substantial number of scholars therefore date it to the Persian period (6th–4th centuries BC). The genealogy that concludes the book is believed to be a post-exilic Priestly addition, as it adds nothing to the plot; nevertheless, it is carefully crafted and integrates the book into the history of Israel running from Genesis to Kings. The Book of Ruth illustrates the difficulty of trying to use laws given in books such as Deuteronomy as evidence of actual practice. Naomi plans to provide security for herself and Ruth by arranging a Levirate marriage with", "title": "Book of Ruth" }, { "id": "1067916", "text": "This was featured in Wang Zhen's book the \"Nong Shu\" of 1313 AD. In the Old Testament the word winnow is used in several verses in different books in the New International Version while other versions of the bible translate the action as \"fan\", \"throw\" or the separating tool as \"pitchfork\", \"shovel\", \"winnowing fan\", or \"winnowing instrument\". Ruth 3:2 \"Now Boaz, with whose women you have worked, is a relative of ours. Tonight he will be winnowing barley on the threshing floor.\" Proverbs 20:8 \"When a king sits on his throne to judge, he winnows out all evil with his", "title": "Winnowing" }, { "id": "3246875", "text": "story: Gregory Goswell argues that Naomi is the \"central\" character of the book, whereas Ruth is the \"main\" character. The son in question was Obed, who was the father of Jesse and thus later the grandfather of David. Naomi (biblical figure) Naomi (; Hebrew: } Standard Hebrew \"Noʻomi\", Tiberian Hebrew \"nåʿå̆mī\") is Ruth's mother-in-law in the Old Testament Book of Ruth. The etymology of her name is not certain, but it is possible that it means \"good, pleasant, lovely, winsome.\" Naomi is married to a man named Elimelech. A famine causes them to move with their two sons, from their", "title": "Naomi (biblical figure)" }, { "id": "6531599", "text": "Martha daughter of Boethus Martha daughter of Boethus (d. AD 70), in the Mishnah and Babylonian Talmud, was one of the richest women in Jerusalem in the period prior to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. (Talmud Gittin 56a; see also Talmud Ketubot 104a.) After her first husband died, she became engaged to Joshua ben Gamala. (Mishnah Yevamot 6:4; Talmud Yevamot 61a.) Rav Assi said that she paid King Jannai (whom scholars identify with Herod Agrippa II) a quantity of money equal in size to 72 eggs to nominate Joshua to become High Priest of Israel (Talmud", "title": "Martha daughter of Boethus" }, { "id": "16588161", "text": "she appeared as guest female singer on \"The Bob Crosby Show\" on NBC radio. On June 20, 1942, Terry and test pilot John Martin eloped and were married in Las Vegas, Nevada. On October 25, 1947, she married John P. Gilmour, a Canadian. A November 8, 1947, article in her hometown newspaper, \"The News-Palladium\", reported, \"She has given up her career as an actress and she and her husband and her four-year-old son by a previous marriage will make their home at St. Genevieve de Pierre Fonds, Quebec.\" Terry was a Republican who supported Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential", "title": "Ruth Terry" }, { "id": "1924047", "text": "of Boaz. He lived in Bethlehem, in Judah, and was of the Tribe of Judah, he was a farmer, breeder and owner of sheep. He was a prominent resident of the town of Bethlehem. Jesse is important in Judaism because he was the father of the most famous King of Israel. He is important in Christianity, in part because he is in the Old Testament and mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Benjamin, Chileab and Amram. The Book of Samuel states", "title": "Jesse" }, { "id": "20358485", "text": "the bombardier of a B-26 bomber, but he only has a two-day leave. He explains that he has been corresponding with their daughter and has fallen in love with her long-distance. He makes a favorable impression on Ruth's parents and promises to return at 5:30 to meet her for the first time in person. Ruth comes home and tells her parents she is getting married. They assume she has encountered Bill, but it turns out she is marrying Albert. They soon find out that their energetic 16-year-old daughter Miriam wrote to Bill 60 times, using her sister's name and sending", "title": "Dear Ruth (film)" }, { "id": "15475250", "text": "born in this year rather than 1884. The oldest of four children, she had two sisters and a brother. Her sister Elizabeth was a suffragist, law school graduate and one of the first female bank directors, while her brother Robert was a professor at Harvard and mountaineer. Like her brother, she enjoyed mountain climbing as a hobby. Her family took the children on frequent camping trips to Europe. In 1919, Ruth Underhill married Charles Cecil Crawford and they divorced amicably in 1929. She died on August 15, 1984 at age 100 in Denver, Colorado. Ruth grew up attending Ossining School", "title": "Ruth Underhill" }, { "id": "4108752", "text": "modernism and Hebrew literature, one of his important contributions is the introduction of the type scene into contemporary scholarly Hebrew Bible studies. An example of a type scene is that of a man meeting a young woman at a well, whom he goes on to marry; this scene occurs twice in Genesis and once in Exodus, and, according to Alter, distortedly in 1 Samuel and in the Book of Ruth. Alter has served as an active member of the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, and is currently president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. He", "title": "Robert Alter" }, { "id": "13723520", "text": "century, was published in 1975. She died at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, Marylebone, London, on 3 February 1977. In 1932 she married Kenneth Adam, a journalist on the \"Manchester Guardian\" and later director of BBC television. They had four children: three sons and one daughter, the journalist Corinna Adam, later Corinna Ascherson. Ruth Adam Ruth Augusta Adam, née King (14 December 1907 – 3 February 1977), was a British feminist writer, She was born on 14 December 1907 in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, daughter of Rupert William King, a Church of England vicar. She attended St Elphin's girls'", "title": "Ruth Adam" }, { "id": "630471", "text": "the family and the community. Bar mitzvah is mentioned in the Mishnah (Ethics of the Fathers, ) and in the Talmud. In some classic sources the age of 13 appears for instance as the age from which males must fast on the Day of Atonement, while females fast from the age of 12. The age of b'nai mitzvah roughly coincides with physical puberty. The bar or bat mitzvah ceremony is usually held on the first Shabbat after a boy's thirteenth and a girl's twelfth birthday (or thirteenth in Reform congregations). \"Bar\" () is a Jewish Babylonian Aramaic word literally meaning", "title": "Bar and Bat Mitzvah" }, { "id": "14999763", "text": "Little is known for certain about Ruth's life from the mid-1920s to the 1940s, but she worked in a variety of jobs. She held positions in several restaurants and also worked as a model, real-estate broker, resort manager, and nanny. In the 1940s, she enrolled at the Church of Religious Science, where she studied New Thought under Ernest Holmes, and was separately introduced to psychic healing in that decade. Over time, she also became interested in spiritualism, channeling, and past-life regression. She married Benjamin Arnold in the 1940s; the marriage lasted until his death in 1951. Two years later, she", "title": "Ruth Norman" }, { "id": "9532519", "text": "of the points cited for this is the passage at Song 1:9 that states \"I have compared thee, Oh my love, to a steed before Pharaoh's chariots.\" At Song 1:5 she is reported to say \"I am black\" and at Song 4:8-12 the woman is described as \"my bride\". Others hold that song is for the Queen of Sheba. Many Jewish scholars, scribes, and rabbis have commentated on the relationship of Solomon and Pharaoh's daughter portrayed in the Hebrew scriptures. Avraham ben Yaakov reviewing the material points out that \"Solomon's move was questionable\" because it appeared to be outlawed by", "title": "Pharaoh's daughter (wife of Solomon)" }, { "id": "14999762", "text": "August 18, 1900. Three years later, her family moved to Pasadena, California, where her father worked as an upholsterer. She and her five siblings were reared there, receiving little education and working from a young age. As a teenager, she labored as a fruit packer and a maid. Most of her income went to her father, whom she later described as abusive. In 1918, she married a man named Frank R. De Silvas and they had a daughter two years later. The couple divorced in the early 1920s; Frank gained custody of their daughter, although Ruth had access as well.", "title": "Ruth Norman" }, { "id": "991526", "text": "Boaz, Alabama Boaz is a city in Marshall and Etowah counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is part of the Gadsden, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 9,551. Boaz is known for its outlet shops. First settled in the 1850s, the town of Boaz was officially founded November 11, 1878 by the Sparks Family of Georgia. A post office has been in operation since 1887. The city was named after Boaz, from the Bible. It was incorporated in 1897. The Julia Street Memorial United Methodist Church, Snead Junior College Historic District,", "title": "Boaz, Alabama" }, { "id": "1822130", "text": "two divorces, it was her third marriage, to Manfred Westheimer, that was the \"real marriage\". This lasted until his death in 1997. She has two children, Miriam and Joel, and four grandchildren. In December 2014, Westheimer was a guest at an Orthodox Jewish wedding in the Bronx, NY. The groom, Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt, is the great-grandson of the woman who had helped rescue Westheimer from Nazi Germany. She still lives in the \"cluttered three-bedroom apartment in Washington Heights where she raised her two children and became famous, in that order.\" Because of the two synagogues she belongs to, the YMHA", "title": "Ruth Westheimer" }, { "id": "355929", "text": "Ruth Benedict Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist. She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College and graduated in 1909. After studying anthropology at the New School of Social Research under Elsie Clews Parsons, she entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1921, where she studied under Franz Boas. She received her PhD and joined the faculty in 1923. Margaret Mead, with whom she shared a romantic relationship, and Marvin Opler, were among her students and colleagues. Franz Boas, her teacher and mentor, has been called the father of American", "title": "Ruth Benedict" }, { "id": "20458465", "text": "in Jackson, Michigan, August 4, 1870, or August 4, 1872. Her father, Judge Ward, had been a leading lawyer in that city, serving as district attorney and as judge of the probate court of Michigan. Early on, Ward became a contributor to local newspapers and school magazines. She was educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she was graduated with honors and the degree of B.A., in 1889. In January 1891, she married Lee Kahn, M.D. (1867–1899) in Denver's Temple Emanuel. On their return from the South Sea Islands, she published in the \"Popular Science News\" a noted", "title": "Ruth Ward Kahn" } ]

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[ { "id": "14358477", "text": "stylised line from the tail of the aircraft to the nose and painting the underbelly red. The new logo features on the tail and the engine covers with red and orange lines running parallel to each other from the front door to the rear door. As of March 2018, Air India flies to a total of 94 destinations including 54 domestic destinations and 40 international destinations in 28 countries across four continents around the world. Its primary hub is located at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, and it has a secondary hub at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai. Air", "title": "Air India" }, { "id": "2383060", "text": "aircraft. At present, Air India, Air India Express, Jet Air, GoAir, IndiGo, Saudi Airlines, Flydubai, Oman Air and Air Vistara operate domestic and international flights to and from Lucknow. Covering , with Terminal 1 for international flights and Terminal 2 for domestic flights, the airport can handle Boeing 767 to Boeing 747-400 aircraft allowing significant passenger and cargo traffic. International destinations include Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Muscat, Riyadh, Singapore, Bangkok, Dammam and Jeddah. The Planned expansion of the airport will allow Airbus A380 jumbo jets to land at the airport; the Airport Authority of India is also planning to expand the", "title": "Lucknow" }, { "id": "2314884", "text": "130 aircraft. The airline was set up under the \"Air Corporations Act, 1953\" with an initial capital of 32 million and started operations on 1 August 1953. It was established after legislation came into force to nationalise the entire airline industry in India. Two new national airlines were to be formed along the same lines as happened in the United Kingdom with British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways (BEA). Air India took over international routes and Indian Airlines Corporation (IAC) took over the domestic and regional routes. Eight pre-Independence domestic airlines, Deccan Airways, Airways India, Bharat Airways,", "title": "Indian Airlines" }, { "id": "203518", "text": "Imperial Airways Imperial Airways was the early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to 1939 and serving parts of Europe but principally the British Empire routes to South Africa, India and the Far East, including Malaya and Hong Kong. Imperial Airways was merged into the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in 1939, which in turn merged with the British European Airways (BEA) in 1974 to form British Airways. The establishment of Imperial Airways occurred in the context of facilitating overseas settlement by making travel to and from the colonies quicker, and that flight would also speed up colonial government", "title": "Imperial Airways" }, { "id": "4636098", "text": "for the last five years, and earned a net profit for the first time in 2015-16. Air India Express focuses on providing international flights from Tier II cities in India, to the Gulf and South East Asia. The airline flies to 30 destinations as of January 2018 with a primary hub located at Cochin International Airport in Kochi.. On the domestic front, the airline operates from the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Maharastra. On 22 May 2010, Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737-800 (registered VT-AXV) flying on the Dubai–Mangalore route, overshot runway 24 on landing at Mangalore", "title": "Air India Express" }, { "id": "14358457", "text": "Air India Air India is the flag carrier airline of India headquartered at New Delhi. It is owned by Air India Limited, a government-owned enterprise, and operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving 94 domestic and international destinations. The airline has its hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, alongside several focus cities across India. Air India is the largest international carrier out of India with an 18.6% market share. Over 60 international destinations are served by Air India across four continents. Additionally, the carrier is the third largest domestic airline in India in terms of passengers", "title": "Air India" }, { "id": "175746", "text": "exception of Iberia, Malaysia Airlines and Qatar Airways. Terminal 4 serves SkyTeam, Malaysia Airlines and Qatar Airways, and most unaffiliated members. It also formerly operated Air India as well, who have joined Star Alliance in Terminal 2. Terminal 5 houses the International Airlines Group-British Airways and Iberia. Terminal 1 opened in 1968 and was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II in April 1969. Before Terminal 5 opened, Terminal 1 was the Heathrow base for British Airways' (BA) domestic and European network and for a few of its long haul routes. The acquisition of British Midland International (BMI) in 2012 by BA's", "title": "Heathrow Airport" }, { "id": "19323050", "text": "Civil aviation in India Civil aviation in India, the world's third-largest civil aviation market (c. January 2018), traces its origin back to 1911, when the first commercial civil aviation flight took off from a polo ground in Allahabad carrying mail across the Yamuna river to Naini. Air India is India's national flag carrier after merging with Indian in 2011 and plays a major role in connecting India with the rest of the world. IndiGo, Jet Airways, Air India, Spicejet, GoAir and Vistara, AirAisa India are the major carriers in order of their market share. These airlines connect more than 80", "title": "Civil aviation in India" }, { "id": "13862785", "text": "with a second major hub at London Gatwick Airport. On 31 March 1924, Britain's four pioneer airlines that started up in the immediate post war period—Handley Page Transport, British Marine Air Navigation Co Ltd, Daimler Airways and Instone Air Line Ltd—joined together to form Imperial Airways Limited, developing routes throughout the British Empire to India, some parts of Africa and later to Canberra, Australia. Meanwhile, a number of smaller UK air transport companies had begun operating, and by 1935 many of these had merged to form the original privately owned British Airways Ltd. Following a government review, Imperial Airways and", "title": "History of British Airways" }, { "id": "14463255", "text": "by a plough pulled by a Fordson tractor, depending upon the nature of the terrain. 26 emergency landing grounds were made in the desert, several of which included spare tanks of fuel. In 1926 Imperial Airways took over the route from the RAF. Using three-engined de Havilland Hercules aircraft of greater range than the Vernons, the route was extended first to Basra and then to India, as part of an air passenger service. Cairo–Baghdad air route The Cairo–Baghdad Air Route was an airmail route established by the Royal Air Force following a conference of British military and civil officials held", "title": "Cairo–Baghdad air route" }, { "id": "1986510", "text": "1 of the terminal and rooms may be booked by passengers who have checked into the airport. The old international terminal was closed permanently at 13:00 on 12 February 2014, and international operations from the new terminal commenced from the same day. The first arrival was Air India flight 343 (an Airbus A330-200) from Singapore via Chennai, and the first departure was Jet Airways flight 118 (a Boeing 777-300ER) to London. Dedicated domestic operations at T2 were launched on 9 January 2015, with the inaugural flight of Vistara arriving from Delhi. Vistara initially operated from level 4 of the terminal,", "title": "Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport" }, { "id": "19120074", "text": "missions. IndiGo, Jet Airways, Air India, Spicejet and GoAir are the major carriers in order of their market share. These airlines connect more than 80 cities across India and also operate overseas routes after the liberalisation of Indian aviation. Several other foreign airlines connect Indian cities with other major cities across the globe. However, a large section of country's air transport potential remains untapped, even though the Mumbai-Delhi air corridor was ranked 10th by Amadeus in 2012 among the world's busiest routes. India is the world's third-largest domestic and overall civil aviation market (c. January 2018). The number of air", "title": "Aviation in India" }, { "id": "4359935", "text": "India by both air and sea. It is a 2-hour flight from mainland India to Port Blair, but it takes 3–4 days by sea to reach Kolkata, Chennai or Vishakhapatnam. Air connectivity to Port Blair is available from Kolkata, Chennai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bhubaneshwar and Vishakhapatnam. All flights bound to Andaman and Nicobar Islands land at the Veer Savarkar International Airport. Sea connectivity is available from Chennai, Kolkata and Vishakhapatnam are embarked in Haddo Wharf. It is home to several museums and a major naval base INS Jarawa of the Indian Navy, along with sea and air bases of", "title": "Port Blair" }, { "id": "1441157", "text": "airport handled 363,899 international and 2,540,451 domestic passengers in 2015–2016. Jaipur Airport also provides air cargo services. During winter, sometimes flights towards Indira Gandhi International Airport are diverted to Jaipur Airport due to heavy fog in Delhi. The airport operates regular domestic services to major Indian cities including Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Raipur, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pune, Surat, Udaipur and Varanasi. International destinations served include Dubai, Muscat, Bangkok, Sharjah and Kuala Lumpur. Public and private schools in Jaipur are governed by the Central Board of Secondary Education or Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, International Board of", "title": "Jaipur" }, { "id": "20756837", "text": "to receive flights and since then, Emirates operates to five destinations in the country. India was the second country to receive flights from Emirates, and Emirates is expanding its network there. Emirates is the largest airline operating internationally in India and operates over 185 flights a week across 10 cities. Similarly, Emirates competes with British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Philippine Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways International, Middle Eastern rivals Etihad Airways, Saudia and Qatar Airways, and other airlines on the lucrative London to Sydney \"Kangaroo Route\". In 2007, Emirates made an order worth over $34.9 billion, at the", "title": "History of Emirates (airline)" }, { "id": "19323074", "text": "operational in India as of 2015. Civil aviation in India Civil aviation in India, the world's third-largest civil aviation market (c. January 2018), traces its origin back to 1911, when the first commercial civil aviation flight took off from a polo ground in Allahabad carrying mail across the Yamuna river to Naini. Air India is India's national flag carrier after merging with Indian in 2011 and plays a major role in connecting India with the rest of the world. IndiGo, Jet Airways, Air India, Spicejet, GoAir and Vistara, AirAisa India are the major carriers in order of their market share.", "title": "Civil aviation in India" }, { "id": "5316036", "text": "commercial airport is the (Swami Vivekananda Airport Raipur), approximately 131 km away. At that airport, Indigo, Jet Airways and Air India have regular flights to/ from Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Nagpur, Kochi, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Patna, Bhopal and Visakhapatnam. Bilaspur also has an airport at Chakarbhatta for VIP and military operations (Bilaspur Airport). There are two additional airstrips on Kota Road - Mohanbhata and Mulmula - that have been lying unused since the Second World War. These are under the Defence Ministry. Various archeological sites and temples in Bilaspur attract tourists from all over the world. Achanakmar Wildlife sanctuary", "title": "Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh" }, { "id": "2946331", "text": "Jet Airways Jet Airways is a major Indian international airline based in Mumbai. In October 2017, it was the second-largest airline in India after IndiGo with a 17.8% passenger market share. It operates flights to 67 destinations from its main hub at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport and secondary hubs at Indira Gandhi International Airport and Kempegowda International Airport. Incorporated in April 1992 as a limited liability company, the airline began operations as an air taxi operator in 1993. It began full-fledged operations in 1995 with international flights added in 2004. The airline went public in 2005 and in 2007, it", "title": "Jet Airways" }, { "id": "4636094", "text": "Air India Express Air India Express is an Indian low-cost airline headquartered in Kochi, Kerala. It is operated by Air India Express Limited (AIEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian flag carrier airline Air India. It operates around 550 flights per week to 30 destinations including the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The airline carries around 3.8 million passengers every year connecting 107 city pairs. Air India Express came to being on 29 April 2005, with the launch of three flights that took off simultaneously from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode. The airline was launched as a low-cost carrier (LCC) with", "title": "Air India Express" }, { "id": "6180384", "text": "By the end of the 1960s, BUA had become the UK's leading private scheduled airline with a network spanning three continents — Europe, Africa and South America. In November 1970, B&C sold BUA to the Scottish charter airline Caledonian Airways for £12 million (£ million today). At that stage, it operated an all-jet fleet of 20 aircraft and employed a staff of 3,000. Airwork was formed in 1928. During the 1930s, it helped establish the predecessors of the post-World War II national airlines of India, Egypt and Rhodesia. By the time Airwork merged with Hunting-Clan to form BUA, the former's", "title": "British United Airways" }, { "id": "14358461", "text": "via Ahmedabad and Bombay. In its first year of operation, the airline flew , carrying 155 passengers and of mail and made a profit of . The airline launched its first domestic flight from Bombay to Trivandrum with a six-seater Miles Merlin. In 1938, it was re-christened as \"Tata Air Services\" and later as \"Tata Airlines\". Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and Delhi were added to the destinations in 1938. During the Second World War, the airline helped the Royal Air Force with troop movements, shipping of supplies, rescue of refugees and maintenance of aircraft. After World War II,", "title": "Air India" }, { "id": "14725620", "text": "Regent Airways Regent Airways () is a Bangladeshi airline owned by HG Aviation Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Habib Group. Regent Airways is based at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Regent Airways was founded in 2010, and its operations began on of the same year. It is headquartered at Siaam Tower in Uttara, Dhaka. It expanded its fleet with two Boeing 737-700 aircraft on a six-year lease from ILFC, and launched international flights in July 2013 — Kuala Lumpur in July, Bangkok in October, Chittagong-Kolkata flights in October, Dhaka-Kolkata flights in November, and Singapore in December. The carrier launched flights", "title": "Regent Airways" }, { "id": "1361586", "text": "February 2016, members of the public were invited to trial the concourse in preparation for its opening. On Wednesday, 24 February 2016, Concourse D officially opened with the first British Airways flight arriving at gate D8. Terminal 2 built in 1998 has an area of and has a capacity of 10 million as of 2013, after several, decent reconstructions and a major expansion in 2012 which saw capacity double. It is used by over 50 airlines, mainly operating in the Persian Gulf region. Most flights operate to India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In June 2009, Terminal 2 became", "title": "Dubai International Airport" }, { "id": "3407398", "text": "which will serve the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. Biju Patnaik International Airport (IATA: BBI, ICAO: VEBS), also known as Bhubaneswar Airport, south of the city centre, is the major and sole international airport in Odisha. There are daily domestic flights from Bhubaneswar to Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Vishakhapatnam, Chennai and Bangalore. There are international flights from Bhubaneswar to Bangkok, Kualalumpur and Dubai thrice a week. The major carriers from Bhubaneswar are Indigo, Vistara, GoAir, AirAsia, AirAsia India and Air India. In March 2013, a new domestic terminal with a capacity of handling 30 million passengers per year was", "title": "Bhubaneswar" }, { "id": "3480741", "text": "Bengal, the other being Bagdogra. The airport handled almost 20 million passengers in fiscal year 2017-18 making it the fifth-busiest airport in India in terms of passenger traffic after airports at Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai. The airport is a major centre for flights to Northeast India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Southeast Asia. In 2014 and 2015, Kolkata Airport won the title of \"Best Improved Airport\" in the Asia-Pacific region awarded by the Airport Council International. Kolkata airport traditionally served as a strategic stopover on the air route from Europe to Indochina and Australia. Many pioneering flights passed through the", "title": "Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport" }, { "id": "2946347", "text": "closed the Delhi–Milan route in 2013. On 1 March 2016, the airline announced the integration of domestic and international operations in Mumbai airport and moved its entire operations to the newly constructed Terminal 2. In 2018, Jet airways announced a new destination, Manchester in UK. It will start operations to Manchester from its hub, Mumbai from November. It would be the first airline to connect Manchester with India. Jet Airways codeshares with the following airlines: As of October 2018, the Jet Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft: Jet Airways placed its first order for four Boeing 737-400 and 30", "title": "Jet Airways" }, { "id": "9728632", "text": "Imphal Airport Imphal Airport or Bir Tikendrajit International Airport is the second largest airport built in the Northeastern region of India, after Guwahati, and the third busiest airport in the north east region after Guwahati and Agartala located 8 km south of Imphal, the capital of Manipur, Imphal International Airport connects northeastern India with the country's major cities such as Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata. AirAsia India, Air India, Jet Airways, IndiGo and Alliance Air offer connection services from the airport to major cities and regional airports such as Agartala, Silchar, Aizawl, and Jorhat. Imphal International Airport is under the administrative control", "title": "Imphal Airport" }, { "id": "11784098", "text": "from Europe, North America and UAE arrive at New Mangalore Port to promote tourism around Mangalore. Mangalore International Airport (IATA: IXE) is located near Bajpe, around 14 km north-east of the city .The new terminal which had commenced operations in mid-2009 is 8 km from the city. The Airport connects Mangalore with Indian cities such as Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam. The Airport also connects Mangalore with countries such as UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Airport has seen double digit growth in passenger traffic after introducing international flights. , the airport had a growth of", "title": "Transport in Mangalore" }, { "id": "4563020", "text": "by Walchand Hirachand, founder of Hindustan Aircraft Company (now Hindustan Aeronautics Limited), as an aircraft manufacturing centre. Two years later, the airport was requisitioned by the British for use by the Royal Air Force in order to protect India from Japan during World War II. In 1964 the airport was acquired by newly established Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. Commercial flights, initially only domestic, began in 1980. The first international flights from HAL Airport began in 1997. In September 2001, Lufthansa commenced flights between Frankfurt and Bangalore, marking the airport's first nonstop link to Europe. British Airways and Air France followed in", "title": "HAL Airport" }, { "id": "458966", "text": "railway. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, part of NFR, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at Dum Dum, Kolkata, is the state's biggest airport. Bagdogra Airport near Siliguri is a customs airport that offers international service to Bhutan and Thailand, besides regular domestic service. Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport, India's first private sector airport, serves the twin cities of Asansol-Durgapur at Andal, Bardhaman. Kolkata is a major river port in eastern India. The Kolkata Port Trust manages the Kolkata and the Haldia docks. There is passenger service to Port Blair on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands", "title": "West Bengal" }, { "id": "1986511", "text": "which is being used by international passengers. In July 2015, they shifted to level 3, which will be used exclusively for domestic operations. Air India shifted all its domestic operations from Terminal 1B to T2 on 1 October 2015 making it the second airline to operate domestic flights from the T2 Terminal, to ease their International and Domestic Transfer Passenger. Jet Airways shifted its domestic operations to T2 on 15 March 2016, facilitating a seamless transfer experience for its passengers. Indigo airlines wished to continue their operations in Terminal 1B. Car Parking & Passenger Arrivals All vehicles arriving at T2", "title": "Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport" }, { "id": "2685024", "text": "rights. From its 1962 initiation of Boeing 707 service to Idlewild (renamed JFK in 1964) flights had intermediate stops at one Middle East airport (Kuwait, Cairo, or Beirut), then two or three European airports, the last of which was always London's Heathrow, with trans-Atlantic service operating between Heathrow and JFK. This service continued well into the Boeing 747 era. Currently, Air India's North American flights are nonstop Boeing 777 service to India, with one exception, that being a revival of fifth freedom flights operating Boeing 787 service on the Newark—Heathrow—Ahmedabad route. The fifth freedom has been discussed in 2017 in", "title": "Freedoms of the air" }, { "id": "2018967", "text": "de Havilland carrying air mail (postal mail of Imperial Airways) from Karachi's Drigh Road Aerodrome to Bombay's Juhu Airstrip via Ahmedabad, the flight was continued to Madras via Bellary piloted by aviator Nevill Vintcent. Madras (Chennai) had one of the first airports in India and was the final destination of Air India's first flight from Bombay (Mumbai) via Belgaum (Belagavi) in 1954. The airport was built on land donated by the former governor of Madras Presidency, K Sriramulu Naidu. Although the first aircraft \"de Havilland\" landed in Chennai Airport in 1932, the usage was confined only to military operations during", "title": "Chennai International Airport" }, { "id": "3480744", "text": "Second World War. Calcutta became a destination for the world’s first jet-powered passenger aircraft, the de Havilland Comet, on a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) route to London. Furthermore, in 1964 Indian Airlines introduced the first Indian domestic jet service, using Caravelle jets on the Calcutta–Delhi route. Between the 1940s and 1960s, the airport was served by several major airlines including Aeroflot, Air France, Alitalia, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, Philippine Airlines, KLM, Pan Am, Lufthansa, Swissair and SAS. Due to the introduction of longer-haul aircraft and the poor political climate of Calcutta during the 1960s, several airlines discontinued their service", "title": "Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport" }, { "id": "7427214", "text": "obtained an operating licence on May 1947. Four Douglas DC-3s were obtained from Temple, Texas in February 1947 and operations first started on 4 June 1947. The designated route was Kolkata-Sittwe (then known as Akyab)-Yangon (Myanmar), which also happened to be the first post-war international operation to be flown by an airline registered in the British Raj. Orient Airways, along with the help of some chartered BOAC aircraft, started relief operations and transportation of the population between Delhi and Karachi, the capitals of India and Pakistan, respectively. Later, Orient Airways transferred its base to Pakistan and established the vital link", "title": "Orient Airways" }, { "id": "4636099", "text": "Airport, killing 152 passengers and 6 crew members of the 166 people on board. The aircraft crashed into a wooded valley at the end of the runway and burst into flames. There were eight survivors. Air India Express Air India Express is an Indian low-cost airline headquartered in Kochi, Kerala. It is operated by Air India Express Limited (AIEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian flag carrier airline Air India. It operates around 550 flights per week to 30 destinations including the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The airline carries around 3.8 million passengers every year connecting 107 city pairs.", "title": "Air India Express" }, { "id": "191287", "text": "Delhi is the busiest in the country. The operations of the major airports in India have been privatised over the past 5 years and this has resulted in better equipped and cleaner airports. The terminals have either been refurbished or expanded. India also has 33 \"ghost airports,\" which were built in an effort to make air travel more accessible for those in remote regions but are now non-operational due to a lack of demand. The Jaisalmer Airport in Rajasthan, for example, was completed in 2013 and was expected to host 300,000 passengers a year but has yet to see any", "title": "Transport in India" }, { "id": "5269509", "text": "then re-registered as G-SJET) being retained and operated by SilverJet. The Airline operated services to holiday destinations such as Spain, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Canary Islands, Egypt, Africa, India the Middle East, the Far East and the Caribbean. Destinations Are: \"\"Iraq\"\" - Basra Cyprus - Larnaca, Paphos Egypt - Sharm, Cairo Ghana - Accra Greece - Corfu Hungary - Budapest India - Amritsar Ireland - Dublin, Shannon Netherlands - Amsterdam Portugal - Lisbon, Funchal, Faro Spain - Tenerife Sur, Lanzarote, Malaga Thailand - Phuket Turkey - Ankara, Istanbul United Kingdom Manchester, London-Luton, Glasgow The Flyjet fleet consisted of the following aircraft", "title": "Flyjet" }, { "id": "2946345", "text": "and the parliament proceedings were stalled. Subsequently in 2016, reports surfaced that the initial investment for Jet airways itself had come through shell companies from Isle of Man, and was heavily funded by the Indian underworld. This was documented in detail in the book A feast of vultures. As per its website, Jet Airways serves 67 destinations including 47 domestic and 20 international destinations in 15 countries across Asia, Europe and North America. The airline has its primary hub at Mumbai and secondary bases at Bangalore and Delhi. In March 2004, the airline introduced its first international destination Colombo with", "title": "Jet Airways" }, { "id": "18490550", "text": "over buying American or (often delayed) British products continued, and Parliament, the press, British manufacturers and the unions accused BOAC management of only wanting American aircraft. Whilst the major world airlines abandoned flying-boats at the end of WWII, BOAC continued with theirs until 1950, and even introduced the new Short Solent on the leisurely Nile route to South Africa. In 1948, the unpressurised Yorks were still operating passenger services as far afield as Nairobi (Kenya), Accra (Gold Coast, later Ghana), Delhi and Calcutta (India), and the type continued to operate freight schedules until late 1957. After its first six Lockheed", "title": "British Overseas Airways Corporation" }, { "id": "6199782", "text": "taken-off from Sydney en route to Dubai, but needed a refueling stop. Originally planned to refuel at Singapore, it was decided to land in Colombo instead. The exact cause as to why the A380 needed to refuel is not known. Bandaranaike International Airport is equipped with 18 double jetway gates in preparation for airlines introducing the Airbus A380. SriLankan Airlines is the largest airline operating at the airport, with a fleet of 25 Airbus aircraft based at Colombo and providing scheduled services to Europe, Middle East, India, South East Asia, the Far East and Australia. An Emirates A380 aircraft, which", "title": "Bandaranaike International Airport" }, { "id": "9427135", "text": "connectivity to 15 domestic and three international destinations. The airport commenced operations in 1940 as a civil aerodrome with Indian Airlines operating Fokker F27, Douglas DC-3 and later Hawker Siddeley HS 748 aircraft. Beginning with services to Chennai and Bangalore, other destinations like Cochin and Mumbai were added later. The airport was modernized with an extended runway to accommodate larger aircraft like the Boeing 737 and was reopened in 1987. The Sulur Air Force Base located further east of Coimbatore was temporarily used for civil aviation during this period. As of 2017, the airport is served by seven domestic and", "title": "Coimbatore International Airport" }, { "id": "203538", "text": "\"Castor\" for Imperial Airways' Empires Air Routes, in 1937. In November 2016, 80 years later, the Crete2Cape Vintage Air Rally flew this old route with fifteen vintage aeroplanes - a celebration of the skill and determination of these early aviators. Imperial Airways operated many types of aircraft from its formation on 1 April 1924 until 1 April 1940 when all aircraft still in service were transferred to BOAC. Imperial Airways Imperial Airways was the early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to 1939 and serving parts of Europe but principally the British Empire routes to South Africa, India and", "title": "Imperial Airways" }, { "id": "10375342", "text": "Roche, who has spent years combing the Bossons Glacier on Mont Blanc for aircraft remains. While it is a custom to retire flight numbers after a fatal crash, Air India continues to use the AI101 flight designation, albeit on a different route and not for more than 40 years after this crash. Air India flights from Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and Delhi to London Heathrow now are separate non-stop flights, numbered 131 on the former outbound and 111 and 161 on the latter outbounds (none of the intermediate stops are serviced by Air India anymore), flown with a mix of Boeing", "title": "Air India Flight 101" }, { "id": "17351079", "text": "Chinese and Malaysian companies, and IL&FS. The bidding for Line 3 is expected by June 2018. All three lines will align at the Civil Court interchange station. Pune Airport is an international airport at Lohegaon, operated by the Airports Authority of India. It shares its runways with the neighbouring Indian Air Force base. In addition to domestic flights to all major Indian cities, this airport serves international direct flights to Dubai (operated by Air India Express) and to Frankfurt (operated by Lufthansa). Chhatrapati Sambhaji Raje International Airport is a proposed greenfield international airport to serve the city of Pune, India.", "title": "Transport in Pune" }, { "id": "1969216", "text": "Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Belgium, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, East Timor, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Jamaica, Malta, Malaysia, Mongolia, Monaco, Mozambique, the Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Turks and Caicos Islands, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Venezuela. The facility should eventually be expanded to about 180 countries. As a result of the new visa policy, 56,477 tourists arrived on an e-Tourist Visa during October 2015, compared with 2,705 tourist arrivals during October 2014 (just before the facility was introduced), representing a 1987.9% increase. During the period from", "title": "Tourism in India" }, { "id": "5388232", "text": "GoAir GoAir is a low-cost international carrier based in Mumbai, India. It is owned by the Indian business conglomerate Wadia Group. In October 2017 it was the fifth largest airline in India with an 8.4% passenger market share. It commenced operations in November 2005 and operates a fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft in all economy configuration. As of , the airline operates over 230 daily flights across 26 destinations-24 domestic 2 international, from its hubs at Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata. GoAir was founded in 2005 by Jehangir Wadia, son of Indian industrialist Nusli Wadia. The airline is a wholly", "title": "GoAir" }, { "id": "589894", "text": "From within the city, VIP Road, a four lane road takes one to the airport, which lies 15 km to the north of the city. International flights began operations in 2010. Domestic direct flight services are operated by Jet Airways, JetKonnect, Alliance Air and Air India. As of December 2018, Bhopal has non-stop flights to New Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur and Raipur and proposed non-stop flights to Ahmedabad, Shirdi and Hyderabad and direct flight to Bengaluru from January 2019 by Indigo and Spice Jet.. There is only one seasonal international flight from Bhopal and that is to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and", "title": "Bhopal" }, { "id": "46481", "text": "airline called OpenSkies (previously known as “Project Lauren”). The airline started operations in June 2008, and flew directly from Paris—Orly to Newark. However it ceased operations on 2 September 2018 when it was replaced with Level flights on that route. British Airways Limited was established in 2012 to take over the operation of the premium service between London City Airport and New York-JFK. BA began the service in September 2009, using two Airbus A318s fitted with 32 lie-flat beds in an all business class cabin. Flights operate under the numbers previously reserved for Concorde: BA001 — BA004. The flights returned", "title": "British Airways" }, { "id": "14358463", "text": "as Chairman till 1977. The company was renamed as Air India International Limited and the domestic services were transferred to Indian Airlines as a part of a restructuring. From 1948 to 1950, the airline introduced services to Nairobi in Kenya and to major European destinations Rome, Paris and Düsseldorf. The airline took delivery of its first Lockheed Constellation L-1049 and inaugurated services to Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. On 21 February 1960, Air India International inducted its first Boeing 707–420, thereby becoming the first Asian airline to enter the Jet Age. The airline inaugurated services to New York on", "title": "Air India" }, { "id": "481322", "text": "now. Germany's Frankfurt Airport is managed by the quasi-private firm Fraport. While in India GMR Group operates, through joint ventures, Indira Gandhi International Airport and Rajiv Gandhi International Airport. Bengaluru International Airport and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport are controlled by GVK Group. The rest of India's airports are managed by the Airports Authority of India. In Pakistan nearly all civilian airports are owned and operated by the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority except for Sialkot International Airport which has the distinction of being the first privately owned public airport in Pakistan and South Asia. In the United States commercial airports are", "title": "Airport" }, { "id": "2623849", "text": "Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport is operated by Mihan India Private Limited (MIPL) and owned by Airports Authority of India. Nagpur's Air Traffic Control (ATC) is the busiest in India, with more than 300 flights flying over the city every day in 2004. In October 2005, Nagpur's Sonegaon Airport was declared an international airport and was renamed Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport. Nagpur is well connected by daily direct flights to Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Kochi, Indore, Allahabad and Raipur operated by Air India, Jet Airways, JetKonnect, IndiGo, GoAir and AirAsia. Air Arabia operates a 4 times", "title": "Nagpur" }, { "id": "19323052", "text": "Airways which transported over 10 million passengers in and out of India in 2016, followed by Air India and AI Express (8.8 million). In third place was Emirates (5.46 million), which is the largest foreign airline operating in India. Modern civil Aviation in India traces back to 18 February 1911, when the first commercial civil aviation flight took off from Allahabad for Naini over a distance of . During the Allahabad Exhibition, Henri Pequet, a French aviator, carried 6,500 pieces of mail on a Humber biplane from the exhibition to the receiving office at Allahabad. This is the world's first", "title": "Civil aviation in India" }, { "id": "8961179", "text": "Silchar Airport Silchar Airport is located at Kumbhirgram, 29 km (18 mi) from Silchar in the state of Assam, India built by the British as RAF Station Kumbhirgram in 1944 and transferred to the Royal Indian Air Force (RIAF). It is also a Civil enclave airport as it is under the control of Indian Air Force. The airport is situated on the foothills of the Barail range. It is the third busiest airport of the north-east India next to Guwahati and Imphal. In 2014-15, Silchar Airport handled 290,000 passengers. Silchar airport is situated at an elevation of 338 feet above", "title": "Silchar Airport" }, { "id": "14463252", "text": "Cairo–Baghdad air route The Cairo–Baghdad Air Route was an airmail route established by the Royal Air Force following a conference of British military and civil officials held in Cairo in March 1921. The aim was to create an air link between Egypt, Mandate Palestine and British Mandate of Mesopotamia (Iraq), which were under British control following the end of World War I. The western end of the route was the airfield at Heliopolis, on the outskirts of Cairo. The eastern end was at Hinaidi airfield, just south of Baghdad. It was intended the route would eventually extend to India. In", "title": "Cairo–Baghdad air route" }, { "id": "17277834", "text": "Air Odisha Air Odisha is an Indian regional airline based in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. It operates daily flights to numerous destinations across India, according to the Regional Connectivity Scheme. The airline officially has its base at Biju Patnaik International Airport, with an additional operation base at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport. Air Odisha Aviation Private Limited (AOAPL) is formed under Companies Act, Government of Odisha to provide air charter service. Air Odisha is one of the regional scheduled airlines of India. The airline availed its license to commence scheduled operations on 13 February 2018. In February 2018, 60% of Air", "title": "Air Odisha" }, { "id": "7360228", "text": "the major cities of India by land, rail and air. Maharana Pratap Airport, is a small domestic airport situated in a satellite town about 20 kilometres from Udaipur. Daily flights connect Udaipur with Jaipur, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Surat and Varanasi . Air India, Jet Airways, IndiGo and Spice Jet are operational at present. The airport having just three boarding gates, gate 1 is on the ground floor while gates 2 & 3 are at the first floor, and only 10 check-in counters can barely handle 600 passengers at a time. The airport has been renovated by the Airport", "title": "Udaipur" }, { "id": "14358472", "text": "is headquartered at the Indian Airlines House, New Delhi. Air India moved its headquarters from Air India Building, Mumbai to Delhi in 2013. The former headquarters is a 23-storey tower on Marine Drive and was one of the targets of the 1993 Bombay bombings. Air India Regional was established as \"Alliance Air\", a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian Airlines on 1 April 1996 and started operations on 21 June 1996. It was renamed \"Air India Regional\" after the merger between Air India and Indian Airlines. Air India Express began operations on 29 April 2005 and was initially owned by Air", "title": "Air India" }, { "id": "191286", "text": "market share. These airlines connect more than 80 cities across India and also operate overseas routes after the liberalisation of Indian aviation. Several other foreign airlines connect Indian cities with other major cities across the globe. However, a large section of country's air transport potential remains untapped, even though the Mumbai-Delhi air corridor was ranked 10th by Amadeus in 2012 among the world's busiest routes. While there are 346 civilian airfields in India – 253 with paved runways and 93 with unpaved runways, only 132 were classified as \"airports\" as of November 2014. Of these, Indira Gandhi International Airport in", "title": "Transport in India" }, { "id": "14358458", "text": "carried (after IndiGo and Jet Airways) with a market share of 13.5% as of July 2017. The airline became the 27th member of Star Alliance on 11 July 2014. The airline was founded by J. R. D. Tata as Tata Airlines in 1932; Tata himself flew its first single-engine de Havilland Puss Moth, carrying air mail from Karachi to Bombay's Juhu aerodrome and later continuing to Madras (currently Chennai). After World War II, it became a public limited company and was renamed as \"Air India\". On 21 February 1960, it took delivery of its first Boeing 707 named \"Gauri Shankar\"", "title": "Air India" }, { "id": "19024867", "text": "Blue Dart Aviation Blue Dart Aviation is a cargo airline based in Chennai, India. It operates with its main base as Chennai International Airport and services 7 Indian metro cities. German courier company Deutsche Post owns a 70% stake in the airline through its subsidiary Blue Dart Express. It provides service in 220 plus countries and territories all over the world through their parent company DHL. Blue Dart Aviation flies to the following destinations within India, as of October 2017: As of August 2017, Blue Dart Aviation operates the following aircraft: The airline had operated the Boeing 737-200F until 2014.", "title": "Blue Dart Aviation" }, { "id": "19024868", "text": "Blue Dart Aviation Blue Dart Aviation is a cargo airline based in Chennai, India. It operates with its main base as Chennai International Airport and services 7 Indian metro cities. German courier company Deutsche Post owns a 70% stake in the airline through its subsidiary Blue Dart Express. It provides service in 220 plus countries and territories all over the world through their parent company DHL. Blue Dart Aviation flies to the following destinations within India, as of October 2017: As of August 2017, Blue Dart Aviation operates the following aircraft: The airline had operated the Boeing 737-200F until 2014.", "title": "Blue Dart Aviation" }, { "id": "8194893", "text": "two MRO facilities. As of 2017, RGIA is the sixth busiest airport by passenger traffic in India. The airport served about 18.2 million passengers in fiscal year 2017-18. The airport serves as a hub for Air India Regional, Blue Dart Aviation, SpiceJet, Lufthansa Cargo, Quikjet Cargo, and TruJet, and as a focus city for IndiGo and Air India. The existing commercial airport, Begumpet Airport, was unable to handle rising passenger traffic. The State Government initially considered converting Hakimpet Air Force Station to civilian use; however, the Air Force refused. When the State proposed the construction of a new airport for", "title": "Rajiv Gandhi International Airport" }, { "id": "2577519", "text": "for tourists, especially those part of Golden Triangle. Major destinations are: Amritsar hosts Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport. The airport is connected to other parts of India and other countries with direct international flights to cities. Amritsar railway station is the main terminus station. The Samjhauta Express runs from Delhi through Amritsar to Lahore in Pakistan. Amritsar is located on the historic Grand Trunk Road (G.T Road), also known as NH 1 now renumbered as National Highway 3. Additionally, NH 54 (Old NH15), NH 354 and NH 503A connect Amritsar to other parts of state and rest of", "title": "Amritsar" }, { "id": "258257", "text": "initiated in 2006, targeted at increasing the capacity of the airport to handle up to 40 million passengers annually and the new terminal T2 was opened in February 2014. The proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport to be built in the Kopra-Panvel area has been sanctioned by the Indian Government and will help relieve the increasing traffic burden on the existing airport. The Juhu Aerodrome was India's first airport, and now hosts the Bombay Flying Club and a heliport operated by state-owned Pawan Hans. Mumbai is served by two major ports, Mumbai Port Trust and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, which lies", "title": "Mumbai" }, { "id": "4869389", "text": "SpiceJet SpiceJet is a low-cost airline headquartered in Gurgaon, India. It is the fourth largest airline in the country by number of domestic passengers carried, with a market share of 13.3% as of October 2017. The airline operates 312 daily flights to 55 destinations, including 47 Indian and 7 international destinations from its hubs at Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Established as air taxi provider ModiLuft in 1994, the company was acquired by Indian entrepreneur Ajay Singh in 2004 and re-christened as SpiceJet. The airline operated its first flight in May 2005. Indian media baron Kalanidhi Maran acquired a controlling", "title": "SpiceJet" }, { "id": "18126341", "text": "Vistara Tata SIA Airlines Limited, operating as Vistara, is an Indian domestic airline based in Gurgaon with its hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport. The carrier, a joint venture between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, commenced operations on 9 January 2015 with its inaugural flight between Delhi and Mumbai. The airline had carried more than two million passengers by June 2016 and as of May 2017, has a 3.3% share of the domestic carrier market, making it the 6th largest domestic airline. The airline serves twenty-two destinations with a fleet of Airbus A320-200 aircraft. Vistara was the first airline to", "title": "Vistara" }, { "id": "17358706", "text": "ICAO: VOMD) is a customs airport serving Madurai in the state of Tamil Nadu. The airport is located about 12 km (7.5 mi) from the Madurai railway station. The airport was established in 1956 and is one of the most important airports in Tamil Nadu. It offers domestic flight services to major cities in India and international flights to Colombo, Sri Lanka began on 20 September 2012. Now, it also offers services to Dubai and Singapore. The carriers operating from the airport are Air India Express, IndiGo, Air India, Jet Airways and SpiceJet. The airport handled 520,000 passengers between April", "title": "Transport in Madurai" }, { "id": "589297", "text": "various private operators. The city's main bus terminals are located at Esplanade and Babughat. The Kolkata–Delhi and Kolkata–Chennai prongs of the Golden Quadrilateral, and National Highway 34 start from the city. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, located in Dum Dum some north-east of the city centre, operates domestic and international flights. In 2013, the airport was upgraded to handle increased air traffic. The Port of Kolkata, established in 1870, is India's oldest and the only major river port. The Kolkata Port Trust manages docks in Kolkata and Haldia. The port hosts passenger services to Port Blair, capital of the", "title": "Kolkata" }, { "id": "14358485", "text": "eight Maharaja Lounges: The airline entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people evacuated by civil airliner. Over 111,000 people were evacuated from Amman to Mumbai, a distance of , by operating 488 flights from 13 August to 11 October 1990 – lasting 59 days. The operation was carried out during Persian Gulf War to evacuate Indian expatriates from Kuwait and Iraq. The event was later featured in the film \"Airlift\". Air India Air India is the flag carrier airline of India headquartered at New Delhi. It is owned by Air India Limited, a government-owned enterprise, and", "title": "Air India" }, { "id": "13448389", "text": "(CIAL) located at Nedumbassery, which is about from Nettoor. CIAL handles both domestic and international flights. It is the first international airport in India to be built without Central Government funds. The Cochin airport provides direct connectivity to popular international destinations in the Middle East, Malaysia and Singapore and to most major Indian cities apart from tourist destinations like Lakshadweep. With a terminal area of , and a passenger capacity of 1800, it is the largest and busiest airport in the state. It is also the fourth busiest airport in India in terms of international passenger traffic, and seventh busiest", "title": "Nettoor" }, { "id": "2123893", "text": "the state. High rate of poverty and unemployment continues to be prevalent. Air<br> Agartala Airport, located 12 km northwest of Agartala at Singerbhil, is the second busiest airport in northeast India after Guwahati. There are direct flights to Kolkata, Imphal, Delhi, Shillong, Guwahati, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The major airlines are Air India and Indigo Airlines. Passenger helicopter services are available between the capital and major towns (Kailashahar, Dharmanagar) as well as to more remote areas such as Kanchanpur, Belonia and Gandacherra. Railway<br> Agartala, came on India's railway map with the advent of the railways in the subcontinent in", "title": "Tripura" }, { "id": "12651875", "text": "Malaysia Airlines and Qatar Airways. Both have joined the alliance since moving to Terminal 4. Sri Lankan Airlines formerly operated from Terminal 4 but shortly after it joined Oneworld in 2014 it transferred its flights to Terminal 3. No Star Alliance airlines currently have presence in Terminal 4. Previously, Air India moved its flights to Terminal 2 on 25 January 2017 after joining Star Alliance in 2014. United Airlines also previously operated from this terminal until it moved to Terminal 2 on June 4, 2014. Terminal 4 is accessed from Junction 14 of the M25 motorway via the A3113 and", "title": "Heathrow Terminal 4" }, { "id": "191289", "text": "centres of trade. India also has an extensive network of inland waterways. In India about 95% of the foreign trade by quantity and 70% by value takes place through the ports. Mumbai Port & JNPT(Navi Mumbai) handles 70% of maritime trade in India. There are twelve major ports: Navi Mumbai, Mumbai, Kochi, Kolkata (including Haldia), Paradip, Visakhapatnam, Ennore, Chennai, Tuticorin, New Mangaluru, Mormugao and Kandla. Other than these, there are 187 minor and intermediate ports, 43 of which handle cargo. Maritime transportation in India is managed by the Shipping Corporation of India, a government-owned company that also manages offshore and", "title": "Transport in India" }, { "id": "14498464", "text": "gateways to the tourism-rich state of Kerala. One of the major advantage of the airport is the flights can be operated on all weather conditions. The airport is approximately due west from the city center. Apart from regular scheduled flights, many chartered flights from Europe like First Choice Airways from London Gatwick and Monarch, land here during the peak tourist season (around December) with Kerala fast becoming a prime tourist destination in India. Thiruvananthapuram airport's importance is also due to the fact that it is the southernmost airport in India and also the closest to neighboring countries like Sri Lanka", "title": "Transport in Thiruvananthapuram" }, { "id": "2018960", "text": "N. Annadurai, respectively. It was the first airport in India to have international and domestic terminals located adjacent to each other. This airport serves as the regional headquarters of the Airports Authority of India for South India comprising the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, and Kerala and the union territories of Puducherry and Lakshadweep. The airport serves as a hub for Blue Dart Aviation, Jet Airways, SpiceJet, Alliance Air, IndiGo. It also serves as a focus city for Air India, Air India Express, GoAir. The aviation history of the city began in 1910, when a city-based Corsican", "title": "Chennai International Airport" }, { "id": "2684784", "text": "40 destinations, and code shares with other airlines to provide services to a total of 114 cities in 48 countries. Its interline partnerships and the membership in Oneworld alliance allows it to offer passengers the connectivity to over 1,000 cities in 160 countries. SriLankan is currently the largest foreign airline operating service to India, in terms of destinations, serving 14 cities. It is also the largest foreign airline into the Maldives, serving 2 cities. On 11 June 2012, SriLankan Airlines was announced as oneworld's latest member-elect, on the sidelines of the IATA World Air Transport Summit in Beijing. Cathay Pacific", "title": "SriLankan Airlines" }, { "id": "13547751", "text": "Station. Shoranur-Cochin Harbour section and Thrissur-Guruvayur Section are the two railway lines which pass through the Thrissur Metropolitan Area. There are no airports in Thrissur City and the nearest airport is Cochin International Airport at Nedumbassery which is located 50 km. Direct domestic flights are available to major Indian cities like Chennai, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. International flights to Middle East cities like Bahrain, Muscat, Sharja, Jeddah, Riyadh, Doha and to Southeast Asian cities Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are available here. It has a dedicated heli-taxi service and chartered flights. Calicut International Airport at Karipur in the Malappuram", "title": "Transport in Thrissur" }, { "id": "4798810", "text": "banks' top non-performing asset after failing to repay loans of over . The airline's first long-haul destination was London, England, which was launched in September 2008. It had plans to launch long-haul flights to cities in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania with deliveries of new aircraft. All long-haul routes were operated on the Airbus A330-200. On the day of suspension of all international operations, 10 April 2012, Kingfisher Airlines served 25 domestic destinations within India. At that time, all routes were operated with the Airbus A320 family, ATR 42s and ATR 72 aircraft. Kingfisher Employees had their dues", "title": "Kingfisher Airlines" }, { "id": "191285", "text": "regulatory body for the aviation industry. It is controlled by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. The ministry also controls aviation related autonomous organisations like the Airports Authority of India (AAI), Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi and Public Sector Undertakings including Air India, Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. Air India is India's national flag carrier after merging with Indian (airline) in 2011 and plays a major role in connecting India with the rest of the world. IndiGo, Jet Airways, Air India, Spicejet and GoAir are the major carriers in order of their", "title": "Transport in India" }, { "id": "2018965", "text": "collaboration with the Imperial Airways, United Kingdom. However, it was just an extension of London–Karachi flight of the Imperial Airways. In 1915, the first Indian airline, Tata Sons Ltd, started a regular airmail service between Karachi and Madras without any patronage from the government, marking the beginning of air transportation in the southern part of India. In March 1930, a discussion initiated by pilot G Vlasto led to the founding of Madras Flying Club, which became a pioneer in South India. The club had 71 founding members, of whom 14 were Indians. Flt Lt H N Hawker became the club's", "title": "Chennai International Airport" }, { "id": "203536", "text": "delivered to India and a similar amount to Africa. In the same year, construction was started on the Empire Terminal in Victoria, London, designed by A. Lakeman and with a statue by Eric Broadbent, \"Speed Wings Over the World\" gracing the portal above the main entrance. From the terminal there were train connections to Imperial's flying boats at Southampton and coaches to its landplane base at Croydon Airport. The terminal operated as recently as 1980. To help promote use of the Air Mail service, in June and July 1939, Imperial Airways participated with Pan American Airways in providing a special", "title": "Imperial Airways" }, { "id": "19120078", "text": "aviation hub for the National Capital Region of Delhi, is the busiest airport in the country in terms of passenger traffic and international traffic busiest airport in India since 2009 and the second busiest airport in the country in terms of cargo traffic after Mumbai. With the commencement of operations at Terminal 3 in 2010, it became India's and South Asia's largest aviation hub, with a current capacity of handling more than 40 million passengers, which will go up to 100 million passengers by 2030 with the planned expansion. It was 12th busiest airports in Asia (2014) and 21st busiest", "title": "Aviation in India" }, { "id": "46493", "text": "replace some of the airline's fleet of Boeing 747-400s. Options for 18 Boeing 787 aircraft, part of the original contract signed in 2007, have been converted into firm orders for delivery between 2017 and 2021. On 26 June 2013, British Airways took delivery of its first 787s. The aircraft began operations to Toronto on 1 September 2013, and began service to Newark on 1 October 2013. BA's first A380 was delivered on 4 July 2013. It began regular services to Los Angeles on 24 September 2013, followed by Hong Kong on 22 October 2013. The combined International Airlines Group entity", "title": "British Airways" }, { "id": "5764236", "text": "last Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar with the formation of Hyderabad Aero Club. Initially, it was used by Nizam of Hyderabad as a Domestic and International Airport for The Nizam's Deccan Airways, one of the premier and the Earliest Airline in British India. The terminal building was created in 1937. A new terminal building came up on the south side in 1972 and later became the main airport. The older terminal hitherto was referred to as 'Old Airport' at Begumpet. The new terminal building consisted of two check-in terminals; Rajiv Gandhi International and NTR National with a common arrival module.", "title": "Begumpet Airport" }, { "id": "2990788", "text": "air-transport conducting regular flights to all major cities in the country. The states also own several small airstrips for military and private purposes which may be accessed using Pawan Hans helicopter services. The region currently has two international airpots viz. Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport and Bir Tikendrajit International Airport conducting flights to Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan. While the airport in Sikkim is under-construction, Bagdogra Airport remains the closest domestic airport to the state. Railway in Northeast India is delineated as Northeast Frontier Railway zone of Indian Railways. The regional network is underdeveloped with the states of Manipur, Meghalaya,", "title": "Northeast India" }, { "id": "9292815", "text": "Bellary Airport Bellary Airport is an airport serving Bellary, a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It was once served by Tata Airlines and Vayudoot. However, as of May 2018, the airport is without commercial air service. Jindal Vijaynagar Airport, located about west of the city, is used instead for this purpose. A new airport for Bellary is being planned as well. Bellary Airport existed as early as 1932, when it figured in an airmail service operated by Tata Airlines (now Air India). The service operated Karachi–Ahmedabad–Mumbai–Bellary–Chennai. The British selected Bellary as a stopover point because of its strategic", "title": "Bellary Airport" }, { "id": "3972642", "text": "handle to more traffic and bigger aircraft. The land acquisition process is completed and AAI is ready to start the expansion works. A new Terminal has been planned and the runway is to expanded to facilitate the movement of Airbus A320 and Boeing 737s. There was also a proposal in 2009 for a greenfield airport. Madurai Airport is the nearest international airport. Madurai Airport has daily International Connectivity to Colombo and Dubai. Tuticorin Port Trust recently renamed as V. O. Chidambaram Port is an artificial deep-sea harbour. It is one of the major in India.A luxury ferry liner, the \"Scotia", "title": "Thoothukudi" }, { "id": "46478", "text": "downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, and a temporary suspension of flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. BA CityFlyer, a wholly owned subsidiary, offers flights from its base at London City Airport to 23 destinations throughout Europe. It flies 17 Embraer E-170/E-190 aircraft and two leased Saab 2000. The airline focuses on serving the financial market, though it has recently expanded into the leisure market, offering routes to Ibiza, Palma and Venice. The onboard product is identical to that of the BA Short Haul product from both LHR and LGW. In March", "title": "British Airways" }, { "id": "2402405", "text": "to cities in the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1970s using Boeing 707. By early 80s, the then Indian Airlines started service to Colombo, followed by service to Male. Later, SriLankan Airlines (then Air Lanka) and Air Maldives (now Maldivian started operations. Followed by Indian Airlines, that started a service to Sharjah. On 1 January 1991, TIA was upgraded to an international airport, making it the fifth international airport of India after Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai & Kolkata. On 1 March 2011, the first flight operated from the new international terminal. IX 536 (Air India Express) from Sharjah marked the first", "title": "Trivandrum International Airport" }, { "id": "1279325", "text": "guidance system in a multi level car park, which comprises 7 levels and a capacity of 4,300 cars. Terminal 3 forms the first phase of the airport expansion which tentatively includes the construction of additional passenger & cargo terminals (Terminal 4, 5 & 6). Domestic full-service airlines operate from Terminal 3 including Air India, the national carrier and Jet Airways, who moved their domestic operations to the new terminal in November 2010. The Tata & Singapore Airlines airline joint-venture Vistara also operates from Terminal 3. AirAsia India, although a low cost airline, also operates its domestic flights from this terminal.", "title": "Indira Gandhi International Airport" }, { "id": "7214548", "text": "Krur Singh fails in his endeavor, he flees the kingdom and befriends Shivdutt, the powerful neighboring king of Chunargarh (a renaming of \"Chunar Fort\", referring to the fort in Chunar that inspired Khatri to write the novel). Vijaygarh Fort is in Sonbhadra City. Robertsganj is named after the Kanpur-born Field Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Commander-in-Chief of the British Indian Army in 1885-93. Robertsganj is located about 90 km from the city of Varanasi, which has also the nearest airport. Flights are available to all major Indian cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Agra, Bangalore, Chennai, Patna, Khajuraho, Hyderabad, Gaya", "title": "Robertsganj" }, { "id": "15476714", "text": "Indian National Airways Ltd Indian National Airways Ltd was an airline based in Delhi, India. The founder of the airline was R. E. Grant Govan, a Delhi based British industrialist who also co-founded the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the Cricket Club of India. The airline was formed on the basis of a government airmail contract. The company was started by Govan Bros Ltd. in May 1933 with a capital of Rs. 3 million. It became the second airline to start operations in India in December 1933, with a weekly passenger and freight service between Calcutta and", "title": "Indian National Airways Ltd" }, { "id": "2946338", "text": "year as part of plans to re-position itself as a uniform full-service operator. On 1 December 2014, Jet Konnect was fully merged with Jet Airways, making it the third full-service airline in India besides Air India and Vistara. In December 2015, Jet Airways announced the closure of its scissor hub at Brussels Airport by March 2016 and the opening of new hub at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport effective 27 March 2016. As of February 2016, it is the second largest airline in India after IndiGo with a 21.2% passenger market share. As of November 2018, Jet Airways has been reported as", "title": "Jet Airways" }, { "id": "7703757", "text": "Osmani International Airport Osmani Airport (, \"\") is third largest airport in Bangladesh after Dhaka and Chittagong. The airport is operated by the Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) and is served by Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national airline, which at one point earned most of its revenue from this airport. Private airlines Novoair and US-Bangla Airlines operate domestic flights to Dhaka. The vast majority of passengers using the airport are expatriate Bangladeshis and their descendants from the Sylhet Division living in the United Kingdom. Osmani International Airport was built during British rule of the Indian Subcontinent, partly to check Japanese", "title": "Osmani International Airport" }, { "id": "3024432", "text": "BWIA West Indies Airways BWIA West Indies Airways Limited, known locally as \"Bee-Wee\" and also as British West Indian Airways, was the national airline based in Trinidad and Tobago. BWIA was, at the end of its operations, the largest airline operating out of the Caribbean, operating direct services to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Its main base was Piarco International Airport (POS), Piarco, with major hubs at Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI) and Cheddi Jagan International Airport (GEO) during 2006. It was headquartered in the BWIA Administration Building in Piarco, Tunapuna–Piarco on the island of Trinidad. The", "title": "BWIA West Indies Airways" }, { "id": "6985537", "text": "The Coimbatore International Airport caters to domestic flights to major Indian cities like Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and international flights to Sharjah, Sri Lanka and Singapore. Its runway is in length and is capable of handling wide-bodied and \"fat-bellied\" aircraft used for international flights. Sulur Air Force Station, located at Kangayampalayam near the periphery of the city, is an air base of the Indian Air Force. Train service in Coimbatore district started in 1863, upon construction of the Podanur – Madras line connecting Kerala and the west coast with the rest of India. Broad gauge trains connect", "title": "Coimbatore district" }, { "id": "13089796", "text": "All-Red Route An All-Red Route was, originally, a steamship route used by Royal Mail Ships during the heyday of the British Empire. The name derives from the common practice of colouring the territory of the British Empire red or pink on political maps. Initially the term was used to apply only to steamship routes (as these were the only practical way of carrying communications between Great Britain and the rest of the Empire), particularly to India via the Suez Canal—a route sometimes referred to as the British Imperial Lifeline. Rail transport was used across France and Italy to the Mediterranean.", "title": "All-Red Route" }, { "id": "5365194", "text": "tunic with a cap and a thin indigo belt designed by fashion designer Rajesh Pratap Singh and make-up artist Ambika Pillai. The airline has the tagline \"on-time\" focusing on punctuality. As of June 2018, IndiGo operates more than 1000 daily flights to 59 destinations, 48 in India and 11 abroad. Its main base is located at Delhi, with additional bases at Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. In January 2011, IndiGo received a license to operate international flights after completing five years of operations. IndiGo's first international service was launched between New Delhi and Dubai on 1 September", "title": "IndiGo" }, { "id": "1935896", "text": "the Caribbean. Both hubs also improved connections to Europe from Fort Wayne, offering new one-stop flight options that were previously not available. A second Charlotte flight was added in December 2015. The success of American's Philadelphia service led United Airlines to add service to Newark Liberty International Airport, effective September 2016. The service will initially utilize the Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. This is United's first flight aside from O'Hare from the airport since the mid-1980s, and will provide additional one-stop connections to the East Coast, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and India from the airport. However, shortly after the United announcement,", "title": "Fort Wayne International Airport" } ]

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He primarily works in the series as a less-than-adept writer struggling to find himself, attempting essays, novels, screenplays, and newspaper articles. He first appeared on television, along with the rest of the family, in a 15-minute short on December 20, 1998. Brian was created and designed by MacFarlane himself. MacFarlane was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company,", "title": "Brian Griffin" }, { "id": "19500745", "text": "Family Guy (franchise) Family Guy is an American animated comedy franchise created by Seth MacFarlane and originally developed for the Fox Broadcasting Company. \"Family Guy\" is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children, Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian. The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, and exhibits much of its humor in the form of metafictional cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture. The family was conceived by", "title": "Family Guy (franchise)" }, { "id": "19943940", "text": "in Stewie, Please\"), and Brian and Stewie solve a mystery in a \"Sherlock Holmes\" parody (\"V Is for Mystery\"). <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Family Guy (season 16) \"Family Guy\" sixteenth season premiered on Fox in the United States on October 1, 2017, and ended on May 20, 2018. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie, and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the sixteenth production season are Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Alec Sulkin, Steve Callaghan, Danny Smith, and Kara Vallow. Sulkin returns", "title": "Family Guy (season 16)" }, { "id": "1565260", "text": "Family Guy Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children, Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian. The show is set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, and exhibits much of its humor in the form of metafictional cutaway gags that often lampoon American culture. The family was conceived by MacFarlane after developing two animated films, \"The Life of Larry\" and \"Larry & Steve\". MacFarlane redesigned the films' protagonist, Larry, and", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "19584708", "text": "have frequented a sperm bank in his youth (\"A House Full of Peters\"), and a behind-the-scenes episode hosted by James Woods (\"Inside Family Guy\"). 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Brian Griffin, the talking dog on \"Family Guy\", was killed off in the Season 12 episode, \"Life of Brian\" and was replaced with a new dog, Vinny, voiced by Tony Sirico. Fans of the show were devastated and started a petition in order to bring back Brian. However, Brian was brought back to life two episodes", "title": "Kill off" }, { "id": "1565306", "text": "nominated and has won various other awards, including the Teen Choice Awards and the People's Choice Awards. In the 1,000th issue of \"Entertainment Weekly\", Brian Griffin was selected as the dog for \"The Perfect TV Family\".\" Wizard Magazine\" rated Stewie the 95th-greatest villain of all time. British newspaper \"The Times\" rated \"Family Guy\" as the 45th-best American show in 2009. IGN ranked \"Family Guy\" at number seven in the \"Top 100 Animated Series\" and number six in the \"Top 25 Primetime Animated Series of All Time\". \"Empire\" named it the twelfth-greatest TV show of all time. 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The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the fifteenth production season are Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Steve Callaghan, Danny Smith and Kara Vallow. The showrunners are Appel and Callaghan. Guest stars for the season include Kyle Chandler, Stephen Curry, Flea, Rob Gronkowski,", "title": "Family Guy (season 15)" }, { "id": "1565265", "text": "Pewterschmidt family; Meg, their often-bullied teenage daughter who is also constantly ridiculed or ignored by the family; Chris, their awkward teenage son, who is overweight, unintelligent and, in many respects, is simply a younger version of his father; and Stewie, their diabolical infant son of ambiguous sexual orientation who has adult mannerisms and uses stereotypical archvillain phrases. Living with the family is their witty, smoking, martini-swilling, sarcastic, English-speaking anthropomorphic dog Brian, though he is still considered a pet in many ways. Recurring characters appear alongside the Griffin family. These include the family's neighbors: sex-crazed airline pilot bachelor Quagmire; African-American deli", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "12381616", "text": "pizza-loving anthropomorphic turtles with a great knowledge of ninjutsu, led by their anthropomorphic rat sensei, Master Splinter. In the American animated TV series \"Family Guy\", one of the show's main characters, Brian, is a dog. Brian shows many human characteristics – he walks upright, talks, smokes, and drinks Martinis – but also acts like a normal dog in other ways; for example he cannot resist chasing a ball and barks at the mailman, believing him to be a threat. \"Sonic the Hedgehog\", a game released in 1991, features a speedy blue hedgehog as the protagonist. This series' characters are almost", "title": "Anthropomorphism" }, { "id": "1565261", "text": "his dog, Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively. MacFarlane pitched a seven-minute pilot to Fox in 1998, and the show was greenlit and began production. Shortly after the third season of \"Family Guy\" had aired in 2002, Fox canceled the series with one episode left unaired. Adult Swim aired that episode in 2003, finishing the series' original run. However, favorable DVD sales and high ratings for syndicated reruns on Adult Swim convinced the network to renew the show in 2004 for a fourth season, which began airing on May 1, 2005. Since its debut on January 31, 1999,", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "13956168", "text": "Dog Gone \"Dog Gone\" is the eighth episode of the eighth season of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\". It originally aired on Fox in the United States on November 29, 2009. The episode features Brian, the family pet, attempting to prove that a dog's life is just as important as that of a human's, after he accidentally kills another dog with no consequences. Meanwhile, the Griffin family hires Consuela, a stereotypical Hispanic woman, as the household maid, which they each end up regretting once she takes advantage of the family's home. First announced at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con", "title": "Dog Gone" }, { "id": "1565266", "text": "owner Cleveland and his wife Loretta (later Donna); paraplegic police officer Joe, his wife Bonnie, their son Kevin and their baby daughter Susie; neurotic Jewish pharmacist Mort, his wife Muriel, and their geeky and annoying son Neil; and elderly child molester Herbert. TV news anchors Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons, Asian reporter Tricia Takanawa, and \"Blaccu-Weather\" meteorologist Ollie Williams also make frequent appearances. Actors Adam West and James Woods guest star as themselves in various episodes. The primary setting of \"Family Guy\" is Quahog ( [pron. ko-hog or kwo-hog]), a fictional district of Providence, Rhode Island that was founded by", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "3619412", "text": "based on \"The Life of Larry\" and \"Larry & Steve\", two shorts made by MacFarlane featuring a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. After the pilot was given the green light, the Griffin family appeared in the episode \"Death Has a Shadow\". Brian's appearance is a redesign of Steve the dog from MacFarlane's previous show. Brian has been featured in many items of merchandise for \"Family Guy\", and he is considered to be one of the show's biggest merchandising icons. He has also made crossover appearances in the other MacFarlane-produced shows, such as \"American Dad!\" and \"The", "title": "Brian Griffin" }, { "id": "20717679", "text": "Family Guy (season 17) \"Family Guy\" seventeenth season premiered on Fox in the United States on September 30, 2018. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie, and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The season's executive producers are Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, Richard Appel, Steve Callaghan, Danny Smith, Kara Vallow, Mark Hentemann, Tom Devanney, Patrick Meighan and Cherry Chevapravatdumrong. The season's showrunners are Sulkin and Appel. During this season, Brian marries a dying woman (played by Casey Wilson) in a two-episode arc (\"Married...", "title": "Family Guy (season 17)" }, { "id": "17416904", "text": "(\"Fighting Irish\"). <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Family Guy (season 13) \"Family Guy\" thirteenth season premiered on Fox in the United States on September 28, 2014, and ended on May 17, 2015. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The season begins with an hour-long crossover with \"The Simpsons\" entitled \"The Simpsons Guy\". Guest stars throughout the season include Julie Bowen, Liam Neeson, Maya Rudolph, Chris Hardwick, Emily Osment, T.J. Miller, Lea Thompson, Allison Janney, Connie Britton, and Tony", "title": "Family Guy (season 13)" }, { "id": "7483907", "text": "Family Dog (TV series) Family Dog is an American animated television series that aired from June 23 to July 28, 1993 on CBS. Created by Brad Bird, the series was about an average suburban family, the Binsfords, as told through the eyes of their dog. It first appeared as an episode of the TV show \"Amazing Stories\", then was expanded into a series of its own. In the original \"Amazing Stories\" episode, which aired in the show's second season in 1987, a dog named Jonah (a Bull Terrier simply called \"the dog\") is the main character, portrayed in three stories:", "title": "Family Dog (TV series)" }, { "id": "16252577", "text": "Family Guy (season 11) \"Family Guy\" eleventh season began airing on Fox on September 30, 2012. The series follows the Griffin family, a dysfunctional family consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the eleventh production season are Seth MacFarlane, Richard Appel, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild. The showrunners are Appel and Callaghan, with Appel replacing previous showrunner Hentemann. In this season, the Griffins decide to climb Mount Everest (\"Into Fat Air\");", "title": "Family Guy (season 11)" }, { "id": "12585306", "text": "The Man with Two Brians \"The Man with Two Brians\" is the fifth episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series \"Family Guy\". It premiered on Fox in the United States on November 9, 2008. The episode centers on anthropomorphic dog Brian after he is injured during a stunt being enacted by his owner, Peter, after he watches \"Jackass\" with his friends. The family comes to realize that Brian may be getting too old, so Peter brings home an optimistic new dog. Brian is prompted to leave when his family begins to favor New Brian over him.", "title": "The Man with Two Brians" }, { "id": "18530958", "text": "Family Guy (season 14) \"Family Guy\" fourteenth season premiered on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2015, and ended on May 22, 2016. The season contained 20 episodes. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. Guest stars for the season include Joe Buck, Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close, Anil Kapoor, Kate McKinnon, John Mellencamp, Ed O'Neill, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. During this season, the guys head to Korea after Quagmire is", "title": "Family Guy (season 14)" }, { "id": "1565264", "text": "a crossover episode with \"The Simpsons\", aired on September 28, 2014. \"Family Guy\" is a joint production by Fuzzy Door Productions and 20th Century Fox Television and syndicated by 20th Television. In 2013, \"TV Guide\" ranked \"Family Guy\" the ninth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. On May 12, 2018, Fox renewed the series for a seventeenth season, which premiered on September 30, 2018. The show revolves around the adventures of the Griffin family, consisting of father Peter Griffin, a bumbling yet well-intentioned blue-collar worker; Lois, a pretty stay-at-home mother and piano teacher who is a member of the wealthy", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "3619324", "text": "Lois Griffin Lois Patrice Griffin (née Pewterschmidt) is a fictional character from the animated television series \"Family Guy\". She is voiced by writer Alex Borstein and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the Griffin family, in the 15-minute short on December 20, 1998. Lois was created and designed by series creator Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company based on \"Larry and Steve\", a short he made which featured a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. After the pilot was given the green light, the Griffin family", "title": "Lois Griffin" }, { "id": "2801082", "text": "\"The Sopranos\". He originally auditioned for the role of Uncle Junior with Frank Vincent, but Dominic Chianese landed the role. David Chase instead offered him the role of playing \"Paulie Gualtieri\", Sirico agreed under the condition that his character would not \"become a rat\". In late 2013, he voiced the character of Vinny Griffin, who was the family's pet dog in \"Family Guy\" (replacing Brian Griffin after his death; Brian would later be saved via time travel two episodes after Vinny's debut). Sirico also made a live-action cameo in the episode \"Stewie, Chris, & Brian's Excellent Adventure\", where he threatens", "title": "Tony Sirico" }, { "id": "20717680", "text": "with Cancer\", \"Dead Dog Walking\"), Quagmire will meet a teenage daughter (played by Mandy Moore) whom he never knew he had, the Griffins take on the Korean Olympics (\"The Griffin Winter Games\"), and Brian and Stewie shrink to microscopic size (\"Big Trouble in Little Quahog\"). <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Family Guy (season 17) \"Family Guy\" seventeenth season premiered on Fox in the United States on September 30, 2018. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family, consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie, and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The season's executive producers", "title": "Family Guy (season 17)" }, { "id": "15622086", "text": "Jake the Dog Jake the Dog is a fictional character and one of the main cast in the American animated television series \"Adventure Time\" created by Pendleton Ward. He is voiced by John DiMaggio. The character made his debut in the original pilot. Jake is Finn's best friend and adoptive brother. He is a shape-shifting dog who is in his 30s in \"magical dog years\". He was conceived by Joshua and an extra-dimensional creature and as a result, Jake can stretch, shrink, or mold any part of his body to any shape and almost any size, ranging from becoming gigantic", "title": "Jake the Dog" }, { "id": "16261828", "text": "dies. Guest stars for the season include Conan O'Brien, Lea Thompson, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Dockery, Tony Sirico, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gary Cole, Lauren Bacall, Liam Neeson, Bryan Cranston, Peter Dinklage, Adam Levine, and Ariana Grande. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The season received mixed to negative reviews. Family Guy (season 12) \"Family Guy\" twelfth season began airing on Fox on September 29, 2013, and ended on May 18, 2014. The series follows the Griffin family, a dysfunctional family consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie, and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. During this", "title": "Family Guy (season 12)" }, { "id": "15256356", "text": "Family Guy (season 10) \"Family Guy\" tenth season debuted on the Fox network on September 25, 2011. The series follows the Griffin family, a dysfunctional family consisting of father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The executive producers for the tenth production season are Seth MacFarlane, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild. The showrunners are Hentemann and Callaghan. During this season, Peter becomes friends with Ryan Reynolds (guest-voicing as himself), the Griffins win the lottery, Meg falls in", "title": "Family Guy (season 10)" }, { "id": "19500746", "text": "MacFarlane after developing two animated films, \"The Life of Larry\" and \"Larry & Steve\". MacFarlane redesigned the films' protagonist, Larry, and his dog, Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively. MacFarlane pitched a seven-minute pilot to Fox in 1998, and the show was greenlit and began production. Shortly after the third season of \"Family Guy\" had aired in 2002, Fox canceled the series with one episode left unaired. Adult Swim aired that episode in 2003, finishing the series' original run. However, favorable DVD sales and high ratings for syndicated reruns on Adult Swim convinced the network to renew the", "title": "Family Guy (franchise)" }, { "id": "1565291", "text": "the show's first four seasons, he was credited as a guest star, but beginning with season five's \"Prick Up Your Ears\", he has been credited as a main cast member. Other recurring cast members include Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson; Jennifer Tilly as Bonnie Swanson; John G. Brennan as Mort Goldman and Horace the bartender; Carlos Alazraqui as Jonathan Weed; Adam Carolla and Norm Macdonald as Death; Lori Alan as Diane Simmons; and Phil LaMarr as Ollie Williams and the judge. Fellow cartoonist Butch Hartman has made guest voice appearances in many episodes as various characters. Also, writer Danny Smith", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "2816131", "text": "Stewie Griffin Stewart Gilligan \"Stewie\" Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series \"Family Guy\". He is voiced by series creator Seth MacFarlane and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the Griffin family, in a 15-minute short on December 20, 1998. Stewie was created and designed by MacFarlane himself, who was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company, based on \"The Life of Larry\" and \"Larry & Steve\", two shorts made by MacFarlane featuring a middle-aged man named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. After the pilot was given the greenlight, the", "title": "Stewie Griffin" }, { "id": "7483916", "text": "like a dog catcher and a cat. Family Dog (TV series) Family Dog is an American animated television series that aired from June 23 to July 28, 1993 on CBS. Created by Brad Bird, the series was about an average suburban family, the Binsfords, as told through the eyes of their dog. It first appeared as an episode of the TV show \"Amazing Stories\", then was expanded into a series of its own. In the original \"Amazing Stories\" episode, which aired in the show's second season in 1987, a dog named Jonah (a Bull Terrier simply called \"the dog\") is", "title": "Family Dog (TV series)" }, { "id": "5836421", "text": "Brian: Portrait of a Dog \"Brian: Portrait of a Dog\" is the seventh episode and the season finale of the first season of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\". It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 16, 1999. The episode features anthropomorphic dog Brian after he swallows his pride, and joins a dog show, after much convincing, in order to win money for a new air conditioner. But after an argument over a trick gone bad, with his owner, Peter Griffin, Brian realizes he is a second-class citizen and runs away from home, landing him in", "title": "Brian: Portrait of a Dog" }, { "id": "1565292", "text": "voices various recurring characters, such as Ernie the Giant Chicken. Alexandra Breckenridge also appears as many various characters. Adam West appeared as the eponymous Mayor Adam West, until his death in 2017. Episodes often feature guest voices from a wide range of professions, including actors, athletes, authors, bands, musicians, and scientists. Many guest voices star as themselves. Leslie Uggams was the first to appear as herself, in the fourth episode of the first season, \"Mind Over Murder\". The episode \"Not All Dogs Go to Heaven\" guest starred the entire cast of \"\", including Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "17517322", "text": "Life of Brian (Family Guy) \"Life of Brian\" is the sixth episode of the twelfth season and the 216th overall episode of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\". It aired on Fox in the United States and Canada on November 24, 2013, and is written by Alex Carter and directed by Joseph Lee. The episode revolves around the death of Brian Griffin, after being struck by a car, and the family coping with the loss by adopting a replacement dog, Vinny. Brian and Stewie flee a band of hostile Native Americans in a Jeep. Brian explains that on a trip", "title": "Life of Brian (Family Guy)" }, { "id": "13263599", "text": "Lost\". In 2015, he provided the voice of the \"mind cop\" Jake in the Pixar film \"Inside Out\". In 2015, Flea appeared as himself in the Amazon Prime series, \"Highston\".. It was announced in 2017 that Amazon Prime had cancelled plans for a full series of the show. In 2017, Flea played Eddie No-Nose in the critically acclaimed award nominated film, \"Baby Driver\". That same year he had a cameo appearance during the fifteenth season of the FOX animated television series \"Family Guy\" in an episode titled \"Peter's Def Jam\". In a scene where Stewie Griffin said to his dog", "title": "Flea (musician)" }, { "id": "16001856", "text": "Back to the Pilot \"Back to the Pilot\" is the fifth episode of the tenth season of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\". It originally aired on Fox in the United States on November 13, 2011. In \"Back to the Pilot\", two of the show's main characters, baby genius Stewie and anthropomorphic dog Brian, both voiced by series creator Seth MacFarlane, use a time machine to travel back in time to the first episode of the series, \"Death Has a Shadow\". Trouble ensues however, when Brian tells his former self about the September 11 attacks, causing the present to be", "title": "Back to the Pilot" }, { "id": "18085153", "text": "Pakdam Pakdai Pakdam Pakdai, also known internationally as Rat-A-Tat, is an Indian animated comedy TV series airing formerly on Nickelodeon India and currently airing in Sonic Nickelodeon. It is inspired by \"Oggy and the Cockroaches\". The show began in May 2013. Doggy Don (localized only as Don in international broadcasts) is a little pink dog, who is helped by his elder brother Colonel to fight against three mice named Motu (Marly), Chhotu (Charly), and Lambu (Larry). Chhotu is the self-proclaimed leader of Chuha Party. With these characters, a bulldog also appears namely Ballu (Rox). Doggy Don is inspired by Oggy,", "title": "Pakdam Pakdai" }, { "id": "11306476", "text": "Family Guy (season 1) The first season of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\" aired on Fox from January 31 to May 16, 1999, and consisted of seven episodes. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, son Stewie and their anthropomorphic dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. The show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, and Lacey Chabert in the roles of the Griffin family. The executive producers for the first season were David Zuckerman and MacFarlane. The series premiere, \"Death Has", "title": "Family Guy (season 1)" }, { "id": "1565262", "text": "episodes of \"Family Guy\" have been broadcast. Its seventeenth season began on September 30, 2018. \"Family Guy\" has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards and 11 Annie Awards, and has won three of each. In 2009, it was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, the first time an animated series was nominated for the award since \"The Flintstones\" in 1961. \"Family Guy\" has also received criticism, including unfavorable comparisons to \"The Simpsons\". Many tie-in media have been released, including \"\", a straight-to-DVD special released in 2005; \"\", a soundtrack-DVD combo released in 2005, featuring music", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "7483910", "text": "final gag, the father, locked out of the house, sneaks into the backyard, where he's attacked by the dog, duly defending the property. Written and directed by Brad Bird, with music by Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek, it was one of the most popular episodes of the Amblin Television/Universal Television weekly anthology television series, \"Amazing Stories\". The story was animated by Dan Jeup, Ralph Eggleston, Chris Buck, Sue Kroyer, Gregg Vanzo, David Cutler, Rob Minkoff, Alan Smart, and Darrell Rooney from an animation production design by Tim Burton. The animation production was outsourced to Hyperion Pictures (then under The Kushner-Locke", "title": "Family Dog (TV series)" }, { "id": "4067759", "text": "Pete the Pup Pete the Pup (original, 1924 – June 1930; second Pete, September 9, 1929 – January 28, 1946) was a character in Hal Roach's \"Our Gang\" comedies (later known as \"The Little Rascals\") during the 1930s. Otherwise known as \"Pete, the dog with the ring around his eye\", or simply \"Petey\". He was well known for having a circled eye which was added by Hollywood make-up artist Max Factor and credited as an oddity in \"Ripley's Believe It or Not\". The original Pete (sired by \"Tudor's Black Jack\") was a UKC registered American Pit Bull Terrier named \"Pal,", "title": "Pete the Pup" }, { "id": "3592563", "text": "Peter Griffin Peter Griffin is the main character of the American animated sitcom \"Family Guy\". He is voiced by the series' creator, Seth MacFarlane, and first appeared on television, along with the rest of the Griffin family, in the 15-minute pilot pitch of \"Family Guy\" on December 20, 1998. Peter was created and designed by MacFarlane himself. MacFarlane was asked to pitch a pilot to the Fox Broadcasting Company based on \"Larry & Steve\", a short made by MacFarlane which featured a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve. After the pilot was given the green light, the", "title": "Peter Griffin" }, { "id": "3529860", "text": "benefits Spike, who promises not to interfere ever again; causing Jerry to frantically leave the house and run into the distance (in Hic-cup Pup). Spike is well known for his famous \"\"Listen pussycat!\"\" catchphrase when he threatens Tom, his other famous catchphrase is \"\"That's my boy!\"\" normally said when he supports or congratulates his son. Tyke is described as a cute, sweet looking, happy and a lovable puppy. He is Spike's son, but unlike Spike, Tyke does not speak and only communicates (mostly towards his father) by barking, yapping, wagging his tail, whimpering and growling. Tyke's father Spike would always", "title": "Tom and Jerry" }, { "id": "3619438", "text": "Idiot, and I Married One\", and \"Family Guy and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded\" (), a collection of seventeen essays exploring the connections between the series and historical philosophers. which include Brian as a character. A book written from Brian's point of view (actually written by Andrew Goldberg) was published in 2006. It was called \"Brian Griffin's Guide to Booze, Broads and the Lost Art of Being a Man\". Brian Griffin Brian Griffin is a fictional character from the American animated television series \"Family Guy\". An anthropomorphic white dog voiced by Seth MacFarlane, he is one of the show's", "title": "Brian Griffin" }, { "id": "13709347", "text": "Road to the Multiverse \"Road to the Multiverse\" is the first episode of the eighth season of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\". This and most of the Season 8 episodes were produced for season 7. Directed by Greg Colton and written by Wellesley Wild, the episode originally aired on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2009, along with the series premiere of \"The Cleveland Show\". In \"Road to the Multiverse\", two of the show's main characters, baby genius Stewie and anthropomorphic dog Brian, both voiced by series creator Seth MacFarlane, use an \"out-of-this-world\" remote control to travel", "title": "Road to the Multiverse" }, { "id": "743055", "text": "greyhound's lack of intelligence. In an article that compared \"The Simpsons\" to the animated series \"Family Guy\", Todd Camp of the \"Fort Worth Star-Telegram\" noted that \"though Santa's Little Helper may be the only Simpson who's dumber than Homer, the Griffins' pooch <nowiki>[</nowiki>Brian Griffin<nowiki>]</nowiki> is the brainiest member of the household\". In 1991, Copley News Service's Alison Ashton described Santa's Little Helper as a \"sweet and stupid dog\". Tom Coombe of \"The Morning Call\" wrote in 2002 that \"fans of \"The Simpsons\" will tell you that the cartoon family's dog [...] is often dumb, disobedient and skittish. Fans of the", "title": "Santa's Little Helper" }, { "id": "1565268", "text": "his thesis film entitled \"The Life of Larry\", which was submitted by his professor at RISD to Hanna-Barbera. MacFarlane was hired by the company. In 1996 MacFarlane created a sequel to \"The Life of Larry\" entitled \"Larry and Steve\", which featured a middle-aged character named Larry and an intellectual dog, Steve; the short was broadcast in 1997 as one of Cartoon Network's \"World Premiere Toons\". Executives at Fox saw the \"Larry\" shorts and contracted MacFarlane to create a series, entitled \"Family Guy\", based on the characters. Fox proposed MacFarlane complete a 15-minute short, and gave him a budget of $50,000.", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "11306490", "text": "special features, were released in Region 2 on November 12, 2001, and in Region 4 on October 20, 2003. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Family Guy (season 1) The first season of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\" aired on Fox from January 31 to May 16, 1999, and consisted of seven episodes. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, son Stewie and their anthropomorphic dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. The show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, and Lacey Chabert in the roles of", "title": "Family Guy (season 1)" }, { "id": "3619413", "text": "Cleveland Show\". As a character, Brian has been very well received by critics and fans. When Brian was killed off in the season 12 episode \"Life of Brian\", the events of the episode received substantial attention from the media and elicited strongly negative reactions from fans of the show. Brian subsequently returned two episodes later, in \"Christmas Guy\", after Stewie travels back in time to save him. Brian is a white-furred anthropomorphic dog. He can talk, generally walks on his hind legs (using his front legs as arms), has opposable thumbs, drives a second-generation Toyota Prius (with the license plate", "title": "Brian Griffin" }, { "id": "17517335", "text": "\"The Simpsons\" with 6.78 million. Life of Brian (Family Guy) \"Life of Brian\" is the sixth episode of the twelfth season and the 216th overall episode of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\". It aired on Fox in the United States and Canada on November 24, 2013, and is written by Alex Carter and directed by Joseph Lee. The episode revolves around the death of Brian Griffin, after being struck by a car, and the family coping with the loss by adopting a replacement dog, Vinny. Brian and Stewie flee a band of hostile Native Americans in a Jeep. Brian", "title": "Life of Brian (Family Guy)" }, { "id": "3619432", "text": "a month of mourning the loss of their beloved pet, the family replaces Brian with a new dog, named Vinny. The death of Brian in the episode \"Life of Brian\" was met with massive opposition and anger from \"Family Guy\" fans around the world, many of whom threatened to boycott the show due to Brian's absence. Family Guy's official Facebook and Twitter pages were bombarded with messages and comments from fans demanding that they bring Brian back. Hostile messages were also directed towards Family Guy's producing staff, including the show's creator, Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane later thanked fans \"for caring so", "title": "Brian Griffin" }, { "id": "6793742", "text": "Willoughby the Dog Willoughby is a minor animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. \"Looney Tunes\" series of cartoons. He is a hound dog who is characterized by his below-average intelligence and overall gullibility. Willoughby first appeared in the 1940 cartoon \"Of Fox and Hounds\". He was created and voiced by Tex Avery. According to Chuck Jones, the character was based on Lennie, from \"Of Mice and Men\" (of which the title of \"Of Fox and Hounds\" is a knockoff). Critic Steven Hartley described this short as lacking in creativity, originality, excitement, and story construction, particularly compared to Avery's", "title": "Willoughby the Dog" }, { "id": "1565269", "text": "Several aspects of \"Family Guy\" were inspired by the \"Larry shorts\". While he worked on the series, the characters of Larry and his dog Steve slowly evolved into Peter and Brian. MacFarlane stated that the difference between \"The Life of Larry\" and \"Family Guy\" was that \"\"Life of Larry\" was shown primarily in my dorm room and \"Family Guy\" was shown after the Super Bowl.\" After the pilot aired, the series was given the green light. MacFarlane drew inspiration from several sitcoms such as \"The Simpsons\" and \"All in the Family\". Premises were drawn from several 1980s Saturday morning cartoons", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "6294492", "text": "Trevor Devall Trevor Devall (born November 10, 1972) is a Canadian voice actor, actor and podcaster. He worked for Ocean Studios and various other studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for years, before he relocated to Los Angeles, California in 2013. He is best known for voicing Hot Dog in \"Krypto the Superdog\", Rocket Raccoon in the animated TV series \"Guardians of the Galaxy\", Emperor Palpatine in \"Lego Star Wars\", Pyro in \"X-Men Evolution\", Dukey in seasons 5 and 6 of \"Johnny Test\", and various characters in the Netflix original series \"F Is for Family\", as well as providing voices", "title": "Trevor Devall" }, { "id": "1565312", "text": "moved to City. In addition to Teletoon, the show has been syndicated to TVtropolis (now DTour), Adult Swim from July 4, 2012, and FXX. The show also airs in India on Star World Premiere, in Ireland on 3e, and in New Zealand on Four. In the United Kingdom, \"Family Guy\" premiered in September 1999, originally on Channel 4 and Sky One. In January 2005, FX (now Fox) began broadcasting the show. From October 2005, BBC Two started screening \"Family Guy\" before switching to BBC Three on September 2006. In March 2015, it was announced that season 14 of \"Family Guy\"", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "12293944", "text": "Family Guy (season 2) The second season of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\" aired on Fox from September 23, 1999 to August 1, 2000, and consisted of 21 episodes. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and their anthropomorphic dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. The show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Lacey Chabert and later Mila Kunis in the roles of the Griffin family. The executive producers for the second production season were David Zuckerman and MacFarlane;", "title": "Family Guy (season 2)" }, { "id": "12293952", "text": "special features, were released in Region 2 on November 12, 2001 and in Region 4 on October 20, 2003. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Family Guy (season 2) The second season of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\" aired on Fox from September 23, 1999 to August 1, 2000, and consisted of 21 episodes. The series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and their anthropomorphic dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. The show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Lacey Chabert and later Mila Kunis", "title": "Family Guy (season 2)" }, { "id": "3205947", "text": "Larenz Tate Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975) is an American film and television actor. Tate is best known for his roles as Peter Waters in \"Crash\" and as O-Dog in the 1993 teen hood drama film, \"Menace II Society\". Tate's other films include \"Dead Presidents\", \"Love Jones\", \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\", \"A Man Apart\", \"Waist Deep\", \"Biker Boyz\", and \"Ray\". Larenz Tate was born on Chicago, Illinois' west side, in a middle-class suburb, to Peggy and Larry Tate. Tate is the youngest of three siblings (his two brothers, Larron and Lahmard, are also actors) whose family moved", "title": "Larenz Tate" }, { "id": "1565311", "text": "Alaska, which strongly implies that her mother is Sarah Palin, the only woman to have served in the office of governor in the state. Sarah Palin, the mother of a child with Down syndrome, criticized the episode in an appearance on \"The O'Reilly Factor\", calling those who made the show \"cruel, cold-hearted people.\" \"Family Guy\" premiered in Australia on April 9, 1999, on the Seven Network, in 2000 on Fox8, and on 7mate on September 27, 2010. In Canada, the series premiered January 31, 1999 on Global and September 1, 2003 on Teletoon. Beginning in the 2015–16 season, the show", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "13082230", "text": "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven \"Not All Dogs Go to Heaven\" is the 11th episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series \"Family Guy\". It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 29, 2009. The episode was directed by Greg Colton and written by Danny Smith. In the episode, Quahog hosts its annual \"Star Trek\" convention and the cast members of \"\" are guests. After he was unable to ask the actors any questions at a Q&A session, Stewie builds a transporter in his bedroom to beam the cast over and", "title": "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" }, { "id": "14185997", "text": "Brian & Stewie \"Brian & Stewie\" is the 17th episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series \"Family Guy\", and 150th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 2, 2010. The episode features anthropomorphic dog Brian and baby Stewie after they are accidentally trapped inside a bank vault over a weekend. The two try to kill each other, and are ultimately forced to reveal their true feelings about each other, and eventually go on to question each other's existence and purpose in life. Brian and Stewie become even", "title": "Brian & Stewie" }, { "id": "20370200", "text": "Emmy-Winning Episode \"Emmy-Winning Episode\" is the first episode and season premiere of the sixteenth season of the animated sitcom \"Family Guy\", and the 290th episode overall. It aired on Fox in the United States on October 1, 2017, and is written by Aaron Lee and directed by James Purdum, Dominic Bianchi, and Peter Shin, with James R. Bagdonas directing the live-action chicken fight. Guest voices include Louis C.K., Jonathan Kite, Bill Maher, Miriam Margoyles, Christina Pickles, \"Modern Family\" cast members Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, and Sofia Vergara, and a live-action cameo from Asa Akira. As the Griffin family is watching", "title": "Emmy-Winning Episode" }, { "id": "7483913", "text": "results, so they halted production on the final three episodes and outsourced the ten episodes to Nelvana for \"fixes and completions\". The series was scheduled to debut on March 20, 1991 (and it was heavily promoted during the February 1991 broadcast of the Grammy Awards), but the animation was not completed in time for this premiere, so the series was ultimately pushed back until 1993. Frederick Coffin was originally cast as the voice of Skip Binsford, but Spielberg decided to replace him with Martin Mull, after animation was completed on the first three episodes. Despite the \"Amazing Stories\" short airing", "title": "Family Dog (TV series)" }, { "id": "4854068", "text": "Dog Logan Dog Logan is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the half-brother of Wolverine. Dog Logan first appeared in \"Origin\" #1 and was created by Bill Jemas, Paul Jenkins, Joe Quesada, and Andy Kubert. Dog Logan is a servant on the Howlett estate in the late 19th century, located in Alberta, Canada. His father Thomas Logan works as groundskeeper of the Howlett estate. As an adolescent, Dog is the playmate of James Howlett, a sickly boy and the family's youngest son, and Rose, an orphan brought to the estate to look", "title": "Dog Logan" }, { "id": "1565323", "text": "Griffin family had their own toy, with the exception of Stewie, of whom two different figures were made. Over the course of two years, four more series of toy figures were released, with various forms of Peter. In 2008, the character Peter appeared in advertisements for Subway Restaurants, promoting the restaurant's massive feast sandwich. Informational notes Citations Bibliography Family Guy Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children, Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "1565277", "text": "broadcast of Super Bowl XXXIII on January 31, 1999, with \"Death Has a Shadow\". The show debuted to 22 million viewers, and immediately generated controversy regarding its adult content. The show returned on April 11, 1999, with \"I Never Met the Dead Man\". \"Family Guy\" garnered decent ratings in Fox's 8:30 pm slot on Sunday, scheduled between \"The Simpsons\" and \"The X-Files\". At the end of its first season, the show ranked at #33 in the Nielsen ratings, with 12.8 million households tuning in. The show launched its second season in a new time slot, Thursday at 9 pm, on", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "743040", "text": "the show, but voice artist Frank Welker has also voiced him. Santa's Little Helper has become a popular character following his appearances on \"The Simpsons\". He ranked 27th in Animal Planet's 2003 television special \"50 Greatest TV Animals\" that was based on popularity, name recognition, and the longevity of the shows. He has also been featured in merchandise relating to \"The Simpsons\", such as video games, board games, and comics. Santa's Little Helper is a greyhound that appears on the animated television series \"The Simpsons\" and is the pet dog of the Simpson family. He can often be seen on", "title": "Santa's Little Helper" }, { "id": "13213613", "text": "Family Guy (season 8) \"Family Guy\" eighth season first aired on the Fox network in twenty-one episodes from September 27, 2009, to May 23, 2010, before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. It ran on Sunday nights between May and July 2010 on BBC Three in the UK. The animated television series \"Family Guy\" follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. The eighth season, which premiered with the episode \"Road to the Multiverse\" and ended with \"Something,", "title": "Family Guy (season 8)" }, { "id": "1565302", "text": "comedy which clearly sets out to do jokes which other cartoons can't do.\" \"Family Guy\" has proven popular in the United Kingdom, regularly obtaining between 700,000 and 1 million viewers for re-runs on BBC Three. The series has attracted many celebrities. Robert Downey Jr. telephoned the show production staff and asked if he could produce or assist in an episode's creation, as his son is a fan of the show; the producers subsequently created a character for Downey. Lauren Conrad met MacFarlane while recording a \"\" clip for the episode \"Prick Up Your Ears\" (season 5, 2006). She has watched", "title": "Family Guy" }, { "id": "13213629", "text": "audio commentaries and deleted scenes. Family Guy (season 8) \"Family Guy\" eighth season first aired on the Fox network in twenty-one episodes from September 27, 2009, to May 23, 2010, before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. It ran on Sunday nights between May and July 2010 on BBC Three in the UK. The animated television series \"Family Guy\" follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. The eighth season, which premiered with the episode \"Road to the", "title": "Family Guy (season 8)" }, { "id": "2362320", "text": "work week. Kimmel has performed in several animated films, often voicing dogs. His voice appeared in \"Garfield\" and \"Road Trip\", and he portrayed Death's Dog in the \"Family Guy\" episode \"Mr. Saturday Knight\"; \"Family Guy\" creator Seth MacFarlane later presented Kimmel with a figurine of his character on \"Jimmy Kimmel Live!\" Kimmel also did voice work for \"Robot Chicken\". Kimmel's cousin \"Sal\" (Sal Iacono) has accepted and won a wrestling match with Santino Marella. On January 14, 2010, in the midst of the 2010 \"Tonight Show\" host and time slot conflict, Kimmel was the special guest of Jay Leno on", "title": "Jimmy Kimmel" }, { "id": "6793744", "text": "animated characters scared when Casper appears at the funeral. Willoughby the Dog Willoughby is a minor animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. \"Looney Tunes\" series of cartoons. He is a hound dog who is characterized by his below-average intelligence and overall gullibility. Willoughby first appeared in the 1940 cartoon \"Of Fox and Hounds\". He was created and voiced by Tex Avery. According to Chuck Jones, the character was based on Lennie, from \"Of Mice and Men\" (of which the title of \"Of Fox and Hounds\" is a knockoff). Critic Steven Hartley described this short as lacking in creativity,", "title": "Willoughby the Dog" }, { "id": "13721851", "text": "Mark Hentemann Mark Henry Hentemann (born April 24, 1969) is an American animation writer. He is the former executive producer and showrunner of the animated series \"Family Guy\", where he started as a writer in its first season. In addition, Hentemann has also provided voices for many minor characters on \"Family Guy\", including the \"Phony Guy\" and Opie. Hentemann has also written for the \"Late Show with David Letterman\". He left \"Family Guy\" to create \"3 South\" for MTV, and to work with the creator Seth MacFarlane on the animated series, \"Bordertown\". The series premiered on Fox in 2016<ref name=\"fox.com/schedule\"></ref>", "title": "Mark Hentemann" }, { "id": "3271361", "text": "Meg Griffin Megan \"Meg\" Griffin is a fictional character in the animated television series \"Family Guy\". Meg is the eldest child of Peter and Lois Griffin and older sister of Stewie and Chris, but is also the family's scapegoat who receives the least of their attention and bears the brunt of their abuse. She is often bullied, ridiculed, and ignored. Meg first appeared on television, along with the rest of the Griffin family, in a 15-minute short on December 20, 1998. She was created and designed by \"Family Guy\" creator Seth MacFarlane, who was asked to pitch a pilot to", "title": "Meg Griffin" }, { "id": "13238347", "text": "Purdum were supervising directors for the entire season. Walter Murphey composed the season's music tracks, while Stan Jones edited them. Season seven had a cast of five main actors. MacFarlane voiced Peter Griffin, a blue-collar worker and the patriarch of the Griffin family. The family's evil-genius baby Stewie, their anthropromorphic pet dog Brian, their sexually-active neighbor Glenn Quagmire, Peter's father-in-law Carter Pewterschmidt, local doctor Elmer Hartman and local news anchor Tom Tucker were also voiced by MacFarlane. Other members of the family include Peter's responsible-but-rebellious wife, Lois (voiced by Alex Borstein); their self-loathing teenage daughter, Meg (voiced by Mila Kunis)", "title": "Family Guy (season 7)" }, { "id": "2020421", "text": "careers of creators Genndy Tartakovsky (\"Dexter's Laboratory\", \"Samurai Jack\", \"\" and \"Sym-Bionic Titan\"), Craig McCracken (\"The Powerpuff Girls\", \"Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends\" and \"Wander Over Yonder\"), Butch Hartman (\"The Fairly OddParents\", \"Danny Phantom\", \"T.U.F.F. Puppy\" and \"Bunsen Is a Beast\"), Seth MacFarlane (\"Family Guy\", \"American Dad!\" and \"The Cleveland Show\"), Miles Thompson, Paul Rudish, Rob Renzetti (\"My Life as a Teenage Robot\") and Zac Moncrief, Andrew Stanton (\"Finding Nemo\") & Conrad Vernon (\"Sausage Party\" and \"Shrek\"). The voice cast used a combination of novices, professionals, comedians, and children. When Cook was developing the show, he saw one of comedian", "title": "2 Stupid Dogs" }, { "id": "13956175", "text": "gets rid of her by tricking her into inhaling chloroform on a handkerchief, and leaves her in a basket on Joe's front porch. At the end, Peter lets us know that everyone at \"Family Guy\" respects all living beings and assures the viewers that no animals were harmed in the making of the episode, but they did hurt the feelings of an Italian opera singer by prematurely dropping the curtain on his performance. First announced at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California on July 25, 2009, by future showrunner Steve Callaghan, the episode was directed by", "title": "Dog Gone" }, { "id": "13060661", "text": "Fox-y Lady \"Fox-y Lady\" (stylized as \"FOX-y Lady\") is the tenth episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series \"Family Guy\". It premiered on Fox in the United States on March 22, 2009. The episode is centered on housewife Lois Griffin's employment at Fox News Channel, despite the warnings of anthropomorphic dog Brian. On her first day on the job, she is assigned to do a report on Michael Moore's perceived homosexuality, but it is rejected when the exposé involves conservative Republican Rush Limbaugh. Meanwhile, husband Peter and son Chris decide to create their own animated sitcom.", "title": "Fox-y Lady" }, { "id": "5563183", "text": "native and tyrannical ruler of the planet Uris (whose inhabitants are a race of evolved simians) in Galaxy Q-2. Uglor's mutancy granted him bird-like wings and the ability to generate destructive energy blasts from his bionic eyes, which allowed him to see through Space Ghost's Inviso-Power and Elektra's telepathic illusions. \"Space Ace and the Space Mutts\" features Astro, the family dog from \"The Jetsons\". He teams up with two other dogs named Cosmo and Dipper, led by their human leader Space Ace. Together, the trio act as galactic police officers and travel through outer space. Don Messick reprised his role", "title": "Space Stars" }, { "id": "12949461", "text": "Spike (dog) Spike (1952-1962) was a lop-eared yellow Mastador (Mastiff/Labrador Retriever mix) and a dog actor best known for his performance as Old Yeller in the 1957 Disney film of the same name co-starring Tommy Kirk, Dorothy McGuire, Fess Parker, and Kevin Corcoran. Spike was rescued as a pup from a shelter in Van Nuys, California and became the pet and pupil of animal trainer Frank Weatherwax. Spike also appeared as Patrasche in 20th Century Fox's \"A Dog of Flanders\" with Donald Crisp and David Ladd in 1959 and as King in the 1956 film, \"The She-Creature\". In 1961, Spike", "title": "Spike (dog)" }, { "id": "12102984", "text": "his dog Jesse) as one of the characters that stuck out from the rest. They also noted that one of the reasons Herbert is funny is because of his \"soft, high-pitched whistling voice\". Although IGN has praised Herbert in general they have criticized some aspects of him. In their review of \"Blue Harvest\", a retelling and parody of the 1977 film \"\", recasting the show's characters into \"Star Wars\" roles, IGN criticized the choice of putting Herbert in the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi, stating that it never creates any actual humor. They also criticized the constant use of Herbert, commenting", "title": "Herbert (Family Guy)" }, { "id": "11306481", "text": "MacFarlane, Chris Sheridan, Neil Goldman, Garrett Donovan, Ricky Blitt, Andrew Gormley, supervising producers Danny Smith and Gary Janetti, co-producers Matt Weitzman and Mike Barker, and voice actor Mike Henry. There were six directors for the seven episodes, with Michael DiMartino directing two. Peter Shin acted as the supervising director for the entire season. Walter Murphey composed the season's music tracks, while Stan Jones edited them. Season one had a cast of four main actors. MacFarlane voiced Peter Griffin, a blue-collar worker and the patriarch of the Griffin family. The family's evil-genius baby Stewie and their anthropromorphic pet dog Brian, were", "title": "Family Guy (season 1)" }, { "id": "18832193", "text": "Heart: The Underdog With The Overbite\". Tuna was found on a roadside near San Diego, California, having been abandoned by his original owner. He suffered emotional trauma from this abandonment, leading him to the habit of crawling on his belly; because of this, his rescuer called him \"Wormy\". Tuna was taken to a farmer's market in Los Angeles by the rescue centre at the age of around four months, where Courtney Dasher saw him and adopted him. She decided to change his name from \"Wormy\" to \"Mr. Burns\" because of his resemblance to the character in \"The Simpsons\". She had", "title": "Tuna (dog)" }, { "id": "3322617", "text": "gay character of the show. He would hang out in Palm Springs, as well in San Francisco and West Hollywood, but he eventually chose Reno as his hometown. In an episode of the animated comedy \"Family Guy\" \"On the Road to Rhode Island\", baby Stewie and his friend, Brian (a talking dog) figured a way to return home from vacation in Lois' parents home in Palm Springs. On \"American Dad!\" Season 2, Episode 4 – \"Lincoln Lover\", Stan Smith said to a speech in the Republican National Convention when representatives of the Gay Log Cabin Republicans were present: \"Invite half", "title": "Coachella Valley" }, { "id": "13213624", "text": "were nominated for their work on the song's lyrics and music. On July 24, 2010, MacFarlane gave a live performance of the song at the San Diego Comic-Con International, to an audience of nearly 4,200 attendees. At the Creative Arts Awards on August 21, 2010, \"Down Syndrome Girl\" lost to the USA Network series \"Monk\". Greg Colton, director of \"Road to the Multiverse\", was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for storyboarding the episode. In February 2010, \"Dog Gone\" won the Sid Caesar Comedy Award, at the annual Genesis Awards, for television comedy. The Parents", "title": "Family Guy (season 8)" }, { "id": "6264685", "text": "in \"Above the Rim\". In 1994 he moved to Hollywood and starred in \"Sunset Park\" with Terrence Howard. A succession of recurring television roles led to his breakthrough role as \"Russell\" on the NBC sitcom \"The Single Guy\" in 1995. He has been a featured guest voice on many animated shows, including \"American Dad!\", \"Family Guy\", and \"Robot Chicken\". He voiced the character \"Smokey\" on the animated series \"The PJs\" with Eddie Murphy. Shawn Michael Howard Shawn Michael Howard (born July 31, 1969) is an American film, television and theater actor. Howard was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son", "title": "Shawn Michael Howard" }, { "id": "7505602", "text": "his first film, the middle-aged Larry, and an intellectual dog named Steve. The short was broadcast as one of Cartoon Network's \"World Premiere Toons\" in 1997. Executives at Fox saw both \"Larry\" shorts and contracted MacFarlane to create a series based on the characters, to be called \"Family Guy\". Peter Griffin, one of the main characters in \"Family Guy\", was largely based on Larry. In addition, Steve would be the main inspiration behind the Griffin family dog, Brian. Fox proposed MacFarlane complete a 15-minute short, giving him a budget of $50,000. MacFarlane stated that the pilot for \"Family Guy\" took", "title": "The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve" }, { "id": "5181700", "text": "the shows \"Baskets\" and \"Better Things\" for FX and voiced the dog Max in the animated film \"The Secret Life of Pets\" in the same year. His 2017 film, \"I Love You, Daddy\", was pulled from distribution prior to its scheduled release date after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct to which he then admitted. C.K. was born Louis Székely in Washington, D.C. on September 12, 1967, the son of software engineer Mary Louise (\"née\" Davis) and economist Luis Székely. His parents met at Harvard University, where his mother was completing her degree in a summer school program. They", "title": "Louis C.K." }, { "id": "8204839", "text": "Mike Henry (voice actor) Michael \"Mike\" Henry (born November 7, 1965) is an American voice actor, writer, producer, and comedian. He is known for his work on the animated TV series \"Family Guy\" (1999–present), where he writes and produces episodes along with voicing Cleveland Brown, Herbert, Bruce, and Consuela. Henry is also known for co-creating and starring in the spin-off, \"The Cleveland Show\" (2009–2013) and for his recurring role as Dann in the television series, \"The Orville\". Henry and his younger brother Patrick were born to artist parents and raised in Richmond, Virginia. His parents divorced when he was six", "title": "Mike Henry (voice actor)" }, { "id": "17991800", "text": "Goliad (Adventure Time) \"Goliad\" is the tenth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series \"Adventure Time\". The episode was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Skyler Page, from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, and Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on June 4, 2012. The episode guest stars Graham Linehan's children, Wendy and Henry. The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and", "title": "Goliad (Adventure Time)" }, { "id": "17517326", "text": "swinging at junk\". As Brian's casket is lowered into his grave, Stewie throws a final red rose onto the casket and he and the Griffin family watch on tearfully. A month later, the Griffin family still misses Brian dearly and Lois decides the best way for them to recover is to get a new dog. Peter chooses an Italian smooth-talking dog named Vinny at the pet shop. At home, Vinny offers to make dinner and ingratiates himself with the family. At the Drunken Clam, Peter introduces Vinny to Joe and Quagmire and they become drinking buddies. Stewie is still not", "title": "Life of Brian (Family Guy)" }, { "id": "10028155", "text": "Newt Gingrich in Quebec is generally replaced with one to Mike Harris. Most of the recurring characters keep their English names in each French version. Two exceptions are Sideshow Bob and Sideshow Mel, who are known as Tahiti Bob and Tahiti Mel in France, as the word \"sideshow\" has no direct translation. In Quebec, the title \"sideshow\" is kept as an Anglicism. Another exception is made for the Simpsons family's dog, Santa's Little Helper, who is called \"Le p'tit renne au nez rouge\" (the French name for the song \"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\", which literally means \"Little Red-Nosed Reindeer\") in", "title": "Non-English versions of The Simpsons" }, { "id": "8741371", "text": "were lovers in the show. He played a calm, mild-mannered band member who gets turned into a werewolf. He is very popular among fans of the series. Green has starred on Fox's \"Greg the Bunny\" and guest-starred on \"The X-Files\", \"That '70s Show\", \"Will & Grace\", \"MADtv\", \"Reno 911!\", \"Entourage\", \"Grey's Anatomy\", \"The Wonder Years\", \"Heroes\",\" The Facts of Life\", \"The Drew Carey Show\", and \"My Name Is Earl\". Green provides the voice of Chris for the animated television sitcom \"Family Guy,\" created by Seth MacFarlane for Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the dysfunctional Griffin family and also", "title": "Seth Green" }, { "id": "17577079", "text": "Puhoy \"Puhoy\" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series \"Adventure Time\". The episode was written and storyboarded by Tom Herpich and Steve Wolfhard, from a story by Patrick McHale, Kent Osborne, and Pendleton Ward. It originally aired on Cartoon Network on April 8, 2013. The episode guest stars Mandy Siegfried as Roselinen, Jonathan Frakes as Adult Finn, and Wallace Shawn as Rasheeta. The series follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers", "title": "Puhoy" }, { "id": "14186018", "text": "Television Council went on to name the episode as its \"Worst TV Show of the Week\", ending the week of May 7, 2010, citing the extreme indecency of the episode. Brian & Stewie \"Brian & Stewie\" is the 17th episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series \"Family Guy\", and 150th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 2, 2010. The episode features anthropomorphic dog Brian and baby Stewie after they are accidentally trapped inside a bank vault over a weekend. The two try to kill each other,", "title": "Brian & Stewie" }, { "id": "13238349", "text": "Opie, Borstein as Trisha Takanawa and Henry as Bruce. Staff members Danny Smith, Jon Viener and Alec Sulkin voiced several minor characters. The season introduced New Brian (voiced by Viener), a replacement for the older Brian and Susie, the Swansons' newborn daughter. The season also included guest actors voicing themselves, including Frank Sinatra, Jr., Seth Rogen, Lauren Conrad, Johnny Knoxville, Jay Leno, Craig Ferguson, Audrina Patridge, Sinbad, Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby and Rob Lowe. The seventh-season premiere was viewed by 9.2 million viewers, a significantly-higher number than those", "title": "Family Guy (season 7)" }, { "id": "7483912", "text": "Steven Spielberg and Tim Burton (who contributed to the production and character designs). It was written by Dennis Klein, Sherri Stoner and Paul Dini and animated by Nelvana, but notably lacked the involvement of the original writer and director, Brad Bird, because he did not believe the short's premise would work as a television show. Largely hyped due to Spielberg's involvement, the series was plagued by production delays. It did not get past its original network order of 13 episodes. Ten episodes were finished by the Wang Film Productions animation house in Taiwan but the producers were dissatisfied with the", "title": "Family Dog (TV series)" }, { "id": "15678542", "text": "dog Wilfred (Jason Gann). In the opening episode, Ryan concocts a drug cocktail in order to die by suicide. After this failed attempt, Ryan's neighbor, Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann), knocks on his door to ask him to look after Wilfred, whom Ryan sees and hears as a man in a dog costume. \"Wilfred\" is based on the critically acclaimed Australian series of the same name and was adapted for FX by \"Family Guy\" veteran David Zuckerman. \"Wilfred\" is produced by FX Productions while the executive producers include: Zuckerman; Rich and Paul Frank; Jeff Kwatinetz; and Joe and Ken Connor from the", "title": "Wilfred (U.S. TV series)" } ]

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[ { "id": "237844", "text": "became part of the United Nations as the Commission on the Status of Women. Of the League's 42 founding members, 23 (24 counting Free France) remained members until it was dissolved in 1946. In the founding year, six other states joined, only two of which remained members throughout the League's existence. Under the Weimar Republic, Germany (in fact the \"Deutsches Reich\" or German Empire) was admitted to the League of Nations through a resolution passed on September 8 1926. An additional 15 countries joined later. The largest number of member states was 58, between 28 September 1934 (when Ecuador joined)", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "165177", "text": "to a swing to the right. Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was elected President in 1925. In October 1925 the Treaty of Locarno was signed by Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and Italy; it recognised Germany's borders with France and Belgium. Moreover, Britain, Italy and Belgium undertook to assist France in the case that German troops marched into the demilitarised Rheinland. Locarno paved the way for Germany's admission to the League of Nations in 1926. The actual amount of reparations that Germany was obliged to pay out was not the 132 billion marks decided in the London Schedule of 1921 but", "title": "History of Germany" }, { "id": "237894", "text": "as Communist regimes were not welcomed. The League was further weakened when major powers left in the 1930s. Japan began as a permanent member of the Council, but withdrew in 1933 after the League voiced opposition to its occupation of Manchuria. Italy began as a permanent member of the Council, but withdrew in 1937. Spain also began as a permanent member of the Council, but withdrew in 1939. The League had accepted Germany, also as a permanent member of the Council, in 1926, deeming it a \"peace-loving country\", but Adolf Hitler pulled Germany out when he came to power in", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "237834", "text": "country to join the League; joining in 1926, Germany became the fifth permanent member of the Council. Later, after Germany and Japan both left the League, the number of non-permanent seats was increased from nine to eleven, and the Soviet Union was made a permanent member giving the Council a total of fifteen members. The Council met, on average, five times a year and in extraordinary sessions when required. In total, 107 sessions were held between 1920 and 1939. The League oversaw the Permanent Court of International Justice and several other agencies and commissions created to deal with pressing international", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "460458", "text": "marched into the demilitarised Rhineland. Locarno paved the way for Germany's admission to the League of Nations in 1926. Germany signed arbitration conventions with France and Belgium and arbitration treaties with Poland and Czechoslovakia, undertaking to refer any future disputes to an arbitration tribunal or to the Permanent Court of International Justice. Other foreign achievements were the evacuation of foreign troops from the Ruhr in 1925. In 1926, Germany was admitted to the League of Nations as a permanent member, improving her international standing and giving the right to vote on League matters. Overall trade increased and unemployment fell. Stresemann's", "title": "Weimar Republic" }, { "id": "3591730", "text": "pre-war debts and renounced war claims. In October 1925 the Treaty of Locarno was signed by Germany, France, Belgium, Britain, and Italy; it recognised Germany's borders with France and Belgium. Moreover, Britain, Italy, and Belgium undertook to assist France in the case that German troops marched into the demilitarised Rhineland. Locarno paved the way for Germany's admission to the League of Nations in 1926. Hitler came to power in January 1933, and inaugurated an aggressive power designed to give Germany economic and political domination across central Europe. He did not attempt to recover the lost colonies. Until August 1939, the", "title": "Interwar period" }, { "id": "237872", "text": "belong to Germany or France. When the referendum was held in 1935, 90.3 percent of voters supported becoming part of Germany, which was quickly approved by the League Council. In addition to territorial disputes, the League also tried to intervene in other conflicts between and within nations. Among its successes were its fight against the international trade in opium and sexual slavery, and its work to alleviate the plight of refugees, particularly in Turkey in the period up to 1926. One of its innovations in this latter area was the 1922 introduction of the Nansen passport, which was the first", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "3022972", "text": "June 1926), Japan (27 March 1933) and Germany (19 September 1933) had withdrawn and only Egypt was left to join (on 26 May 1937). The members (listed from earliest joining and alphabetically if they joined on the same day) at this time were Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, the British Empire, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Italy, Liberia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia/Iran, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Siam, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Luxembourg, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, the Irish", "title": "Member states of the League of Nations" }, { "id": "237806", "text": "and the Soviet Union joined late and only briefly. Germany withdrew from the League, as did Japan, Italy, Spain and others. The onset of the Second World War showed that the League had failed its primary purpose, which was to prevent any future world war. The League lasted for 26 years; the United Nations (UN) replaced it after the end of the Second World War and inherited several agencies and organisations founded by the League. The concept of a peaceful community of nations had been proposed as far back as 1795, when Immanuel Kant's \"\" outlined the idea of a", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "237893", "text": "reluctance to engage in war with European states or to enact economic sanctions might have hampered the ability of the League to deal with international incidents. The structure of the US federal government might also have made its membership problematic, as its representatives at the League could not have made decisions on behalf of the executive branch without having the prior approval of the legislative branch. In January 1920, when the League was born, Germany was not permitted to join because it was seen as having been the aggressor in the First World War. Soviet Russia was also initially excluded,", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "1927247", "text": "and Czechoslovakia. Poland especially, and Czechoslovakia as well, felt threatened by the Locarno agreements and these treaties were an attempt to reassure them. Thanks to the Dawes Plan, Germany was now making regular reparations payments. The success of the Locarno agreements led to the admission of Germany to the League of Nations in September 1926, with a seat on its council as a permanent member. For Britain, the main goals were promoting Franco-German reconciliation, and the expectation that reconciliation would lead to France abandoning its \"Cordon sanitaire\", as the French alliance system in Eastern Europe was known between the wars.", "title": "Locarno Treaties" }, { "id": "20056439", "text": "1922-30 preserved peace during the 1920s but were not renewed, as the world scene turned increasingly negative starting in 1931. The seven international treaties negotiated at Locarno in 1925 by the major powers in Europe (not including the Soviet Union) significantly strengthened the legitimacy of Germany, paving the way to its return to the role of a major power and membership in the League of Nations in 1926, with a permanent seat on its council. The Locarno Treaties marked a dramatic improvement in the political climate of western European in 1924–1930. They promoted expectations for continued peaceful settlements, often called", "title": "International relations (1919–1939)" }, { "id": "249542", "text": "were previously controlled by states defeated in World War I, principally Imperial Germany and the Ottoman Empire. The mandates were fundamentally different from the protectorates in that the Mandatory power undertook obligations to the inhabitants of the territory and to the League of Nations. The process of establishing the mandates consisted of two phases: The divestiture of Germany's overseas colonies, along with three territories disentangled from its European homeland area (the Free City of Danzig, Memel Territory, and Saar), was accomplished in the Treaty of Versailles (1919), with the territories being allotted among the Allies on 7 May of that", "title": "League of Nations mandate" }, { "id": "3022973", "text": "Free State, Ethiopia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, the Soviet Union, Afghanistan, and Ecuador. Of the 42 founding members, 23 (or 24, counting Free France) remained members until the League of Nations was dissolved in 1946. A further 21 countries joined between 1920 and 1937, but 7 left, withdrew or were expelled before 1946. Countries are listed under the year in which they joined. The word \"withdrew\" indicates that a country left of its own choice. The word \"left\" indicates a country that ceased to exist because of annexation by Germany, Italy or the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union", "title": "Member states of the League of Nations" }, { "id": "3353184", "text": "and Poland, and Germany and Czechoslovakia. Poland especially, and Czechoslovakia as well, felt threatened by the Locarno agreements and these treaties were attempts to reassure them. Thanks to the Dawes plan, Germany was now making regular reparations payments. The success of the Locarno agreements Led to the admission of Germany to the League of Nations. In September 1926, with a seat on its counsel as a permanent member. The result was the euphoric \"Spirit of Locarno\" across Europe—a sense that it was possible to achieve peace and a permanent system of guaranteeing that peace. The Great Depression on 1929-33 soured", "title": "France–Germany relations" }, { "id": "9013174", "text": "Treaty of Sèvres), and Bulgaria (the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine), all of which incorporated the League of Nations charter. The conference finished negotiations in May 1919, at which point German leaders viewed the treaty for the first time. Some German leaders favored repudiating the treaty, but Germany signed the treaty on June 28, 1919. For his peace-making efforts, Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize. However, the defeated Central Powers protested the harsh terms of the treaty, while several colonial representatives pointed out the hypocrisy of a treaty that established new nations in Europe but allowed continued colonialism in Asia", "title": "Presidency of Woodrow Wilson" }, { "id": "18772095", "text": "Council and also during plenary meetings of the General Assembly, except in the rare situation in which a more senior officer (such as the Minister for Foreign Affairs or the President) is present. The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was admitted to the UN as an observer in 1955. The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was admitted as an observer in 1972. On 18 September 1973 both were admitted as full members by the United Nations General Assembly, following the recommendation of the Security Council by Resolution 335 on 22 June 1973. Through the accession of the German Democratic", "title": "Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations" }, { "id": "237850", "text": "3 October 1932, these territories did not begin to gain their independence until after the Second World War, in a process that did not end until 1990. Following the demise of the League, most of the remaining mandates became United Nations Trust Territories. In addition to the mandates, the League itself governed the Territory of the Saar Basin for 15 years, before it was returned to Germany following a plebiscite, and the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) from 15 November 1920 to 1 September 1939. The aftermath of the First World War left many issues to be settled,", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "237862", "text": "an agreement with Lithuania, they referred the matter to the League of Nations. In December 1923, the League Council appointed a Commission of Inquiry. The commission chose to cede Memel to Lithuania and give the area autonomous rights. The Klaipėda Convention was approved by the League Council on 14 March 1924, and then by the Allied powers and Lithuania. In 1939 Germany retook the region following the rise of the Nazis and an ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding the return of the region under threat of war. The League of Nations failed to prevent the secession of the Memel region to", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "284653", "text": "Saarland, which had been placed under League of Nations supervision for 15 years at the end of World War I, voted in January 1935 to become part of Germany. In March 1935, Hitler announced the creation of an air force, and that the \"Reichswehr\" would be increased to 550,000 men, Britain agreed that the Germans would be allowed to build a naval fleet with the signing of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement on 18 June 1935. When the Italian invasion of Ethiopia led to only mild protests by the British and French governments, on 7 March 1936 Hitler used the Franco-Soviet", "title": "Nazi Germany" }, { "id": "249554", "text": "Treaty of Lausanne provided for the application of the principles of state succession to the \"A\" Mandates. The Treaty of Versailles (1920) provisionally recognized the former Ottoman communities as independent nations. It also required Germany to recognize the disposition of the former Ottoman territories and to recognize the new states laid down within their boundaries. The terms of the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) required the newly created states that acquired the territory detached from the Ottoman Empire to pay annuities on the Ottoman public debt and to assume responsibility for the administration of concessions that had been granted by the", "title": "League of Nations mandate" }, { "id": "15244310", "text": "was internationalized granting freedom of transit to all nations. The Convention became obsolete when the Klaipėda Region was attached to Nazi Germany as a result of the ultimatum of 1939. The lands north of the Neman River were part of a German state since their conquest during the Prussian Crusade in the 13th century. According to article 28 of the Treaty of Versailles, the region was detached from the German Empire and, according to article 99, were placed under a mandate of the League of Nations effective January 10, 1920. The French became temporary administrators of the region known as", "title": "Klaipėda Convention" }, { "id": "10452285", "text": "the period 1945-1949 before the Federal Republic had come into being. The Western Allies took this as their cue to repudiate any support for the former claims of the Federal Republic to an exclusive mandate for Germany, all thereon recognising the GDR as a separate sovereign state and supporting the admission of both German states as equivalent members of the United Nations. In 1975 both German states participated in the Helsinki Final Act under which the existing post-war boundaries of Europe, including the separation of East and West Germany and the border between East Germany and Poland, were confirmed as", "title": "Legal status of Germany" }, { "id": "237848", "text": "Nations. League of Nations mandates were established under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. The Permanent Mandates Commission supervised League of Nations mandates, and also organised plebiscites in disputed territories so that residents could decide which country they would join. There were three mandate classifications: A, B and C. The A mandates (applied to parts of the old Ottoman Empire) were \"certain communities\" that had The B mandates were applied to the former German colonies that the League took responsibility for after the First World War. These were described as \"peoples\" that the League said were", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "1589848", "text": "April 1926 reaffirmed and strengthened the Rapallo Treaty of 1922. In September 1926, Germany was admitted to the League of Nations as permanent member of the Security Council. This was a sign that Germany was quickly becoming a normal state, and assured the Soviet Union of Germany's sincerity in the Treaty of Berlin. Stresemann wrote to the Crown Prince: \"All the questions which to-day preoccupy the German people can be transformed into as many vexations for the Entente by a skilful orator before the League of Nations\". As Germany now had a veto on League resolutions, she could gain concessions", "title": "Gustav Stresemann" }, { "id": "2315423", "text": "also gained an acknowledgement of their status through permanent seats at the League of Nations Council, where they acted as a type of executive body directing the Assembly of the League. However, the Council began with only four permanent members – the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Japan – because the United States, meant to be the fifth permanent member, did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles, thus preventing American participation in the League. Germany later joined, and left along with Japan, and the Soviet Union joined. When World War II started in 1939, it divided the world into two", "title": "Great power" }, { "id": "284652", "text": "his desire for world peace, while at the same time accepting an offer from American President Franklin D. Roosevelt for military disarmament, provided the other nations of Europe did the same. When the other European powers failed to accept this offer, Hitler pulled Germany out of the World Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations in October, claiming its disarmament clauses were unfair if they applied only to Germany. In a referendum held in November, 95 percent of voters supported Germany's withdrawal. In 1934, Hitler told his military leaders that a war in the east should begin in 1942. The", "title": "Nazi Germany" }, { "id": "9346267", "text": "Werner Dankwort Dr. Carl Werner Dankwort (August 13, 1895 – December 19, 1986) born in Gumbinnen, East Prussia (now Gusev, Russia), was a German diplomat who served a major role in bringing Germany into the League of Nations in 1926 prior to representing the German contingent in the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, the post-World War II effort known as the Marshall Plan. After completing his Abitur and one semester of law studies, Dankwort served as a soldier in the first World War from September 1914 until November 1918. He received a doctor of jurisprudence degree in 1920 from the", "title": "Werner Dankwort" }, { "id": "2525841", "text": "Treaty of Locarno with the UK, Belgium, France and Italy (October 1925), which paved the way for Germany's membership in the League of Nations (September 1926). The ministers of the DNVP left the cabinet in protest over Locarno, forcing Luther to set up a new government that took office in January 1926. This government negotiated the \"Freundschafts- und Neutralitätsvertrag\" with the Soviet Union. In social policy, a number of reforms to social insurance were carried out during Luther’s time as Chancellor. A decree promulgated by the Reich Minister of Labour in May 1925 extended accident insurance coverage to include eleven", "title": "Hans Luther" }, { "id": "237889", "text": "Sudetenland and \"Anschluss\" of Austria, which had been forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles. In fact, League members themselves re-armed. In 1933, Japan simply withdrew from the League rather than submit to its judgement, as did Germany the same year (using the failure of the World Disarmament Conference to agree to arms parity between France and Germany as a pretext), Italy and Spain in 1937. The final significant act of the League was to expel the Soviet Union in December 1939 after it invaded Finland. The onset of the Second World War demonstrated that the League had failed in its", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "14120956", "text": "that German military inferiority was their only insurance from future conflict as serious as they had endured in the First World War. As for the British and US governments, they were unprepared to offer the additional security commitments that France requested in exchange for limitation of French armaments. The talks broke down and Hitler withdrew Germany from both the Conference and the League of Nations in October 1933. The 1930s had proved far too self-interested an international period to accommodate multilateral action in favour of pacifism. In 1935, the League of Nations Assembly decided to conduct a study of women's", "title": "Organisation of the League of Nations" }, { "id": "3908727", "text": "Unification of Germany The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France. Princes of the German states, excluding Austria, gathered there to proclaim William I of Prussia as German Emperor after the French capitulation in the Franco-Prussian War. Unofficially, the \"de facto\" transition of most of the German-speaking populations into a federated organization of states had been developing for some time through alliances formal and informal between princely rulers, but in fits and starts. The self-interests of the various", "title": "Unification of Germany" }, { "id": "237833", "text": "budget. In practice, the Assembly was the general directing force of League activities. The League Council acted as a type of executive body directing the Assembly's business. It began with four permanent members (Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan) and four non-permanent members that were elected by the Assembly for a three-year term. The first non-permanent members were Belgium, Brazil, Greece, and Spain. The composition of the Council was changed several times. The number of non-permanent members was first increased to six on 22 September 1922 and to nine on 8 September 1926. Werner Dankwort of Germany pushed for his", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "237855", "text": "territorial dispute. After the First World War, Poland laid claim to Upper Silesia, which had been part of Prussia. The Treaty of Versailles had recommended a plebiscite in Upper Silesia to determine whether the territory should become part of Germany or Poland. Complaints about the attitude of the German authorities led to rioting and eventually to the first two Silesian Uprisings (1919 and 1920). A plebiscite took place on 20 March 1921, with 59.6 percent (around 500,000) of the votes cast in favour of joining Germany, but Poland claimed the conditions surrounding it had been unfair. This result led to", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "15931472", "text": "18 September 1973 both were admitted as full members by the United Nations General Assembly, following the recommendation of the Security Council by Resolution 335 on 22 June 1973. Through the accession of the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany, it was effective on 3 October 1990. The territory of the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany, today simply known as \"Germany\".<ref name=\"A/45/567\"></ref> Consequently, the Federal Republic of Germany continued being a member of the UN while the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist. For the years of 2011 to 2012 Germany", "title": "Germany and the United Nations" }, { "id": "2525826", "text": "fell, Stresemann suggested Marx as chancellor and Hindenburg appointed him on 17 May 1926. Marx kept in place Luther's decree on the flag (), which had resulted in the previous cabinet's demise. Marx's cabinet unexpectedly survived the referendum on the expropriation of the princes and succeeded in bringing Germany into the League of Nations. Marx also managed to force military commander-in-chief Hans von Seeckt into retirement without provoking resistance by the Reichswehr. He resigned as chancellor on 17 December 1926 over a lost Reichstag vote on the issue of clandestine military relations between the Reichswehr and the Soviet Union. The", "title": "Wilhelm Marx" }, { "id": "5035362", "text": "Bahr (for the Federal Republic of Germany) and Michael Kohl (for the German Democratic Republic). As part of the \"Ostpolitik\" of Chancellor Willy Brandt, the treaty was signed on 21 December 1972 in East Berlin. It was ratified the next year in West Germany, despite opposition from hardline right-wingers. It came into effect in June 1973. The signing of the treaty paved the way for the two German states to be recognised by the international community. Diplomatic relations were opened between the German Democratic Republic and: Both German nations were also admitted to the United Nations on 18 September 1973.", "title": "Basic Treaty, 1972" }, { "id": "9346273", "text": "Victimization and Social Injustice. Werner Dankwort's wife, Irma, who volunteered as a hospital aide during the war while in Stockholm, died on February 9, 1999. Werner Dankwort Dr. Carl Werner Dankwort (August 13, 1895 – December 19, 1986) born in Gumbinnen, East Prussia (now Gusev, Russia), was a German diplomat who served a major role in bringing Germany into the League of Nations in 1926 prior to representing the German contingent in the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, the post-World War II effort known as the Marshall Plan. After completing his Abitur and one semester of law studies, Dankwort served", "title": "Werner Dankwort" }, { "id": "4067419", "text": "the liberation of Paris in August 1944. At the Yalta Conference it was agreed that membership would be open to nations that had joined the Allies by 1 March 1945. Brazil, Syria and a number of other countries qualified for membership by declarations of war on either Germany or Japan in the first three months of 1945 – in some cases retroactively. On 25 April 1945, the United Nations Conference on International Organization began in San Francisco. In addition to Governments, a number of non-government organizations, including Rotary International and Lions Clubs International received invitations to assist in the drafting", "title": "History of the United Nations" }, { "id": "1614647", "text": "as a mandate of the League of Nations. Like other colonial powers, the Germans expanded their empire in the Africa Great Lakes region, ostensibly to fight slavery and the slave trade. Unlike other imperial powers, however, they never formally abolished either, preferring instead to curtail the production of new \"recruits\" and regulate the existing slaving business. The colony began when Carl Peters, an adventurer who founded the Society for German Colonization, signed treaties with several native chieftains on the mainland opposite Zanzibar. On 3 March 1885, the German government announced that it had granted an imperial charter, which was signed", "title": "German East Africa" }, { "id": "20082084", "text": "in the case that German troops marched into the demilitarised Rheinland. Locarno paved the way for Germany's admission to the League of Nations in 1926. Hitler came to power in January 1933, and inaugurated an aggressive power designed to give Germany economic and political domination across central Europe. He did not attempt to recover the lost colonies. Until August 1939, the Nazis announced Communists and the Soviet Union is the greatest enemy, along with the Jews. Hitler's diplomatic strategy in the 1930s was to make seemingly reasonable demands, threatening war if they were not met. When opponents tried to appease", "title": "History of German foreign policy" }, { "id": "3516517", "text": "security, trying to contain Nazi Germany via cooperation with the League of Nations and the Western Powers. The Soviet attitude towards the League of Nations and international peace had changed. In 1933–34 the Soviet Union was diplomatically recognized for the first time by Spain, the United States, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria, and ultimately joined the League of Nations in September 1934. It is often argued that the change in Soviet foreign policy happened around 1933–34, and that it was triggered by Hitler's assumption of power. However, the Soviet turn towards the French Third Republic in 1932, discussed above, could", "title": "Germany–Soviet Union relations, 1918–1941" }, { "id": "11335924", "text": "placed them under the jurisdiction of German New Guinea. Palau, at the time considered part of the Carolines, was also occupied and during the following years the Germans started up mining there. In October 1914, during World War I, Japan invaded and conquered many of these German possessions. After the war, they became in 1919 the South Pacific Mandate of the League of Nations, under the control of the Japanese Empire. During and after World War II the United States took control of the former Spanish and German archipelagos in the Pacific. German–Spanish Treaty (1899) The German–Spanish Treaty of 1899,", "title": "German–Spanish Treaty (1899)" }, { "id": "165169", "text": "and some areas of Upper Silesia were reincorporated into the reformed country after plebiscites and independence uprisings. All German colonies were to be handed over to League of Nations, who then assigned them as Mandates to Australia, France, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. The new owners were required to act as a disinterested trustee over the region, promoting the welfare of its inhabitants in a variety of ways until they were able to govern themselves. The left and right banks of the Rhine were to be permanently demilitarised. The industrially important Saarland was to be governed by", "title": "History of Germany" }, { "id": "13644394", "text": "1933 German referendum A referendum on withdrawing from the League of Nations was held in Germany on 12 November 1933 alongside Reichstag elections. The measure was approved by 95.1% of voters with a turnout of 96.3%. It was the first of a series of referendums held by the German cabinet under Chancellor Adolf Hitler, after the cabinet conferred upon itself the ability to hold referendums on 14 July 1933. The referendum question was on a separate ballot from the one used for the elections. The question was: \"Do you approve, German man, and you, German woman, this policy of your", "title": "1933 German referendum" }, { "id": "237857", "text": "in Geneva to negotiate a convention between Germany and Poland. A final settlement was reached, after five meetings, in which most of the area was given to Germany, but with the Polish section containing the majority of the region's mineral resources and much of its industry. When this agreement became public in May 1922, bitter resentment was expressed in Germany, but the treaty was still ratified by both countries. The settlement produced peace in the area until the beginning of the Second World War. The frontiers of the Principality of Albania had not been set during the Paris Peace Conference", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "150068", "text": "and within weeks the first Nazi concentration camp at Dachau opened. The Enabling Act of 1933 gave Hitler unrestricted legislative power; subsequently, his government established a centralised totalitarian state, withdrew from the League of Nations following a national referendum, and began military rearmament. Using deficit spending, a government-sponsored programme for economic renewal focused on public works projects. In public work projects of 1934, 1.7 million Germans immediately were put to work, which gave them an income and social benefits. The most famous of the projects was the high speed roadway, the \"Reichsautobahn\", known as the German autobahns. Other capital construction", "title": "Germany" }, { "id": "165170", "text": "the League of Nations for 15 years and its coalfields administered by France. At the end of that time a plebiscite was to determine the Saar's future status. To ensure execution of the treaty's terms, Allied troops would occupy the left (German) bank of the Rhine for a period of 5–15 years. The German army was to be limited to 100,000 officers and men; the general staff was to be dissolved; vast quantities of war material were to be handed over and the manufacture of munitions rigidly curtailed. The navy was to be similarly reduced, and no military aircraft were", "title": "History of Germany" }, { "id": "14443114", "text": "his appointment, he had the honour of admitting the Bahamas and both East and West Germany into the United Nations. The admission of the two halves of Germany was an important moment as the UN had been formed as a reaction to World War II which had been initiated by Nazi Germany. This brought the total number of nations in the U.N. to 135 and at the time the prospective candidates were North and South Korea. Benites was one of 11 General Assembly Presidents who were summoned back to the United Nations in 1985 to advise on how the UN", "title": "Leopoldo Benites" }, { "id": "1902606", "text": "Germany. The Treaty of Moscow (August 1970), the Treaty of Warsaw (December 1970), the Four Power Agreement on Berlin (September 1971), the Transit Agreement (May 1972), and the Basic Treaty (December 1972) helped to normalise relations between East and West Germany and led to both states joining the United Nations, in September 1973. The two German states exchanged permanent representatives in 1974, and, in 1987, East German head of state Erich Honecker paid an official visit to West Germany. International plans for the unification of Germany were made during the early years following the establishment of the two states, but", "title": "History of Germany (1945–90)" }, { "id": "237804", "text": "drug trafficking, the arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members. The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift from the preceding hundred years. The League lacked its own armed force and depended on the victorious Great Powers of World War I (France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan were the permanent members of the executive Council) to enforce its resolutions, keep to its economic sanctions, or provide an army when needed. The Great Powers were often", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "405577", "text": "city of Danzig and its hinterland, including the delta of the Vistula River on the Baltic Sea, for the League of Nations to establish the Free City of Danzig. Article 119 of the treaty required Germany to renounce sovereignty over former colonies and Article 22 converted the territories into League of Nations mandates under the control of Allied states. Togoland and German Kamerun (Cameroon) were transferred to France. Ruanda and Urundi were allocated to Belgium, whereas German South-West Africa went to South Africa and the United Kingdom obtained German East Africa. As compensation for the German invasion of Portuguese Africa,", "title": "Treaty of Versailles" }, { "id": "150793", "text": "Law), which remained in effect with minor amendments after German reunification in 1990. The constitution emphasizes the protection of individual liberty in an extensive catalogue of human and civil rights and divides powers both between the federal and state levels and between the legislative, executive and judicial branches. West Germany was a founding member of the European Community in 1958, which became the EU in 1993. It is part of the Schengen Area, and has been a member of the eurozone since 1999. It is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20 and the OECD. The", "title": "Politics of Germany" }, { "id": "237854", "text": "Finland would not let the League intervene, as they considered it an internal matter. The League created a small panel to decide if it should investigate the matter and, with an affirmative response, a neutral commission was created. In June 1921, the League announced its decision: the islands were to remain a part of Finland, but with guaranteed protection of the islanders, including demilitarisation. With Sweden's reluctant agreement, this became the first European international agreement concluded directly through the League. The Allied powers referred the problem of Upper Silesia to the League after they had been unable to resolve the", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "20082085", "text": "him, he accepted the gains that were offered, then went to the next target. That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations (1933), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm (1935), won back the Saar (1935), remilitarized the Rhineland (1936), formed an alliance (\"axis\") with Mussolini's Italy (1936), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39), seized Austria (1938), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French \"appeasement\" of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland", "title": "History of German foreign policy" }, { "id": "12062776", "text": "German–Estonian Non-Aggression Pact German–Estonian Non-Aggression Pact was signed in Berlin on June 7, 1939, by the Estonian and German Ministers of Foreign Affairs Karl Selter and Joachim von Ribbentrop. German–Latvian Non-Aggression Pact was also signed on the same day. Ratifications of the German-Estonian pact were exchanged in Berlin on July 24, 1939 and it became effective on the same day. It was registered in \"League of Nations Treaty Series\" on August 12, 1939. The pact was intended for a period of ten years. The pacts were intended to prevent western or Soviet powers from gaining influence in the Baltic States", "title": "German–Estonian Non-Aggression Pact" }, { "id": "2014579", "text": "the humiliation and resentment in Germany is sometimes considered one of the causes of Nazi electoral successes and indirectly a cause of World War II. The League of Nations proved controversial in the United States as critics said it subverted the powers of Congress to declare war; the U.S. Senate did not ratify any of the peace treaties and the U.S. never joined the League – instead, the Harding administration of 1921-1923 concluded new treaties with Germany, Austria, and Hungary. Republican Germany was not invited to attend the conference at Versailles. Representatives of White Russia (but not Communist Russia) were", "title": "Paris Peace Conference, 1919" }, { "id": "15931470", "text": "Germany and the United Nations The relationship of Germany and the United Nations first began during World War II. The \"United Nations\" then was synonymous with the Allies of World War II and Germany then being the Greater German Reich, a member of the Axis powers. With the war ending in the defeat of Germany, the country's territory was divided amongst the victors and what was to remain Germany was under Allied administration. In 1949, two new countries were created in these occupied territories: the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in May and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)", "title": "Germany and the United Nations" }, { "id": "962051", "text": "War II. Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations once he planned to take over Europe. The rest of the Axis powers soon followed him. Having failed its primary goal, the League of Nations fell apart. The League of Nations consisted of the Assembly, the Council, and the Permanent Secretariat. Below these were many agencies. The Assembly was where delegates from all member states conferred. Each country was allowed three representatives and one vote. According to Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism, the capitalist epoch depends on the expansion of competing geopolitical markets across the planet, atomizing the global", "title": "World government" }, { "id": "15931471", "text": "in October. Both Germanies were admitted as full members of the United Nations (UN) on 18 September 1973. The two countries eventually merged on 3 October 1990, signifying an end of the Cold war era. Today, Germany is the third largest contributor to the UN budget, after the United States and Japan, with 190 million US dollars, or roughly 8% of the UN budget for the 2010-11 biennial budget. The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was admitted to the UN as an observer in 1952. The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was admitted as an observer in 1972. On", "title": "Germany and the United Nations" }, { "id": "237847", "text": "confronted with the question of the disposal of the former German colonies in Africa and the Pacific, and the several Arabic-speaking provinces of the Ottoman Empire. The Peace Conference adopted the principle that these territories should be administered by different governments on behalf of the League – a system of national responsibility subject to international supervision. This plan, defined as the mandate system, was adopted by the \"Council of Ten\" (the heads of government and foreign ministers of the main Allied powers: Britain, France, the United States, Italy, and Japan) on 30 January 1919 and transmitted to the League of", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "237876", "text": "and in apparent retaliation (acting contrary to orders from Tokyo, ) occupied all of Manchuria. They renamed the area Manchukuo, and on 9 March 1932 set up a puppet government, with Pu Yi, the former emperor of China, as its executive head. This new entity was recognised only by the governments of Italy, Spain and Nazi Germany; the rest of the world still considered Manchuria legally part of China. The League of Nations sent observers. The Lytton Report appeared a year later (October 1932). It declared Japan to be the aggressor and demanded Manchuria be returned to China. The report", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "237887", "text": "the League's response to aggression against its members to be strengthened before they disarmed. Without this guarantee, they would not reduce armaments because they felt the risk of attack from Germany was too great. Fear of attack increased as Germany regained its strength after the First World War, especially after Adolf Hitler gained power and became German Chancellor in 1933. In particular, Germany's attempts to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and the reconstruction of the German military made France increasingly unwilling to disarm. The World Disarmament Conference was convened by the League of Nations in Geneva in 1932, with representatives", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "237888", "text": "from 60 states. It was a failure. A one-year moratorium on the expansion of armaments, later extended by a few months, was proposed at the start of the conference. The Disarmament Commission obtained initial agreement from France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Britain to limit the size of their navies but no final agreement was reached. Ultimately, the Commission failed to halt the military build-up by Germany, Italy, Spain and Japan during the 1930s. The League was mostly silent in the face of major events leading to the Second World War, such as Hitler's remilitarisation of the Rhineland, occupation of the", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "249547", "text": "Ottoman territories had been ceded to the victorious powers directly, their economic value would have been credited to offset the Allies' claims for war reparations. Article 243 of the treaty instructed the Reparations Commission that non-mandate areas of the Saar and Alsace-Lorraine were to be reckoned as credits to Germany in respect of its reparation obligations. The US failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles which included the Covenant of the League of Nations so the US never joined the League. The US government subsequently entered into individual treaties to secure legal rights for its citizens, to protect property rights", "title": "League of Nations mandate" }, { "id": "17423463", "text": "France, and Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Orlando. They met together informally 145 times and made all the major decisions, which in turn were ratified by the others. The major decisions were the creation of the League of Nations; the five peace treaties with defeated enemies (most notably the Treaty of Versailles with Germany); heavy reparations imposed on Germany; the awarding of German and Ottoman overseas possessions as \"mandates\", chiefly to Britain and France; and the drawing of new national boundaries (sometimes with plebiscites) to better reflect the forces of nationalism. In the \"guilt clause\" (section 231), the war was blamed", "title": "International relations of the Great Powers (1814–1919)" }, { "id": "2208530", "text": "Chancellor of Germany in 1933. After Hitler took Germany out of the League of Nations, Mussolini of Fascist Italy and Hitler formed the Rome-Berlin axis, under a treaty known as the Pact of Steel. Later, the Empire of Japan, under the government of Hideki Tojo, would also join as an Axis power. Japan and Germany had already signed the Anti-Comintern Pact in 1939, to counter the perceived threat of the communism of the Soviet Union. Other smaller powers also later joined the Axis throughout the war. Germany and the Soviet Union were sworn enemies, but following the Munich Agreement, which", "title": "European theatre of World War II" }, { "id": "237861", "text": "fifty million lire to Italy, even though those who committed the crime were never discovered. Italian forces then withdrew from Corfu. The port city of Memel (now Klaipėda) and the surrounding area, with a predominantly German population, was under provisional Allied control according to Article 99 of the Treaty of Versailles. The French and Polish governments favoured turning Memel into an international city, while Lithuania wanted to annex the area. By 1923, the fate of the area had still not been decided, prompting Lithuanian forces to invade in January 1923 and seize the port. After the Allies failed to reach", "title": "League of Nations" }, { "id": "14705047", "text": "German government became aligned with the Japanese government on the eve of the Second World War. It was registered in \"League of Nations Treaty Series\" on May 15, 1922. The Chinese government declared war on the German Reich on August 14, 1917, thus becoming one of the Allied Powers of the First World War. On June 28, 1919, a peace treaty between the Allied governments and the German government was signed in Paris, but the Chinese delegation was instructed by the government in Beijing not to sign the treaty, since it granted the Japanese Empire control over areas in China.", "title": "Agreement Regarding the Restoration of the State of Peace between Germany and China (1921)" }, { "id": "20056472", "text": "if they were not met; concessions were made, he accepted them and moved onto a new demand. When opponents tried to appease him, he accepted the gains that were offered, then went to the next target. That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations (1933), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm (1935) with the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, won back the Saar (1935), re-militarized the Rhineland (1936), formed an alliance (\"axis\") with Mussolini's Italy (1936), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), seized Austria (1938), took over Czechoslovakia after", "title": "International relations (1919–1939)" }, { "id": "435623", "text": "Neither state sought sole successor state status. Both states were admitted to the UN on 19 January 1993. Both the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) were admitted to the UN on 18 September 1973. Through the accession of the East German federal states to the Federal Republic of Germany, effective from 3 October 1990, the territory of the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany, today simply known as \"Germany\". Consequently, the Federal Republic of Germany continued being a member of the UN while the German Democratic Republic", "title": "Member states of the United Nations" }, { "id": "460441", "text": "Rhine Province and administered by the League of Nations until a plebiscite in 1935, when the region was returned to the \"Deutsches Reich\". At the same time, in 1920, the districts of Eupen and Malmedy were transferred to Belgium (see German-Speaking Community of Belgium). Shortly after, France completely occupied the Rhineland, strictly controlling all important industrial areas. The actual amount of reparations that Germany was obliged to pay out was not the 132 billion marks decided in the London Schedule of 1921 but rather the 50 billion marks stipulated in the A and B Bonds. Historian Sally Marks says the", "title": "Weimar Republic" }, { "id": "460452", "text": "movement. Other rebellions were put down in March 1921 in Saxony and Hamburg. In 1922, Germany signed the Treaty of Rapallo with the Soviet Union, which allowed Germany to train military personnel in exchange for giving Russia military technology. This was against the Treaty of Versailles, which limited Germany to 100,000 soldiers and no conscription, naval forces of 15,000 men, twelve destroyers, six battleships, and six cruisers, no submarines or aircraft. However, Russia had pulled out of World War I against the Germans as a result of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and was excluded from the League of Nations. Thus,", "title": "Weimar Republic" }, { "id": "7594621", "text": "1919 Paris Peace Conference. The formation of the League of Nations was intended to prevent another world war, but for various reasons failed to do so. The rise of the Nazi Party and their central role in World War II led to a focus on how the Treaty of Versailles affected Germany, but the peace treaties in addition to various secret agreements during the war also transformed borders throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East, with repercussions that still echo to this day. The term \"First World War\" was first used in September 1914 by German biologist and philosopher Ernst", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "7594744", "text": "on Wilson's 14th point, brought into being the League of Nations on 28 June 1919. The Central Powers had to acknowledge responsibility for \"all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by\" their aggression. In the Treaty of Versailles, this statement was Article 231. This article became known as the War Guilt clause as the majority of Germans felt humiliated and resentful. Overall the Germans felt they had been unjustly dealt with by what they called the \"diktat of Versailles\". German", "title": "World War I" }, { "id": "3591731", "text": "Nazis denounced Communists and the Soviet Union as the greatest enemy, along with the Jews. Hitler's diplomatic strategy in the 1930s was to make seemingly reasonable demands, threatening war if they were not met. When opponents tried to appease him, he accepted the gains that were offered, then went to the next target. That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations (1933), rejected the Versailles Treaty, and began to re-arm (1935), won back the Saar (1935), remilitarized the Rhineland (1936), formed an alliance (\"axis\") with Mussolini's Italy (1936), sent massive military aid to Franco in", "title": "Interwar period" }, { "id": "18037295", "text": "with the passage of the Enabling Act of 1933, and the economic hardships were significantly diminished via implementation of new economic and social policies. After five years in power, Hitler annexed Austria, former component of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (allies of the former German Empire), into Germany, despite such an act (specifically, \"prohibition on the merging of Austria with Germany without the consent of the League of Nations\") being banned by both the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Treaty of Versailles. In early November 1938, the First Vienna Award was signed, allowing Germany to seize the Sudetenland, a German-speaking area of", "title": "British and French declaration of war on Germany" }, { "id": "165190", "text": "amendment allowed Hitler and his cabinet to pass laws—even laws that violated the constitution—without the consent of the president or the Reichstag. The Enabling Act formed the basis for the dictatorship, dissolution of the Länder; the trade unions and all political parties other than the Nazi Party were suppressed. A centralised totalitarian state was established, no longer based on the liberal Weimar constitution. Germany left the League of Nations. The coalition parliament was rigged by defining the absence of arrested and murdered deputies as voluntary and therefore cause for their exclusion as wilful absentees. Subsequently, in July the Centre Party", "title": "History of Germany" }, { "id": "249543", "text": "year. Ottoman territorial claims were first addressed in the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) and finalized in the Treaty of Lausanne (1923). The Turkish territories were allotted among the Allied Powers at the San Remo conference in 1920. Peace treaties have played an important role in the formation of the modern law of nations. Many rules that govern the relations between states have been introduced and codified in the terms of peace treaties. The first twenty-six articles of the Treaty of Versailles contained the Covenant of the League of Nations. It contained the international machinery for the enforcement of the terms", "title": "League of Nations mandate" }, { "id": "405628", "text": "force France and the United Kingdom to accept German equality of status. The United Kingdom attempted to get Germany to return with the promise of all nations maintaining an equality in armaments and security. The British later proposed and agreed to an increase in the \"Reichswehr\" to men, and for Germany to have an air force half the size of the French. It was also negotiated for the French Army to be reduced. In October 1933, following the rise of Adolf Hitler and the founding of Nazi regime, Germany withdrew from League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference. In", "title": "Treaty of Versailles" }, { "id": "10452247", "text": "Legal status of Germany The legal status of Germany concerns the question of the extinction, or otherwise continuation, of the German nation state (i.e., the German Reich created in the 1871 unification) following the rise and downfall of Nazi Germany, and constitutional hiatus of the military occupation of Germany by the four Allied powers from 1945 to 1949. It became current once again when the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) in 1990. After World War II, determination of legal status was relevant, for instance, to resolve the issue of whether the post-1949", "title": "Legal status of Germany" }, { "id": "361406", "text": "Switzerland was home to Vladimir Illych Ulyanov (Vladimir Lenin) and he remained there until 1917. Swiss neutrality was seriously questioned by the Grimm–Hoffmann Affair in 1917, but it was short-lived. In 1920, Switzerland joined the League of Nations, which was based in Geneva, on condition that it was exempt from any military requirements. During World War II, detailed invasion plans were drawn up by the Germans, but Switzerland was never attacked. Switzerland was able to remain independent through a combination of military deterrence, concessions to Germany, and good fortune as larger events during the war delayed an invasion. Under General", "title": "Switzerland" }, { "id": "2514519", "text": "Industrial and colonial competition, combined with shifts in the balance of power after the creation - by diplomacy and conquest - of Germany by Prussia meant cracks were appearing in this system by the turn of the 20th century. The concert system was utterly destroyed by the First World War. After that conflict, world leaders created the League of Nations (which became the precursor of the United Nations) in an attempt to prevent a similar conflict. Multilateral arms limitation treaties were agreed, such as the Kellogg-Briand Pact. But the League proved insufficient to prevent Japan's conquests in Eastern Asia in", "title": "Multilateralism" }, { "id": "8147310", "text": "as serious as they had endured in the First World War. Britain and the U.S. were unprepared to offer the additional security commitments that France requested in exchange for limitation of French armaments. After 10 months of negotiations, France, Britain and Italy announced, Germany and the other States disarmed by the Versailles Treaty should be insured equality in a system which gives security to all nations.\" The parties could not agree on what constituted \"offensive\" and \"defensive\" weapons. The talks broke down and Hitler withdrew Germany from both the Conference and the League of Nations in October 1933. The 1930s", "title": "World Disarmament Conference" }, { "id": "12062794", "text": "and Latvian envoys, and in course of this interviews stressed maintaining and strengthening commercial links between Germany and Baltic states. Ratifications of the German-Latvian pact were exchanged in Berlin on July 24, 1939 and it became effective on the same day. It was registered in \"League of Nations Treaty Series\" on August 24, 1939. The pact was intended for a period of ten years. The pacts were intended to prevent western or Soviet powers from gaining influence in the Baltic States and thus encircling Germany (non-aggression pact with Lithuania was concluded in March after the 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania", "title": "German–Latvian Non-Aggression Pact" }, { "id": "15931476", "text": "September 2007. In July 2011, Merkel's trip to Kenya, Angola, and Nigeria was thought to be motivated, in part, by the goal of seeking support from African countries for Germany's bid for a permanent seat on the Security Council. Germany and the United Nations The relationship of Germany and the United Nations first began during World War II. The \"United Nations\" then was synonymous with the Allies of World War II and Germany then being the Greater German Reich, a member of the Axis powers. With the war ending in the defeat of Germany, the country's territory was divided amongst", "title": "Germany and the United Nations" }, { "id": "5131910", "text": "France, should be the permanent members of any newly formed Council. France had been defeated and occupied by Germany (1940–44), but its role as a permanent member of the League of Nations, its status as a colonial power and the activities of the Free French forces on the allied side allowed it a place at the table with the other four. The actual use of the veto, and the constant possibility of its use, have been central features of the functioning of the Security Council throughout the UN's history. In the period from 1945 to the end of 2009, 215", "title": "United Nations Security Council veto power" }, { "id": "405548", "text": "Peace Conference to conclude the peace treaty. The treaty was registered by the Secretariat of the League of Nations on 21 October 1919. Of the many provisions in the treaty, one of the most important and controversial required \"Germany [to] accept the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage\" during the war (the other members of the Central Powers signed treaties containing similar articles). This article, Article 231, later became known as the War Guilt clause. The treaty required Germany to disarm, make ample territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries that had", "title": "Treaty of Versailles" }, { "id": "454801", "text": "to go through the bureaucracy of the League of Nations, which rendered it essentially toothless. The United States, concerned with events in Europe and Asia, passed the Neutrality Act in August of the same year. Hitler defied the Versailles and Locarno treaties by remilitarising the Rhineland in March 1936, encountering little opposition due to appeasement. In October 1936, Germany and Italy formed the Rome–Berlin Axis. A month later, Germany and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, which Italy would join in the following year. The Kuomintang (KMT) party in China launched a unification campaign against regional warlords and nominally unified China", "title": "World War II" }, { "id": "14737720", "text": "Germany, the same publication considering that it transformed Romania into a \"German dependency\". Ratifications were exchanged in Berlin on 20 December 1939 and the agreement became effective on 20 January 1940. It was registered in \"League of Nations Treaty Series\" on 17 January 1940. In late 1938 and early 1939, the German government under Hitler was carrying out some of its plans for territorial changes in Europe, which gave the German Reich more land for economic expansion. As part of that process, Czechoslovakia was overrun on 15 March 1939. In addition, the German government coveted the oil-fields of Romania, and", "title": "German–Romanian Treaty for the Development of Economic Relations between the Two Countries (1939)" }, { "id": "10452274", "text": "presence was also maintained until the full implementation, in 1994, of the Two Plus Four Treaty, signed in 1990. Under the terms of the 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, the Four Powers renounced all rights they formerly held in Germany, including Berlin. As a result, Germany became fully sovereign on March 15, 1991. After Germany joined the United Nations, there had been disagreement as to whether articles 53 and 107 of the UN Charter, which named Germany as an \"enemy state\", still applied, but these articles became irrelevant when the Four Powers renounced their special", "title": "Legal status of Germany" }, { "id": "3022971", "text": "Member states of the League of Nations Between 1920 and 1939, a total of 63 countries became member states of the League of Nations. The Covenant forming the League of Nations was included in the Treaty of Versailles and came into force on 10 January 1920. The League of Nations was dissolved on 18 April 1946, when its assets and responsibilities were transferred to the United Nations. The League's greatest extent was from 28 September 1934 (when Ecuador joined) to 23 February 1935 (when Paraguay withdrew) with 58 members. At this time, only Costa Rica (22 January 1925), Brazil (14", "title": "Member states of the League of Nations" }, { "id": "1697839", "text": "among academics, politicians, and diplomats. The historians' assessments have ranged from condemnation for allowing Adolf Hitler's Germany to grow too strong, to the judgment that Germany was so strong that it might well win a war and that postponement of a showdown was in their country's best interests. Chamberlain's policy of appeasement emerged from the failure of the League of Nations and the failure of collective security. The League of Nations was set up in the aftermath of World War I in the hope that international cooperation and collective resistance to aggression might prevent another war. Members of the League", "title": "Appeasement" }, { "id": "540197", "text": "incident highlighted French and British weakness, exemplified by their reluctance to alienate Italy and lose her as their ally. The limited actions taken by the Western powers pushed Mussolini's Italy towards alliance with Hitler's Germany anyway. In 1937 Italy left the League of Nations and joined the Anti-Comintern Pact, which had been signed by Germany and Japan the preceding year. In March/April 1939 Italian troops invaded and annexed Albania. Germany and Italy signed the Pact of Steel on May 22. Italy entered World War II on 10 June 1940. In September 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact.", "title": "Axis powers" }, { "id": "16365000", "text": "1935 Saar status referendum A referendum on territorial status was held in the Territory of the Saar Basin on 13 January 1935. Over 90% of voters opted for reunification with Germany, with 9% voting for the status quo as a League of Nations mandate territory and less than 0.5% opting for unification with France. At the end of World War I, the Saar was separated from Germany and administered by the League of Nations. France was given control of the Saar's coal mines. After fifteen years of League of Nations administration, a referendum was scheduled to take place in the", "title": "1935 Saar status referendum" }, { "id": "1927194", "text": "soon followed. A supplementary agreement signed in Berlin on 5 November extended the treaty to cover Germany's relations with the other Soviet republics: of Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and the Far Eastern Republic. Ratifications were exchanged in Berlin on October 26, 1923, and the supplementary protocol was registered in \"League of Nations Treaty Series\" on July 18, 1924. The agreement was reaffirmed by the Treaty of Berlin, 1926. Both Germany and the RSFSR were left vulnerable in the period following the end of World War I. Germany had lost the war, leaving it diplomatically isolated, and the Treaty of", "title": "Treaty of Rapallo (1922)" }, { "id": "617426", "text": "post-war world. Churchill pressed hard for France to be included 'at the inter-allied table', but on 6 December 1944 the American president wired both Stalin and Churchill to say that de Gaulle's presence would \"merely introduce a complicating and undesirable factor\". At the Yalta Conference in February 1945, despite Stalin's opposition, Churchill and Roosevelt insisted that France be allowed a post-war occupation zone in Germany, and also made sure that it was included among the five nations that invited others to the conference to establish the United Nations. This was important because it guaranteed France a permanent seat on the", "title": "Charles de Gaulle" }, { "id": "1919312", "text": "campaigned for the U.S. to join the new League of Nations, which he had been instrumental in creating, but he rejected the Republican compromise on the issue, and it was impossible to gain a 2/3 majority. During a grueling cross-country tour to promote the League, Wilson suffered a series of strokes. He never recovered physically and lost his leadership skills and was unable to negotiate or compromise. The Senate rejected entry into the League. Defeat in the Great War left Germany in a state of turmoil and heavily in debt for war reparations, payments to the victorious Allies. The Allies", "title": "History of the United States (1918–1945)" }, { "id": "15613873", "text": "begins to grow in the Catholic memberships of OREL (Czechoslovakia) which has already accepted women as being part and parcel of their inner structures. This question, endlessly debated, will not manage to find any satisfying outcome, at least, not before the emergence of the war; thus, the UIOCEP remains resolutely made of male people. In 1927, the DJK is finally accepted, after the signing of the Treaty of Locarno, given that, henceforth, the detailed rules for the application are in the position to allow the accession of Germany to the League of Nations. On January 6, 1947, in Zurich (Switzerland)", "title": "Fédération internationale catholique d'éducation physique et sportive" }, { "id": "435860", "text": "body to maintain peace in the postwar world. President Woodrow Wilson became a vocal advocate of this concept, and in 1918 he included a sketch of the international body in his 14-point proposal to end the war. In November 1918, the Central Powers agreed to an armistice to halt the killing in World War I. Two months later, the Allies met with Germany and Austria-Hungary at Versailles to hammer out formal peace terms. President Wilson wanted peace, but England and France disagreed, forcing harsh war reparations on their former enemies. The League of Nations was approved, and in the summer", "title": "United Nations" } ]

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[ { "id": "648644", "text": "the 2003 digitally-enhanced re-release. Unlike Indiana, neither Ford nor Spielberg has a fear of snakes, but Spielberg said that seeing all the snakes on the set writhing around made him \"want to puke\". The opening scene in the Peruvian jungle was filmed on the island of Kauai, one of the islands of Hawaii, to which Spielberg would return for \"Jurassic Park\". The first shot features a misty view of Kalalea Mountain, the culminating point in Anahola, Hawaii. The \"temple\" location is on the Huleia River, on the Kipu Ranch, south from Kaumualii Highway on the east coast, just south of", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648624", "text": "idol. He is confronted by rival archaeologist René Belloq and the indigenous Hovito people. Surrounded and outnumbered, Jones surrenders the idol to Belloq and escapes aboard a waiting floatplane. Jones returns to his teaching position at Marshall College, San Francisco, where he is interviewed by two Army Intelligence agents. They inform Jones that the Nazis are searching for his old mentor, Abner Ravenwood, under whom Jones studied at the University of Chicago. The Nazis know that Ravenwood is the leading expert on the ancient city of Tanis in Egypt, and that he possesses the headpiece of an ancient Egyptian artifact", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648625", "text": "known as \"the Staff of Ra\". Jones deduces that the Nazis are searching for the Ark of the Covenant — the Nazis believe that if they acquire the Ark, their armies will become invincible. The Staff of Ra (used to project a beam of sunlight on a building in a diorama of the city) is the key to finding the Well of Souls, a secret chamber in Tanis, Egypt, in which the Ark is buried. The agents authorize Jones to recover the Ark to prevent the Nazis from obtaining it. He travels to Nepal and discovers that Ravenwood has died,", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648622", "text": "Ravenwood; Paul Freeman as Indiana's rival, French archaeologist René Belloq; John Rhys-Davies as Indiana's sidekick, Sallah; Ronald Lacey as Gestapo agent Arnold Toht; and Denholm Elliott as Indiana's colleague, Marcus Brody. The film originated from Lucas' desire to create a modern version of the serials of the 1930s and 1940s. Production was based at Elstree Studios, England, but filming also took place in La Rochelle, France, Tunisia, Hawaii, and California from June to September 1980. \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" became 1981's top-grossing film and remains one of the highest-grossing films adjusted for inflation. It was nominated for eight Academy", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648632", "text": "melted off his skull and Belloq's head explodes. Flames then engulf the remains of the doomed assembly, save for Jones and Marion, and the pillar of fire rises into the sky. The Ark's lid is blasted high into the air before dropping back down onto the Ark and sealing it. Jones and Marion find their ropes burned off and embrace. In Washington, D.C., the Army Intelligence agents inform Jones and Marcus Brody that the Ark is someplace safe and will be studied by \"top men\". The Ark is then shown being stored in a giant government warehouse (Hangar 51) among", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648628", "text": "Marion and it appears to Jones that she is killed in an exploding truck. After a confrontation with Belloq in a local bar, Jones and Sallah infiltrate the Nazi dig site and use their staff to correctly locate the Ark. Jones discovers Marion is alive when he finds her bound and gagged in a tent. He refuses to release her out of fear of alerting the Nazis. Jones, Sallah, and a small group of diggers unearth the Well of Souls and acquire the Ark. Belloq and Nazi officer Colonel Dietrich arrive and seize the Ark from Jones, throwing Marion into", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648621", "text": "Raiders of the Lost Ark Raiders of the Lost Ark (later marketed as \"Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark\") is a 1981 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Lawrence Kasdan from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It was produced by Frank Marshall for Lucasfilm Ltd., with Lucas and Howard Kazanjian as executive producers. The first installment in the \"Indiana Jones\" film franchise, it stars Harrison Ford as archaeologist Indiana Jones, who battles a group of Nazis searching for the Ark of the Covenant. It co-stars Karen Allen as Indiana's former lover, Marion", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648650", "text": "for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, which was again used in \"The Last Crusade\". His home exteriors were filmed in San Rafael, California. Opening sequence exteriors were filmed in Kauai, Hawaii, with Spielberg wrapping in September in 73 days, finishing under schedule in contrast to his previous film, \"1941\". The Washington, D.C. coda, although it appeared in the script's early drafts, was not included in early edits but was added later when it was realized that there was no resolution to Jones' relationship with Marion. Shots of the Douglas DC-3 Jones flies on to Nepal were taken from \"Lost Horizon\",", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648623", "text": "Awards in 1982, including Best Picture, and won for Best Art Direction, Film Editing, Sound, and Visual Effects with a fifth Academy Award: a Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing. It is often considered one of the greatest films ever made. In 1999, it was included in the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film Registry as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film began a franchise including several sequels, a television series, \"The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles\" (1992–1996), and numerous video games. In 1936, American archaeologist Indiana Jones braves an ancient booby-trapped temple in Peru and retrieves a golden", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648646", "text": "the film and told Reynolds to let the boulder roll another . The scenes set in Egypt were filmed in Tunisia, and the canyon where Indiana threatens to blow up the Ark was shot in Sidi Bouhlel, just outside Tozeur. The canyon location had been used for the Tatooine scenes from 1977's \"Star Wars\" (many of the location crew members were the same for both films) where R2-D2 was attacked by Jawas. The Tanis scenes were filmed in nearby Sedala, a harsh place due to heat and disease. Several cast and crew members fell ill and Rhys-Davies defecated in his", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648649", "text": "the truck (performed by stuntman Terry Leonard), in tribute to a famous Yakima Canutt stunt. Spielberg then filmed all the shots with Ford himself in and around the truck cab. Lucas directed a few other second unit shots, in particular the monkey giving the Nazi salute. The interior staircase set in Washington, D.C. was filmed in San Francisco's City Hall. The University of the Pacific's campus in Stockton, California, stood in for the exterior of the college where Jones works, while his classroom and the hall where he meets the American intelligence agents was filmed at the Royal Masonic School", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648642", "text": "Principal photography began on June 23, 1980, at La Rochelle, France, with scenes involving the Nazi submarine, which had been rented from the production of \"Das Boot\". The U-boat pen was a real one from World War II. The crew moved to Elstree Studios for the Well of Souls scenes, the opening sequence temple interiors and Marion Ravenwood's bar. The Well of Souls scene required 7,000 snakes. The only venomous snakes were the cobras, but one crew member was bitten on set by a python. The bulk of the snakes' numbers were made up with giant but harmless legless lizards", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648630", "text": "stows away aboard the U-boat and travels with them to an island in the Aegean Sea. Once there, Belloq plans to test the power of the Ark before presenting it to Hitler. Jones reveals himself and threatens to destroy the Ark with an RPG-2, but Belloq calls his bluff and Jones surrenders rather than destroy such an important historical artifact and kill Marion in the process. The Nazis take Jones and Marion to an area where the Ark will be opened and tie them to a post to observe. Belloq, dressed as an Israelite kohen gadol, performs a ceremonial opening", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648629", "text": "the Well of Souls with him before sealing it back up. Jones and Marion escape to a local airstrip, where Jones has a fistfight with a Nazi mechanic and destroys the flying wing that was to transport the Ark to Berlin. The panicked Nazis remove the Ark in a truck and set off for Cairo, but Jones catches them and retakes it. He makes arrangements to take the Ark to London aboard tramp steamer \"Bantu Wild\". The next day, a Nazi U-boat appears and intercepts the ship. Belloq and Dietrich seize the Ark and Marion but cannot locate Jones, who", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648635", "text": "adventure that would become \"Star Wars\". In late May 1977, Lucas was in Hawaii, trying to escape the enormous success of \"Star Wars\". Friend and colleague Steven Spielberg was also there, on vacation from work on \"Close Encounters of the Third Kind\". While building a sand castle at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Spielberg expressed an interest in directing a James Bond film. Lucas convinced his friend Spielberg that he had conceived a character \"better than James Bond\" and explained the concept of \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". Spielberg loved it, calling it \"a James Bond film without the hardware\",", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648627", "text": "headpiece and flees the tavern screaming in agony. Jones and Marion escape with the headpiece, and Marion decides to accompany Jones in his search for the Ark so he can repay his debt to her. The pair travels to Cairo, where they meet up with Jones' friend and skilled digger Sallah. Sallah informs them that Belloq and the Nazis are digging for the Well of Souls with a replica of the headpiece (created from the scar on Toht's hand). They quickly realize the Nazi headpiece is incomplete and that the Nazis are digging in the wrong place. The Nazis kidnap", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648626", "text": "and the headpiece is in the possession of Ravenwood's daughter Marion. Jones visits Marion at her tavern, where she reveals her bitter feelings toward him from a previous romantic affair. She physically rebuffs his offer to buy the headpiece, and Jones leaves. Shortly after, a group of thugs arrive with their Nazi commander Arnold Toht. Toht threatens Marion to get the headpiece but Jones returns to the bar and fights the Nazis to save Marion. During the fight, the bar is set ablaze and the headpiece lands in the flames. Toht severely burns his hand trying to take the hot", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648671", "text": "film, and details the character's early years. Numerous other books, comics, and video games have also been produced. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed the film at number 60 on its top 100 films of the first century of cinema. In 2007, AFI updated the list and placed it at number 66. They also named it as the 10th most thrilling film, and named Indiana Jones as the second greatest hero. In 1999, the film was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the U.S. Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Indiana Jones", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648645", "text": "Lihue, the island's main town. Kipu is a working cattle ranch, not generally open to the public. The Peruvian section (but actually filmed in Hawaii) featured live tarantulas of a Mexican species (\"Brachypelma\") on Harrison Ford and Alfred Molina, and are harmless to humans, and in fact of a species which are commonly kept as exotic pets. A fiberglass boulder 22 feet (7 m) in diameter was made for the scene where Indiana escapes from the temple; Spielberg was so impressed by production designer Norman Reynolds' realization of his idea that he gave the boulder a more prominent role in", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "6726210", "text": "with more buttons and games where buttons would allow the player to switch items without interrupting gameplay. The video game is set in the city of Cairo in 1936, represented by an entrance room and a marketplace. From the entrance room, the player can blast a hole in the wall with a grenade and enter the Temple of the Ancients. Two paths await inside the Temple, both of which contain various dangers, after which the player will at last find the treasure room. Gold and artifacts can be picked up in the treasure room which will help the player later", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark (video game)" }, { "id": "648631", "text": "of the Ark and finds it full of sand. Ghosts emerge from the Ark, destroying the equipment the Nazis are using to film the opening, and Jones tells Marion to close her eyes and not look. Belloq and the others look on in astonishment as the ghosts are suddenly revealed to be angels of death. A vortex of flame forms above the Ark and shoots bolts of fiery energy into the gathered Nazi soldiers, killing them all. Belloq, Toht and Dietrich all scream in terror as the Ark turns its fury on them: Dietrich's head shrivels up, Toht's face is", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648651", "text": "and a street scene was from a shot in \"The Hindenburg\". Filming of Jones boarding a Boeing Clipper flying-boat was complicated by the lack of a surviving aircraft. Eventually, a post-war British Short Solent flying-boat formerly owned by Howard Hughes was located in California and substituted. After viewing the film's rough cut, Lucas's then-wife and frequent collaborator Marcia Lucas opined that there was no emotional closure, because Marion did not appear at the ending. Although Marcia is not credited in the film, her suggestion led to Spielberg reshooting the final exterior sequence with Ford and Allen. The final scene, where", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "6726211", "text": "in the game. The player must cross a mesa, on the other side of which lies the Map Room where the location of the Lost Ark is revealed. South of the Map Room is a Thieves Den and a Black Market. The Black Market contains various figures, such as two sheikhs, a Tsetse fly and a lunatic, and items needed to win the game (most notably a shovel). After acquiring all needed items from the various rooms, the player returns to the mesa and jumps off using a parachute. The player goes inside the mesa, via a small hole at", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark (video game)" }, { "id": "648638", "text": "mechanism in the opening scene and deadly traps later in the film were inspired by several Uncle Scrooge comics. Lucas came up with a submarine, a monkey giving the Hitler salute, and Marion Ravenwood punching Jones in Nepal. Kasdan used a 100-page transcript of their conversations for his first script draft, which he worked on for six months. Ultimately, some of their ideas were too grand and had to be cut: a mine chase, an escape in Shanghai using a rolling gong as a shield, and a jump from an airplane in a raft, all of which made it into", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648672", "text": "has become an icon, being listed as \"Entertainment Weekly\"s third favorite action hero, while noting \"some of the greatest action scenes ever filmed are strung together like pearls\" in this film. An amateur, near shot-for-shot remake was made by Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, and Jayson Lamb, then children in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. It took the boys seven years to finish, from 1982 to 1989. After production of the film, called \"\", it was shelved and forgotten until 2003, when it was discovered by Eli Roth and acclaimed by Spielberg himself, who congratulated the boys on their hard work and said", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648634", "text": "1973, George Lucas wrote \"The Adventures of Indiana Smith\". Like \"Star Wars,\" which he also wrote, it was an opportunity to create a modern version of the film serials of the 1930s and 1940s. Lucas discussed the concept with Philip Kaufman, who worked with him for several weeks and came up with the Ark of the Covenant as the plot device. Kaufman was told about the Ark by his dentist when he was a child. The project stalled when Clint Eastwood hired Kaufman to direct \"The Outlaw Josey Wales\". Lucas shelved the idea, deciding to concentrate on his outer space", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "22815", "text": "plot device in Steven Spielberg's 1981 adventure film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", which depicts it as located by Indiana Jones in the Egyptian city of Tanis in 1936. It is mentioned briefly in \"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade\" (1989) and appears in a cameo in \"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" (2008). In the Danish family film \"The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar\" from 2006, the main part of the treasure found in the end is the Ark of the Covenant. The power of the Ark comes from static electricity stored in separated metal", "title": "Ark of the Covenant" }, { "id": "1042205", "text": "per capita income for the CDP was $13,829. About 12.4% of families and 14.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.5% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over. Kalalea Mountain, the culminating point in Anahola, is featured in the first shot of the 1981 feature film Raiders of the Lost Ark. The opening scene of this first installment in the Indiana Jones film franchise is supposed to take place in the Peruvian jungle where the main character, Indiana Jones, discovers an ancient booby-trapped temple. Anahola, Hawaii Anahola (literally \"\"deadly winds\"\" in", "title": "Anahola, Hawaii" }, { "id": "648676", "text": "are extremely slightly late to see a 21-seconds-expanded version of \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (which, as Leonard suggests, could include the cut sequence in which Jones entered the U-boat), and an enraged Sheldon steals the film reels, followed by dozens of fans trying to stop him and comments about the similarity of the situation to the beginning of the film, when Jones runs away from the Hovitos to the hydroplane. In December 2012, the University of Chicago's admissions department received a package in the mail addressed to Henry Walton Jones, Jr., Indiana Jones' full name. The address on the", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "6726212", "text": "the end of a branch, and digs up the Ark, after dodging more thieves. The game began development in late 1981. In order to collect inspiration, Howard Scott Warshaw walked around the offices at Atari, Inc. wearing a fedora and cracking a bullwhip, which became an inside joke among those who worked at Atari at the time. \"When I was coding [\"Raiders of the Lost Ark\"], I really tried to get into character\", said Howard Scott Warshaw. \"I wore the hat and had a real ten-foot-long leather bullwhip. Man, it was loud. Like a gunshot! I said it was for", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark (video game)" }, { "id": "648640", "text": "influence on the development of the character, noting that the crew watched the film together several times. Nadoolman based the look of Ford's costume on that of Heston's, and observed that Indiana is a \"kinder and gentler\" Harry Steele. Initially, the film was rejected by every major studio in Hollywood, mostly due to the $20 million budget and the deal Lucas was offering. Eventually Paramount agreed to finance the film, with Lucas negotiating a five-picture deal. By April 1980, Kasdan's fifth draft was produced, and production was getting ready to shoot at Elstree Studios, with Lucas trying to keep costs", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648669", "text": "\"atrocious\", found the film to be a \"machine-tooled adventure\" from a pair of creators who \"think just like the marketing division\". (Lucas later named a villain, played by \"Raiders\" Nazi strongman Pat Roach, in his 1988 fantasy film \"Willow\" after Kael.) Years later, screenwriter Paul Schrader, of \"Taxi Driver\" acclaim, considers the date of the decline of American cinema as the release of \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", viewing it to be simply a bad movie. The film was subsequently nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in 1982 and won four (Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Visual", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "17923691", "text": "Nile Delta, accompanied only by the young slave boy Djet. There he ends up having to join the criminal gang known as The Cuckoo's Nest, led by the young but charismatic Artemon, and must go with them back to Alexandria to help Artemon steal the golden sarcophagus of Alexander the Great while the city is erupting in violence around them. The story is set against the backdrop of the struggle between the brothers Ptolemy X Alexander and Ptolemy IX Lathyros over the throne of Egypt, as well as the struggle between Rome and Mithridates. Writing in \"USA Today\", Robert Bianco", "title": "Raiders of the Nile" }, { "id": "1514972", "text": "The Biblical story of Moses being found in the marshes of the Nile River () is commonly hypothesized to be located at Tanis. However, no supporting archaeological evidence has been unearthed, and the demise of the city may well have been caused by the relocation of Nile tributaries rather than a non-historical occupation by the Israelites. In the 1981 film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", Tanis is said to be the resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, which was hidden in a secret chamber called the Well of Souls. Tanis is fictitiously described as having been buried by", "title": "Tanis" }, { "id": "2534076", "text": "cloister-like court with richly decorated ceramics and stuccoes. Kairouan is also home to: Kairouan is known for its pastries (e.g. zlebia and makroudh). Kairouan was used as a filming location for the 1981 film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", standing in for Cairo. As the film is set in 1936, television antennas throughout the city were taken down for the duration of filming. Kairouan Kairouan ( \"\", also known as \"al-Qayrawan\"), is the capital of the Kairouan Governorate in Tunisia. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The city was founded by the Umayyads around 670. In the period of", "title": "Kairouan" }, { "id": "648670", "text": "Effects, and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, and Michael D. Ford). It also received a Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing. It won numerous other awards, including a Grammy Award and Best Picture at the People's Choice Awards. Spielberg was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Following the success of \"Raiders\", a prequel, \"The Temple of Doom\", and two sequels, \"The Last Crusade\" and \"Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\", were produced, with a third sequel set for release in 2021. A television series, entitled \"The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles\", was also spun off from this", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648647", "text": "costume during one shot. Spielberg averted disease by eating only canned foods from England, but did not like the area and quickly condensed the scheduled six-week shoot to four-and-a-half weeks. Much was improvised: the scene where Marion puts on her dress and attempts to leave Belloq's tent was improvised as was the entire plane fight. During that scene's shooting, a wheel went over Ford's knee and tore his left leg's cruciate ligament, but he refused local medical help and simply put ice on it. The fight scenes in the town were filmed in Kairouan, while Ford was suffering from dysentery.", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648652", "text": "the Ark is placed in a vast warehouse, was Spielberg's homage to \"Citizen Kane\", where Kane's lost childhood sled, \"Rosebud\", is similarly treated. The special visual effects for \"Raiders\" were provided by Industrial Light & Magic and include: a matte shot to establish the Pan Am flying boat in the water and miniature work to show the plane taking off and flying, superimposed over a map; animation effects for the beam in the Tanis map room; and a miniature car and passengers superimposed over a matte painting for a shot of a Nazi car being forced off a cliff. The", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648654", "text": "the film was originally submitted to the Motion Picture Association of America, it received an R rating because of the scene in which Belloq's head explodes. The filmmakers were able to receive a PG rating when they added a veil of fire over the exploding head scene. (The PG-13 rating was not created until 1984.) The firestorm that cleanses the canyon at the finish was a miniature canyon filmed upside down. Brian Muir and Keith Short created the Ark prop based on the paintings of James Tissot. Ben Burtt, the sound effects supervisor, made extensive use of traditional foley work", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648675", "text": "list of the 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, \"Raiders\" ranked second, beaten only by \"The Godfather\". The film was ranked at number 11 in a list of the 25 best action and war films of all time by \"The Guardian\". In conjunction with the Blu-ray release, a limited one-week release in IMAX theaters was announced for September 7, 2012. Steven Spielberg and sound designer Ben Burtt supervised the format conversion. No special effects or other visual elements were altered, but the audio was enhanced for surround sound. In the \"The Big Bang Theory\" episode \"The 21-Second Exitation\", the protagonists", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648665", "text": "America, it was by some distance the highest-grossing film of 1981. It also became Paramount Pictures' most successful film at that time, and remains one of the top twenty-five highest-grossing films ever made when adjusted for inflation. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold more than 70 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run. Its IMAX release in 2012 opened at #14 and grossed $1,673,731 from 267 theaters ($6,269 theater average) during its opening weekend. In total, the IMAX release grossed $3,125,613 domestically. The film was highly acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. On Rotten Tomatoes,", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648643", "text": "known as Scheltopusiks (\"Pseudopus apodus\") which occur from the Balkan Peninsula of southeastern Europe to Central Asia. Growing to 1.3 m they are the largest legless lizards in the world and are often mistaken for snakes despite some very obvious differences such as the presence of eyelids and external ear openings, which are both absent from all snakes, and a notched rather than forked tongue. In the finished film, during the scene in which Indiana comes face-to-face with the cobra, a reflection in the glass screen that protected Ford from the snake was seen, an issue that was corrected in", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "16450354", "text": "Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation is a 1989 American fan film, made as a shot-for-shot remake of the 1981 Indiana Jones adventure film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". Using the original film's screenplay and score, it principally starred and was filmed, directed, and produced over a seven-year period by three Mississippi teenagers (Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, and Jayson Lamb). Set in 1936, the film pits Indiana Jones (Strompolos) against a group of Nazis who are searching for the Ark of the Covenant which Adolf Hitler believes will make their army invincible.", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation" }, { "id": "14845075", "text": "Lost City Raiders Lost City Raiders is a 2008 made-for-television science fiction film written and directed by Jean de Segonzac. It starred James Brolin, Ian Somerhalder, Jamie King, and Bettina Zimmermann. In year 2048, global warming has caused much of the surface of the earth to become flooded. In the city of New Vatican, Cardinal Battaglia believes that the global inundation can be gotten rid of by using the \"scepter of Moses\". This is the staff that Moses used to part the Red Sea during The Exodus. Cardinal Battaglia contacts John Kubiak (James Brolin) and his sons Jack (Ian Somerhalder)", "title": "Lost City Raiders" }, { "id": "648657", "text": "Ark\", which was the only score in the series performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the same orchestra that performed the scores for the \"Star Wars\" saga. The score most notably features the well-known \"Raiders March\". This piece came to symbolize Indiana Jones and was later used in the scores for the other three films. Williams originally wrote two different candidates for Jones's theme, but Spielberg enjoyed them so much that he insisted that both be used together in what became the \"Raiders March\". The alternately eerie and apocalyptic theme for the Ark of the Covenant is also heard frequently", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "1663424", "text": "Jones movie \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". Set in 1945, British agent Rick Dangerous travels to the Amazon jungle to search for the lost Goolu tribe. His plane crashes in the jungle, and Rick must escape from the enraged Goolu. When the game starts Rick finds himself in a cave running from a rolling boulder, a famous scene from the Indiana Jones movie. Armed with a pistol and dynamite, Rick must fight hostiles and evade traps in three more levels. The second level of the game is set inside a pyramid located in Egypt. In the third level, Rick must", "title": "Rick Dangerous" }, { "id": "648633", "text": "countless similar crates. Producer Frank Marshall played a pilot in the airplane fight sequence. The stunt team was ill, so he took the role instead. The result was three days in a hot cockpit, which he joked was over \"140 degrees\". Pat Roach plays the Nazi mechanic with whom Jones brawls in this sequence, as well as a massive sherpa who battles Jones in Marion's bar. He had the rare opportunity to be killed twice in one film. Special-effects supervisor Dennis Muren made a cameo as a Nazi spy on the seaplane Jones takes from San Francisco to Manila. In", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648653", "text": "bulk of effects shots were featured in the climactic sequence wherein the Ark of the Covenant is opened and God's wrath is unleashed. This sequence featured animation, a woman to portray a beautiful spirit's face, rod puppet spirits moved through water to convey a sense of floating, a matte painting of the island, and cloud tank effects to portray clouds. The melting of Toht's head was done by exposing a gelatine and plaster model of Ronald Lacey's head to a heat lamp with an under-cranked camera, while Dietrich's crushed head was a hollow model from which air was withdrawn. When", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "11948840", "text": "Golden Idol The Fertility Idol, more commonly referred to as the Golden Idol, is a fictitious artifact that appears in the opening sequence of \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", the first entry in the Indiana Jones adventure film franchise directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the first relic that the audience sees the protagonist Jones acquire, establishing him as a treasure hunter. The idol's likeness has become iconic in popular culture. In the film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" the idol is portrayed as resting in an ancient, abandoned temple in South America. The specific location is not given in", "title": "Golden Idol" }, { "id": "17923690", "text": "Raiders of the Nile Raiders of the Nile is a novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by Minotaur Books in 2014. It is the fourteenth book in his Roma Sub Rosa series of mystery stories set in the final decades of the Roman Republic, but the second chronologically. The main character is the Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder. It is the year 88 BC. The young Gordianus is living in Alexandria with his beloved slave Bethesda. When Bethesda disappears, he learns that she has been kidnapped by bandits, and must set out on a dangerous journey into the", "title": "Raiders of the Nile" }, { "id": "856065", "text": "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is the second installment in the \"Indiana Jones\" franchise and a prequel to the 1981 film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", featuring Harrison Ford reprising his role as the title character. After arriving in North India, Indiana Jones is asked by desperate villagers to find a mystical stone and rescue their children from a Thuggee cult practicing child slavery, black magic and ritual human sacrifice in honor of the goddess Kali. Executive producer and co-writer", "title": "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" }, { "id": "9814616", "text": "Secret of the Incas Secret of the Incas is a 1954 adventure film starring Charlton Heston as adventurer Harry Steele, on the trail of an ancient Incan artifact. Shot on location at Machu Picchu in Peru, the film is often credited as the inspiration for \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". The supporting cast features Robert Young, Nicole Maurey and Thomas Mitchell, as well as a rare film appearance by Peruvian singer Yma Sumac. American adventurer Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) earns a living as a tourist guide in Cusco, Peru but plans to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an", "title": "Secret of the Incas" }, { "id": "7436172", "text": "Raiders of the Living Dead Raiders of the Living Dead is a 1986 American horror film directed by Samuel M. Sherman from a script he co-wrote with Brett Piper. In an abandoned prison, a doctor revived executed convicts as the living dead. Jonathan (Scott Schwartz), a teenager, creates a weapon from a LaserDisc player's laser and pursues the walking dead, aided by his girlfriend and grandfather. A reporter on the trail of the story is helped by the town librarian. On the prison island, the zombies attack a security guard and tear him apart as the reporter and teenager venture", "title": "Raiders of the Living Dead" }, { "id": "3628153", "text": "the best-known scene was set in Washington, DC but filmed at San Francisco City Hall: in \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" a late addition to the production was filmed in the rotunda when it was decided that a coda was needed for Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood's relationship. The City Hall was also prominently featured throughout and famously at the end of \"Invasion of the Body Snatchers\". \"Dirty Harry\" filmed a key scene in the Mayor's office itself. In the opening sequence of \"The Towering Inferno\", the film's dedication is superimposed over a shot of City Hall, and the helicopter", "title": "San Francisco City Hall" }, { "id": "9930851", "text": "Raiders of Ghost City Raiders of Ghost City is a 1944 Universal movie serial set in California during the American Civil War. At the height of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel, raid all gold shipments from Oro Grande, California, bound for Washington. Captain Steve Clark is recognized as a Union Secret Service agent by Morel's accomplice Trina Dessard, along with his friend Idaho Jones, is ambushed in the baggage car and sent to almost certain death when the car is un-coupled and plunges down the mountainside. Leaping to safety, Idaho and Steve report", "title": "Raiders of Ghost City" }, { "id": "12982538", "text": "the Fosse Way. Nearby villages include Cold Aston, Hazleton, Clapton, Farmington and Hampnett. In the 1981 film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", Harrison Ford's character, archaeologist Indiana Jones, mentions the neolithic barrow at Turkdean, near Hazleton, during a university lecture. There are two Neolithic long barrows at Hazleton, one of which was excavated over three summer seasons between 1980-1982. The Channel 4 archaeological television series \"Time Team\" made two visits, in 1997 (Time Time Live 1997, repackaged as series 5 episode 4) and 1998 (series 6 episode 9), to excavate a nearby Roman villa site (not the neolithic barrows). As", "title": "Turkdean" }, { "id": "10930295", "text": "and \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". More recently the beach and surrounding scenery were used as location for the fourth in the \"Pirates of the Caribbean\" series of movies, \"On Stranger Tides\" (2011). Discovered skull and bones while traversing the arch while investigating Honupu Valley in August of 1983. Honopū Valley Honopū Valley is a landmark valley within Nā Pali Coast State Park along the northwest shore of Kauai, Hawaii, United States. It is known for its distinctive natural arch, which at approximately tall is the tallest in Hawaii. At the lower end of the valley is Honopū's secluded, beach,", "title": "Honopū Valley" }, { "id": "197905", "text": "Indy 2nd on their list of The All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture. \"Premiere\" magazine also placed Indy at number 7 on their list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. A native of Princeton, New Jersey, Indiana Jones was introduced as a tenured professor of archeology in the 1981 film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", set in 1936. The character is an adventurer reminiscent of the 1930s film serial treasure hunters and pulp action heroes. His research is funded by Marshall College (named after producer Frank Marshall), a fictional college in Connecticut, where he is a professor", "title": "Indiana Jones" }, { "id": "648666", "text": "the film has a 95% \"Certified Fresh\" rating with a 9.2/10 average rating. The sites critical consensus stating: \"Featuring bravura set pieces, sly humor, and white-knuckle action, \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" is one of the most consummately entertaining adventure pictures of all time.\", as well as an 85% rating on Metacritic, indicating \"universal acclaim\". In his review for \"The New York Times\", Vincent Canby praised the film, calling it, \"one of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American adventure movies ever made.\" Roger Ebert in his review for the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" wrote, \"Two things, however, make \"Raiders of", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648637", "text": "came for the first sequel, it was revealed that Lucas had nothing written for either sequel. The following year, Lucas focused on developing \"Raiders\" and the \"Star Wars\" sequel \"The Empire Strikes Back\", during which Lawrence Kasdan and Frank Marshall joined the project as screenwriter and producer respectively. Between January 23–27, 1978, for nine hours a day, Lucas, Kasdan, and Spielberg discussed the story and visual ideas. Spielberg came up with Jones being chased by a boulder, which was inspired by Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge comic \"The Seven Cities of Cibola\". Lucas later acknowledged that the idea for the idol", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "545676", "text": "film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". After filming \"The Man Who Would Be King\", Huston took his longest break between directing films. He returned with an offbeat and somewhat controversial film based on the novel \"Wise Blood\". Here, Huston showed his skills as a storyteller, and boldness when it came to difficult subjects such as religion. Huston's last film set in Mexico stars Albert Finney as an alcoholic ambassador during the beginnings of World War II. The film gained a strong critical reception, most notably for Finney's portrayal of a desperate and depressed alcoholic. The film was also a success", "title": "John Huston" }, { "id": "371459", "text": "later regret as he felt the interior of the mothership should have remained a mystery). Nevertheless, the re-release was a moderate success, while the 2001 DVD release of the film restored the original ending. Next, Spielberg teamed with \"Star Wars\" creator and friend George Lucas on an action adventure film, \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", the first of the Indiana Jones films. The archaeologist and adventurer hero Indiana Jones was played by Harrison Ford (whom Lucas had previously cast in his \"Star Wars\" films as Han Solo). The film was considered an homage to the cliffhanger serials of the Golden", "title": "Steven Spielberg" }, { "id": "648678", "text": "a postal worker had sent it to the university, as it had a complete address and postage, which turned out to be fake. All contents were from a Guam \"prop replicator\" who sells them all over the world. The university will display its replica in the main lobby of the Oriental Institute. Raiders of the Lost Ark Raiders of the Lost Ark (later marketed as \"Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark\") is a 1981 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Lawrence Kasdan from a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. It was produced by", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "3527730", "text": "may be the best movie of its kind ever made.\" In 1979, he directed \"The Wanderers\", based on comic novel by Richard Price. The direction of the film illustrated Kaufman's mastery of genre quite different than his previous films. It's the story of a benign Italian gang of teenagers in the Bronx of 1963, with Ken Wahl and Karen Allen. It was Wahl's debut film, and Allen's second role, and the film has become a cult favorite. In 1981, Kaufman became involved with the first Indiana Jones film, \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", for which he received story credit. The", "title": "Philip Kaufman" }, { "id": "648648", "text": "Stuntman Terry Richards had practiced for weeks with his sword to create the scripted fight scene, choreographing a fight between the swordsman and Jones' whip. However, after filming the initial shots of the scene, after lunch due to Ford's dysentery, Ford and Spielberg agreed to cut the scene down to a gunshot, with Ford saying to Spielberg \"Let's just shoot the sucker\". It was later voted in at No.5 on \"Playboy\" magazine's list of best all time scenes. Most of the truck chase was shot by second unit director Michael D. Moore following Spielberg's storyboards, including Indiana being dragged by", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "3295080", "text": "Club International, are also honored in hotels, restaurants, and artisans shops. Sidi Bouhlel (Arabic: سيدى بحلال) is a marabout in south-west Tunisia near to the town Tozeur. It is located at 34°01′56″N, 08°16′59″E at that is famous as a set for \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", \"The English Patient\" and several films in the Star Wars franchise. Tozeur was used as a filming location for the \"Star Wars\" saga and \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (specifically Sidi Bouhlel canyon outside the town and the salt-flats of nearby Nefta). Lucasfilm also built an entire set a few kilometers north-west of Tozeur", "title": "Tozeur" }, { "id": "7595266", "text": "Midès Midès (also called Midas) is a mountain oasis in Tunisia. As Ancient Mades, it was a bishopric and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. It has a pleasant canyon and an abandoned village. It is located in the hill country near the border with Algeria, and is 6 km from Tamerza. The canyon was used for filming Raiders of the Lost Ark and The English Patient. Mades was among the many towns that were important enough in the Roman province of Numidia to become a suffragan bishopric, in the papal sway. Its only historically documented bishop, Petrus, participated in", "title": "Midès" }, { "id": "16450356", "text": "film, including magazine articles, photographs, and even an illicit recording of the film's audio captured during a re-release screening of the original film in 1982. In 2014, members of the cast raised money on Kickstarter, so they could re-unite and film the one scene they were not able to re-create as teenagers to complete the film, the explosion of the flying wing aircraft, due to the danger of large spinning airplane propellers. \"Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation\" was finally finished and premiered in 1989 at the auditorium of the local Coca-Cola plant in Gulfport, Mississippi. Later, the boys", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation" }, { "id": "197914", "text": "the \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" films, including the well-known \"running-from-the-boulder\" scene. Stunt performer Anislav Varbanov was fatally injured in August 2009, while rehearsing the popular show. Also at Disney's Hollywood Studios, an audio-animatronic Indiana Jones appears in another attraction; during The Great Movie Ride's \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" segment. Indy also appears in the 2004 Dark Horse Comics story \"Into the Great Unknown\", collected in \"Star Wars Tales Volume 5\". In this non-canon story bringing together two of Harrison Ford's best-known roles, Indy and Short Round discover a crash-landed \"Millennium Falcon\" in the Pacific Northwest, along with Han", "title": "Indiana Jones" }, { "id": "17005929", "text": "entitled The Soul of Mount Moriah. \"The A.R.K. Report\" was filmed in October 2012 in the Old City of Jerusalem as well as in Allentown in Pennsylvania. It contains some similarity to the 1981 Steven Spielberg movie, \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". \"The A.R.K. Report\" film won the Gold Remi Award at the prestigious Worldfest International Film Festival in Houston Texas in April 2013. It was also selected for the Monaco International Film Festival during the second week of May 2013 in Monaco. The A.R.K. Report The A.R.K. Report – Secret for the Century is a 2013 action-adventure sci-fi short", "title": "The A.R.K. Report" }, { "id": "648664", "text": "removed. Shortly before the theatrical release of \"Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\", \"Raiders\" (along with \"The Temple of Doom\" and \"The Last Crusade\") was re-released on DVD with additional extra features not included on the previous set on May 13, 2008. The film was released on Blu-ray Disc in September 2012. Previously, only \"Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" had been available on Blu-ray. \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" opened at #1 and grossed $8,305,823 from 1,078 theaters during its opening weekend . The film, made on an $18 million budget, grossed $384 million worldwide throughout its theatrical releases. In North", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648639", "text": "the prequel, \"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\". Spielberg and Lucas disagreed on the character: although Spielberg saw him as a Bondian playboy, Lucas felt the character's academic and adventurer elements made him complex enough. Spielberg had a darker vision of Jones, interpreting him as an alcoholic similar to Humphrey Bogart's character Fred C. Dobbs in \"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre\" (1948). This characterization fell away during the later drafts, though elements survive in Jones's reaction when he believes Marion to be dead. Costume designer Deborah Nadoolman credits \"Secret of the Incas\" (1954), starring Charlton Heston, as an", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "6859447", "text": "agents finally gagged her. During the adventure, she and Jones again realized their love for each other. Back home, they were married, set to continue their adventures together. Marion Ravenwood Marion Ravenwood is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1981 film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". Played by Karen Allen, she enters the story when Indiana Jones visits her in Nepal, needing her help to locate the Ark of the Covenant with a possession originally obtained by her father, Dr. Abner Ravenwood. After 27 years of absence (21 years in the films' internal chronology), the character returned in", "title": "Marion Ravenwood" }, { "id": "11168373", "text": "were making their feature film debuts. Karen Allen secured the role of Sandy, George's mistress, after filming \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (1981). The film was made on a budget of $12 million. Principal photography commenced on January 15, 1981. During pre-production at 20th Century Fox, Parker, producer Alan Marshall and production designer Geoffrey Kirkland spent several months searching for houses to depict the Dunlap family home. They discovered the Roy Ranch House, an abandoned, 114-year-old clapboard ranch house in San Francisco. The production dismantled the house into four pieces, which were then transported to the Nicasio Valley region of", "title": "Shoot the Moon" }, { "id": "793646", "text": "2016 comedy film \"Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates\" were also filmed. Parts of the island were also used for the opening scenes of the \"Indiana Jones\" film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". Other movies filmed here include \"Six Days Seven Nights\", the 1976 version \"King Kong\" and John Ford's 1963 film \"Donovan's Reef\". Recent films include \"Tropic Thunder\" and a biopic of Bethany Hamilton titled \"Soul Surfer\". A scene in the opening credits of popular TV show \"M*A*S*H\" was filmed in Kauai (helicopter flying over mountain top). Some scenes from \"Just Go with It, George of the Jungle\" and", "title": "Kauai" }, { "id": "544832", "text": "2018, but Ford was not involved in the production. Ford's status as a leading actor was solidified when he starred as globe-trotting archeologist Indiana Jones in the film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (1981), a collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Though Spielberg was interested in casting Ford from the beginning, Lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor in \"American Graffiti\" and \"Star Wars\", but he eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept. Ford went on to star in the prequel \"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\" (1984) and the sequel \"Indiana", "title": "Harrison Ford" }, { "id": "2360530", "text": "Tales of the Gold Monkey Tales of the Gold Monkey is an American adventure drama series broadcast in prime time on Wednesday nights by ABC from September 22, 1982 until June 1, 1983. The series featured the romance of early aviation, exotic locales, and cliff-hanging action. It was aired following the success of the film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" the previous year. Set in 1938 in the South Pacific, the series is about an ex-Flying Tigers pilot (an anachronism, since the Flying Tigers operated from 1941–1942) named Jake Cutter (Stephen Collins). Now the operator of an air cargo delivery", "title": "Tales of the Gold Monkey" }, { "id": "7083553", "text": "and marketplaces evoking the atmosphere of the film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". Andy Taylor, who contracted a stomach virus serious enough to require hospitalization from accidentally drinking water in the lagoon during the shoot, describes the storyline as \"Indiana Jones is horny and wants to get laid.\" In the video, singer Simon Le Bon's head rises in slow motion out of the river as rain pours down, evoking a scene in Apocalypse Now. He then chases a beautiful tiger-like woman played by Bermudian model Sheila Ming, from open markets in the city through obstacles in the jungle. During the", "title": "Hungry Like the Wolf" }, { "id": "3018722", "text": "theories. In his book \"Ages in Chaos\", Immanuel Velikovsky identified him with Thutmose III of the 18th dynasty. More recently, David Rohl's New Chronology identified him with Ramesses II of the 19th dynasty, and Peter James has identified him with Ramesses III of the 20th dynasty. Shishak is mentioned in Steven Spielberg's action-adventure film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" as the pharaoh who seized the Ark of the Covenant from the Temple of Solomon during his raids on Jerusalem and hid it in the Well of Souls in Tanis. Shishak Shishak, Shishaq or Susac (Hebrew: שישק, Tiberian: , ) was,", "title": "Shishak" }, { "id": "16450355", "text": "Taken from theraider.net: Shooting for the film began in 1982, when Strompolos, Zala and Lamb were only 12 years old, and continued over the next seven summers. It was made on a shoe-string budget of around $5000, greatly contrasting with the original's $18 million budget. It was shot out of sequence, so due to its long filming period many actors randomly appear at different ages throughout the course of the film. As \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" was not available on any home media format when they began filming, they were forced to collect all kinds of material about the", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation" }, { "id": "648636", "text": "although he told Lucas that the surname 'Smith' was not right for the character. Lucas replied, \"OK. What about 'Jones'?\" Indiana was the name of Lucas' Alaskan Malamute, whose habit of riding in the passenger seat as Lucas drove was also the inspiration for \"Star Wars\" Chewbacca. Spielberg was at first reluctant to sign on, as Lucas had told him that he would want Spielberg for an entire trilogy, and Spielberg did not want to work on two more scripts. Lucas told him, however, that he already had the next two movies written, so Spielberg agreed. But when the time", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "6859437", "text": "Marion Ravenwood Marion Ravenwood is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1981 film \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". Played by Karen Allen, she enters the story when Indiana Jones visits her in Nepal, needing her help to locate the Ark of the Covenant with a possession originally obtained by her father, Dr. Abner Ravenwood. After 27 years of absence (21 years in the films' internal chronology), the character returned in \"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" and was once again played by Allen, who was portrayed as marrying Jones. Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan named the character", "title": "Marion Ravenwood" }, { "id": "2756467", "text": "Karen Allen Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American film and stage actress. After making her film debut in \"Animal House\" (1978), she became best known for her portrayal of Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford in \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (1981), a role she later reprised for \"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" (2008). She also co-starred in \"Starman\" (1984) and \"Scrooged\" (1988). Her stage work has included performances on Broadway. Allen was born in Naperville, Illinois, to Ruth Patricia ( Howell), a university professor, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She", "title": "Karen Allen" }, { "id": "2756477", "text": "currently lives in Massachusetts. She also teaches yoga. Karen Allen Karen Jane Allen (born October 5, 1951) is an American film and stage actress. After making her film debut in \"Animal House\" (1978), she became best known for her portrayal of Marion Ravenwood opposite Harrison Ford in \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (1981), a role she later reprised for \"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" (2008). She also co-starred in \"Starman\" (1984) and \"Scrooged\" (1988). Her stage work has included performances on Broadway. Allen was born in Naperville, Illinois, to Ruth Patricia ( Howell), a university professor,", "title": "Karen Allen" }, { "id": "648659", "text": "are reproduced (the boulder run and the showdown with the Cairo Swordsman among them); however, several inconsistencies with the film are present in the game, such as Nazi soldiers and bats being present in the Well of Souls sequence, for example. The game was developed by LucasArts and Factor 5. In the 1999 game \"Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine\", a bonus level brings Jones back to the Peruvian temple of the film's opening scene. In 2008, to coincide with the release of \"Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\", Lego released the \"Lego Indiana Jones\" line—which included building sets based on", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "12906539", "text": "to the ship. In the chaos, Long John has one of his legs torn off by a giant beetle. In the United States in 1782, Jim Hawkins (Tom Nagel) is the owner of the \"Admiral Benbow Inn\", but has grown tired of a life of monotony and seeks adventure. One of his customers, Billy Bones, dies in his inn and leaves Jim a treasure map showing the way to a treasure buried on Skeleton Island. After gaining the help of Dr. Livesey (Jeff Denton), Jim and Livesey recruit French mariner Captain Smollete (James Ferris), the captain of the schooner \"Hispaniola\",", "title": "Pirates of Treasure Island" }, { "id": "998424", "text": "Ernst Schirlitz. Following negotiations by the French Navy frigate captain Meyer, the general German capitulation occurred on 7 May and French troops entered La Rochelle on 8 May. The submarine base became the setting for parts of the movie \"Das Boot\". The U-boat scenes in \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" were also shot in La Rochelle. The base is featured in the computer game . The bedrock of La Rochelle and surrounding areas is composed of layers of limestone dating back to the Sequanian stage (upper Oxfordian stage) of the Jurassic period (circa 160 million years ago), when a large", "title": "La Rochelle" }, { "id": "11744781", "text": "Eddie Tagoe Eddie Tagoe is a Ghanaian actor best known in the U.K. for playing \"Presuming Ed\" in the 1987 film production of \"Withnail and I\", a role which he resumed in 2000 in a stage production of the same work. Internationally, he may be better recognized for his brief appearance in the 1981 hit movie, \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". Billed only as the \"Messenger Pirate\", his character was sent to find Indiana Jones in advance of Nazis boarding the ship on which Jones was travelling. Initially unable to find Jones, he was instructed by the captain to look", "title": "Eddie Tagoe" }, { "id": "648656", "text": "car rolling down a gravel driveway in neutral. Burtt also used, as he did in many of his films, the ubiquitous Wilhelm scream when a Nazi falls from a truck. In addition to his use of such time-honored foley work, Burtt also demonstrated the modern expertise honed during his award-winning work on \"Star Wars\". He employed a synthesizer for the sounds of the Ark, and mixed dolphins' and sea lions' screams for those of the spirits within. Michael Pangrazio created the final shot's matte painting on glass over three months. John Williams composed the score for \"Raiders of the Lost", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648663", "text": "The outer package was labeled Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark for consistency with the film's prequel and its sequel. The subsequent DVD release in 2003 features this title as well. The title in the film itself remains unchanged, even in the restored DVD print. In the DVD, two subtle digital revisions were added. First, a connecting rod from the giant boulder to an offscreen guidance track in the opening scene was removed from behind the running Harrison Ford; second, a reflection in the glass partition separating Ford from the cobra in the Well of Souls was", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "16704151", "text": "Raiders of the Desert Raiders of the Desert is a 1941 film. It features an early appearance by Maria Montez. It was the first time she made a movie set in the Orient. Two adventurers, Dick and Andy, jump a ship in a Middle Eastern port, which is benefiting from the development by American businessman Jones. However some local Arabs, led by Sheikh Talifah, wish to take over. They try to assassinate Jone and succeed in killing the local Arab leader. However Dick and Andy lead a fight back which results in Talifah being killed. Dick marries Jones' secretary, Alice.", "title": "Raiders of the Desert" }, { "id": "648655", "text": "in yet another of the production's throwbacks to days of the Republic serials. He selected a .30-30 Winchester rifle for the sound of Jones' pistol. Sound effects artists struck leather jackets and baseball gloves with a baseball bat to create a variety of punching noises and body blows. For the snakes in the Well of Souls sequence, fingers running through cheese casserole and sponges sliding over concrete were used for the slithering noises. The sliding lid on a toilet cistern provided the sound for the opening of the Ark, and the sound of the boulder in the opening is a", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "648662", "text": "A novelization by Ryder Windham was released in April 2008 by Scholastic to tie in with the release of \"Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\". A previous novelization by Scottish author Campbell Armstrong (under the pseudonym Campbell Black) was concurrently released with the film in 1981. A book about the making of the film was also released, written by Derek Taylor. The film was released on VHS, Betamax and VideoDisc in pan and scan only, and on laserdisc in both pan and scan and widescreen. For its 1999 VHS re-issue, the film was remastered in THX and made available in widescreen.", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "7436173", "text": "into the prison caverns for a final showdown. This film originally started in New Hampshire in 1983 by co-writer Brett Piper under the title \"Graveyard\". It was later completed in three weeks by writer-producer Samuel Sherman. Veteran actress Zita Johann came out of retirement to appear in one scene as an elderly historian. The film was not shown theatrically in the United States until May 28th, 2017 at a special screening at Mahoning Drive-In Theater in Lehighton, PA with Producer/Director Samuel M. Sherman in attendance. The film was given a 2-disc special edition release in the United States by Image", "title": "Raiders of the Living Dead" }, { "id": "5731625", "text": "William Hootkins William Michael \"Hoot\" Hootkins (July 5, 1948 – October 23, 2005) was an American character actor, best known for supporting roles in Hollywood blockbusters such as \"Star Wars\", \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\", and \"Batman\". Hootkins was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended St. Mark's School of Texas from grade 1 through 12. At age 15, Hootkins found himself caught up in the FBI's investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy when he was interviewed about Ruth Paine, his Russian teacher. Marina Oswald, the Russian wife of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and their children had", "title": "William Hootkins" }, { "id": "648674", "text": "in 1997, Bernard Weinraub, film critic for \"The New York Times\", which had initially reviewed the film as \"deliriously funny, ingenious, and stylish\", maintained that \"the decline in the traditional family G-rated film, for 'general' audiences, probably began\" with the appearance of \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". \"Whether by accident or design,\" found Weinraub, \"the filmmakers made a comic nonstop action film intended mostly for adults but also for children.\" Eight years later, in 2005, viewers of Channel 4 rated the film as the 20th-best family film of all time, with Spielberg taking best over-all director honors. On \"Empire\" magazine's", "title": "Raiders of the Lost Ark" }, { "id": "2756470", "text": "Wanderers\", in 1979, and \"A Small Circle of Friends\" in 1980, where she played one of three radical college students during the 1960s. She also appeared (as a guest star) in the 1979 pilot episode of the long-running CBS series \"Knots Landing\" and played Annie Fairgate, the daughter of Don Murray's character Sid Fairgate and Sid's first wife Susan Philby. Her career-changing role came with the blockbuster hit \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (1981), directed by Steven Spielberg, in which she played the feisty heroine Marion Ravenwood, love interest of Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford). Allen won a Saturn Award for", "title": "Karen Allen" }, { "id": "9930854", "text": "to Oro Grande where he and Idaho round up the spies. Cline writes that \"Raiders of Ghost City\" had a \"good cast and production values...It came off quite well.\" Raiders of Ghost City Raiders of Ghost City is a 1944 Universal movie serial set in California during the American Civil War. At the height of the Civil War, a gang of supposed Confederates, headed by Alex Morel, raid all gold shipments from Oro Grande, California, bound for Washington. Captain Steve Clark is recognized as a Union Secret Service agent by Morel's accomplice Trina Dessard, along with his friend Idaho Jones,", "title": "Raiders of Ghost City" }, { "id": "17428879", "text": "Harrison Ford filmography Harrison Ford is an American actor, screen writer, and film producer, who has appeared in numerous films. He is known for portraying Han Solo in \"Star Wars\" (1977), \"The Empire Strikes Back\" (1980), \"Return of the Jedi\" (1983), and \"\" (2015); Indiana Jones in \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (1981), \"The Temple of Doom\" (1984), \"The Last Crusade\" (1989) and \"The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" (2008); and Rick Deckard in \"Blade Runner\" (1982) and \"Blade Runner 2049\" (2017). He also played Jack Ryan in \"Patriot Games\" (1992) and again in \"Clear and Present Danger\" (1994). Ford", "title": "Harrison Ford filmography" }, { "id": "4995828", "text": "\"Ark\" takes place on a dying alien world in which a global war between two technologically advanced human civilizations has reduced the planet to a wasteland. The only way to escape the world is by activating the Ark, an ancient giant robot capable of supporting a human city as well as traveling through space. James Woods plays Jallak, the military general of the reigning civilization, the Storrians, who captured the Ark from the Ceveans. But they are unable to get the Ark to work in order to save their people. The Ceveans, having been enslaved and with only the wasteland", "title": "Ark (2005 film)" } ]

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[ { "id": "19934082", "text": "Altaba Altaba Inc. is an investment company based in New York City that resulted from Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo! Inc.'s internet business. The company that remained after the purchase changed its name to Altaba Inc. on June 16, 2017. Verizon completed its acquisition on June 13, 2017, and put the assets under a new subsidiary named Yahoo! Holdings within its newly created division, Oath. The only Yahoo!-branded interest held by Altaba was its stake in the joint venture Yahoo! Japan. On June 13, 2017, following the departure of Marissa Mayer, Thomas J. McInerney was appointed chairman and CEO of Yahoo!", "title": "Altaba" }, { "id": "19934083", "text": "Inc. On June 16, 2017, the company that remained after Verizon Communications purchased the internet businesses of Yahoo! Inc. was renamed Altaba Inc. The new company, listed by the Securities and Exchange Commission as a \"non-diversified, closed-end management investment company,\" immediately began trading under the ticker symbol AABA. Altaba owns Excalibur IP, a patent company; controls a significant minority interest in Alibaba Group (16.3%); and maintains investments in Hortonworks, Gomaji, Envestnet, Rimage Corporation, SeatGeek, Protagenic Therapeutics, Eastman Kodak Company, and Paperless Post. The company has divested itself of all holdings in Snap Inc. and Yahoo! Japan. Altaba Altaba Inc. is", "title": "Altaba" }, { "id": "11025311", "text": "$1.1B. In October 2017, Apollo acquired West Corporation for about $2 billion. On December 19, 2017, AGM acquired Mexican restaurant Qdoba for $305 million. Apollo is operated by its managing partners, Leon Black, Joshua Harris and Marc Rowan and a team of more than 250 investment professionals, as of March 31, 2013. The firm's headquarters are located in the Solow Building at 9 West 57th Street in New York City, and the firm operates additional offices in Purchase, New York, Los Angeles, Houston, London, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Singapore, Hong Kong and Mumbai Apollo’s executive committee includes: Leon Black, chairman and chief", "title": "Apollo Global Management" }, { "id": "20090859", "text": "exited Verizon in 2017 and as later events revealed, the integration did not deliver the expected value. Two months before closing the deal for Yahoo!, Verizon announced it would place Yahoo! and AOL under the Oath umbrella. The deal closed on June 13, 2017, and Oath was launched. Upon completion of the deal, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer resigned. Yahoo! operations not acquired in the deal were renamed Altaba, a holding company whose primary assets are its 15.5 percent stake in Alibaba Group and 35.5 percent stake in Yahoo! Japan. After the merger, Oath cut fifteen percent of the Yahoo-AOL workforce.", "title": "Oath Inc." }, { "id": "20506390", "text": "is available only in Argentina for Android and iOS devices and it can be downloaded for free on both Google Play and the iOS App Store. The name ‘Ualá’ comes from the combination of ‘wallet’ and the French expression ‘voilà’, which means ‘here it is’. Ualá was launched in Argentina in October 2017. It was founded by Pierpaolo Barbieri and financed by international investors like Soros Fund Management, Jefferies investment bank, General Catalyst Partners (investor in Snapchat, Airbnb and Kayak), Bessemer Venture Partners (investor in LinkedIn, Skype and OLX), Point72 Ventures and Kevin P. Ryan (angel investor and founder of", "title": "Ualá" }, { "id": "1908214", "text": "multi-year pact to broadcast \"Madden NFL\" competitive matches across the world through its Competitive Gaming Division arm. On May 22, 2018, EA announced that it has acquired cloud gaming technology and talent from GameFly and its wholly owned subsidiary based in Israel. On July 9, 2018, EA announced it has acquired Pasadena-based studio Industrial Toys. Led by Alex Seropian, “Halo” co-creator, former CEO of Bungie Studios, and former executive at Disney Interactive, the privately held developer and publisher was founded in 2012, and most recently released its latest game in 2016. Its 14-person team will now be a part of", "title": "Electronic Arts" }, { "id": "1567022", "text": "accounts, some 3 billion, were affected by the August 2013 theft. On June 16, 2017, parts of the original Yahoo Inc, which were not purchased by Verizon Communications, were renamed Altaba Inc. On the United States Securities and Exchange Commission's website, they listed the new company as a \"non-diversified, closed-end management investment company.\" The former Yahoo Inc. ticker symbol, YHOO, was retired in favor of AABA. This took place on Monday, June 19, 2017. Yahoo operated a portal that provides the latest news, entertainment, and sports information. The portal also gave users access to other Yahoo services like Yahoo! Search,", "title": "Yahoo!" }, { "id": "4490333", "text": "APBA APBA (pronounced \"APP-bah\") is a game company founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was created in 1951 by trucking firm purchaser J. Richard Seitz (1915-1992). The acronym stands for \"American Professional Baseball Association\", the name of a board game league Seitz devised in 1931 with eight high school classmates. After World War II, he formed APBA Game Co., working out of his living room. In 2011, after 60 years in Pennsylvania, the company headquarters was moved to Alpharetta, Georgia. The company's first offering was a baseball simulation table game using cards to represent each major league player, boards to represent", "title": "APBA" }, { "id": "1567019", "text": "2016, Verizon Communications announced that it had agreed to purchase Yahoo's core Internet business for $4.83 billion. Following the conclusion of the purchase, these assets merged with AOL to form a new entity known as Oath Inc. on June 13, 2017; Yahoo, AOL, and Huffington Post will continue to operate under their own names, under the Oath Inc. umbrella. The deal excludes Yahoo's 15% stake in Alibaba Group and 35.5% stake in Yahoo! Japan; following the completion of the acquisition, these assets will be retained under the name Altaba, with a new executive team. On September 22, 2016, Yahoo disclosed", "title": "Yahoo!" }, { "id": "1908180", "text": "Electronic Arts Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers responsible for its games. As of March 2018, Electronic Arts is the second-largest gaming company in the Americas and Europe by revenue and market capitalization after Activision Blizzard and ahead of Take-Two Interactive, and Ubisoft. Currently, EA develops and publishes games including EA Sports titles \"FIFA\", \"Madden NFL\", \"NHL\", \"NCAA Football\", \"NBA", "title": "Electronic Arts" }, { "id": "3532075", "text": "Japan Dome\". The \"Yahoo Dome\" is the home field for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, a professional baseball team majority owned by SoftBank. Since 2010, Yahoo! Japan's search engine has been based on Google's search technology. In exchange, Google receives user activity data from Yahoo! Japan's various products. In 2017, Verizon Communications purchased the core internet business of America-based Yahoo!, and merged them into Oath, Inc. Yahoo! Japan was not affected. It continued as a joint venture between Softbank and what remained of Yahoo! Inc., renamed Altaba. Yahoo! had been declining in popularity and economically since the late 2000s, but the", "title": "Yahoo! Japan" }, { "id": "4321335", "text": "incident. Trump Taj Mahal had a loyalty card similar to most casinos. The club had four levels: After the March 2017 announcement that Florida-based Hard Rock, which manages gambling and resort operations for the Seminole Indian tribe, bought the Casino from Carl Icahn, Hard Rock International detailed plans to spend $325 million in refurbishing. The new property will feature two separate arenas with seating totaling 7,000 and 2,400 more slot machines. The property reopened on June 27, 2018. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City (former Trump Taj Mahal) is a casino", "title": "Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City" }, { "id": "2901489", "text": "Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game company headquartered in Montreuil, France, with several development studios across the world. It is known for publishing games for several acclaimed video game franchises including \"Assassin's Creed\", \"Far Cry\", \"Just Dance\", \"Prince of Persia\", \"Rayman\", \"Raving Rabbids\", and \"Tom Clancy's\". As of March 2018, it is the fourth largest publicly-traded game company in the Americas and Europe after Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two Interactive in terms of revenue and market capitalisation. The Guillemot family had established themselves as a farming support business for", "title": "Ubisoft" }, { "id": "8577554", "text": "Cavia (company) The company was founded on March 1, 2000 and has its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Its shareholders included Amuse Capital, Tokuma Shoten, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokyo FM Broadcasting, Mitsubishi Corporation, and Hayao Nakayama. Cavia usually developed games for already existing franchises, like \"Naruto\", \"Dragon Quest\", \"One Piece\" or \"Ghost in the Shell\" for various publishers. On October 2005, the company’s name was sold to AQ Interactive. AQ Interactive became a holding company responsible for the management of subsidiary companies as well as sales and promotion of game software. The old company’s game planning &", "title": "Cavia (company)" }, { "id": "8577556", "text": "joined other development teams within Marvelous AQL (as a part of their merger), Comcept, Tango Gameworks, From Software or rejoined the teams at Namco where members of Cavia, Inc. were from originally. Cavia (company) The company was founded on March 1, 2000 and has its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Its shareholders included Amuse Capital, Tokuma Shoten, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokyo FM Broadcasting, Mitsubishi Corporation, and Hayao Nakayama. Cavia usually developed games for already existing franchises, like \"Naruto\", \"Dragon Quest\", \"One Piece\" or \"Ghost in the Shell\" for various publishers. On October 2005, the company’s name was", "title": "Cavia (company)" }, { "id": "19097635", "text": "En Masse Entertainment En Masse Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Bluehole Interactive, Inc.) is an American video game publisher. Founded in June 2008, the company is based in Seattle, Washington and is best-known for publishing massively multiplayer online role-playing game \"TERA\", which was developed by parent company Bluehole. The original En Masse leadership team had extensive experience in the video game industry at leading companies, including Blizzard Entertainment, Microsoft, NCsoft, ArenaNet, and Electronic Arts. In January 2013, Chris Lee and Soo Min Park became chief executive officer and chief operating officer, respectively. On November 5, 2018, Bluehole and its subsidiaries, which include", "title": "En Masse Entertainment" }, { "id": "10645225", "text": "SAP Ariba SAP Ariba is an American software and information technology services company located in Palo Alto, California. It was acquired by German software maker SAP SE for $4.3 billion in 2012. Ariba (now SAP Ariba) was founded in 1996 by Bobby Lent, Boris Putanec, Paul Touw, Rob Desantis, Ed Kinsey, Paul Hegarty, and Keith Krach on the idea of using the Internet to enable companies to facilitate and improve the procurement process. Beforehand, procurement had been a paper-based, labor-intensive, and inefficient process for large corporations. The name Ariba is a neologism, chosen by a branding company since it was", "title": "SAP Ariba" }, { "id": "1678067", "text": "re-branded itself as Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd., a holding company, while its internally domestic video game operations were formed as a new subsidiary called Square Enix Co., Ltd. During the 2014 fiscal year, the company made over in revenue (). In addition to its flagship subsidiary, Square Enix Holdings owns the arcade gaming corporation Taito, known for games such as \"Space Invaders\", \"Bubble Bobble\", and \"Darius\". Square Enix also owned British game publisher Eidos Interactive, which was absorbed into Square Enix Europe in order to publish Eidos Interactive titles such as \"Tomb Raider\", \"Deus Ex\" and \"Hitman\" under the", "title": "Square Enix" }, { "id": "4321316", "text": "1, 2017, the Seminole Tribe of Florida through its Hard Rock International brand, and the Morris and Jingoli families, announced its purchase of the facility and conversion to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino brand. It reopened on June 27, 2018. Construction of what was originally known as the \"Taj Mahal\" commenced in 1983 by Resorts International, owner of the neighboring Resorts Casino Hotel, with an estimated budget of $250 million. Resorts head James Crosby said it might be named the United States Hotel, in reference to the city's first major hotel. After Crosby's death in April 1986, Resorts International", "title": "Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City" }, { "id": "4490343", "text": "in 2001. All except 2003 were sponsored by the game company. The limits on team winning percentages were dropped after 2002. The 2013 convention was held near the new corporate offices in Georgia; it was unique in that it produced the first back-to-back tournament winner. In addition, Brian Wells, a two-time winner himself, was inducted into the APBA Hall of Fame along with his father, Greg Wells. Year - Location - Winner - Team Key: APBA APBA (pronounced \"APP-bah\") is a game company founded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was created in 1951 by trucking firm purchaser J. Richard Seitz (1915-1992).", "title": "APBA" }, { "id": "19337480", "text": "as well as seed money from the GDAA. Part of the rationale is due to politician Joe Hockey cancelling the Interactive Media Fund, thereby taking $10 million out of the Australian video game industry. As of 2016, the company hosts 33 video game studios from a small amount the previous year. The company moved to a new premises in South Melbourne in early 2017. According to the Sunday Morning Herald, the company \"offers discounted office space and hot desking, plus the significant benefits of shared knowledge and networking that come with working alongside others\". One of the devs explained: \"I", "title": "The Arcade (company)" }, { "id": "2557583", "text": "network to the user as if it were a single machine. An Amoeba network consists of a number of workstations connected to a \"pool\" of processors, and executing a program from a terminal causes it to run on any of the available processors, with the operating system providing load balancing. Unlike the contemporary Sprite, Amoeba does not support process migration. The workstations would typically function as networked terminals only. Aside from workstations and processors, additional machines operate as servers for files, directory services, TCP/IP communications etc. Amoeba is a microkernel-based operating system. It offers multithreaded programs and a remote procedure", "title": "Amoeba (operating system)" }, { "id": "20259034", "text": "140 countries, including AB InBev and Unilever, and retailers like Zulily and Urban Outfitters. Hubba's executive team includes Ben Zifkin (CEO), Howard Lis (COO), Christopher Jordan (CBO), and Danielle Brown (CMO). The company is on the board for Upside Foundation, Ladies Learning Code, and Canada Learning Code. The company is also on the HackerYou Advisory Board, MaRS Discovery District Entrepreneur Advisory Board, Innovation Economy Advisory Council, Sick Kids Tech Advisory Council, and StandUp Ventures Advisory Council. The company is also part of the mentorship programs, The Next 36, Founder's Institute, and Loran Scholars Foundation. In December 2014, Hubba raised a", "title": "Hubba (software company)" }, { "id": "19490617", "text": "Hangar 13 (company) Hangar 13 is an American video game developer based in Novato, California, in the area of the former Hamilton Air Force Base. Founded by Haden Blackman on December 4, 2014, as division of 2K Games (a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive), the company's debut game was \"Mafia III\", which was released in October 2016. In 2017, 2K Czech was merged into Hangar 13, wherefore the studio received two additional studios in Brno and Prague; another studio in Brighton was opened in 2018. On December 4, 2014, 2K Games announced that they had set up a new game", "title": "Hangar 13 (company)" }, { "id": "6868", "text": "form ONE by AOL. These acquisitions included AdapTV in 2013 and Convertro, Precision Demand, and Vidible in 2014. ONE by AOL is further broken down into ONE by AOL for Publishers (formerly Vidible, AOL On Network and Be On for Publishers) and ONE by AOL for Advertisers, each of which have several sub-platforms. On 10 September 2018, AOL's parent company Oath consolidated Yahoo BrightRoll, One by AOL and Yahoo Gemini to ‘simplify’ adtech service by launching a single advertising proposition dubbed Oath Ad Platforms. AOL offers a range of integrated products and properties including communication tools, mobile apps and services", "title": "AOL" }, { "id": "20765720", "text": "Atlanta Ballers The Atlanta Ballers are a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The team competes in the Junior Basketball Association (JBA), a league created for high school and junior college players as an alternative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The JBA was first announced on December 20, 2017, when media personality LaVar Ball said to \"Slam\" magazine that he would create a professional league targeted at high school graduates and fully funded by his sports apparel company Big Baller Brand. In April 2018, the league held tryouts near Atlanta, at Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Georgia", "title": "Atlanta Ballers" }, { "id": "19742602", "text": "game will be 1,200 times larger than \"Ark\" and host 40,000 players in the same game world. \"Atlas\" is set to release as an early access title for Microsoft Windows on December 21, 2018 (originally 12/13 and 12/19), and Xbox One in 2019. Studio Wildcard Wildcard Properties, LLC, doing business as Studio Wildcard, is an American video game developer with offices in Kirkland, Washington, and Gainesville, Florida. The company was founded in 2014 by Doug Kennedy, Jesse Rapczak, Jeremy Stieglitz and Susan Stieglitz, and is best known for its debut game, \"\", which was released in August 2017. The company", "title": "Studio Wildcard" }, { "id": "12213214", "text": "Improbable (company) Improbable Worlds Limited (commonly referred to as Improbable) is a British multinational technology company founded in 2012, and headquartered in London, England. It makes distributed simulation software for video games and corporate use. The company has created SpatialOS, a computation platform that enables the creation of massive simulations and virtual worlds for use in video games and corporate simulations. The firm partnered with Google in December, 2016. The software was released into open beta in February, 2017. The company received an investment of $500 million from SoftBank in May, 2017. The first games built on the technology are", "title": "Improbable (company)" }, { "id": "2608584", "text": "Booty was promoted from leader in the Minecraft games business, to Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Studios. On June 10, 2018, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2018, Microsoft announced the acquisitions of Ninja Theory, Playground Games, Undead Labs and Compulsion Games, as well as the opening of a new studio in Santa Monica, California entitled \"The Initiative\", which will be led by the former Crystal Dynamics studio head Darrell Gallagher. Later that year, in November, Microsoft Studios further announced plans to acquire Obsidian Entertainment and InXile Entertainment. Microsoft Casual Games is a division and video game developer of Microsoft Studios", "title": "Microsoft Studios" }, { "id": "2414381", "text": "ADABAS ADABAS, a contraction of “adaptable database system\", is a database package that was developed by Software AG to run on IBM mainframes. Launched in 1971 as a non-relational software package, earnings reports for the package's vendor were being followed by The New York Times in the early 1980s. As of 2017, ADABAS is marketed for use on a wider range of platforms, including Linux, UNIX and Windows. ADABAS was developed to handle shortcomings of RDBMSes with the 3rd normal form, and makes it possible to store multiple data relationships in the same table. Since there are no data redundancies,", "title": "ADABAS" }, { "id": "12909508", "text": "in the Developer Edition, released on March 30, 2016. Asobo Studio is the first independent developer in Holographic Entertainment and wins the 2016 French Video Game Creator Prize awarded by Syntec Numérique EY and SNJV. In 2017, the studio announced \"\", an adventure game, coming to PC & consoles in 2018 and published by Focus Home Interactive. They also worked with Engine Software to develop \"Monopoly for Nintendo Switch\", which came out later that year. Asobo Studio Asobo Studio SARL is a French video game development company based in Bordeaux, France, that was founded in 2002. The studio has developed", "title": "Asobo Studio" }, { "id": "4490338", "text": "2008, featuring the voice of Pete Van Wieren, replacing the earlier editions' Ernie Harwell. Complications in game development, as well as errors in the code that had gone long unrepaired, delayed the release. As of November, 2011, the current release schedule has not been announced. The current version of the game runs on Windows 7 in 32 bit mode. For 64 bit versions of Windows 7 it requires Virtual Mode software. Some APBA players maintain computers with older versions of Windows solely for running the APBA software. In August 2012, APBA released an updated version of Baseball for Windows 5.5,", "title": "APBA" }, { "id": "18514851", "text": "37Games 37Games ( officially Sanqi Interactive Entertainment ) is an international browser and mobile game developer and publisher. Its gaming platform covers North America, Europe, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and several Southeast Asia countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and Singapore. 37Games is registered in Shanghai and has branch offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In 2014, 37Games went public on China's A-Share stock market (Stock code: 002555). 37Games currently has more than 2000 employees. 37Games ranks no. 23rd amongst top 100 internet companies in China in 2015. 37Games is also the second", "title": "37Games" }, { "id": "7154741", "text": "505 Games 505 Games S.r.l. is an Italian video game publisher founded in 2006, and is a subsidiary of Italian company Digital Bros. S.p.A. The company publishes games globally for leading platforms along with console and handheld systems such as Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, as well as for mobile devices and social networks. 505 Games headquarters is located in the city of Milan, Italy. The company also maintains divisions in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom; Los Angeles, United States; Lyon, France; Munich, Germany; Madrid, Spain and a network of distribution partners. The company transitioned from being an Italian games distributor to", "title": "505 Games" }, { "id": "19865943", "text": "United Basketball Alliance of India The United Basketball Alliance of India, Inc. (UBA India) is \"a professional basketball league with teams based in key cities across India for fans of all ages\". UBA India was incorporated on September 28, 2015 as a Delaware Corporation. With file number 5835701. UBA India signed various partnership deals with major broadcasters. Including Ten Sports, which is the largest sports networks in India. They agreed to broadcast UBA India live matches. Ten Sports is owned by the Sony Pictures Networks India. One of Hollywood's major multi-billion dollar film studios. Rajesh Sethi, the Global CEO of", "title": "United Basketball Alliance of India" }, { "id": "13950242", "text": "acquisition the Atari brand was re-united under Infogrames. Infogrames said that it planned to reduce administrative costs and to focus on online gaming. In December 2008, Infogrames bought Cryptic Studios for $26.7 million in cash plus performance bonuses. Cryptic Studios is a massively multiplayer online game developer and its acquisition is in line with the company's new business strategy which focuses on online games. Namco Bandai and Infogrames formed a joint venture called Distribution Partners in September 2008. Distribution Partners was defined by Infogrames as a regrouping of \"Infogrames' distribution operations in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.\" This new", "title": "Atari, SA" }, { "id": "14784430", "text": "Sega Sega Games Co., Ltd. (; stylized as SEGA) is a Japanese multinational video game developer and publisher headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company, previously known as both Sega Enterprises Ltd. and Sega Corporation, is a subsidiary of Sega Holdings Co., Ltd., which itself is part of Sega Sammy Holdings. Sega's North American division, Sega of America, is headquartered in Irvine, California, while its European division, Sega of Europe, is headquartered in London. The formation of Sega is traced back to the founding of Nihon Goraku Bussan in 1960 to take over the distribution activities of Service Games of Japan.", "title": "Sega" }, { "id": "9158542", "text": "EABA The End All Be All game system, commonly known as EABA and pronounced \"ee-buh\", is a role-playing game system from Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC). It is a generic gaming systems designed to adapt to any imaginary gaming environment. It was created by Greg Porter in 2003. The game cites the \"Hero System\", \"GURPS\" and \"Call of Cthulhu\" as influences in its development. The game books and related materials are available only in a PDF format download, or printed on demand. Role-playing games (RPGs) of the 1970s and early 1980s were environment specific, and incompatible with one another. For", "title": "EABA" }, { "id": "8544033", "text": "are monitored and directed. The company holds distribution branches in the USA, France and the United Kingdom. Today the company is firmly established in both the European and world markets – with distribution areas stretching from Japan, Russia, the Near East and Europe to North and South America. Amongst the most prestigious awards that have been conferred on HABA are the Best Children's Game of the Year, the German Children;s Games award, the Toy Innovation Award and the German Educational Game Award. Many HABA playthings have also been designated with the \"Spiel Gut\" ('Good Toy') stamp. \"Karuba\", one of HABA's", "title": "Habermaaß" }, { "id": "802415", "text": "Bamba with the sixth overall pick. On September 6, 2018, team's owner Richard DeVos died aged 92 from complications from an infection. The team's current home arena, the Amway Center, officially opened on October 1, 2010. The Orlando Magic hosted their first preseason game at Amway Center on October 10 against the New Orleans Hornets. The 2010–11 regular season home opener was on October 28 against the Washington Wizards, and the Magic won both games. In 2012, the Amway Center hosted the All-Star Weekend. At the time it opened, the new Amway Center was home to the largest Jumbotron in", "title": "Orlando Magic" }, { "id": "20636909", "text": "which is announced to begin play in 2020. The league will operate as a single entity, with all teams owned and operated by the league, under the name Legendary Field Exhibitions LLC. Some of the investors in the AAF include Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, The Chernin Group (which owns Barstool Sports), Jared Allen, Slow Ventures, Adrian Fenty, Charles King's M Ventures, and Keith Rabois. MGM Resorts International made an investment in the AAF tech platform, and entered a three-year sponsorship agreement to become the league's official sports betting sponsor and exclusive gaming partner. The deal marks the first time any", "title": "Alliance of American Football" }, { "id": "19849673", "text": "in September 2017. A second office was established in Madison, Wisconsin in late 2017, with two further offices in Europe and Japan opened later. On 12 March 2018, PUBG Corporation acquired New York-based studio MadGlory, which was renamed PUBG MadGlory. Red Sahara Studio is a mobile game developer headed by Lee Ji-hoon. On 12 March 2018, Bluehole completed the acquisition of the studio in a stock swap deal. Red Sahara is developing a mobile game based on \"TERA\". L-Time Games was founded in June 2009. The company attracted a and a investment from Knet Investment Partners and IMM Investments, respectively.", "title": "Bluehole (company)" }, { "id": "9718270", "text": "the first two \"Bayonetta\" games would be released for the same platform two months later. At the ceremony, \"Nier: Automata\" also won in the Best Score/Music category. In April 2018, the company announced a partnership with DeNA for an action game that explores Japanese folklore for Android and iOS devices, titled \"World of Demons\". Its development began in 2015 with 30 employees attached to it, including staff who had worked on \"Star Fox Zero\" and \"Bayonetta 2\", and is set for release later in 2018. According to Inaba, the core goal of the company is to make new and original", "title": "PlatinumGames" }, { "id": "2901522", "text": "stated reasons of workload and animation replacement didn't hold up, saying that it would be \"a day or two's work\" to create a female character model. Ubisoft Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game company headquartered in Montreuil, France, with several development studios across the world. It is known for publishing games for several acclaimed video game franchises including \"Assassin's Creed\", \"Far Cry\", \"Just Dance\", \"Prince of Persia\", \"Rayman\", \"Raving Rabbids\", and \"Tom Clancy's\". As of March 2018, it is the fourth largest publicly-traded game company in the Americas and Europe after", "title": "Ubisoft" }, { "id": "6830", "text": "AOL also made a deal with Microsoft. AOL began in 1983, as a short-lived venture called Control Video Corporation (or CVC), founded by William von Meister. Its sole product was an online service called GameLine for the Atari 2600 video game console, after von Meister's idea of buying music on demand was rejected by Warner Bros. Subscribers bought a modem from the company for US$49.95 and paid a one-time US$15 setup fee. GameLine permitted subscribers to temporarily download games and keep track of high scores, at a cost of US$1 per game. The telephone disconnected and the downloaded game would", "title": "AOL" }, { "id": "4094680", "text": "deal is being financed via preferred equity financing from Goldman Sachs and Pamplona. Goldman Sachs will contribute $1.8 billion towards financing and Pamplona will contribute the remainder for a total commitment of $2.4 billion. The new entity is expected to be formed and in operation in Q1 or Q2 of 2017. The new entity will keep Cabela's base in Sidney and Lincoln, Nebraska. Morris will continue as CEO of the new entity. He will also be the majority shareholder of the new privately held entity. Tommy Milner stressed that the company had reviewed a range of options that would maximize", "title": "Bass Pro Shops" }, { "id": "14592782", "text": "game. In July 2015, Ubisoft Toronto announced that they were developing a new AAA-level intellectual property (IP). At Ubisoft's press conference at the June 2017 Electronic Entertainment Expo, this IP was revealed to be \"\" and action-adventure game with optional toys-to-life integration. Due for late 2018, \"Starlink\" will be the first original IP developed by Ubisoft Toronto. Ubisoft Toronto Ubisoft Toronto Inc. is a Canadian video game developer and a subsidiary of Ubisoft based in Toronto, Ontario. The studio was announced on 6 July 2009, with the government of Ontario pledging $260 million to Ubisoft to create 800 new jobs", "title": "Ubisoft Toronto" }, { "id": "20412796", "text": "announced they would be acquiring independent fund administration and corporate services provider MAS International, which completed in January 2018. In January 2018, Ocorian acquired Capco Trust, an independent Jersey-based private client and corporate services business. In April 2018, Ocorian completed the acquisition of Intruad Management Services, Amsterdam and Intruma Corporate Services, Luxembourg. The acquisition expanded Ocorian's reach into the Netherlands. This was followed by the acquisition of ABAX Corporate Services, the largest of their recent acquisitions, also in April 2018. Their number of employees increased to 700+ worldwide – including further representation in Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritius, Singapore, South Africa and", "title": "Ocorian" }, { "id": "15252867", "text": "Mentez signed a distribution agreement with Disney-owned Playdom in 2010 to publish several games in Latin America. These include \"Tiki Resort\" and \"Bola\". Mentez operates an alternative payments network in Brazil called \"Paymentez\". As of August 2010, users could buy Paymentez credits at 25,000 internet cafes or 100,000 retail locations across Brazil. Mentez received an undisclosed amount of funding in 2010 from Insight Venture Partners. Juan F Franco is currently Mentez CEO, Jaime Roldan is Mentez CTO and Juan Roldan is Mentez VP Content. Mentez Mentez is a Latin American-focused social network game publisher based in Miami. Mentez is significant", "title": "Mentez" }, { "id": "13530261", "text": "and expresses a desire to attack. Having not totally met his needs for resources, George sends both of his sons abroad to procure more goods for his empire in whatever manner possible, in order to be prepared for imminent battle. Anno: Create A New World Anno: Create a New World, also known as Dawn of Discovery in North America, is a real-time strategy and city-building game for Nintendo DS and Wii. It was developed by Keen Games and is published by Ubisoft. It is a spinoff of the \"Anno\" series. It takes place in year 1404, where King George's land", "title": "Anno: Create A New World" }, { "id": "4051130", "text": "InXile Entertainment inXile Entertainment, Inc. (pronounced \"in exile\") is an American video game developer that specializes in role-playing video games. The company was formed in late 2002 by Brian Fargo, a founder of Interplay Productions. The company is headquartered in Newport Beach, California, and, 11 since 2015, has a subsidiary studio in New Orleans. On November 10, 2018, at X018, it was announced that the studio had been acquired by Microsoft. In an interview to Joystiq, inXile's President Matthew Findley shared some of the company's history: \"I worked with Brian Fargo at Interplay for a number of years and we", "title": "InXile Entertainment" }, { "id": "19490620", "text": "2018, Hangar 13 confirmed that the studio is currently working on a new project. Hangar 13 (company) Hangar 13 is an American video game developer based in Novato, California, in the area of the former Hamilton Air Force Base. Founded by Haden Blackman on December 4, 2014, as division of 2K Games (a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive), the company's debut game was \"Mafia III\", which was released in October 2016. In 2017, 2K Czech was merged into Hangar 13, wherefore the studio received two additional studios in Brno and Prague; another studio in Brighton was opened in 2018. On", "title": "Hangar 13 (company)" }, { "id": "9158556", "text": "shooting the same leg three more times will not reduce their mobility much more. Improving the characters is done with experience points, which are either accumulated for general use by adventuring, or for specific skills by training. Experience points can be used to improve both skills and attributes, with attributes costing much more to improve than skills. EABA The End All Be All game system, commonly known as EABA and pronounced \"ee-buh\", is a role-playing game system from Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC). It is a generic gaming systems designed to adapt to any imaginary gaming environment. It was created", "title": "EABA" }, { "id": "10507657", "text": "Gaba Corporation The company provides language lessons on a \"one-to-one\" (one student and one teacher) basis and using textbook lessons and online (computerized) instructor aids, language and vocabulary drills, and guided conversation topics. As of May 2017 the company has 45 learning studios. In March 2016 it had 564 staff and 1,106 sub-contracted instructors across Japan. In November 2013 it was reported that Gaba had 21,300 students. The company name \"GABA\" is an acronym for \"girls, be ambitious; boys, be audacious!\". According to a speech given by co-founder Hideki Yoshino, he chose this name because he had a keen interest", "title": "Gaba Corporation" }, { "id": "8451701", "text": "which they seem can better streamline the process and reduce costs for game production. On 18 January 2017, French publisher Ubisoft acquired the studio from Activision, and renamed it Ubisoft Leamington, referencing its Leamington Spa location. Under this new owner, Ubisoft Leamington will work on AAA titles closely with Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based partner studio Ubisoft Reflections. Ubisoft Leamington Ubisoft Leamington (formerly FreeStyleGames Limited) is a British video game developer based in Leamington Spa, England. Founded in November 2002 by six industry veterans formerly of Codemasters and Rare, the studios was bought by Activision in September 2008. In January 2017, Ubisoft acquired the", "title": "Ubisoft Leamington" }, { "id": "13130242", "text": "Video gaming in Brazil Brazil is the 13th largest video game market in the world as of 2017, and the largest in Latin America, with a revenue of 1,3 billion US dollars. Video games were not permitted for import into Brazil until the 1990s, and were then heavily taxed as non-essential goods. As a result, a black market developed around pirating games, driven by the lack of official channels for purchasing games. Many game companies avoided expansion into the country for these reasons until the 2010s. Blaming high tariffs, Nintendo officially left the market in 2015, but returned in 2017.", "title": "Video gaming in Brazil" }, { "id": "3632069", "text": "Obsidian Entertainment Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Irvine, California. It was founded in June 2003, shortly before the closure of Black Isle Studios, by ex-Black Isle employees Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan, and Chris Jones. Although they have created original intellectual property, many of their games are sequels based on licensed properties. Early projects include \"\" and \"Neverwinter Nights 2\", both sequels to BioWare-developed games. The team then developed their first original game, \"Alpha Protocol\", in 2010. It was met with generally mixed reviews. Other notable works from Obsidian include \"\",", "title": "Obsidian Entertainment" }, { "id": "20259033", "text": "Hubba (software company) Hubba is a computer software company in the retail technology space. The B2B network is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company was founded in 2010 by CEO and founder, Ben Zifkin, and launched in 2014. Hubba is a B2B commerce community in the retail space. Their network connects brands, buyers and influencers through machine learning and personal curation as well as providing tools for retail buyers that suggest new products to carry and allows them to search and discover brands within a set of search criteria. Hubba has approximately 100 employees based in Toronto, 60,000 users across", "title": "Hubba (software company)" }, { "id": "5901787", "text": "believed that the companies either settled out of court or had their liabilities absorbed by Apple. On May 12, 2016, KingsIsle laid off 72 employees from its Austin studio, citing the cancellation of several unreleased mobile games and a shift in product strategy. In May 2017, KingsIsle released \"EverClicker\" for Android and iOS. In September 2017, the company leased 19,871 square feet of office space at 301 Sundance Parkway in Round Rock, Texas. In August 2018, KingsIsle released \"Animal Cove\" for Android and iOS. In September 2018, Dave Rosen and Craig Beers joined KingsIsle's executive team as vice-president of marketing", "title": "KingsIsle Entertainment" }, { "id": "8457603", "text": "of Pan-Arabism, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates returned their shares in AOI, valued at US$1.8 billion, to Egypt in 1993, leaving AOI wholly owned by the Egypt. AOI has approximately 16,000 employees, out of which 1,250 are engineers. AOI fully owns 12 factories and shares in 1 joint-ventures, besides the Arab Institute for Development Technology. AOI was established by its four member-states - Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - in response to the threat posed by the advanced Israeli defence industry. The initial capitalisation of AOI was USD 1 billion, contributed in equal part by the", "title": "Arab Organization for Industrialization" }, { "id": "6847", "text": "according to industry pundits. Service centers based in India and the Philippines continue to this day to provide customer support and technical assistance to subscribers. On September 17, 2007, AOL announced it was moving one of its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia, to New York City and combining its various advertising units into a new subsidiary called Platform A. This action followed several advertising acquisitions, most notably Advertising.com, and highlighted the company's new focus on advertising-driven business models. AOL management stressed \"significant operations\" will remain in Dulles, which included the company's access services and modem banks. In October 2007, AOL", "title": "AOL" }, { "id": "19108609", "text": "2018. The fifth volume, subtitled \"The Spinoff!\", takes place prior to the main series and features content not included in the magazine serialization. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the series in North America. Three comic anthologies have been released as of August 26, 2017. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation aired in Japan between July 4 and September 19, 2016 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The anime is produced by Doga Kobo, with Yoshiyuki Fujiwara as the director and Fumihiko Shimo as the series' script supervisor, featuring character designs by Ai Kikuchi. An original video animation (OVA) episode was made available", "title": "New Game!" }, { "id": "6865", "text": "initial launch line-up included content from Comedy Central, Huffington Post, Nerdist News, Univision News, Vice, ESPN and MTV. On January 25, 2016, AOL expanded its ONE platform by introducing ONE by AOL: Publishers, which combines six previously separate technologies to offer various publisher capabilities such as customizing video players, offering premium ad experience to boost visibility, and generating large video libraries. The announcement was made in tandem with AOL's acquisition of AlephD, a Paris-based startup focused on publisher analytics of ad price tracking based on historical data. AOL announced AlephD would be a part of the ONE by AOL: Publishers", "title": "AOL" }, { "id": "6827", "text": "AOL AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET, which hosted multi-player games for the Commodore 64. PlayNET licensed their software to a new service, Quantum Link (Q-Link), who went online in November 1985. PlayNET shut down shortly thereafter. The initial Q-Link service was similar to the original PlayNET, but over time Q-Link added", "title": "AOL" }, { "id": "20360256", "text": "been for the Invictus Games since its inception in London in 2014. Premier Partners were Fisher House Foundation, Medibank, Sage Group, UNSW Canberra and Westpac. Aon, Boeing, Defence Housing Australia, Fidelity, Hyatt Regency Sydney, icare, ISPS Handa, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Minter Ellison, Raytheon, Royal Australian Mint, SAAB Australia, Ticketek, Unisys and Workwear Group were Official Supporters. The event Official Suppliers were Amazon, Accor, CSM Live, George P. Johnson, Gold Medal Systems, Goodman, Great Big Events, Harvey Norman, Isentia, Norwest, Ottobock, Pages and Technical Direction Company. The Packer Family Foundation was a Philanthropic Supporter. Founding Partners were the Australian Defence Force,", "title": "2018 Invictus Games" }, { "id": "17719712", "text": "of over 1 million fans and won a PayPal Retail award in recognition of its work on this platform. In February 2014 the company floated on the London Stock Exchange as AO World. In the process, the founder John Roberts made £86m by selling 10% of the company to the public. In October 2014 the company launched operations in Germany and in March 2017 the company won the Retail Week Employer of the Year Award. The company now occupies 50,000sq ft offices and is based in Bolton. The company was named as 63rd in the Sunday Times 'Best Companies to", "title": "AO World" }, { "id": "6858", "text": "content based on their interests, for $83 million. The deal, which included roughly 40 Gravity employees and their personalization technology, was CEO Tim Armstrong's fourth largest deal since taking over the company in 2009. Later that year, AOL also acquired Vidible, which developed technology to help websites run video content from other publishers, and help video publishers sell their content to these websites. The deal, which was announced December 1, 2014, was reportedly worth roughly $50 million. On July 16, 2014, AOL earned an Emmy nomination for the AOL original series, The Future Starts Here, in the News and Documentary", "title": "AOL" }, { "id": "2414385", "text": "Adabas is typically used in applications that require high volumes of data processing or in high transaction online analytical processing environments. Adabas access is normally via direct calls, which Natural and/or SQL Solutions perform under the covers (similar to how Oracle Databases operate). FIND EMPLOYEE WITH NAME = 'JONES' OR = 'BAKER' END-FIND END Output of Program: NAME FIRST-NAME CITY ANNUAL SALARY BAKER PAULINE DERBY 4450 JONES MARTHA KALAMAZOO 21000 JONES KEVIN DERBY 7000 NATURAL is a 4GL; it wasn't part of the initial (1971) ADABAS software. Programs can be run interpretively or natively, if compiled. In the latter mode,", "title": "ADABAS" }, { "id": "14784480", "text": "streamline operations, Sega established operational firms for each of its businesses. In 2012, Sega established Sega Networks for its mobile games; and although separate at first, it merged with Sega Corporation in 2015. Sega Games was structured as a \"Consumer Online Company\", while Sega Networks focused on developing games for mobile devices. In 2012, Sega Entertainment was established for Sega's amusement facility business, and in 2015, Sega Interactive was established for the arcade game business. In January 2015, Sega of America announced their relocation from San Francisco to Atlus USA's headquarters in Irvine, California, which was completed later that year.", "title": "Sega" }, { "id": "15083261", "text": "in ABA History - 8,987. June 1, 2014 – National ABA Charity Award for Outstanding Service to the Community. 2015-2015 Season - ABA Team of the Year, Ron Sholes ABA Owner of the Year, Pam Masters general Manager of the year, Kevin Waters coach of the year Jacksonville Giants The Jacksonville Giants are a professional minor league basketball team based in Jacksonville, Florida. They were the 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, and 2018 National Champions of the new American Basketball Association (ABA), which they joined as an expansion team for the 2010–2011 season. They play most home games at the Jacksonville", "title": "Jacksonville Giants" }, { "id": "13628524", "text": "343 Industries 343 Industries (abbreviated to 343i or 343) is an American video game developer located in Redmond, Washington. Named after the \"Halo\" character 343 Guilty Spark, the company was established in 2007 by Microsoft Studios to oversee the development of the \"Halo\" science fiction media franchise following a split between Microsoft and Bungie. \"\" was the first title released by 343 Industries in which they played a lead development role. The newest release from the company was \"\" in 2018. 343 is currently developing \"Halo Infinite\". 343 Industries was founded in 2007, after the former \"Halo\" studio, Bungie, separated", "title": "343 Industries" }, { "id": "3632103", "text": "the company's five founders was made. The game was housed in an arcade cabinet inside Obsidian. Obsidian Entertainment Obsidian Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer based in Irvine, California. It was founded in June 2003, shortly before the closure of Black Isle Studios, by ex-Black Isle employees Feargus Urquhart, Chris Avellone, Chris Parker, Darren Monahan, and Chris Jones. Although they have created original intellectual property, many of their games are sequels based on licensed properties. Early projects include \"\" and \"Neverwinter Nights 2\", both sequels to BioWare-developed games. The team then developed their first original game, \"Alpha Protocol\",", "title": "Obsidian Entertainment" }, { "id": "11493654", "text": "company, which has been valuated to ca. NIS 300 million ($77 million USD). The company's administrative headquarters are currently located in Holon, while the main manufacturing plant and showroom are in Mitzpe Shalem, an Israeli settlement and kibbutz located on the Dead Sea in the West Bank. However, as of 2016, they are vacating their Mitzpe Shalem factory in the West Bank and building a new factory on land leased by Kibbutz Ein Gedi. Ziva Gilad, a spa technician, came up with the idea of marketing Dead Sea mud after watching women tourists scooping up the mud to take home.", "title": "Ahava" }, { "id": "5878731", "text": "original IP, before the company was shut down by EA. On the 22nd of October 2018, it was announced that Samantha Ryan was taking over Motive Studios and Jade left subsequently left EA. Jade Raymond Jade Raymond (born 28 August 1975) is a Canadian video game producer and executive, and the founder of Ubisoft Toronto and Motive Studios. Jade Raymond was born 28 August 1975 in Montreal She graduated from St. George's School of Montreal in 1992 and Marianopolis College in 1994. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University in 1998, where she majored in computer science.", "title": "Jade Raymond" }, { "id": "15621568", "text": "it was working on a full recreation of one of the game's maps: the fictional Mediterranean island of Malden. It contained new assets as well as many already created for Altis and Tanoa, and was released free for all game owners in June 2017. This DLC was developed Bohemia Interactive's new studio in Amsterdam, Netherlands under the code-name Orange, and pursued an aspect of warfare not often covered by other games. This DLC was released on September 7, 2017. The DLC added many new features, including a new faction called the International Development and Aid Project (which specialises in rapidly", "title": "ARMA 3" }, { "id": "4620164", "text": "management, shareholder communication, and loss management, including our major loss recovery cases.\" Tavakoli was succeeded by current CEO Claude LeBlanc in 2017, who said upon assuming the role that \"I look forward to working with Ambac's Board, talented management team, dedicated employees and primary regulator to continue executing the company's strategies to optimize assets and reduce liabilities, while maintaining a clear focus on risk and regulatory matters.\" Ambac The Ambac Financial Group, Inc., generally known as Ambac (originally the American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation), is an American holding company. Its subsidiaries provide financial guarantee products such as bond insurance and", "title": "Ambac" }, { "id": "20024995", "text": "training camp and made the opening-night roster. On February 28, 2017, Nwaba signed a 10-day contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. That night, Nwaba made his NBA debut in a 109–104 loss to the Charlotte Hornets, playing six minutes of fourth-quarter action. On March 11, 2017, he signed a second 10-day contract with the Lakers. He made his first start for the Lakers a day later, scoring six points in a 118–116 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. On March 21, 2017, he signed a multi-year contract with the Lakers. On April 1, 2017, he scored 19 points in a 115–104", "title": "David Nwaba" }, { "id": "3099552", "text": "in finance outside the industry. On May 17, 2007, Mike Gallagher replaced Doug Lowenstein as the president of the ESA. Gallagher announced on October 3, 2018 that he would be stepping down as president; current ESA senior vice-president Stanley Pierre-Louis will serve as interim president during ESA's search for a permanent replacement. In addition to overseeing the ESRB, the ESA organizes the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). After the IDGA's formation, the video game industry had become concerned over the treatment they had received at recent Consumer Electronic Shows and were seeking another trade show venue. The IDGA partnered with International", "title": "Entertainment Software Association" }, { "id": "17376579", "text": "4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in December 2014. On 5 October 2015, as \"The Crew\" reached 3 million players, Ubisoft announced that they had acquired Ivory Tower for an undisclosed sum. At the time, the studio housed 100 employees. Ivory Tower's second game, \"The Crew 2\", was announced by Ubisoft in June 2017, and released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One in June 2018. Ivory Tower (company) Ivory Tower SASU is a French video game developer based in Villeurbanne. The company was founded by three ex-Eden Games employees in September 2007 and acquired by Ubisoft in October 2015.", "title": "Ivory Tower (company)" }, { "id": "18776224", "text": "were announced on March 16, 2017, and the inductees were announced on May 4, 2017. The finalists were (with inductees in bold): Nominations were once again accepted online from the public. The finalists were announced on March 27, 2018. The finalists are: World Video Game Hall of Fame The World Video Game Hall of Fame is an international hall of fame that opened on June 4, 2015. It is located in The National Museum of Play's \"eGameRevolution\" exhibit; the hall's administration is overseen by The Strong and the International Center for the History of Electronic Games. The World Video Game", "title": "World Video Game Hall of Fame" }, { "id": "3632100", "text": "the project. On November 10, 2018, it was announced that the studio had been acquired by Microsoft. Following the announcement of the acquisition, a month after, on December 6, 2018, during The Game Awards 2018, Obsidian announced a new IP named \"The Outer Worlds\", a single player action role-playing video game set in an alternate future in which megacorporations began colonizing and terraforming alien planets. The game is set to be released cross-platform in 2019 on Xbox One, Microsoft Windows and Playstation 4. Obsidian built its reputation making sequels in well-established franchises including \"\", \"Neverwinter Nights\", \"Fallout\", and \"Dungeon Siege\".", "title": "Obsidian Entertainment" }, { "id": "1843158", "text": "Pirates. Later affiliated with the Boston Red Sox, the GreenJackets are with the San Francisco Giants. The team is owned by Cal Ripken Jr. The Augusta Rugby Football Club (ARFC) is a division 2 men's club competing in the Palmetto Rugby Union, part of the USA Rugby South Conference. Augusta has an all-female flat track roller derby team, the Soul City Sirens. Founded in 2008, this league is all-volunteer and skater-owned. Augusta is also home to the Augusta 706ers, a minor league professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association. The team founded in 2017 is owned by Augusta Professional", "title": "Augusta, Georgia" }, { "id": "14690589", "text": "company are unsatisfied over the result of our licensing business\". In August 2015, Rovio laid off 260 employees worldwide after Angry Birds toy and merchandise revenue fell by 43% during 2014. In December 2015, Rantala announced that he would step down as the CEO and would be succeeded by Kati Levoranta, former chief legal officer of Rovio, in January 2016. In March 2016, Rovio soft launched \"Battle Bay\" to select Asian Pacific and European countries, this is Rovio's first MOBA five-on-five player vs. player game. The game was released worldwide for Android and iOS in May 2017. On 16 January", "title": "Rovio Entertainment" }, { "id": "13406788", "text": "(ADC). In December 2014, a new board of directors and a new team of senior managers began taking over the company, to reflect the new shareholding. BancABC BancABC, officially known as ABC Holdings Limited, is a pan-African financial services provider, headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. BancABC is a financial services provider in Southern Africa and Eastern Africa. , the bank's group assets were valued at about US $1.81 billion, with shareholders' equity valued at US $115.75 million. BancABC has subsidiaries in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. with plans to expand into Angola, South Sudan, and Uganda. The establishment of ABC", "title": "BancABC" }, { "id": "20671445", "text": "Orlando Apollos The Orlando Apollos are a professional American football team based in Orlando, Florida and are charter members of the Alliance of American Football, which is set to play in February 2019 at Spectrum Stadium on the campus of the University of Central Florida. They will be coached by Heisman Trophy winner and former college and National Football League head coach Steve Spurrier. NFL Front Office Veteran Tim Ruskell is the General Manager and longtime College Athletics Executive Michael Waddell is the Team President. The team's name is inspired by the Greek god Apollo and his and Florida's connections", "title": "Orlando Apollos" }, { "id": "17559086", "text": "the AGA. His predecessor, Frank Fahrenkopf, announced early in 2013 that he was stepping down on June 30, after more than 17 years with AGA, remaining as a consultant for at least six months after that. Freeman graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. His wife, Tita Thompson Freeman, was the senior vice president of communications and public affairs at the Business Roundtable. They currently reside in Arlington, Virginia, with their three young children. Geoff Freeman Geoff Freeman (born 1974) is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Gaming Association (AGA). Effective August 1, 2018, he will become", "title": "Geoff Freeman" }, { "id": "1989720", "text": "as a jukebox rental and repair business in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan, by Kagemasa Kōzuki, who remains the company's chairman. The name \"Konami\" (; ) is a portmanteau of the names Kagemasa Kozuki, Yoshinobu Nakama, and Tatsuo Miyasako. Konami is currently headquartered in Tokyo. In the United States, Konami manages its video game business from offices in El Segundo, California and its casino gaming business from offices in Paradise, Nevada. Its Australian gaming operations are located in Sydney. As of March 2016, it owns 21 consolidated subsidiaries around the world. The company was founded on March 21, 1969 and was officially", "title": "Konami" }, { "id": "3165372", "text": "buyout in June 2017, becoming independent and regaining the rights to their \"Hitman\" and \"Freedom Fighters\" franchises. IO Interactive's most recent game is \"Hitman 2\", which was released in November 2018. In 1997, Reto-Moto was founded as a video game developer in Copenhagen. Before the studio finished any games, they struck a partnership with Danish film studio Nordisk Film in 1998 that would lead to the creation of a developer jointly owned by the two companies. The resulting company, IO Interactive, was founded on 16 September 1998, with Reto-Moto's seven employees, Jesper Vorsholt Jørgensen, Rasmus Guldberg-Kjær, Martin Munk Pollas, Karsten", "title": "IO Interactive" }, { "id": "20349769", "text": "near O'Hare International Airport, as well as Allstate Arena, the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, and the Fashion Outlets of Chicago. In September 2017, Impact Networking, LLC purchased the naming rights to the ballpark over twelve years for an undisclosed sum. The Chicago Dogs played their first game at Impact Field on May 25, 2018. They lost to the visiting Kansas City T-Bones, 8–4, in front of a sell-out crowd of 6,317 people. Impact Field Impact Field is a baseball park in Rosemont, Illinois, USA, which is part of the Chicago metropolitan area. It is the home of the Chicago", "title": "Impact Field" }, { "id": "11256103", "text": "Activision Blizzard Activision Blizzard, Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Santa Monica, California. The company was founded in July 2008 through the merger of Activision and Vivendi Games, the company is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol , and since 2015 has been one of the stocks that make up the S&P 500. Activision Blizzard currently includes five business units: Activision, Blizzard Entertainment, Major League Gaming, Activision Blizzard Studios, and King. The company owns and operates additional studios under an independent studios model, including Treyarch, Infinity Ward, High Moon Studios and Toys", "title": "Activision Blizzard" }, { "id": "3771334", "text": "GameStop GameStop Corp. (known simply as GameStop) is an American video game, consumer electronics, and wireless services retailer. The company is headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, United States, a suburb of Dallas, and operates 7,267 retail stores throughout the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. The company's retail stores primarily operate under the GameStop, EB Games, ThinkGeek, and Micromania brands. In addition to retail stores, GameStop also owns \"Game Informer\", a video game magazine; Simply Mac, an Apple products reseller; and Spring Mobile, an AT&T wireless reseller. GameStop traces its roots to Babbage's, a Tucson, Arizona-based software retailer founded in", "title": "GameStop" }, { "id": "10707743", "text": "Funagain Games Funagain Games is a board game, card game and table game retailer that generally stocks more than 5,000 different games from all over the world. It maintains a physical shop and warehouse in Ashland, Oregon, but is best known for its online business, www.funagain.com, which has more than 200,000 customers in 100 countries. Funagain carries a wide variety of games, but specializes in German-style board games and other imports. Some manufacturers say that Funagain holds the lion's share of the online board game market because it reliably stocks the newest and most popular games, as well as the", "title": "Funagain Games" }, { "id": "6686300", "text": "the publisher of the official magazines of all three major console manufacturers in the US. In 2012, NewBay Media bought the Music division of Future US. In 2018, Future reacquired all the assets previously sold to NewBay by buying NewBay outright for US13.8 million. Future used this acquisition to expand its US footprint, particularly in B2B segment. Future US Future US, Inc. (formerly known as Imagine Media and The Future Network USA) is an American media corporation specializing in targeted magazines and websites in the video games, music, and technology markets. Future US is headquartered in the San Francisco with", "title": "Future US" }, { "id": "3099548", "text": "Entertainment Software Association The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is the trade association of the video game industry in the United States. It was formed in April 1994 as the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA) and renamed on July 21, 2003. It is based in Washington, D.C.. Most of the top publishers in the gaming world (or their American subsidiaries) are members of the ESA, including Capcom, Electronic Arts, Konami, Microsoft, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Nintendo, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Square Enix, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The ESA also organizes the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade expo in", "title": "Entertainment Software Association" }, { "id": "5415330", "text": "facility for the Raptors, to be known as BioSteel Centre, at Exhibition Place. MLSE will pay the entire $30 million construction cost, and will lease the property from the city for $205,000 annually, subject to reassessments for inflation, for a 20-year term, with two options to extend it by a further 10 years, following which the city would take ownership of the building. Construction was completed in time for the team's hosting of the NBA All-Star Game in February 2016. In 2018 the facility was renamed the Toronto Raptors Training Centre. In February 2015 MLSE confirmed that they were planning", "title": "Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment" }, { "id": "20594309", "text": "as lead contributors. The merger brought together both sets of source code and their developer communities, who then elaborated a common architecture for the new project. Other contributors included AmDocs, Bell Canada, Intel, Orange, and more. ONAP incorporates or is evaluating collaboration with other open source projects, including OpenDaylight, FD.io, OPNFV and others. The first release of the combined ONAP architecture, code named \"Amsterdam\", was announced on November 20, 2017. The next release (\"Beijing\") was released in June 12, 2018. As of January, 2018, ONAP became a project within the LF Networking Fund, which consolidated membership across multiple projects into", "title": "ONAP" }, { "id": "12672904", "text": "Yuet Group in China, the US company Computerized Security Systems (CSS) with its Saflok and La Gard brands, and the Dutch company H. Cillekens Zn. B.V. In addition, various joint ventures with the Indian Minda Group were entered. At Security 2008, Kaba was awarded the “Security Innovation Award” in gold for its newly developed identification technology RCID. In 2011, Kaba sold the Business Segment Door Automation (Kaba Gilgen AG, formerly Gilgen AG) to the Japanese Group. In April 2015, Kaba announced a merger with German-based Dorma Holding. The new company is styled dormakaba and will be operationally based in Rümlang,", "title": "Dormakaba" }, { "id": "17228502", "text": "Niantic (company) Niantic, Inc. is an American software development company based in San Francisco, which is best known for developing the augmented reality mobile games \"Ingress\", \"Pokémon Go\", and the upcoming \"\". The company was formed as Niantic Labs in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. The company became an independent entity in October 2015. The company was formed in 2010 by John Hanke as Niantic Labs, an internal startup within Google. The company took its name from the whaling vessel \"Niantic\", which came to San Francisco during the California Gold Rush in the 1800s. At the time Ingress", "title": "Niantic (company)" }, { "id": "20517255", "text": "Shadow of the Colossus (2018 video game) Shadow of the Colossus is an action-adventure game developed by Bluepoint Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. It is a remake of the original game for the PlayStation 2 using ultra-high definition art assets. The remake was led by Bluepoint, who developed the earlier PlayStation 3 remaster, with assistance from SIE Japan Studio. The developers remade all the game's assets from the ground up, but the game retains the same gameplay from the original title aside from the introduction of a new control scheme. The game received acclaim", "title": "Shadow of the Colossus (2018 video game)" }, { "id": "17537254", "text": "Amoeba Management Amoeba is a Management Systemdesigned by the creator and the current Kyocera honorary chairman, Kazuo Inamori. This management system was established in Kyocera and DDI (now KDDI) Amoebas are in general groups of 5 to 50 people, composed of personnel in a company, with a clearly defined purpose of making profit for itself. Profit is measured using this simple formula: (\"Profit per hour = (sales - cost) ÷ working hours\"). It is calculated in each amoeba with the goal being to identify and maximize profitability per hour. Amoeba profit is usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis.", "title": "Amoeba Management" } ]

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[ { "id": "139972", "text": "cis fats, which are the most common in nature, and trans fats, which are rare in nature. Unsaturated fats can be altered by reaction with hydrogen effected by a catalyst. This action, called hydrogenation, tends to break all the double bonds and makes a fully saturated fat. To make vegetable shortening, then, liquid \"cis\"-unsaturated fats such as vegetable oils are hydrogenated to produce saturated fats, which have more desirable physical properties e.g., they melt at a desirable temperature (30–40 °C), and store well, whereas polyunsaturated oils go rancid when they react with oxygen in the air. However, trans fats are", "title": "Fat" }, { "id": "1917681", "text": "Saturated fat A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all or predominantly single bonds. A fat is made of two kinds of smaller molecules: glycerol and fatty acids. Fats are made of long chains of carbon (C) atoms. Some carbon atoms are linked by single bonds (-C-C-) and others are linked by double bonds (-C=C-). Double bonds can react with hydrogen to form single bonds. They are called saturated, because the second bond is broken up and each half of the bond is attached to (saturated with) a hydrogen atom. Most animal", "title": "Saturated fat" }, { "id": "1917702", "text": "Unsaturated fat An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain. A fatty acid chain is monounsaturated if it contains one double bond, and polyunsaturated if it contains more than one double bond. Where double bonds are formed, hydrogen atoms are subtracted from the carbon chain. Thus, a saturated fat has no double bonds, has the maximum number of hydrogens bonded to the carbons, and therefore is \"saturated\" with hydrogen atoms. In cellular metabolism, unsaturated fat molecules contain somewhat less energy (i.e., fewer calories) than an", "title": "Unsaturated fat" }, { "id": "7569515", "text": "main product of fat digestion, are first broken down to fatty acids and glycerol through hydrolysis using Lipoprotein lipase. This allows them to freely pass through capillary walls. Most of this will be reconstituted as triglycerides and stored in adipose tissue. The rest is used for energy in adipose cells, skeletal muscle, and hepatocytes. In a low carb environment, other body cells will also begin to use triglycerides as energy sources. Amino Acids - The liver deaminates amino acids to keto acids to be used in the krebs cycle in order to produce ATP. They may also be converted to", "title": "Absorptive state" }, { "id": "1917686", "text": "fat is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The World Health Organization in May 2015 recommends switching from saturated to unsaturated fats. A small, limited number of systematic reviews have examined the relationship between saturated fat and cardiovascular disease and have come to different conclusions. However, these rely on observational studies and can therefore not be used to establish cause and effect relationships: A 2017 systematic review by the American Heart Association of randomized controlled clinical trials showed that reducing intake of dietary saturated fat and replacing it with monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats could reduce cardiovascular disease by about 30%,", "title": "Saturated fat" }, { "id": "1914036", "text": "bonds. In nature, unsaturated fatty acids generally have \"cis\" as opposed to \"trans\" configurations. In food production, liquid cis-unsaturated fats such as vegetable oils are hydrogenated to produce saturated fats, which have more desirable physical properties, e.g., they melt at a desirable temperature (30–40 °C). Partial hydrogenation of the unsaturated fat converts some of the cis double bonds into trans double bonds by an isomerization reaction with the catalyst used for the hydrogenation, which yields a trans fat. Although trans fats are edible, consuming trans fats has been shown to increase the risk of coronary artery disease in part by", "title": "Trans fat" }, { "id": "4739283", "text": "those in saturated fats. In general, this means that the melting points of fats increase from cis to trans unsaturated and then to saturated. See the section about the chemical structure of fats for more information. The position of the carbon-carbon double bonds in carboxylic acid chains in fats is designated by Greek letters. The carbon atom closest to the carboxyl group is the \"alpha\" carbon, the next carbon is the \"beta\" carbon and so on. In fatty acids the carbon atom of the methyl group at the end of the hydrocarbon chain is called the \"omega\" carbon because \"omega\"", "title": "Polyunsaturated fat" }, { "id": "162532", "text": "Glycolysis Glycolysis (from \"glycose\", an older term for glucose + \"-lysis\" degradation) is the metabolic pathway that converts glucose CHO, into pyruvate, CHCOCOO + H. The free energy released in this process is used to form the high-energy molecules ATP (adenosine triphosphate) and NADH (reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide). Glycolysis is a sequence of ten enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Most monosaccharides, such as fructose and galactose, can be converted to one of these intermediates. The intermediates may also be directly useful. For example, the intermediate dihydroxyacetone phosphate (DHAP) is a source of the glycerol that combines with fatty acids to form fat. Glycolysis", "title": "Glycolysis" }, { "id": "6269884", "text": "Lipogenesis Lipogenesis is the process by which acetyl-CoA is converted to triglycerides (i.e., fat). Acetyl-CoA is an organic compound mainly used to transfer to other compounds the energy obtained by the breakdown of nutrients such as carbohydrates, fatty acids, and ethanol. Through the citric acid cycle, Acetyl-CoA is typically broken down to produce ATP, which is then consumed as a source of energy for many metabolic processes needed for survival or reproduction, such as protein synthesis or muscle contraction. Through lipogenesis, the energy contained in Acetyl-CoA can be efficiently stored for a long time in the form of fats, whenever", "title": "Lipogenesis" }, { "id": "4739287", "text": "health impacts of replacing dietary saturated fat with linoleic acid found that participants in the group doing so had \"increased\" rates of death from all causes, coronary heart disease, and cardiovascular disease. Although this evaluation was disputed by many scientists, it fueled debate over worldwide dietary advice to substitute polyunsaturated fats for saturated fats. Polyunsaturated fat supplementation does not decrease the incidence of pregnancy-related disorders, such as hypertension or preeclampsia, but may increase the length of gestation slightly and decreased the incidence of early premature births. Expert panels in the United States and Europe recommend that pregnant and lactating women", "title": "Polyunsaturated fat" }, { "id": "4739282", "text": "Polyunsaturated fat Polyunsaturated fats are fats in which the constituent hydrocarbon chain possesses two or more carbon–carbon double bonds. Polyunsaturated fat can be found mostly in nuts, seeds, fish, seed oils, and oysters. \"Unsaturated\" refers to the fact that the molecules contain less than the maximum amount of hydrogen (if there were no double bonds). These materials exist as \"cis\" or \"trans\" isomers depending on the geometry of the double bond. Saturated fats have hydrocarbon chains which can be most readily aligned. The hydrocarbon chains in trans fats align more readily than those in cis fats, but less well than", "title": "Polyunsaturated fat" }, { "id": "3845643", "text": "Dehydrogenation Dehydrogenation is a chemical reaction that involves the removal of hydrogen from an organic molecule. It is the reverse of hydrogenation. Dehydrogenation is an important reaction because it converts alkanes, which are relatively inert and thus low-valued, to olefins (including alkenes), which are reactive and thus more valuable. Alkenes are precursors to aldehydes, alcohols, polymers, and aromatics. Dehydrogenation processes are used extensively to produce aromatics and styrene in the petrochemical industry. Such processes are highly endothermic and require temperatures of 500 °C and above. Dehydrogenation also converts saturated fats to unsaturated fats. Enzymes that catalyze dehydrogenation are called dehydrogenases.", "title": "Dehydrogenation" }, { "id": "1917700", "text": "be reduced or replaced by products containing monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, a dietary adjustment that could reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases by 30%. It should be noted, as this is the defining factor of saturated fats, that the two-dimensional illustration has implicit hydrogen atoms bonded to each of the carbon atoms in the polycarbon tail of the myristic acid molecule (there are 13 carbon atoms in the tail; 14 carbon atoms in the entire molecule). Carbon atoms are also implicitly drawn, as they are portrayed as intersections between two straight lines. \"Saturated,\" in general, refers to a maximum number", "title": "Saturated fat" }, { "id": "9565933", "text": "backbone esterified to three fatty acid molecules. The triglycerides contain a mixture of saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Interesterification is carried out by blending the desired oils and then rearranging the fatty acids over the glycerol backbone with, for instance, the help of catalysts or lipase enzymes. Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) decrease the melting point of fats significantly. A triglyceride containing three saturated fatty acids is generally solid at room temperature and not very desirable for many applications. Rearranging these triglycerides with oils containing unsaturated fatty acids lowers the melting point and creates fats with properties better suited for", "title": "Interesterified fat" }, { "id": "138868", "text": "are higher melting than the unsaturated precursors, the process is called hardening. Related technology is used to convert vegetable oils into margarine. The hydrogenation of triglycerides (vs fatty acids) is advantageous because the carboxylic acids degrade the nickel catalysts, affording nickel soaps. During partial hydrogenation, unsaturated fatty acids can be isomerized from \"cis\" to \"trans\" configuration. More forcing hydrogenation, i.e. using higher pressures of H and higher temperatures, converts fatty acids into fatty alcohols. Fatty alcohols are, however, more easily produced from fatty acid esters. In the Varrentrapp reaction certain unsaturated fatty acids are cleaved in molten alkali, a reaction", "title": "Fatty acid" }, { "id": "1917704", "text": "because saturated fats are less vulnerable to rancidity and usually more solid at room temperature than unsaturated fats. Unsaturated chains have a lower melting point, hence these molecules increase the fluidity of cell membranes. Although both monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats can replace saturated fat in the diet, trans unsaturated fats should not. Replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats helps lower levels of total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol in the blood. Trans unsaturated fats are an exception because the double bond stereochemistry predisposes the carbon chains to assume a linear conformation, which conforms to rigid packing as in plaque formation. The", "title": "Unsaturated fat" }, { "id": "1914050", "text": "four bonds per carbon atom). Full hydrogenation results in a molecule containing the maximum amount of hydrogen (in other words, the conversion of an unsaturated fatty acid into a saturated one). Partial hydrogenation results in the addition of hydrogen atoms at some of the empty positions, with a corresponding reduction in the number of double bonds. Typical commercial hydrogenation is partial to obtain a malleable mixture of fats that is solid at room temperature, but melts during baking, or consumption. In most naturally occurring unsaturated fatty acids, the hydrogen atoms are on the same side of the double bonds of", "title": "Trans fat" }, { "id": "1917701", "text": "of hydrogen atoms bonded to each carbon of the polycarbon tail as allowed by the Octet Rule. This also means that only single bonds (sigma bonds) will be present between adjacent carbon atoms of the tail. Saturated fat A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all or predominantly single bonds. A fat is made of two kinds of smaller molecules: glycerol and fatty acids. Fats are made of long chains of carbon (C) atoms. Some carbon atoms are linked by single bonds (-C-C-) and others are linked by double bonds (-C=C-). Double", "title": "Saturated fat" }, { "id": "139973", "text": "generated during hydrogenation as contaminants created by an unwanted side reaction on the catalyst during partial hydrogenation. Saturated fats can stack themselves in a closely packed arrangement, so they can solidify easily and are typically solid at room temperature. For example, animal fats tallow and lard are high in saturated fatty acid content and are solids. Olive and linseed oils on the other hand are unsaturated and liquid. Fats serve both as energy sources for the body, and as stores for energy in excess of what the body needs immediately. Each gram of fat when burned or metabolized releases about", "title": "Fat" }, { "id": "6775315", "text": "plant may be used solely for the saturation of olefins or they may be used for simultaneously desulfurizing as well as denitrogenating and saturating olefins to some extent. The food industry uses hydrogenation to completely or partially saturate the unsaturated fatty acids in liquid vegetable fats and oils to convert them into solid or semi-solid fats, such as those in margarine and shortening. Hydrodesulfurization Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) is a catalytic chemical process widely used to remove sulfur (S) from natural gas and from refined petroleum products, such as gasoline or petrol, jet fuel, kerosene, diesel fuel, and fuel oils. The purpose", "title": "Hydrodesulfurization" }, { "id": "1917703", "text": "equivalent amount of saturated fat. The greater the degree of unsaturation in a fatty acid (i.e., the more double bonds in the fatty acid) the more vulnerable it is to lipid peroxidation (rancidity). Antioxidants can protect unsaturated fat from lipid peroxidation. Double bonds may be in either a \"cis\" or a \"trans\" isomer, depending on the geometry of the double bond. In the \"cis\" isomer, hydrogen atoms are on the same side of the double bond; whereas in the \"trans\" isomer, they are on opposite sides of the double bond (see trans fat). Saturated fats are useful in processed foods", "title": "Unsaturated fat" }, { "id": "7569516", "text": "fat stores. Some are used to make plasma proteins, but most leave through liver sinusoids to be used by body cells to construct proteins. Absorptive state Absorptive state is the period in which the gastrointestinal tract is full and the anabolic processes exceed catabolism. The fuel used for this process is glucose. Carbohydrates - Simple sugars are sent to the liver where they are converted to glucose. The glucose then travels to the blood or is converted to glycogen and fat (triglyceride). The glycogen and fat will be stored in the liver and adipose tissue, respectively, as reserves for the", "title": "Absorptive state" }, { "id": "1917689", "text": "recommend people remain with the current guidelines to reduce saturated fat consumption. The American Heart Association noted that these cohort studies, unlike clinical trials, have more difficulty controlling for the consumption of carbohydrates as a replacement macronutrient for those who consumed less saturated fat. While many studies have found that including polyunsaturated fats in the diet in place of saturated fats produces more beneficial CVD outcomes, the effects of substituting monounsaturated fats or carbohydrates are unclear. The consumption of saturated fat is generally considered a risk factor for dyslipidemia, which in turn is a risk factor for some types of", "title": "Saturated fat" }, { "id": "7569514", "text": "Absorptive state Absorptive state is the period in which the gastrointestinal tract is full and the anabolic processes exceed catabolism. The fuel used for this process is glucose. Carbohydrates - Simple sugars are sent to the liver where they are converted to glucose. The glucose then travels to the blood or is converted to glycogen and fat (triglyceride). The glycogen and fat will be stored in the liver and adipose tissue, respectively, as reserves for the post-absorptive state. The remaining glucose is taken in for use by body cells or stored in skeletal muscle as glycogen. Triglycerides - Chylomicrons, the", "title": "Absorptive state" }, { "id": "1619526", "text": "is associated with the degradation by oxygen in the air. The double bonds of an unsaturated fatty acid can be cleaved by free-radical reactions involving molecular oxygen. This reaction causes the release of malodorous and highly volatile aldehydes and ketones. Because of the nature of free-radical reactions, the reaction is catalyzed by sunlight. Oxidation primarily occurs with unsaturated fats. For example, even though meat is held under refrigeration or in a frozen state, the poly-unsaturated fat will continue to oxidize and slowly become rancid. The fat oxidation process, potentially resulting in rancidity, begins immediately after the animal is slaughtered and", "title": "Rancidification" }, { "id": "7231882", "text": "Polyethoxylated tallow amine Polyethoxylated tallow amine (also polyoxyethyleneamine, POEA) refers to a range of non-ionic surfactants derived from animal fats (tallow). They are used primarily as emulsifiers and wetting agents for agrochemical formulations, such as pesticides and herbicides (e.g. glyphosate). Animal fat is hydrolysed to give the free fatty acids (typically oleic (37–43%), palmitic (24–32%), stearic (20–25%), myristic (3–6%), and linoleic (2–3%). These are then converted to fatty amines via the nitrile process before being ethoxylated with ethylene oxide; this makes them water-soluble and amphiphilic. The length of the fatty tail and degree of exothylation will determine the overall properties", "title": "Polyethoxylated tallow amine" }, { "id": "9741143", "text": "Fatty acid degradation Fatty acid degradation is the process in which fatty acids are broken down into their metabolites, in the end generating acetyl-CoA, the entry molecule for the citric acid cycle, the main energy supply of animals. It includes three major steps: Initially in the process of degradation, fatty acids are stored in fat cells (adipocytes). The breakdown of this fat is known as lipolysis. The products of lipolysis, free fatty acids, are released into the bloodstream and circulate throughout the body. During the breakdown of triacylglycerols into fatty acids, more than 75% of the fatty acids are converted", "title": "Fatty acid degradation" }, { "id": "238118", "text": "fatty acids are broken down in the mitochondria or in peroxisomes to generate acetyl-CoA. For the most part, fatty acids are oxidized by a mechanism that is similar to, but not identical with, a reversal of the process of fatty acid synthesis. That is, two-carbon fragments are removed sequentially from the carboxyl end of the acid after steps of dehydrogenation, hydration, and oxidation to form a beta-keto acid, which is split by thiolysis. The acetyl-CoA is then ultimately converted into ATP, CO, and HO using the citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain. Hence the citric acid cycle can", "title": "Lipid" }, { "id": "139982", "text": "groups should continue to include permanent reduction of dietary saturated fat and partial replacement by unsaturated fats.\" Numerous studies have also found that consumption of \"trans\" fats increases risk of cardiovascular disease. The Harvard School of Public Health advises that replacing \"trans\" fats and saturated fats with \"cis\" monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats is beneficial for health. Fat Fat is one of the three main macronutrients, along with the other two: carbohydrate and protein. Fats molecules consist of primarily carbon and hydrogen atoms, thus they are all hydrocarbon molecules. Examples include cholesterol, phospholipids and triglycerides. The terms \"lipid\", \"oil\" and \"fat\"", "title": "Fat" }, { "id": "292184", "text": "have relatively fewer hydrogen atoms than a saturated fatty acid of the same length. Unsaturated fats may be further classified as monounsaturated (one double-bond) or polyunsaturated (many double-bonds). Furthermore, depending on the location of the double-bond in the fatty acid chain, unsaturated fatty acids are classified as omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids. Trans fats are a type of unsaturated fat with \"trans\"-isomer bonds; these are rare in nature and in foods from natural sources; they are typically created in an industrial process called (partial) hydrogenation. There are nine kilocalories in each gram of fat. Fatty acids such as conjugated linoleic", "title": "Nutrition" }, { "id": "3152497", "text": "fatty acid constituents of fats, which can be either saturated or unsaturated, depending on whether the constituent fatty acids contain carbon-carbon double bonds. Tallow consists mainly of triglycerides (fats), whose major constituents are derived from the saturated stearic and monounsaturated oleic acids. Many vegetable oils contain fatty acids with one (\"monounsaturated\") or more (\"polyunsaturated\") double bonds in them. In organometallic chemistry, an unsaturated complex has fewer than 18 valence electrons and thus is susceptible to oxidative addition or coordination of an additional ligand. Unsaturation is characteristic of many catalysts because it is usually a requirement for substrate activation. In contrast,", "title": "Saturation (chemistry)" }, { "id": "2897676", "text": "proportion to atoms of carbon and hydrogen. When listed on nutritional information tables, fats are generally divided into six categories: total fats, saturated fatty acid, polyunsaturated fatty acid, monounsaturated fatty acid, dietary cholesterol, and trans fatty acid. From a basal metabolic or resting metabolic perspective, more energy is needed to burn a saturated fatty acid than an unsaturated fatty acid. The fatty acid molecule is broken down and categorized based on the number of carbon atoms in its molecular structure. The chemical equation for metabolism of the twelve to sixteen carbon atoms in a saturated fatty acid molecule shows the", "title": "Basal metabolic rate" }, { "id": "3875058", "text": "bonds) and a lower melting point than saturated fatty acids (no double bonds). Monounsaturated fatty acids are liquids at room temperature and semisolid or solid when refrigerated resulting in a isotopic lattice structure. Common monounsaturated fatty acids are palmitoleic acid (16:1 n−7), cis-vaccenic acid (18:1 n−7) and oleic acid (18:1 n−9). Palmitoleic acid has 16 carbon atoms with the first double bond occurring 7 carbon atoms away from the methyl group (and 9 carbons from the carboxyl end). It can be lengthened to the 18-carbon cis-vaccenic acid. Oleic acid has 18 carbon atoms with the first double bond occurring 9", "title": "Monounsaturated fat" }, { "id": "1917706", "text": "unsaturated fatty acids are palmitoleic acid, oleic acid, myristoleic acid, linoleic acid, and arachidonic acid. Foods containing unsaturated fats include avocado, nuts, olive oils, and vegetable oils such as canola. Meat products contain both saturated and unsaturated fats. Although unsaturated fats are conventionally regarded as 'healthier' than saturated fats, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendation stated that the amount of unsaturated fat consumed should not exceed 30% of one's daily caloric intake. Most foods contain both unsaturated and saturated fats. Marketers advertise only one or the other, depending on which one makes up the majority. Thus, various", "title": "Unsaturated fat" }, { "id": "935187", "text": "molecules have relatively fewer hydrogen atoms than a saturated fatty acid of the same length. Unsaturated fats may be further classified as monounsaturated (one double-bond) or polyunsaturated (many double-bonds). Furthermore, depending on the location of the double-bond in the fatty acid chain, unsaturated fatty acids are classified as omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids. Trans fats are a type of unsaturated fat with \"trans\"-isomer bonds; these are rare in nature and in foods from natural sources; they are typically created in an industrial process called (partial) hydrogenation. Many studies have shown that consumption of unsaturated fats, particularly monounsaturated fats, is associated", "title": "Human nutrition" }, { "id": "138861", "text": "always bound to a transport protein, such as albumin. Fatty acids are usually produced industrially by the hydrolysis of triglycerides, with the removal of glycerol (see oleochemicals). Phospholipids represent another source. Some fatty acids are produced synthetically by hydrocarboxylation of alkenes. In animals, fatty acids are formed from carbohydrates predominantly in the liver, adipose tissue, and the mammary glands during lactation. Carbohydrates are converted into pyruvate by glycolysis as the first important step in the conversion of carbohydrates into fatty acids. Pyruvate is then decarboxylated to form acetyl-CoA in the mitochondrion. However, this acetyl CoA needs to be transported into", "title": "Fatty acid" }, { "id": "3875057", "text": "Monounsaturated fat In biochemistry and nutrition, monounsaturated fatty acids (abbreviated MUFAs, or more plainly monounsaturated fats) are fatty acids that have one double bond in the fatty acid chain with all of the remainder carbon atoms being single-bonded. By contrast, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have more than one double bond. Fatty acids are long-chained molecules having an alkyl group at one end and a carboxylic acid group at the other end. Fatty acid viscosity (thickness) and melting temperature increases with decreasing number of double bonds; therefore, monounsaturated fatty acids have a higher melting point than polyunsaturated fatty acids (more double", "title": "Monounsaturated fat" }, { "id": "138867", "text": "sodium hydroxide solution using phenolphthalein as an indicator. This analysis is used to determine the free fatty acid content of fats; i.e., the proportion of the triglycerides that have been hydrolyzed. Neutralization of fatty acids, i.e. saponification, is a widely practiced route to metallic soaps. Hydrogenation of unsaturated fatty acids is widely practiced. Typical conditions involve 2.0–3.0 MPa of H pressure, 150 °C, and nickel supported on silica as a catalyst. This treatment affords saturated fatty acids. The extent of hydrogenation is indicated by the iodine number. Hydrogenated fatty acids are less prone toward rancidification. Since the saturated fatty acids", "title": "Fatty acid" }, { "id": "1914035", "text": "Trans fat Trans fat, also called unsaturated fatty acids or trans fatty acids, are a type of unsaturated fat that occur in small amounts in nature, but became widely produced industrially from vegetable fats starting in the 1950s for use in margarine, snack food, packaged baked goods, and for frying fast food. Trans fat has been shown to be associated consistently, in an intake-dependent way, with increased risk of coronary artery disease, a leading cause of death in Western nations. Fats contain long hydrocarbon chains, which can be either unsaturated, i.e., have double bonds, or saturated, i.e., have no double", "title": "Trans fat" }, { "id": "1787790", "text": "double bond). Their partial hydrogenation reduces most, but not all, of these carbon-carbon double bonds. The degree of hydrogenation is controlled by restricting the amount of hydrogen, reaction temperature and time, and the catalyst. Hydrogenation converts liquid vegetable oils into solid or semi-solid fats, such as those present in margarine. Changing the degree of saturation of the fat changes some important physical properties, such as the melting range, which is why liquid oils become semi-solid. Solid or semi-solid fats are preferred for baking because the way the fat mixes with flour produces a more desirable texture in the baked product.", "title": "Hydrogenation" }, { "id": "9741117", "text": "Fatty acid synthesis Fatty acid synthesis is the creation of fatty acids from acetyl-CoA and NADPH through the action of enzymes called fatty acid synthases. This process takes place in the cytoplasm of the cell. Most of the acetyl-CoA which is converted into fatty acids is derived from carbohydrates via the glycolytic pathway. The glycolytic pathway also provides the glycerol with which three fatty acids can combine (by means of ester bonds) to form triglycerides (also known as \"triacylglycerols\" – to distinguish them from fatty \"acids\" – or simply as \"fat\"), the final product of the lipogenic process. When only", "title": "Fatty acid synthesis" }, { "id": "1978132", "text": "Lipolysis Lipolysis is the breakdown of lipids and involves hydrolysis of triglycerides into glycerol and free fatty acids. Predominantly occurring in adipose tissue, lipolysis is used to mobilize stored energy during fasting or exercise. Lipolysis is directly induced in adipocytes by glucagon, epinephrine, norepinephrine, growth hormone, atrial natriuretic peptide, brain natriuretic peptide, and cortisol. In adipose tissue, intracellular triglycerides are stored in cytoplasmic lipid droplets. When lipases are phosphorylated, they access lipid droplets and through multiple steps of hydrolysis, breakdown triglycerides into fatty acids and glycerol. Each step of hydrolysis leads to the removal of one fatty acid. The first", "title": "Lipolysis" }, { "id": "1917685", "text": "oil) is potentially less healthy than consuming fats with a lower proportion of saturated fatty acids. Sources of lower saturated fat but higher proportions of unsaturated fatty acids include olive oil, peanut oil, canola oil, avocados, corn, sunflower, soy, and cottonseed oils. There are strong, consistent, and graded relationships between saturated fat intake, blood cholesterol levels, and the mass occurrence of cardiovascular disease. The relationships are accepted as causal. Many health authorities such as the American Dietetic Association,<ref name=\"ADA/DOC\"></ref> the British Dietetic Association, American Heart Association, the World Heart Federation, the British National Health Service, among others, advise that saturated", "title": "Saturated fat" }, { "id": "4977561", "text": "two carbons prevents rotation of the atoms about the bond, locking them into specific structural formations. When attached atoms occupy similar positions on each carbon, they are referred to as \"cis\", and when they are on opposite sides, they are called \"trans\". Most natural hydrocarbons exist in the cis state, but artificially manufactured hydrocarbons are trans. The body lacks the enzymes to properly break down the trans configuration. This is why trans fats are viewed as dangerous and unhealthy, as they tend to build up. Unsaturated compounds of the two formations are classified as geometric isomers of one another. The", "title": "Saturated and unsaturated compounds" }, { "id": "1998488", "text": "because plant-based lauric oils processed from palm kernel oil were cheaper. Since then, palm kernel oil is predominantly used in the production of laundry detergent and personal care items like toothpaste, soap bars, shower cream and shampoo. Important processeses in oleochemical manufacturing include hydrolosis and transesterification, among others. The splitting (or hydrolysis) of the triglycerides produces fatty acids and glycerol: The addition of base helps the reaction proceed more quickly, the process being saponification. Fats react with alcohols (R'OH) instead of with water in hydrolysis) in a process called transesterification. Glycerol is produced together with the fatty acid esters. Most", "title": "Oleochemical" }, { "id": "935186", "text": "up to a third of dietary starch may be unavailable due to mechanical or chemical difficulty. A molecule of dietary fat typically consists of several fatty acids (containing long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms), bonded to a glycerol. They are typically found as triglycerides (three fatty acids attached to one glycerol backbone). Fats may be classified as saturated or unsaturated depending on the chemical structure of the fatty acids involved. Saturated fats have all of the carbon atoms in their fatty acid chains bonded to hydrogen atoms, whereas unsaturated fats have some of these carbon atoms double-bonded, so their", "title": "Human nutrition" }, { "id": "15039424", "text": "varies from person to person, but contains oleic acid in the greatest amount, followed by linoleic, palmitoleic, and palmitic acids. Neutral lipids are hydrolyzed by lipases shortly after death, to free the fatty acids from their glycerol backbone. This creates a mixture of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Under the right conditions (when sufficient water and bacterial enzymes are present), neutral lipids will be completely degraded until they are reduced to fatty acids. Under suitable conditions, the fatty acids can be transformed into adipocere. In contrast, fatty acids may react with sodium and potassium ions present in tissue, to produce", "title": "Chemical process of decomposition" }, { "id": "1917682", "text": "fats are saturated. The fats of plants and fish are generally unsaturated. Saturated fats tend to have higher melting points than their corresponding unsaturated fats, leading to the popular understanding that saturated fats tend to be solids at room temperatures, while unsaturated fats tend to be liquid at room temperature with varying degrees of viscosity (meaning both saturated and unsaturated fats are found to be liquid at body temperature). Various fats contain different proportions of saturated and unsaturated fat. Examples of foods containing a high proportion of saturated fat include animal fat products such as cream, cheese, butter, other whole", "title": "Saturated fat" }, { "id": "1917687", "text": "similar to the reduction achieved by statin treatment for maintaining blood cholesterol within normal limits. A different 2017 systematic review of randomized, controlled trials concluded that replacing saturated fats with mostly n-6 polyunsaturated fats is unlikely to reduce coronary heart disease (CHD) events, CHD mortality or total mortality. The 2017 review showed that inadequately controlled trials (e.g., failing to control for other lifestyle factors) that were included in earlier meta-analyses explain the prior results. A 2015 systematic review also found no association between saturated fat consumption and risk of heart disease, stroke, or diabetes. However, this study only looked at", "title": "Saturated fat" }, { "id": "1917707", "text": "unsaturated fat vegetable oils, such as olive oils, also contain saturated fat. In chemical analysis, fatty acids are separated by gas chromatography of methyl esters; additionally, a separation of unsaturated isomers is possible by argentation thin-layer chromatography. Incidence of insulin resistance is lowered with diets higher in monounsaturated fats (especially oleic acid), while the opposite is true for diets high in polyunsaturated fats (especially large amounts of arachidonic acid) as well as saturated fats (such as arachidic acid). These ratios can be indexed in the phospholipids of human skeletal muscle and in other tissues as well. This relationship between dietary", "title": "Unsaturated fat" }, { "id": "1914054", "text": "of the fatty acid and makes it less prone to rancidity (in which free radicals attack double bonds). Production of trans fatty acids is thus an undesirable side effect of partial hydrogenation. Catalytic partial hydrogenation necessarily produces \"trans\"-fats, because of the reaction mechanism. In the first reaction step, one hydrogen is added, with the other, coordinatively unsaturated, carbon being attached to the catalyst. The second step is the addition of hydrogen to the remaining carbon, producing a saturated fatty acid. The first step is reversible, such that the hydrogen is readsorbed on the catalyst and the double bond is re-formed.", "title": "Trans fat" }, { "id": "4739284", "text": "is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. Omega-3 fatty acids have a double bond three carbons away from the methyl carbon, whereas omega-6 fatty acids have a double bond six carbons away from the methyl carbon. The illustration below shows the omega-6 fatty acid, linoleic acid. While it is the \"nutritional\" aspects of polyunsaturated fats that are generally of greatest interest, these materials also have non-food applications. Drying oils, which polymerize on exposure to oxygen to form solid films, are polyunsaturated fats. The most common ones are linseed (flax seed) oil, tung oil, poppy seed oil, perilla oil, and", "title": "Polyunsaturated fat" }, { "id": "20997237", "text": "procedure may be performed under general, regional, or local anesthesia. It then involves using a cannula and negative pressure to suck out fat. It is believed to work best on people with a normal weight and good skin elasticity. Focused thermal ultrasound techniques work by raising the tissue temperature above 56 °C, resulting in coagulative necrosis of adipocytes, with sparing of vessels and nerves. Passive heating of the skin may also induce collagen remodeling. Hydrolipoclasy is a technique that is being studied as an alternative to liposuction. It involves injecting a hypotonic solution into an area of fat and than", "title": "Fat removal procedures" }, { "id": "238119", "text": "start at acetyl-CoA when fat is being broken down for energy if there is little or no glucose available. The energy yield of the complete oxidation of the fatty acid palmitate is 106 ATP. Unsaturated and odd-chain fatty acids require additional enzymatic steps for degradation. Most of the fat found in food is in the form of triglycerides, cholesterol, and phospholipids. Some dietary fat is necessary to facilitate absorption of fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K) and carotenoids. Humans and other mammals have a dietary requirement for certain essential fatty acids, such as linoleic acid (an omega-6 fatty acid)", "title": "Lipid" }, { "id": "292183", "text": "link between increased fiber consumption and a decreased risk of colorectal cancer is still uncertain. A molecule of dietary fat typically consists of several fatty acids (containing long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms), bonded to a glycerol. They are typically found as triglycerides (three fatty acids attached to one glycerol backbone). Fats may be classified as saturated or unsaturated depending on the detailed structure of the fatty acids involved. Saturated fats have all of the carbon atoms in their fatty acid chains bonded to hydrogen atoms, whereas unsaturated fats have some of these carbon atoms double-bonded, so their molecules", "title": "Nutrition" }, { "id": "238115", "text": "acetyl group, reduce it to an alcohol, dehydrate it to an alkene group and then reduce it again to an alkane group. The enzymes of fatty acid biosynthesis are divided into two groups, in animals and fungi all these fatty acid synthase reactions are carried out by a single multifunctional protein, while in plant plastids and bacteria separate enzymes perform each step in the pathway. The fatty acids may be subsequently converted to triglycerides that are packaged in lipoproteins and secreted from the liver. The synthesis of unsaturated fatty acids involves a desaturation reaction, whereby a double bond is introduced", "title": "Lipid" }, { "id": "1576561", "text": "example, dimethyl terephthalate and ethylene glycol react to form polyethylene terephthalate and methanol, which is evaporated to drive the reaction forward. The reverse reaction, methanolysis, is also an example of transesterification. This process has been used to recycle polyesters into individual monomers (see plastic recycling). It is also used to convert fats (triglycerides) into biodiesel. This conversion was one of the first uses. Transesterified vegetable oil (biodiesel) was used to power heavy-duty vehicles in South Africa before World War II. It was patented in the US in the 1950s by Colgate, though biolipid transesterification may have been discovered much earlier.", "title": "Transesterification" }, { "id": "20997235", "text": "Fat removal procedures Fat removal procedures are used mostly in cosmetic surgery to remove unwanted adipose tissue. The procedure may be invasive, as with liposuction, or noninvasive, using laser energy, radiofrequency, ultrasound or cold (cryoablation) to reduce fat, sometimes in combination with injections. Fat is sometimes removed from one location to another on a person in an autograft, for example in some breast reconstruction and breast augmentation procedures. These techniques are distinct from bariatric surgery, which aims to treat obesity by preventing people from eating too much or by interfering with the absorption of food during digestion, and are also", "title": "Fat removal procedures" }, { "id": "85533", "text": "transported out of the mitochondrion to be converted into cytosolic oxaloacetate and ultimately into glucose. These are the so-called \"glucogenic\" amino acids. De-aminated alanine, cysteine, glycine, serine, and threonine are converted to pyruvate and can consequently either enter the citric acid cycle as \"oxaloacetate\" (an anaplerotic reaction) or as \"acetyl-CoA\" to be disposed of as CO and water. In fat catabolism, triglycerides are hydrolyzed to break them into fatty acids and glycerol. In the liver the glycerol can be converted into glucose via dihydroxyacetone phosphate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate by way of gluconeogenesis. In many tissues, especially heart and skeletal muscle tissue,", "title": "Citric acid cycle" }, { "id": "1695229", "text": "where it will be eventually converted into pyruvate. The pyruvate is then converted into acetyl-CoA so that it can enter the TCA cycle and convert the original pyruvate molecules into ATP, or usable energy for the organism. Transamination leads to the same end result as deamination: the remaining acid will undergo either glycolysis or the TCA cycle to produce energy that the organism's body will use for various purposes. This process transfers the amino group instead of losing the amino group to be converted into ammonium. The amino group is transferred to alpha-ketoglutarate, so that it can be converted to", "title": "Protein catabolism" }, { "id": "139971", "text": "chain. Fats that are saturated fats have no double bonds between the carbons in the chain. Unsaturated fats have one or more double bonded carbons in the chain. The nomenclature is based on the non-acid (non-carbonyl) end of the chain. This end is called the omega end or the n-end. Thus alpha-linolenic acid is called an omega-3 fatty acid because the 3rd carbon from that end is the first double bonded carbon in the chain counting from that end. Some oils and fats have multiple double bonds and are therefore called polyunsaturated fats. Unsaturated fats can be further divided into", "title": "Fat" }, { "id": "1917710", "text": "maintain. This maintenance cost has been argued to be one of the key causes for the high metabolic rates and concomitant warm-bloodedness of mammals and birds. However polyunsaturation of cell membranes may also occur in response to chronic cold temperatures as well. In fish increasingly cold environments lead to increasingly high cell membrane content of both monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids, to maintain greater membrane fluidity (and functionality) at the lower temperatures. Unsaturated fat An unsaturated fat is a fat or fatty acid in which there is at least one double bond within the fatty acid chain. A fatty acid", "title": "Unsaturated fat" }, { "id": "1930385", "text": "Saponification Saponification is a process that involves conversion of fat or oil into soap and alcohol by the action of heat in the presence of aqueous alkali (e.g. NaOH). Soaps are salts of fatty acids whereas fatty acids are saturated monocarboxylic acids that have long carbon chains (at least 10) e.g. CH(CH)COOH. Vegetable oils and animal fats are the traditional materials that are saponified. These greasy materials, triesters called triglycerides, are mixtures derived from diverse fatty acids. Triglycerides can be converted to soap in either a one- or a two-step process. In the traditional one-step process, the triglyceride is treated", "title": "Saponification" }, { "id": "6775300", "text": "be used to convert unsaturated fatty acids or glycerides in the liquid phase into saturated ones. He was awarded a patent in Germany in 1902 and in Britain in 1903, which was the beginning of what is now a worldwide industry. In the mid-1950s, the first noble metal catalytic reforming process (the Platformer process) was commercialized. At the same time, the catalytic hydrodesulfurization of the naphtha feed to such reformers was also commercialized. In the decades that followed, various proprietary catalytic hydrodesulfurization processes, such as the one depicted in the flow diagram below, have been commercialized. Currently, virtually all of", "title": "Hydrodesulfurization" }, { "id": "9741147", "text": "fatty acids, the reaction continues. Once inside the mitochondria, the β-oxidation of fatty acids occurs via five recurring steps: Fatty acid degradation Fatty acid degradation is the process in which fatty acids are broken down into their metabolites, in the end generating acetyl-CoA, the entry molecule for the citric acid cycle, the main energy supply of animals. It includes three major steps: Initially in the process of degradation, fatty acids are stored in fat cells (adipocytes). The breakdown of this fat is known as lipolysis. The products of lipolysis, free fatty acids, are released into the bloodstream and circulate throughout", "title": "Fatty acid degradation" }, { "id": "1914055", "text": "The intermediate with only one hydrogen added contains no double bond and can freely rotate. Thus, the double bond can re-form as either \"cis\" or \"trans\", of which \"trans\" is favored, regardless the starting material. Complete hydrogenation also hydrogenates any produced \"trans\" fats to give saturated fats. Researchers at the United States Department of Agriculture have investigated whether hydrogenation can be achieved without the side effect of trans fat production. They varied the pressure under which the chemical reaction was conducted – applying 1400 kPa (200 psi) of pressure to soybean oil in a 2-liter vessel while heating it to", "title": "Trans fat" }, { "id": "9741123", "text": "There it is cleaved by ATP citrate lyase into acetyl-CoA and oxaloacetate. The oxaloacetate can be used for gluconeogenesis (in the liver), or it can be returned into mitochondrion as malate. The cytosolic acetyl-CoA is carboxylated by acetyl CoA carboxylase into malonyl CoA, the first committed step in the synthesis of fatty acids. The main fuel stored in the bodies of animals is fat. The young adult human's fat stores average between about 10–20 kg, but varies greatly depending on age, gender, and individual disposition. By contrast the human body stores only about 400 g of glycogen, of which 300", "title": "Fatty acid synthesis" }, { "id": "278172", "text": "is called gluconeogenesis. Gluconeogenesis converts pyruvate to glucose-6-phosphate through a series of intermediates, many of which are shared with glycolysis. However, this pathway is not simply glycolysis run in reverse, as several steps are catalyzed by non-glycolytic enzymes. This is important as it allows the formation and breakdown of glucose to be regulated separately, and prevents both pathways from running simultaneously in a futile cycle. Although fat is a common way of storing energy, in vertebrates such as humans the fatty acids in these stores cannot be converted to glucose through gluconeogenesis as these organisms cannot convert acetyl-CoA into pyruvate;", "title": "Metabolism" }, { "id": "9304023", "text": "enzyme is so efficient that the rate for short chain fatty acids is equivalent to that of diffusion-controlled reactions. ECH catalyzes the second step (hydratation) in the breakdown of fatty acids (β-oxidation). Fatty acid metabolism is how human bodies turn fats into energy. Fats in foods are generally in the form of triglycerols. These must be broken down in order for the fats to pass into human bodies. When that happens, three fatty acids are released. ECH is used in β-oxidation to add a hydroxyl group and a proton to the unsaturated β-carbon on a fatty-acyl CoA. ECH functions by", "title": "Enoyl-CoA hydratase" }, { "id": "375911", "text": "units. This process is important in the digestion of starch and is also used in brewing, where amylase from the skin of seed grains is responsible for converting starch to maltose (Malting, Mashing). Given a heat of combustion of glucose of whereas that of starch is per mole of glucose monomer, hydrolysis releases about per mole, or per gram of glucose product. If starch is subjected to dry heat, it breaks down to form dextrins, also called \"pyrodextrins\" in this context. This break down process is known as dextrinization. (Pyro)dextrins are mainly yellow to brown in color and dextrinization is", "title": "Starch" }, { "id": "9688296", "text": "used to reduce the energy content of the food being prepared. Those people who wish to reduce their cholesterol level or fat intake, in particular people with hypercholesterolemia often use degreasing to reduce their fat consumption. Fat trimming of a meal can be done during preparation by a variety of methods. The most common methods involving substituting food items or removal of naturally occurring fat and conservative addition of fat. Substituting fats is a method in which a certain ingredient is substituted by another ingredient. A common way of doing this is substituting saturated fatty acids with unsaturated fatty acids", "title": "Degreasing" }, { "id": "1914039", "text": "to trans fat content. Trans fats levels can be reduced or eliminated using saturated fats such as lard, palm oil, or fully hydrogenated fats, or by using interesterified fat. Other alternative formulations can also allow unsaturated fats to be used to replace saturated or partially hydrogenated fats. Hydrogenated oil is not a synonym for trans fat: complete hydrogenation removes all unsaturated fats. Nobel laureate Paul Sabatier worked in the late 1890s to develop the chemistry of hydrogenation, which enabled the margarine, oil hydrogenation, and synthetic methanol industries. Whereas Sabatier considered hydrogenation of only vapors, the German chemist Wilhelm Normann showed", "title": "Trans fat" }, { "id": "5644600", "text": "process developed by Hans H. Rennhard of Pfizer, Inc. Rennhard began investigating the potential of polysaccharides as low-calorie replacements for sugar, fat, flour, and starch. In 1965, he created polydextrose, a polymer of dextrose, produced from the naturally occurring components: glucose, sorbitol, and citric acid. Polydextrose is commonly used as a replacement for sugar, starch, and fat in commercial beverages, cakes, candies, dessert mixes, breakfast cereals, gelatins, frozen desserts, puddings, and salad dressings. Polydextrose is frequently used as an ingredient in low-carb, sugar-free, and diabetic cooking recipes. It is also used as a humectant, stabiliser, and thickening agent. Polydextrose is", "title": "Polydextrose" }, { "id": "1914056", "text": "between 140 °C and 170 °C. The standard 140 kPa (20 psi) process of hydrogenation produces a product of about 40% trans fatty acid by weight, compared to about 17% using the high-pressure method. Blended with unhydrogenated liquid soybean oil, the high-pressure-processed oil produced margarine containing 5 to 6% trans fat. Based on current U.S. labeling requirements (see below), the manufacturer could claim the product was free of trans fat. The level of trans fat may also be altered by modification of the temperature and the length of time during hydrogenation. Trans fat levels may be measured. Measurement techniques include", "title": "Trans fat" }, { "id": "1430947", "text": "the release of pancreatic lipase from the pancreas and bile from the liver which helps in the emulsification of fats for absorption of fatty acids. Complete digestion of one molecule of fat (a triglyceride) results a mixture of fatty acids, mono- and di-glycerides, as well as some undigested triglycerides, but no free glycerol molecules. In humans, dietary starches are composed of glucose units arranged in long chains called amylose, a polysaccharide. During digestion, bonds between glucose molecules are broken by salivary and pancreatic amylase, resulting in progressively smaller chains of glucose. This results in simple sugars glucose and maltose (2", "title": "Digestion" }, { "id": "4493403", "text": "fats obtained from land animals tend to be saturated, whereas the fatty acids in the triglycerides of fish and plants are often polyunsaturated and therefore present as oils. These triglycerides, cannot be absorbed by the intestine. They are broken down into mono- and di-glycerides plus free fatty acids (but no free glycerol) by pancreatic lipase, which forms a 1:1 complex with a protein called colipase (also a constituent of pancreatic juice), which is necessary for its activity. The activated complex can work only at a water-fat interface. Therefore, it is essential that fats are first emulsified by bile salts for", "title": "Fatty acid metabolism" }, { "id": "15020424", "text": "fatty acids and lowers saturated fat content. Enzymatic Interesterification occurs when an enzyme is introduced into two oils; in most cases one oil is liquid and the other is a solid oil (hard fat). Hard fats are defined as fully hydrogenated fats. This process may occur in oils that already contain solids like palm oil or lauric fats that are not “hard fats.\" The reaction between the oils and the enzyme causes the fatty acids of the triglycerides to exchange positions to the -1 and -3 glycerides, thereby altering the chemical composition and physical properties of the fat. Using a", "title": "Enzymatic interesterification" }, { "id": "126406", "text": "glucose (CHO) and stearin (CHO) are convenient examples. The food molecules are oxidised to carbon dioxide and water in the mitochondria and some of the energy is used to convert ADP into ATP. The rest of the chemical energy in O and the carbohydrate or fat is converted into heat: the ATP is used as a sort of \"energy currency\", and some of the chemical energy it contains is used for other metabolism when ATP reacts with OH groups and eventually splits into ADP and phosphate (at each stage of a metabolic pathway, some chemical energy is converted into heat).", "title": "Energy" }, { "id": "1619527", "text": "the muscle, intra-muscular, inter-muscular and surface fat becomes exposed to oxygen of the air. This chemical process continues during frozen storage, though more slowly at lower temperature. Oxidative rancidity can be prevented by light-proof packaging, oxygen-free atmosphere (air-tight containers) and by the addition of antioxidants. Microbial rancidity refers to a process in which microorganisms, such as bacteria or molds, use their enzymes such as lipases to break down fat. Sterilization can reduce this process. Consuming rancid food products is unlikely to cause immediate illness or harm, although rancidification can reduce the nutritional value of food by degradation of nutrients. Antioxidants", "title": "Rancidification" }, { "id": "1805153", "text": "industrial, and pharmaceutical purposes. RBD coconut oil can be processed further into partially or fully hydrogenated oil to increase its melting point. Since virgin and RBD coconut oils melt at 24 °C (76 °F), foods containing coconut oil tend to melt in warm climates. A higher melting point is desirable in these warm climates, so the oil is hydrogenated. The melting point of hydrogenated coconut oil is 36–40 °C (97–104 °F). In the process of hydrogenation, unsaturated fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids) are combined with hydrogen in a catalytic process to make them more saturated. Coconut oil contains only", "title": "Coconut oil" }, { "id": "4493414", "text": "during glycolysis.) The source of the NADPH is two-fold. When malate is oxidatively decarboxylated by “NADP-linked malic enzyme\" pyruvate, CO and NADPH are formed. NADPH is also formed by the pentose phosphate pathway which converts glucose into ribose, which can be used in synthesis of nucleotides and nucleic acids, or it can be catabolized to pyruvate. In humans, fatty acids are formed from carbohydrates predominantly in the liver and adipose tissue, as well as in the mammary glands during lactation. The cells of the central nervous system probably also make most of the fatty acids needed for the phospholipids of", "title": "Fatty acid metabolism" }, { "id": "1695235", "text": "the breakdown of muscle protein in order to use amino acids as substrates for gluconeogenesis, the breakdown of fat in adipose tissue to fatty acids, and oxidative deamination of neurotransmitters by monoamine oxidase. There are many signals that control catabolism. Most of the known signals are hormones and the molecules involved in metabolism itself. Endocrinologists have traditionally classified many of the hormones as anabolic or catabolic, depending on which part of metabolism they stimulate. The so-called classic catabolic hormones known since the early 20th century are cortisol, glucagon, and adrenaline (and other catecholamines). In recent decades, many more hormones with", "title": "Catabolism" }, { "id": "138869", "text": "at one time of relevance to structure elucidation. Unsaturated fatty acids undergo a chemical change known as auto-oxidation. The process requires oxygen (air) and is accelerated by the presence of trace metals. Vegetable oils resist this process to a small degree because they contain antioxidants, such as tocopherol. Fats and oils often are treated with chelating agents such as citric acid to remove the metal catalysts. Unsaturated fatty acids are susceptible to degradation by ozone. This reaction is practiced in the production of azelaic acid ((CH)(COH)) from oleic acid. In chemical analysis, fatty acids are separated by gas chromatography of", "title": "Fatty acid" }, { "id": "15039426", "text": "of hydrogenation transforms unsaturated bonds (double and triple bonds) into single bonds. This essentially increases the amounts of saturated fatty acids, while decreasing the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids. Therefore, hydrogenation of oleic and palmitoleic acids, for example, will yield stearic, and palmitic acids, respectively. In the presence of oxygen, the fatty acids will undergo oxidation. Lipid oxidation is a chain reaction process in which oxygen attacks the double bond in a fatty acid, to yield peroxide linkages. Eventually, the process will produce aldehydes and ketones. \\ce Chemical process of decomposition Decomposition in animals is a process that begins immediately", "title": "Chemical process of decomposition" }, { "id": "5352491", "text": "generally closer to 2.5 ATP per NADH molecule produced, 1.5 for each FADH molecule produced and this equates to 10 per cycle of the TCA (according to the P/O ratio), broken down as follows: For an even-numbered saturated fat (C), n - 1 oxidations are necessary, and the final process yields an additional acetyl CoA. In addition, two equivalents of ATP are lost during the activation of the fatty acid. Therefore, the total ATP yield can be stated as: or For instance, the ATP yield of palmitate (C, \"n = 8\") is: Represented in table form: For sources that use", "title": "Beta oxidation" }, { "id": "6597457", "text": "Polyunsaturated fatty acid Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are fatty acids that contain more than one double bond in their backbone. This class includes many important compounds, such as essential fatty acids and those that give drying oils their characteristic property. Polyunsaturated fatty acids can be classified in various groups by their chemical structure: These fatty acids have 2 or more \"cis\" double bonds that are separated from each other by a single methylene bridge (--). This form is also sometimes called a \"divinylmethane pattern\". The essential fatty acids are all omega-3 and -6 methylene-interrupted fatty acids. \"See more at Essential", "title": "Polyunsaturated fatty acid" }, { "id": "983008", "text": "lactate. In aerobic conditions, the process converts one molecule of glucose into two molecules of pyruvate (pyruvic acid), generating energy in the form of two net molecules of ATP. Four molecules of ATP per glucose are actually produced, however, two are consumed as part of the preparatory phase. The initial phosphorylation of glucose is required to increase the reactivity (decrease its stability) in order for the molecule to be cleaved into two pyruvate molecules by the enzyme aldolase. During the pay-off phase of glycolysis, four phosphate groups are transferred to ADP by substrate-level phosphorylation to make four ATP, and two", "title": "Cellular respiration" }, { "id": "11338487", "text": "Protein phosphorylation Protein phosphorylation is a post-translational modification of proteins in which an amino acid residue is phosphorylated by a protein kinase by the addition of a covalently bound phosphate group. Phosphorylation alters the structural conformation of a protein, causing it to become activated, deactivated, or modifying its function. The reverse reaction of phosphorylation is called dephosphorylation, and is catalyzed by protein phosphatases. Protein kinases and phosphatases work independently and in a balance to regulate the function of proteins. The amino acids most commonly phosphorylated are serine, threonine, and tyrosine in eukaryotes, and histidine in prokaryotes and plants, which play", "title": "Protein phosphorylation" }, { "id": "4147503", "text": "Walnut oil Walnut oil is oil extracted from walnuts, \"Juglans regia\". The oil contains polyunsaturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, and saturated fats. Walnut oil is composed largely of polyunsaturated fatty acids (72% of total fats), particularly alpha-linolenic acid (14%) and linoleic acid (58%), oleic acid (13%), and saturated fats (9%). Walnut oil is edible and is generally used less than other oils in food preparation, often due to high pricing. It is light-coloured and delicate in flavour and scent, with a nutty quality. Although chefs sometimes use walnut oil for pan frying, most avoid walnut oil for high temperature", "title": "Walnut oil" }, { "id": "264574", "text": "polymers. The conversion entails oxidation: Acetic acid can be produced from methanol. Methanol and isobutene are combined to give methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE). MTBE is a major octane booster in gasoline. Condensation of methanol to produce hydrocarbons and even aromatic systems is the basis of several technologies related to gas to liquids. These include methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH), methanol to gasoline (MTG), and methanol to olefins (MTO), and methanol to propylene (MTP). These conversions are catalyzed by zeolites as heterogeneous catalysts. The MTG process was once commercialized at Motunui in New Zealand. The European Fuel Quality Directive allows up to 3% methanol", "title": "Methanol" }, { "id": "9565934", "text": "target food products. In addition, blending interesterified oils with liquid oils allows the reduction in saturated fatty acids in many trans fatty acid free food products. The interesterified fats can be separated through controlled crystallization, also called fractionation. In vegetable polyunsaturated oils, the PUFA is commonly found at the middle position (sn2) on the glycerol. Stearic acid is not usually found at sn2 in vegetable oils used in the human diet. In most vegetable dietary fats, the palmitic (C16:0) and stearic acid (C18:0) saturated fats mainly occupy the 1- and 3-positions of the triacylglycerol molecule, whereas an unsaturated fatty acid", "title": "Interesterified fat" }, { "id": "860643", "text": "and ethanol in plants and microorganisms (and carp). Pyruvate from glycolysis is converted by fermentation to lactate using the enzyme lactate dehydrogenase and the coenzyme NADH in lactate fermentation, or to acetaldehyde (with the enzyme pyruvate decarboxylase) and then to ethanol in alcoholic fermentation. Pyruvate is a key intersection in the network of metabolic pathways. Pyruvate can be converted into carbohydrates via gluconeogenesis, to fatty acids or energy through acetyl-CoA, to the amino acid alanine, and to ethanol. Therefore, it unites several key metabolic processes. In glycolysis, phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) is converted to pyruvate by pyruvate kinase. This reaction is strongly", "title": "Pyruvic acid" }, { "id": "15238379", "text": "replaced with unsaturated fat, particularly polyunsaturated fatty acids.\" A meta-analysis in March 2014 met with controversy and was corrected, it found that \"current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats\", with Walter C. Willett continuing to defend reduced saturated fat in the diet. As of 2017, the American Heart Association recommends that saturated fat be reduced or replaced by products containing monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases. On August 1, 2017, True Health Initiative released a 65-page white paper correcting", "title": "Seven Countries Study" }, { "id": "139974", "text": "9 food calories (37 kJ = 8.8 kcal). Fats are broken down in the healthy body to release their constituents, glycerol and fatty acids. Glycerol itself can be converted to glucose by the liver and so become a source of energy. There are many different kinds of fats, but each is a variation on the same chemical structure. All fats are derivatives of fatty acids and glycerol. Most fats are glycerides, particularly triglycerides (triesters of glycerol). One chain of fatty acid is bonded to each of the three -OH groups of the glycerol by the reaction of the carboxyl end", "title": "Fat" }, { "id": "8291569", "text": "intestinal wall. In the epithelial cells, fatty acids are packaged and transported to the rest of the body. Digestion is the first step to lipid metabolism, and it is the process of breaking the triglycerides down into smaller monoglyceride units with the help of lipase enzymes. Digestion of fats begin in the mouth through chemical digestion by lingual lipase. Ingested cholesterol is not broken down by the lipases and stays intact until it enters the epithelium cells of small intestine. Lipids then continue to the stomach where chemical digestion continues by gastric lipase and mechanical digestion begins (Peristalsis). The majority", "title": "Lipid metabolism" }, { "id": "2145825", "text": "acid, omega-6 (LA, 54%), alpha-linolenic acid, omega-3 (ALA, 17%), in addition to gamma-linolenic acid (GLA, 3%), monounsaturated fat (5% to 11%), and stearidonic acid (2%). Hemp seed oil contains 5% to 7% saturated fat. In common with other oils, hempseed oil provides 9 kcal/g. Compared with other culinary oils it is low in saturated fatty acids. Hempseed oil has a relatively low smoke point and is not suitable for frying. Hempseed oil is primarily used as a food oil and dietary supplement. Hemp oil is a \"drying oil\", as it can polymerize into a solid form. Due to its polymer-forming", "title": "Hemp oil" }, { "id": "1917696", "text": "increase that level of intake. Within these limits, intake of foods rich in myristic and palmitic acids should be replaced by fats with a lower content of these particular fatty acids. In developing countries, however, where energy intake for some population groups may be inadequate, energy expenditure is high and body fat stores are low (BMI <18.5 kg/m). The amount and quality of fat supply has to be considered keeping in mind the need to meet energy requirements. Specific sources of saturated fat, such as coconut and palm oil, provide low-cost energy and may be an important source of energy", "title": "Saturated fat" }, { "id": "4739288", "text": "consume higher amounts of polyunsaturated fats than the general population to enhance the DHA status of the fetus and newborn. Results from observational clinical trials on polyunsaturated fat intake and cancer have been inconsistent and vary by numerous factors of cancer incidence, including gender and genetic risk. Some studies have shown associations between higher intakes and/or blood levels of polyunsaturated fat omega-3s and a decreased risk of certain cancers, including breast and colorectal cancer, while other studies found no associations with cancer risk. Food sources of polyunsaturated fats include: Polyunsaturated fat Polyunsaturated fats are fats in which the constituent hydrocarbon", "title": "Polyunsaturated fat" }, { "id": "4872966", "text": "Dephosphorylation Dephosphorylation is the removal of a phosphate (PO) group from an organic compound by hydrolysis. It is a reversible post-translational modification. Dephosphorylation and its counterpart, phosphorylation, activate and deactivate enzymes by detaching or attaching phosphoric esters and anhydrides. A notable occurrence of dephosphorylation is the conversion of ATP to ADP and inorganic phosphate. Dephosphorylation employs a type of hydrolytic enzyme, or hydrolase, which cleave ester bonds. The prominent hydrolase subclass used in dephosphorylation is phosphatase. Phosphatase removes phosphate groups by hydrolysing phosphoric acid monoesters into a phosphate ion and a molecule with a free hydroxyl (-OH) group. The reversible", "title": "Dephosphorylation" }, { "id": "195134", "text": "and fructose. Invertase is a sucrase used industrially for the hydrolysis of sucrose to so-called invert sugar. Lactase is essential for digestive hydrolysis of lactose in milk; many adult humans do not produce lactase and cannot digest the lactose in milk. The hydrolysis of polysaccharides to soluble sugars is called \"saccharification\". Malt made from barley is used as a source of β-amylase to break down starch into the disaccharide maltose, which can be used by yeast to produce beer. Other amylase enzymes may convert starch to glucose or to oligosaccharides. Cellulose is first hydrolyzed to cellobiose by cellulase and then", "title": "Hydrolysis" } ]

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[ { "id": "2739818", "text": "Me and Bobby McGee \"Me and Bobby McGee\" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and songwriter Fred Foster, originally performed by Roger Miller. A posthumously-released version by Janis Joplin topped the U.S. singles chart in 1971, making the song the second posthumously released No. 1 single in U.S. chart history after \"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay\" by Otis Redding. \"Billboard\" ranked Joplin's version as the No. 11 song for 1971. Other recordings of the song include those by Waylon Jennings, Grateful Dead, Kristofferson himself, Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, Gordon Lightfoot, and Miranda Lambert.", "title": "Me and Bobby McGee" }, { "id": "2739820", "text": "by both male and female singers with only minor changes needed to the lyrical content. Roger Miller was the first artist to record the song and it appeared at No. 12 on the U.S. country chart in 1969. Gordon Lightfoot's version hit No. 13 on the pop music chart and No. 1 country music chart in his native country of Canada in 1970. The song was included on a Statler Brothers album but was not released as a single. Kenny Rogers and The First Edition recorded the song (with Rogers on lead vocals) and released it on their album \"Ruby,", "title": "Me and Bobby McGee" }, { "id": "2739822", "text": "in 2004, her version of this song was ranked No. 148 on \"Rolling Stone\"s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Me and Bobby McGee \"Me and Bobby McGee\" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and songwriter Fred Foster, originally performed by Roger Miller. A posthumously-released version by Janis Joplin topped the U.S. singles chart in 1971, making the song the second posthumously released No. 1 single in U.S. chart history after \"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay\" by Otis Redding. \"Billboard\" ranked Joplin's version as the No. 11 song for 1971. Other recordings", "title": "Me and Bobby McGee" }, { "id": "2739819", "text": "The suggestion for the title came from producer and Monument Records founder Fred Foster. Kristofferson did not write the song for Joplin, but it became strongly associated with her after her death. The song is the story of two drifters, the narrator and Bobby McGee. The couple hitch a ride from a truck driver and sing as they drive through the American south. They visit California and then part ways, with the song's narrator expressing sadness afterwards. Due to the singer's name never being mentioned and the name \"Bobby\" being easily identifiable to both sexes, the song has been recorded", "title": "Me and Bobby McGee" }, { "id": "11549166", "text": "his primary career. In the 1970s, Beckham became a major power on Music Row, and nurtured many great songwriters who wrote classic hits like \"Me and Bobby McGee\" and \"Sunday Morning Coming Down\" (Kris Kristofferson), and Elvis Presley's \"Burning Love\" (Dennis Linde). Beckham was a gruff but supportive father figure to his staff songwriters, whom he truly loved. He was given the Mentor Award by the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Nashville Entertainment Association presented him with its Master Award in 1988 and he received the Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music in 2014. Beckham died in", "title": "Bob Beckham" }, { "id": "1448677", "text": "Kris Kristofferson Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He wrote and recorded the songs \"Me and Bobby McGee\", \"For the Good Times\", \"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down\", and \"Help Me Make It Through the Night\". Kristofferson composed his own songs and collaborated with Nashville songwriters such as Shel Silverstein. In 1985, Kristofferson joined fellow country artists Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in forming the country music supergroup The Highwaymen, and formed a key creative force in the Outlaw country music movement that eschewed the Nashville music machine in favor of independent songwriting and", "title": "Kris Kristofferson" }, { "id": "2357799", "text": "Seely, Jerry Byrd, Billy Joe Shaver, Grandpa Jones, the Velvets, and Robert Mitchum. In 1963, Foster expanded his label, forming the soul and R&B imprint Sound Stage 7. Its roster of artists included Joe Simon, the Dixie Belles, Arthur Alexander, and Ivory Joe Hunter. Foster co-wrote (with Kris Kristofferson) \"Me and Bobby McGee\", which was a hit for Kristofferson, Roger Miller, and Janis Joplin. Foster produced Willie Nelson's 2006 Grammy Award–nominated \"\" and Nelson's collaboration with Merle Haggard and Ray Price, \"Last of the Breed\" (2007). The latter was the winner of the 2008 Grammy for Best Country Collaboration, for", "title": "Fred Foster" }, { "id": "2739821", "text": "Don't Take Your Love To Town\" in 1969. Joplin recorded the song for inclusion on her \"Pearl\" album only a few days before her death in October 1970. Studio musician Stephen Ryder manned the keyboard for that session, and famously \"Got a little carried away.\" Kristofferson had sung the song for her, and singer Bob Neuwirth taught it to her. Kristofferson did not know she had recorded it until after her death. The first time he heard her recording of it was the day after she died. Joplin's version topped the charts to become her only number one single and", "title": "Me and Bobby McGee" }, { "id": "1448690", "text": "and Bobby McGee\" from her posthumous album \"Pearl\". When released, it stayed on the number-one spot on the charts for weeks. More hits followed from others: Ray Price (\"I'd Rather Be Sorry\"); Joe Simon (\"Help Me Make It Through the Night\"); Bobby Bare (\"Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends\"); O.C. Smith (\"Help Me Make It Through the Night\"); Jerry Lee Lewis (\"Me and Bobby McGee\"); Patti Page (\"I'd Rather Be Sorry\"); and Peggy Little (\"I've Got to Have You\"). The country music performer Kenny Rogers has also recorded some of Kristofferson's compositions, including a version of \"Me and", "title": "Kris Kristofferson" }, { "id": "10976968", "text": "Why Me (Kris Kristofferson song) \"Why Me\" is an American country and gospel song written and recorded by American country music singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson had become the toast of Nashville in the early 1970s, with the massive success of compositions including \"For the Good Times,\" \"Me and Bobby McGee,\" \"Sunday Morning Coming Down,\" and \"Help Me Make It Through the Night\", among many others. He had a hit of his own as well, with \"Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again).\" \"Why Me\" was recorded by Kristofferson in 1972, featuring backing vocals by soon-to-be", "title": "Why Me (Kris Kristofferson song)" }, { "id": "1448688", "text": "as manager of Combine Music, Kristofferson's songwriting label. His debut album for Monument in 1970 was \"Kristofferson\", which included a few new songs, as well as many of his previous hits. Sales were poor, although this debut album would become a success the following year when it was re-released under the title \"Me & Bobby McGee\". Kristofferson's compositions were still in high demand. Ray Price (\"For the Good Times\"), Gladys Knight & The Pips (\"Help Me Make It Through The Night\"), Waylon Jennings (\"The Taker\"), Bobby Bare (\"Come Sundown\"), Johnny Cash (\"Sunday Morning Coming Down\"), and Sammi Smith (\"Help Me", "title": "Kris Kristofferson" }, { "id": "11549175", "text": "to a record contract with Monument, but Kristofferson protested the latter, saying \"I can't sing— I sound like a frog\". The answer was \"you can communicate\". When Kristofferson was a new hire in 1969, he was having a little dry spell in writing and Foster suggested he come up with a song where the hook would be about the name of a woman; a secretary named \"Bobbie McKee\" who worked in their office. Kristofferson came up with \"Me and Bobby McGee\" and sang it for her in the office. Kristofferson said, \"You know, somebody would give you a title and", "title": "Bob Beckham" }, { "id": "2443189", "text": "\"Me and Bobby McGee,\" taking the song to No. 12 on country charts. In 1970, Miller recorded the album \"A Trip in the Country\", honky-tonk-style standards penned by Miller, including \"Tall, Tall Trees.\" Later that year, after Smash Records folded, Miller was signed by Columbia Records, for whom he released \"Dear Folks: Sorry I Haven't Written Lately\" in 1973. Later that year, Miller wrote and performed three songs in the Walt Disney animated feature \"Robin Hood\" as the rooster and minstrel Allan-a-Dale, including \"Whistle-Stop\" which was sampled for use in the popular Hampster Dance web site. The other songs are", "title": "Roger Miller" }, { "id": "9423569", "text": "\"Independence Day\", Tori Amos' \"Playboy Mommy\", Counting Crows' \"A Murder of One\" - and classic rock - John Lennon's \"Imagine\" and \"Me and Bobby McGee\", a song penned by Fred Foster and Kris Kristofferson and recorded most famously by Janis Joplin. She also gives a nod to Broadway with \"Bill\" (from \"Show Boat\") and \"I Dreamed a Dream\" (from \"Les Misérables\"). Add in some jazz, \"In Love in Vain\", and a traditional Irish aire, \"Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms\", and the result is the sort of eclectic mix for which the artist is becoming known. Live at", "title": "Live at Wood Hall" }, { "id": "1448712", "text": "(b. 1988), Kelly Marie (b. 1990), and Blake (b. 1994) from his marriage to his current wife Lisa (Meyers) Kristofferson. Kristofferson has said that he would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohen's \"Bird on the Wire\" on his tombstone: Like a bird on the wire Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free Kris Kristofferson Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He wrote and recorded the songs \"Me and Bobby McGee\", \"For the Good Times\", \"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down\", and \"Help Me Make It", "title": "Kris Kristofferson" }, { "id": "10401625", "text": "The Cappetta Company was a group that featured Suzie Cappetta. In the 1960s she wrote the song \"Dave Hull, the Hullabalooer\" which she and her grioup the Scuzzies recorded. Ralke did the arrangements on the Cappetta Company's single \"Me And Bobby McGee\" / \"Gimme' That\", which was produced by Ken Jenkins and engineered by Stan Ross. Hawaiian based Tongan singer/actor Vic Malo worked with Ralke. Malo in the late 1970s appeared as Billy Swan in \"Hawaii Five-O\". Also known as Vic Mataele, he was a fencing instructor, and related to the King of Tonga, Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV. Ralke produced his", "title": "Don Ralke" }, { "id": "216285", "text": "the Doors. Although Joplin died before all the tracks were fully completed, there was enough usable material to compile an LP. The posthumous \"Pearl\" (1971) became the biggest-selling album of her career and featured her biggest hit single, a cover of Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster's \"Me and Bobby McGee\" (Kristofferson had previously been Joplin's lover in the spring of 1970). The opening track, \"Move Over\", was written by Joplin, reflecting the way that she felt men treated women in relationships. Also included was the social commentary of \"Mercedes Benz\", presented in an \"a cappella\" arrangement; the track on the", "title": "Janis Joplin" }, { "id": "5171942", "text": "on music, nor was a soundtrack album released. The music featured in the film covers many genres, including rock, folk, blues, country, bluegrass, and R&B. James Taylor and Dennis Wilson did not contribute any music. However, there are some notable tracks featured in the film, including \"Moonlight Drive\" by The Doors, the traditional folk tune \"Stealin'\" performed by Arlo Guthrie, and the original version of \"Me and Bobby McGee\" performed by the song's author Kris Kristofferson. A song titled \"Truckload Of Art\" written and performed by Terry Allen can be briefly heard coming out of the GTO. In 2003 Plain", "title": "Two-Lane Blacktop" }, { "id": "7701335", "text": "and forgiveness, surely he has to understand, change, give me back what I have given\". In such a way, Joplin used blues conventions not to transcend pain, but \"to scream it out of existence\". Until her death in 1970, \"Piece of My Heart\" was Joplin’s biggest chart success and best-known song. (\"Me and Bobby McGee”, which Kris Kristofferson wrote, eclipsed \"Piece of My Heart\" when it appeared after her death in 1970. It went to #1 in 1971). \"Piece of My Heart\" remains most associated with Joplin and continued to get airplay long after her death. Berns never got to", "title": "Piece of My Heart" }, { "id": "10976977", "text": "\"Why Me\", on her 2017 album \"\"Let Them Fall In Love\"\". Why Me (Kris Kristofferson song) \"Why Me\" is an American country and gospel song written and recorded by American country music singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson had become the toast of Nashville in the early 1970s, with the massive success of compositions including \"For the Good Times,\" \"Me and Bobby McGee,\" \"Sunday Morning Coming Down,\" and \"Help Me Make It Through the Night\", among many others. He had a hit of his own as well, with \"Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again).\" \"Why Me\"", "title": "Why Me (Kris Kristofferson song)" }, { "id": "216221", "text": "little-known San Francisco psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. After releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then the Full Tilt Boogie Band. She appeared at the Woodstock festival and the \"Festival Express\" train tour. Five singles by Joplin reached the Billboard Hot 100, including a cover of the Kris Kristofferson song \"Me and Bobby McGee\", which reached number 1 in March 1971. Her most popular songs include her cover versions of \"Piece of My Heart\", \"Cry", "title": "Janis Joplin" }, { "id": "4374854", "text": "Estevez cut with Disney (who would later under-promote the film) to appear in \"\", and was distributed by Touchstone Pictures. The soundtrack is faithful to the time period, using music from artists such as Buffalo Springfield, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. Singer Jena Kraus is featured singing a folk version of the song \"Me and Bobby Mcgee\" as well. The film was released in theatres on November 20, 1996. It was a box office failure, grossing only $43,000. The film was released on DVD in the US in September 2002. The film received mixed reviews, with a 60% \"fresh\"", "title": "The War at Home (film)" }, { "id": "8559722", "text": "Live at the Philharmonic Live at the Philharmonic is a live album by Kris Kristofferson, released on Monument Records in 1992 (see 1992 in music). Performed at Philharmonic Hall in New York City on December 2, 1972, the concert followed the release of Kristofferson's successful \"Jesus Was a Capricorn\". Aside from several songs from the latter, the singer performed a number of new pieces, as well as a few of his well-known hits such as \"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down\" and \"Me and Bobby McGee\". Guest artists included Willie Nelson, who was a little-known personality in country music at the time,", "title": "Live at the Philharmonic" }, { "id": "4520910", "text": "Lovin' Spoonful, Tim Buckley, Love, Clear Light, Rhinoceros and Janis Joplin, including her final LP \"Pearl\" and her only no. 1 single (written by her then-lover Kris Kristofferson) \"Me and Bobby McGee\". In the 1970s, he produced The Outlaws' debut album, \"Outlaws\" for Arista Records, as well as producing Bonnie Raitt, Elliott Murphy and the soundtrack album for the Bette Midler film \"The Rose\", which was loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin. He also produced the soundtrack to Oliver Stone's film \"The Doors\", about the group and appeared in a small role in the film. In the latter", "title": "Paul A. Rothchild" }, { "id": "10402279", "text": "Thelma Houston (1972 album) Thelma Houston (1972) is the second album by Thelma Houston, recorded in 1972 and released in 1973. The album includes the single, \"Me and Bobby McGee\". This is her first album recorded with Motown Records under the Mowest label. Two versions of the album were issued, a ten track version in the US and a fourteen track version in the UK and Germany. The album was reissued on CD in an expanded edition by Soulmusic Records in 2012. The album was arranged by Artie Butler, Michael Omartian, Gene Page, James Anthony Carmichael and John Myles. For", "title": "Thelma Houston (1972 album)" }, { "id": "20006903", "text": "months as he and Lois Dalton sang the theme song for the popular sitcom and ABC's hit show, \"The Brady Bunch\". He continued to attend Troubadour, where he was introduced to Kris Kristofferson, a musician from Nashville, Tennessee. It was decided that Beland would back up the performer on acoustic guitar for Kristofferson. They performed three tracks, \"Help Me Make It Through the Night\", \"For The Good Times\", and \"Me And Bobby McGee\". According to Beland, all three received a cold reception. In 1969, Beland answered an ad in \"The Hollywood Reporter\" calling for lead guitarists who could sing harmony.", "title": "John Beland" }, { "id": "8559723", "text": "Rita Coolidge, Kristofferson's future wife, and Larry Gatlin, whose career was in its starting phases. Live at the Philharmonic Live at the Philharmonic is a live album by Kris Kristofferson, released on Monument Records in 1992 (see 1992 in music). Performed at Philharmonic Hall in New York City on December 2, 1972, the concert followed the release of Kristofferson's successful \"Jesus Was a Capricorn\". Aside from several songs from the latter, the singer performed a number of new pieces, as well as a few of his well-known hits such as \"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down\" and \"Me and Bobby McGee\". Guest", "title": "Live at the Philharmonic" }, { "id": "11549176", "text": "then bet you couldn't write a song to fit it\". The song began to take off, first recorded by Roger Miller in 1969. Kristofferson's own version was released on his first Monument album in 1970 but it did not chart. It was Janis Joplin's posthumously-released version that pushed the song to No. 1. Joplin's version changed the gender of \"Bobby McGee\" into a male. Other artists took three of the songs on his \"Kristofferson\" album to top-ten status: \"For the Good Times\" (Ray Price); \"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down\" (Johnny Cash); and \"Help Me Make It Through the Night\" (Sammi Smith).", "title": "Bob Beckham" }, { "id": "18484990", "text": "Moments, which includes Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz from the Beastie Boys and Carmine Covelli from The Julie Ruin. In October 2013, Everett and Horovitz performed in a show called \"Rock Bottom\" that the two co-wrote with \"Hairspray\" songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. \"Rock Bottom\" won Everett the 2015 Obie Awards Special Citation presented by the American Theatre Wing. Bridget has also performed with Brad Williams in a show called \"Down n Dirty\" (hosted by \"Broad City\"s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer) at the 2014 Bonnaroo Music Festival. Bridget performed a duet of \"Me and Bobby McGee\" with Patti LuPone at", "title": "Bridget Everett" }, { "id": "15410318", "text": "Blues Challenge, and winner of several East Coast Music Awards), as well as Paul MacLeod, Brock Zeman, Lynn Jackson, Ambre McLean, Shannon Lyon, Jay Semko, the Billie Hollies and many other Canadian singer-songwriters. The label name was taken from a line in the song, \"Me and Bobby McGee\" made popular by Janis Joplin. The label was founded to showcase talent from the Southern Ontario region, but has since branched out to release acts from across Canada and Europe. The label specializes in roots, Americana, blues, folk and alt-country acts. According to a feature article in \"Exclaim!\" magazine, Busted Flat Records", "title": "Busted Flat Records" }, { "id": "18567887", "text": "As Lewis's behaviour became more erratic as the decade wore on, Kennedy would do his best to keep his artist relevant in the country charts by turning more towards this sweetened sound. The album's title track became Lewis's second number one country hit of 1971, and \"Me and Bobby McGee\" would crack the top 40 on the pop charts, the first time he had done so since 1961. The album itself peaked at number three on the \"Billboard\" country albums chart. AllMusic states that the collection \"is slowed by layers of backing vocals, gauzy accouterments that turn this into an", "title": "Would You Take Another Chance on Me?" }, { "id": "6154766", "text": "at Cash's house outside of Nashville. Cash claimed that several other musicians also played their own new, unheard songs: Shel Silverstein played \"A Boy Named Sue\", Joni Mitchell played \"Both Sides, Now\", Graham Nash played \"Marrakesh Express\" and Kris Kristofferson played \"Me and Bobby McGee\". Drummer Kenny Buttrey has said that he had a difficult time coming up with a drum part for the song. Dylan had suggested bongos, while producer Bob Johnson said cowbells. In order to \"show them how bad their ideas were\", Buttrey used both instruments together. Kristofferson, who was working as a janitor in the studio", "title": "Lay Lady Lay" }, { "id": "17389835", "text": "Edition)\". Bring the Noize \"Bring the Noize\" is a song by British recording artist M.I.A. from her fourth studio album, Matangi (2013). The track was written by Maya \"M.I.A.\" Arulpragasam, Surkin, Switch, Para One and Hugues Rey, and produced by Switch and Surkin. It references Public Enemy's 1987 song \"Bring the Noise\" and Janis Joplin's track \"Me and Bobby McGee\". The track was first previewed in March 2013 as part of \"Matangi Mix\" used as the soundtrack to Kenzo's fashion show in Paris. The single was self-released worldwide as a digital download, under exclusive license to Interscope Records, on 18", "title": "Bring the Noize" }, { "id": "17389832", "text": "Bring the Noize \"Bring the Noize\" is a song by British recording artist M.I.A. from her fourth studio album, Matangi (2013). The track was written by Maya \"M.I.A.\" Arulpragasam, Surkin, Switch, Para One and Hugues Rey, and produced by Switch and Surkin. It references Public Enemy's 1987 song \"Bring the Noise\" and Janis Joplin's track \"Me and Bobby McGee\". The track was first previewed in March 2013 as part of \"Matangi Mix\" used as the soundtrack to Kenzo's fashion show in Paris. The single was self-released worldwide as a digital download, under exclusive license to Interscope Records, on 18 June", "title": "Bring the Noize" }, { "id": "7669671", "text": "Kristofferson (album) Kristofferson is the first album by Kris Kristofferson, released in 1970 (see 1970 in music) on Monument Records. Many of the songs on the album were already hits as they had been recorded by other artists when Kristofferson was primarily known as a songwriter. In spite of this, the album was initially a commercial disappointment, although it reached number 10 on the country album charts. It was re-released under the title Me and Bobby McGee in 1971 immediately following the success of Janis Joplin's interpretation of that song and the success of Kris Kristofferson's second album, \"The Silver", "title": "Kristofferson (album)" }, { "id": "11915719", "text": "I Wanna Be Free (album) I Wanna Be Free is the sixteenth studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on May 10, 1971, by Decca Records. In the issue dated May 22, 1971, \"Billboard\" magazine published a review which said, \"Miss Lynn's latest album spotlights her current country hit, \"I Wanna Be Free\", and features excellent versions of \"Help Me Make It Through the Night\", \"Me and Bobby McGee\" and \"Rose Garden\". Among the originals, \"Drive You Out of My Mind\" and \"I'm One Man's Woman\" stand out. The album peaked at No. 5 on", "title": "I Wanna Be Free (album)" }, { "id": "4594705", "text": "left United Artists because he believed they did not adequately promote his albums. On this album, Lightfoot included more orchestration, which is particularly evident on \"If You Could Read My Mind\". It was also the first studio album to feature long-time Lightfoot bassist Rick Haynes. The orchestration on \"Minstrel of the Dawn\" and \"Approaching Lavender\" was arranged by Randy Newman. The album contained one of the first recorded versions of Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster's \"Me and Bobby McGee\" which had previously been a country hit for Roger Miller and would later become a hit for Janis Joplin. A small", "title": "Sit Down Young Stranger" }, { "id": "870926", "text": "nationally and represented a major turning point in Lightfoot's career. The album also featured a second recorded version of \"Me and Bobby McGee\", as well as \"The Pony Man,\" \"Your Love's Return (Song For Stephen Foster),\" and \"Minstrel Of The Dawn.\" Over the next seven years, he recorded a series of successful albums that established him as a singer-songwriter: During the 1970s Lightfoot's songs covered a wide range of subjects, including \"Don Quixote\", about Cervantes' famous literary character, \"Ode to Big Blue\", about the widespread killing of whales, \"Beautiful\", about the simple joys of love, \"Carefree Highway\", about the freedom", "title": "Gordon Lightfoot" }, { "id": "10402280", "text": "the 1972 US album released on MoWest MW1023L Side one Side two For the 1973 UK album released on MoWest MWS7003 Side one Side two Thelma Houston (1972 album) Thelma Houston (1972) is the second album by Thelma Houston, recorded in 1972 and released in 1973. The album includes the single, \"Me and Bobby McGee\". This is her first album recorded with Motown Records under the Mowest label. Two versions of the album were issued, a ten track version in the US and a fourteen track version in the UK and Germany. The album was reissued on CD in an", "title": "Thelma Houston (1972 album)" }, { "id": "18567885", "text": "of Hits\", \"Since the country breakthrough in 1968, Lewis's records had been spare, unornamented and unremittingly slow-paced. After three years Kennedy decided to break out of the artistic straitjacket. When Lewis arrived at Mercury's studio in August 1971 he was greeted by a 10-piece string section rehearsing a Kris Kristofferson song. Kennedy wanted to give the big-budget treatment to 'Me and Bobby McGee'. The song had been a country hit for Roger Miller and a pop hit for Janis Joplin, and so if Lewis was to do it, he would have to rethink it. And that's what he did. In", "title": "Would You Take Another Chance on Me?" }, { "id": "8353829", "text": "På Österåker På Österåker (\"At Österåker\") is a live album by country singer Johnny Cash released on Columbia Records in 1973, making it his 43rd overall release. The album features Cash's concert at the Österåker Prison in Sweden held on October 3, 1972. Its counterparts in concept are the more notable \"At Folsom Prison\" (1968), \"At San Quentin\" (1969), and \"A Concert Behind Prison Walls\" (1976). Unlike aforementioned, \"På Österåker\" does not contain any of Cash's most well-known songs; it does, however, include a version of Kris Kristofferson's \"Me and Bobby McGee\". \"Orleans Parish Prison\" was released as a single,", "title": "På Österåker" }, { "id": "18566038", "text": "the son is finished.\" AllMusic gives the album 3 out of 5 stars and contends that the album only lacks when \"compared to his early classic rock & roll recordings.\" The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists is a double album by Jerry Lee Lewis released on Mercury Records in 1973. It was recorded in London and features Lewis teaming up with British musicians, including Peter Frampton and Albert Lee. After scoring a dozen country hits since 1968, Lewis returned to the pop charts with \"Me and Bobby McGee\" in 1971 and \"Chantilly", "title": "The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists" }, { "id": "1448706", "text": "a PBS songwriters series to be aired in December. Each performer played 5 songs. Kristofferson's set included \"The Best of All Possible Worlds\", \"Darby's Castle\", \"Casey's Last Ride\", \"Me and Bobby McGee\", and \"Here Comes that Rainbow Again\". Taping was done in Nashville. Kristofferson released a new album of original songs entitled \"Closer to the Bone\" on September 29, 2009. It is produced by Don Was on the New West label. Prior to the release, Kristofferson remarked: \"I like the intimacy of the new album. It has a general mood of reflecting on where we all are at this time", "title": "Kris Kristofferson" }, { "id": "18566030", "text": "The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists is a double album by Jerry Lee Lewis released on Mercury Records in 1973. It was recorded in London and features Lewis teaming up with British musicians, including Peter Frampton and Albert Lee. After scoring a dozen country hits since 1968, Lewis returned to the pop charts with \"Me and Bobby McGee\" in 1971 and \"Chantilly Lace\" in 1972, and this turn of events, coupled with a revitalized public interest in vintage rock and roll, inspired Mercury to fly Lewis to London to record with a", "title": "The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists" }, { "id": "8752586", "text": "hitchhiked to San Francisco to join Big Brother and the Holding Company, and ends with her death in 1970. Her journey is told in her own words; the entire spoken text is quoted from Joplin's letters and interviews. Performances include many of Joplin's most famous songs, \"Piece of My Heart\", \"Get It While You Can\", \"Me and Bobby McGee\", \"Ball and Chain\" and \"Mercedes Benz\". Music direction for the Off-Broadway production was provided by Sam Andrew, founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company. A soundtrack album, using the original music and with letters read by Catherine Curtin, has", "title": "Love, Janis (musical)" }, { "id": "5669440", "text": "an example of a new brand of neorealism, \"bittersweet and self-conscious\". International film directors who have named \"La Strada\" as one of their favorite films include Stanley Kwan, Anton Corbijn, Gillies MacKinnon, Andreas Dresen, Jiří Menzel, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mike Newell, Rajko Grlić, Laila Pakalniņa, Ann Hui, Kazuhiro Soda, Julian Jarrold, Krzysztof Zanussi, and Andrey Konchalovsky. The film has found its way into popular music, too. Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson have mentioned the film as an inspiration for their songs \"Mr. Tambourine Man\" and \"Me and Bobby McGee\", respectively, and a Serbian rock band took the film's name as their", "title": "La Strada" }, { "id": "18567998", "text": "of a time when there would be no such music without that little bit of hillbilly in it; and so it reminded them of being young.\" Years later Lewis added a lascivious swagger to the song, which had merely been a novelty in the Bopper's hands. It would spend three weeks at the top of the country charts, also becoming a Top 50 pop hit in the United States and a Top 40 hit in the United Kingdom. \"The Killer Rocks On\" also includes Jerry Lee's amped-up version of Kris Kristofferson's \"Me And Bobby McGee.\" In the liner notes to", "title": "The Killer Rocks On" }, { "id": "1556275", "text": "\"Workingman's Dead\" (1970), the band's breakthrough studio release. On the follow-up album \"American Beauty\", keyboard parts were handled by Garcia and Lesh, along with session musicians Howard Wales and Ned Lagin. The 1971 live album \"Grateful Dead\" featured three overdubbed organ parts from Merl Saunders in addition to McKernan's contributions on \"Big Railroad Blues\", \"The Other One\", and \"Me & Bobby McGee\". While Garcia expressed frustration at McKernan's missed rehearsals and his inability to keep up with new material, Lesh was more forgiving, opining that \"it was okay for Pigpen to lay out... we kept wanting Pigpen to be there", "title": "Ron \"Pigpen\" McKernan" }, { "id": "12361117", "text": "the Old Professional's Club on Music Row. The meeting attracted some 40 songwriters, including Liz & Casey Anderson (\"The Fugitive\"), Felice & Boudleaux Bryant (\"Wake Up Little Susie\"), Kris Kristofferson (\"Me And Bobby McGee\") and Marijohn Wilkin (\"One Day At A Time\"). Those 40—more than half the songwriters in town at that time—became the founding membership of NSAI and began spending countless hours around Marijohn's kitchen table brainstorming, discussing and refining ideas. Within a year, the Nashville Songwriters Association was chartered by the state of Tennessee as a not-for-profit trade association, and from that moment, NSAI would go on to", "title": "Nashville Songwriters Association International" }, { "id": "1700132", "text": "mainly by Patsy Cline – which included \"Crazy\", \"I Fall to Pieces\", and \"She's Got You\" – that were primarily taken from her \"12 Greatest Hits\" album. The album also covered Marty Robbins's \"Don't Worry\" and Kris Kristofferson's \"Me and Bobby McGee\". The album included one new song, \"Big Deal\". The song gained many positive reviews. Allmusic called the song, \"a return to her roots\" and \"a salute to one of her idols, Patsy Cline.\" The album in general received much praise. Allmusic called the album one of her \"better\" efforts, since they had disliked her previous releases. \"Entertainment Weekly\"", "title": "LeAnn Rimes" }, { "id": "18573157", "text": "spirit of the song much like he had years earlier when he recorded a boogie-woogie version of \"Me and Bobby McGee,\" his ravaged voice giving the usually optimistic Judy Garland classic a forlorn vulnerability. \"It had a certain feeling to it,\" Lewis told biographer Rick Bragg in 2014, \"like a religious undertone. A something that you seldom ever can hear.\" The album also features Jerry Lee's first ever recording of \"Folsom Prison Blues.\" Sometime before the release of \"Killer Country\", Lewis went to the Caribou Ranch recording studio in Colorado and cut more than thirty songs from a wide variety", "title": "Killer Country" }, { "id": "12518418", "text": "Original Tracks\". The album features covers of Kris Kristofferson (\"Me and Bobby McGee\"), Bread (\"If\"), The Band (\"In a Station\"), Lesley Duncan (\"Love Song\" and \"Lullaby\"), Kris Kristofferson (\"Help Me Make It Through the Night\"), Bob Dylan (\"If Not for You\"), Brotherhood of Man (\"Where Are You Going to My Love\"), Gordon Lightfoot (\"If You Could Read My Mind\") and Tom Rush (\"No Regrets\"). \"Banks of the Ohio\" is a traditional song that had an arrangement made by Farrar and Welch. Newton-John made several appearances on television programs across Europe and her homeland Australia between 1971–72. She also made an", "title": "If Not for You (album)" }, { "id": "961389", "text": "\"Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On\", \"Workin' Man Blues\", \"Good Golly Miss Molly\", and a host of others classics before leaving the stage to a thunderous standing ovation. Lewis returned to the pop charts with \"Me and Bobby McGee\" in 1971 and \"Chantilly Lace\" in 1972, and this turn of events, coupled with a revitalized public interest in vintage rock and roll, inspired Mercury to fly Lewis to London in 1973 to record with a cadre of gifted British and Irish musicians, including Rory Gallagher, Kenney Jones, and Albert Lee. By all accounts the sessions were tense. The remake of Lewis's", "title": "Jerry Lee Lewis" }, { "id": "1448687", "text": "next few years, more Kristofferson originals hit the charts, performed by Roy Drusky (\"Jody and the Kid\"); Billy Walker & the Tennessee Walkers (\"From the Bottle to the Bottom\"); Ray Stevens (\"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down\"); Jerry Lee Lewis (\"Once More with Feeling\"); Faron Young (\"Your Time's Comin'\"); and Roger Miller (\"Me and Bobby McGee\", \"Best of all Possible Worlds\", and \"Darby's Castle\"). He achieved some success as a performer himself, following Johnny Cash's introduction of him at the Newport Folk Festival. Kristofferson signed to Monument Records as a recording artist. In addition to running that label, Fred Foster also served", "title": "Kris Kristofferson" }, { "id": "3661497", "text": "her on the Festival Express, a concert tour by train of Canada, in the summer of 1970. Many of the songs on this album were recorded on the concert stage in Canada two months before Joplin and the band started their Los Angeles recording sessions. The band also appeared twice on \"The Dick Cavett Show\". They also played many American cities, both before and after Festival Express, although no recordings of those concerts have been officially released. All nine tracks that she sings on were personally approved and arranged by Joplin. \"Pearl\" features the number one hit \"Me and Bobby", "title": "Pearl (album)" }, { "id": "18567884", "text": "Would You Take Another Chance on Me? Would You Take Another Chance on Me? is an album by Jerry Lee Lewis that was released on Mercury Records in 1971. Lewis's fourth Mercury album of 1971 includes his radical arrangement of the Kris Kristofferson classic \"Me and Bobby McGee\". Although producer Jerry Kennedy avoided releasing singles in the country market that featured Jerry Lee's trademark \"boogie woogie\" piano style, by late 1971 Lewis had amassed so many country hits that Kennedy began to alter his approach. As Colin Escott writes in the liner notes to the 2006 retrospective \"A Half Century", "title": "Would You Take Another Chance on Me?" }, { "id": "12518426", "text": "CD release (Festival Cat.# D34320 / D19809) was seriously botched. The first track on the album, \"Me and Bobby McGee\", was missing entirely from the CD; thus the CD started with the Bread cover, \"If\", and contained only 11 of the 12 songs. Further, three of the latter songs on this release were mis-sequenced. However, the CD labeling lists all 12 original songs in their original sequence. However, the overall sonic quality of the 1998 remastered edition was praised. All songs produced by John Farrar and Bruce Welch. Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. Production Design Record company If", "title": "If Not for You (album)" }, { "id": "259351", "text": "soundtrack of the 2010 film \"The Next Three Days\", including the single \"Mistake\". Moby has collaborated live with many of his heroes while on tour or at fundraisers. He has performed \"Walk on the Wild Side\" with Lou Reed, \"Me and Bobby McGee\" with Kris Kristofferson, \"Heroes\" and \"Cactus\" with David Bowie, \"Helpless\" with Bono and Michael Stipe, \"New Dawn Fades\" with New Order, \"Make Love, Fuck War\" with Public Enemy, \"Whole Lotta Love\" with Slash, and \"That's When I Reach For My Revolver\" with Mission of Burma. He has performed two duets with the French singer Mylène Farmer (\"Slipping", "title": "Moby" }, { "id": "1448708", "text": "in the upcoming album \"Ghost Brothers of Darkland County\", a collaboration between rock singer John Mellencamp and novelist Stephen King. On May 11, 2010, Light in the Attic Records released demos that were recorded during Kristofferson's janitorial stint at Columbia. \"\" is the first time these recordings have been released and includes material that would later be featured on other Kristofferson recordings and on the recordings of other prominent artists, such as the original recording of \"Me and Bobby McGee\". On June 4, 2011, Kristofferson performed a solo acoustic show at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center, showcasing both some", "title": "Kris Kristofferson" }, { "id": "2965455", "text": "\"Like a Rolling Stone\" in public. Despite the musical transition, Dylan's growing status within the larger counterculture ensured that his place in the expanding movement would remain secure. Dylan did not return to Newport until 2002, when he played a headlining performance while wearing a wig and fake beard. In 1969, the Johnny Cash troupe was to perform on opening night of the festival. Cash had recently become aware of Kris Kristofferson, a young, relatively unknown country singer-songwriter, and convinced George Wein to allow Kristofferson to join him onstage. Kristofferson's performance of \"Me and Bobby McGee\" and other songs gave", "title": "Newport Folk Festival" }, { "id": "18567888", "text": "album approximating romance...\" Would You Take Another Chance on Me? Would You Take Another Chance on Me? is an album by Jerry Lee Lewis that was released on Mercury Records in 1971. Lewis's fourth Mercury album of 1971 includes his radical arrangement of the Kris Kristofferson classic \"Me and Bobby McGee\". Although producer Jerry Kennedy avoided releasing singles in the country market that featured Jerry Lee's trademark \"boogie woogie\" piano style, by late 1971 Lewis had amassed so many country hits that Kennedy began to alter his approach. As Colin Escott writes in the liner notes to the 2006 retrospective", "title": "Would You Take Another Chance on Me?" }, { "id": "6545394", "text": "Seger promptly pursued a romantic relationship with the girl, but eventually her partner returned and they married, leaving Seger with a broken heart. Seger later told journalist Timothy White that many of his early songs were written to impress the girl. The song took Seger over six months to complete writing. He had recently purchased a house due to the success of his first live album, \"Live Bullet\", and he and the band would write and practice in its large basement. The ending lyrics were written first. The use of descriptive imagery was inspired by Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby", "title": "Night Moves (song)" }, { "id": "9433264", "text": "Despite its success in the United States and the popularity of the group on both sides of the Atlantic, the single only reached number 45 in the band's native United Kingdom. The Dave Clark Five omitted Bobby Day's last verse to the song, while the line \"everybody went stag\" as originally written by Bobby Byrd (Day's real name) was sung as “everybody there was there” on the DC5 version. In 1981, Mike Love of The Beach Boys covered the song on his solo album \"Looking Back With Love\". Over and Over (Bobby Day song) \"Over and Over\" is a song", "title": "Over and Over (Bobby Day song)" }, { "id": "15433060", "text": "Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Grascals and Willie Nelson. His song \"Midnight Flyer\" was recorded by the Eagles. His song \"Dropkick Me, Jesus\" was a No. 17 country hit for Bobby Bare in 1976. He also wrote Moe Bandy's \"Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life\" and T. Graham Brown's \"Come as You Were\" among others. Craft was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on October 5, 2014. Craft died at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee on October 18, 2014 at the age of 76. Paul Craft Paul Craft (August 12, 1938 – October 18, 2014) was an American", "title": "Paul Craft" }, { "id": "5644180", "text": "Monroe. She also starred in miniseries \"Mildred Pierce\" and \"Hatfields & McCoys\" and garnered another two Emmy nominations. In 2012, she appeared Off-Broadway as Beth, the mother in an intellectual, though dysfunctional, British family, in the award-winning comic-drama \"Tribes\" by Nina Raine. Winningham has alternated her film career with a music career, and has used some of her films as a way to showcase her singing. She can be heard singing a few bars of \"Me and Bobby McGee\" in \"One Trick Pony\". In 1981, she played a teenage runaway with an aspiration to become a singer in the TV", "title": "Mare Winningham" }, { "id": "19966319", "text": "and composer. His songs have been recorded by, among others, Eddy Arnold, The Oak Ridge Boys, Bobby Blue Bland, Keith Whitley, Candi Staton, Kenny Rogers, Agnetha Fältskog, LeAnn Rimes, B.J. Thomas, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dr. Hook, Eddie Rabbitt, the Cox Family, S-K-O, and Paul Overstreet. In 1997, he placed number 19 on \"Billboard\" magazine's year-end list of Hot Country Singles Songwriters. He wrote the 1996 novel \"Music City Confidential\". See Dan Tyler Daniel Eugene Tyler (born 1950) is an American songwriter. Among his best known songs are \"Bobbie Sue\" (co-written with his wife, Adele), \"Modern Day Romance\", \"Twenty", "title": "Dan Tyler" }, { "id": "20276201", "text": "Wait 'til My Bobby Gets Home Wait ’til My Bobby Gets Home is a song written by Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry. It was recorded at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles in May 1963 by Darlene Love with the lead vocals shared by Love and her sister Edna Wright. The song was arranged by Jack Nitzsche, Larry Levine was the engineer and Spector’s Wall of Sound was played by The Wrecking Crew. The record was released later in 1963 as Philles Records # 114 and peaked at #26 in the \"Billboard\" Top 100. The song was covered", "title": "Wait 'til My Bobby Gets Home" }, { "id": "18566514", "text": "in London with Great Artists\", a collaboration with British rockers that had been released earlier in the year and had reached number 37. His singles \"Me and Bobby McGee\" had also grazed the top 40(peaked #40, 1972). As Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic observed, \"Apart from the gospel closer, country has been consciously removed from the menu, a move that feels like the producer's choice, since Lewis' performances aren't all that much different or more impassioned than what came before...Jerry Lee doesn't sound relieved to be in this setting; he simply sounds like himself, barrelling through a set of songs", "title": "Southern Roots: Back Home to Memphis" }, { "id": "1448689", "text": "Make It Through the Night\") all recorded successful versions of his songs in the early 1970s. \"For the Good Times\" (Ray Price) won \"Song of the Year\" in 1970 from the Academy of Country Music, while \"Sunday Morning Coming Down\" (Johnny Cash) won the same award from the Academy's rival, the Country Music Association, in the same year. This is the only time an individual received the same award from these two organizations in the same year for different songs. In 1971, Janis Joplin, who dated Kristofferson for some time until her death, had a number one hit with \"Me", "title": "Kris Kristofferson" }, { "id": "17337656", "text": "Girls Don't Cry\" and Elvis Presley's \"Return to Sender\". It reached 2 on the \"Cash Box\" chart staying on the charts for nineteen weeks and made Blane the top selling female singer in the US. The Susan Maughan cover version was also released in 1962, in the UK. It featured Wally Stott and his orchestra and chorus. Maughan's version spent nineteen weeks on the UK's \"Record Retailer\" chart, peaking at No. 3. In 1983, Tracey Ullman released a version of \"Bobby's Girl\" on the album \"You Broke My Heart in 17 Places\" and as a single. Ullman's version reached No.", "title": "Bobby's Girl (song)" }, { "id": "13246891", "text": "Me and You (Kenny Chesney song) \"Me and You\" is a song written by Skip Ewing and Ray Herndon, the latter of whom was formerly the guitarist of the band McBride & the Ride. It was recorded by the American country music singer Kenny Chesney, who included it on two albums: \"All I Need to Know\" (1995) and \"Me and You\" (1996). It was released in July 1996 as the second single and title track from the latter album, peaking at number 2 on the US country singles charts in 1996. \"Me and You\" is a mid-tempo ballad in which", "title": "Me and You (Kenny Chesney song)" }, { "id": "11409203", "text": "Robert & Johnny Robert & Johnny were an American doo-wop duo from The Bronx, composed of Robert Carr and Johnny Mitchell. The duo released about a dozen singles for Old Town Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Two of them charted; \"We Belong Together\", which hit #12 on the U.S. Black Singles chart and #32 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1958, and \"I Believe In You\", which hit #93 on the Hot 100 later that year. They wrote most of their own songs, and were distinguished by their vocal style, which Richie Unterberger has described as \"one", "title": "Robert & Johnny" }, { "id": "6405055", "text": "Robinson, \"I Was Made to Love Her\" by Stevie Wonder, \"Ain't That Peculiar\" by Marvin Gaye, an original acoustic version of \"The Sound of Silence\" by Simon & Garfunkel, \"Anji\" covered by Jason Huxley, \"Come See About Me\" by The Supremes, \"There's a Kind of Hush\" by Herman's Hermits, \"Black Is Black\" by Los Bravos, \"Season of the Witch\" and \"Hurdy Gurdy Man\" by Donovan, \"Wives and Lovers\" by Jack Jones, \"Magic Moments\" by Perry Como, \"Pata Pata\" by Miriam Makeba and \"Initials\" from the musical \"Hair\". The soundtrack album \"Bobby\" features The Supremes, Shorty Long, Hugh Masekela, The Moody", "title": "Bobby (2006 film)" }, { "id": "4016446", "text": "Bobby Vee Robert Thomas Velline (April 30, 1943 – October 24, 2016), known professionally as Bobby Vee, was an American singer, songwriter and musician who was a teen idol in the early 1960s and also appeared in films. According to \"Billboard\" magazine, he had thirty-eight Hot 100 chart hits, ten of which reached the Top 20. He had six gold singles in his career. Vee was born in Fargo, North Dakota, to Sydney Ronald Velline (a chef, pianist and fiddle player) and Saima Cecelia Tapanila, in a family of Norwegian and Finnish heritage. His first single, \"Suzie Baby,\" was written", "title": "Bobby Vee" }, { "id": "3023166", "text": "in Southeast Asia. In 2008, Lobo released \"Out of Time\" with old favorites and some new songs. A tribute album to the original era of the early Lobo recordings was made available from the website. US chart is Billboard unless otherwise noted. * Cash Box singles chart. Lobo (musician) Roland Kent LaVoie (born July 31, 1943), better known by his stage name “Lobo”, is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the early 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including \"Me and You and a Dog Named Boo\", \"I'd Love You to Want Me\", and \"Don't Expect Me to", "title": "Lobo (musician)" }, { "id": "9433263", "text": "is waiting for her date to arrive. He vows to try \"over and over\". In 1965, the most successful version, was recorded by the Dave Clark Five, one of the early British Invasion bands of the mid-1960s. This version was sung by lead singer and keyboardist Mike Smith. It followed the group's signature sound of thumping, 4/4 drum beats accompanied by a wailing saxophone. It omits the final verse of the song. In the US, \"Over and Over\" was the group's 12th Top 40 hit and was their only #1 hit. It was also the last #1 hit of 1965.", "title": "Over and Over (Bobby Day song)" }, { "id": "20276202", "text": "by Motown’s Martha and the Vandellas on their 1963 album \"Heat Wave\" as well as by British singer Beverley Jones that same year. Ellie Greenwich recorded her own version in 1973. Wait 'til My Bobby Gets Home Wait ’til My Bobby Gets Home is a song written by Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry. It was recorded at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles in May 1963 by Darlene Love with the lead vocals shared by Love and her sister Edna Wright. The song was arranged by Jack Nitzsche, Larry Levine was the engineer and Spector’s Wall of Sound", "title": "Wait 'til My Bobby Gets Home" }, { "id": "13246893", "text": "song spent twenty weeks on that chart, peaking at number 2 on the chart week of November 2, behind Clint Black's \"Like the Rain\". It also spend six weeks on the Bubbling Under Hot 100, peaking at number 12 on that chart (equivalent to number 112 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100). Me and You (Kenny Chesney song) \"Me and You\" is a song written by Skip Ewing and Ray Herndon, the latter of whom was formerly the guitarist of the band McBride & the Ride. It was recorded by the American country music singer Kenny Chesney, who included it on", "title": "Me and You (Kenny Chesney song)" }, { "id": "15753178", "text": "Me and Tennessee \"Me and Tennessee\" is a song written by Chris Martin and performed by Tim McGraw and Gwyneth Paltrow. It is included on the soundtrack to the 2010 film \"Country Strong\", in which the two star. It peaked at number 34 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart and at number 63 on the UK Singles chart. McGraw said that he had difficulty recording the song with Paltrow because he thought that \"it's such a moving song\" and said that he wanted to sing as well on it as she did. The song is the final cut", "title": "Me and Tennessee" }, { "id": "18083622", "text": "and at events such as the Kentucky Derby and the Indianapolis 500. They were based out of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and had gigs in Las Vegas, Birmingham, Nashville, St. Petersburg, Lake Tahoe and Hawaii, to name a few. All told some 38 States were visited by the band between 1969–75. In September 1971 Jon and the Australian Vamps recorded two 7\" singles at Reflection Sound Studios, Charlotte, North Carolina for Jollie Ollie Productions, Kansas. The first single was \"Bobby McGee\" featuring Margaret Britt and \"Are You Ready\" featuring Jon Kirk. The second single comprised \"It's Too Late\" featuring Julie Hibberd", "title": "The Vamps (Australian band)" }, { "id": "2958899", "text": "Carmell Jones, as well as with Dolphy and tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd at Pandora's Box on the Sunset Strip. He made his recording debut on August 3, 1960, cutting two songs for a 7-inch single with the Les McCann trio for Pacific Jazz (released in 1961), followed by the LP \"Groovin' Blue\" with the Curtis Amy-Frank Butler sextet on December 10 (also released by Pacific Jazz in 1961). In January 1962, Hutcherson joined the Billy Mitchell–Al Grey group for dates at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco and Birdland in New York City (opposite Art Blakey). After touring with the", "title": "Bobby Hutcherson" }, { "id": "11331678", "text": "Bobby Edwards Bobby Edwards (born Robert Edward Moncrief; January 18, 1926 – July 31, 2012) was an American country music singer who recorded between 1959 and 1964. At the beginning of his career he performed and recorded under the name Bobby Moncrief. Then, having completed his service in the US Navy, he started recording as Bobby Edwards. Edwards was born in Anniston, Alabama to a preacher, George Thomas Moncrief and Ila Eva Murray Moncrief. As Bobby Moncrief, he first recorded for Pappy Daily at 'D' Records in 1958. His first recording was called \"Long Gone Daddy\". In 1959, he revived", "title": "Bobby Edwards" }, { "id": "17337655", "text": "Bobby's Girl (song) \"Bobby's Girl\" is a song and single written by Gary Klein and Henry Hoffman and performed by American teenage singer, Marcie Blane. It was first released in 1962 in America. It has a spoken introduction and a backing refrain of \"\"You're not a kid anymore\"\" and was popular with the American teenage audience. It entered the charts in October and made the Top 10 within a month reaching 3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 by December, where it stayed for four weeks only to be kept from the top of the charts by The Four Seasons' \"Big", "title": "Bobby's Girl (song)" }, { "id": "2165958", "text": "the same music may be used in his forthcoming film \"\". American McGee's Alice Original Music Score was released on October 16, 2001 by Six Degrees Records. It features all twenty original compositions by former Nine Inch Nails live drummer and studio collaborator Chris Vrenna with vocals done by Jessicka Addams of Jack Off Jill and Scarling.. It includes a previously unreleased theme as well as a remix of \"Flying on the Wings of Steam\". In December 2000, director Wes Craven signed on to develop a film adaptation of the game, with screenwriter John August hired to adapt the game", "title": "American McGee's Alice" }, { "id": "13769415", "text": "You and Me (Dave Matthews Band song) \"You and Me\" is the third single by American rock band Dave Matthews Band from their seventh studio album \"Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King\" (2009). It was written by Dave Matthews, produced by Rob Cavallo, and released in 2009. The song entered the US \"Billboard\" Hot Rock Songs chart in October 2009, peaking at number 32 in February 2010. In October 2010, \"Billboard\" ranked the song as the year's number three \"Triple A\" song, a listing of the Adult Alternative songs played the most on American radio. Matthews wrote the lyrics while", "title": "You and Me (Dave Matthews Band song)" }, { "id": "19771359", "text": "2004. His last album, \"One of These Days\", was issued by Bonedog Records, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 2006. Brown supported its release by playing some local gigs. Brown died on February 5, 2009, at the age of 87, in Dayton, Ohio, his home since 1963. Songwriting credits for Rosco Gordon's \"Just a Little Bit\" sometimes include Brown, but the authorship is unclear. In 1959, Little Walter recorded \"Me and Piney Brown\" on Checker Records #938. He is not to be confused with the Piney Brown who was the manager of the Sunset nightclub in Kansas City in the 1930s. Big", "title": "Piney Brown" }, { "id": "3661498", "text": "McGee\", on which she played acoustic guitar, written by Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster; \"Trust Me\", by Bobby Womack, written for Joplin; Howard Tate's \"Get It While You Can\", showcasing her vocal range; and the original songs \"Move Over\" and \"Mercedes Benz\", the latter co-written by Joplin, Bobby Neuwirth and Michael McClure. Joplin sang on all tracks except \"Buried Alive in the Blues\", which remained a Full Tilt Boogie instrumental because she died before adding vocals, but she approved the instrumental track. The song's writer Nick Gravenites was offered the opportunity to sing it as a tribute to Joplin, but", "title": "Pearl (album)" }, { "id": "9812000", "text": "Alan Gordon (songwriter) Alan Lee Gordon (April 22, 1944 – November 22, 2008) was an American songwriter best known for songs recorded by The Turtles, Petula Clark, and Barbra Streisand. Many of his songs were co-written with Gary Bonner, including The Turtles' \"Happy Together\" and Three Dog Night's \"Celebrate\". He worked with various popular musicians, including Blues Magoos, Alice Cooper, The Archies, The O'Jays, Lynn Anderson, Flo & Eddie, Frank Zappa, Helen Reddy, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Tammy Wynette, The Lovin' Spoonful, Bobby Darin, and Freddy Fender. Gordon was born in Natick, Massachusetts. In 1965, Gordon and Garry Bonner", "title": "Alan Gordon (songwriter)" }, { "id": "17821877", "text": "hits in 1961 with \"Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)\", a song written and performed by Ernie Maresca, and in 1962 with \"Bobby's Girl\", written by two college students (Hank Hoffman and Gary Klein), a chart success for Marcie Blane in the US. After his initial success with Seville Records, Kassner revitalised the President label. The US release schedule followed with a series of rock'n'roll acts, notably Charlie Gracie and the Jodimars (formerly Bill Haley’s backing group, the publishing arm of Kassner Music having earlier bought rights to the song \"Rock Around The Clock\"). Encouraged by the success of Kassner Music’s", "title": "President Records" }, { "id": "14109215", "text": "Would You Take Another Chance on Me \"Would Tou Take Another Chance on Me\" is a 1971 single by Jerry Lee Lewis. \"Would You Take Another Chance on Me\" was Jerry Lee Lewis' fifth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of sixteen weeks within the top 40. The flip-side of the single was a cover of \"Me and Bobby McGee\" that was aimed at the pop market. The song peaked at No. 40 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. His first top 40 pop hit since 1961's", "title": "Would You Take Another Chance on Me" }, { "id": "14109216", "text": "\"What'd I Say,\" \"Me and Bobby McGee\" was Lewis' last top 40 pop hit to date. Would You Take Another Chance on Me \"Would Tou Take Another Chance on Me\" is a 1971 single by Jerry Lee Lewis. \"Would You Take Another Chance on Me\" was Jerry Lee Lewis' fifth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of sixteen weeks within the top 40. The flip-side of the single was a cover of \"Me and Bobby McGee\" that was aimed at the pop market. The song peaked", "title": "Would You Take Another Chance on Me" }, { "id": "18229632", "text": "Dino & Sembello Ralph F. Palladino (born April 1938), known as Ralph Dino, and John Anthony Sembello (February 22, 1945 - May 1, 2013), were an American singing and songwriting duo in the early 1970s. They recorded one album together, which included the original version of the song \"Pearl's A Singer\", co-written with leading songwriters and record producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and later a hit in the UK for Elkie Brooks. Dino and Sembello, both from Philadelphia, co-wrote three tracks on The Lovin' Spoonful's 1969 album, \"\", and also wrote together for The Turtles, Sergio Mendes and Tim", "title": "Dino & Sembello" }, { "id": "2317602", "text": "Paul Williams (songwriter) Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's \"An Old Fashioned Love Song\" and \"Out in the Country,\" Helen Reddy's \"You and Me Against the World,\" David Bowie's \"Fill Your Heart\" and the Carpenters' \"We've Only Just Begun\" and \"Rainy Days and Mondays.\" Williams is also known for his musical contributions to films, including the Academy Award-nominated song \"Rainbow Connection\" from \"The Muppet Movie\", and penning the lyrics to", "title": "Paul Williams (songwriter)" }, { "id": "2317623", "text": "with Tracey Jackson. Paul Williams (songwriter) Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's \"An Old Fashioned Love Song\" and \"Out in the Country,\" Helen Reddy's \"You and Me Against the World,\" David Bowie's \"Fill Your Heart\" and the Carpenters' \"We've Only Just Begun\" and \"Rainy Days and Mondays.\" Williams is also known for his musical contributions to films, including the Academy Award-nominated song \"Rainbow Connection\" from \"The Muppet Movie\", and penning", "title": "Paul Williams (songwriter)" }, { "id": "6779171", "text": "An enhanced \"Save Me\" is now being distributed through Kirtland with the radio single \"Must Have Been Love\". Former guitarist and vocalist Al Walsh left the band in an amicable split at the end of 2001. Keyboardist and vocalist Jonathan Bryan Williams left in 2003 but rejoined the band in late 2005. Both were significant contributors to the band's sound, particularly in the form of backing vocals. The band didn't see another background vocalist until the 2003 addition of keyboardist/guitarist Todd Wright. Longtime bassist John Small left the band in 2004. With Jonathan's return, Todd Wright has left the band.", "title": "Pat McGee Band" }, { "id": "2897113", "text": "The McCoys The McCoys were a rock group formed in Union City, Indiana, in 1962. They are best known for their 1965 hit \"Hang on Sloopy\". The original members were all from Union City; however, the Zehringer boys were initially from Fort Recovery, Ohio. The band members were guitarist and lead singer Richard Zehringer (later known as Rick Derringer), his brother Randy (later known as Randy Z) on drums, and bassist Dennis Kelly. This first line-up was known as \"The Rick Z Combo\", and later known as \"Rick and the Raiders\". When Kelly left for college, the Zehringers were joined", "title": "The McCoys" }, { "id": "12494001", "text": "music producers Kenny \"Babyface\" Edmonds, The Matrix, Desmond Child and The Underdogs. He has played on hit singles that have reached #1 worldwide including: \"Sk8er Boi\", \"I'm with You\" as well as the Grammy Awards nominated song \"Complicated\". He also played on hit singles that reached the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay charts including: \"Why Can't I?\", \"(There's Gotta Be) More To Life\", and \"No Air\", as well as playing guitar & bass on the . Corky James performed on the soundtrack for the movie \"Bobby\", a Golden Globe Award-nominated historical drama film written & directed by Emilio Estevez and contributed", "title": "Corky James" }, { "id": "12182825", "text": "became a concert favorite and one of Scott-Heron's most popular songs. It is followed by soulful, low-tempo tracks \"Song for Bobby Smith\" and \"Your Daddy Loves You\"; the latter is an introspective ballad and ode to Scott-Heron's daughter Gia Louise. During the October 15, 1973 session, drummer Bob Adams and bassist Danny Bowens contributed to the tracks \"Peace Go with You\", \"Rivers of My Fathers\", \"Back Home\", and \"The Bottle\". Adams, however, was disappointed that \"H²Ogate Blues\" was to be left off the album. The song originally served as an opening monologue concerning the Watergate incident used by Scott-Heron at", "title": "Winter in America" }, { "id": "2200475", "text": "before Frey's death. At the 2016 Grammy Awards, the Eagles and Jackson Browne performed \"Take It Easy\" as a tribute to Frey. On his songwriting in the band, Henley stated in a March 2001 interview on \"Charlie Rose\" that \"rock bands work best as a benevolent dictatorship,\" with the principal songwriters in a band (in the case of the Eagles, \"me and Glenn Frey\") being the ones that will likely hold the power. Following the breakup of the Eagles, Henley embarked on a solo career. He and Stevie Nicks (his girlfriend at the time) had duetted on her Top 10", "title": "Don Henley" }, { "id": "11002969", "text": "from a mental institution and meets him at an abandoned house in the country, where a large group of rebellious teenagers are having a wild, all-night party. American rock music from the period is played prominently and has a very strong effect, especially \"Me and Bobby McGee,\" sung by Janis Joplin. Drugs are used, mainly pot and hash. As the party is winding down, Gilles and Christine escape even deeper into the countryside, searching for a commune where artists are said to live without electricity or running water. This is Christine's idea, but Gilles reluctantly goes along. A jolting conclusion", "title": "Cold Water (film)" } ]

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[ { "id": "17942215", "text": "American Horror Story: Freak Show American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the FX horror anthology television series \"American Horror Story\". It premiered on October 8, 2014 and concluded on January 21, 2015. The season is mainly set in 1952 Jupiter, Florida, telling the story of one of the last remaining freak shows in the United States, and their struggle for survival. Returning cast members from the of the series include: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Denis O'Hare, Emma Roberts, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, Grace Gummer, Gabourey Sidibe, Danny Huston, Jamie Brewer, and Mare", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "18258609", "text": "Monsters Among Us \"Monsters Among Us\" is the premiere episode of the of the anthology television series \"American Horror Story\", which premiered on October 8, 2014 on the cable network FX. It was co-written by creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk and directed by Murphy. The episode introduces Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange) who runs one of the last remaining freak shows in the United States in the hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, and her recruitment of conjoined twins Bette and Dot Tattler (Sarah Paulson). It also introduces the rest of her traveling performers and the murderous clown known as Twisty (John", "title": "Monsters Among Us" }, { "id": "17942230", "text": "finale \"Curtain Call\". American Horror Story: Freak Show American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the FX horror anthology television series \"American Horror Story\". It premiered on October 8, 2014 and concluded on January 21, 2015. The season is mainly set in 1952 Jupiter, Florida, telling the story of one of the last remaining freak shows in the United States, and their struggle for survival. Returning cast members from the of the series include: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Denis O'Hare, Emma Roberts, Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Jessica Lange, Grace Gummer, Gabourey Sidibe, Danny Huston, Jamie", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "19185145", "text": "Freak Show (film) Freak Show is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Trudie Styler and written by Patrick J. Clifton and Beth Rigazio, based on the novel of the same name by James St. James. The film stars Alex Lawther, Abigail Breslin, AnnaSophia Robb, Ian Nelson, Celia Weston, Laverne Cox and Bette Midler. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 13, 2017. It was released on January 12, 2018, by IFC Films. On October 2, 2015, it was announced that Trudie Styler would make her directorial debut with the young adult LGBT", "title": "Freak Show (film)" }, { "id": "17942224", "text": "roster, although Murphy later indicated Brewer may not appear during the season. She was later confirmed to portray the ventriloquist dummy Marjorie after appearing in a promo for the final episodes. Additionally, Michael Chiklis was announced to play the father of Peters' character and ex-husband of Bates' character, the strongman Dell Toledo. Finn Wittrock was the last lead actor joining the cast. He portrayed the psychopathic Dandy Mott. In July 2014, \"TVLine\" reported that Wes Bentley would appear in the season' two-part Halloween episode as Edward Mordrake. At the Comic-Con 2014, it was announced that John Carroll Lynch would portray", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "15450999", "text": "alum Denis O'Hare also joined the cast in an unknown role, later revealed as Spalding. In November 2013, Ryan Murphy confirmed that Jessica Lange would be returning for a fourth season, although in a reduced capacity. It was later revealed she would be playing Freak Show owner Elsa Mars. Kathy Bates returned in a main role, portraying bearded lady Ethel Darling. On March 29, 2014, Murphy announced that Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Emma Roberts, Denis O'Hare, and Angela Bassett would all return for the fourth season. Paulson portrayed conjoined sisters Bette and Dot Tattler; Peters portrayed \"Lobster Boy\"", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "17942223", "text": "would be indeed coming back. They portrayed Desiree Dupree and Ethel Darling, respectively. In an interview with \"The Hollywood Reporter\", Sarah Paulson revealed she would be returning, possibly for a main role, which was later revealed to be the conjoined twins Bette and Dot Tattler. It was announced at the PaleyFest 2014 that the cast members present at the panel would all be returning for the fourth season in some capacity, including Denis O'Hare (Stanley), Emma Roberts (Maggie Esmerelda), Frances Conroy (Gloria Mott), Evan Peters (Jimmy Darling), and Gabourey Sidibe (Regina Ross). Jamie Brewer was also added to the present", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "17942220", "text": "jealousy and cruelty towards everyone in the troupe leads her to make selfish decisions to achieve her personal desires. In the middle of all the chaos is the mysterious killer clown known as Twisty (John Carroll Lynch), who murders and kidnaps the townspeople. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> In November 2013, FX announced that the show had been renewed for a fourth season. Series co-creator Ryan Murphy hinted that clues about the fourth season would be hidden in the final episodes of the third season. In March 2014, the season was revealed to be set at a carnival, according to co-executive producer/writer Douglas Petrie.", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "17942225", "text": "one of the central antagonist during the season, Twisty the Clown. In August 2014, Patti LaBelle joined the cast for a four-episode story arc as the mother of Sidibe's character, named Dora, the Motts' housekeeper. Also in August 2014, it was revealed that Matt Bomer would be guest-starring in one episode as Andy, Dell's secret lover. Murphy took to his Twitter account to announce that the world's smallest woman Jyoti Amge has joined the cast as Ma Petite. Murphy had written a role specifically for \"\" alum Leslie Jordan, but he was unable to appear on the show due to", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "17942216", "text": "Winningham, along with new cast members Michael Chiklis and Finn Wittrock. Ben Woolf also makes his return to the series.This is the first season of the series that is not strictly anthological, with Lily Rabe, Naomi Grossman, and John Cromwell (as a younger Dr. Arthur Arden) reprising their roles from the series's second cycle, \"\". Like its predecessors, \"Freak Show\" was met with mostly positive reviews, and consistently strong ratings, with the premiere episode attracting a series high of 6.13 million viewers, making it the most viewed episode of the series. It ultimately became FX's most-watched program ever, surpassing its", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "19771741", "text": "Bates will not appear in \"Cult\", after four seasons of regular appearances. Murphy also revealed via his Instagram account that \"\" character Twisty the Clown would return in the seventh season, indicating that John Carroll Lynch would reprise his role. In February 2017, it was announced the season would begin principal photography in June 2017. By the next month, filming was moved to May 2017. On May 24, 2017, writer and producer John J. Gray confirmed the show started filming. On October 7, 2017, it was confirmed that the sixth episode of the season would be edited as a direct", "title": "American Horror Story: Cult" }, { "id": "19771739", "text": "for the seventh season. Later that month, set pictures revealed that Alison Pill was joining the cast of the season, seemingly portraying the partner of Sarah Paulson's character. In July 2017, Murphy revealed via his Twitter account that Lena Dunham was joining the season. She is set to play Valerie Solanas, author of the \"SCUM Manifesto\" and attempted murder of Andy Warhol, via flashbacks. Murphy also confirmed the returns of Frances Conroy and Mare Winningham. Conroy has appeared in all the seasons except \"Hotel\", while Winningham has appeared in \"Coven\", \"Freak Show\" and \"Hotel\". In August 2017, Murphy confirmed the", "title": "American Horror Story: Cult" }, { "id": "8046569", "text": "Evan Peters Evan Thomas Peters (born January 20, 1987) is an American actor, best known for his multiple roles on the FX anthology series \"American Horror Story\" including the villain roles, of which he has been a main cast member since its debut in 2011, and his role as the mutant Quicksilver in the superhero films \"\" (2014) and \"\" (2016). He made his acting debut in the 2004 drama film \"Clipping Adam\" and starred in the ABC science fiction series \"Invasion\" from 2005 to 2006. From 2004 to 2010, Peters appeared in numerous national commercials for established brands such", "title": "Evan Peters" }, { "id": "19185146", "text": "film \"Freak Show\", based on the novel of same name by James St. James. Patrick J. Clifton and Beth Rigazio adapted the novel, while producers on the film would be Celine Rattray, Charlotte Ubben, and Styler through Maven Pictures along with Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen's Flower Films, and Jeffrey Coulter and Bryan Rabin. Principal photography on the film began on October 27, 2015 in New York City. Dan Romer composed the film's score. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 13, 2017. Shortly after, IFC Films acquired U.S. distribution rights to the", "title": "Freak Show (film)" }, { "id": "4327197", "text": "which won the 1994 International Independent Documentary Award. After moving to New York, Styler co-founded the production company Maven Pictures with Celine Rattray in 2011. Their first feature, \"Girl Most Likely\", starred Kristen Wiig; closely followed by \"Filth\", starring James McAvoy; \"Black Nativity\" starring Forest Whitaker; \"Ten Thousand Saints\" starring Ethan Hawke; and \"American Honey\" starring Shia LaBeouf, which won Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival) at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Styler's 2017 directorial debut, \"Freak Show\", is based on the New York Times bestseller by James St. James, and stars Abigail Breslin, Alex Lawther, and Bette Midler. \"Freak", "title": "Trudie Styler" }, { "id": "17942229", "text": "average rating of 7.29/10 based on 32 reviews. The website's consensus reads, \"Though it may turn off new viewers unaccustomed to its unabashed weirdness, \"Freak Show\" still brings the thrills, thanks to its reliably stylish presentation and game cast.\" In its fourth season, the series was nominated for 76 awards, 21 of which were won. Every cover song used in the season was made available for digital download on services such as iTunes and Amazon.com after the episode in which it appeared aired, except the cover of David Bowie's '\"Heroes\"' performed by Jessica Lange at the climax of the season", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "19771740", "text": "return of Emma Roberts, who appeared in \"Coven\" and \"Freak Show\", while \"Roanoke\" actors Chaz Bono and James Morosini also confirmed their returns. In the seventh episode, \"Murder House\", \"Coven\" and \"Freak Show\" actress alum Jamie Brewer returned to the show. On June 26, 2017, it was confirmed that Lady Gaga would not return for the seventh season due to other projects. Despite rumors, \"Entertainment Weekly\" reported on July 7, 2017, that Vera Farmiga, sister of \"American Horror Story\" alum Taissa Farmiga, would not appear in the season. Later that month, it was confirmed by \"The Hollywood Reporter\" that Kathy", "title": "American Horror Story: Cult" }, { "id": "15451042", "text": "premiering in January 2018. A third season is in development. American Horror Story American Horror Story (sometimes abbreviated as AHS) is an American anthology horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own \"beginning, middle, and end.\" Some plot elements of each season are loosely inspired by true events. The only actors to be present in all iterations are Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson with Lily Rabe and Frances Conroy appearing in all but one of the", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "8046577", "text": "they were \"working together to move past it.\" Peters confirmed in March 2014 that he and Roberts were engaged. Evan Peters Evan Thomas Peters (born January 20, 1987) is an American actor, best known for his multiple roles on the FX anthology series \"American Horror Story\" including the villain roles, of which he has been a main cast member since its debut in 2011, and his role as the mutant Quicksilver in the superhero films \"\" (2014) and \"\" (2016). He made his acting debut in the 2004 drama film \"Clipping Adam\" and starred in the ABC science fiction series", "title": "Evan Peters" }, { "id": "17942218", "text": "own fame and stardom. She recruits conjoined twin sisters Bette and Dot Tattler (Sarah Paulson), whose two heads share one body, as new members of her troupe after being identified by the police as fugitives since Bette's recent murder of their overprotective mother during an argument. When the sisters arrive, they were welcomed by their fellow freaks; Elsa's subordinate and confidante Ethel Darling (Kathy Bates) the bearded lady, her lobster-handed son Jimmy Darling (Evan Peters), Paul the Illustrated Seal (Mat Fraser), the giantess Amazon Eve (Erika Ervin), the legless Suzi (Rose Siggins), pinheads Salty and Pepper (Christopher Neiman and Naomi", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "15450976", "text": "a Hollywood executive, arrives with his young protege Maggie Esmerelda (Emma Roberts), with the intention of murdering the freaks and sending their bodies to a museum for profit. The wealthy and spoiled Dandy Mott (Finn Wittrock), enabled by his doting mother Gloria (Frances Conroy), develops an unhealthy obsession with the freaks, particularly Bette and Dot. Perhaps the most dangerous of them all is a mysterious, deformed killer clown, only known as Twisty (John Carroll Lynch), who wreaks havoc among the town and appears to be targeting freaks and townspeople alike. Set in the year 2015, the season follows the strange", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "17942217", "text": "previous installment, \"\". The season garnered a total of twenty Emmy Award nominations, the most for any season of \"American Horror Story\" to date, including nominations for Outstanding Limited Series, and six acting nominations for Lange, O'Hare, Wittrock, Paulson, Bassett, and Bates. In addition, Paulson won for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Limited Series at the 5th Critics' Choice Television Awards. In Jupiter, Florida in 1952, German expatriate Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange), is the ambitious owner of one of the last struggling freak shows in the United States, entitled \"Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities,\" and is seeking her", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "3623133", "text": "Later that year, Ryan Murphy cast his in the episode \"Pink Cupcakes\", in the of the horror anthology series \"American Horror Story\" (2011). His participation in \"Freak Show\" was described by Lauren Piester of E! Online as \"one of the show's most shocking moments\". Bomer's first release of 2015 was \"Magic Mike XXL\". A sequel to 2012's \"Magic Mike\". Starring again with Channing Tatum and Joe Manganiello. This time the film was directed by Gregory Jacobs. \"Magic Mike XXL\" grossed $122 million worldwide. Reviewing the film for \"Rolling Stones\", Peter Travers noted that; \"the movie is just a rambling, loosey-goosey", "title": "Matt Bomer" }, { "id": "17942219", "text": "Grossman), the youngest Meep (Ben Woolf), and the dwarf performers: ex-convict Toulouse (Drew Rin Varick) and Elsa's most significant companion Ma Petite (Jyoti Amge) who is the smallest of the group. During the troupe's first performance with the twins, the only spectators in the audience were wealthy socialite widow Gloria Mott (Frances Conroy) and her spoiled, mentally unstable son Dandy (Finn Wittrock), who displayed an unhealthy fascination for the freaks. Other new members of the troupe include Dell Toledo (Michael Chiklis), a strongman who was Ethel's ex-husband and Jimmy’s biological father; and his three-breasted wife Desiree Dupree (Angela Bassett). Elsa’s", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "19185147", "text": "film. It was released on January 12, 2018. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 53% based on 36 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \"\"Freak Show\" relies on engaging performances and obviously good intentions to cover for its clichéd story and uneven direction – and for some viewers, it may well be enough.\" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". Freak Show (film) Freak Show is a 2017 American comedy-drama film", "title": "Freak Show (film)" }, { "id": "15450961", "text": "American Horror Story American Horror Story (sometimes abbreviated as AHS) is an American anthology horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own \"beginning, middle, and end.\" Some plot elements of each season are loosely inspired by true events. The only actors to be present in all iterations are Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson with Lily Rabe and Frances Conroy appearing in all but one of the seasons each. The first season, retroactively subtitled \"\", takes place", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "5648935", "text": "\"Play for Today\" (1984), \"Three Up, Two Down\" (1986) and \"Casualty\" (1987). In 1989, he was voted Best Villain of the 25th anniversary season by \"Doctor Who Magazine\" readers for his portrayal of the Chief Clown in the serial \"The Greatest Show in the Galaxy\", which starred Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. In 2015, author Cameron K. McEwan described it as \"a superb performance and, still to this day, one of Who's finest villains\". Between 1992 and 1994, he had a recurring role as Richard Cole (aka Tricky Dicky) in \"EastEnders\". He later became one of only two actors", "title": "Ian Reddington" }, { "id": "20125020", "text": "2.3 million on Twitter. By August 2017, her total social media penetration was approximately 45 million followers. In 2016, Koshy starred in the Hulu original horror series \"Freakish\" as Violet Adams. She reprised the role in the show's second season in 2017. Also in 2016, she played the role of Aday Walker in the horror-comedy feature film, \"Boo! A Madea Halloween\", and starred as herself in the YouTube Premium series, \"Jingle Ballin\". Koshy starred as Princess Aubrey in the 2016 comedy film \"FML\". In 2017, she played a recurring character, The Explorer, in the YouTube Premium mystery-reality series \"Escape the", "title": "Liza Koshy" }, { "id": "1304473", "text": "he had appeared among the \"freak show\" characters in the Fellini films \"Satyricon\" (1968) and \"The Clowns\" (1970), and he eventually reached a peak of . In an interview with the \"Tampa Bay Times\", Simmons explained he adopted the name Richard after an uncle who paid for his college tuition. His first job in New Orleans was as a child, selling pralines at Leah's Pralines. Upon moving to Los Angeles in the 1970s, he worked as the Maître d'hotel at Derek's, a restaurant in Beverly Hills. He developed an interest in fitness, but was dissatisfied with the unhealthy fad diets", "title": "Richard Simmons" }, { "id": "17942227", "text": "PaleyFest event, Ryan Murphy announced that the season's filming would take place again in New Orleans, Louisiana, although the show's setting is in Jupiter, Florida. The premiere episode was directed by co-creator Murphy, his first effort since the pilot. Principal photography for the season began on July 15, 2014. Production on the season concluded on December 19, 2014. A video released in July 2014, entitled \"Fallen Angel\", was reported by many news sources to be an official \"Freak Show\" trailer. The video – which featured the \"American Horror Story\" title card – was later taken down after FX confirmed it", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "714882", "text": "Dan Castellaneta Daniel Louis Castellaneta (; born October 29, 1957) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter, best known for his long-running role as Homer Simpson on the Fox Broadcasting Company animated sitcom \"The Simpsons\". He also voices many other characters for the show like Abraham \"Grampa\" Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Sideshow Mel, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman. Castellaneta also had roles in several other programs, including \"Futurama\" for Fox Broadcasting Company, \"Sibs\" and \"Darkwing Duck\" for ABC, \"The Adventures of Dynamo Duck\" for Fox Kids, \"\" for CBS, \"Aladdin\" for Toon Disney, Taz-Mania", "title": "Dan Castellaneta" }, { "id": "18614307", "text": "American Horror Story: Hotel American Horror Story: Hotel is the fifth season of the FX horror anthology television series \"American Horror Story\". It premiered on October 7, 2015, and concluded January 13, 2016. The series was renewed in October 2014, with the subtitle \"Hotel\" being announced in February 2015. Returning cast from previous seasons of the series include: Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Wes Bentley, Matt Bomer, Chloë Sevigny, Denis O'Hare, Angela Bassett, Mare Winningham, Christine Estabrook, Finn Wittrock, Lily Rabe, Anthony Ruivivar, John Carroll Lynch, Matt Ross, and Gabourey Sidibe, along with new cast members Lady Gaga and", "title": "American Horror Story: Hotel" }, { "id": "20125015", "text": "Liza Koshy Elizabeth Shaila Koshy (born March 31, 1996) is an American actress, YouTube personality, comedian and television host. She began her career on Vine in 2013, before starting a YouTube channel. Among her acting roles have been Aday Walker in Tyler Perry's horror comedy film \"Boo! A Madea Halloween\" (2016) and The Explorer in the YouTube Premium series \"Escape the Night\" (2017). She starred as Violet Adams in the Hulu drama television series \"Freakish\" (2016–2017), and she both produces and stars as the title character in the YouTube Premium comedy series \"Liza on Demand\", which was released in June", "title": "Liza Koshy" }, { "id": "20611380", "text": "Terrifier Terrifier is a 2017 American horror film directed by Damien Leone and starring David Howard Thornton, Jenna Kanell, and Catherine Corcoran. It is based on Leone's short film of the same name which was featured in his anthology \"All Hallows' Eve\". It premiered at the Telluride Horror Show Film Festival in 2016 before being picked up by Dread Central Presents and Epic Pictures for a limited 2018 release. Monica interviews a severely disfigured woman, the lone survivor of a massacre. Monica mentions the assailant, known only as “Art the Clown,” disappeared from the morgue but the woman emphatically asserts", "title": "Terrifier" }, { "id": "4868795", "text": "Alyson Court Alyson Stephanie Court (born November 9, 1973) is a Canadian actress and voice actress. She was Loonette the Clown on \"The Big Comfy Couch\" (1992–2002);, the voices of Jubilee from \"\" (1992–1997), and Claire Redfield from the \"Resident Evil\" video game series. Court first appeared in the Canadian children's series \"Mr. Dressup\" in 1984 and then in the 1985 film \"Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird\". In 1988, she was in the pilot for the series \"My Secret Identity\" as Caroline, neighbor to the main character Jerry O'Connell played. Court played Loonette the Clown, the main character of", "title": "Alyson Court" }, { "id": "6342967", "text": "John Carroll Lynch John Carroll Lynch (born August 1, 1963) is an American character actor and film director. He first gained notice for his role as Norm Gunderson in \"Fargo\". He is also known for his television work on the ABC sitcom \"The Drew Carey Show\" as the title character's cross-dressing brother, Steve Carey, as well as on \"\" and \"\" as Twisty the Clown. His films include \"Face/Off\", \"Gran Torino\", \"Shutter Island\", \"Ted 2\", \"The Invitation\", and \"Zodiac\". Most recently, he portrayed McDonald's co-founder Maurice McDonald in \"The Founder\". He made his directorial debut with the 2017 film \"Lucky\".", "title": "John Carroll Lynch" }, { "id": "19771738", "text": "The next month, it was reported that \"Scream Queens\" alum Billie Lourd will also star in the seventh installment of the series. In May 2017, Leslie Grossman, who starred in Murphy's series \"Popular\", joined the cast of the series, and Angela Bassett hinted she may return in a recurring role. Despite this, Bassett didn't appear. Later that month, it was confirmed via set pictures that Adina Porter and Cheyenne Jackson were also returning. In June 2017, Murphy confirmed via his Instagram account that Colton Haynes, whom Murphy worked with previously on second season of \"Scream Queens\", was joining the casting", "title": "American Horror Story: Cult" }, { "id": "5006561", "text": "all sequences previously scheduled for the studio. Director Alan Wareing provides the voice for the third God of Ragnarok in Part Four. Dean Hollingsworth as the Bus Conductor is credited for Part Three, but does not appear. Jessica Martin who plays Mags in this episode, briefly returns in \"Voyage of the Damned\" (2007) voicing Queen Elizabeth II. Ian Reddington, the Chief Clown, later played Nobody No-One in the audio play \"A Death in the Family\". Harry Peacock, the brother of Daniel Peacock, who plays Nord the Vandal in this serial, later appeared in the 2008 episodes \"Silence in the Library\"", "title": "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy" }, { "id": "17942228", "text": "was fan-made. Before the debut of the fan-made video, FX had not released any official trailers concerning the upcoming season. The first official teaser was released on August 20, 2014, entitled \"Admit One\". As with previous seasons, FX released a series of teaser trailers on the show's YouTube page. FX also used the marketing hashtag #WirSindAlleFreaks in the German language, and its English translation #WeAreAllFreaks. \"American Horror Story: Freak Show\" received a Metacritic score of 69 out of 100 based on 19 reviews, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 79% approval rating with an", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "17325121", "text": "Clown (film) Clown is a 2014 American supernatural horror film directed by Jon Watts, produced by Mac Cappuccino, Eli Roth and Cody Ryder, and written by Christopher D. Ford and Jon Watts. The film stars Laura Allen, Andy Powers, and Peter Stormare. The visual effects for the clown monster were done by Alterian, Inc. and Tony Gardner. Principal photography began in November 2012, in Ottawa. The film was released in Italy on November 13, 2014, and was released in the UK on March 2, 2015, and in the United States on June 17, 2016, by Dimension Films. Kent McCoy is", "title": "Clown (film)" }, { "id": "19771731", "text": "Chaz Bono, Adina Porter, James Morosini, Emma Roberts, Mare Winningham, Frances Conroy, and Jamie Brewer, along with new cast members Billie Lourd and Alison Pill. \"Cult\" marks the first season to not feature series mainstay actress Lily Rabe. \"Cult\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. Paulson, Peters and Porter, all received Saturn Awards nominations for their performances. Additionally, Paulson and Porter were nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie respectively at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards while Peters received a nomination for Best Actor in a Movie or Limited Series at the", "title": "American Horror Story: Cult" }, { "id": "19144874", "text": "American Horror Story: Roanoke American Horror Story: Roanoke is the sixth season of the FX horror anthology television series \"American Horror Story\". It premiered on September 14, 2016, marking the first time the series has debuted outside of October, and concluded on November 16, 2016. Returning cast members from previous seasons include: Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Denis O'Hare, Wes Bentley, Evan Peters, Cheyenne Jackson, Angela Bassett, Adina Porter, Lady Gaga, Leslie Jordan, Frances Conroy, Finn Wittrock, Robin Weigert and Taissa Farmiga, along with new cast members Cuba Gooding Jr. and André Holland. Paulson also reprised her role as", "title": "American Horror Story: Roanoke" }, { "id": "15451033", "text": "The site's consensus is: \"\"American Horror Story: My Roanoke Nightmare\" takes a surprising turn away from prior \"AHS\" formats, revisiting the deliberate pace of earlier seasons on a spookier, smaller scale, even if the true-crime format feels overdone.\" It scored a 72 on Metacritic based on six reviews. The seventh season, \"\", received mostly positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reports that 73% of 47 critics gave the season a positive review. The site's consensus is: \"\"American Horror Story: Cult\" intrigues with timely, over-the-top creepiness – and lots of clowns – despite being hampered by broad political generalizations and occasional", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "19771733", "text": "Porter). Ally finds herself relentlessly terrorized by masked clowns. Those close to her, including her psychiatrist Dr. Rudy Vincent (Cheyenne Jackson), question whether the attacks are real or merely anxiety-fueled hallucinations. Ally's paranoia, escalated by suspicious activities perpetrated by new neighbors Harrison (Billy Eichner) and Meadow Wilton (Leslie Grossman), hinders her relationships with her wife Ivy (Alison Pill) and their son Oz (Cooper Dodson). <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> On October 4, 2016, the series was renewed for a seventh cycle, which premiered on September 5, 2017. Ryan Murphy confirmed that the season will be connected to \"\", but will be set in modern", "title": "American Horror Story: Cult" }, { "id": "19929687", "text": "Cult of Chucky Cult of Chucky is a 2017 American slasher film written and directed by Don Mancini. The seventh installment of the \"Child's Play\" franchise, following the 2013 film \"Curse of Chucky\", it stars Brad Dourif as Chucky, with a supporting cast of Fiona Dourif, Alex Vincent, Jennifer Tilly and Summer H. Howell – all of whom are returning cast members from previous installments. The film began production in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in January 2017. It premiered at the London FrightFest Film Festival on August 24, 2017, and was released with rated and unrated versions distributed by Universal Pictures", "title": "Cult of Chucky" }, { "id": "19943471", "text": "American Horror Story: Apocalypse American Horror Story: Apocalypse is the eighth season of the FX horror anthology television series \"American Horror Story\". It premiered on September 12, 2018, and concluded on November 14, 2018. It has been described as a crossover between the and seasons of the series. The season was announced on January 12, 2017. Returning cast members from previous seasons include Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Adina Porter, Emma Roberts, Cheyenne Jackson, Billy Eichner, Leslie Grossman, Billie Lourd, Jessica Lange, Taissa Farmiga, Gabourey Sidibe, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy, Stevie Nicks, Connie Britton, Dylan McDermott, Erika Ervin, Wayne", "title": "American Horror Story: Apocalypse" }, { "id": "19929704", "text": "Doll. Cult of Chucky Cult of Chucky is a 2017 American slasher film written and directed by Don Mancini. The seventh installment of the \"Child's Play\" franchise, following the 2013 film \"Curse of Chucky\", it stars Brad Dourif as Chucky, with a supporting cast of Fiona Dourif, Alex Vincent, Jennifer Tilly and Summer H. Howell – all of whom are returning cast members from previous installments. The film began production in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in January 2017. It premiered at the London FrightFest Film Festival on August 24, 2017, and was released with rated and unrated versions distributed by Universal", "title": "Cult of Chucky" }, { "id": "3623113", "text": "its 2015 sequel, the 2014 supernatural-drama \"Winter's Tale\", and the 2016 neo-noir film \"The Nice Guys\". Bomer won a Golden Globe Award and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his supporting role as Felix Turner, in the HBO television film \"The Normal Heart\" (2014). Bomer made a guest appearance on of FX's horror anthology series \"American Horror Story\". He was later upgraded to main cast during the . He was praised for his performances as protagonist in the drama films \"Walking Out\" (2017) and \"Anything\" (2017). On stage, Bomer has starred in the Dustin Lance Black play \"8\" on", "title": "Matt Bomer" }, { "id": "15451031", "text": "Todd Van DerWerff remarking: \"It lurched drunkenly from idea to idea, never settling on one long enough to build anything of worth.\" The fourth season, \"\", received positive reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 79% of 32 critics gave the season a positive review. The site's consensus is: \"Though it may turn off new viewers unaccustomed to its unabashed weirdness, \"Freak Show\" still brings the thrills, thanks to its reliably stylish presentation and game cast.\" It scored 69 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 19 \"generally favorable\" reviews. The fifth season, \"\", received more mixed reviews from critics,", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "9597129", "text": "as jealous kids show host \"Captain Crocodile\" in an eponymous episode, then as Asian criminal \"Dragonman\" in \"Monkees Chow Mein\". He also appeared in three \"Get Smart\" episodes, including two episodes as \"Harry Hoo\", a parody of Charlie Chan. He also appeared in the final episode of the first season of \"M*A*S*H\" as a touring comedian performing for U.S. troops in the Korean War as well as in Episode #18 during the third season of \"Bewitched\" as Ho Ho the Clown. He also had roles in films such as the Jerry Lewis film \"The Errand Boy\" (1961) as an audio", "title": "Joey Forman" }, { "id": "13318254", "text": "Alexandra Barreto Alexandra Barreto (born October 16, 1975) is an American actress who starred in the 2006 television series \"Pepper Dennis\" with her future husband Rider Strong and Rebecca Romijn and in the horror film \"Tooth and Nail\", a part of the annual After Dark Horrorfest in 2007. Since 2013, she has appeared in the recurring role of Ana Gutierrez on \"The Fosters\". Barreto was born on October 16, 1975 in Staten Island, New York, to a Puerto Rican father and an Italian mother. She has one brother and two sisters. Barreto has appeared in films such as \"Quitters\", \"Blood", "title": "Alexandra Barreto" }, { "id": "17942226", "text": "scheduling conflicts. In September 2014, it was reported that \"\" alum Naomi Grossman would return to portray Pepper, which marks the first time a character appears in multiple seasons of the series. Lily Rabe also reprised her \"Asylum\" character Sister Mary Eunice McKee in the tenth episode, \"Orphans\". Mare Winningham made an appearance in the same episode, as Pepper's sister Rita. Neil Patrick Harris guest starred in two episodes as Chester, who takes over the freak show when Elsa leaves for Hollywood. Harris' husband, David Burtka, appeared in the season finale as Elsa's husband. At Paley Center for Media's 2014", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "7074573", "text": "spaceship to return to his home planet, 'Planet Home'. The first man to portray the \"armored clown\" (taken from the pre-2005 web bio) was Dewey Rowell, who played on \"Hell-O\" and \"Scumdogs of the Universe\". He left the band shortly after the \"Tour De Scum\" tape, and before \"America Must Be Destroyed\", Gwar's third album, was recorded. Until mid-1992, after Gwar's \"Phallus In Wonderland\" was released, the Flattus Maximus character was absent. \"America Must Be Destroyed\" had all of its guitar parts (save two solos) played by Balsac the Jaws of Death. When playing those songs live, in particular \"The", "title": "Flattus Maximus" }, { "id": "3234727", "text": "Martin Balsam Martin Henry Balsam (November 4, 1919 – February 13, 1996) was an American character actor. He is best known for a number of renowned film roles, including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock's \"Psycho\" (1960), Arnold Burns in \"A Thousand Clowns\" (1965) (for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Juror #1 in \"12 Angry Men\" (1957), and Mr. Green in \"The Taking of Pelham One Two Three\" (1974), as well as for his role as Murray Klein in the television sitcom \"Archie Bunker's Place\" (1979–1983). Martin Henry Balsam was born in the Bronx borough", "title": "Martin Balsam" }, { "id": "5773215", "text": "Justin Long Justin Jacob Long (born June 2, 1978) is an American actor, comedian and humorist known for roles in such films as \"Jeepers Creepers\" (2001), \"\" (2004), \"Accepted\" (2006), \"Alvin and the Chipmunks\" (2007), \"Live Free or Die Hard\" (2007), \"Alpha and Omega\" (2010), \"Tusk\" (2014) and \"Comet\" (2014). He played Warren P. Cheswick on the NBC TV series \"Ed\" and appeared with John Hodgman in TV commercials for Apple's \"Get a Mac\" advertising campaign. Long was born the middle son of three boys in Fairfield, Connecticut, to father R. James Long, a philosophy and Latin professor at Fairfield", "title": "Justin Long" }, { "id": "7868040", "text": "(2006), Eponine in \"Les Misérables\" and Kitty in \"The Drowsy Chaperone\" at the Thousand Islands Playhouse. She appeared as a group member in an episode of Piper Perabo's television series Covert Affairs, season 4., episode7 Ramona Gilmour-Darling Ramona Gilmour-Darling (born 1975) is a Canadian actress, singer, and dancer. In 2002, she began portraying Loonette the Clown (taking over for Alyson Court, who played the original Loonette) on the Canadian children's television series \"The Big Comfy Couch\", which aired in Canada on Treehouse and on various PBS stations in the United States. She has also appeared on stage in leading roles", "title": "Ramona Gilmour-Darling" }, { "id": "19891023", "text": "directed by David Cromer. 2017 Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Will Brill Will Brill is an American actor best known for his role as Scott Brown in \"The OA\". Brill grew up in Menlo Park, California and graduated from Gunn High School in nearby Palo Alto. Brill is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. In addition to his television and film work, Brill has also appeared on Broadway, as part of the original cast of \"Act One\" and as Ed in the 2014 revival of \"You Can't Take It with You\". He has also appeared in off-Broadway productions of", "title": "Will Brill" }, { "id": "19771743", "text": "on FX, the original uncut episode was released via VOD, FXNOW and FX+. \"American Horror Story: Cult\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the season a 73% approval rating, with an average rating of 7.05/10, based on 47 reviews. The site's consensus reads, \"\"American Horror Story: Cult\" intrigues with timely, over-the-top creepiness - and lots of clowns - despite being hampered by broad political generalizations and occasional holes in the narrative's logic.\" On Metacritic, the season was given a score of 66 out of 100 based on 24 reviews, indicating \"generally positive reviews\". In", "title": "American Horror Story: Cult" }, { "id": "3168307", "text": "Awards in October, Schroeder received the award for Best Emerging Actress, while the film received the Best Feature Award (ages 12–18). Her recent movies are \"Forget Me Not\" (2009), and \"Slightly Single in L.A.\", which completed filming in 2009 and was released in 2012. She was also featured in the film \"Creepers\" (2011) and \"Prep School\" (2015), in the role of Kyra Matheson. Schroeder graduated from Thousand Oaks High School in June 2009, and graduated from California Lutheran University in 2014 with a double major in communications and psychology, and a minor in theater. In early July 2017, it was", "title": "Carly Schroeder" }, { "id": "17942222", "text": "with Murphy stating: \"We had to build an entire city. We built an entire huge compound and then we had to build the interior of all those buildings on set. It's all period. And it's all based on [production designer] Mark Worthington's immaculate research.\" Ryan Murphy confirmed that Jessica Lange would be returning for a fourth season, although said to be in a reduced capacity. She portrayed Elsa Mars, the owner of the freak show. In November 2013, Murphy said he approached Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett to return. Bassett later confirmed in an interview with \"Access Hollywood\" that she", "title": "American Horror Story: Freak Show" }, { "id": "18846357", "text": "in season six. According to \"TVLine\", Paulson's AHS: Freak Show shooting schedule conflicted with returning to Grey's, so she was unable to reprise her role. J. August Richards will reprise his role as a young Richard Webber. The episode aired on October 16, 2014 on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States. On its initial release the episode was watched by 8.43 million viewers and garnered a 2.4/8 Nielsen ratings and ranked no. 22 in 18-49 key demographic and was the 8th most watched drama. The episode opened up to universal acclaim with numerous critics calling it \"one of", "title": "Only Mama Knows (Grey's Anatomy)" }, { "id": "13318256", "text": "2012, and married on October 20, 2013 in Oregon. The couple has one son, Indigo \"Indy\" Barreto Strong, born in December 2014. Alexandra Barreto Alexandra Barreto (born October 16, 1975) is an American actress who starred in the 2006 television series \"Pepper Dennis\" with her future husband Rider Strong and Rebecca Romijn and in the horror film \"Tooth and Nail\", a part of the annual After Dark Horrorfest in 2007. Since 2013, she has appeared in the recurring role of Ana Gutierrez on \"The Fosters\". Barreto was born on October 16, 1975 in Staten Island, New York, to a Puerto", "title": "Alexandra Barreto" }, { "id": "5264698", "text": "he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play. In 1995, he played Father Paul in \"Her Hidden Truth\". In 2007 Clapp voiced Horny The Clown in the horror film \"Drive-Thru\". Later that year, Clapp also appeared as Det Dick Walenski in \"In Birth and Death,\" season 3 episode 2 of \"Criminal Minds\". Clapp portrayed a corrupt police officer in a 2008 episode of \"Cold Case\". He played the main antagonist Gen. Peter Randall in the \"Prototype\" video game. Clapp plays the father of Ellen (Rose Byrne) in the F/X show \"Damages\".", "title": "Gordon Clapp" }, { "id": "1531134", "text": "Baz Luhrmann's \"Romeo + Juliet\". In 2003, he was both the physical and vocal actor for the villain Deeth in \"Zixx: Level One\", a Canadian TV series created by IDT Entertainment. Later that same year, he toured Australia and New Zealand in a 90-minute one-man play, \"Scaramouche Jones\", in which he played a clown trying to find out why he is who he is before he dies at midnight, receiving a nomination for the TMA Award for Best Actor and winning the Theatregoers' Choice Award for Best Solo Performance. This was directed by Rupert Goold, who would also direct his", "title": "Pete Postlethwaite" }, { "id": "18056730", "text": "Clown in the Dumps \"Clown in the Dumps\" is the season premiere of the twenty-sixth season of the American animated television series \"The Simpsons\", and the 553rd episode of the series overall. It first aired in the United States on the Fox network on September 28, 2014, with \"The Simpsons Guy\", a crossover episode of \"Family Guy\" with \"The Simpsons\", airing afterwards. This episode was dedicated in memory of Louis Castellaneta, the father of \"The Simpsons\" voice actor Dan Castellaneta. It was written by Joel H. Cohen and directed by Steven Dean Moore, with Don Hertzfeldt directing a sequence in", "title": "Clown in the Dumps" }, { "id": "6951001", "text": "Christine Elise Christine Elise (born February 12, 1965) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles as Emily Valentine in \"Beverly Hills, 90210\" and Kyle in \"Child's Play 2\" (1990), and Cult of Chucky (2017, Cameo, Unrated Version Only). Born Christine Elise McCarthy in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of artists, she graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1983. According to his 2014 book, \"Jason Priestley, A Memoir\", Jason Priestley writes that in 1992, he and Christine lived together and shared their lives for five years. Elise had a recurring role in the final", "title": "Christine Elise" }, { "id": "15450975", "text": "Bassett), arrive to join the freak show. To drum up business and save her troupe once and for all, Elsa also recruits conjoined twin sisters Bette and Dot Tattler (Sarah Paulson) to perform for her show. In a time when the era of television is beginning to reign high above sideshow acts, these individuals must overcome those who persecute them based on their looks. However, as the season unfolds, it is revealed that multiple dark entities have taken up residence in Jupiter, with all of their eyes being set on the freaks. A conman named Stanley (Denis O'Hare), posing as", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "3352792", "text": "when they were honored at the 7th Annual \"TV Land Award\" show in 2009. Since 2009, O'Neill has played the role of Jay Pritchett on the ABC sitcom \"Modern Family\", a role that has earned him three Primetime Emmy Award nominations—in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Since 2012, O'Neill has done voice-overs in TV advertisements for the over-the-counter form of Zyrtec, along with Walmart's store-branded mobile phone service, Straight Talk. In 2016, O'Neill starred as Hank the Octopus in the highly successful Pixar animated film \"Finding Dory\". According to O'Neill, he didn't realize at first that he had a starring role", "title": "Ed O'Neill" }, { "id": "1675686", "text": "Gallagher Levi, continuing through January 2018, in the Broadway revival of \"Hello, Dolly!\" for which she won her second Tony Award. In 2017 she also appeared in the role of Muv in the 2017 film \"Freak Show\". On April 20, 2018 it was announced that Midler will be returning to \"Hello, Dolly!\" on July 17 to close out the run of the successful revival. In 1991, Midler was an early sponsor of the Adopt-a-Highway, paying $2,000 a month for a crew to clean up a 2-mile section of the Ventura Freeway in Burbank, California. Signs at both ends of the", "title": "Bette Midler" }, { "id": "15451024", "text": "on December 21, 2011. The second season premiered on October 17, 2012, and concluded on January 23, 2013. The third season premiered on October 9, 2013, and concluded on January 29, 2014. The fourth season premiered on October 8, 2014, and concluded on January 21, 2015. The fifth season premiered on October 7, 2015, and concluded on January 13, 2016. The sixth season premiered on September 14, 2016, and concluded on November 16, 2016. The seventh season premiered on September 5, 2017, and concluded on November 14, 2017. The eighth season premiered on September 12, 2018 and concluded on November", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "5732473", "text": "Aaron Walpole Aaron John Walpole (born 7 March 1979), is a Canadian born musical actor, who placed third in the 2005 season of Canadian Idol. He is best known for playing the role of Lonnie in the 2010 Toronto Run of Rock of Ages and Annas in the 2012 Broadway run of \"Jesus Christ Superstar\". He appeared in the 2014 revival of Les Misérables, as Brujon/Loud Hailer and understudied Jean Valjean. Walpole's TV/film credits include Deacons for Defense as Jimmy (2003), Canadian Idol (2005), Silent but Deadly as Rob (2011), and Breakout Kings as Skip Blax (2011). Born in London,", "title": "Aaron Walpole" }, { "id": "17967905", "text": "Timothy Simons Timothy Simons (born June 12, 1978) is an American actor and comedian best known for his role as Jonah Ryan on the HBO television series \"Veep\", for which he has received three nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. He has also had acting roles in the films \"The Interview\", \"Christine\", and \"The Boss\". He was born in Readfield, Maine, the son of Susan and Ron Simons, and graduated from Maranacook High School in 1996. He graduated from the University of Maine at Orono in 2001. Simons is", "title": "Timothy Simons" }, { "id": "18056736", "text": "the 25th season of the show, producer Al Jean revealed that a major character would die in this episode. He stated that the character would have appeared more than twice in the show, and be voiced by an Emmy Award-winning voice actor who won an Emmy for the role as the character. Later that month, following the death of Marcia Wallace, it was confirmed that it would not be her character, Edna Krabappel. Voice actor Hank Azaria, whose roles include Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and Moe Szyslak, stated that it would not be one of his characters. It was shown at the", "title": "Clown in the Dumps" }, { "id": "13491635", "text": "Jim Parrack Jim Parrack (born February 8, 1981) is an American actor. He had a starring role as Hoyt Fortenberry in HBO series \"True Blood\", and appeared in the film \"\", which was released in March 2011. He also appeared as \"Slim\" in the 2014 Broadway production of \"Of Mice and Men\" alongside James Franco, Chris O'Dowd and Leighton Meester. Parrack was born on February 8, 1981 in Allen, Texas. He attended the co-ed Allen High School for secondary education. In 2001, Parrack moved to Los Angeles, California where he studied acting at The Stella Adler Academy and then at", "title": "Jim Parrack" }, { "id": "10998578", "text": "the music duo Nat & Alex Wolff, and they released the album \"Black Sheep\" in 2011. He later became known for his lead role in the film \"Paper Towns\" (2015), and other films such as \"Admission\", \"Behaving Badly\", and \"Palo Alto\", each of which premiered in 2013. Wolff also co-starred in the highly successful theatrical film, \"The Fault in Our Stars\" (2014) before portraying Ed in the film \"Ashby\" in 2015. He portrayed Light Turner in the Netflix adaptation of \"Death Note\" (2017). He and his younger brother starred in the 2018 film, \"Stella's Last Weekend\" that is written and", "title": "Nat Wolff" }, { "id": "5648933", "text": "Ian Reddington Ian Reddington (born 25 September 1957) is an English actor with many stage and television credits since the early 1980s. He became widely known for television roles such as the Chief Clown in the \"Doctor Who\" serial \"The Greatest Show in the Galaxy\", Richard Cole in \"EastEnders\" and Vernon Tomlin in \"Coronation Street\". Ian Reddington was born in Walkley in Sheffield. He was educated at Frecheville Comprehensive. He had no formal drama training at school but became a leading figure in the Meatwhistle youth theatre project run by youth workers in the city. This gave him his first", "title": "Ian Reddington" }, { "id": "7408680", "text": "Jim Florentine James \"Jim\" Florentine (born August 18, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author and television personality. He is best known for co-hosting \"That Metal Show\" on VH1 Classic and voicing several characters on \"Crank Yankers\", including Special Ed and Bobby Fletcher. He hosts \"Metal Midgets\" on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and a podcast called \"Comedy Metal Midgets\". He has released six albums of stand-up comedy, two comedy specials, six installments in the \"Terrorizing Telemarketers\" prank call compilation, and three installments of the \"Meet the Creeps\" hidden camera show. His 2018 book \"Everybody is Awful (Except You!)\" reached", "title": "Jim Florentine" }, { "id": "16151853", "text": "Mercedes Mason Mercedes Mason (; formerly Masöhn, born 1983) is a Swedish-American actress known for playing the role of Zondra in the American television series \"Chuck\" and the role of Isabel Zambada in the American procedural drama \"The Finder\". She starred in the 2011 American horror film \"\". She played Louise Leonard in the 2012–13 American supernatural drama \"666 Park Avenue\" and Talia Del Campo in \"\". She was a regular on AMC's television series \"Fear the Walking Dead\" from 2015 to 2017. Mason was born in Linköping, Sweden, and grew up in the neighborhood of Ryd, Linköping. Her family", "title": "Mercedes Mason" }, { "id": "19943478", "text": "via Instagram that he would appear in the season. Later, during the Television Critics Association press tour, it was announced that Jessica Lange would appear in the season's sixth episode as her \"Murder House\" character, Constance Langdon. After FX released the season's first teaser, actress Lesley Fera revealed via Twitter that she would appear in the season premiere. Later, Ryan Murphy confirmed via Twitter that Taissa Farmiga, Gabourey Sidibe, Lily Rabe, Frances Conroy, and Stevie Nicks would all appear during the season, and that they would all reprise the roles they played in \"Coven\". In the same month, Angela Bassett,", "title": "American Horror Story: Apocalypse" }, { "id": "15451022", "text": "had been struck to feature an \"American Horror Story\" exhibit at Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando for their \"Halloween Horror Nights\". The maze will feature sets and themes from \"Murder House\", \"Freak Show\", and \"Hotel\". Universal said of the experience, \"Twisted scenes from \"Murder House\" will unleash the evil spirits that possess the Harmon estate, spiraling guests through decades of the tortured dead who previously resided there. In \"Freak Show\", guests will join a troupe of biological misfits in a sinister sideshow where they'll be stalked by the murderous and deformed Twisty the Clown. Finally, guests will succumb to", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "6520045", "text": "Alfonso Herrera Alfonso \"Poncho\" Herrera Rodríguez (; born August 28, 1983) is a Mexican stage and screen actor and former singer, who is best known for starring in ' (2002), ' (2004), ' (2007), ' (2009) ' (2009), ' (2011), \"Sense8\" (2015–18), and \"\" (2015). Herrera starred in the Fox TV adaptation of \"The Exorcist\" (2016-17). He gained international recognition as a member of the Latin Grammy-nominated pop group RBD. He has since appeared in films including ' (2002), ' (2009), ' (2013), ' (2014) and \"\" (2016). Alfonso Herrera Rodríguez was born in Mexico City. He has an older", "title": "Alfonso Herrera" }, { "id": "20856603", "text": "Rotten Tomatoes, \"The End\" holds a 90% approval rating, based on 30 reviews with an average rating of 8.07 out of 10. The critical consensus reads, \"\"AHS\" returns in frightening form with \"The End,\" a wickedly fun - if unfortunately witch-free - premiere that's equal parts camp, chaos, and Sarah Paulson chewing scenery like no one else can.\" Ron Hogan of \"Den of Geek\" gave the episode a positive review, saying, \"Ryan Murphy's shows tend to start out strong and then the cracks begin to show, but I think with the short season order (10 episodes) and the very strong", "title": "The End (American Horror Story)" }, { "id": "6342970", "text": "member of the Guthrie Theatre Company) since 1997. John Carroll Lynch John Carroll Lynch (born August 1, 1963) is an American character actor and film director. He first gained notice for his role as Norm Gunderson in \"Fargo\". He is also known for his television work on the ABC sitcom \"The Drew Carey Show\" as the title character's cross-dressing brother, Steve Carey, as well as on \"\" and \"\" as Twisty the Clown. His films include \"Face/Off\", \"Gran Torino\", \"Shutter Island\", \"Ted 2\", \"The Invitation\", and \"Zodiac\". Most recently, he portrayed McDonald's co-founder Maurice McDonald in \"The Founder\". He made", "title": "John Carroll Lynch" }, { "id": "3011895", "text": "character. Har Mar played a Roller Derby coach in \"Whip It!\", a film by Drew Barrymore. On October 26, 2009, Har Mar Superstar was the musical guest on \"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon\" and earned rave reviews for his performance of \"Tall Boy,\" immediately increasing his popularity within North America as noted in an article by MTV. In 2012, Har Mar appeared in the film \"Pitch Perfect\" as Clef #2 (a member of an older a cappella quartet), alongside Joe Lo Truglio, Jason Jones and Donald Faison. In October 2014, Har Mar returned to \"Never Mind the Buzzcocks\" alongside Nicole", "title": "Har Mar Superstar" }, { "id": "10032556", "text": "Paul Feig Paul Samuel Feig (; born September 17, 1962) is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing films starring frequent collaborator Melissa McCarthy, including \"Bridesmaids\" (2011), \"The Heat\" (2013), \"Spy\" (2015), and \"Ghostbusters\" (2016). He also directed \"A Simple Favor\" (2018). Feig created the comedy series \"Freaks and Geeks\" (1999–2000) and \"Other Space\" (2015). He has also directed several episodes of the U.S version of \"The Office\", \"Arrested Development\", \"Weeds\" and \"Nurse Jackie\", as well as episodes of \"Mad Men\", \"30 Rock\", and \"Parks and Recreation\". He received nominations for two Primetime", "title": "Paul Feig" }, { "id": "19734365", "text": "10, 2018. Erik Stocklin Erik Flynn Stocklin (born September 24, 1982) is an American actor known for recurring roles on television series \"Stalker\" (2014) and \"Mistresses\" (2013), and his starring role on \"Haters Back Off\" (2016–2017). Stocklin was born in Freehold, New Jersey. He attended Southern Connecticut State University and earned a bachelor's degree in theatre in 2007. While in college, he played for four summers with the Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven, Connecticut. He also trained at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City. In 2008, he moved to California. Stocklin has played leading", "title": "Erik Stocklin" }, { "id": "3778624", "text": "episode each week and has differing guests. Besser wrote and directed his first film, \"Freak Dance\", based on his long-running UCB stage show. The film premiered at the Austin Film Festival on October 21, 2011 and had a limited theatrical and video on-demand release in May 2012. The film was made available on DVD and iTunes on July 10, 2012. In 2014, Besser and comedian Rich Fulcher had an Adult Swim special air as part of the channel's \"4AM Infomercial Parody\" series, called \"In Search Of Miracle Man\". Besser and Fulcher hosted the show as two men claiming the second", "title": "Matt Besser" }, { "id": "20896882", "text": "Sophie Wright (actress) Sophie Wright (born 9 September 1990) is an Australian music theatre and screen actor and a graduate of the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Wright made her professional music theatre debut in 2013 in the Australasian production of \"Wicked\", as the Elphaba cover and in the ensemble. Other notable works are a featured performer in Hugh Jackman's \"Broadway to Oz\" (2015), Kate Monster/Lucy in the Melbourne production of \"Avenue Q\" (2016), Lauren in the Australian premiere of \"Kinky Boots\" (2016-2017) and Angela Black in the Australian television comedy series \"Mr Black\" (2018-2019) starring \"Stephen Curry,", "title": "Sophie Wright (actress)" }, { "id": "4490994", "text": "19, 2015, and was released on September 25, in a limited release and through video on demand. Roberts next appeared in the horror film \"The Blackcoat's Daughter\" (also known by its original title \"February\") alongside Kiernan Shipka. Directed by Osgood Perkins, the film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Roberts plays the lead character Chanel Oberlin on the first season of Fox's horror comedy series \"Scream Queens\", alongside Jamie Lee Curtis and Lea Michele. The series was created by \"American Horror Story\" producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, with \"Glee\" producer Ian Brennan. She reprised this role in", "title": "Emma Roberts" }, { "id": "19734363", "text": "Erik Stocklin Erik Flynn Stocklin (born September 24, 1982) is an American actor known for recurring roles on television series \"Stalker\" (2014) and \"Mistresses\" (2013), and his starring role on \"Haters Back Off\" (2016–2017). Stocklin was born in Freehold, New Jersey. He attended Southern Connecticut State University and earned a bachelor's degree in theatre in 2007. While in college, he played for four summers with the Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven, Connecticut. He also trained at the Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City. In 2008, he moved to California. Stocklin has played leading roles in", "title": "Erik Stocklin" }, { "id": "12413496", "text": "Teddy Sears Edward M. Sears (born April 6, 1977) is an American actor, known for his roles as Richard Patrick Woolsley on the TNT legal drama series \"Raising the Bar\", Patrick on the first season of FX anthology horror drama \"American Horror Story\" (retroactively titled \"\"), Dr. Austin Langham on the \"Showtime\" period drama series \"Masters of Sex\", and DC Comics supervillain Hunter Zolomon / Zoom on \"The Flash\". Sears was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He attended high school at the Landon School in Bethesda, MD. Sears played varsity football for the University of", "title": "Teddy Sears" }, { "id": "5773220", "text": "and his co-star Emmy Rossum also produced. He had a relationship with Drew Barrymore, but they broke up in July 2008. He also dated Amanda Seyfried from mid-2013 for two years, breaking up in September 2015. Long has also dated Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry. Long endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Justin Long Justin Jacob Long (born June 2, 1978) is an American actor, comedian and humorist known for roles in such films as \"Jeepers Creepers\" (2001), \"\" (2004), \"Accepted\" (2006), \"Alvin and the Chipmunks\" (2007), \"Live Free or Die Hard\" (2007), \"Alpha and", "title": "Justin Long" }, { "id": "15451001", "text": "joined the fifth season's cast along with series newcomer Cheyenne Jackson during PaleyFest 2015. Chloë Sevigny and Wes Bentley were promoted as main cast members, after they appear as recurring special guests in \"Asylum\" and \"Freak Show\" respectively. Murphy later announced the returns of Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters and Angela Bassett. In June 2015, it was announced Denis O'Hare would also return for the fifth season. In August 2015, Murphy announced the character roles for the cast: Gaga's Elizabeth Johnson also known as \"The Countess\", a fashionista vampire who owns the Hotel Cortez; Jackson's Will Drake, a desperate", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "18735800", "text": "feature in Mad Clown's comeback track, \"Without You\". The music video for \"Without You\" was released on April 3, 2014. On December 12, 2014, Mad Clown featured on \"Anxious\" by Melody Day. Mad Clown released his third extended play \"Piece of Mine\" in January 2015. Mad Clown is known for his sharp, high tone rapping. He was a judge and producer for the fifth season of Show Me the Money. Mad Clown's brother is film and television actor Jo Hyeon-cheol (). Hyeon-cheol appeared in the 2016 films \"The Tunnel\" and \"Master\", and on the 2017 TV show \"Argon\". Mad Clown", "title": "Mad Clown" }, { "id": "15451026", "text": "effective, \"American Horror Story\" is strange, gory, and twisted enough to keep viewers hooked.\" The first season scored 62 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 30 reviews. Ken Tucker from \"Entertainment Weekly\" awarded the pilot episode a B+, stating: \"\"AHS\" is pretty much all scare, all the time: a whole lotta screams, sex, jolts, mashed faces, psychotic behavior, and dead babies.\" Hank Stuever from \"The Washington Post\" said in his review that: \"Overdoing things is one of Murphy's trademark flaws, but this show has a captivating style and giddy gross-outs.\" Not all reviews were favorable: Alan Sepinwall of HitFix", "title": "American Horror Story" }, { "id": "20962026", "text": "A day later, it was announced that Joel Fields had joined the production as an additional writer and executive producer. Alongside the series order announcement, it was confirmed that Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams had been cast in the lead roles of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, respectively. On November 19, 2018, it was announced Margaret Qualley and Norbert Leo Butz had been cast in series regular roles and that Aya Cash, Nate Corddry, Susan Misner, Bianca Marroquín, Kelli Barrett, Evan Handler, Rick Holmes, Paul Reiser, Ethan Slater, Byron Jennings, and Laura Osnes had joined the cast cast in a", "title": "Fosse/Verdon" }, { "id": "16532644", "text": "and particularly John Carroll Lynch's performance. Erik Adams of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the first part a B- rating, writing: \"The love of a good shock often stands in for \"American Horror Story\" inability to scare: It's much easier to fleetingly startle than suggest that any of the primary characters are in mortal danger. \"Edward Mordrake (Part 1)\" reinforces that difficulty... \"Freak Show\" is succeeding at making us care for these people; if only it could make us fear for them as well.\" He gave the second part a C+ rating, criticising the idea to make Twisty the Clown into", "title": "Edward Mordrake (television episode)" }, { "id": "4676178", "text": "Jeremy Sisto Jeremy Merton Sisto (born October 6, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and writer. Sisto had recurring roles as Billy Chenowith in HBO's \"Six Feet Under\" and as NYPD Detective Cyrus Lupo in NBC's \"Law & Order\". He also starred in the comedy \"Clueless\" (1995), the biblical television film \"Jesus\" (1999), the drama \"Thirteen\" (2003), and the horror film \"Wrong Turn\" (2003). In 2004, he portrayed bigoted baseball player Shane Mungitt in \"Take Me Out\", for which he was nominated for a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Featured Performance in a Play. In 2006, Sisto starred", "title": "Jeremy Sisto" }, { "id": "16575088", "text": "Freak Dance (film) Freak Dance is an American comedy film written and directed by Matt Besser of the Upright Citizens Brigade and co-directed by Neil Mahoney. It premiered at the Austin Film Festival on October 21, 2011. The film had a limited theatrical release in May 2012 and made available on video on demand services. The film was released on DVD on July 10, 2012. The film is based on a stage show created by Besser, which originally ran at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles for several years. Freak Dance is a musical, dance comedy where rich", "title": "Freak Dance (film)" }, { "id": "5285263", "text": "Paulson's other films include \"Serenity\" (2005), \"New Year's Eve\" (2011), \"Mud\" (2012), \"Blue Jay\" (2016), and \"Ocean's 8\" (2018). In 2011, Paulson began starring in the FX anthology series \"American Horror Story\", playing different characters in each of the show's eight seasons. For her work throughout the series, she has been nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards and won two Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie/Miniseries, in 2013 and 2015. In 2016, Paulson portrayed real life prosecutor Marcia Clark in the first season of the anthology series \"American Crime Story\", subtitled \"\", which earned her", "title": "Sarah Paulson" } ]

[ "Majority Leaders" ]

[ { "id": "564980", "text": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, of the United States Constitution. The Speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives, and is simultaneously the House's presiding officer, \"de facto\" leader of the body's majority party, and the institution's administrative head. Speakers also perform various other administrative and procedural functions. Given these several roles and responsibilities, the Speaker usually does not personally preside over debates. That duty is instead delegated", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376174", "text": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives Party leaders and whips of the United States House of Representatives, also known as floor leaders, are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus by secret ballot. With the Republicans holding a majority of seats and the Democrats holding a minority, the current leaders are: Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. Unlike in Westminster style legislatures or as with the Senate Majority Leader, the House Majority Leader's duties and prominence vary depending upon the style and power of", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503521", "text": "who are sent to trial before the Senate, and in cases wherein no candidate receives a majority of electors for President, the duty falls upon the House to elect one of the top three recipients of electors for that office, with one vote given to each state for that purpose. The presiding officer is the Speaker of the House, who is elected by the members thereof and is therefore traditionally the leader of the controlling party. The Speaker and other floor leaders are chosen by the Democratic Caucus or the Republican Conference, depending on whichever party has more voting members.", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503560", "text": "consider bills. Each party elects a floor leader, who is known as the Majority Leader or Minority Leader. The Minority Leader heads their party in the House, and the Majority Leader is their party's second-highest-ranking official, behind the Speaker. Party leaders decide what legislation members of their party should either support or oppose. Each party also elects a Whip, who works to ensure that the party's members vote as the party leadership desires. The current majority whip in the House of Representatives is Steve Scalise, who is a member of the Republican Party. The current minority whip is Steny Hoyer,", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376230", "text": "Leader\" post first established in 1999; and previously held by Chris Van Hollen. There is currently no Republican equivalent in the U.S. House of Representatives. ≥ and names in bold indicate the House Majority Leader and House Majority Whip. Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives Party leaders and whips of the United States House of Representatives, also known as floor leaders, are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus by secret ballot. With the Republicans holding a majority of seats and the Democrats holding a minority, the current leaders are: Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "564981", "text": "to members of the House from the majority party. Neither does the Speaker regularly participate in floor debates. The Constitution does not require the Speaker to be an elected member of the House of Representatives, although every Speaker thus far has been. The Speaker is second in the United States presidential line of succession, after the Vice President and ahead of the President \"pro tempore\" of the Senate. The current House Speaker is Congressman Paul Ryan from Wisconsin. He was elected to the office on October 29, 2015, and is the 54th person to serve as Speaker. On April 11,", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "565021", "text": "Congress assembled to count electoral votes and to certify the results of a presidential election. The Speaker is also responsible for overseeing the officers of the House: the Clerk, the Sergeant-at-Arms, the Chief Administrative Officer, and the Chaplain. The Speaker can dismiss any of these officers. The Speaker appoints the House Historian and the General Counsel and, jointly with the Majority and Minority Leaders, appoints the House Inspector General. The Speaker is second in the presidential line of succession, immediately after the Vice President, under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. The Speaker is followed in the line of succession", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "145367", "text": "within the Senate. The Floor Leaders are referred to as the Senate Majority Leader, who belongs to the party with the most Senators, and the Senate Minority Leader, who belongs to the other major party. Similar positions exist in the United States House of Representatives, except that role of majority leader normally goes to the second-highest member of the leadership of the majority party, because it traditionally elects its party leader to the position of speaker. Floor leader Floor Leaders, also known as a caucus leader, are leaders of their political parties in a body of a legislature. In the", "title": "Floor leader" }, { "id": "6683586", "text": "Trump, the winner of the 2016 presidential election, is serving as the 45th President of the United States. Leadership in the Senate includes Republican Vice President Mike Pence, Republican President Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Leadership in the House includes Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. In the 115th United States Congress, both the House of Representatives and the Senate are controlled by the Republican Party. The Senate consists of 51 Republicans, and 47 Democrats with 2 Independents who caucus with the Democrats;", "title": "United States" }, { "id": "12503557", "text": "from the majority party; they have counterparts (for instance, the \"ranking members\" of committees) in the minority party. The Constitution provides that the House may choose its own Speaker. Although not explicitly required by the Constitution, every Speaker has been a member of the House. The Constitution does not specify the duties and powers of the Speaker, which are instead regulated by the rules and customs of the House. Speakers have a role both as a leader of the House and the leader of their party (which need not be the majority party; theoretically, a member of the minority party", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "565024", "text": "recent election for the post of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives took place on January 3, 2017, during the opening day of the 115th United States Congress. The incumbent speaker, Paul Ryan, was re-elected. The next election for the post of speaker is scheduled to take place on January 3, 2019, when the incoming 116th United States Congress convenes. The two official candidates for the office are: Speaker of the United States House of Representatives The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "19075938", "text": "House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives, and is second in the United States presidential line of succession, after the Vice President and ahead of the President pro tempore of the United States Senate. Though the Constitution does not require that the Speaker be an elected member of the House of Representatives, every Speaker to date has been elected from House membership. The 435 members of the House of Representatives elect a Speaker by majority rule at the beginning of each session of the United States Congress, who serves until the end of", "title": "October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election" }, { "id": "12503519", "text": "United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they comprise the legislature of the United States. The composition of the House is established by Article One of the United States Constitution. The House is composed of Representatives who sit in congressional districts that are allocated to each of the 50 states on a basis of population as measured by the U.S. Census, with each district entitled to one representative. Since its inception in 1789, all Representatives have been directly elected. The", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503562", "text": "Committee. For the Republicans it is the Chair of the House Republican Policy Committee, followed by the Campaign Committee Chairman (styled as the National Republican Congressional Committee). The chairs of House committees, particularly influential standing committees such as Appropriations, Ways and Means, and Rules, are powerful but not officially part of House leadership hierarchy. Until the post of Majority Leader was created, the Chair of Ways and Means was the \"de facto\" majority leader. When the Presidency and Senate are controlled by a different party from the one controlling the House, the Speaker can become the \"de facto\" \"leader of", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "4199828", "text": "being third in line of succession to the presidency). In the United States House of Representatives, the majority leader is elected by U.S. Congresspeople in the political party holding the largest number of seats in the House. While the responsibilities vary depending upon the political climate, the Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives typically sets the floor agenda and oversees the committee chairmen. Given the two-party nature of the U.S. system, the majority leader is almost inevitably either a Republican or a Democrat. The majority leader is often assisted in their role by whips, whose job is", "title": "Majority leader" }, { "id": "9709928", "text": "by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. In the House of Representatives, the most powerful official is the House-elected Speaker, currently Paul Ryan of the Republican Party. The Democratic Party is currently chaired by Tom Perez. Party leader In a governmental system, a party leader acts as the official representative of their political party. The party leader is typically responsible for managing the party's relationship with the general public. As such, they will take a leading role in developing and communicating party policy, especially election platforms, to the electorate. They are also typically the public face of", "title": "Party leader" }, { "id": "9709927", "text": "have been elected by popular vote since 1913. They currently include President of the Senate Mike Pence, President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate Orrin Hatch, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn on the Republican side, and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin. The Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives are elected by their respective parties in the House by secret ballot. The Republican Party is currently represented in the House by Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise, whereas the Democratic Party is represented", "title": "Party leader" }, { "id": "8443822", "text": "the majority party caucus followed by a vote of the full House. As well as presiding over the body, the Speaker is also the chief leadership position, and controls the flow of legislation. In the absence of the Speaker the Speaker Pro Tem assumes the role of Speaker. Other House leaders, such as the majority and minority leaders, are elected by their respective party caucuses relative to their party's strength in the House. The current Speaker of the House is Democrat Frank Chopp (D-Seattle) of the 43rd Legislative District. The Speaker Pro Tempore is Tina Orwall (D-Des Moines) of the", "title": "Washington House of Representatives" }, { "id": "4199827", "text": "Majority leader In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body. In the federal Congress, the role of the Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and the Majority Leader of the United States Senate differ slightly. In the United States Senate, the majority leader is the chief spokesperson for the majority party, as the president of the Senate is also the Vice-President of the United States, and the President pro tempore, though technically a substitute for the president of the Senate, is in reality a largely ceremonial position (albeit powerful nonetheless,", "title": "Majority leader" }, { "id": "12503558", "text": "could be elected as Speaker with the support of a fraction of members of the majority party). Under the Presidential Succession Act (1947), the Speaker is second in the line of presidential succession behind the Vice President. The Speaker is the presiding officer of the House but does not preside over every debate. Instead, s/he delegates the responsibility of presiding to other members in most cases. The presiding officer sits in a chair in the front of the House chamber. The powers of the presiding officer are extensive; one important power is that of controlling the order in which members", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "9709926", "text": "Mike Pence, likewise holds a leadership role as both the second-highest executive officer as well as being the President of the Senate. The legislative branch, otherwise known as the United States Congress, is made up of the upper chamber, the Senate, and the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, with party-elected leaders in each. The leader of the party with most the representation (sometimes called the party-in-power) in each case is known as the majority leader, whereas the leader of the opposing party with the most members is known as the minority leader. Party leaders in the United States Senate", "title": "Party leader" }, { "id": "565016", "text": "House of Representatives, the Speaker holds a variety of powers over the House and is ceremonially the highest-ranking legislative official in the US government. The Speaker may delegate his powers to a member of the House to act as Speaker \"pro tempore\" and preside over the House in the Speaker's absence; when this has occurred the delegation has always been to a member of the same party. During important debates, the Speaker \"pro tempore\" is ordinarily a senior member of the majority party who may be chosen for his skill in presiding. At other times, more junior members may be", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "2798157", "text": "procedural matters, appointing members to the various committees and sending bills for committee review. The Speaker pro tempore is primarily a ceremonial position, but does, by long-standing tradition, preside over the House during its consideration of local and consent bills. Unlike other state legislatures, the House rules do not formally recognize majority or minority leaders. The unofficial leaders are the Republican Caucus Chairman and the Democratic House Leader, both of whom are elected by their respective caucuses. The Speaker of the House of Representatives has duties as a presiding officer as well as administrative duties. As a presiding officer, the", "title": "Texas House of Representatives" }, { "id": "565010", "text": "Speaker. As the office has developed historically, however, it has taken on a clearly partisan cast, very different from the speakership of most Westminster-style legislatures, such as the Speaker of the British House of Commons, which is meant to be scrupulously non-partisan. The Speaker in the United States, by tradition, is the head of the majority party in the House of Representatives, outranking the Majority Leader. However, despite having the right to vote, the Speaker usually does not participate in debate. The Speaker is responsible for ensuring that the House passes legislation supported by the majority party. In pursuing this", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "20669660", "text": "did not run for re-election to the House. The Democratic caucus assuming control of the House in January will have a preponderance of voting influence in selecting the next Speaker. The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives, and is second in the United States presidential line of succession, after the Vice President and ahead of the President pro tempore of the United States Senate. Though the Constitution does not require that the Speaker be an elected member of the House of Representatives, every Speaker to date has", "title": "2019 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election" }, { "id": "565018", "text": "inability of the Speaker to perform their duties. On the floor of the House, the presiding officer is always addressed as \"Mister Speaker\" or \"Madam Speaker\", even if it is a Speaker \"pro tempore\", and not the Speaker themselves. When the House resolves itself into a Committee of the Whole, the Speaker designates a member to preside over the Committee as the Chairman, who is addressed as \"Mister Chairman\" or \"Madam Chairwoman\". To speak, members must seek the presiding officer's recognition. The presiding officer also rules on all points of order but such rulings may be appealed to the whole", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503563", "text": "the opposition\". Some notable examples include Tip O'Neill in the 1980s, Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, and John Boehner in the 2010s. Since the Speaker is a partisan officer with substantial power to control the business of the House, the position is often used for partisan advantage. In the instance when the Presidency and both Houses of Congress are controlled by one party, the Speaker normally takes a low profile and defers to the President. For that situation the House Minority Leader can play the role of a \"de facto\" \"leader of the opposition\", often more so than the Senate", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "14925663", "text": "of major House committees: Major Senate committees Major House committees At the beginning of each two-year Congress, the House of Representatives elects a speaker. The speaker does not normally preside over debates, but is, rather, the leader of the majority party in the House. The Vice President of the United States is, ex officio, President of the Senate. The Senate also elects a President pro tempore. For decades the person elected has been the most senior member of the majority party in the Senate, and has held office until he or she ceases to be a senator or a new", "title": "Structure of the United States Congress" }, { "id": "6696852", "text": "meetings, the person presiding is said to be \"in the chair\" and is also referred to as \"the chair\". Parliamentary procedure requires that members address the \"chair\" as \"Mr. (or Madam) Chairman (or Chair or Chairperson)\" rather than using a name – one of many customs intended to maintain the presiding officer's impartiality and to ensure an objective and impersonal approach. In the United States, the presiding officer of the lower house of a legislative body, such as the House of Representatives, is frequently titled the \"Speaker\", while the upper house, such as the Senate, is commonly chaired by a", "title": "Chairman" }, { "id": "564982", "text": "2018, Ryan announced he would not seek re-election in the 2018 mid-terms, and will also relinquish the office of Speaker when his term ends in 2019. The House of Representatives elects the Speaker of the House on the first day of every new Congress and in the event of the death, resignation or removal from the Chair of an incumbent Speaker. The Clerk of the House of Representatives requests nominations: there are normally two, one from each major party (each party having previously met to decide on its nominee). The Clerk then calls the roll of the Representatives, each Representative", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "4199830", "text": "States House of Representatives. The state senate president pro tempores are typically not ceremonial, but instead are more akin to the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. Majority leader In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body. In the federal Congress, the role of the Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives and the Majority Leader of the United States Senate differ slightly. In the United States Senate, the majority leader is the chief spokesperson for the majority party, as the president of the Senate is also the Vice-President of", "title": "Majority leader" }, { "id": "16376180", "text": "One statutory duty, per , stipulates that an implementing bill submitted by the President of the United States for a fast-track negotiating authority (trade promotion authority) trade agreement must be introduced (by request) in the House by the Majority Leader of the House. Before 1899, the majority party floor leader had traditionally been the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the most powerful committee in the House, as it generates the Bills of Revenue specified in the Constitution as the House's unique power. The office of Majority Leader was created in 1899 and first occupied by Sereno Payne.", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503561", "text": "who is a member of the Democratic Party. The whip is supported by chief deputy whips. In the 115th Congress, the Democratic Party has an additional Assistant Minority Leader, Jim Clyburn, who ranks between the whips and the caucus/conference chair. After the whips, the next ranking official in the House party's leadership is the Party Conference Chair (styled as the Republican Conference Chair and Democratic Caucus Chair). After the Conference Chair, there are differences between each party's subsequent leadership ranks. After the Democratic Caucus Chair is the Campaign Committee Chair (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee), then the co-chairs of the Steering", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376181", "text": "Speaker David B. Henderson created the position to establish a party leader on the House floor separate from the Speaker, as the role of Speaker had become more prominent, and the size of the House had grown from 105 at the beginning of the century to 356. Starting with Republican Nicholas Longworth in 1925, and continued through the Democrats' control of the House from 1931 to 1995, save for Republican majorities in 1947–49 and 1953–55, all majority leaders have directly ascended to the Speakership brought upon by the retirement of the incumbent. The only exceptions during this period were Charles", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503592", "text": "Aaron Burr. In 1824, it elected John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson and William H. Crawford. (If no vice-presidential candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes, the Senate elects the Vice President from the two candidates with the highest numbers of electoral votes.) United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they comprise the legislature of the United States. The composition of the House is established by Article One of the United States Constitution. The House is composed of Representatives", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376179", "text": "often ascended to their position despite relatively few years of experience in that chamber, such as Lyndon B. Johnson, William F. Knowland, and Bill Frist. Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor also had a comparatively quick rise to the post and was the youngest House Majority Leader in American history. The House Majority Leader's duties vary, depending upon the political makeup of the majority caucus. In several recent sessions of Congress with the notable exception of the Pelosi speakership, the Majority Leader has been primarily responsible for scheduling the House floor's legislative calendar and direct management for all House committees.", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376175", "text": "the Speaker of the House. Typically, the Speaker does not participate in debate and rarely votes on the floor. In some cases, Majority Leaders have been more influential than the Speaker; notably, Tom DeLay was more prominent than Speaker Dennis Hastert. In addition, Speaker Newt Gingrich delegated to Dick Armey an unprecedented level of authority over scheduling legislation on the House floor. The current Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi serves as floor leader of the opposition party, and is the counterpart to the Majority Leader. Unlike the Majority Leader, the Minority Leader is on the ballot for Speaker of the House", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503593", "text": "House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often called a \"Senate\". In some countries, the House of Representatives is the sole chamber of a unicameral legislature. The functioning of a house of representatives can vary greatly from country to country, and depends on whether a country has a parliamentary or a presidential system. Members of a House of Representatives are typically apportioned according to population rather than geography. The", "title": "House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376207", "text": "House matters and forges agreements or understandings with them insofar as feasible. The minority leader has a number of formal and informal party responsibilities. Formally, the rules of each party specify certain roles and responsibilities for their leader. For example, under Democratic rules for the 106th Congress, the minority leader may call meetings of the Democratic Caucus. He or she is a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; names the members of the Democratic Leadership Council; chairs the Policy Committee; and heads the Steering Committee. Examples of other assignments are making \"recommendations to the Speaker on all Democratic Members", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "20669661", "text": "been elected from House membership. The 435 members of the House of Representatives elect a Speaker by majority rule at the beginning of each session of the United States Congress, who serves until the end of the Congress. Typically, the election is a formality, as the majority party's members vote as a bloc for their party's previously-chosen Speaker-nominee (such as the speaker, majority leader, or minority leader from the previous term). Open elections are uncommon but have occurred. The last Speaker election to require multiple ballots occurred in 1923. The Democratic caucus vote was held on November 28, 2018. The", "title": "2019 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election" }, { "id": "16376183", "text": "announcing his resignation, both Majority Leader Dick Armey and Majority Whip Tom DeLay did not contest the Speakership which eventually went to Chief Deputy Whip Dennis Hastert. Traditionally, the Speaker is reckoned as the leader of the majority party in the House, with the Majority Leader as second-in-command. For instance, when the Republicans gained the majority in the House after the 2010 elections, Eric Cantor succeeded Boehner as Majority Leader. Despite this, Cantor and his successor, Kevin McCarthy, have been reckoned as the second-ranking Republicans in the House, since Boehner was still reckoned as the leader of the House Republicans.", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376176", "text": "during the convening of the Congress. If the Minority Leader's party takes control of the House, and the party officers are all re-elected to their seats, the Minority Leader is usually the party's top choice for Speaker for the next Congress, while the Minority Whip is typically in line to become Majority Leader. The Minority Leader usually meets with the Majority Leader and the Speaker to discuss agreements on controversial issues. The Speaker, Majority Leader, Minority Leader, Majority Whip and Minority Whip all receive special office suites in the United States Capitol. The floor leaders and whips of each party", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376177", "text": "are elected by their respective parties in a closed-door caucus by secret ballot. The Speaker-elect is also chosen in a closed-door session although they are formally installed in their position by a public vote when Congress reconvenes. Like the Speaker of the House, the Minority Leaders are typically experienced lawmakers when they win election to this position. When Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, became Minority Leader in the 108th Congress, she had served in the House nearly 20 years and had served as minority whip in the 107th Congress. When her predecessor, Richard Gephardt, D-MO, became minority leader in the 104th House,", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376228", "text": "the minority party who assists the minority leader in coordinating the party caucus in its responses to legislation and other matters. However, the U.S. House of Representatives does not use the term \"minority whip,\" instead calling the position \"Republican Whip\" or \"Democratic Whip\" depending on the minority party. The Chief Deputy Whip is the primary assistant to the whip, who is the chief vote counter for their party. The current chief deputy majority whip is Republican Patrick McHenry. Within the House Republican Conference, the chief deputy whip is the highest appointed position and often a launching pad for future positions", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503528", "text": "in the 1890s, during the tenure of Republican Thomas Brackett Reed. \"Czar Reed\", as he was nicknamed, attempted to put into effect his view that \"The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.\" The leadership structure of the House also developed during approximately the same period, with the positions of Majority Leader and Minority Leader being created in 1899. While the Minority Leader was the head of the minority party, the Majority Leader remained subordinate to the Speaker. The Speakership reached its zenith during the term of Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon, from 1903 to", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "573363", "text": "and none beyond the presiding role. For these reasons, it is the Majority Leader who, in practice, manages the Senate. This is in contrast to the House of Representatives where the elected Speaker of the House has a great deal of discretionary power and generally presides over votes on bills. The Democratic Party first selected a leader in 1920. The Republican Party first formally designated a leader in 1925. Party leaders of the United States Senate The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are two United States Senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. These leaders", "title": "Party leaders of the United States Senate" }, { "id": "12503564", "text": "Minority Leader, due to the more partisan nature of the House and the greater role of leadership. The House is also served by several officials who are not members. The House's chief such officer is the Clerk, who maintains public records, prepares documents, and oversees junior officials, including pages, until the discontinuation of the House pages in 2011. The Clerk also presides over the House at the beginning of each new Congress pending the election of a Speaker. Another officer is the Chief Administrative Officer, responsible for the day-to-day administrative support to the House of Representatives. This includes everything from", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376184", "text": "However, there have been some exceptions. The most recent exception to this rule came when Majority Leader Tom DeLay generally overshadowed Speaker Dennis Hastert from 2003 to 2006. In contrast, the Minority Leader is the undisputed leader of the minority party. When the Presidency and both Houses of Congress are controlled by one party, the Speaker normally takes a low profile and defers to the President. For that situation the House Minority Leader can play the role of a \"de facto\" \"leader of the opposition\", often more so than the Senate Minority Leader, due to the more partisan nature of", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "565019", "text": "House. The Speaker is responsible for maintaining decorum in the House and may order the Sergeant-at-Arms to enforce House rules. The Speaker's powers and duties extend beyond presiding in the chamber. In particular, the Speaker has great influence over the committee process. The Speaker selects nine of the thirteen members of the powerful Committee on Rules, subject to the approval of the entire majority party. The leadership of the minority party chooses the remaining four members. Furthermore, the Speaker appoints all members of select committees and conference committees. Moreover, when a bill is introduced, the Speaker determines which committee will", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "565011", "text": "goal, the Speaker may use their power to determine when each bill reaches the floor. They also chair the majority party's steering committee in the House. While the Speaker is the functioning head of the House majority party, the same is not true of the President \"pro tempore\" of the Senate, whose office is primarily ceremonial and honorary. When the Speaker and the President belong to the same party, the Speaker tends to play the role in a more ceremonial light, as seen when Dennis Hastert played a very low-key role during the presidency of fellow Republican George W. Bush.", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "564985", "text": "already the House party leader, and as the minority leader are usually their party's nominee for Speaker), or majority leaders (upon departure of the current Speaker in the majority party), assuming that the party leadership hierarchy is followed. In the past, other candidates have included chairpersons of influential standing committees. Historically, the Democrats have always elevated their minority leader to the speakership upon reclaiming majority control of the House. However, Republicans have not always followed this leadership succession pattern. In 1919, Republicans bypassed James Robert Mann, R-IL, who had been Minority Leader for eight years, and elected a backbencher representative,", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "14418292", "text": "Floor Services Chief The Floor Services Chief is the title of the staff member in the Speaker's or Majority Leader's office who runs the Majority cloakroom in the United States House of Representatives. The current Floor Services Chief is Timothy J. Harroun, appointed by Republican Speaker John Boehner. His predecessor is Barry K. Sullivan, who was appointed by Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Sullivan's predecessor was Harroun, who was appointed by Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert. When Harroun is Floor Services Chief, Sullivan is Minority Cloakroom Manager. Similarly, when Sullivan was Floor Services Chief, Harroun was Minority Cloakroom Manager. The position is", "title": "Floor Services Chief" }, { "id": "20669662", "text": "race for the leadership of the House Republicans began well before Ryan's official announcement, as it had been rumored for months. The Republican caucus vote was held on November 14, 2018. 2019 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election An election for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives will take place during the first week in January 2019, during the opening day of the 116th United States Congress, two months after the 2018 elections. The Dean of the United States House of Representatives, in this case, Alaska's Don Young, will administer the oath of office to", "title": "2019 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election" }, { "id": "12503547", "text": "a presidential candidate fails to get a majority of the Electoral College votes. The Senate and House are further differentiated by term lengths and the number of districts represented: the Senate has longer terms of six years, fewer members (currently one hundred, two for each state), and (in all but seven delegations) larger constituencies per member. The Senate is informally referred to as the \"upper\" house, and the House of Representatives as the \"lower\" house. , the annual salary of each Representative is $174,000. The Speaker of the House and the Majority and Minority Leaders earn more: $223,500 for the", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "9097548", "text": "Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines The Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines () is the presiding officer and the highest-ranking official of the lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives, as well as the fourth highest and most powerful official of the Government of the Philippines. The Speaker is elected by a majority of all of the Representatives from among themselves. The Speaker is the third and last in line in succession for the presidency, after the President of the Senate of the Philippines, and Vice President of the Philippines. A Speaker", "title": "Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines" }, { "id": "12503571", "text": "order that a quorum is not present unless a question is being voted on. The presiding officer does not accept a point of order of no quorum during general debate, or when a question is not before the House. During debates, a member may speak only if called upon by the presiding officer. The presiding officer decides which members to recognize, and can therefore control the course of debate. All speeches must be addressed to the presiding officer, using the words \"Mr. Speaker\" or \"Madam Speaker\". Only the presiding officer may be directly addressed in speeches; other members must be", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376199", "text": "the Contract with America which was unveiled six weeks before voting day. In the instance when the Presidency and both Houses of Congress are controlled by one party, the Speaker normally assumes a lower profile and defers to the President. For that situation the House Minority Leader can play the role of a \"de facto\" \"leader of the opposition\", often more so than the Senate Minority Leader, due to the more partisan nature of the House and the greater role of leadership. Minority Leaders who have played prominent roles in opposing the incumbent President have included Gerald Ford, Richard Gephardt,", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "564984", "text": "candidate wins such a majority, then the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected. The last time repeated votes were required was in 1923, when the Speaker was elected on the ninth ballot. The new Speaker is then sworn in by the Dean of the United States House of Representatives, the chamber's longest-serving member. In modern practice, the Speaker is chosen by the majority party from among its senior leaders either when a vacancy in the office arrives or when the majority party changes. Previous Speakers have been minority leaders (when the majority party changes, as they are", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503585", "text": "to get one, but their chairship was independent of party leadership. The rules were changed in 1975 to permit party caucuses to elect chairmen, shifting power upward to the party leaders. In 1995, Republicans under Newt Gingrich set a limit of three two-year terms for committee chairs. The chairman's powers are extensive; he controls the committee/subcommittee agenda, and may prevent the committee from dealing with a bill. The senior member of the minority party is known as the Ranking Member. In some committees like Appropriations, partisan disputes are few. Most bills may be introduced in either House of Congress. However,", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376227", "text": "leadership structure; and daily meetings in the Leader's office (or at breakfast, lunch, or dinner) to lay out floor strategy or political objectives for the minority party. A whip manages their party's legislative program on the House floor. The whip keeps track of all legislation and ensures that all party members are present when important measures are to be voted upon. The Majority Whip is an elected member of the majority party who assists the Speaker of the House and the majority leader to coordinate ideas on, and garner support for, proposed legislation. The Minority Whip is a member of", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376208", "text": "who shall serve as conferees\" and nominating party members to the Committees on Rules and House Administration. Republican rules identify generally comparable functions for their top party leader. Informally, the minority leader has a wide range of party assignments. Lewis Deschler, the late House Parliamentarian (1928–1974), summarized the diverse duties of a party's floor leader: A party's floor leader, in conjunction with other party leaders, plays an influential role in the formulation of party policy and programs. They are instrumental in guiding legislation favored by his party through the House, or in resisting those programs of the other party that", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376189", "text": "institutional and party functions. Before examining the institutional and party assignments of the minority leader, it is worth highlighting the historical origin of this position. To a large extent, the minority leader's position is a 20th-century innovation. Prior to this time congressional parties were often relatively disorganized, so it was not always evident who functioned as the opposition floor leader. Decades went by before anything like the modern two-party congressional system emerged on Capitol Hill with official titles for those who were its official leaders. However, from the beginning days of Congress, various House members intermittently assumed the role of", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376188", "text": "extent, the functions of the minority leader are defined by tradition and custom. A minority leader from 1931 to 1939, Representative Bertrand Snell, R-N.Y., provided this \"job description\": \"He is spokesman for his party and enunciates its policies. He is required to be alert and vigilant in defense of the minority's rights. It is his function and duty to criticize constructively the policies and programs of the majority, and to this end employ parliamentary tactics and give close attention to all proposed legislation.\" Since Snell's description, other responsibilities have been added to the job. These duties involve an array of", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "8479047", "text": "2017-2019 session: The Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives is the leader of the chamber and is elected by his fellow state representatives. The speaker presides over the legislative process on the floor of the chamber or appoints a presiding officer in his or her place. He or she also decides the committee structure. The majority and minority leaders, are elected by their respective party caucuses relative to their party's strength in the chamber. Kansas House of Representatives The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125", "title": "Kansas House of Representatives" }, { "id": "2305647", "text": "by the United States Constitution. The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives presides over the lower house of Congress, the House of Representatives, while the Vice President of the United States formally presides over the upper house, the Senate. In practise, the Vice President does not have a day presence in Congress given their responsibilities in the Executive branch, and in their absence, the role is delegated to the most Senior member of the majority party, the President pro tempore of the United States Senate. In the forty-nine states that have a bicameral legislature, the highest position in", "title": "Speaker (politics)" }, { "id": "16906889", "text": "Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico The President of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico —commonly called the Speaker of the House ()— is the highest-ranking officer and the presiding officer of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico. The Speaker has voting powers as it is elected amongst the own members of the House as established by Article III of the Constitution of Puerto Rico. The Constitution, however, does not establish its functions and since the House is the only body authorized by the Constitution to regulate its own internal affairs, the functions of the", "title": "Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico" }, { "id": "5871938", "text": "Constitution, reflecting the new federal House of Representatives. This change on the part of Delaware initiated a movement that has resulted in a majority of the lower houses of U.S. state legislatures sharing the name of the federal House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House presides over the House of Representatives. The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus followed by confirmation of the full House through the passage of a House Resolution. The Speaker is the chief leadership position of the body. The other House leaders are elected by their respective party caucuses. The Majority Leader determines", "title": "Delaware House of Representatives" }, { "id": "2927723", "text": "Dean of the United States House of Representatives The Dean of the United States House of Representatives is the longest continuously serving member of the House. The current Dean is Don Young, a Republican Party representative from Alaska who has served since 1973, and is the first Republican Dean in more than eighty years, as well as the first from Alaska. The Dean is a symbolic post whose only customary duty is to swear in a Speaker of the House after he or she is elected. The Dean comes forward on the House Floor to administer the oath to the", "title": "Dean of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "14418348", "text": "Director of Floor Operations Director of Floor Operations is the title of two staff members in the United States House of Representatives, with the Majority Director in the Speaker's office and the Minority Director in the Minority Leader's or Minority Whip's office. Each director is primarily responsible for informally counting votes and ascertaining the support of their party's Members of Congress for particular legislation prior to recorded votes. Another responsibility of the role is persuading Members of Congress from their party to vote along with their party's Leadership, even when it is unpopular. They may also be charged with coordinating", "title": "Director of Floor Operations" }, { "id": "3877956", "text": "Speaker \"pro tempore\" is Roberto Rivera Ruiz, representative for District 39 from the Popular Democratic Party. Each party elects floor leaders denominated \"Majority leader\" or \"Minority leader\", accordingly, as well as a \"Majority Whip\" or a \"Minority Whip\". Floor leaders act as the party chief spokespeople. The current leaders are Majority Leader Johnny Méndez, Majority Whip Angel Pérez Otero, and interim Minority Leader Luis Raúl Torres Cruz. The House is served by several officials who are not members. The Senate's chief administrative officer is the Secretary of the House, who maintains public records, disburses salaries, monitors the acquisition of stationery", "title": "House of Representatives of Puerto Rico" }, { "id": "564992", "text": "later elected President of the United States. Towards the end of the 19th century, the office of Speaker began to develop into a very powerful one. At the time, one of the most important sources of the Speaker's power was his position as Chairman of the Committee on Rules, which, after the reorganization of the committee system in 1880, became one of the most powerful standing committees of the House. Furthermore, several Speakers became leading figures in their political parties; examples include Democrats Samuel J. Randall, John Griffin Carlisle, and Charles F. Crisp, and Republicans James G. Blaine, Thomas Brackett", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503523", "text": "was one of the most divisive among the founders during the Convention. Edmund Randolph's Virginia Plan called for a bicameral Congress: the lower house would be \"of the people\", elected directly by the people of the United States and representing public opinion, and a more deliberative upper house, elected by the lower house, that would represent the individual states, and would be less susceptible to variations of mass sentiment. The House is referred to as the lower house, with the Senate being the upper house, although the United States Constitution does not use that terminology. Both houses' approval is necessary", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "20177874", "text": "Leader of the House (New Zealand) In the New Zealand Parliament, the Leader of the House is the government minister appointed by the Prime Minister of New Zealand to be responsible for the management of government business in the House of Representatives. The Leader of the House is also an \"ex officio\" member of the Parliamentary Service Commission. The first Leader of the House was appointed in 1978, although similar offices had existed in Australia since 1951 and the United Kingdom for several centuries. The responsibilities of the Leader of the House were previously functions exercised by the Prime Minister.", "title": "Leader of the House (New Zealand)" }, { "id": "12503520", "text": "total number of voting representatives is fixed by law at 435. As of the 2010 Census, the largest delegation is that of California, with fifty-three representatives. Seven states have the smallest delegation possible, a single representative: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming. The House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills, which, after concurrence by the Senate, are sent to the President for consideration. In addition to this basic power, the House has certain exclusive powers which include the power to initiate all bills related to revenue, the impeachment of federal officers,", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376200", "text": "Nancy Pelosi, and John Boehner. The style and role of any minority leader is influenced by a variety of elements, including personality and contextual factors, such as the size and cohesion of the minority party, whether their party controls the White House, the general political climate in the House, and the controversy that is sometimes associated with the legislative agenda. Despite the variability of these factors, there are a number of institutional obligations associated with this position. Many of these assignments or roles are spelled out in the House rule book. Others have devolved upon the position in other ways.", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503566", "text": "is also a Sergeant at Arms, who as the House's chief law enforcement officer maintains order and security on House premises. Finally, routine police work is handled by the United States Capitol Police, which is supervised by the Capitol Police Board, a body to which the Sergeant at Arms belongs, and chairs in even-numbered years. Like the Senate, the House of Representatives meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. At one end of the chamber of the House is a rostrum from which the Speaker, Speaker Pro Tempore, or (when in the Committee of the Whole) the Chair", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376229", "text": "in the House Leadership. The House Democratic Conference has multiple chief deputy whips, led by a Senior Chief Deputy Whip, which is the highest appointed position within the House Democratic Caucus. The current senior chief deputy minority whip, John Lewis, has held his post since 1991. Between 1955 and 1973, the Democrats simply had the title Deputy Whip. The position of Assistant Democratic Leader was established on January 3, 2011 and filled by Jim Clyburn to avoid a battle for whip between then-Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and then-Majority Whip Jim Clyburn. It is said to replace the \"Assistant to the", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376209", "text": "are considered undesirable by his own party. They are instrumental in devising and implementing his party's strategy on the floor with respect to promoting or opposing legislation. They are kept constantly informed as to the status of legislative business and as to the sentiment of his party respecting particular legislation under consideration. Such information is derived in part from the floor leader's contacts with his party's members serving on House committees, and with the members of the party's whip organization. These and several other party roles merit further mention because they influence significantly the leader's overarching objective: retake majority control", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376197", "text": "61st Congress (1909–1910), \"it was the custom to have the minority leader also serve as the ranking minority member on the two most powerful committees, Rules and Ways and Means.\" Today, the minority leader no longer serves on these committees; however, he or she appoints the minority members of the Rules Committee and influences the assignment of partisan colleagues to the Ways and Means Committee. Second, Democrats have always elevated their minority floor leader to the speakership upon reclaiming majority status. Republicans have not always followed this leadership succession pattern. In 1919, for instance, Republicans bypassed James R. Mann, R-IL,", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "565023", "text": "government takes the Speaker's place in the line of succession seriously enough that, for example, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Speakers used military jets to fly back and forth to their districts and for other travel until Speaker Boehner discontinued the practice in 2011. The Speaker of the House is one of the officers to whom declarations of presidential inability or ability to resume the Presidency must be addressed under the Twenty-fifth Amendment. To be elected as Speaker, a candidate must receive an absolute majority of all votes cast for individuals, excluding those who abstain. The most", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "565022", "text": "by the President \"pro tempore\" of the Senate and by the heads of federal executive departments. To date, the implementation of the Presidential Succession Act has never been necessary and no Speaker has ever acted as President. Implementation of the law almost became necessary in 1973 after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew. At the time, many believed that President Richard Nixon would resign because of the Watergate scandal, allowing Speaker Carl Albert to succeed to the Presidency. However, before he resigned, Nixon appointed Gerald Ford as Vice President in accordance with the Twenty-fifth Amendment. Nevertheless, the United States", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "20669659", "text": "2019 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election An election for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives will take place during the first week in January 2019, during the opening day of the 116th United States Congress, two months after the 2018 elections. The Dean of the United States House of Representatives, in this case, Alaska's Don Young, will administer the oath of office to the new Speaker who, in turn, administers the oath of office en masse to the rest of the members of the United States House of Representatives. Incumbent Republican speaker Paul Ryan", "title": "2019 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election" }, { "id": "565020", "text": "consider it. As a member of the House, the Speaker is entitled to participate in debate and to vote. Ordinarily, the Speaker votes only when the Speaker's vote would be decisive or on matters of great importance, such as constitutional amendments or major legislation. Because joint sessions and joint meetings of Congress are held in the House chamber, the Speaker presides over joint sessions to hear addresses by the President, and joint meetings to hear addresses from foreign leaders or other invited guests. However, the Twelfth Amendment and require that the President of the Senate preside over joint sessions of", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "434130", "text": "United States Congress The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States. The legislature consists of two chambers: the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Both senators and representatives are chosen through direct election, though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a gubernatorial appointment. Congress has 535 voting members: 435 representatives and 100 senators. The House of Representatives has six non-voting members representing Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of", "title": "United States Congress" }, { "id": "12503559", "text": "of the House speak. No member may make a speech or a motion unless s/he has first been recognized by the presiding officer. Moreover, the presiding officer may rule on a \"point of order\" (a member's objection that a rule has been breached); the decision is subject to appeal to the whole House. Speakers serve as chairs of their party's steering committee, which is responsible for assigning party members to other House committees. The Speaker chooses the chairmen of standing committees, appoints most of the members of the Rules Committee, appoints all members of conference committees, and determines which committees", "title": "United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "19075939", "text": "the Congress. Typically, the election is a formality, as the majority party's members vote as a bloc for their party's previously-chosen Speaker-designate (such as the speaker, majority leader, or minority leader from the previous term). Open elections are uncommon but have occurred. The last Speaker election to require multiple ballots occurred in 1923. John Boehner, a member of the Republican Party from Ohio, served as the Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives from February 2006 until January 2007. As the Democratic Party assumed control of the House following the 2006 elections, Boehner served as Minority Leader from", "title": "October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election" }, { "id": "16376206", "text": "federal entities; he or she and the majority leader each name three Members to serve as Private Calendar objectors; he or she is consulted with respect to reconvening the House per the usual formulation of conditional concurrent adjournment resolutions; he or she is a traditional member of the House Office Building Commission; he or she is a member of the United States Capitol Preservation Commission; and he or she may, after consultation with the Speaker, convene an early organizational party caucus or conference. Informally, the minority leader maintains ties with majority party leaders to learn about the schedule and other", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "2172668", "text": "Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Parliament of Australia. The presiding officer in the upper house is the President of the Senate. The office of Speaker was created by section 35 of the Constitution of Australia. The authors of the Constitution intended that the House of Representatives should as nearly as possible be modelled on the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The Speaker is the presiding officer of House of Representatives debates, determining which members may", "title": "Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives" }, { "id": "7379182", "text": "follows: Luke Messer currently chairs the Policy Committee. In the Republican House leadership hierarchy, the chair of the House Republican Policy Committee ranks fifth, below the Speaker of the House, Majority Leader, Majority Whip, and the Republican Conference Chairman. Statutory members include the full conference leadership, the committee chairs or ranking members (depending on a majority or minority) of Appropriations, Budget, Energy, Rules, and Ways and Means, and the elected leaders of the sophomore and freshman classes. Appointed members include regional representatives, at-large members, members from the standing committees, and designated appointees by the sophomore (2) and freshman (1) class", "title": "Steering and Policy Committees of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16376187", "text": "shall be appointed by joint recommendation of the Speaker, majority leader, and minority leader; and Rule XV, clause 6, provides that the Speaker, after consultation with the minority leader, may place legislation on the Corrections Calendar. The minority leader also has other institutional duties, such as appointing individuals to certain federal entities. From a party perspective, the minority leader has a wide range of partisan assignments, all geared toward retaking majority control of the House. Five principal party activities direct the work of the minority leader. The roles and responsibilities of the minority leader are not well-defined. To a large", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "564989", "text": "early 1950s. Nancy Pelosi is the most recent example of an outgoing Speaker who was elected Minority Leader, after the Democrats lost control of the House in the 2010 elections. The first Speaker was Frederick Muhlenberg: he was elected as a Pro-Administration candidate to the 1st Congress, an Anti-Administration candidate to the 2nd and 3rd Congresses, and a Republican candidate to the 4th Congress, according to the \"Biographical Directory of Congress\", though Oswald Seidensticker wrote that he was elected as a Federalist for the first four Congresses. The position of Speaker started to gain its partisan role and its power", "title": "Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "16906891", "text": "specifically Article III, which establishes that, \"[...]the House of Representatives [shall elect] a Speaker from among [its] members.\" The Constitution, however, does not establish what a \"Speaker\" is nor what its function should be. Internal rules adopted by the House through a simple resolution establish its definition, functions, responsibilities, and legal scope. Typically the Speaker is responsible for the observance and compliance of the House internal rules. He also typically: Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico The President of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico —commonly called the Speaker of the House ()— is the highest-ranking", "title": "Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico" }, { "id": "17371847", "text": "Joe Aresimowicz Joe Aresimowicz (born November 5, 1970) is a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives and the current Speaker of the House. Prior to 2017, he served as the Majority Leader. Aresimowicz served in the United States Army Reserve as a combat medic. He was honorably discharged after over a decade of service. A lifelong Berlin resident, he attended public schools in Berlin through high school. Aresimowicz still coaches football at Berlin High School. He is a graduate of the now closed National Labor College in Silver Springs, Maryland. Joe Aresimowicz is a union employee, a former union", "title": "Joe Aresimowicz" }, { "id": "2433420", "text": "Don Young Donald Edwin Young (born June 9, 1933) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for since 1973. A member of the Republican Party, he is the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Alaska, the longest currently serving member of Congress, and the last remaining member of Congress who has been in office since the Nixon Administration. He became Dean of the House of Representatives on December 5, 2017, after the resignation of John Conyers from Michigan. Young was born in Meridian, Sutter County, California. He earned an associate's degree", "title": "Don Young" }, { "id": "2442570", "text": "Paul Ryan Paul Davis Ryan Jr. (born January 29, 1970) is an American politician serving since 2015 as the 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was the 2012 vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party, running alongside Mitt Romney. Ryan, a native of Janesville, Wisconsin, graduated from Miami University in 1992. He spent five years working for Republicans in Washington, D.C. and returned to Wisconsin in 1997 to work at his family's construction company. He successfully ran for Congress to represent the following year, replacing an incumbent Republican who ran for Senate. Ryan would represent the", "title": "Paul Ryan" }, { "id": "16376195", "text": "Appropriations Chairman James A. Garfield of Ohio, in 1876, 1877, and 1879, and ex-Speaker Keifer in 1883. \"It is hard to believe that House partisans would place a man in the speakership when in the majority, and nominate him for this office when in the minority, and not look to him for legislative guidance.\" This was not the case, according to some observers, with respect to ex-Speaker Keifer. In brief, there is disagreement among historical analysts as to the exact time period when the minority leadership emerged officially as a party position. Nonetheless, it seems safe to conclude that the", "title": "Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "9421730", "text": "limits for the House. The Speaker of the House presides over the House in the chief leadership position, controlling the flow of legislation and committee assignments. The Speaker is elected by the majority party caucus, followed by confirmation of the full House on passage of a floor vote. Other House leaders, such as the majority and minority leaders, are elected by their respective party caucuses according to each party's strength in the chamber. Iowa House of Representatives The Iowa House of Representatives is the lower house of the Iowa General Assembly, the upper house being the Iowa Senate. There are", "title": "Iowa House of Representatives" }, { "id": "20177875", "text": "The Leader of the House serves three main functions: The following individuals have been appointed as Leader of the New Zealand House of Representatives: Leader of the House (New Zealand) In the New Zealand Parliament, the Leader of the House is the government minister appointed by the Prime Minister of New Zealand to be responsible for the management of government business in the House of Representatives. The Leader of the House is also an \"ex officio\" member of the Parliamentary Service Commission. The first Leader of the House was appointed in 1978, although similar offices had existed in Australia since", "title": "Leader of the House (New Zealand)" }, { "id": "6149753", "text": "History of the United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States Senate—the upper chamber—comprises the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. Like its counterpart, the House was established by the United States Constitution and convened for its first meeting on March 4, 1789 at Federal Hall in New York City. The history of this institution begins several years prior to that date, at the dawn of the American Revolutionary War. The First Continental Congress was a meeting of", "title": "History of the United States House of Representatives" }, { "id": "12503544", "text": "chosen in a special election usually begins the next day, or as soon as the results are certified. Additionally, Washington D.C. and the five inhabited U.S. territories each elect a non-voting delegate. With the exception of the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, each representative and delegate serves for a two-year term. They have a voice and can introduce bills on the floor, but cannot vote there. Representatives and Delegates serve for two-year terms, while the Resident Commissioner serves for four years. A term starts on January 3 following the election in November. The U.S. Constitution requires that vacancies in the", "title": "United States House of Representatives" } ]

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[ { "id": "81268", "text": "section. However, all modern clarinets have similar components. The \"reed\" is attached to the \"mouthpiece\" by the \"ligature\", and the top half-inch or so of this assembly is held in the player's mouth. In the past clarinetists used to wrap a string around the mouthpiece and reed instead of using a ligature. The formation of the mouth around the mouthpiece and reed is called the \"embouchure\". The reed is on the underside of the mouthpiece, pressing against the player's lower lip, while the top teeth normally contact the top of the mouthpiece (some players roll the upper lip under the", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "81266", "text": "or gold. Other materials include wire, wire mesh, plastic, naugahyde, string, or leather. The clarinet uses a single reed made from the cane of \"Arundo donax\", a type of grass. Reeds may also be manufactured from synthetic materials. The ligature fastens the reed to the mouthpiece. When air is blown through the opening between the reed and the mouthpiece facing, the reed vibrates and produces the clarinet's sound. Basic reed measurements are as follows: tip, wide; lay, long (distance from the place where the reed touches the mouthpiece to the tip); gap, (distance between the underside of the reed tip", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "696324", "text": "and separated from the tube of cane and attached to a mouthpiece of some sort. By contrast, in an uncapped double reed instrument (such as the oboe and bassoon), there is no mouthpiece; the two parts of the reed vibrate against one another. Single reeds are used on the mouthpieces of clarinets and saxophones. The back of the reed is flat and is placed against the mouthpiece, the rounded top side tapers to a thin tip. These reeds are roughly rectangular in shape except for the thin vibrating tip, which is curved to match the curve of the mouthpiece tip.", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "8544096", "text": "Ligature (instrument) A ligature is a device which holds a reed onto the mouthpiece of a single-reed instrument such as a saxophone or clarinet. The ligature must secure the reed firmly against the table of the mouthpiece while allowing it to vibrate freely. The earliest ligatures were lengths of string wrapped over the reed and tied. Iwan Müller invented a metal ligature to replace twine. String is still used by clarinetists, especially in Germany. Modern German mouthpieces have a groove cut into the outside of the mouthpiece to facilitate wrapping with a string ligature. Some modern clarinetists even opt to", "title": "Ligature (instrument)" }, { "id": "696336", "text": "and can require expensive equipment. Among double reed players, advanced and professional players typically make their own reeds, while beginners and students often buy reeds either from their teachers or from commercial sources. Reeds made from cane, used on woodwind instruments such as saxophones, clarinets, oboes, and bassoons, are affected highly by climate changes. As the temperature and amount of humidity changes, the reed also changes. It is a common occurrence for a reed to behave vastly differently from the cold rehearsal room where they warm up to the stage which is often hot due to onstage lights. While these", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "81255", "text": "curve up through the tone hole (surface tension) instead of \"blowing past\" it under the increasingly directional frequencies of the upper registers. The fixed reed and fairly uniform diameter of the clarinet give the instrument an acoustical behavior approximating that of a cylindrical stopped pipe. Recorders use a tapered internal bore to overblow at the octave when the thumb/register hole is pinched open, while the clarinet, with its cylindrical bore, overblows at the twelfth. Adjusting the angle of the bore taper controls the frequencies of the overblown notes (harmonics). Changing the mouthpiece's tip opening and the length of the reed", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "696326", "text": "natural differences in the density of the cane fibers. The cane used to make reeds for saxophone, clarinet, and other single-reed instruments is grown in the southern coastal regions of France, Spain and in the last 30 years in the area of Cuyo in Argentina which has become one of the most important in the world. Once the cane is cut, it must lay out and dry in direct sunlight for about a month. The cane is rotated regularly to ensure proper and complete drying. Once dry, they are taken to be stored in a warehouse. As the cane is", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "2311087", "text": "Adam Gussow, Otavio Castro, Chris Michalek, Jason Ricci, and Carlos del Junco. In the case of the clarinet, the reed beats against its mouthpiece, opening and closing the instrument's cylindrical closed tube to produce a tone. When the instrument is overblown, with or without the aid of its register key, the pitch is a twelfth higher. In the case of a saxophone, which has a similar mouthpiece-reed combination to the clarinet, or an oboe, where double reeds beat against each other, the conical bore of these instruments gives their closed tube the properties of an open tube; when overblown, the", "title": "Overblowing" }, { "id": "8299422", "text": "Reed clipper A reed clipper (also known as a reed trimmer or reed cutter) is a small tool used by clarinet or saxophone players to adjust the single reeds used on those instruments. The clipper is used to trim off a portion from the tip of the reed. This can make a soft reed harder, or remove imperfections on the tip. A typical design involves fastening the reed onto the tripper by using a flexible strip of steel, and adjusting the height of the reed by using a knurled knob. Once the reed is positioned at the desired height, a", "title": "Reed clipper" }, { "id": "5029928", "text": "Double clarinet The term double clarinet refers to any of several woodwind instruments consisting of two parallel pipes made of cane, bird bone, or metal, played simultaneously, with a single reed for each. Commonly, there are five or six tone holes in each pipe, or holes in only one pipe while the other acts as a drone, and the reeds are either cut from the body of the instrument or created by inserting smaller, slit tubes into the ends of the pipes. The player typically uses circular breathing. The double clarinet is not a clarinet in the modern western sense", "title": "Double clarinet" }, { "id": "81267", "text": "and the mouthpiece). Adjustment to these measurements is one method of affecting tone color. Most clarinetists buy manufactured reeds, although many make adjustments to these reeds, and some make their own reeds from cane \"blanks\". Reeds come in varying degrees of hardness, generally indicated on a scale from one (soft) through five (hard). This numbering system is not standardized—reeds with the same number often vary in hardness across manufacturers and models. Reed and mouthpiece characteristics work together to determine ease of playability, pitch stability, and tonal characteristics. Note: A Boehm system soprano clarinet is shown in the photos illustrating this", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "8544099", "text": "also have raised contact points, prongs, or a concave form to control contact with the reed. Some bands are designed for minimal contact with the mouthpiece, allowing even less absorption of the reed's vibrations. Ligature (instrument) A ligature is a device which holds a reed onto the mouthpiece of a single-reed instrument such as a saxophone or clarinet. The ligature must secure the reed firmly against the table of the mouthpiece while allowing it to vibrate freely. The earliest ligatures were lengths of string wrapped over the reed and tied. Iwan Müller invented a metal ligature to replace twine. String", "title": "Ligature (instrument)" }, { "id": "12266636", "text": "Wooden reed care Due to their natural composition, cane musical reeds may hold bacteria or mold, which can affect one's health and the quality of sound produced. Some of the basic instruments that use reeds include the clarinet, saxophone, oboe and bassoon. Proper care of reeds will extend their longevity and control bacterial growth. Wooden reeds must be moistened prior to playing. Many musicians place the reed in their mouths to moisten them with saliva. In preparing the reed for playing, water is less corrosive than saliva. Soaking a reed in water for about five minutes is a good alternative", "title": "Wooden reed care" }, { "id": "2282080", "text": "Chalumeau The chalumeau (; ; plural chalumeaux) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras. The chalumeau is a folk instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet. It has a cylindrical bore with eight tone holes (seven in front and one in back for the thumb) and a broad mouthpiece with a single heteroglot reed (\"i.e.\" not a continuous part of the instrument's body) made of cane. Similar to the clarinet, the chalumeau overblows a twelfth. The word \"chalumeau\" first begins to appear in writing during the 1630s, but may have been in", "title": "Chalumeau" }, { "id": "364241", "text": "reed. Reeds are commercially available in a vast array of brands, styles, and strengths. Saxophonists experiment with reeds of different strength (hardnesses) and material to find which strength and cut suits their mouthpiece, embouchure, physiology, and playing style. The saxophone mouthpiece is larger than that of the clarinet, has a wider inner chamber, and lacks the cork-covered tenon because the saxophone neck inserts into the mouthpiece whereas the clarinet mouthpiece is inserted into the barrel. Saxophone and clarinet embouchures differ from each other in firmness, position of the lower lip, and range of entry angles. The \"long tones\" exercise is", "title": "Saxophone" }, { "id": "8299423", "text": "small lever is pulled, which clips off a sliver of material from the tip. Another design, pioneered by the Vandoren company in the 1980s, involves the reed lying on a stationary table, positioned above a sharp blade. In this design, the cutting is accomplished by lowering a hinged lid which slides the reed tip against the blade. Reed clipper A reed clipper (also known as a reed trimmer or reed cutter) is a small tool used by clarinet or saxophone players to adjust the single reeds used on those instruments. The clipper is used to trim off a portion from", "title": "Reed clipper" }, { "id": "364240", "text": "on tone are difficult to isolate from other variables that affect an instrument's tone colors. In any case, what constitutes a pleasing tone is a matter of personal preference. The saxophone uses a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. Most saxophonists use reeds made from \"Arundo donax\" cane, but since the 20th century some have also been made of fiberglass and other composite materials. Saxophone reeds are proportioned slightly differently from clarinet reeds, being wider for the same length, although some soprano saxophonists use clarinet reeds. Each size of saxophone (alto, tenor, etc.) uses a different size of", "title": "Saxophone" }, { "id": "81240", "text": "Clarinet The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a \"clarinetist\" (sometimes spelled \"clarinettist\"). While the similarity in sound between the earliest clarinets and the trumpet may hold a clue to its name, other factors may have been involved. During the Late Baroque era, composers such as Bach and Handel were making new demands on the skills of their trumpeters, who were often required to play difficult", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "1837787", "text": "used for oboes and bassoons, is inserted directly into a socket at the top of the instrument, or in the larger types, on the end of a metal tube called the bocal. The \"pirouette\", a small wooden attachment with a cavity in the center resembling a thimble, surrounds the lower part of the reed—this provides support for the lips and embouchure. Since only a short portion of the reed protrudes past the pirouette, the player has only limited contact with the reed, and therefore limited control of dynamics. The shawm’s conical bore and flaring bell, combined with the style of", "title": "Shawm" }, { "id": "81277", "text": "as the A key lifts only one of the two covers, producing G a semitone lower. The A key can be used in conjunction solely with the register key to produce A/B. The clarinet has its roots in the early single-reed instruments or hornpipes used in Ancient Greece, old Egypt, Middle East, and Europe since the Middle Ages, such as the albogue, alboka, and double clarinet. The modern clarinet developed from a Baroque instrument called the chalumeau. This instrument was similar to a recorder, but with a single-reed mouthpiece and a cylindrical bore. Lacking a register key, it was played", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "81258", "text": "length of the pipe, changing the resonant frequencies of the enclosed air column and hence the pitch. A clarinetist moves between the chalumeau and clarion registers through use of the register key; clarinetists call the change from chalumeau register to clarion register \"the break\". The open register key stops the fundamental frequency from being reinforced, and the reed is forced to vibrate at three times the speed it was originally. This produces a note a twelfth above the original note. Most instruments overblow at two times the speed of the fundamental frequency (the octave), but as the clarinet acts as", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "81256", "text": "changes aspects of the harmonic timbre or voice of the clarinet because this changes the speed of reed vibrations. Generally, the goal of the clarinetist when producing a sound is to make as much of the reed vibrate as possible, making the sound fuller, warmer, and potentially louder. The lip position and pressure, shaping of the vocal tract, choice of reed and mouthpiece, amount of air pressure created, and evenness of the airflow account for most of the clarinetist's ability to control the tone of a clarinet. A highly skilled clarinetist will provide the ideal lip and air pressure for", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "3642410", "text": "the giant cane (\"Arundo donax\") commonly known as a reed. The reed is shaved to come to an extremely thin point, and is clamped over the mouthpiece by the use of a ligature. When air is blown through the mouthpiece, the reed vibrates and generates the acoustic resonances required to produce a sound from the instrument. The mouthpiece is the area of the saxophone with the greatest flexibility in shape and style, so the timbre of the instrument is primarily determined by the dimensions of its mouthpiece. The design of the mouthpiece and reed play a big role in how", "title": "Tenor saxophone" }, { "id": "8307911", "text": "mouthpiece by a ligature. Anything that can hold the reed on the mouthpiece may serve as a ligature. Commercial ligatures are commonly made of metal or plastic. Some players (including many German clarinetists) prefer string or a shoelace, which is wrapped around the reed and the mouthpiece, to commercially manufactured ligatures. The clarinet mouthpiece is narrow inside and typically has a square or rectangular cross section from the baffle through the throat. The bottom of the mouthpiece is formed with a tenon that is ringed with cork. Today, as with the saxophone mouthpiece, the reed is placed against the surface", "title": "Mouthpiece (woodwind)" }, { "id": "8050167", "text": "Pibgorn (instrument) The pibgorn is a Welsh species of idioglot reed aerophone. The name translates literally as \"pipe-horn\". It is also historically known as cornicyll and pib-corn. It utilises a single reed (Welsh: \"cal\", or \"calaf\"), cut from elder (\"Sambucus nigra\") or reed (\"Arundo phragmites\"), like that found in the drone of a bagpipe, which is an early form of the modern clarinet reed. The single chambered body of the elder pipe has a naturally occurring parallel bore, into which are drilled six small finger-holes and a thumb-hole giving a diatonic compass of an octave. The body of the instrument", "title": "Pibgorn (instrument)" }, { "id": "6553077", "text": "Egypt include the arghul and the zummara. Examples include clarinets, saxophones, and some bagpipes. See links to other examples below. Single reed instruments fall under three Hornbostel–Sachs classes: The following is a list of clarinets and saxophones, relative to their range and key of transposition from the opposite family: Note that if one was to compare clarinets to their saxophone counterparts while considering their approximate lowest (concert) pitch†, the order would shift: Single-reed instrument A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound. The very earliest single-reed instruments were documented in ancient Egypt, as", "title": "Single-reed instrument" }, { "id": "8544097", "text": "use shoestring as a ligature substitute as it is more easily adjustable than string. Other modern clarinetists use electrical tape as a ligature. A ligature must be placed properly in order to allow best performance on a reed instrument. The ligature must be placed at least halfway down the stock of the reed and the screws must not be overtightened, in order to allow free vibration and not distort the reed. Ligatures are most commonly made out of metal and plated in nickel, silver, or gold. Ligatures are also made out of wire, wire mesh, plastic, naugahyde, heavy nylon fabric,", "title": "Ligature (instrument)" }, { "id": "2418628", "text": "Basset horn The basset horn (sometimes written basset-horn) is a musical instrument, a member of the clarinet family. Like the clarinet, the instrument is a wind instrument with a single reed and a cylindrical bore. However, the basset horn is larger and has a bend near the mouthpiece rather than an entirely straight body (older instruments are typically curved or bent in the middle), and while the clarinet is typically a transposing instrument in B or A (meaning a written C sounds as a B or A), the basset horn is typically in F (less often in G). Finally, the", "title": "Basset horn" }, { "id": "696341", "text": "are included as well.) There are usually only four or five reed players in a pit orchestra who perform on all woodwind instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone). A basic reed part usually has three or four instruments (flutes, clarinets and saxophones being the most common), but can include up to eight instruments, such as the \"Reed 3\" part in Bernstein's \"West Side Story\", which calls for the player to use piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor and baritone saxophones. Through intricate doubling, the arranger can simulate the sound of a much larger woodwind section. (The", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "2282091", "text": "and 1736. Silbermann was so pleased with the sound of this new invention that he included it in most of his later organs. Chalumeau The chalumeau (; ; plural chalumeaux) is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras. The chalumeau is a folk instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet. It has a cylindrical bore with eight tone holes (seven in front and one in back for the thumb) and a broad mouthpiece with a single heteroglot reed (\"i.e.\" not a continuous part of the instrument's body) made of cane. Similar to the", "title": "Chalumeau" }, { "id": "8307908", "text": "Mouthpiece (woodwind) The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. Single-reed instruments, capped double-reed instruments, and fipple flutes have mouthpieces while exposed double-reed instruments (apart from those using pirouettes) and open flutes do not. On single-reed instruments, such as the clarinet and saxophone, the mouthpiece is that part to which the reed is attached. Its function is to provide an opening through which air enters the instrument and one end of an air chamber to be set into vibration by the interaction between the air stream and the", "title": "Mouthpiece (woodwind)" }, { "id": "2418637", "text": "a large number for basset horn. The Italian name for the instrument, \"corno di bassetto\", was used by Bernard Shaw as a pseudonym when writing music criticism. Basset horn The basset horn (sometimes written basset-horn) is a musical instrument, a member of the clarinet family. Like the clarinet, the instrument is a wind instrument with a single reed and a cylindrical bore. However, the basset horn is larger and has a bend near the mouthpiece rather than an entirely straight body (older instruments are typically curved or bent in the middle), and while the clarinet is typically a transposing instrument", "title": "Basset horn" }, { "id": "364221", "text": "Saxophone The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. Like the clarinet, saxophones have holes in the instrument which the player closes using a system of key mechanisms. When the player presses a key, a pad either covers a hole or lifts off a hole, lowering or raising the pitch, respectively. The saxophone family was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1840. Adolphe Sax wanted to create a group or series of instruments", "title": "Saxophone" }, { "id": "43258", "text": "extension to the instrument—see \"Extended techniques\" below. The bassoon disassembles into six main pieces, including the reed. The bell (6), extending upward; the bass joint (or long joint) (5), connecting the bell and the boot; the boot (or butt) (4), at the bottom of the instrument and folding over on itself; the wing joint (or tenor joint) (3), which extends from boot to bocal; and the bocal (or crook) (2), a crooked metal tube that attaches the wing joint to a reed (1) (). Bassoons are double reed instruments like the oboe. A modern beginner's bassoon is generally made of", "title": "Bassoon" }, { "id": "7256351", "text": "the full organ; and \"solo reeds\" or \"orchestral reeds\" (such as the Clarinet, the Oboe, and the Cor Anglais), which often (but not always) imitate orchestral instruments, and are used for quieter, solo passages (similar to woodwinds in an orchestra). Reed pipe A reed pipe (also referred to as a \"lingual\" pipe) is an organ pipe that is sounded by a vibrating brass strip known as a \"reed\". Air under pressure (referred to as \"wind\") is directed towards the reed, which vibrates at a specific pitch. This is in contrast to flue pipes, which contain no moving parts and produce", "title": "Reed pipe" }, { "id": "81259", "text": "a closed pipe system, the reed cannot vibrate at twice its original speed because it would be creating a 'puff' of air at the time the previous 'puff' is returning as a rarefaction. This means it cannot be reinforced and so would die away. The chalumeau register plays fundamentals, whereas the clarion register, aided by the register key, plays third harmonics (a perfect twelfth higher than the fundamentals). The first several notes of the altissimo range, aided by the register key and venting with the first left-hand hole, play fifth harmonics (a major seventeenth, a perfect twelfth plus a major", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "696334", "text": "resonant chamber. Most reeds for woodwind instruments are made from cane, but synthetic reeds are used by a small number of clarinetists, saxophonists, and double reed players, as well as by bagpipers. Synthetic reeds are generally more durable than their natural counterparts and do not need to be moistened prior to playing. Many players consider them to have inferior tone quality. Recent developments in synthetic reed technology have produced reeds made from synthetic polymer compounds , and as technology in this area has progressed, synthetic reeds have gained more acceptance. Synthetic reeds are useful when the instrument is played intermittently", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "81269", "text": "top teeth to form what is called a 'double-lip' embouchure). Adjustments in the strength and shape of the embouchure change the tone and intonation (tuning). It is not uncommon for clarinetists to employ methods to relieve the pressure on the upper teeth and inner lower lip by attaching pads to the top of the mouthpiece or putting (temporary) padding on the front lower teeth, commonly from folded paper. Next is the short \"barrel\"; this part of the instrument may be extended to fine-tune the clarinet. As the pitch of the clarinet is fairly temperature-sensitive, some instruments have interchangeable barrels whose", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "4344424", "text": "of double reeds for the oboe family of instruments is similar in principle: like the bassoon's reeds, they consist of two pieces of \"Arundo donax\" cane fastened together with an opening at the tip. However, because the oboe does not have a bocal, the cane must be fastened to a metal tube (the staple), the lower half of which is normally surrounded by a piece of cork. The staple is then inserted into the farrow at the upper end of the oboe. There are many different methods of making reeds and many variations of design have been developed. Players can", "title": "Double reed" }, { "id": "696323", "text": "Reed (mouthpiece) A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument. The reeds of most woodwind instruments are made from \"Arundo donax\" (\"Giant cane\") or synthetic material; tuned reeds (as in harmonicas and accordions) are made of metal or synthetics. Musical instruments may be classified according to the type and number of reeds used. The earliest types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal reeds, where the vibrating reed is a tongue cut and shaped on the tube of cane. Much later, single-reed instruments started using heteroglottal reeds, where a reed is cut", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "81278", "text": "mainly in its fundamental register, with a limited range of about one and a half octaves. It had eight finger holes, like a recorder, and two keys for its two highest notes. At this time, contrary to modern practice, the reed was placed in contact with the upper lip. Around the turn of the 18th century, the chalumeau was modified by converting one of its keys into a register key to produce the first clarinet. This development is usually attributed to German instrument maker Johann Christoph Denner, though some have suggested his son Jacob Denner was the inventor. This instrument", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "194433", "text": "Harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. There are many types of harmonica, including diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica is played by using the mouth (lips and tongue) to direct air into or out of one or more holes along a mouthpiece. Behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed. A harmonica reed is a flat elongated spring typically made of", "title": "Harmonica" }, { "id": "696328", "text": "nadaswaram and shehnai. They are typically not used in conjunction with a mouthpiece; rather the two reeds vibrate against each other. However, in the case of the crumhorn, bagpipes, and Rauschpfeife, a reed cap that contains an airway is placed over the reeds and blown without the reeds actually coming in contact with the player's mouth. Reed strengths are graded from hard to soft. The making of double reeds begins in the same way as how single reeds are made. The cane is collected from \"Arundo donax\", dried, processed and cut down to manageable sizes for reed-making. Similar to single", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "696327", "text": "needed, it is pulled from the warehouse and taken to the factory. Once at the factory, the cane is taken to the cutting department where it is cut into tubes. The tubes are graded by diameter and wall density. The tubes are then cut into \"splits\" which are transformed into reed blanks. The blanks are tapered and profiled using blades or CNC machines into reeds. After the reeds are completed, they are taken to a machine that grades them for strength. Double reeds are used on the oboe, oboe d'amore, English horn, bass oboe, Heckelphone, bassoon, contrabassoon, sarrusophone, shawm, bagpipes,", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "8307912", "text": "(the table) closest to the player's bottom lip. However, this was not always so: The earliest clarinetists would often place the reed on top of the mouthpiece. Bernhard Henrik Crusell was one of the first clarinetists of note to consistently place the reed against the bottom lip. Of particular note is Reginald Kell who was known for using a \"double embouchure\". This is a technique popular in the UK up to the 1960s, whereby the reed is placed against the lower lip, which covers the lower teeth—as in the single embouchure—and additionally, the upper lip is tucked in between the", "title": "Mouthpiece (woodwind)" }, { "id": "6553074", "text": "Single-reed instrument A single-reed instrument is a woodwind instrument that uses only one reed to produce sound. The very earliest single-reed instruments were documented in ancient Egypt, as well as the Middle East, Greece, and the Roman Empire. The earliest types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal reeds, where the vibrating reed is a tongue cut and shaped on the tube of cane. Much later, single-reed instruments started using heteroglottal reeds, where a reed is cut and separated from the tube of cane and attached to a mouthpiece of some sort. By contrast, in a double reed instrument (such as the", "title": "Single-reed instrument" }, { "id": "349909", "text": "Woodwind instruments (aerophones) produce sound by means of a vibrating column of air within the pipe. Holes along the pipe allow the player to control the length of the column of air, and hence the pitch. There are several ways of making the air column vibrate, and these ways define the subcategories of woodwind instruments. A player may blow across a mouth hole, as in a flute; into a mouthpiece with a single reed, as in a modern-day clarinet or saxophone; or a double reed, as in an oboe or bassoon. All three of these methods of tone production can", "title": "Renaissance music" }, { "id": "81304", "text": "sizes, from highest to lowest: EEE and BBB octocontra-alto and octocontrabass clarinets have also been built. There have also been soprano clarinets in C, A, and B with curved barrels and bells marketed under the names saxonette, claribel, and clariphon. Clarinet The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments. It has a single-reed mouthpiece, a straight cylindrical tube with an almost cylindrical bore, and a flared bell. A person who plays a clarinet is called a \"clarinetist\" (sometimes spelled \"clarinettist\"). While the similarity in sound between the earliest clarinets and the trumpet may", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "12266650", "text": "an abnormally high white blood level, is a common reaction to the infection. Streptococcal pharyngitis is most prevalent during colder seasons. Many marching bands play on cold nights at football games. Exposing musicians to such weather and bacterium may increase the likelihood of infection. Wooden reed care Due to their natural composition, cane musical reeds may hold bacteria or mold, which can affect one's health and the quality of sound produced. Some of the basic instruments that use reeds include the clarinet, saxophone, oboe and bassoon. Proper care of reeds will extend their longevity and control bacterial growth. Wooden reeds", "title": "Wooden reed care" }, { "id": "81257", "text": "each frequency (note) being produced. They will have an embouchure which places an even pressure across the reed by carefully controlling their lip muscles. The airflow will also be carefully controlled by using the strong stomach muscles (as opposed to the weaker and erratic chest muscles) and they will use the diaphragm to oppose the stomach muscles to achieve a tone softer than a forte rather than weakening the stomach muscle tension to lower air pressure. Their vocal tract will be shaped to resonate at frequencies associated with the tone being produced. Covering or uncovering the tone holes varies the", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "364271", "text": "parts written for baritone horn, bassoon, euphonium, string bass, trombone, or tuba. This can be useful if a band or orchestra lacks one of those instruments. Saxophone The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. Like the clarinet, saxophones have holes in the instrument which the player closes using a system of key mechanisms. When the player presses a key, a pad either covers a hole or lifts off a hole, lowering or raising the pitch,", "title": "Saxophone" }, { "id": "13430003", "text": "Reclam de xeremies The reclam de xeremies, also known as the xeremia bessona or xeremieta, is a double clarinet with two single reeds, traditionally found on the Balearic island of Ibiza, off the east coast of Spain. It consists of two cane tubes of equal length, bound together by cord and small pieces of lead to stabilise the tubes. On each tube are several finger holes, traditionally four in the front and one on the back, though in modern instruments the back hole is often omitted. At the top end of each cane a smaller piece of cane holding the", "title": "Reclam de xeremies" }, { "id": "131420", "text": "from a metal tube (oboe – staple) or placed on a bocal (bassoon, English horn). The reed is placed directly on the lips and then played like the double-lip embouchure described above. Compared to the single reed woodwinds, the reed is very small and subtle changes in the embouchure can have a dramatic effect on tuning, tone and pitch control. Embouchure Embouchure or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument. This includes shaping the lips to the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument or the mouthpiece of a brass instrument. The", "title": "Embouchure" }, { "id": "81270", "text": "lengths vary slightly. Additional compensation for pitch variation and tuning can be made by pulling out the barrel and thus increasing the instrument's length, particularly common in group playing in which clarinets are tuned to other instruments (such as in an orchestra or concert band). Some performers use a plastic barrel with a thumbwheel that adjusts the barrel length. On basset horns and lower clarinets, the barrel is normally replaced by a curved metal neck. The main body of most clarinets is divided into the \"upper joint\", the holes and most keys of which are operated by the left hand,", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "457300", "text": "the instrument to vibrate and produce its unique sound. Single reed instruments include the clarinet, saxophone, and others such as the chalumeau. Double-reed instruments use two precisely cut, small pieces of cane bound together at the base. This form of sound production has been estimated to have originated in the middle to late Neolithic period; its discovery has been attributed to the observation of wind blowing through a split rush. The finished, bound reed is inserted into the instrument and vibrates as air is forced between the two pieces (again, causing the air within the instrument to vibrate as well).", "title": "Woodwind instrument" }, { "id": "8050179", "text": "also combined pibgorn and pipes with Drum and Bass, Dub, and House styles. Ceri Rhys Matthews has recorded an album of music devoted solely to traditional music on unaccompanied pibgorn and drone called \"Pibddawns\" Pibgorn (instrument) The pibgorn is a Welsh species of idioglot reed aerophone. The name translates literally as \"pipe-horn\". It is also historically known as cornicyll and pib-corn. It utilises a single reed (Welsh: \"cal\", or \"calaf\"), cut from elder (\"Sambucus nigra\") or reed (\"Arundo phragmites\"), like that found in the drone of a bagpipe, which is an early form of the modern clarinet reed. The single", "title": "Pibgorn (instrument)" }, { "id": "16955308", "text": "Mock trumpet The mock trumpet is a single-reed woodwind instrument popular during the second half of the seventeenth century, especially in England. By the 1720s, the mock trumpet was documented in use in the New World. The mock trumpet predated the chalumeau and may be one of the primary predecessors of both the chalumeau and clarinet. Mock trumpets are keyless reed-pipes, closed on one end by the natural joint of the cane and wrapped in leather. The reed is idioglottal, meaning that it is a tongue cut but not detached from the reed itself. The reed was placed on the", "title": "Mock trumpet" }, { "id": "457302", "text": "pipe instruments since they use two or more double or single reeds. However, bagpipes are functionally the same as a capped double reed instruments since the reeds are never in direct contact with player's lips. Free reed aerophone instruments are likewise unique since sound is produced by 'free reeds' – small metal tongues arranged in rows within a metal or wooden frame. The airflow necessary for the instruments sound is generated either by a player's breath (e.g. harmonica), or by bellows (e.g. accordion). The modern orchestra's woodwind section typically includes: flutes, oboes, clarinets, and bassoons. The piccolo, cor anglais, bass", "title": "Woodwind instrument" }, { "id": "16733883", "text": "Woodwind section The woodwind section, which consists of woodwind instruments, is one of the main sections of an orchestra or concert band. Woodwind sections contain instruments given Hornbostel-Sachs classifications of 421 (edge-blown aerophones, commonly known as \"flutes\") and 422 (reed aerophones), but exclude 423 (brass instruments). The woodwind section of the late 19th-century symphony orchestra (for instance, in compositions by Wagner, Brahms, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, and Richard Strauss) typically includes: flutes (sometimes with one doubling piccolo), oboes (sometimes with one doubling cor anglais), clarinets (sometimes with one doubling bass clarinet and/or another doubling E-flat clarinet), bassoons (sometimes with one doubling contrabassoon).", "title": "Woodwind section" }, { "id": "18258841", "text": "Ever Buree The ever buree (Mongolian: эвэр бүрээ) is a Mongolian musical instrument, part of the clarinet family. Despite the fact that its name translates to \"horn - trumpet\", it has the timbre of a basset clarinet (a Bb clarinet which ranges down to a low C). In terms of construction, it is an almost cylindrical tube made of black ebony, curved in a circular manner to allow the bell of the instrument to slip underneath the player's right arm. A mouthpiece with a single reed is attached at the upper end of the tube. The keywork is made of", "title": "Ever Buree" }, { "id": "457301", "text": "This family of reed pipes is subdivided further into another two sub-families: exposed double reed, and capped double reed instruments. Exposed double-reed instruments are played by having the double reed directly between the player's lips. This family includes instruments such as the oboe, cor anglais (also called English horn) and bassoon, and many types of shawms throughout the world. On the other hand, Capped double-reed instruments have the double reed covered by a cap. The player blows through a hole in this cap that then directs the air through the reeds. This family includes the crumhorn. Bagpipes are unique reed", "title": "Woodwind instrument" }, { "id": "81251", "text": "The range of a clarinet can be divided into three distinct registers: All three registers have characteristically different sounds. The chalumeau register is rich and dark. The clarion register is brighter and sweet, like a trumpet (\"clarion\") heard from afar. The altissimo register can be piercing and sometimes shrill. Sound is a wave that propagates through the air as a result of a local variation in air pressure. The production of sound by a clarinet follows these steps: The cycle repeats at a frequency relative to how long it takes a wave to travel to the first open hole and", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "5268507", "text": "Bocal A bocal is a curved, tapered tube, which is an integral part of certain woodwind instruments, including double reed instruments such as the bassoon, contrabassoon, English horn, and oboe d'amore, as well as the larger recorders. In the double reed instruments, the bocal connects the reed to the rest of the instrument; in the case of larger recorders, the bocal directs air from the player's mouth to the fipple. Bocals can be made from a variety of metals, including nickel silver, brass, sterling silver, or even gold, and are covered at the lower end with a cork sleeve, allowing", "title": "Bocal" }, { "id": "6553075", "text": "oboe and bassoon), there is no mouthpiece; the two parts of the reed vibrate against one another. Reeds are traditionally made of cane and produce sound when air is blown across or through them. Most single-reed instruments are descended from single-reed idioglot instruments called 'memet', found in Egypt as early as 2700 BCE. Due to their fragility, no instruments from antiquity were preserved but iconographic evidence is prevalent. During the Old Kingdom in Egypt (2778–2723 BCE), memets were depicted on the reliefs of seven tombs at Saqqarra, six tombs at Giza, and the pyramids of Queen Khentkaus. Most memets were", "title": "Single-reed instrument" }, { "id": "696340", "text": "life from a reed, the reed should be soaked in water for 2 minutes or until fully moist, but not soaked. It should be played for about 5 minutes the first day, 15 minutes the second, and 45 minutes on a third. After this, it should continue to be soaked, but can be played as long as needed. Especially in musical theatre orchestras, woodwind players are commonly referred to as \"reed players\" or \"reeds\". These players are not restricted to one particular woodwind instrument group, but play (\"double on\") several different instruments. (Although the flutes are not reed instruments, they", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "3073282", "text": "Arghul The arghul (), also spelled argul, arghoul, arghool, argol, or yarghul (Israel), is a musical instrument. It has been used since Ancient Egyptian times and is still used as a traditional instrument in Egypt and Palestine. \"Modern Egyptians\".) Modern Arghul, 3 ft. 2½ in. long. The arghul is a double-pipe, single-reed woodwind instrument that consists of two tubes: a melody pipe with between five and seven holes and a longer drone (Arabic \"ardiyya\", \"ground\") pipe. Its tone is similar to that of a clarinet, although a bit more reed-like. Unlike the similar mijwiz, the arghul has fingering holes on", "title": "Arghul" }, { "id": "81252", "text": "back twice (i.e. four times the length of the pipe). For example: when all the holes bar the very top one are open (i.e. the trill 'B' key is pressed), the note A4 (440 Hz) is produced. This represents a repeat of the cycle 440 times per second. In addition to this primary compression wave, other waves, known as harmonics, are created. Harmonics are caused by factors including the imperfect wobbling and shaking of the reed, the reed sealing the mouthpiece opening for part of the wave cycle (which creates a flattened section of the sound wave), and imperfections (bumps", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "131417", "text": "from vibrating too much. With woodwinds, it is important to ensure that the mouthpiece is not placed too far into the mouth, which would result in too much vibration (no control), often creating a sound an octave (or harmonic twelfth for the clarinet) above the intended note. If the mouthpiece is not placed far enough into the mouth, no sound will be generated, as the reed will not vibrate. The standard embouchures for single reed woodwinds like the clarinet and saxophone are variants of the \"single lip embouchure\", formed by resting the reed upon the bottom lip, which rests on", "title": "Embouchure" }, { "id": "5268508", "text": "the bocal to fit tightly in the socket at the top of the instrument. More recently, at least one maker is producing bocals made of hardwood. The reed either fits directly on to the tapered end of the bocal (as with the bassoon) or is tied to a metal tube which fits to the bocal (as with the English horn). Bocal A bocal is a curved, tapered tube, which is an integral part of certain woodwind instruments, including double reed instruments such as the bassoon, contrabassoon, English horn, and oboe d'amore, as well as the larger recorders. In the double", "title": "Bocal" }, { "id": "6553076", "text": "double-clarinets, where two reed tubes were tied or glued together to form one instrument. Multiple pipes were used to reinforce sound or generate a strong beat-tone with slight variations in tuning among the pipes. One of the tubes usually functioned as a drone, but the design of these simple instruments varied endlessly. The entire reed entered the mouth, meaning that the player could not easily articulate so melodies were defined by quick movement of the fingers on the tone holes. These types of double-clarinets are still prevalent today, but also developed into simplified single-clarinets and hornpipes. Modern-day idioglots found in", "title": "Single-reed instrument" }, { "id": "5803820", "text": "construction to the fipple flutes but instead of a whistle mouthpiece, has a (usually) double reed, like the oboe. Hornpipes are instruments with one or more pipes that have single reeds that terminate in a resonator made of horn. Simple instruments may consist of little more than the reed, the pipe, and the resonator. More complex instruments may have multiple pipes held in a common yoke, multiple resonators, or horn mouthpieces to facilitate playing. They are known from a broad region extending from India in the east to Spain in the west that includes north Africa and most of Europe.", "title": "Pipe (instrument)" }, { "id": "19324406", "text": "Cassotto The Cassotto is an extended space on an accordion's treble. The Cassotto enclosure works as a passive frequency filter, attenuating higher frequencies and reinforcing lower ones (Resonance). Instruments with Cassotto have a sound quality distinctly different from instruments without. Usually only some reed blocks are placed in the cassotto enclosure, typically for low reed sets 16' and/or 8'. The remaining treble reed blocks are mounted straight. The firm Öllerer built a diatonic instrument with Cassotto without register switches and two 8' (M) reed sets. Making a Cassotto for diatonic instruments the Cassotto's quite more difficult due to the different", "title": "Cassotto" }, { "id": "81254", "text": "diameter of the bore affects characteristics such as available harmonics, timbre, and pitch stability (how far the player can bend a note in the manner required in jazz and other music). The bell at the bottom of the clarinet flares out to improve the tone and tuning of the lowest notes. Most modern clarinets have \"undercut\" tone holes that improve intonation and sound. Undercutting means chamfering the bottom edge of tone holes inside the bore. Acoustically, this makes the tone hole function as if it were larger, but its main function is to allow the air column to follow the", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "5932336", "text": "Rauschpfeife Rauschpfeife is a commonly used term for a specific type of capped conical reed musical instrument of the woodwind family, used in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In common with the crumhorn and cornamuse, it is a wooden double-reed instrument with the reed enclosed in a windcap. The player blows into a slot in the top of the windcap to produce the sound. This instrument, for reasons given below, should be more correctly referred to as \"Schreierpfeife.\" Rauschpfeifes (Schreierpfeiffen) differ from cornamusen mainly in the shape of the bore, which, like the shawm, is conical. This bore", "title": "Rauschpfeife" }, { "id": "696342", "text": "\"West Side Story\" woodwind section would require twelve \"classical\" players instead of five \"reed\" players.) Reed (mouthpiece) A reed is a thin strip of material which vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument. The reeds of most woodwind instruments are made from \"Arundo donax\" (\"Giant cane\") or synthetic material; tuned reeds (as in harmonicas and accordions) are made of metal or synthetics. Musical instruments may be classified according to the type and number of reeds used. The earliest types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal reeds, where the vibrating reed is a tongue cut and shaped on the tube", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "11984636", "text": "Dili tuiduk The dili tuiduk, дилли туйдук ( also dilli düdük, dilli tuyduk , dili tüidük, dilli tüidük ) is a Turkmen woodwind instrument. It is a clarinet-like, single-reed instrument used mainly in Turkmen folk music. Dilli-tuyduk These come in two kinds. In one, the reed end of the instrument is closed and in the other it is open. A reed is cut in the upper part of the pipe and 3 or 4 finger holes are cut on the upper part, at intervals of some 5-6mm. Its range is a 6thor 7th, from about fa in the first octave", "title": "Dili tuiduk" }, { "id": "8307919", "text": "assembly or lip rest used in some European double-reed instruments, including the piffero, shawm and rackett. In band shawms, it is carried on the staple on which the reed is mounted On the European shawm, the pirouette replaces the loose disc of the oriental surna, presumably to secure lip-control over the cane reed. The player presses his lips against the pirouette while holding the reed in his mouth. This permits control of the reed by the lips without appreciably affecting the amplitude of its vibration. Mouthpiece (woodwind) The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which", "title": "Mouthpiece (woodwind)" }, { "id": "10349447", "text": "Slap tonguing In music, the term slap tonguing refers to a musician playing a single-reed instrument such as a clarinet or a saxophone employing a technique to produce a popping sound along with the note. The sound is created as a result of the release of suction in the mouth and the popping sound that the reed produces which amplifies as it travels through the horn. To create this effect, lay your tongue against a lot of the reed. Gently push upward so that the tip and rail of the reed is closed. Get rid of as much air in", "title": "Slap tonguing" }, { "id": "7647517", "text": "Adjusting the reed with the string is the way to tune. The instrument's range is greater than its six finger holes would suggest, the upper registers can be attained by particular approach to breathing. Sipsi The sipsi () is a clarinet-like, single-reed instrument used mainly in folk music and native to the native to the Aegean region of Turkey. The word \"sipsi\" is possibly onomatopoeic and . The sipsi can be made of bone, wood, or reed, though the reed variant is most common. Its size varies from region to region, but it generally contains five finger holes in the", "title": "Sipsi" }, { "id": "5029933", "text": "Sordulina and the zampogna \"a moderna\", both of which are found in Calabria. In the province of Messina, in the local dialect, the single blade can reed mounted in the instrument's chanters and drones is called a \"zammara.\" In the island of Ibiza, in the Balearic Islands of Spain, there is the \"reclam de xeremies\". Basque Country has the \"alboka\". Double clarinet The term double clarinet refers to any of several woodwind instruments consisting of two parallel pipes made of cane, bird bone, or metal, played simultaneously, with a single reed for each. Commonly, there are five or six tone", "title": "Double clarinet" }, { "id": "43283", "text": "repertoire. The bassoon is part of the standard wind quintet instrumentation, along with the flute, oboe, clarinet, and horn; it is also frequently combined in various ways with other woodwinds. Richard Strauss's \"Duet-Concertino\" pairs it with the clarinet as \"concertante\" instruments, with string orchestra in support. An ensemble known as the \"reed quintet\" also makes use of the bassoon. A reed quintet is made up of an oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bass clarinet, and bassoon. The bassoon quartet has also gained favor in recent times. The bassoon's wide range and variety of tone colors make it well suited to grouping in", "title": "Bassoon" }, { "id": "696325", "text": "All single reeds are shaped similarly but vary in size to fit each instrument's mouthpiece. Reeds designed for the same instrument may look identical to each other, but may vary in thickness (\"hardness\" or \"strength\"). Hardness is generally measured on a scale of 1 through 5 from softest to hardest. This is not a standardized scale and reed strengths vary by manufacturer. The thickness of the tip and heel and the profile in between affect the sound and playability. Cane of different grades (density, stiffness), even if cut with the same profile, will also respond differently.This is due to the", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "7118899", "text": "classical music which is modeled after the success of the Vandoren V12 reed for clarinet. Then from 2016 the V21 reeds, a versatile model for various styles of music.<http://www.vandoren-en.com/file/187077/> Vandoren has a large range of accessories for clarinet and saxophone: these include ligatures, reed cases, cleaning swabs, mouthpiece cushions and cork grease, and even instrument harnesses and neck straps. Some other accessories include mouthpiece pouches, reed trimmers and reed resurfacers. Saxophone and Clarinet Ligatures Vandoren produces a wide range of ligatures for clarinet and saxophone players. They are made from materials such as metal, leather, and woven materials. These ligatures", "title": "Vandoren" }, { "id": "9525837", "text": "up to an octave plus a note. The bell is shaped from a section of horn, wood or sometimes rolled bark, and may have tuning holes or decorative work. This class of instrument comprises the ancient predecessors to our modern cylindrically bored reed instruments, such as the clarinet. Hornpipe (instrument) The hornpipe can refer to a specific instrument or a class of woodwind instruments consisting of a single reed, a small diameter melody pipe with finger holes and a bell traditionally made from animal horn. Additionally, a reed cap of animal horn may be placed around the reed to contain", "title": "Hornpipe (instrument)" }, { "id": "696332", "text": "include an archetypal instrument from India, the Shehnai, as well as the Pi from Thailand, and the Cambodian Sralai. Having four reeds instead of two produces a very different tone and set of harmonics. There are two types of free reeds: framed and unframed. Framed free reeds are used on ancient Asian instruments such as the Chinese shēng, Japanese shō, and Laotian khene, and modern European instruments such as the harmonium or reed organ (consisting of reed pipes), harmonica, concertina, bandoneón, accordion, and Russian bayan. The reed is made from cane, willow, brass or steel, and is enclosed in a", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "696331", "text": "a mandrel for bassoon reeds. Bassoon reeds are wrapped with nylon thread or cotton thread, depending on the musician's preference. Oboe reeds are most commonly tied with nylon thread. Finishing both bassoon and oboe reeds requires the reed-maker to scrape along the cane section of the reed with a scraping knife to specific dimensions and lengths depending on the reed style and the musician's preference. Bassoon and oboe reeds are finished when the reeds play in tune or can make a sufficient \"crow\"-like noise. Quadruple reed instruments have four reeds, two on top and two on bottom. Examples of this", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" }, { "id": "7647515", "text": "Sipsi The sipsi () is a clarinet-like, single-reed instrument used mainly in folk music and native to the native to the Aegean region of Turkey. The word \"sipsi\" is possibly onomatopoeic and . The sipsi can be made of bone, wood, or reed, though the reed variant is most common. Its size varies from region to region, but it generally contains five finger holes in the front, and one finger hole in the back. The sipsi is one of many reed instruments in Turkey used to play lead melodies in instrumental folk music. It is generally played in the Western", "title": "Sipsi" }, { "id": "81253", "text": "and holes) in the bore. A wide variety of compression waves are created, but only some (primarily the odd harmonics) are reinforced. These extra waves are what gives the clarinet its characteristic tone. The bore is cylindrical for most of the tube with an inner bore diameter between , but there is a subtle hourglass shape, with the thinnest part below the junction between the upper and lower joint. The reduction is depending on the maker. This hourglass shape, although invisible to the naked eye, helps to correct the pitch/scale discrepancy between the chalumeau and clarion registers (perfect twelfth). The", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "81274", "text": "both based on the early Mueller system. The cluster of keys at the bottom of the upper joint (protruding slightly beyond the cork of the joint) are known as the \"trill keys\" and are operated by the right hand. These give the player alternative fingerings that make it easy to play ornaments and trills. The entire weight of the smaller clarinets is supported by the right thumb behind the lower joint on what is called the \"thumb-rest\". Basset horns and larger clarinets are supported with a neck strap or a floor peg. Finally, the flared end is known as the", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "4298238", "text": "Alboka The Basque alboka (albogue), is a single-reed woodwind instrument consisting of a single reed, two small diameter melody pipes with finger holes and a bell traditionally made from animal horn. Additionally, a reed cap of animal horn is placed around the reed to contain the breath and allow circular breathing for constant play. In basque language alboka player have the name \"albokari\". Although native to the Basque region, similar instruments can be found around Spain including Madrid (gaita serrana), Asturias (turullu), and Castile and Andalusia (gaita gastorena), but in those cases they only have a single pipe. The name", "title": "Alboka" }, { "id": "2763676", "text": "member of the clarinet family in regular use, larger than the more common bass clarinet but not as large as the B contrabass clarinet. Like other clarinets, the contra-alto clarinet is a wind instrument that uses a reed to produce sound. The keys of the contra-alto are similar to the keys on smaller clarinets, and are played in the same way. Some contra-alto clarinet models have a range extending down to low (written) E, sounding as the lowest G on the piano (aka G), while others can play down to low C. The earliest contra-alto clarinets were developed in the", "title": "Contrabass clarinet" }, { "id": "695752", "text": "Melodica The melodica, also known as the pianica, blow-organ, key harmonica, free-reed clarinet, face piano or melodyhorn, is a free-reed instrument similar to the pump organ and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole, allowing air to flow through a reed. The keyboard is usually two or three octaves long. Melodicas are small, light, and portable. They are popular in music education, especially in Asia. The modern form of the instrument was invented", "title": "Melodica" }, { "id": "81247", "text": "often the same barrel) (see 'usage' below). The A and B have nearly identical tonal quality, although the A typically has a slightly warmer sound. The tone of the E clarinet is brighter and can be heard even through loud orchestral or concert band textures. The bass clarinet has a characteristically deep, mellow sound, while the alto clarinet is similar in tone to the bass (though not as dark). Clarinets have the largest pitch range of common woodwinds. The intricate key organization that makes this possible can make the playability of some passages awkward. The bottom of the clarinet's written", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "81245", "text": "German \"Klarinette\". According to Johann Gottfried Walther, writing in 1732, the reason for the name is that \"it sounded from far off not unlike a trumpet\". The English form \"clarinet\" is found as early as 1733, and the now-archaic \"clarionet\" appears from 1784 until the early years of the 20th century. The cylindrical bore is primarily responsible for the clarinet's distinctive timbre, which varies between its three main registers, known as the \"chalumeau\", \"clarion\", and \"altissimo\". The tone quality can vary greatly with the clarinetist, music, instrument, mouthpiece, and reed. The differences in instruments and geographical isolation of clarinetists led", "title": "Clarinet" }, { "id": "19324410", "text": "than others, over 1000 Hz everything will be rather subdued. The sound effects of the Cassottos can be described as: Cassotto The Cassotto is an extended space on an accordion's treble. The Cassotto enclosure works as a passive frequency filter, attenuating higher frequencies and reinforcing lower ones (Resonance). Instruments with Cassotto have a sound quality distinctly different from instruments without. Usually only some reed blocks are placed in the cassotto enclosure, typically for low reed sets 16' and/or 8'. The remaining treble reed blocks are mounted straight. The firm Öllerer built a diatonic instrument with Cassotto without register switches and", "title": "Cassotto" }, { "id": "891504", "text": "small metal tube (the staple) partially covered in cork, there is no such cork on a cor anglais reed, which fits directly on the bocal. The cane part of the reed is wider and longer than that of the oboe. Unlike American style oboe reeds, cor anglais reeds typically have wire at the base, approximately from the top of the string used to attach the cane to the staple. This wire serves to hold the two blades of cane together and stabilize tone and pitch. Perhaps the best-known makers of modern cors anglais are the French firms of F. Lorée,", "title": "Cor anglais" }, { "id": "1835282", "text": "rebel-held Crater district by their pipe major playing the regimental marches. The Great Highland bagpipe is classified as a woodwind instrument, like the bassoon, oboe, and clarinet. Although it is further classified as a double-reed instrument, the reeds are all closed inside the wooden \"stocks\", instead of being played directly by mouth as most other woodwinds are. The Great Highland bagpipe actually has four reeds: the chanter reed (double), two tenor drone reeds (single), and one bass drone reed (single). A modern set has a bag, a chanter, a blowpipe, two tenor drones, and one bass drone. The scale of", "title": "Great Highland bagpipe" }, { "id": "13530695", "text": "to a resonant chamber (resonator). The resonator is typically a long cylindrical or conical tube, open at the far end. A pulse of high pressure from the valve will travel down the tube at the speed of sound. It will be reflected from the open end as a return pulse of low pressure. Under suitable conditions, the valve will reflect the pulse back, with increased energy, until a standing wave forms in the tube. Reed instruments such as the clarinet or oboe have a flexible reed or reeds at the mouthpiece, forming a pressure-controlled valve. An increase in pressure inside", "title": "Wind instrument" }, { "id": "6639058", "text": "a compound word, from kalamos (cane) + avlos (flute). At the time, the best cane for flutes came from the banks of river Kephissos, in Attica, Greece. Several kalamavlos tuned differently and tied together, made a syrinx or Panpipes. \"A. donax\" is still the principal source material of reed makers for clarinets, saxophones, oboes, bassoons, bagpipes, and other woodwind instruments. The Var country in southern France contains the best-known supply of instrument reeds. Additionally, giant reed has been used to make flutes for over 5,000 years. The pan pipes consist of ten or more pipes made from the cane. Also,", "title": "Arundo donax" }, { "id": "696329", "text": "reed production, the cane is separated into various diameters. The most common diameters for American-style oboe reeds are as follows: , , and . Many American oboists prefer a specific diameter at one time of the year and a different diameter at other times, depending on the season and the weather. The tubes are then split into three equal parts. Special attention is made to pick the pieces that are not warped. If a piece of tube cane is warped and made into a reed, the reed will not vibrate consistently on both sides, thus affecting the finished sound quality.", "title": "Reed (mouthpiece)" } ]

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[ { "id": "20659850", "text": "cross with the crucified Jesus silhouetted in profile on a rock atop a mountain, surrounded by fir trees below. The cross, facing toward the sun, reaches the highest point in the picture but is presented obliquely and from a distance. The pictorial space is almost two-dimensional, and by lacking any foreground element, the scene feels distant from the viewer and at a great height. The light from behind the cross darkens the part of the mountain that we see. The low sun may be rising or setting; its five stylized rays travel upward, and one creates a gleam on Christ,", "title": "Cross in the Mountains" }, { "id": "12789171", "text": "a wild African lion whose eyes make hunting impossible. Dr. Tracey and Paula take him in and adopt him as a new member of the wildlife preserve. Clarence later saves the day when Julie Harper (Betsy Drake) and her research monkeys are threatened by poachers. The film was followed by the TV series \"Daktari\" with Marshall Thompson and Cheryl Miller reprising their film roles. Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion is a 1965 film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Marshall Thompson and Betsy Drake. The movie was shot at Soledad Canyon near Los Angeles, California, and in", "title": "Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion" }, { "id": "19753137", "text": "has its roots in aerial photography and aerial reconnaissance image interpretation. No special glasses, filters, colored lens or other apparatus are required to employ the Van Hare Effect. Simply by utilizing the cross-eyed viewing technique, the resulting pair of identical images are seen in three-dimensions, even if there are no stereoscopic differences based on the interstitial distance included in the image being viewed. The cross-eyed viewing method, in traditional stereoscopy, swaps the left and right eye images so that they will be correctly seen cross-eyed, the left eye viewing the image on the right and vice versa. A fused three-dimensional", "title": "Van Hare Effect" }, { "id": "11058163", "text": "Fundus photography Fundus photography involves capturing a photograph of the back of the eye i.e. fundus. Specialized fundus cameras that consist of an intricate microscope attached to a flash enabled camera are used in fundus photography. The main structures that can be visualized on a fundus photo are the central and peripheral retina, optic disc and macula. Fundus photography can be performed with colored filters, or with specialized dyes including fluorescein and indocyanine green.The models and technology of fundus photography has advanced and evolved rapidly over the last century. Since the equipments are sophisticated and challenging to manufacture to clinical", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "2941125", "text": "Types include esotropia where the eyes are crossed (\"cross eyed\"); exotropia where the eyes diverge (\"lazy eyed\" or \"wall eyed\"); and hypertropia where they are vertically misaligned. They can also be classified by whether the problem is present in all directions a person looks (comitant) or varies by direction (incomitant). Diagnosis may be made by observing the light reflecting from the person's eyes and finding that it is not centered on the pupil. Another condition that produces similar symptoms is a cranial nerve disease. Treatment depends on the type of strabismus and the underlying cause. This may include the use", "title": "Strabismus" }, { "id": "12789170", "text": "Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion is a 1965 film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Marshall Thompson and Betsy Drake. The movie was shot at Soledad Canyon near Los Angeles, California, and in Miami, Florida, and became the basis for the television series \"Daktari\". Animal doctors fight to protect the wildlife of Africa. An adventurous and fearless girl Paula Tracey (Cheryl Miller) is the daughter of veterinarian Dr. Marsh Tracey (Marshall Thompson), the director of the animal hospital in East Africa. While studying the wildlife and caring for the injured animals and endangered species, they find Clarence,", "title": "Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion" }, { "id": "2832951", "text": "white or have white spots. A white glow in the eye is often seen in photographs taken with a flash, instead of the typical \"red eye\" from the flash, and the pupil may appear white or distorted. Other symptoms can include crossed eyes, double vision, eyes that do not align, eye pain and redness, poor vision or differing iris colors in each eye. If the cancer has spread, bone pain and other symptoms may occur. Cone cell Cone cells, or cones, are one of 3 types of photoreceptor cells in the retina of mammalian eyes (e.g. the human eye). They", "title": "Cone cell" }, { "id": "90505", "text": "Cross-examination In law, cross-examination is the interrogation of a witness called by one's opponent. It is preceded by direct examination (in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, India and Pakistan known as examination-in-chief) and may be followed by a redirect (re-examination in England, Scotland, Australia, Canada, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, and Pakistan). Redirect examination, performed by the attorney or pro se individual who performed the direct examination, clarifies the witness' testimony provided during cross-examination including any subject matter raised during cross-examination but not discussed during direct examination. Recross examination addresses the witness' testimony discussed in redirect by the", "title": "Cross-examination" }, { "id": "3959770", "text": "through the slit lamp when combined with special lenses. These lenses include the Goldmann 3-mirror lens, gonioscopy single-mirror/ Zeiss 4-mirror lens for (ocular) anterior chamber angle structures and +90D lens, +78D lens, +66D lens & Hruby (-56D) lens, the examination of retinal structures is accomplished. Intraocular pressure (IOP) can be measured by Tonometry devices. The eye can be thought of as an enclosed compartment through which there is a constant circulation of fluid that maintains its shape and internal pressure. Tonometry is a method of measuring this pressure using various instruments. The normal range is 10-21 mmHg. Examination of retina", "title": "Eye examination" }, { "id": "2821284", "text": "right eye, allowing us to reconstruct the original object via binocular disparity. When viewed with the proper vergence, an autostereogram does the same, the binocular disparity existing in adjacent parts of the repeating 2D patterns. There are two ways an autostereogram can be viewed: \"wall-eyed\" and \"cross-eyed\". Most autostereograms (including those in this article) are designed to be viewed in only one way, which is usually wall-eyed. Wall-eyed viewing requires that the two eyes adopt a relatively parallel angle, while cross-eyed viewing requires a relatively convergent angle. An image designed for wall-eyed viewing if viewed correctly will appear to pop", "title": "Autostereogram" }, { "id": "90506", "text": "opponent. Depending on the judge's discretion, opponents are allowed multiple opportunities to redirect and recross examine witnesses (may vary by jurisdiction). In the United States federal Courts, a cross-examining attorney is typically not permitted to ask questions that do not pertain to the testimony offered during direct examination, but most state courts do permit a lawyer to cross-examine a witness on matters not raised during direct examination. Similarly, courts in England, South Africa, Australia, and Canada allow a cross-examiner to exceed the scope of direct examination. Since a witness called by the opposing party is presumed to be hostile, cross-examination", "title": "Cross-examination" }, { "id": "1584697", "text": "from out to in, the person has exotropia. If it moved from in to out, the person has esotropia. People with exotropia or esotropia are wall-eyed or cross-eyed respectively. These are forms of strabismus that can be accompanied by amblyopia. There are numerous definitions of amblyopia. A definition that incorporates all of these defines amblyopia as a unilateral condition in which vision in worse than 20/20 in the absence of any obvious structural or pathologic anomalies, but with one or more of the following conditions occurring before the age of six: amblyogenic anisometropia, constant unilateral esotropia or exotropia, amblyogenic bilateral", "title": "Binocular vision" }, { "id": "11058187", "text": "advanced anti reflection coatings eliminate glare. The low cost device has given doctors an invaluable diagnostic and imaging tool Ullman Indirect An iPhone app was released in 2017 that allows users to manually control focus, exposure, and torch intensity to better capture fundus photographs. The app is free to download and designed to enhance both the quality and convenience of smartphone fundus photography. The official website can be found at UllmanIndirect.com (http://www.UllmanIndirect.com) Fundus photography Fundus photography involves capturing a photograph of the back of the eye i.e. fundus. Specialized fundus cameras that consist of an intricate microscope attached to a", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "2941138", "text": "cross. During an eye examination, a test such as cover testing or the Hirschberg test is used in the diagnosis and measurement of strabismus and its impact on vision. Retinal birefringence scanning can be used for screening of young children for eye misaligments. Several classifications are made when diagnosing strabismus. Strabismus can be manifest (\"-tropia\") or latent (\"-phoria\"). A manifest deviation, or heterotropia (which may be \"eso-\", \"exo-\", \"hyper-\", \"hypo-\", \"cyclotropia\" or a combination of these), is present while the patient views a target binocularly, with no occlusion of either eye. The patient is unable to align the gaze of", "title": "Strabismus" }, { "id": "19753136", "text": "the cross-eyed viewing technique, the viewer may have further trained their brain in a manner that enhances the Van Hare Effect. The knowledge of visual interpretation from the cross-eyed technique then is more readily applied when viewing identical image pairs instead of stereoscopic image pairs. A regular, two-dimensional image is all that is needed. The viewer prepares two prints of the identical image and these are placed side-by-side, horizontally, and close together. The pair of identical images are then viewed with the cross-eyed viewing method, the same as one would use in interpreting stereoscopic image pairs. The cross-eyed viewing method", "title": "Van Hare Effect" }, { "id": "11058182", "text": "stereo fundus cameras, which are able to provide three dimensional images by superimposing two images, most fundus cameras in circulation are only able to provide two dimensional images of the fundus. This limitation currently prevents the technology from superseding the current gold standard which is indirect binocular ophthalmoscopy. The following are some of the advantages and disadvantages of fundus photography: Fundus photography has been crucial in diagnosing and treating patients in Ophthalmology (especially retinal conditions such as Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy) since the 1920s. Fluorescein angiography has been crucial to Ophthalmology since the late 1950s. While OCT imaging has", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "1508810", "text": "and defective abduction, which develops as a consequence of the tendency of those with infantile esotropia to 'cross fixate.' Cross fixation involves the use of the right eye to look to the left and the left eye to look to the right; a visual pattern that will be 'natural' for the person with the large angle esotropia whose eye is already deviated towards the opposing side. The origin of the condition is unknown, and its early onset means that the affected individual's potential for developing binocular vision is limited. The appropriate treatment approach remains a matter of some debate. Some", "title": "Esotropia" }, { "id": "11058181", "text": "The retina consists of ten semi-transparent layers that serve specific functions in the process of visual perception. Fundus photography provides a bird’s-eye view of the top most layer, the inner limiting membrane, as well as the other underlying layers. As retinal abnormalities often begin in a particular layer of the retina before encroaching into the other layers (such as the formation of cotton wool spots in the nerve fiber layer), it is important to be able to appreciate depth when examining a fundus in order to provide an accurate diagnosis. However, despite recent advancements in technology and the development of", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "11058177", "text": "to study a patient's retina, detect retinal changes and review a patient's retinal findings with a coworker. Fundus photographs are routinely called upon in a wide variety of ophthalmic conditions. Fundus photography is used to inspect anomalies associated to diseases that affect the eye and to monitor the progression of the disease. It is vital for disease processes such as macular degeneration, retinal neoplasms, choroid disturbances and diabetic retinopathy. Additionally it aids in identifying glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, and other central nervous system abnormalities. It evaluates irregularities in the fundus, monitors the progression of a disease, management and therapeutic outcome. They", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "8418203", "text": "the eye was exotropic, covering the fixating eye will cause an inwards movement; and esotropic if covering the fixating eye will cause an outwards movement. The alternating cover test, or cross cover test is used to detect total deviation (tropia + phoria). The cover test is regarded as an essential examination in investigating strabismus. It is simple to undertake, does not require great amounts of skill by the examiner and is objective in nature. To ensure that the test is executed accurately and that the maximal amount of information is obtained, it is paramount that the appropriate fixation targets are", "title": "Cover test" }, { "id": "2633373", "text": "eye reflex. Other signs and symptoms include deterioration of vision, a red and irritated eye with glaucoma, and faltering growth or delayed development. Some children with retinoblastoma can develop a squint, commonly referred to as \"cross-eyed\" or \"wall-eyed\" (strabismus). Retinoblastoma presents with advanced disease in developing countries and eye enlargement is a common finding. Depending on the position of the tumors, they may be visible during a simple eye exam using an ophthalmoscope to look through the pupil. A positive diagnosis is usually made only with an examination under anesthetic (). A white eye reflection is not always a positive", "title": "Retinoblastoma" }, { "id": "338246", "text": "child pornography and less commonly pornography overall. These laws vary greatly between jurisdictions. Photograph A photograph (also known as a photo) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. The word \"photograph\" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and", "title": "Photograph" }, { "id": "3959767", "text": "preferred to the \"wiggly finger test\" that was historically used because it represents a rapid and efficient way of answering the same question: is the peripheral visual field affected? Common problems of the visual field include scotoma (area of reduced vision), hemianopia (half of visual field lost), homonymous hemianopsia and bitemporal hemianopia. External examination of eyes consists of inspection of the eyelids, surrounding tissues and palpebral fissure. Palpation of the orbital rim may also be desirable, depending on the presenting signs and symptoms. The conjunctiva and sclera can be inspected by having the individual look up, and shining a light", "title": "Eye examination" }, { "id": "18352818", "text": "the line, allowing simultaneous perception to be observed. With both eyes, the patient should see a cross. This test is minimally dissociative for the assessment of retinal correspondence. Apart from testing binocular functions, Bagolini striated glasses can measure cyclotropia . The principle of the test is similar to that of double Maddox rod test. The glasses are placed in the trial frames with the striations vertical, giving rise to two horizontal line images when viewing a spotlight. If the patient has a vertical deviation, the lines will be seen one above the other. If there is little or no vertical", "title": "Bagolini Striated Glasses Test" }, { "id": "6200987", "text": "often places the vantage point only a few feet (a meter or two) above human height. See top-down perspective. Recent technological and networking developments have made satellite images more accessible. Microsoft Bing Maps offers direct overhead satellite photos of the entire planet but also offers a feature named Bird's eye view in some locations. The \"Bird's Eye\" photos are angled at 40 degrees rather than being straight down. Satellite imaging programs and photos have been described as offering a viewer the opportunity to \"fly over\" and observe the world from this specific angle. In filmmaking and video production, a bird's-eye", "title": "Bird's-eye view" }, { "id": "3114819", "text": "the lens attempts to focus (far acuity), or at a defined reading distance (near acuity). A reference value above which visual acuity is considered normal is called 6/6 vision, the USC equivalent of which is 20/20 vision: At 6 meters or 20 feet, a human eye with that performance is able to separate contours that are approximately 1.75 mm apart. Vision of 6/12 corresponds to lower, vision of 6/3 to better performance. Normal individuals have an acuity of 6/4 or better (depending on age and other factors). In the expression 6/x vision, the numerator (6) is the distance in meters", "title": "Visual acuity" }, { "id": "20659853", "text": "on the cliff is expressed... the outer silhouette is completely exact\"—but this was a criticism, given the viewer's distant location: \"in order to see the mountain simultaneously with the sky in this relation, [Friedrich] would have had to stand several thousand paces away, on the same level with the mountain and in such a way that the line of the horizon parallels the mountain. From such a distance he would not have been able to see any detail.\" The gilded frame, designed by Friedrich and formed by the sculptor , includes other Christian iconography. At the base, the Eye of", "title": "Cross in the Mountains" }, { "id": "11058171", "text": "a digital CCD. Because of the eye’s tendency to accommodate while looking though a telescope, it is imperative that the exiting vergence is parallel in order for an in focus image to be formed on the capturing medium. Practical instruments for fundus photography perform the following modes of examination: Artifact errors in fundus images are captured through the improper setting up and alignment of the patient, examiner and the fundus camera. Patient cooperation and attitude are crucial to minimise artifacts. The clinician must ensure that the patient has understood the instruction. They must also correctly align, set the camera controls", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "3909250", "text": "the eye is moved back to the point where it first saw the train (through a saccade). The adjustment to close-range vision involves three processes to focus an image on the retina. When a creature with binocular vision looks at an object, the eyes must rotate around a vertical axis so that the projection of the image is in the centre of the retina in both eyes. To look at a nearby object, the eyes rotate 'towards each other' (convergence), while for an object farther away they rotate 'away from each other' (divergence). Lenses cannot refract light rays at their", "title": "Human eye" }, { "id": "18945552", "text": "imaging. This makes the method more robust, but numerical values are not available. On the other hand, this may result in a better spatial resolution. The displays most commonly used, are Bull's eye (reconstructed from multiple apical planes), which displays all parts of the left ventricle simultaneously, but only at one point in time. This is useful for either mid systolic strain rate or end systolic strain. Inhomogeneous strain rate or strain, representing regions with reduced contractility are often very evident visually. Curved anatomical M-mode from either one wall, or both walls simultaneously, gives a space-time diagram of the deformation,", "title": "Strain rate imaging" }, { "id": "6044923", "text": "Windows Photo Viewer Windows Photo Viewer (formerly Windows Picture and Fax Viewer) is an image viewer included with the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was first included with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 under its former name. It was temporarily replaced with Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista, but has been reinstated in Windows 7. This program succeeds Imaging for Windows. In Windows 10, it is deprecated in favor of a Universal Windows Platform app called Photos, although it can be brought back with a registry tweak. Windows Photo Viewer can show individual pictures, display all pictures", "title": "Windows Photo Viewer" }, { "id": "1904619", "text": "head-to-foot (craniocaudal, CC) view and angled side-view (mediolateral oblique, MLO) images of the breast are taken. Diagnostic mammography may include these and other views, including geometrically magnified and spot-compressed views of the particular area of concern. Deodorant, talcum powder or lotion may show up on the X-ray as calcium spots, so women are discouraged from applying them on the day of their exam. There are two types of mammogram studies: screening mammograms and diagnostic mammograms. Screening mammograms, consisting of four standard X-ray images, are performed yearly on patients who presents with no symptoms. Diagnostic mammograms are reserved for patients with", "title": "Mammography" }, { "id": "7845357", "text": "Note that all of these conditions are also seen in PET scans using the gallium-68. The main (Ga) technique uses scintigraphy to produce two-dimensional images. After the tracer has been injected, images are typically taken by a gamma camera at 24, 48, and in some cases, 72, and 96 hours later. Each set of images takes 30–60 minutes, depending on the size of the area being imaged. The resulting image will have bright areas that collected large amounts of tracer, because inflammation is present or rapid cell division is occurring. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images may also be", "title": "Gallium scan" }, { "id": "614811", "text": "CT scan A CT scan, also known as computed tomography scan, and formerly known as a computerized axial tomography scan or CAT scan, makes use of computer-processed combinations of many X-ray measurements taken from different angles to produce cross-sectional (tomographic) images (virtual \"slices\") of specific areas of a scanned object, allowing the user to see inside the object without cutting. Digital geometry processing is used to further generate a three-dimensional volume of the inside of the object from a large series of two-dimensional radiographic images taken around a single axis of rotation. Medical imaging is the most common application of", "title": "CT scan" }, { "id": "3959755", "text": "Eye examination An eye examination is a series of tests performed by an ophthalmologist (medical doctor), optometrist, or orthoptist assessing vision and ability to focus on and discern objects, as well as other tests and examinations pertaining to the eyes. Health care professionals often recommend that all people should have periodic and thorough eye examinations as part of routine primary care, especially since many eye diseases are asymptomatic. Eye examinations may detect potentially treatable blinding eye diseases, ocular manifestations of systemic disease, or signs of tumours or other anomalies of the brain. Ideally, the eye examination consists of an external", "title": "Eye examination" }, { "id": "8228421", "text": "Born Cross-Eyed \"Born Cross-Eyed\" is an original composition by the San Francisco psychedelic rock group the Grateful Dead. It was written by rhythm guitarist Bob Weir during the band's sessions creating the album \"Anthem of the Sun\", produced by David Hassinger, in 1968. It was released as a B-side with the single \"Dark Star\", one of the band's best-known musical excursions. The single was first released in April 1968 by Warner Bros. Records and is a different mix than the version included on the \"Anthem of the Sun\" album. The single was re-released in the UK in 1977 as a", "title": "Born Cross-Eyed" }, { "id": "3909238", "text": "gaze is directed) varies by facial anatomy, but is typically 30° superior (up, limited by the brow), 45° nasal (limited by the nose), 70° inferior (down), and 100° temporal (towards the temple). For both eyes combined (binocular) visual field is 135° vertical and 200° horizontal. When viewed at large angles from the side, the iris and pupil may still be visible by the viewer, indicating the person has peripheral vision possible at that angle. About 15° temporal and 1.5° below the horizontal is the blind spot created by the optic nerve nasally, which is roughly 7.5° high and 5.5° wide.", "title": "Human eye" }, { "id": "11058175", "text": "retinal or eyeball, etc. In patients with diabetes mellitus, regular fundus screening examinations (once every 6 months to 1 year) are important to screen for diabetic retinopathy as visual loss due to diabetes can be prevented by retinal laser treatment if retinopathy is spotted early. Besides the prevalent ocular condition/diseases, fundus photography can also be used to monitor individuals on anti-malarial therapy, by noting the changes in the fundus during standard screening. Fundus photography is also used in emergency cases including patients with constant headaches, diastolic pressure greater than or equal to 120mmHg and patients with sudden visual loss. In", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "338228", "text": "Photograph A photograph (also known as a photo) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. The word \"photograph\" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (\"\"), meaning \"light\", and γραφή (\"graphê\"), meaning", "title": "Photograph" }, { "id": "8418201", "text": "Cover test A cover test or \"cover-uncover test\" is an objective determination of the presence and amount of ocular deviation. It is typically performed by orthoptists, ophthalmologists and optometrists during eye examinations. The two primary types of cover tests are: The test involves having the patient (typically a child) focusing on a near object. A cover is placed over an eye for a short moment then removed while observing both eyes for movement. The misaligned eye will deviate inwards or outwards. The process is repeated on both eyes and then with the child focusing on a distant object. The cover", "title": "Cover test" }, { "id": "3582390", "text": "of the film, which was shot in a mere three weeks on a budget of under $300,000, as a miracle. The movie was notable for its use of visual effects to portray Dr. Xavier's point of view. While crude by later standards, the visuals are still effective in impressing upon the audience the bizarre viewpoint of the protagonist. Dr. Xavier develops eyedrops intended to increase the range of human vision, allowing one to see beyond the \"visible\" spectrum into the ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths and beyond. Believing that testing on animals and volunteers will produce uselessly subjective observations, he tests", "title": "X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes" }, { "id": "2635682", "text": "viewers uncertain as to what they are seeing. Close-ups are rarely done with wide-angle lenses, because perspective causes objects in the center of the picture to be unnaturally enlarged. This may convey a sense of confusion, intoxication, or other unusual mental state. There are various degrees of close-up depending on how tight (zoomed in) the shot is. The terminology varies between countries and even different companies, but in general these are: When the close-up is used in shooting, the subject should not be put in exactly the middle of the frame. Instead, it should be located in the frame according", "title": "Close-up" }, { "id": "7156535", "text": "Worth 4 dot test The Worth Four Light Test, also known as the Worth's Four Dot test or W4LT, is a clinical test mainly used for assessing a patient's degree of binocular vision and binocular single vision. Binocular vision involves an image being projected by each eye simultaneously into an area in space and being fused into a single image. The Worth Four Light Test is also used in detection of suppression of either the right or left eye. Suppression occurs during binocular vision when the brain does not process the information received from either of the eyes. This is", "title": "Worth 4 dot test" }, { "id": "6631356", "text": "Vergence A vergence is the simultaneous movement of both eyes in opposite directions to obtain or maintain single binocular vision. When a creature with binocular vision looks at an object, the eyes must rotate around a horizontal axis so that the projection of the image is in the centre of the retina in both eyes. To look at an object closer by, the eyes rotate towards each other (convergence), while for an object farther away they rotate away from each other (divergence). Exaggerated convergence is called \"cross eyed viewing\" (focusing on the nose for example) . When looking into the", "title": "Vergence" }, { "id": "12833850", "text": "a wildlife orphanage which became noteworthy for its pioneering operations on cheetahs and lions, including the eye surgery on George Adamson's lion, Ugas. After Hungarian-born American television producer Ivan Tors became aware of this project he was so impressed by the work of the Harthoorns that he used it as inspiration for the television film \"Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion\" and the series \"Daktari\". In 1967, Susanne Hart was one of the readers in the BBC children's television series \"Jackanory\". In the mid 1970s she returned to South Africa. In 1985, Hart founded and championed the non-profit organisation Ecolink which supports", "title": "Susanne Hart" }, { "id": "477185", "text": "location of the lesion. A person may not be able to see objects on their left or right sides (homonymous hemianopsia), or may have difficulty seeing objects on their outer visual fields (bitemporal hemianopsia) if the optic chiasm is involved. Vision may be tested by examining the visual field, or by examining the retina with an ophthalmoscope, using a process known as funduscopy. Visual field testing may be used to pin-point structural lesions in the optic nerve, or further along the visual pathways. The oculomotor nerve (III), trochlear nerve (IV) and abducens nerve (VI) coordinate eye movement. Damage to nerves", "title": "Cranial nerves" }, { "id": "3959772", "text": "of about 50 cm and is usually symmetrical between the two eyes. An opacity may indicate a cataract. Children should have their first eye exam at 6 months old. If a parent suspects something is wrong an ophthalmologist can check even earlier. Early eye exams are important because children need the following basic visual skills for learning: Eye examination An eye examination is a series of tests performed by an ophthalmologist (medical doctor), optometrist, or orthoptist assessing vision and ability to focus on and discern objects, as well as other tests and examinations pertaining to the eyes. Health care professionals", "title": "Eye examination" }, { "id": "4649257", "text": "Copy stand In photography, a copy stand is a device used to copy images and/or text with a camera. The stand consists of a board onto which the media is placed and a tripod-mount parallel to it, usually with an adjustable height. Light is provided by bright lamps mounted on either side of the media at 45° angles. This provides uniform lighting and reduces specular reflection, keeping glare low. In film cameras, copy stands are traditionally used with slide film. The fine resolution of slide film allows the images to be reproduced with high fidelity when they are projected. Copy", "title": "Copy stand" }, { "id": "11137580", "text": "Cross-race effect The cross-race effect (sometimes called cross-race bias, other-race bias or own-race bias) is the tendency to more easily recognize faces of the race that one is most familiar with (which is most often one's own race). A study was made which examined 271 real court cases. In photographic line-ups, 231 witnesses participated in cross-race versus same-race identification. In cross-race lineups, only 45% were correctly identified versus 60% for same-race identifications. In social psychology, the cross-race effect is described as the \"ingroup advantage\". In other fields, the effect can be seen as a specific form of the \"ingroup advantage\"", "title": "Cross-race effect" }, { "id": "3959758", "text": "a person with normal vision can see out to 200 feet, then you have 20/200 vision. The 6/6 terminology is more commonly used in Europe and Australia, and represents the distance in metres. This is often measured with a Snellen chart or with a logMAR base Velorum Visual Acuity System. In physics, \"refraction\" is the mechanism that bends the path of light through the eye. In an eye exam, the term refraction is the determination of the ideal correction of refractive error. Refractive error is an optical abnormality in which the shape of the eye fails to bring light into", "title": "Eye examination" }, { "id": "6200988", "text": "shot refers to a shot looking directly down on the subject. The perspective is very foreshortened, making the subject appear short and squat. This shot can be used to give an overall establishing shot of a scene, or to emphasise the smallness or insignificance of the subjects. These shots are normally used for battle scenes or establishing where the character is. It is shot by lifting the camera up by hands or by hanging it off something strong enough to support it. When a scene needs a large area shot, it is a crane shot. A distinction is sometimes drawn", "title": "Bird's-eye view" }, { "id": "3909231", "text": "Human eye The human eye is an organ which reacts to light and pressure. As a sense organ, the mammalian eye allows vision. Human eyes help to provide a three dimensional, moving image, normally coloured in daylight. Rod and cone cells in the retina allow conscious light perception and vision including color differentiation and the perception of depth. The human eye can differentiate between about 10 million colors and is possibly capable of detecting a single photon. Similar to the eyes of other mammals, the human eye's non-image-forming photosensitive ganglion cells in the retina receive light signals which affect adjustment", "title": "Human eye" }, { "id": "4649259", "text": "alternative to a full-featured animation stand for traditional cel animation, especially when using small film formats such as Super 8. Copy stand In photography, a copy stand is a device used to copy images and/or text with a camera. The stand consists of a board onto which the media is placed and a tripod-mount parallel to it, usually with an adjustable height. Light is provided by bright lamps mounted on either side of the media at 45° angles. This provides uniform lighting and reduces specular reflection, keeping glare low. In film cameras, copy stands are traditionally used with slide film.", "title": "Copy stand" }, { "id": "10754024", "text": "32. The song sold 2,000,000 copies worldwide becoming one of the best-selling songs of 2007. The song was later used as the B-side to \"When You Look Me in the Eyes\". The music video was filmed in June 2007 on board the \"RMS Queen Mary\", a retired ocean liner, moored in Long Beach, California. It premiered in early August on the Disney Channel. It also features a cameo by Moises Arias. The song is about having troubled relationships with girlfriends. In the video, Moises Arias appears and waves to Joe's ex-girlfriend. He then joins her and they walk off. US", "title": "S.O.S (Jonas Brothers song)" }, { "id": "11058168", "text": "and high-resolution digital image capture. These improvements have helped make modern fundus photography a standard ophthalmic practice for documenting retinal disease. Following the development of fundus photography, David Alvis, and Harold Novotny, performed the first fluorescein angiography (FFA) in 1959, using the Zeiss fundus camera with electronic flash. This development was huge feat in the world of Ophthalmology. The optical design of fundus cameras is based on the principle of monocular indirect ophthalmoscopy. A fundus camera provides an upright, magnified view of the fundus. A typical camera views 30 to 50° of retinal area, with a magnification of 2.5x, and", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "740534", "text": "of a Fresnel lens is a rear view enhancer, as the wide view angle of a lens attached to the rear window permits examining the scene behind a vehicle, particularly a tall or bluff-tailed one, more effectively than a rear-view mirror alone. Multi-focal Fresnel lenses are also used as a part of retina identification cameras, where they provide multiple in- and out-of-focus images of a fixation target inside the camera. For virtually all users, at least one of the images will be in focus, thus allowing correct eye alignment. Fresnel lenses have also been used in the field of popular", "title": "Fresnel lens" }, { "id": "3114818", "text": "of the visual processing system. VA, as it is sometimes referred to by optical professionals, is tested by requiring the person whose vision is being tested to identify so-called optotypes – stylized letters, Landolt rings, pediatric symbols, symbols for the illiterate, standardized Cyrillic letters in the Golovin–Sivtsev table, or other patterns – on a printed chart (or some other means) from a set viewing distance. Optotypes are represented as black symbols against a white background (i.e. at maximum contrast). The distance between the person's eyes and the testing chart is set so as to approximate \"optical infinity\" in the way", "title": "Visual acuity" }, { "id": "11058170", "text": "passes through the un-illuminated hole in the doughnut formed by the illumination system. As the light paths of the two systems are independent, there are minimal reflections of the light source captured in the formed image. The image forming rays continue towards the low powered telescopic eyepiece. When the button is pressed to take a picture, a mirror interrupts the path of the illumination system allow the light from the flash bulb to pass into the eye. Simultaneously, a mirror falls in front of the observation telescope, which redirects the light onto the capturing medium, whether it is film or", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "15331414", "text": "if the picture was shot indoors with daylight film, or shot on a camera with the white balance incorrectly set. Special effects, like sepia tone and grayscale, can be added to an image. In addition, more complicated procedures such as the mixing of color channels are possible using more advanced graphics editors. The red-eye effect, which occurs when flash photos are taken when the pupil is too widely open (so that light from the flash that passes into the eye through the pupil reflects off the fundus at the back of the eyeball), can also be eliminated at this stage.", "title": "Image editing" }, { "id": "316888", "text": "with no horizontal panning or vertical tilting involved. This method doesn't require the permission or availability of the film maker or director to identify the most important part of each frame. Most video displays have three options for 16:9 widescreen frame formatting, which are either center cut, letterbox or full frame. The first two options are reliant on the video stream's aspect ratio flag being set correctly. For the first several decades of television broadcasting, sets displayed images with a 4:3 aspect ratio in which the width is 1.33 times the height—similar to most theatrical films prior to 1960. This", "title": "Pan and scan" }, { "id": "11058173", "text": "to prevent the excessive drying of the eye. A dry eye may also lead to a blurred fundus photo. When dry eye is suspected, ask the patient to blink several times to lubricate the eye before continuing. The picture on the right depicts an incorrectly taken fundus photo that is out of focus and somewhat obscured. The examiner taking the fundus photo has to be extremely careful and meticulous in ensuring correct alignment, and that the picture of the fundus is in clear focus before capturing the image. Make sure the 3 white dots are in clear focus and aligned", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "2821296", "text": "from the distance between it and its neighbor at the left. These types of autostereograms are designed to be read in only one way, either cross-eyed or wall-eyed. All autostereograms in this article are encoded for wall-eyed viewing, unless specifically marked otherwise. An autostereogram encoded for wall-eyed viewing will produce inverse patterns when viewed cross-eyed, and vice versa. Most Magic Eye pictures are also designed for wall-eyed viewing. The wall-eyed depth map example autostereogram to the right encodes 3 planes across the \"x\"-axis. The background plane is on the left side of the picture. The highest plane is shown on", "title": "Autostereogram" }, { "id": "9077098", "text": "white tigers cross their eyes. Strabismus is associated with white tigers of mixed Bengal x Siberian ancestry. The only pure-Bengal white tiger reported to be cross-eyed was Mohini's daughter Rewati. Strabismus is directly linked to the white gene and is not a separate consequence of inbreeding. The orange litter-mates of white tigers are not prone to strabismus. Siamese cats and albinos of every species which have been studied all exhibit the same visual pathway abnormality found in white tigers. Siamese cats are also sometimes cross-eyed, as are some albino ferrets. The visual pathway abnormality was first documented in white tigers", "title": "White tiger" }, { "id": "20539056", "text": "their cousins Martin (Henri Picard) and Denis (Alexis Guay) can safely travel to an isolated rural cabin where Manon hopes to live free of parental interference. The film was written by Nicole Bélanger, as an adaptation of her novel \"Salut mon roi mongol!\". The film was selected at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival in 2018. During the October Crisis, when the Front de libération du Québec kidnap Canada's British ambassador James Cross and then the Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte, Manon is a young girl in an impoverished Montreal family. Her father is suffering from cancer, and while her", "title": "Cross My Heart (2017 film)" }, { "id": "16584943", "text": "then divided into five classes that determine what follow-up testing and monitoring is required. The definition of the classes and Frisén scale used for optic disc edema diagnosis are listed below: Class 0 Class 1<br> Repeat OCT and visual acuity in 6 weeks Class 2<br> Repeat OCT, cycloplegic refraction, fundus examination and threshold visual field every 4 to 6 weeks × 6 months, repeat MRI in 6 months Class 3<br> Repeat OCT, cycloplegic refraction, fundus examination and threshold visual field every 4 to 6 weeks × 6 months, repeat MRI in 6 months Class 4<br> Institute treatment protocol as per", "title": "Visual impairment due to intracranial pressure" }, { "id": "90507", "text": "does permit leading questions. A witness called by the direct examiner, on the other hand, may only be treated as hostile by that examiner after being permitted to do so by the judge, at the request of that examiner and as a result of the witness being openly antagonistic and/or prejudiced against the opposing party. Cross-examination is a key component in a trial and the topic is given substantial attention during courses on Trial Advocacy. The opinions by a jury or judge are often changed during cross examination if doubt is cast on the witness. In other times a credible", "title": "Cross-examination" }, { "id": "4249784", "text": "Ophthalmoscopy Ophthalmoscopy, also called funduscopy, is a test that allows a health professional to see inside the fundus of the eye and other structures using an ophthalmoscope (or funduscope). It is done as part of an eye examination and may be done as part of a routine physical examination. It is crucial in determining the health of the retina, optic disc, and vitreous humor. The pupil is a hole through which the eye's interior will be viewed. Opening the pupil wider (dilating it) is a simple and effective way to better see the structures behind it. Therefore, dilation of the", "title": "Ophthalmoscopy" }, { "id": "3061573", "text": "unlike other OCT techniques that acquire cross-sections of the sample, the images are here \"en-face\" i.e. like images of classical microscopy: orthogonal to the light beam of illumination. More precisely, interferometric images are created by a Michelson interferometer where the path length difference is varied by a fast electric component (usually a piezo mirror in the reference arm). These images acquired by a CCD camera are combined in post-treatment (or on-line) by the phase shift interferometry method, where usually 2 or 4 images per modulation period are acquired, depending on the algorithm used. The \"en-face\" tomographic images are thus produced", "title": "Optical coherence tomography" }, { "id": "13085712", "text": "August 27, 2008 and all 10 issues have been released. The second series, \"Crossed: Family Values\", is written by David Lapham and drawn by Javier Barreno. Ennis described how this unusual situation for a creator-owned property came about: The story follows survivors dealing with a pandemic that causes its victims to carry out their most evil thoughts. Carriers of the virus are generally known as the \"Crossed\" due to a large, cross-like rash that appears on their faces – other names include \"cross-faces\" and \"plus-faces\". This contagion is primarily spread through bodily fluids, which the Crossed have used to great", "title": "Crossed (comics)" }, { "id": "8770971", "text": "the first ever feature film to be released on YouTube.com. In 2010 the film was released on VODO where and placed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license allowing audience members to redistribute or even alter as they wish. Since then a number of screenings have been utilized taking advantage of this open license. The film was shot on MiniDV using the Panasonic AG-DVX100 mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York, with supplementary shooting in Framingham, Massachusetts and Johnson, Vermont. It was edited on Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software. It debuted on the festival circuit in January 2005 at the", "title": "Four Eyed Monsters" }, { "id": "5824703", "text": "Phoropter Phoropter is a common name for an ophthalmic testing device, also called a refractor. It is commonly used by eye care professionals during an eye examination, and contains different lenses used for refraction of the eye during sight testing, to measure an individual's refractive error and determine his or her eyeglass prescription. It also is used to measure the patients' phorias and ductions, which are characteristics of binocularity. Typically, the patient sits behind the phoropter, and looks through it at an eye chart placed at optical infinity (20 feet or 6 metres), then at near (16 inches or 40", "title": "Phoropter" }, { "id": "3522220", "text": "have \"ametropia\" or be \"ametropic\". This eye cannot focus parallel rays of light (light from distant objects) on the retina, or needs accommodation to do so. The word \"ametropia\" can be used interchangeably with \"refractive error\". Types of ametropia include myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. They are frequently categorized as spherical errors and cylindrical errors: There is evidence to suggest genetic predilection for refractive error. Individuals that have parents with certain refractive errors are more likely to have similar refractive errors. The Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database has listed 261 genetic disorders in which myopia is one of the", "title": "Refractive error" }, { "id": "13382792", "text": "Dolomite, California Dolomite is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad south of New York Butte in the Owens Valley, at an elevation of 3674 feet (1120 m). Originally, in 1883, a siding on the Carson and Colorado Railroad, the town developed in 1885, when the Inyo Marble Company opened a quarry at the site. A number of Western films have been shot in Dolomite, including \"Sinister Journey\" (1948), \"From Hell to Texas\" (1958), \"Hell Bent for Leather\" (1960), \"An Eye For An Eye\" (1966), \"Nevada Smith\" (1966) and \"Waterhole No. 3\"", "title": "Dolomite, California" }, { "id": "19397739", "text": "Walk-and-Turn Test (WAT), and the One-Leg-Stand Test (OLS). In some states, e.g., Ohio, only the standardized tests will be admitted into evidence, provided they were administered and objectively scored \"in substantial compliance\" with NHTSA standards (ORC 4511.19(D)(4)(b)). The first test that is typically administered is the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus or HGN test, which is administered by the police officer checking the test subject's eyes. During this test, the officer looks for involuntary jerking of the suspect's eyes as they gaze toward the side. The officer checks for three clues in each eye, which gives six clues for this test. The", "title": "Field sobriety testing" }, { "id": "7488054", "text": "photoreceptors located on the retina. One early warning sign of Coats' disease is yellow-eye in flash photography. Just as the red-eye effect is caused by a reflection off blood vessels in the back of a normal eye, an eye affected by Coats' will glow yellow in photographs as light reflects off cholesterol deposits. Children with yellow-eye in photographs are typically advised to immediately seek evaluation from an optometrist or ophthalmologist, who will assess and diagnose the condition and refer to a vitreo-retinal specialist. Coats' disease itself is painless. Pain may occur if fluid is unable to drain from the eye", "title": "Coats' disease" }, { "id": "20012498", "text": "died at birth almost 200 years ago. The baby is conserved in alcohol and was photographed by Daniel Fuchs and Geo Fuchs for their book \"Conserving\". The promotional photos were also shot by Daniel and Geo Fuchs. All pictures are inspired by original photos in their book \"Conserving\". Daniel & Geo Fuchs work series Famous Eyes, focuses exclusively on the human eye. Many artists, architects and curators, including Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Sir Norman Foster, Andreas Gursky, Jürgen Klauke, David LaChapelle, Sarah Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Jonathan Meese, Shirin Neshat, Dennis Oppenheim, Katharina Sieverding, Harald Szeemann and Sam Taylor-Wood, were photographed", "title": "Daniel and Geo Fuchs" }, { "id": "3898655", "text": "the eye. Because there are no rods or cones overlying the optic disc, it corresponds to a small blind spot in each eye. The eye is unique because of the transparency of its optical media. Almost all eye structures can be examined with appropriate optical equipment and lenses. Using a modern direct ophthalmoscope gives a view of the optic disc using the principle of reversibility of light. A slit lamp biomicroscopic examination along with an appropriate aspheric focusing lens (+66D, +78D or +90D) is required for a detailed stereoscopic view of the optic disc and structures inside the eye. A", "title": "Optic disc" }, { "id": "9423777", "text": "in supporting film roles and playing guest starring parts on television shows include \"ER\", \"Any Day Now\" and \"City of Angels\". From 2001 to 2002, she had the recurring role on the Showtime drama series \"Soul Food\". She later had the recurring roles on HBO drama \"Six Feet Under\" as Karla Charles and FX crime drama \"The Shield\" as Trish George. In film, Micheaux has appeared in \"Sweet Jane\", \"Ringmaster\" (1998), \"The Trials of Cate McCall\" (2013) and \"The Pact 2\" (2014). She also co-starred opposite Halle Berry in the 2005 television film \"Their Eyes Were Watching God\". From 2007", "title": "Nicki Micheaux" }, { "id": "7263502", "text": "to Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury. Villiers made his film début in 1958 and appeared in many British films over the years, including Joseph Losey's \"The Damned\" (also known as \"These Are the Damned\"), shot in 1961 but not released until 1963; Seth Holt's \"The Nanny\" (1965), \"Joseph Andrews\" (1977), \"For Your Eyes Only\" (1981), \"The Scarlet Pimpernel\" (1982), \"Mountains of the Moon\" (1990) and \"The Tichborne Claimant\" (1998), along with numerous other projects. He often specialised in playing cold, somewhat effete villains. He played the role of Colonel Hensman in the television adaptation of \"Brendon Chase\" and was", "title": "James Villiers" }, { "id": "4008416", "text": "beam to transmit through the corneal parenchymal layers according to the principle of total reflection allowing the interface with the cornea to be brightly illuminated. The magnification should be selected so that the entire cornea can be seen at a glance. Fundus observation is known by the ophthalmic and the use of fundus cameras. With the slit lamp, however, direct observation of the fundus is impossible due to the refractive power of the ocular media. In other words: the far point of the eye (punctum remotum) is so distant in front of (myopia) or behind (hyperopia) that the microscope cannot", "title": "Slit lamp" }, { "id": "18808355", "text": "Google Photos Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. It was announced in May 2015 and spun out from Google+, the company's social network. Google Photos gives users free, unlimited storage for photos up to 16 megapixels and videos up to 1080p resolution. The service automatically analyzes photos, identifying various visual features and subjects. Users can search for anything in photos, with the service returning results from three major categories: People, Places, and Things. Google Photos recognizes faces, grouping similar ones together; geographic landmarks (such as the Eiffel Tower); and subject matter, including birthdays, buildings,", "title": "Google Photos" }, { "id": "4249785", "text": "pupil (mydriasis) is often accomplished with medicated eye drops before funduscopy. However, although dilated fundus examination is ideal, undilated examination is more convenient and is also helpful (albeit not as comprehensive), and it is the most common type in primary care. An alternative or complement to ophthalmoscopy is to perform a fundus photography, where the image can be analysed later by a professional. It is of two major types: Each type of ophthalmoscopy has a special type of ophthalmoscope: Ophthalmoscopy is done as part of a routine physical or complete eye examination. It is used to detect and evaluate symptoms", "title": "Ophthalmoscopy" }, { "id": "19232802", "text": "confirmed in November 2015. That December, Shipp Jr., whose father worked on music videos with Shakur, was cast as the singer and principal photography began that month. It lasted until April 2016, filming in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. \"All Eyez on Me\" premiered on June 14, 2017 at the Fox Bruin Theater and was released in the United States on June 16, 2017, on what would have been Shakur's 46th birthday. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, but a more positive response from audiences, and grossed $55 million worldwide. At the Clinton Correctional Facility in 1995,", "title": "All Eyez on Me (film)" }, { "id": "4671598", "text": "or fundus camera in order to examine the inside of the eye. A fluorescein angiography test may be conducted, in which a fluorescent dye is often injected into the patient's bloodstream beforehand so the administering ophthalmologist can have a more detailed view and examination on the blood vessels in the retina. The fluorescent dye can have dangerous side effects: see Fluorescein Eye examination may be done to check the eye(s) conditions, for instance to check how well the patient sees straight ahead, off to the sides and at different distances. Blood tests may provide information about the patient's overall health", "title": "Retinal haemorrhage" }, { "id": "10303767", "text": "length of the ureters is usually assessed using any of the following tests: Intravenous pyelogram (IVP). A special diagnostic test that follows the time course of excretion of a contrast dye through the kidneys, ureters, and bladder after it is injected into a vein. Retrograde pyelogram (RPG). x ray study of the kidney, focusing on the urine-collecting region of the kidney and ureters. Antegrade nephrostogram. CT scan. A special imaging technique that uses a computer to collect multiple x ray images into a two-dimensional cross-sectional image. MRI with intravenous gadolinium. A special technique used to image internal structures of the", "title": "Ureterostomy" }, { "id": "11058174", "text": "with the pupil before pressing the alignment button. If the fundus is out of focus, move the joystick backward and forward to focus the image appropriately. Once the image is in clear focus the alignment process can be completed and lastly the photo taken. Optometrists, Ophthalmologists, Orthoptists and other trained medical professionals use fundus photography for monitoring the progression of certain eye condition/diseases. Fundus photographs are also used to document abnormalities of disease process affecting the eye, and/or to follow up on the progress of the eye condition/disease such as diabetes, age-macular degeneration(AMD), glaucoma, Neoplasm of the choroid, cranial nerves,", "title": "Fundus photography" }, { "id": "1454507", "text": "Circle of confusion In optics, a circle of confusion is an optical spot caused by a cone of light rays from a lens not coming to a perfect focus when imaging a point source. It is also known as disk of confusion, circle of indistinctness, blur circle, or blur spot. In photography, the circle of confusion (CoC) is used to determine the depth of field, the part of an image that is acceptably sharp. A standard value of CoC is often associated with each image format, but the most appropriate value depends on visual acuity, viewing conditions, and the amount", "title": "Circle of confusion" }, { "id": "2616410", "text": "the wearer's retina with a low-powered laser (virtual retinal display) are also in experimentation. Head-up display A head-up display or heads-up display, also known as a HUD, is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints. The origin of the name stems from a pilot being able to view information with the head positioned \"up\" and looking forward, instead of angled down looking at lower instruments. A HUD also has the advantage that the pilot's eyes do not need to refocus to view the outside after looking at the optically nearer instruments.", "title": "Head-up display" }, { "id": "18624945", "text": "case of an emergency. Examination is defined by the act of looking at something closely and carefully or a close and careful study of something. This would be a crucial duty for all conservators, including Photograph Conservators. Barbara Appelbaum explains that \"the contrast between the first impression of an object-which is more or less the impression of the ordinary viewer- and the view that a conservator takes during an examination is a significant one.\" The first step of an examination is examination of an object with one's eye with a bright light, sometimes with the help of magnification or other", "title": "Photograph conservator" }, { "id": "16680978", "text": "Pentax 645 The Pentax 645 is a medium format single-lens reflex system camera manufactured by Pentax. It was introduced in 1984, along with a complementary line of lenses. It captures images nominally 6 cm × 4.5 cm on 120, 220, and 70 mm film, though the actual size of the images is 56 mm × 41.5 mm. The 645 is the original model introduced in 1984. It has a built-in 1.5 frames per second motor drive, center-weighted TTL metering, multiple automatic exposure modes, and a small LCD screen on the top plate which indicates mode, exposure compensation, and exposure count.", "title": "Pentax 645" }, { "id": "8418206", "text": "test. Near Targets (33 cm) Light source – A penlight/light from retinoscope or ophthalmoscope could be used at the start of the near cover test assessment to observe the patient’s corneal reflections, and to see whether their fixation is steady, central and maintained. Assessing the patient’s fixation is especially important in those patients who suffer from amblyopia. Detailed target – Any small object that has the ability to stimulate Accommodation (eye) and allow the examiner to assess the patient’s fixation. For children, very small pictures like those seen on a Lang stick can be used. Whereas for adults a small", "title": "Cover test" }, { "id": "19210314", "text": "(Nate Cooper) Pia Miller (Kat Chapman) and Lynne McGranger (Irene Roberts). Diarmid Heidenreich reprised his role of Trevor \"Gunno\" Gunson from \"Home and Away\". Gunno is a criminal, who previously tried to kill Ricky's partner Darryl Braxton. Actress Leeanna Walsman was cast as Gunno's girlfriend and accomplice Virginia Eisak. One year old twins Sebastian and Xavier Sloan shared the role of Ricky's young son Casey. Filming for the spin-off took place at the Channel Seven studios in Eveleigh, Palm Beach in Sydney, and across the Blue Mountains. The cast and crew spent a week filming in the Blue Mountains. Westaway", "title": "Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye" }, { "id": "3891644", "text": "According to Wade (1998), binocular colour rivalry was first reported by Le Clerk (1712). Desaguiliers (1716) also recorded it when looking at different colours from spectra in the bevel of a mirror. The clearest early description of both colour and contour rivalry was made by Dutour (1760, 1763; see translations by O'Shea, 1999a, b). To experience colour rivalry Dutour either crossed his eyes or overdiverged his eyes (a form of free fusion commonly used also at the end of the 20th century to view Magic Eye stereograms) to look at differently coloured pieces of cloth (Dutour, 1760) or differently coloured", "title": "Binocular rivalry" }, { "id": "1317584", "text": "with interlaced video of the same line rate, such as interline twitter. Frames have no interlace artifacts and can be captured for use as still photos. With progressive scan there is no necessity in intentional blurring (sometimes referred to as anti-aliasing) of video to reduce interline twitter and eye strain. In the case of most media, such as DVD movies and video games, the video is blurred during the authoring process itself to subdue interline twitter when played back on interlace displays. As a consequence, recovering the sharpness of the original video is impossible when the video is viewed progressively.", "title": "Progressive scan" }, { "id": "371509", "text": "would not travel light years for conquest, but instead curiosity and sharing of knowledge. A strong consistent theme in his family-friendly work is a childlike sense of wonder and faith, as attested by works such as \"Close Encounters of the Third Kind\", \"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\", \"Hook\", \"A.I. Artificial Intelligence\" and \"The BFG\". According to Warren Buckland, these themes are portrayed through the use of low height camera tracking shots, which have become one of Spielberg's directing trademarks. In the cases when his films include children (\"E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial\", \"Empire of the Sun\", \"Jurassic Park\", etc.), this type of shot is", "title": "Steven Spielberg" }, { "id": "11340872", "text": "video released elsewhere. The video includes pieces filmed by Joe. Most of the music video was filmed inside The Eagles Club (The Rave) or outside in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin and in the Chicago, Illinois area. \"When You Look Me in the Eyes\" reached number 25 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100. On August 15, 2008, the song re-entered the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, peaking at number 46; it became their highest-peaking song on the chart, surpassing \"S.O.S\" (number 47), but this record was surpassed again, with \"Burnin' Up\", peaking at number 38. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number", "title": "When You Look Me in the Eyes" }, { "id": "791125", "text": "Image An image (from ) is an artifact that depicts visual perception, for example, a photo or a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person, thus providing a depiction of it. In context of image signal processing, an image is a distributed amplitude of color(s). Images may be two-dimensional, such as a photograph or screen display, or three-dimensional, such as a statue or hologram. They may be captured by optical devices – such as cameras, mirrors, lenses, telescopes, microscopes, etc. and natural objects and phenomena, such as the human eye or", "title": "Image" }, { "id": "5877010", "text": "involved because Clarence was spooked by these vehicles. Leo had his own makeup artist apply cosmetic scarring like Clarence's so that he would resemble Clarence in closeups. An inside joke from the preview trailer for the movie \"Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion\" was that Leo the MGM logo was not related to Clarence (in addition to similar appearances, the lions had similar temperaments). Another less friendly lion, also named Leo, doubled for Clarence in some scenes. He was used only for the snarling scenes and scenes not involving proximity with humans. His ferocity was genuine, the result of physical abuse by", "title": "Daktari" }, { "id": "1584695", "text": "this is to break the reflex that normally holds a covered eye in the correct vergence position. Hold your finger steady and then uncover the person's eye. Look at the uncovered eye. You may see it flick quickly from being wall-eyed or cross-eyed to its correct position. If the uncovered eye moved from out to in, the person has exophoria. If it moved from in to out, the person has esophoria. If the eye did not move at all, the person has orthophoria. Most people have some amount of exophoria or esophoria; it is quite normal. If the uncovered eye", "title": "Binocular vision" }, { "id": "6593672", "text": "and pseudostrabismus use a flashlight to shine into the child's eyes. When the child is looking at the light a reflection can be seen on the front surface of the pupil. If the eyes are aligned with one another then the reflection from the light will be in the same spot of each eye. If strabismus is present then the reflection from the light will not be in the same spot of each eye. Rakel's \"Textbook of Family Medicine\" states, \"A common misconception is that children with crossed eyes outgrow the condition, but this is generally not the case. This", "title": "Pseudostrabismus" } ]

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[ { "id": "12771331", "text": "replacement. This act specifically serves to define guardianship relationships between adults and minors, as well as between people of all ages and their respective property. This act is one of four Hindu Code Bills that were codified by the Nehru Administration in 1956. The other three Acts include the Hindu Succession Act, Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, and Hindu Marriage Act. The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act delineates the policies regarding minorities according to Indian Hindu personal law. This Act extends to all of India with the exception of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. This Act is intended to", "title": "Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act" }, { "id": "5546826", "text": "wedding location, typically at or near the bride's home. These additional rituals include the participation of the brothers, sisters, maternal/paternal relatives, guardians, or friends of the bride. In some parts of India, such as Gujarat and Northern India, a \"laja homa\" ritual called \"mangal pherā\" is performed where the couple make four circles around holy fire. It follows \"hasta milap\" (meeting of hands of the couple), but precedes \"saptapadi\". The first three circles is led by the groom, and it represents three of four goals of life considered important in Hindu life – \"Dharma\", \"Artha\", \"Kama\". The fourth circle is", "title": "Hindu wedding" }, { "id": "12358713", "text": "Collage Collage (from the , \"to glue\"; ) is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century as an art form", "title": "Collage" }, { "id": "11699052", "text": "Hindu architecture Hindu architecture is a traditional Hindu system of temple architecture, monasteries, mausoleums and other architectural religious buildings of Hinduism. The science of Hindu architecture (principles and standards, where and how temples should be built, design rules) in India is described in Hindu texts — Vastu shastra (Manasara etc), and Shilpa Shastras deal with forming statues, icons, stone murals, painting and others. Due to Islamic conquests in the Middle Ages, many ancient Hindu buildings were destroyed. Hindu temple architecture has many varieties of style, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple (\"mandir\") remains the same, with the essential", "title": "Hindu architecture" }, { "id": "5546828", "text": "Rituals include \"darshan\", where the newly married couple are met, blessed and greeted by family and friends of the bride and groom. After the Hindu wedding is complete, the bride leaves for groom's home via groom's car. In groom's car, bride and groom sit together, and groom's younger brother drive the car. bride's two sister also come with groom's family, when they arrive to groom house where Hindu family members of the groom welcome the newly wedded couple in a ritual known as \"grihapravesa\" (home coming/entry). This ceremony typically requires participation of the mother, father, brothers, and sisters, or other", "title": "Hindu wedding" }, { "id": "12771330", "text": "Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act was established in 1956 as part of the Hindu Code Bills. Three other important acts were also created during this time and they include the Hindu Marriage Act (1955), the Hindu Succession Act (1956), and the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (1956). All of these acts were put forth under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, and were meant to modernize the then current Hindu legal tradition. The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act of 1956 was meant to enhance the Guardians and Wards Act of 1890, not serve as its", "title": "Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act" }, { "id": "16323191", "text": "Collage film Collage film is a style of film created by juxtaposing found footage from disparate sources. The term has also been applied to the physical collaging of materials onto film stock. The surrealist movement played a critical role in the creation of the collage film form. In 1936, the American artist Joseph Cornell produced one of the earliest collage films with his reassembly of \"East of Borneo\" (1931), combined with pieces of other films, into a new work he titled \"Rose Hobart\" after the leading actress. When Salvador Dalí saw the film, he was famously enraged, believing Cornell had", "title": "Collage film" }, { "id": "11699057", "text": "cows well, because of their religious significance in Hinduism and consequent cultural sensitivity towards their welfare. There is the abode or sanctuary for cows, calves and oxen. Hindu architecture Hindu architecture is a traditional Hindu system of temple architecture, monasteries, mausoleums and other architectural religious buildings of Hinduism. The science of Hindu architecture (principles and standards, where and how temples should be built, design rules) in India is described in Hindu texts — Vastu shastra (Manasara etc), and Shilpa Shastras deal with forming statues, icons, stone murals, painting and others. Due to Islamic conquests in the Middle Ages, many ancient", "title": "Hindu architecture" }, { "id": "13260930", "text": "the wedding day. This tradition signifies the union of the bride and the groom in front of god, who is believed to be attending the matrimonial ceremony. This sacred thread known as “Mangalsutra” is made of two strings of small black beads with a pendant or locket. It is considered auspicious for married women and believed to have divine powers as it signifies protection from evil power. It is also that this sacred thread will protect the marriage of a couple and life of the husband forever. The word “gath” means knot and “bandhan” means tying. In this ritual a", "title": "Hindu wedding cards" }, { "id": "12118239", "text": "Ghoonghat A ghoonghat (\"ghunghat\", \"ghunghta\", \"ghumta\", \"odhni\", \"laaj\", \"chunari\", \"jhund\") is a veil or headscarf worn by some married Hindu, Jain and Sikh women to cover their head, and often their face. Generally \"aanchal\" or \"pallu\", the loose end of a sari is pulled over the head and face to act as a ghunghat. A \"dupatta\" (long scarf) is also commonly used as a ghungat. Today, facial veiling by Hindu women as part of everyday attire is now mostly limited to the Hindi-speaking areas of India Facial veiling is not sanctioned in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism but some sections", "title": "Ghoonghat" }, { "id": "12781353", "text": "The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 The Hindu Marriage Act by an Act of the Parliament of India enacted in 1955. Three other important acts were also enacted as part of the Hindu Code Bills during this time: the Hindu Succession Act (1956), the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (1956), the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (1956). The main purpose of the act was to amend and codify the law relating to marriage among Hindus and others. Besides amending and codifying Sastrik Law, it introduced separation and divorce, which did not exist in Sastrik Law. This enactment brought uniformity of law", "title": "The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955" }, { "id": "12358748", "text": "into a collage painting was fair use. Collage Collage (from the , \"to glue\"; ) is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. A collage may sometimes include magazine and newspaper clippings, ribbons, paint, bits of colored or handmade papers, portions of other artwork or texts, photographs and other found objects, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. The origins of collage can be traced back hundreds of years, but this technique made a dramatic reappearance in the", "title": "Collage" }, { "id": "20033480", "text": "Shubh Mangal Saavdhan Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (\"English: Beware Of Marriage\") is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film. It is directed by R.S. Prasanna and produced by Aanand L. Rai. It stars Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar. The movie was released worldwide on 1 September 2017. \"Shubh Mangal Saavdhan\" is a remake of director's own Tamil film \"Kalyana Samayal Saadham\" which was released in 2013. The film was a commercial success at the box office. The film got five nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Actor for Khurrana, Best Actress for Pednekar, and Best Supporting Actress for Seema Pahwa.", "title": "Shubh Mangal Saavdhan" }, { "id": "5084638", "text": "Tilaka In Hinduism, the tilaka () is a mark worn usually on the forehead, sometimes other parts of the body such as neck, hand or chest. Tilaka may be worn on a daily basis or for rites of passage or special religious occasions only, depending on regional customs. The term also refers to the Hindu ritual of marking someone's forehead with a fragrant paste, such as of sandalwood or vermilion, as a welcome and expression of honor when they arrive. The tilaka is a mark created by the application of powder or paste on the forehead. Tilakas are vertical markings", "title": "Tilaka" }, { "id": "12707160", "text": "Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (1956) The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (HAMA) was enacted in India in 1956 as part of the Hindu Code Bills. The other legislations enacted during this time include the Hindu Marriage Act (1955), the Hindu Succession Act (1956), and the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (1956). All of these acts were put forth under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, and were meant to codify and standardise the current Hindu legal tradition. The Adoptions and Maintenance Act of 1956 dealt specifically with the legal process of adopting children by a Hindu adult, and with the", "title": "Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (1956)" }, { "id": "5546810", "text": "traditionally presented, as here, in order of religious appropriateness (\"prashasta\"). They also differ very widely in social acceptability. (Legal aspects are regulated mainly by the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955.) The above four forms of marriage were considered socially proper, and religiously appropriate – \"prashasta\" – under Hinduism, since the rituals include vows from Vedic scriptures. Both bride and groom commit to each other and share responsibilities to their families. The remaining four do not include vows and were considered \"aprashasta\" (inappropriate). Among these, two were socially acceptable: The last two forms of marriage were not only inappropriate, but religiously forbidden:", "title": "Hindu wedding" }, { "id": "20033489", "text": "a sagging climax.\" Shubh Mangal Saavdhan Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (\"English: Beware Of Marriage\") is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film. It is directed by R.S. Prasanna and produced by Aanand L. Rai. It stars Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar. The movie was released worldwide on 1 September 2017. \"Shubh Mangal Saavdhan\" is a remake of director's own Tamil film \"Kalyana Samayal Saadham\" which was released in 2013. The film was a commercial success at the box office. The film got five nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Actor for Khurrana, Best Actress for Pednekar, and Best Supporting Actress", "title": "Shubh Mangal Saavdhan" }, { "id": "18683000", "text": "Its use in Hinduism dates back to ancient times. \"Sri Chakra\" Yantra of Tripura Sundari (commonly referred to as Sri Yantra) is a mandala formed by nine interlocking triangles. Four of these triangles are oriented upright, representing Shiva or the Masculine. Five of these triangles are inverted triangles representing Shakti, or the Feminine. Together, the nine triangles form a web symbolic of the entire cosmos, a womb symbolic of creation, and together express Advaita Vedanta or non-duality. All other yantras are derivatives of this supreme yantra. Several symbols (animals, flora, instruments, weapons, or even color) in Hindu iconography are associated", "title": "Hindu iconography" }, { "id": "540573", "text": "Hindu Kush The Hindu Kush (Pashto and Persian: , Persian for “Hindu Killer”; ), also known in Ancient Greek as the Caucasus Indicus () or Paropamisadae (), is an mountain range that stretches near the Afghan-Pakistan border, from central Afghanistan to northern Pakistan. It forms the western section of the \"Hindu Kush Himalayan Region\" (\"HKH\"). It divides the valley of the Amu Darya (the ancient \"Oxus\") to the north from the Indus River valley to the south. The Hindu Kush range has numerous high snow-capped peaks, with the highest point in the Hindu Kush being Tirich Mir or Terichmir at", "title": "Hindu Kush" }, { "id": "20533746", "text": "Chalo Chalo (from the Hindi phrase चलो, English : \"Let's go\") is a 2018 Telugu romantic comedy written and directed by Telugu film director Venky Kudumula marking his debut as a director. The film, produced by Usha Mulpuri on Ira Creations banner features Naga Shaurya and Rashmika Mandanna in the lead. It was dubbed into Hindi as chalo by wam india pvt.co.ltd Mahati Swara Sagar composed the soundtrack and the background score for the film while Sai Sriram provided the cinematography and kotagiri Venkateswara Rao did the editing for the film. The film was extensively shot in Hyderabad. The film", "title": "Chalo" }, { "id": "13153425", "text": "Hindu revolution The Hindu Revolution (Hindi: \"Hindu Kranti\" or \"Dharma Kranti\") is a term in Hindu nationalism referring to a sociopolitical movement aiming to overthrow the secular Republic of India and replace it with a Hindu State (\"Hindu Rajya\" or \"Rashtra\"). In particular, the movement is directed at hostile penetration of Hindu society by both Islam and Western cultural and religious neo-imperialism and neo-colonialism. The Hindu Revolution is best analysed and evaluated on the background of India's historical situation of domination by external powers. Beginning with Islamic expansionism in the Middle Ages and the establishment of the Delhi Sultanates between", "title": "Hindu revolution" }, { "id": "8547031", "text": "Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram (sometimes called Ram Dhun) is a notable bhajan (Hindu devotional song) that was widely popularized by Mahatma Gandhi. The version that is most common was put to music by Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, and was sung by Gandhi and his followers as they walked during the 241 mile Salt March to Dandi. The Hindi lyrics of the \"bhajan\" along with their translation, by historian and musicologist Guy Beck, are as follows: Hindi - Devanagari script - Original Transliteration (IAST): Hindi by Gandhi (tempered the original lyrics) Transliteration (IAST): Translation: Elements of the chant", "title": "Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram" }, { "id": "178310", "text": "\"Tilaka\" (literally, seed) on forehead – considered to be the location of spiritual third eye, marks ceremonious welcome, blessing or one's participation in a ritual or rite of passage. Elaborate \"Tilaka\" with lines may also identify a devotee of a particular denomination. Flowers, birds, animals, instruments, symmetric mandala drawings, objects, idols are all part of symbolic iconography in Hinduism. Hindus advocate the practice of (non-violence) and respect for all life because divinity is believed to permeate all beings, including plants and non-human animals. The term ' appears in the Upanishads, the epic Mahabharata and is the first of the five", "title": "Hinduism" }, { "id": "10801121", "text": "Hindu units of time Hindu texts describe units of Kala measurements, from \"microseconds\" to \"Trillions\" of years. According to these texts, time is cyclic, which repeats itself forever. Various fragments of time are used in Hindu Scriptures like Vedas, Bhagavata Purana, Vishnu Puran, Mahabharata, Suryasidhanta etc. A summary of the Hindu metrics of time (\" vyavahāra\") follows. The Lifespan of the pitras is 100 years of pitras (3,000 Solar years). The life span of any Hindu deva spans nearly (or more than) 4.5 million years. Statistically, we can also look it as: The Time measurement section of the Book I", "title": "Hindu units of time" }, { "id": "17131835", "text": "Encyclopedia of Hinduism Encyclopedia of Hinduism, 1st ed., 2012, is a comprehensive, multi-volume, English language encyclopedia of Hinduism, comprising \"\", a Sanskrit phrase, meaning \"the eternal law\", or the \"eternal way\", that is used to refer to Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. It is a 7,184 page, 11-volume publication with full-color illustrations of temples, places, thinkers, rituals and festivals. \"Encyclopedia of Hinduism\" is an inspiration and dream project of Swami Chidanand Saraswati, President of Parmarth Niketan and India Heritage Research Foundation. Under preparation for 25 years, it has been edited by Dr. Kapil Kapoor with contribution from over 2000 scholars.", "title": "Encyclopedia of Hinduism" }, { "id": "75474", "text": "Collagen Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular space in the various connective tissues in the body. As the main component of connective tissue, it is the most abundant protein in mammals, making 25% to 35% of the whole-body protein content. Collagen consists of amino acids wound together to form triple-helices l of elongated fibrils. It is mostly found in fibrous tissues such as tendons, ligaments and skin. Depending upon the degree of mineralization, collagen tissues may be either rigid (bone) or compliant (tendon) or have a gradient from rigid to compliant (cartilage). It is also abundant in", "title": "Collagen" }, { "id": "10324491", "text": "shapes. Trail lehenga using extra fabric making a trail at behind. Lehenga Lehenga or lehnga or langa (Hindi: लहंगा Urdu: لہنگا \"lahangā\", Punjabi: ਲਹਿੰਗਾ \"lēhēṅgā\", Gujarati: લેહગા \"lēhagā\", Bengali: লেহেঙ্গা \"lehengā\", Telugu: లంగా Kannada: ಲಂಗ \"laṅgā\"), Ghagra or gagra (Hindi: घाघरा Gujarati: ઘાઘરા Urdu: گھاگھرا \"ghāghrā\", Punjabi: ਘਾਗਰਾ \"ghāgrā\"), also Chaniya (Gujarati: ચણિયા) Pavadai (Tamil: பாவாடை) and Lacha (Malayalam: ലഹങ്ക) is a form of full ankle-length skirt worn by women from the Indian subcontinent which is long, embroidered and pleated. It is worn as the bottom portion of a Gagra choli or Langa Voni. It is secured at the waist", "title": "Lehenga" }, { "id": "2131712", "text": "\"tanoti\" (expansion) and \"rayati\" (liberation). Tantra means liberation of energy and expansion of consciousness from its gross form. It is a method to expand the mind and liberate the dormant potential energy, and its principles form the basis of all yogic practices. Hence, the Hindu Tantra scriptures refer to techniques for achieving a result. The Hindu Tantras total ninety-two scriptures; of these, sixty-four are purely \"Abheda\" (literally \"without differentiation\", or monistic), known as the Bhairava Tantras or Kashmir Śaivite Tantras, eighteen are \"Bhedābheda\" (literally \"with differentiation and without differentiation\" monistic or dualistic), known as the Rudra Tantras), and ten are", "title": "Tantras (Hinduism)" }, { "id": "18247071", "text": "based on the Goloka Yantra mandala and the thousand petalled lotus petticoat on the layered glass sculptures of Dutch artist Bert Van Loo. The dress was exhibited as part of the \"Forms of Devotion\" exhibition at the China Art Museum in Shanghai as well as the Museo de arte Contemporaneo at Conde Duque in Madrid, Spain. Mandali Mendrilla Mandali Mendrilla (born 1976 in Rijeka, Croatia) is an American fashion designer, who mainly works in Europe, the US, and India. She is also known for having translated the Hindu epics from Sanskrit into the Croatian language. Mandali Mendrilla, born Maja Mendrila,", "title": "Mandali Mendrilla" }, { "id": "12358743", "text": "is sometimes used alone or in combination with other techniques in artists' books, especially in one-off unique books rather than as reproduced images in published books. Collage novels are books with images selected from other publications and collaged together following a theme or narrative. The bible of discordianism, the \"Principia Discordia\", is described by its author as a literary collage. A collage in literary terms may also refer to a layering of ideas or images. Collage is utilized in fashion design in the sketching process, as part of mixed media illustrations, where drawings together with diverse materials such as paper,", "title": "Collage" }, { "id": "10322405", "text": "milk. The site became the foundation of the present shrine. According to tradition, the priest at the temple must be a descendent of Lakhan Thapa. Darshan comes from the Sanskrit word meaning sight. The pilgrimage to Manakamana is made by a great many people every year. This religious expedition to see the Goddess Bhagwati at Manakamana is hence referred to as Manakamana Darshan. According to Hindu mythology the universe is said to consist of five cosmic elements- earth, fire, water, air and ether. The offerings to the Goddess are made on this basis. At least one of the following should", "title": "Manakamana" }, { "id": "10324486", "text": "Lehenga Lehenga or lehnga or langa (Hindi: लहंगा Urdu: لہنگا \"lahangā\", Punjabi: ਲਹਿੰਗਾ \"lēhēṅgā\", Gujarati: લેહગા \"lēhagā\", Bengali: লেহেঙ্গা \"lehengā\", Telugu: లంగా Kannada: ಲಂಗ \"laṅgā\"), Ghagra or gagra (Hindi: घाघरा Gujarati: ઘાઘરા Urdu: گھاگھرا \"ghāghrā\", Punjabi: ਘਾਗਰਾ \"ghāgrā\"), also Chaniya (Gujarati: ચણિયા) Pavadai (Tamil: பாவாடை) and Lacha (Malayalam: ലഹങ്ക) is a form of full ankle-length skirt worn by women from the Indian subcontinent which is long, embroidered and pleated. It is worn as the bottom portion of a Gagra choli or Langa Voni. It is secured at the waist and leaves the lower back and midriff bare. In the Indian", "title": "Lehenga" }, { "id": "12707170", "text": "debts are owed by the deceased, then those are to be paid before the amount of maintenance is awarded or even considered. Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (1956) The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (HAMA) was enacted in India in 1956 as part of the Hindu Code Bills. The other legislations enacted during this time include the Hindu Marriage Act (1955), the Hindu Succession Act (1956), and the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (1956). All of these acts were put forth under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, and were meant to codify and standardise the current Hindu legal tradition. The", "title": "Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (1956)" }, { "id": "5546806", "text": "Hindu wedding A Hindu wedding is \"Vivaha\" (Sanskrit: विवाह) and the wedding ceremony is called \"Vivaah Sanskar\" in North India and \"Kalyanam\" (generally) in South India. Hindus attach a great deal of importance to marriage. The wedding ceremonies are very colourful, and celebrations may extend for several days. The bride's and groom's home—entrance, doors, wall, floor, roof—are sometimes decorated with colors, balloons, and other decorations. The rituals and process in a Hindu wedding vary widely. Nevertheless, the Hindu wedding ceremony at its core is essentially a Vedic \"yajna\" ritual and three key rituals are almost universal: \"Kanyadaan\", \"Panigrahana\", and \"Saptapadi\"—which", "title": "Hindu wedding" }, { "id": "12358735", "text": "century tradition of physically joining multiple images into a composite and photographing the results prevailed in press photography and offset lithography until the widespread use of digital image editing. Contemporary photo editors in magazines now create \"paste-ups\" digitally. Creating a photomontage has, for the most part, become easier with the advent of computer software such as Adobe Photoshop, Pixel image editor, and GIMP. These programs make the changes digitally, allowing for faster workflow and more precise results. They also mitigate mistakes by allowing the artist to \"undo\" errors. Yet some artists are pushing the boundaries of digital image editing to", "title": "Collage" }, { "id": "172668", "text": "(Sanskara (rite of passage)) such as rituals during a wedding or when a baby is born or cremation rituals. Some Hindus go on pilgrimage to shared sites they consider spiritually significant, practice one or more forms of bhakti or puja, celebrate mythology and epics, major festivals, love and respect for guru and family, and other cultural traditions. A Hindu could: In the Constitution of India, the word \"Hindu\" has been used in some places to denote persons professing any of these religions: Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism or Sikhism. This however has been challenged by the Sikhs and by neo-Buddhists who were", "title": "Hindu" }, { "id": "5664580", "text": "Mangala sutra A mangala sutra () is a necklace that the groom ties around the bride's neck in Indian and sub-Indian countries, in a ceremony called \"Mangalya Dharanam\" (), which identifies her as a married woman. This is a social practice widespread in India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. This practice is also an integral part of a marriage ceremony as prescribed by Manusmriti. Mangala sutram literally means \"an auspicious thread\" which is knotted around the bride's neck. It is usually a necklace with black beads strung from a black or yellow thread prepared with turmeric. Sometimes gold, white or red", "title": "Mangala sutra" }, { "id": "18234932", "text": "Hindu Heritage Summer Camp The Hindu Heritage Summer Camp is located in Macedon, New York. The camp was founded in 1976 by Devi Parvati, a convert to Hinduism. It began with six tents at a location in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. During the 1990s it moved to Macedon, where it could utilize the facilities of the India Community Center for the Rochester area. Morning reveille at the camp is blown on a conch shell in homage to Vishnu, who is often depicted carrying one, In addition to traditional summer camp activities such as drama and arts and crafts, campers", "title": "Hindu Heritage Summer Camp" }, { "id": "770915", "text": "connecting major Hindu temple sites in south Asia, as well as near major temples. Hindu temples have served as institutions for alms-giving. The \"dāna\" the temples received from Hindus were used to feed people in distress as well as fund public projects such as irrigation and land reclamation. Other forms of alms-giving in Hinduism includes donating means of economic activity and food source. For example, Go Dāna (donation of a cow), Bhu Dāna (भू दान) (donation of land), and \"Vidya Dāna\" or Jňana Dāna (विद्या दान, ज्ञान दान): gift of knowledge and skills, \"Aushadhā Dāna\": Charity of care for the", "title": "Alms" }, { "id": "178226", "text": "Hinduism Hinduism is an Indian religion and \"dharma\", or way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia. Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, and some practitioners and scholars refer to it as \"Sanātana Dharma\", \"the eternal tradition\", or the \"eternal way\", beyond human history. Scholars regard Hinduism as a fusion or synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no founder. This \"Hindu synthesis\" started to develop between 500 BCE and 300 CE, after the end of the Vedic period (1500 BCE to 500 BCE), and flourished", "title": "Hinduism" }, { "id": "21006861", "text": "The title \"Un Kadhal Irundhal\" was taken from a song title of the 2016 film \"Kavalai Vendam\". Mammooty's nephew Maqbool Salman was eventually chosen to make his acting debut through this film. The official trailer for the film was unveiled on 11 December 2018. The music is scored by debutant Mansoor Ahmed and the soundtrack consists of four songs. Un Kadhal Irundhal Un Kadhal Irundhal () is an upcoming Indian Tamil/Malayalam bilingual (simultaneously dubbed in Malayalam) language romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Hashim Marikar who also marks his first directorial venture in Kollywood. The film stars Srikanth", "title": "Un Kadhal Irundhal" }, { "id": "6509484", "text": "Circumambulation Circumambulation (from Latin \"circum\" around and \"ambulātus \"to walk) is the act of moving around a sacred object or idol. Circumambulation of temples or deity images is an integral part of Hindu and Buddhist devotional practice (known in Sanskrit as \"pradakśina or pradakshinaṇā\"). It is also present in other religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. In many Hindu temples, the temple structure reflects the symbolism of the Hindu association of the spiritual transition from daily life to spiritual perfection as a journey through stages. Ambulatory passageways for circumambulation are present through which worshipers move in a clockwise direction, starting", "title": "Circumambulation" }, { "id": "6720670", "text": "Hindu Students Council Hindu Students Council (also known as HSC) is an organization of Hindu students in the United States of America and Canada. According to its website, it serves as an \"international forum that provides opportunities to learn about Hindu heritage through various activities, events and projects.\" It is an independent non-profit organization under 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3). The HSC was set up in 1990 with support from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America, a constituent member of the right-wing Sangh Parivar; its current association with that body is a matter of some debate, though it says that it", "title": "Hindu Students Council" }, { "id": "15423108", "text": "Vital Sines Vital Sines was a Canadian post-punk/new wave band active between 1980 and 1988 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are best known for their hit single, \"Collage\", which was recently listed as one of the most influential Canadian alternative rock songs. The band got their start in punk rock venues in Toronto playing under the name 'The Offenders'. When Scott Taylor, the original drummer left the band they changed the name to Vital Sines, releasing their first indie single, \"Subway Suicide\" in 1981. Following this they often played under the cover name \"Tryfono & The Heat Resistant Sheep\" as", "title": "Vital Sines" }, { "id": "6720671", "text": "became fully independent in 2003. Prior to its separation from its parent organization, it was considered to be the student-wing of the VHP. In 2011, Hindu Students Council was awarded a Readers' Choice Award for Best Hindu Organization in an online vote held by About.com. Hindu Students Council Hindu Students Council (also known as HSC) is an organization of Hindu students in the United States of America and Canada. According to its website, it serves as an \"international forum that provides opportunities to learn about Hindu heritage through various activities, events and projects.\" It is an independent non-profit organization under", "title": "Hindu Students Council" }, { "id": "4309980", "text": "Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha The Akhil Bhāratiya Hindū Mahāsabhā (translation: \"All-India Hindu Grand-Assembly\") is a right wing Hindu nationalist political party in India. The organisation was formed to protect the rights of the Hindu community in British India, after the formation of the All India Muslim League in 1906 and the British India government's creation of separate Muslim electorate under the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909. Although quite an old Hindu nationalist political party, the Hindu Mahasabha has remained marginal in its influence on Indian politics, both before and after independence. The organisation was originally called \"Sarvadeshak Hindu Sabha\" (\"Hindu Assembly", "title": "Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha" }, { "id": "1630452", "text": "as \"canons.\" The Book of Discipline contains the laws, rules, policies and guidelines for The United Methodist Church. It is revised every four years by the General Conference, the law making body of The United Methodist Church; the last edition was published in 2012. Hindu law is largely based on the Manu Smriti (smriti of Manu). It was recognized by the British during their rule of India but its influence waned after the establishment of the Republic of India, which has a secular legal system. \"Sharia\", also known as Islamic law ( \")\", is the moral code and religious law", "title": "Religious law" }, { "id": "13288425", "text": "or garlands. (16) sekharapida-yojana — art of practically setting the coronet on the head. (17) nepathya-yoga — art of practically dressing (18) karnapatra-bhanga — art of decorating the tragus of the ear. (19) sugandha-yukti — art of practical application of aromatics. (20) bhushana-yojana — art of applying or setting ornaments. (21) aindra-jala — art of jugglery. (22) kaucumara — a kind of art. (23) hasta-laghava — art of sleight of hand. (24) citra-sakapupa-bhakshya-vikara-kriya — art of preparing varieties of foods - curries, soups, sweetmeats (25) panaka-rasa-ragasava-yojana — art of preparing palatable drinks and fruit juices (26) suci-vaya-karma — art of", "title": "Hindu art" }, { "id": "16704940", "text": "Amalaka An amalaka, is a segmented or notched stone disk, usually with ridges on the rim, that sits on the top of a Hindu temple's shikhara or main tower. According to one interpretation, the amalaka represents a lotus, and thus the symbolic seat for the deity below. Another interpretation is that it symbolizes the sun, and is thus the gateway to the heavenly world. According other sources the shape of the amalaka has been inspired by the fruit of Phyllanthus emblica (or Mirobalanus embilica), the Indian gooseberry, or myrobolan fig tree. This is called \"āmalaki\" in Sanscrit, and the fruit", "title": "Amalaka" }, { "id": "75504", "text": "4,000 years ago, and Native Americans used it in bows about 1,500 years ago. The oldest glue in the world, carbon-dated as more than 8,000 years old, was found to be collagen—used as a protective lining on rope baskets and embroidered fabrics, and to hold utensils together; also in crisscross decorations on human skulls. Collagen normally converts to gelatin, but survived due to dry conditions. Animal glues are thermoplastic, softening again upon reheating, so they are still used in making musical instruments such as fine violins and guitars, which may have to be reopened for repairs—an application incompatible with tough,", "title": "Collagen" }, { "id": "3227333", "text": "Hindu temple architecture Hindu temple architecture as the main form of Hindu architecture has many varieties of style, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the same, with the essential feature an inner sanctum, the \"garbha griha\" or womb-chamber, where the primary \"Murti\" or the image of a deity is housed in a simple bare cell. Around this chamber there are often other structures and buildings, in the largest cases covering several acres. On the exterior, the garbhagriha is crowned by a tower-like \"shikhara\", also called the \"vimana\" in the south. The shrine building often includes an ambulatory", "title": "Hindu temple architecture" }, { "id": "172693", "text": "and love) and moksha (pursuit of self-knowledge and liberation). Hindu Hindu () refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism. It has historically been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for people indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. The historical meaning of the term \"Hindu\" has evolved with time. Starting with the Persian and Greek references to the land of the Indus in the 1st millennium BCE through the texts of the medieval era, the term Hindu implied a geographic, ethnic or cultural identifier for people living in the", "title": "Hindu" }, { "id": "3859971", "text": "Esha Deol Esha Deol (born 2 November 1981) is an Indian film actress and model who predominantly appears in Hindi films. Daughter of actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini, Deol made her debut in \"Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe\" (2002) and was praised for her performance which earned her numerous awards and nominations including the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She earned critical acclaim for her performance and was part of commercially successesful films like \"LOC Kargil\" (2003), \"Yuva\" (2004), \"Dhoom\" (2004), \"Insan\" (2005), \"Kaal\" (2005), \"Main Aisa Hi Hoon\" (2005), \"Dus\" (2005), \"No Entry\" (2005), \"Shaadi No. 1\" (2005)", "title": "Esha Deol" }, { "id": "5664582", "text": "her husband. It is called, \"thaali\" (), \"maangalyam\" () in Tamil, \"mangal sutra\" () in Marathi, \"mangalyasutra\" (), \"thaali\" () in Kannada, and \"thaali\" (), \"maangalyamu\" (), \"mangalasutramu\" () or \"pustelu\" () in Telugu, \"thaali\" () in Malayalam. Konkanis (Goans and others, both Hindus and Christians) wear three necklaces around their necks, referred to as \"dhaaremani\" or \"muhurtmani\" (big golden bead), \"mangalasutra\" with one or two gold discs and \"kasithaali\" with gold and coral beads. In Kerala, a Christian version of the mangalsutra is called a \"minnu\". In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana regions, the two coin-sized gold discs are separated", "title": "Mangala sutra" }, { "id": "7360692", "text": "Marriage in Hinduism Hindu marriage joins two individuals for life, so that they can pursue dharma (duty), artha (possessions), and kama (physical desires). It is a union of two individuals as husband and wife, and is recognized by law. In Hinduism, marriage is followed by traditional rituals for consummation. In fact, marriage is not considered complete or valid until consummation. It also joins two families together. Favorable colours are normally red and gold for this occasion. The use of \"jathakam\" or \"Janam Kundali\" (astrological chart at the time of birth) of the son/daughter to match with the help of a", "title": "Marriage in Hinduism" }, { "id": "1745421", "text": "The Hindu The Hindu is an Indian daily newspaper, headquartered at Chennai. It was started as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the two Indian newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after \"The Times of India\" with average qualifying sales of 1.21 million copies as of Jan–Jun 2017. \"The Hindu\" has its largest base of circulation in southern India. The newspaper and other publications in \"The Hindu Group\" are owned by a family-held company, Kasturi and Sons Ltd. In 2010, the newspaper employed over 1,600 workers", "title": "The Hindu" }, { "id": "7657390", "text": "Shankha A Shankha is a conch shell of ritual and religious importance in Hinduism and Buddhism. It is the shell of a large predatory sea snail, \"Turbinella pyrum\", found in the Indian Ocean. In Hindu mythology, the shankha is a sacred emblem of the Hindu preserver god Vishnu. It is still used as a trumpet in Hindu ritual, and in the past was used as a war trumpet. The shankha is praised in Hindu scriptures as a giver of fame, longevity and prosperity, the cleanser of sin and the abode of goddess Lakshmi, who is the goddess of wealth and", "title": "Shankha" }, { "id": "12358746", "text": "thus has a copyright separate from any copyrights pertaining to the original incorporated works. Due to redefined and reinterpreted copyright laws, and increased financial interests, some forms of collage art are significantly restricted. For example, in the area of sound collage (such as hip hop music), some court rulings effectively have eliminated the de minimis doctrine as a defense to copyright infringement, thus shifting collage practice away from non-permissive uses relying on fair use or de minimis protections, and toward licensing. Examples of musical collage art that have run afoul of modern copyright are \"The Grey Album\" and Negativland's \"U2\".", "title": "Collage" }, { "id": "17894300", "text": "words of Sanskrit/Hindi/Urdu/Persian/Kurdi, Balochi/Pashto, that mean \"top\" or \"Summit of mouantain\" or \"mountain pass\" or \"valley\" (dale). Kurdish \"çiya\" ),kash or \"hind-o-kash\" ) mean also \"mountain\" or \"mountain pass\" or summit of mountain. \"Kotal\" or \"Kutal\" is an abbreviation of mountain and dale (mountain pass). Ferdoussi writes in his book, Shahnameh, books (Manucher and Kalileh wa Demneh, a part of Panjatantra ) from \"Kuh e Hind\" (, Mountain of India) Koh e Hindu Koh e Hindu ( \"Mountain of the Hindu\") is a mountain of the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan. It is located in near Shakardara District and Mir Bacha", "title": "Koh e Hindu" }, { "id": "12358737", "text": "or a new object. Examples can include houses, bead circles, etc. It is the art of putting together or assembling of small pieces of paper, tiles, marble, stones, etc. They are often found in cathedrals, churches, temples as a spiritual significance of interior design.Small pieces, normally roughly quadratic, of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae, (diminutive tessellae), are used to create a pattern or picture. The term \"eCollage\" (electronic Collage) can be used for a collage created by using computer tools. Though Le Corbusier and other architects used techniques that are akin to collage, collage as a", "title": "Collage" }, { "id": "6209074", "text": "steps: ^ Sapthapathi Manthras - Its meaning, http://bnaiyer.com/Hindu-Part-3/paths-13.html, retrieved 2016-02-19, \"... they both say: \"Now let us make a vow together. We shall share the same food, share the strengths ...\" Saptapadi Saptapadi (, \"saptapadī\") is the most important rite (Sanskrit: rītī) of a Hindu marriage ceremony. The word, Saptapadi means \"Seven steps\". After tying the Mangalsutra, the newlywed couple take seven steps around the holy fire, that is called Saptapadi. After the seventh step, the couple legally become husband and wife. Saptapadi is sometimes referred to as Saat Phere. In Eastern India, South India and Western India, during Hindu", "title": "Saptapadi" }, { "id": "15423113", "text": "US tour in 1988. Vital Sines Vital Sines was a Canadian post-punk/new wave band active between 1980 and 1988 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are best known for their hit single, \"Collage\", which was recently listed as one of the most influential Canadian alternative rock songs. The band got their start in punk rock venues in Toronto playing under the name 'The Offenders'. When Scott Taylor, the original drummer left the band they changed the name to Vital Sines, releasing their first indie single, \"Subway Suicide\" in 1981. Following this they often played under the cover name \"Tryfono & The", "title": "Vital Sines" }, { "id": "75503", "text": "to sufficient denaturation, e.g. by heating, the three tropocollagen strands separate partially or completely into globular domains, containing a different secondary structure to the normal collagen polyproline II (PPII), e.g. random coils. This process describes the formation of gelatin, which is used in many foods, including flavored gelatin desserts. Besides food, gelatin has been used in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and photography industries. From the Greek for glue, \"kolla\", the word collagen means \"glue producer\" and refers to the early process of boiling the skin and sinews of horses and other animals to obtain glue. Collagen adhesive was used by Egyptians about", "title": "Collagen" }, { "id": "12358744", "text": "photographs, yarns or fabric bring ideas into designs. Collage film is traditionally defined as, “A film that juxtaposes fictional scenes with footage taken from disparate sources, such as newsreels.” Combining different types of footage can have various implications depending on the director’s approach. Collage film can also refer to the physical collaging of materials onto filmstrips. Canadian Film maker, Arthur Lipsett, was especially renown for his collage films, many of which were made from the cutting room floors of the National Film Board studios. The use of CGI, or \"computer-generated imagery\", can be considered a form of collage, especially when", "title": "Collage" }, { "id": "12358729", "text": "a type of collage usually defined as a craft. It is the process of placing a picture into an object for decoration. Decoupage can involve adding multiple copies of the same image, cut and layered to add apparent depth. The picture is often coated with varnish or some other sealant for protection. In the early part of the 20th century, decoupage, like many other art methods, began experimenting with a less realistic and more abstract style. 20th-century artists who produced decoupage works include Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. The most famous decoupage work is Matisse's Blue Nude II. There are", "title": "Collage" }, { "id": "75501", "text": "hereditary link. Collagen is one of the long, fibrous structural proteins whose functions are quite different from those of globular proteins, such as enzymes. Tough bundles of collagen called \"collagen fibers\" are a major component of the extracellular matrix that supports most tissues and gives cells structure from the outside, but collagen is also found inside certain cells. Collagen has great tensile strength, and is the main component of fascia, cartilage, ligaments, tendons, bone and skin. Along with elastin and soft keratin, it is responsible for skin strength and elasticity, and its degradation leads to wrinkles that accompany aging. It", "title": "Collagen" }, { "id": "5546837", "text": "home of the husband. The thirteenth step beings once they enter the jagya of the groom and his virgin sisters welcome the wife in a ceremony called \"arti syäl\". They unveil the bride and adorn her with flower garlands and sprinkle puffed rice on her (a sign of prosperity). The fourteenth step is completed once the bride promises gifts to the sisters; she then moves on the fifteenth step where she steps on piles of rice in a path toward the kitchen. The final step is a series of rites, the first of which is the bride worshiping the ancestors", "title": "Hindu wedding" }, { "id": "17819485", "text": "Patravali Patravali or Pattal or Vistaraku or Vistar or Khali is an Indian eating plate or trencher made with broad dried leaves. It is mainly made from Sal leaves. It is also made from Banyan tree leaves. It is made in circular shape, by stitching 6 to 8 sal leaves with tiny wooden sticks. It is popular during traditional meals, festivals and in temples. It is a cottage industry in India where women work on weaving them at home in spare time. It was used extensively in the ancient times by Hindu sages for its purity. It was a custom", "title": "Patravali" }, { "id": "14525644", "text": "Worship in Hinduism Worship in Hinduism is an act of religious devotion usually directed to one or more Hindu deities. A sense of Bhakti or devotional love is generally invoked. This term is probably a central one in Hinduism. A direct translation from the Sanskrit to English is problematic. Worship takes a multitude of forms depending on community groups, geography and language. There is a flavour of loving and being in love with whatever object or focus of devotion. Worship is not confined to any place of worship, it also incorporates personal reflection, art forms and group. Hindus usually perform", "title": "Worship in Hinduism" }, { "id": "5546809", "text": "bride to her new home. The wedding marks the start of the \"Grihastha\" (householder) stage of life for the new couple. In India, by law and tradition, no Hindu marriage is binding or complete unless the ritual of seven steps and vows in presence of fire (\"Saptapadi\") is completed by the bride and the groom together. This requirement is under debate, given that several Hindu communities (such as the Nayars of Kerala or Bunts of Tulu Nadu) do not observe these rites. Ancient Hindu literature, in for example the \"Asvalayana Grhyasutra\" and \"Atharvaveda\", identifies eight forms of marriage. They are", "title": "Hindu wedding" }, { "id": "11622482", "text": "Aśuddhatā \"Aśuddhatā\", a Telugu term most often used by Hindus in India, means ritual impurity or uncleanness. Hindus believe in a duality of purity and impurity. They think that people are both pure and impure and they understand that a person cannot be entirely one or the other. While impurity has a negative connotation, “impurities are thought to be part of everyday life and all humans alternate between relative purity (\"suddhatā\") and relative impurity (\"aśuddhatā\"). It is therefore best that these impurities be avoided as much as possible. \"Chõyāchũyi\" is a form of \"aśuddhatā\". It can be defined as “mutual", "title": "Aśuddhatā" }, { "id": "11111410", "text": "Baha'i Faith. . The Qur'an and the Hadiths are the primary Islamic scriptures. The scriptures of Hinduism are the \"Shrutis\" (the four \"Vedas\", which comprise the original Vedic Hymns, or Samhitas, and three tiers of commentaries upon the Samhitas, namely the Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads); these are considered authentic, authoritative divine revelation. Furthermore, Hinduism is also based on the \"Smritis\", including the \"Rāmāyana\", the \"Bhagavad Gītā\", and the \"Purānas\", which are also considered to be equally sacred. Hinduism and Islam share some ritual practices such as fasting and pilgrimage, but differ in their views on apostasy, blasphemy, circumcision, consanguineous marriages,", "title": "Hindu–Islamic relations" }, { "id": "5546840", "text": "marriage differ by religion. According to the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, passed by the Parliament of India, for all legal purposes, all Hindus of any caste, creed or sect, Sikh, Buddhists and Jains are deemed Hindus and can intermarry. By the Special Marriage Act, 1954, a Hindu can marry a person who is not Hindu, employing any ceremony, provided specified legal conditions are fulfilled. By Section 7 of Hindu Marriage Act, and tradition, no Hindu marriage is binding and complete before the seventh step of the \"Saptapadi\" ritual, in presence of fire, by the bride and the groom together.", "title": "Hindu wedding" }, { "id": "2723282", "text": "Japamala A Japamala or mala (Sanskrit:; , meaning \"garland\") is a string of prayer beads commonly used by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and some Sikhs for the spiritual practice known in Sanskrit as \"japa\". It is usually made from 108 beads, though other numbers are also used. Malas are used for keeping count while reciting, chanting, or mentally repeating a mantra or the name or names of God. Mantras are typically repeated hundreds or even thousands of times. The mala is used so that one can focus on the meaning or sound of the mantra rather than counting its repetitions. One", "title": "Japamala" }, { "id": "14944674", "text": "Director General Irina Bokova, the first of a series of events under the patronage of UNESCO and of Italian Ministry of the Environment. Notes Further reading Indian Ocean garbage patch The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres. The patch does not appear as a continuous debris field. As with other patches in each of the five oceanic gyres, the plastics in it break down to ever smaller particles, and to", "title": "Indian Ocean garbage patch" }, { "id": "2313555", "text": "truth. Indeed, one of the great surprises of my editorial work has been to discover how few of the over fifty manuscripts that I collated actually follow the vulgate in key readings.\" The \"sacred thread\" ( \"yajñopavītam\" or \"upavīta\") is a thin cord, composed of three cotton strands. The strands symbolize different things in their regions. For example, among Tamil Hindus, each strand is for each of the three trinity of goddesses (Parvati, Lakshmi and Saraswati). The ancient Sanskrit texts offer a diverse view while describing yajñopavītam or upavita. The term upavita was originally meant to be any upper garment,", "title": "Upanayana" }, { "id": "7532130", "text": "Jagdeep Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri (born 29 March 1939), better known as Jagdeep, is an Indian film actor and comedian who has appeared in more than 400 films. He is especially known for his comic roles. He played Soorma Bhopali in \"Sholay\" (1975), Machchar in \"Purana Mandir\" (1984), Salman Khan's dad in \"Andaz Apna Apna\" (1994) and directed the movie \"Soorma Bhopali\", with his character as the protagonist. Jagdeep started his film career as a child artist extra in B. R. Chopra's \"Afsana\", then went on to do films as a child artist in films like \"Ab Dilli Door Nahin\",", "title": "Jagdeep" }, { "id": "4630817", "text": "Hindu music Hindu music is music created for or influenced by Hinduism. It includes Indian classical music, Kirtan, Bhajan and other musical genres. Raagas are a common form of Hindu music in classical India. The most common Hindu bhajan in North India is \"Om Jai Jagdish Hare.\" The names of Gods are religiously chanted, often including Vishnu and his incarnations, Shiva and the Goddess (Parvati, Shakti, Vaishnodevi). A very common scale in Hindu music is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, which can be harmonized into a chord progression. A bhajan is a Hindu devotional song, often of ancient", "title": "Hindu music" }, { "id": "178233", "text": "Mala\" text using the phrase \"\"Hindu dharma\"\". It was only towards the end of the 18th century that European merchants and colonists began to refer to the followers of Indian religions collectively as \"Hindus\". The term \"Hinduism\", then spelled \"Hindooism\", was introduced into the English language in the 18th century to denote the religious, philosophical, and cultural traditions native to India. Hinduism includes a diversity of ideas on spirituality and traditions, but has no ecclesiastical order, no unquestionable religious authorities, no governing body, no prophet(s) nor any binding holy book; Hindus can choose to be polytheistic, pantheistic, monotheistic, monistic, agnostic,", "title": "Hinduism" }, { "id": "14525652", "text": "duration of a yajna depends on the type; some can last a few minutes, hours or days and some even last for years. Some yajnas are performed privately, others with a large number of people in attendance. Substances that are commonly used in Hindu worship include ghee, incense, kumkum, Marigold, milk, sandalwood, tulsi and vibhuti. Among objects used are the altar, banana leaves, bhog, coconuts, diya (oil lamps), fly-whisks, garlands, prasad, shankha (conch) and tilaka. Prasād is a mental condition of generosity, as well as a material substance that is first offered to a deity and then consumed. Literally, a", "title": "Worship in Hinduism" }, { "id": "16014841", "text": "of long lasting glowing relationship. The couples offered to eat the roasted coconut (charu) from the homa during the night. There is also a tradition of the bride carrying a glass of kesara dudha (saffron milk) to the bridegroom. This ritual is also commonly known as Suhag Raat in Indian tradition. This is especially important because, marriage is in fact not considered complete or valid until consummation. The bride and the bridegroom are invited to the bride's house on the eighth day after the wedding known as Asṭa mangaḷā. Traditional Odia cuisine is prepared and served for the newly married", "title": "Odia Hindu wedding" }, { "id": "20090043", "text": "Newton (film) Newton is a 2017 Indian drama film co-written and directed by Amit V. Masurkar. The film stars Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil and Raghubir Yadav. The film was produced by Manish Mundra under Drishyam Films, known for the 2015 film \"Masaan\", and the film is Amit Masurkar’s second feature after his debut film, \"Sulemani Keeda\" in 2013. \"Newton\" had its world premiere in the Forum section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film received universal acclaim, securing eight nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film (Critics), Best Actor (Critics) for Rao and Best", "title": "Newton (film)" }, { "id": "20090026", "text": "Newton (film) Newton is a 2017 Indian drama film co-written and directed by Amit V. Masurkar. The film stars Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil and Raghubir Yadav. The film was produced by Manish Mundra under Drishyam Films, known for the 2015 film \"Masaan\", and the film is Amit Masurkar’s second feature after his debut film, \"Sulemani Keeda\" in 2013. \"Newton\" had its world premiere in the Forum section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film received universal acclaim, securing eight nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film (Critics), Best Actor (Critics) for Rao and Best", "title": "Newton (film)" }, { "id": "13260925", "text": "Hindu wedding cards Hindu Wedding cards or invitations hallmark Hindu marriage rituals and customs which are entangled with eternal bonding, affection and blessing. The lavish traditions are highlighted with opulently colored Hindu wedding invitations aesthetically designed in handmade paper and designs enriched with heart-felt emotions. Hindu invitations symbolize glitter, lively mood and fun of the matrimonial ceremony. The Indian wedding cards are not only to inform and invite rather they express style and theme of the special day. Religious symbols such as Lord Ganesha and Mangal Ghat are embedded in rich texture to seek the blessings of God. The relevance", "title": "Hindu wedding cards" }, { "id": "12771332", "text": "be an addendum to the Guardians and Wards Act of 1890, not its replacement. Any former law that is inconsistent with this law is declared legally void. This law supersedes all other relevant laws. This Act applies to all Hindus, meaning those who belong to the Hindu religion or any of its developmental forms. These include the Lingayat, Virashiva, and those who follow Brahmo, Prarthana or Arya Samaj. Those who practice the religions of Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism are also considered Hindus. Finally, those who are not Muslim, Christian, Parsi or Jewish are governed by this Act unless they can", "title": "Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act" }, { "id": "11699056", "text": "pillar or column, e. g. dedicated to Vishnu «Tower of victory» (Vijay Stambha) at Chittorgarh fort, Rajasthan. «Dhvaja-stambhas» are founding at the entrance of temples as flagstaffs, often with the image of lingam and sacred animals. Chhatris are elevated, dome-shaped pavilions used as an element in Indian architecture, originating in Rajasthani architecture. They are widely used in palaces, in forts, or to demarcate funerary sites, etc. Ghat is a series of steps leading down to a body of water, particularly a holy river or lake. Goshalas are protective shelters for cows as sacred animals in India. Goshalas focus on treating", "title": "Hindu architecture" }, { "id": "18235710", "text": "4, 2016. It was released on April 8 in 15 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Russia, Malaysia, and most notably in India a week ahead of its U.S. debut on April 15. The release date in India was strategic for the film as it coincided with the Indian New Year and was a holiday in most parts of the country. The film had a special Hindi version with famous actors giving their voices to the main characters, including Irrfan Khan as Baloo, Om Puri as Bagheera, Priyanka Chopra as Ka, Nana Patekar as Sher Khan and Shefali Shah as Raksha, for", "title": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)" }, { "id": "2706645", "text": "it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colours and saying farewell to winter. To many Hindus, Holi festivities mark the beginning of the new year as well as an occasion to reset and renew ruptured relationships, end conflicts and rid themselves of accumulated emotional impurities from the past. It also has a religious purpose, symbolically signified by the legend of Holika. The night before Holi, bonfires are lit in a ceremony known as Holika Dahan (burning of Holika) or Little Holi. People gather near fires, sing and dance. The next day, Holi, also known as \"Dhuli\" in Sanskrit, or", "title": "Holi" }, { "id": "14467845", "text": "Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance The Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance (HSTA) is a recently founded NGO headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana, India. Its main focus is conservation of endangered sea turtle species in the Indian Ocean, particularly in the Bay of Bengal, where recent netting operations have proven disastrous for these precious creatures. HSTA was founded by Shalini Subramanium. HSTA hosted a Live Earth Run for Water in New Delhi on 18 April 2010. The event provided participants with educational material on the water crisis as it relates to humans and the environment as well as the plight of sea turtles, but", "title": "Hindustan Sea Turtle Alliance" }, { "id": "5633161", "text": "Rakul Preet Singh, and Hema Malini. The film had difficulty attracting buyers as of July 2018, and has not been released. Ramesh Sippy Ramesh Sippy (born 23 January 1947) is an Indian film director and producer, best known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film \"Sholay\". He is a winner of the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2013. Sippy's father was producer G. P. Sippy. His son Rohan Sippy is a film director. His daughter Sheena was once married to Shashi Kapoor's son, Kunal Kapoor until they divorced in 2004. Ramesh Sippy has been married twice; his current", "title": "Ramesh Sippy" }, { "id": "16541614", "text": "Thattathin Marayathu Thattathin Marayathu (English: Beneath the Shadow of the Veil) is a 2012 Malayalam musical-romantic drama film written and directed by Vineeth Sreenivasan, starring Nivin Pauly and Isha Talwar in the lead roles. The supporting cast includes Aju Varghese, Manoj K. Jayan, Sunny Wayne, Sreeram Ramachandran, Bhagath Manuel, Manikuttan, Sreenivasan, and Niveda Thomas. The film was produced by actors Mukesh and Sreenivasan. The film is about a Hindu boy, Vinod Nair (Nivin Pauly), and a Muslim girl, Aisha (Isha Talwar), and the conflict arising out of this inter-faith relationship. The movie was remade in Telugu as \"Saheba Subramanyam\" and", "title": "Thattathin Marayathu" }, { "id": "178295", "text": "(first shave for boys, menarche for girls), Samavartana (graduation ceremony), Vivaha (wedding), \"Vratas\" (fasting, spiritual studies) and Antyeshti (cremation for an adult, burial for a child). In contemporary times, there is regional variation among Hindus as to which of these sanskaras are observed; in some cases, additional regional rites of passage such as \"Śrāddha\" (ritual of feeding people after cremation) are practiced. \"Bhakti\" refers to devotion, participation in and the love of a personal god or a representational god by a devotee. \"Bhakti marga\" is considered in Hinduism as one of many possible paths of spirituality and alternative means to", "title": "Hinduism" }, { "id": "4135441", "text": "are cultural practices, and not required by its religious texts. Hinduism is a way of life, is diverse, has no binding book of rules of its faith, nor any that mandate any dress rules on Hindu women. The choice is left to the individual discretion. Other ornaments worn by Hindu women are sometimes known as \"solah singar\" (sixteen decorations): \"bindi, necklaces, earrings, flowers in the hair, rings, bangles, armlets (for the upper arm), waistbands, ankle-bells, kohl (or kajal – mascara), toe rings, henna, perfume, sandalwood paste, the upper garment, and the lower garment\". Bernard Cohn (2001) states that clothing in", "title": "Women in Hinduism" }, { "id": "5394918", "text": "a new constitution in 1950. Most of the legal code from the colonial era continued as the law of the new nation, including the personal laws contained in Anglo-Hindu law for Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs, the Anglo-Christian law for Christians, and the Anglo-Muslim law for Muslims. Article 44 of the 1950 Indian constitution mandates a uniform civil code, eliminating all religion-based civil laws including Hindu law, Christian law and Muslim law throughout the territory of India. However, while Hindu law has since been amended to be independent of ancient religious texts, the Article 44 of the Indian constitution has", "title": "Hindu law" }, { "id": "5394921", "text": "Christian or Muslim. Sources Hindu law Hindu law, as a historical term, refers to the code of laws applied to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs in British India. Hindu law, in modern scholarship, also refers to the legal theory, jurisprudence and philosophical reflections on the nature of law discovered in ancient and medieval era Indian texts. It is one of the oldest known jurisprudence theories in the world. Hindu tradition, in its surviving ancient texts, does not express the law in the canonical sense of \"ius\" or of \"lex\". The ancient term in Indian texts is Dharma, which means more", "title": "Hindu law" }, { "id": "18176084", "text": "Charitable Endowments Act XXII of 1959 which came into force with effect from 1 January 1960. From 1991, no religious and spiritual leaders are involved in maintenance and administration of the Hindu Temples and Charitable Endowments. However, the maintenance and administration of the Jain temples are under the administration of Jain religious and spiritual leaders. The act controls 36,425 temples, 56 mutts or religious orders (and 47 temples belonging to mutts), 1,721 specific endowments and 189 trusts. Annadhanam Scheme is conducted in 518 Temples and 50 to 300 devotees are provided with mid day meals after Uchikala Pooja. In every", "title": "Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department" }, { "id": "4742801", "text": "Kadhalan Kadhalan (Translation: Loverboy) is a 1994 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller film written and directed by S. Shankar and produced by K. T. Kunjumon. The film stars Prabhu Deva and Nagma, while Raghuvaran, Girish Karnad and Vadivelu play other pivotal roles. The film's score and soundtrack were composed by A. R. Rahman. \"Kadhalan\" was dubbed in Hindi as Humse Hai Muqabala and in Telugu as Premikudu and performed well in both regions. The film received positive reviews from critics and enjoyed commercial success upon release in September 1994. It won many recognitions and honours, including the Filmfare Best Director for", "title": "Kadhalan" }, { "id": "178300", "text": "local traditions, while a few such as \"Holi\" and \"Diwali\" are pan-Hindu. The festivals typically celebrate events from Hinduism, connoting spiritual themes and celebrating aspects of human relationships such as the Sister-Brother bond over the \"Raksha Bandhan\" (or Bhai Dooj) festival. The same festival sometimes marks different stories depending on the Hindu denomination, and the celebrations incorporate regional themes, traditional agriculture, local arts, family get togethers, Puja rituals and feasts. Some major regional or pan-Hindu festivals include: Many adherents undertake pilgrimages, which have historically been an important part of Hinduism and remain so today. Pilgrimage sites are called \"Tirtha\", \"Kshetra\",", "title": "Hinduism" }, { "id": "12700925", "text": "and partial reform, but overall the legal system only slightly changed. In the end, a series of four major pieces of personal law legislation were passed in 1955-56 and these laws form the first point of reference for modern Hindu law: Hindu Marriage Act (1955), Hindu Succession Act (1956), Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act (1956), and Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act (1956). Though these legislative moves purported to resolve still unclear parts of the Anglo-Hindu law, the case law and interpretive tradition of British judges and Indian judges in the British employ remained and remains crucial to the application of", "title": "Modern Hindu law" }, { "id": "968725", "text": "Apsara An apsara, also spelled as apsaras by the Oxford Dictionary (respective plurals apsaras and apsarases), is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist culture. They figure prominently in the sculpture, dance, literature and painting of many South Asian and Southeast Asian cultures. There are two types of apsaras; laukika (worldly), of whom thirty-four are specified, and daivika (divine), of which there are ten. Urvasi, Menaka, Rambha, Tilottama and Ghritachi are the most famous among them. \"Apsarās\" are known as \"vidhya dhari\" or \"tep apsar\" (ទេពអប្សរ) in Khmer, \"accharā\" (Pāli) or \"a bố sa la", "title": "Apsara" } ]

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[ { "id": "14052140", "text": "depression. The JTWC upgraded the system to a tropical storm on December 14, but downgraded it to a tropical depression early on December 15, and the PAGASA designated it \"Sendong\" as it entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility. After passing Palau on December 15, both the JTWC and the JMA upgraded the system to a tropical storm and named it \"Washi\". On December 16, Washi made landfall over Surigao del Sur, a province of the Philippines located in Mindanao. Several hours later, Washi arrived at the Sulu Sea and regained its strength quickly, due to slight land interaction with Mindanao.", "title": "2011 Pacific typhoon season" }, { "id": "315596", "text": "due to the rejection of the U.S. Bases Extension Treaty, and leading to the official transfer of Clark Air Base in November 1991 and Subic Bay to the government in December 1992. The administration also faced a series of natural disasters, including the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991. After introducing a constitution that limited presidents to a single term, Aquino did not stand for re-election. Aquino was succeeded by Fidel V. Ramos, who won the Philippine presidential election held in May 1992. During this period the country's economic performance remained modest, with a 3.6% percent GDP growth rate.", "title": "Philippines" }, { "id": "14192269", "text": "Singapore after meeting Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong during the sidelines of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations in New York City. It was during the Presidency of Fidel Ramos that the Philippines became a member of the World Trade Organization which is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1948. The organization deals with regulation of trade between participating countries; it provides a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements, and", "title": "Presidency of Fidel Ramos" }, { "id": "14504935", "text": "tropical depression formed on the South China Sea, from Tropical Storm 07W's trough. On June 14, the PAGASA announced it had entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility, assigning the name Ester. Tropical Depression Ester (08W) made landfall by midnight, and after intensifying into a tropical storm had been assigned the name Gaemi by the JMA. On June 16, Gaemi became extratropical. On June 19, the NDRRMC reported that 3 people had died from monsoonal rains enhanced by Gaemi. Agricultural damage in Okinawa Prefecture were about ¥84.58 million (US$764,000). A low-pressure area west of Okinotorishima developed into a tropical depression on", "title": "2018 Pacific typhoon season" }, { "id": "14425393", "text": "President Emilio Aguinaldo ordered the establishment of a postal service to provide postal services to Filipinos during that time. It was later organized as a bureau under today's Department of Trade and Industry, then known as the Department of Trade, on September 5, 1902, by virtue of Act No. 426, which was passed by the Philippine Commission. The Philippines eventually joined the Universal Postal Union as a sovereign entity, on January 1, 1922. During the early Spanish regime in the Philippines, exchange of letters and communications were limited to those belonging to the officials of the government and the dignitaries", "title": "Postage stamps and postal history of the Philippines" }, { "id": "7288107", "text": "Philippine Area of Responsibility The Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) is an area in the Northwestern Pacific where PAGASA, the Philippines' national meteorological agency monitors weather occurrences. Significant weather disturbances, specifically, tropical depressions and tropical cyclones, that enter or develop in the PAR are given Philippine-specific names. The area is bounded by six points namely: This area encompasses almost all of the land territory of the Philippines, except for the southernmost portions of the province of Tawi-Tawi, and some of the country's claimed islands in the Spratlys. The area also includes the main island of Palau, most of Taiwan, as", "title": "Philippine Area of Responsibility" }, { "id": "18022717", "text": "the Philippines is a \"major non-NATO ally\" of the United States. The U.S. acquired the Philippines from Spain after the Spanish–American War of 1898 and then fought the Philippine–American War against Philippine revolutionaries to secure their rule. After both wars, the Philippines was a territory of the United States from 1898 to 1946. The United States granted the Philippines independence in 1946. The Mutual Defense Treaty was signed in 1951 and ratified in 1952 by the governments of the United States and the Philippines. The purpose of the Treaty was to \"strengthen the fabric of peace\" in the Pacific, by", "title": "Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement" }, { "id": "316097", "text": "Administration governed various Pacific island colonies from Manila. These include the present-day Guam, and parts of Micronesia, all of which were given separate administrations under American oversight after Spain transferred power to the United States in accordance with the Treaty of Paris. Spanish Manila also governed possessions in Borneo, Halmahera, Taiwan, Pulau Ternate and Pulau Tidore, all of which transferred to non-American entities after the Spanish–American War. Sabah, the largest region which the Philippines claim, is now an integral part of Malaysia. On January 23, 1878, Sulu Sultan Jamalul Alam leased or ceded (depending on translation used) his territory in", "title": "Foreign relations of the Philippines" }, { "id": "4174995", "text": "Bacoor in Cavite, Parañaque and Las Piñas in Morong, Macabebe, and San Fernando in Pampanga, as well as Laguna, Batangas, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Bataan, Tayabas (present-day Quezon), and the Camarines provinces, were liberated by the Filipinos. They were also able to capture the port of Dalahican in Cavite. By June 1898, the island of Luzon, except for Manila and the port of Cavite, was under Filipino control, after General Monet's retreat to Manila with his remaining force of 600 men and 80 wounded. The revolutionaries were laying siege to Manila and cutting off its food and water supply. With most", "title": "Philippine Revolution" }, { "id": "13974720", "text": "returned to Spain in 1522, after which Spain claimed dominion over the Philippine archipelago on the basis of discovery, a valid mode of acquisition at the time. On April 27, 1565, Spanish Conquistadores attacked the defiant Rajah Tupas, who had succeeded Rajah Humabon as king of Cebu. Tupas was defeated and made to sign an agreement after his defeat, effectively placing the Philippines under Spain. On February 8, 1597, King Philip II, near the end of his 42-year reign, issued a Royal Cedula instructing to Francisco de Tello de Guzmán, then Governor-General of the Philippines in severe terms to fulfill", "title": "Sovereignty of the Philippines" }, { "id": "5403928", "text": "pact between the Philippines and the US has been amended. The year 1979 witnessed a turning point for both countries - Philippines claimed a sovereign rule over the base and the US area of responsibility was reduced from 24,000 hectares to 6,300 hectares. What followed was a series of events that would change the course of Subic Bay forever. On June 15, 1991, volcanic ashes and debris rained over the base, devastating Subic Bay and neighboring provinces. Mt. Pinatubo's fury has left the US Navy and Air Force no option but to evacuate all their dependents. When Pinatubo's rage came", "title": "Subic, Zambales" }, { "id": "18733312", "text": "Typhoon Nari, or Typhoon Santi. Later that day after the system had intensified into a typhoon and accelerated slightly towards the Philippines slightly, PAGASA placed 17 areas in Luzon under Signal #1, 14 areas under Signal #2 and Aurora Province under Signal #3. During October 11, the areas under signal 3 were expanded to include Benguet, Ifugao, Ilocos Sur, Isabela, La Union, Pangasinan, Polilio Island, Quirino, Nueva Ecija and Tarlac. Over the next day, the warnings were gradually revised before they were all subsequently cancelled during October 12, as the system moved out of the Philippine Area of Responsibility and", "title": "Effects of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season in the Philippines" }, { "id": "11525034", "text": "location rendered it strategically important to Philippine national security\". In 1978, the Philippine Presidential Decree No. 1599 was based on the fact that Kalayaan is within the Philippine 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The Philippine claim extends over an area of 70,150 sq. nm. The Philippines sent troops to the Spratly group for the first time in 1968. It prioritized large islands such as Pagasa (Thitu Island), Likas (West York Island), Parola (Northeast Cay), Kota (Loaita Island, Lawak (Nanshan Island), and Pugad (Southwest Cay). Two small islands, Patag (Flat Island) and Panata (Lankiam Cay), were also occupied. To further the", "title": "Philippines and the Spratly Islands" }, { "id": "17626725", "text": "at the city of San Francisco on 8 September 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the San Francisco Treaty), Japan has renounced all right, title, and claim to Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) as well as the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands.\" The Philippines bases its claim on its geographical proximity to the Spratly Islands. In May 1956, the dispute escalated after Filipino national Tomas Cloma and his followers settled on the islands and declared the territory as \"Freedomland\", now known as Kalayaan for himself and later requested to make the territory a protectorate of the Philippines. Tomas Cloma", "title": "Philippines v. China" }, { "id": "20486659", "text": "ceremony attended by President Ferdinand Marcos. This linked the country to a worldwide communications satellite network.In June 21, 1969, the company was given a franchise through Republic Act No. 5514 to operate ground stations and other facilities for international satellite communications. It was also granted tax exemptions under the same law. This exemption was terminated by Presidential Decree No. 34, which amended the Tariff and Customs Code which was enacted on October 27, 1972. This exemptions were granted again on August 31, 1976 through Presidential Decree No. 990. The government sold its stakes to a private holding firm owned by", "title": "Philippine Communications Satellite Corporation" }, { "id": "315792", "text": "the Philippines was set for July 4, 1946, a timetable which was followed after the passage of almost eleven very eventful years. Japan launched a surprise attack on the Clark Air Base in Pampanga on the morning of December 8, 1941, just ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Aerial bombardment was followed by landings of ground troops on Luzon. The defending Philippine and United States troops were under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. Under the pressure of superior numbers, the defending forces withdrew to the Bataan Peninsula and to the island of Corregidor at the entrance to", "title": "History of the Philippines" }, { "id": "315582", "text": "of a threatened invasion by the Japan-born Ming-dynasty loyalist, Koxinga, ruler of the Kingdom of Tungning. However, the planned invasion was aborted. Meanwhile, settlers were sent to the Pacific islands of Palau and the Marianas. Spanish rule eventually contributed significantly to bringing political unity to the fragmented states of the archipelago. From 1565 to 1821, the Philippines was governed as a territory of the Mexico-based Viceroyalty of New Spain and then was administered directly from Madrid after the Mexican War of Independence. The Manila galleons, the largest wooden ships ever built, were constructed in Bicol and Cavite. The Manila galleons", "title": "Philippines" }, { "id": "7568368", "text": "new thrusts and priorities in Philippine foreign policy be determined. During the Cold War, against the backdrop of the Korean War in 1950 and rising communism in China, the Philippines projected an increasing internationalist foreign policy. The Philippines helped forge the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade or GATT in 1949, became a founding member of the United Nations and one of the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and was among the early proponents of disarmament and non-interference in the internal affairs of free peoples. The Philippines' greater participation in global matters culminated in Carlos P. Romulo’s", "title": "Department of Foreign Affairs (Philippines)" }, { "id": "9395348", "text": "Office of the Cabinet Secretary, based on Executive Order No. 1 issued by President Rodrigo Duterte. It was transferred back to the Department of Agriculture, along with the National Food Authority and the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority, by Executive Order No. 62 issued in September 2018. A 2014 report indicated that the Philippine Coconut Authority had partnered with the Bureau of Fisheries and Agriculture in a Food-For-Work programme designed to provide sustainable sources of livelihood for people impacted by the 2013 Bohol earthquake. Philippine Coconut Authority The Philippines' Philippine Coconut Authority (, abbreviated as PCA or PHILCOA), is an agency", "title": "Philippine Coconut Authority" }, { "id": "11278888", "text": "Benevolent assimilation The term benevolent assimilation refers to a policy of the United States towards the Philippines as described in a proclamation by U.S. President William McKinley issued on December 21, 1898. It succinctly stated that \"future control, disposition, and government of the Philippine islands were ceded to the United States\" and that \"the military government is to be to the whole of the ceded territory.\" The proclamation was issued after Spain was defeated in the Spanish–American War but before fighting began in the Philippine–American War. Prior to the proclamation, the United States had defeated Spain during the naval Battle", "title": "Benevolent assimilation" }, { "id": "2255159", "text": "the Philippine Assembly. The Philippines became a U.S. colony in the fashion of Europe's New Imperialism, with benevolent colonial practices. English joined Spanish as an official language, and English language education was made compulsory. In 1916, the United States passed the Philippine Autonomy Act and committed itself to granting independence to the Philippines \"as soon as a stable government can be established therein.\" As a step to full independence in 1946, partial autonomy as a Commonwealth was granted in 1935. Preparation for a fully sovereign state was interrupted by the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. The", "title": "United States territorial acquisitions" }, { "id": "315618", "text": "of Samar and Leyte but it is traversed by the San Juanico Bridge. Situated on the western fringes of the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines experiences frequent seismic and volcanic activity. The Benham Plateau to the east in the Philippine Sea is an undersea region active in tectonic subduction. Around 20 earthquakes are registered daily, though most are too weak to be felt. The last major earthquake was the 1990 Luzon earthquake. There are many active volcanoes such as the Mayon Volcano, Mount Pinatubo, and Taal Volcano. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 produced the second largest", "title": "Philippines" }, { "id": "7288108", "text": "well as portions of the Malaysian state of Sabah and the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa. The establishing decree of PAGASA mandates the weather agency, particularly its National Weather Office, to monitor weather occurrences occurring within the PAR. This area is defined by the World Meteorological Organization. Tropical depressions and tropical cyclones (typhoons) are only assigned local names by PAGASA when they enter or develop within the PAR. These names are provided in parallel with internationally recognized names designated by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The rationale for providing local names is that it is felt that Filipinos will respond more to", "title": "Philippine Area of Responsibility" }, { "id": "10462054", "text": "Japanese occupation of the Philippines The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: \"Pananakop ng mga Hapones sa Pilipinas\"; Japanese: 日本のフィリピン占領; Hepburn: \"Nihon no Firipin Senryō\") occurred between 1942 and 1945, when Imperial Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. The invasion of the Philippines started on 8 December 1941, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. As at Pearl Harbor, American aircraft were severely damaged in the initial Japanese attack. Lacking air cover, the American Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines withdrew to Java on 12 December 1941. General Douglas MacArthur was ordered out, leaving his", "title": "Japanese occupation of the Philippines" }, { "id": "4174969", "text": "not completely defeated and was still considered to be a threat. South of Manila, the towns of San Francisco de Malabon, Noveleta and Kawit in Cavite rebelled a few days after. In Nueva Ecija, north of Manila, rebels in San Isidro, led by Mariano Llanera, attacked the Spanish garrison on September 2–4; they were repulsed. By August 30, the revolt had spread to eight provinces. On that date, Governor-General Blanco declared a \"state of war\" in these provinces and placed them under martial law. These provinces were Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Pampanga, Tarlac, Laguna, Batangas, and Nueva Ecija. They would later", "title": "Philippine Revolution" }, { "id": "7288110", "text": "has to issue bulletins every 12 hours. Philippine Area of Responsibility The Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) is an area in the Northwestern Pacific where PAGASA, the Philippines' national meteorological agency monitors weather occurrences. Significant weather disturbances, specifically, tropical depressions and tropical cyclones, that enter or develop in the PAR are given Philippine-specific names. The area is bounded by six points namely: This area encompasses almost all of the land territory of the Philippines, except for the southernmost portions of the province of Tawi-Tawi, and some of the country's claimed islands in the Spratlys. The area also includes the main", "title": "Philippine Area of Responsibility" }, { "id": "6568629", "text": "which renamed the Welfare Fund as the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). In 1995, the Republic Act 8042, or Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act, became law. 700,000 of the world's mariners come from the Philippines, being the world's largest origin of seafarers. The Philippine government has stated officially for decades that it doesn't maintain a labor export policy, and has continued to claim so as of 2012. During the Presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, three government agencies were created to tend to the needs of Filipino migrant workers, namely: In 1982, these three agencies were consolidated to create the Philippine", "title": "Overseas Filipino Worker" }, { "id": "7893477", "text": "many Filipino families to remain separate for a number of years. If they wished to return to the US, the Filipinos were restricted under the quota system established by the Tydings–McDuffie Act which limited the number of Filipinos entering the US to 50 per year. Along with Guam and Puerto Rico, the United States acquired the Philippines from Spain following the Spanish–American War in 1898 and it became United States territory. The Jones Act of 1916 made it official policy to grant Philippines independence and the Tydings–McDuffie Act of 1935 laid out the timeline and process by which that would", "title": "Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935" }, { "id": "315699", "text": "Legazpi's expedition on February 13, 1565 from Mexico. He established the first permanent settlement in Cebu. Much of the archipelago came under Spanish rule, creating the first unified political structure known as the Philippines. Spanish colonial rule saw the introduction of Christianity, the code of law and the oldest modern university in Asia. The Philippines was ruled under the Mexico-based Viceroyalty of New Spain. After which, the colony was directly governed by Spain. Spanish rule ended in 1898 with Spain's defeat in the Spanish–American War. The Philippines then became a territory of the United States. U.S forces suppressed a Philippine", "title": "History of the Philippines" }, { "id": "4174994", "text": "Hong Kong on May 15, bearing orders to transport Aguinaldo to Manila. Aguinaldo departed Hong Kong aboard \"McCulloch\" on May 17, arriving in Manila Bay on May 19. Several revolutionaries, as well as Filipino soldiers employed by the Spanish army, crossed over to Aguinaldo's command. On May 28, 1898, with fresh reinforcements, about 12,000 men raided the last remaining stronghold of the Spanish Empire in Cavite in the Battle of Alapan. This battle eventually liberated Cavite from Spanish colonial control and led to the first time the modern flag of the Philippines being unfurled in victory. Soon after, Imus and", "title": "Philippine Revolution" }, { "id": "4174951", "text": "when Andres Novales, a creole captain, declared the Philippines to be independent from Spain and crowned himself Emperor of the Philippines. In January 1872, the Insular uprisings began when soldiers and workers of the Cavite Arsenal of Fort San Felipe mutinied. They were led by Sergeant Ferdinand La Madrid, a Spanish mestizo. The soldiers mistook the fireworks in Quiapo, which were being fired for the feast of St. Sebastian, as the signal to start a long-planned national uprising. The colonial government used the incident to spread a reign of terror and to eliminate subversive political and church figures. Among these", "title": "Philippine Revolution" }, { "id": "16151726", "text": "the depression was forecast to intensify slowly over the following three days. For much of December 13, a slight increase in shear displaced thunderstorm activity from the center of the depression, delaying intensification. By December 14, convection redeveloped over the low and the JTWC subsequently assessed the system to have attained tropical storm status. Early on December 15, the system crossed west of 135°E and entered the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration's (PAGASA) area of responsibility. Upon doing so, PAGASA began issuing advisories and assigned the cyclone with the local name \"Sendong\". Shortly thereafter, the storm passed close", "title": "Tropical Storm Washi" }, { "id": "3930591", "text": "western Pacific Ocean - which trace back 30,000 years before being colonized by Spain in the 16th century and later occupied by the United States, which led to the outbreak of the Philippine–American War (1899–1902). The Commonwealth of the Philippines was established in 1935 with the country gaining its independence in 1946 after hostilities in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War had ended. The Philippines have over 170 languages indigenous to the area, most of which belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. In 1939, then-president Manuel L. Quezon renamed the Tagalog language as the", "title": "Pinoy" }, { "id": "315935", "text": "islands. On 10 March 1785, King Charles III of Spain confirmed the establishment of the Royal Philippine Company with a 25-year charter. The Basque-based company was granted a monopoly on the importation of Chinese and Indian goods into the Philippines, as well as the shipping of the goods directly to Spain via the Cape of Good Hope. After Spain lost Mexico as a territory, New Spain was dissolved making the Philippines and other Pacific islands to form the Spanish East Indies. This resulted in the Philippines being governed directly by the King of Spain and the Captaincy General of the", "title": "Economy of the Philippines" }, { "id": "315761", "text": "crown due to poor management and financial losses. In 1781, Governor-General José Basco y Vargas established the Economic Society of the Friends of the Country. The Philippines was administered from the Viceroyalty of New Spain until the independence to Mexico in 1821 necessitated the direct rule from Spain of the Philippines from that year. The Philippines was included in the vast territory of the Kingdom of Spain, in the first constitution of Spain promulgated in Cadiz in 1812. It was never a colony as modern-day historical literature would say, but an overseas region in Asia {Spanish Constitution 1812}. The Spanish", "title": "History of the Philippines" }, { "id": "315754", "text": "an English navigator contacted the interim governor of the Philippines, Rodrigo de Vivero y Velasco on behalf of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who wished to establish direct trade contacts with New Spain. Friendly letters were exchanged, officially starting relations between Japan and New Spain. From 1565 to 1821, the Philippines was governed as a territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain from Mexico, via the \"Royal Audiencia\" of Manila, and administered directly from Spain from 1821 after the Mexican revolution, until 1898. The Manila galleons which linked Manila to Acapulco traveled once or twice a year between the 16th and 19th centuries.", "title": "History of the Philippines" }, { "id": "13849418", "text": "Typhoon Parma Typhoon Parma, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Pepeng, was the second typhoon to affect the Philippines within the span of a week during September 2009. Typhoon Parma was assigned the name Pepeng by PAGASA when it entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility days after Typhoon Ketsana wreaked havoc on the country. Parma spared the capital and instead lashed the northern part of Luzon island. Parma added to the damage caused by the earlier Typhoon Ketsana, affecting thousands of families on the north, especially on Pangasinan province where the San Roque Dam inadvertently released water to prevent its", "title": "Typhoon Parma" }, { "id": "18733311", "text": "Island groups and various other areas were placed under signals 1 and 2. October was the busiest month for typhoons over the Western Pacific, with six of them entering the Philippine Area of Responsibility, although most of the typhoons brushed past the northern part of the area without making any effects over the country. During October 9, PAGASA issued Public Storm Warning Signal #1 for the island province of Catanduanes, before expanding the areas under Signal 1 early the next day to include Aurora, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Isabela, the Polilio Islands and Quezon due to the incoming and intensifying", "title": "Effects of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season in the Philippines" }, { "id": "13658977", "text": "and most of the crew died. Survivors of the \"Trinidad\" returned to the Spice Islands, where the Portuguese imprisoned them. The \"Victoria\" continued sailing westward, commanded by Juan Sebastián Elcano, and managed to return to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain in 1522. In 1529, Charles I of Spain relinquished all claims to the Spice Islands to Portugal in the treaty of Zaragoza. However, the treaty did not stop the colonization of the Philippine archipelago from New Spain. After Magellan's voyage, subsequent expeditions were dispatched to the islands. Five expeditions were sent: that of Loaisa (1525), Cabot (1526), Saavedra (1527), Villalobos (1542),", "title": "History of the Philippines (1521–1898)" }, { "id": "7288059", "text": "Typhoons in the Philippines Approximately twenty tropical cyclones enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility yearly, an area which incorporates parts of the Pacific Ocean, South China Sea and the Philippine Archipelago (with the exception of Tawi-Tawi province). Among these cyclones, ten will be typhoons, with five having the potential to be destructive ones. The Philippines is \"the most exposed country in the world to tropical storms\" according to a Time Magazine article in 2013. In the Philippine languages, typhoons are called \"bagyo\". Typhoons can hit the Philippines any time of year, with the months of June to September being most", "title": "Typhoons in the Philippines" }, { "id": "13974744", "text": "of Jorge B. Vargas, as mayor. The Japanese entered the city on January 2, 1942 and established it as the capital. Japan fully captured the Philippines on May 6, 1942, after the Battle of Corregidor. The Second Philippine Republic was established on October 14, 1943 under Japanese occupation and endured until the end of the war, it was repudiated and the government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines restored. Philippine independence finally came on July 4, 1946, with the signing of the Treaty of Manila between the governments of the United States and the Philippines. The treaty provided for the", "title": "Sovereignty of the Philippines" }, { "id": "5327308", "text": "used as one of the most important overseas bases during the 2nd World War. In 1947, the RP-US Military Bases Agreement was signed, integrating Clark Air Field and Fort Stotsenberg into Clark Air Base but, after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 and the non-renewal of the military bases agreement, Clark Air Base was reverted to the Philippine Government. The Bases Conversion Development Act of 1992 accelerated the conversion of Clark Air Base into a Special Economic Zone, and in 2007, the Philippine Congress enacted a law (RA 9400) which renamed the base to Clark Freeport Philippines. It", "title": "Clark International Airport" }, { "id": "18775302", "text": "was estimated at US$100,000. The storm delayed a supply ship to outlying islands of the state that were previously affected by Typhoon Maysak a month prior. Typhoon Noul, known as Typhoon Dodong within the country, entered the Philippine area of Responsibility on May 7. In response to the storm, PAGASA raised warning signal 4, the highest level, for northeastern Cagayan as well as the offshore Batanes and Babuyan Islands. Neighboring provinces had lower warning signals. A total of 3,803 people evacuated their homes in Cagayan and Isabela to 27 storm shelters; families returned home by late on May 10 after", "title": "Typhoon Noul (2015)" }, { "id": "16857524", "text": "while the 37 police officers and 137 troops are part of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. The Philippines is regarded as one of the most active countries in the Asia and Pacific region in terms of peace support troop contribution – the 4th among ASEAN members states, and 60th worldwide. Golan Heights Incident Syrian rebels of the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade abducted twenty-five peacekeepers in two separate incidents during March and May on the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after clashes in the area had put the peacekeepers in danger. They were under the United", "title": "Philippines and the United Nations" }, { "id": "10788346", "text": "with the arrival in 1521 of European explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailing for Spain, which heralded the period when the Philippines was an overseas province of Spain, and ends with the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898. The Spanish East Indies (\"\") were the Spanish territories in Asia-Pacific from 1565 until 1899. They comprised the Philippine Islands, Guam and the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands (Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia), and for some time parts of Formosa (Taiwan) and the Moluccas (Indonesia). Cebu was the first seat of government, later transferred to Manila. From 1565 to 1821 these", "title": "Spanish Filipino" }, { "id": "315773", "text": "the Filipinos. On January 23, 1899, the First Philippine Republic was proclaimed under Asia's first democratic constitution, with Aguinaldo as its President. Spain and the United States had sent commissioners to Paris to draw up the terms of the Treaty of Paris to end the Spanish–American War. The Filipino representative, Felipe Agoncillo, had been excluded from sessions as Aguinaldo's government was not recognized by the family of nations. Although there was substantial domestic opposition, the United States decided to annex the Philippines. In addition to Guam and Puerto Rico, Spain was forced in the negotiations cede the Philippines to the", "title": "History of the Philippines" }, { "id": "315815", "text": "country. The United States turned over Clark Air Base in Pampanga to the government in November, and Subic Bay Naval Base in Zambales in December 1992, ending almost a century of U.S. military presence in the Philippines. In the 1992 elections, Defense Secretary Fidel V. Ramos, endorsed by Aquino, won the presidency with just 23.6% of the vote in a field of seven candidates. Early in his administration, Ramos declared \"national reconciliation\" his highest priority and worked at building a coalition to overcome the divisiveness of the Aquino years. He legalized the Communist Party and laid the groundwork for talks", "title": "History of the Philippines" }, { "id": "13931239", "text": "directly by a British governor until the expiry of the hundred-year（99years） lease, which occurred in 1997. From that date the territory was controlled as a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The Philippines unilaterally declared independence from Spain on 12 June 1898 under the leadership of President Emilio Aguinaldo, culminating the 1896 Revolution. Unbeknownst to the newly established government and the Filipino people in general, the United States of America had secretly arranged to purchase the colony along with several other possessions from Spain through the Treaty of Paris that concluded the Spanish–American War. After staging a", "title": "Decolonisation of Asia" }, { "id": "13659024", "text": "the town of San Juan del Monte. He regrouped his forces and was able to briefly capture the towns of Marikina, San Mateo and Montalban. Spanish counterattacks drove him back and he retreated to the mountains of Balara and Morong and from there engaged in guerrilla warfare. By August 30, the revolt had spread to eight provinces. On that date, Governor-General Ramon Blanco declared a state of war in these provinces and placed them under martial law. These were Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Pampanga, Tarlac, Laguna, Batangas, and Nueva Ecija. They would later be represented in the eight rays of the", "title": "History of the Philippines (1521–1898)" }, { "id": "3864520", "text": "Commands (UCC) organized either on a geographical basis (known as \"Area of Responsibility\", AOR) or on a functional basis, Pacific Air Forces became a part of the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM). Andersen AFB in Guam was reassigned from Strategic Air Command (SAC) to PACAF in 1989, and Eleventh Air Force became a part of the command in late 1990. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, civil unrest in the Philippines and negotiations with the extant government of the Republic of the Philippines for the lease of Clark Air Base, along with other U.S. military installations in the Philippines,", "title": "Pacific Air Forces" }, { "id": "12664856", "text": "Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency The Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency, also known as PhilEXIM, is an organization in the Philippines connected to the Department of Finance. Formed by presidential decree on January 31, 1977 under the title Philippine Export and Foreign Loan Guarantee Corporation, the organization has been retitled several times since as its area of operation is modified. The organization's current mission is to facilitate international trade by offering financial or other assistance to Philippine enterprise, particularly small or medium-sized companies. It also facilitates governmental projects that may encourage international trade. The Organization was originally created by Presidential Decree (PD", "title": "Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency" }, { "id": "315551", "text": "Philippine Republic, followed by the bloody Philippine–American War. Aside from the period of Japanese occupation, the United States retained sovereignty over the islands until after World War II, when the Philippines was recognized as an independent nation. Since then, the unitary sovereign state has often had a tumultuous experience with democracy, which included the overthrow of a dictatorship by a non-violent revolution. It is a founding member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and the East Asia Summit. It also hosts the headquarters of the Asian Development Bank. The", "title": "Philippines" }, { "id": "15625129", "text": "caused the economy's decline since funds were not used for the country's development/growth. Under his administration, the Republic Act 7653, more commonly known as the New Central Bank Act, was enacted on June 14, 1993. It took effect on July 3 of the same year. This act serves as the governing body of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and its responsibilities, governance, and operations. President Ramos had also boosted foreign trade and investments that increased capital flow into the country. With the reestablishment of the access to debt market, issuance of government bonds in foreign currencies was able to", "title": "External debt of the Philippines" }, { "id": "7568372", "text": "investment, finance, technology and aid. The DFA also revived its efforts to boost the Philippine’s role in the Asia-Pacific region. During this period, the Philippines became one of the founding members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation or APEC in November 1989, and an active player in regional efforts to establish the ASEAN Free Trade Area. In 1990, the DFA proposed the establishment of more diplomatic missions to the Middle East to improve existing ties with Arab states and to respond to the growing needs of Overseas Filipino Workers in the region. In 1991, the Philippine Senate, heeding the growing nationalist", "title": "Department of Foreign Affairs (Philippines)" }, { "id": "18026157", "text": "that they too have a similar forces agreement. The U.S. acquired the Philippines after the Spanish–American War of 1898 and the subsequent Philippine–American War. The United States granted the Philippines independence in 1946. In 1951, the governments of the United States and the Philippines signed the Mutual Defense Treaty to \"strengthen the fabric of peace\" in the Pacific by agreeing to defend each other's territory in the case of external attack. In line with this treaty, the United States maintained until 1992 several military bases in the Philippines, including U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay and the Clark Air Base. In", "title": "Balikatan" }, { "id": "4445019", "text": "December 1944, leaving only Bases 2 and 7. These were deactivated in June 1945 and their functions absorbed by the Australia Base Section, as the Base Section had been renamed in February 1945. In New Guinea, Base D was closed in July 1945, and Bases A, B and E in September, leaving Bases F, G and H. Meanwhile, a series of bases were opened in the Philippines: Base K on Leyte, Base M on Luzon, Base R at Batangas, Base S on Cebu and base X at Manila. These came under the Luzon Base Section, which was redesignated the Philippine", "title": "South West Pacific Area (command)" }, { "id": "4174935", "text": "was reissued by Lardizábal in 1840. A royal decree issued in 1844 prohibited foreigners from traveling to the provinces under any pretext whatsoever, and in 1857, several anti-foreigner laws were renewed. With the wide acceptance of laissez-faire doctrines in the later part of the 18th century, Spain relaxed its mercantilist policies. The British occupation of Manila in 1762–1764 made Spain realize the impossibility of isolating the colony from world intercourse and commerce. In 1789, foreign vessels were given permission to transport Asian goods to the port of Manila. Even before the 1780s, many foreign ships, including Yankee clippers, had visited", "title": "Philippine Revolution" }, { "id": "7568375", "text": "were the adoption by ASEAN in 1992, upon Philippine initiative, of the Declaration on the South China Sea, aimed at confidence-building and the avoidance of conflict among claimant states; the establishment of the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines (BIMP)-East Asia Growth area in 1994; the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) in 1994 as the only multilateral security dialogue in the Asia-Pacific region conducted at the government level, and the signing between the Philippine Government and the MNLF on September 2, 1996 of the Mindanao Peace Agreement. The Estrada administration upheld the foreign policy thrusts of the previous", "title": "Department of Foreign Affairs (Philippines)" }, { "id": "11348192", "text": "signing was witnessed by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Under Article XVIII, Section 25 of the Philippine constitution, foreign military bases, troops, or facilities may only be allowed in the Philippines under a treaty duly concurred in by the Senate. A press release issued October 3, 2007 by the Philippine Senate announced that senators Mar Roxas and Jinggoy Estrada called the attention of the Office of the President for its failure to officially transmit this agreement for Senate concurrence. The Philippine Senate, voting 17-1, ratified the agreement on July 24, 2012. Lone dissenter Senator", "title": "Philippines–Australia Status of Visiting Forces Agreement" }, { "id": "315588", "text": "Bonifacio and the Katipunan started the Philippine Revolution in 1896. A faction of the Katipunan, the Magdalo of Cavite province, eventually came to challenge Bonifacio's position as the leader of the revolution and Emilio Aguinaldo took over. In 1898, the Spanish–American War began in Cuba and reached the Philippines. Aguinaldo declared Philippine independence from Spain in Kawit, Cavite on June 12, 1898, and the First Philippine Republic was established in the Barasoain Church in the following year. The islands were ceded by Spain to the United States as a result of the latter's victory in the Spanish–American War. A compensation", "title": "Philippines" }, { "id": "2255157", "text": "an 'unincorporated' U.S. territory have yet to meet with success. The Philippine Revolution against Spain began in April 1896. The Spanish–American War came to the Philippines on May 1, 1898, when the United States Navy's Asiatic Squadron, commanded by Commodore George Dewey, defeated the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón during the Battle of Manila Bay. On June 12, Philippine revolutionaries declared independence and establishment of the First Philippine Republic. On December 10, 1898, the Treaty of Paris which ended the Spanish–American War was signed. The treaty transferred control of the Philippines from Spain to the United", "title": "United States territorial acquisitions" }, { "id": "8302667", "text": "office in the Philippines was established in the city of Manila, which was later organized under a new postal district of Spain. In 1779, the postal district encompassed Manila and the entire Philippine archipelago. The postal district was reestablished on 5 December 1837. A year later, Manila became known as a leading center of postal services within Asia. Spain joined the Universal Postal Union in 1875, which was announced in the Philippines two years later. On 5 December 1837, the first postal service in the Philippines, established by a royal decree in 1767, 70 years earlier, was reorganized. A year", "title": "Philippine Postal Corporation" }, { "id": "10571317", "text": "franchised in another country. Its first franchise is \"Eat Bulaga! Indonesia\". Cable television was, in keeping with the 1987 Constitution and the Aquino government policies, removed as a state responsibility in 1988. In this new atmosphere of privatized cable came what is today the cable firm Sky Cable, created in 1990. 11 years later, Dream Satellite TV began operations as the country's first Direct-broadcast satellite television service. In 2007, ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation applied a license to the National Telecommunications Commission to operate a digital terrestrial television service in the country. In 2008, Sky Cable became the first cable network to", "title": "Television in the Philippines" }, { "id": "8185087", "text": "turned over Clark Air Base in Pampanga to the government in November, and Subic Bay Naval Base in Zambales in December 1992, ending almost a century of U.S. military presence in the Philippines. In the 1992 elections, Defense Secretary Fidel V. Ramos (Lakas-NUCD), endorsed by Aquino, won by just 23.6% of the vote, over Miriam Defensor Santiago (Mds), Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr. (NPC), House Speaker Ramon Mitra (LDP), former First Lady Imelda Marcos (KBL), Senate President Jovito Salonga (LP) and Vice President Salvador Laurel (NP). Early in his administration, Ramos declared \"national reconciliation\" his highest priority. He legalized the Communist Party", "title": "History of the Philippines (1986–present)" }, { "id": "13974730", "text": "Spanish troops had evacuated all garrisons in the south Philippines except Zamboanga and Jolo. Initially, Rios relocated the Spanish capital to Zamboanga, but on January 1 or 2, 1899, he relocated it again, this time back to Manila, where he could more effectively seek the release of Spanish POWs. On January 4, 1899, U.S. General Elwell Otis issued a proclamation announcing that the United States had obtained possession and control of all of the Philippines from the Spanish. As a consequence of its defeat, Spain transferred its rights over the Philippine archipelago to the U.S., with the Philippines ceasing to", "title": "Sovereignty of the Philippines" }, { "id": "4523800", "text": "of the Agricultural Land Reform Code as part of a program of land reform in the Philippines. It was to help with the purchase of agricultural estates for division and resale to small landholders and the purchase of land by the agricultural lessee. In 1965, LANDBANK's by-laws were approved and its first board of trustees was formed, with the Secretary of Finance as Chairman. On October 21, 1972, Presidential Decree No. 27, signed by President Ferdinand Marcos, emancipated all tenant farmers working on private agricultural lands devoted to rice and corn, whether working on a landed estate or not. The", "title": "Land Bank of the Philippines" }, { "id": "184133", "text": "the bay of Manila on the island of Luzon in 1571. In Manila, they established a new town and thus began an era of Spanish colonization that lasted for more than three centuries. The Philippines were conquered by the United States in 1898, occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945 and given independence in 1946. In the History of Samoa, contact with Europeans began in the early 18th century but did not intensify until the arrival of the English. In 1722, Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen was the first European to sight the islands. Missionaries and traders arrived in the 1830s. Halfway", "title": "History of the Pacific Islands" }, { "id": "315566", "text": "Because the descriptions of Mai's location in these accounts are not clear, there is some dispute about Mai's possible location, with some scholars believing it was located in Bay, Laguna, and others believing it was on the island of Mindoro. The official history of the Song dynasty next refers to the Rajahnate of Butuan () in northeastern Mindanao which is the first polity from the Philippine archipelago recorded as having sent a tribute mission to the Chinese empire – on March 17, 1001 CE. Butuan attained prominence under the rule of Rajah Sri Bata Shaja, who was from a Buddhist", "title": "Philippines" }, { "id": "315593", "text": "had died. On October 11, 1945, the Philippines became one of the founding members of the United Nations. The following year, on July 4, 1946, the Philippines was officially recognized by the United States as an independent nation through the Treaty of Manila, during the presidency of Manuel Roxas. Disgruntled remnants of the communist Hukbalahap continued to roam the countryside but were put down by President Elpidio Quirino's successor Ramon Magsaysay. Magsaysay's successor, Carlos P. Garcia, initiated the Filipino First Policy, which was continued by Diosdado Macapagal, with celebration of Independence Day moved from July 4 to June 12, the", "title": "Philippines" }, { "id": "9399672", "text": "public agricultural lands for distribution. The Bureau of Lands was likewise mandated to administer the distribution of friar lands under Act 1120. It is the first land reform program in the country as vast tract of the most productive agricultural lands were purchased by the Insular Government from religious orders and agricultural corporations and sold to actual occupants and settlers. In order to expedite public land distribution, then Director of Lands Chas H. Sleeper introduced cadastral surveying, a public land survey that covers an extensive area, usually an entire municipality, subdividing the same into parcels for purposes of public land", "title": "Land Management Bureau (Philippines)" }, { "id": "9424246", "text": "Parole and Probation Administration (Philippines) The Parole and Probation Administration (Filipino: \"Pangasiwaan sa Parole at Probasyon\"), abbreviated as PPA, is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Justice responsible for providing a less costly alternative to imprisonment of first-time offenders who are likely to respond to individualized community-based treatment programs. Probation was first introduced in the Philippines during the American colonial period (1898–1945) with the enactment of Act No. 4221 of the Philippine Legislature on August 7, 1935. This law created a Probation Office under the Department of Justice. On November 16, 1937, after barely two years", "title": "Parole and Probation Administration (Philippines)" }, { "id": "8185014", "text": "Carnegie, an industrialist and steel magnate, offered to pay the U.S. government $20 million to give the Philippines its independence. On November 7, 1900, Spain and the U.S. signed the Treaty of Washington, clarifying that the territories relinquished by Spain to the United States included any and all islands belonging to the Philippine Archipelago, but lying outside the lines described in the Treaty of Paris. That treaty explicitly named the islands of Cagayan Sulu and Sibutu and their dependencies as among the relinquished territories. U.S. President McKinley's December 21, 1898 proclamation of Benevolent Assimilation was announced in the Philippines on", "title": "History of the Philippines (1898–1946)" }, { "id": "13798003", "text": "Sea two days later, similar to what took place with Typhoons Cimaron and Chebi. However, there was less confidence in this scenario due to the presence of dry air west of the cyclone. On November 28, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration assigned the storm the local name \"Reming\" as it entered their area of responsibility. At 1200 UTC that day, the JTWC upgraded Durian to a typhoon, estimating one-minute sustained winds at 120 km/h (75 mph). It was not until 0300 UTC on November 29 that the JMA also upgraded the storm. During the course of November", "title": "Meteorological history of Typhoon Durian" }, { "id": "16668029", "text": "Children in Shops, Factories, Industrial, Agricultural and Mercantile Establishments, and Other Place of Labor in the Philippine Islands, to Provide Penalties for Violations Hereof and for Other Purposes.” The enforcement of this law was eventually overseen by the Woman and Child Labor Section of the Inspection Division of the then Bureau of Labor in 1925. When the Philippines declared independence from American rule in 1946, all existing laws enacted under the former regime were replaced by Republic Acts. Act No. 3071 was renamed R.A. 695 thereafter and the implementation was entrusted to the Women and Minors Division of the former", "title": "Child labor in the Philippines" }, { "id": "18517369", "text": "Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC); or one of various other reporting agencies, such as the China Meteorological Administration, or the Hong Kong Observatory. Throughout the 2015 season, 13 systems entered or formed in the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), with six of them making landfall directly over the Philippines. The first five months of the season were unusually active and intense due to a developing El Niño. Mekkhala became an early-forming storm of the season and affected the Philippines. Typhoon Higos formed a month after Mekkhala, reaching its peak intensity as a Category 4 typhoon. Higos broke the record as", "title": "Timeline of the 2015 Pacific typhoon season" }, { "id": "9424248", "text": "of six months, the draft decree was presented to a selected group of 369 jurists, penologists, civic leaders and social and behavioral scientists and practitioners. The group overwhelmingly endorsed the establishment of an Adult Probation System in the country. On July 24, 1976, Presidential Decree No. 968, also known as Adult Probation Law of 1976, was signed into Law by the President of the Philippines. The startup of the probation system in 1976-1977 was a massive undertaking during which all judges and prosecutors nationwide were trained in probation methods and procedures; administrative and procedural manuals were developed; probation officers recruited", "title": "Parole and Probation Administration (Philippines)" }, { "id": "8312246", "text": "Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea formed part of the UN forces, led by the US, that fought in the conflict. The decade saw the raising of the first active division of the Army, the 1st Infantry Division. With the victory over the Huks later in the 50s, the BCTs became active duty infantry battalions. Formed in the same time was the 1st Scout Ranger Regiment, and in 1962 the PA raised its airborne and special forces formation, the Special Forces Regiment (Airborne) following the traditions of the US Army Special Forces (the Green Berets) and the 11th Airborne Division that", "title": "Philippine Army" }, { "id": "4174924", "text": "be treated as enemies\". In June 1899, the nascent First Philippine Republic formally declared war against the United States. The Philippines would not become an internationally recognized independent state until 1946. The main influx of revolutionary ideas came at the start of the 19th century, when the Philippines was opened for world trade. In 1809, the first English firms were established in Manila, followed by a royal decree in 1834 which officially opened the city to world trade. The Philippines had been governed from Mexico since 1565, with colonial administrative costs sustained by subsidies from the galleon trade. Increased competition", "title": "Philippine Revolution" }, { "id": "19544102", "text": "Cabinet Secretariat was placed under the jurisdiction of other agencies when President Rodrigo Duterte reorganized the office. The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the Cooperative Development Authority was placed under the Department of Trade and Industry; the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos and the Philippine Commission on Women to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG); the National Anti-Poverty Commission, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Cabinet Secretariat of the Philippines The Cabinet Secretariat, formerly the Office of", "title": "Cabinet Secretariat of the Philippines" }, { "id": "4174921", "text": "in 1897, with command shifting to Aguinaldo, who led the newly formed revolutionary government. That year, the revolutionaries and the Spanish signed the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, which temporarily reduced hostilities. Aguinaldo and other Filipino officers exiled themselves in the British colony of Hong Kong in southeast China. However, the hostilities never completely ceased. On April 21, 1898, after the sinking of in Havana Harbor and prior to its declaration of war on April 25, the United States launched a naval blockade of the Spanish colony island of Cuba, off its southern coast of the peninsula of Florida. This was the", "title": "Philippine Revolution" }, { "id": "8387462", "text": "business, the DA implemented policy and institutional reforms that freed the agriculture markets, enabling farmers to enjoy higher farmgate prices. These reforms included the dismantling of agricultural monopolies and the elimination of agricultural taxes. Reforms in the agricultural credit system, such as the phase-out of the direct lending scheme, was also initiated. In May 2014, pursuant to Executive Order No. 165, four agencies representing three-quarters of the DA's budget — the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority, the National Food Authority, the National Irrigation Administration, and the Philippine Coconut Authority — were removed from DA control. This was part of the anti-corruption", "title": "Department of Agriculture (Philippines)" }, { "id": "14425392", "text": "Postage stamps and postal history of the Philippines This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of The Philippines. In 1767, the first post office was established in the city of Manila, which was later organized under a new postal district of Spain, encompassing Manila and the entire Philippine archipelago, in 1779. The postal district was reestablished on December 5, 1837. A year later, Manila became known as a leading center of postal services within Asia. Spain joined the Universal Postal Union in 1875, which was announced in the Philippines two years later. During the Philippine Revolution,", "title": "Postage stamps and postal history of the Philippines" }, { "id": "17733566", "text": "unless there is a judicial order to the contrary\" according to Article 211 of the Family Code. Act No. 3094 was the first law for allowed foreign adoption which allowed any public or charitable child-caring institution to allow adoption for either Filipinos or aliens. In the Civil Code of 1950, Art. 335 prohibited foreign adoption to countries the Philippines does not have diplomatic ties with to prevent conflicts of blood and identity in the case of war. In 1975, the Child and Youth Welfare Code became the legal basis for inter-country adoption allowing for non-resident aliens to adopt in court", "title": "Adoption in the Philippines" }, { "id": "4697844", "text": "from 16 provinces—Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Bulacan, Bataan, Infanta, Morong, Tayabas, Pampanga, Pangasinan, Mindoro, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, La Union and Zambales—ratified the Proclamation of Independence in Bacoor, Cavite. Later at Malolos, Bulacan, the Malolos Congress modified the declaration upon the insistence of Apolinario Mabini who objected to that the original proclamation essentially placed the Philippines under the protection of the United States. The declaration was never recognized by either the United States or Spain. Later in 1898, Spain ceded the Philippines to the United States in the 1898 Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish–American War. The Philippine Revolutionary Government", "title": "Philippine Declaration of Independence" }, { "id": "8312238", "text": "East (USAFFE) under the command of General MacArthur. Japanese forces invaded the Philippines after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu on 7 December 1941. At this time, two regular and ten reserve divisions of the Philippine Army undertook the defense of the Philippines. This included North Luzon Force (under then Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright), South Luzon Force activated 13 December 1941 under Brig. Gen. George M. Parker Jr., the Visayan-Mindanao Force under Colonel W.F. Sharp in the southern islands (61st, 81st, and 101st Divisions plus three other regiments), and the Reserve Force. North Luzon Force", "title": "Philippine Army" }, { "id": "2020726", "text": "Compostela Valley Compostela Valley (), or Davao de Oro, is a province in the Philippines located in the Davao Region in Mindanao. The province, called \"ComVal\" for short, used to be part of Davao del Norte until it was made independent in 1998. It is the fourth newest province of the Philippines, behind Zamboanga Sibugay, Dinagat Islands, and Davao Occidental. Its capital is Nabunturan. The province borders Davao del Norte to the west, Agusan del Sur to the north, and Davao Oriental to the east. To the southwest lies the Davao Gulf. The first elected governor was Jose Caballero, formerly", "title": "Compostela Valley" }, { "id": "12577322", "text": "rebels in San Isidro led by Mariano Llanera attacked the Spanish garrison on September 2–4; they were repulsed. By 30 August, the revolt had spread to eight provinces, prompting the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco, 1st Marquis of Peña Plata, to declare a \"state of war\" in these provinces and place them under martial law. These provinces were Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Pampanga, Tarlac, Laguna, Batangas, and Nueva Ecija. These would later be represented in the eight rays of the Sun in the Philippine flag. Despite such declaration, which provided a 48-hour period in giving amnesty to rebels except their leaders, Blanco", "title": "Martial law in the Philippines" }, { "id": "18727595", "text": "Caboloan Caboloan (also spelled \"Kaboloan\"; ), referred to Chinese records as Feng-chia-hsi-lan (), was a sovereign pre-colonial Philippine polity located in the fertile Agno River basin and delta, with Binalatongan as the capital. It expanded its territory and influence from Pangasinan, to what are now the neighboring provinces of Tarlac, La Union, Benguet, Zambales, Nueva Ecija and Nueva Vizcaya, and had full independence until the Spanish conquest. It traded with the Kingdom of Ryukyu, Ashikaga shogunate and for trading with and sending gifts to Ming dynasty. The polity of Pangasinan sent emissaries to China in 1406–1411. The Chinese records of", "title": "Caboloan" }, { "id": "316053", "text": "thus removing it from AFP control and it was civilianized by a law passed by Congress, therefore becoming under the Department of the Interior and Local Government as a result. In 2000, then President Joseph Estrada ordered the AFP to launch an \"All-Out war\" against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a breakaway group of the MNLF that wants to proclaim Mindanao an independent state. In 2001, Estrada was removed from power in the two-day Edsa Dos People Power revolt, in which the AFP played a key role. The revolution installed then Vice-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as president. Since 2001, the Armed", "title": "Armed Forces of the Philippines" }, { "id": "316089", "text": "Summit. It was formerly a member of the now-defunct Latin Union and the SEATO. Declaring itself as independent of any major power block of nations, the Philippines is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement. Economically, the Philippines is a participant in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Asian Development Bank, the Colombo Plan, Group of 24, G-20, G-77, the World Bank, Next Eleven and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Philippine foreign policy is based on the advancement of Filipino ideals and values, which include the advancement of democracy and advocacy for human rights worldwide. The nation is currently actively engaging with regional", "title": "Foreign relations of the Philippines" }, { "id": "8866178", "text": "Philippines and the northernmost island, known as Nanusa, of what was the former Netherlands East Indies. In 1898, Spain ceded the Philippines to the United States and Palmas sat within the boundaries of that cession to the U.S. In 1906, the United States discovered that the Netherlands also claimed sovereignty over the island and the two parties agreed to submit to binding arbitration to resolve the dispute on January 23, 1925. The arbitrator in the case was Max Huber, a Swiss national. The question the arbitrator was to resolve was whether the Island of Palmas (Miangas), in its entirety, was", "title": "Territories claimed by the Philippines" }, { "id": "315626", "text": "is not a significant factor. Whether in the extreme north, south, east, or west of the country, temperatures at sea level tend to be in the same range. Altitude usually has more of an impact. The average annual temperature of Baguio at an elevation of above sea level is , making it a popular destination during hot summers. Sitting astride the typhoon belt, most of the islands experience annual torrential rains and thunderstorms from July to October, with around nineteen typhoons entering the Philippine area of responsibility in a typical year and eight or nine making landfall. Annual rainfall measures", "title": "Philippines" }, { "id": "13451897", "text": "shear and weak diffluence allowed the system to gradually become organized; however, the following day, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) ceased monitoring the system for potential development. By June 7, convection redeveloped around the low and the JTWC resumed monitoring the low; later in the day, the Japan Meteorological Agency JMA, the Regional Specialized Meteorological Center for the western Pacific basin, classified it as a tropical depression. The same day, the depression entered the Area of Responsibility (AoR) of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration and was given the local name \"Gener\". On June 8, the JTWC", "title": "Tropical Storm Chanthu (2004)" }, { "id": "18984919", "text": "known as the “Tariff Law of the Republic of the Philippines”. This took effect on July 1, 1957. The passage of this act by the defunct Congress of the Philippines subject to the provisions of the Laurel-Langley Agreement, became the first official expression of an autonomous Philippine Tariff Policy. Before the passage of Republic Act 1937, all importations from the United States enjoyed full exemptions pursuant to the Tariff Act No. 1902 which was adopted by Republic Act No. 3 as the Tariff Laws of the Philippines. Pursuant to the Executive Order No. 94 of Republic Act No. 52, the", "title": "Bureau of Customs" }, { "id": "7288072", "text": "storms impacting the Philippines in deadly seasons, see: Typhoons in the Philippines Approximately twenty tropical cyclones enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility yearly, an area which incorporates parts of the Pacific Ocean, South China Sea and the Philippine Archipelago (with the exception of Tawi-Tawi province). Among these cyclones, ten will be typhoons, with five having the potential to be destructive ones. The Philippines is \"the most exposed country in the world to tropical storms\" according to a Time Magazine article in 2013. In the Philippine languages, typhoons are called \"bagyo\". Typhoons can hit the Philippines any time of year, with", "title": "Typhoons in the Philippines" }, { "id": "13974719", "text": "first sighted the mountains of Samar at dawn on 16 March 1521 (Spanish calendar). Magellan sought friendship among the natives beginning with Humabon, the chieftain of Sugbu (now Cebu), and took special pride in converting them to Catholicism. His involvement with the native tribes eventually led to his death on 27 April 1521 in the Battle of Mactan. After Magellan's voyage, subsequent Spanish expeditions were dispatched to the islands and, in 1543, Ruy López de Villalobos named the islands of Leyte and Samar \"Las Islas Filipinas\" after Philip II of Spain. The single surviving vessel from Magellan's fleet, the \"Victoria\",", "title": "Sovereignty of the Philippines" }, { "id": "17653619", "text": "Despite mandatory evacuation orders, most residents on Kayangel remained on the island and rode out the typhoon. Shortly before Typhoon Haiyan entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility on November 6, PAGASA raised Public Storm Warning Signal (PSWS) No.1, the lowest of four levels, for much of the Visayas and Mindanao. As the storm continued to approach the country, warnings expanded into Luzon and increased in severity for eastern areas. By the evening of November 7, PSWS No. 4, the highest level of warning which indicates winds in excess of 185 km/h (115 mph) are expected, was raised for Biliran Island,", "title": "Typhoon Haiyan" }, { "id": "19174661", "text": "Baselines of the Philippines The baselines of the Philippines () are the set of geodesic lines completely encircling the main Philippine archipelago from where the maritime entitlements of the country are measured from. It was first established in 1961 by an act of the Congress of the Philippines which was further amended in April 2009 to optimize and conform it to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which the Philippines is a signatory to. A total of 101 basepoints providing for 100 baselines were identified under \"Republic Act 9522\", which identified Amianan Island as the northernmost,", "title": "Baselines of the Philippines" }, { "id": "5620585", "text": "Spanish colonial capital of Manila and the principal naval port of Cavite, both of which are located on Manila Bay. The war was ended by the Treaty of Paris (1763). At the end of the war the treaty signatories were not aware that Manila had been taken by the British and was being administered as a British colony. Consequently, no specific provision was made for the Philippines. Instead they fell under the general provision that all other lands not otherwise provided for be returned to the Spanish Empire. Many Indian Sepoy troops and their British captains mutinied and were left", "title": "Filipinos" }, { "id": "2812101", "text": "San Bernardino Strait The San Bernardino Strait () is a strait in the Philippines, connecting the Samar Sea with the Philippine Sea. It separates the Bicol Peninsula of Luzon island from the island of Samar in the south. The first reference to the Spanish and the San Bernardino Strait is during the 1543–1545 expedition of Ruy Gomez de Villalobos, who was sent out by the Viceroy of Mexico under orders from the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to establish a Spanish colony near the Portuguese-occupied Spice Islands of Moluccas. During this ill-fated expedition, one ship alone, the little \"San Juan", "title": "San Bernardino Strait" } ]

[ "Vitamin D" ]

[ { "id": "2646900", "text": "in the opening of the vitamin precursor B-ring through a conrotatory pathway making previtamin D3 (pre-cholecalciferol). In a process which is independent of UV light, the pre-cholecalciferol then undergoes a [1,7] antarafacial sigmatropic rearrangement and therein finally isomerizes to form vitamin D. The active UVB wavelengths are present in sunlight, and sufficient amounts of cholecalciferol can be produced with moderate exposure of the skin, depending on the strength of the sun. Time of day, season, and altitude affect the strength of the sun, and pollution, cloud cover or glass all reduce the amount of UVB exposure. Exposure of face, arms", "title": "Cholecalciferol" }, { "id": "14149336", "text": "benefits, and a number of public health organizations state that there needs to be a balance between the risks of having too much sunlight or too little. There is a general consensus that sunburn should always be avoided. UVB radiation with a wavelength of 290–315 nanometers penetrates uncovered skin and converts cutaneous 7-dehydrocholesterol to previtamin D, which in turn becomes vitamin D. UVB radiation does not penetrate glass, so exposure to sunshine indoors through a window does not produce vitamin D. Time of day, time of year, geographic latitude, ground altitude, cloud cover, smog, skin melanin content, and sunscreen are", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "14149334", "text": "Health effects of sunlight exposure The ultraviolet radiation in sunlight has both positive and negative health effects, as it is both a principal source of vitamin D and a mutagen. A dietary supplement can supply vitamin D without this mutagenic effect. Vitamin D has a wide range of positive health effects, which include strengthening bones and possibly inhibiting the growth of some cancers. UV exposure also has positive effects for endorphin levels, and possibly for protection against multiple sclerosis. Visible sunlight to the eyes gives health benefits through its association with the timing of melatonin synthesis, maintenance of normal and", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "14149354", "text": "a time when large populations have migrated far from the climates for which their skin was genetically adapted. Health effects of sunlight exposure The ultraviolet radiation in sunlight has both positive and negative health effects, as it is both a principal source of vitamin D and a mutagen. A dietary supplement can supply vitamin D without this mutagenic effect. Vitamin D has a wide range of positive health effects, which include strengthening bones and possibly inhibiting the growth of some cancers. UV exposure also has positive effects for endorphin levels, and possibly for protection against multiple sclerosis. Visible sunlight to", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "11426169", "text": "every part of the human body, including the skeleton, the immune system, and brain requires vitamin D. Sunlight is necessary for the production of vitamin D. Vitamin D production in the skin begins when UV radiation penetrates the skin and interacts with a cholesterol-like molecule produce pre-vitamin D3. This reaction only occurs in the presence of medium length UVR, UVB. Most of the UVB and UVC rays are destroyed or reflected by ozone, oxygen, and dust in the atmosphere. UVB reaches the Earth’s surface in the highest amounts when its path is straight and goes through a little layer of", "title": "Light skin" }, { "id": "2842067", "text": "tanning and UV radiation exposure, either from the sun or from indoor tanning. Production of vitamin D is essential for human health. Moderate exposure (avoiding sunburn) to UV radiation provides benefits such as increased vitamin D, as well as other possible benefits that are still being studied. Several tanning activators have used different forms of psoralen, which are known to be photocarcinogenic. Health authorities have banned psoralen since July 1996. Tanning has gone in and out of fashion. In the United States and Western Europe before about the 1920s, tanned skin was associated with the lower classes, because they worked", "title": "Sun tanning" }, { "id": "2842057", "text": "Sun tanning Sun tanning or simply tanning is the process whereby skin color is darkened or tanned. It is most often a result of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight or from artificial sources, such as a tanning lamp found in indoor tanning beds. People who deliberately tan their skin by exposure to the sun engage in a passive recreational activity of sun bathing. Some people use chemical products which can produce a tanning effect without exposure to ultraviolet radiation, known as sunless tanning. Moderate exposure to the sun contributes to the production of melanin and vitamin D by", "title": "Sun tanning" }, { "id": "3456362", "text": "(ATP) from food. It is formed by the oxidation of succinate by the enzyme succinate dehydrogenase. Fumarate is then converted by the enzyme fumarase to malate. Human skin naturally produces fumaric acid when exposed to sunlight. Fumarate is also a product of the urea cycle. Fumaric acid Fumaric acid or \"trans\"-butenedioic acid is the chemical compound with the formula HOCCH=CHCOH. Fumaric acid has a fruit-like taste and has been used as a food acidulant since 1946. Its E number is E297. It is produced in eukaryotic organisms from succinate in complex 2 of the electron transport chain via the enzyme", "title": "Fumaric acid" }, { "id": "14149337", "text": "among the factors that greatly affect UV intensity and vitamin D synthesis, making it difficult to provide general guidelines. It has been suggested by some researchers, for example, that adequate amounts of vitamin D can be produced with moderate sun exposure to the face, arms and legs, averaging 5–30 minutes twice per week without sunscreen. (The darker the complexion, or the weaker the sunlight, the more minutes of exposure are needed, approximating 25% of the time for minimal sunburn. Vitamin D overdose is impossible from UV exposure; the skin reaches an equilibrium where the vitamin degrades as fast as it", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "437584", "text": "pigment melanin in the skin increases when exposed to moderate (depending on skin type) levels of radiation; this is commonly known as a sun tan. The purpose of melanin is to absorb UV radiation and dissipate the energy as harmless heat, protecting the skin against both direct and indirect DNA damage from the UV. UVA gives a quick tan that lasts for days by oxidizing melanin that was already present and triggers the release of the melanin from melanocytes. UVB yields a tan that takes roughly 2 days to develop because it stimulates the body to produce more melanin. Medical", "title": "Ultraviolet" }, { "id": "13969294", "text": "a person's vitamin D is taken by mouth, as sun exposure in the population is variable and recommendations about the amount of sun exposure that is safe are uncertain in view of the skin cancer risk. Vitamin D from the diet or skin synthesis is biologically inactive; enzymatic conversion (hydroxylation) in the liver and kidney is required for activation. As vitamin D can be synthesized in adequate amounts by most mammals exposed to sufficient sunlight, it is not an essential dietary factor, and so not technically a vitamin. Instead it could be considered a hormone, with activation of the vitamin", "title": "Vitamin D" }, { "id": "437576", "text": "minutes of casual sun exposure of hands, face and arms two to three times a week during the summer months is sufficient to keep your vitamin D levels high. UV light causes the body to produce vitamin D (specifically, UVB), which is essential for life. The human body needs some UV radiation in order for one to maintain adequate vitamin D levels; however, excess exposure produces harmful effects that typically outweigh the benefits. Vitamin D promotes the creation of serotonin. The production of serotonin is in direct proportion to the degree of bright sunlight the body receives. Serotonin is thought", "title": "Ultraviolet" }, { "id": "13969339", "text": "animals, including humans. The precursor of vitamin D, 7-dehydrocholesterol is produced in relatively large quantities. 7-Dehydrocholesterol reacts with UVB light at wavelengths between 270 and 300 nm, with peak synthesis occurring between 295 and 297 nm. These wavelengths are present in sunlight, as well as in the light emitted by the UV lamps in tanning beds (which produce ultraviolet primarily in the UVA spectrum, but typically produce 4% to 10% of the total UV emissions as UVB). Exposure to light through windows is insufficient because glass almost completely blocks UVB light. Adequate amounts of vitamin D can be produced with", "title": "Vitamin D" }, { "id": "14149341", "text": "makes taking oral vitamin D ineffective are able, through exposure to an ultraviolet lamp that emits UV-B radiation, to achieve a 25 (OH) D blood level. Three benefits of UV exposure are production of vitamin D, improvement in mood, and increased energy. UVB induces production of vitamin D in the skin at rates of up to 1,000 IUs per minute. This vitamin helps to regulate calcium metabolism (vital for the nervous system and bone health), immunity, cell proliferation, insulin secretion, and blood pressure. In third-world countries, foods fortified with vitamin D are \"practically nonexistent.\" Most people in the world depend", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "378776", "text": "direct irradiance from the Sun of at least 120 watts per square meter. Other sources indicate an \"Average over the entire earth\" of \"164 Watts per square meter over a 24 hour day\". The ultraviolet radiation in sunlight has both positive and negative health effects, as it is both a requisite for vitamin D synthesis and a mutagen. Sunlight takes about 8.3 minutes to reach Earth from the surface of the Sun. A photon starting at the center of the Sun and changing direction every time it encounters a charged particle would take between 10,000 and 170,000 years to get", "title": "Sunlight" }, { "id": "14149340", "text": "D. One minimal erythemal dose of sunlight UV radiation provides the equivalent of about 20,000 IU of vitamin D2, taken as an oral supplement. If an adult's arms and legs are exposed to a half minimal erythemal UV radiation, it is the same as taking 3,000 IU of vitamin D3 through an oral supplement. This exposure of 10–15 minutes, on a frequency of two to three times per week will cause the adult's skin to produce enough vitamin D. It is not necessary to expose the face to the UV, as facial skin provides little vitamin D3. Individuals whose metabolism", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "2842059", "text": "that underlie the addiction. The term \"tanning\" has a cultural origin, arising from the color tan. Its origin lies in the Western culture of Europe when it became fashionable for young women to seek a less pale complexion (see Cultural history below). Melanin is a natural pigment produced by cells called melanocytes in a process called melanogenesis. Melanocytes produce two types of melanin: pheomelanin (red) and eumelanin (very dark brown). Melanin protects the body by absorbing ultraviolet radiation. Excessive UV radiation causes sunburn along with other direct and indirect DNA damage to the skin, and the body naturally combats and", "title": "Sun tanning" }, { "id": "2842060", "text": "seeks to repair the damage and protect the skin by creating and releasing further melanin into the skin's cells. With the production of the melanin, the skin color darkens. The tanning process can be triggered by natural sunlight or by artificial UV radiation, which can be delivered in frequencies of UVA, UVB, or a combination of both. The intensity is commonly measured by the UV Index. There are two different mechanisms involved in production of a tan by UV exposure: Firstly, UVA radiation creates oxidative stress, which in turn oxidizes existing melanin and leads to rapid darkening of the melanin.", "title": "Sun tanning" }, { "id": "13969293", "text": "Vitamin D Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble secosteroids responsible for increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium, and phosphate, and multiple other biological effects. In humans, the most important compounds in this group are vitamin D (also known as cholecalciferol) and vitamin D (ergocalciferol). Cholecalciferol and ergocalciferol can be ingested from the diet and from supplements. Only a few foods contain vitamin D. The major natural source of the vitamin is synthesis of cholecalciferol in the skin from cholesterol through a chemical reaction that is dependent on sun exposure (specifically UVB radiation). Dietary recommendations typically assume that all of", "title": "Vitamin D" }, { "id": "446748", "text": "week. Tanning beds emitting 2–6% UVB radiation have a similar effect, though tanning is inadvisable. Vitamin D comes in two forms. Cholecalciferol (vitamin D) is synthesized in the skin after exposure to the sun or consumed from food, usually from animal sources. Ergocalciferol (vitamin D) is derived from ergosterol from UV-exposed mushrooms or yeast and is suitable for vegans. When produced industrially as supplements, vitamin D is typically derived from lanolin in sheep's wool. However, both provitamins and vitamins D and D have been discovered in spp. (especially ) and these edible lichen are harvested in the wild for producing", "title": "Veganism" }, { "id": "13969348", "text": "been destroyed. The modified oil cured the sick dogs, so McCollum concluded the factor in cod liver oil which cured rickets was distinct from vitamin A. He called it vitamin D because it was the fourth vitamin to be named. It was not initially realized that, unlike other vitamins, vitamin D can be synthesised by humans through exposure to UV light. In 1925, it was established that when 7-dehydrocholesterol is irradiated with light, a form of a fat-soluble vitamin is produced (now known as D). Alfred Fabian Hess stated: \"Light equals vitamin D.\" Adolf Windaus, at the University of Göttingen", "title": "Vitamin D" }, { "id": "2842069", "text": "continued until the end of the Victorian era. By the early 20th century, the therapeutic benefits of sunlight began to be recognised. In 1903, Niels Finsen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his “Finsen Light Therapy”. The therapy was a cure for diseases such as lupus vulgaris and rickets. Vitamin D deficiency was found to be a cause of rickets, and exposure to the sun would allow vitamin D to be produced in a person. Therefore, sun exposure was a remedy to curing several diseases, especially rickets. In 1910 a scientific expedition went to the island of Tenerife", "title": "Sun tanning" }, { "id": "445757", "text": "six to 13 isoprenyl units. The three synthetic forms of vitamin K are vitamins K (menadione), K, and K, which are used in many areas, including the pet food industry (vitamin K) and to inhibit fungal growth (vitamin K). The MK-4 form of vitamin K is produced by conversion of vitamin K in the testes, pancreas, and arterial walls. While major questions still surround the biochemical pathway for this transformation, the conversion is not dependent on gut bacteria, as it occurs in germ-free rats and in parenterally administered K in rats. In fact, tissues that accumulate high amounts of MK-4", "title": "Vitamin K" }, { "id": "1594440", "text": "per 100 grams for several nutrients increase appreciably, especially for dietary minerals (table for boiled mushrooms). The content of vitamin D is absent or low unless mushrooms are exposed to sunlight or purposely treated with artificial ultraviolet light (\"see\" below). Mushrooms exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light produce vitamin D before or after harvest by converting ergosterol, a chemical found in large concentrations in mushrooms, to vitamin D. This is similar to the reaction in humans, where vitamin D is synthesized after exposure to sunlight. Testing showed an hour of UV light exposure before harvesting made a serving of mushrooms contain", "title": "Edible mushroom" }, { "id": "14149342", "text": "on the sun to get vitamin D. There are not many foods that naturally have vitamin D. Examples are cod liver oil and oily fish. If people cannot get sunlight, then they will need 1,000 IU of vitamin D per day to stay healthy. A person would have to eat oily fish three or four times per week in order to get enough vitamin D from that food source alone. People with higher levels of vitamin D tend to have lower rates of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke and tend to have lower blood pressure. However, it has been found", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "2646902", "text": "Whether cholecalciferol and all forms of vitamin D are by definition \"vitamins\" can be disputed, since the definition of vitamins includes that the substance cannot be synthesized by the body and must be ingested. Cholecalciferol \"is\" synthesized by the body during UVB radiation exposure. The three steps in the synthesis and activation of vitamin D are regulated as follows: Cholecalciferol is produced industrially for use in vitamin supplements and to fortify foods. As a pharmaceutical drug it is called cholecalciferol (USAN) or colecalciferol (INN, BAN). It is produced by the ultraviolet irradiation of 7-dehydrocholesterol extracted from lanolin found in sheep's", "title": "Cholecalciferol" }, { "id": "445323", "text": "word \"vitamine\", coined in 1912 by biochemist Casimir Funk, who isolated a complex of micronutrients essential to life, all of which he presumed to be amines. When this presumption was later determined not to be true, the \"e\" was dropped from the name. All vitamins were discovered (identified) between 1913 and 1948. For the most part, vitamins are obtained from the diet, but some are acquired by other means: for example, microorganisms in the gut flora produce vitamin K and biotin; and one form of vitamin D is synthesized in skin cells when they are exposed to a certain wavelength", "title": "Vitamin" }, { "id": "11426154", "text": "certain amount of vitamin D which penetrates the skin helps the body to absorb more calcium which is essential for building and maintaining bones, especially for developing embryos. Vitamin D production depends on exposure to sunlight. Humans living at latitudes far from the equator developed light skin in order to help absorb more vitamin D. People with light (type II) skin can produce previtamin D3 in their skin at rates 5–10 times faster than dark-skinned (type V) people. People living far from the equator were under evolutionary pressure to develop light skin, which allowed more penetration of UV radiation and", "title": "Light skin" }, { "id": "18995489", "text": "the body, sustaining good bone health as well as muscle function. When calcium in the body becomes under provided for normal bodily functions, calcitriol, an active form of Vitamin D, pairs with parathyroid hormone. Together they act to assemble cells in order to increase the calcium stores taken from bone. The popular term Sunshine vitamin, as it’s often called, is one of the one main sources of achieving sufficient Vitamin D through sunlight on the skin known as D3. The second form is commonly known as D2, which is found in foods such as fatty fish and fortified products like", "title": "Vitamin D deficiency in Australia" }, { "id": "825817", "text": "Tartaric acid Tartaric acid is a white, crystalline organic acid that occurs naturally in many fruits, most notably in grapes, but also in bananas, tamarinds, and citrus. Its salt, potassium bitartrate, commonly known as cream of tartar, develops naturally in the process of winemaking. It is commonly mixed with sodium bicarbonate and is sold as baking powder used as a leavening agent in food preparation. The acid itself is added to foods as an antioxidant E334 and to impart its distinctive sour taste. Tartaric is an alpha-hydroxy-carboxylic acid, is diprotic and aldaric in acid characteristics, and is a dihydroxyl derivative", "title": "Tartaric acid" }, { "id": "14149351", "text": "peaks of the 11-year solar cycle, possibly because of UV-related folate deficiency during gestation. According to a 2007 study submitted by the University of Ottawa to the US Department of Health and Human Services, there is not enough information to determine a safe level of sun exposure that imposes minimal risk of skin cancer. In addition, there is not yet conclusive evidence on which components of ultraviolet radiation (UVA, UVB, UVC) are actually carcinogenic. UVC is almost completely absorbed by the atmosphere and does not reach the surface in any appreciable quantity. As a result, only the broad-spectrum combination (UVA,", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "2842061", "text": "UVA may also cause melanin to be redistributed (released from melanocytes where it is already stored), but its total quantity is unchanged. Skin darkening from UVA exposure does not lead to significantly increased production of melanin or protection against sunburn. In the second process, triggered primarily by UVB, there is an increase in production of melanin (melanogenesis), which is the body's reaction to direct DNA photodamage (formation of pyrimidine dimers) from UV radiation. Melanogenesis leads to delayed tanning, and typically becomes visible two or three days after exposure. The tan that is created by increased melanogenesis typically lasts for a", "title": "Sun tanning" }, { "id": "13969357", "text": "a hormone involved in morphogenesis. Vitamin D Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble secosteroids responsible for increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium, and phosphate, and multiple other biological effects. In humans, the most important compounds in this group are vitamin D (also known as cholecalciferol) and vitamin D (ergocalciferol). Cholecalciferol and ergocalciferol can be ingested from the diet and from supplements. Only a few foods contain vitamin D. The major natural source of the vitamin is synthesis of cholecalciferol in the skin from cholesterol through a chemical reaction that is dependent on sun exposure (specifically UVB radiation). Dietary recommendations", "title": "Vitamin D" }, { "id": "8781880", "text": "Vitellogenesis Vitellogenesis (also known as yolk deposition) is the process of yolk formation via nutrients being deposited in the oocyte, or female germ cell involved in reproduction of lecithotrophic organisms. In insects, it starts when the fat body stimulates the release of juvenile hormones and produces vitellogenin protein. It occurs in all animal groups other than the mammals. In cockroaches, for example, vitellogenesis can be stimulated by injection of juvenile hormone into immature females and mature males.Chemically yolk is lipoprotein composed of proteins, phospholipids and neutral fats along with a small amount of glycogen.The yolk is synthesised in the liver", "title": "Vitellogenesis" }, { "id": "8781878", "text": "Vitellogenesis Vitellogenesis (also known as yolk deposition) is the process of yolk formation via nutrients being deposited in the oocyte, or female germ cell involved in reproduction of lecithotrophic organisms. In insects, it starts when the fat body stimulates the release of juvenile hormones and produces vitellogenin protein. It occurs in all animal groups other than the mammals. In cockroaches, for example, vitellogenesis can be stimulated by injection of juvenile hormone into immature females and mature males.Chemically yolk is lipoprotein composed of proteins, phospholipids and neutral fats along with a small amount of glycogen.The yolk is synthesised in the liver", "title": "Vitellogenesis" }, { "id": "14149345", "text": "prevalent in the sunniest regions. Exposure to the ultraviolet-B radiation of sunlight appears to be most important and this may operate via vitamin D synthesis. Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation present in sunlight is an environmental human carcinogen. The toxic effects of UV from natural sunlight and therapeutic artificial lamps are a major concern for human health. The major acute effects of UV irradiation on normal human skin comprise sunburn inflammation erythema, tanning, and local or systemic immunosuppression. The most deadly form, malignant melanoma, is mostly caused by indirect DNA damage from UVA radiation. This can be seen from the absence of", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "13969340", "text": "moderate sun exposure to the face, arms and legs, averaging 5–30 minutes twice per week, or approximately 25% of the time for minimal sunburn. The darker the skin, and the weaker the sunlight, the more minutes of exposure are needed. Vitamin D overdose is impossible from UV exposure; the skin reaches an equilibrium where the vitamin degrades as fast as it is created. Sunscreen absorbs or reflects ultraviolet light and prevents much of it from reaching the skin. Sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 8 based on the UVB spectrum decreases vitamin D synthetic capacity by 95%, and", "title": "Vitamin D" }, { "id": "2646891", "text": "Cholecalciferol Cholecalciferol, also known as vitamin D and colecalciferol, is a type of vitamin D which is made by the skin when exposed to sunlight, it also found in some foods and can be taken as a dietary supplement. It is used to treat and prevent vitamin D deficiency and associated diseases, including rickets. It is also used for familial hypophosphatemia, hypoparathyroidism that is causing low blood calcium, and Fanconi syndrome. It is usually taken by mouth. Excessive doses can result in vomiting, constipation, weakness, and confusion. Other risks include kidney stones. Normal doses are safe in pregnancy. It may", "title": "Cholecalciferol" }, { "id": "87977", "text": "from their diets. Carotenes contribute to photosynthesis by transmitting the light energy they absorb to chlorophyll. They also protect plant tissues by helping to absorb the energy from singlet oxygen, an excited form of the oxygen molecule O which is formed during photosynthesis. β-Carotene is composed of two retinyl groups, and is broken down in the mucosa of the human small intestine by β-carotene 15,15'-monooxygenase to retinal, a form of vitamin A. β-Carotene can be stored in the liver and body fat and converted to retinal as needed, thus making it a form of vitamin A for humans and some", "title": "Carotene" }, { "id": "446813", "text": "needs can be met via the human body's own generation upon sufficient and sensible exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light in sunlight. Products including milk, soy milk and cereal grains may be fortified to provide a source of Vitamin D. For those who do not get adequate sun exposure or food sources, Vitamin D supplementation may be necessary. Vitamin D, or ergocalciferol is found in fungus (except alfalfa which is a plantae) and created from viosterol, which in turn is created when ultraviolet light activates ergosterol (which is found in fungi and named as a sterol from ergot). Any UV-irradiated fungus", "title": "Vegetarianism" }, { "id": "2646901", "text": "and legs, averaging 5–30 minutes twice per week, may be sufficient, but the darker the skin, and the weaker the sunlight, the more minutes of exposure are needed. Vitamin D overdose is impossible from UV exposure; the skin reaches an equilibrium where the vitamin degrades as fast as it is created. Cholecalciferol can be produced in skin from the light emitted by the UV lamps in tanning beds, which produce ultraviolet primarily in the UVA spectrum, but typically produce 4% to 10% of the total UV emissions as UVB. Levels in blood are higher in frequent uses of tanning salons.", "title": "Cholecalciferol" }, { "id": "6433578", "text": "recurrent non scarring eczematous lesions triggered by sun exposure. Danish physician Carl Rasch first described the \"eczema-like polymorphic light eruption\" in 1900, following his interest in the effect of sunlight on the skin. He has since been credited with coining the term \"polymorphic light eruption\". Polymorphous light eruption Polymorphous light eruption (PLE), sometimes also called polymorphic light eruption (PMLE), is a non-life-threatening and potentially distressing skin condition that is triggered by sunlight and artificial UV exposure in a genetically susceptible person, particularly in temperate climates during the spring and early summer. Due to its many clinical appearances, it is named", "title": "Polymorphous light eruption" }, { "id": "6433565", "text": "Polymorphous light eruption Polymorphous light eruption (PLE), sometimes also called polymorphic light eruption (PMLE), is a non-life-threatening and potentially distressing skin condition that is triggered by sunlight and artificial UV exposure in a genetically susceptible person, particularly in temperate climates during the spring and early summer. Due to its many clinical appearances, it is named polymorphic or polymorphous and the terms are used interchangeably. The resulting itch can cause significant suffering. PLE is also defined as an idiopathic primary photodermatosis, in which the photosensitizer is unknown. Treatments include prevention with sun avoidance and supervised light therapy, and symptom control with", "title": "Polymorphous light eruption" }, { "id": "2842078", "text": "on the body, instead it uses a colorless chemical which reacts with proteins in the top layer of the skin, resulting in a brown color. Sun tanning Sun tanning or simply tanning is the process whereby skin color is darkened or tanned. It is most often a result of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight or from artificial sources, such as a tanning lamp found in indoor tanning beds. People who deliberately tan their skin by exposure to the sun engage in a passive recreational activity of sun bathing. Some people use chemical products which can produce a tanning", "title": "Sun tanning" }, { "id": "378775", "text": "Sunlight Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. On Earth, sunlight is filtered through Earth's atmosphere, and is obvious as daylight when the Sun is above the horizon. When the direct solar radiation is not blocked by clouds, it is experienced as sunshine, a combination of bright light and radiant heat. When it is blocked by clouds or reflects off other objects, it is experienced as diffused light. The World Meteorological Organization uses the term \"sunshine duration\" to mean the cumulative time during which an area receives", "title": "Sunlight" }, { "id": "12093282", "text": "Afamelanotide Afamelanotide (melanotan I, CUV1647; brand name Scenesse) is a synthetic peptide and analogue of α-melanocyte stimulating hormone used to prevent skin damage from the sun in people with erythropoietic protoporphyria in Europe since January 2015. It is administered as an implant that is placed under the skin; the implant lasts for two months. It is under development in other skin disorders in several jurisdictions. It causes skin to turn darker by causing the skin to make more melanin. It was discovered at University of Arizona and initially developed there as a sunless tanning agent; the Australian company Clinuvel conducted", "title": "Afamelanotide" }, { "id": "9568718", "text": "has mesodermal cells, pigmentation, such as melanin provided by melanocytes, which absorb some of the potentially dangerous ultraviolet radiation (UV) in sunlight. It also contains DNA repair enzymes that help reverse UV damage, such that people lacking the genes for these enzymes suffer high rates of skin cancer. One form predominantly produced by UV light, malignant melanoma, is particularly invasive, causing it to spread quickly, and can often be deadly. Human skin pigmentation varies among populations in a striking manner. This has led to the classification of people(s) on the basis of skin color. In terms of surface area, the", "title": "Human skin" }, { "id": "378777", "text": "to the surface. Sunlight is a key factor in photosynthesis, the process used by plants and other autotrophic organisms to convert light energy, normally from the Sun, into chemical energy that can be used to synthesize carbohydrates and to fuel the organisms' activities. Researchers can measure the intensity of sunlight using a sunshine recorder, pyranometer, or pyrheliometer. To calculate the amount of sunlight reaching the ground, both the eccentricity of Earth's elliptic orbit and the attenuation by Earth's atmosphere have to be taken into account. The extraterrestrial solar illuminance (), corrected for the elliptic orbit by using the day number", "title": "Sunlight" }, { "id": "609808", "text": "\"SLC24A5\" has undergone positive selection. As with peoples having migrated northward, those with light skin migrating toward the equator acclimatize to the much stronger solar radiation. Most people's skin darkens when exposed to UV light, giving them more protection when it is needed. This is the physiological purpose of sun tanning. Dark-skinned people, who produce more skin-protecting eumelanin, have a greater protection against sunburn and the development of melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer, as well as other health problems related to exposure to strong solar radiation, including the photodegradation of certain vitamins such as riboflavins, carotenoids, tocopherol,", "title": "Melanin" }, { "id": "3808342", "text": "Retinene The Retinenes (Retinene and Retinene) are chemical derivatives of the dietary supplement vitamin A (see retinol) formed through oxidation reactions. Retinene is better known as retinaldehyde or simply retinal and is fundamental in the transduction of light into visual signals in the photoreceptor level of the retina (known as the visual cycle). Retinene is more formally known as dehydroretinaldehyde. The energy of impinging photons will convert retinaldehyde from an 11-cis isomer into an all-trans form. In the retina, this conversion induces a conformational change in the surrounding opsin protein pigment, leading to signaling through the G protein transducin. Retinaldehyde", "title": "Retinene" }, { "id": "445758", "text": "have a remarkable capacity to convert up to 90% of the available K into MK-4. There is evidence that the conversion proceeds by removal of the phytyl tail of K to produce menadione as an intermediate, which is then condensed with an activated geranylgeranyl moiety (see also prenylation) to produce vitamin K in the MK-4 (menatetrenone) form. Vitamin K (menaquinone) includes several subtypes. The two most studied ones are menaquinone-4 (menatetrenone, MK-4) and menaquinone-7 (MK-7). Vitamin K, the precursor of most vitamin K in nature, is a stereoisomer of phylloquinone, an important chemical in green plants, where it functions as", "title": "Vitamin K" }, { "id": "648034", "text": "retinol), which is an important hormone-like growth factor for epithelial and other cells. In foods of animal origin, the major form of vitamin A is an ester, primarily retinyl palmitate, which is converted to retinol (chemically an alcohol) in the small intestine. The retinol form functions as a storage form of the vitamin, and can be converted to and from its visually active aldehyde form, retinal. All forms of vitamin A have a beta-ionone ring to which an isoprenoid chain is attached, called a \"retinyl group\". Both structural features are essential for vitamin activity. The orange pigment of carrots (beta-carotene)", "title": "Vitamin A" }, { "id": "648033", "text": "Vitamin A Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids (most notably beta-carotene). Vitamin A has multiple functions: it is important for growth and development, for the maintenance of the immune system and good vision. Vitamin A is needed by the retina of the eye in the form of retinal, which combines with protein opsin to form rhodopsin, the light-absorbing molecule necessary for both low-light (scotopic vision) and color vision. Vitamin A also functions in a very different role as retinoic acid (an irreversibly oxidized form of", "title": "Vitamin A" }, { "id": "6418633", "text": "but decomposes in sunlight. It is a polycyclic aromatic ketone, based on 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone, with a 3-phytyl substituent. It is found naturally in a wide variety of green plants, particularly in leaves, since it functions as an electron acceptor during photosynthesis, forming part of the electron transport chain of photosystem I. Phylloquinone is an electron acceptor during photosynthesis, forming part of the electron transport chain of Photosystem I. The best-known function of vitamin K in animals is as a cofactor in the formation of coagulation factors II (prothrombin), VII, IX, and X by the liver. It is also required for the", "title": "Phytomenadione" }, { "id": "16700237", "text": "should be undertaken for many weeks to obtain observable results. Longer exposure to sunlight might cause blistering of skin, so the therapy should be undertaken in the direct supervision of a physician. It is done in alternate days. After 2 hours of taking the oral dose of 20 mg/day of a psoralen, skin is exposed to sunlight. Eyes, ears and other normally pigmented areas should be protected while spending time in the sun. Melanizing agents Melanizing agents are drugs that increase sensitivity to solar radiation and promote re-pigmentation of de-pigmented areas of skin. Furocoumarins stimulate melanocytes and induce their proliferation", "title": "Melanizing agents" }, { "id": "15365112", "text": "find new materials able to absorb the light efficiently. Photosynthesis is the natural process that converts CO using light to produce hydrocarbon compounds such as sugar. The depletion of fossil fuels encourages scientists to find alternatives to produce hydrocarbon compounds. Artificial photosynthesis is a promising method mimicking the natural photosynthesis to produce such compounds. The photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 is much studied because of its worldwide impact. Many researchers aim to find new semiconductors to develop stable and efficient photo-anodes and photo-cathodes. Dye-sensitized solar cells or DSSCs use TiO and dyes to absorb the light. This absorption induces the formation", "title": "Photoelectrochemistry" }, { "id": "15647990", "text": "UV rays while at the same time allowing the transmittance of wavelengths necessary for photosynthesis. Its biosynthesis in cyanobacteria is mostly triggered by exposure to UV-A and UV-B wavelengths. Recently, Couradeau and coworkers found that cyanobacterial soil crusts warm the soil surface by as much as 10 °C through the production and accumulation of scytonemin pigments. This effect is due to the dissipation of the absorbed photons by the scytonemin molecules into heat. The biosynthesis in \"Lyngbya aestuarii\" was recently explored by Balskus, Case, and Walsh. It proceeds by the conversion of L-tryptophan to 3-indole pyruvic acid, followed by coupling", "title": "Scytonemin" }, { "id": "20027258", "text": "sun make the birds sexually active during the winter by stimulating their anterior lobe, located in the pituitary gland of the brain, causing the bird to produce a hormone that increases the activity of the bird's sex glands, increasing egg production. Farms will usually try to match the amount of sunlight and artificial light that the birds get with the amount received from the sun on the longest day of the year Some birds that only lay during the shorter days of the year require increased darkness during the summer months to maximize egg production, rather than increased lighting during", "title": "Artificial daylight supplementation" }, { "id": "825827", "text": "as a chelating agent for complexing micronutrients in soil fertilizer and for cleaning metal surfaces consisting of aluminium, copper, iron, and alloys of these metals, respectively. Tartaric acid Tartaric acid is a white, crystalline organic acid that occurs naturally in many fruits, most notably in grapes, but also in bananas, tamarinds, and citrus. Its salt, potassium bitartrate, commonly known as cream of tartar, develops naturally in the process of winemaking. It is commonly mixed with sodium bicarbonate and is sold as baking powder used as a leavening agent in food preparation. The acid itself is added to foods as an", "title": "Tartaric acid" }, { "id": "13969337", "text": "D produced is degraded. Synthesis of vitamin D in nature is dependent on the presence of UV radiation and subsequent activation in liver and in kidney. Many animals synthesize vitamin D from 7-dehydrocholesterol, and many fungi synthesize vitamin D from ergosterol. Click on icon in lower right corner to open. The transformation that converts 7-dehydrocholesterol to vitamin D occurs in two steps. First, 7-dehydrocholesterol is photolyzed by ultraviolet light in a 6-electron conrotatory ring-opening electrocyclic reaction; the product is previtamin D. Second, previtamin D spontaneously isomerizes to vitamin D (cholecalciferol) in an antarafacial sigmatropic [1,7] hydride shift. At room temperature,", "title": "Vitamin D" }, { "id": "445326", "text": "inherited from its parents, a fetus begins to develop from the nutrients it absorbs. It requires certain vitamins and minerals to be present at certain times. These nutrients facilitate the chemical reactions that produce among other things, skin, bone, and muscle. If there is serious deficiency in one or more of these nutrients, a child may develop a deficiency disease. Even minor deficiencies may cause permanent damage. Once growth and development are completed, vitamins remain essential nutrients for the healthy maintenance of the cells, tissues, and organs that make up a multicellular organism; they also enable a multicellular life form", "title": "Vitamin" }, { "id": "14149353", "text": "many climate zones, genetic selection has helped indigenous human populations adapt toward skin pigmentation levels that provide a healthy level of UV exposure. This largely explains the tendency toward darker-skinned populations in the sunniest tropical environments, and lighter skin tones in less-sunny regions and for those who most need vitamin D for rapid bone growth, specifically children and reproductive-age women. The map below illustrates the geographic distribution of skin color for native populations prior to 1940, based on von Luschan's chromatic scale. These long-term adaptations for optimal health can be confounded by patterns of food, clothing and shelter, especially at", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "990071", "text": "be obtained from the diet. The term is conditional both on the circumstances and on the particular organism. For example, ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is a vitamin for anthropoid primates, humans, guinea pigs and bats, but not for other mammals. Vitamin D is not an essential nutrient for people who get sufficient exposure to ultraviolet light, either from the sun or an artificial source, as then they synthesize vitamin D in skin. Humans require thirteen vitamins in their diet, most of which are actually groups of related molecules, \"vitamers\", (e.g. vitamin E includes tocopherols and tocotrienols, vitamin K includes vitamin", "title": "Dietary supplement" }, { "id": "630497", "text": "7-Dehydrocholesterol 7-Dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC) is a zoosterol that functions in the serum as a cholesterol precursor, and is converted to vitamin D in the skin, therefore functioning as provitamin-D. The presence of this compound in human skin enables humans to manufacture vitamin D (cholecalciferol) from ultraviolet rays in the sun light, via an intermediate isomer pre-vitamin D. It is also found in the milk of several mammalian species. In insects it is a precursor for the hormone ecdysone, required for reaching adulthood. It was discovered by Nobel-laureate organic chemist Adolf Windaus. The skin consists of two primary layers: an inner layer,", "title": "7-Dehydrocholesterol" }, { "id": "2842064", "text": "However, it operates not by inducing direct DNA damage, but by producing reactive oxygen species which damage DNA indirectly. UVA (see above) induces a cosmetic tan but little extra melanin protection against sun damage, sun burn, or cancer. Ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation is in the wavelength range 280 to 320 nm. Much of this band is blocked by the Earth's ozone layer, but some penetrates. UVB: A person's natural skin color affects their reaction to exposure to the sun. An individual's natural skin color can vary from a dark brown to a nearly colorless pigmentation, which may appear white .", "title": "Sun tanning" }, { "id": "11253391", "text": "Cyanocobalamin Cyanocobalamin is a synthetic form of vitamin. Vitamin is the \"generic descriptor\" name for any vitamers of vitamin . Because humans and animals can convert cyanocobalamin to any one of the active vitamin compounds, by definition this makes cyanocobalamin itself a form (or vitamer) of . Cyanocobalamin is usually prescribed after surgical removal of part or all of the stomach or intestine to ensure adequate serum levels of vitamin . It is also used to treat pernicious anemia, vitamin deficiency (due to low intake from food), thyrotoxicosis, hemorrhage, malignancy, liver disease and kidney disease. Cyanocobalamin injections are often prescribed", "title": "Cyanocobalamin" }, { "id": "15351804", "text": "UV band, including much of the band that is formally non-ionizing. Ultraviolet light induces melanin production from melanocyte cells to cause sun tanning of skin. Vitamin D is produced on the skin by a radical reaction initiated by UV radiation. Plastic (polycarbonate) sunglasses generally absorb UV radiation. UV overexposure to the eyes causes snow blindness, common to areas with reflective surfaces, such as snow or water. Light, or visible light, is the very narrow range of electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye (about 400–700 nm), or up to 380–750 nm. More broadly, physicists refer to light as", "title": "Non-ionizing radiation" }, { "id": "7157111", "text": "(A, B, and C) remained in the trans conformation after 18 hours exposure to UV light at 254 nm. On the other hand, Collins reported that the avenanthramides isomerize upon exposure to daylight or UV light.) Avenanthramides can be artificially synthesized. Avenanthramides A, B, D, and E were synthesized by Collins (1989), using chromatography methods, and adapting Bain and Smalley’s procedure (1968). All four synthetic substances were identical to the ones extracted from oats. Avenanthramide Avenanthramides (Anthranilic acid amides) are a group of phenolic alkaloids found mainly in oats (\"Avena sativa\"), but also present in white cabbage butterfly eggs (\"Pieris", "title": "Avenanthramide" }, { "id": "14149339", "text": "rickets for children and osteoporosis for adults. Over the past several years, levels of ultraviolet radiation have been tracked at over 30 sites across North America as part of the United States Department of Agriculture's UVB Monitoring and Research Program at Colorado State University. The first map at right shows levels of UVB radiation in June 2008, expressed in Vitamin D Equivalents. Using satellite data, measurements from the European Space Agency produce similar maps expressed in units of the widely followed UV Index, for locations around the world. Exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun is a source of vitamin", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "14149335", "text": "robust circadian rhythms, and reduced risk of seasonal affective disorder. Long-term sunlight exposure is known to be associated with the development of skin cancer, skin aging, immune suppression, and eye diseases such as cataracts and macular degeneration. Effects of UV-radiation at high latitudes, where snow stays on the ground into early summer and the sun then remains at a low position even at its zenith, have been reviewed by Meyer-Rochow. Short-term overexposure is the cause of sunburn, snow blindness, and solar retinopathy. UV rays, and therefore sunlight and sunlamps, are the only listed carcinogens that are known to have health", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "445750", "text": "performs the classic functions of vitamin K, including its activity in the production of blood-clotting proteins. Animals may also convert it to vitamin K. Bacteria in the gut flora can also convert K into vitamin K (menaquinone). In addition, bacteria typically lengthen the isoprenoid side chain of vitamin K to produce a range of vitamin K forms, most notably the MK-7 to MK-11 homologues of vitamin K. All forms of K other than MK-4 can only be produced by bacteria, which use these forms in anaerobic respiration. The MK-7 and other bacterially derived forms of vitamin K exhibit vitamin K", "title": "Vitamin K" }, { "id": "14377294", "text": "nm. They are considered to be amongst the strongest natural absorbers of UV radiation. It is this light absorbing property that allows MAAs to protect cells from the harmful UV-B and UV-A components of sunlight. Biosynthetic pathways of MAAs depend on the specific MAA molecule and the organism that is producing it. These biosynthetic pathways often share common enzymes and metabolic intermediates with pathways of the primary metabolism. An example is the shikimate pathway that is classically used to produce the aromatic amino acids (phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan); with many intermediates and enzymes from this pathway utilized in MAA biosynthesis.", "title": "Mycosporine-like amino acid" }, { "id": "5044390", "text": "Orotic acid Orotic acid is a heterocyclic compound and an acid; it is also known as pyrimidinecarboxylic acid. Historically it was believed to be part of the vitamin B complex and was called vitamin B, but it is now known that it is not a vitamin. The compound is manufactured in the body via a mitochondrial enzyme, dihydroorotate dehydrogenase or a cytoplasmic enzyme of pyrimidine synthesis pathway. It is sometimes used as a mineral carrier in some dietary supplements (to increase their bioavailability), most commonly for lithium orotate. Dihydroorotate is synthesized to orotic acid by the enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase, where", "title": "Orotic acid" }, { "id": "493593", "text": "vitamin D from sunlight, which helps it absorb calcium. Females evolved to have lighter skin so their bodies absorb more calcium. The social significance of differences in skin color has varied across cultures and over time, as demonstrated with regard to social status and discrimination. Melanin is produced by cells called melanocytes in a process called melanogenesis. Melanin is made within small membrane–bound packages called melanosomes. As they become full of melanin, they move into the slender arms of melanocytes, from where they are transferred to the keratinocytes. Under normal conditions, melanosomes cover the upper part of the keratinocytes and", "title": "Human skin color" }, { "id": "493592", "text": "that such major changes in pigmentation may have happened in as little as 100 generations (≈2,500 years) through selective sweeps. Natural skin color can also darken as a result of tanning due to exposure to sunlight. The leading theory is that skin color adapts to intense sunlight irradiation to provide partial protection against the ultraviolet fraction that produces damage and thus mutations in the DNA of the skin cells. In addition, it has been observed that adult human females on average are significantly lighter in skin pigmentation than males. Females need more calcium during pregnancy and lactation. The body synthesizes", "title": "Human skin color" }, { "id": "7070372", "text": "contrast to all other carotenoids, phytoene and phytofluene, the first carotenoid precursors in the biosynthetic pathway of other carotenoids absorb light in the UV range. Dietary phytoene and phytofluene are accumulated in human skin. The accumulation of these carotenoids may protect the skin by several mechanisms: acting as UV absorbers, as antioxidants, as anti-inflammatory agents. Phytofluene Phytofluene is a colorless carotenoid found naturally in tomatoes and other vegetables. It is the second product of carotenoid biosynthesis. It is formed from phytoene in a desaturation reaction leading to the formation of five conjugated double bonds. In the following step, addition of", "title": "Phytofluene" }, { "id": "15019190", "text": "Pyrabactin Pyrabactin is a synthetic sulfonamide that mimics abscisic acid (ABA), a naturally produced stress hormone in plants that helps them cope with drought conditions by inhibiting growth. ABA can be manufactured for agricultural use; however, ABA is light-sensitive and costly to make. Pyrabactin is relatively inexpensive, easy to make, and not sensitive to light. Unlike ABA, pyrabactin activates only a few of the 14 ABA receptors in the plant needed for effective drought tolerance. Its role as an ABA mimic may make pyrabactin an important tool for protecting crops against drought and cold weather. The discovery of pyrabactin by", "title": "Pyrabactin" }, { "id": "6433568", "text": "exposure occurs. However, the \"hardening\" effect, with respite during the later summer, frequently occurs with gradual exposure of sunlight, eventually leading to significant improvement. The cause of PLE is not yet understood, but several factors may be involved. It is thought to be due to a type IV delayed-type hypersensitivity to an allergen produced in the body following sunlight exposure, in a genetically susceptible person. PLE can be provoked by UVA or UVB (chief cause of sunburn) rays, meaning it can be triggered even by sunlight through glass. UV-A is a major constituent of sunlight, can pass through glass, is", "title": "Polymorphous light eruption" }, { "id": "630520", "text": "Melanocyte Melanocytes are melanin-producing neural crest-derived cells located in the bottom layer (the stratum basale) of the skin's epidermis, the middle layer of the eye (the uvea), the inner ear, vaginal epithelium, meninges, bones, and heart. Melanin is a dark pigment primarily responsible for skin color. Once synthesized, melanin is contained in special organelles called melanosomes which can be transported to nearby keratinocytes to induce pigmentation. Functionally, melanin serves as protection against UV radiation. Melanocytes also have a role in the immune system. Through a process called melanogenesis, melanocytes produce melanin, which is a pigment found in the skin, eyes,", "title": "Melanocyte" }, { "id": "5992868", "text": "Mesaconic acid Mesaconic acid is one of several isomeric carboxylic acids obtained from citric acid. It is a colorless solid. It is prepared from citric acid, which is first converted to itaconic anhydride by dehydration and decarboxylation. Itaconic acid anhydride is isomerized to citraconic anhydride, which is hydrolyzed and the resulting acid further isomerized under acid-catalysis to give mesaconic acid. This acid was studied for the first time by Jacobus H. van 't Hoff in 1874. It was later shown to be produced by \"Clostridium tetanomorphum\". Further studies showed that this organic compound is involved in the biosynthesis of vitamin", "title": "Mesaconic acid" }, { "id": "445324", "text": "of ultraviolet light present in sunlight. Humans can produce some vitamins from precursors they consume: for example, vitamin A is synthesized from beta carotene; and niacin is synthesized from the amino acid tryptophan. The Food Fortification Initiative lists countries which have mandatory fortification programs for vitamins folic acid, niacin, vitamin A and vitamins B1, B2 and B12. Vitamins are classified as either water-soluble or fat-soluble. In humans there are 13 vitamins: 4 fat-soluble (A, D, E, and K) and 9 water-soluble (8 B vitamins and vitamin C). Water-soluble vitamins dissolve easily in water and, in general, are readily excreted from", "title": "Vitamin" }, { "id": "17031935", "text": "produced by human tissue. MK-7 may be converted from phylloquinone (K) in the colon by \"Escherichia coli\" bacteria. However, these menaquinones synthesized by bacteria in the gut appear to contribute minimally to overall vitamin K status. MK-4 and MK-7 are both found in the United States in dietary supplements for bone health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved any form of vitamin K for the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis. MK-4 (45 mg daily) has been approved by the Ministry of Health in Japan since 1995 for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. All K vitamins", "title": "Vitamin K2" }, { "id": "6418584", "text": "Menadione is metabolized by the human body into K which uses alkylation to yield menaquinones (MK-n, n=1-13; K vitamers), hence is better classified as a provitamin. It is also known as \"menaphthone\". It is an intermediate in the chemical synthesis of vitamin K by first reduction to the diol menadiol, which is suscepible to coupling to the phytol. Despite the fact that it can serve as a precursor to various types of vitamin K, menadione is generally not used as a nutritional supplement in economically developed countries. Menadione for human use at pharmaceutical strength is available in some countries with", "title": "Menadione" }, { "id": "11720425", "text": "of strong sunshine every day is usually considered enough. In Northern European countries especially in the winter when sunlight is scarce, pregnant women may receive UVB light in clinics to assure that their babies have an adequate amount of vitamin D3 when born. Animals need UV-B light to produce vitamin D3 and strong bones. Zoos have UV-B lamps for reptiles kept indoors. Reptile keepers in a home environment can purchase UV-B/UVA emitting bulbs from pet stores to provide their reptiles with the required amount of UVB/UVA they need to generate vitamin D3. Such lights are branded Creature World or Repti", "title": "UV-B lamps" }, { "id": "2842062", "text": "few weeks or months, much longer than the tan that is caused by oxidation of existing melanin, and is also actually protective against UV skin damage and sunburn, rather than simply cosmetic. Typically, it can provide a modest Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of 3, meaning that tanned skin would tolerate up to 3 times the UV exposure as pale skin. However, in order to cause true melanogenesis-tanning by means of UV exposure, some direct DNA photodamage must first be produced, and this requires UVB exposure (as present in natural sunlight, or sunlamps that produce UVB). The ultraviolet frequencies responsible for", "title": "Sun tanning" }, { "id": "2659867", "text": "K) are found in the egg yolk. Egg yolk is one of the few foods naturally containing vitamin D. The composition (by weight) of the most prevalent fatty acids in egg yolk typically is: Egg yolk is a source of lecithin, as well as egg oil, for cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications. Based on weight, egg yolk contains about 9% lecithin. The yellow color is due to lutein and zeaxanthin, which are yellow or orange carotenoids known as xanthophylls. The different yolk's proteins have distinct roles. Phosvitins are important in sequestering calcium, iron, and other cations for the developing embryo. Phosvitins", "title": "Yolk" }, { "id": "1695240", "text": "classic anabolic hormones are the anabolic steroids, which stimulate protein synthesis and muscle growth, and insulin. Photosynthetic carbohydrate synthesis in plants and certain bacteria is an anabolic process that produces glucose, cellulose, starch, lipids, and proteins from CO. It uses the energy produced from the light-driven reactions of photosynthesis, and creates the precursors to these large molecules via carbon assimilation in the photosynthetic carbon reduction cycle, a.k.a. the Calvin cycle. All amino acids are formed from intermediates in the catabolic processes of glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, or the pentose phosphate pathway. From glycolysis, glucose 6-phosphate is a precursor for", "title": "Anabolism" }, { "id": "18994167", "text": "and permanent bone damage. Vitamin D, also coined as the sunshine vitamin, is necessary within a child’s diet as it allows body tissues and in particular bone to be properly nourished and mineralized. Vitamin D3, which is gained from dietary nutrients, is also essential for calcium absorption and homeostasis, which ensures standard muscle contraction and the transport of blood throughout the body. Without adequate consumption of vitamin D, children can become predisposed to conditions such as rickets, which is the \"softening or weakening of bones\". which can only be treated with vitamin D supplements, sunlight and surgery. Vitamin D is", "title": "Child nutrition in Australia" }, { "id": "14149350", "text": "the sun can cause yellow non-cancerous bumps on the middle part of the sclera of the eye, called pingueculae. It is most common in younger people, mainly those who spend a lot of their time outdoors and do not protect their eyes from UV rays. To decrease the risk of developing pingueculae, it may be wise to wear sunglasses when outdoors, even on overcast days. Blood levels of folate, a nutrient vital for fetal development, can be degraded by UV radiation, raising concerns about sun exposure for pregnant women. Lifespan and fertility can be adversely affected for individuals born during", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "2842125", "text": "studies show that indoor tanners do suffer burns. In two surveys in the US in 1998 and 2004, 58% of indoor tanners said they had been burned during sessions. Vitamin D is produced when the skin is exposed to UVB, whether from sunlight or an artificial source. It is needed for mineralization of bone and bone growth. Areas in which vitamin D's role is being investigated include reducing the risk of cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and glucose dysregulation. Exposing arms and legs to a minimal 0.5 erythemal (mild sunburn) UVB dose is equal to consuming about 3000 IU of", "title": "Indoor tanning" }, { "id": "6246440", "text": "Tocopheryl acetate Tocopheryl acetate, also known as vitamin E acetate, is a common vitamin supplement with the molecular formula CHO (for 'α' form). It is the ester of acetic acid and tocopherol (vitamin E). It is often used in dermatological products such as skin creams. Tocopheryl acetate is not oxidized and can penetrate through the skin to the living cells, where about 5% is converted to free tocopherol. Claims are made for beneficial antioxidant effects. Tocopheryl acetate is used as an alternative to tocopherol itself because the phenolic hydroxyl group is blocked, providing a less acidic product with a longer", "title": "Tocopheryl acetate" }, { "id": "609785", "text": "in the brain, though its function remains obscure. In the human skin, melanogenesis is initiated by exposure to UV radiation, causing the skin to darken. Melanin is an effective absorbent of light; the pigment is able to dissipate over 99.9% of absorbed UV radiation. Because of this property, melanin is thought to protect skin cells from UVB radiation damage, reducing the risk of cancer, and it is considered that exposure to UV radiation is associated with increased risk of malignant melanoma, a cancer of melanocytes (melanin cells). Studies have shown a lower incidence for skin cancer in individuals with more", "title": "Melanin" }, { "id": "14149343", "text": "that vitamin D supplementation does not improve cardiovascular health or metabolism, so the link with vitamin D must be in part indirect. People who get more sun are generally healthier, and also have higher vitamin D levels. It has been found that ultraviolet radiation (even UVA) produces nitric oxide (NO) in the skin, and nitric oxide can lower blood pressure. High blood pressure increases the risk of stroke and heart disease. Although long-term exposure to ultraviolet contributes to non-melanoma skin cancers that are rarely fatal, it has been found in a Danish study that those who get these cancers were", "title": "Health effects of sunlight exposure" }, { "id": "3332277", "text": "center of the sky to deep in the west. In late afternoon, sunlight is particularly bright and glaring, because the sun is at a low angle in the sky. The standard working time in most industrialized countries goes from the morning to the late afternoon or evening—archetypally, 9 am to 5 pm—so the latter part of this time takes place in the afternoon. Schools usually let out during the afternoon as well. In diurnal animals, it is typical for blood levels of the hormone cortisol—which is used to increase blood sugar and aid metabolism and is also produced in response", "title": "Afternoon" }, { "id": "5743426", "text": "that the bacteria started life on Earth during the Pre-Cambrian age. Fossilized cyanobacteria are commonly found in rocks that date back to Mesoproterozoic. Cyanobacteria are photoautotroph in nature; meaning they convert carbon dioxide and absorbed sunlight into food and energy via photosynthesis. They are also able to fix atmospheric nitrogen and convert it into the biologically-usable form (Paerl, Pinkney and Steppe, 2000). This gives them competitive advantage over other organisms that may be limited by the shortage of biologically available nitrogen. The cyanobacteria colonies contain two types of cells, the regular cells with chlorophyll carrying out the photosynthesis, and heterocysts", "title": "Algal mat" }, { "id": "20027257", "text": "the egg production and extends the laying of some birds (such as chickens and ducks) because they rely on the changes in daylight hours - associated with season changes - to know when it is the proper time to lay their eggs. It is supplied to birds by shining a light - usually from a high pressure sodium, tungsten (incandescent), or fluorescent light bulb - into the living areas of the poultry, during some of the dark hours of the day. The orange and red lights (of approximately 590 - 750nm wavelengths) that are similar to those produced by the", "title": "Artificial daylight supplementation" }, { "id": "9779313", "text": "Menatetrenone Menatetrenone (INN), also known as MK-4, is a vitamin K compound used as a hemostatic agent, and also as adjunctive therapy for the pain of osteoporosis. Menatetrenone is one of the nine forms of vitamin K. MK-4 is produced via conversion of vitamin K in the body, in the testes, pancreas and arterial walls. While major questions still surround the biochemical pathway for the transformation of vitamin K to MK-4, studies demonstrate the conversion is not dependent on gut bacteria, occurring in germ-free rats and in parenterally-administered K in rats. In fact, tissues that accumulate high amounts of MK-4", "title": "Menatetrenone" }, { "id": "12699458", "text": "Sun glitter Sun glitter is a bright, sparkling light formed when sunlight reflects from water waves. The waves may be caused by natural movement of the water, or by the movement of birds or animals in the water. Even a ripple from a thrown rock will create a momentary glitter. Light reflects from smooth surfaces by specular reflection. A rippled but locally smooth surface such as water with waves will reflect the sun at different angles at each point on the surface of the waves. As a result, a viewer in the right position will see many small images of", "title": "Sun glitter" }, { "id": "293876", "text": "and direct experiences and a spontaneous approach to life. Sunlight has been shown to be beneficial in some skin conditions and enables the body to make vitamin D, but with the increased awareness of skin cancer, wearing of sunscreen is now part of the culture. Sun exposure prompts the body to produce nitric oxide that helps support the cardiovascular system and the feelgood brain-chemical serotonin. There are also documented psychological benefits of naturist activities including greater life satisfaction, more positive body image, and higher self-esteem. The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international clothing-optional bike ride and exercise in", "title": "Naturism" }, { "id": "5509032", "text": "Avobenzone Avobenzone (trade names Parsol 1789, Milestab 1789, Eusolex 9020, Escalol 517, Neo Heliopan 357 and others, INCI Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane) is an oil-soluble ingredient used in sunscreen products to absorb the full spectrum of UVA rays. Avobenzone was patented in 1973 and was approved in the EU in 1978. It was approved by the FDA in 1988. Its use is approved worldwide. Pure avobenzone is a whitish to yellowish crystalline powder with a weak odor, dissolving in isopropanol, decyl oleate, capric acid/caprylic acid triglycerides and other oils. Avobenzone is a dibenzoylmethane derivative. Avobenzone exists in the ground state as a", "title": "Avobenzone" } ]

[ "the 1928 Summer Olympics" ]

[ { "id": "806681", "text": "ignited at the site where the temple of Hera used to stand. When the tradition of an Olympic fire was reintroduced during the 1928 Summer Olympics, an employee of the Electric Utility of Amsterdam lit the first modern Olympic flame in the Marathon Tower of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. The Olympic flame has been part of the Summer Olympics ever since. The Olympic flame was first introduced to the Winter Olympics at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. By contrast to the Olympic flame proper, the Olympic torch relay, which transports the flame from Olympia, Greece to the various", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806682", "text": "designated sites of the Games, had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin which were organized by the Nazis under the guidance of Joseph Goebbels. At the first Olympic torch relay, the flame was transported from Olympia to Berlin over 3,187 kilometres by 3,331 runners in twelve days and eleven nights. There were minor protests in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia on the way, which were suppressed by the local security forces. Leni Riefenstahl later staged the torch relay for the 1938 film \"Olympia\". The Olympic fire is ignited several months before the", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806679", "text": "Olympic flame The Olympic flame is a symbol used in the Olympic movement. Several months before the Olympic Games, the Olympic flame is lit at Olympia, Greece. This ceremony starts the Olympic torch relay, which formally ends with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. The flame then continues to burn in the cauldron for the duration of the Games, until it is extinguished during the Olympic closing ceremony. The Olympic flame as a symbol of the modern Olympic movement was introduced by architect Jan Wils who designed the stadium for the 1928", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806694", "text": "it is considered to be a great honor to light the Olympic cauldron, and similarly it has become a tradition to select notable athletes to conduct this part of the ceremony. After being lit, the flame in the Olympic cauldron continues to burn throughout the Games, until the day of the closing ceremony and celebration, when it is finally put out, symbolizing the official end of the Games. The first well-known athlete to light the cauldron in the stadium was ninefold Olympic Champion Paavo Nurmi, who excited the home crowd in Helsinki in 1952. In 1968, Enriqueta Basilio became the", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806680", "text": "Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The idea for the Olympic flame was derived from ancient Greece, where a sacred fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics on the altar of the sanctuary of Hestia. In Ancient Greek mythology, fire had divine connotations — it was thought to have been stolen from the gods by Prometheus. Sacred fires were present at many ancient Greek sanctuaries, including those at Olympia. Every four years, when Zeus was honoured at the Olympic Games, additional fires were lit at his temple and that of his wife, Hera. The modern Olympic flame is", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806696", "text": "stadium of Lillehammer by a ski jumper. In Beijing 2008, Li Ning \"ran\" on air around the Bird's Nest and lit the flame. In Vancouver 2010, four athletes—Catriona Le May Doan, Wayne Gretzky, Steve Nash and Nancy Greene—were given the honour of lighting the flame simultaneously indoors before Wayne Gretzky transferred the flame to an outdoor cauldron at Vancouver's waterfront. Other famous last bearers of the torch include heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali (1996), Australian aboriginal runner Cathy Freeman (2000), Brazilian marathon runner Vanderlei de Lima (2016), and South Korean figure skater Yuna Kim (2018). On other occasions, the people", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806698", "text": "of seven young British athletes (Callum Airlie, Jordan Duckitt, Desiree Henry, Katie Kirk, Cameron MacRitchie, Aidan Reynolds and Adelle Tracey) — each nominated by a British Olympic champion — who then each lit a single tiny flame on the ground, igniting 204 copper petals before they converged to form the cauldron for the Games. The design of the torch used in the relay to the Games changes for each Games. They may be designed to represent a classical ideal, or to represent some local aspect of those particular Games. The first Olympic torches in 1936 were produced by the Krupp", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806686", "text": "Ottawa via satellite where it was received and used to trigger a laser beam to re-light the flame. The torch, but not the flame, was taken into space by astronauts in 1996, 2000 and 2013. In 2000, the torch was carried under the water by divers near the Great Barrier Reef. Other unique means of transportation include a Native American canoe, a camel, and Concorde. The torch has been carried across water; the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games was carried across the port of Marseilles by a diver holding it aloft above the water. In 2000, an underwater flare was used", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "298700", "text": "coined by Coubertin's friend, the Dominican priest Henri Didon OP, for a Paris youth gathering of 1891. Coubertin's Olympic ideals are expressed in the Olympic creed: Months before each Games, the Olympic Flame is lit in Olympia in a ceremony that reflects ancient Greek rituals. A female performer, acting as a priestess, ignites a torch by placing it inside a parabolic mirror which focuses the sun's rays; she then lights the torch of the first relay bearer, thus initiating the Olympic torch relay that will carry the flame to the host city's Olympic stadium, where it plays an important role", "title": "Olympic Games" }, { "id": "806687", "text": "by a diver across the Great Barrier Reef en route to the Sydney Games. In 2012 it was carried by boat across Bristol harbour in the UK and on the front of a London Underground train to Wimbledon. In 2004, the first global torch relay was undertaken, a journey that lasted 78 days. The Olympic flame covered a distance of more than 78,000 km in the hands of some 11,300 torchbearers, travelling to Africa and South America for the first time, visiting all previous Olympic cities and finally returning to Athens for the 2004 Summer Olympics. The 2008 Summer Olympics", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "16683536", "text": "1936 Summer Olympics torch relay The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was the first of its kind, following on from the reintroduction of the Olympic Flame at the 1928 Games. It pioneered the modern convention of moving the flame via a relay system from Greece to the Olympic venue. Leni Riefenstahl filmed the relay for the award-winning but controversial 1938 film \"Olympia\". The Olympic flame was introduced to the modern Games in 1928 when it burnt atop a pillar above the stadium in Amsterdam. Four years later the same was repeated in Los Angeles. At both of these events the", "title": "1936 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "806695", "text": "first woman to light the Olympic Cauldron at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. Perhaps one of the most spectacular of Olympic cauldron lighting ceremonies took place at the 1992 Summer Olympics, when Paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo lit the cauldron by shooting a burning arrow over it, which ignited gas rising from the cauldron. Unofficial videos seem to indicate that the flame was lit from below. Twenty years after the Barcelona Games one of those involved said that the flame was \"switched on\" (\"Se encendió con un botón\", in Spanish). Two years later, the Olympic fire was brought into the", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806703", "text": "numerous times in different commemorative coins. A recent sample was the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Olympic Games commemorative coin, minted in 2002. In the obverse, the Olympic flame above the Earth can be seen. Note that Finland is the only country highlighted, as the host of the 1952 games. Olympic flame The Olympic flame is a symbol used in the Olympic movement. Several months before the Olympic Games, the Olympic flame is lit at Olympia, Greece. This ceremony starts the Olympic torch relay, which formally ends with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "3284277", "text": "IOC at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics by the city of Innsbruck, Austria, and has since then been passed on to the next organizing city of the Winter Youth Olympics. The modern tradition of moving the Olympic flame via a relay system from Greece to the Olympic venue began with the Berlin Games in 1936. Months before the Games are held, the Olympic flame is lit on a torch, with the rays of the Sun concentrated by a parabolic reflector, at the site of the Ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece. The torch is then taken out of Greece, most often", "title": "Olympic symbols" }, { "id": "806693", "text": "is capable of relighting the cooler more visible portion if it is extinguished. The fuel inside the torch lasts for approximately 15 minutes before the flame is exhausted. During the opening ceremony, the final bearer of the torch runs towards the cauldron, often placed at the top of a grand staircase, and then uses the torch to start the flame in the stadium. The climactic transfer of the Olympic flame from the final torch to the cauldron at the central host stadium marks the symbolic commencement of the Games. As with being the final runner of the Olympic torch relay,", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806685", "text": "and 2012 to cross the English Channel and was carried by rowers in Canberra as well as by dragon boat in Hong Kong in 2008, and it was first transported by airplane in 1952, when the fire travelled to Helsinki. In 1956, all carriers in the torch relay to Stockholm, where the equestrian events were held instead of in Melbourne, travelled on horseback. Remarkable means of transportation were used in 1976, when the flame was transformed to a radio signal and transmitted from Europe to the New World: Heat sensors in Athens detected the flame, the signal was sent to", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806683", "text": "opening ceremony of the Olympic Games at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece. Eleven women, representing the Vestal Virgins, perform a celebration at the Temple of Hera in which the first torch of the Olympic Torch Relay is kindled by the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror. After the ceremony at Olympia, the Olympic flame first travels around Greece, and is then transferred during a ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens from the prior Olympic city to the current year's host city. The Olympic torch relay in the host country ends", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "298701", "text": "in the opening ceremony. Though the flame has been an Olympic symbol since 1928, the torch relay was only introduced at the 1936 Summer Games to promote the Third Reich. The Olympic mascot, an animal or human figure representing the cultural heritage of the host country, was introduced in 1968. It has played an important part of the Games' identity promotion since the 1980 Summer Olympics, when the Russian bear cub Misha reached international stardom. The mascot of the Summer Olympics in London was named Wenlock after the town of Much Wenlock in Shropshire. Much Wenlock still hosts the Wenlock", "title": "Olympic Games" }, { "id": "806701", "text": "also burned by the solid-fueled torch for the 1968 Mexico Games. The fuel used for the torch has varied. Early torches used solid or liquid fuels, including olive oil. For a particularly bright display, pyrotechnic compounds and even burning metals have been used. Since the Munich Games of 1972, most torches have instead used a liquefied gas such as propylene or a propane/butane mixture. These are easily stored, easily controlled and give a brightly luminous flame. The number of torches made has varied from, for example, 22 for Helsinki in 1952, 6,200 for the 1980 Moscow Games and 8,000 for", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "3284278", "text": "to be taken around the country or continent where the Games are held. The Olympic torch is carried by athletes, leaders, celebrities, and ordinary people alike, and at times in unusual conditions, such as being electronically transmitted via satellite for Montreal 1976, submerged underwater without being extinguished for Sydney 2000, or in space and at the North Pole for Sochi 2014. On the final day of the torch relay, the day of the Opening Ceremony, the Flame reaches the main stadium and is used to light a cauldron situated in a prominent part of the venue to signify the beginning", "title": "Olympic symbols" }, { "id": "806697", "text": "who lit the cauldron in the stadium are not famous, but nevertheless symbolize Olympic ideals. Japanese runner Yoshinori Sakai was born in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, the day the nuclear weapon Little Boy destroyed that city. He symbolized the rebirth of Japan after the Second World War when he opened the 1964 Tokyo Games. At the 1976 Games in Montreal, two teenagers — one from the French-speaking part of the country, one from the English-speaking part — symbolized the unity of Canada. At the 2012 Games in London, the torch was carried by Sir Steve Redgrave to a group", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "835382", "text": "the same Olympic bonuses promised to their security force counterparts. The lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame took place on 25 March 2004 in Ancient Olympia. For the first time ever, the flame travelled around the world in a relay to various Olympic cities (past and future) and other large cities, before returning to Greece. Mascots have been a tradition at the Olympic Games since the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. The Athens games had two official mascots: \"Athena\" and \"Phevos\" (Greek pronunciation: Athina and Fivos). The sister and brother were named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom, strategy", "title": "2004 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "806702", "text": "the London 2012 Games. In transit, the flame sometimes travels by air. A version of the miner's safety lamp is used, kept alight in the air. These lamps are also used during the relay, as a back-up in case the primary torch goes out. This has happened before several Games, but the torch is simply re-lit and carries on. The cauldron and the pedestal are always the subject of unique and often dramatic design. These also tie in with \"how\" the cauldron is lit during the Opening Ceremony. The Olympic flame has been used as a symbol and main motif", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "806684", "text": "with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony in the central host stadium of the Games. The final carrier is often kept unannounced until the last moment. Over the years, it has become a tradition to let famous athletes, former athletes or athletes with significant achievements and milestones be the last runner in the Olympic torch relay. The Olympic torch travels routes that symbolise human achievement. Although most of the time the torch with the Olympic flame is still carried by runners, it has been transported in many different ways. The fire travelled by boat in 1948", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "800583", "text": "colours. Another trumpet fanfare announced the arrival of the Olympic Flame. The torch was carried by two 15-year-olds, Stéphane Préfontaine and Sandra Henderson, chosen as representatives of the unity within Canada's linguistic heritage. This would also be the first time two people would light the Olympic flame, and Henderson would become only the second woman to do the honours. The duo would make a lap of the stadium and then climbed a staircase on a special dais at the center of the stadium to set the Olympic flame alight in a temporary white aluminum cauldron. The flame was later transported", "title": "1976 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "806688", "text": "torch relay spanned all six inhabited continents before proceeding through China, but was met with protests in London, Paris, and San Francisco. As a result, in 2009, the International Olympic Committee announced that future torch relays could be held only within the country hosting the Olympics after the initial Greek leg. Although this rule took effect with the 2014 Winter Olympics, the organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London chose to hold their torch relays only in their respective hosting countries of Canada and the United Kingdom (except for brief stops in", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "2753822", "text": "30, 1936, the first torch-flame was kindled in Olympia, Greece, in the ruins of the Temple of Hera, by 15 robed \"virgins,\" using a concave mirror focusing the sun's rays, all under the supervision of a \"high priestess.\" It was carried to the Acropolis in Athens for a special invocation, and then relayed along the 3,422-kilometer distance to the Olympic stadium in Berlin by an equal number of young Aryan-looking runners, each of whom took the flame a single kilometer. On its way, the flame passed through Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia; those countries, and Greece itself, would all", "title": "Carl Diem" }, { "id": "3284291", "text": "with the games, including mere mentioning of the host city, the year, and others. Olympic symbols The Olympic symbols are icons, flags, and symbols used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to elevate the Olympic Games. Somesuch as the flame, fanfare, and themeare more commonly used during Olympic competition, but others, such as the flags, can be seen throughout the years.The Olympic flag was created under the guidance of Baron Coubertin in 1913 and was released in 1914.But it was first hoisted in 1920 in Belgium at the Antwerp Olympic games in the main stadium. The Olympic motto is the", "title": "Olympic symbols" }, { "id": "806691", "text": "a city near Rio de Janeiro, managed to put out the Olympic flame when protesting against the city's spending money on hosting the games, despite the economic crisis that took hold of Brazil. It is not uncommon for the Olympic flame to be accidentally or deliberately extinguished during the course of the torch relay (and on at least one occasion the cauldron itself has gone out during the Games). To guard against this eventuality, multiple copies of the flame are transported with the relay or maintained in backup locations. When a torch goes out, it is re-lit (or another torch", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "1511073", "text": "is the transfer of the Olympic flame from Ancient Olympia, Greece — where the first Olympic Games were held thousands of years ago — to the stadium of the city hosting the current Olympic Games. The flame arrives just in time for the Opening Ceremony. For the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the flame was lit in Olympia on October 22, 2009. It then traveled from Greece, over the North Pole to Canada's High Arctic and on to the West Coast and Vancouver. The relay started its long Canada journey from the British Columbia capital of Victoria. In Canada, the", "title": "2010 Winter Olympics" }, { "id": "1410386", "text": "and put it up. The organisers had decided against the usual tradition of letting the peace dove fly. Instead they let out 500 small Olympic flags on paper parachutes and 30,000 perfumed artificial roses from three helicopters over the stadium. Following this, the figure skater Alain Calmat was the last torch bearer to enter the stadium. He climbed up the steps to the bowl, where his heartbeat amplified over the loudspeakers. Once at the top, he lit the Olympic flame. Shortly afterwards, skier Leo Lacroix read out the Olympic oath. At the end, the Patrouille de France, the aerobatic flight", "title": "1968 Winter Olympics" }, { "id": "12608589", "text": "During the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the cauldron located inside Olympic Stadium (London) was not visible from outside of the stadium. The image of the lit cauldron was projected on the stadiums rooftop screens during the first week of competition, and live footage was available to all broadcast right holders. See List of 2012 Summer Olympics broadcasters. Beginning at the post–World War I 1920 Summer Olympics, the lighting of the Olympic flame was followed by the release of doves, symbolizing peace. (Experienced athletes brought newspapers to cover themselves because of the birds' droppings.) The release was discontinued after several", "title": "Olympic Games ceremony" }, { "id": "3284263", "text": "Olympic symbols The Olympic symbols are icons, flags, and symbols used by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to elevate the Olympic Games. Somesuch as the flame, fanfare, and themeare more commonly used during Olympic competition, but others, such as the flags, can be seen throughout the years.The Olympic flag was created under the guidance of Baron Coubertin in 1913 and was released in 1914.But it was first hoisted in 1920 in Belgium at the Antwerp Olympic games in the main stadium. The Olympic motto is the hendiatris \"Citius, Altius, Fortius\", which is Latin for \"Faster, Higher, Stronger\". It was proposed", "title": "Olympic symbols" }, { "id": "591466", "text": "people.\" Afterwards, nine bands and 150 choir singers performed an Olympic Hymn, composed by Spyridon Samaras, with words by poet Kostis Palamas. Thereafter, a variety of musical offerings provided the backgrounds to the Opening Ceremonies until 1960, since which time the Samaras/Palamas composition has become the official Olympic Anthem (decision taken by the IOC Session in 1958). Other elements of current Olympic opening ceremonies were initiated later: the Olympic flame was first lit in 1928, the first athletes' oath was sworn at the 1920 Summer Olympics, and the first officials' oath was taken at the 1972 Olympic Games. At the", "title": "1896 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "806700", "text": "960 g. This classical design of a long handle capped by a cylindrical bowl re-appeared in many later torch designs. The torch used for the final entry to the stadium and the lighting of the cauldron was of a different design, also a feature that would re-appear in later years. This torch did not require the long distance duration or weather resistance of the other torches, but did need a spectacular flame for the opening ceremony. At the Melbourne Olympics of 1956, the magnesium/aluminium fuel used for the final torch was certainly spectacular, but also injured its holder. Runners were", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "3284267", "text": "to the outbreak of World War I, but the symbol and flag were later adopted. They would first officially debut at the Games of the VII Olympiad in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1920. The symbol's popularity and widespread use began during the lead-up to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Carl Diem, president of the Organizing Committee of the 1936 Summer Olympics, wanted to hold a torchbearers' ceremony in the stadium at Delphi, site of the famous oracle, where the Pythian Games were also held. For this reason he ordered construction of a milestone with the Olympic rings carved in the", "title": "Olympic symbols" }, { "id": "7725113", "text": "in cremation and bonfires; candles are used in various religious ceremonies; eternal flames are used to remind of notable occasions; and the Olympic Flame burns for the duration of the games. The Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has been consecutively documented since 1106 AD. Fire worship Worship or deification of fire (also pyrodulia, pyrolatry or pyrolatria) is known from various religions. Fire has been an important part of human culture since the Lower Paleolithic. The earliest known traces of controlled fire were found at the Daughters of Jacob Bridge, Israel, and dated to 790,000", "title": "Fire worship" }, { "id": "806692", "text": "is lit) from one of the backup sources. Thus, the fires contained in the torches and Olympic cauldrons all trace a common lineage back to the same Olympia lighting ceremony. The current design of the torch has a safeguard built into it: There are two flames inside the torch. There is a highly visible (yellow flame) portion which burns cooler and is more prone to extinguish in wind and rain, but there is also a smaller hotter (blue in the candle's wick) flame akin to a pilot light hidden inside the torch which is protected from wind and rain and", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "16683543", "text": "a torchbearer should carry the flame along with an escort of three others from there to Berlin. This stone is wrongly indicated like the source of the Olympic symbol of the five interlaced rings. July 25 (Bulgaria): July 26 (Yugoslavia): July 27 (Yugoslavia): July 28 (Yugoslavia): July 28 (Hungary): July 29 (Hungary/Slovakia): July 29 (Austria): July 30 (Austria): July 30 (Czechoslovakia): July 30 (Czechoslovakia): Two urns in the centre of Berlin, within two long rows of large swastika flags, were lit by 400m-runner Siegfried Eifrig on 1 August 1936. The urns burnt for the duration of the Games and served", "title": "1936 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "510041", "text": "the Olympic torch relay between Greece and the host nation. The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was the first of its kind, following on from the reintroduction of the Olympic Flame at the 1928 Games. It pioneered the modern convention of moving the flame via a relay system from Greece to the Olympic venue. Leni Riefenstahl filmed the relay for the 1938 film \"Olympia\". The games were the first to have live television coverage. The German Post Office, using equipment from Telefunken, broadcast over 70 hours of coverage to special viewing rooms throughout Berlin and Potsdam and a few private", "title": "1936 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "3284268", "text": "sides, and that a torchbearer should carry the flame along with an escort of three others from there to Berlin. The ceremony was celebrated but the stone was never removed. Later, two American authors, Lynn and Gray Poole, when visiting Delphi in the late 1950s, saw the stone and reported in their \"History of the Ancient Games\" that the Olympic rings design came from ancient Greece. This has become known as \"Carl Diem's Stone\". This created a myth that the symbol had an ancient Greek origin. The current view of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is that the symbol \"reinforces", "title": "Olympic symbols" }, { "id": "19671959", "text": "Park Ji-Sung, football player in Republic of Korea, was the second person to hold the torch. After the flame touring around Greece for a week, it reached the Acropolis on 30th of October. There were 36 ceremonies held in different cities over a week, then the flame arrived to the PyeongChang Panathenaic Stadium. More than 500 torchbearers participated to follow the rituals of Olympic cycle, and carried the message of peace. In the stadium, Opera soloist Sumi Hwang sang the Olympic anthem during the torch lighting ceremony. The final person to hold the torch was Inbee Park, the golfer from", "title": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony" }, { "id": "20746381", "text": "of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and it has been part of the modern Olympic Games ever since. According to legend, the torch's flame has been kept burning, ever since the first Olympics. For the ancient Greeks, fire had divine connotations - it was thought to have been stolen from the gods by Prometheus. Therefore, fire was also present at many of the sanctuaries in Olympia, Greece. A fire permanently burned on the altar of Hestia in Olympia, Greece. During the Olympic Games, which honored Zeus, additional fires were lit at", "title": "2000 Summer Olympics cauldron" }, { "id": "17075881", "text": "Daniel Delany Bulger Daniel Delany Bulger (18 December 1865 – 8 December 1930) was a leading Irish athlete. Along with his younger brothers, Michael Joseph Bulger (1867–1938) and Lawrence Bulger (1870–1928), he was prominent in the Irish sporting world in the late 19th century. Daniel was one of the 79 delegates who attended the Congress of the Sorbonne in Paris in 1894 that lit the flame of the Olympic Games of the Modern Era in Athens in 1896. The Bulger family were from Moore Street, Kilrush, County Clare, where their father, Daniel Scanlan Bulger (1831-1904), was a woollen merchant and", "title": "Daniel Delany Bulger" }, { "id": "1973655", "text": "Pan Am Games, the Olympic Rings were added to the flag in 1988. The flag has been hoisted during each celebration of the Games. The flag was hoisted while the Olympic Hymn was played until the 2007 Games. In 2011 Games, the new anthem was played for the first time. The anthem itself was composed in 2008. Similar to the Olympic flame, the Pan American Games flame is lit well before the Games are to commence. The flame was lit for the first games in Olympia, Greece. For subsequent games, the torch has been lit by Aztec people in ancient", "title": "Pan American Games" }, { "id": "12608590", "text": "doves perched themselves at the cauldron's rim and were burned alive in the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. It was later replaced with a symbolic release of doves after the flame has been lit. In the 2000 ceremony, a dove image was projected on an enormous white cloth held by the athletes on the stadium floor. In 2004, an LED screen was used. In 2006, acrobats formed the shape of a dove. The 2008 ceremony had fireworks representing doves. In 2010, dove figures were projected on the stage floor. The 2012 ceremony", "title": "Olympic Games ceremony" }, { "id": "525716", "text": "the domestic coal fires of Leicester – and climbed the steps to the Olympic cauldron. After saluting the crowd, he turned and lit the flame. After more speeches, Donald Finlay of the British team (given his RAF rank of Wing Commander) took the Olympic Oath on behalf of all competitors. The National Anthem was sung and the massed athletes turned and marched out of the stadium, led by Greece, tailed by Britain. The 580-page official report concluded: The opening ceremony and over 60 hours of Games coverage was broadcast live on BBC television, which was then only available to a", "title": "1948 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "20998087", "text": "1988 Winter Olympics torch relay The 1988 Olympic torch relay began on November 15, 1987, when the torch was lit at Olympia and Greek runner Stellos Bisbas began what was called \"the longest torch run in history\". The flame arrived in St. John's, Newfoundland on the Atlantic Ocean two days later and over 88 days, traveled west across Canada. It passed through most major cities, north to the Arctic Ocean at Inuvik, Northwest Territories, then west to the Pacific Ocean at Victoria, British Columbia before returning east to Alberta, and finally Calgary. The torch covered a distance of , the", "title": "1988 Winter Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "1279742", "text": "with Greece first, the rest of the nations proceeding by Norwegian alphabetical order, with the host nation last. The British, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand teams all wore black arm bands at the opening ceremonies in memory of their monarch. After the parade of nations the Olympic flame was lit. On 13 February, at the start of the inaugural Winter Olympics torch relay, the torch was lit in the hearth of the Morgedal House, birthplace of skiing pioneer Sondre Norheim. The torch relay lasted two days and took place entirely on skis. At the opening ceremonies the final torch bearer,", "title": "1952 Winter Olympics" }, { "id": "510053", "text": "in unison and begging for Hitler. There was something scary about it; his cult of personality.\" After a speech by the president of the German Olympic Committee, the games were declared open by Adolf Hitler: \"I proclaim open the Olympic Games of Berlin, celebrating the Eleventh Olympiad of the modern era.\" Hitler opened the games from his own box, on top of others. Writer David Wallechinsky has commented on the event, saying, \"This was his event, he wanted to be glorified.\" Although the Olympic flame was first introduced in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, this was the first instance", "title": "1936 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "806689", "text": "the United States and Ireland, respectively). The London 2012 torch travelled 8,000 miles across the UK. The Rio 2016 torch travelled 12,000 miles across Brazil. There have been protests against Olympic torch relays since the they were first introduced. In 1936, there were minor protests against the torch relay to Nazi Germany in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, which were suppressed by the local security forces. In the 1956 Melbourne Games in Australia, local veterinary student Barry Larkin protested against the relay when he tricked onlookers by carrying a fake flame, consisting of a pair of underpants set on fire in a", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "16684827", "text": "to the cauldron in Montreal in just five days. The flame was lit in Olympia before progressing through several Greek cities, finishing the first leg of the journey in Athens. The distance between Athens and the final destination in Canada would normally have mandated transportation across the sea. However, the Canadian Olympic Committee had a more innovative solution. The Olympic flame was placed in front of a sensor that detects ionised particles and was then encoded into impulses and sent via satellite to Ottawa. The arrival of the signal activated a laser that recreated the Olympic flame in a 90", "title": "1976 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "1973656", "text": "temples, first in the Cerro de la Estrella and later in the Pyramid of the Sun at the Teotihuacan Pyramids. The only exception was for the São Paulo games in 1963, when the torch was lit in Brasília by the indigenous Guaraní people. An Aztec then lights the torch of the first relay bearer, thus initiating the Pan American Games torch relay that will carry the flame to the host city's main stadium, where it plays an important role in the opening ceremony. Since 2011, the flame is required to be held during the games in the stadium which will", "title": "Pan American Games" }, { "id": "16693529", "text": "the National Olympic Committee (NOC) for the host nation provided all the torch-bearers, but for this event each country through which the torch passed was allowed to select their own representatives. The route was designed to replicate that taken by Christopher Columbus in his first visit to the New World. Three locations were seen as key to the route: The flame was lit in Olympia and then taken to Athens where a ceremony greeted it on 24 August 1968. From there runners carried the torch to the port of Piraeus and it was taken aboard the Greek destroyer HNS \"Navarino\".", "title": "1968 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "15014789", "text": "the games, all three locomotives were combined into one triple-headed train, and used to transport the Olympic flame from Soldier Hollow to Heber City, Utah as part of the torch relay. On November 19, 2001, the first 2002 Olympic torch was lit at the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece. Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou played the role of high priestess and lit the torch using a flame kept in a clay urn. Usually the torch is lit using a parabolic mirror and the sun's rays, but for the third games in a row, cloudy conditions prevented that from", "title": "2002 Winter Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "17075887", "text": "Elsie Mary Regnart (1881-1972). During World War I, he held a commission in the East Surrey Regiment, Royal Army Service Corps. He died in Hampstead in 1930. Daniel Delany Bulger Daniel Delany Bulger (18 December 1865 – 8 December 1930) was a leading Irish athlete. Along with his younger brothers, Michael Joseph Bulger (1867–1938) and Lawrence Bulger (1870–1928), he was prominent in the Irish sporting world in the late 19th century. Daniel was one of the 79 delegates who attended the Congress of the Sorbonne in Paris in 1894 that lit the flame of the Olympic Games of the Modern", "title": "Daniel Delany Bulger" }, { "id": "12718164", "text": "22 October 2009 the Olympic Torch was lit during a ceremony held at the Ancient Olympia in Greece. Actress Maria Nafpliotou played the role of the High Priestess and ignited the flame using a parabolic mirror and the sun's ray. The first torch was carried by Olympic skier Vassilis Dimitriadis. Kept under close secrecy, the final Olympic Torchbearer turned out to be not one, but five final torchbearers. Rick Hansen brought it into BC Place Stadium, in turn lighting Catriona Le May Doan's torch, who lit Steve Nash's torch, and the flame continued to Nancy Greene and Wayne Gretzky. Three", "title": "2010 Winter Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "1410388", "text": "After the Marseillaise was played, all athletes who were still in Grenoble reassembled onto the ice and the flag bearers formed a semi-circle. Whilst the flags of Greece, France and next host Japan were put up, a torch bearer brought the Olympic flame into the stadium and ignited it into a bowl on the ice. IOC president Avery Brundage thanked the organisers and declared the games over. When the Olympic flag was pulled down, gun salutes were heard all across the town and finally the flame went out. At the age of 11 years and 158 days, the Romanian figure", "title": "1968 Winter Olympics" }, { "id": "3134813", "text": "1958 and won the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States in 1960, breaking that award's color barrier. He was chosen to ignite the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1994, he was elected into the first class of the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame. In 1998, he was named one of ESPN's 100 Greatest North American Athletes of the 20th Century. In 2006, the NCAA named him one of the 100 Most Influential Student Athletes of the past 100 years. On August 25,", "title": "Rafer Johnson" }, { "id": "459562", "text": "They were led by Hjalmar Andersen who won three gold medals in four events in the speed skating competition. After not being able to host the Games in 1944, Cortina d'Ampezzo was selected to organise the 1956 Winter Olympics. At the opening ceremonies the final torch bearer, Guido Caroli, entered the Olympic Stadium on ice skates. As he skated around the stadium his skate caught on a cable and he fell, nearly extinguishing the flame. He was able to recover and light the cauldron. These were the first Winter Games to be televised, and the first Olympics ever broadcast to", "title": "Winter Olympic Games" }, { "id": "20105352", "text": "Sandra Henderson Sandra James (née Henderson) is a Canadian gymnast best known for co-lighting the Olympic Flame with Stéphane Préfontaine at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She was on the front of \"Sports Illustrated\". Sandra Henderson tried out for the Olympic gymnastics team at the age of 16 to compete in the 1976 summer games but did not make it. She retired from gymnastics in 1977 but continued competing at the university level when she was a student at the University of Toronto. At the beginning of the 1980 Summer Olympics James was given the task of delivering the", "title": "Sandra Henderson" }, { "id": "16693456", "text": "to a thunderous ovation on the stage in the middle of the field. Holyfield ran the torch down to the track and was joined by Greek athlete Voula Patoulidou. They both held the flame and made a lap around the track. This symbolized the relationship between the first and current Olympic games. The pair then passed the flame to American swimmer Janet Evans, the penultimate torchbearer, carried it around a lap of the track and up a long ramp leading towards the northern end of the stadium. After more than 10,000 torch bearers, Muhammad Ali, who suffered from Parkinson's disease,", "title": "1996 Summer Olympics opening ceremony" }, { "id": "16693526", "text": "1968 Summer Olympics torch relay The 1968 Summer Olympics torch relay took part as part of the build-up to the 1968 Summer Olympics hosted in Mexico City, Mexico. The Olympic flame was lit in Olympia, Greece, and retraced the steps of Christopher Columbus, founder of the New World. This theme celebrated the link between Latin-American and Mediterranean civilisations. At the end of the relay the Olympic cauldron was for the first time lit by a female athlete. Mexican hurdler Enriqueta Basilio was chosen to complete the final leg of the 2,500 km running relay. The torch had covered a total", "title": "1968 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "15015791", "text": "in 1958; the following year, Billy Graham hosted the greatest attendance of the Grounds' history with an audience of 130,000. David Cassidy was the first musical act to perform at the Grounds in 1974. Following the 1956 Olympics, the stands were expanded and renovated, with work continuing until the early 1990s. The manual scoreboard was replaced in 1982 by an electronic scoreboard made by Mitsubishi, and a still more advanced version was installed ten years later. Another scoreboard, supplied by Sony, was installed at the south part of the Cricket Ground in 1994. The Olympic Flame returned to the Grounds", "title": "Venues of the 1956 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "16684828", "text": "cm urn in the Canadian city. For the first time in the history of the torch relay two athletes lit the cauldron. The two final torch-bearers, Stéphane Préfontaine and Sandra Henderson, were 15 and 16 years old, respectively. There were erroneous reports of the pair getting married soon after their role in the ceremony. Though the flame had reached the Olympic Stadium and was used to mark the opening of the Games the relay actually continued to a second venue. Many sailing and yachting events were going to be held in Kingston, Ontario and the flame was taken there using", "title": "1976 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "10988825", "text": "Temple of Hera, Olympia The Temple of Hera, or Heraion, is an ancient Archaic Greek temple at Olympia, Greece, that was dedicated to Hera, queen of the Greek Gods. The temple was built in approximately 590 BC, but was destroyed by an earthquake in the early 4th century CE In the Archaic Greek time period, the temple stored items important to Greek culture, and other offerings of the people. In modern times, the torch of the Olympic flame is lit in its ruins. The Heraion at Olympia, located in the north of the sacred precinct, the \"Altis\", is one of", "title": "Temple of Hera, Olympia" }, { "id": "14087003", "text": "Winter Olympics website, Perry stated that she had many amazing experiences because of this. Perry now directs \"We Care Home Health Services\" in North Calgary. Robyn Perry Robyn Ainsworth (born Robyn Perry in 1975) was a 12-year-old schoolgirl and figure skater who lit the Olympic Flame in the opening ceremony for the 1988 Winter Olympics. On Feb. 13, 1988, she was the final runner in the Olympic torch relay and was chosen to ignite the giant cauldron at McMahon Stadium, kicking off the Calgary Winter Olympics. Downhill skier Ken Read and speed skater Cathy Priestner handed off the torch to", "title": "Robyn Perry" }, { "id": "510054", "text": "of the torch relay. The Nazis invented the concept of the torch run from ancient Olympia to the host city. Thus as swimmer Iris Cummings Critchell later related, \"once the athletes were all in place, the torch bearer ran in through the tunnel to go around the stadium\". A young man chosen for this task ran up the steps all the way up to the top of the stadium there to light a cauldron which would start this eternal flame that would burn through the duration of the games. But in spite of all the pomp and ceremony, and the", "title": "1936 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "790818", "text": "in international competition, had been unbeaten in all competitions in 13 years, and had not surrendered a point in a decade. Australian Cathy Freeman won the 400 metre final in front of a jubilant Sydney crowd at the Olympic Stadium, ahead of Lorraine Graham of Jamaica and Katharine Merry of Great Britain. Freeman's win made her the first competitor in Olympic Games history to light the Olympic Flame and then go on to win a Gold Medal. The attendance at the stadium was 112,524 – the largest attendance for any sport in Olympic Games history. In a men's basketball pool", "title": "2000 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "3516640", "text": "and 300 microphones). While the Olympic flame had been used for the first time in Amsterdam 1928, in Berlin 1936 a marathon-like tour of the Olympic torch was introduced, from Olympia in Greece, crossing six frontiers with a journey of to Berlin, through Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany. The original idea of this Olympic torch relay was Carl Diem's, who was a political advisor to Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, specialising in Olympic affairs. The Olympics were the subject of the propaganda film \"Olympia\" (1938) by Leni Riefenstahl. Among the sport competitions, one of the most memorable events", "title": "Olympiastadion (Berlin)" }, { "id": "3289115", "text": "2004 Summer Olympics torch relay The 2004 Summer Olympics Torch Relay took the Olympic Flame across every habitable continent, returning to Athens, Greece. Every city which had hosted the Summer Olympics was revisited by the torch, as well as several other cities chosen for their international importance. The main reason why the torch relay went around the world was to highlight the fact that the Olympic Games were started in Greece (in ancient times) and in modern times have been held around the world and then took place in Greece in 2004. The relay was the first time the Olympic", "title": "2004 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "2075411", "text": "the Prytaneion. From 1984 to 1996, Helmut Kyrieleis took over the site and the focus shifted to the earlier history of the sanctuary with excavation of the Prytaneion and Pelopion. The Olympic flame of the modern-day Olympic Games is lit by reflection of sunlight in a parabolic mirror in front of the Temple of Hera and then transported by a torch to the place where the games are held. When the modern Olympics came to Athens in 2004, the men's and women's shot put competition was held at the restored Olympia stadium. The town has a train station and is", "title": "Olympia, Greece" }, { "id": "11201372", "text": "13 January 2012. It is the first time the Olympic flame had gone to the same city three times as Innsbruck was also the host of the Winter Olympic Games in 1964 and 1976. Below is the list of route locations: The opening ceremony of the games took place on 13 January 2012, at 6:30 pm CET (5:30 UTC, 13 January) at Bergiselschanze. Roughly 15,000 people packed the snow-filled stadium to watch the ceremony, where for the first time three cauldrons were lit (instead of the normal 1) to commemorate the previous two Winter Olympics Innsbruck has hosted (1964 and", "title": "2012 Winter Youth Olympics" }, { "id": "866988", "text": "handed it off to the final runner, Rafer Johnson, winner of the decathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics. With the torch, he touched off the flame which passed through a specially designed flammable Olympic logo, igniting all five rings. The flame then passed up to cauldron atop the peristyle and remained aflame for the duration of the Games. John Williams composed the theme for the Olympiad, \"Olympic Fanfare and Theme\". This piece won a Grammy for Williams and became one of the most well-known musical themes of the Olympic Games, along with Leo Arnaud's \"Bugler's Dream\"; the latter is sometimes", "title": "1984 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "1463165", "text": "of its foundation at its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. Held from 17 June to 19 June 1944, this celebration was referred to as \"The Jubilee Celebrations of IOC\" by Carl Diem, the originator of the modern tradition of the Olympic torch relay. Polish Prisoners of War (POWs) in the Woldenberg (Dobiegniew) Oflag II-C POW camp were granted permission by their German captors to stage an unofficial \"POW Olympics\" during July 23 to August 13, 1944, and an Olympic Flag made with a bed sheet and pieces of coloured scarves was raised. The event has been considered to be a demonstration", "title": "1944 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "498530", "text": "flame, which had traveled was carried into the stadium by gold medalists Dorothy Hamill and Dick Button. They passed the flame to other pairs U.S. Olympic heroes, who either ran or skated their short relay. Gold medalists in Nagano 1998 Picabo Street and Cammi Granato carried the flame up the steps to the towering cauldron where they were met by Mike Eruzione, captain of the miracle on ice hockey team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1980. Eruzione summoned the other members of the team, who together lit the Olympic cauldron. The Opening Ceremony would win seven Emmy Awards.", "title": "2002 Winter Olympics" }, { "id": "406281", "text": "regenerative power of flame. The torch is also a symbol used by political parties, for instance by both Labour (from 1918 to 1980) and the Conservatives (from 1983 to 2006) in the UK, and the Malta Labour Party. In the seals of schools in the Philippines, the torch symbolizes the vision of education to provide enlightenment to all the students. A torch carried in relay by runners is used to light the Olympic flame which burns without interruption until the end of the Games. These torches and the relay tradition were introduced in the 1936 Summer Olympics by Carl Diem,", "title": "Torch" }, { "id": "12608588", "text": "won two medals for Canada at the 1968 Games, NBA star Steve Nash, a native of nearby Victoria, and hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, to each light one of four arms of the torch. Notably, Le May Doan's arm failed to rise; this was later rectified during the closing ceremony when she got a second chance to light her part of the torch and succeeded. After the official conclusion of the Opening Ceremony, Gretzky was whisked away to a waiting car which took him to the secondary cauldron. Once there, he lit it to correspond with the tradition of Olympics past.", "title": "Olympic Games ceremony" }, { "id": "14087002", "text": "Robyn Perry Robyn Ainsworth (born Robyn Perry in 1975) was a 12-year-old schoolgirl and figure skater who lit the Olympic Flame in the opening ceremony for the 1988 Winter Olympics. On Feb. 13, 1988, she was the final runner in the Olympic torch relay and was chosen to ignite the giant cauldron at McMahon Stadium, kicking off the Calgary Winter Olympics. Downhill skier Ken Read and speed skater Cathy Priestner handed off the torch to her. During the ascent, Perry had to yell to one of the athletes to get out of her way. In an interview with the 2010", "title": "Robyn Perry" }, { "id": "298699", "text": "Australia and Europe). The coloured version of the rings—blue, yellow, black, green, and red—over a white field forms the Olympic flag. These colours were chosen because every nation had at least one of them on its national flag. The flag was adopted in 1914 but flown for the first time only at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. It has since been hoisted during each celebration of the Games. The Olympic motto, \"Citius, Altius, Fortius\", a Latin expression meaning \"Faster, Higher, Stronger\" was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin in 1894 and has been official since 1924. The motto was", "title": "Olympic Games" }, { "id": "16693532", "text": ", of which was on foot and was on water. The cauldron was for the first time lit by a female athlete, Mexican hurdler Enriqueta Basilio. Basilio entered the Estadio Olímpico Universitario and ran a lap around the track before ascending the ramp up to the cauldron. 1968 Summer Olympics torch relay The 1968 Summer Olympics torch relay took part as part of the build-up to the 1968 Summer Olympics hosted in Mexico City, Mexico. The Olympic flame was lit in Olympia, Greece, and retraced the steps of Christopher Columbus, founder of the New World. This theme celebrated the link", "title": "1968 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "16683540", "text": "torches. German manufacturer Krupp produced 3,840 copies for the runners, over 500 more than would be needed. It was designed with two fuses to help it cope with different weather conditions and could stay alight for ten minutes, longer than each section of the route. On 20 July 1936 the Olympic flame was lit in Greece by a concave mirror made by German company Zeiss. The Nazi Party wanted to demonstrate their organisational prowess and enhance their influence on various countries along the route of the relay. The torch travelled through south-eastern and central European countries to demonstrate and enhance", "title": "1936 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "16684824", "text": "1976 Summer Olympics torch relay The 1976 Summer Olympics torch relay celebrated the first time that a Canadian city had hosted the Games. Convention states that the flame should be lit at Olympia in Greece and then transported to Athens, making its way onwards to the host city. On this occasion a signal was sent via satellite to transmit the flame to Ottawa where it would then make its way to the 1976 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Montreal and a second ceremony in Kingston, Ontario. The torch was primarily made of aluminium and weighed 836 grams. It was fuelled", "title": "1976 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "16685904", "text": "Walter Lemcke Walter E. Lemcke (19 August 1891 – 1955) was a German sculptor who mainly worked in bronze. He produced numerous sculptures for Nazi Germany, including the eagles holding swastikas that flanked the entrance of the Ministry of Aviation in Berlin. He is also remembered as being the designer of the first Olympic Torch, which carried the flame during the 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay. Several of Lemcke's works remain today and are featured in parks and museums around Germany. Lemcke produced numerous pieces that depicted eagles, the national symbol used by the Nazi government. Examples of these works", "title": "Walter Lemcke" }, { "id": "1410358", "text": "they organized \"International Sports Weeks\". From 20 January to 19 February 1967 speed skating competitions and ski races took place, from 12 to 15 October 1967 an ice hockey tournament and from 23 to 25 November a figure-skating competition. On 16 December 1967, the olympic torch was lit in ancient Olympia in Greece. The ceremony initially should have taken place on 13 December but it had to be postponed because of the (in the end unsuccessful) coup d'état of King Constantine II, who had been forced from his throne eight months before, against the dictatorial military regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.", "title": "1968 Winter Olympics" }, { "id": "20746383", "text": "various designated sites of the games, had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the controversial 1936 Berlin Olympics. The Olympic Torch Relay ends on the day of the opening ceremony in the central stadium of the Games. The final carrier is often kept unannounced until the last moment, and is usually a sports celebrity of the host country. The final bearer of the torch runs towards the cauldron, often placed at the top of a grand staircase, and then uses the torch to start the flame in the stadium. It is considered a great honor to", "title": "2000 Summer Olympics cauldron" }, { "id": "5206729", "text": "the top of the Marathon tower, four balconies are situated which were used during the Games by horn blowers. Above these balconies four speakers from Philips were attached, from which results and messages were broadcast into the Olympic area, a novelty at the time. The bowl on top which carried the Olympic flame was known to Amsterdammers as \"the ashtray of KLM pilots\". A permanent Olympic flame burning during the tournament was also an Olympic first. In 1987 the city government announced plans to demolish the stadium. The stadium was saved, however, when it was listed as a national monument.", "title": "Olympic Stadium (Amsterdam)" }, { "id": "790824", "text": "appearance of the flame being carried away into the sky, flying in a northeasterly direction out across Sydney Harbour and ultimately towards Athens in a symbolic handover. In honour of her gold medal win during the games, Cathy Freeman represented Oceania in carrying the Olympic flag, joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Africa), John Glenn (The Americas), Kazuyoshi Funaki (Asia), Lech Wałęsa (Europe), Jean-Michel Cousteau (Environment), Jean-Claude Killy (Sport), and Steven Spielberg (Culture) when it was raised again, at the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City; the opening ceremony there took place on 8 February 2002. The 2000 Summer Olympic", "title": "2000 Summer Olympics" }, { "id": "806690", "text": "plum pudding can, attached to a chair leg. He successfully managed to hand over the fake flame to the Mayor of Sydney, Pat Hills and escape without being noticed. In 2008 there were various attempts to stop the Olympic flame as a protest against China's human rights record. In London, a \"ring of steel\" was formed around the flame to protect it, but one protester managed to grab hold of the torch while it was being held by television presenter Konnie Huq. In 2016, ten days before the beginning of the Rio Games in Brazil, citizens of Angra dos Reis,", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "10136805", "text": "for 15 minutes. It is designed by a team from Lenovo Group. The Torch is designed in reference to the traditional Chinese concept of the 5 elements that make up the entire universe. The Olympic flame is supposed to remain lit for the whole relay. When the Torch is extinguished at night, on aircraft, in bad weather, or during protests (such as the several occasions in Paris), the Olympic flame is kept alight in a set of 8 lanterns. Internationally, the torch and its accompanying party traveled in a chartered Air China Airbus A330 (registered B-6075), painted in the red", "title": "2008 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "806699", "text": "armaments company in wood and metal, inspired by an olive leaf. The distinctive 1976 torch was manufactured by John L. Saksun's The Queensway Machine Products Ltd. Some (such as Albertville in 1992 and Turin in 2006) have been designed by famous industrial designers. These design-led torches have been less popular than the more classical designs, the Turin torch in particular was criticised for being simply too heavy for the runners. The torch for the 1948 London Olympics was designed by architect Ralph Lavers. They were cast in Hiduminium aluminium alloy with a length of 47 cm and a weight of", "title": "Olympic flame" }, { "id": "1063858", "text": "and their processions, and vetter from Norse mythology. After speeches by Heiberg and IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, the games were officially declared opened by King Harald V. The Olympic Flame was to be skied down the skijump before lighting the cauldron. Originally this task had rested upon Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl, but after he was injured in a practice jump, his back-up Stein Gruben received the honor. The cauldron was lit by Crown Prince Haakon Magnus. The Olympic oaths were issued by Vegard Ulvang for the athletes and Kari Kåring for the officials. Since the 1992 Games, the rules for", "title": "1994 Winter Olympics" }, { "id": "16520766", "text": "enter Empire Stadium that was made of stainless steel and powered by a magnesium candle. The route itself was initially designed to be a direct one from Olympia to Wembley, taking in Italy, Switzerland and France. Belgium and Luxembourg were added to the route after those countries requested it. It was expected that the Greek part of the relay would be , but was reduced to due to concerns over security. After the 12-day journey, the torch arrived at the Empire Stadium only thirty seconds later than expected. Despite hosting the 1908 Summer Olympics, the 1948 Games was the first", "title": "1948 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "12608586", "text": "the three oaths are merged into one as the Unified Oath where one athlete, judge, and coach recite one line of the oath respectively before the athlete finishes it. Finally, the Torch is brought into the stadium, passed from athlete to athlete during the torch relay, until it reaches the last carrier; often a well-known athlete from the host nation, who lights the fire in the stadium's cauldron. Under IOC rules, the lighting of the Olympic cauldron must be witnessed by those attending the opening ceremony, implying that it must be lit at the location where the ceremony is taking", "title": "Olympic Games ceremony" }, { "id": "20746382", "text": "his temple and that of his wife, Hera. The modern Olympic flame is ignited at the site where the temple of Hera used to stand. The Olympic Torch today is ignited several months before the opening celebration of the Olympic Games at the site of the ancient Olympics in Olympia, Greece. Eleven women, representing the Vestal Virgins, perform a ceremony in which the torch is kindled by the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror. In contrast to the Olympic flame proper, the torch relay of modern times, which transports the flame from Greece to the", "title": "2000 Summer Olympics cauldron" }, { "id": "14400657", "text": "along with a group of teenagers: rugby player Dennis Coles from East Ayrshire representing Scotland, hockey player Chloe Brown from Bangor representing Northern Ireland, athlete Sean White from Swansea representing Wales, hockey player Georgia Higgs from Cornwall, and Sakinah Muhammad from Hackney representing London. After an overnight stay at RNAS Culdrose, members of 771 Naval Air Squadron took the Flame to Land's End by Sea King helicopter. There the Olympic Cauldron was lit. Olympic sailing star Ben Ainslie ran the first leg of the relay. In the summer of 2010, the Design Council were commissioned to prepare the design brief", "title": "2012 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "16693531", "text": "arrived just outside San Salvador at the original landing site of Columbus's first voyage. A celebration organised in conjunction with the Bahamas Olympic Association marked the first time that the Flame had been to the New World. At the end of the festivities the Flame was taken aboard the Mexican destroyer ARM \"Durango\". The ship arrived in Veracruz on 6 October with the torch being swam ashore by a relay of seventeen swimmers. From there the Mexican runners started their journey, and the Flame arrived at the Olympic Stadium Estadio Olímpico Universitario on 12 October. In total the relay spanned", "title": "1968 Summer Olympics torch relay" }, { "id": "12487682", "text": "took the Olympic oath, representing athletes and officials respectively. There was a short dance presentation, followed by bright yellow fireworks – representing the release of doves of peace. At this point, the Olympic flame entered the stadium as a continuation of the Beijing relay leg from the outside. The Olympic torch was relayed around the stadium by seven athletes, and was finally passed on to Li Ning, the former Olympic gymnast champion, the eighth and final athlete. The eight athletes were, in order: Li Ning, who was suspended by wires, then appeared to run horizontally along the walls of the", "title": "2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony" }, { "id": "19671958", "text": "\"Red Flavor\" by Red Velvet. \"Red Flavor\" was cut off just as the unified Korean team was introduced. The Olympic flame was on a 101-day relay across South Korea. The start of the ceremony takes place in Olympia of Greece. Apostles Angelis, 24 years old cross-country skier, is selected to be the first torchbearer. He said \"It is a great honour for me to be chosen as the first torchbearer for the Olympic Winter Games of 2018. It is truly a unique moment that I am looking forward to. I feel very proud and with a unique sense of happiness.\"", "title": "2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony" }, { "id": "459561", "text": "Olympic flag presented at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp was stolen, as was its replacement. There was unprecedented parity at these Games, during which 10 countries won gold medals—more than any Games to that point. The Olympic Flame for the 1952 Games in Oslo, was lit in the fireplace by skiing pioneer Sondre Nordheim, and the torch relay was conducted by 94 participants entirely on skis. Bandy, a popular sport in the Nordic countries, was featured as a demonstration sport, though only Norway, Sweden, and Finland fielded teams. Norwegian athletes won 17 medals, which outpaced all the other nations.", "title": "Winter Olympic Games" } ]

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[ { "id": "18465624", "text": "2017 NFL season The 2017 NFL season was the 98th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL). The season began on September 7, 2017, with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the defending Super Bowl LI champion New England Patriots 42–27 in the NFL Kickoff Game. The season concluded with Super Bowl LII, where the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles faced the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots. The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots 41–33 to win their first title in franchise history. It was also a rematch of Super Bowl XXXIX,", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "18465631", "text": "hosted Arizona Cardinals (represented by former quarterback and 2017 Hall of Famer Kurt Warner). It was televised nationally on NBC. The 64-game preseason schedule ended on August 31; a 65th game, that of the 2017 Texas Governor's Cup, was canceled due to the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. The 2017 regular season's 256 games which were played over a 17-week schedule which began on September 7. Each of the league's 32 teams plays a 16-game schedule, with one bye week for each team. The slate also features games on Monday nights. There are games played on Thursday, including the National Football", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "18465657", "text": "for ESPN, although Salters will still be on MNF. McDonough will be replaced by Joe Tessitore, who has done work for ESPN as a College Football announcer, like McDonough, while Jason Witten, who would end up retiring after this season, will replace Gruden, with Booger McFarland, being added as a field analyst. 2017 NFL season The 2017 NFL season was the 98th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL). The season began on September 7, 2017, with the Kansas City Chiefs defeating the defending Super Bowl LI champion New England Patriots 42–27 in the NFL Kickoff Game.", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "19876814", "text": "the season that did not take effect until the end of the season. The Heisman Trophy is given to the year's most outstanding player. Quarterback Running back Wide receiver Tight end Lineman Defensive line Defensive back 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season The 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on August 26, 2017 and ended on December 9, 2017. The Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldogs played in the 2018 College Football Playoff National", "title": "2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season" }, { "id": "19820165", "text": "host to the Baltimore Ravens at Wembley Stadium in London, England, as part of their commitment to the London Games. The game will occur during Week 3 (Sunday, September 24), and will be televised in the United States. The kickoff was announced in conjunction with the release of the regular season schedule. The remainder of the Jaguars' 2017 schedule was finalized and announced on April 20. Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. NFL London Games 2017 Jacksonville Jaguars season The 2017 season was the Jacksonville Jaguars' 23rd season in the National Football League and the first under new head", "title": "2017 Jacksonville Jaguars season" }, { "id": "19953603", "text": "2017 Arena Football League season The 2017 Arena Football League season was the 30th season in the history of the Arena Football League (AFL). Prior to the start of the season, the league contracted to five teams. The 14-game regular season began on April 7, 2017, when the two new teams, the Baltimore Brigade and the Washington Valor, faced off in the Verizon Center, and ended on August 5, 2017, when the Tampa Bay Storm lost against the Philadelphia Soul. ArenaBowl XXX was held on August 26, 2017, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, as the Soul repeated as", "title": "2017 Arena Football League season" }, { "id": "19876806", "text": "2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season The 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on August 26, 2017 and ended on December 9, 2017. The Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldogs played in the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship. Alabama defeated Georgia in overtime by a score of 26–23 on a game-winning touchdown pass from Tua Tagovailoa to Devonta Smith. Alabama claimed its 17th national title in school history, the most of any current", "title": "2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season" }, { "id": "18465625", "text": "where the Patriots won 24–21 to win their third title. For the second consecutive year, a team relocated to the Los Angeles metropolitan area, as the former San Diego Chargers announced their intent to do so in January 2017. The 2017 NFL League year began on March 9 at 4:00 p.m. ET. On March 7, clubs were allowed to contact and enter into contract negotiations with the agents of players who became unrestricted free agents upon the expiration of their contracts two days later. On March 9, clubs exercised options for 2017 on players who have option clauses in their", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "18465632", "text": "League Kickoff game in prime time on September 7 and games on Thanksgiving Day. The regular season concluded with a full slate of 16 games on Sunday, December 31, all of which were the intra–division matchups, as it has been since . Under the NFL's current scheduling formula, each team plays the other three teams in its own division twice. In addition a team plays against all four teams in one other division from each conference. The final two games on a team's schedule are against the two teams in the team's own conference in the divisions the team was", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "19982197", "text": "game, in lieu of interlock play with the RSEQ being eliminated. There are three Friday night regular season games in the AUS with the remaining 17 games being played on Saturday afternoons. The regular season will conclude on October 28, 2017 and playoff format will remain the same despite an additional team; the second place team will host the third place team in the semi-final and the first place team will host the Loney Bowl championship game on November 11, 2017. The Quebec Student Sport Federation released their schedule on February 21, 2017. Following the aforementioned departure of Bishop's, the", "title": "2017 U Sports football season" }, { "id": "18465630", "text": "on April 27–29 in Philadelphia. The Cleveland Browns selected Myles Garrett with the first overall pick. Training camps for the 2017 season were held in late July through August. Teams started training camp no earlier than 15 days before the team's first scheduled preseason game. Prior to the start of the regular season, each team played four preseason exhibition games, beginning on August 10. The preseason began on the evening of August 3 with the 2017 Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, that featured the Dallas Cowboys (represented in the 2017 Hall of Fame Class by owner Jerry Jones) who", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "19982199", "text": "on Saturdays, and two are on Sundays. With the changes to the other conferences, the Canada West Universities Athletic Association was left as the only conference with an even number of teams and there were no major format changes when the schedule was unveiled on April 18, 2017. All six teams will play on September 1, 2017 and conclude their seasons on October 28, 2017. As usual, all teams will have a bye week on Thanksgiving Day weekend. In total, eight regular season games will be played on Fridays and 16 will be played on Saturdays. Similar to the other", "title": "2017 U Sports football season" }, { "id": "18465638", "text": "season at the NFL Spring League meeting on May 23, 2017: The ban on teams contacting potential coaching candidates until that candidate's team has been eliminated from the playoffs was tabled. The following players were named First Team All-Pro by the Associated Press: The following were named the top performers during the 2017 season: The Atlanta Falcons played their first season at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, after playing in the Georgia Dome for the previous 25 seasons. On January 12, 2017, the San Diego Chargers exercised their option to relocate to Los Angeles as the Los Angeles Chargers. They will be joining", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "17084795", "text": "on Monday night. There were games played on Thursday, including the National Football League Kickoff game in prime time on September 8 and games on Thanksgiving Day. The regular season concluded with a full slate of 16 games on Sunday, January 1, 2017, all of which were intra-divisional matchups, as it has been since . Under the NFL's current scheduling formula, each team played each of the other three teams in its own division twice. In addition, a team played against all four teams in one other division from each conference. The final two games on a team's schedule were", "title": "2016 NFL season" }, { "id": "19799710", "text": "the Panthers. McDermott, who signed an undisclosed deal on January 11, 2017, replaced Rex Ryan, who was fired along with his twin brother, Rob. Notes Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. With the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots losing 42–27 to the Kansas City Chiefs to kick off the 2017 NFL season and Hurricane Irma delaying the game between the Miami Dolphins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to Week 11, the Bills hoped to take advantage and grab first place in the AFC East by beating the Jets, who swept them in 2016. Quarterback Tyrod Taylor threw", "title": "2017 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "7174386", "text": "his first preseason game 27–17 against the Kansas City Chiefs on August 11, 2017. On November 12, 2017, he won his first regular season game against the New York Giants by a score of 31–21. On December 3, 2017, he led the 49ers to a 15–14 victory over the Chicago Bears, which marked the first start for quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo as a 49er. On December 31, 2017, the last day of the 2017 NFL regular season, Shanahan and the 49ers defeated the Los Angeles Rams 34–13, ending the season on a 5-game win streak and winning 6 out of the", "title": "Kyle Shanahan" }, { "id": "17084788", "text": "2016 NFL season The 2016 NFL season was the 97th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL). The season began on September 8, 2016, with the defending Super Bowl 50 champion Denver Broncos defeating the Carolina Panthers 21–20 in the NFL Kickoff Game. The season concluded with Super Bowl LI, the league's championship game on February 5, 2017, at NRG Stadium in Houston with the New England Patriots defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 in overtime. For the first time since the Houston Oilers relocated to Tennessee in , an NFL team relocated to another state, as the", "title": "2016 NFL season" }, { "id": "19982196", "text": "following day. The regular season will conclude on October 21, 2017 with the Yates Cup championship game taking place three weeks later on November 11, 2017. On January 23, 2017, the schedule changes for the AUS were revealed, with the conference opening the season two weeks earlier than usual on Friday August 25 with the St. Francis Xavier X-Men visiting the Saint Mary's Huskies. Each team will play the other four teams twice with each team also having two bye weeks over the ten-week schedule. With these changes, the AUS will also now permit teams to play one out-of-conference exhibition", "title": "2017 U Sports football season" }, { "id": "18465633", "text": "not set to play which finished the previous season in the same rank in their division (e.g. the team which finished first in its division the previous season would play each other team in its conference that also finished first in its respective division). The preset division pairings for 2017 will be as follows. Highlights of the 2017 schedule included: The entire schedule was released on April 20, 2017. The following games were moved or canceled because of severe weather, by way of flexible scheduling, or for other reasons: The 2017 playoffs began on the weekend of January 6–7, 2018", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "18465639", "text": "the Los Angeles Rams as tenants in their new stadium, Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California when that stadium is complete in 2020. For the time being, the Chargers are playing at the 30,000 seat StubHub Center in Carson, California, the smallest venue (in terms of number of seats) the league has used for a full season since 1956. On January 19, 2017, the Oakland Raiders filed paperwork to relocate to Las Vegas, Nevada. The NFL officially approved the Raiders relocation to Las Vegas on March 27. Unlike the Chargers, the Raiders will remain at the Oakland–Alameda", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "19734797", "text": "2017 Houston Astros season The 2017 Houston Astros season was the 56th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Houston, their 53rd as the Astros, fifth in both the American League (AL) and AL West division, and 18th at Minute Maid Park. The Astros began the regular season at home versus the Seattle Mariners on April 3, 2017, and concluded on the road at Fenway Park versus the Boston Red Sox on October 1. Following the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, the Astros added a patch on the front of their uniforms that read \"Houston Strong\". On September 17,", "title": "2017 Houston Astros season" }, { "id": "19992544", "text": "on February 9, 2017. The American Athletic Conference Media Day took place July 18– in Newport, Rhode Island. East Division West Division Predicted American Championship Game Winner \"Note: All stats current through the completion of the 2016 season \"* Randy Edsall coached UConn from 1999–2010, and is returning in 2017. UConn was a member of the Big East from 2004–2012.\" \"† Major Applewhite was hired to replace Tom Herman in December 2016 at Houston and coached the Cougars in their 2016 bowl game.\" Source: The conference's schedule was released on February 9, 2017. The regular season began on August 27,", "title": "2017 American Athletic Conference football season" }, { "id": "20241376", "text": "2017 NCAA Division II football season The 2017 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, began on August 31, 2017 and ended with the Division II championship on December 16, 2017 at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. Northwest Missouri State were the defending champions from the previous season. Texas A&M–Commerce won the school's first Division II National Championship and second overall. Coverage of the Division 2 Playoffs were on ESPN 3, ESPN's streaming service up until the championship in", "title": "2017 NCAA Division II football season" }, { "id": "16878978", "text": "16, 2017. (*) Indicates interim. The regular season began on October 12, 2016, and ended on April 9, 2017. The playoffs began on April 12, 2017, and ended on June 11, 2017. The schedule was released on June 21, 2016. Each team will receive a five-day \"bye week\" and no practices can be held during the time period. Four outdoor games were played during the 2016–17 season. The Winnipeg Jets hosted the Heritage Classic against the Edmonton Oilers at Investors Group Field on October 23, 2016. The Oilers won the game, 3–0. The Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Centennial Classic", "title": "2016–17 NHL season" }, { "id": "19903019", "text": "regional advisory committees. The regular season will begin on August 25, 2017 and end in early November 2017. On Sunday, October 29 during halftime of the nationally televised game between Indiana and Michigan State, the Division I Men’s Soccer Committee announced its first-ever NCAA Top 10 Ranking. (See details above.) In this list, a \"major upset\" is defined as a game won by a team ranked 10 or more spots lower or an unranked team that defeats a team ranked #15 or higher. On December 7, 2017, United Soccer Coaches announced their All-America teams, broken into three starting XI's. ♦", "title": "2017 NCAA Division I men's soccer season" }, { "id": "19973800", "text": "assistant Christopher Sekura who both stepped down due to family commitments. The club also announced the signing of Christopher Foster and Andrew Waite as assistant coaches. </div> The regular season began on 22 April 2017 and will run through to 27 August 2017 before the top four teams advance to compete in the Goodall Cup playoff series. On 7 May the game between the Melbourne Ice and Sydney Bears had to be cancelled after the first period due to a fire in the Macquarie Ice Rink's speaker system. It was later rescheduled to 16 July at the Macquarie Ice Rink.", "title": "2017 AIHL season" }, { "id": "17084797", "text": "four winners of these playoff games visited the top two seeded teams in each conference in the Divisional round games, which were played on the weekend of January 14–15, 2017. The winners of those games advanced to the Conference championship games, which will be held on January 22, 2017. The 2017 Pro Bowl was held at the recently renovated Camping World Stadium (the former Citrus Bowl stadium) in Orlando, Florida on January 29, 2017 and aired on ESPN. Super Bowl LI was held on February 5, 2017 at NRG Stadium in Houston on Fox. On April 25, 2016, the 2nd", "title": "2016 NFL season" }, { "id": "19799707", "text": "2017 Buffalo Bills season The 2017 season was the Buffalo Bills' 58th as a professional football team, 48th in the National Football League and third full season under the ownership of Terry and Kim Pegula. The season was the first under the leadership of general manager Brandon Beane and head coach Sean McDermott. On December 31, the final week of the regular season, the Bills finally ended their 18-year playoff drought (previously the longest active drought in the NFL and the longest active playoff drought among the four major professional North American sport leagues) with the Bills winning 22–16 over", "title": "2017 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "20035399", "text": "in a tie for third place. They were invited to the Dollar General Bowl where they defeated Ohio. The season marked the first 10-win season for Troy since joining the FBS in 2001. It was also the first time that Troy had received a Top 25 ranking since. Troy announced its 2017 football schedule on March 1, 2017. The 2017 schedule consisted of six home and away games in the regular season. The Trojans hosted Sun Belt foes Georgia Southern, Idaho, South Alabama, and Texas State, and traveled to Arkansas State, Coastal Carolina, Georgia State, and New Mexico State. The", "title": "2017 Troy Trojans football team" }, { "id": "19798286", "text": "Francisco 49ers. The game will occur during Week 7 on Sunday, October 22, and will be televised in the United States. The network and date were announced in conjunction with the release of the regular season schedule. The remainder of the Cardinals' 2017 schedule, with exact dates and times, was announced on April 20. Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. The Cardinals would lose star running back David Johnson to a wrist injury during the game. Afterwards, it was revealed that his dislocated his wrist, an injury that sent him to injured reserve on September 12 and would eventually", "title": "2017 Arizona Cardinals season" }, { "id": "20241377", "text": "which was broadcast on ESPN 2. 2017 NCAA Division II football season The 2017 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level, began on August 31, 2017 and ended with the Division II championship on December 16, 2017 at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. Northwest Missouri State were the defending champions from the previous season. Texas A&M–Commerce won the school's first Division II National Championship and second overall. Coverage of the Division 2 Playoffs were on ESPN 3, ESPN's streaming", "title": "2017 NCAA Division II football season" }, { "id": "9153415", "text": "of those games would include 1992 against the New England Patriots (Hurricane Andrew), 2004 against the Tennessee Titans (Hurricane Ivan) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (Hurricane Jeanne), 2005 against the Kansas City Chiefs (Hurricane Wilma), 2017 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Hurricane Irma), and others. In December 2010, a Minnesota Vikings–Philadelphia Eagles game originally scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, December 26, a time at which it could have been successfully completed, had two weeks earlier been flexed by NBC to Sunday night and was postponed to Tuesday, December 28, due to a strong Nor'easter. In 2014, the Week 12 visit", "title": "NFL regular season" }, { "id": "19967358", "text": "2017 NCAA Division III football season The 2017 NCAA Division III football season was the portion of the 2017 college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States. Under Division III rules, teams were eligible to begin play on August 31, 2017. The season ended with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, on December 15, 2017 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. Mount Union earned their 13th national title, defeating defending national champions Mary Hardin–Baylor. The 2017 season saw several significant changes to the landscape of", "title": "2017 NCAA Division III football season" }, { "id": "20025867", "text": "State announced its 2017 football schedule on March 1, 2017. The 2017 schedule consisted of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Panthers hosted Sun Belt foes Troy, South Alabama, Appalachian State, and Idaho, and traveled to Coastal Carolina, ULM, Georgia Southern, and Texas State. Georgia State did not play two Sun Belt teams this season, Louisiana and New Mexico State. The team played three non–conference games, one home game against Tennessee State from the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), and two road games against Penn State from the Big Ten and Charlotte from Conference USA. The scheduled", "title": "2017 Georgia State Panthers football team" }, { "id": "19953608", "text": "the schedule was announced. The five teams played 14 games through 18 weeks, with four bye weeks for each team and no divisions. Each team played each other three or four times throughout the season. The postseason saw a structure change, with four teams advancing. The top seed hosted the fourth seed and the second seed hosted the third seed in a semifinal round, each match for a spot in ArenaBowl XXX on August 26. \"All times listed are in EDT.\" The following were named the top performers during the 2017 season: \"Source\": 2017 Arena Football League season The 2017", "title": "2017 Arena Football League season" }, { "id": "19807828", "text": "Rams attempted a last second comeback through lateral passes, but to no avail as a pass was fumbled with no time left on the clock, and returned by Brandon Graham for one more touchdown to add six to their lead. With the win, the Eagles advanced to 11-2 and clinched the NFC East. They also got back the #1 seed thanks to a Vikings loss to the Panthers earlier in the day. The day after the game, Wentz was revealed to have torn his ACL, officially ending his season and making Nick Foles the starting quarterback for the rest of", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "9153375", "text": "NFL regular season The National Football League (NFL) regular season begins on the weekend following the first Monday of September (i.e, the weekend following the Labor Day holiday) and ends in December or early January. It consists of 256 games, where each team (32 total) plays 16 games during a 17-week period. Since 2012, the NFL schedule generally has games in one of five time slots during the week. The first game of the week is played on Thursday night, kicking off at 8:20 PM (ET). The majority of games are played on Sunday, most kicking off at 1:00 PM", "title": "NFL regular season" }, { "id": "19807734", "text": "2017 Dallas Cowboys season The 2017 Dallas Cowboys season was the franchise's 58th season in the National Football League, the ninth playing their home games at AT&T Stadium and the seventh full season under head coach Jason Garrett. It was also the 29th season under owner Jerry Jones, meaning that by the end of the season his tenure as owner was equal to the combined tenures of previous owners Clint Murchison Jr. and H.R. \"Bum\" Bright. For the first time since 2002, quarterback Tony Romo was not on the opening day roster, as he announced his retirement on April 4,", "title": "2017 Dallas Cowboys season" }, { "id": "19820061", "text": "network and time will be announced in conjunction with the release of the regular season schedule. The Saints' 2017 schedule was revealed on April 20. Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. In a playoff preview between these 2 teams, the Saints lost to the Vikings by a score of 29-19. Despite having a 6-3 lead at one time, the Saints were outscored 26-16 for the remainder of the game. With the loss, the Saints began the season 0-1 for the 4th straight season. NFL London Games The Saints clinched a winning record for the first time since 2013 and", "title": "2017 New Orleans Saints season" }, { "id": "20068469", "text": "Earl Watson as head coach would be the longest period in NBA history without any coaching changes occur. The last time no head coaches were hired in the off-season occurred during the 1975–76 season. The preseason began on September 30 and ended on October 13. The Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves played two preseason games in China, at Shenzhen on October 5 and Shanghai on October 8. Minnesota won the first game 111–97, while Golden State emerged victorious in the second one, 142–110. The regular season began on October 17, 2017 and ended on April 11, 2018. Notes On", "title": "2017–18 NBA season" }, { "id": "18370839", "text": "Cougars during the 2016 season due to NCAA transfer guidelines that require transfers to sit out a single year. Allen began the 2017 season as the starting quarterback for the Houston Cougars. His first game was a 19–16 victory by the Cougars over the Arizona Wildcats on September 9, 2017. Allen then proceeds to be benched in favor of Kyle Postma during UH's third game Against Texas Tech after throwing 4 interceptions in 3 games. On January 11, 2018, Allen announced his decision to forgo his senior season and declare for the 2018 NFL Draft. Through the end of the", "title": "Kyle Allen" }, { "id": "19820428", "text": "was released two days later, with his roster slot being filled by Tennessee Volunteers receiver Alton Howard. The Bears' preseason schedule was announced on April 10. Like in 2016, the first game of the preseason was at home against the Broncos, who defeated the Bears 22–0 in last year's meeting. For the next two games, the Bears traveled to Arizona and Tennessee to take on the Cardinals and Titans before ending August in Soldier Field against a traditional preseason opponent in the Cleveland Browns; playing each other to close the preseason since 2004, the Bears held a 7–6 lead in", "title": "2017 Chicago Bears season" }, { "id": "18465640", "text": "County Coliseum through at least the 2018 season (with the 2019 season to be determined) while Las Vegas Stadium is built, with the team moving to Nevada in 2019 or 2020. The Los Angeles Rams, who had capped season ticket sales at 55,000 for the 2017 season, announced to have 60,128 spectators in the first home game on week 1. However, reports estimate that spectators only filled a third of the 93,607 seats of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Los Angeles Chargers did not sell out their week 2 game at the StubHub Center, which was never expanded to", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "19240340", "text": "2016–17 NFL playoffs The National Football League playoffs for the 2016 NFL season began on Saturday, January 7, 2017. The postseason tournament concluded with Super Bowl LI on Sunday, February 5, 2017, when the New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. Source: The Raiders were one of the most dominant teams in the AFC during the season, but in the final two weeks of the regular season, they lost starting quarterback Derek Carr and second-string quarterback Matt McGloin to injuries. The Raiders lost the last game and ended up going into the playoffs with", "title": "2016–17 NFL playoffs" }, { "id": "19872111", "text": "2017 Indoor Football League season The 2017 Indoor Football League season was the ninth season of the Indoor Football League (IFL). Playing with ten teams in two conferences spread across the United States, the league's regular season kicked off on February 16, 2017, when the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles hosted the Nebraska Danger. The regular season ended 18 weeks later on June 18, 2017, with the defending league champion Sioux Falls Storm visiting the Iowa Barnstormers and the Wichita Falls Nighthawks visiting the Nebraska Danger. The playoffs were held in two rounds, with the top two seeds in each conference", "title": "2017 Indoor Football League season" }, { "id": "19807656", "text": "tight ends coach Brian Daboll for the job. Notes As of the Patriots' first training camp practice at Gillette Stadium on July 27, they had the NFL maximum of 90 players signed. Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. NFL Kickoff Game The Patriots started their season at home on Thursday, September 7 as the defending Super Bowl champion. They would strike first in the first quarter when Mike Gillislee ran for a 2-yard touchdown for a 7–0 lead. The Chiefs however tied it later on in the quarter at 7–7 when Alex Smith found Demetrius Harris on a 7-yard", "title": "2017 New England Patriots season" }, { "id": "19807829", "text": "the season. The Philadelphia Eagles headed into Week 15 of the 2017 NFL Season at 11-2. With them clinching the NFC East in Week 14 in a win against the Rams, the Eagles were now fighting for the 1st seed in the NFC playoffs, home-field advantage, and a first-round bye. This was the first week that the Eagles played without MVP-candidate, Carson Wentz after he went down with a torn ACL in Week 14 which ended his season. Backup quarterback, Nick Foles led the Eagles offense for his first time since 2014. The Eagles quickly fell behind 6-0 in the", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807735", "text": "2017. The Cowboys attempted to return to the playoffs after successful rookie campaigns by Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott in the previous year. However, on August 11, 2017, it was announced that Elliott would miss the first 6 games of the season due to suspension, although he planned to appeal it. On September 8, 2017, U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant ruled that Elliott had not received a fair trial; therefore, he blocked the NFL's 6-game suspension. While this ruling did not indicate innocence of the accusations, it meant Elliott would most likely be able to play the entire 2017 season.", "title": "2017 Dallas Cowboys season" }, { "id": "19872113", "text": "having played the last 24 seasons in the Arena Football League. The following were named the top performers during the 2017 season: 2017 Indoor Football League season The 2017 Indoor Football League season was the ninth season of the Indoor Football League (IFL). Playing with ten teams in two conferences spread across the United States, the league's regular season kicked off on February 16, 2017, when the Salt Lake Screaming Eagles hosted the Nebraska Danger. The regular season ended 18 weeks later on June 18, 2017, with the defending league champion Sioux Falls Storm visiting the Iowa Barnstormers and the", "title": "2017 Indoor Football League season" }, { "id": "19928788", "text": "Tech from 2003–2007. Georgia announced its 2017 football schedule on September 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule consisted of 6 home games, 5 away, and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Bulldogs hosted SEC foes Kentucky, Mississippi State, Missouri, and South Carolina, and traveled to Auburn, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt. Georgia faced Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. The Bulldogs played four non–conference games, hosting Appalachian State from the Sun Belt Conference in the first meeting since 2013 and Samford from the Southern Conference. Georgia traveled to Georgia Tech from the Atlantic Coast Conference and independent Notre Dame in the first", "title": "2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team" }, { "id": "34727", "text": "late September or early October (series that debut outside the fall season are usually known as mid-season replacements). A sweeps period takes place in November to measure Nielsen Ratings. American football is played almost exclusively in the autumn months; at the high school level, seasons run from late August through early November, with some playoff games and holiday rivalry contests being played as late as Thanksgiving. In many American states, the championship games take place in early December. College football's regular season runs from September through November, while the main professional circuit, the National Football League, plays from September through", "title": "Autumn" }, { "id": "18465643", "text": "rarity. Indeed, a majority of television sets in all Western New York were tuned into some portion of the game, the highest viewership for a non-Super Bowl NFL game in the region since record-keeping began. This was the fourth season under the current broadcast contracts with ESPN, CBS, Fox, and NBC. This included \"cross-flexing\" (switching) Sunday Afternoon games between CBS and Fox before or during the season (regardless of the conference of the visiting team). NBC continued to air \"Sunday Night Football\", the annual Kickoff game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game, and broadcast Super Bowl LII. ESPN continued to air", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "16192541", "text": "season, which secured their first non-losing year since 2006 (and first in Los Angeles since 1989). A week later, the Rams would defeat the Arizona Cardinals 32–16 to secure a winning season for the first time since the 2003 season. On December 24, 2017, the Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans 27–23 to clinch their first NFC West title since 2003 (and first in Los Angeles since 1985). The Rams would lose in the Wild Card game against the defending NFC champion Atlanta Falcons 26–13. \"* Between 1946 and 1994, the Los Angeles Rams Played a total of 679 Regular Season", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "19986163", "text": "schedule on January 26, 2017. The 2017 schedule consisted of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Roadrunners hosted CUSA foes Marshall, Rice, Southern Miss, and UAB, and traveled to FIU, Louisiana Tech, North Texas, and UTEP. The Roadrunners hosted one of the three non-conference opponents, Southern from the Southwestern Athletic Conference and traveled to Baylor from the Big 12 Conference and Texas State from the Sun Belt Conference. The Roadrunners were to also host the season opener against Houston from the American Athletic Conference but the game was cancelled due to Hurricane Harvey. The Roadrunners ended", "title": "2017 UTSA Roadrunners football team" }, { "id": "19798209", "text": "2017 Los Angeles Chargers season The 2017 Los Angeles Chargers season was the franchise's 48th season in the National Football League (NFL), the 58th overall, the 2nd in the Greater Los Angeles Area and the first under head coach Anthony Lynn. It was the Chargers' first season in Los Angeles since their inaugural 1960 season, when they were in the AFL, as the team exercised its option to move back to the city and join the Los Angeles Rams on January 12, 2017. The 2017 season was the first of three seasons played at StubHub Center prior to the new", "title": "2017 Los Angeles Chargers season" }, { "id": "19720527", "text": "2017 Major League Baseball season The 2017 Major League Baseball season began on April 2, 2017 with three games, including the 2016 World Series champions Chicago Cubs facing off against the St. Louis Cardinals, and ended on October 1. The postseason began on October 3. The 2017 World Series began October 24 and Game 7 was played on November 1, in which the Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5–1, to capture their first World Series championship in franchise history. The 88th Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held on July 11 at Marlins Park, the home of the", "title": "2017 Major League Baseball season" }, { "id": "19876807", "text": "FBS team. The University of Central Florida Knights finished the season undefeated and beat the Auburn Tigers. Auburn defeated College Football Playoff national champion Alabama and split two games with runner-up Georgia during the season. Because of this, the UCF Knights also claimed a national title this season. The following rule changes were recommended by the NCAA Football Rules Committee for the 2017 season: The committee left the current targeting rules unchanged for the 2017 season, despite discussions to modify the rule to eject a player for targeting only if the call is confirmed, not if the call stands due", "title": "2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season" }, { "id": "13669836", "text": "NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals. Memphis went 10–3 in 2017. They started the season on August 31 with a 37-29 victory over Louisiana-Monroe. The Tigers were supposed to play UCF on September 9, but due to Hurricane Irma, the game, which originally had been moved up one day to September 8, was rescheduled for September 30. In order to reschedule the American Athletic Conference game, Memphis canceled their game with Georgia State, leaving the team with only 11 regular season games as opposed to the usual 12. On September 16, the Tigers picked up a 48-45 upset victory over", "title": "Memphis Tigers football" }, { "id": "19842865", "text": "played its first regular season match in their new stadium on March 5, against their expansion rivals NYCFC. New expansion teams for this year are Minnesota United FC, led by former coach Adrian Heath, and Atlanta United FC. The squad goes into the season riding a 2-game winning streak, besting the Union at Philadelphia, and D.C. United at Camping World Stadium last October. The team announced two sellouts on Feb. 21: the Home Opener vs. NYCFC on March 5, and the L.A. Galaxy on April 15. Officials with the Atlanta Stadium group announced on April 18 that the retractable roof", "title": "2017 Orlando City SC season" }, { "id": "18465634", "text": "with the Wild Card playoff round. The four winners of these playoff games visited the top two seeded teams in each conference in the Divisional round games played on the weekend of January 13–14, 2018. The winners of those games advanced the Conference championship games was held on January 21, 2018. The two Conference champions advanced to Super Bowl LII was held on February 4, 2018 at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The 2018 Pro Bowl was held at Camping World Stadium in Orlando on January 28, 2018. During a September 22, 2017 speech, the President of the United States,", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "20068474", "text": "Oklahoma City Thunder, Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio Spurs and Washington Wizards. 2017–18 NBA season The 2017–18 NBA season was the 72nd season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The regular season began on October 17, 2017, earlier than previous seasons to reduce the number of \"back-to-back\" games teams were scheduled to play, with the 2017 Eastern Conference champion (and Finals runner–up) Cleveland Cavaliers hosting a game against the Boston Celtics at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The 2018 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 18, 2018, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. LeBron", "title": "2017–18 NBA season" }, { "id": "19807753", "text": "and signed with the Minnesota Vikings on September 17, 2018. 2017 Dallas Cowboys season The 2017 Dallas Cowboys season was the franchise's 58th season in the National Football League, the ninth playing their home games at AT&T Stadium and the seventh full season under head coach Jason Garrett. It was also the 29th season under owner Jerry Jones, meaning that by the end of the season his tenure as owner was equal to the combined tenures of previous owners Clint Murchison Jr. and H.R. \"Bum\" Bright. For the first time since 2002, quarterback Tony Romo was not on the opening", "title": "2017 Dallas Cowboys season" }, { "id": "19824191", "text": "and time to be determined. Fall camp is scheduled for August. Pac-12 media days are set for July 2017 in Hollywood, California. Arizona returns 30 starters in 2017, including 14 on offense, 9 on defense, and 7 on special teams. Projecting Returning Starters 2017 † Indicates player was a starter in 2016 but missed all of 2017 due to injury. Depth Chart Source: 2017 Arizona Wildcats Football Fact Book \"True Freshman\" Double Position : * Arizona announced its 2017 football schedule on November 29, 2016. The 2017 Wildcats' schedule consisted of 7 home and 4 away games for the regular", "title": "2017 Arizona Wildcats football team" }, { "id": "20050455", "text": "Spectrum Stadium. The team was split into two squads. Team UCFast consisted mostly of the first team offense and defense, and UCFierce was made up of second team players. UCF announced its 2017 football schedule on February 9, 2017. The 2017 schedule originally consisted of seven home and five away games in the regular season. The Knights were set to host conference foes Connecticut, East Carolina, Memphis, and South Florida and were to travel to Cincinnati, Navy, SMU, and Temple. The Knights also hosted one of their two non-conference opponents, FIU from Conference USA, and traveled to Maryland from the", "title": "2017 UCF Knights football team" }, { "id": "19861675", "text": "the first Tennessee team in program history to lose eight games in a season, as well as the first to not win an SEC game since becoming a charter member of the conference in 1932. Departures of scholarship players from the 2016 team. Tennessee announced its 2017 football schedule on September 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule consists of 7 home games, 4 away, and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Volunteers will host SEC foes Georgia, South Carolina, LSU, and Vanderbilt, and will travel to Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, and Missouri. The Volunteers will host three of its", "title": "2017 Tennessee Volunteers football team" }, { "id": "18465629", "text": "Bears to Eagles), Brandon Marshall (from Jets to Giants), DeSean Jackson (from Redskins to Buccaneers), Kenny Britt (from Rams to Browns), Pierre Garçon (from Redskins to 49ers), Robert Woods (from Bills to Rams), Terrelle Pryor (from Browns to Redskins), and Torrey Smith (from 49ers to Eagles); running backs Latavius Murray (from Raiders to Vikings), Adrian Peterson (from Vikings to Saints), Eddie Lacy (from Packers to Seahawks), and Jamaal Charles (from Chiefs to Broncos); fullbacks Mike Tolbert (from Panthers to Bills) and Patrick DiMarco (from Falcons to Bills); quarterback Mike Glennon (from Buccaneers to Bears). The 2017 NFL Draft was held", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "19986118", "text": "finish in last place in the Conference USA (7th in West Division) and winless for the first time since the 1973 season. UTEP announced its 2017 football schedule on January 26, 2017. The 2017 schedule consists of 5 home and 7 away games in the regular season. The Miners will host CUSA foes Louisiana Tech, Rice, UTSA, and Western Kentucky (WKU), and will travel to Middle Tennessee, North Texas, Southern Miss, and UAB. The Miners hosted one of the four non-conference opponents, Arizona from the Pac-12 Conference and travelled to Army who is independent from a conference, New Mexico State", "title": "2017 UTEP Miners football team" }, { "id": "19953604", "text": "champs by beating the Storm by a score of 44–40. On February 10, 2016, \"The Washington Post\" and radio station WTOP-FM first broke the story that Monumental Sports & Entertainment (Ted Leonsis, chairman) were \"close to a deal\" to bring a new expansion franchise to the Verizon Center. On March 10, 2016, AFL commissioner Scott Butera announced that the deal was finalized and that the new Washington, D.C., team would begin play in 2017. On July 14, 2016, the team name was revealed as the Washington Valor. There was also talk for franchises to return to San Antonio and St.", "title": "2017 Arena Football League season" }, { "id": "20068467", "text": "2017–18 NBA season The 2017–18 NBA season was the 72nd season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The regular season began on October 17, 2017, earlier than previous seasons to reduce the number of \"back-to-back\" games teams were scheduled to play, with the 2017 Eastern Conference champion (and Finals runner–up) Cleveland Cavaliers hosting a game against the Boston Celtics at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The 2018 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 18, 2018, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers was named the All-Star Game Most Valuable Player. The", "title": "2017–18 NBA season" }, { "id": "19499851", "text": "2017 Major League Soccer season The 2017 Major League Soccer season was the 22nd season of Major League Soccer, top division of soccer in the United States and Canada. The regular season began on March 3, 2017 and concluded on October 22, 2017. The MLS Cup Playoffs began on October 25, 2017 and concluded with MLS Cup 2017 on December 9, 2017. Two new clubs joined the league as expansion franchises: Atlanta United and Minnesota United. The two franchises were the 21st and 22nd teams in the league. Seattle Sounders FC were the defending MLS Cup champions, while FC Dallas", "title": "2017 Major League Soccer season" }, { "id": "19802610", "text": "2017 Oakland Raiders season The 2017 Oakland Raiders season was the 58th overall season of the Oakland Raiders franchise, the franchise's 48th season in the National Football League, their 23rd season since their return to Oakland, and the third and final season under head coach Jack Del Rio. It was the first season for the team since the franchise announced its impending relocation to Las Vegas. The Raiders began the season on September 10 at the Tennessee Titans and finished the season December 31 at the Los Angeles Chargers. The Raiders, as they did in 2016, played one home game", "title": "2017 Oakland Raiders season" }, { "id": "19807799", "text": "bounced back and won 43-35 over the Los Angeles Rams, which gave them the NFC East title, but Carson Wentz tore his ACL in that game, causing Nick Foles to finish off the win and become starter for the rest of the season. In his first start against the New York Giants, the Eagles trailed 20-7 but Foles threw four touchdowns for a close 34-29 win over the Giants to help the Eagles take a first-round bye in the 2017 postseason. Foles then began to struggle in Week 16 against the Oakland Raiders, throwing a touchdown and an interception and", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19264756", "text": "will host Kansas State, Kansas, Baylor and Oklahoma State, and travel to TCU, Texas Tech, Iowa State and West Virginia in regular conference play. Oklahoma will play the Texas Longhorns in Dallas, Texas at the Cotton Bowl stadium on October 8 for the Red River Showdown, the 111th game played of the series. Kickoff was delayed from the original start time of 6:30 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. due to lightning and thunderstorms in the vicinity of the University of Oklahoma. The 2017 NFL Draft was held in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia on April 27–29, 2017.", "title": "2016 Oklahoma Sooners football team" }, { "id": "19135819", "text": "2018 NFL season The 2018 NFL season is the 99th season of the National Football League (NFL). The season began on September 6, 2018, with the NFL Kickoff Game with the defending Super Bowl LII champion Philadelphia Eagles defeating the Atlanta Falcons 18–12. The season will conclude with Super Bowl LIII, the league's championship game, on February 3, 2019, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2018 NFL League year and trading period began on March 14. On March 9, clubs were allowed to exercise options for 2018 on players who have option clauses in their contracts, submit qualifying offers", "title": "2018 NFL season" }, { "id": "19982203", "text": "2016. The league rules state that if a player is on a professional team's roster past August 15, that player would have to sit out one year. The rules were not clear on whether this referred to an academic year or season, or a 365-day period. On November 12, one day after the game was originally scheduled, the Ontario judge ruled in favour of Saint Mary's and the Loney Bowl was re-scheduled for November 14, with the Uteck Bowl still scheduled for the following Saturday, November 18, against the Western Mustangs. Acadia won the game in overtime 45—38. 2017 U", "title": "2017 U Sports football season" }, { "id": "19763379", "text": "2017 AFL season The 2017 Australian Football League season was the 121st season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 28th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989. There were 18 teams competing in the league, the same as the preceding five seasons. The first game was played on Thursday, 23 March, and the season concluded with the 2017 AFL Grand Final on Saturday, 30 September. Richmond defeated Adelaide in the Grand Final by 48 points, winning their first premiership since 1980. The following amendments were made to the Laws of", "title": "2017 AFL season" }, { "id": "19763376", "text": "2017 AFL season The 2017 Australian Football League season was the 121st season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 28th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989. There were 18 teams competing in the league, the same as the preceding five seasons. The first game was played on Thursday, 23 March, and the season concluded with the 2017 AFL Grand Final on Saturday, 30 September. Richmond defeated Adelaide in the Grand Final by 48 points, winning their first premiership since 1980. The following amendments were made to the Laws of", "title": "2017 AFL season" }, { "id": "19888822", "text": "the 2017 Outback Bowl against Iowa, which the Gators easily won 30–3 to end the season at 9–4, earning Jim McElwain his only bowl victory at Florida. The spring game, dubbed the Orange and Blue Debut, took place on April 7, in Gainesville. The Gators' 2017 schedule consists of 7 home games, 3 away games, and 2 neutral site games in the regular season. The Gators will host SEC opponents Tennessee, Vanderbilt, LSU, and Texas A&M. They will travel to Kentucky, Missouri, and South Carolina. They will face Georgia at a neutral site. Florida's non-conference schedule consists of three home", "title": "2017 Florida Gators football team" }, { "id": "17662528", "text": "the practice squad two days later. He was promoted to the active roster on December 27, 2016. He appeared in the regular season finale against the Kansas City Chiefs and had 18 carries for 87 rushing yards. On March 9, 2017, the Chargers re-signed Williams. He was waived on September 2, 2017 and was signed to the Chargers' practice squad the next day. He was promoted to the active roster on October 7, 2017. In Week 14, Williams suffered a broken wrist on the final play of the game and was ruled out for the rest of the 2017 season.", "title": "Andre Williams (American football)" }, { "id": "19826921", "text": "of their last ten games after starting the season 0–2, completing their fourth year under Mark Stoops at 7–5 and 4–4 in the SEC (3rd-East). They defeated in-state rival and ninth-ranked Louisville, 41–38, to end the regular season. In the postseason, the Wildcats competed in the TaxSlayer Bowl, losing to Georgia Tech 18–33. The spring game took place on April 14, in Lexington. Prior to National Signing Day in February 1, 2017, seven players enrolled for the spring semester in order to participate in spring practice and included six former high school seniors and one junior college transfer. On National", "title": "2017 Kentucky Wildcats football team" }, { "id": "9153382", "text": "kick off later at 4:25pm; this is to avoid conflicts with 1:00pm games that have run late. The schedule allows for 4 other regular time slots, in which these games are broadcast nationally across the country: Since the 2006 season, the NFL has used a \"flexible scheduling\" system for the last seven weeks of the regular season when there is a Sunday night game. In 2014, that was expanded to include weeks 5 – 17. Flex scheduling ensures quality matchups on Sunday nights and it allows for surprise teams to play in primetime. In its early years after , the", "title": "NFL regular season" }, { "id": "18465628", "text": "Colts) and Calais Campbell (from Cardinals to Jaguars); offensive tackles Andrew Whitworth (from Bengals to Rams), Kelvin Beachum (from Jaguars to Jets), Matt Kalil (from Vikings to Panthers), Mike Remmers (from Panthers to Vikings), Ricky Wagner (from Ravens to Lions), Riley Reiff (from Lions to Vikings), and Russell Okung (from Broncos to Chargers); offensive guards Kevin Zeitler (from Bengals to Browns), Larry Warford (from Lions to Saints), Ronald Leary (from Cowboys to Broncos), and T.J. Lang (from Packers to Lions); tight ends Martellus Bennett (from Patriots to Packers) and Jared Cook (from Packers to Raiders); wide receivers Alshon Jeffery (from", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "18465645", "text": "college basketball broadcasts. Although never explicitly announced, the league continued the moratorium on its blackout policy, ensuring all games would be televised in the market of their home teams regardless of ticket sales. Because of fog and smoke obstruction, NBC was forced to televise large portions of two of their \"Sunday Night Football\" games from the skycam angle. Positive reception led NBC to experiment with increased usage of the angle as a primary view during its November 16 and December 14 \"Thursday Night Football\" telecasts. Because the angle distorts distance, the traditional sideline camera angle was used for close-yardage situations", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "19820626", "text": "a season in which their stadium hosted the Super Bowl. They defeated the New Orleans Saints in the Divisional Round 29–24 on a walk-off play referred to as the \"Minneapolis Miracle\", but lost 38–7 to the eventual Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship Game. Draft trades The Vikings' preliminary preseason schedule was announced on April 10. Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. NFL London Games NFL on Thanksgiving Day With their win against the Saints in the NFC Divisional Round, Minnesota became the first team in the Super Bowl era to advance to the conference championship", "title": "2017 Minnesota Vikings season" }, { "id": "19799762", "text": "finished with a reverse record from the previous year, going 6–10. This was the Dolphins's fourteenth season missing the playoffs since the league's realignment in 2002. Notes On December 13, 2016, the NFL announced that the Dolphins would play host to the New Orleans Saints as one of the NFL London Games at Wembley Stadium. The game occurred during Week 4 (Sunday, October 1), and was televised in the United States. The remainder of the Dolphins' schedule was finalized and announced on April 20. Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. After their week 1 game was postponed due to", "title": "2017 Miami Dolphins season" }, { "id": "19967476", "text": "3–9, with wins over non conference opponent, San Jose State and conference opponents Texas Tech and Kansas. Allen Lazard received first team All-Big 12 honors and Kamari Cotton-Moya received second team All-Big 12 honors. Iowa State had 13 returning players on offense, 11 on defense and 5 on special teams that started games previously for the Cyclones. Iowa State announced their 2017 football schedule on December 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule comprised six home and six away games in the regular season. The Cyclones will host Big 12 foes TCU, Oklahoma State, Texas, and Kansas and traveled to Baylor, Kansas", "title": "2017 Iowa State Cyclones football team" }, { "id": "15113723", "text": "in a 28–7 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. With Luck being inactive due to a shoulder injury, Tolzien was named the starting quarterback to begin the 2017 season. On September 10, 2017, he started the season opener against the Los Angeles Rams. Tolzien had 128 passing yards with two interceptions returned for touchdowns, until being benched in favor for Jacoby Brissett. The Colts lost by a score of 46–9. Brissett started the next game against the Arizona Cardinals with Tolzien as the backup. After being benched, Tolzien had no more action in the 2017 season, and was quietly cut by", "title": "Scott Tolzien" }, { "id": "19798284", "text": "2017 Arizona Cardinals season The 2017 season was the Arizona Cardinals' 98th in the National Football League, their 30th in Arizona and 12th at University of Phoenix Stadium. It was also the fifth and final season under head coach Bruce Arians. The Cardinals played one road game in London at Twickenham Stadium against the Los Angeles Rams as one of the NFL London Games. They improved on a 7–8–1 season they had in 2016, finishing 8–8. However, they missed the playoffs for the second straight season. Notes On February 23, 2017, the NFL announced that the Cardinals would play the", "title": "2017 Arizona Cardinals season" }, { "id": "19971567", "text": "football schedule on January 26, 2017. The 2017 schedule consists of 6 home and away games in the regular season. The Thundering Herd will host CUSA foes FIU, Old Dominion, Southern Miss, and Western Kentucky (WKU), and will travel to Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, Middle Tennessee, and UTSA. The Thundering Herd will host two of the four non-conference opponents, Kent State and Miami of Ohio, both from the Mid-American Conference and travel to Cincinnati of the American Athletic Conference and NC State of the Atlantic Coast Conference. 2017 Marshall Thundering Herd football team The 2017 Marshall Thundering Herd football team represented", "title": "2017 Marshall Thundering Herd football team" }, { "id": "19894473", "text": "as a cost cutting measure. The 2017 regular season schedule was released on December 9, 2016 Key: \"All start times are local time\" 2017 Georgia Firebirds season The 2017 Georgia Firebirds season was the second season for the professional indoor football franchise and first in the National Arena League (NAL). The Firebirds were one of eight teams that competed in the NAL for its inaugural 2017 season Led by head coach Antwone Savage, the Firebirds played their home games at the Albany Civic Center. In May 2017, the league apparently took over operations of the Firebirds for the remainder of", "title": "2017 Georgia Firebirds season" }, { "id": "19982195", "text": "of Cape Breton played for one season before disbanding. This change also brought an end to the scheduled interlocking play with the RSEQ that had been in place since 2002. The schedule for the Ontario University Athletics conference was released on January 18, 2017 with 11 teams playing over the course of nine weeks with each team receiving one bye week. Compared to the previous season, there were no major format changes. The OUA will begin play on August 26, 2017 with the Carleton Ravens visiting the Queen's Gaels at Richardson Memorial Stadium. Eight other OUA teams will play the", "title": "2017 U Sports football season" }, { "id": "18293684", "text": "in the draft, behind Mitchell Trubisky, who went second overall to the Chicago Bears, and Patrick Mahomes II, who went tenth overall to the Kansas City Chiefs. On May 12, 2017, the Texans signed Watson to a four-year, $13.84 million contract featuring a $8.21 million signing bonus. Watson made his first regular-season appearance on September 10, 2017, against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He entered the game after Tom Savage was benched at halftime. He played for the remainder of the game. In the third quarter, he threw his first NFL touchdown, a 4-yard pass to wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. He finished", "title": "Deshaun Watson" }, { "id": "19795116", "text": "2009 that Texas A&M was not ranked in the AP Poll during the regular season. On November 26th, head coach Kevin Sumlin was fired. He finished at Texas A&M with a six-year record of 51–26. Interim head coach Jeff Banks led the Aggies in the Belk Bowl. On December 2, Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher was hired by Texas A&M as their new head coach. Texas A&M announced its 2017 football schedule on September 13, 2016. The 2017 schedule consists of 7 home games, 4 away games and 1 neutral site game in the regular season. The Aggies will", "title": "2017 Texas A&M Aggies football team" }, { "id": "19965899", "text": "Ezechukwu, Da'Wan Hunte, Lorenzo Neal, Josh Okonye, Gelen Robinson, Joe Schopper, David Steinmetz; RUTGERS: Tariq Cole, Damon Hayes, Kiy Hester, Dorian Miller, Trevor Morris; WISCONSIN: Quintez Cephus, Ryan Connelly, Joe Ferguson, Alex Hornibrook, Leon Jacobs, Natrell Jamerson, Olive Sagapolu, Derrick Tindal. The 2017 College Football All-America Team is composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), \"The Sporting News\" (\"TSN\"), \"Sports Illustrated\" (\"SI\"), \"USA Today\" (USAT) ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), FOX Sports (FOX) \"College Football", "title": "2017 Big Ten Conference football season" }, { "id": "19784041", "text": "The Philadelphia Eagles selected Jones in the second round (43rd overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft. He was the seventh cornerback selected in the draft. On May 11, 2017, the Eagles signed Jones to a four-year, $6.14 million contract with $3.34 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $2.60 million. He was placed on the Reserve/Non-Football Injury list to start the season due to the Achilles injury. On December 30, 2017, Jones was activated to the 53-man roster for the regular season finale against the Cowboys. Jones was inactive for the playoffs, but the Eagles won Super Bowl LII 41-33", "title": "Sidney Jones (American football)" }, { "id": "19820335", "text": "parade organization raised over $17,000 of charitable donations which went to the Cleveland Food Bank. 2017 Cleveland Browns season The 2017 season was the Cleveland Browns' 69th as a professional sports franchise, their 65th season as a member of the National Football League, their second under head coach Hue Jackson and their second and final season under GM Sashi Brown. The Browns failed to improve upon their 1–15 record from the previous season, losing all sixteen games in 2017 and continuing a losing streak dating to the final game of the previous season. They became the second team in NFL", "title": "2017 Cleveland Browns season" }, { "id": "19798203", "text": "teams that eventually meet in Super Bowl LII to end the season. the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles. Additionally by beating the Patriots in week 1, the Chiefs extending their winning streak against the defending Super Bowl champs to six (including both times they beat the Broncos the season after they won the Super Bowl). The Chiefs had 6 players ranked in NFL Network's annual Top 100 players list, which was tied for the 3rd most. Notes Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. NFL Kickoff Game For the first round of the playoffs, the Chiefs played the Tennessee", "title": "2017 Kansas City Chiefs season" }, { "id": "9153388", "text": "the NFL has indicated that the opening game will normally be hosted by the defending Super Bowl champions as the official start of their title defense. Under this scheduling system, the earliest the regular season could begin is September 4, as it was in the and seasons, due to September 1 falling on a Monday, while the latest possible is September 10, as it was in the and seasons, due to September 1 falling on a Tuesday. Currently, the thirteen different opponents each team faces over the 16-game regular season schedule are set using a pre-determined formula: Under this formula,", "title": "NFL regular season" }, { "id": "19989243", "text": "2017 Mid-American Conference football season The 2017 Mid-American Conference football season was the 72nd season for the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and part of the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The season began on August 31 and ended on November 25. The entire schedule was released on March 1. The Toledo Rockets won the conference championship game over the Akron Zips. The Preseason poll was released at the MAC Media Day in Canton, Ohio. The Toledo Rockets were selected as favorites to win the Mid-American Conference by receiving 21 of 24 votes. Others receiving one vote a piece were", "title": "2017 Mid-American Conference football season" }, { "id": "18244904", "text": "and Celek to start the regular season. He played in the Philadelphia Eagles season-opening 30–17 victory over the Washington Redskins and recovered a fumble on a muffed punt by Redskins' wide receiver Jamison Crowder. On October 8, 2017, he caught two passes for 16-yards and made his second career touchdown reception on a 15-yard pass from Carson Wentz during a 34–7 victory over the Arizona Cardinals. On December 10, 2017, Burton recorded five receptions for 71 receiving yard and two touchdown receptions in the Eagles' NFC East Championship clinching 43–35 victory at the Los Angeles Rams. He received more playing", "title": "Trey Burton" } ]

[ "Jodi Marie Marzorati Benson" ]

[ { "id": "7585174", "text": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid) Ariel is a fictional character and the title character of Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated film \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989). She subsequently appears in the film's prequel television series (1992—1994), direct-to-video sequel \"\" (2000), and direct-to-video prequel \"\" (2008). Ariel is voiced by Jodi Benson in all official animated appearances and merchandise. She is fourth in the Disney Princess lineup, the first nonhuman princess, and the only princess to become a mother to her own child. Ariel has a distinctive appearance, with her long, flowing, bright red hair, blue eyes, green mermaid tail and purple seashell", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "2099877", "text": "Jodi Benson Jodi Marie Marzorati Benson (born October 10, 1961) is an American actress, voice actress and singer. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the singing voice of Disney's Princess Ariel in \"The Little Mermaid\" and its sequel, prequel, and television series spinoff. Benson voiced the character Barbie in the 1999 Golden Globe-winning movie \"Toy Story 2\" and its 2010 Academy Award-winning sequel \"Toy Story 3\". She also voiced Barbie in the \"Toy Story\" cartoon \"Hawaiian Vacation\". For her contributions to the Disney company, Benson was named a Disney Legend in 2011. Benson was the original", "title": "Jodi Benson" }, { "id": "2099885", "text": "married actor/singer Ray Benson in 1984. They have two children, McKinley and Delaney. Jodi Benson Jodi Marie Marzorati Benson (born October 10, 1961) is an American actress, voice actress and singer. She is best known for providing both the speaking and the singing voice of Disney's Princess Ariel in \"The Little Mermaid\" and its sequel, prequel, and television series spinoff. Benson voiced the character Barbie in the 1999 Golden Globe-winning movie \"Toy Story 2\" and its 2010 Academy Award-winning sequel \"Toy Story 3\". She also voiced Barbie in the \"Toy Story\" cartoon \"Hawaiian Vacation\". For her contributions to the Disney", "title": "Jodi Benson" }, { "id": "2039830", "text": "filming of live actors and actresses for motion reference material for the animators, a practice used frequently for many of the Disney animated features produced under Walt Disney's supervision. Sherri Lynn Stoner, a former member of Los Angeles' Groundlings improvisation comedy group, and Joshua Finkel, a Broadway actor, performed key scenes as Ariel and Eric respectively. Jodi Benson had already been cast as Ariel's voice actor by this time, and her recorded dialogue was used as playback to guide these live-action references. Before Benson was cast, Melissa Fahn was considered for the part. \"Mermaid\" supervising animators included Glen Keane and", "title": "The Little Mermaid (1989 film)" }, { "id": "7585176", "text": "some publications such as \"Time\" criticize her for being too devoted to Eric whereas others, such as \"Empire\", praise the character for her rebellious personality, a departure from previous Disney Princesses. Ariel was based on the title character of Hans Christian Andersen's \"The Little Mermaid\", but co-director and writer Ron Clements felt that the mermaid in the original story was too tragic and rewrote the character, resulting in Ariel. Jodi Benson, who was predominantly a stage actress, was chosen to voice Ariel because the directors felt \"it was really important to have the same person doing the singing and speaking", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "2039815", "text": "The Little Mermaid (1989 film) The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Pictures. Based on the Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, \"The Little Mermaid\" tells the story of Ariel, a mermaid princess who dreams of becoming human. Written, produced, and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, with music by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman (who also served as a co-producer), the film features the voices of Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll, Samuel E. Wright, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars,", "title": "The Little Mermaid (1989 film)" }, { "id": "2039862", "text": "cast, Marshall said \"\"No, it's way too early. The Little Mermaid (1989 film) The Little Mermaid is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and Walt Disney Pictures. Based on the Danish fairy tale of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen, \"The Little Mermaid\" tells the story of Ariel, a mermaid princess who dreams of becoming human. Written, produced, and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, with music by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman (who also served as a co-producer), the film features the voices of Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat", "title": "The Little Mermaid (1989 film)" }, { "id": "7585177", "text": "voice\". Clements stated that Benson's voice had a unique \"sweetness\" and \"youthfulness\". When recording the vocals for \"Part of Your World\", Benson asked that the lights in the studio be dimmed, to create the feeling of being deep under the sea. \"Part of Your World\", which was referred to by songwriter Howard Ashman as the \"I Want\" song, was originally going to be cut from the final film, owing to Jeffrey Katzenberg's belief that it slowed the story down, but Ashman and Keane fought to keep it in. Ariel's original design was developed by animator Glen Keane. Her appearance was", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "7585202", "text": "other US and international productions have followed since. The character of Ariel for the stage adaptation was originated by Sierra Boggess, with the role also portrayed later by actresses Chelsea Morgan Stock and Michelle Lookadoo. Jodi Benson, the original voice actress for Ariel, attended the musical's opening night. In order to portray the characters underwater, the actors wore Heelys wheeled footwear, which simulate the gliding action of swimming creatures. The actors playing Ariel and the other merfolk had wire-frame tails attached to their hips. Subsequent productions feature different designs for Ariel and the merfolk; the Dutch and Japanese productions use", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "2439972", "text": "The Little Mermaid (TV series) Disney's The Little Mermaid is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation based on the 1989 Disney film of the same name. It features the adventures of Ariel as a mermaid prior to the events of the film. This series is the first Disney television series to be spun off from a major animated film. Some of the voice actors of the film reprise their roles in the series, among them Jodi Benson as Ariel, Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian, Kenneth Mars as King Triton and Pat Carroll as Ursula. Other", "title": "The Little Mermaid (TV series)" }, { "id": "7585211", "text": "\"The Love We Share\" with Sofia. A live-action version of Ariel appeared in the ABC television series \"Once Upon a Time\", where she was played by JoAnna Garcia. In 2016 a stripped-down concert version of \"The Little Mermaid\" was staged at the Hollywood Bowl, featuring the songs from the film and four songs from the Broadway musical. Sara Bareilles performed the role of Ariel for the first two nights of the concert (June 4 and 5), while Jodi Benson, the original voice actress for Ariel, reprised her role for the June 6 performance. Ariel, alongside other Disney Princesses, appeared in", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "7585219", "text": "become a popular internet meme, utilizing a screenshot of Ariel with photoshopped glasses accompanied by a humorous caption. Ariel's distinct appearance makes her the subject of \"look-alike\" events and competitions. In the reality TV show and dancing competition \"Dancing With the Stars\", Candace Cameron Bure, Peta Murgatroyd, Marla Maples and Sasha Pieterse dressed up as Ariel in their performances in seasons 18, 20, 22 and 25 respectively. Ariel (The Little Mermaid) Ariel is a fictional character and the title character of Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated film \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989). She subsequently appears in the film's prequel television series", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "17641560", "text": "Agrabah, suggesting that that city is located in the same world as the Enchanted Forest. The episode was the first to feature Joanna García Swisher as Ariel, the protagonist of the 1989 Disney film \"The Little Mermaid\". Garcia's casting was announced in August 2013. It also features the debut of her true love Prince Eric, who is played by Gil McKinney. Series co-creator Edward Kitsis, who co-wrote the episode, stated that \"once we realized we were going to Neverland, it felt like the perfect place to see Ariel.\" Garcia Swisher was pleased that the series had opted to stay true", "title": "Ariel (Once Upon a Time)" }, { "id": "7585175", "text": "bikini top. In the films and television series, she is the seventh-born daughter of King Triton and Queen Athena of an underwater kingdom of Merfolk called Atlantica. She is often rebellious, and in the first film, she longs to be a part of the human world. She marries Prince Eric, whom she rescued from a shipwreck, and together they have a daughter, Melody. The character is based on the title character of Hans Christian Andersen's \"The Little Mermaid\" story but was developed into a different personality for the 1989 animated film adaptation. Ariel has received a mixed reception from critics;", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "2039833", "text": "Musker's first choice to voice Ursula; the original script had been written with Bea Arthur of the Disney-owned TV series \"The Golden Girls\" in mind. After Arthur turned the part down, actresses such as Nancy Marchand, Nancy Wilson, Roseanne, Charlotte Rae, and Elaine Stritch were considered for the part. Stritch was eventually cast as Ursula, but clashed with Howard Ashman's style of music production and was replaced by Carroll. Various actors auditioned for additional roles in the film, including Jim Carrey for the role of Prince Eric, and comedians Bill Maher and Michael Richards for the role of Scuttle. The", "title": "The Little Mermaid (1989 film)" }, { "id": "9872139", "text": "previously engaged to fellow Broadway actor Tam Mutu. Sierra Boggess Sierra Marjory Boggess (born May 20, 1982) is an American theater actress and singer. She is best known for originating the role of Ariel in \"The Little Mermaid\" on Broadway and for her multiple appearances as Christine Daaé in \"The Phantom of the Opera.\" Sierra has been involved in several productions of \"The Phantom of the Opera\" beginning with the Las Vegas production in 2006. In 2010 she was cast in the role of Christine Daaé in Phantom's sequel \"Love Never Dies\". Sierra Boggess was born and raised in Denver,", "title": "Sierra Boggess" }, { "id": "7585200", "text": "as \"Ariel and the Aquamarine Jewel\", \"Ariel's Dolphin Adventure\", and \"Ariel's Royal Wedding\". Ariel also appears as a supporting character in one volume of the Japanese manga \"Kilala Princess\", where she is seen in her pre-movie mermaid form. Jodi Benson provides Ariel's voice for her appearances in the Disney Princess music albums, DVDs, and video games. The first original song released for this franchise is \"If You Can Dream\", which featured Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Pocahontas, Jasmine and Mulan singing together. Other original songs that feature Ariel are \"I Just Love Getting Dressed for Tea\", \"Manners and Etiquette\", \"The Princess", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "9903818", "text": "Part of Your World \"Part of Your World\" is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated feature film \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989). Performed by American actress and singer Jodi Benson in the titular role as Ariel, a mermaid princess, \"Part of Your World\" is a power ballad in which the main character expresses her strong desire to become human; its lyrics use placeholder names in lieu of several human-related terms that would be unfamiliar to a mermaid. The film's theme song, \"Part of Your World\" is reprised by Ariel after", "title": "Part of Your World" }, { "id": "9903896", "text": "in Robert's (Patrick Dempsey) office. Benson also appears in the film as Robert's secretary; \"Part of Your World\" is used to underscore some of Benson's scenes. Video footage showing Ashman coaching Benson during one of the earliest recording sessions for \"Part of Your World\" continues to garner attention on the internet. Part of Your World \"Part of Your World\" is a song written by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken for Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated feature film \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989). Performed by American actress and singer Jodi Benson in the titular role as Ariel, a mermaid princess,", "title": "Part of Your World" }, { "id": "9872124", "text": "Sierra Boggess Sierra Marjory Boggess (born May 20, 1982) is an American theater actress and singer. She is best known for originating the role of Ariel in \"The Little Mermaid\" on Broadway and for her multiple appearances as Christine Daaé in \"The Phantom of the Opera.\" Sierra has been involved in several productions of \"The Phantom of the Opera\" beginning with the Las Vegas production in 2006. In 2010 she was cast in the role of Christine Daaé in Phantom's sequel \"Love Never Dies\". Sierra Boggess was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, with her older sister Summer and her", "title": "Sierra Boggess" }, { "id": "7239567", "text": "sea witch, trading her voice for the chance to experience the human world. Based on the Danish fairy tale \"The Little Mermaid\" by Hans Christian Andersen, Ariel is voiced by Jodi Benson and animated by Glen Keane and Mark Henn. The character was inspired by the protagonist in Andersen's story but was developed into a different personality for the film. Ariel is fiercely independent and a dreamer, which is notable in her collecting of human world treasures in her private grotto. She is bold and a risk-taker, distinguished by her bright red hair, purple/lavender seashell bra and green tail. \"The", "title": "Disney Princess" }, { "id": "7585208", "text": "Mermaid's Island\". Ariel was to be portrayed by Marietta DePrima, and she would interact with various puppet characters created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Two episodes of this series were filmed but not aired due to complications after Henson's death. Ariel appears in various video games based on the films, including the two adaptations of the first film (one for NES and Game Boy, known as \"The Little Mermaid\", and one for Sega consoles called \"Ariel the Little Mermaid\") and the popular \"Kingdom Hearts\" series. In the first \"Kingdom Hearts\", Ariel's story has an unrelated plot to that of the", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "2581311", "text": "The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea is a 2000 American animated direct-to-video musical adventure film and a sequel to the 1989 animated film \"The Little Mermaid\". Directed by Jim Kammerud and Brian Smith, the story of the film takes place 12 years after the original, and focuses on Ariel and Eric's daughter Melody, a human princess who longs to swim in the ocean despite her parents' law that the sea is forbidden to her. The film features the voices of Jodi Benson as Ariel, Tara Charendoff as Melody, and Pat", "title": "The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea" }, { "id": "2099878", "text": "voice of Ariel in the Academy Award-winning Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film \"The Little Mermaid\" and continues to perform Ariel and the bubbly voice of \"Barbie\" in Disney/Pixar's Best Picture Golden Globe winner \"Toy Story 2\" and Academy Award winner \"Toy Story 3\". She also gave voice to the spirited \"Weebo\" in Disney's live action \"Flubber\", starring Robin Williams. For Warner Bros., she created the voice of \"Thumbelina\" in 1994, a Don Bluth animated feature film with songs by Barry Manilow. Her other projects include \"Tinkerbell: Secret of the Wings\", \"\", \"\", \"\", \"\", \"\", and \"\". She appeared", "title": "Jodi Benson" }, { "id": "7585212", "text": "the film, as was announced at the 2017 D23 Expo. She is shown wearing modern clothing in green and purple and at that point, she sings about wearing her shirt in about 4 seconds. When the real Ralph falls, Ariel jumps magically unleashing a spiral of water which is then turned to an ice chute, courtesy of Elsa. Ariel has received a mixed reception from critics. Roger Ebert of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" praised the character, writing that \"Ariel is a fully realized female character who thinks and acts independently, even rebelliously, instead of hanging around passively while the fates decide", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "2439973", "text": "voice actors include Edan Gross and Bradley Pierce as Flounder, and Jeff Bennett as Prince Eric. \"The Little Mermaid\" premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called \"A Whale of a Tale\", then moved to Saturday mornings. This series originally appeared on CBS, with an original run from 1992 to 1994 (prior to Disney's purchase of rival ABC). Disney Channel reran the series from October 2nd, 1995 to September 29th, 2002 and again from September 5th, 2006, to July 4th, 2010. Some of the episodes contain musical segments, featuring original songs written for the series.", "title": "The Little Mermaid (TV series)" }, { "id": "12308273", "text": "artist and stage actress, Anabela is also known for her voiceover work as a singing voice. For Disney she was the singing voices for Ariel in \"The Little Mermaid,\" the title character in \"Mulan\" and Rapunzel in \"Tangled.\" In addition to her Disney voices, she was the singing voice for Kayley in \"The Quest for Camelot\" for Warner Bros. and the singing voice for Miriam in \"The Prince of Egypt\" for DreamWorks. Anabela Braz Pires Anabela Braz Pires (born 22 September 1976 in Almada) is a Portuguese singer and musical theatre actress, best known in Portugal by her first name,", "title": "Anabela Braz Pires" }, { "id": "6566312", "text": "of her recording sessions. Describing her own performance as Shakespearean, Carroll perceived Ursula as an \"ex-Shakespearean actress who now sold cars\", which inspired her dry, theatrical interpretation. Carroll also deepened her own voice for the role. When Carroll watched the completed film for the first time, she was frightened by her own performance, comparing it to actress Margaret Hamilton's performance as the Wicked Witch of the West in the film \"The Wizard of Oz\" (1939). Actress Jodi Benson, who voices Ariel, briefly provides the voice of \"Vanessa\", Ursula's beautiful human alter-ego, in lieu of Carroll. With the writing and recording", "title": "Ursula (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "20458236", "text": "time, Ariel reunites with Jasmine and helps her defeat the sorcerer Jafar (Oded Fehr). Reception for the role has been received positively, with Amy Ratcliffe of \"IGN\" saying \"The mermaid was endearing, and Garcia couldn't have done a better job with her. She had terrific chemistry with everyone, too\". Ariel (Once Upon a Time character) Ariel is a fictional character that appears in the ABC television series \"Once Upon a Time\", where she is played by JoAnna Garcia. Ariel is loosely based on the Disney character of the same name from the 1989 animated film \"The Little Mermaid\". Showrunners Edward", "title": "Ariel (Once Upon a Time character)" }, { "id": "7585188", "text": "human world, and she and Eric marry and live happily ever after. A prequel television series that originally aired from 1992 to 1994, depicts Ariel's life as a mermaid under the sea with Sebastian, Flounder, and her father. Ariel appears in all 31 episodes of the series, which is set an unspecified time before the first film. The series follows Ariel's adventures with her friends and family and sometimes has Ariel foiling the attempts of enemies that are intent on harming her or the kingdom of Atlantica. Ariel's relationships with various characters from the film are highlighted and expanded, such", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "11466994", "text": "and Samuel E. Wright reprise their roles as Ariel and Sebastian respectively, while Sally Field voices the film's new villain, Marina Del Rey, and Jim Cummings replaces Kenneth Mars as King Triton, as Mars had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was unable to reprise the role. The film was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on August 26, 2008. The film contradicts certain events of the television series, implying that it is an independent installment of Disney's \"The Little Mermaid\" franchise. King Triton and his wife, Queen Athena, rule over the underwater kingdom of Atlantica, filled with music", "title": "The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning" }, { "id": "20458228", "text": "Ariel (Once Upon a Time character) Ariel is a fictional character that appears in the ABC television series \"Once Upon a Time\", where she is played by JoAnna Garcia. Ariel is loosely based on the Disney character of the same name from the 1989 animated film \"The Little Mermaid\". Showrunners Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz had wanted to introduce the character for a while but saved her for season three when the show's setting temporarily moved to the fictional Neverland, a land with mermaids. Ariel's highly anticipated appearance was announced with a teaser trailer at the show's panel at the", "title": "Ariel (Once Upon a Time character)" }, { "id": "7585196", "text": "album mainly focusing on Samuel E. Wright as Sebastian, with Ariel providing supporting vocals, while the latter is a concept album of original songs that depict a day in Ariel's life under the sea. Ariel also appears in \"Songs and Story: Ariel's Christmas Under the Sea\", a Christmas-themed mini-album with a read-along story and two original songs. Jodi Benson performs in-character as Ariel in all these albums. Ariel appears in a number of printed media that have been released as part of the franchise. A series of twelve prequel novels were published in 1994 by Disney Press, following young Ariel's", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "9175684", "text": "the regional US productions Ariel sings \"The World Above\" as the show's opening number and there is another reprise of \"If Only\" in which King Triton laments over the loss of his wife. \"†\" Cody Hanford and J.J. Singleton were first cast as Flounder, but had to leave the show shortly after opening because they had grown taller than Sierra Boggess. Trevor Braun and Brian D'Addario replaced them. D'Addario was the vocalist on the original cast recording and performed on the show's opening night. Disney's The Little Mermaid: Original Broadway Cast Recording is the cast album for the 2008 musical.", "title": "The Little Mermaid (musical)" }, { "id": "11835183", "text": "Marietta DePrima Marietta DePrima (born May 3, 1964) is an American actress best known for playing the role Sally Rogers, opposite actor Eric Allen Kramer, on the ABC/UPN sitcom, \"The Hughleys\". Marietta is a graduate of Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein, IL and Saint Joseph Elementary School in Libertyville, IL. DePrima has appeared in many television programs including \"Family Ties\", \"Tour of Duty\", \"Quantum Leap\", \"Boston Legal\", \"Dear John\", and \"Matlock\". She played Ariel in a Disney live-action puppet show called \"Little Mermaid's Island\". DePrima and her husband, actor George Newbern, both graduated from Northwestern University, where she was", "title": "Marietta DePrima" }, { "id": "2039831", "text": "Mark Henn on Ariel, Duncan Marjoribanks on Sebastian, Andreas Deja on King Triton, and Ruben Aquino on Ursula. Originally, Keane had been asked to work on Ursula, as he had established a reputation for drawing large, powerful figures, such as the bear in \"The Fox and the Hound\" (1981) and Professor Ratigan in \"The Great Mouse Detective\" (1986). Keane, however, was assigned as one of the two lead artists on the petite Ariel and oversaw the \"Part of Your World\" musical number. He jokingly stated that his wife looks exactly like Ariel \"without the fins.\" The character's body type and", "title": "The Little Mermaid (1989 film)" }, { "id": "2039844", "text": "Angeles, titled \"The Little Mermaid in Concert\". The performances combined a screening of \"The Little Mermaid\" with live accompaniment by guest musicians, including Sara Bareilles (who performed as Ariel), Tituss Burgess, Darren Criss, Rebel Wilson and Norm Lewis (who performed as King Triton as a reprisal of his role in the stage adaptation). The four additional songs written for the stage adaptation were also incorporated into the presentation, accompanied by scenes of the film's original concept art. During the third and final performance, Jodi Benson joined the cast in lieu of Bareilles to reprise her original role as Ariel. The", "title": "The Little Mermaid (1989 film)" }, { "id": "13671836", "text": "Flounder in the beginning of some tracks. \"\" is a concept album; listening to the tracks in order will present the story of a typical day in the life of the mermaid Ariel (set sometime before the events of the first film). \"Disney's The Little Mermaid: Original Broadway Cast Recording\" is the cast album for the musical \"The Little Mermaid\". It features performances from the show's cast, which includes Tituss Burgess, Sherie Rene Scott, Norm Lewis, Eddie Korbich, and newcomer Sierra Boggess as Ariel, the little mermaid. The Little Mermaid (franchise) The Little Mermaid is a Disney media franchise. The", "title": "The Little Mermaid (franchise)" }, { "id": "12604373", "text": "orchestral medley for the loading area, several transitional cues, and a new arrangement for the finale. Some of the scenes use the original vocal performances from the film, with Jodi Benson providing the voice of Ariel and Pat Carroll providing the voice of Ursula. There are also new performances by Phillip Lawrence as Sebastian, Chris Edgerly as Scuttle, and Tress MacNeille as Flotsam and Jetsam. The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure (stylized The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel's Undersea Adventure) is a dark ride attraction based on the 1989 Disney animated film \"The Little Mermaid\",", "title": "The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure" }, { "id": "4872257", "text": "refuse to wear the Miss America crown at public appearances. She was the first actress to play a live-action version of Ariel, the title character from \"The Little Mermaid\", at the \"Voyage of The Little Mermaid\" show at Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World Resort in 1991 and was a member of the contemporary Christian music group Area Code, which released their single album, \"One Big World\", before Leanza’s big break. She has also served as a host for several television shows, including \"Entertainment Tonight\" (1994–1995), \"New Attitudes\" (1998), and \"Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?\" (2000), and made", "title": "Leanza Cornett" }, { "id": "7585180", "text": "Pictures had recently released \"Splash\" that had a blonde mermaid; Ariel's red hair was ultimately kept. In an interview, Jodi Benson stated that for \"Ariel's Beginning\", the writers revised the script multiple times to make sure Ariel retained her relevance in a more modern context. Benson complained to them that they wrote Ariel out of character and suggested they bring her back to her roots. Ariel is the youngest of King Triton and Queen Athena's seven daughters. She is often seen in the company of Flounder, her best friend, and Sebastian, her father's advisor who is often assigned to keep", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "2099884", "text": "until its run ended early. He knew she would be the perfect fit for the role and that she would be a great replica of Ariel. After hearing the demo for \"Part of Your World\", she sang a small part of it on tape where it was later sent to Disney executives. Before her audition for \"The Little Mermaid\", she was primarily a stage actress. It was Ashman's first Disney project. In early 1988, Benson won the role of Ariel. Benson was born and raised in a Catholic environment, graduating from Boylan Central Catholic High School in Rockford, Illinois. She", "title": "Jodi Benson" }, { "id": "2581321", "text": "Your World, performed by country singer Chely Wright. Another version of the song, performed by Ann Marie Boskovich, was used in some international releases of the film. The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea is a 2000 American animated direct-to-video musical adventure film and a sequel to the 1989 animated film \"The Little Mermaid\". Directed by Jim Kammerud and Brian Smith, the story of the film takes place 12 years after the original, and focuses on Ariel and Eric's daughter Melody, a human princess who longs to swim in the ocean", "title": "The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea" }, { "id": "7585218", "text": "alluring animated character after Jessica Rabbit. In August 2011, Jodi Benson was honored as a Disney Legend for her work as Ariel and her other projects at Disney. A bi-annual convention called ArielCon is dedicated to the character. Ariel is an official \"ambassador\" for the \"Keep Our Oceans Clean\" campaign by Environmental Defense, The National Maritime Sanctuary, and The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. From 2007 onwards, Disney launched an advertising campaign called \"Disney Dreams Portraits\" featuring celebrities dressed up as various Disney characters and photographed Annie Leibovitz; Julianne Moore was photographed as Ariel for this campaign. \"Hipster Ariel\" has", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "7585217", "text": "though her trust in the sea witch puts everyone she loves in danger\". Daphne Lee of \"The Star\" called Ariel \"annoying\" and went on to state that Ariel \"is a silly girl who gives up her voice and her family for a man she knows next to nothing about\". Despite her mixed critical reception, Ariel remains popular with audiences and is considered one of Disney's most iconic animated characters, with her specific color combination of red hair, lavender seashells and green tail making her distinctly identifiable. A poll in the Internet Movie Database showed Ariel to be the second most", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "9175655", "text": "by Tatiana Noginova and lighting by Natasha Katz. The original cast featured newcomer Sierra Boggess in the title role of Ariel, Sean Palmer as Prince Eric, Brian D'Addario and Trevor Braun alternated as Flounder, Norm Lewis as King Triton, Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula, Tituss Burgess as Sebastian, Tyler Maynard as Flotsam, Derrick Baskin as Jetsam, Jonathan Freeman as Grimsby, and John Treacy Egan as Chef Louis. Notable replacements included Faith Prince as Ursula and Drew Seeley as Prince Eric. The production closed on August 30, 2009, after 50 previews and 685 performances. Thomas Schumacher, producer and president of Disney", "title": "The Little Mermaid (musical)" }, { "id": "20050917", "text": "The Little Mermaid (2018 film) The Little Mermaid is a 2018 American live-action fantasy-adventure film inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name. It is directed and written by Blake Harris, co-directed by Chris Bouchard, and produced by Armando Gutierrez and Robert Molloy. The film was released on August 17, 2018, by Netflix and AMC Theatres. The film has grossed over $2.316 million USD on a budget of $5 million. The story begins with an old grandmother telling her two granddaughters the story of \"The Little Mermaid\". Despite their young ages, the girls don't believe in the", "title": "The Little Mermaid (2018 film)" }, { "id": "20050925", "text": "in Savannah, Georgia, in 2016. A trailer for the film debuted in March 2017 and generated over 30 million views in two weeks time. In May 2017, it was reported that the film had been picked up for distribution by Netflix. On December 1, 2018, the film was released on Netflix. The Little Mermaid (2018 film) The Little Mermaid is a 2018 American live-action fantasy-adventure film inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name. It is directed and written by Blake Harris, co-directed by Chris Bouchard, and produced by Armando Gutierrez and Robert Molloy. The film was", "title": "The Little Mermaid (2018 film)" }, { "id": "7585181", "text": "an eye on her. In the television series and first film, Ariel has a fascination with the human world and often goes off to find human artifacts that she displays in a secret grotto. Ariel is often rebellious, wandering off on her own to explore her surroundings, and frequently disobeys the orders of her father or Sebastian, causing conflict between the characters. In \"The Little Mermaid,\" she is depicted as being willing to do anything to be with Prince Eric, even giving up her voice to become human. Clements described her as a typical teenager, prone to errors of judgment.", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "7585190", "text": "Andersen, author of \"The Little Mermaid\", while he was traveling underwater in a primitive submarine. In the fictionalized encounter she saves Andersen's life, inspiring him to write the story. Some episodes of the series are musical and feature original songs performed by the characters. A soundtrack containing some of these songs was released in 1992 under the title \"Splash Hits\". In \"\" (2000), Ariel, now the new queen of Prince Eric's kingdom has given birth to a daughter named Melody. When Melody's safety is threatened by Ursula's sister Morgana after using her as a hostage to get King Triton's Trident,", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "8620930", "text": "observed that the song adheres to the comedic tone of the rest of the film's soundtrack in his book \"100 Greatest American and British Animated Films\". Combined, Egan and the Muses' vocals span two octaves, from G to C. Egan's vocal performance is more restrained than those of the actresses who voice Ariel from \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989) and Belle from \"Beauty and the Beast\" (1991). Chelsea Fagan of \"Thought Catalog\" described Egan's voice as \"sarcastic\" and \"smoky\", while \"Billboard\"'s Taylor Weatherby called it \"soulfully belt[ed]\". Allison Shoemaker of \"Consequence of Sound\" likened the Muses to a Greek chorus. Although", "title": "I Won't Say (I'm in Love)" }, { "id": "7585215", "text": "fans, and younger girls just learning about her, as well as generations not born yet who will undoubtedly become attached to her, ensuring the continued existence of the franchise\". In their review of \"The Little Mermaid\", the staff of \"TV Guide\" wrote that Ariel resembled \"a big-haired, denatured Barbie doll, despite her hourglass figure and skimpy seashell brassiere\". Tamara Weston of \"Time\" wrote that while Ariel is less passive and more strong-willed than her predecessors, she still \"gives up her voice to be with a man\" who comes to her rescue at the film's climax. Hal Hinson of \"The Washington", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "8346318", "text": "Ariel the Little Mermaid Disney's Ariel the Little Mermaid, usually shorted to simply Ariel the Little Mermaid, is a 1992 video game developed by Blue Sky Software for the Sega Genesis, Game Gear and Master System, based on the 1989 film \"The Little Mermaid.\" A Master System version was released exclusively in Brazil by Tec Toy. Despite being based on the 1989 movie, the game's story bears little resemblance to that of the movie. The player guides one of Ariel or King Triton through underwater levels similarly to the game \"Ecco the Dolphin\", and can move in any direction. Despite", "title": "Ariel the Little Mermaid" }, { "id": "2099883", "text": "She starred in the Kennedy Center Honors for Ginger Rogers, and in \"Disney's Premiere in Central Park with Pocahontas\", \"The Walt Disney World 25th Anniversary Spectacular\" and \"Disney's 100 Years of Magic\". Benson is the resident guest soloist for the Walt Disney Company/Disney Cruise Line and ambassador for feature animation. On June 6, 2016, Benson performed the role of Ariel at the Hollywood Bowl's concert performance of \"The Little Mermaid\". In late 1986, Benson first heard of the audition for \"The Little Mermaid\" through lyricist and playwright Howard Ashman. The two had just worked together in the Broadway show \"Smile\"", "title": "Jodi Benson" }, { "id": "7585201", "text": "Dance\" and \"Happy Birthday, Princess\" from \"Disney Princess Tea Party\" (2005); \"Christmas Is Coming!\", \"Christmas in the Ocean\", \"Ariel's Christmas Island\" and \"The Twelve Days of Christmas\" from \"Disney Princess Christmas Album\" (2009); and \"Ariel's Sing-Along Sea Song: the Crab Song\" from \"Disney Princess Party\" (2010). Ariel also appears in the franchise video games \"\" (2007), \"\" (2007) and \"\" (2012). Ariel appears in the Broadway adaptation of the 1989 film, which ran at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre with previews from November 3, 2007, leading to opening night on January 10, 2008. This original production closed on August 30, 2009, but", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "10562331", "text": "Amy Polumbo Amy Polumbo (born November 20, 1984) was crowned Miss New Jersey 2007. She is from Howell Township, New Jersey, where she graduated from Howell High School in 2003. She graduated from Wagner College, where she studied musical theatre and psychology. She left college for some time to star as Ariel in The Voyage of The Little Mermaid in Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World. She received her master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology from The School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Memphis. Polumbo is working on a narrative about her Miss New Jersey experiences. She", "title": "Amy Polumbo" }, { "id": "12308218", "text": "Claire Guyot Claire Guyot (Born 28 June 1966) is a French actress and singer, known for her prolific dubbing of foreign productions. She is also artistic director of dubbing. Most notably for the famous American actresses Teri Hatcher, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Winona Ryder and Jodi Benson. Guyot has recently started to appear in theater productions. In 2010 she portrayed Donna in the musical Mamma Mia! at the Théâtre Mogador. She dubbed Ariel in the French version of Disney's 28th animated feature, \"The Little Mermaid\", first as both her speaking and singing voices in the original dub, then only her speaking", "title": "Claire Guyot" }, { "id": "7426426", "text": "return the focus of the story to Belle. Disney had originally considered casting actress Jodi Benson, who famously voiced Ariel in \"The Little Mermaid\", as Belle, but ultimately felt that she sounded \"too American\" and young, opting for a \"more classical ... womanly\" voice instead. Describing the character as \"a woman that was ahead of her time,\" the filmmakers wanted Belle to sound \"more like a woman than a girl.\" However, Benson voiced Belle in a few episodes of Disney's \"House of Mouse\". Director Kirk Wise was particularly interested in casting an actress capable of \"creat[ing] a character completely with", "title": "Belle (Beauty and the Beast)" }, { "id": "3517263", "text": "as the \"New \"Golden Age\" of Disney Animation. Keane designed and animated the character of Ariel in the film \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989), then the eagle Marahute in \"The Rescuers Down Under\". Subsequently, Keane worked as the supervising animator on the title characters for three Disney hit features: \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"Aladdin\" and \"Pocahontas\". While living with his family in Paris, France for three years, Keane completed work on Disney's 1999 \"Tarzan\" for which he drew the eponymous character. Keane then returned to Disney's Burbank studio as the lead animator for John Silver in \"Treasure Planet\". In 2003, Keane", "title": "Glen Keane" }, { "id": "7239566", "text": "characters fight over. She is an object, really, and that is not feminist at all,\". Disney, on their Disney princesses website, claims Aurora to inspire young girls to \"always wonder.\" Ariel is the fourth Disney Princess, as well as the title character in Disney's 28th animated feature film \"The Little Mermaid\", released in 1989. She is the youngest of King Triton's seven daughters. Ariel is a mermaid princess in the undersea kingdom Atlantica (according to later media in the franchise). Fascinated by the human world and tired of life under the sea, Ariel makes a deal with Ursula, an evil", "title": "Disney Princess" }, { "id": "11467001", "text": "and appoints Sebastian as Atlantica's first official court composer, much to everyone's delight. Everyone, including Ariel and her sisters and their friends Flounder and Sebastian, rejoices except Marina who is sent to jail. Production The film's working title was \"The Little Mermaid III\", and it was originally scheduled for a mid-2007 release. When John Lasseter took over Disney Animation, more resources were spent on completing \"\", and attention only returned to this film in July 2006 after the wrap up of \"Cinderella III\" A teaser trailer and musical preview of the film (an alternate version of \"Jump in the Line\")", "title": "The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning" }, { "id": "7585178", "text": "based on a number of inspirational sources, including Glen Kleane's wife, actress Alyssa Milano (who was 16 at the time in addition to hosting the making of the special on Disney Channel,) and model-comedian Sherri Stoner, who provided live-action references for the animators during the development of the film. The movement of Ariel's hair underwater was based on footage of astronaut Sally Ride while she was in space. Extra reference was given by filming Stoner swimming in a pool, which also helped guide Ariel's aquatic movement. A challenge in animating Ariel for the 1989 film was the color required to", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "7585198", "text": "released a four-issue \"The Little Mermaid Limited Series\" comic book series. In 1994 Marvel Comics released its own title, \"Disney's The Little Mermaid\", which ran for twelve issues. All these comics are prequels to the film, and feature Ariel a mermaid living under the sea having adventures with Flounder and Sebastian, and thwarting villains that wish to take over or destroy Atlantica. In 2000, Ariel became an official member of the newly launched Disney Princess line, an umbrella franchise that includes various Disney princesses under its banner. Ariel is one of the original 8 characters that were included at the", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "18980857", "text": "the series \"North Star\" on YES Disney Channel. Messinger provided voice acting for animated films dubbed into Hebrew. Starting in 1993, she performed the role of Princess Jasmine in Disney's \"Aladdin\" film series (\"Aladdin, The Return of Jafar, Aladdin and the King of Thieves\"). In 1997, she performed the same role in Disney's television series \"Aladdin\", and the role of Kayley from the movie \"Quest for Camelot\". In 1996, she performed the role of Andy's mother from the \"Toy Story\" films, and played Calimero's mother in the television series \"Calimero\", Ariel in \"The Little Mermaid\" (replacing Shlomit Aharon), Rosie from", "title": "Rama Messinger" }, { "id": "7585213", "text": "her destiny\". James Bernardelli of \"Reelviews\" wrote that Ariel can be viewed as a template for future Disney heroes and heroines. He also praised Jodi Benson's vocal performance for the character. In an article for \"Empire\", Levi Buchanan stated that Ariel is \"powerful and self-reliant\". Janet Maslin of \"The New York Times\" complimented Ariel, stating that \"teenagers will appreciate the story's rebellious heroine\" and went on to praise Ariel's wit. Josh Tyler of \"Cinema Blend\" wrote favorably about Ariel although he believed that the character was eroticized, stating, \"The scene where Ursula rips out her throat and gives her extremely", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "9957776", "text": "P. J. Sparkles P.J. Sparkles is a 1992 animated television special produced by Mike Young Productions. The special was more-or-less an advertising vehicle for a Mattel doll. Jodi Benson, best known for voicing Ariel in Disney's \"The Little Mermaid\" franchise, voiced the title character. The P.J. Sparkles doll came with an animated movie in which a young orphan girl named P.J., living in Mrs. O'Malley's Orphanage, rides out one night on the orphanage's withered old horse Blaze. Every friend P.J. makes are later adopted and she finds herself alone again from time to time. With the help of O'Malley, she", "title": "P. J. Sparkles" }, { "id": "7585193", "text": "the wall separating Eric's castle from the sea is torn down, and contact between humans and merfolk is restored. The prologue of \"\" (2008) shows Ariel as a young mermaid, living happily with her father, King Triton, her mother, Queen Athena, and her six older sisters. As Ariel and her family relax in a lagoon, a pirate ship approaches and everyone flees except Athena, who returns to recover a music box Triton had given her and is killed when the ship crushes her. Afterwards, a devastated King Triton bans all music from Atlantica and throws the music box deep into", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "2494879", "text": "\"\". The album sold 180,000 copies. In the summer same year, Sissel travelled to the US and performed in New York City on the TV program \"Artists for Our Common Future\", which was broadcast around the world. She performed \"Summertime\" and \"Somewhere\". On a Swedish TV-concert taped in Gothenburg she met the man whom she would later marry, Danish comedian and singer . They sang \"Vårvise\" by Sebastian. In 1990 Sissel recorded the singing parts of the character Princess Ariel for the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish versions of the 1989 Disney movie \"The Little Mermaid\", and was the speaking role", "title": "Sissel Kyrkjebø" }, { "id": "12308219", "text": "in the 1998 version. Claire Guyot Claire Guyot (Born 28 June 1966) is a French actress and singer, known for her prolific dubbing of foreign productions. She is also artistic director of dubbing. Most notably for the famous American actresses Teri Hatcher, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Winona Ryder and Jodi Benson. Guyot has recently started to appear in theater productions. In 2010 she portrayed Donna in the musical Mamma Mia! at the Théâtre Mogador. She dubbed Ariel in the French version of Disney's 28th animated feature, \"The Little Mermaid\", first as both her speaking and singing voices in the original dub,", "title": "Claire Guyot" }, { "id": "6764083", "text": "Sebastian's role is similar but modified from that in the film. He is not in the scene where Ariel saves Prince Eric, and his song \"Under the Sea\" is moved to after Triton destroys Ariel's treasures instead of before it. Sebastian also provides vocals for the new song \"If Only\". The role was originated by Tituss Burgess, and has also been performed by Alan Mingo Jr. and Rodgelio Douglas Jr. Sebastian is part of the song called \"A New Day is Dawning\" and made a brief appearance in \"Aladdin\": When the Genie, while trying to find the right \"recipe\" for", "title": "Sebastian (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "11466993", "text": "The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (also known as The Little Mermaid III) is a 2008 American animated direct-to-video fantasy film produced by DisneyToon Studios, and a prequel to Disney's 1989 animated film \"The Little Mermaid\". Directed by Peggy Holmes, the film's story is set before the events of the original film and acts as a pilot to the television series, \"The Little Mermaid: The Series\", when Ariel is still young, and where all music has been banned from the underwater kingdom of Atlantica by King Triton, and Ariel attempts to challenge this law. Jodi Benson", "title": "The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning" }, { "id": "16875695", "text": "a duet means Esmeralda gets no solos in the musical. In the 2014-5 La Jolla Playhouse/Paper Mill Playhouse English production, the song was reverted to a solo. American actress and singer Jodi Benson, best known for voicing Ariel in Disney's \"The Little Mermaid \"(1989), performed \"God Help the Outcasts\" during the Dis Unplugged Podcast Cruise 2.0 in 2010. In 1996, American singer and actress Debbie Gravitte recorded a medley of \"God Help the Outcasts\" and \"Someday,\" and included it on her Alan Menken-themed cover album, \"Part of Your World: The Alan Menken Album \"(1996). American theatre actress Kerry Butler \"made", "title": "God Help the Outcasts" }, { "id": "8349606", "text": "Be Mine,\" the album's lead single, with Rich Dworsky and The Berkshire Boys on humorist Garrison Keillor's National Public Radio show \"A Prairie Home Companion\". The album was released on November 6, 2015, through Epic Records. In June 2016, Bareilles performed the part of Ariel in a two-night live presentation of Disney's \"The Little Mermaid\" at the Hollywood Bowl. She performed the Joni Mitchell song \"Both Sides, Now\" during the \"In Memoriam\" homage at the 89th Academy Awards in February 2017. On March 31, 2017, Bareilles took to the Broadway stage in the role of Jenna Hunterson in \"Waitress\" for", "title": "Sara Bareilles" }, { "id": "5004755", "text": "was also a mentor in \"\", a reality-based singing talent show. Go made her debut in musical theatre that year as Ariel in \"The Little Mermaid\", for which she won a Best Actress award from Broadway World Philippine Awards. In 2012, produced a solo concert \"RAG Rise Against Gravity\" with special guests Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, Sarah Geronimo and Christian Bautista. It was held at the Music Museum. She also began auditioning for a role in the then-upcoming London West End revival of \"Miss Saigon\". She took the role Lara in the musical drama series Biritera of GMA 7. In 2013, Go", "title": "Rachelle Ann Go" }, { "id": "2039817", "text": "the era known as the Disney Renaissance. A stage adaptation of the film with a book by Doug Wright and additional songs by Alan Menken and new lyricist Glenn Slater opened in Denver in July 2007 and began performances on Broadway January 10, 2008 starring Sierra Boggess. In May 2016 Disney announced that a live-action film adaptation of The Little Mermaid is currently in development. Ariel, a sixteen-year-old mermaid princess, is dissatisfied with underwater life in the kingdom of Atlantica and is fascinated by the human world. While exploring a Sunken Ship with her best friend Flounder, they are chased", "title": "The Little Mermaid (1989 film)" }, { "id": "9903822", "text": "World\" has been covered extensively by several artists of various genres, including Faith Hill, Jessica Simpson, Miley Cyrus, Bruno Mars, Carly Rae Jepsen, Jessie J and Sara Bareilles. Actress Sierra Boggess debuted the song in the stage musical adaptation of the film, for which she originated the role of Ariel. Written in 1986, \"Part of Your World\" was the first song lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken wrote for \"The Little Mermaid\", although Menken had not yet been enlisted as Ashman's composer when the song was first conceived. Directly inspired by Broadway's most successful musicals, Ashman believed that \"The", "title": "Part of Your World" }, { "id": "13671830", "text": "Triton, and is even voiced by Pat Carroll. \"\" is set before the events of the original film, in which King Triton has banned music from Atlantica, and Ariel, her sisters, Sebastian and Flounder rebel against this new law while a greedy palace official, Marina Del Rey, seeks to claim Sebastian's position for herself. \"The Little Mermaid\" was originally planned as part of one of Walt Disney's earliest feature films, a proposed package film featuring vignettes of Hans Christian Andersen tales. Development started soon after \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\" in the late 1930s, but was put on hold", "title": "The Little Mermaid (franchise)" }, { "id": "7585184", "text": "band. Ariel first appears in \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989), in which she is shown as being adventurous and curious about the world of humans, a fascination which angers both her father King Triton and his court composer Sebastian, as merfolk are not allowed to make contact with the human world. She and Flounder go in search of human objects, which they take to a seagull named Scuttle for appraisal. Ariel falls in love with a human prince named Prince Eric after saving him from drowning, and visits the sea witch, Ursula, who agrees to turn her into a human in", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "7585185", "text": "exchange for her voice. Ariel must make Prince Eric fall in love with her and romantically kiss her within three days, lest she belong to Ursula forever. Unknown to Ariel, this agreement is part of Ursula's bigger plan to trap Ariel's father, King Triton and steal his magical trident. After being transformed, Ariel is naked, except for her breasts, and cannot breathe, nor swim. Sebastian and Flounder take her to the surface. She is soon found by Eric and is taken back to his castle. Ariel almost manages to obtain the \"kiss of true love\", but is stopped by Ursula's", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "7585183", "text": "mother. Ariel is protective of her daughter, as Triton was of Ariel in the first film. After Morgana threatens Ariel and King Triton, Prince Eric and Ariel build a wall around the palace to protect Melody from Morgana and other terrors of the ocean. Although it protected her, it could not protect her curiosity. \"Ariel's Beginning\" depicts her personality as it was in the original film after Jodi Benson had advocated returning the character to her roots. Ariel is once again rebellious, and after her father decrees music to be banned in Atlantica she runs away with Sebastian and his", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "11467002", "text": "were attached to the Platinum Edition DVD of \"The Little Mermaid\", which was released in October 2006. At the time, the working title \"The Little Mermaid III\" was still being used. The score to the film was composed by James Dooley, who recorded the score with a 72-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony, as well as a big band, at the Sony Scoring Stage. The film features new songs written by Jeanine Tesori, along with covers of previously recorded calypso songs that were arranged by Dooley. No soundtrack has been released yet for the film. The songs featured in", "title": "The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning" }, { "id": "5004745", "text": "and double platinum records. Go has also performed in various hit musicals in the Philippines, London's West End and on Broadway. Her debut was in \"The Little Mermaid\", playing the role of Ariel in 2011, for which she won a Best Actress award from Broadway World Philippine Awards; and another in 2013 for \"Tarzan\", playing the role of Jane Porter. Go's theater career continues as she was cast in the 2014 West End revival of the hit musical \"Miss Saigon\", for the role of Gigi Van Tranh. Following this, she was cast in the 30th anniversary staging of \"Les Miserables\"", "title": "Rachelle Ann Go" }, { "id": "6566304", "text": "palace. Clements and Musker had originally intended for Ursula to remain her original size at the end of the film. However, Katzenberg had just recently seen the film \"Die Hard\" (1988), which inspired him to request a \"bigger\" ending for \"The Little Mermaid\", and thus he instructed the writers to have Ursula grow much larger in size during her climactic fight with Ariel and Eric. Ursula is voiced by American actress and comedian Pat Carroll. Carroll was not the filmmakers' first choice for the role; Clements, Musker and Ashman had long debated who should voice the villainness, the casting of", "title": "Ursula (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "13671808", "text": "as good a villain as Ursula. Disney's The Little Mermaid is an animated television series featuring the adventures of Ariel as a mermaid prior to the events of the first film. This series is the first Disney television series to be spun off from a major animated film. \"The Little Mermaid\" premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called \"A Whale of a Tale\", then moved to Saturday mornings. This series originally appeared on CBS, with an original run from 1992 to 1994. It was later shown in reruns on The Disney Channel and Toon", "title": "The Little Mermaid (franchise)" }, { "id": "3114364", "text": "concept for the film at the same time that they pitched another Disney animated feature, \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989). \"Treasure Planet\" features the voices of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne, Emma Thompson, Laurie Metcalf, and Patrick McGoohan (in his final film role). The musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, while the songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik. Despite positive critical reception, the film bombed in the United States box office, costing $140 million to create while earning $38 million in the United States and Canada and just shy of", "title": "Treasure Planet" }, { "id": "9175658", "text": "the round. The Canadian premiere opened on August 13, 2014 and ran until August 29th, 2014 at Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg, MB. Colleen Furlan starred as Ariel along with Marc Devigne as Prince Eric and Jennifer Lyon as Ursula. The production was directed by Ann Hodges, choreographed by Linda Garneau and the music director was Elizabeth Baird. The costumes used were made for this original cast by Kansas City Costumes. Another Canadian production opened on November 19, 2014, at the Dunfield Theatre in Cambridge, Ontario, where it ran until December 21, 2014. A Hebrew production ran in Tel Aviv and other", "title": "The Little Mermaid (musical)" }, { "id": "8346320", "text": "older or more skilled players should stick to more challenging/overall better Disney games, recommending titles \"Aladdin\" and \"The Lion King\". Ariel the Little Mermaid Disney's Ariel the Little Mermaid, usually shorted to simply Ariel the Little Mermaid, is a 1992 video game developed by Blue Sky Software for the Sega Genesis, Game Gear and Master System, based on the 1989 film \"The Little Mermaid.\" A Master System version was released exclusively in Brazil by Tec Toy. Despite being based on the 1989 movie, the game's story bears little resemblance to that of the movie. The player guides one of Ariel", "title": "Ariel the Little Mermaid" }, { "id": "13671810", "text": "on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 3, 2007 and officially opened on January 10, 2008. The original cast featured Sierra Boggess as Ariel, Norm Lewis as King Triton, Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula, Eddie Korbich as Scuttle, Tituss Burgess as Sebastian, Sean Palmer as Prince Eric, Jonathan Freeman as Grimsby, Derrick Baskin as Jetsam, Tyler Maynard as Flotsam, Cody Hanford and J.J. Singleton as Flounder, and John Treacy Egan as Chef Louis. The show closed on Broadway August 30, 2009, after 685 performances and 50 previews. There are several video games based on the films, and the characters", "title": "The Little Mermaid (franchise)" }, { "id": "2439976", "text": "Little Mermaid\" soared in sales during 1990 and early 1991, Disney quietly dropped plans for \"The Little Mermaid's Island\" in favor of a more ambitious plan: an animated weekly series for the CBS network. The new show would concern the adventures of Ariel and her friends before the events in the movie. Jamie Mitchell, an artist and graphic designer who worked on \"Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears\", was named the producer and director of the new series. Patsy Cameron and Tedd Anasti were the story editors and wrote almost all of the episodes for the show's second and third", "title": "The Little Mermaid (TV series)" }, { "id": "12590133", "text": "from adapting fairy tales into animated films for several decades. Aurora herself received negative reviews from both film and feminist critics for her passivity and similarities to Snow White, and would remain Disney's last princess until \"The Little Mermaid\"'s Ariel debuted 30 years later in 1989. However, Costa's vocal performance was praised, which inspired her to pursue a full-time career as an opera singer to great success. Chronologically, Aurora is the third Disney Princess. Actress Elle Fanning portrays a live-action version of Aurora in the film \"Maleficent\" (2014), a retelling of \"Sleeping Beauty\" from the perspective of its villain. Filmmaker", "title": "Aurora (Disney)" }, { "id": "2439980", "text": "October 2, 1995, Disney Channel began rerunning the show seven days a week. The show was broadcast on Disney Channel until 2010.It was also shown on Toon Disney until 2007. The series then aired on Disney Junior from the channel's launch in 2012 until 2014. The series had a total of 31 episodes over three seasons. The first episode, \"Whale of a Tale\", has Ariel adopting Spot, a baby killer whale, when he is separated from his family. The episode \"The Evil Manta\" features a flashback to Ariel and Flounder's first meeting when they were younger, and the episode \"Red\"", "title": "The Little Mermaid (TV series)" }, { "id": "6566296", "text": "Ursula (The Little Mermaid) Ursula is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' 28th animated feature film \"The Little Mermaid\" (1989). Voiced by American actress Pat Carroll, Ursula is a villainous sea witch who tricks a mermaid princess named Ariel into trading her voice for a pair of human legs, at first appearing to be providing the character with an opportunity to become human by temporarily transforming her into one so that she may earn the love of Prince Eric within three days. However, Ursula is, in fact, determined to sabotage Ariel's chances at any expense so that", "title": "Ursula (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "2439981", "text": "has King Triton magically reverting into a merboy, which gives Ariel a glimpse of how her father used to be when he was younger, and that they aren't so different after all. In the episode \"Metal Fish\" Ariel saves a human, Hans Christian Andersen, who is loosely based on the real life author of the original \"The Little Mermaid\", and the encounter inspired the character to \"write\" the story of \"The Little Mermaid\". A voice-over at the end of the episode by Kenneth Mars, who voices King Triton, talks about the real Hans Christian Andersen, while the image on-screen is", "title": "The Little Mermaid (TV series)" }, { "id": "7585186", "text": "underhanded tactics. On the third day, Ursula transforms herself into a human, calling herself \"Vanessa\" and using Ariel's voice, and bewitches Eric to make him marry her. After learning from Scuttle that the woman is Ursula in disguise, Ariel disrupts the wedding and regains her voice but the sun sets as Ariel and Prince Eric are about to kiss, transforming Ariel back into a mermaid. After transforming herself back into her true witch form, Ursula takes Ariel back into the ocean, where she is met by King Triton and Sebastian. Triton trades himself for Ariel, enabling Ursula to steal his", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "11673427", "text": "Les Poissons \"Les Poissons\" (in French \"les poissons\" simply means \"fish\") is a song from the 1989 film \"The Little Mermaid\", which is sung in the film and in \"The Little Mermaid\" Broadway show by the character Chef Louis. Chef Louis is voiced by René Auberjonois in the film, and by John Treacy Egan in the Broadway show. The song was composed by Alan Menken with lyrics by Howard Ashman. Sebastian the crab (voiced by Samuel E. Wright) is trapped in a kitchen with Chef Louis who sings the song while preparing a seafood dinner for the newly human Ariel", "title": "Les Poissons" }, { "id": "11467003", "text": "the film are: The film was released on Region 1 DVD in the United States on August 26, 2008, and on Region 2 DVD in the United Kingdom and Europe on September 22, 2008. The DVD contains special features including deleted scenes, a production featurette hosted by the director, games and activities, and a featurette hosted by Sierra Boggess (who played Ariel on Broadway) about the Broadway musical. On December 16, 2008, the film was released in a \"The Little Mermaid Trilogy\" boxed set that includes \"The Little Mermaid\" (Platinum Edition) and \"\". On November 19, 2013, it was released", "title": "The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning" }, { "id": "8842810", "text": "Poor Unfortunate Souls \"Poor Unfortunate Souls\" is a song from the Walt Disney Pictures animated film \"The Little Mermaid\". Written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken and performed by Pat Carroll, \"Poor Unfortunate Souls\" is sung to Princess Ariel by Ursula the Sea Witch. In a style that combines Broadway theatre with Burlesque, Ursula uses the song to seduce Ariel into trading her voice for the chance to temporarily become human. Howard Ashman recorded a version of the song with himself in the role of Ursula, to send to Carroll to convince her to take the role, which it did.", "title": "Poor Unfortunate Souls" }, { "id": "7585214", "text": "naked parts below the waist is almost titillating, though I'm sure to little kids it seems entirely innocent\". Similarly, reviewer John Puccio said that \"Ariel is perhaps the sexiest-looking animated character the Disney artists have ever drawn\". In his review of \"Ariel's Beginning\", James Plath of DVD Town wrote, \"For little girls, Ariel is one of the most beloved of Disney princesses, and she holds a warm place in the hearts of parents as well\". Rory Aronsky of \"Film Threat\" praised Jodi Benson's vocal performance in \"Ariel's Beginning\", writing that \"Benson adds more to the appeal of Ariel for older", "title": "Ariel (The Little Mermaid)" }, { "id": "9175654", "text": "began previews on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on November 3, 2007 and was temporarily shut down on November 10, 2007 due to the 2007 Broadway stagehand strike. The strike ended on November 28, 2007, and the show resumed previews the next day. The official opening date was postponed from December 6, 2007 to January 10, 2008. Jodi Benson and Pat Carroll, who starred in the 1989 animated film as Ariel and Ursula, respectively, attended the opening night ceremony. Direction was by Francesca Zambello, making her Broadway debut, with choreography by Stephen Mear. Scenic design was by George Tsypin, costumes", "title": "The Little Mermaid (musical)" }, { "id": "8842817", "text": "Original Movie, \"Descendants 2\". Poor Unfortunate Souls \"Poor Unfortunate Souls\" is a song from the Walt Disney Pictures animated film \"The Little Mermaid\". Written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken and performed by Pat Carroll, \"Poor Unfortunate Souls\" is sung to Princess Ariel by Ursula the Sea Witch. In a style that combines Broadway theatre with Burlesque, Ursula uses the song to seduce Ariel into trading her voice for the chance to temporarily become human. Howard Ashman recorded a version of the song with himself in the role of Ursula, to send to Carroll to convince her to take the", "title": "Poor Unfortunate Souls" } ]

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[ { "id": "10709087", "text": "was released on November 3, 2017, directed by Taika Waititi. Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost wrote the screenplay, with Kevin Feige again producing. Hemsworth, Hiddleston, Hopkins, Elba, Asano, Zachary Levi, and Stevenson reprised their roles as Thor, Loki, Odin, Heimdall, Hogun, Fandral, and Volstagg, respectively, while Mark Ruffalo and Benedict Cumberbatch appeared as Bruce Banner / Hulk and Stephen Strange respectively, reprising their roles from previous MCU films. Cate Blanchett, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum and Karl Urban joined the cast as Hela, Valkyrie, Grandmaster, and Skurge, respectively. Thor (film) Thor is a 2011 American superhero film based", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "10709043", "text": "Thor (film) Thor is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the fourth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Kenneth Branagh, written by the writing team of Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz along with Don Payne, and stars Chris Hemsworth as the title character, alongside Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins. The film sees Thor banished to Earth from Asgard, stripped", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "15727091", "text": "\"Thor: The Dark World\" on its shortlist of potential nominees for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects but ultimately did not nominate it. \"Thor: Ragnarok\" was released on November 3, 2017, directed by Taika Waititi. Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost wrote the screenplay, with Kevin Feige again producing. Hemsworth, Hiddleston, Hopkins, Elba, Asano, Levi, and Stevenson reprise their roles as Thor, Loki, Odin, Heimdall, Hogun, Fandral, and Volstagg, respectively, while Mark Ruffalo and Benedict Cumberbatch appear as Bruce Banner / Hulk and Doctor Strange respectively, reprising their roles from previous MCU films. Cate Blanchett, Tessa Thompson,", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "17868153", "text": "Thor: Ragnarok Thor: Ragnarok is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011's \"Thor\" and 2013's \"\", and is the seventeenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Taika Waititi from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and the writing team of Craig Kyle and Christopher L. Yost, and stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor alongside Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, and Anthony Hopkins. In \"Thor:", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "15727040", "text": "Thor: The Dark World Thor: The Dark World is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011's \"Thor\" and the eighth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Alan Taylor, with a screenplay by Christopher Yost and the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, alongside Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi,", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "14338704", "text": "a founding member of the superhero team the Avengers, appearing in each volume of that series. The character has also appeared in associated Marvel merchandise including animated television series, movies, video games, clothing, toys and trading cards. The character was first portrayed in live action by Eric Allan Kramer in the 1988 television movie \"The Incredible Hulk Returns\". Chris Hemsworth portrays Thor Odinson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films \"Thor\", \"The Avengers\", \"\", \"\", \"Doctor Strange\", \"\", \"\" and will reprise his role in \"\" in 2019. Additionally, archival footage of Hemsworth as Thor was used in the episodes \"Pilot\"", "title": "Thor (Marvel Comics)" }, { "id": "15727092", "text": "Jeff Goldblum and Karl Urban join the cast as Hela, Valkyrie, Grandmaster, and Skurge, respectively. Thor: The Dark World Thor: The Dark World is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011's \"Thor\" and the eighth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Alan Taylor, with a screenplay by Christopher Yost and the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, alongside Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "10709062", "text": "he had joined the cast, though he did not specify his role. By late October Anthony Hopkins had been cast as Odin in the film. The following month, Marvel announced that they had cast the Warriors Three; Fandral was to be played by Stuart Townsend, Hogun was to be played by Tadanobu Asano and Volstagg was to be played by Ray Stevenson. Idris Elba was announced to have joined the cast, portraying Heimdall. Natalie Portman revealed that Kat Dennings would be involved in the project, portraying Darcy, a coworker of Portman's Jane Foster. In December 2009, Rene Russo was cast", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "10709063", "text": "as Frigga, Thor's stepmother and Odin's wife. Later that month, actors Joseph Gatt, Troy Brenna, and Joshua Cox had been cast in the film, though none of their roles were revealed. In January 2010, Adriana Barraza had joined the film's cast, in a supporting capacity. Only days before filming began, Stuart Townsend was replaced by Joshua Dallas as Fandral, citing \"creative differences\". When \"Spider-Man 4\"'s production stalled, Paramount and Marvel Entertainment pushed up the release of \"Thor\" by two weeks to the then vacated date of May 6, 2011. The Science & Entertainment Exchange introduced Marvel Entertainment, Kenneth Branagh, \"the", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "10709086", "text": "\"an example of the programmed triumph of commercial calculation over imagination\". Kenneth Turan of the \"Los Angeles Times\" had mixed feelings, describing the film as \"an aesthetic stand-off between predictable elements and unexpected ones\". Turan praised the performances of Hemsworth, Hopkins, and Elba, but found the special effects inconsistent and the Earth storyline derivative. A sequel, \"Thor: The Dark World\", directed by Alan Taylor, was released on November 8, 2013. Hemsworth and Hiddleston reprised their roles as Thor and Loki, respectively, along with others from the first film. Christopher Eccleston joined the cast as the Dark Elf Maletkith. \"Thor: Ragnarok\"", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "17868155", "text": "cast, including Blanchett as Hela, was confirmed in May 2016, with Pearson's involvement revealed at the start of filming that July. Principal photography took place in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, with the film also having exclusive use of Village Roadshow Studios in Oxenford, concluding in October 2016. \"Thor: Ragnarok\" premiered in Los Angeles on October 10, 2017, and was released in the United States on November 3, in 3D, IMAX, and IMAX 3D. The film received praise for its acting, direction, action sequences, soundtrack, and humor, with many critics considering it the best of the \"Thor\" trilogy. It grossed $854", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "4179447", "text": "male actors who are \"pushing – or being pushed\" onto the Hollywood \"A-List\". Sony Pictures announced in 2011 that Hemsworth would star in the thriller \"Shadow Runner\", which did not subsequently go into production . Perhaps most famously known for his role as the Marvel Comics superhero Thor in the 2011 Marvel Studios film \"Thor\". He and castmate Tom Hiddleston, who ultimately played Loki, had each auditioned for the role, for which Hemsworth said he put on 20 pounds of muscle. Hemsworth reprised the role in the 2012 film \"The Avengers\" as one of the six superheroes sent to defend", "title": "Chris Hemsworth" }, { "id": "2107801", "text": "which they based on the god of the same name. This version of Thor is portrayed as a long-haired blonde instead of red-haired. In 2014, Marvel Comics character Jane Foster was made the new Thor, a title in the industry; both characters have been portrayed in Marvel Studios films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Australian actor Chris Hemsworth and American-Israeli actress Natalie Portman respectively, beginning with \"Thor\" in 2011. First described in 2013, Thor's hero shrew (\"Scutisorex thori\") is a species of shrew native to the Democratic Republic of Congo. It and its sister species, the hero shrew (\"Scutisorex", "title": "Thor" }, { "id": "10709060", "text": "Avengers\". Also in February, a casting call went out looking for actors with certain physical attributes to audition for the role of Thor. In May 2009, Chris Hemsworth was in negotiations to portray the title role after a back-and-forth process in which the 25-year-old actor was refused early on, then given a second chance to read for the part. Hemsworth's brother, Liam also auditioned for the role, but was passed on by Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige. The next day, Marvel announced that Tom Hiddleston, who had worked with Branagh before and had initially been considered to portray the lead", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "10709052", "text": "the \"Iron Man\" films. Adriana Barraza plays diner owner Isabella Alvarez and Maximiliano Hernández plays S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jasper Sitwell. Joseph Gatt, Joshua Cox, and Douglas Tait portray Frost Giants. Stan Lee and J. Michael Straczynski have cameo appearances as pick-up truck drivers, Walter Simonson has a cameo appearance as one of the guests at a large Asgardian banquet, and Samuel L. Jackson and Jeremy Renner have uncredited cameos as Nick Fury and Clint Barton, respectively. Sam Raimi originally envisioned the idea for \"Thor\" after making \"Darkman\" (1990); he met Stan Lee and pitched the concept to 20th Century Fox, but", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "4179451", "text": "day to lose weight. In 2016, Hemsworth reprised the role of Eric the Huntsman in \"\" and also portrayed Kevin the receptionist in \"Ghostbusters\". Hemsworth reprised his role as Thor in \"\", released on November 3, 2017 in the U.S., and again in both the third \"Avengers\" film, \"\" (2018), and \"\", scheduled for release in 2019. He was originally going to reprise his role as George Kirk in the fourth film of the rebooted \"Star Trek\" film series, but he left the project in August 2018 after contract negotiations fell through. Hemsworth was the star of the Australian Football", "title": "Chris Hemsworth" }, { "id": "447229", "text": "Viking adventurer Thorgils Leifsson, who travels around the world. In 1962, American comic book writer Stan Lee and his brother Larry Lieber, together with Jack Kirby, created the Marvel Comics superhero Thor, which they based on the Norse god of the same name. The character is featured in the 2011 Marvel Studios film \"Thor\" and its sequels \"\" and \"\". The character also appears in the 2012 film \"The Avengers\" and its associated animated series. Since the 1960s, there has been rising enthusiasm for historical reenactment. While the earliest groups had little claim for historical accuracy, the seriousness and accuracy", "title": "Vikings" }, { "id": "10709045", "text": "release. However, after Vaughn was released from his holding deal in 2008, Branagh was approached and the film's release was rescheduled to 2011. The main characters were cast in 2009, and principal photography took place in California and New Mexico from January to May 2010. The film was converted to 3D in post-production. \"Thor\" premiered on April 17, 2011, in Sydney, Australia and was released on May 6, 2011, in the United States. The film was a financial success and many in the cast received praise, including Hemsworth, although the Earth-based elements of the film received some criticism. A sequel,", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "17868176", "text": "play based on the events of \"The Dark World\", portrayed by Charlotte Nicdao. In April, Tessa Thompson was cast as Valkyrie, with Natalie Portman not returning from the previous films as love interest Jane Foster. Marvel never asked the screenwriters to include the Earth-based characters from the previous films, and Feige said that Foster and Thor have broken up between films. In May, Marvel confirmed Blanchett and Thompson for the film, announced the casting of Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster and Karl Urban as Skurge, and revealed that Idris Elba and Anthony Hopkins would reprise their respective roles of Heimdall and", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "17868231", "text": "to play Thor, despite his contract with Marvel Studios scheduled to end after \"Avengers: Endgame\", saying the next month \"if there's another great script that comes along\" he would consider playing the character again. He and Waititi had discussed what they would want in a potential fourth \"Thor\" film by then. Thor: Ragnarok Thor: Ragnarok is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011's \"Thor\" and 2013's \"\", and is the seventeenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "10709058", "text": "They later moved the release date to May 20, 2011, to distance the film's release from that of \"\", another Marvel Studios film that was scheduled to be released on July 22, 2011. In October 2008, Daniel Craig was offered the role, but ultimately turned it down, citing his commitments to the \"James Bond\" franchise. In February 2009, Samuel L. Jackson, who had briefly portrayed Nick Fury at the end of the film \"Iron Man\", signed on to reprise the role in \"Thor\" as part of an unprecedented nine-picture deal with Marvel Studios. However, in an April 2010 interview, Jackson", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "10709061", "text": "role, had been cast as Loki. In June 2009, Feige confirmed that both Hemsworth and Hiddleston had signed on. Feige mentioned that the film would take place on both modern day Earth and Asgard but Thor's human host, Dr. Donald Blake, would not be included. In July 2009, Marvel announced that Natalie Portman would portray Jane Foster. Jaimie Alexander and Colm Feore were reported to have joined the cast in September, with Alexander portraying Sif and Feore's role unrevealed, though it was thought to be a villain. In an interview with Swedish news site \"Ystads Allehanda\", Stellan Skarsgård stated that", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "18673374", "text": "Ned, Isabella Amara as Sally, Tiffany Espensen as Cindy, and Ethan Dizon as Tiny; and Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther from \"Black Panther\", with Danai Gurira as Okoye, Letitia Wright as Shuri, Winston Duke as M'Baku, and Florence Kasumba as Ayo. Sebastian Stan also appears as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier from the \"Captain America\" films, along with Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Idris Elba as Heimdall from the \"Thor\" and \"Avengers\" films; \"Iron Man\" supporting actress Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts; Benicio del Toro as Taneleer Tivan / The Collector from \"Guardians of the Galaxy\"; William Hurt", "title": "Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame" }, { "id": "17868166", "text": "of October 2014, Feige announced that the film would be titled \"Thor: Ragnarok\", with a scheduled release date of July 28, 2017. Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston were set to return as Thor and Loki, respectively. Hemsworth earned $15 million for the film. Feige added that the film would be \"very important\" in Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and also confirmed that, in the context of the film, the word Ragnarok means \"the end of all things\". He felt that \"people will [not] read into that title alone what the movie's going to be.\" In February 2015, Marvel", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "7200738", "text": "Jeremy Renner Jeremy Lee Renner (born January 7, 1971) is an American actor. He appeared largely in independent films, such as \"Dahmer\" (2002) and \"Neo Ned\" (2005). Renner appeared in supporting roles in bigger films, such as \"S.W.A.T.\" (2003) and \"28 Weeks Later\" (2007). Renner was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in \"The Hurt Locker\" (2008) and for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his much-praised performance in \"The Town\" (2010). Renner played Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films \"Thor\" (2011), \"The\" \"Avengers\" (2012), \"\" (2015) and \"\" (2016). He also", "title": "Jeremy Renner" }, { "id": "17868154", "text": "Ragnarok\", Thor must escape the alien planet Sakaar in time to save Asgard from Hela and the impending Ragnarök. A third \"Thor\" film was confirmed in January 2014, with Kyle and Yost beginning work on the screenplay. The involvement of Hemsworth and Hiddleston was announced that October. Waititi joined the film as director a year later, after \"Thor: The Dark World\" director Alan Taylor chose not to return. Ruffalo joined the cast reprising the role of Hulk from previous MCU films, which allowed elements of the 2006 comic storyline \"Planet Hulk\" to be adapted for \"Ragnarok\". The rest of the", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "6744677", "text": "Hogun Hogun the Grim is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a charter member of the Warriors Three, a trio of Asgardian adventurers and supporting cast of \"Thor\" in the Marvel Universe. The character is portrayed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Tadanobu Asano in the film \"Thor\" and reprises his role in the sequels \"\" and \"\". Hogun first appeared in \"Journey into Mystery\" #119 (August, 1965), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Writer Stan Lee envisioned him as sharing several traits with characters played by actor Charles", "title": "Hogun" }, { "id": "15727061", "text": "said that while Loki has a part, \"there will be a different villain, another big villain\". In May 2012, Mads Mikkelsen began talks to play one of the villains in the film and Anthony Hopkins, who played Odin in the first film, committed to returning in the sequel. At the end of the month, Disney moved up the release date for the film a week ahead of the previous date to November 8, 2013. By June 2012, much of the first film's supporting cast was confirmed to return, including Idris Elba, Jaimie Alexander, Ray Stevenson and Stellan Skarsgård. Also in", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "4179441", "text": "Chris Hemsworth Christopher Hemsworth (born 11 August 1983) is an Australian actor. He rose to prominence playing Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series \"Home and Away\" (2004–07). Hemsworth has also appeared in the science fiction action film \"Star Trek\" (2009), the thriller adventure \"A Perfect Getaway\" (2009), the horror comedy \"The Cabin in the Woods\" (2012), the dark-fantasy action film \"Snow White and the Huntsman\" (2012), the war film \"Red Dawn\" (2012), and the biographical sports drama film \"Rush\" (2013). In the Marvel Cinematic Universe he portrays the role of Thor, beginning in \"Thor\" (2011), and also appearing in", "title": "Chris Hemsworth" }, { "id": "10709044", "text": "of his powers and his hammer Mjölnir, after reigniting a dormant war. As his brother Loki plots to take the Asgardian throne, Thor must prove himself worthy. Sam Raimi first developed the concept of a film adaptation of \"Thor\" in 1991, but soon abandoned the project, leaving it in \"development hell\" for several years. During this time, the rights were picked up by various film studios until Marvel signed Mark Protosevich to develop the project in 2006, and planned to finance it and release it through Paramount. Matthew Vaughn was originally assigned to direct the film for a tentative 2010", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "13182206", "text": "The Avengers (2012 film) Marvel's The Avengers (classified under the name Marvel Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom and Ireland), or simply The Avengers, is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sixth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, and Jeremy Renner as the titular Avengers team, alongside", "title": "The Avengers (2012 film)" }, { "id": "17868165", "text": "actor; and Matt Damon plays the Loki actor. While promoting the release of \"Thor: The Dark World\" in October 2013, Chris Hemsworth expressed willingness to portraying Thor for as long as \"people wanted more\", adding that he was contracted for another \"Thor\" film and two more \"Avengers\" films. Producer Kevin Feige stated that the next \"Thor\" would build from elements at the end of \"The Dark World\". In January 2014, Marvel announced that Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost would write the screenplay for a third film, with Feige again producing; the story was being outlined that July. At the end", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "16486078", "text": "Erik Selvig Erik Selvig is a character portrayed by Stellan Skarsgård in the films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). An astrophysicist who becomes involved with the Asgardian Thor and the government organization S.H.I.E.L.D., he first appeared in the 2011 film \"Thor\". Skarsgård went on to reprise the role in \"The Avengers\" (2012), \"\" (2013), and \"\" (2015). To tie into these appearances, the character is seen in several MCU tie-in comics. The character also appears in other media, including non-MCU comics published by Marvel Comics. In \"Thor\", astrophysicist Erik Selvig works with Jane Foster, the daughter of a former", "title": "Erik Selvig" }, { "id": "17868215", "text": "Angeles on October 10, 2017, and its Australian premiere took place on October 13, on the Gold Coast. It was released in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2017, with additional international releases on October 25, and in Australia on October 26. The film was released in the United States and Canada on November 3, in 4,080 theaters, of which over 3,400 were 3D, 381 were IMAX and IMAX 3D, and 204 were D-Box. The film opened in 1,187 IMAX theaters globally, which was a November opening weekend record. It was originally scheduled for release on July 28, 2017. \"Thor:", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "16659559", "text": "Avengers: Age of Ultron Avengers: Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2012's \"The Avengers\" and the eleventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård,", "title": "Avengers: Age of Ultron" }, { "id": "15727041", "text": "Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander, and Rene Russo. In \"Thor: The Dark World\", Thor teams up with Loki to save the Nine Realms from the Dark Elves led by the vengeful Malekith, who intends to plunge the universe into darkness. Development of \"Thor: The Dark World\" began in April 2011, when producer Kevin Feige announced plans for a sequel to follow the crossover film \"The Avengers\". In July 2011, Kenneth Branagh, the director of \"Thor\", withdrew from the project. Brian Kirk and Patty Jenkins were considered to direct the film before Taylor was hired in January 2012. The supporting cast filled", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "17868163", "text": "Levi reprise their roles as Hogun, Volstagg, and Fandral, respectively, members of the Warriors Three. Feige called their appearances \"noble ends\" that served to establish the threat of Hela and the danger she poses to the main characters. Benedict Cumberbatch reprises his role as Dr. Stephen Strange from the film \"Doctor Strange\" (2016). Rachel House, who has appeared in several of Waititi's films, plays Topaz, the Grandmaster's bodyguard, while Waititi portrays Korg, a gladiator who befriends Thor. Waititi provided a motion-capture performance for the character, who is made of rocks, and wanted to do something different by having the character", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "11380819", "text": "Tom Hiddleston Thomas William Hiddleston (born 9 February 1981) is an English actor, film producer and musician. At the beginning of his career, he appeared in West End theatre productions of \"Cymbeline\" (2007) and \"Ivanov\" (2008). He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play for his role in \"Cymbeline\" and was also nominated for the same award for his role as Cassio in \"Othello\". He came to wider public attention when cast as Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in \"Thor\" (2011), \"The Avengers\" (2012), \"\" (2013), \"\" (2017) and \"\" (2018). In 2011, he", "title": "Tom Hiddleston" }, { "id": "15727042", "text": "out in August 2012, with the hiring of Eccleston, Dennings, and Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Principal photography began in September 2012 in Surrey, England with filming continuing in Iceland and London, before wrapping up in December 2012. \"Thor: The Dark World\" was converted to 3D in post-production. \"Thor: The Dark World\" premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on October 22, 2013, and was released on November 8, 2013, in the United States. Many critics praised it for its visual effects and performances (particularly Hemsworth and Hiddleston), but criticized its story, villain, and pacing; many critics declare it the weakest of the", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "18366415", "text": "Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2012's \"The Avengers\" and 2015's \"\", and the nineteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony", "title": "Avengers: Infinity War" }, { "id": "17868206", "text": "were shown, and a \"mockumentary\" short titled \"Team Thor\" was screened. Directed by Waititi, it showed what Thor and Banner were doing during the events of \"Civil War\", with Daley Pearson appearing as Thor's Australian flatmate Darryl Jacobson. The short released online in August 2016, and with the digital download of \"Captain America: Civil War\" the following month. \"\" was released on the home media of \"Doctor Strange\" in February 2017, with Pearson reprising his role. Footage and concept art for the film were shown at CinemaCon 2017. On April 10, 2017, the first teaser trailer was released. Sandy Schaefer", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "26432", "text": "don't know.\" On 21 September 2011, Peter R. de Vries named Hopkins in the role of the Heineken owner Freddy Heineken in a future film about his kidnapping. Hopkins portrayed Odin, the Allfather or \"king\" of Asgard, in the 2011 film adaptation of Marvel Comics' \"Thor\". Hopkins portrayed Alfred Hitchcock in Sacha Gervasi's biopic \"Hitchcock\", following his career while making \"Psycho\". The film was released on 23 November 2012. In 2013, he reprised his role as Odin in \"\" and again in 2017's \"\". In 2014, he portrayed Methuselah in Darren Aronofsky's \"Noah\". Since October 2016, Hopkins has been starring", "title": "Anthony Hopkins" }, { "id": "16486080", "text": "have recovered. After the defeat of Ultron, Selvig begins working for the Avengers. Selvig appears in the MCU tie-in comics \"The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week\" and \"Thor: The Dark World Prelude\" in the same capacity as he does in the films. In October 2009, Stellan Skarsgård joined the cast of \"Thor\", which was written by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, and Don Payne; Skarsgård signed a five-film deal with Marvel. His character Erik Selvig appears in the post-credits scene at the end of \"Thor\", which was directed by \"The Avengers\" director Joss Whedon. This set up Selvig's role in", "title": "Erik Selvig" }, { "id": "15904719", "text": "Marvel announced that \"The Consultant\" would appear exclusively on the \"Thor\" Blu-ray release on September 13, 2011. It was directed by Leythum and written by Eric Pearson, with music by Paul Oakenfold. The short was filmed over 2–3 days. Clark Gregg and Maximiliano Hernández return to portray Agent Phil Coulson and Agent Jasper Sitwell, respectively, from the films. They are joined via archive footage by Robert Downey, Jr. as Tony Stark / The Consultant, William Hurt as General Thaddeus \"Thunderbolt\" Ross and Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky in his Abomination form. Co-producer Brian Winderbaum said the producers \"wanted to paint", "title": "Marvel One-Shots" }, { "id": "3771836", "text": "Odin (comics) Odin is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is first mentioned in \"Journey into Mystery\" #85 (Oct. 1962), then first appears in \"Journey into Mystery\" #86 (Nov. 1962), and was adapted from the Odin of Norse mythology by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. He is the father of Thor and former king of Asgard. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayed Odin in the 2011 superhero feature film, \"Thor\", and reprised his role in the 2013 and 2017 sequels, \"\", and \"\", respectively. Although Odin was first mentioned in \"Journey into Mystery\" #85", "title": "Odin (comics)" }, { "id": "10709046", "text": "\"\", was released on November 8, 2013, while a third film, \"\", was released on November 3, 2017. In 965 AD, Odin, king of Asgard, wages war against the Frost Giants of Jotunheim and their leader Laufey, to prevent them from conquering the nine realms, starting with Earth. The Asgardian warriors defeat the Frost Giants and seize the source of their power, the Casket of Ancient Winters. In the present, Odin's son Thor prepares to ascend to the throne of Asgard, but is interrupted when Frost Giants attempt to retrieve the Casket. Against Odin's order, Thor travels to Jotunheim to", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "11380830", "text": "film based on the 1982 novel by Michael Morpurgo, directed by Steven Spielberg. The same year he starred as Freddie Page, a RAF pilot in the drama \"The Deep Blue Sea\", alongside Rachel Weisz. In 2012, he reprised his role as the supervillain Loki in \"The Avengers\". While filming a scene with Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor, the film's director, Joss Whedon told the fighting duo that the scene did not look real enough, so Hiddleston told Hemsworth to really hit him for the fight scene. \"I said to Chris, 'Dude, just hit me. Just hit me because I'm protected", "title": "Tom Hiddleston" }, { "id": "3771858", "text": "Thor has \"become Valhalla\". Odin (comics) Odin is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is first mentioned in \"Journey into Mystery\" #85 (Oct. 1962), then first appears in \"Journey into Mystery\" #86 (Nov. 1962), and was adapted from the Odin of Norse mythology by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. He is the father of Thor and former king of Asgard. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayed Odin in the 2011 superhero feature film, \"Thor\", and reprised his role in the 2013 and 2017 sequels, \"\", and \"\", respectively. Although Odin was first mentioned in", "title": "Odin (comics)" }, { "id": "8050059", "text": "period, she adopts the name Thor, the Goddess of Thunder, and joins the Avengers. This storyline ends with the character sacrificing her life to defeat a dangerous adversary, and the reverting of the mantle Thor to its original bearer. Jane Foster has also appeared in various media adaptations of Thor, including the 2011 feature film \"Thor\" and the 2013 sequel \"\", in which she is portrayed by Natalie Portman. She is also referenced with photos or in dialogue in \"The Avengers\" (2012), \"\" (2015), \"\" (2017), and episodes of the television series \"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\". Jane Foster first appeared", "title": "Jane Foster (comics)" }, { "id": "13182290", "text": "McFeely, and was released on April 27, 2018. Much of the cast from the first two films return, with additional cast and characters joining from other MCU films, and Josh Brolin appearing as Thanos. \"Avengers: Endgame\", again directed by the Russo brothers from a script by Markus and McFeely, is scheduled for release on April 26, 2019. The Avengers (2012 film) Marvel's The Avengers (classified under the name Marvel Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom and Ireland), or simply The Avengers, is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name, produced by", "title": "The Avengers (2012 film)" }, { "id": "13182222", "text": "work and not blow the reality that we've created\". In March 2009, actress Scarlett Johansson replaced Emily Blunt in portraying Natasha Romanoff in \"Iron Man 2\", a deal that subsequently attached her to \"The Avengers\". The following day, Marvel announced that the film's release date had been pushed back to May 4, 2012, almost a full year later. Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston joined the film's cast in June, returning as Thor and Loki, respectively. In July 2009, Penn talked about the crossover process, stating, \"My job is to kind of shuttle between the different movies and make sure that", "title": "The Avengers (2012 film)" }, { "id": "15727062", "text": "June, Joshua Dallas announced that he would not be reprising the role of Fandral. Dallas had initially intended to return, but had to bow out due to his commitment on the television show, \"Once Upon a Time\", and Zachary Levi was cast in his place. Levi was originally up for the role in the first film but scheduling conflicts with \"Chuck\" forced him to drop out. In July 2012, Mikkelsen stated he would not be appearing in the sequel due to prior commitments, \"That's not happening unfortunately. I had a meeting with [the filmmakers], but it was a bit too", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "15727050", "text": "Studios' \"Guardians of the Galaxy\", appears in a mid-credits scene with Ophelia Lovibond, who plays his aide Carina. Jonathan Howard plays Ian Boothby, Darcy's intern. Tony Curran plays Bor, Odin's father, based on the deity of the same name. Clive Russell plays Tyr, based on the deity of the same name. Richard Brake portrays a captain in the Einherjar. Chris Evans makes an uncredited cameo appearance as Loki masquerading as Captain America, while Thor co-creator Stan Lee makes a cameo appearance as a patient in a mental ward. In April 2011 before the release of \"Thor\" (2011), Marvel Studios president", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "18366418", "text": "was released in the United States on April 27, 2018, in IMAX and 3D. The film received praise for the performances of the cast (particularly Brolin's) and the emotional weight of the story, as well as the visual effects and action sequences. It was the fourth film and the first superhero film to gross over $2 billion worldwide, breaking numerous and becoming the highest-grossing film of 2018, as well as the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time and in the United States and Canada. The sequel, \"Avengers: Endgame\", is set to be released on April 26, 2019. Having acquired the Power", "title": "Avengers: Infinity War" }, { "id": "13182207", "text": "Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Stellan Skarsgård, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, Nick Fury, director of the spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D., recruits Tony Stark, Captain America, the Hulk, and Thor to form a team that must stop Thor's brother Loki from subjugating Earth. The film's development began when Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch in April 2005. After the success of the film \"Iron Man\" in May 2008, Marvel announced that \"The Avengers\" would be released in July 2011. With the signing of Johansson in March 2009, the film was pushed back for a 2012 release.", "title": "The Avengers (2012 film)" }, { "id": "10709065", "text": "\"Production Weekly\" reported that filming on Marvel's \"Thor\" was scheduled to begin in Los Angeles mid-January, then move to Santa Fe, New Mexico from March until late-April. Principal photography began on January 11, 2010. A few days after filming began, Clark Gregg signed on to reprise his role from \"Iron Man\" and \"Iron Man 2\" as Agent Coulson. In February, Paramount Pictures entered negotiations with Del Mar, California to use a 300-yard stretch of beach to film a scene for \"Thor\" involving six horses running down the terrain. Paramount said this coastline was ideal because its gradual slope of sand", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "10709053", "text": "they did not understand it. \"Thor\" was abandoned until April 1997, when Marvel Studios was beginning to expand rapidly. The film gained momentum after the success of \"X-Men\" (2000). The plan was for \"Thor\" to be made for television. UPN was in talks for airing it; excited by the prospect, they pushed for a script and approached Tyler Mane to play Thor. In May 2000, Marvel Studios brought Artisan Entertainment to help finance it as a film, but by June 2004 the project still had yet to be patronised by a studio. Sony Pictures Entertainment finally purchased the film rights,", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "17797174", "text": "Tony Todd record voice over for Dormammu as an alternative to Cumberbatch, but ultimately decided on using Cumberbatch for the voice. Chris Hemsworth reprises his role of Thor from previous MCU films in the film's mid-credits scene. Additionally, Linda Louise Duan appears, unnamed, as Tina Minoru, Mark Anthony Brighton portrays Daniel Drumm, and Topo Wresniwiro portrays Hamir, all Masters of the Mystic Arts under the Ancient One. The latter is based on Hamir the Hermit, Wong's father in the comics, who was the Ancient One's personal manservant. The character is neither a manservant nor Wong's father in the film. Zara", "title": "Doctor Strange (2016 film)" }, { "id": "10709047", "text": "confront Laufey, accompanied by his brother Loki, childhood friend Sif and the Warriors Three: Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun. A battle ensues until Odin intervenes to save the Asgardians, destroying the fragile truce between the two races. For Thor's arrogance, Odin strips his son of his godly power and exiles him to Earth as a mortal, accompanied by his hammer Mjölnir, now protected by an enchantment that allows only the worthy to wield it. Thor lands in New Mexico, where astrophysicist Dr. Jane Foster, her assistant Darcy Lewis, and mentor Dr. Erik Selvig find him. The local populace finds Mjolnir, which", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "15727082", "text": "first aired on November 19, 2013. Jaimie Alexander reprised her role as Sif in the \"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\" episode \"Yes Men\", which aired on March 11, 2014.\" The world premiere of \"Thor: The Dark World\" took place on October 22, 2013, at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. The film was released theatrically in the UK eight days later, on October 30. The film held its North American premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, and was released into U.S. theaters on November 7, 2013. \"Thor: The Dark World\" was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment for digital", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "1746137", "text": "(1995), \"Get Shorty\" (1995), \"Tin Cup\" (1996), \"Ransom\" (1996), \"The Thomas Crown Affair\" (1999), and \"The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle\" (2000). After she starred in the family comedy \"Yours, Mine and Ours\" in 2005, she took a six-year break from acting. Russo appeared as Frigga, the mother of the titular hero in the superhero films \"Thor\" (2011) and \"\" (2013). In 2014, Russo co-starred in the crime thriller film \"Nightcrawler\", for which she received critical praise, won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She", "title": "Rene Russo" }, { "id": "5592495", "text": "Game\" as British cryptographer Alan Turing, also released in November 2014. The role earned him nominations for the Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG, and Academy Award for Best Actor. In May 2014, he joined the cast of the film \"Black Mass\" opposite Johnny Depp which was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Cumberbatch starred as Doctor Strange in both the eponymous film released in November 2016, and in \"\" in April 2018. He starred as electricity titan Thomas Edison in the film \"The Current War\" in September 2017. In 2018, Cumberbatch voiced the title character in the film \"The Grinch\", and provided", "title": "Benedict Cumberbatch" }, { "id": "17868164", "text": "be soft-spoken, ultimately basing Korg's voice on that of Polynesian bouncers. Waititi also provided the motion-capture performance for the fire demon Surtur, based on the mythological being Surtr, with Clancy Brown voicing the character. Thor and Hulk co-creator Stan Lee makes a cameo appearance as a man on Sakaar who cuts Thor's hair. There are also several cameos in a sequence where Asgardian actors perform a play based on the events of \"The Dark World\": Sam Neill, with whom Waititi previously worked on \"Hunt for the Wilderpeople\" (2016), plays the Odin actor; Luke Hemsworth, brother of Chris, plays the Thor", "title": "Thor: Ragnarok" }, { "id": "15727043", "text": "MCU films. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $644 million worldwide and making it the 10th highest-grossing film of 2013. A third film, \"\", was released on November 3, 2017. Eons ago, Bor, father of Odin, clashes with the Dark Elf Malekith, who seeks to unleash a weapon known as the Aether on the nine realms. After conquering Malekith's forces, including enhanced warriors called the Kursed, on their home world of Svartalfheim, Bor safeguards the Aether within a stone column. Unknown to Bor, Malekith as well as his lieutenant Algrim and a handful of Dark Elves escape into", "title": "Thor: The Dark World" }, { "id": "10433723", "text": "Jaimie Alexander Jaimie Lauren Alexander (born Jaimie Lauren Tarbush; March 12, 1984) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Jessi on the TV series \"Kyle XY\" and Sif in the 2011 superhero film \"Thor\", and its . Since 2015, she stars in the NBC series \"Blindspot\". Alexander was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and moved to Grapevine, Texas when she was four years old. She is the only girl in a family of five children. Alexander first got into acting in grade school, where she took theater for fun. Alexander stated that she was actually kicked out", "title": "Jaimie Alexander" }, { "id": "8210600", "text": "small role. When filming wrapped, Graeff decided to pen a science-fiction feature of his own and look for funding. Securing a modest budget from actor Gene Sterling, Graeff placed an ad in \"The Hollywood Reporter\" looking for more investors. The ad was answered by British actor Bryan Pearson, who put up $5000 in exchange for playing the villain, Thor, and casting his wife Ursula Pearson in a small role. Filmed entirely on location in Hollywood in the fall of 1956 and winter of 1957, the low-budget film went through several titles before it was released by Warner Brothers in June", "title": "Tom Graeff" }, { "id": "2832748", "text": "Again\". Skarsgård played Dr. Erik Selvig in Marvel's 2011 film \"Thor\", and then reprised the role in the 2013 sequel \"\", as well as 2012's \"The Avengers\" and 2015's \"\". Skarsgård reteamed with \"Thor\" director Kenneth Branagh for the 2015 film \"Cinderella\", in which he played The Grand Duke. Skarsgård has also appeared in music videos alongside fellow Swedes. He was in Eva Dahlgren's \"Vem Tänder stjärnorna\" (Who Lights the Stars) in 2009 and Lykke Li's 2011 music video, \"Sadness Is a Blessing\". He married My Skarsgård, a physician, in April 1975 and together they had six children: Alexander (b.", "title": "Stellan Skarsgård" }, { "id": "976917", "text": "also directed the thriller \"Sleuth\" (2007), a remake of the 1972 film. At a film promotion for \"Valkyrie\" in 2008, Branagh confirmed that he would be directing \"Thor\", a film based on the Marvel superhero. \"Thor\", Branagh's return to big-budget directing, was released on 6 May 2011. In 2011, Branagh portrayed Laurence Olivier in \"My Week with Marilyn\", which nabbed him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 84th Academy Awards. Branagh directed Disney's live-action version of \"Cinderella\" (2015). Branagh played a Royal Navy Commander in Christopher Nolan's 2017 action-thriller \"Dunkirk\", based on the British military evacuation of the French", "title": "Kenneth Branagh" }, { "id": "10709057", "text": "\"Thor\" to direct \"The Hobbit\". By September 2008 D. J. Caruso had been discussing taking on the project, though he did not read the script. Later that month, Kenneth Branagh entered into negotiations to direct, and by December 2008, Branagh confirmed that he had been hired. He described it as \"a human story right in the center of a big epic scenario.\" Branagh stated that he hoped to begin filming in January 2010 and Marvel Studios set back the release date of the film from its scheduled July 16, 2010 date to June 17, 2011, almost a full year later.", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "6123613", "text": "NBC. He also played Thor in the made-for-TV Syfy channel film \"Thor: Hammer of the Gods\". The film originally aired on November 29, 2009. Zachery Ty Bryan Zachery Ty Bryan (born October 9, 1981) is an American actor and producer best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the American sitcom \"Home Improvement\". Bryan was born in Aurora, Colorado, to Jenny and Dwight Bryan. He has a younger sister named Ciri. He attended La Salle High School, graduating with the class of 2000. In 2007, he married Carly Matros, whom he met while attending La Canada Junior High School.", "title": "Zachery Ty Bryan" }, { "id": "4360408", "text": "Idris Elba Idrissa Akuna Elba (; born 6 September 1972) is a British actor, producer, musician and DJ known for playing drug trafficker Stringer Bell on the HBO series \"The Wire\", DCI John Luther on the BBC One series \"Luther\" and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film \"\" (2013). He has been nominated four times for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, winning one and was nominated five times for a Primetime Emmy Award. Elba appeared in Ridley Scott's \"American Gangster\" (2007) and \"Prometheus\" (2012). Elba portrays Heimdall in \"Thor\" (2011) and its sequels", "title": "Idris Elba" }, { "id": "10709055", "text": "superhero origin story, but not one about a human gaining super powers, but of a god realizing his true potential. It's the story of an Old Testament god who becomes a New Testament god\". In August 2007 Marvel Studios signed Matthew Vaughn to direct the film. Vaughn then rewrote Protosevich's script in order to bring down the budget to $150 million, as Protosevich's first draft would have cost $300 million to produce. He intended to start filming in late 2008 and after the success of \"Iron Man\", Marvel Studios announced that they intended to release \"Thor\" on June 4, 2010,", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "2832743", "text": "Stellan Skarsgård Stellan John Skarsgård (; born 13 June 1951) is a Swedish actor. He is known for his roles as Jan Nyman in \"Breaking the Waves\" (1996), Captain Tupolev in \"The Hunt for Red October\" (1990), Prof. Gerald Lambeau in \"Good Will Hunting\" (1997), Bootstrap Bill Turner in \"\" (2006) and \"\" (2007), Bill Anderson in \"Mamma Mia!\" (2008) and the sequel \"Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again\" (2018), Commander Maximilian Richter in \"Angels and Demons\" (2009), Martin Vanger in \"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo\" (2011), Dr. Erik Selvig in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films \"Thor\" (2011), \"The", "title": "Stellan Skarsgård" }, { "id": "18673375", "text": "as Thaddeus Ross, who first appeared in \"The Incredible Hulk\"; and Kerry Condon as the voice of Iron Man's A.I. assistant F.R.I.D.A.Y. Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders make uncredited cameos in the post-credits scene as Nick Fury and Maria Hill, who they respectively portrayed in several previous films. Jon Favreau was to reprise his role as Harold \"Happy\" Hogan, while co-director Joe Russo had a cameo appearance as a paparazzi photographer, but this scene did not make the theatrical cut of the film. In early January 2017, Peter Dinklage was in negotiations to appear in the films, and was", "title": "Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame" }, { "id": "649917", "text": "\"The Negotiator\" (1998), \"Deep Blue Sea\" (1998), \"Unbreakable\" (2000), \"Shaft\" (2000), \"xXx\" (2002), \"Snakes on a Plane\" (2006), \"\" (2017) and the \"Star Wars\" prequel trilogy (1999–2005). With Jackson's permission, his likeness was used for the Ultimate version of the Marvel Comics character Nick Fury. He has also played Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films \"Iron Man\" (2008), \"Iron Man 2\" (2010), \"Thor\" (2011), \"\" (2011), \"The Avengers\" (2012), \"\" (2014), \"\" (2015) and \"\" (2018), as well as the TV show \"Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\". Jackson has provided his voice to several animated films, television series and", "title": "Samuel L. Jackson" }, { "id": "549265", "text": "Zwigoff and co-starring Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi and Brad Renfro. The film, focused on the lives of two teenage outsiders (Birch and Johansson) in an unnamed American city, was released in a specialty theatrical run, to a highly favorable critical reception. James Berardinelli found Birch's part to be her \"first effectively developed role\" since \"American Beauty\" and positively singled out the actress for the \"quirkiness [and the] underlying sense of melancholy and ennui\" in her portrayal. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy. Birch appeared as the title character in the biographical television film", "title": "Thora Birch" }, { "id": "649944", "text": "Man\", he made a cameo as the character in a post-credit scene. In February 2009, Jackson signed on to a nine-picture deal with Marvel which would see him appear as the character in \"Iron Man 2\", \"Thor\", \"\", and \"The Avengers\" as well as any other sequels they would produce. He reprised the role in \"\" (2014) and \"\" (2015). In February 2015, Jackson stated that he only has two movies left on his Marvel contract following \"Ultron\". Among his more recent film roles, Jackson appeared in Quentin Tarantino's \"Django Unchained\", which was released December 25, 2012, Tarantino's \"The Hateful", "title": "Samuel L. Jackson" }, { "id": "2099748", "text": "a partially disabled leg. Blake can transform by tapping his walking stick on the ground; the cane becomes the magical hammer Mjolnir and Blake transforms into Thor. Thor, a founding member of the superhero group the Avengers, often battles his evil adoptive brother Loki, a Marvel character adapted from the Norse god of mischief. He is among Marvel's most powerful superheroes. Many recurring characters in his stories are based on Norse Mythology. Apart from this main superhero, Marvel features a number of characters based on him. Chris Hemsworth portrays Thor in films set within Marvel Studios' cinematic universe, first appearing", "title": "Thor (comics)" }, { "id": "4179449", "text": "in the Woods\". Hemsworth received the part of Thor two days after being hired for \"Red Dawn\". In 2013, Hemsworth starred in Ron Howard's sports drama film \"Rush\", alongside Daniel Brühl as Formula 1 World Champion James Hunt. \"People\" magazine, in an annual feature, named him its 2014 \"Sexiest Man Alive.\" In 2015, Hemsworth starred in director Michael Mann's action thriller \"Blackhat\", opposite Viola Davis, and reprised his role of Thor for the fourth time in the sequel to \"The Avengers\", \"\". Hemsworth returned to the set of \"Home and Away\" in November 2014 to film a scene as an", "title": "Chris Hemsworth" }, { "id": "10709069", "text": "is great and because I was acting alongside some tremendous actors that I admire very much, but I understand the nature of films, and it's not the first or last time that scenes will be cut\". Barraza appears in only one scene in the film's theatrical cut. In that same month, Douglas Tait revealed that he performed for motion capture of the Frost Giants. On his hiring, Tait said \"I am 6'5\" and have a lean, athletic build, and they hired guys who were 6'7\" and taller, and weighed over . When the film was being edited, they wanted to", "title": "Thor (film)" }, { "id": "13182216", "text": "In a mid-credits scene, the Other confers with his master about the failed attack on Earth. In a post-credits scene, the Avengers eat in silence at a shawarma restaurant. Gwyneth Paltrow and Maximiliano Hernández reprise their roles from previous films as Pepper Potts and Jasper Sitwell, respectively. Paul Bettany returns to voice J.A.R.V.I.S. Frequent Whedon collaborator Alexis Denisof portrays the Other, and Damion Poitier portrays his master, Thanos (unnamed in the film), in a post-credit scene. Powers Boothe and Jenny Agutter appear as members of the World Security Council. Avengers co-creator Stan Lee has a cameo appearance in a news", "title": "The Avengers (2012 film)" }, { "id": "2107450", "text": "office run, including one of the biggest opening debuts in North America, with a weekend gross of $207.4 million. A second \"Avengers\" film titled \"\" was released on May 1, 2015, followed by \"\", which became the first superhero film to gross over $2 billion and was released on April 27, 2018. \"\" is scheduled for release on April 26, 2019. The team debuted in \"The Avengers\" #1 (Sept. 1963). Much like the Justice League, the Avengers were an assemblage of pre-existing superhero characters created by Lee and Jack Kirby. This initial series, published bi-monthly through issue #6 (July 1964)", "title": "Avengers (comics)" }, { "id": "495621", "text": "for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Portman went on to star in the romantic comedy \"No Strings Attached\" (2011) and featured as Jane Foster in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films \"Thor\" (2011) and \"\" (2013). For portraying Jacqueline Kennedy in the biopic \"Jackie\" (2016), Portman received her third Oscar nomination. Portman's directorial ventures include the short film \"Eve\" (2008) and the biographical drama \"A Tale of Love and Darkness\" (2015). In 2008, she served as the youngest jury member of the Cannes Film Festival. Portman is vocal about the politics of America and Israel, and is", "title": "Natalie Portman" }, { "id": "18366426", "text": "as Ayo, a member of the Dora Milaje; Jacob Batalon as Parker's friend Ned; Isabella Amara as Parker's classmate Sally; Tiffany Espensen as Parker's classmate Cindy; and Ethan Dizon as Parker's classmate Tiny. Samuel L. Jackson and Cobie Smulders make uncredited cameos as Nick Fury and Maria Hill, the former director and deputy director of S.H.I.E.L.D, respectively, in the film's post-credits scene. Thanos' henchmen, known collectively in the comics as the Black Order and in the film as the \"Children of Thanos\", include Terry Notary as Cull Obsidian, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Ebony Maw, Carrie Coon as Proxima Midnight, and Michael", "title": "Avengers: Infinity War" }, { "id": "18673380", "text": "Skarsgård, who portrays Erik Selvig in the MCU, said he believed he would appear in one of the films as he had one more film left on his contract, and would not be appearing in \"Thor: Ragnarok\". By October 2017, Hiroyuki Sanada had been cast in an undisclosed role for the sequel, and a year later, Katherine Langford was revealed to have been cast, also in an undisclosed role. The Russos hoped to have another actor from their TV series \"Community\" make a cameo appearance, after Danny Pudi and Jim Rash appeared in \"The Winter Soldier\" and \"Civil War\", respectively.", "title": "Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame" }, { "id": "3234808", "text": "Ultron Ultron () is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is most recognized as a nemesis of the Avengers, and has a quasi-familial relationship with his creator Hank Pym. He was the first Marvel Comics character to wield the fictional metal alloy adamantium. Ultron has been voiced by Tom Kane and by Jim Meskimen in several media adaptations. The character is played by James Spader in the 2015 film \"\". The character initially appeared as an unnamed character in a cameo in \"The Avengers\" #54 (1968), with a first full appearance in \"Avengers\"", "title": "Ultron" }, { "id": "15118458", "text": "in \"Thor\" after Irish actor Stuart Townsend withdrew from the role days before filming was to begin. As he was a virtually unknown actor when cast, there was some speculation that Dallas was selected because there simply was not enough time to find a bigger name replacement. To prepare for the role, Dallas viewed Errol Flynn as an inspiration (Stan Lee, in 1965, created the character based on Flynn), and watched many of his films. He commented, \"I tried to bring out that little bit of Flynn-ness in it. Flynn had a lot of that boyish charm and Fandral's got", "title": "Josh Dallas" }, { "id": "16659634", "text": "of the cast returns for \"Infinity War\" with additional cast and characters joining from other MCU films. Avengers: Age of Ultron Avengers: Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2012's \"The Avengers\" and the eleventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don", "title": "Avengers: Age of Ultron" }, { "id": "18366428", "text": "Stan Lee makes a cameo appearance in the film as Parker's school bus driver, while screenwriter Stephen McFeely cameos as Secretary Ross's aide. Kenneth Branagh, the director of \"Thor\" (2011), voices an Asgardian distress caller in an uncredited cameo. David Cross was invited to make a cameo appearance as Tobias Fünke, his character from the television sitcom \"Arrested Development\", which the Russo brothers had previously worked on; this was prevented by a scheduling conflict, but Fünke still appears in the film as a specimen in the Collector's collection, played by an uncredited extra. Jon Favreau was to reprise his role", "title": "Avengers: Infinity War" }, { "id": "13182209", "text": "office records, including the biggest opening weekend in the United States and Canada. \"The Avengers\" grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide and became the third-highest-grossing film of all time, as well as the highest-grossing film of 2012. It is the first Marvel production to generate $1 billion in ticket sales. Two sequels, titled \"\" and \"\", were released in May 2015 and April 2018, respectively, while \"\" is scheduled for release in April 2019. The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the leader of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of", "title": "The Avengers (2012 film)" }, { "id": "2099749", "text": "in the 2011 film \"Thor\". Hemsworth reprised his role for \"The Avengers\", \"\", \"\", \"Doctor Strange\", \"\", \"\", and will return for \"\" in 2019. Jack Kirby made a story featuring Thor in \"Tales of the Unexpected\" #16. A cowboy finds Thor's hammer in the American desert and uses it for his own gain, until it is reclaimed by Thor. This version of Thor is not similar to the Marvel Comics character that Kirby would create five years later, although there are some minor similarities, such as the design of Mjolnir and the circles in Thor's chest. Kirby would often", "title": "Thor (comics)" }, { "id": "4266698", "text": "film in Academy Award history with 8 nominations with two wins for Best Sound Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker. The 2010s has generally continued the box-office success of superhero films seen in the previous decade. In 2010, Matthew Vaughn's adaptation of \"Kick-Ass\" was released, followed by \"Iron Man 2\" a month later. 2011 releases included \"The Green Hornet\" (2011), \"Green Lantern\" (2011), and \"\" (2011). Following references to the \"Avengers Initiative\" in the \"Iron Man\" films and \"The Incredible Hulk\", Marvel released \"Thor\" on May 6, 2011, followed by \"\" on July 22,", "title": "Superhero film" }, { "id": "18673373", "text": "the Guardians of the Galaxy, including Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord, Pom Klementieff as Mantis, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot, and Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket. Sean Gunn served as the on-set stand-in actor for Rocket on both films. Additional actors reprising their roles in \"Infinity War\" from the various MCU franchises include Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange from \"Doctor Strange\", with Benedict Wong as Wong; Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man from \"Spider-Man: Homecoming\", with Jacob Batalon as", "title": "Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame" }, { "id": "3078959", "text": "The Avengers (1998 film) The Avengers is a 1998 American action spy film adaptation of the British television series of the same name directed by Jeremiah Chechik. It stars Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as secret agents John Steed and Emma Peel, and Sean Connery as Sir August de Wynter, a mad scientist bent on controlling the world's weather. Patrick Macnee, who played John Steed on the original series, makes a vocal cameo as the voice of Invisible Jones. The film was a box office bomb, only grossing $48 million of its $60 million budget, and received universally negative reviews", "title": "The Avengers (1998 film)" }, { "id": "2625163", "text": "Royal National Theatre; his performance in the play was called \"charismatic\" and \"intense\". In 2013, Eccleston portrayed the villainous Malekith in \"\", the sequel to \"Thor\" and the eighth instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Starting in 2014, he portrayed the regular character The Reverend Matt Jamison on the HBO drama series \"The Leftovers\". Eccleston began appearing in 2016 as Maurice Scott in the BBC drama \"The A Word\". Maurice is the eccentric but lovable granddad to a pair of sons, one of whom, with his wife, are struggling to do their very best for their young, autistic son. The", "title": "Christopher Eccleston" }, { "id": "17327867", "text": "In 2009, she starred as an adulteress in \"The Other Woman\", which she also executively produced. In 2010, Portman's performance as a mentally tortured ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller \"Black Swan\" garnered her the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In 2011, she appeared in the comedies \"No Strings Attached\" and \"Your Highness\". In the same year, Portman also played Jane Foster, the titular superhero's scientist girlfriend in \"Thor\". She reprised this role in its sequel", "title": "Natalie Portman filmography" }, { "id": "10433728", "text": "spin-off show for her character. She also has had guest roles on the show \"\" where she played Jenna York, a flight attendant involved in a murder case; and in \"Bones\" where she played Molly Briggs, a student connected to the victim of the episode. In September 2009, it was reported that Alexander would portray Sif in the live-action superhero film, \"Thor\", directed by Kenneth Branagh and released in May 2011. She reprised the role in the sequel \"\", released in November 2013. She reprised the role twice in special crossover guest appearances on the TV series \"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\"", "title": "Jaimie Alexander" }, { "id": "10796781", "text": "Sarandon's character, in the 2007 film \"Emotional Arithmetic\". In 2011, Goyo starred in \"Real Steel\" as Max Kenton, the estranged son of Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), and also played young Thor in the superhero film \"Thor\". In 2012, Goyo voiced Jamie in the DreamWorks Animation feature \"Rise of the Guardians\", and in 2013, he starred in the science fiction thriller film \"Dark Skies\". Dakota Goyo Dakota Avery Goyo (born 1999) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Max Kenton in the film \"Real Steel\" (2011) and Jesse Barrett in the film \"Dark Skies\" (2013). He also voices", "title": "Dakota Goyo" }, { "id": "13182224", "text": "was cast as Thor. The film had always intended to use Loki as its villain, but Penn noted that early discussion had considered using Red Skull. In January 2010, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige was asked if it would be difficult to meld the fantasy of \"Thor\" with the high-tech science fiction in \"Iron Man\" and \"The Avengers\". \"No,\" he said, \"because we're doing the Jack Kirby/Stan Lee/Walt Simonson/J. Michael Straczynski \"Thor\". We're not doing the blow-the-dust-off-of-the-old-Norse-book-in-your-library \"Thor\". And in the \"Thor\" of the Marvel Universe, there's a race called the Asgardians. And we're linked through this Tree of Life", "title": "The Avengers (2012 film)" }, { "id": "17797164", "text": "Doctor Strange (2016 film) Doctor Strange is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the fourteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Scott Derrickson, who wrote it with Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular character, along with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton. In \"Doctor Strange\", surgeon Stephen Strange learns the mystic arts after", "title": "Doctor Strange (2016 film)" } ]

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The soundtrack was released as an album in 1975 by Ode Records, produced by Richard Hartley. The album peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 in 1978. It reached No. 12 on the Australian albums chart and No. 11 on the New Zealand albums chart. William Ruhlmann of Allmusic gave the album a star rating of five stars out of", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "343922", "text": "choreographed and executive-produced the remake; Lou Adler, who was an executive producer of the original film, has the same role for the new film. The film premiered on Fox on 20 October 2016. The Rocky Horror Picture Show The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical science-fiction horror-comedy film by 20th Century Fox produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed by Jim Sharman. The screenplay was written by Sharman and actor Richard O'Brien, who is also a member of the cast. The film is based on the 1973 musical stage production \"The Rocky Horror Show\", with music,", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "14963632", "text": "five and described it as the \"definitive version of the [\"Rocky Horror\"] score\". Following its initial release, the album was not successful, and was deleted everywhere but in Canada. Marty Scott, co-founder of Jem Records, obtained a licensing agreement from Ode Records owner Lou Adler, which enabled the album to be imported to the United States. Scott also obtained a production and distribution license from Adler, which resulted in renewed interest in the album. The soundtrack omits two of the songs sung in the film: Rocky's \"The Sword of Damocles\", and the Frank-N-Furter-led \"Planet, Schmanet, Janet\" (often referred to as", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "343918", "text": "apparently commenced pre-production, however after studio head Joe Roth was ousted from Fox in 1993, the project was shelved indefinitely. Although the script has not been published, bootleg copies can be read on the Internet, and one song from the project's original demo tape circulates among fans. The script is currently owned by Fox, which produced the two original films. Most individuals associated with the project, including O'Brien, agree that the film will probably never be made, owing to the failure of \"Shock Treatment\" and the aging of the original cast. Between 1999 and 2001, Richard O'Brien was working on", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "343894", "text": "Riff Raff). The lyrics refer to science fiction and horror films of the past and list several film titles from the 1930s to the 1960s, including \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" (1951), \"Flash Gordon\" (1936), \"The Invisible Man\" (1933), \"King Kong\" (1933), \"It Came from Outer Space\" (1953), \"Doctor X\" (1932), \"Forbidden Planet\" (1956), \"Tarantula\" (1955), \"The Day of the Triffids\" (1962), \"Curse of the Demon\" (1957), and \"When Worlds Collide\" (1951). The soundtrack was released in 1975 by Ode Records and produced by Richard Hartley. The album peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 in 1978. It", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "343884", "text": "costume designer Sue Blane, musical director Richard Hartley, and stage producer Michael White, who was brought in to produce. As the musical went into rehearsal, the working title, \"They Came from Denton High\", was changed just before previews at the suggestion of Sharman to \"The Rocky Horror Show\". Having premiered in the small sixty-seat Royal Court Theatre, it quickly moved to larger venues in London, transferring to the 230-seat Chelsea Classic Cinema on Kings Road on 14 August 1973, before finding a quasi-permanent home at the 500-seat King's Road Theatre from 3 November 1973, running for six years. The musical", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "8649155", "text": "Sweet Transvestite \"Sweet Transvestite\" is a song from the 1973 British musical stage production \"The Rocky Horror Show\" and its 1975 film counterpart \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\". The book, music and lyrics are by Richard O'Brien and the musical arrangements by Richard Hartley. It is in the key of E major. It was originally the fourth song in the musical but it was later switched with its following number, \"Time Warp\", so that the latter came before Tim Curry's entrance. The song is performed by the character, Dr. Frank N. Furter, originated on stage and screen by actor Tim", "title": "Sweet Transvestite" }, { "id": "14963635", "text": "a press release on 12 October 2010, \"Time Warp\", \"Sweet Transvestite\", and \"Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul\" were released for the game \"\" as downloadable content on 26 October. The album initially charted in the US in 1978, however, in 2010, following the \"Rocky Horror Glee Show\" episode of \"Glee\", the album re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 at number 55. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack) The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the original soundtrack album to the 1975 film \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", an adaptation of the musical \"The Rocky Horror Show\" that had opened in 1973. The", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "19133125", "text": "role originated by Tim Curry in the 1970s. Lou Adler, who produced the original film, also co-produced the remake, along with Gail Berman and Kenny Ortega; Ortega choreographed the film in addition to directing and producing. The creative team is planned \"to stick faithfully to the text and the score of the original but greatly re-imagine the story visually\". Much of the film was shot at Toronto’s Casa Loma, being used for both Frank N. Furter's castle and the “Castle” movie theatre where the audience participation scenes and Ivy Levan's performance of \"Science Fiction/Double Feature\" were filmed. A theatre marquee", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again" }, { "id": "1376382", "text": "earning one Tony nomination and three Drama Desk nominations. Various international productions have since spanned across six continents as well as West End and Broadway revivals and eight UK tours. Actor Tim Curry, who originated the role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the original London production, became particularly associated with the musical. The musical was adapted into the 1975 film \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", starring O'Brien as Riff Raff, with Curry also reprising his role; the film has the longest-running release in film history. In 2016, it was adapted into the television film \"\". The musical was ranked eighth in", "title": "The Rocky Horror Show" }, { "id": "6764450", "text": "John Bundrick John Douglas \"Rabbit\" Bundrick (born November 21, 1948 in Houston, Texas) is an American rock keyboardist, pianist and organist. He is best known for his work with the Who and associations with others including Eric Burdon, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Roger Waters, Free and Crawler. Bundrick is noted as the principal musician for the cult film \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\". In the mid-1970s, he was a member of the short-lived group Mallard, formed by ex-members of Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. He is also known as a composer and has recorded solo albums. He was also a", "title": "John Bundrick" }, { "id": "343895", "text": "reached No. 12 on the Australian albums chart and No. 11 on the New Zealand albums chart. The album is described as the \"definitive version of the [\"Rocky Horror\"] score.\" The film opened in the United Kingdom at Rialto Theater in London 14 August 1975 and in the United States on 26 September at the UA Westwood in Los Angeles, California. It did well at that location, but not elsewhere. Before the midnight screenings' success, the film was withdrawn from its eight opening cities due to very small audiences, and its planned New York City opening on Halloween night was", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "343887", "text": "made conditions worse. During filming, Sarandon fell ill with pneumonia. Filming of the laboratory scene and the title character's creation occurred on 30 October 1974. The film is both a parody and tribute to many of the science fiction and horror movies from the 1930s up to the 1970s. The film production retains many aspects from the stage version such as production design and music, but adds new scenes not featured in the original stage play. The film's plot, setting, and style echo those of the Hammer Horror films, which had their own instantly recognizable style (just as Universal Studios'", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "343882", "text": "was living as an unemployed actor in London during the early 1970s. He wrote most of \"The Rocky Horror Show\" during one winter just to occupy himself. Since his youth, O'Brien had loved science fiction and B horror movies. He wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle flicks, and fifties rock and roll into his musical. O'Brien conceived and wrote the play set against the backdrop of the glam era that had manifested itself throughout British popular culture in the 1970s. Allowing his concept to come into being,", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "7620345", "text": "Richard Hartley Richard Hartley (born 28 July 1944) is an English composer, best known for his work on \"The Rocky Horror Show\". He grew up in Holmfirth. In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Hartley was originally part of the four-piece band for \"The Rocky Horror Show\". He went on to arrange the score for the London Stage and film adaptation (\"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\") as well as its follow-up \"Shock Treatment\", and then worked with O'Brien on another, as yet unproduced, sequel, \"Revenge of the Old Queen\". His other 1970s film scores included \"The", "title": "Richard Hartley" }, { "id": "2705731", "text": "Richard O'Brien Richard O'Brien (born Richard Smith; 25 March 1942) is an English-New Zealand actor, writer, musician, television presenter, voice artist and theatre performer. After a long and successful career based in the United Kingdom, he gained dual citizenship with New Zealand in 2011, where he resided in Tauranga. O'Brien wrote the musical stage show \"The Rocky Horror Show\", which has remained in almost continuous production. He also co-wrote the screenplay of the film adaptation, \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" released in 1975, appearing in the film as Riff Raff. O'Brien also appeared in the hugely popular ITV series \"Robin", "title": "Richard O'Brien" }, { "id": "343885", "text": "made its U.S. debut in Los Angeles in 1974 before being played in New York City as well as other cities. Producer and Ode Records owner Lou Adler attended the London production in the winter of 1973, escorted by friend Britt Ekland. He immediately decided to purchase the U.S. theatrical rights. His production would be staged at his Roxy Theatre in L.A. In 1975, \"The Rocky Horror Show\" premiered on Broadway at the 1,000-seat Belasco Theatre. The film was shot at Bray Studios and Oakley Court, a country house near Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, and at Elstree Studios for post production,", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "252430", "text": "film of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's \"Jesus Christ Superstar\" was met with some criticism by religious groups but was well received. By the mid-1970s, filmmakers avoided the genre in favor of using music by popular rock or pop bands as background music, partly in hope of selling a soundtrack album to fans. \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" was originally released in 1975 and was a critical failure until it started midnight screenings in the 1980s where it achieved cult status. 1976 saw the release of the low-budget comic musical, \"The First Nudie Musical\", released by Paramount. The 1978", "title": "Musical film" }, { "id": "14963634", "text": "\"The Rocky Horror Picture Show Complete Soundtrack: Absolute Treasures 2011 Special Edition\". The album was later issued on double red vinyl for the film's 40th anniversary. However, incidental music and cues are not included and \"The Sword of Damocles\" features an unknown lead vocalist in place of Trevor White. The latter is included with Trevor White's vocals as a bonus track for the iTunes edition; this is the same version found on the \"25 Years of Absolute Pleasure\" release, albeit in stereo and contains the dialogue and sound effects from the film. As announced by video game developer/publisher Activision in", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "19133130", "text": "days after its original broadcast. In UK, the film was first broadcast on October 28, 2016 on Sky Cinema Premiere. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (also known as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event) is a 2016 American musical comedy television film. It is a tribute to the cult classic 1975 film of the same name and directed by Kenny Ortega, using the original script written by Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman. Starring an ensemble cast led", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again" }, { "id": "343921", "text": "Dr. Frank N. Furter would be played by actress Laverne Cox. Ryan McCartan and Victoria Justice play the roles of Brad and Janet, alongside Reeve Carney as Riff Raff and singer/model Staz Nair as Rocky. Adam Lambert portrays Eddie. Tim Curry, who portrayed Dr. Frank N. Furter in the film, portrays the Criminologist. On 1 February 2016, it was announced that Broadway veteran Annaleigh Ashford would portray Columbia. On 5 February 2016, Ben Vereen joined the cast as Dr. Everett von Scott. Kenny Ortega, best known for the \"High School Musical\" franchise and \"Michael Jackson's This Is It\" (2009), directed,", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "19133122", "text": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (also known as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event) is a 2016 American musical comedy television film. It is a tribute to the cult classic 1975 film of the same name and directed by Kenny Ortega, using the original script written by Richard O'Brien and Jim Sharman. Starring an ensemble cast led by Laverne Cox, the film premiered on the Fox network on October 20, 2016 to negative reviews from critics and", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again" }, { "id": "7620348", "text": "Sellers\" in 2004, and wrote the music for the film \"Flashbacks of a Fool\" (2008). Hartley is credited as producer of two of the four tracks on \"The Music of Torvill and Dean\" EP, which reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart in the wake of Torvill and Dean's success at the 1984 Winter Olympics. Richard Hartley Richard Hartley (born 28 July 1944) is an English composer, best known for his work on \"The Rocky Horror Show\". He grew up in Holmfirth. In the 1970s he began a long association with Richard O'Brien. Hartley was originally part of the four-piece", "title": "Richard Hartley" }, { "id": "5716588", "text": "Rocky Horror Picture Show\", the longest-running theatrical film in history. He also discovered and produced comedy albums and films for Cheech & Chong. In 2006, Adler was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in music. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 as the winner, alongside Quincy Jones, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award. Adler was born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois in 1933 and raised in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California. His career in music began as co-manager, alongside Herb Alpert, of Jan", "title": "Lou Adler" }, { "id": "343886", "text": "from 21 October to 19 December 1974. Oakley Court, built in 1857 in the Victorian Gothic style, is known for a number of Hammer films. Much of the location shooting took place there, although at the time the manor was not in good condition. Much of the cast were from the original London stage production, including Tim Curry, who had decided that Dr Frank N. Furter should speak like the Queen of England, extravagantly posh. Fox insisted on casting the two characters of Brad and Janet with American actors, Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon. Filming took place during autumn, which", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "343916", "text": "Sharman reunited with O'Brien to film \"Shock Treatment\", a stand-alone feature that was not a direct sequel to the original film. This film as originally conceived and written in 1980 under the title \"The Brad and Janet Show\", using most of the songs from the original \"Rocky Horror Shows His Heels\" project with lyrical adjustments, and depicting the characters' continuing adventures in the town of Denton, however these plans had to be adjusted due to a Screen Actor's Guild strike. The eventual production would entail the entire film being shot within a sound stage. \"Shock Treatment\" was poorly received by", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "1376444", "text": "before poor ticket sales forced it to close. A French language version of the musical was staged at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris in 1975. Production by Jean-Pierre Reyes in association with Michael White. Original text and music booklet by Richard O'Brien; adapted into French by Javier Arroyuelo and Rafael Lopez Sanchez, the song's lyrics were translated by Alain Boublil; directed by Pierre Spivakoff; sets and costumes by Elisabeth Saurel and choreography by Victor Upshaw. The cast featured Pierre Spivakoff as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Nathalie Brehal as Janet Weiss, Roger Mirmont as Brad Majors (renamed Paul in the production),", "title": "The Rocky Horror Show" }, { "id": "343893", "text": "many require much time and effort to make. The film starts with the screen fading to black and oversized, disembodied female lips appear overdubbed with a male voice, establishing theme of androgyny to be repeated as the film unfolds. The opening scene and song, \"Science Fiction/Double Feature\", consists of the lips of Patricia Quinn (who appears in the film later as the character Magenta (in addition to the latter, appeared as 'Trixie the Usherette' in the original London production who sang the song)), but has the vocals of actor and \"Rocky Horror\" creator, Richard O'Brien (who appears as Magenta's brother", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "2186858", "text": "William Conti. He graduated from North Miami High School in 1959. He is a past winner of the Silver Knight Award presented by the Miami Herald. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University, and also studied at the Juilliard School of Music. Conti's big break into celebrity came in 1976, when he was hired to compose the music for a small United Artists film called \"Rocky\". The film became a phenomenon and won three Oscars at the 49th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The same ceremony was also the first time Conti was musical director for the Academy Awards,", "title": "Bill Conti" }, { "id": "7994867", "text": "work on \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" and its theatre production as well as its follow-up feature film \"Shock Treatment\". The film spawned a soundtrack album, which includes the hit single \"Body and Soul\" sung by Jo Kennedy. The song was written by Tim Finn of Split Enz. The single made number 5 on the Australian charts in May 1982. The film also featured music by band The Swingers who perform on screen at key moments. The film was classified NRC (Not Recommended for Children) which limited promotion options. Clips from the film were forbidden to be shown on the", "title": "Starstruck (1982 film)" }, { "id": "7770821", "text": "Jim Sharman James David Sharman (born 12 March 1945), as Jim Sharman is an Australian director and writer for film and stage with more than 70 productions to his credit. He is renowned in Australia for his work as a theatre director from the 1960s to the present, and is best known internationally as the director of the 1973 theatrical hit \"The Rocky Horror Show\", its film adaptation \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" (1975) and the film's follow-up \"Shock Treatment\" (1981). Sharman was born in Sydney, the son of boxing tent impresario and rugby league player James Michael \"Jimmy\" Sharman", "title": "Jim Sharman" }, { "id": "1376440", "text": "Bert Van Tichelen as The Narrator. The libretto was translated by Hugo Heinen and Rene Solleveld. Credits: Production 1978. Director: Jaak Van de Velde; Decor and Costums: Jacques Berwouts; Choreography: Lilly De Munter; Assistant Choreography: Daan Van Den Durpel; Photography: Guido De Leeuw; Sound: Jean-Pierre Bouckaert, Luc Vandeputte and Jacques Veys; Sound design: Jean-Pierre Bouckaert, Raf Lenssens and Luc Vandeputte, Backing: Nancy Dee; Music: Tony Boast, Raf Lenssens, Walter Stes and David Warwick. The show was later remounted at the same venue from 19 November 1983 to 7 January 1984. The cast featured Daan Van den Durpel and Marijn Devalck", "title": "The Rocky Horror Show" }, { "id": "343899", "text": "Horror Picture Show, Audience Par-Tic-I-Pation Album\"\", recorded at the 8th Street Playhouse. The recording consisted of the film's audio and the standardised call-backs from the audience. A home video release was made available in 1987 in the UK. In the US, the film (including documentary footage and extras) was released on VHS in 8 November, 1990, retailing for $89.95. The film was released on DVD in 2000 for the film's 25th anniversary. A 35th Anniversary edition Blu-ray was released in the US on 19 October 2010. The disc includes a newly created 7.1 surround sound mix, the original theatrical mono", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "8070728", "text": "Science Fiction/Double Feature \"Science Fiction/Double Feature\" is the opening song to the original 1973 musical stage production, \"The Rocky Horror Show\" as well as its 1975 film counterpart \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", book, music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien, musical arrangements by Richard Hartley. The song is reprised at the end of the show, with lyrics that reflect on the final events of the story. The song is a tribute to and sendup of various B movies and serials parodied in the show itself. The film opens with a title sequence of a disembodied mouth (inspired by the surreal", "title": "Science Fiction/Double Feature" }, { "id": "17623644", "text": "Rocky the Musical Rocky: The Musical (originally Rocky: Das Musical) is a 2012 musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Thomas Meehan and Sylvester Stallone, based on the 1976 film of the same name written by Stallone. The show held its world premiere in Hamburg in 2012 and opened on Broadway in 2014 at the Winter Garden Theatre. The musical is based on the 1976 film \"Rocky\", with a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone. The film itself was made on a budget of $1,075,000, shot in 28 days and was a sleeper hit, earning", "title": "Rocky the Musical" }, { "id": "5343637", "text": "previously appeared alongside Stephens in the BBC TV adaptation of \"The Box of Delights\" (1984) in the role of Sylvia Daisy Pouncer, and had played his on-screen wife in the serial \"Fortunes of War\" (1987). Stephens had been knighted prior to his death, giving Quinn the title of Lady Stephens. Quinn is known primarily for her role as Magenta in \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" (1975). In the film's opening title sequence, the movements of her disembodied lips are synchronised with the lyrics of the title song, \"Science Fiction/Double Feature\" (the singing voice is that of scriptwriter and actor Richard", "title": "Patricia Quinn" }, { "id": "343883", "text": "O'Brien states \"glam rock allowed me to be myself more\". O'Brien showed a portion of the unfinished script to Australian director Jim Sharman, who decided to direct it at the small experimental space Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, Chelsea, London, which was used as a project space for new work. O'Brien had appeared briefly in a stage production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's \"Jesus Christ Superstar\", directed by Sharman, and the two also worked together in Sam Shepard's \"The Unseen Hand\". Sharman would bring in production designer Brian Thomson. The original creative team was then rounded out by", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "6764456", "text": "show but was replaced in the subsequent tours. Pete Townshend has commented that there \".. was an issue between Roger Daltrey and Rabbit.\" John Bundrick John Douglas \"Rabbit\" Bundrick (born November 21, 1948 in Houston, Texas) is an American rock keyboardist, pianist and organist. He is best known for his work with the Who and associations with others including Eric Burdon, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Roger Waters, Free and Crawler. Bundrick is noted as the principal musician for the cult film \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\". In the mid-1970s, he was a member of the short-lived group Mallard, formed", "title": "John Bundrick" }, { "id": "7918383", "text": "The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show is an album featuring the soundtrack of the 1975 cult film \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" as performed by modern punk rock bands. The album was released in 2003 on Springman Records. The album started as a project by Shawn \"Eddie Migraine\" Browning, who got the idea from his wife. Work for the project started in 1999. Browning said he was a \"huge Rocky Horror fan back in High School\", and that the show was \"where some of us fit in\" and \"brought us all together\". A Punk", "title": "The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show" }, { "id": "1376476", "text": "sexuality and gender have created cultural and legal change, coming closer to realizing the musical’s futuristic vision of an accepting sexual revolution. The original London production won the award for Best Musical of 1973 at the Evening Standard Awards in January 1974. Additionally, both the original Broadway production and the 2000 revival of the musicals have accrued nominations for both Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards. The Rocky Horror Show The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s", "title": "The Rocky Horror Show" }, { "id": "343875", "text": "cast\" mimed the actions on screen above and behind them, while lip-synching their character's lines. Still in limited release four decades after its premiere, it is the longest-running theatrical release in film history. It is often shown close to Halloween. Today, the film has a large international cult following. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2005. A criminologist narrates the tale of the newly engaged couple, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who find themselves lost and with a flat tire on a cold and rainy late November evening,", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "561974", "text": "points out the robe is too big. The musical score for \"Rocky\" was composed by Bill Conti, who previously composed a score for director John G. Avildsen's \"W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings\" (1975) that was ultimately rejected by the studio. In fact, David Shire (then-husband of Talia Shire) was the first to be offered the chance to compose the music for \"Rocky\" but had to turn it down due to prior commitments. Thus, Avildsen reached out to Conti without any studio intervention due to the film's relatively low budget. \"The budget for the music was 25 grand,\" said Avildsen. \"And", "title": "Rocky" }, { "id": "343873", "text": "his laboratory. The couple are seduced separately by the mad scientist and eventually released by the servants who take control. The film was shot in the United Kingdom at Bray Studios and on location at an old country estate named Oakley Court, best known for its earlier use by Hammer Film Productions. A number of props and set pieces were reused from the Hammer horror films. Although the film is both a parody of and tribute to many of kitsch science fiction and horror films, costume designer Sue Blane conducted no research for her designs. Blane stated that costumes from", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "6802955", "text": "co-wrote songs for Mark Farner's solo début and a pair of albums for the star of \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", Tim Curry, and more. In 1978, Wagner released a solo LP called \"Richard Wagner\", produced by Bob Ezrin, and released on Atlantic Records. The album title confused both record stores and disc jockeys, who relegated the record to the classical music bin, assuming it was a classical music record composed by the 19th-century classical composer with the same name. One of the best-known songs written by Wagner is \"Only Women Bleed\". Written during Wagner's days with the Frost and", "title": "Dick Wagner" }, { "id": "343888", "text": "horror films did). The originally proposed opening sequence was to contain clips of various films mentioned in the lyrics, as well as the first few sequences shot in black and white, but this was deemed too expensive and scrapped. In the stage productions, actors generally did their own make-up; however, for the film, the producers chose Pierre La Roche, who had previously been a make-up artist for Mick Jagger and David Bowie, to redesign the make-up for each character. Production stills were taken by rock photographer Mick Rock, who has published a number of books from his work. In \"Rocky", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "11033609", "text": "Dammit Janet \"Dammit Janet\" is a song/musical number in the original 1973 British musical stage production, \"The Rocky Horror Show\" as well as its 1975 film counterpart \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", book, music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien, musical arrangements by Richard Hartley. The number provides well known audience participation moments and has entered the pop culture lexicon through the often quoted phrase, \"\"Dammit, Janet!\"\" The first scene of both the stage production and film open to a wedding scene with the two main characters, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, in attendance. In the motion picture, a repressive Gothic", "title": "Dammit Janet" }, { "id": "343919", "text": "a third attempted sequel project with the working title \"Rocky Horror: The Second Coming\", first to be made as a stage production, with an option to create a film if met with success. This script would largely integrate plot elements from \"Rocky Horror Shows His Heels\", but with all-new songs. O'Brien completed a first draft of this script (which was read by Terry Jones) but had difficulties finalizing anything beyond the first act, and little more has been heard of this project since the mid-2000s. In 2015, O'Brien produced \"Shock Treatment\" for the theatrical stage. The production premiered at the", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "3079083", "text": "one artist such as Ray Charles, U2, Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Doors, John Mellencamp, Johnny Cash, Bob Seger, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Tim McGraw, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra and John Lennon. Pearl Jam's music was used in the two-part season-six finale, the first time one artist's music has been used for two full episodes. In one episode, the music from the movie \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" (\"Creatures of the Night\" starring Barry Bostwick) and in another episode (\"Wilkommen\") only music from \"Cabaret\" was used. In the series finale, music from The Rolling Stones was used, and for", "title": "Cold Case" }, { "id": "8070754", "text": "A 1951 science fiction film based on the 1932 novel co-written by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer. The movie was filmed in Technicolor, directed by Rudolph Maté and was the winner of the 1951 Academy Award for special effects. George Pal was the producer of \"When Worlds Collide\" and the director of the 1953 film \"War of the Worlds\" and the 1960 \"The Time Machine\", among other films. Science Fiction/Double Feature \"Science Fiction/Double Feature\" is the opening song to the original 1973 musical stage production, \"The Rocky Horror Show\" as well as its 1975 film counterpart \"The Rocky Horror", "title": "Science Fiction/Double Feature" }, { "id": "10375289", "text": "the film to a semblance of O'Brien's original vision, with the film switching to color instantly when Riff Raff swings open the doorway during the Time Warp. \"The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show\" is a 2003 cover soundtrack performed by various modern punk rock bands including The Ataris, Tsunami Bomb, Alkaline Trio, and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes A four-CD box soundtrack set released for the 15th Anniversary Celebration. The set consists of: the original motion picture soundtrack; the \"Rocky Horror Show\" original Roxy cast recording; \"Songs from the Vaults\", rare tracks from various cast members, tracks from the", "title": "Rocky Horror sequels and other media" }, { "id": "343903", "text": "wit to be \"too weak to sustain a film\" and thought that the \"songs all sound the same\". In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" helped shape conditions of cult film's transition from art-house to grind-house style. The film developed a cult following in 1976 at the Waverly Theatre in New York, which developed into a standardised ritual. According to J. Hoberman, author of \"Midnight Movies\", it was after five months into the film's midnight", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "1667632", "text": "Barry Bostwick Barry Knapp Bostwick (born February 24, 1945) is an American stage and screen actor and singer. He is best known for portraying Brad Majors in the musical comedy horror \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" (1975) and Mayor Randall Winston in the sitcom \"Spin City\" (1996–2002). Bostwick has also had considerable success in musical theatre, winning a Tony Award for his role in the musical \"The Robber Bridegroom\". Bostwick was born in San Mateo, California. He is the son of Elizabeth \"Betty\" (née Defendorf), a housewife, and Henry \"Bud\" Bostwick, a city planner and actor. His only sibling, Henry", "title": "Barry Bostwick" }, { "id": "7918384", "text": "News reviewer said \"while a number of songs suffer from sub-par recordings [or sub-par arrangements], there are some highlights\". Artists and repertoire for this album was done by Eddie Migrane of The Migranes and Avi Ehrlich of Springman Records. Artwork by Steve Rolston. The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show is an album featuring the soundtrack of the 1975 cult film \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" as performed by modern punk rock bands. The album was released in 2003 on Springman Records. The album started as a project by Shawn \"Eddie Migraine\" Browning, who got", "title": "The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show" }, { "id": "4590939", "text": "Peter Hinwood Peter Hinwood (born 17 May 1946) is an English actor and antiques dealer. Hinwood worked as both a photographer and a professional model while he was pursuing his acting career. Hinwood is mostly noted for his film appearance as the well-oiled, muscular and mostly mute creation Rocky in the 1975 cult classic, \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\". Rocky's singing voice was dubbed in post-production by Australian singer Trevor White. Both Hinwood and White were interviewed by Scott Michaels for his 2002 book \"Rocky Horror: From Concept to Cult\". His portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter's \"creation\" was the most significant", "title": "Peter Hinwood" }, { "id": "1376461", "text": "as the production's director) as Riff-Raff, and Tabby Johnson as Columbia. The show ran for three weeks from 29 June to 17 July. In February 1975, \"The Rocky Horror Show\" made its debut at Teatro da Praia in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The libretto was translated and adapted by Jorge Mautner, Joe Rodrix and Kao Rossman, in whose hands saw a great deal of Richard O'Brien's original script re-written to suit Brazilian audiences. As the Hollywood horror and sci-fi films that the musical references were not that well-known in Brazil at that time, references to the local culture was instead", "title": "The Rocky Horror Show" }, { "id": "4613846", "text": "Davi, long cited as being one of the main songwriters for the band. Also in 2003, the album \"The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show\" was released and featured the band's cover of the popular \"Rocky Horror Picture Show\" song \"Planet, Schmanet, Janet\" that had been recorded years earlier. Later that same year, after a split with Royal Flush Booking, the band signed with the William Morris Agency with Ron Opeleski. The band then launched a full US headlining tour which sold out venues such as the Metro in Chicago, two nights at Slim's in San Francisco, and three nights at", "title": "Tsunami Bomb" }, { "id": "5716591", "text": "of all time. Adler's work on \"Tapestry\" garnered him two Grammy Awards in 1972: Record of the Year (for producing \"It's Too Late\") and Album of the Year. In addition to work with his own label's artists, Adler produced a number of live albums for Johnny Rivers. In June 1967, Adler helped to produce the Monterey International Pop Festival, as well as the film version, \"Monterey Pop\". In 1975, Adler served as executive producer of the cult classic \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\". After seeing \"The Rocky Horror Show\" at a theater in London, Adler bought the American rights to", "title": "Lou Adler" }, { "id": "343898", "text": "Covell in Modesto. In New Orleans, an early organised performance group was active with the release there as well as in such cities as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Chicago (at the Biograph Theater). Before long nearly every screening of the film was accompanied by a live fan cast. The film is considered to be the longest-running release in film history. It has never been pulled by 20th Century Fox from its original 1975 release, and it continues to play in cinemas. A Super 8 version of selected scenes of the film was made available. In 1983, Ode Records released \"\"The Rocky", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "4590942", "text": "until his death in July 2018. Peter Hinwood Peter Hinwood (born 17 May 1946) is an English actor and antiques dealer. Hinwood worked as both a photographer and a professional model while he was pursuing his acting career. Hinwood is mostly noted for his film appearance as the well-oiled, muscular and mostly mute creation Rocky in the 1975 cult classic, \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\". Rocky's singing voice was dubbed in post-production by Australian singer Trevor White. Both Hinwood and White were interviewed by Scott Michaels for his 2002 book \"Rocky Horror: From Concept to Cult\". His portrayal of Dr.", "title": "Peter Hinwood" }, { "id": "14963633", "text": "\"Wise Up, Janet Weiss\"). Also omitted is \"Once in a While,\" which was filmed but later cut. \"The Sword of Damocles\" and \"Planet, Schmanet, Janet\" are included on the album \"25 Years of Absolute Pleasure\" however \"Planet, Schmanet, Janet\" is missing the last verse (don't get hot and flustered) and they are in mono and ported directly from the film itself and so include all the sound effects and dialogue that would normally be omitted from a soundtrack album. In 2011 these three songs were released, as MP3 format only, in their stereo, studio mixes on the download only release", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "5343635", "text": "Patricia Quinn Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens (born 28 May 1944) is a Northern Irish actress, voice artist and singer best known for her role as Magenta in the film \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" (1975), and the original stage play from which it was adapted. Quinn was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland, to James Connolly Quinn, a bookmaker, and his wife Rebecca. She attended the Princess Gardens Grammar School, where she developed an early talent for acting. Following stints at Belfast’s Arts Theatre and British Drama League, she left for London aged 17. In 1969, she trained at the", "title": "Patricia Quinn" }, { "id": "1667641", "text": "In 2004, he won the Gilda Radner Courage Award from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Barry Bostwick Barry Knapp Bostwick (born February 24, 1945) is an American stage and screen actor and singer. He is best known for portraying Brad Majors in the musical comedy horror \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" (1975) and Mayor Randall Winston in the sitcom \"Spin City\" (1996–2002). Bostwick has also had considerable success in musical theatre, winning a Tony Award for his role in the musical \"The Robber Bridegroom\". Bostwick was born in San Mateo, California. He is the son of Elizabeth \"Betty\" (née Defendorf),", "title": "Barry Bostwick" }, { "id": "16163556", "text": "\"Toot, Whistle, Plunk & Boom\" animated short. For MPA Productions, Comstock scored four \"Mr. Magoo\" animated theatrical shorts, including \"Magoo Express\". The main theme and incidental music for \"Rocky and His Friends\" are Comstock's best-remembered compositions, but he also wrote compositions for many of the situation comedy and drama hits of the 1970s and 1980s. Comstock received a 1971 Emmy nomination for his \"Adam-12\" TV score \"Elegy for a Pig\". Comstock's credits for television series as composer/conductor are listed below: Comstock's arranging credits for television variety shows are listed below: Almost all of Comstock's recordings were originally released on vinyl", "title": "Frank Comstock" }, { "id": "15464937", "text": "Jordan, Christopher Ward, Damhnait Doyle, Rob Wells, Shelly Peiken (with whom he wrote \"Ultraviolet\") and Greg Johnston. Concurrently from 2005 to 2008, McMaster impressed Schuyler enough to contribute music to her internationally popular Canadian television shows \"\" (airing throughout Canada and the U.S.) and a further three songs to the 2009 Canadian feature film \"Degrassi Goes Hollywood\". A sequel, \"Degrassi Takes Manhattan\" featured four more McMaster co-writes, including the single \"Life is a Show.\" In the spring of 2006, McMaster joined Rob Wells, Simon Wilcox and producer Darcy Ataman to record \"Song For Africa,\" a music single that premiered at", "title": "Luke McMaster" }, { "id": "11033617", "text": "was also sung on Glee the TV Show. Dammit Janet \"Dammit Janet\" is a song/musical number in the original 1973 British musical stage production, \"The Rocky Horror Show\" as well as its 1975 film counterpart \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", book, music and lyrics by Richard O'Brien, musical arrangements by Richard Hartley. The number provides well known audience participation moments and has entered the pop culture lexicon through the often quoted phrase, \"\"Dammit, Janet!\"\" The first scene of both the stage production and film open to a wedding scene with the two main characters, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, in", "title": "Dammit Janet" }, { "id": "6213424", "text": "movies. Only one original theme was written specifically for \"Rocky Balboa\" and that is the theme written to represent the character of Marie. The roughly 40-minute score was recorded in the summer of 2006 at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, California. Conti chose to pre-record the string, brass and piano tracks and then have those tracks mixed with the work of a 44 piece orchestra which he conducted. He also performed all of the piano work himself which is something he has done with each movie for which he has composed the score. Stallone also was involved in every part of", "title": "Rocky Balboa (film)" }, { "id": "12952107", "text": "Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album of the British drama film of the same name, directed by Danny Boyle. The original score and songs were composed by A. R. Rahman, who planned the score in two months and completed it in 20 days, a far shorter time period than usual. The soundtrack has won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and two Academy Awards, one for Best Original Music Score and the other for Best Original Song for \"Jai Ho\".", "title": "Slumdog Millionaire: Music from the Motion Picture" }, { "id": "17954967", "text": "Tony Berg Anthony Rains \"Tony\" Berg (born October 21, 1954 in Connecticut) is an American musician, record producer, and A&R man, in which role he has been described as an \"industry guru\". Berg's music career began in the late 1970s, when he was a session guitarist who appeared on several notable releases including Air Supply, Debby Boone, \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" and several \"Muppet Show\" releases. In the early 1980s, Berg founded Zeitgeist Studios. His first major success was with Michael Penn's 1989 debut \"March\". From there Berg went on to produce for Edie Brickell, Public Image Ltd, Altered", "title": "Tony Berg" }, { "id": "17842010", "text": "her debut studio album titled \"No Good\", which was released on August 7, 2015. She also sang the theme song \"Who Can You Trust?\", for the comedy film Spy. In 2016, it was announced that she would be singing the opening credits and starring as Usherette in Fox TV's production of \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", which premiered in October 2016. In August 2017 she announced that she was in a new record deal with BMG. Along with this, she announced a new EP but didn't announce a release date. In November 2018, Levan announced the release date of her", "title": "Ivy Levan" }, { "id": "19146941", "text": "Alan and Marilyn Bergman Alan Bergman (born September 11, 1925) and Marilyn Bergman (née Keith), born November 10, 1929) are American lyricists and songwriters. The pair have been married since 1958 and have written the music and lyrics for numerous celebrated television shows, films, and stage musicals. The Bergmans have won two Academy Awards for Best Original Song and have been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Alan Bergman was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York, in 1925, and studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned his master's degree in music at UCLA.", "title": "Alan and Marilyn Bergman" }, { "id": "7711219", "text": "Rocky IV (soundtrack) Rocky IV is the original motion picture soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It was originally released in 1985 on the Scotti Brothers label. In 2010 Intrada Records released the original score by Vince DiCola, which was not available before. The soundtrack was hugely successful on the strength of two top-five singles, Survivor's \"Burning Heart\" (which Sylvester Stallone personally commissioned for the film and reached No. 2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100) and James Brown's \"Living in America\", as well as Robert Tepper's lone top-40 hit, \"No Easy Way Out\". It reached the top ten", "title": "Rocky IV (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "343909", "text": "cast at that time. The Strand cast was put together from former members of an early Berkeley group, disbanded due to less than enthusiastic management. Frank N. Furter was portrayed by Marni Scofidio, who, in 1979, attracted many of the older performers from Berkeley. Other members included Mishell Erickson and her twin sister Denise Erickson as Columbia and Magenta, Kathy Dolan as Janet, and Linda \"Lou\" Woods as Riff Raff. The Strand group performed at two large science fiction conventions in Los Angeles and San Francisco, were offered a spot at The Mabuhay, a local punk club, and performed for", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "343902", "text": "those willing to experiment with something a little bit different, a little bit outré, \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" has a lot to offer\". \"The New York Times\" called it a \"low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution\" and considered the songs featured in the film to be \"catchy\". Geoff Andrew of \"Time Out\" noted that the \"string of hummable songs gives it momentum, Gray's admirably straight-faced narrator holds it together, and a run on black lingerie takes care of almost everything else\", rating it 4 out of 5 stars. Dave Kehr of the \"Chicago Reader\" on the other hand considered the", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "13576680", "text": "I'm Going Home (Rocky Horror song) \"I'm Going Home\" is the 18th song in \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" soundtrack. Immediately after Riff Raff and Magenta interrupt the Floor Show, Frank attempts to explain his actions. He tells them that he will return to Earth one day and stay forever. It's questionable whether Frank is being theatrical for pity, or is genuine. \"I'm Going Home\" was originally written by Richard O'Brien in the early 1970s. It was not intended for use in the stage play, and was simply picked up by O'Brien because the topic matter slotted into Rocky Horror's", "title": "I'm Going Home (Rocky Horror song)" }, { "id": "3590369", "text": "Robert B. Sherman Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers, \"the Sherman Brothers were responsible for more motion picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history.\" Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known songs were incorporated into live action and animation musical films including: \"Mary Poppins\", \"The Jungle Book\", \"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh\", \"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang\", \"The Slipper and the Rose\", and", "title": "Robert B. Sherman" }, { "id": "1376380", "text": "The Rocky Horror Show The Rocky Horror Show is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Richard O'Brien. A humorous tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist, Dr Frank-N-Furter, unveiling his new creation, a sort of Frankenstein-style monster in the form of an artificially made, fully grown, physically perfect muscle man named Rocky Horror, complete \"with blond hair and a tan\". The show", "title": "The Rocky Horror Show" }, { "id": "17954969", "text": "Jeff Berg, CEO of International Creative Management. His daughter is musician Z Berg. Tony Berg Anthony Rains \"Tony\" Berg (born October 21, 1954 in Connecticut) is an American musician, record producer, and A&R man, in which role he has been described as an \"industry guru\". Berg's music career began in the late 1970s, when he was a session guitarist who appeared on several notable releases including Air Supply, Debby Boone, \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" and several \"Muppet Show\" releases. In the early 1980s, Berg founded Zeitgeist Studios. His first major success was with Michael Penn's 1989 debut \"March\". From", "title": "Tony Berg" }, { "id": "16243352", "text": "professional career at the Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan, where in 1976 he premiered his musical \"Revelation\". His other stage musicals include: \"Quarks - The First Minute\", \"Three Down, Four Across: Love\", \"Gypsies\", and \"Tidal Wave\". He was the Musical Director and arranger for the original San Francisco production of \"The Rocky Horror Show\", and wrote the song that became an unofficial anthem for the city of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s: \"San Francisco Bye-Bye.\" He is also known for his work on the movies \"Twice Upon a Christmas\" and \"North 'Cross Jordan\", as well as his contributions", "title": "Michael Reno" }, { "id": "16125466", "text": "tourists, settlers—all are brought to life on the giant screen through the use of approximately fifty black and white photographs sourced from 13 archives, and featuring the work of more than twenty photographers. The five-year shooting schedule allowed Low and editor James Lahti the luxury of taking their time in the cutting room, letting the film rest for months at a time while working on other projects. Low and Lahti worked together to find period-appropriate music for the film, and the original score was created by Montreal composer . Cusson also composed the music for Low’s previous six films. As", "title": "Rocky Mountain Express" }, { "id": "6213423", "text": "to have been due to the fact that real punches were thrown by both Stallone and Tarver, resulting in some swelling and nosebleeds earlier than scripted. The DVD release features an alternate ending in which Rocky wins the fight. Composed by Academy Award winner Bill Conti, the \"Rocky Balboa\" film score is both an updated composition of \"Rocky\" music and a tribute to the music that has been featured in previous Rocky films. Conti, who has acted as composer on every Rocky film except \"Rocky IV\", chose to compose the score almost entirely from musical themes used in the previous", "title": "Rocky Balboa (film)" }, { "id": "1376447", "text": "featured a cast of English actors, which included Jeff Shankley as Frank-N-Furter, Philip Bretherton as Brad, Perry Bedden (a cast member from the film adaptation of \"Rocky Horror\") as Riff-Raff, Zig Byfield as Eddie/Dr. Scott, and Nicholas Courtney as The Narrator. The musical premiered on 11 October 1977 at the Oslo Nye Centralteatret in Oslo, Norway, boasting a cast of both established actors and popular names from the music industry. The production was directed by David Toguri (with assistance from Brian Thomson), while Richard O'Brien's original script was translated into Norwegian by actor Johan Fillinger and musician Ole Paus. The", "title": "The Rocky Horror Show" }, { "id": "1376443", "text": "René Solleveld, who also served as co-translator for the libretto, working with screenwriter Hugo Heinen. Directed by Derek Goldby; choreography by Serge-Henri Valcke; decor and costumes by Bob Ringwood; musical direction by Ruud Bos and performed by, the Amsterdam based rock band, \"Water\". The cast featured Hugo Metsers as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Trudy de Jong as Janet Weiss, Derek de Lint as Brad Majors, Hans Beijer as Riff-Raff, Moniek Toebosch as Magenta/Usherette, Thea Ranft as Columbia, Robert Funcke as Eddie/Dr. Scott, Peter van de Wouw as Rocky Horror, and Jan Staal as The Narrator. The show only ran for a month,", "title": "The Rocky Horror Show" }, { "id": "2186857", "text": "Bill Conti William Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including \"Rocky\" (and four of its sequels), \"For Your Eyes Only\", \"Dynasty\", and \"The Right Stuff\", which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for \"Gonna Fly Now\" from \"Rocky\" and for the title song of \"For Your Eyes Only\". He was the musical director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times. Conti, an Italian American, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Lucetta and", "title": "Bill Conti" }, { "id": "2186864", "text": "Award ceremonies. On April 22, 2008, at the LSU Union Theatre at Louisiana State University, Conti was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. Bill Conti William Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American composer and conductor best known for his film scores, including \"Rocky\" (and four of its sequels), \"For Your Eyes Only\", \"Dynasty\", and \"The Right Stuff\", which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He also received nominations in the Best Original Song category for \"Gonna Fly Now\" from \"Rocky\" and for the title song of \"For Your Eyes Only\". He was the", "title": "Bill Conti" }, { "id": "343872", "text": "Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick and is narrated by Charles Gray with cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre, and Belasco Theatre productions. The story centres on a young engaged couple whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle where they seek a telephone to call for help. The castle or country home is occupied by strangers in elaborate costumes celebrating an annual convention. They discover the head of the house is Dr. Frank N. Furter, an apparent mad scientist who actually is an alien transvestite who creates a living muscle man in", "title": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" }, { "id": "1376383", "text": "a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the \"Nation's Number One Essential Musicals\". As an out-of-work actor in London in the early 1970s, Richard O'Brien wrote \"The Rocky Horror Show\" to keep himself busy on winter evenings. Since his youth, he had developed a passion for science fiction and B horror movies; he wanted to combine elements of the unintentional humour of B horror movies, portentous dialogue of schlock-horror, Steve Reeves muscle films, and fifties rock and roll into \"The Rocky Horror Show\". A major theme running throughout the musical is transvestitism, which according to O'Brien was not originally meant", "title": "The Rocky Horror Show" }, { "id": "17502438", "text": "from Japan. As a result of this success, Epic Records delayed release of the next Cheap Trick studio album, \"Heaven Tonight\" and released \"Budokan\" domestically, to great success. \"I Want You to Want Me\", from the album, became the band's breakout single. Another notable success was importing \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" soundtrack album. The record, released in 1975, had been deleted everywhere but in Canada. Marty Scott contracted with Lou Adler, whose label, Ode Records, had originally released the album, to distribute Canadian copies, under a production and distribution license in the US. Jem Records also released in the", "title": "Jem Records" }, { "id": "3590388", "text": "a list of the annual winners since the award's inception: Robert B. Sherman Robert Bernard Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Richard Morton Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers, \"the Sherman Brothers were responsible for more motion picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history.\" Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known songs were incorporated into live action and animation musical films including: \"Mary Poppins\", \"The Jungle Book\", \"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh\",", "title": "Robert B. Sherman" }, { "id": "20348534", "text": "David Nehls David Nehls (born 28 April 1964) is an American actor, singer, composer and lyricist who, with Betsy Kelso, wrote \"The Great American Trailer Park Musical\". Among other appearances he originated the role of Riff Raff in the 1996-2000 European tour of \"The Rocky Horror Show\". Today he works as a Musical Director for various theatres across the United States. Born as David Ronald Nehls and a native of Uniontown in Pennsylvania, he is the son of Ronald Nehls (1937-2008), a former Fayette County commissioner, and Darlene (née Duall), who worked at the Uniontown Hospital. In 1982 Nehls graduated", "title": "David Nehls" }, { "id": "6685736", "text": "was released on March 23. In August 2018, a 27-track soundtrack composed by Tyler for the cable TV series \"Yellowstone\" was issued on August 17, 2018 in CD format and for mp3 download on Amazon. Brian Tyler Brian Tyler (born May 8, 1972) is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, conductor, arranger, DJ and producer. Tyler scored \"Iron Man 3\", \"\" with Danny Elfman, \"Now You See Me\", \"Patriots Day\", and \"\"Crazy Rich Asians\"\", among others. He also composed the current fanfare of the Universal Pictures logo (adapted from Jerry Goldsmith's), the updated Marvel Studios logo, which debuted with \"\" (2013),", "title": "Brian Tyler" }, { "id": "230455", "text": "based on the Oscar Wilde play and also starred in it at Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles in 1979. He wrote and performed \"My Love is a Rebel\" on the soundtrack of \"Limbo\", starring Barry Bostwick. His song \"Justice\" appeared on the \"Ciao! Manhattan\" soundtrack. On June 16, 1988, Milford died of heart failure following open heart surgery several weeks earlier. He was 37 years old. Rocky Horror Show Kim Milford Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 – June 16, 1988), known professionally as Kim Milford, was an American actor, singer-songwriter, and composer. He is known for his stage", "title": "Kim Milford" }, { "id": "3590356", "text": "Richard M. Sherman Richard Morton Sherman (born June 12, 1928) is an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Robert B. Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers, \"the Sherman Brothers were responsible for more motion picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history.\" Some of the Sherman Brothers' best known songs were incorporated into live action and animation musical films including: \"Mary Poppins\", \"The Jungle Book\", \"The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh\", \"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang\", \"Snoopy Come Home\", \"Bedknobs and Broomsticks\", \"The Slipper and", "title": "Richard M. Sherman" }, { "id": "10375280", "text": "Rocky Horror sequels and other media \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" is a 1975 British parody musical comedy that satirizes science fiction and horror B-movies. It was one of the first successful midnight movies and has gained a cult following. Because of the cult following, it has spawned an indirect sequel \"Shock Treatment\", as well as merchandise such as video games, toys, comic books and trading cards. Richard O'Brien has also attempted to write scripts for movies and plays to further the story without any success. \"Rocky Horror Shows His Heels\" (originally planned as \"The Curse of the Baby\") was", "title": "Rocky Horror sequels and other media" }, { "id": "279150", "text": "He ranked 96th on VH1's \"100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock\". He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. He has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His most notable roles include Eddie in \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" (1975), Robert \"Bob\" Paulson in \"Fight Club\" (1999), and \"The Lizard\" in \"The 51st State\" (2002). He has also appeared as a guest actor in television shows such as \"Monk\", \"Glee\", \"South Park\", \"House\", and \"Tales", "title": "Meat Loaf" }, { "id": "7838880", "text": "Fred Steiner Frederick Steiner (February 24, 1923 – June 23, 2011) was an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, film historian and arranger for television, radio and film. Steiner wrote the theme music for \"The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show\" and \"Perry Mason\". While Alexander Courage composed the theme music for the original \"\" TV series (TOS), Steiner's significant contributions to the franchise included composing more of the incidental music for TOS than any other composer, as well as scoring or conducting the music for 29 of the show's 79 episodes. Steiner also composed and orchestrated additional music for \"\" (1979), was part", "title": "Fred Steiner" }, { "id": "5455639", "text": "Richard Stone (composer) Richard Stone (November 27, 1953 – March 9, 2001) was an American composer. He played an important part in the revival of Warner Bros. animation in the 1990s, composing music and songs for \"Tiny Toon Adventures\", \"Taz-Mania\", \"The Plucky Duck Show\", \"Animaniacs\", \"Pinky and the Brain\", \"Histeria!\", \"The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries\", \"Freakazoid!\", and \"Road Rovers\". Many consider him to be an heir to the style of Carl Stalling. After studying cello with Lloyd Smith and Orlando Cole in addition to music theory at the Curtis Institute of Music, Stone went on to earn a degree at", "title": "Richard Stone (composer)" }, { "id": "7838888", "text": "of 88. He was survived by his wife of 64 years, Shirley Steiner; two daughters, singer-songwriter Wendy Waldman and Jillian Sandrock of Ajijic, Mexico; his sister, Kay Gellert; two nieces; one nephew; two great-nieces; three great-nephews; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Fred Steiner Frederick Steiner (February 24, 1923 – June 23, 2011) was an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, film historian and arranger for television, radio and film. Steiner wrote the theme music for \"The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show\" and \"Perry Mason\". While Alexander Courage composed the theme music for the original \"\" TV series (TOS), Steiner's significant contributions to the", "title": "Fred Steiner" }, { "id": "872366", "text": "in 1979, \"Slumdog Millionaire\" by A. R. Rahman in 2009, \"The Social Network\" in 2011 by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and \"Her\" by William Butler and Owen Pallett in 2014 are the only scores with electronic based music ever to be nominated, with the first three winning the award. Noted nominated composers known for their music mostly outside the film world include: Aaron Copland, Kurt Weill, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Philip Glass, John Corigliano, Peter Maxwell Davies, Randy Newman, Richard Rodney Bennett, Stephen Schwartz, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Artie Shaw, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock and Jonny Greenwood. Rock musicians and", "title": "Academy Award for Best Original Score" }, { "id": "4663712", "text": "Score category. The film won an Academy Award for Best Best Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and a Grammy for Best Soundtrack Album. For his contributions, Gold had his name engraved in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was the first composer to receive this honor. Gold was married to singer and actress Marni Nixon from 1950–1969. They had three children: musician Andrew Gold (composer of \"Lonely Boy\" and \"Thank You for Being a Friend\"), Martha Gold Carr, and Melanie Gold. Gold's marriage after Nixon was to Jan Keller Gold (from 1975 until his death). Ernest Gold died", "title": "Ernest Gold (composer)" } ]

[ "Graham Chapman" ]

[ { "id": "264405", "text": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British independent slapstick comedy film concerning the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and directed by Gilliam and Jones. It was conceived during the hiatus between the third and fourth series of their BBC television series \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\". In contrast to the group's first film, \"And Now for Something Completely Different\", a compilation of sketches from the first two television series, \"Holy Grail\" draws", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "264431", "text": "work, \"Spamalot\". They owed a combined £800,000 in legal fees and back royalties to Forstater. To help cover the cost of these royalties and fees, the group arranged and performed in a stage show, \"Monty Python Live (mostly)\", held at The O2 arena in London in July 2014. Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British independent slapstick comedy film concerning the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and directed by Gilliam and", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "10890572", "text": "used by the movie \"Switch\", was to have God as two voices, one male and one female, speaking simultaneously. Director John Huston provided the voice of God in his 1966 epic \"\". God has in fact been portrayed in movies ever since the days of silent cinema, in biblical epics, experimental films, everyday dramas, and comedies. A cantankerous animated God instructs King Arthur and his knights with their mission in the 1975 comedy \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". Robert Mitchum portrayed a cigar-smoking, American, God in Frédéric Fonteyne's 1992 comedy \"Les Sept péchés capitaux\". A suicidal supreme being identified", "title": "Portrayals of God in popular media" }, { "id": "250883", "text": "the lead as King Arthur. Cleese returned to the group for the film, feeling that they were once again breaking new ground. \"Holy Grail\" was filmed on location, in picturesque rural areas of Scotland, with a budget of only £229,000; the money was raised in part with investments from rock groups such as Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Led Zeppelin—and UK music industry entrepreneur Tony Stratton-Smith (founder and owner of the Charisma Records label, for which the Pythons recorded their comedy albums). The backers of the film wanted to cut the famous Black Knight scene (in which the Black Knight", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "250916", "text": "Footlights at Cambridge. He completed his medical training and was legally entitled to practice as a doctor. Chapman is best remembered for the lead roles in \"Holy Grail\", as King Arthur, and \"Life of Brian\", as Brian Cohen. He died of spinal and throat cancer on 4 October 1989. At Chapman's memorial service, Cleese delivered an irreverent eulogy that included all the euphemisms for being dead from the \"Dead Parrot\" sketch, which they had written. Chapman's comedic fictional memoir, \"A Liar's Autobiography\", was adapted into an animated 3D movie in 2012. John Cleese is the oldest Python. He met his", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "169057", "text": "Burton Road, Melton Mowbray. In December 2015 a blue plaque at the entrance of Chapman's old school, King Edward VII School was reported as stolen, but was later found inside the building. In March 2017 the plaque was relocated to Melton Mowbray town centre. Graham Chapman Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was an English comedian, writer, actor, author, and one of the six members of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python. He played authority figures such as the Colonel and the lead role in two Python films, \"Holy Grail\" (1975) and \"Life of Brian\"", "title": "Graham Chapman" }, { "id": "225071", "text": "(1978) and John Boorman's \"Excalibur\" (1981); it is also the main source of the material used in the Arthurian spoof \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" (1975). Retellings and reimaginings of the romance tradition are not the only important aspect of the modern legend of King Arthur. Attempts to portray Arthur as a genuine historical figure of , stripping away the \"romance\", have also emerged. As Taylor and Brewer have noted, this return to the medieval \"chronicle tradition\" of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the \"Historia Brittonum\" is a recent trend which became dominant in Arthurian literature in the years following", "title": "King Arthur" }, { "id": "169029", "text": "Graham Chapman Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was an English comedian, writer, actor, author, and one of the six members of the British surreal comedy group Monty Python. He played authority figures such as the Colonel and the lead role in two Python films, \"Holy Grail\" (1975) and \"Life of Brian\" (1979). Chapman was born in Leicester and was raised in Melton Mowbray. He enjoyed science, acting, and comedy, and after graduating from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, he turned down a career as a doctor to be a comedian. Chapman", "title": "Graham Chapman" }, { "id": "250882", "text": "this being in the era before home video would make the original material much more accessible. The group did not consider the film a success. In 1974, between production on the third and fourth seasons, the group decided to embark on their first \"proper\" feature film, containing entirely new material. \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" was based on Arthurian legend and was directed by Jones and Gilliam. Again, the latter also contributed linking animations (and put together the opening credits). Along with the rest of the Pythons, Jones and Gilliam performed several roles in the film, but Chapman took", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "264406", "text": "on new material, parodying the legend of King Arthur's quest for the Holy Grail. 30 years later, Idle used the film as the basis for the musical \"Spamalot\". \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" grossed more than any British film exhibited in the US in 1975. In the US, it was selected as the second best comedy of all time in the ABC special \"\". In the UK, readers of \"Total Film\" magazine ranked it the fifth greatest comedy film of all time; a similar poll of Channel 4 viewers placed it sixth (2000). In 932 AD, King Arthur and", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "3813264", "text": "that \"had no usual residents at the time of either the 2001 or 2011 censuses.\" While most castle scenes in the movie \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" (1975) were filmed in and around Doune Castle, Castle Stalker appears in the final scene as \"The Castle of Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh\". First the castle is seen from a distance; next, a French castle guard (John Cleese) taunts King Arthur (Graham Chapman) in a French accent from its battlements; finally, a massive attack is launched against the castle, after which police officers who were investigating the death of a historian earlier in the film", "title": "Castle Stalker" }, { "id": "3803787", "text": "series of novels by George R. R. Martin. The castle was used as a stand-in for the fictional \"Castle Leoch\" in the TV adaptation of the \"Outlander\" series of novels. The British comedy film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" — a parody of the legends of King Arthur by the Monty Python team — was filmed on location in Scotland in 1974. The film's producers had gained permission from the National Trust for Scotland to film scenes at several of their Scottish castles, as well as the permission of Lord Moray to film at Doune Castle. However, the National", "title": "Doune Castle" }, { "id": "264421", "text": "in a different visual style and with references to llamas, animals often mentioned in \"Flying Circus\". The subtitles were written by Michael Palin as a way to \"entertain the 'captive' audience\" at the beginning of the film. In addition to several songs written by Python regular Neil Innes, several pieces of music were licensed from De Wolfe Music Library. These include: \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" had its theatrical debut in the United Kingdom in 3 April 1975, followed by a United States release on 27 April 1975. It was re-released on 14 October 2015 in the United Kingdom.", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "8193952", "text": "Patsy (Monty Python) Patsy is a character in the film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" and the musical \"Spamalot\". He is played by Terry Gilliam in \"Monty Python and The Holy Grail\". Serving as King Arthur's assistant, he only has a few simple tasks throughout the entire film, such as using two halves of a coconut to simulate the hoofbeats of Arthur's nonexistent horse. He also announces King Arthur's arrival by trumpet, as when Arthur's group approaches a castle inhabited by French soldiers early in the movie. Patsy has only one line in the film: \"It's only a model,\"", "title": "Patsy (Monty Python)" }, { "id": "13506393", "text": "and the six cast members played many diverse roles, each perfected some character traits. Graham Chapman often portrayed straight-faced men, of any age or class, frequently authority figures such as military officers, policemen or doctors. His characters could, at any moment, engage in \"Pythonesque\" maniacal behaviour and then return to their former sobriety. He was also skilled in abuse, which he brusquely delivered in such sketches as \"The Argument Clinic\" and \"Flying Lessons\". He adopted a dignified demeanour as the leading \"straight man\" in the Python feature films \"Holy Grail\" (King Arthur) and \"Life of Brian\" (title character Brian). John", "title": "Monty Python's Flying Circus" }, { "id": "264407", "text": "his squire, Patsy, travel throughout Britain searching for men to join the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur recruits Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Galahad the Pure, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir-Lancelot, and Sir Not-Appearing-in-this-Film, along with their squires and Robin's troubadours. Arthur leads the men to Camelot, but decides it is \"a silly place\" and sets off elsewhere. As they turn away, God (an image of W. G. Grace) speaks to them and gives Arthur the task of finding the Holy Grail. Arthur and his men search the land for clues to the Grail. They come", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "144401", "text": "of a Window Cleaner\" (1974). More elevated comedy films came from the Monty Python team, also from television. Their two most successful films were \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" (1975) and \"Monty Python's Life of Brian\" (1979), the latter a major commercial success, probably at least in part due to the controversy at the time surrounding its subject. Some American productions did return to the major British studios in 1977–79, including the original \"Star Wars\" (1977) at Elstree Studios, \"Superman\" (1978) at Pinewood, and \"Alien\" (1979) at Shepperton. Successful adaptations were made in the decade of the Agatha Christie", "title": "Cinema of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "14082569", "text": "Pythonesque (play) Pythonesque is a Monty Python-related play by the British playwright Roy Smiles. It is based on Graham Chapman's battle with alcohol and his death from cancer. It continues with his rise in comedy and his getting the lead in \"Monty Python And The Holy Grail\" (1975) and \"Monty Python's Life Of Brian\" (1979). It was first performed in South Africa in 2008 and made its British debut at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it starred Matt Addis as Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, James Lance as Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Mark Oosterveen as John Cleese, and Chris", "title": "Pythonesque (play)" }, { "id": "264422", "text": "The film had its television premiere 25 February 1977 on the \"CBS Late Movie\". Reportedly, the Pythons were displeased to discover a number of edits were done by the network to reduce use of profanity and the showing of blood. The troupe pulled back the rights and thereafter had it broadcast in the United States only on PBS and later other channels such as IFC, where it runs uncut. In Region 1, The Criterion Collection released a laserdisc version of the film featuring audio commentary from directors Jones and Gilliam. In 2001, Columbia Tristar published a two-disc Special Edition DVD.", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "8193954", "text": "production, he was played by Michael McGrath, who impersonated Terry Gilliam's role in the film. McGrath's role in the musical was praised in reviews, and he was nominated for the 2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for \"Spamalot\". In the musical, Patsy is half Jewish. He didn't mention this at first because \"it's just not the kind of thing you say to a heavily armed Christian.\" King Arthur also refers to him as \"family.\" Patsy (Monty Python) Patsy is a character in the film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" and the musical \"Spamalot\". He is", "title": "Patsy (Monty Python)" }, { "id": "250887", "text": "design. The film was shot on location in Tunisia, the finances being provided this time by former Beatle George Harrison, who together with Denis O'Brien formed the production company Hand-Made Films for the movie. Harrison had a cameo role as the \"owner of the Mount\". Despite its subject matter attracting controversy, particularly upon its initial release, it has (together with its predecessor) been ranked among the greatest comedy films. A Channel 4 poll in 2005 ranked \"Holy Grail\" in sixth place, with \"Life of Brian\" at the top. Filmed at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles during preparations for \"The", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "14683045", "text": "\"Strike Back\", before being cast as Ian Al-Harazi in 2014's \"\". The same year, he appeared in the American 3D action fantasy film, \"The Legend of Hercules\". In January 2014, Garrigan appeared in \"Silent Witness\". In 2015, Garrigan played the recurring role of King Arthur on \"Once Upon a Time\" and later reprised this role in 2017's \"\". Garrigan was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England to Liz and Brian Garrigan, and he is the eldest of three siblings. In September 2016, Garrigan became engaged to singer-songwriter Beth Rowley. The two were married on 1 July", "title": "Liam Garrigan" }, { "id": "1665342", "text": "of French into English. However, in this context, the correct translation of is 'heavens...!' In Monty Python's 1975 movie \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\", the French castle guard (John Cleese) orders, when King Arthur (Graham Chapman) doesn't want to go away, his fellow guards to \"\"Fetchez la vache.\"\". The other French guards respond with \"\" and he repeats \"\"Fetchez la vache!\"\". The guards finally get it: fetch ('the cow'), which they then catapult at the Britons. In French, refers to the use of English words sometimes regarded as unwelcome imports or as bad slang. An example would be (also", "title": "Franglais" }, { "id": "18882158", "text": "comedies passes through television. Monty Python team, created in 1969, is composed of six members : Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam. Even if most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin-offs of television series, including \"Dad's Army\" and \"On the Buses\", the greatest successes, however, came with the films of the Monty Python team, including \"And Now for Something Completely Different\" (1971), \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" (1975) and \"Monty Python's Life of Brian\" (1979). One of the most famous movies of the 1980s (in part realized by Monty", "title": "British comedy films" }, { "id": "1523445", "text": "In the film, King Arthur (Graham Chapman), accompanied by his trusty squire Patsy (Terry Gilliam), is travelling through a forest when he enters a clearing and observes a fight taking place between a Black Knight (John Cleese) and a Green one (also played by Gilliam) by a bridge over a small stream. As he watches, the Black Knight defeats the Green one by throwing his sword straight through the eye slit of the Green Knight's great helm (during Arthur's battle with the Black Knight, the Green Knight's body can be seen in a ditch beside the area). Arthur then congratulates", "title": "Black Knight (Monty Python)" }, { "id": "14082570", "text": "Polick as Graham Chapman. It was later adapted for BBC Radio 4 with the same cast and broadcast as the Afternoon Play, in September 2010. Pythonesque (play) Pythonesque is a Monty Python-related play by the British playwright Roy Smiles. It is based on Graham Chapman's battle with alcohol and his death from cancer. It continues with his rise in comedy and his getting the lead in \"Monty Python And The Holy Grail\" (1975) and \"Monty Python's Life Of Brian\" (1979). It was first performed in South Africa in 2008 and made its British debut at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festival", "title": "Pythonesque (play)" }, { "id": "14385574", "text": "(mostly horror – particularly slasher – and action), literature, television series (mostly horror and drama), theater and video games. Perhaps the earliest epic film to have explicit scenes of blood squirting, often filmed in slow motion, was Sam Peckinpah's \"The Wild Bunch\" (1969). It was rated R, then a new category, by the MPAA. The \"Monty Python\" sketch Sam Peckinpah's \"Salad Days\" (1972) involved an orgy of blood gushing, in a parody of Peckinpah's gore-filled directorial style. In \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" (1975), King Arthur must cut off all four limbs of the Black Knight to pass by", "title": "Blood squirt" }, { "id": "412155", "text": "Family in Britain 1974\" (episode 45); the Screaming Queen in a cape and mask in “The Visitors”; and Percy Bysshe Shelly in “Ant Poetry Reading”. More frequently, he played parts that no one else wanted to play, generally because they required a lot of makeup or uncomfortable costumes, such as a recurring knight in armour who ended sketches by walking on and hitting one of the other characters over the head with a plucked chicken. He took a number of roles in the films, including both Patsy and The Old Man From Scene 24 in \"Monty Python and the Holy", "title": "Terry Gilliam" }, { "id": "12369402", "text": "in Tights\" (1993) is Brooks' take on the classic Robin Hood tale. The British comedy group Monty Python is also famous for its parodies, for example, the King Arthur spoof \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" (1974), and the Jesus satire \"Life of Brian\" (1979). In the 1980s the team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker parodied well-established genres such as disaster, war and crime movies with the \"Airplane!\", \"Hot Shots!\" and \"Naked Gun\" series respectively. There is a 1989 film parody from Spain of the TV series \"The A-Team\" called \"El equipo Aahhgg\" directed by José Truchado.", "title": "Parody" }, { "id": "6190383", "text": "Ronald Leigh-Hunt Ronald Leigh-Hunt (5 October 1920 – 12 September 2005) was a British film and television actor. His father was a stockbroker and he attended the Italia Conti Academy. He began acting whilst serving in the army. Though never a major star, he appeared in over a hundred television and film productions over a forty-year period, including as King Arthur in \"The Adventures of Sir Lancelot\" in the mid-1950s, and \"General Hospital\" in the early 1970s. He appeared in \"Danger Man\" and twice in \"Doctor Who\", as Commander Radnor in \"The Seeds of Death\" (1969) and as Commander Stevenson", "title": "Ronald Leigh-Hunt" }, { "id": "17103422", "text": "Jan Stoeckart Jan Stoeckart (3 November 1927, Amsterdam – 13 January 2017) was a Dutch composer, conductor, trombonist and former radio producer, who often worked under various pseudonyms such as Willy Faust, Peter Milray, Julius Steffaro and Jack Trombey. In the UK he is best known for his composition \"Eye Level\", the theme tune to the ITV series \"Van der Valk\", which was a number one on the UK singles chart in 1973. He also composed \"Homeward Bound\", a theme from the film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)\", under the pseudonym Jack Trombey. Jan Stoeckart took piano and", "title": "Jan Stoeckart" }, { "id": "2314277", "text": "An episode of the BBC series \"New Tricks\" which was set in the forest was broadcast on 3 September 2013. In the episode \"Day Trippers\" of the UK (Thames Television) sitcom \"Robins's Nest\", first broadcast on 27 November 1978, the main characters picnic in the forest. Currently (2013) the forest has been used as a location in fourteen films including the Black Knight sequence in the 1975 film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". The forest has long standing criminal associations. In the 18th century, Epping Forest became notorious as the haunt of highwaymen, who preyed on the coaches of", "title": "Epping Forest" }, { "id": "1951140", "text": "adaptations of Agatha Christie stories \"Murder on the Orient Express\" (1974) and \"Death on the Nile\" (1978) were critically acclaimed. The film adaptation of the West End musical \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show\" (1975) sees Tim Curry reprise his role as Dr Frank N Furter. Starring as James Bond in \"Live and Let Die\" (1973), Roger Moore would go on to play 007 seven times. In the mid-1970s, British comedy team Monty Python switched their attention to films, beginning with \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" (1975), followed by \"Monty Python's Life of Brian\" (1979), the latter regularly voted the", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "7059753", "text": "Gruffydd, wife of the Welsh prince Gruffydd ap Rhys, who was beheaded in 1136. Kidwelly was used as a location for the film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\", appearing in the very first scene after the titles. After the first view of King Arthur and Patsy, a very misty establishing shot shows Kidwelly as their destination. However, the following close up filming was done at Doune Castle in Scotland. Kidwelly Castle Kidwelly Castle () is a Norman castle overlooking the River Gwendraeth and the town of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The present remains of the castle include work from about", "title": "Kidwelly Castle" }, { "id": "250847", "text": "discarding rules of television comedy. Following their television work, they began making films, which include \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" (1975), \"Life of Brian\" (1979) and \"The Meaning of Life\" (1983). Their influence on British comedy has been apparent for years, while in North America, it has coloured the work of cult performers from the early editions of \"Saturday Night Live\" through to more recent absurdist trends in television comedy. \"Pythonesque\" has entered the English lexicon as a result. In a 2005 poll of over 300 comics, comedy writers, producers and directors throughout the English-speaking world to find \"The", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "6676771", "text": "Nigel Terry Nigel Terry (15 August 1945 – 30 April 2015) was a British stage and film actor probably best known by film audiences for his portrayal of King Arthur in John Boorman's \"Excalibur\" (1981). Terry primarily dedicated himself to the classical stage. When he extended himself into film and TV outings, it was mostly for historical or period roles. Terry was born on 15 August 1945 in Bristol, the son of Frank Albert Terry OBE, DFC, a pilot in the Royal Air Force, and his wife, Doreen. He was the first baby born in Bristol after the end of", "title": "Nigel Terry" }, { "id": "211492", "text": "John Cleese John Marwood Cleese (; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on \"The Frost Report\". In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" and the four Monty Python films: \"And Now for Something Completely Different\", \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\", \"Life of Brian\" and \"The Meaning of Life\". In the mid-1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie Booth, co-wrote and starred in the British", "title": "John Cleese" }, { "id": "264425", "text": "of the bonus features from the Extraordinarily Deluxe Edition were omitted. A 35th anniversary edition on Blu-ray was released in the US on 6 March 2012. Special features include \"The Holy Book of Days,\" a second-screen experience that can be downloaded as an app on an iOS device and played with the Blu-ray to enhance its viewing; lost animation sequences with a new intro from animator Terry Gilliam; outtakes; and extended scenes with Python member and the movie's co-director Terry Jones. Contemporary reviews were mixed. Vincent Canby of \"The New York Times\" wrote in a favorable review that the film", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "8557570", "text": "Wolf Kahler Wolf Kahler (born 3 April 1940) is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor. From 1975–2012, he appeared in many English language US and UK television and film productions. One of his early roles was Kaiser Wilhelm II in Michael York's adventure film \"The Riddle of the Sands\". One of his most well-known roles was that of Dietrich in \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\". His voice also appeared in video games including as Kaiser Vlad in \"Battalion Wars\". Kahler played the Prince of Tübingen in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film, \"Barry Lyndon\". In 2001 he portrayed a Wehrmacht", "title": "Wolf Kahler" }, { "id": "626121", "text": "films, along with some original post-Python material. In 2005, Idle released \"The Greedy Bastard Diary\", a book detailing the things the cast and crew encountered during the three-month tour. In 2004, Idle created \"Spamalot,\" a musical comedy based on the 1975 film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". The medieval production tells the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they journey on their quest for the Holy Grail. \"Spamalot\" features a book and lyrics by Eric Idle, music by Idle and John Du Prez, direction by Mike Nichols, and choreography by Casey Nicholaw. More", "title": "Eric Idle" }, { "id": "4426208", "text": "Gumby (played by Cleese), standing ankle-deep in a river, says \"I would put a tax... on all people... who stand... in water.\" He then shouts in alarm as he notices that he is standing in water. They also appeared in their own sketches, such as \"Flower Arranging\" and \"Gumby Brain Surgery\". A popular Gumby catchphrase is \"My brain hurts!\", which was used in the \"Brain Surgery\" sketch. This is also heard in the trailer for \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\", when the crew is supposedly \"looking\" for someone to voice the trailer. While playing a clip of King Arthur", "title": "Gumbys" }, { "id": "3713473", "text": "previews, but both parts were cut during the pre-Broadway run. Several pairs of characters originally played by the same Monty Python member were reduced to one: the Dead Collector and Sir Robin (Idle), the Large Man with a Dead Body and Sir Lancelot (Cleese), and Dennis the Active Peasant and Sir Galahad (Michael Palin). Notable Broadway cast replacements included: Notable West End cast replacements have included Peter Davison and Bill Ward in 2007 and Marin Mazzie, in early 2008. Sanjeev Bhaskar (King Arthur), Michael Xavier (Sir Galahad) and Nina Söderquist (Lady of the Lake) were part of the closing cast.", "title": "Spamalot" }, { "id": "5621383", "text": "Terence Bayler Terence Bayler (24 January 1930 – 2 August 2016) was a New Zealand film, television, and stage actor. His most memorable roles were in \"Monty Python's Life of Brian\" (1979) and \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" (2001). Bayler was born in Wanganui, the son of Amy (née Allomes) and Harold Bayler, a stagehand. His first film appearance was a starring role in New Zealand film Broken Barrier (1952). Bayler then spent the majority of his six-decade long acting career in England, although he also appeared in 1981 New Zealand feature \"Pictures\" and BBC mini-series \"The Other Side", "title": "Terence Bayler" }, { "id": "3713454", "text": "Spamalot Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical comedy adapted from the 1975 film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". Like the motion picture, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian legend, but it differs from the film in many ways. The original 2005 Broadway production, directed by Mike Nichols, received 14 Tony Awards nominations, winning in three categories, including Best Musical. During its initial run of 1,575 performances, it was seen by more than two million people and grossed over $175 million. A recording encourages members of the audience to \"let your cellphones and pagers ring willy-nilly,\" and", "title": "Spamalot" }, { "id": "412147", "text": "Terry Gilliam Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has directed 12 feature films, including \"Time Bandits\" (1981), \"Brazil\" (1985), \"The Adventures of Baron Munchausen\" (1988), \"The Fisher King\" (1991), \"12 Monkeys\" (1995), \"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas\" (1998), \"The Brothers Grimm\" (2005), \"Tideland\" (2005), and \"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus\" (2009). The only \"Python\" not born in Britain, he became a naturalised British subject in 1968 and formally renounced his American citizenship in 2006. Gilliam was born", "title": "Terry Gilliam" }, { "id": "20285303", "text": "Monty Python Live! Monty Python Live! is a book detailing the various live performances of the Monty Python team between 1971 and 1980. Edited by Eric Idle, the book was released in 2009 as part of the team’s 40th anniversary celebrations and features recollections from surviving members John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, alongside archive interviews with Graham Chapman. Also contributing are Python regulars Carol Cleveland and Neil Innes, promoter Tony Smith, US manager Nancy Lewis, biographer Kim Howard Johnson and also Carl Reiner. The book also contains the script for the 1980 Hollywood Bowl", "title": "Monty Python Live!" }, { "id": "1422783", "text": "won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Co-written by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen, it was performed by Christopher Cross. Sir John Gielgud also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. The film was nominated for two other Academy Awards. Arthur Bach is a spoiled alcoholic from New York City, who likes to be driven in his chauffeured Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith limousine through Central Park. Arthur is heir to a portion of his family's vast fortune, which he is told will be his, only if he marries the upper class Susan Johnson, the daughter", "title": "Arthur (1981 film)" }, { "id": "148713", "text": "elements of Arthurian legend were again featured, albeit absurdly, in 1975's \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". Harryhausen also returned to the silver screen in the 1970s with two additional \"Sinbad\" fantasies, \"The Golden Voyage of Sinbad\" (1974) and \"Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger\" (1977). The animated movie \"Wizards\" (1977) had limited success at the box office but achieved status as a cult film. There was also \"The Noah\" (1975) which was never released theatrically but became a cult favorite when it was finally released on DVD in 2006. Some would consider 1977's \"Oh God!\", starring George Burns", "title": "Fantasy film" }, { "id": "264409", "text": "dreaded Knights Who Say Ni. Sir Robin avoids a fight with a Three-Headed Giant by running away while the heads are arguing. Sir Galahad is led by a grail-shaped beacon to Castle Anthrax, populated by 160 women, but to his chagrin is \"rescued\" by Lancelot. Lancelot, after finding a note from Swamp Castle believed to be from a lady being forced to marry against her will, rushes to the castle and kills nearly the entire wedding party, only to discover that the note was sent by an effeminate prince. Arthur and his knights regroup and are joined by Brother Maynard", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "20164656", "text": "John Cleese's departure. Many photographs and Terry Gilliam sketches appear throughout the book. The original release was issued in a plain black cover bearing the title and a cut out window revealing the typeface of the first draft. Subsequent reprints have used a different design, losing the cut out window and adding stills from the film. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book), also known as Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen (Bøk), is the literary companion to the 1975 film of the same name, assembled by co-director Terry Jones. Released in 1977,", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book)" }, { "id": "5621386", "text": "(1985). Terence Bayler Terence Bayler (24 January 1930 – 2 August 2016) was a New Zealand film, television, and stage actor. His most memorable roles were in \"Monty Python's Life of Brian\" (1979) and \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" (2001). Bayler was born in Wanganui, the son of Amy (née Allomes) and Harold Bayler, a stagehand. His first film appearance was a starring role in New Zealand film Broken Barrier (1952). Bayler then spent the majority of his six-decade long acting career in England, although he also appeared in 1981 New Zealand feature \"Pictures\" and BBC mini-series \"The Other", "title": "Terence Bayler" }, { "id": "1456382", "text": "Scum. After his introduction he told the audience, \"I've suffered for my music. Now it's your turn.\" In 1980 he travelled to the States with the Pythons again, subsequently appearing in \"Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl\". He performed the songs \"How Sweet to Be an Idiot\" and \"I'm the Urban Spaceman\". He also appeared as one of the singing \"Bruces\" in the Philosopher Sketch and as a Church Policeman in the \"Salvation Fuzz\" sketch. Innes wrote original songs for the 1975 film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\", such as \"Knights of the Round Table\" and \"Brave Sir", "title": "Neil Innes" }, { "id": "1523444", "text": "Black Knight (Monty Python) The Black Knight is a fictional character who appears in a scene of the feature film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". As his name suggests, he is a knight dressed in black and behaves similarly to the standard character, a black knight. He guards a \"bridge\" (in reality a short plank of wood) over a small stream — which could have been easily stepped over by King Arthur but, for unknown reasons, he does not. Although supremely skilled in swordplay, the Black Knight suffers from unchecked overconfidence and a staunch refusal ever to give up.", "title": "Black Knight (Monty Python)" }, { "id": "225069", "text": "democracy. In John Cowper Powys's \"\" (1951), set in Wales in 499, just prior to the Saxon invasion, Arthur, the Emperor of Britain, is only a minor character, whereas Myrddin (Merlin) and Nineue, Tennyson's Vivien, are major figures. Myrddin's disappearance at the end of the novel is \"in the tradition of magical hibernation when the king or mage leaves his people for some island or cave to return either at a more propitious or more dangerous time\" (see King Arthur's messianic return). Also Powys's earlier novel, \"A Glastonbury Romance\" (1932) is concerned with both the Holy Grail and the legend", "title": "King Arthur" }, { "id": "250908", "text": "premiere of Idle's musical \"Spamalot\", based on \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". It opened in Chicago and has since played in New York on Broadway, London, and numerous other major cities across the world. In 2004, it was nominated for 14 Tony Awards and won three: Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical for Mike Nichols, and Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Sara Ramirez, who played the Lady of the Lake, a character specially added for the musical. Cleese played the voice of God, played in the film by Chapman. Owing in part to", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "11978426", "text": "Søndergaard in the episode \"Penguin Diplomacy\" in the second series of \"John Finnemore's Double Acts.\" Goodman-Hill started his professional career in the theatre. He has since appeared in productions such as \"\", as Peter Cook and \"The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union\" as Eric. He received an Laurence Olivier Award nomination for the Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for his performance as Sir Lancelot (and other roles, mostly those played by John Cleese in the original film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\"), in the London production", "title": "Tom Goodman-Hill" }, { "id": "237768", "text": "have gone on to prompt the publication of a book, edited by Joan E. Taylor, the conference organiser, \"Jesus and Brian: Exploring the Historical Jesus and His Times via Monty Python's Life of Brian\", published by Bloomsbury in 2015. Monty Python's Life of Brian Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin). It was also directed by Jones. The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman),", "title": "Monty Python's Life of Brian" }, { "id": "4925097", "text": "in the \"Harry Potter\" film series, Uncle Monty in \"Withnail and I\" (1987), Dr. Albert Meinheimer in \"\" (1991), Henry Crabbe in \"Pie in the Sky\" (1994–1997), Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\" and King George II in Disney's \"\" (2011). Earlier in his career, he had a prominent supporting role as British journalist Collins in Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning film \"Gandhi\" (1982). Griffiths was born in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Riding of Yorkshire, to Jane (née Denmark) and Thomas Griffiths. His father was a steelworker who also fought in pubs for money, while his mother's occupation was", "title": "Richard Griffiths" }, { "id": "7477751", "text": "Damien Thomas Damien Thomas (born 11 April 1942) is a British actor noted for his roles in British films and television, such as his role as Father Martin Alvito in the 1980 hit miniseries \"Shōgun\" and as Richard Mason in the 1983 BBC production of \"Jane Eyre\". Film credits include \"Journey into Darkness\" (1968), \"Julius Caesar\" (1970), \"Twins of Evil\" (1971), \"Henry VIII and His Six Wives\" (1972), \"Tiffany Jones\" (1973), \"The Message\" (1976), \"Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger\" (1977), \"Pirates\" (1986), \"Never Let Me Go\" (2010) and \"Grave Tales\" (2011). TV credits include: \"Jason King\", \"Van der", "title": "Damien Thomas" }, { "id": "5967733", "text": "Connaught. The Stage newspaper noted that his portrayal of Heathcliff featured moments where it 'reaches great heights'. He played the brother of Lesley Whittle in the 1977 film \"The Black Panther\", and had the eponymous starring role in the BBC series \"The Legend of King Arthur\" (1979), which was adapted for the screen by Andrew Davies. He also starred in the BAFTA-winning BBC series \"The Voyage of Charles Darwin\", in which he played the captain of HMS \"Beagle\", Robert FitzRoy. He played Gulliver in \"Gulliver in Lilliput\" for the BBC in 1982. Burt was a co-presenter of Yorkshire Television's pre-school", "title": "Andrew Burt" }, { "id": "211550", "text": "as a species until 11 November 2005. John Cleese John Marwood Cleese (; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on \"The Frost Report\". In the late 1960s, he co-founded Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" and the four Monty Python films: \"And Now for Something Completely Different\", \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\", \"Life of Brian\" and \"The Meaning of Life\". In the mid-1970s, Cleese and his first wife, Connie", "title": "John Cleese" }, { "id": "264408", "text": "to a castle occupied by French soldiers who claim to have the Grail and insult the Englishmen. Arthur and his men come up with a plan to sneak in using a Trojan Rabbit, but they mishandle its execution and are forced away. Arthur decides that the knights should go their separate ways to search for clues to the Grail's whereabouts. A modern-day historian being filmed for a documentary describing the Arthurian legends is abruptly killed by a knight on horseback, triggering a modern-day police investigation. On the knights' travels, Arthur and Bedevere attempt to satisfy the strange requests of the", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "235575", "text": "Knights Who Say Ni The Knights Who Say \"Ni!\", also called the Knights of Ni, are a band of knights encountered by King Arthur and his followers in the film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". They demonstrate their power by shouting \"Ni!\" (pronounced \"nee\"), terrifying the party, whom they refuse to allow passage through their forest unless appeased through the gift of a shrubbery. The knights appear silhouetted in a misty wood, wearing robes and horned helmets; their number is never apparent, but there are at least six. The leader of the knights, played by Michael Palin, is the", "title": "Knights Who Say Ni" }, { "id": "264410", "text": "and monk followers. They meet Tim the Enchanter, who directs them to a cave where the location of the Grail is said to be written, but it is guarded by the deadly Rabbit of Caerbannog. After the Rabbit kills several of the knights, Arthur uses the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, provided by Maynard, to destroy the creature. Inside, they find the inscription from Joseph of Arimathea, directing them to the Castle of Aarrgh. After evading a giant monster, they arrive at the Bridge of Death and must answer three questions from the bridge-keeper to pass. Lancelot answers first and", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "237699", "text": "Monty Python's Life of Brian Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin). It was also directed by Jones. The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah. Following the withdrawal of funding by EMI Films just days before production was scheduled", "title": "Monty Python's Life of Brian" }, { "id": "250879", "text": "The name \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" appears in the opening animation for season four, but in the end credits, the show is listed as simply \"Monty Python\". Although Cleese left the show, he was credited as a writer for three of the six episodes, largely concentrated in the \"Michael Ellis\" episode, which had begun life as one of the many drafts of the \"Holy Grail\" motion picture. When a new direction for \"Grail\" was decided upon, the subplot of Arthur and his knights wandering around a strange department store in modern times was lifted out and recycled as the aforementioned", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "5230077", "text": "in the 1978 New Year's Honours. In the 1986 Queen's Birthday Honours she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). General references: Patricia Lovell Patricia Anna \"Pat\" Lovell (née Parr), (1929 – 26 January 2013) was an Australian film producer and actress, whose work within that country's film industry led her to receive the Raymond Longford Award in 2004 from the Australian Film Institute (AFI). Her productions include 1975's \"Picnic at Hanging Rock\", and \"Gallipoli\", which received an AFI Award in 1982 as Best Film. Patricia Anna Parr says she was born in either Artarmon or Willoughby,", "title": "Patricia Lovell" }, { "id": "250881", "text": "directed by Ian MacNaughton, reprising his role from the television series. It consisted of sketches from the first two seasons of the \"Flying Circus\", reshot on a low budget (and often slightly edited) for cinema release. Material selected for the film includes: \"Dead Parrot\", \"The Lumberjack Song\", \"Upper Class Twit of the Year\", \"Hell's Grannies\", \"Self-Defence Class\", \"How Not to Be Seen\", and \"Nudge Nudge\". Financed by \"Playboy\"s UK executive Victor Lownes, it was intended as a way of breaking Monty Python into America, and although it was ultimately unsuccessful in this, the film did good business in the UK,", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "8071440", "text": "Godfrey Quigley Godfrey Quigley (4 May 19237 September 1994) was an Irish film, television and stage actor. Quigley was born in Jerusalem, where his father was serving as an officer in the British Army. The family returned to Ireland in the 1930s and, following military service in the Second World War, Quigley trained as an actor at the Abbey School of Acting. In 1949, Quigley made his first film appearance, in \"Saints and Sinners\". He appeared in two Stanley Kubrick films: first as the prison chaplain in \"A Clockwork Orange\" (1971), and then as Captain Grogan in \"Barry Lyndon\" (1975).", "title": "Godfrey Quigley" }, { "id": "264414", "text": "fund the film by Tony Stratton-Smith, head of Charisma Records (the record label that released Python’s early comedy albums). According to Terry Gilliam, the Pythons turned to rock stars like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Elton John for finance as the studios refused to fund the film and rock stars saw it as \"a good tax write-off\" due to UK income tax being \"as high as 90%\" at the time. \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" was mostly shot on location in Scotland, particularly around Doune Castle, Glen Coe, and the privately owned Castle Stalker. The many castles seen throughout", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "250886", "text": "stable, and then later on the Mount, speaking the Beatitudes), he is played straight (by actor Kenneth Colley) and portrayed with respect. The comedy begins when members of the crowd mishear his statements of peace, love, and tolerance (\"I think he said, 'Blessed are the cheesemakers). Directing duties were handled solely by Jones, having amicably agreed with Gilliam that Jones' approach to film-making was better suited for Python's general performing style. \"Holy Grail's\" production had often been stilted by their differences behind the camera. Gilliam again contributed two animated sequences (one being the opening credits) and took charge of set", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "7454335", "text": "band was male only, but in that year a female flutist joined and by 1961 there were eleven young women in the band. In the early nineties the band, under the direction of Paul Gerlach who was known as the Director For Life without the Possibility for Parole, started a new tradition within the band. Drawing inspiration from the critically acclaimed 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a trumpeter of the band (Ray Strobel), wrote an arrangement of King Arthur's Quest for the band. To this day, a King takes to the track every home game between the", "title": "Carnegie Mellon University traditions" }, { "id": "2788650", "text": "King Kong (1976 film) King Kong is a 1976 American monster film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 film of the same name about a giant ape that is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition. Featuring special effects by Carlo Rambaldi, it stars Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin and Jessica Lange in her first film role. The film was the fifth highest-grossing film of 1977 according to box office statistics compiled during its release by \"Variety\". It won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was", "title": "King Kong (1976 film)" }, { "id": "263062", "text": "performed and wrote in the Oxford Revue (called the Et ceteras) with Jones. In 1966 he married Helen Gibbins, whom he first met in 1959 on holiday in Southwold in Suffolk. This meeting was later fictionalised in Palin's play \"East of Ipswich\". The couple have three children: Thomas (b. 1969), William (b. 1971) and Rachel (b. 1975) and two grandchildren. Rachel is a BBC TV director, whose work includes \"\", shown on BBC2 throughout October and November 2010. A photograph of William as a baby briefly appeared in \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" as \"Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film\". His nephew is", "title": "Michael Palin" }, { "id": "20185258", "text": "and the Holy Grail\" in 1975. These include Eric Idle's \"Rutland Weekend Television\", John Cleese's \"Fawlty Towers\", Michael Palin and Terry Jones' \"Ripping Yarns\", Terry Gilliam's \"Jabberwocky\" and Graham Chapman's \"The Odd Job\". The origins of \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" are briefly covered and the film also features separately filmed comments, notably from Graham Chapman and John Cleese, about their fellow team members. The atmosphere is relaxed throughout and, unsurprisingly, frequently humorous. At one point the team are joined by Spike Milligan, who happened to be holidaying in Tunisia and ended up performing a cameo role in the film. The", "title": "The Pythons (documentary)" }, { "id": "2414470", "text": "Ioan Gruffudd Ioan Gruffudd (; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh actor. He first came to public attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in \"Titanic\" (1997), and then for his portrayal of Horatio Hornblower in the \"Hornblower\" series of television films (1998–2003). Subsequent roles have included Lancelot in \"King Arthur\" (2004), Mister Fantastic in \"Fantastic 4\" (2005) and its (2007), William Wilberforce in \"Amazing Grace\" (2006), and Tony Blair in \"W.\" (2008). His other film credits include \"102 Dalmatians\" (2000), \"Black Hawk Down\" (2001), \"The Gathering\" (2003), \"Fireflies in the Garden\", \"The Secret of Moonacre\" (both 2008), \"Sanctum\", \"Horrible", "title": "Ioan Gruffudd" }, { "id": "250912", "text": "will be released in early 2012 in both 2D and 3D formats. Produced and directed by London-based Bill Jones, Ben Timlett, and Jeff Simpson, the new film has 15 animation companies working on chapters that will range from three to 12 minutes in length, each in a different style. John Cleese recorded dialogue which was matched with Chapman's voice. Michael Palin voiced Chapman's father and Terry Jones voiced his mother. Terry Gilliam voiced Graham's psychiatrist. They all play various other roles. Among the original Python group, only Eric Idle was not involved. On 26 January 2012, Terry Jones announced that", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "20030991", "text": "Roy Forge Smith Roy Forge Smith (18 May 1929 – 6 February 2017) was a British production designer known for his work in films, such as \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\", and television, including 44 episodes of the \"Ghost Whisperer\" from 2005 to 2007. Smith received two ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominations for his work on the television movies \"The Hunley\" in 1998 and the 2002 CBS biopic, \"Martin and Lewis\". He frequently collaborated with writer and director, John Gray. Smith was a native of London. He began his career, which spanned more than 40 years in", "title": "Roy Forge Smith" }, { "id": "3235507", "text": "Along with Gawain, they already appear as Arthur's companions in very early Welsh sources, like \"Culhwch and Olwen\" in the \"Mabinogion\". The knights' characterisations in Arthurian legend are also dropped. For example, the film's portrayal of a boorish and lusty Bors, the father of many children, differs greatly from his namesake whose purity and celibacy allowed him to witness the Holy Grail according to legend. The cinematic portrayal of Bors is therefore much closer to the traditional depiction of Sir Kay than his legendary namesake. Lancelot and Galahad are portrayed as having similar ages, whereas according to traditional versions they", "title": "King Arthur (2004 film)" }, { "id": "5263336", "text": "with Tovah Feldshuh and Suzanne Bertish. During this time, Ramirez also appeared in guest roles in several television series, including \"NYPD Blue\", \"\", \"Third Watch\", and \"Spin City\" among others. Ramirez's breakout role came when she was cast as the Lady of the Lake in Eric Idle and John Du Prez's musical \"Spamalot\". Based on the 1975 film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\", the musical opened on Broadway in 2005 to widespread acclaim. Ramirez was singled out for her performance, winning several awards including the 2005 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and the Drama League", "title": "Sara Ramirez" }, { "id": "3825897", "text": "recurring role, with Dale appearing numerous times between seasons two (2006) and six (2010). He enjoyed the role but often found it difficult due to his character's unclear motivation. In March 2008, Dale replaced Peter Davison in the lead role of King Arthur in the London West End production of Monty Python's \"Spamalot\" at the Palace Theatre. He accepted the role because he was a fan of \"Monty Python\" and considered that \"life's too short\" for him to have turned down a West End part. Although he has seen all of the shows and the other films, Dale had never", "title": "Alan Dale" }, { "id": "20164655", "text": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book), also known as Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen (Bøk), is the literary companion to the 1975 film of the same name, assembled by co-director Terry Jones. Released in 1977, the main body of the book is the final draft of the screenplay, complete with sections that were cut from the final film scribbled out. Also included is the very first draft, much of which bears little resemblance to the final product and parts of which ended up in the fourth series of Monty Python, following", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book)" }, { "id": "710215", "text": "1975 cult classic comedic film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" is structured around a knightly quest for the sacred relic. Examples in television include various Rambaldi artifacts in \"Alias\", the orb in \"The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.\", and Krieger Waves in the \"\" episode \"A Matter of Perspective\". Carl Macek created protoculture as a MacGuffin to unite the storylines of the three separate anime that composed \"Robotech\". The Hellmouth in \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" has been described as a kind of topological MacGuffin: \"a shortcut, in lieu of scientific explanation,\" as Joss Whedon put it. Examples in literature", "title": "MacGuffin" }, { "id": "19033448", "text": "positive reviews. It was especially praised with regards to the relative quality and atmosphere in the movie when compared to its \"shoestring budget\". Arthur and Merlin Arthur & Merlin is a 2015 independent British feature film directed by Marco van Belle and written by Kat Wood and Marco van Belle. The film, which stars Kirk Barker, Stefan Butler, Nigel Cooke and David Sterne, is based on the original Celtic tales of Arthur and Merlin. In Dark Ages Britain, a time of magic and legend, a powerful druid (Nigel Cooke) is bent on destroying the Celtic people. Arthur (Kirk Barker), a", "title": "Arthur and Merlin" }, { "id": "250873", "text": "up to begin airing the show in October 1974—exactly five years after their BBC debut. There was also cross-promotion from FM Radio stations across the country, whose airing of tracks from the Python LPs had already introduced American audiences to this bizarre brand of comedy. The popularity on PBS resulted in the 1974 re-release of the 1972 \"...Completely Different\" film, with much greater box office success. The ability to show \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" under the American NTSC standard had been made possible by the commercial actions of American television producer Greg Garrison. Garrison produced the NBC series \"The Dean", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "264423", "text": "Disc One included two commentary tracks featuring Idle, Palin, and Cleese in the first, and Jones and Gilliam in the second, and \"Subtitles for People Who Don't Like the Film\", consisting of lines taken from William Shakespeare's \"Henry IV, Part 2\". Disc Two includes \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Lego\" (also known as \"Lego Knights\" or \"It's Only a Model\"), a \"brickfilm\" version of the \"Camelot Song\" as sung by Lego minifigures. It was created by Spite Your Face Productions on commission from the Lego Group and Python Pictures. The project was conceived by the original film's respective", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "264412", "text": "Fifteen months before the BBC visited the set in May 1974, the Monty Python troupe assembled the first version of the screenplay. When half of the resulting material was set in the Middle Ages, and half was set in the present day, the group opted to focus on the Middle Ages, revolving on the legend of the Holy Grail. By the fourth or fifth version of their screenplay, the story was complete, and the cast joked the fact that the Grail was never retrieved would be \"a big let-down ... a great anti-climax\". Graham Chapman said a challenge was incorporating", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "264417", "text": "with candles underneath the frame (to give a heat haze). This was a low-cost method of achieving a convincing location effect. On the DVD audio commentary, Cleese described challenges shooting and editing Castle Anthrax in \"The Tale of Sir Galahad\", with what he felt the most comedic take being unused because an anachronistic coat was visible in it. Castle Anthrax was also shot in one part of Doune, where costume designer Hazel Pethig advised against nudity, dressing the girls in shifts. In the scene where the knights were combatting the Rabbit of Caerbannog, a real white rabbit was used, switched", "title": "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" }, { "id": "5367523", "text": "making the definition epic a matter of dispute, and raise questions as to whether it is a \"genre\" at all. As Roger Ebert put it, in his \"Great Movies\" article on \"Lawrence of Arabia\": The comedy film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\" had the joking tagline \"Makes \"Ben-Hur\" look like an epic.\" The epic is among the oldest of film genres, with one early notable example being Giovanni Pastrone's \"Cabiria\", a three-hour silent film, about the Punic Wars, that laid the groundwork for the subsequent silent epics of D. W. Griffith. The genre reached a peak of popularity in", "title": "Epic film" }, { "id": "682621", "text": "being advised to reduce his workload and improve his health, Wakeman chose to continue with his career and to smoke and drink. He began a 20-date North American tour in September 1974 with the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Choir of America, and his rock band. As per doctors orders, Wakeman was required to pass a heart monitor test before each performance. Wakeman later revealed that the tour cost him £125,000. In January 1975, Wakeman finished recording \"King Arthur\" at Morgan Studios with the New World Orchestra, English Chamber Choir, and the Nottingham Festival Vocal Group. Based on the stories about", "title": "Rick Wakeman" }, { "id": "1422790", "text": "followed by a sequel in 1988, \"\". Lead players Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, and John Gielgud, reprised their roles, as well as many supporting players such as Geraldine Fitzgerald, Barney Martin, and Ted Ross. It was first reported in 2008 that \"Arthur\" was to be remade by Warner Bros., with British actor/comedian Russell Brand in the lead role. Brand confirmed this during his March 10, 2009 appearance on \"The Howard Stern Show\". The remake was a critical and financial failure. This film had three Indian remakes. One was the 1984 Bollywood Hindi language film \"Sharaabi\" starring Amitabh Bachchan in the", "title": "Arthur (1981 film)" }, { "id": "14683046", "text": "2017. Liam Garrigan Liam Thomas Garrigan (born 17 October 1981) is an English theatre and television actor. As a youth he attended classes at Kingston upon Hull's Northern Stage Company and was a student at Wyke College, Kingston upon Hull. His first television role was as Nic Yorke in the BBC continuing drama series \"Holby City\". He is best known for his roles as Ian Al-Harazi on the Fox series \"\" and King Arthur in the ABC series \"Once Upon a Time\" and \"\". Liam was sent to musical theater classes by his mother at an early age, he was", "title": "Liam Garrigan" }, { "id": "1263910", "text": "Richard Harris Richard St. John Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer. He appeared on stage and in many films, appearing as Frank Machin in \"This Sporting Life\", for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, King Arthur in the 1967 film \"Camelot\" and the subsequent 1981 revival of the show. He played an aristocrat captured by Native Americans in \"A Man Called Horse\" (1970), a gunfighter in Clint Eastwood's Western film \"Unforgiven\" (1992), Emperor Marcus Aurelius in \"Gladiator\" (2000), and Albus Dumbledore in the first two \"Harry Potter\"", "title": "Richard Harris" }, { "id": "682623", "text": "and the musicians' stage placed in the round and decorated as a castle. The shows, though well received and contributed to the album's commercial success, were expensive to produce. In 2009, the concerts came in at No. 79 on the \"100 Greatest Shocking Moments in Rock and Roll\" program broadcast on VH1. The album has sold an estimated 12 million copies worldwide. Wakeman toured \"King Arthur\" with an augmented formation of the English Rock Ensemble for three months from October 1975, across North and South America. The tour marked his first association with new drummer Tony Fernandez who would perform", "title": "Rick Wakeman" }, { "id": "3079560", "text": "companies with his longtime agent Michael Wiggs. The first effort was \"She's Gone\", in which he plays a businessman whose young daughter disappears in Istanbul (filming was held up by unrest in the Middle East). He followed it up with \"Jerusalem\", in which he played poet and visionary William Blake. Winstone made his action film debut in \"King Arthur\", starring Clive Owen, directed by Antoine Fuqua, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. In that film, Fuqua proclaimed him as \"the British De Niro.\" He then provided the voice of Soldier Sam in the screen version of \"The Magic Roundabout\". In 2005,", "title": "Ray Winstone" }, { "id": "250933", "text": "to contribute musically included Fred Tomlinson and the Fred Tomlinson Singers. They made appearances in songs such as \"The Lumberjack Song\" as a backup choir. In addition, various other contributors and performers for the Pythons included John Howard Davies, John Hughman, Lyn Ashley, Bob Raymond, John Young, Rita Davies, Stanley Mason, Maureen Flanagan, and David Ballantyne. Monty Python in films Monty Python live Monty Python reunions By the time of Monty Python's 25th anniversary, in 1994, the point was already being made that \"the five surviving members had with the passing years begun to occupy an institutional position in the", "title": "Monty Python" }, { "id": "7620329", "text": "became widely available (although copyrighted) in 2007. In Monty Python's Monty Python and the Holy Grail the French Knight taunts King Arthur and his companions with a series of increasingly ludicrous insults, culminating in \"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries\". Versions of the Endemol quiz show 1 vs. 100 based on the United States version (Australia, and to an extent, France) are known for the contestants and mob taunting each other. Similar game shows, such as Weakest Link, are built on taunting a defeated player. Some video games feature the ability to taunt an opponent.", "title": "Taunting" }, { "id": "7772003", "text": "the 1980s. The English rock band Mostly Autumn \"fuse the music of Genesis and Pink Floyd\" in their sound. Pink Floyd were also admirers of the Monty Python comedy group. They helped to finance their 1975 film \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". In 2016, a major retrospective of the band's work was announced to take place at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London the following year to mark the 50th anniversary of their first single. The audio-visual exhibition, titled \"Their Mortal Remains\", featuring analysis of the album cover art, conceptual props from the stage shows and photographs from", "title": "Pink Floyd" }, { "id": "20968914", "text": "recognizable. He was a stunt performer and minor actor in the following James Bond films: \"Dr. No\" (1962), \"From Russia with Love\" (1963), \"Goldfinger\" (1964), \"Casino Royale\" (1967) and \"You Only Live Twice\" (1967). He also acted and did stunt work in films such as \"Ivanhoe\" (1952), \"A Night to Remember\" (1958), \"Lawrence of Arabia\" (1962), \"Where Eagles Dare\" (1968), \"Star Wars\" (1977), \"Flash Gordon\" (1980), \"Raiders of the Lost Ark\" (1981), \"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\" (1984), \"Highlander\" (1986), \"Willow\" (1988), \"Batman\" (1989), \"\" (1991), \"Chaplin\" (1992) and \"Braveheart\" (1995). Brace was the stunt double for Clancy", "title": "Peter Brace" }, { "id": "250927", "text": "two-thirds of the episodes, as well as in all of the Python films, and in most of their stage shows, as well. Cleese's first wife, Connie Booth, appeared as various characters in all four series of \"Flying Circus\". Her most significant role was the \"best girl\" of the eponymous Lumberjack in \"The Lumberjack Song\", though this role was sometimes played by Carol Cleveland. Booth appeared in a total of six sketches and also played one-off characters in Python feature films \"And Now for Something Completely Different\" and \"Monty Python and the Holy Grail\". Douglas Adams was \"discovered\" by Chapman when", "title": "Monty Python" } ]

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[ { "id": "1339922", "text": "featured in many novels, films, television shows, cartoons, and theatrical plays. Coney Island Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination of Long Island on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Coney Island was formerly the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on Long Island's southern shore, but in the early 20th century it became connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill. The residential portion of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in its", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339841", "text": "Coney Island Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination of Long Island on the Coney Island Channel, which is part of the Lower Bay in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Coney Island was formerly the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on Long Island's southern shore, but in the early 20th century it became connected to the rest of Long Island by land fill. The residential portion of the peninsula is a community of 60,000 people in its western part, with Sea Gate to its west, Brighton Beach and", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339843", "text": "peninsula on the western end of Long Island lying to the west of the Outer Barrier islands along Long Island's southern shore. The peninsula is about long and wide. It extends into Lower New York Bay with Sheepshead Bay to its northeast, Gravesend Bay and Coney Island Creek to its northwest, and the main part of Brooklyn to its north. At its highest it is above sea level. Coney Island was formerly an actual island, separated from greater Brooklyn by Coney Island Creek, and was the westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands. A large section of the creek was filled", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339911", "text": "were 26.2% (8,369) of the population. 82% of the population were high school graduates and 40% had a bachelor's degree or higher. This was reflected in the Community Health Profile. As of 2016, the median household income in Community District 13 was $39,213. In 2015, an estimated 27% of Coney Island residents lived in poverty, compared to 24% in all of Brooklyn and 21% in all of New York City. One in eight residents (12%) were unemployed, compared to 11% in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339850", "text": "a result of a new charter with the Native Americans. At the time of European settlement, the land that makes up the present-day Coney Island was divided across several separate islands. All of these islands were part of the outer barrier on the southern shore of Long Island, and their land areas and boundaries changed frequently. Only the westernmost island was called Coney Island; it currently makes up part of Sea Gate. At the time, it was a 1.25-mile shifting sandspit with a detached island at its western end extending into Lower New York Bay. In a 1679–1680 journal, Jasper", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339919", "text": "branch was rebuilt in 2013 following Hurricane Sandy. Coney Island is served by three New York City Subway stations. The Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue station, which is the terminal of the , is one of the largest elevated rapid transit stations in the world, with eight tracks serving four platforms. The entire station, built in 1917–1920 as a replacement for the former surface-level Culver Depot, was rebuilt in 2001–2004. The other subway stations within Coney Island are West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium, which is served by the , and Ocean Parkway, which is served by the . A bus terminal beneath", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "8112344", "text": "Outer Barrier The Outer Barrier, also known as the Long Island and New York City barrier islands, refers to the string of barrier islands that divide the lagoons south of Long Island, New York from the Atlantic Ocean. These islands include Coney Island, Long Beach Barrier Island, Island Park, Jones Beach Island, Fire Island and Westhampton Island. The outer barrier extends along the South Shore of Long Island, from the Rockaway Peninsula in New York City to the east end of Shinnecock Bay in Suffolk County. The lagoons enclosed by the barrier islands are Jamaica Bay, Brosewere Bay, Hewlett Bay,", "title": "Outer Barrier" }, { "id": "1339909", "text": "\"The Coney Island Boom-A-Ring\". In 2010, they returned to the same location with \"The Coney Island Illuscination\". Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the combined population of Coney Island and Sea Gate was 31,965, a decrease of 2,302 (6.7%) from the 34,267 counted in 2000. Covering an area of , the neighborhood had a population density of . The entirety of Community Board 13 had 106,702 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2015 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 79.7 years. This is near the median life expectancy for New York City neighborhoods. Most inhabitants", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "243009", "text": "Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York. Kings and Queens Counties (the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) and Nassau County share the western third of the island, while Suffolk County occupies the eastern two-thirds. More than half of New York City's residents now live on Long Island, in Brooklyn and Queens. However, many people", "title": "Long Island" }, { "id": "8779985", "text": "Coney Island Hospital NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island, commonly known as Coney Island Hospital, is a public hospital located in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It is owned by NYC Health + Hospitals, a public benefit corporation of the city. The hospital is home to FDNY-EMS Station 43, formerly NYC-EMS Station 31. The hospital was renamed in November 2015 as a reflection of its parent organization's rebranding. In 1875, Coney Island Hospital began as a first aid station on the oceanfront beach near West Third Street. Most cases were feet cut by broken bottles. On May", "title": "Coney Island Hospital" }, { "id": "1339902", "text": "of approximately . The beach is continuous and is served for its entire length by the broad Riegelmann Boardwalk. A number of amusements are directly accessible from the land-side of the boardwalk, as is the aquarium and a variety of food shops and arcades. There is a long public beach further down in the community of Manhattan Beach. The public beaches are groomed on a regular basis by the city. Because sand no longer naturally deposits on the beach, it is replenished in regular beach nourishment projects using dredged sand. The south facing beach is without significant obstructions and is", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "7484247", "text": "Pakistan\". Coney Island Avenue Coney Island Avenue is a roadway in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that runs north-south for a distance of roughly five miles, almost parallel to Ocean Parkway and Ocean Avenue. It begins at Brighton Beach Avenue in Coney Island and goes north to Park Circle at the southwest corner of Prospect Park, where it becomes Prospect Park Southwest. Near-parallel Ocean Parkway terminates five blocks south and three blocks west of that intersection, becoming the Prospect Expressway (New York State Route 27). Ocean Parkway originally extended north to Park Circle, where Coney Island Avenue meets", "title": "Coney Island Avenue" }, { "id": "1339847", "text": "they named Colman's Point, possibly coinciding with Coney Island. Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European explorer to discover the island of Narrioch during his expeditions to the area in 1527 and 1529. He was subsequently followed by Henry Hudson. The Dutch established the colony of New Amsterdam in present-day Coney Island in the early 17th century. The Native American population in the area dwindled as the Dutch settlement grew and the entire southwest section of present-day Brooklyn was purchased in 1645 from the Native Americans in exchange for a gun, a blanket, and a kettle. In 1644, a colonist", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339851", "text": "Danckaerts and Peter Sluyter noted that \"Conijnen Eylandt\" was fully separated from the rest of Brooklyn. The explorers observed: Nobody lives upon it, but it is used in winter for keeping cattle, horses, oxen, hogs and others, which are able to obtain there sufficient to eat the whole winter, and to shelter themselves from the cold in the thickets. This island is not so cold as Long Island or the Mahatans, or others, like some other islands on the coast, in consequence of their having more sea breeze, and of the saltness of the sea breaking upon the shoals, rocks", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "7484245", "text": "Coney Island Avenue Coney Island Avenue is a roadway in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that runs north-south for a distance of roughly five miles, almost parallel to Ocean Parkway and Ocean Avenue. It begins at Brighton Beach Avenue in Coney Island and goes north to Park Circle at the southwest corner of Prospect Park, where it becomes Prospect Park Southwest. Near-parallel Ocean Parkway terminates five blocks south and three blocks west of that intersection, becoming the Prospect Expressway (New York State Route 27). Ocean Parkway originally extended north to Park Circle, where Coney Island Avenue meets Prospect", "title": "Coney Island Avenue" }, { "id": "4561413", "text": "Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway) Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (also known as Coney Island Terminal and signed on some trains as either Coney Island or Stillwell Avenue) is a New York City Subway terminal in Coney Island, Brooklyn, acting as the railroad-south terminus for the D, F, N, and Q trains. The large facility, originally built in 1919, was designed at a time when Coney Island was the primary summer resort area for the New York metropolitan area, with all of the rail lines in southern Brooklyn funneling service to the area. It is one of the largest elevated", "title": "Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway)" }, { "id": "13319674", "text": "Bowery Bay Bowery Bay is a bay off the East River in New York City. It is located near the Steinway neighborhood of Queens and is bordered on the west by the Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plant and on the south and east by LaGuardia Airport. Before the construction of LaGuardia Airport in the late 1920s, the shoreline of Bowery Bay and Flushing Bay, originally called Bowery Bay Beach and later North Beach, was a popular seaside resort. North Beach was the site of a popular amusement park from 1895 to 1915 and was known as \"the Coney Island", "title": "Bowery Bay" }, { "id": "1339913", "text": "Island's rate of violent crimes per capita is almost equal to that of the city as a whole. The 60th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 85.5% between 1990 and 2017. The precinct saw 8 murders, 16 rapes, 142 robberies, 235 felony assaults, 61 burglaries, 382 grand larcenies, and 49 grand larcenies auto in 2017. The firehouse for the New York City Fire Department (FDNY)'s Engine Co. 318/Ladder Co. 166 is located at 2510 Neptune Avenue. FDNY EMS Station 43 is in the area on the grounds of", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339842", "text": "Manhattan Beach to its east, the Lower Bay to the south, and Gravesend to the north. Coney Island was originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th century, it became a seaside resort, and by the late 19th century, amusement parks were also built at the location. The attractions reached a historical peak during the first half of the 20th century, declining in popularity after World War II and following years of neglect. The area was revitalized with the opening of the MCU Park in 2001 and several amusement rides in the 2010s. Coney Island is a", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "3710785", "text": "of Sheepshead Bay, located just south of Midwood. Named after its own James Madison High School, its borders are Kings Highway to the north, Avenue U to the south, Ocean Avenue to the west, and Nostrand Avenue to the east. Madison uses the ZIP code 11229. The area is served by Brooklyn Community Board 15. Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn Sheepshead Bay is a bay separating the mainland of Brooklyn, New York City, from the eastern portion of Coney Island, the latter originally a barrier island but now effectively an extension of the mainland with peninsulas both east (the neighborhood of Manhattan", "title": "Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn" }, { "id": "1339864", "text": "carousel and amusement ride at Coney Island in 1876, and hand-carved the designs into the carousel. It was installed at Lucy Vandeveer's bath-house complex at West 6th Street and Surf Avenue. Looff subsequently commissioned another carousel at Feltman's Ocean Pavilion in 1880. From 1885 to 1896, the Elephantine Colossus, a seven story building (including a brothel) in the shape of an elephant, was the first sight to greet immigrants arriving in New York, who would see it before they saw the Statue of Liberty. The Coney Island \"Funny Face\" logo, which is still extant, dates 100 years to the early", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339920", "text": "the Stillwell Avenue station serves the to Prospect Park, the to Sea Gate, the to Bay Ridge, and the to Starrett City. Additionally, the runs from Sea Gate to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The provides express bus service to Manhattan at all times except nights. The three main west-east arteries in the Coney Island community are, from north to south, Neptune Avenue, Mermaid Avenue, and Surf Avenue. Neptune Avenue crosses through Brighton Beach before becoming Emmons Avenue at Sheepshead Bay, while Surf Avenue becomes Ocean Parkway and then runs north toward Prospect Park. The cross streets in the Coney Island neighborhood", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "4561414", "text": "transportation terminals in the world. The station has eight tracks and four island platforms, with trains entering from both compass north and south. It is located at the corner of Stillwell and Surf Avenues in Coney Island, the site of the former West End Terminal. Geographically, the station is the southernmost terminal in the New York City Subway system. Rail transportation to Coney Island had been available since 1864. The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad was the first steam railroad to Coney Island. It ran from Fifth Avenue and 36th Street in what is now Sunset Park, to its", "title": "Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway)" }, { "id": "1339848", "text": "named Guysbert Op Dyck was given a patent for 88 acres of land in the town of Gravesend, on the southwestern shore of Brooklyn. The patent included Conyne Island, an island just off the southwestern shore of the town of Gravesend, as well as Conyne Hook, a peninsula just east of the island. At the time, both were part of Gravesend. East of Conyne Hook was the largest section of island called Gysbert's, Guysbert's, or Guisbert's Island (also called Johnson Island), containing most of the arable land and extending east through today's Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach. This was officially", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "7753802", "text": "Parachute Jump The Parachute Jump is a defunct amusement ride in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. Its open-frame steel structure, measuring tall and weighing 170 tons (150 tonnes), has been called the \"Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn\". It was originally built for the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, and moved to its current site, then part of the Steeplechase Park amusement park, in 1941. It is the only portion of Steeplechase Park still standing today. The ride ceased operations in 1964, when the park shut down for good. The ride was based on functional parachutes", "title": "Parachute Jump" }, { "id": "1339916", "text": "in the city. There are 7 tobacco stores per 10,000 people (compared to the 11 tobacco stores per ten-thousand people both in Brooklyn and in New York City as a whole), but there are also of supermarket footage per 100 people, lower than the citywide average of per hundred people and the boroughwide average of per hundred people. The primary hospital in the neighborhood is Coney Island Hospital. Coney Island is served by the New York City Department of Education, and students in the neighborhood are automatically \"zoned\" into the nearest public schools. Coney Island's zoned schools include PS 90", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "4561427", "text": "received four new electronic train departure boards for each platform. These boards are controlled by dispatchers, based on the departure times posted on subway timetables. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the station house was flooded, and some electrical equipment was damaged. The station has eight tracks and four island platforms. According to the New York City Transit Authority, this makes it one of the world's largest elevated transportation terminals. The westernmost tracks, tracks 5–8, gradually slope downward, so tracks 1–4 are slightly higher than tracks 5–8 at the station's south end. There are ADA-compliant ramps from the", "title": "Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway)" }, { "id": "123591", "text": "part of New York, but a 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found that most of the island is in New Jersey. The south side of the island, home to the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is closed to the general public and the object of restoration efforts spearheaded by Save Ellis Island. Ellis Island is in Upper New York Bay, east of Liberty State Park and north of Liberty Island, in Jersey City, New Jersey, with a small section that is part of New York City. Largely created through land reclamation, the island has a land area of , most", "title": "Ellis Island" }, { "id": "15580127", "text": "Festival and broadcast nationally on PBS as part of the \"American Experience\" program in February 1991. On-camera appearances include Al Lewis, Vincent Gardenia, Eli Wallach, Elliot Willensky, Frederick Fried and Mae Timpano. Voice-over actors include Judd Hirsch, Nathan Lane, John Mahoney, Jerry Orbach, George Plimpton, Lois Smith, Frances Sternhagen and Andrei Codrescu. Coney Island began as a resort destination in the early 1830s and gained popularity in the 1860s as advances in transportation reduced the time it took to get there from other parts of New York City. As visitors increased, attractions were added, including a tall observation tower, the", "title": "Coney Island (1991 film)" }, { "id": "2079961", "text": "media capital of the world. Long Island is an island located just off the northeast coast of the United States and a region wholly within both the U.S. state of New York and the New York City metropolitan area. Stretching east-northeast from New York Harbor into the Atlantic Ocean, the island comprises four counties: Kings and Queens (these form the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) to the west; then Nassau and Suffolk to the east. However, most people in the New York metropolitan area (even those living in Queens and Brooklyn) colloquially use the term \"Long", "title": "New York metropolitan area" }, { "id": "1339865", "text": "days of George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park. Starting in the early 1900s, the City of New York made efforts to condemn all buildings and piers built south of Surf Avenue. It was an effort to reclaim the beach which by then had almost completely been built over with bath houses, clam bars, amusements, and other structures. The local amusement community opposed the city. Eventually a settlement was reached where the beach did not begin until south of Surf Avenue, the territory marked by a city-owned boardwalk, while the city would demolish any structures that had been built over public streets,", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1164902", "text": "Staten Island Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the southwest portion of the city, Staten Island is the southernmost part of both the city and state of New York, with Conference House Park located at the southern tip of the island. The borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay. With a 2017 Census–estimated population of 479,458 Staten Island is the least populated of", "title": "Staten Island" }, { "id": "3710779", "text": "Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn Sheepshead Bay is a bay separating the mainland of Brooklyn, New York City, from the eastern portion of Coney Island, the latter originally a barrier island but now effectively an extension of the mainland with peninsulas both east (the neighborhood of Manhattan Beach) and west (the neighborhoods of Coney Island and Sea Gate). The mouth of the bay is about southwest of Marine Park, Brooklyn. The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 15 and lies east of Gravesend and south of Midwood. The name \"Sheepshead Bay\" applies to the neighborhood north of the bay as well", "title": "Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn" }, { "id": "12652671", "text": "Preservation Commission designated the Riegelmann Boardwalk a city landmark. With that designation, the Riegelmann Boardwalk became the city's eleventh \"scenic landmark\". Riegelmann Boardwalk The Riegelmann Boardwalk, commonly known as the Coney Island Boardwalk, is a boardwalk located along the southern shore of the Coney Island peninsula in Brooklyn, New York City, adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. The boardwalk stretches for 2.7 miles from West 37th Street at the border of Coney Island and Sea Gate to Ocean Parkway in Brighton Beach. Many of its most famous amusement parks no longer exist, but the boardwalk still hosts the Coney Island Cyclone", "title": "Riegelmann Boardwalk" }, { "id": "9238047", "text": "original island was New York State territory and that the balance of the added after 1834 by landfill was in New Jersey. The island was added to the National Park Service system in May 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson and is still owned by the Federal government as part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. Ellis Island was opened to the public as a museum of immigration in 1990. On September 11, 2001, two of four hijacked planes were flown into the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, and the towers collapsed. 7", "title": "New York (state)" }, { "id": "1339921", "text": "proper are numbered with \"West\" prepended to their numbers, running from West 1st Street to West 37th Street at the border of Sea Gate (except for Cropsey Avenue, which becomes West 17th Street south of Neptune Avenue). The Ocean Parkway bicycle path terminates in Coney Island. The Shore Parkway bikeway runs east along Jamaica Bay, and west and north along New York Harbor. Street bike lanes are marked in Neptune Avenue and other streets in Coney Island. Tentative plans call for NYC Ferry service to stop at Coney Island, although this has not yet been confirmed. Coney Island has been", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339910", "text": "are adults, with 24% between the ages of 25–44, 27% between 45–64, and 21% who are at least 65 years old. The ratio of young and college-aged residents was lower, at 19% and 8% respectively. Coney Island's elderly population, as a share of the area's total population, is higher than in other New York City neighborhoods. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 32.2% (10,307) African American, 30.9% (9,880) White, 8.7% (2,793) Asian, 0.2% (78) Native American, 0.0% (4) Pacific Islander, 0.2% (67) from other races, and 1.5% (467) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "2526509", "text": "removed during construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Coney Island, originally separated from the southern shore of Brooklyn by a narrow strait, has since been connected to the main part of Long Island by landfill, and is now a peninsula despite its name. Lower New York Bay Lower New York Bay is a section of New York Bay south of the Narrows, the relatively narrow strait between the shores of Staten Island and Brooklyn. The southern end of the bay opens directly to the Atlantic Ocean between two spits of land, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, and Rockaway, Queens, on Long Island.", "title": "Lower New York Bay" }, { "id": "1339874", "text": "in 1955. A proposal to make the Quonset hut development into a permanent housing structure was also rejected. A new building for the New York Aquarium was approved for construction in the neighborhood in 1953. Construction started on the aquarium in 1954. The development of the new New York Aquarium was expected to revitalize Coney Island. By 1955, the Thompson Coaster had been demolished and replaced with a \"hot rod\" amusement ride. The area still included four children's amusement areas, five roller coasters, several flat and dark rides, and various other attractions such as Deno's Wonder Wheel. The New York", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "12652666", "text": "Riegelmann Boardwalk The Riegelmann Boardwalk, commonly known as the Coney Island Boardwalk, is a boardwalk located along the southern shore of the Coney Island peninsula in Brooklyn, New York City, adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. The boardwalk stretches for 2.7 miles from West 37th Street at the border of Coney Island and Sea Gate to Ocean Parkway in Brighton Beach. Many of its most famous amusement parks no longer exist, but the boardwalk still hosts the Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster and the Wonder Wheel Ferris wheel, as well as the New York Aquarium. The more recent MCU Park is", "title": "Riegelmann Boardwalk" }, { "id": "243088", "text": "an All Scholastic and All Long Island honoree at Lawrence High School, Nassau Co. in 1936 and 1937, and a two-time Unanimous National College All-American in the years of 1939 and 1940 at Cornell University. Long Island Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor approximately 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean. The island comprises four counties in the U.S. state of New York. Kings and Queens Counties (the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, respectively) and Nassau", "title": "Long Island" }, { "id": "4561431", "text": "and a parapet salvaged from the original station house. The building's design is supposed to evoke the area's amusement park-based history, with small lights hanging from the narrow, articulated tower that rises next to the station entrance. There are also art deco lamps and a semicircular window that fills an arch above the station entrance. The Portal Building's main entrance is on Surf Avenue past the station's south end. From this entrance, there is a police precinct (Transit District 34 of the New York City Police Department), retail space, and the station's fare control area. There is also another entrance/exit", "title": "Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway)" }, { "id": "1339877", "text": "peninsula, which had 34,000 residents in 1961, was expected to have more than double that number by the end of 1964. Many of the new residents moved into middle-income co-operative housing developments such as Trump Village, Warbasse Houses, and Luna Park Apartments; these replaced what \"The New York Times\" described as \"a rundown sprawl of rickety houses\". Developers were spending millions of dollars on new housing developments, and by 1966, the peninsula housed almost 100,000 people. Trump destroyed Steeplechase Park's Pavilion of Fun during a highly publicized ceremony in September 1966. In its stead, Trump proposed building a enclosed dome", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "15580126", "text": "Coney Island (1991 film) Coney Island is a 1991 documentary film that traces the history of Coney Island, the westernmost part of the barrier islands of Long Island, New York. The film covers the island's 1609 discovery by Henry Hudson, its 1870s incarnation as a respectable beach destination for city-dwellers and showcase of the new developments ushered in by the machine age, the early 20th century, when amusement parks and innovative attractions attracted hundreds of thousands of people each day, and the gradual demise of the amusements. The film is narrated by Philip Bosco. It premiered at the Sundance Film", "title": "Coney Island (1991 film)" }, { "id": "1163644", "text": "Floral Park, New York Floral Park is an incorporated village in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island. The neighborhood of Floral Park in the New York City borough of Queens, is adjacent to the village. The village is at the western border of Nassau County, and is located mainly in the Town of Hempstead, while the section north of Jericho Turnpike is within the Town of North Hempstead. The population as of the US Census of 2010 is 15,863. The area that is now Floral Park once marked the western edge of the great Hempstead Plains, and", "title": "Floral Park, New York" }, { "id": "1339882", "text": "the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development nearly withdrew a proposed grant of $2 million to fund the proposed park. The city ultimately accepted the grant. However, in June 1977, the city's parks commissioner suggested that the city would redevelop the original Steeplechase Park's site as an amusement area instead of an open-space state park, and proposed that the city return the grant. This move was opposed by the chairman of the New York City Planning Commission, who wanted to use the grant to pay for pedestrian walkways at the Steeplechase site. In 1977 and 1978, Kaufman withheld", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "4561440", "text": "include the original Nathan's Famous store and the world-famous Riegelmann Boardwalk. The New York Aquarium is a few blocks to the east. The West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium station is even closer to the aquarium. Slightly to the west is MCU Park, home park of the Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league baseball team. The nearby area also has assorted amusement park attractions, such as bumper cars, carousels, and ice skating rinks, especially along Surf Avenue. The former Parachute Jump is nearby and visible from the station. In addition, the seasonal Coney Island Mermaid Parade is held every summer near the", "title": "Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway)" }, { "id": "8779988", "text": "Nuclear Medicine and Emergency Services. Interpreter services can be provided day or night in over 130 languages. Changing demographics has resulted in challenges for staff. At 371 beds, Coney Island Hospital is the major medical service provider in southern Brooklyn with over 15,000 discharges and over 255,000 outpatient visits. The hospital's emergency department was recently renovated after Superstorm Sandy, and now handles nearly 90,000 annual visits. Coney Island Hospital NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island, commonly known as Coney Island Hospital, is a public hospital located in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It is owned by NYC", "title": "Coney Island Hospital" }, { "id": "10871675", "text": "Brooklyn–Queens Greenway The Brooklyn–Queens Greenway is a bicycling and pedestrian path connecting parks and roads in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, connecting Coney Island in the south to Fort Totten in the north, on Long Island Sound. The route connects major sites in the two boroughs, such as the New York Aquarium, Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the New York Hall of Science and Citi Field. The Greenway is being developed under the joint auspices of the New York City Department of Transportation and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. As of", "title": "Brooklyn–Queens Greenway" }, { "id": "1339887", "text": "the New York City Planning Commission compiled an environmental impact report. Other proposals for the area included a $7.9 million restoration of the boardwalk, as well as a new high-school and college sports stadium. In December 1986, the New York State Urban Development Corporation formally proposed the construction of a $58 million minor-league baseball stadium on the land bounded by West 19th and 22nd Streets, Surf Avenue, and the boardwalk, sandwiched between Bullard's development to the west and the New York Aquarium to the east. Negotiations were ongoing with the Mets and Yankees to ensure their support for the minor-league", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "10981691", "text": "Coney Island (song) \"Coney Island\" is a spoken-word song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and included on his 1989 album, \"Avalon Sunset\". The narrative is accompanied by lush instrumentation which contrasts with Morrison's thick Ulster brogue. The singer revisits his youthful trips with his mother to the seaside at Coney Island, in County Down, Northern Ireland. The trip from Belfast in the song names the localities of Downpatrick, St. John's Point, Strangford Lough, Shrigley, Killyleagh, Lecale District and Ardglass. The narrative vividly pictures a bright Autumn day of birdwatching, stopping for Sunday papers, and for \"a couple of", "title": "Coney Island (song)" }, { "id": "3411079", "text": "Coney Island USA Coney Island USA is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit arts organization founded in 1980 that is dedicated to the cultural and economic revitalization of the Coney Island neighborhood of the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Its landmark building in the heart of Coney Island's amusement district houses a theater in which the organization presents \"Sideshows by the Seashore\", a showcase for performers with unusual talents that runs continuously during the warmer months, as well as the Coney Island Museum. It is also notable as the organizer of the annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade, the first of which", "title": "Coney Island USA" }, { "id": "16876079", "text": "Patricks wishing chair, St. Patricks well, the remains of a washed up whale and some fairy forts. In the last century the merchant ship “Arethusa” used to sail between Sligo and New York City. The captain of the ship, observing many rabbits on the New York island, apparently then named Coney Island, New York, after his own Coney Island in Sligo Bay. Coney Island is accessible by boat from Rosses Point, or by driving or walking over the causeway, two and a half kilometers across Cummeen Strand, guided by 14 pillars, at low tide. The bollards were constructed in the", "title": "Coney Island, County Sligo" }, { "id": "2079962", "text": "Island\" (or \"The Island\") exclusively to refer to the Nassau-Suffolk county area collectively, which is mainly suburban in character. North of the island is Long Island Sound, across which are the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island. With a Census-estimated population of 7,838,722 in 2015, constituting nearly 40% of New York State's population, the majority of New York City residents, 58% as of 2015, now live on Long Island, namely the estimated 4,896,398 residents living in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Long Island is the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory, and the", "title": "New York metropolitan area" }, { "id": "9238013", "text": "New York (state) New York is a state in the Northeastern United States. New York was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that formed the United States. With an estimated 19.85 million residents in 2017, it is the fourth most populous state. To distinguish the state from the city in the state with the same name, it is sometimes called New York State. The state's most populous city, New York City, makes up over 40% of the state's population. Two-thirds of the state's population lives in the New York metropolitan area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. The state", "title": "New York (state)" }, { "id": "6795495", "text": "Bronx and Manhattan from Northern New Jersey. The Harlem River, another tidal strait between the East and Hudson Rivers, separates Manhattan from the Bronx. The boroughs of New York City straddle the border between two geologic provinces of eastern North America. Brooklyn and Queens, located on Long Island, are part of the eastern coastal plain. Long Island is a massive moraine which formed at the southern fringe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last Ice Age. The Bronx and Manhattan lie on the eastern edge of the Newark Basin, a block of the Earth's crust which sank downward during", "title": "Geography of New York City" }, { "id": "2495095", "text": "Liberty Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\"). The island is an exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey. Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of the United States Congress in 1956. Liberty Island became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1937 through Presidential Proclamation 2250, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1966, it was listed", "title": "Liberty Island" }, { "id": "4561439", "text": "for imminently arriving trains. The lights, which began operating March 10, 2014, are on the northeast corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues and in the Mermaid Avenue Bus Loop. This system operates during late nights, from 11:00 P.M. to 5:00 A.M. daily. The station is located across Surf Avenue from the Coney Island amusement area. It is close to the Luna Park (formerly Astroland) amusement park; the Scream Zone area, operated by Luna Park; Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park; the Cyclone roller coaster, the Thunderbolt roller coaster; and the amusement area that replaced the former Steeplechase Park. Other nearby attractions", "title": "Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway)" }, { "id": "2080040", "text": "some media entities broadcast from studios in Times Square. The New York metropolitan area is extensive enough so that its own channels must compete with channels from neighboring television markets (including Philadelphia, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and Hartford) within its outlying counties. Cable companies offer such competition in the Pennsylvania portion, Connecticut, and a few counties in central New Jersey. Coney Island, in Brooklyn, is considered one of America's first amusement parks. Playland, Rye, Westchester County Plans were unveiled by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on September 27, 2012 for the New York Wheel, a giant Ferris wheel, to be built at", "title": "New York metropolitan area" }, { "id": "2495096", "text": "on the National Register of Historic Places as part of Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island. According to the United States Census Bureau, the island has a land area of 59,558 square meters, or 14.717 acres, which is the property of the federal government. Liberty Island is located in the Upper New York Bay within the waters of Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey. It is one of the islands that are part of the borough of Manhattan in New York. The historical developments which led to this construction created the rare situation of an exclave", "title": "Liberty Island" }, { "id": "3105248", "text": "trademarked logo, owned by New York State Empire State Development, appears in souvenir shops and brochures throughout the city and state, some licensed, many not. The song is the state song of New York. Major tourist destinations include Times Square; Broadway theater productions; the Empire State Building; the Statue of Liberty; Ellis Island; the United Nations Headquarters; museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art; greenspaces such as Central Park and Washington Square Park; Rockefeller Center; the Manhattan Chinatown; luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues; and events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village; the Macy's Thanksgiving Day", "title": "New York City" }, { "id": "4967891", "text": "with the ethnic and racial balance of the community. The economic activity brought in a wide variety of ethnic groups to the fledgling city during the 17th century, including Spanish, Jews, and Africans, some of them as slaves. The Dutch origins can still be seen in many names in New York City, such as Coney Island (from \"Konijnen Eiland\" – Dutch for \"Rabbit Island\"), Bowery from \"bouwerij\" (modern Dutch \"boerderij\" = \"farm\"), Brooklyn (from Breukelen), Harlem from Haarlem (formalized in 1658 as \"Nieuw Haarlem\"), Greenwich Village (from Greenwijck, meaning \"pine wood quarter\"), Flushing (from Vlissingen) and Staten Island (from \"Staaten", "title": "History of New York City (prehistory–1664)" }, { "id": "4561441", "text": "station. The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, held on July 4 each year, also takes place near the station across Surf Avenue at the original Nathan's Famous store. Station Reporter: Google Maps Street View Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway) Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (also known as Coney Island Terminal and signed on some trains as either Coney Island or Stillwell Avenue) is a New York City Subway terminal in Coney Island, Brooklyn, acting as the railroad-south terminus for the D, F, N, and Q trains. The large facility, originally built in 1919, was designed at a time when Coney", "title": "Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway)" }, { "id": "14308519", "text": "Luna Park, Coney Island (2010) Luna Park is the name of an amusement park in the neighborhood of Coney Island, Brooklyn in New York City that opened on May 29, 2010, at the former site of Astroland, an amusement park that had been in operation for 46 years. It was named after the original 1903 Luna Park which existed until 1944 on a site just north of the current park's 1000 Surf Avenue location. The park was designed, developed, and operated by Central Amusement International, LLC (CAI), a subsidiary of the Italian company Zamperla which built 19 new mechanical rides", "title": "Luna Park, Coney Island (2010)" }, { "id": "2593846", "text": "Coney Island Creek Coney Island Creek is a long tidal inlet in Brooklyn, New York City. It used to be a long continual strait and a partial mudflat connecting Gravesend Bay and Sheepshead Bay, making Coney Island an actual island, but the eastern half of the creek was filled in by land owners and city construction projects during a period spanning the early to mid in the 20th century. Coney Island Creek extends eastward from Gravesend Bay to Shell Road and separates the west end of Coney Island from the neighborhoods of Gravesend and Bath Beach. The west end of", "title": "Coney Island Creek" }, { "id": "15580131", "text": "1946, Luna Park closed. Steeplechase Park limped along until closing in 1964. \"Time\" magazine called the film one of the top ten television programs of 1991, and the \"Chicago Tribune\" called it \"one of the best documentaries you will ever see\". Coney Island (1991 film) Coney Island is a 1991 documentary film that traces the history of Coney Island, the westernmost part of the barrier islands of Long Island, New York. The film covers the island's 1609 discovery by Henry Hudson, its 1870s incarnation as a respectable beach destination for city-dwellers and showcase of the new developments ushered in by", "title": "Coney Island (1991 film)" }, { "id": "388774", "text": "Upper New York Bay on Liberty Island south of Ellis Island, which together comprise the Statue of Liberty National Monument. Both islands were ceded by New York to the federal government in 1800. As agreed in an 1834 compact between New York and New Jersey that set the state border at the bay's midpoint, the original islands remain New York territory though located on the New Jersey side of the state line. Liberty Island is one of the islands that are part of the borough of Manhattan in New York. Land created by reclamation added to the original island at", "title": "Statue of Liberty" }, { "id": "16304569", "text": "7,000 in Fulton County, 18,000 in Greene County, 7,200 in Hamilton County, 2,500 in Herkimer County, 7,000 in Montgomery County, 24,000 in Saratoga County, 26,000 in Schenectady County, 9,000 in Schoharie County, 23,000 in Warren County, 4,500 in Washington County, and 60,000 in Ulster County. Upon making landfall on Coney Island, the storm produced a storm surge of and a storm tide of at Battery Park. Winds were lighter than the intensity of the storm in New York City. However, two locations in the city reported tropical storm force winds. A sustained wind speed of 45 mph (75 km/h) and", "title": "Effects of Hurricane Irene in New York" }, { "id": "1339855", "text": "known as Coney Island Creek), connecting the island with the mainland. The company also built a shell road across the island to the beaches. In 1829, the company also built the first hotel on the island: the Coney Island House, near present day Sea Gate. Due to Coney Island's proximity to Manhattan and other boroughs, and its simultaneous relative distance from the city of Brooklyn to provide the illusion of a proper vacation, it began attracting vacationers in the 1830s and 1840s, assisted by carriage roads and steamship service that reduced travel time from a formerly half-day journey to two", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "579360", "text": "Brooklyn Brooklyn () is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens, at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn also has several bridge connections to the boroughs of Manhattan (across the East River) and Staten Island (across the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge). Since 1896, the borough has been coterminous with Kings County, the most populous county in the U.S. state of New York and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, after the county of New York (which", "title": "Brooklyn" }, { "id": "1339912", "text": "paying their rent, is 56% in Coney Island, slightly higher than the citywide and boroughwide rates of 51% and 52% respectively. The NYPD's 60th Precinct is located at 2950 West Eighth Street. Transit District 34 is located at 1243 Surf Avenue, within the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue subway station. The 60th Precinct ranked 34th safest out of 69 city precincts for per-capita crime in 2010. Between 1993 and 2010, major crimes decreased by 72%, including a 76% decrease in robberies, 71% decrease in felony assaults, and 67% decrease in shootings. With a non-fatal assault rate of 64 per 100,000 people, Coney", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "9238053", "text": "which extends into Ohio and Pennsylvania. Of New York State's total area, 13.6% consists of water. Much of New York's boundaries are in water, as is true for New York City: four of its five boroughs are situated on three islands at the mouth of the Hudson River: Manhattan Island; Staten Island; and Long Island, which contains Brooklyn and Queens at its western end. The state's borders include a water boundary in (clockwise from the west) two Great Lakes (Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, which are connected by the Niagara River); the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada, with", "title": "New York (state)" }, { "id": "2495115", "text": "Utility services, including electricity, water, and sewage, to Liberty and Ellis Islands are provided from the New Jersey side. Mail is delivered from Battery Park. Liberty Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty (\"Liberty Enlightening the World\"). The island is an exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey. Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of the United States Congress in 1956. Liberty Island became", "title": "Liberty Island" }, { "id": "9689967", "text": "Delaware, Genesee, Mohawk, and Susquehanna. The highest elevation in New York is Mount Marcy of the Adirondack Mountains New York is the 27th largest state . New York is located in the northeastern United States, in the Mid-Atlantic Census Bureau division. New York covers an area of 54,556 square miles (141,299 km) and ranks as the 27th largest state by size. The state borders six U.S. states: Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, and Connecticut, Rhode Island (across Long Island Sound), Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. New York also borders the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec to", "title": "Geography of New York (state)" }, { "id": "1339845", "text": "the north east side is, for the most part, enclosed in bulkheads. The original Native American inhabitants of the region, the Lenape, called this area \"Narrioch\". This name has been attributed the meaning of \"\"land without shadows\"\" or \"\"always in light\"\" describing how its south facing beaches always remained in sunlight. A second meaning attributed to \"Narrioch\" is \"\"point\"\" or \"\"corner of land\"\". The first documented European name for the island is the Dutch name \"Conyne Eylandt\" or \"Conynge Eylandt.\" This would roughly be equivalent to \"Konijn Eiland\" using modern Dutch spelling, meaning \"Rabbit Island\". The name was anglicized to", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "7896646", "text": "Coney Island Mermaid Parade The Coney Island Mermaid Parade, held annually in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, is the largest art parade in the United States. The parade is held each year at the beginning of the summer season. It celebrates the arrival of the summer season. It is created and produced by the non-profit arts organization Coney Island USA. The 36th annual parade was held on Saturday, June 16, 2018. The Mermaid Parade is held in celebration of the beginning of the summer season, and traditionally takes place on the Saturday closest to the Summer solstice, June 21, regardless", "title": "Coney Island Mermaid Parade" }, { "id": "1339866", "text": "to reclaim beach access. When the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company electrified the steam railroads and connected Brooklyn to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge at the beginning of the 20th century, Coney Island turned rapidly from a resort to an accessible location for day-trippers seeking to escape the summer heat in New York City's tenements. In 1915, the Sea Beach Line was upgraded to a subway line, followed by the other former excursion roads, and the opening of the New West End Terminal in 1919 ushered in Coney Island's busiest era. In 1916, Nathan Handwerker started selling hot dogs at Coney", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339862", "text": "a common sight on Coney island. The three resort areas—Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach and West Brighton—competed with each other for clientele, with West Brighton gradually becoming the most popular destination by the early 1900s. In the 1890s, Norton's Point on the western side of Coney Island was developed into Sea Gate, a gated summer community that catered mainly to the wealthy. A private yacht carried visitors directly from the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Notable tenants within the community included the Atlantic Yacht Club, which built a colonial style house along the waterfront. Between about 1880 and", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1893728", "text": "Shelter Island, New York Shelter Island is a town and island at the eastern end of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of Suffolk County, although it is separated from the rest of the county by water. The population was 2,392 at the 2010 census. Shelter Island is nestled between the North and South Forks of Long Island. It is surrounded on three sides by Shelter Island Sound and on the fourth side by Gardiners Bay. It can be reached via ferry from Greenport to the north (approximately 8-minute trip) or from North Haven", "title": "Shelter Island, New York" }, { "id": "1339879", "text": "the New York City Board of Estimate voted in favor of funding to buy the land from Trump. Condemnation of the site started in 1969. The city ultimately purchased the proposed park's site for $4 million, with partial funding from the federal government. As a condition of the deal, the sale or lease of the future parkland required permission from the New York State Legislature. Trump filed a series of court cases related to the proposed residential rezoning, and ultimately won a $1.3 million judgment. The Steeplechase Park site laid empty for several years. Trump started subleasing the property to", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339905", "text": "the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jeffrey Deitch and Thor CEO Joseph Sitt. Located at 3050 Stillwell Avenue, the project featured more than 30 world renowned artists including legends such as Lady Pink, Crash, Daze, Futura and Kenny Scharf, as well as leading artists of the next generation including Shepard Fairey, Maya Hayuk and How & Nosm. Coney Art Walls returned in 2016 with 21 new murals, including several of the leading paintings and sculptors in New York, in addition to leading artists connected with street culture. In June 2016, the Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island opened on the boardwalk,", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "7348473", "text": "has a regular bank of turnstiles that is only open weekdays and is HEET access other times. Both mezzanines have BMT-style directional mosaics tablets that says \"To Manhattan\" and \"To Coney Island.\" The station was featured in the film version of \"Glengarry Glen Ross\". Sheepshead Bay (BMT Brighton Line) Sheepshead Bay is an express station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is served by the Q train at all times and by the B train on weekdays. The station has four tracks and two", "title": "Sheepshead Bay (BMT Brighton Line)" }, { "id": "243012", "text": "of 1,401 square miles (3,630 km), Long Island is the 11th-largest island in the United States and the 149th-largest island in the world—larger than the of the smallest U.S. state, Rhode Island. With a Census-estimated population of 7,869,820 in 2017, constituting nearly 40% of New York State's population, Long Island is the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory, and the 18th-most populous island in the world (ahead of Ireland, Jamaica, and Hokkaidō). Its population density is . If Long Island geographically constituted an independent metropolitan statistical area, it would rank fourth most populous in the United States;", "title": "Long Island" }, { "id": "7566593", "text": "Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad The Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad was originally a horsecar line in Kings County, New York (now the borough of Brooklyn in New York City). The original line ran from the Boulevard entrance of Prospect Park (Park Circle) to Coney Island. It was the first railroad of any kind to reach Coney Island. The CI&B connected to other lines to bring people from Brooklyn (then a city) and from New York City (then meaning Manhattan) to its service to Coney Island. It began operating service along the Smith Street Line to Fulton Ferry in June", "title": "Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad" }, { "id": "2855450", "text": "a transfer point for those traveling to Coney Island, was built in the 1870s. In the heyday of the New York Harbor's dominance of North American shipping during the 19th century, Sunset Park grew rapidly, largely as a result of Irish, Polish, Finnish, and Norwegian immigrant families moving to the area. Portions of the neighborhood became known as \"Finn Town\" and \"Little Norway\". The Finns brought with them the concept of cooperative housing, and the apartment house at 816 43rd Street is said to be the first cooperative apartment building in New York City. The Irish subjected the other groups,", "title": "Sunset Park, Brooklyn" }, { "id": "12203168", "text": "Avenue U Avenue U is a street located in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. This avenue is a main thoroughfare throughout its length. Avenue U begins at Stillwell Avenue in Gravesend and ends at Bergen Avenue in Bergen Beach, while serving the other Brooklyn neighborhoods of Gravesend, Homecrest, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, and Mill Basin along its route. Avenue U in Homecrest now supports southern Brooklyn's second Chinatown (唐人街, U大道), as evidenced by the rapidly growing number of Chinese food markets, bakeries, restaurants, beauty and nail salons, and computer and consumer electronics dealers between Coney Island Avenue and Ocean", "title": "Avenue U" }, { "id": "1339878", "text": "with recreational facilities and a convention center, a plan which was supported by Brooklyn borough president Abe Stark. That summer, developers tried to revitalize the Coney Island boardwalk as an amusement area. In October 1966, the city announced its plans to acquire the of the former Steeplechase Park so that the land could be reserved for recreational use. Although residents supported the city's action, Trump called the city's proposal \"wasteful\". In January 1968, New York City parks commissioner August Heckscher II proposed that the New York state government build an \"open-space\" state park on the Steeplechase site, and that May,", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1339914", "text": "Coney Island Hospital, the largest station in NYC. Preterm and teenage births are slightly more common in Coney Island than in other places citywide. In Coney Island, there were 11.3 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 9.0 per 1,000 citywide), and 25.8 teenage births per 1,000 live births (compared to 23.6 per 1,000 citywide), slightly lower than in the median neighborhood. Coney Island has a high population of residents who are uninsured, or who receive healthcare through Medicaid. In 2015, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 27%, which is higher than the citywide rate of", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "2079964", "text": "is the most populated island in the United States and the 17th most populous island in the world, but is more prominently known for recreation, boating, and miles of public beaches, including numerous town, county, and state parks, as well as Fire Island National Seashore and wealthy and expensive coastal residential enclaves. Along the north shore, the Gold Coast of Long Island is an upscale section of Nassau and western Suffolk counties that once featured many lavish mansions built and inhabited by wealthy business tycoons in the earlier years of the 20th century, of which only a few remain preserved", "title": "New York metropolitan area" }, { "id": "243045", "text": "slow-moving \"Superstorm Sandy\" (so-nicknamed because its winds weakened below hurricane intensity as it made landfall) caused 90% of Long Island households to lose power and an estimated $18 billion in damages in Nassau and Suffolk Counties alone. The storm also had a devastating impact on coastal communities in the Brooklyn and Queens portions of the island, including Coney Island in Brooklyn and the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, although estimates of monetary damages there are usually calculated as part of the overall losses suffered in New York City as a whole. The extent of Sandy's damages is second only to those", "title": "Long Island" }, { "id": "1339899", "text": "The hotel would be located within the former Shore Theater on Surf and Stillwell Avenues, which had been abandoned since 1978. If built, the hotel would be the first to be constructed in Coney Island in more than half a century. The city also expressed its intent to demolish the Abe Stark Rink and redevelop the site, as per the 2009 rezoning, though residents wanted NYC Parks to retain control over the site rather than sell it off to a private developer. Currently, Coney Island has two amusement parks — Luna Park and Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park — as", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "4559110", "text": "lower level is not currently planned to be reopened. IND Culver Line The IND Culver Line (formerly BMT Culver Line) is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway, extending from Downtown Brooklyn south to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The line is named after Andrew Culver, who built the original Culver Line that preceded the current subway line. The local tracks of the Culver Line are served by the F service, as well as the G between Bergen Street and Church Avenue. The express tracks north of Church Avenue have", "title": "IND Culver Line" }, { "id": "9238054", "text": "New York and Ontario sharing the Thousand Islands archipelago within the Saint Lawrence River, while most of its border with Quebec is on land; it shares Lake Champlain with the New England state of Vermont; the New England state of Massachusetts has mostly a land border; New York extends into Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, sharing a water border with Rhode Island, while Connecticut has land and sea borders. Except for areas near the New York Harbor, New York has a mostly land border with two Mid-Atlantic states, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. New York is the only state", "title": "New York (state)" }, { "id": "4561428", "text": "three easternmost platforms (served by the , the , and the , respectively) to the main station building below the platforms; a non-ADA-compliant ramp leads from the (western) platform, with steps. ADA access to the platform is provided by an elevator at the north end of that platform. The elevator leads to an overpass that connects to another ADA-compliant elevator at the northern end of the platform. There are also stairways down to the station building. The southern two-thirds of the station is under the solar-panel-covered roof, while the northern third of the station is in the open air, not", "title": "Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway)" }, { "id": "2605206", "text": "among several Syrian Jewish communities of the United States. \"The New York Times\" also reported that in the 2012 presidential election, a precinct in Gravesend was one of the few parts of New York City carried by Mitt Romney, with 133 votes to just 3 for Barack Obama. Gravesend is served by three lines of the New York City Subway system. The services and lines, respectively, are The Coney Island subway yard is in the neighborhood. Gravesend is patrolled by the NYPD's 60th, 61st, and 62nd Precincts. Notes Bibliography Gravesend, Brooklyn Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of", "title": "Gravesend, Brooklyn" }, { "id": "7385977", "text": "Statue of Liberty National Monument The Statue of Liberty National Monument is a United States National Monument located in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York comprising Liberty Island and Ellis Island. It includes \"Liberty Enlightening the World\", commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, situated on Liberty Island, and the former immigration station at Ellis Island, including the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital. The monument is managed by the National Park Service as part of the National Parks of New York Harbor office. President Calvin Coolidge used his authority under the Antiquities Act to declare the statue a", "title": "Statue of Liberty National Monument" }, { "id": "561050", "text": "Center, Stonewall Inn, Trump Tower, gateways to numerous iconic river-crossing bridges, and an emerging number of supertall skyscrapers, are all located on densely populated Manhattan Island; the Statue of Liberty rests on a pedestal on Liberty Island, an exclave of Manhattan. The borough has many energy-efficient green office buildings, such as the Hearst Tower, the rebuilt 7 World Trade Center, and the Bank of America Tower—the first skyscraper designed to attain a Platinum LEED Certification. The skyscraper, which has shaped Manhattan's distinctive skyline, has been closely associated with New York City's identity since the end of the 19th century. From", "title": "Manhattan" }, { "id": "1339888", "text": "stadium The next year, state senator Thomas Bartosiewics attempted to block Bullard from building on the Steeplechase site. Bartosiewics was part of a group called The Brooklyn Sports Foundation which had promised another theme park developer, Sportsplex, the right to build on the site. Construction was held up for another four years as Bullard and Sportsplex fought over the site. In 1994, after Rudy Giuliani took office as mayor of New York, he negated the Bullard deal by building Keyspan Park, the minor-league baseball stadium, on the site allotted for Steeplechase Park. Giuliani stated that he wanted to build Sportsplex,", "title": "Coney Island" }, { "id": "1918185", "text": "Jamaica Bay Jamaica Bay is located on the southern side of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York, near the island's western end. The bay connects with Lower New York Bay to the west through Rockaway Inlet and is the westernmost of the coastal lagoons on the south shore of Long Island. Politically, it is divided between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, with a small part touching Nassau County. The bay contains numerous marshy islands. It was known as \"Grassy Bay\" as late as the 1940s. Jamaica Bay is located adjacent to the", "title": "Jamaica Bay" }, { "id": "9238016", "text": "Plain and includes Long Island and several smaller associated islands, as well as New York City and the lower Hudson River Valley. The large Upstate New York region comprises several ranges of the wider Appalachian Mountains, and the Adirondack Mountains in the Northeastern lobe of the state. Two major river valleys the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley bisect these more mountainous regions. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and borders Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, a", "title": "New York (state)" } ]

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[ { "id": "19866201", "text": "introduce a cloud-based DVR streaming service as part of its effort to create a unified platform across DirecTV and DirecTV Now streaming service, with U-verse to be added soon. The service offers linear channels from major media conglomerates like A&E, AMC, CBS, Discovery, Disney, Fox, MLB, NBCUniversal, Viacom, Turner, and Univision. The service also allows users to add on HBO, Showtime, Starz, & Cinemax for an additional fee, with access to HBO Go, Showtime on Demand, Starz on Demand, & Max GO included, respectively. DirecTV Now DirecTV Now (stylized as DIRECTV NOW, also known simply as DTV Now) is a", "title": "DirecTV Now" }, { "id": "2911316", "text": "through parent company Shaw Communications) channel 8, Bell TV channel 240. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 339 (Classic) or 021 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 011 (Classic) or 511 (Advanced). There is also a high definition feed available on Shaw Cable digital channel 211 and Telus Optik TV channel 104 (HD) and channel 9104 (SD). The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1974. CITV was originally owned by Allarcom, owned by Dr. Charles Allard, and launched under the brand \"Independent Television\" (ITV), a brand that the station used until 2000, when it", "title": "CITV-DT" }, { "id": "2520961", "text": "TV channel 30 (Alberta/British Columbia); SaskTel Max channel 30 (Saskatchewan); and Vidéotron Illico channel 405 (Quebec). On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 310 (Classic) or 63 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 54 (Classic) or 554 (Advanced). There is a high definition feed offered on Rogers Cable channel 521, Eastlink channel 605 and Bell Aliant Fibe channel 404. NTV is well known for its unusual mix of programming, particularly in the overnight hours. Although nominally an independent station, in practice it sublicenses programming via secondary affiliations with other networks and television systems. Entertainment programming is licensed from", "title": "CJON-DT" }, { "id": "3645957", "text": "launched on December 19, 2006. It is available nationally via the country's two satellite services, Shaw Direct on channel 276, Bell TV on channel 828, Videotron on channel 754, as well as on various digital cable systems. In Australia, this channel has been available on the Foxtel HD+ service since July 1, 2008. In Asia Pacific, this channel was the first channel to support 1080i HD and 5.1-channel surround sound. The channel was commercially available in Singapore via StarHub TV channel 457 on January 18, 2007, followed by Vietnam via Vietnam Multimedia Corporation (VTC). It was also available exclusively on", "title": "National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)" }, { "id": "9758221", "text": "and Fox, as well as a feed from the Washington, D.C. CW affiliate, though a waiver from the local affiliate stations may be required to allow this, approved at their discretion. National PBS and ION channels are also available. In the largest markets, local channels are carried on the satellite at 101°W. In some smaller markets, the local channels are carried on a second satellite located at 119°W which requires a slightly larger dish with two or three LNBs or the newer K/K 5-LNB dish. In a few smaller markets, local stations are located on a satellite at 72.5°W that", "title": "DirecTV" }, { "id": "8688530", "text": "in the 70-79 channel range as well as four east coast distant network channels. Since the initial roll out of channels in July, DirecTV has added over 40 more HD channels to DirecTV-11. These channels included converting some part-time regional sports networks to full-time HD channels as well as new national HD channels like ABC Family and Comedy Central, some premium channels, and HD pay-per-view. DirecTV-11 now broadcasts over 50 HD channels, bringing DirecTV's total HD channel count over 130. DirecTV-11 DirecTV-11, also known as D11, is a Boeing model 702 satellite built by the Boeing Satellite Development Center. This", "title": "DirecTV-11" }, { "id": "3076998", "text": "and in high definition on Shaw channel 203. On satellite, the station is also available on Shaw Direct classic lineup channel 321 or advanced lineup channel 4 and Bell TV and Telus TV channel 251. There is also a high definition feed on Shaw Cable digital channel 209, Optik TV digital channel 100 (HD) and channel 9100 (SD), Shaw Direct classic lineup channel 003 and advanced lineup channel 503, and Bell TV channel 1150. It is also available on many Xfinity systems in Washington state, where it airs on channels 99 and 619. The station first signed on the air", "title": "CBUT-DT" }, { "id": "17822962", "text": "2014 on channel 208, the same day ITVBe +1 was added to the Sky and Freesat platforms. It moved to channel 268 on 1 August 2017, a slot previously taken by ITV4 HD, as part of a reshuffling which included ITVBe moving to channel 149, a slot they had acquired from AMC Networks International Zone. A high-definition service also launched on Sky channel 298, on the same day as ITV Encore. It broadcasts ITV dramas in high-definition. ITV Encore HD moved to Sky channel 263 on 19 August 2014, following more spaces in the Entertainment genre to be added, and", "title": "ITV Encore" }, { "id": "2897119", "text": "Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 384 (Classic) or 074 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 030 (Classic) or 530 (Advanced). There is a high definition feed offered on Shaw Cable digital channel 213 and MTS TV channel 417. This station is also available on Bell TV channel 228. It is the only television station owned by Rogers that is not part of any twinstick ever since Joytv outlet CIIT-DT (formerly an affiliate of Citytv's sister system Omni Television) was sold to S-VOX in 2008. The station was licensed by the CRTC on May 8, 1986 and owned", "title": "CHMI-DT" }, { "id": "2534725", "text": "2018, Fox officially launched FX+, a streaming service featuring all FX and FXX original series from \"The Shield\" to the present day ad-free. Initially, the service was made available in the United States exclusively for Xfinity subscribers in the fall of 2017. Xfinity, Armstrong and Cox subscribers have access to FX+ direct through their set-top boxes via those providers' video on demand platforms, in addition to the streaming options. In 2004, Fox Networks Group Asia and STAR TV (through a distribution agreement) partnered to launch FX Asia. The channel is divided into four services: a national channel distributed throughout much", "title": "FX (TV channel)" }, { "id": "4077908", "text": "Seymour. On cable, the station is available on Shaw Cable channel 9, Optik TV channel 101 and Rogers Cable channel 112. On satellite, the station is also available on Shaw Direct classic lineup channel 321 or advanced lineup channel 004 and (corporate sister through parent company Bell Canada) Bell TV channel 250. There is also a high definition feed on Shaw Cable digital channel 210, Optik TV digital channel 101 (HD) and channel 9101 (SD), Shaw Direct classic lineup channel 004 and advanced lineup channel 504, and Bell TV channel 1151. CIVT is the only full-fledged CTV station in British", "title": "CIVT-DT" }, { "id": "2988741", "text": "Shaw Cable channel 13, Rogers Cable (a corporate sister to CKVU through Rogers Communications) channel 135 and Bell TV channel 253. On satellite, the station is available on Shaw Direct classic lineup channel 359 and advanced lineup channel 006. There is also a high definition feed on Shaw Cable digital channel 213, Bell TV channel 1153, and Shaw Direct classic lineup channel 005 and advanced lineup channel 505. Telus Optik TV also carries CKVU on channel 106 (HD) and channel 9106 (SD). CKVU's history dates back to 1975, when Western Approaches Ltd. was awarded the third television station licence in", "title": "CKVU-DT" }, { "id": "9758180", "text": "DirecTV DirecTV (stylized as DIRECTV) is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider based in El Segundo, California and is a subsidiary of AT&T. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean/Americas. Its primary competitors are Dish Network and cable television providers. On July 24, 2015, after receiving approval from the United States Federal Communications Commission and United States Department of Justice, AT&T acquired DirecTV in a transaction valued at $67.1 billion. DirecTV provides television and audio services to subscribers through satellite transmissions.", "title": "DirecTV" }, { "id": "3261389", "text": "CKCK-DT CKCK-DT, virtual channel 2.1 (VHF digital channel 8), is a CTV owned-and-operated television station located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The station is owned by Bell Media. CKCK's studios and transmitter are located on Eastgate Drive and Highway 1 East, just east of Regina proper. This station can also be seen on Access Communications channel 6 and Sasktel Max channel 4. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 315 (Classic) or 029 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 023 (Classic) or 523 (Advanced). There is a high definition feed offered on Access Communications digital channel 510 and Sasktel", "title": "CKCK-DT" }, { "id": "14740989", "text": "From – the channel aired a week-long salute to Bollywood films. Sony Movie Channel is available nationally on DirecTV and Dish Network, and regionally on AT&T U-Verse, Suddenlink, Optimum. DirecTV and Dish Network also offer \"Sony Movie Channel Everywhere\", which allows viewers to watch its movies through its website for no additional cost. The channel is also available through streaming for owners of the Sony Network Media Player. Sony Movie Channel is also available on Sony's PlayStation Vue platform included with the Elite and Ultra plans. The channel was made available outside the US for the first time on Sky", "title": "Sony Movie Channel" }, { "id": "20253305", "text": "be seen on Suddenlink channel 8 and in high definition on digital channel 710. WXVT-LD can also be seen on Cable One channel 8 and in high definition on digital channel 1008. On satellite, Delta CBS can be seen on DirecTV and Dish Network on channel 15. Syndicated programming on the station includes \"Jeopardy!\", \"Inside Edition\", \"Judge Mathis\", \"Judge Judy\", and \"Wheel of Fortune\", among others. As of August 2016, all four networks including WABG-TV (ABC & Fox), WXVT-LD (CBS), and WNBD-LD (NBC) have consolidated under one branding, The Delta News. The Delta News studios and offices are located on", "title": "WXVT-LD" }, { "id": "18169580", "text": "on Freeview to be replaced by Sony Crime Channel and its normal service will be on channel 60, with Sony Crime Channel +1 taking its old TruTV +1 channel slot on channel 69. Because of this, TruTV is now in local TV areas. On December 30, 2016, truTV +1 was temporarily removed from Sky 271, and relaunched on channel 186 on 27 June 2017. On 1 May 2018, TruTV +1 moved from Sky channel 186 to Sky channel 280. On 19 June 2018, TruTV +1 returned to Freeview on channel 92 in Manchester only service, but moved to channel 69", "title": "TruTV (UK and Ireland)" }, { "id": "15002699", "text": "digital signal is multiplexed: On cable, NBC 33 can be seen on Suddenlink channel 2 and in high definition on digital channel 715. WNBD-LD can also be seen on Cable One channel 3 and in high definition on digital channel 1003. On satellite, NBC 33 can be seen on DirecTV and Dish Network on channel 33. Syndicated programming on WNBD-LD includes \"Rachael Ray\", \"The Real\", \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\", and \"The Big Bang Theory\". As of August 2016, all four networks including WABG-TV (ABC & Fox), WXVT-LD (CBS), and WNBD-LD (NBC) have consolidated under one branding, The Delta News. The", "title": "WNBD-LD" }, { "id": "5154864", "text": "are currently available on Dish Network, Xfinity, Atlantic Broadband and Verizon FiOS. On April 16, 2012, DirecTV and Starz Entertainment reached a new carriage agreement that would allow MoviePlex, IndiePlex and RetroPlex to join DirecTV's channel lineup. The press release did not include a launch date, nor did it specify whether the channels would be available in standard definition, high definition or both. MoviePlex MoviePlex (stylized as movieplex since 2006) is an American premium cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Lionsgate. The channel's programming consists of recent and older theatrically released motion pictures. The headquarters of MoviePlex,", "title": "MoviePlex" }, { "id": "17467040", "text": "six countries via cable and by the Web across the world. Supercanal Dominican was the first channel 24/7 available in the United States. It is distributed by the following cable companies: Verizon Fios channel 1507. Los Angeles, Dallas, Washington DC, Baltimore, Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia, New York City, Syracuse and Buffalo in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Tampa, Fort Wayne, Pittsburgh, Providence and Harrisburg. Cablevision channel 211. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Comcast channel 620. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania Time Warner channel 809. New York, New Jersey TELE EL SALVADOR Created in 2009. Tele El Salvador is the first", "title": "SuperCanal" }, { "id": "12115881", "text": "Channel, effectively serving as Universal Sports' eventual replacement channel. On June 15, 2011, DirecTV added Universal Sports as a national basic channel. The carriage agreement with DirecTV led NBCUniversal and Intermedia to announce on September 12, 2011, that it would transition Universal Sports into a cable- and satellite-exclusive service (effectively dropping its over-the-air affiliates) by January 2012. On January 1, 2012, Universal Sports was dropped by most cable providers as a result of a protracted battle to get them to offer the service as a premium channel. One of the providers to drop the channel was Comcast, the nation's largest", "title": "Universal Sports" }, { "id": "3835343", "text": "Chebucto Road in Halifax. The station can also be seen on Eastlink TV channel 11 (some systems carry the station on channel 5) and Bell Aliant TV channel 3. There is a high definition feed offered on Eastlink TV digital channel 601, Bell Aliant TV channel 400 and Bell TV Channel 1010. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 300 (Classic) or 58 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 51 (Classic) or 551 (Advanced). CBHT started broadcasting on December 20, 1954, using temporary studios at College Street School. In October 1956, CBHT moved into brand new 57,000 square", "title": "CBHT-DT" }, { "id": "3645958", "text": "now TV channel 218 on December 19, 2007 in Hong Kong. Two years later, it became available as part of the initial bouquet of HD channels on Astro B.yond in Malaysia. In India, this channel has been available since February 2010. It is carried on Videocon d2h, Dish TV, Airtel Digital TV, Reliance Digital TV, Sun Direct HD, Hathway HD and TataSky+HD featuring multilingual support (English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Bengali), 1080i (full HD) and 5.1 surround sound. In Albania, this channel has been available since 2007 on DigitAlb platform, channel 75, which is the biggest HD channel broadcaster in", "title": "National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)" }, { "id": "9758205", "text": "as HBO, Turner Broadcasting System and the Warner Bros. studio.The acquisition was completed on June 14, 2018. On April 25, 2017, it was reported that AT&T dropped over 230,000 U-verse subscribers. On July 13, 2017, it was reported that AT&T is going to introduce a cloud-based DVR streaming service as part of its effort to create a unified platform across DirecTV and its DirecTV Now streaming service, with U-verse to be added soon. On September 12, 2017, it was reported that AT&T is planning to launch a brand new cable TV-like service for delivery over-the-top over its own or a", "title": "DirecTV" }, { "id": "7025754", "text": "ended local operations in June 2018. In Fort Wayne, WINM is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 10, Dish Network channel 63 and Verizon FIOS channel 12. Outside of the Fort Wayne area, WINM is carried on Mediacom channel 11, and on various channels (mostly channel 22) on Charter Spectrum on the Ohio side of the market. The station itself is not available on DirecTV, though TCT's national feed is carried on channel 377. The station first signed on the air as WXJC-TV on April 22, 1983, originally affiliated with the Trinity Broadcasting Network. In 1984, the station's call sign was", "title": "WINM" }, { "id": "2721353", "text": "channels TV Hits, Arena, LifeStyle, Fox8, 111 funny, Fox Classics, Fox Showcase, Boxsets, Binge, and MTV. Also for the following extra channels which are The Comedy Channel, 13th Street, NBCUniversal's Universal Channel, BBC First and E!, LifeStyle Food, LifeStyle Home, Style, Syfy and Foxtel Arts Foxtel has announced key programming slated to air on its brand new channel, Binge. Binge is part of the Drama tier and started airing 5 October 2016 at 9:00am. It will be available on channel 116 in High Definition with access to Closed Captions and Series Link. Timeshifted versions of general entertainment channels are from", "title": "Foxtel" }, { "id": "10450463", "text": "closure of TV1, this influx of programming was attributed to the end of the output agreement between NBCUniversal and Seven Network in mid 2013, allowing for more programming opportunities for Universal Channel. Additionally, Universal Channel moved to the basic tier of the Foxtel platform, as opposed to its previous placement in a premium package, allowing all subscribers to access the channel. Also, a two-hour timeshift channel launched on channel 162. On 3 November 2014, Universal Channel launched a HD simulcast on Foxtel. In addition, it moved from channel 116 to channel 112 and Universal Channel + 2 moved from channel", "title": "Universal TV (Australia)" }, { "id": "2721365", "text": "maximum 200 minutes per month. The channels currently available to subscribers are: Entertainment – Fox 8; UKTV; Arena; MTV; Universal; TVH!TS; 111 funny; Lifestyle; Discovery Channel; National Geographic; Disney Junior, Nick Jr.; Boomerang; [V] Hits; Max; Country Music Channel; Sky News; Your Money; Sky News Weather; Fox Sports News; CNN; BBC World News; CNBC. Entertainment Plus – The Comedy Channel; Syfy; Style; TLC; E!; A&E; Lifestyle Food; Lifestyle You; Lifestyle Home. Kids – Disney Channel; Cartoon Network; CBeebies; Nickelodeon; Discovery Kids; Disney XD. English Club Channels – Chelsea TV; Liverpool FC TV; Manchester United FC TV. Drama – Fox Showcase;", "title": "Foxtel" }, { "id": "3423719", "text": "the new system at 12.18 per cent. Other cities that had low figures included Srinagar (20 per cent), Coimbatore (28.89 per cent), Jabalpur (34.87 per cent) and Kalyan Dombivli (38.59 per cent). As of 2016, over 1600 TV satellite television channels are broadcast in India. This includes channels from the state-owned Doordarshan, 21st Century Fox owned STAR TV, Sony owned Sony Entertainment Television, Zee TV, Sun Network and Asianet. Direct To Home service is provided by Airtel Digital Tv, BIG TV owned by Reliance, DD Direct Plus, DishTV, Sun Direct DTH, Tata Sky and Videocon D2H. Dish TV was the", "title": "Television in India" }, { "id": "2783082", "text": "Freeview announced details for the launch of ITV1+1, together with the possibility that both STV and UTV will launch their own timeshift services, STV +1 and UTV +1 in Scotland and Northern Ireland respectively. UTV later confirmed that it would launch UTV +1 at 8 pm on 11 January 2011. The channel is available to Freeview viewers on channel 33 and Virgin Media cable customers on channel 114. As of May 2018 UTV +1 is now testing on satellite..UTV+1 was added to Sky and Freesat week commencing 21st May 2018 for viewers in Northern Ireland. UTV Ireland was a sister", "title": "UTV (TV channel)" }, { "id": "10128140", "text": "name to Direct Star. This change was intended by the Bolloré Group \"for the sake of the uniform group\" . The TV channel has been broadcast free to air via satellite Hot Bird 8 (13°E) up to 2007-11-21. Now it's Viaccess encrypted and available to TPS subscribers (kingofsat.net change log, satscan.net) as well as on Internet television. On 1 September 2010 Direct Star replaced Virgin 17. Virgin 17 Virgin 17 was a French music video and TV show television network owned by the MCM Group, a subsidiary of Lagardère Active. It was available through digital terrestrial television in France, \"TNT\".", "title": "Virgin 17" }, { "id": "6998045", "text": "ITV2 +1, E4 +1, ITV +1, ITV3 +1, Channel 5 +1, Film4 +1, Sony Movie Channel +1, 5Star +1, 5USA +1, ITVBe +1, ITV4 +1, Sony Crime Channel +1, CBS Reality +1, truTV +1, Dave ja vu, Blaze +1, Quest +1, Quest Red +1, More4 +1, Pick +1, Channel 4 +1 HD, Pop +1 and Tiny Pop +1 are available via the UK digital terrestrial service, Freeview. Cartoon Network +1 shut down on March 6, 2006 in the UK, but was relaunched on April 1, 2014 replacing Cartoon Network Too. There are currently 50 timeshift channels in the UK on", "title": "Timeshift channel" }, { "id": "2521001", "text": "carried by Shaw Direct on channels 63 or 310 (54 or 554 in HD), and by Bell TV on channel 199 (in SD only). NTV is also available on Shaw Digital TV, Rogers Cable (Maritime systems only), Bell Aliant Fibe TV (12 in SD, 404 in HD), Vidéotron Illico and various other cable operators nationwide. NTV is broadcast on cable systems in Bermuda, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and the Bahamas, and some programming can—as noted above—is broadcast on a low-power television station in Florida, WZRA-CA in Oldsmar. As a quirk of analog broadcasting, some FM radio receivers that could tune", "title": "CJON-DT" }, { "id": "3077379", "text": "on Access Communications channel 4 and Sasktel Max channel 3. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 298 (Classic) or 28 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 22 (Classic) or 522 (Advanced). There is a high definition feed offered on Access Communications digital channel 506 and Sasktel Max channel 303. CBKT signed on for the first time on December 21, 1962 as CHRE-TV, a semi-satellite of CHAB-TV in Moose Jaw and an affiliate of CTV. CHRE signed on as part of a deal between CHAB-TV and Regina's original station, CKCK-TV, which allowed CTV to come to Saskatchewan for", "title": "CBKT-DT" }, { "id": "4261564", "text": "CKMI-DT CKMI-DT, UHF channel 15, is a Global owned-and-operated television station located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CKMI's studios are located inside the Dominion Square Building in Downtown Montreal, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Royal. On cable, the station can be seen on Vidéotron channel 8 in the Montreal area (channel 3 in standard definition), and in high definition on digital channel 608, and on Bell TV channel 234. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 330 (Classic) or 059 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 043 (Classic) or 530", "title": "CKMI-DT" }, { "id": "7007383", "text": "to affiliate with KTEN—which carries the network's master feed for smaller markets, The CW Plus, on its DT2 subchannel—when that network debuted on September 18). KXII-DT3, branded as \"Fox 12\", is the Fox-affiliated third digital subchannel of KXII, broadcasting in high definition on virtual and VHF channel 12.3. On cable, KXII-DT3 is available in standard definition on Cable One channel 34 (in standard definition) and digital channel 234 (in high definition) in Ardmore and Sherman, and channel 33 (in standard definition) and digital channel 233 (in high definition) in Ada; TV Cable of Grayson East channel 11 in Denison; on", "title": "KXII" }, { "id": "10022547", "text": "at launch, but began to broadcast the channel on April 19, 2010. DirecTV didn't carry it at launch either, but added it on June 30, 2010. Dish Network, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Brighthouse Networks, Verizon FiOS, and AT&T U-verse carry the channel in 720p high definition. DirecTV added the HD feed on August 15, 2012. The Latin American version of the channel launched on November 1, 2009 and it is broadcast in 1080i. Nat Geo Wild Nat Geo Wild (stylized as Nat Geo WILD or abbreviated as NGW) is an international pay TV network focused primarily on wildlife and natural", "title": "Nat Geo Wild" }, { "id": "9758190", "text": "Boeing for $360 million. These sales left DirecTV, PanAmSat and Hughes Network Systems as the remaining components of Hughes Electronics. Direct satellite broadcaster were mandated in 1992 to set aside 4% of its channel space for noncommercial educational and informational programming. DirecTV selected C-SPAN, EWTN and the Trinity Broadcasting Network from its current channel lineup plus request additional proposals from other programmers. DirecTV had given PBS Kids, PBS's original application, carriage that did not count against the set aside six weeks before the deadline. DirecTV selected an additional six channels; Clara+Vision, Inspirational Life, NASA TV, PBS YOU, StarNet and WorldLink", "title": "DirecTV" }, { "id": "8363022", "text": "It is also available on select U.S. cable providers, Dish Network, Glorystar (free-to-air Galaxy 19) and DirecTV, in the UK on Sky and in many nations around the world via direct-to-home satellite, such as ABS1 to India and the Middle East, Hot Bird satellite to Europe, and Agila 2 satellite both C-band and Ku-Band signal in Asia and the Philippines. The network also livestreams its programming on its official website. Spectrum launched the network in 720p high definition at the start of August 2017. On June 24, 2016, Hillsong Channel was made available on Apple TV. In Australia, Hillsong Channel", "title": "Hillsong Channel" }, { "id": "2521006", "text": "6, its former analog channel. CJON's HD feed is available over-the-air in the St. John's area, on Eastlink digital cable (channel 605), Rogers Cable (channel 521), Bell Aliant Fibe TV (channel 404), and Shaw Direct (channel 54). The HD signal of NTV is still not yet available on Bell TV as of 2017. NTV streams all of its local programming live through its Web site, with no geographic restrictions. The live Internet feed previously carried some of the American syndicated programs; these were dropped in September 2018. It has never carried network programming on the online feed. During times when", "title": "CJON-DT" }, { "id": "15421641", "text": "and launched India's first 4K Ultra HD channel on 26 January 2015. The channel is not dedicated to single genre and instead broadcasts video on demand (VOD), lifestyle and travel content, sports, infotainment, concerts and Hollywood films. The channel also telecasts 4K content created by international broadcasters. The first programs telecast on the channel were live broadcasts of select matches from the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup. Tata Sky also offered live broadcasts of select matches in 4K. Reliance Big TV was sold to Pantel Technologies and Veecon Media and Television in 2018. It was rebranded and relaunched as Independent", "title": "Direct-to-home television in India" }, { "id": "6252320", "text": "comes from Media Blasters, Tsuburaya Productions, MonoFilm Sales and other anime and movie licensors. The linear channel is available on AT&T U-verse, Claro Puerto Rico, Hotwire Communications, Consolidated Communications, Sjobergs Inc., IFiber Communications and OptiLink; its HD feed was launched on 27 September 2010. The VOD service is available on Optimum, Xfinity, Vubiquity, Frontier FiOS and Armstrong. The VOD service was previously available on Charter Communications and Massilion. The channel is available in streaming through its WatchToku.com streaming service, as well as its Amazon Prime and Go90 channels. Toku (TV network) Toku (stylised in all capital letters) is an American", "title": "Toku (TV network)" }, { "id": "2534728", "text": "It is also available on the Teledünya and Tivibu digital platforms. FX was launched in the Middle East as a free to air channel along with the rest of the fox branded channels which include (National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo People, STAR Movies, Fox Movies, Fox Family Movies, Fox Action Movies, STAR World, FOX, FX, Fox Life, Fox Crime, Fox Rewayat , Channel V International and Baby TV) , the channels later became encrypted instead of free, as a part of beIN network. FX began broadcasting a 720p HD channel in 2007, which is available on the majority", "title": "FX (TV channel)" }, { "id": "17822960", "text": "ITV Encore ITV Encore was a British drama television channel in the United Kingdom that was owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc. The channel was exclusive to Sky's digital satellite platform, Sky Go, Now TV, and Sky Store. The channel closed on 1 May 2018, becoming an on-demand only service available on other platforms as well as Sky. ITV Encore launched at 7 pm on 9 June 2014. The first programme to be shown on the channel was an episode of \"Agatha Christie's Poirot\". The channel was ITV's first new channel launch in over eight", "title": "ITV Encore" }, { "id": "17822963", "text": "the Lifestyle genre being shortened. On 15 December 2014, it moved again to Sky channel 269, to make space for ITVBe +1 and ITV Encore +1 (as ITV3 HD took its old place). It moved back to channel 263 on 1 August 2017, with CBS Drama taking its old place. It was confirmed by an ITV spokesperson in November 2017 that the linear television service ITV Encore would close in Spring 2018 to be replaced by an on-demand only service. This service commenced on 1 May 2018 and will become available on other platforms as well as Sky. Some have", "title": "ITV Encore" }, { "id": "2838016", "text": "There is also a high definition feed on Cogeco digital channel 707 in Hamilton, Halton and Niagara, and Rogers Cable digital channel 521 in the Greater Toronto Area, and on Shaw Direct classic lineup channel 36 and advanced lineup channel 536. On satellite, the station is available nationwide on Shaw Direct classic lineup channel 345 and advanced lineup channel 41, and on Bell TV on channels 211 (standard definition) and 1057 (high definition). CHCH also streams all of its local programming and a limited amount of syndicated programming live on the Internet, with no provider or geographic restrictions. Prior to", "title": "CHCH-DT" }, { "id": "6769957", "text": "by KGET and was later co-marketed with Bright House Networks (which already had operations in Bakersfield). When CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced in 2006 that The WB and UPN would merge to become The CW, KGET announced that they would add The CW to a digital channel of KGET branded as Bakersfield’s The CW and later Bakersfield's CW 12. The channel is available on Digital channel 17.2, Dish Network channel 26 and Spectrum channel 12. The channel is also available on AT&T U-verse channel 16 SD and 1016 HD beginning in 2014. The channel is not available on DirecTV", "title": "KGET-TV" }, { "id": "4585504", "text": "is available in standard definition on channel 14 on Comcast Xfinity's Detroit city system (Mount Clemens-licensed independent station WADL (channel 38) is carried on cable channel 4), channel 9 on Xfinity's South Oakland County system, channel 4 in other suburbs and outlying areas and on AT&T U-verse, and channel 5 on Cogeco's Windsor system, and in high definition on Xfinity channel 232, Cogeco channel 714, and U-verse channel 1004. The station first signed on the air as WWDT on October 23, 1946 for one day of demonstrative programming; regular programming commenced on March 4, 1947. It was the first television", "title": "WDIV-TV" }, { "id": "5631677", "text": "on DirecTV and Dish Network. On February 1, 2017, MeTV was re-mapped to channel 15.1 which is also the channel position of KTEL-CD the former position of Telemundo prior to moving to KASA. H&I is now shown as channel 29.1 the channel position of KUPT-TV in Hobbs, New Mexico where it is also shown statewide on DirecTV and Dish Network on channel 29. Movies! is now shown as Channel 33.1 the former channel position of MeTV and also the channel position of KRTN-TV in Durango, Colorado which is also shown statewide on DirecTV and Dish on channel 33. Telemundo returned", "title": "KASA-TV" }, { "id": "19134433", "text": "DreamWorks Channel DreamWorks Channel is a Southeast Asian pay television network that is owned and operated by DreamWorks Animation International TV, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, itself a division of Comcast. Singapore-based broadcaster HBO Asia was contracted to handle marketing, sales and technical services for the channel. The rights for DreamWorks Animation's programming in the United States are handled by Netflix and other networks. DWA programming, both in new and archive forms, make up the primetime and early day schedules of new sister network Universal Kids, which launched in the United States on 9 September 2017 over the channel space of", "title": "DreamWorks Channel" }, { "id": "2808816", "text": "was pushed to September 23, 2013, with its first program being an 80th anniversary special on \"Esquire\" which was rebroadcast later in primetime. On September 9, 2013, NBCUniversal announced that it would replace Style Network with Esquire Network, leaving G4 \"as is for the foreseeable future, though it's highly unlikely the company will invest in more original programming\" according to \"The Hollywood Reporter\". One of the factors was likely Style's distribution on DirecTV, giving Esquire more homes at launch with the Style channel slot than they would have had with G4 (G4 had earlier been dropped by DirecTV in 2010", "title": "Esquire Network" }, { "id": "12853031", "text": "Uruguay. It airs in Australia on the Seven Network, in Austria on ORF1, in Canada on /A\\, and in Estonia on Fox Life. In Greece it is broadcast on FX, in Hong Kong on TVB Pearl, in New Zealand on TV2, and in Russia on Channel One. In Singapore it is shown on MediaCorp Channel 5 and Starhub Fox Channel – Channel 505, in Slovakia on TV JOJ, in Slovenia on TV3 Slovenia, in South Africa on M-Net, in Taiwan on Public Television Service, and in Turkey on Dizimax and ATV. In Western Europe, \"FlashForward\" airs on Kanal 5 in", "title": "FlashForward" }, { "id": "3700518", "text": "channels 205 (SD) and 1031 (HD), and on Bell Fibe via channels 201 (SD) and 1201 (HD). On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 312 (Classic) or 057 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 045 (Classic) or 545 (Advanced). Most cable distributors in Quebec also carry CFCF, as it is the only CTV station in the province. Despite having only one transmitter, its signal reaches all the way to the Laurentians and Lanaudière regions, and also decently covers the Champlain Valley region in Vermont and New York. CFCF-TV was founded by the Canadian Marconi Company, owner of CFCF", "title": "CFCF-DT" }, { "id": "13999300", "text": "It also carries 3DTV channels. DirecTV began adding new HD channels on May 19 and continued June 23 and later in the summer. DirecTV added the first 3D channel to D12, ESPN 3D, on June 11, and new channels n3D and a pay-per-view 3D movie channel on July 1. A few more HD channels were added onto it in the fall of 2010, the winter of 2010-11, and the spring and summer of 2011; and more in 2012. DirecTV-12 DirecTV-12, also known as D12, is a Boeing model 702 satellite built by the Boeing Satellite Development Center. It was launched", "title": "DirecTV-12" }, { "id": "3569008", "text": "high definition on digital channel 517; on satellite, the station is also available on Shaw Direct classic lineup channel 331 and advanced lineup channel 39, and on Bell TV on channels 211 (standard definition) and 1052 (high definition). Ken Soble, the founder of CHCH-TV in Hamilton, Ontario envisioned a national \"superstation\" of 96 satellite-fed transmitters with CHCH as its flagship. In 1966, he filed the first application with the Board of Broadcast Governors for a network to be branded as NTV — however, the application faced various regulatory hurdles and underwent numerous revisions over the next number of years. The", "title": "CIII-DT" }, { "id": "9758224", "text": "under the umbrella of AT&T Sports Networks). It also owns minority shares of Game Show Network and MLB Network. DirecTV is also the exclusive U.S. rights holder to the NFL Sunday Ticket sports package. It also exclusively carries the \"DirecTV Experience\", which includes bonus coverage of men's major golf tournaments and Grand Slam tennis tournaments, including live feeds not available on other networks such as CBS, NBC, ESPN, Golf Channel and Tennis Channel that cover the events. DirecTV was also the exclusive provider of defunct sports packages NASCAR Hot Pass and Mega March Madness. Beginning in 2006, DirecTV began a", "title": "DirecTV" }, { "id": "2799774", "text": "CKPR-DT CKPR-DT is a privately owned television station serving as an affiliate of CTV in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 2 from a transmitter in Shuniah. Owned by Dougall Media, it is sister to Global affiliate CHFD-DT and both stations share studios located on Hill and Van Norman Streets in central Thunder Bay. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 210. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available in high definition on channel 037 (Classic) or 537 (Advanced). In June 2014,", "title": "CKPR-DT" }, { "id": "8226681", "text": "JUCE on pay television providers as well as on some streaming services that offer TBN's six U.S. networks. The network is available in the U.S. on DirecTV and Dish Network and throughout North and Central America as a free-to-air channel on Galaxy 14 C-band, Galaxy 19 K band and available with Glorystar Christian Satellite. Internationally, Smile is on the Hot Bird satellite service in Europe, ABS1 satellite to Asia, India and the Middle East, and Agila 2 both C-band and K band signal in some areas of Asia and the Philippines. The network is also livestreamed on both its own", "title": "Smile (TV network)" }, { "id": "15314117", "text": "CKY-DT CKY-DT, VHF channel 7, is a CTV owned-and-operated television station located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The station is owned by Bell Media. CKY's studios are located on Graham Avenue (adjacent to the Bell MTS Place) in Downtown Winnipeg, and its transmitter is located near Lord Selkirk Highway/Highway 75 in Ritchot. On cable, the station can be seen on Shaw Cable and MTS TV channel 5. It is available on Bell TV (satellite) on HD channel 1091. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 316 (Classic) or 033 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 029 (Classic) or 529", "title": "CKY-DT" }, { "id": "2870993", "text": "CKND-DT CKND-DT, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 40), is a Global owned-and-operated television station located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CKND's studios are located on the 30th floor of 201 Portage in Downtown Winnipeg, and its transmitter is also located in downtown Winnipeg. This station can also be seen on Shaw Cable (corporate sister through parent company Shaw Communications) and MTS TV channel 12. There is a high definition feed offered on Shaw Cable digital channel 211 and MTS TV channel 1012. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 335 (Classic) or", "title": "CKND-DT" }, { "id": "4438083", "text": "high definition on digital channel 211, Bell TV channel 244, Rogers Cable channel 118. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 338 (Classic) or 017 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 015 (Classic) or 515 (Advanced). CICT-TV first signed on the air on October 8, 1954 as CHCT, and was the first television station in the province of Alberta (as a result, it is also the oldest television station in the country that is part of the Global Television Network). The station was originally an affiliate of CBC Television. Its studios, offices and transmitter facility were located on", "title": "CICT-DT" }, { "id": "2498732", "text": "channel is often unable to broadcast certain programmes \"for legal reasons\", but the programme in question might still be listed on the EPG. ITV2+1 currently resides on Sky channel 218. ITV2+1 is also available on Freeview (including YouView, BT TV & TalkTalk TV) channel 27; Virgin Channel 116 ITV2 HD, a high-definition simulcast of ITV2, launched on 7 October 2010 on Sky channel 225. The channel was initially available through Sky's pay subscription service in a non-exclusive deal, before being added to Virgin Media's service on 14 March 2013. Original HD programming includes entertainment shows, \"Britain's Got More Talent\", \"The", "title": "ITV2" }, { "id": "9063341", "text": "Audience (TV network) Audience Network, also simply known as Audience since 2016 is an American general entertainment television channel that is owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia. It features a mix of original and acquired series, specials, and feature films. The network operates as a commercial-free service and broadcasts its programming without editing for content. It was originally exclusive to DirecTV. However, after AT&T's acquisition of DirecTV it became available on AT&T U-verse. It is also available on subscription streaming service DirecTV Now, and the upcoming lower budget AT&T Watch TV service. As of 2018, the", "title": "Audience (TV network)" }, { "id": "9758219", "text": "In 2015, DirecTV introduced 4K Genie Mini set-top boxes, which can be connected to any HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2-compliant devices to provide 4K video. In April 2016, DirecTV began live sports broadcasts in 4K to eligible subscribers, including coverage from the 2016 Masters Tournament, 25 \"MLB Network Showcase\" baseball games in the 2016 season (subject to local blackout restrictions) beginning April 15, 2016, and all Notre Dame college football home games during the 2016 season. DirecTV also offers local channels like MeTV, Laff, Comet, CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, PBS, The CW, MyNetworkTV, Telemundo, Azteca, Univision, ION Television (in markets that carry", "title": "DirecTV" }, { "id": "13712157", "text": "IPTV only eMedia Network channels are distributed via satellite on the following platforms: Galaxy-19 at 97°W (North America coverage) and Optus D2 at 152° East (Australia and New Zealand coverage). In addition, eMedia Network operate its own IPTV platform iON, which is available in North America and Australia. The IPTV service originally launched in partnership with Canadian ethnic broadcaster Ethnic Channels Group as NEXTV America & NEXTV Australia. However, in 2015 the service was re-launched as \"iON\" with eMedia Network taking over full control alongside new broadcast partner GSS Media. On August 21, 2013, eMedia Network announced a partnership with", "title": "EMedia Network" }, { "id": "8037112", "text": "TV On Demand nationally. The On Demand version of Shalom TV expanded to more than 20 video distributors available to more than 40 million homes throughout North America. In May 2012, Shalom TV became available as a Roku channel. On December 7, 2012, Optimum Cable (Cablevision) launched the Shalom TV Channel. Shalom TV was renamed JBS on September 24, 2014. In September 2016, JBS became available nationally as a channel on DIRECTV channel 388. JBS launched in August 2017 on Verizon Fios in HD on channel 798. JBS HD launched on August 7, 2018 on Charter Spectrum in NY, CA,", "title": "Jewish Broadcasting Service" }, { "id": "5145217", "text": "at the same time. The feed is carried in both standard and high definition on most cable providers in the New York metropolitan area and nationwide on DirecTV. YES Network HD is a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of the network, which is carried on select cable providers (including Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cablevision, DirecTV, RCN and Verizon FiOS). , YES is currently one of only three networks owned by YES majority owner 21st Century Fox (alongside regional sports networks Fox Sports Ohio and SportsTime Ohio; all three were acquisitions rather than Fox-launched networks) that transmit their HD simulcasts in", "title": "YES Network" }, { "id": "2799717", "text": "channel 211. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available in high definition on channel 038 (Classic) or 538 (Advanced). Since February 12, 2010, CHFD carries the vast majority of Global's programming schedule and brands itself on-air as Global Thunder Bay in the manner of the network's owned-and-operated stations operated by its parent company Corus Entertainment. CHFD went on the air for the first time on October 14, 1972, as a CTV affiliate. The station is part of the Thunder Bay Television twinstick with the then-CBC affiliate CKPR. It was, from 2002 to 2009, among three CTV-affiliated stations in Canada not", "title": "CHFD-DT" }, { "id": "6603687", "text": "Hope Channel Hope Channel is a Christian lifestyle television network owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The network operates globally, with 44 Hope Channels worldwide, each providing programs contextualized to the language and culture of their audience. Focusing on balanced, Christian living, Hope Channel programs cover topics such as mind, body, spirit, family, and community. Hope Channel is available on DirecTV channel 368 in the United States of America, via Roku, Hope Channel app available at App Store for Apple users and at Google Play Store for Android users, and online at www.HopeTV.org. Hope Channel is broadcast throughout the world:", "title": "Hope Channel" }, { "id": "6603688", "text": "Hope Channel Hope Channel is a Christian lifestyle television network owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The network operates globally, with 44 Hope Channels worldwide, each providing programs contextualized to the language and culture of their audience. Focusing on balanced, Christian living, Hope Channel programs cover topics such as mind, body, spirit, family, and community. Hope Channel is available on DirecTV channel 368 in the United States of America, via Roku, Hope Channel app available at App Store for Apple users and at Google Play Store for Android users, and online at www.HopeTV.org. Hope Channel is broadcast throughout the world:", "title": "Hope Channel" }, { "id": "2721358", "text": "Boomerang and Baby TV. Music video channels are from 800 to 829 which includes Channel [V], MAX, Smooth and Country Music Channel. Also included in the line-up are [V] Hits, Viacom Media Networks channels MTV Music and MTV Dance. Audio only channels are from 830 to 899 which includes Foxtel Tunes (formerly known as Air Active), SBS AM, SBS FM, ABC NewsRadio, ABC Radio National, ABC Local Radio, ABC Local Radio NSW, ABC WA Goldfields, ABC Classic FM, ABC Triple J, Double J and ABC Jazz. Pay-per-view and foreign language channels are from 900 to 989 which includes Foxtel on", "title": "Foxtel" }, { "id": "15205465", "text": "area are provided by Golden West Network, WIN Television and West Digital Television. Unlike the Remote Central and Eastern channels, they are all available in Western Standard Time and are assigned typical regional virtual channel numbers. Standard-definition channels GWN7, 7TWO, WIN, 10 BOSS, 10 Peach, Sky News on WIN, Nine West and 9Go! are provided as well as high-definition channels 7mate, WIN HD and 9Gem. Home shopping and sport channels ishop tv, Racing.com and TVSN are also provided by the WA commercial broadcasters. As well as government and commercial channels, VAST provides Indigenous Community Television (ICTV) and 3ABN International to", "title": "Viewer Access Satellite Television" }, { "id": "19866200", "text": "DirecTV Now DirecTV Now (stylized as DIRECTV NOW, also known simply as DTV Now) is a subscription streaming television service owned by AT&T, which allows subscribers in the United States to stream programming from cable channels without the long term commitment. The service was launched on November 30, 2016. , the service has 1.8 million subscribers. The data used by the service is zero rated for AT&T Wireless customers while on the AT&T network, as well as T-Mobile US customers who have the carrier's \"Binge On\" feature enabled. On July 13, 2017, it was reported that AT&T was going to", "title": "DirecTV Now" }, { "id": "4777345", "text": "million. The sale was completed on February 15, 2018, ending the Meyer family's stewardship of the stations after 53 years. KFMB-DT2, branded as The CW San Diego, is the primary CW- and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated second digital subchannel of KFMB-TV, broadcasting in 720p high definition on virtual and VHF channel 8.2. On cable and satellite, KFMB-DT2 is available on Cox Communications and AT&T U-Verse channel 6 (in standard definition) and 1006 (in high definition), Spectrum channel 6 (SD) and digital channel 1212 (HD), and DirecTV channel 9 (in both SD and HD). KFMB-DT2 first launched on November 1, 2011 as an", "title": "KFMB-TV" }, { "id": "12894571", "text": "for CGTN. The channel is carried on DirecTV, Dish Network, AT&T U-Verse and smaller carriers and live streams via its website and Livestream CNBC (originally an abbreviation for the Consumer News and Business Channel) was launched by NBC in 1989 after the purchase of Satellite Program Network, and merged with competitor Financial News Network that same year. It is owned by the NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of the NBCUniversal Television Group division of NBCUniversal. CNBC is the widest distributed of the business channels with about 84.27% of carriage. The channel has many international spin-offs. CNBC gained a competitor in", "title": "United States cable news" }, { "id": "2721352", "text": "Xbox service. Also as of June 2011, Foxtel's subscribers numbered just over 1.65 million. In November 2014, Foxtel added 2 new SD channels, 9 new HD channels and rebranded 2 sports channels to satellite and cable subscribers. Foxtel defines a virtual channel order that groups channels by their content. General entertainment channels are from 100 to 149 which includes metropolitan/state-based localised advertising primary channels the Nine Network, ABC, SBS, the Seven Network and Network 10, with metropolitan/state-based localised advertising multichannels ABC Comedy/ABC Kids, 7TWO, 7mate, 9Go!, 10 Bold, 10 Peach, SBS Viceland, and SBS Food, NITV as well as national", "title": "Foxtel" }, { "id": "2721361", "text": "SD). Channels completely discontinued include MusicCountry, The Soundtrack Channel, Movie Network (replaced by Foxtel Movies), Showtime Network (replaced by Foxtel Movies), TechTV, Fashion TV (replaced by FX/Fashion moved to Fetch TV), Ovation, KidsCo, History+2, Starpics (replaced by Foxtel Movies), Gamesworld Interactive Games and the Interactive Sports Selector. TV1 and SF ceased transmission at 11:59pm, 31 December 2013 after Foxtel chose not to renew their contracts as they wanted to bring as many channels in house as they did with their movie offerings. They were replaced by two new channels: TV Hits and Syfy. STUDIO ceased transmission at 11:59pm, 27 March", "title": "Foxtel" }, { "id": "19707861", "text": "main CBS channel can be seen on cable channel 9 on Midco and Cable One, DirecTV channel 30, Dish Network channel 4 (an attribute to the predecessor CBS affiliate's licensed channel), and in high definition on Midco digital channel 604 and Cable One digital channel 1009. It is also available on Hulu's Live TV service. Until December 2014, the KXJB call sign and CBS affiliation were used on the broadcast license presently associated with KRDK-TV. KXJB was co-owned with the KX Television network in western North Dakota from 1959 to 1971. The station never changed its network affiliation until late", "title": "KXJB-LD" }, { "id": "12860812", "text": "a monthly subscription fee of R199 for viewers who were still on the package. 100 - DStv Guide<br> 110 - M-Net Action<br> 115 - M-Net Series Zone<br> 117 - Universal Channel<br> 132 - CBS Reality <br> 137 - TCM<br> 161 - Mzanzi Magic<br> 191 - SABC 1<br> 192 - SABC 2<br> 193 - SABC 3<br> 194 - e.tv 176 - Home Channel 178 - Fashion TV 181 - National Geographic Channel<br> 187 - Discovery World 203 - SuperSport Update<br> 204 - SuperSport Update<br> 209 - SuperSport Select 305 - Nickelodeon<br> 308- disney junior 320 - Channel O<br> 322 - MTV", "title": "DStv Select 1" }, { "id": "3468916", "text": "KIKU KIKU, virtual channel 20 (UHF digital channel 19), is an independent television station licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The station is owned by NRJ TV, LLC. KIKU's studios are located on Bishop Street in downtown Honolulu, and its transmitter is located in Nānākuli. The station is carried on Oceanic Spectrum on channel 9 on Oahu, channel 10 on Maui and digital channel 89 statewide, Hawaiian Telcom channel 20, and on satellite providers Dish Network and DirecTV, both on channel 20. As a result, KIKU is available on all the major islands. Although the station advertises on-air that it", "title": "KIKU" }, { "id": "5733697", "text": "its southwest, and Fox affiliate KOKH-TV [channel 25] and CW affiliate KOCB [channel 34] to its southeast). On cable, KOCO is available on Cox Communications channel 8 (standard definition) and digital channel 705 (high definition) and AT&T U-verse channels 5 (standard definition) and 1005 (high definition) in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, and on either channel 5 on most cable systems elsewhere within the Oklahoma City DMA as well as on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network throughout the market. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) originally assigned the VHF channel 5 allocation in the Oklahoma City market to Enid. The", "title": "KOCO-TV" }, { "id": "7034618", "text": "Disney formed an in house ad sales company, Disney Media +, for the channel given that two competitors control most ad sales companies. Disney India Media Networks is shutting down its Bindass Play Hindi music channel to replace it with Disney International HD channel on October 29, 2017. This general entertainment channel is in English and HD, targeted to ages 14 to 25 and tapping only Disney live action shows. With the March 14, 2018 Disney Company reorganization, all international channels including Disney Channel have been transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International, a new segment, while the operation of", "title": "Disney Channels Worldwide" }, { "id": "3556328", "text": "Bridges\". He sought out Cuse's advice on how to run \"Lost\". The show has aired in over 70 countries. It currently airs in the Middle East on MBC's newly launched Action block MBC Action, DR2 in Denmark, Crime & Investigation Network, WGN America, Universal HD in the United States, TV1 in Australia, 13th Street in The Netherlands and Universal Channel in Serbia and on CBS Action in the United Kingdom. The series currently airs on H&I every Monday from 11/10c to 8/7c as part of their \"Day Shift\" block. CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) released the first three seasons of", "title": "Nash Bridges" }, { "id": "9758223", "text": "provide true HD to hotels for over 2 years now with the installation of private video networks (FTTP to Coax conversion & Pro:Idiom) or with HFC HD video distribution systems (Pro:Idiom). DirecTV's exclusive general entertainment channel Audience Network has dozens of original and acquired programs, most of them unedited and commercial-free. It had its own exclusive 3DTV channel called n3D that launched in 2010 and shut down in 2012. DirecTV serves American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue, and United Airlines. DirecTV owns regional sports networks AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh, AT&T SportsNet Southwest, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, and Root Sports Northwest (all", "title": "DirecTV" }, { "id": "12392333", "text": "temporary duplicate launched on channel 126 on Virgin Media at midnight on 22 July 2018, a slot previously vacated by Alibi prior to the UKTV channels' removals, until the network was restored on 11 August 2018. \"True Entertainment +1\", a one-hour timeshift channel, was launched on 25 February 2013. The channel was replaced by \"True Drama\" on 4 June 2013. The channel relaunched on 3 April 2014, replacing BuzMuzik, which closed due to CSC bringing Starz TV to their list. It closed again on 17 August 2015, with its slot being bought by the Information TV group for Showcase, which", "title": "True Entertainment" }, { "id": "836294", "text": "carrier who maintained them shared was RDS-RCS, from launch of European version to October 20, 2017). On October 6, 2015, TCM was replaced by TNT, 22 years after the first launch. The African version of TNT launched on 15 October 1995. On 15 October 1999, TNT was replaced with Turner Classic Movies. On 21 September 2018, TNT replaced TCM. 23 years after the first relaunch. Launched in 2016, it replaced Toonami Thailand. Owned by M Turner Company (a joint-venture with Major Kantana Co., Ltd.), the channel was closed on January 1, 2018. TNT (U.S. TV network) TNT (originally an abbreviation", "title": "TNT (U.S. TV network)" }, { "id": "13061112", "text": "Cinémoi Cinémoi is a television network focusing on film, fashion and international style. It is available in the United States on DirecTV, Verizon FiOS-Frontier, Channel 236 and Sling TV. Originally the channel was dedicated to screening subtitled French movies from the New Wave onwards. And its premium programming currently gives viewers front row seats to an assortment of international titles and festivals, curated vintage to modern movies, as well as green and haute couture content, and an array of glamorous events, including the Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet and Closing Ceremony, and the channel's annual International Fashion Film Awards show.", "title": "Cinémoi" }, { "id": "18656402", "text": "free trial of a new set of freemium channels using UHF Channel 16 (485.143 MHz). It includes cable channels from sister company Creative Programs: O Shopping (also aired through BEAM DTV and as overnight programming for ABS-CBN), Jeepney TV and Myx (which had tested a complimentary channel Myx2 before the service launched in 2015). Also, new exclusive channels Asianovela Channel and Movie Central are also included in the lineup. Initially, the five new channels will be beamed from Metro Manila, Metro Cebu and Cagayan de Oro, with plans to extend its coverage to existing ABS-CBN DTV stations. On November 10,", "title": "ABS-CBN TV Plus" }, { "id": "3153980", "text": "channel 213. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 328 (Classic) or 018 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 017 (Classic) or 517 (Advanced). This station is also available on Bell TV channel 246 and in high definition on channel 1133. The station launched on VHF channel 5 on September 20, 1997 under the ownership Craig Media, two days after its A-Channel sister station CKEM-TV in Edmonton went on the air for the first time. It billed itself as a station with a very deep connection to Calgary, and whose schedule was not determined by interests in Toronto.", "title": "CKAL-DT" }, { "id": "2721357", "text": "Discovery (with two-hour timeshifted version), ABC News Australia, NBCUniversal's CNBC, A-PAC, BBC World News, Bloomberg Television, Al Jazeera English, CGTN News, CCTV-9 Documentary, NHK World and RT. Also included in the line-up are Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo People, History, A&E and CI, Discovery Communications' Animal Planet, Discovery Turbo MAX (with two-hour timeshifted version), Discovery Science, Discovery Home & Health, TLC and BBC Knowledge. Pre-Teenage entertainment channels are from 700 to 799 which includes Viacom Media Networks channels Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Time Warner's Cartoon Network and ABC3. Also included in the line-up are Nick Jr., CBeebies, Disney XD, Disney Junior,", "title": "Foxtel" }, { "id": "3645959", "text": "eastern Europe and Balkans, with 14 HD channels. In Malaysia, this channel is available on Astro (Malaysian satellite television). In Sri Lanka, this channel is available in Dialog TV. In Poland, this channel is available as of mid-2007 on Cyfra Plus platform with Polish and English soundtrack. In Israel, this channel is available since late 2007 in HOT (cable) and yes (satellite). In Slovakia, this channel is available since 2008 in digital TV product UPC Digital. In Czech Republic, this channel is available since the spring of 2008 on digital cable from UPC Digital, channel 54. Both Czech and Slovak", "title": "National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)" }, { "id": "4376777", "text": "the first sub-channel targeted specifically at women, and the first general entertainment network since music videos were added in 1985. In November 2017, Escape moved to 67.5. The Justice Network, previously airing on WJLP, was added on 67.5 in October 2017, airing crime dramas and documentary programming. In November 2017, Justice Network moved to 67.1. This is the first primary English-language network to air on 67.1 since 2002. WFTY-DT WFTY-DT, virtual channel 67 (UHF digital channel 23), is a television station licensed to Smithtown, New York and serving Long Island. The station is owned by Univision Communications, along with WFUT-DT", "title": "WFTY-DT" }, { "id": "1515943", "text": "In addition to its main channel, Cinemax also operates high definition simulcast feeds of all seven multiplex channels. The flagship network began transmitting its programming exclusively in high definition on September 1, 2008. Cinemax HD is available on major cable, fiber optic and satellite providers such as Dish Network, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications, Comcast Xfinity, AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS, although few providers offer all eight multiplex channels in HD. Cinemax operates a subscription video-on-demand service, Cinemax On Demand, which is available at no additional charge to new and existing Cinemax subscribers. The Cinemax On Demand service, which", "title": "Cinemax" }, { "id": "14323859", "text": "longer available via HD+. Nickelodeon, which previously shared its channel with Comedy Central, increased its broadcast hours to 24 hours a day. On January 1, 2015 the women's channel Sat.1 Gold started broadcasting in HD on the HD+ platform. It is the last of ProSiebenSat.1's SD channels to launch in HD. On October 4, 2016 INsight TV HD, an action adventure and extreme sports channel from TV Entertainment Reality Network (TERN) became the 22nd HD+ channel. INsight TV had first launched in October 2015 as a free-to-air channel on Astra 19.2°E. On December 1, 2016 the sports's channel Eurosport 1", "title": "HD+" }, { "id": "4441133", "text": "9214 (SD). On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 318 (Classic) or 020 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 013 (Classic) or 513 (Advanced). This station is also available on Bell TV channel 239 and in high definition on channel 1121. The station first signed on at 3:00 p.m. on October 25, 1954, on VHF channel 3 with 27,400 watts of power, and one live camera presentation from the transmitter room; CFRN-TV was Alberta's second television station and the province's second CBC Television affiliate. The station broadcasts, along with CTV Two, 104.9 Virgin Radio, TSN 1260 and 100.3", "title": "CFRN-DT" }, { "id": "7845338", "text": "Ovation (U.S. TV channel) Ovation is an American television network whose stated mission is to connect the world to all forms of art and artistic expression. Ovation premiered on April 21, 1996 and was re-launched on June 20, 2007 to a national audience with carriage on DirecTV. Since then, the network has added carriage on AT&T U-verse, Verizon FiOS, Comcast/Xfinity, RCN, Charter (selected markets) and other major cable systems across the country (check local listings). The channel currently reaches approximately 50 million subscribers. Ovation launched an HD service in 2010 and is also available on VOD (in both standard- and", "title": "Ovation (U.S. TV channel)" }, { "id": "11992272", "text": "introduce a cloud-based DVR streaming service as part of its effort to create a unified platform across DirecTV and its DirecTV Now streaming service, with U-verse to be added soon. In October 2018, it was announced that the service Is set to launch in 2019 On September 12, 2017, it was reported that AT&T planned to launch a new cable TV-like service for delivery over-the-top over its own or a competitor's broadband network sometime next year. On November 20, 2017, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim filed a lawsuit for the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division to block the", "title": "AT&T" }, { "id": "5575787", "text": "announced that Universal HD would be shut down on July 14, 2017, and be replaced by with the American Olympic Channel. Universal HD one of four NBCU pay-TV networks to cease operations in 2017, along with Chiller, Cloo, and Esquire Network. These discontinuations came in response to changing market conditions in the U.S. television industry, including the growth of \"skinny\" over-the-top linear television services delivered over the internet (such as DirecTV Now and Sling TV), and an overall decline in \"niche\" channels that originate little to no original programming. The U.S. version of Olympic Channel is a franchise of the", "title": "Olympic Channel (U.S. TV channel)" }, { "id": "16736792", "text": "finale to properly conclude the series, to air on December 20, 2018. Season 1 aired on NBC in the U.S. and on Global in Canada on Monday nights at 10 p.m. Eastern and Pacific (9 p.m. Central). Season 2 aired on NBC and Global on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. EST/PST. (9 p.m. CST). Episodes can also be streamed online through NBC and Global's respective websites, as well as on Netflix in some countries. Episodes can also be streamed on Hulu in the United States. Starting from December 14, 2016, it aired in the UK on E4 every Wednesday at", "title": "Timeless (TV series)" }, { "id": "10865263", "text": "later renamed to SES-7 in May 2010. Currently, MNC Vision has 5 channels in high-definition, including HBO HD, Fox Movies Premium HD, National Geographic Channel HD, Disney XD HD, & Fox Sports 3 HD. On 12 December 2017, Indovision was rebranded as MNC Vision. MNC Vision MNC Vision (formerly known as Indovision) is an Indonesian subscription-based direct broadcast satellite (DBS) or \"direct-to-home\" satellite television and radio service initially in Indonesia. MNC Vision is currently owned by PT MNC Skyvision Tbk (). MNC Vision began operations in January 1994 as Indovision. Indovision started its service with five-channel C-Band Direct Broadcast Satellite", "title": "MNC Vision" } ]

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[ { "id": "19260229", "text": "advanced to the national championship after winning the semifinal games hosted by the Sugar Bowl and Rose Bowl Game respectively in January 2018. The championship game was played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on January 8, 2018. The Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia was announced as the host site for the fourth College Football National Championship on November 4, 2015. The College Football Playoff (CFP) selection committee selected four teams to advance to the playoff: the Clemson Tigers, Oklahoma Sooners, Georgia Bulldogs, and Alabama Crimson Tide. The Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the Clemson Tigers in the 2018 Sugar Bowl", "title": "2018 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "19260241", "text": "2019 College Football Playoff National Championship The 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship is a college football bowl game that will determine a national champion in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2018 season. It will be played at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California on January 7, 2019, and will be the culminating game of the 2018–19 bowl season. The teams playing in the national championship will be the winners of the two semifinal games – the Orange Bowl and the Cotton Bowl. Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California was announced as the host site for", "title": "2019 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "19260228", "text": "2018 College Football Playoff National Championship The 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship was a college football bowl game that determined a national champion in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2017 season. The Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the Georgia Bulldogs 26–23, coming back from a 13–0 deficit at halftime to secure the win in overtime. True freshman quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and defensive tackle Daron Payne were respectively named the offensive and defensive players of the game. The College Football Playoff selection committee chose the semifinalists following the conclusion of the 2017 regular season. Alabama and Georgia", "title": "2018 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "20244370", "text": "2018 Rose Bowl The 2018 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Georgia Bulldogs, played on January 1, 2018 at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California. The 104th Rose Bowl Game was a semifinal for the College Football Playoff (CFP), matching two of the top four teams selected by the system's selection committee. Georgia and Oklahoma competed for a spot at the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game, to be played on January 8, 2018 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. The Georgia Bulldogs won the game with a 27-yard run", "title": "2018 Rose Bowl" }, { "id": "17257518", "text": "games cannot host the championship game in the same year, Pasadena and New Orleans were not eligible for the 2018 game; South Florida and Arlington could not host in 2019; and Glendale and Atlanta were excluded from 2020 consideration. The same exclusions rotate every three years through 2026. Note: Conference affiliations are contemporaneous with the game, which may differ from the current alignment. College Football Playoff National Championship The College Football Playoff National Championship is a post-season college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), which began play in", "title": "College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "20963667", "text": "the 2019 championship game will be played in Grambling, Louisiana. The game was contested between two teams that had never before won a football national championship. On the visiting side of the scoreboard was the once-beaten, #7-ranked Benedictine Ravens, representing Benedictine College from Atchison, Kansas. The home team was the unbeaten, #1-ranked Morningside Mustangs, playing for Morningside College of Sioux City, Iowa. Benedictine was making its first appearance in the championship game while Morningside was appearing for the second time, losing the 2012 championship game in overtime to the Marian Knights. Morningside was led by the quarterback-receiver duo of Trent", "title": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship" }, { "id": "19950296", "text": "in the CFP Semi-final in the Sugar Bowl over Clemson and Georgia's overtime win over Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl, Alabama and Georgia, who did not play during SEC play, were slated to play on January 8, 2018 in the Mercedes-Benz Dome in Atlanta, Georgia for the 2018 College Football National Championship Game. This game marked the first time ex-Defensive Coordinator for Alabama Kirby Smart, head coach of Georgia faced off against his mentor Nick Saban. Alabama won the coin toss and elected to defer. On Georgia's opening drive, Alabama's Tony Brown intercepted a pass intended for Georgia's Riley Ridley,", "title": "2017 Alabama Crimson Tide football team" }, { "id": "20601666", "text": "6 seconds remaining to defeat Clemson by a final score of 43-42. The win brought Clemson its first (and ultimately, only) loss of the season, as the Tigers went on to win the College Football Playoff National Championship. 2018 ACC Championship Game The 2018 ACC Championship Game was played on December 1, 2018. It was the 14th annual ACC Football Conference Championship Game to determine the 2018 champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The game was held at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. Clemson emerged victorious and became the 2018 ACC champions, beating Pitt 42–10. The 2018", "title": "2018 ACC Championship Game" }, { "id": "17257517", "text": "2016 game and Tampa, Florida (Raymond James Stadium) was selected to host the 2017 game. Four cities had submitted bids for the 2016 game: Glendale, Jacksonville (EverBank Field), New Orleans (Mercedes-Benz Superdome), and Tampa. Six metropolitan areas had been vying for the 2017 game: Tampa, the San Francisco Bay Area (Levi's Stadium), Minneapolis (U.S. Bank Stadium), San Antonio (Alamodome), South Florida (Hard Rock Stadium), and Jacksonville. The hosts for the 2019 and 2020 games were announced on November 4, 2015. The hosts for the 2021 through 2024 games were announced November 1, 2017. Since cities hosting College Football Playoff semifinal", "title": "College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "11924303", "text": "top two teams at the end of the regular season (as determined by internal rankings, or aggregates of the major polls and other statistics) to compete in what is intended to be the \"de facto\" national championship game. The current iteration of this practice, the College Football Playoff, selects four teams to participate in national semi-finals hosted by two of six partner bowl games, with their winners advancing to the College Football Playoff National Championship. The concept of a national championship in college football dates to the early years of the sport in the late 19th century, and the earliest", "title": "College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS" }, { "id": "19260230", "text": "by a score of 24–6 to reach the championship game. The Tide had a 12–1 season, becoming the SEC West Division co-champions with the Auburn Tigers. The Crimson Tide were coached by Nick Saban. The Georgia Bulldogs defeated the Oklahoma Sooners in the 2018 Rose Bowl by a score of 54–48 in double overtime to reach the championship game. The Bulldogs had a 13–1 season claiming their 13th Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship with a win over Auburn Tigers, 28–7. The Bulldogs were coached by Kirby Smart. † = 2017 All-American After winning the coin toss, Alabama deferred to the second", "title": "2018 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "19260237", "text": "but immediately followed that with a game-winning 41-yard touchdown pass to DeVonta Smith, in a play that has since been called \"2nd and 26\" by fans. Tagovailoa was named the offensive player of the game, and Daron Payne was named the defensive player of the game. The game was televised nationally by ESPN. On January 8, 2018, the network announced that its broadcast would feature a live performance by Kendrick Lamar during halftime. This performance was separate from the event proper at Mercedes-Benz Stadium (which featured a traditional halftime show with the marching bands of the participating teams), and originated", "title": "2018 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "19876806", "text": "2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season The 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on August 26, 2017 and ended on December 9, 2017. The Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldogs played in the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship. Alabama defeated Georgia in overtime by a score of 26–23 on a game-winning touchdown pass from Tua Tagovailoa to Devonta Smith. Alabama claimed its 17th national title in school history, the most of any current", "title": "2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season" }, { "id": "17257512", "text": "College Football Playoff National Championship The College Football Playoff National Championship is a post-season college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), which began play in the 2014 college football season. The game serves as the final of the College Football Playoff, a bracket tournament between the top four teams in the country as determined by a selection committee, which was established as a successor to the Bowl Championship Series and its similar BCS National Championship Game. Unlike the BCS championship, the participating teams in the College Football Playoff", "title": "College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "20527089", "text": "Championship since 2005, defeating Auburn 28–7. Georgia was selected to play in the College Football Playoff for the first time in school history as the #3 seed to face the #2 seed Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl. In an instant classic, Georgia roared back from a 14 point halftime deficit to defeat Oklahoma 54–48 in 2 overtimes earning their first National Championship game appearance. In the National Championship, Georgia was defeated by Alabama 26–23 in overtime. Georgia finished the season 13–2. The SEC media poll was released on July 20, 2018, with the Bulldogs predicted to win the SEC East", "title": "2018 Georgia Bulldogs football team" }, { "id": "19260242", "text": "the fifth College Football Playoff National Championship on November 4, 2015. The College Football Playoff selection committee will select four teams to advance to the playoff. The bowl selection show took place on Sunday, December 2nd. TBD The game will be televised nationally by ESPN. As in 2018, the network is also promoting an off-site concert that will be televised at halftime during ESPN's broadcast, featuring rock band Imagine Dragons on Treasure Island. 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship The 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship is a college football bowl game that will determine a national champion in the", "title": "2019 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "19950264", "text": "Clemson in a rubber match of the past two playoffs in the semi-final game played at the 2018 Sugar Bowl, which they won 24–6. Alabama was matched in the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game against number 3 and SEC champion and rival Georgia, who beat Oklahoma in the 2018 Rose Bowl, 54–48. Alabama won in overtime, 26–23, to secure the CFP National Championship. Alabama was also selected as champions by the Associated Press (AP) for a record 11th time in program history and recognized by the National Football Foundation (NFF) as the McArthur Bowl recipient, giving Alabama their", "title": "2017 Alabama Crimson Tide football team" }, { "id": "20601760", "text": "2018 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2018 Cotton Bowl Classic will be a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2018 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The 83rd Cotton Bowl Classic is a College Football Playoff semifinal with the winner to compete in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship. It is one of the 2018–19 bowl games that will conclude the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, the game will officially be known as the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic. The game will feature second-ranked Clemson of", "title": "2018 Cotton Bowl Classic" }, { "id": "20244424", "text": "2018 Sugar Bowl The 2018 Sugar Bowl was a College Football Playoff semifinal bowl game that was played on January 1, 2018 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The 84th Sugar Bowl game, it matched two of the top four teams selected by the Selection Committee to compete for a spot at the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship played on January 8, 2018, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. It was one of the 2017–18 bowl games that concluded the 2017 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Allstate insurance company, the game is officially known as the Allstate", "title": "2018 Sugar Bowl" }, { "id": "19260238", "text": "from Centennial Olympic Park. Following an undefeated season in the American Athletic Conference and their victory over the Auburn Tigers in the 2018 Peach Bowl, the UCF Knights claimed the national championship by virtue of being the only undefeated team in the FBS level of college football. UCF held a victory parade at Disney World and hung a national championship banner at their stadium to celebrate this achievement. The school also paid national championship bonuses to all of its assistant coaches, many of whom left UCF after the Peach Bowl to follow head coach Scott Frost to his new head", "title": "2018 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "20598804", "text": "semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the National Championship game. The semifinal games for the 2018–19 season are the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl. Both will be played on December 29 as part of a yearly rotation of three pairs of six bowls, commonly referred to as the CFP New Year's Six bowl games. The winners will advance to the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California on January 7. For the 2018–19 bowl season, the Gasparilla Bowl was re-located from Tropicana Field to Raymond James Stadium (which already hosts the Outback", "title": "2018–19 NCAA football bowl games" }, { "id": "16769188", "text": "Georgia and Auburn would meet in Mercedes Benz Stadium, in what would be a rematch from early regular season meeting. Looking to avenge their loss from week 11, Georgia would go on to defeat Auburn 28-7 and claim the 2017 SEC Conference Championship. On November 4, 2015, it was announced that the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship would be held at the stadium on January 8, 2018, beating out Houston, Miami Gardens, and Santa Clara. On Sunday December 3, 2017, four teams were selected by the College Football Playoff Committee to compete in the College Football Playoff Semifinals, with", "title": "Mercedes-Benz Stadium" }, { "id": "20002196", "text": "semifinal game to be played at the 2018 Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Their opponent was the third-seeded Georgia Bulldogs, champions of the Southeastern Conference. It was the first ever match-up between the two schools. The Rose Bowl winner would go on to play in the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship. Oklahoma lost in double overtime, 48–54, in a game many observers described as an \"instant classic\". It was the highest-ever scoring Rose Bowl game, and the first CFP game to go to overtime. The Sooners were the first to score, with a 13-yard pass from Baker Mayfield", "title": "2017 Oklahoma Sooners football team" }, { "id": "17257513", "text": "National Championship are determined by two semi-final bowls—hosted by two of the consortium's six member bowls yearly—and the top two teams as determined by the selection committee do not automatically advance to the game in lieu of other bowls. This has caused a unique side effect in that, since the inception of the playoff, no #1 or #3 seed has won the National Championship. The game is played at a neutral site, determined through bids by prospective host cities (similar to the Super Bowl and NCAA Final Four). When announcing it was soliciting bids for the 2016 and 2017 title", "title": "College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "810424", "text": "to the conference championships, and the winners of those conference championship games then face each other in the Super Bowl. The College Football Playoff National Championship is a post-season college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), which began play in the 2014 college football season. The game serves as the final of the College Football Playoff, a bracket tournament between the top four teams in the country as determined by a selection committee, which was established as a successor to the Bowl Championship Series and its similar BCS", "title": "Playoffs" }, { "id": "17257516", "text": "is no \"de jure\" restriction on climate. Officials in New York City said they would like to host the game at Yankee Stadium, which hosts the annual Pinstripe Bowl, but it falls short of the attendance limit as it only holds approximately 54,000 fans in its football configuration (a game could still be hosted in the New York metropolitan area, but it would have to be at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey). On December 16, 2013, host selections for the 2016 and 2017 title games were announced. Glendale, Arizona (University of Phoenix Stadium) was selected to host the", "title": "College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "810425", "text": "National Championship Game. Unlike the BCS championship, the participating teams in the College Football Playoff National Championship are determined by two semi-final bowls—hosted by two of the consortium's six member bowls yearly—and the top two teams as determined by the selection committee do not automatically advance to the game in lieu of other bowls. The game is played at a neutral site, determined through bids by prospective host cities (similarly to the Super Bowl and NCAA Final Four). When announcing it was soliciting bids for the 2016 and 2017 title games, playoff organizers noted that the bids must propose host", "title": "Playoffs" }, { "id": "9451363", "text": "his career. Clemson won the ACC championship and secured its second trip to the CFP National Championship with a 31–0 shutout of semi-finalist #3 Ohio State in the 2016 Fiesta Bowl. The Tigers competed in the College Football Playoff National Championship game in Tampa, Florida on January 9, 2017, beating the previously undefeated Alabama Crimson Tide 35–31 on a game-winning touchdown with one second remaining, and winning the 2016 National Championship. The Clemson-South Carolina rivalry which dates back to 1896 is the largest annual sporting event in terms of ticket sales in the state of South Carolina. From 1896 to", "title": "Clemson Tigers football" }, { "id": "20113426", "text": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season The 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season is the 150th season of college football competition in the United States at the highest level organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on August 25, 2018 and ended on December 8, 2018. The postseason began on December 15, 2018 and will conclude on January 7, 2019 with the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The following rule changes were approved by the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel for the 2018 season: Major", "title": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season" }, { "id": "19714512", "text": "led the Tide to a 13–1 season, giving them a playoff spot as a #4 seed, where they played Clemson in the 2018 Sugar Bowl. Hurts was the offensive MVP in that game, with Da'Ron Payne being the defensive MVP in a 24–6 win over the Tigers. Hurts was benched at halftime of the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship for true freshman Tua Tagovailoa. Hurts won his first National Championship as the Crimson Tide defeated the Bulldogs by a score of 26–23 in overtime. Overall, he finished the 2017 season with 2,081 passing yards, 17 passing touchdowns, and one", "title": "Jalen Hurts" }, { "id": "20121907", "text": "won the game 42–35, and went on to win the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship. The championship game had been hosted in Charlotte, North Carolina from 2010 to 2015, and had been slated to host through at least 2019. However, in response to North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act (HB2), the ACC voted in September 2016 to move the 2016 championship out of North Carolina. Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida was chosen as a replacement site for the 2016 game. ACC Commissioner John Swofford delayed the decision on where to hold the 2017 football Championship Game", "title": "2017 ACC Championship Game" }, { "id": "20466481", "text": "the final College Football Playoff (CFP) Selection poll, Alabama was included at number 4 and played number 1 Clemson in a rubber match of the past two playoffs in the semi-final game played at the Sugar Bowl winning 24–6. Alabama was matched in the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game against number 3 Georgia who beat Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl, 54–48. Alabama won in overtime, 26–23, to secure the CFP National Championship. Alabama was also selected as champions by the Associated Press (AP) for a record 11th time in program history and recognized by the National Football Foundation", "title": "2018 Alabama Crimson Tide football team" }, { "id": "9050278", "text": "Bears, in which Oregon won. The stadium is the home of the Redbox Bowl and since 2014 has served as the host for the Pac-12 Championship Game. In November 2015, it was announced that Levi's Stadium would host the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship, making it the first time the game will be played there. Levi's Stadium Levi's Stadium is a football stadium located in Santa Clara, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has served as the home venue for the National Football League (NFL)'s San Francisco 49ers since 2014. The stadium is located approximately south of", "title": "Levi's Stadium" }, { "id": "17091074", "text": "College Football Playoff The College Football Playoff (CFP) is an annual postseason knockout tournament to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level of college football competition in the United States. The inaugural tournament was held at the end of the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Four teams play in two semifinal games, and the winner of each semifinal advances to the College Football Playoff National Championship game. The College Football Playoff is not an officially sanctioned championship event by the NCAA, the sport's governing body. The NCAA has never", "title": "College Football Playoff" }, { "id": "20113436", "text": "coaching changes announced during the season that did not take effect until the end of the season. 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season The 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season is the 150th season of college football competition in the United States at the highest level organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on August 25, 2018 and ended on December 8, 2018. The postseason began on December 15, 2018 and will conclude on January 7, 2019 with the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. The", "title": "2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season" }, { "id": "19876813", "text": "bowl games have hosted two semifinal playoff games on a rotating basis. For this season, the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl hosted the semifinal games, with the winners advancing to the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia. On December 3, 2017, the College Football Playoff selection committee announced their final team rankings for the year. This is restricted to coaching changes taking place on or after May 1, 2017. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2017, see 2016 NCAA Division I FBS end-of-season coaching changes. This list includes coaching changes announced during", "title": "2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season" }, { "id": "2108349", "text": "2017. Also, in 2024, NRG Stadium will be one of the Host sites to host the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, along with Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens in 2021, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in 2022, and the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood in 2023. NRG Stadium also hosts international soccer matches. The games are generally held in the spring and summer before the NFL season starts. The stadium hosted CONCACAF Gold Cup matches from 2005 to 2011. The Gold Cup matches in 2007 included Round 1 matches, and a quarterfinal doubleheader match. The", "title": "NRG Stadium" }, { "id": "20110827", "text": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the single-elimination tournament to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2017–18 season. The game was played on April 2, 2018, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, between the Michigan Wolverines and the Villanova Wildcats. Michigan last won the NCAA championship in 1989, while Villanova won the championship in 2016. Villanova defeated Michigan, 79–62. Donte DiVincenzo, a reserve player, scored 31 points for Villanova, and was named the", "title": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game" }, { "id": "18449411", "text": "and Ben Boulware were named the Offensive and Defensive Most Valuable Players respectively. Competing bids were placed to host the championship game by Tampa, Jacksonville, Minneapolis, San Antonio, San Francisco, and South Florida. Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, was announced as the host site for the third College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championship game on December 17, 2013. It became the first CFP championship game to not be held at the site of one of the \"New Year's Six\" bowls. This championship game is part of the third annual CFP, constituted by four teams playing to decide the national", "title": "2017 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "20244427", "text": "Tigers to only six points. This matchup was a rematch of the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship in which the Tigers won with quarterback Deshaun Watson leading the team as the game's MVP. The Tigers were not able to perform without Watson and with Kelly Bryant. 2018 Sugar Bowl The 2018 Sugar Bowl was a College Football Playoff semifinal bowl game that was played on January 1, 2018 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The 84th Sugar Bowl game, it matched two of the top four teams selected by the Selection Committee to compete for a spot at", "title": "2018 Sugar Bowl" }, { "id": "11924300", "text": "College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best college football team. Division I FBS football is the only National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sport for which the NCAA does not sanction a yearly championship event. As such, it is sometimes unofficially referred to as a \"mythical national championship\". Due to the lack of an official NCAA title, determining the nation's top college", "title": "College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS" }, { "id": "18449422", "text": "Playoff title.\" This became the third-highest watched game by streaming on ESPN, after two games from the FIFA World Cup. 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship The 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship was a bowl game that was used to determine a national champion of college football in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2016 season. The game was played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on January 9, 2017. It was the culminating game of the 2016–17 bowl season. The game was played between the winners of two pre-designated bowl games played on December", "title": "2017 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "18449409", "text": "2017 College Football Playoff National Championship The 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship was a bowl game that was used to determine a national champion of college football in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2016 season. The game was played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on January 9, 2017. It was the culminating game of the 2016–17 bowl season. The game was played between the winners of two pre-designated bowl games played on December 31, 2016: the Clemson Tigers, who defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Fiesta Bowl, and the Alabama Crimson Tide,", "title": "2017 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "20110834", "text": "180 countries. In Canada, the game aired on TSN. Radio coverage in the United States was provided by Westwood One. 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game The 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final game of the single-elimination tournament to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2017–18 season. The game was played on April 2, 2018, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, between the Michigan Wolverines and the Villanova Wildcats. Michigan last won the NCAA championship in 1989, while Villanova won the championship", "title": "2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game" }, { "id": "9451375", "text": "had national championship implications and have greatly intensified the rivalry. The teams squared off in the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship in Glendale, Arizona, with Alabama emerging with a thrilling 45-40 victory. The next year, the teams again found themselves doing battle in the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship in Tampa, Florida, with Clemson emerging with a thrilling 35-31 victory and their first win over the Crimson Tide since 1905. Once again the teams did battle in the 2018 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana with a trip to the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game on", "title": "Clemson Tigers football" }, { "id": "19975464", "text": "single-elimination semifinal round, with the winners advancing to the National Championship game. The semifinal games were the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. Both were played on New Year's Day, as part of a yearly rotation of three pairs of six bowls, commonly referred to as the CFP New Year's Six bowl games. Their winners advanced to the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 8, 2018. On April 11, 2016, the NCAA announced a freeze on new bowl games until after the 2019 season. While bowl games had been the purview of", "title": "2017–18 NCAA football bowl games" }, { "id": "17257514", "text": "games, playoff organizers noted that the bids must propose host stadiums with a capacity of at least 65,000 spectators, and cities cannot host both a semi-final game and the title game in the same year. The winner of the game is awarded a new championship trophy instead of the \"crystal football\", which has been given by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) since 1986; officials wanted a new trophy that was unconnected with the previous BCS championship system. The inaugural game was held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas in January 2015, and was won by Ohio State. The awarded", "title": "College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "11924339", "text": "College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy. College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best college football team. Division I FBS football is the only National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sport for which the NCAA does not sanction a yearly championship event. As such, it is sometimes unofficially referred to as a \"mythical national championship\". Due to the lack of an official NCAA", "title": "College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS" }, { "id": "19260240", "text": "that the AP poll did not have a unanimous No. 1 team. Additionally, the Knights finished the 2017 football season as the No. 1 team in the Colley Bias Free Matrix Rankings. The Colley Matrix was used in the past as one input to the BCS computer rankings and is included in a list of historical \"national champion major selections\". 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship The 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship was a college football bowl game that determined a national champion in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2017 season. The Alabama Crimson Tide", "title": "2018 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "20963666", "text": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship The 2018 NAIA Football National Championship was a four-round, sixteen team tournament played between November 17 and December 15 of 2018. The tournament concluded on December 15 with a single game, played as the 63rd Annual NAIA Football National Championship. The championship game was played at Municipal Stadium in Daytona Beach, Florida. This was the 5th consecutive time the championship game was played at this venue after the prior six games had been played at Barron Stadium in Rome, Georgia. It was also the final game played at this venue after it was announced that", "title": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship" }, { "id": "20783098", "text": "2016 College Football Playoff National Championship in Glendale, Arizona, with Alabama emerging with a thrilling 45-40 victory. The next year, the teams again found themselves doing battle in the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship in Tampa, Florida, with Clemson emerging with a thrilling 35-31 victory and their first win over the Crimson Tide since 1905. Once again the teams did battle in the 2018 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana with a trip to the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game on the line. Alabama won the contest by a score of 24–6. In the build-up to the", "title": "Alabama–Clemson football rivalry" }, { "id": "20701697", "text": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season The 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, will be organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The 2018 National Championship game will be played on January 5, 2019 in Frisco, Texas. One kickoff game was played during \"Week Zero\" on August 25: \"All times Eastern\" Several games on the east coast have been rescheduled, cancelled, or moved due to Hurricane Florence: Note: Records are regular-season only, and do not include playoff games. This is", "title": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season" }, { "id": "17091095", "text": "title game in the same year. The 2018 Championship Game featured SEC teams Alabama and Georgia. The SEC has a record of 5–2 () in games against other conferences. The television broadcast rights to all six CFP bowls and the National Championship are owned by ESPN through at least the 2025 season. ESPN then reached 12-year agreements to retain rights to the Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Sugar Bowl following the dissolution of the Bowl Championship Series. In November, ESPN reached a 12-year deal to broadcast the remaining three bowls, the championship game, as well as shoulder programming such as", "title": "College Football Playoff" }, { "id": "20817907", "text": "2018 Orange Bowl The 2018 Orange Bowl is a college football bowl game that will be played on Saturday, December 29, 2018. It will be the 85th edition of the Orange Bowl. The Orange Bowl will be one of the two College Football Playoff semifinal games, with the winner advancing to the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship. It will be one of the 2018–19 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Capital One Financial Corporation, the game will be officially known as the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Capital One Orange Bowl. The game", "title": "2018 Orange Bowl" }, { "id": "20824270", "text": "a score of 32–28. Another high-stakes matchup between the squads occurred on January 8, 2018. In the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Alabama overcame a 13-point deficit to defeat Georgia by a score of 26–23 in an overtime classic to clinch its 17th national championship in the program's long and storied history. The following season, in the 2018 SEC Championship Game, Georgia led 28–14 with just over three minutes remaining in the third quarter, only to see Alabama once again rally to win 35–28. Alabama–Georgia football rivalry The Alabama–Georgia football rivalry is a", "title": "Alabama–Georgia football rivalry" }, { "id": "20601762", "text": "a 13–0 record (8–0 in conference). Notre Dame received their bid to the Cotton Bowl with the release of final CFP rankings on December 2. The independent Fighting Irish enter the bowl with a 12–0 record. 2018 Cotton Bowl Classic The 2018 Cotton Bowl Classic will be a college football bowl game played on December 29, 2018 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The 83rd Cotton Bowl Classic is a College Football Playoff semifinal with the winner to compete in the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship. It is one of the 2018–19 bowl games that will conclude the 2018", "title": "2018 Cotton Bowl Classic" }, { "id": "20490193", "text": "title by two games. This match up was the 69th all time meeting against the Crimson Tide and Bulldogs. They last played each other last season for the College Football Playoff National Championship . Alabama defeated Georgia, in overtime, 26–23. The win brought Alabama to its 17th National Title. After the January 8, 2018 match up, Alabama leads the all time series 39–25–4. This match up will be the first time since 2012, that the two teams face off in the conference title game. 2018 SEC Championship Game The 2018 SEC Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 1, 2018,", "title": "2018 SEC Championship Game" }, { "id": "84653", "text": "College Football Playoff replaced the Bowl Championship Series, which had been used as the selection method to determine the national championship game participants since in the 1998 season. At the Division I FCS level, the teams participate in a 24-team playoff (most recently expanded from 20 teams in 2013) to determine the national championship. Under the current playoff structure, the top eight teams are all seeded, and receive a bye week in the first round. The highest seed receives automatic home field advantage. Starting in 2013, non-seeded teams can only host a playoff game if both teams involved are unseeded;", "title": "College football" }, { "id": "19900445", "text": "2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season The 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, was organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The 2017 National Championship game was played on January 6, 2018 in Frisco, Texas. The North Dakota State Bison beat the James Madison Dukes, 17–13 to capture their 6th title in 7 years. In addition, this was the final year for Campbell in the Pioneer Football League. In November 2016, the school announced that it would transition to scholarship", "title": "2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season" }, { "id": "84641", "text": "arguably the most prestigious game in the nation, and two major conferences—the Pac-10 and Big Ten—meaning that it had limited success. In 1995, the Coalition was replaced by the Bowl Alliance, which reduced the number of bowl games to host a national championship game to three—the Fiesta, Sugar, and Orange Bowls—and the participating conferences to five—the ACC, SEC, Southwest, Big Eight, and Big East. It was agreed that the No.1 and No.2 ranked teams gave up their prior bowl tie-ins and were guaranteed to meet in the national championship game, which rotated between the three participating bowls. The system still", "title": "College football" }, { "id": "20963670", "text": "certain minor modifications given based on geographic considerations. Each subsequent round will be re-seeded based on the rankings of all teams advancing to that round. Quarterfinal pairings were announced by the NAIA on November 17, after the first round results were known. Semifinal pairings were confirmed by the NAIA on November 24, soon after completion of the day's quarterfinal games. 2018 NAIA Football National Championship The 2018 NAIA Football National Championship was a four-round, sixteen team tournament played between November 17 and December 15 of 2018. The tournament concluded on December 15 with a single game, played as the 63rd", "title": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship" }, { "id": "2179834", "text": "the strongest matchup that was not part of the College Football Playoff. In the 2018 Rose Bowl, the Georgia Bulldogs (12–1) defeated the Oklahoma Sooners (12–1) 54–48 in double overtime in a semifinal playoff game to advance to the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game. It was the first Rose Bowl game to ever go into overtime. For many years the Rose Bowl eschewed sponsorship, but in 1999, it became \"The Rose Bowl Game presented by AT&T.\" Unlike the other bowl games, the sponsor was not added to the title of the game, but instead as a presenter. In", "title": "Rose Bowl Game" }, { "id": "20963669", "text": "the game. For his efforts, Niles was named the game's Most Outstanding Offensive Player. The parallel defensive award was given to Morningside defensive lineman Chase Reis. A total of sixteen teams were selected to participate in the single-elimination tournament from across the country, with invitations that were revealed on Sunday, November 11, 2018. The field included eleven conference champions who received automatic bids. The field was then filled with at-large selections that were awarded to the highest ranked teams that were not conference champions. First-round seedings were based on the final regular-season edition of the 2018 NAIA Coaches' Poll, with", "title": "2018 NAIA Football National Championship" }, { "id": "10489191", "text": "capacity for the remainder of the Patriots 2012–13 season. On February 5, 2017, Daboll was part of the Patriots coaching staff that won Super Bowl LI. In the game, the Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons by a score of 34–28 in overtime. Daboll returned to college football in 2017 as offensive coordinator for Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide, starting February 20, 2017. He helped Alabama reach the 2018 National Championship Game, where the Tide defeated the Georgia Bulldogs in overtime. On January 14, 2018, Daboll was named as the new offensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills. Brian Daboll", "title": "Brian Daboll" }, { "id": "17091077", "text": "the playoff, the final CFP rankings are used to help determine the participants for the other four New Year's Six bowls that are not hosting the semifinals that year. The semifinal games, which take place on the same day, are usually scheduled on Friday, Saturday, or Monday close to or on New Years Day, with flexibility allowed to ensure that they are not in conflict with other bowl games traditionally held on New Year's Day. The National Championship game is then played on the first Monday that is six or more days after the semifinals. The venue of the championship", "title": "College Football Playoff" }, { "id": "18449413", "text": "was ranked first in the nation in points allowed (11.8) and yards per game (248). The defense was led by defensive back Minkah Fitzpatrick, who had six interceptions and 62 total tackles. Jalen Hurts attempted to become the first true freshman quarterback since 1985 and only the second ever to win the National Championship. Alabama had four AP First-Team All-Americans on its roster and entered the game as a 6.5-point favorite over Clemson. Clemson was led by head coach Dabo Swinney. The Tigers entered the game with a 13-1 record, with their only loss being to Pittsburgh. Clemson played the", "title": "2017 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "6500430", "text": "Classic and Orange Bowl will serve as national semifinals for the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship in Santa Clara, California, meaning that the teams ranked #1 through #4 in the final College Football playoff rankings will play in those two bowls, with the winners advancing to the CFP National Championship. Twelve schools are selected for the major bowls. These include the champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference and Southeastern Conference. The highest-ranked champion from the \"Group of Five\" conferences (American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, and Sun Belt)", "title": "Bids to college bowl games" }, { "id": "18449410", "text": "who defeated the Washington Huskies in the Peach Bowl. Having met in the previous year's championship game, the resulting title game between Clemson and Alabama became college football's first rematch between #1 and #2 in national championship game history. The Tigers won the game 35–31 on a go-ahead touchdown with one second left, having come back from a 14–0 deficit earlier in the game. Clemson quarterback and Heisman Finalist Deshaun Watson set the record for most passing yards in a championship game with 420, breaking his own record of 405 yards set in the 2016 national championship game. Deshaun Watson", "title": "2017 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "19298135", "text": "with a win over Coastal Division champion #23 Virginia Tech in the 2016 ACC Championship game, the #2 Tigers advanced to the 2016 College Football Playoff semifinal and went on to defeat the #3 Ohio State Buckeyes 31-0, in the 2016 Fiesta Bowl on December 31, 2016. Both top ranked Clemson and Alabama met again in college football's first rematch in National Championship game history, the 2017 CFP National Championship game in Tampa, Florida. On January 9, 2017, the Clemson Tigers would go on to defeat the Alabama Crimson Tide in the rematch by a score of 35 to 31,", "title": "2016 Clemson Tigers football team" }, { "id": "11924315", "text": "the BCS Championship Game. The champion of that game was contractually awarded the Coaches Poll and National Football Foundation championships. Unlike all selectors prior to 2014, the College Football Playoff does not use math, polls or research to select the participants. Rather, a 13-member committee selects and seeds the teams. The playoff system marked the first time any championship selector arranged a bracket competition to determine whom it would declare to be its champion. Below is a list of the national champions of college football from 1869 to present (with the exception of 1871, in which no games were played)", "title": "College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS" }, { "id": "2438242", "text": "NCAA Division II Football Championship The NCAA Division II Football Championship is an American college football tournament played annually to determine a champion at the NCAA Division II level. It was first held in 1973, as a single-elimination tournament with eight teams. The tournament field has subsequently been expanded three times; in 1988 it became 16 teams, in 2004 it became 24 teams, and in 2016 it became 28 teams. The National Championship game has been held in seven different cities; Sacramento, California (1973–1975), Wichita Falls, Texas (1976–1977), Longview, Texas (1978), Albuquerque, New Mexico (1979–1980), McAllen, Texas (1981–1985), Florence, Alabama", "title": "NCAA Division II Football Championship" }, { "id": "2386878", "text": "NAIA Football National Championship The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Football National Championship is decided by a post-season playoff system featuring the best NAIA college football teams in the United States. Under sponsorship of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, the championship game has been played annually since 1956. In 1970, NAIA football was divided into two divisions, Division I and Division II, with a championship game played in each division. In 1997, NAIA football was again consolidated into one division. The game is currently played at Daytona Stadium in Daytona Beach, Florida. Texas A&I (now known as Texas", "title": "NAIA Football National Championship" }, { "id": "20601663", "text": "2018 ACC Championship Game The 2018 ACC Championship Game was played on December 1, 2018. It was the 14th annual ACC Football Conference Championship Game to determine the 2018 champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The game was held at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. Clemson emerged victorious and became the 2018 ACC champions, beating Pitt 42–10. The 2018 Championship Game was the 14th in the Atlantic Coast Conference's 66-year history. Last season, the ACC Championship Game featured the Clemson Tigers, champions of the Atlantic Division, and the Miami Hurricanes, champions of the Coastal Division. Clemson won", "title": "2018 ACC Championship Game" }, { "id": "84661", "text": "to rank all Division I-FBS teams and the top two teams at the end of the season played for the national championship. This computer system, which factored in newspaper polls, online polls, coaches' polls, strength of schedule, and various other factors of a team's season, led to much dispute over whether the two best teams in the country were being selected to play in the National Championship Game. The BCS ended after the 2013 season and, since the 2014 season, the FBS national champion has been determined by a four-team tournament known as the College Football Playoff (CFP). A selection", "title": "College football" }, { "id": "2186058", "text": "for the 2017 season. As such, UCF was selected as the 2017 National Champions by at least one NCAA recognized selector and thus claims a share of the 2017 National Championship. Rankings are based on the AP Poll prior to the game being played. \"Italics denote a tie game.\" Won: Alabama, Arizona State, Army, Baylor, East Carolina, Houston, Syracuse, TCU, Texas A&M, UCF Lost: Duke, Illinois, Iowa State, Washington Tied: Texas Tech, Vanderbilt Michigan will appear in the upcoming 2018 game. Through the January 2018 playing, there have been 50 games (100 total appearances). Records are based on a team's", "title": "Peach Bowl" }, { "id": "20598803", "text": "(6–6) were invited to bowl games. This is the second consecutive year, and only the third time in eight years, that no teams with losing seasons (6–7 or 5–7) were invited to fill available bowl berths. The schedule for the 2018–19 bowl games is below. All times are EST (UTC−5). The College Football Playoff system is used to determine a national championship of Division I FBS college football. A 13-member committee of experts ranked the top 25 teams in the nation after each of the last seven weeks. The top four teams in the final ranking play in a single-elimination", "title": "2018–19 NCAA football bowl games" }, { "id": "17784281", "text": "designated semi-final bowl games played on January 1, 2015: the No. 4 Ohio State Buckeyes, who upset No. 1 Alabama 42–35 in the 2015 Sugar Bowl, and the No. 2 Oregon Ducks, who defeated previously unbeaten No. 3 Florida State 59–20 in the 2015 Rose Bowl. This was the first championship game since 2006 that did not feature at least one SEC team, and the teams' first meeting since the 2010 Rose Bowl, which the Buckeyes won 26–17. The Ohio State Buckeyes won the game, 42–20, marking the first national championship awarded under the CFP system. Following the game, the", "title": "2015 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "2438352", "text": "NCAA Division I Football Championship The NCAA Division I Football Championship is an American college football tournament played each year to determine the champion of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Prior to 2006, the game was known as the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship. The FCS is the highest division in college football to hold a playoff tournament sanctioned by the NCAA to determine its champion. The four-team playoff system used by the Bowl Subdivision is not sanctioned by the NCAA. The reigning national champions are the North Dakota State Bison, who won their sixth championship in", "title": "NCAA Division I Football Championship" }, { "id": "20701698", "text": "restricted to coaching changes that took place on or after May 1, 2018. For coaching changes that occurred earlier in 2018, see 2017 NCAA Division I FCS end-of-season coaching changes. 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season The 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season, part of college football in the United States, will be organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) level. The 2018 National Championship game will be played on January 5, 2019 in Frisco, Texas. One kickoff game was played during \"Week Zero\" on August 25: \"All times", "title": "2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season" }, { "id": "20598802", "text": "2018–19 NCAA football bowl games The 2018–19 NCAA football bowl games will be a series of college football bowl games which will complete the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The games began on December 15, 2018, and, aside from the all-star games that follow, will end with the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship which will be played on January 7, 2019. The total of 40 team-competitive bowls, including the national championship game, is unchanged from the previous year. To fill the 78 available bowl slots, a total of 10 teams (13% of all participants) with non-winning records", "title": "2018–19 NCAA football bowl games" }, { "id": "12093117", "text": "However, Florida would later avenge a late season loss to their rivals, and beat the Seminoles by a score of 52–20. Florida finished first and Ohio State second in both polls, followed by Florida State and Arizona State. The National Championship was claimed by both Ohio State and Florida following a 2018 Gatorade commercial that debuted during the 2017 NCAA National Championship game. The Rose Bowl appearance was the Buckeyes first since 1985. The Rose Bowl victory was the sixth in school history, the first since 1974. Germaine was named Rose Bowl MVP. Q 1996 Ohio State Buckeyes football team", "title": "1996 Ohio State Buckeyes football team" }, { "id": "84662", "text": "committee of college football experts decides the participating teams. Six major bowl games (the Rose, Sugar, Cotton, Orange, Peach, and Fiesta) rotate on a three-year cycle as semifinal games, with the winners advancing to the College Football Playoff National Championship. This arrangement is contractually locked in until the 2026 season. College football is a controversial institution within American higher education, where the amount of money involved—what people will pay for the entertainment provided—is a corrupting factor within universities that they are usually ill-equipped to deal with. According to William E. Kirwan, chancellor of the University of Maryland System and co-director", "title": "College football" }, { "id": "8697853", "text": "would return on SEC Network. The Command Center aired on ESPN2, which would also air the start of the Sugar Bowl due to the Rose Bowl going into double overtime. DataCenter will be on ESPN Goal Line while the SkyCam and All-22 telecasts will be on ESPN3. Various hometown audio options, with local radio calls, will be on ESPN Radio. ESPNU will not be participating in these Megacast's due to college basketball commitments.All of the above options were offered for the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship, with ESPN2 hosting the \"Homer Telecast\" with Landon Collins replacing Barrett Jones as", "title": "ESPN Megacast" }, { "id": "20523447", "text": "College Football Playoff National Championship due to ineffective play by Hurts. He threw the game-winning 41-yard touchdown pass in overtime to another true freshman, wide receiver Devonta Smith, to win the game and claim the 2017-2018 CFP National Championship. He finished the 26-23 victory over the Georgia Bulldogs 14-of-24 for 166 passing yards, three passing touchdowns & one interception, along with 27 rushing yards on 12 attempts. Tagovailoa was named the Offensive MVP of the game. On September 1, 2018, Tagovailoa made his first career start at the season's opening game, against Louisville, in Orlando, Florida. He finished 12-of-16, with", "title": "Tua Tagovailoa" }, { "id": "17091114", "text": "they will now be scheduled primarily on the last Saturday or federally observed holiday of the year. In some years, this date will land on New Year's Eve. In 2021, the games will be played on Friday, December 31, because the day will be observed as a holiday. College Football Playoff The College Football Playoff (CFP) is an annual postseason knockout tournament to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), the highest level of college football competition in the United States. The inaugural tournament was held at the end of the 2014 NCAA Division", "title": "College Football Playoff" }, { "id": "3325995", "text": "Raymond James Stadium Raymond James Stadium, also known as \"Ray Jay\", is a multi-purpose football stadium located in Tampa, Florida. It is home to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL) as well as the NCAA's South Florida Bulls football team. The stadium seats 65,618. With the addition of temporary seating, it can be expanded to 75,000 for special events. Raymond James Stadium hosted Super Bowls XXXV and XLIII, as well as the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship. It is also set to host Super Bowl LV in February 2021. Raymond James Stadium was built to", "title": "Raymond James Stadium" }, { "id": "9451377", "text": "to the Alabama Crimson Tide in the championship game on January 11, 2016. Clemson was selected to the third College Football Playoff as the second seed and defeated the third seed Ohio State on December 31, 2016 in the 2016 PlayStation Fiesta Bowl. The Tigers defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide in the national championship game on January 9, 2017. Since its beginnings in 1896, Clemson has completed six undefeated seasons. This includes three perfect seasons in which the Tigers were undefeated and untied. Clemson won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1900 and 1902 (tied 1903 and 1906) along with", "title": "Clemson Tigers football" }, { "id": "17257515", "text": "trophy, College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy, is sponsored by Dr Pepper. The number of cities capable of bidding for the event is restricted by the 65,000-seat stadium minimum. In addition to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, which was the other finalist for the 2015 matchup, the stadium restriction would limit the bidding to cities such as New Orleans, Glendale, and Pasadena. Other possible future hosts include Orlando, San Antonio, or almost any city with a National Football League franchise, since all but three of the stadiums in that league meet the capacity requirements and, unlike the Super Bowl, there", "title": "College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "18449420", "text": "and Clemson won the National Championship Game. Watson, who went 36-for-56 () on pass attempts for 420 yards with three passing touchdowns, and ran for 43 yards and one rushing touchdown, was named the game's Offensive Most Valuable Player. Ben Boulware, who recorded six tackles, including one for loss of yards, was named the Defensive Most Valuable Player. The game was broadcast in the United States by ESPN, ESPN Deportes (Spanish), and ESPN Radio. In Brazil, the game was broadcast on ESPN Brazil by Everaldo Marques (play by play) and Antony Curti (color commentator). As in past years, ESPN provided", "title": "2017 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "2438276", "text": "Phenix City, Alabama (1973–1982, 1985–1989), and at Galbreath Field at the College Football Hall of Fame, when the Hall was located in Kings Island, Ohio (1983–1984). Mary Hardin–Baylor defeated Mount Union to win the 2018 season championship. In 1969, the NCAA started two regional championship games for small college teams: the East Regional's Knute Rockne Bowl and the West's Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl. When the NCAA developed a national Division III championship game in 1973, the Stagg Bowl name and the host city of Phenix City, Alabama was chosen. As voted by the media at the game since 2000. Notes", "title": "NCAA Division III Football Championship" }, { "id": "17998553", "text": "College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy The College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy is the trophy awarded to the winner of the College Football Playoff (CFP), the postseason tournament in American college football that determines a national champion for the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). It is currently held by the Alabama Crimson Tide, who won the fourth College Football Playoff National Championship to cap the 2017 season. The , trophy is oblong-shaped like a football at the base, tapering up to a flattened full-size football at the top. It is made of 24-karat gold, bronze and stainless", "title": "College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy" }, { "id": "17837688", "text": "and the No. 2 Alabama Crimson Tide, who shut out the No. 3 Michigan State Spartans 38–0 at the Cotton Bowl Classic, coached by Nick Saban. The 13–1 Alabama Crimson Tide won the game, holding off the undefeated Clemson Tigers 45–40 in the fourth quarter. Accompanied by a talented receiving corps, Clemson's Heisman Finalist quarterback Deshaun Watson had a historic performance, setting the record for most total yards in national championship game history, with 478 yards (405 passing / 73 rushing) against the nation's third-ranked defense in Alabama, breaking the record previously set by Vince Young in the 2006 Rose", "title": "2016 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "11404147", "text": "National Championship Game (which operated from 1999 to 2014), and has won every College Football Playoff National Championship. The remaining five conferences are known as the \"Group of Five.\" Any conference may split its teams into two divisions, and only the Big 12 Conference does not use divisions. As of the 2018 season, all conferences hold a championship game that determines the conference champion. The Sun Belt was the last conference to launch a championship game, as well as the most recent to split into divisions for football, with both the title game and the divisional alignment debuting in 2018.", "title": "NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision" }, { "id": "19950266", "text": "Football Playoff, the Crimson Tide were selected to play in the semifinal game at the 2016 Peach Bowl against #4 Washington of the Pac-12. Alabama beat the Huskies 24–7, advancing them to the 2017 College Football Playoff National Championship Game against #2 Clemson of the ACC. The Crimson Tide lost to the Tigers in the rematch from last year's College Football Playoff National Championship 35–31 after Deshaun Watson threw the game-winning TD pass to Hunter Renfrow with :01 left. The Crimson Tide finished the 2016 season with a record of 14–1. The Crimson Tide lost twenty-three senior football players to", "title": "2017 Alabama Crimson Tide football team" }, { "id": "18449412", "text": "champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The four teams were originally selected by a 13 member-committee. The championship game was a rematch of the 2016 College Football Playoff National Championship, where Alabama defeated Clemson, 45–40. Overall, the championship game marked the 17th meeting between the two schools; however, prior to the previous championship game, the programs had only met once in the regular season since 1975. Alabama was led by head coach Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide were undefeated in the regular season and played the Washington Huskies in the 2016 Peach Bowl, winning 24–7. Alabama's defense", "title": "2017 College Football Playoff National Championship" }, { "id": "19876814", "text": "the season that did not take effect until the end of the season. The Heisman Trophy is given to the year's most outstanding player. Quarterback Running back Wide receiver Tight end Lineman Defensive line Defensive back 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season The 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the highest level of college football competition in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The regular season began on August 26, 2017 and ended on December 9, 2017. The Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldogs played in the 2018 College Football Playoff National", "title": "2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season" }, { "id": "20601664", "text": "the game 38-3 and went on to the 2017 College Football Playoff. The Clemson Tigers finished the season with a 12–0 undefeated record. This is the Tigers' fourth straight appearance in the championship game. They have won the previous three championship games. During the season, they defeated Georgia Tech, Syracuse, Wake Forest, NC State, Florida State, Louisville, Boston College and Duke in conference play. Their season was also highlighted by 2 wins over SEC teams (Texas A&M and South Carolina). The Tigers come into the game ranked #2 in both the AP and Coaches poll. The Pittsburgh Panthers finished the", "title": "2018 ACC Championship Game" }, { "id": "12571282", "text": "years in the history of the storied rivalry. Following Clemson's ACC title win over #19 Virginia Tech, the Tigers secured the #2 seed in the College Football Playoff. On Dec 31, Swinney and the Tigers defeated #3 Ohio State 31-0 in Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer's first career shut-out to set up a rematch of the 2015 National Championship against #1 Alabama. On January 9, 2017 Swinney led the Tigers to a 35–31 comeback win over Alabama in the National Championship.On January 9, 2017, Leggett was part of the Clemson team that defeated Alabama in the 2017 College Football", "title": "Dabo Swinney" }, { "id": "19928784", "text": "had suffered their only defeat in the regular season. This was their first conference title since 2005. After the win against Auburn, 2017 became only the fifth season of all time to see Georgia beat all of its traditional rivals (Auburn, Florida, Georgia Tech, Tennessee) in the same season (previously 1980, 1982, 2011, 2012). Georgia received its first ever College Football Playoff appearance against Oklahoma in the school's first Rose Bowl Game since the 1942 season. Georgia won by a score of 54–48 in double overtime. The Bulldogs reached the National Championship game for the first time since 1982, but", "title": "2017 Georgia Bulldogs football team" }, { "id": "11924334", "text": "crown their champions after the bowl games are completed. The BCS champion was automatically awarded the Coaches Poll championship. Of the current 120+ Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, formerly Division I-A) schools, only 30 have won at least a share of a national title by the AP or Coaches poll. Of these 30 teams, only 19 teams have won multiple titles. Of the 19 teams, only 7 have won five or more national titles: Alabama, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, USC, Miami (FL), Nebraska, and Ohio State. The years listed in the table below indicate a national championship selection by the AP or", "title": "College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS" } ]

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The company moved its headquarters to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. As of 2016, Wendy's was the world's third largest hamburger fast food chain with 6,500+ locations, following Burger King and McDonald's. On April 24, 2008, the company announced a merger with Triarc Companies Inc., a publicly traded company and the parent company of Arby's. Despite the new ownership, Wendy's headquarters remained in Dublin. Previously, Wendy's had rejected more than two buyout offers from Triarc. Following the merger,", "title": "Wendy's" }, { "id": "12995628", "text": "English was launched on television and social media. A 2014 campaign to promote the Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger was run until November 2014 was shown to many people watching TV starting on March 18, 2014. Wendy's Wendy's is an American international fast food restaurant chain founded by Dave Thomas on November 15, 1969, in Columbus, Ohio. The company moved its headquarters to Dublin, Ohio, on January 29, 2006. As of 2016, Wendy's was the world's third largest hamburger fast food chain with 6,500+ locations, following Burger King and McDonald's. On April 24, 2008, the company announced a merger with Triarc Companies", "title": "Wendy's" }, { "id": "12995608", "text": "Triarc became known as Wendy's/Arby's Group, and later as The Wendy's Company. As of January 2, 2017, there were a total of 6,537 locations, including 330 that are company-owned. 6,207 restaurants are franchised, and 77% of them are located in North America. While Wendy's sets standards for exterior store appearance, food quality, and menu, individual owners have control over hours of operations, interior decor, pricing, staff uniforms, and wages. The chain is known for its square hamburgers, sea salt fries, and their signature Frosty, a form of soft serve ice cream mixed with frozen starches. Wendy's menu consists primarily of", "title": "Wendy's" }, { "id": "10416126", "text": "Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance:", "title": "2007 Utah Blaze season" }, { "id": "13166579", "text": "record label, called RECORDS, and later signed a management deal with Maverick under Adam Leber. She released her debut single \"Make Me (Cry)\" featuring Labrinth that same day. In December 2016, she released an acoustic performance of \"Almost Famous\". She also provided vocals on the song \"Chasing Colors\" performed by Marshmello and Ookay, which was released in February 2017. On April 14, 2017, she released another single, called \"Stay Together\", followed by the single \"I'm Stuck\", released on May 25, 2017. On September 21, 2017, she released another single \"Again\" featuring XXXTentacion. From September 19, 2017, to November 1, 2017,", "title": "Noah Cyrus" }, { "id": "10409701", "text": "3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter:", "title": "2007 Orlando Predators season" }, { "id": "12995621", "text": "was restructured in 2007 due to rising costs as the Super Value Menu with prices ranging from 99¢ to $2.00 USD. In mid-2007, Wendy's began a national debut of its new breakfast menu in its U.S. and Canadian stores. Wendy's experimented with serving breakfast for a short time in 1985, but the endeavor was unsuccessful due to many issues. While approximately 12 Wendy's restaurants in the U.S. and its territories have been serving breakfast since then, Wendy's has not had a company-wide breakfast offering. The newer breakfast menu differs slightly from the ones featured in 1985, and it is structured", "title": "Wendy's" }, { "id": "4361140", "text": "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy is a compilation album of singles by British rock band The Who, released in 1971 as Track 2406 006 in the UK and as Decca DL 79184 in the US. It entered the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart on 20 November 1971, peaking at number 11, and the UK chart on 3 December 1971, peaking at number 9. In 1987, \"Rolling Stone\" ranked it number 99 on their list of the 100 best albums of the period 1967–1987. Aside from two songs, \"Boris the Spider\" and \"I'm a Boy\", every track", "title": "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy" }, { "id": "10409773", "text": "Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd", "title": "2007 Dallas Desperados season" }, { "id": "10409878", "text": "Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th", "title": "2007 New York Dragons season" }, { "id": "8394746", "text": "Fruit at the Bottom Fruit at the Bottom is the second album by the American music duo Wendy & Lisa, released in 1989. The album peaked at No. 119 on the US \"Billboard\" 200, No. 71 on the US R&B Albums chart and No. 45 on the UK Albums Chart. Wendy Melvoin's twin sister Susannah and Cole Ynda, Lisa's sister, contributed background vocal work to the record as well as touring extensively with their sisters. Singles released from the album included \"Are You My Baby\" (UK No. 70) and \"Lolly Lolly\" (UK No. 64), the latter of which was remixed", "title": "Fruit at the Bottom" }, { "id": "4211214", "text": "Roots, \"Betty Wright: The Movie\" was nominated for a Grammy in the \"Best Traditional R&B Performance\" category. Andy Grammer's debut album has yielded the hit singles \"Keep Your Head Up\" (certified Platinum in the U.S.) \"Miss Me\" and \"Fine By Me\" (certified Gold). His follow-up album, \"Magazines or Novels\", contained the triple-platinum selling single \"Honey, I'm Good\" and the gold-certified \"Good to Be Alive (Hallelujah)\". Grammar's 2016 release \"Fresh Eyes\" has been certified Platinum in the US, Canada and Australia. In July, 2012, S-Curve released Joss Stone's \"the Soul Sessions Vol. II\", a sequel to her 2003 debut album, produced", "title": "S-Curve Records" }, { "id": "12520700", "text": "in 1997. In 1997, Triarc acquired Snapple Beverages from Quaker Oats for $300 million, three years after Quaker Oats had purchased Snapple from leveraged buyout firm Thomas H. Lee Partners in 1994 for $1.7 billion. Cable Car Beverage Corporation, maker of Stewart's Root Beer, was purchased by Triarc in November 1997 for $31 million in stock. Triarc sold National Propane Corporation in 1999. Snapple, Mistic, and Stewart's (formerly Cable Car Beverage) was sold by Triarc to Cadbury Schweppes in 2000 for $1.45 billion In October of that same year, Cadbury Schweppes purchased Royal Crown from Triarc. On April 24, 2008,", "title": "The Wendy's Company" }, { "id": "17151407", "text": "Laura Palmer (song) \"Laura Palmer\" is a song by British band Bastille. It is the fifth single from their debut studio album \"Bad Blood\", and the follow-up to their hit single \"Pompeii\". The song was originally released in 2011 as a track from their self-released EP of the same name (along with the tracks \"Overjoyed\", \"Things We Lost in the Fire\" and \"Get Home\"). It was re-released as its own digital download on 2 June 2013. It peaked at number 42 on the UK Singles Chart. The song took its name from the character in David Lynch and Mark Frost's", "title": "Laura Palmer (song)" }, { "id": "11012745", "text": "July 9, 2017, Nicks performed the song together with Petty and the Heartbreakers at the British Summer Time festival at Hyde Park in London, in what turned out to be their final performance of the song together before Petty's death in October 2017. The song peaked at No. 3 on the American \"Billboard\" Hot 100 for six consecutive weeks. However, in the UK, the song only managed to peak at No. 50. The song also appeared in the 1981 film \"Taps\". In a November 2003 interview with \"Songfacts\", Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist and primary songwriter Mike Campbell explained", "title": "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" }, { "id": "11512803", "text": "their second album \"Open Up and Say...Ahh!\". The Poison version released as a single in 1989 on Capitol Records reached number 10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and number 39 on the Mainstream rock charts and has since gone Gold in the US. The song also charted at number 21 on the Australian charts and number 13 on the UK Singles chart. The single's B-side is \"Tearin' Down the Walls\". \"Your Mama Don't Dance\" is on the following albums: Kenny Loggins's 1993 Solo Album: The Poison version is available on: The Y&T version is available on: Loggins & Messina version", "title": "Your Mama Don't Dance" }, { "id": "10354640", "text": "\"Left Out In The Rain\", b-sides to former singles \"Charlotte\" and \"Shooting Star\" respectively. The US and German releases also included an extra track, \"Come On\". The track was released in US and made available free to download from the band's website in the United Kingdom. Fractured Life Fractured Life is the debut album by English alternative rock band Air Traffic. It was released on 2 July 2007 on the Tiny Consumer label, an imprint of EMI. The album contains UK Top 40 hit \"Charlotte\" as well as other singles \"Just Abuse Me\", \"Never Even Told Me Her Name\", \"Shooting", "title": "Fractured Life" }, { "id": "14811665", "text": "involved, including \"The Cool Off\" by the Detroit Executives, first issued in 1967, and \"Nothing No Sweeter Than Love\" by Carl Carlton, later became favourites of the Northern soul scene in the UK. He also co-wrote The Platters' 1967 hit, \"With This Ring\". He began recording again, under the name Popcorn Wylie, in 1968, releasing \"Rosemary, What Happened?\" - another Northern soul favourite - on the Karen label, and \"Move Over Babe (Here Comes Henry)\" on Carla. In 1971, he briefly returned to Motown, and released his most successful solo single, \"Funky Rubber Band\", on their subsidiary Soul label. An", "title": "Richard \"Popcorn\" Wylie" }, { "id": "8421583", "text": "American Girl (Tom Petty song) \"American Girl\" is the second single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' self-titled debut album. The single did not chart in the United States (until it was re-released in 1994, it only managed to peak at nine in Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles though), but in the UK it peaked at No. 40 the week ending August 27, 1977. The song was ranked 76th on the list of \"The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time\" by \"Rolling Stone\". The song was the final song performed by the band live, on September 25, 2017, at", "title": "American Girl (Tom Petty song)" }, { "id": "12624218", "text": "Country Partners Country Partners is the fourth studio album by American country music duo Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn. It was released on June 10, 1974, by MCA Records. The album peaked at No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart. The album's only single, \"As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone\" went to No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart, their fourth No. 1 single together. Recording sessions for the album took place on April 23, April 24, and April 25, 1974, at Bradley's Barn in Mount Juliet, TN. Two songs on the album were", "title": "Country Partners" }, { "id": "34522", "text": "is featured in the original soundtrack album for \"Jerry Maguire\" (1996). An alternate take of \"Meet Me in the Morning\" was released on the B-side of the Record Store Day 2012 release of \"Duquesne Whistle.\" \"Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts\" was, until 2018, the only song from the New York sessions that had not been officially released in any form. Now all of these, as well as more than 70 previously unreleased recordings, are available on volume 14 of Dylan's Bootleg Series, titled \"\". Sources: Blood on the Tracks Blood on the Tracks is the 15th studio album", "title": "Blood on the Tracks" }, { "id": "9384795", "text": "Alvin and the Chipmunks album \"A Very Merry Chipmunk\". Honky Tonk Christmas peaked at No. 42 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" 200, and No. 7 on the Top Country Albums. In January 1998, \"Honky Tonk Christmas\" was certified Platinum by the RIAA. It has sold 1,324,800 copies in the U.S. as of November 2017. Honky Tonk Christmas Honky Tonk Christmas is the fourth studio album and the first Christmas album by country music artist Alan Jackson, and was released on October 12, 1993. The title track, \"A Holly Jolly Christmas\" and \"I Only Want You for Christmas\" charted on the Hot", "title": "Honky Tonk Christmas" }, { "id": "19582679", "text": "TN. Six of the album's ten track were from previous recording sessions. The earliest recording featured on the album, \"While He's Making Love (I'm Making Believe)\", was recorded on January 19, 1972, during a session for 1972's \"One's on the Way\". \"Blue Eyed Kentucky Girl\" was the second song to be released from a session on March 5, 1973. \"Crawling Man\" and \"Me and Ole Crazy Bill\" were recorded on June 18 and June 19, 1974, respectively, during sessions for 1974's \"They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy\". \"Playing with Fire\", recorded on January 31, 1975, and \"The Games That", "title": "Somebody Somewhere (album)" }, { "id": "17792435", "text": "1907: 1908: 1909: 1910: 1911: 1912: 1913: 1914: 1915: 1917: 1918: 1920: 1921: 1922: 1923: 1925: 1926: 1927: 1928: 1929: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1933: 1934: 1935: 1936: 1937: 1938: 1940: 1941: 1942: 1943: 1945: 1946: 1947: 1949: 1950: 1951: 1955: 1957: 1959: 1962: 1963: 1964: 1965: 1966: 1969: 1970: 1971: 1972: 1975: 1976: 1977: 1978: 1979: 1980: 1982: 1983: 1984: 1987: 1988: 1994: 1996: 2001: 2005–2006: 2006: 2011: 2013: 2016: Timeline of women's education This is a timeline of women's education. 1237 1239 1608 1636 1639 1644 1674 1678 1685 1727 1732 1742 1751 1783 1786 1787 1788 1803 1818", "title": "Timeline of women's education" }, { "id": "7628598", "text": "Wendy (song) \"Wendy\" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released on their 1964 album \"All Summer Long\" and was also featured on their EP, \"Four by The Beach Boys\". \"Wendy\" was originally credited to just Brian Wilson. Mike Love's name was added as a result of a lawsuit filed by him against Wilson in the 1990s. The opening chords are whole notes played on electric guitar and bass. The song begins with a minor i chord in the key of D minor, moves to a major", "title": "Wendy (song)" }, { "id": "7045682", "text": "Nightflight to Venus Nightflight to Venus is the third studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M., and was released in July 1978. The album became a major success in continental Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada, topping most of the album charts during the second half of 1978 and also became their first UK number one album. In Canada, it received nomination for 1980 Juno Award in a category 'International Album of the Year' . \"Nightflight to Venus\" includes their worldwide hits \"Rivers of Babylon\" and \"Brown Girl in the Ring\", a double A-sided single that topped the UK singles chart and", "title": "Nightflight to Venus" }, { "id": "12791040", "text": "2003 album \"Phantom Power\". In 2010, French singer Laetitia Sadier of UK group Stereolab recorded \"By the Sea\" for release on her album, \"The Trip\". After singing guest harmony with Super Furry Animals at San Francisco's The Fillmore, New York's The Tonic and London's ICA, Wendy Flower performed (backed by Jane Weaver and The High Llamas) as one of the Lost Ladies of Folk at the 2007, Jarvis Cocker-curated Meltdown Festival. She sang on Weaver's \"Fallen By Watchbird\" album and, in 2013, released her own indie-pop album, \"New.\" Bonnie Flower died at the age of 63 on November 15, 2017.", "title": "Wendy and Bonnie" }, { "id": "4746017", "text": "Performed Songs in the ASCAP Repertory for the 2005 Survey Year at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards, including \"1, 2 Step\" and \"Oh.\" \"Goodies\" debuted at number eighty-five on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks — now known as the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart — chart in the issue dated June 19, 2004. It went on to peak at number one on the chart for six consecutive weeks. The single debuted at number ninety-four on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on July 27, 2004. The song quickly became a commercial success as it reached the summit of the chart", "title": "Goodies (song)" }, { "id": "13620455", "text": "The Wendy Williams Show The Wendy Williams Show (often shortened to Wendy) is an American syndicated infotainment talk show created and hosted by Wendy Williams. Produced by Wendy Williams Productions and distributed by Debmar-Mercury, the show has aired since July 14, 2008 in select major U.S. markets and July 13, 2009 nationwide. It is primarily aired on Fox, CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates (along with several affiliates of other major networks). In January 2016, the talk show was renewed through the 201920 season. The show has been nominated for five Daytime Emmy Awards. The show regularly competes with \"The Ellen DeGeneres", "title": "The Wendy Williams Show" }, { "id": "12416340", "text": "The Stars We Are The Stars We Are is the fourth studio album by the British singer/songwriter Marc Almond. It was released in September 1988, reaching number 41 on the UK Albums Chart, and 144 on the US Billboard 200 Album Chart. It is Almond's highest selling solo album in both countries and was certified Silver by the BPI. \"The Stars We Are\" includes the singles \"Tears Run Rings\", \"Bitter Sweet\", \"Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart\" and \"Only the Moment\". With his assembled band La Magia (made up of former Willing Sinners members Annie Hogan, Billy McGee and Steve", "title": "The Stars We Are" }, { "id": "1711888", "text": "as the \"female version\" of \"Stand by Me\", and has gained a cult following since its release. She also had a supporting role in \"Bastard out of Carolina\" (1996), which was the directorial debut of Anjelica Huston, whom Ricci had previously worked with on the \"Addams Family\" films. In 1997, Ricci starred in the Disney remake of \"That Darn Cat\", which was a moderate success at the box office. Later that year, she made a shift into \"legitimate [...] adult roles\" with her portrayal of the troubled, sexually curious Wendy Hood in Ang Lee's critically acclaimed art film, \"The Ice", "title": "Christina Ricci" }, { "id": "8394748", "text": "(UK, 1989) Wounded Birds Records (US, 2006) Cherry Pop/Virgin special edition (UK, 2011) Fruit at the Bottom Fruit at the Bottom is the second album by the American music duo Wendy & Lisa, released in 1989. The album peaked at No. 119 on the US \"Billboard\" 200, No. 71 on the US R&B Albums chart and No. 45 on the UK Albums Chart. Wendy Melvoin's twin sister Susannah and Cole Ynda, Lisa's sister, contributed background vocal work to the record as well as touring extensively with their sisters. Singles released from the album included \"Are You My Baby\" (UK No.", "title": "Fruit at the Bottom" }, { "id": "8545856", "text": "lowest in the band's catalog. The album entered the Billboard 200 at #133, and remained on the chart for only two weeks. The first lead single, \"Miles From Nowhere,\" only reached #17 on the Mainstream Rock chart. RCA dropped them after that album, leaving them without a record label for the next five years . Sources: Discogs, Allmusic, 45cat The box set vinyl edition of the album also contained the additional tracks \"I'm Sexy\" (Babjak), \"Keep Me Running\" (Demo) and \"Everything I Have Is Blue\" (Demo). Adapted from the album's liner notes. With: A Date with The Smithereens A Date", "title": "A Date with The Smithereens" }, { "id": "18988987", "text": "and most of all, horses. The episodes are aimed at girls aged 6 to 11, especially those with an interest in horses. The show teaches lessons about being bold and staying true to oneself. The show has been airing since 2012. The English speaking rights are controlled by Red Kite Distribution Limited. Horse and Country TV in the UK licensed the non-exclusive rights for the series in the UK, Australia and Sweden. The US rights were licensed by the American, Splash Entertainment-owned company, Kabillion. It is currently aired, and dubbed on the subdivision channel: \"Kabillion Girls Rule!\" and is available", "title": "Wendy (TV series)" }, { "id": "10673897", "text": "2004, the project began with the reworking of \"Wake Up Everybody\", a 1976 R&B hit song by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. The new version of the song was released for radio airplay on August 16 and it reached number 119 on the \"Billboard\" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart. The song was released for retail purchase in album form on September 16. The artists featured on the song are Missy Elliott, Ashanti, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Brandy, Wyclef Jean, Monica, P. Diddy, Eve, Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah, Destiny's Child, Usher, Snoop Dogg, Musiq, Justin Timberlake, Jamie Foxx, Rev Run", "title": "Wake Up Everybody (2004 album)" }, { "id": "10086995", "text": "during the 2016 Season) and episodes of the Canadian TV series \"Flashpoint\", and \"Heartland\" as well as on the soundtrack for the movie \"Dolphin Tale\". The band's song \"Save Me\", from their debut album \"Division\", features Tyler Blackburn on vocals and is the theme song to webseries \"Wendy\" (starring Meaghan Martin). Their song \"Till the End\" was used as the official theme for the BBC's coverage of the 2011 Royal Wedding of Prince William & Catherine Middleton. The band's song \"Bombs\" was featured as the opening song of an episode of the TV series \"Gossip Girl\". Their song \"Take Me", "title": "Golden State (band)" }, { "id": "5974120", "text": "material on the RCA Records brand. Brown's fifth studio album \"Fortune\" was released on July 3, 2012. The album debuted atop the \"Billboard\" 200, but received once again negative reviews from critics. \"Strip\", featuring Kevin McCall, was released as the album's buzz single, with \"Turn Up the Music\" released as the lead single, and \"Sweet Love\", \"Till I Die\", \"Don't Wake Me Up\" and \"Don't Judge Me\" released as the album's following singles, respectively. To further promote the album, Brown embarked on his Carpe Diem Tour in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Trinidad. On August 9, 2013 at 1:09 AM PDT,", "title": "Chris Brown" }, { "id": "4746018", "text": "after only twelve weeks. It spent seven weeks at number one, becoming the longest-running number-one debut single by a female artist since 1977. It reached three on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. It ranked number nine on the 2004 U.S. \"Billboard\" year-end chart. According to the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 decade-end chart, it is the 31st most successful song of the 2000s. In New Zealand, the single debuted at number twelve on the RIANZ Singles chart, and peaked at ten in the next week. In the United Kingdom, \"Goodies\" debuted at number-one on the UK Singles Chart on January 23, 2005", "title": "Goodies (song)" }, { "id": "20624589", "text": "Juice Wrld Jarad Higgins (born December 2, 1998), better known by his stage name Juice Wrld (stylized as Juice WRLD and pronounced \"Juice World\"), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Higgins is primarily known for his breakout hits \"Lucid Dreams\" and \"All Girls Are the Same\". He is signed to Lil Bibby's Grade A Productions and Interscope Records. His debut studio album \"Goodbye & Good Riddance\" was released on May 23, 2018, and has since gone platinum. The album peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" 200 while his singles \"All Girls Are the Same\" and \"Lucid Dreams\" have", "title": "Juice Wrld" }, { "id": "3024932", "text": "the tour of album later in the year. On November 5, 2012, Matt announced via Facebook that he had entered the studio to begin recording his sixth solo studio album. The album, \"Arrows of Desire\", was released on September 24, 2013. The album's first single, \"Had It Coming\", was released on May 28, 2013. The album's audio was released to be streamed in Canada and Europe, as a promotion leading up to the album's release (September 17–24). On July 17, 2015, Good released the song \"All You Sons and Daughters\", the first single from his seventh solo studio album, \"Chaotic", "title": "Matthew Good" }, { "id": "12995622", "text": "similarly to its lunch/dinner menu, with value meals and various sides like blended fruit. Menu items include several breakfast sandwiches served on biscuits, frescuit and Kaiser rolls, breakfast burritos, and side orders of hash browns, muffins, and cinnamon sticks. In order to avoid the same issues the original 1985 breakfast offerings faced, the new menu was designed for ease of operation, lower costs, and reduced preparation time. In January 2016, Wendy's announced a transition plan to source only cage-free eggs by the year 2020 in all U.S. and Canadian locations that serve breakfast. After successful early growth of the chain,", "title": "Wendy's" }, { "id": "12995619", "text": "are sold in single, double, and triple sizes whereas the junior patties sell in single and double patties. The previous size of 2 ounces per junior patty was altered to its current size in 2007 to save on expenses from rising food costs. Originally Wendy's had only two kinds of chicken sandwiches, fried and grilled. The spicy chicken sandwich started out as a promotional sandwich. It was later put on the menu full-time in 1996 due to its popularity and the fact that, compared to most promotional sandwiches, it was much simpler to make (it used the same condiments as", "title": "Wendy's" }, { "id": "6500407", "text": "Twice the Speed of Life Twice the Speed of Life is the debut album of American country music group Sugarland, released on October 26, 2004, on Mercury Nashville Records. The album peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 200 and number three on the Top Country Albums charts. It was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album features the singles \"Baby Girl\", \"Something More\", \"Just Might (Make Me Believe)\", and \"Down in Mississippi (Up to No Good)\", which peaked at number 2, number 2, number 7, and number 17 respectively on the \"Billboard\" Hot", "title": "Twice the Speed of Life" }, { "id": "12995627", "text": "in Canada,\"It's waaaay delicious. It's Wendy's.\" The company's slogan, \"you know when it's real,\" was introduced in 2010. In November 2010, a series of commercials aired featuring the company's namesake, Wendy Thomas, which marked the first time she had appeared in a Wendy's advertisement. In April 2012, Morgan Smith Goodwin began appearing as the redhead in ads with the slogan \"Now that's better.\" In 2013, social media advertising featuring Nick Lachey directed at millennials promoted the Pretzel Bacon Cheeseburger. A 2014 campaign to promote the Tuscan Chicken on Ciabatta sandwich entitled \"L'Estrella de la Toscana,\" or \"Star of Tuscany\" in", "title": "Wendy's" }, { "id": "3210309", "text": "album, \"Beautiful View\", was released on 17 July and made the Top 40. Produced by Michael Szumowski, it was her first with BMG records, and included three singles, \"Free\", \"Beautiful View\" and \"Like the Sun\" which did not reach the top 50. A limited edition of \"Beautiful View\" included a bonus six-track disc. In 2003, Matthews sang a duet with Rod Stewart on the track \"My Heart Stood Still\" on the Australian release of his album \"\". She released her own covers album, \"Café Naturale\" in May 2004. Matthews explained why she recorded it acoustically, \"To keep creative you have", "title": "Wendy Matthews" }, { "id": "18406643", "text": "again in early 2017. In October 2016, Daigle released her first Christmas album, \"Behold: A Christmas Collection\", and reached No. 29 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2017, she was featured in the song \"Hard Love\" by Needtobreathe for \"The Shack\". Daigle co-wrote and performed \"Almost Human\", the only original song, on the \"Blade Runner 2049\" soundtrack. The album, produced by Michael Hodges, Kayla Morrison and Ashley Culp, reached No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Soundtrack Sales Charts. Lauren Daigle Lauren Ashley Daigle (born September 9, 1991) is an American contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter from Lafayette, Louisiana. Daigle is signed", "title": "Lauren Daigle" }, { "id": "17059646", "text": "In April 2012, various news media broke the news that Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis were in talks to star in the film. The film added Emma Roberts, Will Poulter, Ed Helms and Kathryn Hahn in July. Production began in Wilmington, North Carolina on July 23, 2012. Filming also took place in New Mexico. It was presented during the 2013 Traverse City Film Festival. The film was released in theaters on August 7, 2013 in the United States, and on August 23, 2013 in the United Kingdom. It was released on September 18, 2013 in France, and was released on", "title": "We're the Millers" }, { "id": "10225849", "text": "subsequently peaked at number 60 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It was followed by two more singles: \"Zero\" and \"Back to Sleep\". The former peaked at number 80 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and the latter debuted at number 20. \"Fine by Me\", was released as the album's fourth and final single on November 27, 2015. In 2016, \"Royalty\" was certified gold by the RIAA. In 2017, Brown released his eighth studio album, \"Heartbreak on a Full Moon\". It debuted at number three on the \"Billboard\" 200, and in the top 10 in Australia and the UK. Eight days after", "title": "Chris Brown discography" }, { "id": "1522744", "text": "outlets for both brands in the same building in the town of Montague. Murphy invited Joyce and Wendy's chairman Dave Thomas to the grand opening of the \"combo store\", where the two executives met for the first time and immediately established a rapport. Murphy's success with combining coffee and doughnuts with Wendy's fast food led to August 8, 1995 acquisition of and merger with TDL Group by Wendy's International, Inc., an American company. Joyce became the largest shareholder in Wendy's, even surpassing Thomas. TDL Group continued to operate as a separate subsidiary from its head office in Oakville, Ontario, although", "title": "Tim Hortons" }, { "id": "7628601", "text": "the V of D. The solo follows the same general progression of the introduction and chorus. Another run of the verse/chorus follows, and the song then fades out with repeated I-IV cadences. Per Craig Slownski. On September 27, 1964, the group performed \"Wendy\" as well as \"I Get Around\" on \"The Ed Sullivan Show\". It was also a staple of the band's 50th Anniversary Tour setlist. Bruce Johnston sang the lead vocal during these performances, rather than Love. \"Wendy\" peaked at No. 44 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, at No. 36 in Germany and at No. 5 in Switzerland in", "title": "Wendy (song)" }, { "id": "18020955", "text": "on\". In autumn of 2015, he founded a new band, Billy Bibby & The Wry Smiles. \"The Balcony\" was released on 15 September 2014. Shortly afterwards, the band also announced a UK tour. The album charted at number 10 on the UK Albums Chart in the week ending 27 September 2014, was certified Silver in the UK on 9 January 2015, was certified Gold on 20 March 2015 and reached Platinum sales on 30 December 2016. They won the BBC Introducing Award at the first BBC Music Awards in December 2014 and performed \"Kathleen\". \"The Balcony\" was released in the", "title": "Catfish and the Bottlemen" }, { "id": "12995626", "text": "of the song in the commercial provoked an internal conflict between members of the Violent Femmes, which resulted in a lawsuit between bassist Brian Ritchie and lead singer Gordon Gano that ultimately led to the band disbanding in 2009 (however, they would reunite in 2013). With their \"That's right\" ad campaign not a success, Wendy's unveiled a new ad campaign, featuring the animated version of their mascot voiced by Luci Christian highlighting certain menu items. The new ad campaign made its debut in late January 2008, with slogans: in the USA: \"It's waaaay better than fast food. It's Wendy's.\" and", "title": "Wendy's" }, { "id": "16549756", "text": "It debuted on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in December, becoming the band's first single to enter a national record chart. The song's use in a Chevrolet Sonic Super Bowl commercial further increased sales of the song, and it eventually topped the Hot 100 and hit the top ten in multiple other countries, including Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It has become one of the best-selling singles of all-time, with sales of over 9.3 million copies. The band's second studio album, \"Some Nights\", was released by Fueled by Ramen on February 21, 2012; it debuted at number three on the", "title": "Fun discography" }, { "id": "17950783", "text": "It debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart with first-week sales of 9,300 copies. On February 1, 2016, it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). By September 2016, the album had sold 850,000 copies in the US. Four singles were released in promotion of the album: the lead single \"Automatic\", the top-20 hit \"Little Red Wagon\", \"Smokin' and Drinkin'\", and \"Somethin' Bad\". Lambert debut the latter song with Underwood at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards on May 18, 2014, and performed it again on June 4, during the CMT Music Awards. In support", "title": "Platinum (Miranda Lambert album)" }, { "id": "10409720", "text": "participate in their first ever ArenaBowl XXI. Doug Kay started his second season as head coach of the Destroyers. Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring", "title": "2007 Columbus Destroyers season" }, { "id": "3210303", "text": "INXS manager, Chris Murphy; \"Émigré\" became a hit, being certified platinum. She won the Australian \"Rolling Stone\" magazine award for best female vocalist in 1990 for her debut album and her work with Absent Friends. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1991, \"I Don't Wanna Be with Nobody but You\" won 'Single of the Year' for Absent Friends; while Matthews won two ARIA Awards for 'Best Female Artist' and 'Breakthrough Artist – Single' for \"Token Angels\", which hit No. 18. Subsequent hits from the album were \"Woman's Gotta Have It\" (No. 34) and \"Let's Kiss (Like Angels Do)\" (No. 14).", "title": "Wendy Matthews" }, { "id": "19942714", "text": "Perfect (Ed Sheeran song) \"Perfect\" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran from his third studio album, \"÷\" (2017). After the album's release it charted at number four on the UK Singles Chart. On 21 August 2017, \"Billboard\" announced that \"Perfect\" would be the fourth single from the album. The song was serviced to pop radio on 26 September 2017, as the third single from the album in the United States (fourth overall). The song eventually reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in December 2017. \"Perfect\" became the UK Christmas number-one", "title": "Perfect (Ed Sheeran song)" }, { "id": "13885404", "text": "made. \"Every Girl\" was released as the album's lead single on June 11, 2009; the song features Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda and Mack Maine. The song peaked at number 10 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. \"BedRock\" was released as the album's second single on November 14, 2009; the song features Lil Wayne, Drake, Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda, Nicki Minaj, Tyga and Lloyd. The song has peaked at number 2 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, and number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, making it the most commercially successful single. The two first singles proved", "title": "We Are Young Money" }, { "id": "1359920", "text": "well as live tracks taken from a show in Paris. In October 2001, the album \"Wake Up and Smell the Coffee\" was released. The band's old producer Stephen Street had returned and produced their new music video. The album peaked at 46 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and reached No. 61 in the UK. The first single released from the album was \"Analyse\", which charted in the US Adult Top 40 at a peak of 26. In January 2002, they released the second single \"Time Is Ticking Out\", and some months later another one, \"This Is the Day\". The following year", "title": "The Cranberries" }, { "id": "11157248", "text": "Mariah Carey's \"Touch My Body.\" The eighth single was confirmed to be \"Dead and Gone\" featuring Justin Timberlake, by the song's co-producer Rob Knox. T.I. himself later confirmed the release of the single. The song was charted by \"Billboard\" before the announcement of the single. The song reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on February 27, 2009. Overall, eight songs from the album charted on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, including \"56 Bars (Intro)\", \"I'm Illy\" and \"My Life Your Entertainment\", despite not being singles. A music video was released for the song \"Slide Show\" which highlighted a photo", "title": "Paper Trail" }, { "id": "4063470", "text": "Jill Halfpenny Jill Halfpenny (born 15 July 1975) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Rebecca Hopkins in the British soap opera \"Coronation Street\" (1999–2000); Kate Mitchell (née Morton) in rival soap \"EastEnders\" (2002–05); Izzie Redpath in \"Waterloo Road\" (2006–07); and Diane Manning in \"In The Club\" (2014–16). She also won the second series of the television dance contest \"Strictly Come Dancing\" in 2004. Her career began in 1989 with a regular role in the BBC children's drama series \"Byker Grove\". She has subsequently appeared in numerous TV roles, such as \"Peak Practice\", \"Mount Pleasant\", \"Wild at", "title": "Jill Halfpenny" }, { "id": "20176619", "text": "Kim Roberts (actress) Kim Roberts is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as Christine in \"The Handmaids Tale\" (2017), Regina from \"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs\" (2017), Marnie in \"Schitt's Creek\" (2015), Neeva in \"The Strain\" (2014), Gloria in \"Lucky Seven\" (2013), Camilla in \"Being Erica\" (2010), Mazz in \"The Doodlebops\" (2004–05), Mrs. Arvin in \"I'm Not There\" (2007), Deborah in \"Saw III\" (2006) and \"Saw IV\" (2007) and Mrs. Bosco in \"The Cheetah Girls\" (2003). Kim’s parents are from the Caribbean. Her mother, Josephine (nee Charles), is from the creole island of Dominica and her late", "title": "Kim Roberts (actress)" }, { "id": "471534", "text": "in 1978, and \"Gold\" with John Stewart in 1979. Fleetwood Mac's \"Tusk\" was released on October 19, 1979. During 1981, Nicks made occasional guest appearances with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on their \"Hard Promises\" tour. Nicks' first solo album, \"Bella Donna\", was released on July 27, 1981, to critical and commercial acclaim, reaching number one on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart, with four singles making the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and \"Rolling Stone\" deeming her \"the Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll\". The day that \"Bella Donna\" reached number one on the \"Billboard\" 200, Nicks found out that her best friend", "title": "Stevie Nicks" }, { "id": "5803349", "text": "Golden Nuggets Golden Nuggets are a breakfast cereal sold in the UK and Ireland by Cereal Partners (under the Nestlé brand). It is made mainly from cereal grains, sugar and honey, formed into large yellow crunchy balls. It has a sweet, slightly honey-like flavour. Golden Nuggets were introduced in the 1970s in the United Kingdom and the United States, manufactured by Nabisco. They were then withdrawn from the UK market in the late 1970s. However, they were brought back to the UK in 1999 with a £1 million advertising campaign, perhaps in response to demand from people who had enjoyed", "title": "Golden Nuggets" }, { "id": "6324999", "text": "Special\". Between 1994 and 1998, he appeared in the films \"Not Like Us\", \"\", \"Casper Meets Wendy\", \"Addams Family Reunion\", and \"Richie Rich's Christmas Wish\". In 1999, he signed with Grand Avenue Records and released \"All Night Long\". \"Are You With Me Baby\", a rockabilly album, followed on the Free Falls Entertainment label. The album had one cover, \"Believe What You Say\". Between 2001 and 2005, he covered \"Copperhead Road\" by Steve Earle and \"Ring of Fire\" by Johnny Cash. He toured as a member of Bob Dylan's backup band and in 2005 became a member of John Fogerty's band.", "title": "Billy Burnette" }, { "id": "17781245", "text": "a Drill\". and in September 2014, she was picked as Elvis Duran's Artist of the Month and was featured on NBC's \"Today\" show hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, where she performed live her single \"I Can't Stop Drinking About You\". In December 2014, Rexha released two more singles, \"I'm Gonna Show You Crazy\" and \"Gone\". On May 12, 2015, she released her debut EP, \"I Don't Wanna Grow Up\", through Warner Bros. Records. She also co-wrote and was featured on David Guetta's single \"Hey Mama\", alongside Nicki Minaj and Afrojack. The song peaked at number eight on", "title": "Bebe Rexha" }, { "id": "10453671", "text": "She was a guest on shows such as \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\" and \"The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson\", where she performed two singles from the album, and \"This Is the Life\" reached number 92 on the \"Billboard\" 200. Macdonald's second album, \"A Curious Thing\", was released on 8 March 2010. Its lead single \"Don't Tell Me That It's Over\" was released in March 2010; it peaked at number 45 on the UK Singles Chart, and also went on to perform well in other European countries. Five singles have since been released from \"A Curious Thing\". Macdonald is one", "title": "Amy Macdonald" }, { "id": "6182331", "text": "the lead single from Lambert's fifth studio album, \"Platinum,\" was released on February 5, 2014, to praise from music critics. The album, containing 16 songs, was released on June 3, 2014. The album's second single, \"Somethin' Bad\", is a duet with Carrie Underwood and was debuted on the 2014 \"Billboard\" Music Awards on May 18. The album's third single, \"Little Red Wagon\", was released to country radio on January 12, 2015. The album's fourth single, \"Smokin' and Drinkin'\" released to country radio on June 22, 2015. In March 2016, Lambert made her first ever performances outside the US and Canada", "title": "Miranda Lambert" }, { "id": "737324", "text": "\"You Don't Know How It Feels\", \"You Wreck Me\", \"It's Good to Be King\", and \"A Higher Place\". The album, produced by Rick Rubin, sold over three million copies in the United States. In 1996, Petty, with the Heartbreakers, released a soundtrack to the movie \"She's the One\", starring Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston (see \"Songs and Music from \"She's the One\"\"). The album's singles were \"Walls (Circus)\" (featuring Lindsey Buckingham), \"Climb that Hill\", and a song written by Lucinda Williams, \"Change the Locks\". The album also included a cover of \"Asshole\", a song by Beck. The same year, the", "title": "Tom Petty" }, { "id": "5847984", "text": "first single, \"Hey Girl\", was released in March 2013. It peaked at number one on the Country Airplay chart in October of that year. The album's second single, the title track, was released on November 18, 2013. It also peaked at number one on the Country Airplay chart, this time in August 2014. Currington released a new single, the first from his sixth studio album, in late October 2014, titled \"Don't It\". The album, \"Summer Forever\", was released on June 2, 2015. The album's second single, \"Drinkin' Town with a Football Problem\", was released on June 8, 2015. \"It Don't", "title": "Billy Currington" }, { "id": "8157895", "text": "of November 2006 the album has sold 910,000 copies in the United States. Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets is the sixth studio album (and first number 1 album) by Miami rapper Trick Daddy. The album debuted at #2 on the \"Billboard\" 200 with 145,000 copies sold in the 1st week released. J.O.D.D. was used in the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin. \"Let's Go\" was the single that rocketed the albums success. \"Sugar (Gimme Some)\" contains an interpolation of \"Sugar On My Tongue\" written by David Byrne of Talking Heads and was produced by", "title": "Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets" }, { "id": "12626441", "text": "at OmniSound in Nashville. Featured musicians included members of the Dixie Chicks band. US country radio embraced the album, and by the end of 2003, three of the tracks had featured heavily on the airplay charts including \"Blood and Smoke\" which was released by Universal Records, with Miles Copeland's \"ARK 21\" label releasing \"Wherever You Are\" (a number 17 hit) and \"Ecstatic Electricity\". Rodney Crowell once referred to Holden as an Irish Bryan White and invited him to Nashville. He co-wrote the song \"Wendy's World\" with Crowell. Holden left \"Riverdance\" in June 2003 and moved directly back to Broadway as", "title": "Darren Holden (musician)" }, { "id": "5650223", "text": "popular TV shows \"Crossing Jordan\", \"Heroes\" and more recently \"Touch\", all of them created and produced by Tim Kring, and \"Nurse Jackie\" for Showtime. Not being signed to any label, their next solo effort – the 1998 album \"Girl Bros.\" – was the first to be independently released, with all subsequent releases also self-released. In 2004, the duo reached a rapprochement with Prince and contributed to several tracks on his \"Planet Earth\" album. In December 2008, \"White Flags of Winter Chimneys\" was released. The title is taken from a line in the Joni Mitchell song \"Hejira\". 2011 saw the release", "title": "Wendy & Lisa" }, { "id": "7223678", "text": "(1978). The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie is a compilation album released on Chrysalis Records in 1991. It contained all of Blondie's biggest hits such as \"Heart of Glass\", \"Sunday Girl\", \"The Tide Is High\", \"Atomic\", and \"Call Me\" as well as some of Deborah Harry's solo hits, including the UK Top 10 single \"French Kissin' in the USA\". \"The Complete Picture\" was a success in the UK and reached Number 3 in the UK Album Chart, remaining on the charts for 25 weeks", "title": "The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie" }, { "id": "9074662", "text": "\"Drop On By,\" was less successful than her debut, only peaking at number 48. After leaving \"Legally Blonde: The Musical\" in July 2008, she moved back to Nashville to work on her second album, \"Achin' and Shakin\". In mid-2013, Bell Bundy signed with Big Machine Records and released the single \"Two Step\", a duet with Colt Ford. It peaked at number 59 on the \"Billboard\" Country Airplay chart. After many delays, \"Another Piece of Me\" was issued on June 9, 2015 as a digital-only release via Big Machine. No further singles were released from the album and Bell Bundy parted", "title": "Laura Bell Bundy" }, { "id": "7223676", "text": "The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie is a compilation album released on Chrysalis Records in 1991. It contained all of Blondie's biggest hits such as \"Heart of Glass\", \"Sunday Girl\", \"The Tide Is High\", \"Atomic\", and \"Call Me\" as well as some of Deborah Harry's solo hits, including the UK Top 10 single \"French Kissin' in the USA\". \"The Complete Picture\" was a success in the UK and reached Number 3 in the UK Album Chart, remaining on the charts for 25 weeks and", "title": "The Complete Picture: The Very Best of Deborah Harry and Blondie" }, { "id": "3237058", "text": "garnered her rave reviews as well as a \"Best Supporting Actress\" nomination from the Chicago Film Critics Association. The film won the People's Choice Award for \"Favorite Movie Comedy\", was named one of AFI's \"Top Ten Films of the Year\", and received a nomination from the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for \"Best Comedy\". In 2009, Mann reunited with her \"Big Daddy\" co-star Adam Sandler and \"Knocked Up\" co-star Seth Rogen for Apatow's \"Funny People\". This film was named to many of the year's top ten lists including \"The New Yorker\" and \"The New York Times\". \"Elle\" writer Mickey Rapkin", "title": "Leslie Mann" }, { "id": "4443226", "text": "Cincinnati, opened on May 8, 1940. Today, the chain has stores throughout the Greater Cincinnati area as well as Dayton, and Columbus. Many UDF stores also operate a gas station and a convenience store. Since 2001, many locations have sold gasoline under the Mobil brand, but are now supplying their own fuels via purchasing through independent wholesalers. UDF was sued in June 2013 by Wendy's International for a trademark dispute concerning their Frosty treats, claiming UDF and their Homemade brand were creating a ripoff product called Frosties that used the similar yellow and red colors of their Frosty. The companies", "title": "United Dairy Farmers" }, { "id": "4191406", "text": "Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)\" released as a single in late-1999 was included in the album. The album was released on October 24, 2000, by RCA Records as Aguilera's third studio album in the United States, following her two first albums \"Christina Aguilera\" (1999) and \"Mi Reflejo\" (2000). It was released as two formats: CD and cassette. In order to promote the album, Aguilera promoted the album on a number of shows, including \"The Rosie O'Donnell Show\", \"The Early Show\", and \"David Letterman Show\". On December 10, 2000, Aguilera performed \"The Christmas Song\", \"Genie in a Bottle\"", "title": "My Kind of Christmas" }, { "id": "17950781", "text": "received widespread critical acclaim and earned Lambert a Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as a CMA Award and ACM Award in the same category. The album was certified platinum for sales of one million copies in the United States. Lambert wrote or co-wrote eight of the album's 16 tracks. The album features collaborations with Little Big Town (\"Smokin' and Drinkin'\") and The Time Jumpers (\"All That's Left\"), as well as a duet with Carrie Underwood on \"Somethin' Bad\". It was recorded in sessions at Cyclops Sound in Los Angeles, Dave's Room in Hollywood, and the Nashville-based studios", "title": "Platinum (Miranda Lambert album)" }, { "id": "7628602", "text": "July 1967 when it was nominally the B-side of \"Good Vibrations\" — as it was everywhere outside the US. Wendy (song) \"Wendy\" is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released on their 1964 album \"All Summer Long\" and was also featured on their EP, \"Four by The Beach Boys\". \"Wendy\" was originally credited to just Brian Wilson. Mike Love's name was added as a result of a lawsuit filed by him against Wilson in the 1990s. The opening chords are whole notes played on electric guitar and", "title": "Wendy (song)" }, { "id": "10542262", "text": "chart in early 2005 at number 58 based on unsolicited airplay. The song was officially released later in that same year and debuted at number 56 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart for the week of October 1, 2005. It peaked at number 2 on the Hot Country Songs chart in early 2006, behind \"Jesus, Take the Wheel\" by Carrie Underwood. Honky Tonk Badonkadonk \"Honky Tonk Badonkadonk\" is a song written by Dallas Davidson, Randy Houser and Jamey Johnson, and recorded by American country music artist Trace Adkins. It was released in October 2005 as the third and", "title": "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" }, { "id": "13896695", "text": "Me\" which featured Talay Riley; the single peaked at number 7 in the UK upon release on 28 December 2009. The album's reissued was preceded by \"Until You Were Gone\" which featured vocals from Dutch pop singer Esmée Denters which was released on 19 April 2010. The single peaked at number 3 in the UK, marking Chipmunk's fourth consecutive Top 10 single. The rapper released single \"Flying High\" on 12 November 2010 which acts as a promotional/warm up single for the second studio album supposedly named \"Transition\". The lead single from the album, \"Champion\", features American singer Chris Brown. Chip", "title": "Chip discography" }, { "id": "12105473", "text": "Lyrical King (From the Boogie Down Bronx) Lyrical King (From the Boogie Down Bronx), from 1987, was the debut album of hip-hop emcee T La Rock. It was released after the EP \"He's Incredible\", and none of the tracks from that record were on the original release of the album. Singles released were \"Back to Burn,\" \"Tudy Fruity Judy,\" \"It's Time to Chill,\" and, in the UK, \"Big Beat in London.\" Kurtis Mantronik produced several tracks, and Greg Nice of Nice & Smooth contributed human beat boxing. When the album was rereleased in digital form by Traffic Entertainment Group in", "title": "Lyrical King (From the Boogie Down Bronx)" }, { "id": "2500211", "text": "and the highest grossing solo tour of all-time making $408 million in 85 shows. Justin Timberlake released his sophomore studio album \"FutureSex/LoveSounds\" in 2006, producing the chart-topping singles \"SexyBack\", \"My Love\", and \"What Goes Around... Comes Around\", and winning four Grammy Awards for the record. While predominantly focusing on R&B music during this time, Beyoncé also ventured into a pop sound with her third studio album I Am... Sasha Fierce in 2008, producing the top-ten singles \"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) (#1), \"If I Were a Boy (#3), \"Halo\" (#5), and \"Sweet Dreams\" (#10). The album and it's", "title": "2000s in music" }, { "id": "742652", "text": "Rosemary Clooney Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song \"Come On-a My House\", which was followed by other pop numbers such as \"Botch-a-Me\", \"Mambo Italiano\", \"Tenderly\", \"Half as Much\", \"Hey There\" and \"This Ole House\". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her \"White Christmas\" co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his", "title": "Rosemary Clooney" }, { "id": "8157893", "text": "Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets is the sixth studio album (and first number 1 album) by Miami rapper Trick Daddy. The album debuted at #2 on the \"Billboard\" 200 with 145,000 copies sold in the 1st week released. J.O.D.D. was used in the 2005 film The 40-Year-Old Virgin. \"Let's Go\" was the single that rocketed the albums success. \"Sugar (Gimme Some)\" contains an interpolation of \"Sugar On My Tongue\" written by David Byrne of Talking Heads and was produced by Mike Caren. \"Down Wit Da South\" contains an interpolation of Midnight Star's song", "title": "Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets" }, { "id": "7480195", "text": "Janna Woman'), and backing vocals by fellow Moodies member Ray Thomas. This first album reached No. 107 in the US on the \"Billboard\" chart. Their second album was \"Paradise Ballroom\" in 1977, on the main Decca label, catalogue number TXS 121, and in the US on the London Records label, catalogue number PS 686 The album charted in the US reaching No. 164 on the \"Billboard\" chart. It was also released as a gatefold with album art by Joe Petagno, again featuring Adrian and Paul Gurvitz. He also appeared as himself in the 2016 film comedy Characterz. A single, \"Everybody", "title": "Graeme Edge" }, { "id": "7050247", "text": "being recorded in 1985, and the most recent song being recorded in 1994. Yankovic's third album, \"Dare to Be Stupid\" has two songs featured: \"This is the Life\" and \"Yoda\". \"Christmas at Ground Zero\" first appeared on the 1986 release \"Polka Party!\". \"Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*\" was culled from the 1989 album \"UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff\". \"Smells Like Nirvana\", \"Polka Your Eyes Out\", and \"You Don't Love Me Anymore\" were taken from Yankovic's 1992 album \"Off the Deep End\". Finally, \"Achy Breaky Song\" and \"Jurassic Park\" first appeared on the 1993 record \"Alapalooza\". The album", "title": "Greatest Hits Volume II (\"Weird Al\" Yankovic album)" }, { "id": "3416229", "text": "record producer/sound engineer Daniel Knutson on May 24, 2002, in the rose garden of The Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey. They have four sons: Leo Evan Knutson (b. September 14, 2003), Beau Alexander Knutson (b. September 23, 2004), and twins, Will Hunter and Jesse Miles Knutson (b. August 17, 2007). In February 2008, Wilson appeared in an episode of the American reality television program, \"Supernanny\". Her sister Carnie and her niece Lola Bonfiglio also made an appearance in the episode. In April 2008, Wilson appeared in an episode of the Tyra Banks show, \"Amazing Moms\". On January 7, 2010, Wilson", "title": "Wendy Wilson" }, { "id": "6450132", "text": "career and toured with the Backstreet Boys. At age 17, she released her debut album \"Instigator\" via Interscope Records in 2005. She co-wrote all but one of the album's songs with producer Toby Gad. In 2016, Brown was signed to NHMM, Notting Hill Music's label. On June 23, 2017, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony released their album \"New Waves\" which features Brown on the album's fifth track, \"That Girl\". Brown is currently writing and performing as one half of country duo Brown & Gray, with Sam Gray. On June 30, 2017, the duo released a new single called \"Top Down\". She has also", "title": "Kaci Brown" }, { "id": "12624219", "text": "recorded during the sessions for 1973's \"Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man\", \"As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone\" was recorded on March 7, 1973, and \"Lifetime Before\" was recorded on April 5, 1973. Album – Billboard (North America) Singles – Billboard (North America) Country Partners Country Partners is the fourth studio album by American country music duo Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn. It was released on June 10, 1974, by MCA Records. The album peaked at No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart. The album's only single, \"As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone\" went to No.", "title": "Country Partners" }, { "id": "20614301", "text": "video featuring the characters of the Adult Swim series \"Rick and Morty\" unveiling a March 9, 2018 release date. The album cover was revealed the next day. \"44 More\" was released as the lead single from the mixtape on February 23, 2018. The track was produced by 6ix along with Illmind. The song peaked at number 22 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart. \"Overnight\" was released as the mixtape's second single on February 28, 2018. A music video was released a day prior before the official release. The song was produced by 6ix. \"Everyday\" with record producer Marshmello was released", "title": "Bobby Tarantino II" }, { "id": "417159", "text": "Brown\" ranked fifth behind \"Vienna\", \"Fairytale of New York\", \"Sit Down\" and \"American Pie\", and just ahead of \"Waterloo Sunset\" and \"Penny Lane\"/\"Strawberry Fields Forever\". Golden Brown \"Golden Brown\" is a song by the English rock band the Stranglers. It was released as a 7\" single in December 1981 in the United States and in January 1982 in the United Kingdom, on Liberty. It was the second single released from the band's sixth album \"La folie\". It peaked at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, the band's highest ever placing in that chart. In January 2014, \"NME\" ranked the", "title": "Golden Brown" }, { "id": "18573495", "text": "of the Singleton/Phillips deal. Singleton would milk these unreleased recordings for years, following \"The Golden Cream of the Country\" with \"A Taste of Country\" later in 1970. \"The Killer\" was so hot in 1970 that Singleton issued one of Lewis's latter unreleased Sun recordings, \"One Minute Past Eternity\", as a single and it climbed to number two on the country chart, following on the heels of Lewis's recent Mercury smash \"She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye\". The album also includes two songs by Hank Williams, one of Lewis's biggest influences, as well as the George Jones-penned \"Seasons of", "title": "The Golden Cream of the Country" }, { "id": "3703964", "text": "Had Enough)\". However, three songs from Petty's 1989 solo album \"Full Moon Fever\" were included. On its original release in November 1993, the album debuted at No. 8 on \"Billboard\" 200, and first peaked at No. 5 on the chart in February 1994. It reached a new peak of No. 2 following Petty's death in 2017. The new tracks \"Mary Jane's Last Dance\" and \"Something in the Air\" would prove to be the band's last recordings with drummer Stan Lynch. The U.K. release also includes the track \"Anything That's Rock 'n' Roll\", originally from the album \"Tom Petty and the", "title": "Greatest Hits (Tom Petty album)" }, { "id": "20226602", "text": "is produced by Murda Beatz and Cubeatz. It was originally previewed at Powerhouse 2017 the night before release. The song peaked at number six on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The album's second single, \"Stir Fry\", was released on December 20, 2017. The song is produced by Pharrell Williams. It peaked at number eight on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The album's third single, \"Walk It Talk It\" featuring Drake, was sent to urban contemporary radio on March 18, 2018, the same day as the release of the official music video. The song peaked at number 10 on the US", "title": "Culture II" }, { "id": "11915644", "text": "The album was also certified Gold by the RIAA. The first and only single from the album, \"After the Fire Is Gone\" went to No. 1 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart and also charted at No. 56 on the US \"Billboard\" 'Hot 100 chart. We Only Make Believe We Only Make Believe is the first studio album by American country music duo Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn. It was released on February 8, 1971, by Decca Records. This was the first of ten albums Twitty and Lynn would release annually until 1981. The album's first track is", "title": "We Only Make Believe" } ]

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[ { "id": "1475820", "text": "title, which was more a companion novel than a novelization of the film, although it features many of the scenes that were originally cut. Fuller was a World War II veteran and served with the 1st Infantry Division, which is nicknamed \"The Big Red One\" for the red numeral \"1\" on the Division's shoulder patch. He received the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart during his service. He was present at the liberation of the Falkenau concentration camp. In November 1918, a private, using his trench knife, slays a German soldier, who was approaching with his arms raised and", "title": "The Big Red One" }, { "id": "1475819", "text": "The Big Red One The Big Red One is a 1980 epic war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller starring Lee Marvin alongside an ensemble supporting cast including Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Siegfried Rauch, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward. Based on Fuller's own experiences, it was produced independently on a lower budget, shot on location in Israel as a cost-saving measure. It was heavily cut on its original release, but a restored version, \"The Big Red One: The Reconstruction\", premièred at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, seven years after Fuller's death. Fuller wrote a book, with the same", "title": "The Big Red One" }, { "id": "4929262", "text": "Call of Duty 2: Big Red One Call of Duty 2: Big Red One is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision for GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is a side-story/expansion of the original game \"Call of Duty 2\", which was released on PC and Xbox 360 in the same year. \"Big Red One\" differs from other games in the \"Call of Duty\" franchise in that it focuses on a single Allied formation in World War II: the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, which goes by the nickname \"Big Red One\" due to their", "title": "Call of Duty 2: Big Red One" }, { "id": "1475822", "text": "the Normandy Campaign, the liberation of France where they battle Germans inside a mental asylum, and the invasion of western Germany. The sergeant's German counterpart, Schroeder, participates in many of the same battles and displays a ruthless loyalty to Hitler and Germany. At different times, he and the sergeant express the same sentiment that soldiers are killers, but not murderers. During the advance across northern France, the squad crosses the same field where the sergeant killed the surrendering German, where a memorial now stands. The squad's final action in the war is the liberation of Falkenau concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.", "title": "The Big Red One" }, { "id": "1475825", "text": "to produce (he says Fuller wanted him to play the Robert Carradine part) but then Bogdanovich pulled out and brought in Gene Corman to produce. The restored version adds 47 minutes to the film's running time, bringing it much closer to the form Fuller imagined before the studio took it away from him. Film critic Richard Schickel — who praised the 1980 version in \"Time\" magazine when it was released — took the lead on the restoration, which relied on footage found in a old Warners Brothers vault in Kansas City. He was aided by editor Bryan McKenzie and Bogdanovich.", "title": "The Big Red One" }, { "id": "4929267", "text": "at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One Call of Duty 2: Big Red One is a first-person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision for GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is a side-story/expansion of the original game \"Call of Duty 2\", which was released on PC and Xbox 360 in the same year. \"Big Red One\" differs from other games in the \"Call of Duty\" franchise in that it focuses on a single Allied formation in World War II: the U.S. Army's 1st Infantry Division, which goes by", "title": "Call of Duty 2: Big Red One" }, { "id": "5065685", "text": "Big Red (gum) Big Red is a cinnamon flavored chewing gum introduced by the William Wrigley Jr. Company in 1975. Big Red was available in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the mid to late 1990s, but is no longer available there. It is a popular souvenir for visitors to the United States from Ireland, or the United Kingdom. Big Red was also released in the early to mid-1980s in Australia, but was discontinued in the end of the 1980s. It was re-released in 2004, and again at the end of 2007. It is also available in Mexico, Germany, Luxembourg,", "title": "Big Red (gum)" }, { "id": "1475821", "text": "speaking German. When he returns to his company's headquarters, the private is told that the \"war's been over for four hours.\" In November 1942, the soldier, now a sergeant in the \"Big Red One\", leads his squad of infantrymen through North Africa, where they are initially fired on by a Vichy French general, who is then overpowered by his French troops who are loyal to Free France. Over the next two years, the squad serves in campaigns in Sicily, where they are given intelligence by a peasant boy, and are fed by grateful women, Omaha Beach at the start of", "title": "The Big Red One" }, { "id": "1475826", "text": "\"The Big Red One\" ranks 483rd on \"Empire\" magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. Terry Lawson of the \"Detroit Free Press\" called it the greatest war movie of all time. The film was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival. In his review of the original, theatrical version of the film, Roger Ebert wrote: While this is an expensive epic, he hasn't fallen to the temptations of the epic form. He doesn't give us a lot of phony meaning, as if to justify the scope of the production. There aren't a lot of deep, significant", "title": "The Big Red One" }, { "id": "13367669", "text": "falling in love. \"The Big One\" debuted on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 8, 1994. The Big One (song) \"The Big One\" is a song written by Gerry House and Devon O'Day, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in October 1994 as the lead-off single from his album \"Lead On\". It became his 26th number 1 hit in the United States. The song reached number-one on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart and number 4 on the Canadian \"RPM\" Country Tracks chart. The song is an", "title": "The Big One (song)" }, { "id": "13367668", "text": "The Big One (song) \"The Big One\" is a song written by Gerry House and Devon O'Day, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in October 1994 as the lead-off single from his album \"Lead On\". It became his 26th number 1 hit in the United States. The song reached number-one on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart and number 4 on the Canadian \"RPM\" Country Tracks chart. The song is an uptempo, in which the narrator is a man falling in love. He knows he’s in for the big one now because he is", "title": "The Big One (song)" }, { "id": "5112963", "text": "Clifford the Big Red Dog Clifford the Big Red Dog is an American children's book series about a giant red dog named Clifford. It was first published in 1963 and was written by Norman Bridwell (1928–2014). Bridwell himself had a dog he based the stories on, however his pet canine was neither big nor red. The series helped establish Scholastic as a premier publishing company, and Clifford himself is Scholastic's official mascot. In 1988, Scholastic Studios, Mendelson-Melendez Productions, Nelvana, Wang Film Productions, and Family Home Entertainment released \"Clifford's Fun with...\", a videotape series with the theme song by Phillip Namanworth", "title": "Clifford the Big Red Dog" }, { "id": "9072260", "text": "of – and was created by – sexual reproduction. Big Red won the Universal Cheerleading Association's Key to the Spirit award in 1980, 1981 and 1983. It reached the Universal Cheerleading Association's Final Four and was awarded 2nd runner-up to collegiate Mascot of the Year in 1990. In 1996 it reached the Final Four of ESPN's \"Battle of the Mascots.\" In 2002, the character was part of ESPN's promotion of the \"SportsCenter\"'s 25,000th. In 2007, WKU alumna Kate Mercer Miller appeared as a contestant on the game show \"Deal or No Deal\" and brought Big Red as one of her", "title": "Big Red (Western Kentucky University)" }, { "id": "4228529", "text": "Anna Imelda Mathews in 1968. She died in 1974. All three are buried together in Arlington National Cemetery. Huebner was portrayed by Charles Macaulay in the 1980 film \"The Big Red One\", in the opening sequence set in World War I and, in the reconstructed extended version, in 1944 just prior to the Battle of Huertgen Forest. Lieutenant General Huebner received many military awards for bravery and distinguished service during both World Wars. Clarence R. Huebner Lieutenant General Clarence Ralph Huebner (November 24, 1888 – September 23, 1972) was a highly decorated senior officer of the United States Army who", "title": "Clarence R. Huebner" }, { "id": "2328185", "text": "mellifera\"). The specific epithet of the red imported fire ant, \"invicta\", derives from Latin, and means \"invincible\" or \"unconquered\". The epithet originates from the phrase \"Roma invicta\" (\"unconquered Rome\"), used as an inspirational quote until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. This symbolic statement was printed on minted coins. The generic name, \"Solenopsis\", translates as \"appearance\" or \"face\" from Ancient Greek. It is a compound of two Ancient Greek words–\"solen\", meaning \"pipe\" or \"channel\", and \"opsis\", meaning \"appearance\" or \"sight\". The ant is commonly known as the \"red imported fire ant\" (abbreviated as RIFA), because of", "title": "Red imported fire ant" }, { "id": "1475827", "text": "speeches. In the ways that count, \"The Big Red One\" is still a B-movie – hard-boiled, filled with action, held together by male camaraderie, directed with a lean economy of action. It's one of the most expensive B-pictures ever made, and I think that helps it fit the subject. \"A\" war movies are about War, but \"B\" war movies are about soldiers. In November 21, 2004, Ebert added \"The Big Red One\" to his list of \"great movies\". It holds at 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an aggregate score of 7.7 based on 44 reviews. The Big Red One", "title": "The Big Red One" }, { "id": "3207083", "text": "Red Pyramid The Red Pyramid, also called the north Pyramid, is the largest of the three major pyramids located at the Dahshur necropolis in Cairo, Egypt. Named for the rusty reddish hue of its red limestone stones, it is also the third largest Egyptian pyramid, after those of Khufu and Khafra at Giza. It is also believed to be Egypt's first successful attempt at constructing a \"true\" smooth-sided pyramid. Local residents refer to the Red Pyramid as \"el-heram el-watwaat\", meaning the Bat Pyramid. The Red Pyramid was not always red. It used to be cased with white Tura limestone, but", "title": "Red Pyramid" }, { "id": "1475823", "text": "Shortly after this, the sergeant is in a forest at night, having just buried a young boy he had befriended earlier after liberating the camp. Schroeder approaches, attempting to surrender, but the sergeant stabs him. His squad then arrives, and informs him that the war ended \"about four hours ago.\" This time, as the squad walks away, Pvt. Griff notices that Schroeder is still alive; the sergeant and his men work frantically to save his life as they return to their encampment. Warner Bros. was interested in filming \"The Big Red One\" in the late 1950s, sending Fuller on a", "title": "The Big Red One" }, { "id": "1882137", "text": "1st Infantry Division (United States) The 1st Infantry Division is a combined arms division of the United States Army, and is the oldest continuously serving in the Regular Army. It has seen continuous service since its organization in 1917 during World War I. It was officially nicknamed \"The Big Red One\" (abbreviated \"BRO\") after its shoulder patch and is also nicknamed \"The Fighting First\". However, the division has also received troop monikers of \"The Big Dead One\" and \"The Bloody First\" as puns on the respective officially sanctioned nicknames. It is currently based at Fort Riley, Kansas. The First Expeditionary", "title": "1st Infantry Division (United States)" }, { "id": "3886487", "text": "subjects. \"Shock Corridor\" (1963) is set in a psychiatric hospital, while \"The Naked Kiss\" (1964) features a prostitute attempting to change her life by working in a pediatric ward. Both films were released by Allied Artists. Between 1967 and 1980, Fuller directed only one film, the Mexican-produced \"Shark!\" (1969). Fuller asked the Directors Guild to remove his name from the credits of \"Shark\". He returned in 1980 with the epic \"The Big Red One\", the semi-autobiographical story of a platoon of soldiers and their harrowing experiences during World War II. The film won critical praise but failed at the box", "title": "Samuel Fuller" }, { "id": "3886477", "text": "was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the war epic \"The Big Red One\" (1980), and the experimental \"White Dog\" (1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with Curtis Hanson. Samuel Michael Fuller was born in Worcester, Massachusetts of Jewish parents. His father, Benjamin Rabinovitch, died in 1923 when Samuel was 11. After immigrating to the United States, the family's surname was changed from Rabinovitch to Fuller, a name possibly inspired by a doctor who arrived in America on the \"Mayflower\". Fuller tells in his autobiography, \"A Third Face\" (2002), that he did not speak until", "title": "Samuel Fuller" }, { "id": "349555", "text": "red packets ( in Mandarin or \"lai see\" in Cantonese) are specifically used during Chinese New Year celebrations for giving monetary gifts. On the more negative side, obituaries are traditionally written in red ink, and to write someone's name in red signals either cutting them out of one's life, or that they have died. Red is also associated with either the feminine or the masculine (yin and yang respectively), depending on the source. The \"Little Red Book\", a collection of quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), was published in 1966 and widely", "title": "Red" }, { "id": "5065686", "text": "Belgium, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, New Zealand, and parts of Sweden; the gum sold in Germany, Norway and Poland is not red but white. It is meant to be hot in flavor. Despite it not being a sugarless gum, in 2003 in the United States, Wrigley's replaced some of the sugar with aspartame and Ace K, both artificial sweeteners. Like its sister product, Juicy Fruit, Big Red had its own commercial jingle, which was used from 1977 to 1998. The song was composed by Peter Cofield from Sunday Productions in New York City and sung by Ryan Devereaux. Many of", "title": "Big Red (gum)" }, { "id": "12670929", "text": "The Red One \"The Red One\" is a short story by Jack London. It was first published in the October 1918 issue of \"The Cosmopolitan\", two years after London's death. The story was reprinted in the same year by MacMillan, in a collection of London's stories of the same name. The story is told from the perspective of a scientist called Bassett, who is on an expedition in the jungle of Guadalcanal to collect butterflies. The \"Red One\" of the title refers to a giant red sphere, of apparently extraterrestrial origin, that the headhunting natives worship as their god and", "title": "The Red One" }, { "id": "10897859", "text": "Barry De Vorzon Barry De Vorzon (born July 31, 1934) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and composer. His earliest hit compositions were \"Just Married\" (1958), written with Al Allen and recorded by Marty Robbins, which reached number 26 on \"Billboard\" magazine's Hot 100 chart and number one on the Country chart; and \"Dreamin'\" (1960), written with Ted Ellis, recorded by Johnny Burnette, and charting at number 11 on the Hot 100. Dorsey Burnette (whom he was managing) and De Vorzon co-wrote several of Dorsey's hits (\"Hey, Little One\"; \"Big Rock Candy Mountain\"; \"Red Roses\"; \"Noah's Ark\"). De Vorzon founded", "title": "Barry De Vorzon" }, { "id": "8664413", "text": "go down and stay down, often for an additional two minutes.\" Strupper, using the flair for the dramatic common in sportswriting at the time, wrote, \"At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming!' and out stamped this Alabama varsity.\" Strupper and other writers would continue to refer to Alabama as the \"Red Elephants,\" the \"red\" as a nod to the players' crimson jerseys, and the name stuck throughout what became a national championship season", "title": "Big Al (mascot)" }, { "id": "6220341", "text": "Big Red (soft drink) Big Red is a soft drink created in 1937 by Grover C. Thomsen and R.H. Roark in Waco, Texas and originally known as Sun Tang Red Cream Soda. It is generally classified as an American variety of cream soda and it is the original \"red cream soda.\" The name was changed to \"Sun Tang Big Red Cream Soda\" in 1959 and to \"Big Red\" in 1969 by Harold Jansing, then president of the San Antonio bottling plant, after hearing a golf caddy refer to the soda by that name. Big Red was originally marketed exclusively in", "title": "Big Red (soft drink)" }, { "id": "4203284", "text": "compete; and although there are no specific naming requirements, there are many traditions that may be observed in naming. Along with a \"registered name\", these animals often also have a simpler \"pet name\" known as a \"call name\" for dogs or a \"stable name\" for horses, which is used by their owners or handlers when talking to the animal. For example, the famous Thoroughbred race horse Man o' War was known by his stable name, \"Big Red.\" The name can be anything that the animal's owner prefers. For example, the dog that won the 2008 Westminster show (US) was named", "title": "Breed registry" }, { "id": "1882203", "text": "sight to see. Pride of the Infantry. Men of a great division, Courage is our tradition, Forward the Big Red One!</poem> According to the 1st Infantry Division history, the song was composed in 1943 by Captain Donald T. Kellett, who retired after a 30-year career as a colonel and died in 1991. 1st Infantry Division consists of the following elements: 1st Infantry Division (United States) The 1st Infantry Division is a combined arms division of the United States Army, and is the oldest continuously serving in the Regular Army. It has seen continuous service since its organization in 1917 during", "title": "1st Infantry Division (United States)" }, { "id": "5065687", "text": "the commercials depicted couples passionately kissing in a romantic setting for an unusually long time, always including one kisser who then must chase his departing ride. This commercial formula would later be parodied by a number of television shows, including \"Saturday Night Live\". In August 2008, Wrigley teamed with popular singer-songwriter Ne-Yo to update the classic jingle. In February 2010, Verizon Wireless repurposed the classic jingle for a television campaign featuring the company's industry nickname, \"Big Red\" (a reference to the color of the company's logo). Big Red (gum) Big Red is a cinnamon flavored chewing gum introduced by the", "title": "Big Red (gum)" }, { "id": "4929264", "text": "McCall, Rick Gomez, and Rene Morono. The box cover features actor Stephen Saux. The story and characters were written by Aaron Ginsburg and Wade McIntyre. In North America, it was later released as part of a compilation pack entitled \"Call of Duty: Legacy\" for the PlayStation 2 only. The pack included \"\" and \"Big Red One\". A Collector's Edition was also released for Xbox and PlayStation 2. \"Call of Duty 2: The Big Red One\" is a first-person shooter that has a single-player story mode and a multiplayer mode. The player takes on the role of a soldier protagonist in", "title": "Call of Duty 2: Big Red One" }, { "id": "1475824", "text": "trip to Europe to scout locations. Fuller directed \"Merrill's Marauders\" as a dry run for the film. When Fuller argued with Jack L. Warner and his studio over cuts they made to \"Merrill's Marauders\", the plans for \"The Big Red One\" were dropped. Originally, John Wayne was to play the sergeant, but Fuller felt that he was not right for the role. Peter Bogdanovich helped set up the film at Paramount Pictures, which paid Fuller to write a script. However, when Paramount head Frank Yablans left the studio, the project was in turnaround. It shifted over to Lorimar with Bogdanovich", "title": "The Big Red One" }, { "id": "3020806", "text": "(Taylor, 1996) characterized \"Savannah\" as \"the Rangers' favorite cruiser\" for this action. Taylor also credited \"Savannah\" with firing on German forces from twelve miles away to enable U.S. forces to seize the first high ground overlooking Gela. In the 1980 movie \"The Big Red One,\" Lee Marvin's character sergeant Possum praised \"Savannah\" for firing on enemy artillery from miles offshore, as Hermann Göring's Panzer division approached Possum's position in a cave with their backs to the sea, Possum exclaiming that \"the U.S. Navy saved our ass.\" In Savannah, Georgia, the Propeller Club of the United States has a memorial fountain", "title": "USS Savannah (CL-42)" }, { "id": "2034563", "text": "Big Mac The Big Mac is a hamburger sold by international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's. It was introduced in the Greater Pittsburgh area, United States, in 1967 and nationwide in 1968. It is one of the company's signature products. The Big Mac was created by Jim Delligatti, an early Ray Kroc franchisee, who was operating several restaurants in the Pittsburgh area. It was invented in the kitchen of Delligatti's first McDonald's franchise, located on McKnight Road in suburban Ross Township. The Big Mac had two previous names, both of which failed in the marketplace: the Aristocrat, which consumers found", "title": "Big Mac" }, { "id": "8675931", "text": "Big red bat The big red bat (\"Lasiurus egregius\"), is a species of vesper bat from South and Central America. It was described as a new species in 1870 by German naturalist Wilhelm Peters. Peters placed it in the now-defunct genus \"Atalpha\", with a binomial of \"Atalpha egregia\". The holotype was collected in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina by Hermann Burmeister. It has black flight membranes and its fur is a consistent shade of red over its entire body. Two individuals captured in Honduras had forearm lengths of and body weights of . Its ear length is approximately .", "title": "Big red bat" }, { "id": "11760892", "text": "Riders. The Redblacks' mascot is a lumberjack whose original name, \"Big Joe Mufferaw\", was revealed by the team on March 28, 2014. The name, which came from online suggestions, was an acknowledgement to the Big Joe Mufferaw folk legend popularized in several works of fiction (most notably by Ottawa native Bernie Bedore) and in songs by Stompin' Tom Connors. After the Redblacks received some criticism for the Mufferaw name, the team announced on March 31 that the mascot would go by the name \"Big Joe\" (or \"Grand Jos\" in French). The Ottawa Redblacks Cheer and Dance Team made its debut", "title": "Ottawa Redblacks" }, { "id": "15804486", "text": "reached number 13 on \"Billboard's\" Hot Country Singles chart and in February 1968 peaked at 54 on the Hot 100. The single also reached the Top Ten on the \"RPM\" Country Tracks chart in Canada. Campbell's follow-up LP \"Hey Little One\", released in March 1968 just four months after its predecessor, also featured the track. Hey Little One (song) \"Hey Little One\", a song written by Dorsey Burnette and Barry De Vorzon, was initially recorded by Dorsey, released on May 2 1960 on the Era label as the double A-side \"Hey Little One\"/\"Big Rock Candy Mountain\" (Era 3019). \"Hey Little", "title": "Hey Little One (song)" }, { "id": "4228524", "text": "after the war, he attended the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth in 1924 and served on its faculty from 1929 to 1933. In 1943, General Huebner relieved the popular commander of the 1st Infantry Division, General Terry Allen, in a move engineered by General Omar N. Bradley. While the 1st ID, aka \"The Big Red One\" had enjoyed considerable combat success under Allen's leadership, Bradley was highly critical of both Allen and Roosevelt's wartime leadership style, which favored fighting ability over drill and discipline: \"While the Allies were parading decorously through Tunis,\" Bradley wrote, \"Allen's", "title": "Clarence R. Huebner" }, { "id": "15080621", "text": "and nineteen men\", but the Ranger kills Texas Red with the swiftness of the \"big iron on his hip.\" This term refers to the gun the Ranger carries. Texas Red hadn't even \"cleared leather\" - the Ranger's draw was that swift. Robbins's version of the song reached #5 on the Billboard Country chart and #26 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in April 1960. The Ranger's \"Big Iron\" actually existed. It was a one-off custom handgun chambered in .45 Colt and featured a Great Western copy of the Colt Single Action Army frame, Colt 1860 Army backstrap, grip frame and", "title": "Big Iron" }, { "id": "6255785", "text": "Big Red (film) Big Red is a 1962 American family-oriented adventure film from Walt Disney Productions. Based on a 1945 novel by American author Jim Kjelgaard and adapted to the screen by American screenwriter Louis Pelletier, the film starred Walter Pidgeon. Filmed in the province of Quebec, \"Big Red\" is an Irish Setter that would rather run through the woods than be the perfectly trained and groomed show dog his sportsman owner (Pidgeon) wants. A ten-year-old orphan boy (Payant) helps look after the dog and rebels against his owner's strict discipline of \"Big Red.\" Big Red is a Champion Irish", "title": "Big Red (film)" }, { "id": "6181842", "text": "day if possible). Parker himself despised these early parades, and would usually delay rising for as long as he possibly could. One day the men were already formed up when Parker, a physically large man, emerged from his quarters wearing a set of bright red pyjamas. \"It's the Big Red One\", remarked Sergeant Bruce Antonowitz, with reference to the infamous \"Big Red One\" — First Infantry Division of the US Army — from World War Ι and ΙΙ. The nickname was initially applied to the Major alone, but gradually evolved to refer to the entirety of the Commando. 4 Troop", "title": "Rhodesian Light Infantry" }, { "id": "4978486", "text": "early playing days. Teammates began calling him \"Hawk\" due to his curvy, pointy nose. Harrelson coined many nicknames for popular Sox players, including \"Black Jack\" McDowell, Carlos \"El Caballo\" Lee, Lance \"One Dog\" Johnson, Frank \"The Big Hurt\" Thomas, Craig \"Little Hurt\" Grebeck, \"The Deacon\" Warren Newson, \"Big Bad\" Bobby Jenks, \"The Silent Assassin\" Javier Vázquez, Herbert \"the Milkman\" Perry, Jake \"The Jake-Meister\" Peavy, Dayán \"The Tank\" Viciedo, Willie \"Peapod\" Harris, Paul \"The Professor\" Konerko and Magglio \"Maggs\" Ordóñez, along with fan favorite \"Big Dick\" Richard Dotson. During a broadcast, Harrelson attempted to nickname partner Darrin Jackson \"The Squirrel\" because", "title": "Ken Harrelson" }, { "id": "2496189", "text": "split-season playoff format due to the player's strike. The nickname was introduced in a July 4, 1969 article by Bob Hertzel in \"The Cincinnati Enquirer\", but gained prominence in reference to the 1970 team, which posted a regular season record of 102-60 and won the National League pennant. Rookie and future-Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson headed the team, which at its peak featured Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Tony Pérez, and was supported by Dave Concepción, George Foster, César Gerónimo and Ken Griffey, Sr. The Cincinnati Reds of the 1970s garnered more World Series appearances than any", "title": "Big Red Machine" }, { "id": "8675933", "text": "2016. Big red bat The big red bat (\"Lasiurus egregius\"), is a species of vesper bat from South and Central America. It was described as a new species in 1870 by German naturalist Wilhelm Peters. Peters placed it in the now-defunct genus \"Atalpha\", with a binomial of \"Atalpha egregia\". The holotype was collected in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina by Hermann Burmeister. It has black flight membranes and its fur is a consistent shade of red over its entire body. Two individuals captured in Honduras had forearm lengths of and body weights of . Its ear length is approximately", "title": "Big red bat" }, { "id": "20133896", "text": "Seth about his future business plans, and later learns that the grand prize for the pumpkin growing contest will be doubled if the entry weighs more than the world record. She decides to enter the contest. Her first broadcast is a disaster because of her lack of familiarity with the subject. A group of women from the town known as the \"Pumpkin Widows\" spend time with Emma and begin teaching her about growing pumpkins, and tell her of Walt's practice of singing \"The Yankee Doodle Boy\" to his seeds. They are called the Pumpkin Widows because their husbands focus all", "title": "Growing the Big One" }, { "id": "18393329", "text": "Big Joe (mascot) Big Joe () is the mascot of the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The mascot was introduced in February 2014, prior to the 2014 CFL season. The Redblacks launched a contest to provide a name to the mascot. When originally named Big Joe Mufferaw, Redblacks owner Jeff Hunt stated, \"We heard that fans loved the look of our mascot and hundreds said he had to be Big Joe Mufferaw. We like that name too because it reminds us of our city's past and fits so well into the branding of our football team.\" The", "title": "Big Joe (mascot)" }, { "id": "2372888", "text": "refers to it as \"Monty Python's Big Brown Book\". The book contains some stills of footage shot for \"And Now For Something Completely Different\" but not used, including \"Ken Shabby\" and \"Le Pouff Celebre/Flying Sheep\". Shortly after publication the book ran into trouble when a music publishing company objected to the use of their trade name being used on the \"Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong\" sheet music. After the first 75,000 copies were sold, all subsequent editions removed the reference to \"The Wright Ukulele Tutor\" and replaced it with \"The Volti Subito\". In 1972 a paperback edition was issued with the", "title": "Monty Python's Big Red Book" }, { "id": "9072261", "text": "seven supporters who appear on the show. Big Red has also appeared as a guest on \"The Ellen Degeneres Show\", \"The Tony Danza Show\", and \"The Early Show\". Big Red has been selected eight times to compete in the Capital One Mascot Challenge in the competition's ten-year history, reaching the semifinals of the 2006 Capital One Mascot Challenge. That year, Big Red appeared on the game show \"Wheel of Fortune\" as part of the promotion of the Challenge. In 2012, Big Red was the first mascot inducted into the Capital One Mascot Challenge Hall of Fame. Big Red also ranked", "title": "Big Red (Western Kentucky University)" }, { "id": "8015540", "text": "Following sale to Premier Cruise Line, \"Oceanic\" was renamed the \"StarShip Oceanic\" and initially placed on three- and four-day cruises from Port Canaveral to Nassau and Salt Cay in the Bahamas. This cruise could be combined with a stay at Walt Disney World. Later, during her career with Premier Cruises, she was often marketed as \"The Big Red Boat\", and in 2000, she was renamed \"Big Red Boat I\". However, Premier Cruise Line went bankrupt in September 2000. The \"Oceanic\" was detained by port authorities at Freeport, Bahamas, laid up and placed for sale. On 30 December 2000, the \"Big", "title": "SS Oceanic (1965)" }, { "id": "1329548", "text": "First Tee program. Manhattan is also the birthplace of Damon Runyon, the \"Inventor of Broadway,\" and his Manhattan house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The buildings which house The Flint Hills Job Corps Training Center west of the city were once used as a nursing home and orphanage operated by the Fraternal Order of Odd Fellows. The first capitol of the Kansas Territory is preserved nearby, on Fort Riley grounds. The Fort Riley military base covers between Manhattan and Junction City, KS. Since 2006 it has, once again, become home to the Big Red One, the", "title": "Manhattan, Kansas" }, { "id": "11931185", "text": "the name of the strawberry soda was officially changed to Red Pop. 'Red Pop' was used in Christopher P. Curtis' book, \"Bud, Not Buddy , \"when Lefty Lewis said, \"Might even have some extra\" Red Pop.\" Big Red introduced its 'Sun Tang Red Cream Soda' in 1937. In 1959, this was shortened to 'Sun Tang Big Red' and in 1969 it was further shortened to 'Big Red'. The same flavor is in use in Big Red's energy drink. Red Pop Red Pop is a variant of cream soda that is traditionally flavored with strawberries. Major producers of Red Pop include", "title": "Red Pop" }, { "id": "52243", "text": "Big Apple \"Big Apple\" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the \"New York Morning Telegraph\". Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by the New York tourist authorities. Although the history of \"Big Apple \" was once thought a mystery, a clearer picture of the term's history has emerged due to the work of amateur etymologist Barry Popik, and Gerald Cohen of Missouri University of Science and Technology. A number of false theories had previously existed, including", "title": "Big Apple" }, { "id": "2034572", "text": "invited to decide \"Which one will be number one? Chicken McNuggets or Big Mac sandwiches?\" For each of either item that a customer bought, they received another of the same at half price. Later in the ad campaign, the second was offered for free. It was eventually announced that the Big Mac was \"number one\". Ads in the 1980s and early 1990s featured the character Mac Tonight and a parody of the song Mack the Knife. The character was pulled after settlement of a lawsuit by the estate of late singer Bobby Darin, whose famous 1958 recording popularized the song.", "title": "Big Mac" }, { "id": "12670931", "text": "science fiction and pseudoscience. The U.S. copyright on \"The Red One\" has expired, and the story is available on Project Gutenberg. The Red One \"The Red One\" is a short story by Jack London. It was first published in the October 1918 issue of \"The Cosmopolitan\", two years after London's death. The story was reprinted in the same year by MacMillan, in a collection of London's stories of the same name. The story is told from the perspective of a scientist called Bassett, who is on an expedition in the jungle of Guadalcanal to collect butterflies. The \"Red One\" of", "title": "The Red One" }, { "id": "18393331", "text": "as a way of discussing French-Canadian history. Big Joe (mascot) Big Joe () is the mascot of the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The mascot was introduced in February 2014, prior to the 2014 CFL season. The Redblacks launched a contest to provide a name to the mascot. When originally named Big Joe Mufferaw, Redblacks owner Jeff Hunt stated, \"We heard that fans loved the look of our mascot and hundreds said he had to be Big Joe Mufferaw. We like that name too because it reminds us of our city's past and fits so well into", "title": "Big Joe (mascot)" }, { "id": "9072263", "text": "Italy in 1990; although Big Red first appeared in 1979, the character was not trademarked in Italy until 1991. WKU cited a 1991 interview with Italian magazine \"Novella 2000\" in which Ricci told the interviewer that the idea for Gabibbo came to him after seeing a photo of Big Red, noting \"Big Red became Gabibbo.\" When confronted by a reporter from \"The New York Times\" confronted Ricci about the quote in 2004, shortly after WKU's lawsuit was filed, he recanted, saying he was joking in the 1991 interview and had only seen Big Red after the \"Novella 2000\" interviewer showed", "title": "Big Red (Western Kentucky University)" }, { "id": "3476448", "text": "by architect Charles Allerton Coolidge. Today the mansion is the Robert R. McCormick Museum, a historic house museum which is open to the public for tours. During World War I, Colonel McCormick served with the First Division of the United States Army—also known as the \"Big Red One\". Colonel McCormick provided an endowment for the First Division Museum, which was designed by architect Andrew Rebori. The museum has exhibits and artifacts chronicling the First Division's service history, not only in World War I, but also in World War II and later U.S. wars. On display outside the museum is the", "title": "Cantigny Park" }, { "id": "2496464", "text": "Mark Hamill and Lee Marvin in Samuel Fuller's \"The Big Red One\" recounting Fuller's WW II experience. His character, who was based on Fuller himself, narrated the film. In 1983, he and Cherie Curie starred in the science fiction movie \"Wavelength\" in which he played a washed up rock star who helps extraterrestrials escape from a military base. For the film he performed his own compositions including one named after his daughter, Ever. Also in 1983, he starred in the music video for The Motels hit song \"Suddenly Last Summer\" as lead singer Martha Davis' love interest. Carradine's biggest film", "title": "Robert Carradine" }, { "id": "12706189", "text": "the dog character's perspective, human speech would replace barking to engage viewers in the storyline from the dogs' point of view. This series was produced by Mike Young Productions and Scholastic Studios. The TV series takes place in the fictional island of Birdwell Island, where Clifford lives. The name is inspired by Norman Bridwell, the author of the books, but the letters I and R are switched. It is based on Martha's Vineyard, where Bridwell lived. Emily Elizabeth used to live in an apartment in New York City, but she moved away with her parents and Clifford to Birdwell Island", "title": "Clifford the Big Red Dog (TV series)" }, { "id": "52247", "text": "contexts other than horse-racing. \"The Big Apple\" was a popular song and dance in the 1930s. Walter Winchell and other writers continued to use the term in the 1940s and 1950s, but by the 1960s it had generally come to be known as an old name for New York. In the early 1970s, however, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau (now NYC & Company, New York City's official marketing and tourism organization) began to promote the city's \"Big Apple\" nickname under the leadership of its president, Charles Gillett. It has remained popular since then. Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in", "title": "Big Apple" }, { "id": "3029484", "text": "1962–1966 1962–1966 (also known as \"The Red Album\") is a compilation album by the English rock band the Beatles, spanning the years indicated in the title. Released with its counterpart \"1967–1970\" (\"The Blue Album\") in 1973, it reached No. 3 in the United Kingdom and No. 1 in the United States \"Cash Box\" album chart. However, in \"Billboard\", \"1962–1966\" peaked at No. 3, while \"1967–1970\" reached the top spot. The album was re-released in September 1993 on compact disc, charting at No. 3 in the UK. The album was compiled by Beatles manager Allen Klein. Even though the group had", "title": "1962–1966" }, { "id": "9072257", "text": "red, furry blob that would become Big Red. After some revisions, the first Big Red costume – consisting of \"foam, fake fur, plastic tubing and aluminum framing\" and costing about $300 – was created. Carey wore the suit as Big Red debuted at a home basketball game on December 1, 1979, in WKU's E.A. Diddle Arena. Carey soon handed the suit over to fellow student Mark Greer, who was the first to portray the character at a WKU football game. Tryouts for students who want to portray Big Red are held in April of each year. The university library maintains", "title": "Big Red (Western Kentucky University)" }, { "id": "4704739", "text": "Den (pharaoh) Den, also known as Hor-Den, Dewen and Udimu, is the Horus name of a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period who ruled during the First Dynasty of Egypt. He is the best archaeologically-attested ruler of this period. Den is said to have brought prosperity to his realm and numerous innovations are attributed to his reign. He was the first to use the title \"King of Lower and Upper Egypt\", and the first depicted as wearing the double crown (red and white). The floor of his tomb at Umm El Qa'ab near Abydos is made of red and black", "title": "Den (pharaoh)" }, { "id": "18333575", "text": "Kiowa faction, uniting himself and his Nokoni warriors with Quanah Parker, Parra-o-coom (\"Bull Bear\"), Kobay-oburra (\"Wild Horse\"), Kobay-otoho (\"Black Horse\"), Isatai, and their Quahadi Comanche; to Mow-way (\"He pushing-aside\" or \"He pushing-in-the-middle\", but usually called \"Shaking Hand\") and his Kotsoteka; to Tabananika (\"Sound-of-the-Sunrise\"), Isa-rosa (\"White Wolf\") and Hitetetsi a.k.a. Tuwikaa-tiesuat (\"Little Crow\"), and their Yamparika. They were soon joined by some Kiowa led by Guipago, Satanta, Zepko-ete (\"Big Bow\"), Tsen-tainte (\"White Horse\") and Mamanti (\"He Walking-above\"). Big Red Meat was involved in the campaign led by Colonel Ranald Mackenzie with his 4th Cavalry Regiment (United States) against Quanah Parker and", "title": "Big Red Meat" }, { "id": "5567197", "text": "Deshret Deshret, from Ancient Egyptian, was the formal name for the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and for the desert Red Land on either side of Kemet (Black Land), the fertile Nile river basin. When combined with the Hedjet (White Crown) of Upper Egypt, it forms the Pschent (Double Crown), in Ancient Egyptian called the \"sekhemti\". The Red Crown in Egyptian language hieroglyphs eventually was used as the vertical letter \"n\" . The original \"n\" hieroglyph from the Predynastic Period, and the Old Kingdom was the sign depicting ripples of water. In mythology, the earth deity Geb, original ruler of", "title": "Deshret" }, { "id": "3700402", "text": "Red (Tex Avery) Red is an American animated character, created by Tex Avery, who appears in several MGM short films and \"Tom and Jerry\" movies. She is a fictional nightclub singer and dancer who is usually making all men in the room crazy, especially a Wolf character who — in vain tries to seduce and chase her. Red debuted in MGM's \"Red Hot Riding Hood\" (May 8, 1943), a modern-day variant of the fairy tale \"Little Red Riding Hood\". She appeared in seven animated shorts in the Golden age of American animation, and was revived to appear in many Hanna-Barbera", "title": "Red (Tex Avery)" }, { "id": "1392300", "text": "\"Big Red One\". Between 1999–2006, the post was headquarters to the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized) and known as \"America's Warfighting Center\". In August 2006, the Big Red One relocated its headquarters to Fort Riley from Leighton Barracks, Germany. Camp Whitside is named in honor of Brigadier General Samuel M. Whitside, who served as commander of Company B, 6th Cavalry Regiment, at Fort Riley, between the years of 1871 and 1874. 1st Infantry Division Garrison Partners The early history of Fort Riley is closely tied to the movement of people and trade along the Oregon and Santa Fe trails. These routes,", "title": "Fort Riley" }, { "id": "2034564", "text": "difficult to pronounce and understand, and Blue Ribbon Burger. The third name, Big Mac, was created by Esther Glickstein Rose, a 21-year-old advertising secretary who worked at McDonald’s corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. The Big Mac debuted at Delligatti's Uniontown, Pennsylvania restaurant in 1967, selling for 45 cents. It was designed to compete with Big Boy Restaurants' Big Boy hamburger; Eat'n Park was the Pittsburgh area's Big Boy franchisee at the time. The Big Mac proved popular and it was added to the menu of all U.S. restaurants in 1968. The Big Mac consists of two 1.6 oz (45.4", "title": "Big Mac" }, { "id": "4093057", "text": "Stéphane Audran Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Dacheville; 8 November 1932 – 27 March 2018) was a French film and television actress, known for her performances in award-winning movies such as \"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie\" (1972) and \"Babette's Feast\" (1987) and in critically acclaimed films like \"The Big Red One\" (1980) and \"Violette Nozière\" (1978). Audran was raised by her mother after her father, a doctor, died while she was young. In 1964, she married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol", "title": "Stéphane Audran" }, { "id": "4930541", "text": "Big One (roller coaster) Big One, formerly known as Pepsi Max Big One, is a steel roller coaster located at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, Lancashire, in the United Kingdom. Designed by Ron Toomer and manufactured by Arrow Dynamics, the ride opened to the public on 28 May 1994, as the tallest roller coaster in the world. It held the record until July 1996, when Fujiyama opened at Fuji-Q Highland in Japan. Big One remains the tallest in the UK, and following the 2011 season, Pepsi Max was removed from its official name. Big One's construction began in 1992 by", "title": "Big One (roller coaster)" }, { "id": "13383902", "text": "The Big Lad in the Windmill The Big Lad in the Windmill is the debut album of British progressive pop/rock band It Bites. The album reached No. 35 in the UK album charts and produced three singles - \"All in Red\", \"Calling All the Heroes\" and \"Whole New World\". All three of these charted, although \"Calling All the Heroes\" was by far the most successful, reaching No. 6 in the UK charts and remaining the band's biggest (and only significant hit). \"All in Red\" was the band's modestly-charting debut single: \"Whole New World\" was the follow-up to \"Calling All the", "title": "The Big Lad in the Windmill" }, { "id": "3700403", "text": "TV cartoon series from the 1990s on. Red (Tex Avery) Red is an American animated character, created by Tex Avery, who appears in several MGM short films and \"Tom and Jerry\" movies. She is a fictional nightclub singer and dancer who is usually making all men in the room crazy, especially a Wolf character who — in vain tries to seduce and chase her. Red debuted in MGM's \"Red Hot Riding Hood\" (May 8, 1943), a modern-day variant of the fairy tale \"Little Red Riding Hood\". She appeared in seven animated shorts in the Golden age of American animation, and", "title": "Red (Tex Avery)" }, { "id": "4093061", "text": "she had returned home. She died peacefully at around 2 am.\" Stéphane Audran Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Dacheville; 8 November 1932 – 27 March 2018) was a French film and television actress, known for her performances in award-winning movies such as \"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie\" (1972) and \"Babette's Feast\" (1987) and in critically acclaimed films like \"The Big Red One\" (1980) and \"Violette Nozière\" (1978). Audran was raised by her mother after her father, a doctor, died while she was young. In 1964, she married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol, after a short marriage to the", "title": "Stéphane Audran" }, { "id": "14752879", "text": "The Proud One \"The Proud One\" is a 1966 single written by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe and originally performed by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, and credited to Valli solo; that version peaked at #68 in the U.S. and #64 in Canada. The Osmonds recorded the song and released it in the spring of 1975. It was their final appearance in the US Top 40, peaking at number 22 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and their only number one on the Easy Listening chart, where it spent one week at number one in September 1975. The song also", "title": "The Proud One" }, { "id": "2372887", "text": "Monty Python's Big Red Book Monty Python's Big Red Book is a humour book comprising mostly material derived and reworked from the first two series of the \"Monty Python's Flying Circus\" BBC television series. Edited by Eric Idle, it was first published in the UK in 1971 by Methuen Publishing Ltd. It was later published in the United States in 1975 by Warner Books. As well as the comedy content, the title itself is a humorous reference to Mao Zedong's \"Little Red Book\"— despite the title, the book has a blue cover. To add to the confusion, the credits page", "title": "Monty Python's Big Red Book" }, { "id": "13029933", "text": "Wreck\". News articles began using the term \"Big Wreck\" to describe such crashes in 1998, and by 1999, its use was widespread. Drivers began to openly admit they were apprehensive of its possibility. One of the first times the term \"The Big One\" was used on-air was during the Winston 500 on ESPN October 11, 1998. Commentator Bob Jenkins said during the crash on lap 134 \"this is the big one we hoped we would not have.\" One of the first published instances of the term \"The Big One,\" was an April 18, 2000, article on ESPN.com about a crash", "title": "The Big One (NASCAR)" }, { "id": "1693448", "text": "Curse of the Bambino The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition evolving from the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86-year period from 1918 to 2004. While some fans took the curse seriously, most used the expression in a tongue-in-cheek manner. This misfortune began after the Red Sox sold star player Babe Ruth, sometimes nicknamed as \"The Bambino\", to the New York Yankees in the off-season of 1919–1920. Before that point, the Red Sox had been one of the most successful professional baseball franchises, winning the first World Series and", "title": "Curse of the Bambino" }, { "id": "9072265", "text": "the \"WKU\" abbreviation) and Gabibbo's ability to speak. On appeal, the court of appeals in Milan ruled in favor of Ricci and Mediaset. In 2018, WKU and Big Red's creator, Ralph Carey, re-filed the lawsuit, and the Italian Supreme Court ruled that the case had merit, sending it back to the Milan Court of Appeals. Big Red (Western Kentucky University) Big Red is the mascot of Western Kentucky University's sports teams, the \"Hilltoppers\" and \"Lady Toppers\". It is a red, furry blob created by Ralph Carey in 1979. Big Red is meant to symbolize the spirit of WKU students and", "title": "Big Red (Western Kentucky University)" }, { "id": "15804485", "text": "Hey Little One (song) \"Hey Little One\", a song written by Dorsey Burnette and Barry De Vorzon, was initially recorded by Dorsey, released on May 2 1960 on the Era label as the double A-side \"Hey Little One\"/\"Big Rock Candy Mountain\" (Era 3019). \"Hey Little One\" reached number 48 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart. Musicians on the recording include veteran session drummer Earl Palmer. American country-pop music artist Glen Campbell covered the song for his Grammy-winning 1967 LP \"By the Time I Get to Phoenix\" and released it as the second single from the album. Campbell's more grandiose version", "title": "Hey Little One (song)" }, { "id": "2998524", "text": "Players. In 2008, Grange was also ranked #1 on ESPN's Top 25 Players In College Football History list. In honor of his achievements at the University of Illinois, the school erected a 12-ft statue of Grange at the start of the 2009 football season. In 2011, Grange was announced as number one on the \"Big Ten Icons\" series presented by the Big Ten Network. In 1931, Grange visited Abington Senior High School in Abington, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter, the school adopted his nickname for the mascot in his honor, the Galloping Ghost. Also, Wheaton Warrenville South High", "title": "Red Grange" }, { "id": "11171900", "text": "1962 sunburst Fender Stratocaster from Charley's Guitar Shop, though he had it repainted by Fender in fiesta red as a custom color option, and simply named the guitar \"Red.\" The guitar remained stock until 1986, when a left-handed neck was installed and \"SRV\" stickers were applied to the pickguard. In 1989, the neck on \"Number One\" was unable to withstand more re-fret jobs, replacing it with the original neck from \"Red.\" The next year, following a concert at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, a stanchion fell onto Vaughan's rack of guitars, splitting the neck from \"Red\"", "title": "Stevie Ray Vaughan's musical instruments" }, { "id": "6255789", "text": "and the dogs save him, Mr. Haggin makes a deal with Rene, to come and live with him and keep the dogs. Rene agrees and they go home. Big Red (film) Big Red is a 1962 American family-oriented adventure film from Walt Disney Productions. Based on a 1945 novel by American author Jim Kjelgaard and adapted to the screen by American screenwriter Louis Pelletier, the film starred Walter Pidgeon. Filmed in the province of Quebec, \"Big Red\" is an Irish Setter that would rather run through the woods than be the perfectly trained and groomed show dog his sportsman owner", "title": "Big Red (film)" }, { "id": "52251", "text": "the nickname have been seen, such as Patrick Downey's 2008 historical study of New York City's criminal underworld, entitled \"Bad Seeds in the Big Apple.\" Big Apple \"Big Apple\" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the \"New York Morning Telegraph\". Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by the New York tourist authorities. Although the history of \"Big Apple \" was once thought a mystery, a clearer picture of the term's history has emerged due to the", "title": "Big Apple" }, { "id": "15080620", "text": "Big Iron \"Big Iron\" is a country ballad written and performed by Marty Robbins, originally released as an album track on \"Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs\" in September 1959, then as a single in February 1960 with the song \"Saddle Tramp\" as the B-side single. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. It tells the story of an Arizona Ranger's duel with an outlaw named Texas Red in the \"town of Agua Fria\". The townspeople predict the death of the Ranger, Texas Red having already killed \"one", "title": "Big Iron" }, { "id": "40471", "text": "820 games (794 regular season) for a major professional sports record. Neil Diamond's \"Sweet Caroline\" has become an anthem for the Red Sox. The name \"Red Sox\", chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season, refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning in 1908. \"Sox\" had been previously adopted for the Chicago White Sox by newspapers needing a headline-friendly form of \"Stockings\", as \"Stockings Win!\" in large type did not fit in a column. The team name \"Red Sox\" had previously been used as early as 1888 by a 'colored' team from Norfolk, Virginia. The", "title": "Boston Red Sox" }, { "id": "971952", "text": "movies: \"The Chump Champ\" (1950), \"Little 'Tinker\" (1948), \"Red Hot Riding Hood\" (1943), \"Sufferin' Cats\" (1943), \"Design for Scandal\" (1941), \"Strike Up the Band\" (1940), and \"Westward Passage\" (1932). \"I've Waited So Long\" was composed with Irving Bibo and Howard Johnson and copyrighted in 1920. Whiteman also arranged the song. \"How I Miss You Mammy, No One Knows\" was composed with Billy Munro and Marcel Klauber in 1920 and arranged by Marcel Klauber. The 1924 song \"You're the One\" was composed by Paul Whiteman, Ferde Grofe, and Ben Russell in 1924 and copyrighted on February 1, 1924. He co-wrote the", "title": "Paul Whiteman" }, { "id": "20133892", "text": "as she attempts to pay off her recently deceased grandfather's debts by entering a pumpkin growing contest. As the movie progresses, a romance develops between her and her new neighbor Seth Cullen, portrayed by Smith. She must choose if she wants to stay in her rural hometown or accept a promising job opportunity in New York City. Mettler's brother's experiences participating in pumpkin growing contests was the inspiration for the film's narrative. It was filmed and produced over the course of a few days in October 2009. The film premiered on October 23, 2010, as the start of the Hallmark", "title": "Growing the Big One" }, { "id": "3886493", "text": "a cameo appearance in Jean-Luc Godard's \"Pierrot le Fou\" (1965), where he famously intones: \"Film is like a battleground... Love, hate, action, violence, death. In one word, emotion!\" He also made a cameo appearance at an outdoor cafe in Luc Moullet's \"Brigitte et Brigitte\" (1966) along with French New Wave directors Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and André Téchiné. He plays a film director in Dennis Hopper's ill-fated \"The Last Movie\" (1971); an Army colonel in Steven Spielberg's \"1941\" (1979); a war correspondent in his film \"The Big Red One\" (scene deleted in the original release, restored in the reconstructed version),", "title": "Samuel Fuller" }, { "id": "8380446", "text": "Robert Lee Bullard Lieutenant General Robert Lee Bullard (January 5, 1861 – September 11, 1947) was a senior officer of the United States Army. He was involved in conflicts in the American Western Frontier, the Philippines, and World War I, where he commanded the 1st Infantry Division (nicknamed \"The Big Red One\") during the Battle of Cantigny while serving on the Western Front. He later was an administrator in Cuba. A native of Alabama, Bullard attended the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, now Auburn University, and the United States Military Academy, graduated in 1885, and was appointed first lieutenant", "title": "Robert Lee Bullard" }, { "id": "17657905", "text": "Red (film series) Red is a series of American action comedy films inspired by the limited comic-book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage. The film stars Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren, and Karl Urban with German film director Robert Schwentke directing a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber. In the film version, the title is derived from the designation of the status of agent Frank Moses (Willis), meaning \"Retired, Extremely Dangerous\". The first film, \"Red\", was released on October 15,", "title": "Red (film series)" }, { "id": "10686200", "text": "critically and financially successful, and was the final Warner Bros. film made in Cinemascope. The film was illustrated in a movie tie-in Dell Comics American comic book. Eighteen years after this film, Sam Fuller made another war film, \"The Big Red One\", this time based on his own combat experiences in Wartime Europe. Another example of the economical production of the film was using extensive stock footage battle scenes from \"Battle Cry\" in the attack at Walawbum. Warner Bros. also used bits of Max Steiner's score for \"Operation Pacific\" and Franz Waxman's score from \"Objective, Burma!\" that was also used", "title": "Merrill's Marauders (film)" }, { "id": "8664211", "text": "Big Red (University of Arkansas) Big Red is the main costumed mascot of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The mascot is modeled after the wild razorback hog. In the early twentieth century, wild razorback hogs were a common sight in rural Arkansas. After the team's fifth straight victory, over LSU in Memphis, to open the 1909 football season, coach Hugo Bezdek told a group of fans at the train station upon their return that the team played \"like a wild band of razorback hogs.\" The name stuck, and \"Razorbacks\" replaced \"Cardinals\" (still the school color) as the school's", "title": "Big Red (University of Arkansas)" }, { "id": "6296843", "text": "off the Virginia coast. Lastly, the \"Rembrandt\", formerly the \"Rotterdam\", was purchased by the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to be restored and kept as a historic landmark. Timeline Premier Cruise Line Premier Cruise Line, a subsidiary of Premier Cruises, was a cruise line that was headquartered in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was at one time licensed as the official cruise line of Walt Disney World and used the trademark \"The Big Red Boat\" based on the color scheme of some of its ships. Dolphin Cruise Line, a company that became a part of Premier, was headquartered on Dodge Island", "title": "Premier Cruise Line" }, { "id": "5112966", "text": "project. Two months later, it was reported that the film was still in development at Universal Pictures and that David Bowers was in talks to direct the film. Like the 2011 film \"Hop\", the titular dog character will be animated while the other characters will be live-action. On August 1, 2014, Universal Pictures scheduled the film for a release on April 8, 2016. In the beginning of 2015, the film's release date was taken over by another Universal film, \"The Boss\". On June 30, 2016, it was reported by \"Deadline Hollywood\" that Paramount Pictures has picked up the rights for", "title": "Clifford the Big Red Dog" }, { "id": "14752880", "text": "reached number one in Ireland. The Proud One \"The Proud One\" is a 1966 single written by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe and originally performed by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, and credited to Valli solo; that version peaked at #68 in the U.S. and #64 in Canada. The Osmonds recorded the song and released it in the spring of 1975. It was their final appearance in the US Top 40, peaking at number 22 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and their only number one on the Easy Listening chart, where it spent one week at number one in", "title": "The Proud One" }, { "id": "12706186", "text": "Clifford the Big Red Dog (TV series) Clifford the Big Red Dog is an American educational animated children's television series, based upon Norman Bridwell's children's book series of the same name. Produced by Scholastic Productions, it originally aired on PBS Kids from September 4, 2000 to February 25, 2003. The UK version (where it was dubbed with British voice actors replacing the original American soundtrack) originally aired on BBC 2 on 1 April 2002. John Ritter voiced Clifford in all episodes. This was originally done by Brent Titcomb in the 1988 direct-to-video series. Generally speaking, Ritter's schedule dictated the production", "title": "Clifford the Big Red Dog (TV series)" }, { "id": "9280542", "text": "to scout locations for a projected filming of \"The Big Red One\" for Warner Bros. that did not eventuate. Harvey remained in the Army after the Korean War and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel before retiring in 1962. After retirement, he was employed by the Northrop Corporation, then worked as an investment banker, and then served as Director of Indian Affairs for the Arizona Division of Emergency Services. He retired fully after a stroke in 1981. He died in 1996 at the age of 76 and is buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County,", "title": "Raymond Harvey" }, { "id": "2915645", "text": "Helichrysum sanguineum Helichrysum sanguineum, commonly known as Red Everlasting (Hebrew: Dam Hamakabim) is a flowering plant of the genus \"Helichrysum\" in the daisy family (Asteraceae). Dam Hamakabim is a protected plant in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The flower has become the icon of Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism. In Israel, it is known as \"Blood of the Maccabees\" (, \"Dam Hamakabim\"). The name is derived from a legend saying that in every spot where the flower grows, a drop of blood has spilled on the earth. In Arabic, the flower is known", "title": "Helichrysum sanguineum" }, { "id": "367877", "text": "\"poonya\" are also said to mean \"eater of bamboo\". The name panda could originate from \"panjā\". In modern Chinese, the red panda is called \"xiăoxióngmāo\" (/, lesser or small panda), or / (\"hóngxióngmāo\", red panda). In contrast, the giant panda is called \"dàxióngmāo\" (/, giant or big panda), or simply \"xióngmāo\" (/, panda, literally bear-cat). In English, the red panda is also called \"lesser panda\" (since it is smaller than the giant panda), though \"red panda\" is more commonly used nowadays. As it was known in the West decades before the giant panda, initially it was the red panda that", "title": "Red panda" }, { "id": "13029934", "text": "in the DieHard 500. The term was also being used informally by fans on message boards. During the 2001 Daytona 500, Fox commentator Darrell Waltrip used the term on-air to describe an 18-car crash in the backstretch on lap 173, as saying \"It's the big one, gang, it's the big one. It's what we've all been fearing in this kind of racing is going to happen.\" By 2001, the phrase was widely used by competitors, fans, and in print and broadcast media. It soon became standard NASCAR vernacular, and it became a retronym to describe past such accidents as well.", "title": "The Big One (NASCAR)" } ]

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[ { "id": "9891164", "text": "If You Leave (song) \"If You Leave\" is a 1986 song by the British synthpop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). It was recorded for the soundtrack to the film \"Pretty in Pink\" (1986), in which it is played prominently during the final scene. Along with 1980's \"Enola Gay\", the track has been described as the band's signature song. \"If You Leave\" is the group's highest-charting single in the United States, where it reached number 4 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in May 1986. The song was also a Top 5 entry in Canada and New Zealand, and", "title": "If You Leave (song)" }, { "id": "19945082", "text": "If You Ever Leave Me \"If You Ever Leave Me\" is a vocal duet between Barbra Streisand and Vince Gill. The song was written by Richard Marx and produced by David Foster and Richard Marx. It first appeared as a single on Streisand's 1999 album, A Love Like Ours. \"If You Ever Leave Me\" was released as an international CD single that included three additional tracks, two of which were recorded during the A Love Like Ours sessions but were not included on the album. The song appears on Barbra Streisand's Duets album, released in 2002. \"If You Ever Leave", "title": "If You Ever Leave Me" }, { "id": "2150675", "text": "Robert Goulet Robert Gérard Goulet (November 26, 1933 October 30, 2007) was an American singer and actor of French-Canadian ancestry. Goulet was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Cast as Sir Lancelot and originating the role in the 1960 Broadway musical \"Camelot\" starring opposite established Broadway stars Richard Burton and Julie Andrews, he achieved instant recognition with his performance and interpretation of the song \"If Ever I Would Leave You\", which became his signature song. His debut in \"Camelot\" marked the beginning of a stage, screen, and recording career. A Grammy Award and Tony Award winner, his career spanned almost", "title": "Robert Goulet" }, { "id": "11464219", "text": "I Will Never Leave You \"I Will Never Leave You\" is a 1992 song recorded by the Australian act Euphoria. The track was released in November 1992 as the fourth and final single from their debut studio album, \"Total Euphoria\". The track peaked at number 41 on the ARIA Charts. It would also be the group's last top 50 charting single in Australia, and member Holly Garnett's final performance with the group. Garnett was replaced by Jodie Meares, who appeared in the music video for the song, and whose brief membership in the group would end with the act breaking", "title": "I Will Never Leave You" }, { "id": "2541247", "text": "a half million dollars. Robert Goulet received favorable reviews, most notably for his rendition of the show-stopping romantic ballad \"If Ever I Would Leave You\", which became his signature song. After \"Camelot\"'s run, Goulet appeared on \"The Danny Thomas Show\" and \"The Ed Sullivan Show\", which made him a household name among American audiences. The show's original cast recording was favorite bedtime listening for President John F. Kennedy, who was Lerner's classmate at Harvard University. Kennedy's favorite lines were in the final number (in which Arthur knights a young boy and tells him to pass on the story of Camelot", "title": "Camelot (musical)" }, { "id": "9891170", "text": "wave song of the 1980s, while \"Time Out\" ranked it the 10th greatest track of 1980s cinema. If You Leave (song) \"If You Leave\" is a 1986 song by the British synthpop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). It was recorded for the soundtrack to the film \"Pretty in Pink\" (1986), in which it is played prominently during the final scene. Along with 1980's \"Enola Gay\", the track has been described as the band's signature song. \"If You Leave\" is the group's highest-charting single in the United States, where it reached number 4 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart", "title": "If You Leave (song)" }, { "id": "3987628", "text": "If You Leave Me Now \"If You Leave Me Now\" is the title of a hit ballad by the American rock group Chicago, from their album \"Chicago X\". It was written and sung by bass guitar player Peter Cetera and released as a single on July 31, 1976. It is also the title of a Chicago compilation album released by Columbia Records (Columbia 38590) in 1983. The single topped the US charts on October 23, 1976, and stayed there for two weeks, making it the first number one hit for the group as well as hitting number one on the", "title": "If You Leave Me Now" }, { "id": "19945083", "text": "Me\" was released to country radio and peaked at #62 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles & Tracks. On December 5, 1999, it became the third most played video on CMT. It also peaked at #26 in the UK. If You Ever Leave Me \"If You Ever Leave Me\" is a vocal duet between Barbra Streisand and Vince Gill. The song was written by Richard Marx and produced by David Foster and Richard Marx. It first appeared as a single on Streisand's 1999 album, A Love Like Ours. \"If You Ever Leave Me\" was released as an international CD single that", "title": "If You Ever Leave Me" }, { "id": "11464220", "text": "up in 1993. Australian CD Single: I Will Never Leave You \"I Will Never Leave You\" is a 1992 song recorded by the Australian act Euphoria. The track was released in November 1992 as the fourth and final single from their debut studio album, \"Total Euphoria\". The track peaked at number 41 on the ARIA Charts. It would also be the group's last top 50 charting single in Australia, and member Holly Garnett's final performance with the group. Garnett was replaced by Jodie Meares, who appeared in the music video for the song, and whose brief membership in the group", "title": "I Will Never Leave You" }, { "id": "3987633", "text": "Today\" Ad Meter. If You Leave Me Now \"If You Leave Me Now\" is the title of a hit ballad by the American rock group Chicago, from their album \"Chicago X\". It was written and sung by bass guitar player Peter Cetera and released as a single on July 31, 1976. It is also the title of a Chicago compilation album released by Columbia Records (Columbia 38590) in 1983. The single topped the US charts on October 23, 1976, and stayed there for two weeks, making it the first number one hit for the group as well as hitting number", "title": "If You Leave Me Now" }, { "id": "2150679", "text": "Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe, who were having difficulty casting the role of Lancelot in their stage production \"Camelot\". Lerner and Loewe, impressed by Goulet's talent, signed the virtual newcomer to play the part, opposite Richard Burton (King Arthur) and Julie Andrews (Queen Guenevere). \"Camelot\" opened in Toronto in October 1960. It then played a four-week engagement in Boston, and finally opened on Broadway two months later. Goulet received favorable reviews, most notably for his show-stopping romantic ballad, \"If Ever I Would Leave You\" which would become his signature song. After the run of \"Camelot\", Goulet appeared on \"The Danny", "title": "Robert Goulet" }, { "id": "14399224", "text": "Una Mas Una Mas, on the front cover titled \"Una Mas (One More Time)\", is a jazz album by trumpeter Kenny Dorham and his quintet, released in 1963 on Blue Note as BLP 4127 and BST 84127. The album would be the next-to-last studio session led by the trumpeter, since after 1964, he began to fade and disappear from the jazz scenes. \"Una Mas\" features three compositions by Dorham himself and the jazz ballad \"If Ever I Would Leave You\", originally composed by Loewe/Lerner for the musical \"Camelot\". At the time, Dorham was not yet well known in the jazz", "title": "Una Mas" }, { "id": "1450834", "text": "in 1975 and became the band's fifth consecutive No. 1 album on the \"Billboard\" 200\".\" 1976's \"Chicago X\" features Cetera's ballad \"If You Leave Me Now\", which held the top spot in the U.S. charts for two weeks and the UK charts for three weeks. It was the group's first No. 1 single, and won Chicago their only Grammy Award to date, the 1976 Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus, at the 19th Annual Grammy Awards held on February 19, 1977. The single was certified gold by the RIAA the same year of its release. The", "title": "Chicago (band)" }, { "id": "20519757", "text": "If You Leave Me Now (Charlie Puth song) \"If You Leave Me Now\" is an a cappella track by American singer and songwriter Charlie Puth, featuring American vocal group Boyz II Men. It was released via Atlantic Records on January 5, 2018, as the first promotional single from Puth's second studio album, \"Voicenotes\" (2018). The song interpolates \"I Thought She Knew\" by NSYNC from their 2000 album, \"No Strings Attached\". While the song is not a cover of Chicago's 1976 hit single, Puth recognizes the eponymous song's legacy by including the line \"You will take the biggest part of me,\"", "title": "If You Leave Me Now (Charlie Puth song)" }, { "id": "15720853", "text": "Don't Ever Leave Me (song) \"Don't Ever Leave Me\" is a song by American singer Jermaine Stewart, released as the fourth and final single from his 1986 album \"Frantic Romantic\". The song was written by Stewart, Jeffrey Cohen and Narada Michael Walden. It was produced by Walden. \"Don't Ever Leave Me\" was released as a single in America in 1986 by Arista, and the UK in 1987 by 10 Records. The single peaked at #76 in the UK, lasting within the Top 100 for three weeks. The B-Side for the single, \"Give Your Love to Me\", was taken from \"Frantic", "title": "Don't Ever Leave Me (song)" }, { "id": "3866318", "text": "Peter Cetera Peter Paul Cetera ( ; born September 13, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and bassist best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago (1967–1985), before launching a successful solo career. His career as a recording artist encompasses seventeen albums with Chicago and eight solo albums. With \"If You Leave Me Now\", a song written and sung by Cetera on the group's tenth album, Chicago garnered its first Grammy Award. It was also the group's first number one single. As a solo artist, Cetera has scored six Top 40 singles, including two that reached", "title": "Peter Cetera" }, { "id": "3866327", "text": "and songwriting accomplishment with Chicago came in 1976 with the ballad \"If You Leave Me Now\", from \"Chicago X\". It was the group's first number one single in the United States, it reached number one on charts worldwide, and it has been certified Gold and Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song won a Grammy Award for Chicago, the group's only Grammy Award to date, for the 1976 Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus, at the 19th Annual Grammy Awards held on February 19, 1977. According to group biographer, William James Ruhlmann,", "title": "Peter Cetera" }, { "id": "14482534", "text": "Never Leave You \"Never Leave You\" is a song composed and performed by Tinchy Stryder. The song, written by Taio Cruz is the fourth single from Stryder's second studio album, \"Catch 22\" as a digital download on 2 August 2009 and then as a CD single on 3 August 2009. It features guest vocals by Amelle Berrabah, a member of British girl group, the Sugababes and received airplay on many radio stations in the UK including BBC 1Xtra. \"Never Leave You\" has also reached \"The A-List\" on the BBC Radio 1 playlist. The music video was released on Stryder's official", "title": "Never Leave You" }, { "id": "3461920", "text": "Lumidee Lumidee Cedeño (born October 13, 1984) is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Cedeño was born in East Harlem, New York, where she was raised by her grandparents. She quickly rose to fame in 2003 with the release of her song \"Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)\", which reached the top ten in over ten countries and number one in several European countries. After Cedeño's father died in 1995, she and her four siblings were raised by her grandparents. She began singing and rapping at the age of twelve. She was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at the age", "title": "Lumidee" }, { "id": "798973", "text": "the pop charts. Following her marriage to Brolin in 1998, Streisand recorded an album of love songs entitled \"A Love Like Ours\" the following year. Reviews were mixed, with many critics complaining about the somewhat syrupy sentiments and overly-lush arrangements; however, it did produce a modest hit for Streisand in the country-tinged \"If You Ever Leave Me\", a duet with Vince Gill. On New Year's Eve 1999, Streisand returned to the concert stage, selling out in the first few hours, eight months before her return. At the end of the millennium, she was the number one female singer in the", "title": "Barbra Streisand" }, { "id": "12128794", "text": "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh) \"Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)\" is a song by American recording artist Lumidee, released as the debut single on May 13, 2003 from her debut studio album, \"Almost Famous\" (2003). The original mix of the song was recorded by DJ Tedsmooth, a native of Spanish Harlem where she was raised, for DJ Tedsmooth's independent record label Straight Face. The song used the same instrumental and consent as Dirt McGirt and Nicole Wray's single \"Welcome Home\". The song became the #1 requested song on many New York radio stations. The success resulted", "title": "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" }, { "id": "9779542", "text": "appearance on the \"Underwater World\" single the same year in 1984. \"Malibu Nightmare\" (which is on the 12\" single) was originally featured on the EP for the song \"Love's An Injection\" in 1982. The song was originally made just as a joke, which had Nasty Suicide on bass, because Sam Yaffa was late from the recording. It was re-recorded on the band's 1983 album \"Back to Mystery City\". Swedish sleaze rock act Hardcore Superstar covered the song on their second album. Don't You Ever Leave Me \"Don't You Ever Leave Me\" is a single by the Finnish rock and glam", "title": "Don't You Ever Leave Me" }, { "id": "10300359", "text": "God. A classical operatic version of \"The Simpsons Theme\" plays as the credits roll over a black background. In its original American broadcast, \"Homer of Seville\" was watched by an average of 8.4 million viewers, with an overnight Nielsen rating of 4.2 and an audience share of 11 percent. Since airing, the episode has received mixed reviews from television critics. Robert Canning of IGN gave the episode a poor review (4.5/10), finding the plot contrived and Homer's rendition of \"If Ever I Would Leave You\" unfunny. He did, however, enjoy the episode's opening scenes in the church. Richard Keller of", "title": "The Homer of Seville" }, { "id": "15166084", "text": "The Kicker (Bobby Hutcherson album) The Kicker is an album by American jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded in 1963 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1999 as a limited edition. The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 4 stars and stated \"The first half features the vibraphonist in a cooking hard bop session with Joe Henderson and Duke Pearson, starting with an energetic take on the normally slow ballad \"If Ever I Would Leave You\" and a sizzling Hutcherson original, \"For Duke P.\" Guitarist Grant Green is added for the second half, beginning with the", "title": "The Kicker (Bobby Hutcherson album)" }, { "id": "15720854", "text": "Romantic\". No promotional video was filmed for the single and no TV performances exist. Don't Ever Leave Me (song) \"Don't Ever Leave Me\" is a song by American singer Jermaine Stewart, released as the fourth and final single from his 1986 album \"Frantic Romantic\". The song was written by Stewart, Jeffrey Cohen and Narada Michael Walden. It was produced by Walden. \"Don't Ever Leave Me\" was released as a single in America in 1986 by Arista, and the UK in 1987 by 10 Records. The single peaked at #76 in the UK, lasting within the Top 100 for three weeks.", "title": "Don't Ever Leave Me (song)" }, { "id": "11722419", "text": "week. It was eventually certified Gold and Platinum. The album sold nearly 3 million copies worldwide. \"We Must Be Loving Right\" was previously recorded by George Strait on his 1993 album \"Easy Come, Easy Go\". Both Strait's original and Streisand's cover were produced by Tony Brown. \"If You Ever Leave Me\", a duet with country star Vince Gill was released to country radio. It peaked at No. 62 on the Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and stayed there for 6 weeks. In the UK the single peaked at No. 26. \"I've Dreamed of You\" was also released and peaked at", "title": "A Love Like Ours" }, { "id": "14482535", "text": "website on 24 June 2009. On 9 August 2009, \"Never Leave You\" debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart. \"Never Leave You\" is a midtempo alternative hip hop-Europop song with grime influences. The song was originally picked to be Stryder's first single from his album \"Catch 22\", but \"Number 1\" was chosen instead. The song was Amelle's first solo release outside of pop group Sugababes. The song became Stryder's second number 1 hit with his album \"Catch 22\", it also became Amelle's first number 1 single as a solo artist. On the surface ‘Never Leave You’ is about", "title": "Never Leave You" }, { "id": "12128799", "text": "Leave You (Uh Ooh, Uh Ooh)\" debuted at number sixty-one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Due to the increase of radio plays for the song, it later ascended up the chart from number ten to number five, before peaking at number three on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In the United Kingdom, the song debuted and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart on August 3, 2003 - for the week ending date August 9, 2003 - beaten to the summit by Blu Cantrell and Sean Paul's \"Breathe\". The song reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"'s European Hot 100,", "title": "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" }, { "id": "14628215", "text": "Who's Leaving Who \"Who's Leaving Who\" is a song written by Jack White and Mark Spiro, first recorded by Canadian country singer Anne Murray in 1986. It achieved bigger popularity in Europe when it was covered by British Hi-NRG singer Hazell Dean in 1988. David Hasselhoff covered the song on his 1991 album \"David\", produced by Jack White. The song was first recorded by Anne Murray for her Gold-plus 1986 album \"Something to Talk About\". The song was released as the album's second single, following her Canadian and US number one country single, \"Now and Forever (You and Me)\". The", "title": "Who's Leaving Who" }, { "id": "8485647", "text": "You.\" The best-known versions are those by Matt Monro (No. 10 on the UK's \"Record Retailer\" chart in 1962) and Frank Sinatra (No. 27 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and No. 4 on the Easy Listening chart in 1964). The Sinatra family announced Frank's death on May 14, 1998 by placing an announcement on their website that was accompanied by a recording of the singer's version of the song. When he performed the song live in Las Vegas, Elvis Presley prefaced with a story about the origins of the song. Presley said the song originated when a man was dying", "title": "Softly, as I Leave You (song)" }, { "id": "3987630", "text": "varying formats, simultaneously.\" The song won Grammy Awards for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) (strings) for arranger Jimmie Haskell and producer James William Guercio and Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus, the first Grammy Award won by the group. It also received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. In addition, by August 1978 it had sold 1.4 million copies in the United States alone. It has been certified gold and platinum by the RIAA. In 2010 Chicago teamed with the American Cancer Society and offered the opportunity to bid on the chance to sing their", "title": "If You Leave Me Now" }, { "id": "14399226", "text": "where Dorham had been in 1960, during a tour. According to Dorham himself, the piece has \"a half bossa feeling and the other half is something else\". \" The last piece \"If Ever I Would Leave You\", as above-mentioned, is a composition by Loewe/Lerner. This piece was not part of the original LP release, and was issued only in 1987. According to Bob Blumenthal's notes, it was \"probably omitted because it presented a different feeling from the rest of the material\". All compositions by Kenny Dorham, except where noted Una Mas Una Mas, on the front cover titled \"Una Mas", "title": "Una Mas" }, { "id": "4848008", "text": "Leave (Get Out) \"Leave (Get Out)\" is the debut single by American singer JoJo from her self-titled debut album. It was released as the album's lead single on February 24, 2004. Produced by Danish production duo Soulshock & Karlin, it became an international hit, reaching number 12 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and number two in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and on the European Hot 100 Singles. It also became a top five hit in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on October 25,", "title": "Leave (Get Out)" }, { "id": "12128800", "text": "after it jumped from number three to the top of the charts in the Netherlands and number seven to number three in Germany. Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh) \"Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)\" is a song by American recording artist Lumidee, released as the debut single on May 13, 2003 from her debut studio album, \"Almost Famous\" (2003). The original mix of the song was recorded by DJ Tedsmooth, a native of Spanish Harlem where she was raised, for DJ Tedsmooth's independent record label Straight Face. The song used the same instrumental and consent as Dirt", "title": "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" }, { "id": "8335637", "text": "15 in Sweden, and No. 20 in Belgium. A British man now claims he is the author of the song and has launched legal proceedings. Look Away \"Look Away\" is a 1988 power ballad by American rock band Chicago. Written by Diane Warren, produced by Ron Nevison, and with Bill Champlin on lead vocals, it is the second single from the band's album \"Chicago 19\". \"Look Away\" is Chicago's largest selling single of all, topping the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 for two weeks in December 1988, matching the chart success of the group's \"If You Leave Me Now\" (1976) and \"Hard", "title": "Look Away" }, { "id": "8335632", "text": "Look Away \"Look Away\" is a 1988 power ballad by American rock band Chicago. Written by Diane Warren, produced by Ron Nevison, and with Bill Champlin on lead vocals, it is the second single from the band's album \"Chicago 19\". \"Look Away\" is Chicago's largest selling single of all, topping the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 for two weeks in December 1988, matching the chart success of the group's \"If You Leave Me Now\" (1976) and \"Hard to Say I'm Sorry\" (1982). \"Look Away\" is Chicago's seventh song to have peaked at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart as well as", "title": "Look Away" }, { "id": "10053210", "text": "Enola Gay (song) \"Enola Gay\" is an anti-war song by the British synth-pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) and the only single from the band's 1980 album, \"Organisation\". The track addresses the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II. It was written by vocalist/bass guitarist Andy McCluskey. Along with 1986's \"If You Leave\", \"Enola Gay\" has been described as OMD's signature song. The single was an international success, selling more than 5 million copies, while the track became an enduring hit. Typical of early OMD compositions, the track does", "title": "Enola Gay (song)" }, { "id": "10053222", "text": "features on the Max Richter soundtrack of the film. It was also used in the films \"\" and \"Ex Machina\". Enola Gay (song) \"Enola Gay\" is an anti-war song by the British synth-pop group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) and the only single from the band's 1980 album, \"Organisation\". The track addresses the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II. It was written by vocalist/bass guitarist Andy McCluskey. Along with 1986's \"If You Leave\", \"Enola Gay\" has been described as OMD's signature song. The single was an international success, selling", "title": "Enola Gay (song)" }, { "id": "7236581", "text": "If Leaving Me Is Easy \"If Leaving Me Is Easy\" is a song by Phil Collins from his 1981 album \"Face Value\". Released as the third single from the album, it reached #17 in the UK, but was never released as a single in the United States. Collins sings in a high falsetto in its chorus. The song was later covered by The Isley Brothers for their 1985 album \"Masterpiece\". This was the first of two Phil Collins singles that featured Eric Clapton. The other single was \"I Wish It Would Rain Down\" from Collins' final album of the 1980s,", "title": "If Leaving Me Is Easy" }, { "id": "9891165", "text": "charted at number 15 in Australia. A distinguishing track of the 1980s, it has had an enduring presence on radio. The band wrote \"If You Leave\" after John Hughes decided to change the ending to \"Pretty in Pink\" after poor test audience reactions. Hughes had asked the band for a song for the new ending two days before they were due to begin a tour, and \"If You Leave\" was written and recorded in under 24 hours as a result. The song was deliberately written at a tempo of 120 BPM, to match the speed of \"Don't You (Forget About", "title": "If You Leave (song)" }, { "id": "12128796", "text": "by an R&B singer over a dancehall riddim, sound system selectors, club DJs and urban market radio stations immediately took notice of this unique factor and started playing it heavily and regularly, mixing it in with the other songs on the rhythm. It remains the most successful song of Lumidee's career so far regarding chart positions and her only hit to date. The song was most successful in Europe, reaching #1 in five countries. It peaked at #1 in Belgium, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Switzerland in August–September 2003. It also charted at #2 in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, the", "title": "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" }, { "id": "3987632", "text": "(D♯). There have been many cover versions of \"If You Leave Me Now\" recorded by artists throughout the world, among them: The song has been featured in the movies \"Three Kings\" (1999), \"Shaun of the Dead\" (2004), \"A Lot Like Love\" (2005), \"Happy Feet\" (2006), and \"Daddy's Home 2\" (2017); the television series \"Sex and the City\" and \"South Park\"\";\" and the video game \"Grand Theft Auto V.\" A sock puppet sang a version of the song in a 2000 Super Bowl commercial for Pets.com that was ranked as the number one Super Bowl commercial that year by the \"USA", "title": "If You Leave Me Now" }, { "id": "522226", "text": "for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus and Best Arrangement for Voices. (The winners were Chicago's \"If You Leave Me Now,\" and Starland Vocal Band's \"Afternoon Delight,\" respectively.) In 1977, only two years after its release, the British Phonographic Industry named \"Bohemian Rhapsody\" as the best British single of the period 1952–77. It is a regular entry in greatest-songs polls, and it was named by the Guinness Book of Records in 2002 as the top British single of all time. The song is also listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that", "title": "Bohemian Rhapsody" }, { "id": "14482542", "text": "the UK and #2 in Ireland. The song knocked The Black Eyed Peas's song \"I Gotta Feeling\" off the UK top spot on 2 August 2009, but failed to knock \"I Gotta Feeling\" of the Irish top spot, and charted behind it. Never Leave You \"Never Leave You\" is a song composed and performed by Tinchy Stryder. The song, written by Taio Cruz is the fourth single from Stryder's second studio album, \"Catch 22\" as a digital download on 2 August 2009 and then as a CD single on 3 August 2009. It features guest vocals by Amelle Berrabah, a", "title": "Never Leave You" }, { "id": "8686499", "text": "Con te partirò \"Con te partirò\" (; \"With you I shall leave\") is an Italian song written by Francesco Sartori (music) and Lucio Quarantotto (lyrics). It was first performed by Andrea Bocelli at the 1995 Sanremo Music Festival and recorded on his album of the same year, \"Bocelli\". The single was first released as an A-side single with \"Vivere\" in 1995, topping the charts, first in France, where it became one of the best-selling singles of all-time, and then in Belgium, breaking the all-time record sales there. A second version of the song, sung partly in English, released in 1996", "title": "Con te partirò" }, { "id": "7272346", "text": "hit, \"Almost Perfect\", which reached the top 25 on the Hot AC chart. Hart co-wrote the theme song, \"Generation\", for the NBC drama \"American Dreams\", which premiered in 2002. He earned an ASCAP award for \"Best Theme Song of Television\" in 2003. In February 2007, Hart signed a solo record deal with EMI/Manhattan Records to release his debut solo effort \"Cigarettes and Gasoline\". It was released on July 17, 2007. Hart's first single, \"If You're Gonna Leave\", received airplay on American radio stations beginning in June 2007, while his second single, \"I Wish the Best for You\", received airplay beginning", "title": "Emerson Hart" }, { "id": "2541269", "text": "box office records for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. The New York critics' reviews of the original production were mixed to positive. A 1993 review in \"The New York Times\" commented that the musical \"has grown in stature over the years, primarily because of its superb score ... [which] combined a lyrical simplicity with a lush romanticism, beautifully captured in numbers like 'I Loved You Once in Silence' and 'If Ever I Would Leave You.' These ballads sung by Guenevere and Lancelot are among the most memorable in the Lerner-Loewe catalogue. King Arthur supplies the wit, with songs", "title": "Camelot (musical)" }, { "id": "10292070", "text": "Leave Home (song) \"Leave Home\" is a song by English big beat duo the Chemical Brothers. It was the first single released from their debut album \"Exit Planet Dust\" in 1995. It reached number 17 in the UK Singles Chart. It was used in the soundtracks to the video games \"SSX 3\" and \"Wipeout 2097\", and is also featured in the video game \"DJ Hero 2\". The song was featured in the 2000 movies \"Gone in 60 Seconds\" and \"High Fidelity\", as well as the 1997 film \"Dangerous Ground\", the 1998 film \"The Acid House\", the 1999 film \"Any Given", "title": "Leave Home (song)" }, { "id": "14482538", "text": "as the so-called \"Prince of Grime\", but... wait for it... he's fast establishing himself as the King of the Charts.\" and he gave the song four out of five stars. Stryder and Amelle performed the song together for the first time at BBC Sound. The pair performed the song together on, T4 on the Beach in July 2009, on stage alone side many other artists. In August 2009 the pair were still promoting the song, still singing it on shows like TMF Sessions, Live Lounge. The song was performed together at 95.8 Capital FM. Tinchy performed the song himself at", "title": "Never Leave You" }, { "id": "3983666", "text": "a receptive audience, giving Chicago a number three album on the \"Billboard\" 200 in the United States, and their first album to chart in the UK in years, at number 21. The album featured two top forty singles: Robert Lamm's composition, \"Another Rainy Day In New York City\", which peaked at number 32 after a brief run in August 1976; and Peter Cetera's composition, \"If You Leave Me Now\", which became the band's first number one single in October of that same year. Originally written at the same time as \"Chicago VII\"'s \"Wishing You Were Here\", \"If You Leave Me", "title": "Chicago X" }, { "id": "9489559", "text": "Vikki Moss Vikki Moss (born 1962) is a Canadian singer. Moss' first appearance on the Canadian music scene was a 1983 duet with Tim Feehan entitled \"Never Say Die\", that hit #1 on the Canadian A/C charts. Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, she has had a long-time association with famed producer David Foster. She sang lead vocal for \"Love at Second Sight\", a song from his first solo album \"The Best of Me\", and most notably on a track on the \"St. Elmo's Fire\" soundtrack entitled \"If I Turn You Away\", co-written by Foster and Richard Marx. She has also appeared", "title": "Vikki Moss" }, { "id": "13944962", "text": "one, two, and eleven spots on the \"Billboard\" charts featuring the artist Sean Paul, Lumidee (a slightly altered version eventually credited to Marsden), and Wayne Wonder respectively. He also produced the Masterpiece riddim that became a hit because of Sean Paul's song \"Ever Blazing.\" He is a satellite member of Sly and Robbie's Taxi Label. Marsden was awarded the 2004 ASCAP songwriter of the year. He was recognized for \"Never Leave You,\" \"No Letting Go,\" and \"Get Busy\" which also won for song of the year. Steven \"Lenky\" Marsden Steven \"Lenky\" Marsden is a Jamaican-born music producer and musician who", "title": "Steven \"Lenky\" Marsden" }, { "id": "7254757", "text": "Ricky Van Shelton Ricky Van Shelton (born January 12, 1952) is an American former country music artist. Active between 1986 and 2006, he charted more than twenty singles on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs charts. This figure includes ten Number One hits: \"Somebody Lied\", \"Life Turned Her That Way\", 'Don't We All Have the Right\", \"I'll Leave This World Loving You\", \"From a Jack to a King\" (a cover of the Ned Miller hit), \"Living Proof\", \"I've Cried My Last Tear for You\", \"Rockin' Years\" (a duet with Dolly Parton), \"I Am a Simple Man\", and \"Keep It Between the", "title": "Ricky Van Shelton" }, { "id": "12128795", "text": "in many major record label offered deals to both Lumidee and DJ Tedsmooth. After signing with Universal the song remixed with guest appearances by Busta Rhymes and Fabolous. This song gained popularity because of its slightly altered use of the already wildly popular Diwali riddim by then-up-and-coming dancehall producer Steven \"Lenky\" Marsden. \"Diwali\" was one of the most internationally successful dancehall rhythms of all time, garnering hits from Wayne Wonder (\"No Letting Go\"), T.O.K. (\"Galang Gal\"), Bounty Killer & Wayne Marshall \"Sufferer\", Elephant Man (\"Elephant Message\"), and Sean Paul (\"Get Busy\"). But since \"Never Leave You\" was an R&B song", "title": "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" }, { "id": "3461921", "text": "of fourteen, after she was misdiagnosed with lupus. After graduating high school, she collaborated with a local neighborhood producer named DJ Tedsmooth to record her debut single, \"Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)\" for an independent record label called Straight Face. Lumidee cites Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, MC Lyte and Mary J. Blige as her major influences. She signed with Universal Records, where she released her debut album titled \"Almost Famous\" on June 24, 2003. Her debut single, \"Never Leave You\", peaked at number 3 in the United States and number 2 in the United Kingdom, but it was", "title": "Lumidee" }, { "id": "5786483", "text": "(1978), and \"Magic\" (1980). He also produced the majority of her recorded material during that time including her number-one albums, \"If You Love Me, Let Me Know\" (1974), \"Have You Never Been Mellow\" (1975), and \"Olivia's Greatest Hits Vol. 2\" (1982). He was a co-producer of \"\" (1978) – the soundtrack for the film \"Grease\". Farrar also produced Newton-John's first American number-one hit single, \"I Honestly Love You\", which was awarded the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1975. In 1969, Farrar married the Australian singer, Pat Carroll – formerly Ms. Newton-John's singing partner. In July 1970, Farrar", "title": "John Farrar" }, { "id": "9469048", "text": "and later it became one of his biggest successes. It was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame and was number 271 on the \"Songs of the Century\" list. In 2018, the Ink Spots' recording of the song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or artistically significant.\" In the 1950s, both The Hilltoppers and Connie Francis charted with the song. In 1974, a version recorded by David Cassidy peaked at No. 9 in the UK Singles Chart in May that year. Another notable cover came from The Platters", "title": "If I Didn't Care" }, { "id": "1469966", "text": "international hits. Although retrospectively reappraised, the experimental \"Dazzle Ships\" (1983) eroded European support. The band embraced a more straightforward pop sound on \"Junk Culture\" (1984), while continuing to experiment via newly acquired digital samplers; this change in direction led to greater success in the United States, and yielded the 1986 hit, \"If You Leave\". A year after the release of \"The Best of OMD\" (1988), creative differences rendered McCluskey the only remaining member of the group as Humphreys formed spin-off band The Listening Pool. OMD would return with a new line-up and explore the dance-pop genre: \"Sugar Tax\" (1991) and", "title": "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark" }, { "id": "9779540", "text": "Don't You Ever Leave Me \"Don't You Ever Leave Me\" is a single by the Finnish rock and glam punk band Hanoi Rocks taken from their 1984 hit album \"Two Steps From The Move\". The single was released by CBS. \"Don't You Ever Leave Me\" made its first appearance on Hanoi Rocks' first album \"Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks\", but it had more punky atmosphere and faster tempo. They remade the version, which the band loved much more. It is usually considered one of the best songs by Hanoi Rocks. The band's guitarist Andy McCoy commented on the song", "title": "Don't You Ever Leave Me" }, { "id": "1469981", "text": "wrote \"If You Leave\" in less than 24 hours and it became a huge hit in Australia, the US and Canada where it reached the Top 5. The same six piece line-up also released \"The Pacific Age\" in 1986, but the band began to see their critical and public popularity wane in the UK while they failed to capitalise upon their breakthrough in the US market. \"The Pacific Age\" contained the UK No. 11 hit single, \"(Forever) Live & Die\" and other notable single releases, \"Shame\" and \"We Love You.\" The success of \"If You Leave\" has concealed from US", "title": "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark" }, { "id": "14482539", "text": "times, as Amelle and her commitment to girl-group Sugababes, like he did at Ghana, at Lush! in Kellys Nightclub, Portrush, in October. The pair sang the song at Party in the Park, they also sang the song on high streets, in big shopping centres. After promoting the song, the song shot to number 1 in the UK. The biggest promotion was at T4 on the Beach 2009, thousands of people went, it was also filmed and put on television, known to be on T4, E4, E4+1. Amelle toured with Stryder on his promotional tour. The music video for the track", "title": "Never Leave You" }, { "id": "2721220", "text": "Without You (Badfinger song) \"Without You\" is a song written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of British rock group Badfinger, and first released on their 1970 album \"No Dice\". The power ballad has been recorded by over 180 artists, and versions released as singles by Harry Nilsson (1971) and Mariah Carey (1994) became international best-sellers. Paul McCartney once described the ballad as \"the killer song of all time\". In 1972, writers Ham and Evans received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. First recorded by the rock group Badfinger, the song was composed by", "title": "Without You (Badfinger song)" }, { "id": "9812673", "text": "Leaving Here \"Leaving Here\" is a song written in 1963 by Motown songwriters Holland–Dozier–Holland. Written at the beginning of the partnership, it is notable in several recordings. It was originally released as a single in December 1963 by H-D-H lyricist Eddie Holland and peaked at number 76 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and at number 27 on the \"Billboard\" R&B chart. The original recording has subsequently been released on compilation albums such as \"Heaven Must Have Sent You: Holland/Dozier/Holland Story\", released in 2005, and \"The Complete Motown Singles Vol.3 (1963)\", released in 2006. As of 2016, the only CD to", "title": "Leaving Here" }, { "id": "9987791", "text": "single was released in many countries beyond the United Kingdom, including the United States, Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, Argentina, Japan and others. This song has a music video directed by Nigel Dick. Leaving Me Now \"Leaving Me Now\" is a single released in 1985 by the British musical group Level 42. It was the second single taken from their sixth studio album \"World Machine\". The song is written by Mark King, Phil Gould and Wally Badarou. A slow, emotive ballad written about the end of a relationship, it contains a piano solo by Mike Lindup in the middle and", "title": "Leaving Me Now" }, { "id": "9891169", "text": "where the band had gained an audience with edgy, experimental music – were particularly resistant to the track, which peaked at no. 48 on the UK Singles Chart. Frontman Andy McCluskey commented: \"It's a blessing to have such a big hit, but a shame that it overshadows so many other good songs for the US audience. We have many European fans who hate the song.\" \"Entertainment Weekly\" journalist Dana Falcone described \"If You Leave\" as a \"now-classic tune\" and \"OMD's best-known song to Americans\". The track has been included in various \"greatest songs\" listings; KOOL-FM named it the third-best new", "title": "If You Leave (song)" }, { "id": "3987631", "text": "hit, \"If You Leave Me Now\" with them on stage live at their concerts, with proceeds going to the American Cancer Society to fight breast cancer. The fund raising effort has continued in succeeding years. Peter Cetera originally wrote \"If You Leave Me Now\" at the same time as \"Chicago VII\"'s \"Wishing You Were Here\", and composed it on a guitar. According to information on the sheet music for the song at MusicNotes, \"If You Leave Me Now\" is written in the key of B major, and Cetera's vocal range varies between F sharp 4 (F♯) and D sharp 6", "title": "If You Leave Me Now" }, { "id": "6485519", "text": "producers. Berrabah also collaborated with Tinchy Stryder for the track \"Never Leave You\", the third single from his second album, \"Catch 22\" in August 2009. The single debuted on top of the UK charts, making Berrabah the only member of the Sugababes, past and present, to achieve a number one single outside of the group. The lead single from \"Sweet 7\", \"Get Sexy\", debuted at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart in September 2009. On 21 September 2009, it was officially announced that Buchanan had exited the group, resulting in Sugababes retaining none of its original members. Buchanan was", "title": "Keisha Buchanan" }, { "id": "9891168", "text": "\"Pretty in Pink\" \"one of the best in cinematic history\". AllMusic journalist Mike DeGagne named \"If You Leave\" as the best track from \"Pretty in Pink\", adding that \"its adult feel and smooth transition from stanza to chorus makes it [OMD's] most memorable song\". Hugo Lindgren in \"The New York Times Magazine\" argued that the stateside popularity of \"If You Leave\" – as well as that of the similarly pop-oriented \"Crush\" (1985) – \"obscured OMD's legacy as musical innovators\" from US audiences, and marked a shift toward \"making music for whoever signed the checks\". Listeners in OMD's native UK –", "title": "If You Leave (song)" }, { "id": "4998683", "text": "\"Little Hells\", produced by Chris Coady, was released on March 3, 2009 and received praise from many critics. including 4-star reviews from magazines such as \"Mojo\", \"Rolling Stone\" in France and Germany, \"Uncut\", and \"Q\". It received an 8.3 from \"Pitchfork\". The album departed from the earlier folk-based template with the introduction of electronic elements. In early 2010, Nadler contributed vocals on \"Portal of Sorrow\", the final album by black metal project Xasthur. On June 14, 2011, an eponymous record was released worldwide on Nadler's own label, Box of Cedar Records. The song \"Baby, I Will Leave You in the", "title": "Marissa Nadler" }, { "id": "10346262", "text": "and \"Help Me\" already included on his first ; and \"O Come All Ye Faithful\", the flipside to the 1971 Christmas single \"Merry Christmas, Baby.\" His final two singles issued posthumously, the #22 \"My Way\" b/w \"America the Beautiful\" from November 1977, and \"Unchained Melody\" b/w \"Softly As I Leave You\" from February 1978, are also not included, although \"Unchained Melody\" is on the fifth disc, and versions of \"My Way\" and \"Softly As I Leave You\" are also on other discs in the set. Of the 23 American singles on these discs, 19 made the Top 40, with \"The", "title": "Walk a Mile in My Shoes: The Essential '70s Masters" }, { "id": "9891166", "text": "Me)\", which the dancers in the scene had initially danced to. Despite this, singer Andy McCluskey later noted that an editing error meant the dancing appears out of sync regardless. The original ending featured another OMD song, \"Goddess of Love\", which was released on \"The Pacific Age\" later in 1986. Ian Cranna in \"Smash Hits\" wrote that \"If You Leave\" is \"false and contrived and seems to last about 3 years\" (but described UK B-side \"88 Seconds in Greensboro\" as \"OMD at their blazing best\"). On the other hand, \"Chicago Sun-Times\" journalist Dennis Hunt asserted that the track \"is too", "title": "If You Leave (song)" }, { "id": "9811822", "text": "Almost Famous (Lumidee album) Almost Famous is the debut album by American R&B recording artist Lumidee, released by Universal Records on June 24, 2003. It peaked at number twenty-two on the U.S. \"Billboard\" 200 chart and number eleven on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. It included the summer hit, \"Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)\" which saw international success, topping the charts in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and reaching number 2 in the UK and number 3 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100. \"Almost Famous\" received two out of five stars by Allmusic citing, \"Otherwise, Almost", "title": "Almost Famous (Lumidee album)" }, { "id": "6051212", "text": "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover \"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover\" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his fourth studio album, \"Still Crazy After All These Years\" (1975), released on Columbia Records. Backing vocals on the single were performed by Patti Austin, Valerie Simpson, and Phoebe Snow. The song features a recognizable repeated drum riff performed by drummer Steve Gadd. One of his most popular singles, \"50 Ways\" was released in December 1975 and began to see chart success within the new year. It became Simon's sole number-one hit as", "title": "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" }, { "id": "20519761", "text": "noting that \"it will really tug at your heart strings\" with Boyz II Men on board. Lucas Villa of AXS wrote that the song \"harks back to a time of doo-wop with finger snaps and sweet harmonies courtesy of Puth and Boyz II Men\". If You Leave Me Now (Charlie Puth song) \"If You Leave Me Now\" is an a cappella track by American singer and songwriter Charlie Puth, featuring American vocal group Boyz II Men. It was released via Atlantic Records on January 5, 2018, as the first promotional single from Puth's second studio album, \"Voicenotes\" (2018). The song", "title": "If You Leave Me Now (Charlie Puth song)" }, { "id": "19637350", "text": "Leaving October \"Leaving October\" is a song recorded by American country music group Sons of the Desert. It was released in January 1998 as the third single from the album \"Whatever Comes First\". The song reached #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by the band's lead singer Drew Womack, along with Tom Douglas. The song is a ballad about the narrator missing his wife, who died in October 1989. In the chorus, he sings of the pain of her memory, saying that \"If I live in the past, there's no future /", "title": "Leaving October" }, { "id": "9094950", "text": "The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary: Ten Years Together The Best of Peter, Paul, and Mary: Ten Years Together is a 1970 greatest hits release by American folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary. It is the last album released before the group split up in 1970. The album includes all of their greatest hits, including their only #1 hit \"Leaving On A Jet Plane\", \"If I Had a Hammer\", and their versions of the Bob Dylan songs \"Blowin' in the Wind\", \"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right,\" and \"Too Much of Nothing,\" along with others. The thirteen cuts were", "title": "The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary: Ten Years Together" }, { "id": "13700390", "text": "and 1965. The album also includes Smith's other well-known hits such as, \"Cry, Cry, Cry\", \"Burning a Hole in My Mind\", \"Just One Time\", \"I Never Once Stopped Loving You\", \"The Hurtin's All Over\", \"If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone)\" and her cover version of Marty Robbins's \"Ribbon of Darkness\". The \"Allmusic\" critic, Thom Jurek, called the album's production \"classic\" and credited Smith's original producer, Bob Ferguson and country artist, Bill Anderson for making the compilation, \"one of the best collections in the RCA Essential series to come down the pike\". \"Allmusic\" reviewer Thom Jurek gave the compilation", "title": "The Essential Connie Smith" }, { "id": "5669157", "text": "\"Chicago X\" album yielded the band's first number 1 single, \"If You Leave Me Now\", which also earned two Grammy Awards (best pop performance for the band, and best arrangement for Guercio). However, Guercio and the band members found themselves increasingly at odds over creative decisions, tour schedules, and finances, and they parted ways soon after completing \"Chicago XI\" in late 1977. Guercio's attention was not only on the big-time artists. In 1969 he encountered street poet and musician Moondog, going on to produce two albums with the eccentric character; on the second he performed vocals with Moondog and the", "title": "James William Guercio" }, { "id": "20373949", "text": "released as the album's second single on October 5, 2017. The song peaked at number 21 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and reached the top 20 in several markets. \"Done for Me\", the third single, was released on March 15, 2018, and features Kehlani. \"Change\" featuring James Taylor was released as the fourth single on March 26, 2018. \"The Way I Am\" was released as the album's fifth single on July 24, 2018. \"If You Leave Me Now\" was released as the album's first promotional single on January 5, 2018, after Puth delayed the album. The song features Boyz II", "title": "Voicenotes" }, { "id": "4468751", "text": "Jerry Wallace Jerry Wallace (December 15, 1928 – May 5, 2008) was an American country and pop singer. Between 1958 and 1964, Wallace charted nine hits on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, including the No. 8 \"Primrose Lane\" that was later used as the theme song for the television series \"The Smith Family\". He made his debut on the country music charts in 1965, entering it thirty-five times between then and 1980. In that timespan, Wallace charted within the country Top Ten four times. His only number one song was \"If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry,\" a song which gained", "title": "Jerry Wallace" }, { "id": "12987706", "text": "Soul Sisters. In 1962, Johnson signed as a solo singer with Bigtop Records, run by the Hill & Range music publishing company in the Brill Building. There, he met the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, who wrote Johnson's first single, \"If I Never Get to Love You\". Neither that song nor his second record, \"You Better Let Him Go\", were hits, but his third single, \"Reach Out for Me\", also written by Bacharach and David and this time produced by Bacharach, reached # 74 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in late 1963. However, as it rose up", "title": "Lou Johnson (singer)" }, { "id": "12128797", "text": "song peaked at #3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in her own country. \"Never Leave You\" also did well in International charts to reach #1 in Eurochart Hot 100 Singles. \"Never Leave You\" was incorporated into the 2010 re-release of the Diwali riddim album on Greensleeves/VP Records. Other songs derived from the Diwali riddim, along with Sean Paul's \"Get Busy,\" which was a late entry that never made the original release. The song was also used multiple times in the 2004 film \"Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen\", which starred Lindsay Lohan. \"Never Leave You (Uh Ooh, Uh Ooh)\"", "title": "Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" }, { "id": "16968349", "text": "on his Virgin Records debut album, \"Come As You Please\", which was released on 23 November 2003. In 2009, he released his first single in six years, his own penned single \"I'm Losing You\", which charted high in the UK Singles Chart. The following year, an acoustic version of the \"Chicago\" hit \"If You Leave Me Now\" was accompanied by his second album \"Dreaming of Paradise\", another popular album, released on 4 July 2010. The album was even more successful than his debut album, with this album reaching Number 12 in the UK Albums Chart and his debut album reaching", "title": "Gary Howard" }, { "id": "17154707", "text": "If You Leave... was named Album of the Week by RTÉ Radio 1. For the recording sessions, McEvoy recruited the talents of Grammy award-winning songwriter Jimmy Smyth on guitar, keyboard player James Delaney, bassists Paul Moore, Eoghan O’Neill, and drummer Des Lacey, with special guests Brian Connor on piano and David Agnew on oboe. \"RTÉ Radio 1\" wrote \"Her performances are intimate, emotional, uplifting affairs in which she explores soul, love and humour, using own compositions and interpretations from other songbooks, with her unique voice and beautiful playing.\" \"Irish Music Magazine\" said \"From the initial song creation, to the musical", "title": "If You Leave..." }, { "id": "6393781", "text": "her debut album \"Love in the Time of Science\" and produced British singer-songwriter Mark Abis' album \"Changing Inside\". White's song \"Leave Right Now\" was recorded by Will Young in 2003, and reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart. In recognition, White won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in 2004. He has since enjoyed enduring chart success with acts including Duffy, James Morrison and Joss Stone. In 2008 White worked with Adele on three tracks which appeared on her first album \"19\", including the second single \"Chasing Pavements\". White is known in the industry for", "title": "Eg White" }, { "id": "10593678", "text": "Sacred Ground (McBride & the Ride album) Sacred Ground is the second studio album released by American country music band McBride & the Ride. It produced three singles for the trio, all of which were Top Five hits on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts: \"Just One Night\", \"Going out of My Mind\", and \"Sacred Ground\", which was originally recorded by Kix Brooks (of Brooks & Dunn) on his self-titled debut album. Also included on this album is a cover of \"All I Have to Offer You Is Me\", originally recorded by Charley Pride.", "title": "Sacred Ground (McBride & the Ride album)" }, { "id": "15784553", "text": "The Palace...!\", which played on Broadway in 2009/2010 and now shows on PBS television. Johnny co-wrote the featured song \"I Would Never Leave You\" and is included on the show's DVD release as well as the Grammy-nominated CD. Johnny Rodgers Band (New York, NY) came together in New York City in 2003 and its mission is to bring musical depth to new, original songs. They are masters of an array of styles ranging from pop to jazz to classic rock. Music from the Johnny Rodgers Band provides a guided tour of Americana pop, from the piano-driven energy of rock and", "title": "Johnny Rodgers (singer)" }, { "id": "13856059", "text": "Another Day\". Next album, \"Up All Night\" was released in 1995. In 1996, the group hit No. 2 with the track \"If You Ever\", a duet with the singer Gabrielle. The band split in 1997. In 1998, the group was renamed as E-17 and released \"Each Time\", which reached No. 2 in the UK. Next single \"Betcha Can't Wait\" reached number 12 and their album \"Resurrection\" failed to make the UK top 40. The band was again dropped by their label in 1999 and split for the second time. In 2011, East 17 released their first single since 1999 titled", "title": "East 17 discography" }, { "id": "10797647", "text": "Since I Left You (song) \"Since I Left You\" is a song by Australian electronic dance music group the Avalanches. It was released as the third single from the group's debut studio album of the same name on 5 February 2001. Produced by group members Robbie Chater and Darren Seltmann, \"Since I Left You\" utilizes numerous samples of other artists' material. The song's chorus is a prominent vocal sample of the Main Attraction's \"Everyday\" (1968). The song was critically acclaimed by listeners and music critics alike, who praised its sample-based production and upbeat atmosphere; several publications named it one of", "title": "Since I Left You (song)" }, { "id": "11915721", "text": "of the World/To Make a Man\". \"Drive You Out of My Mind\" was recorded during the October 2, 1969 session for 1970's \"Wings Upon Your Horns\". \"If I Never Love Again (It Will Be Too Soon)\" and \"When You Leave My World\" were recorded during sessions for 1970's \"Coal Miner's Daughter\", on April 9 and July 14, 1970, respectively. I Wanna Be Free (album) I Wanna Be Free is the sixteenth studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on May 10, 1971, by Decca Records. In the issue dated May 22, 1971, \"Billboard\" magazine published", "title": "I Wanna Be Free (album)" }, { "id": "10906599", "text": "The Independents (vocal group) The Independents were an American R&B vocal group active from 1971 to 1975. They scored several hits on the U.S. Pop and R&B charts. Their 1973 song \"Leaving Me\" reached #21 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 14 weeks. Sales of over a million copies led to a gold record being awarded by the R.I.A.A. on May 23, 1973. After the group broke up and recording the solo albums, \"Passionate Breezes\" and \"Gonna Getcha Love\", Chuck Jackson, along with fellow group member Marvin Yancy, achieved success as the producers and writers", "title": "The Independents (vocal group)" }, { "id": "3983664", "text": "group a 25-pound bar of pure platinum, made by Cartier, to mark the event. (\"Billboard\" magazine reported it as a 30-pound bar.) \"Chicago X\" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and it won a Grammy Award for Best Album Package. The album produced Chicago's first number one single in the United States, \"If You Leave Me Now\". The single went on to win two Grammy Awards: for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus, the band's first Grammy Award; and for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists, for arrangers James William Guercio and Jimmie", "title": "Chicago X" }, { "id": "8485649", "text": "in the Las Vegas Hilton show on 13 December 1975. RCA was able to release it commercially in March 1978 and it now appears on the boxed set \"Walk A Mile In My Shoes: The Essential 70's Masters\". Softly, as I Leave You (song) \"Softly, as I Leave You\" is a popular Italian song, originally titled \"Piano\", composed by Tony De Vita with Italian lyrics by Giorgio Calabrese, translated into English by Hal Shaper. It was originally an Italian success by Mina, at the Sanremo Music Festival, entitled \"Piano\" (\"Softly\"). Mina published a recording of the song first as a", "title": "Softly, as I Leave You (song)" }, { "id": "10951589", "text": "J. J. Barnes and Don Davis, which was issued by Polydor Records in late 1973. However, commercial success still eluded her. In 1975 she recorded \"I Don’t Wanna Leave You\" with Jordan in New York, with a full band and orchestra featuring Earl Van Dyke on keyboards. The recording was leased to Arista Records, and the single rose to #32 on the R&B chart and #100 on the pop chart at the end of 1975. The single was also released in the UK and Europe but in an inferior edited version. In later years, the song and its B-side, \"Just", "title": "Debbie Taylor" }, { "id": "3987629", "text": "Easy Listening charts. \"If You Leave Me Now\" was also Chicago's biggest hit internationally, topping the charts in other countries such as the UK, Australia, Ireland, Canada, and Netherlands. In the UK it maintained the number one position for three weeks. It was one of only five \"non-disco\" songs to make it to number one in the US in a nine-month period of 1976. According to writer Zachary Houle of PopMatters, \"The song was so pervasive on radio upon its release that, reportedly, those tuning in in New York could hear the song playing on four different stations, each with", "title": "If You Leave Me Now" }, { "id": "1427802", "text": "This DVD was released on June 28, 2005, and was certified Platinum two months afterward. Chicago and EWF once again toured together in 2005 and collaborated for a new recording of Chicago's ballad \"If You Leave Me Now,\" that was included on Chicago's 2005 compilation album \"Love Songs.\" As part of an opening act for the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards held on September 18, 2005, at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, the band once more collaborated with The Black Eyed Peas. This was first time a musical artist had opened at the annual awards show. EWF released a single entitled \"Show", "title": "Earth, Wind & Fire" }, { "id": "5023339", "text": "(in 1971), Guitarist Zachary Breaux covered it on his 1997 album, \"Uptown Groove\", which was his final studio album released before his death, one month later after the album's release. In 1998, Gloria Estefan included \"Never Can Say Goodbye\" as part of her \"70's Moment Medley\", recorded as a b-side for her single \"Don't Let This Moment End\". Other hits included in the medley were \"I Thought It Took a Little Time\", \"If I Can't Have You\", \"This Time Baby\" and \"Don't Leave Me This Way\". Vanessa Williams covered the song for her 2005 studio album \"Everlasting Love\". Her version", "title": "Never Can Say Goodbye" }, { "id": "6051215", "text": "8 song of 1976. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover \"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover\" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his fourth studio album, \"Still Crazy After All These Years\" (1975), released on Columbia Records. Backing vocals on the single were performed by Patti Austin, Valerie Simpson, and Phoebe Snow. The song features a recognizable repeated drum riff performed by drummer Steve Gadd. One of his most popular singles, \"50 Ways\" was released in December 1975 and began to see chart success within the new year. It became Simon's", "title": "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" }, { "id": "11144265", "text": "Wright. The second offering of \"American Masterworks Series\" continues with another composer who blurs the line between high and popular art, Stephen Sondheim. \"Follies\" (1971) will be performed in concert version in May 2008. The concert version will include all of the popular songs, including \"Broadway Baby\", \"Losing My Mind\" and \"Could I Leave You?\" Oakland East Bay Symphony The Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS) is a leading orchestra based in Oakland, California. The current music director and conductor is Michael Morgan, who has held the position since September 1990. The Paramount Theatre has been the home of the Symphony", "title": "Oakland East Bay Symphony" }, { "id": "12916655", "text": "signature songs. In 1994 the song won Sting a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male, while it was also nominated for both Record of the Year and for Song of the Year. It has been included on all of Sting's compilation albums since its release, namely \"\" and \"The Very Best of Sting & The Police\". CD maxi CD single 1 CD single 2 CD maxi - Picture disk USA A&M Records #31458-0111-2 In 2009, trumpeter Chris Botti covered the song with Sting on vocals. The song was released from the \"Chris Botti: Live in Boston\". Lady Gaga", "title": "If I Ever Lose My Faith in You" } ]

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[ { "id": "384047", "text": "the 2011 census night there were 1,503,620 people living in Sydney that were born overseas, accounting for 42.5% of the population of the City of Sydney and 34.2% of the population of Sydney, the seventh greatest proportion of any city in the world. The 2016 census reported that 39 percent of Greater Sydney were migrants, above New York City (36 percent), Paris (25 percent), Berlin (13 percent) and Tokyo (2 percent). If local residents with at least one migrant-born parent is included, then 65 percent of Sydney's population is migrant. Sydney's largest ancestry groups are English, Australian, Irish, Chinese and", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "384046", "text": "people of indigenous heritage living in Sydney in 2011. Most immigrants to Sydney between 1840 and 1930 were British, Irish or Chinese. There were significant clusters of people based on nationality or religion throughout the history of Sydney development. In the early 20th century Irish people were centred in Surry Hills, the Scottish in Paddington. Following World War II, Sydney's ethnic groups began to diversify. Common ethnic groups in Sydney include, but are not limited to, Dutch, Sri Lankan, Indian, Assyrian, Turkish, Thai, Russian, Vietnamese, Filipino, Korean, Greek, Lebanese, Italian, Jewish, Polish, German, Serbian, Macedonian, and Maltese communities. As of", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "8750408", "text": "the population), Arabic (spoken by 4.4%), Cantonese (3.4%), Mandarin (2.6%), Greek (2.2%) and Vietnamese (2.0%). Some migrant groups are associated with the suburb in which they first settled in, such as the Vietnamese in Cabramatta, Italians in Fremantle, Indians in Parramatta and Liverpool, Chinese in Burwood and Hurstville and many more of various ethnicities that span across the globe. At the 2006 Census, the most common responses for religion were Catholic (29.2%), Anglican (16.5%), Eastern Orthodox (4.8%) and Islam (4.4%). 14.1% declared no religious affiliation. 10.4% left the question blank, 3.7% were Buddhists, 1.7% were Hindu, 0.9% were Jewish. The", "title": "Demographics of Sydney" }, { "id": "3403738", "text": "in the independent candidate Clover Moore defeating the high-profile Labor candidate, former federal minister Michael Lee and winning the position of Lord Mayor. At the 2016 Census, there were people in the Sydney local government area, of these 51.8% were male and 48.2% were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.2% of the population. The median age of people in the City of Sydney was 32 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 6.7% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 8.2% of the population. Of people in the area", "title": "City of Sydney" }, { "id": "2277040", "text": "Olympics, the city hosted the 2003 Rugby World Cup, the APEC Leaders conference of 2007 and Catholic World Youth Day 2008, led by Pope Benedict XVI. Sydney's population officially hit 5 million people at the 2016 census. The city has gained a reputation for diversity and is Australia's most multicultural city. In the , 34 percent of the population reported having been born overseas. The city's first dedicated rapid transit system is currently under construction, with a completion date set for 2019. The project has been hailed as \"transformative\" by journalists. The Sydney Metro will link the suburb of Epping", "title": "History of Sydney" }, { "id": "8750409", "text": "2011 Census most common responses were Catholic, (28.3%), Anglican (14.7%), Islam (5.3%) and Eastern Orthodox (4.6%). 17.5% declared no religion. In 2016, the most common responses for religion in Greater Sydney were Catholic 25.1%, No Religion, so described 24.6%, Anglican 12.0%, Not stated 8.8% and Islam 5.3%. Demographics of Sydney Sydney is Australia's most populous city, and is also the most populous city in Oceania. In the 2016 census, 5,005,400 persons declared themselves as residents of the Sydney Statistical Division–about one-fifth (19.41%) of Australia's total population. With a population density of 2037 people per square kilometer the urban core has", "title": "Demographics of Sydney" }, { "id": "383958", "text": "Sydney Sydney () is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Port Jackson and extends about on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, and Macarthur to the south. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, 40 local government areas and 15 contiguous regions. Residents of the city are known as \"Sydneysiders\". As of June 2017, Sydney's estimated metropolitan population was 5,131,326. Indigenous Australians have inhabited the Sydney area for at least 30,000 years, and it remains", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "7555230", "text": "(3.9%), New Zealand (2.2%), Mainland China (2.2%), India (1.9%), and the Philippines (1%). Following the abolition of the White Australia policy in 1973, numerous government initiatives have been established to encourage and promote racial harmony based on a policy of multiculturalism. In 2015–16, there were 189,770 permanent immigrants admitted to Australia, mainly from Asia. The Indigenous population—Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders—was counted at 649,171 (2.8% of the total population) in 2016. The increase is partly due to many people with Indigenous heritage previously having been overlooked by the census due to undercount and cases where their Indigenous status had not", "title": "Australia" }, { "id": "1583754", "text": "At the 2016 census, the ancestries nominated by the largest proportion of inhabitants who stated their ancestries were English (39.7%), Australian (34.6%), Irish (13.2%), Scottish (11%), German (6.4%) and Chinese (4.7%). 2.4% of the population identify as indigenous Australians. By far the largest ethnic minority are Asian Australians. Within this group, the largest single ethnicity is Chinese Australians. The areas of Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Stretton, Robertson, Calamvale, Macgregor, Eight Mile Plains, Runcorn and Rochedale, are home to a large proportion of Brisbane's Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong-born population, with Chinese being the most commonly-reported ancestry in each of these", "title": "Brisbane" }, { "id": "8750403", "text": "Demographics of Sydney Sydney is Australia's most populous city, and is also the most populous city in Oceania. In the 2016 census, 5,005,400 persons declared themselves as residents of the Sydney Statistical Division–about one-fifth (19.41%) of Australia's total population. With a population density of 2037 people per square kilometer the urban core has population density five times that of the greater region. Sydney is the most densely populated city in Australia. It's also the busiest city in Australia. The median age of Sydney residents was 35 years, and households comprised an average of 2.7 members. European settlement in Sydney began", "title": "Demographics of Sydney" }, { "id": "12138090", "text": "figure. The census also documented 907,572 residents or 3.9% of Australia as being born in England, and are the largest overseas-born population. English migrants and English Australians were by far the single most influential ethnic group in colonial Australia. The founding of Australia by English people is still evident in place names, buildings and street layouts, and that 80 percent of the population speak English as their mother tongue and the low church hegemony in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, the biggest in the country. New Zealand's foundational culture was English, given the strong representation in the mid and late-nineteenth", "title": "English diaspora" }, { "id": "8750406", "text": "this history has given Sydney a low-density self-image. Sydney (like Melbourne) has enjoyed a large number of migration since its inception. The principal ancestries of Greater Sydney's residents (as surveyed in 2011) are: Census respondents could nominate up to two ancestries they identified themselves as belonging to. The principal countries of birth of Greater Sydney's residents (as surveyed in 2011) are: Aboriginals were about 1.1% of all Sydney residents. Sydney has been a hub of a number of migrant communities, such as the Lebanese, Fijian, Korean and Nepalese. Well over half of Australia's 25,000-strong Nepalese community, for example, is concentrated", "title": "Demographics of Sydney" }, { "id": "768097", "text": "overseas-born women, it was 1.81, while in 2013, it was 1.91 and 1.79 respectively. As of December 2017, the population growth rate was 0.9%. This rate was based on estimates of: Much of the data that follows has been derived from the CIA World Factbook and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, through censuses. The following figures are ABS estimates for the resident population of Australia, based on the 2001 and 2006 Censuses and other data. English 72.7%, Mandarin 2.5%, Italian 1.2%, Arabic 1.4%, Greek 1.2%, Cantonese 1.2%, Vietnamese 1.2%, other 19.8% (2016 est.) Protestant 23.1% (Anglican 13.3%, Uniting Church 3.7%,", "title": "Demography of Australia" }, { "id": "12138089", "text": "ancestries appear to reflect such shifts in perception or reporting. These reporting shifts at least partly resulted from changes in the design of the census question, in particular the introduction of a tick box format in 2001. Until 1859, 2.2 million (73%) of the free settlers who immigrated were British. Australians of English descent, are both the single largest ethnic group in Australia and the largest 'ancestry' identity in the Australian census. In the 2016 census, 7.8 million or 25.0% of respondents identified as \"English\" or a combination including English, a numerical increase from 7.2 million over the 2011 census", "title": "English diaspora" }, { "id": "12310390", "text": "particular the introduction of a tick box format in 2001. English Australians have more often come from the south than the north of England. Australians of English descent, are both the single largest ethnic group in Australia and the largest 'ancestry' identity in the Australian census. In the 2016 census, 7.8 million or 36.1% of the population identified as \"English\" or a combination including English, a numerical increase from 7.2 million over the 2011 census figure. The census also documented 907,572 residents or 3.9% of Australia as being born in England, and are the largest overseas-born population. Since the 1980s", "title": "English people" }, { "id": "8750405", "text": "north of Sydney Harbour. Post-war immigration and a baby boom helped the population reach two million by 1962. Sydney remained Australia's most populous city throughout the 20th century, and is projected to retain this position for much of the 21st century. At the June 2016 Australian census, Sydney's population reached 5 million people. Sydney is particularly noted for its low population density, due to its history. Surrounded by land that was considered unowned by the city's founders, early Sydney enjoyed relatively low land values. Coupled with successive governments' willingness to release new land on the city's outskirts for further development,", "title": "Demographics of Sydney" }, { "id": "456313", "text": "data revealed that 77.5% of Western Australia's population was of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733,783 responses (32.7%), followed by Australian with 624,259 (27.8%), Irish with 171,667 (7.6%), Italian with 96,721 (4.3%), Scottish with 62,781 (2.8%), German with 51,672 (2.3%), and Chinese with 48,894 responses (2.2%). There were 58,496 Indigenous Australians in Western Australia in 2001, forming 3.1% of the population. According to the 2011 census data, the most common ancestries in Western Australia were English 29.0% (848,230), Australian 24.8% (724,360), Irish 6.4% (187,038), Scottish 6.4% (186,475) and Italian 3.8% (111,894). There", "title": "Western Australia" }, { "id": "384045", "text": "densely populated suburbs in Australia are located in Sydney with each having more than 13,000 residents per square kilometre (33,700 residents per square mile). The median age of Sydney residents is 36 and 12.9% of people are 65 or older. The married population accounts for 49.7% of Sydney whilst 34.7% of people have never been married. 48.9% of families are couples with children, 33.5% are couples without children, and 15.7% are single-parent families. 32.5% of people in Sydney speak a language other than English at home with Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese and Greek the most widely spoken. There were 54,746", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "18737490", "text": "of inhabitants spoke only English at home, with the next most common languages being Mandarin (2.4%), Vietnamese (1.0%), Cantonese (0.9%), Spanish (0.7%), Hindi (0.6%), Samoan (0.6%), Korean (0.6%) and Punjabi (0.6%). At the 2016 census, the ancestries nominated by the largest proportion of inhabitants who stated their ancestries were English (39.7%), Australian (34.6%), Irish (13.2%), Scottish (11%), German (6.4%) and Chinese (4.7%). 2.4% of the population identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples. By far the largest ethnic minority are Asian Australians. Within this group, the largest single ethnicity is Chinese Australians. The areas of Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills, Stretton,", "title": "Demographics of Brisbane" }, { "id": "10994012", "text": "influenced by its strong English heritage. In the 2016 census form, people were asked ‘What is the person’s ancestry?’. People of English descent were by far the single most influential ethnic group in colonial Australia. The founding of Australia by English people is still evident in place names, buildings and street layouts, and that 80 percent of the population speak English as their mother tongue and the Low Church hegemony in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, the biggest in the country. In Sydney, at least 50 suburban names are derived directly from 20 English counties, of which the largest numbers", "title": "English Australians" }, { "id": "383960", "text": "Sydney. Penal transportation to New South Wales ended soon after Sydney was incorporated as a city in 1842. A gold rush occurred in the colony in 1851, and over the next century, Sydney transformed from a colonial outpost into a major global cultural and economic centre. After World War II, it experienced mass migration and became one of the most multicultural cities in the world. At the time of the , more than 250 different languages were spoken in Sydney and about 40 percent of residents spoke a language other than English at home. Furthermore, 36% of the population reported", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "10994006", "text": "English Australians English Australians, also known as Australians of English descent or Anglo-Australians, are Australians whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England. In the most recent 2016 census, 7.8 million or 36.1% of respondents identified as \"English\" or a combination including English and is the largest 'ancestry' self-identity in the Australian census. English Australians have more often come from the South than the North of England. People of ethnic English origin and immigrants have been the largest group to migrate to Australia since the establishment of the Crown colony of New South Wales in 1788. Sydney was founded by", "title": "English Australians" }, { "id": "793073", "text": "background. Areas with a large proportion of people born overseas and with non-English speaking backgrounds include Auburn, Fairfield, Liverpool, and Bankstown. Generally Western European and North American born people have settled around the Lower North Shore and eastern suburbs, Arab people around the Lakemba-Auburn region, Indo-Chinese in the south-western suburbs, South Asians around Parramatta and the south east, and North East Asians in major nodes such as Hurstville, Burwood, Strathfield, Chatswood, Eastwood, Campsie and Haymarket. Apart from English, the 32 most widely spoken languages in Sydney are: (2004) All languages above have over 5000 speakers in the city; Arabic and", "title": "Culture of Sydney" }, { "id": "10223296", "text": "were 51 percent from Europe, 29 percent from Asia, 11 percent from Oceania, and 4 percent came from the Americas. In 1996, over 8 million Australians had at least three ancestries, and over 3 million had four or more. By 2000, a majority of Australia's population was native born, and over 90 percent were descended from people from the British Isles. In 2007, more than 92 percent of all Australians descended from Europeans. In the 2006 Census 455,026 people (or 2.3% of the total Australian population) reported they were of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin. 28 percent of the", "title": "Australians" }, { "id": "6928457", "text": "Filipino Australians Filipino Australians (Filipino: \"Pilipino-Australyano\") are Australians of Filipino ancestry. Filipino-Australians are the fifth-largest subgroup of the Overseas Filipinos. According to the 2016 census, there are over 304,015 Filipino Australians. In Sydney, people born in the Philippines comprise 5.9% of the population in the City of Blacktown and it is the largest directly born ethnic group in Blacktown. Currently Filipinos are the third largest Asian Australian immigrant group behind Indian Australians and Chinese Australians. Females account for 61% while males represent 39% of Filipino Australians born in the Philippines. According to census data, 50.2 per cent of the Philippines-born", "title": "Filipino Australians" }, { "id": "6557930", "text": "German Australians German Australians () are Australian citizens of ethnic German ancestry. The German community constitute one of the largest ethnic groups in Australia, numbering 898,700 or 4.5 percent of respondents in the 2011 Census. It is the fifth most identified European ancestry in Australia behind English, Irish, Scottish and Italian. The 2011 Census counted 108,000 Australian residents who were born in Germany. However, 898,700 persons identified themselves as having German ancestry, either alone or in combination with another ancestry. This number does not include people of German ancestry who selected their ancestry as simply \"Australian\". The 2001 census recorded", "title": "German Australians" }, { "id": "10223301", "text": "60.2% of Australia's population declared themselves as having European ancestry. In addition, many other respondents described themselves as simply \"Australian\", which does not imply Indigenous descent. The total indigenous population is estimated to be about 520,000 individuals, including people of mixed descent. In the 2011 Census, Australians reported around 300 different ancestries. The most commonly reported ancestries were English (33.7 per cent) and Australian (33 per cent). A further 6 of the leading 10 ancestries reflected the European heritage in Australia – Irish (9.7 per cent), Scottish (8.3 per cent), Italian (4.3 per cent), German (4.2 per cent), Greek (1.8", "title": "Australians" }, { "id": "7555229", "text": "(9.3%), Chinese (5.6%), Italian (4.6%), German (4.5%), Indian (2.8%), Greek (1.8%), and Dutch (1.6%). Australia's population has quadrupled since the end of World War I, much of this increase from immigration. Following World War II and through to 2000, almost 5.9 million new immigrants arrived and settled in the country. Most immigrants are skilled, but the immigration quota includes categories for family members and refugees. By 2050, Australia's population is currently projected to reach around 42 million. In 2016, more than a quarter (26%) of Australia's population were born overseas; the five largest immigrant groups were those born in England", "title": "Australia" }, { "id": "299366", "text": "a language other than English at home. Furthermore, 36 percent of the population reported having been born overseas, with top countries being Italy, Lebanon, Vietnam and Iraq, among others. Melbourne is also fairly multicultural, having the largest Greek-speaking population outside of Europe, and the second largest Asian population in Australia after Sydney. European migration to New Zealand provided a major influx following the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Subsequent immigration has been chiefly from the British Isles, but also from continental Europe, the Pacific, The Americas and Asia. Auckland is home to over half (51.6 percent) of", "title": "Oceania" }, { "id": "11227321", "text": "to the region while it was in Spanish control. Some Colombians are of mixed Spanish and African descent (known as mulattoes), with their African ancestors having been brought over by the Spaniards to work as slaves, while many other Colombians are of Amerindian, Arab, German, Italian and Spanish descent. Some Argentine-Australians are of Spanish and/or Italian descent, though other ethnic groups such as the British, Eastern Europeans, Arabs, Mestizos, Mulattoes and Asians also immigrated to Argentina. Sydney is home to the largest proportion of Latin American Australians - 66% of Uruguay-born, 62% of Peru-born, 47% each of Chile-born and Colombia-born,", "title": "Latin American Australians" }, { "id": "5087209", "text": "In total, there were 927,944 people who spoke a Chinese language at home, a figure which includes Mandarin, Cantonese and other Chinese languages such as Hokkien and Hakka. Second or higher generation Chinese Australians are often either monolingual in English or bilingual to varying degrees with Chinese. At the 2016 census, Sydney was home to 44% of the Mainland China-born population of Australia, while Melbourne was home to 31%. Brisbane had the largest Taiwanese-born population in the country. At the 2016 census, 487,976 (or 10.8%) of the inhabitants of Sydney who nominated their ancestry nominated Chinese ancestry solely or along", "title": "Chinese Australians" }, { "id": "10223302", "text": "per cent) and Dutch (1.6 per cent). Other most common ancestries in the top 10 were Chinese (4.0 per cent) and Indian (1.8 per cent). In the 2011 Census residents were asked to describe their ancestry, in which up to two could be nominated. Proportionate to the Australian resident population, the most commonly nominated ancestries were: In the 2011 census, 53.7% of people had both parents born in Australia and 34.3% of people had both parents born overseas. The data in the table is sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Note that population estimates in the table below do", "title": "Australians" }, { "id": "384010", "text": "Castle Hill, Seven Hills, Pendle Hill, Beaumont Hills, and Winston Hills, among others. Windsor and Old Windsor Roads are historic roads in Australia, as they are the second and third roads, respectively, laid in the colony. The greater western suburbs encompasses the areas of Parramatta, the sixth largest business district in Australia, settled the same year as the harbour-side colony, Bankstown, Liverpool, Penrith, and Fairfield. Covering and having an estimated resident population as at 30 June 2008 of 1,665,673, western Sydney has the most multicultural suburbs in the country. The population is predominantly of a working class background, with major", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "13522060", "text": "Anglo-Irish-Scots who arrived after 1850, or of Greeks, Italians, Hungarians, Balts, Poles and Germans who emigrated after 1945. The table shows the European-Australian population with a gradual increase from the late nineteenth century to gradually declining in the late 20th century to the most recent census in 2011. Australia enumerated its population by race between 1911 and 1966, by racial-origin in 1971 and 1976, and by self-declared ancestry since 1981. In the 2011 Census, Australians reported around 300 different ancestries. The most commonly reported ancestries were British (45 per cent) and Australian (33 per cent). A further 6 of the", "title": "European Australians" }, { "id": "5210620", "text": "second ancestry. Of the 422,234 people with Greek, Cypriot and Vlach ancestry, 42.9% live in Victoria, 33.6% live in New South Wales, 9.56% in South Australia, 7.46% in Queensland, 3.7% in Western Australia, 1.2% in the Australian Capital Territory, 1.01% in the Northern Territory, and 0.59% in Tasmania. Nearly two-thirds (32.8%) of these were born in Australia, and one-third overseas, mostly in Greece and Cyprus. The cities with the largest populations with Greek ancestry are Melbourne with 173,598, Sydney at 127,274, and Adelaide with 37,768 people of Greek descent. According to census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics", "title": "Greek Australians" }, { "id": "6446318", "text": "Italian Australians Italian Australians comprise the sixth largest ethnic group in Australia, with the 2016 census finding 4.6% of the population (1,000,013 people) claiming ancestry from Italy be they migrants to Australia or their descendants born in Australia of Italian heritage. The 2016 census counted 174,044 people (2.8% of the foreign born population) who were born in Italy, down from 199,124 in the 2006 census. In 2011, 916,100 persons identified themselves as having Italian ancestry, either alone or in combination with another ancestry (4.6%). By 2016, Italian was identified as the fifth most spoken language other than English with 271,597", "title": "Italian Australians" }, { "id": "384044", "text": "billion to the local economy and creates demand for 4,000 local jobs each year. The population of Sydney in 1788 was less than 1,000. With convict transportation it almost tripled in ten years to 2,953. For each decade since 1961 the population has increased by more than 250,000. Sydney's population at the time of the 2011 census was 4,391,674. It has been forecast that the population will grow to between 8 and 8.9 million by 2061. Despite this increase, the Australian Bureau of Statistics predicts that Melbourne will replace Sydney as Australia's most populous city by 2053. The four most", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "456314", "text": "were 69,664 (3.1%) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians living in Western Australia in the 2011 census. In terms of birthplace, in the 2011 census 33.2% of the population were born overseas – the highest proportion of any state or territory. People born in the United Kingdom (230,410), New Zealand (70,736) and South Africa (35,326) were the largest groups of immigrants, accounting for 45% of the state's overseas-born population. Perth's metropolitan area (including Mandurah) had an estimated population of 2,043,138 in June 2017 (79% of the state). Other significant population centres include Bunbury (73,989), Geraldton (37,961), Kalgoorlie-Boulder (30,420), Albany (33,998),", "title": "Western Australia" }, { "id": "5210602", "text": "Greek Australians Greek Australians (, ) comprise Australian citizens who have full or partial Greek heritage or people who sought asylum as refugees after the Greek Civil War or emigrated from Greece and reside in Australia. The 2016 census recorded 397,431 people of Greek ancestry, and 93,740 born in Greece, making Australia home to one of the largest Greek communities in the world. Greeks are the seventh largest ethnic group in Australia. In the 2011 census, 378,270 people reported to have Greek ancestry, either exclusively or in combination with another ethnic group, up from 365,147 in the 2006 census which", "title": "Greek Australians" }, { "id": "1712735", "text": "Australo-Melanesian In physical anthropology, forensic anthropology and archaeogenetics, Australo-Melanesians (variously also Australasian, Australoid, Australo-Veddoid or Veddoid) form a large group of populations indigenous to Maritime Southeast Asia and Oceania, one of the world's four major ancestry groups, the other three being Caucasoid (West Eurasian), Mongoloid (East/Central Asian) and Negroid (sub-Saharan African). The group includes Aboriginal Australians, Melanesians, the populations grouped as \"Negrito\" (the Andamanese, the Semang and Batek people, the Maniq people, the Aeta people, the Ati people, and various other ethnic groups in the Philippines), as well as certain tribes of India, the Vedda of Sri Lanka, and a", "title": "Australo-Melanesian" }, { "id": "18122554", "text": "Italian community of Melbourne The Italian community of Melbourne is the second largest ethnic group in Greater Melbourne, Australia, second to the Anglo-Celtic Australians ethnic group. The 2011 Census counted that of the 185,402 residents that were born in Italy who live in Australia, 68,823 lived in Melbourne, which was the highest percentage of the country at 37.1%. The same could be said for the total Australian population of Italian ancestry, with 279,112 of the 916,121 (30.4%) listed as Melbournian residents, which is the highest Italian population in Australia and the Oceanic continent per city. Inaugural records of the Italian", "title": "Italian community of Melbourne" }, { "id": "7555172", "text": "Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of / 1000000 round 0 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other", "title": "Australia" }, { "id": "12580861", "text": "become the largest city in Australia in 11 years. Almost a quarter of Victoria's population was born overseas, and the city is home to residents from 200 countries and territories, who speak over 233 languages and dialects and follow 116 religious faiths. Melbourne has the second largest Asian population in Australia, which includes the largest Indian and Sri Lankan communities in the country. The earliest known inhabitants of the broad area that later became known as Melbourne were Indigenous Australians – specifically, at the time of European settlement, the Bunurong, Wurundjeri and Wathaurong tribal groups. Melbourne is still a centre", "title": "Demographics of Melbourne" }, { "id": "6622129", "text": "Thailand and Cambodia. Similar trends can be traced between Christian migrants from Sri Lanka who now live in Australia. Sri Lankan Australians are the 12th largest ethnic group in Australia, numbering 86,412. The city of Melbourne contains just under half of the Sri Lankan Australians. Fewer than 20% are estimated to live outside New South Wales and Victoria. The number of Sri Lankan Australians counted in 1996, including the second-generation, was 64,068. The 2011 census recorded 86,412 Sri Lanka born in Australia, The rate of assimilation among Sri Lankan Australians is fairly high: among second-generation immigrants, the 'in-marriage' rate was", "title": "Sri Lankan Australians" }, { "id": "12296274", "text": "a presence in Auckland, making it by far the country's most cosmopolitan city. Europeans make up the majority of Auckland's population, however substantial numbers of Māori, Pacific Islander and Asian peoples exist as well. Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world. As of the 2013 census, the city has 13 ethnic groups constituting more than one percent of the population. New Zealand Europeans are the majority at 52.3 percent, with indigenous Māori making up 10.7 percent. Other significant ethnic groups present in Auckland include Chinese (8.4 percent), Indian (7.5 percent) and Samoan (7.2 percent). In", "title": "Auckland" }, { "id": "7556260", "text": "with Australia-wide data. The population of Australia was 2,250,194. At the time the Northern Territory was a territory of South Australia and had 3,451 people plus 6,346 Aboriginals in settled districts. Including its Northern Territory, South Australia had 286,211 people. The reported population of Western Australia did not include full-blood aborigines. The population of greater Melbourne was 282,947 and of Sydney was 224,939. In 1901, there were 3,773,801 people (1,977,928 males and 1,795,873 females) counted in Australia. Prior to Federation, each colony had been responsible for its own census collection. The census held during the first year of Federation, 1901,", "title": "Census in Australia" }, { "id": "10223297", "text": "Australian population reported mixed or multiple ancestries in the 2006 census. In 2006, 63% of the population had reported British ancestry, although many others reported their ancestry as simply \"Australian\". At the 2011 Census 2.4 million Australians (12%) declared that they had an Asian ancestral background. For the purposes of aggregating data, the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its \"Australian Standard Classification of Cultural and Ethnic Groups (ASCCEG)\" has grouped certain ethnic groups into certain categories, including East Asian e.g. Chinese Australians, Southeast Asian e.g. Vietnamese Australians, South Asian e.g. Indian Australians and Central Asian e.g. Afghan Australians. Indigenous Australians", "title": "Australians" }, { "id": "18082403", "text": "immigrated to Australia. Of them, 17,736 were from Africa, 54,804 from Asia, 21,131 from Oceania, 18,220 from United Kingdom, 1,506 from South America, and 2,369 from the rest of Europe. 131,000 people migrated to Australia in 2005-06 and migration target for 2012–13 is 190,000. Australia and Switzerland, with about a quarter of their population born outside the country, are the two countries with the highest proportion of immigrants in the world. New Zealand has relatively open immigration policies. 23% of the population was born overseas, mainly in Asia, Oceania, and UK, one of the highest rates in the world. Immigration", "title": "Immigration by country" }, { "id": "384048", "text": "Scottish. Foreign countries of birth with the greatest representation are England, China, India, New Zealand and Vietnam. The concentration of immigrants in Sydney, relative to the rest of Australia (excluding Melbourne), make it the exception rather than the norm on having such a high overseas-born population. Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is rich in Indigenous Australian heritage, containing around 1,500 pieces of Aboriginal rock art – the largest cluster of Indigenous sites in Australia, surpassing Kakadu, which has around 5,000 sites but over a much greater land mass. The park's indigenous sites include rock engravings, art sites, burial sites, caves, marriage", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "13722906", "text": "cultural identity. It is now often used to refer to the notion that people in Australia have multiple cultural or ethnic backgrounds. The overall level of immigration to Australia has grown during the last decades. Net overseas immigrants increased from 30,000 in 1993 to 118,000 in 2003–04, and 200,000 in 2015. According to the 2011 census, 26% of the population were born overseas, with a further 20% having at least one parent born overseas. Of the population born overseas, 82% lived in the capital cities. Aboriginal Australians make up approximately 2.5% of the population. As of 2008, Australia was ranked", "title": "Multiculturalism in Australia" }, { "id": "8750407", "text": "in Sydney. Seven out of every ten Lebanese migrants in Australia live in Sydney. The Ghanaian community has been noted as being quite visible in Sydney, with the number of Ghanaian churches being unusually large considering the relatively small number of Ghanaians in Australia. Furthermore, the suburb of Fairfield in the Greater Western Sydney area, is an ethnic enclave of Assyrian Christians, where they are the largest ethnic group in the suburb and also in the surrounding areas of Fairfield Heights, Prairiewood and Greenfield Park. The most common languages spoken at home are English (the sole language of 60.8% of", "title": "Demographics of Sydney" }, { "id": "2031218", "text": "(45.6%). Their median age was 53 years, fifteen years older than the national median of 38. Children under 15 made up 13.8% of the population, and people aged 65 years and over made up 26.9%. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 4.1% of the population. Most (71.2%) were born in Australia; the next most common countries of birth were England 5.1%, Serbia 2.5%, Germany 1.9%, United States of America 1.9% and Croatia 1.3%. The most common religious affiliation was \"No Religion\" 36.8%, followed by Catholic 20.7%, and Anglican 10.2%. Its main industry was mining. Since the establishment of", "title": "Andamooka, South Australia" }, { "id": "6446388", "text": "distribution. Italian Australians Italian Australians comprise the sixth largest ethnic group in Australia, with the 2016 census finding 4.6% of the population (1,000,013 people) claiming ancestry from Italy be they migrants to Australia or their descendants born in Australia of Italian heritage. The 2016 census counted 174,044 people (2.8% of the foreign born population) who were born in Italy, down from 199,124 in the 2006 census. In 2011, 916,100 persons identified themselves as having Italian ancestry, either alone or in combination with another ancestry (4.6%). By 2016, Italian was identified as the fifth most spoken language other than English with", "title": "Italian Australians" }, { "id": "10223290", "text": "Anglo-Celtic heritage. Australian culture has diverged significantly since British settlement. Australians are referred to as \"Aussie\" and \"Antipodean\". Australians were historically referred to as \"Colonials\", \"British\" and \"British subjects\". Australian identity draws on a multicultural, European and British cultural heritage. Today, Australians of English and other European descent are the majority in Australia, estimated at around 70% of the total population. Historically, European immigrants had great influence over Australian history and society, which resulted in the perception of Australia as a Western country. Since soon after the beginning of British settlement in 1788, people of European descent have formed the", "title": "Australians" }, { "id": "13362059", "text": "Australia. The citizenship take-up rate is highest among the earlier settlers, who have been established longer. 91.6% of Egypt-born residents were Australian citizens, followed by immigrants born in Lebanon (91.3%), Syria (86.2%), Somalia (70.1%), and Iraq (68.1%). Jammin' in the Middle E is an Australia drama backgrounded on the inhabitants of Western Sydney. Arab Australians Arab Australians refers to Australian citizens or residents with ancestry from the Middle East and North Africa, regardless of their ethnic origins. The majority are not ethnically Arab but numerous groups who include Arabs, Kurds, Copts, Druze, Maronites, Assyrians, Berbers, Turkmen and others. The majority", "title": "Arab Australians" }, { "id": "384033", "text": "city in the world and is the most expensive city in Australia. To compensate, workers receive the seventh highest wage levels of any city in the world. Sydney's residents possess the highest purchasing power of any city after Zürich. Working residents of Sydney work an average of 1,846 hours per annum with 15 days of leave. The labour force of Greater Sydney Region in 2016 was 2,272,722 with a participation rate of 61.6%. It was made up of 61.2% full-time workers, 30.9% part-time workers, and 6.0% unemployed individuals. The largest reported occupations are professionals, clerical and administrative workers, managers, technicians", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "8804923", "text": "American Australians American Australians are Australian citizens who are of American descent, including immigrants and residents who are descended from migrants from the United States of America and its territories. This can include people of European, African American, American Indian, Hispanic or Latin American, Asian, or Pacific Islander backgrounds. At the 2006 Australian Census, 71,718 Australian residents declared that they were American-born. Concentrations of American-born residents were in Sydney (16,339), Melbourne (11,130), Brisbane (6,057), Perth (5,558), Adelaide (2,862), and Canberra (1,970). Also at the census, residents could nominate up to two ancestries; 56,283 respondents declared they had American ancestry with", "title": "American Australians" }, { "id": "14153278", "text": "had risen to 146,000 by 2006. When those with a Chinese parent were added in the number rose to 292,400, and these figures do not include any of the descendents of the story told here. Areas of most dramatic population growth have been the City of Sydney and Hurstville, with growing numbers in Auburn, Parramatta, Ryde, Hornsby and Willoughby. In 21st Century, Many Chinese students immigrate to Australia through 189 visa (Independent skilled visa) and 190 (Nominated dependent visa). Moreover, many Chinese rich-men immigrate to Australia by investor visa or investment visa. \"This Wikipedia article is substantially built upon the", "title": "Chinese immigration to Sydney" }, { "id": "613211", "text": "English 37%, Irish 11%, Italian 5%, German 4.3%, Scottish 3%, Greek 2%, Former Yugoslav 1.8%, Dutch 1.5%, Polish 0.9%. Australians of some non-European origin form a significant but still relatively small part of the population: Chinese 3.2%, Indian 0.9%, Lebanese 0.9%, Vietnamese 0.9%. About 2.2% identified themselves as Indigenous Australians. 39% of the population gave their ancestry as \"Australian\". The Australian census does not classify people according to race, only ethnic ancestry. Respondents were permitted to select more than one answer for this census question. 15% of the population now speaks a language other than English at home. The most", "title": "White Australia policy" }, { "id": "17055087", "text": "Tongan Australians Tongan Australians are Australians who are of ethnic Tongan descent or Tonga-born people. According to the 2011 Australian census 10,560 Australians were born in Tonga, while 25,096 claimed Tongan ancestry. In 2006, 18,426 claimed Tongan ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry. Tongan migrants to Australia have tended to make their homes in the \"arrival city\" suburbs of Sydney's west. This pattern began in the 1970s, intensified in the 1980s, and continues today. As of 2011, over 60% of Tongan-born Australians live in the state of New South Wales. The 2006 Australian census recorded that the majority of", "title": "Tongan Australians" }, { "id": "13418290", "text": "ethnic origin (the majority partnered with persons of Australian or Anglo-Celtic background, which constitutes the majority ethnic grouping in Australia). In 2009, about 25.6 per cent of the estimated resident population of Australia comprised those born overseas. Indigenous peoples of Australia who had lived in Australia for at least 65,000+ years before the arrival of British settlers in 1788, were dispossessed from their land in 1788 by Britain, which claimed Eastern Australia as its own on the basis of the now discredited doctrine of \"terra nullius\". Initially, indigenous Australians were in most states deprived of the rights of full citizenship", "title": "Racism in Australia" }, { "id": "13418295", "text": "in 1991 as 282,979, in 1996 as 386,049, and 427,094 in 2001. In the 2016 Australian Census 649,200 people, or 2.8% of the total Australian population, self-declared themselves to be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ancestry. In 2009, around 20% of the Australian land-mass (including Tasmania and offshore islands) was owned by Aboriginal people. Despite indigenous peoples being recognized under British common law as British subjects, with equal rights under the law, colonial government policy and public opinion often treated Aboriginal peoples as inferior. The \"Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948\", which came into force on 26 January 1949, created", "title": "Racism in Australia" }, { "id": "7556258", "text": "to Australian needs and was developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The classification is based on the self-perceived group identification approach, using a self assessed response to a direct question. This approach measures the extent to which individuals associate with particular cultural or ethnic groups. Australia's first census was held in November 1828 in the colony of New South Wales. Previous government statistical reports had been taken from \"musters\" where inhabitants were brought together for counting. In 1828, the white population was 36,598 of whom 20,870 were free and 15,728 were convicts. 23.8% of the population were born in", "title": "Census in Australia" }, { "id": "11650458", "text": "Spanish Australians Spanish Australians refers to Australian citizens and residents of Spanish descent, or people who were born in Spain and emigrated to Australia. There are approximately 58,271 Australians who are full or partial Spanish descent, most of whom reside within the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, with lesser but rapidly growing numbers in Brisbane (which has over 15,000) and Perth. Of these, according to the 2006 Australian census, 12,276 were born in Spain. Torres Strait was discovered by Luis Váez de Torres in 1606. The Abbey of New Norcia was established by Spanish Benedictines in 1847 as a", "title": "Spanish Australians" }, { "id": "10689331", "text": "respondents declared they were Aboriginal, 32,345 declared they were Torres Strait Islander, and a further 26,767 declared they were both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. The total Indigenous population was estimated to be 649,171, representing about 2.8% of the population. Based on census data, the preliminary estimate of Indigenous resident population of Australia was 649,171, broken down as follows: The state with the largest total Indigenous population is New South Wales. Indigenous Australians constitute 2.9% of the overall population of the state. The Northern Territory has the largest Indigenous population in percentage terms for a state or territory, with 25.5%", "title": "Indigenous Australians" }, { "id": "768103", "text": "Australia's population more than doubled, spurred by large-scale European immigration during the immediate post-war decades. At this time, the White Australia policy discouraged non-European immigration. Abolition of the White Australia Policy in the mid-1970s led to a significant increase in non-European immigration, mostly from Asia. Until the Second World War, the vast majority of settlers and immigrants came from the British Isles, and a majority of Australians have some British or Irish ancestry. These Australians form an ethnic group known as Anglo-Celtic Australians. In the 2016 Australian census, the most commonly nominated ancestries were: At the 2016 census, 47.3% of", "title": "Demography of Australia" }, { "id": "2277032", "text": "and membership of volunteer defence organisations grew to over 80,000. The main Japanese naval advance towards Australian territory was however halted with the assistance of the United States Navy, in May 1942, at the Battle of the Coral Sea and by the end of 1943, the Japanese had abandoned submarine operations in Australian waters. Following the Second World War, the Australian government launched a largescale multicultural immigration program. Consequently, Sydney experienced population growth and increased cultural diversification throughout the post-war period. New industries such as information technology, education, financial services and the arts have risen. During the post war period,", "title": "History of Sydney" }, { "id": "5087196", "text": "Chinese Australians Chinese Australians () are Australian citizens of Chinese ancestry. Chinese Australians are one of the largest groups of Overseas Chinese people, forming the largest Overseas Chinese community in Oceania. Per capita, Australia has more people of Chinese ancestry than any country outside Asia. Many Chinese Australians have immigrated from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and other countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, while many are descendants of such immigrants. Chinese Australians are also a subgroup of Asian Australians and East Asian Australians and represent the single largest minority ethnicity in the country. As a", "title": "Chinese Australians" }, { "id": "3241117", "text": "schools and churches also have halls and other facilities that can be made available for community uses. Formerly the American International School of Sydney was located here. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2016 Census, Epping had a population of 23,688, of whom 11,697 (49.4%) were male and 11,992 (50.6%) were female. 41.4% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were China 18.9%, South Korea 7.4%, India 6.0%, Hong Kong 5.4% and Malaysia 1.8%. 38.5% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 20.6%, Cantonese 12.0%, Korean 9.1%,", "title": "Epping, New South Wales" }, { "id": "10175412", "text": "and Mississauga (22% South Asian). Notably, South Asians are the fastest growing minority group in the distant Toronto suburbs of Milton and Ajax, and numerous Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim places of worship have been built in those areas. Australia is also undergoing a shift in its demography with large numbers of Asian immigrants settling in the country. From 2010 to 2011, Australia recorded 14,611 settlers from China and according to the 2011 census, there were 393,924 people in Australia born in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Sydney had nearly half of all Chinese-born citizens (46.6%) and Melbourne had slightly over", "title": "Ethnoburb" }, { "id": "383981", "text": "more active roles in war work. Consequently, Sydney experienced population growth and increased cultural diversification throughout the post-war period. The people of Sydney warmly welcomed Queen Elizabeth II in 1954 when the reigning monarch stepped onto Australian soil for the first time to commence her Australian Royal Tour. Having arrived on the Royal Yacht Britannia through Sydney Heads, Her Majesty came ashore at Farm Cove. There were 1.7 million people living in Sydney at 1950 and almost 3 million by 1975. The Australian government launched a large scale multicultural immigration program. New industries such as information technology, education, financial services", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "768090", "text": "Demography of Australia The demography of Australia covers basic statistics, most populous cities, ethnicity and religion. The population of Australia is estimated to be as of 23 2019. Australia is the 52nd most populous country in the world and the most populous Oceanian country. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas and is expected to exceed 28 million by 2030. Australia's population has grown from an estimated population of between 300,000 and 1,000,000 at the time of British settlement in 1788 due to numerous waves of immigration during the period since. Also due to immigration from other continents, the", "title": "Demography of Australia" }, { "id": "9978420", "text": "(35/115), and Zimbabwe (467/848). Some African immigrants have also arrived via a secondary migration from New Zealand, where they are citizens. In the 2011–2012 fiscal year, these New Zealand nationals were mainly originally from Libya (31/76). Across Australia's major cities, immigration from Africa is varied depending on country of origin. While Egyptian, Nigerian, and Ghanaian migrants overwhelmingly head for Sydney, Mauritian and Sudanese migrant communities are largest in Melbourne. As of 2013, the Australian Special Broadcasting Service broadcasts in six new languages spoken by the growing migrant and refugee communities from Africa and Asia. Among these are Dinka of South", "title": "African Australians" }, { "id": "15623486", "text": "New South Wales was home to the second largest Kiwi-born population with 114,231 people of which 81,064 were located in its largest city, Sydney. The third largest population was found in the state of Victoria with 80,235 people. The state of Western Australia had the fourth largest population with 70,735 people of which 33,751 were located in the city of Perth. New Zealand citizens have a high labour-force participation rate (78.2 per cent at July 2012) compared with those born in Australia (68.0 per cent). New Zealanders living in Australia also have a higher median weekly income ($760) than Australians", "title": "New Zealand Australians" }, { "id": "3403739", "text": "aged 15 years and over, 25.7% were married and 9.1% were either divorced or separated. Population growth in the City of Sydney between the 2006 Census and the 2011 Census was 4.57%; with a significant increase of 22.93% between 2011 and 2016. When compared with total population growth of Australia of 8.81% between 2011 and 2016, population growth in the Sydney local government area was almost triple the national average. The median weekly income for residents within the City of Sydney was just under 1.5 times the national average. The proportion of dwellings in the City of Sydney that are", "title": "City of Sydney" }, { "id": "6308775", "text": "Master Plan 2030 vision is that the Park will, by 2030, be home to a daily population of 50,000 residents, students and workers, in addition to 10 million visitors per year. In the 2016 Census, there were 1,736 people in Sydney Olympic Park. 22.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were China 19.8% and South Korea 10.5%. 22.2% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 20.1% and Korean 11.8%. The most common response for religion was No Religion at 36.6%. Sydney Olympic Park is managed by", "title": "Sydney Olympic Park" }, { "id": "5285928", "text": "where a minority population is the majority. These regions are generally the result of historical population distributions, not because of recent immigration or recent differences in birth and fertility rates between various groups. It is estimated that Europeans first outnumbered Indigenous Australians in Australia in the 1840s. There are still a number of rural and regional towns and communities where Indigenous Australians outnumber Europeans. Anglo-Celtic Australians, who make up 74% of Australia's population, have become a minority in some of Sydney's western suburbs in the late-twentieth century. Fairfield and Cabramatta in Fairfield City Council, Lakemba and Bankstown in Canterbury-Bankstown Council,", "title": "Majority minority" }, { "id": "13522048", "text": "European Australians European Australians are citizens or residents of Australia whose ancestry originates from the peoples of Europe. Since the early 19th century, people of European descent have formed the vast majority of the population in Australia. The majority of European Australians are of British Isles – English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh or Cornish (Anglo-Celtic) – ancestral origin. In 2010, it was estimated that around 74% of the Australian population were Anglo-Celtic Australians and close to 20% being of other European origins. Other significant ancestries include Italian, German, Greek, Dutch, New Zealanders (European New Zealanders), Polish, Maltese and Croatian. Today, Australians", "title": "European Australians" }, { "id": "8382718", "text": "who use Tamil at home as 32,700 and who use Sinhalese at home as 29,055. Sydney has 53,000 Indians and 18,000 Sri Lankans. Census 2001 recorded 53,610 Sri Lanka-born persons in Australia, an increase of 14 per cent from 1996. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 26,670 followed by New South Wales (16,910), Queensland (3,990) and Western Australia (2,970). In 2001, of Sri Lanka-born people aged 15 years and over, 57.1 per cent held some form of educational or occupational qualification compared with 46.2 per cent for all Australians. Among the Sri", "title": "Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora" }, { "id": "9839340", "text": "Also in that time, 54% belong to the Assyrian Church of the East, 27% belonged to the Chaldean Catholic Church and 7% to the Orthodox church. In the 2001 census, 9,520 Fairfield LGA residents stated they were of Assyrian ancestry and 8,879 residents stated they spoke Assyrian at home. The Assyrian-speakers living in NSW were 13,241 at that time. In the 2011 Census, Sydney had 21,678 people of Assyrian descent, and Melbourne had 8,057. Assyrians are the third largest language-group residing in the Fairfield area behind the Arabic and Vietnamese-speakers, respectively. According to the 2001 census, 29% of Assyrian migrants", "title": "Assyrian Australians" }, { "id": "1299886", "text": "population of 28,893 people. 61% of the population was born in Australia, compared with the national average of 67%. Indigenous Australians make up 1.6% of the population, and the largest overseas-born groups come from England (8.8%), Italy (3.1%), New Zealand (2.4%), Scotland (1.1%) and Ireland (1.0%). After English, the most common language spoken at home is Italian (4.5%), followed by French (1.0%), Portuguese (0.9%), German (0.9%) and Spanish (0.8%). In 2016, Fremantle had an unemployment rate of 7.4%. The city has an above-average proportion of rented dwellings (33.5%, vs 30.9% nationally). 42% of the population had no religion, 23% of", "title": "Fremantle" }, { "id": "6497380", "text": "the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 following a vote to Federate with the other British colonies of Australia. Through the 20th century, the state was a major destination for an increasingly diverse collection of migrants from many nations. In the 21st century, the state is the most populous in Australia, and its capital, Sydney is a major financial capital and host to international cultural and economic events. The first people to occupy the area now known as New South Wales were Australian Aborigines. Their presence in Australia began around 40,000–60,000 years ago with the arrival of the first of their", "title": "History of New South Wales" }, { "id": "12239221", "text": "French Australians French Australians (), some of whom refer to themselves as Huguenots, are Australian citizens or residents of French ancestry, or French-born people who reside in Australia. According to the 2011 Census, there were 110,399 people of French descent in Australia and 24,675 French-born people residing in the country at the time of the census, representing an increase of 28.6 percent compared to the 2006 Census. The largest French Australian community is in the state of New South Wales, where they number 8,936 people–a large number of these people reside in Sydney. According to the 2006 Australian census, 98,332", "title": "French Australians" }, { "id": "6254269", "text": "some form of organised sport. Second and third generation Chinese and Indian Australians are already present in large numbers. Sydney and Melbourne have made up a large proportion of Asian immigration, with Chinese Australians constituting Sydney's fourth largest ancestry (after English, Australian and Irish). Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese-Australians are among Sydney's five largest overseas-born communities. Asian Australians by Greater Sydney region (2011 census): Asian Australians by Melbourne region (2011 census): Asian Australians Asian Australians are Australians who trace their ancestry back to Asia. For the purposes of aggregating data, the Australian Bureau of Statistics in its \"Australian Standard Classification of", "title": "Asian Australians" }, { "id": "20368636", "text": "53.2% were female. The enumeration of Norfolk Island was an area of special attention for the ABS. Of all residents over two thirds (66.7% or 15,614,835) were born in Australia. Over a quarter of the population (26.3% or 6,163,667 persons) said they were born overseas, plus 1.6 million did not state any response. The proportion of overseas-born people from Asia has increased from 33% in 2011 to 40%, while Europe has declined from 40% in 2011 to 34% in 2016. However, England (907,572 or 3.9% of Australia's population) remains the most common country of birth, followed by New Zealand (518,466", "title": "2016 Australian census" }, { "id": "10317787", "text": "Japanese Australians In the 2006 Census 30,778 Japanese-born residents were counted in Australia. This number excludes Australian-born persons of Japanese ancestry, and Japanese in Australia as overseas visitors (and would include non-Japanese born in Japan). Of this number 24,373 spoke Japanese at home, and 40,968 declared Japanese ancestry (including those who claimed other ancestries). Sydney had the largest population of Japanese born (10,020), followed by Melbourne (5,287), Brisbane (3,300) and the Gold Coast (3,148). Only 4,643 Japanese-born residents have since acquired Australian citizenship (discouraged perhaps because Japanese citizenship does not recognise multiple citizenship for its citizens aged over 22). Japanese", "title": "Japanese Australians" }, { "id": "5285929", "text": "and Auburn in Cumberland Council, are one of the largest non-Anglo suburbs in Australia. Here is a list of the suburbs in Sydney's metropolitan area where non-Anglo ethnic groups are the majority: Visible minority majorities in different Canadian municipalities: British Columbia Ontario Brazil has become a majority \"non-White\" country as of the 2010 census, together with the federative units of Espírito Santo, the Federal District, Goiás, and Minas Gerais. Those identifying as White declined to 47.7% (about 91 million people) in the 2010 census from 52.9% (about 93 million people) in 2000 in the entire country. However, in Brazil, this", "title": "Majority minority" }, { "id": "384076", "text": "for the colony from the 1870s when public schools began to form and schooling became compulsory. The population of Sydney is now highly educated. 90% of working age residents have completed some schooling and 57% have completed the highest level of school. 1,390,703 people were enrolled in an educational institution in 2011 with 45.1% of these attending school and 16.5% studying at a university. Undergraduate or postgraduate qualifications are held by 22.5% of working age Sydney residents and 40.2% of working age residents of the City of Sydney. The most common fields of tertiary qualification are commerce (22.8%), engineering (13.4%),", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "11505740", "text": "European descent) Argentina: 79% of the population or 38,900,000, may include an unknown percentage of mestizos and mulattos. Other sources put 86.4% of the population. Falkland Islanders mainly European of British descent—total population 3,140. Total population of Europeans in Oceania is approximately 23,185,000 or approximately 22,818,000 excluding Hawaii. The majority of Australians of European descent are of English 36.1%, Irish 11.0%, Scottish 9.3%, Italian 4.6%, German 4.5%, Greek 1.8% and Dutch 1.6%. A large proportion —33.5%— chose to identify as ‘Australian’, however the census Bureau has stated that most of these are of old Anglo-Celtic colonial stock. Europeans historically (especially", "title": "European emigration" }, { "id": "4947188", "text": "Nambour and other centres. Census populations for the Buderim urban centre have been recorded since 1933. Due to a substantial redefinition of Buderim before the 2001 census, the first column records the UC/L population to 1996 and its component parts thereafter; the second records the SLA based on time series data. According to the , Buderim had a population of 29,355, largely made of people of European descent. Buderim has the largest communities of Australians with English (13,685; 32.9%), Irish (4,059; 9.8%), Scottish (3,885; 9.3%), German (1,955; 4.7%), Dutch (586; 2.0%), and Welsh ancestry (313; 1.1%) out of any suburb", "title": "Buderim" }, { "id": "383965", "text": "they were confused and somewhat hostile towards the foreign visitors. Cook was on a mission of exploration and was not commissioned to start a settlement. He spent a short time collecting food and conducting scientific observations before continuing further north along the east coast of Australia and claiming the new land he had discovered for Britain. Prior to the arrival of the British there were 4,000 to 8,000 native people in Sydney from as many as 29 different clans. The earliest British settlers called the natives Eora people. \"Eora\" is the term the indigenous population used to explain their origins", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "15117761", "text": "any citizen or resident of the United Kingdom who is of Spanish ancestral origin. Famous Spaniards in the United Kingdom: John Galliano, Patrick Murray, Geri Halliwell, John Garcia Thompson, Roland Orzabal, Michael Portillo, Lita Roza, Mary I, Edward II, Jay Rodriguez. There are approximately 78,271 Australians of Spanish descent, most of which reside within the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, with lesser numbers in Brisbane and Perth. Of these, according to the 2006 Australian census, 12,276 were born in Spain. There are approximately 2,043 New Zealanders who are full or partial Spanish descent, most of whom reside within the", "title": "Spanish diaspora" }, { "id": "384058", "text": "nightspots are found at Kings Cross, Oxford Street, Circular Quay, and The Rocks. The Star is the city's only casino and is situated around Darling Harbour. The indigenous people of Sydney held totemic beliefs known as \"dreamings\". Governor Lachlan Macquarie made an effort to found a culture of formal religion throughout the early settlement and ordered the construction of churches such as St Matthew's, St Luke's, St James's, and St Andrew's. According to 2011 census, these and other religious institutions have contributed to the education and health of Sydney's residents over time. 28.3% identify themselves as Catholic, whilst 17.6% practice", "title": "Sydney" }, { "id": "2276981", "text": "dates of 45,000 to 50,000 years BP. This would mean that there was human settlement in Sydney earlier than thought. Prior to the arrival of the British there were 4,000 to 8,000 native people in the Sydney area from as many as 29 different clans. Sydney Cove from Port Jackson to Petersham was inhabited by the Cadigal clan. The principal language groups were Darug, Guringai, and Dharawal. The earliest Europeans to visit the area noted that the indigenous people were conducting activities such as camping and fishing, using trees for bark and food, collecting shells, and cooking fish. The area", "title": "History of Sydney" }, { "id": "5210619", "text": "2016 recorded 93,740 Greece-born people in Australia, a fall of 6.2 per cent from the 2011 Census. The 2011 distribution by state and territory showed Victoria had the largest number of Greek-born people with 47,236 followed by New South Wales (29,479), South Australia (8,681), Queensland (3,304) and Western Australia (2,308). With regards to the total number of people with Greek, Cypriot or Vlach ancestry, either exclusively or in combination with a non-Greek ethnic group, there are 422,234 Greeks according to the 2016 census. 316,351 (74.9%) recorded Greek, Cypriot or Vlach as their first ancestral response, and 105,883 (25.1%) as their", "title": "Greek Australians" }, { "id": "11768316", "text": "live in Sydney and Melbourne. Argentine Australians Argentine Australians are Australian citizens of Argentine descent or birth. According to the 2011 Census there were 9,879 Australians who claimed full or partial Argentine ancestry and 11,985 Argentina-born citizens who were residing in Australia at the moment of the census. Argentines are the fifth largest Latin American group in Australia after Chileans, Salvadorans, Colombians and Brazilians. According to the Australian census 11,985 Australians were born in Argentina while 9,875 claimed Argentine ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry. Immigration from Argentina to Australia dates back to 1891, when the colonial census conducted", "title": "Argentine Australians" }, { "id": "299365", "text": "such as Mandarin, Italian, Arabic, Polish, Hindi, German, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese and Greek, among others, namely in Australia and New Zealand, or Fiji Hindi in Fiji. The most multicultural areas in Oceania, which have a high degree of immigration, are Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. Since 1945, more than 7 million people have settled in Australia. From the late 1970s, there was a significant increase in immigration from Asian and other non-European countries, making Australia a multicultural country. Sydney is the most multicultural city in Oceania, having more than 250 different languages spoken with about 40 percent of residents speaking", "title": "Oceania" }, { "id": "10223304", "text": "number of Australians who currently are dual citizens. In 2000, it was estimated to be 4 to 5 million people. The current Australian population is estimated at (23 2019). This does not include an estimated 1 million Australians living overseas, but it includes the estimated 24% of Australians born overseas (in various nations, but predominantly the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Italy, China, Vietnam, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, and Greece). There are an estimated 1 million Australians (approximately 5% of the population) residing outside Australia. The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement facilitates open migration to and from New Zealand. Although Australia has no", "title": "Australians" }, { "id": "12774121", "text": "Papua New Guinea has more languages than any other country, with over 820 indigenous languages, representing 12% of the world's total, but most have fewer than 1,000 speakers. Since 1945, more than 7 million people have settled in Australia. From the late 1970s, there was a significant increase in immigration from Asian and other non-European countries, making Australia a multicultural country. Sydney is the most multicultural city in Oceania, having more than 250 different languages spoken with about 40 percent of residents speaking a language other than English at home. Furthermore, 36 percent of the population reported having been born", "title": "Australia (continent)" }, { "id": "1712750", "text": "a study that contradicts the alleged Australo-Melanesian physical appearance of Luzia. Using DNA sequencing, the results showed that Luzia had Mongoloid features. Australo-Melanesian In physical anthropology, forensic anthropology and archaeogenetics, Australo-Melanesians (variously also Australasian, Australoid, Australo-Veddoid or Veddoid) form a large group of populations indigenous to Maritime Southeast Asia and Oceania, one of the world's four major ancestry groups, the other three being Caucasoid (West Eurasian), Mongoloid (East/Central Asian) and Negroid (sub-Saharan African). The group includes Aboriginal Australians, Melanesians, the populations grouped as \"Negrito\" (the Andamanese, the Semang and Batek people, the Maniq people, the Aeta people, the Ati people,", "title": "Australo-Melanesian" } ]

[ "Miguel's brother Hector" ]

[ { "id": "15145454", "text": "taunts Billy and tries to get Billy to fight him. At a charity event for the orphanage where he and his wife both grew up, Escobar is in attendance, and as Billy is leaving, Escobar threatens he'll take Maureen and his title away from him, and while Maureen tells Billy to let it go and go home with her, Billy's anger gets the best of him, leading to a brawl in which Maureen is accidentally shot and killed by Miguel's brother Hector, who flees. Billy begins abusing alcohol and drugs while obsessively searching for Hector. He eventually gets a tip", "title": "Southpaw (film)" }, { "id": "15145452", "text": "Southpaw (film) Southpaw is a 2015 American sports drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Kurt Sutter and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker and Rachel McAdams. The film follows a boxer who sets out to get his life back on track after losing his wife in an accident and his young daughter to protective services. The film was released on July 24, 2015, by The Weinstein Company. The film marked one of the last films to be scored by James Horner, and one of three posthumous releases to feature his music. The film and the film's soundtrack album are", "title": "Southpaw (film)" }, { "id": "5437411", "text": "paint can in the woods of a golf course in southern New Jersey and her legs farther north, then dumping her remaining torso and arms into the East River around New York City. Balch's remains were unidentified until 2013. Over the next four years, it is presumed he killed 16 more women. After his final arrest in 1993, he was implicated in the murder of a woman whose severed head was discovered on a Hopewell, New Jersey, golf course on March 5, 1989. In 2013, investigators determined this victim, a sex worker named Heidi Balch, was the same woman he", "title": "Joel Rifkin" }, { "id": "4753761", "text": "Chrissie Watts Chrissie Watts is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera \"EastEnders\", played by Tracy-Ann Oberman. She first appeared on 29 April 2004 as the second wife of the show's \"most enduring character\", Den Watts (Leslie Grantham), becoming a prominent regular for the next 18 months. In 2005, Chrissie was the focus of one of \"the programme's biggest and most high-profile narratives\" when she murdered her husband in a fit of rage during the special 20th anniversary episode. The broadcast, airing on 18 February, was watched by 14.34 million people, with \"almost 60% of possible viewers\" tuning in", "title": "Chrissie Watts" }, { "id": "13747898", "text": "As they flee, the sheriff's friend, the trading post owner, named Copeland, takes down his old long-range buffalo rifle and fires a shot that kills Deans' horse, breaking his leg. Billy builds a travois on which Deans can ride, dragged behind Billy's horse. Billy and Deans encounter Spencer and his wife, Esther, at their remote homestead. Deans persuades Spencer to take him in his wagon to get horses on the condition that Billy stay with Esther to protect her and the homestead from marauding Indians. Billy is also to keep a look out for the pursuing Gifford. Billy and Esther", "title": "Billy Two Hats" }, { "id": "15145455", "text": "about Hector's whereabouts but only finds Hector's drug-addicted wife Maria, and leaves after learning Hector is a father. Billy attacks a referee out of frustration after throwing a fight and is suspended for a year, leaving him with no income and a six figure fine for ref assault. Furthermore, the networks are suing him for breach of contract, leaving him indebted and his house and belongings being repossessed. He continues to spiral out of control and nearly dies after crashing his car in a suicide attempt; he loses custody of Leila as a result, and she is put under care", "title": "Southpaw (film)" }, { "id": "13214816", "text": "sending him threatening notes for several months. Billy's granddaughter Lola Pearce (Danielle Harold) was introduced as a new teenage troublemaker, and became pregnant by Ben, her distant relative, when they tested his sexuality. Ben's stalking actions were revealed when an old Mitchell adversary, D.C.I. Jill Marsden (Sophie Stanton) returns to arrest him, accusing him of murdering Stella Crawford after her abuse of Ben was exposed. Phil was sent to prison, but found not guilty. Ben panicked about his father's return, and while arguing with Shirley's best friend Heather Trott (Cheryl Fergison), he lost control and killed her. Phil covers up", "title": "Mitchell family" }, { "id": "9828597", "text": "was dismembered. He said he then took the remains to nearby Stony Creek Metro Park in Shelby Township and disposed of the body parts there. However, upon learning that police would soon be conducting a search in that area, Grant returned to the Metro Park and recovered the torso of Tara Grant. He returned home and hid the remains in black plastic garbage bags in the garage. According to his spoken and written confessions, Stephen Grant killed his wife during an argument, after she had slapped and belittled him. The veracity of his statements has not yet been determined. He", "title": "Murder of Tara Lynn Grant" }, { "id": "6829960", "text": "that he managed to get his wife on the table by telling her a doctor was coming to \"perform some kind of operation on her for pregnancy.\" Hope watched as Ray put Mary Emma's foot in the box with the two snakes, which bit her, then left the house to return and pick up his wife. Returning to the house at 1:30 a.m. Hope found that Mary was still alive. Drunk and outraged, Ray took her to the bathtub, drowned her, and put her body by the fish pond in their backyard in an attempt to make it look like", "title": "Rattlesnake James" }, { "id": "8429567", "text": "is later exposed. The revelation affects his relationship with Daz. Tittensor said that \"Daz confronts Billy and has a massive go at him\". Billy is featured in the serial's 35th anniversary storyline. After Victoria exposed his affairs and causes him to lose \"love of his life\", he gets revenge by telling her that Jack killed her mother Sarah Sugden (Alyson Spiro). Victoria then starts a fire at her family home. Billy enters the burning house and save the Sugdens out of guilt. Having been released from prison, Billy arrives in the village to see his son Andy, who is fostered", "title": "Billy Hopwood" }, { "id": "14791148", "text": "to Susan's place and there Bonnie confesses to being Daryl's mother and killing Emily. She killed Emily during the robbery because she was jealous of her. She had given up her child to be with Shaka. And then Shaka left her for the woman she had given the child to. Later Shaka killed their bank robbery accomplice, Rob, as he was the only one that knew Bonnie killed Emily. Sonny Karnofsky then killed Shaka because he didn't want his daughter with a black man. He then arranged for her to marry a man named Ziggy. Spenser calls Sonny and has", "title": "Back Story" }, { "id": "5428183", "text": "back for a few days. He is confronted by three strangers looking to kill him; all three are killed in the subsequent shootout, helped by another stranger called Alias (Bob Dylan), who kills one of the men with a knife through the neck. Alias had witnessed Billy's escape from the Lincoln County Jail. Garrett meets up with Sheriff Colin Baker (Slim Pickens), hoping he can provide information on Billy's whereabouts. Baker and his wife (Katy Jurado) go with Garrett to arrest some of Billy's old gang. In a gunfight, the gang members including Black Harris (L. Q. Jones) are killed", "title": "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" }, { "id": "11540007", "text": "Bustamante was a pallbearer at Lewis's funeral. The following day he killed a woman named Lucille Tibby Young, the girlfriend of Eric Goldson, the man he believed had informed on him. He broke into her room and demanded she take him to Goldson. When she said she did not know where Goldson was, he shot her in the chest, killing her instantly. He then also shot the two other women who were in the room at the time, Estella Brown and Iris Bailey, wounding them. Immediately after this the police offered a £200 reward for the capture of Rhyging, dead", "title": "Rhyging" }, { "id": "15878703", "text": "Norman Thorne Norman Thorne (c. 1902 – 22 April 1925) was an English Sunday-school teacher and chicken farmer who was convicted and hanged for what became known as the Chicken run murder. He murdered his fiancée Elsie Cameron (born 22 April 1898) on 5 December 1924 at his chicken farm in Crowborough, Sussex and later dismembered her body and buried it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, lived in Crowborough and took an interest in the case. Elsie Cameron, of Kensal Rise, London, and Norman Thorne were engaged on Christmas Day 1922. However, it", "title": "Norman Thorne" }, { "id": "9355629", "text": "the doppelgänger-not Aiden-whom Bo ended up killing, and who had really tried to kill Hope. Hope struggled with her feelings and eventually, Rafe and Hope decided to part ways. When it came out that Aiden had originally agreed to kill Hope on their wedding night, and had been switched out after they got married and not after he proposed to her like he had said, Hope dumped Aiden. Hope and Rafe reunited immediately after. The two declared their love for one another. Once again, Aiden came between the two and Hope was blackmailed (with her taped admission to murdering Stefano)", "title": "Hope Williams Brady" }, { "id": "18977571", "text": "FBI agents arrive at Dolarhyde's home to arrest him, only to find that the killer had set it on fire while his blind girlfriend, Reba McClane, was inside; he then apparently committed suicide. Graham rescues and consoles McClane, and returns home, believing Dolarhyde's reign of terror to be over. However, Dolarhyde's apparent suicide is revealed to have been a ruse; he had shot a previous victim, fooling McClane into thinking he was dead. Dolarhyde attacks Graham and his family at their Florida home, stabbing Graham in the face before being killed by Graham's wife. Graham and his family survive, but", "title": "Will Graham (character)" }, { "id": "12122040", "text": "South Hill Park, London South Hill Park is a street in the Hampstead district of London. It is within the London Borough of Camden, and some of its houses overlook Hampstead Heath. Hampstead Heath railway station, on the North London Line, is at the southern end of South Hill Park. Buses, chiefly the number 24, depart from nearby South End Green. The last woman to be hanged in Britain, Ruth Ellis, was sentenced to death for a murder committed on South Hill Park. She shot her boyfriend, David Blakely, outside a public house, The Magdala, on 10 April 1955. The", "title": "South Hill Park, London" }, { "id": "9633857", "text": "of his gun by Denton. Chee arrests Denton for the murder of Doherty. Denton had killed the two who might have spread knowledge of land with the Golden Calf coming up for sale. He lost his wife by his obsession. He involved the unaware Peshlakai in murder charges. Chee and Manuelito each spent time during this case considering the other. Leaphorn encourages Manuelito to tell Chee that she likes him. The horrors of the ending drive her to consider leaving the police, to find a position where she can help people directly. Marilyn Stasio said that \"Hillerman is never better", "title": "The Wailing Wind" }, { "id": "2522959", "text": "not true,\" Bryant stated in a 2008 interview with historian Timothy Tyson. Till's interaction with Bryant, perhaps unwittingly, violated the strictures of conduct for an African-American male interacting with a white woman in the Jim Crow-era South. Several nights after the store incident, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam went armed to Till's great-uncle's house and abducted the boy. They took him away and beat and mutilated him before shooting him in the head and sinking his body in the Tallahatchie River. Three days later, Till's body was discovered and retrieved from the river. Till's body was returned", "title": "Emmett Till" }, { "id": "3423807", "text": "The next morning, her husband struck both her and her mother, and threatened to shoot Marietta if she told what she knew. Witnesses said they saw Frank Stilwell running from the scene. The Coroner's jury concluded that Spence, Stilwell, Frederick Bode, and \"Indian Charlie\" were the prime suspects in Morgan Earp's death. When the prosecution called Marietta Duarte to testify at the preliminary hearing, the defense objected because her testimony was hearsay and because a spouse could not testify against her husband. The judge agreed and the charges were dismissed. Unknown to Wyatt, three of the Cowboys he sought were", "title": "Morgan Earp" }, { "id": "17698222", "text": "Billie Morgan Billie Morgan is a 2005 novel by English writer, poet and tattooist Joolz Denby (also known simply as Joolz). It was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. The central character, Billie, is a 46-year-old woman who runs a new age shop in Bradford, England. However, she keeps a dark secret, that when younger and part of a biker gang, she murdered Terry, an unpleasant drug addict and the father of her godson Natty, and covered it up with the aid of her lover Mickey. The novel takes the form of a confession written by Billie when", "title": "Billie Morgan" }, { "id": "17412570", "text": "one of the henchmen. Wai and his gang brought Lee to the pier and brutally beat him before making him drunk and having him drive himself into the ocean, killing him. The next morning, Lee's wife, May, gave birth to a baby boy and was saddened when she heard of her husband's death. When she retrieved Lee's belongings at the police station, Lau told Chan that Lee's death was suspicious which Chan refused to believe. Lau and Lo Mo decided to investigate Lee's death and first, tries to find Lee's informant, Chung. They saw Chung crashing out of a nightclub", "title": "Walk on Fire (film)" }, { "id": "13392927", "text": "chair. When Helen protests her innocence, Chan suggests Cardozo put her in the semi-comatose state. When she still says she did not kill Lola, Chan asks that he go under the same treatment using the same cigarette. But when he does, Chan is unaffected. Cardozo tries to admit to killing Lola, but Helen stops him, revealing she did it. She further explains that she was the wife of Manuel Cardozo. After hearing of Alfredo’s conversation with Lola, Helen learned Lola was going to elope. Realizing that Lola was going to leave and escape justice, Helen killed her. When Rice walked", "title": "Charlie Chan in Rio" }, { "id": "19072245", "text": "to be Hope's, were the only physical evidence linking the couple to Watson. Watson married Coral Branch in Paremoremo Prison in 2004. They separated in 2007. In 2007, Watson was found guilty by a magistrate of assaulting another inmate in Paparua Prison. In 2008, his appeal against that conviction failed. List of murder convictions without a body Murder of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope Ben Smart and Olivia Hope were two young New Zealanders who were murdered in the early hours of the morning of New Year's Day, 1 January 1998. The two friends had been celebrating on New Year's", "title": "Murder of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope" }, { "id": "18466628", "text": "who releases and tries to rape her, prompting Claire to stab him in the neck with one of the spikes she was crucified with. At the RV, Seed restrains Glen while the officer recites passages from the Bible, and stabs him. Seed reaches into Glen's wound, rips out his intestines, and strangles him to death with them. Reentering the RV, Seed makes Barbara watch as he rapes and shoots Olivia with a handgun. When Seed leaves her alone, Barbara crawls out a window and tries to run away, but is shot to death by Christine, who refers to Seed's wife", "title": "Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge" }, { "id": "6031186", "text": "Bill Lane in the side of the stomach. Married six times, twice to the same man, Beets shot her second husband, Billy York Lane, twice in the back of the head in 1970; she was acquitted and the two remarried, divorcing again a month later. She later tried to run over her third husband, Ronnie C. Threlkold, with her car in 1978. Both men survived and testified at her murder trial. On August 6, 1983, Beets reported her husband missing from their home near Cedar Creek Lake in Henderson County, Texas. Her son, Robert Branson, would later testify that Beets", "title": "Betty Lou Beets" }, { "id": "6614355", "text": "finds her, however, and gatecrashes her wedding rehearsal with the other Vipers and murders everyone inside. Bill then shoots her in the head, leaving her in a coma. Just before Bill shoots her, she tells him that it is his baby. She remains comatose for four years, during which she is raped and prostituted by an orderly named Buck (Michael Bowen). After being bitten by a mosquito, she awakens moments before Buck brings in a man intent on raping her. She kills her would-be rapist and Buck, and steals his truck. After willing her atrophied limbs into action, she begins", "title": "The Bride (Kill Bill)" }, { "id": "2619598", "text": "That night, Katie is murdered, and Dave comes home with an injured hand and blood on his clothes, which his wife Celeste helps him clean up. Dave claims he fought off a mugger, \"bashed his head on the parking lot\", and possibly killed him. Sean, now a detective with the Massachusetts State Police, investigates Katie's murder. His pregnant wife, Lauren, has recently left him. Over the course of the film, Sean and his partner, Sergeant Whitey Powers, track down leads while Jimmy conducts his own investigation using his neighborhood connections. Sean discovers that the gun used to kill Katie was", "title": "Mystic River (film)" }, { "id": "11245783", "text": "George Hassell George Jefferson Hassell (July, 1888 – February 10, 1928) was a convicted mass murderer who murdered his wife and eight children (ranging in age between 1 and 21 years old) on December 5, 1926 in Farwell, Texas. Hassell was born in Smithville, Texas, the youngest of seven children. After his brother died from being kicked in the head by a mule, he married his brother's widow, Susan Ferguson of Oklahoma. On the night of December 5, 1926, Hassell and his wife argued over his involvement with Ferguson's under-aged daughter. Hassell proceeded to strike his wife in the face", "title": "George Hassell" }, { "id": "12039777", "text": "with a 22-year-old British soldier who had been distributing water. She later told her mother she had spoken to him because she was the only English speaker in the group. Although the friendship was by all accounts innocent, Rand confided to a friend that she had developed romantic feelings for the man. In March 2008, months after the girl and the soldier had last seen one another, news of the friendship reached her father, a former government employee. He decided that she had dishonoured the family, and on March 16, he stamped on her head, choked her, and stabbed her", "title": "Murders of Leila Hussein and Rand Abdel-Qader" }, { "id": "2399990", "text": "planned to attack Cheyenne winter encampments, destroying both supplies and livestock, and killing any people who resisted. At dawn on the morning of November 27, 1868 (just two days short of the fourth anniversary of the Sand Creek massacre), Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led his 7th Cavalry Regiment to attack Chief Black Kettle and his village along the Washita River in what is now western Oklahoma. Custer's troops killed more than 100 Native Americans, mostly Southern Cheyenne. While trying to cross the Washita River, Black Kettle and his wife were shot in the back and killed. According to Cheyenne", "title": "Black Kettle" }, { "id": "6880845", "text": "Edmund shortly before he died (and is therefore an heir), the identity of the dead woman and the motive for the crime seems clear. Arsenic in the curry duck prepared by Miss Marple sickens all who eat it, but only Albert succumbs. Then Harold dies by his own shotgun. The police are unsure if it was suicide by a remorseful murderer or the third victim. Miss Marple, however, is not deceived, and sets a trap, using the compact as bait. Dr. Quimper is revealed to be the villain. The dead woman was not Martine at all, but his wife. Quimper", "title": "Murder, She Said" }, { "id": "20696140", "text": "a passerby called 9-1-1 reporting that the Freeman home was engulfed in flames. Law enforcement determined the fire had been an arson. Inside the home, the charred remains of Kathy were discovered lying on the floor of her bedroom; she had been shot in the head. Initially, no other remains were located, leading local law enforcement to believe Dan Freeman, Ashley's father, had killed his wife and fled with both girls. Bible's parked car was in the driveway of the home with the keys in the ignition. On December 31, Bible's parents Lorene and Jay returned to the scene, hoping", "title": "Murders of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman" }, { "id": "13548560", "text": "Bridge Murder case The Bridge Murder case, also known as the Bridge Table Murder case was the trial of Myrtle Adkins Bennett (born March 20, 1895, in Tillar, Arkansas), a Kansas City housewife, for the murder of her husband John G. Bennett over a game of contract bridge in September 1929. Myrtle and John spent much of Sunday, September 29, 1929, with their upstairs neighbors, Charles and Myrna Hofman. The husbands played a round of golf at the Indian Hills Country Club that morning, and then went back to the links that afternoon with their wives joining them. At dusk,", "title": "Bridge Murder case" }, { "id": "15750086", "text": "them to run. Billy and Flower keep their march together in the wilderness using only Billy's horse, until they found a wild horse that Billy domesticates. They fall in love soon after and make love. Then they're found by the Sergeant and his men who were alerted of their whereabouts by the cabin owners. They beat-up Billy and tied him to a trunk, kill the wild horse, then proceed to gang-rape Flower, and steal the remaining horse. After they leave, Flower releases Billy of his bindings, but when he separates from her temporary she commits suicide. Heartbroken, Billy buries Flower", "title": "Cry for Me, Billy" }, { "id": "15878708", "text": "lodged in March 1925, but it was dismissed the following month. Thorne was hanged on 22 April 1925 in Wandsworth prison in London. Norman Thorne Norman Thorne (c. 1902 – 22 April 1925) was an English Sunday-school teacher and chicken farmer who was convicted and hanged for what became known as the Chicken run murder. He murdered his fiancée Elsie Cameron (born 22 April 1898) on 5 December 1924 at his chicken farm in Crowborough, Sussex and later dismembered her body and buried it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, lived in Crowborough and", "title": "Norman Thorne" }, { "id": "12080885", "text": "Headquarters. Normally he would kill her but, instead, apologizes and says he genuinely enjoyed talking with her on the phone, before leaving. Though Langley is surrounded by an army of security guards and soldiers, Moses breaks in anyway, killing several. When he calls Beesley's office, Beesley demands that Moses surrender or he'll have Moses's niece in England murdered. While Beesley is making this threat, Moses enters the office, disables Kane with a bullet to the hand, and informs Beesley that he's already visited Beesley's home and murdered his wife and children (\"I don't make threats. I carry them out\"). Beesley", "title": "Red (WildStorm)" }, { "id": "9633851", "text": "from a crime scene. This renews Leaphorn's interest in a case involving Wiley Denton, a Gallup oil and gas magnate who shot and killed Marvin McKay. McKay was bringing evidence to Denton of the location of the old Golden Calf gold mine, to earn money from Denton. Denton served time for the killing, claiming self-defense. Denton contacts Leaphorn to find Denton's wife, who disappeared the day of the shooting. After questioning Denton, Leaphorn agrees to search for his wife. First, Leaphorn visits the scene where Doherty's body was found, discreetly replaces the tin with its sand / gold contents, and", "title": "The Wailing Wind" }, { "id": "16974797", "text": "affair with) drops by with his girlfriend Angel. Tom decapitates Angel, beats Ben to death with her head, and buries the couple's remains. The next day, Tom lures back an electrician who he believes had sex with Leeza and scalps him by lifting the man into a ceiling fan that has had machetes attached to the blades. Tom sends Leeza to her mother's house and kills three others (a TV repairman, a courier, and a gardener) she wrote about sleeping with. The death of the courier is witnessed by Mrs. Palmer, the neighborhood busybody, so Tom rips her mandible out", "title": "Killing Spree" }, { "id": "6754235", "text": "Bob Hatch. The shooters narrowly missed Wyatt Earp, who was watching the game. Spence's wife, Marietta Duarte, testified at the coroner’s inquest that her husband, Frank Stilwell, Frederick Bode, Florentino \"Indian Charlie\" Cruz, and a half-breed named Fries bragged about shooting Morgan. Her husband had threatened her with violence if she told what she knew. The coroner's jury concluded that Spence and his accomplices were the suspects in Morgan's assassination. When she was called to testify at Spence's preliminary hearing, the defense objected because her testimony was hearsay and because a spouse could not testify against her husband. The judge", "title": "Pete Spence" }, { "id": "2510928", "text": "\"The New Dick Van Dyke Show\" as Dick Van Dyke's wife, Jenny Preston, from 1971 to 1974, after which she declined to return for a fourth season of the show. She also appeared in twelve television movies, one being \"Crowhaven Farm\" where she played the role of a witch. In 1977, she returned to the Broadway stage where her acting career had originally begun. She also played the murdered wife of Charles Bronson's vigilante character in \"Death Wish\" (1974). In 1985, she appeared in \"\", and in 1986, she took a role as Laura Dern's mother in David Lynch's \"Blue", "title": "Hope Lange" }, { "id": "7042845", "text": "Dr. D.M. Mathew held an inquest into Morgan's death. During the Coroner's Inquest, Pete Spence's wife, Marietta Duarte, implicated her husband and four other men in Morgan's murder. She testified that along with her husband, Frank Stilwell, a man named \"Fries\" (later identified as Frederick Bode), and two Indians (later identified as Hank Swilling and Florentino Cruz) took part in the killing. She testified that four days before the shooting she and her mother were standing at Spence's house when Morgan walked by. \"The Indian then started down the street, & got ahead of him to get a good look", "title": "Earp Vendetta Ride" }, { "id": "6927094", "text": "sons supplied Hamilton with $100. Hamilton and his girlfriend Connie Barbo went to Fran’s Market in Fresno, California where one of the witnesses, Bryon Schletewitz worked. On September 5, 1980, Hamilton murdered Schletewitz and fellow employees Josephine Rocha, 17, and Douglas White, 18, with a sawn-off shotgun and wounded two other people, Joe Rios and Jack Abbott. Hamilton shot Schletewitz at near point-blank range in the forehead and murdered Rocha and White after forcing them to lie on the ground within the store. A neighbor, Jack Abbott, who heard the shotgun blasts came to investigate and was shot by Hamilton.", "title": "Billy Ray Hamilton" }, { "id": "15145472", "text": "12 rounds of fistfight fatigue.\" Eminem executive-produced the soundtrack, which was released by Shady Records on July 24, 2015. He had previously released his single called \"Phenomenal\" from the soundtrack on June 2, 2015. An album of James Horner's score was released through Sony Classical on July 24, 2015. This was Horner's final score (it was recorded after \"The 33\", although \"Southpaw\" was released first); he was killed in a plane crash on June 22, 2015. Southpaw (film) Southpaw is a 2015 American sports drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Kurt Sutter and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker", "title": "Southpaw (film)" }, { "id": "20951160", "text": "his mother-in-law seven times. He also killed the family dog Zeus. Craig Savage denied the charge of murder, claiming that he had tripped and the gun had gone off accidentally after a struggle with his wife. He claimed that he had planned to kidnap his wife so police would shoot him in front of her. He was found guilty of both murders and sentenced to life with a recommendation that he must must serve at least 38 years. Murders of Heather Whitbread and Michelle Savage Heather Whitbread and Michelle Savage were a mother and daughter who were murdered in St", "title": "Murders of Heather Whitbread and Michelle Savage" }, { "id": "12554869", "text": "Sam one of his assistants. However, Justice Sung found out that Tit Tau' s wife was pregnant and gets angry. He confronts Tit Tau and told him that he no t only killed his wife, but also his unborn baby. Tit Tau goes crazy and couldn't believe it. He then takes Lai Sam with him to the court and told Lai Sam to tell everybody of his evil doings. He confessed that he did kill the innocent person and did all sorts of evil deeds during his battles (like killing women and young children) and worst, he killed his wife", "title": "Justice Sung II" }, { "id": "10802952", "text": "death of \"Billy DeLyon\", when Billy's wife Delia tracks down Stagger Lee in a local saloon and \"she shot him in the balls\" in revenge for Billy's death. The Clash's 1979 album \"London Calling\" includes a cover of the song \"Wrong 'Em Boyo\" by the Jamaican rocksteady group the Rulers, in which Stagger Lee is explicitly the hero and Billy the villain. A version by the Fabulous Thunderbirds can be found on the \"Porky's Revenge\" soundtrack (1985). Bob Dylan included a version of \"Stack A Lee\" on his 1993 album \"World Gone Wrong\". Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds presented", "title": "Stagger Lee" }, { "id": "13955666", "text": "Phillip Austin Phillip Austin (born in Northampton, England) is a British murderer. During the course of a day in July 2000, Austin killed his wife Claire (aged 31) and their two children, Kieren (aged 8) and Jade (aged 7). In March 2001, Austin was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences. The presiding judge described Austin's family annihilation as \"beyond the bounds of belief.\" Claire and Phillip Austin married in 1993, after the births of their children. Austin worked the night shift as a forklift operator, and Claire worked for Northamptonshire County Council as a part-time home help. Phillip Austin was", "title": "Phillip Austin" }, { "id": "12846580", "text": "the massacre was not a robbery. The prevailing police opinion was that it looked to be a classic gangland style slaying. The massacre allegedly was over several kilos of cocaine. One of the murder victims, Vincent E. Solomonte, was later discovered to be a close associate and friend of Winter Hill Gang member Stephen Flemmi. The homicide investigators concluded that the five men were all murdered \"gangland style.\" Kelly was survived by his wife and four young children. Retired corrupt FBI Special Agent Michael J. Buckley said in court that he told FBI Special Agent John Connolly that Ierardi later", "title": "Blackfriars Massacre" }, { "id": "12608297", "text": "but later they intercept and kill the real agent. They also raid town and kill the sheriff in anger when they don't get enough protection money. Burt Collins arrives in town and asks for his brother Peter, who lives outside town with his Native American wife, Sarah. He kills two of O'Hara's men who cheat at gambling. He seems willing to follow the advice of Ramon O'Hara (who owns the saloon) to leave in the morning, but Webb visits his hotel room to suggest a plan. In the morning Burt is challenged by three O'Hara men and kills them. Webb", "title": "Black Killer" }, { "id": "3186252", "text": "working as a \"host\" at Jim Flynn's Cafe in Los Angeles, a beer hall named after the heavyweight boxer. He had recently refereed a boxing match. Papke died on November 27, 1936 by suicide, after first killing his wife. The violent incident may have been a result of undiagnosed brain dementia suffered from years of trauma in the ring. It occurred at his wife Edna's residence on Balboa Island, part of Newport Beach, south of Los Angeles in Southern California. Papke was disappointed about his wife's recent divorce and was hoping for a reconciliation. Both he and his wife were", "title": "Billy Papke" }, { "id": "13717068", "text": "George Birdwell George William Birdwell (February 19, 1894 - November 23, 1932) was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw. He was one of Pretty Boy Floyd's closest known associates and also teamed with a number of fellow Oklahoma-based bandits, most notably, William \"Billy the Killer\" Miller and Aussie Elliott. George Birdwell was born in the Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in 1894, his ancestry being a mix of Irish, Cherokee and Choctaw. Published accounts of his background and early life are vague and inconsistent, however public records indicate that he was shot by a local farmer over an alleged affair", "title": "George Birdwell" }, { "id": "7066766", "text": "Hope to have patience for Ben, but Hope refused to listen and dumped Ben and then decided to leave town to attend a design school. Ed asked Rita to marry him, but on the same day he proposed she was arrested and charged with murder. Rita, as it turned out, had a sordid past with bad boy Roger Thorpe which, unfortunately for her, came out during her ensuing murder trial. Rita was accused of murdering Cyrus Granger, an elderly rich rancher from Waco, Texas, for whom she'd worked as a private duty nurse a year earlier, as well as his", "title": "Guiding Light (1970–79)" }, { "id": "7802542", "text": "leave when Judd denies having seen her. Accompanied by Sheriff Martin (Stuart Whitman), Harvey and Libby question Miss Hattie, who also denies ever seeing Clara. Harvey returns to the creepy swamp hotel alone, while Libby goes for dinner and drinks with the sheriff. After Harvey discovers a captive Faye in her hotel room, Judd murders him, once again implementing his giant scythe. Meanwhile, after being kicked out a bar by the sheriff, Buck and his underage girlfriend, Lynette (Janus Blythe), venture to the Starlight, much to the annoyance of Judd. When Buck hears screams coming from Faye's room, he tries", "title": "Eaten Alive" }, { "id": "14558892", "text": "After he nearly murders Abigail and Chad, Ben is arrested and publicly revealed as the Necktie Killer. In 2017, it is revealed that Will (now Chandler Massey) did not die when he was strangled. When Will had entered Ben's apartment, he was being followed by Susan Banks (Eileen Davidson), who was planning to abduct Will in an act of revenge against Sami, whom she blamed for her son EJ's death. When Ben slipped out after strangling Will, Susan and her associate Dr Wilhelm Rolf (who had revived Sami's step-dad John back when he was thought to be dead) secretly entered,", "title": "Will Horton" }, { "id": "18317537", "text": "and acting.\" It was broadcast \"live\" from Sydney, recorded and shown in Melbourne on 4 October 1957. In 1931, William Herbert Wallace is accused of murdering his wife. \"The Wallace Case\" was directed by Christopher Muir in Melbourne. It was broadcast live on 20 November 1957. Muir used close ups extensively to build tension. George F. Kerr came down from Sydney to help with the production and acted asa narrator. This episode aired on 18 June 1958 and was directed by Will Sterling. The episode \"The Rattenbury Case\" may be held by the National Archives of Australia (per a search", "title": "Killer in Close-Up" }, { "id": "1952880", "text": "Pamela Smart Pamela Ann Smart (née Wojas) (born August 16, 1967) is an American criminal who was convicted of conspiring with her 15-year-old lover, William \"Billy\" Flynn, and three of his friends to kill her 24-year-old husband, Greggory Smart, on May 1, 1990, in Derry, New Hampshire. She was later convicted of being an accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and witness tampering. She is currently serving a life sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, a maximum security prison in Westchester County, New York. Pamela Wojas met Greggory Smart at a 1986 New Year's Eve party.", "title": "Pamela Smart" }, { "id": "12023536", "text": "\"Keep your damned big mouth shut. This ain't your party.\" Harrison watched. One of the black women identified one of the assailants. The mob took both the women to a big oak tree and tied them beside their husbands. The mob fired three point-blank volleys. The coroner's estimate counted sixty shots fired at close range. They shot and killed them near Moore's Ford Bridge spanning the Apalachee River, east of Atlanta. After Mae Murray Dorsey was shot, a man cut her fetus from her body with a knife. The mass lynchings received national coverage and generated outrage. There were large", "title": "Moore's Ford lynchings" }, { "id": "14558891", "text": "leave, but Ben knocks him out. Just as Will is coming to, Ben strangles Will with the tie. Will is apparently killed on October 9, 2015. Sonny is elated to get Will's message, and immediately gets ready to return to Salem, to reunite with Will. Whilst packing, he is told Will has been murdered. Sonny is devastated, and he returns to Salem to bury his husband rather than reconcile with him. Meanwhile, Ben has made sure Chad (now Billy Flynn) is the prime suspect in the murders; but as Ben's relationship with Abigail self-destructs, he becomes increasingly violent and unhinged.", "title": "Will Horton" }, { "id": "11690465", "text": "in the killing. Kinsey immediately recognises the towelling used as padding as coming from the Westfall household, and Ramona jumps to the top of her suspect list. This means confronting Tony, who has given Ramona an alibi for the time of Daggett's death. In pursuing Tony, Kinsey realises Tony himself, dressed as a woman in his aunt's wig, was actually the killer. He was also the one who stole her gun, and killed Billy Polo, who had recognized Tony at Daggett's funeral. Killing the man who killed his family has done nothing to ease Tony's torment, however, and he commits", "title": "\"D\" Is for Deadbeat" }, { "id": "8643198", "text": "Kate's former husband, who was violent to her. Then suddenly, in November 1993, Curtis is found shot dead, apparently murdered. Found next to his body in a drugged state is Billie Reed (Lisa Rinna), whom Curtis drugged and abused before his death. Kate, Lucas, Billie, and her brother Austin Reed (Patrick Muldoon) all come under suspicion for Curtis's murder, but Billie becomes the prime suspect. There is a trial where they all have to testify. Meanwhile, Vivian Alamain has rescued Bill Horton's wife, Laura Horton (Jaime Lyn Bauer) from the sanitarium where she was being kept comatose by corrupt staff", "title": "Kate Roberts (Days of Our Lives)" }, { "id": "13747899", "text": "spend their time together talking and develop romantic feelings for each other. Esther, a young mail-order bride from the East, is unhappy with her older abusive husband. She falls in love with the young good looking Billy. Gifford finds the two in bed together, assumes Billy raped the woman, becomes enraged, and beats him. Esther attempts to explain but can't because she stutters uncontrollably when distressed. Deans and Spencer encounter trouble on the trail, four drunken Indians demand whiskey from them, ambush their wagon in a canyon, killing the horse and besiege them. Spencer is killed. Gifford, Esther and Billy", "title": "Billy Two Hats" }, { "id": "9471257", "text": "suggests that the baby's defects could have been caused by inbreeding. Mulder insists this would be impossible, since the Peacocks seem to live in an all-male household. Suspecting that the Peacocks have kidnapped and raped a woman, Mulder and Scully investigate their now-abandoned residence and discover blood, scissors, and a shovel on a table. In retaliation, the Peacocks break into Sheriff Taylor's house during the night and murder him and his wife, Barbara (Judith Maxie). Laboratory tests indicate the baby's parents were members of the Peacock family. Believing that the three Peacock brothers must be holding the dead baby's mother", "title": "Home (The X-Files)" }, { "id": "10896550", "text": "Sonny, but Sonny backs off. Sonny tells Carly he thinks there is more to the story with Kate. Carly later dumps Johnny. Later on, Johnny buys a recording contract for Starr after Starr reveals her original producer was a crook and used the money from the record deal for adult films. Johnny shoots and kills Anthony after revealing that Johnny was the one who caused the accident that killed Hope and Cole and had Kate's alter Connie take the fall. After a long time of giving Carly roses and flowers, Johnny gives her a nice, expensive bracelet that Carly had", "title": "Johnny Zacchara" }, { "id": "7277507", "text": "B.C. deputy awaiting his trial at New Westminster. They then hanged him from a tree close to the U.S. border. A subsequent investigation by Canadian authorities strongly suggests that Sam was innocent and that the likely murderers were two white Americans who were leaders of the lynch mob. They were William Osterman, the Nooksack telegraph operator who took over Bell's business, and David Harkness, who at the time of Bell's murder was living with Bell's estranged wife. Neither man was ever prosecuted. On March 1, 2006, the Washington State Senate and House of Representatives approved a resolution stating that \"through", "title": "Louie Sam" }, { "id": "12479387", "text": "the killing himself. He finds Trevor at Laura's house having just made love and kidnaps him at gunpoint. He takes Trevor to a field to kill him. Even though Trevor begs for his life and Billy struggles with his conscience for the briefest of moments, he pulls the trigger anyway, killing Trevor in cold blood. It doesn't take long for Andy and Laura to notice Trevor missing and they get worried. Andy asks the local mobsters who are investing his money if they've seen Trevor and not knowing they are friends, they proudly tell him about how Billy became a", "title": "Amongst Friends" }, { "id": "2933653", "text": "funeral, Normand wept inconsolably throughout the ceremony. Ultimately, Normand continued to make films throughout the 1920s. She died of tuberculosis on 23 February 1930. According to her friend and confidante Julia Brew, Normand asked her a few days before she died: \"Julia, do you think they'll ever find out who killed Bill Taylor?\" Faith Cole MacLean and her husband, actor Douglas MacLean, were Taylor's neighbors, and Faith is widely believed to have seen Taylor's killer. The couple was startled by a loud noise at 8 pm. MacLean went to her front door and saw someone emerging from the front door", "title": "William Desmond Taylor" }, { "id": "10594392", "text": "but almost drowned. Billie rescues him and helps him back to the cabin. Bo was in a hypothermic state, so help his get warm, Billie strips all their clothing and snuggled close to Bo. Hope, looking for Bo, arrived in time to witness the close encounter and jumped to the wrong conclusion. Upset, she calls off the wedding, much to Bo's despair, and he vows to get Hope back. Billie soon discovered that Bo was going undercover in an effort to expose and bring down drug lord J.L. King in Feb 1997. Billie gets in over her head with JL", "title": "Billie Reed" }, { "id": "15650429", "text": "Plenty Horses Plenty Horses (\"Tasunka\") (1869–1933) was a Sicangu (Brulé) Lakota from the Rosebud Indian Reservation. On January 7, 1891, eight days after the Wounded Knee Massacre, he shot and killed Army Lieutenant Edward W. Casey, commandant of the Cheyenne Scouts (designated Troop L, Eighth Cavalry) two miles north of the Stronghold Table in the Badlands of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Plenty Horses – who was present at the Drexel Mission Fight the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre, was arrested for the murder and his case went to trial. His defense was he shot and", "title": "Plenty Horses" }, { "id": "14074123", "text": "already informed the other members of the club. This led ultimately to Opie, with the help of Unser, targeting Agent Stahl in retribution for her role in the death of his wife, Donna. During this confrontation Stahl breaks down crying and begs Opie for her life, to which Opie responds, \"This is what she felt.\" He then shoots Stahl in the back of the head with a MAC-10, instantly killing her. After this, Chibs Telford rigs the scene to look as if the real IRA murdered Stahl and Jimmy O'Phelan. June Stahl Agent June Stahl is a fictional character on", "title": "June Stahl" }, { "id": "6462751", "text": "from a drive, and the former is poisoned by the cocktail her husband gives her. Gold is immediately suspected, as the strophanthin that kills Valentine is found in the pocket of his dinner jacket. Poirot notices otherwise, seeing that Chantry puts it in Gold's pocket just as everyone's attention is on his dying wife. Poirot gives this information to the police, and points out to Pamela Lyall that she was focusing on the wrong triangle. The real triangle was between Douglas, Marjorie and Chantry. Chantry and Marjorie were having an affair and Chantry, bored of his wife but wanting her", "title": "Murder in the Mews" }, { "id": "4753868", "text": "to kill her if she says anything. Patrick tells the police that Andy is involved but there is no evidence against him. Patrick later swears revenge against him. Andy's luck finally runs out when he tries to con Johnny Allen (Billy Murray) out of £750,000. Johnny pushes him off a motorway footbridge, killing him instantly. The police are informed of Andy's death but decide that it was a suicide. He dies on the same night that Den is bludgeoned to death by his wife Chrissie (Tracy-Ann Oberman). Sam is asked to attend Andy's will reading, expecting to get all of", "title": "Andy Hunter (EastEnders)" }, { "id": "3189990", "text": "that Mrs. Kingsby WAS a beautiful woman before revising it to \"is.\" He sucker-punches the detective. Marlowe wakes up in jail. He is questioned by Captain Kane and a belligerent Lieutenant DeGarmot. Marlowe refuses to divulge anything, and Kane releases him. Marlowe learns that a woman's body has been recovered from a lake owned by Kingsby, and that Kingsby's caretaker, Mr. Chess, was charged with the murder of his wife Muriel. Fromsett suspects that Chrystal is the real killer, as she and Muriel hated each other. Little Fawn Lake was also where Chrystal was last seen. Marlowe learns that Muriel", "title": "Lady in the Lake" }, { "id": "8331944", "text": "a Mexican general. Kane lets young Billy accompany him to a town in New Mexico where he has a job waiting for him as deputy sheriff. Kane's real aim is to find the man who murdered his son. In town, Kane learns from dance-hall girl Lily Beloit that two men who run the town, John Behan and Frank Boone, secretly intend to gun down Kane first chance they get. Frank Boone may be the one Kane is looking for, but Jesse, who is Frank's son, lands in jail first, accused of shooting Doc Cushman. Kane and Lily become lovers. Billy,", "title": "Young Billy Young" }, { "id": "9958526", "text": "the gambling halls. By the spring of 1873, however, the couple was back out on the prairie with a spring cattle drive. Libby bore her first child on the open prairie and, to make the child legitimate, she and Billy got married that year. In the summer of 1873, Billy Thompson, in a state of drunkenness, shot and killed Ellsworth town sheriff Chauncey Whitney. He was arrested but got the cattle company he worked for to bail him out. Because he was fearful of being shot himself by vengeful family members, Billy and Libby ran. The couple wound up in", "title": "Libby Thompson" }, { "id": "6758060", "text": "into a glass case and strangling her. Cordy and Wesley discuss Cordelia's training with Angel, and Wesley suggests he train Fred, leading Cordelia to inquire about his romantic feelings for Fred. She suggests that he ask her out, but their conversation is cut short by a vision of a woman being beaten by her husband in a convenience store. Strangely, the event occurred a week ago and the woman is now dead. Wesley learns that the husband's explanation for killing his wife was simply that \"she wouldn't stop talking\" and gets surveillance photos from the crime, in which they spot", "title": "Billy (Angel)" }, { "id": "12975497", "text": "At the sex party, Sookie is surprised to see her friend Tara and Eggs and learns that Mike and Tom Hardaway murdered Lafayette. The party is interrupted when Bill, Andy Bellefleur, Sam (in collie form), and the maenad Callisto gather in front of the house. The maenad enjoys the drunkenness and lust of the party participants and eventually kills Mike, Tom and his wife, and another local named Jan. Eggs & Andy, under the maenad's spell, recall nothing of the incident - Tara is the only non-supernatural present with any recollection of the events (she was hidden and thus did", "title": "Living Dead in Dallas" }, { "id": "6031184", "text": "Betty Lou Beets Betty Lou Beets (March 12, 1937 – February 24, 2000) was a murderer executed in the U.S. state of Texas. She was convicted of shooting her fifth husband, Jimmy Don Beets, on August 6, 1983. Born Betty Lou Dunevant to Margaret Louise Smithwick (April 20, 1917 – June 16, 1993) and James Garland Dunevant (September 15, 1912 – February 14, 2003), she was born in Roxboro, North Carolina on March 12, 1937. Beets was hearing-impaired due to a childhood bout with measles and claimed she was sexually abused by her father. When Beets was a child the", "title": "Betty Lou Beets" }, { "id": "9355617", "text": "The switch is later revealed, and they get Zack back. In 2002, Larry Welch returns and he and Billie scheme to kidnap and kill Hope. Hope is rescued, and Larry and Billie are caught; Billie is pardoned and asked to leave Salem but Larry is eventually murdered in January 2003. In 2003, Salem is rocked by a rash of apparent serial killings known as the Salem Stalker Murders, in which many close to Hope disappear and are presumed dead. Hope pursues the prime suspect, Patrick Lockhart, tracking him to Melaswen Island, where the two have an affair, and Hope discovers", "title": "Hope Williams Brady" }, { "id": "9148444", "text": "documentation and evidence was delivered to the Governor of South Australia Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce on 28 September 2011. The request was declined. Elizabeth Woolcock Elizabeth Woolcock (20 April 1848 – 30 December 1873) was born Elizabeth Lillian Oliver in Burra Burra and was hanged in Adelaide Gaol for the murder of her husband Thomas Woolcock by mercury poisoning. She remains the only woman ever executed in South Australia and is buried between the outer and inner prison walls. It has been argued that she may have been a victim of domestic violence and suffered from battered spouse syndrome. Born", "title": "Elizabeth Woolcock" }, { "id": "12464370", "text": "arrived at the camp to find her still alive. They also located Logan's body and buried him at the scene. The surviving woman was taken to a settler's farm, but the owner refused to let her stay, so she was taken to the Bridge's cabin, where she died later that day. On Thursday, March 25, within three days of the killings, the authorities arrived to arrest Harper, Bridge Sr., and Bridge Jr.; however, Harper escaped into the woods. Hudson, Jones, and both Sawyer men were arrested shortly thereafter. Within a week they were all in custody, with the exception of", "title": "Fall Creek massacre" }, { "id": "951448", "text": "in the country). In May 1918, at least 13 African Americans were killed during a white manhunt and rampage after Sidney Johnson killed an abusive white planter. Johnson had been forced to work for the man under the state's abusive convict lease system. Among those killed were Hayes Turner, and the next day his wife Mary Turner, who was eight months pregnant. They were the parents of two children. Mary Turner had condemned the mob's killing of her husband. She was abducted by the mob in Brooks County and brutally murdered at Folsom's Bridge on the Little River on the", "title": "Brooks County, Georgia" }, { "id": "9384009", "text": "guilt at his actions, all the more so when it turned out that someone \"else\" whose house he owned had died the previous week, meaning that his financial problems were already solved \"before\" he tried to murder Emily and murdered Maxine. Hillman's trusting wife, Gail, finally twigged and challenged him, leading to his full and frank admission, in the belief that she would stand by him and not reveal his actions. She however refused to protect him and Hillman disappeared, pursued by the police, who eventually found his second wife's body. He returned to kidnap his family and try to", "title": "Storylines of Coronation Street" }, { "id": "7922100", "text": "Josie successfully work at repairing their damaged marriage. On the way home one rainy night, he stops at an ATM, and Cole conceals himself in the back seat of his car. He forces him to drive to a secluded park and shoots him numerous times, then goes to Josie's home and reveals he has killed her husband. He warns her if she reports him to the police he will tell them she hired him to murder Tony, and demands $30,000 for his silence. When the police question Josie she says nothing about Cole's involvement, but her story - or lack", "title": "The Rich Man's Wife" }, { "id": "16614496", "text": "was just under a mile away from the disused bakery in Sandy Row where another Protestant woman, Ann Ogilby, was beaten to death twenty years earlier by members of the Sandy Row women's Ulster Defence Association unit. Elliot was fatally shot at close range by RHC gunmen as he was getting into his car after leaving a friend's house in Primacy Park, Bangor, County Down on 28 September 1995. One bullet hit him in the back of the neck and another went through his ear, killing him instantly. When a woman came upon his body, he was still clutching his", "title": "Billy Elliot (RHC)" }, { "id": "10531330", "text": "The incident led to numerous media accounts, and a federal investigation into steroid abuse in professional wrestling. On Friday, June 22, Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy in an upstairs bedroom. Her limbs were bound, and her body was wrapped in a towel. A copy of the Bible was left by her body. Injuries indicated that Benoit had pressed a knee into her back while pulling on a cord around her neck, causing strangulation. Officials said that there were no signs of immediate struggle. Toxicologists found alcohol in her body, but were unable to determine whether it had been present", "title": "Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide" }, { "id": "15536510", "text": "the primary witness was Spence's wife, and there is a law against a spouse having to testify against a spouse. The Cowboys went free. Wyatt, Warren Earp, Doc Holliday, and a posse of deputies including Cowboys \"Turkey Creek\" Jack Johnson and Sherman McMaster guarded Virgil on his way to the train station in Tucson. They found Frank Stilwell lying in wait and killed him. A second person, possibly Ike Clanton, was also seen but escaped. When Pima County issued warrants for the arrest of the Earps in the murder of Frank Stilwell in the Tucson railyards, Sheriff Behan deputized Johnny", "title": "Cochise County Cowboys" }, { "id": "6614363", "text": "With Kiddo's sword, Driver seems to gain the advantage, but Kiddo sees Budd's own Hanzo sword and readies herself. During the fight, Driver taunts Kiddo by telling her that she killed Pai Mei. Enraged, Kiddo tears out Driver's other eye, leaving her completely blind, and leaves her inside the trailer with the angry black mamba still inside. Kiddo then pursues her final target, Bill. When she finds him, from information provided by Esteban Vihaio (Michael Parks), she discovers that their daughter, B.B. (Perla Haney-Jardine), whom she presumed had died in utero, is alive and well. They spend the evening together", "title": "The Bride (Kill Bill)" }, { "id": "18510890", "text": "Let's Kill Ward's Wife Let's Kill Ward's Wife is a 2014 American black comedy film written and directed by Scott Foley in his directorial debut. The film stars Patrick Wilson, Foley, Donald Faison, and James Carpinello, and features Amy Acker, Dagmara Domińczyk, Marika Domińczyk, Greg Grunberg, and Nicollette Sheridan in supporting roles. Foley, Wilson, and Carpinello produced the film, along with Joe Hardesty. The film follows three friends (Wilson, Foley, and Carpinello) who plan to kill their friend Ward's (Faison) abusive wife, Stacy (Dagmara Domińczyk). The cast consists almost entirely of actors who are related to one another, with many", "title": "Let's Kill Ward's Wife" }, { "id": "19773489", "text": "a town, the gang kills several people while robbing a local church, and Davis is wounded. Meanwhile, Rudy Goebel murders his employer. When his wife protests, he kills her, too. As he dumps his wife's body in the cellar, he calls down to his children, chastising them for an unspecified transgression. After Goebel locks his children in with their mother's corpse, the Nixon gang barges into the house, seeking aid. All but Barbee eat Goebel's drugged soup. As Goebel tortures Davis, Barbee wakes and kills Goebel. The gang leaves the house in the morning. The next time they camp, they", "title": "Kill or Be Killed (2015 film)" }, { "id": "5368346", "text": "Alton Wayne Roberts Alton Wayne Roberts (April 6, 1938 – September 11, 1999) was a Klansman convicted of depriving slain activists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney of their civil rights in 1964. He personally shot two of the three civil rights workers before his accomplices buried their bodies in a dam. Roberts had a younger brother by the name of Raymond. Roberts played football during high school. Roberts, then 26 years old, owned a bar in Meridian, Mississippi at the time of the murders. In the afternoon of June 21, 1964, Chaney, Goodman, & Schwerner arrived at Longdale", "title": "Alton Wayne Roberts" }, { "id": "16851683", "text": "and calls him an animal, he drowns Marie in her fish tank in a fit of rage. While trying to hide her body in a garbage bag, her neighbour Billy Sheperd (Les Foxcroft) catches him in the act and is also killed by Mason, who also poisons Billy's dog. Later, Jenny is driven home from the airport and finds the house empty. She later finds Marie's jewels from her necklace in the fish tank and even finds Billy's dog floating in the water at the beach. She tries to tell Billy but sees his body lying on the couch and", "title": "Lady Stay Dead" }, { "id": "8839049", "text": "Eunice Gray Eunice Gray (born Ermine McEntire, April 23, 1880 – January 26, 1962) was a brothel and hotel owner and operator in Fort Worth, Texas from 1909 to 1962. She is best known for the belief that she was Etta Place, the former girlfriend of the famous outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, aka the Sundance Kid, who was allegedly killed in a shootout in South America in November 1908. For many years, there were no known photographs of Eunice Gray; but two photographs recently were found that appear to demonstrate that she could not have been Etta Place. Gray was", "title": "Eunice Gray" }, { "id": "15145453", "text": "dedicated to his memory. Billy \"The Great\" Hope is an undefeated professional boxer living in the suburbs of New York City with his wife Maureen and their daughter Leila. Billy's particular style of fighting often leaves him beaten and bruised. During a match in which he defends his light heavyweight world title, Billy sustains an eye injury as well as heavy blows to the face and body, leaving him coughing up blood for days. He is finally convinced by Maureen to retire before he becomes forever \"punch-drunk\". During the press conference at the post-match, an up-and-coming boxer Miguel \"Magic\" Escobar", "title": "Southpaw (film)" }, { "id": "10594398", "text": "the ground. However her real reason for returning is to cause more problems for Bo and Hope. She assists Larry Welch in kidnapping Hope and Zack because she believes Larry is working for the ISA. However, she can't stand seeing what this was doing to Bo and when she goes to stand up against Larry, he shoots her. Fortunately she survives and leaves Salem when she is released from the hospital in early 2003 to join the ISA in London. When the Salem stalker murders began she has a message for Bo saying she knows who the killer is but", "title": "Billie Reed" }, { "id": "6522045", "text": "to speak again. On May 17, 1996, Young Lay's infant son Le-Zhan Williams was kidnapped when 2 teenage girls entered the home of Daphne Boyden, the rapper's 17-year-old girlfriend and mother to his newborn, killed her, abducted the infant, and set the home on fire in an attempt to cover up the crime. The case went unsolved for 6 years, and was featured on the television shows America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries. In November 2002 an anonymous tip called in to Vallejo police led to the arrest of Latasha Brown, one of the killers, who had been raising the", "title": "Young Lay" }, { "id": "3018056", "text": "Johnny Allen. His first scenes were broadcast in January 2005. Murray's character terrorised numerous characters on the programme, including Peggy Mitchell, Phil Mitchell, Grant Mitchell, Sharon Watts and Pauline Fowler. He also murdered Andy Hunter by pushing him from a motorway flyover, and ordered the killing of Dennis Rickman (carried out by Danny Moon, played by Jake Maskall). He departed from the show in March 2006 when his character was jailed after confessing to ordering the murder of Dennis Rickman and carrying out the murder of Andy Hunter. He won the 'Best Villain' award at the British Soap Awards in", "title": "Billy Murray (actor)" }, { "id": "9565998", "text": "then got into an argument with his wife, and asked his wife to polish his shoes for him. When she refused, Lanfray retrieved a rifle and shot her once in the head, killing her instantly, causing his father to flee. His four-year-old daughter, Rose, heard the noise and ran into the room, where Lanfray shot and killed her and his two-year-old daughter, Blanche. He then shot himself in the jaw and carried Blanche's body to the garden, where he collapsed. He was discovered minutes later by police after they had been notified by his father. After being taken to a", "title": "Jean Lanfray" }, { "id": "8820383", "text": "gave his blessings. Erroll was discovered murdered in his car in January 1941. Broughton was charged with his murder but was acquitted in the trial. Diana stood up for her husband, but after the trial accused him of being the murderer and abandoned him. She has been speculated by writers to have either covered for Broughton, worked as his accomplice in the murder or been the murderer herself. Other writers have also claimed that she was promiscuous, a closeted lesbian and that she shot three of her lovers on various occasions. Following her divorce from Broughton, she married Gilbert Colvile", "title": "Happy Valley set" }, { "id": "18009870", "text": "piece of evidence presented in court. According to the murderers' statements, Pang verbally threatened the rest of the gang to take part in the attack. Pang raped Myers while the other four members were brutally beating McBride. Myers' genitalia were penetrated by a stick and a bottle. After several attacks, Pang decided the couple must die as McBride and Myers would be able to identify them. The group left the country park after the murder, and destroyed the couple's textbooks. The couple's family realised they were missing when they failed to return home that night. The family searched for them", "title": "Braemar Hill murders" } ]

[ "Antoine Lavoisier" ]

[ { "id": "1295596", "text": "reaction is equal to the mass of the components after the reaction. Thus, during any chemical reaction and low-energy thermodynamic processes in an isolated system, the total mass of the reactants, or starting materials, must be equal to the mass of the products. The concept of mass conservation is widely used in many fields such as chemistry, mechanics, and fluid dynamics. Historically, mass conservation was demonstrated in chemical reactions independently by Mikhail Lomonosov and later rediscovered by Antoine Lavoisier in the late 18th century. The formulation of this law was of crucial importance in the progress from alchemy to the", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "1295605", "text": "It only changes its form, condition, composition, color and other properties and turns into a different complex or elementary matter\". By the 18th century the principle of conservation of mass during chemical reactions was widely used and was an important assumption during experiments, even before a definition was formally established, as can be seen in the works of Joseph Black, Henry Cavendish, and Jean Rey. The first to outline the principle was given by Mikhail Lomonosov in 1756. He demonstrated it by experiments and had discussed the principle before in 1774 in correspondence with Leonhard Euler, though his claim on", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "30841", "text": "had become accepted by portions of the scientific community. Near the end of the 18th century, two laws about chemical reactions emerged without referring to the notion of an atomic theory. The first was the law of conservation of mass, closely associated with the work of Antoine Lavoisier, which states that the total mass in a chemical reaction remains constant (that is, the reactants have the same mass as the products). The second was the law of definite proportions. First established by the French chemist Joseph Louis Proust in 1799, this law states that if a compound is broken down", "title": "Atomic theory" }, { "id": "1295595", "text": "Conservation of mass The law of conservation of mass or principle of mass conservation states that for any system closed to all transfers of matter and energy, the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as system's mass cannot change, so quantity cannot be added nor removed. Hence, the quantity of mass is conserved over time. The law implies that mass can neither be created nor destroyed, although it may be rearranged in space, or the entities associated with it may be changed in form. For example, in chemical reactions, the mass of the chemical components before the", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "1295609", "text": "law in chemical reactions, even though they were carried out with other intentions. His research indicated that in certain reactions the loss or gain could not have been more than from 2 to 4 parts in 100,000. The difference in the accuracy aimed at and attained by Lavoisier on the one hand, and by Morley and Stas on the other, is enormous. The law of conservation of mass was challenged with the advent of special relativity. In one of the Annus Mirabilis papers of Albert Einstein in 1905, he suggested an equivalence between mass and energy. This theory implied several", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "16042900", "text": "\"Human Soul, [...] mankind is distinguished and particularized among \"other\" animals.\" Some scholars have interpreted Tusi's biological writings as suggesting that he adhered to some kind of evolutionary theory. However, Tusi did not state explicitly that he believed species to change over time. Tusi contributed to the field of chemistry, stating an early law of conservation of mass. A 60-km diameter lunar crater located on the southern hemisphere of the moon is named after him as \"Nasireddin\". A minor planet 10269 Tusi discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979 is named after him. The K. N. Toosi University", "title": "Nasir al-Din al-Tusi" }, { "id": "1295604", "text": "nature of the Universe, wrote that \"the totality of things was always such as it is now, and always will be\". Jain philosophy, a non-creationist philosophy based on the teachings of Mahavira (6th century BC), states that the universe and its constituents such as matter cannot be destroyed or created. The Jain text Tattvarthasutra (2nd century CE) states that a substance is permanent, but its modes are characterised by creation and destruction. A principle of the conservation of matter was also stated by Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (around 13th century CE). He wrote that \"A body of matter cannot disappear completely.", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "6768824", "text": "Chemical revolution The chemical revolution, also called the \"first chemical revolution\", was the early modern reformulation of chemistry that culminated in the law of conservation of mass and the oxygen theory of combustion. During the 19th and 20th century, this transformation was credited to the work of the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (the \"father of modern chemistry\"). However, recent work on the history of early modern chemistry considers the chemical revolution to consist of gradual changes in chemical theory and practice that emerged over a period of two centuries. The so-called scientific revolution took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth", "title": "Chemical revolution" }, { "id": "182562", "text": "Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose essay The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right was a catalyst for governmental and societal reform throughout Europe. Diderot's great \"Encyclopédie\" reshaped the European world view. Astronomy, chemistry, mathematics and technology flourished. French scientists such as Antoine Lavoisier worked to replace the archaic units of weights and measures by a coherent scientific system. Lavoisier also formulated the law of Conservation of mass and discovered oxygen and hydrogen. The \"Philosophes\" were 18th-century French intellectuals who dominated the French Enlightenment and were influential across Europe. Their interests were diverse, with experts in scientific, literary, philosophical", "title": "History of France" }, { "id": "173873", "text": "the conservation of energy. In 1788, Joseph Louis Lagrange presented Lagrange's equations of motion in \"Mécanique Analytique\", in which the whole of mechanics was organized around the principle of virtual work. In 1789, Antoine Lavoisier states the law of conservation of mass. The rational mechanics developed in the 18th century received a brilliant exposition in both Lagrange's 1788 work and the \"Celestial Mechanics\" (1799–1825) of Pierre-Simon Laplace. During the 18th century, thermodynamics was developed through the theories of weightless \"imponderable fluids\", such as heat (\"caloric\"), electricity, and phlogiston (which was rapidly overthrown as a concept following Lavoisier's identification of oxygen", "title": "History of physics" }, { "id": "1295603", "text": "ancient Greek philosophy was that \"Nothing comes from nothing\", so that what exists now has always existed: no new matter can come into existence where there was none before. An explicit statement of this, along with the further principle that nothing can pass away into nothing, is found in Empedocles (approx. 4th century BC): \"For it is impossible for anything to come to be from what is not, and it cannot be brought about or heard of that what is should be utterly destroyed.\" A further principle of conservation was stated by Epicurus around 3rd century BC, who, describing the", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "4465493", "text": "chemistry, and as an important influence on Robert Boyle. The book contains the results of numerous experiments and establishes an early version of the law of conservation of mass. Working during the time just after Paracelsus and iatrochemistry, Jan Baptist van Helmont suggested that there are insubstantial substances other than air and coined a name for them - \"gas\", from the Greek word \"chaos\". In addition to introducing the word \"gas\" into the vocabulary of scientists, van Helmont conducted several experiments involving gases. Jan Baptist van Helmont is also remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation and his", "title": "History of chemistry" }, { "id": "243323", "text": "Law of multiple proportions In chemistry, the law of multiple proportions is one of the basic laws of stoichiometry used to establish the atomic theory, alongside the law of conservation of mass (matter) and the law of definite proportions. It is sometimes called Dalton's Law after its discoverer, the British chemist John Dalton, who published it in the first part of the first volume of his \"New System of Chemical Philosophy\" (1808). Here is the statement of the law: For example, Dalton knew that the element carbon forms two oxides by combining with oxygen in different proportions. A fixed mass", "title": "Law of multiple proportions" }, { "id": "1295597", "text": "modern natural science of chemistry. The conservation of mass only holds approximately and is considered part of a series of assumptions coming from classical mechanics. The law has to be modified to comply with the laws of quantum mechanics and special relativity under the principle of mass-energy equivalence, which states that energy and mass form one conserved quantity. For very energetic systems the conservation of mass-only is shown not to hold, as is the case in nuclear reactions and particle-antiparticle annihilation in particle physics. Mass is also not generally conserved in open systems. Such is the case when various forms", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "1295606", "text": "the subject is sometimes challenged. A more refined series of experiments were later carried out by Antoine Lavoisier who expressed his conclusion in 1773 and popularized the principle of conservation of mass. The demonstrations of the principle led alternatives theories obsolete, like the phlogiston theory that claimed that mass could be gained or lost in combustion and heat processes. The conservation of mass was obscure for millennia because of the buoyancy effect of the Earth's atmosphere on the weight of gases. For example, a piece of wood weighs less after burning; this seemed to suggest that some of its mass", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "1829307", "text": "wavefunction collapse postulate, counters the usual idea of a measurement in science. Applying electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and quantum mechanics, to atoms and molecules, some laws of electromagnetic radiation and light are as follows. Chemical laws are those laws of nature relevant to chemistry. Historically, observations led to many empirical laws, though now it is known that chemistry has its foundations in quantum mechanics. The most fundamental concept in chemistry is the law of conservation of mass, which states that there is no detectable change in the quantity of matter during an ordinary chemical reaction. Modern physics shows that it is actually", "title": "Scientific law" }, { "id": "6768831", "text": "practiced chemistry. Lavoisier's work was characterized by his systematic determination of weights and his strong emphasis on precision and accuracy. The law of the conservation of mass, that the weight of matter would be conserved through any reaction, was discovered by Antoine Lavoisier in the late 18th century and represented his careful conduction of research. Lavoisier also contributed to chemistry a method of understanding combustion and respiration and proof of the composition of water by decomposition into its constituent parts. He explained the theory of combustion, and challenged the phlogiston theory with his views on caloric. The \"Traité\" incorporates notions", "title": "Chemical revolution" }, { "id": "14402945", "text": "to disappear entirely. He wrote \"a body of matter cannot disappear completely. It only changes its form, condition, composition, color, and other properties, and turns into a different complex or elementary matter\". Five hundred years later, Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) and Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–1794) created the law of conservation of mass, setting down this same idea. However, it should be noted that Tusi argued for evolution within a firmly Islamic context—he did not, like Darwin, draw materialist conclusions from his theories. Moreover, unlike Darwin, he was arguing hypothetically: he did not attempt to provide empirical data for his theories. Nonetheless his", "title": "Science and technology in Iran" }, { "id": "87624", "text": "Conservation law In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves over time. Exact conservation laws include conservation of energy, conservation of linear momentum, conservation of angular momentum, and conservation of electric charge. There are also many approximate conservation laws, which apply to such quantities as mass, parity, lepton number, baryon number, strangeness, hypercharge, etc. These quantities are conserved in certain classes of physics processes, but not in all. A local conservation law is usually expressed mathematically as a continuity equation, a partial differential equation which", "title": "Conservation law" }, { "id": "731576", "text": "from the action of pure heat. The experiments– of which I append the record in 13 pages– demonstrated that the famous Robert Boyle was deluded, for without access of air from outside the mass of the burnt metal remains the same\". That is the Law of Mass Conservation in chemical reaction, which was well-known today as \"in a chemical reaction, the mass of reactants is equal to the mass of the products.\" Lomonosov, together with Lavoisier, is regarded as the one who discovered the law of mass conservation. He stated that all matter is composed of corpuscles – molecules that", "title": "Mikhail Lomonosov" }, { "id": "1295622", "text": "general relativity, the total invariant mass of photons in an expanding volume of space will decrease, due to the red shift of such an expansions. The conservation of both mass and energy therefore depends on various corrections made to energy in the theory, due to the changing gravitational potential energy of such systems. Conservation of mass The law of conservation of mass or principle of mass conservation states that for any system closed to all transfers of matter and energy, the mass of the system must remain constant over time, as system's mass cannot change, so quantity cannot be added", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "17983", "text": "crucial step in the advancement of chemistry. In 1774, he showed that, although matter can change its state in a chemical reaction, the total mass of matter is the same at the end as at the beginning of every chemical change. Thus, for instance, if a piece of wood is burned to ashes, the total mass remains unchanged if gaseous reactants and products are included. Lavoisier's experiments supported the law of conservation of mass. In France it is taught as Lavoisier's Law and is paraphrased from a statement in his \"Traité Élémentaire de Chimie\" to \"\"Rien ne se perd, rien", "title": "Antoine Lavoisier" }, { "id": "4465505", "text": "to earth was not possible, but that the sediment observed from boiling water came from the container. He burnt phosphorus and sulfur in air, and proved that the products weighed more than the original. Nevertheless, the weight gained was lost from the air. Thus, in 1789, he established the Law of Conservation of Mass, which is also called \"Lavoisier's Law.\" Repeating the experiments of Priestley, he demonstrated that air is composed of two parts, one of which combines with metals to form calxes. In \"Considérations Générales sur la Nature des Acides\" (1778), he demonstrated that the \"air\" responsible for combustion", "title": "History of chemistry" }, { "id": "6885584", "text": "Chemical law Chemical laws are those laws of nature relevant to chemistry. The most fundamental concept in chemistry is the law of conservation of mass, which states that there is no detectable change in the quantity of matter during an ordinary chemical reaction. Modern physics shows that it is actually energy that is conserved, and that energy and mass are related; a concept which becomes important in nuclear chemistry. Conservation of energy leads to the important concepts of equilibrium, thermodynamics, and kinetics. Additional laws of chemistry elaborate on the law of conservation of mass. Joseph Proust's law of definite composition", "title": "Chemical law" }, { "id": "731565", "text": "Mikhail Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (; ; – ) was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries were the atmosphere of Venus and the law of conservation of mass in chemical reactions. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art, philology, optical devices and others. Lomonosov was also a poet and influenced the formation of the modern Russian literary language. Lomonosov was born in the village of Mishaninskaya (later renamed Lomonosovo in his honor) in Archangelgorod Governorate, on an island not far from Kholmogory, in", "title": "Mikhail Lomonosov" }, { "id": "61383", "text": "given by the scientific method that chemists employed in their work. Chemistry is considered to have become an established science with the work of Antoine Lavoisier, who developed a law of conservation of mass that demanded careful measurement and quantitative observations of chemical phenomena. The history of chemistry is intertwined with the history of thermodynamics, especially through the work of Willard Gibbs. The definition of chemistry has changed over time, as new discoveries and theories add to the functionality of the science. The term \"chymistry\", in the view of noted scientist Robert Boyle in 1661, meant the subject of the", "title": "Chemistry" }, { "id": "243325", "text": "this observation in 1804. A few years previously, the French chemist Joseph Proust had proposed the \"law of definite proportions\", which expressed that the elements combined to form compounds in certain well-defined proportions, rather than mixing in just any proportion; and Antoine Lavoisier proved the law of conservation of mass, which helped out Dalton. Careful study of the actual numerical values of these proportions led Dalton to propose his law of multiple proportions. This was an important step toward the atomic theory that he would propose later that year, and it laid the basis for chemical formulas for compounds. Another", "title": "Law of multiple proportions" }, { "id": "4465466", "text": "distinction began to emerge when a clear differentiation was made between chemistry and alchemy by Robert Boyle in his work \"The Sceptical Chymist\" (1661). While both alchemy and chemistry are concerned with matter and its transformations, chemists are seen as applying scientific method to their work. Chemistry is considered to have become an established science with the work of Antoine Lavoisier, who developed a law of conservation of mass that demanded careful measurement and quantitative observations of chemical phenomena. The history of chemistry is intertwined with the history of thermodynamics, especially through the work of Willard Gibbs. A 100,000-Year-Old ochre-processing", "title": "History of chemistry" }, { "id": "2506885", "text": "title of his article intended as an explanation for a general reader by analogy. Mass and energy can be seen as two names (and two measurement units) for the same underlying, conserved physical quantity. Thus, the laws of conservation of energy and conservation of (total) mass are equivalent and both hold true. Einstein elaborated in a 1946 essay that \"the principle of the conservation of mass [...] proved inadequate in the face of the special theory of relativity. It was therefore merged with the energy conservation principle—just as, about 60 years before, the principle of the conservation of mechanical energy", "title": "Mass–energy equivalence" }, { "id": "11138374", "text": "19th century was marked by the construction of the local bridge and the arrival of the railroad (the line between Périgueux and Agen). Le Bugue owes part of its fame to the chemist and physician Jean Rey who discovered the Law of Conservation of Mass 200 years before Lavoisier. Jean Rey also invented the \"Thermoscope\", the forerunner of the modern thermometer. Le Bugue Le Bugue ( or \"Lo Buga\") is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France. Le Bugue is located on the banks of the Vézère River a few kilometres before the confluence of the Vézère with", "title": "Le Bugue" }, { "id": "173884", "text": "first law of thermodynamics—a restatement of the law of conservation of energy—which was stated around 1850 by William Thomson, later known as Lord Kelvin, and Rudolf Clausius. Lord Kelvin, who had extended the concept of absolute zero from gases to all substances in 1848, drew upon the engineering theory of Lazare Carnot, Sadi Carnot, and Émile Clapeyron–as well as the experimentation of James Prescott Joule on the interchangeability of mechanical, chemical, thermal, and electrical forms of work—to formulate the first law. Kelvin and Clausius also stated the second law of thermodynamics, which was originally formulated in terms of the fact", "title": "History of physics" }, { "id": "61390", "text": "elements\" and proposed a mechanistic alternative of atoms and chemical reactions that could be subject to rigorous experiment. The theory of phlogiston (a substance at the root of all combustion) was propounded by the German Georg Ernst Stahl in the early 18th century and was only overturned by the end of the century by the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, the chemical analogue of Newton in physics; who did more than any other to establish the new science on proper theoretical footing, by elucidating the principle of conservation of mass and developing a new system of chemical nomenclature used to this", "title": "Chemistry" }, { "id": "4465509", "text": "Treatise of Chemistry, 1789) was the first modern chemical textbook, and presented a unified view of new theories of chemistry, contained a clear statement of the Law of Conservation of Mass, and denied the existence of phlogiston. In addition, it contained a list of elements, or substances that could not be broken down further, which included oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosphorus, mercury, zinc, and sulfur. His list, however, also included light, and caloric, which he believed to be material substances. In the work, Lavoisier underscored the observational basis of his chemistry, stating \"I have tried...to arrive at the truth by linking", "title": "History of chemistry" }, { "id": "664671", "text": "understood the second law and intended it to be understood, have been extensively discussed by historians of science, along with the relations between Newton's formulation and modern formulations. Translated to English, this reads: Newton's Scholium (explanatory comment) to this law: In the above, as usual, \"motion\" is Newton's name for momentum, hence his careful distinction between motion and velocity. Newton used the third law to derive the law of conservation of momentum; from a deeper perspective, however, conservation of momentum is the more fundamental idea (derived via Noether's theorem from Galilean invariance), and holds in cases where Newton's third law", "title": "Newton's laws of motion" }, { "id": "1295599", "text": "The law of conservation of mass can only be formulated in classical mechanics when the energy scales associated to an isolated system are much smaller than formula_1, where formula_2is the mass of a typical object in the system, measured in the frame of reference where the object is at rest, and formula_3 is the speed of light. The law can be formulated mathematically in the fields of fluid mechanics and continuum mechanics, where the conservation of mass is usually expressed using the continuity equation, given in differential form asformula_4where formula_5 is the density (mass per unit volume), formula_6 is the", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "1433230", "text": "a fundamental postulate that goes beyond the simplest ideas of classical closed system thermodynamics; the extensivity of some variables is not obvious, and needs explicit expression; indeed one author goes so far as to say that it could be recognized as a fourth law of thermodynamics, though this is not repeated by other authors. Also of course where and denote the changes in mole number of a component substance of the system and of its surroundings respectively. This is a statement of the law of conservation of mass. A system connected to its surroundings only through contact by a single", "title": "First law of thermodynamics" }, { "id": "12527266", "text": "of acceleration (mentioned above), and the law of action and reaction; and hence laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Both Newton's second and third laws were given the proper scientific and mathematical treatment in Newton's \"Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.\" Here they are distinguished from earlier attempts at explaining similar phenomena, which were either incomplete, incorrect, or given little accurate mathematical expression. Newton also enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. In mechanics, Newton was also the first to provide the first correct scientific and mathematical formulation of gravity in Newton's law of universal gravitation. The combination of", "title": "Classical mechanics" }, { "id": "17988", "text": "the wide spread acceptance of the law of conservation of mass. His introduction of new terminology, a binomial system modeled after that of Linnaeus, also helps to mark the dramatic changes in the field which are referred to generally as the chemical revolution. However, Lavoisier encountered much opposition in trying to change the field, especially from British phlogistic scientists. Joseph Priestley, Richard Kirwan, James Keir, and William Nicholson, among others, argued that quantification of substances did not imply conservation of mass. Rather than reporting factual evidence, opposition claimed Lavoisier was misinterpreting the implications of his research. One of Lavoisier's allies,", "title": "Antoine Lavoisier" }, { "id": "344689", "text": "With this foundation of reasoning, Descartes formulated many of his theories on mechanical and geometrical physics. Descartes discovered an early form of the law of conservation of mechanical momentum (a measure of the motion of an object), and envisioned it as pertaining to motion in a straight line, as opposed to perfect circular motion, as Galileo had envisioned it. He outlined his views on the universe in his \"Principles of Philosophy\". Descartes also made contributions to the field of optics. He showed by using geometric construction and the law of refraction (also known as Descartes' law or more commonly Snell's", "title": "René Descartes" }, { "id": "505480", "text": "beyond the realm of philosophical conjecture and introduced a more structured way of examining nature. Newton, an English mathematician, and physicist, was the seminal figure in the scientific revolution. Drawing on advances made in astronomy by Copernicus, Brahe, and Kepler, Newton derived the universal law of gravitation and laws of motion. These laws applied both on earth and in outer space, uniting two spheres of the physical world previously thought to function independently of each other, according to separate physical rules. Newton, for example, showed that the tides were caused by the gravitational pull of the moon. Another of Newton's", "title": "Natural science" }, { "id": "1295608", "text": "substances with the same weight, these scientists could for the first time embark on quantitative studies of the transformations of substances. The idea of mass conservation plus a surmise that certain \"elemental substances\" also could not be transformed into others by chemical reactions, in turn led to an understanding of chemical elements, as well as the idea that all chemical processes and transformations (such as burning and metabolic reactions) are reactions between invariant amounts or weights of these chemical elements. Following to pioneering work of Lavoisier the prolonged and exhaustive experiments of Jean Stas supported the strict accuracy of this", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "1323863", "text": "they are a useful calculational tool; for example, an approximate solution can be corrected by finding the nearest state that satisfies the suitable conservation laws. The earliest constants of motion discovered were momentum and energy, which were proposed in the 17th century by René Descartes and Gottfried Leibniz on the basis of collision experiments, and refined by subsequent researchers. Isaac Newton was the first to enunciate the conservation of momentum in its modern form, and showed that it was a consequence of Newton's third law. According to general relativity, the conservation laws of linear momentum, energy and angular momentum are", "title": "Noether's theorem" }, { "id": "7671104", "text": "Castile; the original Arabic text dates probably from the middle of the eleventh century. The Rutbat includes alchemical formulae and instructions for purification of precious metals, and was also the first to note the principle of conservation of mass, which he did in the course of his pathbreaking experiment on mercuric oxide: I took natural quivering mercury, free from impurity, and placed it in a glass vessel shaped like an egg. This I put inside another vessel like a cooking pot, and set the whole apparatus over an extremely gentle fire. The outer pot was then in such a degree", "title": "Maslama al-Majriti" }, { "id": "1295601", "text": "over the whole volume of the system. The continuity equation for the mass is part of Euler equations of fluid dynamics. Many other convection–diffusion equations describe the conservation and flow of mass and matter in a given system. In chemistry, the calculation of the amount of reactant and products in a chemical reaction, or stoichiometry, is founded on the principle of conservation of mass. The principle implies that during a chemical reaction the total mass of the reactants is equal to the total mass of the products. For example, in the following reaction where one molecule of methane () and", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "4465541", "text": "of nitrogen as an essential plant nutrient, and his formulation of the Law of the Minimum which described the effect of individual nutrients on crops. In 1840, Germain Hess proposed Hess's law, an early statement of the law of conservation of energy, which establishes that energy changes in a chemical process depend only on the states of the starting and product materials and not on the specific pathway taken between the two states. In 1847, Hermann Kolbe obtained acetic acid from completely inorganic sources, further disproving vitalism. In 1848, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (commonly known as Lord Kelvin) established", "title": "History of chemistry" }, { "id": "13574010", "text": "originally from Prussia (Germany), and he honed his knowledge from Germans who pioneered forestry in India. He introduced Gifford Pinchot, the \"father of American forestry\", to Brandis and Ribbentrop in Europe. From these men, Pinchot learned the skills and legislative patterns he would later apply to America. Pinchot, in his memoir history Breaking New Ground, credited Brandis especially with helping to form America's conservation laws. Pinchot wrote that the principles of conservation were: In 1891, Congress passed the Forest Reserve Act, which allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest lands on public domain. A decade after", "title": "Conservation in the United States" }, { "id": "1295611", "text": "enable their mass-change to be measured, once the energy of the reaction had been removed from the system. This later indeed proved to be possible, although it was eventually to be the first artificial nuclear transmutation reaction in 1932, demonstrated by Cockcroft and Walton, that proved the first successful test of Einstein's theory regarding mass-loss with energy-loss. The law conservation of mass and the analogous law of conservation of energy were finally overruled by a more general principle known as the mass–energy equivalence. Special relativity also redefines the concept of mass and energy, which can be used interchangeably and are", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "1295614", "text": "or massive particles are not allowed to escape, but other types of energy (such as light or heat) are allowed to enter or escape, went unnoticed during the 19th century, because the change in mass associated with addition or loss of small quantities of thermal or radiant energy in chemical reactions is very small. (In theory, mass would not change at all for experiments conducted in isolated systems where heat and work were not allowed in or out.) The conservation of relativistic mass implies the viewpoint of a single observer (or the view from a single inertial frame) since changing", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "6966900", "text": "appointed assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the École polytechnique. He conducted, along with his colleague Hippolyte Sebert (1839-1930), research on the trigger gas accompanying the detonation of a cannon. He invented the theory based on conservation of mass, momentum, and energy, which allowed for improvements in fluid flow studies (with applications to aerospace). The Rankine-Hugoniot equation (or adiabatic dynamics of gas) has been named in his honor. Pierre Henri Hugoniot Pierre-Henri Hugoniot (born in Allenjoie, Doubs, France on June 5, 1851 – died in Nantes, France in February 1887) who mostly lived in Montbéliard, (Franche-Comté). He was an inventor,", "title": "Pierre Henri Hugoniot" }, { "id": "1295607", "text": "disappears, or is transformed or lost. This was not disproved until careful experiments were performed in which chemical reactions such as rusting were allowed to take place in sealed glass ampoules; it was found that the chemical reaction did not change the weight of the sealed container and its contents. Weighing of gases using scales was not possible until the invention of the vacuum pump in 17th century. Once understood, the conservation of mass was of great importance in progressing from alchemy to modern chemistry. Once early chemists realized that chemical substances never disappeared but were only transformed into other", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "701524", "text": "and biochemistry and to develop the theory of conservation of mass (matter). Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) used the scientific method to disprove the prevailing theory of spontaneous generation and to develop the germ theory of disease. Because of the importance of controlling potentially confounding variables, the use of well-designed laboratory experiments is preferred when possible. A considerable amount of progress on the design and analysis of experiments occurred in the early 20th century, with contributions from statisticians such as Ronald Fisher (1890-1962), Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981), Oscar Kempthorne (1919-2000), Gertrude Mary Cox (1900-1978), and William Gemmell Cochran (1909-1980), among others. Experiments might", "title": "Experiment" }, { "id": "762352", "text": "one will get the exact decrease of chemical energy in the combustion of the dynamite. Classically, conservation of energy was distinct from conservation of mass; however, special relativity showed that mass is related to energy and vice versa by \"E = mc\", and science now takes the view that mass–energy is conserved. Conservation of energy can be rigorously proven by Noether's theorem as a consequence of continuous time translation symmetry; that is, from the fact that the laws of physics do not change over time. A consequence of the law of conservation of energy is that a perpetual motion machine", "title": "Conservation of energy" }, { "id": "188890", "text": "all matter is made of atoms, which are the smallest constituents of matter that cannot be broken down without losing the basic chemical and physical properties of that matter, was provided by John Dalton in 1803, although the question took a hundred years to settle as proven. Dalton also formulated the law of mass relationships. In 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev composed his periodic table of elements on the basis of Dalton's discoveries. The synthesis of urea by Friedrich Wöhler opened a new research field, organic chemistry, and by the end of the 19th century, scientists were able to synthesize hundreds of", "title": "History of science" }, { "id": "2081328", "text": "of the law of conservation of mass by biological systems, according to which the amount of each chemical element is preserved in all chemical reactions. Specifically he claimed that organisms can transmute potassium into calcium by nuclear fusion in the course of making an egg shell: Since biological systems do not contain mechanisms to produce the speed, temperature and pressure necessary for such reactions, even for extremely short periods of time, this contradicts basic physical laws. Kervran said that his work was supported by prior studies and by reports of industrial accidents involving carbon monoxide. Kervran said that enzymes can", "title": "Corentin Louis Kervran" }, { "id": "762354", "text": "\"mass-energy\" (for example, Thales thought it was water). Empedocles (490–430 BCE) wrote that in this universal system, composed of four roots (earth, air, water, fire), \"nothing comes to be or perishes\"; instead, these elements suffer continual rearrangement. In 1605, Simon Stevinus was able to solve a number of problems in statics based on the principle that perpetual motion was impossible. In 1638, Galileo published his analysis of several situations—including the celebrated \"interrupted pendulum\"—which can be described (in modern language) as conservatively converting potential energy to kinetic energy and back again. Essentially, he pointed out that the height a moving body", "title": "Conservation of energy" }, { "id": "17998", "text": "textbook on the subject. The core of the work was the oxygen theory, and the work became a most effective vehicle for the transmission of the new doctrines. It presented a unified view of new theories of chemistry, contained a clear statement of the law of conservation of mass, and denied the existence of phlogiston. This text clarified the concept of an element as a substance that could not be broken down by any known method of chemical analysis, and presented Lavoisier's theory of the formation of chemical compounds from elements. It remains a classic in the history of science.", "title": "Antoine Lavoisier" }, { "id": "664669", "text": "into his first law, also known as the \"law of inertia\"—no force means no acceleration, and hence the body will maintain its velocity. As Newton's first law is a restatement of the law of inertia which Galileo had already described, Newton appropriately gave credit to Galileo. The law of inertia apparently occurred to several different natural philosophers and scientists independently, including Thomas Hobbes in his \"Leviathan\". The 17th-century philosopher and mathematician René Descartes also formulated the law, although he did not perform any experiments to confirm it. Newton's original Latin reads: This was translated quite closely in Motte's 1729 translation", "title": "Newton's laws of motion" }, { "id": "762373", "text": "as much to the inertia (and to any weight) of the system as did the rest mass of the electron and positron before their demise. Likewise, non-material forms of energy can perish into matter, which has rest mass. Thus, conservation of energy (\"total\", including material or \"rest\" energy), and conservation of mass (\"total\", not just \"rest\"), each still holds as an (equivalent) law. In the 18th century these had appeared as two seemingly-distinct laws. The discovery in 1911 that electrons emitted in beta decay have a continuous rather than a discrete spectrum appeared to contradict conservation of energy, under the", "title": "Conservation of energy" }, { "id": "2120469", "text": "later independently by Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff. The law is a statement about equilibrium and gives an expression for the equilibrium constant, a quantity characterizing chemical equilibrium. In modern chemistry this is derived using equilibrium thermodynamics. Two chemists generally expressed the composition of a mixture in terms of numerical values relating the amount of the product to describe the equilibrium state. Cato Maximilian Guldberg and Peter Waage, building on Claude Louis Berthollet’s ideas about reversible chemical reactions, proposed the law of mass action in 1864. These papers, in Danish, went largely unnoticed, as did the later publication (in French)", "title": "Law of mass action" }, { "id": "16766637", "text": "point in their fall, are falling at the same speed because they experience the same gravitational acceleration. Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) was a French chemist regarded as the founder of modern chemistry. Lavoisier's experiments were among the first truly quantitative chemical experiments. He showed that, although matter changes its state in a chemical reaction, the quantity of matter is the same at the end as at the beginning of every chemical reaction. In one experiment, he burned phosphorus and sulfur in air to see whether the results further supported his previous conclusion (Law of Conservation of Mass). In this experiment, however,", "title": "History of experiments" }, { "id": "188889", "text": "from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries through the material practices and theories promoted by alchemy, medicine, manufacturing and mining. A decisive moment came when 'chemistry' was distinguished from alchemy by Robert Boyle in his work \"The Sceptical Chymist\", in 1661; although the alchemical tradition continued for some time after his work. Other important steps included the gravimetric experimental practices of medical chemists like William Cullen, Joseph Black, Torbern Bergman and Pierre Macquer and through the work of Antoine Lavoisier (\"Father of Modern Chemistry\") on oxygen and the law of conservation of mass, which refuted phlogiston theory. The theory that", "title": "History of science" }, { "id": "500114", "text": "Birmingham, the majority attempting to refute Lavoisier. Priestley and other Lunar Society members argued that the new French system was too expensive, too difficult to test, and unnecessarily complex. Priestley in particular rejected its \"establishment\" aura. In the end, Lavoisier's view prevailed: his new chemistry introduced many of the principles on which modern chemistry is founded. Priestley's refusal to accept Lavoisier's \"new chemistry\"—such as the conservation of mass—and his determination to adhere to a less satisfactory theory has perplexed many scholars. Schofield explains it thus: \"Priestley was never a chemist; in a modern, and even a Lavoisierian, sense, he was", "title": "Joseph Priestley" }, { "id": "4465488", "text": "the theory of five classical elements into the theory of seven alchemical elements after identifying mercury and sulfur as chemical elements. Among other influential Muslim chemists, Abū al-Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, Avicenna and Al-Kindi refuted the theories of alchemy, particularly the theory of the transmutation of metals; and al-Tusi described a version of the conservation of mass, noting that a body of matter is able to change but is not able to disappear. Rhazes refuted Aristotle's theory of four classical elements for the first time and set up the firm foundations of modern chemistry, using the laboratory in the modern sense, designing", "title": "History of chemistry" }, { "id": "1821474", "text": "Hess's law Hess' law of constant heat summation, also known as Hess' law (or Hess's law), is a relationship in physical chemistry named after Germain Hess, a Switzerland-born Russian chemist and physician who published it in 1840. The law states that the total enthalpy change during the complete course of a chemical reaction is the same whether the reaction is made in one step or in several steps. Hess' law is now understood as an expression of the principle of conservation of energy, also expressed in the first law of thermodynamics, and the fact that the enthalpy of a chemical", "title": "Hess's law" }, { "id": "20592916", "text": "Carnot captured some of the ideas of thermodynamics in his discussion of the efficiency of an idealized engine. Sadi Carnot's work provided a basis for the formulation of the first law of thermodynamics—a restatement of the law of conservation of energy—which was stated around 1850 by William Thomson, later known as Lord Kelvin, and Rudolf Clausius. Lord Kelvin, who had extended the concept of absolute zero from gases to all substances in 1848, drew upon the engineering theory of Lazare Carnot, Sadi Carnot, and Émile Clapeyron–as well as the experimentation of James Prescott Joule on the interchangeability of mechanical, chemical,", "title": "19th century in science" }, { "id": "243327", "text": "or with 18.31 grams of hydrogen to produce undecane, for a ratio of hydrogen masses of 121:120, which is hardly a ratio of \"small\" whole numbers. The law fails with non-stoichiometric compounds and also doesn't work well with polymers and oligomers. Law of multiple proportions In chemistry, the law of multiple proportions is one of the basic laws of stoichiometry used to establish the atomic theory, alongside the law of conservation of mass (matter) and the law of definite proportions. It is sometimes called Dalton's Law after its discoverer, the British chemist John Dalton, who published it in the first", "title": "Law of multiple proportions" }, { "id": "292166", "text": "food is the source of body heat. Called the most fundamental chemical discovery of the 18th century, Lavoisier discovered the principle of conservation of mass. His ideas made the phlogiston theory of combustion obsolete. In 1790, George Fordyce recognized calcium as necessary for the survival of fowl. In the early 19th century, the elements carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen were recognized as the primary components of food, and methods to measure their proportions were developed. In 1816, François Magendie discovered that dogs fed only carbohydrates (sugar), fat (olive oil), and water died evidently of starvation, but dogs also fed protein", "title": "Nutrition" }, { "id": "762362", "text": "height from which the balls were dropped from. In classical physics the correct formula is formula_3, where formula_4 is the kinetic energy of an object, formula_5 its mass and formula_6 its speed. On this basis, Châtelet proposed that energy must always have the same dimensions in any form, which is necessary to be able to relate it in different forms (kinetic, potential, heat…). Engineers such as John Smeaton, Peter Ewart, , Gustave-Adolphe Hirn and Marc Seguin recognized that conservation of momentum alone was not adequate for practical calculation and made use of Leibniz's principle. The principle was also championed by", "title": "Conservation of energy" }, { "id": "2949488", "text": "Julius von Mayer Julius Robert Mayer (November 25, 1814 – March 20, 1878) was a German physician, chemist and physicist and one of the founders of thermodynamics. He is best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation of energy or what is now known as one of the first versions of the first law of thermodynamics, namely that \"energy can be neither created nor destroyed\". In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. His achievements were overlooked and priority", "title": "Julius von Mayer" }, { "id": "139807", "text": "measurement and used to solve practical problems. The solution to a fluid dynamics problem typically involves the calculation of various properties of the fluid, such as flow velocity, pressure, density, and temperature, as functions of space and time. Before the twentieth century, \"hydrodynamics\" was synonymous with fluid dynamics. This is still reflected in names of some fluid dynamics topics, like magnetohydrodynamics and hydrodynamic stability, both of which can also be applied to gases. The foundational axioms of fluid dynamics are the conservation laws, specifically, conservation of mass, conservation of linear momentum (also known as Newton's Second Law of Motion), and", "title": "Fluid dynamics" }, { "id": "762370", "text": "of Physical Forces\". In 1847, drawing on the earlier work of Joule, Sadi Carnot and Émile Clapeyron, Hermann von Helmholtz arrived at conclusions similar to Grove's and published his theories in his book \"Über die Erhaltung der Kraft\" (\"On the Conservation of Force\", 1847). The general modern acceptance of the principle stems from this publication. In 1850, William Rankine first used the phrase \"the law of the conservation of energy\" for the principle. In 1877, Peter Guthrie Tait claimed that the principle originated with Sir Isaac Newton, based on a creative reading of propositions 40 and 41 of the \"Philosophiae", "title": "Conservation of energy" }, { "id": "17984", "text": "ne se crée, tout se transforme.\"\" (\"\"Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.\"\"). Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) had previously expressed similar ideas in 1748 and proved them in experiments; others whose ideas pre-date the work of Lavoisier include Jean Rey (1583–1645), Joseph Black (1728–1799), and Henry Cavendish (1731–1810). (See An Historical Note on the Conservation of Mass) Lavoisier, together with Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, Claude-Louis Berthollet, and Antoine François de Fourcroy, submitted a new program for the reforms of chemical nomenclature to the Academy in 1787, for there was virtually no rational system of chemical nomenclature at this time.", "title": "Antoine Lavoisier" }, { "id": "274299", "text": "gave an argument against Descartes' construction of the conservation of the \"quantity of motion\" using an example of dropping blocks of different sizes different distances. He points out that force is conserved but quantity of motion, construed as the product of size and speed of an object, is not conserved. The first correct statement of the law of conservation of momentum was by English mathematician John Wallis in his 1670 work, \"Mechanica sive De Motu, Tractatus Geometricus\": \"the initial state of the body, either of rest or of motion, will persist\" and \"If the force is greater than the resistance,", "title": "Momentum" }, { "id": "360712", "text": "latter coined the term scientist. When Charles Darwin published \"On the Origin of Species\" he established evolution as the prevailing explanation of biological complexity. His theory of natural selection provided a natural explanation of how species originated, but this only gained wide acceptance a century later. The laws of conservation of energy, conservation of momentum and conservation of mass suggested a highly stable universe where there could be little loss of resources. With the advent of the steam engine and the industrial revolution, there was, however, an increased understanding that all forms of energy as defined by Newton were not", "title": "Science" }, { "id": "13048393", "text": "Isaac Newton in popular culture Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, natural philosopher, theologian, alchemist and one of the most influential scientists in human history. His \"Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica\" is considered to be one of the most influential book in the history of science, laying the groundwork for most of classical mechanics by describing universal gravitation and the three laws of motion. In mathematics, Newton shares the credit with Gottfried Leibniz for the development of the differential and integral calculus. Because of the resounding impact of his work, Newton became a scientific icon, much like Albert Einstein after his", "title": "Isaac Newton in popular culture" }, { "id": "1419768", "text": "determining the atomic weights of the elements more accurately than had ever been done before, using an atomic mass of 16 for oxygen as his standard. His results disproved the hypothesis of the English physicist William Prout that all atomic weights must be integer multiples of that of hydrogen. These careful, accurate atomic weight measurements of Stas helped lay the foundation for the periodic system of elements of Dmitri Mendeleev and others. Following the pioneering work of Lavoisier and his statement of the conservation of mass, the prolonged and exhaustive experiments of Stas supported the strict accuracy of this law", "title": "Jean Stas" }, { "id": "6768231", "text": "economic education today is that energy is the stuff of the universe, that all matter is also a form of energy, and that the economic system is essentially a system for extracting, processing and transforming energy as resources into energy embodied in products and services. This is a thermodynamic process, as the Rumanian economist Georgescu-Roegen said half a century ago (Georgescu-Roegen 1971). The economic process is subject to both the first law of thermodynamics (conservation of mass/energy; nothing can be created or destroyed) and the second law of thermodynamics (increasing entropy; all transformation processes are irreversible). The “first law” implies", "title": "Robert Ayres (scientist)" }, { "id": "505444", "text": "using a series of (often well-tested) techniques for manipulating materials, as well as an understanding of the underlying processes. Chemistry is often called \"the central science\" because of its role in connecting the other natural sciences. Early experiments in chemistry had their roots in the system of Alchemy, a set of beliefs combining mysticism with physical experiments. The science of chemistry began to develop with the work of Robert Boyle, the discoverer of gas, and Antoine Lavoisier, who developed the theory of the Conservation of mass. The discovery of the chemical elements and atomic theory began to systematize this science,", "title": "Natural science" }, { "id": "317753", "text": "the road of all things is a backward-turning one. (B 6.5–9)Thus, he concluded that \"Is\" could not have \"come into being\" because \"nothing comes from nothing\". Existence is necessarily eternal. That which truly is [x], has always been [x], and was never becoming [x]; that which is becoming [x] was never nothing (Not-[x]), but will never actually be. Parmenides was not struggling to formulate the laws of conservation of mass and conservation of energy; he was struggling with the metaphysics of change, which is still a relevant philosophical topic today. Moreover, he argued that movement was impossible because it requires", "title": "Parmenides" }, { "id": "210169", "text": "Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler (; ; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. Kepler is a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works \"Astronomia nova\", \"Harmonices Mundi\", and \"Epitome of Copernican Astronomy\". These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg. Later he became an assistant to the astronomer Tycho Brahe", "title": "Johannes Kepler" }, { "id": "1433165", "text": "1850 from Rudolf Clausius and from William Rankine; Rankine's statement is considered less distinct relative to Clausius'. A main aspect of the struggle was to deal with the previously proposed caloric theory of heat. In 1840, Germain Hess stated a conservation law for the so-called 'heat of reaction' for chemical reactions. His law was later recognized as a consequence of the first law of thermodynamics, but Hess's statement was not explicitly concerned with the relation between energy exchanges by heat and work. According to Truesdell (1980), Julius Robert von Mayer in 1841 made a statement that meant that \"in a", "title": "First law of thermodynamics" }, { "id": "9815160", "text": "is transformed\", which would later be known as the law of conservation of mass. Lavoisier used the experimental fact that some metals gained mass when they burned to support his ideas. Historically, \"flammable\", \"inflammable\" and \"combustible\" meant \"capable of burning\". The word \"inflammable\" came through French from the Latin \"inflammāre\" = \"to set fire to,\" where the Latin preposition \"in-\" means \"in\" as in \"indoctrinate\", rather than \"not\" as in \"invisible\" and \"ineligible\". The word \"inflammable\" may be erroneously thought to mean \"non-flammable\". The erroneous usage of the word \"inflammable\" is a significant safety hazard. Therefore, since the 1950s, efforts", "title": "Combustibility and flammability" }, { "id": "3260917", "text": "Madison Grant Madison Grant (November 19, 1865 – May 30, 1937) was an American lawyer, writer, and zoologist known primarily for his work as a eugenicist and conservationist. As a eugenicist, Grant was responsible for one of the most notorious works of scientific racism, and played an active role in crafting strong immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation laws in the United States. As a conservationist, Grant is credited with the saving of many different species of animals, founding many different environmental and philanthropic organizations and developing much of the discipline of wildlife management. Grant was born in New York City, New", "title": "Madison Grant" }, { "id": "4622971", "text": "liquid drop model (first suggested by George Gamow) into fission's theoretical foundation. She also predicted the possibility of chain reactions. In an earlier collaboration with Hahn, she had independently discovered a new chemical element (called protactinium). Bohr nominated both for this work, in addition to recommending the Chemistry prize for Hahn. Hahn's assistant, Fritz Strassmann, was not considered for the Physics prize. Chien-Shiung Wu disproved the law of the conservation of parity (1956) and was the first Wolf Prize winner in physics. She died in 1997 without receiving a Nobel. Wu assisted Tsung-Dao Lee personally in his parity laws development—with", "title": "Nobel Prize controversies" }, { "id": "1829308", "text": "energy that is conserved, and that energy and mass are related; a concept which becomes important in nuclear chemistry. Conservation of energy leads to the important concepts of equilibrium, thermodynamics, and kinetics. Additional laws of chemistry elaborate on the law of conservation of mass. Joseph Proust's law of definite composition says that pure chemicals are composed of elements in a definite formulation; we now know that the structural arrangement of these elements is also important. Dalton's law of multiple proportions says that these chemicals will present themselves in proportions that are small whole numbers (i.e. 1:2 for Oxygen:Hydrogen ratio in", "title": "Scientific law" }, { "id": "136339", "text": "extent that was independent of their mass and argued that objects retain their velocity unless acted on by a force, for example friction. Sir Isaac Newton described the motion of all objects using the concepts of inertia and force, and in doing so he found they obey certain conservation laws. In 1687, Newton published his thesis \"Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica\". In this work Newton set out three laws of motion that to this day are the way forces are described in physics. Newton's First Law of Motion states that objects continue to move in a state of constant velocity unless", "title": "Force" }, { "id": "1295602", "text": "two oxygen molecules are converted into one molecule of carbon dioxide () and two of water (). The number of molecules as result from the reaction can be derived from the principle of conservation of mass, as initially four hydrogen atoms, 4 oxygen atoms and one carbon atom are present (as well as in the final state), then the number water molecules produced must be exactly two per molecule of carbon dioxide produced. Many engineering problems are solved by following the mass distribution in time of a given system, this practice is known as mass balance. An important idea in", "title": "Conservation of mass" }, { "id": "87626", "text": "in an isolated system does not change, though it may change form. In general, the total quantity of the property governed by that law remains unchanged during physical processes. With respect to classical physics, conservation laws include conservation of energy, mass (or matter), linear momentum, angular momentum, and electric charge. With respect to particle physics, particles cannot be created or destroyed except in pairs, where one is ordinary and the other is an antiparticle. With respect to symmetries and invariance principles, three special conservation laws have been described, associated with inversion or reversal of space, time, and charge. Conservation laws", "title": "Conservation law" }, { "id": "20344757", "text": "one values, specifically objects, states, and conditions. COR states that loss of these types of resources will drive individuals into certain levels of stress. COR was developed from various theories on the cause of stress. COR development branches back to Walter Bradford Cannon (1932) who was one of the first researchers to study the concept of stress as it applies to humans, specifically in how stress can be withstood. Hans Selye (1950) took on Cannon’s research on stress as a response and indicated that stress itself was designed as a way to protect the body from environmental challenges. Other researchers", "title": "Conservation of resources theory" }, { "id": "3260934", "text": "U.S. presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover, and also was an avid conservationist. He is credited with saving many natural species from extinction, and co-founded the Save the Redwoods League with Frederick Russell Burnham, John C. Merriam, and Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1918. He is also credited with helping develop the first deer hunting laws in New York state, legislation which spread to other states as well over time. He was also the creator of wildlife management, helped to found the Bronx Zoo, build the Bronx River Parkway, save the American bison as an organizer of the American Bison", "title": "Madison Grant" }, { "id": "6438534", "text": "the chemistry made throughout the paper. Paulze was instrumental in the 1789 publication of Lavoisier's \"Elementary Treatise on Chemistry\", which presented a unified view of chemistry as a field. This work proved pivotal in the progression of chemistry, as it presented the idea of conservation of mass as well as a list of elements and a new system for chemical nomenclature. She also kept strict records of the procedures followed, lending validity to the findings Lavoisier published. The astronomer Caroline Herschel was born in Hanover but moved to England where she acted as an assistant to her brother, William Herschel.", "title": "Women in science" }, { "id": "13127996", "text": "GLONASS, the only global satellite navigation system apart from American GPS, and Russia's being the only country constructing mobile nuclear plants. The Russian physics school began to develop after Lomonosov who proposed the law of conservation of matter preceding the energy conservation law. During the period of origin of electrodynamics Vasily Petrov discovered the electric arc effect in 1802 and Heinrich Lenz discovered an important law named in his honor. Nikolay Umov discovered a fundamental concept of Umov-Poynting vector and was the first scientist to indicate interrelation between mass and energy proposing the formula formula_1 as early as in 1873.", "title": "Science and technology in Russia" }, { "id": "389299", "text": "New Testament and some of the Apocrypha. A stoichiometric amount or stoichiometric ratio of a reagent is the optimum amount or ratio where, assuming that the reaction proceeds to completion: Stoichiometry rests upon the very basic laws that help to understand it better, i.e., law of conservation of mass, the law of definite proportions (i.e., the law of constant composition), the law of multiple proportions and the law of reciprocal proportions. In general, chemical reactions combine in definite ratios of chemicals. Since chemical reactions can neither create nor destroy matter, nor transmute one element into another, the amount of each", "title": "Stoichiometry" }, { "id": "858419", "text": "James Prescott Joule James Prescott Joule (; 24 December 1818 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy). This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named after him. Joule worked with Lord Kelvin to develop an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale, which came to be called the Kelvin scale. Joule also made observations of magnetostriction, and", "title": "James Prescott Joule" }, { "id": "9950285", "text": "atomism. In more recent times, the study of chemistry was marked by milestones such as the development of Mendeleev's periodic table, Dalton's atomic model, and the conservation of mass theory. This last mention has the most importance of the three due to the fact that this law intertwines chemistry with thermodynamics in an intercalated manner. As early as the late 18th century and early 19th century, the digestion of meat by stomach secretions and the conversion of starch to sugars by plant extracts and saliva were known. However, the mechanism by which this occurred had not been identified. In the", "title": "History of biochemistry" }, { "id": "5809577", "text": "Ludwig A. Colding Ludwig August Colding (13 July 1815 – 21 March 1888) was a Danish civil engineer and physicist who articulated the principle of conservation of energy contemporaneously with, and independently of, James Prescott Joule and Julius Robert von Mayer though his contribution was largely overlooked and neglected. Born in Holbæk, Denmark, his father, Andreas Christian, had been an officer in the Danish privateer service. Ludwig's mother, Anna Sophie, was the daughter of a clergyman and imbued the household with a deeply religious sentiment. Around the time of Ludwig's birth, his father retired from seafaring and took up a", "title": "Ludwig A. Colding" }, { "id": "762360", "text": "and linked the kinetic energy of gas molecules with the temperature of the gas. This focus on the vis viva by the continental physicists eventually led to the discovery of stationarity principles governing mechanics, such as the D'Alembert's principle, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian formulations of mechanics. Émilie du Châtelet (1706 – 1749) proposed and tested the hypothesis of the conservation of total energy, as distinct from momentum. Inspired by the theories of Gottfried Leibniz, she repeated and publicized an experiment originally devised by Willem 's Gravesande in 1722 in which balls were dropped from different heights into a sheet of soft", "title": "Conservation of energy" }, { "id": "16766638", "text": "he determined that the products weighed more than the original phosphorus and sulfur. He decided to do the experiment again. This time he measured the mass of the air surrounding the experiment as well. He discovered that the mass gained in the product was lost from the air. These experiments provided further support for his Law of Conservation of Mass. One of Lavoisier's experiments connected the worlds of respiration and combustion. Lavoisier's hypothesis was that combustion and respiration were one and the same, and combustion occurs with every instance of respiration. Lavoisier, working with Pierre-Simon Laplace, designed an ice calorimeter", "title": "History of experiments" }, { "id": "295575", "text": "creation of reality and mankind. The concept of natural law was documented in ancient Greek philosophy, including Aristotle, and was referred to in Roman philosophy by Cicero. References to natural law are also found in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, later expounded upon in the Middle Ages by Christian philosophers such as Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas. The School of Salamanca made notable contributions during the Renaissance. Modern natural law theories were greatly developed in the Age of Enlightenment, combining inspiration from Roman law with philosophies like social contract theory. Key proponents were Alberico Gentili, Francisco", "title": "Natural law" }, { "id": "1829178", "text": "Newton's law of universal gravitation Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers. This is a general physical law derived from empirical observations by what Isaac Newton called inductive reasoning. It is a part of classical mechanics and was formulated in Newton's work \"Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica\" (\"the \"Principia\"\"), first published on 5 July 1687. When Newton presented Book 1 of the unpublished text in April 1686", "title": "Newton's law of universal gravitation" } ]

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[ { "id": "2259878", "text": "11th centuries. The early divisions form most of the current counties, albeit with adapted boundaries. Counties were used for the administration of justice, the organisation of the military, local government and parliamentary representation. Some larger counties were divided early on for many purposes, including Yorkshire (into Ridings), Lincolnshire (into Parts) and Sussex (into East and West). In 1832, the Great Reform Act divided larger counties for parliamentary purposes. Changes in the administration of the Poor Law in 1832 and later the implementation of sanitary authorities caused the use of traditional divisions for civil administration to wane. The like-named and broadly", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "2259870", "text": "not always the same as, the areas of the 1972 administrative counties. For the purpose of sorting and delivering mail, England was divided into 48 postal counties until 1996; these have been abandoned by Royal Mail in favour of postcodes. The term 'county', relating to any of its meanings, is used as the geographical basis for a number of institutions such as police and fire services, sports clubs and other non-government organisations. Cumbria, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex and Worcestershire are non-metropolitan counties of multiple districts with a county council. In these counties most services are", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "15661831", "text": "Richard Boyle (Tynedale & Northumberland), Matt Hall (Blaydon & Northumberland), Ben Hilton (Launceston & Cornwall), Martin Kent (Macclesfield & Cheshire), Aaron Myers (Westoe & Durham), Steve Pape (Rosslyn Park & Somerset), Jack Preece (Birmingham Solihull & Gloucestershire), Rob Schillaci (Hertford & Hertfordshire), Ben Sparks (Stourbridge & Gloucestershire), Tom Stradwick (Henley & Kent), Tommy Taylor (Sale Jets & Cheshire), Craig Voisey (Moseley & North Midlands), Gavin Woods ( Caldy & Cheshire). Backs: Oliver Brennand (Fylde & Lancashire), Gareth Collins (Leicester Lions & Warwickshire) (Captain), Steve Hamilton (Rotherham & Kent), Peter Hodgkinson (Ealing & Cheshire), Tom Hughes (Preston Grasshoppers & Lancashire), Cameron", "title": "England Counties XV" }, { "id": "15661825", "text": "(Launceston & Cornwall), Christopher Wearmouth (Blaydon& Durham), George Oram (Blackheath & Kent), Keith Laughlin (Blaydon & Northumberland), Gavin Jones (Blaydon & Yorkshire), Evan Stewart (Fylde & Lancashire), Harry Bate (Blaydon & Northumberland), Nyle Davidson (Caldy & Cheshire). Backs: William Crow (Dorking & Surrey), Matthew Shepherd (Launceston & Cornwall), Alexander Gallagher (Blackheath & Kent), Sebastian Rodwell (London Irish Wild Geese & Gloucestershire), James Spiers (Old Albanians & Hertfordshire), Samuel Winter (Bishop Stortford & Hertfordshire), Leo Fielding (Cinderford & Gloucestershire), Albert Portsmouth (Cambridge & Eastern Counties), Nevaro Codlin (Coney Hill & Gloucestershire), Jordan Dorrington (Fylde & Lancashire), Henry Robinson (Darlington Mowden Park", "title": "England Counties XV" }, { "id": "2259890", "text": "obsolete or effectively no longer represent the whole ceremonial county. A recent series of flags, of varying levels of official adoption, have been established in many of the counties by competition or public poll. County days are a recent innovation in some areas. There are seventeen first-class county cricket teams that are based on historic English counties. They are Derbyshire, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire. There are also nineteen minor county teams. They are Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Devon, Dorset, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland,", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "2259885", "text": "outside Greater London, replacing it with a new entirely 'two-tier' system. It created a new set of 45 counties, six of which were metropolitan and 39 of which were non-metropolitan. The historic county boundaries were retained wherever it was practicable. However, some of the counties established by the Act were entirely new, such as Avon, Cleveland, Cumbria, Hereford and Worcester, and Humberside, along with the new metropolitan counties of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands and West Yorkshire; based on the major conurbations. The counties of Cumberland, Herefordshire, Rutland, Westmorland, Huntingdon & Peterborough and Worcestershire were", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "8990247", "text": "or two-tier), from the geographical concept of a county as high level spatial unit. The lieutenancies it established became known as ceremonial counties, since they were no longer administrative divisions. The counties represent a compromise between the historic counties and the counties established in 1974. They are as 1974 except that; north Lincolnshire returned to Lincolnshire and the remainder of Humberside became East Riding of Yorkshire; Bristol is established as a county; the remainder of Avon returned to Somerset and Gloucestershire; Cleveland was split between County Durham and North Yorkshire; Herefordshire and Worcestershire were separated; and Rutland was re-established as", "title": "History of local government in England" }, { "id": "471668", "text": "(lord). These Norman \"counties\" were simply the Saxon shires, and kept their Saxon names. Several traditional counties, including Essex, Sussex and Kent, predate the unification of England by Alfred the Great, and were originally more or less independent kingdoms. In Northern Ireland, the six county councils, if not their counties, were abolished in 1973 and replaced by 26 local government districts. The traditional six counties remain in common everyday use for many cultural and other purposes. The thirteen historic counties of Wales were fixed by statute in 1539 (although counties such as Pembrokeshire date from 1138) and most of the", "title": "County" }, { "id": "16685399", "text": "because of the desirability of a specific letter/number combination. The first series of number plates was issued in 1903 and ran until 1932, consisting of a one- or two-letter code followed by a sequence number from 1 to 9999. The code indicated the local authority in whose area the vehicle was registered. In England and Wales, these were initially allocated in order of population size (by the 1901 census) – thus codice_4 indicated London, codice_5 indicated Lancashire, codice_6 indicated the West Riding of Yorkshire and so on up to codice_7 indicating Somerset, then codice_8 indicated Hampshire, codice_9 indicated Worcestershire and", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "634054", "text": "East of England The East of England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It was created in 1994 and was adopted for statistics from 1999. It includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Essex has the highest population in the region. Its population at the 2011 census was 5,847,000. Bedford, Luton, Basildon, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford and Cambridge are the region's most populous towns. The southern part of the region lies in the London commuter belt. The region has the lowest elevation", "title": "East of England" }, { "id": "177565", "text": "gone before, and built an administrative system from scratch. All previous administrative districts – statutory counties, administrative counties, county boroughs, municipal boroughs, counties corporate, civil parishes – were abolished. The aim of the act was to establish a uniform two tier system across the country. Onto the blank canvas, new counties were created to cover the entire country; many of these were obviously based on the historic counties, but there were some major changes, especially in the north. This uniform two-tier system lasted only 12 years. In 1986, the metropolitan county councils and Greater London were abolished. This restored autonomy", "title": "History of England" }, { "id": "5797744", "text": "divided into districts and have a county council. Most ceremonial counties correspond to a metropolitan or non-metropolitan county of the same name, but often with reduced boundaries. The current arrangement is the result of incremental reform; from 1974 to 1996 the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties corresponded directly with the ceremonial counties. From 1889 to 1974 areas with county councils were known as administrative counties and ceremonial counties were defined separately. There are six counties in Northern Ireland. In order of landmass these are; Tyrone, Antrim, Down, Londonderry, Fermanagh and Armagh. A mnemonic to help remember these counties is 'FAT-LAD'. The", "title": "Counties of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "16685414", "text": "letters I or Z representing Ireland. The full list of codes appears below. As in Great Britain, each code originally ran from 1 to 9999, and when one was completed, another was allocated. All possible codes had been allocated by 1957, following which reversed sequences were introduced, the first county to do so being Antrim in January 1958 with codice_35. These reversed sequences were completed quickly, leading to the introduction of the current \"codice_36\" format in January 1966, where \"codice_37\" is the county code and \"codice_4\" is a serial letter. This format allowed capacity to be increased. Each county adopted", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "2259891", "text": "Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Wiltshire. The County Football Associations are roughly based on English counties, with exceptions such as the combinations of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire and Leicestershire and Rutland. Counties of England The counties of England are areas used for different purposes, which include administrative, geographical, cultural and political demarcation. The term 'county' is not clearly defined and can apply to similar or the same areas used by each of these demarcation structures. These different types of county each have a more formal name but are commonly referred to just as 'counties'. The current arrangement is the result of", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "8990235", "text": "changes, especially in the north. The tiny county of Rutland was joined with Leicestershire; Cumberland, Westmorland and the Furness exclave of Lancashire were fused into the new county of Cumbria; Herefordshire and Worcestershire were joined to form Hereford & Worcester; the three ridings of Yorkshire were replaced by North, South and West Yorkshire, along with Humberside. The act also created six new 'metropolitan' counties, modelled on Greater London, to specifically address the problems of administering large conurbations; these were Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Midlands. The new counties of Avon (the city of", "title": "History of local government in England" }, { "id": "1647954", "text": "Bournemouth–Poole–Christchurch (Dorset and Hampshire) Greater Manchester (Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire), Merseyside (Cheshire and Lancashire), Teesside (Yorkshire and County Durham), South Yorkshire (Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire), Tyneside (County Durham and Northumberland) and West Midlands (Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire). Greater London itself straddles five ancient counties — Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey — and the London urban area sprawls into Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. The Local Government Act 1972 sought generally to unite conurbations within a single county, while retaining the historic county boundaries as far as was practicable. In a period of financial crisis, the Post Office was able to alter", "title": "Historic counties of England" }, { "id": "1772252", "text": "and immediately followed by the Archbishop of Wales. Primates, archbishops and bishops of the Church of England in England and the Church in Wales rank immediately above Peers. First come the Bishops of London and Durham, followed by the Bishop of Winchester, followed by the other diocesan bishops in order of seniority, and then the suffragan bishops in order of seniority. The Bishop of Sodor and Man and the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, whose \"Sees\" are full and integral parts of the Ecclesiastical Provinces of York and Canterbury, respectively, are also usually included as suffragan bishops of the", "title": "Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "2259877", "text": "population the largest such county is Bristol and the smallest is Rutland. Slough is the smallest unitary authority by area that is not also a ceremonial county and Cheshire East is the largest. Hartlepool is the smallest such unitary authority by population and Cheshire West and Chester is the largest. The \"sui generis\" Isles of Scilly is smaller both in terms of area and population. The highest population density of any metropolitan or non-metropolitan county is found in Portsmouth and the lowest is found in Northumberland. Most English counties were established in the Middle Ages sometime between the 7th and", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "15661833", "text": "& Newbury), James Winterbottom (Middlesex & Henley), David Campton (Warwickshire & Coventry), Alex Davidson (North Midlands & Pertemps Bees), James Tideswell (North Midlands & Stourbridge), Carl Rimmer (Warwickshire & Coventry), Tim Mathias (Devon & Plymouth Albion), Liam Wordley (Staffordshire & Henley), Glenn Cooper (Somerset & Newbury), Duncan Cormack (Surrey & Esher) captain. Backs: Oliver Viney (Lancashire & Preston Grasshoppers), Frankie Neale (Kent & Blackheath), Tom Jarvis (Gloucestershire & Lydney), Hamish Smales (Northumberland & Tynedale), Chris Malherbe (Yorkshire & Wharfedale), Aaran Cruickshank (Devon & Plymouth Albion), Mark Bedworth (Yorkshire & Wharfedale), Scott Rawlings (Staffordshire & Manchester), Mark Woodrow (Gloucestershire & Doncaster),", "title": "England Counties XV" }, { "id": "8990190", "text": "However, the Shires were not comparable with later Earldoms, and were not held in the Ealdorman's own right. The shires of Wessex at this time have essentially survived to the present day, as counties of England (currently ceremonial counties). They included Defnascir (Devon), Sumorsaete (Somerset), Dornsaete (Dorset), Wiltunscir (Wiltshire), Hamptunscir (Hampshire). When Wessex conquered the petty kingdoms of southern England, namely Cent and that of the South Saxons, these were simply reconstituted as shires (modern Kent and Sussex respectively). As Wessex took over progressively larger areas of Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria, the new lands were divided into shires, usually", "title": "History of local government in England" }, { "id": "2065994", "text": "these destroyed houses were the direct result of castle construction and expansion. In 1316 the Nomina Villarum survey was initiated by Edward II of England; it was essentially a list of all the administrative subdivisions throughout England which could be utilized by the state in order to assess how much military troops could be conscripted and summoned from each region. The \"Speculum Britanniae\" (1596) of the Tudor era English cartographer and topographer John Norden (1548–1625) had an alphabetical list of places throughout England with headings showing their administrative hundreds and referenced to attached maps. Englishman John Speed's \"Theatre of the", "title": "Gazetteer" }, { "id": "2259879", "text": "similarly shaped registration counties existed for these purposes from 1851 and were used for census reporting from 1851 to 1911. Their boundaries differed from existing counties as they were formed from the combined areas of smaller registration districts, which crossed historic county boundaries. By the late nineteenth century, there was increasing pressure to reform the structure of English counties. A boundary commission was appointed in 1887 to review all English and Welsh counties, and a Local Government Bill was introduced to parliament in the following year. The resulting Local Government Act 1888 divided the counties into administrative counties, controlled by", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "2335317", "text": "finally \"yogh\" ( ) was created by Norman scribes from the insular \"g\" in Old English and Irish, and used alongside their Carolingian \"g\". The a-e ligature \"ash\" (Æ æ) was adopted as a letter in its own right, named after a futhorc rune \"æsc\". In very early Old English the o-e ligature \"ethel\" (Œ œ) also appeared as a distinct letter, likewise named after a rune, \"œðel\". Additionally, the v-v or u-u ligature \"double-u\" (W w) was in use. In the year 1011, a monk named Byrhtferð recorded the traditional order of the Old English alphabet. He listed the", "title": "English alphabet" }, { "id": "16685400", "text": "so on up to codice_10 indicating Rutland. The letters G, S and V were initially restricted to Scotland, and the letters I and Z to Ireland. In both cases, allocations of codes were made in alphabetical order of counties, followed by county boroughs – thus in Scotland, Aberdeenshire was allocated codice_11, Argyll received codice_12 and so on, while in Ireland Antrim was allocated codice_13, Armagh received codice_14, and so on. When a licensing authority reached 9999, it was allocated another two-letter code, but there was no pattern to these subsequent allocations as they were allocated on a first come first", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "2259867", "text": "Counties of England The counties of England are areas used for different purposes, which include administrative, geographical, cultural and political demarcation. The term 'county' is not clearly defined and can apply to similar or the same areas used by each of these demarcation structures. These different types of county each have a more formal name but are commonly referred to just as 'counties'. The current arrangement is the result of incremental reform. The original county structure has its origins in the Middle Ages. These counties are often referred to as historic or traditional counties. The Local Government Act 1888 created", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "1647970", "text": "Suffolk and West Suffolk, and, more informally and hence more vaguely, of Kent into East Kent and West Kent. Several counties had liberties or sokes within them that were administered separately. Cambridgeshire had the Isle of Ely, and Northamptonshire had the Soke of Peterborough. Such divisions were used by such entities as the Quarter Sessions courts and were inherited by the later administrative county areas under the control of county councils. Most English counties were subdivided into smaller subdivisions called hundreds. Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire were divided into wapentakes (a unit of Danish origin), while Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland", "title": "Historic counties of England" }, { "id": "2651160", "text": "can add a county, which will be ignored in the sorting process. During the 1990s a reform of local government in England caused further changes to the locations in which the former postal counties did not match up to the geographic counties. Avon, Cleveland and Humberside were abolished as geographic counties and Rutland was reconstituted. This had the following effects on the relationship between the geographic and postal counties: Hereford and Worcester was abolished and reconstituted as two separate counties once more, broadly matching the former postal counties. Greater London and Greater Manchester remained unaffected by the reform. Local government", "title": "Postal counties of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "8990236", "text": "Bristol, north Somerset and south Gloucestershire), Cleveland (the Teesside area) and Humberside were designed with the idea of uniting areas based on river estuaries. Each of the new counties was then endowed with a county council, to generally administer the county, and provide certain county-wide services, such as policing, social services and public transport. The Act substituted the new counties \"for counties of any other description\" for purposes of law. The new counties therefore replaced the statutory counties created in 1888 for judicial and ceremonial purposes (such as lieutenancy, custodes rotulorum, shrievalty, commissions of the peace and magistrates' courts); and", "title": "History of local government in England" }, { "id": "968183", "text": "mail: for calculating insurance premiums, designating destinations in route planning software and as the lowest level of aggregation in census enumeration. The boundaries of each postcode unit and within these the full address data of currently about 29 million addresses (delivery points) are stored, maintained and periodically updated in the Postcode Address File database. The initial system of named postal districts, developed in London and other large cities from 1857, evolved towards the present form: in 1917 London was split into broad numbered subdivisions, and this extended to the other cities in 1934. After the reorganisation of London in the", "title": "Postcodes in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "2259882", "text": "considerable boundary changes between the counties over the years, with areas being exchanged and suburban areas in one county being annexed by county boroughs in another. A major realignment came in 1931, when the boundaries between Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire were adjusted by the Provisional Order Confirmation (Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire) Act which transferred 26 parishes between the three counties, largely to eliminate exclaves. A Local Government Boundary Commission was set up in 1945 with the power to merge, create or divide all existing administrative counties and county boroughs. If the commission's recommendations had been carried out the county map", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "1772248", "text": "since 1421), the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of York and the Archbishop of Wales. Next come the Prime Minister as the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord President of the Privy Council, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord Speaker of the House of Lords (since July 2006), the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (since October 2009), the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (since November 2007) and the Lord Privy Seal. The precedence of the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Earl Marshal, the Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain are determined by", "title": "Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "20653729", "text": "although a number of the matches were abandoned due to rain or wet outfields. The men's County Championship season began on 13 April and is scheduled to finish on 27 September with each team playing 14 matches. Each county will play one day/night match spread over four rounds of the competition from June to August. Surrey won their first Championship since 2002 with two rounds of matches left in the season. The runners-up in Division One were Somerset. Division Two was won by Warwickshire with Kent finishing second; both teams were promoted to Division One. The two teams started the", "title": "2018 English cricket season" }, { "id": "177560", "text": "England. These were part of the statutory counties, but not part of the administrative counties. In 1894, the Local Government Act created a second tier of local government. Henceforth, all administrative counties and county boroughs would be divided into either rural or urban districts, allowing more localised administration. The municipal boroughs reformed after 1835 were brought into this system as special cases of urban districts. The urban and rural districts were based on, and incorporated the sanitary districts which created in 1875 (with adjustments, so that districts did not overlap two counties). The Act also provided for the establishment of", "title": "History of England" }, { "id": "2651155", "text": "county name; these addresses are unchanged, but the postcode should be shown. Addresses in Greater London are also unchanged as are addresses in any place where the new county bears the same name as the former one.\" The postal counties listed in 1961 that did not continue after the reforms were Cumberland, Rutland, Sussex, Westmorland and Yorkshire. In Scotland, counties were entirely abolished for local government purposes in May 1975. The matter of postal counties was raised in the House of Lords in April 1975. Lord Beswick, Minister of State at the Department of Industry, stated that \"the Post Office", "title": "Postal counties of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "12243051", "text": "was the basis of the ceremonial counties used for Lieutenancy – except that Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and Sussex were not split for Lieutenancy. (Yorkshire, however, was). The table lists the area and population of each administrative county at the censuses of 1891 and 1961. Several county councils had administrative headquarters outside of their area. This was usually because the traditional county town was a county borough. The headquarters of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire county councils were moved from the county boroughs to locations within their respective administrative counties. The boundaries of the administrative counties changed considerably over time.", "title": "Administrative counties of England" }, { "id": "177559", "text": "enclaves and exclaves, and adjusted so that each settlement was completely within one county. These statutory counties were to be used for non-administrative functions: \"\"sheriff, lieutenant, custos rotulorum, justices, militia, coroner, or other\"\". With the advent of elected councils, the offices of lord lieutenant and sheriff became largely ceremonial. The statutory counties formed the basis for the so-called 'administrative counties'. However, it was felt that large cities and primarily rural areas in the same county could not be well administered by the same body. Thus 59 \"counties in themselves\", or 'county boroughs', were created to administer the urban centres of", "title": "History of England" }, { "id": "18048795", "text": "Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands, Niue, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Seychelles, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom Starting to report in 2018: Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Belize, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ghana, Grenada, Hong Kong (China), Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Marshall Islands, Macao (China), Malaysia, Mauritius, Monaco, Nauru, New Zealand, Pakistan, Panama, Qatar, Russia, Saint Kitts", "title": "Common Reporting Standard" }, { "id": "2335318", "text": "24 letters of the Latin alphabet first (including ampersand), then 5 additional English letters, starting with the Tironian note \"ond\" (⁊), an insular symbol for \"and\": In the orthography of Modern English, thorn (þ), eth (ð), wynn (ƿ), yogh (), ash (æ), and ethel (œ) are obsolete. Latin borrowings reintroduced homographs of ash and ethel into Middle English and Early Modern English, though they are largely obsolete (see \"Ligatures in recent usage\" below), and where they are used they are not considered to be separate letters (e.g. for collation purposes), but rather ligatures. Thorn and eth were both replaced by", "title": "English alphabet" }, { "id": "117448", "text": "alphabetized as if the number had been written out (\"Eighteen-twelve, War of\"). Articles with identical names are ordered first by persons, then by places, then by things. Rulers with identical names are organized first alphabetically by country and then by chronology; thus, Charles III of France precedes Charles I of England, listed in \"Britannica\" as the ruler of Great Britain and Ireland. (That is, they are alphabetized as if their titles were \"Charles, France, 3\" and \"Charles, Great Britain and Ireland, 1\".) Similarly, places that share names are organized alphabetically by country, then by ever-smaller political divisions. In March 2012,", "title": "Encyclopædia Britannica" }, { "id": "968185", "text": "and post code alone, however this is against Royal Mail guidelines who request a full address at all times. The London post town covers 40% of Greater London. On inception (in 1857/8) it was divided into ten postal districts: EC (East Central), WC (West Central), N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW. The S and NE sectors were later abolished. In 1917, as a wartime measure to improve efficiency, these were subdivided with a number applied to each sub-district, with the area served directly by the district head office as \"1\" with the others allocated alphabetically by delivery", "title": "Postcodes in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "1647953", "text": "Act abolished administrative counties and county boroughs, and divided England (except Greater London and the Isles of Scilly) into counties. These were of two types: \"metropolitan\" and \"non-metropolitan\" counties. Apart from local government, the new counties were \"substituted for counties of any other description\" for judicial, shrievalty, lieutenancy and other purposes. Several counties, such as Cumberland, Herefordshire, Rutland, Westmorland and Worcestershire, vanished from the administrative map, while new entities such as Avon, Cleveland, Cumbria and Humberside appeared, in addition to the six new metropolitan counties. The built-up areas of conurbations tend to cross historic county boundaries freely. Examples here include", "title": "Historic counties of England" }, { "id": "2335315", "text": "however, have a number of digraphs. The alphabet's current form originated from Latin script about the 7th century. Since then, various letters have been added, or removed, to give the current Modern English alphabet of 26 letters, each having an upper- and lower-case form: The alphabet was derived from an original series of sixteen characters, that emerged as a way to record spoken words. The English language itself was first written in the Anglo-Saxon futhorc runic alphabet, in use from the 5th century. This alphabet was brought to what is now England, along with the proto-form of the language itself,", "title": "English alphabet" }, { "id": "2259876", "text": "and the smallest is the City of London. The smallest county with multiple districts is Tyne and Wear and the smallest non-metropolitan county with a county council is Buckinghamshire. The county with the highest population is Greater London and the lowest is the City of London. Greater London and the metropolitan counties are all in the 15 largest by population and the 15 smallest by area. Greater London has the highest population density, while the lowest is found in Northumberland. By area, the largest ceremonial county consisting of a single-district non-metropolitan county is Northumberland and the smallest is Bristol. By", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "8990229", "text": "The Local Government Boundary Commission was appointed on 26 October 1945, under the chairmanship of Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, delivering its report in 1947. The Commission recommended that towns with a population of 200,000 or more should become one-tier \"new counties\", with \"new county boroughs\" having a population of 60,000 - 200,000 being \"most-purpose authorities\", with the county council of the administrative county providing certain limited services. The report envisaged the creation of 47 two-tiered \"new counties\", 21 one-tiered \"new counties\" and 63 \"new county boroughs\". The recommendations of the Commission extended to a review of the division of functions", "title": "History of local government in England" }, { "id": "1728738", "text": "Subdivisions of England The subdivisions of England constitute a hierarchy of administrative divisions and non-administrative ceremonial areas. Overall, England is divided into nine regions and 48 ceremonial counties, although these have only a limited role in public policy. For the purposes of local government, the country is divided into counties, districts and parishes. In some areas, counties and districts form a two-tier administrative structure, while in others they are combined under a unitary authority. Parishes cover only part of England. The current system is the result of incremental reform which has its origins in legislation enacted in 1965 and 1972.", "title": "Subdivisions of England" }, { "id": "8839891", "text": "with the rest of the county remaining two-tier – a pattern followed also in County Durham (Darlington), Devon (Plymouth and Torbay), East Sussex (Brighton & Hove), Essex (Southend-on-Sea), Nottinghamshire (Nottingham), Staffordshire (Stoke-on-Trent) and Wiltshire (Thamesdown). The Commission recommended the abolition of two county councils – Berkshire (which was to have five unitary authorities) and Dorset (which was to have four). The final batch of recommendations was published in January 1995, slightly missing the deadline, and recommended no change for Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire and Shropshire. In Derbyshire it recommended the creation of a unitary city of Derby with the remainder of", "title": "Local Government Commission for England (1992)" }, { "id": "2367766", "text": "their own ordering rules. See Language-specific conventions below. In most cultures where family names are written after given names, it is still desired to sort lists of names (as in telephone directories) by family name first. In this case, names need to be reordered to be sorted properly. For example, Juan Hernandes and Brian O'Leary should be sorted as \"Hernandes, Juan\" and \"O'Leary, Brian\" even if they are not written this way. Capturing this rule in a computer collation algorithm is difficult, and simple attempts will necessarily fail. For example, unless the algorithm has at its disposal an extensive list", "title": "Alphabetical order" }, { "id": "1715737", "text": "\"Oxford English Dictionary\" is from 1695. Charles Davenant, in \"An essay upon ways and means of supplying the war\", wrote, \"The Eleven Home Counties, which are thought in Land Taxes to pay more than their proportion, viz. Surry\" [sic]\" with Southwark, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgshire, Kent, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, Berks, Bucks, and Oxfordshire.\" Later definitions have tended to be more narrow and \"Bacon's Large Scale Atlas of London and Suburbs\" (revised edition c. 1912) includes Berkshire, Buckingham, Essex, Hertford, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey in the \"maps of the home counties\". The term is sometimes understood to mean those counties which,", "title": "Home counties" }, { "id": "1951245", "text": "of land first used in England during the Anglo-Saxon period. Examples in England are Cheshire, Hampshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire; in Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Perthshire, Inverness-shire and Stirlingshire; and in Wales, Carmarthenshire, Flintshire and Pembrokeshire. This suffix tends not to be found in the names of counties that were pre-existing divisions. Essex, Kent, and Sussex, for example, have never borne a \"-shire\", as each represents a former Anglo-Saxon kingdom. Similarly Cornwall was a British kingdom before it became an English county. The term \"shire\" is also not used in the names of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland.", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "5797741", "text": "Counties of the United Kingdom The counties of the United Kingdom are subnational divisions of the United Kingdom, used for the purposes of administrative, geographical and political demarcation. By the Middle Ages counties had become established as a unit of local government, at least in England. By the early 17th century, all of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland had been separated into counties. The older term \"shire\" was historically equivalent to \"county\". In Scotland \"shire\" was the only term used until after the Act of Union 1707. Since the early 19th century, counties have been adapted to meet new administrative", "title": "Counties of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "2259886", "text": "disestablished. The abolition of the county boroughs resulted in the distinction made between the counties for Lieutenancy and those for county councils becoming unnecessary. Section 216 of the Act adopted the new counties for ceremonial and judicial purposes, replacing the previous non-administrative counties. The Royal Mail was unable to follow the changes to county boundaries in 1965 and 1974 due to cost constraints and because several new counties had names that were too similar to post towns. The main differences were that Hereford and Worcester, Greater Manchester and Greater London could not be adopted and that Humberside had to be", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "1647936", "text": "counties were mostly subdivisions of the Kingdom of Wessex, and in many areas represented annexed, previously independent, kingdoms or other tribal territories. Kent derives from the Kingdom of Kent, and Essex, Sussex and Middlesex come from the East Saxons, South Saxons and Middle Saxons. Norfolk and Suffolk were subdivisions representing the \"North Folk\" and \"South Folk\" of the Kingdom of East Anglia. Only one county on the south coast of England now usually takes the suffix \"-shire\": Hampshire, named after the former town of \"Hamwic\" (sic), the site of which is now a part of the city of Southampton. A", "title": "Historic counties of England" }, { "id": "5797743", "text": "formed geographic and cultural units since the Middle Ages. The whole of England is divided into 48 ceremonial counties, which are also known as geographic counties. Many of these counties have their basis in the 39 historic counties whose origins lie in antiquity, although some were established as recently as 1974. Outside Greater London and the Isles of Scilly, England is also divided into 83 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties. These correspond to areas used for the purposes of local government and may consist of a single district or be divided into several. As of April 2009, 27 such counties are", "title": "Counties of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "6617102", "text": "local government that was in need of reform. England and Wales were divided into: 62 counties, 302 Municipal Boroughs, 31 Improvement Act Districts, 688 Local Government Districts, 574 Rural Sanitary Districts, 58 Port Sanitary Districts, 2,302 School Board Districts ... 1,052 Burial Board Districts, 648 Poor Law Unions, 13,775 Ecclesiastical Parishes, and nearly 15,000 Civil Parishes. The total number of Authorities which tax the English ratepayers is between 28,000 and 29,000. Not only are we exposed to this multiplicity of authority and this confusion of rating power, but the qualification, tenure, and mode of election of members of these Authorities", "title": "Local Government Act 1894" }, { "id": "5797747", "text": "created in 1975, had areas similar to those of earlier counties, and various council areas, created in 1996, are also similar. Two of the three islands areas—Orkney and Shetland—have boundaries identical to those of earlier counties. Scotland has also registration counties, which are in current use. The areas of Scotland that are appointed a Lord-Lieutenant are called lieutenancy areas. The thirteen historic counties of Wales were fixed by statute in 1535 (although counties such as Pembrokeshire date from 1138). The Administrative Counties of Wales created in 1889 were based on these. In 1974 a new system was created using vastly", "title": "Counties of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "1772254", "text": "the primates and archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the Church of Ireland, together with the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, are to be determined solely by seniority, according to the dates of consecration or translation, or the date of election, in the case of the Presbyterian Moderator, without any presumation of automatic Roman Catholic or Protestant seniority, Anglican or Presbyterian. The two highest orders of chivalry in England and Wales, and in Scotland, are the Orders of the Garter, and the Thistle, respectively. Knights of the Order of the Garter precede baronets. After the", "title": "Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "7560125", "text": "NACS is part of the National Association of Counties of the USA (NACo). The NACo website sets out its perception of the history of county government in the USA, tracing it to Anglo-Saxon England (initial division of land into holdings for government purposes called 'shires', hence 'shire-reeve', the origin of 'sheriff'), Anglo-Norman feudalism (renaming shires conquered by William I as 'counties' and establishing his allodial title to them via the Domesday Book survey), and the increasingly \"plural executive structure\" commissioned by his successors to the royal throne of England to defend the peace and enforce the complex of chivalric, common,", "title": "County surveyor" }, { "id": "16685412", "text": "never been issued as year identifiers: I because of its similarity to the numeral 1; O and Q because of similarity to a zero; U because of similarity to the letter V; and Z because of similarity to the numeral 2. Normally the last two letters would indicate where the car was initially registered. The letters I and Z are reserved for Ireland. If you want to look for the office code (or council code until 1974) easier, look at the bold letters next to the examples (ABC 123\"D\"; \"A\"123 BCD). Note that pre 2001 number plates where the last", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "12243050", "text": "include county boroughs as administrative counties. In legislation and formal documents the suffix \"shire\" was generally not used: for example, Bedfordshire was referred to as \"the administrative county of Bedford\" and the Northamptonshire council as the \"county council of Northampton\". In the case of Lancashire and Cheshire the councils were officially the \"county council of the palatine county\". Shropshire was always officially entitled the \"county of Salop\". The right of Berkshire to be described as a \"royal county\" was recognised by the monarch in 1958. On 1 April 1959 the administrative county of Southampton was renamed as Hampshire. This system", "title": "Administrative counties of England" }, { "id": "119430", "text": "the labour force. Two-thirds of production is devoted to livestock, the other to arable crops. Prominent English figures from the field of science and mathematics include Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Robert Hooke, James Prescott Joule, John Dalton, Lord Rayleigh, J. J. Thomson, James Chadwick, Charles Babbage, George Boole, Alan Turing, Tim Berners-Lee, Paul Dirac, Stephen Hawking, Peter Higgs, Roger Penrose, John Horton Conway, Thomas Bayes, Arthur Cayley, G. H. Hardy, Oliver Heaviside, Andrew Wiles, Francis Crick, Joseph Lister, Joseph Priestley, Thomas Young, Christopher Wren and Richard Dawkins. Some experts claim that the earliest concept of a metric", "title": "England" }, { "id": "12243054", "text": "many of the administrative counties had a number of exclaves. During the 1890s most of these were eliminated, with parishes being exchanged between counties. The boundaries of Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Wiltshire contained numerous enclaves and exclaves, and were realigned in 1931. Throughout the next century, debates took place about what should be done about local government in respect of the increasing urbanisation of the country. Proposals to expand or change county boroughs or to create larger urban counties were discussed, but nothing happened until 1963, when legislation was passed to come into effect in 1965. The County of London was", "title": "Administrative counties of England" }, { "id": "1647932", "text": "example Yorkshire would be known as \"County of York\". This usage was sometimes followed even where there was no town by that name, such as the \"County of Berks\". The \"-shire\" suffix was also appended for some counties, such as \"Devonshire\", \"Dorsetshire\" and \"Somersetshire\", despite their origin. There is still a Duke of Devonshire. Great Britain was first divided into administrative areas by the Romans, most likely following major geographical features such as rivers. Before their arrival there were distinct tribal areas, but they were in a constant state of flux as territory was gained and lost. After the demise", "title": "Historic counties of England" }, { "id": "4124620", "text": "the amount of information given in the index volumes has increased from time to time. Up until 1983, the copies received by the Registrar General were bound into volumes and three separate alphabetical indexes were prepared on a quarterly basis. The number of volumes depends on the number of people registered in each quarter. Thus there may be 10 volumes for some quarters – Vol.1 A-B, Vol.2 C-D, Vol.3 E-G and so on. From their inception, the alphabetical indexes give the surname, the forenames if registered, the registration district and the volume and the page on which the entry may", "title": "General Register Office for England and Wales" }, { "id": "20386914", "text": "the Championship, with 3 points separating Norwich (1st), Leeds, Middlesbrough, West Brom, and Sheffield United (5th). Nottingham Forest have claimed 6th place ahead of arch-rivals Derby on goal difference. Despite appointing former Norwich boss Paul Lambert as manager, Ipswich remain bottom, 6 points adrift of safety. Reading (20th) and Millwall are out of the relegation zone ahead of Hull and Bolton on goal difference. 2018–19 in English football The 2018–19 season is the 139th season of competitive association football in England. Matches The final draw was held on 23 November 2018, 18:00 CET (), in Bologna. The 12 teams are", "title": "2018–19 in English football" }, { "id": "2259869", "text": "been abolished, and from the traditional counties, that had still not been abolished. Many of the names of the traditional counties were still being used now for the 1972 administrative counties. Later legislation created yet further area differences between the 1972 administrative counties and the traditional counties. In 2018, for the purpose of administration, England outside Greater London and the Isles of Scilly is divided into 83 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties. The Lieutenancies Act 1997 created areas to be used for the purpose of the Lieutencies Act. These newly created areas are called ceremonial counties and are based on, but", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "1772247", "text": "first in the order of precedence for women. The reverse, however, is not always true for Queens regnant. There is no established law of precedence for a prince consort, so he is usually specially granted precedence above all other males by letters patent or, on the other hand, may rank lower than the heir apparent or the heir presumptive, even if the heir is his own son. In England and Wales, the Archbishop of Canterbury is the highest in precedence following the royal family. Then come, assuming the post of Lord High Steward is vacant (as it usually has been", "title": "Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "6127419", "text": "counties were composed as follows: Other significant changes were: The changes were adopted by the Royal Mail for the purposes of postal addresses wherever they were able, with the notable exceptions of Hereford and Worcester and Greater Manchester. Humberside was divided for this purpose into North Humberside and South Humberside. In 1986, the county councils of the metropolitan counties and the Greater London Council were abolished by Margaret Thatcher's government following disputes with central government, but the counties themselves remained legally in existence. The 1990s led to the restoration of county boroughs under a new name, unitary authorities, which radically", "title": "Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England" }, { "id": "6725740", "text": "Registration county A registration county was, in Great Britain and Ireland, a statistical unit used for the registration of births, deaths and marriages and for the output of census information. In Scotland registration counties are used for land registration purposes. The Births and Deaths Registration Act 1836 divided England and Wales into registration districts. The districts were not innovations, however, but were identical to the poor law unions already in existence. Unions had been formed by the grouping parishes surrounding towns in which a workhouse was situated without reference to geographical county boundaries. Many PLUs included areas in two or", "title": "Registration county" }, { "id": "8990245", "text": "Yorkshire as a \"de facto\" county. Rutland was reestablished as a unitary authority, thus regaining its cherished 'independence' from Leicestershire. The merged county of Hereford & Worcester was restored to Herefordshire (as a unitary authority) and Worcestershire (as a two-tier authority). The only other county to be moved to a wholly unitary system was Berkshire; the county council was abolished and 6 unitary authorities established in its place. In County Durham, North Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Devon, Dorset, East Sussex, Shropshire, Kent, Essex, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, one or two major towns/cities were established as", "title": "History of local government in England" }, { "id": "6431217", "text": "always listed first and always parades at the extreme right of the line. However, an exception is taken when the Royal Horse Artillery is on parade with its guns in which case it takes precedence. Cavalry, Tank and infantry regiments of the British Army are listed in their own orders of precedence, which dates back to when regiments had numbers rather than names. The order comes from the start of the regiment's service under the Crown, up to 1881 and the \"Cardwell Reforms\", when the use of numbers was abolished in favour of linking with and using county names. The", "title": "British Army order of precedence" }, { "id": "1647956", "text": "Greater London that are not part of the London post town. It is common for people to speak of \"Uxbridge, Middlesex\", \"Dagenham, Essex\" or \"Bromley, Kent\" (which are outside the London postal district), but much less so to speak of \"Brixton, Surrey\", \"Greenwich, Kent\", or \"West Ham, Essex\" (which are inside it). In 1996, following further local government reform and the modernisation of its sorting equipment, the Royal Mail ceased to use counties at all in the direction of mail. Instead it now uses the outward code (first half) of the postcode. The former postal counties were removed in 2000", "title": "Historic counties of England" }, { "id": "2335330", "text": "of an apostrophe. The apostrophe also distinguishes the possessive endings \"-'s\" and \"-s\" from the common plural ending \"-s\", a practice introduced in the 18th century; before, all three endings were written \"-s\", which could lead to confusion (as in, \"the Apostles words\"). The letters A, E, I, O, and U are considered vowel letters, since (except when silent) they represent vowels; the remaining letters are considered consonant letters, since when not silent they generally represent consonants. However, Y commonly represents vowels as well as a consonant (e.g., \"myth\"), as very rarely does W (e.g., \"cwm\"). Conversely, U and I", "title": "English alphabet" }, { "id": "2259887", "text": "split into North Humberside and South Humberside. Additionally, a number of anomalies were created where villages that were part of a post town in another county, took the county of the post town for postal addressing purposes. This meant that for directing the mail, England was divided into a somewhat different set of county boundaries to those established in the reforms. There was also a series of official county name abbreviations sanctioned for use. The use of these postal counties was abandoned by the Royal Mail in 1996. The metropolitan counties ceased to have county councils in 1986 and a", "title": "Counties of England" }, { "id": "2335328", "text": "especially when heard over the telephone or a radio communications link. Spelling alphabets such as the ICAO spelling alphabet, used by aircraft pilots, police and others, are designed to eliminate this potential confusion by giving each letter a name that sounds quite different from any other. The letter most commonly used in English is E. The least used letter is Z. The frequencies shown in the table may differ in practice according to the type of text. The & has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, as in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011. Historically, the figure", "title": "English alphabet" }, { "id": "12243047", "text": "areas known as administrative counties. Many larger towns and cities were given the status of county borough, with similar powers and independent of county council control. Under the Act, each county borough was an \"administrative county of itself\". Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Sussex, and Yorkshire were split up for administrative purposes, following historical divisions used by the Courts of Quarter Sessions. Additionally there was a County of London which covered the area today known as Inner London. The Isle of Wight was previously administered as part of Hampshire but became its own administrative county in 1890. In 1894 a uniform", "title": "Administrative counties of England" }, { "id": "2367762", "text": "Festus wrote an encyclopedic epitome of the works of Verrius Flaccus, \"De verborum significatu\", with entries in alphabetic order. In the 3rd century CE, Harpocration wrote a Homeric lexicon alphabetized by all letters. In the 10th century, the author of the \"Suda\" used alphabetic order with phonetic variations. In the 14th century, the author of the \"Fons memorabilium universi\" used a classification, but used alphabetical order within some of the books. In 1604 Robert Cawdrey had to explain in \"Table Alphabeticall\", the first monolingual English dictionary, \"Nowe if the word, which thou art desirous to finde, begin with (a) then", "title": "Alphabetical order" }, { "id": "3111818", "text": "Monmouthshire from thirteen to seven, but reform did not take place until 1974. From 1 April 1974 the number of counties and county councils was reduced to eight in number. Like the county councils introduced in England at the same time, the whole council was elected every four years. There was a slightly different division of powers between county and district councils, however. The county and district councils were abolished twenty-two years later, when the present system of principal areas was introduced. In the United States, most of the individual states have counties as a form of local government; in", "title": "County council" }, { "id": "471670", "text": "In 1965 and 1974–1975, major reorganisations of local government in England and Wales created several new administrative counties such as Hereford and Worcester and also created several new metropolitan counties based on large urban areas as a single administrative unit. In Scotland, county-level local government was replaced by larger regions, which lasted until 1996. Modern local government in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and a large part of England is trending towards smaller unitary authorities: a system similar to that proposed in the 1960s by the Redcliffe-Maud Report for most of Britain. Counties in U.S. states are administrative divisions of the", "title": "County" }, { "id": "3206454", "text": "the UK. The legislation tidied up the use of the title \"King of Ireland\", following Ireland's transition to a republic in 1949. As authorised by the Act, Elizabeth proclaimed that her title in the United Kingdom would be, equivalently in English and (or the first time) in Latin: \"Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith\" and \"Elizabeth II, Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regnorumque Suorum Ceterorum Regina, Consortionis Populorum Princeps, Fidei Defensor\". Royal Style and Titles", "title": "Royal Style and Titles Act" }, { "id": "7053251", "text": "one-fortieth, on different classes of goods, the tax was imposed at fixed rates of one-fifteenth on counties and one-tenth on towns (the \"fifteenth and tenth\" tax). Commissioners were appointed for each county to ensure stricter assessment and were supplied with special instructions as to taxable and exempt goods. This tax remained in force from 1290 to 1334, albeit the proportions imposed varied over time (e.g. an eighth and a fifth were granted to the king by parliament in 1297, and a tenth and a sixth in 1322). A more general influence was the growing national economy which led to greater", "title": "History of the English fiscal system" }, { "id": "1647946", "text": "separated and exempt in every way from the said counties of Gloucester and Somerset, on land and by water; that it shall be a county in itself and be called the county of Bristol for ever… Similar arrangements were later applied to Norwich (1404), Southampton (1447), Canterbury (1471), Gloucester (1483), Exeter (1537), and Poole (1571). Charters were granted constituting the boroughs or cities of Lincoln (1409), Nottingham (1448), Lichfield (1556) and Worcester (1622) as counties. The County of the City of Coventry was separated from Warwickshire in 1451, and included an extensive area of countryside surrounding the city. Charters granting", "title": "Historic counties of England" }, { "id": "9904744", "text": "EX5 ! EX6 ! EX7 ! EX8 ! EX9 ! EX10 ! EX11 ! EX12 ! EX13 ! EX14 ! EX15 ! EX16 ! EX17 ! EX18 ! EX19 ! EX20 ! EX21 ! EX22 ! EX23 ! EX24 ! EX31 ! EX32 ! EX33 ! EX34 ! EX35 ! EX36 ! EX37 ! EX38 ! EX39 EX postcode area The EX postcode area, also known as the Exeter postcode area, is a group of 33 postcode districts in England, which are subdivisions of 30 post towns. These postcode districts cover north and east Devon, including Exeter, Barnstaple, Axminster, Beaworthy,", "title": "EX postcode area" }, { "id": "6952477", "text": "inscriptions is read beginning from the bottom left side of a stone, continuing upward along the edge, across the top and down the right side (in the case of long inscriptions). MacManus (1991) lists a total of 382 known Orthodox inscriptions. They are found in most counties of Ireland, concentrated in southern Ireland: County Kerry (130), Cork (84), Waterford (48), Kilkenny (14), Mayo (9), Kildare (8), Wicklow and Meath (5 each), Carlow (4), Wexford, Limerick, Roscommon (3 each), Antrim, Cavan, Louth, Tipperary (2 each), Armagh, Dublin, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Londonderry and Tyrone (1 each). Other specimens are known from Wales (ca.", "title": "Ogham inscription" }, { "id": "833098", "text": "combined the use of \"Claret wine\" and anchovies with more traditional cooking ingredients such as sugar, dried fruit, and vinegar. John Nott's \"The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary\" (1723), still with rather few precedents to go by, chose an alphabetical treatment for its recipes, from Al to Zest. The book covered everything from soups and salads to meat and fish, as well as pastries of many kinds, confectionery, and the making of beer, cider, and wine. Bills of fare are given for each month of the year. James Woodforde's \"Diary of a Country Parson\" gives a good idea of the sort", "title": "English cuisine" }, { "id": "8990242", "text": "This gave rise to the concept of the 'ceremonial county'. From a geographical and ceremonial point of view, England continues to be made up of the counties established in 1974, with one or two exceptions (see below). These counties still have a lord lieutenant and sheriff, and are therefore usually referred to as ceremonial counties. By the 1990s, it was apparent that the 'one-size fits all' approach of the 1974 reforms did not work equally well in all cases. The consequent loss of education, social services and libraries to county control, was strongly regretted by the larger towns outside the", "title": "History of local government in England" }, { "id": "19862364", "text": "2016 season in order to reduce the number of Championship matches each county played to 14. Ten teams competed in Division Two for the first time, meaning that Division Two sides did not play each other home and away during the season. Essex, who had been promoted from Division Two the previous season, won the County Championship. Middlesex, the 2016 Champions, and Warwickshire were relegated from Division One with their places taken by Division Two champions Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire who narrowly beat Northants to the second place spot in the division. Middelsex's relegation from Division One was controversial. The club", "title": "2017 English cricket season" }, { "id": "9376942", "text": "century, the Anglo-Saxons settled Britain as the Roman economy and administration collapsed. By the seventh century, the Germanic language of the Anglo-Saxons became dominant in Britain, replacing the languages of Roman Britain (43–409 CE): Common Brittonic, a Celtic language, and Latin, brought to Britain by the Roman occupation. \"England\" and \"English\" (originally and ) are named after the Angles. Old English was divided into four dialects: the Anglian dialects, Mercian and Northumbrian, and the Saxon dialects, Kentish and West Saxon. Through the educational reforms of King Alfred in the ninth century and the influence of the kingdom of Wessex, the", "title": "English language" }, { "id": "1856589", "text": "and Northern Ireland was maintained as \"province\". The following changes to the entry have been announced in newsletters by the ISO 3166/MA since the first publication of ISO 3166-2 in 1998. ISO stopped issuing newsletters in 2013. The following changes to the entry are listed on ISO's online catalogue, the Online Browsing Platform: ISO 3166-2:GB ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in", "title": "ISO 3166-2:GB" }, { "id": "121754", "text": "\"Chrononhotonthologos\" (1743) holds the opening line: \"Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?\" Thomas Love Peacock put these creations into the mouth of the phrenologist Mr. Cranium in his 1816 romp \"Headlong Hall\": \"osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous\" (44 characters) and \"osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary\" (51 characters). James Joyce made up nine 100-letter words plus one 101-letter word in his novel \"Finnegans Wake\", the most famous of which is Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve. As it appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word.", "title": "Longest word in English" }, { "id": "5233055", "text": "from 013656 to 028 686 and Lisnaskea from 013657 to 028 677. This meant that Kesh could expand into the rest of the 028 68xx range. Note that the new numbering scheme groups numbers together such that the first digit identifies the county in alphabetical order. The exception is the Greater Belfast area where all numbers begin with 9, regardless of the county. The full list of changes for Northern Ireland is as in the table above. In London, old National Dialling Only 0xx xxxx and 1xx xxxx numbers were migrated to new 0axx xxxx and 1axx xxxx numbers (where", "title": "Big Number Change" }, { "id": "8503778", "text": "was ordered to be held, commencing on 23 March 1964. The North-Western GRA consisted of the administrative counties of Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland (except those areas in the Merseyside and South East Lancashire SRAs), and the county boroughs of Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Carlisle, Chester, Preston, St. Helens, Southport, Warrington and Wigan. The Southern GRA consisted of the administrative counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, along with the county boroughs of Bournemouth, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading and Southampton. No reviews were commenced for the administrative counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey, East or West", "title": "Local Government Commission for England (1958–1967)" }, { "id": "3257920", "text": "(National Savings and Investments), 0500 2 88 2 91 (BBC Radio 2, 88 to 91 FM), 0500 600 600 (Crimewatch), 0500 600 700 (Watchdog), and 0500 909 693 (BBC Radio 5 Live, 909 and 693 kHz). Numerous universities, government departments, airlines, banks and businesses also used these numbers. They were allocated before the general trend of using longer numbers started in 1997 and long before the rest of the 05 range was assigned to corporate and VoIP numbering after 2000. The range was withdrawn by Ofcom in July 2017 as a result of a series of consultations starting from 2012", "title": "Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "1647973", "text": "the 19th century were as follows: The vice counties, used for biological recording since 1852, are largely based on historic county boundaries. They ignore all exclaves and are modified by subdividing large counties and merging smaller areas into neighbouring counties; such as Rutland with Leicestershire and Furness with Westmorland. The static boundaries make longitudinal study of biodiversity easier. They also cover the rest of Great Britain and Ireland. Historic counties of England The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons", "title": "Historic counties of England" }, { "id": "601373", "text": "of British, American, and Australian English, although these are more minor than differences in vocabulary and pronunciation. Modern English has largely abandoned the inflectional case system of Indo-European in favor of analytic constructions. The personal pronouns retain morphological case more strongly than any other word class (a remnant of the more extensive Germanic case system of Old English). For other pronouns, and all nouns, adjectives, and articles, grammatical function is indicated only by word order, by prepositions, and by the \"Saxon genitive or English possessive\" (\"-'s\"). Eight \"word classes\" or \"parts of speech\" are commonly distinguished in English: nouns, determiners,", "title": "English grammar" }, { "id": "2265871", "text": "\"Germania\" of Tacitus or current practice in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden. The Danelaw counties of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire were divided into wapentakes, just as most of the remainder of England was divided into hundreds. In Yorkshire, a Norse wapentake usually replaced several Anglo-Saxon hundreds. This process was complete by 1086 in the North and West Ridings, but continued in the East Riding until the mid 12th century. In some counties, such as Leicestershire, the wapentakes recorded at the time of Domesday Book evolved into hundreds later on. In others, such as Lincolnshire, the", "title": "Hundred (county division)" }, { "id": "2367770", "text": "had been spelled out as \"MacKinley\"). Since the advent of computer-sorted lists, this type of alphabetization is less frequently encountered, though it is still used in British telephone directories. Ligatures (two or more letters merged into one symbol) which are not considered distinct letters, such as Æ and Œ in English, are typically collated as if the letters were separate- \"æther\" and \"aether\" would be ordered the same relative to all other words. This is true even when the ligature is not purely stylistic, such as in loanwords and brand names. Special rules may need to be adopted to sort", "title": "Alphabetical order" }, { "id": "2266519", "text": "and county boroughs were abolished, and a major reform was instituted. At this time, Lieutenancy was redefined to use the new metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties directly. Following a further rearrangement in 1996, Avon, Cleveland, Hereford and Worcester, and Humberside were abolished. This led to a resurrection of a distinction between the local government counties and the ceremonial or geographical counties used for Lieutenancy, and also to the adoption of the term \"ceremonial counties\", which although not used in statute was used in the House of Commons before the arrangements coming into effect. The County of Avon that had been formed", "title": "Ceremonial counties of England" }, { "id": "1647934", "text": "under West Saxon control during the 9th century. Once the Kingdom of England was united as a whole in 927 it became necessary to subdivide it for administrative convenience and to this end, earldoms were created out of the earlier kingdoms. The whole kingdom was divided into shires by the time of the Norman conquest. Robert of Gloucester accounts for thirty-five shires and William of Malmesbury thirty-two, Henry of Huntingdon, thirty-seven. In most cases the counties or shires in medieval times were administered by a sheriff (derived from \"shire-reeve\") on behalf of the monarch. After the Norman conquest the sheriff", "title": "Historic counties of England" }, { "id": "2335320", "text": "\"i\", were introduced in the 16th century, and \"w\" assumed the status of an independent letter. The variant lowercase form long s (ſ) lasted into early modern English, and was used in non-final position up to the early 19th century. Today, the English alphabet is now considered to consist of the following 26 letters: Written English has a number of digraphs, but they are not considered separate letters of the alphabet: Outside of professional papers on specific subjects that traditionally use ligatures in loanwords, ligatures are seldom used in modern English. The ligatures \"æ\" and \"œ\" were until the 19th", "title": "English alphabet" }, { "id": "620831", "text": "zone improvement plan, \"ZIP\". Modern postal codes were first introduced in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in December 1932, but the system was abandoned in 1939. The next country to introduce postal codes was Germany in 1941, followed by Singapore in 1950, Argentina in 1958, the United States in 1963 and Switzerland in 1964. The United Kingdom began introducing its current system in Norwich in 1959, but they were not used nationwide until 1974. The characters used in postal codes are Postal codes in the Netherlands originally did not use the letters 'F', 'I', 'O', 'Q', 'U' and 'Y' for", "title": "Postal code" } ]

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[ { "id": "3048791", "text": "prolific goalscoring run towards the very end of the season. For the first time in his career, he scored five goals in one game, including an eight-minute hat-trick, in a 9–1 rout of Granada on 5 April. His 300th goal for his club followed three days later in a 2–0 win against Rayo Vallecano. Subsequent hat-tricks against Sevilla, Espanyol, and Getafe took his number of hat-tricks for Real Madrid to 31, surpassing Di Stéfano's club record of 28 trebles. As a result, Ronaldo finished the season with 48 goals, two ahead of his total in the 2011–12 season, despite having", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048797", "text": "to keep him with Madrid until 2021. On 19 November, he scored a hat-trick in a 3–0 away win against Atlético Madrid, making him the all-time top scorer in the Madrid derby with 18 goals. On 15 December, Ronaldo scored his 500th club career goal in the 2–0 victory over Club América in the semi-finals of the FIFA Club World Cup. He then scored a hat-trick in the 4–2 win over Japanese club Kashima Antlers in the final. Ronaldo finished the tournament as top scorer with four goals and was also named the best player of the tournament. He won", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048777", "text": "each leg by the Portuguese, Madrid won the Spanish Super Cup on away goals following a 4–4 aggregate draw against Barcelona. Although Ronaldo publicly commented that he was unhappy with a \"professional issue\" within the club, prompted by his refusal to celebrate his 150th goal for Madrid, his goalscoring rate did not suffer. After netting a hat-trick, including two penalties, against Deportivo La Coruña, he scored his first hat-trick in the Champions League in a 4–1 victory over Ajax. Four days later, he became the first player to score in six successive \"Clásicos\" when he hit a brace in a", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048804", "text": "Liga goal in his 286th La Liga appearance, making him the fastest player to reach this landmark and only the second player to do so after Lionel Messi. On 18 March, he reached his 50th career hat-trick, scoring four goals in a 6–3 win against Girona. On 3 April, Ronaldo scored the first two goals in a 3–0 away win against Juventus in the quarter-finals of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, with his second goal being an acrobatic bicycle kick. The goal, described as a \"PlayStation goal\" by Juventus defender Andrea Barzagli, garnered him a standing ovation from the Juventus", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "19428648", "text": "through U-15, U-17, and U-20. He managed to become top scorer for the U-17 and U-20s squads. Portuguese coach Pedro Caixinha promoted Ronaldo to the first the team. Ronaldo made his professional debut in the Liga MX on October 24, 2014 in a 1-1 draw against UNAM. He scored a hat trick against FC Juarez in the Copa MX on September 13, 2017. After Santos began to struggle, Ronaldo was not being considered in the first team as he was too young to take on big responsibilities and only played in the Copa MX and under-20s squad. His number was", "title": "Ronaldo Cisneros" }, { "id": "3048769", "text": "group match against Zürich. His strong start to the season, however, was interrupted when he suffered an ankle injury in October while on international duty, which kept him sidelined for seven weeks. A week after his return, he received his first red card in Spain in a match against Almería. Midway through the season, Ronaldo placed second in the running for the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year award, behind Lionel Messi of Barcelona, Madrid's historic rivals. He finished the campaign with 33 goals in all competitions, including a hat-trick in a 4–1 win against Mallorca", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "755450", "text": "of the season against Athletic Bilbao, where Ronaldo scored to finish his first season with 23 league goals and seal La Liga title for 2003. He also won an Intercontinental Cup in 2002 and Spanish Super Cup in 2003, scoring in both finals. In the second leg of Real Madrid's Champions League quarter-final, Ronaldo scored a hat-trick against Manchester United at Old Trafford, knocking the English team out of the competition. Ronaldo was substituted on 80 minutes and was given a standing ovation from both sets of fans. Reflecting on the ovation given to him from the opposition's fans, Ronaldo", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "755470", "text": "He was named player of the tournament in 1997, was the top scorer in 1999, and he scored in the finals of both – against Bolivia in 1997 and Uruguay in 1999. He also took part in the friendly Tournoi de France in 1997, preceding the 1998 FIFA World Cup, scoring a goal as Brazil finished in second. Ronaldo starred alongside Romário, dubbed the \"Ro-Ro\" attack, in the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup, helping Brazil win their first ever Confederations Cup title where he finished as the third highest scorer with 4 goals, scoring a hat-trick over Australia in the final.", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "3048799", "text": "quarter-final against Bayern Munich, Ronaldo scored two goals in a 2–1 away win to give Madrid the win and the lead going into the second leg. The two goals saw him make history in becoming the first player to reach 100 goals in UEFA club competition. During the second leg of the quarter-finals, Ronaldo scored a perfect hat-trick and reached his 100th UEFA Champions League goal, becoming the first player to do so as Real Madrid again defeated Bayern 4–2 after extra-time. On 2 May, Ronaldo scored another hat-trick in the following Champions League match, as Real Madrid defeated Atlético", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048761", "text": "scored a total of 42 goals in all competitions during the 2007–08 season, his most prolific campaign during his time in England. He missed three matches after headbutting a Portsmouth player at the start of the season, an experience he said taught him not to let opponents provoke him. At the end of 2007, Ronaldo was named runner-up to Kaká for the Ballon d'Or, and came third, behind Kaká and Lionel Messi, in the running for the FIFA World Player of the Year award. Ronaldo scored his first and only hat-trick for Manchester United in a 6–0 win against Newcastle", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048771", "text": "in a single month. Ronaldo subsequently scored further hat-tricks against Athletic Bilbao, Levante, Villarreal, and Málaga. Despite his performance, he failed to make the podium for the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or at the end of 2010. During a historical series of four \"Clásicos\" against rivals Barcelona in April 2011, Ronaldo scored twice to equal his personal record of 42 goals in all competitions in a single season. Although he failed to find the net during Madrid's eventual elimination in the Champions League semi-finals, he equalised from the penalty spot in the return league game and scored the match-winning goal in", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "2801212", "text": "never been in question.\" Ronaldinho's second season did not begin on a high note, but he soon rediscovered his form and was arguably Milan's best player of the season. Newly appointed coach Leonardo changed his role from a central attacking midfielder to the left side of midfield, with Alexandre Pato on the right, in an offensive 4–3–3 formation. On 10 January 2010, Ronaldinho scored two goals against Juventus in an away match, sealing a 3–0 victory for the \"Rossoneri\". In the following match, against Siena on 17 January, Ronaldinho scored his first hat-trick for Milan when he converted a penalty", "title": "Ronaldinho" }, { "id": "755432", "text": "Romário who advised Ronaldo to move to PSV; Romário having played for PSV from 1988 to 1993. Ronaldo scored 30 league goals in his first season in the Netherlands. After scoring a hat-trick in PSV's game against Bayer Leverkusen in the 1994–95 UEFA Cup, Leverkusen striker and Germany World Cup winner Rudi Völler stated in a post match press conference, “Never in my life have I seen an 18-year-old play in this way.” His dribbles from midfield caught the attention of many in the sport, with future Barcelona teammate Luis Enrique stating, “I’d seen him on television at PSV and", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "3048830", "text": "scoring a goal against Andorra in a 2–0 victory. In the build-up to the 2018 World Cup, Portugal hosted friendlies against Tunisia, Belgium and Algeria. Ronaldo featured in the final of the three matches in which he made his 150th international appearance. On 15 June 2018, Ronaldo became the oldest player ever to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match, helping Portugal secure a 3–3 draw against Spain in their opening match at the World Cup. In doing so, he also became the first Portuguese player to score a goal in four World Cups and one of four players", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048819", "text": "in the penalty shootout. Ronaldo did not take a penalty as he had been slated to take the unused fifth, a decision that drew criticism. As the joint top scorer with three goals, alongside five other players, he was again included in the team of the tournament. During the qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Ronaldo scored a total of eight goals. A qualifying match on 17 October 2012, a 1–1 draw against Northern Ireland, earned him his 100th cap. His first international hat-trick also came against Northern Ireland, when he found the net three times in a 15-minute spell", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048783", "text": "half of the campaign, Ronaldo suggested that he was in the best form of his career. By late November, he had scored 32 goals from 22 matches played for both club and country, including hat-tricks against Galatasaray, Sevilla, Real Sociedad, Northern Ireland, and Sweden. He ended 2013 with a total of 69 goals in 59 appearances, his highest year-end goal tally. His efforts earned him the FIFA Ballon d'Or, an amalgamation of the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year award, for the first time in his career. Concurrently with his individual achievements, Ronaldo enjoyed his greatest", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048800", "text": "Madrid 3–0 in the semi-final first leg. His hat-trick made him the first player to reach 50 goals in the knockout stage of the competition and also the only player that scored back-to-back hat-tricks in the UEFA Champions League knockout stage. On 17 May, Ronaldo overtook Jimmy Greaves as the all-time top scorer in the top five European leagues, scoring a brace against Celta de Vigo. He finished the season with 42 goals in all competitions as he helped Madrid to win their first La Liga title since 2012 and the first team to win back-to-back finals in the Champions", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "755488", "text": "in 2000 as he had the highest global appeal among sportspeople, and he accepted the role as he saw it as “an obligation” to help with causes around the world. Ronaldo played in the UNDP's 11th Match Against Poverty on 4 March 2014 against a Zidane XI in Bern, Switzerland, with proceeds raised helping the recovery efforts in the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. Joined by Didier Drogba in attack, Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in the next year's match on 21 April 2015 in St Etienne, France, with proceeds going towards the African countries most affected by the", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "19354446", "text": "the youngest English player to score in his first senior international match. Rashford was born in Wythenshawe, Manchester, and is of Kittitian descent. Rashford began playing football for Fletcher Moss Rangers at the age of five and joined the academy system at Manchester United at the age of seven. Growing up his idol was Brazilian striker Ronaldo – the first game he saw was Ronaldo scoring a hat-trick for Real Madrid against Manchester United at Old Trafford in 2003, a game when Ronaldo was given a standing ovation by both sets of fans when he left the field. Rashford states,", "title": "Marcus Rashford" }, { "id": "3048820", "text": "of a 4–2 qualifying victory on 6 September 2013. After Portugal failed to qualify during the regular campaign, Ronaldo scored all four of the team's goals in the play-offs against Sweden, which ensured their place at the tournament. His hat-trick in the second leg took his international tally to 47 goals, equaling Pauleta's record. Ronaldo subsequently scored twice in a 5–1 friendly win over Cameroon on 5 March 2014 to become his country's all-time top scorer. Ronaldo took part in the tournament despite suffering from patellar tendinitis and a related thigh injury, potentially risking his career. Ronaldo later commented: \"If", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048744", "text": "million (£80 million). With Real Madrid, Ronaldo won 15 trophies, including two La Liga titles, two Copas del Rey, four UEFA Champions League titles, two UEFA Super Cups, and three FIFA Club World Cups. Real Madrid's all-time top goalscorer, Ronaldo scored a record 34 La Liga hat-tricks, including a record-tying eight hat-tricks in the 2014–15 season and is the only player to reach 30 goals in six consecutive La Liga seasons. After joining Madrid, Ronaldo finished runner-up for the Ballon d'Or three times, behind Lionel Messi, his perceived career rival, before winning back-to-back Ballons d'Or in 2013 and 2014. After", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "2801229", "text": "scored in every match except the final, including a hat-trick in an 8–2 semi-final rout of Saudi Arabia. In the final, Brazil lost 4–3 to Mexico. Ronaldinho won the Golden Ball award for the best player in tournament as well as the Golden Boot award for the tournament top-scorer. In 2000, Ronaldinho participated in the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, with the U23 team. Earlier that year, Ronaldinho led Brazil to win the Pre-Olympic Tournament, scoring nine goals in seven matches. In the Olympics, however, Brazil were eliminated in the quarter-finals by Cameroon, who later won the gold medal. Ronaldinho", "title": "Ronaldinho" }, { "id": "3048788", "text": "new personal best of 61 goals in all competitions, starting with both goals in Real Madrid's 2–0 victory over Sevilla in the UEFA Super Cup. He subsequently achieved his best-ever goalscoring start to a league campaign, with a record 15 goals in the first eight rounds of La Liga, including a four-goal haul against Elche and hat-tricks against Deportivo La Coruña and Athletic Bilbao. His record 23rd hat-trick in La Liga, scored against Celta Vigo on 6 December, made him the fastest player to reach 200 goals in the Spanish league, as he reached the milestone in only his 178th", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048773", "text": "Shoe for a second time, becoming the first player to win the award in two different leagues. He ended his second season at Real Madrid with a total of 53 goals in all competitions. During the following campaign, the 2011–12 season, Ronaldo surpassed his previous goalscoring feats to achieve a new personal best of 60 goals across all competitions. His 100th goal for Real Madrid came at Camp Nou in the Supercopa de España, though Barcelona claimed the trophy 5–4 on aggregate. He regained a place on the FIFA Ballon d'Or podium, as runner-up to Messi, after scoring hat-tricks against", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048793", "text": "scored the second goal in a 3–0 defeat of Levante at the Bernabéu to take his overall total for the club to 324 goals. Ronaldo also became the all-time top scorer in the Champions League with a hat-trick in the first group match against Shakhtar Donetsk, having finished the previous season level with Messi on 77 goals. A brace against Malmö FF, scoring in a 2–0 away win on 30 September, saw him reach the milestone of 500 career goals for both club and country. He subsequently became the first player to score double figures in the competition's group stage,", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048831", "text": "to do so in total. His third goal saw him curl in a 30-yard free kick with two minutes remaining for the equaliser. His hat-trick also drew him level with Ferenc Puskás as the highest European goalscorer of all-time, with 84 international goals. In Portugal's second game on 20 June, Ronaldo scored the only goal in a 1–0 victory against Morocco, breaking Puskás' record. In the final group match against Iran on 25 June, Ronaldo missed a penalty in an eventual 1–1 draw which saw Portugal progress to the second round as group runners-up behind Spain. On 30 June, Portugal", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048779", "text": "as part of a perfect hat-trick against Getafe. Following hat-tricks against Celta Vigo and Sevilla, he scored his 200th goal for Real Madrid on 8 May in a 6–2 win against Málaga, reaching the landmark in 197 games. He helped Madrid reach the Copa del Rey final by scoring a brace in \"El Clásico\", which marked the sixth successive match at Camp Nou in which he had scored, a Real Madrid record. In the final, he headed the opening goal of an eventual 2–1 defeat to Atlético Madrid, but was shown a straight red card in the 114th minute for", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048772", "text": "the 103rd minute of the Copa del Rey final, winning his first trophy in Spain. Over the next two weeks, Ronaldo scored another four-goal haul against Sevilla, a hat-trick against Getafe, and a brace of free kicks against Villarreal, taking his league total to 38 goals, which equalled the record for most goals scored in a season held by Telmo Zarra and Hugo Sánchez. His two goals in the last match of the season, against Almería, made him the first player in La Liga to score 40 goals. In addition to the Pichichi Trophy, Ronaldo consequently won the European Golden", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "1891970", "text": "Rey. With 130 goals for Barcelona he is the club's ninth highest goalscorer. His three goals against Valencia in June 2001 which qualified Barcelona for the Champions League, the last goal of which was a last minute 20-yard bicycle kick winner, is often ranked the greatest hat-trick ever. From 1993 and 2003, Rivaldo played 74 matches and scored 35 goals for Brazil and is the seventh highest goalscorer. He helped Brazil reach the final of the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and won the 1999 Copa América where he was named player of the tournament. Rivaldo starred alongside Ronaldo and Ronaldinho", "title": "Rivaldo" }, { "id": "19960347", "text": "two years. After spending nearly nine months without playing a single match for the club due to bureaucratic problems, he made his debut with the C-team on 10 April 2016 by scoring a hat-trick in a 4–0 home routing of CD Becerril. Promoted to the reserves ahead of the 2016–17 season, Peña scored another hat-trick in his first game for the side, a 5–0 thrashing of CD Buzanada. On 5 July 2018, Peña was sold to MLS club Houston Dynamo. He made his debut on 4 August when he came on in a 1-0 loss to Sporting Kansas City. He", "title": "Ronaldo Peña" }, { "id": "3048743", "text": "at age 18 in 2003. After winning his first trophy, the FA Cup, during his first season in England, he helped United win three successive Premier League titles, a UEFA Champions League title, and a FIFA Club World Cup. By age 22, he had received Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations and at age 23, he won his first Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2009, Ronaldo was the subject of the most expensive association football transfer when he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a transfer worth €94", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "755481", "text": "2002, we felt that we could always score. It was a team without any vanity, or individuals. The collective was important.” On 2 June 2004, Ronaldo scored an unusual hat-trick of penalties for Brazil against arch-rivals Argentina in a 2006 World Cup qualifying match. With 10 goals in 15 games, including a goal against Venezuela in the last game to secure first place, Ronaldo was the South American top scorer in Brazil's qualifying campaign. At the 2006 World Cup, Ronaldo was part of a much-publicized \"magic quartet\" alongside Adriano, Ronaldinho and Kaká. The all-star Brazilian team was promoted as masters", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "755440", "text": "newspaper \"AS\" read: 'Pelé returns'. A hat-trick against Valencia, the third goal of which saw him dissect two Valencia defenders before striking the ball into the net, saw Barcelona fans waving white handkerchiefs as an expression of admiration for an exceptional performance. Such was the manner Ronaldo ran through opposing defences, former Real Madrid forward Jorge Valdano commented; \"he's not a man, he's a herd\". Sid Lowe of \"Sports Illustrated\" states, “That season Ronaldo was unstoppable. He was slim and powerful, skillful, fast and deadly. He was ridiculously good.” At the end of 1996, aged 20, Ronaldo became the youngest", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "3048812", "text": "sides, amassing 34 youth caps and scoring 18 goals overall. At age 18, Ronaldo made his first senior appearance for Portugal in a 1–0 victory over Kazakhstan on 20 August 2003. He was subsequently called up for UEFA Euro 2004, held in his home country, and scored his first international goal in a 2–1 group stage loss to eventual champions Greece. After converting his penalty in a shootout against England at the quarter-final stage, he helped Portugal reach the final by scoring the opening goal in a 2–1 win over the Netherlands, but the crucial last match ended in a", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048775", "text": "title in four years, with a record 100 points. Following a hat-trick against Levante, further increasing Madrid's lead over Barcelona, he scored his 100th league goal for Madrid in a 5–1 win over Real Sociedad on 24 March 2012, a milestone he reached in just 92 matches across three seasons, breaking the previous club record held by Ferenc Puskás. Another hat-trick in the Madrid derby against Atlético Madrid brought his total to 40 league goals, equalling his record of the previous season. On 21 April Ronaldo scored the winner in a 2–1 victory over Barcelona at the Camp Nou, which", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "755424", "text": "world transfer record twice, all before his 21st birthday. At age 23, he had scored over 200 goals for club and country. After almost three years of inactivity due to serious knee injuries and recuperation, Ronaldo joined Real Madrid in 2002, which was followed by spells at A.C. Milan and Corinthians. Ronaldo won the FIFA World Player of the Year three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2002, and the Ballon d'Or twice, in 1997 and 2002, as well as the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year in 1998. He was La Liga Best Foreign Player in 1997, when he also", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "15593112", "text": "suffered a Grade I sprain on the internal lateral ligament in his left knee during the first day of training, causing him to miss the entire pre-season. On 17 July, defender Ezequiel Garay transferred to Benfica for an undisclosed fee. Real Madrid's pre-season began with a 4–1 victory over Major League Soccer (MLS) team LA Galaxy, with goals from Callejón, Joselu, Cristiano Ronaldo and Benzema. Four days later in San Diego against Mexican Primera División side Guadalajara, Ronaldo scored a second half hat-trick over a nine-minute span for a 3–0 victory. Real Madrid completed the World Football Challenge atop the", "title": "2011–12 Real Madrid C.F. season" }, { "id": "20441419", "text": "Nacho scored with a right foot half-volley in off the post from the edge of the penalty box, his first goal for Spain. As the clock ticked down, however, Gerard Piqué brought down Ronaldo just outside the box, with the Portugal star completing the scoring and his hat-trick with a free-kick into the top right corner of the net. Ronaldo became the fourth player to score in four different World Cup tournaments (2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018) after Pelé, Uwe Seeler and Miroslav Klose, and also the first to score in eight consecutive World Cups and European Championships. At age", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B" }, { "id": "3048742", "text": "A prolific goalscorer, Ronaldo holds the records for most official goals scored in Europe's top-five leagues (405), the UEFA Champions League (121), the UEFA European Championship (9), as well as those for most assists in the UEFA Champions League (34) and the UEFA European Championship (6). He has scored over 680 senior career goals for club and country. Born and raised on the Portuguese island of Madeira, Ronaldo was diagnosed with a racing heart at age 15. He underwent an operation to treat his condition, and began his senior club career playing for Sporting CP, before signing with Manchester United", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048754", "text": "ovation when he came on as a 60th-minute substitute for Nicky Butt. His performance earned praise from George Best, who hailed it as \"undoubtedly the most exciting debut\" he had ever seen. Ronaldo scored his first goal for Manchester United with a free-kick in a 3–0 win over Portsmouth on 1 November. Three other league goals followed in the second half of the campaign, the last of which came against Aston Villa on the final day of the season, a match in which he also received his first red card. Ronaldo ended his first season in English football by scoring", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "15593124", "text": "Real Madrid to a 2–1 halftime lead. Ronaldo and Michu scored again early in the second half shortly before a second yellow card to Di María for an intentional handball. Despite the numerical disadvantage, Ronaldo completed his hat-trick and Varane and Benzema added goals in the victory. Varane, at 18 years and 152 days, became the youngest foreign player to score in a competitive match for Real Madrid. Hamit Altıntop made his official debut in a 3–0 victory over Ajax on Matchday 2 of the Champions League on 27 September. Ronaldo, Kaká, and Benzema each scored a goal and provided", "title": "2011–12 Real Madrid C.F. season" }, { "id": "3048750", "text": "multiple cardiac pathways into one, altering his resting heart rate. He was discharged from the hospital hours after the procedure and resumed training a few days later. At age 16, Ronaldo was promoted from Sporting's youth team by first-team manager László Bölöni, who was impressed with his dribbling. He subsequently became the first player to play for the club's under-16, under-17 and under-18 teams, the B team, and the first team, all within a single season. A year later, on 7 October 2002, Ronaldo made his debut in the Primeira Liga, against Moreirense, and scored two goals in their 3–0", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "15593129", "text": "ever noon kickoff, scheduled to cater to Asian audiences. Sixty million people watched the match from China as a result. Prior to kickoff, Ronaldo presented his 2010–11 European Golden Shoe award and the team supported former player Antonio Cassano, who recently suffered a stroke and underwent heart surgery, by wearing \"Forza Cassano\" shirts. Ronaldo scored his fourth hat-trick in La Liga, Benzema netted two goals, and Pepe and Higuaín scored one each in the victory. Di María served three assists in the first half before tearing his hamstring early in the second half, and Şahin made his Real Madrid debut", "title": "2011–12 Real Madrid C.F. season" }, { "id": "18364930", "text": "In the 24th minute, Diego Costa equalised for Spain after scoring past the Portuguese defence. Isco then saw his shot thumping against the post. Ronaldo gave Portugal lead once again in 44th minute after Spanish keeper David de Gea was unable to handle the shot. Costa once again equalised for Spanish side in the 55th minute. Nacho redeemed himself after scoring a superb half-volley from outside the box at 58th minute. Gerard Piqué brought down Ronaldo outside the box at 86th minute, Ronaldo scored the free kick to equalise the game at 3-3, earning his first-ever World Cup hat-trick. <section", "title": "Portugal–Spain football rivalry" }, { "id": "3048795", "text": "2–1 \"Clásico\" victory on 2 April, he scored a hat-trick against VfL Wolfsburg to send his club into the Champions League semi-finals despite a 2–0 first-leg defeat. The treble took his tally in the competition to 16 goals, making him the top scorer for the fourth consecutive season, and the fifth overall. Suffering apparent fitness issues, Ronaldo gave a poorly-received performance in the final against Atlético Madrid, in a repeat of the 2014 final, though his penalty in the subsequent shoot-out secured \"La Undécima\", Madrid's 11th victory. For the sixth successive year, he ended the season having scored more than", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "2801216", "text": "19th Taça Guanabara title, which earned the Campeonato Carioca title two months later, as the team also won the Taça Rio. On 27 July 2011, Ronaldinho scored a hat-trick in Flamengo's 5–4 away win against rivals Santos, after being 3–0 down inside the first 30 minutes. On 31 May 2012, after being absent for a few days, he sued Flamengo claiming lack of payment for four months and cancelled his contract with the club. Ronaldinho made a move to Atlético Mineiro on 4 June 2012 in a six-month contract, just four days after leaving Flamengo. He wore number 49 in", "title": "Ronaldinho" }, { "id": "20441420", "text": "33, Ronaldo also became the oldest hat-trick scorer in the World Cup, surpassing Rob Rensenbrink of the Netherlands, who scored three times against Iran in 1978, aged 30. With this result, Spain has not won any opening matches since 2006, having lost to Switzerland 0–1 in 2010 and the Netherlands 1–5 in 2014. <section begin=b2 /><section end=b2 /> The two teams had met previously only once, a group stage game in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, won by Morocco 3–1. João Moutinho swung in a cross from the right after a short corner and Cristiano Ronaldo headed the ball powerfully", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup Group B" }, { "id": "3048758", "text": "and won his first Premier League title. An important factor in this success was his one-to-one training by first-team coach René Meulensteen, who taught him to make himself more unpredictable, improve his teamwork, call for the ball, and capitalise on goalscoring opportunities rather than waiting for the chance to score the aesthetically pleasing goals for which he was already known. He scored three consecutive braces at the end of December, against Aston Villa—a victory which put United on top of the league—Wigan Athletic, and Reading. Ronaldo was named the Premier League Player of the Month in November and December, becoming", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048828", "text": "three of Portugal's group stage matches. Ronaldo left the competition early: after Chile defeated Portugal 3–0 on penalties in the semi-finals, he was allowed to return home to be with his newborn children. Therefore, he missed Portugal's third-place play-off match in which Portugal defeated Mexico 2–1 after extra time. On 31 August 2017, Ronaldo scored a hat-trick in a 5–1 win in a World Cup qualifier over the Faroe Islands, which saw him overtake Pelé and equal Hussein Saeed as the joint-fifth-highest goalscorer in international football with 78 goals. These goals brought his tally in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "15593137", "text": "scored in the second half and dedicated the goal to his late father-in-law. Jesús Navas pulled a goal back for Sevilla, but soon afterward Manu was shown a straight red card. Ronaldo completed his hat-trick from a penalty and substitute Altıntop scored his first goal for Real Madrid before Álvaro Negredo added a consolation goal in stoppage time. Real Madrid defeated Ponferradina 5–1 in the return leg of the Copa del Rey on 20 December to advance 7–1 on aggregate. Callejón scored twice, Şahin scored his first goal for Real Madrid, and Varane and Castilla member Joselu each scored once,", "title": "2011–12 Real Madrid C.F. season" }, { "id": "3048840", "text": "in the box, and score from few opportunities. Ronaldo is widely regarded as one of the two best players of his generation, alongside Lionel Messi. Ronaldo quickly established himself among the world's best players in his early 20s, featuring as the core component for Manchester United in the mid-to-late 2000s. However, after winning his first Ballon d'Or by a record-high vote count at age 23, the public debate regarding his qualities as a player moved beyond his status in contemporary football to the possibility that he was one of the greatest players in history. Universally acclaimed for his prolific and", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "755449", "text": "in 2018. Having signed for Real Madrid for €46 million, his jersey sales broke all records on the first day. Ronaldo was part of the \"Galácticos\" era of global stars signed by the club every summer, which included Zinedine Zidane, Luís Figo, Roberto Carlos and David Beckham. He was sidelined through injury until October 2002 which added to the fans anticipation. Ronaldo scored twice on his debut against Alavés, the first 61 seconds after coming on, and he received a standing ovation at the Santiago Bernabéu as he left the field. That same reception was observed at the final game", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "13557667", "text": "fault for Portugal's second goal, letting a Cristiano Ronaldo shot slip through his grasp; Ronaldo completed a hat-trick during the eventual 3–3 draw, with his first goal coming from a penalty, and his third from a free-kick, which were Portugal's only other shots on target. In Spain's second group match against Iran on 20 June, he kept a clean-sheet in a 1–0 victory. De Gea continued to struggle in Spain's final group match against Morocco on 25 June, however, which ended in a 2–2 draw; his unsteady performances in the group stage drew criticism in the media, who noted that", "title": "David de Gea" }, { "id": "3048770", "text": "on 5 May 2010, his first in the Spanish competition. His first season at Real Madrid ended trophyless. Following Raúl's departure, Ronaldo was handed the number 7 shirt for Real Madrid before the 2010–11 season. His subsequent return to his Ballon d'Or-winning form was epitomised when, for the first time in his career, he scored four goals in a single match during a 6–1 rout against Racing Santander on 23 October. His haul concluded a goalscoring run of six consecutive matches—three in La Liga, one in the Champions League, and two for Portugal—totalling 11 goals, the most he had scored", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3994590", "text": "victory over Toulouse, after coming on as a 79th minute substitute. His first Premier League goal came on his Anfield debut on 19 August 2007, in the 16th minute in a 1–1 draw against Chelsea. His first hat-trick came in a 4–2 victory over Reading in the League Cup on 25 September 2007, with all of his goals coming in the second half. His first goals in the Champions League came on his third appearance in the competition as Liverpool beat Porto 4–1 on 28 November 2007, as he scored twice. Torres was named the Premier League Player of the", "title": "Fernando Torres" }, { "id": "3048822", "text": "the group stage on goal difference. Ronaldo scored five goals, including a hat-trick against Armenia, in the qualification for Euro 2016. With the only goal in another victory over Armenia on 14 November 2014, he reached 23 goals in the European Championship, including qualifying matches, to become the competition's all-time leading goalscorer. At the start of the tournament, however, Ronaldo failed to convert his chances in Portugal's draws against Iceland and Austria, despite taking a total of 20 shots on goal. In the latter match, he overtook Luís Figo as his nation's most capped player with his 128th international appearance,", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "755444", "text": "his shoe. Ronaldo scored a trademark goal against Lazio in the 1998 UEFA Cup Final. Running through defence to go one on one with Lazio goalkeeper Luca Marchegiani, Ronaldo feinted to go right then left, without touching the ball, leaving Marchegiani on his backside, before going right and slotting the ball into the net. His Inter teammate Youri Djorkaeff stated; \"Ronaldo was phenomenal. He proved that he was a cut above the rest that season.\" After the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where he was named player of the tournament, Ronaldo was widely regarded as the best striker in the world.", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "755464", "text": "Corinthians made an offer that will let me continue my career.\" Ronaldo played his first match for Corinthians on 4 March 2009, a Copa do Brasil match against Itumbiara at Estádio Juscelino Kubitschek, in which he came as a substitute for Jorge Henrique. Ronaldo scored his first goal for Corinthians on 8 March 2009 in a Campeonato Paulista match against Palmeiras. Scoring eight goals in nine matches, his form led to calls for his return to the Brazil national team – nearly 70% of respondents in a poll for the \"Globo\" newspaper voted that he should be reinstated, with the", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "3048753", "text": "at Sporting, he received the number 7 shirt, which had previously been worn by such United players as George Best, Eric Cantona and David Beckham. Wearing the number 7 became an extra source of motivation for Ronaldo. A key element in his development during his time in England proved to be his manager, Alex Ferguson, of whom he later said, \"He's been my father in sport, one of the most important and influential factors in my career.\" Ronaldo made his debut in the Premier League in a 4–0 home victory over Bolton Wanderers on 16 August 2003, receiving a standing", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048756", "text": "Middlesbrough. Midway through the season, in November, he signed a new contract which extended his previous deal by two years to 2010. Ronaldo won his second trophy in English football, the Football League Cup, after scoring the third goal in United's 4–0 final victory over Wigan Athletic. During his third season in England, Ronaldo was involved in several incidents. He had a one-match ban imposed on him by UEFA for a \"one-fingered gesture\" towards Benfica fans, and was sent off in the Manchester derby—a 3–1 defeat—for kicking Manchester City's former United player Andy Cole. Ronaldo clashed with a teammate, striker", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048768", "text": "Diego Maradona at Napoli. Since club captain Raúl already wore the number 7, the number Ronaldo wore at Manchester United, Ronaldo received the number 9 shirt, which was presented to him by former Madrid player Alfredo Di Stéfano. Ronaldo made his debut in La Liga on 29 August 2009, against Deportivo La Coruña, and scored from the penalty spot in Madrid's 3–2 home win. He scored in each of his first four league fixtures with the club, the first Madrid player to do so. His first Champions League goals for the club followed with two free kicks in the first", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "755457", "text": "used to do which is being a great player.\" On 25 January, Ronaldo flew from Madrid to Milan, with statements on the club's website stating Ronaldo was in Milan for a medical, and that a meeting had been arranged with Real Madrid officials to discuss and finalize his transfer to the Milanese club. On 26 January, Ronaldo successfully completed his medical tests at the Milanello training complex under the supervision of club doctors, and the transfer was completed on 30 January. Wearing the number 99 jersey, he made his debut as a substitute on 11 February 2007 in the 2–1", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "6662925", "text": "for the first time. On 14 December 2013, Agüero was substituted in a 6–3 win against Arsenal due to a calf injury and missed eight matches. On 16 January 2014, he returned from injury in an FA Cup third-round replay against Blackburn Rovers, scoring after coming on as a substitute in the 5–0 win. In the next round of the competition, he scored his first hat-trick of the season in a 4–2 victory over Watford. On 29 January, he scored his 50th Premier League goal in a 5–1 victory at Tottenham but was substituted with a hamstring injury. On 2", "title": "Sergio Agüero" }, { "id": "17956472", "text": "and Nacho the last one. Cristiano Ronaldo made a hat-trick for Portugal. Spain won the second match against Iran with a goal by Diego Costa. \"Note: A = Away kits, T = Third kits, otherwise Home kits.\" History of the Spain national football team The history of the Spain national football team dates back to the team's formation and first ever international match in 1920. The Spain national football team has experienced a number of successes, most notably their victory at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The first Spain national football team was constituted in 1920, with the main objective", "title": "History of the Spain national football team" }, { "id": "3048765", "text": "weeks. Following his return, he scored his 100th goal in all competitions for United with the first of two free kicks in a 5–0 win against Stoke City on 15 November, which meant he had now scored against all 19 opposition teams in the Premier League at the time. At the close of 2008, Ronaldo helped United win the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, assisting the final-winning goal against Liga de Quito and winning the Silver Ball in the process. He subsequently became United's first Ballon d'Or winner since George Best in 1968, and the first Premier League player", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "755434", "text": "was all there.” Rob Smyth added, “In many ways Ronaldo was the first PlayStation footballer. His stepover was a form of hypnosis, and his signature trick, the elastico, could certainly have come from a computer screen.“ Ronaldo's second season was marred by a knee injury which kept him out of most of the campaign, but he still averaged nearly a goal a game, scoring 19 goals in 21 appearances. With PSV, Ronaldo won the Dutch Cup in 1996 and he was Eredivisie top scorer in 1995. During his two seasons at the club he scored 54 goals in 58 games.", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "2801188", "text": "made his senior side debut during the 1998 Copa Libertadores. 1999 saw the emergence of the 18-year-old Ronaldinho, with 23 goals in 48 matches, and he put in headlining displays in derbies against Internacional, most notably on 20 June 1999 in the Rio Grande do Sul State Championship final. In a match-winning performance, Ronaldinho embarrassed Internacional's Brazilian legend and 1994 World Cup-winning captain Dunga, flicking the ball over his head on one occasion, and leaving him flat-footed in a mazy dribble on another. Ronaldinho achieved further success with Grêmio, winning the inaugural Copa Sul-Minas. In 2001, Arsenal expressed interest in", "title": "Ronaldinho" }, { "id": "3048747", "text": "by \"Forbes\" in 2016 and 2017, as well as the world's most famous athlete by ESPN in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro was born in São Pedro, Funchal, on the island of Madeira, Portugal, and grew up in Santo António, Funchal. He is the fourth and youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro (b. 1954), a cook, and José Dinis Aveiro (1953–2005), a municipal gardener and a part-time kit man. His second given name, \"Ronaldo\", was chosen after then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan. His great-grandmother on his father's side, Isabel da Piedade, was from the island", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048745", "text": "winning the 2016 and 2017 Champions Leagues, Ronaldo secured back-to-back Ballons d'Or again in 2016 and 2017. A historic third consecutive Champions League followed, making Ronaldo the first player to win the trophy five times. In 2018, he signed to Juventus in a transfer worth €100 million, the highest ever paid by an Italian club and the highest fee ever paid for a player over 30 years old. A Portuguese international, Ronaldo was named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese Football Federation in 2015. He made his senior debut for Portugal in 2003 at age 18,", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "2801186", "text": "nickname \"Ronaldinho\" – \"inho\" meaning small – because he was often the youngest and the smallest player in youth club matches. He developed an interest in futsal and beach football, which later expanded to organized football. His first brush with the media came at the age of 13, when he scored all 23 goals in a 23–0 victory against a local team. Ronaldinho was identified as a rising star at the 1997 U-17 World Championship in Egypt, in which he scored two goals on penalty kicks. Growing up, his idols included the World Cup winning stars; Rivelino (from 1970), Diego", "title": "Ronaldinho" }, { "id": "19056555", "text": "of friends, family and team-mates. The film was shot in Madeira, Ronaldo's birthplace, Lisbon, where he began his professional career with Sporting CP, and Madrid, where he was residing when he played for Real Madrid. Ronaldo himself announced the film's production on Twitter on 9 June 2015, posting a picture of his son, Cristiano Jr., behind a camera along with the announcement. \"Ronaldo\" documents the life of Cristiano Ronaldo (born Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro; 5 February 1985), from his childhood until 2015, through a series of interviews with Ronaldo himself as well as friends and family. Parts of the", "title": "Ronaldo (film)" }, { "id": "3048825", "text": "in the 109th minute to earn Portugal a 1–0 victory. As team captain, Ronaldo later lifted the trophy in celebration of his country's first-ever triumph in a major tournament. He was awarded the Silver Boot as the joint second-highest goalscorer, with three goals and three assists, and was named to the team of the tournament for the third time in his career. Following the Euro 2016 success, Ronaldo scored four goals against Andorra in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on 8 October 2016. His four goals against a nine-man team marked the highest number of goals he has scored", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "19224238", "text": "the B-team, he was promoted to the main squad in the following month. Ronaldo made his debut for \"Peixe\" on 6 February 2016, coming on as a second-half substitute and suffering a late penalty in a 2–1 home win against Ituano. On 10 April, again from the bench, he scored the winner in a home success over Audax for the same scoreline; he scored the equalizer against the same team in the first leg of the final, as his side was crowned champions in a 2–1 aggregate win. On 7 July 2016, Ronaldo moved abroad for the first time in", "title": "Ronaldo Mendes" }, { "id": "755423", "text": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (; born 18 September 1976), commonly known as Ronaldo, is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as a striker. Popularly dubbed \"O Fenômeno\" (\"The Phenomenon\"), he is widely considered to be one of the greatest football players of all time. In his prime, he was known for his dribbling at speed, feints, and clinical finishing. At his best in the 1990s, Ronaldo starred at club level for Cruzeiro, PSV, Barcelona, and Inter Milan. His moves to Spain and Italy made him only the second player, after Diego Maradona, to break the", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "2801190", "text": "made his league debut for the club on 4 August 2001, appearing as a substitute in a 1–1 draw with Auxerre. Ronaldinho spent the majority of the first few months of the 2001–02 season alternated between the bench and starter's role. He scored his first goal for the club on 13 October in a 2–2 draw against Lyon, converting the equalizing penalty in the 79th minute after having come on ten minutes prior. After returning from the winter break, Ronaldinho went on a tear, scoring a goal in four consecutive matches to open the new campaign. He recorded impressive goals", "title": "Ronaldinho" }, { "id": "1891977", "text": "when he insisted playing as a playmaker rather than on the left wing. Even though he had a strained relationship with Van Gaal, Rivaldo went on to score 10 goals in the season's Champions League as the club reached the semi-finals. Van Gaal was fired in June 2000. In the following 2000–01 season, Rivaldo was once again the second highest goalscorer of the league, with 23 goals. In the last game of the season, against Valencia CF, Rivaldo scored a hat-trick to win the game 3–2. Frequently ranked the greatest hat-trick ever, his first goal was a trademark bending free", "title": "Rivaldo" }, { "id": "3048759", "text": "only the third player to receive consecutive honours. At the quarter-final stage of the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, Ronaldo scored his first-ever goals in the competition, finding the net twice in a 7–1 victory over Roma. He subsequently scored four minutes into the first semi-final leg against Milan, which ended in a 3–2 win, but was marked out of the second leg as United lost 3–0 at the San Siro. He also helped United reach the FA Cup final, but the decisive match against Chelsea ended in a 1–0 defeat. Ronaldo scored the only goal in the Manchester derby on", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048748", "text": "of São Vicente, Cape Verde. He has one older brother, Hugo (b. 1975), and two older sisters, Elma (b. 1973) and Liliana Cátia \"Katia\" (b. 1977), who is a singer. Ronaldo grew up in a Catholic and impoverished home, sharing a room with all his siblings. As a child, Ronaldo played for amateur team Andorinha from 1992 to 1995, where his father was the kit man, and later spent two years with Nacional. In 1997, aged 12, he went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who signed him for a fee of £1,500. He subsequently moved from Madeira to", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "2801185", "text": "After Ronaldo's older brother Roberto signed with Grêmio, the family moved to a home in the more affluent Guarujá section of Porto Alegre, which was a gift from Grêmio to convince Roberto to stay at the club, but Roberto's career was ultimately cut short by injury. It was in their new home where his father hit his head and drowned in the swimming pool when Ronaldo was eight. Today, Roberto acts as his manager, while his sister Deisi works as his press coordinator. Ronaldo's football skills began to blossom at the age of eight, and he was first given the", "title": "Ronaldinho" }, { "id": "7513652", "text": "another hat trick, this time in an 8–0 thrashing of Levante in the Copa del Rey. In the team's first fixture of the 2011 calendar year, he assisted on the game-winning goal scored by Ronaldo in a 3–2 win over Getafe. In late January, for the first time in his Real Madrid career, Benzema scored goals in back-to-back matches. On 23 January, he scored the only goal in a 1–0 win at home against Mallorca. Three days later, Benzema repeated his efforts scoring the only goal in a win over Sevilla in the first leg of the team's Copa del", "title": "Karim Benzema" }, { "id": "3048848", "text": "Blatter preferred Messi or Ronaldo, Blatter paid tribute to the work ethic of the Argentine before taking a swipe at Ronaldo, claiming \"one of them has more expenses for the hairdresser than the other\". Real Madrid demanded – and promptly received – a full apology, and the Portuguese issued his own riposte with a mock-salute celebration after scoring a penalty against Sevilla, after Blatter had described him as a \"commander\" on the pitch. As his reputation grew from his time at Manchester United, Ronaldo has signed many sponsorship deals for consumer products, including sportswear, football boots (since November 2012 Ronaldo", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "3048829", "text": "to 14, equalling Predrag Mijatović's record for most goals in a single UEFA senior men's qualifying campaign, and also saw him break the record for the most goals scored in a single European qualifying group, overtaking the previous record of 13 goals set by David Healy and Robert Lewandowski. Ronaldo's hat-trick took his World Cup qualifying goals total to 29, making him the highest scorer in European World Cup qualifiers, ahead of Andriy Shevchenko, and the highest goalscorer in World Cup qualifying and finals matches combined, with 32 goals, ahead of Miroslav Klose. Ronaldo later added to this tally by", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "15593126", "text": "the Champions League. Benzema finished Ronaldo's flick from an Özil corner and then assisted Khedira for his first competitive goal at Real Madrid. Lyon goalkeeper Hugo Lloris redirected a cross by Özil for an own goal, and Sergio Ramos completed the scoring from a Kaká corner. The win lifted Real Madrid five points clear atop Group D. Real Madrid defeated Málaga away on 22 October and moved one point ahead of Barcelona after they were held to a scoreless draw by Sevilla. Higuaín opened the scoring and Ronaldo scored his third hat-trick in La Liga this season for a 0–4", "title": "2011–12 Real Madrid C.F. season" }, { "id": "755430", "text": "he showcased his talents on the field. Ronaldo's agents in Brazil, Reinaldo Pitta and Alexandre Martins, signed him as a 13-year-old. Pitta stated, “We saw right away that he could be something different than most other players.” Recognized as a child prodigy, Jairzinho recommended the then 16-year-old to his former club Cruzeiro. In 1993, Ronaldo began his football career playing for Cruzeiro. Aged 16, he made his professional debut on 25 May 1993 against Caldense in the Minas Gerais State Championship. Ronaldo came to national public attention on 7 November 1993, scoring five goals in the game against Bahia. Ronaldo", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "15593120", "text": "match Xabi Alonso to Sergio Ramos and Benzema led Real Madrid to a 2–1 victory in the annual friendly. Real Madrid's La Liga season began with a 0–6 win at Real Zaragoza on 28 August, with goals from Marcelo, Alonso, Kaká and a hat-trick by Ronaldo, including his 100th goal as a Real Madrid player. The win was the most lopsided away victory on opening day in Spanish top flight history. On 31 August, the final day of the summer transfer window, Real Madrid loaned out midfielders Pedro León, Fernando Gago and Royston Drenthe. Pedro León joined Getafe, the team", "title": "2011–12 Real Madrid C.F. season" }, { "id": "3048815", "text": "qualifying games for Euro 2008, scoring two goals in the process. One day after his 22nd birthday, Ronaldo captained Portugal for the first time in a friendly game against Brazil on 6 February 2007, as requested by Portuguese Football Federation president Carlos Silva, who had died two days earlier. Ahead of Euro 2008, he was given the number 7 shirt for the first time. While he scored eight goals in the qualification, the second-highest tally, he scored just one goal in the tournament, netting the second goal of their 3–1 win in the group stage match against the Czech Republic;", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "2801228", "text": "in Nigeria, scoring his first goal in Brazil's last group match. In the round of 16, he scored two first-half goals in a 4–0 win over Croatia, and finished with three goals as Brazil were eliminated by Uruguay in the quarter-finals. On 26 June, three days before the start of the 1999 Copa América, he earned his first cap for Brazil in a 3–0 win over Latvia, and he scored one goal during Brazil's victorious Copa América campaign. One week after the conclusion of the Copa América, he was called up for the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup, in which he", "title": "Ronaldinho" }, { "id": "18032935", "text": "against Atlético Madrid, which assured Real Madrid the second place until the end of the season. This was Ronaldo's seventh hattrick of the season. In their last match of the season, Real hosted Getafe and defeated them 7–3 with a hat-trick from Ronaldo. Supplier: Adidas / Sponsor: Emirates Net income: €12.4M \"Updated 23 May 2015.\" \"Updated as of 23 May 2015.\" 2014–15 Real Madrid C.F. season The 2014–15 season was Real Madrid Club de Fútbol's 111th season in existence and the club's 84th consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football. It covered a period from 1 July 2014", "title": "2014–15 Real Madrid C.F. season" }, { "id": "2801230", "text": "appeared four times and scored only one goal, which came in the quarter-final defeat by Cameroon. Ronaldinho participated in his first World Cup in 2002, as part of a formidable offensive unit with Ronaldo and Rivaldo, dubbed the \"Three Rs\", who were also on the 1999 Copa América winning squad. The World Cup was held in Korea and Japan, and Ronaldinho appeared in five matches during the tournament and scored two goals, as well as contributing several important assists. His first goal came in the group stage match against China PR, which Brazil won 4–0. The most memorable match in", "title": "Ronaldinho" }, { "id": "18052019", "text": "his debut for Real Madrid, coming-on as a 58th-minute substitute for hat-trick scorer and then-reigning FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo in an eventual 7–3 home win over Getafe CF. He became the youngest debutant in the history of the club at 16 years and 157 days old. Ødegaard was a regular starter for Castilla during the 2015–16 season. On 17 April 2016, he was praised in \"Diario AS\" for his performance in a 3–0 home win over SD Gernika Club, winning a penalty kick which Mariano scored. The result put the team top of the table. The team won", "title": "Martin Ødegaard" }, { "id": "2454023", "text": "28 November 1964. The first hat-trick in an international game was by Scottish player John McDougall, against England on 2 March 1878. American player Bert Patenaude scored the first hat-trick in the FIFA World Cup, against Paraguay in the inaugural event. Two hat-tricks have been scored in a World Cup final, by Geoff Hurst for England in the 1966 final during extra time against West Germany, and Carli Lloyd for the USA against Japan in the 2015 Women's World Cup final. Lloyd's was the fastest hat-trick scored in a World Cup final at 13 minutes from first to last goal,", "title": "Hat-trick" }, { "id": "838461", "text": "season of club football ended without a trophy, he enjoyed success on a personal note by scoring his first hat-trick, against Sevilla, in a 4–2 win in January 2006. He ended the season for Real Madrid as their second highest goalscorer and assists provider behind teammates Ronaldo and David Beckham respectively, with nine goals and ten assists in 28 games. On 7 May 2006, Zidane, who had announced his plans to retire after the 2006 World Cup, played his farewell match and scored in a 3–3 draw with Villarreal. The squad wore commemorative shirts with \"ZIDANE 2001–2006\" below the club", "title": "Zinedine Zidane" }, { "id": "755447", "text": "to miss the entire 2000–01 season and much of the two seasons either side of it. Since Ronaldo's teammate Javier Zanetti had replaced him as the team captain during his absence, he eventually inherited the captain's band in late 2001. After two operations and months of rehabilitation, Ronaldo came back for the 2002 World Cup, helping Brazil win their fifth World Cup title. Later in 2002, he won the FIFA World Player of the Year award for the third time, and transferred from Inter to Real Madrid. Ronaldo was given his most recognizable nickname, , by the Italian press while", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "3048766", "text": "to be named the FIFA World Player of the Year. His match-winning goal in the second leg against Porto, a 40-yard strike, earned him the inaugural FIFA Puskás Award, presented by FIFA in recognition of the best goal of the year; he later called it the best goal he had ever scored. United advanced to the final in Rome, where he made little impact in United's 2–0 defeat to Barcelona. Ronaldo ended his time in England with nine trophies, as United claimed their third successive Premier League title and a Football League Cup. He finished the campaign with 26 goals", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "20873049", "text": "hat-trick in a 3–2 away defeat of Villa Española on 17 June of that year. On 28 July 2017, Araújo joined Primera División side Boston River. He made his debut in the category on 18 September, replacing Maximiliano Sigales late into a 1–0 home success over El Tanque Sisley. On 29 August 2018, Araújo signed a five-year contract with FC Barcelona for a fee of € 1.7 million, plus € 3.5 million in variables; he was initially assigned to the reserves in Segunda División B. Ronald Araújo Ronald Federico Araújo da Silva (born 7 March 1999) is a Uruguayan professional", "title": "Ronald Araújo" }, { "id": "3048767", "text": "in all competitions, 16 goals fewer than the previous season, in four more appearances. His final ever goal for Manchester United came on 10 May 2009 with a free kick in the Manchester derby at Old Trafford. Ahead of the 2009–10 season, Ronaldo joined Real Madrid for a world record transfer fee at the time, of £80 million (€94 million). His contract, which ran until 2015, was worth €11 million per year and contained a €1 billion buy-out clause. At least 80,000 fans attended his presentation at the Santiago Bernabéu, surpassing the 25-year record of 75,000 fans who had welcomed", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "10619923", "text": "the last two minutes, Ronaldo scored his third for his first ever Manchester United hat-trick, and Tevez made it six in injury time. Newcastle's captain, former Red Alan Smith, earned himself a red card for his protests following the sixth goal. Wayne Rooney got himself on the scoresheet for the first time in three Premier League games the following weekend, scoring the opener in a 2–0 win over Reading. After a goalless first half, Rooney opened the scoring in the 77th minute, before Cristiano Ronaldo notched up his 23rd goal of the season to equal his tally for the previous", "title": "2007–08 Manchester United F.C. season" }, { "id": "3048755", "text": "the opening goal in United's 3–0 victory over Millwall in the FA Cup final, earning his first trophy. At the start of 2005, Ronaldo played two of his best matches of the 2004–05 season, producing a goal and an assist against Aston Villa and scoring twice against rivals Arsenal. He played the full 120 minutes of the decisive match against Arsenal in the FA Cup final, which ended in a goalless draw, and scored his attempt in the lost penalty shootout. He scored Manchester United's 1000th Premier League goal on 29 October, their only strike in a 4–1 loss to", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" }, { "id": "755435", "text": "During his spell at PSV, Ronaldo attracted the attention of both Inter Milan and FC Barcelona. It was Barcelona that was willing to pay the then world record fee of $19.5 million. During the 1996–97 season, Ronaldo scored 47 goals in 49 games in all competitions, with his goal celebration invariably the same with his arms outstretched like the statue of \"Christ the Redeemer\" that watches over his native Rio de Janeiro. He led the Catalan side to UEFA Cup Winners' Cup triumph where he capped the season with the winning goal in the cup final, and to Copa del", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "3048751", "text": "win. Over the course of the 2002–03 season, his representatives suggested the player to Liverpool manager Gérard Houllier and Barcelona president Joan Laporta. Manager Arsène Wenger, who was interested in signing the winger, met with him at Arsenal's grounds in November to discuss a possible transfer. Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, however, determined to acquire Ronaldo on a permanent move urgently, after Sporting defeated United 3–1 at the inauguration of the Estádio José Alvalade in August 2003. Initially, United had just planned to sign Ronaldo and then loan him back to Sporting for a year. Having been impressed by him,", "title": "Cristiano Ronaldo" } ]

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[ { "id": "18285215", "text": "Principal photography began on May 18, 2015, in the north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. \"The Magnificent Seven\" premiered on September 8, 2016, at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the United States on September 23, 2016, in conventional and IMAX theatres. The film received mixed reviews from critics, although the cast and action sequences were praised, and grossed $162 million worldwide. In 1879, robber baron and gold-mining tycoon Bartholomew Bogue assumes control of the American frontier town of Rose Creek, and subjects its residents to forced labor in his mines. After a town church assembly denounces", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18285233", "text": "and they would have to leave the set. Since his grandmother was the prime influence on the film, every day after filming, Fuqua would ask himself if she would have had fun watching it. The film had its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, and served as the closing-night film at the Venice Film Festival on September 9, 2016. The film was originally set to be released on January 13, 2017; however in February 2016, Sony Pictures Entertainment moved the release date to September 23, 2016. Sony kicked off its campaign on April 20,", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "429952", "text": "role that ultimately went to George Peppard in the series; and Robert Vaughn was added to the cast in the final season as part of a revamp attempt to boost fading ratings. A remake of the film was released on September 23, 2016, with Antoine Fuqua directing and Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier and Peter Sarsgaard starring. The Magnificent Seven The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn and Horst", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "18285236", "text": "and in a number of premium large formats and D-Box screens. It made $1.75 million from Thursday previews and $12.7 million on its first day. The film went on to gross $35.7 million in its opening weekend, of which $2.9 million came from 372 IMAX theaters, and topped the box office. It scored the third biggest Western opening (not accounting for inflation), behind \"Rango\" ($38.1 million) and \"Cowboys & Aliens\" ($36.4 million). It is also director Fuqua's second biggest opening and Washington's third biggest. According to the \"Los Angeles Times\", the film was released in theaters at a time when", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18285240", "text": "Korea). IMAX made up $1.4 million from 234 theaters. It opened in first place in Russia ($1.8 million), Spain ($1.1 million), and Malaysia ($560,000), and second in the United Kingdom and Ireland ($2.6 million), Germany ($1.4 million), and Brazil ($1.1 million), and had similar openings in Australia ($2.8 million) and France ($1.9 million). China is not yet determined. \"The Magnificent Seven\" received mixed reviews, with critics praising the cast but stating the film did not offer much originality or innovation. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 63%, based on 285 reviews, with an average", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "429949", "text": "release, largely due to its cast (several of whom were to go on to become superstars over the decade following its release) and its music score. As of September 19, 2018, it has a score of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes based on ratings of 41 critics. It is the second most shown film in U.S. television history, behind only \"The Wizard of Oz\". The film is also ranked 79 on the AFI's list of American cinema's 100 most-thrilling films. The film was a box office disappointment in the United States, but proved to be such a smash hit in Europe", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "18285235", "text": "States Canada, and $68.9 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $162.4 million, against a net production budget of $90 million. The film had a global 2D IMAX opening of $4.3 million from 606 theaters. In the United States and Canada, \"The Magnificent Seven\" was released alongside \"Storks\", and was projected to open to around $30 million, with some estimates going as high as $50 million, which would have made it one of the biggest September debuts of all-time. The film opened in 3,674 theaters, and had the benefit of playing in all IMAX theaters for one week,", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "429924", "text": "The Magnificent Seven The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn and Horst Buchholz. The film is an Old West–style remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film \"Seven Samurai\". Brynner, McQueen, Bronson, Vaughn, Dexter, Coburn and Buchholz portray the title characters, a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits (whose leader is played by Wallach). The film's musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. In 2013, the film", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "18285232", "text": "third Horner score released posthumously. Principal photography on the film lasted 64 days, from May 18 to August 18, 2015, in the north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Other locations include St. Francisville; Zachary, Louisiana; Ridgway, Colorado; and New Mexico. Filming in St. Francisville was completed between May 18 and May 29, 2015. The climactic battle between the Seven and a small army led by Bogue took three weeks to film; the weather was inclement. Sometimes the cast and crew would wait in the on-set saloon for storms to pass, and, at times when the storm would worsen, the trailer rocked", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18285239", "text": "second hit of the year, following the sleeper \"Me Before You\", released in June. The film was projected to gross around $100 million, with foreign box office prognosticators expecting a total similar to \"The Hateful Eight\"'s $101.6 million. It was released in South Korea (its first international market) on September 14, 2016, and delivered an opening of $5.1 million, finishing in third place at the box office, behind local film \"The Age of Shadows\" and Hollywood tentpole \"Ben-Hur\". The following weekend, it opened in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Spain, and Russia, and grossed $19.2 million from 63 markets (including", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18285214", "text": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film) The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, which in turn is a reimagining of the 1954 film \"Seven Samurai\". The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, and Peter Sarsgaard. It is the final film of composer James Horner, who died the previous year after composing part of the score; his friend Simon Franglen completed the music.", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "429937", "text": "they brought on Walter Newman, whose version \"is largely what's on screen.\" When Newman was unavailable to be on-site during the film's principal photography in Mexico, William Roberts was hired, in part to make changes required by Mexican censors. When Roberts asked the Writers Guild of America for a co-credit, Newman asked that his name be removed from the credits. Filming began on March 1, 1960, on location in Mexico, where both the village and the U.S. border town were built for the film. The location filming was in Cuernavaca, Durango, and Tepoztlán and at the Churubusco Studios. The first", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "18285245", "text": "of \"Rolling Stone\" gave the film three out of four stars, saying, \"The new Seven isn't aiming for cinema immortality. It's two hours of hardcore, shoot-em-up pow and it's entertaining as hell.\" The Magnificent Seven (2016 film) The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, which in turn is a reimagining of the 1954 film \"Seven Samurai\". The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier,", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "970114", "text": "in north Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The film premiered on September 8 at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the United States in conventional and IMAX theatres on September 23, 2016. In \"The Magnificent Seven\", Washington plays Sam Chisolm (\"the Bounty Hunter\"), a duly sworn warrant officer from Wichita, Kansas. His character was renamed from Chris Adams (played by Yul Brynner in the original film) to Sam Chisolm. It is Washington's first Western film. Washington did not watch Westerns growing up, as it was the end of the Western era in the movies. Moreover, he and his", "title": "Denzel Washington" }, { "id": "8702043", "text": "least once, with varying degrees of severity, and five — Chris, Ezra, Buck, Josiah, and Vin — are jailed during the course of the series. The series was largely filmed in Newhall, California. The pilot, directed by New Zealander Geoff Murphy (\"Young Guns II\"), was shot in Mescal, Arizona and the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona, near Tombstone. The pilot was scripted by Chris Black and late writer/director Frank Q. Dobbs (\"Streets of Laredo\"). MGM Home Entertainment (distributed by Fox) has released the entire series on DVD in Region 1. Season 1 was released on December 6, 2005 and season 2", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (TV series)" }, { "id": "18285234", "text": "2016, launching the first trailer, and the cast took to their social media platforms to reveal character-by-character. Television advertisement began during the summer, when the trailers were paired with the NBA finals and BET Awards, as well as the 2016 Summer Olympics. Sony rounded out the campaign with a presence in live sporting events, such as National Football League, NCAA Football and local Major League Baseball games, as well as highly anticipated fall premieres and original programming, like \"Empire\", \"The Voice\", \"American Horror Story\", \"Fear the Walking Dead\" and \"Designated Survivor\". \"The Magnificent Seven\" grossed $93.4 million in the United", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18285221", "text": "heroes. Emma, in voice-over narration, reflects fondly on their noble sacrifice that made them \"magnificent\". The film was reported to be in the planning stages in 2012, with Tom Cruise set to star, and Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, and Matt Damon also up for roles. In December 2013, Cruise reportedly left the project while John Lee Hancock was brought in to write a new draft of the script. In early 2014, MGM chairman Gary Barber and his cohorts approached Antoine Fuqua to read the script by Richard Wenk and Nic Pizzolatto, while Fuqua was making \"Southpaw\". Fuqua has loved western", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18963600", "text": "2015 by Paramount Pictures. Slaughter also had supporting roles in the 2015 films \"American Ultra\" and \"The Big Short\". He played an NSA staffer in the science fiction film \"Midnight Special\", starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, and Kirsten Dunst. Jeff Nichols directed the film, released on March 18, 2016 by Warner Bros. Slaughter played Josiah in the western film \"The Magnificent Seven\", starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke. The film was directed by Antoine Fuqua, and was released on September 23, 2016 by Columbia Pictures. He also had a small role in 2017's \"Geostorm\". Billy Slaughter Billy Slaughter", "title": "Billy Slaughter" }, { "id": "18285231", "text": "the director refused to listen, instructing the actor to surprise him with it in his first scene, which resulted in a delighted Fuqua laughing so hard that he almost ruined the take. James Horner was tapped to write the film's score, but he died in June 2015, before filming could commence. In July 2015, Fuqua learned that Horner had already begun working on the music before his passing, and intended to present it as a surprise. Horner's friend and score producer Simon Franglen co-composed the score afterward. It was released on September 16, 2016 by Sony Classical, and is the", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "1756337", "text": "Young Philadelphians\" (1959), receiving a nomination for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. He next appeared as gunman Lee in \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960), a role he essentially reprised 20 years later in \"Battle Beyond the Stars\" (1980), both films adapted from filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese samurai epic, \"Seven Samurai\". Vaughn was the last surviving member of those who portrayed The Magnificent Seven. He played a different role, Judge Oren Travis, on the 1998-2000 syndicated television series \"The Magnificent Seven\". In the 1963-64 season, Vaughn", "title": "Robert Vaughn" }, { "id": "8138783", "text": "Guns of the Magnificent Seven Guns of the Magnificent Seven is a 1969 western, styled in the genre of a Zapata Western, the second sequel to the classic 1960 western action film, \"The Magnificent Seven\", itself based on Akira Kurosawa's \"Seven Samurai\" (1954). The film was directed by Paul Wendkos and produced by Vincent M. Fennelly. It stars George Kennedy as Chris Adams, the character Yul Brynner portrayed in the first two films. The additions to the cast to make up the \"new\" seven are Monte Markham, Bernie Casey, James Whitmore, Reni Santoni, Joe Don Baker and Scott Thomas. Each", "title": "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "8702044", "text": "on May 22, 2007. They also released a complete series set on May 13, 2008. Won Nominations The Magnificent Seven (TV series) The Magnificent Seven is an American western television series based on the 1960 movie, which was itself a remake of the Japanese film \"Seven Samurai\". The series premiered on January 3, 1998, and ran for two seasons on CBS, airing through July 3, 2000. The cast of \"The Magnificent Seven\" included Michael Biehn, Eric Close, and Ron Perlman. Robert Vaughn, who played one of the seven gunmen in the original 1960 movie, had a recurring role as a", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (TV series)" }, { "id": "18285225", "text": "leave because he was already booked to play \"Aquaman\". The cast were put through cowboy training before filming commenced, and were sent to boot camp in order to hone their skills. Denzel Washington's character, warrant officer and bounty hunter Sam Chisolm, was renamed from Chris Adams (played by Yul Brynner in the original film). It is Washington's first Western film. Washington did not watch Western films growing up, as it was the end of the Western era in cinema. Moreover, he and his siblings were barred from going to the movies by his father, a minister in a church. They", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18285229", "text": "veteran. Hawke was the first person to come on board after the project was finalized. He had stumbled upon Fuqua and Washington during the New York premiere of \"The Equalizer\" in 2014 and, upon learning that a remake was in the works, asked Fuqua to cast him. Like Washington, \"The Magnificent Seven\" marks the third collaboration between Hawke and Fuqua, after \"Training Day\" (2001) and \"Brooklyn's Finest\" (2009). Manuel Garcia-Rulfo described his character Vasquez, a bandit on the run from the law, as someone who loves gunfighting. Martin Sensmeier auditioned several times to land the role of Red Harvest, a", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "4754426", "text": "Lovell (former film critic for the \"San Jose Mercury News\"), was published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2008. John Sturges John Eliot Sturges (; January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include \"Bad Day at Black Rock\" (1955), \"Gunfight at the O.K. Corral\" (1957), \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960), \"The Great Escape\" (1963), and \"Ice Station Zebra\" (1968). In 2013, \"The Magnificent Seven\" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". He was not related to director Preston", "title": "John Sturges" }, { "id": "18285237", "text": "the Western genre had been struggling to attract wide audiences and accrue lucrative revenues, as it has shown considerable downfall in interest among patrons since the 1970s. The genre has had several recent box office flops, such as \"Cowboys & Aliens\" (2011) and \"The Lone Ranger\" (2013), but has also found success in films like \"True Grit\" (2010) and \"Django Unchained\" (2012). Its strong debut in North America was partly attributed to the presence of Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, whom industry analysts say are two of only a handful of movie stars today who consistently draws large audiences to", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "17261212", "text": "and Walker, and an initial release date was set. Principal photography began in Atlanta, Georgia, in September 2013, resumed in April 2014 and ended in July 2014, with other filming locations including Los Angeles, Colorado, Abu Dhabi, and Tokyo. \"Furious 7\" premiered in Los Angeles on April 1, 2015, and was theatrically released in the United States on April 3, 2015, playing in 3D, IMAX 3D, and 4DX internationally. Upon release, the film became a critical and commercial success, with praise being aimed at the film's action sequences and its tribute to Walker. The film grossed $397.6 million worldwide during", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "5153868", "text": "billion overseas for a worldwide total of $1.670 billion. He reprised the role in the sequel, \"\", which was released on June 22, 2018. His next film role was as Josh Faraday, a gambler, in \"The Magnificent Seven\", a remake of the 1960 Western with the same name, in which he starred alongside Denzel Washington. The film was released on September 23, 2016. Pratt's second 2016 release was \"Passengers\", a science fiction film which opened in December, and co-starred Jennifer Lawrence. Pratt played a character described as \"a mechanic, who wants to get off an Earth that no longer seems", "title": "Chris Pratt" }, { "id": "8702041", "text": "The Magnificent Seven (TV series) The Magnificent Seven is an American western television series based on the 1960 movie, which was itself a remake of the Japanese film \"Seven Samurai\". The series premiered on January 3, 1998, and ran for two seasons on CBS, airing through July 3, 2000. The cast of \"The Magnificent Seven\" included Michael Biehn, Eric Close, and Ron Perlman. Robert Vaughn, who played one of the seven gunmen in the original 1960 movie, had a recurring role as a crusading judge on the series. Seven men from the western United States band together and form the", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (TV series)" }, { "id": "8138792", "text": "on DVD on January 31, 2006, by MGM Home Entertainment. Guns of the Magnificent Seven Guns of the Magnificent Seven is a 1969 western, styled in the genre of a Zapata Western, the second sequel to the classic 1960 western action film, \"The Magnificent Seven\", itself based on Akira Kurosawa's \"Seven Samurai\" (1954). The film was directed by Paul Wendkos and produced by Vincent M. Fennelly. It stars George Kennedy as Chris Adams, the character Yul Brynner portrayed in the first two films. The additions to the cast to make up the \"new\" seven are Monte Markham, Bernie Casey, James", "title": "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "3623135", "text": "the premiere of the film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. \"The Nice Guys\" generated positive reviews and enjoyed moderate box office success. His next role was as Matthew Cullen in Antoine Fuqua's Western action film \"The Magnificent Seven\", playing Haley Bennett's character farmer husband. The film received mixed reviews from critics, although the cast and action sequences were praised, and grossed $162.4 million worldwide. He was cast as Monroe Stahr, the lead in Billy Ray's 2016 series \"The Last Tycoon\", a loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's last book \"The Last Tycoon\". Along with actors Kelsey Grammer, Lily", "title": "Matt Bomer" }, { "id": "18285220", "text": "shoots his hand as he draws, disarming him. A wounded Bogue retreats into the church, where Chisolm reveals that his family was lynched in 1867 by ex-Confederate soldiers, who were hired by Bogue to drive homesteaders out of Kansas. After imploring Bogue to repent, Chisolm tries to garrote him; Bogue retrieves a revolver he stashed in his boot, but Emma shoots him dead from the church doorway. The townspeople return to Rose Creek and thank Chisolm, Vasquez, and Red Harvest for their service as they ride off; while Faraday, Robicheaux, Billy, and Horne are buried near town and honored as", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "4754423", "text": "John Sturges John Eliot Sturges (; January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include \"Bad Day at Black Rock\" (1955), \"Gunfight at the O.K. Corral\" (1957), \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960), \"The Great Escape\" (1963), and \"Ice Station Zebra\" (1968). In 2013, \"The Magnificent Seven\" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". He was not related to director Preston Sturges. He started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932. During World War II, he directed documentaries", "title": "John Sturges" }, { "id": "429934", "text": "they pass the graves of their fallen comrades, Chris admits, \"The Old Man was right. Only the farmers won. We lost. We'll always lose.\" James Coburn was a great fan of the Japanese film \"Seven Samurai\", having seen it 15 times, and was hired through the help of co-star and former classmate Robert Vaughn, after the role of the expert gunslinger had been rejected by actors Sterling Hayden and John Ireland. Sturges was eager to cast Steve McQueen in the picture, having just worked with him on the 1959 film \"Never So Few\", but McQueen could not get a release", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "8138789", "text": "on hand to reprise part of original score of \"The Magnificent Seven\" and adding new elements. Mirisch also had his contract director Paul Wendkos direct. The producer of the film, Vincent M. Fennelly, had worked with Mirisch at Monogram and had produced the Clint Eastwood Western TV series \"Rawhide\". \"Guns of the Magnificent Seven\" did very well at the international box office. In a bit of unfortunate timing, as reviewer Stuart Galbraith IV remarked, \"The picture hit theaters in July 1969 – the very same time as 'The Wild Bunch'; the two films have somewhat similar stories but, needless to", "title": "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "8144405", "text": "The Magnificent Seven Ride The Magnificent Seven Ride (also known as The Magnificent Seven 4) is a 1972 western film and is the third and last sequel of the 1960 western, \"The Magnificent Seven\". It stars Lee Van Cleef as Chris Adams, succeeding Yul Brynner and George Kennedy in the role. It was directed by George McCowan. In southern Arizona Territory, former hired gun-turned-marshal Chris Adams rescues his old friend, former bounty hunter Jim Mackay from an ambush. After recovering from his long ride across the desert, Jim asks Chris to help him defend the small Mexican border town of", "title": "The Magnificent Seven Ride" }, { "id": "8146908", "text": "panned. Industry journal \"Variety\" called it \"unsatisfactory... plodding, cliche-ridden\". On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a critical approval of 13%, based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 3.6/10. Composer Elmer Bernstein received an Academy Award nomination for his score, a re-recorded version of his score for \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960). The film earned an estimated $1.6 million in rentals during its initial release. The film was re-released in 1969 and earned rentals of $1.3 million. Return of the Seven Return of the Seven (1966) (also called Return of the Magnificent Seven, and The Magnificent Seven 2) is the", "title": "Return of the Seven" }, { "id": "1659109", "text": "photography took place in Los Angeles, with the last scene filmed near Lancaster, California. The film's budget was $33 million. Released on September 22, 1995, by New Line Cinema, \"Seven\" was the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year, grossing over $327 million worldwide. It was well received by critics, who praised the film's darkness, brutality and themes. The film was nominated for Best Film Editing at the 68th Academy Awards, but lost to \"Apollo 13\". Soon-to-retire detective William Somerset is partnered with short-tempered but idealistic David Mills, who has recently moved to the city with his wife Tracy. Tracy confides to", "title": "Seven (1995 film)" }, { "id": "429950", "text": "that it ultimately made a profit. Three sequels were eventually made: \"Return of the Seven\" (1966), \"Guns of the Magnificent Seven\" (1969), and \"The Magnificent Seven Ride\" (1972). None were as successful as the original film. The film also inspired a television series, \"The Magnificent Seven\", which ran from 1998 to 2000. Robert Vaughn was a recurring guest star, a judge who hires the seven to protect the town in which his widowed daughter-in-law and his grandson live. The science fiction movie \"Battle Beyond the Stars\" was a remake of \"The Magnificent Seven\" set in space. A group of mercenaries,", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "18285224", "text": "story. \"There were a lot of black cowboys, a lot of Native Americans; Asians working on the railroads. The truth of the West is more modern than the movies have been.\" When Fuqua met studio executives to see possible actors for the film, he saw that they were all white. He found this to be problematic and instead wanted to make the cast diverse, so that audiences could identify with more of the characters. The actors were cast between December 2014 and July 2015. At one point, Jason Momoa was in talks to join the project, but had had to", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "19714629", "text": "acting. His first feature film was the sci-fi thriller \"Encounter\", which has yet to be released. He appeared in a leading role, as one of the \"seven\", in the 2016 feature film \"The Magnificent Seven\". In 2017, Sensmeier was cast in the lead role in the biopic, \"The Chickasaw Rancher\" portraying Montford Johnson, the man who built a ranching empire near the Chisholm Trail. Sensmeier joined the cast in the second (2018) season of the HBO television series \"Westworld\", in the recurring role of Wanahton. As of 2016, Sensmeier is in a relationship with Navajo Native American vocalist Kahara Hodges.", "title": "Martin Sensmeier" }, { "id": "17261249", "text": "theatrical runs, although this highly depends on many factors, including the release time and the competition around. It ended its theatrical run on July 24, 2015, playing in theaters for a total of 112 days and became the thirty-first highest-grossing film of all time, the fifth highest-grossing film of 2015, the highest-grossing film in \"The Fast and the Furious\" franchise, the second highest-grossing Universal film of 2015 (behind \"Jurassic World\" and \"Minions\"), and the fifth highest-grossing film distributed by Universal. Outside the US and Canada, the film became the third highest-grossing film, the highest-grossing Universal distributed film, and the highest-grossing", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "8144417", "text": "$21,000, though through network television the loss was cancelled out by the $1.05 million earned from syndication. The Magnificent Seven Ride The Magnificent Seven Ride (also known as The Magnificent Seven 4) is a 1972 western film and is the third and last sequel of the 1960 western, \"The Magnificent Seven\". It stars Lee Van Cleef as Chris Adams, succeeding Yul Brynner and George Kennedy in the role. It was directed by George McCowan. In southern Arizona Territory, former hired gun-turned-marshal Chris Adams rescues his old friend, former bounty hunter Jim Mackay from an ambush. After recovering from his long", "title": "The Magnificent Seven Ride" }, { "id": "8138791", "text": "York Times\", Howard Thompson noted the film suffered from poor production values, and a derivative plot, \"It's the same old iron-jawed, cowboy seven, with new actors and all the magnificence of a dead burro.\" The review in \"Variety\" was more kind. \"Guns of the Magnificent Seven is a handy follow-up to the 1960 original 'Magnificent Seven' and 'Return of the Seven'. It rises above a routine story line via rugged treatment and action builds to a blazing gunplay climax.\" \"Guns of the Magnificent Seven\" was released in theatres in the United States on July 30, 1969. The film was released", "title": "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "429925", "text": "was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". A poor village in Mexico is periodically raided for food and supplies by a gang of bandits led by Calvera (Eli Wallach). After the latest raid, during which the bandits kill a villager, the village leaders decide they have had enough, and on the advice of the village elder (Vladimir Sokoloff), they decide to fight back. Taking what few objects of value the village has, three villagers ride to a town just inside the United States border hoping to", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "18285223", "text": "\"to serve.\" Fuqua never imagined he would get a chance to direct a Western film, and when MGM called him to helm the picture, he hesitated at first, given the high regard he had for \"Seven Samurai\" and its director, Akira Kurosawa. Fuqua worked to create a diverse cast by incorporating actors of color such as African-American Denzel Washington, Korean Lee Byung-hun and Mexican Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and making sure the lead female Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett) did not conform to stereotypes. It is a decision Fuqua stated reflects historical reality more than it does any conscious attempt to update the", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18285216", "text": "him, Bogue has the church torched and kills a group of rebellious locals led by Matthew Cullen. Matthew's widow, Emma Cullen, and her friend Teddy Q. ride in search of bounty hunters to help liberate the town. They recruit Sam Chisolm, an African-American U.S. Marshal, who only expresses interest after hearing of Bogue's involvement. With the help of Emma and Teddy, Chisolm recruits gambler and outlaw Joshua Faraday, Mexican fugitive Vasquez, former Confederate marksman Goodnight \"Goody\" Robicheaux, Robicheaux's Korean traveling partner Billy Rocks, and legendary game hunter Jack Horne. The group encounters a Comanche warrior named Red Harvest, whom Chisolm", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "20469451", "text": "in \"Never So Few\" (1959), his first of three films with John Sturges. In 1960, McQueen achieved stardom when he co-starred alongside Yul Brynner in Sturges' western, \"The Magnificent Seven\", which was based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film \"Seven Samurai\". After a series of unsuccessful films for the next two years, McQueen teamed up with Sturges again in the war drama \"The Great Escape\" (1963), where he played Virgil Hilts, a World War II prisoner of war who along with fellow Allied POWs makes an escape from a high security prisoner-of-war camp. It emerged as one of the highest-grossing films", "title": "Steve McQueen filmography" }, { "id": "6054378", "text": "Magnificent Seven\", an American remake of \"Seven Samurai\" which featured Mifune. The project was announced in 1968 with Toshiro Mifune attached early on. Ted Richmond Productions were going to make it for Warner Bros-Seven Arts. Clint Eastwood was mentioned as a possible early co-star. The film was eventually made by France's Corona Films, headed by Robert Dorfman and Ted Richmond. Red Sun Red Sun (French: \"Soleil rouge\") is a 1971 French-Italian-Spanish Western film directed by Terence Young. The international cast stars American-born actor Charles Bronson, Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune, French actor Alain Delon and Swiss actress Ursula Andress. It was", "title": "Red Sun" }, { "id": "17261245", "text": "from $115 million to $150 million. It opened on Friday, April 3, 2015, across 4,004 theaters, including 365 IMAX theaters, which made it the widest opening for a \"Fast and Furious\" film and Universal's widest opening release ever (until first surpassed by \"Jurassic World\" and \"Minions\"). and earned $67.3 million, marking the tenth-biggest opening day. The film's Friday gross included a $15.8 million late-night run (which began at 7 p.m.), from 3,069 theaters, marking Universal's highest late-night run, of which $2.2 million came from IMAX showings, marking the third largest IMAX preview gross ever. Based on pure Friday gross (with", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "144079", "text": "(1952), \"Seven Samurai\" (1954) and \"Throne of Blood\" (1957). During Japanese cinema's 'Golden Age' of the 1950s, successful films included \"Rashomon\" (1950), \"Seven Samurai\" (1954) and \"The Hidden Fortress\" (1958) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's \"Tokyo Story\" (1953) and Ishirō Honda's \"Godzilla\" (1954). These films have had a profound influence on world cinema. In particular, Kurosawa's \"Seven Samurai\" has been remade several times as Western films, such as \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960) and \"Battle Beyond the Stars\" (1980), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as \"Sholay\" (1975) and \"China Gate\" (1998). \"Rashomon\" was also remade", "title": "History of film" }, { "id": "8146904", "text": "Return of the Seven Return of the Seven (1966) (also called Return of the Magnificent Seven, and The Magnificent Seven 2) is the first sequel to the western, \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960). Yul Brynner is the sole returning cast member from the first film, portraying Chris Adams. Robert Fuller assumes the role of Vin from Steve McQueen. The film was written by Larry Cohen and directed by Burt Kennedy, and features Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Jordan Christopher, Virgilio Teixeira and Julian Mateos (as Chico, replacing Horst Buchholz). Emilio Fernández is the villain. Fernando Rey portrays a priest. Rey was in", "title": "Return of the Seven" }, { "id": "429948", "text": "\"the film's most completely unbelieavable contrivance,\" but still thought that \"the film manages to be both impressive and likeable.\" Akira Kurosawa, for his part, was reportedly so impressed by the film that he presented John Sturges with a sword. At the 33rd Academy Awards, the score was nominated for Best Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, losing to Ernest Gold's score for \"Exodus\". Many decades later, however, the score for \"The Magnificent Seven\" was listed at 8 on the American Film Institute's list of the top 25 American film scores. The film has grown greatly in esteem since its", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "17261238", "text": "on November 30, 2013. The production resumed in April 2014. In October 2014, Universal revealed that the film was officially titled \"Furious 7\", and that the debut trailer would be released during an interactive fan event over social media. In the days leading up to the event, seven-second, behind-the-scenes videos were released, titled \"7 Seconds of 7\". On February 1, 2015, a new trailer featuring all-new footage debuted during Super Bowl XLIX. The film was originally scheduled for release on April 10, 2015, but it was announced that the film's release date had been brought forward a week to April", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "13619702", "text": "Danny Bravo Danny Bravo (born January 29, 1948) is an American former child actor and voice actor, best known as the voice of Hadji in the TV series \"Jonny Quest\". He was born Daniel Zaldivar in Los Angeles, California. After a handful of minor film appearances, he played the title role of an Indian boy training a race horse, to win money to build a shrine for his village, in the 1960 film \"For the Love of Mike\" (credited as \"Danny Zaidivar\"). The same year he had a minor role in the classic Western film \"The Magnificent Seven\". In 1962", "title": "Danny Bravo" }, { "id": "18285230", "text": "native Comanche warrior. He stayed off social media and studied intently in order to portray his part. Scotty Augere, who had previously worked on \"Dances with Wolves\", taught Sensmeier how to ride a horse bareback and rode with him two hours a day. Vincent D'Onofrio was cast as mountain man Jack Horn on the urging of co-stars Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke.<ref name=\"http://lrmonline.com/news/the-lrm-interview-vincent-donofrio-on-the-magnificent-seven-and-daredevil\"></ref> For the role, D'Onofrio developed a raw, high-pitched voice to give the impression of a man who has lived in the wilderness for years without speaking to people. When he asked to test the voice for Fuqua,", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "5122961", "text": "to Star-Kist tuna heiress Mary Bogdanovich from January 27, 1971 until her death on June 12, 1994. Later in 1994 he married June Deyer and remained with her until his death. Dexter died in Rancho Mirage, California, from emphysema, on December 11, 2002, at age 85, and is interred at Desert Memorial Park. Brad Dexter Brad Dexter (born Boris Michel Soso; April 9, 1917 – December 12, 2002) was an American actor and film producer. He is known for tough-guy and western roles including the 1960 film \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960) and producing several films for Sidney J. Furie such", "title": "Brad Dexter" }, { "id": "1292221", "text": "Steve McQueen Terence Steven McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor. He was called \"The King of Cool\", whose \"anti-hero\" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s and made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in \"The Sand Pebbles\". His other popular films include \"The Cincinnati Kid\", \"Love With the Proper Stranger\", \"The Thomas Crown Affair\", \"Bullitt\", \"The Getaway\", and \"Papillon\", as well as the all-star ensemble films \"The Magnificent Seven\", \"The Great Escape\", and \"The Towering Inferno\".", "title": "Steve McQueen" }, { "id": "423722", "text": "Guild listed \"Seven Samurai\" as the 33rd best-edited film of all time based on a survey of its members. In 2018, it was voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's poll of 209 critics in 43 countries. \"Seven Samurai\" was a technical and creative watershed that became Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry. Its influence can be most strongly felt in the western \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960), a film specifically adapted from \"Seven Samurai\". Director John Sturges took \"Seven Samurai\" and adapted it to the Old West, with the samurai replaced by", "title": "Seven Samurai" }, { "id": "469346", "text": "arguably continued through his 1968 opus \"Once Upon a Time in the West\", starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, and Jason Robards. \"The Magnificent Seven\" a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges was a remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film, \"Seven Samurai\". The 1960s were also about experimentation. With the explosion of light-weight and affordable cameras, the underground avant-garde film movement thrived. Canada's Michael Snow, Americans Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, and Jack Smith. Notable films in this genre are: \"Dog Star Man\"; \"Scorpio Rising\"; \"Wavelength\"; \"Chelsea Girls\"; \"Blow Job\"; \"Vinyl\"; \"Flaming Creatures\". Significant events in", "title": "1960s" }, { "id": "737099", "text": "\"Once More, with Feeling!\" (1960) and \"Surprise Package\" (1960) but public response was underwhelming. He made a cameo in \"Testament of Orpheus\" (1960). Although the public received him well in \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960) a Western remake of \"Seven Samurai\" for The Mirisch Company, the picture proved a disappointment upon its initial release in the U.S. However, it was hugely popular in Europe and has had enduring popularity. Its ultimate success led to Brynner signing a three-picture deal with the Mirisches. He made a cameo in \"Goodbye Again\" (1961). Brynner focused on action films. He did \"Escape from Zahrain\" (1962)", "title": "Yul Brynner" }, { "id": "9004734", "text": "Pizzolatto had signed a new deal with HBO through 2018. In August 2016, HBO announced a potential new series written by Pizzolatto and starring Robert Downey Jr., centering on the character of investigative attorney Perry Mason. Along with Richard Wenk, Pizzolatto co-wrote the screenplay for \"The Magnificent Seven\" (2016), a remake of the period-piece western \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960) (which was itself a western remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film \"Seven Samurai\"). Antoine Fuqua directed, and the film, released on September 23, 2016, starred Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Ethan Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard and others. The first", "title": "Nic Pizzolatto" }, { "id": "18391998", "text": "superhero movie, behind \"Furious 7\", and is Universal's highest-grossing live-action release since \"Jurassic World\" back in June 2015. Like many of its predecessors, \"The Fate of the Furious\" was released in the United States and Canada in the month of April, and like its immediate predecessor, occupied the lucrative Easter week holiday period slot, where it was expected to open with $100–125 million. It received the widest pre-summer release ever, at an estimated 4,304 venues, besting the 4,242 opening theater count of \"\" the previous March. The film made $10.4 million from Thursday night previews from 3,310 theaters, the second-highest", "title": "The Fate of the Furious" }, { "id": "1659125", "text": "two days and five further weeks to edit. The credits were hand-etched onto black scratchboard and manipulated by the camera, rather than using digital effects. The final sequence used a remix of \"Closer\" created by the band Coil. \"Seven\" was released on September 22, 1995, in 2,441 theaters where it grossed US$13.9 million on its opening weekend. It went on to gross $100.1 million in North America and $227.1 million in the rest of the world for a total of $327.3 million, making \"Seven\" the seventh-highest-grossing film in 1995. The film also spent 4 consecutive weeks in the top spot", "title": "Seven (1995 film)" }, { "id": "429942", "text": "score has frequently been quoted in the media and popular culture. Starting in 1963, the theme was used in commercials in the U.S. for Marlboro cigarettes for many years. A similar-sounding (but different) tune was used for Victoria Bitter beer in Australia. The theme was included in a scene of the James Bond film \"Moonraker\". Other uses include in the 2004 documentary film \"Fahrenheit 9/11\"; in the 2005 film \"The Ringer\"; in the 2015 film \"Hardcore Henry\"; as entrance music for the British band James, as well as episodes of \"The Simpsons\" that had a \"Western\" theme (mainly in the", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "17261244", "text": "million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues for the film. Worldwide, \"Furious 7\" was released across 810 IMAX theaters, which was the largest worldwide rollout in IMAX's history, Its worldwide opening of $397.6 million was the fifth-highest opening of all time. The film had an IMAX opening weekend total of $20.8 million. \"Furious 7\" also became the first of three films distributed by Universal Pictures with Jurassic World and Minions to earn more than $1 billion in its original run. Predictions for the opening weekend of \"Furious 7\" in the United States and Canada were continuously revised upwards, starting", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "18285238", "text": "theaters, and also to Fuqua's direction. \"Deadline Hollywood\" pointed out that the production budget also plays an important role in determining a film's success. By comparison to other recent Westerns, \"The Magnificent\" cost $90 million to make, before promotion and marketing costs are included. The site pointed out that \"the trick is keeping their budgets reasonable,\" unlike \"The Lone Ranger\", which cost $215 million to make, and \"Cowboys & Aliens\", which cost $163 million. The film became a financial recoverer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after the studio lost a great deal of money with \"Ben-Hur\" the previous month, and was the studio's", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "1292238", "text": "reviews. McQueen's character, Bill Ringa, was never more comfortable than when driving at high speed—in this case in a jeep—or handling a switchblade or a tommy gun. After \"Never So Few\", the film's director John Sturges cast McQueen in his next movie, promising to \"give him the camera\". \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960), in which he played Vin Tanner and co-starred with Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Robert Vaughn, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, became McQueen's first major hit and led to his withdrawal from \"Wanted: Dead or Alive\". McQueen's focused portrayal of the taciturn second lead catapulted his career. His added", "title": "Steve McQueen" }, { "id": "429935", "text": "from actor/producer Dick Powell, who controlled McQueen's hit TV series \"Wanted Dead or Alive\". On the advice of his agent, McQueen, an experienced race car driver, staged a car accident and claimed that he could not work on his series because he had suffered a whiplash injury and had to wear a neck brace. During the interval required for his \"recuperation\", he was free to appear in \"The Magnificent Seven\". Yul Brynner approached producer Walter Mirisch with the idea of remaking Kurosawa's famous samurai film. But once Mirisch had acquired the rights from Japan's Toho Studios, and finalized a distribution", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "8138790", "text": "say, Sam Peckinpah's landmark film is otherwise light years ahead of this unambitious rehash.\" \"Guns of the Magnificent Seven\" was filmed in Panavision at locales in Spain, as was the previous \"Return of the Seven\". Most \"Spaghetti Westerns\" were made on low budgets, using inexpensive locales resembling the semiarid landscapes of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. A popular setting was the Tabernas Desert in the Province of Almería in southeastern Spain, at the studios of Texas Hollywood, Mini Hollywood and Western Leone. \"Guns of the Magnificent Seven\" was not well received by critics. In his review for \"The New", "title": "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "18126407", "text": "Eli Wallach credits The following is the filmography and credits for American actor Eli Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014). He started acting in 1945 and is known for his film roles as Calvera in \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960), Tuco in \"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly\" (1966), Napoleon in \"The Adventures of Gerard\" (1970), Cotton Weinberger in \"The Two Jakes\" (1990), Don Altobello in \"The Godfather Part III\" (1990), Donald Fallon in \"The Associate\" (1996), Arthur Abbott in \"The Holiday\" (2006), Noah Dietrich in \"The Hoax\" (2007), and Julie Steinhardt in \"\" (2010), which was the", "title": "Eli Wallach credits" }, { "id": "1316142", "text": "James Coburn James Harrison Coburn III (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American actor. He featured in more than 70 films, largely action roles, and made 100 television appearances during a 45-year career, ultimately winning an Academy Award in 1999 for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in \"Affliction\". A capable, rough-hewn leading man, his toothy grin and lanky physique made him a perfect tough guy in numerous leading and supporting roles in westerns and action films, such as \"The Magnificent Seven\", \"Hell Is for Heroes\", \"The Great Escape\", \"Charade\", \"Our Man Flint\", \"In Like Flint\", \"Duck,", "title": "James Coburn" }, { "id": "429945", "text": "Far West. The \"Main Title\" was used as an intro tune on many nights of Bruce Springsteen's 2012 Wrecking Ball Tour. The theme was played as the E Street Band entered the stage, adding to the dramatic atmosphere in the stadium. Contemporary reviews were mixed to positive. Howard Thompson of \"The New York Times\" called the film a \"pallid, pretentious and overlong reflection of the Japanese original\"; according to Thompson, \"don't expect anything like the ice-cold suspense, the superb juxtaposition of revealing human vignettes and especially the pile-driver tempo of the first \"Seven\".\" According to \"Variety\" magazine's October 5, 1960,", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "18289046", "text": "dominated by two other adult-skewing pictures, \"The Magnificent Seven\" and \"Sully\". The film over-performed in the Gulf Coast region, and also did exceptionally well in IMAX, which earned $2.7 million of the film's total opening weekend. The film's opening weekend was regarded as underwhelming and a disappointment, given its hefty production budget, but dramas released during the fall, and Wahlberg's films, tend to have box office legs. \"Forbes\" called the opening \"good, but not great\", especially considering the solid reviews. While most adult-skewing films would generally be made on a conservative budget in order to protect themselves financially, \"Deepwater Horizon\"", "title": "Deepwater Horizon (film)" }, { "id": "18285241", "text": "rating of 6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \"\"The Magnificent Seven\" never really lives up to the superlative in its title – or the classics from which it draws inspiration – but remains a moderately diverting action thriller on its own merits.\" On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a score of 54 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews.\" Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average of \"A–\" on an A+ to F scale. IGN critic Terri Schwartz gave the film a 6.7/10 and summarized her review", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "17261213", "text": "its opening weekend, which is the sixth highest-grossing opening of all time. The film has grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of the franchise after just twelve days, the third highest-grossing film of 2015 and the seventh highest-grossing film of all time. A sequel, \"The Fate of the Furious\", was released on April 14, 2017. After defeating Owen Shaw and his crew and securing amnesty for their past crimes (depicted in \"Fast & Furious 6\"), Dominic \"Dom\" Toretto, Brian O'Conner and the rest of their team have returned to the United States to live normal lives", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "17261239", "text": "3, 2015 (the same release date from the 2009 film \"Fast & Furious\"). The official announcement in change of date was made in July 2014. \"Furious 7\" premiered at the SXSW Film Festival at 12:07 a.m. at Austin's Paramount Theatre on March 16, 2015. On March 27, 2015, a free standalone expansion for the video game \"Forza Horizon 2\", titled \"Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious\", was released to help promote the film. For its global premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on April 1, 2015, IMAX Corporation installed a new laser projection which was the", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "16243427", "text": "shows \"The Magnificent Seven\", \"Star Trek: Voyager\", and \"Martial Law\". He adapted his third novel, \"Salty\", into a feature film directed by Simon West and starring Antonio Banderas. The adaptation, \"Gun Shy\", was released on September 8, 2017. Smith was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and was raised in a suburb of Kansas City. Smith attended and received a B.A. from The Evergreen State College in 1979 and an MFA from the American Film Institute Conservatory in 1987. After his undergraduate work, Smith moved to Seattle, WA living in the Belltown neighborhood. He played guitar and \"sang\" in the art-punk band", "title": "Mark Haskell Smith" }, { "id": "429940", "text": "good (Brynner is one of the most legendary bald men in film history). The film was shot in Panavision, an anamorphic format. The film's score is by Elmer Bernstein. Along with the readily recognized main theme and effective support of the story line, the score also contains allusions to twentieth-century symphonic works, such as the reference to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, second movement, in the tense quiet scene just before the shoot out. The original soundtrack was not released at the time until reused and rerecorded by Bernstein for the soundtrack of \"Return of the Seven\". Electric guitar cover versions", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "17261209", "text": "Furious 7 Furious 7 (alternatively known as Fast & Furious 7 and Fast Seven) is a 2015 American action film directed by James Wan and written by Chris Morgan. It is the seventh installment in \"The Fast and the Furious\" franchise. The film stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris \"Ludacris\" Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Djimon Hounsou, Kurt Russell, and Jason Statham. \"Furious 7\" follows Dominic Toretto (Diesel), Brian O'Conner (Walker), and the rest of their team, who have returned to the United States to live normal lives after securing amnesty for their past crimes in", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "17261250", "text": "2015 film. On April 26, 2015, it became the third film in cinematic history to earn over $1 billion overseas. It opened on Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in 12 countries, earning $16.9 million (including previews from 22 countries). It opened in 33 more countries on Thursday, April 2, for a total of 45 countries, earning $43 million from 8,407 screens, marking Universal Pictures overseas' highest-grossing Thursday ever, and for a two-day total of $60 million. It added 20 more countries on Friday, April 3, earning $59.2 million from 9,935 screens in 63 countries, for a three-day total of $120.6 million.", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "18285218", "text": "right-hand-man McCann to assemble an army. Robicheaux, haunted by his experiences in the Civil War and fearing his own death if he kills again, leaves the town the night before Bogue's arrival; Emma volunteers to take his place. The next morning, Bogue and his army attack Rose Creek, which has been surrounded with traps and explosive networks. As the battle goes on, Faraday is shot and wounded by McCann, who is killed by Vasquez, the defensive line collapses, and Robicheaux returns to help. Bogue and his remaining men fire a Gatling gun from a hill leading into the town, killing", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "18285222", "text": "films since discovering the genre at the age of 12, and said that his grandmother, with whom he would watch films such as \"Shane\" (1953) and \"The Searchers\" (1956), was a key inspiration during the remake. Fuqua also tried to stay true to the DNA of \"Seven Samurai\", on which the film is based. Fuqua said he wanted to remake the film because the subject of tyranny and terrorism still prevails as it did in \"Seven Samurai\". He has said that there is therefore a strong need for people to step up and serve, which is what samurai means –", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "1583883", "text": "Horst Buchholz Horst Werner Buchholz (4 December 1933 – 3 March 2003) was a German actor and voice actor who appeared in more than sixty feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth he was sometimes called \"the German James Dean.\" He is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries for his role as Chico in \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960), as a communist in Billy Wilder's \"One, Two, Three\" (1961) and as Dr. Lessing in \"Life Is Beautiful\" (1997). Horst Buchholz was born in Berlin, the son of Maria Hasenkamp. He never knew his biological father, but took the surname", "title": "Horst Buchholz" }, { "id": "18285226", "text": "grew up watching biblical films instead, like \"King of Kings\" and \"The Ten Commandments\", though he did watch portions of the \"Rawhide\" and \"Bonanza\" shows. Washington did not watch the original film in preparation but has seen \"Seven Samurai\". This was an arbitrary decision of his, since he thought that watching the original would not help him; \"[Not seeing it] allowed me to do whatever I wanted to do. Instead of trying not to do what someone else did.\" As with his previous films, Washington would start off the day by kneeling down and praying, asking for forgiveness for all", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "12462489", "text": "United States premiere on 10 October 2008 in Honolulu at the Hawaii International Film Festival, where it won the Halekulani Golden Orchid Award for Best Narrative. Its premiere in the Continental United States was on 12 December 2008 in Los Angeles. On 14 November 2008, Cape No. 7's distributors announced that the film's official DVD/BD release date will be 19 December 2008. On 30 November 2008 the number of copies ordered in advance had reached 23,000, far surpassing the runner-up record holder in Taiwan's cinematic history, \"The Lion King\"'s 12,000 reservations in 1995. Cape No. 7 Cape No. 7 (;", "title": "Cape No. 7" }, { "id": "18285227", "text": "his wrongdoings. \"For me,\" he said, \"this is more than just making movies. It is a platform.\" Fuqua said that Washington, with whom he had twice collaborated, was his first choice to be cast irrespective of the role. The producers were skeptical whether Washington would take the job since it was a Western film, but Fuqua flew to New York City to negotiate with the actor, who accepted the offer. Chris Pratt described his character Josh Faraday as \"a bit of a fox, a trickster. He's a gambler, a drinker. He loves the ladies. But he's deadly in a fire", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "3703585", "text": "Joe Don Baker Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American character actor and a life member of the Actors Studio. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles as a mysterious cowboy drifter in \"Guns of the Magnificent Seven\" (1969), and as a deputy sheriff in the western \"Wild Rovers\" (1971), before receiving worldwide fame for his iconic roles as a mafia hitman in \"Charley Varrick\" (1973), real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the classic action film \"Walking Tall\" (1973), brute force detective Mitchell in \"Mitchell\" (1975), deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in \"Final", "title": "Joe Don Baker" }, { "id": "8138788", "text": "was preceded by \"Return of the Seven\" in 1966, and followed by \"The Magnificent Seven Ride\" in 1972. Executive producer Walter Mirisch felt that in the unpredictable market of filmgoers, there was safety in familiar material. Yul Brynner did not want to return to the role of Chris; the role was taken by George Kennedy, then at a height of popularity after winning his Academy Award for \"Cool Hand Luke\" (1967). Mirisch surrounded Kennedy with a strong cast, with Monte Markham giving a thinly-disguised Steve McQueen-like performance, in the same wardrobe McQueen wore in \"The Magnificent Seven\". Elmer Bernstein was", "title": "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "4340467", "text": "repeated. Lee has five films—\"Joint Security Area\", \"The Good, the Bad, the Weird\", \"Masquerade\", \"Inside Men\" and \"Master\"—on the list of highest-grossing films in South Korea. In the United States, he is known for portraying Storm Shadow in \"\" (2009) and its sequel \"\" (2013), and starring alongside Bruce Willis in \"Red 2\" (2013). He portrayed T-1000 in \"Terminator Genisys\" (2015) and Billy Rocks, a knife-wielding gunslinger, in \"The Magnificent Seven\" (2016). Lee was the first South Korean actor to present an Oscar at the annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles and is a member of the Academy of Motion", "title": "Lee Byung-hun" }, { "id": "17309209", "text": "Festival, Carmel International Film Festival, Virginia Film Festival Boulder International Film Festival, and Bermuda International Film Festival. It won the Audience Award for Best American Film at the Traverse City Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Narrative Feature at the Bermuda International Film Festival. IFC Films acquired the United States distribution rights to the film in June 2014. It was released theatrically on April 3, 2015 in New York and Los Angeles, grossing $18,006 from two locations on its opening weekend. It later expanded to 27 theaters and earned a total of $162,685 from six weeks in American theaters.", "title": "5 to 7" }, { "id": "11372061", "text": "Roger Birnbaum Roger Birnbaum (born November 14, 1950) is an American film producer who owns the company Spyglass Entertainment and was co-CEO and co-Chairman of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His two greatest box office hits as producer have been \"Rush Hour 2\" and \"The Tourist\" which grossed US$347,325,802 and US$278,346,189 at the worldwide box office respectively. In 2016, he produced \"The Magnificent Seven\". Currently, he is the founder of two production companies, Pin High Productions and Cave 76 Productions. Birnbaum was born to a Jewish family in Teaneck, New Jersey, the son of Arlene (née Steinlauf) and Norman Birnbaum. His father was a", "title": "Roger Birnbaum" }, { "id": "6938197", "text": "of the West\", which was written by screenwriter Philip Yordan. Yordan's novel had been adapted into a film called \"Gun Glory\", which starred Stewart Granger in the lead role. The producer of the film, Walter Mirisch (whose company produced the Academy Award-nominated films: \"The Magnificent Seven\" (1960), \"West Side Story\" (1961), \"The Great Escape\" (1963) and \"In the Heat of the Night\" (1967)), assigned director Anthony Mann to direct an adaptation of the film. Stewart Granger was originally considered for the lead role. James Stewart, who had worked with director Anthony Mann in eight movies, five of them westerns: \"Winchester", "title": "Man of the West" }, { "id": "18285228", "text": "fight.\" Like Washington, it is also Pratt's first Western film. Pratt began watching Western films at the age of 31, while filming in London, and credits Gary Cooper for revitalizing his perspective towards the genre. Fuqua, aware of Pratt's penchant towards Westerns, reached out to him, and Pratt called back in a few days singing \"Oh Shenandoah,\" to which Fuqua replied, \"He's it. He's Steve McQueen.\" Fuqua's approach to Ethan Hawke's character Goodnight Robicheaux, a former Confederate soldier, was to picture him as if Christopher Walken's character Nikanor \"Nick\" Chevotarevich in \"The Deer Hunter\" was an emotionally shattered Civil War", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "17261253", "text": "weekend, it topped the box office outside of North America for three consecutive weekends, until surpassed by \"\" in its fourth weekend. The film was a massive box office hit in China. It opened there on April 12 and set an all-time midnight run record with $8.05 million and an opening day record with $68.8 million. Its opening day included a record breaking $5 million from IMAX run (also breaking \"Transformers 4\"s former record of $3.4 million). Through its opening week (April 12–19), it earned $245.9 million. For the weekend alone, it took in $88.7 million from 5,454 screens (Friday", "title": "Furious 7" }, { "id": "1420596", "text": "portrayed two unpleasant characters in a row, first as the abusive father of a talented young baseball player in \"The Phenom\", then as the harsh husband of Maud Lewis (played by Sally Hawkins) in \"Maudie\". While some critics praised his unexpected turns, others felt that Hawke was \"miscast\" as a cruel figure. He subsequently reunited with \"Training Day\" director Antoine Fuqua and actor Denzel Washington for \"The Magnificent Seven\" (2016), a remake of the 1960 western film of the same name. In 2017, Hawke appeared in a cameo role in the science fiction film \"Valerian and the City of a", "title": "Ethan Hawke" }, { "id": "18391997", "text": "\"Jurassic World\" ($525.5 million). In IMAX, the film made $31.1 million from 1,079 screens to record the biggest IMAX April debut and the fourth-biggest overall. On April 30, it crossed the $1 billion threshold, becoming the second release of 2017 (following \"Beauty and the Beast\"), the fifth film released by Universal Pictures (after \"Jurassic Park\", \"Furious 7\", \"Jurassic World\", and \"Minions\") and the thirtieth film overall in cinematic history to gross over $1 billion. It is currently the third-highest-grossing film of the year, behind \"\", and \"Beauty and the Beast\", the second-biggest action film that is not a fantasy or", "title": "The Fate of the Furious" }, { "id": "18285243", "text": "score of 3 stars out of 4, and writing: \"Over all , this is a rousing, albeit sometimes cheesy, action-packed Western bolstered by Denzel Washington’s baddest-of-the-baddasses lead performance, mostly fine supporting work, and yep, some of the most impressively choreographed extended shootout sequences in recent memory.\" James Berardinelli of \"Reelviews\" gave the film a score of 2 stars out of 4, writing: \"The original \"The Magnificent Seven\" found a perfect balance between moments of grand triumph and the understated, solemn denouement. This \"The Magnificent Seven\" has the dour ending without the high points preceding it. With two better versions of", "title": "The Magnificent Seven (2016 film)" }, { "id": "3589511", "text": "him at the cost of her own life. This act of faith ends the apocalypse. Jesus appears in the hospital and tells Russell that Abby's sacrifice has refilled the Hall of Souls, ensuring that humanity will continue to survive. The film was released theatrically in the United States by TriStar Pictures in April 1988. It grossed $18,875,011 at the box office. It received negative reviews from critics, and holds a 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews. The film was released on DVD in the United States by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in 1998. Scream Factory released the", "title": "The Seventh Sign" }, { "id": "17261251", "text": "The film set all-time opening-day records in 15 countries including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, India, Indonesia, the Middle East and Thailand, and opening day records for Universal Pictures in 40 countries including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy and Mexico. Through Sunday, April 5, it earned a 4-day opening weekend total of $250.4 million from 10,683 screens in 64 countries, which is the fourth-highest international opening ever, in all which it reached first place at the box office It earned an IMAX opening weekend total of $7.5 million from 175 IMAX screens, breaking the record for the biggest April IMAX gross, previously", "title": "Furious 7" } ]

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The combined population of both China and India are estimated to be over 2.7 billion people . Asian population is projected to grow to 5.26 billion by 2050, or about 54% of projected world population at that time. Population growth in Asia was close to 1.2% p.a. , with highly disparate rates, many West Asian countries showing growth rates above 2%", "title": "Demographics of Asia" }, { "id": "11640199", "text": "Demographics of Asia The continent of Asia covers 29.4% of the Earth's land area and has a population of around 4.5 billion (), accounting for about 60% of the world population. The combined population of both China and India are estimated to be over 2.7 billion people . Asian population is projected to grow to 5.26 billion by 2050, or about 54% of projected world population at that time. Population growth in Asia was close to 1.2% p.a. , with highly disparate rates, many West Asian countries showing growth rates above 2% p.a., and notably Pakistan at 2.4% p.a., offset", "title": "Demographics of Asia" }, { "id": "9660", "text": "Asia Asia () is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. Asia covers an area of , about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations. Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population, but also dense", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "15955813", "text": "Demographics of the world Demographics of the world include population density, ethnicity, education level, health measures, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the human population of the planet Earth. The overall total population of the world is approximately 7.5 billion, as of March 2018. Its overall population density is 50 people per km² (129.28 per sq. mile), excluding Antarctica. Nearly two-thirds of the population lives in Asia and is predominantly urban and suburban, with more than 2.5 billion in the countries of China and India combined. The world's fairly low literacy rate (83.7%) is attributable to poverty. Lower", "title": "Demographics of the world" }, { "id": "9719", "text": "articles: Special topics: Lists: Asia Asia () is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres. It shares the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe and the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Europe and Africa. Asia covers an area of , about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area. The continent, which has long been home to the majority of the human population, was the site of many of the first civilizations. Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "2412322", "text": "the world average of 0.9% (doubling time 75 years). The population of Western Asia is estimated at about 4% of world population, up from about 39 million at the beginning of the 20th century, or about 2% of world population at the time. The most populous countries in the region are Turkey and Iran and, each with around 79 million people, followed by Iraq and Saudi Arabia with around 33 million people each. Numerically, Western Asia is predominantly Arab, Persian, Turkish, and the dominating languages are correspondingly Arabic, Persian and Turkish, each with of the order of 70 million speakers,", "title": "Western Asia" }, { "id": "1347531", "text": "Han Chinese The Han Chinese, Han people or simply Han (; ; ; or , , literally \"Han ethnicity\" or \"Han ethnic group\"), are an East Asian ethnic group and nation. They constitute the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 18% of the global population. The estimated 1.3 billion Han Chinese are mostly concentrated in mainland China (about 92% of the total population) and in Taiwan (about 95% of the population). Han Chinese also makes up three quarters of the total population of Singapore. The Han Chinese trace a common ancestry to the Huaxia, a name for the initial", "title": "Han Chinese" }, { "id": "5855694", "text": "significantly since the late 20th century. At four billion people in the beginning of the 21st century, the Asian population is predicted to grow to more than five billion by 2050. While its percent of the world population is not expected to greatly change, North American and European shares of the global population are expected to decline. The major driver is continued productivity growth in Asia, particularly in China and India, as living standards rise. Even without completely converging with European or North American living standards, Asia's might produce half of global GDP by 2050. This is a large shift", "title": "Asian Century" }, { "id": "9661", "text": "and large settlements, as well as vast barely populated regions. Its 4.5 billion people () constitute roughly 60% of the world's population. In general terms, Asia is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. The border of Asia with Europe is a historical and cultural construct, as there is no clear physical and geographical separation between them. It is somewhat arbitrary and has moved since its first conception in classical antiquity. The division of Eurasia into two continents reflects East-West cultural, linguistic, and ethnic", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "4171279", "text": "Jakarta (Indonesia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Lahore (Pakistan), Metro Manila (Philippines), Cebu (Philippines) and Bangkok (Thailand). Economy of Asia The economy of Asia comprises more than 4.5 billion people (60% of the world population) living in 49 different nation states. Six further states lie partly in Asia, but are considered to belong to another region economically and politically. Asia is the fastest growing economic region, as well as the largest continental economy by both GDP Nominal and PPP in the world. China, Japan, India, South Korea and Indonesia are currently the top five economies in Asia. Moreover, Asia is the site", "title": "Economy of Asia" }, { "id": "7589020", "text": "with the largest Muslim-majority. Indonesia is 87 percent Muslim and is the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, Pakistan is 97 percent Muslim, Bangladesh is 90 percent Muslim. India's Muslim population is 14.2% of the total, approximately 190 million people. Around 6-11 percent, some 6 - 12 million people in the Philippines are Muslim. Thailand's Muslims make up 4.6 percent of the population, or approximately 3 million people. Also Sri Lanka's Muslims make up 10 percent of the population, or approximately 2.5 million people Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Kuwait, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Maldives, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,", "title": "Religion in Asia" }, { "id": "4171214", "text": "Economy of Asia The economy of Asia comprises more than 4.5 billion people (60% of the world population) living in 49 different nation states. Six further states lie partly in Asia, but are considered to belong to another region economically and politically. Asia is the fastest growing economic region, as well as the largest continental economy by both GDP Nominal and PPP in the world. China, Japan, India, South Korea and Indonesia are currently the top five economies in Asia. Moreover, Asia is the site of some of the world's longest modern economic booms, starting from the Japanese economic miracle", "title": "Economy of Asia" }, { "id": "9701", "text": "40 years ago. <br> Hong Kong ranked highest among the countries grouped on the HDI (number 7 in the world, which is in the \"very high human development\" category), followed by Singapore (9), Japan (19) and South Korea (22). Afghanistan (155) ranked lowest amongst Asian countries out of the 169 countries assessed. Asia is home to several language families and many language isolates. Most Asian countries have more than one language that is natively spoken. For instance, according to Ethnologue, more than 600 languages are spoken in Indonesia, more than 800 languages spoken in India, and more than 100 are", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "11640200", "text": "by a growth rate below 0.5% p.a. in China. Economically, most of Asia is traditionally considered part of the Second World, with the significant exception of the industrialized First World countries of Israel, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. Asian countries in the G-20 major economies include China, Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Of these, Japan is also in the G8, and additionally China and India in the G8+5. The Human Development Index of Asian countries range from Low to Very High category. The table below shows the 10 highest and lowest countries according to their Human", "title": "Demographics of Asia" }, { "id": "9706", "text": "Christian sects mainly adhered to Assyrian people or Syriac Christians. Saint Thomas Christians in India trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. Islam, which originated in the Hejaz located in modern-day Saudi Arabia, is the second largest and most widely-spread religion in Asia with at least 1 billion Muslims constituting around 23.8% of the total population of Asia. With 12.7% of the world Muslim population, the country currently with the largest Muslim population in the world is Indonesia, followed by Pakistan (11.5%), India (10%), Bangladesh, Iran and Turkey. Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "9686", "text": "and the Balkans from the mid 16th century onwards. In the 17th century, the Manchu conquered China and established the Qing dynasty. The Islamic Mughal Empire and the Hindu Maratha Empire controlled much of India in the 16th and 18th centuries respectively. Asia is the largest continent on Earth. It covers 9% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the largest coastline, at . Asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four-fifths of Eurasia. It is located to the east of the Suez Canal and the Ural Mountains, and south of the", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "9704", "text": "from diaspora in Europe, North America, and other regions; though various diaspora communities persist worldwide. Jews are the predominant ethnic group in Israel (75.6%) numbering at about 6.1 million, although the levels of adherence to Jewish religion vary. Outside of Israel there are small ancient Jewish communities in Turkey (17,400), Azerbaijan (9,100), Iran (8,756), India (5,000) and Uzbekistan (4,000), among many other places. In total, there are 14.4–17.5 million (2016, est.) Jews alive in the world today, making them one of the smallest Asian minorities, at roughly 0.3 to 0.4 percent of the total population of the continent. Christianity is", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "8318413", "text": "and tripled to 1.8 billion by 2015. The majority of Muslims live in Asia and Africa. Approximately 62% of the world's Muslims live in Asia, with over 683 million adherents in Indonesia, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. In the Middle East, non-Arab countries such as Turkey and Iran are the largest Muslim-majority countries; in Africa, Egypt and Nigeria have the most populous Muslim communities. Most estimates indicate that the China has approximately 20 to 30 million Muslims (1.5% to 2% of the population). However, data provided by the San Diego State University's International Population Center to \"U.S. News & World Report\"", "title": "Islam" }, { "id": "190357", "text": "2017, an estimated 48 per cent of individuals regularly connect to the internet, up from 34 per cent in 2012. Mobile internet connectivity has played an important role in expanding access in recent years especially in Asia and the Pacific and in Africa. The number of unique mobile cellular subscriptions increased from 3.89 billion in 2012 to 4.83 billion in 2016, two-thirds of the world's population, with more than half of subscriptions located in Asia and the Pacific. The number of subscriptions is predicted to rise to 5.69 billion users in 2020. , almost 60 per cent of the world's", "title": "Internet" }, { "id": "9691", "text": "services, to stimulating diversification of rural household incomes and providing incentives to farmers to adopt natural resource conservation measures to enhance forest cover, replenish groundwater and use renewable energy. Asia has the largest continental economy by both GDP Nominal and PPP in the world, and is the fastest growing economic region. , the largest economies in Asia are China, Japan, India, Russia, South Korea, Indonesia and Turkey based on GDP in both nominal and PPP. Based on Global Office Locations 2011, Asia dominated the office locations with 4 of the top 5 being in Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "12390206", "text": "less than US$1.25 per day; approximately 870 million people (12.25%) are undernourished. 83% of the world's over-15s are considered literate. In June 2014, there were around 3.03 billion global Internet users, constituting 42.3% of the world population. The Han Chinese are the world's largest single ethnic group, constituting over 19% of the global population in 2011. The world's most-spoken first languages are Mandarin Chinese (spoken by 12.44% of the world's population), Spanish (4.85%), English (4.83%), Arabic (3.25%) and Hindustani (2.68%). The world's largest religion is Christianity, whose adherents account for 31% of the global population; Islam is the second-largest religion,", "title": "World population" }, { "id": "9695", "text": "located in the Pacific Rim, known as the Asian tigers, which have now all received developed country status, having the highest GDP per capita in Asia. It is forecasted that India will overtake Japan in terms of nominal GDP by 2020. By 2027, according to Goldman Sachs, China will have the largest economy in the world. Several trade blocs exist, with the most developed being the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Asia is the largest continent in the world by a considerable margin, and it is rich in natural resources, such as petroleum, forests, fish, water, rice, copper and silver.", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "9698", "text": "homes), slightly below North America with 3.4 million millionaires. Last year Asia had toppled Europe. Citigroup in The Wealth Report 2012 stated that Asian centa-millionaire overtook North America's wealth for the first time as the world's \"economic center of gravity\" continued moving east. At the end of 2011, there were 18,000 Asian people mainly in Southeast Asia, China and Japan who have at least $100 million in disposable assets, while North America with 17,000 people and Western Europe with 14,000 people. With growing Regional Tourism with domination of Chinese visitors, MasterCard has released Global Destination Cities Index 2013 with 10", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "12539089", "text": "Afro-Eurasia Afro-Eurasia (or Afroeurasia, or Eurafrasia, or nicknamed the World Island) is a landmass which comprises the continents of Eurasia (Europe and Asia) and Africa. The terms are portmanteaus of the names of its constituent parts. It is the largest contiguous landmass on Earth. Afro-Eurasia encompasses , a little over half the world's land area, and has a population of approximately 6 billion people, roughly 86% of the world population. The following terms are used for similar concepts: Although Afro-Eurasia is typically considered to comprise two or three separate continents, it is not a proper supercontinent. Instead, it is the", "title": "Afro-Eurasia" }, { "id": "12930721", "text": "Consideration for its admission was considered an \"exceptional circumstance\" by the Commonwealth Secretariat. The Commonwealth comprises 53 countries, across all continents. The members have a combined population of 2.3 billion people, almost a third of the world population, of which 1.26 billion live in India and 94% live in Asia and Africa combined. After India, the next-largest Commonwealth countries by population are Pakistan (180 million), Nigeria (170 million), Bangladesh (156 million), the United Kingdom (65 million), South Africa (55 million) Canada (36 million), Ghana (27 million) and Australia (24 million). Tuvalu is the smallest member, with about 10,000 people. The", "title": "Commonwealth of Nations" }, { "id": "15955814", "text": "literacy rates are common in South Asia, West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The world's largest ethnic group is Han Chinese with Mandarin being the world's most spoken language in terms of native speakers. Human migration has been shifting toward cities and urban centers, with the urban population jumping from 29% in 1950, to 50.5% in 2005. Working backwards from the United Nations prediction that the world will be 51.3 percent urban by 2010, Dr. Ron Wimberley, Dr. Libby Morris and Dr. Gregory Fulkerson estimated 23 May 2007 to be the first time the urban population outnumbered the rural population in", "title": "Demographics of the world" }, { "id": "9907612", "text": "in Asia, of whom 57.7% had become naturalized citizens. Additionally, 209,128 were Hispanic and Latino, of whom the largest population (101,654) claim Mexico as their nation of origin. The 2000 census recorded 11.9 million people (4.2 percent of the total population) who reported themselves as having either full or partial Asian heritage. The largest ethnic subgroups were Chinese (2.7 million), Filipino (2.4 million), Indian (1.9 million), Vietnamese (1.2 million), Korean (1.2 million), and Japanese (1.1 million). Other sizable groups included Cambodians (206,000), Pakistanis (204,000), Lao (198,000), Hmong (186,000), and Thais (150,000). About one-half of the Asian American population lived in", "title": "Demographics of Asian Americans" }, { "id": "16015176", "text": "Africa, 0.9 billion in Asia and only 0.2 billion in the rest of the world. Africa's share of global population is projected to grow from 16% in 2015 to 25% in 2050 and 39% by 2100, while the share of Asia will fall from 60% in 2015 to 54% in 2050 and 44% in 2100. The strong growth of the African population will happen regardless of the rate of decrease of fertility, because of the exceptional proportion of young people already living today. For example, the UN projects that the population of Nigeria will surpass that of the United States", "title": "Projections of population growth" }, { "id": "12390207", "text": "accounting for 24.1%, and Hinduism the third, accounting for 13.78%. In 2005, around 16% of the global population were reported to be non-religious. Approximately 4.38 billion people live in these ten countries, representing around 57% of the world's population as of July 2018. The tables below list the world's most densely populated countries, both in absolute terms and in comparison to their total populations. Population size fluctuates at differing rates in differing regions. Nonetheless, population growth is the long-standing trend on all inhabited continents, as well as in most individual states. During the 20th century, the global population saw its", "title": "World population" }, { "id": "12327985", "text": "Asian people Asian people or Asiatic people are people who descend from a portion of Asia's population. A variety of definitions and geographical data are presented by organizations and individuals for classifying the ethnic groups in Asia. In parts of anglophone Africa, especially East Africa and in parts of the Caribbean, the term \"Asian\" is more commonly associated with people of South Asian origin, particularly Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans. In South Africa the term Asian is used in the pan-continental sense. Due to the high number of Indians in South Africa, in official documentation the designation \"Indian\" is", "title": "Asian people" }, { "id": "12774467", "text": "counting India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives as the constituent countries – the Indian subcontinent covers about 4.4 million km (1.7 million sq mi), which is 10% of the Asian continent or 3.3% of the world's land surface area. Overall, it accounts for about 45% of Asia's population (or over 25% of the world's population) and is home to a vast array of peoples. The Indian subcontinent is a natural physical landmass in South Asia, geologically the dry-land portion of the Indian Plate, which has been relatively isolated from the rest of Eurasia. Given the difficulty of", "title": "Indian subcontinent" }, { "id": "390562", "text": "volcanic eruptions. Southeast Asia covers about 4.5 million km (1.7 million mi), which is 10.5% of Asia or 3% of earth's total land area. Its total population is more than floor(/1e6) million, about 8.5% of the world's population. It is the third most populous geographical region in the world after South Asia and East Asia. The region is culturally and ethnically diverse, with hundreds of languages spoken by different ethnic groups. Ten countries in the region are members of ASEAN, a regional organisation established for economic, political, military, educational and cultural integration amongst its members. The region, together with part", "title": "Southeast Asia" }, { "id": "9529058", "text": "Asia in 2010 was about 1.1 billion. Asia is home to the largest Muslim population, with West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia being particularly important regions. 62% of the world's Muslims live in Asia, with Indonesia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh having the four largest Muslim populations in the world. The spread of Islam outside of the Arabian peninsula and into other parts of the continent can be linked to the extensive trade routes connecting West Asia to China. In present time, it was said that India is the 1st or 2nd most populous Muslim country in the", "title": "Islam in Asia" }, { "id": "7919039", "text": "Africa Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories). At about 30.3 million km (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area. With /1e9 round 1 billion people as of , it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar", "title": "Africa" }, { "id": "9705", "text": "a widespread religion in Asia with more than 286 million adherents according to Pew Research Center in 2010, and nearly 364 million according to Britannica Book of the Year 2014. Constituting around 12.6% of the total population of Asia. In the Philippines and East Timor, Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion; it was introduced by the Spaniards and the Portuguese, respectively. In Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia and Asian Russia, Eastern Orthodoxy is the predominant religion. In the Middle East, such as in the Levant, Syriac Christianity (Church of the East) and Oriental Orthodoxy are prevalent minority denominations, which are both Eastern", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "12773940", "text": "largest of the six, five, or even four continents on Earth. In geology, Eurasia is often considered as a single rigid megablock. However, the rigidity of Eurasia is debated based on paleomagnetic data. Eurasia covers around , or around 36.2% of the Earth's total land area. The landmass contains well over 5 billion people, equating to approximately 70% of the human population. Humans first settled in Eurasia between 60,000 and 125,000 years ago. Some major islands, including Great Britain, Iceland, and Ireland, and those of Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia, are often included under the popular definition of Eurasia, in", "title": "Eurasia" }, { "id": "15955831", "text": "Sub-Saharan Africa, and also in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Some countries experienced negative population growth, especially in Eastern Europe mainly due to low fertility rates, high death rates and emigration. In Southern Africa, growth is slowing due to the high number of HIV-related deaths. Some Western Europe countries might also encounter negative population growth. Japan's population began decreasing in 2005. Population in the world increased from 1990 to 2008 with 1,423 million and 27% growth. Measured by persons, the increase was highest in India (290 million) and China (192 million). Population growth was highest in Qatar (174%)", "title": "Demographics of the world" }, { "id": "190385", "text": "requested languages on the World Wide Web are Chinese (25%), Spanish (8%), Japanese (5%), Portuguese and German (4% each), Arabic, French and Russian (3% each), and Korean (2%). By region, 42% of the world's Internet users are based in Asia, 24% in Europe, 14% in North America, 10% in Latin America and the Caribbean taken together, 6% in Africa, 3% in the Middle East and 1% in Australia/Oceania. The Internet's technologies have developed enough in recent years, especially in the use of Unicode, that good facilities are available for development and communication in the world's widely used languages. However, some", "title": "Internet" }, { "id": "15955817", "text": "a world population of 9.15 billion in 2050, which is a 32.69% increase from 2010 (6.89 billion). Historical migration of human populations begins with the movement of \"Homo erectus\" out of Africa across Eurasia about a million years ago. \"Homo sapiens\" appear to have occupied all of Africa about 150,000 years ago, moved out of Africa 50,000 - 60,000 years ago, and had spread across Australia, Asia and Europe by 30,000 years BC. Migration to the Americas took place 20,000 to 15,000 years ago, and by 2,000 years ago, most of the Pacific Islands were colonized. Until c. 10,000 years", "title": "Demographics of the world" }, { "id": "15955845", "text": "predominantly in the Americas and Spain. Arabic is spoken by around 280 million people. Hindi is spoken by about 200 million speakers, mostly in India. Bengali is spoken by around 230 million people, predominantly in India and Bangladesh. Portuguese is spoken by about 230 million speakers in Portugal, Brazil, East Timor, and Southern Africa. There are numerous other languages, grouped into nine major families: There are also hundreds of non-verbal sign languages. Total population: 83.7% over the age of 15 can read and write, 88.3% male and 79.2% female note: over two-thirds of the world's 793 million illiterate adults are", "title": "Demographics of the world" }, { "id": "12390191", "text": "of around 363 million (5%), and Oceania, the least populated region, has about 41 million inhabitants (0.5%). Though it is not permanently inhabited by any fixed population, Antarctica has a small, fluctuating international population based mainly in polar science stations. This population tends to rise in the summer months and decrease significantly in winter, as visiting researchers return to their home countries. Estimates of world population by their nature are an aspect of modernity, possible only since the Age of Discovery. Early estimates for the population of the world date to the 17th century: William Petty in 1682 estimated world", "title": "World population" }, { "id": "9689", "text": "across much of the Middle East. The Yangtze River in China is the longest river in the continent. The Himalayas between Nepal and China is the tallest mountain range in the world. Tropical rainforests stretch across much of southern Asia and coniferous and deciduous forests lie farther north. A survey carried out in 2010 by global risk analysis farm Maplecroft identified 16 countries that are extremely vulnerable to climate change. Each nation's vulnerability was calculated using 42 socio, economic and environmental indicators, which identified the likely climate change impacts during the next 30 years. The Asian countries of Bangladesh, India,", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "12372698", "text": "Union are, regardless of location, grouped in the East. Other than Asia and some parts of Africa, Europe has successfully absorbed almost all of the societies of Oceania, and the Americas into the Western world, Turkey, the Philippines, Israel, and Japan, which are geographically located in the Eastern world, are considered at least partially westernized due to the cultural influence of Europe. Although the concept of a united Asian people and not mean Asian race is even more debatable due to the fact that most of the world link the identity of Asian only to the people of South, East", "title": "Eastern world" }, { "id": "66355", "text": "17% in 1801 to 72% in 1891. In 1900, 15% of the world population lived in cities. The cultural appeal of cities also plays a role in attracting residents. Urbanization rapidly spread across the Europe and the Americas and since the 1950s has taken hold in Asia and Africa as well. The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, reported in 2014 that for the first time more than half of the world population lives in cities. Latin America is the most urban continent, with four fifths of its population living in cities, including one", "title": "City" }, { "id": "19099585", "text": "2017, dropping from a 10 per cent growth rate in 2012. The number of unique mobile cellular subscriptions increased from 3.89 billion in 2012 to 4.83 billion in 2016, two-thirds of the world’s population, with more than half of subscriptions located in Asia and the Pacific. The number of subscriptions is predicted to rise to 5.69 billion users in 2020. As of 2016, almost 60 per cent of the world’s population had access to a 4G broadband cellular network, up from almost 50 per cent in 2015 and 11 per cent in 2012. The limits that users face on accessing", "title": "Access to information" }, { "id": "19183770", "text": "Education in Asia Enrollment in educational institutions varies considerably across the continent of Asia, as evidenced by data maintained by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). UNESCO's measurement categories for education are used in the context of international development work, and are adopted by the World Bank in its EdStats database. The United Nations issues a Human Development Index for each nation, of which the Education Index is a component. The Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) is a component of the Education Index. It expresses the number of students enrolled in a given level of education as a percentage", "title": "Education in Asia" }, { "id": "66623", "text": "China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion. Covering approximately , it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area, depending on the source consulted. Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. China emerged as one of the world's earliest civilizations, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River", "title": "China" }, { "id": "7589017", "text": "40% of its population. Christianity is also a large minority religion in Kazakhstan (26%), Singapore (18.3%), and Kyrgyzstan (17%). Asian countries with large Christian populations are Philippines (84 million), China (68 million), India (24 million), Indonesia (23 million), Kazakhstan (16.5 million), South Korea (15 million), Vietnam (7 million), Georgia (4.6 million), Armenia (3.2 million), Malaysia (2.6 million), Japan (2.5 million), Pakistan (2.5 million), Uzbekistan (2.5 million), Syria (1.8 million), Sri Lanka (1.5 million), East Timor (1.2 million) and Taiwan (one million). There are still large ancient communities of Middle Eastern Christians and Arab Christians in Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria,", "title": "Religion in Asia" }, { "id": "17209957", "text": "stages, Iran wound up defeated 3–1. The 2018 FIFA World Cup, held in Russia, marked the first time five Asian teams qualified for the FIFA World Cup. Only Japan advanced past the group stage, a feat aided by fair-play points in tie-breaking, at the expense of Senegal. Aside from Australia, who only got a draw and two defeats, the other three had at least one win: Saudi Arabia got a 2-1 comeback over Egypt, Iran defeated Morocco, and in the biggest upset, South Korea beat the defending champions Germany. In the round of 16, Japan surprised a favored Belgium and", "title": "Asian nations at the FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "15955846", "text": "found in only eight countries (Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Pakistan); of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women; extremely low literacy rates are concentrated in three regions, the Arab states, South and West Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, where around one-third of the men and half of all women are illiterate (2005-09 est.) As of 2008, the school life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) for a man or woman is 11 years. Demographics of the world Demographics of the world include population density, ethnicity, education level, health measures, economic status, religious affiliations and other", "title": "Demographics of the world" }, { "id": "13041638", "text": "Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka form South Asia. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic cooperation organisation in the region which was established in 1985 and includes all eight nations comprising South Asia. South Asia covers about 5.2 million km (2 million mi), which is 11.71% of the Asian continent or 3.5% of the world's land surface area. The population of South Asia is about 1.891 billion or about one fourth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and the most densely populated geographical region in the world. Overall, it accounts", "title": "South Asia" }, { "id": "12390199", "text": "which caused large-scale population losses (approximately 60 million excess deaths). After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's population declined significantly – from 150 million in 1991 to 143 million in 2012 – but by 2013 this decline appeared to have halted. Many countries in the developing world have experienced extremely rapid population growth since the early 20th century, due to economic development and improvements in public health. China's population rose from approximately 430 million in 1850 to 580 million in 1953, and now stands at over 1.3 billion. The population of the Indian subcontinent, which was about 125 million", "title": "World population" }, { "id": "111123", "text": "that the world's human population will reach 9.2 billion in 2050. Most of the growth is expected to take place in developing nations. Human population density varies widely around the world, but a majority live in Asia. By 2020, 60% of the world's population is expected to be living in urban, rather than rural, areas. It is estimated that one-eighth of Earth's surface is suitable for humans to live on – three-quarters of Earth's surface is covered by oceans, leaving one-quarter as land. Half of that land area is desert (14%), high mountains (27%), or other unsuitable terrains. The northernmost", "title": "Earth" }, { "id": "12537490", "text": "worship, and Chinese folk religion in Greater China, Buddhism and Shintoism in Japan, and Christianity, Buddhism, and Sindoism in Korea. Shamanism is also prevalent among Mongols and other indigenous populations of northern East Asia such as the Manchus. East Asians comprise around /1e9 round 1 billion people, making up about 38% of the population in Continental Asia and 22% of the global population. The region is home to major world metropolises such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, and Tokyo. Although the coastal and riparian areas of the region form one of the world's most populated places, the population", "title": "East Asia" }, { "id": "7496170", "text": "Kingdom (9 million) and the United Arab Emirates (8 million). Between 2000 and 2015, Asia added more international migrants than any other major area in the world, gaining 26 million. Europe added the second largest with about 20 million. In most parts of the world, migration occurs between countries that are located within the same major area. In 2015, the number of international migrants below the age of 20 reached 37 million, while 177 million are between the ages of 20 and 64. International migrants living in Africa were the youngest, with a median age of 29, followed by Asia", "title": "Immigration" }, { "id": "7496074", "text": "have populations in excess of 10 million inhabitants. Greater Tokyo already has 38 million, more than the entire population of Canada (at 36.7 million). According to the \"Far Eastern Economic Review\", Asia alone will have at least 10 'hypercities' by 2025, that is, cities inhabited by more than 19 million people, including Jakarta (24.9 million people), Dhaka (25 million), Karachi (26.5 million), Shanghai (27 million) and Mumbai (33 million). Lagos has grown from 300,000 in 1950 to an estimated 15 million today, and the Nigerian government estimates that city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015. Chinese experts", "title": "Human overpopulation" }, { "id": "9693", "text": "world's largest economy during 0 BCE and 1000 BCE. China was the largest and most advanced economy on earth for much of recorded history, until the British Empire (excluding India) overtook it in the mid-19th century. For several decades in the late twentieth century Japan was the largest economy in Asia and second-largest of any single nation in the world, after surpassing the Soviet Union (measured in net material product) in 1986 and Germany in 1968. (NB: A number of supernational economies are larger, such as the European Union (EU), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or APEC). This", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "19183776", "text": "tertiary education. Indonesia's GER increased from 26% to 51% for pre-primary, from 61% to 83% for secondary, and from 15% to 32% for tertiary education. Education in Asia Enrollment in educational institutions varies considerably across the continent of Asia, as evidenced by data maintained by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). UNESCO's measurement categories for education are used in the context of international development work, and are adopted by the World Bank in its EdStats database. The United Nations issues a Human Development Index for each nation, of which the Education Index is a component. The Gross Enrollment", "title": "Education in Asia" }, { "id": "5619654", "text": "UTC+08:00 UTC+08:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +08:00. In ISO 8601 the associated time would be written as . With an estimated population of 1.708 billion living within the time zone, roughly 24% of the world population, it is the most populous time zone in the world, as well as a possible candidate for ASEAN Common Time. This time zone is used in all Chinese-speaking countries, giving international Chinese websites the same time. The southern half of Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) was formerly part of this time zone prior to the communist takeover of the", "title": "UTC+08:00" }, { "id": "11565580", "text": "13 October 2016. As of April 2017, of the states that are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, three are in Europe, twelve in North America and the Caribbean, one in South America, nineteen in Africa, seven in Asia, and eleven in Oceania. There are seven former members, four of which no longer exist as independent entities (but form part of current member states). The members have a combined population of 2.4 billion, almost a third of the world population, of whom 1.21 billion live in India, and 95% live in Asia and Africa combined. Currently sixteen of the member", "title": "Member states of the Commonwealth of Nations" }, { "id": "4171241", "text": "that the interchangeability of the Euro, USD, and GBP are heavily influenced by Asian central banks. Some economists in the western countries see this as a bad thing, prompting their respective governments to take action. According to the World Bank, China surpassed the United States and the European Union to become the world's largest economy by early 2015, followed by India. Both countries are expected to rank in the same positions between 2020 and 2040. Moreover, based on Hurun Report, for the first time in 2012 Asia surpassed North America in amount of billionaires. More than 40 percent or 608", "title": "Economy of Asia" }, { "id": "17041525", "text": "Southeast Asian Internet penetration today is around 38 percent among the 15 and over population, with the exception of Singapore where the use of Internet is widespread (at around 67 percent). This number is comparatively low to the rest of the world with Australia (at 78.9 percent), United States (at 78.1 percent), Germany (at 83.0 percent) and Japan (at 79.5 percent). Others hurdles to overcome are cultural. For example, the number of credit card owners in Asia, and those who may are used to payment other than in cash, is small. Trust of the bank system and the electronic payments", "title": "E-commerce in Southeast Asia" }, { "id": "1131824", "text": "Africa and the Americas (at 17 and 16 per 100,000 population, respectively) is more than double the global average (6.9 per 100,000), whereas in Asia, Europe and Oceania (between 3 and 4 per 100,000) it is roughly half\". UNODC, in its 2013 global report, estimated the total number of homicides worldwide dropped to 437,000 in 2012. Americas accounted for 36 percent of all homicides globally, Africa 21 percent, Asia 38 percent, Europe five percent and Oceania 0.3%. The world's average homicide rate stood at 6.2 per 100,000 population in 2012, but Southern Africa region and Central America have intentional homicide", "title": "Homicide" }, { "id": "15968150", "text": "billion as the price of steel maker ArcelorMittal fell sharply. As a result, he failed to make the top 10 for the first time since 2004 and lost his title of richest Asian to Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing. A record total of 1,226 people made the 2012 list, representing 58 countries. Of those, 126 were newcomers to the list and 104 were women. The United States had the greatest number of billionaires with 425. Russia had 96 people on the list, while China had 95. Georgia, Morocco, and Peru were newly represented on the list. Falling stock prices in Asia", "title": "The World's Billionaires" }, { "id": "9907611", "text": "5.6 percent of the total American population. The largest ethnic groups represented in the census were Chinese (3.79 million), Filipino (3.41 million), Indian (3.18 million), Vietnamese (1.73 million), Korean (1.7 million), and Japanese (1.3 million). Other sizable ethnic groups include Pakistani (409,000), Cambodian (276,000), Hmong (260,000), Thai (237,000), Laotian (232,000), Bangladeshi (147,000), and Burmese (100,000). The total population of Asian Americans grew by 46 percent from 2000 to 2010 according to the Census Bureau, which constituted the largest increase of any major racial group during that period. In 2010, there were an estimated 11,284,000 foreign born individuals who were born", "title": "Demographics of Asian Americans" }, { "id": "15955844", "text": "industry. 8.7% (2010 est.) 8.2% (2009 est.) note: 30% combined unemployment and underemployment in many non-industrialized countries; developed countries typically 4%-12% unemployment (2007 est.) The demonym for Earth's inhabitants is Earthling or, as either a noun or an adjective, Terran. Worldwide, English is used widely as a lingua franca and can be seen to be the dominant language at this time. The world's largest language by native speakers is Mandarin Chinese which is a first language of around 960 million people, or 12.44% of the population, predominantly in Greater China. Spanish is spoken by around 330 to 400 million people,", "title": "Demographics of the world" }, { "id": "12327997", "text": "with the race concept in its actual application\", since \"Asian individuals [can be] born in the same geographical region\" as other races. Michael Bamshad et al. of the Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah, found that \"107 sub-Saharan African, 67 East Asian and 81 Western European\" individuals genetically clustered with \"ancestry from a single population\" at levels of \"almost 100%\", but among \"263 individuals from South India\" the \"proportion of ancestry shared with Europeans and Asians varies widely\". Sandra Soo-Jin Lee (Korean:이수진) of the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University, United States of America, said that", "title": "Asian people" }, { "id": "19183772", "text": "the same as for the column to the left, the year is omitted. As Asian nations compete in the global economy and aspire to join the developed nations, there is concern that rates of education may not be keeping pace. By comparison, Gross Enrollment Rates for North America and Western Europe in 2013 were 84.3% for pre-primary, 101.1% for primary, 105.1% for secondary, and 76.6% for tertiary education. Many Asian nations lack the capacity to scale up their enrollment to meet the escalating demand. There is also concern about a quality gap, as nations seek to scale up their enrollment", "title": "Education in Asia" }, { "id": "484466", "text": "Post-war economic miracle. Soviet and Western competition led to the Korean War, which created two separate nations that exist in present times. The end of the Cold War and Globalization brought South Korea, and the People's Republic of China into the world economy. Since 1980, the economies and living standards of South Korea and China have increased exponentially. In contemporary times, East Asia is a pivotal world region influencing the world as a whole in its own right. In 2010, East Asia's population made up approximately 24.4% of the world's population. Homo erectus (\"upright man\") is believed to have lived", "title": "History of East Asia" }, { "id": "7496171", "text": "(35 years), and Latin America/Caribbean (36 years), while migrants were older in Northern America (42 years), Europe (43 years), and Oceania (44 years). Nearly half (43%) of all international migrants originate in Asia, and Europe was the birthplace of the second largest number of migrants (25%), followed by Latin America (15%). India has the largest diaspora in the world (16 million people), followed by Mexico (12 million) and Russia (11 million). A 2012 survey by Gallup found that given the opportunity, 640 million adults would migrate to another country, with 23% of these would-be immigrant choosing the United States as", "title": "Immigration" }, { "id": "15364888", "text": "Climate of Asia The Climate of Asia is wet across southeast sections, and dry across much of the interior. Some of the largest daily temperature ranges on Earth occur in western sections of Asia. The monsoon circulation dominates across southern and eastern sections, due to the presence of the Himalayas forcing the formation of a thermal low which draws in moisture during the summer. Southwestern sections of the continent experience low relief as a result of the subtropical high pressure belt; they are hot in the summer, warm to cool in winter, and may snow at higher altitudes. Siberia is", "title": "Climate of Asia" }, { "id": "4911533", "text": "which explains how genetic data has been used to trace human migrations over the past 50,000 years, when modern humans first migrated outside of Africa. According to Wells, one group took a southern route and populated southern India and southeast Asia, then Australia. The other group, accounting for 90% of the world's non-African population (some 5.4 billion people as of 2014), took a northern route, eventually peopling most of Eurasia (largely displacing the aboriginals in southern India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia in the process), North Africa and the Americas. Wells also wrote and presented the 2003 PBS/National Geographic documentary", "title": "Spencer Wells" }, { "id": "1367390", "text": "two minor. Theoretically, except for the position of the Emperor, nothing was hereditary. China's majority ethnic group, the Han Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group and nation. They constitute approximately 92% of the population of China, 95% of Taiwan (Han Taiwanese), 76% of Singapore, 23% of Malaysia, and about 17% of the global population, making them the world's largest ethnic group, numbering over 1.3 billion people. In modern China, there are 56 officially labelled ethnic groups. Throughout Chinese history, many ethnic groups have merged with the Han Chinese, retained their distinct ethnic identities, or faded away. At the same", "title": "Chinese culture" }, { "id": "12390200", "text": "in 1750, increased to 389 million in 1941; today, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are collectively home to about billion people. Java had about 5 million inhabitants in 1815; its present-day successor, Indonesia, now has a population of over 140 million. In just one hundred years, the population of Brazil decupled (x10), from about 17 million in 1900, or about 1% of the world population in that year, to about 176 million in 2000, or almost 3% of the global population in the very early 21st century. Mexico's population grew from 13.6 million in 1900 to about 112 million in 2010.", "title": "World population" }, { "id": "2412309", "text": "Western Asia Western Asia, West Asia, Southwestern Asia or Southwest Asia is the westernmost subregion of Asia. The concept is in limited use, as it significantly overlaps with the Middle East (or the Near East), the main difference usually being the exclusion of the majority of Egypt (which would be counted as part of North Africa) and the inclusion of the Caucasus. The term is sometimes used for the purposes of grouping countries in statistics. The total population of Western Asia is an estimated 300 million as of 2015. Although the term \"Western Asia\" is mostly used as a convenient", "title": "Western Asia" }, { "id": "66761", "text": "will also collaboratively host the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, which will make Beijing the first city in the world to hold both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion. Covering approximately , it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area, depending on the source consulted. Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai,", "title": "China" }, { "id": "10132716", "text": "Wind power in Asia Wind power in Asia is an important component in the Asian energy industry and one of the key sources of renewable energy in the region. As of April 2016, the installed capacity of wind power in Asia (excluding the Middle East) totalled 175,831 MW. Asia is the fastest growing region in terms of wind energy, having increased its installed capacity by 33,858 MW in 2005 (a 24% increase over 2014). China, with 145,362 MW of installed capacity, is the world's largest generator of electricity from wind energy. India is the second largest in Asia with an", "title": "Wind power in Asia" }, { "id": "5855722", "text": "world's largest economies in the 21st century. The bank chose these states, all with promising outlooks for investment and future growth, on 12 December 2005. At the end of 2011, the four major countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) also known as MINT, made up 73 percent of all Next Eleven GDP. BRIC GDP was $13.5 trillion, while MIKT GDP at almost 30 percent of that: $3.9 trillion. Asia's growth is not guaranteed. Its leaders will have to manage multiple risks and challenges, particularly: Despite forecasts that predict the rising economic and political strength of Asia, the idea of an", "title": "Asian Century" }, { "id": "5855689", "text": "Asian Century The Asian Century is the projected 21st-century dominance of Asian politics and culture, assuming certain demographic and economic trends persist. The concept of Asian Century parallels the characterization of the 19th century as Britain's Imperial Century, and the 20th century as the American Century. A 2011 study by the Asian Development Bank found that an additional 3 billion Asians could enjoy living standards similar to those in Europe today, and the region could account for over half of global output by the middle of this century. It warned, however, that the Asian Century is not preordained. The growing", "title": "Asian Century" }, { "id": "190282", "text": "are the highest forms of government recognition for athletic achievement; the Dronacharya Award is awarded for excellence in coaching. Overview Etymology History Geography Biodiversity Politics Foreign relations and military Economy Demographics Culture Government General information India India (IAST: ), also known as the Republic of India (IAST: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1,200 crore (1.2 billion) people), and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on", "title": "India" }, { "id": "310081", "text": "well as the problems resulting from political corruption. Most immigrants were illiterate peasants and manual labourers, called \"coolies\" by analogy to the same pattern of immigration from India, who emigrated to work in countries such as the Americas, Australia, South Africa and Southeast Asia. Urbanization increased in speed following the initiation of the reform and opening policy. By the end of 2014, 54.7% of the total population lived in urban areas, a rate that rose from 26% in 1990. Demographic statistics according to the World Population Review. The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.", "title": "Demographics of China" }, { "id": "4917965", "text": "in the eastern parts of the Indian subcontinent. Over 60% of the global Muslim population is in Asia. About 25% of Muslims live in the South Asian region, mainly in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and the Maldives. If Afghanistan is counted, this number is even higher. The world's largest single Muslim community (within the bounds of one nation) is in Indonesia. There are also significant Muslim populations in the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, China, Russia, Central Asia and West Asia. In the Philippines and East Timor, Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion; it was introduced by the Spaniards and the Portuguese, respectively.", "title": "Culture of Asia" }, { "id": "1674012", "text": "by the Pacific Ocean and North America. North Asia covers an area of approximately or 8.8% of the earth's land area, or 1.5 times the size of Brazil. It is the largest subregion of Asia by area, but is also the least populated, with an approximate total population of only 33 million people or 0.74% of Asia’s population. North Asia is solely administrated by Russia, and makes up more than 75% of the territory of the country, but only 22% of its population, at a density of 2.5 people per km (6.5 per sq mi). Topographically, the region is dominated", "title": "North Asia" }, { "id": "12390189", "text": "to 2.06% between 1965 and 1970. The growth rate has declined to 1.18% between 2010 and 2015 and is projected to decline further in the course of the 21st century. Total annual births were highest in the late 1980s at about 139 million, and as of 2011 were expected to remain essentially constant at a level of 135 million, while deaths numbered 56 million per year and were expected to increase to 80 million per year by 2040. The median age of the world's population was estimated to be 30.4 years in 2018. Six of the Earth's seven continents are", "title": "World population" }, { "id": "341333", "text": "Russia Russia (), officially the Russian Federation (), is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people , excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia", "title": "Russia" }, { "id": "9663", "text": "and prosperity of the ancient culture of India personified Asia, attracting European commerce, exploration and colonialism. The accidental discovery of a trans-Atlantic route from Europe to America by Columbus while in search for a route to India demonstrates this deep fascination. The Silk Road became the main East-West trading route in the Asian hinterlands while the Straits of Malacca stood as a major sea route. Asia has exhibited economic dynamism (particularly East Asia) as well as robust population growth during the 20th century, but overall population growth has since fallen. Asia was the birthplace of most of the world's mainstream", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "1389655", "text": "worth at least $2.8 trillion in 2011. This is only smaller than the GDP of US, China, Japan and Germany. The Arab World stretches across more than of North Africa and the part of North-East Africa and South-West Asia. The Asian part of the Arab world is called the \"Mashriq\". Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and often Mauritania are the \"Maghreb\" or \"Maghrib\", while Egypt and Sudan are referred to as \"Nile Valley\", Egypt is a transcontinental country by virtue of the Sinai Peninsula, which is in Asia. The term \"Arab\" often connotes the Middle East, but the larger (and more", "title": "Arab world" }, { "id": "310038", "text": "Demographics of China The demographics of China demonstrate a large population with a relatively small youth component, partially a result of China's one-child policy. China's population reached the billion mark in 1982. By 2017, China's population had reached 1.411 billion, the largest of any country in the world. According to the 2010 census, 91.51% of the population was Han Chinese, and 8.49% were minorities. China's population growth rate is only 0.59%, ranking 159th in the world. China conducted its sixth national population census on 1 November 2010. Unless otherwise indicated, the statistics on this page pertain to mainland China only;", "title": "Demographics of China" }, { "id": "9692", "text": "Seoul. Around 68 percent of international firms have office in Hong Kong. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the economies of China and India have been growing rapidly, both with an average annual growth rate of more than 8%. Other recent very-high-growth nations in Asia include Israel, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Cyprus and the Philippines, and mineral-rich nations such as Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Brunei, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman. According to economic historian Angus Maddison in his book \"The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective\", India had the", "title": "Asia" }, { "id": "18545442", "text": "Teochew. Data were assembled using a web-based program application which had English, Chinese traditional and simplified characters. The Chinese constitutes 56 different ethnicity, with 53 language dialects, 21 of which possessed their own written scripts. Asian American population, including those who are of mixed race, is estimated to be 18.2 million in 2010; those who identify only as Asian is estimated to total 14.7 million, approximately 4.8 percent of the population. Census BureauExternal Web Site Icon anticipates that there will be more than 40.6 million Asians present in the United States, comprising 9.2 percent of the total U.S. population by", "title": "The PINE Study" }, { "id": "13831156", "text": "potential can help it conquer and dominate all the land on Earth. Even today, China with the world's largest population, about 1.5 billion people, also accounts for only one-fifth of the world's population. It is the demographic limitation that is almost throughout history that even the most populous countries can not occupy the entire world. The concept of global imperialism, therefore, is a concept that does not emphasize the sovereignty of the whole world, but dominates part of the world, but must necessarily spread in space. In addition, the concept of global imperialism underscores the aspect of influence, empires that", "title": "Global empire" }, { "id": "19183775", "text": "progress in recent years. For example, consider the change in GER over ten years preceding the latest data reported, for the three most populous Asian countries: China, India and Indonesia. All three countries had achieved virtually universal primary education (close to 100%) before this ten-year period, so consider the other three levels. Over a ten-year period, China's GER increased from 40% to 74% for pre-primary, from 60% to 92% for secondary, and from 15% to 30% for tertiary education. India's GER increased from 25% to 58% for pre-primary, from 48% to 71% for secondary, and from 11% to 25% for", "title": "Education in Asia" }, { "id": "12390192", "text": "population at 320 million (modern estimates ranging close to twice this number); by the late 18th century, estimates ranged close to one billion (consistent with modern estimates). More refined estimates, broken down by continents, were published in the first half of the 19th century, at 600 to 1000 million in the early 1800s and at 800 to 1000 million in the 1840s. It is difficult for estimates to be better than rough approximations, as even modern population estimates are fraught with uncertainties on the order of 3% to 5%. Estimates of the population of the world at the time agriculture", "title": "World population" }, { "id": "12689092", "text": "ethnic groups have adopted various methods of harvest and transport. The types of diversity in Asia are cultural, religious, economic and historical. Some groups are primarily hunter-gatherers, whereas others practice transhumance (nomadic lifestyle), have been agrarian for millennia, or have adopted an industrial or urban lifestyle. Some groups or countries in Asia are completely urban (e.g., Qatar and Singapore); the largest countries in Asia with regard to population are the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Iran, Thailand, Burma, and South Korea. Colonisation of Asian ethnic groups and states by European peoples began in the", "title": "Ethnic groups in Asia" }, { "id": "12390195", "text": "that year, the population of Western Han was recorded as 57,671,400 individuals in 12,366,470 households, decreasing to 47,566,772 individuals in 9,348,227 households by AD 146, towards the End of the Han Dynasty. At the founding of the Ming Dynasty in 1368, China's population was reported to be close to 60 million; toward the end of the dynasty in 1644, it may have approached 150 million. England's population reached an estimated 5.6 million in 1650, up from an estimated 2.6 million in 1500. New crops that were brought to Asia and Europe from the Americas by Portuguese and Spanish colonists in", "title": "World population" }, { "id": "4325542", "text": "The nations of this map with one major exception (and a few minor ones) are those defined by the World Factbook. Short forms of the names are used; sometimes abbreviations. All the nations can be found in the table below. The one major exception to the scheme is \"Russia,\" not currently officially in the continental region of Asia, but unofficially partly in it even though classified as Europe. The countries in this table are categorised mainly, but not entirely, according to the UNSD scheme for statistical purposes used by the United Nations Statistics Division. For example, the UNSD statistical geoscheme", "title": "Geography of Asia" }, { "id": "15955830", "text": "number of humans fell from its peak of 88.0 million in 1989, to a low of 73.9 million in 2003, after which it rose again to 75.2 million in 2006. Since then, annual growth has declined. In 2009, the human population increased by 74.6 million, which is projected to fall steadily to about 41 million per annum in 2050, at which time the population will have increased to about 9.2 billion. Each region of the globe has seen great reductions in growth rate in recent decades, though growth rates remain above 2% in some countries of the Middle East and", "title": "Demographics of the world" }, { "id": "4171217", "text": "(founding member of OECD) is an advanced emerging country. Asia, with the exception of Japan (heavy industry and electrical sophistication), South Korea (heavy industry and information and communication technology), Taiwan (light industry and hi-tech parts manufacturing), Hong Kong (financial industry and services) and Singapore (high-tech manufacturing, biotechnology, financial and business services, and tourism governed by Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore) in recent years, is currently undergoing rapid growth and industrialization, and China (manufacturing and FDI-led growth) and India (commodities, outsourcing destination and computer software), the two fastest growing major economies in the world. East Asian and Southeast Asian countries generally", "title": "Economy of Asia" }, { "id": "236384", "text": "languages, spoken by 46% of the world's population. This family includes major world languages like English, Spanish, Russian, and Hindustani (Hindi/Urdu). The Indo-European family achieved prevalence first during the Eurasian Migration Period (c. 400–800 AD), and subsequently through the European colonial expansion, which brought the Indo-European languages to a politically and often numerically dominant position in the Americas and much of Africa. The Sino-Tibetan languages are spoken by 20% of the world's population and include many of the languages of East Asia, including Hakka, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, and hundreds of smaller languages. Africa is home to a large number of", "title": "Language" } ]

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[ { "id": "4054842", "text": "are known as \"left exits\" in North America. A passing lane is commonly referred to as a \"fast lane\" because it is often used for extended periods of time for through traffic or fast traffic. In theory, a passing lane should be used only for passing, thus allowing, even on a road with only two lanes in each direction, motorists to travel at their own pace. A 2+1 road has a passing lane only in one direction, usually alternating each few kilometers. In practice, they are more like upgraded highways than motorways. Common practice and most law on United States", "title": "Passing lane" }, { "id": "7712093", "text": "Diamond lane In the United States and Canada, a diamond lane is a special lane on a street or highway that is reserved for specific types of traffic. These lanes are usually marked with white diamonds or lozenge, hence their name. Diamond lanes are generally the right-most or left-most lane on the road. They are usually implemented to provide ways through traffic congestion, for safety reasons, and to encourage environmentally friendly transportation. A diamond lane may be intended for a specific type of traffic, or for several types. The intended use of a diamond lane is marked by traffic signs.", "title": "Diamond lane" }, { "id": "4054848", "text": "lane\" by slower traffic. In some areas, such as the U.S. states of Colorado and Kentucky, vehicles in the left lane are required to yield to faster traffic only if the speed limit is above 65 miles per hour. In other areas, like Alaska, there is no law requiring slower traffic to move over for faster traffic. The use of passing lanes for faster traffic is sometimes acknowledged with signs using phrases such as \"Slower Traffic Keep Right\" (in Canada, where the passing lane is to the left). In a study by the AASHTO Subcommittee on Traffic Engineering, all 24", "title": "Passing lane" }, { "id": "7712094", "text": "In most areas, violating the rules of a diamond lane is punishable by a fine. Some common examples are: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices states that diamonds indicates a lane reserved for high-occupancy vehicles. Diamond lane In the United States and Canada, a diamond lane is a special lane on a street or highway that is reserved for specific types of traffic. These lanes are usually marked with white diamonds or lozenge, hence their name. Diamond lanes are generally the right-most or left-most lane on the road. They are usually implemented to provide ways", "title": "Diamond lane" }, { "id": "4054841", "text": "Passing lane A passing lane (North American English) or overtaking lane (English) is a lane on a multi-lane highway or motorway closest to the median of the road (the central reservation). In some countries, lanes are described as being on the 'inside' or the 'outside' of a road, and the location of the passing lanes will vary. In modern traffic planning, passing lanes on freeways are usually designed for through/express traffic, while the lanes furthest from the median of the road have entry/exit ramps. However due to routing constraints, some freeways may have ramps exiting from the passing lane; these", "title": "Passing lane" }, { "id": "2775365", "text": "for passenger vehicles only—commercial vehicles and pedestrians are prohibited—and is reserved for NEXUS members, a joint program implemented by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP). There is one lane of traffic to the United States and one lane to Canada, with two inspection lanes at each end for traffic entering the respective countries. The American side connects to New York State Route 104 and New York State Route 182, while the Canadian side connects to the historic terminus of King's Highways 3A, 20 and 8, now known as River Road and Bridge", "title": "Whirlpool Rapids Bridge" }, { "id": "4054853", "text": "km distances before the lane starts. Passing lane A passing lane (North American English) or overtaking lane (English) is a lane on a multi-lane highway or motorway closest to the median of the road (the central reservation). In some countries, lanes are described as being on the 'inside' or the 'outside' of a road, and the location of the passing lanes will vary. In modern traffic planning, passing lanes on freeways are usually designed for through/express traffic, while the lanes furthest from the median of the road have entry/exit ramps. However due to routing constraints, some freeways may have ramps", "title": "Passing lane" }, { "id": "6803921", "text": "Anthony Henday Drive Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) is a freeway that encircles Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a heavily travelled commuter and truck bypass route with the southwest quadrant serving as a portion of the CANAMEX Corridor that links Canada to the United States and Mexico. Henday is one of the busiest highways in Western Canada, carrying over 105,000 vehicles per day near West Edmonton Mall in 2017. Rush hour congestion is common on the four-lane section in southwest Edmonton where traffic levels have doubled Alberta Transportation estimates due to rapid suburban development; in June 2018 Alberta committed to", "title": "Anthony Henday Drive" }, { "id": "5007841", "text": "the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area. These are concurrent-flow lanes, using the inside/left lane in each direction. The lanes were opened from Cayuga Street (north edge of downtown St. Paul) to Little Canada Road in December, 2015 and were added as part of a full reconstruction project. In December, 2016, the southbound MnPASS lane was extended to begin at County Road 96, while a separate northbound MnPASS Lane was added between County Road E (north of Interstate 694) and County Road J (at the Ramsey/Anoka County line. The two northbound MnPASS lanes are tolled weekdays between 3-7pm, while the southbound MnPASS", "title": "MnPASS" }, { "id": "4172646", "text": "partial interchange with Highway 401 and Highway 403, thereby providing access to and from all directions. One new lane in each direction was opened in late 2017: a northbound lane between Courtney Park and south of Queen Street on October 31, and a southbound lane between Queen Street and Highway 401 on November 28. Ontario Highway 410 King's Highway 410, also known as Highway 410 and colloquially as the four-ten, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that connects Highways 401 and 403 to Brampton. North of Brampton, the freeway connects to Highway 10, which continues north", "title": "Ontario Highway 410" }, { "id": "795409", "text": "Trans-Canada Highway The Trans-Canada Highway (French: \"Route Transcanadienne\") is a transcontinental federal-provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada from the Pacific Ocean on the west to the Atlantic on the east. The main route spans across the country, one of the longest routes of its type in the world. The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers, although there are small variations in the markers in some provinces. Throughout much of Canada, there are at least two routes designated as part of the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH). For example, in the western", "title": "Trans-Canada Highway" }, { "id": "4054849", "text": "U.S. states involved used some form of passing lane courtesy signage, 9 of which only use those signs for steep graded roads. Many areas which make it illegal to fail to yield to faster traffic also have exceptions to those rules. Some of these exceptions include preparing to make a left turn, taking an exit located on the left side of the roadway, avoiding traffic merging onto the roadway, or overtaking and passing another vehicle. In Quebec, it is also illegal to travel in the left lane when not passing when the speed limit is over 80 km/h (50 mph).", "title": "Passing lane" }, { "id": "4054851", "text": "not usually considered hammer lanes, but are also used for express travel by commuters. In hilly terrain, some undivided highways are built with three lanes, with the extra added pavement known as the \"climbing lane\" or \"crawler lane\". Two lanes are used for traffic heading in the uphill direction, with one lane being a passing or climbing lane, and one lane is used for downhill traffic. On dual carriageways, the climbing lane may be marked with a broken double white line. In Australia, most intercity highways are constructed with only one lane in each direction. Head-on collisions are a risk,", "title": "Passing lane" }, { "id": "2739178", "text": "Airport Parkway (Ottawa) Airport Parkway (Ottawa Route 79) is an expressway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to an interchange with Heron Road where it turns into Bronson Avenue. Airport Parkway is a two-lane expressway for most of its length, and is home to one of Ontario's only two single-point urban interchanges at its Hunt Club Road exit. The speed limit is for its entire length. Until 1997, Airport Parkway was maintained by the federal government of Canada under the jurisdiction of the National Capital Commission. The road has had 300 collisions and three", "title": "Airport Parkway (Ottawa)" }, { "id": "3215911", "text": "for the smallest two lane roads, with an additional on the outer sides and shoulders being at least on each side. A modern Autobahn divided highway with two lanes per direction has lanes wide with an additional clearance of on each side;, with three lanes per direction this becomes for the rightmost lane and for the other lanes. Urban access roads and roads in low-density areas may have lanes as narrow as in width per lane, with shoulders at least wide. Painted lane markings vary widely from country to country. In the United States, Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Virgin", "title": "Lane" }, { "id": "5353441", "text": "Circumferential Highway Circumferential Highway may refer to one of the following beltways/orbital roads/ring roads: Manitoba Highway 100 and 101, an orbital highway that circles Winnipeg, known as the Perimeter Highway. The southern portion (Hwy 100), is a four-lane divided highway that makes up the bypass route of the Trans-Canada Highway, and is heavily travelled. Much of it has been upgraded to freeway standards, but there remain several at-grade signalized intersections. The northern portion (Hwy 101), is a mix of two-lane and four-lane divided highway, with a most intersections being grade-separated. An incomplete Turbo Interchange currently exists at Hwy 101 and", "title": "Circumferential Highway" }, { "id": "13112567", "text": "that indicate different speed limits for different lanes. In the Australian state of Victoria, green and yellow are replaced by white, and there may be additional modes such as 'Centre lane turns only' at particular times of the day. On Jarvis Street in Toronto, Edmonton and some other jurisdictions in Canada the lane control signals are employed without the use of an amber warning signal. Instead, the lane that is to undergo the direction reversal (the middle lane of a 5 lane downtown street) is marked with a red cross in both directions for a short period of time. This", "title": "Lane control lights" }, { "id": "13134522", "text": "vehicle with active strobing/rotating lights or active traffic arrow. The service vehicles may be tow trucks, emergency vehicles (ambulance, police, fire), or highway department patrol vehicles. In 2015, Ontario modified the Highway Traffic Act, stating motorists shall slow down and proceed with caution, moving over if multiple lanes exist, when approaching stopped tow trucks producing intermittent flashes of amber light. The section does not define tow trucks as \"emergency vehicles.\" In the United States, move over laws refer to requiring drivers to give a one lane buffer to stopped emergency vehicles. For example, while driving in the right lane, if", "title": "Move over law" }, { "id": "5056595", "text": "Quebec Route 185 Route 185 is part of the Trans-Canada Highway. It travels from Saint-Antonin to Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, a distance of about . It connects the 2 sections of Autoroute 85 and is the former designation for all of A-85. The southern section of the highway follows the valley of the Madawaska River. At present, Route 185 is a 2-lane highway with passing lanes. Often cited as one of the most dangerous highways in Canada, it is slowly being upgraded to Autoroute standards and is eventually planned to be a 4-lane restricted-access freeway, assuming and extending the existing Autoroute 85", "title": "Quebec Route 185" }, { "id": "2717758", "text": "Lane Plus, which allowed purchasers to bypass the lines of three additional attractions that standard Fast Lane users would otherwise not have access for an additional $10. An unspecified limited amount of both types of passes are sold each day. \"As of April 2018:\" Similar privileges are given to guests with mobility issues and guests within the autism spectrum, though such guests must be accompanied with one other person at least 18 years of age (most often the support worker) for the entire duration of the ride and enter the ride at a designated time based on the length of", "title": "Canada's Wonderland" }, { "id": "795439", "text": "Kent Rathwell, in a publicity trip in a Tesla Roadster. , this made it the longest electric-vehicle-ready highway in the world. Trans-Canada Highway The Trans-Canada Highway (French: \"Route Transcanadienne\") is a transcontinental federal-provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada from the Pacific Ocean on the west to the Atlantic on the east. The main route spans across the country, one of the longest routes of its type in the world. The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers, although there are small variations in the markers in some provinces. Throughout much", "title": "Trans-Canada Highway" }, { "id": "4172631", "text": "Ontario Highway 410 King's Highway 410, also known as Highway 410 and colloquially as the four-ten, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that connects Highways 401 and 403 to Brampton. North of Brampton, the freeway connects to Highway 10, which continues north through Caledon as a four-lane undivided highway. The route is patrolled by the Ontario Provincial Police and has a speed limit of . Highway 410 was built along the alignment of Heart Lake Road south of Bovaird Drive, while north of Bovaird Drive it was built along a new alignment. The highway was designated", "title": "Ontario Highway 410" }, { "id": "533054", "text": "police and also by hundreds of strategically positioned traffic cameras backed by computerized image-recognition systems that issue tickets to offending drivers. In the United States and Canada, several expressways have a special lane (called an \"HOV Lane\" – High Occupancy Vehicle Lane) that can only be used by cars carrying two (some locations-three) or more people. Also, many major cities have instituted strict parking prohibitions during rush hour on major arterial streets leading to and from the central business district. During designated weekday hours, vehicles parked on these primary routes are subject to prompt ticketing and towing at owner expense.", "title": "Traffic" }, { "id": "2739179", "text": "fatalities since 2000, making it the focus of future improvements. There has been some discussing in twinning it to a four-lane expressway or freeway, although those discussions have stalled due to local controversy. The following is a list of exits along Airport Parkway. Some exits on Bronson Avenue are also included. Airport Parkway (Ottawa) Airport Parkway (Ottawa Route 79) is an expressway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It runs from the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to an interchange with Heron Road where it turns into Bronson Avenue. Airport Parkway is a two-lane expressway for most of its length, and is home", "title": "Airport Parkway (Ottawa)" }, { "id": "795425", "text": "is part of the Greater Toronto Area. From Ottawa, the Trans-Canada Highway proceeds east to Montreal, as Highway 417 in Ontario (and the Queensway in Ottawa) and Autoroute 40 in Quebec. The Trans-Canada assumes the name \"Autoroute Métropolitaine\" (also known as \"The Met\" or \"Metropolitan Boulevard\") as it traverses Montreal as an elevated highway. This is the busiest section of the highway. At the Laurentian interchange, in Montreal, the Abitibi route (Highway 66/Route 117/A-15) rejoins the main TCH line. The TCH then follows Autoroute 25 southbound, crossing the St. Lawrence River through the Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel, and proceeds northeast", "title": "Trans-Canada Highway" }, { "id": "6859097", "text": "examples are B 1, B 4 near Uelzen, B 16, B 20, B 31n near Stockach (), B 33, B 54, B 56n, B 67 between Bocholt and Rhede, B 72, B 210, B 300, B 482. Divided 2+1 roads are rare outside of Europe, though they are seen in a few places, such as the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, New Hampshire state in the US, and Australia. The most prominent example is Interstate 93 in Franconia Notch State Park (before dropping down to a single lane in each direction, plus steel divider). In Australia the Pacific Highway", "title": "2+1 road" }, { "id": "2294488", "text": "Don Valley Parkway The Don Valley Parkway (DVP) is a municipal expressway in the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario, which connects the Gardiner Expressway in downtown Toronto with Highway 401. North of Highway 401, it continues as Highway 404. The parkway runs through the parklands of the Don River Valley, after which it is named. It has a maximum speed limit of for its entire length of . It is six lanes for most of its length but it is eight lanes north of York Mills and four lanes south of Eastern. As a municipal road, it is patrolled by", "title": "Don Valley Parkway" }, { "id": "10006483", "text": "Active Pass Active Pass (Saanich: sqθeq) is a strait separating Mayne Island in the south and Galiano Island in the north in the southern Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada. It connects the Trincomali Channel in the west and the Strait of Georgia in the east. The pass stretches 5.5 km from northeast to southwest with two roughly right angle bends at each end. It was named for the USCS \"Active\", a United States Navy survey vessel, the first steamer to navigate the pass in 1855. Currently, the pass is used by BC Ferries' passenger and vehicle ferry runs between Tsawwassen", "title": "Active Pass" }, { "id": "3617973", "text": "in 1978, at a cost of $132 million. The highway was officially opened on 18 August 1979, at Flat Creek, Yukon Dempster Highway The Dempster Highway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway in Canada that connects the Klondike Highway in Yukon to Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta. The highway crosses the Peel River and the Mackenzie Rivers using a combination of seasonal ferry service and ice bridges. Year-round road access from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk opened in November 2017 with the completion of the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway. The highway is", "title": "Dempster Highway" }, { "id": "2000691", "text": "Ontario Highway 401 King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially as the four-oh-one, is a controlled-access 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. It stretches from Windsor in the west to the Ontario–Quebec border in the east. The part of Highway 401 that passes through Toronto is North America's busiest highway, and one of the widest. Together with Quebec Autoroute 20, it forms the road transportation backbone of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, along which over half of Canada's population resides and is also a", "title": "Ontario Highway 401" }, { "id": "4054844", "text": "to passing), or to fail to yield to faster moving traffic that is attempting to overtake in that lane. For example, Colorado's \"Left Lane Law\" states: A person shall not drive a motor vehicle in the passing lane of a highway if the speed-limit is sixty-five miles per hour or more unless such person is passing other motor-vehicles that are in a non-passing lane... In some states, such as Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, and Washington, the center lanes on highways with three or more lanes in each direction are also passing lanes. In those states, no matter how", "title": "Passing lane" }, { "id": "8008027", "text": "signal head or may be in combination with other arrows or a green ball indication on the same signal such as with the Dallas Phasing configuration described below. Modern signal standards require that a yellow \"clearance\" interval be displayed for not less than three seconds prior to the protected turn interval ending. Throughout Canada, as in the United States, a green arrow indicates protected movement in the direction of the arrow. In British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, green turn arrows may or may not flash; both cases indicate a protected turn phase, but a flashing green arrow indicates that", "title": "Traffic-light signalling and operation" }, { "id": "12219661", "text": "as indicated by speed limit signs. In most provinces and territories, statutory speed limits are 50 km/h in urban areas, 80 km/h in rural areas. There is not a statutory speed limit for grade-separated freeways, however the typical speed limit in most provinces is 100-110 km/h. Statutory speed limits for school zones tend to be 30 or 40 km/h in urban areas and 50 km/h in rural areas. Where a dash (–) is indicated, there is no statutory speed limit: speed limits must always be posted. Where N/A is indicated, there is no such roadway in the province or territory.", "title": "Speed limits in Canada" }, { "id": "4206231", "text": "Interchange. The concurrency is officially designated \"Daniel Interchange\", providing half of the possible interchange directions. It is a segment consisting of eight lanes providing high-speed access between the two highways. Access from Highway 1 west to Highway 6 south and Highway 6 north to Highway 1 east is provided via Route 431, while access between Highway 1 east to Highway 6 north and Highway 6 south to Highway 1 west are provided at Ben Shemen Interchange. The other movements are provided through the concurrency. Since highways in the United States and Canada are usually signed with assigned cardinal directions based", "title": "Concurrency (road)" }, { "id": "6803958", "text": "would be upgraded to a freeway after the federal and provincial governments agreed to fund half of the $1 billion project. In May 2017, Edmonton Police Chief Rod Knecht expressed his support for an increase in the speed limit on Anthony Henday Drive from 100 km/h to . Exit numbering begins at Calgary Trail and increases clockwise. Anthony Henday Drive Anthony Henday Drive (Highway 216) is a freeway that encircles Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is a heavily travelled commuter and truck bypass route with the southwest quadrant serving as a portion of the CANAMEX Corridor that links Canada to the", "title": "Anthony Henday Drive" }, { "id": "3208627", "text": "in which the traffic flows—by looking at the striping coloration. For an example, see inset showing U.S. Route 52 near Lafayette, Indiana. Some dual-carriage highways have been turned into undivided highways by widening the lanes of an existing road (for example US Highway 33 between Elkhart and Goshen in northern Indiana). Like other countries, there are several types of divided highways; fully controlled-access divided routes with interchanges known as freeways, expressways that often include a mix of interchanges and traffic signals, and divided arterial roads that are almost entirely stop-controlled. \"Unlike\" other countries, divided highways in Canada are seldom equipped", "title": "Dual carriageway" }, { "id": "16098393", "text": "Passing off in Canadian law In Canada, passing off is both a common law tort and a statutory cause of action under the Canadian \"Trade-marks Act\" referring to the deceptive representation or marketing of goods or services by competitors in a manner that confuses consumers. The law of passing off protects the goodwill of businesses by preventing competitors from passing off their goods as those of another. The protection afforded by the law of passing off protects only the association between a product and its producer and not to the product itself - primarily, it protects a producer's investment in", "title": "Passing off in Canadian law" }, { "id": "8008028", "text": "the protected phase will be followed by a permissive phase. In parts of Canada (the Maritime Provinces, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Alberta), a flashing circular green light indicates right-of-way to proceed in any direction; all other entrances to the intersection will face red lights, and all pedestrian signals will indicate do-not-cross. Ontario formerly used a flashing circular green for this purpose but officially discontinued this practice on January 1, 2010. The flashing-green phase usually precedes a normal green phase, in which case it is known as an \"advanced green\", and an sign will often be mounted next to the signal, possibly", "title": "Traffic-light signalling and operation" }, { "id": "533039", "text": "from speeding or impeding the flow of traffic. See related traffic wave and Pedestrian Crossings, above. \"Overtaking\" (or \"passing\") refers to a maneuver by which one or more vehicles traveling in the same direction are passed by another vehicle. On two-lane roads, when there is a split line or a dashed line on the side of the overtaker, drivers may overtake when it is safe. On multi-lane roads in most jurisdictions, overtaking is permitted in the \"slower\" lanes, though many require a special circumstance. See \"Lanes\" below. In the United Kingdom and Canada, notably on extra-urban roads, a solid white", "title": "Traffic" }, { "id": "16047090", "text": "common law jurisdictions, including the majority of the United States. However, in states where the abrogation has been interpreted to apply only to conveyances made after abrogation, the relevance of the Rule today varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and in many states remains unclear. The Rule is still in operation in all Canadian jurisdictions with the exception of Quebec, which uses civil law, and Manitoba, though it has made an appearance in case law only a few times in the last century. The litigation was brought about because of a settlement made by Sir William Shelley (1480–1549), an English judge,", "title": "Rule in Shelley's Case" }, { "id": "14456370", "text": "of 10 land Pan-European corridors run through it. Highways in Bulgaria are dual carriageways, grade separated with controlled-access, designed for high speeds. In 2012 legislation amendments defined two types of highways: motorways and expressways. The main differences are that motorways have emergency lanes and the maximum allowed speed limit is 140 km/h, while expressways don't and the speed limit is 120 km/h. As of July 2016, of motorways are in service, with another being under various stages of construction. More than of motorways are planned. Also, several expressways are planned. Since the Trans-Canada Highway is not yet a divided, multi-lane", "title": "Highway systems by country" }, { "id": "4966759", "text": "The highway passes Chippewa Road, its former route through Thunder Bay, and returns to its northward orientation. It officially enters the city as it crosses the Kaministiquia River. The highway swerves east at Thunder Bay International Airport as it widens to four lanes then continues north, crossing Arthur Street. North of Arthur Street, the highway is also known as the Thunder Bay Expressway. It continues north for and ends at the Harbour Expressway and Trans-Canada Highway. The northernmost section in Thunder Bay is a four-lane, undivided expressway. The remainder of Highway 61 is a conventional two-lane highway. Traffic volumes along", "title": "Ontario Highway 61" }, { "id": "5353442", "text": "Lagimodiere (Hwy 59). There are 6 Circumferential Roads in the Metro Manila area of the Philippines. See Major roads in Metro Manila. Circumferential Highway Circumferential Highway may refer to one of the following beltways/orbital roads/ring roads: Manitoba Highway 100 and 101, an orbital highway that circles Winnipeg, known as the Perimeter Highway. The southern portion (Hwy 100), is a four-lane divided highway that makes up the bypass route of the Trans-Canada Highway, and is heavily travelled. Much of it has been upgraded to freeway standards, but there remain several at-grade signalized intersections. The northern portion (Hwy 101), is a mix", "title": "Circumferential Highway" }, { "id": "7331750", "text": "Alberta Highway 43 Alberta Provincial Highway No. 43, commonly referred to as Highway 43, is a major highway in northern and central Alberta, Canada that connects Edmonton to the British Columbia border via the Peace Country, forming the northernmost portion of the CANAMEX Corridor in Alberta. It stretches approximately from Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway) near Carvel west of Edmonton to the British Columbia border west of Demmitt. It is designated as a core route in Canada's National Highway System, comprising a portion of a key international corridor that stretches from Alaska into Mexico. Highway 43 was originally numbered Highway 17,", "title": "Alberta Highway 43" }, { "id": "4054847", "text": "strategy is to signal a lane change toward the center median. Another is to flash headlights. A third, which is dangerous and illegal, is to drive very close to the \"fast lane\" driver's bumper (this is known as tailgating). Most commonly, motorists will attempt to overtake the outer car on the inner lane either to continue at a fast pace or to pass a car that is going too slowly in the passing lane. On high-capacity multilane freeways (three or more lanes per direction), many motorists often pass on the inner lane, largely in response to misuse of the \"passing", "title": "Passing lane" }, { "id": "13134519", "text": "Move over law A move over law is a law which requires motorists to move over and change lanes to give safe clearance to law enforcement officers, firefighters, ambulances, utility workers, and in some cases, tow-truck drivers. In the past, Canada and United States have used this term to apply to two different concepts; however, this is beginning to change as Canadian provinces have begun expanding the scope of their move over laws. In Canada, move over laws require motorists, upon noticing an incoming emergency vehicle (coming from any direction) with sirens or flashing lights operating, to move to the", "title": "Move over law" }, { "id": "12219660", "text": "Speed limits in Canada Canadian speed limits are set by different levels of government (federal, provincial, and municipal), depending on the jurisdiction under which the road falls, resulting in differences from province to province. The limits have been posted in kilometres per hour (km/h) since September 1, 1977. Before then, when Canada used Imperial units, speed limits were in miles per hour (mph). Statutory speed limits are default speed limits set by a statute in each province or territory. They apply on roads which do not have posted speed limits. Posted speed limits may differ from the statutory speed limit", "title": "Speed limits in Canada" }, { "id": "2717757", "text": "16 water slides. It is included with the price of admission to Canada's Wonderland and is open during the summer months. Fast Lane is Canada's Wonderland's 'two line' system since 2012, which is also implemented at other Cedar Fair parks. For a cost of $45 (in addition to normal admission charges), visitors receive a wrist band that enables them to bypass the 'normal-wait' line and enter the 'Fast Lane'. Opting for this benefit essentially allows purchasers to cut in at the front of the line on 21 of the most popular attractions without waiting. In 2013, the park introduced Fast", "title": "Canada's Wonderland" }, { "id": "3854074", "text": "America, and some other countries with large sparsely populated areas, opposing lanes of traffic may be separated by several hundred meters of fields or forests outside of heavily populated areas (an extreme example being the Trans-Canada Highway near Ernfold, Saskatchewan, Canada, where eastbound and westbound lanes go as far as apart from each other), but converge to a lane's width of separation in suburban areas and cities. In urban areas, concrete barriers (such as Jersey barriers) and guard rails (or guide rails) are used. In Dedham, Massachusetts, the Norfolk County Correctional Center (a state prison) is located entirely within a", "title": "Median strip" }, { "id": "6091375", "text": "Highway 11/17 northeast to Nipigon. The Thunder Bay Expressway forms the southernmost portion of the Terry Fox Courage Highway, which continues east to Nipigon along the Trans-Canada Highway. Between Arthur Street and the Harbour Expressway, it shares a designation with Highway 61, while between there and the eastern terminus at Hodder Avenue, it shares a designation with Highway 11 and 17, a portion of the Trans-Canada Highway. The entire route is four lanes and undivided, with an exception between Balsam Street and Hodder Avenue where the route is twinned. Its intersections are all at-grade. Plans to entirely twin the highway", "title": "Thunder Bay Expressway" }, { "id": "2335872", "text": "Most of the service centres in Canada are situated in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, along their 400-Series and Quebec Autoroute networks. Alberta Transportation operates seven \"provincial rest areas\" or \"safety rest areas\". These include: Alberta Transportation also designates \"partnership rest areas\" or \"highway service rest areas\" that are privately owned and operated highway user facilities. These facilities are currently located on Highway 1 at Dead Man's Flats, Highway 2 at Red Deer (Gasoline Alley), Highway 9 near Hanna, Highway 16 at Niton Junction and at Innisfree, and Highway 43 at Rochfort Bridge. British Columbia has many services centres", "title": "Rest area" }, { "id": "3829652", "text": "Ontario Highway 404 King's Highway 404 (pronounced \"four-oh-four\"), also known as Highway 404 and colloquially as the 404, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario connecting Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) in Toronto with East Gwillimbury. The controlled-access highway also connects with Highway 407 in Markham. Highway 404 provides access to the eastern edge of Richmond Hill, Aurora and Newmarket and the western edge of Whitchurch-Stouffville, in addition to the southern edge of Keswick. Construction on the freeway began soon after the completion of the Don Valley Parkway, with the first section south of", "title": "Ontario Highway 404" }, { "id": "12219662", "text": "In Ontario, speeding fines double in areas identified as \"Community Safety Zones\". In most Canadian provinces, as in most other locales, speed violation fines are double (or more) in construction zones, although in Ontario and Alberta, this only applies if workers are present in the construction zone. In Ontario, as of September 2007, drivers caught speeding 50 km/h over the posted speed limit may have the vehicle that they are driving impounded immediately for seven days, have their license suspended for seven days, and have to appear before the court. For a first conviction, they face an additional $2,000-$10,000 fine", "title": "Speed limits in Canada" }, { "id": "3829674", "text": "two lanes of Highway 48. It has drawn criticism from various environmental groups who claim it will only serve to accelerate urban sprawl north of Toronto. Ontario Highway 404 King's Highway 404 (pronounced \"four-oh-four\"), also known as Highway 404 and colloquially as the 404, is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario connecting Highway 401 and the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) in Toronto with East Gwillimbury. The controlled-access highway also connects with Highway 407 in Markham. Highway 404 provides access to the eastern edge of Richmond Hill, Aurora and Newmarket and the western edge of Whitchurch-Stouffville, in addition", "title": "Ontario Highway 404" }, { "id": "3147835", "text": "passing the former Blaine Municipal Airport. An at-grade interchange with H Street is next, before the road widens and an interior lane diamond interchange with D street, providing access to Blaine and the last northbound exit before the border. Traffic from 12th Street can access both northbound and southbound SR 543, and traffic from southbound SR 543 can access 12th Street as the final interchange before the Canada–US border. The border features both a NEXUS lane for passenger vehicles, as well as a Free and Secure Trade (FAST) lane for commercial trucks. Border crossing times can become significantly delayed such", "title": "British Columbia Highway 15" }, { "id": "10225112", "text": "Ontario Highway 130 King's Highway 130, commonly known as Highway 130, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. It begins at a junction with Highway 61 and travels north-west to the Trans-Canada Highway, Highway 11 and Highway 17, west of Thunder Bay. Highway 130 is a short connecting highway, and passes entirely through the outskirts of Thunder Bay, connecting several minor communities and providing a shortcut for traffic travelling from the south to the west or vice versa. The speed limit along the highway is ; it is patrolled by the Ontario Provincial Police. Highway 130", "title": "Ontario Highway 130" }, { "id": "11047418", "text": "The section between Highway 596 and Highway 658 opened several years later in the autumn of 1988. The final section, linking Highway 658 with Highway 17, was opened in 1991. Ontario Highway 17A King's Highway 17A, commonly referred to as Highway 17A or as the Kenora By-Pass, is an alternate route of Highway 17 around the city of Kenora, in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was built along a former Canadian Pacific Railway right-of-way, and has two westbound passing lanes in separate parts, and one eastbound passing lane. Although it is not an official part of the Trans-Canada Highway,", "title": "Ontario Highway 17A" }, { "id": "8264895", "text": "become a full freeway, with the transportation authority owning the land necessary for the future adjacent carriageway. At-grade intersections exist but there is sufficient land to replace them with interchanges. In some US states, a super-2 expressway is simply referred to as a super-2, regardless of whether it is fully controlled-access or not. Highway 410 in Ontario was originally a super-2 before being upgraded to a full freeway. Similarly, most of Highway 102 in Nova Scotia was a super-2 for three decades before being upgraded. Many super-2 expressways are simply just short transitional segments between surface street and four-lane divided", "title": "Two-lane expressway" }, { "id": "13206799", "text": "Agamemnon Channel Agamemnon Channel (shashishalh \"lilkw´ émin\") is a channel or strait in British Columbia, Canada, located at the mouth of Jervis Inlet on the South Coast, separating Nelson Island (W and NW) from the mainland of the Sunshine Coast (E and SE), The ferry terminal and recreational community of Earls Cove is on the mainland side of the channel. Agamemnon Channel was named in 1860 by Captain George Henry Richards of HMS \"Plumper\" in honour of the 64-gun third rate HMS \"Agamemnon\", the first line-of-battle ship commanded by Horatio Nelson, for whom adjacent Nelson Island was also named. Launched", "title": "Agamemnon Channel" }, { "id": "19767195", "text": "white colour of snow. These lines are white in areas where there is infrequent or no snow. In Canada, a double yellow line in the centre of the road means that it is unsafe for traffic travelling in either direction to pass (overtake). This is usually found on rolling hills or through corners where visibility is limited. In the province of British Columbia, it is against the law to touch or cross solid double yellow line at any time, except to avoid obstructions on the highway, or when a vehicle is entering or exiting the highway, if the vehicle can", "title": "Yellow line (road marking)" }, { "id": "15934341", "text": "a passing lane is provided for eastbound traffic between Angus and Essa. The road also widens to four lanes briefly at the junction with former Highway 131 west of Barrie, as well as within the city and within Angus. The land use surrounding the route is mixed, with pastures and forests composing the majority of the setting. Residences and small businesses are also scattered throughout the length of the route. Highway 90 was originally assumed by the Department of Highways (DHO), the predecessor to today's Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO), during the late 1930s. The primary purpose for the", "title": "Ontario Highway 90" }, { "id": "4966756", "text": "Ontario Highway 61 King's Highway 61, commonly referred to as Highway 61 and historically known as the Scott Highway, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The route connects the Pigeon River Bridge, where it crosses into the United States and becomes Minnesota State Highway 61, with a junction at Highway 11, Highway 17 and the Harbour Expressway in Thunder Bay. The highway forms part of the Lake Superior Circle Tour. Highway 61 was added to the highway system on October 6, 1937, following the amalgamation of the Department of Northern Development into the Department of", "title": "Ontario Highway 61" }, { "id": "11548183", "text": "Kootenay Pass Kootenay Pass, known locally as \"the Salmo-Creston\" is a mountain pass in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It is utilized by the Crowsnest Highway to transverse the Selkirks, connecting the communities of Salmo and Creston. At its opening the highway route was also dubbed the Kootenay Skyway. A webcam operates year-round showing the current conditions of the pass. The Kootenay Pass is one of the highest highway-served passes in Canada that is open year-round, although it is frequently closed in bad weather for avalanche control and clearing of debris. Most avalanche control at Kootenay Pass is", "title": "Kootenay Pass" }, { "id": "5862443", "text": "occurred during the night of 11-12 August 2007, and it is the first time that this method was used in Canada, although it previously was used in other countries including the United States. It was the first of two similar operations in the 417 corridors, the other being at a future date near the Carling Avenue area. Commercial vehicles are prohibited from Island Park Drive, which is a two-lane arterial road with a 40 km/h (25 mph) speed limit due to the residential nature. Island Park Drive Island Park Drive is an important and scenic north-south thoroughfare in Ottawa, Ontario,", "title": "Island Park Drive" }, { "id": "20398609", "text": "Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway Highway 10, more commonly known as the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway (or ITH), is a road between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's Northwest Territories. It is the \"first all-weather road to Canada's Arctic Coast\". The idea for the highway had been considered for decades; however, final approval was not until 2013, with construction beginning in 2014. It was officially opened on 15 November 2017, and opens up Tuktoyaktuk to year-round vehicle traffic, which is hoped to increase tourism in the area. For many years, the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, an ice road, connected Inuvik with Tuktoyaktuk during the winter months across", "title": "Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway" }, { "id": "5726713", "text": "Highway 104, the Trans-Canada Highway. The entire highway is a divided four-lane freeway, with the exception of a five-lane (three lanes northbound) section between the Highway 118 interchange at Miller Lake and a point between exits 6 and 7 near the Halifax International Airport at Enfield. This three-lane northbound section is not a result of particularly high traffic volumes; rather, it is a relic of the previous configuration of this section of Highway 102. Previously, the section from Fall River to near Enfield was a three-lane undivided section, including a centre passing lane favouring northbound traffic. When the highway was", "title": "Nova Scotia Highway 102" }, { "id": "8025160", "text": "Ontario Highway 400A King's Highway 400A, once known as the Highway 400 Extension, was an unsigned 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The short freeway link connected Highway 400 with Highway 11 and Simcoe County Road 93, formerly Highway 93. The highway was created in late 1959 by the opening of Highway 400 to Coldwater, although it has always featured Highway 400 signage in the southbound direction and Highway 11 signage northbound. The redesignated highway features a narrow grass median for the majority of its length, and has a speed limit of . On average, the highway is", "title": "Ontario Highway 400A" }, { "id": "78880", "text": "autoroutes. In Alberta, the generic \"Trail\" is often used to describe a freeway, expressway or major urban street (for example, Deerfoot Trail, Macleod Trail or Crowchild Trail in Calgary, Yellowhead Trail in Edmonton). The British term \"motorway\" is not used. The American terms \"turnpike\" and \"tollway\" for a toll road are not common. The term \"throughway\" or \"thruway\" was used for first tolled limited-access highways (for example, the Deas Island Throughway, now Highway 99, from Vancouver, BC, to Blaine, Washington, USA or the Saint John Throughway (Highway 1) in Saint John, NB), but this term is not common anymore. In", "title": "Canadian English" }, { "id": "2102060", "text": "on the elevated portion and one on the underside along Lake Shore Boulevard. Some cameras are off the Gardiner on Lake Shore Boulevard. Multi piece vertical blade delineator added on top of some barrier walls separating the east and westbound lanes. Gardiner Expressway The Frederick G. Gardiner Expressway, commonly known as the Gardiner Expressway or simply the Gardiner, is a municipal expressway in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Running close to the shore of Lake Ontario, it extends from the foot of the Don Valley Parkway (DVP) in the east, just past the mouth of the Don River, to the junction of", "title": "Gardiner Expressway" }, { "id": "2669666", "text": "the above-mentioned Parts and a series of prescribed legal forms, such as Form 5 which sets out the proper legal wording for a search warrant. The \"Criminal Code\" has been revised numerous times, and has also seen its application affected by other significant legislation: Criminal Code (Canada) The Criminal Code () is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada. Its official long title is \"An Act respecting the criminal law\" (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46, as amended). Section 91(27) of the Constitution Act, 1867 establishes the sole jurisdiction of Parliament over criminal law in Canada. The Criminal", "title": "Criminal Code (Canada)" }, { "id": "279478", "text": "Corporation and the U.S.-based chains. The section of Highway 7 between Modeland Road and Airport Road, known as the \"Golden Mile\" for its plethora of motels and restaurants was bypassed once Highway 402 was completed in 1982, however the Golden Mile still retains points of interest such as the Sarnia Airport and Hiawatha Racetrack and Waterpark. Much of Canada's population is crowded into a few small southern regions. While the Windsor-Québec corridor was bypassed by motorways relatively early, in more sparsely populated regions (including much of Northern Ontario) thousands of kilometers of mostly two-lane Trans-Canada Highway remain undisturbed as the", "title": "Motel" }, { "id": "4927819", "text": "the World Highway. As of August 2016, the U.S. portion of the highway is paved from the Taylor Highway junction almost as far as Chicken, Alaska, and again for the final 10 kilometers from the Eagle turnoff to the Canada–United States border. Most of the Canadian portion is unpaved. The paved Canadian sections are from kilometer 0 (at Dawson) to km 9 (mile 0 to mi 5.4), km 74 to 76 (mi 46.0 to 47.2), km 79 to 82 (mi 49.1 to 51.0), km 83 to 94 (mi 51.6 to 58.4) and km 99 to 104 (mi 61.5 to 64.6)", "title": "Top of the World Highway" }, { "id": "4220010", "text": "Ontario Highway 402 King's Highway 402, commonly referred to as Highway 402 and historically as the Blue Water Bridge Approach, is a freeway in the Canadian province of Ontario that connects the Blue Water Bridge international crossing near Sarnia to Highway 401 in London. It is one of multiple trade links between Ontario and the Midwestern United States. Its 400-series number denotes a King's Highway with controlled access. It is four lanes for much of its length, though the approach to the Blue Water Bridge is six lanes. Although Highway 402 was one of the original 400-series highways when it", "title": "Ontario Highway 402" }, { "id": "2325474", "text": "Crowsnest Pass Crowsnest Pass (sometimes referred to as Crow's Nest Pass, ) is a low mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta–British Columbia border. The pass is located in southeast British Columbia and southwest Alberta, and is the southernmost rail and highway route through the Canadian Rockies. It is the lowest-elevation mountain pass in Canada south of the Yellowhead Pass (); the other major passes, which are higher, being Kicking Horse Pass (), Howse Pass () and Vermilion Pass (). Crowsnest Pass comprises a valley running east–west through Crowsnest Ridge. On the Alberta side,", "title": "Crowsnest Pass" }, { "id": "2325468", "text": "Crowsnest Pass Crowsnest Pass (sometimes referred to as Crow's Nest Pass, ) is a low mountain pass across the Continental Divide of the Canadian Rockies on the Alberta–British Columbia border. The pass is located in southeast British Columbia and southwest Alberta, and is the southernmost rail and highway route through the Canadian Rockies. It is the lowest-elevation mountain pass in Canada south of the Yellowhead Pass (); the other major passes, which are higher, being Kicking Horse Pass (), Howse Pass () and Vermilion Pass (). Crowsnest Pass comprises a valley running east–west through Crowsnest Ridge. On the Alberta side,", "title": "Crowsnest Pass" }, { "id": "10111816", "text": "Seaway International Bridge The Seaway International Bridge is an international crossing connecting New York State, in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada. It consists of the South and North Channel Bridges. The South Channel Bridge was opened in 1958, and spans the St. Lawrence Seaway. The North Channel Bridge, opened in 2014, connects the City of Cornwall to Cornwall Island. The bridge is among the busiest on the Canada–United States border in the state of New York, with about two million crossings a year. It is jointly owned by the Federal Bridge Corporation (a Crown corporation", "title": "Seaway International Bridge" }, { "id": "9058828", "text": "Ontario Highway 21 King's Highway 21, commonly referred to as Highway 21, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario that begins at Highway 402 midway between Sarnia and London and ends at Highway 6, Highway 10 and Highway 26 in Owen Sound. The roadway is referred to as the Bluewater Highway because it remains very close to the eastern shoreline of Lake Huron. Highway 21 was first designated by the Department of Highways (DHO) between Highway 3 and Highway 7 in mid-1927 and extended to Goderich in 1934. A year later, a final extension completed the", "title": "Ontario Highway 21" }, { "id": "3215912", "text": "Islands and Norway, yellow lines separate traffic going opposite directions and white separates lanes of traffic traveling the same direction, but such is not the case in many European countries. Lane markings are mostly lines painted on the road by a road marking machine, which can adjust the marking widths according to the lane type. Traffic reports in California often refer to accidents being \"in the number X lane.\" The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) assigns the numbers from left to right. The far left passing lane is the number 1 lane. The number of the slow lane (closest to", "title": "Lane" }, { "id": "795417", "text": "Vancouver Island route of the Trans-Canada with its numerous traffic lights and bottlenecks. From Field, British Columbia, the highway continues east as Alberta Highway 1 to Lake Louise (Alberta), Banff, Alberta, Canmore, Alberta and Calgary where it becomes known as 16 Avenue N, initially an expressway and later a busy street with many signalized intersections. The northwest and northeast segments of Stoney Trail (Highway 201) were completed in 2009, serving as an east-west freeway that bypasses the Calgary segment of highway 1. For the next , the Trans-Canada continues as a divided highway with little mandatory stops to an interchange", "title": "Trans-Canada Highway" }, { "id": "3153235", "text": "across the Jervis Inlet lasts between Earls Cove to the south and Saltery Bay to the north. The northern land section of Highway 101 includes, from southeast to northwest, the hamlets of Stillwater and Lang Bay, the city of Powell River, and the community of Lund, at the northern terminus of the highway. From south to north: British Columbia Highway 101 Highway 101, also known as the Sunshine Coast Highway is the main north-south thoroughfare on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada. Highway 101, which first opened in 1962, is divided into two separate land segments, with a ferry link", "title": "British Columbia Highway 101" }, { "id": "7239372", "text": "as well as Secondary Highway 656 between Clyde and Highway 46 (present-day Highway 63) west of Thorhild became part of Highway 18. Around the same time, gravel roads between Thunder Lake and Green Court were designated as Secondary Highway 918, and was upgraded and paved throughout the 1980s, becoming part of Highway 18 in . From west to east: Alberta Highway 18 Alberta Provincial Highway No. 18, commonly referred to as Highway 18, is a highway in Alberta, Canada. It stretches from Highway 43 at the hamlet of Green Court, through the towns of Barrhead and Westlock, to Highway 63", "title": "Alberta Highway 18" }, { "id": "668342", "text": "High-occupancy vehicle lane A high-occupancy vehicle lane (also known as an HOV lane, carpool lane, diamond lane, 2+ lane, and transit lane or T2 or T3 lanes) is a restricted traffic lane reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles with a driver and one or more passengers, including carpools, vanpools, and transit buses. These restrictions may be only imposed during at peak travel times or may apply at all times. The normal minimum occupancy level is 2 or 3 occupants. Many jurisdictions exempt other vehicles, including motorcycles, charter buses, emergency and law enforcement vehicles, low-emission and other green vehicles, and/or", "title": "High-occupancy vehicle lane" }, { "id": "4054843", "text": "highways is that the left lane is reserved for passing and faster moving traffic, and that traffic using the left lane must yield to traffic wishing to overtake. The United States Uniform Vehicle Code states: Upon all roadways any vehicle proceeding at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall be driven in the right-hand lane then available for traffic ... It is also illegal in many states in the US to use the \"far left\" or passing lane on a major highway as a traveling lane (as opposed", "title": "Passing lane" }, { "id": "10399919", "text": "was originally designated as part of Highway 40, where Highway 40 continued south to the Canada–United States border. The Highway 40 designation was removed in the early 1970s. The Cardston truck bypass is officially designated as part of Highway 501 but it unsigned. The signed designation follows 9th Avenue through Cardston, and then follows a short concurrency with Highway 2. From west to east: Alberta Highway 501 Alberta Provincial Highway No. 501, commonly referred to as Highway 501, is a highway in the province of Alberta, Canada. It runs west–east from Highway 5 east of Mountain View as gravel to", "title": "Alberta Highway 501" }, { "id": "16098411", "text": "\"Trade-marks Act\" or the common law tort of passing off. Passing off in Canadian law In Canada, passing off is both a common law tort and a statutory cause of action under the Canadian \"Trade-marks Act\" referring to the deceptive representation or marketing of goods or services by competitors in a manner that confuses consumers. The law of passing off protects the goodwill of businesses by preventing competitors from passing off their goods as those of another. The protection afforded by the law of passing off protects only the association between a product and its producer and not to the", "title": "Passing off in Canadian law" }, { "id": "13134521", "text": "either slow down or move over when passing emergency vehicles or tow trucks stopped on the side of a highway when their \"flashing lamps are operating.\" The maximum speed for passing stationary emergency vehicles or tow trucks was set at 60 kph, and the fines for exceeding that speed were doubled. In 2012, Quebec established a Move Over Law (called in French as \"Corridor de sécurité\", or \"Safety corridor\"). Unlike other laws found in US states and Canadian provinces, the Quebec law had broader application. Drivers would have to slow down and provide a buffer lane to a stopped service", "title": "Move over law" }, { "id": "2173597", "text": "B is typically a business route, and other letters are used for bypass (truck) routes, connector routes, scenic routes, and spur routes. The territory of Nunavut has no highways. This is a breakdown of the classifications of highways in each province, and an example shield of each classification where available. <br> The Trans-Canada Highway crosses all provinces of Canada. <br> <br> <br> <br> All provincial highways in Alberta are 'Primary Highways'. They are divided into two series, and sub-series. <br> <br> Varying between west-east and south-north routes, route numbers in British Columbia span from 1-118, except for Hwy 395 which", "title": "Numbered highways in Canada" }, { "id": "12816449", "text": "particular note is the construction of superhighways throughout the sixties and seventies. These massive corridors while designed to move increasing volumes of auto traffic also served to physically divide cities. In Toronto Highway 401 divides the city north/south, the Don Valley Parkway(1966), east/west and the Gardiner Expressway(1966) separates the city core from Lake Ontario. In Montreal, the Autoroute Metropolitaine divides the city north/south and Boulevard Decarie, east/west. The Queensway in Ottawa divides the city north/south. The presence of cars has become so dominant that a casual observer seeing a city for the first time would assume that the primary inhabitant", "title": "History of cities in Canada" }, { "id": "2094641", "text": "through Windsor in 2015, and four-laning Highway 406 to Welland in late 2015. While older freeways have some lapses in safety features, contemporary 400-series highways have design speeds of , speed limits of , various collision avoidance and traffic management systems, and several design standards adopted throughout North America. Of note are the Ontario Tall Wall median barrier and the Parclo A-4 interchange design, the latter which became standard in the design for the widening of Highway 401 through Toronto in 1962. The Institute of Traffic Engineers subsequently recommended this design to replace the cloverleaf interchange throughout North America. Highways", "title": "400-series highways" }, { "id": "13654681", "text": "Elk Pass (Canada) Elk Pass (el. ) is a high mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies, traversing the continental divide. It connects the Elk Valley in the province of British Columbia with the Kananaskis Valley in Alberta. The pass is unusual by its width, as the two valleys were created from a single glaciated trench. The 1916 Alberta/British Columbia Provincial Boundary Surveyors subdivided it into two routes labeled as \"West Passage\" and \"East Passage.\" These would later be gazetteered as West Elk Pass and East Elk Pass. Elk Pass is inaccessible to conventional road traffic. On the Albertan side it", "title": "Elk Pass (Canada)" }, { "id": "3153233", "text": "British Columbia Highway 101 Highway 101, also known as the Sunshine Coast Highway is the main north-south thoroughfare on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada. Highway 101, which first opened in 1962, is divided into two separate land segments, with a ferry link in between. The number of the highway is derived from that of U.S. Route 101, although it does not actually connect with the identically-numbered U.S. Highway (which does not even reach the Canada–United States border). The highway is maintained by Capilano Highway Services. Despite its location on the mainland, the highway is only accessible to the rest", "title": "British Columbia Highway 101" }, { "id": "11484267", "text": "against such permit holders, and DND 404 permits can be accordingly suspended. Along with numerous U.S. states, several provinces have implemented their own Enhanced Driver's Licence (EDL) programmes for Canadian citizens that includes proof of citizenship to comply with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative for entering the United States. Provinces issuing EDLs include Manitoba, British Columbia and Ontario. Quebec previously issued EDLs, but stopped doing so in 2014. Although licence suspensions and revocations are generally a matter for the territorial and provincial government departments of motor vehicles, some driving offences (e.g. dangerous driving and impaired", "title": "Driver's licence in Canada" }, { "id": "5133841", "text": "because outside overtaking is riskier than inside overtaking. Overtaking Overtaking or passing is the act of one vehicle going past another slower moving vehicle, travelling in the same direction, on a road. The lane used for overtaking another vehicle is almost always a passing lane further from the road shoulder which is to the left in places that drive on the right and to the right in places that drive on the left. On a single carriageway/undivided carriageway road, the lane used for overtaking is often the same lane that is used by oncoming traffic, and it is often only", "title": "Overtaking" }, { "id": "4288595", "text": "Hanlon Expressway The Hanlon Expressway or Hanlon Parkway is a high-capacity at-grade suburban limited-access road connecting Highway 401 with the city of Guelph in the Canadian province of Ontario. The route travels in a generally north-south direction in the city's west end. It is signed as Highway 6 for its entire length; from Wellington Street to Woodlawn Road it is concurrent with Highway 7. The speed limit alternates between 70 and 80 km/h (45 and 50 mph). Though the road was originally designed to be a freeway, budget limitations precluded the construction of overpasses; apart from the interchanges with Highway", "title": "Hanlon Expressway" }, { "id": "3161933", "text": "5 is, however, designated as a core route of Canada's National Highway System. Highway 5 begins south at the junction with Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3) at uninhabited \"Othello\", east of Hope (named after a nearby siding on the Kettle Valley Railway, which used many Shakespearean names). Exit numbers on the Coquihalla are a continuation of those on Highway 1 west of Hope. The speed limit on the Coquihalla Highway south of Merritt is . north of Othello, after passing through five interchanges, Highway 5 reaches the landmark Great Bear snow shed. The location of the former toll booth is north", "title": "British Columbia Highway 5" }, { "id": "15049206", "text": "UK are not open to general traffic (or not paved, so not able to be used by most vehicles) and are called green lanes. Because country lanes are typically \"single lane\" or \"single track\" (that is, the paved road is not wide enough for two vehicles to pass) there will usually be official or unofficial passing places along the route for traffic to pass safely. Country lane A country lane is a narrow road in the countryside. In North America and Australia, the term \"lane\" also may refer to rear access roads which act as a secondary vehicular network in", "title": "Country lane" }, { "id": "3208630", "text": "sufficient right-of-way to convert them to full freeways with interchanges if traffic warrants. However, some older divided highways like the Trans-Canada north of Victoria BC are on relatively narrow road allowances that make any future grade separation almost completely unfeasible, regardless of traffic volumes and speeds. There are also RIRO expressways, such as Highway 11 and a portion of Highway 35, which are not full freeways since they allow access to existing properties, but traffic speeds are faster than regular roads due to a median barrier preventing left turns (motorists have to use a \"turnabout\" overpass to access exits on", "title": "Dual carriageway" }, { "id": "3161932", "text": "British Columbia Highway 5 Highway 5 is a north-south route in southern British Columbia, Canada. Highway 5 connects the southern Trans-Canada route (Highway 1) with the northern Trans-Canada/Yellowhead route (Highway 16), providing the shortest land connection between Vancouver and both Edmonton and Calgary. A portion of Highway 5 south of Kamloops is also known as the Coquihalla Highway; the northern portion is known as the Southern Yellowhead Highway. The Coquihalla section was a toll road until 2008. Although the Yellowhead Highway system is considered part of the Trans-Canada Highway network, the Highway 5 segment is not marked as such. Highway", "title": "British Columbia Highway 5" }, { "id": "5372263", "text": "Alberta Highway 16 Alberta Provincial Highway No. 16, commonly referred to as Highway 16, is a major east–west highway in central Alberta, Canada, connecting Jasper to Lloydminster via Edmonton. It forms a portion of the Yellowhead Highway, a major interprovincial route of the Trans-Canada Highway system that stretches from Masset, British Columbia to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, near Winnipeg. Highway 16 spans approximately from Alberta's border with British Columbia in the west to its border with Saskatchewan in the east. As of 2010, all but less than of the route was divided, with a minimum of two lanes in each", "title": "Alberta Highway 16" }, { "id": "2000697", "text": "Los Angeles and I-75 in Atlanta. The just-in-time auto parts delivery systems of the highly integrated automotive industry of Michigan and Ontario have contributed to the highway's status as the world's busiest truck route, carrying 60 percent of vehicular trade between Canada and the US. Highway 401 also features North America's busiest multi-structure bridge at Hogg's Hollow in Toronto. The four bridges, two for each direction with the collector and express lanes, carried an average of 373,700 vehicles daily in 2006. The highway is one of the major backbones of a network in the Great Lakes region, connecting the populous", "title": "Ontario Highway 401" } ]

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[ { "id": "6038034", "text": "What Is Love \"What Is Love\" is a song recorded by Trinidadian-German Eurodance artist Haddaway for his debut album, \"The Album\". The song is recognizable by its refrain \"What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me... no more.\" It was a massive hit in Europe, becoming a number-one hit in at least 13 countries and reaching number two in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Outside Europe, the song was moderately successful, reaching number 11 in the United States, number 12 in Australia, number 17 in Canada, and number 48 in New Zealand. \"What Is Love\" was written", "title": "What Is Love" }, { "id": "9723933", "text": "Love Doesn't Have to Hurt \"Love Doesn't Have to Hurt\" is a song by Atomic Kitten, released as the fourth and final single from their second studio album, \"Feels So Good\". The single peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by Susanna Hoffs, and was spurred following the group's cover of \"Eternal Flame\". The album version varies from the single version, as the vocals were re-recorded to give the song a more powerful vocal range, and the music had been remastered to give the song a smoother finish. For the single release, the song's", "title": "Love Doesn't Have to Hurt" }, { "id": "9723935", "text": "in the United kingdom at number 4, which remained its highest charting position. This made the song Atomic Kitten's ninth top ten single, and their sixth consecutive top five hit in the UK. However, the song quickly fell out of the top ten the next week, where it gained a place on the charts at number 12. The song managed to stay on the charts for 10 weeks, and subsequently sold 61,239 copies in the United Kingdom alone, becoming one of their lowest selling singles. In Ireland, the song reached the top 20, peaking at number 13. It stayed in", "title": "Love Doesn't Have to Hurt" }, { "id": "9723936", "text": "the charts for 9 weeks. In the Netherlands, it became the Kitten's lowest chart position, and only managed to peak at number 65. However, the song was never officially released there, and had no promotion whatsoever. It subsequently managed to stay on the chart for 9 weeks. Love Doesn't Have to Hurt \"Love Doesn't Have to Hurt\" is a song by Atomic Kitten, released as the fourth and final single from their second studio album, \"Feels So Good\". The single peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was written by Susanna Hoffs, and was spurred following", "title": "Love Doesn't Have to Hurt" }, { "id": "6038036", "text": "at number two in the United Kingdom and Germany and hit number one in 13 other countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Zimbabwe. Debuting at number 87 on 28 August 1993, the song reached number 11 on the Hot 100 in the United States. The song also peaked at number 12 in Australia. By March 1994, worldwide sales of \"What Is Love\" had already reached 2.6 million. When asked about the meaning of \"What Is Love\" in a 2015 interview, Haddaway said: \"Billboard\" wrote about the song: \"Glorious pop/house ditty recently topped", "title": "What Is Love" }, { "id": "20316796", "text": "appeared in a video game \"Just Dance 2018\" (as part of the downloadable content for the \"Just Dance Unlimited\" series). On July 10, 2018, French singer Christine and the Queens covered the song at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. ! scope=\"row\"| Portugal (AFP) What Lovers Do \"What Lovers Do\" is a song by American pop rock band Maroon 5 featuring American R&B singer SZA. It was released on August 30, 2017, as the lead single from the band's sixth studio album \"Red Pill Blues\" (2017). The song contains an interpolation of the 2016 song \"Sexual\" by Neiked featuring Dyo,", "title": "What Lovers Do" }, { "id": "20316791", "text": "What Lovers Do \"What Lovers Do\" is a song by American pop rock band Maroon 5 featuring American R&B singer SZA. It was released on August 30, 2017, as the lead single from the band's sixth studio album \"Red Pill Blues\" (2017). The song contains an interpolation of the 2016 song \"Sexual\" by Neiked featuring Dyo, therefore Victor Rådström, Dyo and Elina Stridh are credited as songwriters. After extensive touring in support of their fifth studio album, \"V\" (2014), Maroon 5 began the writing and recording sessions for their sixth studio album. On October 11, 2016, the band released the", "title": "What Lovers Do" }, { "id": "14518520", "text": "Earl Gaines Earl Gaines, Jr. (August 19, 1935 – December 31, 2009) was an American soul blues and electric blues singer. Born in Decatur, Alabama, he sang lead vocals on the hit single \"It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day)\", credited to Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers, before undertaking a low-key solo career. In the latter capacity he had minor success with \"The Best of Luck to You\" (1966) and \"Hymn Number 5\" (1973). Noted as the best R&B singer from Nashville, Gaines was also known for his lengthy career. Gaines was born in Decatur, Alabama, in 1935. After moving", "title": "Earl Gaines" }, { "id": "14518525", "text": "Europe due to ill health, and he died in Nashville on the last day of that year, at the age of 74. Earl Gaines Earl Gaines, Jr. (August 19, 1935 – December 31, 2009) was an American soul blues and electric blues singer. Born in Decatur, Alabama, he sang lead vocals on the hit single \"It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day)\", credited to Louis Brooks and his Hi-Toppers, before undertaking a low-key solo career. In the latter capacity he had minor success with \"The Best of Luck to You\" (1966) and \"Hymn Number 5\" (1973). Noted as the best", "title": "Earl Gaines" }, { "id": "20316795", "text": "Voice\". In the United States, \"What Lovers Do\" has reached number nine on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, becoming Maroon 5's 13th and SZA's first top 10 in the country. As of September 2017, it has moved 116,000 copies in the United States according to Nielsen SoundScan. The track reached number seven on the ARIA Singles Chart, becoming the band's 10th single in Australia to reach the top 10. \"What Lovers Do\" was featured in the television shows \"Supergirl\", \"This Is Us\", \"Siesta Key\", \"Love Island\" and \"The Only Way Is Essex\" and the film \"I Feel Pretty\". The song also", "title": "What Lovers Do" }, { "id": "13383355", "text": "It Won't Hurt \"It Won't Hurt\" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam. It was released in November 1986 as the third and final single from his debut album \"Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.\". While it missed the top 30 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart, it became a top ten hit in Canada, peaking at number 7 on the Canadian \"RPM\" country singles chart. The song can be heard during the outro to Yoakam's music video for \"Honky-Tonk Man\". Larry Flick, of \"Billboard\" magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a \"classic hurtin'", "title": "It Won't Hurt" }, { "id": "10229519", "text": "What Is Love? (Howard Jones song) \"What Is Love?\" is the second single by musician Howard Jones. Released in November 1983, from the album \"Human's Lib\", it reached no. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the singer's highest chart placing to date. In the US, it peaked at no. 33 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart during the summer of 1984. The song was originally entitled \"Love?\" on the demo tape (listing below) which Howard Jones recorded in 1982, which itself was available at his gigs. Jones also used the question mark motif around this time on posters advertising", "title": "What Is Love? (Howard Jones song)" }, { "id": "8115931", "text": "also charted in the US, Germany, and Sweden. Performed as a power ballad, the Nazareth version is the most popular version of the song and the only rendition of \"Love Hurts\" to become a hit single in the United States, reaching No. 8 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in early 1976. \"Billboard\" ranked it as the No. 23 song for 1976. As part of the \"Hot Tracks (EP)\" it also reached No. 15 in the UK in 1977. Nazareth's version was an international hit, peaking at No. 1 in Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa and Norway, and remains the", "title": "Love Hurts" }, { "id": "20407657", "text": "on \"The Today Show\". A second stand-alone single, \"Cold\", featuring American rapper Future, was released on February 14, 2017, and charted at No. 16 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and No. 5 on the Adult Top 40 chart. The music video for \"Cold\" premiered on February 15. \"What Lovers Do\", featuring American R&B singer SZA was released by the band on August 30, 2017, as the lead single from the album. A lyric video was uploaded on September 15, 2017, while the music video for the song premiered on September 28. The single became the band's 13th top ten hit", "title": "Red Pill Blues" }, { "id": "13175615", "text": "featuring rapper Heavy D., was released a promotional single in 1994; this version is found on Blige's 1993 \"What's the 411? Remix\" album, in a longer form. The song peaked at #23 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and at #29 on the UK Singles Chart, in 1994, becoming her second single to reach the Top 40 in the United Kingdom, the first being \"You Don't Have to Worry\", which reached #36 on the UK Singles Chart in 1993. My Love (Mary J. Blige song) \"My Love\" is a song by American R&B singer Mary J. Blige from her 1992 debut", "title": "My Love (Mary J. Blige song)" }, { "id": "18518817", "text": "my twenties, I think that I'm still missing a lot of things. I want to learn even more\". The What Is Love Original Soundtrack (花是愛 電視原聲帶) was released digitally on August 3, 2012, and the CD was released on August 14, 2012 by various artists under Linfair Records. It contains twelve songs; six original songs and six instrumental versions of those songs. The opening theme song is \"單身美好\" or \"Shining Single Life\" by Claire Kuo, while the ending theme song, \"再痛也沒關係\" or \"It Can Hurt More\", is by co-actor Andrew Tan. \"What Is Love\" ranked fourth in its pilot episode", "title": "What Is Love (TV series)" }, { "id": "8115927", "text": "Love Hurts \"Love Hurts\" is a song written and composed by the American songwriter Boudleaux Bryant. First recorded by the Everly Brothers in July 1960, the song is also well known from a 1975 international hit version by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth and in the UK by a top five hit in 1975 by the English singer Jim Capaldi. The song was introduced in December 1960 as an album track on \"A Date with The Everly Brothers\", but was never released as a single (A-side or B-side) by the Everlys. The first hit version of the song was", "title": "Love Hurts" }, { "id": "6038035", "text": "and produced by German music producer and composer Dee Dee Halligan (Dieter Lünstedt a.k.a. Tony Hendrik) and Junior Torello (Karin Hartmann-Eisenblätter a.k.a. Karin van Haaren) of Coconut Records in Cologne. They were waiting for the right singer for the song. Trinidadian-born singer Nestor Alexander Haddaway was then chosen to sing it. He used to work as a producer, dancer and choreographer before he was signed to Coconut Records. In a 2012 interview Haddaway said about the making of \"What Is Love\": \"What Is Love\" was released in Europe in May 1993 and in the US in August 1993. It peaked", "title": "What Is Love" }, { "id": "11308423", "text": "Love Is in the Air (song) \"Love Is in the Air\" is a 1977 disco song sung by John Paul Young. The song was written by George Young and Harry Vanda and it became a worldwide hit in 1978, peaking at No. 3 on the Australian charts and No. 5 in the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, the song peaked at No. 7 on the pop chart and spent two weeks at No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart, his only US top 40 hit. The song was released as the lead single from Young's fourth studio album,", "title": "Love Is in the Air (song)" }, { "id": "20520159", "text": "the hit single \"What Lovers Do\". On the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, \"All the Stars\" debuted at number 19 and stayed in the top 20 for three weeks. In its fifth week, it rose to number five on the chart. Worldwide, the song peaked at number one in Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, and Slovakia. The song reached the top ten in Australia, Canada, Hungary, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. The music video for the song was released to Lamar's Vevo channel on YouTube on February 6, 2018. It was directed by Dave Meyers and the Little Homies. In", "title": "All the Stars" }, { "id": "20652320", "text": "\"Billboard\" charts' World Digital Songs and \"Billboard Japan\" Hot 100, respectively. The song placed at number 29 at Billboard Japan Hot 100 year-end chart, and placed at number 14 in Top Streaming Songs. What Is Love? (Twice song) \"What Is Love?\" (stylized as \"What is Love?\") is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Twice, the lead single of their fifth extended play of the same name. The song was released on April 9, 2018 by JYP Entertainment and distributed by Iriver. \"What Is Love?\" was written and composed by Park Jin-young, who previously produced \"Signal\", and it was", "title": "What Is Love? (Twice song)" }, { "id": "18949525", "text": "Haddaway Nestor Alexander Haddaway (born January 9, 1965), better known mononymously as Haddaway, is a Trinidadian-born German vocalist and musician best known for his 1993 hit single \"What Is Love\". Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Haddaway moved to the Washington, D.C. area at the age of nine, where he grew up to the sounds of Louis Armstrong, which encouraged him to learn how to play trumpet at the age of 14. He attended Meade Senior High School. This eventually resulted in him forming his first group which he called Chances. Haddaway moved to Cologne, Germany in 1987 where he mostly", "title": "Haddaway" }, { "id": "7529822", "text": "Real Love (Mary J. Blige song) \"Real Love\" is a song recorded by American singer Mary J. Blige for her debut studio album \"What's the 411?\" (1992). It was written and produced by Cory Rooney and Mark Morales. The song samples Audio Two's 1987 song \"Top Billin'\", and was issued as the album's second single on August 25, 1992. It became Blige's first top-ten hit, peaking at number seven on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It also reached the top on both the \"Billboard\" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Rhythmic charts, and was eventually certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association", "title": "Real Love (Mary J. Blige song)" }, { "id": "16923833", "text": "Good Good\" for Snoop Dogg on his reggae inspired \"Reincarnated (album)\" album, which earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Reggae Album. He produced Celine Dion's Unfinished Song\", which appeared on her 2013 album \"Loved Me Back to Life.\" Townsend vocal produced on the 2014 international hit \"Only Love Can Hurt Like This\" by Paloma Faith, who won the Brit Award for best Female Solo Artist in 2015. He vocal produced on the song This is For My Girls released March 15, 2016 by First Lady Michelle Obama. The song features vocals from Clarkson, Janelle Monáe, Kelly Rowland, Lea Michele,", "title": "Kyle Townsend" }, { "id": "11226523", "text": "and became the group's first bona-fide hit with Griffin. Like Robinson before him, Griffin co-wrote many of the Miracles' songs, in addition to singing lead. Griffin and original Miracles member Pete Moore wrote all of the Miracles' 1975 platinum selling album, \"City of Angels\". During his tenure with the group, they recorded three hits: \"Do It Baby\" in 1974, and the Miracles' most successful single, the number-one hit \"Love Machine\", in 1975 which sold 4.5 million records worldwide. Griffin also sung lead on \"Don't Cha Love It\", a Top 10 R&B #4 single. The Miracles left Motown in 1976, signing", "title": "Billy Griffin" }, { "id": "8893533", "text": "Lovin' You \"Lovin' You\" is a 1975 song originally performed by American singer Minnie Riperton from her second studio album \"Perfect Angel\" (1974). It was written by Riperton and Richard Rudolph, produced by Rudolph and Stevie Wonder, and released on January 13, 1975. It became a number one hit on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on April 5, 1975. Additionally, it reached number two on the UK Singles chart, and number three on the \"Billboard\" R&B chart. In the US, \"Billboard\" ranked it as the number 13 song for 1975. The song is especially known for Riperton's use of the", "title": "Lovin' You" }, { "id": "4087542", "text": "chart on October 31, 1964, and staying there for four weeks. The song also reached number-one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks before being dislodged by The Rolling Stones' \"Little Red Rooster,\" and topped the \"Cash Box\" magazine's R&B chart. \"Baby Love\" was later included on the soundtrack to the 1975 feature film \"Cooley High\". Baby Love \"Baby Love\" is a song recorded by the American music group the Supremes in 1964 for their second studio album titled, \"Where Did Our Love Go\". It was written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland. It was released on", "title": "Baby Love" }, { "id": "19279492", "text": "is brief and melancholy, but it’s long enough for the Los Angeles-born vocalist to turn heads and establish herself as a rising star. The music video was released on January 14, 2015. \"What is Love\" has not entered the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 but has charted at number 12 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, the song has entered at number 39 in the US R&B songs and at number 13 in the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. It has also entered at number 67 in France. What Is Love (V. Bozeman song) \"What is Love\" is a song recorded by", "title": "What Is Love (V. Bozeman song)" }, { "id": "5476123", "text": "Regina Richards Regina Richards (born 1961), best known by her stage name Regina, is an American pop music singer born in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her hit song \"Baby Love,\" which reached Number 10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1986. \"Baby Love\" was her only song to chart on the Hot 100, making her a one-hit wonder. The song also reached #50 on the UK Singles Chart that same year. Regina, who majored in theater at Marymount Manhattan College, began her music career in the late 1970s, recording and performing with the new wave band", "title": "Regina Richards" }, { "id": "7334012", "text": "Turner's million selling hit. \"What's Love Got to Do with It\" (1984), reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 1 in the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and won Britten and Lyle the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1985. It also won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year which went to Tina Turner. Later that year, they co-wrote \"We Don't Need Another Hero\" for the film \"Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome\". Also sung by Tina Turner, the song reached No. 2 in the US and No. 3 in the UK. Britten and Lyle received", "title": "Terry Britten" }, { "id": "20316793", "text": "prior. A 16-second preview of the single was unveiled by the band on their official website on August 27, 2017. \"What Lovers Do\" runs for approximately three minutes and 20 seconds. It was written by Adam Levine, Starrah, Jason Evigan and Solána Imani Rowe and was produced by Jason Evigan, Ben Billions, Sam Farrar and Noah Passovoy. Victor Radstrom, Dyo, and Elina Stridh are also credited songwriters on the record, as songwriters of \"Sexual\" by Neiked. The song is performed in the key of B major with a tempo of 110 beats per minute. The song follows a chord progression", "title": "What Lovers Do" }, { "id": "8009801", "text": "version — a single with no parent album — reached #6 UK in September 1973 subsequently reaching #59 on both the U.S. and Canadian charts before the year's end. In December 1992 Cher released \"Oh No Not My Baby\" as the follow-up to her international hit \"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)\" and likewise produced by Peter Asher; the track became a moderate international hit early in 1993. AllMusic editor J. F. Promis called her cover \"gutsy.\" The song was covered by Manfred Mann — whose version of the Shirelles' \"Sha La La\" had shared the U.S. Top", "title": "Oh No Not My Baby" }, { "id": "13682187", "text": "Top 40 hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and second career top 10 hit, reaching number three 26 weeks after it was released. It is also the band's highest-peaking single to date in their native United States, as well as Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and New Zealand. The follow-up single, \"If It's Love\", became Train's fourth-career chart-topping single on the Adult Top 40 and peaking at #34 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. \"Marry Me\" was released on October 25 as the third single from the record — it debuted on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 at #95 and has reached #34.", "title": "Save Me, San Francisco" }, { "id": "9723934", "text": "length has been extended by ten seconds. The video opens with the three girls going into a photo. In the chorus, Liz, Jenny and Natasha are in a white room similar to the Kylie Minogue video \"Can't Get You Out of My Head\". Frost is in a bathroom near a sink and a bath, McClarnon is on a bed in a bedroom, and in a corridors with balloons, and Hamilton is on a couch in a living room in an apartment. In the final chorus, the Kittens are in a corridor. UK CD1 UK CD2 UK Cassette The song debuted", "title": "Love Doesn't Have to Hurt" }, { "id": "13511407", "text": "covered the song in 1967, included on his \"But It's Alright\" album. Buddy Greco recorded a version that lasted for nearly six and a half minutes. It was on his \"Let the Sunshine In\" album which was released in 1969. Marcia Hines covered the song in 1977, included on her \"Ladies and Gentlemen\" album. Love Is a Hurtin' Thing \"Love Is a Hurtin' Thing\" is a 1966 pop/soul single by Lou Rawls. The single was his second entry on the R&B singles chart as well as his first Top 40 hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 pop chart. \"Love Is", "title": "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing" }, { "id": "14700700", "text": "No Love \"No Love\" is a song by American rapper Eminem, and was released as the third official single from his seventh album, \"Recovery\" (2010). The song features American rapper Lil Wayne. It impacted radio on October 5, 2010. \"No Love\" was produced by American hip hop record producer Just Blaze. The song samples \"What Is Love\" by Haddaway. It features the chorus of the song as the backing vocals. It was very well received for sampling and some considered it to be one of the best songs from \"Recovery\". \"No Love\" reached number 23 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100.", "title": "No Love" }, { "id": "8713673", "text": "What Is Love (En Vogue song) \"What Is Love\" was the final single from En Vogue's second album, \"Funky Divas\". The song was not released commercially, but was instead shipped to dance clubs across the United States. \"What Is Love\" reached the Top 10 of the US dance charts. The song appeared again in 1993 as part of the group's \"Runaway Love\" EP. This was the only song En Vogue produced for market featuring Maxine Jones and Cindy Herron sharing lead vocals. It was initially to be included on \"Remix to Sing\" as a new song, but missed the production", "title": "What Is Love (En Vogue song)" }, { "id": "16038488", "text": "What Kind of Love \"What Kind of Love\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Rodney Crowell. It was released in June 1992 as the second single from the album \"Life Is Messy\". The song reached number 11 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and peaked at number 2 on the \"RPM\" Country Tracks in Canada. Crowell and co-writer Will Jennings wrote the lyrics to a recording of a melody that Roy Orbison had made before his death. The song features backing vocals from Don Henley and Linda Ronstadt. Deborah Evans Price,", "title": "What Kind of Love" }, { "id": "4153008", "text": "Love Me Do \"Love Me Do\" is the debut single by the English rock band the Beatles, backed by \"P.S. I Love You\". When the single was originally released in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1962, it peaked at No. 17; in 1982 it was re-promoted (not re-issued, retaining the same catalogue number) and reached No. 4. In the United States the single was a No. 1 hit in 1964. In 2013, recordings of the song that were released in 1962 entered the public domain in Europe. The song was written several years before it was recorded, and prior", "title": "Love Me Do" }, { "id": "8742223", "text": "chart overall. It peaked at #7 on the Hot 100 where it spent 4 weeks in the Top 10, and also reached #4 on the R&R CHR Chart. In the United Kingdom, the single peaked at #60 on the Official UK Chart. A music video was produced to promote the single, and mixes shots of Grant wearing a red cloak and singing to the camera, while other shots of her singing are in black and white. The video was filmed at the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in Idaho. It also features a male/female couple, sitting together", "title": "That's What Love Is For" }, { "id": "15509489", "text": "produced by Jean-Baptiste. It was considered for inclusion on \"Love?\" and was leaked onto the internet in April 2013. The song was due to be released as a promotional single from \"Love?\" on April 26, 2011, but was \"unlocked\" and released on April 22, 2011 by Island Records through a campaign on Lopez's Facebook page. Upon its promotional release, the song debuted at number 97 on the South Korea Gaon International Chart and at 33 on the Productores de Música de España. \"(What Is) Love?\" written by Diana \"Wynter\" Gordon and Emile \"D'Mile\" Dernst; the latter who also produced the", "title": "(What Is) Love?" }, { "id": "17952452", "text": "\"Winners & Losers\". It reached the number one position on the Australian ARIA charts on 26 July. It has also peaked at number 3 on the New Zealand Singles Chart, marking Faith's first top ten and highest peaking single there to date. \"Only Love Can Hurt Like This\" was written by Diane Warren, who has previously written songs for Whitney Houston, Cher, Toni Braxton, LeAnn Rimes, Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears. Initially, Faith refused to record the song because she hadn't any writing credit for it, however after hearing the song Faith felt overwhelmed by how (lyrically) the song reflected", "title": "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" }, { "id": "19688299", "text": "5's 2017 single \"What Lovers Do\" contains interpolations of \"Sexual\", therefore Victor Rådström and Dyo are credited as songwriters. In response to the Oliver Nelson remix of the song, Perez Hilton described the song as \"killer\" and that he predicted it was \"soon to be burning up dancefloors worldwide\". The song was a commercial success in the United Kingdom and Australia. On the UK Singles Chart dated 8 September 2016, the song debuted at number 83. Eight weeks later, on the chart dated 3 November 2016, the song rose to number 6, becoming Neiked's first top ten hit, and Dyo's", "title": "Sexual (song)" }, { "id": "12723436", "text": "Love T.K.O. \"Love T.K.O.\" is a song written by Cecil Womack & Gip Noble, Jr. for soul singer David Oliver appearing first on his album \"Here's To You\" in 1980. However it is mainly associated with R&B and soul artist Teddy Pendergrass, who recorded the song that same year on his 1980 album, \"TP\" and released it as a single that same year. It reached No. 2 on the Billboard R&B chart and No. 44 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It has been covered by several artists, including Deborah Harry, Regina Belle, Hall & Oates, Bette Midler, Boz Scaggs, Lambchop,", "title": "Love T.K.O." }, { "id": "17952451", "text": "Only Love Can Hurt Like This \"Only Love Can Hurt Like This\" is a song by English singer Paloma Faith, written by Diane Warren. Released as the second single to promote her third studio album, \"A Perfect Contradiction\" (2014), on 11 May 2014, it was promoted on shows such as \"\". The song peaked at number 6 in the United Kingdom, making it Faith's highest charting single to date, surpassing her 2012 single \"Picking Up the Pieces\". It made its Australian chart premiere on 21 July 2014 after being used on a high-profile TV advertisement for Channel 7's drama series", "title": "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" }, { "id": "8333645", "text": "Love Sick (Bob Dylan song) \"Love Sick\" is a song by Bob Dylan, recorded in January 1997 and released as the opening track on his 30th studio album \"Time Out of Mind\" in September of that year. It was released as the second single from the album in June 1998, in various CD formats some of which featured a February 25, 1998, live version of the song, from Dylan's performance at the 1998 Grammy Awards. The song was produced by Daniel Lanois. According to Dylan's website, the song has been performed live over 800 times. During Dylan's performance of the", "title": "Love Sick (Bob Dylan song)" }, { "id": "8817329", "text": "Rhapsody in White Rhapsody in White is the 1974 debut studio album of American soul group The Love Unlimited Orchestra. It was a huge success for the group, who backed for and was led by Barry White for many singles such as \"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby\". Also on the album is the 1973 \"Love's Theme\" single, their signature song, reaching #1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. All songs on the album were written by Barry White, with the exception of 4 by Barry White and Paul Politi; 5 by Barry White & Tony Sepe; \"Midnight", "title": "Rhapsody in White" }, { "id": "5896147", "text": "Ooo Baby Baby \"Ooo Baby Baby\" is a song written by Smokey Robinson and Pete Moore. It is a classic 1965 hit single by The Miracles for the Tamla (Motown) label. It achieved its greatest commercial success when Linda Ronstadt covered it in 1978 where she reached number 7 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart. The song has inspired numerous other cover versions by other artists over the years, including covers by Ella Fitzgerald, Todd Rundgren, the Five Stairsteps, and many others. Written by Robinson and fellow Miracle Pete Moore and produced by Robinson, \"Ooo Baby Baby\" was a number", "title": "Ooo Baby Baby" }, { "id": "13457506", "text": "Baby Love (Regina song) \"Baby Love\" is a 1986 crossover hit single by Brooklyn-born singer Regina. The single hit number one on the dance charts for two weeks in mid-1986. The single crossed over to the pop singles chart, where it peaked at #10 on Billboard's Hot 100, and at #30 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart. \"Baby Love\" would be her only single to chart on both the Pop and Soul Singles charts, but several follow up singles charted on the dance chart. The song was written by Stephen Bray, Regina Richards & Mary Kessler. Bray had written several", "title": "Baby Love (Regina song)" }, { "id": "17952453", "text": "on her relationship and emotion at the time. Warren has also written a song with a synonymous title, \"Nothing Hurts Like Love\", sung by Daniel Bedingfield. The song \"Only Love Can Hurt Like This\" was premiered in a stripped back acoustic version on Amazon.com, and was later performed at a Burberry fashion show in February 2014; later this performance was made available on the iTunes Store. The song has been described as a Motown-influenced sixties-style ballad and is a largely acoustic song featuring mainly brass and drums, expanding to include backing vocals and heavy use of violins in the final", "title": "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" }, { "id": "5476127", "text": "Love\" as a single, reaching #14 in the UK Singles Chart. Regina Richards Regina Richards (born 1961), best known by her stage name Regina, is an American pop music singer born in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her hit song \"Baby Love,\" which reached Number 10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1986. \"Baby Love\" was her only song to chart on the Hot 100, making her a one-hit wonder. The song also reached #50 on the UK Singles Chart that same year. Regina, who majored in theater at Marymount Manhattan College, began her music career in", "title": "Regina Richards" }, { "id": "20652317", "text": "What Is Love? (Twice song) \"What Is Love?\" (stylized as \"What is Love?\") is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Twice, the lead single of their fifth extended play of the same name. The song was released on April 9, 2018 by JYP Entertainment and distributed by Iriver. \"What Is Love?\" was written and composed by Park Jin-young, who previously produced \"Signal\", and it was arranged by Lee Woo-min \"collapsedone\", who co-produced \"Knock Knock\" and \"Candy Pop\". According to JYP Entertainment, the song is about \"the love girls would dream about or imagine after learning about it through", "title": "What Is Love? (Twice song)" }, { "id": "9035348", "text": "an international disco smash. In the U.S., it became Summer's first US Top 40 hit, spending two weeks at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in February 7 & 14 1976 being held off the number one spot by Paul Simon's \"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover\" and logged four weeks atop the \"Billboard\" Dance Club Songs chart, as well number three on the \"Billboard\" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In the UK, upon release in January 1976, the song reached #4 on the UK Singles Chart in spite of the BBC's initial refusal to promote it. They also refused", "title": "Love to Love You Baby (song)" }, { "id": "10229521", "text": "\"Live at the Marquee\" bonus 7-inch single which featured the tracks: What Is Love? (Howard Jones song) \"What Is Love?\" is the second single by musician Howard Jones. Released in November 1983, from the album \"Human's Lib\", it reached no. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the singer's highest chart placing to date. In the US, it peaked at no. 33 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart during the summer of 1984. The song was originally entitled \"Love?\" on the demo tape (listing below) which Howard Jones recorded in 1982, which itself was available at his gigs. Jones also", "title": "What Is Love? (Howard Jones song)" }, { "id": "19016691", "text": "feature guest appearances from YG, Ty Dolla $ign, Nipsey Hussle, RJ, Quavo, O.T. Genasis, Jeezy, Rich The Kid, TeeCee4800, K Camp, Nicki Minaj, Jeremih, Young Thug, Meek Mill, Ella Mai, Rick Ross, John Legend and James Fauntleroy.[1] The album's lead single, called \"Don't Hurt Me\" was released on July 1, 2016. The song features guest appearances from Nicki Minaj and Jeremih, with the production that was provided by DJ Mustard and Twice as Nice.[2] \"Want Her\" was released on February 28, 2017 as the album's second single. The song features guest appearances from YG and Quavo. Omar also was the", "title": "Omar Grant" }, { "id": "9194880", "text": "Love Machine (The Miracles song) \"Love Machine\" is a 1975 single recorded by Motown group The Miracles, taken from their album \"City of Angels\". This song was a #1 Pop smash on the \"Billboard Hot 100\", and the biggest-selling hit single of The Miracles' career. This single was one of two Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hits recorded by The Miracles with Billy Griffin as lead vocalist; the other is 1973's \"Do It Baby\". Griffin had replaced Miracles founder Smokey Robinson as lead singer in 1972. The song features a growling vocal by Miracle Bobby Rogers, with group baritone Ronnie", "title": "Love Machine (The Miracles song)" }, { "id": "4087540", "text": "decade, would have more number-one singles than any other Motown act (or American pop music group) with 12, a record they continue to hold. It was nominated for the 1965 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording, losing to Nancy Wilson's \"How Glad I Am\". It is considered one of the most popular songs of the late 20th century, \"Baby Love\" was ranked #324 on the \"Rolling Stone\" list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. At the insistence of Berry Gordy hoping for a follow-up chart-topper, Holland–Dozier–Holland produced \"Baby Love\" to sound like \"Where Did Our Love", "title": "Baby Love" }, { "id": "5963962", "text": "sixth most successful album of the year worldwide. \"Love Don't Cost a Thing\" was released as the album's lead single on December 2, 2000, reaching number three on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and number one on the UK Singles Chart. The album's second single, \"Play\", reached the top twenty in most countries, including the United Kingdom where it reached number three. \"Ain't It Funny\" was released as the album's third single on June 20, 2001. \"I'm Real\" was serviced to radio as the album's fourth and final single on September 4, 2001. To further its success, record executives at", "title": "J.Lo (album)" }, { "id": "4156630", "text": "the Hot Dance Music/Club Play, #1 on the Hot Dance Singles Sales, #7 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks and #5 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It also peaked at #4 on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart. The success earned her a spot on the 1994 \"American Music Awards\" as a performer. The follow-up singles, \"Luv 4 Luv\" and \"What I Do Best\", saw similar success. As of 2004, the album \"Show Me Love\" had sold 303,000 copies in the US. After taking time off to work on her songwriting, she began working with producers Eric \"E-Smoove\" Miller and", "title": "Robin S." }, { "id": "5081198", "text": "featuring his hit of the same name, as well as \"Just a Little Bit\" and \"Baby, I Love You\". With the death of Leonard Chess the same year, Milton's distributor, Checker Records fell into disarray, and Milton joined the Stax label two years later. Adding complex orchestration to his works, Milton scored hits with \"That's What Love Will Make You Do\" and \"What It Is\" from his live album, \"What It Is: Live at Montreux\". He appeared in the documentary film, \"Wattstax\", which was released in 1973. Stax, however, had been losing money since late in the previous decade and", "title": "Little Milton" }, { "id": "8949806", "text": "Do for Love \"Do for Love\" (originally titled 'Sucka 4 Luv' in its unreleased form) was the second posthumously released single by Tupac Shakur from his second posthumous album \"R U Still Down? (Remember Me)\". The vocal sample is from \"What You Won't Do for Love\" by Bobby Caldwell. The song is produced by Soulshock & Karlin. It charted at #21 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and #12 in the UK. The music video (which was directed by Bill Parker) was filmed from January 28–29, 1998 and it contained Tupac as a clay and animated figure. Detroit-based producer J Dilla,", "title": "Do for Love" }, { "id": "6961934", "text": "Attractions. In 2004, \"Rolling Stone\" magazine ranked this version of the song as the 284th best song of all time. John Lennon quotes the song in his 1980 \"Rolling Stone\" interview with Jonathan Cott. A version of the song was included on the soundtrack album for the film \"The Bodyguard\", which sold 17 million copies in the United States alone. This version was performed by jazz singer Curtis Stigers, who also used it as a B-side to the single \"Sleeping with the Lights On\" from his eponymous debut album, which had been released the year before. According to Will Birch's", "title": "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" }, { "id": "13325656", "text": "appear on CD until 1996's \"Early Classics\". Both sides of this single received extended stereo mixes on the 2002 compilation \"Ooo Baby Baby: The Anthology.\" That's What Love Is Made Of That's What Love Is Made Of was a 1964 hit song by Motown's original vocal group, The Miracles, issued on the label's Tamla records subsidiary (Tamla 54102). It was taken from the group's album \"Greatest Hits from the Beginning\", but originally appeared on their abortive 1964 album, \"I Like It Like That\". Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, and Pete Moore, this song was a \"Billboard\" Top", "title": "That's What Love Is Made Of" }, { "id": "16267532", "text": "of the song himself and McCartney helped him complete it. It was originally written during the \"Venus and Mars\" sessions in 1975. Laine's original title for the song was \"Feel the Love,\" despite the fact that the song lyrics do not contain the phrase, but McCartney suggested the revised title. It was recorded on the yacht \"Fair Carol\" in the Virgin Islands in May 1977; at the time Linda McCartney was pregnant with her and Paul's fourth child, James. Laine sings the lead vocal and both Laine and McCartney play acoustic guitar. Laine also plays the Spanish guitar solos. McCartney", "title": "Deliver Your Children" }, { "id": "13511406", "text": "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing \"Love Is a Hurtin' Thing\" is a 1966 pop/soul single by Lou Rawls. The single was his second entry on the R&B singles chart as well as his first Top 40 hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 pop chart. \"Love Is a Hurtin' Thing\" was the first of two Lou Rawls singles to make it to number one on the R&B chart. Written by Ben Raleigh (1913-1997) & Dave Linden (pseudonym used by David J. Luff) Big Maybelle covered the song in 1967, included on her album \"Got A Brand New Bag\". J.J. Jackson also", "title": "Love Is a Hurtin' Thing" }, { "id": "20316794", "text": "of E–Gm–F–B–E, and the vocals in the song span from F to D in common time. The music video was released on Vevo on September 28, 2017, and was directed by Joseph Kahn. The song features Waylon Kushner and Cassidey Fralin are portrayed as the young children of Levine and SZA. Maroon 5 performed \"What Lovers Do\" for the first time at Rock in Rio in Rio de Janeiro on September 16, 2017. The band also played it during their appearances on \"The Today Show\", \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\", \"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\", \"Jimmy Kimmel Live!\" and \"The", "title": "What Lovers Do" }, { "id": "9078577", "text": "Love Is (Vanessa Williams and Brian McKnight song) \"Love Is\" is the title of a 1993 duet written by Tonio K, Michael Caruso and John Keller, and originally recorded and released by American singer and actress Vanessa Williams and American R&B recording artist Brian McKnight. The single originally appeared on the soundtrack to the television drama series \"Beverly Hills, 90210\"; and was also used in the spin-off series \"Melrose Place\". After this exposure, the song peaked at number three on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, becoming McKnight's breakthrough hit and another hit for Williams. The song peaked at number one on", "title": "Love Is (Vanessa Williams and Brian McKnight song)" }, { "id": "9076700", "text": "Gayle Adams Gayle Adams is an American urban contemporary and house music musician, who is best known for her hit singles \"Love Fever\", \"Stretch'in Out\" and \"Your Love Is A Lifesaver.\" She recorded two albums for the dance-oriented Prelude record label in the early 1980s, which were written and produced by the Washington D.C. based record producers, Willie Lester and guitarist Rodney Brown. Adams most successful single was 1981's, \"Love Fever\" which reached number six on the US dance charts, and number 24 on the soul singles chart. \"Stretch'in Out\" peaked at number 64 in the UK Singles Chart in", "title": "Gayle Adams" }, { "id": "13325652", "text": "That's What Love Is Made Of That's What Love Is Made Of was a 1964 hit song by Motown's original vocal group, The Miracles, issued on the label's Tamla records subsidiary (Tamla 54102). It was taken from the group's album \"Greatest Hits from the Beginning\", but originally appeared on their abortive 1964 album, \"I Like It Like That\". Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, and Pete Moore, this song was a \"Billboard\" Top 40 Pop hit, peaking at # 35, and a Top 10 Billboard R&B hit, peaking at #9. A showcase for poetic wordplay, The Miracles utilized", "title": "That's What Love Is Made Of" }, { "id": "8104628", "text": "in the 1990s. The song was Cher's first solo number one single, her previous number one in the United Kingdom had been in 1965 with her then husband Sonny Bono and their first hit: \"I Got You Babe\". Cher's \"The Shoop Shoop Song\" also topped the charts in Austria, Ireland and Norway; the single achieved a number two peak in Belgium and top ten status in France, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Netherlands and Sweden. The success of the single in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe was reflected in its addition to \"Love Hurts\", her subsequent album, as released", "title": "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" }, { "id": "4090533", "text": "where it spent three weeks at number two (stuck behind Johnnie Taylor's \"Who's Making Love\") — and paved new ground for a major pop hit with its then-controversial subject matter of illegitimacy. It is also the single that finally knocked the Beatles' \"Hey Jude\" off the top spot in the United States after its nine-week run. The Supremes debuted the dynamic and intense song on the season premiere of the CBS variety program \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" on Sunday, September 29, 1968. In \"Billboard\"'s special 2015 chart of the Top 40 Biggest Girl Groups of All Time on the \"Billboard\"", "title": "Love Child (song)" }, { "id": "9035343", "text": "Love to Love You Baby (song) \"Love to Love You Baby\" is a song by American singer Donna Summer from her second studio album \"Love to Love You Baby\" (1975). Produced by Pete Bellotte, and written by Italian musician Giorgio Moroder, Summer, and Bellotte, the song was first released as a single in the Netherlands on June 1975 as \"Love to Love You\" and then released worldwide on November 1975 as \"Love to Love You Baby\". It became one of the first disco hits to be released in an extended form. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it", "title": "Love to Love You Baby (song)" }, { "id": "19798177", "text": "Love\" which served as the first promotional single for the album. The single rose in popularity after being used in an Extra gum commercial that became a viral sensation online. The single has since peaked at number 16 on the US AC chart, selling approximately 200,000 units as of May 2016, and having been streamed more than 32,000,000 times on Spotify, making it her most streamed single through the streaming service. The single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on February 17, 2017. Reinhart's third studio album, \"What's That Sound?\", was released September 22, 2017 through", "title": "Haley Reinhart discography" }, { "id": "15509488", "text": "(What Is) Love? \"(What Is) Love?\" is a song recorded by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez. Originally entitled \"What Is Love?\", the song appeared on the soundtrack to \"The Back-up Plan\" (2010), a film in which Lopez stars. The song was later included on Lopez's seventh studio album \"Love?\" (2011), as the album's title track. \"(What Is) Love?\" is a midtempo electropop song written by Diana \"Wynter\" Gordon, with the song's producer Emile \"D'Mile\" Dernst II. The song is about \"not knowing what love is,\" according to Gordon. A remix of \"(What Is) Love?\", entitled \"What Is Love? Part II\", was", "title": "(What Is) Love?" }, { "id": "8713674", "text": "deadline and was added to \"Funky Divas\". What Is Love (En Vogue song) \"What Is Love\" was the final single from En Vogue's second album, \"Funky Divas\". The song was not released commercially, but was instead shipped to dance clubs across the United States. \"What Is Love\" reached the Top 10 of the US dance charts. The song appeared again in 1993 as part of the group's \"Runaway Love\" EP. This was the only song En Vogue produced for market featuring Maxine Jones and Cindy Herron sharing lead vocals. It was initially to be included on \"Remix to Sing\" as", "title": "What Is Love (En Vogue song)" }, { "id": "13382761", "text": "A Love Story (album) A Love Story is the debut studio album by American R&B singer Vivian Green, released by Columbia Records on November 12, 2002 in the US. It spawned three singles: the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 Top 40 hit \"Emotional Rollercoaster\"; the Fred Kenney-produced \"Fanatic\" and the Osunlade-produced \"What Is Love?\". The album debuted at #93 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart in December 2002 and later peaked at #51. It garnered Vivian Green three Lady of Soul awards nominations for Best Solo R&B/Soul Single - \"Emotional Rollercoaster\", Best Solo R&B/Soul Album of the Year - \"A Love", "title": "A Love Story (album)" }, { "id": "12059326", "text": "Love No Limit \"Love No Limit\" is a song by American recording artist Mary J. Blige. It was co-written by Kenny Greene and Dave Hall for her debut album, \"What's the 411?\" (1992), with the latter serving as the song's producer. Released as the album's fourth and final single, the song became a top five hit, reaching number-five on the R&B singles chart, and peaked at number forty-four on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart. R&B singer Monica sang the song as a tribute at the Essence Awards 2003. Blige later performed the song at the 3rd BET Honors in", "title": "Love No Limit" }, { "id": "11893666", "text": "Curtis, and co-produced by will.i.am and Ron Fair. In this song, The Black Eyed Peas lament on various worldwide problems. Many issues are discussed, which include but are not limited to terrorism, US government hypocrisy, racism, gang crime, pollution, war, and intolerance. The song was rewarded with nominations at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004 for Record of the Year and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. The song was the biggest selling single of 2003 in the UK. It was also the 25th best-selling single of the 2000s (decade) in the UK. On May 12, 2013, after 10 years since the song's", "title": "Where Is the Love?" }, { "id": "18848859", "text": "U.S. Dance chart. The album was reissued on CD in 2010 by the U.K.'s Edsel Records. This was the final album where Paul was backed by MFSB, the house band of Philadelphia International Records (PIR). The album was released in November 1975. Its first single, \"Let's Make a Baby\" performed well, breaking into the Hot 100 Pop charts and Soul top-twenty. It was also a top-40 hit in the U.K. \"People Power\" was Paul's second single from the album and his first and only Dance hit. In his 3 January 1976 column for \"Billboard\", Tom Moulton noted: \"Without a doubt,", "title": "When Love is New" }, { "id": "19119314", "text": "featured in music by Timbaland, CeeLo Green, Timothy Bloom, and Rihanna. Her manager is Monica Payne, formerly of the short-lived new jack swing groups The Gyrlz and Terri & Monica. Bozeman performed \"What is Love\" on the pilot of the hit show \"Empire\". peaked at number one on the \"Billboard 200\" chart in the United States. The music video of the song garnered more than 40 million views on YouTube. V. Bozeman V. Bozeman, (born Veronika Bozeman, January 9, 1988) is an American soul singer, record producer and actress, best known for her recurring role as Veronica in the Fox", "title": "V. Bozeman" }, { "id": "5112034", "text": "Lee, Maureen Evans, Michael Bublé, Kay Starr, Hank Thompson, Ringo Starr (in his 1970 album \"Sentimental Journey\"), Molly Nilsson, and Clarence \"Frogman\" Henry, whose version became a top 20 hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1961. It was also popular in a parody version by Spike Jones. The song was performed by Ryan Gosling and featured prominently in the 2010 film \"Blue Valentine\". The recording by The Mills Brothers was released by Decca Records as catalog number 18599. It first reached the \"Billboard\" Best Seller chart on June 22, 1944, and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at", "title": "You Always Hurt the One You Love" }, { "id": "4090537", "text": "career. The public responded immediately to \"Love Child\" when it was released as a single on September 30, 1968, rising to number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and becoming the third biggest selling Supremes' single behind \"Baby Love\" and \"Someday We'll Be Together.\" The feat was repeated in Canada, where it also reached number one in the \"RPM 100\" national singles chart. In the UK singles chart, the song peaked at number 15, and number three in Australia. \"Love Child\" became the title track of Diana Ross & the Supremes' \"Love Child\" album, released on November 13, 1968. The", "title": "Love Child (song)" }, { "id": "18367711", "text": "Floetic (song) \"Floetic\" is a song by performed by Floetry, issued as the lead single from their debut studio album Floetic. It was written primarily by lead singer Marsha Ambrosius, and it contains a sample of the Jack Bruce cover of Mel Tormés song \"Born to Be Blue\". The song peaked at #29 on the \"Billboard\" R&B chart in 2002. In 2003, the song was nominated for Grammy Awards for Best R&B Song and Best Urban/Alternative Performance, but lost to \"Love of My Life\" by Erykah Badu and Common; and \"Little Things\" by India.Arie, respectively. The official music video for", "title": "Floetic (song)" }, { "id": "10957478", "text": "I Love What Love Is Doing to Me/He Ain't You I Love What Love Is Doin' to Me is the name of a 1977 country music studio album by Lynn Anderson. The album featured three single releases for Anderson, the first being the title track which peaked at #22 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles. \"He Ain't You\" reached No. 19 and the last single, \"We Got Love\" was a #26 entry in early 1978. The album peaked at #38 on Billboard's Country LP chart. The album also features covers of the recent pop hits, \"Desperado, \"Angel in Your Arms\", and", "title": "I Love What Love Is Doing to Me/He Ain't You" }, { "id": "3119464", "text": "in the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Charles' big break came soon after in 1975, when Indian-British composer/producer Biddu, who had just enjoyed massive success worldwide with the disco hit \"Kung Fu Fighting\" for Carl Douglas, produced the singles \"You Set My Heart on Fire\" and \"I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance)\" for her. The latter single spent three weeks at number one on the UK chart in March 1976, and was a major hit around the world. It won a Juno Award in 1977. Biddu's collaboration continued on a future album and another song hit: \"Dance Little", "title": "Tina Charles (singer)" }, { "id": "2005940", "text": "Crazy Little Thing Called Love \"Crazy Little Thing Called Love\" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Written by Freddie Mercury in 1979, the track is included on their 1980 album \"The Game\", and also appears on the band's compilation album, \"Greatest Hits\" in 1981. The song peaked at number two in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, and became the group's first number-one single on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the US in 1980, remaining there for four consecutive weeks. It topped the Australian ARIA Charts for seven weeks. Having composed \"Crazy Little Thing Called Love\" on", "title": "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" }, { "id": "10763281", "text": "The Art of Love & War The Art of Love & War is the fourth studio album (fifth overall) by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Angie Stone, released in the United States on October 16, 2007 by Stax Records. The album debuted and peaked at number eleven on the U.S. \"Billboard\" 200 chart selling 45,000 copies in its first week, becoming Stone's highest-charting album to date. Its lead single, \"Baby\" (featuring Betty Wright), debuted at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, later peaking at number three, and also peaked at number twenty-two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs after", "title": "The Art of Love & War" }, { "id": "1574851", "text": "Ordine al Merito della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano\". In 2011, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Soundtrack Academy. In 2014, Giorgio Moroder won his fourth Grammy Award for Daft Punk's \"Random Access Memories\" (Album of the Year). The British alternative rock duo Curve covered \"I Feel Love\" in 1992. The song was later included on the double CD compilation \"The Way of Curve\", released in 2004. Bronski Beat covered \"I Feel Love\" and \"Love to Love You Baby\" for their debut album The Age of Consent (1984). \"On Fire\", the second single from rapper Lil Wayne's", "title": "Giorgio Moroder" }, { "id": "7288496", "text": "Funk Fanatics and BN3 (which is part of their hometown of Hove's postal code). In 2005, the duo transformed Jackie Moore's 1979 #1 \"Billboard\" Hot Dance Club Play track \"This Time Baby\", and Tina Turner's 1999 hit \"When the Heartache Is Over\", into an international club hit as \"Love on My Mind\". A #11 hit in the UK, it was also released in the United States on their U.S. label home, the New York based Ultra Records. Freemasons were also the remixers on Faith Evans' 2005 #1 Hot Dance Club Play and #4 Hot Dance Airplay hit, \"Mesmerized\". The Freemason's", "title": "Freemasons (band)" }, { "id": "17414679", "text": "performed \"What Love Is Made Of\". She also performed it during her headline set at the Yahoo! Wireless Festival 2013. What Love Is Made Of \"What Love Is Made Of\" is a song recorded by British recording artist Katy B. Written by Katy alongside Goldon Warren, who also produced it under the name Geeneus, the track was released as a standalone single via digital retailers on 8 July 2013 by Rinse and Columbia Records. It was composed after Katy had been listening to dance genres. The theme conveyed in the lyrics is love while musically, the song has been described", "title": "What Love Is Made Of" }, { "id": "8893539", "text": "re-recorded the song again for her 2006 album \"Every Woman Dreams\". Lovin' You \"Lovin' You\" is a 1975 song originally performed by American singer Minnie Riperton from her second studio album \"Perfect Angel\" (1974). It was written by Riperton and Richard Rudolph, produced by Rudolph and Stevie Wonder, and released on January 13, 1975. It became a number one hit on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on April 5, 1975. Additionally, it reached number two on the UK Singles chart, and number three on the \"Billboard\" R&B chart. In the US, \"Billboard\" ranked it as the number 13 song for", "title": "Lovin' You" }, { "id": "16883513", "text": "Loveeeeeee Song \"Loveeeeeee Song\" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna recorded for her seventh studio album \"Unapologetic\" (2012). The song features vocals by American rapper Future who also co-wrote, and music produced by Luney Tunez, Emmanuel Zaragoza (previously known as Mex Manny) and Future. Additional writing was done by Denisia \"Blu June\" Andrews and Rihanna herself. The song was released as the fourth single in the UK only and fourth overall from the album, impacting on urban radio stations in that region on April 3, 2013. \"Loveeeeeee Song\" is a sci-fi slow R&B song, that features lyrics the", "title": "Loveeeeeee Song" }, { "id": "1650330", "text": "recorded her breakthrough album, \"Private Dancer\", in London, England in less than two weeks, the album was done in a month's notice and was later released in June 1984. The album's lead single, \"What's Love Got to Do with It\", peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 that September. Featuring other hits such as the title track and \"Better Be Good to Me\", \"Private Dancer\" peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and went on to sell more than five million copies in the States alone, winning Tina three Grammy Awards, making Tina a superstar. Tina would", "title": "Ike & Tina Turner" }, { "id": "2005948", "text": "video was directed by Yoakam. This version appears in the movie \"The Break-Up\" (2006), starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. Crazy Little Thing Called Love \"Crazy Little Thing Called Love\" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Written by Freddie Mercury in 1979, the track is included on their 1980 album \"The Game\", and also appears on the band's compilation album, \"Greatest Hits\" in 1981. The song peaked at number two in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, and became the group's first number-one single on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the US in 1980, remaining there for", "title": "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" }, { "id": "14700722", "text": "Lollapalooza 2011 in Chicago on August 6, 2011. The performance was widely praised by news reporters. Sample credits !scope=\"row\"| Australia (ARIA) !scope=\"row\"| United States (RIAA) No Love \"No Love\" is a song by American rapper Eminem, and was released as the third official single from his seventh album, \"Recovery\" (2010). The song features American rapper Lil Wayne. It impacted radio on October 5, 2010. \"No Love\" was produced by American hip hop record producer Just Blaze. The song samples \"What Is Love\" by Haddaway. It features the chorus of the song as the backing vocals. It was very well received", "title": "No Love" }, { "id": "17414667", "text": "What Love Is Made Of \"What Love Is Made Of\" is a song recorded by British recording artist Katy B. Written by Katy alongside Goldon Warren, who also produced it under the name Geeneus, the track was released as a standalone single via digital retailers on 8 July 2013 by Rinse and Columbia Records. It was composed after Katy had been listening to dance genres. The theme conveyed in the lyrics is love while musically, the song has been described as a \"trance-y\" and \"rave-y\" dance song with its production containing synthesizers and piano. Katy later decided to not include", "title": "What Love Is Made Of" }, { "id": "14732087", "text": "sang it at the 2009 Henley Festival; English lyricist Don Black especially adapted some of the song's lyrics for her. Following this is the original 2002 version of \"No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)\" that appeared on her EP \"Wicked in Rock\" (2008) after May and Ellis recorded it during her time in the musical \"We Will Rock You\". The album's closing track, \"I Loved a Butterfly\", is a stripped-down version of the Queen + Paul Rodger's original \"Some Things that Glitter\"; Ellis regularly calls this her favourite track for its simplicity. \"Anthems\" was released as a CD", "title": "Anthems (Kerry Ellis album)" }, { "id": "9194881", "text": "White repeating \"\"Yeah Baby\"\" throughout the song. Engineered and mixed by Kevin Beamish, \"Love Machine\" was produced by Freddie Perren, a former member of The Corporation brain trust in charge of the early Jackson 5 hits. It was written by Billy Griffin and his Miracles group-mate, original Miracle Pete Moore, with whom he wrote the rest of the \"City of Angels\" tracks as well. The song's lyrics, delivered over a disco beat, compare a lover to an electronic device such as a computer or a robot. The seven-minute song was split into two parts for its release as a single,", "title": "Love Machine (The Miracles song)" }, { "id": "14061181", "text": "also won a Dove Award for Country Recorded Song of the Year at the 24th GMA Dove Awards in 1993. All songs were written or co-written by Paul Overstreet. \"Lord She Sure is Good at Loving Me\" was co-written with country music artist Randy Travis. Christian music singers Susan Ashton and Lisa Bevill provided background vocals on a couple songs while Kathie Baillie, lead singer for the country group Baillie & the Boys sings back up on \"Me and my Baby\". Glen Campbell also sings harmony vocals on \"What's Going without Saying\". Taken from liner notes. Love Is Strong (album)", "title": "Love Is Strong (album)" }, { "id": "15638372", "text": "Love Me (Lil Wayne song) \"Love Me\" is a song by American rapper Lil Wayne featuring Drake and Future for his tenth studio album \"I Am Not a Human Being II\". It was released on January 18, 2013, by Young Money Entertainment, Cash Money Records, and Republic Records as the third single from the project. The song was produced by Mike WiLL Made It, with songwriting by Lil Wayne, Drake, Future, and Asheton Hogan. It also appeared for free download on the Rich Gang mixtape \"Rich Gang: Allstars\". The song became a top ten hit, peaking at number nine on", "title": "Love Me (Lil Wayne song)" } ]

[ "Hoyt Axton" ]

[ { "id": "2659193", "text": "Three Dog Night Three Dog Night is an American rock band. They formed in 1967 with a line-up consisting of vocalists Danny Hutton, Cory Wells, and Chuck Negron. This lineup was soon augmented by Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboards), Joe Schermie (bass), Michael Allsup (guitar), and Floyd Sneed (drums). The band registered 21 \"Billboard\" Top 40 hits (with three hitting number one) between 1969 and 1975. Because Three Dog Night recorded many songs written by outside songwriters, they helped introduce mainstream audiences to writers such as Paul Williams (\"An Old Fashioned Love Song\") and Hoyt Axton (\"Joy to the World\"). The official", "title": "Three Dog Night" }, { "id": "4417356", "text": "all seven members of the band singing. Drummer Floyd Sneed sings the deep lyric \"I wanna tell you\" towards the end of the song. When the song hit #1 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1971, Axton and his mother, Mae Axton, became the first mother and son to each have written a number one pop single in the rock era. Mae Axton co-wrote \"Heartbreak Hotel\", which was the first number one hit for Elvis Presley. In a 1994 case, David P. Jackson filed suit claiming co-authorship of the song and alleging that Axton fraudulently claimed sole authorship. In", "title": "Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)" }, { "id": "4417352", "text": "Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song) \"Joy to the World\" is a song written by Hoyt Axton and made famous by the band Three Dog Night. The song is also popularly known by its opening lyric, \"Jeremiah was a bullfrog.\" Three Dog Night originally released the song on their fourth studio album, \"Naturally\", in November 1970, and subsequently released an edited version of the song as a single in February 1971. The song, which has been described by members of Three Dog Night as a \"kid's song\" and a \"silly song,\" topped the singles charts in North America,", "title": "Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)" }, { "id": "2659197", "text": "singer: \"Mama Told Me Not to Come\" (Cory Wells on lead), which was also their only Top 10 hit in the UK; \"Joy to the World\" (Chuck Negron on lead); and \"Black and White\" (Danny Hutton on lead). Dunhill Records claimed that 40 million record albums were sold by the band during this time. As its members wrote just a handful of songs on the albums, most songs Three Dog Night recorded were written by outside songwriters. Notable hits by outside writers include Harry Nilsson's \"One\" (US #5), the Gerome Ragni-James Rado-Galt MacDermot composition \"Easy to Be Hard\" (US #4)", "title": "Three Dog Night" }, { "id": "4417358", "text": "pop single of 1971. The song was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo Or Group during the 14th Grammy Awards. The single went on to sell 5 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time. Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song) \"Joy to the World\" is a song written by Hoyt Axton and made famous by the band Three Dog Night. The song is also popularly known by its opening lyric, \"Jeremiah was a bullfrog.\" Three Dog Night originally released the song on their fourth", "title": "Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)" }, { "id": "4417357", "text": "the suit, Jackson claimed that Axton regularly credited him with co-authorship. The single had been out less than two months, when on April 9, 1971, \"Joy to the World\" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of over 1,000,000 units across the United States. The record was also given a Gold Leaf award by \"RPM\" magazine for sales of over a million units. The record won the award for the Best Selling Hit Single Record by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers in March 1972. It was also ranked by \"Billboard\" magazine as the #1", "title": "Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)" }, { "id": "4417354", "text": "played at the end of Super Bowl XXXIII at Pro Player (now Hard Rock) Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida and Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, California. Some of the words are nonsensical. Axton wanted to persuade his record producers to record a new melody he had written and the producers asked him to sing any words to the tune. A member of Three Dog Night said that the original lyrics to the song were \"Jeremiah was a prophet\" but no one liked it. When Hoyt Axton performed the song to the group, two of the three main vocalists –", "title": "Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)" }, { "id": "3373232", "text": "and an array of others, covered by singers such as Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, BJ Thomas, John Denver, Waylon Jennings, Jonathan Edwards, and Anne Murray. Axton also sang a couple of duets with Linda Ronstadt, including \"Lion in Winter\" and \"When the Morning Comes\" (a top 40 country hit). His composition \"Joy to the World\", as performed by Three Dog Night, was #1 on the charts for six straight weeks in 1971, making it the top hit of the year. He named his record label \"Jeremiah\" after the bullfrog mentioned in the song. He sang the jingle \"Head For the", "title": "Hoyt Axton" }, { "id": "4417355", "text": "Danny Hutton and Cory Wells – rejected the song, but Chuck Negron felt that the band needed a \"silly song\" to help bring the band back together as a working unit. Negron also felt that the song \"wasn't even close to our best record, but it might have been one of our most honest.\" The song was recorded by Three Dog Night at American Recording Company, produced by Richard Podolor, and engineered by Bill Cooper. Unlike most Three Dog Night songs recorded at that point, instead of having just the three main vocalists singing harmony, the song was recorded with", "title": "Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)" }, { "id": "2659198", "text": "from the musical \"Hair\", Laura Nyro's \"Eli's Comin'\" (US #10), Randy Newman's \"Mama Told Me Not to Come\" (US #1), Paul Williams' \"Out in the Country\" (US #15), \"The Family Of Man\" (US #12), and \"An Old Fashioned Love Song\" (US #4), Hoyt Axton's \"Joy to the World\" (US #1) and \"Never Been to Spain\" (US #5), Arkin & Robinson's \"Black and White\" (US #1), Argent's Russ Ballard's \"Liar\" (US #7), Elton John and Bernie Taupin's \"Lady Samantha\" and \"Your Song\", Daniel Moore's \"Shambala\" (#3), Leo Sayer's \"The Show Must Go On\" (US #4), John Hiatt's \"Sure As I'm Sittin'", "title": "Three Dog Night" }, { "id": "4219268", "text": "Golden Bisquits Golden Bisquits is the sixth album (fifth studio album) by American rock band Three Dog Night, released in 1971. The album is a compilation of hits from Three Dog Night's first four studio albums, including all nine single A-sides issued by the band to date. The album was released concurrently with the band's tenth single (not included on \"Golden Bisquits\"), \"Joy to the World\", from their previous album \"Naturally\" (1970). \"Joy to the World\" reached #1 in early 1971, becoming one of Three Dog Night's most enduring songs. The three songs included in \"Golden Bisquits\" that were not", "title": "Golden Bisquits" }, { "id": "7821145", "text": "and moved to Los Angeles, California. In 1968, he met a trio of vocalists (Danny Hutton, Chuck Negron and Cory Wells), who had a contract with Dunhill Records and were looking for backing musicians. Sneed joined their new band, Three Dog Night, which became a commercial success in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Sneed sang backup on only one song with the band; he did the deep vocal on \"Joy to the World\", singing the lyric \"I wanna tell you.\" After Three Dog Night broke up in 1977, he continued to work with other groups, including an extended tour", "title": "Floyd Sneed" }, { "id": "4417353", "text": "was certified gold by the RIAA, and has since been covered by multiple artists. The song is featured prominently in the film \"The Big Chill\". It is sung by a child character at the beginning and the Three Dog Night recording is played over the end credits. It is also played at the end of every Denver Broncos home victory. Notable playings of this song after Broncos victories included then-Chicago Bears head coach Abe Gibron's singing along with the song in 1973; and at the end of Super Bowl XXXII, played at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. It was also", "title": "Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song)" }, { "id": "7733375", "text": "Hard\", and \"Joy to the World\". The rock and roll lifestyle took its toll on Negron, and by the time Three Dog Night disbanded in 1976, Negron had a serious heroin addiction which began in the early 1970s. In July 1975, the British music magazine, \"NME\", reported that Negron had been arrested for cocaine possession in Kentucky. He overcame his addiction in September 1991 and embarked on a solo career, recording the albums: He wrote his autobiography, \"Three Dog Nightmare\" (1999), in which he attributes his recovery from heroin addiction to his turning to God in desperation, after dropping out", "title": "Chuck Negron" }, { "id": "8645799", "text": "After Boy Howdy disbanded, Steele embarked on a solo career, recording seven studio albums (one of which was not released). He also charted four singles as a solo artist, with the highest-peaking (\"Somethin' in the Water\") reaching No. 33 on the country charts in 2001. Jeffrey LeVasseur was born in Burbank, California to a musical family. His mother was a singer, and his father had aspirations to become a country music songwriter. He first gained his own interest in music at age eight, when he sang Three Dog Night's \"Joy to the World\" at a church function. This rendition earned", "title": "Jeffrey Steele" }, { "id": "3094668", "text": "Joy to the World \"Joy to the World\" is a popular Christmas carol with words by Isaac Watts. As of the late 20th century, \"Joy to the World\" was the most-published Christmas hymn in North America. The words of the hymn are by English writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98, 96:11-12 and Genesis 3:17-18. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts' collection \"The Psalms of David: Imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship\". The paraphrase is Watts' Christological interpretation. Consequently, he does not emphasize with equal weight the", "title": "Joy to the World" }, { "id": "20413638", "text": "and Rain\" by James Taylor, which came out at about the same time. \"Hallelujah\" (which was written by Leonard Cohen in 1984, but only became famous when John Cale covered it in 1991) has since been recognized as perhaps the quintessential secular hymn. Other songs that are sometimes mentioned as secular hymns include \"Many Rivers To Cross\" by Jimmy Cliff, \"I Can See Clearly Now\" by Johnny Nash, \"Joy to the World\" by Three Dog Night, \"Hey, Jude\" by the Beatles, \"Big Yellow Taxi\" by Joni Mitchell, \"No Woman, No Cry\" by Bob Marley, \"Going My Way\" by Bing Crosby,", "title": "Secular hymn (genre)" }, { "id": "3373231", "text": "well into the 1980s. He had many minor hits of his own, such as \"Boney Fingers\", \"When the Morning Comes\", and 1979's \"Della and the Dealer\", as well as \"Jealous Man\" (the latter two he sang in a guest appearance on the TV sitcom \"WKRP in Cincinnati\"). His vocal style featured his distinctive bass-baritone (which later deepened to near-bass) and use of characterization. However, his most lasting contributions were songs made famous by others: \"Joy to the World\" and \"Never Been to Spain\" (Three Dog Night); \"Greenback Dollar\" (Kingston Trio); \"The Pusher\" and \"Snowblind Friend\" (Steppenwolf); \"No-No Song\" (Ringo Starr);", "title": "Hoyt Axton" }, { "id": "2659208", "text": "Television launched a new ad campaign in the UK, which promoted the company's aspirations to be seen as an environmentally friendly company, and used the band's song \"Joy To The World\". In August 2008. \"Three Dog Night Greatest Hits Live\" was released, a compilation of previously unissued live 1972 and 1973 recordings from concerts in Frankfurt, Germany, and Edmonton, England. On October 24, 2009, Three Dog Night released three new songs – \"Heart of Blues\" and \"Prayer of the Children\", as well as \"Two Lights In The Nighttime\". A new studio album, the group's first in 24 years, is being", "title": "Three Dog Night" }, { "id": "3094674", "text": "Como, Vic Damone, Mariah Carey, and the A Capella group Pentatonix. As of the late 20th century, \"Joy to the World\" was the most-published Christmas hymn in North America. Joy to the World \"Joy to the World\" is a popular Christmas carol with words by Isaac Watts. As of the late 20th century, \"Joy to the World\" was the most-published Christmas hymn in North America. The words of the hymn are by English writer Isaac Watts, based on Psalm 98, 96:11-12 and Genesis 3:17-18. The song was first published in 1719 in Watts' collection \"The Psalms of David: Imitated in", "title": "Joy to the World" }, { "id": "5195635", "text": "single \"Joy to the World\". The song, co-written by Troiano, Kenner, Glan and Sullivan, also appeared on Three Dog Night's \"Naturally\" album. Bush was short-lived as a band, but had some influence among musicians for their jazz-influenced rock. Bush became newsworthy again in 1995, as the result of an intellectual property dispute with the British alternative band Bush. As Troiano still owned the rights to that name, the British band were forced to release their albums in Canada as \"Bush\". In late April 1997, Troiano and Gavin Rossdale reached an agreement under which Rossdale's band was permitted to use the", "title": "Bush (Canadian band)" }, { "id": "12772319", "text": "My Brother, a hit by the band The Hollies; Cyd Charisse performs a butterfly dance; Ann Sothern watches over proceedings as The Queen. Other songs performed are Classical Gas, composed by Mason Williams; Yma Sumac sings an unknown song. The show's ensemble performs Joy to the World (Three Dog Night song), (composed by Hoyt Axton). An instrumental here, as originally composed, Classical Gas (composed by Mason Williams) is played over the ensemble dancers. Fol-de-Rol Fol-de-Rol is a prime-time family variety special in the USA that was set at a medieval fair, produced by Sid and Marty Krofft and based on", "title": "Fol-de-Rol" }, { "id": "6273412", "text": "mid-1960s, he increasingly worked as a recording engineer as well as a musician, on recordings by the Monkees, the Turtles, the Electric Prunes, the Grateful Dead, Donovan, and others. He produced two albums for Steppenwolf, engineered all their early hits including \"Born to Be Wild\", and produced Three Dog Night's \"Mama Told Me Not To Come\" and \"Joy to the World\", leading to his work on all subsequent albums by Three Dog Night. Other acts with whom he worked as a producer included Iron Butterfly, the Dillards, Chris Hillman, and Black Oak Arkansas. Albums: OPEN (1970), RED WHITE & BLUES", "title": "Richard Podolor" }, { "id": "7806638", "text": "in 1969, while, \"Mama Told Me (Not to Come)\", reached #1 a year later. \"Joy to the World\" became the group's biggest hit in 1971, and their final #1, \"Black and White,\" was in 1972; and, their final Top Ten song was in 1974, \"The Show Must Go On\". They had 21 hit singles, including 11 Top Ten hits, also 12 consecutive gold albums, from 1969 to 1975. Steve Huey of Allmusic wrote,While often criticized as commercial, the band was noted for creative arrangements and interpretations, and their cover choices gave exposure to Harry Nilsson, Laura Nyro, Randy Newman, Hoyt", "title": "Danny Hutton" }, { "id": "9471656", "text": "nature of the episode resemble the film \"Predator\" (1987), in which a creature that is able to perfectly camouflage itself, almost to the point of complete invisibility, stalks several humans in a dense jungle. While camping in the woods overnight, Scully sings \"Joy to the World\" by Three Dog Night while Mulder rests so that he can know she is awake and on guard. Originally, Scully was supposed to sing \"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry\", a 1949 country song by Hank Williams. However, series creator Chris Carter requested something more \"off the wall\". Spotnitz, instead, chose \"Joy to the", "title": "Detour (The X-Files)" }, { "id": "2317606", "text": "also recorded a faithful version of the song on his album \"Hunky Dory\" (1971). Rose and Williams also wrote \"I'll Walk Away\" (recorded by Rose on his third, eponymous album). Rose was instrumental in getting Williams his break with A&M Records which resulted in Williams working with songwriter Roger Nichols. Williams and Nichols were responsible for a number of successful pop hits from the 1970s, including several hits for Three Dog Night (the aforementioned \"An Old Fashioned Love Song\", as well as \"The Family of Man\" and \"Out in the Country\"), Helen Reddy (\"You and Me Against the World\"), and", "title": "Paul Williams (songwriter)" }, { "id": "2659196", "text": "the name Three Dog Night, becoming one of the most successful bands in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Ron Morgan left the band early on and subsequently went on to join the Electric Prunes. Michael Allsup was quickly recruited to replace him on guitar. Three Dog Night earned 12 gold albums and recorded 21 consecutive \"Billboard\" Top 40 hits, seven of which went gold. Their first gold record was \"One\" (US #5), which had been written and recorded by Harry Nilsson. The group had three US #1 songs, each of which featured a different lead", "title": "Three Dog Night" }, { "id": "10225458", "text": "helping with instrumentation, in particular whether to include symphonic music. The composers had a relatively high degree of freedom, but they also had problems when composing some tracks that did not fit into selected scenes. Re-orchestrations of two pieces of classical music, \"Sleepers Wake\" by Johann Sebastian Bach, and \"Joy to the World\", a popular Christmas song, were used by Suzuki and Shimomura respectively to represent key moments and motifs within the game. The order of songs in the game was created to reflect the situation in a level. These variations were emphasized during mixing, while they also needed to", "title": "The 3rd Birthday" }, { "id": "2317602", "text": "Paul Williams (songwriter) Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's \"An Old Fashioned Love Song\" and \"Out in the Country,\" Helen Reddy's \"You and Me Against the World,\" David Bowie's \"Fill Your Heart\" and the Carpenters' \"We've Only Just Begun\" and \"Rainy Days and Mondays.\" Williams is also known for his musical contributions to films, including the Academy Award-nominated song \"Rainbow Connection\" from \"The Muppet Movie\", and penning the lyrics to", "title": "Paul Williams (songwriter)" }, { "id": "6793123", "text": "\"Joy to the World\" sung to the tune of the Three Dog Night song of the same name. The Squirrels The Squirrels are a novelty pop band based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1984 by lead vocalist Rob Morgan (founder, as well, of the \"Poplust\" zine), the band went through numerous lineups, but has stuck to the aesthetic that Peter Blecha describes as \"cross-pollinat[ing] bubblegum sensibilities with punk attitudes.\" Although most of the Squirrels material has been, technically speaking, cover versions, they are by no means a typical cover band. They have a theatrical stage sense derived from Alice Cooper", "title": "The Squirrels" }, { "id": "11019735", "text": "to Be Wild\". The mysterious Mars Bonfire was Dennis Edmonton, lead guitarist for Jack London & The Sparrows. The Oshawa, Ontario group was the beginnings of Steppenwolf and producer Mekler's contributions on psychedelic tracks such as \"Born to Be Wild\" and \"Magic Carpet Ride\". A year after the Steppenwolf recordings, Mekler launched hits from Three Dog Night such as \"One\", \"Try a Little Tenderness\", \"Eli's Coming\", \"Easy to Be Hard\", and \"Celebrate\". Other studio credits include keyboard work with Cher, Donovan and David Clayton-Thomas as well as producing songs for Dinah Washington. In 1971, Mekler founded his own labels, Vulture", "title": "Gabriel Mekler" }, { "id": "2659202", "text": "recently switched label, ABC. The growing popularity of Disco music may have also been a factor for the poor sales. Disappointed by this, the band decided \"Til The World Ends\" would be the only single released off the album, which ended up being the groups last Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hit. Danny Hutton left in late 1975 and was replaced by Jay Gruska, who toured with the band to promote their last album, American Pastime, released sometime in March 1976. Still, the album was a victim of poor promotion and didn't sell well. However, the only single released off", "title": "Three Dog Night" }, { "id": "3541678", "text": "Lowell Mason Lowell Mason (January 8, 1792 – August 11, 1872) was a leading figure in American church music, the composer of over 1600 hymn tunes, many of which are often sung today. His most well-known tunes include his arrangement of \"Joy to the World\" and the tune, \"Bethany\", which is his setting of the hymn text, \"Nearer, My God, to Thee\". He was largely responsible for introducing music into American public schools, and is considered to be the first important music educator in the United States. He is also widely criticized for his role in helping to largely eliminate", "title": "Lowell Mason" }, { "id": "7602847", "text": "Dave Loggins David Allen Loggins (born November 10, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is remembered best for his 1974 song composition \"Please Come to Boston\", which was a number 5 popular music success (number 1 Easy Listening) in the U.S. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame during 1995. He is the second cousin of singer/songwriter Kenny Loggins. Loggins also wrote the song \"Pieces of April\" for the band Three Dog Night, which was a top-20 success during 1973. He has written material for Tanya Tucker, Restless Heart, Wynonna Judd, Reba McEntire, Gary", "title": "Dave Loggins" }, { "id": "1425292", "text": "left and joined Capitol Records, where his next albums contained \"Joy to the World\" and \"Never Been to Spain,\" which became hits for Three Dog Night on Dunhill. Axton eventually became a country singer, and founded his own record label, Jeremiah. Tom Rush had always been the \"storyteller\" or \"balladeer\" type of folk artist, before and after his stint with Columbia, to which Rush was lured from Elektra. As with Axton, Rush was given \"the treatment\" on his self-titled Columbia debut. The multitude of instruments added to his usual solo guitar were all done \"tastefully\", of course, but was not", "title": "Columbia Records" }, { "id": "3094670", "text": "are called to celebrate because God's faithfulness to the house of Israel has brought salvation to the world. Watts' 1719 preface says the verses \"..are fitted to the Tunes of the Old PSALM-BOOK\" and includes the instruction \"sing all entitled COMMON METER\". In the late 1700's Joy to the World was printed together with music several times. The version of this carol usually heard today is from the edition by Lowell Mason for \"The National Psalmist\" (Boston, 1848), his fourth revision of the tune he named and attributed as \"arranged from Handel\". This tune has the first four notes in", "title": "Joy to the World" }, { "id": "3373228", "text": "Hoyt Axton Hoyt Wayne Axton (March 25, 1938 – October 26, 1999) was an American folk music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early-1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured, some of his songwriting became well known throughout the world. Among them were \"Joy to the World\", \"The Pusher\", \"No No Song\", \"Greenback Dollar\", \"Della and the Dealer\", and \"Never Been to Spain\". Born in Duncan, Oklahoma, Axton spent his pre-teen years in Comanche, Oklahoma, with his brother, John.", "title": "Hoyt Axton" }, { "id": "10568979", "text": "written by John Bettis and Michael Clark, with Conway Twitty making it a number one hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart the following year. Clark and Bettis also co-wrote Juice Newton's \"Heart of the Night\" and Donna Summer's \"The Woman in Me\". In 1983, Bettis gained his biggest achievement with \"Human Nature\", a ballad penned for Michael Jackson's multi-platinum album \"Thriller\". Originally a throwaway lyric and melody snippet composed by Toto's Steve Porcaro, the entire song was later written in its entirety by Bettis and Porcaro in two days. \"Thriller\" became the best selling record of all time,", "title": "John Bettis" }, { "id": "6292666", "text": "between Staulcup and the teenage prom crowds. At the urging of his teenage son, Staulcup began acquiring arrangements of popular, rock oriented songs. Mainly, the ballads of The Beatles, Burt Bacharach and Jimmy Webb. The extreme examples of this foray, were the additions of Three Dog Night's, Joy to The World, and Jim Croce's, Bad, Bad, LeRoy Brown. An album was recorded: Jack Stalucup and Orchestra, \"Meanwhile Back On The Bandstand\" BBS103, distributed and promoted by RCI Records (RCI Music Promotion) this helped to gain radio airplay on stations and areas not reached before.. The orchestra also benefited in later", "title": "Jack Staulcup Orchestra" }, { "id": "2317623", "text": "with Tracey Jackson. Paul Williams (songwriter) Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter and actor. He is known for writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's \"An Old Fashioned Love Song\" and \"Out in the Country,\" Helen Reddy's \"You and Me Against the World,\" David Bowie's \"Fill Your Heart\" and the Carpenters' \"We've Only Just Begun\" and \"Rainy Days and Mondays.\" Williams is also known for his musical contributions to films, including the Academy Award-nominated song \"Rainbow Connection\" from \"The Muppet Movie\", and penning", "title": "Paul Williams (songwriter)" }, { "id": "7814285", "text": "original music for the movies \"Fragment\", produced by Lloyd Levin, \"United 93\", \"Hellboy\", \"Watchmen\", \"Field of Dreams\", \"Predator\", and \"Die Hard\". He collaborated with the composer Neil Argo. In 2000, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. In 2014, Greenspoon was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma, and stopped touring with Three Dog Night. He died of cancer in North Potomac, Maryland, at the age of 67. Jimmy Greenspoon James Boyd \"Jimmy\" Greenspoon (February 7, 1948 – March 11, 2015) was an American keyboard player and composer, best known as a member of", "title": "Jimmy Greenspoon" }, { "id": "2762425", "text": "Alan Silvestri Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor known for his film and television scores. He is best known for his frequent collaboration with Robert Zemeckis, composing for such major hit films as the \"Back to the Future\" trilogy, \"Who Framed Roger Rabbit\", \"Cast Away\", and \"Forrest Gump\", as well as the superhero films \"\", \"The Avengers\", and \"\". His other film scores include \"Predator\" and its sequel \"Predator 2\", \"The Abyss\", \"Stuart Little\", \"The Mummy Returns\", \"Lilo & Stitch\", \"Night at the Museum\", and \"Ready Player One\". He is a two-time Academy", "title": "Alan Silvestri" }, { "id": "2659199", "text": "Here\" (US #16), Bush's \"I Can Hear You Calling\", and Allen Toussaint's \"Play Something Sweet\" (US #33). Three Dog Night made its official debut in 1968 at the Whiskey a Go Go, at a 5 p.m. press party hosted by Dunhill Records. They were still in the process of making their first album \"Three Dog Night\" when they heard the favorable reactions from the hypercritical audience. The album \"Three Dog Night\" was a success with its hit songs \"One\", \"Try A Little Tenderness\", and \"Nobody\" and helped the band gain recognition and become one of the top drawing concert acts", "title": "Three Dog Night" }, { "id": "3094673", "text": "Righteousness, And Wonders of his Love.</poem> In the Latter-day Saint hymnal, the refrain in the first verse is \"And Saints and Angels Sing\" (see Joy to the World (Phelps)). Modern recordings, including those aimed at children such as VeggieTales (part of \"A Very Veggie Christmas\", \"The Singing Christmas Tree\") and Disney Sing-Along versions, often omit the third verse. A version by the Trinity Choir was very popular in 1911 and the carol has since been recorded by many artists including Andy Williams, The Supremes, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, Nat King Cole, Walter Cherry, Neil Diamond, Pat Boone, Perry", "title": "Joy to the World" }, { "id": "2762432", "text": "the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award by the City of Vienna at the yearly film music gala concert Hollywood in Vienna. Alan Silvestri Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor known for his film and television scores. He is best known for his frequent collaboration with Robert Zemeckis, composing for such major hit films as the \"Back to the Future\" trilogy, \"Who Framed Roger Rabbit\", \"Cast Away\", and \"Forrest Gump\", as well as the superhero films \"\", \"The Avengers\", and \"\". His other film scores include \"Predator\" and its sequel \"Predator 2\", \"The", "title": "Alan Silvestri" }, { "id": "13961486", "text": "Never Been to Spain \"Never Been to Spain\" is a song written by Hoyt Axton, originally released on his 1971 LP \"Joy to the World\" and later that year performed by Three Dog Night, with Cory Wells on lead vocal. It was featured on their 1971 album, \"Harmony\". The song was produced by Richard Podolor. In the US, \"Never Been to Spain\" peaked at #5 on the \"Billboard\" chart, and #18 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart in 1972. Outside of the US, \"Never Been to Spain\" reached #3 in Canada and #34 in Australia. The lyrics consist of the", "title": "Never Been to Spain" }, { "id": "3094671", "text": "common with the chorus \"Lift up your heads\" from \"Messiah\" (premiered 1742), and the third line recalls the arioso \"Comfort ye\" from the same oratorio, but this resemblance is dismissed as 'chance resemblance' by Handel scholars today. A 1986 article by John Wilson showed 's close resemblance to a predecessor titled and associated with Wesley's hymn \"O Joyful Sound\", with one publication firmly dated 1833, three years earlier than Mason's first version. The text appears thus in \"The Psalms of David : imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and apply'd to the Christian State and Worship\" (London 1719):", "title": "Joy to the World" }, { "id": "1460739", "text": "commercial success, but critics liked it (it won a \"Record of the Year\" award from \"Stereo Review\" magazine), and it paved the way for Newman's 1970 release, \"12 Songs\", a more stripped-down sound that showcased Newman's piano. Ry Cooder's slide guitar and contributions from Byrds members Gene Parsons and Clarence White helped to give the album a much rootsier feel. \"12 Songs\" was also critically acclaimed (6th best album of the seventies according to \"Rolling Stone\" critic Robert Christgau), but again found little commercial success, though Three Dog Night made a huge hit of his \"Mama Told Me Not to", "title": "Randy Newman" }, { "id": "1355639", "text": "be written that become popular carols. For example, many of the carols written by Alfred Burt are sung regularly in both sacred and secular settings, and are among the better known modern Christmas carols. Almost all the well-known carols were not sung in church until the second half of the 19th century. \"Hymns Ancient and Modern 1861–1874\" included several carols. Isaac Watts, the \"father of English hymnody\", composed \"Joy to the World\", which has become a popular Christmas carol even though it is widely believed that Watts did not write it to be sung only at Christmas. Charles Wesley wrote", "title": "Christmas carol" }, { "id": "4646538", "text": "of Latter-day Saints uses the Phelps text except for the first two lines, which reflect Watts' original words. The changes were made by W. W. Phelps from the original version written by Isaac Watts. Joy to the world, the Lord will come! And earth receive her King; Let ev'ry heart prepare him room, And saints and angels sing. Rejoice! rejoice! when Jesus reigns! And saints their songs employ: While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy. No more will sin and sorrow grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He'll come and make the blessings flow Far", "title": "Joy to the World (Phelps)" }, { "id": "15251324", "text": "he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. His single from \"x\", \"Thinking Out Loud\", earned him two Grammy Awards at the 2016 ceremony: Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. In May 2016, \"x\" was named the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015. Sheeran's third album, \"÷\" (pronounced \"divide\"), was released in March 2017. The album debuted at number one in the UK, the US and other major markets. The first two singles from the album, \"Shape of You\" and \"Castle on the Hill\", were released", "title": "Ed Sheeran" }, { "id": "6677041", "text": "The World (Brad Paisley song) \"The World\" is a song written by Lee Thomas Miller, and co-written and recorded by American country music singer Brad Paisley. It was released in March 2006 as the third single from Paisley's 2005 album \"Time Well Wasted\". It reached the top of the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart and also peaked at number 45 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Paisley wrote this song with Kelley Lovelace and Lee Thomas Miller. The singer uses a play on words to declare his love, saying, \"to the world, you may be just another girl / But", "title": "The World (Brad Paisley song)" }, { "id": "10568984", "text": "well as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. John Bettis currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife Mary and his two children Wyatt and Conway. John Bettis John Bettis (born October 24, 1946) is an American lyricist who has co-written many famous popular songs over the years. In 2011, Bettis was inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was originally part of the band Spectrum, which also featured Richard and Karen Carpenter. He wrote the lyrics for \"Top of the World\", a huge hit for both Lynn Anderson", "title": "John Bettis" }, { "id": "3780209", "text": "every Red Sox win at Fenway Park, the first being \"Dirty Water\" by The Standells. The third is \"Joy to the World\" by Three Dog Night. Trot Nixon used \"Tessie\" as his at-bat intro music when he played for the Red Sox. \"Tessie\" was played at the end of regulation, prior to the start of overtime during the National Hockey League's 2010 Winter Classic at Fenway Park. A synthesized version of \"Tessie\" is used by Red Sox ticketing, as the signal a customer has been selected from the team's virtual waiting room to purchase tickets during busy periods. The Dropkick", "title": "Tessie" }, { "id": "12706695", "text": "One (Harry Nilsson song) \"One\" is a song written by Harry Nilsson and made famous by Three Dog Night whose recording reached number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1969 and number four in Canada. The song is known for its opening line \"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do\". Nilsson wrote the song after calling someone and getting a busy signal. He stayed on the line listening to the \"beep, beep, beep, beep...\" tone, writing the song. The busy signal became the opening notes of the song. In 1968, Al Kooper released the song on", "title": "One (Harry Nilsson song)" }, { "id": "2659195", "text": "vocalists, Danny Hutton (who got his start with Hanna-Barbera Records in 1964), Chuck Negron and Cory Wells (who landed a recording contract with Dunhill Records) first came together in 1967 and made some recordings with Brian Wilson while the Beach Boys were working on the album \"Wild Honey\", and initially went by the name of Redwood. Shortly after abandoning the Redwood moniker in 1968, the vocalists hired a group of backing musicians – Ron Morgan on guitar, Floyd Sneed on drums, Joe Schermie from the Cory Wells Blues Band on bass, and Jimmy Greenspoon on keyboards – and soon took", "title": "Three Dog Night" }, { "id": "9035742", "text": "hit for them in late 1970. It was nominated for a Grammy for Song of the Year, was included on BMI's million performances list and received an award for selling a million copies of sheet music. The song was also covered by Curtis Mayfield among many others. \"Times of Your Life\", written with Lane and performed by Paul Anka, had reached number one on the Adult Contemporary chart (3–10 January 1976). Another Nichols-Williams song, \"Out in the Country\" by Three Dog Night (later covered by R.E.M.), reached the Top Ten. Six months later, \"Rainy Days and Mondays\" was another gold", "title": "Roger Nichols (songwriter)" }, { "id": "2762473", "text": "single from \"The Hunger Games\" movies and both Howard's and Lawrence's first chart single. In 2014, Howard scored two Academy Award-nominated films, \"Nightcrawler\" and \"Maleficent\". Howard composed the score for the fantasy drama \"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them\", a spin-off/prequel of the \"Harry Potter\" film series, and for its sequel, \"\". In May 2008, he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music. In October 2015, he was honored with the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award during the annual Hollywood in Vienna concert. James Newton Howard James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is", "title": "James Newton Howard" }, { "id": "846574", "text": "the \"Billboard\" 200, and fifteen weeks at number one in the Australian ARIA Charts. He earned two ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for \"The First Cut Is the Deepest\", and the song has been a hit for four artists. His other hit songs include \"Father and Son\", \"Wild World\", \"Peace Train\", \"Moonshadow\", and \"Morning Has Broken\". In 2007 he received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam, and he adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned", "title": "Cat Stevens" }, { "id": "2806770", "text": "hit LP \"Love Language\" and then the platinum selling \"Joy\" LP, released in 1988, which featured the Grammy nominated title song, an R&B number 1; his comeback was cemented by an appearance at the Live Aid concert in 1985. Melvin replaced Pendergrass with David Ebo while Jerry Cummings remained with Harold Melvin. The Blue Notes departed Philadelphia International (who had signed Pendergrass for solo recordings) and joined ABC Records in 1977, where they recorded two albums produced by Melvin. \"Reaching for the World\" (#7 R&B, #74 pop) became the group's last major-selling single. Harold Melvin, Jerry Cummings, and new members", "title": "Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes" }, { "id": "18168443", "text": "also featured on \"We Love Disney\" (2014) album singing \"A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes\" from \"Cinderella\". Her rendition of \"Joy to the World\" was released on The Salvation Army's \"Spirit of Christmas 2014\" album. On 10 January 2016, Nissen was confirmed to be taking part in the \"Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2016\", Denmark's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, with the song \"Never Alone\". The song was written by Danish Eurovision winner Emmelie de Forest, producer Rune Westberg, and American singer and songwriter MoZella. She ended up placing second in the final with 36% of", "title": "Anja Nissen" }, { "id": "15810685", "text": "and “Lead Us Back.” Sojourn responded to the newfound demand for their worship songs by re-recording their \"Songs For The Advent\", including new material and the musical contributions of newer members. They called the reformulated album \"Advent Songs\", and it garnered positive mentions in the Christian blogging community as well as Louisville’s major newspaper, the Courier Journal, and airplay on Louisville’s AAA radio station, WFPK for songs “Glory Be” and covers of Christmas standards “O Come All Ye Faithful” and “Joy To The World,” (the latter of which features a new melody written by Jamie Barnes). In 2008 Cosper began", "title": "Sojourn Music" }, { "id": "9812000", "text": "Alan Gordon (songwriter) Alan Lee Gordon (April 22, 1944 – November 22, 2008) was an American songwriter best known for songs recorded by The Turtles, Petula Clark, and Barbra Streisand. Many of his songs were co-written with Gary Bonner, including The Turtles' \"Happy Together\" and Three Dog Night's \"Celebrate\". He worked with various popular musicians, including Blues Magoos, Alice Cooper, The Archies, The O'Jays, Lynn Anderson, Flo & Eddie, Frank Zappa, Helen Reddy, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Tammy Wynette, The Lovin' Spoonful, Bobby Darin, and Freddy Fender. Gordon was born in Natick, Massachusetts. In 1965, Gordon and Garry Bonner", "title": "Alan Gordon (songwriter)" }, { "id": "8483023", "text": "AJ, along with executive producers Armato and James, adapted and arranged most of the cover songs on the album. Many of the songs incorporate heavy instrumentation, such as guitar, cello, percussion, bass, and piano. The album is mainly composed of cover versions of Christmas carols and contemporary holiday classics, while two original numbers are included. \"Joy to the World\", \"We Three Kings\", \"The First Noel\", \"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen\", and \"Silent Night\" are religious traditional carols. Also included are the traditional \"Deck the Halls\", as well as \"I'll Be Home for Christmas\", \"The Little Drummer Boy\", originally performed by", "title": "Acoustic Hearts of Winter" }, { "id": "15126576", "text": "from critics, who embraced the song as a shift in the puppy love content of the album. After the release of My World, due to digital sales, the song charted in the lower regions of charts in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. \"Down to Earth\" was written by Bieber, Mason \"MdL\" Levy, Carlos and Steven Battey of The Jackie Boyz, and Kevin Risto and Waynne Nugent of Midi Mafia. It was recorded at Icon Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, and it was mixed at Larrabee Studios in North Hollywood, California. The track was one of three songs on", "title": "Down to Earth (Justin Bieber song)" }, { "id": "9448774", "text": "Mouse Club.\" Sa-Fire's debut self-titled album peaked at #84 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and at #79 on the Billboard Hot 200. Other singles of hers that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 include \"Gonna Make It\" and \"Made Up My Mind.\" In 1989, she covered \"I Will Survive\" for the soundtrack of the film \"She-Devil,\" which incorporated a house and hip-hop element into the 1970s disco hit. In 1991, Sa-Fire was featured in \"A Christmas Message\" with Mercury/PolyGram Records labelmates Vanessa L. Williams and Brian McKnight, with her rendition of \"Joy to the World.\" Sa-Fire teamed up with Tommy", "title": "Sa-Fire" }, { "id": "8573976", "text": "of the Three Dog Night song \"Joy to the World\" on the 24 September 2015 episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to celebrate Pope Francis's trip to the US. Jerusalem International YMCA Jerusalem International YMCA is a YMCA branch in Jerusalem established in the early twentieth century. In 1924, Archibald Clinton Harte, General Secretary of the International YMCA, raised the sum of one million dollars towards the construction of the building. Harte developed a vision for a permanent Y building and worked tirelessly planning every detail. For years, he cultivated donors who shared his vision of a “Sermon", "title": "Jerusalem International YMCA" }, { "id": "15871698", "text": "Hugh Martin), John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie's \"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town\", and \"White Christmas\", originally by Irving Berlin. \"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)\", originally by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells, \"The Little Drummer Boy (Carol of the Drum)\" (Katherine Kennicott Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone), Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr's \"Silent Night\", and \"Joy to the World\" (George Frideric Handel, Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts) follow. The album closes with a rendition of Adolphe Adam and John Sullivan Dwight's \"O Holy Night\". Critical reception of the album was positive overall. Jon Pareles of", "title": "12 Songs of Christmas (Etta James album)" }, { "id": "19654234", "text": "Marshmello Christopher Comstock (born May 19, 1992), known professionally as Marshmello, is an American electronic music producer and DJ. He first gained international recognition by releasing remixes of songs by Jack Ü and Zedd. His debut studio album, \"Joytime\", was released in January 2016 consisting of its lead single and Marshmello's debut career single \"Keep It Mello\", in which Mexican rapper Omar LinX is featured. He is best known for the songs \"Silence\", \"Wolves\", \"Friends\" and \"Happier\", all of which have been certified multi-platinum in many countries and appeared in the Top 30 of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Marshmello's second", "title": "Marshmello" }, { "id": "2659211", "text": "it was announced that singer David Morgan (a former member of the Association) would be joining Three Dog Night on the road. In April 2017 Howard Laravea (formerly of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons) replaced Eddie Reasoner on keyboards. Three Dog Night Three Dog Night is an American rock band. They formed in 1967 with a line-up consisting of vocalists Danny Hutton, Cory Wells, and Chuck Negron. This lineup was soon augmented by Jimmy Greenspoon (keyboards), Joe Schermie (bass), Michael Allsup (guitar), and Floyd Sneed (drums). The band registered 21 \"Billboard\" Top 40 hits (with three hitting number one)", "title": "Three Dog Night" }, { "id": "3404784", "text": "and the Girl\". In 1972, Schwartz was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1981, he was inducted in 1981 into the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 1990, Schwartz's hit, \"That's Entertainment\" from the film \"The Band Wagon\", was awarded the ASCAP Award for Most Performed Feature Film Standard. Schwartz collaborated with some of the best lyricists of his day, including Dietz, Dorothy Fields, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Edward Heyman, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Leo Robin, and Al Stillman. See the section Arthur Schwartz (1900–1984) in . The following is a selection of songs composed by Arthur", "title": "Arthur Schwartz" }, { "id": "5228391", "text": "Christmas Is You\", the album's debut single, was written by Carey and Afanasieff, which was sent to top-forty and adult contemporary stations, with the video having been filmed the year before. Another track they wrote, \"Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)\", was sent to R&B stations, with \"Jesus Born on This Day\", another original song, being sent to Christian and gospel radio stations around the world. Additionally, Carey recorded a cover of \"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)\" by Darlene Love, as well as classics such as \"Silent Night\", \"O Holy Night\" and \"Joy to the World\". The latter song, which", "title": "Merry Christmas (Mariah Carey album)" }, { "id": "10988290", "text": "from the lyrics of “Wheel of the World.” Mayo was a judge on the CMT television series, \"Can You Duet\". Aimee and her husband and co-writer, Chris Lindsey have three children. Levi, Oscar, and Lola and three dogs Tina, Girlfriend, and Batman. They all live happily together. Aimee Mayo Aimee Mayo (born September 28, 1971) is an American songwriter, primarily known for writing country hits for artists such as Lonestar, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Kellie Pickler. Mayo owns her own publishing company, Little Blue Typewriter Music. Aimee Mayo grew up in Gadsden, Alabama. According to", "title": "Aimee Mayo" }, { "id": "13990875", "text": "the Pointer Sisters): Her 1978 solo debut (#34 R&B, #96 Pop) as well as her 1979 sophomore effort (#40 R&B, #63 Pop). During this time, Donald Baldwin’s co-writing credits included the following: “Mary Ann”, “Dream World” & “Paradise” (all three written by Donald Baldwin-Jeffrey Bowen-Jimmy Ford); from the Temptations \"Wings of Love\" LP (March 1976); “You Cannot Laugh Alone” (another “quiet storm” classic) & “If You Want My Love” (both written by Baldwin-Bowen); featured on Smokey Robinson's \"Deep in My Soul\" LP (January 1977); “I Love to Sing to You”, “I Wanna Make it in Your World”, “More and More”", "title": "Donald Charles Baldwin" }, { "id": "3866333", "text": "summer of that year. When \"Chicago 17\" was released in 1984, it became the veteran band's most successful selling album in their history, eventually going on to sell over six million copies in the United States alone. All four singles released from the album were sung by Cetera, including three which he co-wrote, and all of them charted in the top twenty: \"Stay the Night\" (number sixteen), \"Hard Habit to Break\" (number three), \"You're the Inspiration\" (number three) and \"Along Comes a Woman\" (number fourteen). With the advent of the music video and the growing popularity of MTV, Cetera became", "title": "Peter Cetera" }, { "id": "2014413", "text": "Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Lyricist Jerome Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Michael Stoller; (born March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners. They found success as the writers of such crossover hit songs as \"Hound Dog\" (1952) and \"Kansas City\" (1952). Later in the 1950s, particularly through their work with The Coasters, they created a string of ground-breaking hits—including \"Young Blood\" (1957), \"Searchin'\" (1957), and \"Yakety Yak\" (1958)—that used the humorous vernacular of teenagers sung in a style that was openly theatrical rather than personal. They were the first to surround black", "title": "Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller" }, { "id": "15433060", "text": "Brown, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Grascals and Willie Nelson. His song \"Midnight Flyer\" was recorded by the Eagles. His song \"Dropkick Me, Jesus\" was a No. 17 country hit for Bobby Bare in 1976. He also wrote Moe Bandy's \"Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life\" and T. Graham Brown's \"Come as You Were\" among others. Craft was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on October 5, 2014. Craft died at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee on October 18, 2014 at the age of 76. Paul Craft Paul Craft (August 12, 1938 – October 18, 2014) was an American", "title": "Paul Craft" }, { "id": "10600964", "text": "Joy (Marvin Gaye song) \"Joy\" is a 1983 single released by Marvin Gaye, the final single issued from his \"Midnight Love\" album. The song, which was built around a funk vibe, was inspired by Gaye's religious background, which had also inspired songs such as \"God is Love\", \"Everybody Needs Love\" and \"Praise\". Gaye introduced the song as a tribute to his father during his 1983 concert tour. 7\" single 12\" single The song peaked at number seventy-eight on the \"Billboard\" R&B singles chart, and was the last single Gaye released while alive. Three later posthumous releases would reach the \"Billboard\"", "title": "Joy (Marvin Gaye song)" }, { "id": "9648835", "text": "Stephen J. Lawrence Stephen J. Lawrence ( Stephen Lawrence) is an American composer, living and working in New York City. He has composed more than 300 songs and scores for \"Sesame Street\", resulting in three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition; composed the title song and four others for Marlo Thomas's \"Free to Be... You and Me\", the landmark million-selling record, book and Emmy Award- and Peabody Award-winning ABC television special; composed the million-selling Gold Record \"You Take My Breath Away\"; scored the Robert De Niro movie \"Bang the Drum Slowly\" and the cult horror classic", "title": "Stephen J. Lawrence" }, { "id": "5713215", "text": "\"I Want That Man\" which was written by Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie of the Thompson Twins. Bailey also co-produced the track and played keyboards on it. The single made the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart and was Harry's biggest solo chart success in Australia, where it reached #2. Other singles released from the album included \"Kiss It Better\", \"Brite Side\", \"Sweet and Low\" and \"Maybe for Sure\". § = Bonus tracks on both Cassette & CD versions; ‡ = Bonus tracks on CD version only. All tracks written by Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, unless otherwise noted.", "title": "Def, Dumb & Blonde" }, { "id": "15409935", "text": "also worked with ? and the Mysterians during this period, though suggestions that he produced their hit \"96 Tears\" have been discounted by music historian Dave Marsh. Kaye co-wrote the song \"One Man Band\", which was recorded by Three Dog Night on their 1970 album \"Naturally\" and became a hit single. He also co-produced the album \"Capture the Moment\" by Jay and the Americans, with session musicians including Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, later of Steely Dan. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Kaye performed regularly in Greenwich Village with a band, White Cloud, who also appeared on many", "title": "Thomas Jefferson Kaye" }, { "id": "10597550", "text": "Smith’s longtime musical director Jim Daneker as producer for the substantial project. Christmas was recorded at Nashville’s historic Ocean Way Studio. Anchoring the project was CeCe Winans’ extraordinary version of “O Holy Night.” Christmas included ten of Cardall’s stunning instrumental interpretations of such timeless classics as “Hark The Herald Angels Sing,” “Joy to the World” and “Away in a Manger.” In addition to Winans, Cardall invited two other vocalists to make appearances. Award-winning singer/songwriter Audrey Assad offers an ethereal interpretation of “In the Bleak Midwinter,” and Australian Broadway star Patrice Tipoki soars on Cardall’s original “Son Of God.” Paul Cardall", "title": "Paul Cardall" }, { "id": "3017040", "text": "go on to be certified 3x platinum. It also brought Franklin another Grammy for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album, as well as three Grammy nominations. In 1996, Franklin's song \"Joy\" was recorded by Whitney Houston and the Georgia Mass Choir. With production by Houston and Mervyn Warren, the composition was included on the best-selling soundtrack to the movie \"The Preacher's Wife.\" On November 2, 1998, God's Property sued Franklin. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that Franklin induced God's Property founder Linda Searight into signing an \"onerous and one-sided\" contract with B-Rite Music. \"The Nu Nation Project\"", "title": "Kirk Franklin" }, { "id": "16235652", "text": "of the Heart\", by Rick Springfield. He released three solo albums, \"Danny Tate\" Charisma/Virgin (1992), \"Nobody's Perfect\" Charisma/Virgin (1995), and \"Destination X\" Noville Records (2005), meeting limited success and continued his career writing songs, composing for television shows, (\"Extra!\", \"Entertainment Tonight\", \"The Tyra Banks Show\", \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show\") and contributing to the film soundtracks of \"3000 Miles to Graceland\", \"Boys Don't Cry\", and \"How to Make an American Quilt\". David Lee Murphy, The Warren Brothers, Doro Pesch, Tim McGraw, Russ Taff, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, The Smithereens, Rick Springfield, The Oak Ridge Boys, Patti LaBelle, Jeff Healey, Billy Ray Cyrus,", "title": "Danny Tate" }, { "id": "5023333", "text": "a record was unusual for a teenage group, \"Never Can Say Goodbye\" was a number-two hit for three consecutive weeks on the \"Billboard\" Pop Singles chart, stuck behind Three Dog Night's \"Joy to the World\" (May 8-May 22, 1971), and a number-one hit on the \"Billboard\" Black Singles chart in the United States. In the United Kingdom, it reached number 33 on the UK Singles Chart. Notable televised performances of the song by the Jackson 5 (and their newer incarnation, The Jacksons) include: In addition, the song appeared on the animated TV show \"The Jackson 5ive\" in the episode \"A", "title": "Never Can Say Goodbye" }, { "id": "6455054", "text": "WCLF WCLF, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 21), is a religious television station licensed to Clearwater, Florida, United States and serving Tampa and St. Petersburg. It serves as the flagship station of the nationwide Christian Television Network (CTN), which has owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. WCLF's studios are located on 142nd Avenue in nearby Largo, and its transmitter is located near Riverview. WCLF and CTN present programs produced in-house, such as the long-running children's show \"Joy Junction\" (which, in the early-1980s, had their version of Three Dog Night's \"Joy to the World\" as", "title": "WCLF" }, { "id": "2801122", "text": "Papers\", a successful vehicle for Harry Secombe. Later collaborators included Henry Mancini (\"Victor/Victoria\" in 1982 and Tom and Jerry The Movie in 1992) and John Williams (\"Hook\" in 1991). As composer and lyricist he scored the notorious box office film flop, \"Doctor Dolittle\" (1967), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Original Song (\"Talk to the Animals\"), and the less-successful \"Goodbye, Mr. Chips\" (1969). Sammy Davis Jr. had hits with two of Bricusse's songs, \"What Kind of Fool Am I?\" (from \"Stop the World - I Want to Get Off\") and \"The Candy Man\" (from \"Willy Wonka &", "title": "Leslie Bricusse" }, { "id": "2852474", "text": "(although one strip shows his parents named him after a lyric in \"Joy to the World\" by Three Dog Night, \"Jeremiah was a bullfrog\".) and was once mentioned to have an older brother named Chad, who is away in college. Jeremy spends much of his time with his friends and trying to impress love interest and part-time girlfriend, Sara Toomey. Jeremy was once told by his mother he was conceived to the song \"Stairway to Heaven\". When not at school or with his friends, Jeremy is often embarrassed and/or lectured by his parents, Walt and Connie Duncan. For example: He", "title": "Zits (comics)" }, { "id": "2938543", "text": "woman. The song was recorded live, in three takes. Thomas wasn't aware that it was going to be released as a single until he heard it on the radio. It was a massive hit, spending 58 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. \"Billboard\" later named it the number 2 Hot 100 song of all time. It won three Grammy Awards, for Best Record, Best Song, and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. Its success earned him instant credibility as a songwriter. BMI named Thomas its 1999 Pop Songwriter of the Year for \"Smooth\" and his Matchbox 20 songs. \"Smooth\" increased", "title": "Rob Thomas (musician)" }, { "id": "3441899", "text": "he wrote or co-wrote songs, including two hits for Gary Lewis and the Playboys: \"Everybody Loves a Clown\" (which reached the \"Billboard\" Top 40 on October 9, 1965, remaining on the chart for eight weeks and reaching number 4) and \"She's Just My Style\" (which entered the \"Billboard\" Top 40 on December 18, 1965, and rose to number 3). In 1964, he appeared on various TV shows, performing songs by Chuck Berry and others. He played xylophone and bells on the 1966 single \"The Joker Went Wild\", sung by Brian Hyland and written by Bobby Russell (no relation to Leon).", "title": "Leon Russell" }, { "id": "11338564", "text": "The Many Moods of Christmas The Many Moods of Christmas is 1963 LP of eighteen Christmas carols conducted by Robert Shaw, grouped into four suites. The carols were arranged for chorus and orchestra by famed Broadway orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett. The following is a listing of the suites and the music that each suite contains: \"Suite One\" Good Christian Men, Rejoice — Silent Night — Patapan — O Come, All Ye Faithful \"Suite Two\" O Sanctissima — Joy to the World — Away in a Manger — Fum Fum Fum — March of the Kings \"Suite Three\" What Child is", "title": "The Many Moods of Christmas" }, { "id": "11338568", "text": "The Many Moods of Christmas The Many Moods of Christmas is 1963 LP of eighteen Christmas carols conducted by Robert Shaw, grouped into four suites. The carols were arranged for chorus and orchestra by famed Broadway orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett. The following is a listing of the suites and the music that each suite contains: \"Suite One\" Good Christian Men, Rejoice — Silent Night — Patapan — O Come, All Ye Faithful \"Suite Two\" O Sanctissima — Joy to the World — Away in a Manger — Fum Fum Fum — March of the Kings \"Suite Three\" What Child is", "title": "The Many Moods of Christmas" }, { "id": "12706696", "text": "his debut album \"I Stand Alone\". In 1969, the song was recorded by Australian pop singer Johnny Farnham, reaching number four on the \"Go-Set\" National Top 40 Chart. \"One\" was released as the second single from Three Dog Night's eponymous first album. It became their first of seven gold records over the next five years. The song reached number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and spent three weeks at number two on the \"Cash Box\" Top 100. It also reached number four in Canada. One (Harry Nilsson song) \"One\" is a song written by Harry Nilsson and made", "title": "One (Harry Nilsson song)" }, { "id": "12600620", "text": "to That All Night\" and Gold Top 5 single \"What Do You Want\". He has also co-written three singles for Garth Brooks: the chart topping Chris LeDoux tribute \"Good Ride Cowboy\", as well as \"That Girl Is a Cowboy\" and \"Midnight Sun\". Jamey Johnson, Lee Brice, Blake Shelton, Colbie Caillat, Diamond Rio, The Cadillac Three, Mark Chesnutt, John Anderson, Neal McCoy, Christian Kane, and Julie Roberts have also recorded Niemann's songs. Niemann has appeared as a guest artist on The Doobie Brothers \"Southbound\". As a singer and songwriter, Niemann has sold over 20 million albums and downloads. Niemann was born", "title": "Jerrod Niemann" }, { "id": "9575445", "text": "the supervisor of young choruses for the City of Los Angeles, most notably the \"Los Angeles Concert Youth Chorus.\" It was from a madrigal group of twelve of these singers that the Roger Wagner Chorale was born in 1946. The Roger Wagner Chorale became recognized the world over through its numerous radio, concert, and television appearances, motion picture soundtracks (\"The Gallant Hours\"), and more than eighty recordings. They were also famous for singing the theme song and \"score\" for \"I Married Joan\". The \"Virtuoso\" recording won a Grammy Award in 1959, and the popular carol recording \"Joy to the World\"", "title": "Roger Wagner" }, { "id": "11923725", "text": "Bob McDill Robert Lee \"Bob\" McDill (born April 4, 1944 in Walden (near Beaumont), Texas) is an American retired songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000, he has written songs for many country music artists, including 31 number one hits, as well as songs for Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Anne Murray, Juice Newton, and other popular artists. In addition to four Grammy nominations, McDill has received Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the Nashville Songwriters Association International. In October 2012, he was awarded ASCAP's Golden Note Award in", "title": "Bob McDill" }, { "id": "2014428", "text": "hit for The Drifters in 1959, which introduced the use of strings for saxophone-like riffs, tympani for the Brazilian \"baion\" rhythm they incorporated, and lavish production values into the established black R&B sound, laying the groundwork for the soul music that would follow. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Lyricist Jerome Leiber (April 25, 1933 – August 22, 2011) and composer Michael Stoller; (born March 13, 1933) were American songwriting and record producing partners. They found success as the writers of such crossover hit songs as \"Hound Dog\" (1952) and \"Kansas City\" (1952). Later in the 1950s, particularly through their work", "title": "Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller" }, { "id": "8999968", "text": "Be Continued ...\" 4-CD boxed set, and on Mercury's 2-CD \"Rare Masters\" set in the early 1990s, prior to its inclusion as a bonus track on the CD reissue of \"Empty Sky\" in 1995. Bernie Taupin remembers in \"His Song: The Musical Journey of Elton John\" by Elizabeth Rosenthal that the song was the first to represent the songwriting team's new direction, courtesy of advice from producer Steve Brown, who suggested the two should write what they like and please themselves, not the marketplace. American rock group Three Dog Night recorded the song in 1969. It appeared as the second", "title": "Lady Samantha" }, { "id": "17061042", "text": "\"YOLO\" was written by all performers of the track, The Lonely Island, Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar. Also credited for songwriting are Rhiannon Bryan and Rhydian Davies, members of the Welsh alternative rock band The Joy Formidable, whose 2011 single \"Whirring\" is sampled throughout the song. The song was produced by Needlz, who had previously worked with Lupe Fiasco and 50 Cent. The song was originally planned to feature Katy Perry, but two weeks before the song was released, this was changed to feature Maroon 5's Adam Levine, who was hosting \"Saturday Night Live\" the same night, and Kendrick Lamar,", "title": "YOLO (song)" }, { "id": "9404721", "text": "Christmas at the White House Christmas at the White House: Burl Ives Sings the Favorite Carols and Hymns of America's Presidents is a 1972 album by Burl Ives. It purports to be a collection of twelve presidents' favorite Christmas songs. It has not yet been released on CD. Some of the selections were apparently based on speculation. For example, John Adams may have favored the rendition of \"Joy to the World\" by American composer William Billings because the Adamses attended Billings's church in Boston. Other selections were based on authoritative sources, such as presidential writings and direct communication with presidents'", "title": "Christmas at the White House" } ]

[ "Bharat Ram" ]

[ { "id": "20236513", "text": "Bharat Ane Nenu Bharat Ane Nenu (English: \"I, Bharat\") is a 2018 Indian Telugu-language political action drama film written and directed by Koratala Siva, starring Mahesh Babu, Kiara Advani and Prakash Raj in the lead roles. The film is about Bharat, a student who unexpectedly becomes the leader of Andhra Pradesh and his attempts to reform politics. Bharat Ram (Mahesh Babu), a brilliant but uncertain student with an unquenchable thrist for knowledge, graduates with his 5th degree from Oxford. At his uncle's (Saakshi Sivaa) house, Bharat comes to learn that his father, Chief Minister of (at the time undivided) Andhra", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "20236522", "text": "grossed around 230 crores in its full theatrical run. Bharat Ane Nenu Bharat Ane Nenu (English: \"I, Bharat\") is a 2018 Indian Telugu-language political action drama film written and directed by Koratala Siva, starring Mahesh Babu, Kiara Advani and Prakash Raj in the lead roles. The film is about Bharat, a student who unexpectedly becomes the leader of Andhra Pradesh and his attempts to reform politics. Bharat Ram (Mahesh Babu), a brilliant but uncertain student with an unquenchable thrist for knowledge, graduates with his 5th degree from Oxford. At his uncle's (Saakshi Sivaa) house, Bharat comes to learn that his", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "20236520", "text": "the first South Indian song sung by Farhan Akhtar, was shot in Spain with Mahesh Babu, and choreographed by Raju Sundaram. The audio launch/pre-release event took place in the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium on April 7, 2018. N. T. Rama Rao Jr., a well-known actor in the Telugu film industry and a close friend of the superstar, attended the event as its chief guest. Star Maa has taken television rights and Amazon Video is set to premiere the film on 9 June 2018 digitally. The soundtrack of the film was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. Three songs, \"Bharat Ane Nenu\",", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "20236521", "text": "\"Vachaadayyo Swami\" and \"I Don't Know\", were released as singles. The audio launch/pre-release event took place in the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium on April 7, 2018. Farhan Akhtar lent his voice for the song \"I Don't Know\", which is first time for a South Indian movie. All five songs were penned by Ramajogayya Sastry. The film was released on 20 April 2018 to positive reviews and became the 3rd highest-grossing Telugu movie of all time. The film's dubbed versions were later released in Tamil as \"Bharat Ennum Naan\" and in Malayalam as \"Bharat Ennum Njan\" on 31 May 2018. It", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "20236518", "text": "of the political class, including his own party members who create trouble for him and try to stop him from bringing changes to the society. How he tackles them and removes corruption from the system forms the rest of the story. Intertwined is a love story of Bharat and Vasumathi (Kiara Advani), an MBA graduate who sets out to help him in his purpose. DVV Danayya announced that they would produce a film with Mahesh Babu directed by Koratala Siva in mid-2016. Devi Sri Prasad (DSP) was said to do the music for this film. \"M.S. Dhoni\"-famed Kiara Advani played", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "5982388", "text": "grace. The film was criticized by the public, due to the lack of a proper story. Mahesh stated that this was an error of judgement, where he had picked the wrong director. Mahesh later appeared in the Telugu-Tamil bilingual \"Spyder\", directed by A. R. Murugadoss, which finally marked his Tamil cinema debut. In 2017, his film \"Spyder\" grossed over ₹113 Crores at the box office. His next film was a political thriller titled \"Bharat Ane Nenu\", directed by Koratala Siva and co-starred with Kiara Advani\".\" In this film, he played the role of a CM. It went on to become", "title": "Mahesh Babu" }, { "id": "20236519", "text": "the role of the Chief Minister's girlfriend. Sarath Kumar was roped in to play the role of Mahesh Babu's father and Prakash Raj signed in to play the antagonist. Actor Devaraj, who played prominent antagonistic roles in Telugu cinemas in the first decade of the 21st century, was noted to appear in a Telugu film after a gap of 11 years through \"Bharat Ane Nenu\", where he played the role of leader of the opposition party. Stunt duo Ram-Laxman performed the stunt choreography for this film. Dance choreography was performed by Raju Sundaram, Dinesh Kumar and Raghu. \"I Don't Know\",", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "5982366", "text": "\"Murari\" (2001), and the action melodrama \"Okkadu\" (2003). He went on to act in other commercially successful films such as \"Arjun\" (2004), \"Athadu\" (2005), \"Pokiri\" (2006), \"Dookudu\" (2011), \"Businessman\" (2012), \"Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu\" (2013), \"\" (2014), \"Srimanthudu\" (2015), and \"Bharat Ane Nenu\" (2018), some of which rank among the List of highest-grossing Telugu films. To date, he has won eight Nandi Awards, five Filmfare Awards, three CineMAA Awards, three South Indian International Movie Awards and one International Indian Film Academy Award. Mahesh has been cited in the media as one of the most attractive male celebrities in India. His", "title": "Mahesh Babu" }, { "id": "20236515", "text": "importance of promises. The very next day, Bharat finds that she has died in her sleep, causing his father to stay at home to take care of Bharat. Soon after her death, Varadarajulu points out to Raghava Raju that he has to get back outside to prepare for the coming elections and suggests that he remarry to find a new mother for Bharat. However, Bharat is not close to his stepmother (Sithara) and instead spends time at his friend Subash's house. After Subash's parents get jobs in London, Bharat wants to come with them. At first his father hesitates, but", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "18025529", "text": "Kiara Advani Kiara Alia Advani (born Alia Advani on 31 July 1992) is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Hindi and Telugu films. After making her acting debut in the 2014 comedy film \"Fugly\", Advani went on to star in several commercial and critically successful films, such as the sports film \"\" (2016), the Netflix anthology film \"Lust Stories\" (2018), and the Telugu political drama \"Bharat Ane Nenu\" (2018). Kiara Advani was born to Jagdeep Advani, a Sindhi businessman and Genevieve Jaffrey, a teacher of Punjabi, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, and Spanish ancestry. Born as Alia Advani, Advani changed her", "title": "Kiara Advani" }, { "id": "20236514", "text": "Pradesh Raghava Raju (R. Sarathkumar), was hospitalised and died from a stroke. On a flight to his familial home in Hyderabad, Bharat reminisces about his past. As a child, Bharat is scolded by his mother (Aamani) for eating ice cream against medical advice, and he promises her he won't eat it again. Raghava Raju, busy with a new political party (the Navodayam Party) that he and his friend Varadarajulu (Prakash Raj) formed, is shown to be too busy to spend time with his family. After Bharat is found to have eaten ice cream again, his mother reminds him on the", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "20236516", "text": "soon agrees to let them study together. Back in the present, Bharat is greeted by an onslaught of camera flashes as he comes back to his familial home. Soon after arriving, he meets with Varadarajulu, where he learns that his father, an asthmatic, had to go to the hospital due to the cold weather taking a toll on him, and that the final rituals were conducted early by his younger brother Siddharth (seen earlier as a baby in his childhood), as the news of his death caused chaos in the party and the people. Speculation abounds over who the next", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "18025531", "text": "of Bollywood Hungama saying she \"catches you completely unaware\" and has the \"combination of looks and talent\". Mehul S Thakkar of Deccan Chronicle noted her performance as being \"very striking\" and said she \"shows a lot of promise,\" along with praising her versatility and range as an actor. After playing the leading lady in Abbas-Mustan's action film \"Machine\", Advani starred in the Telugu film \"Bharat Ane Nenu\", opposite Mahesh Babu. She later appeared as a shy bride in the Netflix anthology film \"Lust Stories\". Her masturbation scene in the film, using a vibrator, was praised for its frank portrayal of", "title": "Kiara Advani" }, { "id": "17631195", "text": "of release. He directed \"Bharat Ane Nenu \" starring \"Mahesh Babu\". Starting his career working as a software engineer, Siva worked as a screenwriting assistant as siva is the nephew of Posani Krishna Murali. Subsequently, he ventured into cinema as a Dialogue writer for films such as Okkadunnadu, Munna, Brindavanam, and Oosaravelli. Koratala Siva Koratala Siva is an Indian film director, and screenwriter known for his works in Telugu cinema. In 2013, he made his directorial debut with \"Mirchi\". In 2015, he directed \"Srimanthudu\" which was opened to positive critical reception and was a commercial success, grossing nearly 2.0 billion", "title": "Koratala Siva" }, { "id": "18272203", "text": "States box office and he has one industry hit (pokiri) and two non bahubali industry hits (srimantudu and Bharat ane nenu). His next project \"Maharshi\" which was directed by Oopiri fame Vamsi Paidipally and which is set to be released on 5 April 2019. As of May 2018 he had 24 releases as a male lead. As an actor, he has received 8 Nandi Awards (4 Best Actor, 3 Special Jury, 1 Best Debut), 5 Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Telugu. To date, he has won 8 Nandi Awards, 5 Filmfare Awards, 4 CineMAA Awards, 3 South Indian International", "title": "Mahesh Babu filmography" }, { "id": "20236517", "text": "CM will be; meanwhile, Bharat talks to Siddharth, who he later learns has been mute for many days. The next day, Bharat drives the car for a casual ride and experiences the rampant lawlessness and noise on the streets as people drive recklessly and honk horns. Meanwhile, the party meets to decide the next CM. He becomes the Chief Minister of undivided Andhra Pradesh under Varadarajulu's insistence. New to India and with no political knowledge, he learns the ropes quickly and governs efficiently whilst trying to abolish corruption. However, while he endears himself to the crowd, he makes enemies out", "title": "Bharat Ane Nenu" }, { "id": "18272201", "text": "days. In 2017 his next film \"Spyder,\"which gained mixed reviews from critics and managed to gross ₹150 crores considered as an average. His film \"Bharat Ane Nenu\" collected 66 crores in its first day and collected 1.66 crore and beats becomes highest grosser of all time in Chennai .It collected 125 crores in its second day and becomes fastest 100 crores club after bahubali series. It grosses 161 crores in its first week. It grosses 181 crores in its tenth day. It grosses 190 crores in its second week. It grosses 200 crores in between 2 to 3 weeks. It", "title": "Mahesh Babu filmography" }, { "id": "3597272", "text": "Munna Bhai film starring Dutt in the title role will begin in 2017. It went on to win the 2004 National Film Award for Best Popular Film, and several Filmfare awards, including the Critics Award for Best Movie and Best Screenplay. At the box office, it achieved a silver jubilee status (25-week run) being one of only eight films to have achieved this status since the year 2000. In its 26th week of release, the film could still be found playing on 257 screens throughout India. Murli Prasad Sharma (Sanjay Dutt), nicknamed Munna Bhai (literally Brother Munna), is a \"bhai\"", "title": "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S." }, { "id": "8855060", "text": "Rajkumar Hirani Rajkumar Hirani (born 20 November 1962) is an Indian film director and editor. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful and critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hindi film industry. Hirani is known for directing the Hindi films \"Munna Bhai M.B.B.S\" (2003), \"Lage Raho Munnabhai\" (2006),\" 3 Idiots\" (2009), \"PK\" (2014) and \"Sanju\" (2018). All of his films have been huge commercial and critical successes. Most have won several awards, including the national awards, and have often been regarded by the media and audiences as some of the most path-breaking films in the history of Indian", "title": "Rajkumar Hirani" }, { "id": "20501077", "text": "Nene Monaganni Nene Monaganni (English: I Am the Hero) is a 1968 Telugu Action crime film, produced and directed by S. D. Lal on Prathima Films banner. It stars N. T. Rama Rao, Sheela in the lead roles and the music is composed by T. V. Raju. Bhadrayya (Rajanala) a notorious, ruthless, dangerous dacoit who makes terrible extorsions. DSP Nandana Rao (Satyanarayana) is appointed to catch him. Nandana Rao leads a happy family life with his dedicated wife Yashoda (Santha Kumari) and his brother-in-law Inspector Mutyala Rao (Dhulipala) assist him in the case. Bhadrayya has a son Nani whom he", "title": "Nene Monaganni" }, { "id": "8149462", "text": "Lage Raho Munna Bhai Lage Raho Munna Bhai ( ) is a 2006 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It is the follow-up to the 2003 film \"Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.\" with Sanjay Dutt reprising his role as Munna Bhai, a Mumbai (Bombay) underworld don. In \"Lage Raho Munna Bhai\", the eponymous lead character starts to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi. Through his interactions with Gandhi, he begins to practice what he refers to as \"Gandhigiri\" (a neologism for Gandhism) to help ordinary people solve their problems. The film won widespread critical acclaim", "title": "Lage Raho Munna Bhai" }, { "id": "8855067", "text": "year 2018 and also one of the highest grossing Indian films. Rajkumar Hirani Rajkumar Hirani (born 20 November 1962) is an Indian film director and editor. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful and critically acclaimed filmmakers of the Hindi film industry. Hirani is known for directing the Hindi films \"Munna Bhai M.B.B.S\" (2003), \"Lage Raho Munnabhai\" (2006),\" 3 Idiots\" (2009), \"PK\" (2014) and \"Sanju\" (2018). All of his films have been huge commercial and critical successes. Most have won several awards, including the national awards, and have often been regarded by the media and audiences as", "title": "Rajkumar Hirani" }, { "id": "16312195", "text": "Nuvva Nena Nuvva Nena (\"You or me\") is a Telugu romantic comedy film directed by debutante P. Narayana and produced by Vamsi Krishna under SVK Cinema banner. The film stars Shriya Saran, Allari Naresh, Sharvanand, and Vimala Raman in lead roles with Brahmanandam, Ali, Jeeva, Srinivasa Reddy, Raghu and Kovai Sarala appearing in other significant roles. Bheems Ceciroleo composed the film's soundtrack with Mani Sharma providing the background score for the film. It is based on Hindi film \"Deewana Mastana\". The film was a disaster at the box office. Avinash (Allari Naresh) is a small-time crook who creates havoc in", "title": "Nuvva Nena" }, { "id": "6178185", "text": "Anbe Sivam Anbe Sivam () is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Sundar C. with K. Muralitharan, V. Swaminathan and G. Venugopal under the banner of Lakshmi Movie Makers. The film was written by Kamal Haasan, and Madhan provided the dialogues. \"Anbe Sivam\" features Haasan, R. Madhavan and Kiran Rathod in the lead roles, with Nassar, Santhana Bharathi, Seema and Uma Riyaz Khan playing supporting characters. The film tells the story of an unexpected journey from Bhubaneswar to Chennai undertaken by two men of contrasting personalities, Nallasivam and Anbarasu. The musical score was composed by Vidyasagar.", "title": "Anbe Sivam" }, { "id": "18163513", "text": "film received an Oscar nomination. Munna Bhai (film series) Munna Bhai is an Indian Hindi language film series co-written and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under Vinod Chopra Productions banner. It consists of \"Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.\" released in 2003 and its sequel \"Lage Raho Munna Bhai\" in 2006. In June 2018, it was confirmed that a third untitled installment is in development with Hirani attached to direct again. Murli Prasad Sharma, nicknamed \"Munna Bhai\" (\"Bhai\" is a word for Don in India) is a good-hearted local gangster who engages in criminal activities. Munna Bhai pretends", "title": "Munna Bhai (film series)" }, { "id": "20321318", "text": "of \"Arjun Reddy\" and the widespread recognition furthered his career with instrumental characters in many Telugu films of 2018 such as \"Bharat Ane Nenu\", \"Sammohanam\", \"Chi La Sow\", the Amazon produced Telugu original web series titled \"Gangstars\" et al. Rahul repeated his \"hero’s best friend\" role and combination with actor Vijay Deverakonda in the film, \"Geetha Govindam\", which opened to massive collections and went on to become a commercial blockbuster in the Telugu film industry joining the 100 crore film club. Official Twitter account - https://twitter.com/eyrahul Rahul Ramakrishna Rahul Ramakrishna (born 15 January 1991) is an Indian actor, writer and", "title": "Rahul Ramakrishna" }, { "id": "18163507", "text": "Munna Bhai (film series) Munna Bhai is an Indian Hindi language film series co-written and directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra under Vinod Chopra Productions banner. It consists of \"Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.\" released in 2003 and its sequel \"Lage Raho Munna Bhai\" in 2006. In June 2018, it was confirmed that a third untitled installment is in development with Hirani attached to direct again. Murli Prasad Sharma, nicknamed \"Munna Bhai\" (\"Bhai\" is a word for Don in India) is a good-hearted local gangster who engages in criminal activities. Munna Bhai pretends to be a doctor in", "title": "Munna Bhai (film series)" }, { "id": "10054085", "text": "Mahaan Mahaan (English: \"Great\") is a 1983 Hindi action drama film produced by Satyanarayana and Suryanarayana and directed by S. Ramanathan. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan in triple roles alongside Waheeda Rehman, Parveen Babi, Zeenat Aman, Ashok Kumar, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan, Aruna Irani, Sujit Kumar and Shakti Kapoor. The music is by R.D. Burman. The song \"Pyaar Mein Dil Pe Maar De Goli\", which featured in the movie was also popular. Amitabh Bachchan played a triple role in the film after playing double roles in several of his earlier films. The concept of a \"triple role\" was unusual. Amitabh", "title": "Mahaan" }, { "id": "18682776", "text": "Phir Bhi Na Maane...Badtameez Dil Phir Bhi Na Maane...Badtameez Dil (English: \"Still Not Agreeing... The Insolent Heart\") is an Indian musical-romantic series which originally premiered on 29 June 2015 on Star Plus as a television program and ran through to 26 September 2015 before before it moved to digital platform Hotstar from 28 September 2015 till 18 November 2015. The series stars Pearl V Puri and Asmita Sood . The story revolves around Abeer Malhotra , a successful and charming rockstar, and Meher Purohit. During college, Abeer sets his eye on a simple, intellectual and pretty girl, Meher, and they", "title": "Phir Bhi Na Maane...Badtameez Dil" }, { "id": "5683252", "text": "Jimmy Sheirgill Jasjit Singh Gill (born 3 December 1970), better known as Jimmy Shergill, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. Shergill started his acting career in 1996 with the film \"Maachis\" based on the Khalistan movement and rose to prominence with the musical romantic blockbuster \"Mohabbatein\". Subsequently he featured in several commercially successful films including \"Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai\" and \"Dil Hai Tumhaara\" (2002), \"Munnabhai M.B.B.S.\" (2003), \"Hum Tum\" (2004), \"Tom Dick and Harry\" and \"Lage Raho Munnabhai\" (both 2006), \"A Wednesday!\" (2008), \"My Name Is Khan\" (2010), \"Tanu Weds Manu\"", "title": "Jimmy Sheirgill" }, { "id": "17354400", "text": "Nishpap Munna Nishpap Munna (English: \"Innocent Munna\") is a 2013 Bengali action film directed by Bodiul Alam Khukon. It stars Shakib Khan, Sahara, Misha Shadogor, Asif Ikbal and Ali Raj in supporting roles. The film was released on May 31, 2013. Upon release, the film received positive to mixed reviews and was a huge box office success. This movie is a remake of 2006's Telugu movie \"Chinnodu\" starring Sumanth, Charmme Kaur and Rahul Dev. An orphan sentenced for the murder of his foster uncle, Munna spends most of his early life in jail. Upon his release, he tries his best", "title": "Nishpap Munna" }, { "id": "5982394", "text": "child, a boy, on 31 August 2006 at the Global Hospital in Hyderabad. The boy, named Gautham Krishna, was a premature baby and was in critical condition during his birth. His condition turned stable after the doctors treated him in time. On 20 July 2012 Namrata gave birth to a girl whom they named Sitara. Before her delivery, they preserved her stem cells using stem cell banking to ensure a better immunity level. Telugu actress and filmmaker Vijaya Nirmala is Mahesh's step-mother, and actor Naresh is his step-brother. Mahesh's elder sister Padmavathi is married to Galla Jayadev, an industrialist and", "title": "Mahesh Babu" }, { "id": "20217654", "text": "Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran ( Atom: The Story of Pokhran; ) is a 2018 Indian historical action drama film directed by Abhishek Sharma and jointly written by Saiwyn Quadras, Sanyuktha Chawla Sheikh and Abhishek Sharma. It was produced by the banners Zee Studios and JA Entertainment. The film is based on the nuclear bomb test explosions conducted by the Indian Army at Pokhran in 1998. It stars John Abraham, Diana Penty and Boman Irani in lead roles. \"Parmanu\" was earlier slated to release on 8 December 2017, but was postponed to avoid clashing with", "title": "Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran" }, { "id": "11350408", "text": "Nenu Nenu (English : \"Me\") is a Telugu film released on 15 April 2004 starring Allari Naresh, Veda, and Abhishek. This film was directed by E. Sathibabu and produced by Mullapudi Brahmanandam. It's a remake of Tamil blockbuster movie \"Kaadhal Kondein\", which starred Dhanush and Sonia Agarwal in lead roles. The film was a flop at the box office but received good critical acclaim, mainly for Allari Naresh's performance as a psychotic lover. Vinod, who has grown up under the care of a church father, is an introvert but a genius. He is forcibly sent to a college in Vizag", "title": "Nenu" }, { "id": "20230505", "text": "Gaane Ki Aane Gaane Ki Aane () is a 2016 Assamese language musical romance film directed by Rajesh Jashpal. It stars Zubeen Garg and Parineeta Borthakur in the lead roles. The Story of the Film is inspired by 1973 Hindi film Abhimaan starring Amitabh Bachchan. The story is about a musical superstar Nilabh Jonak Baruah, played by Zubeen Garg, and his love and challenges. The Film is produced by Gautam Chakrabortty, Sunil Gogoi & Rajesh Jashpal under the banner of 'Raga Films' . The music of Gaane Ki Aane is composed by Zubeen Garg. Lyrics are by Zubeen, Sasanka Samir", "title": "Gaane Ki Aane" }, { "id": "18272196", "text": "centres on 3 March 2012, and a 100-day run in undisclosed number of centres on 21 April 2012. In 2013, he starred in the multistarrer film \"Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu\". The film collected 51 crores at the box office. In 2014, he starred in the psychological thriller, \"\". The film was the highest rated thrillers for an Indian film in \"Internet Movie Database\". It won three awards out of eight nominations at the 4th \"South Indian International Movie Awards\" and two awards at the 11th \"CineMAA Awards\" ceremony. A. S. Sashidhar of \"The Times of India\" wrote, \"The first half", "title": "Mahesh Babu filmography" }, { "id": "10235096", "text": "the box office. Anandi Devi (Meena Kumari) is an old widow who lives in a village. One day, she is visited by a distant relative, Arun Gupta (Ramesh Deo), who persuades her to live in town with him, his wife Lata (Sumita Sanyal), and a small child. She later realizes that they were looking for a maid, which results in her expulsion from the house and befriending a child beggar who takes her to his dilapidated home. Being good-natured and caring, she slowly earns the title of \"Nani Ma\" (maternal grandmother) among groups of youths led by Shyam (Vinod Khanna)", "title": "Mere Apne" }, { "id": "3597286", "text": "the 2004 National Film Awards where it won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film and the 2004 International Indian Film Academy Awards where it won the IIFA Best Comedian Award. Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. is a 2003 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Rajkumar Hirani (in his directorial debut) and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The story involves protagonist Munna Bhai (Sanjay Dutt), a goon, going to medical school. He is helped by his sidekick, Circuit (Arshad Warsi). It stars Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Jimmy Sheirgill, Gracy Singh, Boman Irani and Sunil Dutt and was later followed", "title": "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S." }, { "id": "10235095", "text": "Mere Apne Mere Apne () is a 1971 Hindi film produced by Romu, Raj and N. C. Sippy and written and directed by Gulzar. It was Gulzar's first directorial venture and was almost a frame by frame remake of the National Award-winning Bengali film \"Apanjan\", which was directed by Tapan Sinha. The film stars Meena Kumari, Vinod Khanna and Shatrughan Sinha in lead roles along with Deven Verma, Paintal, Asit Sen, Asrani, Danny Denzongpa, Keshto Mukherjee, A. K. Hangal, Dinesh Thakur, Mehmood and Yogeeta Bali. The music is composed by Salil Choudhury. \"Mere Apne\" was declared as \"Above Average\" at", "title": "Mere Apne" }, { "id": "17354401", "text": "to redeem himself despite facing several hurdles. The soundtrack was composed by Ali Akram, with lyrics penned by Moniruzamman Monir and Kabir Bokul. Nishpap Munna Nishpap Munna (English: \"Innocent Munna\") is a 2013 Bengali action film directed by Bodiul Alam Khukon. It stars Shakib Khan, Sahara, Misha Shadogor, Asif Ikbal and Ali Raj in supporting roles. The film was released on May 31, 2013. Upon release, the film received positive to mixed reviews and was a huge box office success. This movie is a remake of 2006's Telugu movie \"Chinnodu\" starring Sumanth, Charmme Kaur and Rahul Dev. An orphan sentenced", "title": "Nishpap Munna" }, { "id": "11972531", "text": "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (English: \"A Match Made By God\"), also known as RNBDJ, is a 2008 Indian romantic comedy film written and directed by Aditya Chopra and produced by Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra under the banner Yash Raj Films. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan and newcomer Anushka Sharma in the lead roles. Khan plays a mild-mannered office worker named Surinder Sahni, whose love for the beautiful and vivacious Taani (Anushka Sharma) causes him to transform himself into the loud and fun-loving \"Raj\" to win her love. It was released worldwide on", "title": "Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi" }, { "id": "20681457", "text": "Bharat (film) Bharat is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and jointly produced by Atul Agnihotri, Alvira Khan Agnihotri, Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Nikhil Namit and Salman Khan. The film stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Tabu, and Disha Patani. Principal photography began in June 2018 and \"Bharat\" is scheduled for a theatrical release during Eid 2019. \"Bharat\" began its principal photography in late June 2018, and it will be shot in various locations, including Abu Dhabi, Spain, Malta, Punjab and Delhi. Priyanka Chopra, who was cast as one of the leading ladies, opted out of", "title": "Bharat (film)" }, { "id": "9711057", "text": "Shantanu Moitra Shantanu Moitra (born 22 January 1968) is an Indian music director and background score composer who has composed & sung songs for the Hindi film industry, and is most known for his scores in the films \"Parineeta\" (2005), \"Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi\" (2005), \"Lage Raho Munnabhai\" (2006) and \"3 Idiots\" (2009), and private albums, \"Mann ke Manjeere\" and \"Ab ke Saawan\" sung by Shubha Mudgal. In 2014, he received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction (Background Score) for \"Na Bangaaru Talli\". Shantanu was born in Lucknow, where his father came from a Bengali musical family. He was", "title": "Shantanu Moitra" }, { "id": "12008251", "text": "Nuvvu Nenu Nuvvu Nenu is a 2001 Telugu romance film directed by Teja with a love storyline of a rich boy and a poor girl. Uday Kiran and Anita played the lead roles. The supporting roles were done by Sunil, Benarjee, Tanikella Bharani, Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, and Telangana Shakuntala. The film and its audio became successful upon release. The film won four South Filmfare Awards and five Nandi Awards. Ravi, played by Uday Kiran, is the son of a multimillionaire in Hyderabad. Vasundhara (Anita), is the daughter of a milk supplier. Ravi and Vasundhara both study in the same college. The", "title": "Nuvvu Nenu" }, { "id": "20007506", "text": "Maa Babu Maa Babu (English: Our Boy) is a 1960 Telugu drama film, produced by D. V. S. Raju under the Pragathi Art Productions banner and directed by Tatineni Prakash Rao. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Savitri in the lead roles and music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao. The film is a remake of the Hindi movie \"Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan\" (1959). Dr Anand (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) is a well known respectable famous doctor in the society, his wife dies on the operating table, giving birth to a baby boy. At the same time, a widowed pregnant lady Ratna Devi", "title": "Maa Babu" }, { "id": "15731985", "text": "Shonali Bose Shonali Bose () (born 3 June 1965) is an Indian film director, writer and film producer. Having worked on three feature film projects, she has won such accolades as a National Film Award, a Bridgestone Narrative Award, and a Sundance Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award. Bose earned her breakthrough with her first feature film, the 2005 biographical drama \"Amu\", which was based on her own novel of the same name. The film which chronicles the genocidal attacks on Sikhs in Delhi in 1984, garnered critical acclaimed and the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English. Bose co-wrote", "title": "Shonali Bose" }, { "id": "19836405", "text": "US after Eega and Bhale Bhale Magadivoy. Nenu Local Nenu Local (English: \"I'm Local\") is a 2017 Indian Telugu action comedy film directed by Trinadha Rao Nakkina and produced by Dil Raju under his banner, Sri Venkateswara Creations. This film's story, screenplay and dialogues were written by Prasanna Kumar Bezawada. It features Nani and Keerthy Suresh in the lead roles. Music was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The trailer of the film was launched on 14 January 2017 and the film was released on 3 February 2017. The film received mixed to positive reviews and went on to become a", "title": "Nenu Local" }, { "id": "3566878", "text": "week of release, the film could still be found playing on 257 screens throughout India. Later successes came with \"Musafir\" (2004), \"Plan\" (2004), \"Parineeta\" (2005) and \"Dus\" (2005). He won critical acclaim for his performances in \"Shabd\" (2005) and \"Zinda\". The sequel of \"Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.\", \"Lage Raho Munna Bhai\" was released in late 2006. Dutt received a number of awards for his performance in the film, along with an award from the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his work in the \"Munna bhai\" series. NDTV India counted the character \"Munna Bhai\" as one of top 20 fictional characters in", "title": "Sanjay Dutt" }, { "id": "6178220", "text": "become a director. Anbe Sivam Anbe Sivam () is a 2003 Indian Tamil-language comedy-drama film directed and co-produced by Sundar C. with K. Muralitharan, V. Swaminathan and G. Venugopal under the banner of Lakshmi Movie Makers. The film was written by Kamal Haasan, and Madhan provided the dialogues. \"Anbe Sivam\" features Haasan, R. Madhavan and Kiran Rathod in the lead roles, with Nassar, Santhana Bharathi, Seema and Uma Riyaz Khan playing supporting characters. The film tells the story of an unexpected journey from Bhubaneswar to Chennai undertaken by two men of contrasting personalities, Nallasivam and Anbarasu. The musical score was", "title": "Anbe Sivam" }, { "id": "16471234", "text": "works in films such as, \"Sathya\" (1988), \"Anbe En Anbe\" (1988), \"Apoorva Sagodharargal\" (1989), \"Oor Mariyadhai\" (1992), \"Thalaivasal\" (1992), \"Thiruda Thiruda\" (1993), screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, and \"Enakku 20 Unakku 18\" (2003). Anand also produced and directed a Malayalam short film \"Kassu Panam Thuttu Money Money\". His recent works as a character actor include hits such as \"\" (2014), \"Ring Master\" (2014), \"Ivan Maryadaraman\" (2015), \"Srimanthudu\" (2015), and \" Gentleman\" (2016). Anand was born in Hyderabad as the youngest of four sons. His father V. S. Bharathi, worked for Brook Bond India Ltd, and his mother Rajalakshmi", "title": "Anand (actor)" }, { "id": "12948894", "text": "Tanay Chheda Tanay Hemant Chheda (born 27 June 1996) is an Indian actor. He is best known for his child performances in the critically acclaimed films \"Taare Zameen Par\" (2007) and \"Slumdog Millionaire\" (2008), with the latter earning him the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008. Chheda is a Gujarati Jain with roots in Mandvi, Kutch who was born in Mumbai, India, where he currently lives. He used to study in Campion School, but changed to Dhirubhai Ambani International", "title": "Tanay Chheda" }, { "id": "11670561", "text": "Anbe Anbe Anbe Anbe is a 2003 Tamil romantic family drama film directed by Mani Bharathi. The film stars Shaam and Sharmelee in lead roles, while an ensemble supporting cast includes Santhoshi, Vivek, M. N. Nambiar, Manorama, Yugendran, Manivannan and Senthil. The film opened to mixed reviews from critics. A joint family of Thatha (M. N. Nambiar) and Paati (Manorama) live in a palatial house, near Kanyakumari with their sons, daughter and grandchildren. They have two grandsons Cheenu (Shaam) and Shiva (Yugendran) who hate each other from childhood as Shaam is always first in whatever he does and Yugendran is", "title": "Anbe Anbe" }, { "id": "8149493", "text": "needn't have the been there-done that feel...\" Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave it four out of five stars and states: \"Like those good old-fashioned Hrishikesh Mukherjee films, it also reinforces the importance of human goodness and basic niceties. Even if you might argue that some of Gandhi's principles seem outdated today, you cannot help but cheer for Munna and his gang as they achieve the impossible with love and kindness. And that is where this film transcends conventional boundaries. It entertains you, yes, but it also makes you yearn for a perfect world. Judge it by any yardstick that you", "title": "Lage Raho Munna Bhai" }, { "id": "16859329", "text": "the first film and is about the both of them accepting a rescue mission to free 40 nurses,25 Indian and 15 Pakistan from a ruthless militant. The film released in December 2017 and received generally positive reviews from critics, and became a major commercial success emerging as the highest-grossing films of the year and one of the highest-grossing Indian films. In May 2018, he began pre-production of the film \"Bharat\", which is slated to be released on Eid, 2019. It stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Disha Patani, Sunil Grover and Tabu (actress), and is an official adaptation of the Korean", "title": "Ali Abbas Zafar" }, { "id": "10694860", "text": "Abraham and Bipasha Basu, and directed the war film \"Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo\" starring Amitabh Bachchan, Bobby Deol and Akshay Kumar, both of which bombed at the box office. In 2007, Sharma made a comeback when directed the family drama \"Apne\". This film received generally favorable reviews from critics, and was also a commercial success. The film was also noted for the success it enjoyed in the overseas market, most notably in Canada, the UK and Australia. In 2010, he directed \"Veer\", starring Salman Khan, who also wrote the script for the film followed by the action drama \"Singh", "title": "Anil Sharma" }, { "id": "17595320", "text": "Asmita Sood Asmita Sood is an Indian model turned actress. She has studied from Loreto Convent Tara Hall, Shimla. She made her acting debut with the 2011 Telugu film \"Brammigadi Katha\". Sood has endorsed over 40 brands. She has been a part of two television shows: Star Plus's \"Phir Bhi Na Maane...Badtameez Dil\" and Sony TV's \"Dil Hi Toh Hai. She is one of the best actresses in Tollywood\". Asmita Sood hails from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. She is a commerce graduate. Sood started her modelling career towards the end of 2010 after participating in TV reality show Channel V's \"Get", "title": "Asmita Sood" }, { "id": "8216769", "text": "the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu for the song \"Manasa\". Munna (film) Munna is a 2007 Tollywood action film directed by Vamsi Paidipally and produced by Dil Raju. The film starred Prabhas and Ileana D'Cruz in the lead roles, with Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Rahul Dev in other important roles. The film was postponed several times due to excessive post-production. The film released on 27 April 2007. The film was dubbed into Hindi as \"Bagawat: Ek Jung\", in Tamil as \"Vetri Thirumagan\" and in Malayalam under the same name. Later this film was remade", "title": "Munna (film)" }, { "id": "14460830", "text": "a well to do agricultural family. Rao is married and has two sons and two daughters. In 1980, he scripted Maa Bhoomi which was showcased at Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and garnered special mention awards at Cairo and Sidney Film Festivals. The film is listed among CNN-IBN's list of hundred greatest Indian films of all time. In 1984, he directed Rangula Kala, which had special mention at International Film Festival of India and panorama section. He directed, \"Daasi\" and \"Matti Manushulu\" which won the Diploma of Merit award at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1989 and 1991 respectively. \"Maa", "title": "B. Narsing Rao" }, { "id": "11280075", "text": "life\". In April 2018, Khan married her fiancé Major Uqbah Hadeed Malik, through whom her mother-in-law is PTI MNA Asma Qadeer. Ayesha Khan Ayesha Khan (born 27 September 1982) is a retired Pakistani television and film actress. Her most popular roles are Mahgul from \"Khuda Mera Bhi Hai\", Noor from \"Noor-e-Zindagi\" and Jeena from \"Mann Mayal\". Khan made her television debut in 2000 in the drama serial \"Tum Yahi Kehna\" which aired on PTV. She portrayed the mature and young supportive wife, Sajjal in drama serial Mehndi (drama). Khan went on to work in several drama serials including Kuch Pyar", "title": "Ayesha Khan" }, { "id": "9599369", "text": "Amu (film) Amu is a 2005 film directed by Shonali Bose, on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The film is based on Bose's own novel by the same name. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Brinda Karat, and Ankur Khanna. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005. \"Amu\" is the journey of Kajori (Kaju) Roy (Konkona Sen Sharma), a 21-year-old Indian American woman who has lived in the US since the age of 3. After graduating from UCLA Kaju goes to India to visit her relatives. There she meets Kabir (Ankur Khanna), a", "title": "Amu (film)" }, { "id": "19836399", "text": "Nenu Local Nenu Local (English: \"I'm Local\") is a 2017 Indian Telugu action comedy film directed by Trinadha Rao Nakkina and produced by Dil Raju under his banner, Sri Venkateswara Creations. This film's story, screenplay and dialogues were written by Prasanna Kumar Bezawada. It features Nani and Keerthy Suresh in the lead roles. Music was composed by Devi Sri Prasad. The trailer of the film was launched on 14 January 2017 and the film was released on 3 February 2017. The film received mixed to positive reviews and went on to become a Blockbuster at the box office. Nenu Local", "title": "Nenu Local" }, { "id": "16987744", "text": "Anwar Hussain (actor) Anwar Hussain (11 November 1925 – 1 January 1988) was an Indian actor and producer. He was a popular character actor from the 1940s to 1982 and acted in over 200 Bollywood films. Some of his best known roles are from \"Ab Dilli Dur Nahin\", \"Gunga Jumna\" (1961), \"Shaheed\", \"Baharaon Ke Sapne\", \"Victoria No. 203\" (1972), \"Chori Mera Kaam\", \"Loafer\", \"Gaddar\", \"Rafoo Chakkar\" and \"Jail Yatra\". He was the son of singer-turned director Jaddanbai and thus, maternal half-brother to noted actress Nargis Dutt and Akhtar Hussain. Hussain is best known for his roles in \"Gunga Jumna\" (1962)", "title": "Anwar Hussain (actor)" }, { "id": "18933736", "text": "Bhanu (Bharat Bhushan). He continues to live there and work for the Zamindar (landowner), while his children are getting their education. Rajan is studying for his law exam. He is married to a girl (Padma) from a wealthy family whose haughty ways alarm and frighten him. Bhanu, the younger brother is fun-loving but studious. He gets influenced by the Nationalist Movement in the campus and stops his education in the last year of college. His father is disappointed and feels that Rajan is the one they can depend upon in their old age. Bhanu meets Meena (Shyama), and the two", "title": "Maa (1952 film)" }, { "id": "15037492", "text": "to Kamlesh Malik, a retired college principal, and Raghuvir Singh Malik, an English professor, in Sonepat, Haryana. Meghna obtained her master's degree in English from Kurukshetra University and graduated from National School of Drama (NSD), Delhi in 1997. Her sister Mimansa Malik is a senior journalist and anchor in Zee News. Malik played the leading role of Ammaji in television series \"Na Aana Is Des Laado\" (2009–2012). She also had supporting roles in several movies, including \"Chalte Chalte\", \"Kuch Naa Kaho\", and \"Taare Zameen Par\". In 2017, she was signed up to reprise her role as Ammaji in \"Laado 2\".", "title": "Meghna Malik" }, { "id": "12519184", "text": "600028\" in 2007 and the National Film Award-winning \"Aaranya Kaandam\" in 2012. Charan was born to singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and his wife, Savitri in a Telugu Brahmin family. He was born and raised in Chennai. He has a sister, Pallavi. He received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Pace University in New York, USA in 1997 and completed a two-year course in Film and Television. Charan first acted with his father in a film called \"Maha Yedabidangi\", directed by K. S. L. Swamy, but the film was not released. Balachander's son Kailasam approached him to act in the", "title": "S. P. B. Charan" }, { "id": "17621125", "text": "Rashid Khan (actor) Rashid Khan is an Indian film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1949 and 1976. His best roles were played with Dev Anand right from Afsar, Navketan Films's first production and went on to work together in hits like \"Tere Ghar Ke Samne\" and \"Kaala Bazar\", in which he played key roles.They worked together till 1973 film Banarasi Babu. In other films like \"Baazi\", \"House No. 44\", and \"Nau Do Gyarah\" he played smaller roles. All his films with Dev Anand were hits. He acted as \"Raddiwala Kaka\" in \"Shree 420\" in 1955, alongside", "title": "Rashid Khan (actor)" }, { "id": "20230506", "text": "and Hiren Bhattacharya. Apart from Zubeen singers like Zublee, Parineeta, Mahalaxmi, Anindita & Madhusmita have rendered their voices in the beautiful tracks. Gaane Ki Aane Gaane Ki Aane () is a 2016 Assamese language musical romance film directed by Rajesh Jashpal. It stars Zubeen Garg and Parineeta Borthakur in the lead roles. The Story of the Film is inspired by 1973 Hindi film Abhimaan starring Amitabh Bachchan. The story is about a musical superstar Nilabh Jonak Baruah, played by Zubeen Garg, and his love and challenges. The Film is produced by Gautam Chakrabortty, Sunil Gogoi & Rajesh Jashpal under the", "title": "Gaane Ki Aane" }, { "id": "4986974", "text": "of Shakespeare's \"Romeo and Juliet\" — the tragic romance \"Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela\" (2013) — opened to positive reviews and strong box office collections, for which he received several awards and nominations. His home production biographical sports film \"Mary Kom\" (2014), had him receive his third National Film Award. His period dramas \"Bajirao Mastani\" (2015) and \"Padmaavat\" (2018) rank among the highest-grossing Indian films of all time. For the former, he won the National Film Award for Best Direction, as well as Best Director and Best Film Awards at Filmfare. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute", "title": "Sanjay Leela Bhansali" }, { "id": "11641473", "text": "Mere Baap Pehle Aap Mere Baap Pehle Aap (translation: \"My father, You first\") is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Priyadarshan. The film stars Akshaye Khanna, Genelia D'Souza, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Manoj Joshi,Shobana and Rajpal Yadav. The story is officially adapted from the 2001 Malayalam film \"Ishtam\" directed by Sibi Malayil. Janaradhan Wishvanbhar Rane (Paresh Rawal) is a widower who has spent his life bringing up his two kids, Chirag (Manoj Joshi) and Gaurav (Akshaye Khanna). Janaradhan has done everything to bring them up in the best possible manner, ever since they were toddlers. Now the duo", "title": "Mere Baap Pehle Aap" }, { "id": "17032712", "text": "Baahubali: The Beginning Baahubali: The Beginning is a 2015 Indian epic action film directed by S. S. Rajamouli. The film was produced by Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni and was shot in both Telugu and Tamil. This film was also dubbed into Malayalam and Hindi. The film stars Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Anushka Shetty, and Tamannaah in the lead roles, with Ramya Krishnan, Sathyaraj, and Nassar in supporting roles. The first of two cinematic parts, the film follows Sivudu, an adventurous young man who helps his love, a rebellious warrior intending to rescue the former queen of Mahishmati. In the process,", "title": "Baahubali: The Beginning" }, { "id": "4986986", "text": "creative liberty by Bhansali causing wrongful portrayal of their ancestors. A petition was filed in Bombay High Court seeking a stay on the film, but the High Court refused to interfere with its release. It received tremendous critical acclaim across the world and was listed among the best films of 2015 by several sources. Despite the controversy, the film emerged as one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time. The film received many accolades at various award ceremonies in India. At the 63rd National Film Awards, \"Bajirao Mastani\" won seven awards and Bhansali won the National Award for Best", "title": "Sanjay Leela Bhansali" }, { "id": "3597280", "text": "Munna the nickname \"Munnabhai – M.B.B.S. – Miya Biwi Bachhon Samet\" (literally \"Husband Wife with Children\"). Munna's parents reconcile with him. His sidekick Circuit marries and has a son, who is nicknamed \"Short Circuit\". As the film concludes, Anand, restored to normal mental health, narrates the story to children as he is about to leave for Kolkata, West Bengal. In an interview, Hirani discussed how the idea for the film emerged from his interactions with some friends who were medical students. Later, he also had the opportunity to interact with a lot of medical professionals when some members of his", "title": "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S." }, { "id": "19929530", "text": "Noorondu Nenapu Noorondu Nenapu () is a 2017 Indian Kannada romantic drama film which dates back in the 1980s, directed by Kumaresh M. Story of the film written by Late Shri Suhas Shirvalkar, rewritten and dialogues by Praveen Sutar and screenplay by Chinmay Mandlekar (Marathi). The film is produced by Suraj Desai and Manish Desai under the banner 3 Lion Production. It is the official remake of Sanjay Jadhav's Marathi film \"Duniyadari\" which was based on the novel of the same name by Suhas Shirvalkar. Noorondu Nenapu stars Chetan, Meghana Raj, Raja Vardhan, Sushmita Joshi, Yash Shetty and debutant Rajavardhan", "title": "Noorondu Nenapu" }, { "id": "8821431", "text": "Munna Bhai Munna Bhai is an Indian fictional character who appears in the \"Munna Bhai film series\". The character is created by Rajkumar Hirani and portrayed by Sanjay Dutt. Murli Prasad Sharma (portrayed by Sanjay Dutt) is a leader in the Mumbai underworld. His nickname \"Munna Bhai\" has a double meaning; \"bhai\" literally means [brother], but in Mumbai slang if has also come to mean a hoodlum. His sidekick is Circuit (portrayed by Arshad Warsi). They both speak in Bambaiya Hindi, a dialect specific to Mumbai, India. Munna Bhai was first introduced in the 2003 film \"Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.\" which", "title": "Munna Bhai" }, { "id": "6178195", "text": "of Kamal's friend and professional colleague, Mehrunissa. The actors Nassar and Santhana Bharathi played the roles of Kandasamy Padaiyatchi and his assistant, respectively, while cartoonist Madhan featured in a cameo appearance as himself in addition to writing the film's dialogues. In an interview with S.R. Ashok Kumar of \"The Hindu\" in 2006, Bharathi considered both \"Anbe Sivam\" and \"Michael Madana Kama Rajan\" (1990) to be the favourite roles of his career. Arthur A. Wilson, M. Prabhaharan and P. Sai Suresh handled the film's cinematography, art direction and editing, respectively. Brinda, Chinni Prakash and Dinesh Kumar were in charge of the", "title": "Anbe Sivam" }, { "id": "14454482", "text": "Watan Ke Rakhwale Watan Ke Rakhwale (\"English: Saviour of the Nation\") is a 1987 Indian drama-thriller film directed by T. Rama Rao, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Dharmendra, Sunil Dutt, Sridevi, Moushumi Chatterjee, Prem Chopra, Shakti Kapoor and Kader Khan. The film also has Ashok Kumar in an important role. Radha Pratap (Sridevi) lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed businessman dad, Raja (Sudhir Dalvi); her maternal grandma (Lalita Pawar); and paternal uncle, Dr. Narendra (Prem Chopra), who runs a mental hospital. Shortly after her father dies in a car accident, her marriage is arranged with equally wealthy Naresh Puri (Dan Dhanoa),", "title": "Watan Ke Rakhwale" }, { "id": "18596719", "text": "Rhea Sharma Rhea Sharma (Born 7th August 1995) is an Indian television actress. She is known for her role as Nishi Khanna in 2014 Sony Entertainment Television's popular show Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar and Kanak in Star Plus's popular show Tu Sooraj, Main Saanjh Piyaji. Rhea Sharma was born on 7th August 1995 into a Marwari Family. She was born and brought up in Mumbai ,Maharashtra. She Graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She has a elder Sister Named Sneha Sharma and younger Brother Named Gourav Sharma. Rhea Sharma is from Mumbai and attended St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Before", "title": "Rhea Sharma" }, { "id": "15736381", "text": "Imran Abbas Imran Abbas is a Pakistani actor, singer and former model. He is known for roles in television serials Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan (2009), Khuda Aur Muhabbat (2011), Mera Naseeb (2011), Dil-e-Muztar (2013), Alvida (2015), Mera Naam Yusuf Hai (2015) Tum Kon Piya (2016) and Mohabbat Tumse Nafrat Hai (2017). Abbas made his film debut in the 2013 romantic drama \"Anjuman\". The following year, he appeared in Bollywood's monster horror film \"Creature 3D\", which earned him Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut nomination. Abbas studied architecture at the National College of Arts in Lahore. He also writes Urdu poetry. His", "title": "Imran Abbas" }, { "id": "20090043", "text": "Newton (film) Newton is a 2017 Indian drama film co-written and directed by Amit V. Masurkar. The film stars Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil and Raghubir Yadav. The film was produced by Manish Mundra under Drishyam Films, known for the 2015 film \"Masaan\", and the film is Amit Masurkar’s second feature after his debut film, \"Sulemani Keeda\" in 2013. \"Newton\" had its world premiere in the Forum section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film received universal acclaim, securing eight nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film (Critics), Best Actor (Critics) for Rao and Best", "title": "Newton (film)" }, { "id": "20090026", "text": "Newton (film) Newton is a 2017 Indian drama film co-written and directed by Amit V. Masurkar. The film stars Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil and Raghubir Yadav. The film was produced by Manish Mundra under Drishyam Films, known for the 2015 film \"Masaan\", and the film is Amit Masurkar’s second feature after his debut film, \"Sulemani Keeda\" in 2013. \"Newton\" had its world premiere in the Forum section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film received universal acclaim, securing eight nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film (Critics), Best Actor (Critics) for Rao and Best", "title": "Newton (film)" }, { "id": "4044816", "text": "Aditya Chopra Aditya Chopra (born 21 May 1971) is an Indian filmmaker. His work as a director includes \"Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge\" (1995), \"Mohabbatein\" (2000), \"Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi\" (2008) and \"Befikre\" (2016). He is also the current Chairman of India's multi-national film, media and entertainment conglomerate Yash Raj Films (YRF). Chopra has written and produced a number of films under the banner such as \"Veer-Zaara\" (2004), \"Fanaa\" (2006), \"Band Baaja Baaraat\" (2010), \"Jab Tak Hai Jaan\" (2012), the \"Dhoom series\" (2004, 2006 & 2013), \"Sultan\" (2016) and the \"Tiger series\" (2012 & 2017). He has broken away from", "title": "Aditya Chopra" }, { "id": "14106074", "text": "Dolly Minhas Dolly Minhas (; born 8 February 1968) is an Indian actress and former model, well known for winning the Miss India Universe contest in 1988. She has acted in Hindi, Punjabi, and Kannada films. She has also worked in Hindi TV shows. She is currently acting in \"Dil Se Dil Tak\" as Ambika Purushottam Bhanushali, the matriarch of the Bhanushali family. She belongs to Punjab and was raised in Chandigarh. She fell in love with the director of her first film, Anil Mattoo, whom she eventually married. She later acted in some Punjabi and Kannada films and Hindi", "title": "Dolly Minhas" }, { "id": "8216763", "text": "Munna (film) Munna is a 2007 Tollywood action film directed by Vamsi Paidipally and produced by Dil Raju. The film starred Prabhas and Ileana D'Cruz in the lead roles, with Prakash Raj, Kota Srinivasa Rao and Rahul Dev in other important roles. The film was postponed several times due to excessive post-production. The film released on 27 April 2007. The film was dubbed into Hindi as \"Bagawat: Ek Jung\", in Tamil as \"Vetri Thirumagan\" and in Malayalam under the same name. Later this film was remade in Bangladesh named \"Amar Challenge\" starring Shakib Khan and Shahara. \"Same name, I don't", "title": "Munna (film)" }, { "id": "5850641", "text": "The film currently holds a Rotten Tomatoes score of 90% based on 20 reviews for an average rating of 8.2/10. Satyajit Ray won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 14th Berlin International Film Festival in 1964. The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film won the All India Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film in 1963 at the 11th National Film Awards. The Academy Film Archive preserved \"Mahangar\" in 1996. The Criterion Collection released a", "title": "Mahanagar" }, { "id": "7038959", "text": "went on to appear in many films for the next three decades, some of which were the biggest blockbusters in Indian film history. The films in which he played the leading role failed to do well, but the films in which he played the central villain role or supporting role were some of the biggest blockbusters in Indian film history. Some his most notable films were \"Aan\" (1952), \"Teesri Manzil\" (1966), \"Johny Mera Naam\" (1970), \"Tere Mere Sapne\" (1971), \"Roti Kapada Aur Makaan\" (1974), \"Dharmatma\" (1975), \"Kalicharan\" (1976) and \"Desh Premee\" (1982). He also starred in the religious Punjabi film", "title": "Prem Nath" }, { "id": "17956741", "text": "Bajirao Mastani Bajirao Mastani is a 2015 Indian epic historical romance film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who also composed its soundtrack. The film was jointly produced by Bhansali and Eros International's Kishore Lulla; it stars Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra. The supporting cast includes Tanvi Azmi, Vaibhav Tatwawaadi and Milind Soman. Based on the Marathi novel \"Raau\" by Nagnath S. Inamdar, \"Bajirao Mastani\" narrates the story of the Maratha \"Peshwa\" Bajirao I (1700–1740 AD) and his second wife Mastani. Conceived as early as the 1990s, Bhansali announced the film in 2003 but production was delayed several times", "title": "Bajirao Mastani" }, { "id": "3531532", "text": "She could not complete her graduation due to being busy at work. She studied at NYU . She debuted through \"Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein\" which did not do well at the box office, though it has developed a cult following among Indian youth. She then appeared in movies such as \"Dum\", \"Deewanapan\", \"Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge\", \"Tumsa Nahin Dekha – A Love Story\", \"Parineeta\", \"Dus\", \"Lage Raho Munnabhai\" and \"Salam Mumbai\". In 2018, she appeared as Sanjay Dutt's wife Manyata Dutt in the biopic Sanju which ranks among the highest grossing Indian films. She has garnered much praise for", "title": "Dia Mirza" }, { "id": "15191764", "text": "Manasantha Nuvve Manasantha Nuvve is a 2001 Telugu romantic film written and directed by V. N. Aditya. This film stars Uday Kiran and Reema Sen in the lead roles. The film was produced by M. S. Raju and had music composed by R. P. Patnaik. The film was declared a blockbuster after \"Chitram\" (2000) and \"Nuvvu Nenu\" (2001). The film's success also lead to several remakes. Anu (Baby Zeeba) is the daughter of a wealthy government officer. Chanti (Ananda Vardhan), son of a widow mother, lives in a small hut beside their house. Anu is attracted to the kindness of", "title": "Manasantha Nuvve" }, { "id": "6178187", "text": "the International Film Festival of India in 2003. At the 51st Filmfare Awards South, it received a Special Jury Award and received nominations in the Best Film and Best Actor (Haasan) categories. Madhavan was awarded Best Actor at the 2003 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. Two men waiting for a flight to Chennai at the Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar engage in conversation. One is a commercial director, Anbarasu, who prefers the abbreviated name A.Aras, and the other is a scarred and deformed socialist, Nallasivam, alias Nalla. When the flight is cancelled due to heavy rain, Aras initially suspects", "title": "Anbe Sivam" }, { "id": "3597271", "text": "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. is a 2003 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Rajkumar Hirani (in his directorial debut) and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The story involves protagonist Munna Bhai (Sanjay Dutt), a goon, going to medical school. He is helped by his sidekick, Circuit (Arshad Warsi). It stars Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Jimmy Sheirgill, Gracy Singh, Boman Irani and Sunil Dutt and was later followed by a second film \"Lage Raho Munna Bhai\", and became the first instalment of the \"Munna Bhai film series\". Vidhu Vinod Chopra announced on 29 September 2016 that production on the third", "title": "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S." }, { "id": "20365682", "text": "a steady growth in the number of screens across Tamil Nadu, Malaysia and Singapore within days of the film's release. The film also benefited from positive word-of-mouth and ended up as a commercial success at the box office. Meyaadha Maan Meyaadha Maan () is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film written and directed by Rathna Kumar, in his directorial debut. The film features Vaibhav and Priya Bhavani Shankar in the lead roles, while Vivek Prasanna, Indhuja Ravichandran, Arun Prasath and Amrutha Srinivasan play supporting roles. Vivek Prasanna won the Vijay Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in", "title": "Meyaadha Maan" }, { "id": "18163512", "text": "a Comic Role, Best Cinematography, and Best Dialogue. Other ceremonies include the 2004 National Film Awards where it won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film and the 2004 International Indian Film Academy Awards where it won the IIFA Best Comedian Award. \"Lage Raho Munna Bhai\" is the recipient of four National Film Awards in addition to other awards. Some speculated that it would represent India as an entry for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Although ultimately losing to \"Rang De Basanti\" as India's official submission, the producers submitted it as an independent entry. However, neither", "title": "Munna Bhai (film series)" }, { "id": "19678139", "text": "Majnu (2016 film) Majnu is a Telugu romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Virinchi Varma. It features Nani and Anu Emmanuel in the lead roles. The film was released worldwide on 23 September 2016. The film earned a distributor share of ₹16 crores, barely surpassing its ₹16 crore budget Theatrical rights . The plot revolves around Aditya (Nani), who works as an assistant director for the \"Baahubali\" crew. One day, he sees Suma (Priya Shri), a woman who works in the office of his friend, Kasi (Sathya) and gets attracted to her while trying to help Kasi in proposing", "title": "Majnu (2016 film)" }, { "id": "17031792", "text": "the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali, as well as several BFJA Awards. In 1971, it was re-made in Hindi as Mere Apne, directed by Gulzar. Anandamoyee (Chhaya Devi) is a childless widow in a Bengal village. One day a man turns up, claiming to be her nephew. He takes her to live with him and his family in Calcutta. In the city, she experiences something akin to culture shock, as she encounters children begging on the streets and day-to-day violence. She finds the idea of women working at office jobs very strange, and even wearing any", "title": "Apanjan" }, { "id": "6180964", "text": "Nimmi Nimmi (born 18 February 1933) is a former Indian screen actress who achieved stardom in the 1950s and early 1960s in Hindi films. She gained popularity playing spirited village belle type characters, but has appeared in diverse genres such as fantasy and social films. Her best performances are considered to be in the films \"Sazaa\" (1951), \"Aan\" (1952), \"Bhai-Bhai\" (1956), \"Kundan\" (1955), \"Mere Mehboob\" (1963), \"Pooja Ke Phool\" (1964) and \"Akashdeep\" (1965). Nawab Banoo was born in Agra, India. She was born to a Muslim family, her mother was a famous singer and actress by the name of Wahidan", "title": "Nimmi" }, { "id": "20863809", "text": "Minnale (TV series) Minnaley (English: Lightning) is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language family soap opera starring Nirosha, newcomers Preethi Asrani and Shiv Sathish in lead roles. Madhumanti Banerjee, Nisha Gowda, Durga playing important female characters. It premiered on 6 August 2018 on Sun TV from Monday to Saturday at 13:30 (IST) and completed its 100th episode on 8 December 2018. It is currently directed by G.Stalin ( and produced by Radaan Mediaworks.. I Minnaley is a story of Shalini = K. R. Selvaraj as Mohankumar (Shalini's father) The series revolves around love in a family. Telugu Television Actress Preethi Asrani and", "title": "Minnale (TV series)" }, { "id": "12775853", "text": "Maa Bhoomi Maa Bhoomi (English: Our land) is a 1980 Telugu drama film written and produced by B. Narsing Rao based on a play by Krishan Chander on the Telangana Rebellion in Hyderabad State. The film depicts a typical life of villagers under feudalistic society in the Telangana region. It was the first feature film of director Goutam Ghose. The film was premiered at the International Film Festival of India, 1980, India's official entry at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival of July 1980, the Cairo and Sidney Film Festivals. The film is listed among CNN-IBN's list of hundred greatest Indian", "title": "Maa Bhoomi" }, { "id": "19458758", "text": "Karan Jotwani Karan Jotwani is an Indian model and television actor. He is known for portraying the recurring role of Aryamaan Khurana in the series \"Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan\" and the lead role of Sahil Agarwal on Aap Ke Aa Jane Se that airs on Zee TV. Jotwani was born in Jalandhar, India in 1991. His family consists of his parents and younger brother Kush Jotwani. He graduated from H.R. College of Commerce and Economics. His first job was in digital printing which he soon left to begin modelling for commercials. Karan began his acting career in 2013 in the television", "title": "Karan Jotwani" }, { "id": "3453793", "text": "Vidhu Vinod Chopra Vidhu Vinod Chopra (born September 5, 1952) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. His better known films include \"Parinda\", \"\" , \"Munna Bhai\" film series (\"Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.\" and \"Lage Raho Munna Bhai\"), \"3 Idiots\", \"PK\", \"Sanju\" and Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga. He is the founder of Vinod Chopra Films. Chopra grew up in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. His father was D. N. Chopra and veteran filmmaker Ramanand Sagar was his half-brother. He went to Pune and studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India. Chopra's first student", "title": "Vidhu Vinod Chopra" }, { "id": "19358903", "text": "Manyata Dutt Maanayata Dutt (born Dilnawaz Shaikh) is an Indian entrepreneur and the current C.E.O. of Sanjay Dutt Productions. She is the wife of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. She is best known for her item number in Prakash Jha's 2003-hit \"Gangaajal\". She also acted in \"Mere Baap Pehle Aap\" (translation: \"My father, You first\"), a 2008 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Priyadarshan. Manyata Dutt was born in a Muslim family on 22 July 1978 as Dilnawaz Shaikh in Mumbai. She was raised in Dubai. She was known as Sara Khan in the film industry. After her launch in Kamaal", "title": "Manyata Dutt" } ]

[ "Los Angeles" ]

[ { "id": "10300155", "text": "featured on the posthumous album \"\" (2011). The song was featured in the documentary film based on the life and death of Winehouse, \"Amy\" (2015) and was also included on the film's soundtrack. \"Tears Dry on Their Own\" has been described by \"NME\" as a \"Motown-influenced pop song\", while Billy Hamilton of \"Drowned in Sound\" believed the song to be a soul song. The song's music video was shot in Los Angeles, and was directed by David LaChapelle on 22 May 2007. The clip features footage of Winehouse making her way down Hollywood Blvd and in a dim motel room.", "title": "Tears Dry on Their Own" }, { "id": "10300156", "text": "The hotel is the Grand Motel at 1479 S La Cienega Blvd, in Los Angeles. She doesn't pay attention to her surroundings (Why people walk into her) as she goes down Hollywood Blvd, and in the hotel room there are empty bottles and cigarettes hinting at her real life habits. The video for this song was the second to last filmed prior to Winehouse's death on 23 July 2011. \"Tears Dry on Their Own\" became Winehouse's fourth consecutive single to chart inside the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, when it entered at number 37 on 5 August 2007.", "title": "Tears Dry on Their Own" }, { "id": "10300154", "text": "Tears Dry on Their Own \"Tears Dry on Their Own\" is a song by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse from her second and final studio album \"Back to Black\" (2006). \"Tears Dry on Their Own\" was released as the fourth single from \"Back to Black\" on 13 August 2007. While the melody and lyrics are composed by Winehouse, the music behind her voice is a sample interpolation of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's 1967 Motown classic hit \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough\", penned by the married duo of Ashford & Simpson. The original ballad version of the track is", "title": "Tears Dry on Their Own" }, { "id": "18896508", "text": "who kind of just put it all on the line for that.\" Principal photography on the film officially began in the city on August 10, 2015, and filming took place in more than 60 locations both in and near Los Angeles, including the Angels Flight trolley in downtown, houses in the Hollywood Hills, the Colorado Street Bridge, the Rialto Theatre in South Pasadena, the Warner Bros. studio lot, the Grand Central Market, Hermosa Beach's Lighthouse Cafe, Chateau Marmont Hotel, and the Watts Towers, with many scenes shot in one take. It took 40 days to complete shooting, finishing in mid-September", "title": "La La Land (film)" }, { "id": "10300158", "text": "84,750, \"Tears Dry on Their Own\" went on to become the UK's 93rd best-selling single of 2007. On 31 July, 2011, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart at 27 after Winehouse's death. \"Tears Dry on Their Own\" \"You're Wondering Now\" Tears Dry on Their Own \"Tears Dry on Their Own\" is a song by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse from her second and final studio album \"Back to Black\" (2006). \"Tears Dry on Their Own\" was released as the fourth single from \"Back to Black\" on 13 August 2007. While the melody and lyrics are composed by Winehouse,", "title": "Tears Dry on Their Own" }, { "id": "14791584", "text": "Jean-Luc Godard's \"Breathless\" and John Cassavetes' \"Shadows\". Filming began on August 4, 2010, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. After a month of filming in Montreal, the production shot footage in Gatineau, Quebec, on August 17, which stands in for Denver, Colorado, in 1947. The film shot for five days in the middle of October 2010 in and around Calgary, Alberta. The production also shot in New Orleans for a month, then returned to Montreal to shoot the film's final scenes. The production shot for a week in early December 2010 in San Francisco. Salles originally wanted to shoot in Mexico for", "title": "On the Road (film)" }, { "id": "3173280", "text": "Devil's Own\" was filmed on location and at the Chelsea Piers studios in New York City, as well as in Newark, Hoboken, Jersey City, Bayonne Sandy Hook and Montclair, New Jersey. and Greenport, New York on Long Island. The opening scenes were filmed at Port Oriel, Clogherhead, County Louth, Republic of Ireland. The Belfast shootout scenes were filmed in Inchicore, Dublin in July 1996. Other location shoots in Ireland were in the Dublin Mountains. Two months before it opened, the film was still unfinished: Pakula was unhappy with the final scene (\"a showdown on a boat with a cargo of", "title": "The Devil's Own" }, { "id": "519760", "text": "fictional town of Greenbow were filmed in Varnville, South Carolina. The scene of Forrest running through Vietnam while under fire was filmed on Fripp Island, South Carolina. Additional filming took place on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, and along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Boone, North Carolina. The most notable place was Grandfather Mountain where a part of the road is named \"Forrest Gump Curve\". The Gump family home set was built along the Combahee River near Yemassee, South Carolina, and the nearby land was used to film Curran's home as well as some of the Vietnam scenes.", "title": "Forrest Gump" }, { "id": "20430786", "text": "and Jessica Leccia. Principal photography took place in California over 20 days in late 2014. The majority of the film was shot in a house overlooking the ocean on the Malibu coast. Post-production was completed at Technicolor in New York in mid 2016. A Million Happy Nows premiered on the festival circuit in January 2017, and was officially selected for most major LGBT festivals throughout the year including Mardi Gras Film Festival (Sydney), In September 2016, Sales Agent Shoreline Entertainment picked up the rights to the film , and in November 2017, the distribution rights for Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein", "title": "A Million Happy Nows" }, { "id": "19042784", "text": "nanny of Jane and Michael Banks, returning after a family tragedy. Walt Disney Pictures announced the film in September 2015. Marshall was hired later that month, and Blunt and Miranda were cast in February 2016. Principal photography lasted from February to July 2017, and took place at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England. \"Mary Poppins Returns\" held its world premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on November 29, 2018, and was released in the United States on December 19, 2018, making it one of the longest gaps between film sequels in Disney history at 54 years. The film received", "title": "Mary Poppins Returns" }, { "id": "16888207", "text": "On My Own (film) On My Own is a 1991 film starring Judy Davis and Matthew Ferguson. Ferguson plays Simon Henderson, a student at an Ontario boarding school, whose father lives in Hong Kong, and whose mother (played by Davis) is from England. The plot revolves around Simon coming to terms with the revelation that his mother suffers from schizophrenia. Some of the film’s location shooting was done in London, England (not London, Ontario), St. Catharines, Ontario, Toronto and Stratford, Ontario. The film is primarily set at an \"Ontario boarding school\" and the scenes showing the school were filmed at", "title": "On My Own (film)" }, { "id": "7303336", "text": "Gopher Flats are close to Old Universal/Lasky ranch in the San Fernando Valley. \"Lasky takes old Universal ranch\" reference Front Cover Wednesday August 12, 1918 (Wids Daily) later called film daily - Media History Digital Library This area is noted for a filming location history of many important movies, including, \"The Thundering Herd\" (Famous Players-Lasky Co. 1925), \"Gone with the Wind\" (Selznick 1939) and \"They Died with Their Boots On\", \"Santa Fe Trail\" (Warner Bros. 1940), and many others. From \"The Moving Picture World\", October 10, 1914 (page 622 relates to the Lasky ranch and page 1078 to the new", "title": "Movie ranch" }, { "id": "7583195", "text": "Golden Oak Ranch Golden Oak Ranch is an 890-acre (360 ha) movie ranch owned by the Disney Studio Services division of Walt Disney Studios subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company that serves as a filming location and backlot. The ranch is off of Placerita Canyon Road in Newhall, California, less than an hour north of Los Angeles; its entrance is about 2 miles (3.2 km) from Placerita Canyon Road's intersection with California State Route 14. The ranch is on land that was part of the Rancho San Francisco land grant. It was named in honor of Francisco Lopez, the man", "title": "Golden Oak Ranch" }, { "id": "7583200", "text": "the opening scene of the 2011 romantic comedy \"No Strings Attached\" was also filmed here. Golden Oak Ranch Golden Oak Ranch is an 890-acre (360 ha) movie ranch owned by the Disney Studio Services division of Walt Disney Studios subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company that serves as a filming location and backlot. The ranch is off of Placerita Canyon Road in Newhall, California, less than an hour north of Los Angeles; its entrance is about 2 miles (3.2 km) from Placerita Canyon Road's intersection with California State Route 14. The ranch is on land that was part of the", "title": "Golden Oak Ranch" }, { "id": "12766068", "text": "Providencia Ranch Providencia Ranch, part of 'Providencia Land and Water Development Company' property, was a piece of land in California, USA that was used as a filming location for some early motion pictures; most notably for battle scenes in the silent classic about the American Civil War, \"The Birth of a Nation\" (1915). The Valley was also the site for two Universal Studios west coast operations in 1914. Universal Film Manufacturing Company took over the west coast assets of Nestor Studios. This included a studio in Hollywood and ranch land in the San Fernando Valley. The Nestor Ranch was located", "title": "Providencia Ranch" }, { "id": "6552310", "text": "Fort Pierre National Grassland Fort Pierre National Grassland is a United States National Grassland in central South Dakota, south of the capital city Pierre and its neighbor Fort Pierre. The national grassland is primarily a short grass prairie and has a land area of . In descending order of area it lies in parts of Lyman, Stanley, and Jones counties. Part of the movie \"Dances with Wolves\" was filmed there. It is managed by the U.S. Forest Service together with the Nebraska and Samuel R. McKelvie National Forests and the Buffalo Gap and Oglala National Grasslands from common offices in", "title": "Fort Pierre National Grassland" }, { "id": "18531928", "text": "originally titled \"Mena\" and was first featured on The Black List, a website showcasing the best unproduced screenplays, in 2014. Principal photography on the film began on May 27, 2015 in Georgia. Filming locations there include countries Cherokee, Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Morgan and Pickens. On August 20, 2015, Tom Cruise arrived in Medellin, Colombia, and on August 31, in Santa Marta, to scout filming locations for the film. A plane crash on the set of the film in Colombia on September 11, 2015 killed two people and caused serious injuries to another member of the crew. The plane (a", "title": "American Made (film)" }, { "id": "19695180", "text": "song. Filming took place in Los Angeles, California at Sony Pictures Studios in Stage 25. It was shot with a multiple-camera setup in front of a studio audience. Filming of the second season began in May 2017 and ended in September 2017. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has an approval rating of 97% based on 30 reviews with an average rating of 7.62/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"\"One Day at a Time\" breathes fresh life into the classic Norman Lear original with a lively, sharp, and proudly old-school sitcom bolstered by a surfeit of heart", "title": "One Day at a Time (2017 TV series)" }, { "id": "1057270", "text": "Huntingburg, Indiana Huntingburg is a city in Patoka Township, Dubois County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 6,057 at the 2010 census. Located in southwestern Indiana, the city is known for its downtown with numerous antique shops. It is part of the Jasper Micropolitan Statistical Area. The city is also known as the \"Hollywood of the Midwest.\" The movies \"A League of Their Own\" (1992), \"Hard Rain\" (1998), and the HBO film \"Soul of the Game\" (1996) were filmed in Huntingburg. Columbia Pictures built the grandstand at League Stadium that was to become part of the set", "title": "Huntingburg, Indiana" }, { "id": "17622260", "text": "Canadian Motion Picture Park Studios Canadian Motion Picture Park Studios (CMPP) is one of the largest and newest film production centers in North America with over 350,000 square feet of facilities including 18 stages. Located in Burnaby, British Columbia, in the metropolitan area of Vancouver, the eighteen stages are state-of-the-art and purpose-built for film and television production. The CMPP complex has been home to a wide variety of production projects, including high-budget feature films, television series, and commercials. The eighteen stages range in size from 7,000 square feet to 42,000 square feet. The complex includes a unique Back Lot with", "title": "Canadian Motion Picture Park Studios" }, { "id": "519759", "text": "Gump as an astronaut, a professional wrestler, and a chess player. Two directors were offered the opportunity to direct the film before Robert Zemeckis was selected. Terry Gilliam turned down the offer. Barry Sonnenfeld was attached to the film, but left to direct \"Addams Family Values\". Filming began in August 1993 and ended in December of that year. Although most of the film is set in Alabama, filming took place mainly in and around Beaufort, South Carolina, as well as parts of coastal Virginia and North Carolina, including a running shot on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Downtown portions of the", "title": "Forrest Gump" }, { "id": "18125746", "text": "locations in three countries: Canada, the United States, and Argentina. In Canada, filming took place in Calgary and Fortress Mountain in Alberta, in Kananaskis Country west of Calgary, the Badlands near Drumheller, and at Squamish and Mammoth Studios, Burnaby, in British Columbia. The scenes in the waterfall were filmed at the Kootenai Falls near Libby, Montana. While the initial plan was to film entirely in Canada, the weather was ultimately too warm, leading the filmmakers to locations near the Rio Olivia at the tip of Argentina with snow on the ground, to shoot the film's ending. Crew members often complained", "title": "The Revenant (2015 film)" }, { "id": "19086353", "text": "Paul Giamatti for Sony Pictures Television and Tribune Studios. WGN America announced a 13-episode straight-to-series order in August 2014. Production began in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area on May 5, 2015 and ran through September. Mountaintop exteriors were filmed in Henry Kaufmann Family Park in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, while interiors were constructed at 31st Street Studios in the Strip District. Scenes in Blackburg, Kentucky, the fictional town at the base of the mountain, were filmed in Millvale. WGN America renewed the series for a second season. Production resumed in mid-2016 using the same locations around Pittsburgh. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> On review aggregator Metacritic, \"Outsiders\"", "title": "Outsiders (U.S. TV series)" }, { "id": "2846663", "text": "on June 6, 2012, where many of the film's game scenes were filmed. Bosse Field still retains many of the \"Racine Belles\" themes from the movie. The event included an outdoor screening of the film as well as a scene-setting display of cars featured in the film. In addition to Bosse Field, the production used Huntingburg, Indiana's League Stadium, another Southwestern Indiana field older than Bosse that was renovated for the film. A short-lived series of the same title based on the film aired on CBS in April 1993, with Garry Marshall, Megan Cavanagh, Tracy Reiner, and Jon Lovitz reprising", "title": "A League of Their Own" }, { "id": "6552311", "text": "Chadron, Nebraska. There is a local ranger district office located in Pierre. Fort Pierre National Grassland Fort Pierre National Grassland is a United States National Grassland in central South Dakota, south of the capital city Pierre and its neighbor Fort Pierre. The national grassland is primarily a short grass prairie and has a land area of . In descending order of area it lies in parts of Lyman, Stanley, and Jones counties. Part of the movie \"Dances with Wolves\" was filmed there. It is managed by the U.S. Forest Service together with the Nebraska and Samuel R. McKelvie National Forests", "title": "Fort Pierre National Grassland" }, { "id": "1271541", "text": "a rainy day. Lee shot around fifty takes, with the actors becoming soaked under rain machines; this led to Winslet eventually collapsing from hypothermia. Further problems occurred midway through filming, when Winslet contracted phlebitis in her leg, developed a limp, and sprained her wrist after falling down a staircase. From May to July, production took place at a number of other National Trust estates and stately homes across England. Trafalgar House and Wilton House in Wiltshire stood in for the grounds of Barton Park and the London Ballroom respectively. Mompesson House, an eighteenth-century townhouse located in Salisbury, represented Mrs. Jennings'", "title": "Sense and Sensibility (film)" }, { "id": "10300157", "text": "It also became her eighth UK R&B top 40 hit. The single spent four weeks at number one on the UK Airplay Chart during August. After the song's physical release, the single climbed into the top 20, peaking at number 16. Therefore, \"Tears Dry on Their Own\" is Winehouse's second highest-charting single behind \"Rehab\" and the fourth consecutive top 30 hit from her second album. To date, it has spent 19 non-consecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart, making it her fourth longest-running hit behind \"Rehab\" (57 weeks), \"Valerie\" (39 weeks), and \"Back to Black\" (34 weeks). With sales of", "title": "Tears Dry on Their Own" }, { "id": "19722057", "text": "of the authenticity that would bring to the project. More than a hundred locals were used as extras. Principal photography began on September 8, 2016 - filming took place at Bannack State Park in Bannack, Montana, 25 miles southwest of Dillon. Other locations included Dillon, Montana, Virginia City, Montana and Ennis, Montana. Filming lasted for 20 days. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 11, 2017. Shortly after, A24 and DirecTV Cinema acquired distribution rights to the film. The film had a subsequent wide release on December 15, 2017. Sold-out screenings of the film, near", "title": "The Ballad of Lefty Brown" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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Shooting for the film began on 14 August 2006, taking place for six weeks. All filming took place in Merseyside, with the shoot providing numerous jobs for locals. Leigh Singer gave the film four stars, calling it \"a gentle, astute, life-affirming British comedy.\" Tom Hawker gave it three stars, praising Eddie Marsan's performance and stating \"\"Grow Your Own\" has about as much edge as a prize melon, but even if the land's been well filled, there's still plenty of fertile soil", "title": "Grow Your Own (film)" }, { "id": "5618351", "text": "different running times. On January 25, 2014, a restored 35mm print was premiered by the Film Noir Foundation at Noir City 12 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The film was restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Film Noir Foundation, with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association providing some of the necessary funding. The restoration combined 35mm dupe negative elements from France with some material from surviving prints. Jane and Alan Palmer (Scott and Kennedy) are driving to a party in the Hollywood Hills when someone in another car throws a suitcase into the back seat of", "title": "Too Late for Tears" }, { "id": "299594", "text": "Most outside locations were filmed in and around Bournemouth and Christchurch. These include Richmond Hill, Undercliff Drive and Boscombe Pier, Bournemouth Town Hall, Lansdowne College, Christchurch Hospital and the former Royal Victoria Hospital (Boscombe). Later episodes, such as \"Hearts of Darkness\", were filmed entirely on location. Victor's death by a hit and run driver in the final episode was filmed at Shawford railway station, Hampshire. Fans left floral tributes at the site. Over the show's history, it featured a number of notable comic actors in one-off roles. These included Susie Blake, John Bird, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Peter Cook, Diana Coupland, Phil", "title": "One Foot in the Grave" }, { "id": "18324775", "text": "filming began in Tribeca in New York City on September 12. On September 15, filming was taking place in Waltham MA. Filming also took place outside of Columbia University in New York. Filming wrapped on September 19, 2015, in New York City. The subway scenes were filmed on a sound stage, as there is no Seward Street station in the New York City Subway. Reshoots happened in Los Angeles in May 2016, and included new scenes that served as a metafictional comment on the Internet controversy the film gathered. Six companies dealt with the 1,700 visual effects shots, under the", "title": "Ghostbusters (2016 film)" }, { "id": "3476453", "text": "2007 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, four Illinois State Amateur Championships (most recently in 2014) and the Chicago Open in 2013 and 2014. The 300-acre Cantigny Golf complex includes 27 scenic holes designed by Roger Packard, the year-round Cantigny Golf Academy, the 9-hole Cantigny Youth Links and a full-service clubhouse with dining and banquet facilities. For more information, visit CantignyGolf.com. The McCormick Museum was used for filming a scene in \"A League of Their Own\" (1992) from the east end overlooking the fountain and pond east of the museum. Two other movies, \"Richie Rich\" and \"Baby's Day Out\" also include", "title": "Cantigny Park" }, { "id": "15900563", "text": "of Monsieur Thénardier. The cast began rehearsals in January 2012, with principal photography due to begin in March. The press officially confirmed Baron Cohen's casting during the latter month. No table read took place before filming. With a production budget of $61 million, principal photography of the film began 8 March 2012 in Gourdon. Filming locations in England included Boughton House, Winchester College, Winchester Cathedral Close, Her Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth, Chatham Dockyard, St Mary the Virgin Church, Ewelme, South Oxfordshire and Pinewood Studios. In April 2012, crews built a replica of the Elephant of the Bastille in Greenwich. In", "title": "Les Misérables (2012 film)" }, { "id": "4885882", "text": "Universal Studios Hollywood Universal Studios Hollywood is a film studio and theme park in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County, California. About 70% of the studio lies within the unincorporated county island known as Universal City while the rest lies within the city limits of Los Angeles, California. It is one of the oldest and most famous Hollywood film studios still in use. Its official marketing headline is \"The Entertainment Capital of LA\". It was initially created to offer tours of the real Universal Studios sets and is the first of many full-fledged Universal Studios Theme Parks", "title": "Universal Studios Hollywood" }, { "id": "4643075", "text": "exactly how much the book informed the final shooting script is impossible to determine. Production began in 1967 with Henry Fonda definitely signed on to portray Frank. Mort Lachman, who had been one of Bob Hope's writers, joined the writing team at the recommendation of Shavelson. Leonard Spigelgass received no on-screen writing credit for his efforts in this film. Filming was done largely on-location in Alameda and San Francisco, California with Mike's high-school graduation being filmed at Grant High School in southern California (Frank Beardsley's home, into which the blended family eventually moved, was in Carmel). The total budget is", "title": "Yours, Mine and Ours (1968 film)" }, { "id": "4257341", "text": "inhabit the house. The production crew visited Penshurst Place in Kent to film at the Lime Walk in the gardens. The Lime Walk was used in the scene where Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) went looking for a priest in the thick fog and instead met her husband who had returned from the war. Filming locations are, among other spots, Palacio de los Hornillos in Las Fraguas, Northern Spain, and in Madrid. \"The Others\" was released August 10, 2001 in 1,678 theaters in the United States and Canada and grossed $14 million its opening weekend, ranking fourth at the box office.", "title": "The Others (2001 film)" }, { "id": "13925014", "text": "of Wynkoop Brewing, located in an area of Denver known as LoDo. All of exterior shots are also in Denver on the surrounding streets, Blake Street, 17th Street, Wazee Street, Wynkoop Street and alley. Other notable landmarks in the video are Union Station and Coors Field. It premiered May 17, 2010 on Vevo. It has 164 million views as of 2017. A fourth version of the video features scenes from the Disney feature film \"The Sorcerer's Apprentice\". \"Secrets\" debuted at No. 98 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and later re-entered at No. 83, reaching its peak at No. 21. It", "title": "Secrets (OneRepublic song)" }, { "id": "1224190", "text": "work of world-renowned wax sculptor Katherine Stubergh whose notable works include wax figures used in Gone With the Wind and the 1953 film House of Wax. Carrie Ingalls (sister of \"Little House on the Prairie\" author Laura Ingalls Wilder) spent a significant part of her adult life there, living with her husband David N. Swanzey and his children. Her sister Mary Ingalls lived with them for a while and died there in 1928. Bobby Buntrock, who played Harold on the TV series \"Hazel\" is buried in Keystone. This town was one of the filming locations for the Columbia Pictures 1994", "title": "Keystone, South Dakota" }, { "id": "18845916", "text": "short cameo performance. Principal photography on the film began on January 5, 2017, and took place in Atlanta, Georgia, and Cádiz, Spain and Nice, France and wrapped on April 3, 2017. \"Pitch Perfect 3\" was initially scheduled for July 21, and August 4, 2017. It had its world premiere in Sydney, Australia, on November 29, 2017, and was released in the United States on December 22, 2017. \"Pitch Perfect 3\" grossed $104.9 million in the United States and Canada and $79 million in other territories, for a total of $183.9 million, against a production budget of $45 million. In the", "title": "Pitch Perfect 3" }, { "id": "1009536", "text": "(Oak/Providencia) Ranch. The Universal Ranch tract of land became smaller after the 1914 move to the Taylor Ranch. The leased land surrounding the universal ranch would soon become the Lasky Ranch. The Providencia property was used as a filming location by other motion picture companies, most notably for battle scenes in the silent classic about the American Civil War, \"The Birth of a Nation\" (1915). Burbank experienced a 4.8% increase in population between 2000 and 2016, bringing its total population in 2016 to 105,110. Population growth was influenced by Burbank's expanding employment base, high quality public schools, and access to", "title": "Burbank, California" }, { "id": "20250737", "text": "partner. Principal photography on the film began on August 12, 2017 in Croatia, including the island of Vis. In October 2017, the cast gathered at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England, to film song and dance numbers with Cher. Filming wrapped on December 2, 2017. \"Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again\" was released on July 20, 2018 by Universal Pictures, in the UK, US and other selected countries in both standard and IMAX formats. The film premiered on July 16, 2018 at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The first trailer for the film was released on December 21, 2017, in front", "title": "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again" }, { "id": "13787962", "text": "Principal photography began on June 14, 2010, in Hawaii. Filming was moved to California in August 2010, primarily at the Long Beach shore and a recreation of Whitecap Bay done in the Universal Studios backlot, as the original Hawaiian location on Halona Cove was plagued with strong tides. After a brief shoot in Puerto Rico, with locations in both Palomino Island and the Fort of San Cristóbal in San Juan, production moved to the United Kingdom in September, where principal photography wrapped on November 18 after 106 days of shooting. Locations included Hampton Court Palace in London, Knole House in", "title": "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" }, { "id": "14781818", "text": "underground hit before being released as a commercial single on May 13. The music video was released on July 19, 2010. During the music video the production was shut down by gang activity and police presence due to the Black P. Stones Bloods gang injunction. The music video was directed by Benny Boom. It was shot on Palmwood Drive in Baldwin Village, Los Angeles, often referred to as \"the Jungles\", a neighborhood made infamous courtesy of the Denzel Washington movie \"Training Day.\" In August 2014, Pitchfork listed the track #41 on their \"The 200 Best Tracks of the Decade So", "title": "Hard in da Paint" }, { "id": "20802276", "text": "with \"The Huffington Post\", Cox stated that he had originally planned to film in Boulder, Colorado but then decided to shoot in Tucson instead. Filming took place at the Old Tucson Studios west of Tucson near the actual O.K. Corral. In an interview with \"Tucson Weekly\", Cox stated that the producers of \"Snowden\" matched the funds already accumulated, helping Cox to complete the film. The film screened as a work in progress at the Ashland Independent Film Festival at 6:40 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, 2017, at the Cinedelphia Film Festival at 7:00 p.m. on April 15, 2017, and at", "title": "Tombstone Rashomon" }, { "id": "18862905", "text": "first such scene to be featured in the film series, and was filmed in a single continuous shot with the use of a dolly track. On May 10, 2017, Rock Barracks military base, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, confirmed that filming was taking place on the base. On May 24, 2017, scenes were shot at Hampshire's Blackbushe Airport, which stood in as an American airfield. Filming in the United Kingdom concluded on June 10, 2017. Up to that point, Trevorrow was present as an on-set writer for each day of production so he could aid Bayona with any possible script changes. Goldblum", "title": "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" }, { "id": "8028151", "text": "be more cost-effective to create sets for the film on soundstages and locations in the United States, primarily in California. The majority of the film was shot on a large set built on a ranch in Thousand Oaks, California which was a detailed recreation of an early twentieth-century geisha district in Kyoto, Japan. Most interior scenes were filmed in Culver City, California at the Sony Pictures Studios lot. Other locations in California included San Francisco, Moss Beach, Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge, Sacramento, Yamashiro's Restaurant in Hollywood, the Japanese Gardens at the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino,", "title": "Memoirs of a Geisha (film)" }, { "id": "9947342", "text": "Loretta Young, and Alfred Hitchcock's \"The Birds\" produced in 1963, which was also partially filmed in adjacent Marin County. Many other more modern classics have used Sonoma County as a filming venue, including the 1990 production of the \"Flatliners\" and the 1992 film \"Basic Instinct\". A few of the other representative films produced partially in Sonoma County are: Film locations in Sonoma County, California Film locations in Sonoma County, California are a diverse set of sites throughout this California county, where all or parts of notable motion pictures have been produced. Due to the scenic and varied aspects of Sonoma", "title": "Film locations in Sonoma County, California" }, { "id": "1458568", "text": "Universal Pictures Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios, formerly Universal Film Manufacturing Company) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal. Founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, Mark Dintenfass, Charles O. Baumann, Adam Kessel, Pat Powers, William Swanson, David Horsley, Robert H. Cochrane, and Jules Brulatour, it is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States, the world's fifth oldest after Gaumont, Pathé, Titanus, and Nordisk Film, and the oldest member of Hollywood's \"Big Six\" studios in terms of the overall film market. Its studios", "title": "Universal Pictures" }, { "id": "10965488", "text": "Areas in nearby west London like Bishopshalt school in Hillingdon and the Liquid nightclub in Uxbridge were used as well. Other sites include locations in Teddington and Twickenham. Costumes included green blazers and kilts borrowed from St. Bede's Prep School in Eastbourne, and props included Eastbourne's signature blue bins to add to the effect and continuity when filming in multiple locations. The film was the first movie produced by Nickelodeon Movies to receive a PG-13 rating. The film received positive reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 71% based on reviews from 24 critics. The", "title": "Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging" }, { "id": "18764700", "text": "premiere. Other area locations include Kirkwood, Fenton and Easton. Additionally there are locations in Austin, Texas, and in Detroit, Michigan. Cloud 9 has locations in multiple countries, with stores in Beijing, Mumbai, Paris, Vancouver and Mexico City. The pilot was shot at a redressed Kmart in Burbank, California, though the rest of the series has been shot on sets constructed on two soundstages. The series debuted as a \"preview\" on November 30, 2015 following an episode of \"The Voice\" with 7 million viewers making it the second highest new comedy behind \"Life in Pieces\". The series then moved to its", "title": "Superstore (TV series)" }, { "id": "7635639", "text": "Werfen in the Salzach River valley on June 25 and 27. The opening sequence of Maria on her mountain was filmed from June 28 to July 2 at Mehlweg mountain near the town of Marktschellenberg in Bavaria. The final scene of the von Trapp family escaping over the mountains was filmed on the Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps. The cast and crew flew back to Los Angeles and resumed filming at Fox studios on July 6 for all remaining scenes, including those in the villa dining room, ballroom, terrace, living room, and gazebo. Following the last two scenes shot in", "title": "The Sound of Music (film)" }, { "id": "1248040", "text": "\"I'll Walk with You\". The popular TV series \"Granite Flats\" also uses some of the Magna locations in part of the series. Disney's series 'Andi Mack' is also filmed in Magna. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land. The community lies just to the northeast of the Oquirrh Mountains and is directly south of the Great Salt Lake. According to estimates from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute of the University of Utah, as of 2015, there were 27,451 people in Magna. The racial makeup of the county", "title": "Magna, Utah" }, { "id": "20876980", "text": "Ladd to its cast. Filming was set to begin between Atlanta and Costa Rica later that month. Grant Gustin and LisaGay Hamilton were cast as production commenced, with Amy Madigan and Peter Fonda joining in April. In August 2017, filming concluded in Atlanta and would move to Thailand, with Jeremy Irvine (replacing Gustin in his role), Ethan Russell, Ser'Darius Blain, Cody Walker, Tommy Hatto and Zach Roerig cast in the film. Roadside Attractions acquired the distribution rights to the film in September 2018, with an early 2019 release date eyed. The Last Full Measure (2019 film) The Last Full Measure", "title": "The Last Full Measure (2019 film)" }, { "id": "1059451", "text": "ballpark served as the homefield for the Racine Belles. Scenes from the 2014 Michael Rosenbaum movie \"Back in the Day\" feature Green River Road in Evansville. All exterior shots on the 1988-1997 sitcom \"Roseanne\" are still photographs taken in and around Evansville. The Connors' house is at 619 South Runnymeade Avenue, and the Lobo Lounge is a pizzeria at the corner of Edgar and Louisiana Streets. Matt Williams, one of the show's producers, is a native of Evansville and a graduate of The University of Evansville theatre program. He is a co-founder of Wind Dancer Productions and has been involved", "title": "Evansville, Indiana" }, { "id": "4452980", "text": "were writing the score for a musical based on E. Lynn Harris's novel \"Invisible Life\". In January 2007, they, along with Tina Turner, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Sidney Poitier, director Spike Lee, and comedian Chris Rock accompanied Oprah Winfrey when she opened her Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. They were given writing credit on Amy Winehouse's 2007 CD \"Back to Black\" for the single \"Tears Dry on Their Own\". The track is based on a sample of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's 1967 Motown hit \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough\". They had begun performing their act in", "title": "Ashford & Simpson" }, { "id": "15041761", "text": "shot in the real-life Jackson, as well as in nearby Clarksdale and Greenville. One of the few locations that existed in 1963 Jackson, the book and the film is Jackson landmark Brent's Drugs, which dates to 1946. Other locations that can still be found in Jackson include the New Capitol Building and the Mayflower Cafe downtown. Scenes set at the \"Jackson Journal\" office were shot in Clarksdale at the building which formerly housed the \"Clarksdale Press Register\" for 40 years until April 2010. \"The Help\" was the most significant film production in Mississippi since \"O Brother, Where Art Thou?\" (2000)", "title": "The Help (film)" }, { "id": "16893511", "text": "band Chicago appear as themselves. Schreiber's appearance remains officially uncredited due to his involvement in \"Ray Donovan\", broadcast by HBO's rival network Showtime. The film began principal photography in July 2012. The film was shot on location in the Massachusetts towns of Topsfield, Essex, North Andover, and Beverly, including the North Shore Music Theatre. Around 300 full-time workers were needed on-set. Filming wrapped in November 2012. The film premiered on August 10, 2013, on HBO. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 59% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The website's critical consensus", "title": "Clear History" }, { "id": "1054383", "text": "Sparta, Illinois Sparta is a city in Randolph County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,302 at the 2010 census. The city was the principal filming location for the 1967 film \"In the Heat of the Night\". Sparta is located at (38.1282, -89.7061). According to the 2010 census, Sparta has a total area of , of which (or 97.61%) is land and (or 2.39%) is water. After World War II, Sparta became known as \"Magazineland, U.S.A.\" due to the presence of numerous printing plants that produced most of the mass-market color comic books in the United States. Spartan Printing employed", "title": "Sparta, Illinois" }, { "id": "20950856", "text": "Staten Island. Movies and television shows including Orange is the New Black, The Sinner, Blindspot, Ocean's 8, The Good Cop, and Daredevil, have filmed have filmed in the Arthur Kill facility. The following are a list of some of the productions at Broadway Stages' facilities: Broadway Stages Broadway Stages is one of New York’s full-service film and television production companies, with its headquarters in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Broadway Stages’ studios can be found throughout Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. As of 2018 It has over 1.5 million square feet of integrated soundstages, locations, support space and parking. Broadway Stages was founded", "title": "Broadway Stages" }, { "id": "18673382", "text": "working title \"Mary Lou\", with Trent Opaloch serving as director of photography. Additional filming occurred in Scotland, including in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the Scottish Highlands, with studio work taking place at Wardpark Studios in Cumbernauld. Filming in Scotland began on February 28, 2017. From March 18 through April 21, 2017, filming occurred in Old Town, Edinburgh on and around the Royal Mile, including High Street, Parliament Square, Cockburn Street, and Roxburgh Close and Old Fishmarket Close, as well as Waverley Station. Filming also took place at Durham Cathedral in Durham, England in early May 2017, and in St Abbs. Additional", "title": "Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame" }, { "id": "2846660", "text": "$11.5 million and finishing first. It ended up being a commercial success, making $107.5 million in the United States, and $24.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $132.4 million, against a production budget of $40 million. The film was well received by critics, who praised the cast and their performances. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 78% based on 63 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"Sentimental and light, but still thoroughly charming, \"A League of Their Own\" is buoyed by solid performances from", "title": "A League of Their Own" }, { "id": "11042060", "text": "Decatur St. on the evening and night of May 13 and wrapped the next day. On May 26, filming took place at Stone Mountain Park in Atlanta. Other locations included Piedmont Park, Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital, Zoo Atlanta, and Colony Square. In June, production moved to Cartersville and shot scenes near Woodland High School. After the cast of the \"Jersey Shore\" arrived on July 18, 2011, they shot scenes at the Atlanta Civic Center. During the last two days of filming, scenes were shot at an Ansley Park home. Filming concluded on July 22, 2011, at the Miami Seaquarium, a", "title": "The Three Stooges (2012 film)" }, { "id": "2418192", "text": "it being called the \"Barn-door\", and is described as being \"sufficiently high for a good-sized sailing boat to pass through it.\" Music videos have been filmed at Durdle Door, including parts of Tears for Fears' \"Shout\", Billy Ocean's \"Loverboy\", and Cliff Richard's \"Saviour's Day\". The landscape around Durdle Door has been used in scenes in several films, including \"Wilde\" (1997) starring Stephen Fry, \"Nanny McPhee\" starring Emma Thompson, the 1967 production of \"Far From The Madding Crowd\" (the latter also filmed around nearby Scratchy Bottom), and the Bollywood film \"Housefull 3\". Ron Dawson's children's story \"Scary Bones meets the Dinosaurs", "title": "Durdle Door" }, { "id": "9520783", "text": "and animated music video sequences for Tears for Fears (“Sowing the Seeds of Love”, 1988) and Joni Mitchell (“Good Friends”, 1985) and a PBS series title: “Making Peace” (1996). After directing and producing short films from 1979 to 2015, Priestley made an abstract feature film, North of Blue, which premiered at the Annecy International Animation Festival in France in June, 2018. Priestley has received fellowships from Creative Capital, National Endowment for the Arts (USA), American Film Institute (USA), Fundación Valparaíso (Spain), Millay Colony (USA), Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (Canada) and the Caldera Arts Foundation (USA). She was awarded", "title": "Joanna Priestley" }, { "id": "19582578", "text": "2016. Principal photography started in Budapest and Dunaújváros in Hungary on January 5, 2017. Other filming locations include Festetics Mansion in Dég, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; and Vienna, Austria. On May 3, 2017, Jennifer Lawrence was spotted shooting some scenes at London's Heathrow Airport. In post-production, Francis offered Jennifer Lawrence the opportunity to view a cut of the film ahead of the studio and producers, so that she might request the deletion of any nude or sexual scenes. She declined to request any deletions. However, the film was edited for the United Kingdom release to remove a violent sequence and secure", "title": "Red Sparrow" }, { "id": "14918895", "text": "shared pictures of the nearby river and exterior sets flooding on June 20 and 21. Filming of the fourth season's 13 episodes took place along the Bow River. Filming occurred from April 24 to September 24, 2014. The fifth season's production filming occurred on the CL Ranch, west of Calgary, for the Truckee, California, and Laramie, Wyoming, locations. The Kananaskis Country park system, 40 miles west of the ranch, served as the Sierra Nevada mountains the Central Pacific must cross. The first season was given 63% on Metacritic based on 28 reviews, indicating a \"generally favorable\" impression. The second season", "title": "Hell on Wheels (TV series)" }, { "id": "1026585", "text": "Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stop at a service station on Live Oak Street in \"Hollywood or Bust\" (1956). Hills near California Lutheran University were used in the filming of \"Welcome to Hard Times\" (1967). \"Spartacus\" (1960) was also filmed by CLU. Movies are still being made at Ventura Farms (previously Deerwood Stock Farm), Greenfield Ranch, and the JMJ Ranch. A number of movie productions took place in Wildwood Regional Park between the 1930s and 1960s. Examples include \"Wuthering Heights\" (1939), \"Dodge City\" (1939), \"The Rifleman\" (1958–63), \"Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier\" (1955), \"The Grapes of Wrath\" (1940),", "title": "Thousand Oaks, California" }, { "id": "18673336", "text": "second part's title was revealed as \"Avengers: Endgame\" in December 2018. Both films were shot back-to-back at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia. Production of \"Infinity War\" began on January 23, and concluded on July 14, 2017, with additional filming in Scotland, England, the Downtown Atlanta area, and New York City. Filming of \"Avengers: Endgame\" began on August 10, 2017 and concluded on January 11, 2018, with additional filming in the Downtown and Metro Atlanta areas and New York. They are the first Hollywood films to be shot entirely in digital IMAX, using a new camera developed alongside Arri.", "title": "Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame" }, { "id": "18428762", "text": "16, 2015, at Jobs's childhood home in Los Altos, California, with additional scenes shot throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Production next moved to Berkeley on January 23–24, 2015 (at \"La Méditerranée,\" a restaurant on College Avenue in the Elmwood district). On January 29, 2015, filming continued at Flint Center, De Anza college (the location of the original unveiling of the Macintosh in 1984). In late February, production moved to San Francisco and took place at the Opera House, Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, and the Civic Center. Filming wrapped on April 10, 2015, after an overnight shoot in the", "title": "Steve Jobs (film)" }, { "id": "4885924", "text": "has a number of famous characters. The following is a list of characters that can be seen in the park: Universal Studios Florida is also a working production studio. It has been used for several movies, television series, commercials, music videos, and other events throughout its history. It was also the home of Nickelodeon Studios, the production location for Nickelodeon from 1990 until 2005. In September 2008, Nickelodeon returned to Universal Studios Florida for the production of \"My Family's Got GUTS\". In January 2009, the Powerball lottery drawings moved from Iowa; they are conducted and made at Universal Studios Florida,", "title": "Universal Studios Florida" }, { "id": "9898487", "text": "state lawmakers in April 2013 that increased tax credits for film and TV productions in the state. Later filming locations included Annapolis and the Physical Sciences Complex in the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Principal photography moved from Baltimore to Los Angeles in the show's fifth season after being one of a few series to be awarded tax incentives from the California Film Commission, as part of an expanded $330 million California Film Tax Credit program signed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2014. Filming took place for part of the show's fifth season in Washington, D.C., from February 25,", "title": "Veep" }, { "id": "4411133", "text": "specifics came from other families when I was doing research for the film in East Los Angeles.\" The final scene is duplicated shot-for-shot from the final scene of Satyajit Ray's 1959 film \"The World of Apu\". Filming began in 1994. The film was filmed in both California and Mexico. In California locations include: Agoura Hills and Los Angeles, California. In Mexico locations include: Ocumicho, Patamba, and Pátzcuaro, all in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Reviews were generally positive. The film has an 83% \"Fresh\" rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on ten reviews from professional critics, with an average rating of", "title": "My Family (film)" }, { "id": "5660929", "text": "CBS Studio Center CBS Studio Center is a television and film studio located in the Studio City district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. It is located at 4024 Radford Avenue and takes up a triangular piece of land, with the Los Angeles River bisecting the site. The lot, which is not open to the public for tours, has 18 sound stages from 7,000 to , of office space, and 223 dressing rooms. It is one of two studio facilities owned by CBS in Los Angeles, California; the other is CBS Television City on Beverly Boulevard. The company", "title": "CBS Studio Center" }, { "id": "10594144", "text": "Big Bear Lake, California and San Bernardino National Forest; the interiors were filmed at Paramount Studios, with Joshua Logan directing. The film's initial budget was $10 million, before it eventually doubled to $20 million. A daily expense of $80,000 was incurred to transport cast and crew to the filming location, as the closest hotel was nearly 60 miles away. The elaborate camp used in the film cost $2.4 million to build. The film was released at a time when movie musicals were going out of fashion, especially with younger audiences. Its overblown budget and nearly three-hour length became notorious in", "title": "Paint Your Wagon (film)" }, { "id": "1248051", "text": "the filming location for some scenes in the original movie The Sandlot (1993), specifically downtown Midvale's Vincent Drug Store. Midvale, Utah Midvale is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. Midvale's population was 33,208 according to 2017 estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.8 square miles (15.1 km²), all of it land. This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot summers and cold winters. According to", "title": "Midvale, Utah" }, { "id": "6021482", "text": "logo was removed from the Filmland Building in late 1992. The studio continues to record TV shows such as \"The Goldbergs\", \"Ray Donovan\", and \"Shark Tank\". The long-running game shows \"Jeopardy!\" and \"Wheel of Fortune\" and its spin-offs are also taped at Sony. The revival of \"American Gladiators\" was also taped there. Sony Pictures Studios The Sony Pictures Studios are an American television and film studio complex located in Culver City, California at 10202 West Washington Boulevard and bounded by Culver Boulevard (south), Washington Boulevard (north), Overland Avenue (west) and Madison Avenue (east). The facility is owned by Sony Pictures", "title": "Sony Pictures Studios" }, { "id": "17334975", "text": "the film in Australia. Jolie was paid a $1 million salary for directing the film. Walden Media was originally set as Universal's co-financier, but withdrew from the project prior to filming and were subsequently replaced by Legendary Pictures. The filming was based in New South Wales and Queensland, with scenes also shot in Fox Studios Australia and Village Roadshow Studios. Principal photography began on October 16, 2013, in Queensland, Australia and ended on February 4, 2014, with post-production also being done in Australia. Some of the scenes were shot at sea in Moreton Bay on October 16, 2013. On December", "title": "Unbroken (film)" }, { "id": "1008015", "text": "BBQ at Dehy Park, concluding with a fireworks display at the airport. The annual December Fruitcake Festival, inaugurated in 2004, is another popular event that draws many visitors. Independence was the film location for the film \"Trial and Error\". Daft Punk filmed many of their scenes from the 2006 movie Daft Punk's Electroma in the town. Independence, California Independence is a census-designated place in Inyo County, California. Independence is located south-southeast of Bishop, at an elevation of 3930 feet (1198 m). It is the county seat of Inyo County, California. The population of this census-designated place was 669 at the", "title": "Independence, California" }, { "id": "12079216", "text": "in order to prepare for his role. The film was, for the most part, filmed on location in California, including Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Pedro, Los Angeles and Temecula, California. The montage sequence toward the end of the film includes the Foresthill Bridge near Auburn. A soundtrack was released on August 4, but only contained music composed for the film. Below are the songs featured in the film. The film received negative reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 13% based on 171 reviews and an average rating of 3.7/10. The site's", "title": "The Ugly Truth" }, { "id": "18234149", "text": "in Midtown Manhattan and moved out to Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. Filming in Buffalo began on May 4, 2015, along the Kensington Expressway and ended May 17, 2015. Filming wrapped up in August 2015. Additional filming occurred in New York City on January 30, and ended on February 1. Farelly and Williams recorded additional dialogue for the film in February 2016. The film premiered in New York City on May 22, 2016, and was released in the United Kingdom on May 30, 2016, and the United States on June 3, 2016. Concept art of Bebop and Rocksteady was shown at", "title": "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows" }, { "id": "1009513", "text": "onto Olive Avenue. Other classic live-action films shot in Burbank include Disney's \"Mary Poppins\" (1964), filmed on Sound Stage 2 at the Walt Disney Studios. Julie Andrews returned 37 years later to make Disney's \"The Princess Diaries\" (2001). As a tribute to the actress, Disney renamed the sound stage \"The Julie Andrews Stage\" in 2001. In 2002, a fire broke out on the Disney's Burbank lot, damaging a sound stage where a set was under construction for Disney's feature film \"\" (2003). No one was injured in the blaze. While filming \"Apollo 13\" (1995) and \"Coach Carter\" (2005), the producers", "title": "Burbank, California" }, { "id": "17121145", "text": "the Santa Fe University of Art and Design campus during the last week in October 2010. Filming wrapped in Santa Fe, New Mexico in late 2010. The film credits thank The College of Santa Fe, Ruby Ranch, The Pecos River Ranch, Santa Cruz Lake Recreational Area, and Albuquerque. Locations include Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rowe, New Mexico, Las Vegas, New Mexico, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. \"Bless Me, Ultima\" premiered at the Plaza Theatre in El Paso, Texas on September 17, 2012 and received a general release in February 2013. \"Bless Me, Ultima\" has a 71% on Rotten Tomatoes based on", "title": "Bless Me, Ultima (film)" }, { "id": "1539971", "text": "for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2004 as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\" Its visuals would influence Beyoncé's acclaimed 2016 video album \"Lemonade\", featuring young women on the beach, dressed in white gowns as in the movie, and gathering in front of an island cabin. On its 25th anniversary, the Cohen Media Group restored and distributed \"Daughters of the Dust\" for theatrical release, beginning at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival. Dash directed videos for musicians including Raphael Saadiq with Tony, Toni, Tone, Keb ‘Mo, Peabo Bryson, Adriana Evans, and Sweet", "title": "Julie Dash" }, { "id": "10084002", "text": "and exterior improvements on the lot. Sunset Gower Studios is now working closely with its sister company Sunset Bronson Studios, located just a couple of blocks west on the site of the original Warner Bros. lot (1923-37), formerly owned by Tribune Broadcasting, and Sunset Las Palmas Studios, formerly Hollywood Center Studios until 2017. Sunset Gower Studios Sunset Gower Studios is a television and movie studio at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Established in 1912, it continues today as Hollywood's largest independent studio and an active facility for television and film production on", "title": "Sunset Gower Studios" }, { "id": "20057247", "text": "Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Blythe Danner, and Taissa Farmiga had been cast in the film. Sarah Sutherland's casting was confirmed in August 2017. Principal photography began on March 22, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. On March 28, members of the Amboy American Legion performed a graveside service for a scene in the film on location in Westchester, Illinois. Conboy Westchester Funeral Home also hosted the cast and crew for filming on March 28. Production was set up in Hyde Park, Chicago for more than two weeks, concluding on April 17. Filming wrapped in Los Angeles on May 2, 2017. In", "title": "What They Had" }, { "id": "5284894", "text": "for its famous \"jerked\" foods, including chicken, fish and pork. Jerked foods are foods made with Jamaican jerk spice and traditional technique. Since the early 1950s, more than 782 film or screen productions have been shot in Portland. Two of the most popular are \"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\", by Walt Disney (USA) in 1954 and \"The Harder They Come\" by Vista Productions (Jamaica) in 1972. Scenes from the film \"Cocktail,\" starring Tom Cruise, were shot at the bar on the beach at the Dragon Bay resort. An early film edition of the 1963 version of \"Lord of the", "title": "Portland Parish" }, { "id": "3025458", "text": "2014, and since its creation it has quickly grown to 13 teams including one open age team competing during the week. Julian Burnside QC The main shopping strip was used to film the 2003 Australian movie, \"Take Away\", featuring Vince Colosimo and Stephen Curry. In 2011, the Australian television drama The Slap was filmed on location in an Alphington house. Bonds filmed their Show Your Glow ad in Parkview Road's last original house during September 2015. Alphington, Victoria Alphington is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area are the", "title": "Alphington, Victoria" }, { "id": "17929893", "text": "show was recorded in 4k Ultra-high-definition television and has been shown on Belgium 4k channel festival. Kiss Me Once Live at the SSE Hydro is a concert film of its corresponding tour. The show was filmed at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow and directed by William Baker. It was released on most formats including a double-disc CD, DVD, and Blu-ray. \"Timebomb\", which was not aired on the ITV special, was released to Kylie's official YouTube account as a sneak peek for the Blu-ray/CD and DVD/CD sets on 4 March 2015. \"Tears on My Pillow\" was performed in Glasgow and is", "title": "Kiss Me Once Tour" }, { "id": "10866203", "text": "were on the phone. This footage was clearly filmed after-the-fact at the request of the distributor, resulting in occasionally contradicting messages throughout the film. This is most likely the factor that led to the director's use of a pseudonym in the opening credits. The Osmond Boys (the sons of Alan Osmond, now performing as The Osmonds Second Generation), performed the main theme, also called \"On Our Own\", and other incidental songs and music. Parts of the film were shot in St. George, Utah. On Our Own (film) On Our Own is a 1988 family film, from Feature Films for Families,", "title": "On Our Own (film)" }, { "id": "18663619", "text": "Moloney and Ruth Coady of Parallel Films. On March 2, 2016, Tom Sturridge, Maisie Williams, Stephen Dillane, and Joanne Froggatt joined the cast. Principal photography began on February 20, 2016 in Dublin, Ireland. On March 7, the production moved to Luxembourg. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2017. Shortly after, IFC Films and Curzon Artificial Eye acquired U.S. and U.K. distribution rights to the film, respectively. The film had its American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28, 2018. It was released in the United States on May 25,", "title": "Mary Shelley (film)" }, { "id": "17492258", "text": "photography while Tristan Lynch and Michael Auret are the producers. On May 13, 2014 Screen Media Films acquired the U.S. rights to the film. The shooting of the film began in February 2013 at Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa and shot until March 15. The first trailer was released on July 6, 2014. Another U.S. trailer was released on July 23. The film was released on October 17, 2014 in the United States. Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 43% of 30 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 5.3/10. The critical consensus states:", "title": "Young Ones (film)" }, { "id": "20215522", "text": "2017, the majority of the supporting cast was announced. In September 2017, Joe Alwyn and Madelyn Cline joined the cast as well, and principal photography on the film began September 8, 2017, in Atlanta, Georgia. In April 2018, re-shoots took place. The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on September 1, 2018. It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, first for the press and industry on September 8, 2018, and then for the public on September 11, 12, and 15. The film was initially scheduled for release on September 28, 2018, but was pushed", "title": "Boy Erased" }, { "id": "917365", "text": "play \"\" (2007), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award in 2008, and the 2013 of the same name which stars Meryl Streep. Filming took place in rural Osage County, including Pawhuska, Barnsdall and Bartlesville. L.L. Tisdale Parkway Gilcrease Expressway U.S. 412 U.S. 60 Oklahoma State Highway 99 Oklahoma State Highway 20 Oklahoma State Highway 18 Oklahoma State Highway 11 Oklahoma State Highway 10 Oklahoma State Highway 123 Oklahoma State Highway 97 Osage County, Oklahoma Osage County is the largest county by area in Oklahoma in the United States. Created in 1907 when Oklahoma was admitted", "title": "Osage County, Oklahoma" }, { "id": "1009534", "text": "the Golden Age of filming. Disney is the only remaining major studio company to remain independent from a larger conglomerate and whose parent entity is still located in the Los Angeles area. Disney is also the only major film studio that does not run public backlot tours. Filmmaking began in the Providencia Ranch area (marked in yellow on the Providencia Land, Water & Development Co. map in this section). Nestor Studios began using the ranch location in 1911. The Providencia Ranch became part of the Universal Film Manufacturing operations on the Pacific/West Coast in 1912. From 1912 to 1914 Universal's", "title": "Burbank, California" }, { "id": "10373505", "text": "above have been set in or have used Georgia as a background for their settings. One such film was \"Forrest Gump\", which used a bench in Savannah, Georgia during the film. \"Fried Green Tomatoes\", though set mostly in Alabama a small portion of the novel and film were set in Valdosta Georgia, was filmed in Juliette, Georgia in Monroe County, Georgia. A more recent film, \"Sweet Home Alabama\", was filmed almost entirely in Crawfordville, Georgia. Georgia is home to Ted Turner, who founded TBS, TNT, TCM, Cartoon Network, CNN and Headline News, among others. The CNN Center, which houses the", "title": "Culture of Georgia (U.S. state)" }, { "id": "20878409", "text": "narrative feature. The film stars George Blagden, Charleene Closshey, Robbie Kay, Stelio Savante, with Michael Beach and Raymond J. Barry. Principal photography began in Plant City, FL in August 2016 filming on 35mm film, a rarity for an indie film of its size and budget. The film initially premiered on October 14, 2017 as an Official Selection of the Heartland Film Festival. Culver then presented the final version June 28, 2018 at the Tampa Theatre in Hillsborough County, Florida where the movie was exclusively filmed, serving as the Florida Premiere. \"No Postage Necessary\" premiered in select U.S. theaters on July", "title": "Jeremy Culver" }, { "id": "19676892", "text": "searched for a real-life transgender performer, and found Tremblay, a trans woman. Tremblay said she idolized the protest for creating a social movement, and drew on personal experiences to portray her character. Production was continuing through January 2016, and Denis estimated the last of the editing would occur in the spring or summer of 2016. The film screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2016, and has been selected for the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. A wider release was planned for the spring of 2017. The Quebec release was later scheduled for 3 February. The film was", "title": "Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves" }, { "id": "2266868", "text": "took place at the Disney studios in Burbank, California from early March to June 10, 1970. Additional scenes were shot on location in Corfe Castle in Dorset, England, and the coastal scenes featuring Nazi soldiers were also shot on location at a nearby California beach. Filming lasted fifty-seven days while the animation and special effects required five months each to complete. For the Naboombu soccer sequence, the sodium vapor process was used, which was developed by Ub Iwerks in the 1960s. Animator and director Ward Kimball served as the animation director over the sequence. Directing animator Milt Kahl had designed", "title": "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" } ]

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[ { "id": "13601919", "text": "Fooled Around and Fell in Love \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love\" is a song written and performed by blues guitarist Elvin Bishop. It appeared on his 1975 album \"Struttin' My Stuff\" and was released as a single the following year. Bishop does not sing lead vocals on the track; feeling that his gravelly voice wouldn't do the song justice, he invited vocalist Mickey Thomas, who was a background singer in his band at the time, to sing it. The song peaked at #3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 singles chart in May 1976. The record was certified gold by", "title": "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" }, { "id": "13601923", "text": "re-imagined version of the song (sung from the female perspective) was recorded and released by Kirsten Thien on her album \"Solo Live from the Meisenfrei Blues Club.\" In 2014, Morgan James covered the song in a YouTube video. Fooled Around and Fell in Love \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love\" is a song written and performed by blues guitarist Elvin Bishop. It appeared on his 1975 album \"Struttin' My Stuff\" and was released as a single the following year. Bishop does not sing lead vocals on the track; feeling that his gravelly voice wouldn't do the song justice, he invited", "title": "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" }, { "id": "13601922", "text": "1991, Henry Lee Summer covered this song which appeared on his album \"Way Past Midnight\", and the \"Queens Logic\" soundtrack (with the lead guitar solo played by Joe Walsh). In 2004, country music artist Mark Wills covered this song for the southern rock tribute album \"Southern Rock Country Style.\" In 2006, Rod Stewart covered this song for the album \"Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time\". In 2010, Japanese band Superfly covered this song for the compilation album \"\". In 2013, The Winery Dogs covered this song for their live album, \"Unleashed In Japan 2013\". In 2013, a", "title": "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" }, { "id": "4474185", "text": "\"Travelin' Shoes\" in 1975 but, a year later, in 1976, Bishop released his most memorable single, \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love,\" which peaked at #3 in the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart (and #34 in the UK charts). The recording featured vocalist Mickey Thomas and drummer Donny Baldwin who both later joined Jefferson Starship. Bishop feels that the limitations of his voice have helped his songwriting. During the 1960s and 1970s he recorded for the Fillmore, Epic and Capricorn labels. Bishop appeared at the 1984 Long Beach Blues Festival. In 1988, he signed with Alligator Records and released \"Big", "title": "Elvin Bishop" }, { "id": "13601921", "text": "Bay\" (2008), \"Stand Up Guys\" (2012), \"Lovelace\" (2013), \"Guardians of the Galaxy\" (2014) and \"\" (2017). In their 1990 essay \"Rock and Sexuality\", Simon Frith and Angela McRobbie offer the song as one which \"lyrically captures\" their idea of an essential distinction in rock music between \"cock rock\" and \"teeny bop\". In 1978, the Julian Laxton Band from South Africa covered the song, reaching #13 there. In 1985, T. G. Sheppard had a #21 country hit with a cover of the song. A music video was also produced for this version and has aired on CMT, TNN and GAC. In", "title": "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" }, { "id": "6853718", "text": "after Lymon's, in March 1956. This version stayed 19 weeks on the \"Billboard\" chart, topping out at No. 12. The song was ranked No. 314 on the \"Rolling Stone\" magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers version was the first hit recording made in the Bell Sound Studio in New York City. It was recorded in November 1955. In late 1955, The Teenagers (at that time calling themselves The Premiers) auditioned a song called \"Why do Birds Sing So Gay?\" for George Goldner, recording producer and owner of Gee Records. Herman", "title": "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)" }, { "id": "13601920", "text": "the Recording Industry Association of America on June 23, 1976. In Canada, the song reached number 22 on the singles chart and number 8 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song became a Gold record. Based on his work with Bishop, Thomas was invited to become the lead singer for Jefferson Starship. The song is featured in the films \"Queens Logic\" (1991), \"Illtown\" (1996), \"Boogie Nights\" (1997), \"Summer of Sam\" (1999), \"Big Daddy\" (1999), \"According to Spencer\" (2001), \"The Devil's Rejects\" (2005), \"The Family Stone\" (2005), \"Invincible\" (2006), \"The Education of Charlie Banks\" (2007), \"Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo", "title": "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" }, { "id": "6078002", "text": "14, he was performing with local bands at dances. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Harvard University, he moved to Oakland, California and played in blues clubs for several years. He also toured and recorded as a member of Elvin Bishop's Group at the time of its greatest popularity, and co-wrote the title song of the band's 1976 \"Struttin' My Stuff\" release, an album which also included Bishop's biggest hit, \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love,\" featuring Aaberg on piano. In 1985, Aaberg signed a recording contract with Windham Hill Records and released the highly acclaimed", "title": "Philip Aaberg" }, { "id": "13285745", "text": "T. Miller and R. Brad Murano. \"Fall in Love\" debuted at number 66 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 1, 1995. Fall in Love \"Fall in Love\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in March 1995 as the lead single from his album \"All I Need to Know\". It peaked at number 6 in both the United States and Canada. Chesney wrote the song with Buddy Brock and Kim Williams. Larry Flick, of \"Billboard\" magazine reviewed the song unfavorably saying that Chesney", "title": "Fall in Love" }, { "id": "16047870", "text": "Fool in Love \"Fool in Love\" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, from the deluxe edition of her sixth studio album \"Talk That Talk\" (2011). The song was written by Ester Dean, Lukasz Gottwald, Henry Walter. Production was helmed by Lukasz Gottwald, Cirkut and Dean. Musically, \"Fool in Love\" is a rhapsodic ballad, and instrumentation consists of acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers and drums. The lyrics revolve around Rihanna being the protagonist, and how she has met a relatively good man who her parents do not approve of, but requests that they accept her decision to be with", "title": "Fool in Love" }, { "id": "6853717", "text": "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song) \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\" is a song that was originally a hit for early New York City-based rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, in January 1956. It reached No. 1 on the R&B chart, No. 6 on \"Billboard\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Pop Singles chart, and No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in July. The song helped to make Frankie Lymon a household name and would make him a rock and roll pioneer. The Canadian group The Diamonds also did a more traditional doo wop version that came out the week", "title": "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)" }, { "id": "16047878", "text": "2011. Fool in Love \"Fool in Love\" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, from the deluxe edition of her sixth studio album \"Talk That Talk\" (2011). The song was written by Ester Dean, Lukasz Gottwald, Henry Walter. Production was helmed by Lukasz Gottwald, Cirkut and Dean. Musically, \"Fool in Love\" is a rhapsodic ballad, and instrumentation consists of acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers and drums. The lyrics revolve around Rihanna being the protagonist, and how she has met a relatively good man who her parents do not approve of, but requests that they accept her decision to be", "title": "Fool in Love" }, { "id": "13285744", "text": "Fall in Love \"Fall in Love\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in March 1995 as the lead single from his album \"All I Need to Know\". It peaked at number 6 in both the United States and Canada. Chesney wrote the song with Buddy Brock and Kim Williams. Larry Flick, of \"Billboard\" magazine reviewed the song unfavorably saying that Chesney \"seems somewhat straightjacketed by this sunny pop song.\" He tells the label to let Chesney \"sink his teeth into some hardcore country.\" The music video was directed by Steven", "title": "Fall in Love" }, { "id": "11771742", "text": "Fallin' in Love (Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds song) \"Fallin' In Love\" is a song recorded and released by the trio of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds. The song was written by band member Dan Hamilton. Released in the summer of 1975, the song became the group's second Top 10 hit on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the U.S. (following 1971's \"Don't Pull Your Love\" which peaked at #4), and it was their only song to reach the #1 position on this chart. It was also the only pop #1 hit for the Playboy Records label. \"Fallin' in Love\"", "title": "Fallin' in Love (Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds song)" }, { "id": "6853721", "text": "interest in Gee Records, the Teenagers' record company. After a lengthy court battle, songwriting credits were awarded to original Teenagers members Herman Santiago and Jimmy Merchant in December 1992. However, in 1996, this ruling was overturned by the Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit under the statute of limitations and authorship, because Santiago and Merchant did not bring the case to court soon enough. This gave the song rights back to Lymon and Levy. The current publisher of the song is EMI Music Publishing, which still lists these two as the songwriters. Diana Ross released a cover version on", "title": "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)" }, { "id": "14260828", "text": "to #18 on the \"Billboard\" country chart. This period also produced \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love\", \"Angelene\", and \"My Heart is Not My Own\". During his career, he appeared on the Billboard charts 23 times. Mundo Earwood was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and a fibrous histiocytoma tumor in 2013, which later led to his death on April 21, 2014 at the age of 61. Mundo Earwood Raymond \"Mundo\" Earwood (October 13, 1952 – April 21, 2014) was an American country music singer-songwriter. Earwood's eponymous debut album was released by Excelsior Records in 1981. His most successful single, \"Things I'd", "title": "Mundo Earwood" }, { "id": "1427257", "text": "lead singer Santiago was late. Lymon stepped up and told Goldner that he knew the part because he helped write the song. The disc jockeys always called them \"Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers\". Goldner signed the group to Gee Records, and \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\" became its first single in January 1956. The single peaked at No. 6 on the \"Billboard\" pop singles chart, and topped the \"Billboard\" R&B singles chart for five weeks. Six other top blues 10 singles followed over the next year or so: \"I Want You to Be My Girl\", \"I Promise to Remember\",", "title": "Frankie Lymon" }, { "id": "5503520", "text": "Thomas\" released a DVD documentary \"Starship: Greatest & Latest\". The album accompanying this release contained re-recordings by \"Starship featuring Mickey Thomas\" of some of the Starship's biggest hits, songs originally from the period of Thomas's tenure in Jefferson Starship, as well as \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love,\" that Thomas sang with the Elvin Bishop Group in 1976. Female vocalist Stephanie Calvert joined the band in 2006. A live album, \"Layin' it on the Line Live in Las Vegas\" was released in 2007. \"Starship featuring Mickey Thomas\" released the non-album single \"Get Out Again\" in 2007. In November 2010, Thomas", "title": "Starship (band)" }, { "id": "6853723", "text": "A reissue of Ross' cover peaked at No. 36 on the UK chart in July, 1994. In the music video, Diana Ross performs the song in a city full of casinos and clubs (Las Vegas). The song was used as a B-side for The Beach Boys single \"Fun, Fun, Fun\", which reached #5 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in 1964. The Beach Boys' version of the song charted at #120. It was included on the Beach Boys 1964 album \"Shut Down Volume 2\" and had only appeared in mono since the release of the single back in 1964. The single", "title": "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)" }, { "id": "3609333", "text": "Herman Santiago Herman Santiago (born February 18, 1941) is an American rock and roll pioneer and songwriter who was previously a member of the vocal group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. He (disputedly) wrote the group's iconic hit \"Why Do Fools Fall In Love\". Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Manhattan, New York. In the early 1950s Santiago and friends, 2nd tenor Jimmy Merchant, fellow Puerto Rican Joe Negroni a baritone, and bassman Sherman Garnes, would meet in front of Santiago's apartment stoop (building stairs) and sing songs to the beat of the Doo-Wop genre.", "title": "Herman Santiago" }, { "id": "6853722", "text": "the RCA label in 1981, peaking at No. 2 on the US adult contemporary chart, No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart, No. 6 on the US R&B chart, and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Pop Singles Chart, and earning her a British Phonographic Industry silver disc award for sales in excess of 250,000 copies. It also reached No.1 in Belgium and the Netherlands and climbed to the top 10 in Ireland, New Zealand and Switzerland as well as making the top 20 in Australia, Canada and Germany. Unlike the original, this version contains echoes of the soul of the 1960s.", "title": "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)" }, { "id": "5620072", "text": "Jo O'Meara in 2005 and Cascada in 2007. Wills's own rendition was a minor hit on the Hot Digital Songs charts in 2006. Also included on \"And the Crowd Goes Wild\" was a cover of Ronnie Milsap's hit \"Prisoner of the Highway\", recorded as a duet with Milsap. Due to the poor performance of \"And the Crowd Goes Wild\", Wills exited Mercury in 2004. In 2004, Wills also recorded a cover of Elvin Bishop's \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love\" for the southern rock tribute album \"Southern Rock Country Style\". He did not record again until country singer Clint Black", "title": "Mark Wills" }, { "id": "3609343", "text": "played by actor Alexis Cruz. Herman Santiago Herman Santiago (born February 18, 1941) is an American rock and roll pioneer and songwriter who was previously a member of the vocal group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. He (disputedly) wrote the group's iconic hit \"Why Do Fools Fall In Love\". Santiago was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Manhattan, New York. In the early 1950s Santiago and friends, 2nd tenor Jimmy Merchant, fellow Puerto Rican Joe Negroni a baritone, and bassman Sherman Garnes, would meet in front of Santiago's apartment stoop (building stairs) and sing songs to the", "title": "Herman Santiago" }, { "id": "1467072", "text": "group was signed to Gee as The Teenagers, with Lymon as lead singer. \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\" was the Teenagers' first and biggest hit. The group, known for both their harmony and choreography, also had hits with \"I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent\" and \"The ABC's of Love\". By 1957, the group was being billed as \"Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers\". This caused in-fighting, and by September Goldner had pulled Lymon out of the group to record solo. The Teenagers continued recording, bringing in a new lead. Billy Lobrano, as the group's first white member, made them more racially", "title": "The Teenagers" }, { "id": "6000468", "text": "for Richie during the 1980s. Ross recorded a solo version of the song for her first RCA Records album, \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\", the duet version being her last hit on Motown. The song was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for Richie, and was the second song with which Ross was involved that was nominated for an Oscar. It also won a 1982 American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single. Walter Afanasieff produced Luther Vandross and Mariah Carey's cover of the song for Vandross' Epic Records-released album \"Songs\", and it is known for being", "title": "Endless Love (song)" }, { "id": "13019793", "text": "rejoin The Doobie Brothers. Now a trio, The Sky Kings released three singles on Warner Bros.: \"Picture Perfect,\" \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love\" and \"That Just About Says It All.\" \"Picture Perfect\" was the only single to chart, peaking at No. 52 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. An eponymous album was scheduled to be released in 1997, but eventually shelved. Rhino Handmade released \"From Out of the Blue\", an album which collected the entire unreleased 1997 Warner Bros. album, non-album Warner Bros. singles, and recordings and demos made for a second unreleased Warner Bros. album,", "title": "The Sky Kings" }, { "id": "5105536", "text": "outro. Track details courtesy of session archivist Craig Slowinski. The Beach Boys Additional musicians The \"Fun, Fun, Fun\" single backed with \"Why Do Fools Fall In Love?\" was released in the United States in February 1964. The single peaked at the number 5 spot on the \"Billboard\" chart. In the United Kingdom, the single was released in March 1964 through Capitol Records, but failed to chart. In Australia, the single peaked at the number 6 position, which was the band's highest charting single in Australia at that time. In West Germany, the single became their first single to chart in", "title": "Fun, Fun, Fun" }, { "id": "6853726", "text": "song and its author was the theme of the movie of the same name. Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song) \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\" is a song that was originally a hit for early New York City-based rock and roll group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, in January 1956. It reached No. 1 on the R&B chart, No. 6 on \"Billboard\"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Pop Singles chart, and No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in July. The song helped to make Frankie Lymon a household name and would make him a rock and roll pioneer. The Canadian group The", "title": "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)" }, { "id": "5572785", "text": "When I Fall in Love \"When I Fall in Love\" is a popular song, written by Victor Young (music) and Edward Heyman (lyrics). It was introduced in the film \"One Minute to Zero\". Jeri Southern sang on the first recording released in April 1952 with the song's composer, Victor Young, handling the arranging and conducting duties. The song has become a standard, with many artists recording it, though the first hit version was sung by Doris Day released in July 1952. Day's recording was made on June 5, 1952. It was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39786 and", "title": "When I Fall in Love" }, { "id": "9647482", "text": "Billy Henderson (American singer) William (Billy) Henderson (August 9, 1939February 2, 2007) was an American singer, best known for being an original member and founder of The Spinners, a soul vocal group. Billy Henderson was born on August 9, 1939, in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA. He grew up in Royal Oak Township, Michigan, he and four friends at Ferndale High School in 1954 formed a group originally called The Domingos and later renamed The Spinners. They had several hits, especially in the 1970s, including \"I'll Be Around\" (1972) and \"Could It Be I'm Falling in Love\", \"Then Came You\"", "title": "Billy Henderson (American singer)" }, { "id": "1467051", "text": "who were pioneers in the early stages of rock and roll were Ritchie Valens, who scored several hits, most notably \"La Bamba\" and Herman Santiago wrote the lyrics to the iconic rock and roll song \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\". Songs that became popular in the United States and are heard during the Holiday/Christmas season are \"¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?\" is a novelty Christmas song with 12-year-old (Augie Ríos) was a record hit in 1959 which featured the Mark Jeffrey Orchestra. \"Feliz Navidad\" by José Feliciano. Viva Duets is a studio album by Tony Bennett, released in October 2012.", "title": "Music of the United States" }, { "id": "4730875", "text": "recruit two additional band members and record the single \"Picture in My Wallet\" as Darrell & the Oxfords. Finally establishing its most famous name and crew, the band became known as the Tokens in 1960 after they recruited the 13-year-old multi-instrumentalist and first tenor Mitch Margo and his baritone brother Phil Margo. In early 1961, the Tokens released a single for Warwick Records titled \"Tonight I Fell In Love,\" which scored No. 15 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart and earned the group an opportunity to perform on the television program \"American Bandstand\". The popularity that the band garnered as", "title": "The Tokens" }, { "id": "6853724", "text": "mix of the song was later found and used on the 2007 \"The Warmth of the Sun\" compilation and on the Original US Singles Collection The Capitol Years 1962–1965. This box set, released in 2008, also used a recently found mono single edit mix. In 2009, a new stereo mix was created with a newly discovered intro, thanks to the discovery of the original multitrack masters by Jon Stebbins and is featured on the band's compilation \"Summer Love Songs\". The song was also performed as part of the band's 50th Anniversary Tour, usually during the first half of the shows.", "title": "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)" }, { "id": "6491930", "text": "joined with the singing trio The Carter Sisters, consisting of her mother June Carter Cash and June's sisters Helen and Anita Carter. Together, they formed a revived version of The Carter Family, and were featured on a 1987 television episode of Austin City Limits along with Johnny Cash. Carter's career really took off with the album \"I Fell in Love\", in 1990. The album and title song topped the US country albums and singles charts, respectively. Following a lengthy stint living in the UK and in the run-up to her divorce from the English singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, Carter had returned", "title": "Carlene Carter" }, { "id": "7911532", "text": "Lady (Dennis Wilson song) \"Lady\" is a song written by Dennis Wilson, recorded by him with Daryl Dragon and released under the name \"Dennis Wilson & Rumbo\" in the United Kingdom on 4 December, 1970, on Stateside Records. The song served as the B-side of the \"Sound of Free\" single. The single was not issued in the United States. The single was Dennis Wilson's first solo release. On both songs, Wilson performed the lead vocals with Daryl Dragon playing instruments. Dragon and his wife, Toni Tennille, would later become famous as Captain & Tennille. Also known as \"Fallin' In Love\",", "title": "Lady (Dennis Wilson song)" }, { "id": "17363908", "text": "I Fell in Love (Rockell song) \"I Fell In Love\" is the official debut single by American Freestyle recording artist Rockell. It's the first single off Rockell's 1998 debut album, \"What Are You Lookin' At?\". In the United States, the song achieved moderate success, peaking at # 61. In Canada the song better results, reaching # 8 on the Canadian Singles Chart in 1997. The song describes a romance that was broken. She falls in love and gives her heart only to be hurt as the guy walks out of her life. She says she does not need his love", "title": "I Fell in Love (Rockell song)" }, { "id": "4041733", "text": "in early 1996. It was then re-released in the UK and reached a new peak of number 25. 1996 It went on to win the ASCAP award for the \"Most Played Song in America\", and sold 6 million copies worldwide. La Bouche went on to become one of the biggest Eurodance groups of the '90s, with a string of hits worldwide. The debut album \"Sweet Dreams\" was released on June 12, 1995, which went to number 13 in the U.S., featured two more hit single releases, \"Fallin' in Love\" (a cover of the 1975 Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds song)", "title": "La Bouche" }, { "id": "19354832", "text": "Sexy Song \"Sexy Song\" is a song recorded by the American R&B singer Keke Wyatt for her fourth studio album, \"Rated Love\" (2016). The song was released as the lead single on November 20, 2015, by her own label, Aratek Entertainment. The song was written by Keke Wyatt, Brandon Hesson and Peter Penn and produced by Dominic Gordon. In May 2014, Wyatt released two singles (\"Fall in Love\" and \"Lie Under You\") from her first extended play, \"Ke'Ke'\". Promotion for \"Ke'Ke\"' from Aratek Entertainment ended in late 2015. However, Wyatt continued to do spot-date performances in the US throughout 2014", "title": "Sexy Song" }, { "id": "12479794", "text": "In Love (song) \"In Love\" is a song written by Mike Reid and Bruce Dees, and recorded by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in June 1986 as the third single from the album \"Lost in the Fifties Tonight\". \"In Love\" was Milsap's 44th single to be released, and his 29th No. 1 hit on the \"Billboard\" country chart. The song came during the peak of his success as country music singer as it was part of an uninterrupted string of several No. 1 hits to his credit. The song was also one of several songs written", "title": "In Love (song)" }, { "id": "5077732", "text": "Sybil (singer) Sybil Lynch, known simply as Sybil, is an American R&B and pop singer–songwriter. Sybil gained notable success in her career with songs during the mid-1980s into the mid-1990s. She is the cousin of former En Vogue singer Maxine Jones. Sybil signed to Next Plateau Records in the USA (with a licensing deal with Champion Records in the UK) and began recording in 1986 with the release of her first single \"Falling In Love\". The record reached the top 30 on the R&B and Dance charts and began a successful career for Sybil, releasing her debut album \"Let Yourself", "title": "Sybil (singer)" }, { "id": "11771743", "text": "was also a #1 hit on the adult contemporary chart in the U.S. for one week in 1975. In addition, the song reached number twenty-four on \"Billboard\"'s Hot Soul Singles chart. The song was covered by La Bouche in 1995 on their debut album \"Sweet Dreams\", and sampled by Canadian rapper/singer Drake for his single \"Best I Ever Had\". The song was featured in the 2007 film \"The Hitcher\". In a lawsuit filed June 24, 2010, Playboy Enterprises sued Drake for copyright infringement by over allegations that his breakout smash \"Best I Ever Had\" sampled \"Fallin' in Love\", without attribution", "title": "Fallin' in Love (Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds song)" }, { "id": "5163938", "text": "Love song A love song is a song about romantic love, falling in love, heartbreak after a breakup, and the feelings that these experiences bring. A comprehensive list of even the best known performers and composers of love songs would be a large order. Love songs can be found in a variety of different music genres. Love songs have been around for centuries and can be found in the histories and cultures of most societies, though their ubiquity is a modern phenomenon. A highly controversial and startling explanation of the genesis of love songs can be found in Denis de", "title": "Love song" }, { "id": "1422872", "text": "another group, called \"The Flyers\", with lead singer Bobby Hendricks, who would leave to join the Drifters the next year. Bill Pinkney was replaced by Tommy Evans (who had replaced Jimmy Ricks in The Ravens). Charlie Hughes, a baritone, replaced Andrew Thrasher. Moore, G. Thrasher, C. Hughes, and Evans were the last good-quality lineup with the top ten hit, \"Fools Fall In Love\" in 1957 (number 69 Pop and number 10 R&B). Moore and Hughes were drafted in 1957 and replaced by Bobby Hendricks and Jimmy Millender. By early 1958, the lineup was: Bobby Hendricks (lead tenor), Gerhart Thrasher (first", "title": "The Drifters" }, { "id": "5572786", "text": "issued with the flip side \"Take Me in Your Arms\". The song reached number 20 on the \"Billboard\" chart. A 1996 cover by Natalie Cole, a \"duet\" with her father Nat King Cole by way of vocals from his 1956 cover, won 1996 Grammys for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal(s). The version by Rick Astley was released on November 30, 1987, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the release of Nat King Cole's version of the song. This single is mainly remembered for a closely fought contest for UK Christmas number one. Rivals", "title": "When I Fall in Love" }, { "id": "11832831", "text": "single to the group's first hit for Atlantic Records, \"I'll Be Around,\" \"Could It Be I'm Falling in Love\" would equal the success of its predecessor, peaking at number one on the R&B chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Pop Singles chart and selling over one million copies. The song also found success in the UK, peaking at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart. The song has been covered many times over the years, including a duet by David Grant and Jaki Graham (which peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart in 1985) and versions by", "title": "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" }, { "id": "17315725", "text": "The song peaked at #66 on the American Billboard Hot Country Songs in late May 1989. In Canada, the song peaked at #65 on the RPM Country Singles Chart at the end of May 1989. It debuted at #99 in early May 1989 and lasted in the top 100 for a total of approximately four weeks. The song was written by the American songwriter Billy Joe Walker, Jr., Even Stevens and Rabbitt. Both Walker and Stevens had worked with Rabbitt before, mainly collaborating on songwriting. The song was produced by Richard Landis and arranged by Charlie Calello. Landis also produced", "title": "That's Why I Fell in Love with You" }, { "id": "5798164", "text": "\"just right\". For the Elvin Bishop hit, \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love,\" it was Szymczyk who suggested the inclusion of the song on Bishop's \"Struttin' My Stuff\" album, feeling the blues-oriented album lacked a pop single. The song would go on to become Bishop's biggest hit. Such a pattern was repeated throughout his career. The Eagles brought him in to refine and improve their \"rock\" sound, and all of their biggest selling albums and songs were Szymcyzk-produced. Martin Turner of Wishbone Ash has called him \"my all time favourite producer\". While the two did not always get along during", "title": "Bill Szymczyk" }, { "id": "10557237", "text": "Kostas. He continued to perform in Montana as a singer and songwriter throughout the 1980s. Eventually, he was discovered by record producer Tony Brown, who was searching for new material for country singer Patty Loveless. Kostas' first cut as a songwriter, \"Timber, I'm Falling in Love\", was recorded by Loveless; released as a single in 1989, it went to number one on the \"Billboard\" country charts, becoming Loveless's first number one hit. She would also release three more of his songs as singles: \"The Lonely Side of Love\" (1989), \"On Down the Line\" (1990), and \"Blame It On Your Heart\"", "title": "Kostas (songwriter)" }, { "id": "11484754", "text": "I Could Fall in Love \"I Could Fall in Love\" is a song recorded by American Tejano singer Selena for her fifth studio album, \"Dreaming of You\" (1995), released posthumously by EMI Latin on 26 June 1995. \"I Could Fall in Love\" and \"Tú Sólo Tú\" were the album's lead promotional recordings, showcasing her musical transition from Spanish- to English-language songs. The lyrics explore feelings of heartbreak and despair and express the singer's fear of rejection by a man she finds herself falling in love with. Composed by Keith Thomas, \"I Could Fall in Love\" is a pop ballad with", "title": "I Could Fall in Love" }, { "id": "16047871", "text": "him due to their love for each other, despite familial concerns. It received comparisons to Queen \"Bohemian Rhapsody\" and Britney Spears \"Criminal\". The song's composition, production and vocal performance was acclaimed by music critics, however, some criticized its lyrics. Upon the release of \"Talk That Talk\", \"Fool in Love\" debuted on the South Korea Gaon International Chart at number 70, with digital sales of 6,536 downloads. It also charted on the UK R&B Chart at number 35 and on the UK Singles Chart at number 123. \"Fool in Love\" was written and produced by Ester Dean, Dr. Luke, and Cirkut.", "title": "Fool in Love" }, { "id": "17363909", "text": "anymore and is glad to be free. The song has a night club rhythm with a classic freestyle beat. I Fell in Love (Rockell song) \"I Fell In Love\" is the official debut single by American Freestyle recording artist Rockell. It's the first single off Rockell's 1998 debut album, \"What Are You Lookin' At?\". In the United States, the song achieved moderate success, peaking at # 61. In Canada the song better results, reaching # 8 on the Canadian Singles Chart in 1997. The song describes a romance that was broken. She falls in love and gives her heart only", "title": "I Fell in Love (Rockell song)" }, { "id": "13540278", "text": "A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love) \"A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)\" is a song first recorded in 1958 by Priscilla Bowman, on the Abner Records label (ABNER DJ 1018). Bowman was given vocal backing by The Spaniels. In 1960, the song was recorded as a pop and R&B duet by Dinah Washington and Brook Benton. The single was the second pairing for the singers and, like their first single together, it went to number 1 on the R&B chart and was a top ten pop single as well. The", "title": "A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)" }, { "id": "12632848", "text": "The Souther–Hillman–Furay Band (album) The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band is the debut album by The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, released in 1974 on Asylum Records. It peaked at number 11 on the \"Billboard\" albums chart. The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band was a country rock supergroup led by singer-songwriters Richie Furay, Chris Hillman, and J.D. Souther. The band was formed in 1973 upon the request of David Geffen, then head of Asylum Records. The group had a substantial hit with the 1974 self-titled first album and the single \"Fallin' in Love\" reached No. 27 in the U.S. It was reissued on CD by the Wounded Bird label", "title": "The Souther–Hillman–Furay Band (album)" }, { "id": "4591649", "text": "helping Carter re-establish her career. Epstein produced her hit album \"I Fell in Love\" (1990), and co-authored the title track with his longtime collaborator, Milwaukee songwriter Perry M. Lamek. Carter's vocals on the title track \"I Fell In Love\" earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1991. Three years later, Epstein produced Carter's follow-up CD, \"Little Love Letters\". Epstein and Carter were engaged from the mid- to late-1990s, living together in Tesuque, New Mexico but they never married. Prior to Carlene Carter, Howie was engaged to and lived with Laurie June, an actress, model, and", "title": "Howie Epstein" }, { "id": "7203212", "text": "who was the lead singer, was ill and could not accompany the other members; therefore, he gave Negroni the music sheet with the words to the song that he had written. The song was \"Why Do Fools Fall In Love\" (which was originally reworked from a poem called \"Why Do Birds Sing So Gay\"). Since Santiago was not present, Mr. Goldner asked Frankie if he could sing the song. Frankie accepted, and they recorded the song. Mr. Goldner then changed the group's name to \"Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers\" and released the record. The song became an instant hit in", "title": "Joe Negroni" }, { "id": "6853719", "text": "Santiago, tenor of the group, had written the song based on a line from some love letters given to the guys by a tenant in bassist Sherman Garnes' apartment building. One of them featured the words \"Why do birds sing so gay?,\" which fit in with lyrics of other songs that Herman had been writing based on a 1-6-2-5 chord pattern. Herman adjusted the harmony to take advantage of Frankie Lymon's high tenor/soprano. Along the way, at Goldner's suggestion, some of the lyrics were changed. During the audition Frankie's voice stood out and Goldner recommended the lead in subsequent recording", "title": "Why Do Fools Fall in Love (song)" }, { "id": "4474190", "text": "he sure can play.\" Bishop, on his 1974 album \"Let it Flow\", had previously mentioned Charlie Daniels. Molly Hatchet also references Bishop in their 1978 song \"Gator Country\", with the lyrics, \"Elvin Bishop out struttin' his stuff with little Miss Slick Titty Boom, I'm goin' back to the Gator Country and get me some elbow room.\" \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love\" was included in the soundtrack album for \"Guardians of the Galaxy\" titled \"\". The song also is heard playing during the wedding reception scene after Billy Riggins and Mindy Collette were married in the \"Friday Night Lights\" episode", "title": "Elvin Bishop" }, { "id": "5662478", "text": "Fell in Love with a Girl \"Fell in Love with a Girl\" is a song by the American garage rock band The White Stripes, written and produced by Jack White for the band's third studio album, \"White Blood Cells\" (2001). Released as the album's second single in 2002, it peaked at number 21 on both the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart and the UK Singles Chart. The song was covered in 2003 as \"Fell in Love with a Boy\" by Joss Stone and as a lounge song by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine for their 2002", "title": "Fell in Love with a Girl" }, { "id": "20407329", "text": "Buddy Brock Buddy Brock is an American country music songwriter. His biggest hits to date are \"Watermelon Crawl,\" co-written with Zack Turner, which reached the #4 spot on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart and made the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 as a dance remix; and the 1992 song \"There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio,\" co-written and performed by Aaron Tippin, which held the number 1 position on the country chart for three consecutive weeks in April and May, 1992. Other songs written or co-written by Brock include \"I Wanna Fall in Love,\" a #3 country hit co-written with Mark", "title": "Buddy Brock" }, { "id": "19797679", "text": "been a 1982 chart-topping hit for Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes, for the movie \"An Officer and a Gentleman\". Newton duets with Frankie Valli on \"The Biggest Part of Me\", a number 3 hit for Ambrosia in 1980. With Randy Meisner she covered The Eagles' 1976 hit \"Take It to the Limit\". Gary Morris joined Newton for a rendition of the 1976 Elvin Bishop song \"Fooled Around and Fell in Love\" while Dan Seals joined her for a reworking of Heart's first #1 hit, 1986's \"These Dreams\". Newton's duet with Melissa Manchester was \"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'\", the classic", "title": "Duets: Friends & Memories" }, { "id": "7733890", "text": "Mirror National Club Acts Awards\". Aware that Billy Ocean was in the UK chart with a song written by Ben Findon, who had also written their first single, they contacted him and he went to see them performing. While there he offered them a recording contract with GTO Records. In the summer of 1977 (a decade after they were formed) the Dooleys had their first hit with \"Think I'm Gonna Fall in Love With You\". The existing members of the family were joined in early 1979 by the youngest member of the group, Helen (keyboards). Subsequent UK hits gave them", "title": "The Dooleys" }, { "id": "5908474", "text": "Dance\" (a cover of the Garth Brooks hit) and \"Tears\", but neither of these singles charted on the Hot 100. Both singles performed well on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play and Hot Dance Airplay charts. \"The Dance\" peaked at #27 and \"Tears\" peaked at #16 on the Hot Dance Singles Sales chart. Rockell Rachel Alexandra Mercaldo (born March 4, 1977 in Staten Island, New York), better known as Rockell, is an American freestyle, dance, Hi-NRG and pop singer-songwriter. In 1996, Rockell released her debut single, \"I Fell In Love\". In the late 1990s, she had major dance hits with the", "title": "Rockell" }, { "id": "11484756", "text": "career. The track was not released as a commercial single in the United States, where it was feared that it might sell more copies than the album itself. \"I Could Fall in Love\" peaked at number eight on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 Airplay chart, and at number one on the Canadian \"RPM\" Adult Contemporary and US \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Airplay charts. It reached the top ten on the singles charts of Canada and New Zealand. It became the most played song in Kansas City, Miami, and Boston and the second most played in Los Angeles. The accompanying music video,", "title": "I Could Fall in Love" }, { "id": "5572788", "text": "right in Europe. The cover version of \"When I Fall in Love\" by Celine Dion and Clive Griffin was featured in the romantic comedy \"Sleepless in Seattle\" and released as a single in July 1993. The song was recorded expressly for the soundtrack and was originally intended as a duet between Dion and Stevie Wonder, but according to Dion when she heard the demo performed by Warren Wiebe she preferred that would be her duet with Wiebe. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1994, and won a", "title": "When I Fall in Love" }, { "id": "4059524", "text": "\"Fooled Around and Fell in Love\", a #3 single in 1976. Thomas recorded the solo album \"As Long as You Love Me\" in 1976. After leaving the Elvin Bishop Group, he recorded three songs for the 1978 film \"Skateboard\", which also featured a cameo by Jefferson Starship guitarist Craig Chaquico. In April 1979, Thomas was asked to join that group after the departure of Marty Balin and Grace Slick. In 1981 he recorded his second solo album, \"Alive Alone\". Former Elvin Bishop Group drummer Donny Baldwin became drummer for Jefferson Starship two years later when Aynsley Dunbar left. Thomas spent", "title": "Mickey Thomas (singer)" }, { "id": "14741316", "text": "By February 2011, the song had reached 3 million in digital sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan, making it the second single of 2010 for both Usher and Pitbull to achieve the figure (Usher's \"OMG\" sold 3,957,000 copies, while \"I Like It\" performed by lead artist Enrique Iglesias sold 3,197,000). It reached its 4 million sales mark in the US in April 2013. As of June 2014, the song has sold 4,198,000 copies in the US. The music video for the song premièred on August 26, 2010 on Vevo, and was directed by Hiro Murai. The video begins in a club", "title": "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" }, { "id": "3791335", "text": "Bamba\" and Herman Santiago wrote the lyrics to the iconic rock and roll song \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\". Songs that became popular in the United States and are heard during the Holiday/Christmas season are \"¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?\" is a novelty Christmas song with 12-year-old (Augie Ríos) was a record hit in 1959 which featured the Mark Jeffrey Orchestra. \"Feliz Navidad\" by José Feliciano. Miguel del Aguila, wrote 116 works and has three Latin Grammy nominations In 1986, \"Billboard\" magazine introduced the Hot Latin Songs chart which ranks the best-performing songs on Spanish-language radio stations in the United", "title": "Hispanic and Latino Americans" }, { "id": "20750492", "text": "Brothers. In 1970, Hamilton and Tommy Reynolds co-founded Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds with Joe Frank Carollo. They had a million dollar smash hit with \"Don't Pull Your Love\". Hamilton was the guitarist and main songwriter for the group. Along with Ann Hamilton, he co-composed the hit \"Fallin' in Love\" which was a hit for HJF&R, reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975. It was later a hit for La Bouche in 1996 with their version reaching #35 in the Hot 100. Between those two hit records, Hamilton had a 1972 solo release entitled, \"Don't Wait Up for", "title": "Dan Hamilton (musician)" }, { "id": "11484757", "text": "directed by Hector Galan, featured a montage of pictures and videos of live performances of Selena, which had been collected by her family. It, too, was released posthumously, and it received a Music Video of the Year nomination at the 1996 Tejano Music Awards. \"I Could Fall in Love\" became one of Selena's most famous and recognizable recordings, and in the 1990s it became a popular wedding song. Cover versions include recordings by Adrienne Bailon, Jennifer Lopez, Gloria Estefan, Lisa Leuschner, Solange Knowles and Ali-Ollie Woodson. Before Selena signed a recording contract in 1989 with EMI Latin, she had hinted", "title": "I Could Fall in Love" }, { "id": "18685432", "text": "B.J. Crosby B.J. Crosby (November 23, 1952 – March 27, 2015) was an American jazz vocalist, singer, and actress. In 1995, Crosby received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination for her performance in the musical, \"Smokey Joe's Cafe\". Her role in \"Smokey Joe's Cafe\" included solo parts in the songs \"Hound Dog\" and \"Fools Fall in Love\". Crosby was born Joanne Crayton in New Orleans, Louisiana. Crayton began her career by singing in church choirs and local theaters during the 1970s and 1980s. She adopted \"B.J. Crosby\" and \"Lady BJ\" as her professional stage names.", "title": "B.J. Crosby" }, { "id": "11556330", "text": "Jim Photoglo Jim Photoglo, born James G. Photoglo, who also performed simply as Photoglo, is an American pop/soft rock singer and songwriter from Inglewood, California. He released two charting albums in the early 1980s and had two hit singles, \"We Were Meant to Be Lovers\" (#31, 1980) and \"Fool in Love with You\" (#25, 1981). After his career as a pop artist, he became a successful country music songwriter in Nashville. He wrote songs for Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, The Everly Brothers, Dusty Springfield, Lee Roy Parnell, Patty Loveless, Highway 101, The Oak Ridge Boys, Pam Tillis, Tanya Tucker, Travis", "title": "Jim Photoglo" }, { "id": "17315724", "text": "That's Why I Fell in Love with You \"That's Why I Fell in Love with You\" is a song co-written and recorded American country music singer Eddie Rabbitt. was released in May 1989 as the fourth and final single from Rabbitt's eleventh studio album \"I Wanna Dance with You\". The song was written by Rabbitt, Even Stevens and Billy Joe Walker, Jr. Since Rabbitt's rise to fame in 1974, \"That's Why I Fell in Love with You\" was the singer's lowest charting single on both the American Billboard Hot Country Songs as well as the Canadian RPM Country Singles Chart.", "title": "That's Why I Fell in Love with You" }, { "id": "5218938", "text": "Australia, while it was issued as a 12-inch vinyl single in the United States through Columbia Records. \"Summertime\" is an R&B song which lyrically refers to falling in love. Music critics generally complimented Beyoncé's vocals in the song and noted that it could have been included on her debut studio album, \"Dangerously in Love\" (2003). The song also charted on the US \"Billboard\" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in late 2003. The original version featuring P. Diddy and the remix version featuring Ghostface Killah peaked at number thirty-five and at number fifty-one respectively on the chart. Both versions charted for forty", "title": "Summertime (Beyoncé song)" }, { "id": "11484772", "text": "nominated for \"Song of the Year\" at the 1996 Tejano Music Awards, and won the Tejano Crossover Songs of the Year. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) recognized it as one of the most performed songs of 1995 at the 4th ASCAP Pop Music Awards. Marco Torres of \"OC Weekly\", called the song \"so sweet, so loving, so absolutely, amazingly, and astonishingly adorable!\" and placed it at number seven on his \"Top 10 Selena songs of All time\" list. Brian Galindo of BuzzFeed believed the \"melancholy ballad is another great example of Selena's ability bring an emotional", "title": "I Could Fall in Love" }, { "id": "5964146", "text": "Fallin' (Alicia Keys song) \"Fallin'\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys from her debut studio album \"Songs in A Minor\" (2001). It was released as the lead single from \"Songs in A Minor\" in April 2, 2001. Written and produced by Keys, \"Fallin'\" is generally considered her signature song. \"Fallin'\" attained global success, reaching number one on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and the top 5 in several countries. It also received numerous certifications around the world, and is one of the best-selling singles of 2001. In 2009, \"Fallin'\" was named the 29th most successful song of the", "title": "Fallin' (Alicia Keys song)" }, { "id": "15629032", "text": "The Cult of Ant & Dec The Cult Of Ant & Dec is the third and final studio album released by British duo Ant & Dec, previously known as PJ & Duncan. The album was recorded during 1996 and 1997, and included the duo's most successful single during their active career, \"When I Fall in Love\". The album was released in May 1997 and peaked at number 15 on the UK Albums Chart, and was later certified Silver by the BPI. For the release of their third studio album, Ant & Dec decided to drop their character names of PJ", "title": "The Cult of Ant & Dec" }, { "id": "19892137", "text": "Winners and Losers (song) \"Winners and Losers\" is a song by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds that became a hit in 1976. It followed their previous hit, \"Fallin' in Love\". The songwriting credits are given to Dan Hamilton and Ann Hamilton who are also credited composer of \"Fallin in Love\". It was released on Playboy Records P 6054 on November 1975. By November 15, 1975, the song in its second week in the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 had moved up from its previous position of 87 to 74. It eventually peaked at #21 in the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 on January 24,", "title": "Winners and Losers (song)" }, { "id": "5712551", "text": "In Love with Love \"In Love with Love\" is a 1987 song recorded by the American singer Debbie Harry. It was taken from her second solo album \"Rockbird\" and released as the third single in 1987. Lyrically, the song is the sequel to Blondie's \"Heart of Glass\", according to Harry. The song was released on May 9, 1987 and was, to date, her only solo single to reach #1 on the US dance chart. The single also went on to become a minor hit in several countries, including #45 in the UK and #70 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100,", "title": "In Love with Love" }, { "id": "11739235", "text": "Entertainment. The lead single \"Fall in Love\" was released (2014) and peaked at number 120 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number seventeen on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The second single \"Lie Under You\" (2014) failed to make impact on the Billboard Hot 100 and therefore failed to chart in the United States. She released her fourth studio album, \"Rated Love\", in April 22, 2016 through Aratek Entertainment. The lead single \"Sexy Song\" was released (2015) and failed to make impact on the Billboard Hot 100, however the single peaked at number twenty six on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs", "title": "Keke Wyatt discography" }, { "id": "13698714", "text": "track was released as the first single in September 1975, becoming a Top 30 hit in the United States, reaching #29 on the \"Billboard Magazine\" Hot Country Songs chart. \"(Till) I Kissed You\" was released as the second single in January 1976, becoming a major hit in the United States and Canada. In the United States, the song became Smith's first Top 10 hit in three years, reaching #10 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs chart. In Canada, it became her second number one hit on the Canadian \"RPM\" Country Tracks chart. Also, the album peaked at #34 on the", "title": "The Song We Fell in Love To" }, { "id": "16600927", "text": "was recorded, along with an acoustic version. The album featured the previously unrecorded song \"Fool for Falling in Love\", a song written by Mardones and Roy Orbison. The album also features new versions of past Mardones songs including \"Sheila C.\" and \"How Could You Love Me\". A cover of the Diana Ross & the Supremes/The Temptations song \"I'm Gonna Make You Love Me\" is included. \"I Need a Miracle\" received national airplay and charted on the American Adult Contemporary charts, peaking at No. 30 in late 2002. The song \"I Want It All\" also entered the American Adult Contemporary charts,", "title": "A Journey Through Time (album)" }, { "id": "13801466", "text": "She's in Love \"She's In Love\" is a song written by Keith Stegall and Dan Hill, and recorded by American country music artist Mark Wills. It was released in June 1999 as the fourth and final single from his album \"Wish You Were Here\" and it was his seventh single overall; it later appears on his \"Greatest Hits\" package. It peaked at #7 on the U.S. US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. In the song, the narrator sings of how a friend of his has told him that she has fallen in love, and they swear to \"stay", "title": "She's in Love" }, { "id": "19165513", "text": "Fall in Love (Keke Wyatt song) \"Fall in Love\" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Keke Wyatt taken from her debut extended play (EP), \"Ke'Ke'\" (2014). The song was written by Keke Wyatt and Robert Erness. The song was released through The NorthStar Group and Aratek Entertainment on April 25, 2014 on Amazon and then later May 7, 2014 on iTunes. The song was met with a positive response from critics and journalists. Andy Kellman from Allmusic described the song as a \"career highlight for Wyatt and the set's lead song, is an exception.\" in a review of", "title": "Fall in Love (Keke Wyatt song)" }, { "id": "4385162", "text": "singers, backed by new orchestral arrangements performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1993, British reggae band UB40 recorded the song as the first single from their 1993 album \"Promises and Lies\". The song was released in May 1993, in the majority of countries worldwide. It eventually climbed to No. 1 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 after debuting at No. 100, and remained there for seven weeks. It was also number one in the United Kingdom, Austria, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, and New Zealand. The song appears on the soundtrack of the movie \"Sliver\", the trailer for \"Fools Rush In\",", "title": "Can't Help Falling in Love" }, { "id": "11484788", "text": "Credits adapted from \"Dreaming of You\" album liner notes. I Could Fall in Love \"I Could Fall in Love\" is a song recorded by American Tejano singer Selena for her fifth studio album, \"Dreaming of You\" (1995), released posthumously by EMI Latin on 26 June 1995. \"I Could Fall in Love\" and \"Tú Sólo Tú\" were the album's lead promotional recordings, showcasing her musical transition from Spanish- to English-language songs. The lyrics explore feelings of heartbreak and despair and express the singer's fear of rejection by a man she finds herself falling in love with. Composed by Keith Thomas, \"I", "title": "I Could Fall in Love" }, { "id": "1427253", "text": "Frankie Lymon Franklin Joseph Lymon (September 30, 1942 – February 27, 1968), known professionally as Frankie Lymon, was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll group The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African-American members, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes; and two Puerto Rican members, Joe Negroni and Herman Santiago. The Teenagers' first single, 1956's \"Why Do Fools Fall", "title": "Frankie Lymon" }, { "id": "10790972", "text": "I Fell In Love With the DJ \"I Fell In Love With the DJ\" is a song by Australian recording artist Che'Nelle from her debut studio album, \"Things Happen for a Reason\" (2007). The song was chosen as her first commercial single release. The song was originally written and recorded by Che'Nelle. The artist gained attention of US record producers and later signed an album deal. \"I Fell In Love With the DJ\" was remixed ahead of its release and Jamaican rapper Cham's vocals added. The song samples the 2005 song \"Reggae Bump Bump\", performed by American singer R. Kelly.", "title": "I Fell In Love With the DJ" }, { "id": "11484755", "text": "R&B, soul and soft rock influences. Critics praised Selena's emotive enunciation and compared it to work by Celine Dion, Brandy Norwood and TLC. It received the Tejano Music Award for the Tejano Crossover Song of the Year, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) recognized it at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards as one of the most performed songs of 1995. Because of the recording's composition structure and the singer's vocalization, \"OC Weekly\", BuzzFeed, Neon Tommy, and \"Latina\" magazine, believed \"I Could Fall in Love\" was one of the best songs recorded by Selena in her musical", "title": "I Could Fall in Love" }, { "id": "11771745", "text": "song did not gain popularity in the United States until the following year following the success of the first two singles, \"Be My Lover\" and \"Sweet Dreams\". Though it did well in several countries, it achieved a minor success in comparison with previous releases. This song has had remix versions. The album version is a midtempo pop-soul number that is faithful to the original Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds version with some additional lyrics; however, the version that was released late in 1996 to U.S. Top 40 radio, was a dance remix. \"Billboard\" wrote about the song: \"German duo gives", "title": "Fallin' in Love (Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds song)" }, { "id": "5350484", "text": "portion of the original lyrics. A punk rock version performed by Joan Jett and Paul Westerberg was used as the theme song in the 1995 movie \"Tank Girl\", and later in a more classical version in a musical revue number within the film. In the revue, the song is at first performed by stage actress Ann Magnuson, but is taken over by star Lori Petty after she places duct tape over Magnuson's mouth. It was originally recorded with Joan Jett and Greg Graffin, but Atlantic Records did not want them using Graffin so they deleted his voice and recorded Westerberg's.", "title": "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love" }, { "id": "5572789", "text": "Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). The award went to David Foster and Jeremy Lubbock. The song appears on both, the \"Sleepless in Seattle\" soundtrack (number one on the \"Billboard\" 200 and 4x Platinum RIAA certification for selling over 4 million copies in the US), and later on Dion's album \"The Colour of My Love\", released in November 1993. The music video was directed by Dominic Orlando in Hollywood, Los Angeles. AllMusic senior editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted that Dion's album, \"The Colour of My Love\", which featured the song, had \"careful production, professional songwriting (highlighted by \"When", "title": "When I Fall in Love" }, { "id": "13540279", "text": "song was written by Benton, Clyde Otis and Luchi de Jesus. The single, with the song title styled \"A ROCKIN' GOOD WAY \", included orchestra arranged and conducted by Belford Hendricks. A cover version of the duet by the UK's Shakin' Stevens and Bonnie Tyler was released in 1983 and made number 5 in the UK singles chart and number 1 in Ireland. It was included on Stevens' 1984 album \"The Bop Won't Stop\". Australia: Austria Sweden Ireland UK Switzerland New Zealand Holland Germany Norway A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love) \"A Rockin' Good Way", "title": "A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)" }, { "id": "11484759", "text": "parts for \"I Could Fall in Love\" but had not had time to complete the vocal parts, so he sang it for them. Selena and A.B. immediately liked it, and A.B. said that he wanted Selena to include it in her album. She recorded it in December 1994 at The Bennett House in Franklin, Tennessee, and Bill Whittington mixed it with assistance from Mike Corbett and Todd Moore. Although Selena had to return later when Thomas was able to provide additional vocals, Selena's husband Chris Perez, who had overseen the recording sessions, said that the recording was completed on 25", "title": "I Could Fall in Love" }, { "id": "4385160", "text": "British reggae group UB40, whose 1993 version topped the U.S. and UK charts. Elvis Presley's version of the song topped the British charts in 1962. The single is certified Platinum by the RIAA, for US sales in excess of one million copies. In the United States, the song peaked at No. 2 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 behind Joey Dee and the Starliters' \"Peppermint Twist\" and went to No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart for six weeks. During Presley's late 1960s and 1970s live performances, the song was performed as the show's finale. Most notably, it was also", "title": "Can't Help Falling in Love" }, { "id": "12102889", "text": "Two People Fell in Love \"Two People Fell in Love\" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Brad Paisley written about Richard Harper and Kayleigh Harper. It was released in March 2001 as the first single from Paisley's album \"Part II\" and reached a peak of number 4 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs in mid-2001. Paisley wrote this with Kelley Lovelace and Tim Owens. According to Paisley, this song \"is about the fact that you can trace everything back to two people's romance. The reason you're here, the reason I'm here is our parents saw", "title": "Two People Fell in Love" }, { "id": "1424827", "text": "Lymon's \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\". Storm's subsequent record sales began to slide but soon rebounded with a cover of her own labelmate Bonnie Guitar's haunting ballad \"Dark Moon\" that went to No. 4 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. Storm had several other hits and headlined in Las Vegas and appeared in numerous stage plays. Storm recorded for only about two years with Dot and then gave up recording because of her husband's concerns with the time she had to devote to that career. Storm was married and widowed twice. In 1941, while still a teenager, she married Lee", "title": "Gale Storm" }, { "id": "11177971", "text": "A Teenager in Love \"A Teenager in Love\" is a song written by Doc Pomus and partner Mort Shuman and was originally sung and released by Dion and the Belmonts in March 1959. It reached #5 on the \"Billboard\" pop charts. In May 1959, the song held three positions in the British Top 20, the other two versions being by Marty Wilde and Craig Douglas. The song is considered one of the greatest songs in rock and roll history. The song was covered by Bob Marley with The Wailers in 1965, recorded on the Coxsone label. It was also covered", "title": "A Teenager in Love" }, { "id": "11889346", "text": "Sanchez (singer) Kevin Anthony Jackson (born 30 November 1964), better known by his stage name Sanchez, is a Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter and record producer. After starting his career in 1987, Sanchez has produced a number of hit singles including \"One In A Million\", \"Fall In Love\", \"Missing You\", \"I Care For You\" and \"Never Dis Di Man\". Born in Kingston, Jackson grew up in the Stony Hill and Waterford areas. He was given the nickname 'Sanchez' due to his football skills - a reference to a footballer of that name. He sang from an early age in the Rehoboth Apostolic", "title": "Sanchez (singer)" }, { "id": "19423492", "text": "Johan Kim George Han Kim (born March 27, 1973), better known by his Korean name, Johan Kim (Korean: 김조한), is a Korean-American singer and record producer. He is a member of South Korean R&B/hip hop trio Solid. His song \"I Want To Fall In Love\" has become a mega-hit throughout the country of South Korea. He founded the girl group Unicorn. Kim was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and moved to Los Angeles in 1986. In 1993, he debuted as a member of Solid (), a South Korean R&B group that pioneered the genre in the 1990s with chart topping hits", "title": "Johan Kim" }, { "id": "1441190", "text": "in Glendale, California. Cole's last album, \"L-O-V-E\", was recorded in early December 1964—just a few days before he entered the hospital for cancer treatment—and was released just before he died. It peaked at number 4 on the \"Billboard\" Albums chart in the spring of 1965. A \"Best Of\" album was certified a gold record in 1968. His 1957 recording of \"When I Fall in Love\" reached number 4 in the UK charts in 1987. In 1983, an archivist for EMI Electrola Records, a subsidiary of EMI Records (Capitol's parent company) in Germany, discovered some unreleased recordings by Cole, including one", "title": "Nat King Cole" } ]

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[ { "id": "1243973", "text": "film \"Foolish Wives\" although it was filmed in California. The casino featured in the James Bond films \"Never Say Never Again\" (1983), and \"GoldenEye\" (1995). \"To Catch a Thief\" (1954) was an Alfred Hitchcock film with Monte Carlo and its famous casino as the setting and featured Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, the future Princess Grace of Monaco, as the stars. There is a scene in the movie where the-then Grace Kelly drives a car very quickly—and dangerously—along the steep winding roads of Monaco that surround the heights of Monte Carlo; an interesting coincidence to her actual fate in 1982.", "title": "Monte Carlo" }, { "id": "17001345", "text": "year, she portrayed a long-suffering wife of an alcoholic actor played by Bing Crosby in \"The Country Girl\" (1954) for which Kelly received the Academy Award for Best Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama in 1955. She reteamed with Hitchcock on the romantic thriller \"To Catch a Thief\" (1955) opposite Cary Grant. In 1956, she appeared in the romantic comedy \"The Swan\", and the musical comedy \"High Society\". Later that year, the 26-year-old Kelly retired from acting to marry Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and become the Princess of Monaco. Grace", "title": "Grace Kelly filmography" }, { "id": "529844", "text": "her studio MGM (with whom she had signed a seven-year contract in order to do \"Mogambo)\", to work on several Hitchcock films, later appearing in \"Rear Window\" and \"To Catch a Thief\". Kelly began filming scenes for her next film, \"The Bridges at Toko-Ri\", in early 1954, with William Holden, for Paramount Pictures. The story, based on the novel by James Michener, is about American Navy jet fighters stationed to fight in Asia. Kelly plays the role of Holden's wife. Her dress designer was Edith Head, with whom she had established a friendly relationship. The upper-class outfits received a mixed", "title": "Grace Kelly" }, { "id": "529851", "text": "Stewart Granger. She played Catherine Knowland, a coffee plantation owner. Granger wrote in his autobiography of his distaste for the film's script, while Kelly later confided to Hedda Hopper, \"It wasn't pleasant. We worked at a pathetic village – miserable huts and dirty. Part of the crew got shipwrecked ... It was awful.\" After the consecutive filming of \"Rear Window\", \"Toko-Ri\", \"Country Girl\", and \"Green Fire\", Kelly flew to the French Riviera to begin work on her third, and last, film for Alfred Hitchcock - \"To Catch a Thief\". Lent by MGM to Paramount Films for the fifth time, Kelly", "title": "Grace Kelly" }, { "id": "529827", "text": "1954. Subsequently, she had leading roles in five films, including \"The Country Girl\" (1954) with Bing Crosby, for which her deglamorized performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress. Other films include \"High Noon\" (1952), with Gary Cooper; \"High Society\" (1956), with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra; and three Alfred Hitchcock films: \"Dial M for Murder\" (1954), with Ray Milland; \"Rear Window\" (1954), with James Stewart; \"To Catch a Thief\" (1955), with Cary Grant. Kelly retired from acting at the age of 26 to marry Rainier, and began her duties as Princess of Monaco. They had three children: Caroline,", "title": "Grace Kelly" }, { "id": "4085991", "text": "was developed from the saloon platform, it suffered from rigidity compromises despite extra side members in the chassis. The gearbox ratios were changed, and from 1954 an overdrive unit became standard. The gearchange lever was column-mounted. A true open 2-seater, there were no external door handles or wind-up windows. Very few of these cars are ever seen on the big screen. However, a sapphire blue Alpine featured prominently in the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock film \"To Catch a Thief\" starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. More recently, the American PBS show \"History Detectives\" tried to verify that an Alpine roadster owned", "title": "Sunbeam Alpine" }, { "id": "506281", "text": "is Born\", Grant believed that his film career was over, and briefly left the industry. In 1955, Grant agreed to star opposite Grace Kelly in \"To Catch a Thief\", playing a retired jewel thief nicknamed \"The Cat\", living in the French Riviera. Grant and Kelly worked well together during the production, which was one of the most enjoyable experiences of Grant's career. He found Hitchcock and Kelly to be very professional, and later stated that Kelly was \"possibly the finest actress I've ever worked with\". Grant was one of the first actors to go independent by not renewing his studio", "title": "Cary Grant" }, { "id": "19669047", "text": "has left the village. Franks told \"Digital Spy's\" Kilkelly that Esther knows Trevor is lying and is the reason she agrees to take Curtis. Trevor and Grace follow Kim's car and a fast chase begins. But their erratic driving leads to a crash and Trevor arrives on the scene to save Curtis. But then Kim reverses her car which leads to another collision with a police van which leads to the death of Dylan, who was in the van. The car which contained Kim and Esther explodes following their escape. Wall said the car crash stunt was her favourite storyline", "title": "Grace Black" }, { "id": "529858", "text": "be extended to an hour. Before more scenes could be shot, Kelly died and the film was never released or shown publicly again. On September 13, 1982, Kelly was driving back to Monaco from her country home in Roc Agel when she had a stroke. As a result, she lost control of her 1971 Rover P6 3500. and drove off the steep, winding road and down the mountainside. Her daughter Stéphanie, who was in the passenger seat, tried but failed to regain control of the car. Kelly was taken to the Monaco Hospital (later named the Princess Grace Hospital Centre)", "title": "Grace Kelly" }, { "id": "18691612", "text": "locked gate that Harrison uses the car to break through. Travis tries to get Harrison to go as fast as they can before he jumps into the driver's seat himself. They drive off, just missing a woman driving in an oncoming lane. Kretzer runs towards a trailer park where he steals a car. After driving through town he gets pulled over by a cop on a motorcycle. He calls in a fake robbery nearby and the motorcycle cop responds to the call, leaving him free to leave. He gets a call from dispatch informing him of a report of a", "title": "Cop Car (film)" }, { "id": "19669045", "text": "they were driving the vehicle despite the stunt man being in control. The car which contains Kim and Esther was crashed using a police van which collides with it. The car crash stunt itself was filmed separate and actors were not required to be in the vehicles at that point. Real fire, smoke, fire engines and fire fighters were included in the scenes to help create an authentic scene of mayhem during the post-crash scenes. On-set Wood-Davis said that Kim \"is the driving force of it really.\" She explained that Kim realised Grace did not want her and she decided", "title": "Grace Black" }, { "id": "2493086", "text": "\"Boomerang\". She appeared alongside Tim Curry in the 2001 film \"Wolf Girl\". For her work in \"Conan the Destroyer\", \"A View to a Kill\", and \"Vamp\", she was nominated for Saturn Awards for Best Supporting Actress. In 1999, Jones ranked 82nd on VH1's \"100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll\", and in 2008, she was honored with a Q Idol Award. Jones influenced the cross-dressing movement of the 1980s and has been an inspiration for artists including Annie Lennox, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Lorde, Róisín Murphy, Brazilian Girls, Nile Rodgers, Santigold, and Basement Jaxx. In December 2016, \"Billboard magazine\" ranked her", "title": "Grace Jones" }, { "id": "17232741", "text": "for which she received a nomination at the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Kidman played novelist Martha Gellhorn in the television biopic \"Hemingway & Gellhorn\" (2012), for which she received a Primetime Emmy nomination. She played actress and princess Grace Kelly in the biopic \"Grace of Monaco\" (2014), and starred as an evil taxidermist in the comedy \"Paddington\". The following year, Kidman portrayed writer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell in the biopic \"Queen of the Desert\" (2015). For her supporting acting performance in the 2016 biographical drama \"Lion\", she received nominations at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe", "title": "Nicole Kidman filmography" }, { "id": "16757852", "text": "his plan to restore his reputation, and she agrees to help on condition that no police are involved, Sandy agrees but had plans to have police in the next room when she speaks to his boss. Meanwhile, a skiptracer (Robert Patrick) is dispatched to track down Diana for a substantial bounty. Because their IDs are identical, flight is impossible, and they travel to Denver by car. After traveling through several states, the skiptracer catches up to the pair and captures Diana. A chase ensues; she knocks him unconscious, and Sandy rams his van off the road. When Sandy's rental car", "title": "Identity Thief" }, { "id": "1800560", "text": "Universal Studios. The film drew mixed reviews from critics, with some enjoying Grant and Kelly in the lead roles as well as the French Riviera setting, while others expressed disappointment at the lack of suspense compared to earlier Hitchcock films. Bosley Crowther of \"The New York Times\" wrote in a positive review that the film \"comes off completely as a hit in the old Hitchcock style ... Mr. Grant and Miss Kelly do grandly, especially in one sly seduction scene.\" \"Variety\" wrote that while the film was \"not the suspense piece one usually associated with the Alfred Hitchcock name,\" it", "title": "To Catch a Thief" }, { "id": "19043514", "text": "Artists’ Museum\" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Over the years, several of her small security-envelope grids have either disappeared following corporate bankruptcies or have surfaced in surprise collections, leading her to post an image noting each grid’s status. For her series \"Ask the Dust,\" she selected a scene from 21 films (one for each year 1954-1974) and photographed each location from the cameraman’s original vantage. \"Two Roads\" (1991) pairs a scene from Hitchcock's film \"To Catch a Thief\" (1955) and the site of Grace Kelly's fatal 1982 accident. Echoing Jean Baudrillard's summoning film's capacity to shape the", "title": "Cindy Bernard" }, { "id": "1800563", "text": "\"The New Yorker\" dismissed the film as \"an Alfred Hitchcock picture that makes you wonder what has happened to the man ... As the heiress, Grace Kelly is very pretty. She does not, presumably, try to act.\" \"The Monthly Film Bulletin\" wrote, \"Even a comedy thriller needs considerably more in the way of plain excitement and tension than \"To Catch a Thief\" provides, and Hitchcock's celebrated habit of playing tricks with the audience ... seem a poor substitute for the real thing.\" \"The Guardian\" called the film \"a thorough disappointment,\" writing that Hitchcock had \"failed so completely that one can", "title": "To Catch a Thief" }, { "id": "17001344", "text": "starred in a number of other anthology series including \"Hallmark Hall of Fame\", \"Lux Video Theatre\", and \"Suspense\". Kelly's film debut was a minor role in the 1951 drama \"Fourteen Hours\". She followed this with an appearance in the western \"High Noon\" opposite Gary Cooper. For her performance as Linda Nortley in John Ford's \"Mogambo\" she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1954, she starred in Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers \"Dial M for Murder\" opposite Ray Milland, and \"Rear Window\" opposite James Stewart. In the same", "title": "Grace Kelly filmography" }, { "id": "13192698", "text": "into a baby bottle. She agrees to leave, but instead finds Grace in her crib, and the bottle of Dr. Sohn's blood broken on the floor. Madeline tries to pursue her, but Vivian is able to grab Grace and look for a hiding place, discovering Dr. Sohn's body in the process. She arms herself with a hammer; Madeline confronts her, and Vivian beats Madeline unconscious with the hammer, but not before Madeline rips out part of her mother-in-law's throat with her teeth. They are discovered by Patricia, who realized her girlfriend was withholding Madeline's messages and decided to investigate. Some", "title": "Grace (2009 film)" }, { "id": "9024856", "text": "also played in an independent feature film \"Fast Color\", which premiered worldwide at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Texas. Director Gina Prince-Bythewood announced in March 2016 that Mbatha-Raw would star in her adaptation of Roxane Gay's novel \"An Untamed State\". Which she will film later in 2018. Mbatha-Raw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the June 2017 Birthday Honours for services to drama. Gugu Mbatha-Raw Gugulethu Sophia \"Gugu\" Mbatha-Raw (; born 21 April 1983) is an English actress, known for her role as Kelly in \"Black Mirror\", Dido Elizabeth Belle in \"Belle\",", "title": "Gugu Mbatha-Raw" }, { "id": "19669029", "text": "into helping Big Bob smuggle a sim card into a nearby prison. As the plan failed, Big Bob wants revenge. Trevor finds a box with a lock of Grace's hair inside and then receives a threatening call from Big Bob. He tells Trevor he has kidnapped Grace and demands a £60000 ransom for her safe release. But Grace is okay and they discover that Big Bob has kidnapped Esther after mistaking her identity. Grace and Trevor go on a rescue mission which ends with Big Bob pointing a gun in Grace's face. The story was part of the show's continued", "title": "Grace Black" }, { "id": "3261263", "text": "of Las Vegas, Michael Zane, a recent parolee, stops at a run-down desert motel. There, he catches a boy, Jesse, stealing the death's head wheel nuts off his car's wheels and chases him, meeting his mother, Cybil Waingrow, whom he later beds. The following morning four men dressed in Elvis costumes arrive to pick him up: Murphy, Hanson, Gus, and Franklin. Together they set off into Vegas to a casino holding an Elvis convention intent on robbing it — dressed as Elvis impersonators. Michael rigs the elevator while the others rob the cages and counting room, and after a long", "title": "3000 Miles to Graceland" }, { "id": "16757855", "text": "of Sandy and Diana. In St. Louis, the two share dinner, and Diana admits she does not know her real name due to growing up as a foster child. The accounts processor enters with cops, who arrest Sandy and Diana. Diana uncuffs herself in the back of the police car, breaks the back windshield, and escapes with Sandy. The skiptracer shoots Marisol and Julian, finds Diana and Sandy on the highway mid-escape, and hits Diana with his car. Sandy comes to her aid, but Diana revives and defensively strikes Sandy in the throat. Diana and Sandy eventually get home, where", "title": "Identity Thief" }, { "id": "7434674", "text": "Paulson crawled out of the back seat, opened the driver's side door and ran toward nearby Sixth Avenue. She later told police that she had left her blue sneakers on the passenger side floor of the sedan's backseat, as evidence that she had been in the car. Hansen panicked and chased her, but Paulson made it to Sixth Avenue first and managed to flag down a passing truck. The driver, Robert Yount, alarmed by her disheveled appearance, stopped and picked her up. He drove her to the Mush Inn, where she jumped out of the truck and ran inside. While", "title": "Robert Hansen" }, { "id": "17237259", "text": "fights with her aunt, and huffs off on foot. Kelly and Jordan go to a friend's party, where Kelly flirts with Jordan's boyfriend, and learns from her drug contact that if she doesn't recover the drugs – which are not pills as she believed, but $20K of heroin – then the owner of said drugs will kill her. Kelly manages to patch her relationship with Jordan, and they drive off in Jordan's father's SUV to find Ryan, who they learn drove the car to a club on Staten Island. Both girls are high on ADHD pills and cocaine, and crash", "title": "King Kelly (film)" }, { "id": "529849", "text": "dresses, but this wardrobe changed to ordinary-looking cardigans and \"house dresses\" toward the end of the film. As a result of her performance in \"The Country Girl\", Kelly was nominated for and ultimately won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Her main competitor was Judy Garland for her performance in \"A Star Is Born\". After receiving the Oscar nomination, Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performances in her three big movie roles of 1954: \"Rear Window\", \"Dial M For Murder\", and \"The Country Girl\". At the Golden Globe Awards in 1955, Garland", "title": "Grace Kelly" }, { "id": "11855623", "text": "is visible tension between Kelly and Travis and this leads to the destruction of a tape exonerating Steven, who has been accused of murdering his nemesis Brian \"Dodge\" Forbes (Kelly Dingwall). Dodge kidnaps Kelly in order to lure Steven into a final showdown and leaves her tied up in the boot of his car. Travis rescues Kelly and finds her severely dehydrated. Kelly and Travis soon become close and begin a relationship. Kelly's sister Rachel (Tasma Walton) visits and is involved in a car crash that ends up killing her boyfriend, Rick (Andrew Rododera) and blames Kelly for not doing", "title": "Kelly Watson" }, { "id": "4349565", "text": "during the crash. He was released from the rehab center on July 12, 2014. The driver of the Walmart transport-truck, Kevin Roper of Jonesboro, Georgia, pleaded not guilty to one count of death by auto and four counts of assault by auto. The complaint alleges Roper dozed off and hit Morgan's limousine after swerving to avoid slowed traffic ahead of him. It also argues that Roper had been awake for more than 24 hours before the crash. A preliminary investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that Roper had been on the clock since 11:20 Friday morning and was", "title": "Tracy Morgan" }, { "id": "9187977", "text": "apprehended by the police. The next morning, Esteridge tells Grace, whose innocence has been proven, that the real John Ryder is missing and they do not know the true identity of the hitchhiker. He also informs her that he will be taking her to her parents and the hitchhiker will be transported across the state in a separate van. During the journey, the hitchhiker breaks free from his restraints and kills both the guard who is watching him and the passenger, causing the van and Esteridge and Grace behind him to crash. Esteridge is trapped in the car and Grace", "title": "The Hitcher (2007 film)" }, { "id": "1800565", "text": "of perfectly matched stars in Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.\" Robert Burks won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, while Hal Pereira, Joseph McMillan Johnson, Samuel M. Comer and Arthur Krams were nominated for Best Art Direction, and Edith Head was nominated for Best Costume Design. In 2002, American Film Institute included the film in AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions (#46). To Catch a Thief In May 2018, it was announced that Viacom was set to adapt the film as a Spanish-language television series. The pattern of a string of jewel robberies on the French Riviera causes the police to believe", "title": "To Catch a Thief" }, { "id": "6947181", "text": "stolen. In a moving scene with Lloyd in his taxi following the attack, she asks whether it was her skin colour that made her a target. In 2006, Kelly's old friend Becky Granger (Katherine Kelly) appears on the scene. Much to Kelly's annoyance, Becky starts becoming obsessive with Kelly. She gets a job at \"Underworld\" and starts hanging around with her mates. She later buys Kelly a watch for her birthday, but because of Becky's criminal past, Kelly is suspicious that the watch is stolen. Becky later shows Kelly the receipt, and Kelly feels bad for not having trusted her", "title": "Kelly Crabtree" }, { "id": "3261266", "text": "go to Idaho to wait for them. Cybil sneaks away from Michael and her son at a restaurant, stealing Michael's wallet and car. Cybil calls the money launderer, using the password that she has extracted from Michael's wallet. Murphy suddenly appears at the money launderer, Peterson, (Jon Lovitz), using the same password. Peterson explains that Cybil called first, so they wait for her. Finally, Cybil arrives, and finds only Murphy, whom she assumes is Peterson. Soon afterwards, Michael and Jesse, who have been stealing money and cars to survive, arrive and find Peterson and his secretary dead in the bathroom.", "title": "3000 Miles to Graceland" }, { "id": "5863326", "text": "their escape, stopping in a lane to disguise the van as an ice-cream truck; they also set loose a Ned Kelly-like dummy in a radio-controlled wheelchair, armed with two shotguns, which they send out as a decoy for the police while they make their escape. They manage to elude the pursuing police, but they are nearly caught when two officers on a routine patrol pull up beside them and ask them for an ice-cream. Frank speeds away, with the police in hot pursuit, and they now employ their backup getaway plan. They dump the van in a suburban street and", "title": "Malcolm (film)" }, { "id": "8690113", "text": "a remake of the same name. The new 2000 \"Gone in 60 Seconds\" film, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, features Nicolas Cage as master auto thief Randall \"Memphis\" Raines. Both films share plot similarities about a crew of thieves who steal a large order of cars (48 in the original, 50 in the 2000 film) and deliver them to the Long Beach docks. Once again, the \"Eleanor\" name is given to the film's featured car; now a Dupont Pepper Grey 1967 Ford Mustang fastback, depicted as a Shelby GT500, with a customized body kit designed by Steve Stanford. Depending on the", "title": "Eleanor (automobile)" }, { "id": "5485688", "text": "semi-trailer trucks, vintage cars, and exotics; rendering the order difficult to fill within the time limit. Nevertheless, Pace is confident that the order can be filled by the March 2, 1974 deadline. Mapping out a basic strategy, the thieves scout out their vehicular targets; all of which have been given female code names. The plan goes smoothly – with even some of the more eclectic vehicles acquired with relative ease – but obstacles mount. Chief of these difficulties is a yellow, 1973 Ford Mustang, code named \"Eleanor.\" The first \"Eleanor\" they come across is occupied; they locate this car again", "title": "Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 film)" }, { "id": "529839", "text": "saved by Kelly. David Bishop argues that her pacifist character, killing a man who is about to shoot her husband, was cold and abstract. Alfred Hitchcock described her performance as \"rather mousy\", and stated that it lacked animation. He said that it was only in her later films that she \"really blossomed\" and showed her true star quality. Grace Kelly's uncle George Kelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, advised and mentored Kelly during her Hollywood film career. Her film career lasted from September 1951 to March 1956. After filming \"High Noon\", Kelly returned to New York City, and took private acting", "title": "Grace Kelly" }, { "id": "18691610", "text": "bushes. After a few seconds Travis gets back in the car and puts it into drive. Harrison hops in and they take off, driving wildly through the open field. The next scene takes place earlier: a cop car pulls up and Sheriff Kretzer (Kevin Bacon) gets out of the car. He takes a sip of root beer before placing it on the hood of his car. He removes some of his uniform and grabs a bag from the back seat. He lays a tarp on the ground and he pulls a body from the trunk. Kretzer struggles to drag the", "title": "Cop Car (film)" }, { "id": "20423982", "text": "Getaway Car (Taylor Swift song) \"Getaway Car\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, recorded for her sixth studio album, \"Reputation\" (2017). The song was serviced to Australian and New Zealand radio stations as the album's fifth single in both countries and seventh overall single on September 6, 2018. Swift co-wrote and co-produced the track with Jack Antonoff. \"Getaway Car\" was written and produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff. \"Getaway Car\" runs for a duration of three minutes and fifty-three seconds; and it has a tempo of 86 beats per minute. Swift performs it in the key of C", "title": "Getaway Car (Taylor Swift song)" }, { "id": "2400429", "text": "to personally call the mobsters and turn Grace over. When the mobsters finally arrive, they are welcomed cordially by Tom and an impromptu committee of other townspeople. Grace is then freed by the indignant henchmen, and her true identity is revealed: she is the daughter of a powerful gang leader who ran away because she could not stand his dirty work. Her father motions her into his Cadillac and argues with her about issues of morality. After some introspection, Grace reverses herself and comes to the conclusion that Dogville's crimes cannot be excused due to the difficulty of their circumstances.", "title": "Dogville" }, { "id": "1800559", "text": "process, and the last of the three Hitchcock films with Grace Kelly. The film was the penultimate collaboration with Cary Grant; only \"North by Northwest\" (1959) followed. It is also about a man with a mistaken identity who goes on a breakneck adventure to prove his innocence. The costumes were by Edith Head, including Kelly's memorable gold lamé gown for the film's costume ball. \"To Catch a Thief\" is the only Hitchcock film released by Paramount that is still owned and controlled by the company. The others were sold to Hitchcock in the early 1960s and are currently distributed by", "title": "To Catch a Thief" }, { "id": "19668984", "text": "and Freddie Roscoe (Charlie Clapham). She has been pushed from a balcony, held hostage, shot, electrocuted, nearly killed Joe with a wrecking ball and has also been stalked by her secret lover Kim Butterfield (Daisy Wood-Davis). Grace's storylines have been both topical and dramatic – her relationship with Trevor and Esther explored the issue of surrogacy, while her affair with Kim culminated in a dramatic car crash stunt. In 2016, writers brought about the end of Grace's relationship with Trevor. They played Trevor having an affair with Sienna Blake (Anna Passey) and later murdered by Sienna's teenage daughter Nico Blake", "title": "Grace Black" }, { "id": "11887919", "text": "black wheels and the supercharger removed. In the seventh film, Torretto's Charger has the supercharger again. The car still has black trim but is no longer matte black but metallic black. Also a different set of rims. The car has been in a series of promotions: \"Car Town\" offered the versions from both the first and fifth films, while \"Mafia Wars\" offered the first.\" In \"Fast & Furious 6\", Dom gives his nephew Jack a diecast replica of his black Charger, hoping to keep him away from Brian's habits of favoring imports. Later in the film, Dom drives a maroon", "title": "Dominic Toretto" }, { "id": "3712986", "text": "United States. Others include Korean models such as Hyundai Accent, Kia Rio along with Japanese models such as Honda Fit, Mazda 2, Nissan Micra (in Canada), Scion xD, Suzuki Swift (in Mexico), Toyota Yaris and hybrid Prius c. The Ford Fiesta is a European based subcompact offered in North America. And there are even subcompact SUVs like the Jeep Renegade and the Mazda CX-3. Subcompact car A subcompact car is the American term for an automobile with a class size smaller than a compact car usually not exceeding in length, but larger than a microcar. According to the United States", "title": "Subcompact car" }, { "id": "20564281", "text": "Chantal Thuy Chantal Thuy (Pronounced \"Twee\") is a Canadian actress known for her role as Grace Choi in \"Black Lightning\". Thuy was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. Her parents are refugees from Vietnam; her family originally fled the Vietnam War by boat and eventually came to Quebec. Thuy is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City. She is fluent in English, French and Vietnamese. Thuy has appeared on television series like \"Madam Secretary\", \"Pretty Little Liars\" and \"Matador\", and currently recurring as DC Comics character Grace Choi on the CW Network show \"Black", "title": "Chantal Thuy" }, { "id": "529850", "text": "and Kelly both won awards for their respective performances. Garland won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical, and Kelly won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. With every film, Kelly received greater acclaim. \"The New York Times\" praised her performance in \"The Country Girl\" as \"excellent\", and \"Rear Window\" got her marquee credits on a par with, and beyond, those of James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock. In April 1954, Kelly flew to Colombia for a 10-day shoot on her next project, \"Green Fire\", with", "title": "Grace Kelly" }, { "id": "19953552", "text": "and McCormick\", \"The A-Team\", \"L.A. Law\", \"Silk Stalkings\", and \"Matlock\". She made her film debut with a supporting role in the 1979 drama \"Boulevard Nights\". She followed this with roles in the films \"Dead Badge\" (1995), and \"Black Out\" (1996). DuBois played actress Rita Gam, close friend and bridesmaid of the future Princess Grace of Monaco, in the 1983 television film \"Grace Kelly\", and appeared in the television movie \"The Trial of the Incredible Hulk\" (1989). In 2000, she co-starred in the romantic comedy \"Luminarias\". Between 2005 and 2008, DuBois played Sergeant Roberta Hansen in ten \"McBride\" television movies. She", "title": "Marta DuBois" }, { "id": "14852625", "text": "\"2012\", directed by Roland Emmerich, and \"I Love You, Beth Cooper\". Anna Mae Routledge Anna Mae Wills (born Anna Mae Routledge on March 31, 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Celeste in the Disney Channel Original Movie \"16 Wishes\". Wills was born in Calgary, Alberta. She graduated from the University of Windsor in 2004 with a BFA. Anna Mae Routledge appeared in CBS's \"Harper's Island\" in the recurring role of Kelly Seavers. Routledge was also in Hallmark Hall of Fame's \"A Dog Named Christmas\", starring Bruce Greenwood, and has been in episodes of", "title": "Anna Mae Routledge" }, { "id": "17237257", "text": "King Kelly (film) King Kelly is a 2012 independent film that follows a young woman (the eponymous \"Kelly\", played by Louisa Krause) who is obsessed with gaining celebrity through her webcam stripteases, and her best friend Jordan (Libby Woodbridge) as they try to reclaim her car after it is stolen by her ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July. The film was directed by Andrew Neel and filmed almost entirely on cellphone cameras. \"King Kelly\" was shown at several 2012 film festivals, including South by Southwest, the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, and the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival where Louisa", "title": "King Kelly (film)" }, { "id": "3261265", "text": "a coyote, skids off the road, and is knocked unconscious after crashing his car. Michael gets back to the motel. Discovering the money is missing, he storms into Cybil's place and finds the money where Jesse has hidden it. Michael gives Cybil $100,000 in exchange for her silence, but is eventually manipulated into taking Cybil and Jesse along with him. Michael explains to Cybil that the money is marked, but that Murphy has found a money launderer in Idaho to help them. Murphy, who has since returned to the motel and discovered that the money is missing, has decided to", "title": "3000 Miles to Graceland" }, { "id": "10276411", "text": "Odometer fraud Odometer fraud, also referred to as \"busting miles\" (United States) or \"clocking\" (UK and Ireland), is the illegal practice of rolling back odometers to make it appear that vehicles have lower mileage than they actually do. Odometer fraud occurs when the seller of a vehicle falsely represents the actual mileage of a vehicle to the buyer. According to the Office of Odometer Fraud Investigation at the US Department of Transportation, odometer fraud is a serious crime and important consumer fraud issue. In the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) 2002 odometer fraud study, the NHTSA determined that 450,000", "title": "Odometer fraud" }, { "id": "529843", "text": "Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. After the success of \"Mogambo\", Kelly starred in the TV play \"The Way of an Eagle\" with Jean-Pierre Aumont, before being cast in the film adaptation of Frederick Knott's Broadway hit \"Dial M for Murder\", opposite Ray Milland and Robert Cummings. In this film, Kelly plays the role of the wealthy wife of a retired professional tennis player. Director Alfred Hitchcock, who had also seen the 1950 screen test, would become one of Kelly's last mentors. She was loaned by", "title": "Grace Kelly" }, { "id": "1278576", "text": "check showed his Volkswagen Beetle was stolen. When told he was under arrest, Bundy kicked Lee's legs out from under him and took off running. Lee fired a warning shot followed by a second round, gave chase and tackled him. The two struggled over Lee's gun before the officer finally subdued and arrested Bundy. In the stolen vehicle were three sets of IDs belonging to female FSU students, 21 stolen credit cards and a stolen television set. Also found were a pair of dark-rimmed non-prescription glasses and a pair of plaid slacks, later identified as the disguise worn by \"Richard", "title": "Ted Bundy" }, { "id": "3261268", "text": "up and gagged in the trunk. Murphy makes bail and is picked up by a passerby while hitchhiking, he then kills the man and takes his clothes and vehicle. Murphy sees Cybil and Jesse pass by in a car. He runs them off the road, and grabs Jesse, to hold as collateral, telling Cybil to find Michael and the money. Cybil finds Michael and begs him to help her. After initially disbelieving her, Michael decides to help her, reporting Murphy to the authorities. Murphy has met up with Jack, who has enlisted the help of a shadowy figure named Hamilton", "title": "3000 Miles to Graceland" }, { "id": "12020137", "text": "version of \"Stolen Car\" was recorded by Patty Griffin for her 2002 album, \"1000 Kisses\". Another cover version was also recorded by Elliott Murphy. In 2018, X Ambassadors covered the song for Spotify. The song, along with \"Drive All Night\", are played by the protagonist in the film \"Cop Land\". Stolen Car (Bruce Springsteen song) \"Stolen Car\" is a song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. It was originally released on his fifth album, \"The River\". The version released on \"The River\" was recorded at The Power Station in New York in January 1980. An alternative version recorded in July", "title": "Stolen Car (Bruce Springsteen song)" }, { "id": "1800552", "text": "To Catch a Thief In May 2018, it was announced that Viacom was set to adapt the film as a Spanish-language television series. The pattern of a string of jewel robberies on the French Riviera causes the police to believe that the infamous jewel thief John \"The Cat\" Robie (Cary Grant) has left his comfortable retirement of growing grapes and flowers. He gives the police the slip at his hilltop villa. Robie visits a restaurant. The staff are his old gang, paroled for their work in the French Resistance during World War II as long as they keep clean. Bertani,", "title": "To Catch a Thief" }, { "id": "9046534", "text": "three years (until 2004) in the Fitness Olympia. She was married to bodybuilder Craig Titus. In prison she filed for divorce, which became final in December 2009. On December 14, 2005 the burnt corpse of Melissa James, a woman who was in a sexual relationship with Titus and lived in Ryan and Titus' home, was discovered inside a Jaguar car belonging to Kelly Ryan. The couple went into hiding together and were arrested along with suspected accomplice, Anthony Gross, after a nine-day investigation. A Nevada prosecutor alleged in open court that Titus was part of a plot to murder three", "title": "Kelly Ryan" }, { "id": "1354225", "text": "The futuristic car carrying the couple who find the dying Farwell is a leftover prop, somewhat modified, from MGM's 1956 film \"Forbidden Planet\". The Rip Van Winkle Caper \"The Rip Van Winkle Caper\" is episode 60 of the American television anthology series \"The Twilight Zone\". It originally aired on April 21, 1961 on CBS. To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks (equal to $ million today) from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four thieves, led by scientist-mastermind Farwell, hide in a secret cave in Death Valley,", "title": "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" }, { "id": "3261267", "text": "Realizing that Murphy killed the two and remembering that Murphy is driving Michael's car, Michael reports his car stolen. Murphy is then arrested. However, Michael is arrested as well when police discover that Michael is also driving a stolen car. The men are then put in adjoining cells and the two have a confrontation. Michael makes bail, thanks to Jesse, who hired a lawyer, under the agreement that Michael make him his partner. Murphy calls a man named Jack (Howie Long) and arranges to get out as well. Michael, who has been allowed to retrieve his car, finds Cybil tied", "title": "3000 Miles to Graceland" }, { "id": "15767239", "text": "car accident that injures Liv and mortally injures Grace. Matty flees the scene, knowing that he will most likely be arrested if he is caught, and the last thing he sees is Grace's bloodied, almost-lifeless body in the ruins of his car. Grace is transferred to a hospital in Britain, and David Blood has refused him, or anyone in the gang, permission to see her, although a sympathetic nurse manages to smuggle Grace a CD of Rich's, which she had previously recorded vocals for. In Rich, Rich has been waiting for ages for Grace to come out of her coma,", "title": "Grace Blood" }, { "id": "5645371", "text": "is pregnant and tries to contact the father to seek financial help. He refuses to meet and stops taking her calls. She goes to \"The Grass Skirt\" bar in Boston where she works and picks up a drunk (Marshall Thompson) so she can use his car to drive to Cape Cod, where she can confront the father face to face. Vivian drives with the car's owner drunk by her side. When the man realizes he's miles from Boston, he demands to be taken back. Instead, she ditches him and steals the car. But the father of the child, James Harkley,", "title": "Mystery Street" }, { "id": "6264668", "text": "has no license plate, as pointed out by Amos Clemens (R. G. Armstrong) after he sees it run over the hitchhiker. That night, in an apparent bid to kill Amos, the car instead runs over the sheriff, leaving Chief Deputy Wade Parent (James Brolin) in charge. During the resulting investigation, an eyewitness to the accident states that there was no driver inside the car, furthering Wade's confusion. Wade asks his girlfriend, Lauren (Kathleen Lloyd), who is a teacher at the local school, to cancel the upcoming marching band rehearsals for their safety. Lauren and her friend, who is Wade's deputy", "title": "The Car" }, { "id": "20423984", "text": "is \"massive, in both catchiness and energy\". The song had its debut performance at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on May 8, 2018, as part of the setlist for Swift's Reputation Stadium Tour. Getaway Car (Taylor Swift song) \"Getaway Car\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, recorded for her sixth studio album, \"Reputation\" (2017). The song was serviced to Australian and New Zealand radio stations as the album's fifth single in both countries and seventh overall single on September 6, 2018. Swift co-wrote and co-produced the track with Jack Antonoff. \"Getaway Car\" was written and", "title": "Getaway Car (Taylor Swift song)" }, { "id": "7892135", "text": "the jewels have been returned and \"Burns\" was his company's agent. With the jewels restored and the gypsy dead, the case is closed. Robie can now return safely to Vence, where he has everything he wants – except, he now realizes, Francie Stevens. He finds her packing to leave for America... In 1955, the novel was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Episode 10 of Season 10 of the TV series \"Bones\" (December 11, 2014), \"The 200 in the 10th\", is a free adaptation of the novel, with the show characters appearing as", "title": "To Catch a Thief (novel)" }, { "id": "1800553", "text": "Foussard, and the others angrily blame Robie because they are all under suspicion so long as the new Cat is active. When the police arrive at Bertani's restaurant looking for Robie, Foussard's teenage daughter Danielle (Brigitte Auber), who has a crush on him, spirits him to safety. Robie recognizes he can prove his innocence by catching the new Cat in the act. He enlists the aid of an insurance man, H. H. Hughson (John Williams), who reluctantly obtains a list of the most expensive jewelry owners currently on the Riviera. Tourists Jessie Stevens (Jessie Royce Landis), a wealthy nouveau riche", "title": "To Catch a Thief" }, { "id": "17437785", "text": "Hermès's wife Julie. It was meant to fit into a car door and to allow riders to carry their saddle. In the 1930s, Hermès's son-in-law Robert Dumas redesigned it as a spacious travel bag called Sac à dépêches. It was a sharp contrast to the dominant purses of the time, which were simple, small and flat, resembling envelopes. The handbag gradually went on to become stiff and boxy. Alfred Hitchcock has been credited with bringing the handbag into the limelight. In 1954, Hitchcock allowed the costume designer Edith Head to purchase Hermès accessories for the film \"To Catch a Thief\",", "title": "Kelly bag" }, { "id": "6264670", "text": "several squad cars and killing five of Wade's deputies in the process. Wade confronts the vehicle and is surprised to see that none of his bullets put a dent on the car's windshield or tires. After trying to open the door (when it is revealed that the car has no door handles), Wade is knocked out and the car escapes. That evening, Lauren, on her way home to pick up her things, is killed when the car jumps driving straight through her house and rams her, right when she is speaking to Wade over the phone. Luke puts forward to", "title": "The Car" }, { "id": "18830995", "text": "An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success is a 2015 family-drama film starring newcomer Olivia Rodrigo in the title role, Virginia Madsen, Eloise Webb, Caitlin Carmichael, Notlim Taylor, Lili Bordán, Fabrice Michel, Roxane Bret, Krisztina Peremartoni and András Bálint in supporting roles, along with an appearance from restaurateur Joe Bastianich as himself. As with the previous films, \"Grace\" was directed by Vince Marcello, with screenplay by Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin. The film focuses on 2015 \"Girl of the Year\" , as she takes an unexpected trip to Paris and finds a way", "title": "An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success" }, { "id": "9518591", "text": "made available for digital download on 16 January 2007. This song was also #89 on \"MTV Asia\"s list of Top 100 Hits of 2007. It was designed to be a mocking satire of musicians who try to reinvent themselves to be popular. The song is titled after Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress, and Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly. The bit of dialogue used in the song is from the film \"The Country Girl\". Mika claims the song was inspired after a bad experience with a record company executive, in which he was told to be more like Craig", "title": "Grace Kelly (song)" }, { "id": "8156645", "text": "plan backfires. Ryan agrees to back off Greenlee. Greenlee does not know the truth about the night of her accident and she is angry that everyone is lying to her, so she snoops around Erica's office and finds where Kendall and Zach are. She knows that Kendall won't lie to her so she flies to Spain and asks Kendall what really happened. Kendall tells her that she was the one that was driving the car that almost killed her. Greenlee is very angry when she hears this and accuses Kendall of trying to kill her so she can be with", "title": "Ryan Lavery" }, { "id": "5766289", "text": "the armada is demolished when the Snowman brings a convoy of trucks to rescue the Bandit. Sheriff Justice's squad cars differ from film to film, which get wrecked in various ways due to his overzealous pursuit of the Bandit. In the first film, his car is a bronze 1977 Pontiac LeMans with two blue single lights: This loses the back right side fender, the top, the driver's side door and the back right side passenger door, the front right wheel, and the trunk lid. In the second film his car is a gold color 1980 Pontiac Bonneville, with two single", "title": "Buford T. Justice" }, { "id": "11887896", "text": "hijackings, stealing millions of dollars in merchandise. He has spent most of his life running from the law. In \"The Fast and the Furious\", Dominic runs his own automotive garage while Mia takes care of the family's grocery store in Echo Park. He also runs his own street race team, which consists of Letty, Vince, Leon, and Jesse. Dominic has a feud with Vietnamese-American rival Johnny Tran due to a business deal that went sour and Tran catching Dominic sleeping with his sister. Unknown to the public, he and his team drive black Honda Civic coupes and stage daring semi", "title": "Dominic Toretto" }, { "id": "529829", "text": "At the time of her death, she was 52 years old. She is listed 13th among the American Film Institute's 25 Greatest Female Stars of Classical Hollywood Cinema. Kelly was born on November 12, 1929, at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to an affluent and influential family. Her father, Irish-American John B. Kelly Sr., had won three Olympic gold medals for sculling and owned a successful brickwork contracting company that was well known on the East Coast. A registered Democrat, he was nominated to be mayor of Philadelphia for the 1935 election but lost by the closest margin in", "title": "Grace Kelly" }, { "id": "18831003", "text": "Community Center in International Falls, Minnesota on June 23, 2015. Similar film-viewing events were also held at all American Girl Place stores. An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success is a 2015 family-drama film starring newcomer Olivia Rodrigo in the title role, Virginia Madsen, Eloise Webb, Caitlin Carmichael, Notlim Taylor, Lili Bordán, Fabrice Michel, Roxane Bret, Krisztina Peremartoni and András Bálint in supporting roles, along with an appearance from restaurateur Joe Bastianich as himself. As with the previous films, \"Grace\" was directed by Vince Marcello, with screenplay by Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin.", "title": "An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success" }, { "id": "330862", "text": "roadster to their most famous product, the 911. The Cayman is a coupé otherwise similar to the Boxster. The Cayenne is Porsche's mid-size luxury sport utility vehicle (SUV). A high performance luxury saloon/sedan, the Panamera, was launched in 2009. In 2010 Porsche launched the Cayenne S Hybrid and announced the Panamera S Hybrid, and launched the Porsche 918 hypercar in 2014, which also features a hybrid system. Also a plug-in hybrid model called the Panamera S E-Hybrid was released in October 2013 in the United States and during the fourth quarter of 2013 in several European countries. Porsche developed a", "title": "Porsche" }, { "id": "531963", "text": "the two TV movies. The Complete Series & 2 unrated feature films box set was released on DVD in Region 1 on November 14, 2017. The TV series was also made available for streaming and download through a variety of services. In 2005, Tom Wopat and John Schneider were reunited during \"Exposed\", a fifth season episode of the television series \"Smallville\". Wopat guest-starred as Kansas State Senator Jack Jennings, an old friend of Clark Kent's adoptive father Jonathan Kent (portrayed by Schneider). In the episode, Jennings drives a 1968 Dodge Charger—the same body style as \"The General Lee\". \"Lizard Lick", "title": "The Dukes of Hazzard" }, { "id": "18742301", "text": "Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated series, \"Political Animals\". Ishibashi will next be seen in the original Netflix series, \"Grace and Frankie\", and starring in Wong Fu Productions first feature film, \"Everything Before Us\", released June 3, 2015. In early 2015, Ishibashi launched her production shingle, Mana Moments, with a focus on comedic, female driven content. Ishibashi played Karai in \"\", the sequel to \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\", released in theaters on June 3, 2016. In 2017, Ishibashi joined the cast of the Hulu original series \"Runaways\" as Tina Minoru. On May 29, 2011, Ishibashi married Jeff Horowitz at the Mauna Kea", "title": "Brittany Ishibashi" }, { "id": "6547990", "text": "real\", rather than a mere \"plot device\". In October 2014, Moretz was named one of the 25 Most Influential Teens of the year by \"Time\" magazine. Chloë Grace Moretz Chloë Grace Moretz (; born February 10, 1997) is an American actress and model. She began acting at age six, with early roles in the supernatural horror film \"The Amityville Horror\" (2005), the drama series \"Desperate Housewives\" (2006–07), the supernatural horror film \"The Eye\" (2008), the drama film \"The Poker House\" (2008), the drama series \"Dirty Sexy Money\" (2007–08), the romantic comedy film \"500 Days of Summer\" (2009) and the children's", "title": "Chloë Grace Moretz" }, { "id": "14354764", "text": "\"The End of Wong Fu: A Christmas Story\", \"Two Weeks Later: Resolution Fails\" and \"Linappropriate\". Chisholm has also been featured in Chester See's sketch production called \"I Glove You.\" She also dances in Adam Lamberts music video \"For your entertainment\". Tanya Chisholm Tanya Chisholm is an American actress and dancer. She is mostly known for her role as Kelly Wainwright on the Nickelodeon sitcom, \"Big Time Rush\". She is also known for her role as Marcie on the \"Legally Blonde\" spin off, \"Legally Blondes\", (otherwise known as \"Legally Blonde 3\"), acting alongside Camilla Rosso and Rebecca Rosso. She has guest-starred", "title": "Tanya Chisholm" }, { "id": "6947183", "text": "with Lloyd and plants a kiss on him, which he rejects, ordering her to leave. She also steals some of her workmates' jewellery and money and plants them in Kelly's locker. Kelly is arrested for theft and is sacked from \"Underworld\". Kelly's criminal past is revealed to her workmates, who disown her as a friend. Becky disappears and Kelly is left to face the consequences of a crime she didn't commit. Lloyd advises Kelly to plead guilty to the thefts and receive a lesser charge. Eventually, her friends come to believe her. She is given a suspended sentence and given", "title": "Kelly Crabtree" }, { "id": "12482513", "text": "Christina Applegate Christina Applegate (born November 25, 1971) is an American actress and dancer. As an adolescent actress, she started playing the role of Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom \"Married... with Children\" (1987–97). In her adult years, Applegate established a film and television career, winning an Emmy Award and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations. Applegate has had major roles in several films, including \"Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead\" (1991), \"The Big Hit\" (1998), \"The Sweetest Thing\" (2002), \"Grand Theft Parsons\" (2003), \"\" (2004) and its sequel \"\" (2013), \"Hall Pass\" (2011), \"Vacation\" (2015), and \"Bad Moms\" (2016).", "title": "Christina Applegate" }, { "id": "2164984", "text": "body of Mary Jo Kopechne was discovered inside an overturned car in a channel on the island. The car belonged to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, who claimed to have accidentally driven it off a bridge late the previous night and did not report the incident to the police until the next day. The morning after the accident, a diver recovered Kopechne's body from the submerged car, and Kennedy later entered a plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of a crash causing personal injury. Chappaquiddick Island Chappaquiddick Island (Massachusett language: \"tchepi-aquidenet\"; colloquially known as \"Chappy\"), a part", "title": "Chappaquiddick Island" }, { "id": "9338999", "text": "Imogen Poots Imogen Poots (born 3 June 1989) is an English actress. She played Tammy in the post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film \"28 Weeks Later\" (2007), Linda Keith in the Jimi Hendrix biopic \"\" (2013), Debbie Raymond in the Paul Raymond biopic \"The Look of Love\" (2013), and Julia Maddon in the American action movie \"Need for Speed\" (2014). In 2016 she starred as Kelly Ann in the Showtime series \"Roadies\". Poots was born at the Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of Trevor Poots, a current affairs television producer from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Fiona", "title": "Imogen Poots" }, { "id": "19669043", "text": "Kim. He orders Robbie Roscoe (Charlie Wernham) to kill Kim but the plan fails and she refuses to leave. Esther discovers the truth about the affair, she refuses to forgive Grace and once again threatens that Grace will not be part of the surrogate child's life. Grace and Kim's affair resulted in Wood-Davis receiving angry comments on social media website Twitter. Fans expressed their support for \"Trace\" relationship and blamed Kim for trying to split them up. Paparazzi photographs obtained from location filming on 30 June 2015 were publicised via \"Daily Mail\" showing a car crash stunt being filmed. Wall,", "title": "Grace Black" }, { "id": "18691608", "text": "Cop Car (film) Cop Car is a 2015 American road thriller film directed by Jon Watts, written by Watts and Christopher Ford and starring Kevin Bacon, Shea Whigham, Camryn Manheim, James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford. The film follows two young boys who come across the abandoned police car of a corrupt sheriff. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States on August 7, 2015, by Focus World. Two young boys, Travis and Harrison, are walking through a field. Cursing as they walk, they come to a barbed wire fence and take turns climbing", "title": "Cop Car (film)" }, { "id": "19669001", "text": "Mercedes. When Mercedes receives Doctor Browning's life insurance money she flaunts her wealth in the village. This infuriates Grace and her hatred for Mercedes grows. She visits Trevor and makes it clear she intends to get revenge. Grace's first feud with another gangster was quickly deployed on-screen. Ray McCormick (Cristian Solimeno) was introduced as an enemy of the Black family and targets Grace specifically. He kidnaps Grace, locks her away and demands ransom money in exchange for Grace's safety. Trevor becomes determined to secure her release and concocts a scam to steal Mercedes' money. Ray then dresses as Father Christmas", "title": "Grace Black" }, { "id": "4435790", "text": "17-year-old, he sees a white mare grazing alone in the outback. He rides it into town to impress a local girl named Jane, only to be arrested and subsequently imprisoned for supposedly stealing the horse, even though it had actually been stolen by an acquaintance of his, Wild Wright. He is released and comes home three years later, and starts helping his family with their small horse-breeding farm located near Beechworth. He takes vengeance on Wild Wright by beating him in a prizefight, and befriends Julia Cook (Naomi Watts), the beautiful wife of an English land owner who lives nearby.", "title": "Ned Kelly (2003 film)" }, { "id": "20349687", "text": "director. The episode was watched by 3.35 million American viewers, and received an 18-49 rating/share of 1.0/3, down in the total viewers number but up in the demo from the previous episode. The show placed fourth in its timeslot and eleventh for the night. Christine Orlando of \"TV Fanatic\" gave the episode a 4.2 out of 5, signaling positive reviews. Ashley B. of \"Spoiler TV\" gave the episode a positive review. She said: To Catch a Thief (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) \"To Catch a Thief \" is the twelfth episode of the \"Once Upon a Time\" spin-off series", "title": "To Catch a Thief (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)" }, { "id": "14852624", "text": "Anna Mae Routledge Anna Mae Wills (born Anna Mae Routledge on March 31, 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as Celeste in the Disney Channel Original Movie \"16 Wishes\". Wills was born in Calgary, Alberta. She graduated from the University of Windsor in 2004 with a BFA. Anna Mae Routledge appeared in CBS's \"Harper's Island\" in the recurring role of Kelly Seavers. Routledge was also in Hallmark Hall of Fame's \"A Dog Named Christmas\", starring Bruce Greenwood, and has been in episodes of \"Life Unexpected\", \"Smallville\", \"Supernatural\" and \"Psych\". Her feature film credits include", "title": "Anna Mae Routledge" }, { "id": "17237258", "text": "Krause was awarded \"Best Actress\". King Kelly is a teenage webcam porn performer, reveling in the attention and tips from her assorted admirers. Away from the webcam, she films herself constantly with her cellphone's camera, while also being paid to transport drugs around Long Island. On July 4, also her father's birthday, Kelly's ex-boyfriend Ryan takes back the car he paid for, which unfortunately for Kelly still has a package of drugs in the trunk that she was supposed to deliver. After a failed attempt with her friend Jordan to get the car back, Kelly attends the family birthday party,", "title": "King Kelly (film)" }, { "id": "18726619", "text": "They lineup for a drag race. A motorcycle policeman who chases them is killed as he crashes into Janice's car. Janice gets arrested. Duke, who has driven off, paints his black car light blue to escape detection. Janice learns his license number, and in fear of being discovered, Duke kills her. Duke coerces Peg to leave town with him. They become on the run thieves. Realizing his luck will not hold out, but unwilling to surrender, Duke sends Peg back. Duke remains alone in an abandoned roadside market awaiting his fate. Hot Car Girl Hot Car Girl is a 1958", "title": "Hot Car Girl" }, { "id": "17237260", "text": "the SUV into a tree. Desperate, Kelly contacts her biggest fan, \"Poo Bare\", a state trooper. Poo Bare helps them find the car, but the drugs are not there; he now demands that she sleep with him in return for his forcing Ryan to take them to the missing package. After some more misadventures, they recover the heroin from Ryan's dad's garage. Now very early on July 5, the group goes to a motel. Poo Bare puts both Ryan and the cocaine-addled Jordan in the bathroom – with Ryan handcuffed to the toilet – and he and Kelly proceed to", "title": "King Kelly (film)" }, { "id": "13560569", "text": "money, at which point he begins to panic and tells the director to turn the camera off. Two months pass and Kaspar contacts the crew to shoot once more. The local Cinemark in a suburban neighborhood is the new target. Kaspar succeeds in making a new plan and, after much staking out, pulls off the heist with no problems while the crew films him. Three days later the crew pass by Kaspar's warehouse to find the police in the parking lot. The crew learns that Kaspar Karr's car was discovered with a large amount of blood in and around it.", "title": "Street Thief" }, { "id": "16875094", "text": "to learn the girl survived the accident. After Lana (Sarah Paulson) is able to get away from Dr. Thredson (Zachary Quinto), she is injured in a freak car accident and taken back to Briarcliff. Kit (Evan Peters) escapes custody to break Grace out of the asylum, but she is accidentally shot by Frank (Fredric Lehne). Michael Rymer was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film for his work on this episode. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV). Grace begins suffering from an infection brought on by the botched hysterectomy. As she begins to", "title": "Dark Cousin" }, { "id": "16019120", "text": "will tell him in person who it is when she returns. She is seen getting on a bus that will take her to a different airport so that she can return home when a man disguised as a priest blows up the bus, killing her on January 4, 2007. It is later revealed that Vincent Clarkson was behind the bomb, and it is implied that Grace discovered that Alistair Crane was alive in Europe and that he subsequently ordered her death. Grace, like all other Standish descendents has powers. It was mentioned and seen by Tabitha that she has the", "title": "Grace Bennett" }, { "id": "6379062", "text": "$9 million. The film however, received a divided response from critics, and was nominated for a Golden Globe. Kenny Dantley is a car-loving Southern California high school senior. For a project in his shop class, Kenny helps build a customized Chevrolet Corvette Stingray with a right-hand-drive. Shortly after the new set of wheels is unveiled, the car is stolen from the streets of Van Nuys. After hearing that the car is in Las Vegas, Kenny immediately sets out on an adventure to take back the stolen car. On the way, he meets the seemingly confident Vanessa, who is a self-described", "title": "Corvette Summer" }, { "id": "7526903", "text": "and help him rob the bank. Among them are Nick Bartkowski, a nervous and possibly alcoholic safecracker; Max Green, an old school explosives expert with a heart condition; Ray Forgy, a young, wisecracking auto thief and getaway driver; and Carlos Barrios, a well-manicured lookout and weapons expert. Before they can arrive, however, two New Jersey detectives (George Denver and Bill Lonigan) catch up with Salazar, arrest him, and extradite him back to New Jersey. But Salazar soon escapes and becomes hopelessly lost in the Montana wilderness as he flees Denver and Lonigan's custody. Unaware of Salazar's arrest and escape, the", "title": "Disorganized Crime" }, { "id": "14070775", "text": "car is listed; he knocks the television off of its shelf as it breaks. Tony storms out of the house as Anne follows. He turns around as she says they need to find a new car. Tony tells her to come so they can go. Anne asks why he took her. He responds saying \"I get tired of being alone\". Tony steals a station wagon and makes Anne get all of the stuff out of the other car. She leaves her teddy bear behind as another clue. Officer Timbrook and Agent Reynolds find the car not too long after. Officer", "title": "Taken in Broad Daylight" }, { "id": "19319681", "text": "Micole Mercurio Micole Diana Mercurio (March 10, 1938 – January 19, 2016) was an American film and television actress and artist. Her film credits included the roles of Rosemary Szabo in \"Flashdance\" in 1983, Mrs. Kelly in \"Gleaming the Cube\" in 1989, Momma Love in \"The Client\" in 1994, Midge Callaghan in \"While You Were Sleeping\" in 1994, as well as \"What Lies Beneath\" in 2000. Mercurio's television work included guest appearances and recurring roles on \"Night Court\", \"Hill Street Blues\", \"L.A. Law\", \"Chicago Hope\", and \"FlashForward.\" Mercurio was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 10, 1938, to Michael Mercurio", "title": "Micole Mercurio" }, { "id": "1800558", "text": "in hand. Unmasked, his nemesis turns out to be Foussard's daughter, Danielle. She loses her footing on the roof, but Robie grabs her hand before she can fall. He forces her to confess the father-daughter involvement loudly to the police, and that Bertani was the ringleader of this gang. Robie speeds back to his villa. Frances follows to convince him that she has a place in his life. He agrees, but looks less than thrilled when she says, \"Mother will love it up here.\" \"To Catch a Thief\" was the director's first film (of five) made using the VistaVision widescreen", "title": "To Catch a Thief" }, { "id": "15898204", "text": "Fury. In later seasons a 1977 or 1978 Dodge Monaco or Plymouth Fury) which also serves as his daily driver except for a few episodes where he has other cars, such as a 1977 Pontiac Lemans in the 3rd season episode \"To Catch a Duke\" which he apparently saved his nickels and dimes for, as he claims. This car can routinely be seen parked outside the Police station in stock footage exterior shots for the rest of the series. His personal vehicle in the 5th season episode \"The Revenge of Hughie Hogg\" is a 1967–1968 Chevrolet Impala which he kicks", "title": "Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane" } ]

[ "The Seneca Falls Convention" ]

[ { "id": "2650359", "text": "Rochester Women's Rights Convention in Rochester, New York. This convention elected Abigail Bush as its president, making it the first public meeting composed of both men and women in the U.S. to choose a woman as its presiding officer. It was followed by other state and local conventions in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. The first National Woman's Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1850. Women's rights conventions were held regularly from 1850 until the start of the Civil War. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York at the head of her", "title": "History of women in the United States" }, { "id": "6582178", "text": "rights convention to be chaired by a woman, a step that was considered to be radical at the time. That meeting was followed by the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, the first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis, which also endorsed women's suffrage. The first in a series of National Women's Rights Conventions was held in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 23–24, 1850, at the initiative of Lucy Stone and Paulina Wright Davis. National conventions were held afterwards almost every year through 1860, when the Civil War (1861–1865) interrupted the practice. Suffrage was a preeminent", "title": "Women's suffrage in the United States" }, { "id": "14536806", "text": "Women's Rights National Historical Park Women's Rights National Historical Park was established in 1980, and covers a total of of land in Seneca Falls and nearby Waterloo, New York, United States. The park consists of four major historical properties including the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was the site of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, and the homes of other early women's rights activists (the M'Clintock House and the Richard Hunt House) are also on display. The park includes a visitor center and an education and cultural center housing the Suffrage Press", "title": "Women's Rights National Historical Park" }, { "id": "659595", "text": "Seneca Falls Convention The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as \"a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman\". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848. Attracting widespread attention, it was soon followed by other women's rights conventions, including the Rochester Women's Rights Convention in Rochester, New York, two weeks later. In 1850 the first in a series of annual National Women's Rights Conventions met in Worcester, Massachusetts. Female Quakers local to the area organized the meeting along with Elizabeth Cady", "title": "Seneca Falls Convention" }, { "id": "13205915", "text": "National Women's Rights Convention The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women's Rights Convention combined both male and female leadership, and attracted a wide base of support including temperance advocates and abolitionists. Speeches were given on the subjects of equal wages, expanded education and career opportunities, women's property rights, marriage reform and temperance. Chief among the concerns discussed at the convention was the passage of laws that would give suffrage to women. In", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "2650356", "text": "Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848. This Convention was inspired by the fact that in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from America because of their gender. Stanton, the young bride of an antislavery agent, and Mott, a Quaker preacher and veteran of reform, talked then of calling a convention to address the condition of women. An estimated three hundred women and men", "title": "History of women in the United States" }, { "id": "13205957", "text": "Church of the Puritans in New York City on May 14, 1863, and worked to gain 400,000 signatures by 1864 to petition the United States Congress to pass the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery. On May 10, 1866, the Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention was held at Church of the Puritans, Union Square. Called by Stanton and Anthony and sponsored by the National Woman Suffrage Association, the meeting included Ernestine L. Rose, Wendell Phillips, Reverend John T. Sargent, Reverend Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Frances D. Gage, Elizabeth Brown Blackwell, Theodore Tilton, Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Stephen Symonds Foster and Abbey Kelley", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "13205918", "text": "The first women's rights convention to be organized on a statewide basis was the Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850. In April 1850, Ohio women held a convention to begin petitioning their constitutional convention for women's equal legal and political rights. Lucy Stone, who had agitated for women's rights while a student at Ohio's Oberlin College and begun lecturing on women's rights after graduating in 1847, wrote to the Ohio organizers pledging Massachusetts to follow their lead. At the end of the New England Anti-Slavery Convention on May 30, 1850, an announcement was made that a meeting would be", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "13205916", "text": "1840, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled with their husbands to London for the first World Anti-Slavery Convention, but they were not allowed to participate because they were women. Mott and Stanton became friends there and agreed to organize a convention to further the cause of women's rights. It wasn't until the summer of 1848 that Mott, Stanton, and three other women organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention. It was attended by some 300 people over two days, including about 40 men. The resolution on the subject of votes for women caused dissension until Frederick", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "13205923", "text": "tarry in the disease-ridden Wabash Valley, she had begun a stage coach trek back across Indiana with her sister-in-law, and within days contracted typhoid fever that kept her bed-ridden for three weeks. She arrived back in Massachusetts in October, just two weeks before the convention. The first National Women's Right's Convention met in Brinley Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, on October 23–24, 1850. Some 900 people showed up for the first session, men forming the majority, with several newspapers reporting over a thousand attendees by the afternoon of the first day, and more turned away outside. Delegates came from eleven states,", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "13205956", "text": "but could not convince women activists to hold another convention focusing solely on women's rights. In 1863, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, recently moved to New York City, joined with Susan B. Anthony to send a call out, via the woman's central committee chaired by Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, to all the \"Loyal Women of the Nation\" to meet again in convention in May. Forming the Woman's National Loyal League were Stanton, Anthony, Martha Coffin Wright, Amy Post, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Ernestine Rose, Angelina Grimké Weld, and Lucy Stone, among others. They organized the First Woman's National Loyal League Convention at the", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "1494732", "text": "elections in Sierra Leone, then a new British colony, all heads of household could vote and one-third were ethnic African women. The female descendants of the \"Bounty\" mutineers who lived on Pitcairn Islands could vote from 1838. This right was transferred after they resettled in 1856 to Norfolk Island (now an Australian external territory). The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention in the United States in Seneca Falls, New York was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. The conference refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from", "title": "Women's suffrage" }, { "id": "1889680", "text": "Johnstown, together with Seneca Falls, New York, where Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organize the first Women's Rights Convention held in 1848, lays claim to being the birthplace of the women's rights movement in the United States. Stanton's speech, the Declaration of Sentiments, given at the Seneca Falls convention and modeled on the Declaration of Independence, is generally credited with instigating the women's suffrage movement in the United States. George Linius Streeter was a noted embryologist and Director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Son of George Austin Streeter, a glove-maker. Peter Yost was born in Saxe-Coburg, Germany, in 1740, and", "title": "Johnstown (city), New York" }, { "id": "13205960", "text": "scattered republics like dust before the wind, and rent our own Union asunder, what kind of a government, think you, American statesmen, you can build, with the mothers of the race crouching at your feet...?\" Other speeches were off-the-cuff, and little record is known of them. National Women's Rights Convention The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women's Rights Convention combined both male and female leadership, and attracted a wide base of support", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "434540", "text": "as Harry V. Jaffa praised this development. Critics of Lincoln, notably Willmoore Kendall and Mel Bradford, argued that Lincoln dangerously expanded the scope of the national government and violated states' rights by reading the Declaration into the Constitution. In July 1848, the first woman's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, was held in Seneca Falls, New York. The convention was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt. In their \"Declaration of Sentiments\", patterned on the Declaration of Independence, the convention members demanded social and political equality for women. Their motto was that \"All men", "title": "United States Declaration of Independence" }, { "id": "2712101", "text": "in the emerging cities. In addition to advocating for abolitionism, the early Wesleyan Methodists championed the rights of women. In 1848, the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, hosted the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention. It is commemorated by the Women's Rights National Historical Park in the village today. Luther Lee, General President in 1856, preached at the ordination service of Antoinette Brown (Blackwell), the very first woman ordained to the Christian ministry in the United States. The Alliance of Reformed Baptists of Canada ordained the very first woman to the ministry in Canada in the", "title": "Wesleyan Church" }, { "id": "1893336", "text": "a crowd on the south side of the Seneca River. She confronted the nation and its institutions, including a local Presbyterian Church and its minister, over slavery. Within a year, a member of that church was found guilty of \"disorderly and unchristian conduct\" after she personally confronted that minister on the issue of slavery. Early women's rights leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Ann M'Clintock and Jane Hunt hastily organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, held in 1848 at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. A \"Declaration of Sentiments\" was adopted, drafted by", "title": "Seneca Falls (CDP), New York" }, { "id": "659649", "text": "claims that God had created woman equal to man and that man had usurped God's authority by establishing \"absolute tyranny\" over woman. According to author Jami Carlacio, Grimké's writings opened the public's eyes to ideas like women's rights, and for the first time they were willing to question conventional notions about the subordination of women. Seneca Falls Convention The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as \"a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman\". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.", "title": "Seneca Falls Convention" }, { "id": "1288645", "text": "children at all. Their efforts were met with mixed results. The International Council of Women (ICW) was the first women's organization to work across national boundaries for the common cause of advocating human rights for women. In March and April 1888, women leaders came together in Washington D.C. with 80 speakers and 49 delegates representing 53 women's organizations from 9 countries: Canada, the United States, Ireland, India, England, Finland, Denmark, France and Norway. Women from professional organizations, trade unions, arts groups and benevolent societies participate. National Councils are affiliated to the ICW and thus make themselves heard at international level.", "title": "Women's rights" }, { "id": "17786268", "text": "Women held in 1837. 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. 1845: Lowell Female Labor Reform Association opened in 1845 as the first major labor union. 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York. 1855: :New York Women's Hospital opened in 1855 as the first hospital solely devoted to ailments affiliated with women. 1869: Wyoming is the first territory to give women the right to vote. 1870: Louisa", "title": "Timeline of women in the United States" }, { "id": "13205920", "text": "this – 'All government derives its just power from the consent of the governed.'\" The meeting decided to call a convention and set Worcester, Massachusetts, as the place and October 16 and 17, 1850, as the date. It appointed Davis, Stone, Abby Kelley Foster, Harriot Kezia Hunt, Eliza J. Kenney, Dora Taft, and Eliza H. Taft a committee of arrangements, with Davis and Stone as the committee of correspondence. Davis and Stone asked William Elder, a retired Philadelphia physician, to draw up the convention call while they set about securing signatures to it and lining up speakers. \"We need all", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "3161354", "text": "movement. Middle- and upper-class women generally became more politically active in the northern tier during and after the war. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Of the 300 present, 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments which defined the women's rights movement. The first National Women's Rights Convention took place in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, attracting more than 1,000 participants. This national convention was held yearly through 1860. When Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Women Suffrage Association, their goal was", "title": "Voting rights in the United States" }, { "id": "17782549", "text": "in New Jersey, the last state to revoke the right. 1838: Kentucky passes the first statewide woman suffrage law allowing female heads of household in rural areas to vote in elections deciding on taxes and local boards for the new county \"common school\" system. 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, is held in Seneca Falls, New York. Women's suffrage is proposed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and agreed to after an impassioned argument from Frederick Douglass. 1850: The first national woman's rights convention, in Worcester, Massachusetts, attracts more than 1,000 participants from 11 states. 1853: On the", "title": "Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States" }, { "id": "2582499", "text": "the Fugitive Slave Act was particularly heated in the region, as evidenced by such events as the Jerry Rescue. The American women's rights movement was also born in Upstate New York at this time. The Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, was held at Seneca Falls in 1848. The Rochester Convention, the second such convention, was held two weeks later in Rochester. Through the nineteenth century, Upstate New York was a hotbed of religious revivalism. A number of sects, such as the Shakers and the Oneida Community, established themselves in Upstate New York during that time. This led", "title": "Upstate New York" }, { "id": "13981859", "text": "Hunt House (Waterloo, New York) Hunt House is a historic home located at Waterloo in Seneca County, New York. It was built about 1830 and is a two-story brick dwelling with a distinctive pedimented portico supported by four Doric order columns. The home was renovated to its current appearance in the 1920s. The home is notable as the residence of Mrs. Jane C. Hunt who, on July 13, 1848, invited Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martha Coffin Wright, and Mary Ann M'Clintock to it to plan the First Women's Rights Convention in the United States. It was listed on the", "title": "Hunt House (Waterloo, New York)" }, { "id": "13205950", "text": "in the name of this Convention, the elective franchise for woman.\" A motion was passed approving of the suggestion, and Wendell Phillips recommended that women in each state be contacted and encouraged to take the memorial petition to their respective legislative bodies. For the eighth and subsequent national conventions, the meetings were changed from various dates in autumn to a more consistent mid-May schedule. 1857 was skipped – the next meeting was held in 1858. At Mozart Hall in New York City on May 13–14, 1858, Susan B. Anthony held the post of president. William Lloyd Garrison spoke, saying \"Those", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "13205935", "text": "from Elizabeth Cady Stanton was read and its resolutions voted on. At sessions taking place September 8–10, 1852, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage made their first public speeches on women's rights. Ernestine Rose spoke denouncing duties without rights, saying \"as a woman has to pay taxes to maintain government, she has a right to participate in the formation and administration of it.\" Antoinette Brown called for more women to become ministers, claiming that the Bible did not forbid it. Ernestine Rose stood up in response, saying that the Bible should not be used as the authority for settling", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "13205946", "text": "for the wrong.\" Mott cited Bible passages that proved Grew wrong. William Lloyd Garrison stood up to halt the debate, saying that nearly everyone present agreed that all were equal in the eyes of God. At Smith & Nixon's Hall in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 17–18, 1855, Martha Coffin Wright presided over the standing room only crowd. Wright, a younger sister of Lucretia Mott and a founding member of the first Seneca Falls Convention, contrasted the large hall packed with supporters to the much smaller gathering in 1848, called \"in timidity and doubt of our own strength, our own capacity,", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "13981942", "text": "of the Women's Rights National Historical Park. The restored mid-19th century home is open for tours in the summer. M'Clintock House M'Clintock House, also known as the Baptist Parsonage, is a historic home located at Waterloo in Seneca County, New York. It is a two-story, Federal style brick dwelling built in 1833-1836. The home is notable as the residence of Quaker pharmacist Thomas M'Clintock and his wife Mary Ann from 1836 to 1856. On July 16, 1848, the home was the location where the Declaration of Sentiments, resolutions, and speeches were drawn up for the subsequent First Women's Rights Convention.", "title": "M'Clintock House" }, { "id": "13205943", "text": "abilities, and of uncommon energy in the pursuit of a cherished idea. She is a marked favorite in the Conventions.\" At Sansom Street Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania over three days October 18–20, 1854, Ernestine Rose was chosen president in spite of her atheism. Susan B. Anthony supported her, saying \"every religion – or none – should have an equal right on the platform\". Rose spoke out to the gathering, saying \"Our claims are based on that great and immutable truth, the rights of all humanity. For is woman not included in that phrase, 'all men are created...equal'?...Tell us, ye men", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "6582159", "text": "Women's suffrage in the United States Women's suffrage in the United States of America, the legal right of women to vote, was established over the course of more than half a century, first in various states and localities, sometimes on a limited basis, and then nationally in 1920. The demand for women's suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women's suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too", "title": "Women's suffrage in the United States" }, { "id": "13228135", "text": "to look after your rights, in your absence ... \" In May 1850, Abby Kelley Foster went to Boston to take part in an annual Anti-Slavery Society meeting. Afterward, Abby met with ten others including Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriot Kezia Hunt, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis and Lucy Stone to help plan for a women's rights convention. They determined that it would be held near Liberty Farm in Worcester. That October, both Foster and his wife were among the featured speakers at the first National Women's Rights Convention. The two spoke again at the annual convention in Cleveland 1853", "title": "Stephen Symonds Foster" }, { "id": "13205952", "text": "that spoke. Stephen Pearl Andrews startled the assemblage by advocating free love and unconventional approaches to marriage. He hinted at birth control by insisting that women should have the right to put a limit on \"the cares and sufferings of maternity\". Eliza Farnham presented her view that women were superior to men, a concept that was hotly debated. The convention, marred by interruption and rowdyism, \"adjourned amid great confusion\". Held again at Mozart Hall in New York City on May 12, 1859, the ninth national convention opened with Lucretia Mott presiding. Caroline Wells Healey Dall read out the resolutions including", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "6582175", "text": "held on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Five women called the convention, four of whom were Quaker social activists, including the well-known Lucretia Mott. The fifth was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had discussed the need to organize for women's rights with Mott several years earlier. Stanton, who came from a family that was deeply involved in politics, became a major force in convincing the women's movement that political pressure was crucial to its goals, and that the right to vote was a key weapon. An estimated 300 women and", "title": "Women's suffrage in the United States" }, { "id": "13981941", "text": "M'Clintock House M'Clintock House, also known as the Baptist Parsonage, is a historic home located at Waterloo in Seneca County, New York. It is a two-story, Federal style brick dwelling built in 1833-1836. The home is notable as the residence of Quaker pharmacist Thomas M'Clintock and his wife Mary Ann from 1836 to 1856. On July 16, 1848, the home was the location where the Declaration of Sentiments, resolutions, and speeches were drawn up for the subsequent First Women's Rights Convention. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The house is one of the sites", "title": "M'Clintock House" }, { "id": "2650375", "text": "suffrage. The women's suffrage movement began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention; many of the activists became politically aware during the abolitionist movement. The movement reorganized after the Civil War, gaining experienced campaigners, many of whom had worked for prohibition in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. By the end of the 19th century a few western states had granted women full voting rights, though women had made significant legal victories, gaining rights in areas such as property and child custody. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the American Equal Rights Association, an organization for white and", "title": "History of women in the United States" }, { "id": "17921033", "text": "Historic places. In 2007 a plaque was placed in the garden to commemorate Birdsall's life. Mary Birdsall Mary Birdsall or Mary Thistlewaite (1828–1894) was a journalist, a suffragist, and a temperance worker. She helped organize the first women's rights convention in the nation and was among the first women to address the Indiana legislature. She was also the owner of \"The Lily\", a newspaper for women. Mary B. Thistlethwaite was born in 1828 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a Quaker family. Her father Thomas Thistlewaite, a butcher, was born in Leeds and he had married Elizabeth Wetherall. They already had a", "title": "Mary Birdsall" }, { "id": "13981860", "text": "National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Hunt House (Waterloo, New York) Hunt House is a historic home located at Waterloo in Seneca County, New York. It was built about 1830 and is a two-story brick dwelling with a distinctive pedimented portico supported by four Doric order columns. The home was renovated to its current appearance in the 1920s. The home is notable as the residence of Mrs. Jane C. Hunt who, on July 13, 1848, invited Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martha Coffin Wright, and Mary Ann M'Clintock to it to plan the First Women's Rights Convention in the", "title": "Hunt House (Waterloo, New York)" }, { "id": "2920613", "text": "of the first World's Anti-Slavery Convention. In 1848, Mott and Stanton held a woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, where a declaration of independence for women was drafted. Lucy Stone helped to organize the first National Women's Rights Convention in 1850, a much larger event at which Sojourner Truth, Abby Kelley Foster, and others spoke sparked Susan B. Anthony to take up the cause of women's rights. In December 1851, Sojourner Truth contributed to the feminist movement when she spoke at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio. She delivered her powerful “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in an", "title": "History of feminism" }, { "id": "13205919", "text": "held to consider whether to hold a woman's rights convention. That evening, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis presided over a large meeting in Boston's Melodeon Hall, while Lucy Stone served as secretary. Stone, Henry C. Wright, William Lloyd Garrison, and Samuel Brooke spoke of the need for such a convention. Garrison, whose name had headed the first woman suffrage petition sent to the Massachusetts legislature the previous year, said, \"I conceive that the first thing to be done by the women of this country is to demand their political enfranchisement. Among the 'self-evident truths' announced in the Declaration of Independence is", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "739830", "text": "Women's Rights Convention in 1850. The movement reorganized after the Civil War, gaining experienced campaigners, many of whom had worked for prohibition in the Women's Christian Temperance Union. By the end of the 19th century a few western states had granted women full voting rights, though women had made significant legal victories, gaining rights in areas such as property and child custody. Around 1912 the feminist movement began to reawaken, putting an emphasis on its demands for equality and arguing that the corruption of American politics demanded purification by women because men could not do that job. Protests became increasingly", "title": "History of the United States" }, { "id": "13205959", "text": "An event that was reported as \"The twelfth regular National Convention of Women's Rights\" was held on January 19, 1869. Prominent speakers included Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Senator Samuel Clarke Pomeroy, Parker Pillsbury, John Willis Menard and Doctor Sarah H. Hathaway. Doctor Mary Edwards Walker and a \"Mrs. Harman\" were seen in \"male attire\" actively passing back and forth between the audience and the stage. Stanton spoke heatedly with a prepared speech against those who had established \"an aristocracy of sex on this continent\". \"If serfdom, peasantry, and slavery have shattered kingdoms, deluged continents with blood,", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "378385", "text": "Anthony continued to speak at state teachers' conventions for several years, insisting that women teachers should receive equal pay with men and serve as officers and committee members within the organization. Anthony's work for the women's rights movement began at a time when that movement was already gathering momentum. Stanton had helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, a local event that was the first women's rights convention. In 1850, the first in a series of National Women's Rights Conventions was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1852, Anthony attended her first National Women's Rights Convention, which was held in", "title": "Susan B. Anthony" }, { "id": "13205939", "text": "Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis said \"I hate organizations... they cramp me.\" Lucretia Mott concurred, saying \"the seeds of dissolution be less likely to be sown.\" Angelina Grimké Weld, Thomas M'Clintock and Wendell Phillips agreed, with Phillips saying \"you will develop divisions among yourselves.\" No national organization was to form until after the Civil War. At Melodean Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, on October 6–8, 1853, William Lloyd Garrison spoke to say \"...the Declaration of Independence as put forth at Seneca Falls...was measuring the people of this country by their own standard. It was taking their own words and applying their own", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "20551580", "text": "the legal community that lasted for years. In 1895, the Supreme Court ruled that a federal judge could not direct a jury to return a guilty verdict in a criminal trial. The demand for women's suffrage grew out of the broader movement for women's rights, which began to emerge in the U.S. in the early 1800s. There was little demand for the right to vote in the movement's early days, when the focus was on such issues as the right of women to speak in public settings and on property rights for married women. At the first women's rights convention,", "title": "Trial of Susan B. Anthony" }, { "id": "1494823", "text": "document known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, of which Stanton was the primary author. Equal rights became the rallying cry of the early movement for women's rights, and equal rights meant claiming access to all the prevailing definitions of freedom. In 1850 Lucy Stone organized a larger assembly with a wider focus, the National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. Susan B. Anthony, a resident of Rochester, New York, joined the cause in 1852 after reading Stone's 1850 speech. Stanton, Stone and Anthony were the three leading figures of this movement in the U.S. during the 19th century:", "title": "Women's suffrage" }, { "id": "17921020", "text": "Mary Birdsall Mary Birdsall or Mary Thistlewaite (1828–1894) was a journalist, a suffragist, and a temperance worker. She helped organize the first women's rights convention in the nation and was among the first women to address the Indiana legislature. She was also the owner of \"The Lily\", a newspaper for women. Mary B. Thistlethwaite was born in 1828 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a Quaker family. Her father Thomas Thistlewaite, a butcher, was born in Leeds and he had married Elizabeth Wetherall. They already had a son who had been born in Wilmington, Delaware where her father had been a farmer", "title": "Mary Birdsall" }, { "id": "13205934", "text": "itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.\" For the third convention, the city hall in Syracuse, New York was selected as the site. Because Syracuse was nearer to Seneca Falls (two days' travel by horse, several hours' journey by rail), more of the original signers of the Declaration of Sentiments were able to attend than the previous two conventions in Massachusetts. Lucretia Mott was named president; at one point she felt it necessary to silence a minister who offended the assembly by using biblical references to keep women subordinate to men. A letter", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "2844168", "text": "safe houses known as \"stations.\" Known as \"conductors\", escaped slaves volunteered to return to the South to lead others to safety; former slaves, such as Harriet Tubman, risked their lives on these journeys. Angelia and Sarah Grimké were southerners who moved North to advocate against slavery. The American Anti-Slavery Society welcomed women. Garrison along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were so appalled that women were not allowed to participate at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London that they called for a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. It was at this convention that Sojourner Truth became", "title": "History of the United States (1789–1849)" }, { "id": "13205948", "text": "the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.\" At the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City on November 25–26, 1856, Lucy Stone served as president, and recounted for the crowd the recent progress in women's property rights laws passing in nine states, as well as a limited ability for widows in Kentucky to vote for school board members. She noted with satisfaction that the new Republican Party was interested in female participation during the 1856 elections. Lucretia Mott encouraged the assembly to use their new rights, saying,", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "6582174", "text": "U.S.—and she received five votes from delegates at that convention. Women's suffrage was not a major topic within the women's rights movement at that point. Many of its activists were aligned with the Garrisonian wing of the abolitionist movement, which believed that activists should avoid political activity and focus instead on convincing others of their views with \"moral suasion\". Many were Quakers whose traditions barred both men and women from participation in secular political activity. A series of women's rights conventions did much to alter these attitudes. The first women's rights convention was the Seneca Falls Convention, a regional event", "title": "Women's suffrage in the United States" }, { "id": "13977438", "text": "and sold the church in 1873. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and now forms part of the Women's Rights National Historic Park. Pews from the First Congregational Church are now installed in the Wesleyan church. Wesleyan Methodist Church (Seneca Falls, New York) Wesleyan Methodist Church is a historic Wesleyan church located at Seneca Falls in Seneca County, New York. It was constructed in 1843. All interior features have been removed and three original walls stand. The church was the site of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, where about", "title": "Wesleyan Methodist Church (Seneca Falls, New York)" }, { "id": "13205953", "text": "one intended to be sent to every state legislature, urging that body to \"secure to women all those rights and privileges and immunities which in equity belong to every citizen of a republic\". Another unruly crowd made it difficult to hear the speeches of Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Caroline Dall, Lucretia Mott and Ernestine Rose. Wendell Phillips stood to speak and \"held that mocking crowd in the hollow of his hand\". At the Cooper Union in New York City on May 10–11, 1860, the tenth national convention of 600–800 attendees was presided over by Martha Coffin Wright. A recent legislative victory", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "659639", "text": "woman, Abigail Bush, as its presiding officer. In the next two years, \"the infancy ... of the movement\", other local and state women's rights conventions were called in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. Charlotte Woodward, alone among all 100 signers, was the only one still alive in 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment passed. Woodward was not well enough to vote herself. A stamp was issued in 1948 in remembrance of the Seneca Falls Convention, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Lucretia Mott as part of a Centennial Celebration in Seneca Falls. The Women's Rights National Historical Park was established", "title": "Seneca Falls Convention" }, { "id": "13205930", "text": "the strongest proof of which is the appearance of an article on the subject in the \"Westminster Review\" ...I am not without hope that this article will materially strengthen your hands, and I am sure it can not but cheer your hearts.\" A second national convention was held October 15–16, 1851, again in Brinley Hall, with Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis presiding. Harriet Kezia Hunt and Antoinette Brown gave speeches, while a letter from Elizabeth Cady Stanton was read. Lucretia Mott served as an officer of the meeting. Wendell Phillips made a speech which was so persuasive that it would be", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "13205958", "text": "Foster, Margaret Winchester and Parker Pillsbury, and was presided over by Stanton. A stirring speech against racial discrimination was given by African-American activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, in which she said \"You white women speak here of rights. I speak of wrongs. I, as a colored woman, have had in this country an education which has made me feel as if I were in the situation of Ishmael, my hand against every man, and every man's hand against me.\" A few weeks later, on May 31, 1866, the first meeting of the American Equal Rights Association was held in Boston.", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "18305658", "text": "by a vote of 111 to 93. The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (CWSA) was formed at the state's first women's suffrage convention at the Robert's Opera House in Hartford on October 28–29, 1869. The convention was organized by a group that included Burr, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The meeting was addressed by a number of luminaries, including Henry Ward Beecher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Julia Ward Howe and William Lloyd Garrison. The convention, with its heavy involvement by the influential Beecher family, did not receive the hostile reception that similar conventions had received", "title": "Women's suffrage in states of the United States" }, { "id": "6582177", "text": "it his strong support. The convention's Declaration of Sentiments, which was written primarily by Stanton, expressed an intent to build a women's rights movement, and it included a list of grievances, the first two of which protested the lack of women's suffrage. The grievances were aimed at the United States government \"demanded government reform and changes in male roles and behaviors that promoted inequality for women.\" This convention was followed two weeks later by the Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848, which featured many of the same speakers and likewise voted to support women's suffrage. It was the first women's", "title": "Women's suffrage in the United States" }, { "id": "13977437", "text": "Wesleyan Methodist Church (Seneca Falls, New York) Wesleyan Methodist Church is a historic Wesleyan church located at Seneca Falls in Seneca County, New York. It was constructed in 1843. All interior features have been removed and three original walls stand. The church was the site of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, where about 300 people gathered to hear Elizabeth Cady Stanton demand the right of women to vote. In 1869 a section of the church broke away and established the First Congregational Church of Seneca Falls. The remaining Wesleyan congregation moved to a new location", "title": "Wesleyan Methodist Church (Seneca Falls, New York)" }, { "id": "5459177", "text": "at the forefront of the movement decades before. In 1852, Ohio passed its first child labor laws, and in 1885 adopted prosecution powers for violations. In 1886, the American Federation of Labor was formed in Columbus, culminating in the passage of workers' compensation laws by the early 20th century. Victoria Woodhull, the first female candidate for U.S. President in 1872, and U.S. Second Lady Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, credited with paving the way for the modern American female politician, were leaders in the women's suffrage movement. Ohio was the second state to hold a women's rights convention, the Ohio Women's Convention", "title": "History of Ohio" }, { "id": "16511121", "text": "Convention on the Political Rights of Women The Convention on the Political Rights of Women was approved by the United Nations General Assembly during the 409th plenary meeting, on 20 December 1952, and adopted on 31 March 1953. The Convention's purpose is to codify a basic international standard for women's political rights. In the aftermath of World War II, many countries had still not granted women full political liberty. In 1952, the year before the Convention was adopted, women's suffrage had been granted in less than 100 countries worldwide. The main impetus for the legislation, and much of its drafting,", "title": "Convention on the Political Rights of Women" }, { "id": "6547940", "text": "Convention, the first women's rights convention, was recognized by Congress in 1980 with the creation of the Women's Rights National Historical Park at the site, administered by the National Park Service. The Park's Visitor Center today features a group of life-size bronze statues to honor the women and men who in 1848 initiated the organized movement for women's rights and woman suffrage. Her statue shows her, as she was then, visibly pregnant. In 2005, the park featured a display about the relationship between Lucretia and Martha. In 2008, the park featured a display focused on Martha. After the Seneca Falls", "title": "Martha Coffin Wright" }, { "id": "17786267", "text": "Timeline of women in the United States This is a timeline of women in the history of America, noting important events relevant in American women's history. For a detailed timeline of individual American women's firsts, see the List of American women's firsts. 1756: Lydia Taft is the first woman to vote legally in Colonial America. 1821: Emma Willard founds the Troy Female Seminary in New York; it is the first school in the country founded to provide young women with a college-level education. 1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American", "title": "Timeline of women in the United States" }, { "id": "14631151", "text": "before the American Civil War, aided by the introduction of women to social activism through the abolitionist movement. The American Anti-Slavery Society, led by William Lloyd Garrison, was particularly encouraging to those who championed women's rights. The planning committee for the first National Women's Rights Convention in October 1850 was formed by people who were attending a convention of the Anti-Slavery Society earlier that year. The women's movement was loosely structured during this period, with legislative campaigns and speaking tours organized by a small group of women acting on personal initiative. An informal coordinating committee organized national women's rights conventions,", "title": "American Equal Rights Association" }, { "id": "16511125", "text": "Women. This later Convention, a wider-reaching and more straightforward legislation for nondiscrimination, was approved by unanimous vote in 1967. Convention on the Political Rights of Women The Convention on the Political Rights of Women was approved by the United Nations General Assembly during the 409th plenary meeting, on 20 December 1952, and adopted on 31 March 1953. The Convention's purpose is to codify a basic international standard for women's political rights. In the aftermath of World War II, many countries had still not granted women full political liberty. In 1952, the year before the Convention was adopted, women's suffrage had", "title": "Convention on the Political Rights of Women" }, { "id": "20070147", "text": "Anniversary of the first Woman's Rights Convention she represented women in the legal profession. The meeting, presided over by Lucy Stone, was held in Tremont Temple, January 27, 1891, and Greene spoke on \"Women in the Law\". She was State Regent for Rhode Island of the Daughters of the American Revolution from 1895 to 1897, and later became an Honorary State Regent. Greene was a member of the Baptist Church. She died in 1936. Mary Ann Greene Mary Ann Greene (June 14, 1857 – 1936) was a 19th-century American lawyer, writer, and lecturer from Rhode Island. She was the first", "title": "Mary Ann Greene" }, { "id": "13205926", "text": "there was no need for a formal association or founding document: annual conventions and a standing committee to arrange them was organization enough, and resolutions adopted at the conventions could serve as a declaration of principles. Reflecting its egalitarian principles, the business committee appointed a Central Committee of nine women and nine men. It also appointed committees on Education, Industrial Avocations, Civil and Political Functions, and Social Relations to gather and publish information useful for guiding public opinion toward establishing \"Woman's co-equal sovereignty with Man\". Convention speakers included William Lloyd Garrison, William Henry Channing, Wendell Phillips, Harriot Kezia Hunt, Ernestine", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "1494822", "text": "voting in that state. Lydia Taft was an early forerunner in Colonial America who was allowed to vote in three New England town meetings, beginning in 1756, at Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The women's suffrage movement was closely tied to abolitionism, with many suffrage activists gaining their first experience as anti-slavery activists. In June 1848, Gerrit Smith made women's suffrage a plank in the Liberty Party platform. In July, at the Seneca Falls Convention in upstate New York, activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony began a seventy-year struggle by women to secure the right to vote. Attendees signed a", "title": "Women's suffrage" }, { "id": "6582182", "text": "sold her household goods at auction until enough money had been raised to pay her tax bill. The women's rights movement was loosely structured during this period, with few state organizations and no national organization other than a coordinating committee that arranged the annual national conventions. Much of the organizational work for these conventions was performed by Stone, the most visible leader of the movement during this period. At the national convention in 1852, a proposal was made to form a national women's rights organization, but the idea was dropped after fears were voiced that such a move would create", "title": "Women's suffrage in the United States" }, { "id": "11158411", "text": "Grimké sisters, and Lydia Maria Child. The attendees included women of color, the wives and daughters of slaveholders, and women of low economic status. Professor Ann D. Gordon has described the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women as the first convention at which women discussed women's rights, especially the rights of African-American women. The 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was the first convention of women devoted exclusively to women's rights and promoted as such decades later by convention organizer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was a correspondence between Mary Grew and Maria Weston Chapman concerning a women's anti-slavery committee that is credited with", "title": "Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women" }, { "id": "659606", "text": "convention. They talked once more in 1847, prior to Stanton moving from Boston to Seneca Falls. Women's groups led by Lucretia Mott and Paulina Wright Davis held public meetings in Philadelphia beginning in 1846. A wide circle of abolitionists friendly to women's rights began in 1847 to discuss the possibility of holding a convention wholly devoted to women's rights. In October 1847, Lucy Stone gave her first public speech on the subject of women's rights, entitled \"The Province of Women\", at her brother Bowman Stone's church in Gardner, Massachusetts. In March 1848, Garrison, the Motts, Abby Kelley Foster, Stephen Symonds", "title": "Seneca Falls Convention" }, { "id": "395184", "text": "Declaration of Sentiments The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, the convention is now known as the Seneca Falls Convention. The principal author of the Declaration was Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who modeled it upon the United States Declaration of Independence. She was a key organizer of the convention along with Lucretia Coffin Mott, and Martha Coffin Wright. According to the", "title": "Declaration of Sentiments" }, { "id": "13205922", "text": "and Stone was left to settle his affairs and accompany his pregnant widow back east. Fearing she might not be able to return for three months, she wrote to Davis asking her to take charge of issuing the call. The call began appearing in September, with the convention date pushed back one week and Stone's name heading the list of eighty-nine signatories: thirty-three from Massachusetts, ten from Rhode Island, seventeen from New York, eighteen from Pennsylvania, one from Maryland, and nine from Ohio. While the call began circulating, Stone lay near death in a roadside inn. Having decided not to", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "400442", "text": "Slave\". That same year, she purchased a home in what would become the village of Florence in Northampton for $300, and spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1854, with proceeds from sales of the Narrative and cartes-de-visite entitled \"I sell the shadow to support the substance,\" she paid off the mortgage held by her friend from the Community, Samuel L. Hill. In 1851, Truth joined George Thompson, an abolitionist and speaker, on a lecture tour through central and western New York State. In May, she attended the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio,", "title": "Sojourner Truth" }, { "id": "1893337", "text": "Stanton, M'Clintock and two adult M'Clintock daughters, which included support for women's suffrage. Frederick Douglass, a former slave and publisher of a Rochester, New York, abolitionist newspaper, attended the convention. His eloquent support for the women's suffrage resolution was instrumental in its passage. Nearby Waterloo was the planning location for the convention, which is commemorated by the Women's Rights National Historical Park in the two villages. In July 1923 the National Woman's Party celebrated the 75th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention with a pageant and pilgrimage to Susan B. Anthony’s grave in nearby Rochester, though Anthony did not", "title": "Seneca Falls (CDP), New York" }, { "id": "5620364", "text": "Waterloo, New York that welcomed anyone interested in social reform, including \"Christians, Jews, Mahammedans, and Pagans\". In July 1848, a month after the split, four women associated with the Quaker dissidents met in Waterloo with anti-slavery activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and issued a call for a Women's Rights Convention to be held a short distance away in Seneca Falls, thereby launching the modern women's rights movement. Organized on short notice, it nonetheless drew about 300 people, largely from the immediate area. Momentum from this event led to the organization of another women's rights convention two weeks later at the First", "title": "First Unitarian Church of Rochester" }, { "id": "17921022", "text": "Church of Greensboro and a subsequent meeting at United Brethren Church in Dublin, Indiana. It was at these meetings that the idea to hold the first Women's Rights Convention was generated and organized. Birdsall was the second secretary for the Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association. The couple regularly attended Whitewater Monthly Meetings in Richmond, Indiana the same place where they were married. These business meetings were meetings of The Society of Friends, or Quakers. The Indiana Farmer was a newspaper devoted to agriculture, mechanics, and the useful arts. Birdsall served as the Women's Editor, she wrote about topics like home management,", "title": "Mary Birdsall" }, { "id": "1401716", "text": "of the first National Women's Rights Convention, which met on October 23–24, 1850, in Brinley Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts with an attendance of about a thousand. Stone was able to attend the Worchester convention, but frail health limited her participation, and she made no formal address until the closing session. The convention decided not to establish a formal association, but to exist as an annual convention with a standing committee to arrange its meetings, publish its proceedings, and execute adopted plans of action. Stone was appointed to the Central Committee of nine women and nine men. The following spring, she", "title": "Lucy Stone" }, { "id": "17921026", "text": "partnership with Dr. Mary F. Thomas, who would also share in Mary's next political undertaking. The First Indiana Women's Rights Convention was scheduled to take place on October 15, 1852 in Richmond, Indiana. Birdsall was elected to be Secretary of the convention, and the second convention held the next year in Richmond. Next she served as the Vice President of the 4th National Women's Rights Convention that was held in Cleveland, Ohio in which Lucretia Mott was present. The 1854 Woman's Rights Convention moved from Richmond to the capital city Indianapolis, Indiana and was held in Masonic Hall, where it", "title": "Mary Birdsall" }, { "id": "1288610", "text": "Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, in the United States and Britain began to challenge laws that denied them the right to their property once they married. Under the common law doctrine of \"coverture\" husbands gained control of their wives' real estate and wages. Beginning in the 1840s, state legislatures in the United States and the British Parliament began passing statutes that protected women's property from their husbands and their husbands' creditors. These laws were known as the Married Women's Property Acts. Courts in the 19th-century United States also continued to require privy examinations of married women who sold their property. A", "title": "Women's rights" }, { "id": "1494731", "text": "(1718–1772). Other possible contenders for first \"country\" to grant women suffrage include the Corsican Republic (1755), the Pitcairn Islands (1838), the Isle of Man (1881), and Franceville (1889–1890), but some of these operated only briefly as independent states and others were not clearly independent. In 1756, Lydia Taft became the first legal woman voter in colonial America. This occurred under British rule in the Massachusetts Colony. In a New England town meeting in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, she voted on at least three occasions. Unmarried white women who owned property could vote in New Jersey from 1776 to 1807. In the 1792", "title": "Women's suffrage" }, { "id": "1183874", "text": "freer to work for such causes as abolitionism and women's rights, was formed in Salem in 1849. The local school board at that time was composed entirely of abolitionists. In April 1850, Salem hosted the first Women's Rights Convention in Ohio, the third such convention in the United States. (The first was the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848; the second was the Rochester Convention two weeks later.) The Salem Convention was the first of these conventions to be organized on a statewide basis. All of the convention's officers were women. Men were not allowed to vote, sit on the platform", "title": "Salem, Ohio" }, { "id": "659599", "text": "had become a central tenet of the United States women's rights movement. These conventions became annual events until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. In the decades leading up to 1848, a small number of women began to push against restrictions imposed upon them by society. A few men aided in this effort. In 1831, Reverend Charles Grandison Finney began allowing women to pray aloud in gatherings of men and women. The Second Great Awakening was challenging women's traditional roles in religion. Recalling the era in 1870, Paulina Wright Davis set Finney's decision as the beginning of", "title": "Seneca Falls Convention" }, { "id": "18305673", "text": "as a gateway to the South for women's rights activists. Lucy Stone came through Louisville in November 1853 – wearing her own version of Amelia Bloomer trousers – earned $600 with thousands packing the halls each night. After the Civil War, when the 13th Amendment was ratified by 2/3 of the states (not including Kentucky) on January 1, 1866, Lexington's Main Street was filled with African Americans in a military parade, followed by Black businesspeople and several hundred children with political speeches at Lexington Fairgrounds (now the University of Kentucky). By March a Black Convention was held in Lexington to", "title": "Women's suffrage in states of the United States" }, { "id": "17341420", "text": "in 1950. Among its members were anthropologist Gene Weltfish, aviator Jacqueline Cochran, educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and author and artist Muriel Draper. Congress of American Women The Congress of American Women was an American women's rights organization. It was founded in New York on March 8 (International Women's Day) 1946 following a 1945 feminist conference in Paris. Its primary organizer was Elinor S. Gimbel (wife of Louis S. Gimbel, Jr., grandson of Adam Gimbel of Gimbels department store). It was affiliated with the Soviet sponsored organization Women's International Democratic Federation. In 1948 the organization was accused of being a communist", "title": "Congress of American Women" }, { "id": "13284824", "text": "States began with the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, on July 19 and 20, 1848. This Convention was inspired by the fact that in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from America because of their gender. Stanton, the young bride of an antislavery agent, and Mott, a Quaker preacher and veteran of reform, talked then of calling a convention to address the condition of women. An estimated three", "title": "Feminism in the United States" }, { "id": "17385267", "text": "Tuscarora, Iroquois and Seminole were known to assist fugitives. For many women, the struggle for abolishing slavery brought about a desire to fight for their own rights. Recognition that they were unable to participate at the London Anti-Slavery Convention in a forum trying to promote rights for another group of people, led Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to hold the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights in 1848. In Latin America, the 19th century was a time of revolution with Nationalist movements and Independence Wars erupting throughout the Spanish colonies, many led by Simón Bolívar. Women were not simply", "title": "Women in the Americas" }, { "id": "19724631", "text": "a new Ohio state constitution, asking it to provide for women's right to vote. The Ohio Women's Convention at Salem met on April 19–20, 1850 in Salem, Ohio. About five hundred people attended. It met at the Second Baptist Church and the Friends (Quaker) Meeting House. It was the third in a series of women's rights conventions that began with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and continued with the Rochester Convention two weeks later. Both of these were regional gatherings in western New York State. The Salem convention was the first women's rights convention to be organized on a", "title": "Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850" }, { "id": "1288608", "text": "on equal terms with men, with restrictions since 1931) as well as the microstates of San Marino in 1959, Monaco in 1962, Andorra in 1970, and Liechtenstein in 1984. In Canada, most provinces enacted women's suffrage between 1917–1919, late adopters being Prince Edward Island in 1922, Newfoundland in 1925 and Quebec in 1940. In Latin America some countries gave women the right to vote in the first half of the 20th century – Ecuador (1929), Brazil (1932), El Salvador (1939), Dominican Republic (1942), Guatemala (1956) and Argentina (1946). In India, under colonial rule, universal suffrage was granted in 1935. Other", "title": "Women's rights" }, { "id": "5969068", "text": "was the first European-American to settle the area of present-day Honeoye, where he established Pittstown (now Richmond) in 1789. In the mid-19th century, this area had numerous abolitionists, feminists, and other progressive activists. Stations of the Underground Railroad were founded in western New York to help convey escaped slaves to freedom in Canada. The Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights took place in the nearby town. Honeoye remained a largely agricultural community until the early part of the 20th century, when many wealthy people from Rochester, New York took interest in Honeoye Lake as a resort area. Its relatively shallow", "title": "Honeoye, New York" }, { "id": "19212503", "text": "Equalities for Moslem Women on July 19, 2014, during Convention Days in Seneca Falls, New York. The Seneca Falls Convention is the birthplace of the women’s rights movement, where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held in 1848. Shahram’s Declaration is written in the spirit of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (a “calls to arms for female equality”) and aspires to address laws and cultural practices which are unjust, and discriminatory to women in Islamic countries. Shahram’s goal is to raise one million signatures and present the Declaration to the United Nations. Once presented, the goal is to encourage the UN to", "title": "Nadia Shahram" }, { "id": "6878893", "text": "Woman's International Council was Caroline Elizabeth Merrick. The meeting was part of a celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention. Rachel Foster Avery managed much of the details of the planning of the first meeting of the ICW, and Susan B. Anthony presided over eight of the sixteen sessions. The ICW drafted a constitution and established national meetings every three years and international meetings every five years. Millicent Garrett Fawcett of England was elected as first president but she refused to serve. In 1894 the ICW met in Berlin, where Alix von", "title": "International Council of Women" }, { "id": "6582160", "text": "extreme. By the time of the first National Women's Rights Convention in 1850, however, suffrage was becoming an increasingly important aspect of the movement's activities. The first national suffrage organizations were established in 1869 when two competing organizations were formed, one led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other by Lucy Stone. After years of rivalry, they merged in 1890 as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) with Anthony as its leading force. The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), which was the largest women's organization at that time, was established in 1873 and also pursued", "title": "Women's suffrage in the United States" }, { "id": "739829", "text": "June 1848 National Convention of the Liberty Party. Presidential candidate Gerrit Smith argued for and established women's suffrage as a party plank. One month later, his cousin Elizabeth Cady Stanton joined with Lucretia Mott and other women to organize the Seneca Falls Convention, featuring the Declaration of Sentiments demanding equal rights for women, and the right to vote. Many of these activists became politically aware during the abolitionist movement. The women's rights campaign during \"first-wave feminism\" was led by Stanton, Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony, among many others. Stone and Paulina Wright Davis organized the prominent and influential National", "title": "History of the United States" }, { "id": "20348109", "text": "among her warmest and most devoted friends eminent leaders of this reform, and sympathetically interchanged views on this topic. She attended, by invitation, the first Woman's Rights Convention held in Massachusetts — at Worcester. Cobb and her husband joined with Professor Charles P. Bronson in founding the Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston, the leader of all similar institutions in this country, Rev. Cobb obtaining the charter for it. Professor Bronson acted as president, by courtesy, the first year. Cobb then became the first elected president, and served until old age compelled her to resign the leadership. She continued her official", "title": "Eunice Hale Waite Cobb" }, { "id": "13205940", "text": "principles to women, as they have been applied to men.\" Earlier in the year, a regional Women's Rights Convention in New York City had been interrupted by unruly men in the audience, with most of the speakers being unheard over shouts and hisses. Organizers of the fourth national convention were concerned that a repetition of that mob scene not take place. In Cleveland, objections were raised regarding Bible interpretations, and orderly discussion proceeded. Frances Dana Barker Gage served as president for the 1,500 participants. Lucretia Mott, Amy Post, and Martha Coffin Wright served as officers; James Mott served on the", "title": "National Women's Rights Convention" }, { "id": "539704", "text": "in the bibliography below.) Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 until 1900. Before Stanton narrowed her political focus almost exclusively to women's rights, she was an active abolitionist with her", "title": "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" }, { "id": "19724612", "text": "Despite the hostility, a small but growing number of women insisted on speaking out, especially in opposition to slavery. Some male abolitionists encouraged this practice while others refused to accept it. Disputes about the role of women began to disrupt the abolitionist movement, contributing to a split at a convention in 1840. Similar tensions were developing within educational institutions, which were just beginning to admit women at higher levels, and within the temperance movement. Concerned women activists in western New York organized the first women's rights convention, the Seneca Falls Convention, to discuss the rights of women on July 19–20,", "title": "Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848" }, { "id": "1401715", "text": "consider the possibility of organizing a women's rights convention on a national basis. The meeting was held at Boston's Melodeon Hall on May 30, 1850. Davis presided while Stone presented the proposal to the large and responsive audience and served as secretary. Seven women were appointed to organize the convention, with Davis and Stone assigned to conduct the correspondence needed to solicit signatures to the call and recruit speakers and attendance. A few months before the convention, Stone contracted typhoid fever while traveling in Indiana and nearly died. The protracted nature of Stone's illness left Davis as the principal organizer", "title": "Lucy Stone" }, { "id": "1288654", "text": "the World Conference of the International Women's Year in Mexico City. These conferences created an international forum for women's rights, but also illustrated divisions between women of different cultures and the difficulties of attempting to apply principles universally. Four World Conferences have been held, the first in Mexico City (International Women's Year, 1975), the second in Copenhagen (1980) and the third in Nairobi (1985). At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995), \"The Platform for Action\" was signed. This included a commitment to achieve \"gender equality and the empowerment of women\". In 2010, UN Women is founded by", "title": "Women's rights" } ]

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[ { "id": "394625", "text": "Super Bowl XXVII Super Bowl XXVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1992 season. The Cowboys defeated the Bills by the score of 52–17, winning their third Super Bowl in team history, and their first one in fifteen years. This game is tied with Super Bowl XXXVII as the third-highest scoring Super Bowl ever with 69 combined points. The Bills became the first team to lose three consecutive Super Bowls, and just the", "title": "Super Bowl XXVII" }, { "id": "394575", "text": "Super Bowl XXVI Super Bowl XXVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Washington Redskins and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1991 season. The Redskins defeated the Bills by a score of 37–24, becoming the fourth team after the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers to win three Super Bowls. The Bills became the third team, after the Minnesota Vikings (Super Bowls VIII and IX) and the Denver Broncos (Super Bowls XXI and XXII) to lose back-to-back Super", "title": "Super Bowl XXVI" }, { "id": "39956", "text": "franchise of the American Football League (AFL) in 1960. The club joined the NFL as a result of the AFL–NFL merger for the 1970 season. The 1964 and 1965 Bills were the only teams representing Buffalo that won major league professional sports championships (\"back-to-back\" American Football League Championships). The Bills are the only team to win four consecutive conference championships and are the only NFL team to lose four consecutive Super Bowl games. The team was owned by Ralph Wilson from the team's founding in 1960, until his death in 2014 at the age of 95. After his death, Wilson's", "title": "Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "9860976", "text": "History of the Buffalo Bills The Buffalo Bills began to play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) and won two consecutive AFL titles in 1964 and 1965. The club joined the National Football League (NFL) as part of the 1970 AFL-NFL merger. The Bills have the distinction of being the only team to advance to four consecutive Super Bowls, but also has the dubious distinction of losing all four of them. The Bills were not the first professional football team to play in Buffalo, nor was it the first NFL team in the region.", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "394682", "text": "Super Bowl XXVIII Super Bowl XXVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1993 season. The Cowboys defeated the Bills by the score of 30–13, winning their fourth Super Bowl in team history, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers and the San Francisco 49ers for most Super Bowl wins. The game was played on January 30, 1994, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. Since the 1993 regular season was conducted over 18 weeks (two byes", "title": "Super Bowl XXVIII" }, { "id": "9861008", "text": "games against the Los Angeles Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs, setting up a rematch with the Cowboys in Super Bowl XXVIII on January 30, 1994. The Bills became the only team ever to play in four straight Super Bowls, and in this game became the first team to face the same team in 2 straight Super Bowls, and looked ready to finally win one when they led at halftime. A Thurman Thomas fumble returned for a touchdown by James Washington tied the game, with Super Bowl MVP Emmitt Smith taking over the rest of the game for the Cowboys and", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "394532", "text": "Super Bowl XXV Super Bowl XXV was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1990 season. The Giants defeated the Bills by the score of 20–19, winning their second Super Bowl. The game was held at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on January 27, 1991, during the time of the Gulf War. It was preceded by a memorable performance of \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" by Whitney Houston during the pre-game ceremonies. The American Broadcasting Company", "title": "Super Bowl XXV" }, { "id": "46812", "text": "York, where they have been since 1973. The Bills, established in 1959, played in War Memorial Stadium until 1973, when Rich Stadium, now New Era Field, opened. The team competes in the AFC East division. Since the AFL–NFL merger in 1970, the Bills have won the AFC conference championship four consecutive times (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993), resulting in four lost Super Bowls (Super Bowl XXV, Super Bowl XXVI, Super Bowl XXVII and Super Bowl XXVIII); they were the only NFL team without a playoff appearance in the 21st century from 2011 until 2017, having missed the playoffs each season since", "title": "Buffalo, New York" }, { "id": "11856838", "text": "Super Bowl appearances with a second Super Bowl appearance, or even advanced to a conference title game in the subsequent season (the 1994 Dallas Cowboys qualified for their conference title but did not qualify for the Super Bowl). Only seven teams have won back-to-back Super Bowl championships, and only one of these seven have made more than two consecutive winning appearances in the Super Bowl. The only franchise to reach more than three straight title games was the Buffalo Bills who lost four Super Bowls in a row from 1990–93. Since 2005, no incumbent holder has managed to successfully defend", "title": "Super Bowl curse" }, { "id": "2219967", "text": "three-peat include the Green Bay Packers (1968), Miami Dolphins (1974), Pittsburgh Steelers (twice: 1976, 1980), San Francisco 49ers (1990), Dallas Cowboys (1994), Denver Broncos (1999), and New England Patriots (2005). All of these teams failed to return to the title game in the third season (indicated in parentheses). The Buffalo Bills went to 4 consecutive Super Bowls from 1990–1993 which is a feat unmatched in NFL history, however they lost in every appearance. In the early years of the NFL, decades before the introduction of either the term \"three-peat\" or the Super Bowl, the Packers won three consecutive NFL titles", "title": "Three-peat" }, { "id": "394624", "text": "records were set in Super Bowl XXVI, according to the official NFL.com boxscore and the ProFootball reference.com game summary. Source: \"Note:\" Back Judge and Field Judge swapped titles prior to the 1998 season. Super Bowl XXVI Super Bowl XXVI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Washington Redskins and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1991 season. The Redskins defeated the Bills by a score of 37–24, becoming the fourth team after the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Oakland Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers", "title": "Super Bowl XXVI" }, { "id": "39975", "text": "2017, including a playoff win in 1981. The Bills and Chiefs were also original teams in the AFL and have had a long history against each other, despite never being in the same division. This rivalry heated up recently as the Bills and Chiefs met in consecutive years from 2008 to 2015, and again in 2017. The teams have played three playoff games against each other, including the AFL Championship game that determined the AFL's (later AFC) representative in the first Super Bowl, with Kansas City winning and going on to face the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl.", "title": "Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "9860988", "text": "to 1966, Buffalo experienced its first stretch of success, making the playoffs all four years and winning back-to-back AFL championships in 1964 and 1965 under head coach Lou Saban. The Bills made it to a third straight AFL championship game in 1966, with the winner representing the AFL in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, later known as \"Super Bowl I\". However, they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs, who went on to play the Green Bay Packers. Offensive lineman Bob Kalsu quit the team after his 1968 rookie season to serve in the Vietnam War. He never returned; Kalsu", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "39960", "text": "Western New York.\" When Buffalo joined the new American Football League in 1960, the name of the city's earlier pro football entry was adopted. After being pushed to the brink of failure in the mid-1980s, the collapse of the United States Football League and a series of high draft picks allowed the Bills to rebuild into a perennial contender in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s, a period in which the team won four consecutive AFC Championships; the team nevertheless lost all four subsequent Super Bowls, records in both categories that still stand. The rise of the division rival New", "title": "Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "10278314", "text": "same calendar year as regular season games (the 1965 NFL Championship Game was played on January 2, 1966). The following season would conclude with the first Super Bowl played in January 1967. This is the last professional American football championship game to have been won by a team from Buffalo, New York, as well as the last of any major league team from the city. Indeed, the fortunes of both teams, and for that matter both cities, would go southward since then. The Bills would not appear in another championship game until Super Bowl XXV when the infamous Wide Right", "title": "1965 American Football League Championship Game" }, { "id": "106450", "text": "17, 1993 the Cowboys went to Candlestick Park and defeated the 49ers 30–20 to clinch their first Super Bowl berth since 1978. Dallas defeated the Buffalo Bills 52–17 in Super Bowl XXVII, during which they forced a record nine turnovers. Johnson became the first coach to claim a national championship in college football and a Super Bowl victory in professional football. Despite starting the 1993 season 0–2, they again defeated the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVIII, 30–13 (becoming the first team in NFL history to win a Super Bowl after starting 0–2). Dallas finished the regular season 12–4 as", "title": "Dallas Cowboys" }, { "id": "9861006", "text": "NFL history. Buffalo then defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 24-3 in the divisional playoff and upset the archrival Dolphins 29-10 in the AFC Championship to advance to their third straight Super Bowl. Super Bowl XXVII, played against the Dallas Cowboys, turned out to be a mismatch. Buffalo committed a Super Bowl-record 9 turnovers en route to a 52–17 loss, becoming the first team in NFL history to lose three consecutive Super Bowls. One of the sole bright spots for the Bills was Don Beebe's rundown and strip of Leon Lett after Lett had returned a fumble inside the Bills' 5-yard line", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "376005", "text": "the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants have four Super Bowl championships. Fourteen other NFL franchises have won at least one Super Bowl. Eight teams have appeared in Super Bowl games without a win. The Minnesota Vikings were the first team to have appeared a record four times without a win. The Buffalo Bills played in a record four Super Bowls in a row and lost every one. Four teams (the Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Houston Texans) have never appeared in a Super Bowl. The Browns and Lions both won NFL Championships prior to the creation", "title": "Super Bowl" }, { "id": "19346535", "text": "Four Falls of Buffalo Four Falls of Buffalo is a 2015 documentary film produced for ESPN's \"30 for 30\" series and directed by Ken Rodgers of NFL Films. The film profiles the Buffalo Bills teams of the early 1990s, when the franchise became the first team to play in — and lose — four consecutive Super Bowls. The film goes through the Bills four \"Super Bowl\" years featuring retrospectives and insight on such famous plays as Scott Norwood's 47-yard field goal miss at the end of Super Bowl XXV, Thurman Thomas' misplaced helmet at the start of Super Bowl XXVI,", "title": "Four Falls of Buffalo" }, { "id": "19537487", "text": "Championship games, advancing to Super Bowl II, while the Dolphins, 11-3 that year, had appeared in the previous three Super Bowls (VI, VII, and VIII) and were two-time defending champions. Instead, Miami’s defeat in the ‘Sea of Hands’ game ended their historic run; there would be no fourth straight Super Bowl, and to date only the Buffalo Bills have ever advanced to four straight Super Bowls (XXV, XXVI, XXVII, and XXVIII). The Dolphins would not return to the Super Bowl until January 1983, when they would meet (and be defeated by) the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XVII. The Raiders", "title": "The Sea of Hands" }, { "id": "9861007", "text": "and was on his way to scoring. Lett started celebrating too early and held the ball out long enough for Beebe, who had made up a considerable distance to get to Lett, to knock it out of his hand. The play resulted in a touchback, not a touchdown, thus stopping Dallas from breaking the record for most points scored by a team in a Super Bowl (55), which was set three years earlier and is still held today by the San Francisco 49ers. The Bills won the AFC East championship in 1993 with a 12–4 record, and again won playoff", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "19346537", "text": "for the Outstanding Long Sports Documentary at the 37th Annual Sports Emmy Awards. Four Falls of Buffalo Four Falls of Buffalo is a 2015 documentary film produced for ESPN's \"30 for 30\" series and directed by Ken Rodgers of NFL Films. The film profiles the Buffalo Bills teams of the early 1990s, when the franchise became the first team to play in — and lose — four consecutive Super Bowls. The film goes through the Bills four \"Super Bowl\" years featuring retrospectives and insight on such famous plays as Scott Norwood's 47-yard field goal miss at the end of Super", "title": "Four Falls of Buffalo" }, { "id": "16698668", "text": "and the hiring of Parcells as head coach. The Bills also saw many of their Super Bowl players leave during this time period. By the end of the 1990s, the Bills led the decade with 12 wins to the Patriots' 8 wins. Throughout the decade, the two teams combined to win the AFC East six times, with the Patriots reaching the Super Bowl in 1996 and the Bills reaching the Super Bowl in 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993. The decade saw several memorable games between the two. On September 11, 1994, Buffalo led 28–14 at the half and 35–21 at", "title": "Bills–Patriots rivalry" }, { "id": "19913794", "text": "2017–18 NFL playoffs The 2017–18 NFL playoffs began on January 6, 2018, after the 2017 season, and concluded with Super Bowl LII on Sunday, February 4, 2018, when the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. These playoffs were notable for several teams snapping long playoff droughts, as the Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles Rams, Jacksonville Jaguars, and Tennessee Titans each qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 1999, 2004, 2007, and 2008, respectively. The playoffs were also notable for the Patriots reaching a seventh consecutive AFC Championship Game, extending their own", "title": "2017–18 NFL playoffs" }, { "id": "5790148", "text": "at New York City's Waldorf Astoria New York. With the first pick, the Buffalo Bills selected linebacker Tom Cousineau from Ohio State University. 1979 NFL season The 1979 NFL season was the 60th regular season of the National Football League. The season ended with Super Bowl XIV when the Pittsburgh Steelers repeated as champions by defeating the Los Angeles Rams 31–19 at the Rose Bowl. The Steelers became the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowls twice. It was also the 20th anniversary of the American Football League. Starting in 1978, ten teams qualified for the playoffs: the winners of", "title": "1979 NFL season" }, { "id": "376015", "text": "XXVI. The Giants claimed Super Bowls XXI and XXV. As in the 1970s, the Oakland Raiders were the only team to interrupt the Super Bowl dominance of other teams; they won Super Bowls XV and XVIII (the latter as the Los Angeles Raiders). Following several seasons with poor records in the 1980s, the Dallas Cowboys rose back to prominence in the 1990s. During this decade, the Cowboys made post-season appearances every year except for the seasons of 1990 and 1997. From 1992 to 1996, the Cowboys won their division championship each year. In this same period, the Buffalo Bills had", "title": "Super Bowl" }, { "id": "4084574", "text": "unit when he took over the Washington Redskins in the early 1970s. His first special teams coach, Dick Vermeil, won a Super Bowl as head coach of the St. Louis Rams. His second special teams coach, Marv Levy, led the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s. Levy came to his staff after being the first special teams coach in the NFL having been hired by Philadelphia Eagles coach Jerry Williams in 1969. Allen had the third best winning percentage in the NFL (.681), exceeded only by Vince Lombardi (.736) and John Madden (.731). He", "title": "George Allen (American football coach)" }, { "id": "7216801", "text": "16–13 victory against the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V. The Bills lost their first of four consecutive Super Bowl games, and this loss was the closest the team got as the next three Super Bowls ended with the Bills losing by considerable margins (13 points to the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XXVI, 35 points to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl XXVII, and 17 points to the Cowboys in Super Bowl XXVIII, respectively). The city of Buffalo had not won a Big 4 sports championship since 1965 (which became the longest such streak of futility for any city", "title": "Wide Right (Buffalo Bills)" }, { "id": "17074568", "text": "balls before the game, giving the game the title 'Deflategate'. This was the most lopsided AFC championship victory since the Buffalo Bills defeated the Los Angeles Raiders 51–3 in the 1990 season. Super Bowl XLIX, the 49th contesting of the Super Bowl, decided the 2014 NFL champion on February 1, 2015, with the New England Patriots defeating the defending Super Bowl XLVIII champions Seattle Seahawks, who were looking to repeat, by a score of 28–24. With a controversial play call by Seattle's head coach, Pete Carroll, they decided to try to pass the ball in for a touchdown at the", "title": "2014 NFL season" }, { "id": "394656", "text": "from two yards out for another score. As a result, the Bills became the fourth wild-card team to advance to the Super Bowl. This marked the first time since the AFL–NFL merger that the two Super Bowl teams each won their conference championship on the road, with Dallas winning in San Francisco and Buffalo in Miami. The only time it happened prior to 1992 was in 1966 (Super Bowl I), when Kansas City won at Buffalo and Green Bay won at Dallas. This would happen again in 1997, with Green Bay winning in San Francisco and Denver in Pittsburgh and", "title": "Super Bowl XXVII" }, { "id": "7216800", "text": "goalpost and the field goal attempt failed. Television sportscaster Al Michaels, calling the game for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), announced the occurrence to a stunned television audience: \"No good...wide right.\" The New York Giants took possession with four seconds left and ran out the clock for a 20–19 victory, making this Super Bowl the closest ever. Had Norwood successfully scored it would have likely given the Bills a 22–20 victory, and it would also have been the first Super Bowl to be decided by a game-ending field goal since Jim O'Brien's 32-yard kick which gave the Baltimore Colts a", "title": "Wide Right (Buffalo Bills)" }, { "id": "5187939", "text": "through the 1992 AFC Championship Game in which the Buffalo Bills beat the Miami Dolphins 29–10. On March 12, 1990, at the NFL's annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, the league new ratified four-year television agreements for the 1990 to 1993 seasons involving ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN and TNT. The contracts totaled US$3.6 billion, the largest package in television history. This contract saw each network having rights to one Super Bowl telecast as part of the package. The fourth Super Bowl (XXVIII) was up for a separate sealed bid. NBC won the bid, and since they were last in the rotation", "title": "NFL on NBC" }, { "id": "16858105", "text": "the Super Bowl (the previous record was ten points, set by the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XXII and matched by the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV and by the Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX); it is the third-largest comeback win in NFL playoff history, behind The Comeback (32-point deficit; Buffalo Bills trailed 35–3 and won 41–38) and between the Indianapolis Colts and the Kansas City Chiefs during the 2013–14 NFL playoffs (28-point deficit; Colts trailed 38–10 and won, 45–44). In addition to being the largest Super Bowl comeback, the game set the record for the largest fourth-quarter", "title": "Super Bowl LI" }, { "id": "394681", "text": "defined as the number of times losing the ball on interceptions and fumbles. Source: For the first (and to date only) time in Super Bowl history, officials changed shirts at halftime, going from short sleeves in the first half to long sleeves for the second. Donnie Hampton died January 30, 1995 at age 47, one day after Super Bowl XXIX. Super Bowl XXVII Super Bowl XXVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1992", "title": "Super Bowl XXVII" }, { "id": "11951622", "text": "1995 Buffalo Bills season The 1995 Buffalo Bills season was the 36th season for the club and its 26th in the National Football League. After suffering a losing season the previous season, the 1995 Bills won the AFC East, and made the playoffs for the seventh time in eight seasons. They defeated the Miami Dolphins in the Wild Card Game in Don Shula's final game as an NFL head coach. The following week they lost to the eventual AFC Champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The playoff win over Miami represents the last time to date that the Bills have won a", "title": "1995 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "3118212", "text": "major league sports teams: the Buffalo Bills of the NFL and the Buffalo Sabres of the NHL. The Bills play their home football games at New Era Field, the largest sports stadium in all of New York State, located just south of the city of Buffalo in Orchard Park. The Bills are the only team to reach the Super Bowl in four consecutive seasons (1990–1993) in NFL history. The Buffalo Sabres also have a strong following in Western New York, and are consistently ranked among the highest-rated local TV hockey markets and the highest-rated markets for NBC/NBCSN regular season games.", "title": "Western New York" }, { "id": "375992", "text": "conference champions to determine the NFL's league champion. Currently, the National Football Conference leads the league with 27 wins to 25 wins for the American Football Conference. The Pittsburgh Steelers have the most Super Bowl championship titles, with six. The New England Patriots have the most Super Bowl appearances, with ten. Charles Haley and Tom Brady both have five Super Bowl rings, which is the record for the most rings won by a single player. The day on which the Super Bowl is played, now considered by some as an unofficial American national holiday, is called \"Super Bowl Sunday\". It", "title": "Super Bowl" }, { "id": "39958", "text": "American Football League led by head coach Buster Ramsey and joined the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The Bills won two consecutive American Football League titles in 1964 and 1965, but the club has yet to win a league championship since. Once the AFL–NFL merger took effect, the Bills became the second NFL team to represent the city; they followed the Buffalo All-Americans, a charter member of the league. Buffalo had been left out of the league since the All-Americans (by that point renamed the Bisons) folded in 1929; the Bills were no less than the", "title": "Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "7002539", "text": "X, Super Bowl XIII, and Super Bowl XXX and are the only teams to meet in the Super Bowl more than twice; the San Francisco 49ers and Cincinnati Bengals, who met in Super Bowl XVI and Super Bowl XXIII; and the Cowboys and Buffalo Bills, who met in Super Bowl XXVII and Super Bowl XXVIII and are the only teams to face each other in two consecutive Super Bowls; and later the Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles becoming the 6th set of teams to have a rematch in Super Bowl history and 7th overall, meeting in Super Bowl LII after", "title": "Super Bowl XLVI" }, { "id": "19799707", "text": "2017 Buffalo Bills season The 2017 season was the Buffalo Bills' 58th as a professional football team, 48th in the National Football League and third full season under the ownership of Terry and Kim Pegula. The season was the first under the leadership of general manager Brandon Beane and head coach Sean McDermott. On December 31, the final week of the regular season, the Bills finally ended their 18-year playoff drought (previously the longest active drought in the NFL and the longest active playoff drought among the four major professional North American sport leagues) with the Bills winning 22–16 over", "title": "2017 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "10278609", "text": "1964 American Football League season The 1964 American Football League season was the fifth regular season of the American Football League. The season ended when the Buffalo Bills defeated the San Diego Chargers in the AFL Championship game. Two years later, the AFL would join the NFL to form the AFL-NFL World Championship game, known today as the Super Bowl. This was the final season of AFL telecasts on ABC before the games moved to NBC for the following season. The AFL had 8 teams, grouped into two divisions. Each team would play a home-and-away game against the other 7", "title": "1964 American Football League season" }, { "id": "10278612", "text": "Six\", the Chargers took a lead over the Chiefs during a six-game winning streak, and held that lead for the rest of the season. 1964 American Football League season The 1964 American Football League season was the fifth regular season of the American Football League. The season ended when the Buffalo Bills defeated the San Diego Chargers in the AFL Championship game. Two years later, the AFL would join the NFL to form the AFL-NFL World Championship game, known today as the Super Bowl. This was the final season of AFL telecasts on ABC before the games moved to NBC", "title": "1964 American Football League season" }, { "id": "9678574", "text": "but died on July 23, and Isselin was appointed president on August 6. All times are EASTERN time All times are EASTERN time This game, won by the Buffalo Bills at the old War Memorial Stadium (known as the rock pile) in Buffalo was the only win for the Bills all season. A win over the eventual Super Bowl champions. The 1968 season also saw the Jets involved in one of the most notorious incidents in television history, an incident that would change the way television networks carried sporting events for decades to come. On November 17, 1968, just before", "title": "1968 New York Jets season" }, { "id": "4327073", "text": "Miracle was added to the list of infamous moments in Buffalo sports history, joining \"Wide Right\" and \"No Goal\". It marked the start of what eventually became the longest active playoff drought in any of the four major North American sports leagues, as the Bills would go on to miss the playoffs for 17 straight years, finally qualifying again in the 2017 season (the playoff game in question then taking place in 2018). The Bills' last playoff win came in . Although the Bills had lost four consecutive Super Bowls before this game, many Bills fans consider this game to", "title": "Music City Miracle" }, { "id": "5201095", "text": "East receives a high amount of coverage from national sports media outlets. In the early 1990s the division claimed four consecutive Super Bowl champions, all 4 against the Buffalo Bills, with the Giants and Redskins respectively winning back-to-back in Super Bowls XXV and XXVI; and the Cowboys winning twice after in Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII. Those same three teams won seven out of ten Super Bowls, from 1986-87 to 1995-96 (the 49ers won the other three during that span). The Philadelphia Eagles are the only NFC East team to actually play in the city of the team's naming, Philadelphia.", "title": "NFC East" }, { "id": "19799708", "text": "the Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals upsetting the Baltimore Ravens 31–27. The Bills also improved on their 7–9 record from 2016 and clinched their first winning season since 2014. However, the Bills lost the wild card game against Jacksonville 3–10, extending their playoff victory drought to 22 years. The Bills are the last team since the NFL re-alignment in 2002 to make the playoffs. General manager Brandon Beane joined the Bills after 19 seasons with the Carolina Panthers, the last two as assistant to then-general manager Dave Gettleman. Beane, who signed an undisclosed deal on May 9, 2017, replaced Doug", "title": "2017 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "4853018", "text": "Canton. He then went on to kick five field goals in the Bills 29-10 win over the Miami Dolphins in the AFC championship game, helping Buffalo get to their third consecutive Super Bowl. In 1993, Christie set a Bills record by kicking a 59-yard field goal in a regular season game. It was only four yards short of the all-time NFL record. In Super Bowl XXVIII, Christie set a Super Bowl record by kicking a 54-yard field goal. It is currently the longest field goal ever made in Super Bowl History. In the 2000 season, Christie was an instrumental part", "title": "Steve Christie" }, { "id": "1987735", "text": "Illustrated\" while holding a Generals' helmet, but the league collapsed before he ever fielded a snap with the Generals. Kelly remained on good terms with Generals owner Donald Trump, who provided his family with lodging during Kelly's later health issues. Kelly finally joined the Bills (who had retained his NFL rights) in 1986 after the USFL folded. He helped lead the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowl appearances (Super Bowl XXV–Super Bowl XXVIII) and six divisional championships from 1988 to 1995. Buffalo made the playoffs in eight of Kelly's 11 seasons as their starting quarterback. Kelly's primary 'go-to' wide receiver", "title": "Jim Kelly" }, { "id": "9861016", "text": "ruled inconclusive and the call on the field was upheld as a touchdown. The Titans went on to advance to the Super Bowl. Until 2018, this was the last appearance by the Bills in the postseason. The final ties to the Bills' Super Bowl years were severed in 2000, when Thurman Thomas, Andre Reed and Bruce Smith were all cut. Antowain Smith, Eric Moulds, and Marcellus Wiley respectively had long since eclipsed them on the depth chart. After an 8–8 season, and the team still caught up in the Johnson vs. Flutie controversy, general manager John Butler departed for the", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "394626", "text": "second team to play in three straight (the Miami Dolphins played in Super Bowls VI–VIII, winning VII and VIII). The game was played on January 31, 1993 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the seventh Super Bowl held in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The Bills advanced to their third consecutive Super Bowl after posting an 11–5 regular season record, but entered the playoffs as a wild card after losing tiebreakers. The Cowboys were making their sixth Super Bowl appearance after posting a 13–3 regular season record. It was the first time that the two franchises had played each", "title": "Super Bowl XXVII" }, { "id": "4288314", "text": "second most total career Super Bowl receptions in NFL history (behind Rice's 33). His 323 total Super Bowl receiving yards are the third most in Super Bowl history (behind only Rice's 604 yards and Lynn Swann's 364). In addition to the important role he played in taking the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls, Reed is remembered particularly for his contributions to the Bills' January 3, 1993 playoff victory over the Houston Oilers, a game that has come to be known simply as \"The Comeback.\" In the game, which Houston led decisively 35–3 during the third quarter, Reed caught 3", "title": "Andre Reed" }, { "id": "9861004", "text": "finishing 13–3 again and with Thurman Thomas winning a couple of awards. In the playoffs, they routed the Kansas City Chiefs 37-14 in the divisional round and beat the Denver Broncos in a defensive struggle, 10-7, in the AFC Championship. The Bills looked to avenge their heartbreaking Super Bowl loss a year earlier by playing the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl XXVI, but it was not to be. The Redskins opened up a 17–0 halftime lead and never looked back, handing the Bills a 37–24 loss. Early in that game, Thurman Thomas lost his helmet and had to sit out", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "39990", "text": "much for their boisterous behavior as they have for their generosity; after the Bills received help in breaking their 17-year playoff drought on a last-minute Cincinnati Bengals victory, Bills fans crowdfunded the charities of Bengals players Andy Dalton and Tyler Boyd with tens of thousands of dollars as a gesture of thanks. The Bills are one of the favorite teams of ESPN announcer Chris Berman, who picked the Bills to reach the Super Bowl nearly every year in the 1990s. Berman often uses the catchphrase \"No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills!\" Berman gave the induction speech for", "title": "Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "1987729", "text": "its no-huddle shotgun formations, Kelly led one of the greatest NFL scoring juggernauts. From 1991 to 1994, he helped guide the Bills to a record four consecutive Super Bowls, although the team lost each game. (Only one other team has gone to three straight Super Bowls, the Miami Dolphins, with Bob Griese.) In 2002, Kelly was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, his first year of eligibility. His jersey number 12 is one of only three numbers retired by the Buffalo Bills as of 2018. Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up about 60 miles to", "title": "Jim Kelly" }, { "id": "2580779", "text": "to set up Matt Bahr's game-winning field goal. In Super Bowl XXV, they played the Buffalo Bills and won one of the more entertaining Super Bowls in history, 20-19, after Buffalo's Scott Norwood missed a potential game-winning field goal as time expired. Following the 1990 season, Parcells, with whom Taylor had become very close, retired, and the team was taken over by Ray Handley. 1991 marked a steep decline in Taylor's production. It became the first season in his career in which he failed to make the Pro Bowl squad, after setting a then record by making it in his", "title": "Lawrence Taylor" }, { "id": "5702186", "text": "previous season. ABC was given the rights to televise the two additional playoff games. Meanwhile, Turner's TNT network started to broadcast Sunday night games for the first half of the season. On October 8, the league announced that the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award would be named the Pete Rozelle Trophy. The season ended with Super Bowl XXV when the New York Giants defeated the Buffalo Bills 20–19 at Tampa Stadium. This would be the first Super Bowl appearance for Buffalo, who would lose the next three Super Bowls as well. Late in the season, with the Gulf War", "title": "1990 NFL season" }, { "id": "12705354", "text": "championship game was agreed to be played in January 1967 following the conclusion of the leagues' respective 1966 seasons. Hunt insisted on calling the game the \"Super Bowl\" after seeing his children playing with a popular toy at the time, a Super Ball. While the first few games were designated the \"AFL–NFL World Championship Game\", the Super Bowl name became its officially licensed title in years to come. The Chiefs cruised to an 11–2–1 record in 1966, and defeated the defending AFL Champion Buffalo Bills in the AFL Championship Game. The Chiefs were invited to play the NFL's league champion", "title": "Kansas City Chiefs" }, { "id": "7764605", "text": "the Pittsburgh Pirates, Honus Wagner was born and raised in Chartiers. Major League outfielder Tito Francona and pitcher Doc Medich were born in Aliquippa. Super Bowl winning coaches Bill Cowher and Mike Ditka were born in Pittsburgh and Carnegie respectively. Super Bowl winning quarterback Joe Namath and Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett were born in Beaver Falls and Rochester respectively. 3 Time Super Bowl MVP Joe Montana is from New Eagle. Jim Kelly from Pittsburgh was the leading QB of the Buffalo Bills to 4 straight Super Bowl appearances. Johnny Unitas, National Football League's most valuable player in 1959, 1964", "title": "Sports in Pittsburgh" }, { "id": "11467806", "text": "1992 Buffalo Bills season The 1992 Buffalo Bills season was the 33rd season for the team in the National Football League. The Buffalo Bills finished the National Football League's 1992 season with a record of 11 wins and 5 losses, and finished second in the AFC East division. The Bills qualified for their third straight Super Bowl appearance. The season is notable for Buffalo's first playoff game in this year, known as \"The Comeback\", in which the Bills, down 35–3, ended up winning in overtime. The game has since gone down in NFL lore. The game was the first of", "title": "1992 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "394548", "text": "run out the clock on their ensuing possession, but running back Roger Craig had the ball dislodged by nose tackle Erik Howard, and Lawrence Taylor recovered the fumble in mid-air with 2:36 remaining. Five plays later, Bahr kicked his 5th field goal, a 41-yarder, as time expired to give New York the win. As for the Bills, Jim Kelly returned from his injury to lead Buffalo to a 44–34 playoff victory over the Miami Dolphins. The Bills jumped to an early 20–3 lead, but Miami quarterback Dan Marino rallied his team back and cut Buffalo's lead to 30–27 going into", "title": "Super Bowl XXV" }, { "id": "39997", "text": "Bills are the team that eventually unseats the Orlando Breakers, the fictional NFL team that serves as the focus of the sitcom \"Coach\" in later seasons, in the playoffs. In a March 2014 episode of the television series \"Family Guy\" entitled \"3 Acts of God\", Peter Griffin—along with his family and friends—attends a game between the Buffalo Bills and New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which the Bills win. The episode also features Bills players Mario Williams and C. J. Spiller guest starring as themselves. Several former Buffalo Bills players have earned a name in politics after", "title": "Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "394726", "text": "Bowl XXVI. Sources: NFL.com Super Bowl XXVIII, Super Bowl XXVIII Play Finder Dal, Super Bowl XXVIII Play Finder Buf Completions/attempts Carries Long gain Receptions Times targeted The following records were set in Super Bowl XXVIII, according to the official NFL.com boxscore and the ProFootball reference.com game summary. <br>Some records have to meet NFL minimum number of attempts to be recognized. The minimums are shown (in parenthesis). Source: Source: Super Bowl XXVIII Super Bowl XXVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills to decide the", "title": "Super Bowl XXVIII" }, { "id": "29004", "text": "first wildcard team to win the Super Bowl, although the term \"wildcard\" was coined by the media, and not used officially until several years later. \"Italics\" – Super Bowl Appearance, Bold – Super Bowl Victory The AFL did not play an All-Star game after its first season in 1960, but did stage All-Star games for the 1961 through 1969 seasons. All-Star teams from the Eastern and Western divisions played each other after every season except 1965. That season, the league champion Buffalo Bills played all-stars from the other teams. After the 1964 season, the AFL All-Star game had been scheduled", "title": "American Football League" }, { "id": "8915770", "text": "XIII and XIV following the 1978 and 1979 seasons and remain, to date, the only team to win back-to-back Super Bowl titles more than once, the San Francisco 49ers won Super Bowls XXIII and XXIV following the 1988 and 1989 seasons, the Dallas Cowboys won Super Bowls XXVII and XXVIII following the 1992 and 1993 seasons, the Denver Broncos won Super Bowls XXXII and XXXIII following the 1997 and 1998 seasons, and most recently, the New England Patriots won Super Bowls XXXVIII and XXXIX following the 2003 and 2004 seasons. After the franchise's victory in Super Bowl II, Vince Lombardi", "title": "History of the Green Bay Packers" }, { "id": "15169197", "text": "2011–12 NFL playoffs The National Football League playoffs for the 2011 season began on January 7, 2012. The postseason tournament concluded with the New York Giants defeating the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI, 21–17, on February 5, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The Detroit Lions and Houston Texans both made team history with their clinching of playoff spots. The Lions had not been to the playoffs since 1999 while the Texans, who entered the league in 2002, had never made the playoffs in their nine-season history. The Buffalo Bills, who were eliminated from playoff contention for the", "title": "2011–12 NFL playoffs" }, { "id": "11467846", "text": "1993 Buffalo Bills season The 1993 Buffalo Bills season was the 34th season for the Buffalo, New York team in the National Football League. The Buffalo Bills finished the National Football League's 1993 season with a record of 12 wins and 4 losses, and finished first in the AFC East division. Despite the many jokes about the Bills having lost three straight Super Bowls—a fan pleaded with head coach Marv Levy for the team to not return to the Super Bowl: \"I can't take it. I can't go to work on Monday if we don't win the game. It's tearing", "title": "1993 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "10104149", "text": "Redskins. During his 45-year coaching career Coach Lawrence is unique in having coached in four straight Super Bowls (NFL) and four straight World Bowls (NFLE). Don Lawrence (American football) Donald Jerome Lawrence (born June 4, 1937) is the former American football offensive coordinator for the Berlin Thunder in NFL Europa. He won two World Bowl rings with the Amsterdam Admirals and Frankfurt Galaxy. As the tight ends coach from 1990 to 1993, he took the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls. He coached at Notre Dame, Kansas State, Cincinnati, Texas Christian, and Missouri. Lawrence served as the head football", "title": "Don Lawrence (American football)" }, { "id": "9861009", "text": "the Bills were stunned again, 30–13. The four consecutive failures to win the title game, despite a 14–2 regular-season record against the NFC, inspired many jokes. Tasker recalled that when he made motivational speeches to groups of children, \"invariably, some little guy raises his hand. He goes, 'Do you know what Bills stands for?' and I've heard it a hundred times. I go, 'No, what?' He goes Boy, I Love Losing Super Bowls'.\" A player denounced the team's poor reputation: \"They still consider us losers. That is the most unfair statement that I've ever seen or heard or read in", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "4616298", "text": "The Comeback (American football) The Comeback, sometimes known as The Choke or 35-3, was an NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Oilers. The game was played at Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, New York on January 3, 1993. It featured the Bills recovering from a 32-point deficit to win in overtime, 41–38, and , it remains the largest comeback in NFL history. It was played in what was then known as Rich Stadium (now called New Era Field), and was televised by NBC, with Charlie Jones and Todd Christensen calling the action. Both teams qualified for", "title": "The Comeback (American football)" }, { "id": "16858043", "text": "fifth, moving them into a three-way tie with the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers for second place on the all-time Super Bowl wins list, trailing only the Pittsburgh Steelers who have six victories. New England, after finishing the regular season with a league-best 14–2 record, advanced to their record-setting ninth Super Bowl appearance, their second in three years, and their seventh under the leadership of head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. The Falcons entered the game after completing an 11–5 regular season record, and were trying to win their first Super Bowl title, having lost their", "title": "Super Bowl LI" }, { "id": "2515118", "text": "his contract. The move devastated many of the New England players, while Milloy immediately signed with the Bills two days later. With the Patriots seemingly in emotional disarray, Buffalo defeated New England, 31–0, with Milloy forcing an interception and recording one sack and five tackles. However, after a 2–2 start, the Patriots ended up winning their last 12 games (including a mirror 31–0 shutout of the Bills in the final week) to earn a league-best 14–2 record. Tom Brady, the Super Bowl XXXVI MVP, had become the team's permanent starter in 2002 after quarterback Drew Bledsoe left the team to", "title": "Super Bowl XXXVIII" }, { "id": "11640068", "text": "1988 Buffalo Bills season The 1988 Buffalo Bills season was the 29th season for the team and the 19th season in the National Football League (NFL). The Bills ended a streak of four consecutive losing seasons by winning the AFC East; they finished the NFL's 1988 season with a record of 12 wins and 4 losses; it was the club's first winning season since 1981, its first 12-win season since the 1964 AFL championship season, and only the fifth double-digit win season in team history. The Bills were 8–0 at home for the first time in their franchise history. On", "title": "1988 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "10278196", "text": "1965 American Football League season The 1965 American Football League season was the sixth regular season of the American Football League. The season also saw a change of television address as the games moved from ABC to NBC. The season ended when the Buffalo Bills defeated the San Diego Chargers in the AFL Championship game. The next season, the AFL would join the NFL to form the AFL-NFL World Championship game, known today as the Super Bowl. The AFL had 8 teams, grouped into two divisions. Each team would play a home-and-away game against the other 7 teams in the", "title": "1965 American Football League season" }, { "id": "14593349", "text": "who averaged 22.1 points per game in the regular season to only 13 points in the winning 15-13. Considered by many as one of the greatest games in NFL history it was an extremely physical contest, including a hit by Leonard Marshall on Joe Montana that symbolically ended his career as the quarterback of the 49ers (he would never win or reach another Super Bowl in a 49er uniform). The Giants would ultimately face the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXV, perhaps the most impressive win of the season. In one of the most memorable Super Bowls of all time,", "title": "Big Blue Wrecking Crew" }, { "id": "10277601", "text": "47 shares for about $3,800 each. The upcoming Super Bowl I awarded an additional $15,000 per player for the winners and $7,500 each for the losing team. 1966 American Football League Championship Game The 1966 American Football League Championship Game was the seventh AFL championship game, played at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, New York, on January 1, 1967. It matched the Western Division champion Kansas City Chiefs (11–2–1) and the Eastern Division champion Buffalo Bills (9–4–1) to decide the American Football League (AFL) champion for the 1966 season. The host Bills entered as two-time defending champions, but the visiting", "title": "1966 American Football League Championship Game" }, { "id": "9861011", "text": "selecting several key Bills contributors (backup quarterback Frank Reich, wide receiver Don Beebe and tight end Pete Metzelaars) in the expansion draft, where they formed the core of that team's inaugural roster. The Bills again made the playoffs with a 10–6 record, and defeated Miami in the wild card round. They would not get a chance to get back to the Super Bowl—the Pittsburgh Steelers, who went on to advance to the Super Bowl, beat Buffalo in the divisional playoffs 40–21. In 1996, the Bills saw their commanding lead in the AFC East race disappear to a surging New England", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "376012", "text": "seasons. Nine players and three coaches and administrators on the team have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Pittsburgh still remains the only team to win back-to-back Super Bowls twice and four Super Bowls in a six-year period. The Steelers' dynasty was interrupted only by the Oakland Raiders' Super Bowl XI win and the Cowboys winning their second Super Bowl of the decade. In the 1980s and 1990s, the tables turned for the AFC, as the NFC dominated the Super Bowls of the new decade and most of those in the 1990s. The NFC won 16 of", "title": "Super Bowl" }, { "id": "9861019", "text": "Titans defensive coordinator Gregg Williams took over as head coach for the 2001 season, which proved to be the worst in recent memory for the Bills. Rob Johnson went down in mid-season with an injury and Alex Van Pelt took over. Buffalo finished 3–13. The Bills even lost a much-hyped mid-season match up with \"Bills West\" (the Flutie-led Chargers). After the season, they traded for quarterback Drew Bledsoe, deemed expendable by the Patriots after Tom Brady led them to a Super Bowl victory. Bledsoe revived the Bills for the 2002 season, leading them to an 8–8 record, setting 10 team", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "376023", "text": "Patriots' 2007 record at 18–1. The following season, the Steelers logged their record sixth Super Bowl title (XLIII) in a 27–23, final-minute victory against the Arizona Cardinals. The 2009 season saw the New Orleans Saints defeat the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV by a score of 31–17 to take home their first Championship. With this victory, the Saints joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Jets as the only teams to have won in their sole Super Bowl appearance. The 2010s have seen parity between the two conferences, but not within them. Since the start of 2010, five", "title": "Super Bowl" }, { "id": "394654", "text": "period set up kicker Steve Christie's game-winning field goal to give the Bills the biggest comeback win in NFL history. Buffalo then recorded a 24–3 win on the road against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the AFC Central champions with the AFC's best regular season record at 11–5. Although Jim Kelly and Thurman Thomas had not recovered enough to play in this game, Reich threw for 160 yards, 2 touchdowns, and no interceptions, while Davis rushed for 104 yards and a touchdown. Meanwhile, the defense redeemed themselves after giving up 38 points against the Oilers by holding the Steelers to only a", "title": "Super Bowl XXVII" }, { "id": "393968", "text": "Super Bowl X Super Bowl X was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1975 season. The Steelers defeated the Cowboys by the score of 21–17 to win their second consecutive Super Bowl. They were the third team to win back-to-back Super Bowls. (The Miami Dolphins won Super Bowls VII and VIII, and the Green Bay Packers won Super Bowls I and II.) It was also the first Super Bowl in which both participating teams", "title": "Super Bowl X" }, { "id": "17736256", "text": "December 14, the Bills broke a league-leading streak of nine consecutive losing seasons dating back to 2005; however, the next week's 26-24 loss to the Oakland Raiders eliminated them from playoff contention for the 15th consecutive year, continuing a league-leading drought. The team finished with a 17-9 win against the New England Patriots, who were resting the starters in preparation for a playoff run; the win was the first time the team had won at Gillette Stadium (they had lost all 12 previous attempts) and established the team's first winning season since 2004 (former head coach Mike Mularkey's first season).", "title": "2014 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "10163724", "text": "emerging rival North Dakota State, 17-13. The decade of dominance by NDSU, combined with the short-term dominance by James Madison, made it one of the most anticipated title games in the history of FCS Football. Notable Dukes include Charles Haley, one of only two players to win five Super Bowl rings and inductee of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame; Scott Norwood, the Buffalo Bills' all-time leading scorer; and Gary Clark, an All-Pro wide receiver for the Washington Redskins. JMU has fielded a women's lacrosse team every year since 1974, when the program", "title": "James Madison Dukes" }, { "id": "17005334", "text": "the rest of the AFC playoff games. Fox televised the rest of the NFC games and the Super Bowl. All games were broadcast on Westwood One radio. Trailing 38–10 a few minutes into the third quarter, Indianapolis scored 35 second half points to overcome a 28-point deficit to win, 45–44, in the second biggest comeback victory in NFL postseason history, behind just the Buffalo Bills' 32-point deficit in their 41–38 comeback Wild Card game win against the Houston Oilers in 1992. For Kansas City, the loss extended their playoff win drought to 20 years. The game got off to a", "title": "2013–14 NFL playoffs" }, { "id": "10104148", "text": "Don Lawrence (American football) Donald Jerome Lawrence (born June 4, 1937) is the former American football offensive coordinator for the Berlin Thunder in NFL Europa. He won two World Bowl rings with the Amsterdam Admirals and Frankfurt Galaxy. As the tight ends coach from 1990 to 1993, he took the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls. He coached at Notre Dame, Kansas State, Cincinnati, Texas Christian, and Missouri. Lawrence served as the head football coach at the University of Virginia. He played college football at Notre Dame. He played three seasons in the National Football League for the Washington", "title": "Don Lawrence (American football)" }, { "id": "397088", "text": "Super Bowl III Super Bowl III was the third AFL–NFL Championship Game in professional American football, and the first to officially bear the trademark name \"Super Bowl\". The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in American football history. The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New York Jets defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Baltimore Colts by a score of 16–7. This was the first Super Bowl victory for the AFL. Before the game, most sports writers and fans believed that AFL teams", "title": "Super Bowl III" }, { "id": "9861017", "text": "San Diego Chargers—and took Flutie and Wiley with him, among many other Bills contributors. Doug Flutie left the Bills with a .677 winning percentage in 31 starts. Antowain Smith also left as a free agent for the New England Patriots, where he was the starting running back on their first two Super Bowl championship teams. Both Flutie and Smith were dominant in their final game as Bills, in a 42–23 victory over the Seattle Seahawks. Thomas would be quickly replaced by rookie Travis Henry. In 2001, following the departure of John Butler, team owner Ralph Wilson announced his retirement as", "title": "History of the Buffalo Bills" }, { "id": "393732", "text": "Super Bowl IV Super Bowl IV, the fourth and final AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, was played on January 11, 1970, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. The American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Minnesota Vikings by the score of 23–7. This victory by the AFL squared the Super Bowl series with the NFL at two games apiece. The two leagues merged into one after the game. Despite the AFL's New York Jets winning the previous season's Super Bowl, many sports writers and fans thought it was", "title": "Super Bowl IV" }, { "id": "11059541", "text": "Redskins beat the Buffalo Bills 37–24 to win Super Bowl XXVI. The team is the last Super Bowl champion to never trail in any of their playoff victories. The Redskins' Super Bowl XXVI win was their first in a non-strike season. With the championship, coach Joe Gibbs also became the first head coach to win three Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks. In 2007, ESPN.com ranked the 1991 Redskins as the 4th greatest team in NFL history, noting, \"you can look at two stats to get a pretty good idea of just how great a team is: yards gained per", "title": "1991 Washington Redskins season" }, { "id": "11633340", "text": "lose 41-38. This is deemed the greatest comeback in NFL history (regular or postseason) and is called \"The Comeback\" (or by then-Oiler fans, \"The Choke\"). The Oilers held a 35–3 lead on the Buffalo Bills. Bills backup quarterback Frank Reich led the Bills on a 38–3 run in the second half and overtime against the Oilers defense en route to a 41–38 overtime victory. The game is the largest comeback in NFL history, regular or postseason. Houston, whose 1992 team some believed gave them their best chance to win the Super Bowl, made several sweeping changes in the offseason. Defensive", "title": "1992 Houston Oilers season" }, { "id": "394622", "text": "returned two interceptions for 56 yards. The Redskins amassed 417 yards of total offense while limiting the explosive Bills to 283, with just 43 rushing yards. The two teams combined for the most points in a 3rd quarter in Super Bowl history (24 total points: 14 for Washington and 10 for Buffalo) and the most combined in a second half (44 total points: 24 for Buffalo and 20 for Washington). With the win, the Redskins became the first team, and Joe Gibbs the first coach, to win a Super Bowl with three different quarterbacks. Two other teams have since duplicated", "title": "Super Bowl XXVI" }, { "id": "2515155", "text": "field goal in the final seconds (Super Bowl V was won on a last second kick by the Baltimore Colts' Jim O'Brien to defeat the Dallas Cowboys, Super Bowl XXV had the Buffalo Bills' Scott Norwood miss his field goal chance against the New York Giants, and in Super Bowl XXXVI Vinatieri made his to defeat the St. Louis Rams). The game set a number of marks for offensive production. The two teams combined for 868 yards of total offense, the second-highest total in Super Bowl history. Both starting quarterbacks threw for at least 300 yards for only the second", "title": "Super Bowl XXXVIII" }, { "id": "4777854", "text": "championship drought as long, as of 2013 (50 years). This is also the only time that the Chargers have beaten the Patriots in a postseason game. Mike Stratton's hit on San Diego Chargers Running Back Keith Lincoln set the stage for the Buffalo Bills and their first AFL championship. This was the last AFL Championship Game before the Super Bowl era began the following season and the last time a final pro football championship game was played in December. It was also the most recent championship won by a Buffalo-based professional sports team. The Bills went into the 1966 AFL", "title": "American Football League playoffs" }, { "id": "5201048", "text": "AFC East The American Football Conference – Eastern Division or AFC East is a division of the National Football League (NFL)'s American Football Conference (AFC). There are currently four teams that reside in the division: the Buffalo Bills (based in Orchard Park, New York); the Miami Dolphins (based in Miami Gardens, Florida); the New England Patriots (based in Foxborough, Massachusetts); and the New York Jets (based in East Rutherford, New Jersey). Since the division's enfranchisement in 1960, with the creation of the American Football League, the division has been represented in nineteen Super Bowls and won eight of them. The", "title": "AFC East" }, { "id": "4616324", "text": "a 21–0 deficit to defeat the New England Patriots 34–31. When Rian Lindell kicked the game-winning field goal as time expired, radio play-by-play announcer John Murphy enthusiastically dubbed their victory \"The greatest comeback since The Comeback!\" The Comeback (American football) The Comeback, sometimes known as The Choke or 35-3, was an NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Oilers. The game was played at Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, New York on January 3, 1993. It featured the Bills recovering from a 32-point deficit to win in overtime, 41–38, and , it remains the largest comeback in", "title": "The Comeback (American football)" }, { "id": "19799710", "text": "the Panthers. McDermott, who signed an undisclosed deal on January 11, 2017, replaced Rex Ryan, who was fired along with his twin brother, Rob. Notes Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. With the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots losing 42–27 to the Kansas City Chiefs to kick off the 2017 NFL season and Hurricane Irma delaying the game between the Miami Dolphins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to Week 11, the Bills hoped to take advantage and grab first place in the AFC East by beating the Jets, who swept them in 2016. Quarterback Tyrod Taylor threw", "title": "2017 Buffalo Bills season" }, { "id": "394703", "text": "conferences, earning home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Until the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts qualified for Super Bowl XLIV, this was the last time that both number one seeds advanced to the Super Bowl. Many sportswriters and fans were a bit upset that the Bills advanced to their fourth consecutive Super Bowl. They were distressed with Buffalo having lost the three previous Super Bowl games and did not want to see them lose again. Some Bills fans appeared to be defensive about their team's presence in the game; during Buffalo's victory in the AFC Championship Game a week", "title": "Super Bowl XXVIII" }, { "id": "1712078", "text": "to the Buffalo Bills American football team, who had not won a championship since the 1965 American Football League Championship Game (which was actually played on December 28, 1965, four days before 1966 began). The plot involves indirect reference to the Bills' narrow loss in Super Bowl XXV, which was decided by a missed field goal. Having just served five years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) kidnaps a young tap dancer named Layla (Christina Ricci) and forces her to pretend to be his wife. Billy is compelled to deal with his own", "title": "Buffalo '66" }, { "id": "394134", "text": "causing a head injury that later influenced the quarterback to retire following the season. Pittsburgh would cement their legacy as \"The Team of the 70's\" by winning Super Bowl XIV over the Los Angeles Rams, 31–19. The Cowboys would fall to the Rams in the Divisional Round in 1979 in Staubach's final game. Led by Danny White, Dallas would appear in three straight NFC Championship games from 1980–82 but wouldn't reach another Super Bowl until their 52–17 victory over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVII. Super Bowl XIII is still widely regarded as one of the greatest Super Bowl", "title": "Super Bowl XIII" }, { "id": "4616321", "text": "game: The game was Christie's first in the postseason; after kicking the winning field goal he asked \"Wow! Are all playoff games like this?\" The Bills won their next two games, 24–3 against the Pittsburgh Steelers and 29–10 against the Miami Dolphins, advancing to Super Bowl XXVII, where they were beaten by the Dallas Cowboys 52–17. Tasker heard that \"the visiting locker room was like a funeral home\" after the game. Oiler Cris Dishman told an interviewer, \"It was the biggest choke job in history ... I think we have to put another word in the English dictionary to describe", "title": "The Comeback (American football)" } ]

[ "Machiavelli", "Galileo", "composer Rossini", "Michelangelo", "poet Foscolo", "philosopher Gentile" ]

[ { "id": "3230540", "text": "Santa Croce, Florence The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) is the principal Franciscan church in Florence, Italy, and a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church. It is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce, about 800 meters south-east of the Duomo. The site, when first chosen, was in marshland outside the city walls. It is the burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians, such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, the poet Foscolo, the philosopher Gentile and the composer Rossini, thus it is known also as the Temple of the Italian Glories (\"Tempio dell'Itale Glorie\").", "title": "Santa Croce, Florence" }, { "id": "147549", "text": "Domenico Ghirlandaio; the Basilica of Santa Croce, the principal Franciscan church in the city, which is situated on the Piazza di Santa Croce, about south east of the Duomo, and is the burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians, such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Foscolo, Rossini, thus it is known also as the Temple of the Italian Glories (Tempio dell'Itale Glorie); the Basilica of San Lorenzo, which is one of the largest churches in the city, situated at the centre of Florence's main market district, and the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici family", "title": "Florence" }, { "id": "3230546", "text": "of worship and patronage and it became customary for greatly honoured Florentines to be buried or commemorated there. Some were in chapels \"owned\" by wealthy families such as the Bardi and Peruzzi. As time progressed, space was also granted to notable Italians from elsewhere. For 500 years monuments were erected in the church including those to: A Room with a View (1908), E.M. Forster, chapter 2 Romola (1863), George Eliot <br> Santa Croce, Florence The Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) is the principal Franciscan church in Florence, Italy, and a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic", "title": "Santa Croce, Florence" }, { "id": "13911469", "text": "Piazza Santa Croce Piazza Santa Croce is one of the main plazas or squares located in the central neighborhood of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is located near piazza della Signoria and the National Central Library, and takes its name from the Basilica of Santa Croce that overlooks the square. The most notable features of the basilica are its sixteen chapels, many of them decorated with frescoes by Giotto and his pupils, and its tombs and cenotaphs. It is the burial place of many illustrious Italians, such as Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Enrico Fermi, Galileo, Ugo Foscolo, Guglielmo Marconi, Luigi Cherubini,", "title": "Piazza Santa Croce" }, { "id": "1753803", "text": "Joseph as \"my beloved husband\". Joseph Bonaparte died on 28 July 1844, aged 76. Julie died eight months later in Florence, on 7 April 1845, at the age of seventy-three. They were buried side by side at the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. 17 years later, in 1862, the self-proclaimed French Emperor Napoleon III brought Joseph Bonaparte's remains back to France and had them inhumed to the right of his younger brother, the Emperor Napoleon I. The remains of Julie are still at the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence beside those of her daughter, Charlotte, who died in", "title": "Julie Clary" }, { "id": "3230541", "text": "The Basilica is the largest Franciscan church in the world. Its most notable features are its sixteen chapels, many of them decorated with frescoes by Giotto and his pupils, and its tombs and cenotaphs. Legend says that Santa Croce was founded by St Francis himself. The construction of the current church, to replace an older building, was begun on 12 May 1294, possibly by Arnolfo di Cambio, and paid for by some of the city's wealthiest families. It was consecrated in 1442 by Pope Eugene IV. The building's design reflects the austere approach of the Franciscans. The floorplan is an", "title": "Santa Croce, Florence" }, { "id": "4887128", "text": "heir who could then be used to cause insurrection in Britain. When she replied \"no\", the meeting was abruptly terminated. A year later, she was allowed to return to Florence. Louise is buried in the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence (in the Castellani Chapel); Alfieri is also buried in the basilica (between the tombs of Machiavelli and Michelangelo). Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern Princess Louise Maximilienne Caroline Emmanuele of Stolberg-Gedern (20 September 1752 – 29 January 1824) was the wife of Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite claimant to the English and Scottish thrones. She is commonly called the Countess of", "title": "Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern" }, { "id": "3011776", "text": "stomach\" while out driving on 3 October 1803. His health deteriorated and he died in his chair on 8 October. He was buried in the church of Santa Croce, Florence. Louise arranged for Antonio Canova to erect a monument in his memory. This took 6 years to be executed, being finally installed in Santa Croce in the autumn of 1810. Vaughan, Herbert M, \"The Last Stuart Queen\", 1st edition, Brentano's, 1911 Attribution: Vittorio Alfieri Count Vittorio Alfieri (; 16 January 17498 October 1803) was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the \"founder of Italian tragedy.\" Alfieri was born at Asti,", "title": "Vittorio Alfieri" }, { "id": "282329", "text": "the age of 88 (three weeks before his 89th birthday). His body was taken from Rome for interment at the Basilica of Santa Croce, fulfilling the maestro's last request to be buried in his beloved Florence. Michelangelo, with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, is one of the three giants of the Florentine High Renaissance. Although their names are often cited together, Michelangelo was younger than Leonardo by 23 years, and older than Raphael by eight. Because of his reclusive nature, he had little to do with either artist and outlived both of them by more than forty years. Michelangelo took", "title": "Michelangelo" }, { "id": "15091185", "text": "of their illegitimate birth, their father considered the girls unmarriageable, if not posing problems of prohibitively expensive support or dowries, which would have been similar to Galileo's previous extensive financial problems with two of his sisters. Their only worthy alternative was the religious life. Both girls were accepted by the in Arcetri and remained there for the rest of their lives. Virginia took the name Maria Celeste upon entering the convent. She died on 2 April 1634, and is buried with Galileo at the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence. Livia took the name Sister Arcangela and was ill for most", "title": "Galileo Galilei" }, { "id": "3230544", "text": "as a part of government suppression of most religious houses, following the wars that gained Italian independence and unity. The Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce is housed mainly in the refectory, also off the cloister. A monument to Florence Nightingale stands in the cloister, in the city in which she was born and after which she was named. Brunelleschi also built the inner cloister, completed in 1453. In 1966, the Arno River flooded much of Florence, including Santa Croce. The water entered the church bringing mud, pollution and heating oil. The damage to buildings and art treasures was severe, taking", "title": "Santa Croce, Florence" }, { "id": "100514", "text": "the \"Nuova Cronica\" of the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani. Florence eventually came to regret Dante's exile, and the city made repeated requests for the return of his remains. The custodians of the body in Ravenna refused, at one point going so far as to conceal the bones in a false wall of the monastery. Nonetheless, a tomb was built for him in Florence in 1829, in the Basilica of Santa Croce. That tomb has been empty ever since, with Dante's body remaining in Ravenna, far from the land he had loved so dearly. The front of his tomb in Florence", "title": "Dante Alighieri" }, { "id": "3230543", "text": "interior rebuilt by Giorgio Vasari. As a result, there was damage to the church's decoration and most of the altars previously located on the screen were lost. The bell tower was built in 1842, replacing an earlier one damaged by lightning. The neo-Gothic marble façade dates from 1857-1863. The Jewish architect Niccolo Matas from Ancona, designed the church's façade, working a prominent Star of David into the composition. Matas had wanted to be buried with his peers but because he was Jewish, he was buried under the threshold and honored with an inscription. In 1866, the complex became public property,", "title": "Santa Croce, Florence" }, { "id": "3113220", "text": "Luigi Lanzi Luigi Lanzi (14 June 1732 – 30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. When he died he was buried in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence by the side of Michelangelo. Born in Treia, Lanzi was educated as a priest. He entered the Order of the Jesuits, resided at Rome and in 1773 was appointed keeper of the galleries of Florence, where he became president of the Accademia della Crusca. He thereafter studied Italian painting and Etruscan antiquities and language. In the one field his labors are represented by his \"Storia Pittorica dell'", "title": "Luigi Lanzi" }, { "id": "15091182", "text": "for two years. He was educated from 1575 to 1578 in the Vallombrosa Abbey, about 30 km southeast of Florence. The surname Galilei derives from the given name of an ancestor, Galileo Bonaiuti, a physician, university teacher and politician who lived in Florence from 1370 to 1450; his descendants had changed their family name from Bonaiuti (or Buonaiuti) to Galilei in his honor in the late 14th century. Galileo Bonaiuti was buried in the same church, the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, where about 200 years later his more famous descendant Galileo Galilei was also buried. It was common", "title": "Galileo Galilei" }, { "id": "13378065", "text": "1547, Pope Paul III appointed him chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica, which he would work on for the rest of his life. Michelangelo died of old age, leaving the project unfinished. Though he devoted the last seventeen years of his life to this task, Michelangelo refused to accept anything. He said he did it for the good of his soul. Years later his body was brought back from Rome for interment at the Basilica di Santa Croce, fulfilling his last request to be buried in his beloved Tuscany. Michelangelo and the Medici Michelangelo (6 March 1475 – 18 February", "title": "Michelangelo and the Medici" }, { "id": "20331770", "text": "Cimitero delle Porte Sante Cimitero delle Porte Sante (\"The Sacred Doors Cemetery\") is a monumental cemetery in Florence located within the fortified bastion of the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte. The idea of a burial site near San Miniato was conceived around 1837, although the camposanto was inaugurated eleven years later, in 1848. The project, originally entrusted to architect Niccolò Matas (the author of the facade of the Basilica of Santa Croce), was enlarged and in 1864 Mariano Falcini used the area of the sixteenth-century fortress lying around the church. The project of the new cemetery grew parallel with", "title": "Cimitero delle Porte Sante" }, { "id": "2264844", "text": "on a pillar in the Church of Santa Croce is a memorial to Francesco Nori, who fell by the stab intended for Lorenzo de' Medici. Other reliefs of the Madonna and Child are in the Via della Spada, Florence, and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In the latter place is the bust of Giovanni di San Miniato, a doctor of arts and medicine, signed and dated 1456. Working in conjunction with Mino da Fiesole, Rossellino executed the reliefs of the \"Assumption of Mary\" and the \"Martyrdom of St. Stephen\" for the pulpit at Prato. A marble bust of", "title": "Antonio Rossellino" }, { "id": "815229", "text": "Exiled Catholic British royalty James Francis Edward Stuart and his two sons, Charles Edward Stuart and Henry Benedict Stuart, Cardinal Bishop of Frascati, are buried here, having been granted asylum by Pope Clement XI. Also buried here are Maria Clementina Sobieska, wife of James Francis Edward Stuart, Queen Christina of Sweden, who abdicated her throne in order to convert to Catholicism, and Countess Matilda of Tuscany, supporter of the Papacy during the Investiture Controversy. The most recent interment was Pope John Paul II, on 8 April 2005. Beneath, near the crypt, is the recently discovered vaulted 4th-century \"Tomb of the", "title": "St. Peter's Basilica" }, { "id": "10826102", "text": "has high relief saints in shell niches on and above the sarcophagus, above which a large pair of curtains sweep up to a single terminal; however the architectural detailing here is Gothic. The design of the Cossa tomb itself was elaborated on, and adapted to local conventions, in the tomb by the same team for Cardinal Brancacci in Naples, and influenced the monument to Leonardo Bruni by Bernardo Rossellino, of about 20 years later, in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence. The base slab, or pylon, of the tomb monument rests on a high plinth, separated by a cornice and", "title": "Tomb of Antipope John XXIII" }, { "id": "5790896", "text": "the largest. Many famous people are buried in the graveyard: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (in a tomb designed by Frederic, Lord Leighton), Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Francesca Alexander, Fanny Trollope and her daughter-in-law Theodosia Trollope and three other family members, Isa Blagden, Thomas Southwood Smith, Hiram Powers, Joel Tanner Hart, Theodore Parker, Mary Farhill, Fanny, the wife of William Holman Hunt in a tomb he himself sculpted, Mary, the daughter of John Roddam Spencer Stanhope in a tomb he himself sculpted, Louise, sister to Henry Adams, whose dying he describes in his 'Chaos' chapter in \"The Education of Henry", "title": "English Cemetery, Florence" }, { "id": "6419924", "text": "is kept near the colossal statue of St. Empress Helena sculpted by Andrea Bolgi in 1639. The apse of the Basilica includes frescoes telling the \"Legends of the True Cross\", attributed to Melozzo, Antoniazzo Romano, and Marco Palmezzano. The Museum of the Basilica houses a mosaic icon which, according to the legend, Pope Gregory I had made after a vision of Christ. The icon, however, is believed to have been given to the Basilica around 1385 by Raimondo Del Balzo Orsini. Notable also is the tomb of Cardinal Francisco de los Ángeles Quiñones sculpted by Jacopo Sansovino in 1536. Santa", "title": "Santa Croce in Gerusalemme" }, { "id": "9957023", "text": "(Pastor, Gesch. d. Päpste, Freiburg, 1906, IV (1), 37–40). Carvajal was later made Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia and Dean of the Sacred College, with his uncle's former title of San Marcello, and as such welcomed to Rome Pope Adrian VI (op. cit. IV (2) 47–48), whom he survived, and Pope Clement VII. He had lived at Rome under eight popes, and was buried in his titular church of Santa Croce, where a magnificent sepulchral monument perpetuates his memory. The noble but modernized frescoes (Pinturicchio school) in the tribuna of the apse, representing the Discovery of the Holy Cross, are owing to", "title": "Bernardino López de Carvajal" }, { "id": "16652865", "text": "Cupertino. The two columns of verde antico, green marble, are the largest known in that type of stone. The \"Descent of the Cross\", on the altar of the last chapel, is a famous work of Francesco Manno. On the second pillar on the left side is the epitaph of Cardinal Bessarion, and a 16th-century portrait of him. His mortal remains were moved here in 1957. For a short time, the basilica housed the tomb of Michelangelo, before its transportation to the Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze. Upon the death of James Francis Edward Stuart in 1766, his body lay", "title": "Santi Apostoli, Rome" }, { "id": "2940502", "text": "Rome in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, and held in great veneration, this should not be confused with the sponge of Saint Praxedis, which is not the Holy Sponge. When 23 Christians were discovered in the home of St. Praxedis, they were martyred before her very eyes. She had the presence of mind to collect their blood with a sponge and placed it in a well, where she herself was later buried, marked by the disk in the Basilica's floor. The Holy Sponge itself is in the Chapel of the Relics at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. Aside from", "title": "Holy Sponge" }, { "id": "17871440", "text": "holy water font at the Pitti Palace and the monumental tombs of Sir Charles Lyon Herbert and Lady Harriet Frances Pellew, at the English Cemetery in Piazzale Donatello. Her Florentine masterworks include her sculptural tribute to West-Indian poet Louise de Favreau in the loggia of the Basilica of Santa Croce, which, according to De Fauveau scholar Silvia Mascalchi, was inspired by a poem the girl had written before her death at age seventeen. \"Santa Maria del Carmine's Monument to Anne de la Pierre\", which the artist created in 1859 depicts a realistic portrait of Fauveau's mother. In 2012 and 2013,", "title": "Félicie de Fauveau" }, { "id": "3230545", "text": "several decades to repair. Today the former dormitory of the Franciscan friars houses the Scuola del Cuoio (Leather School). Visitors can watch as artisans craft purses, wallets, and other leather goods which are sold in the adjacent shop. The basilica has been undergoing a multi-year restoration program with assistance from Italy’s civil protection agency. Artists whose work is present in the church include: Once present in the church's Medici Chapel, but now split between the Florentine Galleries and the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan, is a polyptych by Lorenzo di Niccolò. The Basilica became popular with Florentines as a place", "title": "Santa Croce, Florence" }, { "id": "17765567", "text": "centuries for Florentines to honor their greatest scientist with a building. But that is not surprising, they had also been slow to bury Galileo inside a church. After his death in 1642, his interment in the main body of the Basilica of Santa Croce, next to the tombs of his father and other ancestors, was abandoned when papal authorities protested. Tribune of Galileo The Tribune of Galileo () is an Neoclassic architectural addition, built to commemorate the famous Florentine scientist, Galileo Galilei and to house some of his scientific instruments. The tribune was completed in 1841 and built within the", "title": "Tribune of Galileo" }, { "id": "15481464", "text": "surface of which is made with the \"petrification\" technique. Word soon spread that Segato had acquired knowledge of Egyptian magic. Hampered by the society of his time, he was prompted to destroy all his notes before his death. Segato took to the grave the secret of the technique he developed, which, despite numerous studies and attempts to imitate, remains mysterious. It is said that, on his death, he would reveal his secret to his friend Pellegrini (nicknamed Pellegro), but he died prematurely. He died in 1836, and was buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce. Today, many of Segato's surviving", "title": "Girolamo Segato" }, { "id": "18935841", "text": "Florence took opposite sides) complicated relations with the Barberinis. His final years were spent writing the \"Satires\". He is buried in Santa Croce. Buonarroti's lyrics are found among many 17-century composers' \"musiche\" as well as in Luigi Dallapiccola's \"Sei Cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane\" (1933). Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (baptized 4 November 1568 – 11 January 1646) was a Florentine poet, librettist and man of letters, known as \"the Younger\" to distinguish him from his famous granduncle the sculptor. He studied mathematics at the University of Pisa (1586-1591) where he became friends with Galileo Galilei", "title": "Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger" }, { "id": "12356475", "text": "all people and five times at the end of the week. His priest nephew – Felice Romano (b. 1793) – stated that his uncle's preaching was simple and was aimed to educate the faithful. He was often distinguished with the Crucifix he had in his hand. On 1 January 1825 he fell and fractured his left femur which began a slow decline in his health. Romano died on 20 December 1831 after battling a long illness and his remains are interred in his Santa Croce church. Pope John Paul II visited Naples and visited Romano's tomb on 11 November 1990.", "title": "Vincent Romano" }, { "id": "3646702", "text": "Santa Croce (Venice) Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy. During the eleventh century, in 1273 , it was administrated by the Hungarian nobleman and crusader knight Giovanni , member of one of the biggest Christian families in Hungary Renoldi , as reported by the book published in 1866 in Florence book of the Venetian noblemen for the first time shown It occupies the north west part of the main islands, and can be divided into two areas: the eastern area being largely mediaeval, and the western - including the main port and the Tronchetto", "title": "Santa Croce (Venice)" }, { "id": "5491267", "text": "sculptors like Andrea Verrocchio. In his decade of impoverishment, supportive commissions came from foreigners; the funeral monument to Princess Sofia Zamoyski Czartoriski (died 1837) in Santa Croce, Florence's Westminster Abbey, is an anti-classical statement for naturalism. Two other Bartolini monuments in Santa Croce can be compared with it; in the Capella Giugni is his monument to Carlotta Buonaparte (died 1839), but when the occasion required a more formal approach, as in the monument to Leone Battista Alberti, the result could be chilly. A major commission came in 1830 from the sons of the Russian emigree prince Nicola Demidoff, who had", "title": "Lorenzo Bartolini" }, { "id": "13075063", "text": "Giovanni Lami Giovanni Lami (1697–1770) was an Italian jurist, Church historian, and antiquarian. Born at Santa Croce sull'Arno in 1697, he studied at the University of Pisa and obtained his doctorate of law in 1719. He was the prefect of the Biblioteca Pallavicini at Genoa and later president of the Biblioteca Riccardiana at Florence. He eventually succeeded to a professorship of ecclesiastical history at the University of Florence, and was a court theologian and counsellor to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. He died in 1770 and was buried in the Basilica di Santa Croce. His magnum opus was the eighteen-volume", "title": "Giovanni Lami" }, { "id": "11037462", "text": "Carlo Marsuppini Carlo Marsuppini (1399–1453), also known as Carlo Aretino and Carolus Arretinus, was an Italian Renaissance humanist and chancellor of the Florentine Republic. Marsuppini was born in Genoa into a family from Arezzo, but grew up and died in Florence. His father, Gregorio Marsuppini, had been governor of Genoa under Charles VI of France. He had close contact with the Medici family. In 1444, he followed Leonardo Bruni as chancellor of the Republic of Florence, with whom he shares the honour of a monument in Santa Croce (designed by the sculptor Desiderio da Settignano). Poggio Bracciolini became chancellor after", "title": "Carlo Marsuppini" }, { "id": "15146864", "text": "Santa Maria della Croce, Crema Santa Maria della Croce is a Roman Catholic sanctuary and minor basilica in Crema, in the Cremona Province of Lombardy, Italy. The church was built in the Lombard Renaissance style about one and a half mile from city center, outside the medieval walls, on the road to Bergamo where a Marian apparition may have affected Caterina degli Uberti, a woman from Cremona. Legend holds that on 13 April 1490, after she was fatally wounded by her husband in a wooded area close to the town, and wishing to die in the Grace of God, she", "title": "Santa Maria della Croce, Crema" }, { "id": "3494485", "text": "by the \"Arte della Mercantia\" of Florence, and the fortified bishop’s palace, built in 1295 and later used as a barracks and a hospital. The whole complex is surrounded by defensive walls, originally built hastily by Michelangelo during the siege and in 1553 expanded into a true fortress (\"fortezza\") by Cosimo I de' Medici. The walls now enclose a large ornate monumental cemetery, the \"\", laid out in 1854. Buried there are Carlo Collodi, creator of Pinocchio; politician Giovanni Spadolini; painter Pietro Annigoni; poet and author Luigi Ugolini; film producer Mario Cecchi Gori; sculptor Libero Andreotti; fine artist Maria Luisa", "title": "San Miniato al Monte" }, { "id": "269347", "text": "and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the \"Petite Messe Solennelle\", \"the last musical composition by Rossini\", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and \"demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro,\" of singing it herself in her \"dear and beloved homeland\". Her wish, however, never came true and she was just given the chance of being present at the exhumation", "title": "Marietta Alboni" }, { "id": "3775062", "text": "the church of Santa Croce. A statue by Donatello and a portrait by Antonio del Pollaiuolo remain to commemorate a citizen who chiefly for his services to humanistic literature deserved the notice of posterity. During his life, Poggio kept acquiring properties around Florence and invested in the city enterprises with the Medici bank. At his death, his gross assets amounted to 8,500 florins, with only 137 families in Florence owning a larger capital. His wife, five sons and daughter all survived him. After July 1415 — Antipope John XXIII had been deposed by the Council of Constance and the Roman", "title": "Poggio Bracciolini" }, { "id": "3039805", "text": "of the Palazzo della Signoria. Jacopo de' Pazzi, head of the family, escaped from Florence but was caught and brought back. He was tortured, then hanged from the Palazzo della Signoria next to the decomposing corpse of Salviati. He was buried at Santa Croce, but the body was dug up and thrown into a ditch. It was then dragged through the streets and propped up at the door of Palazzo Pazzi, where the rotting head was mockingly used as a door-knocker. From there it was thrown into the Arno; children fished it out and hung it from a willow tree,", "title": "Pazzi conspiracy" }, { "id": "12239809", "text": "secchio in un tino\" (man emptying a bucket into a vat). Other works of his include a \"Satyr with a flask\" in the Museo del Bargello and sculptures of personifications of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture on the tomb of Michelangelo Buonarroti in the basilica of Santa Croce. Valerio Cioli Valerio Cioli (or Cigoli or Giogoli) (1529–1599) was an Italian sculptor His most famous work is the \"Fontana del Bacchino\" in the Giardino di Boboli, near the entrance to piazza Pitti in Florence. It shows a dwarf at the court of Cosimo I, ironically nicknamed \"Morgante\" (the giant of the poem", "title": "Valerio Cioli" }, { "id": "17846127", "text": "died at her home in Indianapolis on the night of September 23, 2018 at the age of 76. A memorial ceremony was planned for her at the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence on October 9. She was survived by her son, John Medveckis of Basalt, Colorado, her daughter, Jennifer Medveckis, and her husband, James Marzo of Singapore. Jane Fortune Jane Fortune (August 9, 1942 – September 23, 2018) was an American author, journalist, and philanthropist. Many of her publications and philanthropic activities were centered on the research, restoration, and exhibition of art by women in Florence, Italy. Fortune was", "title": "Jane Fortune" }, { "id": "15091214", "text": "of the Basilica of Santa Croce, next to the tombs of his father and other ancestors, and to erect a marble mausoleum in his honour. These plans were dropped, however, after Pope Urban VIII and his nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, protested, because Galileo had been condemned by the Catholic Church for \"vehement suspicion of heresy\". He was instead buried in a small room next to the novices' chapel at the end of a corridor from the southern transept of the basilica to the sacristy. He was reburied in the main body of the basilica in 1737 after a monument had", "title": "Galileo Galilei" }, { "id": "6215704", "text": "letter from Philadelphia sent by their father. Charlotte reportedly died in childbirth, aged 36. Her tomb is in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy, and it says (paraphrased): Born Oct. 31, 1802, died 1839. Charlotte Bonaparte Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte (31 October 1802 – 2 March 1839) was the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, the older brother of Emperor Napoleon I, and Julie Clary. Her mother was the sister of Désirée Clary, Napoleon's first love. Charlotte married her first cousin Napoleon Louis, the second son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais. She studied engraving and lithography in Paris with the", "title": "Charlotte Bonaparte" }, { "id": "13911471", "text": "the direction of Giovanni da San Giovanni. In front of the Basilica is a marble statue depicting Dante sculpted by Enrico Pazzi, named Monument to Dante. Every year in June, a field of sand is prepared for the annual Calcio Fiorentino (historic football) games. The game is fairly violent; boxing and wrestling is allowed and minor injuries are frequent. In 2006 Roberto Benigni recited Dante's \"Divine Comedy\" beside the statue of Dante. Piazza Santa Croce Piazza Santa Croce is one of the main plazas or squares located in the central neighborhood of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is located", "title": "Piazza Santa Croce" }, { "id": "6267746", "text": "of pathology to medicine. He also did some of the early research into bioelectricity in warm-blooded animals. Puccinotti died in Florence and was buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce. Francesco Puccinotti Francesco Puccinotti (1794 – October 8, 1872) was an Italian pathologist. Puccinotti was born in Urbino and started his career as the main doctor in Recanati but moved on to Macerata where he became the director of the civil hospital. He went on to teach the history of medicine at the universities of Pisa and Florence. He was briefly named to the Italian Senate after the \"Risorgimento\". Puccinotti", "title": "Francesco Puccinotti" }, { "id": "4851053", "text": "the ground, as the Pope requested, and covered with a plain stone slab featuring his name and dates of his pontificate. Pope John Paul II asked that his burial be like that of Pope Paul VI, not in an elaborate sarcophagus and ornate above-ground tomb, but in \"bare earth\". His remains lay in this tomb for six years before it was exhumed to prepare for his beatification in 2011. Cardinal Martínez Somalo ended the Rite of Interment with the words, \"Lord, grant him eternal rest, and may perpetual light shine upon him.\" Those present sang \"Salve Regina\" or \"Hail Holy", "title": "Funeral of Pope John Paul II" }, { "id": "11591076", "text": "already been attributed to Antonietta. A woman in Indiana claimed that she was healed of Hepatitis C after praying to Antonietta. A shrine with relics of her life is in the Basilica Santa Croce, in Gerusalemme in Rome, the church where she was baptized and spent much of her time in meditation. Antonietta's body was moved inside the church in 1999. Other young people have been canonized as saints. Fourteen-year-old Saint Pancras was beheaded in 304 A.D. after he became a Christian, and Saint Ponticus was fifteen when he was thrown to the lions in 177 A.D. The youngest saint", "title": "Antonietta Meo" }, { "id": "15701494", "text": "island of Rhodes on 6 September 1829 where he was buried in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. In 1914 there was an attempt to move his remains to Florence to be buried in the Church of Santa Croce but his body could not be found. After his death, his wife Laura and five children were forced to sell his botanical collections to support themselves. The collections were purchased by several people leading to it now being spread out across Europe. Although known mainly as a botanist, Raddi also collected specimens from many taxa and studied reptiles, and from", "title": "Giuseppe Raddi" }, { "id": "11744131", "text": "on the sarcophagus, which was common from the Romanesque period through to the Baroque and beyond. Ruling dynasties were often buried together, usually in monasteries; the Chartreuse de Champmol was founded for that purpose by the Valois Dukes of Burgundy in 1383. The Scaliger tombs in Verona are magnificent free-standing Gothic canopied tombs—they are outside the church in a special enclosure, and so are unrestricted in height. Important churches like Saint Peter's in Rome, Saint Paul's Cathedral, London, Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (twenty-five Doges), and the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence contain large numbers of impressive monuments to the", "title": "Funerary art" }, { "id": "2397493", "text": "daughter of John Jay Deming and Emily (née Reed) Deming. Together, they had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood: Crocker was seriously injured in a New York City carriage accident in 1886, never fully recovered, and died two years later on August 14, 1888. He was buried in a mausoleum located on \"Millionaire's Row\" at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California. The massive granite structure was designed by the New York architect A. Page Brown, who later designed the San Francisco Ferry Building. Crocker's estate has been valued at between $300 million and $400 million at the time", "title": "Charles Crocker" }, { "id": "15520229", "text": "unnoticed and even approved by society according to the code of honour of the 16th century, and Diego Sandoval's murder was hardly investigated. Her year of death is not known with certainty but it was most likely 1545 or 1546, though other studies suggest she died in 1547 or 1548. It is believed that she was buried in the local church of San Fabiano but no grave and no trace leading to her have been found. While visiting Valsinni, Croce tried to discover Isabella's tomb but renovations in the church had destroyed all traces of the di Morra family burials,", "title": "Isabella di Morra" }, { "id": "17693227", "text": "Daniele Manin were brought to his native city and honoured with a public funeral. He had been acclaimed president of the Venetian Republic of San Marco by residents of Venice after a revolt in 1848. The gondola carrying his coffin was decorated with bow \"surmounted by the lion of Saint Mark, resplendent with gold\", bore \"the Venetian standard veiled with black crape\", and had \"two silver colossal statues waving the national colours of Italy\". The statues represented the unification of Italy and Venice. The funeral procession was described as \"magnificent\". His remains are interred at the Basilica of Santa Croce,", "title": "National colours of Italy" }, { "id": "20571885", "text": "the poet\"). The friars hid the bones in the 1677 box again in 1810 during the French occupation to prevent them being confiscated. They walled the box into the nearby oratory of the Braccioforte cloister before leaving the city. Florence had not given up hope of having the remains removed from Ravenna, however, and in 1829 the city erected a cenotaph in Santa Croce Basilica, showing the poet seated in thought and a personification of Poetry weeping over the sarcophagus. The box's location was forgotten until 27 May 1865, when it was found by a worker carrying out restoration work", "title": "Tomb of Dante" }, { "id": "706089", "text": "at the age of 101 in February 1921. Also interred at the Mission are the bodies of numerous Franciscan priests who died during their time of service, as well as the remains of Reverend Raymond Catalan, C.M.F., who undertook the restoration of the Mission's gardens. Entombed at the foot of the altar are the remains of eight Franciscan priests (listed in order of interment): Miguel Sánchez, Antonio Cruzado, Francisco Dumetz, Roman Ulibarri, Joaquin P. Nuez, Gerónimo Boscana, José Bernardo Sánchez, and Blas Ordaz. Buried among the priests is centenarian Eulalia Perez de Guillén Mariné, the \"keeper of the keys\" under", "title": "Mission San Gabriel Arcángel" }, { "id": "6419917", "text": "Santa Croce in Gerusalemme The Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem or Basilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, () is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and titular church in rione Esquilino, Rome, Italy. It is one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. According to tradition, the basilica was consecrated circa 325 to house the relics of the Passion of Jesus Christ brought to Rome from the Holy Land by Empress St. Helena, mother of Roman Emperor Constantine I. At that time, the Basilica's floor was covered with soil from Jerusalem, thus acquiring the title \"in Hierusalem\"; it is", "title": "Santa Croce in Gerusalemme" }, { "id": "6376477", "text": "in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, also in Rome) and wood from the Jesus' crib enshrined at S. Maria Maggiore. The authenticity of these relics, including the Santa Prassede pillar, is disputed by historians, due to lack of forensic evidence and the proliferation of falsified relics during the Middle Ages. Among known titulars of this see are Lambertus Scannabecchi (later Pope Honorius II, c. 1099), Ubaldo Allucingoli (later Pope Lucius III, 1141), Alain de Coëtivy (1448), Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte (later Pope Julius III, 1542-1543), Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584), Rafael Merry del Val (1903-1930). Santa Prassede The Basilica of Saint", "title": "Santa Prassede" }, { "id": "14255090", "text": "Galileo a stately burial upon his death, though later his bones were interned under a monument at the Church of Santa Croce in Florence. In 1980, Pope John Paul II ordered a re-examination of the evidence against Galileo and formally acquitted him in 1992. In 1939 Pope Pius XII, in his first speech to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, within a few months of his election to the papacy, described Galileo as being among the \"most audacious heroes of research ... not afraid of the stumbling blocks and the risks on the way, nor fearful of the funereal monuments.\" His", "title": "Catholic Church and science" }, { "id": "19417936", "text": "piazza of this statue has an elaborate but empty tomb monument to Dante. The pedestal has four Marzocco lions with shields holding the names of minor Dante works and the symbols of various Italian cities who contributed to the cost of the sculpture. The statue initially placed in the center of the Piazza was later moved to in front of the flank of the façade of the Basilica. Monument to Dante The Statue of Dante Alighieri (\"Monumento a Dante Alighieri\") is a monument of Dante Alighieri. It is located in Piazza Santa Croce, next to Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence,", "title": "Monument to Dante" }, { "id": "3646703", "text": "- mostly lying on land reclaimed in the 10th century. The district includes the Piazzale Roma, home to Venice's bus station and car parks, and around which is the only area of the city in which cars can travel. The tourist attractions lie mostly in the eastern part of the quarter, and include the churches of San Nicolo da Tolentino, San Giacomo dell'Orio, and San Zan Degola; the Fondaco dei Turchi; the Museum of the History of Fabric and Costume at Palazzo Mocenigo; the Patrician Palace; and Ca' Corner della Regina. The area was once part of the Luprio swamp,", "title": "Santa Croce (Venice)" }, { "id": "10879314", "text": "the grand table inlaid in pietra dura with Apollo and the Muses, executed by the Grand Ducal \"Opificio delle pietre dure\"; Duprè's figures of the Seasons with putti was cast in bronze by Clemente Papi. The table stands in the Sala del Castagnoli, Palazzo Pitti. In 1859–64 he sculpted the funeral monument for contessa Berta Moltke Ferrari-Corbelli in the left transept of the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence. He followed it with the \"Putti dell'Uva\" (the \"Grape Children\"); the \"Madonna Addolorata\" for Santa Croce, Florence (1860), and the bas-relief of the \"Triumph of the Cross\", accompanied by figures representing all", "title": "Giovanni Dupré" }, { "id": "311919", "text": "Paul I and John Paul II. The Cardinal Camerlengo retrieves the Ring of the Fisherman and cuts it in two in the presence of the Cardinals. The pope's seals are defaced, to keep them from ever being used again, and his personal apartment is sealed. The body lies in state for several days before being interred in the crypt of a leading church or cathedral; all popes who have died in the 20th and 21st centuries have been interred in St. Peter's Basilica. A nine-day period of mourning (\"novendialis\") follows the interment. It is highly unusual for a pope to", "title": "Pope" }, { "id": "10345259", "text": "Chivalry. In 1962 Pope John XXIII created him Cardinal Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, and he resigned his diplomatic posts. From 1962 to 1965, Efrem Cardinal Forni attended the Second Vatican Council, during the course of which he participated in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI. Cardinal Efrem Leone Pio Forni died in Rome, at age 87. He is buried in the church of St. Francis Church in Gallarate ( near Milan ) in the left said of the high Altar, and not in his old family gray in Milan. Efrem Forni Efrem Leone Pio Forni", "title": "Efrem Forni" }, { "id": "5396007", "text": "of mind and spirit, Boyle was once asked of his interest in being a Cardinal given the fact that all of his predecessors went on to be Cardinals. His reply was in the negative saying 'nothing but the papacy' would do him. Father Boyle was buried in his beloved Basilica di San Clemente, in 2000, a year after his death, following official desire to give him the honour of interment in the vaults of San Clemente — one of Rome's holiest and most historical shrines. Leonard Boyle Leonard Eugene Boyle, OP, (13 November 1923 – 25 October 1999), was an", "title": "Leonard Boyle" }, { "id": "4912520", "text": "92, after three months hospitalised in a Florence retirement home for priests. Days before his death, he was telephoned by Pope Francis on the pontiff's visit to the city. His funeral Mass has been celebrated in the late afternoon of 12 July 2016 by cardinal Giuseppe Betori and then his remains have been buried in Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral. Silvano Piovanelli Silvano Piovanelli (21 February 1924 – 9 July 2016) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Florence from 1983 to 2001, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985. Silvano Piovanelli", "title": "Silvano Piovanelli" }, { "id": "4222365", "text": "A. J. Croce Adrian James \"A.J.\" Croce (born September 28, 1971 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter. He is the son of singer-songwriters Jim Croce and Ingrid Croce. Croce was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1971. Shortly before his second birthday, Croce's father, Jim, died in a plane crash. His family moved west to San Diego, California shortly afterward, where Croce was raised by his mother, Ingrid Croce. At the age of four, Croce was completely blinded as the result serious physical abuse at the hands of his mother's boyfriend. Croce gradually regained vision in", "title": "A. J. Croce" }, { "id": "1700034", "text": "della Signoria next to the decomposing corpse of Salviati. He was buried at Santa Croce, but the body was dug up and thrown into a ditch. It was then dragged through the streets and propped up at the door of Palazzo Pazzi, where the rotting head was mockingly used as a door-knocker. From there it was thrown into the Arno; children fished it out and hung it from a willow tree, flogged it, and then threw it back into the river. The Pazzi were banished from Florence, and their lands and property confiscated. Their name and their coat of arms", "title": "Pazzi" }, { "id": "9746108", "text": "Leopoldo (1771–74; Pitti). Spinazzi contributed monuments to three celebrated Florentines for the church of Santa Croce: jurist Giovanni Lami (died 1770); Angelo Tavanti (died 1782); and author Niccolò Machiavelli (1787). In 1792 he added an angel to the Baptism by Andrea Sansovino and Vincenzo Danti above the Porta del Paradiso of the Baptistery of Florence. His virtuoso marble figures of heavily veiled women, for example \"Faith\" (1781; Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi) and \"Religion\" (from the tomb of Varvara Jakovlevna, Princess Beloselskij, 1794; Turin, Museo Civico), follow precedents set by Antonio Corradini in Naples. Spinazzi was professor of sculpture at", "title": "Innocenzo Spinazzi" }, { "id": "10227912", "text": "age 84, and is buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore. <br> Ermenegildo Florit Ermenegildo Florit (5 July 1901 – 8 December 1985) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Florence from 1962 to 1977, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. Ermenegildo Florit was born in Fagagna, and attended the seminary in Udine, the Pontifical Roman Seminary, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute and Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. Before finishing his studies in 1927, he was ordained to the priesthood on 11 April 1925. Florit served as a professor", "title": "Ermenegildo Florit" }, { "id": "19417935", "text": "the fallen Roman Empire. With this, the retinue left. Pazzi's statue would take nearly half a decade to rise in the piazza. The statue was erected in 1865 to celebrate the 600 year anniversary of the birth of the poet Dante. The pedestal was designed by Luigi del Sarto. The creation of a statue of a famous Florentine by a sculptor from Ravenna caused some rumblings. Florence and Ravenna for years had disputed who was to hold the remains of Dante: his native city or the city of his exile. The church of Santa Croce which stands on the same", "title": "Monument to Dante" }, { "id": "14781351", "text": "Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence. A celebrated poem describing and reflecting on a stone effigy is \"An Arundel Tomb\" by Philip Larkin. Recumbent effigies were a common tradition in Etruscan funerary art, examples are known in both ceramic and stone. The deceased was typically depicted alive as at a feast, lying sideways, propped up on one arm and sometimes holding a cup. Usually these were rather smaller than life-size. The Romans continued this tradition, though they also created many other types of funerary effigy. Their faces are often clearly portraits of individuals. The first medieval gisants emerged in the 12th", "title": "Tomb effigy" }, { "id": "19064959", "text": "Ferdinando III of Lorraine, and in the outer lunnette has a much degraded fresco depicting the Virgin and Saints by Ghirlandaio. In the past, just outside this gate, was the site where official executions were performed. The urban renewal of Florence (1865-1871) directed by Giuseppe Poggi demolished the walls and left this and other gates isolated in a traffic circles. To the south of the gate is a plaque commemorating those fallen in World War I. Below is a fountain in poor state of conservation. The memorial was dedicated in 1925, completed in 1928, and two Fascist emblems were once", "title": "Porta alla Croce, Florence" }, { "id": "16578636", "text": "April 9, 1473. He celebrated a synod there, but soon fell ill and returned to Rome on November 17, 1473, resigning the archbishopric on June 17, 1474. Capranica died in Rome on July 3, 1478. He is buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in the same chapel as his brother. Angelo Capranica Angelo Capranica (c. 1415 -1478) (called the Cardinal of Santa Croce or the Cardinal of Rieti) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. Angelo Capranica was born in Rome around 1415, the son of de Niccoló Pantagati da Capranica and his wife, Iacobella. He was the younger", "title": "Angelo Capranica" }, { "id": "790421", "text": "Coëtivy in Santa Prassede, Ludovico Cardinal d'Albert at Santa Maria in Aracoeli, and Bishop Juan Díaz de Coca at the Santa Maria sopra Minerva, a basilican church in Rome, Italy. Three other monuments are those of Cardinal Matteo d'Acquasparta (Matthew of Acquasparta) at the Santa Maria in Aracoeli, the tomb of Bishop Gonsalvi (1298) and that of Cardinal Gonsalvo (1299) (both located at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore), all sculpted by Giovanni de Cosma, the youngest of the Cosmati family lineage. Saint Peter's Basilica contains yet another monument, the tomb of Pope Innocent III. It was sculpted by Giovanni", "title": "Cadaver tomb" }, { "id": "319621", "text": "funerals of Winston Churchill (1965) and Josip Broz Tito (1980). Four kings, five queens, at least 70 presidents and prime ministers, and more than 14 leaders of other religions attended alongside the faithful. It is likely to have been the largest single pilgrimage of Christianity ever with numbers estimated in excess of four million mourners gathering in and around Vatican City. Between 250,000 and 300,000 watched the event from within the Vatican's walls. The Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, conducted the ceremony. John Paul II was interred in the grottoes under the basilica, the Tomb of", "title": "Pope John Paul II" }, { "id": "14190536", "text": "supported by two rows of columns. One chapel has the funeral monument of Count Giuseppe Mangilli, designed by Luigi Trezza with bust by Angelo Pizzi. The main altarpiece is a \"Custodian Angel\" by Bernardo Strozzi. The chapel is the burial place of several members of the Cornaro family, including Giorgio Cornaro and his sister Catherine Cornaro the Queen of Cyprus (since removed to the church of San Salvadore elsewhere in Venice), The charitable organisation Save Venice funded the restoration of the chapel, including the relief carvings. The main altar of this chapel was the \"Last Communion of St Lucy\" (1747–48)", "title": "Santi Apostoli, Venice" }, { "id": "4614329", "text": "everybody that God grants us graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; that people are to ask her for them; and that the Heart of Jesus wants the Immaculate Heart of Mary to be venerated at his side. Tell them also to pray to the Immaculate Heart of Mary for peace, since God entrusted it to her. Jacinta and Francisco are both buried at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fátima. The cause for the siblings' canonization began in 1946. Exhumed in 1935, Jacinta's face was found incorrupt; Francisco's had decomposed. By 1951, when she was again", "title": "Francisco and Jacinta Marto" }, { "id": "9178859", "text": "Santa Croce in Via Flaminia Santa Croce in Via Flaminia is a basilica church dedicated to the Holy Cross on the Via Flaminia in Rome, Italy. It was first built in 1913 by the architect Aristide Leonori for Pope Pius X, in celebration of the 1600th anniversary of the Edict of Milan. In the style of a Roman basilica, it has a mosaic-decorated facade, a portico with six Doric columns and a mosaic by Biagio Biagetti, a five-storey bell tower and a three-aisled nave divided by six columns of Bavarian granite on each side. It was opened for worship on", "title": "Santa Croce in Via Flaminia" }, { "id": "18548592", "text": "the window. He was buried in Florence in the Cimitero della Misericordia where his tomb soon became one of pilgrimage for the faithful. His remains were later transferred on 12 October 1925 and exhumed in 2001 for canonical inspection in the presence of Cardinal José Saraiva Martins as well as four bishops and fifteen priests. His contemporaries of the age all held the late archbishop in great esteem. Pope Leo XIII once said that \"he is one of the most learned and holy prelates of the Church\". Pius X once held a private audience with the Dominican bishop Ludovico Ferretti", "title": "Pio Alberto del Corona" }, { "id": "1335703", "text": "Roman Emperor, an empire still engulfed in a war and whose fortunes seemed to be increasingly chaotic. Ferdinand II was buried in his Mausoleum in Graz. His heart was interred in the Herzgruft (heart crypt) of the Augustinian Church, Vienna. In 1600, Ferdinand married Maria Anna of Bavaria (1574–1616), daughter of Duke William V of Bavaria. They had seven children: In 1622, he married Eleonore of Mantua (Gonzaga) (1598–1655), the daughter of Duke Vincenzo I of Mantua and Eleonora de' Medici, at Innsbruck. \"Ferdinand II, by the grace of God elected Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King in Germany, King", "title": "Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor" }, { "id": "4222367", "text": "band leader. Croce reflected, \"I was into every kind of music... you might say I was unfocused, but I consider an eclectic taste in music to be the foundation of versatility.\" His house burned down when he was 15. Croce and his wife Marlo have two children, daughter Camille and son Elijah. Marlo Croce passed away on July 20, 2018, which was announced on A.J.'s Facebook page. Ron Goldstein and Peter Baumann of Private Music signed Croce to his first recording contract at age 19. He recorded two albums for Private Music: his self-titled debut, \"A. J. Croce\", produced by", "title": "A. J. Croce" }, { "id": "3646704", "text": "but has been steadily reclaimed. It is the area of the city most affected by the opening of the lagoon road in April 1933. Santa Croce (Venice) Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy. During the eleventh century, in 1273 , it was administrated by the Hungarian nobleman and crusader knight Giovanni , member of one of the biggest Christian families in Hungary Renoldi , as reported by the book published in 1866 in Florence book of the Venetian noblemen for the first time shown It occupies the north west part of the main islands,", "title": "Santa Croce (Venice)" }, { "id": "2009057", "text": "January 1737; 6,000 Austrians took their place on Francis's behalf. By the time of the Spanish withdrawal, the Grand Duke was dying from \"an accumulation of diseases\". One of his final acts was to order the erection of a statue of Galileo Galilei, who was patronised by his great-grandfather Cosimo II and his grandfather Grand Duke Ferdinando II, in the Basilica of Santa Croce. Anna Maria Luisa, the Dowager Electress Palatine, rushed to his bedside when it became apparent he would not recover. Gian Gastone could not eat anything, and his condition steadily worsened; Anna Maria Luisa subsequently had him", "title": "Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany" }, { "id": "15146865", "text": "implored the help of the Virgin Mary who, it is said, ferried her to a nearby farmhouse. She was then moved inside the city walls where she died, after receiving the last rites and pardoning her husband. A simple wooden cross was placed where the murder came about. However prodigious phenomena continued to happen time and again transforming the site into a holy place to such an extent that the local authorities decided to build a sanctuary. The work was commissioned to the architect Giovanni Battagio, whose masterpiece is the octagonal Sanctuary of the Incoronata in Lodi, his home town.", "title": "Santa Maria della Croce, Crema" }, { "id": "550836", "text": "commerating Falcone and the other victims of the Capaci bombing were placed around Italy, including in Peschiera del Garda. Falcone was posthumously awarded the Train Foundation's Civil Courage Prize, which recognises \"extraordinary heroes of conscience\". A monument to Falcone stands also at the FBI's National Academy in Virginia to honour his contributions to the \"Pizza Connection\" case. Giovanni Falcone Giovanni Falcone (; 18 May 1939 – 23 May 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying to overthrow the power of", "title": "Giovanni Falcone" }, { "id": "13383817", "text": "into a furnace, was lapidated, and was thrown to a lion or a panther at an amphitheater – from which he emerged unharmed. Finally, he was beheaded near the present Piazza della Signoria, but his legend states that he picked up his own head. Miniato then crossed the Arno and returned to his hermitage on the hill known as \"Mons Florentinus\" (Monte di Firenze). Minias’ relics rest in a crypt in the church dedicated to him, begun by Alibrando (Hildebrand), Bishop of Florence, in 1013 and endowed by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. The historicity of the saint is uncertain.", "title": "Minias of Florence" }, { "id": "10565018", "text": "with her father and cared for him until his death in 1980. In his will, Ugolini left half of his estate to Lydia Ugolini, the maximum allowable to a testator by Italian law, and the remainder was divided among his other living children and descendants. Ugolini and his wife were married over sixty years at the time of her death in 1975. He died at home in Florence. His body is interred in the \"Porte Sante\" (Holy Doors) cemetery at the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, Florence. On his death bed, Ugolini told his daughter Lydia that he had", "title": "Luigi Ugolini" }, { "id": "3113223", "text": "his other productions was an edition of Hesiod's \"Works and Days\", with valuable notes, and a translation in \"terza rima\". Begun in 1785, it was recast and completed in 1808. The list of his works closes with his \"Opere sacre\", a series of treatises on spiritual subjects. Luigi Lanzi Luigi Lanzi (14 June 1732 – 30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. When he died he was buried in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence by the side of Michelangelo. Born in Treia, Lanzi was educated as a priest. He entered the Order of the", "title": "Luigi Lanzi" }, { "id": "5790898", "text": "tombs were toppled in the great storm of 19 September 2014 and are now restored. Giampietro Vieusseux, Swiss, the founder of the Gabinetto Vieusseux (where John Ruskin, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, and Robert Browning were readers), is also buried here; and likewise the Swiss historian Jacques Augustin Galiffe, who with Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi pioneered genealogical, archival research. Emily Dickinson treasured a photograph of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's tomb and wrote 'The soul selects her own society' about it, using lines also from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's \"Aurora Leigh\"; and Browning wrote a sonnet on Hiram Powers' sculpture \"The Greek Slave\",", "title": "English Cemetery, Florence" }, { "id": "10162575", "text": "the Grand Duke, who promptly had Antinori executed to preserve the family's honour. On 11 July 1576, Pietro the cuckolded husband summoned his wife to the castle, where he strangled her with a dog leash. Reports of the murder were suppressed and it was reported she had died of a heart attack. Eleonora was buried with the full pomp and honours usually accorded a member of the Medici family in the Medici Chapel (the family mausoleum) at the Basilica di San Lorenzo. Her homicidal husband was sent from the Florentine court to the court of Spain until his own death", "title": "Villa Medici at Cafaggiolo" }, { "id": "16139270", "text": "her family. The two youths fall in love, but this love is impossible, since the girl is fiancée to Odoardo, and Jacopo is in no condition to offer her a marriage. In despair, Jacopo travels through Italy (then divided into various little states) and visits many cities, among them Florence, with the historical tombs of Santa Croce, Milan, where he meets Giuseppe Parini, Genoa, Ventimiglia. After a deep meditation about nature, history and human fate, he resolves to go back to Veneto. He visits Teresa, then his mother. Finally he commits suicide. The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis Ultime lettere", "title": "The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis" }, { "id": "8256908", "text": "Pope Innocent I (d. 417) was at the time pope, the date is uncertain. There are grounds for believing that he actually died in 417, on 25 May, on which day the ancient tower where he is supposed to have lived, near the Ponte Vecchio, was annually decorated with flowers. His body was first buried in the Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze (consecrated by Saint Ambrose in 393), and was later translated to the church of Santa Maria del Fiore. In the back of the middle of the three apses is the altar of Saint Zenobius. Its bronze shrine,", "title": "Zenobius of Florence" }, { "id": "3230542", "text": "Egyptian or Tau cross (a symbol of St Francis), 115 metres in length with a nave and two aisles separated by lines of octagonal columns. To the south of the church was a convent, some of whose buildings remain. The Primo Chiostro, the main cloister, houses the Cappella dei Pazzi, built as the chapter house, completed in the 1470s. Filippo Brunelleschi (who had designed and executed the dome of the Duomo) was involved in its design which has remained rigorously simple and unadorned. In 1560, the choir screen was removed as part of changes arising from the Counter-Reformation and the", "title": "Santa Croce, Florence" }, { "id": "19064958", "text": "Porta alla Croce, Florence The Porta alla Croce is a former gate of the Walls of Florence, locate east of the neighborhood of Santa Croce, in the Piazza Beccaria of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. The gate was part of the fourth set of walls around Florence built in the late 13th century. The Gate was once called \"Porta alla Croce al gorgo\" and also \"Porta Sant'Ambrogio\". It is said that the name may derive from the legend that at this location San Miniato was made a martyr. The Gate was refurbished in 1817-1818 under the reign of Grand Duke", "title": "Porta alla Croce, Florence" }, { "id": "904267", "text": "created by which characters and angels were made to fly through the air in the midst of spectacular explosions of light and fireworks. These events took place during state and ecclesiastical visits. It is not known for certain how many of these Brunelleschi designed, but at least one, for the church of San Felice, is confirmed in the records. Brunelleschi's body lies in the crypt of the Cathedral of Florence. As explained by Antonio Manetti, who knew Brunelleschi and who wrote his biography, Brunelleschi \"was granted such honours as to be buried in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore,", "title": "Filippo Brunelleschi" }, { "id": "19975659", "text": "named his mother Cleopatra and brother Aiden as the sole beneficiaries of his estate. Onfroy's future child, that his girlfriend at the time of his death was pregnant with, was not named in the will as the will was written before the pregnancy. An open casket service for Onfroy took place at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida on June 27 where fans were allowed to pay their respects. His private funeral took place on June 28 where rappers Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Yachty and singer Erykah Badu were among the attendees. He was entombed in a mausoleum at", "title": "XXXTentacion" }, { "id": "1310952", "text": "tribute to the pope's efforts for world peace, calling him a man of \"sincere piety\" who bore his duties with exceptional \"dignity and courage\". Others who sent messages of condolences were Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, the former visiting the Vatican to pay his respects to the deceased pontiff. Flags were flown half-mast in Rome, Paris, and Berlin. Following the funeral, Pius XI was buried in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica on 14 February 1939, in the main chapel, close to the tomb of Saint Peter. His tomb was modified in 1944 to be more ornate. Pius XI is", "title": "Pope Pius XI" }, { "id": "648518", "text": "Pope Pius IX died on 7 February 1878, aged 85, concluding the longest pontificate in papal history, after that of Saint Peter, whom tradition holds had reigned for 37 years. His last words were, \"Guard the church I loved so well and sacredly\", as recorded by the cardinals kneeling beside his bedside. His body was originally buried in St. Peter's grotto, but was moved in a night procession on 13 July 1881 to the Basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls. When the cortege approached the Tiber River, a group of anticlerical Romans screaming \"Long live Italy! Death to the", "title": "Pope Pius IX" }, { "id": "160765", "text": "to the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, at the request of the Italian government. According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography, the composer's estate was valued at 2.5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1.4 million US dollars. According to one contemporary account, at the time of Rossini's death, his estate yielded revenues of 150,000 francs per year. Apart from some individual legacies in favour of his wife and relatives, Rossini willed his entire estate to the Comune of Pesaro. The inheritance was invested to establish a (Conservatory) in the town. In 1940, the was put", "title": "Gioachino Rossini" }, { "id": "4244533", "text": "embraced a classical Reformist and naturalistic style. Santi went on to contribute a \"Sacra Conversazione\" for the Ognissanti and painted two altarpieces for Santa Croce in Florence: a crowded but monumental \"Resurrection\" (1570–74), and a creatively inspired and decorous \"Supper at Emmaus\" (1574). Santi also painted a \"Resurrection of Lazarus\" for Volterra Cathedral; a \"Madonna\" for San Salvatore al Vescovo; a \"Burial of Christ\" for S. Giuseppe; a \"Baptism of Christ by St John\" for the Corsini palace, Florence. Santi died in Florence on July 23, 1603. Santi's mature style is reflected in his masterpiece of the \"Vision of Saint", "title": "Santi di Tito" } ]

[ "Herodotus" ]

[ { "id": "6705228", "text": "6th and 7th centuries were fiercely hostile to Persia. The sources for the history of Parthia and the wars with Rome are scant and scattered. The Parthians followed the Achaemenid tradition and favored oral historiography, which assured the corruption of their history once they had been vanquished. The main sources of this period are thus Roman (Tacitus, Marius Maximus, and Justin) and Greek historians (Herodian, Cassius Dio and Plutarch). The 13th book of the Sibylline Oracles narrates the effects of the Roman–Persian Wars in Syria from the reign of Gordian III to the domination of the province by Odaenathus of", "title": "Roman–Persian Wars" }, { "id": "4036017", "text": "that had been \"Confidential\" and retained \"For Official Use Only\" until 1961. The twelve volume \"History of the Ministry of Munitions\", the \"Occupation of the Rhineland\" (1929) and \"Operations in Persia 1914–1919\" (1929) were included. The Imperial War Museum Department of Printed Books and the Battery Press republished the official history in the 1990s with black and white maps. The Department of Printed Books and the Naval and Military Press republished the set in paperback with colour maps in the 2000s and on DVD-ROM in the 2010s. The modern form of official military history began in the mid-nineteenth century with", "title": "History of the Great War" }, { "id": "590033", "text": "are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story. The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his \"Bibliotheca Historica\", also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus. This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's. The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias of Cnidus, and are alluded by other authors, such as the playwright Aeschylus. Archaeological evidence, such as the Serpent Column, also supports some of Herodotus's specific claims. The Greek city-states", "title": "Battle of Salamis" }, { "id": "6705231", "text": "The single most important source for Justinian's Persian wars up to 553 is Procopius. His continuators Agathias and Menander Protector offer many important details as well. Theophylact Simocatta is the main source for the reign of Maurice, while Theophanes, \"Chronicon Paschale\" and the poems of George of Pisidia are useful sources for the last Roman–Persian war. In addition to Byzantine sources, two Armenian historians, Sebeos and Movses, contribute to the coherent narrative of Heraclius' war and are regarded by Howard-Johnston as \"the most important of extant non-Muslim sources\". Roman–Persian Wars The Roman–Persian Wars were a series of conflicts between states", "title": "Roman–Persian Wars" }, { "id": "2158969", "text": "also the most contemporaneous, is Thucydides' \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", which is generally considered by modern historians to be a reliable primary account. Thucydides only mentions this period in a digression on the growth of Athenian power in the run up to the Peloponnesian War, and the account is brief, probably selective and lacks any dates. Nevertheless, Thucydides's account can be, and is, used by historians to draw up a skeleton chronology for the period, on to which details from archaeological records and other writers can be superimposed. More detail for the whole period is provided by Plutarch, in", "title": "Greco-Persian Wars" }, { "id": "2158971", "text": "drawn from the much earlier Greek historian Ephorus, who also wrote a universal history. Diodorus is also a secondary source and often derided by modern historians for his style and inaccuracies, but he preserves many details of the ancient period found nowhere else. Further scattered details can be found in Pausanias's \"Description of Greece\", while the Byzantine Suda dictionary of the 10th century AD preserves some anecdotes found nowhere else. Minor sources for the period include the works of Pompeius Trogus (epitomized by Justinus), Cornelius Nepos and Ctesias of Cnidus (epitomized by Photius), which are not in their original textual", "title": "Greco-Persian Wars" }, { "id": "6705230", "text": "Severus and Carus. The trilingual (Middle Persian, Parthian, Greek) inscriptions of Shapur are primary sources. These were isolated attempts at approaching written historiography however, and by the end of the 4th century AD, even the practice of carving rock reliefs and leaving short inscriptions was abandoned by the Sasanians. For the period between 353 and 378, there is an eyewitness source to the main events on the eastern frontier in the \"Res Gestae\" of Ammianus Marcellinus. For the events covering the period between the 4th and the 6th century, the works of Sozomenus, Zosimus, Priscus, and Zonaras are especially valuable.", "title": "Roman–Persian Wars" }, { "id": "4036110", "text": "Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander, Archibald Frank Becke (maps), Cyril Falls, Charles Hordern, George Macmunn, Wilfrid Miles, Henry FitzMaurice Stacke and Graeme Chamley Wynne wrote most of the volumes beyond the Western Front, edited by Edmonds. Frederick James Moberly was appointed by the Indian Army Historical Office as author of \"The Campaign in Mesopotamia\" 1914–1918 and \"Operations in Persia\" 1914–1919 in which the Indian Army played a large part. [Author initials only, after first use] All volumes with title page \"History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence\", second", "title": "History of the Great War" }, { "id": "12680052", "text": "view is that Herodotus generally did a remarkable job in his \"Historia\", but that some of his specific details (particularly troop numbers and dates) should be viewed with skepticism. Nevertheless, there are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story. The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his \"Bibliotheca Historica\", also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus. This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's. The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch,", "title": "First Persian invasion of Greece" }, { "id": "3820491", "text": "BC) was not a contemporary of Cyrus (c. 580 – 530 BC) and it is likely that at least some of the information about Persia was based on events that occurred at the later Achaemenid court. Xenophon had been in Persia himself, as part of the \"Ten Thousand\" Greek soldiers who fought on the losing side in a Persian civil war, events which he recounted in his \"Anabasis\". It is also possible that stories of the great King were recounted (and embellished) by court society and that these are the basis of Xenophon's text. The book opens with the author", "title": "Cyropaedia" }, { "id": "2158970", "text": "his biographies of Themistocles, Aristides and especially Cimon. Plutarch was writing some 600 years after the events in question, and is therefore a secondary source, but he often names his sources, which allows some degree of verification of his statements. In his biographies, he draws directly from many ancient histories that have not survived, and thus often preserves details of the period that are omitted in Herodotus and Thucydides's accounts. The final major existing source for the period is the universal history (\"Bibliotheca historica\") of the 1st century BC Sicilian, Diodorus Siculus. Much of Diodorus's writing about this period is", "title": "Greco-Persian Wars" }, { "id": "4832044", "text": "Sikes in \"The Anthropology of the Greeks\" (1914); Clyde Kluckhohn in \"Anthropology and the Classics\" (1961), and many others. An equally long list may be found in French and German as well as other languages. Herodotus was a 5th-century BC Greek historian who set about to chronicle and explain the Greco-Persian Wars that transpired early in that century. He did so in a surviving work conventionally termed \"the History\" or \"the Histories\". His first line begins: \"These are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus ...\" The Achaemenid Empire, deciding to bring Greece into its domain, conducted a massive invasion across", "title": "History of anthropology" }, { "id": "2158968", "text": "did a remarkable job in his \"Historia\", but that some of his specific details (particularly troop numbers and dates) should be viewed with skepticism. Nevertheless, there are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story. The military history of Greece between the end of the second Persian invasion of Greece and the Peloponnesian War (479–431 BC) is not well supported by surviving ancient sources. This period, sometimes referred to as the \"pentekontaetia\" (\"πεντηκονταετία\", \"the Fifty Years\") by ancient writers, was a period of relative peace and prosperity within Greece. The richest source for the period, and", "title": "Greco-Persian Wars" }, { "id": "2232376", "text": "Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his \"Bibliotheca Historica\", also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus. This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's. The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias of Cnidus, and are referred to by other authors, such as the playwright Aeschylus. Archaeological evidence, such as the Serpent Column, also supports some of Herodotus's specific claims. The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had supported the unsuccessful Ionian Revolt against the Persian Empire of", "title": "Battle of Artemisium" }, { "id": "2158965", "text": "the end of hostilities was marked by a peace treaty between Athens and Persia, the Peace of Callias. Almost all the primary sources for the Greco-Persian Wars are Greek; there are no surviving historical accounts from the Persian side. By some distance, the main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian Herodotus. Herodotus, who has been called the \"Father of History\", was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor (then part of the Persian empire). He wrote his 'Enquiries' (Greek \"Historia\", English \"(The) Histories\") around 440–430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which", "title": "Greco-Persian Wars" }, { "id": "57191", "text": "have repeatedly confirmed his version of events. The prevailing modern view is that Herodotus generally did a remarkable job in his \"Historia\", but that some of his specific details (particularly troop numbers and dates) should be viewed with skepticism. Nevertheless, there are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story. The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his \"Bibliotheca Historica\", also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus. This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's. The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less", "title": "Battle of Marathon" }, { "id": "3861599", "text": "infrastructure makes reporting more difficult and expensive, and the conflicts are also far more dangerous for war correspondents. Written war correspondents have existed as long as journalism. Before modern journalism it was more common for longer histories to be written at the end of a conflict. The first known of these is Herodotus's account of the Persian Wars, however he did not himself participate in the events. Thucydides, who some years later wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War was a commander and an observer to the events he described. In the eighteenth century the Baroness Frederika Charlotte Riedesel's \"Letters", "title": "War correspondent" }, { "id": "9484921", "text": "Renaissance Europe, though he remained well read. However, since the 19th century his reputation has been dramatically rehabilitated by archaeological finds which have repeatedly confirmed his version of events. The prevailing modern view is that Herodotus generally did a remarkable job in his \"Historia\", but that some of his specific details (particularly troop numbers and dates) should be viewed with skepticism. Nevertheless, there are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story. The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his \"Bibliotheca Historica\", also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially", "title": "Siege of Eretria" }, { "id": "12236963", "text": "Persia (cf. Fragment 1) John wrote a history of the Byzantine-Persian wars; from the campaigns of Khosrau I against Justin II, to the flight of his grandson Khosrau II to the Byzantines. The work is lost, but a fragment is preserved. The history was used by Evagrius and Theophylact Simocatta. As with many other Byzantine works, it is written in an archaic form of Greek, meant to imitate the classical style (e.g. Thucidydes). John of Epiphania John of Epiphania () was a late sixth century Byzantine historian. John was born in Epiphania (modern Hama, Syria). He was a Christian and", "title": "John of Epiphania" }, { "id": "12264375", "text": "had been used previously in the Greek campaign of King Xerxes I of Persia, and even further back at the time of Darius the Great at the Indus, the Danube and against the Scythians in 512 BC. Neither Xenophon nor Herodotus mention war elephants in their accounts of these earlier campaigns. Elephants were later used by the Sassanids under a special chief, known as the \"Zend−hapet\", or \"Commander of the Indians\", as they were from India. In the Battle of Avarayr in 451 AD, Armenian rebels led by Vartan Mamikonian led an army of 66,000 men to gain independence from", "title": "Persian war elephants" }, { "id": "12680049", "text": "expedition, and Darius then died of old age. It was thus left to his son Xerxes I to lead the second Persian invasion of Greece, beginning in 480 BC. The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian Herodotus. Herodotus, who has been called the 'Father of History', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor (then under Persian overlordship). He wrote his 'Enquiries' (Greek—\"Historia\"; English—\"(The) Histories\") around 440–430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history (the wars finally ending in 450 BC). Herodotus's approach was", "title": "First Persian invasion of Greece" }, { "id": "4036016", "text": "slow work on the military volume and his draft was not published. Edmonds preferred to appoint half-pay and retired officers, who were cheaper than civilian writers and wrote that occasionally the \"'War House' foisted elderly officers on him, because they were not going to be promoted or offered employment but was afraid to tell them so\". In the 1987 introduction to \"Operations in Persia 1914–1919\", G. M. Bayliss wrote that the guides issued by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) were incomplete. \"Sectional List number 60\" of 1976 omitted the \"Gallipoli\" volumes but contained \"The Blockade of the Central Empires\" (1937),", "title": "History of the Great War" }, { "id": "8644940", "text": "following the death of Alexander. No one else presents the same depth of detail. For the distribution of satrapies in the partition there are some several sources, not all of equal value. The only complete account is Diodorus Siculus's \"Bibliotheca historica\", which was also the first to be written, c. 40 BC, and should thus be considered the more reliable source. The Byzantine bishop Photius (c. 820–893) produced an epitome of 279 books in his \"Bibliotheca\", which contains two relevant (but much abbreviated) accounts. The first is Arrian's \"Continuation\" or \"After Alexander\" (codex 92). The second is Dexippus's \"History\" of", "title": "Partition of Babylon" }, { "id": "178727", "text": "Herodotus Herodotus ( 484 BC – 425 BC) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey). He is known for having written the book \"The Histories\", a detailed record of his \"inquiry\" ( \"historía\") on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars. He is widely considered to have been the first writer to have treated historical subjects using a method of systematic investigation—specifically, by collecting his materials and then critically arranging them into a historiographic narrative. On account of this, he is often referred to as \"The Father of History\", a title", "title": "Herodotus" }, { "id": "13414689", "text": "of the Delian League are particularly important. Thucydides provides a succinct list of the main events occurring between the end of the second Persian invasion and the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, but almost no chronological information. Various attempts have been made to reassemble the chronology, but there is no definitive answer. The assumption central to these attempts is that Thucydides is describing the events in the appropriate chronological order. The one firmly accepted date is 465 BC for the beginning of the Siege of Thasos. This is based on an anonymous ancient scholiast's annotations to one of the existing", "title": "Wars of the Delian League" }, { "id": "432211", "text": "not delightful. But he that desires to look into the truth of things done, and which (according to the condition of humanity) may be done again, or at least their like, shall find enough herein to make him think it profitable. And it is compiled rather for an everlasting possession than to be rehearsed for a prize. () Herodotus records in his \"Histories\" not only the events of the Persian Wars, but also geographical and ethnographical information, as well as the fables related to him during his extensive travels. Typically, he passes no definitive judgment on what he has heard.", "title": "Thucydides" }, { "id": "15315120", "text": "War of the Rebellion Atlas The Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (also referred to as the War of the Rebellion Atlas) was published as a companion piece to the Official Records of the American Civil War. It contains maps and other images derived from materials generated by both Union and Confederate military personnel during the American Civil War. The \"Atlas\" was published by the United States Department of War in 1895. It features maps of engagements large and small including Gettysburg, the Siege of Vicksburg, Shiloh and the various epochs of the Atlanta", "title": "War of the Rebellion Atlas" }, { "id": "9113024", "text": "G.C.C. Maspero, Eduard Meyer, Theodor Nöldeke, H.C. Rawlinson.Beginning with the Achaemenids, this part describes briefly the Medes, Elamites, leading up to the civilization of Persia under Cyrus and Darius I, Xerxes I and Artaxerxes III along with the fall of the empire. The cover matter states \"Part X: The History of Rome from the Earliest Times to 476 AD\" is based chiefly on the works of the following authorities: Ammianus, Appian, Thomas Arnold, Barthélemy Aube, the Augustan History, Julius Caesar, Henry Fynes Clinton, Cicero, Dion Cassius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Eutropius (historian), Florus, Victor Gardthausen, Edward Gibbon, Otto Gilbert, Adolf Harnack,", "title": "The Historians' History of the World" }, { "id": "6099808", "text": "have decreased the accuracy of the records and were made simply to enhance personal reputations (or to denigrate the reputations of rivals). An additional 100 volumes of previously unpublished reports and correspondence were published by the Broadfoot Publishing Company of Wilmington, North Carolina, from 1995 to 1999, entitled \"Supplement to the Official Records Of the Union and Confederate Armies\". Unfortunately, most of the Confederate Navy Department records were lost during the burning of Richmond. Union Navy Department records were preserved, but not until 1884 was work begun by Navy Department librarian, later Assistant Secretary of the Navy, James R. Soley", "title": "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" }, { "id": "6705229", "text": "Palmyra. With the end of Herodian's record, all contemporary chronological narratives of Roman history are lost, until the narratives of Lactantius and Eusebius at the beginning of the 4th century, both from a Christian perspective. The principal sources for the early Sasanian period are not contemporary. Among them the most important are the Greeks Agathias and Malalas, the Persian Muslims al-Tabari and Ferdowsi, the Armenian Agathangelos, and the Syriac \"Chronicles\" of \"Edessa\" and \"Arbela\", most of whom depended on late Sasanian sources, especially \"Khwaday-Namag\". The \"Augustan History\" is neither contemporary nor reliable, but it is the chief narrative source for", "title": "Roman–Persian Wars" }, { "id": "14103220", "text": "period, which Dodgeon, Greatrex, and Lieu believe are the \"most important\" of the contemporary sources. These include the \"Chronicle of 724\" by Thomas the Presbyter, composed in 640. The \"Chronicle of Guidi\" or \"Khuzistan Chronicle\" gives the perspective of a Nestorian Christian living in Persian territory. Later Greek accounts include \"Chronicle\" of Theophanes the Confessor and the \"Brief History\" of Patriarch Nikephoros I. Theophanes' \"Chronicle\" is very useful in creating a framework of the war. It is usually supplemented by even later Syriac sources like the \"Chronicle of 1234\" and the Chronicle by Michael the Syrian. However, these sources, excepting", "title": "Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628" }, { "id": "2281045", "text": "Joshua the Stylite Joshua the Stylite (also spelled Yeshu Stylite and Ieshu Stylite) is the attributed author of a chronicle which narrates the history of the war between the Byzantine Empire and Persians between 502 and 506, and which is one of the earliest and best historical documents preserved in Syriac. The work owes its preservation to having been incorporated in the third part of the \"Chronicle of Zuqnin\", and may probably have had a place in the second part of the \"Ecclesiastical History\" of John of Ephesus, from whom (as François Nau has shown) Pseudo-Dionysius copied all or most", "title": "Joshua the Stylite" }, { "id": "6099803", "text": "was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war. In 1866 a joint resolution of Congress authorized the compilation and publication under auspices of the War Department. Eventually, seventeen Secretaries of War were involved in the process. In 1877, Army Captain Robert N. Scott was appointed by the Secretary of War as director of the Publications Office, War", "title": "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" }, { "id": "178775", "text": "produces a valid kind of understanding, even when this retelling is not entirely factual. For Herodotus, then, it takes both myth and history to produce truthful understanding. Several English translations of \"The Histories of Herodotus\" are readily available in multiple editions. The most readily available are those translated by: Herodotus Herodotus ( 484 BC – 425 BC) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey). He is known for having written the book \"The Histories\", a detailed record of his \"inquiry\" ( \"historía\") on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars. He", "title": "Herodotus" }, { "id": "11984492", "text": "of the \"Ten Thousand\" Greek soldiers who fought on the losing side in a Persian civil war, events which he recounted in his \"Anabasis\". It is also possible that stories about Cyrus were told (and embellished) by Persian court society and that these are the basis of Xenophon's text. Herodotus, though writing long after the events, had traveled in Mesopotamia and spoken to Babylonians. In \"Cyropaedia\" (7.5.20–33), Xenophon, in agreement with Herodotus (I.292), says that the combined Median and Persian army entered the city via the channel of the Euphrates river, the river having been diverted into trenches that Cyrus", "title": "Fall of Babylon" }, { "id": "7505957", "text": "account of the travels of Hethum I, King of Armenia. In 1601, Barbaro’s and Contarini’s accounts were included in Pietro Bizzarri’s ‘’ Rerum Persicarum Historia’’ along with accounts by Bonacursius, Jacob Geuder von Heroldsberg, Giovanni Tommaso Minadoi, and Henricus Porsius; which was published in Frankfurt. in 2005, Barbaro’s account was also published in Turkish as ‘’ Anadolu'ya ve İran'a seyahat’’. Barbaro's account provided more information on Persia and its resources than that of Contarini. He showed skill in observing unfamiliar places and reporting on them. Much of Barbaro's information about the Kipchak Khanate, Persia, and Georgia is not found in", "title": "Giosafat Barbaro" }, { "id": "13414686", "text": "by modern historians to be a reliable primary account. Thucydides only mentions this period in a digression on the growth of Athenian power in the run up to the Peloponnesian War, and the account is brief, probably selective and lacks any dates. Nevertheless, Thucydides's account can be, and is used by historians to draw up a skeleton chronology for the period, on to which details from archaeological records and other writers can be superimposed. Much extra detail for the period is provided by Plutarch, in his biographies of Aristides and especially Cimon. Plutarch was writing some 600 years after the", "title": "Wars of the Delian League" }, { "id": "318529", "text": "scandals that Procopius could not include in his officially sanctioned history. Procopius's \"Wars\" or \"History of the Wars\" (, \"Hypèr tōn Polémon Lógoi\", \"Words on the Wars\"; , \"On the Wars\") is his most important work, although less well known than the \"Secret History\". The first seven books seem to have been largely completed by 545 and may have been published as a unit. They were, however, updated to mid-century before publication, with the latest mentioned event occurring in early 551. The eighth and final book brings the history to 553. The first two booksoften known as \"The Persian War\"", "title": "Procopius" }, { "id": "3326346", "text": "records and chronicles beforehand). The \"Histories\" also stands as one of the first accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire, as well as the events and causes of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus portrays the conflict as one between the forces of slavery (the Persians) on the one hand, and freedom (the Athenians and the confederacy of Greek city-states which united against the invaders) on the other. \"The Histories\" was at some point divided into the nine books that appear in modern editions, conventionally named after the", "title": "Histories (Herodotus)" }, { "id": "12680270", "text": "the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus. This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's. The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias, and are alluded by other authors, such as the playwright Aeschylus. Archaeological evidence, such as the Serpent Column, also supports some of Herodotus's specific claims. The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had supported the unsuccessful Ionian Revolt against the Persian Empire of Darius I in 499–494 BC. The Persian Empire was still relatively young, and prone to revolts among its subject peoples.", "title": "Second Persian invasion of Greece" }, { "id": "406361", "text": "are derived from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the 12th or 11th century BC, often preferring the dates given by Eratosthenes, 1194–1184 BC, which roughly corresponds with archaeological evidence of a catastrophic burning of Troy VII. The events of the Trojan War are found in many works of Greek literature and depicted in numerous works of Greek art. There is no single, authoritative text which tells the entire events of the war. Instead, the story is assembled from a variety of sources, some of which report contradictory versions of the events. The most important literary sources are", "title": "Trojan War" }, { "id": "6099802", "text": "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion or often more simply the Official Records or ORs, constitute the most extensive collection of primary sources of the history of the American Civil War. Cornell University lists the official title as The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. They include selected first-hand accounts, orders, reports, maps, diagrams, and correspondence drawn from War and Navy Department records of both Confederate and Union governments. Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention", "title": "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" }, { "id": "590030", "text": "history. The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian Herodotus. Herodotus, who has been called the 'Father of History', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor (then under Persian overlordship). He wrote his \"Enquiries\" (; English: \"(The) Histories\") around 440–430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history (the wars finally ending in 450 BC). Herodotus's approach was entirely novel, and at least in Western society, he does seem to have invented \"history\" as we know it. As Holland has it: \"For the first time,", "title": "Battle of Salamis" }, { "id": "6099810", "text": "there are other contemporary published works that provide well-sourced insights not constrained by the types of sources compiled by government: Official Records of the War of the Rebellion The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion or often more simply the Official Records or ORs, constitute the most extensive collection of primary sources of the history of the American Civil War. Cornell University lists the official title as The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. They include selected first-hand accounts, orders, reports, maps, diagrams, and correspondence drawn from War", "title": "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" }, { "id": "7033661", "text": "Gulf War Air Power Survey The Gulf War Air Power Survey is a report commissioned by the United States Air Force in 1993 to document and analyze its performance during the 1991 Gulf War. It consists of five sections each averaging over 700 pages, and a 276-page summary report. It was one of the most popular reports issued by the U.S. military at the time. On 22 August 1991, then Secretary of the Air Force Donald B. Rice commissioned an independent study \"to review all aspects of air warfare in the Persian Gulf\". Rather than a historical account, it analyses", "title": "Gulf War Air Power Survey" }, { "id": "7646109", "text": "from the 4th century to the British takeover of Sri Lanka in 1815. The \"Culavamsa\" was compiled by a number of authors of different time periods. The combined work, sometimes referred to collectively as the \"Mahavamsa\", provides a continuous historical record of over two millennia, and is considered one of the world's longest unbroken historical accounts. It is one of the few documents containing material relating to the Nāga and Yakkha peoples, indigenous inhabitants of Lanka prior to the legendary arrival of Prince Vijaya from Singha Pura of Kalinga. In the preface to his book, the \"Muqaddimah\" (1377), the Arab", "title": "Recorded history" }, { "id": "6099806", "text": "the backs of the books issued, although these numbers were not included on the title pages, and are therefore not universally used in citations. A final comprehensive index (Serial No. 130) was published in 1901 with remaining additions and corrections. A companion volume, the \"Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies\", was published in 1895. It included maps of military operations (175 plates), a topographic map of the area of operations (26 plates), and some drawings of weapons, uniforms, insignia, and flags. In 1966, the U.S. National Archives began publication of a five-volume set that", "title": "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" }, { "id": "13517781", "text": "horses were given in present to the French Emperor, who expressed his regret about the conflict between Persia and Great Britain. Negotiations led to the Treaty of Paris in March 1857, which put an end to the Anglo-Persian War. During his three-year travels in Europe, Farrokh authored a detailed narration of his observations, which became an important source about the \"West\" for the Qajar court. While Farrokh's travel memoir has for long been noted for its diplomatic content, contemporary historians see it as source of inspiration towards social change in Iran. Dr. Vahid Vahdat, an architectural historian, argues that Farrokh's", "title": "Farrokh Khan" }, { "id": "6099807", "text": "comprised an arguably superior index to the Army ORs, \"Military Operations of the Civil War: A Guide Index to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865\", microfilm publication M1026. Introductory material to the guide-index offers guidance to readers of the ORs: Because of the enormous volume of material, the lengthy time period of collection and publication, and the constant and continuing process of correction by veterans of both sides still living contemporaneously, the records are perhaps the most intensely peer-reviewed documents in historical publication. Historians have argued that some of the modifications made years after the events", "title": "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion" }, { "id": "13414685", "text": "League and Persia, and some ancient historians claim that a peace treaty, the Peace of Callias, was agreed to cement the final end of the Greco-Persian Wars. The military history of Greece between the end of the second Persian invasion of Greece and the Peloponnesian War (479–431 BC) is poorly attested by surviving ancient sources. This period, sometimes referred to as the \"pentekontaetia\" by ancient scholars, was a period of relative peace and prosperity within Greece. The richest source for the period, and also the most contemporary with it, is Thucydides's \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", which is generally considered", "title": "Wars of the Delian League" }, { "id": "1377331", "text": "the total number of the army that was assembled by Xerxes. Modern scholars tend to reject the figures given by Herodotus and other ancient sources as unrealistic, resulting from miscalculations or exaggerations on the part of the victors. Modern scholarly estimates are generally in the range 120,000–300,000. These estimates usually come from studying the logistical capabilities of the Persians in that era, the sustainability of their respective bases of operations, and the overall manpower constraints affecting them. Whatever the real numbers were, however, it is clear that Xerxes was anxious to ensure a successful expedition by mustering an overwhelming numerical", "title": "Battle of Thermopylae" }, { "id": "13943866", "text": "and final campaign against the Shah, in which he first lost and then regained Erzurum. Ottoman territorial gains were secured by the Peace of Amasya in 1555. Suleiman returned Tabriz, but kept Baghdad, lower Mesopotamia, western Armenia, western Georgia, the mouths of the Euphrates and Tigris, and part of the Persian Gulf coast. Persia retained the rest of all its northwestern territories in the Caucasus. Due to his heavy commitment in Persia, Suleiman was only able to send limited naval support to France in the Franco-Ottoman Invasion of Corsica (1553). Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–55) The Ottoman–Safavid War of 1532–1555 was one", "title": "Ottoman–Safavid War (1532–55)" }, { "id": "12280450", "text": "of five hundred war elephants. By adding all of Iran and Afghanistan, Seleucus became the most powerful ruler since Alexander the Great. Restoration of Alexander's Empire was, after the Babylonian War, no longer possible. This outcome was confirmed in the Fourth War of the Diadochi and the Battle of Ipsus (301). Our knowledge is based on Diodorus Siculus, \"World History\", 19.90-93 and 19.100. He discusses Seleucus' battle against the satraps and Demetrius and offers plausible numbers for the armies, but ignores the campaign of Antigonus. This is described in one of the contemporary Babylonian Chronicles, the Chronicle of the Diadochi", "title": "Babylonian War" }, { "id": "2159006", "text": "an apparently blank wax tablet to Sparta. When the wax was removed, a message was found scratched on the wooden backing, warning the Spartans of Xerxes's plans. However, many historians believe that this chapter was inserted into the text by a later author, possibly to fill a gap between the end of book 7 and the start of book 8. The veracity of this anecdote is therefore unclear. In 481 BC, Xerxes sent ambassadors to city states throughout Greece, asking for food, land, and water as tokens of their submission to Persia. However, Xerxes' ambassadors deliberately avoided Athens and Sparta,", "title": "Greco-Persian Wars" }, { "id": "2184515", "text": "under his admiral Nearchus, while he led the rest of his forces back to Persia by the southern route through the Gedrosian Desert (now part of southern Iran and Makran now part of Pakistan). According to Plutarch, during the 60-day march through the desert, Alexander lost three-quarters of his army to the harsh desert conditions along the way. Primary sources Other Wars of Alexander the Great The wars of Alexander the Great were fought by King Alexander III of Macedon (\"The Great\"), first against the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Darius III, and then against local chieftains and warlords as far", "title": "Wars of Alexander the Great" }, { "id": "12390641", "text": "centuries. He also uses Theophilus of Edessa (possibly through an Arabic translator) and al-Azdī, an Arabic author. Some of Theophilus's history now lost to us survives in the \"Chronicle of 1234\", such as his account of the Trojan War. The \"Chronicle\" also uses the late twelfth-century correspondence of the Syriac patriarch Michael the Great for its most recent history. The \"Chronicle of 1234\" is best as a primary source for events surrounding the Crusades and the Kingdom of Cilicia in the late twelfth century and early thirteenth. Chronicle of 1234 The Chronicle of 1234 () is an anonymous West Syriac", "title": "Chronicle of 1234" }, { "id": "11625259", "text": "other events in the Greek world that required their attention. Unfortunately, the military history of Greece between the end of the second Persian invasion of Greece and the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) is poorly attested by surviving ancient sources. This period, sometimes referred to as the \"pentekontaetia\" by ancient scholars, was a period of relative peace and prosperity within Greece. The richest source for the period, and also the most contemporary with it, is Thucydides's \"History of the Peloponnesian War\", which is generally considered by modern historians to be a reliable primary account. Thucydides only mentions this period in a", "title": "Battle of the Eurymedon" }, { "id": "12680269", "text": "on to Renaissance Europe, though he remained well read. However, since the 19th century his reputation has been dramatically rehabilitated by archaeological finds that have repeatedly confirmed his version of events. The prevailing modern view is that Herodotus generally did a remarkable job in his \"Historia\", but that some of his specific details (particularly troop numbers and dates) should be viewed with skepticism. Nevertheless, there are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story. The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus from Sicily, writing in the 1st century BC in his \"Bibliotheca Historica\", also provides an account of", "title": "Second Persian invasion of Greece" }, { "id": "20123217", "text": "Georgius Chrysococcas Georgius Chrysococcas (also \"Chrysococca\"; \"Georgios Chrysokokkas\", fl. 1340s) was a Greek physician, geographer and astronomer. He left a commentary astronomical system of medieval Persia, known as \"Syntaxis ton Person\" (Persian Compendium) recording a number of Perso-Arabic star and constellation names of c. the 11th century. This text circulated in late Byzantine-era astronomy and was also received in European astronomy in the 15th century. A partial Latin translation of the work is extant in manuscript form under the title Expositio In Syntaxin Persarum, in copies of the 15th and 16th century, one of these in the hand of Joseph", "title": "Georgius Chrysococcas" }, { "id": "6705191", "text": "bank of the Euphrates, Julian's successor Jovian made peace, agreeing to major concessions in exchange for safe passage out of Sasanian territory. The Romans surrendered their former possessions east of the Tigris, as well as Nisibis and Singara, and Shapur soon conquered Armenia. In 384 or 387, a definitive peace treaty was signed by Shapur III and Theodosius I dividing Armenia between the two states. Meanwhile, the northern territories of the Roman Empire were invaded by Germanic, Alanic, and Hunnic peoples, while Persia's northern borders were threatened first by a number of Hunnic peoples and then by the Hephthalites. With", "title": "Roman–Persian Wars" }, { "id": "9113023", "text": "Cimmerians, the Lydians and a handful of other peoples of the ancient near east. \"Part VII: The History of Ancient India\" gives in its front matter the following authorities from which it is chiefly derived: Arrian, Gustave Le Bon, Eugene Bournouf, Mountstuart Elphinstone, A.H.L. Heeren, W.W. Hunter, Sir William Jones, Ferdinand Justi, Saloman Lefmann, James Mill, Vedas, H.H. Wilson. In three chapters, a brief overview of the early Hindus, the Vedas, the Brahmins, up to a description of the rise of Buddhism. \"Part VIII: The History of Ancient Persia\" is based chiefly upon the following authorities: Ctesias, A.H.L. Heeren, Herodotus,", "title": "The Historians' History of the World" }, { "id": "3861598", "text": "militarism because of the advantages they gather from conflict. William Randolph Hearst is often said to have encouraged the Spanish–American War for this reason. (See Yellow journalism) Only some conflicts receive extensive worldwide coverage, however. Among recent wars, the Kosovo War received a great deal of coverage, as did the Persian Gulf War. In contrast, the largest war in the last half of the 20th century, the Iran–Iraq War, received far less substantial coverage. This is typical for wars among less-developed countries, as audiences are less interested and the reports do little to increase sales and ratings. The lack of", "title": "War correspondent" }, { "id": "21169", "text": "in 472 BC and based on experiences in Aeschylus's own life, specifically the Battle of Salamis. It is unique among surviving Greek tragedies in that it describes a recent historical event. \"The Persians\" focuses on the popular Greek theme of \"hubris\" by blaming Persia's loss on the pride of its king. It opens with the arrival of a messenger in Susa, the Persian capital, bearing news of the catastrophic Persian defeat at Salamis to Atossa, the mother of the Persian King Xerxes. Atossa then travels to the tomb of Darius, her husband, where his ghost appears to explain the cause", "title": "Aeschylus" }, { "id": "4678992", "text": "William Morgan Shuster William Morgan Shuster (23 February 1877 in Washington, D.C. – 26 May 1960 in New York City), was an American lawyer, civil servant, and publisher, who is best known as the treasurer-general of Persia by appointment of the Iranian parliament, or Majles, from May to December 1911. Shuster was born in Washington, D.C. and educated in the Columbian University and Law School. After graduation, Shuster became a customs collector for the U.S. government, serving in Cuba in 1899 following the Spanish–American War, and in the Philippines, which was at that time an American colony. In 1906, the", "title": "William Morgan Shuster" }, { "id": "406356", "text": "Trojan War In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta. The war is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature, most notably Homer's \"Iliad\". The core of the \"Iliad\" (Books II – XXIII) describes a period of four days and two nights in the tenth year of the decade-long siege of Troy; the \"Odyssey\" describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the war's heroes. Other", "title": "Trojan War" }, { "id": "101340", "text": "Halicarnassus, a Dorian colony on the southwest coast of Asia Minor; following the literary tradition of the times he wrote in Ionic Greek, being one of the last authors to do so. He described the Persian Wars, giving a thumbnail account of the histories of the antagonists, Greeks and Persians. Herodotus gives a general account of the events termed \"the Dorian Invasion,\" presenting them as transfers of population. Their original home was in Thessaly, central Greece. He goes on to expand in mythological terms, giving some of the geographic details of the myth:1.56.2-3 He found by inquiry that the chief", "title": "Dorians" }, { "id": "12680267", "text": "overlordship). He wrote his 'Enquiries' (Greek—\"Historia\"; English—\"(The) Histories\") around 440–430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history (the wars finally ending in 450 BC). Herodotus's approach was entirely novel, and at least in Western society, he does seem to have invented 'history' as we know it. As Holland has it: \"For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a", "title": "Second Persian invasion of Greece" }, { "id": "1592690", "text": "This prose \"Shahnameh\" was in turn and for the most part the translation of a Pahlavi (Middle Persian) work, known as the \"Xadāynāmag\" (\"Book of Kings\"), a late Sassanid compilation of the history of the kings and heroes of Persia from mythical times down to the reign of Khosrau II (590–628). The \"Xadāynāmag\" contained historical information on the later Sassanid period, but it does not appear to have drawn on any historical sources for the earlier Sassanid period (3rd to 4th centuries). Ferdowsi added material continuing the story to the overthrow of the Sassanids by the Arabs in the middle", "title": "Shahnameh" }, { "id": "4286349", "text": "impact of Jean Chardin’s \"Voyages en Perse\", to which he owes most of his information about Persia – which is far from superficial – must of course be recognized; he owned the two-volume edition of 1687 and purchased the extended edition in ten volumes in 1720. To a lesser degree, he drew on the \"Voyages\" of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier and Paul Rycaut, not to mention many other works which his vast library afforded him. Everything having to do with contemporary France or Paris, on the other hand, comes from his own experience, and from conversations of anecdotes related to him. Various", "title": "Persian Letters" }, { "id": "11585349", "text": "reign – 539 BC – is mostly intact. It provides very little information about Cyrus's activities in the years immediately preceding the battle. The chronicler focuses on events of immediate relevance to Babylonia and its rulers, only occasionally records events outside Babylonia and does not provide much detail other than a bare outline of key incidents. There is almost no information for the period 547-539. Most of the chronicle's text for this period is illegible, making it impossible to assess the significance of the few words that can be read. At the time of the Battle of Opis, Persia was", "title": "Battle of Opis" }, { "id": "14779063", "text": "Theophanes of Byzantium Theophanes of Byzantium (; fl. 6th century) was a Byzantine historian. He wrote, in ten books, the history of the Eastern Empire during the Persian war under Justin II, beginning from the second year of Justin (567), in which the truce made by Justinian I with Khosrau I was broken, and going down to last year of the war. The work has not survived, but Patriarch Photius gives an account of the work of Theophanes, and he repeats the author's statement that, besides adding other books to the ten which formed the original work, he had written", "title": "Theophanes of Byzantium" }, { "id": "4286344", "text": "more fully a particular subject, such as letters 11–14 from Usbek to Mirza on the Troglodytes, letters 109–118 (113–122) from Usbek to Rhedi on demography, letters 128–132 (134–138) from Rica on his visit to the library at Saint-Victor. They sketch analyses that will later be developed in \"L’Esprit des lois\" for many subjects such as the types of powers, the influence of climate and the critique of colonization. While Usbek appreciates the freer relations among men and women in the West, he remains, as master of a seraglio, a prisoner of his past. His wives play the role of languorous", "title": "Persian Letters" }, { "id": "4036021", "text": "in the report were incorporated into a new edition of \"Field Service Regulations\". Operations might again be conducted in Iraq and Iran and official history volumes were produced against the objections of the Foreign Office. Military histories concentrated on the doings of national contingents, rarely referring to those of allied and opposing armies; comparative analysis is absent and national bias, due to ulterior motives like the temptation to myth make, can also be found. The Australian \"Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918\" edited by Charles Bean contains exaggerations of the significance of the Australian contribution, the prowess", "title": "History of the Great War" }, { "id": "20123218", "text": "Justus Scaliger. Georgius Chrysococcas Georgius Chrysococcas (also \"Chrysococca\"; \"Georgios Chrysokokkas\", fl. 1340s) was a Greek physician, geographer and astronomer. He left a commentary astronomical system of medieval Persia, known as \"Syntaxis ton Person\" (Persian Compendium) recording a number of Perso-Arabic star and constellation names of c. the 11th century. This text circulated in late Byzantine-era astronomy and was also received in European astronomy in the 15th century. A partial Latin translation of the work is extant in manuscript form under the title Expositio In Syntaxin Persarum, in copies of the 15th and 16th century, one of these in the hand", "title": "Georgius Chrysococcas" }, { "id": "2351976", "text": "Connor, who describes Thucydides as \"an artist who responds to, selects and skillfully arranges his material, and develops its symbolic and emotional potential.\" Thucydides is considered to be one of the great \"fathers\" of Western history, thus making his methodology the subject of much analysis in area of historiography. Thucydides is one of the first western historians to employ a strict standard of chronology, recording events by year, with each year consisting of the summer campaign season and a less active winter season. This method contrasts sharply with Herodotus. Thucydides also makes extensive use of speeches in order to elaborate", "title": "History of the Peloponnesian War" }, { "id": "9484922", "text": "derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus. This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's. The Greco-Persian wars are also described in less detail by a number of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias of Cnidus, and are alluded by other authors, such as the playwright Aeschylus. Archaeological evidence, such as the Serpent Column, also supports some of Herodotus's specific claims. The first Persian invasion of Greece had its immediate roots in the Ionian Revolt, the earliest phase of the Greco-Persian Wars. However, it was also the result of the longer-term interaction between the Greeks and Persians. In 500 BC the", "title": "Siege of Eretria" }, { "id": "318530", "text": "()deal with the conflict between the Romans and Sassanid Persia in Mesopotamia, Syria, Armenia, Lazica, and Iberia (present-day Georgia). It details the campaigns of the Sassaniad shah KavadhI, the 532 'Nika' revolt, the war by Kavadh's successor KhosrauI in 540, his destruction of Antioch and deportation of its inhabitants to Mesopotamia, and the great plague that devastated the empire from 542. The \"Persian War\" also covers the early career of Procopius's patron Belisarius in some detail. The \"Wars\"’ next two booksknown as \"The Vandal\" or \"Vandalic War\" (\"\")cover Belisarius's successful campaign against the Vandal kingdom that had occupied Rome's provinces", "title": "Procopius" }, { "id": "6827912", "text": "was sacrificed. This cult later became highly adhered in the Roman Empire. This dance was to promote vigor in life. Ancient Persian dance was significantly researched by Greek historian from Herodotus of Halikarnassos, in his work \"Book IX (Calliope)\", in which he describes the history of Asian empires and Persian wars until 478 BC. Ancient Persia was occupied by foreign powers, first Greeks, then Arabs, and then Mongols and in turn political instability and civil wars occurred. Throughout these changes a slow disappearance of heritage dance traditions occurred. After the fall of Persian Empire, when the country was torn into", "title": "Persian dance" }, { "id": "963259", "text": "Diodorus Siculus Diodorus Siculus (; \"Diodoros Sikeliotes\") ( 1st century BC) or Diodorus of Sicily was a Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history \"Bibliotheca historica\", much of which survives, between 60 and 30 BC. It is arranged in three parts. The first covers mythic history up to the destruction of Troy, arranged geographically, describing regions around the world from Egypt, India and Arabia to Greece and Europe. The second covers the Trojan War to the death of Alexander the Great. The third covers the period to about 60 BC. \"Bibliotheca\", meaning 'library', acknowledges that he", "title": "Diodorus Siculus" }, { "id": "17555719", "text": "Secrist, Philip L. \"The Battle of Resaca: Atlanta Campaign\", 1864. Mercer University Press (2010). Sherman, William T. \"Memoirs of W. T. Sherman\". 2 Volumes. (1887). Taylor, Frank H. \"Philadelphia in the Civil War\". City of Philadelphia, Reprint Ed. (1913). Trefousse, Hans Louis. \"Carl Schurz: A Biography\". Fordham University Press, New York, New York, 2nd Ed. (1998). \"The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies\". Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office (1884). Williams, E. Report on Vineyards in Atlantic, Cumberland and Essex Counties. Documents of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey,", "title": "Charles Saalmann" }, { "id": "17762385", "text": "of cash in the \"aerarium\" (treasury), in the provincial \"fisci\" (tax officials), and in the hands of the \"publicani\" (public contractors); and that it included the names of the freedmen and slaves from whom a detailed account could be obtained. The closeness of this information to the executive authority of the emperor is attested by Tacitus' statement that it was written out by Augustus himself. Records of cash, commodities, and transactions were kept scrupulously by military personnel of the Roman army. An account of small cash sums received over a few days at the fort of Vindolanda circa AD 110", "title": "History of accounting" }, { "id": "9733522", "text": "in exile in Istanbul, Mosul and Baghdad. In the spring of 1916, Ibrahim Khan Qavam-ul-Mulk and his Khamseh tribesmen defeated the gendarmes under Ali Quli Khan Pesyan and Ghulam Riza Khan Pesyan who shot and killed each other. Other gendarmes, the German Consul Roever and the Swedish Captain Angman were arrested and tortured. In early May 1916, due to Enver Pasha's insistence, the Ottomans launched a second invasion of Persia. This was undertaken by the XIII Corps commanding roughly 25,000 troops; the Germans promised to contribute some artillery batteries, but this aid never came. On June 3, the Russians attacked", "title": "Persian Campaign" }, { "id": "20999043", "text": "records the beliefs and view of the Persians about India. Aristotle’s knowledge of India came essentially from Scylax and Ctesias. He quoted Scylax to refer to Indian politics and mentions seven Indian animals, by clearly drawing on Ctesias. Clearchus of Soli, traveled to the east to study Indian religions. Alexander the Great and his army fought the Indian army of King Porus at the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great. Plutarch writes about the battle at his work Parallel Lives, \"Life of Alexander\". The Indian King Ambhi (Greeks called him Taxiles in their scripts) supported Alexander with his forces. Nearchus,", "title": "Ancient Greece–ancient India relations" }, { "id": "575962", "text": "in Old Persian cuneiform the extent of his Empire in broad geographical terms: Herodotus, a Greek historian and author of \"The Histories\", provided an account of many Persian kings and the Greco-Persian Wars. He wrote extensively on Darius, spanning half of Book 3 along with Books 4, 5 and 6. It begins with the removal of the alleged usurper Gaumata and continues to the end of Darius's reign. Darius was the eldest of five sons to Hystaspes and Rhodugune in 550 BCE. Hystaspes was a leading figure of authority in Persia, which was the homeland of the Persians. Darius's inscription", "title": "Darius I" }, { "id": "857291", "text": "Iacchus: Possibly the oldest testimony related to Iacchus, is given by the 5th-century Greek historian Herodotus. According to Herodotus, Dicaeus an Athenian exile told the story that, he and the former Spartan king Demaratus, who had become an advisor to the Persian king Xerxes I, witnessed a miraculous event which Dicaeus interpreted as predicting the defeat of the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC), during the Greco-Persian Wars: However, while the \"cloud of dust\" and the ritual cry \"Iacchus\" are apparent references to the Eleusinian procession, no explicit reference is made by Herodotus to Iacchus' statue, nor", "title": "Iacchus" }, { "id": "4032765", "text": "James Edward Edmonds Brigadier General Sir James Edward Edmonds (25 December 1861 – 2 August 1956) was a British First World War officer of the Royal Engineers. Edmonds became the Director of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence on 1 April 1919 and was responsible for the post-war compilation of the 28-volume \"History of the Great War\". Edmonds wrote nearly half the volumes, including eleven of the 14 volumes dealing with the Western Front (\"Military Operations, France and Belgium\"). His task was not completed until the final volume was published in 1949. Edmonds was educated at King's", "title": "James Edward Edmonds" }, { "id": "15230828", "text": "scholarly resource for the graduate program in history at the University of Wisconsin. Thwaites disseminated materials nationally through his edited series, especially \"Jesuit Relations\"' in 73 volumes, \"Early Western Travels\" in 32 volumes, and \"Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition\" in eight volumes, among others. At the national level, major efforts to collect and publish important documents from the revolutionary era were undertaken by Jonathan Elliott (1784–1846), Jared Sparks (1789–1866), Peter Force (1790–1868) and other editors. The military history of the Civil War especially fascinated Americans, and the War Department compiled and published a massive collection of original", "title": "Historiography of the United States" }, { "id": "10955329", "text": "upon seeking help from deities than acting righteously to succeed in life. Whereas earlier autobiographical texts exclusively dealt with celebrating successful lives, Late Period autobiographical texts include laments for premature death, similar to the epitaphs of ancient Greece. Modern historians consider that some biographical—or autobiographical—texts are important historical documents. For example, the biographical stelas of military generals in tomb chapels built under Thutmose III provide much of the information known about the wars in Syria and Palestine. However, the annals of Thutmose III, carved into the walls of several monuments built during his reign, such as those at Karnak, also", "title": "Ancient Egyptian literature" }, { "id": "2159036", "text": "the Delian League and Persia, and therefore the end of the Greco-Persian Wars. After the Battle of Salamis-in-Cyprus, Thucydides makes no further mention of conflict with the Persians, saying that the Greeks simply returned home. Diodorus, on the other hand, claims that in the aftermath of Salamis, a full-blown peace treaty (the \"Peace of Callias\") was agreed with the Persians. Diodorus was probably following the history of Ephorus at this point, who in turn was presumably influenced by his teacher Isocrates—from whom there is the earliest reference to the supposed peace, in 380 BC. Even during the 4th century BC,", "title": "Greco-Persian Wars" }, { "id": "4036059", "text": "additional volume on the Persian Campaign (December 1914 – 30 October 1918). The work was nearly finished by September 1927, when the Government of India had doubts about publication on political grounds, because it would be dangerous to disclose intrigues with Iranian governments and individuals. The most helpful Iranian factions would come badly out of a volume that denigrated their assistance and \"...the less we bring Afghanistan into the narrative the better for us\". Sir Denys Bray of the Foreign and Political Department (Army Headquarters, India) supported the \"excellent written\" history but wanted it lodged in the \"Confidential\" records. Stephen", "title": "History of the Great War" }, { "id": "3888645", "text": "Parmenion in Anatolia with reinforcements, thus starting Alexander's campaign against Persia. During the great battles that followed, Parmenion commanded the left wing while Alexander himself commanded the right wing. Meanwhile, the Persian satraps of Cilicia, Lydia, Hellespontine Phrygia and other territories had assembled at Zelea, near Dascylium. The two armies met near the river Granicus. Most ancient sources agree that Parmenion advised Alexander not to attack and that it was Alexander's own idea to attack at once. Parmenion is said to have acted as a foil to his commander's innovative strategies, by expertly formulating the orthodox strategy. For instance, according", "title": "Parmenion" }, { "id": "7646105", "text": "Thucydides (c. 460 B.C. – c. 400 B.C.) is credited with having first approached history with a well-developed historical method in his work the \"History of the Peloponnesian War\". Thucydides, unlike Herodotus, regarded history as being the product of the choices and actions of human beings, and looked at cause and effect, rather than as the result of divine intervention. Saint Augustine was influential in Christian and Western thought at the beginning of the medieval period. Through the Medieval and Renaissance periods, history was often studied through a sacred or religious perspective. Around 1800, German philosopher and historian Georg Wilhelm", "title": "Recorded history" }, { "id": "2544276", "text": "resulted in the Iberian Union, the first global empire on which the \"sun never set\". Soon the more northern English, French and Dutch began to dominate the Atlantic. In a series of wars fought in the 17th and 18th centuries, culminating with the Napoleonic Wars, Britain emerged as the new world power. Persia came under the rule of the Safavid Empire in 1501, succeeded by the Afsharid Empire in 1736,Zand Empire in 1751 and the Qajar Empire in 1794. Areas to the north and east were held by Uzbeks and Pashtuns. The Ottoman Empire, after taking Constantinople in 1453, quickly", "title": "History of the world" }, { "id": "8951724", "text": "at the Trojan War, was probably written in the 1st century CE or perhaps a little earlier. It falls into a tradition of anti-Homeric literature, based on the supposition that Homer got most things about the Trojan War wrong by making virtuous people look like villains, and vice versa. It is important because later historians took Dictys as a historical record, including Sisyphus of Cos, John Malalas, George Cedrenus, John of Antioch, and others. Many Western mediaeval writers also accepted Dictys (in the Latin summary by Lucius Septimius) as the definitive account of the Trojan War. According to Dictys, Odysseus", "title": "Geography of the Odyssey" }, { "id": "12296220", "text": "Charles Henry Davis to the board to serve as secretary, and requested that Army Major (later Major General) John G. Barnard, chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, and Alexander D. Bache, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, lend their services. Other persons gave advice, but all reports issued by the commission were signed only by these four. The board delivered seven reports to the Navy Department between July 5 and September 19, 1861. Each of them has been published as part of the Official Records of the American Civil War. In chronological order they are: The recommendations of the board", "title": "Blockade Strategy Board" }, { "id": "4617751", "text": "Ernestine Evans, John Fairbank, Lee Falk, Howard Fast, Ralph J. Gleason, Alexander Hammid, Leo Hershfield, Jane Jacobs, Lewis Wade Jones, David Karr, Philip Keeney, Christina Krotkova, Owen Lattimore, Murray Leinster, Paul Linebarger, Irving Lerner, Edward P. Lilly (historian), Archibald MacLeish, Lowell Mellett, Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Charles Olson, Gordon Parks, James Reston, Peter Rhodes, Arthur Rothstein, Waldo Salt, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Sherwood, Dody Weston Thompson (researcher-writer), William Stephenson, George E. Taylor (historian), Chester S. Williams, Flora Wovschin, and Karl Yoneda. United States Office of War Information The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a United States government agency", "title": "United States Office of War Information" }, { "id": "7115983", "text": "some five times greater than his army pay during his three years of army service. In India Churchill visited the Viceroy, Lord Curzon, who had himself written a history of \"Persia and the Persian Question\" eight years before. He read everything he could find containing background information about the Sudan. On the way home he stopped for two weeks in Egypt to visit Lord Cromer, then in charge of the Egyptian government, who read through the text and made suggestions and corrections; in particular playing down the popular impression of General Gordon, murdered by the Mahdi's forces fourteen years before,", "title": "The River War" }, { "id": "15300239", "text": "adjutant or intelligence officer and contain a regularly updated narrative of its activities as well as copies of reports, messages received and maps. WWII \"War Diaries\" from units of the US Navy (including all ships) and Marine Corps were declassified on December 31, 2012 by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OCNO) and made available to the public through the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These \"war diaries\" are part of a larger collection of records from the OCNO at NARA, currently spanning 1875 to 2006. War diary A war diary is a regularly updated official record", "title": "War diary" }, { "id": "1377313", "text": "of other ancient historians including Plutarch, Ctesias of Cnidus, and are referred to by other authors, as in Aeschylus in \"The Persians\". Archaeological evidence, such as the Serpent Column (now in the Hippodrome of Constantinople), also supports some of Herodotus' specific claims. George B. Grundy was the first modern historian to do a thorough topographical survey of the narrow pass at Thermopylae, and to the extent that modern accounts of the battle differ from Herodotus' they usually follow Grundy's. For example, the military strategist Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart defers to Grundy. Grundy also explored Plataea and wrote a treatise", "title": "Battle of Thermopylae" }, { "id": "831630", "text": "Ctesias Ctesias (; , \"Ktēsíās\"), also known as Ctesias the Cnidian or Ctesias of Cnidus, was a Greek physician and historian from the town of Cnidus in Caria. Ctesias, who lived in the 5th century BC, was physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus the Younger. Ctesias was the author of treatises on rivers, and on the Persian revenues, of an account of India entitled \"Indica\" (Ἰνδικά), and of a history of Assyria and Persia in 23 books, called \"Persica\" (Περσικά), written in opposition to Herodotus in the Ionic dialect,", "title": "Ctesias" } ]

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[ { "id": "18973432", "text": "which was recorded in 2005 in the Lut Desert, Iran. The Lut Desert was also found to have the highest maximum temperature in 5 of the 7 years measured (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009). These measurements reflect averages over a large region and so are lower than the maximum point surface temperature. The following are unverified claims of extreme heat over the current world record of . Highest temperature recorded on Earth According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest registered air temperature on Earth was in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in the Death Valley desert in", "title": "Highest temperature recorded on Earth" }, { "id": "18973429", "text": "such as Christopher C. Burt also claim that the 1913 Death Valley reading is \"a myth\", and is at least too high. This same conclusion has also been reached by historians Dr. Arnold Court and William Taylor Reid. If the 1913 record were to be decertified, the highest recorded air temperature on Earth would be , recorded both in Death Valley on June 20, 2013, and in Mitribah, Kuwait on July 21, 2016. The standard measuring conditions for temperature are in the air, 1.5 meters above the ground, and shielded from direct sunlight. From 1922 until 2012, the WMO record", "title": "Highest temperature recorded on Earth" }, { "id": "18973430", "text": "for the highest official temperature on Earth was , registered on September 13, 1922 in ‘Aziziya, Libya. In January 2012, the WMO decertified the 1922 record, citing persuasive evidence that it was a faulty reading recorded in error by an inexperienced observer. Temperatures measured directly on the ground may exceed air temperatures by 30 to 50 °C. The theoretical maximum possible ground surface temperature has been estimated to be between 90 and 100 °C (between 194 and 212 °F) for dry, darkish soils of low thermal conductivity. While there is no highest confirmed ground temperature, a reading of 93.9 °C", "title": "Highest temperature recorded on Earth" }, { "id": "458605", "text": "features. On Earth, temperatures usually range ±40 °C (100 °F to −40 °F) annually. The range of climates and latitudes across the planet can offer extremes of temperature outside this range. The coldest air temperature ever recorded on Earth is , at Vostok Station, Antarctica on 21 July 1983. The hottest air temperature ever recorded was at 'Aziziya, Libya, on 13 September 1922, but that reading is queried. The highest recorded average annual temperature was at Dallol, Ethiopia. The coldest recorded average annual temperature was at Vostok Station, Antarctica. The coldest average annual temperature in a permanently inhabited location is", "title": "Weather" }, { "id": "18973428", "text": "Highest temperature recorded on Earth According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the highest registered air temperature on Earth was in Furnace Creek Ranch, California, located in the Death Valley desert in the United States, on July 10, 1913. The WMO itself admits that \"[a]fter examining the temperature record in detail, [it was] noted that this temperature may be the result of a sandstorm that occurred at the time. Such a storm may have caused superheated surface materials to hit upon the temperature in the shelter\" - what would mean the recording did not refer to air temperature. Weather historians", "title": "Highest temperature recorded on Earth" }, { "id": "18973431", "text": "(201 °F) was allegedly recorded in Furnace Creek Ranch on July 15, 1972. Temperature measurements via satellite also tend to capture occurrence of higher records but, due to complications involving satellite's altitude loss (a side effect of atmospheric friction), these measurements are often considered less reliable than ground-positioned thermometers. The highest recorded temperature taken by a satellite is , which was measured in the Flaming Mountains of China in 2008. Other satellite measurements of ground temperature taken between 2003 and 2009, taken with the MODIS infrared spectroradiometer on the Aqua satellite, found a maximum temperature of 70.7 °C (159.3 °F),", "title": "Highest temperature recorded on Earth" }, { "id": "8074210", "text": "climate classification \"BWh\") typical of the Danakil Desert. Dallol is the hottest place year-round on the planet and currently holds the record high average temperature for an inhabited location on Earth, where an average annual temperature of 34.6 °C (94.3 °F) was recorded between the years 1960 and 1966. The annual average high temperature is 41 °C (105 °F) and the hottest month has an average high of 46.7 °C (116.1 °F). In addition to being extremely hot year-round, the climate of the lowlands of the Danakil Depression is also extremely dry and hyperarid in terms of annual average rainy", "title": "Dallol, Ethiopia" }, { "id": "1458802", "text": "are common. The world absolute heat records, over 50 °C (122 °F), are generally in the hot deserts, where the heat potential is the highest on the planet. Some official records for highest surface temperatures ever recorded in hot deserts include 134 F (57 C) in Death Valley, California and 136.4 F (58 C) in Libya. Some desert locations consistently experience very high temperatures all year long, even during wintertime. These locations feature some of the highest annual average temperatures recorded on Earth, averages which can exceed 30 °C (86 °F). This last feature is seen in sections of Africa", "title": "Desert climate" }, { "id": "8757197", "text": "warmest on record and minimums above average. Sydney experienced its hottest summer since records began in the summer of 2016-17, with more than 10 days over . Sydney's 2017 mean temperature of degrees was degrees above the long term average and the second highest value in 158 years of records. The warmest year on record was 2016, with a mean temperature of degrees. On 7 January 2018, Sydney was the hottest place on Earth. On April 2018, Sydney had the longest running hot spell for that month with nine consecutive days of temperatures reaching . Furthermore, the airport and parts", "title": "Climate of Sydney" }, { "id": "111098", "text": "(humid tropics, arid, humid middle latitudes, continental and cold polar), which are further divided into more specific subtypes. The Köppen system rates regions of terrain based on observed temperature and precipitation. The highest air temperature ever measured on Earth was in Furnace Creek, California, in Death Valley, in 1913. The lowest air temperature ever directly measured on Earth was at Vostok Station in 1983, but satellites have used remote sensing to measure temperatures as low as in East Antarctica. These temperature records are only measurements made with modern instruments from the 20th century onwards and likely do not reflect the", "title": "Earth" }, { "id": "576322", "text": "Furnace Creek) in Death Valley. This temperature stands as the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded at the surface of the Earth. (A report of a temperature of 58 °C (136.4 °F) recorded in Libya in 1922 was later determined to be inaccurate.) Daily summer temperatures of or greater are common, as well as below freezing nightly temperatures in the winter. July is the hottest month, with an average high of and an average low of . December is the coldest month, with an average high of and an average low of . The record low is . Several of", "title": "Death Valley National Park" }, { "id": "66804", "text": "the Southern California mountains have hot summers and nearly frostless mild winters. Death Valley, a desert with large expanses below sea level, is considered the hottest location in the world; the highest temperature in the world, , was recorded there on July 10, 1913. The lowest temperature in California was in 1937 in Boca. The table below lists average temperatures for January and August in a selection of places throughout the state; some highly populated and some not. This includes the relatively cool summers of the Humboldt Bay region around Eureka, the extreme heat of Death Valley, and the mountain", "title": "California" }, { "id": "14730465", "text": "54.4 °C on June 15 which was the highest temperature ever recorded in Asia, and is 2 degrees lower than the record for Death Valley, USA of 56.7 °C degrees, and 4 degrees lower than the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth of 58 °C at Al-Aziziya, Libya but scientists argue that this temperature is inaccurate as the thermometer was above the Tarmac floor and in the direction of the sun. In August 2010, the heat index reached 64 °C at Al-Nuwaiseeb due to the high humidity. On July 26 the heat reached near-record levels over Kuwait. On July 14,", "title": "2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves" }, { "id": "1521641", "text": "Antarctica has an ice cap climate (Köppen \"EF\") with very cold, generally extremely dry weather. The lowest reliably measured temperature of a continuously occupied station on Earth of was on 21 July 1983 at Vostok Station. For comparison, this is colder than subliming dry ice (at sea level pressure). The altitude of the location is . The lowest recorded temperature of any location on Earth's surface at was revised with new data in 2018 in nearly 100 locations, ranging from to . This unnamed part of the Antarctic plateau, between Dome A and Dome F, was measured on August 10,", "title": "Climate of Antarctica" }, { "id": "4658450", "text": "retreat of the Pleistocene glaciers. The 10,000 years of the Holocene epoch covers most of this period, since the end of the Northern Hemisphere's Younger Dryas millennium-long cooling. The Holocene Climatic Optimum was generally warmer than the 20th century, but numerous regional variations have been noted since the start of the Younger Dryas. Even longer term records exist for few sites: the recent Antarctic EPICA core reaches 800 kyr; many others reach more than 100,000 years. The EPICA core covers eight glacial/interglacial cycles. The NGRIP core from Greenland stretchs back more than 100 kyr, with 5 kyr in the Eemian", "title": "Global temperature record" }, { "id": "7710753", "text": "July 17, 2014. The American Meteorological Society published a supplemental paper online. The report was compiled by 425 scientists from 57 countries. Major findings in the 2013 report include: A report was released for the year of 2014. A report was released in August 2016 for 2015. 2015 was the hottest year to date. Greenhouse gases were highest on record. Global upper ocean heat content was highest on record. Global sea level was highest on record. Current as of report, 2016 surpassed 2015 as the warmest year in 137 years of recordkeeping. Concentrations of carbon dioxide () in the Earth's", "title": "State of the Climate" }, { "id": "111081", "text": "slightly higher angular velocity than the remainder of the planet, advancing by 0.1–0.5° per year. The radius of the inner core is about one fifth of that of Earth. Earth's internal heat comes from a combination of residual heat from planetary accretion (about 20%) and heat produced through radioactive decay (80%). The major heat-producing isotopes within Earth are potassium-40, uranium-238, and thorium-232. At the center, the temperature may be up to , and the pressure could reach . Because much of the heat is provided by radioactive decay, scientists postulate that early in Earth's history, before isotopes with short half-lives", "title": "Earth" }, { "id": "1536345", "text": "greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.\" Tim Osborn, Director of Research at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, agreed stating that \"[m]ultiple lines of independent evidence confirm that the planet has warmed over the last 150 years: warmer oceans, warmer land, warmer lower atmosphere and melting ice. This long-term trend is the main cause for the record warmth of 2015 and 2016, surpassing all previous years – even ones with strong El Niño events.\" Based on the NOAA dataset (note that other datasets produce different rankings), the following table lists the global combined land and ocean annually averaged temperature", "title": "Instrumental temperature record" }, { "id": "12290408", "text": "Climate of Pakistan Pakistan recorded one of the highest temperatures in the world – – on 26 May 2010, the hottest temperature ever recorded in Pakistan, but also the hottest reliably measured temperature ever recorded on the continent of Asia. As Pakistan is located on a great landmass north of the Tropic of Cancer (between latitudes 25° and 36° N), it has a continental type of climate characterized by extreme variations of temperature, both seasonally and daily. Very high altitudes modify the climate in the cold, snow-covered northern mountains; temperatures on the Balochistan Plateau are somewhat higher. Along the coastal", "title": "Climate of Pakistan" }, { "id": "290018", "text": "temperatures (June, July, and August) average around the freezing point (). The highest temperature yet recorded is , much warmer than the South Pole's record high of only . A similar spike in temperatures occurred on November 15, 2016 when temperatures hit freezing. Yet again, February 2018 featured a storm so powerful that temperatures at Cape Morris Jesup, the world's northernmost weather station in Greenland, reached and spent 24 straight hours above freezing. Meanwhile, the pole itself was estimated to reach a high temperature of . This same temperature of was also recorded at the Hollywood Burbank Airport in Los", "title": "North Pole" }, { "id": "1536346", "text": "rank and anomaly for each of the 10 warmest years on record. Although the NCDC temperature record begins in 1880, based on climate proxies, suggest these years may be the warmest for several centuries to millennia, or longer. Numerous cycles have been found to influence annual global mean temperatures. The tropical El Niño-La Niña cycle and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation are the most well-known of these cycles. An examination of the average global temperature changes by decades reveals continuing climate change, and AR5 reports \"Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any", "title": "Instrumental temperature record" }, { "id": "20897394", "text": "part of the last greenhouse earth was the Late Paleocene - Early Eocene Torrid Age. This was a hothouse period that lasted from 65 to 55 million years ago. The hottest part of this torrid age was the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 55.5 million years ago. Average global temperatures were around 30 °C (86 °F), which is about 15 °C (27 °F) warmer than present. This was only the second time that Earth reached this level of warmth since the Precambrian. The other time was during the Cambrian Period, which ran from 541 million years ago to 485.4 million years ago.", "title": "Late Cenozoic Ice Age" }, { "id": "1938037", "text": "Lowest temperature recorded on Earth The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on July 21, 1983 by ground measurements. On August 10, 2010, satellite observations showed a surface temperature of at , along a ridge between Dome Argus and Dome Fuji, at elevation. The result was reported at the 46th annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2013; it is a provisional figure, and may be subject to revision. The value is not listed as the record lowest temperature as it was", "title": "Lowest temperature recorded on Earth" }, { "id": "595528", "text": "of any major city on Earth. Average high temperatures in summer are the hottest of any major city in the United States. On average, there are 107 days annually with a high of at least including most days from late May through early October. Highs top an average of 18 days during the year. On June 26, 1990, the temperature reached an all-time recorded high of . Despite the city's claim to the most extreme heat in summer, however, it does not have the highest average annual temperature in the contiguous United States. In that respect, it comes second to", "title": "Phoenix, Arizona" }, { "id": "7216861", "text": "Spectroradiometer) installed on NASA's Aqua satellite from 2003 to 2010 testify that the hottest land surface on Earth is located in Dasht-e Lut and land surface temperatures reach here , though the air temperature is cooler. The precision of measurements is 0.5 K to 1 K. The hottest part of Dasht-e Lut is Gandom Beryan, a large plateau covered in dark lava, approximately in area. According to a local legend, the name (in translation from Persian — \"Toasted wheat\") originates from an accident where a load of wheat was left in the desert which was then scorched by the heat", "title": "Dasht-e Lut" }, { "id": "12290420", "text": "rains caused severe flooding in 16 districts of Sindh province. Climate of Pakistan Pakistan recorded one of the highest temperatures in the world – – on 26 May 2010, the hottest temperature ever recorded in Pakistan, but also the hottest reliably measured temperature ever recorded on the continent of Asia. As Pakistan is located on a great landmass north of the Tropic of Cancer (between latitudes 25° and 36° N), it has a continental type of climate characterized by extreme variations of temperature, both seasonally and daily. Very high altitudes modify the climate in the cold, snow-covered northern mountains; temperatures", "title": "Climate of Pakistan" }, { "id": "1458804", "text": "Syrian Desert or the Lut Desert; deserts of South Asia such as Dasht-e Kavir, Dasht-e Loot, or the Thar Desert of India and Pakistan; deserts of the United States and Mexico such as the Mojave Desert, the Sonoran Desert or the Chihuahuan Desert; deserts of Australia such as the Simpson Desert or the Great Victoria Desert and many other regions. Hot deserts are lands of extremes: most of them are the hottest, the driest and the sunniest places on Earth because of nearly constant high pressure; the nearly permanent removal of low pressure systems, dynamic fronts and atmospheric disturbances; sinking", "title": "Desert climate" }, { "id": "1521653", "text": "is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. In 2015, the temperature showed changes but in a stable manner and the only months that have drastic change in that year are August and September. It also did show that the temperature was very stable throughout the year. Notes Sources Climate of Antarctica The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on Earth. Antarctica's lowest air temperature record was set on 21 July 1983, with at Vostok Station. Satellite measurements have identified even lower ground temperatures, down to at the cloud-free East Antarctic Plateau on 10 August 2010. Antarctica is also extremely", "title": "Climate of Antarctica" }, { "id": "679530", "text": "locations due to its location near the coast. During the summer months, from June to August, Basra is consistently one of the hottest cities on the planet, with temperatures regularly exceeding in July and August. In winter Basra experiences mild weather with average high temperatures around . On some winter nights, minimum temperatures are below . High humidity – sometimes exceeding 90% – is common due to the proximity to the marshy Persian Gulf. An all-time high temperature was recorded on July 22, 2016, when daytime readings soared to . This is one of the hottest temperatures ever measured on", "title": "Basra" }, { "id": "15479659", "text": "Atmospheric temperature Atmospheric temperature is a measure of temperature at different levels of the Earth's atmosphere. It is governed by many factors, including incoming solar radiation, humidity and altitude. When discussing surface air temperature, the annual atmospheric temperature range at any geographical location depends largely upon the type of biome, as measured by the Köppen climate classification. In the Earth's atmosphere, temperature varies greatly at different heights relative to the Earth's surface. The coldest temperatures lie near the mesopause, an area approximately 80 km above the surface. In contrast, some of the warmest temperatures can be found in the thermosphere,", "title": "Atmospheric temperature" }, { "id": "576423", "text": "Moving masses of super-heated air blow through the valley creating extremely high temperatures. The hottest air temperature ever recorded in Death Valley was on July 10, 1913, at Furnace Creek, which is the highest atmospheric temperature ever recorded on earth. During the heat wave that peaked with that record, five consecutive days reached or above. Some meteorologists dispute the accuracy of the 1913 temperature measurement. The highest surface temperature ever recorded in Death Valley was on July 15, 1972, at Furnace Creek, which is the highest ground surface temperature ever recorded on earth, as well as the only recorded surface", "title": "Death Valley" }, { "id": "1007986", "text": "Furnace Creek, California Furnace Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California. The population was 24 at the 2010 census, down from 31 at the 2000 census. The elevation of the village is below sea level. Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth at 134 °F (56.7 °C) on July 10, 1913, as well as the highest recorded natural ground surface temperature on Earth at 201 °F (93.9 °C) on July 15, 1972. The visitor center, museum, and headquarters of the Death Valley National Park are located at Furnace Creek. The", "title": "Furnace Creek, California" }, { "id": "17553942", "text": "range over millions of years. When atmospheric CO concentration rise, temperature and precipitation increase and thereby enhance chemical weathering. The last time global temperature reached a long-term maximum was during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, 51–53 million years ago (See also Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum). Only over the past 34 million years have CO concentrations been low, temperatures relatively cool, and the poles glaciated. This long- term shift in Earth’s climatic state resulted, in part from differences in volcanic emissions, which were particularly high during parts of the Palaeocene and Eocene epochs (about 40–60 million years ago) but have diminished since", "title": "Climate state" }, { "id": "1521640", "text": "Climate of Antarctica The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on Earth. Antarctica's lowest air temperature record was set on 21 July 1983, with at Vostok Station. Satellite measurements have identified even lower ground temperatures, down to at the cloud-free East Antarctic Plateau on 10 August 2010. Antarctica is also extremely dry (technically a desert), averaging of precipitation per year. On most parts of the continent the snow rarely melts and is eventually compressed to become the glacier ice that makes up the ice sheet. Weather fronts rarely penetrate far into the continent, because of the katabatic winds. Most of", "title": "Climate of Antarctica" }, { "id": "8758982", "text": "separate lodging facility from the Inn. It is on the valley floor next to the Park's Visitor Center. The ranch is known for being the location of the highest temperature recorded on Earth at 56.7 °C (134 °F) on July 10, 1913. The Borax Museum is located at The Ranch at Death Valley. The museum features borax mining tools and equipment of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, models of Twenty-mule team wagon trains, pioneer artifacts and mineral specimens. Oasis at Death Valley The Oasis at Death Valley, formerly called \"Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch Resort\", is a luxury resort in", "title": "Oasis at Death Valley" }, { "id": "15364624", "text": "which leads to subsidence near the 30th parallel of both hemispheres. This circulation is known as the Hadley cell and leads to the formation of the subtropical ridge. Many of the world's deserts are caused by these climatological high-pressure areas, including the Sahara Desert. Temperatures are hottest within the Sahara regions of Algeria and Mali, and coolest across the south and at elevation within the topography across the eastern and northwest sections of the continent. The hottest average temperature on Earth is at Dallol, Ethiopia, which averages a temperature of throughout the year. The hottest temperature recorded within Africa, which", "title": "Climate of Africa" }, { "id": "13772004", "text": "has been estimated at over 23,399. On 13 September 1922, a high temperature of was recorded in Al-ʿAzīzīyah. This was long considered the highest temperature ever measured on Earth. However, that reading was controversial: The coldest temperature recorded in Al-ʿAzīzīyah was in February. Al-ʿAzīzīyah has a mean high temperature of , a mean temperature of , and a mean low temperature of , making it one of the warmest places in the world. The coldest month, with a mean temperature of , is January with a mean high temperature of and a mean low temperature of , and the warmest", "title": "‘Aziziya" }, { "id": "1938040", "text": "1960, held the record until a temperature of was measured at the Soviet Vostok Station, on the Antarctic Plateau, on July 21, 1983. This remains the record for a directly recorded temperature. In 1904 Dutch scientist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes created a special lab in Leiden with the aim of producing liquid helium. In 1908 he managed to lower the temperature to less than −269 °C (-452.2 F, 4 K), which is less than four degrees above absolute zero. Only in this exceptionally cold state will helium liquefy, the boiling point of helium being at −268.94 °C (-452.092 F). Kamerlingh Onnes", "title": "Lowest temperature recorded on Earth" }, { "id": "4658452", "text": "Earth's 4500 million year existence and most often are attributed to changes in the configuration of continents and ocean sea ways. Global temperature record The global temperature record shows the fluctuations of the temperature of the atmosphere and the oceans through various spans of time. The most detailed information exists since 1850, when methodical thermometer-based records began. There are numerous estimates of temperatures since the end of the Pleistocene glaciation, particularly during the current Holocene epoch. Older time periods are studied by paleoclimatology. Weather balloon radiosonde measurements of atmospheric temperature at various altitudes begin to show an approximation of global", "title": "Global temperature record" }, { "id": "7749511", "text": "increased between per decade, satellite temperature measurements confirm. Climate proxies show the temperature to have been relatively stable over the one or two thousand years before 1850, with regionally varying fluctuations such as the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. The warming evident in the instrumental temperature record is consistent with a wide range of observations, as documented by many independent scientific groups. Examples include sea level rise, widespread melting of snow and land ice, increased heat content of the oceans, increased humidity, and the earlier timing of spring events, e.g., the flowering of plants. The probability that", "title": "Global warming" }, { "id": "14730405", "text": "Hemisphere, at 1.25 °C (2.25 °F) above average. The previous record for the global average temperature in June was set in 2005 at 0.66 °C (1.19 °F), and the previous warm record for April–June over Northern Hemisphere land areas was 1.16 °C (2.09 °F), set in 2007. The strongest of the anticyclones, the one situated over Siberia, registered a maximum high pressure of 1040 millibars. The weather caused forest fires in China, where three in a team of 300 died fighting a fire that broke out in the Binchuan County of Dali, as Yunnan suffered the worst drought in 60", "title": "2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves" }, { "id": "2259521", "text": "recorded closer to the coast, (Sydney Observatory Hill's mean yearly rainfall is 1212.2mm ), as coastal showers do not penetrate inland. The highest recorded temperature was 47.3 °C (117.14 °F) on 7 January 2018 (Penrith was also the hottest place on earth that day). The lowest recorded temperature was -1.4 °C (29.5 °F) on 12 July 2002. Penrith's hot temperatures are credited to föhn wind sweeping off the Central Tablelands down into the foothills of the suburb. In the 2016 census, Penrith recorded a population of 13,295 people. Of these: Penrith is twinned with: Penrith, New South Wales Penrith is", "title": "Penrith, New South Wales" }, { "id": "576433", "text": "wagon trains. During the 1850s, gold and silver were extracted in the valley. In the 1880s, borax was discovered and extracted by mule-drawn wagons. On the afternoon of July 10, 1913, the United States Weather Bureau recorded a high temperature of 134 °F (56.7 °C) at Greenland Ranch (now Furnace Creek) in Death Valley. This temperature stands as the highest ambient air temperature ever recorded at the surface of the Earth. (A report of a temperature of 58 °C (136.4 °F) recorded in Libya in 1922 was later determined to be inaccurate.) Death Valley National Monument was proclaimed on February", "title": "Death Valley" }, { "id": "1007989", "text": "July with an average daily high temperature of and the driest month was June with an average monthly precipitation of . Furnace Creek holds the record for the highest recorded temperature in the world, reaching on July 10, 1913. Some meteorologists dispute the accuracy of the 1913 temperature measurement. In addition, a ground temperature of 201 °F (93.9 °C) was recorded in Furnace Creek on July 15, 1972; this may be the highest natural ground surface temperature ever recorded. (Temperatures measured directly on the ground may exceed air temperatures by 30 to 50 °C.) The Timbisha inhabited what is now", "title": "Furnace Creek, California" }, { "id": "14346867", "text": "temperatures have increased about 0.74 °C (plus or minus 0.18 °C) since the late-19th century, and the linear trend for the past 50 years of 0.13 °C (plus or minus 0.03 °C) per decade is nearly twice that for the past 100 years. The warming has not been globally uniform. Some areas have, in fact, cooled slightly over the last century. The recent warmth has been greatest over North America and Eurasia between 40 and 70°N. Lastly, seven of the eight warmest years on record have occurred since 2001 and the 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1995. Thousands", "title": "Physical impacts of climate change" }, { "id": "1536356", "text": "of the 2000s was warmer than the 1990 average. Temperature trends from 1901 are positive over most of the world's surface except for Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland, the southeastern United States, and parts of Bolivia. Warming is strongest over inland areas in Asia and North America as well as south-eastern Brazil and some areas in the South Atlantic and Indian oceans. Since 1979 temperature increase is considerably stronger over land while cooling has been observed over some oceanic regions in the Pacific Ocean and Southern Hemisphere; the spatial pattern of ocean temperature trend in those regions is possibly related", "title": "Instrumental temperature record" }, { "id": "3813845", "text": "without snow cover for large parts of the winter months when daytime temperatures hover just above freezing – an exceptional feature for an inland area north of the 59th parallel. The highest ever recorded temperature was set on 7 August 1975 during an intense heatwave with , which is a very high temperature for such northerly parallels. During the 21st century, the record heat is set on 3 August 2014 during a long summer heat wave. The lowest recorded temperature in recorded history was set in February 1966 with . Several monthly records have been set in the 2010s according", "title": "Örebro" }, { "id": "15883654", "text": "is the hottest place on Earth in terms of year-round average temperatures. It is also one of the lowest places on the planet (100 m below sea level), and without rain for most of the year. Here, the Awash River dries up in a chain of salt lakes such as Lake Afrera, never reaching the Indian Ocean. Mount Ayalu is the westernmost and older of the two volcanoes at the southern end of the Danakil Depression. The other active volcano, Erta Ale, is one of several crater lakes of lava bubbling from the Earth's mantle. Additionally, the area contains the", "title": "Danakil Depression" }, { "id": "4158792", "text": "is between while the average low is between . In winter, mean temperatures are around . The highest temperature recorded was on 24 March 2015. This reading is the highest temperature ever recorded on mainland Antarctica and its surrounding islands. The lowest temperature ever recorded is on 18 July 1994. The temperature trend since 1948 is +0.0315 °C/yr (+0.0567 °F/yr) (annual), +0.0413 °C/yr (+0.0743 °F/yr) (winter) and +0.0300 °C/yr (+0.0540 °F/yr) (summer). A group of items or structures of historic significance at, or close to, the base have been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 40), following a proposal", "title": "Esperanza Base" }, { "id": "14730462", "text": "Middle east as well, such as in Bahrain, where the country set its hottest June temperature on record at 46.9 °C on June 20. There was also plenty of heat in Iraq, where a new unofficial hottest temperature record was set on June 14, 2010, at 52.0 °C (125.6 °F) in Basra. The previous record was 51.7 °C (125.1 °F) on August 8, 1937, in Ash Shu'ayba. On July 26 the heat reached near-record levels over Iraq. In Israel, the year 2010 was the hottest on record, and average temperatures were 2-3 degrees Celsius higher than the average. The temperature", "title": "2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves" }, { "id": "19489", "text": "Iraq has become one of the transit cities connecting both countries through a 40-minute drive. The climate in Abadan is arid (Köppen climate classification \"BWh\") and similar to Baghdad's, but slightly hotter due to Abadan's lower latitude. Summers are dry and extremely hot, with temperatures above almost daily and temperatures above can be almost common. Abadan is notably one of the few hottest populated places on earth and experiences many sand and dust storms. Winters are mildly wet and spring-like, though subject to cold spells. Winter temperatures are around . The world's highest unconfirmed temperature was a temperature flare up", "title": "Abadan, Iran" }, { "id": "2111187", "text": "widespread cooler conditions during a period around the 17th century known as the Little Ice Age. In the hockey stick controversy, contrarians have asserted that the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than at present, and have disputed the data and methods of climate reconstructions. By far the best observed period is from 1850 to the present day, with coverage improving over time. Over this period the recent instrumental record, mainly based on direct thermometer readings, has approximately global coverage. It shows a general warming in global temperatures. Before this time various proxies must be used. These proxies are less accurate", "title": "Temperature record of the past 1000 years" }, { "id": "5202970", "text": ". Tropical ocean island locations such as Hawaii often have the lowest recorded temperature ranges, sometimes with a difference of as little as . United States temperature extremes For the United States, the extremes are in Death Valley, California in 1913 and recorded in Prospect Creek, Alaska in 1971. The largest recorded temperature change in one place over a 24-hour period occurred on January 15, 1972 in Loma, Montana, when the temperature rose from . The most dramatic temperature changes occur in North American climates susceptible to Chinook winds. For example, the largest 2-minute temperature change of occurred in Spearfish,", "title": "United States temperature extremes" }, { "id": "15364890", "text": "Asia experiences some of the largest diurnal temperature ranges on Earth. The lowest temperature measured was at Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon, both in Sakha Republic of Russia on February 7, 1892 and February 6, 1933 respectively. A large annual rainfall minimum, composed primarily of deserts, stretches from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia west-southwest through the Taklamakan Desert in Western China, the Thar Desert in Western India and Iranian Plateau into the Arabian Desert in the Arabian Peninsula. Rainfall around the continent is across its southern portion from Eastern India and Northeast India across the Philippines, Indochina, Malay Peninsula, Malay Archipelago and", "title": "Climate of Asia" }, { "id": "12290413", "text": "highest temperature ever recorded in Pakistan is which was recorded in Mohenjo-daro, Sindh on 26 May 2010. It was not only the hottest temperature ever recorded in Pakistan but also the hottest reliably measured temperature ever recorded on the continent of Asia. and the fourth highest temperature ever recorded on earth. The highest rainfall of was recorded in Islamabad during 24 hours on 24 July 2001. The record-breaking rain fell in just 10 hours. It was the heaviest rainfall in Islamabad in the previous 100 years. Each year before the onset of monsoon that is 15 April to 15 July", "title": "Climate of Pakistan" }, { "id": "18831556", "text": "ice shelf. There is also evidence for widespread glacier retreat around the Antarctic Peninsula. Researchers reported December 21, 2012 in Nature Geoscience that from 1958 to 2010, the average temperature at the mile-high Byrd Station rose by 2.4 degrees Celsius, with warming fastest in its winter and spring. The spot which is in the heart of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. A study of the Antarctic Peninsula, a small subregion of Lesser Antarctica, published in 2017 found that the temperature trends at the northern tip of the Peninsula, the north-east region of", "title": "Global warming in Antarctica" }, { "id": "17223687", "text": "United States. Various places in Southern California reached up to . On June 30, Death Valley, California, hit which is the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth during the month of June. It was five degrees shy of the highest temperature recorded in Death Valley, which was , recorded in July 1913. After six days in early July with temperatures over 40 °C (104 °F), Portugal officially entered a heat wave. Temperatures reached as high as 45 °C in some places in Alentejo and Ribatejo. Rising temperatures led to heat health warnings being issued for Southern England and the Midlands", "title": "2013 extreme weather events" }, { "id": "12773979", "text": "Station was on Christmas Day, 2011, and the lowest was on June 23, 1982 (for comparison, the lowest temperature directly recorded anywhere on earth was at Vostok Station on July 21, 1983, though was measured indirectly by satellite in East Antarctica between Dome A and Dome F in August 2010). The South Pole has a polar climate (Köppen climate classification \"EF\"). It resembles a desert, receiving very little precipitation. Air humidity is near zero. However, high winds can cause the blowing of snowfall, and the accumulation of snow amounts to about per year. The former dome seen in pictures of", "title": "South Pole" }, { "id": "1521642", "text": "2010, and the temperature was deduced from radiance measured by the Landsat 8 and other satellites, and discovered during a National Snow and Ice Data Center review of stored data in December, 2013 but revice by researcher on June 25 2018. This temperature is not directly comparable to the –89.2 °C reading quoted above, since it is a skin temperature deduced from satellite-measured upwelling radiance, rather than a thermometer-measured temperature of the air above the ground surface. The highest temperature ever recorded on the Antarctic continent was at Esperanza Base, on the Antarctic Peninsula, on 24 March 2015. A higher", "title": "Climate of Antarctica" }, { "id": "4669431", "text": "the PETM, the global mean temperature seems to have risen by as much as 5-8 °C (9-14 °F) to an average temperature as high as 23 °C (73 °F), in contrast to the global average temperature of today at just under 15 °C (60 °F). Geologists and paleontologists think that during much of the Paleocene and early Eocene, the poles were free of ice caps, and palm trees and crocodiles lived above the Arctic Circle, while much of the continental United States had a sub-tropical environment. During the later portion of the Cretaceous, from , average global temperatures reached their", "title": "Geologic temperature record" }, { "id": "15364625", "text": "was also the world record, was at 'Aziziya, Libya on September 13, 1922. This was later proven to be false, and to derive from an inaccurate reading of a thermometer. The world's hottest place is in fact Death Valley, in California. Apparent temperatures, combining the effect of the temperature and humidity, along the Red Sea coast of Eritrea and Gulf of Aden coast of Somalia range between and during the afternoon hours. The lowest temperature measured within Africa was at Ifrane, Morocco on February 11, 1935. Nevertheless, the major part of Africa experiences extreme heat during much of the year,", "title": "Climate of Africa" }, { "id": "3296810", "text": "soils of low thermal conductivity. Satellite measurements of ground temperature taken between 2003 and 2009, taken with the MODIS infrared spectroradiometer on the Aqua satellite, found a maximum temperature of 70.7 °C (159.3 °F), which was recorded in 2005 in the Lut Desert, Iran. The Lut Desert was also found to have the highest maximum temperature in 5 of the 7 years measured (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009). These measurements reflect averages over a large region and so are lower than the maximum point surface temperature. Satellite measurements of the surface temperature of Antarctica, taken between 1982 and 2013,", "title": "Extremes on Earth" }, { "id": "12073423", "text": "arid regions of the globe. Averages high temperatures exceed in March, the hottest month of the year. Averages high temperatures remain above during July and August, the least hot months of the year. Averages low temperatures are always above throughout the whole year. Annual average rainfall is only and the city receives just too little annual rainfall to achieve a “semi-arid” climate classification. Luuq is one of the hottest places year-round on Earth as the annual daily mean temperature exceeds . The sky is almost always clear year-round and fair weather is extremely reliable. Luuq Luuq (, ) is a", "title": "Luuq" }, { "id": "2141816", "text": "The average high temperature exceeds during the hottest month nearly everywhere in the desert except at very high altitudes. The highest officially recorded average high temperature was in a remote desert town in the Algerian Desert called Bou Bernous with an elevation of above sea level. It is the world’s highest recorded average high temperature and only Death Valley, California rivals it. Other hot spots in Algeria such as Adrar, Timimoun, In Salah, Ouallene, Aoulef, Reggane with an elevation between above sea level get slightly lower summer average highs around during the hottest months of the year. Salah, well known", "title": "Sahara" }, { "id": "190963", "text": "the Indian subcontinent. In the southern hemisphere, the winds are generally milder, but summer storms near Mauritius can be severe. When the monsoon winds change, cyclones sometimes strike the shores of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. The Indian Ocean is the warmest ocean in the world. Long-term ocean temperature records show a rapid, continuous warming in the Indian Ocean, at about during 1901–2012. Indian Ocean warming is the largest among the tropical oceans, and about 3 times faster than the warming observed in the Pacific. Research indicates that human induced greenhouse warming, and changes in the frequency", "title": "Indian Ocean" }, { "id": "3383752", "text": "the Eemian is equivalent to either all or part of it. The Eemian climate is believed to have been about as stable as that of the Holocene. Changes in the Earth's orbital parameters from today (greater obliquity and eccentricity, and perihelion), known as Milankovitch cycles, probably led to greater seasonal temperature variations in the Northern Hemisphere. Although global annual mean temperatures were probably several degrees warmer than today, during summer months, temperatures in the Arctic region were about 2-4 °C higher than today. The warmest peak of the Eemian was around 125,000 years ago, when forests reached as far north", "title": "Eemian" }, { "id": "20802314", "text": "while the all-time record was . Temperatures in Lethbridge reached , breaking the previous August record of , and tying its all-time record. On 6 July, the temperature at UCLA was , breaking the all-time high temperature record of set in 1939 but still lower than the record set in Woodland Hills, a Los Angeles neighborhood, at about 1 p.m. local time the same day, according to the weather service. Elsewhere in California, Santa Ana and Ramona hit respective record highs of and . The combined conditions of heat and dryness fueled wildfires that caused one fatality and hundreds of", "title": "2018 North American heat wave" }, { "id": "14730442", "text": "been consuming alcohol. 9,000,000 hectares of farmland were destroyed along with 20% of the grain harvest in what appears to be the worst drought in 130 years. In St. Petersburg, various temperature records were broken in July, and the maximum yearly temperature record was set on Wednesday, 28 July, when the temperature was 35.3 degrees Celsius (95.5 degrees Fahrenheit). This record was superseded on 7 August — 37.1 degrees Celsius (98.8 degrees Fahrenheit). The maximum temperature in Moscow was set on 29 July, when it was 38.2 degrees Celsius (100.8 degrees Fahrenheit). On July 30, wildfires killed 25 people, leaving", "title": "2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves" }, { "id": "17404041", "text": "the hottest month of the year. Most day time temperatures are excruciatingly hot with the maximum record temperature of recorded on 23 June 2005 in Chaklala, Rawalpindi with an average high reaching . However, a maximum temperature of was recorded in Saddar (city center) on 19 June 1952 and even that record was broken the following year on 13 June when the temperature soared to an astonishing . Heat waves experienced during this season often raises temperature to over . Nights are warm at an average of ; however, during heat waves night time temperatures may not fall below and", "title": "Climate of Rawalpindi" }, { "id": "10121601", "text": "an equilibrium temperature is given. For example, the black-body temperature of the Earth is 255.3 K (−18 °C or 0 °F ). It is the greenhouse gases that keep the Earth warmer. Venus has a black-body temperature of only 184.2 K (−89 °C or −128 °F ) even though Venus has a true temperature of 737 K (464 °C or 867 °F ). Though the atmosphere of Venus traps more heat than Earth's, NASA lists the black-body temperature of Venus based on the fact that Venus has an extremely high albedo (Bond albedo 0.90, Visual geometric albedo 0.67), giving it", "title": "Super-Earth" }, { "id": "8613452", "text": "by radiation and direct contact. July was the peak month, in which temperatures reached all-time records—many of which still stood as of 2012. In Steele, North Dakota, temperatures reached , which remains North Dakota's record. In Ohio, temperatures reached , which nearly tied the previous record set in 1934. The states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Nebraska, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and New Jersey also experienced record high temperatures. The provinces of Ontario and Manitoba set still-standing record highs above . Chicago Midway Airport recorded or higher temperatures on eight consecutive days from", "title": "1936 North American heat wave" }, { "id": "4658449", "text": "a more qualitative manner than natural proxies. Recent evidence suggests that a sudden and short-lived climatic shift between 2200 and 2100 BCE occurred in the region between Tibet and Iceland, with some evidence suggesting a global change. The result was a cooling and reduction in precipitation. This is believed to be a primary cause of the collapse of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Many estimates of past temperatures have been made over Earth's history. The field of paleoclimatology includes ancient temperature records. As the present article is oriented toward recent temperatures, there is a focus here on events since the", "title": "Global temperature record" }, { "id": "2905931", "text": "August temperatures over are not rare during the day. On July 28, 2010, Oymyakon recorded a record high temperature of , yielding a temperature range of 102.3 °C (184.1 °F). Verkhoyansk,Yakutsk, and Delyankir are the only other places in the world with a temperature amplitude higher than 100 °C (180 °F). The climate is quite dry, but as average monthly temperatures are below freezing for seven months of the year, substantial evaporation occurs only in summer months. Summers are much wetter than winters. Oymyakon has been featured in a number of television series: Oymyakon Oymyakon (, ; , \"Öymököön\", )", "title": "Oymyakon" }, { "id": "3411860", "text": "in Dras, Ladakh, in eastern Jammu and Kashmir. Figures as low as have been taken in Leh, further east in Ladakh. However, temperatures on the disputed but Indian-controlled Siachen Glacier near Bilafond La () and Sia La () have fallen below , while blizzards bring wind speeds in excess of , or hurricane-force winds ranking at 12—the maximum—on the Beaufort scale. These conditions, not hostile actions, caused more than 97% of the roughly 15,000 casualties suffered among Indian and Pakistani soldiers during the Siachen conflict. The highest temperature ever recorded in India occurred on 19 May 2016 in Phalodi, Jodhpur", "title": "Climate of India" }, { "id": "4658444", "text": "Global temperature record The global temperature record shows the fluctuations of the temperature of the atmosphere and the oceans through various spans of time. The most detailed information exists since 1850, when methodical thermometer-based records began. There are numerous estimates of temperatures since the end of the Pleistocene glaciation, particularly during the current Holocene epoch. Older time periods are studied by paleoclimatology. Weather balloon radiosonde measurements of atmospheric temperature at various altitudes begin to show an approximation of global coverage in the 1950s. Since December 1978, microwave sounding units on satellites have produced data which can be used to infer", "title": "Global temperature record" }, { "id": "5345799", "text": "to use oxygen to increase their metabolism and obtain more energy from the same food. The natural evolution of the Sun made it progressively more luminous during the Archean and Proterozoic eons; the Sun's luminosity increases 6% every billion years. As a result, the Earth began to receive more heat from the Sun in the Proterozoic eon. However, the Earth did not get warmer. Instead, the geological record suggests it cooled dramatically during the early Proterozoic. Glacial deposits found in South Africa date back to 2.2 Ga, at which time, based on paleomagnetic evidence, they must have been located near", "title": "History of Earth" }, { "id": "2502756", "text": "average temperature of the warm season (from November to March) is about . The lowest reliably measured temperature on Earth of was in Vostok on 21 July 1983 at 05:45 Moscow Time, which was 07:45 for Vostok's time zone, and 01:45 UTC (See \"List of weather records\"). This beat the station's former record of on 24 August 1960. Lower temperatures occurred higher up towards the summit of the ice sheet as temperature decreases with height along the surface. The coldest wind chill was on 24 August 2005 with a real temperature of . Though unconfirmed, it has been reported that", "title": "Vostok Station" }, { "id": "603421", "text": "North Pole from being the coldest place in the Northern Hemisphere, and it is also part of the reason that Antarctica is so much colder than the Arctic. In summer, the presence of the nearby water keeps coastal areas from warming as much as they might otherwise, just as it does in temperate regions with maritime climates. The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on Earth. Antarctica has the lowest naturally occurring temperature ever recorded: at Vostok Station. It is also extremely dry (technically a desert), averaging of precipitation per year. Due to the occurring climate change, ice is melting", "title": "Polar climate" }, { "id": "14432145", "text": "in terms of habitability. Temperature must also be considered as Venus and the planets of Alpha Centauri B (discovered in 2012), Kepler-20 (discovered in 2011), COROT-7 (discovered in 2009) and the three planets of Kepler-42 (all discovered in 2011) are very hot, and Mars, Ganymede and Titan are frigid worlds, resulting also in wide variety of surface and atmospheric conditions. The masses of the Solar System's moons are a tiny fraction of that of Earth whereas the masses of extrasolar planets are very difficult to accurately measure. However discoveries of Earth-sized terrestrial planets are important as they may indicate the", "title": "Earth analog" }, { "id": "9204477", "text": "southeastern regions have a hot arid climate (Koppen \"BWh\"), similar to that of the Sahara Desert. In the northern portion of the Mojave Desert on the east side of the state is Death Valley, which has recorded temperatures among the highest in the world. It is common in the summer for temperatures in the valley to reach . The highest reliably recorded temperature in the world, , was recorded in Death Valley on July 10, 1913. Temperatures of or higher have been recorded as recently as 2005. The 24-hour average July temperature in Death Valley is (1981–2010 NCDC Normals). The", "title": "Climate of California" }, { "id": "9763461", "text": "events in Australia, increasing temperatures and the likelihood of heat waves. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia's annual mean temperature for 2009 was above the 1961–90 average, making it the nation's second-warmest year since high-quality records began in 1910. Summers in 2013 and 2014 continued this trend of record-breaking heat—2014 was Australia's third-hottest year on record and 2013 broke national records. In January 2013, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) altered its weather forecasting chart's temperature scale to include a range, coloured purple, between 52 °C and 54 °C. Coastal communities face risks from sea level rise, albeit over a", "title": "Climate of Australia" }, { "id": "20788090", "text": "in Scotland; Shannon in Ireland; and both Belfast and Castlederg in Northern Ireland. It is part of a heat wave spanning the Northern Hemisphere, which has seen the hottest night ever recorded on Earth in Oman, where the lowest temperature was , and the deaths of at least 33 people in Canada. The two largest wildfires at Saddleworth Moor broke out on 25 June (Englands largest in living memory) and at Winter Hill, being approximately 35 miles from Saddleworth Moor, on 28 June. The cause of these fires as of September 2018 is undetermined, though there have been arrests made", "title": "2018 British Isles heat wave" }, { "id": "1068986", "text": "earth, and \"θερμος (thermos)\", meaning hot. Earth's internal heat is thermal energy generated from radioactive decay and continual heat loss from Earth's formation. Temperatures at the core–mantle boundary may reach over 4000 °C (7,200 °F). The high temperature and pressure in Earth's interior cause some rock to melt and solid mantle to behave plastically, resulting in portions of the mantle convecting upward since it is lighter than the surrounding rock. Rock and water is heated in the crust, sometimes up to 370 °C (700 °F). With water from hot springs, geothermal energy has been used for bathing since Paleolithic times", "title": "Geothermal energy" }, { "id": "684347", "text": "Verkhoyansk Verkhoyansk (; , \"Verkhoyanskay\") is a town in Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Yana River near the Arctic Circle, from Batagay, the administrative center of the district, and north of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,311. The town holds the Guinness world record for the greatest temperature range on Earth: . Cossacks founded an ostrog in 1638, southwest of the modern town. The ostrog's name \"Verkhoyansky\", roughly translating from Russian as \"the town on the Upper Yana\", derived from its geographical location on the upper", "title": "Verkhoyansk" }, { "id": "1536343", "text": "stated that \"globally-averaged temperatures in 2016 were 1.78 degrees Fahrenheit (0.99 degrees Celsius) warmer than the mid-20th century mean\" and that the impact of El Niño warming was estimated to have \"increased the annual global temperature anomaly for 2016 by 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.12 degrees Celsius).\" Comments from climate scientists reported in \"The Washington Post\" showed strong agreement in attributing the warming primarily to anthropogenic climate change, with some contribution from El Niño warming, though there were differing views on the significance of individual records. Deke Arndt leads the monitoring group at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information and offered", "title": "Instrumental temperature record" }, { "id": "1536353", "text": "the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The methods used to derive the principal estimates of global surface temperature trends — HadCRUT3, NOAA and NASA/GISS — are largely independent. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences, both in its 2002 report to President George W. Bush, and in later publications, has strongly endorsed evidence of an average global temperature increase in the 20th century. The preliminary results of an assessment carried out by the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature group and made public in October 2011, found that over the past 50 years the land surface warmed by 0.911 °C, and their results", "title": "Instrumental temperature record" }, { "id": "4669951", "text": "patterns). While temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer than average during the summers, the Tropics and parts of the Southern Hemisphere were colder than average. Out of 140 sites across the western Arctic, there is clear evidence for conditions warmer than now at 120 sites. At 16 sites, where quantitative estimates have been obtained, local HTM temperatures were on average 1.6±0.8 °C higher than now. Northwestern North America had peak warmth first, from 11,000 to 9,000 years ago, and the Laurentide ice sheet still chilled the continent. Northeastern North America experienced peak warming 4,000 years later. Along the Arctic", "title": "Holocene climatic optimum" }, { "id": "6265343", "text": "about . Iron can be solid at such high temperatures only because its melting temperature increases dramatically at pressures of that magnitude (see the Clausius–Clapeyron relation). A report published in the journal \"Science\" concludes that the melting temperature of iron at the inner core boundary is 6230 ± 500 K. The Earth's inner core is thought to be slowly growing as the liquid outer core at the boundary with the inner core cools and solidifies due to the gradual cooling of the Earth's interior (about 100 degrees Celsius per billion years). Many scientists had initially expected that the inner core", "title": "Inner core" }, { "id": "6265337", "text": "Inner core The Earth's inner core is the Earth's innermost part. It is primarily a solid ball with a radius of about , which is about 70% of the Moon's radius. It is composed of an iron–nickel alloy and some other elements. The temperature at the inner core's surface is approximately or 9806 °F, which is about the temperature at the surface of the Sun. The Earth was discovered to have a solid inner core distinct from its molten outer core in 1936, by the Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann, who deduced its presence by studying seismograms from earthquakes in New", "title": "Inner core" }, { "id": "16301179", "text": "Trinidad Moruga scorpion The Trinidad Moruga scorpion (\"Capsicum chinense\") is native to the district of Moruga in Trinidad and Tobago. On February 13, 2012, New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute identified the Trinidad Moruga scorpion as the hottest chili in the world, with a mean heat of more than 1.2 million Scoville heat units (SHUs) and individual plants with a heat of more than 2 million SHUs. According to the Chile Pepper Institute, the previous record holder was the Bhut jolokia of India, as it never accepted the Infinity chili and Naga Viper pepper that were previous record holders", "title": "Trinidad Moruga scorpion" }, { "id": "386732", "text": "are more rare, even with humidity taken into account. In the early 21st century, previous heat records have been broken in the city, as is occurring across the country. For example, the summers of 2005 and 2012 are, respectively, the hottest and fourth-hottest summers on record. Additionally, 2017 and 2018 saw consecutive monthly high temperature records broken in February, of 71 on February 24, 2017, and 75 degrees on February 21, 2018, in addition to four 60-degree days in a row. The latter was the warmest winter day on record. <section begin=\"weather box\" /><section end=\"weather box\" /> As of the", "title": "Syracuse, New York" }, { "id": "16622298", "text": "summer. The high pressure ridge continued to slide eastward and centered itself over Tennessee, causing hundreds of records to be matched or surpassed for multiple states, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina, and Washington D.C., among others. The scorching heat continued on June 29 when Athens, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina set new all-time record high temperatures of 109 °F. Washington, D.C. recorded its highest June temperature ever at 104 °F (40 °C), and Charlotte, North Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina were warm enough to tie their all-time record highs at 104 °F (40 °C) and 105 °F (40.6", "title": "2012 North American heat wave" }, { "id": "12773977", "text": "Earth (though it is not quite the coldest; that record goes to the region in the vicinity of the Vostok Station, also in Antarctica, which lies at a higher elevation). Temperatures at the South Pole are much lower than at the North Pole, primarily because the South Pole is located at altitude in the middle of a continental land mass, while the North Pole is at sea level in the middle of an ocean, which acts as a reservoir of heat. The South Pole is at an altitude of but feels like .. Centrifugal force from the spin of the", "title": "South Pole" }, { "id": "1536341", "text": "and the NOAA in the United States and the Met Office in the United Kingdom, named 2016 the warmest year recorded. This marked the third consecutive year reaching a new record temperature, the first time since the current warming trend began in the 1970s that three years in a row were record highs. 2016's record meant that 16 of the 17 warmest years have occurred since 2000, 2017 being the third hottest year on record meant that 17 of the last 18 warmest years have occurred since 2000. While record-breaking years can attract considerable public interest, individual years are less", "title": "Instrumental temperature record" }, { "id": "14730474", "text": "gripped in a severe heat wave. Both Philadelphia and New York City, as well as Baltimore, Washington, Raleigh, and Boston, eclipsed . Many records were broken, some of which dated back to the 19th century, including Wilmington, Delaware's temperature of on Wednesday, July 7, which broke the record of from 1897. Philadelphia and New York eclipsed for the first time since 2001. Frederick, Maryland and Newark, New Jersey, among others, exceeded for four days in a row. Cleveland, Ohio, was rising into the upper 90s on July 8. Meanwhile, various authorities on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard issued extreme heat alerts,", "title": "2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves" }, { "id": "4669426", "text": "Geologic temperature record The Geologic temperature record are changes in Earth's environment as determined from geologic evidence on multi-million to billion (10) year time scales. The study of past temperatures provides an important paleoenvironmental insight because it is a component of the climate and oceanography of the time. Evidence for past temperatures comes mainly from isotopic considerations (especially ); the Mg/Ca ratio of foram tests, and alkenones, are also useful. Often, many are used in conjunction to get a multi-proxy estimate for the temperature. This has proved crucial in studies on glacial/interglacial temperature. The last 3 million years have been", "title": "Geologic temperature record" }, { "id": "16622294", "text": "The heat was so strong that Alamosa, Colorado broke their daily records for six consecutive days. In Galveston, Texas, the earliest 100 °F (38 °C) day ever was recorded. Hill City, Kansas was the warmest point in the United States on June 26, with the thermometer climbing to 115 °F (46.1 °C). Thousands of records were again broken on June 28. Fort Wayne, Indiana tied its all-time record high with 106 °F (41.1 °C) while Indianapolis broke its monthly record at 104 °F (40 °C). More monthly records that day included St. Louis, Missouri at 108 °F (42.2 °C) and", "title": "2012 North American heat wave" }, { "id": "11195440", "text": "2009 was 0.90 °C above the 1961–90 average, making it the nation's second-warmest year since high-quality records began in 1910. According to Australian Climate Council in 2017 Australia had its warmest winter on record, in terms of average maximum temperatures, reaching nearly 2ºC above average. Summer 2013–14 was warmer than average for the entirety of Australia. Both Victoria and South Australia saw record-breaking temperatures. Adelaide recorded a total of 13 days reaching 40 °C or more, 11 of which reached 42 °C or more, as well as its fifth-hottest day on record—45.1 °C on January 14. The amount of days", "title": "Climate change in Australia" }, { "id": "684352", "text": "than decrease with higher altitude. In Verkhoyansk it sometimes happens that the average minimum temperatures for January, February, and December are below . Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk are the only two permanently populated places in the world that have recorded temperatures below every day of January. In June, July, and August, daytime temperatures over are not uncommon. The warmest month on record is July 2001, at . The average annual temperature for Verkhoyansk is . On July 25, 1988, Verkhoyansk recorded a temperature of , yielding a temperature range of based on reliable records, which is the greatest temperature range in", "title": "Verkhoyansk" }, { "id": "7773153", "text": "Administrative Zone 2 (Afar) Administrative Zone 2 (since May 2006 known as Kilbet Rasu) is one of five Zones of the Afar Region of Ethiopia. This zone is bordered on the south by Administrative Zone 1, on the southwest by Administrative Zone 4, on the west by the Tigray Region, and on the northeast by Eritrea. The administrative center of Zone 2 is Abala (also known in the highlands as Shiket). Also located in this zone is the former mining settlement of Dallol, which set the record for the hottest inhabited place on Earth, with an average temperature of 34°", "title": "Administrative Zone 2 (Afar)" } ]

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[ { "id": "444081", "text": "crabs, clams, oysters, and rockfish (also known as striped bass). Virginia has 30 National Park Service units, such as Great Falls Park and the Appalachian Trail, and one national park, the Shenandoah National Park. Shenandoah was established in 1935 and encompasses the scenic Skyline Drive. Almost 40% of the park's area () has been designated as wilderness under the National Wilderness Preservation System. Additionally, there are 34 Virginia state parks and 17 state forests, run by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Department of Forestry. The Chesapeake Bay, while not a national park, is protected by both state", "title": "Virginia" }, { "id": "12057783", "text": "Battlefield Park after being given to the National Park Service because during the Great Depression the Commonwealth lacked funds to develop and maintain those lands and structures. Carson also created a Division of History and Archaeology within the State Commission of Conservation and Development and started a historical marker program. Virginia's first six state parks were created in June 1936 despite the opposition of Virginia's Senators Carter Glass and Harry F. Byrd to many other aspects of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration. The first state parks were: Westmoreland State Park, Seashore State Park (which later became First Landing State Park),", "title": "Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation" }, { "id": "14712488", "text": "the park's area (79,579 acres/322 km) has been designated as wilderness under the National Wilderness Preservation System. Parkways, such as the George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Blue Ridge Parkway, which encompasses the scenic Skyline Drive, are among the most visited national park service sites nationwide. Additionally, there are 34 Virginia state parks and 17 state forests, run by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Department of Forestry. The Chesapeake Bay, while not a national park, is protected by both state and federal legislation, and the jointly run Chesapeake Bay Program which conducts restoration on the bay and", "title": "Environment of Virginia" }, { "id": "2346002", "text": "State park State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the sub-national level within those nations which use \"state\" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, or recreational potential. There are state parks under the administration of the government of each U.S. state, some of the Mexican states, and in Brazil. The term is also used in the Australian state of Victoria. The equivalent term used in Canada, Argentina, South Africa and Belgium, is provincial park. Similar systems of local government", "title": "State park" }, { "id": "14712479", "text": "Environment of Virginia The natural environment of Virginia encompasses the physical geography and biology of the U.S. state of Virginia. Virginia has a total area of , including of water, making it the 35th-largest state by area. Forests cover 65% of the state, wetlands and water cover 6% of the land in the state, while 5% of the state is a mixture of commercial, residential, and transitional. Virginia is bordered by Maryland and Washington, D.C. to the north and east; by the Atlantic Ocean to the east; by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south; by Kentucky to the west;", "title": "Environment of Virginia" }, { "id": "14712489", "text": "its watershed. The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge extends into North Carolina. Several open-air museums and battlefields are located in the state, such as Colonial Williamsburg, Richmond National Battlefield, and Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. As of March 26, 2010, there were 31 Superfund sites in Virginia on the National Priorities List, as designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. No additional sites are currently proposed for entry on the list. Four sites have been cleaned up and removed from the list. Environment of Virginia The natural environment of Virginia encompasses the", "title": "Environment of Virginia" }, { "id": "14712487", "text": "rocky bottoms are often inhabited by a plentiful amounts of crayfish and salamanders. The Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest and most biologically diverse estuary and is home to many species, including blue crab, clams, oysters, scallops, Chesapeake ray, eel, bay anchovies, American shad, Atlantic croaker, Atlantic sturgeon, black drum, black seabass, blue fish, hickory shad, longnose gar, red drum, spot, and rockfish (also known as striped bass). Virginia has 30 National Park Service units, such as Great Falls Park and the Appalachian Trail, and one national park, the Shenandoah National Park. Shenandoah was established in 1935. Almost 40% of", "title": "Environment of Virginia" }, { "id": "910459", "text": "three playgrounds, horseshoe pits, volleyball courts, vending machines, walking trails, four baseball fields, as well as a gazebo located at the end of a scenic walkway overlooking the Lynnhaven River. The Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1938, is an fresh water refuge that borders the Atlantic Ocean on the east and Back Bay on the west. The barrier islands feature large sand dunes, maritime forests, fresh water marshes, ponds, ocean beach, and large impoundments for wintering wildfowl. It is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. First Landing State Park and False Cape State Park are both", "title": "Virginia Beach, Virginia" }, { "id": "2346004", "text": "state parks. The NASPD further counts over of trail, 217,367 campsites, and 8,277 cabins and lodges across U.S. state parks. The largest state park system in the United States is Alaska State Parks, with over 100 sites encompassing 3.3 million acres. Many states include designations beyond \"state park\" in their state parks systems. Other designations might be state recreation areas, state beaches, and state nature reserves. Some state park systems include long-distance trails and historic sites. The title of oldest state park in the United States is claimed by Niagara Falls State Park in New York, established in 1885. However", "title": "State park" }, { "id": "6010522", "text": "10,561 (16,996 km) miles of urban streets with the help of state funds. Most towns contract street maintenance to the VDOT, in which case the streets have \"T\" prefixed numbers. As noted above, two counties in the state maintain their own roads: Arlington County (359 miles - 578 km) and Henric County (1279 miles - 2058 km). Virginia includes 51.12 miles (82.27 km) of toll roads maintained by other entities, typically through public-private partnerships. These are the Boulevard Bridge, Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, Chesapeake Expressway, Dulles Greenway, and Jordan Bridge. In addition, the U.S. Government maintains 382.99 miles (616.36 km) of", "title": "State highways in Virginia" }, { "id": "7391653", "text": "Breaks Interstate Park Breaks Interstate Park is a bi-state state park located partly in southeastern Kentucky and mostly in southwestern Virginia, in the Jefferson National Forest, at the northeastern terminus of Pine Mountain. Rather than their respective state park systems, it is instead administered by an interstate compact between the states of Virginia and Kentucky. It is one of several interstate parks in the United States, but only one of two operated jointly under a compact rather than as two separate state park units. The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Kentucky Department of Parks are still major", "title": "Breaks Interstate Park" }, { "id": "9646194", "text": "Douthat State Park Douthat State Park is a state park located in the Allegheny Mountains in Virginia. It is in Bath County and Alleghany County. The park is total with a lake. Douthat State Park opened June 15, 1936. It was one of the original six state parks of Virginia. The Douthat Land Company, a group of businessmen, donated the first portion of land — . In 1933, the Virginia General Assembly allotted $50,000 for the purchase of land for state parks, and the remainder of the present-day park was purchased with this money. Approximately 600 men from the Civilian", "title": "Douthat State Park" }, { "id": "6010523", "text": "numbered routes and other major roads in Virginia; the ones without normal numbers are assigned special unsigned numbers. The National Park Service maintains several parkways - the Blue Ridge Parkway (SR 48), Colonial Parkway (SR 90003), George Washington Memorial Parkway (SR 90005), and Skyline Drive (SR 48). The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains State Route 4 over the John H. Kerr Dam and State Route 143 in Fort Monroe, and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority operates and maintains State Route 267 (the Dulles Toll Road) and owns the Dulles Access Road (SR 90004). The markers for primary routes show", "title": "State highways in Virginia" }, { "id": "9646195", "text": "Conservation Corps developed and constructed the majority of the modern-day park system between 1933 and 1942. Douthat State Park Douthat State Park is a state park located in the Allegheny Mountains in Virginia. It is in Bath County and Alleghany County. The park is total with a lake. Douthat State Park opened June 15, 1936. It was one of the original six state parks of Virginia. The Douthat Land Company, a group of businessmen, donated the first portion of land — . In 1933, the Virginia General Assembly allotted $50,000 for the purchase of land for state parks, and the", "title": "Douthat State Park" }, { "id": "19917691", "text": "Virginia Wildlife Management Areas Virginia Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) are state-managed protected areas that exist primarily for the benefit of wildlife. Within the Commonwealth of Virginia, 41 tracts of land have been protected as WMAs, covering a total of over . They are managed and maintained by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. WMAs in Virginia differ from other state-managed protected areas in that they are solely intended to preserve and improve wildlife habitat, with a particular focus on game animals, and to provide public space for hunting and fishing activities. Other protected areas in the state, such", "title": "Virginia Wildlife Management Areas" }, { "id": "2346003", "text": "maintained parks exist in other countries, but the terminology varies. State parks are thus similar to national parks, but under state rather than federal administration. Similarly, local government entities below state level may maintain parks, e.g., regional parks or county parks. In general, state parks are smaller than national parks, with a few exceptions such as the Adirondack Park in New York and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California. , there were 10,234 state park units in the United States, according to the National Association of State Park Directors (NASPD). There are some 739 million annual visits to the country's", "title": "State park" }, { "id": "4391266", "text": "the bridge, were slated to be sold at auction. To prevent piecemeal development of the landmark, the Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund (VCLF) purchased the bridge, hotel, and surrounding land for $9.1 million, made possible by a loan from the Virginia Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund. When the VCLF soon found itself unable to make payments on that loan, the Commonwealth of Virginia offered to manage the property as a Virginia State Park. Natural Bridge State Park officially opened on September 24, 2016. As a state park, the property is managed by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, although it", "title": "Natural Bridge (Virginia)" }, { "id": "7626111", "text": "the federal government during the Great Depression. Two parks, Goodwin Lake and Prince Edward Lake, were founded in 1939 and until the early 1960s were run as two racially segregated parks. The parks merged in 1976 and became Twin Lakes State Park in 1986. A historical marker reads: info from Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation: http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/twin-lakes.shtml Twin Lakes State Park (Virginia) Twin Lakes State Park is a state park in Virginia. It is located in Central Virginia in Prince Edward County. Twin Lakes State Park, centrally located in Virginia's Piedmont region, provides visitors from all over the Commonwealth with", "title": "Twin Lakes State Park (Virginia)" }, { "id": "444067", "text": "Virginia Virginia (), officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. Virginia is nicknamed the \"Old Dominion\" due to its status as the first English colonial possession established in mainland North America and \"Mother of Presidents\" because eight U.S. presidents were born there, more than any other state. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. The capital of the Commonwealth", "title": "Virginia" }, { "id": "444143", "text": "was one of five states to receive a perfect score in disaster preparedness according to a 2008 report by the Trust for America's Health, based on criteria such as detecting pathogens and distributing vaccines and medical supplies. Because of the 1932 Byrd Road Act, the state government controls most of Virginia's roads, instead of a local county authority as is usual in other states. , the Virginia Department of Transportation owns and operates of the total of roads in the state, making it the third largest state highway system in the United States. Although the Washington Metropolitan Area, which includes", "title": "Virginia" }, { "id": "12057782", "text": "reorganization that became effective in late December 1934 and authorized a full-time state employee to head the agency. Carson consolidated what under his successor Wilbur C. Hall (1935-1939), became Shenandoah National Park, as well as coordinated with the federal Department of the Interior and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which created a $5 million system of state parks (in exchange for Virginia appropriations of $100,000 which some called \"the biggest bargain of the New Deal\"). Also during Carson's chairmanship, Governor John Garland Pollard in 1932 accepted several land parcels in and surrounding Richmond, Virginia, which in March 1936 became Richmond National", "title": "Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation" }, { "id": "12366303", "text": "Shenandoah National Park Shenandoah National Park (often ) is a national park that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the U.S. state of Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the broad Shenandoah River and Valley on the west side, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont on the east. Although the scenic Skyline Drive is likely the most prominent feature of the park, almost 40% of the land area has been designated as wilderness and is protected as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The highest peak is Hawksbill Mountain at . The park", "title": "Shenandoah National Park" }, { "id": "12057786", "text": "ca. 1986-ca. 1991 - B.C. \"Bud\" Leynes, Jr. 1991-1994 - J. Robert \"Bob\" Hicks, Jr. 1994-ca. 1996 - Kirby Burch 1998-2002 - David G. Brickley, Esq. 2002-2010 - Joseph H. Maroon 2010-2014 - David Johnson 2014–present - Clyde Cristman Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation is a department of the government of Virginia; it oversees all Virginia state parks and Natural Area Preserves. The Virginia State Commission of Conservation and Development was created in 1926 under Governor Harry F. Byrd to consolidate and coordinate several conservation agencies: the Water Power and Development Commission,", "title": "Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation" }, { "id": "6010509", "text": "State highways in Virginia The state highway system of the U.S. state of Virginia is a network of roads maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). As of 2006, the VDOT maintains of state highways, making it the third-largest system in the United States. Interstate Highways, totaling 1118 miles (1799 km) in Virginia, are freeways designated by the Federal Highway Administration and numbered by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. They are in a special class with respect to federal funding. These interstate highways are as follows: Primary highways, totaling 8111 miles (13,053 km), consist of", "title": "State highways in Virginia" }, { "id": "444079", "text": "myrtle, dwarf palmetto, tulip poplar, mountain laurel, milkweed, daisies, and many species of ferns. The largest areas of wilderness are along the Atlantic coast and in the western mountains, where the largest populations of trillium wildflowers in North America are found. The Atlantic coast regions are host to flora commonly associated with the South Atlantic pine forests and lower Southeast Coastal Plain maritime flora, the latter found primarily in eastern and central Virginia. Mammals include white-tailed deer, black bear, beaver, bobcat, coyote, raccoon, skunk, groundhog, Virginia opossum, gray fox, red fox, and eastern cottontail rabbit. Other mammals include: nutria, fox", "title": "Virginia" }, { "id": "911092", "text": "Manassas Park, Virginia Manassas Park is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,273. Manassas Park is bordered by the city of Manassas and Prince William County. Manassas Park is a part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. \"A\" Fort and Battery Hill Redoubt-Camp Early resides in Manassas Park. Manassas Park was incorporated as a town in 1957 and incorporated as a city in 1975. The city is served by Manassas Park City Schools, with a total of 4 schools: Cougar Elementary, Manassas Park Elementary, Manassas Park Middle, and", "title": "Manassas Park, Virginia" }, { "id": "12018239", "text": "Pocahontas State Park Pocahontas State Park is a state park located in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States, not far from the state capitol of Richmond. The park was laid out by the Civilian Conservation Corps along the Swift Creek, and at was, at its creation, Virginia's largest state park. The park is named after Chief Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas. The park is the site of the Civilian Conservation Corps Museum with exhibits about the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Virginia. Located in a building constructed by the CCC, the museum's exhibits include photographs, artifacts and personal mementos. There are many", "title": "Pocahontas State Park" }, { "id": "7391655", "text": "The park's main feature, Breaks Canyon, is five miles long and ranges from deep. The canyon was formed by the Russell Fork river through millions of years of erosion. Breaks Interstate Park Breaks Interstate Park is a bi-state state park located partly in southeastern Kentucky and mostly in southwestern Virginia, in the Jefferson National Forest, at the northeastern terminus of Pine Mountain. Rather than their respective state park systems, it is instead administered by an interstate compact between the states of Virginia and Kentucky. It is one of several interstate parks in the United States, but only one of two", "title": "Breaks Interstate Park" }, { "id": "4391267", "text": "remains owned by the VCLF; it is the only state park operating on privately owned land. The property will be transferred to state ownership after the original loan has been paid in full. VCLF continues to both own and manage the nearby Natural Bridge Hotel and Natural Bridge Caverns. Visitors must purchase tickets to view the bridge from below, although the park's fees under state management are about half what had been charged under prior ownership. U.S. Route 11 (Lee Highway) runs on top of the bridge, but protective fences make it difficult to see anything besides the roadway. The", "title": "Natural Bridge (Virginia)" }, { "id": "8373803", "text": "State Fair of Virginia The State Fair of Virginia is a state fair held annually at the end of September at The Meadow Event Park in Caroline County, Virginia. Through 2008, the fair was held at the Richmond Raceway Complex, located in eastern Henrico County, just outside the capital city of Richmond. It is owned by the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation. The Fair has offered rides, carnival games, concerts, and typical Fair foods such as , cotton candy, and funnel cakes as well as Virginia's favorites barbecue chicken and peanuts. The Fair has also offered technological, agricultural, historical, and livestock", "title": "State Fair of Virginia" }, { "id": "11185535", "text": "location for the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research (VCR/LTER) project. The reserve was designated a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service in 1979. Virginia Coast Reserve The Virginia Coast Reserve is a biosphere reserve created by The Nature Conservancy in the early 1970s. It consists of 14 of the Virginia Barrier Islands along the Atlantic coast of the Virginia portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Parramore Island, Hog Island, Virginia, Smith Island, Virginia, Assawoman Island, and Metompkin Island. These barrier islands play an important role in sheltering the mainland portions of the Eastern Shore of Virginia from", "title": "Virginia Coast Reserve" }, { "id": "4391268", "text": "state park includes several long-standing attractions, including the trail under the bridge and along Cedar Creek, a recreation of Monacan Native American housing, and the Lace Falls. The \"Drama of Creation\" light show continues to be shown in the evening, after the state park is technically closed. One change under state ownership was the removal of \"Foamhenge\", a full-size replica of Stonehenge made entirely out of styrofoam that was formerly located on the property. The attraction was moved to Fairfax County after it was determined that the art installation did not fit with the state park's mission. The new state", "title": "Natural Bridge (Virginia)" }, { "id": "8673542", "text": "to be accessible. Little Beaver State Park Little Beaver State Park is state park in Raleigh County, West Virginia. It is located near Beckley, West Virginia, about south of I-64 at Grandview Road, exit 129A. The park sits on the shores of 18-acre (0.07 km²) Little Beaver Lake. Originally a day-use facility, Little Beaver received a 46-site campground in 2011. 30 sites, opened on July 1 of that year, have electric and water hookups with an additional 16 water-only sites planned to open later in the year. Accessibility for the disabled was assessed by West Virginia University. The 2005 assessment", "title": "Little Beaver State Park" }, { "id": "910460", "text": "located in coastal areas within the city's corporate limits as well. Both offer camping facilities, cabins, and outdoor recreation activities in addition to nature and history tours. Munden Point Park is a rural park located in the deep southern end of the city, right on The North Landing River. It is owned and maintained by the city of Virginia Beach. The park features five shelters, three baseball fields, a boat ramp, boat rentals, three playgrounds, horseshoe pits, five volleyball courts, and light hiking trails. An outdoor amphitheatre is fully equipped with electrical outlets and is available for reservations of weddings,", "title": "Virginia Beach, Virginia" }, { "id": "6110668", "text": "includes cabins, areas for camping, fishing, and swimming, a public beach, and over of trails for hiking and biking. Virginia's most popular state park, it's visited by over a million people each year. Its main entrance is located on Shore Drive across from the beach camping entrance. First Landing State Park charges a fee for its camping facilities and for the overnight use of its cabins. Originally built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, First Landing State Park is located on the Chesapeake Bay. The park, which is Virginia's most visited state park, is nestled in Virginia Beach.", "title": "First Landing State Park" }, { "id": "8673541", "text": "Little Beaver State Park Little Beaver State Park is state park in Raleigh County, West Virginia. It is located near Beckley, West Virginia, about south of I-64 at Grandview Road, exit 129A. The park sits on the shores of 18-acre (0.07 km²) Little Beaver Lake. Originally a day-use facility, Little Beaver received a 46-site campground in 2011. 30 sites, opened on July 1 of that year, have electric and water hookups with an additional 16 water-only sites planned to open later in the year. Accessibility for the disabled was assessed by West Virginia University. The 2005 assessment found the park", "title": "Little Beaver State Park" }, { "id": "14712483", "text": "Blue Ridge Mountains, the climate becomes subtropical highland. The World Wildlife Fund defines four ecoregions in Virginia: Middle Atlantic coastal forests near the Atlantic coast in the southeast corner of the state, Southeastern mixed forests on the Piedmont, Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests on the Appalachian Mountains, and Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests in the far west. According to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, the oak-hickory forest is the most common forest community in Virginia. Common species include white oak, red oak, black oak, scarlet oak, chestnut oak, mockernut hickory, pignut hickory, tulip poplar, maple, beech, dogwood, black cherry, black locust, and", "title": "Environment of Virginia" }, { "id": "911097", "text": "for the city was $21,048. About 4.7% of families and 5.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.8% of those under age 18 and 11.2% of those age 65 or over. Manassas Park, Virginia Manassas Park is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,273. Manassas Park is bordered by the city of Manassas and Prince William County. Manassas Park is a part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. \"A\" Fort and Battery Hill Redoubt-Camp Early resides in Manassas Park. Manassas Park was incorporated as a", "title": "Manassas Park, Virginia" }, { "id": "12057781", "text": "Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation is a department of the government of Virginia; it oversees all Virginia state parks and Natural Area Preserves. The Virginia State Commission of Conservation and Development was created in 1926 under Governor Harry F. Byrd to consolidate and coordinate several conservation agencies: the Water Power and Development Commission, the State Geological Commission, the State Geological Survey, Office of the State Geologist, Office of the State Forester, and the Division of Parks. William E. Carson (1870-1942) was the Commission's first (unpaid) chairman and served until resigning pending a", "title": "Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation" }, { "id": "7626110", "text": "Twin Lakes State Park (Virginia) Twin Lakes State Park is a state park in Virginia. It is located in Central Virginia in Prince Edward County. Twin Lakes State Park, centrally located in Virginia's Piedmont region, provides visitors from all over the Commonwealth with a variety of lakefront activities in a secluded setting. Swimming, camping, fishing, biking, canoeing and hiking are popular activities. The park is home to Cedar Crest Conference Center, a perfect facility for group meetings, family reunions, birthday parties, wedding receptions and company picnics. The land for Twin Lakes State Park was initially bought from struggling farmers by", "title": "Twin Lakes State Park (Virginia)" }, { "id": "19917692", "text": "as state parks, state forests, and natural area preserves, may protect habitat but are also expressly managed to provide space for public recreation, research, timber production, and/or rare species conservation. Land acquisition and maintenance funds for WMAs are ultimately provided by hunters and anglers, through license fees and taxes levied on gear. These fees are collected on a national level through the Pittman–Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act, and distributed proportionally to individual states. Some WMA lands were originally donated to the state for wildlife purposes, rather than purchased. Although maintained for the primary benefit of hunters and anglers,", "title": "Virginia Wildlife Management Areas" }, { "id": "14518750", "text": "America's State Parks America's State Parks is a strategic alliance formed in 2010 of all 50 state park systems, the National Association of State Park Directors (NASPD). America's State Parks is committed to giving a unified voice to all of the country's state park systems in Washington and national politics. America's State Parks ensures that the national and natural treasures are protected and that the voice from each state park visitor is heard. As the founder of the National Park Service, Stephen Mather, has said, \"Who will gainsay that the parks contain the highest potentialities of national pride, national contentment,", "title": "America's State Parks" }, { "id": "6576408", "text": "Lost River State Park Lost River State Park is a state park located in Hardy County, West Virginia near the community of Mathias. The park encompasses managed by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. Despite the name of the park, it does not abut the Lost River; it lies about west of the river. The park features a selection of twenty-six vacation cabins. It also provides hiking trails, horses, a swimming pool, and other sports facilities that include tennis, badminton, volleyball, and archery. Lost River State Park includes the historic Lighthorse Harry Lee Cabin (c. 1800), which is listed", "title": "Lost River State Park" }, { "id": "8373806", "text": "hall, a multi-purpose pavilion, a horse-stall barn with 143 stalls, and an equine facility with four show rings, to accommodate local and regional horse shows and other equine events. The Meadow Event Park is on the site of Meadow Farm, the thoroughbred horse farm owned by Christopher Chenery that was the breeding home of back-to-back racing greats Riva Ridge and Secretariat, the winners of five of the six Triple Crown races in 1972 and 1973. In March 2012, the fair's parent company filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy, putting the fair on hold for the first time in its history. Reasons", "title": "State Fair of Virginia" }, { "id": "7954457", "text": "on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. Watoga State Park Watoga State Park is the largest of West Virginia's state parks, covering slightly over . It is located near Seebert in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The land that forms the nucleus of Watoga was originally acquired in January 1925, when the park was initially planned to be a state forest. In May 1934, a decision was made to instead develop the site as a state park. Much of the development on the site was done by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the park was first opened on", "title": "Watoga State Park" }, { "id": "19962626", "text": "2017 Virginia elections Statewide and municipal elections were held in the U.S. state of Virginia on November 7, 2017. The main election being held in Virginia was the state's gubernatorial election. In addition, all of Virginia's House of Delegates seats were up for re-election. Primary elections for the House of Delegates and the governor were held on June 13, 2017. Ralph Northam (D) was elected to become the 73rd Governor of Virginia, Justin Fairfax (D) was elected to become the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, and Mark Herring (D) was reelected as the 47th Attorney General of Virginia. The Virginia", "title": "2017 Virginia elections" }, { "id": "10831161", "text": "of National Park Service units. Among these are the Alta Lake State Park, Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge, as well as three national parks - the Olympic National Park, North Cascades National Park, and Mount Rainier National Park. The three national parks were established between 1899 and 1968. Almost 95% (876,517 acres, 354,714 hectares, 3,547.14 square kilometers) of Olympic National Park's area has been designated as wilderness under the National Wilderness Preservation System. Additionally, there are 143 state parks and 9 national forests, run by the Washington State Park System and the United States", "title": "Washington (state)" }, { "id": "970619", "text": "the world to create an entire system of highly protected marine national parks at the same time. As of 2011 there are 45 national parks in Victoria. There are 328 nature conservation reserves including: There are natural feature reserves. Protected areas of Victoria Victoria is the smallest mainland state in Australia. it contained separate protected areas with a total land area of (17.26% of the state's area). Of these, 45 were national parks, totalling (11.32% of the state's area). The parks are managed by Parks Victoria, a state government agency. There are also many smaller state areas which are subject", "title": "Protected areas of Victoria" }, { "id": "910456", "text": "each year on Labor Day weekend in conjunction with the American Music Festival. It is one of the largest Half Marathons in the world. The final are on the boardwalk. In 2012, Virginia Beach was one of several cities trying to lure the Sacramento Kings to play there. Virginia Beach is home to 210 city parks, encompassing over , including neighborhood parks, community parks, district parks, and other open spaces. Each park is unique and offers something for everyone, from wide open spaces to playgrounds, picnic shelters, and ballfields. Mount Trashmore Park is clearly visible from I-264 when traveling to", "title": "Virginia Beach, Virginia" }, { "id": "8968432", "text": "State highways serving Virginia state institutions In the US state of Virginia, some state highways have been specifically designated to serve state parks and state institutions. State Route 217 and the range of numbers from State Route 302 to State Route 399 are currently used (non-exclusively) for this purpose. For a list of very short Virginia primary state highways, see List of primary state highways in Virginia shorter than one mile. State Route 217 is the designation for the roads on the grounds of the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute (State Street, Morison Drive, Hospital Avenue) in Smyth County that", "title": "State highways serving Virginia state institutions" }, { "id": "12043853", "text": "established in 1989. The system's first preserve, North Landing River Natural Area Preserve, was established in 1990. By 2007, the preserve system included 50 protected areas. , 63 Natural Area Preserves were established in Virginia. The Virginia Natural Area Preserve System is managed as part of the Natural Heritage Program of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, with the purpose of protecting threatened or rare plants, animals, and natural communities. To become a part of the system, a Natural Area Preserve must be accepted by the director of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, although they may be initially", "title": "Virginia Natural Area Preserve System" }, { "id": "9369946", "text": "Administrative divisions of Virginia The administrative divisions of Virginia are the areas into which the Commonwealth of Virginia, a U.S. state, is divided for political and administrative purposes. Some are local governments; others are not. However, all local governments (counties, independent cities, and incorporated towns) are political subdivisions of the state. According to the 2002 Census of Governments, Virginia ranked 43rd among the 50 states in the number of local governments, with 521 as of June 2002. Virginia has 95 counties, covering all of the territory not within the independent cities. Under Virginia law, counties may be chartered, although most", "title": "Administrative divisions of Virginia" }, { "id": "19023195", "text": "Powhatan State Park Powhatan State Park is a state park located along the James River in Virginia. It is in Powhatan County. The park is total with a of riverfront. In 2003, were transferred from the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation for the creation of the state park. The goal in creating the park was to provide access to state park facilities in central Virginia and to create both day-use and overnight facilities on the James River. The park has five trails open. These total about of multi-use (hiking, biking, horse riding)", "title": "Powhatan State Park" }, { "id": "11536966", "text": "Demographics of Virginia The demographics of Virginia are the various elements used to describe the population of the Commonwealth of Virginia and are studied by various government and non-government organizations. Virginia is the 12th-most populous state in the United States with over residents and is the 35th largest in area. As of the 2010 United States Census, Virginia has a reported population , which is an increase , or 3.6%, from a previous estimate in 2007 and an increase , or 13.0%, since the year 2000. This includes an increase from net migration of into the Commonwealth from 2000-2007. Immigration", "title": "Demographics of Virginia" }, { "id": "910457", "text": "the oceanfront. The park is . The hill is high and over long, and was created by compacting layers of solid waste and clean soil. It is the highest point in Virginia Beach. The park also features two lakes: Lake Windsor and Lake Trashmore. Lake Trashmore is stocked with fish, but is unsanitary to fish in. Residents can also take advantage of a skate park. One of the major parks is Red Wing Park, a park in east-central part of the city, very close to Oceana Naval Air Station. This land became a park in 1966. A unique feature of", "title": "Virginia Beach, Virginia" }, { "id": "7633311", "text": "Belle Isle State Park (Virginia) Belle Isle State Park is located in Lancaster County, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River. It sits between Deep Creek and Morattico Creek and is currently under public ownership. The park has an area of and has facilities for camping, fishing, boating and picnics. The park is a peninsula surrounded by Tidewater coastal marshes. Wildlife observed includes blue herons, osprey, hawks, bald eagles, white-tailed deer and various reptiles and amphibians. It is near the unincorporated towns of Litwalton, Morattico and Somers. The park and Georgian style mansion were operated in the 19th century as a plantation.", "title": "Belle Isle State Park (Virginia)" }, { "id": "444080", "text": "squirrel, gray squirrel, flying squirrel, chipmunk, brown bat, and weasel. Birds include cardinals (the state bird), barred owls, Carolina chickadees, red-tailed hawks, ospreys, brown pelicans, quail, seagulls, bald eagles, and wild turkeys. Virginia is also home to the pileated woodpecker as well as the red-bellied woodpecker. The peregrine falcon was reintroduced into Shenandoah National Park in the mid-1990s. Walleye, brook trout, Roanoke bass, and blue catfish are among the 210 known species of freshwater fish. Running brooks with rocky bottoms are often inhabited by plentiful amounts of crayfish and salamanders. The Chesapeake Bay is host to many species, including blue", "title": "Virginia" }, { "id": "12690054", "text": "thirteen states – Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. It was created on October 1, 1995 by the consolidation of the North Atlantic and Mid-Atlantic Regions. Previously a Northeast Region existed (1962–1974) which ceased to exist when the Midwest Region, North Atlantic, and Mid-Atlantic regions were created. North Atlantic Region The North Atlantic Region consisted of 43 parks in eight states – Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Jersey. It was established on November 30, 1973 with its headquarters in Boston,", "title": "Organization of the National Park Service" }, { "id": "3666358", "text": "and Virginia, is located at the peak of the mountain. The park saw 737,547 visitors in 2017, according to statistics by the National Park Service. According to one federal study, in 2013 visitor spending amounted to $46 million in nearby communities, supporting 639 local jobs. Peak rates of visitation normally occur during the seasons of spring, summer and fall. In 2017 the park received the Keeper of the Light Award from the Southeast Region of the National Park Service, which recognizes excellence in education. In 2016 the United States Mint released a commemorative quarter as part of the America the", "title": "Cumberland Gap National Historical Park" }, { "id": "7766480", "text": "Holly River State Park Holly River State Park is a state park located in Webster County, West Virginia. Situated on the Left Fork of the Holly River near the town of Hacker Valley, it is the second largest park in the West Virginia state park system with a total of . The park features over of hiking trails, ten vacation cabins, an 88-unit campground, and many recreation and picnic areas. The creation of Holly River State Park began circa 1937 with the Farm Security Administration's Kanawha Head Project to resettle families from marginal farmland. 250 Works Progress Administration workers rehabilitated", "title": "Holly River State Park" }, { "id": "444150", "text": "Virginia Air National Guard. Since the resumption of capital punishment in Virginia in 1982, 107 people have been executed, the second highest number in the nation. The \"total crime risk\" is 28% lower than the national average. Since Virginia ended prisoner parole in 1995, the rate of recidivism has fallen to 28.3%, among the lowest nationwide. Virginia is an open-carry state. Over the 20th century, Virginia shifted from a largely rural, politically Southern and conservative state to a more urbanized, pluralistic, and politically moderate environment. Up until the 1970s, Virginia was a racially divided one-party state dominated by the Byrd", "title": "Virginia" }, { "id": "11804244", "text": "Vehicle registration plates of Virginia The U.S. state of Virginia first required its residents to register their motor vehicles and display license plates in 1906. Plates are currently issued by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). As of 2008, the DMV has 7,698,416 active registrations, 1,696,795 (22%) of which are special or personalized plates. In 2008, 1,624,146 pairs of license plates were sold, with 831,361 of them being personalized plates. In 1956, the United States, Canada and Mexico came to an agreement with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the Automobile Manufacturers Association and the National Safety Council", "title": "Vehicle registration plates of Virginia" }, { "id": "19962627", "text": "gubernatorial election of 2017 took place on November 7, 2017. Primaries took place on June 13, 2017. The incumbent Governor, Democrat Terry McAuliffe, was not eligible to run for re-election due to term limits established by the Virginia Constitution. Virginia is the only state that prohibits its Governor from serving consecutive terms. The primary elections took place on June 13, 2017. Virginia utilizes an open primary, in which registered voters are allowed to vote in only one party's primary election. Ralph Northam won the election to become the 73rd Governor of Virginia with 53.7% of the popular vote. The Virginia", "title": "2017 Virginia elections" }, { "id": "6110667", "text": "First Landing State Park First Landing State Park (formerly Seashore State Park) offers recreational opportunities at Cape Henry in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia. As the first planned state park of Virginia, First Landing is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Seashore State Park Historic District. A portion of the park is listed as a National Natural Landmark as part of the Seashore Natural Area. The state park is near the site of the first landing on April 26, 1607 of Christopher Newport and the Virginia Company colonists before establishing themselves at Jamestown. The park", "title": "First Landing State Park" }, { "id": "20786995", "text": "up into five parcels, separated by private property. It is located on a 1,100-acre peninsula situated between Aquia Creek and the Potomac River, and was the site of early flight experiments by Samuel P. Langley. Widewater State Park Widewater State Park is a state park in Virginia, located in Stafford County. Land for the park was purchased in 2006 from Dominion Resources, but the Great Recession prevented development of the property. Ground was finally broken for the new park in 2018 after money was appropriated by the Virginia General Assembly with a bond issue in that year. Current facilities include", "title": "Widewater State Park" }, { "id": "7954455", "text": "Watoga State Park Watoga State Park is the largest of West Virginia's state parks, covering slightly over . It is located near Seebert in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The land that forms the nucleus of Watoga was originally acquired in January 1925, when the park was initially planned to be a state forest. In May 1934, a decision was made to instead develop the site as a state park. Much of the development on the site was done by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the park was first opened on July 1, 1937. The New Deal Resources in Watoga", "title": "Watoga State Park" }, { "id": "9862982", "text": "The following is a list of the forty six former Recreational Demonstration Areas. There are five former Recreational Demonstration Areas in Pennsylvania, which became part of one unit of the National Park Service, and five state parks in 1945 and 1946. There are five former Recreational Demonstration Areas in Virginia, four of which are now part of the National Park Service. Two Recreational Demonstration Areas were built in Missouri and are now state parks. There are three former Recreational Demonstration Areas in Tennessee, all are now state parks. Recreational Demonstration Area The Recreational Demonstration Area program (also known as the", "title": "Recreational Demonstration Area" }, { "id": "20786994", "text": "Widewater State Park Widewater State Park is a state park in Virginia, located in Stafford County. Land for the park was purchased in 2006 from Dominion Resources, but the Great Recession prevented development of the property. Ground was finally broken for the new park in 2018 after money was appropriated by the Virginia General Assembly with a bond issue in that year. Current facilities include a visitor center and staff building along Aquia Creek and a soft boat launch and picnic shelter along the Potomac River. A formal opening date in fall 2018 has been set. The park is divided", "title": "Widewater State Park" }, { "id": "12043856", "text": "camping, hunting, fishing, timber cutting, campfires, vegetation harvesting, and motorized trail vehicles are typically forbidden at all preserves. The following table lists Virginia's Natural Area Preserves . Those listed as being accessible \"by arrangement\" require prospective visitors to contact either state-employed land stewards, private property owners, or both. Virginia Natural Area Preserve System The Virginia Natural Area Preserve System is a system of protected areas in the state of Virginia. It is managed by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. In 1986, the Virginia Natural Heritage Program was formed through a cooperative agreement between the Commonwealth of Virginia and", "title": "Virginia Natural Area Preserve System" }, { "id": "8241482", "text": "Virginia State Police The Virginia State Police, officially the Virginia Department of State Police, is a U.S. state law enforcement agency, conceived in 1919 and established in 1932, that acts as the state police force for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The agency originated out of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles as an inspector and enforcer of highway laws. It is currently one of fourteen agencies within the Cabinet Secretariat of Public Safety, under the leadership of Secretary Brian Moran. On January 18, 2018, Gary T. Settle was sworn in as Superintendent of the Virginia State", "title": "Virginia State Police" }, { "id": "12366338", "text": "were featured in the photography exhibit \"Wild Beauty: The Artful Nature of Shenandoah National Park\" held at the Looking Glass Art Gallery in the historic Hawley Silk Mill, in Hawley, Pennsylvania. Shenandoah National Park Shenandoah National Park (often ) is a national park that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the U.S. state of Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the broad Shenandoah River and Valley on the west side, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont on the east. Although the scenic Skyline Drive is likely the most prominent feature of the park, almost", "title": "Shenandoah National Park" }, { "id": "7633313", "text": "stays. In addition, there is a cottage that can also be rented. The park has a campground with RV lots, tent sites, and trailer rentals. A boat launch and rental boats are also available in the park. The trail system includes a mix of hiking-only and multi-use trails for hiking, biking, and horseback riding. Belle Isle State Park (Virginia) Belle Isle State Park is located in Lancaster County, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River. It sits between Deep Creek and Morattico Creek and is currently under public ownership. The park has an area of and has facilities for camping, fishing, boating", "title": "Belle Isle State Park (Virginia)" }, { "id": "14712485", "text": "moth infestations have eroded the dominance of oak forests. Other common trees and plants include chestnut, maple, tulip poplar, mountain laurel, milkweed, daisies, and many species of ferns. The largest areas of wilderness are along the Atlantic coast and in the western mountains, which are likely home to the largest populations of trillium wildflowers in North America. Mammals include white-tailed deer, black bear, beaver, bobcat, coyote, raccoon, groundhog, Virginia opossum, gray fox, red fox, river otter, snowshoe hare, southern bog lemming, common eastern chipmunk, common mink, common muskrat, cotton mouse, eastern spotted skunk, striped skunk, fox squirrel, gray squirrel, northern", "title": "Environment of Virginia" }, { "id": "12043855", "text": "low-impact uses, such as hiking and birdwatching. However, some state-owned properties with rare and/or species and habitats require that arrangements be made with a state-employed land steward prior to visitation. Privately held properties may restrict public access, although sometimes it can be arranged in coordination with a preserve's owner. Access to any individual Virginia Natural Area Preserve may be temporarily restricted or closed when it is determined as necessary to protect sensitive plant and animal populations within the preserve, for seasonal migration habitat, or for habitat management and ecological restoration activities, such as prescribed burns. Visitor impactfull activities, such as", "title": "Virginia Natural Area Preserve System" }, { "id": "12043854", "text": "dedicated by other departments and agencies of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Natural Area Preserves may be acquired by the Commonwealth of Virginia, or may continue to be owned by independent conservation organizations or other private landowners. Dedication itself is similar to a conservation easement, as it places certain legal strictures on future development of a given portion of land. Most properties are owned by the state's Department of Conservation and Recreation. However, some are owned by local governments, universities, private citizens, and independent conservation organizations, such as The Nature Conservancy. Many state-owned properties are freely open to the public for", "title": "Virginia Natural Area Preserve System" }, { "id": "444129", "text": "U.S. states in terms of public spending on the arts, at nearly half of the national average. The state government does fund some institutions, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum of Virginia. Other museums include the popular Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum and the Chrysler Museum of Art. Besides these sites, many open-air museums are located in the Commonwealth, such as Colonial Williamsburg, the Frontier Culture Museum, and various historic battlefields. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities works to improve the Commonwealth's civic, cultural, and intellectual life. Theaters and", "title": "Virginia" }, { "id": "8968476", "text": "road is one way, from east to west. State highways serving Virginia state institutions In the US state of Virginia, some state highways have been specifically designated to serve state parks and state institutions. State Route 217 and the range of numbers from State Route 302 to State Route 399 are currently used (non-exclusively) for this purpose. For a list of very short Virginia primary state highways, see List of primary state highways in Virginia shorter than one mile. State Route 217 is the designation for the roads on the grounds of the Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute (State Street,", "title": "State highways serving Virginia state institutions" }, { "id": "6397020", "text": "added in response to federal developments. Amendments ratified by the voters reduced the voting age to eighteen to conform with the Twenty-sixth Amendment, removed residency requirements for voting, and conformed voter registration to the Motor Voter Act. A legislative session now may be called after a Governor's veto. Virginia joined thirty-two other states in 1996 by amending its Constitution to provide for rights of victims of crime. Since 1996 Virginia and other states have adopted a provision protecting the right of the people to hunt, fish and harvest game. In 2006, Virginians aligned with twenty-nine other states seeking to ban", "title": "Virginia Conventions" }, { "id": "444163", "text": "emeritus. Government Tourism and recreation Culture and history Maps and Demographics Virginia Virginia (), officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States located between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. Virginia is nicknamed the \"Old Dominion\" due to its status as the first English colonial possession established in mainland North America and \"Mother of Presidents\" because eight U.S. presidents were born there, more than any other state. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for", "title": "Virginia" }, { "id": "6249828", "text": "byways include the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Even in busy Northern Virginia, a bucolic interlude is available inside the beltway on the George Washington Memorial Parkway. The state has literally dozens of other stretches of roads designated as scenic byways, and VDOT distributes a free map showing them. The Virginia State Highway System is an integrated system of roads maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). As of 2005, the VDOT maintains of state highways — the third largest system in the United States, after Texas and North Carolina. Interstate 95 and", "title": "Transportation in Virginia" }, { "id": "3112012", "text": "large parks that are on a par with national parks. Some state parks, like Adirondack Park, are similar to the national parks of England and Wales, with numerous towns inside the borders of the park. About half the area of the park, some , is state-owned and preserved as \"forever wild\" by the Forest Preserve of New York. Wood-Tikchik State Park in Alaska is the largest state park by the amount of contiguous protected land; it is larger than many U.S. National Parks, with some , making it larger than the state of Delaware. Many states also operate game and", "title": "Protected areas of the United States" }, { "id": "970618", "text": "Protected areas of Victoria Victoria is the smallest mainland state in Australia. it contained separate protected areas with a total land area of (17.26% of the state's area). Of these, 45 were national parks, totalling (11.32% of the state's area). The parks are managed by Parks Victoria, a state government agency. There are also many smaller state areas which are subject to commercial activity such as logging. The state of Victoria has protected approximately 5.3% of coastal waters. In June 2002, legislation was passed to establish 13 marine national parks and 11 marine sanctuaries. Victoria is the first jurisdiction in", "title": "Protected areas of Victoria" }, { "id": "12043852", "text": "Virginia Natural Area Preserve System The Virginia Natural Area Preserve System is a system of protected areas in the state of Virginia. It is managed by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. In 1986, the Virginia Natural Heritage Program was formed through a cooperative agreement between the Commonwealth of Virginia and The Nature Conservancy. In 1988 the program was placed under the control of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR). To further the Natural Heritage Program's mission to conserve and manage sites identified as significant natural areas within the state, The Virginia Natural Area Preserve System was", "title": "Virginia Natural Area Preserve System" }, { "id": "7155465", "text": "Grayson Highlands State Park Grayson Highlands State Park is a state park located in Grayson County, Virginia, United States. It is adjacent to the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area and lies within the Jefferson National Forest. The park was established in 1965 and contains a total of . The park hosts a number of outdoor activities including hiking, camping, mountainbiking, horseback riding, and backpacking. A 2.8 mile (4.5 km) portion of the Appalachian Trail runs through the park in addition to a number of other hiking and horseback riding trails. The state park is musically notable as the home for", "title": "Grayson Highlands State Park" }, { "id": "19962630", "text": "of Revenue, marking the first time in over 37 years the post has gone to a Democrat. 2017 Virginia elections Statewide and municipal elections were held in the U.S. state of Virginia on November 7, 2017. The main election being held in Virginia was the state's gubernatorial election. In addition, all of Virginia's House of Delegates seats were up for re-election. Primary elections for the House of Delegates and the governor were held on June 13, 2017. Ralph Northam (D) was elected to become the 73rd Governor of Virginia, Justin Fairfax (D) was elected to become the 41st Lieutenant Governor", "title": "2017 Virginia elections" }, { "id": "11536978", "text": "McLean Bible Church. Demographics of Virginia The demographics of Virginia are the various elements used to describe the population of the Commonwealth of Virginia and are studied by various government and non-government organizations. Virginia is the 12th-most populous state in the United States with over residents and is the 35th largest in area. As of the 2010 United States Census, Virginia has a reported population , which is an increase , or 3.6%, from a previous estimate in 2007 and an increase , or 13.0%, since the year 2000. This includes an increase from net migration of into the Commonwealth", "title": "Demographics of Virginia" }, { "id": "5813961", "text": "is popular with anglers, hikers, and campers. A trail beginning at Virginia Lakes serves as a gateway to the Sierra backcountry and Yosemite National Park. The bodies of water in the Virginia Lakes Basin include Trumbull Lake, Red Lake, Blue Lake, Upper Virginia Lake, Little Virginia Lake, Cooney Lake, Moat Lake, and the Frog Lakes. These are all connected by the perennial Virginia Creek (not navigable). Virginia Lakes Virginia Lakes refers to a basin of lakes in the Eastern Sierra Nevada in Mono County, California. Virginia Lakes is located a few miles off U.S. Highway 395; the road to the", "title": "Virginia Lakes" }, { "id": "454481", "text": "protection. Other areas under protection and management include: Most of West Virginia lies within the Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests ecoregion, while the higher elevations along the eastern border and in the panhandle lie within the Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests. The native vegetation for most of the state was originally mixed hardwood forest of oak, chestnut, maple, beech, and white pine, with willow and American sycamore along the state's waterways. Many of the areas are rich in biodiversity and scenic beauty, a fact that is appreciated by native West Virginians, who refer to their home as \"Almost Heaven\" (from the song, \"Take", "title": "West Virginia" }, { "id": "12057784", "text": "Fairy Stone State Park, Staunton River State Park, Douthat State Park and Hungry Mother State Park. In these and other projects, the CCC employed 107,210 in Virginia at one time or another, including 64,762 young Virginians who planted 15.2 million trees, built 986 bridges, reduced fire hazards over 152,000 acres, strung 2,128 miles of telephone line and stocked 1.3 million fish. Virginia received the fifth largest state expenditure in the country, totaling $109 million during the agency's nine-year existence. The agency's name changed in 1938 to the Virginia Conservation Commission, which was led by N. Clarence Smith (1939-1942), and William", "title": "Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation" }, { "id": "7155469", "text": "are within of Grayson Highlands State Park: Grayson Highlands State Park Grayson Highlands State Park is a state park located in Grayson County, Virginia, United States. It is adjacent to the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area and lies within the Jefferson National Forest. The park was established in 1965 and contains a total of . The park hosts a number of outdoor activities including hiking, camping, mountainbiking, horseback riding, and backpacking. A 2.8 mile (4.5 km) portion of the Appalachian Trail runs through the park in addition to a number of other hiking and horseback riding trails. The state park", "title": "Grayson Highlands State Park" }, { "id": "1591577", "text": "a zoo with hundreds of animals on display, including the critically endangered Siberian tiger and threatened white rhino. First Landing State Park and False Cape State Park are both located in coastal areas in Virginia Beach. Both offer camping facilities, cabins, and outdoor recreation activities in addition to nature and history tours. First Landing is the site of Cape Henry while False Cape is located at the southeastern end of Virginia Beach. Newport News Park is located in the northern part of the city of Newport News. The city's golf course also lies within the park along with camping and", "title": "Hampton Roads" }, { "id": "11185534", "text": "Virginia Coast Reserve The Virginia Coast Reserve is a biosphere reserve created by The Nature Conservancy in the early 1970s. It consists of 14 of the Virginia Barrier Islands along the Atlantic coast of the Virginia portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, including Parramore Island, Hog Island, Virginia, Smith Island, Virginia, Assawoman Island, and Metompkin Island. These barrier islands play an important role in sheltering the mainland portions of the Eastern Shore of Virginia from the impact of coastal storms and are important for breeding and migrating beach nesting and colonial waterbirds, including piping plovers. It also serves as the research", "title": "Virginia Coast Reserve" }, { "id": "11803461", "text": "found in the more remote forests and parks. Mink and beaver are much less often seen. Four species (or subspecies) – the Virginia big-eared bat, the Indiana bat, the West Virginia northern flying squirrel and the (potentially extirpated) eastern cougar – are federally listed as endangered. Several additional species are rare in the state and warrant close monitoring. Some West Virginia mammals have thrived despite human disturbance, and include the opossum, which is more abundant and more widely distributed due to human activities. Also doing well are mammals that prefer farm and early successional habitats. The coyote is expanding its", "title": "Fauna of West Virginia" }, { "id": "12948974", "text": "and artists. Other museums include the popular Science Museum of Virginia, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum, the Frontier Culture Museum, the Virginia Museum of Natural History and the Mariners' Museum. Besides these sites, many open-air museums and battlefields are located in the state, such as Historic Jamestowne, Colonial Williamsburg, Richmond National Battlefield, Manassas National Battlefield Park, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park and Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. Virginia has launched many award-winning traditional music artists as well as internationally successful popular music acts. Ralph Stanley, Patsy Cline, The Statler Brothers and", "title": "Culture of Virginia" }, { "id": "4035223", "text": "Climate of Virginia The climate of Virginia, a state on the east coast of the United States, is considered mild compared to other areas of the United States. Most of Virginia east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the southern part of the Shenandoah Valley, and the Roanoke Valley, has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification \"Cfa\"). In the mountainous areas west of the Blue Ridge, the climate becomes humid continental (Köppen \"Dfa\") and maritime temperate (Köppen \"Cfb\"). Severe weather, in the form of tornadoes, tropical cyclones, and winter storms, impacts the state on a regular basis. Central Virginia received", "title": "Climate of Virginia" }, { "id": "11194138", "text": "serve. Some political subdivisions are defined geographically; others by function. Many authorities (such as water, or transportation districts) are created by specific legislation as political subdivisions of the state. Every location in Virginia is within a county or an independent city, but never both. The 95 counties and the 39 independent cities all have their own governments. Cities are governed by an elected mayor or city council which choose a city manager or county administrator to serve as a professional, non-political chief administrator under the council-manager form of government, while counties are governed by a county board of supervisors. Many", "title": "Government of Virginia" }, { "id": "19023198", "text": "picnic shelters. Each has picnic tables and a charcoal grill. None has electricity or water. Two of the picnic areas have accessible playground areas. All have restroom facilities. Powhatan State Park Powhatan State Park is a state park located along the James River in Virginia. It is in Powhatan County. The park is total with a of riverfront. In 2003, were transferred from the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation for the creation of the state park. The goal in creating the park was to provide access to state park facilities in central", "title": "Powhatan State Park" }, { "id": "454478", "text": "Virginia borders Pennsylvania and Maryland in the northeast, Virginia in the southeast, Ohio in the northwest, and Kentucky in the southwest. Its longest border is with Virginia at 381 miles, followed by Ohio at 243 miles, Maryland at 174 miles, Pennsylvania at 118 miles, and Kentucky at 79 miles. West Virginia is located entirely within the Appalachian Region, and the state is almost entirely mountainous, giving reason to the nickname \"The Mountain State\" and the motto \"Montani Semper Liberi\" (\"Mountaineers are always free\"). The elevations and ruggedness drop near large rivers like the Ohio River or Shenandoah River. About 75%", "title": "West Virginia" }, { "id": "5882754", "text": "Bear Rocks Preserve Bear Rocks are a widely recognized symbol of West Virginia wilderness and among the most frequently photographed places in the state. They are a well-known landmark on the eastern edge of the plateau that includes the Dolly Sods Wilderness. They sit in a high-elevation heathland punctuated with wind-carved sandstone outcrops and is home to more than a dozen rare plant and animal species. Situated on the crest of the Allegheny Front, Bear Rocks afford vistas over the South Branch Potomac River. Visibility can extend eastward to the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. The Bear Rocks Preserve is", "title": "Bear Rocks Preserve" }, { "id": "454422", "text": "West Virginia West Virginia () is a state located in the Appalachian region in the Southern United States and is also considered to be a part of the Middle Atlantic States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 41st largest state by area, and is ranked 38th in population. The capital and largest city is Charleston. West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions of 1861, after the American Civil War had begun. Delegates from", "title": "West Virginia" } ]

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[ { "id": "19274514", "text": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas The 2016 United States presidential election in Texas was won by Republican Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence by a 9% margin over Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, part of the November 8, 2016 General Election. Texas assigns its 38 Electoral College votes to the state's popular vote winner, but two faithless electors chose other candidates, making Texas the only state in 2016 to give Trump fewer than the assigned electoral votes. When the electoral college met on December 19, 2016, only 36 out of the 38 electors voted for", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "19274527", "text": "counties, got the smallest percentage of the vote than all other Republicans running in the state. 2016 United States presidential election in Texas The 2016 United States presidential election in Texas was won by Republican Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence by a 9% margin over Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, part of the November 8, 2016 General Election. Texas assigns its 38 Electoral College votes to the state's popular vote winner, but two faithless electors chose other candidates, making Texas the only state in 2016 to give Trump fewer than the assigned electoral votes. When the", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "19274525", "text": "and minorities and thus swung more Democratic compared to 2012. These were Clinton's main sources of votes. She swept the Rio Grande region counties, such as El Paso, Webb, Hidalgo and Cameron as they have sizable Hispanic populations. Clinton also took the highly liberal and fast growing Travis County (Austin), as well as the urban and minority-heavy counties of Bexar (San Antonio), Dallas, and Harris County (Houston), where she turned the historically thin vote margins of previous cycles in the latter into a 12-point lead. Clinton also won suburban Fort Bend County for the first time since Texas native Lyndon", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "19274515", "text": "Trump for president. Two electors defected, one to Ohio Governor John Kasich, and the other to Congressman Ron Paul. For Vice President, 37 electors voted for Pence, and one for Carly Fiorina. The primary of March 1, 2016 included the Green Party, in addition to the two major parties. Texas was one of the eleven states where Hillary Clinton improved on Barack Obama's performance in 2012. Clinton lost Texas by a smaller margin than any Democrat since 1996 (though Barack Obama got a larger percentage of the vote in 2008), which analysts attributed to ongoing demographic changes, although other analysts", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "19274523", "text": "unpredictable outcome, especially on the Democratic statewide tickets since they lean heavily Democratic. The Hispanic turnout has increased by approximately 200,000 for each and every presidential election since 2000. The following are final 2016 predictions from various organizations for Texas as of Election Day. The voting age population was 19,307,355, of which 15,101,087 were registered to vote. Turnout was 8,969,226, which is 46.45% of the voting age population and 59.39% of registered voters. Thirteen candidates received write-in votes, of which the large majority (42,366) went to Evan McMullin. Trump won 22 of 36 congressional districts While he continued the Republican", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "19274516", "text": "cite evidence suggesting the real reason was Trump losing ground with college-educated white voters. Trump's campaign became the tenth Republican campaign in a row to win Texas, beginning with Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign for presidency. The Texas Democratic Party held their state's primary in concurrence with the other Super Tuesday contests on March 1. Eight candidates appeared on the ballot, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, dropped-out candidate Martin O'Malley and five minor candidates (Rocky De La Fuente, Willie Wilson, Star Locke, Keith Russell Judd and Calvis Hawes.) The Texas Democratic primary had 251 delegates to the Democratic National Convention; 222 pledged", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "18527386", "text": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas were held on November 8, 2016, to elect the 36 U.S. Representatives from the State of Texas, one from each of the state's 36 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the House of Representatives, elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on March 1. The incumbent is Republican Louie Gohmert, who has represented the district since 2004. He was re-elected with", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "19274522", "text": "got 20%, they would allocate all of the 47 at-large delegates proportionally. The Texas Green Party held its elections at conventions at the precinct level on March 8, the county level on March 12, and the district level on March 19, leading up to the state nominating convention in Grey Forest, Texas on April 9 and 10. On April 10 it was announced Jill Stein had won the convention. The last time Texas voted for a Democratic candidate was the 1976 Presidential election when Jimmy Carter won 51.14% of the popular vote. Hispanic participation can create a very interesting and", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "19396894", "text": "of 71-29 over Bernie Sanders), African American voters (whom she won 83-15) and white women (63-35 over Sanders). Clinton won all of the major cities (Fort Worth, Dallas, El Paso, San Antonio, and Houston, and Corpus Christi) except for Austin where Sanders won only narrowly due to the presence of the University of Texas. Sanders won few counties outside of Travis County. He won neighboring Hays County, home to another prominent college, Texas State University in San Marcos. Sanders also managed to very narrowly edge out Clinton in Brazos County, home to College Station and Texas A&M University, by 28", "title": "2016 Texas Democratic primary" }, { "id": "19274524", "text": "10-cycle winning streak in Texas, Trump's winning margin was down from Mitt Romney's 16% in 2012 to 8.99%, a 7.01% drop, making 2016 the closest Democrats had come to winning Texas since 1996 (though the Democrats also received a smaller percentage of the vote in Texas in this election than in the 2008 presidential election). The surge in Democratic votes can partly be attributed to a growing population of Hispanics/Latinos, Trump’s relatively weak performance with college-educated white voters, and the growth of cities and their respective suburbs in the Texas Triangle region, which are heavily populated with both college-educated voters", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "18527395", "text": "to face Vanessa Tijerina, the Green Party nominee, and the Libertarian nominee, Ross Lynn Leone. The incumbent, Democrat Beto O'Rourke, has represented the district since 2013. With 85.6 percent of the vote, he defeated Ben Mendoza in the primary election. The incumbent, Republican Bill Flores, represented the district since 2011. Flores won the primary with 72.45% of the vote against Ralph Patterson and Kaleb Sims. Democrat William Matta will run in the election. The incumbent, Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, represented the district since 1995. Republicans Lori Bartley, Reggie Gonzales, Sharon Joy Fisher and Ava Pate ran in the primary election.", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "18527390", "text": "Jeffrey Roseman, and Don Jaquess ran in the Democratic primary which Ruby Faye Woolridge won with 68.65%. The incumbent, Republican John Culberson, represented the district since 2001. Culberson won the primary with 57% of the vote where he faced James Lloyd and Maria Espinoza. Energy attorney and nominee for the seat in 2012 and 2014, James Cargas will challenge Culberson in the general election. The incumbent, Republican Kevin Brady, represented the district since 1997. Brady was challenged again in the primary by Craig McMichael along with former State Representative Steve Toth and Andre Dean; Brady won with 53.4 percent of", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "18527393", "text": "the district since 2013. Keith Casey ran in the Republican primary; Weber won with 84.03% of the vote. Michael Cole is Democratic nominee. The incumbent is Democrat Rubén Hinojosa, who has represented the district since 1997. He was re-elected in 2014 with 54% of the vote and the district has a PVI of D+5. Hinojosa is retiring. Six Democrats are running for the seat: law student Ruben Ramirez, former Hildago County Democratic Party Chairwoman Dolly Elizondo, attorney Vicente González, Edinburg School Board Member Juan \"Sonny\" Palacios Jr., former Hidalgo County Commissioner Joel Quintanilla, and accountant Randy Sweeten. No candidate received", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "19274526", "text": "B. Johnson in 1964, which was attributed to the county's large immigrant population and negative perception of Trump by female Republican voters. Trump on the other hand narrowly flipped Jefferson County in East Texas, becoming the first Republican since Richard Nixon in 1972 to win the county. Places that had large numbers of young voters in the state were a stronghold for Clinton as well. In total, Clinton beat Trump in 27 counties by a total of 883,819 votes, and had the best percentage performance than any other Democrat running statewide. Conversely, Trump, who won 227 of the state's 254", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "18527402", "text": "incumbent, Democrat Henry Cuellar, has represented the district since 2005. Cuellar was challenged by Republican-turned-Democrat William R. Hayward in the primary, in which Cuellar prevailed with 89.8 percent of the vote. Zeffen Hardin of San Antonio is the Republican nominee in the November 8 general election. The incumbent, Democrat Gene Green, represented the district since 1993. Green was challenged by Adrian Garcia and Dominique Garcia, but won the primary with 58% of the vote. Julio Garza, and Robert Schafranek ran in the Republican primary, which Garza won with 59 percent of the vote. The incumbent, Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson, represented", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "19396893", "text": "2016 Texas Democratic primary The 2016 Texas Democratic primary took place on March 1 in the U.S. state of Texas as one of the Democratic Party's primaries ahead of the 2016 presidential election. On the same day, dubbed \"Super Tuesday,\" Democratic primaries were held in ten other states plus American Samoa, while the Republican Party held primaries in eleven states including their own Texas primary. Primary date: March 1, 2016<br> National delegates: 75 Clinton won the Texas primary by a landslide margin of over thirty points, thanks in large part to support from Hispanic/Latinos (whom she won by a margin", "title": "2016 Texas Democratic primary" }, { "id": "19274517", "text": "delegates and 29 super delegates. 145 delegates were allocated proportionally based on the results in the state's 31 senatorial districts. The other 77 pledged delegates were allocated proportionally based on the statewide popular vote. February 24, 2016 – Houston, Texas Megyn Kelly hosted a two-hour town hall event on The Kelly File with Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, and Carson in attendance. Trump did not participate in the forum. February 25, 2016 – Houston, Texas After the caucus in Nevada, the tenth debate was held at the University of Houston in Houston and broadcast by CNN as its third of four debates,", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "18527406", "text": "R+25. Babin is running for re-election to a second term. Dwayne Stovall, a bridge construction contractor, school board member from Cleveland, and an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2014 and the Texas House of Representatives in 2012, announced that he would challenge Babin for the Republican U.S. House nomination. Stovall, however, suspended his campaign in December 2015. 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas were held on November 8, 2016, to elect the 36 U.S. Representatives from the State of Texas, one from each of the", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "19360542", "text": "The incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, a Democrat, was first elected president in the 2008 election, running with Joe Biden of Delaware. Defeating the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, with 52.9% of the popular vote and 68% of the electoral vote, Obama succeeded two-term Republican President George W. Bush, the former Governor of Texas. Obama and Biden were reelected in the 2012 presidential election, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 51.1% of the popular vote and 61.7% of electoral votes. Although Barack Obama's approval rating in the RealClearPolitics poll tracking average remained between 40", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Utah" }, { "id": "18527394", "text": "50% of the vote so the top two candidates, Vicente Gonzalez and Juan \"Sonny\" Palacios, Jr. faced a Runoff Election, which Gonzales won by a landslide margin of 66% - 34%. Former Rio Grande City Mayor Ruben Villarreal, Pastor Tim Westley, and Edinburg School Board Member Xavier Salinas are running for the Republican Party nomination. No candidate received 50% of the vote so the top two candidates, Tim Westley and Ruben Villarreal will face a Runoff Election. On May 24, 2016, Gonzalez defeated Palacios, for the Democratic nomination, Tim Westley defeated Ruben Villarreal, for the Republican Nomination. They went on", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "19360540", "text": "2016 United States presidential election in Utah The 2016 United States presidential election in Utah was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 presidential election which was also held in the other 49 states and in the District of Columbia. Voters were asked to pick 6 electors to be pledged for a candidate in the Electoral College. The two main tickets of the election were the Republican one, consisting of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence, and the Democratic one, consisting of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. On March", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Utah" }, { "id": "18527391", "text": "the vote and is unopposed in the November 8 general election. The incumbent, Democrat Al Green, represented the district since 2004. Green was unchallenged in the primary. Jeff Martin is the Republican candidate in the November 8 general election. The incumbent, Republican Michael McCaul, has represented the district since 2005. Democrat Tawana Walter-Cadien, who was the democrat nominee in 2014, and Scot Gallaher ran in the Democratic primary. Tawana Walter-Cadien won the Democratic nomination with 51.7 percent of the vote. The incumbent, Republican Mike Conaway, has represented the district since 2005. He was re-elected with 90% of the vote in", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "18527403", "text": "the district since 1993. State Representative Barbara Mallory Caraway, who was a candidate for the seat in 2012 and 2014, challenged Johnson in the Democratic primary for a third time; Brandon J. Vance also ran in the primary. Johnson won with 69.42 percent of the vote. Republican Charles Lingerfelt is the Republican nominee. The incumbent, Republican John Carter, has represented the district since 2003. He was challenged in the Republican primary by Mike Sweeney but won the primary with 71.28 percent of the vote. Democrat Mike Clark is the Democratic nominee. The incumbent, Republican Pete Sessions, represented the district since", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "18527404", "text": "2003, and previously represented the 5th district from 1997 to 2003. Russ Ramsland and Paul Brown challenged Sessions for the Republican nomination; Sessions won with 61 percent of the vote. No Democratic filed to run. The incumbent, Democrat Marc Veasey, represented the district since 2013. Marc Veasey was challenged in the democratic primary by Carlos Quintanilla and won with 63 percent of the vote. M. Mark Mitchell and Bruce Chadwick ran in the Republican primary, which Mitchell won with 52.39 percent of the vote. The incumbent, Democrat Filemon Vela, Jr., represented the district since 2013. Republicans Rey Gonzalez, Jr. and", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "8053157", "text": "48% of the vote cast. In contrast, David Alameel, the Democratic nominee for Senate from Texas in the 2014 race, received only 1.6 million votes (34% of the vote), and in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton received only 3.9 million votes (43% of the vote) in Texas. This was largely due to O'Rourke performing stronger than usual in urban counties like Bexar, Dallas, El Paso, Harris, and Travis. O'Rourke also managed to pick up six counties that voted for Donald Trump: Brewster, Hays, Jefferson, Nueces, Tarrant, and Williamson, while losing only one, Kenedy, that voted for Clinton. Political analysts", "title": "Beto O'Rourke" }, { "id": "19360553", "text": "Texas, the second largest Democratic trend, which was 10% more Democratic. Evan McMullin's 21.3% of the vote is the strongest third-party performance in a single state since Ross Perot's performance in Maine during the 1992 presidential election. He finished second ahead of Clinton in fifteen of Utah's twenty-nine counties, becoming the first candidate since Perot in 1992 to finish ahead of one major-party nominee in any United States county-equivalent. Only Strom Thurmond in the Deep South in 1948, along with, in the 1920 election, Parley Christensen in Washington and South Dakota plus James Edward Ferguson junior in Texas, have previously", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Utah" }, { "id": "19360554", "text": "managed this whilst not being on the ballot in most states. 2016 United States presidential election in Utah The 2016 United States presidential election in Utah was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 presidential election which was also held in the other 49 states and in the District of Columbia. Voters were asked to pick 6 electors to be pledged for a candidate in the Electoral College. The two main tickets of the election were the Republican one, consisting of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence, and the Democratic one, consisting of former Secretary", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Utah" }, { "id": "19360544", "text": "elect a new president, the 45th president and 48th vice president of the United States, respectively. Four candidates appeared on the Democratic presidential caucus ballot: Three candidates appeared on the Republican presidential caucus ballot: The state of Utah has given its electoral votes to the Republican ticket in every election year since 1968 and only once voted for a Democratic candidate in elections since 1952. The state has a majority Mormon population which voted 78% to 21% for Mitt Romney in 2012. This very heavily contributed to Mitt Romney winning the state by a margin of 73% to 25% in", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Utah" }, { "id": "19274519", "text": "same time. \"National Review\" was disinvited by the Republican National Committee from co-hosting the debate over its criticism of GOP front-runner Donald Trump. On February 19, the criteria for invitation to the debate was announced: in addition to having official statements of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission and accepting the rules of the debate, candidates must have received at least 5% support in one of the first four election contests held in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada. By these criteria, all five remaining candidates, Carson, Cruz, Kasich, Rubio, and Trump, qualified for invitation to the debate. The", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "4420237", "text": "(in reverse chronological order). The number preceding each entry is the number of faithless electors for the given year. 7 – 2016 election: In Washington, Democratic party electors gave three presidential votes to Colin Powell and one to Faith Spotted Eagle and these electors cast vice-presidential votes for Elizabeth Warren, Maria Cantwell, Susan Collins, and Winona LaDuke. In Hawaii, Bernie Sanders received one presidential vote and Elizabeth Warren received one vice-presidential vote. In Texas, John Kasich and Ron Paul received one presidential vote each, and one of these electors gave Carly Fiorina a vice-presidential vote. In addition, three other electors", "title": "Faithless elector" }, { "id": "18527399", "text": "lost in his party's primary in 2014, and A. R. Hassan ran for their party's nomination; Gibson won with this time with 76.16% of the vote. The incumbent Republican, Will Hurd of Helotes near San Antonio, has represented the district since 2015. He was elected in 2014, when he narrowly unseated the then Democratic incumbent Pete Gallego of Alpine. The district has a PVI of R+3. Gallego faces Hurd in a rematch in the November 8 general election. The incumbent, Republican Kenny Marchant, has represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2014 and", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "19619191", "text": "rating among Hispanics, 37% among females, and 42% among college-educated voters. On November 6, 2018, Ted Cruz defeated Beto O'Rourke. However, O'Rourke gave Democrats their best performance in a Texas statewide election since Ann Richards was elected Governor in 1990. In addition, O'Rourke flipped several counties in Texas that Donald Trump carried in 2016, including Williamson (includes Round Rock and Georgetown), Tarrant (includes Fort Worth and suburbs within the DFW metroplex), Jefferson (includes Beaumount and Port Arthur), Nueces (includes Corpus Christi), Brewster (includes Big Bend National Park) and Hays (includes San Marcos). Cruz only flipped one county that voted for", "title": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas" }, { "id": "18527405", "text": "William \"Willie\" Vaden ran in the Republican primary, which Gonzalez won with 50.56 percent of the vote. The incumbent, Democrat Lloyd Doggett, has represented the district since 2013. He was elected with 63% of the vote in 2014 and the district has a PVI of D+11. Republican Susan Narvaiz will run for the district's seat. The incumbent is Republican Brian Babin, who has represented the district since 2015, when Steve Stockman vacated the seat after a failed campaign for the United States Senate. He was elected with 76 percent of the vote in 2014. The district has a PVI of", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "18527398", "text": "76% of the vote in 2014 and the district has a PVI of D+6. There is no Republican running for this district's seat. The incumbent is Republican Lamar S. Smith, who has represented the district since 1987. The district has a PVI of R+11. Lamar S. Smith is running for re-election and will face Matt McCall, John Murphy and Todd Phelps in the Republican primary. Thomas Wakely and Tejas Vakil are running for the Democratic nomination. Wakely won the Democratic nomination with 58.99% of the vote. The incumbent, Republican Pete Olson, represented the district since 2009. Democrats Mark Gibson, who", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "16904003", "text": "and exploratory committee. Many other candidates followed suit. The first candidate to declare his candidacy was Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who was popular among grassroots conservatives due to his association with the Tea Party movement. The 2016 candidates originated in several Republican Party tendencies, with the grassroots conservatives represented by Cruz and Carson, the Christian right represented by Huckabee and Santorum, and the moderates, or establishment, represented by Bush and Christie, among others. In addition, some candidates were seen as appealing to both conservatives and moderates, such as Kasich, Jindal, Walker, Rubio and Paul. Two notable candidates from the previous", "title": "2016 Republican Party presidential primaries" }, { "id": "19789990", "text": "2018 Texas elections The 2018 general election was held in the U.S. state of Texas on November 6, 2018. All of Texas' executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, and all of Texas' thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives. The Republican and Democratic Parties nominated their candidates by primaries held March 6, 2018. Convention Parties nominated their candidates at a series of conventions. County Conventions held March 17, 2018, District Conventions held March 24, 2018, and a State Convention held April 14, 2018. At the present time there is only", "title": "2018 Texas elections" }, { "id": "12989074", "text": "low polling numbers. Despite leading many polls in Iowa, Trump came in second to Cruz, after which Huckabee, Paul and Santorum withdrew due to poor performances at the ballot box. Following a sizable victory for Trump in the New Hampshire primary, Christie, Fiorina and Gilmore abandoned the race. Bush followed suit after scoring fourth place to Trump, Rubio and Cruz in South Carolina. On March 1, 2016, the first of four \"Super Tuesday\" primaries, Rubio won his first contest in Minnesota, Cruz won Alaska, Oklahoma and his home of Texas and Trump won the other seven states that voted. Failing", "title": "2016 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "19274520", "text": "155 delegates to the Republican National Convention were allocated in this way. 108 delegates are allocated by congressional district; 3 per district. If a candidate gets over 50% of the vote in a congressional district; they would win all of the district's 3 delegates. If no one had a majority and one candidate had at least 20% of the vote, the candidate winning the plurality would get 2 delegates and the candidate in second place would get 1 delegate. If nobody receives at least 20% of the vote, the top 3 vote-getters each get 1 delegate. There were another 47", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "18527389", "text": "Jeb Hensarling, who has represented the district since 2012. He was re-elected with 85% of the vote in 2014 and the district has a PVI of R+17. He was unchallenged in the primary. There is no Democrat running. The incumbent is Republican Joe Barton, who has represented the district since 1985. He was re-elected in 2014 with 61% of the vote and the district has a PVI of R+11. His reelection margin increased to 68.7 percent in the 2016 primary. Software engineer David Cozad, who was the Democratic nominee in 2010 and 2014, is running again. Democrats Ruby Faye Woolridge,", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "18527397", "text": "run once more for mayor. After Neugebauer decided to retire, Robertson entered the congressional race and withdrew from consideration for another term as mayor. None of the nine candidates obtained a majority in the Republican primary on March 1. Robertson led the field and now meets in a runoff election on May 24 Jodey Arrington, a former official in the George W. Bush administration and a former vice chancellor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Arrington had trailed Robertson by fewer than one thousand votes. The incumbent, Democrat Joaquín Castro, has represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected with", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "19360549", "text": "following were certified by the state as \"write-in candidates\", which means that votes given to these persons would be counted: Trump won all 4 congressional districts. Utah gave the Republican nominee a 45% plurality and thus awarded him six electoral votes. Utah had given 2012 nominee Mitt Romney his largest margin of victory over Barack Obama and had not voted Democrat in a presidential election since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. However, conservatives split their votes between Trump and Utah native Evan McMullin, a Mormon himself who shared the conservative values of many Utah voters. According to exit polls, Donald", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Utah" }, { "id": "17694556", "text": "2014 Texas elections The 2014 general election was held in the U.S. state of Texas on November 4, 2014. All of Texas' executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, and all of Texas' thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives. Primary elections were held on March 4, 2014. Primary runoffs, required if no candidate wins a majority of the vote, were held on May 27, 2014. Elections were also held for the Texas legislature and proposition 1, seeking funds for Texas highways (which passed). A combination of retirements, incumbents seeking other", "title": "2014 Texas elections" }, { "id": "19789994", "text": "Mark Ash Every seat in the Texas House of Representatives and about half of the seats in the Texas Senate will be up for election. 2018 Texas elections The 2018 general election was held in the U.S. state of Texas on November 6, 2018. All of Texas' executive officers were up for election as well as a United States Senate seat, and all of Texas' thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives. The Republican and Democratic Parties nominated their candidates by primaries held March 6, 2018. Convention Parties nominated their candidates at a series of conventions. County Conventions", "title": "2018 Texas elections" }, { "id": "19274511", "text": "2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee The 2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee was held on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 General Election in which all 50 states plus The District of Columbia participated. Tennessee voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting the Republican Party's nominee, businessman Donald Trump, and running mate Indiana Governor Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. On March 1, 2016, in the presidential primaries, Tennessee voters expressed their preferences", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee" }, { "id": "19317008", "text": "The incumbent President of the United States, Barack Obama, a Democrat and former U.S. Senator from Illinois, was first elected president in the 2008 election, running with former Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. Defeating the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, with 52.9% of the popular vote and 68% of the electoral vote, Obama succeeded two-term Republican President George W. Bush, the former Governor of Texas. Obama and Biden were reelected in the 2012 presidential election, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 51.1% of the popular vote and 61.7% of electoral votes. Although Barack Obama's approval rating in", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia" }, { "id": "18527388", "text": "the district since 1991. He was re-elected with 82% of the vote in 2014 and the district has a PVI of R+17. State Representative Scott Turner is a potential Republican candidate whenever Johnson retires. Democrats Adam Bell and Michael Filak ran in the Democratic primary. Bell won the nomination to oppose Johnson in the November 8 general election. The incumbent, Republican John Ratcliffe, represented the district since 2014. He was challenged in the Republican primary by Lou Gigliotti, and Ray Hall. Ratcliffe won the primary runoff with 66.59% of the vote. No Democrat filed to run. The incumbent is Republican", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "18670023", "text": "Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign The 2016 presidential campaign of Ted Cruz, the junior United States Senator from Texas, was announced on March 23, 2015. He was a candidate for the Republican Party's 2016 presidential nomination and won the second-most state contests and delegates. Cruz themed his campaign around being an outsider and a strict conservative. In the crowded early field, he chose not to directly confront the leading candidate, Donald Trump, who was also viewed as an outsider candidate. His cordial and sympathetic tone towards Trump contrasted with the more critical approach of rivals such as Jeb Bush, Marco", "title": "Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign" }, { "id": "1450124", "text": "still compete for delegates in states where the primary elections have already been held. At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Paul received 190 delegate votes. In January 2013, Paul retired from Congress but still remains active on college campuses, giving speeches promoting his libertarian vision. Paul received one electoral vote from a Texas faithless elector in the 2016 presidential election, making him the oldest person to receive an electoral vote, as well as the second registered Libertarian presidential candidate in history to receive an Electoral College vote after John Hospers. Ronald Ernest Paul was born on August 20, 1935, in", "title": "Ron Paul" }, { "id": "12989123", "text": "Federal Election Commission report. The column labeled \"Margin\" shows Trump's margin of victory over Clinton (the margin is negative for every state that Clinton won). A total of 29 third party and independent presidential candidates appeared on the ballot in at least one state. Former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson and physician Jill Stein repeated their 2012 roles as the nominees for the Libertarian Party and the Green Party, respectively. With ballot access to the entire national electorate, Johnson received nearly 4.5 million votes (3.27%), the highest nationwide vote share for a third-party candidate since Ross Perot in 1996,", "title": "2016 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "17510892", "text": "the votes in his home state of Texas, and to pull in support nationally as the most popular third-party candidate to run for United States presidency in recent times. , this is the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won the following counties: Hudspeth, Pecos, Terrell, Ward, Swisher, Hall, Cottle, Hardeman, Foard, Baylor, Knox, Haskell, Stonewall, Kent, Dickens, Crosby, Jones, Fisher, Nolan, Mitchell, Menard, Comanche, Palo Pinto, Bastrop, Caldwell, Nueces, San Patricio, Refugio, Bee, Karnes, Atascosa, Burleson, Milam, Falls, Limestone, Navarro, Waller, Grimes, Galveston, Trinity, Orange, Jasper, Tyler, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Panola, Harrison, Marion, Cass, Bowie, Camp, Titus, Red", "title": "1996 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "18776489", "text": "and fellow Texan Ted Cruz on January 24, 2016. Perry maintained an active social media presence across SnapChat, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram during the campaign. Rick Perry 2016 presidential campaign The 2016 presidential campaign of Rick Perry, the 47th Governor of Texas, was officially launched on June 4, 2015. This campaign constituted Perry's second consecutive bid for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Perry announced on September 11, 2015, that he had suspended his campaign. On January 25, 2016, Perry announced that he will endorse presidential candidate and fellow Texan, Senator Ted Cruz. Perry was elected", "title": "Rick Perry 2016 presidential campaign" }, { "id": "18527387", "text": "77% of the vote in 2014 and the district has a PVI of R+24. He faced a primary challenge from two competitors: Simon Winston, and Anthony Culler. Democrat Shirley McKellar, who lost to Gohmert in 2012 and 2014, will run for the district's seat again. The incumbent is Republican Ted Poe, who has represented the district since 2004. He was re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2014 and the district has a PVI of R+16. He was unchallenged in the primary. Democrat Pat Bryan will run for the district's seat. The incumbent is Republican Sam Johnson, who has represented", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "18527400", "text": "the district has a PVI of R+13. Democrat Jan McDowell will run for the district's seat. The incumbent, Republican Roger Williams, has represented the district since 2013. He was re-elected with 60% of the vote in 2014 and the district has a PVI of R+12. Democrat Kathi Thomas will run for the district's seat. The incumbent, Republican Michael C. Burgess, represented the district since 2003. He was challenged in the Republican primary by Joel A. Krause and Micah Beebe; Burgess won with 79.35% of the vote. Eric Mauck is the Democratic nominee. The incumbent is Republican Blake Farenthold, who has", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "19360550", "text": "Trump won the Mormon vote, 51-39, over Evan McMullin, with Clinton getting only 14%. Mormons are a key demographic here, comprising 62% of the electorate and tending to be very socially conservative. Trump won both men, 50-25, and women, 39-34. Trump won the white vote, 47-25, but lost the Hispanic/Latino vote to Clinton, 61-25. He also swept all ages and income levels in the state (though the candidates tied among millennials, 36-36). While Clinton won white college-educated women 37-35, Trump won white college-educated men and white people without college degrees, as was a trend nationwide. Clinton managed to win in", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Utah" }, { "id": "16903990", "text": "March 23, 2015, when Senator Ted Cruz of Texas was the first to formally announce his candidacy: he was followed by former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson of Florida, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, businesswoman Carly Fiorina of Virginia, former Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, outgoing Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Governor John Kasich of Ohio, former Governor George Pataki of New York, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, former Governor Rick Perry of Texas, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, former Senator Rick Santorum", "title": "2016 Republican Party presidential primaries" }, { "id": "18527396", "text": "No candidate achieved 50% of the vote, so Lori Bartley and Reggie Gonzales will face each other in the Runoff. The incumbent is Republican Randy Neugebauer, who has represented the district since 2003. He was re-elected in 2014 with 77 percent of the vote and the district has a PVI of R+26. Lubbock Mayor Glen Robertson announced in January 2015 that he was considering running against Neugebauer in the 2016 Republican primary. He cited unhappiness with what he said was Neugebauer's failure to bolster the cotton industry. In March, Robertson said that he would not run for Congress and instead", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "18776477", "text": "Rick Perry 2016 presidential campaign The 2016 presidential campaign of Rick Perry, the 47th Governor of Texas, was officially launched on June 4, 2015. This campaign constituted Perry's second consecutive bid for the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Perry announced on September 11, 2015, that he had suspended his campaign. On January 25, 2016, Perry announced that he will endorse presidential candidate and fellow Texan, Senator Ted Cruz. Perry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998, and assumed the Governorship in 2000 after George W. Bush resigned to become President himself. Perry was subsequently elected to", "title": "Rick Perry 2016 presidential campaign" }, { "id": "16214973", "text": "of 15.78%. As in past elections, President Obama and the Democrats dominated the Rio Grande Valley and won the major urban centers of Austin, El Paso, Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston, but Republicans were able to overwhelm the urban vote by sweeping the vast rural areas and suburbs of Texas by large margins. In the process Mitt Romney beat George W. Bush's 2004 record of the most votes for a presidential candidate in Texas, a record later surpassed in 2016 by Donald Trump. By receiving 95.86 percent of the vote in King County, Romney also recorded the highest proportion of", "title": "2012 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "402423", "text": "As of the general elections of 2014, a large majority of the members of Texas's U.S. House delegation are Republican, along with both U.S. Senators. In the 114th United States Congress, of the 36 Congressional districts in Texas, 24 are held by Republicans and 11 by Democrats. One seat is vacant. Texas's Senators are John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. Since 1994, Texans have not elected a Democrat to a statewide office. The state's Democratic voters are made up primarily by liberal and minority groups in Austin, Beaumont, Dallas, El Paso, Houston and San Antonio as well as minority voters in", "title": "Texas" }, { "id": "19619187", "text": "May 22 runoff primary that was held for some nominations in Texas. No Democrat has won a general election for statewide office in Texas since Bob Bullock was reelected as Lieutenant Governor in 1994, with election pre-predictions declaring it a safe Republican seat at the beginning of 2018. However, despite Cruz's initially substantial lead according to polls, O'Rourke gradually closed the gap, and the race was considered to be unexpectedly competitive before Cruz defeated O'Rourke in the election. O'Rourke earned over 4 million votes, surpassing Hillary Clinton's record total of 3.87 million in the 2016 election to achieve the highest", "title": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas" }, { "id": "19274512", "text": "for the Democratic and Republican parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primary, while voters who were unaffiliated chose any one primary in which to vote. Donald Trump won the election in Tennessee with 60.7% of the vote. Hillary Clinton received 34.7% of the vote. This is the largest margin of victory for a presidential candidate for either party since 1972 with Richard Nixon, and also the first time since that either party has earned over 60% of the vote in Tennessee. Tennessee has not voted for a Democratic presidential nominee since", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Tennessee" }, { "id": "12989124", "text": "while Stein received almost 1.45 million votes (1.06%), the most for a Green nominee since Ralph Nader in 2000. Independent candidate Evan McMullin, who appeared on the ballot in 11 states, received over 732,000 votes (0.53%). He won 21.4% of the vote in his home state of Utah, the highest share of the vote for a third-party candidate in any state since 1992. Despite dropping out of the election following his defeat in the Democratic primary, Senator Bernie Sanders received 5.7% of the vote in his home state of Vermont, the highest write-in draft campaign percentage for a presidential candidate", "title": "2016 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "2115349", "text": "represented by Republican Mac Thornberry. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+33, it is the most Republican district in the nation. The counties of Castro, and Parmer are in , represented by Republican Jodey Arrington. In the 2016 Presidential election, Donald Trump received 79.9% of the vote in the 13th District, as compared with Hillary Clinton's 16.9% share of the vote. Texas Panhandle The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma", "title": "Texas Panhandle" }, { "id": "19396895", "text": "votes. In all three counties mentioned above, Sanders performed worse than Barack Obama did in the 2008 Texas Democratic primary and caucuses, despite all three containing a bloc of young voters, a demographic Sanders usually performs well in. The rest of Sanders's victories came from 11 sparsely populated counties where Republicans have performed strongly in the past several elections. His strongest performance came from the Texas Panhandle in Armstrong County, where he won 80% of the vote, 4 votes to Clinton's 1. Two counties in particular, Glasscock and Coke, had Sanders and Clinton tie. 2016 Texas Democratic primary The 2016", "title": "2016 Texas Democratic primary" }, { "id": "19789992", "text": "a second term. He was first elected in 2014 after serving twelve years as Texas Attorney General, and he succeeded Rick Perry as governor. Abbott won the March 20, 2018, Republican primary, while Lupe Valdez won the Democratic runoff against Andrew White, becoming the first Latina nominated by a major party for statewide office in Texas. Libertarian Mark Tippetts also ran against Abbott. Tippetts defeated Kathie Glass, Patrick \"Not Governor\" Smith, and Kory Watkins at the party convention to earn his nomination. On January 9, 2017, the day before the 85th Texas Legislature began its session, incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor", "title": "2018 Texas elections" }, { "id": "19279651", "text": "the 2008 election, running with former Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. Defeating the Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, with 52.9% of the popular vote and 68% of the electoral vote, Obama succeeded two-term Republican President George W. Bush, the former Governor of Texas. Obama and Biden were reelected in the 2012 presidential election, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 51.1% of the popular vote and 61.7% of electoral votes. Although Barack Obama's approval rating in the RealClearPolitics poll tracking average remained between 40 and 50 percent for most of his second term, it has experienced a surge", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in South Carolina" }, { "id": "19619190", "text": "only a 9-point margin, demonstrating a possible shift away from the Safe Republican status it had held for over a decade. This has led Democrats to begin targeting Texas as a potential future swing state. It should also be noted that Ted Cruz defeated Donald Trump in the Texas Republican primary for U.S. President in 2016. Senator Ted Cruz currently holds a 49%–44% approval rating among Texans in a state Donald Trump won by 9 points against Hillary Clinton in 2016. Among groups that tend to affiliate themselves more with the Democratic Party, Senator Cruz currently holds a 29% approval", "title": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas" }, { "id": "8637588", "text": "electoral votes in 2008, he lost all of the state's votes in 2012\" Electoral votes of the party that won in 2016: Republican Party <nowiki>*</nowiki>\"Trump received one of Maine's four electoral votes, for his win in Maine's second Congressional district\" <nowiki>†</nowiki>\"Trump received 36 of Texas' 38 electoral votes, while two electors voted for other candidates\" Electoral vote changes between United States presidential elections The following is a summary of the electoral vote changes between United States presidential elections. It summarizes the changes in the Electoral College vote by comparing United States presidential election results for a given year with those", "title": "Electoral vote changes between United States presidential elections" }, { "id": "19352083", "text": "two-term Republican President George W. Bush, the former Governor of Texas. Obama and Biden were reelected in the 2012 presidential election, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 51.1% of the popular vote and 61.7% of electoral votes. Since the end of 2009, polling companies such as Gallup have found Obama's approval ratings to be between 40 and 50 percent. Following his second term, Barack Obama is not eligible for another reelection. In October 2015, Obama's running-mate and two-term Vice President Joe Biden decided not to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination either. With their term expiring on", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Wyoming" }, { "id": "18527401", "text": "represented the district since 2011. He was re-elected in 2014 with 64% of the vote and the district has a PVI of R+13. John Harrington, president and founder of firearms retailer Shield Tactical, announced a primary challenge of Farenthold in May 2015. The Texas Tribune reported that Harrington had the capacity to self-fund a race. In August 2015 he announced that he was withdrawing because of lingering effects of a motorcycle crash. Former State Representative Solomon Ortiz, Jr., considered running for the Democratic nomination Corpus Christi Mayor Nelda Martinez had considered running, but later announced that she would not. The", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "9689473", "text": "Democratic National Committee ruled the Texas Democratic Party could no longer use the Texas Two Step in their presidential primary process. The Texas Democratic Party switched to a primary election state for the 2016 elections. The Texas Democratic Party holds 13 of the state's 36 U.S. House seats, 12 of the state's 31 Texas Senate seats, and 67 of the state's 150 Texas House of Representatives seats. The following members of the U.S. House of Representatives are Democrats: The following Democrats represent their districts in the Texas Senate: The following Democrats represent their districts in the Texas House of Representatives:", "title": "Texas Democratic Party" }, { "id": "5841133", "text": "Co. in 2016 to support Ted Cruz's run for the U.S. president. She previously worked in the White House for Condoleezza Rice and in New York as an investment banker. Cruz has joked, \"I'm Cuban, Irish, and Italian, and yet somehow I ended up Southern Baptist.\" Ted Cruz Rafael Edward \"Ted\" Cruz (; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States Senator from Texas since 2013. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Cruz holds degrees from Princeton University and Harvard", "title": "Ted Cruz" }, { "id": "19274521", "text": "at-large delegates. If someone received more than 50% of the vote, they would get all of the at-large delegates. If no one got more than 50% of the vote and there were at least 2 candidates that got over 20% of the vote, the delegates would be allocated proportionally among the candidates receiving more than 20% of the vote. If only one candidate got over 20% of the vote and not a majority, the delegates would be allocated between the candidate that got over 20% of the vote and the candidate who received the 2nd most votes. If no candidate", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "16903992", "text": "to Trump, Rubio and Cruz in South Carolina. On Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016, Rubio won his first contest in Minnesota, Cruz won Alaska, Oklahoma and his home state of Texas, while Trump won seven states. Failing to gain traction, Carson suspended his campaign a few days later. On March 15, 2016, nicknamed \"Super Tuesday II\", Kasich won his first contest in Ohio and Trump won five primaries including Florida. Rubio suspended his campaign after losing his home state, but he retained a large share of his delegates for the national convention. From March 16, 2016, to May 3, 2016,", "title": "2016 Republican Party presidential primaries" }, { "id": "16904038", "text": "were unbound. Wyoming took a straw poll, but it was non-binding and no delegates were allocated on Super Tuesday. Leading up to Super Tuesday, a debate between the remaining five candidates took place in Houston on February 25, 2016. Political rhetoric and charges heated up with Cruz and Rubio teaming up to attack Trump. Trump won the contests in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia, while Cruz netted a strong victory in his home state of Texas and added victories in Oklahoma and Alaska. Rubio won his first contest in the Minnesota Republican Caucus and finished a strong", "title": "2016 Republican Party presidential primaries" }, { "id": "19864577", "text": "reelected with 73.90% of the vote in 2016. Roshin Rowjee, a physician, is running for the Republican nomination. Brent Beal, a college professor, is running for the Democratic nomination. Its Partisan Voter Index is R+25. This district is in southeastern Texas and encompasses much of northern and western Houston. The PVI is R+11. The incumbent representative is Republican Ted Poe, who has held the seat since 2005. He was reelected in 2016 with 60.63% of the vote. In November 2017, Poe announced that he would retire at the end of his current term and not seek re-election in 2018. The", "title": "2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas" }, { "id": "12989089", "text": "one forum, but withdrew when rules were changed which prevented him from participating in officially sanctioned debates. Clinton received 16,849,779 votes in the primary. In April 2016, the Clinton campaign began to compile a list of 15 to 20 individuals to vet for the position of running mate, even though Sanders continued to challenge Clinton in the Democratic primaries. In mid-June, \"The Wall Street Journal\" reported that Clinton's shortlist included Representative Xavier Becerra from California, Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey, Senator Sherrod Brown from Ohio, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro from Texas, Mayor of Los Angeles Eric", "title": "2016 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "19944500", "text": "he defeated the Democratic candidate, Sam Hatton, who polled 10,792 21.9 percent). Stan Lambert Standard Dwight Lambert, known as Stan Lambert (born December 21, 1952), is an American bank executive who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for the 71st District, which encompasses Jones, Nolan, and Taylor counties about Abilene. Lambert was sworn into the Texas House on January 10, 2017, after he won the general election held on November 8, 2016. Lambert was previously a member of the board of directors of the Abilene Independent School District. In the general election held on November 6,", "title": "Stan Lambert" }, { "id": "19471238", "text": "won the state with a double-digit margin, and carried any counties with over ninety percent of the vote (in this case, the South Texas counties of Duval and Webb). Webb, Duval and Jim Hogg counties stood among the four most Democratic in the nation. Aside from Johnson's home county Gillespie as mentioned above, this remains the last election as of 2018 in which Crane County, Montgomery County, Rusk County, Irion County, Loving County, Martin County, Andrews County, Winkler County, McMullen County, Collin County, Washington County, Kerr County, Comal County, Hemphill County, Deaf Smith County, Hartley County, Lubbock County, Upton County,", "title": "1964 United States presidential election in Texas" }, { "id": "18670062", "text": "Christian voters were the anticipated levels, selecting Cruz over Donald Trump, with the exception of Virginia. In Virginia, the selection was Rubio over Trump and Cruz, with Trump the declared winner. Cruz's campaign has positioned itself to rely heavily on his home state of Texas. Cruz focused on Alaska, having never visited the state though believing his grassroots movement would suffice. In a poll released on February 28, Cruz maintained a lead in Texas by eleven points at 42%. Tom LoBianco of CNN said that a Cruz victory in Texas could slow Trump's momentum. Christopher Hooks of The \"Los Angeles", "title": "Ted Cruz 2016 presidential campaign" }, { "id": "12989132", "text": "populace and were a major factor in Trump's eventual nomination. Trump's primary campaign was propelled by victories in Democratic states, and his supporters often did not identify as Republican. In addition, local factors may come into play. For example, Utah was the reddest state in 2012, although the Republican share was boosted significantly by the candidacy of Mormon candidate Mitt Romney. Despite its partisan orientation, some reports suggested a victory there by independent candidate Evan McMullin, particularly if there was a nationwide blowout. Media reports indicated that both candidates planned to concentrate on Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and North Carolina. Among", "title": "2016 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "2793496", "text": "Huffines, and Konni Burton, all Republicans. New senators elected in 2016 were Bryan Hughes(R), Borris Miles(D), and Dawn Buckingham(R). Pete Flores(R) joined the Texas Senate through a special election in 2018. New senators elected in the 2018 regular election are Angela Paxton(R), Beverly Powell(D), Nathan Johnson(D), and Pat Fallon(R). State Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, won the Senate District 6 special election on December 11, 2018 to replace Sylvia Garcia who resigned after she won a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the regular election. There have been at least three cases of quorum-busting in Texas Senate history.", "title": "Texas Senate" }, { "id": "19201743", "text": "these were (ordered by date of withdrawal from the race) former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, businesswoman and former Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina, former Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, former neurosurgeon and Johns Hopkins University Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery Ben Carson, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Governor John Kasich of Ohio, and the eventual nominee, businessman and Trump Organization CEO Donald Trump. Following poor results from the first-in-the-nation caucus, Huckabee was", "title": "Results of the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries" }, { "id": "12989078", "text": "and Kasich each won at least one primary, with Trump receiving the highest number of votes and Ted Cruz receiving the second highest. Trump turned his attention towards selecting a running mate after he became the presumptive nominee on May 4, 2016. In mid-June, Eli Stokols and Burgess Everett of \"Politico\" reported that the Trump campaign was considering New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich from Georgia, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, and Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin. A June 30 report from \"The Washington Post\" also included Senators Bob Corker from Tennessee, Richard Burr from", "title": "2016 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "19249959", "text": "Democratic presidential primary ballot: According to a WRAL-TV/SurveyUSA poll conducted the week before the primary: \"[Hillary] Clinton holds a commanding lead of 57 percent to 34 percent among likely Democratic voters over U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.\" Twelve candidates appeared on the Republican presidential primary ballot: According to a WRAL-TV/SurveyUSA poll conducted the week before the primary: \"[Donald] Trump tops U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas 41 percent to 27 percent among likely GOP voters. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Ohio Gov. John Kasich trail far behind, at 14 and 11 percent, respectively.\" Trump managed to pull", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in North Carolina" }, { "id": "5841054", "text": "Ted Cruz Rafael Edward \"Ted\" Cruz (; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States Senator from Texas since 2013. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Cruz holds degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School. From 1999 to 2003, he held various government positions; Cruz served as Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Justice Department, and as a Domestic Policy Advisor to George", "title": "Ted Cruz" }, { "id": "19619189", "text": "the U.S. House. Since 1990, Texas has voted for Republican statewide candidates in all elections, whether it be presidential, gubernatorial, or senatorial, often by large margins. In 1998, Governor George W. Bush won re-election by 37 points over his Democratic challenger, Garry Mauro. In 2004, President Bush won Texas over Senator John Kerry by 23 points, winning rural areas by landslide margins and capturing urban zones. Democrat Barack Obama was defeated by margins of 12 points in 2008, against John McCain, and 16 points in 2012, against Mitt Romney, respectively. However, in 2016, Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by", "title": "2018 United States Senate election in Texas" }, { "id": "12989130", "text": "and the 538 online blog, his path to victory went through states such as Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, and possibly Colorado. Early polling indicated a closer-than-usual race in former Democratic strongholds such as Washington, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine (for the two statewide electoral votes), and New Mexico. Meanwhile, research indicators from inside of a host of Republican-leaning states such as Arizona, Indiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Alaska, Utah, Texas, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, and South Dakota reported weaker support for Trump than expected, although the nominee's position solidified in a few other areas. Some reviews took this information", "title": "2016 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "17131803", "text": "Lieutenant Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009 and became governor after Jon Huntsman, Jr. resigned to become United States Ambassador to China. He won the seat in a 2010 special election and was elected to his first full term with 68.4% of the vote in 2012. Herbert defeated businessman Jonathan Johnson to win the nomination. Businessman Michael Weinholtz won the Democratic nomination. Former Congressman Jim Matheson declined to run. Herbert won re-election, taking 66.6% of the vote compared to Weinholtz's 28.9%. 2016 United States gubernatorial elections United States gubernatorial elections were held on November 8, 2016 in 12 states", "title": "2016 United States gubernatorial elections" }, { "id": "18640763", "text": "a lawyer (USAF overseas [1982–89], privately in South Carolina (1989–1992) before entering politics. He withdrew on December 21, 2015. He first endorsed Jeb Bush on January 15, 2016, and then endorsed Ted Cruz on March 17, 2016. Background: Rick Perry (born in 1950) was Governor of Texas from 2000 to 2014, and ran for president in 2012. He was raised in Texas. He was a Texas-and-overseas USAF pilot (1972–1977) and Texas farmer (1977–1984) before entering politics. He withdrew on September 11, 2015, and endorsed Ted Cruz on January 25, 2016. Background: Bobby Jindal (born in 1971) is Governor of Louisiana", "title": "Endorsements in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries" }, { "id": "438456", "text": "States presidential election. MacBride became the Libertarian nominee himself in 1976. This was the last time that the Libertarian Party won an electoral vote until 44 years later, in the 2016 presidential election, when Texas Republican faithless elector Bill Greene, who was pledged to cast his vote for Donald Trump, instead cast his vote for Libertarian Party member and former congressman Ron Paul for President. During the 2016 presidential election, Gary Johnson and vice presidential candidate Bill Weld received a record percentage of 3.28% of the popular vote (4,488,919 votes), getting 9.34% in New Mexico, where Johnson had previously been", "title": "Libertarian Party (United States)" }, { "id": "17132306", "text": "2016 United States elections The 2016 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. During this presidential election year, the President of the United States and Vice President were elected. In addition, elections were held for all 435 voting-member seats in the United States House of Representatives (as well as all six non-voting delegate seats) and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate to determine the 115th Congress. The Republican Party won the presidency, and retained its majorities in the House and Senate although the Democrats made modest gains in both houses. Twelve state governorships,", "title": "2016 United States elections" }, { "id": "17694559", "text": "easily turning back a primary challenge from U.S. Representative Steve Stockman and six others. The Democratic primary went to a runoff after businessman David Alameel took 47% of the vote and Worldwide LaRouche Youth Movement activist Kesha Rogers took 22% of the vote. Alameel won the runoff. In the general election, Cornyn defeated Alameel 61.6%–34.4%. All of Texas' thirty-six seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2014. 2014 Texas elections The 2014 general election was held in the U.S. state of Texas on November 4, 2014. All of Texas' executive officers were up for", "title": "2014 Texas elections" }, { "id": "19940891", "text": "Valoree Swanson Valoree Hanson Swanson (born September 22, 1957) is an American politician who serves as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. She was first elected in 2016, when she unseated incumbent Debbie Riddle in the Republican primary election. She then defeated Democrat Michael Shawn Kelly in the 2016 general election. In April 2017, Swanson attached an amendment to a $218.2 billion House appropriations bill which would have compelled all 150 House members to vote on April 6 on State Senator Lois Kolkhorst's bathroom bill, which has already cleared the Senate with the strong support of Lieutenant", "title": "Valoree Swanson" }, { "id": "4076940", "text": "and from 1981 to 1986 was the chief financial officer of Arbusto Energy Inc, an oil and gas exploration firm operated by George W. Bush. Soon after Bush was elected governor of Texas, he appointed Conaway to the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy, which regulates accountancy in Texas. He served on the board as a volunteer for seven years, the last five as chairman. Committee assignments Caucus memberships Conaway endorsed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for president in 2008. On May 13, 2016, Conaway endorsed the Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump for president in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.", "title": "Mike Conaway" }, { "id": "12989084", "text": "1, 11 states participated in the first of four \"Super Tuesday\" primaries. Clinton won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia and 504 pledged delegates, while Sanders won Colorado, Minnesota, Oklahoma and his home state of Vermont and 340 delegates. The following weekend, Sanders won victories in Kansas, Nebraska and Maine with 15–30-point margins, while Clinton won the Louisiana primary with 71% of the vote. On March 8, despite never having a lead in the Michigan primary, Sanders won by a small margin of 1.5 points and outperforming polls by over 19 points, while Clinton won 83% of the", "title": "2016 United States presidential election" }, { "id": "18403427", "text": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 8, 2016, to elect representatives for all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states. Non-voting members for the District of Columbia and Territories of the United States were also elected. These elections coincided with the election of President Donald Trump, although his party lost seats in both chambers of Congress. The winners of this election serve in the 115th Congress, with seats apportioned among the states based on the 2010 United States Census. In October 2015, the House", "title": "2016 United States House of Representatives elections" }, { "id": "18454630", "text": "local Republican leaders, including both U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, and Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Susan Combs and her successor, outgoing State Senator Glenn Hegar. Faircloth won a second term in the state House in 2016, when, with 36,501 votes (58.9 percent), he defeated the Democratic former state representative Lloyd Criss, a lawyer who had served in the House from 1979 to 1991. Faircloth won 59% of the vote. Faircloth was defeated for re-nomination by Mayes Middleton in the 2018 Republican primary. Middleton then won the general election held on November 6, 2018. With 32,533 votes (56.8", "title": "Wayne Faircloth" }, { "id": "19360547", "text": "first with 31% ahead of Trump by a 4% margin, who had 27% of support, while Clinton polled in third at 24%. This was the first conducted statewide opinion poll of the 2016 election where a third-party candidate has placed first. Had McMullin won Utah, he would have become the first third-party candidate to ever win the state, the first third-party candidate to win a state since former Alabama governor George Wallace of the American Independent Party in the 1968 presidential election, and the first third-party candidate to win an electoral vote since 1972, when a faithless elector in Virginia", "title": "2016 United States presidential election in Utah" }, { "id": "12989065", "text": "2016 United States presidential election The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial American presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana Governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Virginia Tim Kaine, despite losing the popular vote. Trump took office as the 45th President, and Pence as the 48th Vice President, on January 20, 2017. Incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama was ineligible to serve a third term due to the term limits established by the 22nd Amendment. Trump", "title": "2016 United States presidential election" } ]

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It was the first World Cup to be held in Eastern Europe, and the 11th time that it had been held in Europe. At an estimated cost of over $14.2 billion, it was the most expensive World Cup. It was also the first World Cup to use the video", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "341505", "text": "from a state-sponsored cover-up, with no indication that the program has ceased since then. Russia was the host nation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The matches were held from June 14 to July 15, 2018 in the stadiums of 11 various Russian cities, namely, Kaliningrad, Kazan, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Saransk, Sochi, Volgograd and Yekaterinburg. This was the first football World Cup ever held in Eastern Europe, and the first held in Europe since 2006. Russia will also host games of the Euro 2020. There are seven public holidays in Russia, except those always celebrated on", "title": "Russia" }, { "id": "10915561", "text": "following the final draw, six kick-off times were adjusted by FIFA. Russia was placed in position A1 in the group stage and played in the opening match at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on 14 June against Saudi Arabia, the two lowest-ranked teams of the tournament at the time of the final draw. The Luzhniki Stadium also hosted the second semi-final on 11 July and the final on 15 July. The Krestovsky Stadium in Saint Petersburg hosted the first semi-final on 10 July and the third place play-off on 14 July. The opening ceremony took place on Thursday, 14 June", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915555", "text": "stadiums used during the tournament. Of the twelve venues used, the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow and the Saint Petersburg Stadium – the two largest stadiums in Russia – were used most, both hosting seven matches. Sochi, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara all hosted six matches, including one quarter-final match each, while the Otkrytiye Stadium in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don hosted five matches, including one round-of-16 match each. Volgograd, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg and Saransk all hosted four matches, but did not host any knockout stage games. A total of twelve stadiums in eleven Russian cities were built and renovated for the FIFA World", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "13418830", "text": "2017 FIFA Confederations Cup The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup was the 10th FIFA Confederations Cup, a quadrennial international men's football tournament organised by FIFA. It was held in Russia, from 17 June to 2 July 2017, as a prelude to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Russia was announced as the host on 2 December 2010 after the country was awarded the hosting rights of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The matches were played in four different stadiums across four cities: Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, and Sochi. It was the first time Russia has hosted the tournament, and the third time", "title": "2017 FIFA Confederations Cup" }, { "id": "20761851", "text": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place on Thursday, 14 June 2018, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia at 3:30 (BST), about a half hour before the opening match which Russia won 5–0 over Saudi Arabia. Former Brazilian World Cup-winning striker Ronaldo walked out with a child wearing a Russia 2018 shirt. English pop singer Robbie Williams then took centre stage with a rendition of \"Let Me Entertain You\" before Russian soprano Aida Garifullina was carried out on to the pitch on the back of a \"firebird\" float. Williams", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony" }, { "id": "20761855", "text": "Yeah, I did, didn't I?”. Williams changing his lyrics \"every night\" is still unexplained. 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place on Thursday, 14 June 2018, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia at 3:30 (BST), about a half hour before the opening match which Russia won 5–0 over Saudi Arabia. Former Brazilian World Cup-winning striker Ronaldo walked out with a child wearing a Russia 2018 shirt. English pop singer Robbie Williams then took centre stage with a rendition of \"Let Me Entertain You\" before Russian soprano Aida Garifullina was", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony" }, { "id": "10915562", "text": "2018, at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, preceding the opening match of the tournament between hosts Russia and Saudi Arabia. At the start of the ceremony, Russian president Vladimir Putin gave a speech, welcoming the countries of the world to Russia and calling football a uniting force. Brazilian World Cup-winning striker Ronaldo entered the stadium with a child in a Russia shirt. Pop singer Robbie Williams then sang two of his songs solo before he and Russian soprano Aida Garifullina performed a duet. Dancers dressed in the flags of the 32 competing teams appeared carrying a sign with the name", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915551", "text": "VAR decision; the first penalty as a result of a VAR decision was awarded to France in their match against Australia on 16 June and resulted in a goal by Antoine Griezmann. A record number of penalties were awarded in the tournament, with this phenomenon being partially attributed to VAR. Overall, the new technology has been both praised and criticised by commentators. FIFA declared the implementation of VAR a success after the first week of competition. Russia proposed the following host cities: Kaliningrad, Kazan, Krasnodar, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Saransk, Sochi, Volgograd, Yaroslavl, and Yekaterinburg. Most cities", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915540", "text": "As such, there were eventually four bids for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, two of which were joint bids: England, Russia, Netherlands/Belgium, and Portugal/Spain. The 22-member FIFA Executive Committee convened in Zürich on 2 December 2010 to vote to select the hosts of both tournaments. Russia won the right to be the 2018 host in the second round of voting. The Portugal/Spain bid came second, and that from Belgium/Netherlands third. England, which was bidding to host its second tournament, was eliminated in the first round. The voting results were as follows: The English Football Association and others raised concerns of", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "15301282", "text": "Nizhny Novgorod Stadium Nizhny Novgorod Stadium () is a football stadium in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It was one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It has a capacity of 44,899 spectators. The new stadium for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Nizhny Novgorod was built in the historic area known as the Spit (Strelka), at the confluence of the two major rivers: the Volga and the Oka. It overlooks the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin standing on the opposite bank of the river. The stadium design follows the classic style and uses a palette of white, blue and azure", "title": "Nizhny Novgorod Stadium" }, { "id": "15301291", "text": "arena grounds will include a park, parking lots, futsal fields, and tennis courts. Nizhny Novgorod Stadium Nizhny Novgorod Stadium () is a football stadium in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It was one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It has a capacity of 44,899 spectators. The new stadium for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Nizhny Novgorod was built in the historic area known as the Spit (Strelka), at the confluence of the two major rivers: the Volga and the Oka. It overlooks the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin standing on the opposite bank of the river. The stadium design", "title": "Nizhny Novgorod Stadium" }, { "id": "20193129", "text": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament held in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018. The 32 national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players, including three goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament. A provisional list of 35 players per national team was submitted to FIFA by 14 May 2018, one month prior to the opening match of the tournament. From the preliminary squad, the final list of 23 players per national team was submitted", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads" }, { "id": "2113016", "text": "first broadcast in 1974. Radio transmission began in Rostov-on-Don on October 17, 1975. In 2009, there were fourteen FM radio stations in Rostov-on-Don. Rostov-on-Don is one of the host cities for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. A huge development is planned on the left bank of the Don River, which includes a soccer stadium to host the games during the championship. In 2018, Rostov-on-Don was one of the Russian cities to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Rostov Arena with a capacity of 45,000 spectators was built on the left bank of the Don River, left of the exit from", "title": "Rostov-on-Don" }, { "id": "10915545", "text": "third placed in 2014 the Netherlands (for the first time since 2002), and four reigning continental champions: 2017 Africa Cup of Nations winners Cameroon, two-time Copa América champions and 2017 Confederations Cup runners-up Chile, 2016 OFC Nations Cup winners New Zealand, and 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup champions United States (for the first time since 1986). The other notable qualifying streaks broken were for Ghana and Ivory Coast, who had both made the previous three tournaments. \"Note: Numbers in parentheses indicate positions in the FIFA World Rankings at the time of the tournament.\" The draw was held on 1 December 2017", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "12363833", "text": "group stage after losing 0–1 to Peru. On 28 March 2017, Coutinho scored in a 3–0 win against Paraguay that ensured Brazil's 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification. In May 2018, Coutinho was named in the squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. On 17 June 2018, he scored in his FIFA World Cup debut with a trademark right-footed curling shot from outside the penalty area into the corner of the goal in Brazil's 1–1 draw with Switzerland in their opening match at the World Cup. In the following match against Costa Rica on 22 June, he scored the", "title": "Philippe Coutinho" }, { "id": "17724716", "text": "Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Gdynia, Łódź, Lublin and Tychy six cities to host the competition. Lubin (not to confuse with Lublin) ended up withdrawn from the list due to hotel capacity troubles. Łódź will host the opening and final at the Stadion Widzewa. Bielsko-Biała will replace Lubin as host city. The emblem was unveiled on 14 December 2018. The emblem features a crocus, a flower that blooms every spring in Poland combined with the colors of the Polish flag, symbolising the new faces that will emerge to shape the tournament's trophy. The slogan, official song, match ball and mascot to be unveiled", "title": "2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup" }, { "id": "16681965", "text": "traditional June–July scheduling, which falls during the heart of the regular season for several major North American sports leagues (including the National Football League; Fox is a main U.S. rightsholder). 2026 FIFA World Cup The 2026 FIFA World Cup (; ) will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will be jointly hosted by 16 cities in three North American countries; 60 matches, including the quarterfinals, semi-finals, and the final, will be hosted by the United States while neighboring Canada and Mexico", "title": "2026 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915538", "text": "The finals involved 32 teams, of which 31 came through qualifying competitions, while the host nation qualified automatically. Of the 32 teams, 20 had also appeared in the previous tournament in 2014, while both Iceland and Panama made their first appearances at a FIFA World Cup. A total of 64 matches were played in 12 venues across 11 cities. The final took place on 15 July at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, between France and Croatia. France won the match 4–2 to claim their second World Cup title, marking the fourth consecutive title won by a European team. The bidding", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "145473", "text": "time a World Cup has been shared by three host nations. The 2026 tournament will be the biggest World Cup ever held, with 48 teams playing 80 matches. Sixty matches will take place in the US, including all matches from the quarter-finals onward, while Canada and Mexico will host 10 games each. Six of the eight champions have won one of their titles while playing in their own homeland, the exceptions being Brazil, who finished as runners-up after losing the deciding match on home soil in 1950 and lost their semi-final against Germany in 2014, and Spain, which reached the", "title": "FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "20441570", "text": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final The 2018 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match that took place on 15 July 2018 to determine the winners of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It was the final of the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The match was contested by France and Croatia, and held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. Before 2018, France's only World Cup victory was in 1998 – though they had also reached the final in 2006 – while Croatia were playing in", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final" }, { "id": "10915553", "text": "Stadium over which would be constructed first. The final choice of host cities was announced on 29 September 2012. The number of cities was further reduced to 11 and number of stadiums to 12 as Krasnodar and Yaroslavl were dropped from the final list. Of the 12 stadiums used for the tournament, 3 (Luzhniki, Yekaterinburg and Sochi) have been extensively renovated and the other 9 stadiums to be used are brand new; $11.8 billion has been spent on hosting the tournament. Sepp Blatter stated in July 2014 that, given the concerns over the completion of venues in Russia, the number", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "19433066", "text": "the event before, the tournament will be heading to a new location, later shortlisted to four. The Czech Republic, Egypt, Georgia, the Netherlands, and the United States expressed interest, but eventually did not bid. The host were originally to be appointed by December 2016, then delayed to December 2017. Costa Rica, Croatia, Kazakhstan, and the United Arab Emirates were later eliminated from contention. The hosts were selected by the FIFA Council on 26 October 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda from the final four candidates: Iran, Japan, Lithuania, and New Zealand. Lithuania were chosen over Iran, Japan and New Zealand as host", "title": "2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup" }, { "id": "10915543", "text": "entered the competition. Places in the tournament were allocated to continental confederations, with the allocation unchanged from the 2014 World Cup. The first qualification game, between Timor-Leste and Mongolia, began in Dili on 12 March 2015 as part of the AFC's qualification, and the main qualifying draw took place at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, on 25 July 2015. Of the 32 nations qualified to play at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, 20 countries competed at the previous tournament in 2014. Both Iceland and Panama qualified for the first time, with the former becoming the smallest country in", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "20028243", "text": "2018 FIFA World Cup seeding The draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place on 1 December 2017 at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia. It determined the group in which each of the 32 qualified national teams will play in at the start of the tournament. The teams were divided into four pots of eight, with one team selected from each pot to form a group. Unlike previous editions of the World Cup, all pots were determined by each national team's October 2017 FIFA World Ranking, with Pot 1 containing the highest-ranked teams, Pot 2 containing the", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup seeding" }, { "id": "16681949", "text": "2026 FIFA World Cup The 2026 FIFA World Cup (; ) will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will be jointly hosted by 16 cities in three North American countries; 60 matches, including the quarterfinals, semi-finals, and the final, will be hosted by the United States while neighboring Canada and Mexico will each host 10 matches. The tournament will be the first hosted by three nations. The United 2026 bid beat a rival bid by Morocco during a final vote at", "title": "2026 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915563", "text": "of each nation. At the end of the ceremony Ronaldo reappeared with the official match ball which had returned from the International Space Station in early June. Competing countries were divided into eight groups of four teams (groups A to H). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin basis, with the top two teams of each group advancing to the knockout stage. Ten European teams and four South American teams progressed to the knockout stage, together with Japan and Mexico. For the first time since 1938, Germany (reigning champions) did not advance past the first round. For", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915544", "text": "terms of population to reach the World Cup. Other teams returning after absences of at least three tournaments include: Egypt, returning to the finals after their last appearance in 1990; Morocco, who last competed in 1998; Peru, returning after 1982; and Senegal, competing for the second time after reaching the quarter-finals in 2002. It is the first time three Nordic countries (Denmark, Iceland and Sweden) and four Arab nations (Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia) have qualified for the World Cup. Notable countries that failed to qualify include four-time champions Italy (for the first time since 1958), three-time runners-up and", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "145435", "text": "FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the \"\" (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War. The current champion is France, which won its second title at the 2018 tournament in Russia. The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the", "title": "FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "3140621", "text": "2014 FIFA World Cup The 2014 FIFA World Cup was the 20th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for men's national football teams organized by FIFA. It took place in Brazil from 12 June to 13 July 2014, after the country was awarded the hosting rights in 2007. It was the second time that Brazil staged the competition, the first being in 1950, and the fifth time that it was held in South America. Thirty-one national teams advanced through qualification competitions to join the host nation in the final tournament (with Bosnia and Herzegovina as only debutant). A total", "title": "2014 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "18548377", "text": "ended on 14 November 2017. Belgium, England, France, Germany, Iceland (for the first time), Poland, Portugal, Serbia, and Spain qualified in the first round by winning their groups. Croatia, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland qualified by winning their playoffs. Four-time champions Italy missed out on qualification for the first time since 1958 after losing in the playoffs to Sweden, while the Netherlands failed to qualify for the tournament for the first time since 2002 after finishing third in 2014, and second in 2010. Iceland, with 335,000 inhabitants, became the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup finals. Apart from", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)" }, { "id": "12049997", "text": "venue, Yekaterinburg). In addition the tournament will be the last to involve 32 teams, with an increase to 48 teams scheduled for the 2026 tournament. The reigning World Cup champions are France. This will also mark the first World Cup not to be held in May, June, or July; the tournament is instead scheduled for late November until mid-December. It is to be played in a reduced timeframe of around 28 days, with the final being held on 18 December 2022, which is also Qatar National Day. Accusations of corruption have been made relating to how Qatar won the right", "title": "2022 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915556", "text": "Cup. Base camps were used by the 32 national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament. On 9 February 2018, FIFA announced the base camps for each participating team. At an estimated cost of over $14.2 billion , it is the most expensive World Cup in history, surpassing the cost of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The Russian government had originally earmarked a budget of around $20 billion which was later slashed to $10 billion for the preparations of the World Cup, of which half is spent on transport infrastructure. As part of", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915546", "text": "at 18:00 MSK at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow. The 32 teams were drawn into 8 groups of 4, by selecting one team from each of the 4 ranked pots. For the draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on the FIFA World Rankings of October 2017. Pot 1 contained the hosts Russia (who were automatically assigned to position A1) and the best seven teams, pot 2 contained the next best eight teams, and so on for pots 3 and 4. This was different from previous draws, when only pot 1 was based on FIFA rankings while", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "19256734", "text": "city’s cultural and sporting events, festivals, exhibitions, and concerts. In the future, the stadium will host a fitness center. Sound system processing and amplification: www.mc2-audio.,co.uk Volgograd Arena The Volgograd Arena () is a football stadium in Volgograd, Russia. The stadium is one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It also hosts FC Rotor Volgograd. It has a capacity of 45,568 spectators. The stadium was built on site of the demolished Central Stadium, at the foot of the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex, near the Volga River. The previous stadium was built in 1958, on the site of a", "title": "Volgograd Arena" }, { "id": "15301292", "text": "Samara Arena Samara Arena (), also known as the Cosmos Arena, is a football stadium in Samara, Russia. The stadium was one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It also hosts FC Krylia Sovetov Samara of the Russian Football National League, replacing Metallurg Stadium. It has a capacity of 44,918 spectators. Samara authorities announced their design tender in late 2012 with cost estimated at $320 million. General characteristics The stadium design was approved (re-approved) by Glavgosexpertiza of Russia on 19 July 2017. The main architectural feature of the stadium in Samara is its metal dome inspired by", "title": "Samara Arena" }, { "id": "145438", "text": "Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan and South Korea (jointly), South Africa and Russia have each hosted once. Qatar are planned as hosts of the 2022 finals, and 2026 will be jointly hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico, which will give Mexico the distinction of being the first country to have hosted games in three finals. The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England, which ended in a 0–0 draw. The first international tournament, the inaugural British Home Championship, took place in 1884. As football", "title": "FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "20441577", "text": "2017 FIFA Confederations Cup due to the ongoing project. The renovation project cost €341 million, and the stadium officially reopened with an international friendly between Russia and Argentina on 11 November 2017. After Uruguay and Brazil were eliminated in the quarter-finals, a European side was ensured to win the World Cup for a fourth consecutive tournament. The match was also the ninth all-European World Cup final, which most recently occurred in 2006 and 2010. The match was the third World Cup final for France, first appearing in the 1998 final as hosts, winning 3–0 against reigning champions Brazil. France also", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final" }, { "id": "12049996", "text": "2022 FIFA World Cup The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Qatar in 2022. This will be the first World Cup ever to be held in the Arab world and the first in a Muslim-majority country. This will be the first World Cup held entirely in geographical Asia since the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan (the 2018 competition in Russia featured one geographically Asian", "title": "2022 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "13418837", "text": "among the 12 used for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. On 8 October 2015, FIFA and the Local Organising Committee agreed on the official names of the stadiums used during the tournament. The full schedule was announced by FIFA on 24 July 2015 (without kick-off times, which were confirmed later). Russia was placed in position A1 in the group stage and played in the opening match against New Zealand at the Zenit Arena in Saint Petersburg on 17 June. The distribution of the knockout stage matches was as follows: The draw took place on 26 November 2016, 18:00 MSK (),", "title": "2017 FIFA Confederations Cup" }, { "id": "18894377", "text": "score is still level, the visiting team advances by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out. The first legs were played on 10 and 11 November 2017, and the second legs were played on 15 November 2017. <section begin=playoff1 /> <section end=playoff1 /> Australia won 3–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. <section begin=playoff2 /> <section end=playoff2 /> Peru won 2–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs) For the 2018 FIFA", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs)" }, { "id": "5438099", "text": "non-European bids for the 2018 event were withdrawn, resulting in the exclusion of all European bids from consideration for the 2022 edition. By the time of the decision, bids for the 2018 World Cup included England, Russia, a joint bid from Belgium and Netherlands, and a joint bid from Portugal and Spain. Bids for the 2022 World Cup came from Australia, Japan, Qatar, South Korea, and the United States. Indonesia's bid was disqualified due to lack of governmental support, and Mexico withdrew its bid for financial reasons. On 2 December 2010, Russia and Qatar were selected as the locations for", "title": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids" }, { "id": "15301303", "text": "explosives, and it will be serviced by 30 24-hour security posts. Samara Arena Samara Arena (), also known as the Cosmos Arena, is a football stadium in Samara, Russia. The stadium was one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It also hosts FC Krylia Sovetov Samara of the Russian Football National League, replacing Metallurg Stadium. It has a capacity of 44,918 spectators. Samara authorities announced their design tender in late 2012 with cost estimated at $320 million. General characteristics The stadium design was approved (re-approved) by Glavgosexpertiza of Russia on 19 July 2017. The main architectural feature", "title": "Samara Arena" }, { "id": "1744869", "text": "to Europe for 9 December 2018 in Madrid, a neutral site, for security and travel reasons. Both sets of fans attended the match as River Plate won 3–1 after extra time (5–3 on aggregate) to lift the trophy outside of South America for the first time and flew to the UAE afterwards, arriving for the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup with sufficient time. Santiago Bernabéu Stadium The Santiago Bernabéu Stadium ( ) is a football stadium in Madrid, Spain. With a current seating capacity of 81,044, it has been the home stadium of Real Madrid since its completion in 1947.", "title": "Santiago Bernabéu Stadium" }, { "id": "15301338", "text": "sporting and cultural events. Rostov Arena Rostov Arena () is an association football stadium in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. It is one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It also hosts FC Rostov of the Russian Premier League, replacing Olimp – 2. It has a capacity of 45,000 spectators. In June 2013, during the groundbreaking for the stadium, five shells from WWII were found, almost perfectly preserved. In August 2013, work began on the sandy alluvium foundation for the stadium. Work on the foundation was completed in May 2014. Construction commenced on the stadium substructure in October 2015. In", "title": "Rostov Arena" }, { "id": "18520733", "text": "the February and August fixtures from the FIFA calendar, the 'Hex' for the first time was not contained within a single calendar year, but instead began in November 2016 and concluded in October 2017. The draw for the fifth round (to decide the fixtures) was held on 8 July 2016, 10:00 EDT (), at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami Beach, United States. The draw for the inter-confederation play-offs was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg. The fourth-placed team from", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)" }, { "id": "10915580", "text": "three billion viewers on TV all around the world and 7 million fans visited the fan fests. FIFA, through several companies, sold the broadcasting rights for the 2018 FIFA World Cup to various local broadcasters. After having trailed the technology in limited matches at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, and the 2014 FIFA World Cup (via private tests and public viewings in the host city of Rio de Janeiro), the 2018 World Cup was the first World Cup in which all matches were produced in 4K ultra high definition. Host Broadcasting Services stated that at least 75% of the broadcast", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "17235133", "text": "27 April to 7 May 2017, with all 32 matches hosted in one 3,500 seater stadium, in the Bahamian capital, Nassau. The hosts, making their first appearance at a World Cup, exited at the group stage. Portugal were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Brazil in the quarter-finals. Brazil ultimately went on to defeat Tahiti in the final to claim their fourteenth world title since the competition's inception in 1995, and their fifth title of the FIFA era, ending an eight year wait after last winning the crown in 2009. Iran finished third to claim the best ever placing", "title": "2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup" }, { "id": "18848922", "text": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF Fifth Round The fifth round (also known as the \"Hexagonal\" or \"Hex\") of CONCACAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 11 November 2016 to 10 October 2017. Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, while Honduras qualified for (and was later eliminated in) the inter-confederation play-offs, and United States (who failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 32 years) and Trinidad and Tobago were eliminated in this round. A total of six teams which had advanced from the fourth", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF Fifth Round" }, { "id": "2408537", "text": "Championships. The original stadium was demolished in 2013 to give a way for the construction of a new stadium. The self-supported cover was retained. The facade wall was retained as well, due to its architectural value, and was later reconnected to a new building. Construction of the new stadium was completed in 2017. The 2018 FIFA World Cup was awarded to Russia and the Luzhniki Stadium was selected by the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup bid as the venue for the opening match and also the final, which was held on 15 July 2018. The stadium joins Rome's Stadio Olimpico,", "title": "Luzhniki Stadium" }, { "id": "20028245", "text": "of UEFA, which had at least one, but no more than two in a group. All teams were seeded using the October 2017 FIFA World Rankings, which numbers in parenthesis show, released on 16 October 2017. According to the FIFA rankings, the strongest group was E (combining for 4415 points), followed by F (4151), B (4128), C (4101), D (4099), G (3953), H (3944) and the weakest was the host nation's group A (2991). 2018 FIFA World Cup seeding The draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup took place on 1 December 2017 at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow,", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup seeding" }, { "id": "7993885", "text": "On July 22, 2017, a match of the 2017 International Champions Cup was played between FC Barcelona and Juventus. Barcelona won the match 2–1 in front of 82,104 fans. On August 15, 2017, as part of the United States joint bid with Canada and Mexico to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, MetLife Stadium was announced as the venue to host the final. MetLife Stadium will host two matches as part of the 2018 International Champions Cup. The first match on July 25, 2018 between Manchester City F.C. and Liverpool F.C. and the second match on August 7, 2018 between", "title": "MetLife Stadium" }, { "id": "15301334", "text": "Rostov Arena Rostov Arena () is an association football stadium in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. It is one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It also hosts FC Rostov of the Russian Premier League, replacing Olimp – 2. It has a capacity of 45,000 spectators. In June 2013, during the groundbreaking for the stadium, five shells from WWII were found, almost perfectly preserved. In August 2013, work began on the sandy alluvium foundation for the stadium. Work on the foundation was completed in May 2014. Construction commenced on the stadium substructure in October 2015. In December the construction site", "title": "Rostov Arena" }, { "id": "16259494", "text": "World Cup debuts, while Italy will take part in the event for the first time since 1999 and Argentina will take part in the event for the first time since 2007. Brazil, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, and the United States qualified for their eighth World Cup, continuing their streak of qualifying for every World Cup held so far. Twelve cities were candidates. The final 9 stadiums were chosen on 14 June 2017; Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, Stade Marcel-Picot in Nancy, and Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps in Auxerre were cut. Three of the stadiums were used at the UEFA", "title": "2019 FIFA Women's World Cup" }, { "id": "760497", "text": "the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Yekaterinburg is one of the 11 Russian cities that hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The matches were played on the upgraded Central Stadium. For the World Cup 2018, from 7 October 2015 to 29 December 2017, the Central Stadium was upgraded to bring it into compliance with FIFA requirements for the World Cup. The architectural concept of the new stadium is built on a combination of historical walls and the built-in core of the modern arena. During the reconstruction of the sports facility, which is a monument of history and culture, the facades are", "title": "Yekaterinburg" }, { "id": "15358515", "text": "years old. Some of them worked as volunteers during the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. It was the first experience with such a large-scale volunteer program in the contemporary Russia. For the first time in its history, Russia will host the FIFA World Cup from 14 June till 15 July 2018. Moreover, it will be the first time the World Cup games will be played both in Europe and Asia. The games will be hosted by 12 stadiums in 11 Russian cities. The volunteer program of the 2018 FIFA World Cup has engaged thousands of people from Russia and other countries", "title": "Volunteering" }, { "id": "19256729", "text": "Volgograd Arena The Volgograd Arena () is a football stadium in Volgograd, Russia. The stadium is one of the venues for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It also hosts FC Rotor Volgograd. It has a capacity of 45,568 spectators. The stadium was built on site of the demolished Central Stadium, at the foot of the Mamayev Kurgan memorial complex, near the Volga River. The previous stadium was built in 1958, on the site of a former oil depot. This area was undeveloped, occupied by randomly distributed low-value buildings, warehouses, barracks and ravines. During construction of the stadium, 300 unexploded bombs", "title": "Volgograd Arena" }, { "id": "18548274", "text": "(except 4 and 5). All 10 national teams from CONMEBOL entered qualification. Note: Bolded teams qualified for the World Cup. Peru advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs and won. There were a total of 18 matchdays: four in 2015, eight in 2016, and six in 2017. The inter-confederation play-offs were scheduled to be played between 6–14 November 2017. The draw for the inter-confederation play-offs was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg. The fifth-placed team from CONMEBOL was drawn against the", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)" }, { "id": "10915559", "text": "Kazan and Sochi. On 27 March, the Ministry of Construction Industry, Housing and Utilities Sector of Russia reported that all communications within its area of responsibility have been commissioned. The last facility commissioned was a waste treatment station in Volgograd. In Yekaterinburg, where four matches are hosted, hosting costs increased to over 7.4 billion rubles, over-running the 5.6 billion rubles originally allocated from the state and regional budget. Volunteer applications to the Russia 2018 Local Organising Committee opened on 1 June 2016. The 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Volunteer Program received about 177,000 applications, and engaged a total of 35,000", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915560", "text": "volunteers. They received training at 15 Volunteer Centres of the Local Organising Committee based in 15 universities, and in Volunteer Centres in the host cities. Preference, especially in the key areas, was given to those with knowledge of foreign languages and volunteering experience, but not necessarily to Russian nationals. Free public transport services were offered for ticketholders during the World Cup, including additional trains linking between host cities, as well as services such as bus service within them. The full schedule was announced by FIFA on 24 July 2015 (without kick-off times, which were confirmed later). On 1 December 2017,", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "20441576", "text": "was reduced to 78,011 for the World Cup. This also makes the stadium the largest in Eastern Europe, and among the largest in Europe. To prepare for the World Cup, the stadium was closed for extensive renovations in August 2013. The spectator stands were moved closer to the pitch, which was converted from artificial turf to natural grass, after the removal of the athletic track. The historic facade of the stadium was preserved due to its architectural value, while the roof was upgraded using a new polycarbonate skin with exterior lighting. The Luzhniki did not host any matches at the", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final" }, { "id": "10915542", "text": "the controversy, the FA refused to accept Eckert's absolving of Russia from blame, with Greg Dyke calling for a re-examination of the affair and David Bernstein calling for a boycott of the World Cup. For the first time in the history of the FIFA World Cup, all eligible nations – the 209 FIFA member associations minus automatically qualified hosts Russia – applied to enter the qualifying process. Zimbabwe and Indonesia were later disqualified before playing their first matches, while Gibraltar and Kosovo, who joined FIFA on 13 May 2016 after the qualifying draw but before European qualifying had begun, also", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "17724710", "text": "qualify for the final tournament. In addition to Peru who qualifies automatically as hosts, 23 other teams qualify from six separate continental competitions. The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 10 June 2018. Lima, Piura, Tacna and Trujillo were appointed by the Peruvian Football Federation to host the tournament. Other two venues or more will be chosen soon, Chiclayo, Ica, Tarapoto, Moquegua and Chimbote are likely to be considered venues as well. The emblem, slogan and mascot will be unveiled in Spring 2019. The official song will be released in May 2019. The official match ball will", "title": "2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup" }, { "id": "15120967", "text": "the fixtures) was held on 8 July 2016 at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami Beach, United States. The qualification structure was the same as the previous five editions. The ten teams played in a league of home-and-away round-robin matches. The top four teams qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and the fifth-placed team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs, playing the winners of the Oceania Football Confederation qualifying competition. Unlike previous qualifying tournaments where the fixtures were pre-determined, the fixtures were decided by a draw held on 25 July 2015, at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification" }, { "id": "20423112", "text": "2010 and 2014. On December 4, 2017, Gulati announced that he would not seek another term. In the months leading up to the election, the U.S. Soccer Federation submitted a joint bid with Canada and Mexico to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. In October 2017, the United States men's national soccer team failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, missing the World Cup for the first time since 1986, sparking a major push for reform by supporters. The election will take place on February 10, 2018, at the National Council Meeting during the U.S. Soccer Annual Meeting", "title": "United States Soccer Federation presidential election, 2018" }, { "id": "18894375", "text": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs) For the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, there were two scheduled inter-confederation play-offs to determine the final two qualification spots to the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The matches were originally scheduled to be played between 6–14 November 2017, and later confirmed to take place between 10–15 November. The draw for the inter-confederation play-offs was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg. The four teams from the four confederations (AFC, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, and OFC)", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs)" }, { "id": "5438109", "text": "Cup in 2018. In November 2009, the venues were presented. In Belgium, matches would have been played in 7 venues: Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Charleroi, Genk, Ghent and Liège. In the Netherlands, only five cities would host matches: Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Heerenveen and Rotterdam, but both Amsterdam and Rotterdam would provide two stadiums. Eindhoven would function as the 'capital city' of the World Cup. Euro 2000 was also jointly hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands. On 31 October 2007, The Football Association officially announced its bid to host the event. On 24 April 2008 England finalised a 63-page bid to host", "title": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids" }, { "id": "10915557", "text": "the program for preparation to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a federal sub-program \"Construction and Renovation of Transport Infrastructure\" was implemented with a total budget of 352.5 billion rubles, with 170.3 billion coming from the federal budget, 35.1 billion from regional budgets, and 147.1 billion from investors. The biggest item of federal spending was the aviation infrastructure (117.8 billion rubles). Construction of new hotels was a crucial area of infrastructure development in the World Cup host cities. Costs continued to balloon as preparations were underway. Platov International Airport in Rostov-on-Don was upgraded with automated air traffic control systems, modern surveillance,", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "15120961", "text": "qualifying competition following the suspension of their football association by FIFA on 30 May 2015. Kuwait had a number of their qualifiers cancelled for a similar suspension that began while their campaign was underway, which eventually resulted in their elimination. Brazil were the first team to achieve qualification for the tournament following their 3–0 victory over Paraguay and Uruguay's loss to Peru on 28 March 2017. Peru became the 32nd and final team to qualify when, 233 days after Brazil secured their place, they beat New Zealand 2–0 on aggregate in the OFC-CONMEBOL play-off. \"Note: One team each from AFC,", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification" }, { "id": "18848925", "text": "the inter-confederation play-offs. 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF Fifth Round The fifth round (also known as the \"Hexagonal\" or \"Hex\") of CONCACAF matches for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification was played from 11 November 2016 to 10 October 2017. Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, while Honduras qualified for (and was later eliminated in) the inter-confederation play-offs, and United States (who failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 32 years) and Trinidad and Tobago were eliminated in this round. A total of six teams which had advanced", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – CONCACAF Fifth Round" }, { "id": "20441581", "text": "were drawn into Group C alongside Australia, Denmark, and Peru. The team defeated Australia 2–1 in its opening match in Kazan, with a penalty called by the video assistant referee and scored by Antoine Griezmann followed by an own goal deflected by Australian defender Aziz Behich. In its second match, France won 1–0 over Peru on a goal scored by 19-year-old Kylian Mbappé, who became France's youngest goalscorer at a major tournament. The victory over Peru qualified France for the knockout stage, allowing manager Didier Deschamps to rest several starting players for the final group stage match against Denmark. The", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final" }, { "id": "20424385", "text": "having taken place annually until 2009. The tournament was confirmed publicly on November 3, 2017, during the annual FIFA Beach Soccer Workshop in Dubai as part of the recently renewed partnership between FIFA and Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). In October 2018, it was announced the tournament will take place in Paraguay; the city of Asunción will host the event in November 2019. This marks the first time that Paraguay will host a FIFA event and that a landlocked country will receive the World Cup. Brazil are the defending champions. The bidding schedule to determine the hosts was as follows: Countries", "title": "2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup" }, { "id": "145472", "text": "The rotation policy was introduced after the controversy surrounding Germany's victory over South Africa in the vote to host the 2006 tournament. However, the policy of continental rotation will not continue beyond 2014, so any country, except those belonging to confederations that hosted the two preceding tournaments, can apply as hosts for World Cups starting from 2018. This is partly to avoid a similar scenario to the bidding process for the 2014 tournament, where Brazil was the only official bidder. The 2026 FIFA World Cup was chosen to be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico, marking the first", "title": "FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915552", "text": "are in European Russia, while Sochi and Yekaterinburg are very close to the Europe-Asia border, to reduce travel time for the teams in the huge country. The bid evaluation report stated: \"The Russian bid proposes 13 host cities and 16 stadiums, thus exceeding FIFA's minimum requirement. Three of the 16 stadiums would be renovated, and 13 would be newly constructed.\" In October 2011, Russia decreased the number of stadiums from 16 to 14. Construction of the proposed Podolsk stadium in the Moscow region was cancelled by the regional government, and also in the capital, Otkrytiye Arena was competing with Dynamo", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10915576", "text": "Cups. In an interview published on 7 June 2015, Domenico Scala, the head of FIFA's Audit And Compliance Committee, stated that \"should there be evidence that the awards to Qatar and Russia came only because of bought votes, then the awards could be cancelled\". Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and former British Prime Minister David Cameron attended a meeting with FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-joon in which a vote-trading deal for the right to host the 2018 World Cup in England was discussed. In response to the March 2018 poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, British Prime Minister Theresa May announced", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "5438140", "text": "FIFA's headquarters in Zurich. Russia was chosen to host the 2018 World Cup, and Qatar was chosen to host the 2022 World Cup. This made Russia the first Eastern European country to host the World Cup, while Qatar would be the first Middle Eastern country to host the World Cup. Blatter noted that the committee had decided to \"go to new lands\" and reflected a desire to \"develop football\" by bringing it to more countries. In each round a majority of twelve votes was needed. If no bid received 12 votes in a round, the bid with the fewest votes", "title": "2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bids" }, { "id": "18920503", "text": "by Mexican TV presenter Vanessa Huppenkothen with the assistance of former Spain international Fernando Hierro. The first legs were played on 9–11 November, and the second legs were played on 12–14 November 2017. Times are CET () as listed by UEFA (local times are in parentheses). <onlyinclude> </onlyinclude> Switzerland won 1–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Croatia won 4–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Denmark won 5–1 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Sweden won 1–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Second Round" }, { "id": "15869959", "text": "face Luxembourg in a 2018 World Cup qualifying match on 25 March 2017 and Spain in a friendly three days later; he did not play in either match. On 2 June 2017, Thauvin made his debut for \"Les Bleus\" in a 5–0 win over Paraguay, coming on in the 80th minute as a substitute for Antoine Griezmann. Thauvin was selected in the 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. He played one minute as Didier Deschamps' team won the tournament, in a 4–3 win over Argentina in the last 16 in Kazan in place of Kylian Mbappé.", "title": "Florian Thauvin" }, { "id": "6859454", "text": "Khalifa International Stadium Khalifa International Stadium (), also known as National Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Doha, Qatar as part of the Doha Sports City complex, which also includes Aspire Academy, Hamad Aquatic Centre, and the Aspire Tower. It is named after Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar's former Emir. The final of 2011 AFC Asian Cup was held at this stadium. The stadium is also the first completed venue that will host a part of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In 2017, it received a four star rating from the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS), the first in", "title": "Khalifa International Stadium" }, { "id": "20441604", "text": "RDS. In the United States, Fox received between US$399,000 and $750,000 for a 30-second advertisement spot during the World Cup final; whereas in France, TF1 got up to $300,000 for a 30-second ad-spot. 2018 FIFA World Cup Final The 2018 FIFA World Cup Final was a football match that took place on 15 July 2018 to determine the winners of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It was the final of the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The match was contested by France and Croatia, and held", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup Final" }, { "id": "15120971", "text": "first legs were played on 10 and 11 November 2017, and the second legs were played on 15 November 2017. The matchups were decided at the preliminary draw which was held on 25 July 2015, at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia. 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations to decide 31 of the 32 teams which would play in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with Russia qualifying automatically as hosts. All 210 remaining FIFA member associations were eligible to enter the", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification" }, { "id": "14582363", "text": "bid committee also includes RFU CEO Alexey Sorokin and Alexander Djordjadze as the Director of Bid Planning and Operations. In October 2010, Russia formally pulled out of the race to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. On December 2, 2010 Russia was chosen as the host country for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Fourteen cities are included in the current proposal, which divides them into 6 different clusters: one in the north, centered on St. Petersburg, a central cluster, centered on Moscow, a southern cluster, centered on Sochi, and the Volga River cluster. Only one city beyond the Ural Mountains", "title": "Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup bid" }, { "id": "18874213", "text": "in the squad for the China Cup in March 2018. In May 2018, Bentancur was named in Uruguay’s provisional 26 man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. He was later included in the team's final 23-man squad for the tournament. He appeared in Uruguay's opening match of the tournament on 15 June, a 1–0 victory over Egypt at the Yekaterinburg Arena. In the Round of 16 match against Portugal on 30 June, he set-up Edinson Cavani's second goal in an eventual 2–1 victory. Uruguay were eliminated from the tournament following a 2–0 defeat to eventual champions France", "title": "Rodrigo Bentancur" }, { "id": "7584336", "text": "banned in 2002), because there was only one organizing committee per joint bid, unlike Korea–Japan, which had two different organizing committees. Countries that announced their interest included Australia, England, Indonesia, Japan, Qatar, Russia, South Korea, United States, the joint bid of Spain and Portugal and the joint bid of Belgium and Netherlands. The hosts for both World Cups were announced by the FIFA Executive Committee on 2 December 2010. Russia was selected to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup, making it the first time that the World Cup will be hosted in Eastern Europe and making it the biggest country", "title": "FIFA World Cup hosts" }, { "id": "6859457", "text": "in May 2017. Khalifa International Stadium Khalifa International Stadium (), also known as National Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Doha, Qatar as part of the Doha Sports City complex, which also includes Aspire Academy, Hamad Aquatic Centre, and the Aspire Tower. It is named after Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar's former Emir. The final of 2011 AFC Asian Cup was held at this stadium. The stadium is also the first completed venue that will host a part of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In 2017, it received a four star rating from the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS),", "title": "Khalifa International Stadium" }, { "id": "16341917", "text": "the semi-final against Honduras in Rio de Janeiro, he scored in an eventual 6–0 win. With Silva injured, Marquinhos captained Brazil for the first time on 10 October 2017 in a 3–0 win over Chile at Allianz Parque in his hometown. Brazil had already qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the result ended the continental champion opponents' hope of qualification. In May 2018 he was named in manager Tite’s 23-man squad for the final tournament in Russia, alongside clubmates Silva and Neymar. In terms of his playing position, Marquinhos is predominantly deployed as a central defender, but has", "title": "Marquinhos" }, { "id": "2656257", "text": "Saransk Saransk (; ; ) is the capital city of the Republic of Mordovia, Russia, as well as its financial and economic centre. It is located in the Volga basin at the confluence of the Saranka and Insar Rivers, about east of Moscow. Saransk was one of the host cities of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The Russian fortress Atemar, founded in 1641, took its name from a nearby Mordvin village; at the time the fortress stood on the southeastern frontier of the Tsardom of Russia. The current name, \"Saransk\", refers to the city's situation on the Saranka river. Soon", "title": "Saransk" }, { "id": "145471", "text": "who will host the World Cup is usually made six or seven years in advance of the tournament. However, there have been occasions where the hosts of multiple future tournaments were announced at the same time, as was the case for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which were awarded to Russia and Qatar, with Qatar becoming the first Middle Eastern country to host the tournament. For the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, the final tournament is rotated between confederations, allowing only countries from the chosen confederation (Africa in 2010, South America in 2014) to bid to host the tournament.", "title": "FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "7584315", "text": "country is now chosen in a vote by FIFA's Congress. This is done under an exhaustive ballot system. The decision is currently made roughly seven years in advance of the tournament, though the hosts for the 2022 tournament were chosen at the same time as those for the 2018 tournament. Only Mexico, Italy, France, Germany (West Germany until shortly after the 1990 World Cup) and Brazil have hosted the event on two occasions. Mexico City's Estadio Azteca and Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã are the only venues ever to have hosted two FIFA World Cup finals. Only the 2002 FIFA World", "title": "FIFA World Cup hosts" }, { "id": "1915346", "text": "Plan, aims to increase airport’s capacity to 80 million passengers a year by 2026. Sheremetyevo International Airport was the official airport of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. During the tournament, the airport observed a 16% increase in landing operations and an 11% increase in passenger traffic. In late 2018, Rossiya Airlines announced the transfer of its flights from Vnukovo Airport to Sheremetyevo International Airport starting October 28, 2018. Rossiya Airlines is owned by Aeroflot. Sheremetyevo International Airport has four operating passenger terminals and one special terminal reserved for the use of private and business aviation. The airport's terminals are divided", "title": "Sheremetyevo International Airport" }, { "id": "755489", "text": "Ebola epidemic. On 14 June 2018, Ronaldo featured at the 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. He walked out with a child wearing a Russia 2018 shirt at the beginning, and returned at the end of the ceremony with the official ball of the 2018 World Cup – Adidas Telstar 18 – which was sent into space with the International Space Station crew in March and came back to Earth in early June. Ronaldo is regarded as one of the greatest and most complete forwards of all time. Dubbed \"Il (or O)", "title": "Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)" }, { "id": "20763119", "text": "Goalie Goalie \"Goalie Goalie\" (stylized as Goalie Goalie! and Goalie Goalie 2018!) is a 2018 PowerHouse Records release featuring an international line-up of singers and artists, the Iranian Swedish artist Arash, the Russian singer Nyusha, American rapper of Cuban descent Pitbull and rising American record producer Blanco on the occasion of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The song is credited on iTunes as Arash featuring Nyusha, Pitbull & Blanco. Released on 14 June 2018 to coincide with the launch of the World Cup in Russia, it was featured during the games' opening event in Moscow. The song was co-written by", "title": "Goalie Goalie" }, { "id": "17612475", "text": "tournament in South Africa; the second Arab and Muslim-majority country, after the 2022 tournament in Qatar; and the first time in North Africa. Following rumors on each nation bidding individually, the three nations announced on 10 April 2017 a bid to host the World Cup jointly. Canada and Mexico would host 10 games each, while the United States would host the remaining 60 games, including all remaining matches from the quarterfinals onward. It will be the first FIFA World Cup held in three countries, the first men's World Cup held in Canada (the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was held", "title": "2026 FIFA World Cup bids" }, { "id": "10915584", "text": "alongside other sports rights owners that have also been affected to protect its interests.\" In the United States, the 2018 World Cup was the first men's World Cup whose English rights were held by Fox Sports, and Spanish rights held by Telemundo. The elimination of the United States in qualifying led to concerns that US interest and viewership of this World Cup would be reduced (especially among \"casual\" viewers interested in the U.S. team; its matches at the 2014 World Cup peaked at 16.5 million U.S. viewers), especially noting how much Fox paid for the rights. During a launch event", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "801815", "text": "the Super League in the 2013/14 season. Samara is one of eleven cities hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup with 6 matches (4 Group Stage matches, 1 Round of 16 match, 1 Quarter-Final) which will take place in the newly built Cosmos Arena stadium. The stadium's seating capacity is 45,000. During the World Cup, the city hosted the FIFA Fan Fest on the Kuibysheva Square. Up to 20,000 fans were be able to participate in the event at a time. Three new training fields have been built in the city for the FIFA World Cup. Two major roads have been", "title": "Samara" }, { "id": "12050023", "text": "be evidence that the awards to Qatar and Russia came only because of bought votes, then the awards could be cancelled.\" 2022 FIFA World Cup The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Qatar in 2022. This will be the first World Cup ever to be held in the Arab world and the first in a Muslim-majority country. This will be the first World Cup held entirely", "title": "2022 FIFA World Cup" }, { "id": "10528459", "text": "Fisht Olympic Stadium Fisht Olympic Stadium () is an outdoor stadium in Sochi, Russia. Located in Sochi Olympic Park and named after Mount Fisht, the 40,000-capacity stadium was constructed for the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, where it served as the venue for their opening and closing ceremonies. The stadium was originally built as an enclosed facility; it was re-opened in 2016 as an open-air football stadium, to host matches as part of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup when it will be known simply as Fisht Stadium. Fisht Olympic Stadium was designed by Populous and", "title": "Fisht Olympic Stadium" }, { "id": "18057828", "text": "the first round, while the other seven teams entered the second round. The schedule of the competition was as follows. The inter-confederation play-offs were scheduled to be played between 6–14 November 2017. The match schedule was revealed on 30 July 2015, following a draw held at OFC Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. The draw for the second round was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia. While the results of the OFC Nations Cup knockout stage matches have no", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)" }, { "id": "20193142", "text": "– is the oldest in the tournament's history. League systems with 20 or more players represented are listed. In all, World Cup squad members play for clubs in 57 countries, and play in 54 national league systems, as the league systems of England and France include clubs from Wales and Monaco respectively, and one league system covers both the United States and Canada. Clubs with 10 or more players represented are listed. Coaches in bold represent their own country. 2018 FIFA World Cup squads The 2018 FIFA World Cup was an international football tournament held in Russia from 14 June", "title": "2018 FIFA World Cup squads" } ]

[ "Paul Rice", "Mitchell" ]

[ { "id": "4753206", "text": "prior to Jimmie Davis' version. The first was recorded for Bluebird Records (RCA-Victor's budget label) on August 22, 1939, by The Pine Ridge Boys (Marvin Taylor and Doug Spivey), who were from Atlanta. The second was recorded for Decca Records on September 13, 1939, by The Rice Brothers Gang. This group was originally from north Georgia but relocated to Shreveport, where they were performing on the radio station KWKH. The version by Jimmie Davis was recorded for Decca Records on February 5, 1940. While Davis and Mitchell are the credited songwriters of \"You Are My Sunshine\", Davis was never known", "title": "You Are My Sunshine" }, { "id": "4753207", "text": "to actually claim authorship, as he bought the song and rights from Paul Rice and put his own name on it, a practice not uncommon in the pre-World War II music business. Some early versions of the song credit the Rice Brothers. Descendants and associates of Oliver Hood, a LaGrange, Georgia musician who collaborated with Rice, claim Hood wrote the song in the early 1930s and first performed it in 1933 at a Veterans of Foreign Wars convention at LaGrange, Georgia in 1933. According to some accounts, clarinetist Pud Brown was also involved with the Rice Brothers for the song's", "title": "You Are My Sunshine" }, { "id": "4753205", "text": "Wilson, Mouse and the Traps, Gene Vincent, Jamey Johnson, Low, Mose Allison, Bryan Ferry, Carly Simon, Yusuf Islam, Andy Williams, Copeland, Johnny and the Hurricanes, and Barbra Lica (2012), amongst many others. The 1940 version by Davis has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress on March 21, 2013, for long-term preservation. Virginia Shehee, a long-time Davis family friend and member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1976 to 1980, introduced legislation to make \"You Are My Sunshine\" the official state song. Two versions of \"You Are My Sunshine\" were recorded and released in 1939", "title": "You Are My Sunshine" }, { "id": "4753203", "text": "You Are My Sunshine \"You Are My Sunshine\" is a popular song written by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell and first recorded in 1939. It has been declared one of the state songs of Louisiana because of its association with Davis, a country music singer and governor of the state in the years 1944–1948 and 1960–1964. The song has been covered numerous times — so often, in fact, that it is \"one of the most commercially programmed numbers in American popular music.\" The song, originally country music, has \"virtually lost\" its original country music identity, and \"represent[s] both the national", "title": "You Are My Sunshine" }, { "id": "1427220", "text": "and Roll Lullaby\". In 1975, a collaboration with hit songwriter Tony Macaulay and former founding member of The Seekers, Keith Potger, led to another UK top ten record, \"Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar\". The single, \"You Are My Sunshine\", featuring Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, hit the country charts in 1977. In 1986, Eddy recorded with Art of Noise, remaking his 1960 version of Henry Mancini's \"Peter Gunn\". The song was a Top Ten hit around the world, ranking number 1 on \"Rolling Stone\"'s dance chart for six weeks that summer. \"Peter Gunn\" won the Grammy for Best", "title": "Duane Eddy" }, { "id": "4753204", "text": "flowering of country music and its eventual absorption into the mainstream of American popular culture.\" In 1941, it was covered by Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Mississippi John Hurt, Wayne King and Lawrence Welk. The versions by Autry, Crosby, and King reached the US charts of the day. In subsequent years, it was covered by Doris Day (1951), Nat King Cole (1955), The Marcels, (1961), Ray Charles, Ike and Tina Turner, The Rivingtons (1962), Andy Williams (1963), Burl Ives (1968), Frank Turner, The Beach Boys, Aretha Franklin, Anne Murray (1979), Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Norman Blake , Brian", "title": "You Are My Sunshine" }, { "id": "2487898", "text": "it one of the Songs of the Century. \"You Are My Sunshine\" was ranked in 2003 as No. 73 on \"CMT's 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music\". Until his death, Davis insisted that he wrote the song. It will be associated with him. Virginia Shehee, a Shreveport businesswoman, philanthropist, and state senator, introduced legislation to designate \"You Are My Sunshine\" as the official state song. Davis often performed during his campaign stops when running for governor of Louisiana. After being elected in 1944, he became known as the \"singing governor.\" While governor, he had a No. 1 hit single in", "title": "Jimmie Davis" }, { "id": "4753208", "text": "origin or first arrangement. Davis said that for some time he had been enthusiastic about the song and had unsuccessfully tried to convince record companies to record it before finally making his own 1940 record of the song. Davis' version was popular and was followed by numerous other covers, including those of Bing Crosby and Gene Autry, whose versions made the number a big hit. Davis emphasized his association with the song when running for governor of Louisiana in 1944, singing it at all his campaign rallies while riding on a horse named \"Sunshine\". You Are My Sunshine \"You Are", "title": "You Are My Sunshine" }, { "id": "2043228", "text": "version of René Touzet's \"El Loco Cha Cha\", and also influenced by Chuck Berry's \"Havana Moon\". Berry also stated he had Frank Sinatra's \"One For My Baby\" in mind when writing the lyrics. One night waiting backstage at the Harmony Club Ballroom, Berry took the rhythm of \"El Loco Cha Cha\" and began to add lyrics, writing them down on toilet paper. Richard Berry and the Pharaohs recorded and released the song as the B-side to his cover of \"You Are My Sunshine\" on Flip Records in 1957. It became a minor regional hit, selling 130,000 copies. It was re-released", "title": "Richard Berry (musician)" }, { "id": "2487924", "text": "not \"wake up Jimmie Davis with an earthquake\". Public relations specialist Gus Weill, who worked in the Davis campaign in 1959, wrote a biography of the former governor in 1977, entitled \"You Are My Sunshine,\" based on Davis' best-known song. Davis's first wife, the former Alvern Adams, the daughter of a physician in Shreveport, was the first lady while he was governor during both terms. Two years after her death in 1967, Davis in 1969 married Effie Juanita Carter Gordon, known thereafter as Anna Davis (February 15, 1917 – March 5, 2004). She was a gospel music pioneer who sold", "title": "Jimmie Davis" }, { "id": "14359895", "text": "Grammy Award for Album of the Year and won the categories Best Country Album and Best Country Solo Performance. It also won the Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year. The top selling country album of 2016, it has sold a total of 2 million copies domestically . In 2016, Stapleton – along with his wife Morgane – contributed the track, \"You Are My Sunshine\", to producer Dave Cobb's compilation record project, \"Southern Family\". He collaborated with Jake Owen on the song \"If He Ain't Gonna Love You\" on Owen's album \"American Love\". Stapleton performed on the", "title": "Chris Stapleton" }, { "id": "8034752", "text": "ranked the song number 287 on their list of the \"500 Greatest Songs of All Time\". The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by Jim Gilstrap; Lani Groves sings the next two. Gilstrap and Groves, together with Gloria Barley, also provide backing vocals. The single version of the song differs from the album version with the addition of horns to the mix; this version is also included in the greatest hits compilation album \"Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I\". In 2016, Jack White performed an alternative rock version the song with The Muppets for the", "title": "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" }, { "id": "4022523", "text": "straightforward singing and guitar playing have a universal appeal. He wrote hundreds of songs covering a wide range of themes, including traditional country western, cowboy, folk, and hobo songs. His recordings of \"Blue Canadian Rockies\" and \"You Are My Sunshine\" are among the most popular. Fellow Canadian country artist Ian Tyson considers Carter an influence on his music. Wilf Carter (musician) Wilfred Arthur Charles Carter (December 18, 1904 – December 5, 1996), professionally known as Wilf Carter in his native Canada and also as Montana Slim in the United States, was a Canadian Country and Western singer, songwriter, guitarist, and", "title": "Wilf Carter (musician)" }, { "id": "8034751", "text": "You Are the Sunshine of My Life \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\" is a 1973 single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder's third number-one single on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart and his first number-one on the Easy Listening chart. It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. This song was the second single (following \"Superstition\") released from the 1972 album entitled \"Talking Book\", which stayed at number one on the R&B charts for three weeks. \"Rolling Stone\"", "title": "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" }, { "id": "3446695", "text": "soldiers during World War II. Impressed by his yodeling, they envisioned Rodgers as \"a faun, half-man and half-antelope.\" Both Gene Autry and future Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis (said to have been author of \"You Are My Sunshine\") began their careers as Jimmie Rodgers copyists, and Merle Haggard, Hank Snow, and Lefty Frizzell later did tribute albums. Haggard's, titled \"Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings The Great Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers\", was released in 1969. Haggard also covered \"No Hard Times\" and \"T.B. Blues\" on his best-selling live albums \"Okie from Muskogee\" (1969) and \"Fightin' Side of Me\" (1970).", "title": "Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)" }, { "id": "14128762", "text": "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine \"Do You Know You Are My Sunshine\" is a song written by Don Reid and Harold Reid, and recorded by American country music group The Statler Brothers. It was released in March 1978 as the first single from the album \"Entertainers On and Off the Record\". \"Do You Know You Are My Sunshine\" was The Statler Brothers twenty-seventh country hit and the first of four number ones on the country chart, as well as the group's only number one with original tenor Lew DeWitt. The single stayed at number one for two weeks", "title": "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine" }, { "id": "13478474", "text": "the 1920s and early 1930s, including production of his own recordings like \"On Mobile Bay\" and \"I Want A Girl\" or with Young Brothers Tennessee Band: \"Are you from Dixie\" and \"Bill Bailey, won't you please come home\", \"Oh! Susanna\", \"Little Brown Jug\", and other classic American songs including a few original folk songs he wrote & sang for Columbia. For example, Dan Hornsby was the first recorded voice of the \"Arkansas Traveler\" and was the producer of the first recording of \"You Are My Sunshine\". His vocal style was pop to Americana novelty. Hornsby worked with Gid Tanner and", "title": "Dan Hornsby" }, { "id": "1783370", "text": "copyright organization American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and US radio stations led to the inauguration of the rival Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). BMI supported music by blues, country and hillbilly artists, and Peer, through his Peer-International company, soon contributed a major part of BMI's catalogue. During and after World War II Peer published songs such as \"Deep In The Heart Of Texas\" and \"You Are My Sunshine\" (sung by Jimmie Davis, covered by Bing Crosby and many others), \"Humpty Dumpty Heart\" (Glenn Miller), \"You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You\" (Russ Morgan), \"The Three Caballeros\" ( Andrews Sisters),", "title": "Ralph Peer" }, { "id": "10543923", "text": "in 1968. The record was produced by Roger Savage. It contains two side-long medleys of then-current songs including, \"Midnight Hour\", \"You Are My Sunshine\" and \"Day Tripper\". Wyllie had a No. 17 hit on \"Go-Set\"s National Top 40 in July 1969, with his cover of Ray Stevens' song, \"Funny Man\". His National No. 1 hit, \"The Star\", followed in November. \"The Star\", written by Johnny Young, was later covered by United Kingdom act Herman's Hermits as \"Here Comes the Star\". In 1970 \"Uptight\" was replaced on Channel 0 by a one-hour pop music series, \"Happening '70\", with Wyllie retained as", "title": "Ross D. Wyllie" }, { "id": "18884209", "text": "Rose's \"Crazy Heart\", outperformed it, peaking at number four. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle \"(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle\" is a song written by Hank Williams and Jimmie Davis. It became his fourteenth consecutive Top 10 single in 1951. Jimmie Davis was a Jimmie Rodgers disciple who scored a big hit on Decca Records with \"You Are My Sunshine\" in 1939 and \"There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder\" in 1945. It is unclear when he and Hank Williams wrote \"(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle\"; on one of his \"Mother's Best\" radio shows, recorded between January and March 1951, Williams", "title": "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle" }, { "id": "16803470", "text": "Barton Hollow (song) \"Barton Hollow\" is a country and indie folk song co-written and recorded by The Civil Wars. It was released on January 10, 2011 as the second single and title-track to their debut album \"Barton Hollow\". The single did not enter the U.S. Hot 100 but charted on the top spot of the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles. The single's vinyl release had \"You Are My Sunshine\" as its B-side. The song won the Best Country Duo/Group Performance Award at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012. \"Barton Hollow\" was available for download on January 10, 2011 and was", "title": "Barton Hollow (song)" }, { "id": "5311518", "text": "Adams Quartet\".) After Adams' death, Pullen dedicated to his memory the 1993 CD \"Ode To Life\", recorded by his African-Brazilian Connection, and in particular the ballad \"Ah George, We Hardly Knew Ya\". One of Adams' last recordings was \"America\" on the Blue Note label. This album consists of classic American songs like \"Tennessee Waltz\", \"You Are My Sunshine\" and \"Take Me Out to the Ballgame\" as well as a few original songs that articulate Adams' positive view of his country and the gifts it had given him. It also includes \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" and \"America the Beautiful\". Adams was a", "title": "George Adams (musician)" }, { "id": "8034753", "text": "series finale of \"The Muppets\". You Are the Sunshine of My Life \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\" is a 1973 single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder's third number-one single on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart and his first number-one on the Easy Listening chart. It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year. This song was the second single (following \"Superstition\") released from the 1972 album entitled \"Talking Book\", which stayed at number one on the R&B charts", "title": "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" }, { "id": "14128763", "text": "and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country chart. Do You Know You Are My Sunshine \"Do You Know You Are My Sunshine\" is a song written by Don Reid and Harold Reid, and recorded by American country music group The Statler Brothers. It was released in March 1978 as the first single from the album \"Entertainers On and Off the Record\". \"Do You Know You Are My Sunshine\" was The Statler Brothers twenty-seventh country hit and the first of four number ones on the country chart, as well as the group's only number one with original tenor", "title": "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine" }, { "id": "13589811", "text": "a dispute between the ASCAP and US radio stations led to the inauguration of the rival Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). BMI supported music by blues, country and hillbilly artists, and Peer, through his Peer-International company, soon contributed a major part of BMI's catalogue. During and after World War II Peer published songs such as \"Deep in the Heart of Texas \" and \"You Are My Sunshine\" (sung by Jimmie Davis, covered by Bing Crosby and many others), \"Humpty Dumpty Heart\" (Glenn Miller), \"You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You\" (Russ Morgan), \"The Three Caballeros\" (the Andrews Sisters), \"Say a Prayer for", "title": "Peermusic" }, { "id": "14188945", "text": "Papa Winnie Papa Winnie (birth name Winston Carlisle Peters) is a reggae musician from St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. As of 1997 he had sold over 200,000 albums in Latin America and Asia. He is famous in Italy following a 1989 performance of the song \"You Are My Sunshine\". His recordings often make mention of Rootsie and Boopsie, first named in his song of the same title from 1987. In an interview on Italian TV, he said that \"Rootsie\" and \"Boopsie\" were nicknames for the two children he just had from his recently married Italian girlfriend, but", "title": "Papa Winnie" }, { "id": "12831623", "text": "following year, Forest Sun added the musical collaboration of Ingrid Serban and the two begin to tour as a duo. Forest Sun released his first children's album, \"Just for Fun\" (2010), which was a collection of original songs and Americana classics such as \"You Are My Sunshine,\" and \"Polly Wolly Doodle\". The recordings featured members of Marley's Ghost and Ingrid Serban. In 2012, Forest Sun released \"Just Begun\". The album featured Tucsonian musicians such as Winston Watson, drummer for Bob Dylan and Lenny Kravitz, Jacob Valenzuela, trumpet player for Calexico, and was recorded in Tucson, Arizona, at the Wavelab Studios.", "title": "Forest Sun" }, { "id": "11511374", "text": "company. After the purchase Atcher was transferred to Okeh Records and then to Columbia Records, both CBS subsidiaries. Between 1939 and 1942, he recorded many duets with Loeta Applegate, who went by the stage name Bonnie Blue Eyes. Among these was the first No. 1 of Jimmie Davis' \"You Are My Sunshine\". Bob's younger brother Randy Atcher also appeared on some of his records. After 1942 Atcher fought in the Army in World War II and returned to performing in 1946, charting hits which included \"Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me\" and \"I Must Have Been Wrong\". In", "title": "Bob Atcher" }, { "id": "18884206", "text": "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle \"(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle\" is a song written by Hank Williams and Jimmie Davis. It became his fourteenth consecutive Top 10 single in 1951. Jimmie Davis was a Jimmie Rodgers disciple who scored a big hit on Decca Records with \"You Are My Sunshine\" in 1939 and \"There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder\" in 1945. It is unclear when he and Hank Williams wrote \"(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle\"; on one of his \"Mother's Best\" radio shows, recorded between January and March 1951, Williams tells his audience that he's going fishing with Jimmie", "title": "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle" }, { "id": "10848183", "text": "Sunshine (Jonathan Edwards song) \"Sunshine\" is a country folk song from 1971 by Jonathan Edwards, released as the first single from his debut album \"Jonathan Edwards\". The single reached #4 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart on January 15, 1972, and earned a gold record. \"Sunshine\" was not originally planned for release, but when an engineer accidentally erased the master of a track called \"Please Find Me\" near the end of sessions for the album, \"Sunshine\" was used to fill the hole. The song was released as a single and first gained popularity on Boston radio, before going nationwide. Here's", "title": "Sunshine (Jonathan Edwards song)" }, { "id": "2952744", "text": "Talking Book Talking Book is the fifteenth studio album by Stevie Wonder, released on October 28, 1972. A signal recording of his \"classic period\", in this one he \"hit his stride.\" The album's first track, \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\", hit #1 on \"Billboard\"s Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts, then earned Wonder his first Grammy Award, for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The album's first single, \"Superstition\", also hit #1 on \"Billboard\"s Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts. The album was certified Gold in Canada and the United States. Sandwiched between the release of \"Music of", "title": "Talking Book" }, { "id": "3317611", "text": "work, \"New York, N.Y.\", included Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Art Farmer, Milt Hinton, Bob Brookmeyer, and Max Roach, among others, and featured wrap-around raps by singer/lyricist Jon Hendricks. \"Jazz in the Space Age\" (1960) was an even more ambitious big band album, featuring the unusual dual piano voicings of Bill Evans and Paul Bley. Russell formed his own sextet in which he played piano. Between 1960 and 1963, the Russell Sextet featured musicians like Dave Baker and Steve Swallow and memorable sessions with Eric Dolphy (on \"Ezz-thetics\") and singer Sheila Jordan (their bleak version of \"You Are My Sunshine\" on", "title": "George Russell (composer)" }, { "id": "10522404", "text": "(Always Be My) Sunshine \"(Always Be My) Sunshine\" is a hip hop song by American rapper Jay-Z with guest vocals from fellow femcee Foxy Brown and R&B singer-songwriter Babyface who performs the song's chorus. It serves as the first single from his second album \"In My Lifetime, Vol. 1\" (1997). The track features production by Daven \"Prestige\" Vanderpool. Vanderpool samples MC Lyte's \"Cha Cha Cha\", Alexander O'Neal's \"Sunshine\", Kraftwerk's \"Man Machine\" and The Fearless Four's \"Rockin' It\" for the track's beat. In addition, George Fonenette plays keyboards on this song. The song's lyrics helped indicate Jay-Z's change from his Mafioso", "title": "(Always Be My) Sunshine" }, { "id": "2487928", "text": "in Winnfield. The Hall of Fame periodically issues the \"Friends of Jimmie Davis Award\". In 2005, the award was presented to then U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican, who once hosted Davis in a concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Speaking at the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, Stevens recalled having been with both Davis and Ronald W. Reagan, when Reagan was contemplating his first run for governor of California and asked Davis for political advice. Stevens joined the Jimmie Davis Band in a rendition of \"You Are My Sunshine\". The 2006 recipient of the", "title": "Jimmie Davis" }, { "id": "5409049", "text": "and clubs in New York City. For much of the 1960s, she withdrew from clubs to raise her daughter, and she sang in church instead. She was a typist and legal secretary for twenty years with little time to concentrate on music until the age of 58. In 1962, she worked with George Russell, with whom she recorded the song, \"You Are My Sunshine\" on his album \"The Outer View\" (Riverside). Later that year she recorded the album \"Portrait of Sheila\" which was released by Blue Note Records. Her long working relationship with Steve Kuhn began in the early 1960s.", "title": "Sheila Jordan" }, { "id": "10500989", "text": "surpassed by \"Maundy Thursday\" a year later. 2005 Chunsa Film Art Awards 2005 Busan Film Critics Awards 2005 Blue Dragon Film Awards 2005 Korean Film Awards 2006 Baeksang Arts Awards 2006 Grand Bell Awards You Are My Sunshine (2005 film) You Are My Sunshine (, literally: \"You are my destiny\") is a 2005 South Korean film written and directed by Park Jin-pyo, and starring Jeon Do-yeon. It was released in Korea on 23 September 2005. The official English title is named after the Jimmie Davis song \"You Are My Sunshine,\" which is used on the soundtrack. Seok-joong, a farmer in", "title": "You Are My Sunshine (2005 film)" }, { "id": "2631476", "text": "when his wife Ruth gathered the Haden family together for his mother's 80th birthday and suggested they all sing \"You Are My Sunshine\" in the living room, as that was a song everyone knew. \"Rambling Boy\" was intended to connect music from his early childhood in the Haden Family band to the new generation of the Haden family as well. The album includes songs made famous by the Stanley Brothers, the Carter Family, and Hank Williams, in addition to traditional songs and original compositions. In 2009, Swiss film director Reto Caduff released a film about Haden's life, titled \"Rambling Boy.\"", "title": "Charlie Haden" }, { "id": "17945426", "text": "Uptight (TV series) Uptight is an Australian music television series which aired on ATV-0 in Melbourne from 1967 until 1969 on Saturday mornings at 8am to 12pm, it was hosted by singer Ross D. Wyllie. A compilation album, \"Uptight – Party Time\", by Ross D. Wyllie and the Uptight Party Team, was issued via Calendar/Festival Records in 1968. The record was produced by Roger Savage. It features two medleys of then-current songs including, \"Midnight Hour\", \"You Are My Sunshine\" and \"Day Tripper\". In August 2003 Wyllie compered a reunion stage show, \"Uptight\", with the line-up of fellow 1960s artists and", "title": "Uptight (TV series)" }, { "id": "12373490", "text": "The Statler Brothers discography The discography of The Statler Brothers, an American country music group, consists of 38 albums and 69 singles. The group debuted in 1965 with \"Flowers on the Wall\", a number 2 country and number 4 pop hit. Although they never made top 40 on the pop charts again, The Statler Brothers continued to chart on Hot Country Songs until 1990, reaching number one with \"Do You Know You Are My Sunshine\" in 1978; \"Elizabeth\" in 1984; and \"My Only Love\" and \"Too Much on My Heart,\" both in 1985. All studio albums listed have been issued", "title": "The Statler Brothers discography" }, { "id": "14264405", "text": "Carl McVoy Carl McVoy (January 3, 1931 – January 3, 1992) was an American pianist. McVoy was cousin to the younger Jerry Lee Lewis. He had been to New York City with his father, who had been a minister there. McVoy got hooked on boogie-woogie while in New York, which he subsequently brought back to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Jerry Lee Lewis would visit his older cousin and get him to show him things on the piano. Plucked from the construction industry by Ray Harris, McVoy recorded \"You Are My Sunshine\" at Sun Records, which was the single that launched Hi", "title": "Carl McVoy" }, { "id": "7251200", "text": "one of the backing vocalists in Stevie Wonder's backing outfit, 'Wonderlove', appearing on Wonder's albums, \"Talking Book\" and \"Innervisions\". Gilstrap sang the opening two lines of the Wonder song, \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\" (with Lani Groves singing the next two lines). He subsequently signed a recording contract with Chelsea Records in 1975. His recording of the Kenny Nolan penned \"Swing Your Daddy\" was a #4 hit in the UK Singles Chart in April 1975, and reached #10 in the U.S. \"Billboard\" Black Singles chart. Gilstrap also recorded two albums of his own during the 1970s. The first,", "title": "Jim Gilstrap" }, { "id": "20120808", "text": "was released in 1977, with the title track reaching #34. In subsequent years, Mitchell performed in numerous bands in the Southwest, including The Arizona Band and Stumpwater-Jak. He continues to perform in the Phoenix area today. Marty Mitchell (singer) Marty Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his top-forty country hit \"You Are The Sunshine of My Life\" and the album of the same name. Mitchell was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He was discovered by Marty Robbins and performed alongside Robbins at the Grand Ole Opry at the age of 14. In 1974, he signed with Atlantic", "title": "Marty Mitchell (singer)" }, { "id": "7677987", "text": "Sunshine on My Shoulders \"Sunshine on My Shoulders\" (sometimes titled simply \"Sunshine\") is a song recorded and co-written by American singer-songwriter John Denver. It was originally released as an album track on 1971's \"Poems, Prayers & Promises\" and later, as a single in 1973. It went to number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the U.S. in early 1974. Denver described how he wrote \"Sunshine on My Shoulders\": \"I wrote the song in Minnesota at the time I call 'late winter, early spring'. It was a dreary day, gray and slushy. The snow was melting and it was", "title": "Sunshine on My Shoulders" }, { "id": "10500987", "text": "You Are My Sunshine (2005 film) You Are My Sunshine (, literally: \"You are my destiny\") is a 2005 South Korean film written and directed by Park Jin-pyo, and starring Jeon Do-yeon. It was released in Korea on 23 September 2005. The official English title is named after the Jimmie Davis song \"You Are My Sunshine,\" which is used on the soundtrack. Seok-joong, a farmer in his mid thirties, is desperate to find a wife and settle down. After backing out of a scheme to set him up with a Filipino bride, he falls head over heels in love with", "title": "You Are My Sunshine (2005 film)" }, { "id": "14785425", "text": "Love\"), 1940s (\"It's a Most Unusual Day\", \"You Are My Sunshine\"), and 1950s (\"I Really Don't Want to Know\"). The album made its first appearance on \"Billboard\" magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated April 20 of that year and remained on the album chart for 107 weeks, spending 16 consecutive weeks at number one. The album received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on September 19, 1963, becoming his first to do so, while his 1962 album \"Moon River and Other Great Movie Themes\" followed suit one month later. For its release in the UK,", "title": "Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests" }, { "id": "4571078", "text": "Ain't No Sunshine \"Ain't No Sunshine\" is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album \"Just As I Am,\" produced by Booker T. Jones. The record featured musicians Donald \"Duck\" Dunn on bass guitar, Al Jackson, Jr. on drums and Stephen Stills on guitar. String arrangements were done by Booker T. Jones, and recorded in Memphis by engineer Terry Manning. The song is in the key of A minor. The song was released as a single in 1971, becoming a breakthrough hit for Withers, reaching number six on the U.S. R&B Chart and number three on the \"Billboard\" Hot", "title": "Ain't No Sunshine" }, { "id": "4349887", "text": "newspaper story of the day also mentioned that Sheridan had recorded \"You Are My Sunshine\" with the Beatles as well for single release, (it was also on his album as well). In 1962, after a series of singles (the first of which, \"My Bonnie\"/\"The Saints\" made it to number 5 in the German chart), the record was released in America on Decca with a black label and also in a pink label for demo play. The record has the distinction of being one of the most expensive collectible 45 rpm with the black label in mint condition selling for $15,000", "title": "Tony Sheridan" }, { "id": "4338054", "text": "Here Comes the Sun \"Here Comes the Sun\" is a song written by George Harrison that was first released on the Beatles' 1969 album \"Abbey Road\". Along with \"Something\" and \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps\", it is one of Harrison's best-known compositions from the Beatles era. The song was written at the country house of his friend Eric Clapton, where Harrison had chosen to play truant for the day, to avoid attending a meeting at the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation. The lyrics reflect the composer's relief at both the arrival of spring and the temporary respite he was experiencing from", "title": "Here Comes the Sun" }, { "id": "20120807", "text": "Marty Mitchell (singer) Marty Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his top-forty country hit \"You Are The Sunshine of My Life\" and the album of the same name. Mitchell was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He was discovered by Marty Robbins and performed alongside Robbins at the Grand Ole Opry at the age of 14. In 1974, he signed with Atlantic Records and released two singles. He then signed with Motown Hitsville, releasing a single of \"My Eyes Adored You\" that reached #87 on the country chart. His debut album \"You Are The Sunshine of My Life\"", "title": "Marty Mitchell (singer)" }, { "id": "5650006", "text": "Twinkie Clark Elbernita \"Twinkie\" Clark-Terrell (born November 15, 1954) is an American gospel singer, composer, musician, and evangelist, as well as member of the Hammond organ Hall of Fame. She is a member of The Clark Sisters, an influential gospel vocal ensemble active since the late 1960s. Clark is the leader of the gospel group the Clark Sisters, which included Gospel musicians such as Karen Clark-Sheard, Dr. Dorinda Clark-Cole and Jacky Clark-Chisholm. She wrote much of the music for the group. The group is mostly known for their hit singles, \"You Brought the Sunshine\", \"Expect Your Miracle\" and \"Is My", "title": "Twinkie Clark" }, { "id": "11437236", "text": "and \"Killing Me Softly\". Both were # 1 hits on the pop charts and she became the first artist and the only female artist to win back to back Grammy Awards for Record of the Year. Stevie Wonder who topped the charts five times during the decade with songs such as \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\" and \"Sir Duke\" had a unique treble. He won Grammy Awards for both best male Pop and R & B vocal performance in 1974, 1975, and 1977. The Jackson 5 became one of the biggest pop-music phenomena of the 1970s, playing from", "title": "1970s in music" }, { "id": "1529053", "text": "In 2005, Stevens was named a \"Friend of Jimmie Davis\" by the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield, Louisiana. Stevens admired Davis's music and once hosted the former governor at a Kennedy Center concert in Washington, D.C. Speaking at the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, Stevens recalled having been with both Davis and Ronald W. Reagan, when Reagan was contemplating his first run for Governor of California and asked Davis for political advice. At the gathering, Stevens joined the Jimmie Davis Band in a rendition of \"You Are My Sunshine\", Davis's trademark song. On December", "title": "Ted Stevens" }, { "id": "4571079", "text": "100 chart. \"Billboard\" ranked it as the No. 23 song for 1971. The song also appears on the original soundtrack album for the film \"When We Were Kings\" (1997), and in FX's (2016) of the anthology limited series \"American Crime Story\", which focuses on the 1994 murder trial of O. J. Simpson. The song reached the Top 40 again in 2009, sung by Kris Allen in the 8th season of \"American Idol\". Withers was inspired to write this song after watching the 1962 movie \"Days of Wine and Roses\". He explained, in reference to the characters played by Lee Remick", "title": "Ain't No Sunshine" }, { "id": "2487897", "text": "\"Red Nightgown Blues\". Some of these records included slide guitar accompaniment by black bluesman Oscar \"Buddy\" Woods. During his first run for governor, opponents reprinted the lyrics of some of these songs in order to undermine Davis's campaign. In one case, anti-Davis forces played some records over an outdoor sound system, only to give up after the crowds started dancing, ignoring the double-entendre lyrics. Until the end of his life, Davis never denied or repudiated those records. In 1999, \"You Are My Sunshine\" was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and the Recording Industry Association of America named", "title": "Jimmie Davis" }, { "id": "7975712", "text": "Davis from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in 1963. In 1963, Reggie introduced the young political consultant Gus Weill of Lafayette to Louisiana Public Service Commissioner John McKeithen, who retained Weill to manage his gubernatorial campaign. Weill previously managed the Davis campaign and later wrote a biography of Davis entitled \"Your Are My Sunshine\". In 1968, Judge Reggie spearheaded the Robert F. Kennedy presidential primary campaign in Louisiana. Reggie invited Kennedy to speak at the 1968 International Rice Festival in October of that year, just as Kennedy's brother, John, had done nine years earlier. As history unfolded, Robert Kennedy was assassinated", "title": "Edmund Reggie" }, { "id": "13472301", "text": "album \"Fork in the Road.\" \"Postage Stamp,\" was self-released in February 2009 at the request of thousands of online fans who encouraged the singer to self-produce. The album cut of \"You are My Sunshine\" was featured on a 2009 national Charter Communications advertisement. http://www.splendad.com/ads/songs/2010 This version of \"You are My Sunshine\" was also Rose's audition song for the Fox television show X Factor in 2011. She hails from a family of poets, actors, and musicians dating back to the 15th century. Her paternal ancestors began the comedy troupe Commedia dell'arte in the 16th Century; Isabella Andreini, the Inamorata of the", "title": "LiliAna Rose" }, { "id": "1309099", "text": "also peaked at No. 1. During the same time as the album's release, Wonder began touring with the Rolling Stones to alleviate the negative effects from pigeonholing as a result of being an R&B artist in America. Wonder's touring with the Stones was also a factor behind the success of both \"Superstition\" and \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\". Between them, the two songs won three Grammy Awards. On an episode of the children's television show \"Sesame Street\" that aired in April 1973, Wonder and his band performed \"Superstition\", as well as an original called \"Sesame Street Song\", which", "title": "Stevie Wonder" }, { "id": "11216704", "text": "All for the Love of Sunshine \"All for the Love of Sunshine\" is a song recorded by American country music singer Hank Williams Jr.. Written by music executive Mike Curb, Harley Hatcher and Lalo Schifrin, the song went to number-one on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart in September 1970. Williams was backed by The Mike Curb Congregation on the song. It was included on the soundtrack of the 1970 film, \"Kelly's Heroes\". \"All for the Love of Sunshine\" was covered by soul singer Solomon Burke and by country singer Kitty Wells for an album titled \"Your Love Is The", "title": "All for the Love of Sunshine" }, { "id": "15040083", "text": "win a coveted young inventors award. The film starred Bowser, Jimmi Simpson, Kevin Corrigan, Mark Boone Junior, Dee Wallace, Craig Anton, Ruby Wendell, F. Jason Whitaker and Chris Hardwick. It featured cameos by Dave Allen, Chris Franjola, Keir O'Donnell, Martha Madison and Ron Lynch. The film screened at The Hollywood Film Festival and The Sci-Fi-London Film Festival. Later that year Bowser would direct the music videos for \"The Grey Man\" and \"Not So Tough Found Out\" for the Copeland album \"You Are My Sunshine\" which was released as a bonus feature on the deluxe version of the record. In 2009,", "title": "Andrew Bowser" }, { "id": "15668706", "text": "in Wink, Texas. His parents Orbie Lee and Nadine, gave him a guitar for his sixth birthday and taught him the chords to \"You Are My Sunshine\". Roy Orbison grew up around country music and later stated it was a great influence to him. “I grew up with country music in Texas. The first singer I heard on the radio who really slayed me was Lefty Frizzell. He had this technique which involved sliding syllables together that really blew me away.” By the time Orbison was eight years old he was performing on local radio shows, and at thirteen years", "title": "Roy Orbison's Sun Recordings" }, { "id": "2838762", "text": "with Wakely in the PRC film \"I'm from Arkansas\", where they sang \"You Are My Sunshine\" and \"Whistlin' (Walkin') Down the Lane With You\" with Wakely. In 1945, when Eddie Dean introduced her to guitarist Les Paul, she was a popular western vocalist on KXLA's \"Dinner Bell Round-Up Time\". The two began performing together in 1946. After Summers left the Sunshine Girls to work with Paul and his trio, she was replaced initially by Marilyn Myers Tuttle. After Tuttle left, Summer's older sister, Eva, sang with Earler and Widener as the Three Rays on the \"Jimmy Wakely Show\" on CBS.", "title": "Mary Ford" }, { "id": "13472299", "text": "LiliAna Rose LiliAna Rose (born June 15, 1984) is a folk-pop, singer-songwriter from New York City, of English and Italian descent. She is best known for a reimagining of the classic \"You Are My Sunshine.\" Rose has been a fixture of the West Village acoustic scene since her debut at The Bitter End in 2000. The Wall Street Journal calls Rose's voice \"fluttery, with an almost country twang.\" CNN has stated \"If Reba McEntire were a teenager today, she might sound like this girl.\" Rose is a member of the new folk revival which began in England in the late", "title": "LiliAna Rose" }, { "id": "8332639", "text": "as well as her own compositions. \"You Are My Flower\" and \"You Are My Sunshine\" have since been re-released on Mitchell's own label, Little Bird Records. At the suggestion of artist Dan Zanes, Smithsonian Folkways signed Mitchell as their first new children's music artist of the 21st century. Mitchell can be heard singing a duet with Ziggy Marley on his 2009 release \"Family Time\". Her first Christmas album, \"The Sounding Joy\", was released on October 15, 2013. This collection of folk carols draws from Ruth Crawford Seeger’s 1953 songbook \"American Folk Songs for Christmas\". The album includes Mitchell’s family, friends", "title": "Elizabeth Mitchell (musician)" }, { "id": "5365591", "text": "including volunteering for the Portland-based nonprofit Friends of Trees and raising money for a trust fund established for Keiana Serrill, the granddaughter of Timber Jim, the team's lumberjack mascot. Timber Jim's daughter, Hannah, was killed in an automobile accident in 2004, and in her memory, the TA has made a tradition of singing \"You Are My Sunshine.\" Timber Jim retired in 2008, but the tradition is carried on by Jim's successor, \"Timber Joey.\" In 2010, the Timbers Army established 107 Independent Supporters Trust, or 107ist, in order to plan tifo, bus trips to away matches, and charitable work. The Timbers", "title": "Timbers Army" }, { "id": "4338075", "text": "According to Ian MacDonald, the line-up on the Beatles' recording was as follows. The Beatles Additional musicians Here Comes the Sun \"Here Comes the Sun\" is a song written by George Harrison that was first released on the Beatles' 1969 album \"Abbey Road\". Along with \"Something\" and \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps\", it is one of Harrison's best-known compositions from the Beatles era. The song was written at the country house of his friend Eric Clapton, where Harrison had chosen to play truant for the day, to avoid attending a meeting at the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation. The lyrics reflect", "title": "Here Comes the Sun" }, { "id": "9556268", "text": "number nine on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It received positive reviews from music critics, and its chart success caused Len to be considered a one-hit wonder. The song earned a nomination for \"Best Single\" at the Juno Awards of 2000. The backdrop is based on a sample of a short instrumental portion of the Andrea True Connection's 1976 disco single \"More, More, More\", which Diamond wrote and composed specifically for the Connection's lead singer, former porn star Andrea True. Supposedly inspired by The Human League's 1981 synthpop hit \"Don't You Want Me\", the song's vocals alternate between Marc and", "title": "Steal My Sunshine" }, { "id": "1692026", "text": "Bill Withers William Harrison Withers Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. He recorded several major hits, including \"Lean on Me\", \"Ain't No Sunshine\", \"Use Me\", \"Just the Two of Us\", \"Lovely Day\", and \"Grandma's Hands\". Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for four more. His life was the subject of the 2009 documentary film \"Still Bill\". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Bill Withers was born in the small coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia. He was", "title": "Bill Withers" }, { "id": "2832988", "text": "1999's \"With You\", which reached No. 9 on the country charts and No. 41 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, her only entry on the latter chart. Lila Elaine McCann was born on December 4, 1981 in Puyallup, Washington. She gave her first public performance at age four, when she sang \"You Are My Sunshine\" in her father's country music band. Later on, she became a local performer in her own right, singing in small venues around her hometown. By the time she was in her early teens, McCann recorded \"Down Came a Blackbird\", a song which was given to her", "title": "Lila McCann" }, { "id": "3274202", "text": "perform on a Disneyland televised special as a barbershop quartet. In short order, the group was invited to audition for \"The Andy Williams Show\". Williams initially had reservations about featuring children on the program, however, encouraged by his father to try them out, they proved in a short period of time to become an asset to the program, and soon became regulars on the show and gained popularity quickly. In 1963, Donny Osmond made his debut on the show at the age of five singing \"You Are My Sunshine.\" The brothers continued to perform on the show throughout the 1960s", "title": "Donny Osmond" }, { "id": "13401154", "text": "Back to Louisiana\" was re-recorded in 2006 to encourage victims of Hurricane Katrina to return home to rebuild. The Louisiana State Legislature adopted \"Come Back to Louisiana\" as the third state song. The two others are \"You Are My Sunshine\" by former Governor Jimmie Davis and \"Give Me Louisiana\". Chevalier's office was flooded, and his home suffered tree damage during Hurricane Katrina. He re-introduced \"Come Back to Louisiana\" and sang it A cappella to the legislature. In the 1970s, Chevalier returned to Louisiana from appearances in Las Vegas, to manage a number of political campaigns. In October 1991, Chevalier ran", "title": "Jay Chevalier" }, { "id": "9975012", "text": "Vernon Burch Vernon Darrell Burch (born 1955) is an American R&B/soul singer and guitarist. In 1975 Burch signed to United Artists, where he released his debut album, \"I'll Be Your Sunshine\". Later he moved to Columbia Records and then Chocolate City Records, which was distributed by Casablanca Records and Filmworks. He later recorded for Spector. Two of his singles, \"Changes (Messin' with My Mind) in 1975 and \"Do It to Me\" in 1981, made it into the \"Billboard\" R&B top 20 chart. Burch's other singles include \"Brighter Days\", \"Steppin' Out\", \"Love Is\", \"Never Can Find a Way (Hot Love)\", \"Once", "title": "Vernon Burch" }, { "id": "11196363", "text": "Bring Me Sunshine \"Bring Me Sunshine\" is a song written in 1966 by the composer Arthur Kent, with lyrics by Sylvia Dee, and first performed by American artists in the late 1960s. In the UK, the song is synonymous with the popular comedy duo Morecambe & Wise, after it was adopted as their signature tune in their second series for the BBC in 1969. Professor of Critical Musicology at the University of Leeds, Prof Derek B Scott, argues that the song is influenced by the Viennese popular style. He writes: Although the second verse was often performed by an orchestra", "title": "Bring Me Sunshine" }, { "id": "14188947", "text": "(LP, Album) N.T.M. Records 1989 One Blood One Love (LP, Album) Epic 1989 Rootsie & Boopsie (LP) Epic 1989 Rootsie & Boopsie (Single) ◄ (2 versions) Epic 1989 Rootsie & Boopsie (7\", Single) Epic 1989 Rootsie & Boopsie (7\", Single) Epic 1989 Rootsie & Boopsie ◄ (2 versions) Epic 1989 Rootsie & Boopsie (12\") Epic 1989 Rootsie & Boopsie (12\") Epic 1989 You Are My Sunshine (LP) BMG Ariola Discos 1989 Get Up Disco Mix 12\" (12\") Epic 1990 Please Stay (12\") N.T.M. Records, Discomagic Records 1993 Rootsie & Boopsie - You Are My Sunshine (Single) ◄ (4 versions) MCA", "title": "Papa Winnie" }, { "id": "19184377", "text": "Sunshine (TV series) Sunshine is a 1975 American television comedy-drama series starring Cliff DeYoung and Elizabeth Cheshire, about a hippie musician raising his young daughter alone after the death of his wife. The series was based on the 1973 made-for-TV movie \"Sunshine\" and DeYoung, Bill Mumy, Corey Fischer, and Meg Foster all reprised their roles from the film. The series originally ran for 13 episodes on NBC in the spring of 1975. The show's opening theme was John Denver's hit song \"Sunshine on My Shoulders.\" Three years after the death of his wife Kate (which occurred at the end of", "title": "Sunshine (TV series)" }, { "id": "15230795", "text": "Caramanica of \"The New York Times\", the song's melody is similar to that of Michael Jackson's \"You Are Not Alone.\" After the release of \"My World\", due to digital sales, the song charted in the lower regions of charts in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. \"First Dance\" was written by Bieber, Usher, Jesse Wilson, Ryan Lovette, Dwight Reynolds, Alexander \"Prettyboifresh\" Parhm, Jr. With the exception of Usher, all other contributors to the song do not have any other credits on the album. The track was one of three songs on the standard edition of the album that", "title": "First Dance (song)" }, { "id": "4720304", "text": "To A Go-Go\". Stevie Wonder, accompanied by his band and his girl group \"Wonderlove\" sang several of his greatest hits, including \"I Wish,\" \"Uptight (Everything's Alright),\" \"Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours,\" \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life,\" \"My Cherie Amour,\" \"Sir Duke,\" and also preceded by a vintage clip of Wonder singing his first hit \"Fingertips.\" Motown 25 was a showcase for the highly anticipated reunion of the Supremes: Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Supremes replacement Cindy Birdsong (original member Florence Ballard had died in 1976). Four of their greatest hits were to be sung that night, including \"Someday", "title": "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" }, { "id": "16803471", "text": "also released on limited edition 7\" vinyl. The song's music video was taken in a shoot in a rural location called Mt. Zion, near Minor Hill, Tennessee. As regards the song's title, it refers to the community of Barton, Alabama, a few miles from White's hometown of Muscle Shoals. In an interview with \"The Sun\", White explained that they (he and Williams) \"wanted a picturesque name for the place and it was the first thing that popped in [his] head and Joy liked the way it sounded.\" \"You Are My Sunshine\", the B-side, is one of the two official songs", "title": "Barton Hollow (song)" }, { "id": "2296696", "text": "debut album included \"The Travelin' Life\", a song he wrote in his teens (originally titled \"Travelin' Man\"), his first hit did not come until he was 21 years old. This song, \"Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows\", co-written with Howard Liebling, was recorded by Lesley Gore and reached No. 13 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the summer of 1965. His first film score was for \"The Swimmer\", after the film's producer Sam Spiegel hired Hamlisch based on a piano performance Hamlisch did at a party. Later he wrote music for several early Woody Allen films such as \"Take the Money and", "title": "Marvin Hamlisch" }, { "id": "4439221", "text": "Brenda Holloway Brenda Holloway (born June 21, 1946) is an American singer and songwriter, who was a recording artist for Motown Records during the 1960s. Her best-known recordings are the soul hits, \"Every Little Bit Hurts\", \"When I'm Gone\", and \"You've Made Me So Very Happy.\" The latter, which she co-wrote, was later widely popularized when it became a Top Ten hit for Blood, Sweat & Tears. She left Motown after four years, at the age of 22, and largely retired from the music industry until the 1990s, after her recordings had become popular on the British \"Northern soul\" scene.", "title": "Brenda Holloway" }, { "id": "7179126", "text": "Wayne Newton, Joey Bishop, Petula Clark, Don Ho, Juliet Prowse, Ginger Rogers, Bill Cosby, and Red Skelton, to name a few. Steve Sweetland became a very well known European and New York voice teacher. Tommy Webb spent years touring with Mac Davis and Connie Stevens. Lynn Dolin worked on \"The Johhny Mann Show\" and had a solo career in the Christian music field. Jim Gilstrap became a legendary studio singer/contractor and worked with Stevie Wonder for years (his is the first voice you hear on \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life.\" \"Little Ricky\" Richard Doran toured with the National", "title": "The Doodletown Pipers" }, { "id": "10703991", "text": "single on Rock Steady Records and digitally. Recording sessions had also involved TKO alumni Evan Sheeley and Michael Alex(ich) on bass and drums, respectively. Sinsel next turned up fronting The McClellans, a folk/Americana group celebrating \"100 Years of Great American Songs\" such as \"You Are My Sunshine\". Sinsel was seen tracking at Litho Studios in Seattle in 2011 with guitarist Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, former Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickeral, bassist Keith Lowe, pianist Bart Roderick, and Jim Brunner on guitar, mandolin and dobro. The McClennans appeared at the Yakima Folklife Festival in 2012 and 2013. In addition, Sinsel", "title": "TKO (band)" }, { "id": "4652345", "text": "Sunshine of Your Love \"Sunshine of Your Love\" is a 1967 song by the British rock band Cream. With elements of hard rock, heavy metal, psychedelia, and pop, it is one of Cream's best known and most popular songs. Cream bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce based it on a distinctive bass riff, he developed after attending a Jimi Hendrix concert. Guitarist Eric Clapton and lyricist Pete Brown later contributed to the song. Recording engineer Tom Dowd suggested the rhythm arrangement in which drummer Ginger Baker plays a distinctive tom-tom drum rhythm, although Baker has claimed it was his idea. The", "title": "Sunshine of Your Love" }, { "id": "3114206", "text": "’O sole mio \"\" () is a globally known Neapolitan song written in 1898. Its lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua and (1878–1972). There are other versions of \"\" but it is usually sung in the original Neapolitan language. ' is the Neapolitan equivalent of standard Italian ' and translates literally as \"my sunshine\". \"’O sole mio\" has been performed and covered by many artists, including Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle and her sister Carmela, Beniamino Gigli, and Mario Lanza. Sergio Franchi recorded this song on his 1962 RCA Victor Red Seal", "title": "’O sole mio" }, { "id": "10861433", "text": "Rick Besoyan Richard Besoyan (July 2, 1924 – March 13, 1970) was a singer, actor, playwright, composer and director especially of operetta and musicals. He is best remembered for writing the successful satirical musical \"Little Mary Sunshine\". Born in Reedley, California to Amos and Mabel (Madie) Besoyan, on July 2, 1924. In 1928 the family moved to Alameda, California. Besoyan attended Lincoln School, writing his first song when he was twelve. He graduated from Alameda High School in 1942. While in High School, Besoyan and a few friends wrote and produced a musical, \"High and Dry\". He enrolled at the", "title": "Rick Besoyan" }, { "id": "1309098", "text": "full-length artistic statement with songs flowing together thematically. Wonder's lyrics dealt with social, political, and mystical themes as well as standard romantic ones, while musically he began exploring overdubbing and recording most of the instrumental parts himself. \"Music of My Mind\" marked the beginning of a long collaboration with Tonto's Expanding Head Band (Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil). Released in late 1972, \"Talking Book\" featured the No. 1 hit \"Superstition\", which is one of the most distinctive and famous examples of the sound of the Hohner Clavinet keyboard. \"Talking Book\" also featured \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\", which", "title": "Stevie Wonder" }, { "id": "15387266", "text": "album that credits the musicians involved, and they are listed on the back cover of the LP with each track as follows: \"Walk Right Back\" by The Everly Brothers reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, and their run on the UK singles chart that paired the song with \"Ebony Eyes\" included three weeks in the number one position. \"Solitaire\" first appeared on Neil Sedaka's 1972 UK album of the same name but did not make the charts until the Williams version was released the following year. Stevie Wonder's recording of \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\" reached", "title": "Solitaire (Andy Williams album)" }, { "id": "6114019", "text": "than once in a weekend. The band also plays songs from the classic rock, ska, pop genres and even some orchestra and symphonic pieces such as Phantom of the Opera and Carmina Burana. The band is also known locally for the tradition of 'sunshining,' which involves surrounding a person who has done a worthy thing the eyes of the band (it must be noted that this does not necessarily mean good), and singing \"You are my sunshine,\" often off-key and loudly. Similarly, the band often plays \"Hey Baby\" (originally by Bruce Channel), and sings the verse to by-standers, fans, ballboys,", "title": "Huskies Pep Band" }, { "id": "13881432", "text": "with a delicately rendered \"Davy\". The duet \"Davy\", recorded with the song's composer Benard Ighner, is one of the rare occasions that Bassey would share the credits with another vocalist; it was also issued as a single and hit #44 on the US Adult Contemporary chart. The album closes with Bassey's reading of Stevie Wonder's \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\". This album failed to chart in the UK, and peaked at #142 in the US. Her next two studio albums would be top 15 albums in the UK. The original release was in stereo on vinyl and cassette.", "title": "Nobody Does It Like Me" }, { "id": "2487929", "text": "\"Friends of Jimmie Davis\" award was the late former State Senator B.G. Dyess, a Baptist minister from Rapides Parish. The Davis archives of papers and photographs is housed in the \"You Are My Sunshine\" Collection of the Linus A. Sims Memorial Library at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. Davis believed that his singing career enhanced his political prospects. He once told Georgia Republican Ronnie Thompson, a mayor of Macon: \"If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar,\" a play on an old Theodore Roosevelt adage. Davis had several appearances in movies (usually", "title": "Jimmie Davis" }, { "id": "9975013", "text": "Again in My Life\", \"Get Up\", and \"Fun City\". Vernon Burch Vernon Darrell Burch (born 1955) is an American R&B/soul singer and guitarist. In 1975 Burch signed to United Artists, where he released his debut album, \"I'll Be Your Sunshine\". Later he moved to Columbia Records and then Chocolate City Records, which was distributed by Casablanca Records and Filmworks. He later recorded for Spector. Two of his singles, \"Changes (Messin' with My Mind) in 1975 and \"Do It to Me\" in 1981, made it into the \"Billboard\" R&B top 20 chart. Burch's other singles include \"Brighter Days\", \"Steppin' Out\", \"Love", "title": "Vernon Burch" }, { "id": "6091023", "text": "the Oricon Singles Chart, and earned a double Platinum certification for selling over 881,000 units in that region. The second single, \"Chase the Chance\", became her first number single on the Oricon Singles Chart, and her first to sell over one million copies in the country. After a brief hiatus, Amuro released two more singles in 1996: \"Don't Wanna Cry\" and \"You're My Sunshine\". The former track spent a total of three weeks at number one on the Oricon Singles Chart, whereas the latter spent two weeks there. Both singles were successful in Japan, bringing her second and third consecutive", "title": "Sweet 19 Blues" }, { "id": "11216705", "text": "Way\" in 1970. In 2006, country singer Steve Holy also covered the song on his album \"Brand New Girlfriend\". All for the Love of Sunshine \"All for the Love of Sunshine\" is a song recorded by American country music singer Hank Williams Jr.. Written by music executive Mike Curb, Harley Hatcher and Lalo Schifrin, the song went to number-one on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart in September 1970. Williams was backed by The Mike Curb Congregation on the song. It was included on the soundtrack of the 1970 film, \"Kelly's Heroes\". \"All for the Love of Sunshine\" was covered", "title": "All for the Love of Sunshine" }, { "id": "5573378", "text": "Spotlight (Madonna song) \"Spotlight\" is a song by American singer Madonna from her first remix album \"You Can Dance\" (1987). It was released as a single in Japan on April 25, 1988 by Sire Records and Warner-Pioneer Japan. Initially rejected during her \"True Blue\" album recording sessions, the song was written by Madonna, Stephen Bray and Curtis Hudson who had presented the original to the singer. It was inspired by the song \"Everybody Is a Star\" (1970), by American rock band Sly and the Family Stone. The song was remixed by Shep Pettibone, with additional mixing done by John \"Jellybean\"", "title": "Spotlight (Madonna song)" }, { "id": "16949132", "text": "including \"The Old Master Painter\", the perennial \"You Are My Sunshine\" (state song of Louisiana), Johnny Mercer's jazz standard \"I Wanna Be Around\" (recorded by Tony Bennett), \"Gee\" by the 1950s doo-wop group the Crows and quotations from other 20th century pop culture reference points such as the Woody Woodpecker theme and \"Twelfth Street Rag\". These references tended to thematically blur with the other \"Smile\" elements, and there was no definite line drawn between the established Americana and spirituality themes. Perhaps the least obvious example of this blur would be \"The Old Master Painter\"—the \"master painter\" described in the song's", "title": "Smile (The Beach Boys album)" }, { "id": "4439236", "text": "she appeared on the PBS concert TV special, \"My Music: Salute to Early Motown\". Brenda Holloway Brenda Holloway (born June 21, 1946) is an American singer and songwriter, who was a recording artist for Motown Records during the 1960s. Her best-known recordings are the soul hits, \"Every Little Bit Hurts\", \"When I'm Gone\", and \"You've Made Me So Very Happy.\" The latter, which she co-wrote, was later widely popularized when it became a Top Ten hit for Blood, Sweat & Tears. She left Motown after four years, at the age of 22, and largely retired from the music industry until", "title": "Brenda Holloway" }, { "id": "7677990", "text": "It entered the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 at number 90 on January 26, 1974 and moved into the number one spot nine weeks later, remaining at #1 for one week. The song also topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks in 1974. \"Billboard\" ranked it as the No. 18 song for 1974. The song also features strings and winds, including oboes. A 2 1/2-hour made-for-television movie titled \"Sunshine\", which aired on NBC in 1973, used the song as a theme. The movie starred Cliff DeYoung and Cristina Raines. It told the story of a young mother dying from cancer. High", "title": "Sunshine on My Shoulders" }, { "id": "4578616", "text": "Gregg Alexander, and acted as the group's keyboardist, percussionist and backing vocalist. She has also recorded two solo albums, \"Arrive All Over You\" and \"Portable Life\", both of which were produced by Alexander. She has written or co-written a number of songs, including Natasha Bedingfield's hit singles \"Unwritten\", and \"Pocketful of Sunshine\". In January 2015, Brisebois and Alexander were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song \"Lost Stars\" from the film \"Begin Again\". Brisebois was born on June 28, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Mary and Frank Brisebois, a computer instructor. She", "title": "Danielle Brisebois" }, { "id": "8097033", "text": "\"Women For Women 2\" album, proceeds from which went to the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. In August 2008, she released a cover version of \"You Are My Sunshine\" on the compilation CD \"UndisCOVERed\". In 2006, Andreone released an EP of new material entitled \"UNLABELED - The Demos\", which contains a cover version of Beyoncé Knowles's \"Deja Vu\". On September 1, 2009, she released a new full-length CD entitled \"Avalanche\" (written and produced by Andreone and Kevin Fisher). \"Avalanche\" includes a co-written duet with Dan Wilson (Semisonic, Dixie Chicks, etc.). A video was released for the first single, \"Never", "title": "Leah Andreone" }, { "id": "18993972", "text": "on the first version of Wind Beneath My Wings, a song made famous by Bette Midler. Other songs produced for this album were A Couple More Years, I Been Him, If You're Gonna Love Me, Midnight Sunshine, That's When The Magic Begins, The One I Sign My Love Songs To, Upside Down, When The Night Comes, You Can't Take It With You Haffkine and Silverstein released \"Where the Sidewalk Ends\" on cassette in 1983, as an LP phonograph record in 1984, and won the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Recording For Children. The copyright is owned by Sony Music Entertainment", "title": "Ron Haffkine" }, { "id": "5014923", "text": "on October 18, 1960, in a New York City recording session with Stan Applebaum arranging and conducting. Although it only peaked at # 4 in the US, the theme song of \"Where the Boys are\" became Connie Francis's signature tune, followed by several cover versions. Besides the theme song, Francis sang another Sedaka-Greenfield composition: \"Turn on the Sunshine\", in the film. The film's soundtrack also features \"Have You Met Miss Fandango\". The song was sung by co-star Barbara Nichols and featured music by Victor Young and lyrics by Stella Unger. MGM did not release a soundtrack album for \"Where the", "title": "Where the Boys Are" } ]

[ "November 15, 2011" ]

[ { "id": "15945610", "text": "Kindle Fire The Fire Tablet, formerly called the Kindle Fire, is a tablet computer developed by Amazon.com. Built with Quanta Computer, the Kindle Fire was first released in November 2011, featuring a color 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS technology and running a custom version of Google's Android operating system called Fire OS. The Kindle Fire HD followed in September 2012, and the Kindle Fire HDX in September 2013. In September 2014, when the fourth generation was introduced, the name \"Kindle\" was dropped. In September 2015, the fifth generation Fire 7 was released, followed by the sixth generation Fire HD 8,", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "15945622", "text": "currently available. Kindle Fire The Fire Tablet, formerly called the Kindle Fire, is a tablet computer developed by Amazon.com. Built with Quanta Computer, the Kindle Fire was first released in November 2011, featuring a color 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS technology and running a custom version of Google's Android operating system called Fire OS. The Kindle Fire HD followed in September 2012, and the Kindle Fire HDX in September 2013. In September 2014, when the fourth generation was introduced, the name \"Kindle\" was dropped. In September 2015, the fifth generation Fire 7 was released, followed by the sixth generation Fire", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "15945611", "text": "in September 2016. The seventh generation Fire 7 was released in June 2017. On September 7, 2012, upgrades to the device were announced with consumer availability to those European countries with a localized version of Amazon's website (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain). The original Kindle Fire retailed for in 2011. Estimates of the device's initial bill of materials cost ranged from $150 to $202. Amazon's business strategy was stated in 2011 as making money through sales of digital content on the \"Fire\", rather than through sales of the device itself. , the Kindle Fire was the second best", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "15945616", "text": "for 80 applications, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books. According to Amazon the first-generation Kindle Fire's 4400 mAh battery sustains up to 8 hours of consecutive reading and up to 7.5 hours of video playback with wireless off; later generations all offered around 7–8 hours Of the 8 GB internal storage available in the first-generation Kindle Fire, approximately 6.5 GB was available for content. The first-generation Kindle Fire has a sensor on the upper left-hand corner of the screen. This was widely considered to be an ambient-light sensor, disabled since an early software upgrade. Color display", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "15945612", "text": "selling tablet after Apple's iPad, with about 7 million units sold according to estimates by Forrester Research and Amazon's tablets were the fourth best selling. On September 6, 2012, the Kindle Fire was upgraded to the second generation, and its price was reduced to , RAM upgraded to 1 GB and processor clock speed upgraded to 1.2 GHz. A more powerful and video-friendly version, the Kindle Fire HD (7 and 8.9 inch versions) was also made available, initially priced at $199 and $299. On September 25, 2013, the Kindle Fire HD was upgraded as the third generation \"Fire\", priced at", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "15945615", "text": "improved Fire 7 was released in June 2017, keeping the US$49.99 price point. The Kindle Fire hardware was originally manufactured by Quanta Computer (an Original Design Manufacturer), which had also helped design the BlackBerry PlayBook, using it as a hardware template for the Kindle Fire. First-generation Kindle Fire devices employed a 1-GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 dual-core processor. The device has a 2-point multi-touch color LCD screen with a diagonal length of and a 600×1024-pixel resolution (160 dpi density). Connectivity is through 802.11n Wi-Fi and USB 2.0 (Micro-B connector). The device includes 8 GB of internal storage—said to be enough", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "16762788", "text": "Fire HD The Fire HD, also known as Kindle Fire HD, is a member of the Amazon Kindle Fire family of tablet computers. The eight generation family consists of: 7\" (2012 model), 8.9\" (2012 model), 7\" (2013 model), 6\" & 7\" (2014 models), 8\" & 10.1\" (2015 models), 8\" (2016 model), 8\" & 10.1\" (2017 models), and 8\" (2018 model). The first model was announced on September 6, 2012 and was available in two versions, 7\" and 8.9\". The 7\" model was released in United States on September 14, then France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom on October 25 and", "title": "Fire HD" }, { "id": "15945619", "text": "GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8. Because of Amazon's USB driver implementation, the first-generation Kindle Fire suffered from slow USB transfer speeds. For example, transferring an 800MB video file may have taken more than three minutes in 2011. It is possible to convert a Kindle Fire to a tablet running standard Android, with some loss of Amazon-related functionality, and lacking features such as Bluetooth, microphone, camera, and memory expansion. Analysts had projected the device to be a strong competitor to Apple's iPad, and that other Android device makers would suffer lost sales. In a 2012", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "15945621", "text": "(IDC) estimated that the Kindle Fire sold about 4.7 million units during the fourth quarter of 2011. The Amazon Kindle Fire helped the company beat their 2012 first quarter estimates and boosted the company's stock in extended trading. As of May 2013, about 7 million units had been sold according to estimates. Statistics for FY2014 or Q1&2 2015 are not yet available. There have been eight generations of Kindle Fire tablets, spread across three different models: Fire, Fire HD and Fire HDX. There have also been different-sized tablets within the Fire HD and Fire HDX models. Items in bold are", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "15945614", "text": "the 8GB version that displays advertisements on the lock screen. it was the lowest-priced Amazon tablet. In June 2016, its price was dropped briefly to . This fifth generation tablet includes for the first time a micro SD card slot for extra storage. In September 2016, Amazon announced the release of the Fire HD 8 which includes the virtual assistant Alexa, priced at . \"Fortune\" reported that, \"As with most of Amazon’s devices, the aim isn’t to make money off of the hardware but instead to sell digital content such as books, movies, and TV shows to users\". A slightly", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "2058530", "text": "We Didn't Start the Fire \"We Didn't Start the Fire\" is a song by American musician Billy Joel. Its lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between 1949, the year of Joel's birth, and 1989, when the song was released on his album \"Storm Front\". The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song was also a No. 1 hit in the United States in late 1989. Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a friend", "title": "We Didn't Start the Fire" }, { "id": "18940128", "text": "initial eight episodes of the series with the first program premiering on Monday, June 22, 2015, at 10pm ET. Season two premiered on February 16, 2016 and increased to 10 episodes. The third season premiered with a \"champion of champions\" match on August 23, 2016, and was announced as having 16 episodes. The fourth season premiered on April 11, 2017, with a \"Judges' Pick\" episode in which the four judges (Neilson, Knight, Baker, Marcaida) each selected one smith from past seasons to compete again. The fifth season premiered on March 7, 2018. On April 17, 2018, a spin-off series titled", "title": "Forged in Fire (TV series)" }, { "id": "15945613", "text": ", and the Kindle Fire HDX was introduced. The Kindle Fire HDX had an improved graphics engine, double the memory, and triple the processor speed of the previous model. The 7-inch and 8.99-inch versions were introduced at and respectively. In September 2014, the Fire HDX 8.9 and the Fire HD were upgraded to the fourth generation of Fire tablets, removing the \"Kindle\" adjective in the naming scheme. There was also the Fire HD 6 that has a six-inch screen with a quad-core processor priced at . In September 2015, Amazon announced the release of the Fire 7, priced at for", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "15945617", "text": "technologies consume much more power than monochrome electronic paper (E-ink) types; Fire offer a typical battery life of 8 hours of mixed usage, while monochrome Kindles offer 15 to 30 hours' use without WiFi—\"battery lasts weeks on a single charge\"—with a much lower-capacity battery. The first generation of Kindle Fire devices run a customized Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread OS. The second-generation Kindle Fire HD runs a customized Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. Along with access to Amazon Appstore, the Fire includes a cloud-accelerated \"split browser\", Amazon Silk, using Amazon EC2 for off-device cloud computation; including webpage layout and rendering, and", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "2058545", "text": "the whole 92'. We Didn't Start the Fire \"We Didn't Start the Fire\" is a song by American musician Billy Joel. Its lyrics include brief, rapid-fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between 1949, the year of Joel's birth, and 1989, when the song was released on his album \"Storm Front\". The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song was also a No. 1 hit in the United States in late 1989. Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and", "title": "We Didn't Start the Fire" }, { "id": "17959212", "text": "and a Bluetooth remote control with a microphone for voice search. It supported 1080p streaming and Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 surround sound but was dependent on internet bandwidth of the user. Unveiled on April 2, 2014, the Amazon Fire TV (1st Generation) was made available for purchase in the US the same day for US$99 and was launched with a video game called Sev Zero. In 2015, the Amazon Fire TV (2nd Generation) was released with improved processor speed and 4K UHD support. Amazon Fire TV is also available in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and launched in India in", "title": "Amazon Fire TV" }, { "id": "15945618", "text": "Google's SPDY protocol for faster webpage content transmission. The user's Amazon digital content is given free storage in Amazon Cloud's web-storage platform, 5 GB music storage in Amazon Cloud Drive, and a built-in email application allows webmail (Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL Mail, etc.) to be merged into one inbox. The subscription-based Amazon Prime, which includes unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, is available with a free 30-day trial period. Content formats supported by the first-generation Kindle Fire were Kindle Format 8 (KF8), Kindle Mobi (.azw), TXT, PDF, unrestricted MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG,", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "541772", "text": "million countersuit filed by Weber. The first single for the album, \"We Didn't Start the Fire\", was released in September 1989 and it became Joel's third and – to date – most-recent US number-one hit, spending two weeks at the top. \"Storm Front\" was released in October, and it eventually became Joel's first number-one album since \"Glass Houses\", nine years earlier. \"Storm Front\" was Joel's first album since \"Turnstiles\" to be recorded without Phil Ramone as producer. For this album, he wanted a new sound, and worked with Mick Jones of Foreigner fame. Joel is also credited as one of", "title": "Billy Joel" }, { "id": "2027818", "text": "Will Young William Robert Young (born 20 January 1979) is a British singer-songwriter and actor from Wokingham, England, who came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the ITV talent contest \"Pop Idol\", making him the first winner of the worldwide \"Idol\" franchise. His double A-sided debut single \"Anything Is Possible\" / \"Evergreen\" was released two weeks after the show's finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in fifth place in \"World Idol\" performing his single \"Light My Fire\". As a teenager, Young studied politics at the University of Exeter before moving", "title": "Will Young" }, { "id": "2129342", "text": "with Morrison and Tom Jones was included on Jones' \"Reload\" album that was released in 1999 and charted at #1 on the U.K. charts in both 1999 and 2000. Ray is one of the cultural touchstones mentioned in the first verse (concerning events from the late 1940s and early 1950s) of Billy Joel's 1989 hit single \"We Didn't Start the Fire\", between Red China and \"South Pacific\". Ray was also referred to in two Eartha Kitt songs, \"Monotonous\" from \"New Faces of 1952\" (\"I even made Johnnie Ray smile for me\") and \"I Want to Be Evil\" (\"I want to", "title": "Johnnie Ray" }, { "id": "17570482", "text": "Fire HDX The Fire HDX, formerly named Kindle Fire HDX, is the high-end model in Amazon's Kindle Fire line of tablet computers. It was announced on September 25, 2013 and is available in two models, 7 inch and 8.9 inch. The 7 inch WiFi model was released on October 18, 2013 and the 8.9 inch WiFi model was released on November 7, 2013 in the United States. In September 2014, Amazon released the second generation of the Fire HDX 8.9 model that has a faster processor and a more powerful graphics processing unit. In addition, the name \"Kindle\" was removed", "title": "Fire HDX" }, { "id": "18842400", "text": "Free Fire Free Fire is a 2016 British action-comedy film directed by Ben Wheatley, from a screenplay by Wheatley and Amy Jump. It stars Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Babou Ceesay, Enzo Cilenti, Sam Riley, Michael Smiley and Noah Taylor. The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2016, and also served as the closer of the 2016 BFI London Film Festival on 16 October. The film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2017, by StudioCanal UK, and in the United States on 21", "title": "Free Fire" }, { "id": "14574115", "text": "was published in July 2013, and as of March 2017 had sold over 1 million copies. A potential film adaptation had Will Smith attached to star, David Koepp to write, and Joe Roth to produce, but never made it out of development. The rights reverted to Sakey, who wrote the sequels \"A Better World\" (2014) and \"Written in Fire\" (2016). Sakey has licensed the \"Brilliance\" franchise to Kindle Worlds, a commercial venue for fan fiction, as \"The Abnorm Chronicles\". Works written by other authors but set in the \"Brilliance\" continuity include \"Twist\" by Kevin J. Anderson. In March 2017, Sakey", "title": "Marcus Sakey" }, { "id": "14439015", "text": "at the top of \"Billboard\" magazine's Best Seller chart that same year. Kay Thompson first performed her song \"The Holiday Season\" as well as her \"Jingle Bells\" variation on December 22, 1945. \"The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)\" was a number three hit for Nat King Cole's King Cole Trio when it was first issued in 1946. The Harry Simeone Chorale reached number 13 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 with \"The Little Drummer Boy\" upon its first release in 1958. In a 2005 interview Williams discusses how \"The Andy Williams Show\" figured into his recording of \"It's", "title": "The Andy Williams Christmas Album" }, { "id": "3935291", "text": "Light My Fire \"Light My Fire\" is a song by American rock band the Doors, which was recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967 on their self-titled debut album. Released as an edited single on April 24, 1967, it spent three weeks at number 1 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in late July, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after its recording. A year later, it re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 following the success of José Feliciano's version of the song (which peaked at number 3 on the Billboard", "title": "Light My Fire" }, { "id": "8389213", "text": "Heaven's on Fire \"Heaven's on Fire\" is a song by the American hard rock band Kiss. Written by vocalist/guitarist Paul Stanley and songwriter Desmond Child, it was the first single released from the group's 1984 album \"Animalize\". Released as a single internationally in 1984, \"Heaven's on Fire\" charted in several countries, even though it failed to reach the top ten in any of the countries where it was released as a single. It did reach #11 on \"Billboard'\"s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and #49 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In addition, the song is one of only a select few", "title": "Heaven's on Fire" }, { "id": "15945620", "text": "review published by Project Gutenberg, the Kindle Fire was called a \"huge step back in freedom from the Kindle 3\"; the reviewer noted that Amazon introduced a \"deliberate limitation\" into the Fire that didn't exist in the previous version: it is no longer possible to download free e-books from websites such as Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive and Google Books and have them stored permanently in the same places where books from Amazon are kept. Customers began receiving Kindle Fires on November 15, 2011, and in December 2012, customers had purchased over a million Kindle devices per week. International Data Corporation", "title": "Kindle Fire" }, { "id": "16762796", "text": "Alexa Hands-Free and the new \"Show Mode\", in which the tablet acts like an Amazon Echo Show. <nowiki>*</nowiki>table above only includes data on \"HD\"-branded tablets Fire HD The Fire HD, also known as Kindle Fire HD, is a member of the Amazon Kindle Fire family of tablet computers. The eight generation family consists of: 7\" (2012 model), 8.9\" (2012 model), 7\" (2013 model), 6\" & 7\" (2014 models), 8\" & 10.1\" (2015 models), 8\" (2016 model), 8\" & 10.1\" (2017 models), and 8\" (2018 model). The first model was announced on September 6, 2012 and was available in two versions,", "title": "Fire HD" }, { "id": "20298900", "text": "content and support DRM restrictions, but unlike EPUB, they are proprietary formats. AZW files debuted with the first Amazon Kindle in 2007. Software such as the free and open source calibre, Amazon's \"KindleGen\", and the email based Send-to-Kindle service are available to convert e-books into supported Kindle file formats. Kindle devices can also display some generic document formats such as plain text (TXT) and Portable Document Format (PDF) files; however, reflowing is not supported for these file types. In late 2011, the Kindle Fire introduced \"Kindle Format 8\" (KF8), also known as AZW3 file format. AZW3 supports a subset of", "title": "Kindle File Format" }, { "id": "11191155", "text": "focuses on Amazon's E Ink e-readers; for the LCD tablets that formerly included the \"Kindle\" name refer to Kindle Fire, Fire HD, and Fire HDX. Amazon released the Kindle, its first e-reader, on November 19, 2007, for US$399. It sold out in five and a half hours. The device remained out of stock for five months until late April 2008. The device features a 6-inch (diagonal) 4-level grayscale E Ink display, with 250 MB of internal storage, which can hold approximately 200 non-illustrated titles. It also has a speaker and a headphone jack that allows the user to listen to", "title": "Amazon Kindle" }, { "id": "11191171", "text": "capabilities remaining. Amazon announced a new version of the regular Kindle on September 6, 2012. The Kindle 5 was released on September 6, 2012 ($70 ad-supported, $90 no ads). The Kindle has a black bezel, differing from the Kindle 4 which was available in silver-grey, and has better display contrast. Amazon also claims that it has 15% faster page loads. It has a 167 PPI display and was the lightest Kindle at 5.98 oz until 2016's Kindle Oasis. The Kindle Paperwhite (1st generation) was announced on September 6, 2012, and released on October 1. It has a 6 in, 212", "title": "Amazon Kindle" }, { "id": "20795517", "text": "(#20) and Johnny Chester's Mother's Day tribute, \"The World's Greatest Mum\" (#9). This was the last major Fable hit for some time, but the label bounced back in early 1975 with Bill & Boyd's \"Santa Never Made It Into Darwin\", inspired by the disaster of Cyclone Tracy which went to #1. The duo had further success with their next single, \"Put Another Log On The Fire\". When Brian Cadd relocated to the USA in 1976, Bootleg lost its main creative force and its fortunes waned (although Fable continued to release records on Bootleg until 1978). By this time, major changes", "title": "Fable Records" }, { "id": "18581294", "text": "had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2015. Shortly after its premiere, The Orchard and Sony Pictures Worldwide acquired North American and international distribution rights respectively. The film went to be shown at the Chattanooga Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Chicago Critics Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and Traverse City Film Festival. The film was given a limited release in American theaters on August 21, 2015, earning $25,000 from three locations on its opening weekend. It later expanded to 30 theaters and earned a total of $119,364 from its 38-day run. It was released on", "title": "Digging for Fire" }, { "id": "15496411", "text": "pilot episode was the only one distributed to critics for review, an uncommon practice for new series, which usually make multiple episodes available upon premiering. The first season was released on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1 on May 5, 2015. The second season was released on DVD in region 1 on August 9, 2016. Season one was released on Netflix and AMC.com for home streaming on April 8, 2015, for a limited time. It is also available on Amazon Video in the UK and Germany. In December 2017, the entire series became available for streaming on Netflix. The series", "title": "Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)" }, { "id": "1601518", "text": "III, Los Lobos, Dar Williams, Deana Carter, Ani DiFranco, Son Volt, Ben Harper, Aimee Mann, and Michael Penn. Three additional tracks covered other Springsteen songs in the same vein: Johnny Cash's contribution was \"I'm on Fire\", a track from Springsteen's best-selling album \"Born in the U.S.A.\". The Beat Farmers recorded \"Reason to Believe\" for their 1985 debut album, \"Tales of the New West\". In 1993, The Band included a cover of \"Atlantic City\" on their album, \"Jericho\". Minneapolis Celtic rock band Boiled in Lead covered \"State Trooper\" on its 1994 album \"Antler Dance\". Minnesota indie-rock band Halloween, Alaska covered \"State", "title": "Nebraska (album)" }, { "id": "11674503", "text": "Firestarter (film) Firestarter is a 1984 American science-fiction horror film based on Stephen King's 1980 novel of the same name. The plot concerns a young girl who develops pyrokinesis and the secret government agency known as the Shop which seeks to control her. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester, and stars David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Martin Sheen and George C. Scott. The film was shot in and around Wilmington, Chimney Rock, and Lake Lure, North Carolina. A miniseries follow-up to the film \"\", was released in 2002 on the Sci-Fi Channel. Andy McGee (Keith) met his future wife,", "title": "Firestarter (film)" }, { "id": "402292", "text": "(1969), \"Morrison Hotel\" (1970), \"Absolutely Live\" (1970) and \"L.A. Woman\" (1971), with 20 Gold, 14 Platinum, 5 Multi-Platinum and 1 Diamond album awards in the United States alone. By the end of 1971, it was reported that the Doors had sold 4,190,457 records domestically and 7,750,642 singles. The band had three million-selling singles in the U.S. with \"Light My Fire\", \"Hello, I Love You\" and \"Touch Me\". After Morrison's death in 1971, the surviving trio released two albums \"Other Voices\" and \"Full Circle\" with Manzarek and Krieger sharing lead vocals. The three members also collaborated on the spoken word recording", "title": "The Doors" }, { "id": "8421736", "text": "below), and was also in the Top 5 at the same time as Jose Feliciano's version of \"Light My Fire\". This put two of the Doors' tunes simultaneously in the Top 5. Hello, I Love You \"Hello, I Love You\" is a song written by Jim Morrison of the American rock band the Doors from their 1968 album \"Waiting for the Sun\". It was released as a single that same year, reaching number one in the United States and selling over a million copies in the U.S. alone. In Canada, it hit number one as well. The single also became", "title": "Hello, I Love You" }, { "id": "4978510", "text": "Fire (1996 film) Fire () is a 1996 Indian-Canadian romantic drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, starring Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. It is the first installment of Mehta's \"Elements trilogy\"; it is succeeded by \"Earth\" (1998) and \"Water\" (2005). The film is loosely based on Ismat Chughtai's 1942 story, \"Lihaaf (The Quilt)\". It was one of the first mainstream Bollywood films to explicitly show homosexual relations. After its 1998 release in India, certain groups staged several protests, setting off a flurry of public dialogue around issues such as homosexuality and freedom of speech. The film opens with", "title": "Fire (1996 film)" }, { "id": "8226690", "text": "Original Fire \"Original Fire\" is a song by American hard rock band Audioslave. It was released in July 2006 as the first single from the album \"Revelations\". Over a year and a half after release, the song rose back into the UK Rock Chart, at number 11, and a week later climbed to the top 10 at number 6. It was also a substantial rock hit in the U.S., peaking at number 3 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, although it did not chart for several months. Guitarist Tom Morello described", "title": "Original Fire" }, { "id": "2020396", "text": "as a teenager and attended the Pingry School. He also attended the town's public school, Bernards High School, for part of a year. McCarthy's first major role was in the 1983 comedy \"Class\". He involuntarily became a member of the 1980s Hollywood group of young actors known as the \"Brat Pack\". They starred in a few films, among them \"St. Elmo's Fire\" and \"Pretty in Pink\". He starred in the 1987 films, \"Mannequin\" and \"Less Than Zero\", a theatrical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel. In 1985, McCarthy starred with Donald Sutherland and Kevin Dillon in \"Heaven Help Us\" (also", "title": "Andrew McCarthy" }, { "id": "8973494", "text": "first time, created an accompaniment on the spot. The result was a moody number that merges a soft rockabilly beat, lyrics built around sexual tension, and synthesizers into an effective whole; it was one of the first uses of that instrument in Springsteen's music. The song peaked at #6 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 pop singles charts in early 1985. It was the fourth of a record-tying seven Top 10 hit singles to be released from \"Born in the U.S.A.\" The single also reached #1 in the Netherlands for 3 weeks in August 1985, at the same time as two", "title": "I'm on Fire" }, { "id": "2925771", "text": "1987. \"Hearts on Fire\" was the second single from \"Into the Fire\". The song become a minor hit at its time of release. The song peaked at number 26 on the Hot 100 chart and at number 3 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart while reaching number 25 in Canada. \"Victim of Love\" and \"Only the Strong Survive\" would be the two follow-up singles to \"Hearts on Fire\". These singles became minor hits with \"Victim of Love\" reaching number 10 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, number 32 on the Hot 100 and number 49 on the Canadian Singles chart.", "title": "Into the Fire (album)" }, { "id": "16762790", "text": "the Kindle Fire HDX was introduced. On October 2, 2014, the Fire HD third generation was released, which is part of the Fire Tablet's fourth generation, with 6-inch and 7-inch touchscreen sizes. In addition, the Fire HD Kids Edition was released, which is the same device as the Fire HD 6 except it comes with a case and one-year subscription to Kindle Freetime apps. In addition, the name \"Kindle\" was officially removed from the tablets' name. In September 2015, Amazon released a new range of Fire tablets with 7, 8, and 10.1 inch sizes. The 7 inch was simply called", "title": "Fire HD" }, { "id": "834591", "text": "2, 1953 and again on January 2, 1959. Campanella also appeared as Mystery Guest on \"What's My Line?\" episode 171 on September 6, 1953 and as a guest celebrity on \"The Name's the Same\" (ABC-TV) on July 27, 1954. Campanella was also mentioned in the lyrics of the song \"Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit that Ball?\", written and recorded by Buddy Johnson in 1949 (and covered by Count Basie and his Orchestra that same year) and in the lyrics to the song \"We Didn't Start the Fire\" by Billy Joel. Campanella was also honored on the famous Ralph Edwards", "title": "Roy Campanella" }, { "id": "2834302", "text": "Firestarter (novel) Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in \"Omni\". In 1981, \"Firestarter\" was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award. In 1984, it was adapted into a film. The book is dedicated to author Shirley Jackson: \"In Memory of Shirley Jackson, who never needed to raise her voice.\" Andy and Charlene \"Charlie\" McGee are a father/daughter pair on the run from a government agency known as The Shop. During his", "title": "Firestarter (novel)" }, { "id": "6235748", "text": "Trent Tomlinson Trent Tomlinson (born July 3, 1975) is an American country music artist. After several failed attempts at finding a record deal, Tomlinson was signed to Lyric Street Records in 2005, with his debut album \"Country Is My Rock\", released in early 2006. This album produced three Top 40 singles on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Country Songs charts: \"Drunker Than Me\" at No. 19, \"One Wing in the Fire\" at No. 11, and \"Just Might Have Her Radio On\" at No. 21. Three further singles were released in 2009. Tomlinson was born in Blytheville, Arkansas. He was raised in", "title": "Trent Tomlinson" }, { "id": "17649640", "text": "released the same day. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 13 and reached number-one in New Zealand on its sixth week, marking Sheeran's first number-one single in the country. \"I See Fire\" was nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Original Song. \"I See Fire\" plays over the first section of the closing credits of \"\", an epic fantasy adventure film directed by New Zealand filmmaker, Peter Jackson. Released on 13 December 2013, it is the second installment in the three-part film series based on the novel, \"The Hobbit\", by J. R. R. Tolkien. \"The Hobbit\" follows the", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "3935300", "text": "Fire\" in 1968 as a single on the RCA Victor label. It is perhaps the best known cover of this song, reaching number 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts, only a year after the original had been a number 1 hit on the same chart. Feliciano's remake blended Latin influences, including a mixture of classic Spanish guitar, flute and flamenco, with American pop. Feliciano's version of the song is played at a slower tempo than the Doors. The single helped to spur the worldwide success of its album, \"Feliciano!\", which was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards in 1969.", "title": "Light My Fire" }, { "id": "11191156", "text": "audio files on Kindle. It is the only Kindle with expandable storage, via an SD card slot. The device's Whispernet feature was co-designed with Qualcomm, and Kindle was the first device to include free U.S.-wide 3G data access to browse and download e-books from Amazon's Kindle Store. Amazon did not sell the first generation Kindle outside the U.S. On February 10, 2009, Amazon announced the Kindle 2, the second generation Kindle. It became available for purchase on February 23, 2009. The Kindle 2 features a text-to-speech option to read the text aloud, and 2 GB of internal memory of which", "title": "Amazon Kindle" }, { "id": "11191153", "text": "the United States. In 2004, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos instructed the company's employees to build the world's best e-reader before Amazon's competitors could. Amazon originally used the codename \"Fiona\" for this e-reader. The \"Kindle\" name was devised by branding consultants Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma. Lab126 asked them to name the product, so Cronan and Hibma suggested \"Kindle\", meaning to light a fire. They felt this was an apt metaphor for reading and intellectual excitement. Kindle hardware has evolved from the original Kindle introduced in 2007 and the Kindle DX (with its larger screen) introduced in 2009. The", "title": "Amazon Kindle" }, { "id": "767844", "text": "I'm on Fire\", \"Glory Days\", \"I'm Goin' Down\", and \"My Hometown\". The album debuted at number nine on the \"Billboard\" 200 during the week of June 23, 1984, and after two weeks, it reached the top of the chart on July 7, staying at number one for seven weeks; it remained on the chart for one hundred forty three weeks. It was also a commercial success in Europe and Oceania; in the United Kingdom the album entered at number two on June 16, and after thirty four weeks, on February 16, 1985, it reached number one and topped the chart", "title": "Born in the U.S.A." }, { "id": "3163766", "text": "Sweet Baby James Sweet Baby James is the second album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, the album includes one of Taylor's earliest successful singles: \"Fire and Rain\", which reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The album itself reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Album Charts. \"Sweet Baby James\" made Taylor one of the main forces of the ascendant singer-songwriter movement. The album was nominated to a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, in 1971. The album was listed at #104 on \"Rolling Stone\" \"Magazine\"'s 500 Greatest Albums", "title": "Sweet Baby James" }, { "id": "19652440", "text": "concurrently debuted at number 29 on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, becoming Kenny's 25th Top 40 hit on the all-genre chart. It also rose from number 43 to number two on Hot Country Songs chart, eventually peaking at number one. On the Country Airplay chart, it debuted at number 22 and has reached number one. \"Setting the World on Fire\" debuted at number 35 on the Adult Pop Songs chart for the week of October 8, 2016 and is Chesney's first entry on the chart. As of January 2017, it has sold 624,000 copies in the United States. The music", "title": "Setting the World on Fire" }, { "id": "5644170", "text": "Mare Winningham Mary Megan \"Mare\" Winningham (; born May 16, 1959) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. An eight-time Emmy Award nominee, she won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for \"Amber Waves\" in 1980 and \"George Wallace\" in 1998. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1995 film \"Georgia\". Winningham's other film and TV roles include \"St. Elmo's Fire\" (1985), \"Miracle Mile\" (1988), \"Turner & Hooch\" (1989), \"The War\" (1994), \"Dandelion\" (2004), \"Swing Vote\" (2008), \"Brothers\" (2009), \"Mildred Pierce\" (2011), \"Hatfields & McCoys\" (2012) and four seasons of \"American Horror", "title": "Mare Winningham" }, { "id": "14030076", "text": "\"On the Sun\", was released three years later in 2004 and debuted at number 3 in the New Zealand music charts. It later went on to double-platinum status, as well as spawning three popular singles; \"So True\", \"Turn It Around\", and \"Fire\". So True reached number 32 on the New Zealand singles chart, as well as number 29 on the France Groove Chart, and number 100 on the French singles chart. \"Into the Dojo\" was the third studio album released by The Black Seeds, and was released in 2006. It spent five consecutive weeks at number 1 on the New", "title": "The Black Seeds discography" }, { "id": "4859871", "text": "Fraustino, Marijane Meaker, David Lubar, Lois Metzger, Gloria D. Miklowitz, Dian Curtis Regan, Graham Salisbury, Marilyn Singer, and Suzanne Fisher Staples. It was selected by Chris Crowe as one of fifty short story collections worth reading. The Fire-Us Trilogy (Book 1: The Kindling, Book 2: Keepers of the Flame, and Book 3: The Kiln) is a series of post-apocalyptic young adult fiction by Jennifer Armstrong and Nancy Butcher. The series begins in 2007, five years after a plague of unknown origin has killed the vast majority of the human population. The plot concerns the family, a group of orphan children", "title": "Jennifer Armstrong" }, { "id": "19467975", "text": "Hungary, and Scotland. \"Just like Fire\" saw its greatest commercial success in Australia, where it debuted at number 2 on the ARIA Singles Chart. The following week, the song rose to number one, giving Pink her eighth Australian No. 1, and was also certified Gold by ARIA. It has since been certified triple Platinum. In Canada, the song entered the \"Billboard\" Canadian Hot 100 at number 35 on the chart dated May 7, 2016. \"Just like Fire\" made its TV debut at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards on May 22, 2016, where Pink soared over the crowd through a series", "title": "Just like Fire" }, { "id": "17959215", "text": "TV to compete with gaming consoles; instead, its gaming capabilities are geared toward people who do not already own a console but may play games on a smartphone or tablet. It has a dedicated controller accessory. Amazon released a 2nd-generation Fire TV, codenamed \"Sloane\", in late 2015. The 2nd generation features 4K Ultra High Definition support, improved processor performance, and a MediaTek 8173C chipset to support H.265 (HEVC), VP8, and VP9 codecs. Wireless hardware upgrades includes a dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi with 2x2 MIMO and Bluetooth 4.1. On September 27, 2017, Amazon announced the third generation Fire TV alongside 5 other", "title": "Amazon Fire TV" }, { "id": "3935293", "text": "include the song. \"Light My Fire\" achieved modest success in Australia, where it peaked at number 22 on the ARIA chart. The single originally reached number 49 in the UK in 1967, but experienced belated success in that country in 1991, when a reissue peaked at number 7. This reissue was more successful in Ireland, peaking atop the IRMA chart for two weeks in June. The reissue occurred due to a revived interest in the band following Oliver Stone's film biopic \"The Doors\". The song is ranked at number 35 on \"Rolling Stone\"'s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of", "title": "Light My Fire" }, { "id": "1951913", "text": "Joel Schumacher Joel T. Schumacher (; born August 29, 1939) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Schumacher rose to fame after directing hit films, including: \"St. Elmo's Fire\" (1985), \"The Lost Boys\" (1987) and \"Flatliners\" (1990). He later went on to direct John Grisham adaptations \"The Client\" (1994) and \"A Time to Kill\" (1996). His films \"Falling Down\" (1993) and \"8mm\" (1999) competed for Palme d'Or and Golden Bear, respectively. In 1993, he signed on to direct the next installments of the Batman film series. Schumacher-directed Batman films \"Batman Forever\" (1995) and \"Batman & Robin\" (1997) received mixed-to-negative", "title": "Joel Schumacher" }, { "id": "17947893", "text": "includes collaborations with Britney Spears. She performed back-up vocals for Spears on multiple songs such as \"Circus\", \"Hold It Against Me\", \"Till the World Ends\" and \"Work Bitch\". Marie also wrote the song \"Body Ache\" for Spears' 2013 album \"Britney Jean\", \"Whatever We Want\" by Havana Brown and penned the Lil Wayne single \"Start a Fire\" featuring Christina Milian in 2015. Cosmo is the daughter of a writer and rapper from the Seattle area and she was exposed to music at an early age. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of 18 and began working on her solo", "title": "My Crazy Girlfriend" }, { "id": "18842409", "text": "at the Toronto International Film Festival, and served as the closing night film of the London Film Festival, on 16 October 2016. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2017, and in the United States on 21 April 2017. , \"Free Fire\" had grossed $1.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $1.2 million in other territories, for a total of $2.6 million. In the United States and Canada, \"Free Fire\" opened alongside \"The Promise\", \"Born in China\", \"Unforgettable\" and \"Phoenix Forgotten\", and was projected to gross around $3 million from 1,070 cinemas in its", "title": "Free Fire" }, { "id": "4769591", "text": "early 1987, leaving many retailers overstocked. Two singles were released from the box set: \"War\" (a cover of the 1970 Edwin Starr hit), which was a #8 success on the U.S. pop singles chart, and \"Fire\" (a Springsteen song that was a top 10 hit for The Pointer Sisters in 1979), which only reached #46 on the \"Billboard\" charts, breaking Springsteen's string of eight consecutive Top 10 singles. Two non-album tracks—\"Incident on 57th Street\", recorded at Nassau Coliseum in December 1980, and \"For You\", taken from the July 1978 Roxy show—materialized on B-sides from the album's singles and on a", "title": "Live 1975–85" }, { "id": "4731803", "text": "\"Respect to You Baby\" on the 1992 \"Love Affair\" album. Also in 1992, Beres released the single \"Fire\". The song received critical acclaim within the Reggae music industry and it was an extremely sought after 7\" single. Now garnering interest from major studios such as Elektra Records, Hammond recorded five more albums in the 1990s as well as several compilations, establishing himself as one of the top lovers rock artists. His first album of the new millennium was 2001's \"Music Is Life\", which featured an appearance by Wyclef Jean, and contributions from Earl \"Chinna\" Smith and Flourgon. The album spawned", "title": "Beres Hammond" }, { "id": "7803986", "text": "again brought back Kerns, Brent and Myles. This time the record was recorded with Michael \"Elvis\" Baskette. The album sold around 29,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 10 on The \"Billboard\" 200 chart The feature single off this album is entitled \"World On Fire\". The song reached the number one spot on Billboards Mainstream Rock Songs. This tour lasted from July 9th 2014 until December 31st 2015. The record was certified silver in the U.K. In 2013, Kerns joined fellow Canadians, Brent Fitz, and Chris Jericho in the Canadian", "title": "Todd Kerns" }, { "id": "20209150", "text": "the performance the band resumed their summer tour, headlining the Agenda Festival in Long Beach, California. The next month the group announced a Beats 1 radio show \"Things We Lost in the Fire Radio\", promising \"new music all summer\". The show's first episode was aired on July 6, 2018, featuring the debut of single \"1999 Wildfire\", released that day with an accompanying music video. The track features vocals by Jazze Pha. On July 18, the single \"1998 Truman\" was debuted as a part of the show's second episode. A music video for the track was released later that day. On", "title": "Brockhampton (band)" }, { "id": "14898141", "text": "In September 2011, Amazon.com announced the Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet deeply tied into their Kindle ebook service, Amazon Appstore, and other Amazon services for digital music, video, and other content. The Kindle Fire runs on Amazon's custom fork of v2.3 of the Android operating system. Using Amazon's cloud services for accelerated web browsing and remote storage, Amazon has set it up to have very little other connection back to Google, aside from supporting Gmail as one of the several webmail services it can access. At a cost of only US$199 for the Kindle Fire it has been suggested that", "title": "History of tablet computers" }, { "id": "17949195", "text": "of 1976 \"Santa Never Made It into Darwin\" won APRA Song of the Year for the duo and Cate its writer. A follow up single, \"Put Another Log on the Fire\", was a cover version of Tompall Glaser's hit from the same year. Bill and Boyd's version reached No. 5 on the New Zealand Singles Chart, and No. 23 in Australia. The duo's self-titled album was issued in December 1975 and peaked at No. 1 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. In June 1976 visiting US artist, Glen Campbell, hosted \"Down Home, Down Under\" on Nine Network with guests including", "title": "Bill and Boyd" }, { "id": "2058532", "text": "said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song. Joel has said, \"I'm a history nut. I devour books. At one time I wanted to be a history teacher\". According to his mother, he was a bookworm by the age of seven. Unlike most of Joel's songs, the lyrics were written before the melody, owing to the somewhat unusual style of the song. The song was a huge commercial success and was Joel's third \"Billboard\" No. 1 hit. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Joel has said, \"There's an element of malevolence in", "title": "We Didn't Start the Fire" }, { "id": "3691992", "text": "Hunting for the record and by Tommy Byrnes on tour while Stegmeyer was replaced by Schuyler Deale. Band regulars Liberty DeVitto, David Brown and Mark Rivera were retained. Joel also hired the percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Crystal Taliefero beginning with this album. Additional musicians Production Storm Front (album) Storm Front is the eleventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on October 17, 1989. It features one of Joel's three No. 1 hits, \"We Didn't Start the Fire\", a fast-paced song that cataloged a list of historical events, trends, and cultural icons from after World War II (when Joel was", "title": "Storm Front (album)" }, { "id": "1394689", "text": "17, 2010, reaching its highest peak of No. 57. On October 10, 2010, Jewel released the third single from \"Sweet and Wild\", \"Ten\". It made its debut on the Hot Country Songs Chart at No. 55 on the week of October 15, 2010, and peaked at No. 51 two weeks later. Jewel's second children's album, \"The Merry Goes 'Round\", was released in August 2011. Like 2009's \"Lullaby\", it is sold under the Fisher-Price brand. In June 2012, Jewel was cast in the lead role as June Carter Cash in the Lifetime original movie \"Ring of Fire\", opposite Matt Ross. Brian", "title": "Jewel (singer)" }, { "id": "8858429", "text": "Fire (Arthur Brown song) \"Fire\" is a 1968 song written by Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Mike Finesilver and Peter Ker. Performed by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, it was released as a single and on the band's debut album, also called \"The Crazy World of Arthur Brown\". The single reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in August 1968 and in Canada. In October, it reached No. 2 in the United States \"Billboard\" charts and No. 19 in Australia. It also reached No. 3 in Germany, No. 4 in France, No. 6 in the Netherlands, No. 7 in Austria", "title": "Fire (Arthur Brown song)" }, { "id": "18355789", "text": "5, six in the Top 3 and peaked at #1 in the country; it moved to the Recurrent Chart on January 28, 2015 where it remained for twenty weeks. It has reached a listening audience of over 500,000 in the US alone. \"Fire\" debuted at #24 on BDS Christian Rock on March 11, 2015 and spent 18 weeks on the chart peaking at #8. \"Worthy\" debuted at #17 and peaked at #3, spending several weeks on the charts at well. Single recorded in November 2015 with Jeremy Holderfield from Seventh Day Slumber, released February 2, 2016. Released November 14, 2017.", "title": "Scarlet White" }, { "id": "2020395", "text": "Andrew McCarthy Andrew Thomas McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor, travel writer and television director. He is most known for his roles in 1980s films such as \"St. Elmo's Fire\", \"Pretty in Pink\", and \"Less Than Zero\". He is ranked #40 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars of all-time list. As a director he is known for his work on the Emmy Award-winning series \"Orange Is the New Black\". McCarthy was born in Westfield, New Jersey. His mother worked for a newspaper and his father was involved in investments and stocks. McCarthy moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey,", "title": "Andrew McCarthy" }, { "id": "13289103", "text": "chart for April 2009. 2NE1 followed up with their official debut single \"Fire\". The song was used for cellphone LG Cyon. It charted number one on offline and online charts in Korea. It was not performed on any TV show except YG's 2010 Tour. \"Fire\" was marked as 2NE1's official debut. The video was filmed in the first week of March 2009. It premiered on March 28, 2009. The video shows both groups dancing together in rainbow and multi-colored shot. A behind-the-scenes version was premiered a few weeks later on May 2, 2009. The video was directed by Hyun Young-seong.", "title": "Lollipop (Big Bang and 2NE1 song)" }, { "id": "2821251", "text": "W brand was trialled in the Sutton branch, with an expressed aim for around 130 shops over a 3-year period to be fitted with a café. The announcement also noted the introduction of a 'click-and-collect' service. The Amazon Kindle officially launched in-branch on 25 October 2012 with an \"outdoor and press advertising campaign\" promoting the launch, with the Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite model going on sale for the first time in the UK along with older models. The Kindles were tailored with Waterstones screensavers, which led to some complaints and customers attempting to return their devices. The release of", "title": "Waterstones" }, { "id": "3935292", "text": "chart), peaking at number 87. The song was largely written by the band's guitarist Robby Krieger, and was credited to the entire band. The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 1967 for 500,000 units shipped. As of December 1971, it was the band's best-selling single; with over 927,000 copies sold. The single was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in September 2018 for 2,000,000 units shipped. A live version was released in 1983 on their album \"Alive, She Cried\", the first of several live albums released in subsequent decades to", "title": "Light My Fire" }, { "id": "541727", "text": "the voice of the character Dodger. Across the 20 years of his solo career, Joel produced 33 Top 40 hits in the US, all of which he wrote himself, and three of which (\"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me\", \"Tell Her About It\", and \"We Didn't Start the Fire\") managed to top the charts. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards. With over 150 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling artists of all time as well as the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling", "title": "Billy Joel" }, { "id": "11191191", "text": "as its predecessor, a 167 ppi E Ink Pearl touch-screen display, and Amazon claims it has a four-week battery life and can be fully charged within four hours. Amazon released the Kindle Oasis (2nd generation), marketed as the \"All-New Kindle Oasis\" and colloquially referred to as the Oasis 2, on October 31, 2017. It is available in 8 GB Wi-Fi ($250 ad-supported, $270 no ads), 32 GB Wi-FI ($280 ad-supported, $300 no ads) and 32 GB Wi-Fi + 3G ($350 no ads) models with a 7-inch E Ink display with 300 ppi. It has an asymmetric design like the 1st", "title": "Amazon Kindle" }, { "id": "17649641", "text": "quest of a home-loving hobbit, a fictional, diminutive humanoid, to win a share of the treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug. Sheeran has a lifelong devotion to the novel of Tolkien. His grandfather owns a first edition copy. It was the first book Sheeran's father read to him as a child, and the first book that he read himself. On 5 November 2013, Sheeran announced his involvement in the soundtrack in a series of online posts, which included his thanking Jackson for the opportunity. He is also a fan of Jackson's films. Jackson was introduced to Sheeran's music through his", "title": "I See Fire" }, { "id": "8887126", "text": "Relight My Fire \"Relight My Fire\" is a popular song which was written and released by Dan Hartman in 1979, when it topped the US dance music charts for six weeks. It was also performed by Costa Anadiotis' band Café Society in 1984 and British boy band Take That (with Lulu in a featured role) in 1993. The song is from the 1979 Dan Hartman album \"Relight My Fire\". Originally released in 1979 as the follow-up to \"Instant Replay\", \"Relight My Fire\" topped the United States dance charts for six weeks from December 12, 1979 to February 16, 1980; it", "title": "Relight My Fire" }, { "id": "19652439", "text": "at number 26 on the Australian Singles Chart, becoming Chesney's first ever song to chart in Australia. In Canada, the song debuted at number 47 on the Canada Country chart and has reached number one and debuted at number 67 on the Canadian Hot 100 and peaked at number 48. In the United States, the song sold 93,000 copies during its first week, marking Chesney's biggest sales week for a single, surpassing the previous best sales week of his 2012 hit \"Feel Like a Rock Star\". It was the second best-selling song for the week of August 20, 2016. It", "title": "Setting the World on Fire" }, { "id": "16573556", "text": "for MTV Australia titled \"The Janoskians: MTV Sessions\". The show was posted to MTV Australia's website over an 8-week period, but is now available on Youtube to watch on \"MTV International\" Channel. The Janoskians had their first charting hit in 2012 with \"Set This World on Fire\" peaking it at number 19 in the Australian Singles Chart, and also made it to Top 30 in New Zealand and Top 100 in the UK. The follow up single \"Best Friends\" reached number 30 in Australia, and also charted in New Zealand, the Netherlands and the UK. The Janoskians had scheduled a", "title": "The Janoskians" }, { "id": "10474092", "text": "Knock on Wood (Amii Stewart album) Knock on Wood is a studio album by Amii Stewart released in February 1979. The album yielded two successful single releases, \"Knock on Wood\" (#1 US Pop, #6 US R&B, #5 US Club Play, #6 UK, #13 Germany) and \"Light My Fire / 137 Disco Heaven\" (#69 US Pop, #36 US R&B, #5 UK, #26 Germany). A double A-side single with remixed versions of \"Knock on Wood\" and \"Light My Fire\" reached #7 on the UK charts in 1985 followed by a re-issue of \"You Really Touched My Heart\" (UK #89). The original \"Knock", "title": "Knock on Wood (Amii Stewart album)" }, { "id": "10416126", "text": "Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance:", "title": "2007 Utah Blaze season" }, { "id": "5058650", "text": "a Teenage Queen\", which became a crossover hit for Johnny Cash. Other Cash hits written by Clement include \"Guess Things Happen That Way\", which was No. 1 on the country chart and No. 11 on the pop chart in 1958, and the comedic \"The One on the Right Is on the Left\", which was a No. 2 country and No. 46 pop hit in 1966. Clement also produced Cash's No. 1 hit, \"Ring of Fire,\" in 1963. Clement performed \"Guess Things Happen That Way\" on the \"Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute\" on CMT (Country Music Television) in November 2003. In 1958,", "title": "Jack Clement" }, { "id": "6271037", "text": "2004 and 2007, including \"Bcuz of U\", for which she won the award for Best New Actress the 21st PMPC Star Award for Movies. In 2009, Park debuted as a member of 2NE1 with the single \"Fire,\" which immediately catapulted the group to fame. She also released her first Korean single, \"Kiss,\" featuring fellow 2NE1 member CL, in 2009. The group's hiatus beginning in 2014 allowed Park to focus on her television career, co-hosting the South Korean variety show \"Two Yoo Project Sugar Man\", and appearing as a judge on the Philippine talent show \"Pinoy Boyband Superstar\". She also acted", "title": "Sandara Park" }, { "id": "13152251", "text": "2012 and concluded on December 21, 2012. Shooting first took place in and around metropolitan Atlanta. Several District 11 scenes were also filmed in the rural areas of Macon County, Georgia, and the rest of production took place in Hawaii. Some of the wooded scenes were filmed in Oakland, New Jersey. The film was successful, grossing more than $800 million to become the fifth highest-grossing film at the box office in 2013 and receiving positive reviews from critics. Catching Fire Catching Fire is a 2009 science fiction young adult novel by the American novelist Suzanne Collins, the second book in", "title": "Catching Fire" }, { "id": "12259352", "text": "recorded by The Marbles in 1968. The Alien cover reached #1 in Sweden and remained there for six weeks. Later in 1988, Alien released their first, eponymous album, including \"Only One Woman\" as well as \"Brave New Love\" and \"Tears Don't Put Out the Fire\", which was released as a single later that year. In 1989, the band released a re-worked version of it for the US/international market, again titled \"Alien\". This album included eight out of the twelve tracks released in the 1988 album, five of which were remixed. Two new tracks were added, \"Now Love\" being one and", "title": "Alien (band)" }, { "id": "7465610", "text": "Firestarter (The Prodigy song) \"Firestarter\" is a song by the British band The Prodigy, released on 18 March 1996. It was the first single from their third album \"The Fat of the Land\", and their tenth single overall. It was also the group's first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, staying on top for three weeks, and their first big international hit, also reaching number one in Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary and Norway. It featured Flint's punk rock-style vocals which showcased him as the group's frontman. The title and lyrics were subject of controversy in the UK because of", "title": "Firestarter (The Prodigy song)" }, { "id": "1603343", "text": "Jonze and Kim Gordon, and the video for the album's second single \"Divine Hammer\" was directed by Jonze, Gordon and Richard Kern. A looped guitar sample of \"S.O.S.\" was used by the English electronic music band The Prodigy in their 1996 hit single \"Firestarter\". A sample from \"I Just Wanna Get Along\" was used in another track by The Prodigy called \"World's on Fire\" from the \"Invaders Must Die\" album. In 2003, \"Pitchfork\" listed the album at number 64 on their list of The Top 100 Albums of the 1990s. On May 13, 2013, 4AD released \"LSXX\", a deluxe 20th", "title": "Last Splash" }, { "id": "4711476", "text": "lyrics about gun culture. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 11 in its first week on the chart in 2005, and it reached number one on the UK Dance Chart. He won a MOBO for \"Pow (Forward)\" as \"Best Single\", and was nominated at the same awards as \"Best Newcomer\". Following the success of \"Pow (Forward)\", Bizzle released the follow-up singles \"Uh Oh (I'm Back)\", \"Fire\" and \"What We Do\" with Kray Twinz, Twista and Gappy Ranks, the latter two which peaked at number 34 and number 23 respectively. Bizzle's debut album, \"Against All Oddz\" (2005), was released", "title": "Lethal Bizzle" }, { "id": "19161585", "text": "play ‘‘Symphony’’ in August 2013, which peaked at number 18 on the indie chart. In 2015, Moore auditioned for the fourth series of \"The Voice Australia\" with a cover of \"I See Fire\". He was announced runner-up in the finale on 30 August. The following week, his single \"Symphony\" made its ARIA Charts debut at number 52. On 10 September 2015, Moore announced he had signed with Universal Music Australia and spent two weeks working on an album of covers until the label changed their mind and asked for an album of originals. \"That's the beauty of coming second,\" Moore", "title": "A Thousand Lifetimes" }, { "id": "16269758", "text": "single in the United States. Feed This Fire \"Feed This Fire\" is a song written by Hugh Prestwood, and recorded by American country music group Highway 101 on their 1988 album \"101²\". The song was later recorded by Canadian country music artist Anne Murray. Murray's version was released in August 1990 as the first single from her album \"You Will\". The song reached number six on the Canadian \"RPM\" Country Tracks chart in November 1990. In the U.S., the song peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles chart for the week ending Saturday, November 10, 1990. It", "title": "Feed This Fire" }, { "id": "10409701", "text": "3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter:", "title": "2007 Orlando Predators season" }, { "id": "6695723", "text": "Fire to Fire Fire to Fire is an album released in 1995 by American country singer Tanya Tucker. It produced the singles \"Between the Two of Them\" and \"Find Out What's Happenin'\", both of which charted on the Hot Country Songs charts, at #27 and #40 respectively. \"I'll Take Today\" was later recorded by Ty England on his 1996 album \"Two Ways to Fall\", and in 1998 by Gary Allan on his album \"It Would Be You\"; Allan's rendition was released as a single in 1998. The song \"Nobody Dies from a Broken Heart\" was also covered by country singer", "title": "Fire to Fire" }, { "id": "1489556", "text": "nominations for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She had a recurring role on the TV Land sitcom \"Hot in Cleveland\" and a main role on the TNT drama-comedy television series \"Franklin & Bash\" in 2013. Locklear's notable film roles include the science-fiction thriller \"Firestarter\" (1984), the action comedy \"Money Talks\" (1997), the live-action/animated comedy \"\" (2003), and the romantic comedy \"The Perfect Man\" (2005). Locklear was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Diane, a production executive, and William Locklear, a UCLA administrator. Her father was a Colonel in the United States Marine Corps. Locklear attended", "title": "Heather Locklear" }, { "id": "13098826", "text": "Start the Fire (Alcazar song) \"Start the Fire\" was the final Alcazar single, released in 2005 as a second single from their compilation album Dancefloor Deluxe, before their three-year hiatus. The chorus is borrowed from Billy Joel's classic hit \"We Didn't Start the Fire\", though the verses are completely new. It also features samples from Heartache # 9 of Delegation. The maxi single contains two previously unreleased tracks \"Glamourama\" and \"Nothing But the Video On\". These tracks are rumoured to have been recorded for a third Alcazar studio album. The track reached #10 in Sweden, and, randomly enough #87 in", "title": "Start the Fire (Alcazar song)" }, { "id": "18113137", "text": "Fire Phone The Fire Phone is a 3D-enabled smartphone developed by Amazon.com and manufactured by Foxconn. It was announced on June 18, 2014, and marked Amazon's first foray into the smartphone market, following the success of the Kindle Fire. It was available for pre-order on the day it was announced. In the United States, it launched as an AT&T exclusive on July 25. The phone was notable for its hallmark feature \"Dynamic Perspective\": using four front-facing cameras and the gyroscope to track the user's movements, the OS adjusts the UI so it gives the impression of depth and 3D. Other", "title": "Fire Phone" } ]

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[ { "id": "12133745", "text": "\"Danny Phantom\" as Danny Fenton/Phantom's high school crush, Paulina. She also performed the voice of Mercedes \"Meche\" Colomar in the 1998 video game \"Grim Fandango\". Canals-Barrera also played incidental characters in two episodes on the TV series \"The Boondocks\" (\"Grandad's Fight\" and \"Home Alone\"). From 2007 to 2012, Canals-Barrera co-starred as Theresa Russo, the mother of lead character, in the Disney Channel family sitcom, \"Wizards of Waverly Place\". She also co-starred in \"\", a 2009 Disney Channel Original movie based on series. Canals-Barrera also appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movies \"Camp Rock\" (2008) and \"\" (2010), alongside Demi Lovato", "title": "Maria Canals-Barrera" }, { "id": "12133747", "text": "the mother of Fernando Hernandez-Guerrero-Fernandez-Guerrero on the Netflix series \"Fuller House\". Barrera has been married to actor David Barrera since 1999, with whom she has two daughters. Maria Canals-Barrera Maria Pilar Canals-Barrera (née Canals, born September 28, 1966) is an American actress. Canals-Barrera co-starred in a number of short-lived sitcoms, worked as a voice actress, and appeared in several films. She is best known for her role as Theresa Russo in the Disney Channel family sitcom, \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" (2007–2012). She played the role of Connie Torres in \"Camp Rock\" (2008) and \"\" (2010) and co-starred as Lala Pinedo", "title": "Maria Canals-Barrera" }, { "id": "7562125", "text": "as the alcoholic, divorced, single mother Meredith Palmer on the television comedy \"The Office\". Before \"The Office\", she made appearances on \"The Bernie Mac Show\", \"Boomtown\", \"Curb Your Enthusiasm\", and \"Jimmy Kimmel Live!\" In 2008, Flannery was a talent scout on \"Last Comic Standing\" with her \"Office\" costar Brian Baumgartner, and she appeared with the cast of \"The Office\" on \"Celebrity Family Feud\". In 2010 she played Harper's mom on the Disney Channel's \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" as Elaine Finkle. Flannery also appeared as a judge in a 2009 episode of \"Iron Chef America\". She has also appeared on \"The", "title": "Kate Flannery" }, { "id": "9651549", "text": "Wizards of Waverly Place Wizards of Waverly Place is an American fantasy teen sitcom which ran from October 12, 2007 to January 6, 2012 on Disney Channel. The series was created by Todd J. Greenwald, and stars Selena Gomez, David Henrie and Jake T. Austin as three wizard siblings with magical abilities competing to win sole custody of the family powers. Further main cast includes Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals Barrera, and David DeLuise. The series won \"Outstanding Children's Program\" at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in 2009. A film adaptation of the series, \"\", premiered as a Disney Channel Original", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place" }, { "id": "16133240", "text": "McKaley Miller McKaley Nicole Miller (born May 14, 1996) is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring roles as Dana Monohan on the ABC series \"The Gates\" and as Rose Hattenbarger on The CW series \"Hart of Dixie\". Miller was born in Texas. Her first notable acting role was in the 2006 television film \"Inspector Mom\" starring Danica McKellar. She also appeared in a few independent films. In 2011, Miller appeared as Talia in a three episode stint on the Disney Channel sitcom \"Wizards of Waverly Place\", as the love interest to Jake T. Austin's character Max", "title": "McKaley Miller" }, { "id": "16133242", "text": "McKaley Miller McKaley Nicole Miller (born May 14, 1996) is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring roles as Dana Monohan on the ABC series \"The Gates\" and as Rose Hattenbarger on The CW series \"Hart of Dixie\". Miller was born in Texas. Her first notable acting role was in the 2006 television film \"Inspector Mom\" starring Danica McKellar. She also appeared in a few independent films. In 2011, Miller appeared as Talia in a three episode stint on the Disney Channel sitcom \"Wizards of Waverly Place\", as the love interest to Jake T. Austin's character Max", "title": "McKaley Miller" }, { "id": "16735660", "text": "Godfrey was cast into the new role. Godfrey is known for her roles on several television series such as \"NCIS\", \"One Tree Hill\", and \"Wizards of Waverly Place\". The character, while unknown to viewers, would be acknowledged and known to those on-screen. In April 2012, it was announced that Crystal Chappell would enter the cast of the series as Caroline's second mother, in the series' first ever lesbian storyline. Godfrey has a tattoo to symbolize her successful battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, which the producers wrote into the show. In December 2016, Godfrey was put on recurring status with the show.", "title": "Caroline Spencer" }, { "id": "14597401", "text": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 1) The first season of \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" aired on Disney Channel from October 12, 2007 to August 31, 2008. The season introduces the Russo children, Alex (Selena Gomez), Justin (David Henrie), and Max Russo (Jake T. Austin) as they compete to become the leading wizard in their family. Maria Canals Barrera and David DeLuise star as their parents and Jennifer Stone co-stars as Alex's best friend, Harper Finkle. Guest stars and recurring cast include: Amanda Tepe as Monotone Woman, Skyler Samuels as Gigi Hollingsworth, Bill Chott as Mr. Laritate, Daryl Sabara as T.J.", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 1)" }, { "id": "9651565", "text": "Spain, on March 3, 2010 in France and on March 12, 2010 in Poland. Wizards of Waverly Place Wizards of Waverly Place is an American fantasy teen sitcom which ran from October 12, 2007 to January 6, 2012 on Disney Channel. The series was created by Todd J. Greenwald, and stars Selena Gomez, David Henrie and Jake T. Austin as three wizard siblings with magical abilities competing to win sole custody of the family powers. Further main cast includes Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals Barrera, and David DeLuise. The series won \"Outstanding Children's Program\" at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place" }, { "id": "12133742", "text": "Maria Canals-Barrera Maria Pilar Canals-Barrera (née Canals, born September 28, 1966) is an American actress. Canals-Barrera co-starred in a number of short-lived sitcoms, worked as a voice actress, and appeared in several films. She is best known for her role as Theresa Russo in the Disney Channel family sitcom, \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" (2007–2012). She played the role of Connie Torres in \"Camp Rock\" (2008) and \"\" (2010) and co-starred as Lala Pinedo in \"Larry Crowne\" (2011). As a voice actress, she is known as Shayera Hol/Hawkgirl in \"Justice League\" and \"Justice League Unlimited\". She also voiced Sunset Boulevardez in", "title": "Maria Canals-Barrera" }, { "id": "14597402", "text": "Taylor, Brian Kubach as Riley, Shane Lyons as Manny Kin, Eric Allan Kramer as Coach Gunderson, Chelsea Staub as Kari Langsdorf, Sara Paxton as Millie, Julie Brown as Ms. Angela and Jeff Garlin as Uncle Kelbo. The series was created and as executive produced by Todd J. Greenwald, who began developing the show after working as a writer and consulting producer during the first season of \"Hannah Montana\". The show is produced by It's a Laugh Productions and Disney Channel Original Productions. The theme song, \"Everything Is Not What It Seems\", written by John Adair and Steve Hampton, is of", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 1)" }, { "id": "13046437", "text": "Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie is a 2009 American made-for-television comedy-drama fantasy film based on the Disney Channel Original Series \"Wizards of Waverly Place\". It was directed by Lev L. Spiro and filmed primarily in San Juan, Puerto Rico in February and March 2009. The full cast of the series starred in the film, although Jennifer Stone only had a small role at the beginning of the film. The film focuses on the Russo family taking a vacation to the Caribbean. The film premiered on August 28, 2009 on the Disney Channel in", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" }, { "id": "14630544", "text": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 4) The fourth and final season of \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" aired on Disney Channel from November 12, 2010 to January 6, 2012. The Russo children, Alex (Selena Gomez), Justin (David Henrie), and Max Russo (Jake T. Austin) continue to compete to become the leading wizard in their magical family and begin to make difficult decisions about their futures. Maria Canals Barrera and David DeLuise co-star as their parents and Jennifer Stone co-stars as Alex's best friend, Harper Finkle. This is the second season of the series to be broadcast in high-definition. Season 4 of", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 4)" }, { "id": "10105944", "text": "episodes, titled \"The Crooked Candle\" and \"The Purple Woman\". She guest-starred on \"My Three Sons\", playing two different characters who had recurring roles throughout the long run of the show. She originally played the mother of Meredith MacRae whose character Sally Morrison married original oldest son Mike Douglas (Tim Considine) in the 1964-65 season. Later she played Margaret, mother of Polly Williams (Ronne Troup) in the 1970-71 season. At the time of her death in June 2012, Singleton was the last surviving major recurring adult cast member from the \"Lucy\" shows. Her last major acting role was in \"Deadly Messages\"", "title": "Doris Singleton" }, { "id": "13046438", "text": "the United States. It received 11.4 million viewers at its premiere, making it the second-most-viewed Disney Channel Original Movie premiere at that time, after \"High School Musical 2\". It was also cable's No. 1 scripted telecast of 2009 in total viewers. It premiered in the UK and Ireland on October 23, 2009 as part of Wiz-Tober 2009. It was released on DVD on December 15, 2009 as an Extended Edition. The film won the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Children Program. The Russo family, Alex, Justin, Max, and their parents Jerry and Theresa are preparing for a vacation to", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" }, { "id": "9651551", "text": "of Waverly Place\" chronicles the adventures of the Russo Family. The Russos live on Waverly Place in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, above a sandwich shop which they own and run. The family consists of siblings Alex (Selena Gomez), Justin (David Henrie), and Max (Jake T. Austin). The three teenagers are wizards and live with their Italian father, Jerry (David DeLuise), a former family wizard, and their mortal Mexican mother, Theresa (Maria Canals Barrera). When the Russo siblings complete their wizard training, they have to participate in a competition to decide who will become the Family Wizard (the one to keep his/her", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place" }, { "id": "14597403", "text": "techno-pop style and is performed by Selena Gomez. The series is filmed at Hollywood Center Studios in Hollywood, California. Set on Waverly Place in Manhattan, New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood, \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" centers on the Italian-Mexican Russo family, which includes Alex (Selena Gomez), her older brother Justin (David Henrie) and their younger brother Max (Jake T. Austin). The three Russo siblings are wizards in training and live with their Italian-American father Jerry (David DeLuise), a former wizard, and their Mexican-American mother Theresa, who is a mortal. Alex also has a mortal friend, Harper (Jennifer Stone), who at first", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 1)" }, { "id": "10774418", "text": "Jennifer Stone Jennifer Lindsay Stone (born February 12, 1993) is an American actress. She is known for playing Harper Finkle on the Disney Channel series \"Wizards of Waverly Place\", and the main character of \"\". Stone was first cast as Martha in \"Secondhand Lions\", for which she received a Young Artist Award nomination. She recalls only having recognized Michael Caine from \"Miss Congeniality\" while on the set of \"Secondhand Lions\". Stone also received a Young Artist Award nomination for her guest appearance on \"House\" She guest appeared on \"Line of Fire\" and \"Without a Trace\". In 2009, she had a", "title": "Jennifer Stone" }, { "id": "5538087", "text": "last married to photographer Van Johnson from 1979 to 1991. Watson-Johnson has a daughter name Sunde Jinia Johnson (b. 1983) with Johnson. In 2005, Watson-Johnson was a witness in Michael Jackson's second case of child molestation. Vernee Watson-Johnson Vernee Christell Watson-Johnson (born Vernee Christell Watson; January 14, 1954) is an American actress, author, voice artist, and acting coach. Watson-Johnson is best known for her recurring roles as Vernajean Williams on \"Welcome Back, Kotter\" (1975–79) and as Viola \"Vy\" Smith on \"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\" (1990–96), playing the mother of Will Smith's character. She also voiced Dee Dee on Hanna-Barbera's", "title": "Vernee Watson-Johnson" }, { "id": "14597417", "text": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 2) The second season of \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" aired on Disney Channel from September 12, 2008 to August 21, 2009. The season deals with the Russo children, Alex (Selena Gomez), Justin (David Henrie) and Max Russo (Jake T. Austin) continuing to compete to become the leading wizard in their family. Also starring in the series are Maria Canals Barrera and David DeLuise as their parents, Theresa and Jerry, and Jennifer Stone as Alex's best friend, Harper Finkle. Harper now knows that Alex, Justin and Max are wizards. Alex and Justin have new love interests", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 2)" }, { "id": "8602068", "text": "Martine Bartlett Martine Bartlett (April 24, 1925 – April 5, 2006) was an American actress. A life member of The Actors Studio, Bartlett is best-remembered, albeit not by name, for her chilling performance as Hattie Dorsett, the seriously disturbed, abusive mother of Sally Field's title character in \"Sybil\". She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the middle child of three siblings born to George Daniel Bartlett (1894–1971) and his wife Martine (née Fons 1895–1983). George Bartlett was an attorney. Martine graduated from the John Burroughs School and Washington University in St. Louis. She was active onstage with the former St.", "title": "Martine Bartlett" }, { "id": "5578620", "text": "Kim Rhodes Kimberly Rhodes (born June 7, 1969) is an American actress, who portrayed the role of \"Cindy Harrison\" on two different soap operas, \"Another World\" (1992–96) and \"As the World Turns\" (2000–01), as well as Carey Martin in the Disney Channel sitcom \"The Suite Life of Zack & Cody\" (2005–08) and \"The Suite Life on Deck\" (2008–11), where she played the mother of twins Zack and Cody (Dylan and Cole Sprouse). She is also known for playing Sheriff Jody Mills on \"Supernatural\" (2010–). Rhodes was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Benson Polytechnic High School, and", "title": "Kim Rhodes" }, { "id": "8683189", "text": "the second titled \"Stevie Sanchez\" was a spin-off of the series \"Lizzie McGuire\". She later auditioned for a role in the Disney series \"Wizards of Waverly Place\", ultimately winning the lead role of Alex Russo. Upon receiving the role, Gomez and her mother moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, California; Lovato and her family also moved to Hollywood, hoping to achieve similar success to Gomez. \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" saw Gomez portraying a teenage girl in a family of wizards who own a restaurant in New York. The series quickly became a hit for the network, propelling Gomez to more mainstream", "title": "Selena Gomez" }, { "id": "8792640", "text": "Nancy Lenehan Nancy Lenehan (born April 26, 1953) is an American actress who has appeared in film and television since the 1980s. Lenehan was born in Long Island, New York. She co-starred on the short-lived sitcom \"Worst Week\". She also co-starred as Sandy Kelly, the matriarch in the sitcom \"Married to the Kellys\", and had a recurring role on \"My Name Is Earl\" as Earl and Randy's mother, Kay Hickey. She has appeared in featured, recurring and guest roles in many television shows and television movies, and feature films, including \"Malcolm in the Middle\", \"Everybody Loves Raymond\", \"How I Met", "title": "Nancy Lenehan" }, { "id": "5918048", "text": "\"\") and Sergeant Brutto in \"\". In 2005, he starred opposite Maggie Wheeler on the NBC pilot \"The Sperm Donor\". In 2012, he had a guest role on \"Rizzoli & Isles\" as Dominic. He portrayed the character of Jerry Russo, the family patriarch and former wizard on Disney Channel's \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" and \"\" from 2007 to 2012. DeLuise also directed numerous episodes of the series, beginning with the episode \"My Tutor, Tutor\" (2009). He has since directed episodes of \"How to Rock\", \"See Dad Run\", \"Lab Rats\" and \"The Thundermans\". In August 2012 he appeared in a commercial", "title": "David DeLuise" }, { "id": "14597433", "text": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 3) The third season of \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" aired on Disney Channel from October 9, 2009 to October 15, 2010. The Russo children, Alex (Selena Gomez), Justin (David Henrie), and Max Russo (Jake T. Austin) continue to compete to become the leading wizard in their family and meet many friends and adversaries along the way. Maria Canals Barrera and David DeLuise co-star as their parents and Jennifer Stone co-stars as Alex's best friend, Harper Finkle. This is the first season of the series to be broadcast in high-definition. The opening sequence is the same", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 3)" }, { "id": "5538083", "text": "Vernee Watson-Johnson Vernee Christell Watson-Johnson (born Vernee Christell Watson; January 14, 1954) is an American actress, author, voice artist, and acting coach. Watson-Johnson is best known for her recurring roles as Vernajean Williams on \"Welcome Back, Kotter\" (1975–79) and as Viola \"Vy\" Smith on \"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air\" (1990–96), playing the mother of Will Smith's character. She also voiced Dee Dee on Hanna-Barbera's animated series \"Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels\". She also appeared in an \"NCIS\" episode (Season 14, Episode 2: \"Being Bad\"). Watson-Johnson played Blue's love interest in the 1972 film \"Trick Baby\". She was also a", "title": "Vernee Watson-Johnson" }, { "id": "12392701", "text": "record deal. Shortly after, she started auditioning and received a minor role on \"Drake & Josh\" and other guest roles on shows such as \"Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide\", \"The O.C.\", \"Private Practice\" and \"Ruby & the Rockits\". She appeared in two episodes on both television shows \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" as Miranda Hampson and \"How I Met Your Mother\" as Katie Scherbatsky. In 2007, Hale appeared in NBC's short-lived series \"Bionic Woman\", a re-imagining from the 1976 series of the same name. Hale plays Becca Sommers, the younger sister of the title character Jaime Sommers (played by Michelle Ryan).", "title": "Lucy Hale" }, { "id": "14597428", "text": "so his brother turns him into a clown and she leaves. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Wizards of Waverly Place (season 2) The second season of \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" aired on Disney Channel from September 12, 2008 to August 21, 2009. The season deals with the Russo children, Alex (Selena Gomez), Justin (David Henrie) and Max Russo (Jake T. Austin) continuing to compete to become the leading wizard in their family. Also starring in the series are Maria Canals Barrera and David DeLuise as their parents, Theresa and Jerry, and Jennifer Stone as Alex's best friend, Harper Finkle. Harper now knows that Alex,", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 2)" }, { "id": "7435174", "text": "(as Rusty's biological mother), \"Veronica's Closet\", \"Party of Five\", and \"Women's Murder Club\". She has also appeared in television shows such as \"House\", \"\", \"\", \"Will & Grace\", \"Just Shoot Me!\", and \"24\". She had a recurring role on the TV series \"Eureka\", on Showtime's \"Shameless\", and guested on an episode of \"Rizzoli & Isles\". She appears in the Amazon series \"Goliath\". She portrays the character of Linda on the television show \"Code Black\". She has played Naomi Putnam on the Hulu series \"The Handmaid's Tale\" since 2017. Ever Carradine Ever Dawn Carradine (born August 6, 1974) is an American", "title": "Ever Carradine" }, { "id": "5472354", "text": "Nia Peeples Virenia Gwendolyn \"Nia\" Peeples (born December 10, 1961) is an American R&B and dance music singer and actress. Peeples is known for playing Nicole Chapman on the hit TV series \"Fame\", Pam Fields, the mother of Emily Fields on hit TV drama \"Pretty Little Liars\", as Karen Taylor Winters on \"The Young and the Restless\", and as Sydney Cooke on \"Walker, Texas Ranger\". Her most recent role is Grace's mom, Susan, on \"The Fosters\". Peeples was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of Elizabeth Joan (née Rubic), a flamenco dancer, and Robert Eugene Peeples. She was raised in", "title": "Nia Peeples" }, { "id": "6338845", "text": "Suzzanne Douglas Suzzanne Douglas (born April 12, 1957) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as matriarch Jerri Peterson on the WB sitcom \"The Parent 'Hood\", starring Robert Townsend which ran from 1995–1999. Douglas portrayed Amy Simms in the 1989 dance/drama film \"Tap\" alongside Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr; for which she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. In addition to Tap, Douglas has starred in several other motion pictures, among them \"How Stella Got Her Groove Back\" (1998), \"Jason's Lyric\" (1994), \"The Inkwell\" (1994) as well as", "title": "Suzzanne Douglas" }, { "id": "9651555", "text": "for himself and Bailey. The Disney Channel Original Movie, based on the series, premiered on August 28, 2009 on Disney Channel. \"Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie\" was filmed in Puerto Rico in the caribe Hilton hotel, Los Angeles, and New York City from February 16 to March 27, 2009. The movie received 11.4 million viewers on its premiere, making it the second-most-viewed DCOM premiere in the US after \"High School Musical 2\". It was the seventh-most-watched basic cable telecast in 2009. It won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2010 for \"Outstanding Children's Program\". On Friday, January 6, 2012, \"Wizards", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place" }, { "id": "6913212", "text": "Marcella Lowery Marcella Lowery (born April 27, 1946) is an American actress. Marcella Lowery is known for her roles as Geoffrey Owens' mother, Francine Tibideaux, on \"The Cosby Show\", Jamal Jenkins' grandmother on \"Ghostwriter\" from 1992 to 1995, Anna Eldridge in the 1996 film, \"The Preacher's Wife\" and as Principal Karen Noble on the NBC sitcom \"City Guys\". Lowery was born in Queens, New York. She had a recurring role on \"The Cosby Show\" as Francine Tibideaux, the mother of Elvin Tibideaux and mother-in-law of Sondra Huxtable, as well as a brief role in \"What About Bob?\". She was also", "title": "Marcella Lowery" }, { "id": "3981782", "text": "Madge Blake Madge Blake (née Cummings; May 31, 1899 – February 19, 1969) was an American character actress best remembered for her roles as Larry Mondello's mother, Margaret Mondello, on the CBS/ABC sitcom \"Leave it to Beaver\", as Flora MacMichael on the ABC/CBS sitcom \"The Real McCoys\", and as Aunt Harriet Cooper in 96 episodes of ABC's \"Batman\". Gene Kelly had a special affection for her and included her in each of his films following her role in \"An American in Paris\". Blake was born in Kinsley in Edwards County, south-central Kansas, to Albert Cummings and the former Alice Stone.", "title": "Madge Blake" }, { "id": "14603755", "text": "Cristin Milioti Cristin Milioti (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress and vocalist. She has worked in Broadway theatre productions such as \"That Face\", \"Stunning\", and the Tony Award-winning musical \"Once\". She also played the titular Mother on the sitcom \"How I Met Your Mother\" from 2013 to 2014, Teresa Petrillo Belfort in the 2013 film \"The Wolf of Wall Street\", and Betsy Solverson in the second season of \"Fargo\" (2015). She has won a Grammy Award and has been nominated for a Tony Award. Milioti was born on August 16, 1985 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. She is", "title": "Cristin Milioti" }, { "id": "3946825", "text": "Moira Kelly Moira Kelly (born March 6, 1968) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Kate Moseley in the 1992 film \"The Cutting Edge\", as well as single mother Karen Roe on the teen drama \"One Tree Hill\". She is also known for playing the role of Donna Hayward in \"\", replacing Lara Flynn Boyle in the prequel to the 1990 TV series \"Twin Peaks\". Other roles include Dorothy Day in \"\", White House media consultant Mandy Hampton in the first season of \"The West Wing\", and the voice of Simba's love interest Nala in \"The Lion", "title": "Moira Kelly" }, { "id": "14597418", "text": "Dean Moriarty (Daniel Samonas), and Juliet Van Heusen (Bridgit Mendler) respectively. The series characters cross over with \"The Suite Life on Deck\" and Hannah Montana in part one and two of \"Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana\" featuring cast members from \"The Suite Life on Deck\" namely, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Brenda Song, Debby Ryan and Phill Lewis. Guest stars and recurring cast include: Dan Benson, Bill Chott, Skyler Samuels, Josh Sussman, Daryl Sabara, Cindy Crawford, Fred Willard, Rachel Dratch, Dwayne Johnson, Misty May-Treanor, JD Cullum, Anne Ramsay, Amanda Tepe and Jeff Garlin. Alex has another love interest, her classmate", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 2)" }, { "id": "5578623", "text": "Tabitha, with whom Rhodes was pregnant at the end of \"<nowiki>Suite Life'</nowiki>\"s run. Kim Rhodes Kimberly Rhodes (born June 7, 1969) is an American actress, who portrayed the role of \"Cindy Harrison\" on two different soap operas, \"Another World\" (1992–96) and \"As the World Turns\" (2000–01), as well as Carey Martin in the Disney Channel sitcom \"The Suite Life of Zack & Cody\" (2005–08) and \"The Suite Life on Deck\" (2008–11), where she played the mother of twins Zack and Cody (Dylan and Cole Sprouse). She is also known for playing Sheriff Jody Mills on \"Supernatural\" (2010–). Rhodes was born", "title": "Kim Rhodes" }, { "id": "4193319", "text": "mother in \"Along Came Polly\". She guest-starred alongside Chita Rivera in a February 2005 episode of \"Will & Grace\". Also in 2005, she reunited with her \"Knots Landing\" co-stars for the nonfiction special \"\", in which the stars reminisced about their time on the hit series. Also in 2005, she appeared alongside Tyne Daly, Leslie Uggams, Christine Baranski and Karen Ziemba for the Kennedy Center Honor of Julie Harris. In 2010, Lee did voice work for an episode of the animated comedy series \"Family Guy\". She returned to Broadway in 2015 to star as Madame Morrible in the musical \"Wicked\".", "title": "Michele Lee" }, { "id": "7679417", "text": "Candace Brown Candace June Brown (born June 15, 1980) is an American actress and comedian best known for her work on shows such as \"Grey's Anatomy\", \"Desperate Housewives\", \"Head Case\", The \"Wizards Of Waverly Place\". In 2011, she joined the guest cast for \"Torchwood\"s fourth series' \"\", airing on BBC One in the United Kingdom and premium television network Starz. Brown was born in Culver City, California, and was raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale by her mother. She attended Glendale High School in Glendale and later attended California State University, Northridge to study Communications. She studied acting", "title": "Candace Brown" }, { "id": "983610", "text": "She also voices Queen Jipjorrulac, the mother of Mark Chang, in \"The Fairly OddParents\". She voiced the Wicked Witch of the West in \"Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz\", an animated direct-to-DVD film set during the events of the classic 1939 film. On July 9, 2014, Newman appeared on Ken Reid's \"TV Guidance Counselor\" podcast. Newman also works as a writer and editor. She is a contributing editor for the online magazine \"One For The Table\", and she is an occasional contributor to the \"Huffington Post\". She has contributed articles for the \"Los Angeles Times\", \"The Believer\", and", "title": "Laraine Newman" }, { "id": "3825720", "text": "Emily Gilmore in the miniseries \"\" (2016) on Netflix. Bishop resides in South Orange, New Jersey. She was married to the late TV talk show host Lee Leonard. Kelly Bishop Carole \"Kelly\" Bishop (born February 28, 1944) is an American actress and dancer, best known for her roles as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series \"Gilmore Girls\" and as Marjorie Houseman, the mother of Jennifer Grey's Frances \"Baby\" Houseman in the film \"Dirty Dancing.\" Bishop originated the role of Sheila in \"A Chorus Line,\" for which she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a", "title": "Kelly Bishop" }, { "id": "6802810", "text": "Elizabeth Hoffman (actress) Elizabeth Hoffman (born February 8, 1927) is an American character actress. Hoffman was born in Corvallis, Oregon. She is best known for her regular role as Beatrice Reed Ventnor, Swoosie Kurtz', Sela Ward's, Patricia Kalember's and Julianne Phillips' characters' mother, on the NBC drama series \"Sisters\" (1991-1996). Hoffman also guest-starred in a number of television shows and mini-series such as \"Little House on the Prairie\", \"War and Remembrance\", \"Matlock\" and \"thirtysomething\", and well as several movies including playing the role of Grandma Ruth in \"Dante's Peak\". She also played the role of Catherine Langford in \"Stargate SG-1\".", "title": "Elizabeth Hoffman (actress)" }, { "id": "6802811", "text": "Elizabeth Hoffman (actress) Elizabeth Hoffman (born February 8, 1927) is an American character actress. Hoffman was born in Corvallis, Oregon. She is best known for her regular role as Beatrice Reed Ventnor, Swoosie Kurtz', Sela Ward's, Patricia Kalember's and Julianne Phillips' characters' mother, on the NBC drama series \"Sisters\" (1991-1996). Hoffman also guest-starred in a number of television shows and mini-series such as \"Little House on the Prairie\", \"War and Remembrance\", \"Matlock\" and \"thirtysomething\", and well as several movies including playing the role of Grandma Ruth in \"Dante's Peak\". She also played the role of Catherine Langford in \"Stargate SG-1\".", "title": "Elizabeth Hoffman (actress)" }, { "id": "6338849", "text": "member of Girl Scouts of America, The National Council of Negro Women, Sigma Alpha Lambda (a national leadership and honors organization) and Jack and Jill of America. Suzzanne Douglas Suzzanne Douglas (born April 12, 1957) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as matriarch Jerri Peterson on the WB sitcom \"The Parent 'Hood\", starring Robert Townsend which ran from 1995–1999. Douglas portrayed Amy Simms in the 1989 dance/drama film \"Tap\" alongside Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr; for which she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. In addition to", "title": "Suzzanne Douglas" }, { "id": "14172236", "text": "Liz Mikel Elizabeth Juliene Mikel (née Lacy; born November 7, 1963) is an American actress and jazz vocalist from Dallas, Texas. She is best known for her role as Corinna \"Mama\" Williams, mother of star running back Brian \"Smash\" Williams, on the NBC television series \"Friday Night Lights\". Liz Mikel has been performing on stage for more than twenty years, including extended runs with the Dallas Theater Center and Theater Three. In 2007, the \"Dallas Morning News\" described Mikel as \"a fixture on the Dallas theater scene\". She stepped in for Oprah Winfrey in a special 2008 performance of \"The", "title": "Liz Mikel" }, { "id": "13046448", "text": "punishments with grace. While Theresa and Jerry remember nothing about the ordeal, Alex, Justin, and Max do. Their parents are astonished by the change in the kids' attitude. The full cast of the Disney Channel Original Series \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" starred in the film. However, Jennifer Stone as Harper Finkle only made appearances at the beginning of the film, and did not star. \"Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie\" was filmed primarily in San Juan, Puerto Rico between February and March 2009. Hotel scenes were shot at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, while the main cave scene,", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" }, { "id": "8683180", "text": "Selena Gomez Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, actress, and producer. After appearing on the children's television series \"Barney & Friends\", she received wider recognition for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Disney Channel television series \"Wizards of Waverly Place\", which aired for four seasons from 2007 until 2012. With her former band Selena Gomez & the Scene, she attained the top-ten on the US \"Billboard\" 200, with the band's albums \"Kiss & Tell\" (2009), \"A Year Without Rain\" (2010) and \"When the Sun Goes Down\" (2011). As a solo artist, Gomez has released", "title": "Selena Gomez" }, { "id": "4090143", "text": "Betsy Palmer Betsy Palmer (born Patricia Betsy Hrunek; November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015) was an American actress, known as a regular supporting movie and Broadway actress and television guest star, as a panelist on the game show \"I've Got a Secret\", and later for playing Jason Voorhees' mother, Pamela Voorhees, in the popular slasher film \"Friday the 13th\" (1980). Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek on November 1, 1926, in East Chicago, Indiana, the daughter of Marie (née Love), an adoptee, who launched the \"East Chicago Business College\" before she married, and Rudolph Vincent Hrunek, an industrial chemist", "title": "Betsy Palmer" }, { "id": "17419529", "text": "40\". As an actress, Pell appeared in several episodes of \"30 Rock\" as the wife of Pete Hornberger, and played the mother of Ron Swanson in a 2011 episode of \"Parks and Recreation\". She has also appeared as an extra or in bit parts in dozens of SNL sketches. Pell voices Gadget Gal in the Hulu original series \"The Awesomes\". She has a small cameo in the 2013 comedy film \"\". She co-created web series \"Hudson Valley Ballers\" with fellow SNL writer and long time friend James Anderson with whom she also co-stars. Tina Fey produced and starred in Pell's", "title": "Paula Pell" }, { "id": "2531303", "text": "Katherine Helmond Katherine Marie Helmond (born July 5, 1929) is an American film, theater and television actress and director. Over her five decades of television acting, she is known for her starring role as ditzy matriarch Jessica Tate on the ABC prime time soap opera sitcom \"Soap\" (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as feisty mother Mona Robinson on \"Who's the Boss?\" (1984–1992). She also played Doris Sherman on \"Coach\" and Lois Whelan, the mother of Debra Barone on \"Everybody Loves Raymond\". She has also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows. Helmond has had many supporting roles", "title": "Katherine Helmond" }, { "id": "9425212", "text": "book by John Grisham. She was originally hired to work on casting, but asked Schumacher if she could audition for a part. Other film credits include: \"Never Been Kissed,\" \"Big Momma's House\", \"Bad Santa\", \"Spider-Man\", \"Coach Carter\", \"Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!\" and \"Pretty Ugly People\". She has made a number of guest appearances on television series, including \"Raising the Bar\", \"\", \"The Big Bang Theory\", \"Wizards of Waverly Place\", \"Grounded for Life\", \"ER\", \"Titus\", \"Becker\", \"30 Rock\" and \"Dharma & Greg,\" plus a recurring role on \"Mom\". She is best known for her starring roles as Serenity Johnson", "title": "Octavia Spencer" }, { "id": "3733846", "text": "character. That same year, she played Belle Joplin, wife of the ragtime composer Scott Joplin, opposite Billy Dee Williams in the title role. In 1992 Avery starred in \"\" as Martha Scruse, mother of Katherine Jackson, who was played by Angela Bassett. She has also made guest appearances on TV, including \"The New Dick Van Dyke Show\", \"Kojak\", \"Sanford and Son\", \"\", \"A.E.S. Hudson Street\", \"Murder, She Wrote\", \"Miami Vice\", \"\", \"The Cosby Show\", \"Walker, Texas Ranger\", and \"JAG\". In 2008, Avery played Mama Jenkins in \"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins\", opposite Martin Lawrence and James Earl Jones, and Sarah Brown", "title": "Margaret Avery" }, { "id": "7232903", "text": "Carey Martin Carey Marie Martin (played by Kim Rhodes) is a fictional character in the Disney Channel sitcom, \"The Suite Life of Zack & Cody\" and \"The Suite Life on Deck\". Carey is a headlining singer at the Tipton Hotel as well as the mother of Zack and Cody. She is a divorced mother, wise, kind, but strict, and seems to love the twins a lot. She is sometimes over-protective of her sons, which they hate, but does it for good reason. Arwin Hawkhauser has an obsessive crush on her. She has a younger sister who is never seen, and", "title": "Carey Martin" }, { "id": "7589939", "text": "Virginia Dwyer Virginia Dwyer Gorman (December 19, 1919 – August 20, 2012) was an actress known for her roles in several daytime soap operas. From 1954 to 1962, she had roles on at least five daytime programs, including \"The Road of Life\", \"The Secret Storm\", \"Young Dr. Malone\", \"The Guiding Light\", and \"As the World Turns\". She was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She was best known for her role as matriarch Mary Matthews on \"Another World\", a role she played from the series premiere in 1964 until her departure in 1975. Although popular with the audience, she fell into disfavor", "title": "Virginia Dwyer" }, { "id": "10486546", "text": "known for playing Felice Martin, the cheating and domineering mother of Donna Martin (Tori Spelling), on the long-running teen series, \"Beverly Hills, 90210\". In 1974, Cannon married commercial director Richard Chambers. The couple had one son, Colin Thomas Chambers, before divorcing in 1980. In 2001, she remarried, to actor Dean Butler who played Almanzo Wilder for several seasons on Little House on the Prairie. Katherine Cannon Katherine Cannon (born September 6, 1953) is an American actress. Her early roles included \"Fools' Parade\" (1971), \"Private Duty Nurses\" (1971), \"Women in Chains\" (1972), Emergency! (1973), Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series) (1977–1978)", "title": "Katherine Cannon" }, { "id": "14597439", "text": "Laritate, Dan Benson as Zeke Beakerman, Hayley Kiyoko as Stevie Nichols, Bridgit Mendler as Juliet Van Heusen, Moisés Arias as Conscience, Bella Thorne as Nancy Lukey, Fred Willard as Mr. Stuffleby, Austin Butler as George, Shakira as Herself, Ted McGinley as Magroder, John O'Hurley as Captain Jim Bob Sherwood, Wilmer Valderrama as Uncle Ernesto, Kate Flannery as Elaine Finkle, and Jeff Garlin as Uncle Kelbo. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Wizards of Waverly Place (season 3) The third season of \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" aired on Disney Channel from October 9, 2009 to October 15, 2010. The Russo children, Alex (Selena Gomez), Justin (David", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 3)" }, { "id": "6533991", "text": "Whitney Blake Whitney Blake (born Nancy Ann Whitney; February 20, 1926 – September 28, 2002) was an American film and television actress, director, and producer. She is known for her four seasons as Dorothy Baxter, the mother, on the 1960s sitcom \"Hazel\", and as co-creator and writer of the sitcom \"One Day at a Time\". With her first husband, she had three children, including actress Meredith Baxter. Blake was born in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California. She was the first child of Martha Mae Whitney (née Wilkerson) and Harry C. Whitney, a United States Secret Service agent who had guarded", "title": "Whitney Blake" }, { "id": "9740351", "text": "Bailee Madison Bailee Madison (born October 15, 1999) is an American actress. In film, she played May Belle Aarons in \"Bridge to Terabithia\" (2007), Isabelle in \"Brothers\" (2009), Sally Hurst in \"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark\" (2010), Maggie in \"Just Go with It\" (2011), Harper Simmons in \"Parental Guidance\" (2012), and Kinsey in \"\" (2018). On television, she made guest appearances as Maxine Russo in \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" and young Snow White in \"Once Upon a Time\". She also has a recurring role as Sophia Quinn in \"The Fosters\". In 2015, she began starring as Grace Russell in", "title": "Bailee Madison" }, { "id": "3237172", "text": "Barbara Berjer Barbara Berjer (June 12, 1920 – October 20, 2002) was a well-known American television actress born in Seattle, Washington. Among her many soap opera credits were her long-term roles as alcoholic actress Lynn Franklin on \"From These Roots\" (1958–1961); the fourth Claire English Lowell Cassen Shea (Ellen Stewart's mother) on \"As the World Turns\" (1965–1971); Barbara Norris Thorpe (replacing Augusta Dabney) on \"Guiding Light\" (1971–1981; she reprised the role for a few episodes in 1989, and on a recurring basis from 1995 to 1996); and Scottish nanny Bridget Connell on \"Another World\" (1985–1996) who raised both Victoria Love", "title": "Barbara Berjer" }, { "id": "5333048", "text": "two sons, Griffin, born in 2009, and Baker James, born in 2012. Leigh-Allyn Baker Leigh-Allyn Baker (born March 13, 1972) is an American actress and voice artist. She had recurring roles on \"Charmed\" and \"Will & Grace\", and a starring role as the matriarch Amy Duncan on the Disney Channel sitcom \"Good Luck Charlie\". She also provided the voice of Abby on the Nickelodeon animated series \"Back at the Barnyard\". Baker has done voice work in video games for the \"Star Trek\" and \"X-Men\" and guest starred in television shows such as \"That '70s Show\", \"Early Edition\", \"Yes, Dear\" and", "title": "Leigh-Allyn Baker" }, { "id": "9651556", "text": "of Waverly Place\" aired its one-hour series finale, \"Who Will Be The Family Wizard?\", which averaged nearly 10 million viewers (9.8 million; live+same day) to up to 11.3 million. Although it was not the series' most-watched special, being behind \"Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie\", and \"Cast Away (To Another Show)\", it was the most-watched finale for a Disney Channel Original Series. Excluding the crossover programming special, it was the franchise's most-watched episode. The closer also set series best among kids 6–11 (4.2 million) and teens 9–14 (3.8 million). It also obtained a solid 1.9 rating with adults 18–49. Notably,", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place" }, { "id": "5741230", "text": "and as wealthy J. Pauline Spaghetti in an episode of \"Batman\" in 1966. Her role before her death from cancer was in 1967, as Larry Hagman's mother on NBC's \"I Dream of Jeannie\". Her final role was in 1968 as Mother General on ABC's \"The Flying Nun\", starring Sally Field. Byington spoke some Spanish, which she learned during the time spent with her husband in Buenos Aires; and she studied Brazilian Portuguese in her golden years. In July 1958, she confided to reporter Hazel Johnson that she had acquired a \"small coffee plantation\" in Brazil the month before and was", "title": "Spring Byington" }, { "id": "14630551", "text": "Lisa Cucuy, Bill Chott as Mr. Laritate, Frank Pacheco as Felix, Bridgit Mendler as Juliet van Heusen, Daniel Samonas as Dean Moriarty, Bailee Madison as Maxine Russo, Shane Harper as Fidel, Dan Benson as Zeke Beakerman, John Rubinstein as Gorog, Andy Kindler as Chancellor Tootietootie, Fred Stoller as Dexter, Leven Rambin as Rosie, China Anne McClain as Tina, Kari Wahlgren as Helen, Cameron Sanders as Nelvis, Josh Sussman as Hugh Normous, Jackie Evancho as Herself, McKaley Miller as Talia, Valente Rodriguez as Muy Macho, and Nick Roux as Chase Riprock. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Wizards of Waverly Place (season 4) The fourth and", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place (season 4)" }, { "id": "3825715", "text": "Kelly Bishop Carole \"Kelly\" Bishop (born February 28, 1944) is an American actress and dancer, best known for her roles as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series \"Gilmore Girls\" and as Marjorie Houseman, the mother of Jennifer Grey's Frances \"Baby\" Houseman in the film \"Dirty Dancing.\" Bishop originated the role of Sheila in \"A Chorus Line,\" for which she won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. She also starred as Fanny Flowers in the ABC Family short-lived comedy-drama series \"Bunheads.\" Bishop was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Jane Lenore (née Wahtola) and", "title": "Kelly Bishop" }, { "id": "1461819", "text": "Shirley Jones Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress. In her six decades of show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as \"Oklahoma!\" (1955), \"Carousel\" (1956), and \"The Music Man\" (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful prostitute in \"Elmer Gantry\" (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series \"The Partridge Family\" (1970–74), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy. Jones", "title": "Shirley Jones" }, { "id": "4673496", "text": "K. Callan K. Callan (born Katherine Elizabeth Borman; 1936) is an American author and actress known for playing Clark Kent's mother Martha in the ABC television series \"\". Born in Dallas, Texas she first appeared on television in an episode of \"Route 66\" that happened to be shooting in Dallas. She resumed her on-camera career in 1970, having guest-starring roles on \"One Day at a Time\", \"St. Elsewhere\", \"Carnivàle\", \"JAG\", \"Coach\" and \"King of the Hill\". She played a key role in the Emmy Award-winning episode \"Cousin Liz\" of \"All in the Family\" and portrayed the mother of April Stevens", "title": "K. Callan" }, { "id": "17163087", "text": "The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex is a 2013 American made-for-television comedy-drama fantasy special episode based on the Disney Channel Original Series \"Wizards of Waverly Place\". It was directed by Victor Gonzalez and filmed primarily in Disney Studios in October and November 2012. The full cast of the series starred in the special, with the exception of David Henrie, although the character was mentioned frequently. The film focuses on the Russo family, Harper, and Mason visiting Italy for a family reunion. The special premiered on March 15, 2013 on the Disney Channel in the", "title": "The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex" }, { "id": "12372563", "text": "performed by the Royal Philharmonic and Ittai Shapira. In the late 2000s, Shields guest-starred on shows like FX's \"Nip/Tuck\" and CBS' \"Two and a Half Men\". In 2005, Shields appeared in a season-two episode of HBO's \"Entourage\", entitled \"Blue Balls Lagoon.\" In 2007, she made a guest appearance on Disney's \"Hannah Montana\", playing Susan Stewart, Miley and Jackson's mother, who died in 2004. In 2008, she returned in the primetime drama \"Lipstick Jungle\". The series ended a year later. Starting in 2010, she made guest appearances on \"The Middle\" as the mother of a brood of terror-inducing children and the", "title": "Brooke Shields" }, { "id": "3748775", "text": "Barbara Billingsley Barbara Billingsley (born Barbara Lillian Combes; December 22, 1915 – October 16, 2010) was an American film, television, voice, and stage actress. She began her career with uncredited roles in \"Three Guys Named Mike\" (1951), \"The Bad and the Beautiful\" (1952), \"Invaders from Mars\" (1953) and was featured in the 1950s movie \"The Careless Years\", opposite Natalie Trundy before appearing in recurring TV roles such as \"The Brothers\". Billingsley gained prominence for her best-known role of June Cleaver, the mother in the television series \"Leave It to Beaver\" (1957-1963) and its sequel \"The New Leave It to Beaver\"", "title": "Barbara Billingsley" }, { "id": "8602072", "text": "Natasha Ryan), garnering acclaim for her performance. She made her last known appearance in an episode of the television series \"Remington Steele\" (1983). Martine Bartlett died at age 80 of kidney disease in Tempe, Arizona. She never married or had children. Martine Bartlett Martine Bartlett (April 24, 1925 – April 5, 2006) was an American actress. A life member of The Actors Studio, Bartlett is best-remembered, albeit not by name, for her chilling performance as Hattie Dorsett, the seriously disturbed, abusive mother of Sally Field's title character in \"Sybil\". She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the middle child of", "title": "Martine Bartlett" }, { "id": "1658626", "text": "Off-Broadway production of \"The Destiny of Me\" in 1992, and returned to Broadway for Lincoln Center's acclaimed 2002 revival of Paul Osborn's \"Morning's at Seven\", with Julie Hagerty, Buck Henry, Frances Sternhagen and Estelle Parsons. In 1990-91, she starred as the devious Catherine Martell in David Lynch's television series \"Twin Peaks\". She also appeared in \"Other People's Money\" with Gregory Peck (1991), and in horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film, \"Trauma\" (1993). She played George Clooney's character's mother on \"ER\". In 1997, she appeared in the film \"A Christmas Memory\" with Patty Duke (then known as Patty Duke Astin),", "title": "Piper Laurie" }, { "id": "4554289", "text": "Katherine MacGregor Katherine \"Scottie\" MacGregor (born Dorlee Deane McGregor; January 12, 1925 – November 13, 2018) was an American actress, best known for her role as Harriet Oleson in \"Little House on the Prairie\". Katherine MacGregor was born Dorlee Deane McGregor on January 12, 1925, in Glendale, California, to Ralph S. McGregor and Beatrice E. Willard. When Katherine was a child, her mother Beatrice moved the family to Fort Collins, Colorado, where they lived most of Katherine's early life. She graduated from Northwestern University with a major in drama and moved to New York City in 1949. She was hired", "title": "Katherine MacGregor" }, { "id": "10143448", "text": "was in the 1964 MGM musical \"The Unsinkable Molly Brown\". Card had a daughter, Ada Card. On March 1, 1964, Card died as a result of a fatal heart attack at the age of 71 at her home in Costa Mesa, California. She is interred in Harbor Lawn-Mount Olive Memorial Park in Costa Mesa. Kathryn Card Kathryn Card (October 4, 1892 – March 1, 1964) was an American radio, television and film actress who may be best remembered for her role as Mrs. MacGillicuddy, Lucy's mother on \"I Love Lucy\". Born in Butte, Montana, Card did radio roles in the", "title": "Kathryn Card" }, { "id": "9740360", "text": "their own lemonade stands. Bailee Madison Bailee Madison (born October 15, 1999) is an American actress. In film, she played May Belle Aarons in \"Bridge to Terabithia\" (2007), Isabelle in \"Brothers\" (2009), Sally Hurst in \"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark\" (2010), Maggie in \"Just Go with It\" (2011), Harper Simmons in \"Parental Guidance\" (2012), and Kinsey in \"\" (2018). On television, she made guest appearances as Maxine Russo in \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" and young Snow White in \"Once Upon a Time\". She also has a recurring role as Sophia Quinn in \"The Fosters\". In 2015, she began starring", "title": "Bailee Madison" }, { "id": "16557207", "text": "Carol Ann Susi Carol Ann Susi (February 2, 1952 – November 11, 2014) was an American actress. She was known for providing the voice of recurring unseen character Mrs. Wolowitz, mother of Howard Wolowitz, on the television series \"The Big Bang Theory\". Susi made her first screen appearance in \"\", where she played the recurring role of intern Monique Marmelstein. Other television and film credits included: \"McMillan & Wife\", \"Coyote Ugly\", \"Just Go with It\", \"The Big Bang Theory\", \"Becker\", \"Grey's Anatomy\", \"That '70s Show\", \"Out of Practice\", \"Cats & Dogs\", \"Just Shoot Me\", \"Married... with Children\", \"Night Court\", \"The", "title": "Carol Ann Susi" }, { "id": "7307562", "text": "Verna Bloom Verna Bloom (born August 7, 1939) is an American actress. She co-starred in Clint Eastwood's 1973 film, \"High Plains Drifter\" and in the 1974 made-for-TV movie \"Where Have All The People Gone?\" with Peter Graves and Kathleen Quinlan. She has had roles in more than 30 films and television episodes since the 1960s, including playing Mary, mother of Jesus, in \"The Last Temptation of Christ\" in 1988 and Marion Wormer in \"Animal House\" in 1978. Bloom was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and attended the School of Fine Arts in Boston University, graduating with a BFA. She also studied", "title": "Verna Bloom" }, { "id": "3634036", "text": "Ava Marshall. Since then, she has worked most frequently in television and theater, though she did appear in some films including \"The Flamingo Kid\" (1984) and the film \"PCU\" (1994). In the 1990s, she voiced Fran Sinclair on the ABC comedy \"Dinosaurs\", and appeared on \"Just Shoot Me!\" as Eve Gallo, the mother of Maya and the ex-wife of magazine publisher Jack Gallo. From 2003 to 2006, she appeared in a regular role as the scheming alcoholic socialite matriarch Lucille Bluth on Fox's critically acclaimed comedy series \"Arrested Development\". In 2005, she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress", "title": "Jessica Walter" }, { "id": "2567252", "text": "\"Knots Landing\" as the constantly scheming Anne Matheson Sumner, the mother of star Nicollette Sheridan's character Paige Matheson (a role which Phillips returned to for the TV movie \"\" (1997)). During this time, she also appeared in the films \"Let It Ride\" (1989); the thriller\" Scissors\" (1991), opposite Sharon Stone; and \"Joshua Tree\" (1993), starring Dolph Lundgren. In the mid-1990s, she played Abby Malone, mother of Valerie Malone (Tiffani Amber Thiessen) in Fox's \"Beverly Hills, 90210\". On December 2, 1987, Phillips was arrested in Amarillo, Texas, for marijuana possession after being pulled over for speeding. Phillips was a passenger in", "title": "Michelle Phillips" }, { "id": "8683238", "text": "Scene, releasing three studio albums and one remix album. Selena Gomez Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, actress, and producer. After appearing on the children's television series \"Barney & Friends\", she received wider recognition for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Disney Channel television series \"Wizards of Waverly Place\", which aired for four seasons from 2007 until 2012. With her former band Selena Gomez & the Scene, she attained the top-ten on the US \"Billboard\" 200, with the band's albums \"Kiss & Tell\" (2009), \"A Year Without Rain\" (2010) and \"When the Sun Goes", "title": "Selena Gomez" }, { "id": "9699652", "text": "Caprice Benedetti Caprice Benedetti (born 1966) is an American actress. She is best known for her role in the 2000 science fiction movie \"Timequest\" in which she played Jacqueline Kennedy. She also appeared as the matriarch of the Owens clan as Maria Owens in \"Practical Magic\", alongside Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. She went to Saint Benedict's school in Seattle, Washington during her elementary years. She attended Blanchet High School in Seattle. She was \"discovered\" at the Northgate Mall. Caprice played a brief supporting role in \"Charmed\" as the Angel of Light Guardian of the Hollow in the Season 4", "title": "Caprice Benedetti" }, { "id": "4586554", "text": "for a Tony Award for her 1965 performance in James Baldwin's \"The Amen Corner\". She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Sidney Poitier's mother in the 1967 film \"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner\". Other notable movie performances include \"Hurry Sundown\", \"The Great White Hope\", \"Beloved\" and \"In the Heat of the Night\". She made numerous guest television appearances including roles on \"Beauty and the Beast\", \"The Bill Cosby Show\", \"Sanford and Son\", \"Benson\", \"Designing Women\", \"The Practice\", \"The Big Valley\" and \"ER\" (as Dr. Peter Benton's mother.) She was the winner", "title": "Beah Richards" }, { "id": "7284292", "text": "Clarice Taylor Clarice Taylor (September 20, 1917 – May 30, 2011) was an American stage, film and television actress. Born in Buckingham County, Virginia but raised in Harlem, New York, Taylor was best known for her recurring role on television on \"The Cosby Show\" as Dr. Heathcliff \"Cliff\" Huxtable's (Bill Cosby) mother, Anna Huxtable. She was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1986 for the role. She was also a regular on \"Nurse\", played Harriet on \"Sesame Street\", and appeared as Grady's cousin Emma on \"Sanford and Son\". Taylor started working in the theatre—with the American Negro Theatre—at a time", "title": "Clarice Taylor" }, { "id": "641767", "text": "embracing more satiric humour rather than deeming it \"unpatriotic.\" Now that she is a citizen, she joked that she \"won't end up in Guantánamo Bay\" for speaking her mind. The show ran for three seasons, concluding in 2010. In March 2014, Ullman was introduced as Genevieve Scherbatsky, the mother of character Robin Scherbatsky in \"How I Met Your Mother\". On 20 March 2014, it was announced that she was tapped to co-star in the upcoming CBS sitcom pilot, \"Good Session\". The single-camera comedy was written and executive produced by Matt Miller (\"Chuck\"), along with actor James Roday (\"Psych\") and Bruce", "title": "Tracey Ullman" }, { "id": "5333044", "text": "Leigh-Allyn Baker Leigh-Allyn Baker (born March 13, 1972) is an American actress and voice artist. She had recurring roles on \"Charmed\" and \"Will & Grace\", and a starring role as the matriarch Amy Duncan on the Disney Channel sitcom \"Good Luck Charlie\". She also provided the voice of Abby on the Nickelodeon animated series \"Back at the Barnyard\". Baker has done voice work in video games for the \"Star Trek\" and \"X-Men\" and guest starred in television shows such as \"That '70s Show\", \"Early Edition\", \"Yes, Dear\" and among other series. She also starred in the short-lived 1996 sitcom \"The", "title": "Leigh-Allyn Baker" }, { "id": "19138257", "text": "Caroline Kava Caroline Kava (born September 25, 1949 in Chicago) is an American actress and playwright of the 1986 Off-Broadway play, \"The Early Girl\". She portrayed a prostitute in the 1980 film \"Heaven's Gate\". In \"Year of the Dragon\" (1985), she portrayed the wife of Mickey Rourke's character. In \"Little Nikita\" (1988), she portrayed the mother of the title character played by River Phoenix. She also played the mother of Ron Kovic, portrayed by Tom Cruise, in \"Born on the Fourth of July\" (1989). She has also appeared in television films such as \"Act of Vengeance\" (1986) and \"Guilty Until", "title": "Caroline Kava" }, { "id": "5750348", "text": "film \"The Mist\". She also appeared in the family film \"Dolphin Tale\" (2011). She may be best known to TV audiences as Esther Clavin, mother of John Ratzenberger's Boston postman character Cliff Clavin, on the long-running series \"Cheers\" for which she received two Emmy Award nominations. She also played Millicent Carter on \"ER\", Bunny MacDougal, mother of Trey, Charlotte's first husband on \"Sex and the City\" (another Emmy Award nomination) and in \"Law & Order\", among other network dramas and sitcoms, and worked for many years in soap operas such as \"Another World\", \"The Secret Storm\" and \"Love of Life\".", "title": "Frances Sternhagen" }, { "id": "11814809", "text": "She had a supporting role in the film \"\". In 2009, Mendler became a recurring character in the Disney Channel series \"Wizards of Waverly Place\". Mendler portrayed the role of Juliet Van Heusen, a vampire who later forms a romance with David Henrie's character Justin Russo. This lasts till the series finale. Mendler would go on to appear in eleven episodes total for the series, spanning from 2009 to 2012 when the series ended. In 2010, Mendler became the star of the Disney Channel Original Series \"Good Luck Charlie\", centering on a teenage girl who makes videos for her baby", "title": "Bridgit Mendler" }, { "id": "7307563", "text": "at the HB Studio in New York City. She is Jewish. Verna Bloom Verna Bloom (born August 7, 1939) is an American actress. She co-starred in Clint Eastwood's 1973 film, \"High Plains Drifter\" and in the 1974 made-for-TV movie \"Where Have All The People Gone?\" with Peter Graves and Kathleen Quinlan. She has had roles in more than 30 films and television episodes since the 1960s, including playing Mary, mother of Jesus, in \"The Last Temptation of Christ\" in 1988 and Marion Wormer in \"Animal House\" in 1978. Bloom was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and attended the School of Fine", "title": "Verna Bloom" }, { "id": "2969757", "text": "Jane Wyatt Jane Waddington Wyatt (August 12, 1910 – October 20, 2006) was an American actress. She starred in a number of Hollywood films, but is likely best known for her role as the housewife and mother Margaret Anderson on the CBS and NBC television comedy series, \"Father Knows Best\", and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science-fiction television series \"\". Wyatt was a three-time Emmy Award-winner. Wyatt was born on August 12, 1910, in Mahwah, New Jersey, but raised in Manhattan. Her father, Christopher Billopp Wyatt, Jr., was a Wall Street investment banker, and her", "title": "Jane Wyatt" }, { "id": "9651550", "text": "Movie on August 28, 2009. The film adaptation won \"Outstanding Children's Program\" at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards earning the series its second consecutive Emmy. The farewell season won \"Outstanding Children's Program\" at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards bringing the franchise's total to three Emmy awards. \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" ended with 106 episodes over four seasons, surpassing \"That's So Raven\". Its series finale averaged nearly 10 million viewers (live and total views on same day), which made that episode the most-watched series finale in Disney Channel's history. On March 15, 2013, \"\" premiered as a one-hour television special. \"Wizards", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place" }, { "id": "5614489", "text": "five years off to care for her daughter, Venora landed a starring role in the ABC TV series \"Thunder Alley\" (playing Ed Asner's character's daughter), followed by a recurring role as plastic surgeon Geri Infante in the Emmy-winning TV series \"Chicago Hope\". In 1995, she starred opposite Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in \"Heat\", earning high regard from both critics and audiences for her portrayal of Justine Hanna, the Pacino character's troubled wife. That performance and her follow-up as Juliet's mother, Gloria Capulet, in \"Romeo + Juliet\" (1996) earned her supporting roles in \"The Jackal\" (1997), \"The 13th Warrior\"", "title": "Diane Venora" }, { "id": "3216283", "text": "plays the role of the second ex-wife of the character Ron Swanson, who is played by her real-life husband, Nick Offerman. Offerman also had a part on one episode of Mullally's show \"Will & Grace\" where he played a plumber who came to Will's mother's house while Will, Karen, Grace, and Jack were visiting. Also in 2009, Mullally starred in the ABC sitcom \"In the Motherhood\". Based on the original web series, the television adaptation focuses on three mothers. She played Rosemary opposite Cheryl Hines and Jessica St. Clair. The series was poorly received and was canceled by ABC due", "title": "Megan Mullally" }, { "id": "9311211", "text": "She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from CalArts and holds a Master of the Arts in Educational Theatre from New York University. Amanda Tepe Amanda Tepe (born October 16, 1977) is an American actress. Tepe is a native of Norwood, Ohio. She has appeared in several short and feature films. Her television credits include \"General Hospital\", \"Dexter\", \"Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip\", \"Cory in the House\", \"That's So Raven\", \"Entourage\" and a recurring role on Disney's \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" as many different characters. Active in live local theatre, Tepe has performed in various Los Angeles", "title": "Amanda Tepe" }, { "id": "5181525", "text": "Lori Alan Lori Alan is an American actress and voice actress. She has played a long-running role as Pearl Krabs on the animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She also voiced Diane Simmons on \"Family Guy\", the Invisible Woman on \"The Fantastic Four\", and The Boss in the \"Metal Gear\" video game series. Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland. She had a mixed-faith family: her mother is a Southern Baptist and her father is Jewish. Both of her parents were performers and supported her choice to be an actress. Alan currently lives in Los Angeles. She started acting at age five,", "title": "Lori Alan" }, { "id": "728632", "text": "the Line\", \"Robots Rising\", \"Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples\", \"Point Last Seen\" and \"The Color of Courage\". Hamilton and her \"Beauty and the Beast\" co-star Ron Perlman reunited in the post-Vietnam war drama \"Missing in America\" (2005). In 2009, she returned as Sarah Connor in \"Terminator Salvation\", in voice-overs only. In 2010, she joined the cast of \"Chuck\" in the recurring guest role of Mary Elizabeth Bartowski, a CIA agent and long-missing mother of Chuck and Ellie. She also appeared as a guest star in the Showtime cable television show \"Weeds\" as the marijuana supplier for the show's main", "title": "Linda Hamilton" }, { "id": "19057979", "text": "Beautiful\" and \"Days Of Our Lives\", but is mostly known for her portrayal of \"Skye Chandler\" on \"All My Children\". She also appeared in a number of television series, including such shows as \"Picket Fences\", \"Beverley Hills 90210\", \"The Outer Limits\", \"Stargate SG-1\", \"Smallville\", \"Married... with Children\", \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" (as Megan Russo, the Russo Kids' Aunt) and \"Supernatural\". She is also known for her many film roles, including \"The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus\", \"\", \"They're Watching\", and \"Watchmen\". In 2012, Carrie won the Best Actress award at the Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival for the role of", "title": "Carrie Genzel" }, { "id": "9651562", "text": "second in kids 6–11 (1.81 million/7.4 rating), which was only slightly behind \"The Suite Life on Deck\" (1.82 million/7.4 rating.) The show aired worldwide on Disney Channel. It premiered on October 12, 2007 in Pakistan. In Australia it premiered on October 19, 2007 and it also aired on Seven Network starting on October 4, 2008. It premiered on the same date in New Zealand and first aired on FOUR on February 4, 2009. It premiered on October 26, 2007 on Family in Canada. In the United Kingdom, it started airing on November 4, 2007 and it also airs on Channel", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place" }, { "id": "5014181", "text": "Karen Grassle Karen Trust Grassle (born February 25, 1942) is an American actress, known for her role as Caroline Ingalls, the wife of Michael Landon's character and the mother of Melissa Sue Anderson’s and Melissa Gilbert's character, in the NBC television drama series \"Little House on the Prairie\". Grassle studied ballet, acted in school plays, sang in the Baptist choir, and was Vice President of the student body her senior year, when she graduated from Ventura High School in 1959. She attended Sophie Newcomb College (Tulane University, 1959–60) and then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated with", "title": "Karen Grassle" } ]

[ "Battle of Cajamarca" ]

[ { "id": "7660928", "text": "Almagro, attempted to claim Cusco for himself. Manco tried to use this intra-Spanish feud to his advantage, recapturing Cusco (1536), but the Spanish retook the city. Manco Inca then retreated to the mountains of Vilcabamba and founded the Neo-Inca State, where he and his successors ruled for another 36 years, sometimes raiding the Spanish or inciting revolts against them. In 1572 the last Inca stronghold was discovered, and the last ruler, Túpac Amaru, Manco's son, was captured and executed, bringing the Inca empire to an end. After the fall of Tahuantinsuyu, the new Spanish rulers repressed the people and their", "title": "History of the Incas" }, { "id": "201510", "text": "Inca stronghold was conquered and the last ruler, Túpac Amaru, Manco's son, was captured and executed. This ended resistance to the Spanish conquest under the political authority of the Inca state. After the fall of the Inca Empire many aspects of Inca culture were systematically destroyed, including their sophisticated farming system, known as the vertical archipelago model of agriculture. Spanish colonial officials used the Inca mita corvée labor system for colonial aims, sometimes brutally. One member of each family was forced to work in the gold and silver mines, the foremost of which was the titanic silver mine at Potosí.", "title": "Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216960", "text": "empire answered to, and were ultimately under the direct control of, the Emperor. Scholars estimate that the population of the Inca Empire numbered more than 16,000,000. Some scholars, such as Jared Diamond, believe that while the Spanish conquest was undoubtedly the proximate cause of the collapse of the Inca Empire, it may very well have been past its peak and already in the process of decline. In 1528, Emperor Huayna Capac ruled the Inca Empire. He could trace his lineage back to a \"stranger king\" named Manco Cápac, the mythical founder of the Inca clan, who according to tradition emerged", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216992", "text": "none had been successful. Thus the Spanish conquest was achieved through relentless force, and deception, aided by factors like smallpox and a great communication and cultural divide. The Spaniards destroyed much of the Incan culture and introduced the Spanish culture to the native population. A struggle for power resulted in a long civil war between Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro in which Almagro was killed. Almagro's loyal followers and his descendants later avenged his death by killing Pizarro in 1541. This was done inside the palace of Francisco Pizarro in a fight to the death by these assassins, most", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "9067108", "text": "a plan of his own and predicted the action of Topa Atao, and divided his army in two, sending one contingent around Topa Atao's back, enveloping and destroying the defenders. In January 1532, only miles from Cuzco, Huáscar’s retreat was cut off at Quipaipan, and his army was annihilated and disbanded. Huáscar was captured and the capital Cuzco was seized by Quizquiz, who had it purged from Huáscar’s supporters in a bloody massacre. Huáscar himself was executed the following year. During the course of the war, Atahualpa's army had grown to 250,000 men, all the strength of the Empire. However,", "title": "Inca Civil War" }, { "id": "201486", "text": "Inca Empire The Inca Empire (, \"The Four Regions\"), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. Its political and administrative structure is considered by most scholars to have been the most developed in the Americas before Columbus' arrival. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century. Its last stronghold was conquered by the Spanish in 1572. From 1438 to 1533, the Incas incorporated a large portion of", "title": "Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216997", "text": "suffered a dramatic and quick decline following contact. It is estimated that parts of the empire, notably the Central Andes, suffered a population decline ratio of 58:1 during the years of 1520–1571. The single greatest cause of the decimation of native populations was infectious disease. Old World Eurasian diseases, which had long been endemic on the Continent, were carried unknowingly by colonists and conquistadors. As these were new to the natives, they had no acquired immunity and suffered very high rates of death. More died of disease than any army or armed conflict. As the Inca did not have as", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "9067110", "text": "The estimated population of the Inca empire before an epidemic (probably of a European disease) and the Spanish conquest is estimated at between 6 and 14 million people. The civil war, an epidemic, probably of a European disease, and the Spanish conquest resulted in a population decline over several decades estimated as 20:1 or 25:1, meaning that the population declined by 95 percent. Of the major battles fought, at Cajamarca the Spanish ambushed the Andean warriors and killed 1,500 without suffering any losses. There are no other hard numbers of Inca or Spanish death tolls at any of the other", "title": "Inca Civil War" }, { "id": "4216988", "text": "the empire, but there was still much unrest in the north near Quito where Atahualpa's generals were amassing troops. Atahualpa's death meant that there was no hostage left to deter these northern armies from attacking the invaders. Led by Atahualpa's generals Rumiñahui, Zope-Zupahua and Quisquis, the native armies were finally defeated, effectively ending any organized rebellion in the north of the empire. Archaeological evidence of the rebellion incident exists. The remains of about 70 men, women, and adolescents were found in the path of a planned expressway near Lima in 2007. Forensic evidence suggests that the natives were killed by", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "7660916", "text": "History of the Incas The Incas were most notable for establishing the Inca Empire in pre-Columbian America, which was centered in what is now Peru from 1438 to 1533 C.E. and represented the height of the Inca civilization. The Inca state was known as the Kingdom of Cusco before 1438. Over the course of the Inca Empire, the Inca used conquest and peaceful assimilation to incorporate in their empire a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean mountain ranges. However, shortly after the Inca Civil War, the last Sapa Inca (emperor) of the Inca Empire was captured", "title": "History of the Incas" }, { "id": "9067102", "text": "later on his way to the North to kill him. (Later Francisco Pizarro used this as one of excuses to execute Atahualpa after Pizarro collected the ransom of gold and silver promised to him for his freedom.) Huáscar gathered his soldiers in preparation for attack. After getting stunned by his brother, Huascar proclaimed him a traitor. The generals Chalcuchimac, Quizquiz, and Rumiñawi, were thought to have been born in the northern part of the empire, and thus transferred their loyalty to Atahualpa who assembled the former imperial army in Quito, the Northern region left for his control. People loyal to", "title": "Inca Civil War" }, { "id": "4216987", "text": "Greedy for gold, Alvarado had set sail for the south without the crown's authorization, landed on the Ecuadorian coast, and marched inland to the Sierra. Finding Quito empty of its treasures, Alvarado soon joined the combined Spanish force. Alvarado agreed to sell his fleet of twelve ships, his forces, plus arms and ammunition, and returned to Guatemala. After Atahualpa's execution, Pizarro installed Atahualpa's brother, Túpac Huallpa, as a puppet Inca ruler, but he soon died unexpectedly, leaving Manco Inca Yupanqui in power. He began his rule as an ally of the Spanish and was respected in the southern regions of", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216985", "text": "He was buried with Christian rites in the church of San Francisco at Cajamarca, but was soon disinterred. His body was taken, probably at his prior request, to its final resting place in Quito. Upon de Soto's return, he was furious; he had found no evidence of any secret gathering of Atahualpa's warriors. Pizarro advanced with his army of 500 Spaniards toward Cuzco, accompanied by Chalcuchimac. The latter was burned alive in the Jauja Valley, accused of secret communication with Quizquiz, and organizing resistance. Manco Inca Yupanqui joined Pizarro after the death of Túpac Huallpa. Pizarro's force entered the heart", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216983", "text": "delivered from Cuzco on 20 December 1532 and flowed steadily from then on. By 3 May 1533 Pizarro received all the treasure he had requested; it was melted, refined, and made into bars. The question eventually came up of what to do with Atahualpa; both Pizarro and Soto were against killing him, but the other Spaniards were loud in their demands for death. False interpretations from the interpreter Felipillo made the Spaniards paranoid. They were told that Atahualpa had ordered secret attacks and his warriors were hidden in the surrounding area. Soto went with a small army to look for", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216957", "text": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting but ended in Spanish victory in 1572 and colonization of the region as the Viceroyalty of Peru. The conquest of the Inca Empire (called \"Tahuantinsuyu\" or \"Tawantinsuyu\"", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216965", "text": "before he could nominate the new heir. At the time of Huayna Capac's death, Huáscar was in the capital Cuzco, while Atahualpa was in Quitu with the main body of the Inca army. Huáscar had himself proclaimed Sapa Inca (i.e. \"Only Emperor\") in Cuzco, but the army declared loyalty to Atahualpa. The resulting dispute led to the Inca Civil War. The civil war between Atahualpa and Huascar weakened the empire immediately prior to its struggle with the Spanish. Historians are unsure of whether a united Inca Empire could have defeated the Spanish in the long term due to factors such", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216991", "text": "for a time, successfully launched attacks against Pizarro based at Cuzco and even managed to defeat the Spanish in an open battle. When it became clear that defeat was imminent, Manco Inca retreated further to the mountainous region of Vilcabamba and established the small Neo-Inca State, where Manco Inca and his successors continued to hold some power for several more decades. His son, Túpac Amaru, was the last Inca. After deadly confrontations, he was murdered by the Spanish in 1572. In total, the conquest took about forty years to complete. Many Inca attempts to regain the empire had occurred, but", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "201508", "text": "enough gold to fill the room he was imprisoned in and twice that amount of silver. The Inca fulfilled this ransom, but Pizarro deceived them, refusing to release the Inca afterwards. During Atahualpa's imprisonment Huáscar was assassinated elsewhere. The Spaniards maintained that this was at Atahualpa's orders; this was used as one of the charges against Atahualpa when the Spaniards finally executed him, in August 1533. Although \"defeat\" often implies an unwanted loss in battle, much of the Inca elite \"actually welcomed the Spanish invaders as liberators and willingly settled down with them to share rule of Andean farmers and", "title": "Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216998", "text": "strong a writing tradition as the Aztec or Maya, it is difficult for historians to estimate population decline or any events after conquest. But, it is apparent that the Inca began to contract the diseases several years before the Spanish appeared in the region, as it was likely carried to their empire by traders and travelers. The outbreak, believed to be hemorrhagic smallpox, reached the Andes in 1524. While numbers are unavailable, Spanish records indicate that the population was so devastated by disease that they could hardly resist the foreign forces. Historians differ as to whether the illness of the", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "2617478", "text": "Atahualpa, for fear that he would try to carry out a coup d'état against him. Atahualpa became Inca emperor after he defeated and imprisoned Huáscar and massacred any pretenders to the throne at the close of the civil war. Later, while imprisoned by the Spaniards, Atahualpa gave orders to kill Huáscar in Jauja, thinking Huáscar would use the Spaniards as allies to regain his throne. During the Spanish conquest, the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro captured Atahualpa and used him to control the Inca Empire. Eventually, the Spanish executed Atahualpa, effectively ending the empire. A succession of emperors, who led the Inca", "title": "Atahualpa" }, { "id": "5126513", "text": "(which devastated the Aztec population and dealt a severe blow to the Aztec leadership while leaving an immune Spanish leadership intact)—that directly led to the downfall of the Aztec civilization and marked the end of the first phase of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. The conquest of Mexico was a critical stage in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Ultimately, Spain conquered Mexico and thereby gained substantial access to the Pacific Ocean, which meant that the Spanish Empire could finally achieve its original oceanic goal of reaching the Asian markets. In April 1519 Hernándo Cortés, an ambitious nobleman", "title": "Fall of Tenochtitlan" }, { "id": "7252448", "text": "by some researchers to correlate with entries in later Chinese records documenting the collapse of the semi-legendary Xia dynasty in China. According to the \"Bamboo Annals\", the collapse of the dynasty and the rise of the Shang dynasty, approximately dated to 1618 BCE, were accompanied by \"yellow fog, a dim sun, then three suns, frost in July, famine, and the withering of all five cereals\". Apocalyptic rainstorms, which devastated much of Egypt, and were described on the Tempest Stele of Ahmose I, have been attributed to short-term climatic changes caused by the Theran eruption. The difficulty with this interpretation is", "title": "Minoan eruption" }, { "id": "7660924", "text": "royal approval to conquer the region and be its viceroy. At the time the Spanish returned to Peru, in 1532, a war of succession between Huayna Capac's sons Huáscar and Atahualpa and unrest among newly conquered territories—and perhaps more they were said to have hidden a city or gold in a vault. Significantly, smallpox, which had spread from Central America—had considerably weakened the empire. Pizarro did not have a formidable force; with just 170 men, 1 cannon and only 27 horses, he often needed to talk his way out of potential confrontations that could have easily wiped out his party.", "title": "History of the Incas" }, { "id": "4216990", "text": "the following spring, and during that time Manco's armies managed to wipe out four relief columns sent from Lima, but was ultimately unsuccessful in its goal of routing the Spaniards from the city. The Inca leadership did not have the full support of all its subject peoples and furthermore, the degrading state of Inca morale coupled with the superior Spanish siege weapons soon made Manco Inca realize his hope of recapturing Cuzco was failing. Manco Inca eventually withdrew to Tambo. After the Spanish regained control of Cuzco, Manco Inca and his armies retreated to the fortress at Ollantaytambo where he,", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "3639664", "text": "Emperors, the internal struggles for power, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration. Increasing pressure from barbarians outside Roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse. The reasons for the collapse are major subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure. Relevant dates include 117 CE, when the Empire was at its greatest territorial extent, and the accession of Diocletian in 284. Irreversible major territorial loss, however, began in 376 with a large-scale irruption of Goths and others. In 395, after winning two destructive civil", "title": "Fall of the Western Roman Empire" }, { "id": "4216996", "text": "by the Spanish, as culture was not as significant as gold to the new conquerors. The unique indigenous road and communications systems were essentially lost. The only things that persisted of the original culture are the very few artifacts that remained and the minute cultural aspects, such as language, that was left behind by the small percentage of Incas who persisted. The long-term effects of the arrival of the Spanish on the population of South America were simply catastrophic. While this is the case for every group of Native-Americans that encountered Europeans from the fifteenth century onwards, the Incan population", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "14764773", "text": "The king Ferdinand VII of Spain was overthrown by French armies during the Peninsular War. The Spanish overseas colonies, like the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, found themselves with a power vacuum. At the same time, the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution were spreading, and as the captive king had overthrown his absolutist father Charles IV shortly before, it was thought that he shared the new ideas. This led to many riots and rebellions, and the Viceroyalty engaged in the Argentine War of Independence. However, Ferdinand VII was restored in the throne of", "title": "Inca plan" }, { "id": "1464641", "text": "conquest of the Inca Empire led to spin-off campaigns throughout the viceroyalty as well as expeditions towards the Amazon Basin as in the case of Spanish efforts to quell Amerindian resistance. The last Inca resistance was suppressed when the Spaniards annihilated the Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba in 1572. The indigenous population dramatically collapsed due to exploitation, socioeconomic change and epidemic diseases introduced by the Spanish. Viceroy Francisco de Toledo reorganized the country in the 1570s with gold and silver mining as its main economic activity and Amerindian forced labor as its primary workforce. With the discovery of the great silver", "title": "Peru" }, { "id": "201509", "text": "miners.\" The Spanish installed Atahualpa's brother Manco Inca Yupanqui in power; for some time Manco cooperated with the Spanish while they fought to put down resistance in the north. Meanwhile, an associate of Pizarro, Diego de Almagro, attempted to claim Cusco. Manco tried to use this intra-Spanish feud to his advantage, recapturing Cusco in 1536, but the Spanish retook the city afterwards. Manco Inca then retreated to the mountains of Vilcabamba and established the small Neo-Inca State, where he and his successors ruled for another 36 years, sometimes raiding the Spanish or inciting revolts against them. In 1572 the last", "title": "Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216969", "text": "to the royal resort springs outside Cajamarca. The messenger arrived with news of the final victory on the same day that Pizarro and his small band of adventurers, together with some indigenous allies, descended from the Andes into the town of Cajamarca. Francisco Pizarro and his brothers (Gonzalo, Juan, and Hernando) were attracted by the news of a rich and fabulous kingdom. They had left the then impoverished Extremadura, like many migrants after them. In 1529, Francisco Pizarro obtained permission from the Spanish Monarchy to conquer the land they called Peru. According to historian Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Peru is not", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "761620", "text": "declared war on April 14, 1572. The first engagement of the war commenced in the Vilcabamba valley on June 1. The Inca people attacked first with much spirit despite being only lightly armed. Again and again, they attempted to lift the siege held by the Spanish and their native allies but each time they were forced to retreat. On June 24 the Spanish entered Vilcabamba to find it deserted and the \"Sapa Inca\" gone. The city had been entirely destroyed, and the last remnants of the Inca Empire, the Neo-Inca State now officially ceased to exist. Túpac Amaru had left", "title": "Túpac Amaru" }, { "id": "12722837", "text": "the \"Ttahuantin-suyu\", or \"land of the four sections\", each ruled by a governor or viceroy called \"Apu-cuna\", under the leadership of the central \"Sapa Inca\". The Inca Empire eventually fell to the Spanish in 1533, when the last \"Sapa Inca\" of the empire, Atahualpa, was captured and executed on 29 August. The conquerors installed other \"Sapa Inca\" beginning with Atahualpa's brother, Túpac Huallpa. Manco Inca Yupanqui, originally also a puppet Inca Emperor installed by the Spaniards, rebelled and founded the small independent Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba, and the line continued until the death of Túpac Amaru in 1572. The Maya", "title": "Monarchies in the Americas" }, { "id": "18860358", "text": "siege of Cusco with one on Lima, led by one of his captains, Quiso Yupanqui. The Incans were able to defeat four relief expeditions sent by Francisco Pizarro from Lima. This resulted in the death of nearly 500 Spanish soldiers. Some Spaniards were captured and sent to Ollantaytambo. However, with the Spaniards' position consolidated by Almagro's reinforcements, Manco Inca decided that Ollantaytambo was too close to Cusco to be tenable so he withdrew further west. Abandoning Ollantaytambo (and effectively giving up the highlands of the empire), Manco Inca retreated to Vitcos and finally to the remote jungles of Vilcabamba. At", "title": "Neo-Inca State" }, { "id": "201507", "text": "some of his men, most notably a friar named Vincente de Valverde, met with the Inca, who had brought only a small retinue. The Inca offered them ceremonial chicha in a golden cup, which the Spanish rejected. The Spanish interpreter, Friar Vincente, read the \"Requerimiento\" that demanded that he and his empire accept the rule of King Charles I of Spain and convert to Christianity. Atahualpa dismissed the message and asked them to leave. After this, the Spanish began their attack against the mostly unarmed Inca, captured Atahualpa as hostage, and forced the Inca to collaborate. Atahualpa offered the Spaniards", "title": "Inca Empire" }, { "id": "9067104", "text": "to drill a hole and escape. He immediately prepared a counterattack with his large, experienced army from Quito. From 1531 through 1532, the armies fought many battles. Soon after his escape, Atahualpa moved his army south to the city of Ambato. There, on the plains of Mochacaxa, they found Huáscar's men, defeated them, and captured and killed many soldiers and even the head general, Atoc whom they tortured with darts and arrows. Atahualpa had his skull made into a \"gilded drinking cup, which the Spaniards would note that Atahualpa was still using four years later.” Following this victory, Atahualpa strengthened", "title": "Inca Civil War" }, { "id": "4766708", "text": "Ransom Room The Ransom Room (El Cuarto del Rescate) is a small building located in Cajamarca, Peru. It is considered to be the place where the Inca Empire came to an end with the capture and eventual execution of the Inca Emperor Atahualpa. When Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cajamarca on November 15, 1532, he sent a messenger to Atahualpa, proposing they meet in the main plaza. Pizarro decided to send a friar, Vincente de Valverde, along with an interpreter (Felipillo) to speak with Atahualpa. The next day, on November 16, 1532, Friar Valverde presented himself to Atahualpa and explained through", "title": "Ransom Room" }, { "id": "245314", "text": "about 250, with the last two great civilizations, the Aztecs and Incas, emerging into prominence later on in the early fourteenth century and mid-fifteenth centuries, respectively. The Aztec empire was ultimately the most powerful civilization known throughout the Americas, until its downfall in part by the Spanish invasion. With the arrival of the Europeans following Christopher Columbus' voyages, the indigenous elites, such as the Incas and Aztecs, lost power to the heavy European invasion. Hernándo Cortés seized the Aztec elite's power with the help of local groups who had favored the Aztec elite, and Francisco Pizarro eliminated the Incan rule", "title": "Latin America" }, { "id": "4217000", "text": "population in the Andes region. Mortality was particularly high among children, ensuring that the impact of the epidemics would extend to the next generation. Beyond the devastation of the local populations by disease, they suffered considerable enslavement, pillaging and destruction from warfare. The Spanish took thousands of women from the local natives to use as servants and concubines. As Pizarro and his men took over portions of South America, they plundered and enslaved countless people. Some local populations entered into vassalage willingly, to defeat the Inca. Native groups such as the Huanca, Cañari and Chachapoya fought alongside the Spanish as", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "201505", "text": "unrest among newly conquered territories weakened the empire. Perhaps more importantly, smallpox, influenza, typhus and measles had spread from Central America. The forces led by Pizarro consisted of 168 men, one cannon, and 27 horses. Conquistadors ported lances, arquebuses, steel armor and long swords. In contrast, the Inca used weapons made out of wood, stone, copper and bronze, putting them at significant technological disadvantage. In addition, due to the absence of horses in the Americas, the Inca did not develop tactics to fight cavalry. However, the Inca were still effective warriors, being able to successfully fight the Mapuche, which later", "title": "Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216978", "text": "tributary.\" The friar urged attack, starting the Battle of Cajamarca on 16 November 1532. Though the historical accounts relating to these circumstances vary, the true Spanish motives for the attack seemed to be a desire for loot and flat-out impatience. The Inca likely did not adequately understand the conquistadors' demands. At the signal to attack, the Spaniards unleashed volleys of gunfire at the vulnerable mass of Incas and surged forward in a concerted action. The effect was devastating, the shocked Incas offered such feeble resistance that the battle has often been labeled a massacre, with the Inca losing 2,000 dead.", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216979", "text": "Pizarro also used cavalry charges against the Inca forces, which stunned them in combination with gunfire. The majority of Atahualpa's troops were in the Cuzco region along with Rumiñawi, Quisquis and Challcuchima, the two generals he trusted the most. This was a major disadvantage for the Inca. Their undoing also resulted from a lack of self-confidence, and a desire to make public demonstration of fearlessness and godlike command of situation. The main view is that the Inca were eventually defeated due to inferior weapons, 'open battle' tactics, disease, internal unrest, the bold tactics of the Spanish, and the capture of", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "14764775", "text": "Empire had been conquered by the Spanish centuries ago, and the last Sapa Inca, Atahualpa, was executed in 1533. Nevertheless, the Incan heritage was still strong among the indigenous populations of the Upper Peru and Inca nobility was not extinct. After the return of Ferdinand VII to the Spanish throne, Manuel Belgrano and Bernardino Rivadavia were sent to Europe in a diplomatic mission, seeking support for the local governments. They couldn't get it, but Belgrano realized that, unlike previous years, the republican form of government was not highly esteemed, and monarchies were preferred again. He also pointed out that the", "title": "Inca plan" }, { "id": "4216967", "text": "the area around Lake Titicaca. This region had supplied large numbers of troops for Huáscar's forces. After a period of diplomatic posturing and jockeying for position, open warfare broke out. Huáscar seemed poised to bring the war to a rapid conclusion, as troops loyal to him took Atahualpa prisoner, while he was attending a festival in the city of Tumibamba. However, Atahualpa quickly escaped and returned to Quitu. There, he was able to amass what is estimated to be at least 30,000 soldiers. While Huáscar managed to muster about the same number of soldiers, they were less experienced. Atahualpa sent", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4216999", "text": "1520s was smallpox; a minority of scholars claim that the epidemic was due to an indigenous illness called Carrion's disease. In any case, a 1981 study by N. D. Cook the shows that the Andes suffered from three separate population declines during colonization. The first was of 30–50 percent during the first outbreak of smallpox. When a measles outbreak occurred, there was another decline of 25–30 percent. Finally, when smallpox and measles epidemics occurred together, which occurred from 1585 to 1591, a decline of 30–60 percent occurred. Collectively these declines amounted to a decline of 93 percent from the pre-contact", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "17653965", "text": "Overthrow of the Roman monarchy The overthrow of the Roman monarchy, a political revolution in ancient Rome, took place around 509 BC and resulted in the expulsion of the last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and the establishment of the Roman Republic. The semi-legendary Roman histories tell that while the king was away on campaign, his son Sextus Tarquinius raped a noblewoman, Lucretia. Afterwards she revealed the offence to various Roman noblemen, and then committed suicide. The Roman noblemen, led by Lucius Junius Brutus, obtained the support of the Roman aristocracy and the people to expel the king and", "title": "Overthrow of the Roman monarchy" }, { "id": "13558413", "text": "some power for several more decades. His son, Túpac Amaru, was the last Inca, and was finally killed by the Spanish in 1572. In total, the conquest took about forty years to complete. Alongside the Spanish campaign to occupy Peru, a civil war broke out between Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro over prerogatives and rights over the conquered cities, in which Almagro was ultimately killed. Almagro's faction, the \"Almagristas\", later avenged his death by killing Pizarro, but were finally defeated in the battle of Chupas in 1542, and their new leader, Diego Almagro El Mozo, executed. Conflict broke out", "title": "Military history of South America" }, { "id": "4216975", "text": "law from us and all your people may learn and receive it, for it will be the greatest honor, advantage, and salvation to them all.\" Atahualpa responded only after Hernando Pizarro arrived. He replied with what he had heard from his scouts, saying that Pizarro and his men were killing and enslaving countless numbers on the coast. Pizarro denied the report and Atahualpa, with limited information, reluctantly let the matter go. At the end of their meeting, the men agreed to meet the next day at Cajamarca. After his victory and the death of his brother Huáscar, Atahualpa was fasting", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "4766715", "text": "the end of the \"Tahuantinsuyo\" (Inca Empire) was near, with the Spanish conquest of Peru. Ransom Room The Ransom Room (El Cuarto del Rescate) is a small building located in Cajamarca, Peru. It is considered to be the place where the Inca Empire came to an end with the capture and eventual execution of the Inca Emperor Atahualpa. When Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cajamarca on November 15, 1532, he sent a messenger to Atahualpa, proposing they meet in the main plaza. Pizarro decided to send a friar, Vincente de Valverde, along with an interpreter (Felipillo) to speak with Atahualpa. The", "title": "Ransom Room" }, { "id": "2048860", "text": "established administrative districts of \"corregimiento\", and resettled native Andeans in reducciones to better rule them. Under Toledo, the last stronghold of the Inca state was destroyed and the last Inca emperor, Tupac Amaru I, was executed. Silver from Potosí flowed to coffers in Spain and paid for Spain's wars in Europe. In Mexico, Viceroy Enríquez organized the defense of the northern frontier against nomadic and bellicose indigenous groups, who attacked the transport lines of silver from the northern mines. In the religious sphere, the crown sought to bring the power of the religious orders under control with the \"Ordenanza del", "title": "Spanish Empire" }, { "id": "9067098", "text": "in warcraft and to the mighty armies of Cuzco, which their father had stationed in the north part of the empire during the military campaign. Accounts from sources all vary in the exact details. In 1524-1526, the Spaniards under the command of Francisco Pizarro, explored South America. There were 62 horsemen and 106 foot soldiers. Smallpox was taken to the continent, causing disaster for the Incas. Sapa Inca Huayna Capac travelled north to investigate the strangers. Although he never met any Spaniards, he contracted smallpox and died in 1527. His eldest son and heir, Ninan Cuyochi, died soon after him.", "title": "Inca Civil War" }, { "id": "16045206", "text": "tribe, who founded the largest empire that the Americas had ever seen, named Tahuantinsuyu. The Inca governed their empire from the capital city of Cuzco, administering it along traditional Andean lines. In the 16th century, Spanish colonisers from Europe arrived in the Andes, eventually subjugating the indigenous kingdoms and incorporating the Andean region into the Spanish Empire. In the 19th century, a rising tide of anti-imperialist nationalism that was sweeping all of South America led rebel armies to overthrow Spanish rule. The Andean region was subsequently divided into a number of new states, Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador. The 20th", "title": "History of Andean South America" }, { "id": "4332196", "text": "who was Inca for only a few days in 1527, is sometimes left off the list of Sapa Incas because news of his death from smallpox arrived in Cusco very shortly after he was declared Sapa Inca. He had been with Huayna Cápac when he died. The death of Ninan, the presumed heir, led to the Inca Civil War between Huáscar and Atahualpa, a weakness that the Spanish exploited when they conquered the Inca Empire. This last Sapa Inca must not be confused with Túpac Amaru II, who was leader of an 18th-century Peruvian uprising. Sapa Inca The Sapa Inca", "title": "Sapa Inca" }, { "id": "9067101", "text": "that Atahualpa should not have any more land and that he should pay homage to him. Soon after Huascar claimed the throne, he expected all subjects to swear him allegiance. To announce his loyalty, Atahualpa sent his most trusted captains to Cuzco, along with generous gifts of gold and silver (as was customary). Suspicious, Huascar refused Atahualpa's offering. Accusing him of rebellion, he ordered some of his messengers killed, and sent back his captains dressed as women. Atahualpa declared war against his brother. Just before the Spaniards arrived in Cajamarca, Atahualpa had sent troops to Cusco to capture Huáscar, and", "title": "Inca Civil War" }, { "id": "7709309", "text": "Inca society The Inca society was the society of the Inca civilization in South America. The Inca Empire, which was centred in what is now called Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and southern Colombia and lasted from 1438 to 1533 AD, represented the height of this civilization. The Inca state was known as the Kingdom of Cusco before 1438. Over the course of the Inca Empire, the rulers used conquest and peaceful assimilation to incorporate in their empire a large portion of western South America, centred on the Andean mountain ranges. The empire proved relatively short-lived however: by 1533, Atahualpa, the last", "title": "Inca society" }, { "id": "2049537", "text": "such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola as bases. Florida fell to Juan Ponce de León after 1513. From 1519 to 1521, Hernán Cortés waged a campaign against the Aztec Empire, ruled by Moctezuma II. From the territories of the Aztec Empire conquistadors expanded Spanish rule to northern Central America and parts of what is now southern and western United States. Other conquistadors took over the Inca Empire after crossing the Isthmus of Panama and sailing the Pacific to northern Peru. As Francisco Pizarro subdued the empire in a manner similar to Cortés other conquistadores used Peru as base for", "title": "Conquistador" }, { "id": "6156837", "text": "Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908–1922) began with the Second Constitutional Era with the Young Turk Revolution. It restored the Ottoman constitution of 1876 and brought in multi-party politics with a two stage electoral system (electoral law) under the Ottoman parliament. The constitution offered hope by freeing the empire's citizens to modernize the state's institutions and dissolve inter-communal tensions. Instead, this period became the story of the twilight struggle of the Empire. Ottoman military reforms resulted in the Ottoman Army engaging in the Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912), the Balkan Wars (1912–1913), and the continuous unrest", "title": "Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire" }, { "id": "5126599", "text": "thirteen brigantines. Other sources estimate that around 860 Spanish soldiers and 20.000 Tlaxcalan warriors were killed during all the battles in this region from 1519–1521. It is well accepted that Cortés' indigenous allies, which may have numbered as many as 200,000 over the three-year period of the conquest, were indispensable to his success. Fall of Tenochtitlan The Siege of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was a decisive event in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. It occurred in 1521 following extensive manipulation of local factions and exploitation of preexisting divisions by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who was aided by", "title": "Fall of Tenochtitlan" }, { "id": "129469", "text": "American rulers to be commonly called emperors were the \"Sapa Inca\" of the Inca Empire (1438–1533). Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, conquered the Inca for Spain, killed Emperor Atahualpa, and installed puppets as well. Atahualpa may actually be considered a usurper as he had achieved power by killing his half-brother and he did not perform the required coronation with the imperial crown \"mascaipacha\" by the \"Huillaq Uma\" (high priest). When Napoleon I ordered the invasion of Portugal in 1807 because it refused to join the Continental System, the Portuguese Braganzas moved their capital to Rio de Janeiro to avoid the fate", "title": "Emperor" }, { "id": "315201", "text": "seen in early records.) According to Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Peru is not a Quechuan nor Caribbean word, but Indo-Hispanic or hybrid. In the years between 1524 and 1526 smallpox, introduced from Panama and preceding the Spanish conquerors swept through the Inca Empire. The death of the Incan ruler Huayna Capac as well as most of his family including his heir, caused the fall of the Incan political structure and contributed to the civil war between the brothers Atahualpa and Huáscar. Taking advantage of this, Pizarro carried out a \"coup d'état\". On November 16, 1532, while the natives were in a", "title": "History of Peru" }, { "id": "9067111", "text": "battles. Spanish and European disease caused widespread indigenous deaths across Latin America. Smallpox was the first recorded epidemic in December 1518; on Columbus’ second voyage, an influenza outbreak is believed to have killed large numbers, including Spanish. \"Of the 1500 men who sailed from Cádiz on September 25, 1493, scarcely 200 were alive a decade later.\" Inca Civil War The Inca Civil War, also known as the Inca Dynastic War, the Inca War of Succession, or, sometimes, the War of the Two Brothers was fought between two brothers, Huáscar and Atahualpa, sons of Huayna Capac, over the succession to the", "title": "Inca Civil War" }, { "id": "577077", "text": "signalled for the neighbouring areas of the Middle East. many scholars believe that drought, and a decline in trade with Egypt and Mesopotamia, caused the collapse of the Indus Civilisation. The climate change which caused the collapse of the Indus Valley Civilisation was possibly due to \"an abrupt and critical mega-drought and cooling 4,200 years ago,\" which marks the onset of the Meghalayan Age, the present stage of the Holocene. The Ghaggar-Hakra system was rain-fed, and water-supply depended on the monsoons. The Indus Valley climate grew significantly cooler and drier from about 1800 BCE, linked to a general weakening of", "title": "Indus Valley Civilisation" }, { "id": "4216959", "text": "some of the most mountainous terrain on Earth. In less than a century, the Inca had expanded their empire from about 400,000 km² (155,000 sq mi) in 1448, to 1,800,000 km² (690,000 sq mi) in 1528, just before the arrival of the Spanish. This vast area of land varied greatly in cultures and in climate. Because of the diverse cultures and geography, the Inca allowed many areas of the empire to be governed under the control of local leaders, who were watched and monitored by Inca officials. However, under the administrative mechanisms established by the Inca, all parts of the", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "11153154", "text": "insurmountable casualties Mount Chimborazo went into activity, startling the inca warriors that saw it as a bad omen and retreated. Eventually, Rumiñahui was captured and submitted to questioning under duress (tortured) by the Spanish but he did not reveal the location of the temples' treasure. Battle of Mount Chimborazo Francisco Pizarro had toppled the Inca Empire, captured its Emperor Atahualpa and demanded a room of gold and two rooms with silver, he got the treasure but still executed Atahualpa. Hearing of this Rumiñahui took his forces towards the Northern Inca Capital of Quito, where it's believed he buried the gold", "title": "Battle of Mount Chimborazo" }, { "id": "201487", "text": "western South America, centered on the Andean Mountains, using conquest and peaceful assimilation, among other methods. At its largest, the empire joined Peru, large parts of modern Ecuador, western and south central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, north and central Chile and a small part of southwest Colombia into a state comparable to the historical empires of Eurasia. Its official language was Quechua. Many local forms of worship persisted in the empire, most of them concerning local sacred \"Huacas\", but the Inca leadership encouraged the sun worship of Inti – their sun god – and imposed its sovereignty above other cults such", "title": "Inca Empire" }, { "id": "2049624", "text": "in the Incan empire, a large portion of the population had already died in a smallpox epidemic. The first epidemic was recorded in 1529 and killed the emperor Huayna Capac, the father of Atahualpa. Further epidemics of smallpox broke out in 1533, 1535, 1558 and 1565, as well as typhus in 1546, influenza in 1558, diphtheria in 1614 and measles in 1618. Recently developed tree-ring evidence shows that the illness which reduced the population in Aztec Mexico was aided by a great drought in the 16th century, and which continued through the arrival of the Spanish conquest. This has added", "title": "Conquistador" }, { "id": "4216973", "text": "he saw them eat, drink, dress, and have relations with women. He saw them produce no miracles. Cinquinchara informed Atahualpa that they were small in number, about 170–180 men, and had bound the Indian captives with \"iron ropes\". When Atahualpa asked what to do about the strangers, Cinquinchara said that they should be killed because they were evil thieves who took whatever they wanted, and were \"supai cuna\" or \"devils\". He recommended trapping the men inside of their sleeping quarters and burning them to death. At this point, Pizarro had 168 men under his command: 106 on foot and 62", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "2048879", "text": "the failure of the Drake–Norris Expedition to Portugal and the Azores in 1589 marked a turning point in the on-off 1585–1604 Anglo–Spanish War. The Spanish fleets became more effective in transporting greatly increased quantities of silver and gold from the Americas, while English attacks suffered costly failures. During the reign of Philip IV (Philip III of Portugal) in 1640, the Portuguese revolted and fought for their independence from the rest of Iberia. The Council of Portugal was subsequently dissolved. Philip sought to reduce foreign conflicts, since even the vast revenues could not sustain the nearly bankrupted kingdom. The Kingdom of", "title": "Spanish Empire" }, { "id": "7709310", "text": "Sapa Inca (emperor) of the Inca Empire, was killed on the orders of the conquistador Francisco Pizarro, marking the beginning of Spanish rule. The last Inca stronghold, the Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba was conquered by the Spanish in 1572. Population estimates for the Tawantinsuyu society range from as few as 4.1 million people to more than 37 million. Most estimates are between 6 and 14 million people. The reason for these various estimates is that, despite that the Inca kept excellent census records using their quipus, knowledge of how to read them has been lost. Almost all of them were", "title": "Inca society" }, { "id": "6156860", "text": "trades of two French companies the \"Regie Company\", and \"Narquileh tobacco\". Italy declared war, Italo-Turkish War, on the Empire on 29 September 1911, demanding the turnover of Tripoli and Cyrenaica. The empire's response was weak so Italian forces took those areas on 5 November of that year (this act was confirmed by an act of the Italian Parliament on 25 February 1912). Although minor, the war was an important precursor of World War I as it sparked nationalism in the Balkan states. Ottomans were losing their last directly ruled African territory. The Italians also sent weapons to Montenegro, encouraged Albanian", "title": "Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire" }, { "id": "11153152", "text": "Battle of Mount Chimborazo Francisco Pizarro had toppled the Inca Empire, captured its Emperor Atahualpa and demanded a room of gold and two rooms with silver, he got the treasure but still executed Atahualpa. Hearing of this Rumiñahui took his forces towards the Northern Inca Capital of Quito, where it's believed he buried the gold then he heard that the Spanish forces were marching towards Ecuador to capture him. So he decided to burn Quito to the ground to take the glory away from the Spanish of taking the city, then he took the Sun Virgins and killed them to", "title": "Battle of Mount Chimborazo" }, { "id": "13558405", "text": "a distance. The Inca Civil War broke out after the death in 1527 of the Sapa Inca Huayna Capac to smallpox, which he had caught whilst investigating the rumours of the European in the north. His eldest son and heir, Ninan Cuyochi, died shortly after him. With both the leading Inca and the successor to the throne dead, there was unrest as to who would become the next Inca king. No clear rules stated how one was to gain succession to the throne, with two brothers Huáscar and Atahualpa claiming primacy. From 1531-2, the two brothers' armies participated in numerous", "title": "Military history of South America" }, { "id": "4217001", "text": "they opposed Inca rule. The basic policy of the Spanish towards local populations was that voluntary vassalage would yield safety and coexistence, while continued resistance would result in more deaths and destruction. Another significant effect on the people in South America was the spread of Christianity. As Pizarro and the Spanish subdued the continent and brought it under their control, they forcefully converted many to Christianity, claiming to have educated them in the ways of the \"one true religion.\" With the depopulation of the local populations along with the capitulation of the Inca Empire, the Spanish missionary work after colonization", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "7660923", "text": "of Argentina and Colombia. long word was a patchwork of languages, cultures, and peoples. The components of the empire were not all uniformly loyal, nor were the local cultures all fully integrated. The portions of the chipotle that had been conquered were almost openly hostile to the Inca, and the Inca nobles rejected an offer of refuge in Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro explored south from Panama, reaching Inca territory by 1526. It was clear that they had reached a wealthy land with prospects of great treasure, and after one more expedition (1529), Pizarro traveled to Spain and received", "title": "History of the Incas" }, { "id": "3204322", "text": "attacked and won the Incan army in the Battle of Cajamarca, taking Atahualpa captive at the so-called ransom room. Despite fulfilling his promise of filling one room with gold and two with silver, he was convicted for killing his brother and plotting against Pizarro, and was executed. In 1533, Pizarro invaded Cuzco with indigenous troops and wrote to King Charles I: \"\"This city is the greatest and the finest ever seen in this country or anywhere in the Indies ... it is so beautiful and has such fine buildings that it would be remarkable even in Spain.\"\" After the Spanish", "title": "Age of Discovery" }, { "id": "201491", "text": "inca\" (\"Inca Empire\") referred to the nation that they encountered and subsequently conquered. The Inca Empire was the last chapter of thousands of years of Andean civilization. Andean civilization was one of five civilizations in the world deemed by scholars to be \"pristine\", that is indigenous and not derivative from other civilizations. The Inca Empire was preceded by two large-scale empires in the Andes: the Tiwanaku (c. 300–1100 AD), based around Lake Titicaca and the Wari or Huari (c. 600–1100 AD) centered near the present-day city of Ayacucho. The Wari occupied the Cuzco area for about 400 years. Thus, many", "title": "Inca Empire" }, { "id": "1842703", "text": "was forced to patch up the situation as best it could. A long period of consolidation was needed to restore some measure of peace and prosperity, but that breathing space was not given. While the rebellion was eventually defeated, the military leaders and local administrators gained self-governing powers in the process. This hastened the collapse of the Han dynasty in 220. After Emperor Ling died in 189, a power struggle between He Jin and the eunuchs ensued in which He Jin was assassinated on 22 September 189. He Jin's chief ally, Yuan Shao, retaliated by setting the palace on fire", "title": "Yellow Turban Rebellion" }, { "id": "13693840", "text": "early 18th century, the mining industry entered a prolonged period of decline, as evidenced by the eclipsing of Potosí by La Paz. After 1700, only small amounts of bullion were shipped from Upper Peru to Spain. In the mid-18th century, Spanish control over South America began to weaken. In 1780 the Inca descendant, Túpac Amaru II led nearly 60,000 natives in a battle against the Spaniards near the Peruvian city of Cuzco. Spain put down the revolt in 1783 and executed thousands of natives as punishment, but the revolt illustrated the precarious nature of Spanish colonial rule in the Andes.", "title": "History of Bolivia to 1809" }, { "id": "4216964", "text": "was in the midst of a war of succession between the princes Huáscar and Atahualpa. Atahualpa seems to have spent more time with Huayna Capac during the years when he was in the north with the army conquering Ecuador. Atahualpa was thus closer to, and had better relations with the army and its leading generals. When both Huayna Capac and his eldest son and designated heir, Ninan Cuyochic, died suddenly in 1528 from what was probably smallpox, a disease introduced by the Spanish into the Americas, the question of who would succeed as emperor was thrown open. Huayna had died", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "12029752", "text": "the country gathering forces to attempt to fight back.Troops from Lima were instrumental in helping repel Túpac's siege of Cuzco from December 28, 1780 to January 10, 1781. Following these failures, his coalition of disparate malcontents began to fall apart, with the upper-caste Criollos abandoning him first to rejoin the loyalist forces. Further defeats and Spanish offers of amnesty for rebel defectors hastened the collapse of Túpac's forces. By the end of February 1781, Spanish authorities began to gain the upper hand. A mostly indigenous loyalist army of up to between 15,000 and 17,000 troops led by Jose del Valle", "title": "Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II" }, { "id": "636269", "text": "Emperor Atahualpa of the Inca Empire. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting to subdue the mightiest empire in the Americas. In the following years Spain extended its rule over the Empire of the Inca civilization. The Spanish took advantage of a recent civil war between the factions of the two brothers Emperor Atahualpa and Huáscar, and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated, such as the Huancas, Chachapoyas, and Cañaris. In the following years the conquistadors and indigenous allies extended control over Greater Andes Region. The Viceroyalty of Perú was", "title": "Spanish colonization of the Americas" }, { "id": "8222314", "text": "southern Guatemalan highlands. The end of this latter campaign is generally marked by the downfall of the Maya state based at Tayasal in the Petén region, in 1697. Even before Juan de Grijalva returned to Spain, Velázquez decided to send a third and even larger expedition to explore the Mexican coast. Hernán Cortés, then one of Velázquez's favorites and brother-in-law, was named as the commander, which created envy and resentment among the Spanish contingent in the Spanish colony. Licenses for expeditions allowed the Crown to retain sovereignty over newly conquered lands while not risking its own assets in the enterprise.", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire" }, { "id": "4216968", "text": "his forces south under the command of two of his leading generals, Challcuchima and Quisquis, who won an uninterrupted series of victories that soon brought them to the very gates of Cuzco. On the first day of the battle for Cuzco, the forces loyal to Huáscar gained an early advantage. However, on the second day, Huáscar personally led an ill-advised \"surprise\" attack, of which the generals Challcuchima and Quisquis had advance knowledge. In the ensuing battle, Huáscar was captured, and resistance completely collapsed. The victorious generals sent word north by \"chasqui\" messenger to Atahualpa, who had moved south from Quitu", "title": "Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire" }, { "id": "8937922", "text": "sad codicil to the Roman Empire of Antiquity. Late-20th-century and early-21st-century historians have instead emphasized the empire's remarkable resiliency and adaptability to change. The Byzantine-Arab Wars and the Battle of Manzikert have traditionally been considered the most significant. However, recent books by Paul Magdalino and John Birkenmeier have re-evaluated the position of the empire in the 12th century, citing the collapse under the Angeloi (1185–1204) as the most decisive turning point in the empire's fortunes. Although this view is not universally held, historians generally agree that after the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the empire was only a shadow of its", "title": "Decline of the Byzantine Empire" }, { "id": "2040984", "text": "rebels fought in South America and Mexico. Numerous countries declared their independence. In 1824, the Spanish forces were defeated in the Battle of Ayacucho. The mainland was free and in 1898, Spain lost Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico became a Colony of the U.S.A. but Cuba was independent in 1902. Cyprus Cyprus was invaded and taken over by the Ottoman Empire in 1570. It was later relinquished by the Ottomans in 1878. The Cypriots expressed their true disdain for Ottoman rule through revolts and nationalist movements. The Ottomans only suppressed these revolts in the harshest", "title": "Decolonization" }, { "id": "7660927", "text": "the ruler of the Incas free once the ransom was paid, but he refused to release the Inca after that and instead had him strangled in public. During Atahualpa's imprisonment Huáscar was assassinated. The Spanish maintained that this was at Atahualpa's orders; this was one of the charges used against Atahualpa when the Spanish finally decided to put him to death, in August 1533. The Spanish installed his brother Manco Inca Yupanqui in power; for some time Manco cooperated with the Spanish, while the Spanish fought to put down resistance in the north. Meanwhile, an associate of Pizarro's, Diego de", "title": "History of the Incas" }, { "id": "6156856", "text": "observance. Unfortunately for the advocates of representative parliamentary government, mutinous demonstrations by disenfranchised regimental officers broke out on 13 April 1909, which led to the collapse of the government. On 27 April 1909 counter-coup put down by \"31 March Incident\" using the 11th Salonika Reserve Infantry Division of the Third Army. Some of the leaders of Bulgarian federalist wing like Sandanski and Chernopeev participated in the march on Capital to depose the \"attempt to dismantle constitution\". Abdul Hamid II was removed from the throne, and Mehmed V became the Sultan. The Albanians of Tirana and Elbassan, where the Albanian National", "title": "Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire" }, { "id": "13558412", "text": "much unrest in the north near Quito where the remaining Inca generals were amassing troops. The Inca armies inflicted considerable damage before the Spanish succeeded in recapturing Quito, effectively ending any organized rebellion in the north of the empire. After being mistreated, Manco Inca rebelled, escaping Spanish custody and attempted to retake Cusco in 1537. The Inca leadership did not, however, have the full support of its subject peoples and Manco was eventually forced to retreat, first to the fortress of Ollantaytambo, and then further into the mountainous region of Vilcabamba, where he established the small Neo-Inca State holding onto", "title": "Military history of South America" }, { "id": "8937925", "text": "Patriarch of Rome achieving greater independence from Byzantium, which no longer provided adequate protection to the Pope. Consequently, the Holy See and Byzantium would have disagreements, culminating in the schism of 1054 and the disaster of the Fourth Crusade in the 13th century. In the 7th – 9th century, Islam gave the Arabs a newfound zeal and desire to conquer. They expanded to the territories in the Levant and Egypt. The Arab invasions led to the loss of Egypt, Syria, Palestine and for a short period of time, Crete, Sicily, Cyprus and Asia Minor. Though Asia Minor was recaptured and", "title": "Decline of the Byzantine Empire" }, { "id": "12356139", "text": "Italians conducted a guerrilla war which lasted for two more years. In November 1942, when the Germans occupied Vichy France during Case Anton, Italian-occupied France was expanded with the occupation of Corsica. By the autumn of 1943, the Italian Empire and all dreams of an Imperial Italy effectively came to an end. On 7 May, the surrender of Axis forces in Tunisia and other near continuous Italian reversals, led King Victor Emmanuel III to plan the removal of Mussolini. Following the Invasion of Sicily, all support for Mussolini evaporated. A meeting of the Grand Council of Fascism was held on", "title": "Italian Empire" }, { "id": "8937927", "text": "broke away from the Abbasids the Byzantines were able to launch successful offensives into Syria and Palestine, due to this division amongst their enemies. As far back as the invasion of Africa by Belisarius, foreign soldiers were used in war. While foreign military invention was not an all together new occurrence, the reliance on it, and its ability to damage political, social, and economic institutions were dramatically increased in the 11th, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. The 11th century saw increasing tensions between Courtly, and Military factions. Until the mid 11th century the empire had long been under the control", "title": "Decline of the Byzantine Empire" }, { "id": "5126512", "text": "Fall of Tenochtitlan The Siege of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, was a decisive event in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. It occurred in 1521 following extensive manipulation of local factions and exploitation of preexisting divisions by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, who was aided by the support of his indigenous allies and his interpreter and companion La Malinche. Although numerous battles were fought between the Aztec Empire and the Spanish-led coalition, which was itself composed primarily of indigenous (mostly Tlaxcaltec) personnel, it was the siege of Tenochtitlan—its outcome probably largely determined by the effects of a smallpox epidemic", "title": "Fall of Tenochtitlan" }, { "id": "761628", "text": "forty years after the conquest of Peru began with the execution of Atahualpa, the conquest ended with the execution of his nephew. The Spanish Viceroy rounded up the royal descendants. Several dozen, including Túpac Amaru's three-year-old son, were banished to Mexico, Chile, Panama and elsewhere. Some of them were allowed to return home. Túpac Amaru's memory, however, lived on and would become personified in an important late eighteenth century insurgency that was rooted in aspirations toward a revival of Inca status vis-a-vis the Spanish administration. In 1780, José Gabriel Condorcanqui (Túpac Amaru II), who claimed to be a direct descendant", "title": "Túpac Amaru" }, { "id": "18860364", "text": "entered Vilcabamba to find it deserted and the \"Sapa Inca\" gone. The city had been entirely destroyed, and the Neo-Inca State officially ceased to exist. Túpac Amaru was later captured and executed by the Spanish. It took the Incas approximately two decades to bridge the technological gap with the Spanish. As early as 1537, when king Manco Inca defeated them at Pilcosuni, they came into possession of modern Spanish weapons, including arquebuses, artillery and crossbows. In 1538 Manco Inca was recorded to be skilled enough to ride a horse into battle. In the early 1540s several Spanish refugees would teach", "title": "Neo-Inca State" }, { "id": "6156870", "text": "cast covetous eyes on this new and largely Islamic state. The young state, however, collapsed within weeks of the outbreak of World War I. At the turn of 1913, the Ottoman Modern Army failed at counterinsurgencies in the periphery of the empire, Libya was lost to Italy, and Balkan war erupted in the fall of 1912. LU flexed its muscles with the forced dissolution of the parliament in 1912. The signs of humiliation of the Balkan wars worked to the advantage of the CUP The cumulative defeats of 1912 enabled the CUP to seize control of the government. The Liberal", "title": "Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire" }, { "id": "3639743", "text": "months as Augustus. He had been careful to make sure that there was no successor in waiting, and his own children were far too young to take his place. Honorius was unable to control his own court and the death of Constantius initiated more than ten years of instability. Initially Galla Placidia sought Honorius's favour in the hope that her son might ultimately inherit. Other court interests managed to defeat her, and she fled with her children to the Eastern court in 422. Honorius himself died, shortly before his thirty-ninth birthday, in 423. After some months of intrigue, the patrician", "title": "Fall of the Western Roman Empire" }, { "id": "1806756", "text": "of his successor Berdibek Khan in 1359. The last Yuan ruler Toghan Temür (r. 1333–70) was powerless to regulate those troubles, a sign that the empire had nearly reached its end. His court's unbacked currency had entered a hyperinflationary spiral and the Han-Chinese people revolted due to the Yuan's harsh impositions. In the 1350s, Gongmin of Goryeo successfully pushed Mongolian garrisons back and exterminated the family of Toghan Temür Khan's empress while Tai Situ Changchub Gyaltsen managed to eliminate the Mongol influence in Tibet. Increasingly isolated from their subjects, the Mongols quickly lost most of China to the rebellious Ming", "title": "Mongol Empire" }, { "id": "5126595", "text": "hundreds of canoes filled the lake fleeing the doomed city, Cortés sent his brigantines out to intercept them. Cuauhtémoc attempted to flee with his property, gold, jewels, and family in fifty pirogues, but was soon captured by Sandoval's launches, and brought before Cortés. The Aztec forces were destroyed and the Aztecs surrendered on 13 August 1521, Julian Date. Cortés demanded the return of the gold lost during La Noche Triste. Under torture, by burning their feet with oil, Cuauhtémoc and the lord of Tacuba, confessed to dumping his gold and jewels into the lake. Yet, little gold remained, as earlier,", "title": "Fall of Tenochtitlan" }, { "id": "4222149", "text": "Spaniards were captured and sent to Ollantaytambo. Alonso de Alvarado was sent by Pizarro to Cusco, but upon his arrival at Abancay, he and his army were captured by Rodrigo Orgóñez in the Battle of Abancay. This was the beginning of the first civil war between the conquistadors. Abandoning Ollantaytambo (and effectively giving up the highlands of the empire), Manco Inca retreated to Vitcos and finally to the remote jungles of Vilcabamba, where he founded the Neo-Inca State which lasted until the death of Túpac Amaru in 1572. From there, he continued his attacks against the Wankas (one of the", "title": "Manco Inca Yupanqui" }, { "id": "201504", "text": "a wealthy land with prospects of great treasure, and after another expedition in 1529 Pizarro traveled to Spain and received royal approval to conquer the region and be its viceroy. This approval was received as detailed in the following quote: \"In July 1529 the queen of Spain signed a charter allowing Pizarro to conquer the Incas. Pizarro was named governor and captain of all conquests in Peru, or New Castile, as the Spanish now called the land.\" When they returned to Peru in 1532, a war of succession between the sons of Sapa Inca Huayna Capac, Huáscar and Atahualpa, and", "title": "Inca Empire" }, { "id": "5126523", "text": "by his enemy Diego Velasquez, they could only revoke his commission and recall him, thus ending his campaign in Mexico and probably dooming the Spanish attempt for a lightning conquest, as no other Spanish leader could wield authority as effectively both among the natives and the Spaniards. Therefore, Cortés made the decision to abruptly abduct the King; only with a knife to his throat could Cortés ensure his cooperation. According to all eyewitness accounts, Moctezuma initially refused to leave his palace but after a series of threats from and debates with the Spanish captains, and assurances from Doña Marina, he", "title": "Fall of Tenochtitlan" } ]

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[ { "id": "1933082", "text": "Dream of the Rood The Dream of the Rood is one of the Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry. Like most Old English poetry, it is written in alliterative verse. \"Rood\" is from the Old English word \"rōd\" 'pole', or more specifically 'crucifix'. Preserved in the 10th-century Vercelli Book, the poem may be as old as the 8th-century Ruthwell Cross, and is considered one of the oldest works of Old English literature. The poem is set up with the narrator having a dream. In this dream or vision", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933083", "text": "he is speaking to the Cross on which Jesus was crucified. The poem itself is divided up into three separate sections: the first part (ll. 1–27), the second part (ll. 28–121) and the third part (ll. 122–156). In section one, the narrator has a vision of the Cross. Initially when the dreamer sees the Cross, he notes how it is covered with gems. He is aware of how wretched he is compared to how glorious the tree is. However, he comes to see that amidst the beautiful stones it is stained with blood. In section two, the Cross shares its", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933086", "text": "to God for what he has seen and is filled with hope for eternal life and his desire to once again be near the glorious Cross. There are various, alternative readings of the structure of the poem, given the many components of the poem and the lack of clear divisions. Scholars like Faith H. Patten divide the poem into three parts, based on who is speaking: Introductory Section (lines 1–26), Speech of the Cross (lines 28–121), and Closing Section (lines 122–156). Though the most obvious way to divide the poem, this does not take into account thematic unity or differences", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933088", "text": "circle (lines 122–156). \"The Dream of the Rood\" survives in the Vercelli Book, so called because the manuscript is now in the Italian city of Vercelli. The Vercelli Book, which can be dated to the 10th century, includes twenty-three homilies interspersed with six religious poems: \"The Dream of the Rood\", \"Andreas\", \"The Fates of the Apostles\", \"Soul and Body\", \"Elene\" and a poetic, homiletic fragment. A part of \"The Dream of the Rood\" can be found on the 8th century Ruthwell Cross, which is an , free standing Anglo-Saxon cross that was perhaps intended as a 'conversion tool'. At each", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933085", "text": "lord's retainer whose most outstanding characteristic is that of unwavering loyalty\". The Rood and Christ are one in the portrayal of the Passion—they are both pierced with nails, mocked and tortured. Then, just as with Christ, the Cross is resurrected, and adorned with gold and silver. It is honoured above all trees just as Jesus is honoured above all men. The Cross then charges the visionary to share all that he has seen with others. In section three, the author gives his reflections about this vision. The vision ends, and the man is left with his thoughts. He gives praise", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933090", "text": "Riddle 9 by the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon writer Tatwine. Tatwine's riddle reads: Now I appear iridescent; my form is shining now. Once, because of the law, I was a spectral terror to all slaves; but now the whole earth joyfully worships and adorns me. Whoever enjoys my fruit will immediately be well, for I was given the power to bring health to the unhealthy. Thus a wise man chooses to keep me on his forehead. The author of \"The Dream of the Rood\" is unknown. Moreover, it is possible that the poem as it stands is the work of multiple authors.", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933101", "text": "and takes on all the sins of mankind. Rebecca Hinton identifies the resemblance of the poem to early medieval Irish sacramental Penance, with the parallels between the concept of sin, the object of confession, and the role of the confessor. She traces the establishment of the practice of Penance in England from Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury from 668 to 690, deriving from the Irish confession philosophy. Within the poem, Hinton reads the dream as a confession of sorts, ending with the narrator invigorated, his \"spirit longing to start.\" Faith Patten identified 'sexual imagery' in the poem between the", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933089", "text": "side of the vine-tracery are carved runes. There is an excerpt on the cross that was written in runes along with scenes from the Gospels, lives of saints, images of Jesus healing the blind, the Annunciation, and the story of Egypt, as well as Latin antiphons and decorative scroll-work. Although it was torn down after the Scottish Reformation, it was possible to mostly reconstruct it in the 19th century. Recent scholarly thinking about the cross tends to see the runes as a later addition to an existing monument with images. A similar representation of the Cross is also present in", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933084", "text": "account of Jesus' death. The Crucifixion story is told from the perspective of the Cross. It begins with the enemy coming to cut the tree down and carrying it away. The tree learns that it is not to be the bearer of a criminal, but instead Christ crucified. The Lord and the Cross become one, and they stand together as victors, refusing to fall, taking on insurmountable pain for the sake of mankind. It is not just Christ, but the Cross as well that is pierced with nails. Adelhied L. J. Thieme remarks, \"The cross itself is portrayed as his", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933102", "text": "Cross and the Christ figure, noting in particular lines 39–42, when Christ embraces the Cross after having 'unclothed himself' and leapt onto it. This interpretation was expanded upon by John Canuteson, who argued that this embrace is a 'logical extension of the implications of the marriage of Christ and the Church', and that it becomes 'a kind of marriage consummation' in the poem. Mary Dockray-Miller further argued that this sexual imagery functions to 'feminize' the Cross in order for it to mirror the heightened masculinity of the warrior Christ in the poem. Dream of the Rood The Dream of the", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933100", "text": "cannot fall and it must stay strong to fulfill the will of God. However, to fulfill this grace of God, the Cross has to be a critical component in Jesus' death. This puts a whole new light on the actions of Jesus during the Crucifixion. Neither Jesus nor the Cross is given the role of the helpless victim in the poem, but instead both stand firm. The Cross says, Jesus is depicted as the strong conqueror and is made to appear a \"heroic German lord, one who dies to save his troops\". Instead of accepting crucifixion, he 'embraces' the Cross", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933096", "text": "to his newly Christianized countrymen as a story from their native tradition\". Furthermore, the tree's triumph over death is celebrated by adorning the cross with gold and jewels. Work of the period is notable for its synthetic employment of 'Pagan' and 'Christian' imagery as can be seen on the Franks Casket or the Kirkby Stephen cross shaft which appears to conflate the image of Christ crucified with that of Woden/Odin bound upon the Tree of Life. Others have read the poem's blend of Christian themes with the heroic conventions as an Anglo-Saxon embrace and re-imagining, rather than conquest, of Christianity.", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933094", "text": "Christian and pre-Christian images, but in the end is a Christian piece. Examining the poem as a pre-Christian (or pagan) piece is difficult, as the scribes who wrote it down were Christian monks who lived in a time when Christianity was firmly established (at least among the aristocracy) in Anglo-Saxon England. Anglo-Saxon influence can be identified by the use of a complex, echoing structure, allusions, repetition, verbal parallels, the ambiguity and wordplay of the Riddles, and the language of heroic poetry and elegy. Some scholars have argued that there is a prevalence of pagan elements within the poem, claiming that", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933099", "text": "a god, on the Cross\". This image of Christ as a 'heroic lord' or a 'heroic warrior' is seen frequently in Anglo-Saxon (and Germanic) literature and follows in line with the theme of understanding Christianity through pre-Christian Germanic tradition. In this way, \"the poem resolves not only the pagan-Christian tensions within Anglo-Saxon culture but also current doctrinal discussions concerning the nature of Christ, who was both God and man, both human and divine\". J.A. Burrow notes an interesting paradox within the poem in how the Cross is set up to be the way to Salvation: the Cross states that it", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933098", "text": "death; the Cross is a loyal retainer who is painfully and paradoxically forced to participate in his Lord's execution\". Christ can also be seen as \"an Anglo-Saxon warrior lord, who is served by his thanes, especially on the cross and who rewards them at the feast of glory in Heaven\". Thus, the crucifixion of Christ is a victory, because Christ could have fought His enemies, but chose to die. John Canuteson believes that the poem \"show[s] Christ's willingness, indeed His eagerness, to embrace His fate, [and] it also reveals the physical details of what happens to a man, rather than", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933087", "text": "in tone. Constance B. Hieatt distinguishes between portions of the Cross's speech based on speaker, subject, and verbal parallels, resulting in: Prologue (lines 1–27), Vision I (lines 28–77): history of the Rood, Vision II (lines 78–94): explanation of the Rood’s glory, Vision III (lines 95–121): the Rood’s message to mankind, and Epilogue (lines 122–156). M. I. Del Mastro suggests the image of concentric circles, similar to a chiasmus, repetitive and reflective of the increased importance in the center: the narrator-dreamer’s circle (lines 1–27), the rood’s circle (lines 28–38), Christ’s circle (lines 39-73a), the rood’s circle (lines 73b-121), and the narrator-dreamer’s", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "1933093", "text": "Cynewulf, a named Old English poet who lived around the ninth century. Two of Cynewulf's signed poems are found in the Vercelli Book, the manuscript that contains \"The Dream of the Rood\", among them \"Elene\", which is about Saint Helena's supposed discovery of the cross on which Jesus was crucified. Thus Franz Dietrich argued that the similarities between Cynewulf's \"Elene\" and \"The Dream of the Rood\" reveal that the two must have been authored by the same individual. Again, however, this attribution is not widely accepted. Like many poems of the Anglo-Saxon period, \"The Dream of the Rood\" exhibits many", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "4740375", "text": "among the earliest monuments of those literatures, and Biblical paraphrases in verse often precede Bible translations. In Old English poetry, the \"Dream of the Rood\", a meditation on Christ's crucifixion which adapts Germanic heroic imagery and applies it to Jesus, is one of the earliest extant monuments of Old English literature. Dante Alighieri's \"The Divine Comedy\" represents one of the earliest monuments of Italian vernacular literature. Much Old Irish poetry was the work of Irish monks and is on religious themes. This story is repeated in most European languages. Modern Christian poetry especially suffers from a difficulty of definition. The", "title": "Christian poetry" }, { "id": "1933091", "text": "The approximate eighth-century date of the Ruthwell Cross indicates the earliest likely date and Northern circulation of some version of \"The Dream of the Rood\". Nineteenth-century scholars tried to attribute the poem to the few named Old English poets. Daniel H. Haigh argued that the inscription of the Ruthwell Cross must be fragments of a lost poem by Cædmon, portrayed in Bede's \"Ecclesiastical History of the English People\" as the first Christian English poet, stating \"On this monument, erected about A.D. 665, we have fragments of a religious poem of very high character, and that there was but one man", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "4655815", "text": "Old Norse) appeared by late Old English; \"crucifix\" is first recorded in English in the Ancrene Wisse of about 1225. More precisely, the Rood or Holyrood was the True Cross, the specific wooden cross used in Christ's crucifixion. The word remains in use in some names, such as Holyrood Palace and the Old English poem \"The Dream of the Rood\". The phrase \"by the rood\" was used in swearing, e.g. \"No, by the rood, not so\" in Shakespeare's \"Hamlet\" (Act 3, Scene 4). The alternative term \"triumphal cross\" (, ), which is more usual in Europe, signifies the triumph that", "title": "Rood" }, { "id": "10958192", "text": "Legend of the Rood The Legend of the Rood () is a complex of medieval tales loosely derived from the Old Testament. In its fullest form, the narrative tells of how the dying Adam sends his son Seth back to Paradise to seek an elixir which will render him immortal. This part of the tale is sometimes referred to as \"the Quest of Seth for the Oil of Life\". The angel guarding the gates of Paradise refuses Seth access, but does give him a seed from the tree from which Adam and Eve had stolen the apple. On his return,", "title": "Legend of the Rood" }, { "id": "298594", "text": "hymns and proverbs. In addition to Biblical paraphrases are a number of original religious poems, mostly lyrical (non-narrative). The Exeter Book contains a series of poems entitled \"Christ\", sectioned into \"Christ I\", \"Christ II\" and \"Christ III\". Considered one of the most beautiful of all Old English poems is \"Dream of the Rood\", contained in the Vercelli Book. The presence of a portion of the poem (in Northumbrian dialect) carved in ruins on an 8th century stone cross found in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire, verifies the age of at least this portion of the poem. The Dream of the Rood is a", "title": "Old English literature" }, { "id": "1933097", "text": "The poem may also be viewed as both Christian and pre-Christian. Bruce Mitchell notes that \"The Dream of the Rood\" is \"the central literary document for understanding [the] resolution of competing cultures which was the presiding concern of the Christian Anglo-Saxons\". Within the single culture of the Anglo-Saxons is the conflicting Germanic heroic tradition and the Christian doctrine of forgiveness and self-sacrifice, the influences of which are readily seen in the poetry of the period. Thus, for instance, in \"The Dream of the Rood\", Christ is presented as a \"heroic warrior, eagerly leaping on the Cross to do battle with", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "17592169", "text": "the early Medieval period and most of these are in Irish manuscripts. These include poems in praise of Pictish kings contained within Irish annals. In Old English there is \"The Dream of the Rood\", from which lines are found on the Ruthwell Cross, making it the only surviving fragment of Northumbrian Old English from early Medieval Scotland. It has also been suggested on the basis of ornithological references that the poem \"The Seafarer\" was composed somewhere near the Bass Rock in East Lothian. In Latin early works include a \"Prayer for Protection\" attributed to St Mugint, thought to be from", "title": "Poetry of Scotland" }, { "id": "1913530", "text": "poem \"Dream of the Rood\" mentions the finding of the cross and the beginning of the tradition of the veneration of its relics. The \"Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\" also talks of King Alfred receiving a fragment of the cross from Pope Marinus (see: Annal Alfred the Great, year 883). Although it is possible, the poem need not be referring to this specific relic or have this incident as the reason for its composition. However, there is a later source that speaks of a bequest made to the 'Holy Cross' at Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset; Shaftesbury abbey was founded by King Alfred, supported", "title": "True Cross" }, { "id": "11119883", "text": "fall and break despite Elmer’s best efforts to save them. As Elmer tries to sleep that night, rain drips onto him from a hole in the roof. He climbs up on the roof to try to patch, but falls through it and lands on Molly’s aunt’s bed, propelling her through the bedroom window and into a muddy puddle. Elmer covers the giant hole in the roof with a blanket. The rain eventually fills it, causing it to burst, and sending the water flooding down onto Elmer, and then Molly’s aunt on the floor below his. The aunt makes her way", "title": "Hayseed Romance" }, { "id": "1933095", "text": "the idea of a talking tree is animistic. The belief in the spiritual nature of natural objects, it has been argued, recognises the tree as an object of worship. In \"Heathen Gods in Old English Literature\", Richard North stresses the importance of the sacrifice of the tree in accordance with pagan virtues. He states that \"the image of Christ's death was constructed in this poem with reference to an Anglian ideology on the world tree\". North suggests that the author of \"The Dream of the Rood\" \"uses the language of this myth of Ingui in order to present the Passion", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "16258131", "text": "Froehde reagent The Froehde reagent is used as a simple spot-test to presumptively identify alkaloids, especially opioids, as well as other compounds. It is composed of a mixture of molybdic acid or a molybdate salt dissolved in hot, concentrated sulfuric acid, which is then dripped onto the substance being tested. The United States Department of Justice method for producing the reagent is the addition of 100 mL of hot, concentrated (95–98%) sulfuric acid to 0.5 g of sodium molybdate or molybdic acid. The Virginia Department of Forensic Science method uses 0.5 g ammonium molybdate per 100 mL HSO (conc.) Unheated", "title": "Froehde reagent" }, { "id": "681856", "text": "the air cools. This decreases the air's ability to hold water, and this causes precipitation over the land. This is why summer monsoons cause so much rain over land. In the colder months, the cycle is reversed. Then the land cools faster than the oceans and the air over the land has higher pressure than air over the ocean. This causes the air over the land to flow to the ocean. When humid air rises over the ocean, it cools, and this causes precipitation over the oceans. (The cool air then flows towards the land to complete the cycle.) Most", "title": "Monsoon" }, { "id": "4018866", "text": "adhere tightly throughout the winter. A finished drey is a hollow sphere, about a foot or more in diameter, with branches and other rough-hewn materials loosely woven on the outside and an inner surface lined with a variety of finer materials, such as grass, moss, leaves, shredded bark or pine needles. There may be one, or occasionally two, entrance/exit holes in a drey, usually close to the bottom and oriented toward the trunk, which keeps rain out. A second hole is used for an escape route. The incomplete or flat dreys sometimes seen may be hot-weather sleeping platforms, or abandoned", "title": "Drey" }, { "id": "4650259", "text": "a flood coat of bitumen (asphalt or tar) and then gravel to keep the sun's heat, UV rays and weather off it and helps protect it from cracking or blistering and degradation. Roof decking is usually of plywood, chipboard or OSB boards (OSB = Oriented Strand Board, also known as Sterling board) of around 18mm thickness, steel or concrete. The mopping of bitumen is applied in two or more coats (usually 3 or 4) as a hot liquid, heated in a kettle. A flooded coat of bitumen is applied over the felts and gravel is embedded in the hot bitumen.", "title": "Flat roof" }, { "id": "10958193", "text": "Seth finds his father dead, but places this seed under his tongue and then buries him at Golgotha. A tree grows from the seed, which is cut down. The wood experiences many adventures, reappearing as a motif in popular renderings of many Old Testament stories. At one point it is a bridge over which the Queen of Sheba passes. Ultimately, it is made into the cross (Middle English: \"rood\") on which Jesus is crucified. The \"Legend of the Rood\" is a key component in the complex of motifs known as the Medieval popular Bible. It is found in many medieval", "title": "Legend of the Rood" }, { "id": "9566639", "text": "Gatorade shower The Gatorade shower, also known as the Gatorade dunk or the Gatorade bath, is an sports tradition that involves players surreptitiously dumping a cooler full of liquid (most commonly Gatorade mixed with ice) over the head of their coach (or occasionally a high-profile assistant coach, star player, or team owner in professional leagues) following a meaningful win, such as the Super Bowl, World Series or other major sporting event. This includes all levels of play including Little League World Series, high school, college (NCAA) and professional teams (e.g. NBA Finals or Stanley Cup). The tradition began with the", "title": "Gatorade shower" }, { "id": "1788935", "text": "Latin in Whithorn in the eighth century. In Old English there is \"The Dream of the Rood\", from which lines are found on the Ruthwell Cross, making it the only surviving fragment of Northumbrian Old English from early Medieval Scotland. It has also been suggested on the basis of ornithological references that the poem \"The Seafarer\" was composed somewhere near the Bass Rock in East Lothian. Beginning in the later eighth century, Viking raids and invasions may have forced a merger of the Gaelic and Pictish crowns that culminated in the rise of Cínaed mac Ailpín (Kenneth MacAlpin) in the", "title": "Scottish literature" }, { "id": "3273259", "text": "very old copy of the \"Imitation of Christ\", which is relied upon as an argument for attributing the authorship to John Gersen. Its secular texts include the \"Novels\" of Justinian; and the 8th-century \"Leges Langobardorum\" (Laws of the Lombards - Germanic). Finally it contains the famous Vercelli Book — an Old English manuscript which includes the celebrated alliterative poem \"The Dream of the Rood\". The civil archives are not less important, and contain documents dating from 882. The Basilica di Sant'Andrea was erected by Cardinal Guala Bicchieri in 1219. Together with the old Cistercian monastery, it is one of the", "title": "Vercelli" }, { "id": "2198638", "text": "Rheum Rheum (; from Greek: ῥεῦμα \"rheuma\" 'a flowing, rheum'), also known as gound, is thin mucus naturally discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth during sleep (cf. mucopurulent discharge). Rheum dries and gathers as a crust in the corners of the eyes or the mouth, on the eyelids, or under the nose. It is formed by a combination of mucus (in the case of the eyes, consisting of mucin discharged from the cornea or the conjunctiva), nasal mucus, blood cells, skin cells, or dust. Rheum from the eyes is particularly common. Dried rheum is commonly called sleep, sleepy-seeds, sleepy", "title": "Rheum" }, { "id": "10004880", "text": "delivered to a perforated plate (drip plate). Prefiltering may take place in the aquarium via a foam block or sleeve in the overflow, or weir siphon, or it may be prefiltered by filter wool resting on the perforated plate. The waste laden water from the aquarium spreads over the drip plate, and rains down through a medium. This may be a filter wool/plastic grid rolled into a circular shape (DLS or \"Double Layer Spiral\") or any number of plastic media commonly known as Bio Balls. As the water cascades over the media, CO is given off, oxygen is picked up,", "title": "Filter (aquarium)" }, { "id": "11942123", "text": "Mousefood Mousefood or Anlleq is a native food highly prized by Yupik people on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. It consists of the roots of various tundra plants which are cached by voles in underground burrows. Raindrops are the roots of tall cottongrass. These roots are less than an inch long and are shaped, as the name suggests, like a drop of water. They are eaten with seal oil or put in soup. Eskimo sweet potatoes are the roots of \"Hedysarum alpinum\". As the name suggests, these roots are somewhat sweet and are used in Akutaq. Elders teach that when collecting mousefood,", "title": "Mousefood" }, { "id": "1980832", "text": "in) plastic and 200 mm (8 in) metal varieties. The inner cylinder is filled by 25 mm (1 in) of rain, with overflow flowing into the outer cylinder. Plastic gauges have markings on the inner cylinder down to 0.25 mm (0.01 in) resolution, while metal gauges require use of a stick designed with the appropriate 0.25 mm (0.01 in) markings. After the inner cylinder is filled, the amount inside it is discarded, then filled with the remaining rainfall in the outer cylinder until all the fluid in the outer cylinder is gone, adding to the overall total until the outer", "title": "Precipitation" }, { "id": "11100739", "text": "Impact gardening Impact gardening is the process by which impact events stir the outermost crusts of moons and other celestial objects with no atmospheres. In the particular case of the Moon, this is more often known as lunar gardening. Planetary bodies lacking an atmosphere will generally also lack any erosional processes, with the possible exception of volcanism, and as a result impact debris accumulates at the object's surface as a rough \"soil,\" commonly referred to as regolith. Subsequent impacts, especially by micrometeorites, stir and mix this soil. It had long been estimated that the top centimeter of the lunar surface", "title": "Impact gardening" }, { "id": "5076945", "text": "Rainout A rainout is the process of precipitation causing the removal of radioactive particles from the atmosphere onto the ground, creating nuclear fallout by rain. The rainclouds of the rainout are often formed by the particles of a nuclear explosion itself and because of this, the decontamination of rainout is more difficult than a \"dry\" fallout. A rainout could occur in the vicinity of ground zero or the contamination could be carried aloft before deposition depending on the current atmospheric conditions and how the explosion occurred. The explosion, or burst, can be air, surface, subsurface, or seawater. An air burst", "title": "Rainout" }, { "id": "462220", "text": "47 Tt per year. Over land, evaporation and transpiration contribute another 72 Tt per year. Precipitation, at a rate of 119 Tt per year over land, has several forms: most commonly rain, snow, and hail, with some contribution from fog and dew. Dew is small drops of water that are condensed when a high density of water vapor meets a cool surface. Dew usually forms in the morning when the temperature is the lowest, just before sunrise and when the temperature of the earth's surface starts to increase. Condensed water in the air may also refract sunlight to produce rainbows.", "title": "Water" }, { "id": "12381846", "text": "Rain Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then become heavy enough to fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides suitable conditions for many types of ecosystems, as well as water for hydroelectric power plants and crop irrigation. The major cause of rain production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation falls from", "title": "Rain" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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However, although it is a form of liquid evaporation, it is quite different from flash evaporation. In spray drying, a slurry of very small solids is rapidly dried by suspension in a hot gas. The slurry is first atomized into very small liquid droplets which are then sprayed into a stream of hot dry air. The liquid rapidly evaporates leaving behind dry powder or dry solid granules. The dry powder or solid granules are recovered from the exhaust air by using cyclones, bag filters or electrostatic precipitators. Natural flash", "title": "Flash evaporation" }, { "id": "5076948", "text": "can create larger radiation doses than fallout near the detonation, because it arrives sooner than fallout, before much radioactive decay has occurred. For underwater bursts, the visible surge is, in effect, a cloud of liquid (usually water) droplets with the property of flowing almost as if it were a homogeneous fluid. After the water evaporates, an invisible base surge of small radioactive particles may persist. Meteorogically, snow and rain will accelerate local fallout. Under special meteorological conditions, such as a local rain shower that originates above the radioactive cloud, limited areas of heavy contamination just downwind of a nuclear blast", "title": "Rainout" }, { "id": "18831374", "text": "Water of lustration The water of lustration or water of purification was the water created with the ashes of the red heifer, according to the instructions given by God to Moses and Aaron in the Book of Numbers. The Hebrew Bible taught that any Israelite who touched a corpse, a \"Tumat HaMet\" (literally, \"impurity of the dead\"), was ritually unclean. The water was to be sprinkled on a person who had touched a corpse, on the third and seventh days after doing so, in order to make the person ritually clean again. A tent in which someone had died was", "title": "Water of lustration" }, { "id": "2198640", "text": "cleansing of the eye area. The presence of pus in an instance of heavy rheum buildup can indicate dry eye or conjunctivitis, among other infections. In infants, the tear ducts (that drain the tears) occasionally fail to open, resulting in the overflow of tears onto the cheeks (epiphora) and rheum deposition on the surrounding skin. Rheum Rheum (; from Greek: ῥεῦμα \"rheuma\" 'a flowing, rheum'), also known as gound, is thin mucus naturally discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth during sleep (cf. mucopurulent discharge). Rheum dries and gathers as a crust in the corners of the eyes or the", "title": "Rheum" }, { "id": "4186127", "text": "as Ghana, Burkina Faso, Darfur, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Botswana have a distinct rainy season. Also within the savanna climate regime, Florida and South Texas have a rainy season. Monsoon regions include the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia (including Indonesia and Philippines), northern sections of Australia's North, Polynesia, Central America, western and southern Mexico, the Desert Southwest of the United States, southern Guyana, portions of northeast Brazil. Northern Guyana has two wet seasons: one in early spring and the other in early winter. In western Africa, there are two rainy seasons across southern sections, but only one across the north. Within the", "title": "Wet season" }, { "id": "16258132", "text": "sulfuric acid can be used to prepare the reagent in a less dangerous manner, but 2–4 hours must be allowed for the molybdate to dissolve. Froehde reagent The Froehde reagent is used as a simple spot-test to presumptively identify alkaloids, especially opioids, as well as other compounds. It is composed of a mixture of molybdic acid or a molybdate salt dissolved in hot, concentrated sulfuric acid, which is then dripped onto the substance being tested. The United States Department of Justice method for producing the reagent is the addition of 100 mL of hot, concentrated (95–98%) sulfuric acid to 0.5", "title": "Froehde reagent" }, { "id": "13597262", "text": "Dewbow A dewbow is an optical effect, similar to a rainbow, where dewdrops instead of rain droplets reflect and disperse sunlight. Dewbows can be seen on fields covered with dew, when the sun shines. Dew forms outdoors in the early morning after a clear night, when the surface temperature drops below the dew point. It forms most easily on surfaces that are isolated from conducted heat from deep ground, such as grass, leaves, and spider webs. Dew bows will be clearest on fields littered with cobwebs, as may occur in autumn. A \"rainbow\" is perceived as a circle in the", "title": "Dewbow" }, { "id": "11508829", "text": "Bituminous waterproofing Bituminous waterproofing systems are designed to protect residential and commercial buildings. Bitumen (asphalt or coal-tar pitch) is a mixed substance made up of organic liquids that are highly sticky, viscous, and waterproof. These systems are sometimes used to construct roofs, in the form of roofing felt or roll roofing products. Roofing felt (similar to tar paper) is the base material used to make roof shingles and roll roofing. Used for decades as waterproof coverings in residential and commercial roofs, these bitumen compositional membranes incorporate two layers. The first underside polymer membrane is used as a solid background, often", "title": "Bituminous waterproofing" }, { "id": "5829470", "text": "is washed as part of a shower or bathing with shampoo, a specialized surfactant. Shampoos work by applying water and shampoo to the hair. The shampoo breaks the surface tension of the water, allowing the hair to become soaked. This is known as the wetting action. The wetting action is caused by the head of the shampoo molecule attracting the water to the hair shaft. Conversely, the tail of the shampoo molecule is attracted to the grease, dirt and oil on the hair shaft. The physical action of shampooing makes the grease and dirt become an emulsion that is then", "title": "Hair care" }, { "id": "3068449", "text": "Exudate An exudate is a fluid emitted by an organism through pores or a wound, a process known as exuding or exudation. \"Exudate\" is derived from \"exude\", \"to ooze,\" from the Latin \"exsūdāre\", \"to (ooze out) sweat\" (\"ex-\" \"out\" and \"sūdāre\" \"to sweat\"). An exudate is any fluid that filters from the circulatory system into lesions or areas of inflammation. It can be a pus-like or clear fluid. When an injury occurs, leaving skin exposed, it leaks out of the blood vessels and into nearby tissues. The fluid is composed of serum, fibrin, and white blood cells. Exudate may ooze", "title": "Exudate" }, { "id": "10937439", "text": "Rhoca-Gil Rhoca-Gil is a type of industrial sealant produced by Rhône-Poulenc, used in the construction of tunnels to block the passage of groundwater into the tunnel. The sealant begins as a liquid, is then injected into cavities which need to be sealed, and polymerises, causing it to harden. Rhoca-Gil consists of two fluids, that are mixed, thinned out with water and then sprayed into cracks in the bedrock. One of the fluids contains acrylamide and methylolacrylamide. The mixed solution becomes a viscous fluid that penetrates cracks and holes in the rock, where the fluid reacts—polymerizes—to a tight plastic substance. When", "title": "Rhoca-Gil" }, { "id": "4385371", "text": "PJ1 TrackBite PJ1 TrackBite, formerly known as VHT TrackBite or simply VHT, is a custom formulated resin, typically black in color, used in drag racing to either increase the traction of a car's tires or as a sealer for newly ground and/or resurfaced race tracks. It stays sticky for weeks, has fire-retardant properties and is hydrophobic. It is generally sprayed onto the track from either a 55-gallon (208-liter) drum or 1 gallon, 2.5 liter and 15 liter plastic jug. It has been used in professional racing since 1972. With the help of Trackbite, a normal street surface can be prepped", "title": "PJ1 TrackBite" }, { "id": "1647926", "text": "crust followed by a region of relative uniform consistency.\" Subsequent analysis of the data suggests that surface consistency readings were likely caused by \"Huygens\" displacing a large pebble as it landed, and that the surface is better described as a 'sand' made of ice grains. The images taken after the probe's landing show a flat plain covered in pebbles. The pebbles, which may be made of water ice, are somewhat rounded, which may indicate the action of fluids on them. Regolith Regolith () is a layer of loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock. It includes dust, soil, broken rock,", "title": "Regolith" }, { "id": "17592158", "text": "Poetry of Scotland Poetry of Scotland includes all forms of verse written in Brythonic, Latin, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, French, English and Esperanto and any language in which poetry has been written within the boundaries of modern Scotland, or by Scottish people. Much of the earliest Welsh literature was composed in or near Scotland, but only written down in Wales much later. These include \"The Gododdin\", considered the earliest surviving verse from Scotland. Very few works of Gaelic poetry survive from this period and most of these in Irish manuscripts. \"The Dream of the Rood\", from which lines are found on", "title": "Poetry of Scotland" }, { "id": "1980830", "text": "may bring much-needed precipitation to otherwise dry regions. Areas in their path can receive a year's worth of rainfall from a tropical cyclone passage. On the large scale, the highest precipitation amounts outside topography fall in the tropics, closely tied to the Intertropical Convergence Zone, itself the ascending branch of the Hadley cell. Mountainous locales near the equator in Colombia are amongst the wettest places on Earth. North and south of this are regions of descending air that form subtropical ridges where precipitation is low; the land surface underneath these ridges is usually arid, and these regions make up most", "title": "Precipitation" }, { "id": "1307679", "text": "Pre-ejaculate Pre-ejaculate (also known as pre-ejaculatory fluid, pre-seminal fluid or Cowper's fluid, and colloquially as \"pre-cum\") is a clear, colorless, viscous fluid that is emitted from the urethra of the penis during sexual arousal. It is similar in composition to semen but has distinct chemical differences. The presence of sperm in the fluid is variable from low to absent. Pre-ejaculate functions as a lubricant and an acid neutralizer. The fluid is discharged from the urethra of the penis during arousal, masturbation, foreplay or at an early stage during sexual intercourse, some time before the individual fully reaches orgasm and semen", "title": "Pre-ejaculate" }, { "id": "3146696", "text": "dampe, And dripth the wud thru. Bludie hel, boo-hoo! Thawth drain, and runneth bath; Saw sawth, and scruth scru; Bull-kuk squirteth, leake spurteth; Wurry springeth up anew, Boo-hoo, boo-hoo. Tom Pugh, Tom Pugh, well plumbes thu, Tom Pugh; Better job I naver nu. Therefore will I cease boo-hoo, Woorie not, but cry pooh-pooh, Murie sing pooh-pooh, pooh-pooh, Pooh-pooh! </poem> Sumer Is Icumen In \"Sumer Is Icumen In\" (also called the Summer Canon and the Cuckoo Song) is a medieval English round or rota of the mid-13th century. The title translates approximately to \"Summer Has Come In\" or \"Summer Has Arrived\"", "title": "Sumer Is Icumen In" }, { "id": "864431", "text": "the Egyptian mandate to drown every male Hebrew child, and discovered there by Pharaoh's daughter. A similar story is told of Sargon of Akkad. Ark of bulrushes The ark of bulrushes daubed with asphalt and pitch, in which the infant Moses was laid (Exodus 2:3), is called in the Hebrew תֵּבָה (\"tebah\", modern \"teiva\"), a word similar to the Egyptian \"teb\", meaning \"a chest\". It is also the same word used for Noah's Ark. The bulrushes ( \"gome\") were likely to have been papyrus stalks (\"Cyperus papyrus\"), daubed with bitumen and pitch (which probably refers to the sticky mud of", "title": "Ark of bulrushes" }, { "id": "4756974", "text": "Petrichor Petrichor () is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek \"petra\" (), meaning \"stone\", and \"īchōr\" (), the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian CSIRO researchers, Isabel Joy Bear and Richard G. Thomas, for an article in the journal \"Nature\". In the article, the authors describe how the smell derives from an oil exuded by certain plants during dry periods, whereupon it is absorbed by clay-based soils and rocks. During rain, the oil is released", "title": "Petrichor" }, { "id": "8669717", "text": "KOH test The KOH Test for \"Candida albicans\", also known as a potassium hydroxide preparation or KOH prep, is a quick, inexpensive fungal test to differentiate dermatophytes and \"Candida albicans\" symptoms from other skin disorders like psoriasis and eczema. Dermatophytes are a type of fungus that invades the top layer of the skin, hair, or nails. There are three genera of fungi commonly implicated: Trichophyton (found in skin, nail, and hair infections), Epidermophyton (skin and nail infections), and Microsporum (skin and hair infections). Dermatophytes produce an infection commonly known as ringworm or tinea. It can appear as \"jock itch\" in", "title": "KOH test" }, { "id": "3068452", "text": "rhizosphere. Exudate An exudate is a fluid emitted by an organism through pores or a wound, a process known as exuding or exudation. \"Exudate\" is derived from \"exude\", \"to ooze,\" from the Latin \"exsūdāre\", \"to (ooze out) sweat\" (\"ex-\" \"out\" and \"sūdāre\" \"to sweat\"). An exudate is any fluid that filters from the circulatory system into lesions or areas of inflammation. It can be a pus-like or clear fluid. When an injury occurs, leaving skin exposed, it leaks out of the blood vessels and into nearby tissues. The fluid is composed of serum, fibrin, and white blood cells. Exudate may", "title": "Exudate" }, { "id": "7907643", "text": "wife, but finds fault in every princess he finds. He had not intended to seek out the light princess, but, upon becoming lost in a forest, he finds the princess swimming. Thinking she is drowning, he \"rescues\" her, ending up with her in the air, with her scolding him. He falls instantly in love and, upon her demand, puts her back in the water, and goes swimming with her. Days pass, and the prince learns that her manner is changed between the water and the land, and he can not marry her as she is on land. Princess Makemnoit, meanwhile,", "title": "The Light Princess" }, { "id": "1933092", "text": "living in England at that time worthy to be named as a religious poet, and that was Caedmon\". Likewise, George Stephens contended that the language and structure of \"The Dream of the Rood\" indicated a seventh-century date. Supposing that the only Christian poet before Bede was Cædmon, Stephens argued that Cædmon must have composed \"The Dream of the Rood\". Furthermore, he claimed that the Ruthwell Cross includes a runic inscription that can be interpreted as saying \"Caedmon made me\". These ideas are no longer accepted by scholars. Likewise, some scholars have tried to attribute \"The Dream of the Rood\" to", "title": "Dream of the Rood" }, { "id": "11942124", "text": "one should always leave half of the cache for the \"mouse.\" They also recommend leaving a gift – something that the mouse can eat – for the mouse. Mousefood Mousefood or Anlleq is a native food highly prized by Yupik people on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. It consists of the roots of various tundra plants which are cached by voles in underground burrows. Raindrops are the roots of tall cottongrass. These roots are less than an inch long and are shaped, as the name suggests, like a drop of water. They are eaten with seal oil or put in soup. Eskimo", "title": "Mousefood" }, { "id": "4083063", "text": "lead baths is up to 6 minutes. Soaking times can range a little higher within a vacuum. As in the heating step, it is important that the temperature throughout the sample remains as uniform as possible during soaking. Once the workpiece has finished soaking, it moves on to the cooling step. During this step, the part is submerged into some kind of quenching fluid; different quenching fluids can have a significant effect on the final characteristics of a quenched part. Water is one of the most efficient quenching media where maximum hardness is desired, but there is a small chance", "title": "Quenching" }, { "id": "10797550", "text": "Trickling filter A trickling filter is a type of wastewater treatment system. It consists of a fixed bed of rocks, coke, gravel, slag, polyurethane foam, sphagnum peat moss, ceramic, or plastic media over which sewage or other wastewater flows downward and causes a layer of microbial slime (biofilm) to grow, covering the bed of media. conditions are maintained by splashing, diffusion, and either by forced-air flowing through the bed or natural convection of air if the filter medium is porous. The terms trickle filter, trickling biofilter, biofilter, biological filter and biological trickling filter are often used to refer to a", "title": "Trickling filter" }, { "id": "2683218", "text": "\"Dream of the Rood\", the \"Harrowing of Hell\", and the \"Physiologus\" have at one time been ascribed to him. The four poems, like a substantial portion of Anglo-Saxon poetry, are sculpted in alliterative verse. All four poems draw upon Latin sources such as homilies and hagiographies (the lives of saints) for their content, and this is to be particularly contrasted to other Old English poems, e.g. \"Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel\", which are drawn directly from the Bible as opposed to secondary accounts. In terms of length, \"Elene\" is by far the longest poem of Cynewulf’s corpus at 1,321 lines. It", "title": "Cynewulf" }, { "id": "1830247", "text": "but have not frozen. The ice crystal plows into the super-cooled droplets and they immediately freeze to it. This process forms \"graupel\", or snow pellets, as the droplet continues to accumulate on the crystal. The pellets bounce when they hit the ground. Out ahead of the passage of a warm front, falling snow may partially melt and refreeze into a frozen rain drop before it reaches the ground. These ice pellets are called \"sleet\" in most of the US. Because it is easily seen and does not accumulate ice, it is not as dangerous as freezing rain. \"Rime\" is a", "title": "Winter storm" }, { "id": "5224299", "text": "Kaokoveld The Kaokoveld Desert is a coastal desert of northern Namibia and southern Angola. The Kaokoveld Desert occupies a coastal strip covering , from 13° to 21°S and is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Namibian savanna woodlands to the east, and the Namib Desert to the south. It includes the Mossamedes Desert of southern Angola. The Kaokoveld is a harsh desert of drifting sandunes and rocky mountains. It receives most of its rainfall during the summer, which distinguishes it from the adjacent Namib Desert to the south, which receives most of its rain during the winter.", "title": "Kaokoveld" }, { "id": "2139658", "text": "Naturally occurring asphalt/bitumen, a type of pitch, is a viscoelastic polymer. This means that even though it seems to be solid at room temperature and can be shattered with a hard impact, it is actually fluid and will flow over time, but extremely slowly. The pitch drop experiment taking place at University of Queensland is a long-term experiment which demonstrates the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. For the experiment, pitch was put in a glass funnel and allowed to slowly drip out. Since the pitch was allowed to start dripping in 1930, only nine drops have", "title": "Pitch (resin)" }, { "id": "656233", "text": "Dew Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening due to condensation. As the exposed surface cools by radiating its heat, atmospheric moisture condenses at a rate greater than that at which it can evaporate, resulting in the formation of water droplets. When temperatures are low enough, dew takes the form of ice; this form is called frost. Because dew is related to the temperature of surfaces, in late summer it forms most easily on surfaces that are not warmed by conducted heat from deep ground, such as grass,", "title": "Dew" }, { "id": "9142074", "text": "and John Wayne \"High Noon\" – Dimitri Tiomkin \"5 Fingers\" – Michael Wilson Millard Mitchell – \"My Six Convicts\" Katy Jurado – \"High Noon\" Walt Disney \"My Cousin Rachel\" – Richard Burton \"Moulin Rouge\" – Colette Marchand \"The Member of the Wedding\" – Brandon deWilde 10th Golden Globe Awards The 10th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film for 1952 films, were held on February 26, 1953, at the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles) in Los Angeles. Gary Cooper – \"High Noon\" Donald O'Connor – \"Singin' in the Rain\" Shirley Booth – \"Come Back, Little Sheba\" Susan Hayward – \"With", "title": "10th Golden Globe Awards" }, { "id": "9805794", "text": "Richie sends Eddie onto the roof to get some poisoned pigeon pellets. While outside, we see that a second burglar is on the outer wall of the flat. Eddie falls through the glass roof but gets some pellets, which Richie puts into one of the cups of tea he is making. They take the tea to the burglar but cannot remember which cup contains the poison, especially as all the cups are the same colour, so, after Richie punishes Eddie by shoving a pencil up his nose, they force the burglar to drink all of them. The burglar promptly vomits.", "title": "Burglary (Bottom)" }, { "id": "17647600", "text": "times the total maximum daily load. Out of the sediment that flows through Lower Little Swatara Creek, per day comes from agricultural land. per day comes from streambanks, per day comes from pastures and similar land, and per day comes from developed land. A total of per day comes from forests. Out of the phosphorus that flows through Lower Little Swatara Creek, per day comes from agricultural land. comes from pastures and similar land. per day comes from groundwater, per day comes from developed land, and per day comes from septic systems. A total of per day comes from forests,", "title": "Lower Little Swatara Creek" }, { "id": "4937201", "text": "thin layer of grit onto the road surface, covering any snow or ice. The salt lowers the melting point of the snow causing it to melt (see sodium chloride). The grit component improves the friction between a vehicle's tires and the road. Some grit bins have a small compartment, which could be used for storing a spade or shovel. The one featured in the photograph at the top of the page is filled through the top hatch. Grit bins were originally made of concrete, wood or even stone, though these are now increasingly being replaced by models constructed from plastic", "title": "Grit bin" }, { "id": "2514607", "text": "with considerable speed and force. Contact with bare skin can kill a person instantly. Once its prey has been stung and killed, a triffid will root itself beside the body and feed on it as it decomposes. Triffids reproduce by inflating a dark green pod below the top of the funnel until it bursts, releasing white seeds (95% of which are infertile) into the air. Aquatic triffids appear in \"The Night of the Triffids\"; but remain largely unseen, with the exceptions of their stingers: the latter described as prehensile. A recurring question in \"The Day of the Triffids\" is whether", "title": "Triffid" }, { "id": "6398018", "text": "in \"and lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf,\" a Midrash asked where the dove found it. Rabbi Abba taught that the dove brought it from the young shoots of the Land of Israel. Rabbi Levi taught that the dove brought it from the Mount of Olives, for the Flood had not submerged the Land of Israel. Thus God told Ezekiel (in ): \"Son of man, say to her: 'You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon on the day of indignation.'\" Rabbi Birai (or some say Rabbi Berekiah) taught that the gates of the Garden", "title": "Noach (parsha)" }, { "id": "11518045", "text": "Mo (Oz) Mo is a fictional region neighboring the Land of Oz. It is sometimes called The Beautiful Valley of Mo. Mo is the setting of the book \"The Magical Monarch of Mo\" by L. Frank Baum. In the first edition of the book, titled \"A New Wonderland\", the country is known as Phunniland. The Land of Mo is also mentioned in \"The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus\" (as Phunniland), as well as in \"The Patchwork Girl of Oz\", and appears in \"The Scarecrow of Oz\". The rain of Mo is made of lemonade, candy grows on trees (which", "title": "Mo (Oz)" }, { "id": "6325957", "text": "much substance is used, the bead will become dark and opaque. The bead and adhering substance is then heated in the lower, reducing, part of the flame, allowed to cool, and the colour observed. It is then heated in the upper, oxidizing, part of the flame, allowed to cool, and the colour observed again. Characteristic coloured beads are produced with salts of copper, iron, chromium, manganese, cobalt and nickel. After the test, the bead is removed by heating it to fusion point, and plunging it into a vessel of water. Bead test The bead test is a traditional part of", "title": "Bead test" }, { "id": "12381906", "text": "iron rain. Rain Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then become heavy enough to fall under gravity. Rain is a major component of the water cycle and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the Earth. It provides suitable conditions for many types of ecosystems, as well as water for hydroelectric power plants and crop irrigation. The major cause of rain production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion is present, precipitation", "title": "Rain" }, { "id": "3679373", "text": "of which the water is pumped with the inlets closed. It is usually suspended from a crane on land or from a small pontoon or barge. Its effectiveness depends on depth pressure. A snagboat is designed to remove big debris such as dead trees and parts of trees from North America waterways. Some of these are any of the above types of dredger, which can operate normally, or by extending legs, also known as spuds, so it stands on the seabed with its hull out of the water. Some forms can go on land. Some of these are land-type backhoe", "title": "Dredging" }, { "id": "10443007", "text": "Gland of Zeis Glands of Zeis are unilobar sebaceous glands located on the margin of the eyelid. The glands of Zeis service the eyelash. These glands produce an oily substance that is issued through the excretory ducts of the sebaceous lobule into the middle portion of the hair follicle. In the same area of the eyelid, near the base of the eyelashes are apocrine glands called the \"glands of Moll\". If eyelashes are not kept clean, conditions such as folliculitis may take place, and if the sebaceous gland becomes infected, it can lead to abscesses and styes. The glands of", "title": "Gland of Zeis" }, { "id": "2808422", "text": "Trinitite Trinitite, also known as atomsite or Alamogordo glass, is the glassy residue left on the desert floor after the plutonium-based Trinity nuclear bomb test on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The glass is primarily composed of arkosic sand composed of quartz grains and feldspar (both microcline and smaller amount of plagioclase with small amount of calcite, hornblende and augite in a matrix of sandy clay) that was melted by the atomic blast. It is usually a light green, although color can vary. It is mildly radioactive but safe to handle. In the late 1940s and early 1950s,", "title": "Trinitite" }, { "id": "4895819", "text": "named after Rao Shekha. Shekhawati is in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, and has special importance in the history of India. The climate of the desert region is harsh and extreme. The temperature ranges from below in winter to more than in summer. The summer brings hot waves of air called \"loo\". Annual rainfall is at around 450 to 600 mm. The groundwater is as deep as 200 feet (60 m), and in some places, the groundwater is hard and salty. The people in the region depend on rainwater harvesting. The harvested rainwater from the monsoon season (during July and", "title": "Shekhawati" }, { "id": "1980807", "text": "drizzle. Rain or drizzle that freezes on contact within a subfreezing air mass is called \"freezing rain\" or \"freezing drizzle\". Frozen forms of precipitation include snow, ice needles, ice pellets, hail, and graupel. The dew point is the temperature to which a parcel must be cooled in order to become saturated, and (unless super-saturation occurs) condenses to water. Water vapor normally begins to condense on condensation nuclei such as dust, ice, and salt in order to form clouds. An elevated portion of a frontal zone forces broad areas of lift, which form clouds decks such as altostratus or cirrostratus. Stratus", "title": "Precipitation" }, { "id": "4186099", "text": "Dry season The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics. The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which moves from the northern to the southern tropics and back over the course of the year. The tropical rain belt lies in the southern hemisphere roughly from October to March; during that time the northern tropics have a dry season with sparser precipitation, and days are typically sunny throughout. From April to September, the rain belt lies in the northern hemisphere, and the southern tropics have their dry season. Under the", "title": "Dry season" }, { "id": "2448459", "text": "small amount of clear fluid into the urethra before the ejaculate is expelled. The functions of this fluid are not entirely known but are suggested to aid in lubricating the male urethra in preparation for the semen during ejaculation. The amount of semen produced and expelled during ejaculation corresponds to the length of time that the male is sexually aroused before ejaculation occurs. Generally, the longer the period of arousal, the larger the amount of seminal fluid. Ejaculation and orgasm may occur simultaneously, however they are not coupled, in that one may occur without the other. For example, a man", "title": "Ejaculatory duct" }, { "id": "18737965", "text": "a size of . The watershed of Clover Hill Creek has an area of approximately . The creek is entirely within the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Scranton. Clover Hill Creek is a first-order stream. The main land uses in the watershed's upper reaches are forested land and residential land. Other land uses in the watershed include Highway Commercial. A small patch of wetland is located near the creek's middle reaches. The riparian buffer of Clover Hill Creek is largely forested in its upper reaches. Further downstream, the buffer consists of meadow grasses and herbaceous plants. The creek is", "title": "Clover Hill Creek" }, { "id": "9084466", "text": "an indicative storm in Essex, (annual rainfall 500mm per annum) delivers 0.022 l/s/m²- while one in Cumbria (annual rainfall 1800mm per annum) delivers 0.014 l/s/m². Eaves gutters can be made from a variety of materials such as cast iron, lead, zinc, galvanised steel, painted steel, copper, painted aluminium, PVC (and other plastics) and occasionally from concrete, stone, and wood. Water collected by a rain gutter is fed, usually via a downpipe (also called a leader or conductor), from the roof edge to the base of the building where it is either discharged or collected. The down pipe can terminate in", "title": "Rain gutter" }, { "id": "4971653", "text": "Hair spray Hair spray (also hair lacquer or spritz) is a common cosmetic hairstyling product that is sprayed onto hair to protect against humidity and wind. Hair sprays typically consist of several components for the hair as well as a propellant. Hair sprays consist of the following components: concentrate, plasticizers, luster agents, and fragrances, as well as propellants. Hair spray are a blend of polymers that provide structural support to hair. These frequently include copolymers of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and polyvinyl acetate (PVAc). Vinyl acetate-crotonic acid copolymers give harder films. In this way hairsprays can be formulated as flexible, medium, and", "title": "Hair spray" }, { "id": "19302770", "text": "Silky cup A Silky Cup is a type of feminine hygiene product which is made of thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), shaped like a bell and is flexible. It is worn inside the vagina during menstruation to catch menstrual fluid (blood). About every 4–12 hours (depending on the amount of flow), the menstruating woman removes the Silky cup from her vagina, empties the collected menstrual blood into a toilet or sink, washes the cup under running water and inserts it again. At the end of the monthly period, the cup can be sterilized, usually by boiling in water. Unlike tampons and pads,", "title": "Silky cup" }, { "id": "7281819", "text": "Sand bath A sand bath is a common piece of laboratory equipment made from a container filled with heated sand. It is used to provide even heating for another container, most often during a chemical reaction. A sand bath is most commonly used in conjunction with a hot plate or heating mantle. A beaker is filled with sand or metal pellets (called shot) and is placed on the plate or mantle. The reaction vessel is then partially covered by sand or pellets. The sand or shot then conducts the heat from the plate to all sides of the reaction vessel.", "title": "Sand bath" }, { "id": "3435176", "text": "Duvet A duvet (, ; ) is a type of bedding consisting of a soft flat bag filled with down, feathers, wool, silk or a synthetic alternative, and typically protected with a removable cover, analogous to a pillow and pillow case. Sleepers often use a duvet without a top bed sheet, as the duvet cover can readily be removed and laundered as often as the bottom sheet. Duvets originated in rural Europe and were filled with the down feathers of ducks. The best quality is taken from the eider duck, for its down is known for its effectiveness as a", "title": "Duvet" }, { "id": "11853344", "text": "of solvent and usually agitated like a washing machine for clothes to get all of the contaminant off. It is then hung on a rack over the tank to allow drying. This is not to be confused with pickling, during which the part would be soaked in the bath for an extended period of time. This operation covers a relatively short period and doesn't clean as deeply as pickling. Soaking is typically the most common application of this process. The material is left to soak until all the dirt or contaminates are removed from the surface. However, the work piece", "title": "Solvent degreasing" }, { "id": "7685058", "text": "of the ongoing deluge and the abrupt cessation of the Loo. Since the plains of North India and Pakistan are both very hot and extremely dry during this season, water evaporates quite readily. Although this leads to the drying out of many ponds and lakes, the extreme dryness of the air is also easily exploited to create evaporation-based cooling systems. Windows shielded with fiber-screens of the fragrant \"khas\" (ख़स/خس or vetiver) dry-grass that are kept damp with a simple water-pumping mechanism are quite effective as an inexpensive form of air conditioning, and have been in common use throughout the plain", "title": "Loo (wind)" }, { "id": "10003735", "text": "Arthur. The frame story tells that Madog sends Rhonabwy and two companions to find the prince's rebellious brother Iorwerth. One night during the pursuit they seek shelter with Heilyn the Red, but find his longhouse filthy and his beds full of fleas. Lying down on a yellow ox-skin, Rhonabwy experiences a dream of Arthur and his time. Serving as his guide is one of Arthur's followers, Iddawg the Churn of Britain, so called because he sparked the Battle of Camlann when he distorted the king's messages of peace he was supposed to deliver to the enemy Medrawd (Mordred). Iddawg introduces", "title": "The Dream of Rhonabwy" } ]

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[ { "id": "227500", "text": "to lay siege to the rebels. The Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266 was \"probably the longest in English history\" according to historian Norman Pounds, and at the time was also the largest siege to have occurred in England in terms of the number of soldiers involved. Simon de Monfort's son, Simon VI de Montfort, promised in January 1266 to hand over the castle to the king. Five months later this had not happened, and Henry III laid siege to Kenilworth Castle on 21 June. Protected by the extensive water defences, the castle withstood the attack, despite Edward targeting the", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "12958211", "text": "Siege of Kenilworth The Siege of Kenilworth (June–December 1266) was a six-month siege on the Kenilworth Castle and a battle of the Second Barons' War. The siege was a part of an English civil war fought from 1264 to 1267 by the forces of Simon de Montfort against the Royalist forces led by Prince Edward (later Edward I of England). The siege was one of few castle attacks to take place during the war. The Castle of Kenilworth's structure was unique and contributed to the longevity of the siege. The castle was a formidable structure due to its heavy defences.", "title": "Siege of Kenilworth" }, { "id": "15908165", "text": "the castle, which has been viewed by Crook in the light of the pressures on the need for more agricultural land during the early 14th century coupled with the political background of Edward I's problems with Scotland and internally with Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster. The early years of Edward III's reign saw a number of visits to the palace and the subsequent petitions by the local communities led to the reversal of most of Edward II's changes to the park. Edward III also maintained the administration of the deer park. In 1340 Robert de Mauley was granted custody of", "title": "King John's Palace" }, { "id": "12068467", "text": "that Jennison's architect was probably Thomas Holt. In 1586 Jenison died, and his widow Elizabeth \"née\" Birch inherited the castle. It was during her ownership that King James VI of Scotland is believed to have rested here on 14 May 1603 while travelling to his coronation as king of England. It is said that the king knighted her son−in−law George Freville in return for bountiful entertainment at the castle. In 1605 Elizebeth Jenison died and her son William Jenison inherited the castle. It became dilapidated because he did not live there, because he was in debt and because in 1610", "title": "Walworth Castle" }, { "id": "9584172", "text": "Hull Castle Hull Castle was an artillery fort in Kingston upon Hull in England. Together with two supporting blockhouses, it defended the eastern side of the River Hull, and was constructed by King Henry VIII to protect against attack from France as part of his Device programme in 1542. The castle had two large, curved bastions and a rectangular keep at its centre; the blockhouses to the north and south had three curved bastions supporting guns, and a curtain wall and moat linked the blockhouses and castle. The construction project used material from recently dissolved monasteries, and cost £21,056. The", "title": "Hull Castle" }, { "id": "12068471", "text": "then sold to General Aylmer's descendants Neville and Charles Eade. In World War II, during the Eades' ownership, the castle was used as a prisoner-of-war camp for 200 men including German and Italian officers, under the command of Major Rollin Holmes. In 1950 Durham County Council bought the castle and it became a girls' boarding school. In 1981 the Council sold the castle, they renovated it and then it was opened as an hotel. It is currently part of the Best Western hotels group in the UK. This Tudor castle, dating from around 1600, is a manor house built of", "title": "Walworth Castle" }, { "id": "19114900", "text": "of Oxford in 1258 and stoutly defended Kenilworth Castle after the Battle of Evesham in 1265. John was summoned with horses and arms to a Military Council before the King's teenage son and Lieutenant of England held at Rochester, Kent in September 1297, a few days before the English defeat at the Battle of Stirling Bridge. John was ordered to muster at Newcastle Upon Tyne for service against the Scots in December. King Edward soon returned from his expedition to Flanders and took charge of matters in Scotland and gained revenge at the Battle of Falkirk the next summer. In", "title": "John Folville" }, { "id": "227504", "text": "1326, however, Edward was deposed by an alliance of Isabella and her lover, Roger Mortimer. Edward was eventually captured by Isabella's forces and the custody of the king was assigned to Henry, Earl of Lancaster, who had backed Isabella's invasion. Henry, reoccupying most of the Lancaster lands, was made constable of Kenilworth and Edward was transported there in late 1326; Henry's legal title to the castle was finally confirmed the following year. Kenilworth was chosen for this purpose by Isabella probably both because it was a major fortification, and also because of the symbolism of its former owners' links to", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "227474", "text": "Kenilworth was also the scene of the removal of Edward II from the English throne, the French insult to Henry V in 1414 (said by John Strecche to have encouraged the Agincourt campaign), and the Earl of Leicester's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575. The castle was built over several centuries. Founded in the 1120s around a powerful Norman great tower, the castle was significantly enlarged by King John at the beginning of the 13th century. Huge water defences were created by damming the local streams, and the resulting fortifications proved able to withstand assaults by land and water", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "12958213", "text": "earnest. The castle’s garrison was large, over a thousand, usually estimated at twelve hundred men, and active in defending themselves. Outside of the castle was the feudal host of England as summoned by Henry III, along with his sons, the Lord Edward and Edmund, who had been attempting to contain the garrison since the prior autumn. The attack on Kenilworth Castle began on 21 June. It was the largest siege to ever occur in England.. The royal forces tried all manners of devices. Numerous stone-throwing devices, presumably trebuchets, were brought to the siege, as well as \"turres ligneas\", or wooden", "title": "Siege of Kenilworth" }, { "id": "227517", "text": "castle and its grounds, including the planting of gardens, the restoration of fish-ponds and improvement to the game park. During 1611–12 Dudley arranged to sell Kenilworth Castle to Henry, by then Prince of Wales. Henry died before completing the full purchase, which was finalised by his brother, Charles, who bought out the interest of Dudley's abandoned wife, Alice Dudley. When Charles became king, he gave the castle to his wife, Henrietta Maria; he bestowed the stewardship on Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth, and after his death gave it to Carey's sons Henry and Thomas. Kenilworth remained a popular location for", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "9631141", "text": "passed into the guardianship of the Ministry of Works, and archaeological excavations were carried out in 1954. In the 21st century the site is controlled by English Heritage and is open to visitors. It is protected under UK law as a scheduled monument and a Grade II* listed building. King Charles's Castle was built between 1548 and 1551 to protect the Scilly Isles against French attack. Tensions with France had grown during the reign of Henry VIII and spilled over into war in 1538. Henry initially responded by fortifying the coasts of England, constructing new artillery forts designed to defend", "title": "King Charles's Castle" }, { "id": "1738865", "text": "capitulated. The garrison was imprisoned in the church, and Governor de Meneval was confined to his house. The New Englanders levelled what was begun of the new fort. The residents of Port Royal were imprisoned in the church and administered an oath of allegiance to the King. Phips left, but warships from New York City arrived in June, which resulted in more destruction. The seamen burned and looted the settlement, including the parish church. The New Englanders left again, and Villebon, the governor of Acadia, moved the capital to safer territory inland at Fort Nashwaak (present-day Fredericton, New Brunswick). Fort", "title": "King William's War" }, { "id": "1272833", "text": "in August 1648 the town withstood a siege from the Royalist Duke of Hamilton who led an army south from Scotland. King Charles was executed in January 1649 and shortly after Parliament again ordered the slighting of the castle, apart from buildings necessary for administration and use as a county gaol. The monarchy was restored in 1660, and Charles II visited Lancaster on 12 August and released all the prisoners held in the castle. Lancashire's High Sheriff and Justices of the Peace petitioned the king to repair the castle. The buildings were surveyed and repair work estimated at £1,957. After", "title": "Lancaster Castle" }, { "id": "3146472", "text": "the castle was completed by around 1100. Many materials, such as Roman brick and clay taken from the Roman town, were used in the building and these can easily be seen. Scaffolding pole holes and garderobes can still be seen in the structure. In 1215, the castle was besieged and eventually captured by King John, during the First Barons' War. The castle has had various uses since it ceased to be a royal castle. It has been a county prison, where in 1645 the self-styled Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins interrogated and imprisoned suspected witches. In 1648, during the Second English", "title": "Colchester Castle" }, { "id": "12954742", "text": "Pendennis Castle in Cornwall, built by King Henry VIII to guard the entry to Falmouth Harbour. After the Royalist defeat at the Battle of Naseby in June 1645, the Parliamentary army swept through the West Country, and Arundell defiantly refused the demand of General Fairfax to submit, and replied to him: He maintained a five month long siege in heroic circumstances, during which his garrison was reduced by hunger to eating their horses. Finally he surrendered in August 1646, making Pendennis Castle the last but one to have held out for the King. In 1651, following the establishment of the", "title": "John Arundell (born 1576)" }, { "id": "19753423", "text": "1st Earl of Inchiquin in 1649 and Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath in 1650. During the Williamite War it was fired on by Jacobites in 1689 and used as a Williamite hospital by Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg prior to the Battle of the Boyne. King John's Castle is a D-shaped enclosure castle with walls thick. The curtain wall in the west wing had a gate house and a square flanking tower. The curtain wall also contains deep embrasures with narrow arrowslits. A large rectangular hall is in the east wing: this hall had two main floors over", "title": "King John's Castle (Carlingford)" }, { "id": "807897", "text": "impressive in size, is considered by historians to have been an ineffective and outdated artillery fortification. This may have been due to a shortage of resources, although the battery's position obscuring the ancient David's Tower and enhancing the prominence of the palace block, has been seen as a significant decision. The battered palace block remained unused, particularly after James VI departed to become King of England in 1603. James had repairs carried out in 1584, and in 1615–1616 more extensive repairs were carried out in preparation for his return visit to Scotland. The mason William Wallace and master of works", "title": "Edinburgh Castle" }, { "id": "15212227", "text": "for the family's estates: William de Valence, half-brother of King Henry III. The castle, characterised by this time by the chronicler Matthew Paris as \"noble\", remained under the guardianship of Valence until 1268, when it reverted to Robert fitz John. King Edward I of England stayed at Warkworth Castle for a night in 1292. The English king was asked to mediate in a dispute over the Scottish throne and laid his own claim, leading to the Anglo-Scottish Wars. After the Scottish victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297, Robert and his son, John de Clavering, were captured. They", "title": "Warkworth Castle" }, { "id": "12958214", "text": "towers. An \"ursus\" or \"bear\" was built, with separate compartments for archers. Barges were sent from Chester to attempt an attack via the lake; this did not work. Time, however, was the only weapon left at their disposal, and the patient waiting finally paid off; with the garrison running out of food and suffering from disease, they finally surrendered on 13 December 1266. and accepted the terms of the Dictum of Kenilworth. Siege of Kenilworth The Siege of Kenilworth (June–December 1266) was a six-month siege on the Kenilworth Castle and a battle of the Second Barons' War. The siege was", "title": "Siege of Kenilworth" }, { "id": "19753421", "text": "King John's Castle (Carlingford) King John's Castle, also known as Carlingford Castle, is an enclosure castle and National Monument located in Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland. King John's Castle is located in Carlingford town's harbour, halfway along the south coast of Carlingford Lough. Carlingford Castle's west wing was built in the late 12th century by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It acquired the name \"King John's Castle\" after King John, Lord of Ireland, supposedly stayed there for three days in 1210, during his second expedition, when he invaded Ulster to apprehend Hugh de", "title": "King John's Castle (Carlingford)" }, { "id": "218743", "text": "have involved only a few of his pack-horses. Modern historians assert that by October 1216 John faced a \"stalemate\", \"a military situation uncompromised by defeat\". John's illness grew worse and by the time he reached Newark Castle he was unable to travel any farther; John died on the night of 18/19 October. Numerous – probably fictitious – accounts circulated soon after his death that he had been killed by poisoned ale, poisoned plums or a \"surfeit of peaches\". His body was escorted south by a company of mercenaries and he was buried in Worcester Cathedral in front of the altar", "title": "John, King of England" }, { "id": "2083713", "text": "to the west, which is still known as The Park. While King Richard I of England (known as \"Lionheart\") was away on the Third Crusade, along with a great number of English noblemen, Nottingham Castle was occupied by supporters of Prince John, including the Sheriff of Nottingham. In the legends of Robin Hood, Nottingham Castle is the scene of the final showdown between the Sheriff and the hero outlaw. In March 1194, an historic battle took place at Nottingham castle, part of the returned King Richard's campaign to put down the rebellion of Prince John. The castle was the site", "title": "Nottingham Castle" }, { "id": "227496", "text": "development of the castle. Henry II succeeded to the throne at the end of the Anarchy but during the revolt of 1173–74 he faced a significant uprising led by his son, Henry, backed by the French crown. The conflict spread across England and Kenilworth was garrisoned by Henry II's forces; Geoffrey II de Clinton died in this period and the castle was taken fully into royal possession, a sign of its military importance. The Clintons themselves moved on to Buckinghamshire. By this point Kenilworth Castle consisted of the great keep, the inner bailey wall, a basic causeway across the smaller", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "227498", "text": "by damming the Finham and Inchford Brooks, creating the Great Mere. The result was to turn Kenilworth into one of the largest English castles of the time, with one of the largest artificial lake defences in England. John was forced to cede the castle to the baronial opposition as part of the guarantee of the Magna Carta, before it reverted to royal control early in the reign of his son, Henry III. Henry III granted Kenilworth in 1244 to Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who later became a leader in the Second Barons' War (1263–67) against the king, using", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "218740", "text": "immediately, either due to the risks of open battle or over concerns about the loyalty of his own men. Louis and the rebel barons advanced west and John retreated, spending the summer reorganising his defences across the rest of the kingdom. John saw several of his military household desert to the rebels, including his half-brother, William Longespée. By the end of the summer the rebels had regained the south-east of England and parts of the north. In September 1216, John began a fresh, vigorous attack. He marched from the Cotswolds, feigned an offensive to relieve the besieged Windsor Castle, and", "title": "John, King of England" }, { "id": "12068469", "text": "response to suspicions of a potential rebellion against the Protestants William III and Mary II. Ralph Jenison inherited the castle at the age of 10 years in 1704. He later renovated the castle at great expense, and died in debt, so that the castle was again sold. The castle was sold for £16,000 in 1759 to wine merchant Matthew Stephenson, and then to Newcastle merchant John Harrison in 1775. His daughter Ann married Arthur Aylmer, a British Army officer of the 68th Regiment of Foot, later promoted to Lieutenant-General; so it passed to the Aylmer family. After General Aylmer was", "title": "Walworth Castle" }, { "id": "2083714", "text": "of a decisive attack when King Richard besieged the castle, after constructing some of the same types of siege machines he had used on the crusade. Richard was aided by Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester, and David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon. The castle surrendered after just a few days. Shortly before his 18th birthday, King Edward III, with the help of a few trusted companions led by Sir William Montagu, staged a coup d'état at Nottingham Castle (19 October 1330) against his mother Isabella of France, and her lover, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March. Both", "title": "Nottingham Castle" }, { "id": "227511", "text": "purposes of protection. Kenilworth remained an important Lancastrian stronghold for the rest of the war, often acting as a military balance to the nearby castle of Warwick. With the victory of Henry VII at Bosworth, Kenilworth again received royal attention; Henry visited frequently and had a tennis court constructed at the castle for his use. His son, Henry VIII, decided that Kenilworth should be maintained as a royal castle. He abandoned the Pleasance and had part of the timber construction moved into the base court of the castle. The castle remained in royal hands until it was given to John", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "15212228", "text": "were subsequently released and in 1310 John assumed control of the family estates. A year later, John made arrangements so that on his death the king would receive all of his property. Between roughly 1310 and 1330 the English struggled to deal with Scottish raids in northern England. Such was the importance of large castles during the Scottish Wars that the Crown subsidised their maintenance and even construction. In 1319, King Edward II paid for a garrison for the castle of four men-at-arms and eight hobilars to enhance the existing force of twelve men-at-arms. Ralph Neville was the keeper of", "title": "Warkworth Castle" }, { "id": "218647", "text": "and Geoffrey to join their brother Henry in Paris. Henry II triumphed over the coalition of his sons, but was generous to them in the peace settlement agreed at Montlouis. Henry the Young King was allowed to travel widely in Europe with his own household of knights, Richard was given Aquitaine back, and Geoffrey was allowed to return to Brittany; only Eleanor was imprisoned for her role in the revolt. John had spent the conflict travelling alongside his father, and was given widespread possessions across the Angevin empire as part of the Montlouis settlement; from then onwards, most observers regarded", "title": "John, King of England" }, { "id": "17185835", "text": "Hope Castle Hope Castle, also referred to as Blayney Castle, is an 18th-century house built in the town of Castleblayney, located in County Monaghan, Ireland. Over the years, Hope Castle has been inhabited for various uses, such as homes to many, military barracks, a hospital, convent, and was most recently used as a hotel before its demise in 2010. The building still stands, although unoccupied. The land on which Hope Castle was built was originally under the ownership of Sir Edward Blayney, to whom it was granted in 1607. Blayney was a Welsh soldier who was granted land at Ballynalurgan", "title": "Hope Castle" }, { "id": "5741674", "text": "the title. The new earl decided to build a new house on the estate. Commissioned in 1798, it was designed by Francis Johnston, and was built between 1800 and 1812. The castle was not continuously occupied, owing to the castle owners lack of resources. Each re-opening of the house resulted in the addition of new rooms or refurbishment. This included engaging William Morris, who designed the ceiling within the dining room. The castle played host to Lord Byron, who held many parties here. The house once boasted a painting from 1789 called \"Henry VIII, Act V, Scene 4\" by Matthew", "title": "Charleville Castle" }, { "id": "1892347", "text": "21st century, Walmer Castle is run as a tourist attraction by English Heritage. The interior of the castle displays a range of historical objects and pictures associated with the property and its Lord Wardens, protected since the 19th century by special legislation. The grounds include the Queen Mother's Garden, designed by Penelope Hobhouse as a 95th birthday gift for Elizabeth in 1997. Walmer Castle was built as a consequence of international tensions between England, France and the Holy Roman Empire in the final years of the reign of King Henry VIII. Traditionally the Crown had left coastal defences to the", "title": "Walmer Castle" }, { "id": "6099008", "text": "Castle of St John The Castle of St John is an early 16th-century L-plan tower house in the centre of Stranraer, in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. It was built by the Adairs of Kilhilt (who originally came from Ireland) c.1510. It has been used as a home, a court, a police station and as a military garrison during the \"Killing Times\" of Covenanter persecution in the 1680s. During the Victorian era, the castle was modified to serve as a prison, and it was used as an ARP base during the Second World War. The castle was refurbished in the", "title": "Castle of St John" }, { "id": "13887005", "text": "in 1215 between forces loyal to King John and rebel barons, supported in due course by Prince Louis of France. John annexed the castle in 1214 and William sided with the rebels in 1216. King John responded by sending forces to attack the castle and successfully retook it. Despite John's death, the war continued until forces loyal to John's young son, Henry III, finally achieved victory over the rebels in 1217. Meanwhile, the 11th century dispute over the cathedral graveyard had continued unabated and in 1217 Henry III's government decided to announce that the disputed land would be granted to", "title": "Worcester Castle" }, { "id": "15194131", "text": "away from Rochester and seized Pevensey. The captured Odo was forced to swear to hand over Rochester to William's men. The king despatched a force with Odo in tow to demand Rochester's surrender. Instead of yielding, the garrison sallied and captured the entire party. In response William laid siege to the city and castle. Contemporary chronicler Orderic Vitalis recorded that the siege began in May 1088. Two siege-castles were built to cut off the city's supply lines and to protect the besiegers from sorties. Conditions within the city were dire: disease was rampant, exacerbated by the heat and flies. The", "title": "Rochester Castle" }, { "id": "457722", "text": "affairs, William had some successes. In 1091 he repulsed an invasion by King Malcolm III of Scotland, forcing Malcolm to pay homage. In 1092 he built Carlisle Castle, taking control of Cumberland and Westmorland, which had previously been claimed by the Scots. Subsequently, the two kings quarrelled over Malcolm's possessions in England, and Malcolm again invaded, ravaging Northumbria. At the Battle of Alnwick, on 13 November 1093, Malcolm was ambushed by Norman forces led by Robert de Mowbray. Malcolm and his son Edward were killed and Malcolm III's brother Donald seized the throne. William supported Malcolm's son Duncan II, who", "title": "William II of England" }, { "id": "15170280", "text": "hand them over. Although de Lisle and Ferrers were both King John's supporters, the king gave Ferrers permission to use force to retake the castles. The situation was still chaotic when King Henry III became king after his father's death in 1216. Although Bolsover fell to Ferrers' forces in 1217 after a siege, there is no indication that Peveril was assaulted, and it is likely that Brian de Lisle negotiated his surrender. Ferrers only had possession of the lordship until King Henry III came of age. When the time came he was reluctant to hand over the property, and after", "title": "Peveril Castle" }, { "id": "1595659", "text": "12 August 1399, after returning from Ireland, Richard made his way to the castle where he met Bolingbroke's emissary, Henry Percy, for negotiations. Percy swore in the chapel he would not harm the king. On 19 August, Richard surrendered to Percy at Flint Castle, promising to abdicate if his life were spared. The king was then taken to London and died later in captivity at Pontefract Castle. Henry Bolingbroke took the English throne to rule as Henry IV in 1400, but rebellion broke out in North Wales shortly afterwards under the leadership of Owain Glyndŵr. In March 1401, Rhys ap", "title": "Conwy Castle" }, { "id": "7566147", "text": "King Henry IV of England visited the castle in 1400 and it was besieged during the Owain Glyndŵr rebellion three years later. The castle was burnt in a rebellion led by Hywel ap Rhys in 1532 and was never rebuilt. The keep is a large D-shaped tower on the western side of the castle. The gatehouse has two towers on the north side with a well-tower. There are also remnants of the curtain wall around the filled-in ditch. Llandovery Castle Llandovery Castle () is a late thirteenth-century, Grade II*-listed, castle ruin in the town of Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It", "title": "Llandovery Castle" }, { "id": "3055398", "text": "Mounth. Kildrummy Castle underwent siege numerous times in its history, first in defence of the family of Robert the Bruce in August–September 1306 (leading to the executions of Nigel Bruce and many other Scots), and again in 1335 by David of Strathbogie. On this occasion Christina Bruce held off the attackers until her husband Sir Andrew Murray came to her rescue. In the reign of David II, Walter Maule of Panmure was warden of Kildrummy Castle. In 1374 the castle's heiress Isobel was seized and married by Alexander Stewart, who then laid claim to Kildrummy and the title of \"Earl", "title": "Kildrummy Castle" }, { "id": "15194140", "text": "in 1199 King John did not confirm Hubert Walter as the castle's custodian until July 1202. John may have wished to regain direct control of what was an important castle. The crisis of John's rule began in 1212 with the discovery of a plot to overthrow him. Defeat at the Battle of Bouvines in July 1214 marked the end of John's ambitions to retake Normandy and exacerbated the situation in England. He returned to England in October and a few months later barons in the north of England were actively challenging his rule. A group of barons renounced their feudal", "title": "Rochester Castle" }, { "id": "227507", "text": "Blanche married John of Gaunt, the third son of Edward III; their union, and combined resources, made John the second richest man in England next to the king himself. After Blanche's death, John married Constance, who had a claim to the kingdom of Castile, and John styled himself the king of Castile and León. Kenilworth was one of the most important of his thirty or more castles in England. John began building at Kenilworth between 1373 and 1380 in a style designed to reinforce his royal claims in Iberia. John constructed a grander great hall, the Strong Tower, Saintlowe Tower,", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "7126136", "text": "King of Scotland landed in Ireland with a select body of troops, and, being joined by his brother, marched to besiege Dublin with 20,000 men. The first exploit on approaching the city was the taking of Castleknock. It could not be expected that the old fortress, long deemed impregnable, could long hold out against the hero of Bannockburn. Bruce entered, making Hugh Tyrrell prisoner, and fixed there his headquarters. It was now believed that the liberation of Ireland was at hand. There was feasting and rejoicing in the Castle. The Irish and Scottish chieftains met at the same board, and", "title": "Castleknock Castle" }, { "id": "7349703", "text": "country's coastal defences until 1650 when it was declared to be unfit for use and was almost completely demolished shortly afterwards. The site is now a public park and the only visible remains are some low earthworks. The history of the castle begins in 1361, when King Edward III bought land on the Isle of Sheppey from the manor of Rushenden at the little fishing hamlet of Bynne (or Bynnee); two houses which stood on the site had to be demolished and their occupants rehoused. The stated role of the castle was \"for the defence of the realm and for", "title": "Queenborough Castle" }, { "id": "7277143", "text": "to take the castle, which continued to be controlled by Miles until his death several years later. Towards the end of the war, Bedford Castle may have been attacked again; Henry II, during the final year of the conflict in 1153, marched through Bedford and documentary evidence shows damage to the town at this time. Historians are divided as to whether the castle was besieged at the same time. Early in 1215 tensions grew between King John and a rebel faction of his barons, which would lead to the First Barons' War. The rebel barons attempted to besiege Northampton Castle;", "title": "Bedford Castle" }, { "id": "1951238", "text": "Bannockburn near the site of the Battle of Bannockburn. Many of Wales' great castles, such as the Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd and other monuments, are under the care of Cadw, the historic environment service of the Welsh Government. Welsh actor Sir Anthony Hopkins donated millions to the preservation of Snowdonia National Park. The five most frequently visited Welsh castles are Caernarfon Castle, Conwy Castle, Caerphilly Castle, Harlech Castle and Beaumaris Castle. The Northern Ireland Environment Agency promotes and conserves the natural and built environment in Northern Ireland, and the Giant's Causeway on the north-east coast", "title": "Culture of the United Kingdom" }, { "id": "3717806", "text": "1210, leaving the castle to his eldest son, another William Fitz Alan. King John, however, demanded a huge fee of 10,000 marks for William to inherit his lands; unable to pay, Clun Castle was assigned to Thomas de Eardington instead. William died shortly afterwards at Easter, 1215, and his brother, John Fitz Alan, a close friend of Llywelyn the Great, promptly took up arms against the king, immediately seizing Clun and Oswestry from royal control. In 1216, King John responded militarily, his forces attacking and burning Oswestry town, before besieging and taking Clun Castle in a surprise attack. John came", "title": "Clun Castle" }, { "id": "15549265", "text": "and bailey wall, forming a substantial fortification. Geoffrey de Mandeville was arrested under questionable circumstances by King Stephen in 1143, and ordered to hand over his castles, including Walden; de Mandeville initially agreed, but reneged on the agreement once released and launched a military campaign against the king's strongholds in Cambridgeshire in an attempt to free the route south to Walden. Geoffrey de Mandeville died during a siege the following year (in Burwell) , still not having reclaimed Walden. It is told in the \"Gesta Stephani\" that, when de Mandeville was dispossessed, Stephen had placed the castle and its domains", "title": "Walden Castle" }, { "id": "20270306", "text": "there, they learn of the fall of Kildrummy Castle. Bruce decides to take back the castle through stealth. The successful operation inspires Bruce to begin guerilla warfare. Shortly thereafter, Bruce is reunited with his other brother, Thomas. In England, Marjorie is separated from her stepmother Elizabeth to be given religious instruction by nuns. After Edward hears that Douglas Castle has been re-taken, he goes after Bruce himself. He offers Elizabeth a pardon if she will annul her marriage to Robert, but she refuses and is placed in a hanging cage. The following year, King Edward dies shortly after arriving in", "title": "Outlaw King" }, { "id": "2083710", "text": "Nottingham Castle Nottingham Castle is a castle in Nottingham, England. It is located in a commanding position on a natural promontory known as \"Castle Rock\", with cliffs high to the south and west. In the Middle Ages it was a major royal fortress and occasional royal residence. In decline by the 16th century, it was largely demolished in 1649. The Duke of Newcastle later built a mansion on the site, which was burnt down by rioters in 1831 and left as a ruin. It was later rebuilt to house an art gallery and museum, which remain in use. Little of", "title": "Nottingham Castle" }, { "id": "227519", "text": "was then garrisoned by parliamentary forces. In April 1643 the new governor of the castle, Hastings Ingram, was arrested as a suspected Royalist double agent. By January 1645 the Parliamentary forces in Coventry had strengthened their hold on the castle, and attempts by Royalist forces to dislodge them from Warwickshire failed. Security concerns continued after the end of the First Civil War in 1646, and in 1649 Parliament ordered the slighting of Kenilworth. One wall of the great tower, various parts of the outer bailey and the battlements were destroyed, but not before the building was surveyed by the antiquarian", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "218654", "text": "Derby, Devon, Dorset, Nottingham and Somerset, all with the aim of buying his loyalty to Richard whilst the king was on crusade. Richard retained royal control of key castles in these counties, thereby preventing John from accumulating too much military and political power, and, for the time being, the king named the four-year-old Arthur of Brittany as the heir to the throne. In return, John promised not to visit England for the next three years, thereby in theory giving Richard adequate time to conduct a successful crusade and return from the Levant without fear of John seizing power. Richard left", "title": "John, King of England" }, { "id": "227497", "text": "lake that preceded the creation of the Great Mere, and the local chase for hunting. Henry's successor, Richard I, paid relatively little attention to Kenilworth, but under King John significant building resumed at the castle. When John was excommunicated in 1208, he embarked on a programme of rebuilding and enhancing several major royal castles. These included Corfe, Odiham, Dover, Scarborough as well as Kenilworth. John spent £1,115 on Kenilworth Castle between 1210 and 1216, building the outer bailey wall in stone and improving the other defences, including creating Mortimer's and Lunn's Towers. He also significantly improved the castle's water defences", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "227499", "text": "Kenilworth as the centre of his operations. Initially the conflict went badly for King Henry, and after the Battle of Lewes in 1264 he was forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, under which his son, Prince Edward, was given over to the rebels as a hostage. Edward was taken back to Kenilworth, where chroniclers considered he was held in unduly harsh conditions. Released in early 1265, Edward then defeated Montfort at the Battle of Evesham; the surviving rebels under the leadership of Henry de Hastings, Montfort's constable at Kenilworth, regrouped at the castle the following spring. Edward's forces proceeded", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "227475", "text": "in 1266. John of Gaunt spent lavishly in the late 14th century, turning the medieval castle into a palace fortress designed in the latest perpendicular style. The Earl of Leicester then expanded the castle once again, constructing new Tudor buildings and exploiting the medieval heritage of Kenilworth to produce a fashionable Renaissance palace. Kenilworth was partly destroyed by Parliamentary forces in 1649 to prevent it being used as a military stronghold. Ruined, only two of its buildings remain habitable today. The castle became a tourist destination from the 18th century onwards, becoming famous in the Victorian period following the publishing", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "7277153", "text": "the keep itself, lighting a fire under the walls, cracking the stone and filling the building with smoke. The female members of the household, including Falkes' wife, and Henry de Braybrooke were released, the royal standard was raised over the tower, and the next day William and the garrison surrendered. A discussion ensued about the fate of the garrison; near contemporary accounts suggest that the prisoners asked the Archbishop for assistance, but that this was declined. Henry then had all the male members of the garrison hanged, except for three knights who agreed to join the military order of the", "title": "Bedford Castle" }, { "id": "7566146", "text": "the next several generations. King Henry II of England spent a great deal of money repairing the castle in 1159–62, but the Welsh captured it regardless. It finally fell to the English under Edward I in 1277. It was briefly retaken by Welsh forces under Llywelyn ap Gruffudd five years later. The castle was then granted to John Giffard, 1st Baron Giffard, who likely rebuilt it in stone. The building passed to the baronial Audley family of Heleigh in 1299 who later inherited the lordship of Cemaes in north Pembrokeshire and then into the Touchet family in the fourteenth century.", "title": "Llandovery Castle" }, { "id": "8392222", "text": "was fitted with two new artillery positions, but it soon became obsolete and was abandoned. During the Second World War the castle was refortified and used to house a battery of naval guns, protecting the coast against the threat of German attack. At the end of the conflict the castle was restored to its previous condition and is now managed by English Heritage as a tourist attraction. St Catherine's Castle was built as a consequence of the international tensions between England, France and the Holy Roman Empire in the final years of the reign of King Henry VIII. Traditionally the", "title": "St Catherine's Castle" }, { "id": "218737", "text": "the 1211 settlement. John's campaign started well. In November John retook Rochester Castle from rebel baron William d'Aubigny in a sophisticated assault. One chronicler had not seen \"a siege so hard pressed or so strongly resisted\", whilst historian Reginald Brown describes it as \"one of the greatest [siege] operations in England up to that time\". Having regained the south-east John split his forces, sending William Longespée to retake the north side of London and East Anglia, whilst John himself headed north via Nottingham to attack the estates of the northern barons. Both operations were successful and the majority of the", "title": "John, King of England" }, { "id": "3081017", "text": "captured by the Welsh, changing hands between Normans and Welsh until the reign of King Edward I of England. The castle was used by King Henry IV while on a sortie into Wales when he executed Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan in the marketplace. It was later attacked by the forces of Owain Glyndŵr in 1403. A high stainless steel statue to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan was unveiled in 2001 on the north side of Llandovery Castle, overlooking the place of his execution six hundred years earlier. He had led the army of King Henry IV on 'a wild goose chase'", "title": "Llandovery" }, { "id": "573939", "text": "into a stalemate, with neither side able to claim victory. The King became ill and died on the night of 18 October, leaving the nine-year-old Henry as his heir. Henry was staying safely at Corfe Castle in Dorset with his mother when King John died. On his deathbed, John appointed a council of thirteen executors to help Henry reclaim the kingdom, and requested that his son be placed into the guardianship of William Marshal, one of the most famous knights in England. The loyalist leaders decided to crown Henry immediately to reinforce his claim to the throne. William knighted the", "title": "Henry III of England" }, { "id": "3919562", "text": "Odiham because it is halfway between Windsor and Winchester. In 1216 the French Dauphin Louis VIII besieged King John in the castle for two weeks. King Henry III, son of King John, gave the castle to his sister Eleanor in 1236, so when she married Simon de Montfort in 1238 the castle became the de Montfort family home. However, Simon was killed in the Battle of Evesham in 1265 when he led the rebellious barons to fight against the king; Eleanor was sent into exile. During the fourteenth century the castle played a role in several significant events, including a", "title": "Odiham" }, { "id": "4451077", "text": "on exposure, and so was re-buried. The castle was the focus of attention during the First Battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141, during the struggle between King Stephen and Empress Matilda over who should be monarch in England. It was held but damaged, and a new tower, called the Lucy Tower, was built. Lincoln Castle was again besieged before the Second Battle of Lincoln, on 20 May 1217, during the reign of Henry III of England during the course of the First Barons' War. This was the period of political struggle that followed the sealing of Magna Carta on", "title": "Lincoln Castle" }, { "id": "1270599", "text": "there that the \"only practical defence of a private castle\" was made according to military historian D. J. Cathcart King. It was held against King Edward IV until its surrender in mid-September 1461 after the Battle of Towton. Re-captured by Sir William Tailboys, during the winter it was surrendered by him to Hastings, Sir John Howard and Sir Ralph Grey of Heton in late July 1462. Grey was appointed captain but surrendered after a sharp siege in the early autumn. King Edward responded with vigour and when the Earl of Warwick arrived in November Queen Margaret and her French advisor,", "title": "Alnwick Castle" }, { "id": "19753424", "text": "a basement. King John's Castle (Carlingford) King John's Castle, also known as Carlingford Castle, is an enclosure castle and National Monument located in Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland. King John's Castle is located in Carlingford town's harbour, halfway along the south coast of Carlingford Lough. Carlingford Castle's west wing was built in the late 12th century by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It acquired the name \"King John's Castle\" after King John, Lord of Ireland, supposedly stayed there for three days in 1210, during his second expedition, when he invaded Ulster to apprehend", "title": "King John's Castle (Carlingford)" }, { "id": "1883330", "text": "family, hereditary champions of the Dukes of Normandy and then of the new Kings of England, held the castle for six generations from c.1100 - 1294. It was during their occupancy that the castle began to be remodelled in stone, although on one occasion it was also in danger of being demolished altogether. Robert Marmion, 3rd Baron Marmion of Tamworth, deserted King John in 1215 during the turmoil of his reign. As a consequence, the king ordered Robert's son Geoffrey to be imprisoned, all of Robert's lands to be confiscated and Tamworth Castle to be demolished. But the fabric had", "title": "Tamworth Castle" }, { "id": "3757944", "text": "them had to be pulled down afterward. Between 2011 and 2013, the castle underwent a massive redevelopment, with €5.7 million spent to improve the visitor facilities of the castle. Among the improvements were a brand new visitor centre, interactive exhibitions with computer generated animations, and a cafe with views onto the courtyard and the river. King John's Castle (Limerick) King John's Castle () is a 13th-century castle located on King's Island in Limerick, Ireland, next to the River Shannon. Although the site dates back to 922 when the Vikings lived on the Island, the castle itself was built on the", "title": "King John's Castle (Limerick)" }, { "id": "8375984", "text": "besieged the castle, but was he forced to retreat after the arrival of a relief force led by Henry's illegitimate son Geoffrey, then the Bishop of Lincoln. Henry II was successful in quelling the Great Revolt, capturing William the Lion at the Second Battle of Alnwick and imprisoning him until a peace treaty was agreed, extending Henry's authority north into Scotland. In the subsequent years the security situation in the north of England improved significantly. King John gave control of Bowes Castle to Robert de Vieuxpont, an important administrator in the north, in 1203 and he retained control of the", "title": "Bowes Castle" }, { "id": "218735", "text": "that the charter compromised the pope's rights under the 1213 agreement that had appointed him John's feudal lord. Innocent obliged; he declared the charter \"not only shameful and demeaning, but illegal and unjust\" and excommunicated the rebel barons. The failure of the agreement led rapidly to the First Barons' War. The rebels made the first move in the war, seizing the strategic Rochester Castle, owned by Langton but left almost unguarded by the archbishop. John was well prepared for a conflict. He had stockpiled money to pay for mercenaries and ensured the support of the powerful marcher lords with their", "title": "John, King of England" }, { "id": "2016234", "text": "distributed amongst the followers of William the Conqueror. Robert de Tonei was granted the manor of Bradley and one third of the king's rents in Stafford. The Norman conquest in Stafford was therefore particularly brutal, and resulted not only in the imposition of a castle, but in the destruction and suppression of every other activity except the intermittent minting of coins for about a hundred years. Stafford Castle was built by the Normans on the nearby hilltop to the west about 1090. It was first made of wood, and later rebuilt of stone. It has been rebuilt twice since, and", "title": "Stafford" }, { "id": "218659", "text": "his wife, Isabella of Gloucester, and marry Philip's sister, Alys, in exchange for Philip's support. Fighting broke out in England between forces loyal to Richard and those being gathered by John. John's military position was weak and he agreed to a truce; in early 1194 the king finally returned to England, and John's remaining forces surrendered. John retreated to Normandy, where Richard finally found him later that year. Richard declared that his younger brother – despite being 27 years old – was merely \"a child who has had evil counsellors\" and forgave him, but removed his lands with the exception", "title": "John, King of England" }, { "id": "1666834", "text": "castle, if it were not relieved by 24 June 1314. Bruce agreed, and withdrew. The following summer, the English duly headed north, led by Edward II, to save the castle. On 23–24 June, King Robert's forces met the English at the Battle of Bannockburn, within sight of the castle walls. The resulting English defeat was decisive. King Edward attempted to take refuge in the castle, but Mowbray was determined to keep to his word, and the English were forced to flee. Mowbray handed over the castle, changing sides himself in the process. King Robert ordered the castle to be slighted;", "title": "Stirling Castle" }, { "id": "1892362", "text": "when she was still a princess and later as queen. Wellington let the gardens fall into a poor condition. Wellington died in his room at Walmer on 14 September 1852. His body was kept in a death chamber in his room to lie in state until 10 November, and when the room was opened for public visitors during the final two days, around 9,000 attended. The Duke's body was finally removed to London via Deal, complete with a military escort. James Broun-Ramsay, the Marquess of Dalhousie became Lord Warden; on his death, the Prime Minister Henry Temple, the Viscount Palmerston,", "title": "Walmer Castle" }, { "id": "1272820", "text": "became more important during the English Civil War. The castle buildings are owned by the British sovereign as Duke of Lancaster, which leases part of the structure to Lancashire County Council who operate a Crown Court in part of the building. Until 2011, the majority of the buildings were leased to the Ministry of Justice as Her Majesty's Prison Lancaster. The Castle was returned to the Duchy's ownership by the Ministry of Justice in 2011. The Castle is now open to the public seven days a week and is undergoing a large-scale refurbishment to allow access to more areas. In", "title": "Lancaster Castle" }, { "id": "537951", "text": "Strathbogie moved to lay siege to Kildrummy Castle, held by Lady Christian Bruce, sister of the late King Robert and wife of the Guardian, Andrew de Moray. Her husband moved his small army quickly to her relief although outnumbered by some five to one. However, many of Strathbogie's men had been impressed and had no loyalty to the English or the usurper, Balliol. Pinned by a flank attack while making a downhill charge, Strathbogie's army broke and Strathbogie refused to surrender and was killed. The Battle of Culblean was the effective end of Balliol's attempt to overthrow the King of", "title": "Wars of Scottish Independence" }, { "id": "2567988", "text": "Berkeley Castle Berkeley Castle ( ; historically sometimes spelt \"Berkley Castle\" or \"Barkley Castle\") is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK (). The castle's origins date back to the 11th century and it has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building. The castle has remained within the Berkeley family since they reconstructed it in the 12th century, except for a period of royal ownership by the Tudors. It is traditionally believed to be the scene of the murder of King Edward II in 1327. The first castle at Berkeley was a motte-and-bailey, built", "title": "Berkeley Castle" }, { "id": "20302325", "text": "a place to keep his treasure and his archives safe. These archives were especially sacred to the King because they were lost during the Battle of Fréteval in 1194 against Richard the Lionheart, but he had since reconstructed and didn't want to lose again. He built the enclosure, which bears his name, around Paris between 1190 and 1209 for the right bank portion and between 1200 and 1215 for the left bank which was less exposed. The Louvre castle stands west, the most exposed side, as English soldiers were occupying Normandy less than 100 km away. This decision was also", "title": "Louvre castle" }, { "id": "227522", "text": "cultural prominence increased after Sir Walter Scott wrote \"Kenilworth\" in 1821 describing the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth. Very loosely based on the events of 1575, Scott's story reinvented aspects of the castle and its history to tell the story of \"the pathetic, beautiful, undisciplined heroine Amy Robsart and the steely Elizabeth I\". Although considered today as a less successful literary novel than some of his other historical works, it popularised Kenilworth Castle in the Victorian imagination as a romantic Elizabethan location. \"Kenilworth\" spawned \"numerous stage adaptations and burlesques, at least eleven operas, popular redactions, and even a scene in", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "761449", "text": "his links to the church are older and firmer. War breaks out; Austria is beheaded by the Bastard in revenge for his father's death; and both Angiers and Arthur are captured by the English. Eleanor is left in charge of English possessions in France, while the Bastard is sent to collect funds from English monasteries. John orders Hubert to kill Arthur. Pandolf suggests to Louis that he now has as strong a claim to the English throne as Arthur (and indeed John), and Louis agrees to invade England. Hubert finds himself unable to kill Arthur. John's nobles urge Arthur's release.", "title": "King John (play)" }, { "id": "1276781", "text": "ability of more modern designs to withstand attack; King John's successful siege of Rochester required an elaborate and sophisticated assault, reportedly costing around 60,000 marks, or £40,000. The siege of Bedford Castle in 1224 required Henry III to bring siege engines, engineers, crossbow bolts, equipment and labourers from across all of England. The Siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266, during the Second Barons' War, was larger and longer still. Extensive water defences withstood the attack of the future Edward I, despite the prince targeting the weaker parts of the castle walls, employing huge siege towers and attempting a night attack", "title": "Castles in Great Britain and Ireland" }, { "id": "17137790", "text": "and taken to England for ransom. The Treaty of Brétigny was signed ceding nearly a third of France to Edward. England became rich through ransom and plunder of nobles land, buoyed on by their astonishing victories including the Battle of Agincourt. France had no king, English freebooters led by knights ravaged the countryside. In 1364 John died and was succeeded by his eldest son Charles V determined to expel the English. Charles declares the Treaty of Brétigny void and appointed Bertrand du Guesclin knowing he would forgo any chivalric tradition to conduct a guerrilla war. Charles also gained control of", "title": "Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years' War" }, { "id": "227515", "text": "barons and four hundred staff for the royal visit that lasted an exceptional nineteen days; twenty horsemen a day arrived at the castle to communicate royal messages. Leicester entertained the Queen and much of the neighbouring region with pageants, fireworks, bear baiting, mystery plays, hunting and lavish banquets. The cost was reputed to have amounted to many thousand pounds, almost bankrupting Leicester, though it probably did not exceed £1,700 in reality. The event was considered a huge success and formed the longest stay at such a property during any of Elizabeth's tours, yet the queen did not decide to marry", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "7126149", "text": "besieged set fire to the Castle, and went down, sword in hand, with such resolution that, after a great carnage of their enemies, all that went forth remained dead on the field, with the exception of the lady, who was made prisoner by the Earl of Ormond. \"After this the Earl sent to Dublin for reinforcements, and pursued his march.\" Thus terminates this interesting narrative.\"\" The castle was partially dismantled after the War of the Three Kingdoms when considerable artillery damage had been done to the castle. \"\"When the English Parliament proclaimed war upon King Charles, the Irish adhered to", "title": "Castleknock Castle" }, { "id": "807881", "text": "of Scotland, Crichton sought to break the power of the Douglases, the principal noble family in the kingdom. The sixteen-year-old William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas and his younger brother David were summoned to Edinburgh Castle in November 1440. After the so-called \"Black Dinner\" had taken place in David's Tower, both boys were summarily executed on trumped-up charges in the presence of the ten-year-old King James II (r.1437–1460). Douglas' supporters subsequently besieged the castle, inflicting damage. Construction continued throughout this period, with the area now known as Crown Square being laid out over vaults in the 1430s. Royal apartments were", "title": "Edinburgh Castle" }, { "id": "761446", "text": "rightful heir to the throne. John adjudicates an inheritance dispute between Robert Faulconbridge and his older brother Philip the Bastard, during which it becomes apparent that Philip is the illegitimate son of King Richard I. Queen Eleanor, mother to both Richard and John, recognises the family resemblance and suggests that he renounce his claim to the Falconbridge land in exchange for a knighthood. John knights the Bastard under the name Richard. In France, King Philip and his forces besiege the English-ruled town of Angiers, threatening attack unless its citizens support Arthur. Philip is supported by Austria, who is believed to", "title": "King John (play)" }, { "id": "8587088", "text": "category C listed building. The Douglas family built the first Douglas Castle, which was constructed of either wood or stone, sometime before 1288. In 1307, during the Wars of Scottish Independence the castle was captured and garrisoned by the English under Lord Clifford. Sir James Douglas, companion of Robert the Bruce successfully recaptured his family seat by storming the castle on Palm Sunday, while the garrison were at chapel. He had the garrison killed and thrown into a cellar, before the structure was burned. The event has become known as \"Douglas' larder\". Robert the Bruce rewarded the loyalty of the", "title": "Douglas Castle" }, { "id": "227524", "text": "1930s had been at least questionable, was keen to improve his public image and gave over the running of the castle, complete with a charitable donation, to the Commissioner of Works. In 1958 his son gave the castle itself to the town of Kenilworth and English Heritage has managed the property since 1984. The castle is classed as a Grade I listed building and as a Scheduled Monument, and is open to the public. Between 2005–2009 English Heritage attempted to restore Kenilworth's garden more closely to its Elizabethan form, using as a basis the description in the Langham letter and", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "3111457", "text": "siege was broken by Sir John Comyn. King Robert the Bruce (reigned 1306–1329) is known to have visited the castle in 1313 and again in 1323. Following Bruce's death, the English invaded again, and laid siege to Loch Leven Castle in 1335 in support of the pretender Edward Balliol (d. 1364). According to the 14th-century chronicle of John of Fordun, the English attempted to flood the castle by building a dam across the outflow of the loch. The water level rose for a month, until the captain of the English force, Sir John de Stirling, left to attend the festival", "title": "Loch Leven Castle" }, { "id": "227505", "text": "popular ideals of freedom and good government. Royal writs were issued in Edward's name by Isabella from Kenilworth until the next year. A deputation of leading barons led by Bishop Orleton was then sent to Kenilworth to first persuade Edward to resign and, when that failed, to inform him that he had been deposed as king. Edward formally resigned as king in the great hall of the castle on 21 January 1327. As the months went by, however, it became clear that Kenilworth was proving a less than ideal location to imprison Edward. The castle was in a prominent part", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "4299271", "text": "of her father’s House Tully. She is proud, strong, kind, and generous, has a strong grasp of politics, and is often governed by the desire to protect her children. Catelyn is usually in accord with her husband Eddard Stark, but resents his admission of his illegitimate son Jon Snow into their household. After the royal party arrives at Winterfell, Catelyn receives a letter from her sister Lysa Arryn stating that the Lannisters had killed her husband Jon Arryn, the king's 'Hand' (second-in-command). King Robert Baratheon persuades Eddard to take his place. When her son Bran is injured and goes into", "title": "Catelyn Stark" }, { "id": "12068464", "text": "Walworth Castle Walworth Castle is an 11th Century castle, situated at Walworth, near Darlington, County Durham, England. It is a Grade 1 listed building. It was completed around 1600, probably by Thomas Holt for Thomas Jenison. It stands on the site of a former manor house or castle built in the 12th century by the Hansard family. The estate passed through the hands of the Ayscoughs and Aylmers besides the Hansards and Jenisons, and became a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II and then a girls' boarding school after the war. It has been a hotel since 1981. The present", "title": "Walworth Castle" }, { "id": "7167433", "text": "competing for control with other members of his extended family. In 1206, King John briefly entrusted his captive niece Eleanor to the custody of Robert. Robert died in 1228, leaving substantial debts of £2,000 to the Crown and passing the castle to his young son, John. His son's guardian, Hubert de Burgh appointed the Prior of Carlisle to run the estate and the castle was left to fall into ruin. John died supporting the rebels during the Second Barons' War between 1264 and 1267 and his lands were divided between his two daughters, Isabel and Idonea. Isabel de Vieuxpont inherited", "title": "Brough Castle" }, { "id": "227476", "text": "of Sir Walter Scott's novel \"Kenilworth\" in 1821. English Heritage has managed the castle since 1984. The castle is classed as a Grade I listed building and as a Scheduled Monument, and is open to the public. Although now ruined as a result of the slighting, or deliberate partial destruction, of the castle after the English Civil War, Kenilworth illustrates five centuries of English military and civil architecture. The castle is built almost entirely from local new red sandstone. To the south-east of the main castle lie the Brays, a corruption of the French word \"braie\", meaning an external fortification", "title": "Kenilworth Castle" }, { "id": "19883335", "text": "Athenry Castle Athenry Castle is a tower house and National Monument located in Athenry, Ireland. Athenry Castle is located off Court Lane in the east part of Athenry, on the west bank of the River Clarin. It is sited on a natural rise and defended the ford. Despite being locally known as King John's Castle or King John's Court (after the Lord of Ireland 1177–1216), it wasn't built until twenty years after his reign. The original keep (constructed 1235/40) was low and squat, the roof being at the level of the present second floor. Meyler de Bermingham extended it c.", "title": "Athenry Castle" }, { "id": "5620800", "text": "and 1571 cost £1191. When James I came to power in England, he combined the Scottish and English thrones, and the need for the castle declined. At this time the castle was still garrisoned from Berwick and protected the small Lindisfarne Harbour. In the eighteenth century, the castle was occupied briefly by Jacobite rebels, but was quickly recaptured by soldiers from Berwick who imprisoned the rebels; they dug their way out and hid for nine days close to nearby Bamburgh Castle before making good their escape. In later years the castle was used as a coastguard look-out and became something", "title": "Lindisfarne Castle" }, { "id": "1498181", "text": "used instead of the castle's state apartments. In the 16th century Henry VIII had the banqueting house demolished and the materials re-used for new timber-framed buildings inside the castle. The mere was drained in 1649 but \"The Pleasaunce\" earthworks survive and are a Scheduled Monument. Elizabeth I visited Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester at Kenilworth Castle several times, the last of which was in 1575. Dudley entertained the Queen with pageants and banquets that cost some £1,000 per day, presenting diversions and pageants surpassing anything ever before seen in England. These included fireworks. Warwick District Council owns and manages", "title": "Kenilworth" }, { "id": "1595650", "text": "several months by forces loyal to Owain Glyndŵr in 1401. Following the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642, the castle was held by forces loyal to Charles I, holding out until 1646 when it surrendered to the Parliamentary armies. In the aftermath the castle was partially slighted by Parliament to prevent it being used in any further revolt, and was finally completely ruined in 1665 when its remaining iron and lead was stripped and sold off. Conwy Castle became an attractive destination for painters in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Visitor numbers grew and initial restoration", "title": "Conwy Castle" }, { "id": "13378852", "text": "miles away. During World War II, the RAF occupied the castle. It is now owned by Blue Circle, and the land was leased to Land Securities in 2000. It is now occupied by a Private Ambulance Company, Savoy Ventures. Stone Castle Stone Castle is a castle at Stone, near Bluewater in Kent, England. It was built between 1135 and 1140 on the site where William the Conqueror signed a treaty with the men of Kent in 1067. It was owned by the Wiltshire family, which included Bridget Wingfield, a close friend of Anne Boleyn, whose correspondence was used to help", "title": "Stone Castle" } ]

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[ { "id": "9830782", "text": "Angeles at the same time that Metro Goldwyn Mayer was searching for a \"million dollar baby\". She won a contest conducted by a local newspaper and was brought to Hollywood to play the leading role in \"Hearts In Dixie\". She was selected from among one thousand youngsters to play a part in \"The Devil's Circus\" (1926). Directed by J. Leo Meehan, Coad played the role of \"Little Anita\". She performed the role of \"Pearl\" in \"The Scarlet Letter\" (1926), a film which featured Lillian Gish. Louis B. Mayer chose Victor Seastrom to direct the movie. He proved a fine choice", "title": "Joyce Coad" }, { "id": "6345150", "text": "The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1995 American romantic drama film. It is a film adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name. It was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall. This version was \"freely adapted\" from Hawthorne and deviated from the original story. A critical and box office failure, it was nominated for seven Golden Raspberry Awards at the 1995 ceremony, winning \"Worst Remake or Sequel.\" It is 1667 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and an uneasy truce exists between local Puritans and their neighbors, the", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)" }, { "id": "962515", "text": "original score was composed by Hans Zimmer. The song \"There You'll Be\" was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Pearl Harbor (film) Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic period war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. The film is based on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the Doolittle Raid. Despite receiving generally negative reviews from", "title": "Pearl Harbor (film)" }, { "id": "14263979", "text": "The Scarlet Letter (1934 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1934 American film directed by Robert G. Vignola. It was shot in Salem's Pioneer Village and Sherman Oaks, California. It was the only film Colleen Moore ever said she made for the money. She was reportedly preparing to take her dollhouse on tour for charity, and saw the film as an opportunity to make a last film with friends. Henry B. Walthall played Roger Chillingworth in both this and the 1926 silent version. The film has been preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Hester Prynne has a child", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1934 film)" }, { "id": "962481", "text": "Pearl Harbor (film) Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic period war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. The film is based on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the Doolittle Raid. Despite receiving generally negative reviews from critics, the film was a major box office success, earning $59 million in its opening weekend and, in the end, nearly $450 million worldwide. It was", "title": "Pearl Harbor (film)" }, { "id": "9166504", "text": "Kristin Klabunde Kristin Danielle Klabunde (born September 12, 1991, in New Jersey) is an American actress. She is mostly known for being the singing voice of Tasha on the Backyardigans. She has had guest roles on Saturday Night Live, As the World Turns, and Gilmore Girls. On Broadway, she has been Molly in Annie, Young Cosette and Young Eponine in Les Misérables, Annie in Annie. Off Broadway, she has been Mary in The Secret Garden, Pearl in The Scarlet Letter, Sarah Crew in A Little Princess. Kristin also volunteers at many charity events such as Kids with a Cause, Kids", "title": "Kristin Klabunde" }, { "id": "16536920", "text": "The Scarlet Letter (1913 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1913 silent film that was based on the novel of the same title; which was written in 1850. It was directed by David Miles and starred Linda Arvidson, Murdock MacQuarrie and Charles Perley. This film was a remake of a 1908 and a 1911 film, this film would also be remade in 1917; which is the oldest film version of the novel to exist in a complete copy. The most known of all silent versions is the 1926 film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Lillian Gish; at the time when she was", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1913 film)" }, { "id": "1959781", "text": "and screen productions. The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, an 1850 novel, is a work of historical fiction written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered his \"masterwork\". Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. As she struggles to raise her rambunctious daughter, Pearl, on her own, the father of her child is revealed and is shown to be experiencing severe guilt. Through the scorn and", "title": "The Scarlet Letter" }, { "id": "18473264", "text": "The Scarlet Letter (1908 film) The Scarlet Letter is a lost 1908 silent American short film, directed by Sidney Olcott. It was based on the novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The screenplay was written by Gene Gauntier, who also played the character Hester Prynne. The film was produced by Kalem Company. It was Jack Conway's first film as an actor. He later went on to direct films such as \"While the City Sleeps\" and \"Libeled Lady\". Ruth Roland was also in the cast. Hester Prynne becomes pregnant while her husband is absent. In June 1642, in the", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1908 film)" }, { "id": "5770950", "text": "Meg Foster Margaret \"Meg\" Foster (born May 10, 1948) is an American actress who had roles in the TV miniseries version of \"The Scarlet Letter\" and the films \"Ticket to Heaven\", \"The Osterman Weekend\", and \"They Live\" among many other projects. Foster was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, to David and Nancy ( Adamson) Foster, and grew up in Rowayton, Connecticut with four siblings: sisters Gray, Jan, and Nina, and brother Ian. She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. In 1968, Foster acted in a Cornell Summer Theater production of \"John Brown's Body\". Later", "title": "Meg Foster" }, { "id": "3945077", "text": "Amy Wright Amy Wright (born April 15, 1950) is an American actress and former model. She has appeared in such films as \"The Deer Hunter\", \"Breaking Away\", \"The Amityville Horror\", \"Heartland\", \"Wise Blood\", \"Stardust Memories\", \"The Accidental Tourist\", \"Hard Promises\", \"Crossing Delancey\" and \"Miss Firecracker\". Since 1989, Wright has been married to actor Rip Torn, the widower of Geraldine Page; and the couple have two daughters, Katie and Claire Torn. Wright is a graduate of the University of Chicago Laboratory School and Beloit College. She also starred with Eric Schweig in \"The Scarlet Letter\" and \"Tom and Huck\" (both made", "title": "Amy Wright" }, { "id": "11354701", "text": "The Scarlet Letter (1926 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1926 American drama film, based on the book by the same name, and directed by Victor Sjöström. Louis B. Mayer was reluctant on using Miss Gish, fearing opposition from church groups. The film was announced as \"It's a real 'A' picture\", taking advantage of the 'A' for Adultery. Prints of the film survive in the MGM/United Artists film archives and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The film was the second one Gish made under her contract with MGM. She asked Louis B. Mayer specifically to make it and he", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)" }, { "id": "6854906", "text": "The Scarlet Letter (2004 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 2004 South Korean film about a police detective who investigates a murder case while struggling to hang onto his relationships with his wife and mistress. It is the second film by \"La Femis\"-graduate and academic Byun Hyuk (Daniel H. Byun), and starred Han Suk-kyu, Lee Eun-ju, Sung Hyun-ah and Uhm Ji-won. The film debuted as the closing film of the Pusan International Film Festival in 2004. The film is based on novelist Kim Young-ha's short stories \"A Meditation On Mirror\" and \"Photo Shop Murder\". Despite Lee Eun-ju's prior experience with", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (2004 film)" }, { "id": "6345158", "text": "2011 to name the few films in his catalogue that he would take to a desert island, Oldman named \"The Scarlet Letter\" among his four choices. He conceded Travers's assertion that the film was \"hammered\" by reviewers, but argued, \"There's some good work in there.\" The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1995 American romantic drama film. It is a film adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name. It was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall. This version was \"freely adapted\" from Hawthorne and deviated from the", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)" }, { "id": "12168958", "text": "Kristin Fairlie Kristin Fairlie (born April 22, 1985) is a Canadian actress. In 1998 she won a Young Artist Award for Best Ensemble for her lead role in the Showtime original movie \"The Sweetest Gift\". As a voice actress, Fairlie has voiced the roles of the title character in \"Little Bear\", Bridgette in \"Total Drama\", Carrie in \"\", and Emma in \"Stoked\". Fairlie made her feature film debut in \"The Scarlet Letter\". In 1999 she was among the winners of the Youth in Film Awards for Best Performance in a TV Movie/Pilot/Made-for-Video: Young Ensemble for her role in the Showtime", "title": "Kristin Fairlie" }, { "id": "9166505", "text": "helping Kids Charity, Children's Hope International Coalition, Make a Wish Foundation, and more. She currently lives in North Hollywood, California. Kristin Klabunde Kristin Danielle Klabunde (born September 12, 1991, in New Jersey) is an American actress. She is mostly known for being the singing voice of Tasha on the Backyardigans. She has had guest roles on Saturday Night Live, As the World Turns, and Gilmore Girls. On Broadway, she has been Molly in Annie, Young Cosette and Young Eponine in Les Misérables, Annie in Annie. Off Broadway, she has been Mary in The Secret Garden, Pearl in The Scarlet Letter,", "title": "Kristin Klabunde" }, { "id": "2908473", "text": "and a total of 36.5 million through the first weekend. The production budget, $140 million, was one of the highest of the summer of 1998. \"Armageddon\" went on to gross over $553 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of that year. In 2001, Bay directed \"Pearl Harbor\". It starred Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale and Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film was released on Memorial Day weekend in 2001. Again, Bay produced the film with Jerry Bruckheimer. The film received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing and Best Song. Again, Kevin O'Connell received", "title": "Michael Bay" }, { "id": "11354702", "text": "reluctantly agreed. Shooting took under two months. The film made a profit of $296,000. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Scarlet Letter (1926 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1926 American drama film, based on the book by the same name, and directed by Victor Sjöström. Louis B. Mayer was reluctant on using Miss Gish, fearing opposition from church groups. The film was announced as \"It's a real 'A' picture\", taking advantage of the 'A' for Adultery. Prints of the film survive in the MGM/United Artists film archives and the UCLA Film and Television", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1926 film)" }, { "id": "13326029", "text": "star King Baggot as a serious actor. Set in 17th century Massachusetts, it is the classic story of a young woman, Hester Prynne (played by Lucille Young), who is forced by her Puritan community to wear a scarlet \"A\" (for adultery) because she had a daughter by another man while her husband was away. The Scarlet Letter (1911 film) The Scarlet Letter (1911) is a silent drama motion picture short starring King Baggot, Lucille Young, and William Robert Daly. Directed by Joseph W. Smiley and George Loane Tucker and produced by Carl Laemmle's IMP Studios, the screenplay was adapted by", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1911 film)" }, { "id": "1959758", "text": "The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter: A Romance, an 1850 novel, is a work of historical fiction written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered his \"masterwork\". Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. As she struggles to raise her rambunctious daughter, Pearl, on her own, the father of her child is revealed and is shown to be experiencing severe guilt. Through the scorn and judgment of the", "title": "The Scarlet Letter" }, { "id": "16536921", "text": "under contract to them. This film is notable for being filmed in Kinemacolor; an early color film process of the time, but only one reel of this film survives making it unknown how long in length it actually could have been. Had the film been beyond 40 minutes in length it would have been an early color feature film. The Scarlet Letter (1913 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1913 silent film that was based on the novel of the same title; which was written in 1850. It was directed by David Miles and starred Linda Arvidson, Murdock MacQuarrie and", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1913 film)" }, { "id": "13326028", "text": "The Scarlet Letter (1911 film) The Scarlet Letter (1911) is a silent drama motion picture short starring King Baggot, Lucille Young, and William Robert Daly. Directed by Joseph W. Smiley and George Loane Tucker and produced by Carl Laemmle's IMP Studios, the screenplay was adapted by Herbert Brenon based on the historical novel of the same title by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This second silent version of \"The Scarlet Letter\" was IMP's first \"IMP Film De Luxe.\" While only 1000 feet (300 m) in length, it was at that time considered a feature film. It was a critical success and showcased IMP", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1911 film)" }, { "id": "1561597", "text": "were not widely seen, but Moore sustained her A-list status with her starring roles in Rob Reiner's \"A Few Good Men\" (1992), Adrian Lyne's \"Indecent Proposal\" (1993), and Barry Levinson's \"Disclosure\" (1994)—all of which opened at #1 at the box office and were blockbuster hits. By 1995, Moore was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. However, critical acclaim subsequently began to wane with her subsequent film releases; her portrayal of Hester Prynne in \"The Scarlet Letter\" (1995), a \"freely adapted\" version of the historical romance novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was met with harsh criticism. While the coming-of-age drama \"Now and Then\"", "title": "Demi Moore" }, { "id": "14263980", "text": "out of wedlock and refuses to name the father (who is a respected citizen). For this, she is sentenced to wear a red letter \"A\" (for adultery). Her husband is long missing and presumed dead. When the husband returns and finds his wife with another man's child, he sets out to torture them. At last, the father reveals himself, with a letter \"A\" carved in his chest. The Scarlet Letter (1934 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1934 American film directed by Robert G. Vignola. It was shot in Salem's Pioneer Village and Sherman Oaks, California. It was the only", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1934 film)" }, { "id": "12068401", "text": "been inspired by the name Margaret, which means \"pearl\". In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel \"The Scarlet Letter\", heroine Hester Prynne names her illegitimate daughter Pearl because the child is \"of great price, purchased with all she had, her mother's only treasure.\" The passage refers to the Parable of the Pearl in the New Testament. The gates to Heaven are also commonly pictured as made of pearl. It was among the 50 most popular names for girls born in the United States between 1880 and 1911, remained among the top 100 most popular names for girls between 1911 and 1926 and", "title": "Pearl (given name)" }, { "id": "1959763", "text": "She lives a quiet, somber life with her daughter, Pearl, and performs acts of charity for the poor. She is troubled by her daughter's unusual fascination with Hester's scarlet \"A\". The shunning of Hester also extends to Pearl, who has no playmates or friends except her mother. As she grows older, Pearl becomes capricious and unruly. Her conduct starts rumors, and, not surprisingly, the church members suggest Pearl be taken away from Hester. Hester, hearing rumors that she may lose Pearl, goes to speak to Governor Bellingham. With him are ministers Wilson and Dimmesdale. Hester appeals to Dimmesdale in desperation,", "title": "The Scarlet Letter" }, { "id": "17739800", "text": "(2008), \"Crazy Heart\" (2009), \"Get Low\" (2010), \"Jack Reacher\" (2012) and for the mini-series \"Ike\" (1979) as Dwight D. Eisenhower and \"Lonesome Dove\" (1989) as Augustus \"Gus\" McCrae. Robert Duvall filmography The following is the filmography for actor and director Robert Duvall. He is most known for his roles in the films \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" (1962), \"Bullitt\" (1968), \"True Grit\" (1969), \"THX 1138\" (1971), \"The Godfather\" (1972), \"The Godfather Part II\" (1974), \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979), \"The Natural\" (1984), \"Colors\" (1988), \"Days of Thunder\" (1990), \"Newsies\" (1992), \"The Scarlet Letter\" (1995), \"Sling Blade\" (1996), \"Phenomenon\" (1996), \"Deep Impact\" (1998), \"Gone", "title": "Robert Duvall filmography" }, { "id": "16305300", "text": "Amandla Stenberg Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress. She portrayed Rue in \"The Hunger Games\"; Madeline Whittier in \"Everything, Everything\"; and Starr Carter in \"The Hate U Give\" (2018). Stenberg was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of Karen Brailsford, an African-American spiritual counselor and writer, and Tom Stenberg, who is Danish. Her paternal grandmother had Greenlandic Inuit ancestry. Stenberg has two older half-sisters on her father's side. Her first name means \"power\" or \"strength\" in the South African languages of IsiXhosa and Zulu. At the age of four, Stenberg started doing catalog modeling shoots", "title": "Amandla Stenberg" }, { "id": "5770954", "text": "magazine. In a newspaper interview that same year, she stated that her eyes, at least in her opinion, were not “so distinctive\". However, on some occasions film and television producers did have Foster wear contact lenses to lessen what they viewed as the distractive effects of her eyes during screen performances. Foster is divorced from Canadian actor Stephen McHattie. She has a son, Christopher. Meg Foster Margaret \"Meg\" Foster (born May 10, 1948) is an American actress who had roles in the TV miniseries version of \"The Scarlet Letter\" and the films \"Ticket to Heaven\", \"The Osterman Weekend\", and \"They", "title": "Meg Foster" }, { "id": "18473265", "text": "Puritan town of Boston, a crowd gathers to witness the punishment of Prynne, who is found guilty of adultery. She is required to wear a scarlet \"A\" (\"A\" is the symbol of adultery ) on her dress to shame her. Pastor Dimmesdale, who seduced the woman, hypocritically becomes one of her accusers. The Scarlet Letter (1908 film) The Scarlet Letter is a lost 1908 silent American short film, directed by Sidney Olcott. It was based on the novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The screenplay was written by Gene Gauntier, who also played the character Hester Prynne. The", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1908 film)" }, { "id": "6928127", "text": "breakthrough came the same year with a starring role in \"Easy A\", a teen comedy directed by Will Gluck. Partially based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 historical romance novel \"The Scarlet Letter\", the film tells the story of Olive Penderghast (Stone), a high school student who becomes embroiled in a comic sex scandal after a false rumor circulates that she is sexually promiscuous. Stone read the script before the project was optioned for production, and pursued it with her manager while production details were being finalized. She found the script \"so different and unique from anything I'd read before\", saying that", "title": "Emma Stone" }, { "id": "6345156", "text": "of 3/10. In \"Entertainment Weekly\", Owen Gleiberman referred to a \"clunky, dawdlingly literal-minded \"Scarlet Letter\", a movie that doesn't so much adapt the book as give it an expensive makeover.\" Kevin Williams of \"National Review\", in a retrospective appraisal, declared it \"the worst film ever made\", adding: \"With its combination of awfulness and inexplicability, it's the 'MacArthur Park' of cinema.\" The film won Worst Remake or Sequel at the 1995 Golden Raspberry Awards, receiving further nominations for Worst Actress (Moore), Worst Supporting Actor (Duvall), Worst Screen Couple (Moore and either Duvall or Oldman), Worst Director, Worst Picture, and Worst Screenplay.", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)" }, { "id": "13529430", "text": "Easy A Easy A (stylized as easy A) is a 2010 American teen comedy film directed by Will Gluck, written by Bert V. Royal and starring Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Haden Church, Dan Byrd, Amanda Bynes (in her last film before acting hiatus), Penn Badgley, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, and Aly Michalka. The screenplay was partially inspired by the novel \"The Scarlet Letter\" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Shot at Screen Gems studios and in Ojai, California, the film was released on September 17, 2010, received positive reviews with major praise drawn towards Stone's performance and was a major", "title": "Easy A" }, { "id": "19499093", "text": "Tully (2018 film) Tully is a 2018 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. The film stars Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Mark Duplass, and Ron Livingston, and follows the friendship between a mother of three and her nanny. It is the fourth collaboration between Reitman and Cody, following \"Juno\" (2007), \"Jennifer's Body\" (2009), and \"Young Adult\" (2011), the last of which also starred Theron. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and was released in the United States on May 4, 2018, by Focus Features. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, praising", "title": "Tully (2018 film)" }, { "id": "1598346", "text": "turned it down because of scheduling conflicts. The role was also offered to Nicole Kidman. Anna Nicole Smith was also considered. Both Audrey Meadows and Elizabeth Montgomery were considered for the role of Pearl Slaghoople. Parts of the film were shot at Glen Canyon in Utah as well as Los Angeles County, California. The film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 22% \"Rotten\" rating based on 44 reviews with an average rating of 3.7/10. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "17739799", "text": "Robert Duvall filmography The following is the filmography for actor and director Robert Duvall. He is most known for his roles in the films \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" (1962), \"Bullitt\" (1968), \"True Grit\" (1969), \"THX 1138\" (1971), \"The Godfather\" (1972), \"The Godfather Part II\" (1974), \"Apocalypse Now\" (1979), \"The Natural\" (1984), \"Colors\" (1988), \"Days of Thunder\" (1990), \"Newsies\" (1992), \"The Scarlet Letter\" (1995), \"Sling Blade\" (1996), \"Phenomenon\" (1996), \"Deep Impact\" (1998), \"Gone in 60 Seconds\" (2000), \"John Q\" (2002), \"Gods and Generals\" (2003), \"Secondhand Lions\" (2003), \"Open Range\" (2003), \"Kicking & Screaming\" (2005), \"We Own the Night\" (2007), \"Four Christmases\"", "title": "Robert Duvall filmography" }, { "id": "15758740", "text": "child. The film survives intact and has been preserved from Associated Artists Productions (AAP/UA). It has been released on DVD by the Warner Archive Collection. A copy is held by the Library of Congress. Scarlet Pages Scarlet Pages is a 1930 all-talking pre-code American crime drama film with songs starring Elsie Ferguson and directed by Ray Enright. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros.. The film stars Elsie Ferguson, John Halliday, Grant Withers and Marian Nixon. \"Scarlet Pages\" is based on a 1929 Broadway play of the same name that Ferguson also starred", "title": "Scarlet Pages" }, { "id": "4668453", "text": "(1925) and \"The House of Scandal\" (1928). He also directed William S. Hart in his most famous western, \"Tumbleweeds\" (1925). Among his film appearances, he was best known for \"The Scarlet Letter\" (1911), \"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\" (1913), and \"Ivanhoe\" (1913), which was filmed on location in Wales. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of William Baggot (1845–1909) and Harriet M. \"Hattie\" King (1859–1933). His siblings were Amos Taylor Baggot (1881–1954); Thomas Gantt Baggot (1889–1979); John Marmaduke Baggot (1891–1975); Arthur Lee Baggot (1893–?); Marion L. Baggot (1896–1973); and Harriet D. Baggot (1899–1930). His father was born", "title": "King Baggot" }, { "id": "5441298", "text": "wedding in 1964 to actor Tom Troupe, to whom she remains married; the couple has no children. Cook starred in the animated Disney film \"Home on the Range\", voicing Pearl Gesner. She appeared in such feature films as \"The Incredible Mr. Limpet\", \"Sixteen Candles\", \"Grandview, U.S.A.\", \"American Gigolo\", \"Summer Lovers\", and \"Palm Springs Weekend\". She made guest appearances on such television shows as \"The Lucy Show\", \"Here's Lucy\", \"Darkroom\", \"Knight Rider\", \"Emergency!\", \"Magnum, P.I.\", \"McMillan and Wife\", \"Murder, She Wrote\", \"Dynasty\", \"Charlie's Angels\", and \"Grey's Anatomy\". In addition to her film and television work, Cook appeared in the original Broadway", "title": "Carole Cook" }, { "id": "8733382", "text": "The Scarlet Letter (1973 film) The Scarlet Letter () is a 1973 German film directed by Wim Wenders. It is an adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel \"The Scarlet Letter\". The film stars Senta Berger as Hester Prynne, Hans Christian Blech as Roger Chillingworth, and Lou Castel as Rev. Dimmesdale. Wenders explained that the experience of directing this, his second film, was the usual one which occurs with a new director. It is much more difficult and much less successful. One of the biggest problems is that the interior shots were finished first (Normally exteriors are shot first). These were", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1973 film)" }, { "id": "19076429", "text": "The Letters (film) The Letters is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed and written by William Riead. The film stars Juliet Stevenson, Max von Sydow, Rutger Hauer and Priya Darshini. It was produced by Colin Azzopardi, Tony Cordeaux, and Lisa Riead. It was released theatrically by Freestyle Releasing on December 4, 2015. Mother Teresa (Juliet Stevenson), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives and inspired millions throughout the world. The film is told through personal letters she wrote over the last forty years of", "title": "The Letters (film)" }, { "id": "4337516", "text": "1941 (film) 1941 is a 1979 American period comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, and featuring an ensemble cast including Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, and Robert Stack. The story involves a panic in the Los Angeles area after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Although not as financially or critically successful as many of Spielberg's other films, it received belated popularity after an expanded version aired on ABC and its subsequent home video reissues, raising it to cult status. Co-writer Gale stated", "title": "1941 (film)" }, { "id": "5621454", "text": "Toby Jones Tobias Edward Heslewood Jones (born 7 September 1966) is an English actor. After appearing in supporting roles in films between 1992 and 2005, Jones made his breakthrough as Truman Capote in the biopic \"Infamous\" (2006). Since then, his films have included \"The Mist\" (2007), \"W.\" (2008), \"Frost/Nixon\" (2008), \"Your Highness\" (2011), \"\" (2011), \"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy\" (2011), \"Berberian Sound Studio\" (2012), \"The Hunger Games\" (2012), \"\" (2014), \"Tale of Tales\" (2015), \"Dad's Army\" (2016), and \"\" (2018). He also provided the voice of Dobby in the \"Harry Potter\" films, Aristides Silk in \"The Adventures of Tintin\" (2011),", "title": "Toby Jones" }, { "id": "15080863", "text": "opposite Bryan Cranston and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Olsen joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing the character of Scarlet Witch in \"\", the 2015 sequel to \"The Avengers\". She first appeared as the character in a mid-credits scene of the film \"\", alongside her \"Godzilla\" co-star Taylor-Johnson, who portrayed her brother Quicksilver. She reprised the role in the 2016 film \"\" and the 2018 sequel \"\". Olsen portrayed Audrey Williams, Hank Williams's wife, manager, and duet partner in the 2015 biopic film \"I Saw the Light\" directed by Marc Abraham and starring Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams. Olsen starred alongside her \"\"", "title": "Elizabeth Olsen" }, { "id": "5064746", "text": "Meryl Streep for the role, Helen became a significant part of the film. However, characters are also sometimes invented to provide the narrative voice. There have been several notable cases of massive inventive adaptation, including the Roland Joffe adaptation of \"The Scarlet Letter\" with explicit sex between Hester Prynn and the minister and Native American obscene puns into a major character and the film's villain. The Charlie Kaufman and \"Donald Kaufman\" penned \"Adaptation\", credited as an adaptation of the novel \"The Orchid Thief\", was an intentional satire and commentary on the process of film adaptation itself. All of those are", "title": "Film adaptation" }, { "id": "16480366", "text": "28, 2018 at the Imperial Theatre and opened on April 12. The production closed on September 16, 2018. Before beginning \"Carousel\" rehearsals, Mueller made her feature film debut in Steven Spielberg's historical drama \"The Post\". Mueller portrayed real life advice columnist Judith Martin (a.k.a. Miss Manners), alongside a cast including Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, and Carrie Coon. The film was released in select theaters on December 22, 2017 before expanding wide on January 12, 2018. Also in 2017, Mueller was nominated for a Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award for her performance in the Lyric Opera's Chicago Voices concert, which was", "title": "Jessie Mueller" }, { "id": "5931917", "text": "\"Seventeen\" (1916), where Rudolph Valentino did an uncredited cameo. He had a long association directing the early movies of Pauline Frederick such as \"Audrey\" (1916) and \"Double Crossed\" (1917). His biggest success was the big-budget epic \"When Knighthood Was in Flower\" (1922), starring Marion Davies, which achieved critical and commercial acclaim. Other films include \"Déclassée\" (1925), with the uncredited appearance of the then unknown Clark Gable; \"Broken Dreams\" (1933), which received a nomination for Best Foreign Film at the Venice Film Festival, and \"The Scarlet Letter\" (1934), the last film of Colleen Moore. Vignola died in Hollywood, California in 1953.", "title": "Robert G. Vignola" }, { "id": "16305305", "text": "said she was bisexual and pansexual. In June 2018, in an interview with \"Wonderland\" magazine, she came out as gay. Stenberg is dating singer King Princess. In a July 2017 interview Stenberg stated that she had stopped using a smartphone due to its effects on mental health, and took a long break from it. Amandla Stenberg Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress. She portrayed Rue in \"The Hunger Games\"; Madeline Whittier in \"Everything, Everything\"; and Starr Carter in \"The Hate U Give\" (2018). Stenberg was born in Los Angeles, California, the child of Karen Brailsford, an", "title": "Amandla Stenberg" }, { "id": "19755600", "text": "The Lion King (2019 film) The Lion King is an upcoming American drama film directed by Jon Favreau and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a photorealistic computer animated remake of Disney's traditionally animated 1994 film of the same name. The film features the voices of Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Billy Eichner, John Oliver, Keegan-Michael Key, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, and James Earl Jones. Plans for a remake of \"The Lion King\" were confirmed in September 2016 following the success of Favreau's \"The Jungle Book\". Much of the main cast signed in early 2017 and principal photography began in", "title": "The Lion King (2019 film)" }, { "id": "17904083", "text": "Girl with a Pearl Earring (film) Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 romantic drama film directed by Peter Webber. The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, based on the novel \"Girl with a Pearl Earring\" by Tracy Chevalier. Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted \"Girl with a Pearl Earring\" (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland. Other cast members include Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, and Judy Parfitt. Hetreed read the novel before its publication, and", "title": "Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)" }, { "id": "6345155", "text": "final score, composed by John Barry. Reportedly, star Demi Moore wanted a score by Barry from the start, so Morricone's and Bernstein's music were not going to be accepted, regardless of quality. Barry's score was released on CD by Sony Records upon the film's release in 1995. A CD of Bernstein's rejected score was released by Varèse Sarabande in 2008. No recordings of Morricone's score have been released to the public. \"The Scarlet Letter\" was thoroughly panned by critics. Based on 38 reviews collected by aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 13% approval rating, with an average score", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)" }, { "id": "5868657", "text": "the television drama series \"Murder in Mind\" and \"The Brief\". In 2006, she appeared in the BBC drama \"Waterloo Road\" as English teacher Lorna Dickey and returned for the second series in 2007, until her character committed suicide having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In early 2008 she starred in \"Torchwood\" episode \"From Out of the Rain\" as Pearl, a circus star who escapes an old cinema film and seeks revenge on those who put her out of business. Power was seen in the British action movie \"The Tournament\" as the ruthless assistant to Liam Cunningham's Tournament Master. In 2012,", "title": "Camilla Power" }, { "id": "11418061", "text": "Sally Jane Bruce Sally Jane Bruce (born December 2, 1948, Los Angeles, California) is an American former child performer, best known for playing little Pearl Harper in Charles Laughton's 1955 film noir \"The Night of the Hunter\". Sally Jane Bruce was born on December 2, 1948, in Los Angeles; the daughter of country singer Jewell Edwards, who worked with Spade Cooley and his Orchestra. Before Charles Laughton would cast five-year-old Sally Jane for the role of little Pearl Harper in his thriller classic \"The Night of the Hunter\", she was already considered a veteran of TV, radio, and such films", "title": "Sally Jane Bruce" }, { "id": "11542014", "text": "film \"Henry Poole Is Here\" she portrayed Millie Stupek. Morgan's most notable role so far has been in the 2009 disaster film \"2012\" as Lilly Curtis alongside young actor Liam James. Another notable role has been as Bonnie on the hit series, \"Shameless\". Morgan's current projects up-to-date include \"Love's Everlasting Courage\" alongside high-profile actors Wes Brown (actor) and Cheryl Ladd. Morgan Lily Morgan Lily Jane Gross (born April 11, 2000) is an American actress and fashion model. She started modeling internationally at the age of four years and appeared in more than 21 television commercials, and many photo shoots before", "title": "Morgan Lily" }, { "id": "8733385", "text": "The extras which represent the inhabitants of Salem were all Spaniards. The Scarlet Letter (1973 film) The Scarlet Letter () is a 1973 German film directed by Wim Wenders. It is an adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel \"The Scarlet Letter\". The film stars Senta Berger as Hester Prynne, Hans Christian Blech as Roger Chillingworth, and Lou Castel as Rev. Dimmesdale. Wenders explained that the experience of directing this, his second film, was the usual one which occurs with a new director. It is much more difficult and much less successful. One of the biggest problems is that the interior", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1973 film)" }, { "id": "7799712", "text": "Katie Henney Katie Henney (born January 1, 1993) is an American former child actress best known for her role as Elizabeth Cole in the 2005 movie, \"\". She has performed several roles in The American Girls Revue at American Girl Place New York. She also appeared in \"Circle Of Friends\" an American Girls Musical at the American Girl Place in New York. Her other theater credits include \"Sunshine\", \"Ragamuffins\", and \"Number the Stars\". Henney made small appearances on the TV shows \"The Naked Brothers Band\", \"Blue Bloods\", and \"Boardwalk Empire\". She lives in New York City with her parents, sister", "title": "Katie Henney" }, { "id": "4633840", "text": "Lee Eun-ju Lee Eun-ju (22 December 1980 – February 22, 2005) was a South Korean actress. She was the star of hit films including \"Taegukgi\" and \"The Scarlet Letter\". She committed suicide at age 24. Born in Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, Lee studied piano for much of her youth, without giving much thought to becoming an actress. She moved to Seoul after graduating high school and was first noticed in the mid-1990s as a model for school uniforms. After finding work as a model, she began to be offered roles in various TV dramas, including \"Start\" and \"KAIST\". Her film", "title": "Lee Eun-ju" }, { "id": "9744535", "text": "Deedee Magno Hall Deedee Lynn Magno Hall (born April 2, 1975) is a Filipina-American actress and singer, known for her work in the pop group The Party and the voice of Pearl in the animated series \"Steven Universe\". Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Magno was the child of immigrants from the Philippines, a sailor in the United States Navy and a nurse, she grew up in San Diego and Orlando. She began acting at a young age, lending her voice to the Disney show \"The All New Mickey Mouse Club\" (that was first recorded in 1988) in 1988-1991 and sometimes 1992.", "title": "Deedee Magno Hall" }, { "id": "16037488", "text": "and has an older brother, Russell, who graduated from the University of Delaware. She takes piano lessons and enjoys composing songs. Sonenclar is Jewish. Sonenclar began her professional career in 2006 in a stage adaptation of \"The Night of the Hunter\", at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, in which she played the lead role of Pearl. In that same year, she made her Broadway debut in \"Les Miserables\" as Young Cosette. In 2009, she appeared in the national tour of \"Little House on the Prairie, the Musical\", starring Melissa Gilbert, originating the principal role of Carrie. Sonenclar made her", "title": "Carly Rose Sonenclar" }, { "id": "8843362", "text": "She portrayed Eden in Karyn Kusama's thriller film \"The Invitation.\" In 2014, Blanchard appeared as the stepsister Florinda in director Rob Marshall's film, \"Into the Woods\", an adaptation of the popular stage musical. She appears in the film \"Tallulah\", which debuted on Netflix in 2016. She appears in the Broadway production of \"The Iceman Cometh\" as Cora, which started previews on March 23, 2018. Blanchard lives in her hometown of Bayonne and has a daughter, Ava Jean Blanchard, who was born in 2007. Tammy Blanchard Tammy Blanchard (born December 14, 1976) is an American actress and singer. She has worked", "title": "Tammy Blanchard" }, { "id": "6345153", "text": "other undesirables in the ensuing outrage, but Dimmesdale saves her neck by confessing that he is the father of her child. As he takes her place on the gallows, the Algonquian attack Massachusetts Bay; both sides sustain heavy casualties. The Puritans are more concerned with concealing the conflict from England than harassing Hester any further; she finally abandons her scarlet letter and departs with Dimmesdale for Carolina. The film was shot in British Columbia on Vancouver Island, in and around Campbell River (Beaverlodge Lands—now Rockland Road and North Island College/Timberline Secondary, Lupin Falls and Myra Falls in Strathcona Provincial Park,", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)" }, { "id": "527434", "text": "four CBS series – \"The Nanny\", \"Can't Hurry Love\", \"Murphy Brown\", and \"High Society\" – in one night in February 1996 to promote her new fragrance. Her last theatrically released film was in the critically panned, but commercially very successful, \"The Flintstones\" (1994), in which she played Pearl Slaghoople in a brief supporting role. Taylor received American and British honors for her career: the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1993, the Screen Actors Guild honorary award in 1997, and a BAFTA Fellowship in 1999. In 2000, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II. After supporting roles in the", "title": "Elizabeth Taylor" }, { "id": "12858354", "text": "\"Ghost World\" (2001). Johansson shifted to adult roles in 2003 with her performances in \"Lost in Translation\" (for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress) and \"Girl with a Pearl Earring\". She was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards for these films, and for playing an estranged teenager in the drama \"A Love Song for Bobby Long\" (2004), and a seductress in the psychological thriller \"Match Point\" (2005). Other films during this period include the mystery thriller \"The Prestige\" (2006) and the comedy-drama \"Vicky Cristina Barcelona\" (2008). She also released two albums: \"Anywhere I Lay My Head\" (2008)", "title": "Scarlett Johansson" }, { "id": "10110816", "text": "based at Paramount Pictures. Paramount Vantage released their latest film, \"Black Snake Moan\", starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci and Justin Timberlake on February 23, 2007. She was the Festival Director for the LA Film Festival from 2011 to 2016. She was married to Mitch Marcus from 1988 to 1999. She is currently married to Tony Award-nominated and Grammy Award-winning composer Stephen Bray, who is composer and lyricist of the Broadway version of the Alice Walker book \"The Color Purple\". Allain has three children. Stephanie Allain Stephanie Allain (born October 30, 1959) is an African-American producer of independent movies in", "title": "Stephanie Allain" }, { "id": "3757077", "text": "held in Los Angeles. In 1934, Moore, by then divorced from Albert Parker Scott, returned to work in Hollywood. She appeared in three films, none of which was successful, and Moore retired. Her last film was a version of \"The Scarlet Letter\" in 1934. She later married the widower Homer Hargrave and raised his children (she never had children of her own) from a previous marriage, with whom she maintained a lifelong close relationship. Throughout her life she also maintained close friendships with other colleagues from the silent film era, such as King Vidor and Mary Pickford. In the 1960s,", "title": "Colleen Moore" }, { "id": "6854908", "text": "popular perception and interpretation of the film, this particular one being her last. Director Kim Ki-duk, no stranger to controversy over his own films, is quoted by Chinese film magazine \"Movie Watch\" (看電影) in singling out \"The Scarlet Letter\" as among the key Korean dramas from recent years. He subsequently cast Sung Hyun-ah, who rose to prominence with her role in \"The Scarlet Letter\", as the heroine in his \"Time\". At the film's premiere in Japan, veteran actress Kumiko Akiyoshi praised the lead performances and likened the film to a landmark in erotic thrillers after \"Basic Instinct\" and \"Fatal Attraction\".", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (2004 film)" }, { "id": "18833909", "text": "The Shack (2017 film) The Shack is a 2017 American Christian drama film directed by Stuart Hazeldine and written by John Fusco, Andrew Lanham and Destin Cretton, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by William P. Young. The film stars Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Graham Greene, Radha Mitchell, Alice Braga, Sumire Matsubara, Aviv Alush, and Tim McGraw. Filming began on June 8, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The film was released in the United States on March 3, 2017, and grossed over $96 million worldwide. Mackenzie \"Mack\" Phillips suffered physical and emotional abuse as a child at", "title": "The Shack (2017 film)" }, { "id": "13529445", "text": "is thin, and the laughs meager\". Easy A Easy A (stylized as easy A) is a 2010 American teen comedy film directed by Will Gluck, written by Bert V. Royal and starring Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thomas Haden Church, Dan Byrd, Amanda Bynes (in her last film before acting hiatus), Penn Badgley, Cam Gigandet, Lisa Kudrow, and Aly Michalka. The screenplay was partially inspired by the novel \"The Scarlet Letter\" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Shot at Screen Gems studios and in Ojai, California, the film was released on September 17, 2010, received positive reviews with major praise drawn towards", "title": "Easy A" }, { "id": "962493", "text": "Other ships used in filler scenes included , and during filming for the carrier sequences. Filming was also done on board the museum battleship located near Houston, Texas. The first trailer was released in 2000 and was shown alongside screenings of \"Cast Away\" and \"O Brother, Where Art Thou?\", with another trailer released in Spring 2001, shown before \"\". \"Pearl Harbor\" grossed $198,542,554 at the domestic box office and $250,678,391 overseas for a worldwide total of $449,220,945, ahead of \"Shrek\". The film was ranked the sixth highest-earning picture of 2001. It is also the third highest-grossing romantic drama film of", "title": "Pearl Harbor (film)" }, { "id": "2174479", "text": "Elizabeth McGovern Elizabeth Lee McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American film, television, and theater actress, and musician. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the 1981 film \"Ragtime\". She is also known for her performance as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham in the British drama series \"Downton Abbey\", for which she has been nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. Her other films include \"Ordinary People\" (1980), \"Once Upon a Time in America\" (1984), \"The Handmaid's Tale\" (1990) and \"The Wings of the Dove\" (1997). McGovern was born in Evanston,", "title": "Elizabeth McGovern" }, { "id": "15443259", "text": "The Hunger Games (film) The Hunger Games is a 2012 American science fiction-adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on Suzanne Collins’ 2008 novel of the same name. It is the first installment in \"The Hunger Games\" film series and was produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, with a screenplay by Ross, Collins, and Billy Ray. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland. The story takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem, where a boy and a girl from each", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "8308225", "text": "number of television movies during the 1970s, including \"Screaming Skull\" (1973) and \"The Users\" (1978). She also acted in the television movie \"Divorce His, Divorce Hers\" (1973), which starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Nye wrote a humorous essay that year published in \"Time\" about the experience. In 1978, Nye was a semi-regular panelist on the PBS quiz show \"We Interrupt This Week\". She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1980 for her portrayal of Tallulah Bankhead in the television film \"The Scarlett O'Hara War\". That same year she returned to Broadway to perform the role of Lorraine Sheldon", "title": "Carrie Nye" }, { "id": "13840866", "text": "Ruby Jerins Ruby Jerins (born April 10, 1998) is an American actress best known for playing Grace Peyton in the drama/comedy series \"Nurse Jackie\", and Caroline Hawkins in the 2010 film \"Remember Me\". Jerins is the daughter of the artist Edgar Jerins and actress Alana Jerins, and the older sister of Sterling Jerins, an actress who appeared in \"The Conjuring\". Jerins made her acting debut in the film \"The Wedding\" in 2001, alongside Jaid Barrymore and Stephen C. Bradbury, playing the flower girl. Jerins has also guest starred in television series such as \"Kidnapped\", \"Law & Order\", \"Guiding Light\", \"As", "title": "Ruby Jerins" }, { "id": "3955158", "text": "'t, and things farther East\". In a 39-page review, however, critic William Bourne Oliver Peabody called the work unfinished and its characters and style inconsistent. After publishing his novel \"Philo\", Judd sent a copy to Edward Everett Hale, who responded, \"I think \"Philo\" glorious.\" The critic and poet Richard J. Powers finds the child characterization of Margaret in the novel the prototype for Nathaniel Hawthorne's character of Pearl, Hester Prynne's daughter, in the 1850 novel \"The Scarlet Letter\". He also wrote a large number of sermons and religious addresses. Judd's papers are at the Harvard University Library, Yale University Library", "title": "Sylvester Judd" }, { "id": "5181525", "text": "Lori Alan Lori Alan is an American actress and voice actress. She has played a long-running role as Pearl Krabs on the animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She also voiced Diane Simmons on \"Family Guy\", the Invisible Woman on \"The Fantastic Four\", and The Boss in the \"Metal Gear\" video game series. Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland. She had a mixed-faith family: her mother is a Southern Baptist and her father is Jewish. Both of her parents were performers and supported her choice to be an actress. Alan currently lives in Los Angeles. She started acting at age five,", "title": "Lori Alan" }, { "id": "5181527", "text": "animal rescue organization in Los Angeles. Alan has done vocal work for over three decades. Her process of getting to the authentic personality of the character she is providing the voice for is to improvise and trust her own choices, something she learned at her first voice acting job. Alan voices Pearl the Whale on \"SpongeBob SquarePants\", Sue Richards (the Invisible Woman) on Marvel Comics' \"The Fantastic Four\", newsreader-turned-murderer Diane Simmons on \"Family Guy\", and The Boss in the \"Metal Gear\" series. Lori has done voices in feature films: \"Monsters University\", \"Toy Story 3\", \"Despicable Me 2\", \"WALL·E\", \"Inside Out\",", "title": "Lori Alan" }, { "id": "6255301", "text": "town. She looks to the local pastor Arthur Dimmesdale for comfort; somewhere along the way passion emerges, culminating in the conception and subsequent birth of their child, Pearl. Because Hester has no husband with her, she is imprisoned, convicted of the crime of adultery, and sentenced to be forced to wear a prominent scarlet letter 'A' for the rest of her life. Though scorned by her fellow citizens, Hester continues to lead a relatively uneventful life. Shortly after the birth of the child and her punishment, Hester's husband reappears and demands that she tell him the name of the child's", "title": "Hester Prynne" }, { "id": "10735734", "text": "Joanna Scanlan Joanna Scanlan (born 27 October 1961) is an English actress and screenwriter. She is known for her roles in British television series, such as \"The Thick of It\" (2005–12), \"Getting On\" (2009–12), \"Puppy Love\" (2014), and \"No Offence\" (2015–present). She was nominated for three BAFTA TV Awards for \"Getting On\", including two for Best Writing. Her film appearances include \"Girl With a Pearl Earring\" (2003), \"Notes on a Scandal\" (2006), \"The Invisible Woman\" (2013), and \"Bridget Jones's Baby\" (2016). Scanlan was born in West Kirby, Wirral. She attended Brigidine convent, Denbigh, New Hall School, Chelmsford and Howell's School", "title": "Joanna Scanlan" }, { "id": "1598330", "text": "The Flintstones (film) The Flintstones is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Brian Levant and written by Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, and Steven E. de Souza. It is a live-action motion picture adaptation of the 1960–1966 animated television series of the same name. The film stars John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, Rick Moranis as Barney Rubble, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma Flintstone, and Rosie O'Donnell as Betty Rubble, along with Kyle MacLachlan as a villainous executive-vice president of Fred's company, Halle Berry as his seductive secretary and Elizabeth Taylor (in her final theatrical film appearance), as Pearl Slaghoople,", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "16416234", "text": "Carrie (2013 film) Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film directed by Kimberly Peirce, and is the third film adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name. The film was produced by Kevin Misher, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the titular character Carrie White, alongside Julianne Moore as Margaret White. The cast also features Judy Greer, Portia Doubleday, Gabriella Wilde, Ansel Elgort and Alex Russell. The film is a modern re-imagining of King's novel about a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by", "title": "Carrie (2013 film)" }, { "id": "18572719", "text": "Valerie Brandy Valerie Brandy is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She is best known for her recurring role as Trixie on FX's \"Justified\", and for her performance as Lola in the feature film Lola's Last Letter, which she also wrote and directed. The film premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as a competition feature at Dances with Films Festival, and earned Brandy a Best Principal Actress Nomination from the Los Angeles Film Review. Valerie Brandy had a recurring role in season 3 of \"Justified\" as Trixie, a drug addict and informant for the villain Limehouse. Trixie had", "title": "Valerie Brandy" }, { "id": "3726944", "text": "the Snail and the French Narrator, Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star, Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles, Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs, Mr. Lawrence as Plankton, Jill Talley as Karen, Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks, Mary Jo Catlett as Mrs. Puff, and Lori Alan as Pearl Krabs. It also features Dee Bradley Baker as Perch Perkins, Carlos Alazraqui as King Neptune's squire, Aaron Hendry as the Cyclops, and Neil Ross as the voice of the Cyclops. In addition to the series' cast, it was reported on March 23, 2004 that Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Tambor and Alec Baldwin would play new characters", "title": "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" }, { "id": "1953021", "text": "Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. Her other film roles include \"Mississippi Burning\" (1988), \"Almost Famous\" (2000), and \"North Country\" (2005), all earning her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2017, she starred as a hardened woman seeking justice for her daughter's murder in the crime-drama film \"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri\", which won her a second Academy Award, in addition to the Golden Globe, SAG, Critics' Choice, Independent Spirit and BAFTA Award for Best Actress. McDormand made her Broadway debut in a 1984 revival of the drama \"Awake and Sing!\", and", "title": "Frances McDormand" }, { "id": "18366415", "text": "Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2012's \"The Avengers\" and 2015's \"\", and the nineteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony", "title": "Avengers: Infinity War" }, { "id": "20619513", "text": "under their Original Headquarters and LD Entertainment banners, respectively. In March 2017, Lorraine Toussaint, David Strathairn, Saniyya Sidney, and Christopher Denham joined the cast of the film. Principal photography began on March 13, 2017. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 10, 2018. Shortly after, Codeblack Films acquired distribution rights to the film and set it for a March 29, 2019, release. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 91% based on 11 reviews, and an average rating of 6.8/10. Fast Color Fast Color is a 2018 American drama", "title": "Fast Color" }, { "id": "429952", "text": "role that ultimately went to George Peppard in the series; and Robert Vaughn was added to the cast in the final season as part of a revamp attempt to boost fading ratings. A remake of the film was released on September 23, 2016, with Antoine Fuqua directing and Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier and Peter Sarsgaard starring. The Magnificent Seven The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn and Horst", "title": "The Magnificent Seven" }, { "id": "6345157", "text": "It grossed $10.3 million against a production budget of $46 million. In response to the criticism, and to the new ending, Moore said that the story the filmmakers were trying to tell differed out of necessity with that of the book, which she said was \"very dense and not cinematic\". She noted the original story might be better suited to a miniseries on television, and that the story presented in this film needed a different ending, one that did not lose \"the ultimate message of Hester Prynne\" that its makers were trying to convey. Asked by critic Peter Travers in", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)" }, { "id": "11520381", "text": "Uhm Ji-won Uhm Ji-won (born December 25, 1977) is a South Korean actress. Uhm Ji-won made her acting debut in the late 1990s, and after an early role in the Korean tokusatsu series \"Vectorman\", went on to appear in a number of films and television drama series. In 2004, she appeared alongside Han Suk-kyu and Lee Eun-ju in \"The Scarlet Letter\", receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. In 2005, Uhm played a leading role in Hong Sang-soo's \"Tale of Cinema\", and was praised for giving an \"engaging, emotionally nuanced dual performance\" as fictional", "title": "Uhm Ji-won" }, { "id": "6854909", "text": "Lee Ki-hoon is an alpha male homicide detective; intelligent and with animal instincts. His wife, classical cellist Han Soo-hyun, is submissive and seemingly perfect. Meanwhile, he is carrying on a passionate affair with his mistress Choi Ga-hee, a sultry jazz singer at a nightclub. Ki-hoon lives a double life by moving back and forth between these two women, who also happen to be schoolmates from high school. One day Ki-hoon goes to a murder scene and there he meets Ji Kyung-hee, a woman accused of murdering her husband. The Scarlet Letter (2004 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 2004 South", "title": "The Scarlet Letter (2004 film)" }, { "id": "1831435", "text": "Carrie-Anne Moss Carrie-Anne Moss (born August 21, 1967) is a Canadian actress. Following early roles on television, she rose to international prominence for her role of Trinity in \"The Matrix\" trilogy (1999–2003). She has starred in \"Memento\" (2000), \"Red Planet\" (2000), \"Chocolat\" (2000), \"Fido\" (2006), \"Snow Cake\" (2006), \"Disturbia\" (2007), \"Unthinkable\" (2010), \"\" (2012), and \"Pompeii\" (2014). Moss currently portrays Jeri Hogarth in several television series of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, mainly \"Jessica Jones\" (2015–present). Carrie-Anne Moss was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, the daughter of Barbara and Melvyn Moss. She has an older brother, Brooke. Moss's mother reportedly named", "title": "Carrie-Anne Moss" }, { "id": "19755608", "text": "released on July 19, 2019, which marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the original film. \"The Lion King\" will be one of the first theatrical films to be released on Disney+ alongside \"Toy Story 4\", \"Frozen 2\" and \"Captain Marvel\". The Lion King (2019 film) The Lion King is an upcoming American drama film directed by Jon Favreau and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a photorealistic computer animated remake of Disney's traditionally animated 1994 film of the same name. The film features the voices of Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Billy Eichner, John Oliver, Keegan-Michael", "title": "The Lion King (2019 film)" }, { "id": "9744538", "text": "\"Wicked\". They have two sons. Deedee Magno Hall Deedee Lynn Magno Hall (born April 2, 1975) is a Filipina-American actress and singer, known for her work in the pop group The Party and the voice of Pearl in the animated series \"Steven Universe\". Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, Magno was the child of immigrants from the Philippines, a sailor in the United States Navy and a nurse, she grew up in San Diego and Orlando. She began acting at a young age, lending her voice to the Disney show \"The All New Mickey Mouse Club\" (that was first recorded in 1988)", "title": "Deedee Magno Hall" }, { "id": "5316320", "text": "the Mohicans\", Eric became the famous Mohawk leader Joseph Brant/Thayendanegea for TNT's telefilm \"The Broken Chain\" (1993), playing for the first time the main character in a movie (Schweig appeared with Wes Studi again for this motion picture). It was shot primarily in North Carolina. He starred in Disney's \"The Scarlet Letter\" and \"Tom and Huck\" with Amy Wright in 1995. In 1996 he appeared as a Comanche protagonist, Buffalo Hump, in the Larry McMurtry miniseries Dead Man's Walk. More recently, he played the lead role in films addressing more contemporary issues facing aboriginal and Native American people: \"Skins\" (2002),", "title": "Eric Schweig" }, { "id": "14672012", "text": "gone through in their lives, before coming together to embrace Crystal and each other (\"A Laying on of Hands\") and move forward with their lives. On September 3, 2009, Lionsgate announced it had acquired the distribution rights to Tyler Perry's 34th Street Films adaptation of the play, with principal photography originally scheduled to take place in Atlanta, Georgia in November and December 2009, with a planned 2010 release. The film was written, directed, and produced by Perry. The cast includes Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Whoopi Goldberg, Janet Jackson, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington and Thandie Newton. Mariah Carey", "title": "For Colored Girls" }, { "id": "9715037", "text": "Carl, and suffers long-term physical, sexual and emotional abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary (Mo'Nique). Carey appeared as a social worker. The film screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and went on to garner widespread acclaim. Daniels was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and the film received a Best Picture nomination. It was a financial success grossing $63 million worldwide against a budget of $10 million. In 2010 Grace Hightower De Niro, who appeared in \"Precious\", presented Daniels with the Pratt Institute's Creative Spirit Award. Daniels directed \"The Paperboy\" (2012), based on the 1995 novel by", "title": "Lee Daniels" }, { "id": "5181530", "text": "and comical by Broadway World. Lori Alan Lori Alan is an American actress and voice actress. She has played a long-running role as Pearl Krabs on the animated television series \"SpongeBob SquarePants\". She also voiced Diane Simmons on \"Family Guy\", the Invisible Woman on \"The Fantastic Four\", and The Boss in the \"Metal Gear\" video game series. Alan was born in Potomac, Maryland. She had a mixed-faith family: her mother is a Southern Baptist and her father is Jewish. Both of her parents were performers and supported her choice to be an actress. Alan currently lives in Los Angeles. She", "title": "Lori Alan" }, { "id": "9846030", "text": "as Aunt Pearl in the classic comedy \"Arthur\" (1981). Johnston served on the governing body of the Actors' Equity Association for 39 years. She died of a stroke in West Hollywood, aged 84, in 2006. Justine Johnston Justine Johnston (June 13, 1921January 13, 2006) was an American film, television and musical theatre actress. Johnston was born in Evanston, Illinois. She was occasionally mistaken for Justine Johnstone, a similarly named silent film actress, who is not her mother and with whom she had no connection. Johnston performed throughout the Mid-Pacific during World War II. She appeared on Broadway in such musicals", "title": "Justine Johnston" }, { "id": "1366178", "text": "Mary Steenburgen Mary Nell Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an American actress and singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing the role of Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demme's 1980 film \"Melvin and Howard\". Steenburgen, who studied at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, also received a Golden Globe nomination for the 1981 film \"Ragtime\", a BAFTA TV Award nomination for the 1985 miniseries \"Tender is the Night\" and an Emmy Award nomination for the 1988 TV film \"\". Her other film appearances include \"Cross Creek\"", "title": "Mary Steenburgen" }, { "id": "371485", "text": "children's story, starring newcomer Ruby Barnhill, and Rylance as the titular Big Friendly Giant. DreamWorks bought the rights in 2010, originally intending John Madden to direct. The film was the last to be written by \"E.T.\" screenwriter Melissa Mathison before she died. It was co-produced and released by Walt Disney Pictures, marking the first Disney-branded film to be directed by Spielberg. \"The BFG\" premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2016 and received a wide release in the US on July 1, 2016. Spielberg directed Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in \"The Post\", an account", "title": "Steven Spielberg" }, { "id": "1473035", "text": "and enjoyed it. Because of its content, producing the film under the tight restrictions of the Hays Code would be almost impossible. The play was on the unofficial blacklist, and had quietly been banned from film-making a year earlier. To try to avoid issues with the code, Swanson and Walsh left out profanity, renamed \"Reverend Davidson\" \"Mr. Davidson\", and stated it was in the interest of morality to produce the picture as Irving Thalberg had produced \"The Scarlet Letter\" (1926) at MGM. Swanson invited Will Hays for lunch and summarized the plot, naming the author and the sticking points. According", "title": "Gloria Swanson" } ]

[ "The Hunger Games" ]

[ { "id": "15443259", "text": "The Hunger Games (film) The Hunger Games is a 2012 American science fiction-adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on Suzanne Collins’ 2008 novel of the same name. It is the first installment in \"The Hunger Games\" film series and was produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, with a screenplay by Ross, Collins, and Billy Ray. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland. The story takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem, where a boy and a girl from each", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17578295", "text": "Louis Phillips, Bryan Unkeless, and Aldric La'auli Porter. Color Force and Lionsgate collaborated on all four films. It was announced on November 1, 2012 that the studio had decided to split the final book, \"Mockingjay\" (2010), into two films: \"\" (2014) and \"\" (2015), much like \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1\" (2010) and \"2\" (2011), and \"\" (2011) and \"\" (2012). Gary Ross directed the first film (\"The Hunger Games\"), and despite initially stating otherwise on April 10, 2012, Lionsgate announced that Ross would not return to direct the sequel. On April 19, 2012, it was", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "17578290", "text": "The Hunger Games (film series) The Hunger Games film series consists of four science fiction dystopian adventure films based on \"The Hunger Games\" trilogy of novels, by the American author Suzanne Collins. Distributed by Lionsgate and produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, it stars Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, and Donald Sutherland as President Snow. Gary Ross directed the first film, while Francis Lawrence directed the next three films. The first three films set", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "15443327", "text": "based on the last book \"Mockingjay\". \"\" was released November 21, 2014, and \"\" was released November 20, 2015. Lawrence, Hutcherson, Hemsworth, and Harrelson were all signed on to the whole franchise. The Hunger Games (film) The Hunger Games is a 2012 American science fiction-adventure film directed by Gary Ross and based on Suzanne Collins’ 2008 novel of the same name. It is the first installment in \"The Hunger Games\" film series and was produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, with a screenplay by Ross, Collins, and Billy Ray. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17578299", "text": "Wright was cast as Beetee, Alan Ritchson as Gloss, Lynn Cohen as Mags, and Amanda Plummer as Wiress. In August and September 2013, it was revealed that Stef Dawson would play Annie Cresta, Natalie Dormer would play Cressida, Evan Ross would play Messalla, and Julianne Moore would play President Alma Coin in the final two films. Principal photography for \"The Hunger Games\" began on May 24, 2011 and concluded on September 15, 2011. The entirety of filming for the first movie took place in North Carolina including the following cities; Asheville, Barnardsville, Black Mountain, Cedar Mountain, Charlotte, Concord, Hildebran and", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "15443261", "text": "the character of Seneca Crane to allow several developments to be shown directly to the audience and Ross added several scenes between Crane and Coriolanus Snow. The main characters were cast between March and May 2011. Principal photography began in May 2011 and ended in September 2011, with filming taking place in North Carolina. The film was released on March 21, 2012, in some European countries and in the US on March 23, 2012, in both conventional theaters and digital IMAX theaters. Japan received it last, on September 28. When the film released, it set records for opening day ($67.3", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "15443377", "text": "The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is a trilogy of young adult dystopian novels written by American novelist Suzanne Collins. The series is set in \"The Hunger Games\" universe, and follows young characters Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. The novels in the trilogy are titled \"The Hunger Games\" (2008), \"Catching Fire\" (2009), and \"Mockingjay\" (2010). The novels have all been developed into films starring Jennifer Lawrence, with the film adaptation of \"Mockingjay\" split into two parts. The first two books in the series were both \"New York Times\" best sellers, and \"Mockingjay\" topped all US bestseller lists upon its release.", "title": "The Hunger Games" }, { "id": "17578297", "text": "director, he brought in Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt to write the script for \"Catching Fire\". The final two films of the series were written by Danny Strong and Peter Craig. Once the three leads were cast, casting shifted to the other tributes. Jack Quaid was cast as Marvel, Leven Rambin as Glimmer, Amandla Stenberg as Rue, and Dayo Okeniyi as Thresh. Alexander Ludwig (who auditioned for Peeta) was cast as Cato, Isabelle Fuhrman (who auditioned for Katniss) as Clove, and Jacqueline Emerson as Foxface. Following the casting of tributes, the adult cast began to come together. Elizabeth Banks was", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "17578306", "text": "\"The Hunger Games\" films received a \"Fresh Rating\" (>60%) on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, with the first two films receiving a \"Certified Rating\" rating (>70%). The Hunger Games (film series) The Hunger Games film series consists of four science fiction dystopian adventure films based on \"The Hunger Games\" trilogy of novels, by the American author Suzanne Collins. Distributed by Lionsgate and produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, it stars Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, Stanley Tucci as", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "15443302", "text": "the first film since \"Avatar\" to achieve this. On June 10, 2012 (its 80th day in theaters), it became the 14th movie to pass the $400-million-mark. On April 20, 2012, Lionsgate and IMAX Corporation announced that due to \"overwhelming demand\", \"The Hunger Games\" would return to North American IMAX cinemas on April 27 for a further one-week engagement. Outside North America, the film was released in most countries during March and April 2012, with the exception of China, where it was released in June 2012. On its first weekend ( March 23–25, 2012), the film topped the box office outside", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17578305", "text": "films finished first at the North American box office during both their opening and second weekend. In North America, \"The Hunger Games\" film series is the second highest-grossing film series based on young adult books, after the Harry Potter series, earning over $1.4 billion. Worldwide, it is the third highest-grossing film series based on young-adult books after the film series of \"Harry Potter\" and \"The Twilight Saga\", respectively, having grossed over $2.9 billion. In North America, it is the eighth highest-grossing film franchise of all time. Worldwide, it is the 15th or 16th highest-grossing film franchise of all time. All", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "17578298", "text": "cast as Effie Trinket, the District 12 escort. Woody Harrelson was cast as Haymitch Abernathy, District 12's mentor. Lenny Kravitz was cast as Cinna, Katniss' stylist. Wes Bentley was cast as game maker Seneca Crane. Stanley Tucci was cast as Caesar Flickerman, Panem's celebrity host. Donald Sutherland was cast as Coriolanus Snow, Panem's President. Willow Shields was cast as Primrose Everdeen, Katniss' younger sister. In July 2012, the cast for the second film was announced. Jena Malone would play Johanna Mason. Philip Seymour Hoffman would play Plutarch Heavensbee, Sam Claflin would play Finnick Odair. It was later announced that Jeffrey", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "15443260", "text": "of the nation's 12 districts are chosen annually as \"tributes\" and forced to compete in The Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers to take her younger sister's place, and with her district's male tribute, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), travels to the Capitol to train and compete in the games. Development of \"The Hunger Games\" began in March 2009 when Lions Gate Entertainment entered into a co-production agreement with Color Force, which had acquired the rights a few weeks earlier. Collins collaborated with Ray and Ross to write the screenplay. The screenplay expanded", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "15443263", "text": "sold, the DVD was the best-selling DVD of 2012. A sequel, \"\", was released on November 22, 2013, in the United States. \"The Hunger Games\" received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its themes and messages, as well as Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of Katniss, though there was criticism of the film's use of shaky cam, especially in the action sequences. Like the novel, the film has been noted for its similarities to other works, including the Japanese novel \"Battle Royale\" and its film adaptation, Robert Sheckley's short story \"Seventh Victim\" and its Italian film adaptation \"The 10th Victim\", and", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17332657", "text": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is a 2015 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence, with a screenplay by Peter Craig and Danny Strong. It is the fourth and final installment in \"The Hunger Games\" film series, and the second of two films based on the novel \"Mockingjay\", the final book in \"The Hunger Games\" trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, and distributed by Lionsgate, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks,", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2" }, { "id": "16559519", "text": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a 2013 American dystopian science fiction adventure film based on Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel \"Catching Fire\" (2009), the second installment in \"The Hunger Games\" trilogy. The film is the sequel to \"The Hunger Games\" (2012) and the second installment in \"The Hunger Games\" film series, produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, and distributed by Lionsgate. Francis Lawrence directed the film, with a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt (under a pseudonym). Adding to the existing cast, the supporting cast was filled out with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "15443281", "text": "C. Reilly was in talks with Lionsgate to portray Haymitch Abernathy. The following month Lionsgate announced that the role had gone to Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson. The casting of Grammy winner Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, and Toby Jones as Claudius Templesmith, soon followed. Both got the role at the time they were promoting \"\". Multiple-Golden Globe Award winner Donald Sutherland was cast as President Coriolanus Snow in late May 2011. Gary Ross, Sam Mendes, David Slade, Andrew Adamson, Susanna White, Rupert Sanders, and Francis Lawrence were listed as possible directing candidates, but in", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17578296", "text": "confirmed that Francis Lawrence would direct the sequel instead, and on November 1, 2012, it was confirmed that he would return and direct the final two films in the series, based on the novel \"Mockingjay\". Suzanne Collins began adapting the first book to film after she finished writing \"Mockingjay\". Collins had experience in writing screenplays after writing \"Clifford's Puppy Days\" and other children's television shows. When Gary Ross was announced as director for the film in 2010, he began to work with Collins and veteran writer Billy Ray to bring the novel to life. After Francis Lawrence took over as", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "17578294", "text": "contenders for Peeta included Josh Hutcherson, Alexander Ludwig (later cast as Cato), Hunter Parrish, Evan Peters, and Lucas Till. Contenders for Gale included Robbie Amell, Liam Hemsworth, David Henrie, and Drew Roy. On April 4, it was reported that Hemsworth had been cast as Gale, and Hutcherson had been cast as Peeta. Filming for the franchise began on May 23, 2011 and finished on June 20, 2014. Suzanne Collins and Louise Rosner acted as executive producers on the first two films. Other executive producers of the first film include Robin Bissell and Shantal Feghali. Co-producers are Diana Alvarez, Martin Cohen,", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "15443262", "text": "million) and opening weekend for a non-sequel. At the time of its release, the film's opening weekend gross ($152.5 million) was the third-largest of any movie in North America. It is the first film since \"Avatar\" to remain in first place at the North American box office for four consecutive weekends. The film was a massive box-office success by grossing over $694 million worldwide against its budget of $78 million, making it the third-highest-grossing film in the United States and ninth highest-grossing film of 2012. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on August 18, 2012. With 7,434,058 units", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17332610", "text": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction adventure film directed by Francis Lawrence with a screenplay by Peter Craig and Danny Strong. It is the first of two films based on Suzanne Collins' novel \" Mockingjay\", the final book in \"The Hunger Games\" trilogy, and the third installment in \"The Hunger Games\" film series, produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik and distributed by Lionsgate. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Julianne Moore, Philip", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" }, { "id": "17578292", "text": "Hunger Games\", on September 14, 2008, Hollywood film studios began looking to adapt the book into film. In March 2009, Color Force, an independent studio founded by producer Nina Jacobson, bought the film rights to the book. Jacobson then sought out production company Lionsgate to help her produce the film. Collins was also attached to adapt the novel; she began the first draft after completing the third novel in the series, \"Mockingjay\" (2010). The search for a director began in 2010 with three directors in the running; David Slade, Sam Mendes, and Gary Ross. Ross was ultimately chosen to direct.", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "15443326", "text": "production in the summer of 2012. Gary Ross did not return for \"Catching Fire\", and instead Francis Lawrence directed the film. On May 6, 2012, it was reported that Michael Arndt was in talks to re-write the script for \"Catching Fire\". Arndt officially signed on as the new script writer on May 24, 2012. \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" began filming September 10, 2012, and concluded December 21, 2012; it premiered in London on November 11, 2013, before premiering on November 22, 2013 in the US as was originally scheduled. In July 2012, release dates were confirmed for two films", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "15443378", "text": "By the time the film adaptation of \"The Hunger Games\" was released in 2012, the publisher had reported over 26 million \"Hunger Games\" trilogy books in print, including movie tie-in books. \"The Hunger Games\" universe is a dystopia set in Panem, a country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and 12 districts in varying states of poverty. Every year, children from the districts are selected to participate in a compulsory televised battle royale death match called The Hunger Games. The novels were all well received. In August 2012, the series ranked second, exceeded only by the \"Harry Potter\" series in NPR's", "title": "The Hunger Games" }, { "id": "17578300", "text": "Shelby. All of the Games scenes were filmed on location. All of the Capitol scenes were filmed in a studio in Shelby and Charlotte, North Carolina. Principal photography for \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" began on September 10, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia and concluded in April 2013. In November 2012, production moved to Hawaii to film the arena scenes. Filming took a Christmas break before filming resumed for two weeks in mid-January. In March 2013, the film went back to Hawaii for re-shoots. Atlanta was used for all the Capitol scenes, Hawaii for the arena scenes, and Oakland, New Jersey", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "16559522", "text": "is the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2013 and the highest-grossing entry in \"The Hunger Games\" series. The film was followed by \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay\", a two-part sequel and finale of the franchise: \"\" was released on November 21, 2014, in the United States, and \"\" on November 20, 2015. \"Catching Fire\" received positive reviews and is widely considered by critics to be an improvement over its predecessor, with the sentiment being that it's \"a more-confident, more-polished movie\"; praise also goes to Lawrence's performance as Katniss. It's the most critically acclaimed chapter in \"The Hunger Games\" series, according to review aggregator", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "16559558", "text": "first film, \"\", was released on November 21, 2014 while the second film, \"\", was released on November 20, 2015. Principal photography on the two-part film began on September 23, 2013, in Atlanta and concluded on June 20, 2014, in Berlin, Germany. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a 2013 American dystopian science fiction adventure film based on Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel \"Catching Fire\" (2009), the second installment in \"The Hunger Games\" trilogy. The film is the sequel to \"The Hunger Games\" (2012) and the second installment in \"The Hunger Games\" film series, produced by", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "15443265", "text": "Globe Award for Best Original Song. For her performance, Lawrence won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie, the Empire Award for Best Actress and was also nominated for the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. As punishment for a past rebellion, the 12 districts of the nation of Panem are forced by the Capitol to select two tributes, one boy and one girl between 12 and 18, to fight to the death in the annual Hunger Games until there is only one survivor. In", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "15443283", "text": "a wall while running at full speed, but was not seriously injured. Other stars who dyed their hair for the movie include Josh Hutcherson as Peeta and Liam Hemsworth as Gale. Lionsgate hired Olympic bronze medal-winning archer Khatuna Lorig to teach Lawrence how to shoot. With an initial budget of $75 million, principal photography began near Brevard in Transylvania County in Western North Carolina in May 2011 and concluded on September 15, 2011, with a final budget reported as between $90 and $100 million, reduced to $78 million after subsidies. Steven Soderbergh served as a second unit director, and filmed", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "15443289", "text": "February 13, 2012. Along with separate songs from Swift and The Civil Wars, the soundtrack also features songs by The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, The Secret Sisters, Miranda Lambert featuring The Pistol Annies, Neko Case, Kid Cudi Academy Award winner Glen Hansard, The Low Anthem, Punch Brothers, Birdy, Maroon 5, Jayme Dee, and Carolina Chocolate Drops. The soundtrack was released on March 20, 2012. The soundtrack track list was revealed on iTunes on February 13, 2012, and on the 14th \"One Engine\" was released as the second single. Jennifer Lawrence singing \"Rue's Lullaby\" was not included on the soundtrack. The album", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "15443285", "text": "over 5,000 people employed as extras, crew and support staff. Most outdoor scenes, both from the arena and from the outskirts of District 12, were filmed in DuPont State Forest; the Little River, with its multiple waterfalls, provided several locations for shooting the river running through the arena. To run across Triple Falls, Lawrence was attached to wires and ran on a board. Many of the urban and interior locations, in the Capitol and elsewhere, were filmed in Shelby and Charlotte; other scenes also took place and was filmed in the Asheville area. Ross and production designer Phil Messina drew", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17578291", "text": "records at the box office. \"The Hunger Games\" (2012) set records for the opening day and the biggest opening weekend for a non-sequel film. \"\" (2013) set the record for biggest opening weekend in the month of November. \"\" (2014) had the largest opening day and weekend of 2014. The films, including \"\" (2015), received a positive reception from critics, with praise aimed at its themes and messages, as well as Jennifer Lawrence's performance. \"The Hunger Games\" is the 20th highest-grossing film franchise of all time, having grossed over US$2.97 billion worldwide. Following the release of Suzanne Collins' novel \"The", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "17332613", "text": "weekend. The film earned over $755 million worldwide, making it the fifth highest-grossing film of 2014 and the second-highest-grossing entry in \"The Hunger Games\" series. \"Part 1\" received generally positive reviews from critics, who commended its acting and political subtext, but received criticism for its lack of action and for splitting the novel into two separate adaptations. It is the lowest-rated \"Hunger Games\" film of the franchise, according to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The film had garnered a nomination for Best Science Fiction Film at the 41st Saturn Awards. For her performance, Lawrence received a nomination for Best Actress in", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" }, { "id": "15443323", "text": "a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for \"intense violent thematic material and disturbing images—all involving teens\"; as Collins had originally anticipated. Screening of \"The Hunger Games\" was delayed indefinitely in Vietnam. The film was to be released on March 30, 2012, but, according to a member of the Vietnamese National Film Board, the Board considers the film to be too violent and unanimously voted for the indefinite delay. It was later banned. The film was released in North America and the Netherlands on DVD and Blu-ray Disc August 18, 2012, and in the rest of", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "15443325", "text": "became the top-selling video of 2012. The entire Hunger Games series was released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on November 8, 2016. On August 8, 2011, while still shooting the film, Lionsgate announced that a film adaptation of the second novel in \"The Hunger Games\" trilogy, \"\", was scheduled to be released on November 22, 2013. In November 2011, Lionsgate entered negotiations with screenwriter Simon Beaufoy to adapt the novel for screen, since the post-production schedule for \"The Hunger Games\" was too crowded for Ross and Collins to adapt the next film as originally planned. \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" began", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "16559546", "text": "2013, a new IMAX poster for the film debuted. The film premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square theater in London on November 11, 2013. The film was later released on November 22, 2013, in the United States in conventional and IMAX theaters. The film was also shown in the 4DX format in selected international territories. It features motion-enhanced seating, wind, water sprays, strobe lightning, and scent-based special effects. The film was released in 4,165 theaters in the US alone. The Blu-ray/DVD release date for the film in the US was March 7, 2014. The entire \"Hunger Games\" series was released", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "15443278", "text": "at the end of the movie? We wanted to find a way to introduce them without having to explain specifically and exactly what they were and the game room was a really great opportunity for us to be able to do that.\" Lionsgate confirmed in March 2011 that about 30 actresses auditioned or read for the role of Katniss Everdeen, including Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Emma Roberts, Saoirse Ronan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jodelle Ferland, Lyndsy Fonseca, Emily Browning, Shailene Woodley, and Kaya Scodelario. On March 16, 2011, it was announced that Jennifer Lawrence (who was at the time filming for", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17734700", "text": "The Starving Games The Starving Games is a 2013 American parody film based on \"The Hunger Games\" and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. The film stars Maiara Walsh, Cody Christian, Brant Daugherty, Lauren Bowles and Diedrich Bader. It is the first film in Friedberg and Seltzer's long-running partnership to be distributed independently. It was released simultaneously in theaters and video on demand by distribution start-up Ketchup Entertainment. The film was released on November 8, 2013 to a commercial and critical failure. Kantmiss Evershot practices archery in the forest, but her boyfriend, Dale, surprises her; the arrow accidentally hits", "title": "The Starving Games" }, { "id": "7233098", "text": "\"Hunger Games\" books were printed in North America alone. \"The Hunger Games\" was on \"The New York Times\" Best Seller list for more than 60 weeks in a row. Lions Gate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of \"The Hunger Games\", produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company. Collins adapted the novel for film herself. Directed by Gary Ross, filming began in late spring 2011, with Jennifer Lawrence portraying main character Katniss Everdeen. Josh Hutcherson played Peeta Mellark and Liam Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne. The subsequent two novels were adapted into films as well, with the", "title": "Suzanne Collins" }, { "id": "16559520", "text": "Wright, Jena Malone, Sam Claflin, Lynn Cohen, Amanda Plummer, Alan Ritchson, and Meta Golding. Filming began on September 10, 2012, in Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to Hawaii. The plot of \"Catching Fire\" takes place a few months after the previous installment; Katniss Everdeen and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark have returned home safely after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games. Throughout the story, Katniss senses that a rebellion against the oppressive Capitol is simmering throughout the districts. \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" was released on November 15, 2013, in Brazil; November 20 in Finland, Sweden, and Norway; November 21", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "10716978", "text": "Her final film of the year was alongside Max Thieriot and Elisabeth Shue in Mark Tonderai's critically panned thriller \"House at the End of the Street\". In January 2013, Lawrence hosted an episode of \"Saturday Night Live\", with musical guest The Lumineers. \"The Devil You Know\", a small-scale production that Lawrence had filmed for in 2005, was her first release of 2013. She then reprised the role of Everdeen in \"\", the second installment in the \"Hunger Games\" film series. While performing the film's underwater stunts, she suffered from an ear infection that resulted in a brief loss of hearing.", "title": "Jennifer Lawrence" }, { "id": "16559554", "text": "the highest-grossing film distributed by Lionsgate and the fifth-highest-grossing 2013 film. Outside North America, it is the highest-grossing film of \"The Hunger Games\" series, the highest-grossing film distributed by Lionsgate and the seventh-highest-grossing 2013 film. On its first weekend, it was only released in Brazil (November 15, 2013), where it grossed $2.4 million on its opening day and $5.26 million for the weekend. On the following Wednesday and Thursday, it opened in 42 more territories, bringing its total to $32 million in a week. The film opened in 63 other territories and earned $138.4 million during the weekend ($146.6 million", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "15443398", "text": "in the finale are inconsistent with her established character. Lionsgate Entertainment acquired worldwide distribution rights to a film adaptation of \"The Hunger Games\", produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force production company. Collins adapted the novel for film herself, along with director Gary Ross. The cast included Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, and Liam Hemsworth as Gale. The first film began production in Spring 2011, and was released in March 2012. For \"\", Ross was replaced as director by Francis Lawrence; the film was released in November 2013. Lawrence then directed \"Mockingjay\", parts 1 and 2, released in", "title": "The Hunger Games" }, { "id": "15443290", "text": "debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, having sold 175,000 copies in its first week. It is one of just 16 soundtracks to grace the top slot in the history of the Top 200 and the first since \"Michael Jackson's This Is It\" to debut at #1. Lionsgate originally announced that Danny Elfman and T-Bone Burnett would score \"The Hunger Games\", with Burnett also acting as the film's executive music producer to produce songs for the soundtrack. Due to scheduling conflicts, Elfman was replaced by James Newton Howard. The score album was released on March 26, 2012.", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17332672", "text": "Studio Babelsberg co-produced and oversaw production services for the film. On November 13, 2013, producer Nina Jacobson revealed that Peter Craig was also hired to write the adaptations. The film carried a production budget of $160 million with a further $55 million spent on promotion and advertisements, and $13.9 million in television advertisements. All the principal cast such as Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, Liam Hemsworth as Gale, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch, Donald Sutherland as President Snow, Elizabeth Banks as Effie, Willow Shields as Prim, Paula Malcomson as Mrs Everdeen and Stanley Tucci as Caesar, return to", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2" }, { "id": "17332658", "text": "Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Donald Sutherland. Hoffman died in February 2014, making \"Mockingjay – Part 2\" his final film role. Principal photography on both parts of the film began on September 23, 2013 in Atlanta, before moving to Paris for two weeks of back-to-back filming and officially concluding on June 20, 2014, in Berlin and at Babelsberg Studios, Germany. The story continues from \"\" with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) preparing to win the war against President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and the tyrannical Capitol. Together with Peeta, Gale, Finnick, and others she travels to the Capitol to kill Snow.", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2" }, { "id": "7018126", "text": "Gary Ross Gary Ross (born November 3, 1956) is an American film director, writer, and producer. He is best known for writing and directing the fantasy comedy-drama film \"Pleasantville\" (1998), the sports drama film \"Seabiscuit\" (2003), and the sci-fi action film \"The Hunger Games\" (2012). He also wrote the screenplay for the fantasy comedy film \"Big\" (1988) and the political comedy film \"Dave\" (1993). Ross has been nominated for four Academy Awards. Ross was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Gail and Arthur A. Ross, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter (\"Brubaker\"). His family is Jewish. He attended (though did not", "title": "Gary Ross" }, { "id": "15443312", "text": "\"improve on many sources. Quentin Tarantino has built his career on this principle.\" It reminded an author at \"Salon\" of the 1932 film \"The Most Dangerous Game\". \"The Hunger Games\" has also been conceptually compared to Robert Sheckley's 1953 short story \"Seventh Victim\" and its 1965 Italian film adaptation by Elio Petri, \"The 10th Victim\", as the story and film feature a government-endorsed, televised (in the film's case) \"Big Hunt\", featuring contestants from around the world acting as \"hunters\" and \"victims\". Wheeler Winston Dixon, a film professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, listed several precedents: \"Battle Royale\", Jackson's \"The Lottery\",", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "7018128", "text": "Laura Hillenbrand. The film earned seven Academy Award nominations. Ross took on the high-profile project of co-adapting and directing the film adaptation of the first book in Suzanne Collins' \"Hunger Games\" trilogy. The film was released on March 23, 2012, and earned $672.8 million worldwide. Although the movie was financially and critically successful, Ross opted to not adapt or direct the sequels, citing the rushed production schedule as his main reason. Ross also wrote and produced the animated feature \"The Tale of Despereaux\", based on the Newbery Medal-winning children's book by Kate DiCamillo. His first book, \"Bartholomew Biddle and the", "title": "Gary Ross" }, { "id": "8389079", "text": "box office, surpassing its predecessor, which generated $150 million in its opening weekend. The film had a budget of $130 million, breaking even soon after its opening, and making it profitable. Critics highly praised the film; it received a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 89% \"certified fresh\". The third film in the \"Hunger Games\" franchise, \"Mockingjay- Part 1\", was released in 2014. The final film of the franchise, \"Mockingjay - Part 2\", was released in 2015. On April 1, 2015, according to \"Deadline\", Lions Gate announced it has created its new label, Lionsgate Premiere. This new label will handle up to", "title": "Lionsgate Films" }, { "id": "7018129", "text": "Very Big Wind\", was published by Candlewick Press in 2012. A children's book, it is written completely in verse. Gary Ross Gary Ross (born November 3, 1956) is an American film director, writer, and producer. He is best known for writing and directing the fantasy comedy-drama film \"Pleasantville\" (1998), the sports drama film \"Seabiscuit\" (2003), and the sci-fi action film \"The Hunger Games\" (2012). He also wrote the screenplay for the fantasy comedy film \"Big\" (1988) and the political comedy film \"Dave\" (1993). Ross has been nominated for four Academy Awards. Ross was born in Los Angeles, California, the son", "title": "Gary Ross" }, { "id": "17578293", "text": "By the time Collins had finished the script, Ross decided to go through the script with Collins and screenwriter Billy Ray. In October 2010, scripts were sent to the actors, and casting occurred between March and May 2011. The first role cast was of the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen. As many as 30 actresses were in talks to play the part, with Jennifer Lawrence, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, and Chloë Grace Moretz being mentioned most. The role was given to Lawrence. The roles of Peeta Mellark, Katniss' fellow tribute, and Gale Hawthorne, her best friend, began casting later that month. Top", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "17332691", "text": "winter weather hitting areas such as South Dakota, Michigan, and Chicago as well as Lionsgate's decision to split the last novel into two separate pictures. Still, it is the fourth film in the \"Hunger Games\" film series to open with more than $100 million, and is 2015's sixth-biggest opening, behind \"\", \"Jurassic World\", \"\", \"Furious 7,\" and \"Minions\". IMAX comprised $8.5 million of the opening gross from 384 IMAX locations. The low opening of the film led to the decline of Lionsgate stock the day after its opening weekend. The film retained the top spot at the box office in", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2" }, { "id": "17578302", "text": "2\". Lionsgate released a statement stating that, since the majority of Hoffman’s scenes were completed, the release date for \"Part 2\" would not be affected. Every year, in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its 12 districts to send a teenage boy and girl, between the ages of 12 and 18, to compete in the Hunger Games: a nationally televised event in which 'tributes' fight each other within an arena, until one survivor remains. When Primrose Everdeen is 'reaped', her older sister Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her place", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "15443313", "text": "William Golding's \"Lord of the Flies\", \"Metropolis\", \"Blade Runner\", \"Death Race 2000\", and George Orwell's \"Nineteen Eighty-Four\". Manohla Dargis in \"The New York Times\" compares it to \"Battle Royale\", \"Ender's Game\", and \"Twilight\", but contrasts \"The Hunger Games\" in terms of how its \"exciting\" female protagonist Katniss \"rescues herself with resourcefulness, guts and true aim\". Steve Rose of \"The Guardian\" refers to the film as \"think \"Battle Royale\" meets \"The Running Man\" meets \"Survivor\". Writing in \"The Atlantic\", Govindini Murty made a list of touchstones the film alludes to, from the ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilizations to modern references", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "3449581", "text": "Adams, Steve Buscemi, Terrence Howard, Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen as Dean Moriarty in the 2012 adventure drama \"On the Road\". The film was directed by Walter Salles and based on Jack Kerouac's novel of same name. Disney said in December 2012 that Hedlund would reprise his role of Sam Flynn in the sequel to \"Tron: Legacy\". Hedlund reportedly turned down the roles of Finnick in the sequel to the dystopian science fiction/adventure film \"The Hunger Games\" titled \"\" and Christian Grey in the film adaptation of E. L. James' best-selling novel \"Fifty Shades of Grey\". In 2014, Hedlund co-starred", "title": "Garrett Hedlund" }, { "id": "15443274", "text": "tax breaks of $8 million for shooting the film in North Carolina. The production was eventually brought in under-budget at $78 million. Collins adapted the novel for film herself, in collaboration with screenwriter Billy Ray and director Gary Ross. The screenplay remains extremely faithful to the original novel, with Ross saying he \"felt the only way to make the film really successful was to be totally subjective\", echoing Collins' presentation of the novel in the first person present. Instead of Katniss' internal monologue about the Capitol's machinations, the screenplay expanded the character of Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker, to allow", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17578301", "text": "for District 12 scenes. Principal photography for \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay\" began on September 23, 2013 and concluded on June 20, 2014. The majority of filming for the Mockingjay films was filmed in soundstages in a studio in Atlanta, until April 18, 2014. Production then moved to Paris, France, with filming beginning there on May 5, 2014. Philip Seymour Hoffman, who portrays Plutarch Heavensbee, was found dead on February 2, 2014. At the time of his death, he had completed filming his scenes for \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1\" and had a week left of shooting for \"Part", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "15443288", "text": "the people in Capitol were chosen to look bright in theatrical hats, flowers, ruffles, with powdered and eyebrowless faces. The soundtrack album for \"The Hunger Games\" contains songs inspired by the film; only three of them (\"Abraham's Daughter\", \"Safe & Sound\", and \"Kingdom Come\", respectively) appear in the film itself, during the closing credits. The first single from the film's companion album, \"Safe & Sound\" by Taylor Swift featuring The Civil Wars, was released on December 23, 2011. It reached number one on the iTunes overall charts in 12 hours. The music video for \"Safe & Sound\" was released on", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "16559538", "text": "be IMAX\". Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth were in Ringwood, New Jersey shooting District 12 scenes involving snow for the beginning of the film on January 31 and February 1. Jennifer Lawrence confirmed that she would fly out to Hawaii on February 25, the day after she won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 85th Academy Awards to shoot for the final 9 days along with Claflin and Hutcherson. In late March, filming occurred in the Universal Studios backlot and was kept extremely secretive. Witnesses reported of towers and fences on set. None of the main cast were", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "1172248", "text": "Girls\", \"Richie Rich\", \"Thunder Road\", \"Hannibal\" (#1 film), \"Songcatcher\", \"Patch Adams\" (#1 film), \"Nell\", \"Forrest Gump\" (#1 film), \"Mr. Destiny\", \"Dirty Dancing\", \"Bull Durham\", \"The Private Eyes\", \"The Swan\", \"The Clearing\", \"The Conquest of Canaan\", \"House of Poets\", \"The Purple Box\", \"28 Days\", and \"The Hunger Games\" (box office #1 film). Locally produced films include \"Golden Throats of the 20th century\" and \"Anywhere, U.S.A.\", a winning film at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival for Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence. Asheville also hosts the ActionFest Film Festival 2010–2012. The 2010 inaugural edition included Chuck Norris, who was honored as", "title": "Asheville, North Carolina" }, { "id": "16559555", "text": "including its first week in Brazil). Its three largest openings occurred in the UK, Ireland and Malta ($19.8 million), China ($13.0 million) and Germany ($12.9 million). In total earnings, its largest countries are the UK, Ireland and Malta ($55.5 million), Germany ($43.4 million) and Australia ($34.3 million). In North America, \"Catching Fire\" is the sixteenth-highest-grossing film, the highest-grossing film of \"The Hunger Games\" series, the highest-grossing film distributed by Lionsgate and the highest-grossing 2013 film. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold more than 50 million tickets in the US. It became the first 2-D film since 2008's \"The", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "12661196", "text": "had sold 800,000 copies by February 2010. Since its release, \"The Hunger Games\" has been translated into 26 languages, and publishing rights have been sold in 38 territories. The novel is the first in \"The Hunger Games\" trilogy, followed by \"Catching Fire\" (2009) and \"Mockingjay\" (2010). A film adaptation, directed by Gary Ross and co-written and co-produced by Collins herself, was released in 2012. Collins has said that the inspiration for \"The Hunger Games\" came from channel surfing on television. On one channel she observed people competing on a reality show and on another she saw footage of the invasion", "title": "The Hunger Games (novel)" }, { "id": "5750297", "text": "Garcia. Rabe will also be a producer of the film. In May 2013, Rabe made her Los Angeles stage debut in a production of \"Miss Julie\" by August Strindberg that was adapted and directed by Neil LaBute. In September 2013, Rabe was announced to have been cast as Commander Lyme in \"\" and \"\", the final two installments of \"The Hunger Games film series\", based on the novels by Suzanne Collins. She was later replaced in the films by Gwendoline Christie due to a scheduling conflict. On February 14, it was announced that Rabe would appear in \"Much Ado About", "title": "Lily Rabe" }, { "id": "16559542", "text": "at the Sky\", Mikky Ekko with \"Place for Us\", Phantogram with \"Lights\", and Antony and the Johnsons with \"Angel on Fire\". In October 2012, composer James Newton Howard confirmed that he would return to score the film. The score album was released on November 25, 2013. All songs written and composed by James Newton Howard, except \"We're a Team\" (co-written by Coldplay band members: Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, and Chris Martin.) On November 16, 2012, the first teaser trailer was released with \"\" and revealed the official logo and tagline for the film. Lionsgate announced a sweepstakes competition", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "15443272", "text": "him until Katniss shoots him with an arrow. However, the rule change about two victors is suddenly revoked. Peeta urges Katniss to shoot him, but she convinces him to eat nightlock together. Just before they do, Crane hastily names them co-victors. Afterward, Haymitch warns Katniss that she has made enemies with her acts of defiance. Crane is then locked in a room with nightlock berries. In March 2009, Lions Gate Entertainment (known as Lionsgate) entered into a co-production agreement for \"The Hunger Games\" with Nina Jacobson's production company Color Force, which had acquired worldwide distribution rights to the novel a", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17734707", "text": "it!\" Gabe Torio of Indiewire wrote that the film \"is as terrible as you think it is\". Max Nicholson of IGN called it \"a horrible, horrible piece of cinema that needn't be watched by any person ever.\" Fred Topel of Crave Online rated it 1.5/10 and called it \"more of the same, only worse.\" The Starving Games The Starving Games is a 2013 American parody film based on \"The Hunger Games\" and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. The film stars Maiara Walsh, Cody Christian, Brant Daugherty, Lauren Bowles and Diedrich Bader. It is the first film in Friedberg", "title": "The Starving Games" }, { "id": "15443300", "text": "was just ahead of \"Alice in Wonderland\"'s previous record ($210.1 million). In North America, \"The Hunger Games\" is the 22nd-highest-grossing film, the highest-grossing film released outside the summer or holiday period, and the highest-grossing film distributed by Lionsgate. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold more than 50 million tickets in the US. The film set a midnight-gross record for a non-sequel ($19.7 million), which is also the tenth-highest midnight gross overall. On its opening day, it topped the box office at $67.3 million (including midnight showings), setting opening-day and single-day records for a non-sequel. The film also achieved", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "16559536", "text": "in August 2012, it was announced that Lynn Cohen had been cast as Mags. Alan Ritchson was cast as Gloss on August 9, Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair on August 22, and Jeffrey Wright as Beetee on September 7. Lawrence, Hutcherson and Hemsworth all dyed their hair for the movie once again. Lawrence went back into archery training in order to get in shape for the role while the supporting cast undertook training in preparation for the arena scenes. Production officially began on September 10, 2012, with shooting concluding for some of the cast on December 21, 2012. After the", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "15443324", "text": "Europe on September 3, 2012. Extras include \"The World is Watching: Making The Hunger Games\", numerous featurettes, the propaganda video in its entire form, a talk with the director Gary Ross and also Elvis Mitchell and a marketing archive. In its first weekend on sale, Lionsgate reported that 3.8 million DVD/Blu-ray Disc copies of the movie were sold, with more than one-third in the Blu-ray Disc format. Three weeks after the release of the movie to home media formats in the US, over 5 million DVD units and 3.7 million Blu-ray Disc units have been sold. With 10,336,637 sold, it", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "15443293", "text": "the end of \"Star Wars\" accepting an Olympic gold medal or something. Horns blare, a choir booms, strings swell, the martial percussion steals the show, and we just realized how much we love Big Brother.\" The film also features a rather obscure analog track from the 1970s composed by Laurie Spiegel for its \"cornucopia scene\", as well as music by Steve Reich, Ólafur Arnalds, and the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. These do not appear on the soundtrack or score releases. \"The Hunger Games\" received mostly positive reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 84% approval rating, based on 287", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "8389077", "text": "Redbus with Simon Franks, became CEO of Lionsgate UK and Europe. Lionsgate cut back its annual production by four in February 2009. The Lionsgate film \"The Hunger Games\" grossed $68.3 million when it premiered at the U.S. box office on March 23, 2012. It was the best opening day ever for a non-sequel and the fifth highest of all time. Of that total, $19.7 million was earned via Thursday midnight screenings. In its first weekend, \"The Hunger Games\" grossed $152.5 million, making it Lionsgate's highest-grossing film after just three days. On January 13, 2012, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp acquired Summit", "title": "Lionsgate Films" }, { "id": "17578304", "text": "Panem forever. Katniss Everdeen finds herself in District 13 after she destroys the games forever. Under the leadership of President Alma Coin and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta, along with other victors and a nation moved by her courage. Realizing the stakes are no longer just for survival, Katniss Everdeen teams up with her closest friends and allies, including Peeta, Gale, and Finnick, for the ultimate mission. Together, they leave District 13 to liberate the citizens of war-torn Panem and assassinate President Snow. List indicator(s) All the \"Hunger Games\"", "title": "The Hunger Games (film series)" }, { "id": "17332656", "text": "film's leisurely pace and noted it felt \"like a manufactured product through and through, ironic and sad given its revolutionary theme.\" Richard Corliss of \"Time\" felt the film was a placeholder for the second installment and noted \"Lawrence isn't given much opportunity to do anything spectacularly right here.\" On July 10, 2012, Lionsgate announced that the second part of the \"Mockingjay\" adaptation was set for a release on November 20, 2015. Francis Lawrence announced that he would return to direct the final part as well. It is the fourth and final film in the \"Hunger Games\" series. The Hunger Games:", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" }, { "id": "8336637", "text": "newly established production company, Color Force. Color Force signed a three-year \"first-look\" production deal with DreamWorks in December 2006. The first feature project released in theaters was \"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\" (2010). She also produced the 2011 feature \"One Day\". Jacobson produced all of the films based on the bestselling \"Hunger Games\" trilogy by Suzanne Collins, and co-wrote the screenplays for the series. The first of the four films based on the trilogy was released on March 23, 2012. In 2015, Color Force mounted its first television series, \",\" based on Jeffrey Toobin's 1997 book, \"The Run of His", "title": "Nina Jacobson" }, { "id": "17332623", "text": "into two parts. \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1\" was released on November 21, 2014 and \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2\" was released on November 20, 2015. Many directors, including Rian Johnson, Francis Lawrence and Alfonso Cuarón were considered for the job. On November 1, 2012, Lawrence, director of \"\", announced he would return to direct both final parts in the series. On December 6, 2012, Danny Strong announced that he would be writing the third and fourth films. On February 15, 2013, Lionsgate confirmed the script for \"Part 1\" was written by Strong, giving him permission", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" }, { "id": "17332624", "text": "to write \"Part 2\". Later in August, Hemsworth confirmed that shooting of the film would begin in September 2013. The film's production began on September 16, 2013 in Boston, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. Studio Babelsberg co-produced and oversaw production services for the film. On November 13, 2013, Nina Jacobson revealed that Peter Craig was also hired to write the adaptations. On August 26, 2013, it was announced that actress Stef Dawson had joined the cast and would portray Annie Cresta. Lionsgate announced on September 13, 2013 that Julianne Moore had joined the cast of both \"Mockingjay\"s parts to play President", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" }, { "id": "5613626", "text": "a Comedy Series for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2012, Banks also starred in the film \"What to Expect When You're Expecting\" alongside Jennifer Lopez. Also that year, she appeared in \"Man on a Ledge\", as police negotiator Lydia Mercer. She starred in the film \"The Hunger Games\" (2012), playing Effie Trinket, a woman from \"The Capitol\" who escorts the District 12 tributes to the annual Hunger Games. She reprised the role in the sequel films \"\" (2013), \"\" (2014), and \"\" (2015). Banks co-starred in the 2014 movie \"Every Secret Thing\", playing Detective Nancy Porter investigating the disappearance", "title": "Elizabeth Banks" }, { "id": "16559535", "text": "filming by December 2012 to fit Jennifer Lawrence's schedule. When \"\" lost its original director and shooting for the film was delayed till April 2013, Jennifer Lawrence was no longer needed to be filming in January 2013 and the shooting timeframe for \"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire\" was extended to March (including several breaks due to the holidays and awards season). The film featured sequences filmed in the IMAX format. In July 2012, it was announced that Jena Malone would portray Johanna Mason, that Amanda Plummer would portray Wiress, and that Philip Seymour Hoffman would portray Plutarch Heavensbee. Following this,", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "16559541", "text": "be featured on the \"Catching Fire\" soundtrack album, with the song \"Atlas\", released worldwide on September 6, 2013. Christina Aguilera announced that her song, \"We Remain\", would be part of the official soundtrack of the film. Other artists featured on the soundtrack include Of Monsters and Men with \"Silhouettes\", Sia featuring The Weeknd & Diplo with \"Elastic Heart\", The National with \"Lean\", The Weeknd with \"Devil May Cry\", Imagine Dragons with \"Who We Are\", Lorde with \"Everybody Wants to Rule the World\", The Lumineers with \"Gale Song\", Ellie Goulding with \"Mirror\", Patti Smith with \"Capitol Letter\", Santigold with \"Shooting Arrows", "title": "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" }, { "id": "16355048", "text": "February 2016. In 2017, he starred as Jordan Welch in the horror comedy film \"Tragedy Girls\", which was released in theaters on October 20, 2017. On March 6, 2018, \"Deadline\" announced that Quaid was cast in the lead role of the Amazon drama series, \"The Boys\". He will star in the role of Hughie. Quaid resides in Los Angeles, California. He attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for three years. Jack Quaid Jack Henry Quaid (born April 24, 1992) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Marvel in the 2012 science fiction film \"The Hunger Games\".", "title": "Jack Quaid" }, { "id": "15443380", "text": "place in an unspecified future time, in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, located in North America. The country consists of a wealthy Capitol city, located in the Rocky Mountains, surrounded by twelve (originally thirteen) poorer districts ruled by the Capitol. The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically advanced, but the districts are in varying states of poverty. The trilogy's narrator and protagonist Katniss Everdeen, lives in District 12, the poorest region of Panem, located in Appalachia, where people regularly die of starvation. As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol (called the \"Dark Days\"), in which District 13", "title": "The Hunger Games" }, { "id": "17332648", "text": "film of 2014 in North America until it was surpassed by \"American Sniper\" in the next two months. It earned $337.1 million at the North American box office making it the third-highest-grossing film in \"The Hunger Games\" franchise, the second-highest-grossing film of 2014 (behind \"American Sniper\"), the fourth-highest-grossing science fiction film based on a book, the fourth-highest-grossing young-adult adaptation. and the 36th-highest-grossing film in North America. It is also the first film to cross the $300 million mark without 3D or IMAX since \"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" (2008), and also the highest-grossing non-3D, non IMAX", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" }, { "id": "17332614", "text": "an Action Movie at the 20th Critics' Choice Awards and a Saturn Award nomination. The song \"Yellow Flicker Beat\" also received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards and Critics' Choice Awards. After being rescued from the destroyed arena in the 75th Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen and fellow tributes Beetee and Finnick Odair are taken to District 13, now an underground district isolated from Panem that has been spearheading the rebellion. There Katniss is reunited with her mother and sister Prim. While recuperating, she is introduced to President Alma Coin, the rebel leader, and is", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" }, { "id": "2833628", "text": "Classic Stage Company in New York City. In March 2012, Bentley had a supporting role in the blockbuster movie \"The Hunger Games\", playing gamemaker Seneca Crane. In 2012, Bentley also starred with Amber Tamblyn and Vincent Piazza in the indie feature \"3 Nights in the Desert\", directed by Gabriel Cowan and written by award-winning playwright Adam Chanzit. In June 2013, Bentley was selected to star in Ryan Murphy's HBO production, titled \"Open\", along with Scott Speedman. After guest-starring in \"\" in 2014, Bentley was promoted to main cast for the fifth season of \"American Horror Story\", entitled \"\", starring as", "title": "Wes Bentley" }, { "id": "17332670", "text": "worse games to play.\" On July 10, 2012, Lionsgate announced that the film adaptation of \"Mockingjay\" would be split into two parts; \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1\", released on November 21, 2014, and \"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2\", released November 20, 2015. On November 1, 2012, Francis Lawrence, director of \"\", announced that he would return to direct both final films in the series. Talking about direction for last two parts Francis explains, \"I felt a different kind of pressure,\" he explains. \"[On \"\"], I had to prove myself a little bit as the new guy", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2" }, { "id": "6108281", "text": "\"Touch\". He is currently signed to DNA Inc. In 2011, he won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Short Form for directing Lady Gaga's \"Bad Romance\" music video. In April 2012, Lionsgate Films announced that Lawrence had been selected to direct the film adaptation of the novel \"Catching Fire\". The book and film were the sequel to the blockbuster hit, \"The Hunger Games\", starring Jennifer Lawrence (no relation). This film adaptation of \"The Hunger Games\" was directed by Gary Ross, and both novels were written by Suzanne Collins. Lawrence was officially confirmed as the director for the film on", "title": "Francis Lawrence" }, { "id": "3804998", "text": "Award for her performance as Nettie in \"Needful Things\" (1993), and a Cable Ace Award for her performance in \"The Right To Remain Silent\" (1996). Plummer played Wiress, a former \"tribute\" who won the Hunger Games, in \"\" (2013), the film adaptation of the second novel of \"The Hunger Games\" trilogy, by Suzanne Collins. Plummer starred alongside Brad Dourif in the critically acclaimed Off Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' \"The Two-Character Play\" at New World Stages in 2013. Plummer has never married and has no children. Amanda Plummer Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress. She", "title": "Amanda Plummer" }, { "id": "12636159", "text": "the Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards 2010 host. He and Miley Cyrus won the \"Fave Kiss\" category. Hemsworth starred in the music video for \"Colder Weather\" by the Zac Brown Band. On 4 April 2011, Lionsgate announced Hemsworth to be one of the leads, Gale Hawthorne, in \"The Hunger Games\", which was released in 2012. In June 2011, he became attached to war drama \"Love and Honor\" which also stars Aimee Teegarden and Teresa Palmer. In 2013, Hemsworth appeared in \"Empire State\", with Emma Roberts, and \"Paranoia\", co-starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Amber Heard. He reprised his role, Gale", "title": "Liam Hemsworth" }, { "id": "8389069", "text": "Lionsgate Films Lionsgate Films (formerly known as Cinépix Film Properties) is an American film production and film distribution studio, headquartered in Santa Monica and founded in French Canada, and is the flagship division of Lionsgate Entertainment. It is the largest and most successful mini-major film studio in North America. It focuses on foreign and independent films and has distributed various commercially successful film series, including \"The Twilight Saga\" and \"Step Up\" (both partially, via the firm's 2012 acquisition of two franchise's distributor Summit Entertainment; the latter was distributed by Disney's Touchstone Pictures since its first film), \"The Hunger Games\", \"Rambo\",", "title": "Lionsgate Films" }, { "id": "2894652", "text": "Stephen Holden of \"The New York Times\" called Hoffman's performance \"exceptional\". In 2013, Hoffman joined the popular \"Hunger Games\" series in its second film, \"\", where he played gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee. The film finished as the 10th-highest grossing in history to that point, and Hoffman became recognizable to a new generation of film-goers. In January 2014, shortly before his death, he attended the Sundance Film Festival to promote two films. In Anton Corbijn's \"A Most Wanted Man\", a thriller based on John le Carré's novel, Hoffman played a German intelligence officer. His performance was praised by Xan Brooks as one", "title": "Philip Seymour Hoffman" }, { "id": "15671615", "text": "of \"American Assassin\", an action-thriller in which O'Brien played the titular character Mitch Rapp. After sufficient time for his recovery following his on-set accident and rescheduling of filming, 20th Century Fox settled on a March 2017 start date for principal photography for \"The Death Cure\". The film premiered on January 26, 2018. All three films opened at number-one at the North American box-office during their opening weekend, and, in worldwide terms, constitute the fourth highest-grossing film series based on young-adult books, after the film series of \"Harry Potter\", \"The Twilight Saga\", and \"The Hunger Games\" respectively, earning over $945 million", "title": "Dylan O'Brien" }, { "id": "15443322", "text": "commentary, which, in part, shines a light on the court of public opinion and its sometimes destructive power to determine someone else's fate\". The film has been rated 12A by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) in the UK for \"intense threat, moderate violence and occasional gory moments\". To achieve that rating, Lionsgate had to cut or substitute seven seconds of film by \"digitally removing blood splashes and the sight of blood on wounds and weapons.\" The uncut version was ultimately released on Blu-ray in the UK with a 15 certificate. In the United States, the film was granted", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "15443311", "text": "\"The New Yorker\". David Sexton of \"The Evening Standard\" compared \"The Hunger Games\" unfavourably to Kinji Fukasaku's Japanese film \"Battle Royale\", as did several other critics; the novel had earlier faced criticism for its similarities to the novel \"Battle Royale\" by Koushun Takami. Jonathan Looms of \"The Oxford Student\" argues that it is \"unfair that the film is only drawing comparisons with \"Battle Royale\"\" but that it \"is a veritable pastiche of other movies\" as well, comparing it to \"The Truman Show\", \"Death Race\", the \"Bourne\" films, and \"Zoolander\", and that it is common for artists to borrow from and", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "17332642", "text": "expanded to a further 59 on November 20, 2014, including the UK, Germany, Australia, Italy, Mexico and South Korea. With 17 more released on November 21, 2014 including the United States, the total launch was in 85 markets, making it the biggest release of the year and Lionsgate's widest release ever. This was surpassed by its sequel across 87 markets in 2015. The film was released in China on February 8, 2015 in 2D and 3D, making it the first film in the franchise to be released in 3D in any territory and debuted in more than 4,000 screens. Director", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" }, { "id": "17332625", "text": "Alma Coin. Over the next month, Patina Miller, Mahershala Ali, Wes Chatham, and Elden Henson joined the cast as Commander Paylor, Boggs, Castor, and Pollux, respectively. There was a casting call for extras on September 23. Robert Knepper was cast as Antonius, a character who does not appear in the books and is an addition to the adaptation. Knepper has stated that during his audition he knew that the lines he received were not what he would end up doing, adding that \"they [Lionsgate] are so secretive about this.\" Shooting began on September 23, 2013 in Atlanta and concluded on", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1" }, { "id": "890740", "text": "coat of arms of Colombia, Panama, Peru and Venezuela, and the Coat of Arms of the State of Victoria, Australia, also feature the cornucopia, symbolizing prosperity. The motif of the cornucopia is used in the book series \"The Hunger Games\". In the eponymous gladiatorial games described in the series, a large horn-like cache filled with weapons and equipment is placed at the starting point: this cache serves as the focal point of fighting during the games' first minutes, and is even called the \"Cornucopia\". In the film adaptation, the national anthem of Panem, the series' primary setting, is called \"the", "title": "Cornucopia" }, { "id": "17332684", "text": "press interviews on the red carpet (which was scheduled to last two hours). The stars mostly greeted fans and took a few photos before heading into the screening in Downtown Los Angeles. \"Mockingjay – Part 2\" was released on November 20, 2015 in the United States and Canada. The film was originally scheduled to be released in 2D, Digital 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D, which would have made it the only film of the series to be globally released in 3D formats; the was released in 3D in China. It is the third film in the franchise to be", "title": "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2" }, { "id": "15443294", "text": "reviews, and an average rating of 7.3/10. The site's consensus states, \"Thrilling and superbly acted, \"The Hunger Games\" captures the dramatic violence, raw emotion, and ambitious scope of its source novel.\" On Metacritic, the film has a score of 68 out of 100 score, based on reviews from 49 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade A. Many critics praised Jennifer Lawrence for her portrayal as Katniss Everdeen, as well as most of the main cast. According to \"The Hollywood Reporter\", Lawrence embodies Katniss, \"just as one might imagine her from the novel\".", "title": "The Hunger Games (film)" }, { "id": "9122450", "text": "that made the \"action-packed fantasy such fun.\" Following the box office and DVD success of the movie, \"\", a was first reported in early 2011. In fall 2011, it was confirmed that 20th Century Fox would release the film on March 27, 2013. Filming began in April 2012. In February 2012, Mary Birdsong, Missi Pyle and Yvette Nicole Brown were cast as the Gray Sisters. In March 2012, Nathan Fillion joined the cast as Hermes and Anthony Head, replacing Pierce Brosnan, as Chiron. In April 2012, Paloma Kwiatkowski was cast as Thalia and \"The Hunger Games\" star Leven Rambin has", "title": "The Sea of Monsters" } ]

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[ { "id": "305572", "text": "31–1 to approve moving the Raiders to Las Vegas, Nevada. The team is scheduled to begin play as the Las Vegas Raiders for the 2020 NFL season, playing home games at the Las Vegas Stadium, although a move to Las Vegas could happen as soon as 2019 with Sam Boyd Stadium. The Raiders became the third NFL franchise to relocate in the 2010s, following the Rams' move from St. Louis back to Los Angeles on January 12, 2016, and the Chargers' move from San Diego to Los Angeles on January 12, 2017. The Raiders' move to Las Vegas comes after", "title": "Oakland Raiders" }, { "id": "20077171", "text": "approve the move, which was announced at the annual league meetings in Phoenix, Arizona on March 27, 2017. The Raiders became the third NFL franchise to relocate in the 2010s, following the Rams' move from St. Louis, Missouri to Los Angeles, California on January 12, 2016, and the Chargers' move from San Diego, California to Los Angeles on January 12, 2017. The Raiders' move to Las Vegas comes after years of failed efforts to renovate or replace the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, which has been rated by multiple sources as one of the worst stadiums in the NFL. The Oakland Raiders", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "18465639", "text": "the Los Angeles Rams as tenants in their new stadium, Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California when that stadium is complete in 2020. For the time being, the Chargers are playing at the 30,000 seat StubHub Center in Carson, California, the smallest venue (in terms of number of seats) the league has used for a full season since 1956. On January 19, 2017, the Oakland Raiders filed paperwork to relocate to Las Vegas, Nevada. The NFL officially approved the Raiders relocation to Las Vegas on March 27. Unlike the Chargers, the Raiders will remain at the Oakland–Alameda", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "20077211", "text": "installments beginning in 2019. This figure is slightly more than half of the $650 million fee that the Rams and Chargers each paid to relocate to Los Angeles. On November 13, 2017, the Raiders officially broke ground on Las Vegas Stadium. On January 2, 2018, the Henderson city council approved the sale of 55 vacant acres of land to the Raiders for their new headquarters and practice facility near Henderson Executive Airport. In January, construction crews began blasting caliche rock with dynamite to excavate and create the stadium bowl. As of April 2018, more than 30 Raiders employees had already", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "20077187", "text": "however had the first option to join the Rams at the new stadium, the Raiders would have been authorized to negotiate an agreement if the Chargers did not exercise their option by January 2017. The Chargers exercised their choice and announced their relocation to Los Angeles in January 2017, shutting the Raiders out of the Southern California market. Around this time other markets expressed interest in luring the Raiders. For example Duluth, Minnesota submitted a proposal to construct a new stadium for the team, a proposal that was not taken seriously because of the metro area's small size, proximity to", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "18465640", "text": "County Coliseum through at least the 2018 season (with the 2019 season to be determined) while Las Vegas Stadium is built, with the team moving to Nevada in 2019 or 2020. The Los Angeles Rams, who had capped season ticket sales at 55,000 for the 2017 season, announced to have 60,128 spectators in the first home game on week 1. However, reports estimate that spectators only filled a third of the 93,607 seats of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Los Angeles Chargers did not sell out their week 2 game at the StubHub Center, which was never expanded to", "title": "2017 NFL season" }, { "id": "20077186", "text": "stadium, how the required three-way land swap would be performed, and how it would raise enough revenue if only one team moved in as tenant. On January 12, 2016, the NFL rejected the Raiders' relocation request in favor of a competing plan by Stan Kroenke to move the then St. Louis Rams back to Los Angeles and construct a stadium and entertainment district in Inglewood, California. However, the NFL left open the possibility of the Raiders relocating to Los Angeles by 2020 and playing in the new stadium under construction to house the Los Angeles Rams. The San Diego Chargers", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "7920076", "text": "season, with the intention of initially playing games in Carson, but then moving into Kroenke's Inglewood Stadium, pending completion. The Raiders subsequently announced a move to Las Vegas, Nevada. On January 4, 2016, all three teams applied for relocation to Los Angeles for the 2016 NFL season. The following day, the Rams and Stan Kroenke released their proposal for relocation. Some of the Rams' conclusions were disputed by the Mayor of St. Louis Francis Slay (in a letter to Roger Goodell), the St. Louis Regional Chamber, and Forbes. However, some say that staying in St. Louis was ultimately a bad", "title": "Stan Kroenke" }, { "id": "19796951", "text": "vote in the Senate and by 28–13 in the Assembly, and was signed into law by Sandoval on October 17. The bill allowed Clark County to increase its hotel tax to raise the $750 million in funding. The Raiders filed relocation papers on January 19 to move from Oakland to Las Vegas. On January 26, 2017, the Raiders submitted a proposed lease agreement for the stadium. It was reported that the Raiders had selected the Russell Road site as the stadium location, the team would pay one dollar in rent, and that they could control the naming rights for both", "title": "Las Vegas Stadium" }, { "id": "583344", "text": "Paradise. In 2020, the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League will relocate to Las Vegas Stadium, which is currently under construction. In 2018, the Las Vegas Aces of the Women’s National Basketball Association played their inaugural season at the Mandalay Bay Events Center. There are two minor league sports teams that play in the city of Las Vegas. The Las Vegas 51s of the Pacific Coast League, the AAA farm club of the Oakland Athletics, although they will be moving to Las Vegas Ballpark nearby Summerlin in the 2019 season under a new name. The Las Vegas Lights FC", "title": "Las Vegas" }, { "id": "20150583", "text": "LA to Vegas LA to Vegas is an American sitcom that was broadcast on Fox. The series debuted on January 2, 2018, as a midseason entry in the 2017–18 television season. Starring Dylan McDermott, Kim Matula, Ed Weeks, Nathan Lee Graham, Olivia Macklin, and Peter Stormare, the series follows the crew and regular passengers of the Los Angeles to Las Vegas route of budget airline Jackpot Airlines. On January 9, 2018, Fox picked up three additional episodes for a total of 15. On May 21, 2018, Fox canceled the series after one season. The series follows the lives of the", "title": "LA to Vegas" }, { "id": "20150585", "text": "out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating \"mixed or average reviews\". LA to Vegas LA to Vegas is an American sitcom that was broadcast on Fox. The series debuted on January 2, 2018, as a midseason entry in the 2017–18 television season. Starring Dylan McDermott, Kim Matula, Ed Weeks, Nathan Lee Graham, Olivia Macklin, and Peter Stormare, the series follows the crew and regular passengers of the Los Angeles to Las Vegas route of budget airline Jackpot Airlines. On January 9, 2018, Fox picked up three additional episodes for a total of 15. On May 21, 2018, Fox canceled", "title": "LA to Vegas" }, { "id": "20077209", "text": "funding for the new stadium in Las Vegas. On March 27, 2017, the National Football League officially approved the Raiders move from Oakland to Las Vegas in a 31–1 vote, with the Miami Dolphins being the only team to vote against the measure. However, even though the Raiders were approved to move to Las Vegas, the club will still play the 2017 and 2018 NFL seasons at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum and still be known as the Oakland Raiders as long as they play in the San Francisco Bay Area. The team expects the new stadium to open in 2020.", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "20077204", "text": "paperwork to relocate from Oakland, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 19, 2017. The Raiders needed 24 of the 32 NFL club owners to vote to officially approve the move to Las Vegas. On January 30, 2017, it was announced that Adelson had dropped out of the stadium project, also withdrawing the Las Vegas Sands' proposed $650 million contribution from the project. Instead, the Raiders would increase their contribution from $500 million to $1.15 billion. One day after Adelson's announcement, Goldman Sachs (the company behind the financing to the proposed Las Vegas stadium) announced its intent to withdraw from", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "305498", "text": "voted nearly unanimously to approve the Raiders' application to relocate from Oakland to Las Vegas, Nevada, in a 31-to-1 vote at the annual league meetings in Phoenix, Arizona. The Raiders plan to remain in Oakland through 2018 – and possibly 2019 – and relocate to Las Vegas in either 2019 or 2020, depending on the completion of the team's planned new stadium. The Raiders are known for their extensive fan base and distinctive team culture. The Raiders have 14 former members who have been enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Raiders currently play their home games at", "title": "Oakland Raiders" }, { "id": "16212057", "text": "also indicated a desire to play at least one preseason game in Las Vegas, at Sam Boyd Stadium, as early as the 2017 season. On October 17, 2016, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed into law Senate Bill 1 and Assembly Bill 1 which approved a hotel room rate tax increase to accommodate $750 million in public funding for the new stadium. The Raiders officially filed paperwork to relocate from Oakland, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 19, 2017. On January 30, 2017, it was announced that Adelson had dropped out of the stadium project, also withdrawing the Las Vegas", "title": "Mark Davis (American football)" }, { "id": "20077200", "text": "at least one preseason game in Las Vegas, at Sam Boyd Stadium, as early as the 2018 season. (The Raiders' 2017 schedule has both preseason games in Oakland.) On October 17, 2016, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed into law Senate Bill 1 and Assembly Bill 1 which approved a hotel room tax rate increase to accommodate $750 million in public funding for the new stadium. On November 12, 2016, a report from the NFL's own in-house media team outlined how Las Vegas might not be a done deal. The report stated that the majority of owners favored the Raiders staying", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "305555", "text": "the failure of a November 2016 ballot initiative to fund a new stadium in San Diego. In an official statement on the Rams decision, the Raiders offered they would \"now turn our attention to exploring all options to find a permanent stadium solution.\" Las Vegas and San Antonio were heavily rumored as possible relocation destinations. By mid-February 2016, the team had worked out a one-year lease agreement with the City of Oakland to play at O.co Coliseum with the option for a second one-year lease. In late January 2016, billionaire Sheldon Adelson, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands", "title": "Oakland Raiders" }, { "id": "20186113", "text": "moved to L.A. in either of those years. A tenant would have had to find a temporary home for at least one season (like the Rams and Chargers did when they moved back to Los Angeles) while the stadium was built. Shortly after the Inglewood stadium was chosen, Roski shifted focus to Las Vegas, where what is tentatively known as Las Vegas Stadium was being proposed for the Raiders. He withdrew his involvement from the project in October 2016. Farmers Field was a proposed sports and events stadium in Downtown Los Angeles, California, United States, at the current site of", "title": "Proposed Los Angeles NFL stadiums" }, { "id": "20077198", "text": "Reno, Reno area high schools, and sports complexes. On August 25, 2016, the Raiders filed a trademark application for \"Las Vegas Raiders\" on the same day renderings of a new stadium (located west of Interstate 15 at Las Vegas) were released to the public. On September 15, 2016, the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee unanimously voted to recommend and approve $750 million for the Las Vegas stadium plan. On October 11, 2016, the Nevada Senate voted 16–5 to approve the funding bill for the Las Vegas stadium proposal. The Nevada Assembly voted 28–13 three days later to approve the bill", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "2134032", "text": "roof of the Montecito, and down the strip into a shoe store at the Wynn. Because her character was generally disliked by the other characters in the series, and typically was portrayed as a buffoon, her death was constructed mostly for humor. Ed, Sam, Delinda, and Mary, along with Monica's former co-worker, Norma, dispose of her ashes ceremoniously by flushing them down the toilet (as per her wishes) in her suite at the Montecito. Casey Manning (Dean Cain) is a shrewd and cunning businessman, Sam Marquez's ex-husband, and former owner of the Montecito. In season three, Casey buys the Montecito", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "20368111", "text": "On September 30, he placed \"Do not disturb\" signs on the doors of both rooms. Before the shooting Paddock spent much of his time at the Mandalay Bay gambling, often at night. He interacted with Mandalay Bay employees more than ten times during his stay, including twice on the day of the shooting; an MGM Resorts International spokesperson said they were all \"normal in nature\". The mass shooting occurred between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT on October 1, 2017, which was the third and final night of the festival. When the shooting began, country music singer Jason Aldean was giving", "title": "2017 Las Vegas shooting" }, { "id": "20077170", "text": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas The Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas is a successful effort by the owner of the Oakland Raiders (Mark Davis) to relocate the American football club from its current and longtime home of Oakland, California to Paradise, Nevada. The team is scheduled to begin playing its home games at the Las Vegas Stadium as the Las Vegas Raiders for the 2020 National Football League (NFL) season, although the Raiders could move to and begin playing home games at Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada for the 2019 season. NFL team owners voted 31–1 to", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "12466814", "text": "Rams, respectively). Notably, the second-largest media market in the United States, Los Angeles, did not have an NFL team from 1994, after both the Raiders and the Rams relocated elsewhere, until 2016, when the Rams returned. The San Diego Chargers, who played their inaugural season in Los Angeles before spending the next 55 years in San Diego, returned to Los Angeles following the 2016 season. The Oakland Raiders (who themselves relocated to Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994) have a pending relocation to Las Vegas, Nevada that will take effect in 2019 or 2020. The driving force behind the 2010s", "title": "History of the National Football League" }, { "id": "8279333", "text": "game called Frozen Fury which was held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The league has also held the NHL Awards ceremonies after each season since 2009. Las Vegas will be home to the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) possibly beginning as soon as the end of the 2018 NFL season. On March 27, 2017, NFL owners voted 31–1 to approve the Oakland Raiders' move to Las Vegas, who will continue to play at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland in 2017 and possibly longer, until their new stadium, the Las Vegas Stadium, is built in", "title": "Sports in the Las Vegas metropolitan area" }, { "id": "20955381", "text": "The window allows the team to cancel its lease on the stadium for a $28 million fee and relocate. If the Bills choose not to exercise the buyout window, they will not be allowed to relocate until the lease expires after the 2022 season. The Oakland Raiders' lease on Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum expires after the 2018 season. The team is slated to move to Las Vegas, Nevada once Las Vegas Stadium is completed; it is currently scheduled to open in 2020. The Coliseum management has expressed a reluctance to allow the Raiders to continue using the Coliseum after the lease", "title": "2019 NFL season" }, { "id": "2134010", "text": "wedding in \"Father of the Bride Redux\". During season three, Ed is briefly in retirement until the Maloofs try to hire him for their potential casino in Macau. Eventually, Ed returns to his position when Casey Manning (Dean Cain) buys the casino. Ed leaves the casino after becoming wanted by the Las Vegas police for killing Mary Connell's father, and goes into hiding. Ed returns to work for the CIA and is stationed in Paris. He makes the point of not being called Mr. Ed, Edward, or Eddie (the only exceptions to this are for his mother, who calls him", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "18925413", "text": "Rams in Los Angeles with the Raiders electing to relocate to Las Vegas. Following the decision, it was announced that the task force spent $16.2 million on their unsuccessful proposal, which included design fees totaling $10.5 million to HOK. The Missouri House introduced legislation that would tighten reporting requirements for private citizens working on behalf of taxpayers, as lawmakers criticized the governor's decision to proceed without a public vote or legislative approval. On January 28, 2016, two St. Louis Alderwomen introduced an ordinance, Board Bill 282, to repeal the stadium funding authorization. National Car Rental Field National Car Rental Field", "title": "National Car Rental Field" }, { "id": "2134020", "text": "events director at the casino. Originally, she was supposed to play the casino's personal hooker, but at the last minute during the pilot filming, Gary Scott Thompson changed her position to special events director. A Las Vegas native, her father sexually abused her when she was a child, and Danny always came to her rescue. In season three, Mary is rehired and promoted to hotel manager. In season four, she helps her stepmother and half sisters testify against her father – a case which is lost because of his connections. In the episode \"Bare Chested in the Park\", she is", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "20077210", "text": "they have not determined where they will play in 2019, and the Coliseum management is reluctant to host the team in 2019 unless the Raiders pay additional compensation to cover the US$1,000,000 annual loss the Coliseum incurs by hosting Raiders games. About one thousand season ticket holders asked for and received refunds after the move to Las Vegas was announced. Their tickets were sold to other fans within hours, and the Raiders' 53,250 season tickets were all sold out by late May. The league levied a $350 million relocation fee on the Raiders, which will be paid in ten annual", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "20077199", "text": "to fund the new Las Vegas stadium proposal; two days later, Sandoval signed the funding bill into law. Davis told ESPN on October 15, 2016 that even if the Raiders were approved by the league to relocate to the Las Vegas metropolitan area, the club would play the next two seasons at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum in 2017 and 2018, stating \"We want to bring a Super Bowl championship back to the Bay Area.\" The team would then play at a temporary facility in 2019 after its lease at the Coliseum expires. Davis has also indicated a desire to play", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "2134040", "text": "season starts in September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps. The show has five complete seasons; all are available on DVD. The show was renewed for the fifth season on February 27, 2007. On March 2, 2007, it was announced that James Caan and Nikki Cox would be leaving the series. Caan departed because he wanted to return to acting in feature films, while Cox's departure seemed to stem from budget cuts. Tom Selleck replaced James Caan as head boss in season five. In the final season, only 19 episodes of the originally", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "17084819", "text": "the 2016 season as negotiations continued, but that if negotiations ultimately failed, they had reached an agreement in principle with the Rams to join them in Los Angeles once the Inglewood stadium is complete. The Raiders reached an agreement on another one-year lease extension with Oakland Coliseum on February 11, 2016, keeping the team in Oakland for one more season. The Raiders, having previously explored San Antonio, Texas as a potential relocation site in 2014, moved on to other potential relocation sites after the rejection of the Carson proposal, focusing on a stadium plan in the vicinity of Las Vegas,", "title": "2016 NFL season" }, { "id": "20077188", "text": "the Minnesota Vikings and unwillingness to commit money to the stadium proposal. Less than a month after the Chargers announced their move to Los Angeles, Las Vegas had emerged as the most likely destination candidate for the Raiders. On February 23, 2015, while still involved in the Carson project, Mark Davis attended a secret meeting at the UNLV International Gaming Research Center to look at Las Vegas sports betting, its effect on pro sports, how it could affect a pro sports team in Vegas and how the Raiders and the NFL could possibly work in Las Vegas. At the time", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "20077181", "text": "$2 billion Coliseum City project, which covered 800 acres surrounding the Oakland–Alameda Coliseum Complex. The development team also included JRDV Urban International, HKS Architects, and Forest City Real Estate Services. In an ideal situation, construction could have started by the end of 2014. Meanwhile, the Warriors began to go forward with plans to build a new arena at Mission Bay, not far from AT&T Park, and move across the Bay from Oakland to San Francisco as soon as 2019. The abandoned Concord Naval Weapons Station, 26.6 miles from Oakland, was announced in 2013 as a possible location for a new", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "20368104", "text": "2017 Las Vegas shooting </noinclude> The 2017 Las Vegas shooting was a mass shooting on the night of October 1, when a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in . Perpetrator Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, fired more than 1,100 rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 58 people and leaving 851 injured (including over 400 by gunfire). The shooting occurred between 10:05 and 10:15p.m. PDT; about an hour later Paddock was found dead in his room", "title": "2017 Las Vegas shooting" }, { "id": "610213", "text": "Super Bowl XVIII in 1984, while they were in Los Angeles. They also appeared in Super Bowl II in 1968 and Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003. The Raiders left Oakland for Los Angeles in 1982, where they won a third Super Bowl championship and returned to Oakland in 1995. The Warriors announced in April 2014 that they will leave Oakland once their new arena is built across the Bay in San Francisco, while the Raiders are in the process of relocating to Las Vegas. On March 27, 2017, it was confirmed the Raiders would be moving to Las Vegas. On", "title": "Oakland, California" }, { "id": "19796960", "text": "a flame in honor of Al Davis, the late long-time owner of the Raiders. Updated renderings released after the relocation vote passed show the stadium with a roll-in natural grass field similar to the one at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. In an August 17, 2017 Las Vegas Stadium Authority meeting it was revealed that the stadium will have a designated pickup/drop off loop for ride sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, a first for a stadium in the NFL. The stadium will replace Sam Boyd Stadium and will serve as the home of both the Raiders and", "title": "Las Vegas Stadium" }, { "id": "20077192", "text": "it as interesting. Davis also said that Las Vegas was a global city and that \"it's absolutely an NFL city,\" as well as saying that \"the Raider brand would do well\" and \"I think Las Vegas is coming along slowly.\" On March 21, 2016, when asked about Las Vegas, Davis said, \"I think the Raiders like the Las Vegas plan,\" and \"it's a very very very intriguing and exciting plan,\" referring to the stadium plan in Las Vegas. Davis also met with Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval about the stadium plan. On April 1, 2016, Davis toured Sam Boyd Stadium to", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "20077176", "text": "in the city from 2011 to 2014. Recent efforts to either renovate the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum or replace it with a new football stadium in Oakland or elsewhere date back to November 18, 2009. In 2011, Al Davis died and control of the team was assumed by his son Mark Davis who made finding a solution to the three-decade-long stadium problem a top priority. The Raiders were free to move after the 2013 NFL season, when its lease on the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum expired. While exploring possible solutions in the Bay Area and potential relocation candidates, the Raiders signed one-year", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "16344839", "text": "downtown football stadium, the vote received only 43 percent approval. In January 2017, Spanos exercised the option to relocate the team to Los Angeles. The move was met with criticism by the San Diego fan base, due to Spanos' lack of effort in attempting to find a stadium solution in San Diego. The team's temporary headquarters was in Costa Mesa under a 10 year lease. The 2017 season was played at the 27,000-seat StubHub Center and the Chargers are scheduled to play at Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park as a tenant of the Los Angeles Rams in 2020. In", "title": "Dean Spanos" }, { "id": "20368141", "text": "up for the sake of promoting gun control laws. 2017 Las Vegas shooting </noinclude> The 2017 Las Vegas shooting was a mass shooting on the night of October 1, when a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in . Perpetrator Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, fired more than 1,100 rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 58 people and leaving 851 injured (including over 400 by gunfire). The shooting occurred between 10:05 and 10:15p.m. PDT; about an", "title": "2017 Las Vegas shooting" }, { "id": "11450240", "text": "Raiders' request to relocate to Las Vegas was approved by the league, effective the 2020 season at the latest. The most likely opportunity for Toronto to get an NFL team in the near future would be through relocation. The support of 24 of 32 NFL teams is required for the approval of the sale of a team. Likewise, any relocation would have to be approved by the same amount, though Al Davis moved the Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles in 1982 against the league's wishes. A relocation fee, which was reportedly $645 million for the Rams and Chargers to move", "title": "National Football League in Toronto" }, { "id": "13518851", "text": "5, 2015, the \"Los Angeles Times\" reported that Stan Kroenke and the Stockbridge Capital Group were partnering to develop a new NFL stadium on an Inglewood, California property owned by Kroenke. On February 24, 2015, the Inglewood City Council approved the stadium and the initiative with construction on the stadium planned to begin in December 2015. The Rams plan to relocate to their new stadium in Inglewood in 2020, when the stadium will likely be ready. The day following the conclusion of the 2015 regular season, the Rams, Oakland Raiders, and San Diego Chargers all filed to relocate to Los", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "20456040", "text": "first AFC team to be officially eliminated from playoff contention and were eliminated from playoff contention for the second consecutive season. With their week 15 loss to the Bengals, the Raiders failed to improve their record from the previous season. The loss also secured their spot at last in the AFC West. Although the league approved the Raiders' eventual relocation to Las Vegas on March 27, 2017, the team still maintains its lease at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum and intends to use the stadium for at least the 2018 season, after which the lease is scheduled to expire. The Raiders'", "title": "2018 Oakland Raiders season" }, { "id": "20077191", "text": "home of both the Raiders and the UNLV Rebels college football program. A relocation to Las Vegas would be a long-term proposal, as Sam Boyd Stadium is undersized for the NFL and there are no other professional-caliber stadiums in Nevada. Raiders officials were also in Las Vegas to tour locations in the valley for a potential new home; they were also on the 42-acre site of the proposed stadium to ask questions about the site. Interviewed by sports columnist Tim Kawakami of the \"San Jose Mercury News\", Davis said that he had a \"great\" visit in the city he described", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "2134042", "text": "appearance never came to fruition. The location of the fictional Montecito has changed from season to season. Some of the first episodes were shot at the Monte Carlo and Mandalay Bay. Because of its similarity to Mandalay Bay, many of the show's visuals place the Montecito at the far southern end of the Las Vegas Strip, albeit usually across the street from Luxor on the airport side of Las Vegas Boulevard. The exact location and rotation of the building seems to vary within this area; indeed, the CGI zoom shots of the building's exterior in the season-two episode, \"Montecito Lancers\",", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "20666709", "text": "dates between July 5 and November 2, 2019 were announced. This setlist was obtained from the June 27, 2018, concert, held at the Zappos Theater in Las Vega, Nevada. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the residency shows. Just a Girl: Las Vegas Just a Girl: Las Vegas is a concert residency headlined by Gwen Stefani. The residency began on June 27, 2018 and will conclude on November 2, 2019. It takes place at the Zappos Theater at the Planet Hollywood resort and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The name of the residency is from the", "title": "Just a Girl: Las Vegas" }, { "id": "8279331", "text": "Resorts. Located at a former parking lot at the back of the Monte Carlo, T-Mobile Arena seats 20,000 and costs $350 million. Ground was broken on May 2014, with its opening on April 6, 2016. Cashman Field will be replaced by the Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin in 2019. Sam Boyd Stadium will be replaced by the Las Vegas Stadium, which will be the home of the Las Vegas Raiders and UNLV Football beginning in 2020. Ground was broken for Las Vegas Stadium on November 13, 2017. Las Vegas is the home to the Vegas Golden Knights of the National", "title": "Sports in the Las Vegas metropolitan area" }, { "id": "20666708", "text": "Just a Girl: Las Vegas Just a Girl: Las Vegas is a concert residency headlined by Gwen Stefani. The residency began on June 27, 2018 and will conclude on November 2, 2019. It takes place at the Zappos Theater at the Planet Hollywood resort and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The name of the residency is from the song of the same name by Stefani's band No Doubt. The residency was announced on April 10, 2018 via Stefani's official website. Between June 27, 2018 and March 16, 2019, Stefani is set to perform 25 shows. On December 3, 2018, 21", "title": "Just a Girl: Las Vegas" }, { "id": "2134013", "text": "close in season two, until Nessa leaves to be with her dad and sister, without saying goodbye. In Season 5, when Danny accepts the job as President of Operations for the Casino, Mike is promoted to head of security and surveillance. Mike and Piper are married in the series cliffhanger. Whenever approaching a beautiful girl, he first uses breath spray. He is Danny's best friend. Some discrepancy exists over whether Mike is a local or not. The initial season, he is stated to be a local who moved back as evidenced in \"Decks and Violence\" through his conversations. However, in", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "18615881", "text": "same day, Chargers chairman-CEO Dean Spanos announced the team would remain in San Diego for the 2016 NFL season, while continuing to work with local government on a new stadium. Measure C (the Chargers stadium proposal) did not receive the requisite number of votes required for passage. On January 12, 2017, the Chargers exercised their option and announced plans to relocate to Los Angeles for the 2017 season, making the Chargers the second tenant at the stadium and returning them to the market where they played their inaugural season in 1960. When the Rams and Chargers move into the stadium,", "title": "Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park" }, { "id": "19135832", "text": "the time being, but that a new stadium would likely be necessary; he stated that he hoped to build said stadium in Charlotte but would not guarantee the team remains there, claiming he did not know enough about the situation to guarantee the team stays in the Charlotte area. The Raiders, prior to the 2017 season, committed to relocating to Las Vegas, Nevada, once a new stadium is constructed for them in 2020. In 2016, the Raiders signed a three-year extension with the Oakland Coliseum. The Raiders could choose to stay in the Oakland Coliseum for 2019 with another year-to-year", "title": "2018 NFL season" }, { "id": "305588", "text": "preseason and regular season games in the 2017 season. The Raiders' games are broadcast in the Bay Area on CBS affiliate KPIX (CBS Channel 5) and in Las Vegas on CBS affiliate KLAS-TV (CBS 8) (when playing an AFC opponent) and on Fox Bay Area affiliate KTVU (Fox 2) and Las Vegas affiliate KVVU-TV (Fox 5) (when hosting an NFC opponent), unless the game is blacked out locally. Sunday night and a few Thursday night games are on NBC Bay Area affiliate KNTV (NBC Channel 11) and Las Vegas affiliate KSNV (NBC 3). The Raiders are a beneficiary of league", "title": "Oakland Raiders" }, { "id": "20077190", "text": "director of the International Gaming Institute. The meeting would not be known about until two years later. On January 29, 2016, Davis met with Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson about possibly relocating to a $2.3 billion, 65,000 capacity domed stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. During Davis' meeting with Adelson, he also visited the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), which included a contingent consisting of the university's president Len Jessup, former university president Donald Snyder, Steve Wynn, and former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) owner Lorenzo Fertitta. The proposed stadium would replace Sam Boyd Stadium and would serve as the", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "20077203", "text": "retail space, hotel or residential living and parking, as well as 15 acres set aside for a new baseball-only facility for the Oakland Athletics if the A's so desired. The site also could have been expanded to include the land Oracle Arena sits on, with the Warriors cleared to move to their new San Francisco arena by the 2019 season. The Ronnie Lott proposal was voted on by the Oakland city and Alameda County elected officials on December 13, 2016 and approved by Oakland in a 7–0 vote and by Alameda County in a 3–1 vote. The Raiders officially filed", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "305559", "text": "27–14. The Raiders officially filed paperwork with the NFL on January 19, 2017, to relocate the club from Oakland to Las Vegas, Nevada by the 2020 season. The vote for the team's relocation took place on March 27, 2017, and the NFL officially approved the Raiders' relocation to Las Vegas by a 31–1 vote. Only the Miami Dolphins dissented the proposed move. Subsequently, the team announced that it will continue to be known as the Oakland Raiders for the 2017 and 2018 NFL seasons and will play its games in Oakland for at least those two seasons. Prior to the", "title": "Oakland Raiders" }, { "id": "4947405", "text": "start of service to between November 2018 and November 2019. The environmental review was completed in September 2018, and no significant additional environmental impacts were found, clearing the way for commercial service to start in early 2019. As of November 2018, the first day of commercial flight service scheduled is scheduled for February 11, 2019, but the date is still subject to government approval. Alaska has announced that it plans to ramp up service from a ceremonial flight to Las Vegas on February 11 to a full schedule of 18 departures on March 12, 2019. Alaska says the gradual ramp", "title": "Paine Field" }, { "id": "2176579", "text": "After the approval of $750 million from the state of Nevada and backing from Bank of America after Adelson pulled out of the project, the Raiders submitted papers for relocation to Las Vegas in January 2017, and on March 27, 2017, the Raiders' relocation to Las Vegas was approved. The team planned to continue to play at the Coliseum through the 2019 NFL season and relocate to Las Vegas in 2020. In December 2018, the city of Oakland sued the Raiders and all of the other NFL teams for millions in unpaid debts and financial damages, which prompted Raiders management", "title": "Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum" }, { "id": "2134030", "text": "the end of season four. In the season-four finale, Jillian said she would leave Ed if he decided to purchase the Montecito. In the opening of season five, she is revealed to support Ed's decision for better or worse after learning of her future grandchild. She leaves Ed after they move away under sketchy circumstances. She is awaiting her first grandchild, via Delinda and her fiancé Danny McCoy. Monica Mancuso (Lara Flynn Boyle), former owner of the Montecito, is portrayed as self-centered and bull-headed. In the first episode of season three, at age 25, she is revealed to have married", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "13278854", "text": "Fallout: New Vegas Fallout: New Vegas is a post-apocalyptic action role-playing video game. It is a spin-off of the \"Fallout\" series and was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was announced in April 2009 and released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 19, 2010. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic open world environment that encompasses a region consisting of parts of Nevada, California, and Arizona. It is set in a world that deviated onto an alternate timeline thanks to atomic age technology, which eventually led to its devastation by a nuclear", "title": "Fallout: New Vegas" }, { "id": "18000896", "text": "May 2015, headlined by No Doubt, Metallica, Taylor Swift, and Bruno Mars. The festival was intended to be held biennially, but after disappointing ticket sales, plans for future editions of the event were quietly shelved. In April 2016, the Las Vegas Festival Grounds hosted the ACM Party For a Cause Festival on the weekend preceding the Academy of Country Music Awards. In 2018, the iHeartRadio Music Festival moved its Daytime Village stage to the Las Vegas Concert Grounds, moving from Las Vegas Village. Las Vegas Festival Grounds The Las Vegas Festival Grounds is an open-air venue on the Las Vegas", "title": "Las Vegas Festival Grounds" }, { "id": "6274243", "text": "aired \"The Jim Rome Show\" which has since moved to CBS Sports Radio. On July 1, 2013 KBAD switched affiliations to NBC Sports Radio and rebranded as \"920 The Game\". The station is currently an affiliate for the Los Angeles Lakers radio network. In 2016, the station was made an affiliate for the Los Angeles Rams football team. KBAD (AM) KBAD (920 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada and is owned by Lotus Communications. KBAD airs a all-sports radio format featuring programming from the NBC Sports Radio Network. Its studios and offices are in", "title": "KBAD (AM)" }, { "id": "19796947", "text": "same month and were at an impasse in Oakland. In order for the team to relocate to Las Vegas, a new stadium was required, since Sam Boyd Stadium was undersized for the NFL and there were no other professional-caliber stadiums in Nevada. On March 21, 2016, when asked about Las Vegas, Davis said, \"I think the Raiders like the Las Vegas plan,\" and \"it's a very very very intriguing and exciting plan.\" Davis also met with Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval about the stadium plan. On April 1, 2016, Davis met with UNLV officials and toured Sam Boyd Stadium to evaluate", "title": "Las Vegas Stadium" }, { "id": "17947514", "text": "appear in this episode. All the family, except the kids, arrive at Las Vegas for the weekend. Jay (Ed O'Neill) sold the owner of Mandalay Bay, Burt (Ray Laska), some closet space and Burt gave him free access to the three main adult contingents at the hotel's platinum level rooms in return. Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) runs into an old boyfriend of his, Langham (Fred Armisen), who is there with his partner Tim (Jeffrey Nicholas Brown) for their bachelor party. The two of them invite Mitchell and Cam (Eric Stonestreet) to their party but Mitchell declines the offer since he", "title": "Las Vegas (Modern Family)" }, { "id": "305582", "text": "in a 3–1 vote. On March 1, 2017, Fortress Investment Group submitted a tweaked version of the stadium plan to the NFL. On March 27, 2017, the Las Vegas plan was picked over the Lott plan by NFL owners with approval of the franchise's eventual relocation to Las Vegas. Al Davis coined slogans such as \"Pride and Poise\", \"Commitment to Excellence\", and \"Just Win, Baby\"—all of which are registered trademarks of the team. \"Commitment to Excellence\" comes from a quote of Vince Lombardi, \"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of", "title": "Oakland Raiders" }, { "id": "3692013", "text": "a moderate Republican, supporting abortion rights, Obamacare, immigration reform, and renewable energy. On March 21, 2016, Sandoval met with Mark Davis (Owner of the NFL's Oakland Raiders) about moving the Raiders to Las Vegas, Nevada. On July 12, 2016, Sandoval launched a comprehensive review of Nevada's juvenile justice system and established the Statewide Juvenile Justice Improvement Task Force. Nevada was selected to receive technical assistance from The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center through a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Following the launch, the CSG Justice Center conducted an analysis", "title": "Brian Sandoval" }, { "id": "2313083", "text": "was released on 20 November. In December 2015, British media buzzed about the group embarking on a stint in Las Vegas, starting 2017. Reports indicated the group impressed U.S. promoters and would headline their own residency show. Many venues circulated, including The AXIS at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, The Foundry at SLS Las Vegas and the Linq Theater at The LINQ Hotel & Casino. Local newspaper, the \"Las Vegas Sun\" writes that everything is still unconfirmed, despite Barlow confirming the rumour on Twitter. On 2 February 2016, in an interview with \"The Sun\", Barlow revealed that Take That", "title": "Take That" }, { "id": "8552188", "text": "sponsor of the overall IRB Sevens World Series. In 2017, the Oakland Raiders were given permission by the NFL to relocate to Las Vegas with the construction of a 60,000 capacity stadium on a plot of derelict land near Las Vegas Strip planned. Due to the fact that $750 million of the construction costs was expected to come in the form of public funding, a deal was thrashed out to allow the University of Las Vegas to move in as co-tenants of the new stadium. This meant that Sam Boyd Stadium faces an uncertain future with multiple sources suggesting that", "title": "USA Sevens" }, { "id": "2134046", "text": "again an overview of The Mirage and Caesars Palace. Again, it is a confirmation that Ed Deline's office would be where Treasure Island is located. According to an episode that originally aired in December 2005, the Montecito is located about 1.5 miles from Wynn Las Vegas. This distance is in a straight line (\"as the crow flies\") as opposed to a reference to actual driving distance. This distance is inconsistent with long shots that place the Montecito near the airport, Luxor, and Mandalay Bay, but is in line with the season-three visual references noted above. Other episodes show aerial shots", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "2134016", "text": "of her ex-husband Casey in a freak fishing accident (he is later revealed to have been poisoned), Sam is left control of the casino. She becomes the latest former owner of the Montecito after failing to pay the back taxes owed on the property. Her ownership of the Montecito lasts for a week, when A.J. Cooper buys the Montecito by paying off the back taxes. A.J. fires Sam when she is rude to his ranch manager's son. After Delinda intervenes, Sam and Cooper work things out over a milkshake, bowling, beers, and cigars, and Cooper agrees to rehire Sam. Sam", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "13278862", "text": "the playing environment. While the standard adjustable difficulty level settings only affect combat difficulty, Hardcore mode adds statistics and encourages the player to consider resource management and combat tactics. Game director Josh Sawyer stated that the mode was inspired by several different \"Fallout 3\" mods. In this mode, the following occurs: \"Fallout: New Vegas\" takes place during the year 2281 and within the region surrounding the former city of Las Vegas (now called \"New Vegas\"), around four years after the events of \"Fallout 3\", and roughly around 204 years since the Great War of 2077. At the time the game", "title": "Fallout: New Vegas" }, { "id": "2134015", "text": "and pathetic like everyone else.\" She was married to billionaire Casey Manning, from whom she was estranged for seven years prior to divorcing. She is also involved in an on-and-off relationship with Det. Woody Hoyt from \"Crossing Jordan\", which ends officially based on the events from season-four episode, \"History of Violins\". From \"The Burning Bedouin\", she is seen to be currently in love with and waiting for Jeremy, who fell into a 20-year coma after falling off a stool at a slot machine; he is the man who first brought her to Las Vegas from Austin, Texas. Following the death", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "11988545", "text": "M Resort M Resort Spa Casino is a boutique hotel, spa, and casino in Henderson, Nevada, owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn National Gaming. It is located on at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and St. Rose Parkway (about south of Mandalay Bay), near the affluent neighborhood of Southern Highlands. The hotel includes a casino and a 390 room boutique hotel. The hotel tower is tall. M Resort has received a four-star rating from the Forbes Travel Guide every year since its opening, deeming the property \"One of the Finest Hotels in the World\". Anthony", "title": "M Resort" }, { "id": "20077193", "text": "evaluate whether UNLV could serve as a temporary home of the team and was with UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez, athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy, adviser Don Snyder and school president Len Jessup to further explore the possibility of the Raiders moving to Las Vegas. On April 28, 2016, Davis said he wanted to move the Raiders to Las Vegas and pledged $500 million toward the construction of a proposed $2.4 billion domed stadium. \"Together we can turn the Silver State into the silver and black state,\" Davis said. At a media conference in UNLV's Stan Fulton Building, Davis also said", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "13518853", "text": "Rams began a season ticket deposit campaign that lasted from January 15 to February 8 which resulted in more than 56,000 season ticket deposits made. The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is the temporary home stadium of the Rams for four seasons (2016 to 2019) until the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park is opened for the 2020 season. On February 4, 2016, the Los Angeles Rams selected Oxnard, California to be the site of their minicamp, offseason team activities, and offseason program that began on April 18. In March, it was announced that the Rams would be featured on HBO's", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "305623", "text": "public face of the ownership. According to a 2017 report released by \"Forbes Magazine\", the Raiders' overall team value is US 2.38 billion ranked 19th out of 32 NFL teams. This valuation was made after the team's announcement of relocation to Las Vegas by 2020 and into a new stadium which moved the team's value up 19 percent. Although the team has regularly sold out since 2013, the team ranked in the bottom three in league attendance from 2003 to 2005, and failed to sell out a majority of their home games. One of the reasons cited for the poor", "title": "Oakland Raiders" }, { "id": "5443064", "text": "Las Vegas Desert Classic The Las Vegas Desert Classic was a darts tournament, organized by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and was held each year in July from 2002 until 2009. Its original venue was the MGM Grand Casino and Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada from 2002 to 2005, but the tournament moved down the strip to the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino from 2006 to 2009. The tournament carried a total prize purse of £126,400 (approx US$250,000). Due to the time difference between the UK and US, the matches were played in the morning local time – which is prime-time", "title": "Las Vegas Desert Classic" }, { "id": "19802610", "text": "2017 Oakland Raiders season The 2017 Oakland Raiders season was the 58th overall season of the Oakland Raiders franchise, the franchise's 48th season in the National Football League, their 23rd season since their return to Oakland, and the third and final season under head coach Jack Del Rio. It was the first season for the team since the franchise announced its impending relocation to Las Vegas. The Raiders began the season on September 10 at the Tennessee Titans and finished the season December 31 at the Los Angeles Chargers. The Raiders, as they did in 2016, played one home game", "title": "2017 Oakland Raiders season" }, { "id": "5842886", "text": "in that county and 0.1% for new stadium for Las Vegas Raiders. In Washoe County (which includes Reno), the sales tax rate is 7.725%, due to county option rates for flood control, the ReTRAC train trench project, mass transit, and an additional county rate approved under the Local Government Tax Act of 1991. For travelers to Las Vegas, note that the lodging tax rate in unincorporated Clark County, which includes the Las Vegas Strip, is 12%. Within the boundaries of the cities of Las Vegas and Henderson, the lodging tax rate is 13%. Sales tax in New Hampshire is limited", "title": "Sales taxes in the United States" }, { "id": "20077189", "text": "Las Vegas was seen as a long shot candidate for the Raiders. The meeting was set up by Napoleon McCallum, a former Raiders player and current Las Vegas Sands employee. McCallum approached Davis about moving the team to Las Vegas before a Broncos-Raiders game on November 9, 2014 in Oakland. McCallum was the first to suggest a meeting with UNLV about the idea. Previously, Las Vegas officials, notably Mayor Carolyn Goodman had suggested building a stadium near Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In attendance at the meeting was Davis and McCallum, along with then-UNLV president Don Snyder and Bo Bernhard, executive", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "13278893", "text": "These are some of the most frustrating bugs I have ever encountered with any game, especially when attached to a series that I deeply enjoy.\" Fallout: New Vegas Fallout: New Vegas is a post-apocalyptic action role-playing video game. It is a spin-off of the \"Fallout\" series and was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was announced in April 2009 and released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 19, 2010. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic open world environment that encompasses a region consisting of parts of Nevada, California, and Arizona. It", "title": "Fallout: New Vegas" }, { "id": "20404182", "text": "the Stars would lose in the first round to the Minnesota Lynx. After the Spurs Sports & Entertainment decided to put the team up for sale after the 2017 season it became apparent the team would be on the move. The NBA and WNBA approved the sale of the Stars to MGM Resorts on October 17, 2017, with the intention of relocating the team to Las Vegas and playing at the Mandalay Bay Events Center starting in the 2018 season. On December 11, 2017, at a press conference inside the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, the", "title": "Las Vegas Aces" }, { "id": "20368424", "text": "Route 91 Harvest festival Route 91 Harvest festival was a country music festival in the United States that was held annually in Paradise, Nevada. It was held every year from 2014 to 2017 in the Las Vegas Village, a lot on Las Vegas Boulevard, formerly U.S. Route 91, directly across from the Luxor Las Vegas hotel and casino and diagonally across from the Mandalay Bay resort and casino. The festival's promoters were Live Nation Entertainment and MGM Resorts International. Route 91 Harvest was the scene of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting in which 59 people including the perpetrator were killed.", "title": "Route 91 Harvest festival" }, { "id": "19796945", "text": "Las Vegas Stadium Las Vegas Stadium is the working name for a domed stadium under construction in Paradise, Nevada for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL) and the UNLV Rebels football team of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). It is located on about 62 acres west of Mandalay Bay at Russell Road and Hacienda Avenue and between Polaris Avenue and Dean Martin Drive, just west of Interstate 15. Construction of the $1.8 billion stadium began in September 2017 and is expected to be completed in time for the 2020 NFL season. In January 2016,", "title": "Las Vegas Stadium" }, { "id": "19117892", "text": "The Raiders, despite their joint project with the Chargers earning the support of the Committee on Los Angeles Opportunities, did not receive enough support from the league as a whole for the relocation and withdrew its request to relocate to Los Angeles on January 12 after the Rams' proposal received a simple majority of votes. The team also scouted the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas as another potential relocation candidate in late 2014, before it began focusing on its failed Carson stadium proposal. More recently, team officials began conversing with officials from Las Vegas, Nevada regarding a potential future relocation", "title": "2016 Oakland Raiders season" }, { "id": "20077197", "text": "was still actively in progress; any relocation to Las Vegas needed to be approved by a three-quarters majority of all NFL owners, and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell publicly stated his preference for keeping the Raiders franchise in Oakland if at all possible. However, it was reported that the NFL had issues with the Lott Group's financier Fortress Investment Group due to past issues the group had. On August 11, 2016, Raiders' officials met with Northern Nevada officials about the possibility of Reno being the site of a new training camp/practice facility and toured several sites including the University of Nevada,", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "13278855", "text": "apocalypse in the year 2077 in an event referred to as \"The Great War\". This war was caused by a major international conflict between the United States and China over natural resources. The main story of \"New Vegas\" takes place in the year 2281, four years after the events of \"Fallout 3\". It is not a direct sequel, but it does mark the return of a number of elements found in the Black Isle Studios-developed \"Fallout 2\". Players take control of a character known as the Courier. While transporting a package across the Mojave Desert to the city of New", "title": "Fallout: New Vegas" }, { "id": "17667091", "text": "Flipping Vegas Flipping Vegas is an American reality television series on A&E in the United States. The series premiered on June 18, 2011, and ran through September 2014. It features Scott Yancey and his wife Amie Yancey with realtors from their brokerage Goliath Company as they buy, fix and flip houses in Las Vegas, Nevada. Originally airing on Saturday mornings, A&E moved the show to Saturday evenings at the beginning of Season three. The show was moved back to Saturday afternoons for the final eight episodes. FYI and A&E split up Season 3's 23 episodes to make Seasons 4 and", "title": "Flipping Vegas" }, { "id": "305571", "text": "the 93,000-seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. From the assumption of the team by Mark Davis in 2011, the Raiders had been subject to rampant relocation speculation as the team attempted to find a new stadium in Oakland or elsewhere, due to the age of Oakland Alameda Coliseum, being secondary tenants to Major League Baseball's Athletics, and the expiration of the team's lease at the end of 2016. After looking into a variety of options in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and elsewhere the team will ultimately relocate to Las Vegas by 2020. On March 27, 2017, NFL team owners voted", "title": "Oakland Raiders" }, { "id": "10475811", "text": "2009, new Dream Suites were installed in both end zones. For the 2020 season the Rebels will move from Sam Boyd Stadium to Las Vegas Stadium, an under construction domed stadium with seating for 65,000 in Paradise, Nevada. The Rebels were once a powerhouse in Division II before jumping to Division I-A (now Division I FBS) and have seen some trouble since their promotion. Although the Rebels have faced some adversity, they are one of the only teams to be undefeated in bowl games, winning the California Bowl in 1984 (subsequently forfeited due to ineligible players) and the Las Vegas", "title": "UNLV Rebels" }, { "id": "20077196", "text": "Oakland city officials to brief them on their proposal. They also met with mayor Libby Schaaf. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to begin negotiations with Lott's group and with the city of Oakland regarding the \"price and terms of sale\" for the 120-acre land of the Oakland Coliseum and Oracle Arena. Davis publicly reiterated his commitment to his announced plans to relocate the Raiders franchise to Las Vegas, Nevada with the support of the state of Nevada and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and said he did not wish to negotiate further with Oakland while the Las Vegas deal", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "583328", "text": "78% of its daylight hours. Winter evenings are defined by clear skies and swift drops in temperature after sunset, with overnight lows sinking to or lower during the majority of nights in December and January. Owing to its elevation that ranges from 2,000 feet to 3,000 feet, Las Vegas experiences markedly cooler winters than other areas of the Mojave Desert and the adjacent Sonoran Desert that are closer to sea level. Consequently, the city records freezing temperatures an average of 16 nights per winter. However, it is exceptionally rare for temperatures to fall to or below , or for temperatures", "title": "Las Vegas" }, { "id": "2134021", "text": "shown purchasing a revolver to shoot her father in the season-four finale. She is involved in a relationship with Danny, who proposes to her in season two – she accepts, then later calls off the engagement. Mary is hiding from the law for her part in her father's murder, but is apparently safe, as she sends Danny a photo with a house and white picket fence (her dream house). Nessa Holt (Marsha Thomason), also known as \"The Ice Queen\", is the former head pit boss of the Montecito and is described as \"the best pit boss in Las Vegas\". She", "title": "Las Vegas (TV series)" }, { "id": "20077195", "text": "stating, \"It was a very positive step in finding the Raiders a home.\" On May 20, 2016, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft said he would support Davis and the Raiders move to Las Vegas, stating, \"I think it would be good for the NFL.\" On May 23, 2016, the \"San Francisco Chronicle\" and other media outlets reported that a group led by former San Francisco 49ers safety (and Pro Football Hall of Fame member) Ronnie Lott and retired quarterback Rodney Peete were looking into building a new Oakland stadium for the Raiders. The group met with team executives and", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "16192533", "text": "12 votes. After hours of searching to find a compromise, it was determined that the Rams would relocate to Los Angeles and the Chargers would have the option to join them, while the Raiders would have the option to join the Rams if the Chargers elected not to move. Until the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park has finished construction and is ready for use, the Rams are playing their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which had been home to the team for 33 seasons (1946–1979), and is currently also the home of the USC Trojans college", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "17667098", "text": "of it.\" Season 3 was split into Seasons 4 and 5 on FYI. Flipping Vegas Flipping Vegas is an American reality television series on A&E in the United States. The series premiered on June 18, 2011, and ran through September 2014. It features Scott Yancey and his wife Amie Yancey with realtors from their brokerage Goliath Company as they buy, fix and flip houses in Las Vegas, Nevada. Originally airing on Saturday mornings, A&E moved the show to Saturday evenings at the beginning of Season three. The show was moved back to Saturday afternoons for the final eight episodes. FYI", "title": "Flipping Vegas" }, { "id": "1933822", "text": "the PlayMGM brand: an online sportsbook in Nevada, and an online casino in New Jersey. In October 2017, MGM purchased the San Antonio Stars of the Women's National Basketball Association. The team was moved to Mandalay Bay Events Center and began play as the Las Vegas Aces in 2018. In May 2018, MGM agreed to buy Yonkers Raceway and Empire City Casino in New York from the Rooney family for $850 million. The company would then immediately sell the land and buildings to MGP for $625 million, and lease them back for $50 million per year. In August 2018, MGM", "title": "MGM Resorts International" }, { "id": "20077208", "text": "NFL franchise could participate as a partner or tenant: \"Our group will provide the funds previously allocated to be provided by the City of San Diego and guarantee the stadium's expeditious construction. Accordingly it will not require voter approval.\" It also said they would provide \"new state of the art scoreboards and upgrade Qualcomm Stadium while the new stadium is being constructed\". On March 1, 2017, Fortress Investment Group submitted a tweaked version of the Oakland stadium plan to the NFL. On March 6, 2017, the Raiders revealed that Bank of America would be replacing Sheldon Adelson's portion of the", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "18409712", "text": "2014 Las Vegas Bowl The 2014 Las Vegas Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 20, 2014 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Whitney, Nevada in the Las Vegas Valley. The 23rd annual Las Vegas Bowl, it featured the Colorado State Rams of the Mountain West Conference against the Utah Utes from the Pac-12 Conference. It was one of the 2014–15 bowl games that concluded the 2014 FBS football season. The game started at 12:30 p.m. PST and aired on ABC and Sports USA Radio Network. Sponsored by motor oil manufacturer Royal Purple, the game", "title": "2014 Las Vegas Bowl" } ]

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[ { "id": "3366149", "text": "Champions Trophy was scrapped keeping in line with ICC's goal of having only one pinnacle tournament for each of the three formats of international cricket. Australia and India have won the tournament twice each (India's 2002 win was shared with Sri Lanka), while South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka (shared with India), West Indies and Pakistan have won it once each. No non-full member team has ever crossed the first round of the Champions Trophy. Up to 2006 the Champions Trophy was held every two years. The tournament had been scheduled to be held in Pakistan in 2008 but was", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "19982013", "text": "qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved will be given to the champions of the 2018–19 Austrian Bundesliga, the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list. For the first time, the video assistant referee (VAR) system will be used in the competition from the round of 16 onwards. Real Madrid are the defending champions, having won the title for three successive seasons in 2015–16, 2016–17 and 2017–18. On 9 December 2016, UEFA confirmed the reforming plan for the UEFA Champions League for the 2018–2021 cycle, which was announced on 26 August 2016. As per the new regulations, the", "title": "2018–19 UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "19001981", "text": "2017–18 UEFA Champions League The 2017–18 UEFA Champions League was the 63rd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 26th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. The final was played between Real Madrid and Liverpool at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine. Real Madrid, the defending champions, beat Liverpool 3–1 to win a record-extending 13th title and their third title in a row. As winners, Real Madrid qualified as the UEFA representative for the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates,", "title": "2017–18 UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "20678653", "text": "were announced. Barcelona enter the competition as the four-time defending champions, having won consecutive editions in 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 and 2017–18. As the winners of the 2017–18 Copa del Rey and 2017–18 La Liga, Barcelona faced the Copa del Rey runners-up, Sevilla, for the season opening Supercopa de España. For the first time in the tournament history, it was a single match hosted in a neutral venue at the Stade Ibn Batouta in Tangier, Morocco. On 30 August, Barcelona were drawn in Group B of the UEFA Champions League alongside Tottenham Hotspur from Premier League, PSV Eindhoven from Eredivise and", "title": "2018–19 FC Barcelona season" }, { "id": "19062566", "text": "Thailand and Indonesia for the first time. The prize money for the competition was increased by $500,000 from 2013 to a total of $4.5 million. The winning team received $2.2 million, with $1.1 million going to the runner-up. The other two semi-finalists earned $450,000 each. Teams finishing third and fourth in each group each received $90,000 and $60,000 respectively. 2017 ICC Champions Trophy The 2017 ICC Champions Trophy was the eighth ICC Champions Trophy, a cricket tournament for the eight top-ranked One Day International (ODI) teams in the world. It was held in England and Wales from 1 June to", "title": "2017 ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "19735445", "text": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final The 2018 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, the 63rd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 26th season since it was renamed from the European Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It was played at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine on 26 May 2018, between Spanish side and defending champions Real Madrid, who had won the competition in each of the last two seasons, and English side Liverpool. Real Madrid won the final 3–1 for their third consecutive and", "title": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final" }, { "id": "19735453", "text": "international Andriy Shevchenko, who won the UEFA Champions League with Milan in 2003. With a stadium capacity of 63,000 for the final, a total of 40,700 tickets are available to fans and the general public, with the two finalist teams receiving 17,000 tickets each and with 6,700 tickets being available for sale to fans worldwide via UEFA.com from 15 to 22 March 2018 in four price categories: €450, €320, €160, and €70. The remaining tickets are allocated to the local organising committee, UEFA and national associations, commercial partners and broadcasters, and to serve the corporate hospitality programme. English singer Dua", "title": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final" }, { "id": "3366160", "text": "other four Test-playing teams Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, chosen from a pre-tournament round robin qualifying round. West Indies and Sri Lanka qualified ahead of Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. The eight teams were then split into two groups of four in a round robin competition. While Australia and West Indies qualified from Group A, South Africa and New Zealand qualified from Group B for the semifinals. Australia and West Indies reached the final defeating New Zealand and South Africa, respectively. In the final, Australia beat West Indies by 8 wickets to win the trophy for the first time. The", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "838495", "text": "eighth trophy as manager when Real defeated Grêmio in the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. On 26 May, Zidane won the Champions League for the third time in a row, beating Liverpool 3–1 in the final. He became one of three managers, alongside Bob Paisley and Carlo Ancelotti, to win the European Cup three times, while also becoming the first manager to win the trophy in three consecutive seasons. On 31 May, five days after the Champions League Final, Zidane announced his resignation as Real Madrid manager, citing the club's \"need for change\" as his", "title": "Zinedine Zidane" }, { "id": "546650", "text": "Six clubs have earned this honour: Real Madrid, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Milan, Liverpool and Barcelona. Since then instead the club which wins three years in a row or five overall receives a conmemorative badge to wear permanently on their uniform. The current trophy is tall and made of silver, weighing . It was designed by Jörg Stadelmann, a jeweller from Bern, Switzerland, after the original was given to Real Madrid in 1966 in recognition of their six titles to date, and cost 10,000 Swiss francs. As of the 2012–13 season, 40 gold medals are presented to the Champions League winners,", "title": "UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "19062558", "text": "2017 ICC Champions Trophy The 2017 ICC Champions Trophy was the eighth ICC Champions Trophy, a cricket tournament for the eight top-ranked One Day International (ODI) teams in the world. It was held in England and Wales from 1 June to 18 June 2017. Pakistan won the competition for the first time with a 180-run victory over India in the final at The Oval. The margin of victory was the largest by any team in the final of an ICC ODI tournament in terms of runs. The top eight teams in the ICC ODI Championship rankings as on 30 September", "title": "2017 ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "1300813", "text": "We Are the Champions \"We Are the Champions\" is a song by the British rock band Queen, first released on their 1977 album \"News of the World\". Written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, it is one of Queen's most popular songs and one of rock's most recognisable anthems. The song was a worldwide success, reaching number two in the UK Singles Chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the United States. In 2009, \"We Are the Champions\" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and was voted the world's favourite song in a 2005 Sony Ericsson", "title": "We Are the Champions" }, { "id": "18871285", "text": "this victory, as the defending champions, Real Madrid became the first ever team to successfully defend their title in the Champions League era, and the first to do so since Milan in 1990. On the other hand, Juventus lost a fifth final in a row and a seventh in nine finals reached. Real Madrid qualified as the UEFA representative at the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, Manchester United, in the 2017 UEFA Super Cup. \"In the following table, finals", "title": "2017 UEFA Champions League Final" }, { "id": "19735460", "text": "the net. A second chance on goal for Ronaldo in the 93rd minute of play was interrupted by a pitch invader, who was captured by stadium stewards. The \"home\" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw, which was held on 13 April 2018, 13:00 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Real Madrid became the first team since Bayern Munich in 1974–76 to win three consecutive UEFA Champions Leagues or European Cups. The title was Madrid's 13th, another Champions League record, and their fourth in five years. Real Madrid's victory", "title": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final" }, { "id": "1744867", "text": "a victory for the English team with a 1–0 result. The new champions of Europe retained the trophy and achieved a historic second consecutive European Cup. 2010 UEFA Champions League Final A game played between two best teams in the Champions League which consists of group stage and knock-out stage. The final is played at a different stadium each year. In 2010, Bayern Munich, who eliminated Lyon in the semi-finals, faced Internazionale, who defeated Barcelona in the semi-finals. Inter won 2–0 after two goals from Diego Milito. 2018 Copa Libertadores Final The two-legged 2018 CONMEBOL Libertadores final pitted Argentine archrivals", "title": "Santiago Bernabéu Stadium" }, { "id": "11521992", "text": "the most successful club in the competition's history with seven titles, followed by fellow Mexican-side Cruz Azul with six titles. The most successful non-Mexican club is Saprissa of Costa Rica with three titles. The only four teams to successfully defend the trophy are all Mexican: América, Cruz Azul, Pachuca and Monterrey. The current champions of the competition are Guadalajara, who defeated Toronto FC in the finals. The tournament currently employs a 16 team knockout format and is played between February and May. Fifteen teams qualify automatically based on domestic performance, along with the winners of the CONCACAF League, played at", "title": "CONCACAF Champions League" }, { "id": "3651854", "text": "fellow Elder, the Collector (killed by the cosmic being Korvac in the title \"Avengers\"). The pair decide to use various superheroes from Earth as pawns, the goal being to collect the four pieces of a prize called the \"Golden Globe of Life.\" A victory for the Grandmaster's team means the Collector may be resurrected, while a loss indicates the character must remain dead. The Grandmaster's team consists of Captain America, Talisman, Darkstar, Captain Britain, Wolverine, Defensor, Sasquatch, Daredevil, Peregrine, She-Hulk, the Thing, and Blitzkrieg. Death's team consists of Iron Man, Vanguard, Iron Fist, Shamrock, Storm, Arabian Knight, Sabra, Invisible Girl,", "title": "Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions" }, { "id": "3366153", "text": "Pakistan have each won once. Australia (2006, 2009) is the only nation to have won consecutive titles. Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and England are the only Test playing nations who are yet to win the Champions Trophy. England has reached the final twice but lost both times (2004, 2013), Bangladesh reached the semi-finals in 2017 while Zimbabwe has never got past the first round. The highest rank secured by a non-Test playing nation is the 9th rank achieved by Kenya in 2000. Sri Lanka was the first and only host to win the tournament, in 2002, but they were declared co-champions with", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "6271947", "text": "by winning 2011–12 UEFA Champions League and 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. A total of 63 tournaments have been played, 37 in the European Cup era (1955–56 to 1991–92) and 26 in the Champions League era (1992–93 to 2017–18). 15 of the 62 attempts to defend the trophy (24.19%) have been successful, split between 8 teams. These are: Between the two eras of this competition, this breaks down as: The only team to successfully defend the trophy in the Champions League era is Real Madrid (twice), who won in 2015–16, 2016–17 and 2017–18. The teams closest to defending the trophy in", "title": "European Cup and UEFA Champions League records and statistics" }, { "id": "20516829", "text": "(4), Alex Norén (5), Thorbjørn Olesen (5), Ian Poulter (5), Jon Rahm (4,5), Xander Schauffele (4,5), Adam Scott, Cameron Smith (4), Brandt Snedeker, Kyle Stanley (4) Emiliano Grillo, Patton Kizzire, Pan Cheng-tsung, Andrew Putnam, Chez Reavie Lucas Bjerregaard, Alexander Björk, Jorge Campillo, Ryan Fox, Russell Knox, Alexander Lévy, Li Haotong, Adrián Otaegui, Thomas Pieters, Shubhankar Sharma, Brandon Stone, Andy Sullivan, Julian Suri, Matt Wallace Gaganjeet Bhullar, Justin Harding, Park Sang-hyun, Scott Vincent Yuta Ikeda, Yuki Inamori Adam Bland, Brett Rumford George Coetzee, Erik van Rooyen Liang Wenchong, Liu Yanwei, Wu Ashun, Xiao Bowen, Yuan Yechun, Zhang Xinjun \"Thursday, 25 October", "title": "2018 WGC-HSBC Champions" }, { "id": "3366170", "text": "Pakistan took each other on in the final of a tournament for the first time since 2007, with the final taking place at The Oval in London. It was India's fourth appearance and Pakistan's maiden appearance in a Champions Trophy final. Pakistan beat India comfortably by 180 runs, outclassing them across all three departments-batting, bowling and fielding. Pakistan, the lowest-ranked team in the competition, won their first Champions Trophy title and became the seventh nation to win it. Fakhar Zaman of Pakistan received the Man of the Match award for scoring a sublime 114. Shikhar Dhawan of India received the", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "3366148", "text": "time – about two weeks. The number of teams competing has varied over the years; originally all the ICC's full members took part, and from 2000 to 2004 associate members were also involved. Since 2009, the tournament has only involved the eight highest-ranked teams in the ICC ODI Rankings as of six months prior to the beginning of the tournament. The tournament has been held in 7 different countries since its inception, with England hosting it thrice. A total of thirteen teams competed in the eight editions of the tournament, with eight competing in the last edition in 2017. ICC", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "19735446", "text": "13th overall Champions League title, becoming the first team to achieve three back-to-back titles since Bayern Munich defeated Saint-Étienne in the 1976 European Cup Final; it was additionally their fourth title in five seasons. They also earned the right to play the winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, Atlético Madrid, in the 2018 UEFA Super Cup and to enter the semi-finals of the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup. They also qualified to enter the group stage of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, but since they already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved was given to the champions", "title": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final" }, { "id": "19898636", "text": "The Challenge: Invasion of the Champions The Challenge: Invasion of the Champions (originally promoted and titled as The Challenge: Invasion) is the 29th season of the MTV reality game show, \"The Challenge\". The new individual format was filmed in Krabi, Thailand during October and November 2016, and features alumni from \"Real World\", \"Road Rules\", \"The Challenge\", and \"Are You the One?\" competing. The season premiered on February 7, 2017, and concluded with the reunion special on May 16, 2017. Host: T. J. Lavin, BMX rider Note: The Champions — Ashley K., Camila, Cara Maria, CT, Darrell, Johnny, Laurel, and Zach", "title": "The Challenge: Invasion of the Champions" }, { "id": "546623", "text": "reigning champions are Real Madrid, who secured their 13th title in the competition after defeating Liverpool 3–1 in the 2018 final. Thus, they became the first team in the UEFA Champions League era to win the title for three years in a row. The first pan-European tournament was the Challenge Cup, a competition between clubs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Mitropa Cup, a competition modelled after the Challenge Cup, was created in 1927, an idea of Austrian Hugo Meisl, and played between Central European clubs. In 1930, the Coupe des Nations (), the first attempt to create a cup for", "title": "UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "3366164", "text": "out along with West Indies. England and Sri Lanka from Group A, and India and South Africa from Group B, made it to the semi-finals. India and England won their respective games against Sri Lanka and South Africa comprehensively and the final between the two took place on 23 June 2013. India beat England by 5 runs at Edgbaston, winning their second title, although their first title, in 2002, was shared with Sri Lanka due to the final being washed out. Ravindra Jadeja was adjudged man of the match and he also received the \"Golden Ball\" for taking the most", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "20508928", "text": "ranking and the most valuable sports team in the world. Real are the current holders of the European Cup (UEFA Champions League) having won the competition a record 13 times. The latest of their 33 La Liga title came in 2017. Their successful hometown rivals, Atlético Madrid, are also well-supported in the city and play their home games at the Wanda Metropolitano. Their supporters are referred to as \"Atléticos or Colchoneros\" (The Mattressers), in reference to the team's red and white jersey colours. Atlético is considered a European elite team, having reached in the last five seasons, two UEFA Champions", "title": "Football in Madrid" }, { "id": "546619", "text": "UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs. It is one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in European football, played by the national league champions (and, for some nations, one or more runners-up) of the strongest UEFA national associations. The UEFA Champions League final is the most watched annual sporting event worldwide. The final of the 2012–13 tournament had the highest TV ratings to date, drawing 360 million", "title": "UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "4047461", "text": "the club's successes. On 16 April 2014, Ancelotti won his first major trophy as Real Madrid manager after they defeated Barcelona 2–1 in the Copa del Rey final held at the Mestalla Stadium. On 29 April, Real Madrid defeated Bayern Munich in the semi-finals of the Champions League by an aggregate score of 5–0 (1–0 in Madrid and 0–4 in Munich), with \"Los Blancos\" reaching their first final since they last won the competition in 2002. On 24 May, Real Madrid won their tenth Champions League trophy after defeating Atlético Madrid in the final 4–1 in extra time. He became", "title": "Carlo Ancelotti" }, { "id": "546628", "text": "the most goals scored, with Real Madrid beating Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3 in Hampden Park, courtesy of four goals by Ferenc Puskás and a hat-trick by Alfredo Di Stéfano. This was Real Madrid's fifth consecutive title, a record that still stands today. Real Madrid’s reign ended in the 1960–61 season when bitter rivals Barcelona dethroned them in the first round. Barcelona themselves, however, would be defeated in the final by Portuguese side Benfica 3–2 at Wankdorf Stadium. Reinforced by Eusébio, Benfica defeated Real Madrid 5–3 at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam and kept the title for a second, consecutive season. Benfica", "title": "UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "10978162", "text": "the music \"makes use of several elements from Handel’s original composition, but reshuffles and transforms them to suit the new context\". Anthony King writes: Fornäs also gives commentary on the lyrics of the anthem, writing: Ce sont les meilleures équipes<br> Es sind die allerbesten Mannschaften<br> The main event<br> Die Meister<br> Die Besten<br> Les grandes équipes<br> The champions<br> Une grande réunion<br> Eine große sportliche Veranstaltung<br> The main event<br> Ils sont les meilleurs<br> Sie sind die Besten<br> These are the champions<br> Die Meister<br> Die Besten<br> Les grandes équipes<br> The champions<br> The anthem's chorus is played before each UEFA Champions League game as", "title": "UEFA Champions League Anthem" }, { "id": "18871284", "text": "2017 UEFA Champions League Final The 2017 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League, the 62nd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 25th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It was played at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales on 3 June 2017, between Italian side Juventus and Spanish side and title holders Real Madrid, in a repeat of the 1998 final. Real Madrid won the match 4–1 to secure their 12th title in this competition. With", "title": "2017 UEFA Champions League Final" }, { "id": "20161099", "text": "Champions (U.S. TV series) Champions is an American comedy television series created by Charlie Grandy and Mindy Kaling that premiered on NBC on March 8, 2018. The series stars Anders Holm, Fortune Feimster, Andy Favreau, J. J. Totah, and Mouzam Makkar. On June 29, 2018, it was announced that NBC had officially cancelled the series. Vince, a charismatic gym owner, is living every bachelor's dream with his younger brother Matthew in Brooklyn, New York. He lives a simple life, dates an endless string of women, until his high school fling Priya drops off their 15-year-old son Michael. On October 5,", "title": "Champions (U.S. TV series)" }, { "id": "3366171", "text": "\"Golden Bat\" award for scoring 338 runs while Hasan Ali of Pakistan received the \"Golden Ball\" award for taking 13 wickets; he was also adjudged the Man of the Series for his outstanding contribution towards Pakistan's first ICC ODI tournament title since 1992. The prize money for the 2017 edition of the ICC Champions Trophy was increased by half a million dollars from 2013 to a total of $4.5 million. The winning team got a cheque of $2.2 million and the runner-up got $1.1 million. The other two semifinalists earned $450,000 each. Teams finishing third in each group took home", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "19810912", "text": "Schwartzel (5), Adam Scott, Henrik Stenson (5), Jhonattan Vegas (4), Bernd Wiesberger (5) Patrick Cantlay, Charles Howell III, Chez Reavie, Kyle Stanley, Hudson Swafford Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Paul Dunne, Ryan Fox, Alexander Lévy, Li Haotong, Michael Lorenzo-Vera, Thorbjørn Olesen, Richie Ramsay, Jordan Smith, Matthew Southgate, Hideto Tanihara, Peter Uihlein, Fabrizio Zanotti Shiv Chawrasia, Gavin Green, Scott Hend, David Lipsky Chan Kim, Shugo Imahira Matthew Griffin, Michael Hendry Richard Sterne, Brandon Stone Cao Yi, Dou Zecheng, Liang Wenchong, Liu Yanwei, Wu Ashun, Zhang Xinjun \"Thursday, 26 October 2017\" Brooks Koepka shot an 8-under-par 64 to take a one-stroke lead over Kiradech Aphibarnrat", "title": "2017 WGC-HSBC Champions" }, { "id": "838492", "text": "of the Copa del Rey round of 16 saw him win his 40th consecutive match without a loss – creating a new Spanish record, beating Luis Enrique's record of 39 matches undefeated with Barcelona. Zidane later led Madrid to the La Liga title, their 33rd in history, by defeating Málaga 2–0. On 3 June 2017, Zidane led Real Madrid to a 4–1 win against Italian side Juventus in the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final at Cardiff to grab the club's 12th European Cup (\"La Duodécima\"). This victory meant that Madrid were the first ever team to win the Champions League", "title": "Zinedine Zidane" }, { "id": "17225088", "text": "CONCACAF Champions' Cup). The final was also a repeat of previous year's final, won by Monterrey over Santos Laguna 3–2 on aggregate. Monterrey were the two-time defending champions, having also won the final in 2011. Santos Laguna finished top of Group 1 ahead of Toronto FC and Águila in the group stage, and were seeded second for the championship stage, where they eliminated Houston Dynamo in the quarterfinals and Seattle Sounders FC in the semifinals. Monterrey finished top of Group 7 ahead of Municipal and Chorrillo in the group stage, and were seeded first for the championship stage, where they", "title": "2013 CONCACAF Champions League Finals" }, { "id": "19735461", "text": "was the fifth consecutive title for a Spanish side in the Champions League, becoming the longest run for the trophy to be held by teams from the same country since English sides won six consecutive titles between 1977 and 1982. Manager Zinedine Zidane became the first to win three consecutive Champions League titles and matched Carlo Ancelotti's record of Champions League era wins. Five days after the final, Zidane announced that he would step down as manager in favour of a \"different voice\". Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to win the Champions League five times, surpassing the record set", "title": "2018 UEFA Champions League Final" }, { "id": "2637791", "text": "Hockey Champions Trophy The Hockey Champions Trophy (HCT) was an international field hockey tournament held by the International Hockey Federation (IHF). Founded in 1978 by Pakistan's Air Marshal Nur Khan and the Pakistan Hockey Federation, it featured the world's top-ranked field hockey teams competing in a round robin format. A biennial women's tournament was added in 1987. The Champions Trophy was changed from an annual to a biennial event from 2014 onwards, due to the introduction of the Hockey World League (HWL). The 2018 edition was the last edition of the Champions Trophy and the tournament will be replaced by", "title": "Hockey Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "11521991", "text": "group stage prior to the 2018 tournament. Unlike its European and South American counterparts, the winners of the CONCACAF Champions League do not automatically qualify for the following season's competition. The competition was originally known as the CONCACAF Champions' Cup when it was first organized in 1962. The title has been won by 28 clubs, 17 of which have won the title more than once. Mexican clubs have accumulated the highest number of victories, with 34 titles in total. The second most successful league has been Costa Rica's Primera División with six titles in total. Mexican side Club América are", "title": "CONCACAF Champions League" }, { "id": "15152052", "text": "2022. Three of the four teams from the 2014 Champions Classic advanced to the 2015 Final Four (Duke, Kentucky, and Michigan State) with Duke winning the National Championship that year. As of the 2018 games, only one team has participated in the Champions Classic unranked, Michigan State in 2011. Rankings are based on the Associated Press poll. Champions Classic The Champions Classic is an event that tips off the NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It features four of the top college basketball programs in the United States: Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, and Michigan State. The venue changes from year to", "title": "Champions Classic" }, { "id": "20648324", "text": "2018 Champion of Champions The 2018 ManBetX Champion of Champions was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament which took place from 5 to 11 November 2018 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England. Shaun Murphy was the defending champion, but lost 3–6 in the semi-finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan in a repeat of the final of the previous edition of the tournament. Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Kyren Wilson 10–9 in the final to capture his third Champion of Champions title. The breakdown of prize money for 2018 is shown below: Qualification for the 2018 Champion of Champions tournament was determined by the winners", "title": "2018 Champion of Champions" }, { "id": "11009802", "text": "a victory over Barcelona in the opening group game. English clubs in the European Cup and UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (previously known as the European Cup) is a seasonal club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) since 1955 for the most successful football clubs in Europe. The prize, the European Champion Clubs' Cup, is considered the most prestigious club trophy in the sport. As of the end of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League season, English clubs have twelve European Cup wins along with clubs from Italy. Incidentally, Real Madrid from Spain have", "title": "English clubs in the European Cup and UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "4006808", "text": "Supporters' Shield The Supporters' Shield is an annual award given to the Major League Soccer team with the best regular season record, as determined by the MLS points system. The Supporters' Shield has been annually awarded at the MLS Supporters' Summit since 1999, and has been recognized as a major trophy by the league. It echoes the practice of the top European leagues in which the team with the best record is the champion. Since 2006, the Supporters' Shield winner has earned a berth in the CONCACAF Champions League. D.C. United and LA Galaxy, with four Supporters' Shields each, have", "title": "Supporters' Shield" }, { "id": "6713391", "text": "the league table, with one game left. On 21 May 2017, a 2–0 win over Málaga, with goals from Ronaldo and Benzema, secured the 33rd league title for Madrid. On 3 June 2017, Madrid won the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final 4–1 against Juventus, with two goals from Ronaldo and goals from Casemiro and Asensio, to win their second consecutive and twelfth overall title. With that win, Madrid became the first team to defend their title in the Champions League era. Galácticos The term itself carries both positive and negative meanings. Initially, it was used to emphasise the greatness of", "title": "Galácticos" }, { "id": "367439", "text": "transfer price approximated at €100 million. In Ancelotti's first season at the club, Real Madrid won the Copa del Rey, with Bale scoring the winner in the final against Barcelona. On 24 May, Real Madrid defeated city rivals Atlético Madrid in the 2014 Champions League Final, winning their first European title since 2002, and becoming the first team to win ten European Cups/Champions League titles, an achievement known as \"\"La Décima\"\". After winning the 2014 Champions League, Real Madrid signed goalkeeper Keylor Navas, midfielder Toni Kroos and attacking midfielder James Rodríguez. The club won the 2014 UEFA Super Cup against", "title": "Real Madrid C.F." }, { "id": "1300823", "text": "became the fifteenth best selling single in 2006 in that country. We Are the Champions \"We Are the Champions\" is a song by the British rock band Queen, first released on their 1977 album \"News of the World\". Written by lead singer Freddie Mercury, it is one of Queen's most popular songs and one of rock's most recognisable anthems. The song was a worldwide success, reaching number two in the UK Singles Chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the United States. In 2009, \"We Are the Champions\" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and", "title": "We Are the Champions" }, { "id": "11009786", "text": "English clubs in the European Cup and UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (previously known as the European Cup) is a seasonal club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) since 1955 for the most successful football clubs in Europe. The prize, the European Champion Clubs' Cup, is considered the most prestigious club trophy in the sport. As of the end of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League season, English clubs have twelve European Cup wins along with clubs from Italy. Incidentally, Real Madrid from Spain have won this many by themselves. The most recent English", "title": "English clubs in the European Cup and UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "19552168", "text": "Champions (GOOD Music song) \"Champions\" is a collaborative song by American rappers Kanye West, Gucci Mane, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Travis Scott, Yo Gotti, Quavo and Desiigner, released as the lead single from the upcoming GOOD Music compilation album \"Cruel Winter\". The song was produced by West himself, alongside A-Trak, Lex Luger and Mike Dean, with co-production from Derek Watkins and Charlie Heat, and additional production from Noah Goldstein. \"Champions\" was first aired on Big Boy's 92.3. Kanye West later released the song as the first single from \"Cruel Winter\". The single was untitled at the time, with \"Round and", "title": "Champions (GOOD Music song)" }, { "id": "3069450", "text": "the oldest champion is Vince McMahon, who won it at the age of 54. John Cena holds the record for most reigns with 13. Daniel Bryan is the current champion in his fourth reign. He won the title on November 13, 2018, in St. Louis, Missouri, on \"SmackDown Live\" by defeating AJ Styles. WWE Championship The WWE Championship is a world heavyweight championship created and promoted by the American professional wrestling promotion WWE on the SmackDown brand. It is one of two world titles for WWE's main roster, alongside the WWE Universal Championship that was created for the Raw brand", "title": "WWE Championship" }, { "id": "21005190", "text": "FC Bayern Munich in international football competitions FC Bayern Munich are a football club based in the city of Munich in Bavaria, Germany. Founded in 1900, they have been competing in UEFA competitions since the 1960s and have become one of the most successful teams in Europe, winning seven major continental trophies including five Champions Cup/Champions League titles and are ranked joint 3rd among all clubs across the continent in this regard. Bayern are by far Germany's most successful international representatives: no other teams from that nation have won Europe's premier competition more than once, or have more than two", "title": "FC Bayern Munich in international football competitions" }, { "id": "20456361", "text": "on November 17, 2016, but failed to win the title. Hayata and Susumu lost the titles to Brahman Brothers in early 2017 and Sasaki and Suguira defeated Hayata and Susumu to become the #1 contenders for the titles on March 2. On March 23, Sasaki and Suguira defeat Brahman Brothers to win the King of Freedom World Tag Team Championship. They became the longest reigning champions as they lost the title to Daisuke Masaoka and Violento Jack at \"F Spirit\" on May 24, 2018, ending their reign at 427 days. Following the closure of FMW, Sasaki decided to pursue a", "title": "Mammoth Sasaki" }, { "id": "2828609", "text": "high, weighing 11 kg. The trophy bears the title \"\"COUPE DES CLUBS CHAMPIONS EUROPÉENS\"'\". Subsequent replacement trophies have replicated this design. The shape of the handles have earned it the nickname of \"big ears\" in multiple languages, including French (\"\"la Coupe aux grandes oreilles\"\") and Spanish (\"\"La Orejona\"\"). The trophy that currently is awarded is the sixth and has been in use since 2006, after Liverpool won their fifth European Cup in 2005. Since 2009, Champions League winners have not kept the real trophy, which remains in UEFA's keeping at all times. A full-size replica trophy, the \"Champions League winners", "title": "European Champion Clubs' Cup" }, { "id": "19547512", "text": "reach their fourth Champions Trophy final, a record. In an outstanding performance, Pakistan beat India comfortably to win their maiden ICC Champions Trophy, outclassing them across all departments to win by 180 runs, which was the largest margin of victory in the final of an ICC ODI tournament. Pakistan, who were massive underdogs entering as the lowest-ranked team in the competition, became the seventh nation to win the Champions Trophy, and it was their first ICC ODI tournament title since 1992. Fakhar Zaman of Pakistan received the Man of the Match award for scoring a sublime 114. Shikhar Dhawan of", "title": "2017 ICC Champions Trophy Final" }, { "id": "7868454", "text": "16 goals but Real Madrid were unable to reclaim the title, finishing in third. The 2017–18 UEFA Champions League competition saw Bale scoring once prior to the final. This goal came from the match against Borussia Dortmund in the group stages, when he opened the scoring in a 3–1 victory in Germany. In the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Bale scored two goals, first an overhead kick and then a long distance strike, resulting in a 3–1 victory over Liverpool, to help Real Madrid win their thirteenth Champions League trophy. He became the first substitute to score twice in a", "title": "Gareth Bale" }, { "id": "19677634", "text": "of the Year, and Head Coach Mark Bernsen made it a Kerry treble by scooping the Men's Super League Coach of the Year. In March 2018, Tralee Warriors returned to the Champions Trophy final, where they defended their title with a 73–61 win over Templeogue. Guard Paul Dick was named MVP of the final after scoring 22 points. Tralee Warriors Tralee Warriors Basketball Club, also known as Garvey's Tralee Warriors for sponsorship reasons, is an Irish basketball club based in Tralee that currently consists solely of a men's team that competes in the Super League. Their home arena is the", "title": "Tralee Warriors" }, { "id": "4530288", "text": "Championships will receive new designs which will debut at the next set of television tapings. The inaugural champions were The Prophecy (Christopher Daniels and Donovan Morgan), who defeated \"The American Dragon\" and Michael Modest on September 21, 2002, to become the champions. The Kings of Wrestling (Chris Hero and Claudio Castagnoli) have the longest reign as champions with their second reign lasting 363 days. The current champions are The Briscoes (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) who are in their tenth reign as a team. They defeated previous champions So Cal Uncensored (Frankie Kazarian and Scorpio Sky), as well as The", "title": "ROH World Tag Team Championship" }, { "id": "838490", "text": "the 2016 UEFA Champions League final by beating Manchester City 1–0 on aggregate. In La Liga, Real Madrid finished runners up, just one point behind Barcelona. In the Champions League final on 28 May, Real Madrid defeated fellow Madrid club Atlético Madrid in a penalty shootout to grab the 11th European Cup (\"La Undécima\") in club history. Zidane became the seventh man to win the European Cup (now UEFA Champions League) as both a player and a manager, the second man (after Miguel Muñoz) to win the trophy with Real Madrid as both a player and a manager, and the", "title": "Zinedine Zidane" }, { "id": "4496489", "text": "breaks, but they are played as entrance music. The most notable anthems are the FIFA Anthem and the UEFA Champions League Anthem. Stadium anthems are characterized by a catchy uptempo rhythm and a repeated vocal call-response catchphrase, often a statement of pride or arrogance (such as \"We Will Rock You\", \"We Are the Champions\" and \"Another One Bites the Dust\" by Queen). Most stadium anthems are drawn from popular rock and roll, dance or rap hits. At college football games, the schools' marching bands often add stadium anthems to their repertoires. In baseball, many stadium anthems are used as entrance", "title": "Stadium anthem" }, { "id": "2637794", "text": "in at least one Champions Trophy. Hockey Champions Trophy The Hockey Champions Trophy (HCT) was an international field hockey tournament held by the International Hockey Federation (IHF). Founded in 1978 by Pakistan's Air Marshal Nur Khan and the Pakistan Hockey Federation, it featured the world's top-ranked field hockey teams competing in a round robin format. A biennial women's tournament was added in 1987. The Champions Trophy was changed from an annual to a biennial event from 2014 onwards, due to the introduction of the Hockey World League (HWL). The 2018 edition was the last edition of the Champions Trophy and", "title": "Hockey Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "45800", "text": "FC Nürnberg who have won 9 titles. SpVgg Greuther Fürth have won 3 championships while TSV 1860 Munich have been champions once. FC Bayern won the German championship 27 times (record) and the UEFA Champions League 5 times. Many famous people have been born or lived in present-day Bavaria: Bavaria Bavaria (; German and Bavarian: \"Bayern\" ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (German and Bavarian: \"Freistaat Bayern\" ), is a landlocked federal state of Germany, occupying its southeastern corner. With an area of 70,550.19 square kilometres (27,200 sq mi), Bavaria is the largest German state by land area.", "title": "Bavaria" }, { "id": "6272013", "text": "against Juventus made Real Madrid the first team ever to repeat in the Champions League era, and the first to win consecutive titles in the competition since A.C. Milan in 1989 and 1990, when the tournament was known as the European Cup. Real Madrid’s title was its 12th, extending its record, and its third in four years. The achievement is also known as \"La Duodécima\". Real Madrid won their third title in a row in 2018 against Liverpool in Kyiv, with a great overhead bicycle goal by Gareth Bale, joined by a long-range goal from the Welshman too, the match", "title": "European Cup and UEFA Champions League history" }, { "id": "546649", "text": "a referee must step down at the end of his season. The age limit was established to ensure an elite level of fitness. Today, UEFA Champions League referees are required to pass a fitness test even to be considered at the international level. Each year, the winning team is presented with the European Champion Clubs' Cup, the current version of which has been awarded since 1967. Any team that wins the Champions League three years in a row or five times overall wins the right to retain a full-sized replica of the trophy (UEFA retains the original at all times).", "title": "UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "9907900", "text": "1992–93, Marseille reached the final for the second time in three years, but this time they prevailed. Marseille won Group A and suddenly found themselves in the final against Milan. Basile Boli hit home the winning goal as Marseille became the first French side to win a European trophy and as of 2018, the only to win the Champions League. Didier Deschamps and Fabien Barthez became the youngest captain and goalkeeper, respectively, to capture the title. Their fans greeted the triumph by chanting \"A jamais les premiers\" because they won the first \"Classico\" against PSG in 1971. The city exploded", "title": "1992–93 French Division 1" }, { "id": "3366167", "text": "the cut-off date. Bangladesh returned to the ICC Champions Trophy for the first time since 2006, and, for the first time, the West Indies failed to qualify. Security around the tournament was increased following the Ariana Grande concert attack in Manchester, just before the start of the competition. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that they would review security concerns. The 15 games played in the tournament were held across three venues – The Oval in London, Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham and Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. India did not announce their squad by the 25 April deadline due to", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "8252562", "text": "and the FA Cup to eventual winners Middlesbrough and Manchester United, respectively. In Europe, Arsenal lost two of their opening three UEFA Champions League group stage matches, 3–0 at home to Internazionale and 2–1 away to Dynamo Kyiv, but eventually finished top of the group. Arsenal ultimately reached the quarter-final stage of the Champions League, where they were eliminated by London rivals Chelsea. Continuing into the next season, a special gold version of the Premier League trophy was commissioned to commemorate Arsenal winning the title without a single defeat. In May 2018, this gold trophy was presented to Arsene Wenger", "title": "The Invincibles (football)" }, { "id": "546622", "text": "culminates with the final match in May. The winner of the UEFA Champions League qualifies for the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. Real Madrid is the most successful club in the competition's history, having won the tournament 13 times, including its first five seasons. Spanish clubs have accumulated the highest number of victories (18 wins), followed by England and Italy (12 wins apiece). England has the largest number of winning teams, with five clubs having won the title. The competition has been won by 22 clubs, 12 of which have won it more than once. The", "title": "UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "19898641", "text": "by their final time. In addition to their share of what was in their team bank account, first place players will receive $100,000 each, second will receive $15,000 each, and third will receive $5,000 each. Players were also told that they'd be sleeping at The Shelter for the duration of the final challenge. \"Updated after Episode 12.\" Note: In Episode 7's challenge, due to the fact that the champions team had 2 less players, 2 champions (Bananas and Laurel) had to go against Cory and Jenna (the final underdogs pair). The reunion special aired on May 16, 2017, one week", "title": "The Challenge: Invasion of the Champions" }, { "id": "3366173", "text": "announced that the tournament was scrapped, with the possibility of a World T20 tournament replacing it. 2021 ICC World Twenty20 will be organised in India. Team appearing for the first time, in alphabetical order per year. Most consecutive wins: India & West Indies with 6 matches. ICC Champions Trophy The ICC Champions Trophy was a one day international (ODI) cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC), second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC KnockOut Tournament in 1998 and has been played approximately every four years since. Its name was changed", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "3366152", "text": "pools of four in a round-robin format, with the top two teams in each pool playing in the semi-finals. Losing a single match potentially means elimination from the tournament. A total of 15 matches are played in the present format of the tournament, with the tournament lasting about two and a half weeks. Thirteen nations have qualified for the Champions Trophy at least once. Seven teams have competed in every finals tournament. Seven different nations have won the title. South Africa won the inaugural tournament, India and Australia have each won twice, while New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies and", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "20574602", "text": "the reigning champions, having defeated Alavés 3–1 in the earlier 2017 final at the Vicente Calderón in Madrid. This was their fifth consecutive final, a feat never accomplished before, and were seeking a fourth consecutive title, a record shared by Real Madrid (1905, 1906, 1907, 1908) and Athletic Bilbao (1930, 1931, 1932, 1933). Sevilla were competing in their ninth Copa del Rey final, having won a total of five titles prior (1935, 1939, 1948, 2007, and 2010). The pairing was a rematch from the 2016 final, where Barcelona won 2–0 after extra time. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> 2018 Copa del Rey Final The", "title": "2018 Copa del Rey Final" }, { "id": "19239772", "text": "Meisterschale The Meisterschale (English: Champions shield), colloquially referred to as the \"Salatschüssel\" (English: \"Salad bowl\"), is a German association football trophy which has been awarded to the German champions since 1949 and the Bundesliga champions since 1963–64. It replaced the \"Viktoria\" which was the original trophy since 1903 but diasappeared during the final stages of the Second World War only to resurface after the German reunification. The trophy has all German champions since 1903 engraved and had to be enlarged twice, in 1981 and 2009. In its current size it is estimated to have enough space for all champions until", "title": "Meisterschale" }, { "id": "6271946", "text": "are taken both over time and between nations. Regardless, the following clubs all won competitions further to \"the\" treble mentioned above: Juventus, Ajax, Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Manchester United are also the only teams to have won the three major UEFA official Cups, namely UEFA Champions League/European Cup, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, and UEFA Cup/Europa League. Juventus was the first club in association football history—and remain the only one at present—to have won all official continental tournaments and the world champions title. Chelsea became the first club to hold the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League trophies simultaneously", "title": "European Cup and UEFA Champions League records and statistics" }, { "id": "2828613", "text": "remains UEFA property, it is no longer given to a team that wins a fifth overall or third consecutive title. However, the multiple-winner badge is still awarded to such clubs. Liverpool therefore became the last ever team to be permanently awarded the trophy. Six teams have won five overall or three consecutive titles: A separate \"title-holder logo\" is worn by the reigning Champions League champions in the following season's competition in place of the regular patch worn by the other competing teams. The logo is predominantly dark blue and was introduced in 2004–05, with Porto as the defending champions. The", "title": "European Champion Clubs' Cup" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. 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The first legs were played on 2 and 3 May, and the second legs were played on 9 and 10 May 2017. <section begin=SF /> \"Real Madrid won 4–2 on aggregate.\" \"Juventus won 4–1 on aggregate.\" The final was played on 3 June 2017 at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. The \"home\" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw", "title": "2016–17 UEFA Champions League knockout phase" }, { "id": "19621587", "text": "four. <section begin=Round of 16 /> \"Paris Saint-Germain won 61–53 on aggregate.\" \"Montpellier won 61–54 on aggregate.\" \"MVM Veszprém won 52–41 on aggregate.\" \"Pick Szeged won 59–48 on aggregate.\" \"Flensburg-Handewitt won 54–51 on aggregate.\" \"THW Kiel won 50–49 on aggregate.\" <section begin=Quarterfinals /> \"Barcelona won 49–46 on aggregate.\" \"Vardar won 61–51 on aggregate.\" \"Paris Saint-Germain won 60–57 on aggregate.\" \"MVM Veszprém won 56–48 on aggregate.\" The final four was held at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany on 3 and 4 June 2017. The draw was held on 2 May 2017 in Cologne, Germany at 12:00. <section begin=Bracket /> <section", "title": "2016–17 EHF Champions League knockout stage" }, { "id": "19001984", "text": "stage. However, since Real Madrid already qualified for the group stage (as the champions of the 2016–17 La Liga), the Champions League title holders berth in the group stage is given to the Europa League title holders, Manchester United. League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders). The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise). In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2017", "title": "2017–18 UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "19677633", "text": "since 2009. On 28 December 2016, Tralee Warriors defeated Killorglin in the Premier Mens Final of the 47th Castleisland Christmas Blitz. On 2 April 2017, Tralee Warriors were crowned Champions Trophy winners after defeating regular-season champions Templeogue in the final of the season-finale tournament. Tralee were led by American guard Trae Pemberton (21 points, 9 rebounds), Serbian forward Goran Pantovic (15 points, 18 rebounds), and game MVP Kieran Donaghy (15 points, 16 rebounds, 8 assists). To conclude a fantastic inaugural season, Pemberton was named Men's Super League Player of the Year, Ryan Leonard was named Men's Super League Young Player", "title": "Tralee Warriors" }, { "id": "3366166", "text": "Test Championship. However, in January 2014, that decision was reversed, due to the massive success of the 2013 edition, with the ICC confirming that the 2017 Champions Trophy tournament would take place and the proposed Test Championship was cancelled. England and Wales hosted the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. England became the only country to host the Champions Trophy thrice, and England and Wales became the only countries to host the ICC Champions Trophy consecutively, also hosting the 2013 edition. Bangladesh replaced the West Indies, who finished outside the top eight in ninth position, in the ICC ODI Team Rankings on", "title": "ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "6650926", "text": "follows: 2001–02 UEFA Champions League The 2001–02 UEFA Champions League was the 47th season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club football tournament, and the 10th since its rebranding from the \"European Champion Clubs' Cup\" or \"European Cup\". The tournament was won by Real Madrid, who beat Bayer Leverkusen in the final to claim their ninth European Cup title. The final's winning goal was scored by Zinedine Zidane, with a left-footed volley from the edge of the penalty area. Bayer Leverkusen eliminated all three English teams on their way to the final: Arsenal in the second group stage, followed", "title": "2001–02 UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "7379227", "text": "career as an agent. Avangard Omsk won the RSL title in 2004, which qualified them for the inaugural IIHF European Champions Cup. They would be the first winners of that competition, beating Kärpät from the Finnish SM-liiga. Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Sibir Novosibirsk, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, Ak Bars Kazan and, to a lesser extent, Vityaz Chekhov, are considered to be Avangard's fiercest rivals in the KHL. This season is considered to be one of the worst in the franchise history, with the club's reputation being tarnished both on and off ice. During the summer, Anatoly Bardin, Omsk's general manager, was kept busy", "title": "Avangard Omsk" }, { "id": "15453565", "text": "and Adele with three apiece. Lady Gaga was the biggest winner of the night, taking home 4 awards. Other winners include Thirty Seconds to Mars, Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber with two apiece. During the show Selena Gomez said that MTV received 154 million votes from people around the globe. Queen received the Global Icon Award from Katy Perry, and the band closed the awards ceremony, with Adam Lambert on vocals, performing \"The Show Must Go On\", \"We Will Rock You\" and \"We Are the Champions\". Winners are in bold text. 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards The 2011 MTV EMAs", "title": "2011 MTV Europe Music Awards" }, { "id": "18871287", "text": "the final itself. The match was a repeat of the 1998 final, making it the eighth repeated final pairing. Real Madrid won the 1998 final 1–0. The 2017 final was the first time since the two teams met in 1998 that both finalists had won either their domestic league or the Champions League the previous season. Juventus reached their ninth final after a 4–1 aggregate win against Monaco to maintain their undefeated record in this season's competition. Juventus also entered the final with the best defensive record in the 2016–17 Champions League, having conceded only thrice. Previously Juventus won finals", "title": "2017 UEFA Champions League Final" }, { "id": "19139662", "text": "amounts were the same as those in 2015, with the champion receiving $250,000 and the runner-up $60,000. Also, the team from each lower division that advanced the furthest received $15,000. The champion of the tournament also received a berth in the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League. All United States Division I (MLS), Division II (NASL), and Division III (USL) teams qualified automatically, except teams that are majority owned by a higher-level outdoor professional league team. This rule prevented United Soccer League teams Bethlehem Steel FC, LA Galaxy II, New York Red Bulls II, Orlando City B, Portland Timbers 2, Real Monarchs,", "title": "2016 U.S. Open Cup" }, { "id": "3892555", "text": "to qualify via the qualifying playoffs, and they are also eligible to participate in the AFC Cup. Since 2009, the champions do not qualify automatically for the following year's competition. The winner of the AFC Champions League qualifies for the FIFA Club World Cup. The most successful club in the competition is the Pohang Steelers with a total of three titles. The reigning champions of the competition are the Kashima Antlers, who won the competition for the first time. The competition started as the Asian Club Championship, a tournament for the champions of each AFC nation, and had a variety", "title": "AFC Champions League" }, { "id": "19062560", "text": "January 2014 it was instead confirmed by the ICC that a Champions Trophy tournament would take place in 2017, with the proposed Test Championship being cancelled. As hosts, England qualified for the competition automatically; they were joined by the seven other highest-ranked teams in the ICC ODI Championship as at 30 September 2015. On 1 June 2016, it was announced that the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy would be held across three venues: The Oval, Edgbaston and Sophia Gardens. The ICC confirmed the umpires for all matches and venues on 18 May 2017. The eight participating teams were required to announce", "title": "2017 ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "6906658", "text": "group runners-up qualified for the quarter finals as opposed to all the second-placed teams. It was also the first to have two qualifying rounds instead of just one. After three years of entering the UEFA Cup, champions of smaller nations returned to the Champions League. For the first time, the runners-up of eight domestic leagues (three teams: Germany (Bayer Leverkusen, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund as UEFA Champions League title holder); two teams: England (Newcastle United, Manchester United), France (Monaco, Paris Saint-Germain), Netherlands (Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven), Italy (Juventus, Parma), Portugal (Porto, Sporting CP), Spain (Barcelona, Real Madrid) and Turkey (Beşiktaş, Galatasaray)", "title": "1997–98 UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "6650922", "text": "2001–02 UEFA Champions League The 2001–02 UEFA Champions League was the 47th season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA's premier club football tournament, and the 10th since its rebranding from the \"European Champion Clubs' Cup\" or \"European Cup\". The tournament was won by Real Madrid, who beat Bayer Leverkusen in the final to claim their ninth European Cup title. The final's winning goal was scored by Zinedine Zidane, with a left-footed volley from the edge of the penalty area. Bayer Leverkusen eliminated all three English teams on their way to the final: Arsenal in the second group stage, followed by", "title": "2001–02 UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "20175936", "text": "2017–18 Copa del Rey The 2017–18 Copa del Rey was the 116th staging of the Copa del Rey. The winners were assured a place for the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage. Barcelona were the three-time defending champions, and successfully defended their title following a 5–0 win over Sevilla in the final. Times up to 28 October 2017 and from 25 March 2018 are CEST (). Times from 29 October 2017 to 24 March 2018 are CET (). The following teams are qualified for the competition. Reserve teams are excluded. The draw for the first and the second round was", "title": "2017–18 Copa del Rey" }, { "id": "12159507", "text": "2010–11 UEFA Champions League The 2010–11 UEFA Champions League was the 56th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 19th under the current UEFA Champions League format. The final was held at Wembley Stadium in London on 28 May 2011, where Barcelona defeated Manchester United 3–1. Internazionale were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Schalke 04 in the quarter-finals. As winners, Barcelona earned berths in the 2011 UEFA Super Cup and the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup. A total of 76 teams participated in the 2010–11 Champions League, from 52 UEFA associations (Liechtenstein organises", "title": "2010–11 UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "11096080", "text": "You Are the Champion You Are the Champion is a cover version of Queen's iconic We Are the Champions, which was originally written by Freddie Mercury in 1977. Often used during sporting events, especially for victory celebrations, a special version was recorded by Scorpions and Michael Kleitmann in honor of Michael Schumacher winning his seventh F1 Formula One Championship. The song was slightly re-written, most notably changing it from \"We\" to \"You\" which is naturally a reference to Schumacher. The version of the song was released as a single \"You Are the Champion (Homage to Michael Schumacher)\" on September 20,", "title": "You Are the Champion" }, { "id": "2191928", "text": "Champions League and the winners of the UEFA Cup, which was renamed the UEFA Europa League in 2009. The current holders are Spanish club Atlético Madrid, who won 4–2 against Real Madrid in 2018. The most successful teams in the competition are Barcelona and Italian side Milan, who have won the trophy five times each. The European Super Cup was created in 1971 by Anton Witkamp, a reporter and later sports editor of Dutch newspaper \"De Telegraaf\". The idea came to him in a time when Dutch total football was Europe's finest and Dutch football clubs were living their golden", "title": "UEFA Super Cup" }, { "id": "19062559", "text": "2015 qualified for the tournament, and were divided into two groups of four. Bangladesh returned to the ICC Champions Trophy for the first time since 2006, while the West Indies failed to qualify for the first time. Security around the tournament was increased following the Ariana Grande concert attack in Manchester, just before the start of the competition. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that they would review security concerns. The ICC Champions Trophy was due to end in 2013, with the 2013 competition the final one, to be replaced by the ICC World Test Championship in 2017. However, in", "title": "2017 ICC Champions Trophy" }, { "id": "19699527", "text": "Copa del Rey, Hernández helped them reach the final for the first time in their 91-year history. During the decisive match on 27 May 2017, he scored the equaliser through a direct free kick in a 1–3 loss against FC Barcelona. On 5 July 2017, Hernández signed a six-year deal with Real Madrid. He made his competitive debut on 16 August, replacing Marco Asensio in a 2–0 home win against Barcelona for that year's Supercopa de España. Hernández made three appearances during the 2017–18 edition of the UEFA Champions League, helping the club win its third consecutive and 13th overall", "title": "Theo Hernández" }, { "id": "20598056", "text": "Thorns 3-0 to win the 2018 NWSL Championship and completed one of the most successful seasons for a professional women's soccer team in the United States. As defending 2017 Shield winners and playoff finalists, the Courage were selected to participate in the inaugural Women's International Champions Cup. They defeated French side Paris Saint-Germain Women in the semi-final round and French side and defending UEFA Women's Champions League titleholders Lyon Women in the final at Miami Garden's Hard Rock Stadium to become the first ever champions of the event. 2018 North Carolina Courage season The 2018 North Carolina Courage season is", "title": "2018 North Carolina Courage season" }, { "id": "9155667", "text": "AFCA National Championship Trophy The AFCA National Championship Trophy (also known as the Coaches' Trophy) is the trophy awarded annually by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) to the NCAA Division I FBS college football national champion as determined by the Coaches' Poll. The trophy has been presented since 1986 and was contractually given to the winner of the BCS National Championship Game and its predecessors from 1992 to 2013. It will continue to be awarded to the No. 1 ranked team in the final poll of the season. Patrick and Michael Gerrits came up with the idea for a", "title": "AFCA National Championship Trophy" }, { "id": "546626", "text": "ended in a 3–3 draw between Sporting CP and Partizan. The first goal in European Cup history was scored by João Baptista Martins of Sporting CP. The inaugural final took place at the Parc des Princes between Stade de Reims and Real Madrid. The Spanish squad came back from behind to win 4–3 thanks to goals from Alfredo Di Stéfano and Marquitos, as well as two goals from Héctor Rial. Real Madrid successfully defended the trophy next season in their home stadium, the Santiago Bernabéu, against Fiorentina. After a scoreless first half, Real Madrid scored twice in six minutes to", "title": "UEFA Champions League" }, { "id": "20648326", "text": "be awarded based on the world rankings after the 2018 English Open. Total: 31 2018 Champion of Champions The 2018 ManBetX Champion of Champions was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament which took place from 5 to 11 November 2018 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England. Shaun Murphy was the defending champion, but lost 3–6 in the semi-finals to Ronnie O'Sullivan in a repeat of the final of the previous edition of the tournament. Ronnie O'Sullivan defeated Kyren Wilson 10–9 in the final to capture his third Champion of Champions title. The breakdown of prize money for 2018 is shown", "title": "2018 Champion of Champions" }, { "id": "20696519", "text": "the top 2 teams advancing to join the main event. The tournament was hosted in Germany and France from 3 to 20 May 2018. Matches of the play-in and group stages were held in EU LCS Studio in Berlin, while playoffs took place in multi-purpose indoor arena Zénith Paris. Royal Never Give Up are the champions of the 2018 MSI, after taking down Kingzone DragonX in the finals. Uzi (Jian Zi-Hao) was named the MVP of the entire tournament, due to his outstanding performances. The results of the tournament have received numerous international debates and reactions. The event's finals, where", "title": "2018 Mid-Season Invitational" } ]

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[ { "id": "7939444", "text": "2011, with performances by Jay Leno and Aretha Franklin. In January 1995, Georgia Frontiere, the owner of the National Football League team known as the Los Angeles Rams (now St. Louis Rams), announced she would move that team to St. Louis. The team replaced the St. Louis Cardinals (now Arizona Cardinals), an NFL franchise that had moved to St. Louis in 1960 but departed for Arizona in 1988. The Rams played their first game in their St. Louis stadium, the Edward Jones Dome, on October 22, 1996. Starting in the early 1980s, more rehabilitation and construction projects began, some of", "title": "History of St. Louis" }, { "id": "8753847", "text": "History of the St. Louis Rams The professional American football franchise now known as the Los Angeles Rams played in St. Louis, Missouri, as the St. Louis Rams from the 1995 through the 2015 seasons before relocating back to Los Angeles where the team had played from the 1946 season to the 1994 season. The Rams franchise relocated from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995, which had been without a National Football League (NFL) team since the Cardinals moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1988. The Rams’ first home game in St. Louis was at Busch Memorial Stadium against the", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753913", "text": "History of the St. Louis Rams The professional American football franchise now known as the Los Angeles Rams played in St. Louis, Missouri, as the St. Louis Rams from the 1995 through the 2015 seasons before relocating back to Los Angeles where the team had played from the 1946 season to the 1994 season. The Rams franchise relocated from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995, which had been without a National Football League (NFL) team since the Cardinals moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1988. The Rams’ first home game in St. Louis was at Busch Memorial Stadium against the", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "13518834", "text": "the Rams move from Los Angeles: the Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants, New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, Arizona Cardinals (who played in St. Louis from 1960 to 1987), and Washington Redskins. After the vote was over, Dan Rooney publicly stated that he opposed the move of the Los Angeles Rams because \"I believe we should support the fans who have supported us for years.\" The 1995 and 1996 seasons, the Rams' first two in St. Louis, were under the direction of former Oregon Ducks head coach Rich Brooks. Their most prolific player from their first two seasons was the fan-favorite", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "16192478", "text": "History of the Los Angeles Rams The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team that play in the National Football League (NFL). The Rams franchise was founded in 1936 as the Cleveland Rams in the short-lived second American Football League before joining the NFL the next year. In 1946, the franchise moved to Los Angeles. The Rams franchise remained in the metro area until 1994, when they moved to St. Louis, and were known as the St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 2015. The Rams franchise returned to Los Angeles in 2016. This article chronicles the franchise's history", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "13518796", "text": "in 1980. After the 1994 NFL season, the Rams left California and moved east to St. Louis, Missouri. Five seasons after relocating, the team won Super Bowl XXXIV in a 23–16 victory over the Tennessee Titans. They appeared again in Super Bowl XXXVI, where they lost 20–17 to the New England Patriots. The Rams continued to play in Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis until the end of the 2015 NFL season, when the team filed notice with the NFL of its intent to pursue a relocation back to Los Angeles. The move was approved by a 30–2 margin at", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "13043669", "text": "pre-merger NFL Championship twice, in 1945 and 1951. After playing in Los Angeles from 1946 to 1994, the Rams moved to St. Louis in 1995. The team appeared in 2 Super Bowls while based in St. Louis, defeating the Tennessee Titans 23–16 to win Super Bowl XXXIV in 1999, and losing 20–17 to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXVI in 2001. The team's home in St. Louis, the Edward Jones Dome, hosted 66,965 spectators. On January 13, 2016, it was announced that NFL owners voted 30–2 to allow Rams ownership to move the team back to Los Angeles", "title": "Sports in St. Louis" }, { "id": "10185940", "text": "1994 Los Angeles Rams season The 1994 Los Angeles Rams season was the franchise’s 57th year with the National Football League and the 49th and last season in the Greater Los Angeles Area until their 2016 relocation back to Los Angeles. After nearly 50 years in the Greater Los Angeles Area, owner Georgia Frontiere announced that the team would relocate to St. Louis, Missouri on January 15, 1995. While the owners initially rejected the move, permission was eventually granted therefore bringing an end to Southern California's first major professional sports franchise until 2016. The threat of relocation dominated talk about", "title": "1994 Los Angeles Rams season" }, { "id": "375284", "text": "St. Louis Cardinals from 1960 to 1987, and the St. Louis Rams from 1995 to 2015. The football Cardinals advanced to the NFL playoffs just three times (1974, 1975 and 1982), never hosting or winning in any appearance. The Cardinals moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1988. The Rams played at the Edward Jones Dome from 1995 to 2015 and went on to win Super Bowl XXXIV. The Rams returned to Los Angeles, California in 2016. The St. Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) played at Kiel Auditorium from 1955 to 1968. They won the NBA championship in 1958", "title": "St. Louis" }, { "id": "10185952", "text": "Washington Redskins. After the vote was over, Dan Rooney publicly stated that he opposed the move of the Los Angeles Rams because 1994 Los Angeles Rams season The 1994 Los Angeles Rams season was the franchise’s 57th year with the National Football League and the 49th and last season in the Greater Los Angeles Area until their 2016 relocation back to Los Angeles. After nearly 50 years in the Greater Los Angeles Area, owner Georgia Frontiere announced that the team would relocate to St. Louis, Missouri on January 15, 1995. While the owners initially rejected the move, permission was eventually", "title": "1994 Los Angeles Rams season" }, { "id": "18403199", "text": "2015 St. Louis Rams season The St. Louis Rams season was the franchise's 78th season in the National Football League and the fourth under head coach Jeff Fisher. It was also the 21st and final season that the team resided in St. Louis, Missouri, its home since the 1995 season. After the Rams finished last in attendance for the 2015 season, and an arbitral tribunal gave permission for the Rams to void their lease on the Edward Jones Dome, Rams owner Stan Kroenke filed a formal application with the league to relocate the Rams to Los Angeles, California, where the", "title": "2015 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "13518849", "text": "tier\" negotiations failed to produce a solution to keep the Rams in St. Louis long term. On December 17, 2015, the Rams defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-23 at the Edward Jones Dome in what would be their final home game in St. Louis; their last game as the St. Louis Rams came two weeks later on the road against the San Francisco 49ers before moving back to Los Angeles the next season. Fans in St. Louis claimed Stan Kroenke, a Missouri native, as well as Kevin Demoff lied to the fans about their wishes to keep the Rams in", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "8753851", "text": "Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe on a temporary basis while a new stadium was being built. Unfortunately for the Cardinals, the savings and loan crisis derailed financing for the stadium, forcing the Cardinals to play at Arizona State for 18 years. Prior to the Rams’ 1979 Super Bowl season, owner Carroll Rosenbloom drowned in an accident. His widow, Georgia Frontiere, inherited 70% ownership of the team. Frontiere fired her step-son, Steve Rosenbloom, and assumed total control of the franchise. As had been planned prior to Carroll Rosenbloom's death, the Rams moved from their longtime home at the Los Angeles Memorial", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "18499527", "text": "players and opened up the West Coast to professional sports. After being based in Los Angeles for 49 years, the Rams franchise moved again after the 1994 NFL season to St. Louis. In 2016, the team moved back to Los Angeles after 21 seasons in St. Louis. The Rams franchise, founded in 1936 by attorney/businessman Homer Marshman and player-coach Damon \"Buzz\" Wetzel, was named for the then-powerhouse Fordham Rams and because the name was short and would fit easily into a newspaper headline. Coached by Wetzel, and featuring future Hall-of-Fame coach Sid Gillman as a receiver, the team finished 5–2–2", "title": "History of the Cleveland Rams" }, { "id": "8753856", "text": "offense, running for 1,429 yards as a rookie and 1,025 in his sophomore effort. As early as the close of the 1992 season, Georgia Frontiere announced she wanted to break the Rams’ lease of Anaheim Stadium. After the 1993 season, Frontiere attempted to move the Rams to Baltimore, but her fellow owners turned that proposal down. Frontiere then sought to relocate the team to St. Louis. This move was initially voted down as well, with 21 opposed, 3 in favor (the Rams, Cincinnati Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers), and 6 abstaining. The other owners (led by Buffalo's Ralph Wilson, the", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753849", "text": "Cardinals called Busch Memorial Stadium home after it opened in 1966, after spending their first six seasons in St. Louis at Sportsman's Park; they shared both stadiums with the baseball team of the same name. However, the overall mediocrity of the Cardinals, combined with stadium issues, caused game attendance to dwindle. Consequently, the Bidwills, the family that owned the Cardinals, decided to move the team for a second time after having relocated the franchise from Chicago to St. Louis in 1960. The cities the Bidwells considered included Baltimore, Phoenix, New York City, and Jacksonville, whilst Columbus and Oakland also made", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753862", "text": "by the 49ers in the last game at Busch Stadium sent the team into a downward spiral, and they ultimately finished 7–9 — still the franchise's closest to “contention” since 1989. Perhaps the most memorable aspect was that veteran offensive lineman and future Hall of Famer Jackie Slater played his 20th and final season with the team in its new St. Louis location. The next three years would largely be a repeat of the Rams’ last five years in Los Angeles. The team drafted highly touted Nebraska running back Lawrence Phillips with the sixth overall pick in the 1996 NFL", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "1804373", "text": "the All-Stars franchise. St. Louis would later become a stop for other NFL teams: the St. Louis Gunners very briefly joined the NFL at the end of the 1934 season, the St. Louis Cardinals relocated from Chicago to play in the city from 1960 to 1987 (when the team moved to Arizona), and the St. Louis Rams came to the city (formerly from Los Angeles) in 1995 to 2015 when the Rams returned to Los Angeles. St. Louis All-Stars St. Louis All-Stars was a professional football team that played in the National Football League during the 1923 season. The team", "title": "St. Louis All-Stars" }, { "id": "8753848", "text": "New Orleans Saints on September 10, 1995, before the Trans World Dome (later the Edward Jones Dome, and now known as The Dome at America's Center) was completed for their November 12 game against the Carolina Panthers. Their last game played at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis was against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on December 17, 2015, which they won, 31–23. The Rams’ last game as a St. Louis-based club was on January 3, 2016, against the San Francisco 49ers at Levi's Stadium, where they lost in overtime 19–16. For 22 of their 28 years the St. Louis", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753859", "text": "the second largest media market in America — for St. Louis (approximately the 18th-largest) was simply irresponsible and foolish, in spite of the notoriously fickle support of Los Angeles fans. With the Raiders moving from L.A. back to Oakland only a few months later, the NFL would have no franchise in Los Angeles for two decades, although the Coliseum was used for professional football in 2001 by the Los Angeles Xtreme of the now-defunct XFL. While the Rams dealt with stadium concerns in Los Angeles, efforts were under way to regain an NFL franchise in St. Louis to play in", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "16192519", "text": "over, Steelers owner Dan Rooney publicly stated that he opposed the move of the Los Angeles Rams because \"I believe we should support the fans who have supported us for years.\" While in St. Louis, the Rams played their first few home games at Busch Memorial Stadium before the Trans World Dome (now known as the Dome at America's Center) was completed during the middle of the 1995 season. Aided by an offense nicknamed \"The Greatest Show on Turf\", a period of success occurred between 1999 and 2004 when the team qualified for the playoffs in five out of those", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "8753860", "text": "a new domed stadium slated to open in 1995. First, Anheuser-Busch scion Jim Orthwein tried, and ultimately failed, to move the New England Patriots to St. Louis. Then, despite being heavily favored along with Charlotte to win an expansion team, St. Louis lost to a group from Jacksonville, Florida. So certain, in fact, did it appear that St. Louis would gain an expansion franchise, that the team had a name selected – the Stallions – and T-shirts with the team's logo were made very briefly available for sale at a number of St. Louis area sports shops. Just before moving", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753861", "text": "to St. Louis, the Rams fired Knox and hired Rich Brooks, longtime successful football coach at the University of Oregon, to replace him. The team played its first several games in St. Louis at Busch Stadium (the home of the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals from 1966 until 1987) as work finished on their new home, the Trans World Dome. Brooks jettisoned Knox's run-oriented scheme in favor of a powerful air attack. Bettis all but disappeared from the offense, rushing for only 637 yards. Despite this, the Rams started off well, getting off to a 5–1 start. However, a 44–10 thumping", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753912", "text": "a compromise, the Rams succeeded and announced their relocation to Los Angeles, effectively ending the team's 21-year tenure in St. Louis. The Chargers organization was given the first option to join the Rams after a year (if they failed to reach a new stadium deal with the city of San Diego); the Chargers exercised this option on January 12, 2017, making Los Angeles home to two NFL franchises again. (Had the Chargers declined to exercise this option, then the Raiders would have had this option). Numbers of players who played in St. Louis that have been retired by the Rams:", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "13518831", "text": "stadium and withering fan support. Frontiere finally gave up and decided to move the Rams franchise to St. Louis. However, on March 15, 1995, the other league owners rejected Frontiere's bid to move the franchise by a 21–3–6 vote. Then-Commissioner Paul Tagliabue stated after rejecting the move, \"This was one of the most complex issues we have had to approach in years. We had to balance the interest of fans in Los Angeles and in St. Louis that we appreciate very much. In my judgment, they did not meet the guidelines we have in place for such a move.\" The", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "394975", "text": "Angeles. Owners initially planned on selecting only two hosts (XXXIII and XXXIV), but decided to name three after strong showings by the respective delegations. Miami, Atlanta, and Tampa were selected to host XXXIII, XXXIV, and XXXV, respectively. The Rams entered 1999 having been among the league's stragglers for a decade. The reasons are many, including, some suggest, mismanagement by executive John Shaw. The franchise moved to a taxpayer-funded stadium in St. Louis, Missouri for the 1995 season, but continued to struggle. In 1997, the team hired Dick Vermeil as their head coach, bringing him back to the NFL after 15", "title": "Super Bowl XXXIV" }, { "id": "18925403", "text": "National Car Rental Field National Car Rental Field was a proposed multipurpose stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. It was proposed to become the home of St. Louis Rams (now the Los Angeles Rams) of the National Football League (NFL) before their move to the Greater Los Angeles Area was announced. The stadium cost was estimated at $1.1 billion. When the Rams moved from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995, the contract stated that the Edward Jones Dome had to be a \"top tier\" stadium by 2015, or the Rams had the option to stop leasing the stadium. When this", "title": "National Car Rental Field" }, { "id": "17084717", "text": "San Diego Chargers announced their intentions to relocate back to Los Angeles in the ensuing offseason (all three teams had previously resided in the city at various points in their history). NFL owners eventually only approved the relocation of the Rams, by a vote of 30–2 on January 12, 2016. Thus, 2015 ended up being the Rams' last season in St. Louis. The 2015 NFL League Year began on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. ET. On Saturday, March 7, clubs started to contact and enter into contract negotiations with the certified agents of players who became unrestricted free", "title": "2015 NFL season" }, { "id": "8753854", "text": "championships in 1980 and 1982 en route to winning five titles in that decade, the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series in 1981 and 1988, and the Los Angeles Kings, buoyed by the acquisition of Wayne Gretzky in August 1988, advanced to the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals. Although not apparent at the time, the Rams’ loss in the marked the end of an era. The Rams would not have another winning season in Los Angeles before relocation. The first half of the 1990s featured four straight 10-loss (or worse) seasons, no playoff appearances and waning fan interest. The return", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "964097", "text": "31–24 at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Busch Stadium was also briefly the home of the St. Louis Rams, who relocated from Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California. Completion of their new home, the new and nearby Trans World Dome (later renamed the Dome at America's Center) was delayed, so the Rams played the first half of the 1995 season at Busch Stadium, with four home games, the last on October 22. The new indoor venue hosted its first NFL game on November 12, 1995. In between the Cardinals' and the Rams' eras, the stadium hosted two NFL exhibition games, between", "title": "Busch Memorial Stadium" }, { "id": "10214368", "text": "1973 Los Angeles Rams season The 1973 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 36th year with the National Football League and the 28th season in Los Angeles. The Rams were 7–0 at home for the first time since 1945. On the road, the Rams were 5–2. The Rams donned new uniforms, which remained in use until 1994, their final season in Los Angeles, and though they moved to St. Louis in 1995, the uniform tradition continued until 1999, where they won Super Bowl XXXIV. Newly acquired quarterback John Hadl, the NFC Player of the Year in 1973, and a", "title": "1973 Los Angeles Rams season" }, { "id": "8753903", "text": "49ers. Overall, the team finished their final season in St. Louis with a 7–9 record. The Rams and the St. Louis CVC began negotiating a deal to get the Rams’ home stadium, the Edward Jones Dome, into the top 25 percent of stadiums in the league (i.e., top eight of 32 NFL teams, in reference to luxury boxes, amenities and overall fan experience). Under the terms of the lease agreement, the St. Louis CVC was required to make modifications to the Edward Jones Dome in 2005. However, then-owner Georgia Frontiere waived this provision, in exchange for cash that served as", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753885", "text": "play to his offensive coordinator. Poor draft choices and mediocre records began to pile up for the once-budding dynasty as the post-Martz era found the Rams in chaos. Hoping to regain control within the franchise, the Rams hired former Dolphins offensive coordinator Scott Linehan as head coach on January 19, 2006. On January 24, Jim Haslett, the former head coach of the Saints, signed a three-year deal as defensive coordinator. Following the 2007 season, Georgia Frontiere died on January 18, 2008 after having owned the team for 28 years. Ownership of the team passed to her son Dale “Chip” Rosenbloom", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753879", "text": "(24th overall) to select running back Steven Jackson from Oregon State. The Rams began their 10th year in St. Louis at home, winning their home opener over the Arizona Cardinals 17–10. They then lost the next two games: to the eventual NFC South champion Atlanta Falcons 34–17, and to the New Orleans Saints at home 28–25 in overtime. The Rams got to 2–2 on the season with a 24–14 road victory over the San Francisco 49ers. In Week 5, they defeated the Seattle Seahawks 33–27 on the road, as Bulger connected with Shaun McDonald for the 52-yard winning score in", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "13518827", "text": "game, then beat the Giants in overtime before suffering a 30-3 flogging at the hands of the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game. Although it wasn't apparent at the time, the 1989 NFC Championship Game was the end of an era. The Rams would never have another winning season for the rest of their first tenure in Los Angeles before relocating to St. Louis. They crumbled to 5-11 in 1990, followed by a 3-13 season in 1991. Robinson was fired at the end of the 1991 season. The return of Chuck Knox as head coach, after Knox's successful stints as", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "13043668", "text": "and they played in St. Louis 1960 to 1987. They advanced to the playoffs just three times (1974, 1975 & 1982), never hosting or winning in any appearance. In 1987, the team moved to Phoenix, Arizona and became the Phoenix Cardinals; the team changed its geographic location name to Arizona in 1994. Before moving to St. Louis, the Cardinals were based in Chicago. The Chicago Cardinals played there from their founding in 1920 until their move to Missouri in 1959. The St. Louis Rams played in the city from 1995-2015. Founded in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio, the Rams won the", "title": "Sports in St. Louis" }, { "id": "8753870", "text": "at the 3-yard line but was stopped in a play known as “The Tackle”; Rams linebacker Mike Jones brought Dyson down just 18 inches shy of the goal line, ending the game and giving the Rams and coach Dick Vermeil their first Super Bowl victory. Warner was named Super Bowl MVP. Following the Rams’ Super Bowl victory, Vermeil retired from football (though he came back in 2001 as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs) and was replaced by offensive coordinator (and apprentice) Mike Martz. In Mike Martz’ first year as Rams head coach, the defending-champion Rams started the season", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "16192512", "text": "for the Rams. Claiming that Southern California was so unprofitable that the Rams would go bankrupt without a new stadium, Mrs. Frontiere decided to move the team. Georgia Frontiere initially attempted to relocate the Rams to Baltimore, but her fellow owners turned that proposal down. Mrs. Frontiere then sought to relocate the team to St. Louis. This move was initially voted down as well. The other owners (led by Buffalo’s Ralph Wilson, the Jets’ Leon Hess, the Giants' Wellington Mara, Washington's Jack Kent Cooke, Arizona's Bill Bidwill and Minnesota's John Skoglund) believed that the Rams’ financial problems were due to", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "8753850", "text": "overtures without Bidwell considering them. Nonetheless, Cardinals fans were unhappy at losing their team, and Bill Bidwill, fearing for his safety, stayed away from several of the 1987 home games. The Cardinals’ final home game in St. Louis was on December 13, 1987, which they won 27–24 over the New York Giants in front of 29,623 fans on a late Sunday afternoon. Not long after the 1987 season, Bidwill agreed to move to the Phoenix area on a handshake deal with state and local officials, and the team became the Phoenix Cardinals. They planned to play at Arizona State University’s", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "10186085", "text": "on the schedule more frequently.” Rumors of relocation affected the Rams’ performance: owner Georgia Frontiere had wanted to break the Rams’ lease of Anaheim Stadium at the end of the 1992 season, and there were over seven thousand no-shows at the November 21 game against the Redskins. At Christmas time, it was revealed that Frontiere wanted to move the Rams to Baltimore, which had lost out surprisingly to Jacksonville, Florida in the recent league expansion bid. This relocation was not approved, but the inadequacy of Anaheim Stadium led Frontiere to move the team to her hometown of St. Louis in", "title": "1993 Los Angeles Rams season" }, { "id": "7920072", "text": "of the Avalanche and Nuggets to his wife, Ann Walton Kroenke. On April 13, 1995, Stan Kroenke helped Georgia Frontiere move the Los Angeles Rams from Anaheim to St. Louis by purchasing a 30% share of the team. In April 2010, as he was trying to gain full ownership of the team, and knowing of an escape clause in the Rams lease at the Edward Jones Dome, Stan Kroenke said: \"I'm going to attempt to do everything that I can to keep the Rams in St. Louis.\" In February 2013, the Rams and the City of St. Louis went to", "title": "Stan Kroenke" }, { "id": "13518850", "text": "St. Louis. In his final years, Kroenke was referred to \"Silent Stan\" as he refused to speak about the team and the potential move. In a last-ditch effort, St. Louis came up with a viable stadium plan to keep the team, but the NFL and the Rams' position was that the Rams followed the agreed upon remediation process laid out in the Edward Jones Dome lease, and that St. Louis' hastily put together plan shifted too much of the stadium cost to the Rams franchise. Ultimately, the owners voted to allow the Rams to relocate to Los Angeles. On January", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "8753894", "text": "Bradford and convinced the Redskins to give up two first-round draft picks and one second-round draft pick in exchange for the Rams’ #2 overall pick. This moved the Rams down to the #6 pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, which they in turn traded to Dallas, but were left with an abundance of others for future use. Following the draft, they signed undrafted Oregon State punter Johnny Hekker, who would become a Pro Bowl-caliber player. The Rams started 2012 with low hopes, but the draft trade with Washington confirmed Bradford would be their quarterback of the future. The team then", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "964087", "text": "Busch Memorial Stadium Busch Memorial Stadium, also known as Busch Stadium II, was a multi-purpose sports facility in St. Louis, Missouri, that operated for 40 years, from 1966 through 2005. The stadium served as the home of the St. Louis Cardinals National League baseball team for its entire operating existence, while also serving as home to the National Football League's Cardinals team for 22 seasons, from 1966 through 1987, as well as the St. Louis Rams during part of the 1995 season. It opened four days after the last baseball game was played at Sportsman's Park (which had also been", "title": "Busch Memorial Stadium" }, { "id": "16192689", "text": "the 1988 NFL season. The NFL returned to St. Louis in 1995, when the Los Angeles Rams relocated there. The Cardinals and Rams became divisional rivals in 2002 after the NFL realigned from six divisions to eight; this meant that the Cardinals, now in the NFC West, would play one game in St. Louis annually until the 2015 season, when the Rams announced that they were relocating in 2016 to Los Angeles for the second time (the first being from Cleveland in 1946) which meant St. Louis became the first city to have lost two NFL teams that have relocated", "title": "History of the St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)" }, { "id": "8753853", "text": "Baseball franchise. To accommodate the Rams’ move, the ballpark was reconfigured with luxury suites and enclosed to accommodate crowds of about 65,000 for football. In 1982 the Coliseum was occupied by the Los Angeles Raiders (now the Oakland Raiders and from 2020 the Las Vegas Raiders). The combined effect of these two factors was to force the Rams’ traditional fan base to be split between two teams. Making matters even worse, at this time the Rams were unsuccessful on the field, while the Raiders were thriving — even winning Super Bowl XVIII in 1983. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Lakers won", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753882", "text": "in the regular season and then win a playoff game. However, St. Louis was thrashed in the divisional round by the Atlanta Falcons 47–17. During the 2005 NFL Draft, the Rams used their first pick on OT Alex Barron from Florida State. They lost on the road in Week 1 to the 49ers, 28–25, but rebounded with a 17–12 road win over Arizona and former Rams quarterback Kurt Warner. The Rams won their Week 3 home opener against the Titans 31–27 before dropping three straight games. In Week 5, Martz was diagnosed with an infection in his heart, and Joe", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "10213132", "text": "1989 Los Angeles Rams season The 1989 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 52nd year with the National Football League and the 44th season in Los Angeles. It constituted their last postseason appearance in Los Angeles before owner Georgia Frontiere, who would eventually move the team, sold many top players, and they were only stopped by a powerful 49ers team from reaching the Super Bowl. It also constituted their last winning season until 1999 in St. Louis, and last as the L.A. Rams until 2017. In week 16, Jerry Gray returned an interception 27 yards for a touchdown. The", "title": "1989 Los Angeles Rams season" }, { "id": "16192530", "text": "to the Edward Jones Dome in light of those entities, as well as taxpayers, continuing to owe approximately $300 million more on that facility. As such, if a resolution was not reached by the end of the 2014 NFL season and the city of St. Louis remained non-compliant in its obligations under the lease agreement, the Rams would be free to nullify their lease and go to a year-to-year lease. Months later, the Rams scheduled to play in London, which violates the Edward Jones Dome's terms of lease. On January 4, 2016, the St. Louis Rams filed for relocation to", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "10063444", "text": "history as simply “The Tackle”. 1999 St. Louis Rams season The 1999 St. Louis Rams season was the team’s 62nd year with the National Football League and the fifth season in St. Louis, Missouri. The Rams finished the regular-season with a record of 13–3, and the NFC West Championship. It was the team’s first playoff appearance in St. Louis, their first since 1989, and their first division title since 1985. The Rams were undefeated at home for the first time since 1973. On the road, the Rams were 5–3. In the post-season, they defeated the Minnesota Vikings by a score", "title": "1999 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "10214371", "text": "the game, setting a new NFL record. For his efforts, Dryer was named the Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Week. 1973 Los Angeles Rams season The 1973 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 36th year with the National Football League and the 28th season in Los Angeles. The Rams were 7–0 at home for the first time since 1945. On the road, the Rams were 5–2. The Rams donned new uniforms, which remained in use until 1994, their final season in Los Angeles, and though they moved to St. Louis in 1995, the uniform tradition continued until", "title": "1973 Los Angeles Rams season" }, { "id": "11544394", "text": "Carroll Rosenbloom, was a businessman who, first with the Baltimore Colts and then the Los Angeles Rams, was the winningest owner in NFL history. Following his father's death in 1979, Rosenbloom's mother Georgia Frontiere became majority owner of the Rams. She later moved the team to St. Louis. Frontiere died in 2008, at which time Rosenbloom became controlling owner of the team. The family sold the majority interest in the team to E. Stanley Kroenke at the end of the 2010 season. Rosenbloom remains a part owner of the Rams, and serves as the team's vice-chairman. After graduating the USC", "title": "Chip Rosenbloom" }, { "id": "18403200", "text": "team is temporarily play at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four seasons at which time they will relocate to the stadium in Inglewood, California, when the construction of it is complete. They were originally slated to play at Coliseum for only three seasons; delays in the construction of the new venue resulted in the added season for which they would play at the historic Coliseum. Kroenke's request to move the team to Los Angeles was approved on January 12, 2016, at a meeting in Houston, Texas. The Rams missed the playoffs for the eleventh straight season, tying a record", "title": "2015 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "10063428", "text": "1999 St. Louis Rams season The 1999 St. Louis Rams season was the team’s 62nd year with the National Football League and the fifth season in St. Louis, Missouri. The Rams finished the regular-season with a record of 13–3, and the NFC West Championship. It was the team’s first playoff appearance in St. Louis, their first since 1989, and their first division title since 1985. The Rams were undefeated at home for the first time since 1973. On the road, the Rams were 5–3. In the post-season, they defeated the Minnesota Vikings by a score of 49–37 in the NFC", "title": "1999 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "7442113", "text": "the franchise until she died in 1962. However, during Frontiere's tenure, she was the only active female majority owner in the NFL. During her years as owner, Frontiere moved the Rams twice, first relocating from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1980 to Anaheim (a deal Carroll made in 1978), then to St. Louis in 1995. Initially criticized and harassed for being a woman in a league dominated by men and for not being capable of running a football team, Frontiere quickly asserted control of the Rams and addressed her detractors during her first press conference saying, \"There are some", "title": "Georgia Frontiere" }, { "id": "13518847", "text": "low marks for tailgating, affordability and atmosphere. On January 20, 2012, it was announced that the Rams would play one home game a season at Wembley Stadium in London for the next 3 seasons. The first game was played against the New England Patriots on October 28, 2012. On August 13, 2012, it was announced that the Rams had withdrawn from the 2013 and 2014 games. At this time, the Rams began negotiations with St. Louis about what steps could be taken to remediate the \"top tier\" requirement of the lease. On March 10, 2015, the Rams traded starting quarterback", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "8753878", "text": "their inaugural 1976 season. In 2003, Warner lost the starting job to Bulger after suffering six fumbles in the season opener against the New York Giants. Warner was released by the Rams in June 2004 and quickly signed a free agent contract with the Giants, effectively ending the “Greatest Show on Turf” era. The 2003 season saw the Rams go 12–4, winning the NFC West again. However, the Rams lost a crushing divisional-round defeat to the Carolina Panthers (29–23 in double overtime), who went on to become NFC champions. During the 2004 NFL Draft, the Rams used their first pick", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "13518852", "text": "Angeles. The same day, the NFL announced that any franchise approved for relocation would need to pay a $550 million relocation fee. On January 12, 2016, the NFL owners voted 30–2 to allow the Rams to return to Los Angeles. The Rams were the first major league sports team to relocate since 2011 when the Atlanta Thrashers left Atlanta and became the new Winnipeg Jets. The team held a press conference at The Forum in Inglewood on January 15, 2016, to officially announce its return to Los Angeles to start play in the 2016 season and on that day the", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "7158861", "text": "similar installations by this point; it was eventually converted to an AstroTurf-branded surface that more resembled FieldTurf, though this dark surface only increased the dreary feel of the stadium). By the early 2010s, the dome was consistently considered one of the worst stadiums in the NFL. On January 12, 2016, the NFL approved a request by Rams owner Stan Kroenke to move the Rams back to the Greater Los Angeles Area. The Rams plan to play in a new stadium in Inglewood, California due to open in 2020. The team's move left St. Louis with no team and no realistic", "title": "St. Louis Stallions" }, { "id": "10213487", "text": "1979 Los Angeles Rams season The 1979 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 42nd year with the National Football League and the 34th season in Los Angeles. It was the final season for the franchise in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum until 2016, as late owner Carroll Rosenbloom previously announced the Rams would move to Anaheim Stadium for the 1980 season. The Rams won their seventh-consecutive NFC West title in 1979, and went to the Super Bowl for the first time. It was the team's only Super Bowl appearance while based in Los Angeles, and their first appearance in", "title": "1979 Los Angeles Rams season" }, { "id": "8753888", "text": "share of Rams for sale. They retained the services of Goldman Sachs, a prominent investment banking firm, to help facilitate the sale of the Rams by evaluating bids and soliciting potential buyers. The sale price was unknown, but at the time \"Forbes\" estimated the team's value at $929 million. On the final day to do so, then-minority owner Stan Kroenke invoked his right of first refusal to buy the 60% of the team that he did not already own. The original intended buyer, Shahid Khan, would later acquire the Jaguars after the 2011 season. Pursuant to NFL rules, owners are", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "249087", "text": "St. Louis, on January 12, 2016, the NFL announced that the Rams would be moving back to Los Angeles for the 2016 NFL season. A new stadium will be built in Inglewood, California for the team by the 2020 season. Prior to 1995, the Rams played their home games in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1946 to 1979 and the Raiders played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1982 to 1994. The San Diego Chargers announced on January 12, 2017 that they would relocate to Los Angeles and become the Los Angeles Chargers beginning in", "title": "Los Angeles" }, { "id": "16468870", "text": "San Jose Earthquakes in their move to become the Houston Dynamo (a new Earthquakes team eventually returned). On April 13, 1995, Stan Kroenke helped Georgia Frontiere move the Los Angeles Rams from Anaheim to St. Louis by purchasing a 30% share of the team. In April 2010, as a majority stock holder, Kroenke said: \"I'm going to attempt to do everything that I can to keep the Rams in St. Louis. Just as I did everything that I could to bring the team to St. Louis in 1995. I believe my actions speak for themselves.\" In August 2010, Stan Kroenke", "title": "National Football League controversies" }, { "id": "8753886", "text": "and daughter Lucia Rodriguez. Rosenbloom was named the new Rams majority owner. Linehan was fired on September 29, 2008, after the team started the 0–4, and Haslett took over as interim head coach for the rest of the season. In late December, Shaw and Zygmunt both resigned and Billy Devaney was promoted to general manager. Steve Spagnuolo was named head coach in January 2009. Spagnuolo had masterminded the Giants’ defensive scheme that shut down the previously undefeated New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. As the 2009 season began, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh put in an offer to", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "7158857", "text": "hostile takeover that resulted in his purchase of the Patriots in 1994. During the 1994 season Georgia Frontiere, the owner of the Los Angeles Rams, was having trouble finding a new stadium for her team as the city of Los Angeles and the surrounding area was not willing to have taxpayer money pay for it. At the time, the Rams were playing in Anaheim Stadium, to which the team had moved in 1980 from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and which had required a massive reconstruction in order for the Rams to be able to play in what was originally", "title": "St. Louis Stallions" }, { "id": "19128101", "text": "meeting on January 12; after two ballots, the Rams' proposal was accepted on a 30–2 vote. The Coliseum was previously the Rams' home for 34 seasons (1946–1979); they moved to Anaheim Stadium in Orange County in 1980, and played there for fifteen seasons before the move to St. Louis in 1995. Notes On November 25, 2015, the NFL announced that the Rams would play host to a then-undetermined NFC East opponent in the International Series, in the first-ever game at Twickenham Stadium in London, United Kingdom. On January 3, 2016, the New York Giants were confirmed as the Rams' opponent", "title": "2016 Los Angeles Rams season" }, { "id": "6578732", "text": "if plans to renovate Edward Jones Dome did not materialize. But the Rams chose to return to Southern California. The team formally filed its request to leave St. Louis for Los Angeles on January 4, 2016. On January 12, 2016, the NFL approved the Rams' request for relocation to Los Angeles for the 2016 NFL season. In October 2016, groundbreaking began for the $222 million dollar Fenton Logistics Park by KP Development. It will include two million square feet of office, warehouse, and industrial space. Some of models produced at the North and South plants included: Saint Louis Assembly Saint", "title": "Saint Louis Assembly" }, { "id": "16192516", "text": "the Rams to St. Louis. However, on March 15, 1995, the other league owners rejected Frontiere's bid to move the franchise by a 21–3–6 vote. Then-Commissioner Paul Tagliabue stated after rejecting the move, \"This was one of the most complex issues we have had to approach in years. We had to balance the interest of fans in Los Angeles and in St. Louis that we appreciate very much. In my judgment, they did not meet the guidelines we have in place for such a move.\" The commissioner also added: \"Once the bridges have been burned and people get turned off", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "8753852", "text": "Coliseum to Anaheim Stadium in nearby Orange County in 1980. The move was necessitated in part by the fact that the Coliseum was difficult to sell out because of its abnormally large seating capacity (100,000), subjecting the team to the league's local-market TV blackout rule, whenever home games did not sell out. Also, Southern California's population patterns were changing; there was rapid growth in L.A.’s affluent suburbs (e.g. greater Orange County) and a decline in the city of Los Angeles’ citizenship and earning power. Anaheim Stadium was originally built in 1966 as the home of the California Angels Major League", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753884", "text": "a 56-yard touchdown strike from Fitzpatrick to receiver Kevin Curtis. However, they lost their next four games. Martin and the Rams managed to end their disastrous season on a positive note, beating Dallas on the road in ESPN’s final Sunday night game. Martz was fired at season’s end. Despite having a talent-laden roster, the Rams’ front-office dysfunction had traveled from California to Missouri. With team president John Shaw remaining in Los Angeles after the relocation, president of football operations Jay Zygmunt clashed with head coach Martz, including an incident in which Zygmunt prevented the ill Martz from phoning in a", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "8753906", "text": "end of the 2014 NFL season; therefore, with the City of St. Louis remaining in non-compliance with its obligations under the lease agreement, the Rams were free to nullify the lease and change to a year-to-year lease. Months later, the Rams scheduled a game to be played in London, violating the Edward Jones Dome's terms of lease. On January 31, 2014, both the \"Los Angeles Times\" and the \"St. Louis Post-Dispatch\" reported that Rams owner Stan Kroenke purchased approximately 60 acres of land adjacent to the Forum in Inglewood, California for a purchase price rumored to be between $90 million", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "3469988", "text": "a live-action educational program block distributed by Steve Rotfeld Productions that is syndicated primarily to Fox stations, on Saturday mornings through an agreement involving Tribune's Fox-affiliated stations. KTVI became the official \"home\" station of the St. Louis Rams—which had relocated to the city from Los Angeles in 1995 (with the exception of select primetime telecasts on Thursday, Sunday and Monday nights, KTVI broadcast most of the NFL franchise's road games as well as most sold out home games against other NFC teams). KTVI's status as the team's primary station ended after the 2015 season, as a consequence of NFL team", "title": "KTVI" }, { "id": "13518846", "text": "for the 2012 season. Under the terms of the lease that the Rams signed in St. Louis, the Edward Jones Dome was required to be ranked in the top tier of NFL stadiums through the 2015 season. The Rams were free to break the lease and either relocate without penalty or continue to lease the Dome on a year-to-year basis. In May 2012, the Dome was ranked by \"Time\" magazine as the 7th worst major sports stadium in the United States. In a 2008 \"Sports Illustrated\" poll, St. Louis fans ranked it the worst of any NFL stadium with particularly", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "4392249", "text": "Los Angeles radio outlet, KNX (1070 AM). The station also moved its transmitter from Mount Lee, where it had been based since its experimental days, to Mount Wilson. In 1956, CBS began broadcasting NFL games, and with it, the Los Angeles Rams had their games aired on Channel 2. This alliance would continue through the 1993 season, when Fox took over the rights to broadcast NFC games, which led to KTTV being the new home station for one season in 1994, before the Rams moved to St. Louis. With the Rams' return to Los Angeles in 2016, Channel 2 will", "title": "KCBS-TV" }, { "id": "16192533", "text": "12 votes. After hours of searching to find a compromise, it was determined that the Rams would relocate to Los Angeles and the Chargers would have the option to join them, while the Raiders would have the option to join the Rams if the Chargers elected not to move. Until the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park has finished construction and is ready for use, the Rams are playing their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which had been home to the team for 33 seasons (1946–1979), and is currently also the home of the USC Trojans college", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "20077171", "text": "approve the move, which was announced at the annual league meetings in Phoenix, Arizona on March 27, 2017. The Raiders became the third NFL franchise to relocate in the 2010s, following the Rams' move from St. Louis, Missouri to Los Angeles, California on January 12, 2016, and the Chargers' move from San Diego, California to Los Angeles on January 12, 2017. The Raiders' move to Las Vegas comes after years of failed efforts to renovate or replace the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum, which has been rated by multiple sources as one of the worst stadiums in the NFL. The Oakland Raiders", "title": "Oakland Raiders relocation to Las Vegas" }, { "id": "10063406", "text": "2000 St. Louis Rams season The 2000 St. Louis Rams season was the team's 63rd year with the National Football League and the sixth season in St. Louis. For the first time in franchise history, the Rams entered the season as the defending Super Bowl champions. The Rams finished the regular-season with a record of 10–6 but would go on to lose to the New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card round of the playoffs. They led the NFL in scoring for a second straight year with 540 points. The Rams became the first team in NFL history to score", "title": "2000 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "16192514", "text": "whole situation, embittered toward the NFL. That sentiment was best expressed by Fred Dryer, who at the time said \"I hate these people (the organization and its owner) for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California.\" Steve Rosenbloom, the general manager of the team during Carroll Rosenbloom's tenure, opined that teams come and go, but for a team to leave Los Angeles—the second largest media market in America—for St. Louis (approximately the 18th-largest) was simply irresponsible and foolish, in spite of the notoriously fickle support of", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "8753910", "text": "relocation to move to the Los Angeles area for the 2016 NFL season. They were among three teams (the others being the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers) that had filed for relocation to Los Angeles. All three franchises had previously played in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Weeks later, the NFL owners gathered in Houston for a meeting on January 12 to decide which teams, if any, would win relocation rights to Los Angeles. A few days before the scheduled owners meeting, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones suggested that the Rams and Chargers share Stan Kroenke's Los Angeles Entertainment", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "10063358", "text": "2002 St. Louis Rams season The 2002 St. Louis Rams season was the team's 65th year with the National Football League and the eighth season in St. Louis. Fresh off their trip from Super Bowl XXXVI which ended with a loss to the 11–5 Patriots, the Rams collapsed and missed the playoffs for the first time since 1998, losing their first five games. The season saw the emergence of new quarterback Marc Bulger, who filled in for an injured Kurt Warner and Jamie Martin. The Rams won six straight games where Bulger started and finished, but his season ended in", "title": "2002 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "4718404", "text": "game completing 26 of 30 passes for 262 yards and two touchdowns. Fullback Tom Rathman rushed for 63 yards and caught six passes for 48 yards. Craig was the top rusher of the game with 94 yards and a touchdown, while also catching three passes for 40 yards. This would end up being the Rams' last playoff game until 1999, and their last while located in Los Angeles; they would move to St. Louis in 1995. Their next playoff game as the Los Angeles Rams was in 2017. 1989–90 NFL playoffs The National Football League playoffs for the 1989 season", "title": "1989–90 NFL playoffs" }, { "id": "394970", "text": "Super Bowl XXXIV Super Bowl XXXIV was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion St. Louis Rams and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Tennessee Titans to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1999 season. The Rams defeated the Titans by the score of 23–16, capturing their first Super Bowl win and first NFL championship since 1951. The game, played on January 30, 2000 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, was the fourth Super Bowl to be held a week after the conference championship games (the previous time this happened was Super Bowl", "title": "Super Bowl XXXIV" }, { "id": "17738437", "text": "a disappointing 6-10 record. The record led the team to draft running back Todd Gurley from Georgia with the 10th pick in the first round of the 2015 NFL Draft. 2014 St. Louis Rams season The St. Louis Rams season was the franchise's 77th season in the National Football League, the 20th overall in St. Louis and the third under head coach Jeff Fisher. The Rams attempted to reach a playoff berth for the first time since their 2004 season, but were officially eliminated in their loss against Arizona in Week 15. The Rams failed to improve on their 7–9", "title": "2014 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "8753858", "text": "improve the stadium. The move left many in the Los Angeles area, and many of those indifferent to the whole situation, embittered toward the NFL. That sentiment was best expressed by actor and ex-Ram Fred Dryer, who at the time said “I hate these people [the organization and its owner] for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California.” Steve Rosenbloom, general manager of the team during his father's tenure as owner, opined that teams come and go, but for a team to leave Los Angeles —", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "10073004", "text": "1995 St. Louis Rams season The 1995 St. Louis Rams season was the team's 58th year with the National Football League (NFL) and the first of 21 seasons in St. Louis. The Rams looked to start their tenure in St. Louis strong by improving on their 4–12 record from 1994. In their first game in St. Louis, the Rams beat the New Orleans Saints, 17–13, and ultimately got off to a 4–0 start and looked poised to make a statement in the NFC. However, the team struggled later in the season. In week 8, the Rams were pounded, 44–10, by", "title": "1995 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "3088912", "text": "of Southern California unveiled an estimated $270-million plan to renovate and restore the historic stadium. On January 13, 2016, the NFL gave permission for the St. Louis Rams to relocate back to Los Angeles. The Rams resumed play at the Coliseum, while awaiting completion of the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood. On August 13, 2016, the Coliseum hosted its first NFL game at the stadium since 1994, as the Rams hosted Dallas Cowboys at a preseason game to a crowd of 89,140 people. On September 18, 2016, the Coliseum hosted the first Rams regular season home game", "title": "Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum" }, { "id": "13518818", "text": "down the Rams offense to win their fourth Super Bowl, 31-19. Prior to the 1979 NFL season, owner Carroll Rosenbloom died in a drowning accident, and his widow, Georgia Frontiere, inherited 70 percent ownership of the team. Frontiere then fired stepson Steve Rosenbloom and assumed total control of Rams operations. As had been planned prior to Rosenbloom's death, the Rams moved from their longtime home at the Coliseum to Anaheim Stadium in nearby Orange County in 1980. The reason for the move was twofold. First, the NFL's blackout rule forbade games from being shown on local television if they did", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "16192513", "text": "the Frontieres’ mismanagement. When Georgia Frontiere threatened to sue the league, Commissioner Paul Tagliabue acquiesced to Frontiere’s demands. As part of the relocation deal, the city of St. Louis agreed to build a taxpayer-financed stadium, the Trans World Dome (now the Dome at America's Center) and guaranteed that the stadium’s amenities would be maintained in the top 25 percent of all NFL stadiums. Frontiere waived the clause after a 10-year threshold period passed, as the city implemented a later plan to improve the stadium. The move left many in the Los Angeles area, and many of those indifferent to the", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "2597717", "text": "arrival of the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams, who relocated to St. Louis for the 1995 NFL season. The Rams spent the next twenty-one seasons in the Dome, leaving following the 2015 NFL season; the franchise returned to Los Angeles the next year. The Dome provides multiple stadium configurations that can seat up to 66,965 people. Seating levels include a private luxury suite level with 120 suites, a private club seat and luxury suite level with 6,400 club seats, a concourse level (lower bowl) and a terrace level (upper bowl). The Dome opened in 1995. The Dome is part", "title": "The Dome at America's Center" }, { "id": "6733905", "text": "1995 NFL Draft The 1995 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 22–23, 1995 at the Paramount Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. At the time of the draft, the Raiders were still based in Los Angeles. They would officially return to Oakland after a 13-year hiatus in July 1995. Additionally, the former Los Angeles Rams had gotten approval to move to St. Louis shortly before the draft on April", "title": "1995 NFL Draft" }, { "id": "16192528", "text": "Louis CVC was required to make modifications to the Edward Jones Dome in 2005. However, then-owner, Georgia Frontiere, waived the provision in exchange for cash that served as a penalty for the city's noncompliance. The city of St. Louis, in subsequent years, made changes to the scoreboard and increased the natural lighting by replacing panels with windows, although the overall feel remains dark. The minor renovations which totaled about $70 million did not bring the stadium within the specifications required under the lease agreement; thus, keeping the Dome in a state of uncertainty. On February 1, 2013, an Arbitrator (3", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "7158859", "text": "it, but acquiesced after Frontiere threatened to sue the league. Unlike the Patriots/Stallions proposal, Frontiere opted to keep the Rams name. Shortly after the Rams left, the Raiders also left to move back to Oakland, where they had last played in 1981. The Trans World Dome, which the completed stadium became known as, opened on November 12, 1995 with a game against the expansion Carolina Panthers. A major problem with St. Louis was that their fixed-roof and fully covered domed stadium was built at a time when retractable roofs which allowed generous daylight dissipation through the roof material were becoming", "title": "St. Louis Stallions" }, { "id": "10063381", "text": "six straight wins and the first to score 500 or more points in three consecutive seasons. The Rams returned to the Super Bowl for a second time, this time against the 11-5 New England Patriots, led by Bill Belichick and a young Tom Brady. The Rams lost 20-17. As of 2018, this was the Rams' last Super Bowl appearance. This was also the final season with the Rams as \"The Greatest Show on Turf\" as Kurt Warner struggled the following two seasons with the team. He was then replaced by Marc Bulger. With one of the worst defenses in the", "title": "2001 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "16192540", "text": "2012 season. On January 12, 2017 (the same day the Chargers moved to the Los Angeles area as the team did) the Rams hired Sean McVay for the team's head coaching vacancy. McVay, then 30, became the youngest head coach in NFL history. McVay was formerly the offensive coordinator the Redskins, working under coach Jay Gruden. Quarterback Jared Goff had begun to come into his own as an elite quarterback under McVay and running back Todd Gurley had return to dominance. On November 26, 2017, the Rams defeated the New Orleans Saints 26–20. The win was their eighth of the", "title": "History of the Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "19128096", "text": "2016 Los Angeles Rams season The 2016 Los Angeles Rams season was the franchise's 79th season in the National Football League and the fifth and final under head coach Jeff Fisher. It was the franchise's 50th season in the Greater Los Angeles Area and the first since 1994. The Rams made their first appearance on HBO's \"Hard Knocks\" and also appeared on the new E! series \"Hollywood & Football\". The team returned to Los Angeles after 21 seasons in St. Louis. The Rams decided from 2016-2019 to return to wearing white uniforms at home in LA as a nod to", "title": "2016 Los Angeles Rams season" }, { "id": "8753909", "text": "2,500 new residential units, a 300-room hotel and 25 acres of public parks, playgrounds, open space and pedestrian and bicycle access. The stadium was projected to be ready by 2018. In lieu of this, St. Louis countered with a stadium plan for the north riverfront area of downtown, with the hope of keeping the Rams in the city. On February 24, 2015, the Inglewood City Council approved the stadium plan and the initiative, and construction began on the new stadium on December 21, 2015 on the former Hollywood Park site. On January 4, 2016, the St. Louis Rams filed for", "title": "History of the St. Louis Rams" }, { "id": "10072933", "text": "four to end the season 5–11. This was Dick Vermeil’s first season as head coach of the Rams. 1997 St. Louis Rams season The 1997 St. Louis Rams season was the team's 60th year with the National Football League (NFL) and the third season in St. Louis. Still struggling to find answers, the Rams looked to improve on their 6–10 record from 1996 and make the playoffs for the first time since 1989, when the team was still based in Anaheim. The Rams started out the season mediocre, splitting their first four games. However, after beating the Giants at home,", "title": "1997 St. Louis Rams season" }, { "id": "13518837", "text": "was hired as head coach. He managed to take the Rams to Super Bowl XXXVI, where the team lost to the New England Patriots 20–17. Martz helped the Rams establish a pass-first identity that would post an NFL record number of points forged over the course of 3 seasons (1999–2001). However, in the first round in the 2004 draft, the Rams chose Oregon State running back Steven Jackson as the 24th pick of the draft. Although the Rams were one of the most productive teams in NFL history at the time, head coach Mike Martz was criticized by many as", "title": "Los Angeles Rams" }, { "id": "7939192", "text": "A record crowd of 19,850 watched the Leathernecks defeat Central Michigan, Oct. 20, 1973. From 1996 through 2004, Hanson Field was the training camp home of the National Football League's St. Louis Rams. In 2001, the main entrance of the stadium was renovated by adding an iron gate, brick pillars and an arch displaying the words, Hanson Field. The stadium’s east side received a $5 million face lift prior to the 2007 season. The renovation to the student seating section, funded largely by a facilities enhancement and life safety fee at the request of student leaders, included new bleachers, increased", "title": "Hanson Field" }, { "id": "17503934", "text": "\"Houston Chronicle\", and \"Houston Post\" between 1990 and 1992. In 1994 Wyllie replaced David Pearson as the assistant director of public relations for the Los Angeles Rams. He remained with the Rams when the team moved to St. Louis in 1995, becoming the St. Louis Rams. Wyllie was the spokesperson for the Rams during the transition between cities, handling press requests and providing media responses regarding the logistics of the move from Los Angeles to St. Louis. During his tenure with the Rams the team underperformed, so Wyllie's job required him to deal with the negative press surrounding the team's", "title": "Tony Wyllie" } ]

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[ { "id": "13540597", "text": "Light-year The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and measures about 9.46 trillion kilometres or 5.88 trillion miles. As defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a light-year is the distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year (365.25 days). Because it includes the word \"year\", the term light-year is sometimes misinterpreted as a unit of time. The light-year is most often used when expressing distances to stars and other distances on a galactic scale, especially in nonspecialist and popular science publications. The unit most commonly used in professional astrometry is the parsec", "title": "Light-year" }, { "id": "390466", "text": "they appeared 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than a billion years old. The fact that more distant objects appear to be younger, due to the finite speed of light, allows astronomers to infer the evolution of stars, of galaxies, and of the universe itself. Astronomical distances are sometimes expressed in light-years, especially in popular science publications and media. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, around 9461 billion kilometres, 5879 billion miles, or 0.3066 parsecs. In round figures, a light year is nearly 10 trillion kilometres or nearly 6 trillion miles. Proxima Centauri,", "title": "Speed of light" }, { "id": "6841105", "text": "lunation. Such calendars include the Sumerian, Egyptian, Chinese, Babylonian, ancient Athenian, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Icelandic, Mayan, and French Republican calendars. The modern calendar has its origins in the Roman calendar, which evolved into the Julian calendar, and then the Gregorian. Note: The light-year is not a unit of time, but a unit of length of about 9.5 trillion kilometres (9,454,254,955,488 kilometres). All of the important units of time can be interrelated. The key units are the second, defined in terms of an atomic process; the day, an integral multiple of seconds; and the year, usually 365 days (more info HERE).", "title": "Unit of time" }, { "id": "313659", "text": "Parsec The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System. A parsec is defined as the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one arcsecond, which corresponds to astronomical units. One parsec is equal to about 3.26 light-years (30 trillion km or 19 trillion miles) in length. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about from the Sun. Most of the stars visible to the unaided eye in the night sky are within 500 parsecs of the Sun. The parsec unit was probably first suggested in", "title": "Parsec" }, { "id": "13540600", "text": "which was updated in 2000, including the IAU (1976) value cited above (truncated to 10 significant digits). Other high-precision values are not derived from a coherent IAU system. A value of found in some modern sources is the product of a mean Gregorian year (365.2425 days or ) and the defined speed of light (). Another value, , is the product of the J1900.0 mean tropical year and the defined speed of light. Abbreviations used for light years and multiples of light years are The light-year unit appeared a few years after the first successful measurement of the distance to", "title": "Light-year" }, { "id": "313675", "text": "but in globular clusters the stellar density could be from 100 to 1000 per cubic parsec. Parsec The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System. A parsec is defined as the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one arcsecond, which corresponds to astronomical units. One parsec is equal to about 3.26 light-years (30 trillion km or 19 trillion miles) in length. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about from the Sun. Most of the stars visible to the unaided eye in the night", "title": "Parsec" }, { "id": "1510911", "text": "Light-second The light-second is a unit of length useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics. It is defined as the distance that light travels in free space in one second, and is equal to exactly metres by the definition of metre (just over miles). Just as the second forms the basis for other units of time, the light-second can form the basis for other units of length, ranging from the light-nanosecond (299.8 mm or just under one international foot) to the light-minute, light-hour and light-day, which are sometimes used in popular science publications. The more commonly used light-year is also", "title": "Light-second" }, { "id": "1510914", "text": "Light-second The light-second is a unit of length useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics. It is defined as the distance that light travels in free space in one second, and is equal to exactly metres by the definition of metre (just over miles). Just as the second forms the basis for other units of time, the light-second can form the basis for other units of length, ranging from the light-nanosecond (299.8 mm or just under one international foot) to the light-minute, light-hour and light-day, which are sometimes used in popular science publications. The more commonly used light-year is also", "title": "Light-second" }, { "id": "198075", "text": "object from Earth, is 141.5 AU away. The closest known star, Proxima Centauri, is approximately away, or over 9,000 times farther away than Neptune. Because of this, distances between stars are usually expressed in light-years, defined as the distance that a light photon travels in a year. Light in a vacuum travels around per second, so this is some or in a year. Proxima Centauri is 4.243 light-years away. Another way of understanding the vastness of interstellar distances is by scaling: One of the closest stars to the Sun, Alpha Centauri A (a Sun-like star), can be pictured by scaling", "title": "Interstellar travel" }, { "id": "13540601", "text": "a star other than the Sun, by Friedrich Bessel in 1838. The star was 61 Cygni, and he used a heliometer designed by Joseph von Fraunhofer. The largest unit for expressing distances across space at that time was the astronomical unit, equal to the radius of the Earth's orbit or In those terms, trigonometric calculations based on 61 Cygni's parallax of 0.314 arcseconds, showed the distance to the star to be astronomical units ( or ). Bessel added that light employs 10.3 years to traverse this distance. He recognized that his readers would enjoy the mental picture of the approximate", "title": "Light-year" }, { "id": "13920965", "text": "solar activity will allow us to better protect these assets. Astronauts on deep space missions will not have Earth's protections so understanding the factors that may affect their exposure to cosmic rays and the solar wind is critical to manned space exploration. Astronomers measure distances within the Solar System in astronomical units (AU). One AU equals the average distance between the centers of Earth and the Sun, or 149,598,000 km. Pluto is about 38 AU from the Sun and Jupiter is about 5.2 AU from the Sun. One light-year is 63,240 AU. Energetic neutral atom Energetic neutral atom (ENA) imaging,", "title": "Energetic neutral atom" }, { "id": "13540605", "text": "similarly be formed usefully by multiplying units of time by the speed of light. For example, the light-second, useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics, is exactly metres or of a light-year. Units such as the light-minute, light-hour and light-day are sometimes used in popular science publications. The light-month, roughly one-twelfth of a light-year, is also used occasionally for approximate measures. The Hayden Planetarium specifies the light month more precisely as 30 days of light travel time. Light travels approximately one foot in a nanosecond; the term \"light-foot\" is sometimes used as an informal measure of time. Light-year The light-year", "title": "Light-year" }, { "id": "257929", "text": "of latitude and the convenience of using the latitude scale on a map for distance measuring. The data mile is used in radar-related subjects and is equal to 6,000 feet (1.8288 kilometres). The radar mile is a unit of time (in the same way that the light year is a unit of distance), equal to the time required for a radar pulse to travel a distance of two miles (one mile each way). Thus, the radar statute mile is 10.8 μs and the radar nautical mile is 12.4 μs. The geographical mile is based upon the length of a meridian", "title": "Mile" }, { "id": "250987", "text": "most accurate measurements available. SI prefixes are often employed to denote decimal multiples and submultiples of the metre, as shown in the table below. As indicated in the table, some are commonly used, while others are not. Long distances are usually expressed in km, astronomical units (149.6 Gm), light-years (10 Pm), or parsecs (31 Pm), rather than in Mm, Gm, Tm, Pm, Em, Zm or Ym; \"30 cm\", \"30 m\", and \"300 m\" are more common than \"3 dm\", \"3 dam\", and \"3 hm\", respectively. The terms \"micron\" and (occasionally) \"millimicron\" are often used instead of \"micrometre\" (μm) and \"nanometre\"", "title": "Metre" }, { "id": "13540602", "text": "transit time for light, but he refrained from using the light-year as a unit. He may have resented expressing distances in light-years because it would deteriorate the accuracy of his parallax data due to multiplying with the uncertain parameter of the speed of light. The speed of light was not yet precisely known in 1838; its value changed in 1849 (Fizeau) and 1862 (Foucault). It was not yet considered to be a fundamental constant of nature, and the propagation of light through the aether or space was still enigmatic. The light-year unit appeared, however, in 1851 in a German popular", "title": "Light-year" }, { "id": "13540604", "text": "Distances expressed in light-years include those between stars in the same general area, such as those belonging to the same spiral arm or globular cluster. Galaxies themselves span from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand light-years in diameter, and are separated from neighbouring galaxies and galaxy clusters by millions of light-years. Distances to objects such as quasars and the Sloan Great Wall run up into the billions of light-years. Distances between objects within a star system tend to be small fractions of a light year, and are usually expressed in astronomical units. However, smaller units of length can", "title": "Light-year" }, { "id": "13540598", "text": "(symbol: pc, about 3.26 light-years; the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one second of arc). As defined by the IAU, the light-year is the product of the Julian year (365.25 days as opposed to the 365.2425-day Gregorian year) and the speed of light (). Both of these values are included in the IAU (1976) System of Astronomical Constants, used since 1984. From this, the following conversions can be derived. The IAU recognized abbreviation for light-year is ly, although other standards like ISO 80000 use \"l.y.\" and localized symbols are frequent, such as \"al\" in French", "title": "Light-year" }, { "id": "3542842", "text": "Earth's orbit All celestial bodies in the Solar System, including planets such as our own, orbit around the Solar System's centre of mass. The sun makes up 99.76% of this mass which is why the centre of mass is extremely close to the sun. Earth's orbit is the trajectory along which Earth travels around the Sun. The average distance between the Earth and the Sun is 149.60 million km (92.96 million mi), and one complete orbit takes days (1 sidereal year), during which time Earth has traveled 940 million km (584 million mi). Earth's orbit has an eccentricity of 0.0167.", "title": "Earth's orbit" }, { "id": "20027", "text": "from an absolute magnitude in a specific filter band to absolute bolometric magnitude, a bolometric correction is applied. For Solar System bodies that shine in reflected light, a different definition of absolute magnitude (H) is used, based on a standard reference distance of one astronomical unit. In stellar and galactic astronomy, the standard distance is 10 parsecs (about 32.616 light-years, 308.57 petameters or 308.57 trillion kilometres). A star at 10 parsecs has a parallax of 0.1″ (100 milliarcseconds). Galaxies (and other extended objects) are much larger than 10 parsecs, their light is radiated over an extended patch of sky, and", "title": "Absolute magnitude" }, { "id": "12418897", "text": "a molecule of DNA) in length, expanding to one approximately 10.6 light years (about 62 trillion miles) long in a tiny fraction of a second. This change is known as inflation. Although light and objects within spacetime cannot travel faster than the speed of light, in this case it was the metric governing the size and geometry of spacetime itself that changed in scale. Changes to the metric are not limited by the speed of light. There is good evidence that inflation happened, and it is widely accepted that it did take place. But the exact reasons \"why\" it happened", "title": "Chronology of the universe" }, { "id": "8947722", "text": "for historical or archaeological purposes; however, the classical second has been retained as the basis of timekeeping. Second : The time taken for light to travel 299,792,458 meters in vacuum. Kilosecond : 16 minutes Diurn \"100 kiloseconds\" : 27 hours, 1 day and 3 hours Megasecond (Cycle) \"10 diurns\" : 11 days and 6 hours M-year \"30 megaseconds\" : 337 Earth days, 11 months Gigasecond : approximately 31 Earth years Terasecond : approximately 31,000 Earth years (half age of human species) Petasecond : approximately 31,000,000 Earth years (half elapsed time since end of Cretaceous era) T-gates : (Transporter gates). These", "title": "Glasshouse (novel)" }, { "id": "1640424", "text": "billion km or 670 astronomical units). To help compare different distances this section lists lengths starting at 10 m (1 Pm or 1 trillion km or 6685 astronomical units (AU) or 0.11 light years). To help compare different distances this section lists lengths starting at 10 m (10 Pm or 66,800 AU, 1.06 light years). To help compare different distances this section lists lengths between 10 m (100 Pm or 11 light years) and 10 m (106 light years). This list includes distances between 1 and 10 exametres (10 m). To help compare different distances this section lists lengths between", "title": "Orders of magnitude (length)" }, { "id": "16924255", "text": "and light gets to us, it's just right.\" The song was first released as the second promotional single from the album on iTunes, on March 27, 2012. \"93 Million Miles\" was written by Jason Mraz, Michael Natter and Mike Daly, while production was handled by Joe Chiccarelli. Its title refers to the Earth's geographical location within the Solar System, which is 93 million miles from Sun. Mraz further explained the track, in a \"track-by-track\" commentary for \"Billboard\": \"93 million miles from the sun is where we live. And 240,000 miles from the moon and that's our geographical location within our", "title": "93 Million Miles" }, { "id": "835008", "text": "higher SI unit is 1000 times larger, times of 10 and 10 seconds are typically expressed as tens or hundreds of femtoseconds. Femtosecond A femtosecond is the SI unit of time equal to 10 or / of a second; that is, one quadrillionth, or one millionth of one billionth, of a second. For context, a femtosecond is to a second as a second is to about 31.71 million years; a ray of light travels approximately 0.3 µm (micrometers) in 1 femtosecond, a distance comparable to the diameter of a virus. The word \"femtosecond\" is formed by the SI prefix \"femto\"", "title": "Femtosecond" }, { "id": "1510912", "text": "presently defined to be equal to precisely light-seconds, since the definition of a year is based on a Julian year (not Gregorian year) of exactly 365.25 days, each of exactly SI seconds. Communications signals on Earth rarely travel at precisely the speed of light in free space. Distances in fractions of a light-second are useful for planning telecommunications networks. The light-second is a convenient unit for measuring distances in the inner Solar System, since it corresponds very closely to the radiometric data used to determine them. (The match is not exact for an Earth-based observer because of a very small", "title": "Light-second" }, { "id": "16924252", "text": "93 Million Miles \"93 Million Miles\" is a song by American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. It was released as the second promotional single from his fourth studio album, \"Love Is a Four Letter Word\", on March 27, 2012 via iTunes and in October, 2012, as the second official single. It was written by Mraz, Michael Natter and Mike Daly, and produced by Joe Chiccarelli. The song title refers to the Earth's geographical location within the Solar System, which is 93 million miles from Sun. Lyrically, the song talks about \"no matter where you are in the planet, you can call it", "title": "93 Million Miles" }, { "id": "7763316", "text": "Galactic year The galactic year, also known as a cosmic year, is the duration of time required for the Sun to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Estimates of the length of one orbit range from 225 to 250 million terrestrial years. The Solar System is traveling at an average speed of 828,000 km/h (230 km/s) or 514,000 mph (143 mi/s) within its trajectory around the galactic center, a speed at which an object could circumnavigate the Earth's equator in 2 minutes and 54 seconds; that speed corresponds to approximately 1/1300 of the speed of light.", "title": "Galactic year" }, { "id": "5929266", "text": "the heliosphere at . At this speed, it takes around 1,400 years for the Solar System to travel a distance of 1 light-year, or 8 days to travel 1 AU (astronomical unit). The Solar System is headed in the direction of the zodiacal constellation Scorpius, which follows the ecliptic. The stars and gas in the Milky Way rotate about its center differentially, meaning that the rotation period varies with location. As is typical for spiral galaxies, the orbital speed of most stars in the Milky Way does not depend strongly on their distance from the center. Away from the central", "title": "Milky Way" }, { "id": "390737", "text": "speed in everyday usage is the kilometre per hour or, in the US and the UK, miles per hour. For air and marine travel the knot is commonly used. The fastest possible speed at which energy or information can travel, according to special relativity, is the speed of light in a vacuum \"c\" = metres per second (approximately or ). Matter cannot quite reach the speed of light, as this would require an infinite amount of energy. In relativity physics, the concept of rapidity replaces the classical idea of speed. Italian physicist Galileo Galilei is usually credited with being the", "title": "Speed" }, { "id": "9186516", "text": "years) that it took light to reach the observer from the object multiplied by the speed of light. For instance, the radius of the observable universe in this distance measure becomes the age of the universe multiplied by the speed of light (1 light year/year) i.e. 13.8 billion light years. Also see misconceptions about the size of the visible universe. The Etherington's distance-duality equation is the relationship between the luminosity distance of standard candles and the angular-diameter distance. It is expressed as follows: formula_38 Distance measures (cosmology) Distance measures are used in physical cosmology to give a natural notion of", "title": "Distance measures (cosmology)" }, { "id": "13540603", "text": "astronomical article by Otto Ule. The paradox of a distance unit name ending on \"year\"' was explained by Ule by comparing it to a hiking road hour (\"Wegstunde\"). A contemporary German popular astronomical book also noticed that light-year is an odd name. In 1868 an English journal labelled the light-year as a unit used by the Germans. Eddington called the light-year an inconvenient and irrelevant unit, which had sometimes crept from popular use into technical investigations. Although modern astronomers often prefer to use the parsec, light years are also popularly used to gauge the expanses of interstellar and intergalactic space.", "title": "Light-year" }, { "id": "361689", "text": "Solar System about the center of the Milky Way is approximately 251 km/s (156 mi/s). At this speed, it takes around 1,190 years for the Solar System to travel a distance of 1 light-year, or 7 days to travel 1 AU. The Milky Way is moving with respect to the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in the direction of the constellation Hydra with a speed of 550 km/s, and the Sun's resultant velocity with respect to the CMB is about 370 km/s in the direction of Crater or Leo. The temperature of the photosphere is approximately 6,000 K, whereas the", "title": "Sun" }, { "id": "12651226", "text": "This period (1,951 days or 5.34 years) is among the dozen longest exoplanet periods known, as of 2009. Follow-up studies with the Hipparcos satellite further constrained the predicted mass of the companion, providing a best estimate of . HD 131664 HD 131664 is an 8th magnitude star in the southern constellation of Apus with an orbiting brown dwarf companion. Parallax measurements by the Gaia space observatory provide an estimated distance of 172.5 light years from the Earth. The system is moving further away with a baseline heliocentric radial velocity of +35 km/s. The stellar component is an ordinary G-type main-sequence", "title": "HD 131664" }, { "id": "835007", "text": "Femtosecond A femtosecond is the SI unit of time equal to 10 or / of a second; that is, one quadrillionth, or one millionth of one billionth, of a second. For context, a femtosecond is to a second as a second is to about 31.71 million years; a ray of light travels approximately 0.3 µm (micrometers) in 1 femtosecond, a distance comparable to the diameter of a virus. The word \"femtosecond\" is formed by the SI prefix \"femto\" and the SI unit \"second\". Its symbol is fs. A femtosecond is equal to 1000 attoseconds, or 1/1000 picosecond. Because the next", "title": "Femtosecond" }, { "id": "198071", "text": "Interstellar travel Interstellar travel is the term used for crewed or uncrewed travel between stars or planetary systems. Interstellar travel will be much more difficult than interplanetary spaceflight; the distances between the planets in the Solar System are less than 30 astronomical units (AU)—whereas the distances between stars are typically hundreds of thousands of AU, and usually expressed in light-years. Because of the vastness of those distances, interstellar travel would require a high percentage of the speed of light; huge travel time, lasting from decades to millennia or longer; or a combination of both. The speeds required for interstellar travel", "title": "Interstellar travel" }, { "id": "16766855", "text": "HD 114837 HD 114837 is a suspected binary star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. The brighter star is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.90. It has a magnitude 10.2 candidate common proper motion companion at an angular separation of , as of 2014. The distance to this system, based on an annual parallax shift of as seen from Earth's orbit, is 59.3 light years. It is moving closer with a heliocentric radial velocity of −64 km/s, and will approach to within in around 240,600 years. The primary component is an F-type", "title": "HD 114837" }, { "id": "15934378", "text": "Telescope and published in 2013 by Trent Dupuy and Adam Kraus: 0.135 ± 0.015 arcsec, corresponding to a distance , or . WISE 0254+0223 distance estimates WISE 0254+0223 has a large proper motion of about milliarcseconds per year. WISE 0254+0223 proper motion estimates Another object, discovered by Scholz et al. (2011): WISE J0254+0223 WISEPA J025409.45+022359.1 (designation is abbreviated to WISE 0254+0223) is a brown dwarf of spectral class T8, located in constellation Cetus at approximately 24.2 light-years from Earth. WISE 0254+0223 was discovered in 2011 from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40", "title": "WISE J0254+0223" }, { "id": "532007", "text": "a unit of distance in cosmology, defined as formula_77 — the speed of light multiplied by the Hubble time. It is equivalent to 4,550 million parsecs or 14.4 billion light years. (The numerical value of the Hubble length in light years is, by definition, equal to that of the Hubble time in years.) The Hubble distance would be the distance between the Earth and the galaxies which are \"currently\" receding from us at the speed of light, as can be seen by substituting formula_78 into the equation for Hubble's law, . The Hubble volume is sometimes defined as a volume", "title": "Hubble's law" }, { "id": "146311", "text": "definition of the meter) or about 186,282.397 miles per second. This is not quite the same as traveling faster than light, since: Neither of these phenomena violates special relativity or creates problems with causality, and thus neither qualifies as \"FTL\" as described here. In the following examples, certain influences may appear to travel faster than light, but they do not convey energy or information faster than light, so they do not violate special relativity. For an earth-bound observer, objects in the sky complete one revolution around the Earth in one day. Proxima Centauri, the nearest star outside the solar system,", "title": "Faster-than-light" }, { "id": "20474396", "text": "SX Centauri SX Centauri is a variable star in the constellation Centaurus. An RV Tauri variable, its light curve alternates between deep and shallow minima, varying its apparent magnitude from 9.1 to 12.4. From the period-luminosity relationship, it is estimated to be around 1.6 kpc (5200 light-years) from Earth. The first Gaia data release gives a parallax of 1.27 mas, corresponding to a smaller distance of 787 pc. RV Tauri variables like SX Centauri are supergiant pulsating stars and a subtype of the population II Cepheids. They are stars that have already passed the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) and are", "title": "SX Centauri" }, { "id": "7827013", "text": "R Centauri R Centauri (R Cen) is a Mira variable star in the constellation Centaurus. It is approximately 1,300 light years from Earth. R Centauri is a Mira variable and its brightness varies from magnitude +5.2 to +11.5 with a period of about 500 days. It used to have an unusual double-peaked light curve, but by 2001 this had reverted to an almost normal single-peaked curve. Prior to 1950 the period was about 550 days, but since then has decreased to about 500 days. A 2016 analysis of ASAS data derived a period of 498.84 days. It is thought that", "title": "R Centauri" }, { "id": "2617899", "text": "HD 209458 b HD 209458 b, also given the nickname Osiris, is an exoplanet that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 159 light-years from the Solar System. The radius of the planet's orbit is 7 million kilometres, about 0.047 astronomical units, or one eighth the radius of Mercury's orbit. This small radius results in a year that is 3.5 Earth days long and an estimated surface temperature of about 1,000 °C (about 1,800 °F). Its mass is 220 times that of Earth (0.69 Jupiter masses) and its volume is some 2.5 times greater than that", "title": "HD 209458 b" }, { "id": "390474", "text": "of stars to move around. From the angular difference in the position of stars (maximally 20.5 arcseconds) it is possible to express the speed of light in terms of the Earth's velocity around the Sun, which with the known length of a year can be converted to the time needed to travel from the Sun to the Earth. In 1729, Bradley used this method to derive that light travelled 10,210 times faster than the Earth in its orbit (the modern figure is 10,066 times faster) or, equivalently, that it would take light 8 minutes 12 seconds to travel from the", "title": "Speed of light" }, { "id": "12863", "text": "parallax of 1 arcsecond. The light-year is often used in popular works, but is not an approved non-SI unit and is rarely used by professional astronomers. When simulating a numerical model of the Solar System, the astronomical unit provides an appropriate scale that minimizes (overflow, underflow and truncation) errors in floating point calculations. According to Archimedes in the \"Sandreckoner\" (2.1), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be times Earth's radius (the true value is about ). However, the book \"On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon\", which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus,", "title": "Astronomical unit" }, { "id": "198076", "text": "down the Earth–Sun distance to . On this scale, the distance to Alpha Centauri A would be . The fastest outward-bound spacecraft yet sent, Voyager 1, has covered 1/600 of a light-year in 30 years and is currently moving at 1/18,000 the speed of light. At this rate, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take 80,000 years. A significant factor contributing to the difficulty is the energy that must be supplied to obtain a reasonable travel time. A lower bound for the required energy is the kinetic energy formula_1 where formula_2 is the final mass. If deceleration on arrival is", "title": "Interstellar travel" }, { "id": "14082996", "text": "solar mass () for the white dwarf primary star and 0.4 for the red dwarf secondary star. Astronomically speaking, SS Cygni is also fairly close by. Originally thought to be at 90 to 100 light years, its distance was revised in 1952 to about 400 light years. In 2007 Hubble Space Telescope data indicated a distance of about 540 light years, though this value caused difficulties with the theory of dwarf novae; this was checked during 2010—2012 using radio astrometry with VLBI, which yielded a smaller distance of . This value is much more in accord with the old (≈400", "title": "SS Cygni" }, { "id": "20599093", "text": "HD 2454 HD 2454 is a probable binary star system in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. With an apparent visual magnitude of 6.04, it is near the lower limit of visibility to the naked eye under good seeing conditions. An annual parallax shift of 27.36 mas as measured from Earth's orbit provides a distance estimate of 199 light years. It has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at a rate of 0.208 arcseconds per year, and is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of −10 km/s. The visible component of this system is", "title": "HD 2454" }, { "id": "390505", "text": "This is one of the proposed changes to be incorporated in the next revision of the SI also termed the \"New SI\". Speed of light The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted , is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is (approximately ). It is exact because by international agreement a metre is defined to be the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 second. According to special relativity, is the maximum speed at which all conventional matter and hence all known forms of", "title": "Speed of light" }, { "id": "390428", "text": "Speed of light The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted , is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is (approximately ). It is exact because by international agreement a metre is defined to be the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 second. According to special relativity, is the maximum speed at which all conventional matter and hence all known forms of information in the universe can travel. Though this speed is most commonly associated with light, it is in fact the speed at", "title": "Speed of light" }, { "id": "15008248", "text": "year as our galaxy, but they were much smaller and less massive, making it \"intensely star forming\". The light travel distance of the light that we observe from UDFy-38135539 (HUF.YD3) is more than 4 billion parsecs (13.1 billion light years), and it has a luminosity distance of 86.9 billion parsecs (about 283 billion light years). There are a number of different distance measures in cosmology, and both \"light travel distance\" and \"luminosity distance\" are different from the comoving distance or \"proper distance\" generally used in defining the size of the observable universe (comoving distance and proper distance are defined to", "title": "UDFy-38135539" }, { "id": "15900656", "text": "2014 by Beichman \"et al.\": 0.128 ± 0.010 arcsec, corresponding to a distance 7.8 pc, or 25.5 ly. WISE 1738+2732 has proper motion of about 451 milliarcseconds per year. The object's temperature estimate is 350 (350—400) K. Its spectrum is similar with spectrum of another Y-dwarf WISE 1405+5534. WISEPA J173835.53+273258.9 WISE 1738+2732 (full designation WISEPA J173835.53+273258.9) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y0, located in constellation Hercules at 25.5 light-years from Earth. WISE 1738+2732 was discovered in 2011 from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which", "title": "WISEPA J173835.53+273258.9" }, { "id": "17807785", "text": "HR 5171 HR 5171, also known as V766 Centauri, is a triple star system in the constellation Centaurus, around 12,000 light years from Earth. It is either a red supergiant or recent post-red supergiant yellow hypergiant, and one of the largest known stars. Its diameter is uncertain but likely to be around either 1300 or 1500 times that of the Sun. It is a contact binary, sharing a common envelope of material with a smaller yellow star, the two orbiting each other every 1,304 ± 6 days. The HR 5171 system contains at least three stars. The primary A is", "title": "HR 5171" }, { "id": "3303789", "text": "100 years × 365.25 days per year (0.25 is for a leap day every fourth year) × 24 hours per day × 3600 seconds per hour = 3,155,760,000 sec ≈ \"π\" sec × 10 within 0.45%. The speed of light is (by definition) exactly 299,792,458 m/s, very close to 300,000,000 m/s. This is a pure coincidence, as the meter was originally defined as 1/10,000,000 of the distance between the Earth's pole and equator along the surface at sea level, and the Earth's circumference just happens to be about 2/15 of a light-second. It is also roughly equal to one foot", "title": "Mathematical coincidence" }, { "id": "464812", "text": "Julian years is a way to precisely specify how many days (not how many \"real\" years), for long time intervals where stating the number of days would be unwieldy and unintuitive. By convention, the Julian year is used in the computation of the distance covered by a light-year. In the Unified Code for Units of Measure, the symbol, \"a\" (without subscript), always refers to the Julian year, \"a\", of exactly seconds. The SI multiplier prefixes may be applied to it to form \"ka\" (kiloannus), \"Ma\" (megaannus), etc. Each of these three years can be loosely called an \"astronomical year\". The", "title": "Year" }, { "id": "20500085", "text": "God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness is a 2018 American Christian drama film written and directed by Michael Mason. It is the third installment of the \"God's Not Dead\" series, following the 2014 film \"God's Not Dead\" and its 2016 sequel. It stars David A. R. White, John Corbett, Shane Harper, Benjamin Onyango, Ted McGinley, Jennifer Taylor, Tatum O'Neal, Shwayze and Cissy Houston. Principal photography was completed in Little Rock, Arkansas in December 2017. It was released in the United States on March 30, 2018. Unlike the first two films, \"A Light", "title": "God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness" }, { "id": "250969", "text": "Metre The metre (British spelling and BIPM spelling) or meter (American spelling) (from the French unit \"mètre\", from the Greek noun μέτρον, \"measure\") is the base unit of length in some metric systems, including the International System of Units (SI). The SI unit symbol is m. The metre is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in a vacuum in second. The metre was originally defined in 1793 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole – as a result the Earth's circumference is approximately 40,000 km today. In 1799, it was", "title": "Metre" }, { "id": "11792110", "text": "32 Cygni 32 Cygni (32 Cyg, Omicron Cyg, ο Cyg) is the Flamsteed designation for a binary star system in the Cygnus constellation. It is a 4th magnitude star, which can be seen with the naked eye under suitably dark skies. Parallax measurements give an estimated distance of 1,100 light-years (320 parsecs) from the Earth. However, Schröder et al. (2007) suggest the actual value, after correcting for Malmquist bias, may be closer to 1,174 light-years (360 parsecs). Although it is a spectrsocopic binary with components that cannot be separated visually, it has two entries in the Henry Draper Catalogue, with", "title": "32 Cygni" }, { "id": "15926843", "text": "WISEPA J174124.26+255319.5 WISEPA J174124.26+255319.5 (designation is abbreviated to WISE 1741+2553) is a brown dwarf of spectral class T9, located in constellation Hercules at approximately 18 light-years from Earth. WISE 1741+2553 was discovered in 2011 from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. WISE 1741+2553 has three discovery papers: \"Scholz et al. (2011)\", \"Gelino et al. (2011)\" and \"Kirkpatrick et al. (2011)\". Currently the most accurate distance estimate of WISE 1741+2553 is a trigonometric parallax, measured using Spitzer Space Telescope", "title": "WISEPA J174124.26+255319.5" }, { "id": "12887442", "text": "RA Dec within the constellation Circinus and referred to as Circinus XR-1 (Cir XR-1). The distance of Circinus X-1 was not well established, with a low estimate of 13,400 light years and high estimate of 26,000 light years. On June 23, 2015, an article published on NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory's website, revealed that an international team of astronomers has succeeded in determining its distance from Earth with more precision - via a method of triangulation of X-ray light emitted by the star, echoing through stellar clouds and interstellar dust - as being about 30,700 light-years. A 16.6 day X-ray period", "title": "Circinus X-1" }, { "id": "11792114", "text": "year, or the equivalent of the Sun's mass every 77 million years. The Washington Double Star Catalog and Catalog of Components of Double and Multiple Stars both list a visual companion 208\" distant. This star is the 8th magnitude A class HD 192933. 32 Cygni 32 Cygni (32 Cyg, Omicron Cyg, ο Cyg) is the Flamsteed designation for a binary star system in the Cygnus constellation. It is a 4th magnitude star, which can be seen with the naked eye under suitably dark skies. Parallax measurements give an estimated distance of 1,100 light-years (320 parsecs) from the Earth. However, Schröder", "title": "32 Cygni" }, { "id": "17843733", "text": "assembled. Much support was needed from a number of international scientific partners at this stage, and it is essential here to acknowledge Francis Allotey (Ghana) and Ana María Cetto (Mexico) for their leading roles. Other assistance was provided by Zsolt Fulop (Hungary), John Harvey and Geoff Austin (New Zealand), Zohra Ben Lakhdar and Mourad Zghal (Tunisia), Joe Niemela (UNESCO-ICTP), Lluis Torner (Spain) and Sergei Bagaev and Victor Zadkov (Russia). A resolution supporting IYL 2015 was prepared and was adopted by the UNESCO Executive Board at its 190th session which took place at the UNESCO HQ in Paris, France, 3–18 October", "title": "International Year of Light" }, { "id": "300269", "text": "light to travel from the Sun to the Earth as 8 minutes and 12 seconds. Depending on the value assumed for the astronomical unit, this yields the speed of light as just a little more than 300,000 kilometres per second. The modern value is 8 minutes and 19 seconds, and a speed of 299,792.458 km/s. A plaque at the Observatory of Paris, where the Danish astronomer happened to be working, commemorates what was, in effect, the first measurement of a universal quantity made on this planet. In addition to inventing the first street lights in Copenhagen, Rømer also invented the", "title": "Ole Rømer" }, { "id": "20599096", "text": "region of the companion. HD 2454 HD 2454 is a probable binary star system in the zodiac constellation of Pisces. With an apparent visual magnitude of 6.04, it is near the lower limit of visibility to the naked eye under good seeing conditions. An annual parallax shift of 27.36 mas as measured from Earth's orbit provides a distance estimate of 199 light years. It has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at a rate of 0.208 arcseconds per year, and is moving closer to the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of −10 km/s. The visible component", "title": "HD 2454" }, { "id": "15934377", "text": "WISE J0254+0223 WISEPA J025409.45+022359.1 (designation is abbreviated to WISE 0254+0223) is a brown dwarf of spectral class T8, located in constellation Cetus at approximately 24.2 light-years from Earth. WISE 0254+0223 was discovered in 2011 from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. WISE 0254+0223 has two discovery papers: \"Scholz et al. (2011)\" and \"Kirkpatrick et al. (2011)\" (the first was published earlier). Currently the most accurate distance estimate of WISE 0254+0223 is a trigonometric parallax, measured using Spitzer Space", "title": "WISE J0254+0223" }, { "id": "12862", "text": "general relativity was proposed, and \"vigorous debate\" ensued until August 2012 when the IAU adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = metres. The astronomical unit is typically used for stellar system scale distances, such as the size of a protostellar disk or the heliocentric distance of an asteroid, whereas other units are used for other distances in astronomy. The astronomical unit is too small to be convenient for interstellar distances, where the parsec and light-year are widely used. The parsec (parallax arcsecond) is defined in terms of the astronomical unit, being the distance of an object with a", "title": "Astronomical unit" }, { "id": "15900652", "text": "in 2014 by Beichman \"et al.\": 0.140 ± 0.009 arcsec, corresponding to a distance 7.1 pc, or 23.3 ly. WISE 2056+1459 has proper motion of about 972 milliarcseconds per year. The object's temperature estimate is 350 (350—400) K. The other six discoveries of brown dwarfs, published in \"Cushing et al. (2011)\": WISEPC J205628.90+145953.3 WISE 2056+1459 (full designation WISEPC J205628.90+145953.3) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y0, located in constellation Delphinus at approximately 23.3 light-years from Earth. WISE 2056+1459 was discovered in 2011 from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16", "title": "WISEPC J205628.90+145953.3" }, { "id": "313660", "text": "1913 by the British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner. Named as a portmanteau of the parallax of one arcsecond, it was defined so as to make calculations of astronomical distances quick and easy for astronomers from only their raw observational data. Partly for this reason, it is the unit preferred in astronomy and astrophysics, though the light-year remains prominent in popular science texts and common usage. Although parsecs are used for the shorter distances within the Milky Way, multiples of parsecs are required for the larger scales in the universe, including kiloparsecs (kpc) for the more distant objects within and around", "title": "Parsec" }, { "id": "15926844", "text": "and published in 2013 by Trent Dupuy and Adam Kraus: arcsec, corresponding to a distance , or . WISE 1741+2553 has proper motion of about 1553 milliarcseconds per year. Another object, discovered by \"Scholz et al. (2011)\": The other eight objects, checked for binarity by \"Gelino et al. (2011)\" on Keck II: WISEPA J174124.26+255319.5 WISEPA J174124.26+255319.5 (designation is abbreviated to WISE 1741+2553) is a brown dwarf of spectral class T9, located in constellation Hercules at approximately 18 light-years from Earth. WISE 1741+2553 was discovered in 2011 from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength", "title": "WISEPA J174124.26+255319.5" }, { "id": "8289758", "text": "declared to be the spatial dimension). The former distance is about 4 billion light years, much smaller than \"ct\" because the universe expanded as the light traveled the distance, the light had to \"run against the treadmill\" and therefore went farther than the initial separation between the Earth and the quasar. The latter distance (shown by the orange line) is about 28 billion light years, much larger than \"ct\". If expansion could be instantaneously stopped today, it would take 28 billion years for light to travel between the Earth and the quasar while if the expansion had stopped at the", "title": "Expansion of the universe" }, { "id": "6692564", "text": "must be greater than that of the cladding. The boundary between the core and cladding may either be abrupt, in \"step-index fiber\", or gradual, in \"graded-index fiber\". The index of refraction (or refractive index) is a way of measuring the speed of light in a material. Light travels fastest in a vacuum, such as in outer space. The speed of light in a vacuum is about 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second. The refractive index of a medium is calculated by dividing the speed of light in a vacuum by the speed of light in that medium. The refractive index", "title": "Optical fiber" }, { "id": "7792045", "text": "Mu Centauri Mu Centauri, Latinized from μ Centauri, is a third-magnitude star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. With the stars ν and φ Centauri, it marks what has been traditionally portrayed as \"\"dextro Latere\"\" (the right side) of the Centaur. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is 3.42, making it one of the brighter members of the constellation. The distance to this star can be estimated directly using parallax measurements, which yield a value of roughly 510 light years (155 parsecs) from Earth. The spectrum of Mu Centauri matches a stellar classification of B2 IV-Ve. The 'e' suffix", "title": "Mu Centauri" }, { "id": "364422", "text": "values as they remain useful measures for quoting stellar parameters. Large lengths, such as the radius of a giant star or the semi-major axis of a binary star system, are often expressed in terms of the astronomical unit — approximately equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (150 million km or approximately 93 million miles). In 2012, the IAU defined the astronomical constant to be an exact length in meters: 149,597,870,700 m. Stars condense from regions of space of higher matter density, yet those regions are less dense than within a vacuum chamber. These regions –", "title": "Star" }, { "id": "20474401", "text": "disk. SX Centauri SX Centauri is a variable star in the constellation Centaurus. An RV Tauri variable, its light curve alternates between deep and shallow minima, varying its apparent magnitude from 9.1 to 12.4. From the period-luminosity relationship, it is estimated to be around 1.6 kpc (5200 light-years) from Earth. The first Gaia data release gives a parallax of 1.27 mas, corresponding to a smaller distance of 787 pc. RV Tauri variables like SX Centauri are supergiant pulsating stars and a subtype of the population II Cepheids. They are stars that have already passed the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) and", "title": "SX Centauri" }, { "id": "12847", "text": "Astronomical unit The astronomical unit (symbol: au, ua, or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun. However, that distance varies as Earth orbits the Sun, from a maximum (aphelion) to a minimum (perihelion) and back again once a year. Originally conceived as the average of Earth's aphelion and perihelion, since 2012 it has been defined as exactly metres or about . The astronomical unit is used primarily for measuring distances within the Solar System or around other stars. It is also a fundamental component in the definition of another unit of astronomical length,", "title": "Astronomical unit" }, { "id": "17161081", "text": "HD 89890 HD 89890 is the brightest member of a multiple star system with at least four components, located in the southern constellation of Vela. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.50. The annual parallax shift of provides a distance estimate of around 1,200 light years. It is moving further away from Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +10 km/s. The Washington Double Star Catalog lists three visible components for this system. The brightest, component A, is of visual magnitude 4.50. Component B has a magnitude of 7.179, and as of 2000", "title": "HD 89890" }, { "id": "4164206", "text": "of around 0.37 and a semimajor axis of . The lower bound on the object's mass was estimated to be . These values were subsequently refined, as shown in the table below. HD 117618 HD 117618 is a single, yellow-hued star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 7.17, it is too faint to be visible to the naked eyes of a typical observer. The distance to this star, as determined from its annual parallax shift of as seen from Earth's orbit, is about 124 light years. It is moving further away with a heliocentric", "title": "HD 117618" }, { "id": "242203", "text": "as a result of having taken boosterspice after having used the Ringworld equivalent. Boosterspice only works on \"Homo sapiens\", whereas the Tree-of-Life compound will work on any hominid descended from the Pak. Faster-than-light (FTL) propulsion, or hyperdrive, was obtained from the Outsiders at the end of the First Man-Kzin War. In addition to winning the war for humanity, it allowed the re-integration of all the human colonies, which were previously separated by distance. Standard hyperdrive covers a distance of one light-year every three days (121.75 x c). A more advanced Quantum II Hyperdrive introduced later is able to cover the", "title": "Known Space" }, { "id": "14519054", "text": "around 22.7 billion light-years (6947 Mpc). PKS 2000-330 PKS 2000-330 (also known as QSO B2000-330) is a quasar located in the constellation Sagittarius. When identified in 1982, it was the most distant and most luminous object known. The \"distance\" of a far away galaxy depends on what distance measurement you use. With a redshift of 3.77, light from this active galaxy is estimated to have taken around 11.7 billion years to reach us. But since this galaxy is receding from Earth at an estimated rate of 274,681 km/s (the speed of light is 299,792 km/s), the present (co-moving) distance to", "title": "PKS 2000-330" }, { "id": "18918029", "text": "the Cascade Mountains of California, to scan for radio transmissions from Kepler-452b. As of July 2015, the array has scanned the exoplanet on over 2 billion frequency bands, with no result. The telescopes will continue to scan over a total of 9 billion channels, searching for alien radio signals. The fact that Kepler-452b is 1,400 light years from Earth, and light travels in a year, means it would take the best part of a millennium-and-a-half to reach it if a spacecraft could travel at the speed of light. The fastest current space craft, the New Horizons unmanned probe that passed", "title": "Kepler-452b" }, { "id": "11731692", "text": "July 2017, four rotational lightcurves of \"Menestheus\" have been obtained from photometric observations by Robert Stephens, Daniel Coley and Brian Warner at the Center for Solar System Studies in collaboration with Linda French, Lawrence Wasserman and other astronomers. Analysis of the best-rated lightcurve gave a rotation period of 14.40 hours with a consolidated brightness amplitude between 0.18 and 0.40 magnitude (). According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, \"Menestheus\" measures between 67.625 and 68.46 kilometers in diameter and its surface has", "title": "4068 Menestheus" }, { "id": "390471", "text": "in the solar system, such as the radius of the Earth's orbit. Historically, such measurements could be made fairly accurately, compared to how accurately the length of the reference distance is known in Earth-based units. It is customary to express the results in astronomical units (AU) per day. Ole Christensen Rømer used an astronomical measurement to make the first quantitative estimate of the speed of light. When measured from Earth, the periods of moons orbiting a distant planet are shorter when the Earth is approaching the planet than when the Earth is receding from it. The distance travelled by light", "title": "Speed of light" }, { "id": "630284", "text": "nearest known star to Earth. Because it is a red dwarf with an apparent magnitude of 9.54, it is too faint to see without a telescope or powerful binoculars. A proper motion of 1 arcsec per year at a distance of 1 light-year corresponds to a relative transverse speed of 1.45 km/s. Barnard's star's transverse speed is 90 km/s and its radial velocity is 111 km/s (which is at right angles to the transverse velocity), which gives a true motion of 142 km/s. True or absolute motion is more difficult to measure than the proper motion, because the true transverse", "title": "Proper motion" }, { "id": "20918347", "text": "HD 3167 HD 3167 is a single, orange-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Pisces that hosts a system with three exoplanets. The star is too faint to be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 8.97. The distance to HD 3167 can be determined from its annual parallax shift of as measured by the Gaia space observatory, yielding a range of 154 light years. It has a relatively high proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at the rate of per year. Since it was first photographed during the Palomar observatory sky survey in 1953, it", "title": "HD 3167" }, { "id": "17807806", "text": "B[e] stars. HR 5171 HR 5171, also known as V766 Centauri, is a triple star system in the constellation Centaurus, around 12,000 light years from Earth. It is either a red supergiant or recent post-red supergiant yellow hypergiant, and one of the largest known stars. Its diameter is uncertain but likely to be around either 1300 or 1500 times that of the Sun. It is a contact binary, sharing a common envelope of material with a smaller yellow star, the two orbiting each other every 1,304 ± 6 days. The HR 5171 system contains at least three stars. The primary", "title": "HR 5171" }, { "id": "15900655", "text": "WISEPA J173835.53+273258.9 WISE 1738+2732 (full designation WISEPA J173835.53+273258.9) is a brown dwarf of spectral class Y0, located in constellation Hercules at 25.5 light-years from Earth. WISE 1738+2732 was discovered in 2011 from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. WISE 1738+2732 has two discovery papers: \"Kirkpatrick et al. (2011)\" and \"Cushing et al. (2011)\", however, basically with the same authors and published nearly simultaneously. Currently the most accurate distance estimate of WISE 2056+1459 is a trigonometric parallax, published in", "title": "WISEPA J173835.53+273258.9" }, { "id": "5829146", "text": "Data mile In radar-related subjects and in JTIDS, a data mile is a unit of distance equal to 6000 feet (1.8288 kilometres or 0.987 nautical miles). An international mile is exactly 0.88 of a data mile. The speed of light is 983571056 ft/s, or about one foot per nanosecond. If it were exactly one foot per nanosecond, and a target was one data mile away, then the radar return from that target would arrive 12 microseconds after the transmission. (Recall that radar was developed during World War II in America and England, while both were using English units. It was", "title": "Data mile" }, { "id": "7619803", "text": "Mu Columbae Mu Columbae (μ Col, μ Columbae) is a star in the constellation of Columba. It is one of the few O-class stars that are visible to the unaided eye. The star is known to lie approximately 1,300 light years from the Solar System (with an error margin of a few hundred light years). This is a relatively fast rotating star that completes a full revolution approximately every 1.5 days. (Compare this to the Sun, which at only 22 percent of this star's diameter rotates only once every 25.4 days.) This rate of rotation is fairly typical for stars", "title": "Mu Columbae" }, { "id": "13540599", "text": "(from année-lumière\") and Spanish (from año luz\"), \"Lj\" in German (from \"Lichtjahr\"), etc. Before 1984, the tropical year (not the Julian year) and a measured (not defined) speed of light were included in the IAU (1964) System of Astronomical Constants, used from 1968 to 1983. The product of Simon Newcomb's J1900.0 mean tropical year of ephemeris seconds and a speed of light of produced a light-year of (rounded to the seven significant digits in the speed of light) found in several modern sources was probably derived from an old source such as C. W. Allen's 1973 \"Astrophysical Quantities\" reference work,", "title": "Light-year" }, { "id": "5396762", "text": "of the star. The statistical margin of error is about 20%. Gaia Data Release 2 has a parallax of . The distance can also be derived by comparing changes in the angular diameter with the measured radial velocity in the atmosphere. This gives a parallax of 5.9 mas with a similar accuracy to the direct measurement, corresponding to a distance of 550 light years. Older studies generally derived smaller distances such as 345, 370, or 430 lights years. The original parallax calculated from Hipparcos measurements was 9.43 mas, indicating a distance of 346 light years. Comparing the apparent magnitude of", "title": "Chi Cygni" }, { "id": "6242140", "text": "28 Cancri 28 Cancri is a star system in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is a variable star with the designation CX Cancri, and is close to the lower limit of visibility with the naked eye, having a mean apparent visual magnitude of 6.05. The annual parallax shift seen from Earth's orbit is 7.32 mas, which provides a distance estimate of about 450 light years. It is moving away from the Sun with a radial velocity of around +9 km/s. Based upon proper motion variation, this is an astrometric binary system with high likelihood (99.8%). The visible component has", "title": "28 Cancri" }, { "id": "2652367", "text": "not accurately measured until the early 21st century, and that at cosmological distances, the curvature of space-time allows one to come up with multiple definitions for distance. For example, the distance as defined by the amount of time it takes for a light beam to travel to an observer is different from the distance as defined by the apparent size of an object. Astronomical system of units The astronomical system of units, formally called the IAU (1976) System of Astronomical Constants, is a system of measurement developed for use in astronomy. It was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU)", "title": "Astronomical system of units" }, { "id": "19675701", "text": "Proxima Centauri b Proxima Centauri b (also called Proxima b or Alpha Centauri Cb) is an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to the Sun and part of a triple star system. It is located about 4.2 light-years (1.3 parsecs, 40 trillion km, or 25 trillion miles) from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus, making it the closest known exoplanet to the Solar System. Proxima Centauri b orbits the star at a distance of roughly with an orbital period of approximately 11.2 Earth days, and has an estimated", "title": "Proxima Centauri b" }, { "id": "146318", "text": "a planet one light-year (as measured in the Earth's rest frame) away from Earth at high speed, the time taken to reach that planet could be less than one year as measured by the traveller's clock (although it will always be more than one year as measured by a clock on Earth). The value obtained by dividing the distance traveled, as determined in the Earth's frame, by the time taken, measured by the traveller's clock, is known as a proper speed or a proper velocity. There is no limit on the value of a proper speed as a proper speed", "title": "Faster-than-light" }, { "id": "6349177", "text": "this active galaxy is estimated to have taken around 12.3 billion light-years to reach us. But since this galaxy is receding from Earth at an estimated rate of 285,803 km/s (the speed of light is 299,792 km/s), the present (co-moving) distance to this galaxy is estimated to be around 26 billion light-years (7961 Mpc). Q0906+6930 Q0906+6930 is the most distant known blazar (redshift 5.47 / 12.2 billion light years), discovered in July, 2004. The engine of the blazar is a supermassive black hole (SMBH) approximately 2 billion times the mass of the Sun (the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy", "title": "Q0906+6930" }, { "id": "15934442", "text": "spectral types M, L, T and Y, among which also was WISE 0313+7807. Trigonometric parallax of WISE 0313+7807 is 153 ± 15 mas, corresponding to distance of 6.5 pc or 21.3 ly. WISEPA J031325.96+780744.2 WISEPA J031325.96+780744.2 (designation abbreviated to WISE 0313+7807, or WISE J0313+7807) is a brown dwarf of spectral class T8.5, located in constellation Cepheus at approximately 21 light-years from Earth. WISE 0313+7807 was discovered in 2011 by J. Davy Kirkpatrick et al. from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009", "title": "WISEPA J031325.96+780744.2" }, { "id": "16521176", "text": "— spectrofotometric — means (see table). WISE J031624.35+430709.1 distance estimates WISE J031624.35+430709.1 WISE J031624.35+430709.1 is a brown dwarf of spectral class T8, located in constellation Perseus at approximately 106 light-years from Earth. It is one of the furthest T-class brown dwarfs known. WISE J031624.35+430709.1 was discovered in 2012 by Mace et al. from data, collected by Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Earth-orbiting satellite — NASA infrared-wavelength 40 cm (16 in) space telescope, which mission lasted from December 2009 to February 2011. In March 2013, the discovery paper was published. Trigonometric parallax of WISE J031624.35+430709.1 is not yet measured. Therefore, there", "title": "WISE J031624.35+430709.1" }, { "id": "16810159", "text": "\\end{align}</math></ref> HD 81799 HD 81799 (G Hydrae) is a suspected astrometric binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Hydra. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.69. The distance to this system, as determined from an annual parallax shift of , is 164 light years. It is moving further away from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of 29 km/s. The system has a relatively high rate of proper motion, traversing the celestial sphere at the rate of along a position angle of 136°. The stellar classification of the visible component is", "title": "HD 81799" }, { "id": "6227694", "text": "96 Aquarii 96 Aquarii is a multiple star system in the zodiac constellation of Aquarius. The designation is from the star catalogue of English astronomer John Flamsteed, first published in 1712. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.56. The estimated distance to this system, based upon an annual parallax shift of 29.27 mas, is around 111 light years. The system has a relatively large proper motion and it is moving closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −7 km/s. The visible components, A and B, have an angular separation of", "title": "96 Aquarii" }, { "id": "4164204", "text": "HD 117618 HD 117618 is a single, yellow-hued star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 7.17, it is too faint to be visible to the naked eyes of a typical observer. The distance to this star, as determined from its annual parallax shift of as seen from Earth's orbit, is about 124 light years. It is moving further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of around +1.6 km/s. This star is similar to the Sun, being a G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G0 V. It is about 10% more massive and", "title": "HD 117618" }, { "id": "20884093", "text": "HD 38801 b HD 38801 b is an extrasolar, gas giant planet located in the constellation of Orion whose discovery was announced in 2009 and was made using the radial velocity method. The object, with a mass roughly 12 times that of Jupiter, is located 324 light years (99.4 parsecs) from Earth orbiting 1.65 astronomical units from its G-type star, HD 38801. HD 38801 b, besides being the only planet in its system also lies within the inner habitable zone and takes around 1.9 years, or 693.5 days to complete a full orbit. Hd 38801 b is characterized by its", "title": "HD 38801 b" } ]

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[ { "id": "4579986", "text": "the elementary school scenes, were filmed in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. By 1987, the once successful Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, has deteriorated due to drugs and crime. The majority of students cannot pass basic skills testing, and even the teachers are not safe from gang violence. Mayor Bottman (Alan North) learns that the school will be turned over to state administration unless 75% of the students can pass the minimum basic skills test. He consults with school superintendent Dr. Frank Napier (Robert Guillaume), who suggests the school hire elementary school principal Joe Clark, aka \"Crazy Joe\" (Morgan", "title": "Lean on Me (film)" }, { "id": "4579985", "text": "Lean on Me (film) Lean on Me is a 1989 American biographical drama film written by Michael Schiffer, directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Morgan Freeman. \"Lean on Me\" is loosely based on the story of Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey, whose school is at risk of being taken over by the New Jersey state government unless students improve their test scores on the New Jersey Minimum Basic Skills Test. This film's title refers to the 1972 Bill Withers song of the same name. Parts of the film, including", "title": "Lean on Me (film)" }, { "id": "1155142", "text": "and was partially shot in the city. The lyrics of the Bob Dylan song \"Hurricane\" include \"\"In Paterson that's just the way things go / If you're Black you might as well not show / Up on the street / Unless you want to draw the heat\"\". The film \"Lean On Me\", while sensationalized, is based on events that occurred in Paterson's Eastside High School. \"Alice, Sweet Alice\" (1976) with Brooke Shields was filmed entirely in Paterson, the director's hometown, as was \"State Property\". Its sequel, \"State Property 2\", and \"Far from Heaven\", \"The Preacher's Wife\" and \"Purple Rose of", "title": "Paterson, New Jersey" }, { "id": "18652446", "text": "the fourth most streamed song. The accompanying music video for \"Lean On\" was directed by Tim Erem, produced by Mikhail Mehra, Akshay Multani & Per Welen, director of photography Jacob Møller. It was shot at ND Studios, Karjat and Kaul Heritage City, Vasai in Maharashtra, India. Some scenes of the video are filmed in the Gold Room of Stockholm's town hall. It follows a premise of Major Lazer, MØ and DJ Snake engaging in dance sequences. It was inspired by a previous tour Major Lazer embarked on in the country. Speaking about the music video, Major Lazer member Diplo said:", "title": "Lean On" }, { "id": "15757843", "text": "the idea and developed the script. It starred Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark, the Principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey. Lean on Me, written by Michael Schiffer, was directed by John Avildsen and won the NAACP Image Award for Best Feature Film of the year. He created and developed the idea and served as Executive Producer for the HBO film Boycott. Based on a book by Dr. Stewart Burns and directed by Clark Johnson, with Jeffrey Wright, Carmen Ejogo and Terrence Howard, the film dramatized the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott and was nominated as Best Television", "title": "Norman Twain" }, { "id": "4579992", "text": "website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 69%, based on 16 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film a rare grade of \"A+\" on an A+ to F scale. 1991 NAACP Image Awards 1990 Young Artist Awards Other honors The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: In September 2018, it was reported that a television series based on the film was in development at The CW. The project will be written by Wendy Calhoun, who will also serve as an executive producer alongside LeBron James, Maverick Carter, John", "title": "Lean on Me (film)" }, { "id": "8224321", "text": "score of 16-6 to win their fourth game in a row in the annual rivalry. The boys' bowling team won the overall state championship in 1960. Paterson Eastside High is famous for its renaissance in the mid-1980s under the leadership of Joe Clark as principal. The school was depicted in the 1989 film \"Lean on Me\", starring Morgan Freeman. Fetty Wap, an alumnus of Eastside, filmed the music video for his song \"Wake Up\" in the school. Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey) Eastside High School (or EHS) is a four-year public high school in Paterson in Passaic County, New", "title": "Eastside High School (Paterson, New Jersey)" }, { "id": "19733418", "text": "to produce the film under his The Bureau banner, alongside Film4 Productions. In July 2016, Steve Buscemi joined the cast of the film. That same month, Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny, and Travis Fimmel joined the cast of the film. In September 2016, Steve Zahn, Amy Seimetz and Thomas Mann joined the cast of the film. James Edward Barker composed the film's score. Principal photography began on 13 August 2016, and took place in Portland and Burns, Oregon. Filming concluded on 10 September 2016. During post-production on the film, Thomas Mann's role was removed from the final cut. In May 2016,", "title": "Lean on Pete" }, { "id": "7238811", "text": "the dissolution of 2-4 Family, founding band-member Mike Johnson performed the song with backing vocalists and dancers at the Eurovision Song Content in Bulgaria. The song is frequently played at charity events. Avril Lavigne and Heart made a duet singing this song at the 17th Race To Erase MS event in May 2010. Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow and Keith Urban performed the song at the . The song was used in a 1970s drug awareness film titled \"Dead Is Dead\", hosted and produced by actor Godfrey Cambridge. The original and Club Nouveau version was featured in the 1989 film \"Lean", "title": "Lean on Me (song)" }, { "id": "4579990", "text": "may attend alongside their children. When the minimum basic skills test is finally assessed, the students are much better prepared and filled with a sense of self-worth. Before the results can arrive, the fire chief raids the school and discovers the chained doors. Clark is arrested for violating fire safety codes. That evening, the students gather at the meeting of the Paterson Board of Education, where school board member Leona Barrett, is leading for Clark's removal. The students demand that Clark be released from jail and retained as principal. The mayor has Clark released from jail and talk to the", "title": "Lean on Me (film)" }, { "id": "3103451", "text": "in town and get his life back on track. While at first it appears the separation will be another heartache, they reconcile before Terry leaves, coming to terms with their respective lifestyles. The film was primarily shot in and around Margaretville, New York, in the Catskill Mountains, in June 1999. While the bank exteriors were filmed at Margaretville's NBT bank, the interiors were filmed in another bank closer to New York City since NBT considered interior filming a security risk. The scenes where Rudy Jr. walks home in the rain were filmed with the assistance of the Margaretville Fire Department", "title": "You Can Count On Me" }, { "id": "7238815", "text": "emotional uplift for the film, \"Lean on Me\". For the same film, the song was adapted by Big Daddy Kane in \"hip hop\" form. That same year Kids Incorporated covered \"Lean on Me\" in the Season 6 episode \"The Cover Up\". Australian born Irish singer Johnny Logan recorded the song on his album, \"We All Need Love\" (2003). Jack Vidgen recorded a version of the song for his album \"Inspire\". Curtis Stigers sings it on Gene Harris blues infused gospel album, \"In His Hands\". In 2004, Glen Campbell recorded the song on his album \"\". The rapper Majid featuring Burhan", "title": "Lean on Me (song)" }, { "id": "11230092", "text": "both her mother's and her father's side of the family. Her most notable sibling is the iconic Tony Todd, who, in his own right, was known for \"Candyman,\" \"The Rock,\" and many other titles. Monique Dupree Monique Gata Dupree (born December 10, 1974) is an American singer and a B-movie horror actress, producer and mother of ten, often referred to as Tha True Original Gata or the First Black Scream Queen. Monique Dupree was born in Newark, New Jersey. Her film career began at the age of 14, when she appeared in the 1989 Morgan Freeman film \"Lean On Me,\"", "title": "Monique Dupree" }, { "id": "7238812", "text": "on Me\", starring Morgan Freeman. Mary J. Blige performed this song at the HBO . The next day, a crowd spontaneously began singing the song in the Purple Tunnel of Doom under the National Mall as they waited to gain entrance to the inauguration ceremonies. The song plays at the end of \"Radioactive Man\", an episode of \"The Simpsons\", when two film producers return to Hollywood after a movie failure. Early TV comedy sketch parodies of \"Lean on Me\" included a famous sketch on \"In Living Color\" where Joe Louis Clark is played by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Paula Abdul and", "title": "Lean on Me (song)" }, { "id": "4579993", "text": "Legend, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius. The potential hour-long drama series will be about \"when a spirited young black teacher Amarie Baldwin scores the principal job at an Akron, Ohio, public high school, she must dig deep to transform a failing campus into an urban oasis. In a time when education and school safety have life-or-death stakes, Amarie will take on a broken system that tests her mettle, love life and family. But can she keep her moxie in check in order to embody the aspirational educator that motivates and uplifts an entire community?\" Lean on Me (film) Lean on", "title": "Lean on Me (film)" }, { "id": "4579991", "text": "students to go home. Clark calls for his students to return to their homes. He is interrupted by assistant principal Ms. Levias who reports that more than 75% of the students have passed the basic skills test. He announces the results over his megaphone. As a result, the school's current administration remains intact, and Clark is allowed to keep his job as principal of Eastside High. The students break into their school song in celebration. The film ends with the senior students graduating high school and Clark handing them their diplomas. Songs included in the film include: On review aggregator", "title": "Lean on Me (film)" }, { "id": "6913526", "text": "Joe Louis Clark Joe Louis Clark (born May 7, 1938 in Rochelle, Georgia) is the former principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, one of New Jersey's toughest inner city schools. He is also the subject of the 1989 film \"Lean on Me\", starring Morgan Freeman. Clark gained public attention in the 1980s for his unconventional and controversial disciplinary measures as the principal of Eastside High. Clark was seen as an educator who was not afraid to get tough on difficult students, one who would often carry a bullhorn or a baseball bat at school. During his time as principal,", "title": "Joe Louis Clark" }, { "id": "4579987", "text": "Freeman), a former teacher at Eastside High, as the new principal. Reluctantly, the mayor hires Clark. Clark's immediate radical changes include expelling 300 students identified as drug dealers or abusers and troublemakers, instituting programs to improve school spirit including painting over graffiti-covered walls, and requiring students to learn the school song, and be punished if they cannot sing it on demand. When one of the expelled students is found beating up another student, Clark orders the doors of the school chained shut during school hours since alarmed security doors cannot be purchased. Some parents react strongly to these measures, including", "title": "Lean on Me (film)" }, { "id": "1716670", "text": "\"Lady Susan\". Both films premiered at the Sundance Film Festival In January 2016. She then had a supporting role in \"The Snowman\" (2017), a crime thriller starring Michael Fassbender, which she filmed in Norway in the winter of 2016. Also in 2017, Sevigny co-starred in the horse racing drama \"Lean on Pete\", based on the novel by Willy Vlautin. The film was shot in Portland, Oregon and the eastern Oregon region. Sevigny starred as Lizzie Borden in \"Lizzie\", which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The film also features Kristen Stewart. Sevigny made her directorial debut in 2016 with", "title": "Chloë Sevigny" }, { "id": "3870997", "text": "for its stereotypical portrayal of Indian society and alleged disrespecting of Indian idols on the note of Beyoncé's inappropriate clothing. The video has over 960 million views on YouTube as of July 2018, becoming the second most-viewed music video for Coldplay (after \"Something Just like This\"). Another hit song 'Lean On' by EDM group Major Lazer and DJ Snake was shot in Vasai in March 2015. It has more than 2 billion views on YouTube. The Bassein Fort is also a popular shooting location for Bollywood movies and songs. The Bollywood hit ″Kambakkht Ishq″ from Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya is", "title": "Vasai" }, { "id": "3237282", "text": "Karen Malina White Karen Malina White (born July 7, 1965) is an American film and television actress. White is best known for her roles as Kaneesha Carter, in the 1989 drama film \"Lean on Me\", as Charmaine Brown during the two final seasons on \"The Cosby Show\" (1990–92) and its spin-off \"A Different World\" (1992–93); Nicolette Vandross on \"Malcolm & Eddie\" (1996–2000) and the voice of Dijonay Jones on the Disney Channel animated comedy \"The Proud Family\" (2001–05). Karen Malina White was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts.", "title": "Karen Malina White" }, { "id": "8516409", "text": "willing to cut her normal rate from $400,000 per picture to $250,000, but Broccoli would not pay above $80,000. The film was shot at the Pinewood Studios in London, Porto Cervo in Sardinia (Hotel Cala di Volpe), Egypt (Karnak, Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Gayer-Anderson Museum, Abu Simbel temples), Malta, Scotland, Hayling Island UK, Okinawa, Switzerland and Mount Asgard on Baffin Island in the then northern Canadian territory of Northwest Territories (now located in Nunavut). As no studio was big enough for the interior of Stromberg's supertanker, and set designer Ken Adam did not want to repeat what he had done", "title": "The Spy Who Loved Me (film)" }, { "id": "18125746", "text": "locations in three countries: Canada, the United States, and Argentina. In Canada, filming took place in Calgary and Fortress Mountain in Alberta, in Kananaskis Country west of Calgary, the Badlands near Drumheller, and at Squamish and Mammoth Studios, Burnaby, in British Columbia. The scenes in the waterfall were filmed at the Kootenai Falls near Libby, Montana. While the initial plan was to film entirely in Canada, the weather was ultimately too warm, leading the filmmakers to locations near the Rio Olivia at the tip of Argentina with snow on the ground, to shoot the film's ending. Crew members often complained", "title": "The Revenant (2015 film)" }, { "id": "19532097", "text": "Frank Napier Frank Napier Jr., Ed.D. (August 8, 1935 – October 28, 2002) was an American former superintendent of the Paterson School District in Paterson, New Jersey. In the 1980s, he received national recognition as superintendent through Joe Louis Clark, the notable and controversial former principal of Eastside High School. It was Napier who asked Clark to be the principal of Eastside High. Napier was portrayed by Robert Guillaume in the 1989 film, \"Lean on Me\". Napier graduated from Paterson Central High School in 1953. He earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees from William Paterson University", "title": "Frank Napier" }, { "id": "1844047", "text": "craze for all it was worth.\" Unlike most productions, it was filmed in near sequential order, as stated by Lennon in 1964. Filming began on 2 March 1964 at Marylebone station in London (sometimes misidentified as Paddington). The Beatles had joined the actors' union, Equity, only that morning. The first week of filming was on a train travelling between London and Minehead. On 10 March, scenes with Ringo were shot at the Turk's Head pub in Twickenham, and over the following week various interior scenes were filmed at Twickenham Studios. From 23 to 30 March, filming moved to the Scala", "title": "A Hard Day's Night (film)" }, { "id": "7330906", "text": "Jermaine Hopkins Jermaine \"Huggy\" Hopkins (born August 23, 1973) is an American actor who has appeared in films such as \"Lean on Me\", \"Juice\", and \"Phat Beach\". At 14 years of age, Hopkins fell into the acting business when his mother brought him to a casting-call audition in New York for the Warner Bros. feature \"Lean on Me\", a starring role as Thomas Samms, a misguided drug-abusing high school student. His next project \"Juice\", directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, had him starring as Steel alongside Khalil Kain, Omar Epps, and Tupac Shakur. Hopkins subsequently starred in the HBO worldwide release", "title": "Jermaine Hopkins" }, { "id": "18896508", "text": "who kind of just put it all on the line for that.\" Principal photography on the film officially began in the city on August 10, 2015, and filming took place in more than 60 locations both in and near Los Angeles, including the Angels Flight trolley in downtown, houses in the Hollywood Hills, the Colorado Street Bridge, the Rialto Theatre in South Pasadena, the Warner Bros. studio lot, the Grand Central Market, Hermosa Beach's Lighthouse Cafe, Chateau Marmont Hotel, and the Watts Towers, with many scenes shot in one take. It took 40 days to complete shooting, finishing in mid-September", "title": "La La Land (film)" }, { "id": "7741936", "text": "cast in the role. Under the deal, Duvall's production company, Butcher's Run Films, signed an arrangement with Columbia. Gross said \"I can truthfully say that we've had fewer bad suggestions from the studio on this film than on any I've worked on.\" An original draft of the script included scenes with Mrs. Gatewood, but these were cut out for budgetary reasons. Filming started in May 1993. The film was shot in Utah, Tucson, Arizona, and Culver City, California. Filming locations in Utah include Professor Valley, Onion Creek, Potash, Dead Horse Point, Needles Overlook, Bates Ranch, Lawson Ranch, and Ruby Ranch", "title": "Geronimo: An American Legend" }, { "id": "15241134", "text": "activity at the school. In addition to improved security measures, district officials hired Floyd Crues, a former alternative high school principal, to head Beaumont; his changes to school practices were credited with improving the climate at Beaumont. Under Crues, Beaumont's discipline problems decreased, and he received comparisons to New Jersey high school principal Joe Clark, the inspiration for the 1989 film \"Lean on Me\". Despite increased security measures, violence continued at and near the school: in October 1994, a Beaumont student was shot in the street outside the school as the building was being dismissed. Also, during the JROTC program's", "title": "Beaumont High School (St. Louis)" }, { "id": "20229878", "text": "14. Filming occurred outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. during mid-June. Other filming locations around DC included the Penn Quarter neighborhood, McPherson Square, the DAR Constitution Hall near the White House, the Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian), and the Lincoln Memorial. By mid-July, production in the United States was completed and moved to the United Kingdom. In August, filming on location took place in several places around London, including St. Andrew's Place, Regent's Park and the Royal College of Physicians. Between September and October 2018, production also took place at Almería, in Andalucía, southern Spain, as well as Fuerteventura", "title": "Wonder Woman 1984" }, { "id": "12219313", "text": "Hazel Clark Hazel Mae Clark (born October 3, 1977) is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800 meters middle distance race. Clark was a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 2000, 2004 and 2008. She has won six national titles and two USA Olympic Trials events during her career. Clark was born in Livingston, New Jersey. She is the daughter of inner-city educator Joe Louis Clark, who inspired the film \"Lean on Me\", and the sister-in-law of fellow Olympian Jearl Miles-Clark. Joetta Clark Diggs is her older sister. Clark, her sister, and her sister-in-law made history when", "title": "Hazel Clark" }, { "id": "3237285", "text": "White has also appeared in various stage productions. Karen Malina White Karen Malina White (born July 7, 1965) is an American film and television actress. White is best known for her roles as Kaneesha Carter, in the 1989 drama film \"Lean on Me\", as Charmaine Brown during the two final seasons on \"The Cosby Show\" (1990–92) and its spin-off \"A Different World\" (1992–93); Nicolette Vandross on \"Malcolm & Eddie\" (1996–2000) and the voice of Dijonay Jones on the Disney Channel animated comedy \"The Proud Family\" (2001–05). Karen Malina White was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She studied at the", "title": "Karen Malina White" }, { "id": "7407815", "text": "utilized 16 mm, Super 16mm and 35 mm film stocks. Filming began in Dallas, Texas, which doubled for scenes set in Massapequa, New York. The Dallas Convention Center was used to re-create the 1972 Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida. The filmmakers also shot scenes at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, which stood in for the Bronx Veterans Hospital in New York. They also filmed on soundstages at Los Colinas Studios in Irving, Texas. The Philippines stood in for scenes set in Vietnam and Mexico. Stone originally wanted to shoot on location in Vietnam but was unable to do so, due", "title": "Born on the Fourth of July (film)" }, { "id": "3103446", "text": "You Can Count On Me You Can Count On Me is a 2000 American drama film starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, and Matthew Broderick. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, it tells the story of Sammy, a single mother living in a small town, and her complicated relationships with family and friends. The story takes place in the fictionalized Catskill communities of Scottsville and Auburn, New York. The film was primarily shot in and around Margaretville, New York. The film and its performances received highly positive reviews among critics, and dozens of award nominations and awards at film", "title": "You Can Count On Me" }, { "id": "15325695", "text": "for the song. It was filmed in 1985 at Kim's Café (now called Savoy Café) (on Wandsworth Road, London SW8), and on a sound stage in London. The video used a pencil-sketch animation / live-action combination called rotoscoping, in which the live-action footage is traced over frame by frame to give the characters realistic movements. Approximately 3,000 frames were rotoscoped, which took 16 weeks to complete. The video's main theme is a romantic fantasy narrative. It begins with a montage of pencil drawings in a comic-book style representing motorcycle sidecar racing, in which the hero, played by Morten Harket, is", "title": "Take On Me" }, { "id": "19232802", "text": "confirmed in November 2015. That December, Shipp Jr., whose father worked on music videos with Shakur, was cast as the singer and principal photography began that month. It lasted until April 2016, filming in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. \"All Eyez on Me\" premiered on June 14, 2017 at the Fox Bruin Theater and was released in the United States on June 16, 2017, on what would have been Shakur's 46th birthday. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, but a more positive response from audiences, and grossed $55 million worldwide. At the Clinton Correctional Facility in 1995,", "title": "All Eyez on Me (film)" }, { "id": "858204", "text": "of 1976 and garnering ten Academy Award nominations and winning three, including Best Picture and Best Director. He later returned to direct what was then expected to be the series' final installment, \"Rocky V\" (1990). (Later installments were released in 2006, 2015, and 2018\"). He directed the mystery-drama \"The Formula\" (1980), starring Marlon Brando and George C. Scott. His other films include \"Cry Uncle!\" (1971), \"Neighbors\" (1981), \"The Karate Kid\" (1984), \"The Karate Kid Part II\" (1986), \"The Karate Kid Part III\" (1989) and \"8 Seconds\" (1994). He also directed the drama \"Lean On Me\", starring Morgan Freeman. Avildsen was", "title": "John G. Avildsen" }, { "id": "6913002", "text": "Beverly Todd Beverly Todd (born July 11, 1946) is an American actress, producer and writer. She is known for her roles in films \"Brother John\" (1971), \"Moving\" (1988), \"Lean on Me\" (1989) and \"The Bucket List\" (2007). Todd was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Virena Todd. She began her acting career in the Off-Broadway production of \"Deep Are the Roots\", and later performed in the London productions of \"No Strings\" and \"Blues for Mr. Charlie\". Todd played main role in the Broadway comedy play \"Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights\" directed by Sidney Poitier. She later appeared opposite", "title": "Beverly Todd" }, { "id": "4579988", "text": "Leonna Barrett (Lynne Thigpen), mother of one of the expelled students, who presses the mayor to oust Clark. Clark's radicalism causes him to come into conflict with members of the faculty, particularly English teacher Mr. Darnell, whom Clark suspends for picking up a piece of trash during a recital of the school song, and choir teacher Mrs. Elliot, whom Clark fires for being insubordinate after he cancels a pre-planned choral event, the school's upcoming annual Lincoln Center concert. Napier sets Clark straight over these incidents and lectures him to start being a team player. Clark reinstates Mr. Darnell, though he", "title": "Lean on Me (film)" }, { "id": "18652438", "text": "and at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It reached number one in several other countries including Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark and Switzerland. In November 2015, \"Lean On\" was named by Spotify as the most streamed song of all time, and has over 1 billion streams globally as of June 2017; however, it was later overtaken by Drake's \"One Dance\" (2016). The accompanying music video for \"Lean On\" was filmed in ND Studios, Karjat (India), Kaul Heritage City, Vasai in Maharashtra (India). The video premiered on March 23, 2015 and has over 2.4 billion", "title": "Lean On" }, { "id": "5990240", "text": "about Kukla, Fran and Ollie? This is probably why I'm not a studio head.\" Scenes in Vince's home were filmed at the Stahl House in Los Angeles, while the Brantford Airport stood in for Newark International Airport. Other exteriors were filmed in Toronto, with interiors shot at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England. The film's soundtrack includes \"Josephine, Please No Lean on the Bell\" performed by Louis Prima, \"Spinning Wheel\" by Blood, Sweat & Tears, \"Oye Como Va\" by Santana, and \"Maggot Brain\" by Funkadelic. \"White Rabbit\", written by Grace Slick and originally recorded by Jefferson Airplane, is featured prominently in", "title": "Where the Truth Lies" }, { "id": "11230088", "text": "Monique Dupree Monique Gata Dupree (born December 10, 1974) is an American singer and a B-movie horror actress, producer and mother of ten, often referred to as Tha True Original Gata or the First Black Scream Queen. Monique Dupree was born in Newark, New Jersey. Her film career began at the age of 14, when she appeared in the 1989 Morgan Freeman film \"Lean On Me,\" about school principal Joe Clark. It was then that she realized that she wanted to pursue acting as a career. By the age of 18, she had done numerous stage productions, including the play", "title": "Monique Dupree" }, { "id": "6987241", "text": "made-for-television films while she was studying at Southern Methodist University: 1980's \"Nurse\" and 1981's \"Crisis at Central High\". In the latter movie, she was praised by critic John O'Connor of \"The New York Times\" for her portrayal of Minnijean Brown, a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who braved violence and armed guards to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Her first role to gain widespread attention was that of Mrs. Carter, the drug-addicted mother of a promising young female student, in the 1989 film \"Lean on Me\". She became well-known to the", "title": "Regina Taylor" }, { "id": "2463012", "text": "this facility. Interior filming was done at the Sunset Gower Studios (the original Columbia Pictures studio lot) in Hollywood. The cast and crew only made two visits to Florida's Space Coast, both in 1969. On June 27, a parade in Cocoa Beach escorted Eden and the rest of the cast to Cocoa Beach City Hall, where she was greeted by fans and city officials. They were then taken to LC-43 at Cape Canaveral where she pressed a button to launch a Loki-Dart weather rocket. They had dinner at Bernard's Surf, where Eden was given the state of Florida's Commodore Award", "title": "I Dream of Jeannie" }, { "id": "632518", "text": "version of Leonard Cohen's \"Hallelujah\" for the \"Tower of Song\" compilation in 1995. Additionally, in 1998, Bono collaborated with Kirk Franklin and Crystal Lewis along with R. Kelly and Mary J. Blige for a successful gospel song called \"Lean on Me\". Aside from musical collaborations, U2 have worked with several authors. American author William S. Burroughs had a guest appearance in U2's video for \"Last Night on Earth\" shortly before he died. Video footage of him reading his poem \"Thanksgiving Prayer\" was used during a Zoo TV Tour television special. Other collaborators include William Gibson and Allen Ginsberg. In early", "title": "U2" }, { "id": "7330908", "text": "North Carolina with of marijuana in the trunk of his car. TMZ reports Hopkins pled guilty to felony possession. However, the judge suspended his four-month sentence, instead giving Hopkins 24 months of supervised probation. Jermaine Hopkins Jermaine \"Huggy\" Hopkins (born August 23, 1973) is an American actor who has appeared in films such as \"Lean on Me\", \"Juice\", and \"Phat Beach\". At 14 years of age, Hopkins fell into the acting business when his mother brought him to a casting-call audition in New York for the Warner Bros. feature \"Lean on Me\", a starring role as Thomas Samms, a misguided", "title": "Jermaine Hopkins" }, { "id": "20229870", "text": "live-action theatrical film featuring the titular character, following \"\" (2016), \"Wonder Woman\" (2017), and \"Justice League\" (2017), and will be the second full-length feature film centered around the character. Discussion of a sequel began shortly after the release of the first film in June 2017, and the decision to proceed was confirmed the following month. Principal photography began in June 2018, with filming taking place at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in the United Kingdom, as well as the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia in the United States, London and Duxford, England in the UK, Tenerife and Fuerteventura in the", "title": "Wonder Woman 1984" }, { "id": "8232659", "text": "finalised budget was A$440,000, coming from the Australian Film Development Corporation, British Empire Films and the South Australian Film Corporation. $3,000 came from private investors. Filming began in February 1975 with principal photography taking six weeks. Locations included Hanging Rock in Victoria, Martindale Hall near Mintaro in rural South Australia, and at the studio of the South Australian Film Corporation in Adelaide. Director of photography Russell Boyd stated in an interview that he created the ethereal look of the picnic by placing simple bridal veil fabric over the camera lens. The film was edited by Max Lemon. Weir originally cast", "title": "Picnic at Hanging Rock (film)" }, { "id": "7238807", "text": "the US Singles Charts with versions recorded by two different artists. Withers' childhood in the coal mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, was the inspiration for \"Lean on Me\", which he wrote after he had moved to Los Angeles and found himself missing the strong community ethic of his hometown. He lived in a decrepit house in the poor section of town. Withers recalled to Songfacts the original inspiration for the song: \"I bought a little piano and I was sitting there just running my fingers up and down the piano. In the course of doing the music, that", "title": "Lean on Me (song)" }, { "id": "18673382", "text": "working title \"Mary Lou\", with Trent Opaloch serving as director of photography. Additional filming occurred in Scotland, including in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the Scottish Highlands, with studio work taking place at Wardpark Studios in Cumbernauld. Filming in Scotland began on February 28, 2017. From March 18 through April 21, 2017, filming occurred in Old Town, Edinburgh on and around the Royal Mile, including High Street, Parliament Square, Cockburn Street, and Roxburgh Close and Old Fishmarket Close, as well as Waverley Station. Filming also took place at Durham Cathedral in Durham, England in early May 2017, and in St Abbs. Additional", "title": "Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame" }, { "id": "3103452", "text": "which used their trucks and hoses to create the rain. Many outdoor scenes away from the Village—most notably the fishing trip—were filmed in Phoenicia, New York. The cemetery seen in the film is not the Village's—which cannot be seen from the road—rather it is a smaller cemetery four miles outside the village on Route 30. \"You Can Count On Me\" received highly positive reviews from critics. It has an approval rating of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 103 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1 out of 10. The website's critical consensus states, \"\"You Can Count On Me\" may", "title": "You Can Count On Me" }, { "id": "4579989", "text": "is too late to re-hire Mrs. Elliot. His actions begin to have a positive effect on his students. Thomas Sams, a student expelled for crack use, pleads to be allowed to return to school and gradually reforms. Clark also reunites one of his old elementary students, Kaneesha Carter, with her estranged mother. Unfortunately, a practice basic skills test fails to garner enough passing students. Clark confronts his staff for their failure to educate their students and to prepare them for the world. He institutes a tutorial program to strengthen academic skills and encourages remedial reading courses on Saturdays which parents", "title": "Lean on Me (film)" }, { "id": "18652447", "text": "\"When we toured there [in India] as Major Lazer, it was mind-blowing to see our fan-base and we wanted to incorporate the attitude and positive vibes into our video and just do something that embodies the essence of Major Lazer. Major Lazer has always been a culture mashup and to us, India feels like some kind of special creature with one foot in history and one firmly in the future.\"\" The video premiered on April 30, 2015 and has over 2.4 billion views on YouTube, making it the fifteenth most viewed video on the site. On July 10, 2015, the", "title": "Lean On" }, { "id": "20228396", "text": "hired to direct the film, while producers were set as Mythology's Brad Fischer, James Vanderbilt, and William Sherak, Madhouse's Robyn Meisinger, and No Dream's Sarah Snow. In May 2017, Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, Talitha Bateman (who would later be replaced by Taylor Richardson) and Alex Fitzalan joined the cast. In July 2017, Kevin Chapman was also added, to play an emotionally defeated, alcoholic father. Principal photography on the film began on June 19, 2017, in Boston and concluded on July 28, 2017. On January 2, 2018, the first teaser poster was revealed, with a teaser", "title": "Slender Man (film)" }, { "id": "15978943", "text": "Imtiaz Ali's \"Rockstar\", was later signed on to \"Cocktail\" instead, on Ali's suggestion, and thus made her debut in Bollywood. Shooting of the film started at the end of May 2011, in London. Many scenes have been shot indoors, although the crew primarily filmed on the streets of London. Locations of the filming in London include Borough High Street, Borough market, Portobello Road, Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Mayfair, Clapham Junction, Battersea Park, Bank Station, St. Pauls London, Colville Gardens (Notting Hill), and Brick Lane. The film was also shot in Cape Town, South Africa. Padukone has gyrated to a Punjabi", "title": "Cocktail (2012 film)" }, { "id": "5021213", "text": "Alan North Alan North (December 23, 1920 – January 19, 2000) was an American actor. North was born in Bronx, New York, and joined the United States Navy during the Second World War. After the war, he became a stage manager and made his Broadway debut in 1955 in \"Plain and Fancy\". His film career included roles in \"Plaza Suite\" (1971), \"Serpico\" (1973), \"The Formula\" (1980), \"\" (1983), \"Thief of Hearts\" (1984), \"Highlander\" (1986), \"Act of Vengeance\" (1986), \"Billy Galvin\" (1986), \"The Fourth Protocol\" (1987), \"Lean on Me\" (1989), \"See No Evil, Hear No Evil\" (1989), \"Glory\" (1989) and \"The", "title": "Alan North" }, { "id": "12219317", "text": "she is now married to Bermudian Shane Mac. Hazel Clark Hazel Mae Clark (born October 3, 1977) is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800 meters middle distance race. Clark was a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 2000, 2004 and 2008. She has won six national titles and two USA Olympic Trials events during her career. Clark was born in Livingston, New Jersey. She is the daughter of inner-city educator Joe Louis Clark, who inspired the film \"Lean on Me\", and the sister-in-law of fellow Olympian Jearl Miles-Clark. Joetta Clark Diggs is her older sister. Clark,", "title": "Hazel Clark" }, { "id": "7238814", "text": "played in a Walmart commercial to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Harvey. Similarly it opened the September 2017 , in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma, as performed by Stevie Wonder and modern gospel figures. A cover version appears in a 2018 TV commercial for Dawn detergent. \"Lean on Me\" has been interpreted by various other artists including Mud (1976), Al Jarreau (1985), DC Talk (1992), Michael Bolton (1993), Bonnie Tyler (1999), Anne Murray (1999), The Temptations and Mark Medlock (2011). In 1989, covers of \"Lean on Me\" by The Winans and Sandra Reaves-Phillips provided the", "title": "Lean on Me (song)" }, { "id": "19467656", "text": "the group released three music videos: a drama version of \"Somehow\"; \"I Wanna Listen To Music\"; and \"Lean On Me\". The music videos were filmed in Hong Kong and Macau. \"Somehow\" was released as the group's debut single in conjunction with the album on September 14. A music video teaser was released on August 24. \"My Friend's Boyfriend\" was released as a digital single on October 20. DIA held a debut showcase at the Ilchi Art Hall in Seoul on September 14 and performed the album track. The group made their debut stage on September 17 on Mnet's M Countdown,", "title": "Do It Amazing" }, { "id": "6913531", "text": "such students remained high across the country, with few alternatives available, and that each inner city school that had been able to reverse the trend had done so through \"a bold, enduring principal\" such as Clark who was \"able to maintain or restore order without abandoning the students who are in trouble.\" Joe Louis Clark Joe Louis Clark (born May 7, 1938 in Rochelle, Georgia) is the former principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, one of New Jersey's toughest inner city schools. He is also the subject of the 1989 film \"Lean on Me\", starring Morgan Freeman. Clark gained", "title": "Joe Louis Clark" }, { "id": "1798089", "text": "the exterior was Severance Hall, and the interior was the Cuyahoga County Courthouse. The Russian prison where Radek was incarcerated was the Ohio State Reformatory, previously seen in \"The Shawshank Redemption\". Ramstein Air Base, Germany was portrayed by Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio. The diplomatic dinner scene was shot at the Ebell of Los Angeles while a second unit captured scenes in Red Square in Moscow. Scenes featuring Sheremetyevo International Airport, the departure airport of Air Force One in the film, were shot at Los Angeles International Airport. F-15 Eagle aircraft from the 33d Operations Group, 33d Fighter Wing", "title": "Air Force One (film)" }, { "id": "3654284", "text": "Coppola recruited her for the role of \"Yolanda\", a Havana night club singer in \"The Godfather II\". Although her role was small, the experience would serve her well in the future. She was credited as \"Yvonne Coll\". In 1989, Coll played a minor role of a teacher named \"Mrs. Santos\", in the film \"Lean on Me\" written by Michael Schiffer, directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Morgan Freeman. She participated in the following productions: \"Orinoco\", \"The Masses Are Asses\" (a play by Pedro Pietri), \"Medio Comuñas\", \"Goodbye Castro\", and \"Pancho Diablo\" (with Fernando Allende and Sully Diaz). Coll won", "title": "Ivonne Coll" }, { "id": "20578553", "text": "was expected to last until April 10, 2018. The production was set to film in other locations around the state including Covington, LaPlace, Hammond, Baton Rouge, and Donaldsonville. On February 21, 2018, filming took place at Laurel Valley Plantation in Thibodaux, Louisiana. The production moved to Donaldsonville, Louisiana where filming took place through February 26, 2018 and where it reportedly shut down an area of the town’s historic district. On March 5, 2018, filming occurred at the Old Louisiana Governor's Mansion in Baton Rouge. Production reportedly caused streets surrounding the to be blocked off for the majority of the day.", "title": "The Highwaymen (film)" }, { "id": "1026585", "text": "Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stop at a service station on Live Oak Street in \"Hollywood or Bust\" (1956). Hills near California Lutheran University were used in the filming of \"Welcome to Hard Times\" (1967). \"Spartacus\" (1960) was also filmed by CLU. Movies are still being made at Ventura Farms (previously Deerwood Stock Farm), Greenfield Ranch, and the JMJ Ranch. A number of movie productions took place in Wildwood Regional Park between the 1930s and 1960s. Examples include \"Wuthering Heights\" (1939), \"Dodge City\" (1939), \"The Rifleman\" (1958–63), \"Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier\" (1955), \"The Grapes of Wrath\" (1940),", "title": "Thousand Oaks, California" }, { "id": "12082984", "text": "Charleston. The Boone Hall Plantation served as Allie's summer house. Many of the scenes set in Seabrook were filmed in the town of Mt. Pleasant, (a suburb of Charleston). Others were filmed in Charleston and in Edisto Island. The lake scenes were filmed at Cypress Gardens (in Moncks Corner, South Carolina) with trained birds that were brought in from elsewhere. The nursing home scenes were filmed at Rice Hope Plantation, located in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The college depicted briefly in the film is identified in the film as Sarah Lawrence College, but the campus that is seen is actually", "title": "The Notebook" }, { "id": "858206", "text": "The Karate Kid, and other Underdogs\", written by Larry Powell and Tom Garrett. Avildsen died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on June 16, 2017. He was 81. The cause of his death was pancreatic cancer, according to his son, Anthony Avildsen. John G. Avildsen John Guilbert Avildsen (December 21, 1935 – June 16, 2017) was an American film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1977 for \"Rocky\". Other films he directed include \"Joe\" (1970), \"Save the Tiger\" (1973), \"Fore Play\" (1975), \"The Formula\" (1980), \"Neighbors\" (1981), \"For Keeps\" (1988), \"Lean on Me\" (1989), \"Rocky", "title": "John G. Avildsen" }, { "id": "1330074", "text": "the quarry, Orson Adams built two nineteenth-century Victorian Manor Houses named Oak Hill on a 235-acre estate that anchored the community. The homes burned down after the Rouse Company purchased the land, and have been redeveloped into apartments. Resident film maker Wayne Shipley used Jessup as the production location for \"One-Eyed Horse\" (2008) and \"Day of the Gun\" (2013). Portions of \"Cry-Baby\" (1990) and \"Die Hard with a Vengeance\" (1995) were filmed in Jessup. Major neighborhoods of Jessup include: As of the census of 2000, there were 7,865 people, 379 households, and 280 families residing in the CDP. The population", "title": "Jessup, Maryland" }, { "id": "18366432", "text": "cameras, thus marking the first time that a Hollywood feature film was shot entirely with IMAX digital cameras. In early February, Marvel confirmed the involvement of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man, Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord, and Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in the film. Additional filming took place in Scotland beginning in February 2017. The filming occurred in Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Scottish Highlands, with studio work taking place at Wardpark Studios in Cumbernauld. Filming also began at Durham Cathedral in Durham, England in early May 2017. In late June 2017,", "title": "Avengers: Infinity War" }, { "id": "892228", "text": "the first chance I'd really had to get outside while making a movie. Up to this point, the pictures had been pretty small. I really wanted to capture as much of Chicago as I could, not just the architecture and the landscape, but the spirit.\" Shooting began in Chicago on September 9, 1985. In late October 1985, the production moved to Los Angeles, and shooting ended on November 22. The Von Steuben Day Parade scene was filmed on September 28. Scenes were filmed at several locations in downtown Chicago and Winnetka (Ferris's home, his mother's real estate office, etc.). Many", "title": "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" }, { "id": "9695081", "text": "March 7, 1942 to April 25, 1942. \"Tall in the Saddle\" was filmed on location at Agoura Ranch in Agoura, California; Lake Sherwood, California; RKO Encino Ranch in Encino, California; and Sedona, Arizona. Studio scenes were shot at RKO Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Principal photography began in mid-April 1944 and was completed by mid-June 1944. The associate producer of the film was Theron Warth, and the assistant director was Harry Scott. Special effects were produced by Vernon L. Walker. The art directors were Albert S. D'Agostino and Ralph Berger. Set decorations were done by Darrell Silvera and William", "title": "Tall in the Saddle" }, { "id": "858201", "text": "John G. Avildsen John Guilbert Avildsen (December 21, 1935 – June 16, 2017) was an American film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1977 for \"Rocky\". Other films he directed include \"Joe\" (1970), \"Save the Tiger\" (1973), \"Fore Play\" (1975), \"The Formula\" (1980), \"Neighbors\" (1981), \"For Keeps\" (1988), \"Lean on Me\" (1989), \"Rocky V\" (1990), \"The Power of One\" (1992), \"8 Seconds\" (1994), \"Inferno\" (1999) and the first three \"The Karate Kid\" films. Avildsen was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Ivy (née Guilbert) and Clarence John Avildsen. He was educated at The Hotchkiss", "title": "John G. Avildsen" }, { "id": "8102031", "text": "realizing remote caves are actually very cold, Riva placed an air conditioning system in the set. He also sought Downey's advice about makeshift objects in prison, such as a sock being used to make tea. Afterwards, Stark's capture was filmed at Lone Pine, and other exterior scenes in Afghanistan were filmed at Olancha Sand Dunes, where the crew endured two days of winds. Filming at Edwards Air Force Base began in mid-April, and ended on May 2. Exterior shots of Stark's home were digitally added to footage of Point Dume in Malibu, while the interior was built at Playa Vista,", "title": "Iron Man (2008 film)" }, { "id": "8676818", "text": "taped in early August at CBS Television City in Los Angeles. The show also featured the 2012 performances from Luke Bryan, Carole King, and Pitbull. The show's theme song was the instrumental from \"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)\" by Kelly Clarkson. For the third straight year, the show ended with a different number; this time, with a performance of Bill Withers's \"Lean On Me\", led by Jessica Sanchez and Chris Mann featuring MDA patients and families present at the show's taping. The 2014 edition aired on Sunday, August 31, on ABC. Taping for the 2014 Show took place during May", "title": "The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon" }, { "id": "20229879", "text": "and Tenerife in the Canary Islands. From September 5 to September 11, filming occurred at the fortified complex The Alcazaba of Almería and the Wall of Jayran in Almeria. Production moved to Fuerteventura from September 13 through September 26, with the Corralejo Dunes National Park, Parque Holandés, El Jablito, La Oliva and The Jandía Natural Park as filming locations. Filming in Tenerife began during the last week of September, shooting around different locations of the island for 2 weeks. Production went back to the UK in October, with shooting on location taking place at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford,", "title": "Wonder Woman 1984" }, { "id": "20493632", "text": "Lightfoot's intentions for the tone of the series. Filming began on October 3, 2016 in Brooklyn, New York, under the working title \"Crime\". Locations for the production included Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the Williamsburg Bridge, Columbus Circle and Central Park West, Cortlandt Alley, Circle Line Downtown cruises, the Manhattan Family Court building, Long Island City, Grand Ferry Park in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Sunnyside, Queens, Pulaski Bridge, the Roosevelt Island and its steam plant, the Bronx County Courthouse, Newtown Creek, The Roosevelt Hotel, Astoria Park, Tudor City, Hunts Point, Bronx, the Forest Park Carousel, the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge, the \"GoodFellas Diner\" before it was", "title": "The Punisher (season 1)" }, { "id": "15900563", "text": "of Monsieur Thénardier. The cast began rehearsals in January 2012, with principal photography due to begin in March. The press officially confirmed Baron Cohen's casting during the latter month. No table read took place before filming. With a production budget of $61 million, principal photography of the film began 8 March 2012 in Gourdon. Filming locations in England included Boughton House, Winchester College, Winchester Cathedral Close, Her Majesty's Naval Base Portsmouth, Chatham Dockyard, St Mary the Virgin Church, Ewelme, South Oxfordshire and Pinewood Studios. In April 2012, crews built a replica of the Elephant of the Bastille in Greenwich. In", "title": "Les Misérables (2012 film)" }, { "id": "19733419", "text": "A24 and Curzon Artificial Eye acquired U.S and U.K distribution rights, respectively. The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on 1 September 2017. It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2017 and the BFI London Film Festival on 5 October 2017. The film was initially scheduled to be released in the United States on 30 March 2018, however it was pushed back a week to 6 April. It is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2018. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an", "title": "Lean on Pete" }, { "id": "19554870", "text": "and wrapped in June 2016, lasting around 33 days. The film was shot primarily in Crema and the surrounding province of Cremona. An unusual series of rainstorms coincided with the shooting schedule, with heavy rain on 28 of the shooting days. Scenes set in the nearby villages Pandino and Moscazzano were filmed between May 17 and 19, and shooting in Crema began on June 1. Additional outdoor scenes were shot on December 4, 2016. The City of Crema invested €18,000 in the film, including a publicity campaign costing €7,500. The arch of Torrazzo at Crema Cathedral and several historical locations", "title": "Call Me by Your Name (film)" }, { "id": "15605550", "text": "2010 Arab Spring protests forced the change of venue. Alternatives including the Mojave Desert had been considered, but Scott explained that Iceland was ultimately chosen because \"here it is so rough and 'Jurassic-like' and that proved decisive\". In September 2011, filming moved to the Ciudad de la Luz audiovisual complex in Alicante, Spain. Shooting areas included the complex's large water tank, and a nearby beach. The complex was booked from August 22, 2011, through to December 10, 2011, and set construction occurred from August until late September. Approximately 250 people worked on the three-month-long Spain shoot, generating over €1 million", "title": "Prometheus (2012 film)" }, { "id": "19733416", "text": "Lean on Pete Lean on Pete is a 2017 drama film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, based on the novel of the same name by Willy Vlautin. It stars Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny, Travis Fimmel and Steve Buscemi, and follows a 15-year-old boy who begins to work at a stable and befriends an ailing racehorse. It was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor or Actress by Charlie Plummer. It was released in the United States on 6 April 2018, by A24,", "title": "Lean on Pete" }, { "id": "18185115", "text": "Sam Claflin were cast in the film. Stephen Peacocke was cast on March 24, 2015, with Jenna Coleman and Charles Dance cast on April 2, 2015. On April 9, 2015, Janet McTeer joined the cast; and Brendan Coyle, Matthew Lewis, Samantha Spiro, Vanessa Kirby, and Ben Lloyd-Hughes joined the cast the next day. Principal photography began in April 2015, and ended on June 26, 2015. The film was shot in various locations in the UK, including Pembroke, Wales, and Chenies Manor House, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England for the wedding scenes, while Mallorca, Spain, stands in for Mauritius. In July 2014, it", "title": "Me Before You (film)" }, { "id": "7842272", "text": "Judy McCoy's luxury apartment was built on the Warner Bros. stage in Burbank, designed by Richard Sylbert. The Park Avenue exteriors were shot on location late at night, using rain effects and a prop phone box. The lobby scenes were shot at 77 Park Avenue. The courthouse interior scenes were shot at Queens County Courthouse, at night. Courthouse exteriors were at the Mario Merola Building / Bronx County Courthouse. The subway entrance was fake — there is no subway station there. Another courthouse scene showing a riot in slow-motion had been shot at the Essex County Courthouse in Newark but", "title": "The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)" }, { "id": "18833914", "text": "film began on June 8, 2015, in Vancouver, Canada. The camping scenes were filmed at Sunnyside campground in Cultus Lake, British Columbia, while the waterfall was filmed at Multnomah Falls, the Oregon site referenced in the source novel. The accompanying soundtrack for the film features contributions from popular artists primarily in the genres of country music and contemporary Christian music. It was released February 24, 2017 through Atlantic Records. A new duet between Tim McGraw and Faith Hill was written and recorded for the film titled \"Keep Your Eyes On Me\" which is featured in the trailer. It was released", "title": "The Shack (2017 film)" }, { "id": "17341500", "text": "film was shot in Indio, California, filming a scene at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino hotel. The crew also filmed scenes in Inland Empire, Banning, Beaumont and Cabazon. On August 14, filming took place in Palm Springs. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 2014. It was released in United States theaters on May 1, 2015. The film grossed $38,168 from 2 screens. The following week the film jumped from 41st place to 29th place, earning $188,067 from 133 screens. The film closed with $625,727 after spending seven weeks in the box office. The film", "title": "Welcome to Me" }, { "id": "20122336", "text": "2017, and principal photography commenced on March 14. Filming moved to Delhi in April. Muruganantham worked closely with Kumar and Khanna on set in India, making sure every detail was accurate from the way he built his machine, to how to operate it, even his own posture. Majority of the film was shot in a small town beside Narmada river named, Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh. After filming ended in India, the team travelled to New York City where pivotal scenes were filmmed in Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square and Jazz at Lincoln Center, as well as the United Nations headquarter. It", "title": "Pad Man (film)" }, { "id": "519759", "text": "Gump as an astronaut, a professional wrestler, and a chess player. Two directors were offered the opportunity to direct the film before Robert Zemeckis was selected. Terry Gilliam turned down the offer. Barry Sonnenfeld was attached to the film, but left to direct \"Addams Family Values\". Filming began in August 1993 and ended in December of that year. Although most of the film is set in Alabama, filming took place mainly in and around Beaufort, South Carolina, as well as parts of coastal Virginia and North Carolina, including a running shot on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Downtown portions of the", "title": "Forrest Gump" }, { "id": "16258832", "text": "UIC broke ground on a new stadium on the same site, funded in part by donations from Granderson. It consists of a new structure housing a press box, dugouts, and grandstand, and was completed for the 2014 season. In spring 1996, the construction of Les Miller Field was completed. Its first game came on 4 May 1996, against Wright State. In 1998, 1999, 2001, 2008, and 2012, Miller Field hosted the Horizon League Baseball Tournament. Also, the venue has twice hosted the National Amateur All-Star Baseball Tournament. In 1996, the field was a filming location for the film \"Primal Fear\".", "title": "Les Miller Field at Curtis Granderson Stadium" }, { "id": "17703909", "text": "result was a GOP landslide. In 1988 he convinced Joe Louis Clark, the principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, and the subject of a semi-biographical film, \"Lean on Me\", to run for Essex County Freeholder as a Republican. In a heavily Democratic district based in East Orange, Clark lost to LeRoy Jones. In 1994, Renna helped another Republican, James Treffinger, win election as Essex County Executive. But after Trefinger took office, he feuded with Renna and in 1996 engineered a coup to oust him. Renna died on August 21, 1998, four months after his wife, Grace Baldanza", "title": "John Renna" }, { "id": "2463011", "text": "where he and Healey had offices was actually the main building at the NASA Flight Research Center (renamed as the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in March 1976 and as the Armstrong Flight Research Center in 2014) at Edwards Air Force Base, north of Los Angeles. \"If you look at some of those old [episodes], it's supposed to be shot in Cocoa Beach, but in the background you have mountains — the Hollywood Hills,\" Bill Daily said. In actuality, the home of Major Nelson was filmed at the Warner Ranch, in Burbank (on Blondie Street). Many exteriors were filmed at", "title": "I Dream of Jeannie" }, { "id": "15017056", "text": "the Warner Bros. Studios' backlot and Disney's Golden Oak Ranch, and the fictional \"Muppet Studios\" were filmed at the Jim Henson Company Lot and the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank. Other filming locations included Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills, Pink Palace Mansion in Bel Air, the Crossroads of the World, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and the City National Plaza in downtown Los Angeles (acting as the interior of Richman Oil's headquarters, although the Bank of America Center is represented instead). Scooter's scene in the Muppet reunion montage was filmed at Google's Zurich headquarters in Switzerland. Although principal photography was completed on", "title": "The Muppets (film)" }, { "id": "9695066", "text": "the scheming lawyer, George \"Gabby\" Hayes as the trustworthy sidekick, Audrey Long as the kindhearted young woman, Elisabeth Risdon as the overbearing aunt, and Don Douglas as the stepfather. \"Tall in the Saddle\" was filmed on location at Agoura Ranch in Agoura, California; Lake Sherwood, California; RKO Encino Ranch in Encino, California; and Sedona, Arizona. Studio scenes were shot at RKO Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Principal photography took place from mid-April to mid-June 1944. Produced by Robert Fellows for RKO Radio Pictures, the film was released in the United States on October 17, 1944. Upon its theatrical release,", "title": "Tall in the Saddle" }, { "id": "10815785", "text": "bury him beneath a tree in their front yard. Because the film covers 14 years in the life of the dog, 22 different yellow labradors played the part of Marley (as revealed in the special feature Finding Marley on the DVD). The film was shot on location in Florida's West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Miami, and Dolphin Stadium, in addition to Philadelphia and West Chester in Pennsylvania. The Irish honeymoon scenes were shot in and around Ballynahinch Castle, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The film's score was composed by Theodore Shapiro, who previously had worked with director Frankel on \"The", "title": "Marley & Me (film)" }, { "id": "20229877", "text": "Robin Wright were confirmed to reprise their roles as Hippolyta and Antiope in a flashback sequence. In November 2018, Kristoffer Polaha revealed that he has a role in the film. Principal photography began in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) on June 13, 2018, under the working title \"Magic Hour\". Filming took place at the Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in the United Kingdom, and at a number of locations around the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia in the United States, including the Landmark Mall in Alexandria, Virginia during June and July 2018, with scenes shot in Alexandria from June 18 through July", "title": "Wonder Woman 1984" }, { "id": "7407816", "text": "to unresolved conflicts between that country and the United States. Principal photography wrapped in December 1988, after 65 days of filming. After viewing a rough cut of the film, Universal demanded that the ending, which depicted Kovic's appearance at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, be reshot. The original scene was shot in Dallas, with 600 extras, but the studio was dissatisfied with the filmed footage, and requested that Stone make it \"bigger and better\". The scene was reshot in July 1989 at The Forum arena in Inglewood, California. Filming lasted one day, with 6,000 extras. The reshoot ended up costing", "title": "Born on the Fourth of July (film)" }, { "id": "966411", "text": "Zack Snyder, with a screenplay by Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon, from a story by Snyder and Terrio. In July 2015, it was revealed that filming would begin in spring 2016 after \"Wonder Woman\" ended principal photography. Principal photography commenced on April 11, 2016, with shooting taking place at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, as well as various locations around London, Scotland, Los Angeles and in Djúpavík in the Westfjords of Iceland. Snyder's longtime cinematographer Larry Fong was replaced by Fabian Wagner due to scheduling conflicts. The film premiered in Beijing on October 26, 2017, and was released in the United", "title": "Justice League" }, { "id": "12800968", "text": "bear, was filmed in Los Angeles. The production used three units (Dragon, Wolf and Raven) filming in parallel, six directing teams, 257 cast members and 703 crew members. The fourth season returned to Dubrovnik and included new locations, including Diocletian's Palace in Split, Klis Fortress north of Split, Perun quarry east of Split, the Mosor mountain range, and Baška Voda further south. Thingvellir National Park in Iceland was used for the fight between Brienne and the Hound. Filming took 136 days and ended on November 21, 2013. The fifth season added Seville, Spain, used for scenes of Dorne, as well", "title": "Game of Thrones" }, { "id": "3211173", "text": "locations included a soundstage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Landis Valley Museum (Lancaster County, PA) and a field in Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area, in Cecil County, Maryland, at a spot just east of Big Elk Creek and just south of the border with Chester County, Pennsylvania. In 1998 the State of Maryland compiled a document that included a location-map and photographs of the buildings constructed for the film as they stood in Fair Hill NRMA. Filming also took place In Montgomery County PA, on the north side of the Schuylkill River with in Valley Forge National Historical Park. Filming locations", "title": "Beloved (1998 film)" }, { "id": "20607139", "text": "days in jail. Jamil asserted the casting as being a case of . Additional casting which included the additions of Spencer Garrett, James Remar, Brenda Vaccaro and Mike Moh was announced in July. In August 2018, additional castings were made, including Damon Herriman as Charles Manson, and Lena Dunham, Austin Butler, Danny Strong, Rumer Willis, Dreama Walker, and Margaret Qualley cast in supporting roles. Principal photography began on June 18, 2018, in Los Angeles, California and wrapped on November 1, 2018. Reynolds died in September 2018 before filming any of his scenes; Bruce Dern was cast as George Spahn in", "title": "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" }, { "id": "18185106", "text": "Me Before You (film) Me Before You is a 2016 romantic drama film directed by Thea Sharrock in her directorial debut and adapted by English author Jojo Moyes from her 2012 novel of the same name. The film stars Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Jenna Coleman, Charles Dance, Matthew Lewis, Janet McTeer, Vanessa Kirby, Joanna Lumley, and Steve Peacocke. Set in the United Kingdom, the film is shot in various historic locations around the country, including Pembroke Castle in Wales, and Chenies Manor House in Buckinghamshire, England. Released on June 3, 2016, in North America, the film received mixed reviews and", "title": "Me Before You (film)" }, { "id": "16659586", "text": "of the studio's expenditures, as part of a state-funded incentive program. Filming began on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, in Johannesburg, South Africa, having been postponed that Monday. Second unit crews shot action sequences without the main cast, to be used as background plates for scenes featuring the Hulk, in the Central Business District of Johannesburg for a period of two weeks. By mid-March, principal photography had begun at Shepperton Studios near London and was scheduled to film there for at least four months, under the working title \"After Party\". Filming at Shepperton as well as other locations in England allowed", "title": "Avengers: Age of Ultron" } ]

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The film stars John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, Rick Moranis as Barney Rubble, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma Flintstone, and Rosie O'Donnell as Betty Rubble, along with Kyle MacLachlan as a villainous executive-vice president of Fred's company, Halle Berry as his seductive secretary and Elizabeth Taylor (in her final theatrical film appearance), as Pearl Slaghoople,", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "1598353", "text": "Genesis version developed by Foley Hi-Tech and published by Ocean Software was also planned, but was later canceled and was released on the Sega Channel instead The Flintstones (film) The Flintstones is a 1994 American buddy comedy film directed by Brian Levant and written by Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, and Steven E. de Souza. It is a live-action motion picture adaptation of the 1960–1966 animated television series of the same name. The film stars John Goodman as Fred Flintstone, Rick Moranis as Barney Rubble, Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma Flintstone, and Rosie O'Donnell as Betty Rubble, along with Kyle MacLachlan", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "11190631", "text": "to date is in the 1993 animated film \"\", in which she is voiced by Janet Waldo. Pearl Slaghoople appears in both live-action adaptations of the series: Pearl Slaghoople Pearl Slaghoople is a fictional character on the animated TV show \"The Flintstones\". She is the mother of Wilma Flintstone, who is married to Fred Flintstone. In the original series, she portrays Fred's stereotypically antagonistic mother-in-law, acting as a nagging irritant. Her appearance was similar to Wilma's, although Pearl was noticeably larger-figured, similar in build to the men of Bedrock rather than the more shapely Wilma and Betty. In the original", "title": "Pearl Slaghoople" }, { "id": "1598331", "text": "Wilma's mother. The B-52's (as The BC-52's in the film) performed their version of the cartoon's theme song. The film, shot in California, was theatrically released on May 27, 1994, and earned almost $342 million worldwide against a $46 million budget, making it a huge box office success, despite earning negative reviews from critics. Observers criticized the storyline and tone, which they deemed too adult and mature for family audiences, as well as the casting of O'Donnell as Betty and Taylor as Pearl, but praised its visual effects, costume design, art direction, and Goodman's performance as Fred. In Bedrock, Slate", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "635760", "text": "2000, Collins joined the cast of \"The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas\", a prequel to the Universal Studios live-action film \"The Flintstones\" (1994). She reprised the supporting role of Pearl Slaghoople, Wilma Flintstone's mother, that Elizabeth Taylor had originated. In 2001, she co-starred in the television film \"These Old Broads\" with Debbie Reynolds, Shirley MacLaine, and Taylor. The film was written for television by Reynolds's daughter, Carrie Fisher. In 2002, Collins returned to soap operas in a limited guest run on the American daytime soap \"Guiding Light.\" In 2005, actress Alice Krige impersonated Collins in \",\" a fictionalised television film", "title": "Joan Collins" }, { "id": "1598345", "text": "and Catherine O'Hara were all considered for the role of Wilma. Elizabeth Perkins won the role. Danny DeVito was the original first choice for Barney, but he turned down the role as he felt he was too gruff to do the character properly and reportedly suggested Rick Moranis for the role. DeVito was also considered for Fred Flintstone. Although Janine Turner was considered, Rosie O'Donnell won the role of Betty Rubble with her impersonation of the cartoon character's signature giggle. Both Tracey Ullman and Daphne Zuniga were also considered for the role. Sharon Stone was to play Miss Stone, but", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "4540905", "text": "Slaghoople. Flintstones' writer Earl Kress explained the discrepancy as such: \"Unfortunately, it's just as simple as [Hanna-Barbera] not caring about the continuity.\" Jean Vander Pyl was the original voice artist of Wilma until her death in 1999. Since then, Tress MacNeille has taken over as Wilma's voice. In \"The Flintstone Kids\", Wilma was voiced by Julie McWhirter Dees and Elizabeth Lyn Frasier at different points. In the live-action film \"The Flintstones\", Wilma was played by Elizabeth Perkins, although Vander Pyl made a cameo at Fred's surprise party (in the conga line behind Dino). In the prequel film \"The Flintstones in", "title": "Wilma Flintstone" }, { "id": "4540906", "text": "Viva Rock Vegas\", Wilma was played by Kristen Johnston. Wilma Flintstone Wilma Flintstone is a fictional character in the television animated series \"The Flintstones\". Wilma is the red-headed wife of caveman Fred Flintstone, daughter of Pearl Slaghoople, and mother of Pebbles Flintstone. Her best friend is her next door neighbor, Betty. Wilma's personality is based on that of Alice Kramden, wife of Ralph Kramden on the 1950s television series \"The Honeymooners\". Much like Alice, Wilma plays the strong-willed, level-headed person in her marriage, often criticizing Fred for pursuing his various ill-fated schemes. Wilma is often the one to bail out", "title": "Wilma Flintstone" }, { "id": "11190629", "text": "Pearl Slaghoople Pearl Slaghoople is a fictional character on the animated TV show \"The Flintstones\". She is the mother of Wilma Flintstone, who is married to Fred Flintstone. In the original series, she portrays Fred's stereotypically antagonistic mother-in-law, acting as a nagging irritant. Her appearance was similar to Wilma's, although Pearl was noticeably larger-figured, similar in build to the men of Bedrock rather than the more shapely Wilma and Betty. In the original series, she has red hair like her daughter's; in later specials and films, it's transitioned to gray. In the original series she was voiced by Verna Felton,", "title": "Pearl Slaghoople" }, { "id": "4540900", "text": "Wilma Flintstone Wilma Flintstone is a fictional character in the television animated series \"The Flintstones\". Wilma is the red-headed wife of caveman Fred Flintstone, daughter of Pearl Slaghoople, and mother of Pebbles Flintstone. Her best friend is her next door neighbor, Betty. Wilma's personality is based on that of Alice Kramden, wife of Ralph Kramden on the 1950s television series \"The Honeymooners\". Much like Alice, Wilma plays the strong-willed, level-headed person in her marriage, often criticizing Fred for pursuing his various ill-fated schemes. Wilma is often the one to bail out Fred when one of his schemes lands him in", "title": "Wilma Flintstone" }, { "id": "1598346", "text": "turned it down because of scheduling conflicts. The role was also offered to Nicole Kidman. Anna Nicole Smith was also considered. Both Audrey Meadows and Elizabeth Montgomery were considered for the role of Pearl Slaghoople. Parts of the film were shot at Glen Canyon in Utah as well as Los Angeles County, California. The film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 22% \"Rotten\" rating based on 44 reviews with an average rating of 3.7/10. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "4996457", "text": "Kristen Johnston Kristen Angela Johnston (born September 20, 1967) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Sally Solomon in the television series \"3rd Rock from the Sun\", for which she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in \"The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas\" and as Holly Franklin in the sitcom \"The Exes\". She currently stars in the sixth season of the television sitcom \"Mom\". Johnston was born in Washington, D.C., but was raised mostly in Fox Point, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee,", "title": "Kristen Johnston" }, { "id": "10289951", "text": "by Cartoon Network Studios after the Hanna-Barbera studios was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001. In format, the movie was intended to emulate the first and second seasons of the 1960s series, which was distinctly more mature and aimed at older audiences than the later seasons, and therefore chose to focus more on the relationships between the original core cast of Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty. Since its original broadcast, the movie has not been released on home video, though bootleg copies exist on various torrent sites. Fred and Wilma's marriage is in serious jeopardy, as Wilma is growing", "title": "The Flintstones: On the Rocks" }, { "id": "1598352", "text": "gave massages to younger versions of Wilma and Betty. Irwin Keyes returned as Joe Rockhead, the only cast member to reprise his role from the first film. Unlike its predecessor, it disappointed at the box office. A video game based on the film was released for the Game Boy, Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Channel in both 1994 and 1995 respectively, developed by Ocean Software (SNES), Twilight (GB), Hi-Tech (SC) and published by Ocean Software. In the game, the player takes control of Fred Flintstones and has to rescue Wilma, Barney, Pebbles and Bam-Bam from Cliff Vandercave. A Sega", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "4996464", "text": "caused her to miss filming for some episodes of her series \"The Exes\". A character played by Leah Remini was introduced in season three to cover Johnston's absence. Kristen Johnston Kristen Angela Johnston (born September 20, 1967) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Sally Solomon in the television series \"3rd Rock from the Sun\", for which she twice won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She also starred as Wilma Flintstone in \"The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas\" and as Holly Franklin in the sitcom \"The Exes\". She currently", "title": "Kristen Johnston" }, { "id": "3014234", "text": "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (also known as The Flintstones 2 or The Flintstones 2: Viva Rock Vegas) is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Brian Levant, written by Jim Cash, Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, and Jack Epps, Jr., and is the prequel to Levant's \"The Flintstones\" (1994), based on the 1960–66 animated television series of the same name. It is set before the events of both the series and the first film, showing how Fred and Barney met Wilma and Betty. None of the original cast from the first film reprise", "title": "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" }, { "id": "16551853", "text": "from \"Dallas\". She was also the German voice of Wilma in \"The Flintstones\". Inge Landgut was married with director and actor Werner Oehlschläger (1904–1980) from 1952 until his death. Inge Landgut Inge Landgut (November 23, 1922 – May 29, 1986) was a German actress. She is probably best-remembered for playing Pony Hütchen in \"Emil and the Detectives\" and as the child murder victim Elsie Beckmann in Fritz Lang's classic \"M\", both films were released in 1931. Landgut continued her acting career into adulthood, making both film and television appearances. During her later years, Inge Landgut also worked frequently in the", "title": "Inge Landgut" }, { "id": "3014235", "text": "their roles here. The film stars Mark Addy, replacing John Goodman as Fred Flintstone; Stephen Baldwin replacing Rick Moranis as Barney Rubble; Kristen Johnston replacing Elizabeth Perkins as Wilma Slaghoople; and Jane Krakowski replacing Rosie O'Donnell as Betty O'Shale. The supporting cast featured Joan Collins, Thomas Gibson, Harvey Korman, and Alan Cumming in a dual role as The Great Gazoo and Mick Jagged, a parody of Mick Jagger. The film was a box office bomb, grossing only $59.5 million against its $83 million budget. Like its predecessor, \"Viva Rock Vegas\" also received negative critical reviews and was nominated for four", "title": "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" }, { "id": "527434", "text": "four CBS series – \"The Nanny\", \"Can't Hurry Love\", \"Murphy Brown\", and \"High Society\" – in one night in February 1996 to promote her new fragrance. Her last theatrically released film was in the critically panned, but commercially very successful, \"The Flintstones\" (1994), in which she played Pearl Slaghoople in a brief supporting role. Taylor received American and British honors for her career: the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1993, the Screen Actors Guild honorary award in 1997, and a BAFTA Fellowship in 1999. In 2000, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II. After supporting roles in the", "title": "Elizabeth Taylor" }, { "id": "10555935", "text": "Hanna-Barbera and directed by Joanna Romersa. The teleplay was written by Glenn Leopold, based on \"A Christmas Carol\" by Charles Dickens. The music was composed by Steve Bernstein. Jean Vander Pyl returned as the voice of Wilma Flintstone, a role she performed since first chosen by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera to voice the character in 1960. The special was animated in the Philippines by Fil-Cartoons, Inc. The special premiered on the American Broadcasting Company on November 21, 1994. It has been rebroadcast in later years, by Toon Disney, Boomerang and Canada's YTV. Turner Home Entertainment initially released \"A Flintstones", "title": "A Flintstones Christmas Carol" }, { "id": "11190630", "text": "who at the time was known for doing voiceovers for Disney animated films;. Felton died shortly after the original series ended. In \"The Flintstones\", her first name is never actually revealed. She does not appear in the 1971 spinoff \"The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show\" Pearl also appeared in the mid-80s spinoff series \"The Flintstone Kids,\" which portrays her husband Ricky for the first time. Ricky also appears in the live-action 2000 film \"Viva Rock Vegas\". Presumably, Ricky died by the time Wilma reached adulthood, as Pearl is stated to be a widow in the original series. Pearl's last animated appearance", "title": "Pearl Slaghoople" }, { "id": "3882665", "text": "Flintstones\", \"I Yabba-Dabba Do!\", \"Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby\", and \"A Flintstones Christmas Carol\". Her last roles were again as Wilma Flintstone on \"What a Cartoon!\" episode \"\" in 1995, \"A Flintstone Family Christmas\" in 1996 and on \"The Weird Al Show\" in 1997. Pyl was married twice. First to Carroll G. O'Meara on March 9, 1939; together they have three children, O'Meara died on February 18, 1962, at the age of 53. She then married her second husband Roger Wells DeWitt in 1963; the couple have one son, they remained married until DeWitt's death in 1992. On April 10, 1999, Vander Pyl", "title": "Jean Vander Pyl" }, { "id": "3882658", "text": "Jean Vander Pyl Jean Thurston Vander Pyl (October 11, 1919 – April 10, 1999) was an American actress and voice actress. Although her career spanned many decades, she is perhaps best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon \"The Flintstones\". In addition to Wilma Flintstone, she also provided the voices of Pebbles Flintstone, Rosie the robot maid on the animated series \"The Jetsons\", Goldie, Lola Glamour, Nurse LaRue and other characters in \"Top Cat\", Winsome Witch on \"The Secret Squirrel Show\" and Ogee on \"The Magilla Gorilla Show\". Vander Pyl was born in Philadelphia to John", "title": "Jean Vander Pyl" }, { "id": "3882666", "text": "died of lung cancer at her home in Dana Point, California. She was 79 years old. Vander Pyl was interred in Ascension Cemetery in Lake Forest, California. Jean Vander Pyl Jean Thurston Vander Pyl (October 11, 1919 – April 10, 1999) was an American actress and voice actress. Although her career spanned many decades, she is perhaps best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon \"The Flintstones\". In addition to Wilma Flintstone, she also provided the voices of Pebbles Flintstone, Rosie the robot maid on the animated series \"The Jetsons\", Goldie, Lola Glamour, Nurse LaRue and", "title": "Jean Vander Pyl" }, { "id": "1598347", "text": "38 out of 100, which indicates \"generally unfavorable reviews\", based on 15 reviews. On the syndicated television program \"Siskel & Ebert & the Movies\", Roger Ebert of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" and his colleague Gene Siskel of the \"Chicago Tribune\" gave the film two marginal thumbs down. They both mentioned that its main story lines (embezzlement, mother-in-law problems, office politics and extra-marital affairs) were storylines for adult films, and ones that children would not be able to understand. However, many critics praised the film's look, faithfulness to the cartoon, Rosanna Norton's costume designs and Goodman's performance. A few reviews were positive,", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "1598349", "text": "$211,100,000 overseas, for a total of $341,631,208 worldwide, against a $46 million budget. O'Donnell won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for her performance in this film. The film also won Worst Screenplay and was nominated for two others: Taylor as Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress (the second performance in the film nominated for this award) and for the film as Worst Remake or Sequel. However, the film also received four Saturn Award nominations, including Best Fantasy Film, Best Costume Design and Best Supporting Actress for O'Donnell's and Berry's performances. McDonald's marketed a number of Flintstones", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "3882664", "text": "her \"Flintstones\" cast members Alan Reed and Mel Blanc. She went on to voice Mrs. Finkerton on \"Inch High, Private Eye\", as well as several female characters on \"Hong Kong Phooey\", \"The Tom and Jerry Show\" and \"Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels\". In the 1980s and 1990s, the talented voice actress did voices on \"Mister T\", \"Snorks\", \"Yogi's Treasure Hunt\" and also on \"The Flintstone Kids\" as Mrs. Slaghoople. She mostly reprised Wilma Flintstone on spin-off series and films such as \"The Flintstone Comedy Hour\", \"The New Fred and Barney Show\", \"The Flintstone Comedy Show\", \"The Jetsons Meet the", "title": "Jean Vander Pyl" }, { "id": "4583484", "text": "Betty Rubble Betty Rubble is a fictional character in the television animated series \"The Flintstones\" and its spin-offs and live-action motion pictures. She is the black-haired wife of caveman Barney Rubble and the adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. Her best friend is her next-door neighbor Wilma Flintstone. Betty lives in the fictional prehistoric town of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexist with cavepeople and the cavepeople enjoy primitive versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles and washing machines. Betty's personality was based on the stock character of the lead character's best friend's wife, commonly seen in 1950s television (other", "title": "Betty Rubble" }, { "id": "5349135", "text": "and Cara Williams. For her performance on \"December Bride\", Felton was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1958 and in 1959. Felton was the original voice of Wilma Flintstone's mother, Pearl Slaghoople, voicing the character as a semi-regular on Hanna-Barbera's \"The Flintstones\" from 1962–63. In 1963, in the series finale of CBS's \"Dennis the Menace\" sitcom, Felton played John Wilson's aunt in the episode entitled \"Aunt Emma Visits the Wilsons\". In the story line, Mr. Wilson (Gale Gordon) tries to convince Aunt Emma to leave her estate to him and his", "title": "Verna Felton" }, { "id": "624858", "text": "have a caveman-like design, though the park does not license the characters. The Australia's Wonderland and Canada's Wonderland theme parks, both featured \"Flintstones\" characters in their Hanna-Barbera-themed children's sections from 1985 up until the mid-1990s. Kings Island near Cincinnati, Ohio, had a Hanna-Barbera land, in which many Hanna-Barbera characters were featured, including the Flintstones, in the 1980s and early 1990s. A stage production opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1994 (the year the live-action film was released), developed by Universal and Hanna-Barbera Productions. It opened at the Panasonic Theater, replacing the \"Star Trek\" show. The story consists of Fred, Wilma,", "title": "The Flintstones" }, { "id": "624844", "text": "world of live action, including two of Jackie Gleason's writers, Herbert Finn and Sydney Zelinka, as well as relative newcomer Joanna Lee while still using traditional animation story men such as Warren Foster and Michael Maltese. \"The Flintstones\" premiered on September 30, 1960, at 8:30 pm, and quickly became a hit. It was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed, although Fred and Wilma are sometimes depicted as sleeping in separate beds. For comparison, the first live-action depiction of this in American TV", "title": "The Flintstones" }, { "id": "4583493", "text": "\"O'Shale\". Betty Rubble Betty Rubble is a fictional character in the television animated series \"The Flintstones\" and its spin-offs and live-action motion pictures. She is the black-haired wife of caveman Barney Rubble and the adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. Her best friend is her next-door neighbor Wilma Flintstone. Betty lives in the fictional prehistoric town of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexist with cavepeople and the cavepeople enjoy primitive versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles and washing machines. Betty's personality was based on the stock character of the lead character's best friend's wife, commonly seen in 1950s television", "title": "Betty Rubble" }, { "id": "1598344", "text": "roundtables, and later described the film as \"one of those scripts that had about 18 writers\". The effects for Dino, Dictabird, and the other prehistoric creatures were provided by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Actors John Candy, Jim Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Chevy Chase were all considered for the role of Fred Flintstone, but John Candy had died before production began, the last four actors were all deemed too skinny and a fat suit was deemed too inappropriate to be used. If Goodman had turned the role down, the film would not have been made. Geena Davis, Faith Ford,", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "10555932", "text": "He recruits a passing boy (played by the same child who Fred entrusted with his presents) to purchase a prize \"Turkeysaurus\" and have it sent to the Cragits for a feast. Scrooge prepares to go out and explore the city on Christmas morning; along the way, he meets Wilma, who has taken on the role of one of the members of the Piltdown Charitable Foundation, as the original actor has caught the Bedrock Bug. Fred acts as if the woman is Belle (much to narrator Brickens's frustration, as the ad-libbing is not in his script), and begs for both her", "title": "A Flintstones Christmas Carol" }, { "id": "10289957", "text": "the home in the hands of his friends before leaving on his own trip. The film currently holds a 7.1/10 rating on IMDb. The Flintstones: On the Rocks The Flintstones: On the Rocks is a 2001 American animated made-for-television film featuring characters from \"The Flintstones\" franchise. It debuted on November 3, 2001 on Cartoon Network and was directed by Chris Savino and David Smith. It was dedicated to Hoyt Curtin, longtime Hanna-Barbera conductor and composer and William Hanna, creator of \"The Flintstones\" and founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions with partner Joseph Barbera. This film marks the final time that any original", "title": "The Flintstones: On the Rocks" }, { "id": "19650692", "text": "Energy: A National Issue Energy: A National Issue is a 1977 American animated educational film starring The Flintstones, narrated by Charlton Heston and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It was produced in 1976 and was also the final \"Flintstones\" production to feature Alan Reed as the voice of Fred Flintstone before his death in 1977. The film was distributed to schools in 16 mm format and broadcast as a syndicated television special on November 22, 1977. The film follows Fred and Wilma Flintstone through the history of energy sources. As Fred and Wilma discover many facts about energy and the economy,", "title": "Energy: A National Issue" }, { "id": "5458568", "text": "and Rubbles, and Rockula mistakes Wilma for his long-lost bride and vows to make her his, even if it means killing Fred. Wilma initially mistakes Rockula for the hotel manager, Mr. Silika, who had dressed up as Rockula, for quite some time until Rockula turns into a bat in front of her. As Fred, Barney and Betty discover Wilma's absence and begin searching for her, Wilma flees and a long cat-and-mouse chase ensues all over the castle. Rockula finds and corners Fred, but is scared off by Barney, wearing a werewolf mask. The couples eventually end up cornered inside the", "title": "The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone" }, { "id": "5742786", "text": "\"\" in 1981, until \"\" in 2001 (a role he shared with Mark Mangini). Bill Farmer provided the vocal effects in the 2000 video game \"\". Mark Mangini shared vocal duties with Frank Welker for \"The Flintstones: On the Rocks\". In 2015, Eric Bauza provided the vocal effects for the direct-to-video \"\". Dino (The Flintstones) Dino () is a fictional character featured in the Hanna-Barbera animated television series \"The Flintstones\", and its spin-offs and feature films. He is a pet dinosaur of the series' main characters, Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Dino debuted in the opening credits of the pilot episode", "title": "Dino (The Flintstones)" }, { "id": "3882661", "text": "voice of Wilma Flintstone, her best-known character, in the original \"Flintstones\" series. She told an interviewer in 1995 that she received $250 per episode for making \"The Flintstones\", and in 1966, when the series ended, she rushed to accept $15,000 in lieu of residual payments from syndication. \"The Flintstones\" ran in syndication across the globe for decades. At the time, Vander Pyl lived in San Clemente, California, and remarked: \"If I got residuals, I wouldn't live in San Clemente. I'd \"own\" San Clemente.\" Most of her other voice acting work was also for the Hanna-Barbera studio, where she played her", "title": "Jean Vander Pyl" }, { "id": "20480956", "text": "of the project in March, citing a \"serious family issue\" as the cause. Queen Latifah and Jill Scott were later cast in the film. Latifah's production company Flavor Unit Entertainment and her partner Shakim Compere also produced the film. Lyndie Greenwood later joined the cast. It is based on the \"Time Magazine\" cover story \"The Poisoning of an American City\". It premiered on October 28, 2017. Primary filming locations took place in Toronto, Ontario and Hamilton, Ontario playing Hamilton City Hall as the city hall for Flint. Flint (film) Flint is a 2017 television drama film based on the Flint", "title": "Flint (film)" }, { "id": "10289950", "text": "The Flintstones: On the Rocks The Flintstones: On the Rocks is a 2001 American animated made-for-television film featuring characters from \"The Flintstones\" franchise. It debuted on November 3, 2001 on Cartoon Network and was directed by Chris Savino and David Smith. It was dedicated to Hoyt Curtin, longtime Hanna-Barbera conductor and composer and William Hanna, creator of \"The Flintstones\" and founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions with partner Joseph Barbera. This film marks the final time that any original voice actors (namely John Stephenson as Mr. Slate) would appear in a Flintstones project. It is the only \"Flintstones\" production to be produced", "title": "The Flintstones: On the Rocks" }, { "id": "1932562", "text": "Allen Walken. In the latter, he appeared as Pahrump, Nevada Judge Robert Bebe, earning a 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor – Drama Series for his performance. In addition, Goodman starred as Fred Flintstone in the film adaptation of \"The Flintstones\". He voiced Robot Santa in the character's first appearance on \"Futurama\". Beginning in 2007, Goodman has been the voiceover in Dunkin' Donuts commercials. In 2000, Goodman provided the voice of Pacha in Disney's \"The Emperor's New Groove\" and, a year later, the voice of Sulley in Pixar's \"Monsters, Inc.\" In 2009, Goodman voiced \"Big Daddy\" La Bouff in \"The", "title": "John Goodman" }, { "id": "3557220", "text": "the lone season of the Peter Lind Hayes-Mary Healy sitcom \"Peter Loves Mary\", a part she received on the back of references from Burns. Benaderet considered herself \"lucky\" to be cast in another series out of fear that she had become too closely associated with \"Burns & Allen\". The same year, she was then cast as Betty Rubble in the Hanna-Barbera primetime animated series \"The Flintstones\" after auditioning together with past radio coworker Jean Vander Pyl for Betty and Wilma Flintstone by exchanging dialogue before show co-creator Joseph Barbera. He asked afterwards what part they preferred; Vander Pyl recalled in", "title": "Bea Benaderet" }, { "id": "173478", "text": "runner-up in the Miss USA Pageant and coming in 6th place in the Miss World Pageant in 1986. Her breakthrough film role was in the romantic comedy \"Boomerang\" (1992), alongside Eddie Murphy, which led to roles in films such as the family comedy \"The Flintstones\" (1994), the political comedy-drama \"Bulworth\" (1998) and the television film \"Introducing Dorothy Dandridge\" (1999), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, among many other awards. In addition to her Academy Award win, Berry garnered high-profile roles in the 2000s, such as Storm", "title": "Halle Berry" }, { "id": "1598333", "text": "up to his new family. Barney vows to repay his friend Fred for his debt of gratitude. Despite his mother-in-law Pearl Slaghoople's objections, Fred's wife Wilma remains supportive of Fred's decision to help Barney. Fred promises he will prove himself to her one day. As part of his scheme to find the fall guy, Vandercave holds a company-wide aptitude test, where the worker with the highest score would become the new vice president of the company. Knowing how much Fred wants the promotion, Barney secretly switches his completed test with Fred's, since he knows that he has a better chance", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "1598351", "text": "promoted adverts with audio from the film, including mugs starring characters from the film. \"Jurassic Park\", the name of another movie was also seen briefly as a park in the film. The film was released, first on VHS and LaserDisc on November 8, 1994 by MCA/Universal Home Video. It later made its debut on DVD on March 16, 1999 and finally to Blu-ray on August 19, 2014. A prequel, \"The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas\", was released in 2000. The original main cast did not reprise their roles of the characters, though O'Donnell provided the voice of an octopus who", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "3014243", "text": "marry in the Rock Vegas Chapel of Love, while the gangsters prepare to make Chip pay in their own manner. After the pastor proclaims them husband and wife, everyone sings \"Meet the Flintstones\". When Jagged sings \"Viva Rock Vegas\" at a party, Betty catches Wilma's tossed bouquet and kisses Barney. The newlyweds drive away with Dino and Gazoo to goodbye waves from their friends, family, and even Chip and Roxie. Korman, who played Wilma's father Colonel Slaghoople, was the voice of The Great Gazoo in the animated series and he was also the voice of the Dictabird in the first", "title": "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" }, { "id": "1900011", "text": "\"yabba dabba doo!\", a phrase that was originally his club's cheer, and later adopted as part of the theme song from the third season on and used in the 1994 live-action \"Flintstones\" movie. Since the original series' run, Fred has since appeared in various other cartoon spinoffs, live action adaptations, music videos, and commercials. While the mid-1980s spin-off series \"The Flintstone Kids\" depicts Fred as a child, the series may be apocryphal due to its presenting Wilma as a childhood friend of Fred and Barney; the original series asserts that they first met as young adults. Still, the series' depictions", "title": "Fred Flintstone" }, { "id": "1598341", "text": "In 1985, producers Keith Barish and Joel Silver bought the rights for a live-action feature film version of \"The Flintstones\" and commissioned Steven E. de Souza to write a script with Richard Donner hired to direct. De Souza's script was eventually rejected and Mitch Markowitz was hired to write a script. Said to be a cross of \"The Grapes of Wrath\", Markowitz commented that \"I don't even remember it that well, but Fred and Barney leave their town during a terrible depression and go across the country, or whatever that damn prehistoric thing is, looking for jobs. They wind up", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "1536788", "text": "Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles cereal commercials that have been produced over the years. Pebbles Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone (also known as Pebbles Flintstone-Rubble as an adult) is a fictional character in the \"Flintstones\" franchise. The red-haired daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles is born near the end of the third season. She is most famous in her infant form on \"The Flintstones\", but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spin-off \"The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show\" and as an adult in three made-for-television movies. She spent most of her time with Bamm-Bamm", "title": "Pebbles Flintstone" }, { "id": "3014236", "text": "Golden Raspberry Awards, but did not win any. Young bachelors and best friends Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble have recently qualified as crane operators at Slate & Company. Soon to be employed, now they want dates, and a little green alien The Great Gazoo, exiled to Earth by his species, offers to help, although only they can see him. Meanwhile, Wilma Slaghoople wants a normal life and activities, like bowling, despite her controlling mother Pearl, who wants her to marry smooth casino-owner Chip Rockefeller. Wilma angrily runs away to Bronto King in Bedrock. Waitress Betty O'Shale mistakes her as \"caveless\",", "title": "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" }, { "id": "1536784", "text": "Pebbles Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone (also known as Pebbles Flintstone-Rubble as an adult) is a fictional character in the \"Flintstones\" franchise. The red-haired daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles is born near the end of the third season. She is most famous in her infant form on \"The Flintstones\", but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spin-off \"The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show\" and as an adult in three made-for-television movies. She spent most of her time with Bamm-Bamm Rubble, her childhood best friend whom she eventually marries. According to the February", "title": "Pebbles Flintstone" }, { "id": "624838", "text": "episodes, \"The Bedrock Hillbillies\" and \"The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes\"), Romans (Hanna-Barbera eventually created \"The Roman Holidays\"), pilgrims, and Indians as the settings for the two families before deciding on the Stone Age. According to Barbera, they settled on that because \"you could take anything that was current, and convert it to stone-age\". Under the working title \"The Flagstones\", the family originally consisted of Fred, Wilma, and their son, Fred, Jr. A brief demonstration film was also created to sell the idea of a \"modern stone age family\" to sponsors and the network. Animator Kenneth Muse, who worked on the", "title": "The Flintstones" }, { "id": "1598348", "text": "including \"Time\" magazine which said \"\"The Flintstones\" is fun\", and Joel Siegel from ABC's \"Good Morning America\" and WABC-TV who called the film \"pre-historical, hysterical... great fun\". In a 1997 interview, Joseph Barbera, co-creator of \"The Flintstones\" and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions, stated that, although he was impressed by the film's visuals, he felt the story \"wasn't as good as I could have made it.\" Despite the negative reviews, \"The Flintstones\" was a box office success, grossing $130,531,208 domestically, including the $37,182,745 it made during its 4-day Memorial Day opening weekend in 1994. It performed even better internationally, making another", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "5458570", "text": "of a bat) all the way from Rocksylvania to Bedrock. Flying through the kitchen window, he begs Wilma to marry him, promising her a life of luxury if she agrees. Winking at Fred, Barney and Betty (watching surreptitiously from the doorway), Wilma agrees to consider marrying Rockula, then immediately begins nagging him about chores, upkeep of the house, and his bad habits. Aghast, Rockula (apparently forgetting that most chores would be left to the servants) changes back into a bat and flies off, claiming to need another 500 years of rest. Barney laughs and lauds Wilma for defeating Rockula by", "title": "The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone" }, { "id": "20160409", "text": "The Flintstones on Ice The Flintstones on Ice is a 1973 American live action television special featuring characters from \"The Flintstones\" franchise directed by Walter C. Miller and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It premiered on CBS on February 11, 1973 at 8:00 pm EST. The special was taped in Hamburg, Germany before a capacity crowd and starred costumed characters of Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, Barney Rubble and Betty Rubble (portrayed by champion ice skaters Lothar Dobberstein, Teri Tucker, Malcolm Smith and Mitsuko Funakoshi, respectively). Also featured are several other renowned skaters Donald McPherson, Cliff McArdle, Gudrun Hauss and Walter Häfner,", "title": "The Flintstones on Ice" }, { "id": "4540902", "text": "resort. There, they first met and fell in love with their future husbands, Fred and Barney, who were working there as bellhops. Wilma and Fred eventually married, and Wilma became a homemaker, keeping house with such prehistoric aids as a baby elephant vacuum cleaner and pelican washing machine. Wilma is a good cook; one of her specialties is \"gravelberry pie,\" the recipe for which she eventually sold to the \"Safestone\" supermarket chain. Wilma also enjoys volunteering for various charitable and women's organizations in Bedrock, shopping, and occasionally getting to meet the celebrities of their world, including Stony Curtis, Rock Quarry,", "title": "Wilma Flintstone" }, { "id": "20480955", "text": "Flint (film) Flint is a 2017 television drama film based on the Flint water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Directed by Bruce Beresford, it premiered on Lifetime on October 28, 2017. The film stars Queen Latifah, Betsy Brandt, Jill Scott, and Marin Ireland. The film or its cast have been nominated for three Image Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In January 2017, the singer and actress Cher announced plans to produce and star in a film about a fictional Flint woman dealing with the water crisis and how it affects her family. Cher dropped out", "title": "Flint (film)" }, { "id": "901917", "text": "Practical Magic Practical Magic is a 1998 American romantic comedy film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Aidan Quinn, and Goran Visnjic. Bullock and Kidman play sisters Sally and Gillian Owens, who have always known they were different from other people. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical—their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic. But", "title": "Practical Magic" }, { "id": "624856", "text": "for many adventures in the world. The show is scheduled to air as a part of the Boomerang IPTV subscription service service in 2019. In 2014, it was announced that Warner Bros. was developing an animated film with Chris Henchy, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, to write the script for the project. Ferrell, and McKay would also be executive producers. In 2018, it was confirmed that the project is still in development, but it is currently unknown if the crew members would still be involved. Two \"Flintstones\"-themed amusement parks exist in the United States: Bedrock City in Custer, South Dakota,", "title": "The Flintstones" }, { "id": "18434495", "text": "original creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who both died respectively in 2001 and 2006. The film marked the first time the character of Mr. Slate was voiced by someone other than John Stephenson who would later die of Alzheimer's disease on May 15, 2015. The film was directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone. Fred Flintstone has promised his wife Wilma they will take a vacation. He wants to request days off work and money from his boss Mr. Slate who just then is hiring an indirect relative named John Cenastone. After getting into trouble, Fred is saved by", "title": "The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!" }, { "id": "2173215", "text": "Elizabeth Perkins Elizabeth Ann Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is an American actress. Her film roles have included \"About Last Night...\" (1986), \"Big\" (1988), \"The Flintstones\" (1994), \"Miracle on 34th Street\" (1994) and \"Avalon\" (1990). She is known for her role as Celia Hodes in the Showtime TV series \"Weeds\", for which she received three Primetime Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. Perkins was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of Jo Williams, a drug treatment counselor and concert pianist, and James Perkins, a farmer, writer, and businessman. She has two older sisters. Her paternal grandparents were Greek", "title": "Elizabeth Perkins" }, { "id": "17342845", "text": "the film earned her first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. In 1996, Bullock starred in the film adaptation of John Grisham's novel \"A Time to Kill\". In 1998, Bullock starred in the romantic comedy \"Practical Magic\", voiced Miriam in the DreamWorks animated film \"The Prince of Egypt\" and also executive produced her first film, the romantic drama \"Hope Floats\". In 2000, Bullock garnered a second nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for her role as undercover FBI agent Gracie", "title": "Sandra Bullock filmography" }, { "id": "10555928", "text": "A Flintstones Christmas Carol A Flintstones Christmas Carol (also known as The Flintstones: A Christmas Carol or The Flintstones: in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol) is a 1994 American animated made-for-television film featuring characters from \"The Flintstones\" franchise, and based on the novel \"A Christmas Carol\" by Charles Dickens. Produced by Hanna-Barbera, it features the voices of Henry Corden, Jean Vander Pyl and Frank Welker. It first aired November 21, 1994 on ABC. The special followed numerous Christmas-themed \"The Flintstones\" productions. It has been released on DVD. The Bedrock Community Players is mounting \"A Christmas Carol,\" and all of the", "title": "A Flintstones Christmas Carol" }, { "id": "1598335", "text": "out their home for extra income. However, Fred's job and newfound wealth puts a strain on his relationships with Wilma and the Rubbles. Vandercave eventually tricks Fred into dismissing more workers, over the objections of his office Dictabird. Later, Barney confronts Fred after seeing worker riots on the news, and in the heat of the argument, reveals that he switched tests with Fred. The Rubbles move out, despite having nowhere to live. Wilma becomes fed up with Fred's increasingly snobbish behavior as well after catching him in the middle of an intimate moment with his secretary and she leaves him", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "4490987", "text": "shooting her title role in \"Nancy Drew\". The film was released to theaters on June 15, 2007, and grossed over $7 million in its opening weekend, though the film was not well received by critics. Roberts was set to reunite with \"Nancy Drew\" director Andrew Fleming on both \"Rodeo Gal\" and a \"Nancy Drew\" sequel in 2007, but these films were never made. In 2008, she had her voiceover debut when she voiced the English version of the character Wilma in the CGI-animated family film \"The Flight Before Christmas\". In 2009, Roberts starred alongside Jake T. Austin in \"Hotel for", "title": "Emma Roberts" }, { "id": "3557221", "text": "1994: \"I said, 'Oh, I want to be Wilma!' [and] Bea said, 'That's fine with me. Benaderet adapted her \"Burns & Allen\" laugh for Betty's signature giggle, and she voiced guest spots on the side for fellow Hanna-Barbera productions \"Top Cat\", \"The Yogi Bear Show\", and \"The Jetsons\" during 1961 and 1962. While filming the debut season of her show \"Petticoat Junction\" the next year, she continued voicing Betty by recording with her \"Flintstones\" castmates during evening hours, but scheduling conflicts forced her to drop the role at the end of the fourth season in 1964, and she was replaced", "title": "Bea Benaderet" }, { "id": "1598342", "text": "in trailer parks trying to keep their families together. They exhibit moments of heroism and poignancy\". Markowitz's version was apparently too sentimental for director Donner, who disliked it. Eventually, the rights were bought by Amblin Entertainment and Steven Spielberg who, after working with Goodman on \"Always\", was determined to cast him in the lead as Fred. Brian Levant was hired as director, knowing he was the right person because of his love for the original series. They knew he was an avid fan of the series because of his Flintstones items collection and the knowledge he had from the series.", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "1598339", "text": "her. The police, Wilma, Betty, and Mr. Slate arrive at the quarry while Vandercave attempts to flee, but he becomes trapped by a thick liquid substance oozing out from the wrecked mixer. With the Dictabird as witness and providing evidence against Vandercave, all charges against Fred are dropped. Though Miss Stone is arrested as Vandercave's accomplice, Fred is confident she will be granted leniency for helping them stop Vandercave. Impressed with the qualities of the liquid substance that Fred inadvertently created when he destroyed the mixing machine, Mr. Slate dubs the substance \"concrete\" in honor of his daughter Concretia and", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "17336503", "text": "\"Dr. Slump\" (as Arale Norimaki), \"Elvira, Mistress of the Dark\" (as Elvira), \"The Flintstones\" (as Wilma Flintstone), \"Grey's Anatomy\" (as Ellis Grey), \"\" (as Granny), \"James and the Giant Peach\" (as Sponge and Ladybug), \"The Jetsons\" (as Jane and Rosie), \"Maple Town\" (as Patty Rabbit), \"Monsters, Inc.\" (as Ms. Flint), \"Muppet Treasure Island\" (as Mrs. Bluberidge), \"Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders\" (as Lady Kale), and \"Princess Knight\" (as Heckett the witch). Évelyne Grandjean Évelyne Grandjean (born 7 April 1939 in Versailles) is a French stage, cinematic and television actress, playwright and television writer, and radio host. She has been", "title": "Évelyne Grandjean" }, { "id": "4540903", "text": "and Jimmy Darrock. In the original series' third season, Wilma becomes pregnant and gives birth to the couple's only child, Pebbles. When Pebbles is a teenager, Wilma gains employment as a reporter for one of Bedrock's newspapers, the \"Daily Granite\" (a spoof of the \"Daily Planet\" of Superman fame), under editor Lou Granite (a parody of \"The Mary Tyler Moore Show's\" Lou Grant). While employed there, Wilma shares various adventures with prehistoric superhero Captain Caveman, who, in a secret identity, also works for the newspaper. Later still, after Pebbles grows up and leaves home, Wilma starts a successful catering business", "title": "Wilma Flintstone" }, { "id": "1068704", "text": "as \"Rugrats\" (as Charlotte Pickles), \"Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers\" (as Chip and Gadget), \"Histeria\", \"Hey Arnold\", as well as dubbing work on English language anime translations. She is the current voice of Daisy Duck and Wilma Flintstone. MacNeille also appeared as an angry anchorwoman in \"Elvira, Mistress of the Dark\" and served as the voice of Elvira's Great-Aunt Morganna Talbot. She provided voice acting for the 2003 Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner short feature \"The Whizzard of Ow\". Tress MacNeille Tress MacNeille (born Teressa Claire Payne; June 20, 1951) is an American voice actress, who has voiced", "title": "Tress MacNeille" }, { "id": "4811468", "text": "Constance Moore Constance Moore (January 18, 1920 or January 18, 1921 — September 16, 2005 in Los Angeles, California) was an American singer and actress. Her most noted work was in wartime musicals such as \"Show Business\" and \"Atlantic City\" and the classic 1939 movie serial \"Buck Rogers\", in which she played Wilma Deering, the only female character in the serial. Moore was born in Sioux City, Iowa, but her family moved away when she was aged six months and she spent most of her formative years in Dallas, Texas. She had at least two siblings, both sisters. A singer,", "title": "Constance Moore" }, { "id": "20923969", "text": "in \"Bewitched\" and the Elder Rose (portrayed by Gloria Stuart) in the 1997 film \"Titanic\". This was one of her final dubbing roles before her death in 1998. In her animated roles, Tettoni voiced Madame Adelaide Bonfamille in the Italian version of \"The Aristocats\". Her other Disney dubbing roles included Queenie in \"One Hundred and One Dalmatians\", Giddy in \"Dumbo\" and the Snooty Flower in \"Alice in Wonderland\". She also dubbed Pearl Slaghoople in \"The Flintstones\". Tettoni died in Rome on March 7th 1998 just one day before her 88th birthday. Wanda Tettoni Wanda Tettoni (March 8, 1910 - March", "title": "Wanda Tettoni" }, { "id": "5742776", "text": "Dino (The Flintstones) Dino () is a fictional character featured in the Hanna-Barbera animated television series \"The Flintstones\", and its spin-offs and feature films. He is a pet dinosaur of the series' main characters, Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Dino debuted in the opening credits of the pilot episode of \"The Flintstones\", but is not mentioned by name until the first season's fourth episode, \"No Help Wanted.\" In the series, Dino serves the role of a pet dog, and exhibits the characteristics of a typical domesticated canine. Dino is a prosauropod-like dinosaur. He is a Snorkasaurus. Dino is a relatively small", "title": "Dino (The Flintstones)" }, { "id": "2173221", "text": "at the age of 44, she learned that she had latent autoimmune diabetes, a form of type 1 diabetes that is most often diagnosed in middle age. Elizabeth Perkins Elizabeth Ann Perkins (born November 18, 1960) is an American actress. Her film roles have included \"About Last Night...\" (1986), \"Big\" (1988), \"The Flintstones\" (1994), \"Miracle on 34th Street\" (1994) and \"Avalon\" (1990). She is known for her role as Celia Hodes in the Showtime TV series \"Weeds\", for which she received three Primetime Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. Perkins was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of", "title": "Elizabeth Perkins" }, { "id": "10555099", "text": "The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma Wind-Up Wilma is a 1981 animated television special and the third of \"The Flintstone Special\" limited-run prime time revival of \"The Flintstones\" produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which premiered on NBC on October 4, 1981. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio, one of the last productions to do so. Wilma is a celebrity when she gets a shot at the big leagues and becomes a pitcher for the Bedrock Dodgers after nailing a couple of robbers with a melon at the grocery store;", "title": "The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma" }, { "id": "9738264", "text": "Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby is a 1993 American animated made-for-television film based on the 1960s series classic, \"The Flintstones\". It first aired on ABC on December 5, 1993. It is the sequel to \"I Yabba-Dabba Do!\" and is followed by \"A Flintstone Family Christmas\", which aired less than two weeks later on the same channel. The movie has been reaired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang usually as part of Mother's Day special programming. After Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm get married and move to Hollyrock, Fred and Barney are both working overtime for Mr.Slate, and Wilma and Betty now own a food", "title": "Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby" }, { "id": "2173219", "text": "in the 1994 live-action comedy \"The Flintstones\". From 2005 to 2009, Perkins played Celia Hodes, an alcoholic and image-obsessed PTA mother, alongside Mary-Louise Parker and Justin Kirk on the Showtime series \"Weeds\". For her work on \"Weeds\", Perkins received two Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a TV Series, Miniseries or Made for TV Motion Picture (in 2006 and 2007). She was also nominated three times for an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on \"Weeds\". At a screening of the season 2 finale of \"Weeds\", at the Museum of TV", "title": "Elizabeth Perkins" }, { "id": "20734571", "text": "Fred Flintstone who must rescue Pebbles, Bam-Bam, Barney and Wilma from the evil Cliff Vandercave. All three versions of the game feature different levels and enemies. \"Next Generation\" reviewed the SNES version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that \"The game (as the movie) could've used more innovation, but it looks good, and plays well.\" The Flintstones (1994 Ocean Software video game) The Flintstones is a 1994 video game adaptation of the live-action film \"The Flintstones\". The Game Boy version developed by Twilight and the SNES version developed by Ocean Software were both published", "title": "The Flintstones (1994 Ocean Software video game)" }, { "id": "1900024", "text": "Fred Flintstone Fred Flintstone is the main character of the animated sitcom \"The Flintstones\", which aired during prime-time on ABC during the original series' run from 1960 to 1966. Fred is the husband of Wilma Flintstone and father of Pebbles Flintstone. His best friend is his next door neighbor, Barney, who has a wife named Betty and an adopted son, named Bamm-Bamm. Fred lives in the fictional prehistoric town of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexist with modernized cavepeople and the cavepeople enjoy \"primitive\" versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles, and washing machines. Fred's trademark catchphrase yell is", "title": "Fred Flintstone" }, { "id": "1900010", "text": "Fred Flintstone Fred Flintstone is the main character of the animated sitcom \"The Flintstones\", which aired during prime-time on ABC during the original series' run from 1960 to 1966. Fred is the husband of Wilma Flintstone and father of Pebbles Flintstone. His best friend is his next door neighbor, Barney, who has a wife named Betty and an adopted son, named Bamm-Bamm. Fred lives in the fictional prehistoric town of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexist with modernized cavepeople and the cavepeople enjoy \"primitive\" versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles, and washing machines. Fred's trademark catchphrase yell is", "title": "Fred Flintstone" }, { "id": "10555937", "text": "a messiah not due for several millenia?\" A Flintstones Christmas Carol A Flintstones Christmas Carol (also known as The Flintstones: A Christmas Carol or The Flintstones: in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol) is a 1994 American animated made-for-television film featuring characters from \"The Flintstones\" franchise, and based on the novel \"A Christmas Carol\" by Charles Dickens. Produced by Hanna-Barbera, it features the voices of Henry Corden, Jean Vander Pyl and Frank Welker. It first aired November 21, 1994 on ABC. The special followed numerous Christmas-themed \"The Flintstones\" productions. It has been released on DVD. The Bedrock Community Players is mounting", "title": "A Flintstones Christmas Carol" }, { "id": "3882660", "text": "copywriter at KHJ radio in the mid-1930s and later became an advertising executive. Vander Pyl made numerous TV appearances as an actress in programs such as \"Leave It to Beaver\", \"The Donna Reed Show\", \"Father Knows Best\", \"The Beverly Hillbillies\", \"That Girl\", and \"Petticoat Junction\". One of her final TV appearances was in the opening scene of the Season Two \"Murder, She Wrote\" episode, \"One Good Bid Deserves a Murder\". Vander Pyl also had a cameo appearance in the 1994 live-action film version of \"The Flintstones\" as Mrs. Feldspar, an elderly woman in a conga line. Vander Pyl was the", "title": "Jean Vander Pyl" }, { "id": "5742785", "text": "live long. On a Ferris wheel, just as Fred and Wilma are about to kiss, Dino's egg hatches and he takes an immediate attachment to Fred, believing him to be his mother. (This, of course, contradicts Dino's origin in the original series.) Dino's barks and sound effects were provided by Mel Blanc for 27 years, from 1960–1987; archive audio of Blanc was used for Dino in the 1994 live-action film and its prequel in 2000. Jerry Mann provided the speaking voice of Dino in the 1961 episode \"The Snorkasaurus Hunter\". Frank Welker provided Dino's vocal effects for 20 years, from", "title": "Dino (The Flintstones)" }, { "id": "4540901", "text": "trouble. While the mid-1980s spin-off series \"The Flintstone Kids\" depicts Wilma as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Wilma as a childhood friend of Fred and Barney though the original series asserted that they first met as young adults. Still, the series' depictions that Wilma had younger sisters and an older brother, and that her father ran a prehistoric computer business might be taken as canon. Wilma mentions having a married sister in the sixth season of the original series. As a young adult, Wilma worked with Betty as a clown at a", "title": "Wilma Flintstone" }, { "id": "5458566", "text": "The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone is a 1980 animated Halloween television special featuring characters from \"The Flintstones\" franchise. It was produced in 1979 by Hanna-Barbera and first aired on Friday, October 3, 1980 on NBC. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. When Fred wins the big prize on the \"Make A Deal or Don't\" game show, he and Wilma plan a vacation with Barney and Betty to Count Rockula's spooky castle in Rocksylvania which has now been turned into", "title": "The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone" }, { "id": "1598343", "text": "When Levant was hired, all previous scripts were thrown out. Levant then recruited what he called an \"all-star writing team\" which consisted of his writer friends from television shows such as \"Family Ties\", \"Night Court\", and \"Happy Days\". \"This is a sitcom on steroids\", said Levant. \"We were just trying to improve it.\" Dubbed the Flintstone Eight, the group wrote a new draft but four more round table sessions ensued, each of which was attended by new talent. Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel took home a reported $100,000 for just two days work. Rick Moranis was also present at Levant's", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "5349130", "text": "Verna Felton Verna Felton (July 20, 1890December 14, 1966) was an American actress who was best known for providing many voices in numerous Disney animated films, as well as voicing Fred Flintstone's mother-in-law Pearl Slaghoople in Hanna-Barbera's \"The Flintstones\" (1962–1963). She also had roles in live-action films; however, she was most active in radio programs. She was known for her husky voice and no-nonsense attitude. Two of her most famous roles were as Dennis Day's mother Mrs. Day on \"The Jack Benny Program\" (1939–1962) and as Hilda Crocker on the CBS sitcom \"December Bride\" (1952–1959). Felton was born in Salinas,", "title": "Verna Felton" }, { "id": "5349138", "text": "Verna Felton Verna Felton (July 20, 1890December 14, 1966) was an American actress who was best known for providing many voices in numerous Disney animated films, as well as voicing Fred Flintstone's mother-in-law Pearl Slaghoople in Hanna-Barbera's \"The Flintstones\" (1962–1963). She also had roles in live-action films; however, she was most active in radio programs. She was known for her husky voice and no-nonsense attitude. Two of her most famous roles were as Dennis Day's mother Mrs. Day on \"The Jack Benny Program\" (1939–1962) and as Hilda Crocker on the CBS sitcom \"December Bride\" (1952–1959). Felton was born in Salinas,", "title": "Verna Felton" }, { "id": "13263356", "text": "Erin Gray Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Colonel Wilma Deering in the science fiction television series \"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century\" and as Kate Summers-Stratton in the situation comedy \"Silver Spoons\". Gray was born on January 7, 1950, in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii (now, the state of Hawaii), the daughter of Diane and Daniel Gray. When Gray was eight, her parents separated. Gray lived with her grandparents in Palm Springs for a few years. Eventually she and her mother moved to Larkspur, California. Gray attended Redwood High", "title": "Erin Gray" }, { "id": "1598337", "text": "who can clear Fred's name. They are, however, unaware that Vandercave has been watching them from his office window. Meanwhile, Fred, while in disguise, attempts to enter a cave where the workers are seeking refuge. However, they see through his disguise and attempt to hang him. Barney is almost hanged as well after he admits his part. Fred and Barney reconcile, but before they are lynched, Wilma and Betty arrive with the Dictabird, who, after Fred apologizes to him and the workers, tells them the true story. The workers release Fred and Barney after realizing that Vandercave was the one", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "4540904", "text": "with her neighbor and friend Betty, before becoming a grandmother to Pebbles' twin children, Chip and Roxy. Wilma's maiden name is the subject of a continuity error. Several early episodes in the original series clearly stated Wilma's maiden name was \"Pebble.\" In the second-season episode \"The Entertainer\", Wilma's old friend Greta Gravel remembers her as \"Wilma Pebble\", and in the third-season episode \"Dial S for Suspicion\", one of Wilma's old boyfriends, calls her \"Wilma Pebble.\" However, later episodes and spin-offs firmly state her maiden name is indeed \"Slaghoople\", based upon the name of Wilma's mother in the original series, Pearl", "title": "Wilma Flintstone" }, { "id": "10555931", "text": "of Christmas Past, has contracted the \"Bedrock Bug,\" a flu-like illness. As stage manager, Wilma is left to play the part herself. During the next scene, at Fezziwig's Christmas party, Betty informs Wilma that Maggie has come down with the Bedrock Bug as well; Wilma dons her costume and plays Belle. The third act begins with the hooded figure of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come appearing before Scrooge; he shows the elderly man an abandoned gravestone marked with the words \"EBONEZER SCROOGE.\" The scene shifts to Scrooge's bedchamber—he is alive, and he discovers that it is Christmas morning.", "title": "A Flintstones Christmas Carol" }, { "id": "1598332", "text": "International's new CEO Cliff Vandercave and his secretary Miss Stone discuss their plan to swindle the company of its vast fortune and flee. As part of the plan, they would need one of the employees to be the scapegoat. Meanwhile, Fred Flintstone loans his best friend and neighbor Barney Rubble money so that he and his wife Betty can adopt a child. The agency pairs them up with a child named Bamm-Bamm, who can only pronounce his own name. Although Bamm-Bamm is initially difficult to control due to being raised by mastodons, and thus has super strength, he eventually warms", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "15624332", "text": "Parthenon Huxley Parthenon Huxley (born January 19, 1956) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer who is known for his solo albums and for his involvement in ELO Part II and The Orchestra, both of which are latter-day offshoots of the 1970s-80s symphonic rock band Electric Light Orchestra. He has also made cameo appearances in several films including \"\" and \"The Flintstones\". Huxley was born Richard Willett Miller in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and grew up in New Jersey and Athens, Greece before moving to North Carolina to attend UNC-Chapel Hill. His stage name (now legal name) honors two of", "title": "Parthenon Huxley" }, { "id": "2177954", "text": "Lynde's series lasted only one year. In a parody of her Samantha Stephens role, she made a cameo appearance as a witch at the end of the beach party film \"How to Stuff a Wild Bikini\" (1965). The film was directed by Asher, her husband at the time. That same year she also provided the voice of Samantha for an episode of the animated series \"The Flintstones\". For her role on \"Bewitched\", Montgomery received five Emmy and four Golden Globe nominations. The show added to the increasing popularity of the name Samantha. While its use was relatively rare until 1958,", "title": "Elizabeth Montgomery" }, { "id": "624843", "text": "the start was discarded, with Fred and Wilma starting out as a childless couple. However, some early \"Flintstones\" merchandise, such as a 1961 Little Golden Book, included Fred Jr., before it was decided on his removal. Despite the animation and fantasy setting, the series was initially aimed at adult audiences, which was reflected in the comedy writing, which, as noted, resembled the average primetime sitcoms of the era, with the usual family issues resolved with a laugh at the end of each episode, as well as the inclusion of a laugh track. Hanna and Barbera hired many writers from the", "title": "The Flintstones" }, { "id": "1598336", "text": "to go to her mother's house with their daughter Pebbles, leaving Fred alone. Fred goes to the quarry and realizes his mistake when he discovers Vandercave's plan. He finds out that Vandercave has manipulated events to make it look as if Fred stole the money, and that he has reported the stolen money to the police. A manhunt for Fred ensues, led by the police and the workers. Shocked by the news and knowing Fred would never go as far as embezzlement, Wilma and Betty break into Slate and Co. to get the Dictabird, who serves as the only witness", "title": "The Flintstones (film)" }, { "id": "1900012", "text": "that Fred is the only child of Ed and Edna Flintstone (a handyman and a homemaker, respectively) might be taken as canon. As young adults, Fred and Barney worked as bellhops at a resort. There, they meet and fall in love with Wilma and Betty, who were working there as cigarette girls. Fred and Wilma's mother, Pearl Slaghoople, also met and took an instant dislike to each other, starting a long-lasting rivalry between the two. An unspecified amount of time later, Fred married Wilma. Fred is a typical blue-collar worker, who works as a \"bronto crane operator\" at Slate Rock", "title": "Fred Flintstone" } ]

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[ { "id": "1280916", "text": "The Fifth Element The Fifth Element () is a 1997 English-language French science-fiction action film directed and co-written by Luc Besson. It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman and Milla Jovovich. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film's central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Willis), a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman (Jovovich) falls into his cab. Dallas joins forces with her to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against an impending attack by a malevolent cosmic entity. Besson started writing the", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1280959", "text": "for the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight, and the actress was also nominated for Best Actress – Newcomer at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. Conversely, Jovovich received a Golden Raspberry nomination for Worst Supporting Actress, and Chris Tucker was nominated for Worst New Star for his performances in both \"The Fifth Element\" and \"Money Talks\". The original home video release of \"The Fifth Element\" took place in North America on 10 December 1997, on VHS, LaserDisc, and DVD. The original DVD presented the film in its original 2.39:1 anamorphic widescreen format though carried no special features. The film was released", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1280958", "text": "César awards, winning three: Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design. It was nominated for Film of the Year at the 1997 European Film Awards, as well as the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, and the Satellite Award for Best Visual Effects. Thierry Arbogast was awarded the Technical Grand Prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for his work on both \"The Fifth Element\" and \"She's So Lovely\". The film received four Saturn Award nominations: Best Science Fiction Film, Best Costume, Best Special Effects, and Best Supporting Actress for Milla Jovovich. Jovovich's fight against the Mangalores was nominated", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1280934", "text": "on production costs. Besson was in Barry Josephson's office when Willis called regarding a different film. Besson asked to speak to Willis \"just to say hello\", and told him that \"The Fifth Element\" was finally going ahead, explaining the decision to go with a less-expensive actor. After a short silence, Willis stated \"If I like the film, we can always come to an arrangement\"; he agreed to take on the role after reading the script. Production commenced in early August 1995. Besson traveled to various places for casting, including Paris, London and Rome. He hired Gary Oldman (who had starred", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1686930", "text": "described as \"one of cinema's most memorable villains\"; a sadistic prison warden in \"Murder in the First\" (1995); futuristic corporate tyrant Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in \"The Fifth Element\" (1997); and Dr. Zachary Smith/Spider Smith in the commercially successful but critically panned \"Lost in Space\" (1998). He was considered for two roles in Quentin Tarantino's \"Pulp Fiction\" (1994), but neither were realised. Tarantino contemplated Oldman as gangster Jules Winnfield (played by Samuel L. Jackson), while TriStar executives recommended him for drug dealer Lance (portrayed by Eric Stoltz). In 1994's \"\", he played corrupt DEA officer Norman Stansfield, which has since been", "title": "Gary Oldman" }, { "id": "1280917", "text": "story that became \"The Fifth Element\" when he was 16 years old; he was 38 when the film opened in cinemas. Besson wanted to shoot the film in France, but suitable facilities could not be found; filming took place instead in London and Mauritania. Comics writers Jean \"Moebius\" Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières, whose comics provided inspiration for parts of the film, were hired for production design. Costume design was by Jean-Paul Gaultier. \"The Fifth Element\" received mainly positive reviews, although it tended to polarize critics. It has been called both the best and worst summer blockbuster of all time. The", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1686913", "text": "Oldman gained further domestic recognition as a football firm leader in \"The Firm\" (1989) and the titular Rosencrantz in \"Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead\" (1990), while increasingly starring as offshore characters, such as a Hell's Kitchen gangster in \"State of Grace\" (1990), Lee Harvey Oswald in \"JFK\" (1991) and Count Dracula in \"Bram Stoker's Dracula\" (1992). Oldman went on to star as the antagonists of several films, including \"True Romance\" (1993), \"The Fifth Element\" (1997), \"Air Force One\" (1997) and \"The Contender\" (2000); corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield, whom Oldman portrayed in \"\" (1994), has been ranked as one of", "title": "Gary Oldman" }, { "id": "1280936", "text": "but divorced in 1999. Wishing to shoot the film in France, Besson could not find suitable facilities and \"with a heavy heart\" filmed in London. It was primarily filmed at Pinewood Studios on seven soundstages including the 007 Stage. Construction of sets began in October 1995. The opera scene was filmed at the Royal Opera House. Scenes depicted as being in Egypt were filmed in Mauritania; the first shoot, a background shot of the desert, occurred there on 5 January 1996. Filming with actors began in late January, and was completed 21 weeks later. Willis finished filming on 16 May,", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1280932", "text": "York City. Five other artists were hired for the project, and Jean-Paul Gaultier was hired to design the costumes. The team spent a year creating over 8,000 drawings, during which time Besson approached both Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson for the lead role. Willis expressed interest, though he was reluctant to take on the role as the film was considered risky after his previous two films, \"Hudson Hawk\" and \"Billy Bathgate\", had been received poorly; Gibson eventually turned down the role. While the team impressed film companies with their designs, they struggled to find one willing to take on the", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "745050", "text": "titular characters to kill his wife, Dallas (voiced by Moore). He then played the lead roles in \"12 Monkeys\" (1995) and \"The Fifth Element\" (1997). However, by the end of the 1990s his career had fallen into another slump with critically panned films like \"The Jackal\", \"Mercury Rising\", and \"Breakfast of Champions\", saved only by the success of the Michael Bay-directed \"Armageddon\" which was the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide. The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game \"Apocalypse\". In 1999, Willis then played the starring role in M. Night Shyamalan's film, \"The Sixth", "title": "Bruce Willis" }, { "id": "4667149", "text": "Kim Chan Kim Chan (December 28, 1917 – October 5, 2008), also known as Kim S. Chan, was a Chinese-American actor and producer. He was most notable for his roles as Lo Si, a.k.a. The Ancient, in \"\" and Mr. Kim in \"The Fifth Element\". Kim Shung Chan was born in Guangdong Province, then under the government of the Republic of China. His father was a restaurant owner, and he emigrated to the United States in 1928. An early role that brought him notice was in the Martin Scorsese classic \"The King of Comedy\" with Robert De Niro and Jerry", "title": "Kim Chan" }, { "id": "3605322", "text": "Tom Lister Jr. Thomas \"Tiny\" Lister Jr. (born June 24, 1958) is an American character actor and retired professional wrestler known for his roles as the neighborhood bully Deebo in the film \"Friday\" and its first sequel and as President Lindberg in \"The Fifth Element\". He had two short professional wrestling stints, wrestling Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) after appearing as Zeus in the 1989 movie \"No Holds Barred\" and resuming the feud as Z-Gangsta in 1996 for World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He is blind in his right eye. Lister was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on", "title": "Tom Lister Jr." }, { "id": "1280950", "text": "may or may not be the worst movie ever made, but it is one of the most unhinged.\" Chris Tucker's performance as Ruby Rhod also polarised critics. He was praised in the \"Los Angeles Times\" and in \"Time\"; the latter called him \"the summer's most outrageous special effect.\" Josh Winning of \"Total Film\", however, singled out Tucker's performance as the low point of the film, ranking it as No. 20 on his 2011 list, \"50 Performances That Ruined Movies\". \"The Fifth Element\" holds a 71% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 65 reviews, with an average score of 6.4/10.", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "4036312", "text": "CBS crime drama \"\". In 2006 he provided his voice for the video game \"\" which was based the 1983 motion picture \"Scarface\". He produced, and starred as a Bangkok assassin in, the action/adventure movie \"The Fifth Commandment\", directed by Jesse V. Johnson and also stars Keith David and Bokeem Woodbine. Yune starred with Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu in the 2012 martial arts film, \"The Man with the Iron Fists\". In 2013 Yune played villain Kang Yeonsak, in the action thriller \"Olympus Has Fallen\", opposite Gerard Butler. In 2014, Yune took on the role of Kaidu, a Mongol Khan,", "title": "Rick Yune" }, { "id": "1280937", "text": "while Oldman only commenced filming the following week; the protagonist (Korben) and antagonist (Zorg) never actually share any screen time. Despite being filmed in London, \"The Fifth Element\" was a French production, and went on to become the costliest European film ever made at the time. The buildings in New York were derived from both metabolist-inspired masses of modular apartments from the 1960s, and the futuristic designs of architect Antonio Sant'Elia in the 1910s. Besson demanded that most of the action shots take place in broad daylight, as he was reportedly tired of the dark spaceship corridors and dimly lit", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1280951", "text": "The site's consensus reads: \"Visually inventive and gleefully over the top, Luc Besson's \"The Fifth Element\" is a fantastic piece of pop sci-fi that never takes itself too seriously.\" It has a weighted score of 52/100 at Metacritic, based on 22 professional reviews, indicating \"mixed or average\" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of \"B\" on an A+ to F scale. The film has been described by CBS News, Rotten Tomatoes, and ComingSoon.com as a science fiction cult classic. However film critic Mark Kermode reported that \"The Fifth Element\" was one of the most divisive", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "411381", "text": "on Live's fifth studio album, \"V\". This appearance came as Tricky and Live's lead singer Ed Kowalczyk had developed a close friendship, with Kowalczyk contributing vocals to 'Evolution Revolution Love', a track on Tricky's album \"Blowback\". Tricky has also acted in various films. He appeared in a significant supporting role in the 1997 Luc Besson film \"The Fifth Element\", playing the right-hand man \"Right Arm\" to evil businessman Mr. Zorg. He also appears briefly in the 2004 Olivier Assayas film \"Clean\", playing himself, and had a large role in the music video for \"Parabol/Parabola\" by Tool. He was also rumoured", "title": "Tricky (musician)" }, { "id": "16921084", "text": "\"The Fifth Element\" (1997), \"Armageddon\" (1998), \"The Sixth Sense\" (1999), \"Unbreakable\" (2000), \"Sin City\" (2005), \"Red\" (2010), \"Moonrise Kingdom\" (2012), \"The Expendables 2\" (2012), and \"Looper\" (2012). Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$2.64 billion to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the ninth-highest-grossing actor in a leading role and twelfth-highest-grossing, including supporting roles. He is a two-time Emmy Award–winning, Golden Globe Award–winning, and four-time Saturn Award–nominated actor. Solo albums: Compilations/guest appearances: Bruce Willis filmography Bruce Willis is a German-born American actor, producer with Cheyenne Enterprises, and singer. The following is a filmography of his work. Willis's", "title": "Bruce Willis filmography" }, { "id": "513195", "text": "Luc Besson Luc Besson (; born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed or produced the films \"Subway\" (1985), \"The Big Blue\" (1988), and \"Nikita\" (1990). Besson is known for his distinctive filmmaking style and is associated with what the movement critics call \"Cinéma du look\". He has been nominated for a César Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his films \"\" and \"\". He won Best Director and Best French Director for his sci-fi action film \"The Fifth Element\" (1997). He wrote and directed the 2014 sci-fi thriller film \"Lucy\" and", "title": "Luc Besson" }, { "id": "7280034", "text": "an out-of-town family, heralding the first appearance of the Batman in Tim Burton's 1989 film. Fairbank also had roles as Mactilburgh the scientist in the film \"The Fifth Element,\" the prisoner Murphy in \"Alien 3\", and the Player Queen in the Franco Zeffirelli version of \"Hamlet\", opposite Mel Gibson. He appeared in the \"Goal!\" trilogy as a Newcastle United fan. In 2010, he appeared as a detective in \"Five Daughters\", and as Alfred \"Freddie\" Lennon in the biopic \"Lennon Naked\". In 2011 Fairbank starred in \"\" as a pirate called Ezekiel, and in 2012 he appeared as an Australian in", "title": "Christopher Fairbank" }, { "id": "2767258", "text": "Matthew Fox Matthew Chandler Fox (born July 14, 1966) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Charlie Salinger on \"Party of Five\" (1994–2000) and Jack Shephard on the supernatural drama series \"Lost\" (2004–2010), the latter of which earned him Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Fox has also performed in ten feature films, including \"We Are Marshall\" (2006), \"Vantage Point\" (2008), \"Alex Cross\" (2012), \"Emperor\" (2012) and \"Bone Tomahawk\" (2015). Fox was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, the son of Loretta B. (née Eagono) and Francis G. Fox. One of his paternal great-great-great-grandfathers was", "title": "Matthew Fox" }, { "id": "1280952", "text": "films among his readers, regarded as both the best and the worst summer blockbuster of all time. Kermode recalled his own experience: \"I remember very clearly being in Cannes when \"[The] Fifth Element\" was first played, and it \"really\" divided the audience.\" Stephen Cass of \"Discover\" ranked the film the third-best science fiction film on subscription service Hulu, writing, \"People seem to either like or loathe \"The Fifth Element \"... Lavish visuals and entertaining performances from Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, and Gary Oldman make this movie worth watching.\" In some circles the film has gained a \"so-bad-it's-good\" status; Meredith Woerner", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1280918", "text": "film was a financial success, earning more than $263 million at the box office on a $90 million budget. At the time of its release it was the most expensive European film ever made, and it remained the highest-grossing French film at the international box office until the release of \"The Intouchables\" in 2011. In 1914, aliens known as Mondoshawans arrive at an ancient Egyptian temple to collect, for safekeeping from World War I, the only weapon capable of defeating a great evil that appears every 5,000 years. The weapon consists of four stones, containing the essences of the four", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "2624940", "text": "Mac McDonald Mac McDonald (born Terence McDonald; 18 June 1949) is an American actor. He is known for playing Captain Hollister on the BBC TV series \"Red Dwarf\" and frequently plays American characters in other British TV shows. He has also had many movie roles in films such as \"Aliens\", \"Batman\" and \"The Fifth Element\", all of which were filmed in London. McDonald was born in Long Island, New York. After leaving school, McDonald pursued a stage career, with a preference for comedy and music. In 1968 he was in Shreveport, Louisiana as the local TV station's Bozo the Clown.", "title": "Mac McDonald" }, { "id": "6909999", "text": "Lee Evans (comedian) Lee John Martin Evans (born 25 February 1964) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, musician and writer from Avonmouth, England. He is a director of \"Little Mo Films\", which he had co-directed with the late Addison Cresswell, who was also his agent prior to Cresswell's death in December 2013. Evans became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comedians, with his \"Roadrunner\" tour grossing £12.9 million. He is also an established actor, having appeared in the Hollywood films \"The Fifth Element\" (1997), \"Mouse Hunt\" (1997), \"There's Something About Mary\" (1998), \"The Ladies Man\" (2000) and \"The Medallion\" (2003).", "title": "Lee Evans (comedian)" }, { "id": "1280948", "text": "Intouchables\" in 2011. \"The Fifth Element\" polarised critics on release. Kevin Thomas of the \"Los Angeles Times\" described the film as an \"elaborate, even campy sci-fi extravaganza, which is nearly as hard to follow as last year's \"\".\" He concluded that \"The Fifth Element\" was \"a lot warmer, more fun and boasts some of the most sophisticated, witty production and costume design you could ever hope to see.\" On film review show \"At the Movies\", both Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel gave the film a \"thumbs up\"; in his own review for the \"Chicago Sun-Times\", Ebert gave the film 3", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "6291653", "text": "antagonist of his next project, 1997 blockbuster \"The Fifth Element\", and co-produced Oldman's directorial debut \"Nil by Mouth\", released the same year. Natalie Portman, who played female protagonist, Mathilda, said of her character's sole interaction with Stansfield: \"Working with Gary Oldman was probably the easiest acting experience of my life...I don't think I had to act at all in that scene. I mean, it was really simple, because he really does what he does well...It's pretty amazing to get to see it that close, but it was also a gift to me.\" Another pivotal scene is where Stansfield, who has", "title": "Norman Stansfield" }, { "id": "1280933", "text": "budget of almost $100 million. In December 1992 production stopped without any prior warning, and the team disbanded. Besson went on to direct the commercially successful film \"\", which was released in September 1994. While shooting and releasing \"Leon\", he continued to work on the script for \"The Fifth Element\", shortening it and reducing the film's budget to $90 million before attempting to find a studio willing to produce it. Columbia Pictures, who had a partnership in \"Leon\", agreed to finance the film. By this time Besson had decided to go with a lesser-known lead actor in order to save", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1540146", "text": "Chris Tucker Christopher Tucker (born August 31, 1971) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for playing the role of Smokey in F. Gary Gray's \"Friday\" and as Detective James Carter in Brett Ratner's \"Rush Hour\" film series. He became a frequent stand up performer on Def Comedy Jam in the 1990s. He appeared in Luc Besson's \"The Fifth Element\", Quentin Tarantino's \"Jackie Brown\", David O. Russell's \"Silver Linings Playbook\", and Brett Ratner's \"Money Talks\". Tucker was born on August 31, 1971, in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest son of Mary Louise (\"née\" Bryant) and Norris Tucker. One", "title": "Chris Tucker" }, { "id": "15683669", "text": "Kano from \"Mortal Kombat\") and Martin Jarvis as Saitine, a devil-like villain, who attends the Bad-Anon support group; Tucker Gilmore as the \"Sugar Rush\" Announcer; Brandon Scott as Kohut, a soldier in \"Hero's Duty\"; and Tim Mertens as Dr. Brad Scott, a scientist and Sgt. Calhoun's deceased fiancé in \"Hero's Duty\" (voiced by Nick Grimshaw in the UK version but not in the UK home release). The film features several cameos from real-world video game characters including: Root Beer Tapper (Maurice LaMarche), the bartender from \"Tapper\"; Sonic the Hedgehog (Roger Craig Smith); Ryu (Kyle Hebert), Ken Masters (Reuben Langdon), M.", "title": "Wreck-It Ralph" }, { "id": "1280926", "text": "minutes; the other is an androgynous, mostly speechless presidential aide. When females appear in the film, they do so as passive objects, such as the sexualised flight and McDonald's attendants; or stripped of their femininity, such as the \"butch\" Major Iceborg. Stefan Brandt, in the book \"Subverting Masculinity\", also said that the film \"echoes stereotypical beliefs about gender\" of all females in the film, including Leeloo, who he thought only left her passive role in the film during her fight with the Mangalores. With the exception of Tiny Lister's portrayal of the President, all males in the film were considered", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "5777101", "text": "Shavar Ross Shavar Malik Ross (born March 4, 1971) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, editor, photographer, author, and retail entrepreneur. He is known for his recurring television role as Dudley Johnson, Gary Coleman's best friend in the NBC sitcom \"Diff'rent Strokes\", Alex \"Weasel\" Parks in the ABC sitcom \"Family Matters\", and as \"Reggie The Reckless\" in the fifth installment of the \"Friday the 13th\" movie series \"\" (1985). Ross was born in the South Bronx, New York. His parents separated when he was 6 years old. His mother took Shavar and his sister to Macon, Georgia,", "title": "Shavar Ross" }, { "id": "513202", "text": "produced numerous action movies, including the \"Taxi\" (1998–2007) and \"The Transporter\" (2002–2008) series, and the Jet Li films \"Kiss of the Dragon\" and \"Unleashed/Danny the Dog.\" His English-language films \"Taken\", \"Taken 2\" and \"Taken 3\", all starring Liam Neeson, have been major successes, with \"Taken 2\" becoming the largest-grossing export French film. Besson produced the promotional movie for the Paris bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Besson won Best Director and Best French Director for his film \"The Fifth Element\" (1997). He was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture César Awards for his films \"\" (1994) and \"\" (1999).", "title": "Luc Besson" }, { "id": "1280919", "text": "classical elements, and a sarcophagus containing a Fifth Element in the form of a human, which combines the power of the other four into a divine light capable of defeating the evil. The Mondoshawans promise their human contact, a priest from a secret order, they will come back with the weapon in time to stop the great evil when it returns. In 2263, the great evil appears in deep space in the form of a giant ball of black fire, and destroys an attacking Earth spaceship. The Mondoshawans' current contact on Earth, priest Vito Cornelius, informs the President of the", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1280942", "text": "NURBS mathematical model for certain animations, including the sequence in which Leeloo's body is reconstructed. \"The Fifth Element\" is one of Besson's films which have been described as \"intrinsically musical\"; some kind of music is playing during about 90 percent of the film. The score was composed by Éric Serra. He relies heavily on the use of orchestral textures, such as the oboe and strings heard as the surgeons prepare to regenerate Leeloo, and the pizzicato as she is reconstructed. Serra also used many exotic influences, such as the Stalinist fanfare heard before the spaceport sequence, the reggae piece played", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "4414595", "text": "(1967), and two of the \"Pink Panther\" films. Bluthal also played several characters in \"The Great McGonagall\" (1974), by Spike Milligan and Joseph McGrath, based on the life of William McGonagall. He portrayed an Egyptologist in the year 1914 for the first part of the film \"The Fifth Element\" (1997) and Uncle Karl in \"Dark City\" (1998). He also appeared in the comedy \"Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns\" (2000). His later television appearances have been in the sitcom \"The Vicar of Dibley\" as the fastidious minutes-taker Frank Pickle and as the caretaker Rocko in \"Spirited\". He also appeared in the", "title": "John Bluthal" }, { "id": "1280938", "text": "planets common in science fiction films, and wanted a brighter \"cheerfully crazy\" look as opposed to a gloomy realistic one. Gaultier designed every one of the 900 costumes worn by extras in the Fhloston Paradise scenes, and checked each costume every morning. His designs, described as \"intellectually transgressive\", were said to challenge sexuality and gender norms. A single jacket he designed for the film cost $5,000. The original name of the character Ruby Rhod was Loc Rhod. The name appears in both the original script and in the novelisation of the film. Speculation has been raised that the name change", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1280930", "text": "about a \"nobody\" named Zaltman Bleros (later renamed Korben Dallas) who wins a trip to the Club Med resort on the planet Fhloston Paradise. There he meets Leeloo, a \"sand-girl\" who has the \"beauty of youth\" despite being over 2,000 years old. Besson continued to work on the storyline for years; by the time his documentary film \"Atlantis\" was released in 1991 he had a 400-page script. Nicolas Seydoux and Patrice Ledoux from Gaumont were the first people to take on the project. In November 1991, while looking for actors for the film, Besson met French comics creators Jean Giraud", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "3605333", "text": "in home equity loans. As of April 2014, he was out on bail and confident of avoiding prison. He stated, \"What’s so cool about God and our government is that you can make a mistake and they will forgive you if you are just a good person and doing right.” The Cleveland Show (1 Episode) Tom Lister Jr. Thomas \"Tiny\" Lister Jr. (born June 24, 1958) is an American character actor and retired professional wrestler known for his roles as the neighborhood bully Deebo in the film \"Friday\" and its first sequel and as President Lindberg in \"The Fifth Element\".", "title": "Tom Lister Jr." }, { "id": "1280955", "text": "unfair competition, 9 million euros in damages and interest and two to five percent of the net operating revenues of the film. Jodorowsky sued for 700,000 euros. The case was dismissed in 2004 on the grounds that only \"tiny fragments\" of the comic had been used and also because Giraud had been hired by Besson to work on the film before the allegations were made. A novel adaptation of \"The Fifth Element\", written by Terry Bisson, was published by HarperPrism in 1997. There were rumors after the film's release that it would be followed by a sequel, tentatively titled \"Mr.", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "5839181", "text": "of the Forest of Cheem in \"The End of the World\". Ruscoe has also appeared in the \"Doctor Who\" audio dramas \"The Veiled Leopard\", \"The Settling\", \"\" and \"Bernice Summerfield: Paradise Frost\" for Big Finish Productions. He also played Andrew Stone, a Mars colonist later taken over by an alien lifeform in the November 2009 \"Doctor Who\" special \"The Waters of Mars\". In films, Ruscoe has played Daultay Dofine, Rune Haako and Plo Koon in \"\", and the Mangalore Kino in \"The Fifth Element\". He also played \"the Poulterer\" in a 2004 television adaptation of \"A Christmas Carol\". He appears", "title": "Alan Ruscoe" }, { "id": "1280953", "text": "of io9 listed \"The Fifth Element\" as one of \"The 20 Best Worst Science Fiction Movies of All Time\". In 2007 the Visual Effects Society placed \"The Fifth Element\" at No. 50, tied with \"Darby O'Gill and the Little People\", on their list of the 50 most influential visual effects films of all time. In 2014, \"Time Out\" listed the film at No. 42 on their \"100 best sci-fi movies\" list. Willis spoke favourably of the film in a 1999 interview, concluding \"it was a real fun movie to make.\" Tucker and Jovovich also spoke favourably of both their experiences", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "7745983", "text": "character in Showtime's drama series \"Ray Donovan\". In May 2015 Marsan appeared as the practical magician Gilbert Norrell, in the 7-part BBC TV period drama \"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell\". Marsan has appeared in numerous and varied film roles, as the main villain in the 2008 superhero film \"Hancock\" alongside Will Smith and as Inspector Lestrade in Guy Ritchie's \"Sherlock Holmes\". His other films include \"Sixty Six\", \"Gangs of New York\", \"21 Grams\", \"The Illusionist\", \"V for Vendetta\", \"Gangster No. 1\", \"Miami Vice\", \"\", \"I Want Candy\", \"Vera Drake\", \"Happy-Go-Lucky\", \"Tyrannosaur\", and \"Heartless\". Marsan is married to Janine Schneider, a", "title": "Eddie Marsan" }, { "id": "1280923", "text": "the remaining Mangalores unwilling to continue fighting. Meanwhile, Zorg arrives, shooting and seriously wounding Leeloo before taking a carrying case that he presumes contains the stones back to his spacecraft. He leaves behind a time bomb that forces the liner's occupants to evacuate. Discovering the case to be empty, Zorg returns to the hotel and deactivates his bomb, but a dying Mangalore sets off his own device, destroying the ship and killing Zorg. Dallas, Cornelius, Leeloo, and talk-show host Ruby Rhod escape with the stones aboard Zorg's spacecraft. As the great evil approaches Earth, the four join up with David", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "2836730", "text": "Inva Mula Inva Mula (born June 27, 1963) is an Albanian opera lyric soprano. She began her soprano career at a very early age. Her father (Avni Mula) and mother (Nina Mula) were also opera singers. She is also known for providing the voice of the diva Plavalaguna in the film \"The Fifth Element\". Mula was born in Tirana, Albania to an Albanian father from Gjakove and a Russian mother. In 1987 she won the \"Cantante d'Albania\" competition in Tirana and in 1988 the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest. In 1992 she won the \"Butterfly\" competition in Barcelona. She received", "title": "Inva Mula" }, { "id": "2767265", "text": "her lawyer withdrew and revealed that she \"intentionally failed and refused to provide full and timely cooperation and information.\" Matthew Fox Matthew Chandler Fox (born July 14, 1966) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Charlie Salinger on \"Party of Five\" (1994–2000) and Jack Shephard on the supernatural drama series \"Lost\" (2004–2010), the latter of which earned him Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Fox has also performed in ten feature films, including \"We Are Marshall\" (2006), \"Vantage Point\" (2008), \"Alex Cross\" (2012), \"Emperor\" (2012) and \"Bone Tomahawk\" (2015). Fox was born in", "title": "Matthew Fox" }, { "id": "1280944", "text": "di Lammermoor\": \"Il dolce suono\", the mad scene of Act III, Scene 2. It is one of the few pieces of music in the film that is diegetic. It was sung by Albanian soprano Inva Mula, while the role of Plavalaguna was played by French actress Maïwenn Le Besco. Part One (titled \"Lucia di Lammermoor\") and Part Two (titled \"The Diva Dance\") of this piece are included as separate tracks on \"The Fifth Element\" soundtrack, but are sequenced to create the effect of the entire performance seen in the film. The end of Part One blends into the beginning of", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "6445642", "text": "Indra Ové Indra Ové (born 1967) is a British film, television and stage actor. Ové was born in London. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She appeared in \"Interview with the Vampire\" portraying a New Orleans prostitute. She had a small role in \"The Fifth Element\" as a VIP Stewardess, was in \"Othello\" (playing Bianca to Laurence Fishburne's lead) and had a small role (Ella Fontaine) in \"Resident Evil\". Her television roles include the British children's series \"The Latchkey Children\" and \"The New Worst Witch\", the British–German sci-fi co-production \"Space Island One\" and the British medical", "title": "Indra Ové" }, { "id": "1390427", "text": "She wore a costume that came to be known as the \"ACE-bandage\" costume; the body suit designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier was made of medical bandages. \"The Fifth Element\" was selected as the opening film for the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and its worldwide box office gross was over $263 million, more than three times its budget of $80 million. \"The Fifth Element\" was often praised for its visual style; critic James Berardinelli wrote, \"Jovovich makes an impression, although her effectiveness has little to do with acting and less to do with dialogue\". Jovovich was nominated for \"Favorite Female Newcomer\" at", "title": "Milla Jovovich" }, { "id": "1280939", "text": "was a play on information in the periodic table. Rubidium is the first of the Period 5 elements, and exactly halfway down that row is the element Rhodium. Taking the first half of each element yields \"Rubi Rhod\". Others have speculated his name is a play on his gender bending personality; having a feminine first name and phallic surname. Three different teams handled the three different types of special effects used in the film. Nick Allder was placed in charge of mechanical and pyrotechnical effects, Nick Dudman was placed in charge of 'creature' effects and Mark Stetson headed the visual", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "5273398", "text": "Manicured Man, and in 1998, he reprised the role in the feature film \"The X-Files\". Although he made numerous other television appearances and occasional film roles, the main focus of Neville's career was always the theatre. In his later years, Neville had numerous cameo appearances in films, including primate of the Anglican Church in Australia in \"The Man Who Sued God\" and an admiral in the Earth Space Navy in \"The Fifth Element\". He had a small role as Terrence in David Cronenberg's 2002 \"Spider\". In the same year, he appeared with Vanessa Redgrave in the 2002 film adaptation of", "title": "John Neville (actor)" }, { "id": "4849699", "text": "he played serial killer \"Meat Cleaver Max\" Jenke. This was his all-time favorite role. The character was initially expected to spin off into other films. James was relieved that he was not asked to reprise the role, as he said he did not want to make a career out of something so schlocky. In 1994, he played a grouchy sponsor who became a victim of the gruesome goings-on during a 1939 radio show in the film \"Radioland Murders\". Another of his most memorable roles came near the end of his career, as the amiable General Munro in \"The Fifth Element\"", "title": "Brion James" }, { "id": "15586095", "text": "Nick Allder Nick Allder is an English special effects supervisor and coordinator. He started his career as an assistant camera operator and moved, after eight years, into special effects. He has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the science-fiction horror film \"Alien\" (1979), and a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects for the science-fiction film \"The Fifth Element\" (1997). Allder has worked on the set of high-grossing films such as the epic space opera \"The Empire Strikes Back\" (1980) and the historical drama film \"Braveheart\" (1995). Allder started his professional career as an", "title": "Nick Allder" }, { "id": "1280962", "text": "rare move\" Sony responded to complaints by making a remastered Blu-ray version available, released on 17 July 2007, and also offered a replacement exchange program for customers unhappy with the original Blu-ray release. Ben Williams from Blu-ray.com stated the remastered version \"absolutely\" made up for the lacklustre initial release and praised its high video and audio quality; however, he criticised the continued lack of special features. The 20th anniversary 4K remaster was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray on July 11, 2017. The Fifth Element The Fifth Element () is a 1997 English-language French science-fiction action film directed and co-written by", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "8046577", "text": "they were \"working together to move past it.\" Peters confirmed in March 2014 that he and Roberts were engaged. Evan Peters Evan Thomas Peters (born January 20, 1987) is an American actor, best known for his multiple roles on the FX anthology series \"American Horror Story\" including the villain roles, of which he has been a main cast member since its debut in 2011, and his role as the mutant Quicksilver in the superhero films \"\" (2014) and \"\" (2016). He made his acting debut in the 2004 drama film \"Clipping Adam\" and starred in the ABC science fiction series", "title": "Evan Peters" }, { "id": "1280920", "text": "Federated Territories about the history of the great evil and the weapon that can stop it. As the Mondoshawans return to Earth they are ambushed by Mangalores, a race hired by the industrialist Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, who has been directed by the great evil (sending messages as Mister Shadow) to acquire the element stones. The Mondoshawans' spacecraft is destroyed, and the only \"survivor\" is a severed hand in a metal glove from the Fifth Element's sarcophagus that still contains some living cells. Human scientists take it to a New York City laboratory where they use it to reconstruct a powerful", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "3839604", "text": "fourth season. However, this return was short lived, as the fourth season was his last as a regular cast member. He made one guest appearance in the sixth and final season. He stars also in \"\" along with Rhys Coiro, Mia Kirshner, Kiele Sanchez (also a \"Lost\" co-star), Diora Baird and Monique Ganderton. Perrineau appeared in the 2008 music video, \"Yes We Can\". Perrineau voiced the title character from Marvel's Blade anime series on G4 January 2012. He was cast to play the character of Damon Pope the main antagonist of Season 5 of the hit show \"Sons of Anarchy\".", "title": "Harold Perrineau" }, { "id": "12158340", "text": "May 23, 2015, \"Deadline\" reported that Alicia Vikander is in talks to star with Damon in the fifth film. In June 2015, \"Variety\" reported that Stiles will reprise her role as Nicky Parsons and Viggo Mortensen is in talks to appear in the film as an assassin who's tracking down Bourne. \"Deadline\" reported that Vikander is confirmed to appear in the film. On July 28, 2015, Tommy Lee Jones was cast in a role in the fifth film. On September 1, 2015, \"Variety\" reported that French actor Vincent Cassel is cast as the film's villain. Producer Frank Marshall confirmed principal", "title": "Bourne (film series)" }, { "id": "1280961", "text": "trivia about the film, cast and crew as the film plays. The second disc provides various special features, focusing on visual production, special effects, fashion in the film, featurettes and interviews with Willis, Jovovich, and Tucker, as well as featurettes on the four different alien races in the film and Diva Plavalaguna. Ian Jane of \"DVD Talk\" praised the Ultimate Edition for its special features. The first Blu-ray release of the film on 20 June 2006 was criticised as having poor picture quality by Blu-ray standards, and for its lack of special features. In what has been called \"an extremely", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "1467458", "text": "other well-known film roles include Ash in \"Alien\", Sir William Gull in \"From Hell\", Father Vito Cornelius in \"The Fifth Element\", and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in \"The Lord of the Rings\" and \"The Hobbit\" film series. Holm was born Ian Holm Cuthbert on 12 September 1931 in Goodmayes, in Essex, to Scottish parents, Jean Wilson (née Holm) and James Harvey Cuthbert. His mother was a nurse, and his father was a psychiatrist who worked as the superintendent of the West Ham Corporation Mental Hospital and was one of the pioneers of electric shock therapy. He had an older brother,", "title": "Ian Holm" }, { "id": "4667150", "text": "Lewis, in which he played Lewis' butler. He was a familiar veteran character actor in roles that included Chon Wang's (Jackie Chan) father in \"Shanghai Knights\", Fuji in Who's the Man? Saki in \"High Times' Potluck\", Benny Wong in \"The Corruptor\", \"Uncle Benny\" Chan in \"Lethal Weapon 4\", The Master in \"Zen Noir\", and Mr. Kim in \"The Fifth Element\". He also played the recurring villain \"The Eggman\" in the cult science fiction series \"Now and Again\", and a cameo waiter in Private Parts. Kim also played the character Lo Si aka: \"The Ancient\" in 52 episodes of \"\" from", "title": "Kim Chan" }, { "id": "7443791", "text": "Cooper, portrayed by Mischa Barton. In August 2007, Gigandet was cast in the Summit Entertainment action drama film \"Never Back Down\". He portrayed the role of the villainous bad boy and fighting champion Ryan McCarthy who sets out to take down the film's protagonist. Gigandet and co-star Sean Faris shared an award for \"Best Fight\" at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards. In December 2007, Summit Entertainment cast Gigandet in the planned film adaptation of the best selling vampire book series \"Twilight\" by Stephenie Meyer. He signed on to portray the role of the film's \"tracker\" vampire James. Gigandet received his", "title": "Cam Gigandet" }, { "id": "3634183", "text": "Will Arnett William Emerson Arnett (; born May 4, 1970) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian and producer. He is best known for his role as George Oscar \"Gob\" Bluth II in the Fox/Netflix series \"Arrested Development\" (2003–2006, 2013–present). He has appeared in films such as \"Blades of Glory\" (2007), \"Hot Rod\" (2007) and \"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\" (2014). He is a prolific voice actor with film roles including \"Ratatouille\" (2007), \"Monsters vs. Aliens\" (2009), \"Despicable Me\" (2010), \"The Nut Job\" (2014) and Batman in the \"Lego Movie\" franchise. He also plays the titular character in the Netflix series \"BoJack Horseman\"", "title": "Will Arnett" }, { "id": "6910007", "text": "In November 2014, Evans announced on \"The Jonathan Ross Show\" that he was retiring from stand-up comedy to spend more time with his wife Heather and daughter Mollie who was studying at university in Florida. Evans has made a number of film appearances, such as in \"Funny Bones\", \"MouseHunt\", \"There's Something About Mary\" (where he played an American posing as British), \"The Fifth Element\", \"The Ladies Man\", \"The Martins\", \"The Medallion\" and \"Undertaking Betty\". Evans provided the voice for Zippo in the 2002 TV miniseries \"Dinotopia\" and Train in the 2005 film \"The Magic Roundabout\". From 1993–94, Evans appeared in", "title": "Lee Evans (comedian)" }, { "id": "7970207", "text": "2001 film \"The Last Castle\" Collins was nominated for the 2002 American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture. In 2002, he played the role of Buddy in the film \"Confessions of an American Girl\". In 2005, Collins won rave reviews for his subtle portrayal of killer Perry Smith in the fact-based film \"Capote\", which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2006. He starred in the 2005 film \"Dirty\" alongside Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. Collins starred on FX Networks' series \"Thief\" and received an Emmy nomination. Collins also played", "title": "Clifton Collins Jr." }, { "id": "4849694", "text": "Brion James Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999) was an American character actor. Perhaps best known for his portrayal of Leon Kowalski in \"Blade Runner\", James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in popular films such as \"Southern Comfort\", \"48 Hrs.\", \"Another 48 Hrs.\", \"Silverado\", \"Tango & Cash\", \"Red Heat\", \"The Player\" and \"The Fifth Element\". James' commanding screen presence and formidable physique at tall usually resulted in his casting as a heavy, appearing more frequently in lower-budget horror and action films and TV shows throughout the 1980s and 1990s. James appeared in more than 100", "title": "Brion James" }, { "id": "8046569", "text": "Evan Peters Evan Thomas Peters (born January 20, 1987) is an American actor, best known for his multiple roles on the FX anthology series \"American Horror Story\" including the villain roles, of which he has been a main cast member since its debut in 2011, and his role as the mutant Quicksilver in the superhero films \"\" (2014) and \"\" (2016). He made his acting debut in the 2004 drama film \"Clipping Adam\" and starred in the ABC science fiction series \"Invasion\" from 2005 to 2006. From 2004 to 2010, Peters appeared in numerous national commercials for established brands such", "title": "Evan Peters" }, { "id": "1280957", "text": "\"New York Race\", was released in 2001. \"Eurogamer\" gave the game 6 out of 10, concluding: \"\"New York Race\" is a fun little arcade racer which oozes style, but it's something you'll grow tired of extremely quickly and as such remains fun only in short bursts.\" \"The Fifth Element\" was nominated for Best Sound Editing at the 70th Academy Awards, and for Best Sound Editing at the 1998 Golden Reel Awards, but lost to \"Titanic\" in both cases. It won the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects, and the Lumières Award for Best Director. It was nominated for seven", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "2836734", "text": "one. They are now divorced. Her current husband is Hetem Ramadani, a businessman from Kosovo. Mula is perhaps best known to Western filmgoers as the voice of the Diva Plavalaguna (played on-screen by Maïwenn Le Besco) in the 1997 film \"The Fifth Element\", where she is credited using her (then) married name as Inva Mulla Tchako. She performed the aria \"Oh, giusto cielo!...Il dolce suono\" (the mad scene) from Gaetano Donizetti's \"Lucia di Lammermoor\" and \"The Diva Dance\". Director Luc Besson adored Maria Callas, but the sound quality of her 1956 EMI Classics recording of \"Lucia\" wasn't clear enough to", "title": "Inva Mula" }, { "id": "1280929", "text": "\"hold up a mirror\" and show humankind as responsible. The film was said to be skeptical of capitalist consumerism, in so far as the gadgets in Zorg's office make an unhealthy obsession of his lust for technology. The tension between technology and man is treated as a problem requiring a final resolution. As a teenager, Besson envisioned the world of \"The Fifth Element\" in an attempt to alleviate boredom. He began writing the script when he was 16, though it was not released in cinemas until he was 38. The original storyline was set in the year 2300, and was", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "2033389", "text": "Bruce Dern Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for \"Coming Home\" (1978) and the Academy Award for Best Actor for \"Nebraska\" (2013). His other film appearances include \"The Cowboys\" (1972), \"Black Sunday\" (1977), \"Monster\" (2003), and \"The Hateful Eight\" (2015). Dern was born in Chicago, the son of Jean (née MacLeish; 1908–1972) and John Dern (1903–1958), a utility chief and attorney. He grew up in Kenilworth, Illinois. His paternal grandfather, George, was a Utah governor and", "title": "Bruce Dern" }, { "id": "5660094", "text": "(2015 film)\" alongside Demi Moore with Donald Sutherland and Brian Cox. He joined the cast of Hawaii Five-0 in season five to play Thomas Farrow in a major recurring arc, was a regular on the Fox drama Touch as Trevor Wilcox and played the villainous Michael Amador opposite Kiefer Sutherland in the 3rd season of the hit series 24. He also co-starred opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins and Angelina Jolie in Beowulf with Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in \"Titanic (1997 film)\". His television credits include: Dexter (tv series), The X-Files, The", "title": "Greg Ellis (actor)" }, { "id": "15152497", "text": "Lars Mikkelsen Lars Dittmann Mikkelsen (born ) is a Danish actor. He has played Copenhagen mayoral election candidate Troels Hartmann in the drama series \"The Killing\", Charles Augustus Magnussen, the primary villain in the third series of \"Sherlock\", the Russian President Viktor Petrov in \"House of Cards\" on Netflix, and Grand Admiral Thrawn in \"Star Wars Rebels\". He is the older brother of actor Mads Mikkelsen. In 2011 he won the Reumert Prize of honour. Mikkelsen was born in Gladsaxe near Copenhagen. After secondary school he enrolled for military service in the Royal Danish Army. He then studied biology at", "title": "Lars Mikkelsen" }, { "id": "17444892", "text": "He has a son and a daughter. He is the paternal uncle of brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan. John Nolan (British actor) John Nolan (born 22 May 1938) is a British film and television actor. He is known for his role as Wayne Enterprises board member Douglas Fredericks in \"Batman Begins\", the \"Gotham Central\" promotional segments for \"The Dark Knight\", and \"The Dark Knight Rises\". Nolan had a recurring role in his nephew Jonathan Nolan's television series \"Person of Interest\" as John Greer, a mysterious British figure connected with Decima Technologies and the main villain from seasons three to five", "title": "John Nolan (British actor)" }, { "id": "3605325", "text": "had numerous guest appearances on TV series, including playing Klaang, the first Klingon ever to make contact with humans, in the of \"\". He co-starred in a two-part episode of the courtroom series \"Matlock\" as Mr. Matlock's in-prison bodyguard. Lister's film roles include playing a prisoner in \"The Dark Knight\", \"Austin Powers in Goldmember\" and \"The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)\". Lister was featured in \"The Fifth Element\" as the Galactic President. He appeared in the Adam Sandler film \"Little Nicky\" as Nicky's older brother Cassius. Lister was the main police officer in Chamillionaire's \"Ridin'\" video, and reprised his role", "title": "Tom Lister Jr." }, { "id": "20078950", "text": "Seo Kim, Somvilay Xayaphone, Steve Wolfhard, Graham Falk, Hanna K. Nyström, Aleks Sennwald, Kent Osborne, and Laura Knetzger. Cole Sanchez and Elizabeth Ito served as the miniseries' supervising directors, and Sandra Lee served as art director. All eight of the miniseries' installments were watched by approximately 0.90 million viewers, making them among the season's highest-watched episodes. \"Elements\" was released on DVD in Australia on July 3, 2018. Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), Jake (voiced by John DiMaggio), and BMO (voiced by Niki Yang) arrive back in Ooo and discover that their home and the areas surrounding it have been entirely", "title": "Elements (miniseries)" }, { "id": "5777107", "text": "he played a \"prosperity preacher\" on David Alan Grier's show \"Chocolate News\" on Comedy Central. Shavar Ross Shavar Malik Ross (born March 4, 1971) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, editor, photographer, author, and retail entrepreneur. He is known for his recurring television role as Dudley Johnson, Gary Coleman's best friend in the NBC sitcom \"Diff'rent Strokes\", Alex \"Weasel\" Parks in the ABC sitcom \"Family Matters\", and as \"Reggie The Reckless\" in the fifth installment of the \"Friday the 13th\" movie series \"\" (1985). Ross was born in the South Bronx, New York. His parents separated when", "title": "Shavar Ross" }, { "id": "9340448", "text": "Raoul Trujillo Raoul Maximiano Trujillo de Chauvelon (born May 8, 1955) is an American actor, dancer, and choreographer. A former soloist with the Nikolais Dance Theatre, he is the original choreographer and co-director for the American Indian Dance Theatre. He is the host for a series of dancing programs. Trujillo's career spans more than 30 years in film, television, and theatre. He is best known for playing Zero Wolf, the Mayan villain in \"Apocalypto\" (2006), directed by Mel Gibson, and for playing the Iroquois chief Kiotseaton in the film \"Black Robe.\" He has appeared in numerous other films, including \"The", "title": "Raoul Trujillo" }, { "id": "14566854", "text": "\"The Fifth Element\". The movie's antagonist, referred to as the \"great evil,\" is a giant sentient sphere with the ability to communicate with humans on a mission to destroy life, and shares many attributes with Futurama's V-GINY. In both cases the President of the Earth meets with a military leader to discuss how to handle the death sphere, and they end up consulting a third party (The priest and then the scientist who rebuilds/revives Lelu in \"The Fifth Element\", and Professor Farnsworth in \"Futurama\") for an alternative solution to military action. In both cases, the great evil is defeated through", "title": "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela" }, { "id": "7803504", "text": "Five Finger Exercise Five Finger Exercise is a 1962 American drama film made by Columbia Pictures, directed by Daniel Mann and produced by Frederick Brisson from a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on the play by Peter Shaffer. The film stars Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins, Richard Beymer, Maximilian Schell, and Annette Gorman, with an early screen appearance from Lana Wood, the sister of Natalie Wood. The play premiered at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End in February 1959, and opened at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway on December 2, 1959, and closed October 1, 1960,", "title": "Five Finger Exercise" }, { "id": "2836735", "text": "use on a film soundtrack, so Callas's agent Michel Glotz, who had produced this recording, introduced him to Mula. Inva Mula Inva Mula (born June 27, 1963) is an Albanian opera lyric soprano. She began her soprano career at a very early age. Her father (Avni Mula) and mother (Nina Mula) were also opera singers. She is also known for providing the voice of the diva Plavalaguna in the film \"The Fifth Element\". Mula was born in Tirana, Albania to an Albanian father from Gjakove and a Russian mother. In 1987 she won the \"Cantante d'Albania\" competition in Tirana and", "title": "Inva Mula" }, { "id": "1280927", "text": "to be as unmanly as possible in various ways, such as Ruby Rhod's effeminacy, Vito Cornelius's clumsy form of speech, and General Munro's stupidity; their purpose was to make Korben's masculinity appear \"god-like\" by comparison. In the book \"The Films of Luc Besson\", Susan Hayward considered \"The Fifth Element\" to be a classic story of a man \"making his break from the tribe, proving his manhood, over-throwing the malevolent forces and killing the chief, finally to reap the rewards of security and marriage\". Korben's journey, however, is under threat not only from the Mangalores and Zorg, but also from Leeloo,", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "2728538", "text": "who clashed with tribes in New Caledonia, the Melanesian territory of France. His future project science fiction film \"MNP\" is named after Mir Space Station, whose writing in Cyrillic letters (Мир) look like the letters MNP, and also the production company. Kassovitz is most famous outside France for his acting role as Nino Quincampoix in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film\" Amélie\". Among many other credits, he also had small roles in \"La Haine\" (which he also directed), \"Birthday Girl,\" and \"The Fifth Element\". He played leading roles in \"A Self Made Hero\" (1996) by Jacques Audiard and in \"Amen.\" (2003) by Costa-Gavras.", "title": "Mathieu Kassovitz" }, { "id": "1280945", "text": "Part Two, creating a smooth transition between the two tracks. Released as an album under Virgin Records, the soundtrack peaked at No. 99 on the \"Billboard\" 200. More than 200,000 copies of the lengthy soundtrack were sold in France alone. Rodney Batdorf of \"AllMusic\" gave the album three out of five stars, stating it was \"diverse and accomplished, and it is just as effective outside of the film as it is within it.\" A review from Filmtracks.com also awarded the album three out of five stars. The film premiered on 7 May 1997 at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, where", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "13456872", "text": "April 2010. They also performed at the Pitchfork Music Festival in July 2010 and the Sasquatch Music Festival on Monday 30 May 2011. Live visuals were created by Pomp&Clout. Major Lazer performed at the 2011 Outside Lands festival in San Francisco. A mixtape with La Roux entitled \"Lazerproof\" was made available for free download on 26 May. Diplo posted cover art on his Twitpic. It is the character Major Lazer in War Machine's silver suit, Elly Jackson of La Roux in the signature Iron Man suit, and Whiplash, the villain in the \"Iron Man 2\" movie. On 20 June 2010,", "title": "Major Lazer" }, { "id": "1508596", "text": "Tim Finn. In 2010, he appeared as David Prince of Wales, who became King Edward VIII, in \"The King's Speech\". He is the eponymous lead in the Australian TV miniseries \"Jack Irish\", an adaptation of the detective novels of author Peter Temple broadcast on the ABC network in 2012. In May 2012, Pearce was cast to star in David Michôd's \"The Rover\". In 2013, Pearce played the villain character Aldrich Killian in \"Iron Man 3\". Pearce had a supporting role in Neil Armfield's romantic-drama film \"Holding the Man\", as Dick Conigrave. The 2015 film stars Ryan Corr and Craig Stott,", "title": "Guy Pearce" }, { "id": "5792810", "text": "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (; born 22 August 1967) is an English actor and former fashion model best known for his roles as Nykwana Wombosi in \"The Bourne Identity\", Kurse in \"\", Killer Croc in \"Suicide Squad\", Mr. Eko on \"Lost\", Malko in the fifth season of the HBO series \"Game of Thrones\" and Dave Duerson in the NFL biopic drama \"Concussion\". Akinnuoye-Agbaje's feature directorial debut, \"Farming\", wrapped production in 2017 and had its world premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Akinnuoye-Agbaje was born in Islington, London, to Nigerian parents of Yoruba origin, who were students in the", "title": "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje" }, { "id": "1721922", "text": "an attempt to find more mature roles, he decided to leave \"Beverly Hills, 90210\" in 1995. In the same year, he took a part in the Italian movie \"Vacanze di Natale '95\", playing himself. Although he announced that \"90210\" was behind him, his departure would eventually turn out to be for only three years. During that time, Perry starred in the independent film \"Normal Life\" opposite Ashley Judd, starred in the TV science fiction movie \"Invasion\" (1997), and a Rodney King drama \"Riot\" (1997), and he had a small role in Luc Besson's science fiction adventure film \"The Fifth Element\"", "title": "Luke Perry" }, { "id": "1280949", "text": "stars out of 4, calling it \"One of the great goofy movies\", and concluding, \"I would not have missed seeing this film, and I recommend it for its richness of imagery. But at 127 minutes, which seems a reasonable length, it plays long.\" The film was, however, subject to a number of harsh reviews that expressed disapproval of its overblown style. Todd McCarthy of \"Variety\" wrote, \"A largely misfired European attempt to make an American-style sci-fi spectacular, \"The Fifth Element\" consists of a hodgepodge of elements that don't comfortably coalesce.\" David Edelstein of \"Slate\" was even more critical, saying, \"It", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "8751136", "text": "\"\", starring Gérard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver. In 1994, Smith co-produced Stephen Frears's \"Mary Reilly\", starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich for Tristar Pictures, followed by Luc Besson's \"The Fifth Element\" in 1996, which starred Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman and was produced by his company Zaltman Films Ltd for Gaumont. He then produced Jean-Jacques Annaud's \"Seven Years in Tibet\", starring Brad Pitt and David Thewlis for Columbia Pictures, followed by Jon Amiel's \"Entrapment\" with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones for 20th Century Fox. Smith executive produced Tony Scott's \"Spy Game\" for Universal Pictures, which starred Robert Redford and Brad", "title": "Iain Smith (producer)" }, { "id": "16966691", "text": "Gregory Blair Gregory Blair is an American actor, director, and playwright. Blair has portrayed fall guys (\"Escape The Night\"), villains (\"Fang\") and characters in between. He received a Geoffrey Award for Best Character Actor for his role in \"Sylvia\", a Stonewall Award for his novel \"Spewing Pulp\", and an EOTM Award for \"Best Director of an Indie Horror Film\" for Deadly Revisions. Blair studied in and around Southern California, including at UCLA. Blair performed in the plays \"Sylvia\", \"Working\", and \"Six Degrees of Separation\", in the films \"On The Rocks\", \"Ooga Booga\", and \"Garden Party Massacre\", and in \"Escape The", "title": "Gregory Blair" }, { "id": "17444891", "text": "John Nolan (British actor) John Nolan (born 22 May 1938) is a British film and television actor. He is known for his role as Wayne Enterprises board member Douglas Fredericks in \"Batman Begins\", the \"Gotham Central\" promotional segments for \"The Dark Knight\", and \"The Dark Knight Rises\". Nolan had a recurring role in his nephew Jonathan Nolan's television series \"Person of Interest\" as John Greer, a mysterious British figure connected with Decima Technologies and the main villain from seasons three to five of the show. Nolan was born in London, England, and has been married to Kim Hartman since 1975.", "title": "John Nolan (British actor)" }, { "id": "12838045", "text": "Aldis Hodge Aldis Alexander Basil Hodge (born September 20, 1986) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Alec Hardison on the TNT series \"Leverage\", MC Ren in the 2015 biopic \"Straight Outta Compton\", Levi Jackson in the 2016 film \"Hidden Figures\", and as Noah in the WGN America series \"Underground\". Hodge was born on September 20, 1986, in Onslow County, North Carolina. Both of his parents, Aldis Basil Hodge and Yolette Evangeline Richardson, served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Hodge's mother is from Florida, while his father is originally from Dominica. Aldis is the younger brother of", "title": "Aldis Hodge" }, { "id": "1280924", "text": "at the weapon chamber in the temple. They arrange the stones and activate them with their corresponding elements, but having witnessed and studied so much violence, Leeloo has become disenchanted with humanity and refuses to cooperate. Dallas declares his love for Leeloo and kisses her. In response, Leeloo combines the power of the stones and releases the divine light onto the great evil, destroying its power and stopping it. Afterwards, Dallas and Leeloo make love. In an interview Besson stated \"The Fifth Element\" was not a \"big theme movie\", although the film's theme was an important one. He wanted viewers", "title": "The Fifth Element" }, { "id": "4849701", "text": "King Is Alive\" (2000) was dedicated to him. Brion James Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999) was an American character actor. Perhaps best known for his portrayal of Leon Kowalski in \"Blade Runner\", James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in popular films such as \"Southern Comfort\", \"48 Hrs.\", \"Another 48 Hrs.\", \"Silverado\", \"Tango & Cash\", \"Red Heat\", \"The Player\" and \"The Fifth Element\". James' commanding screen presence and formidable physique at tall usually resulted in his casting as a heavy, appearing more frequently in lower-budget horror and action films and TV shows throughout the 1980s", "title": "Brion James" }, { "id": "16659559", "text": "Avengers: Age of Ultron Avengers: Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2012's \"The Avengers\" and the eleventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård,", "title": "Avengers: Age of Ultron" }, { "id": "2297560", "text": "plans to create their own production studio, Important Studios, in January 2013. The studio will approve projects ranging from films to television to theatre. On April 13, 2016, Universal Pictures announced that Trey Parker would be voicing the villain Balthazar Bratt in \"Despicable Me 3.\" The film, released in June 2017, was Parker's first voice role not scripted by either himself or Matt Stone. Parker married Emma Sugiyama. The officiant was 1970s sitcom producer Norman Lear. That marriage ended in 2008 after two years. Parker subsequently began a relationship with Boogie Tillmon, whom he later married. Their daughter, Betty Boogie", "title": "Trey Parker" }, { "id": "11433921", "text": "Ritchie Coster Ritchie Coster (born 1 July 1967) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Dietrich Banning in \"The Tuxedo\" (2002), Chechen in \"The Dark Knight\" (2008), Elias Kassar in \"Blackhat\" (2015), Mayor Austin Chessani on the second season of the HBO anthology television series \"True Detective\" and Francisco Scaramucci / Mr. Blue on the SyFy television series \"Happy!\". Coster was born in London, England. He attended the Latymer School, Edmonton and later trained in acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Coster has played varies roles throughout his career, in the", "title": "Ritchie Coster" }, { "id": "14817403", "text": "Element\" was released to iTunes Japan on August 17, 2010. The hard copy version of the album hit Japanese Stores distributed by Warner Japan on August 25. The album also hit iTunes in the United States, and Europe on August 25, 2010. The Japanese edition of the album features collaborations by Japanese artist Coma Chi \"Love Hurts\", and Jay'ed \"The Right Way\". The US edition does not include these versions of those songs. Also on the US edition \"Love Hurts\" is listed with its original title \"Worst Enemy\". On August 25, 2010, Tynisha Keli along with rapper Jay Beretta, and", "title": "The 5th Element (Tynisha Keli album)" }, { "id": "18929343", "text": "Beau Knapp Beau Christian Knapp (born April 17, 1989) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in \"The Signal\" (2014), \"Run All Night\" (2015), and \"Southpaw\" (2015). Knapp portrayed a lead villain in \"Death Wish\" (2018), the sixth installment of the \"Death Wish\" series. Knapp was born in Los Angeles, California. In 2011, Knapp made his film debut as Breen in the science-fiction adventure film \"Super 8\". He played Denny in the horror thriller film \"No One Lives\" (2012). On television, Knapp appeared in a 2013 episode of the television series \"Bones\". Other film roles include the", "title": "Beau Knapp" } ]

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[ { "id": "15362675", "text": "A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem \"Harlem\" (also known as \"A Dream Deferred\") by Langston Hughes. The story tells of a black family's experiences in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood as they attempt to \"better\" themselves with an insurance payout following the death of the father. The New York Drama Critics' Circle named it the best play of 1959. Walter and Ruth Younger, their son Travis, along with Walter's mother Lena (Mama) and Walter's sister", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "15362698", "text": "as Stephen Colbert reciting \"A Dream Deferred\" just before the closing credits. A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem \"Harlem\" (also known as \"A Dream Deferred\") by Langston Hughes. The story tells of a black family's experiences in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood as they attempt to \"better\" themselves with an insurance payout following the death of the father. The New York Drama Critics' Circle named it the best play of 1959. Walter and Ruth Younger,", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "15362692", "text": "the play, was written by Hansberry's former husband, Robert Nemiroff. Music and lyrics were by Judd Woldin and Robert Brittan. The cast included Joe Morton (Walter Lee), Virginia Capers (Momma), Ernestine Jackson (Ruth), Debbie Allen (Beneatha) and Ralph Carter (Travis, the Youngers' young son). The show won the Tony Award for Best musical. In 1989 the play was adapted into a TV film for PBS' \"American Playhouse\" series, starring Danny Glover (Walter Lee) and Esther Rolle (Mama), with Kim Yancey (Beneatha), Starletta DuPois (Ruth), and John Fiedler (Karl Lindner). This production received three Emmy Award nominations, but all were for", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "2636476", "text": "Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer. Hansberry was the first black female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play \"A Raisin in the Sun\", highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case \"Hansberry v. Lee\". The title of the play was taken from the poem \"Harlem\" by Langston Hughes: \"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like", "title": "Lorraine Hansberry" }, { "id": "15362691", "text": "cast of Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett, Jr. and John Fiedler. Hansberry wrote the screenplay, and the film was directed by Daniel Petrie. It was released by Columbia Pictures and Ruby Dee won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. Both Poitier and McNeil were nominated for Golden Globe Awards, and Petrie received a special \"Gary Cooper Award\" at the Cannes Film Festival. A musical version of the play, \"Raisin\", ran on Broadway from October 18, 1973, to December 7, 1975. The book of the musical, which stayed close to", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "15362687", "text": "is African-American, \"A Raisin in the Sun\" was considered a risky investment, and it took over a year for producer Philip Rose to raise enough money to launch it. There was disagreement with how it should be played, with focus on the mother or focus on the son. When the play hit New York, Poitier played it with the focus on the son and found not only his calling but also an audience enthralled. After touring to positive reviews, the play premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959. It transferred to the Belasco Theatre on", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "20856923", "text": "Robert B. Nemiroff Robert B. Nemiroff (October 29, 1929– July 18, 1991) was an American theater producer and songwriter, and was the ex-husband of Lorraine Hansberry. He was a book editor and a music publisher. Nemiroff was an award-winning songwriter with co-writer Burt D’Lugoff the 1956 “Cindy, Oh Cindy,” and “Fifteen,” the theme for the movie \"The World, the Flesh, and the Devil\". He married Lorraine Hansberry in 1953 which Hansberry often cited as an important creative factor in the genesis of her play \"A Raisin in the Sun\". Nemiroff, executive producer of the PBS production, devoted much of his", "title": "Robert B. Nemiroff" }, { "id": "15362684", "text": "because the class of defendants in the respective cases had conflicting goals, and thus could not be considered to be the same class. The plaintiff in the first action in 1934 was Olive Ida Burke, who brought the suit on behalf of a property owners' association to enforce racial restrictions. Her husband, James Burke, later sold a house to Carl Hansberry (Lorraine's father) when he changed his mind about the validity of the covenant. Mr. Burke's decision may have been motivated by the changing demographics of the neighborhood, but it was also influenced by the Depression. The demand for houses", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "3639635", "text": "Daniel and Donald, both successful directors and screenwriters. Their twin daughters were former MGM executive June, and actor/writer Mary. In 2002, the family as a whole was awarded the American Film Institute's \"Platinum Circle Award\" to recognise their collective creative contributions. Daniel Petrie Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian television and film director. Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne (née Campbell) and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945. His signature film \"A Raisin in the Sun\" (1961),", "title": "Daniel Petrie" }, { "id": "15362682", "text": "a bombing. Her lines are employed as comic relief, but Hansberry also uses this scene to mock those who are too scared to stand up for their rights. In the introduction by Robert B. Nemiroff he writes that the scene is included in print because it draws attention away from a seemingly happy ending to a more violent reality inspired by Hansberry's own experiences. Experiences in this play echo a lawsuit (\"Hansberry v. Lee\", 311 U.S. 32 (1940)), to which the playwright Lorraine Hansberry's family was a party when they fought to have their day in court because a previous", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "4832883", "text": "A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film) A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and adapted from the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry. It follows a black family that wants a better life away from the city. \"A Raisin in the Sun\" was released by Columbia Pictures on May 29, 1961. In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States of America National Film Registry by", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film)" }, { "id": "15362689", "text": "the Sun\" was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, as well as the first with a black director, Mr. Richards. Hansberry noted that her play introduced details of black life to the overwhelmingly white Broadway audiences, while director Richards observed that it was the first play to which large numbers of black people were drawn. Frank Rich, writing in \"The New York Times\" in 1983, stated that \"A Raisin in the Sun\" \"changed American theater forever.\" In 2016, Claire Brennan wrote in \"The Guardian\" that \"The power and craft of the writing make", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "10780335", "text": "an idea that repulses everyone in the Younger household. When Walter calls back Lindner to confirm the deal, he has a last-minute change of heart and seeking to restore the Youngers' pride, rejects Lindner's offer again. The Youngers eventually move out of their apartment, fulfilling their dream. The future seems uncertain and slightly dangerous, but they believe that they can succeed through optimism, determination, and remaining together as a family. The title was inspired by poet Langston Hughes' reflection on whether a deferred dream \"dr[ies] up like a raisin in the sun.\" Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film)" }, { "id": "3639632", "text": "Daniel Petrie Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian television and film director. Petrie was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, the son of Mary Anne (née Campbell) and William Mark Petrie, a soft-drink manufacturer. He moved to the United States in 1945. His signature film \"A Raisin in the Sun\" (1961), was assigned to him after it was refused to its original director on Broadway, future National Medal of Arts honoree Lloyd Richards, because Richards was black. The movie maintained the award-winning cast and performances it had had on Broadway during its", "title": "Daniel Petrie" }, { "id": "15362676", "text": "Beneatha, live in poverty in a dilapidated two-bedroom apartment on Chicago's south side. Walter is barely making a living as a limousine driver. Though Ruth is content with their lot, Walter is not and desperately wishes to become wealthy. His plan is to invest in a liquor store in partnership with Willy and Bobo, street-smart acquaintances of Walter's. At the beginning of the play, Walter and Beneatha's father has recently died, and Mama is waiting for a life insurance check for $10,000. Walter has a sense of entitlement to the money, but Mama has religious objections to alcohol and Beneatha", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "15362688", "text": "October 19, 1959, and closed on June 25, 1960, after 530 total performances. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast comprised: Ossie Davis later took over as Walter Lee Younger, and Frances Williams as Lena Younger. Waiting for the curtain to rise on opening night, Hansberry and producer Rose did not expect the play to be a success, for it had already received mixed reviews from a preview audience the night before. Though it won popular and critical acclaim, reviewers argued about whether the play was \"universal\" or particular to African-American experience. It was then produced on tour. \"A Raisin in", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "15362694", "text": "a Play (Audra McDonald), and was nominated for Best Revival of a Play and Best Featured Actress in a Play (Sanaa Lathan). In 2008, Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad and Audra McDonald starred in a television film directed by Kenny Leon. The film debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast by ABC on February 25, 2008. McDonald received an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Ruth. According to Nielsen Media Research, the program was watched by 12.7 million viewers and ranked #9 in the ratings for the week ending March 2, 2008. In 2010 Michael Buffong directed a", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "10780330", "text": "A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film) A Raisin in the Sun is a 2008 American made-for-television film directed by Kenny Leon and starring Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan reprising their roles from the 2004 revival which was also directed by Leon. The teleplay by Paris Qualles is based on the award-winning 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry and is the second film adaptation of that play following the 1961 film that starred Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, and Diana Sands. \"A Raisin in the Sun\" debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film)" }, { "id": "2636485", "text": "and wrote about feminism and homophobia, joining the Daughters of Bilitis and contributing two letters to their magazine, \"The Ladder\", in 1957 under her initials \"LHN.\" She separated from her husband at this time, but they continued to work together. \"A Raisin in the Sun\" was written at this time and completed in 1957. Opening on March 11, 1959, \"A Raisin in the Sun\" became the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. The 29-year-old author became the youngest American playwright and only the fifth woman to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle", "title": "Lorraine Hansberry" }, { "id": "10780331", "text": "Festival and was broadcast by ABC on February 25, 2008. According to Nielsen Media Research, the program was watched by 12.7 million viewers and ranked #9 in the ratings for the week ending March 2, 2008. Set in 1959, the story focuses on the Youngers, an African American family living on Chicago's South Side. They're anticipating a life insurance check for Lena's husband's death in the amount of $10,000, and each of them has an idea as to what he or she would like to do with this money. Matriarch Lena wants to buy a house to fulfill the dream", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film)" }, { "id": "4832884", "text": "the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The Younger family - Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, younger sister Beneatha, son Travis and mother Lena - live in a small apartment in Chicago's south side. They are anticipating a life insurance check for Lena's husband's death in the amount of $10,000, and each of them has an idea as to what he or she would like to do with this money. Matriarch Lena wants to buy a house to fulfill the dream she shared with her deceased husband. Walter Lee would rather use the money to invest", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film)" }, { "id": "4297305", "text": "Ruby Dee Ruby Dee (born Ruby Ann Wallace, October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She is perhaps best known for originating the role of \"Ruth Younger\" in the stage and film versions of \"A Raisin in the Sun\" (1961). Her other notable film roles include \"The Jackie Robinson Story\" (1950) and \"Do the Right Thing\" (1989). For her performance as Mahalee Lucas in \"American Gangster\" (2007), Dee was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Female Actor", "title": "Ruby Dee" }, { "id": "15362690", "text": "A Raisin in the Sun as moving today as it was then.\" In 1960 \"A Raisin In The Sun\" was nominated for four Tony Awards: Some five months after its Broadway opening, Hansberry's play appeared in London's West End, playing at the Adelphi Theatre from August 4, 1959. As on Broadway, the director was Lloyd Richards, and the cast was as follows: The play was presented (as before) by Philip Rose and David J. Cogan, in association with the British impresario Jack Hylton. In 1961, a film version of \"A Raisin in the Sun\" was released featuring its original Broadway", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "2741466", "text": "first half of the century, many University of Chicago professors lived in Woodlawn. With the Supreme Court ruling outlawing racially restrictive covenants in the 1950s, the combination of the expanding African American urban population, their limited housing options, and exploitive real estate maneuvers that divided up apartments into kitchenettes, Woodlawn began to have its first African American residents. Cayton and Drake described the anxieties and clashes that took place at the edge of the ghetto in \"Black Metropolis\". The play \"A Raisin in the Sun\" is based on the experiences of author Lorraine Hansberry and her family, who were among", "title": "Woodlawn, Chicago" }, { "id": "15362685", "text": "was so low among white buyers that Mr. Hansberry may have been the only prospective purchaser available. Lorraine reflects upon the litigation in her book \"To Be Young, Gifted, and Black\": \"Twenty-five years ago, [my father] spent a small personal fortune, his considerable talents, and many years of his life fighting, in association with NAACP attorneys, Chicago’s ‘restrictive covenants’ in one of this nation's ugliest ghettos. That fight also required our family to occupy disputed property in a hellishly hostile ‘white neighborhood’ in which literally howling mobs surrounded our house. ... My memories of this ‘correct’ way of fighting white", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "4832888", "text": "and slightly dangerous, but they believe that they can succeed through optimism, determination, and remaining together as a family. Ruby Dee won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. Both Poitier and MacNeil were nominated for Golden Globe Awards, and director Petrie received a special \"Gary Cooper Award\" at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film) A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and adapted", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film)" }, { "id": "5883845", "text": "According to Philip Rose, \"A Raisin in the Sun\" became a hit after a surprise positive review from Cassidy as well as \"good reviews in other papers.\" In 1975, Cassidy was awarded the Joseph Jefferson Award. Her last published writing was for the 1990-91 Lyric Opera program book. Cassidy was married to William J. Cassidy for 57 years. After her husband died in 1986, Cassidy lived at the Drake Hotel until her death in 1996 at the age of 96. The Claudia Cassidy Theater of the Chicago Cultural Center is named in her honor. Claudia Cassidy Claudia Cassidy (1899–1996), born", "title": "Claudia Cassidy" }, { "id": "4802713", "text": "and '60s are Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez. During this time, a number of playwrights also came to national attention, notably Lorraine Hansberry, whose play \"A Raisin in the Sun\" focuses on a poor Black family living in Chicago. The play won the 1959 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. Another playwright who gained attention was Amiri Baraka, who wrote controversial off-Broadway plays. In more recent years, Baraka became known for his poetry and music criticism. It is also worth noting that a number of important essays and books about human rights were written by the leaders of the Civil", "title": "African-American literature" }, { "id": "10839593", "text": "his daughter Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play, \"A Raisin in the Sun\". Carl Augustus Hansberry Carl Augustus Hansberry (April 30, 1895—March 17, 1946) was an American real estate broker, inventor and political activist. He was also the father of award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry and the great-grandfather of actress Taye Hansberry. Carl Augustus Hansberry was born on April 30, 1895 in Gloster, Amite County, Mississippi. He was a son of Elden Hayes and Pauline (Bailey) Hansberry. He and his older brother, William Leo Hansberry, were raised by their stepfather, Elijah Washington. As a young man, he moved to Chicago. He married Nannie", "title": "Carl Augustus Hansberry" }, { "id": "2636501", "text": "the 9th Ward of New Orleans. Heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it has since closed. In 2017, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. In January 2018, the PBS series American Masters released a new documentary, \"Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart,\" directed by Tracy Heather Strain. Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer. Hansberry was the first black female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play \"A Raisin in the Sun\", highlights the lives of Black Americans", "title": "Lorraine Hansberry" }, { "id": "8369184", "text": "encouragement from poets Robert Hayden and Langston Hughes, among others and began honing his talent as a writer. Working as a stage actor, Elder landed the role of Bobo in the original Broadway run of Lorraine Hansberry's \"A Raisin in the Sun\" in 1959. Inspired by Hansberry and his friendship with dramatist Douglas Turner Ward, Elder set his sights on becoming a playwright. Sharing an apartment with Ward also helped inspire Elder to write a play titled \"A Hysterical Turtle in a Rabbit Race\" (1961). It was an early expression of Elder's chosen theme of the black family in a", "title": "Lonne Elder III" }, { "id": "15362681", "text": "and not accepting the buyout offer, stating that the family is proud of who they are and will try to be good neighbors. The play closes with the family leaving for their new home but uncertain future. The character Mrs. Johnson and a few scenes were cut from the Broadway performance and in reproductions due to time constraints. Mrs. Johnson is the Younger family's nosy and loud neighbor. She cannot understand how the family can consider moving to a white neighborhood and jokes that she will probably read in the newspaper in a month that they have been killed in", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "15362686", "text": "supremacy in America include being spat at, cursed and pummeled in the daily trek to and from school. And I also remember my desperate and courageous mother, patrolling our household all night with a loaded German Luger (pistol), doggedly guarding her four children, while my father fought the respectable part of the battle in the Washington court.\" The Hansberry house, a red-brick three-flat at 6140 S. Rhodes in Washington Park that they bought in 1937, was given landmark status by the Chicago City Council's Committee on Historical Landmarks Preservation in 2010. With a cast in which all but one character", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "9864339", "text": "his love and desire for acting, a teacher invited him to a table read for a play, and Sturgis was cast as the understudy; later going on to play the lead role of \"A Raisin in the Sun\". He soon landed roles in productions filmed in New Orleans such as \"Blaze\" and \"The Big Easy\". In 1992, Sturgis married his college sweetheart, Jennifer Grimes, whom he met at University of New Orleans. The pair moved to Los Angeles where she landed a job as an assistant talent agent at a top-tier talent agency. Shortly thereafter, Sturgis was signed at the", "title": "Gary Anthony Sturgis" }, { "id": "5498806", "text": "Raisin (musical) Raisin is a musical theatre adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play \"A Raisin in the Sun\", with songs by Judd Woldin and Robert Brittan, and a book by Robert Nemiroff (who was Hansberry's former husband) and Charlotte Zaltzberg. The story concerns an African-American family in Chicago in 1951. The musical was nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning two, including Best Musical, and the Broadway production ran for 847 performances. In Chicago in 1951, an African-American family, Ruth Younger, her husband Walter Lee Younger, their son Travis and Walter's mother are living in a cramped apartment. Walter is a", "title": "Raisin (musical)" }, { "id": "16173001", "text": "Paul Weatherwax Paul John Weatherwax (July 8, 1900 – September 13, 1960) was an American film editor, and two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Weatherwax was born in Sturgis, Michigan, began his editing career in silent films in 1928, and over his career edited about 85 films. His final credit, 1961's \"A Raisin in the Sun\", was selected for preservation in the United States of America National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" in 2005. He also assisted, although uncredited, on the direction of \"Star Spangled Rhythm\" in", "title": "Paul Weatherwax" }, { "id": "16173002", "text": "1945 and \"Vendetta\" in 1950. He died in West Hollywood, California and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles. Weatherwax's films include: Paul Weatherwax Paul John Weatherwax (July 8, 1900 – September 13, 1960) was an American film editor, and two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. Weatherwax was born in Sturgis, Michigan, began his editing career in silent films in 1928, and over his career edited about 85 films. His final credit, 1961's \"A Raisin in the Sun\", was selected for preservation in the United States of America National Film Registry by the Library", "title": "Paul Weatherwax" }, { "id": "9257332", "text": "Patriot for Me\" and \"Take Me Along\" (dance music only). Rosenthal has also been nominated for two Oscars and two Golden Globes. He has won six Emmy Awards and been nominated for an additional six more. Laurence Rosenthal Laurence Rosenthal (born November 4, 1926) is an American composer, arranger and conductor for theater, television and film. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Rosenthal attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied piano and composition. He then studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. Among his best-known film scores are \"A Raisin in the Sun\", \"The Miracle Worker\", \"Becket\",", "title": "Laurence Rosenthal" }, { "id": "15362679", "text": "men: Beneatha's wealthy and educated boyfriend George Murchison, and Joseph Asagai. Neither man is actively involved in the Youngers' financial ups and downs. George represents the \"fully assimilated black man\" who denies his African heritage with a \"smarter than thou\" attitude, which Beneatha finds disgusting, while dismissively mocking Walter's lack of money and education. Asagai patiently teaches Beneatha about her African heritage; he gives her thoughtfully useful gifts from Africa, while pointing out she is unwittingly assimilating herself into white ways. She straightens her hair, for example, which he characterizes as \"mutilation.\" When Beneatha becomes distraught at the loss of", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "10780338", "text": "the most out of his actors and with Hansberry's words, that's what carries the film. Rashad beautifully captures the wounded pride and hopes of the older generation, while the rapper and music entrepreneur Combs holds his own in his first major movie role. Balanced between her mother-in-law's idealism and her husband's pragmatism is Walter's wife Ruth, who may be getting the worst of both worlds. McDonald gives the role a heartbreaking dimension.\" In the \"Wall Street Journal\", Dorothy Rabinowitz observed the three-hour production \"flies by with lightning speed - and that cast led by Ms. Rashad as Lena, is no", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film)" }, { "id": "16690654", "text": "Hughes lived on the South Side and wrote for prominent African American newspaper, the \"Chicago Defender\" before moving to New York and becoming a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. The post-World War II years brought poet Gwendolyn Brooks to the Culture Coast, where she wrote her collection \"Annie Allen\", the first work by an African American to win a Pulitzer Prize. Dramatist Lorraine Hansberry later made history as the first black woman produced on Broadway with the 1959 debut of her play \"Raisin in the Sun\", a fictionalized account of her family's experience of trying to move into a", "title": "Culture Coast Chicago" }, { "id": "20856924", "text": "life to editing and promoting Hansberry work who died at 34 from cancer. Nemiroff produced and co-wrote the Broadway musical \"Raisin\" based on \"A Raisin in the Sun\". Robert B. Nemiroff Robert B. Nemiroff (October 29, 1929– July 18, 1991) was an American theater producer and songwriter, and was the ex-husband of Lorraine Hansberry. He was a book editor and a music publisher. Nemiroff was an award-winning songwriter with co-writer Burt D’Lugoff the 1956 “Cindy, Oh Cindy,” and “Fifteen,” the theme for the movie \"The World, the Flesh, and the Devil\". He married Lorraine Hansberry in 1953 which Hansberry often", "title": "Robert B. Nemiroff" }, { "id": "15362696", "text": "a new production of the play by director/producer Pauline Harris. This version restores the character of Mrs Johnson and a number of scenes that were cut from the Broadway production and subsequent film, with the following cast: The play opened April 6, 2017, at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., directed by Tazewell Thompson, with the following cast: The 2010 Bruce Norris play \"Clybourne Park\" depicts the white family that sold the house to the Youngers. The first act takes place just before the events of \"A Raisin in the Sun\", involving the selling of the house to the African American", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "16394953", "text": "Sun at the center of our Solar System. The word comes from the Greek ( \"helios\" \"sun\" and \"kentron\" \"center\"). The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BCE by Aristarchus of Samos, but had received no support from most other ancient astronomers. Nicolaus Copernicus' major theory of a heliocentric model was published in \"De revolutionibus orbium coelestium\" (\"On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres\"), in 1543, the year of his death, though he had formulated the theory several decades earlier. Copernicus' ideas were not immediately accepted, but they did", "title": "History of the center of the Universe" }, { "id": "15362683", "text": "class action about racially motivated restrictive covenants (\"Burke v. Kleiman\", 277 Ill. App. 519 (1934)) had been similar to their situation. This case was heard prior to the passage of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968), which prohibited discrimination in housing and created the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. The Hansberrys won their right to be heard as a matter of due process of law in relation to the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court held that the \"Hansberry\" defendants were not bound by the \"Burke\" decision", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "10780334", "text": "Walter has lost the balance of the insurance payment to his friend Willy Harris, who \"took the cash to invest in the liquor store\" but in reality made off with the money. It turns out that Walter did not even put the $3,000 for Beneatha's schooling in the bank. Beneatha rejects her suitor George, believing he's blind to the problems of their race. She receives a marriage proposal from Nigerian Joseph Asagai, who wants her to complete her medical studies and return to Africa with him. Walter, depressed and angry, forms a new idea about the \"takers and the tooken\",", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film)" }, { "id": "15362677", "text": "has to remind him it is Mama's call how to spend it. Eventually Mama puts some of the money down on a new house, choosing an all-white neighborhood over a black one for the practical reason that it happens to be much cheaper. Later she relents and gives the rest of the money to Walter to invest with the provision that he reserve $3,000 for Beneatha's education. Walter passes the money on to Willy's naive sidekick Bobo, who gives it to Willy, who absconds with it, depriving Walter and Beneatha of their dreams, though not the Youngers of their new", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "14059055", "text": "Douglas Turner Ward Douglas Turner Ward (born May 5, 1930) is an American playwright, actor, director and theatrical producer best known as a founder and artistic director of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). Turner was born in Burnside, Louisiana. His father was Roosevelt Ward and his mother was Dorothy Ward (née Short). Ward is married to Diana Powell Ward. They have a daughter, Elizabeth Ward. As an actor, he made his Broadway debut in a small role in \"A Raisin in the Sun\". However, his first significant artistic achievement would be as a playwright. \"Happy Ending\"/\"Day of Absence\", a program", "title": "Douglas Turner Ward" }, { "id": "15362697", "text": "family; the second act takes place 50 years later. The 2013 play by Kwame Kwei-Armah entitled \"Beneatha's Place\" follows Beneatha after she leaves with Asagai to Nigeria and, instead of becoming a doctor, becomes the Dean of Social Sciences at a respected (unnamed) California university. The two above plays were referred to by Kwei-Armah as \"The Raisin Cycle\" and were produced together by Baltimore's Center Stage in the 2012–2013 season. Season 1, Episode 3 of \"Strangers with Candy\" is based around a school production of \"A Raisin in the Sun\", and features an excerpt from the 1961 movie as well", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "11825253", "text": "Award for the screen version of \"A Raisin in the Sun\" in 1961. McNeil was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Marvin Spencer McNeil, an African-American, and Annie Mae Anderson McNeil, an Apache Indian. The family moved to New York City soon after her birth. She was raised by her mother after her father left the family. At the age of 12, McNeil began working for The Heckscher Foundation for Children. There she met a Jewish couple who later adopted her, and McNeil became fluent in Yiddish. She became a licensed librarian, but soon began singing in vaudeville theaters, and performing", "title": "Claudia McNeil" }, { "id": "17803124", "text": "by the criminal horrors of our [current] American existence.\" Historian Nathan D. B. Connolly said \"Black Panther\" was \"a powerful fictional analogy for real-life struggles\" that taps into a \"500-year history of African-descended people imagining freedom, land and national autonomy.\" Connolly also felt, culturally, the film would be this generation's \"A Raisin in the Sun\" (1961). Writer and activist Shaun King found the film to be a cultural moment in American black history similar to Rosa Parks' Montgomery bus boycott, Martin Luther King Jr.'s \"I Have a Dream\" speech, or Barack Obama being elected president. By contrast, James Wilt, writing", "title": "Black Panther (film)" }, { "id": "3041973", "text": "include \"Into the Woods\" (1988), \"Jelly's Last Jam\" (1993), \"Gem of the Ocean\" (2004), and \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\" (2008). She won a NAACP Image Award when she reprised her \"A Raisin in the Sun\" role in the 2008 television adaptation. She has also appeared in the films \"For Colored Girls\" (2010), \"Good Deeds\" (2012), \"Creed\" (2015), and \"Creed II\" (2018). Rashad was born Phylicia Ayers-Allen in Houston, Texas. Her mother, Vivian Ayers (born 1923), is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated artist, poet, playwright, scholar, and publisher. Phylicia's father, Andrew Arthur Allen, (1921–1984), was an orthodontist. Rashad's siblings are jazz-musician", "title": "Phylicia Rashad" }, { "id": "11636164", "text": "Noma Dumezweni Noma Dumezweni (born 28 July 1969) is an English actress. In 2006, she won an Olivier Award for her role in \"A Raisin in the Sun\". She stars as Hermione Granger in the original West End and Broadway runs of \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,\" which garnered her a second Laurence Olivier Award and a Tony Award nomination. Born in Swaziland, of South African parents, Dumezweni lived in Botswana, Kenya and Uganda. She arrived in England as a refugee on 17 May 1977 with her sister and mother. She first lived in Felixstowe, Suffolk, where she was", "title": "Noma Dumezweni" }, { "id": "8958016", "text": "convict ship that visited Sydney in 1821. The symbol struck a chord with the pre-federation population and many examples still exist on colonial architecture. In 1902 a badge was urgently sought for the Australian contingents raised after Federation for service in South Africa during the Second Boer War. The most widely accepted version of the origin of the badge is that which attributes the selection of its design to a British officer, Major General Sir Edward Hutton, the newly appointed General Officer Commanding, Australian Military Forces. The design was subsequently first worn by the Australian Commonwealth Horse. Hutton had earlier", "title": "Rising Sun (badge)" }, { "id": "2636496", "text": "winning the Tony Award for Best Musical, with the book by Nemiroff, music by Judd Woldin, and lyrics by Robert Britten. \"A Raisin in the Sun\" was revived on Broadway in 2004 and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Revival of a Play. The cast included Sean Combs (\"P Diddy\") as Walter Lee Younger Jr., Phylicia Rashad (Tony Award-winner for Best Actress) and Audra McDonald (Tony Award-winner for Best Featured Actress). It was produced for television in 2008 with the same cast, garnering two NAACP Image Awards. Nina Simone first released a song about Hansberry in 1969 called \"To", "title": "Lorraine Hansberry" }, { "id": "7733094", "text": "Amy Hunter Amy Hunter (born May 6, 1966) is an American actress and model. She has had roles on a number of television series and daytime soaps. She co-hosted The Comedy Channel's \"Night After Night,\" and went on location for ESPN's \"Women in Sports.\" Hunter was a special guest host on \"Soul Train,\" the weekly series where she met her husband, Tony Cornelius, son of creator-producer Don Cornelius. They had a daughter, Christina Marie, and later divorced. Her theater work includes the starring role of Maria in \"West Side Story,\" Beneathea in \"A Raisin in the Sun\", and the green-eyed", "title": "Amy Hunter" }, { "id": "18004200", "text": "To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play) \"To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words\", was written by Lorraine Hansberry, an American writer best known for her 1957 play \"A Raisin in the Sun\", a play that made Hansberry the first black author of a show on Broadway. After her death in 1965, Hansberry's ex-husband and friend, songwriter and poet Robert Nemiroff, collated her unpublished writings and adapted them into a stage play that first ran from 1968 to 1969 off Broadway. It was then converted into an equally successful autobiography with the same title. The", "title": "To Be Young, Gifted and Black (play)" }, { "id": "1278720", "text": "be largely in the eye of the beholder\". Having long resisted Lennon and George Harrison's insistence that he join them and Ringo Starr in trying LSD, McCartney took the drug for the first time in late 1966. This experience contributed to the Beatles' willingness to experiment on \"Sgt. Pepper\" and to Lennon and McCartney returning to a level of collaboration that had been absent for several years. According to Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on 18 December 1966", "title": "A Day in the Life" }, { "id": "4832886", "text": "will add to the financial pressures, considers having an abortion. Walter voices no objection, but Lena is strongly against it, saying \"I thought we gave children life, not take it away from them\". Beneatha rejects her suitor George, believing he's blind to the problems of their race. Her Nigerian classmate Joseph Asagai proposes to her, wanting to take her to Africa with him after they finish school, but she is unsure what to do. When their future neighbors find out the Youngers are moving in, they send Mark Lindner (known as Karl in the play) from the Clybourne Park Improvement", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film)" }, { "id": "16267290", "text": "to write for a paper as an author before deciding to write her first play. Before becoming a playwright, she actively wrote for groups promoting African-American rights. She published a piece produced by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, advocating for the well being of African Americans. Hansberry's personal past, values, and involvement with ideological movements heavily influenced thematic elements in her plays. Her first piece as a playwright, \"A Raisin in the Sun\", drew attention to her as not only an author but as playwright. This piece received several awards and was the first Broadway production written by an African-American", "title": "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" }, { "id": "13439647", "text": "production that moved to Broadway. Abady also did film & TV work, including, with the assistance provided by an American Film Institute grant, \"To Catch a Tiger\", a short film inspired by the life of Nina Friedman Abady, Abady's own mother. She later co-produced a TV remake of \"A Raisin in the Sun\", which starred Esther Rolle and Danny Glover. Despite her advanced breast cancer, she was active during the last years of her life, until her death, at her home in Manhattan, aged 52. She was survived by her husband, sister, and brother. Josephine Abady Josephine R. \"Josie\" Abady", "title": "Josephine Abady" }, { "id": "9424144", "text": "stating the application of \"res judicata\" in this case would violate Fourteenth Amendment. The play \"Raisin in the Sun\" was inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's time in the neighborhood after her father won the repeal of restrictive covenants. The result of \"Hansberry v. Lee\" led to racial succession. White tenants were often evicted to make way for higher-paying African American renters. By 1950, the subdivision was over 99 percent African American. The Hansberry case is a seminal case in civil procedure and class action legal studies. It is also considered an important study of African American, Chicago and legal history. While", "title": "Washington Park Subdivision" }, { "id": "361624", "text": "day is approximately 24 hours, whereas a mean Martian 'sol' is 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds. The English weekday name \"Sunday\" stems from Old English (\"Sunnandæg\"; \"Sun's day\", from before 700) and is ultimately a result of a Germanic interpretation of Latin \"dies solis\", itself a translation of the Greek ἡμέρα ἡλίου (\"hēméra hēlíou\"). Solar deities play a major role in many world religions and mythologies. The ancient Sumerians believed that the sun was Utu, the god of justice and twin brother of Inanna, the Queen of Heaven, who was identified as the planet Venus. Later, Utu was", "title": "Sun" }, { "id": "10780340", "text": "for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Made For Television Movie but lost to \"Recount\". Phylicia Rashad was nominated Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie but lost to Laura Linney for \"John Adams\". Audra McDonald was nominated Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie but lost to Eileen Atkins for \"Cranford\". A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film) A Raisin in the Sun is a 2008 American made-for-television film directed by Kenny Leon and starring Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and Sanaa Lathan reprising their roles from the 2004 revival which was also directed by", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film)" }, { "id": "14244252", "text": "Clybourne Park Clybourne Park is a 2010 play by Bruce Norris written as a spin-off to Lorraine Hansberry's play \"A Raisin in the Sun\" (1959). It portrays fictional events set before and after the Hansberry play, and is loosely based on historical events that took place in the city of Chicago. It premiered in February 2010 at Playwrights Horizons in New York. The play received its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre in London in a production directed by Dominic Cooke. The play received its Chicago premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in a production directed by Steppenwolf ensemble member", "title": "Clybourne Park" }, { "id": "6594985", "text": "Qualles received the Humanitas Prize for his Sundance Feature Film \"\"A Raisin in the Sun\". Qualles was inducted into the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2001 and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Rutgers College that same year. In 2004 Qualles was inducted into the Long Branch High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. Paris Qualles Paris Qualles (pronounced kwal'-less: born December 5, 1951) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Qualles has written episodes for several television series, including \"Seaquest DSV\", \"The Cape\", \"M.A.N.T.I.S.\", \"Law & Order\", \"\", \"Quantum Leap\", and \"China Beach\". His television movies include \"A", "title": "Paris Qualles" }, { "id": "10780339", "text": "small part of the reason. Ms. McDonald is heartbreaking as Ruth, desperate to understand her husband's descent into misery, and Mr. Combs, who portrays that husband, delivers a sterling performance.\" Joanne Ostrow of the \"Denver Post\" said, \"Overall, this \"Raisin\" is a proud, important addition to the history of stage adaptations for TV, one that could touch many more millions of people than ever saw the play, thanks both to its star power and the reach of the medium.\" In \"Entertainment Weekly\", Ken Tucker rated the production B+ and called it \"a model of subtle adaptation.\" The film was nominated", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film)" }, { "id": "4796244", "text": "lovingly printed by hand on a circa 1930's printing press. And each one is numbered. \"Dreaming Waylon's Dreams\" is one of the rarest and most sought-after items in Prophet's discography. It is a limited edition of only 1000. Released by Rounder Records, in 2001, \"Raisins in the Sun\" was a one-off collaboration with Jules Shear, Harvey Brooks, Paul Q. Kolderie, Jim Dickinson, Sean Slade, and Winston Watson, recorded in May 1999. In 2008 Prophet co-wrote all the songs on Alejandro Escovedo's \"Real Animal\", to which he also contributed guitar and vocals. The LP was recorded in Lexington, Kentucky and produced", "title": "Chuck Prophet" }, { "id": "361627", "text": "\"Sun of Righteousness\" (sometimes translated as the \"Sun of Justice\"), which some Christians have interpreted as a reference to the Messiah (Christ). In ancient Roman culture, Sunday was the day of the Sun god. It was adopted as the Sabbath day by Christians who did not have a Jewish background. The symbol of light was a pagan device adopted by Christians, and perhaps the most important one that did not come from Jewish traditions. In paganism, the Sun was a source of life, giving warmth and illumination to mankind. It was the center of a popular cult among Romans, who", "title": "Sun" }, { "id": "6741666", "text": "Miracle of the Sun The Miracle of the Sun (), also known as the Miracle of Fátima, was an event that is claimed to have occurred on 13 October 1917, attended by a large crowd who had gathered in Fátima, Portugal, in response to a prophecy made by three shepherd children. The prophecy was that the Virgin Mary (referred to as Our Lady of Fátima), would appear and perform miracles on that date. Newspapers published testimony from reporters and other people who claimed to have witnessed extraordinary solar activity, such as the Sun appearing to \"dance\" or zig-zag in the", "title": "Miracle of the Sun" }, { "id": "361699", "text": "to within a few percent. In the 1st century AD, Ptolemy estimated the distance as 1,210 times the radius of Earth, approximately . The theory that the Sun is the center around which the planets orbit was first proposed by the ancient Greek Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BC, and later adopted by Seleucus of Seleucia (see Heliocentrism). This view was developed in a more detailed mathematical model of a heliocentric system in the 16th century by Nicolaus Copernicus. Observations of sunspots were recorded during the Han Dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) by Chinese astronomers, who maintained records of", "title": "Sun" }, { "id": "4128584", "text": "William Inge, \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof\" by Tennessee Williams, \"The Chalk Garden\" by Enid Bagnold, \"Long Day's Journey Into Night\" by Eugene O'Neill, \"Separate Tables\" by Sir Terence Rattigan, \"A Raisin in the Sun\" by Lorraine Hansberry, \"No Exit\" by Jean-Paul Sartre, \"The Cocktail Party\" by T. S. Eliot, \"Witness for the Prosecution\" by Agatha Christie, \"The Waltz of the Toreadors\" by Jean Anouilh, \"Look Back in Anger\" by John Osborne and \"Sunrise at Campobello\" by Dore Schary, among others. With television's growing popularity, there was a decline in movie revenues. Hollywood was thus prompted to seek ways", "title": "United States in the 1950s" }, { "id": "1795597", "text": "in life was to move to New York to pursue a career on Broadway. Gloria Foster began her career on Broadway as she moved to New York in 1963. Her first role was Ruth in the show of \"A Raisin in the Sun\". She started an acting career as her agent, Ernestine McClendon, sent her on an audition for \"In White America\". The play was about the history of blacks in the United States and the oppression they had to face. Gloria Foster, \"play[s] a 13-year-old Arkansas girl who tries to enter her Little Rock school\". This was her first", "title": "Gloria Foster" }, { "id": "1592380", "text": "Seasons in the Sun \"Seasons in the Sun\" is an English-language adaptation of the song \"Le Moribond\" by Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel with lyrics rewritten by American singer-poet Rod McKuen. It became a worldwide hit in 1974 for Canadian singer Terry Jacks and became a Christmas number one in the UK in 1999 for Westlife. Jacks's version is one of the fewer than forty all-time singles to have sold 10 million copies worldwide. Terry Jacks recorded \"Seasons in the Sun\" in Vancouver in 1973 with his then-wife Susan Jacks. They made the decision to record the song when The Beach", "title": "Seasons in the Sun" }, { "id": "4384905", "text": "Among his compositions is a concerto for electric violin and chamber orchestra. He composed scores for the TV play \"A Raisin in the Sun\" (1989) and the film \"A Soldier's Story\" (1984). Another notable work is \"Sketches Set Seven\" for piano. He also wrote, directed, and produced the 1959 film \"Cry of Jazz\". In the 1990s, this documentary was rediscovered by scholars and celebrated as an early example of independent black filmmaking. It was soon restored and reissued on DVD in 1996, and in 2010 the Library of Congress added it to its National Film Registry collection as “a historic", "title": "Edward Bland" }, { "id": "15362678", "text": "home. Meanwhile, Karl Lindner, a white representative of the neighborhood they plan to move to, makes a generous offer to buy them out. He wishes to avoid neighborhood tensions over interracial population, which to the three women's horror Walter prepares to accept as a solution to their financial setback. Lena says that while money was something they try to work for, they should never take it if it was a person's way of telling them they weren't fit to walk the same earth as they. Meanwhile, Beneatha's character and direction in life are being defined for us by two different", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "15362680", "text": "the money, she is upbraided by Joseph for her materialism. She eventually accepts his point of view that things will get better with a lot of effort, along with his proposal of marriage and his invitation to move with him to Nigeria to practice medicine. Walter is oblivious to the stark contrast between George and Joseph: his pursuit of wealth can be attained only by liberating himself from Joseph's culture, to which he attributes his poverty, and by rising to George's level, wherein he sees his salvation. Walter redeems himself and black pride at the end by changing his mind", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "2850065", "text": "Ralph Carter Ralph David Carter (born May 30, 1961) is an American actor and singer best remembered as Michael Evans, the youngest child of Florida and James Evans, Sr., on the CBS sitcom \"Good Times\" from 1974–1979. Before joining \"Good Times\", Carter appeared in the Broadway musical \"Raisin,\" based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama \"A Raisin in the Sun\"; as was noted in the credits during the first season. Carter started on Broadway at just nine years old in the musical \"The Me Nobody Knows\". After runs in \"Tough To Get Help\", \"Dude\" and \"Via Galactica\", he landed his breakout", "title": "Ralph Carter" }, { "id": "6594983", "text": "Paris Qualles Paris Qualles (pronounced kwal'-less: born December 5, 1951) is an American screenwriter and television producer. Qualles has written episodes for several television series, including \"Seaquest DSV\", \"The Cape\", \"M.A.N.T.I.S.\", \"Law & Order\", \"\", \"Quantum Leap\", and \"China Beach\". His television movies include \"A Raisin in the Sun\", \"The Rosa Parks Story\", \"The Color of Friendship\", \"A House Divided\", and \"The Tuskegee Airmen\". Qualles was born in Harlem in New York City and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers College where he majored in English literature and minored in Photography. He then went to UCLA for", "title": "Paris Qualles" }, { "id": "11825252", "text": "Claudia McNeil Claudia McNeil (August 13, 1917 – November 25, 1993) was an American actress known for premiering the role of matriarch Lena Younger in both the stage and screen productions of \"A Raisin in the Sun\". She later appeared in a 1981 production of the musical version of the play, \"Raisin\" presented by Equity Library Theater. She was twice nominated for a Tony Award, first for her onstage performance in \"A Raisin in the Sun\" (1959), and again for the play \"Tiger Tiger Burning Bright\" in 1962. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA", "title": "Claudia McNeil" }, { "id": "6613359", "text": "marvel of ancient engineering. Samos is the birthplace of the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, after whom the Pythagorean theorem is named, the philosopher Epicurus, and the astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, the first known individual to propose that the Earth revolves around the sun. Samian wine was well known in antiquity, and is still produced on the island. The island was governed by the semi-autonomous Principality of Samos under Ottoman suzerainty from 1835 until it joined Greece in 1912. Strabo derived the name from the Phoenician word \"sama\" meaning \"high\". The area of the island is , and it is", "title": "Samos" }, { "id": "10780336", "text": "Lathan reprised the roles they played in the 2004 Broadway revival, which also was directed by Kenny Leon. It ran at the Royale Theatre for 31 previews and 89 performances. McDonald and Rashad both won the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for their performances, and Lathan was honored with the prestigious Theatre World Award. In his review in \"Variety\", Dennis Harvey said, \"Strong performances and a brisk pace downplay the original script's more dated, preachy aspects . . . No one will mistake this well-produced but inevitably dialogue-driven piece for pure cinema, but Leon and adapter Paris Qualles open", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film)" }, { "id": "10251991", "text": "Philip Rose (theatrical producer) Philip Rose (July 4, 1921 – May 31, 2011) was a Broadway theatrical producer of such productions as \"A Raisin in the Sun\", \"The Owl and the Pussycat\", \"Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?\", \"Purlie\", and \"Shenandoah\". His work was particularly notable for its social insight and distinctive social conscience. Philip Rose was born Philip Rosenberg on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, to Russian Jewish parents. As a young man, he earned money singing at weddings and funerals and later worked briefly as a bill collector. His family moved to Washington, D.C. during the Great", "title": "Philip Rose (theatrical producer)" }, { "id": "15362693", "text": "technical categories. Bill Duke directed the production, while Chiz Schultz produced. This production was based on an off-Broadway revival produced by the Roundabout Theatre. On 3 March 1996 the BBC broadcast a production of the play by director/producer Claire Grove, with the following cast: A revival ran on Broadway at the Royale Theatre from April 26, 2004, to July 11, 2004 at the Royale Theatre with the following cast: The director was Kenny Leon with David Binder and Vivek Tiwary producers. The play won two 2004 Tony Awards: Best Actress in a Play (Phylicia Rashad) and Best Featured Actress in", "title": "A Raisin in the Sun" }, { "id": "1255384", "text": "Jordan's \"His Own Where\" (1971), though Alice Walker's epistolary novel \"The Color Purple\" is a much more widely known work written entirely in AAVE. Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play \"A Raisin in the Sun\" also has near exclusive use of AAVE. The poetry of Langston Hughes uses AAVE extensively. Some other notable works that have incorporated representations of black speech (with varying degrees of perceived authenticity) include: As there is no established spelling system for AAVE, depicting it in literature is instead often done through spelling changes to indicate its phonological features, or to contribute to the impression that AAVE is", "title": "African-American English" }, { "id": "2982845", "text": "Washington Park. In Richard Wright's novel \"Native Son\", Bigger Thomas drives the drunken Jan Erlone and Mary Dalton around Washington Park, as the two embrace. In addition to hosting the DuSable Museum, the park hosts \"Fountain of Time\", the world's earliest concrete finished art work. Additionally, the aforementioned adjacent Washington Park Subdivision has been the subject of notable literature. The conditions of this neighborhood are described in a section of \"Black Metropolis\" by St. Clair Drake and Horace Roscoe Cayton. The play \"Raisin in the Sun\" was inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's time in the neighborhood after her father won the", "title": "Washington Park, Chicago (community area)" }, { "id": "181091", "text": "is itself a distant sun. During the renaissance period, astronomy began to undergo a revolution in thought known as the Copernican revolution, which gets the name from the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who proposed a heliocentric system, in which the planets revolved around the Sun and not the Earth. His De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium was published in 1543. While in the long term this was a very controversial claim, in the very beginning it only brought minor controversy. The theory became the dominant view because many figures, most notably Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton championed and improved upon the", "title": "History of astronomy" }, { "id": "9424134", "text": "the United States Supreme Court, when challenged in a seminal case brought by Carl Hansberry. The case is a vital part of legal studies and considered an important part of a broad class of histories. The play \"Raisin in the Sun\" is based on Lorraine Hansberry's struggles in this neighborhood. Due to the non-rectangular shape of the Washington Park community area, the original Washington Park Race Track actually occupied the Southern two-thirds of the Washington Park Subdivision, which is an 8-city block by 3-city block area in northwest corner of the Woodlawn community area and bounded by Dr. Martin Luther", "title": "Washington Park Subdivision" }, { "id": "2850068", "text": "Supposed to Die a Natural Death\" for the Classical Theater of Harlem Company. Ralph Carter Ralph David Carter (born May 30, 1961) is an American actor and singer best remembered as Michael Evans, the youngest child of Florida and James Evans, Sr., on the CBS sitcom \"Good Times\" from 1974–1979. Before joining \"Good Times\", Carter appeared in the Broadway musical \"Raisin,\" based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama \"A Raisin in the Sun\"; as was noted in the credits during the first season. Carter started on Broadway at just nine years old in the musical \"The Me Nobody Knows\". After runs", "title": "Ralph Carter" }, { "id": "12333455", "text": "Jean Brodie\", Josephine Baker in \"C'est Bon\", and Blues Speak Woman in George C. Wolfe's \"Spunk\". She has received critical acclaim for her role as Billie Holiday in the musicals \"Sang Sista' Sang\" and \"Voices\", and Beneatha, in \"A Raisin in the Sun\". Her play, \"3 Women: A Dramatic Tribute to the Divas of Jazz and Blues\", which she co-wrote and starred in, has toured theaters both nationally and internationally. \"Bessie, Billie & Ruth\", the film she wrote, was chosen as the official selection at the Pan African Film Festival, and has been viewed on PBS stations across the nation.", "title": "Sweet Baby J'ai" }, { "id": "14865471", "text": "and Famous Poems Illustrated\". After being on the road with Don Elliott and Lionel Hampton, he attended Black Mountain College along with Josef Albers and Heinrich Jalowetz, and would later go to University of New Mexico along with Ernst Krenek. He also joined BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, and while paired with Robert Brittan, they would begin work on Lorraine Hansberry's play \"A Raisin In The Sun\". The result was \"Raisin\". It premiered May 30, 1973 at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and would move to Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre on October 18, 1973, transferred to", "title": "Judd Woldin" }, { "id": "10910738", "text": "Diana Sands Diana Sands (August 22, 1934September 21, 1973) was an American actress, perhaps most famous for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger, the sister of Sidney Poitier's character in the original stage and film versions of Lorraine Hansberry's \"A Raisin in the Sun\" (1961). She also appeared in a number of dramatic television series in the 1960s and 1970s such as \"I Spy\", as Davala Unawa in the 1967 \"The Fugitive\" episode \"Dossier on a Diplomat\", Dr. Harrison in the \"Outer Limits\" episode \"The Mice\", and \"Julia\". Sands also starred in the 1963 film \"An Affair of the Skin\" as", "title": "Diana Sands" }, { "id": "3041983", "text": "in the episode \"Christmas Joy\". In February 2008, Rashad portrayed \"Lena Younger\" in the television film adaptation of \"A Raisin in the Sun\", directed by Kenny Leon. Starring core members of the cast of the 2004 Broadway revival at the Royale Theatre of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play, including Audra McDonald as Ruth Younger, and Sean Combs as Walter Lee Younger. The television film adaption debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast by ABC on February 25, 2008. According to Nielsen Media Research, the program was watched by 12.7 million viewers and ranked #9 in the ratings for", "title": "Phylicia Rashad" }, { "id": "3279975", "text": "\"A Raisin in the Sun\", while working as a housepainter to earn his living. In 1964, he went to New York, teaching acting classes at the Harlem Youth Arts Program and appearing in Off-Broadway plays. In 1969, his theatrical breakthrough came in the Broadway play \"Ceremonies in Dark Old Men\". In 1970, appearing in Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning play \"No Place to Be Somebody\", he garnered even more attention, winning an Obie Award and several other prizes. From there, he moved on to cinema with two minor roles in \"Move\" (1970) and \"The Organization\" (1971), after which he was contacted", "title": "Ron O'Neal" }, { "id": "12784749", "text": "the word 'Ravivara' or Sunday in the Hindu calendar. In both Indian and Greek-Roman nomenclature for days of the week, the Sunday is dedicated to the Sun. Surya is part of the Navagraha in Hindu zodiac system. The Hindu astrology based on Sun and planets likely developed in the centuries Before the arrival of Greek astrology with Alexander the Great, their zodiac signs being nearly identical. Technical horoscopes and astrology ideas in India came from Greece, states Nicholas Campion, and developed in the early centuries of the 1st millennium CE. In the Buddhism of the Far East, Surya is one", "title": "Surya" }, { "id": "16515659", "text": "The Kesin hymn of the Rigveda is the earliest evidence of yogis and their spiritual tradition, states Karel Werner. The Hindu scripture Rigveda uses words of admiration for Kesins. The Keśin were lone ascetics, living a life of renunciation and wandering mendicants. Yāska (c. 500 BCE) offered several etymological meanings to Keśin, including the sun or the sun God \"Surya\". Sāyana (c. 14th century ACE) supported that view, followed by some early European Sanskrit scholars, including H. H. Wilson and M. Bloomfield. Hermann Oldenberg took the view that the Keśin Hymn described the \"orgiastic practices of the old Vedic times\"", "title": "Keśin" }, { "id": "6741689", "text": "to witnessing similar observations as at Fátima. Meessen also cites a \"British Journal of Ophthalmology\" article that discusses some modern examples of Sun Miracles. Prof. Dr. Stöckl, a meteorologist from Regensburg, also proposed a similar theory and made similar observations. Critics also suggest that a combination of clouds, atmospheric effects and natural sunlight could have created the reported visual phenomena. Steuart Campbell, writing for the edition of \"Journal of Meteorology\" in 1989, postulated that a cloud of stratospheric dust changed the appearance of the Sun on 13 October, making it easy to look at, and causing it to \"appear\" to", "title": "Miracle of the Sun" }, { "id": "4830420", "text": "106 of his 2015 book \"F.B. Eye\" that \"Harold Cruse\" was \"recruited as an undercover Communist Party informant (he proved willing to name names of onetime co-members, but nothing more).\" In the mid-1960s Cruse, along with LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka), founded the Black Arts Theater in Harlem. Cruse viewed the arts scene as a white-dominated misrepresentation of black culture, epitomized by George Gershwin's folk opera \"Porgy and Bess\" and Lorraine Hansberry's play \"A Raisin in the Sun\". Many believed Cruse was an opponent of \"integration\" which he referred to as \"assimilation\" because its policies were only geared towards integrating", "title": "Harold Cruse" }, { "id": "11250438", "text": "(named for the unrelated businessman Michael G. Foster). Growing up, Foster was often the only African-American student in any of her classes, but she credits her entrée into the entertainment world to her upbringing in the affluent suburb of Plano, Texas, where she ironically starred in her high school's production of \"A Raisin in the Sun\". Foster graduated from Stephens College, an historical women's college in Columbia, Missouri, an historically women's institution, with a bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism. She also attended St. Peter's College at Oxford University in England. Foster would eventually find herself in New York City, where", "title": "Karith Foster" }, { "id": "6741678", "text": "appeared to several times before 13 October 1917. According to the children's accounts, Mary, referred to as the Lady of Fátima, promised them she would perform a miracle to show people they were telling the truth, and so caused the crowds to see the Sun make \"incredible\" movements in the sky. Catholics have regarded Mary as a \"miracle worker\" for centuries, and this view has continued into the 21st century. Various theologians and apologetic scientists have discussed the limits of scientific explanations for the event and proposed possible mechanisms through which divine intervention caused the solar phenomenon. Fr Andrew Pinsent,", "title": "Miracle of the Sun" } ]

[ "Buddy Greene", "Mark Lowry" ]

[ { "id": "6188532", "text": "Mary, Did You Know? \"Mary, Did You Know?\" is a Christmas song with lyrics written by Mark Lowry and music written by Buddy Greene. It was originally recorded by Christian recording artist Michael English on his self-titled debut solo album in 1991 (English and Lowry were both members of the Gaither Vocal Band at the time). It reached No. 6 on CCM Magazine's AC Chart. Lowry would record the song several times himself, most notably with the Gaither Vocal Band on their 1998 Christmas album \"Still the Greatest Story Ever Told\". The song has since gone on to become a", "title": "Mary, Did You Know?" }, { "id": "6188533", "text": "modern Christmas classic, being recorded by many artists over the years across multiple genres. \"Mary, Did You Know?\" is originally in the key of E minor, with a tempo of 53 beats per minute based around a chord progression of Em–D–Am–B7sus4–B7 and is in the meter. A duet version recorded by Wynonna Judd and Kenny Rogers on Rogers' holiday album \"The Gift\" peaked at No. 55 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1997. Chart positions \"Mary, Did You Know?\" is Clay Aiken's fifth single for his Christmas album \"Merry Christmas with Love\". Aiken performed the song", "title": "Mary, Did You Know?" }, { "id": "11335802", "text": "near Carlisle, Pennsylvania, while touring with his college evangelistic team. He sustained eleven broken bones, and spent a good deal of time in physical therapy recovering from the accident. In 1984, Lowry wrote the lyrics to the song \"Mary, Did You Know?\", when asked to write a script for a church Christmas play. He wrote a series of questions that he would like to ask Mary, the mother of Jesus. These questions were used in between the scenes of the play. Over the next decade, Lowry tried to find music that would complete the song. Eventually, musician and songwriter Buddy", "title": "Mark Lowry" }, { "id": "6188536", "text": "criticize it for what they perceive as a lack of scriptural or theological depth. For example, Lutheran writer Holly Scheer, in addressing the rhetorical-question title of the song writes that those familiar with \"the biblical account of Christ’s conception and birth shouldn’t need to ask if Mary knew, because the Bible plainly tells us she did.\" Mary, Did You Know? \"Mary, Did You Know?\" is a Christmas song with lyrics written by Mark Lowry and music written by Buddy Greene. It was originally recorded by Christian recording artist Michael English on his self-titled debut solo album in 1991 (English and", "title": "Mary, Did You Know?" }, { "id": "6188535", "text": "for the week ending December 6, 2014. Chart positions In 2015, Jordan Smith performed the song on \"The Voice\"'s season nine finals. This version debuted and peaked at No. 24 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart and at No. 2 on the \"Billboard\" Holiday 100 chart on the week ending January 2, 2016. The song was also used as the basis for a stage musical, also titled \"Mary, Did You Know\" and written by Bruce Greer, that won the 1999 Dove Award for Musical of the Year. \"Mary, Did You Know?\" remains a popular piece of Christmas music, although some", "title": "Mary, Did You Know?" }, { "id": "11335807", "text": "with Bill Gaither and Phil Brower. Starting in March 2011, he has been a frequent co-host of the TV show \"Red Letter Christians\" with Tony Campolo. Lowry is single and has no children. He has a brother, sister, three nieces and three nephews. Mark Lowry Mark Alan Lowry (born June 24, 1958) is an American Christian singer, comedian, and songwriter. He is known for co-writing the song \"Mary, Did You Know?\" and being a member of the Gaither Vocal Band from 1988 to 2001, and 2009 to 2013, along with Michael English, David Phelps and Bill Gaither. Lowry has recorded", "title": "Mark Lowry" }, { "id": "11335800", "text": "Mark Lowry Mark Alan Lowry (born June 24, 1958) is an American Christian singer, comedian, and songwriter. He is known for co-writing the song \"Mary, Did You Know?\" and being a member of the Gaither Vocal Band from 1988 to 2001, and 2009 to 2013, along with Michael English, David Phelps and Bill Gaither. Lowry has recorded twelve albums, both music and comedy. Lowry was born in Houston, Texas, to Charles, an attorney, and Beverly Lowry. He often uses anecdotes of his young life in his comedy, as well as speaking of his experience with hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder", "title": "Mark Lowry" }, { "id": "6720896", "text": "Buddy Greene Buddy Greene (born October 30, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, guitar player and harmonica player. Most of his recordings consist of gospel music with a distinctly Southern gospel flavor. Much of his music is influenced by country music and bluegrass music. Greene grew up in Macon, Georgia. He has written the music for many songs and also co-wrote the Christmas song \"Mary, Did You Know?\" with Mark Lowry; Greene also wrote \"Recovering Pharisee\" recorded by Del McCoury, and \"He Is\" recorded by Ashley Cleveland. He is considered a harmonica legend by many, and once played a classical", "title": "Buddy Greene" }, { "id": "6720897", "text": "harmonica medley at Carnegie Hall. Buddy Greene Buddy Greene (born October 30, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, guitar player and harmonica player. Most of his recordings consist of gospel music with a distinctly Southern gospel flavor. Much of his music is influenced by country music and bluegrass music. Greene grew up in Macon, Georgia. He has written the music for many songs and also co-wrote the Christmas song \"Mary, Did You Know?\" with Mark Lowry; Greene also wrote \"Recovering Pharisee\" recorded by Del McCoury, and \"He Is\" recorded by Ashley Cleveland. He is considered a harmonica legend by many,", "title": "Buddy Greene" }, { "id": "12791545", "text": "Mary, Mary (song) \"Mary, Mary\" is a song written by Michael Nesmith. It was first recorded by The Butterfield Blues Band for their 1966 album, \"East-West\". The Monkees, featuring Nesmith, would later record the song themselves. The rap group, Run–D.M.C., revived the song in the late 1980s with a cover version that hit the R&B and pop charts in the United States. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was the first group to record and release the song commercially, featured as a track on their 1966 album \"East-West\". In addition to Butterfield, musicians to play on the track include Mike Bloomfield", "title": "Mary, Mary (song)" }, { "id": "6188534", "text": "on \"The Tyra Banks Show\". Chart positions \"Mary, Did You Know?\" is the eleventh track on Cee Lo's Christmas album \"Cee Lo's Magic Moment\". On December 15, 2012 the song appeared on the US R&B Songs chart at number 22. This version is the slowest of all. It also served as the closing credits song to the 2014 20th Century Fox movie \"Son of God\". Chart positions \"Mary, Did You Know?\" is the sixth track on Pentatonix's second Christmas album, \"That's Christmas to Me\". The song both debuted and peaked at No. 26 on the weekly \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart", "title": "Mary, Did You Know?" }, { "id": "7541170", "text": "Mary Jane (Rick James song) \"Mary Jane\" is a song by American funk singer Rick James. It was released in 1978 as the second single from his debut album \"Come Get It!\". The song peaked in the top five on the R&B charts in the United States in 1978. As one of his earliest hits as a solo artist, it is one of his most notable songs. It was composed by James, along with keyboardist Billy Nunn, who was credited for the keyboards, strings, background vocals, helping to compose the song, arranging flute parts, and other instrumentation work. \"Mary Jane\"", "title": "Mary Jane (Rick James song)" }, { "id": "12791546", "text": "and Elvin Bishop. No songwriter credit is listed for \"Mary, Mary\" on \"East-West\". On July 25, 1966, Nesmith produced and recorded the song for The Monkees at Western Recorders in Hollywood, California. Micky Dolenz sang lead, and Mike used the crack group of session musicians known as The Wrecking Crew to beef up their sound, including; James Burton, Glen Campbell, Al Casey, Hal Blaine, Jim Gordon, Michael Deasy and Larry Knechtel. Their version was released on the album \"More of the Monkees\" in 1967. The Monkees' \"Mary Mary\" was not released as a single in the USA in the 1960s,", "title": "Mary, Mary (song)" }, { "id": "12583783", "text": "peaked at number sixteen on the Adult Contemporary charts. In 1990, keyboardist Bob Baldwin covered this song from the album \"Long Way to Go.\" In the summer of 2002, R&B/Gospel duo Mary Mary also covered the song from their \"Incredible\" album. Their version was produced by Warryn Campbell. You Will Know \"You Will Know\" is a song written and recorded by American R&B singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder, taken from his 1987 \"Characters\" album. It is the opening track on the album, and is the second single from the album as well. This is Stevie Wonder's 20th and final number-one R&B hit", "title": "You Will Know" }, { "id": "6125050", "text": "Mary Mary Mary Mary are an American gospel duo composed of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell and Trecina Atkins-Campbell. Formed in 1998, Mary Mary was launched into mainstream recognition following the release of their best-selling debut album, \"Thankful\" (2000), which contained the hit single \"Shackles (Praise You)\". Their followup album \"Incredible\" (2002), reached number one on the Top Gospel Albums chart. Their third album, \"Mary Mary\" (2005), which contains themes the public interpreted as a channel to the group's experience, contains the worldwide hits \"Heaven\", \"The Real Party\", and \"Yesterday\". Their fourth album \"The Sound\" (2008) spawned the number-one singles \"Get Up\"", "title": "Mary Mary" }, { "id": "9441395", "text": "pursue a full-time writing and concert career. Bruce and longtime friend Keith Ferguson wrote a musical stage adaptation of the classic 1946 film It's A Wonderful Life which premiered at the Majestic Theatre (Dallas, Texas) on December 18, 1998 and was an annual Christmas show at the theatre for five years. It has since been performed at various regional and community theatres all across the United States. In 1999, Bruce was awarded a Dove Award for Musical of the Year for his musical, titled \"Mary, Did You Know\" based on the song of the same name by Mark Lowry and", "title": "Bruce Greer" }, { "id": "8079546", "text": "Mary (Scissor Sisters song) \"Mary\" is a song by American rock band, Scissor Sisters, and is the fourth track on their eponymous debut album (see 2004 in music). It was released as a single in October 2004 in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart. Jake Shears wrote \"Mary\" for his best friend, Mary Henlon, who died in April 2006 from a brain aneurysm. The video for the single was released in October 2004 and was considered a curio by fans. It was seen as a spoof of \"Rapunzel\" and other children's fairy tales. The", "title": "Mary (Scissor Sisters song)" }, { "id": "12706494", "text": "The Gift (Kenny Rogers album) The Gift is the twenty-seventh studio album and a holiday album by country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released in 1996 via Magnatone Records. The album features a rendition of \"Mary, Did You Know?\" featuring Wynonna Judd. This version of the song charted at No. 55 on Hot Country Songs in 1997. Giving it 2.5 out of 5 stars, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote that \"it does suffer from uneven material and the occasional indifferent performance. There are enough good moments here to make it worthwhile for hardcore Kenny fans, but not enough", "title": "The Gift (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "id": "16801570", "text": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment Cee Lo's Magic Moment is the first Christmas studio album and overall fourth studio album released by American recording artist Cee Lo Green on October 29, 2012 in the United Kingdom. It was released to the US on October 30 by Elektra Records. Green's versions of \"Mary, Did You Know?\" and \"What Christmas Means to Me\" peaked at numbers 22 and 23 on the December 22, 2012 R&B Songs chart in the United States. The album has sold 181,000 copies in the United States in 2012. It is Cee Lo Green's first solo album to not", "title": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment" }, { "id": "19175778", "text": "Season 9 Collection\" was released in December 2015, entering the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart at No. 11, earning \"Hot Shot Debut\" honors. Two tracks from the album debuted in the top ten on the Digital Singles chart; \"Mary, Did You Know?\" debuted at No. 1. Upon his return to Kentucky, Smith was named a Kentucky colonel by the secretary of state at a parade in Smith's honor. He was also named the 2015 \"Kentucky Monthly\" Kentuckian of the Year. Harlan County Judge-Executive Dan Mosley said Smith's win had a huge impact on an area that is struggling to rebuild its", "title": "Jordan Smith (musician)" }, { "id": "14246908", "text": "father's songs for the hit 1968 Broadway musical, \"George M!\". Like most of the Cohans, Mary was guarded about her private life. She married Neil Litt, an orchestra leader, in September 1927; they had one daughter and were later divorced. In 1940, she shocked her family by eloping with accordion player George Ronkin (aka Ranken). Not much more is known about her personal life. What is known is that Mary Cohan was adored by her larger-than-life father. The song \"Mary's a Grand Old Name,\" written by George M. Cohan for the Broadway musical \"Only 45 Minutes from Broadway\" and featured", "title": "Mary Cohan" }, { "id": "5454311", "text": "cords. Her first Christmas album, \"Good News\", came out in September 1993. It featured largely original compositions, plus renditions of the hymn \"Brightest and Best\" and the contemporary Christian tune \"Mary, Did You Know?\" Thom Jurek wrote of its sound, \"This doesn't feel like any Christmas record you've ever heard before...It sounds like a well-crafted, gorgeously wrought folk/country/Celtic-flavored Kathy Mattea record.\" This album won that year's Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album. Maher again served as producer, with further production from Reynolds on one track. Mattea released \"Walking Away a Winner\" in 1994. Produced by Josh", "title": "Kathy Mattea" }, { "id": "16052483", "text": "at number 2 on the \"Billboard\" 200, and number 4 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart. A single from the album, the group's cover of \"Mary, Did You Know?\", both debuted and peaked on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart at number 26, at number 7 on \"Billboard\"s Adult Contemporary chart, and at number 44 on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Hot 100 chart. Another single \"\"That's Christmas To Me\"\", the title track from the album, also peaked at number 8 on the \"Billboard\" Adult Contemporary chart. Pentatonix is also the first act to top both the Holiday Albums and Holiday Songs charts", "title": "Pentatonix" }, { "id": "6235513", "text": "Mary's Boy Child \"Mary's Boy Child\" is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston. It is widely performed as a Christmas carol. The song had its genesis when Hairston was sharing a room with a friend. The friend asked him to write a song for a birthday party. Hairston wrote the song with a calypso rhythm because the people at the party would be mainly West Indians. The song's original title was \"He Pone and Chocolate Tea\", pone being a type of corn bread. It was never recorded in this form. Some time later Walter Schumann, at the time", "title": "Mary's Boy Child" }, { "id": "15925114", "text": "Virgin Mary (song) \"Virgin Mary\" is a song by American singer Donna Summer, released in the Netherlands in 1975. It was written by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and produced by Bellotte. By 1975, Summer had been based in Munich, Germany for several years and had been working with European writers/producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte for some time. They had released her debut album, \"Lady of the Night\" in the Netherlands the previous year, and it had spawned two European hit singles - \"The Hostage\" and \"Lady of the Night.\" Earlier in 1975, a new single called \"Love To", "title": "Virgin Mary (song)" }, { "id": "12706495", "text": "to make it of interest to less dedicated listeners.\" Compiled from \"The Gift\" liner notes. Choir on \"A Soldier's King\", \"What a Wonderful Beginning\", \"It's the Messiah\", and \"The Chosen One Montage\": Lisa Cochran, Michael Eldred, James Ferguson, Stephanie Hall, Mark Ivey, Marabeth Jordan, Jana King, Ellen Musik, Louis Nunley, Guy Penrod, Lisa Silver, Dennis Wilson The Gift (Kenny Rogers album) The Gift is the twenty-seventh studio album and a holiday album by country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released in 1996 via Magnatone Records. The album features a rendition of \"Mary, Did You Know?\" featuring Wynonna Judd. This", "title": "The Gift (Kenny Rogers album)" }, { "id": "5065090", "text": "liturgy than in Roman Catholic liturgy. The Magnificat hymn (song of the Virgin Mary) is one of the eight most ancient Christian hymns and historian Marjorie Reeves states that it is perhaps the earliest Christian hymn. The Magnificat is named after the opening line in the 4th century Vulgate Bible, based on , and continues to be widely used to date by Roman Catholics, Anglicans and the Eastern Orthodox. Marian hymns are at times shared among different groups of Christians, or are influenced by other hymns. For instance, The second stanza of the Anglican hymn Ye Watchers and Ye Holy", "title": "Hymns to Mary" }, { "id": "6125069", "text": "program in Los Angeles, California. The following year, Warryn was ordained as a pastor. In 2015, the couple founded the California Worship Center, which meets in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. Mary Mary Mary Mary are an American gospel duo composed of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell and Trecina Atkins-Campbell. Formed in 1998, Mary Mary was launched into mainstream recognition following the release of their best-selling debut album, \"Thankful\" (2000), which contained the hit single \"Shackles (Praise You)\". Their followup album \"Incredible\" (2002), reached number one on the Top Gospel Albums chart. Their third album, \"Mary Mary\" (2005), which contains themes the public", "title": "Mary Mary" }, { "id": "6971190", "text": "Kern, the composer, said that the idea for the song came to him as he was sitting in the Express Dairies in Charing Cross Road. The waitress was called Mary. He started writing the song on a cigarette packet, took it to an orchestrator Arthur Parry and rushed to the Mile End Empire where he met Miller. He said to him that this song will do for you what ‘’Sally’’ did for Gracie Fields. Miller told him that he would meet him the next day outside the Express Dairies. They agreed a price and Miller bought the song for £4.", "title": "Mary from the Dairy" }, { "id": "19198912", "text": "Braxton Family Christmas Braxton Family Christmas is the first Christmas album, and second studio album overall, by R&B female group The Braxtons. The album was released on October 30, 2015, by Def Jam. \"Braxton Family Christmas\" consists of eight tracks, including three covers of Christmas standards and carols (\"This Christmas\", \"O' Holy Night\", and \"Mary, Did You Know?\"), three original songs (\"Every Day is Christmas\", \"Blessed New Year\", and \"Under My Christmas Tree\") and a cover of Wham!'s \"Last Christmas\". The Black Media reviewed the album in an article, \"The Braxton Family finally got it done. For Four years fans", "title": "Braxton Family Christmas" }, { "id": "12791548", "text": "being the only one to make it to the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number 75, and peaking at number 29 on the Hot Black Singles chart. Run-D.M.C. changed the line \"Mary, Mary, where ya' goin' to\" to \"Mary, Mary, why ya' buggin'\". Although Run-D.M.C. replaced Michael Nesmith's original lyrics with a new set of lyrics of their own, Nesmith was the only writer credited on Run-D.M.C.'s single. Run-D.M.C.'s version samples Micky Dolenz singing the title from the Monkees' recording. Mary, Mary (song) \"Mary, Mary\" is a song written by Michael Nesmith. It was first recorded by The Butterfield Blues", "title": "Mary, Mary (song)" }, { "id": "18217026", "text": "the group's cover of \"Mary, Did You Know?\", both debuted and peaked on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 at number 26, number 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and at number 44 on the Canadian Hot 100. The album's title track, \"That's Christmas to Me\", also peaked at number 8 on the Adult Contemporary chart. During the holiday season, seven songs from \"That's Christmas to Me\" charted on the \"Billboard\" Holiday Digital Songs chart: \"Mary, Did You Know?\" at number 1, \"White Winter Hymnal\" at number 2, \"Silent Night\" at number 5, \"Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy\" at number 8,", "title": "That's Christmas to Me" }, { "id": "838184", "text": "\"Jolly Holiday\" that clearly indicated that their friendship was purely platonic; some subtle hints of romance, however, did remain in the finished film. The film's music features music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman. The Shermans took inspiration from Edwardian British music hall music. Irwin Kostal adapted and conducted the film's score. Buena Vista Records released the original motion picture soundtrack in 1964 on LP and reel-to-reel tape. A number of other songs were written for the film by the Sherman Brothers and either rejected or cut for time. Richard Sherman, on the 2004 DVD release,", "title": "Mary Poppins (film)" }, { "id": "6931411", "text": "production has been rebroadcast several times on BBC Radio 4 Extra. On 14 September 2015, Disney announced a new \"Mary Poppins\" film was to be made, with a new plot and new songs, though in P.L. Travers' final will, another movie version was not to be made according to her wishes. The film is directed by Rob Marshall and written by David Magee. Songs are composed by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, who both received support from Richard Sherman, who, along with his late brother-collaborator Robert Sherman wrote the iconic song score of the original \"Mary Poppins\" film. Though the", "title": "Mary Poppins" }, { "id": "12583782", "text": "You Will Know \"You Will Know\" is a song written and recorded by American R&B singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder, taken from his 1987 \"Characters\" album. It is the opening track on the album, and is the second single from the album as well. This is Stevie Wonder's 20th and final number-one R&B hit single. Wonder performed the song along with R&B quartet Jodeci and Mary J. Blige on an episode of \"The Arsenio Hall Show\" in late 1992. In March 1988, the song reached number seventy-seven on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, number one on the R&B chart, \"You Will Know\" also", "title": "You Will Know" }, { "id": "7821666", "text": "Guy Fletcher (songwriter) Mervyn Guy Fletcher OBE (born 1944) is an English songwriter who, in partnership with Doug Flett, wrote several hits for other artists. As a singer, he had a small hit in the Netherlands and other European countries with the song, \"Mary in the Morning\" (1971). Fletcher is chairman of PRS for Music (formerly the Performing Right Society). Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, Fletcher was educated at Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School. He worked as a session singer for the record producer Joe Meek, and as a jazz trumpet player. After deciding to turn to songwriting, he met", "title": "Guy Fletcher (songwriter)" }, { "id": "6125056", "text": "\"Time To Change\" and \"Yeah\" were recorded by Yolanda Adams on \"Mountain High... Valley Low\". During this time, Mary Mary as a musical entity formed. The duo was subsequently signed to Columbia Records and decided to perform under the name Mary Mary, honoring Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Mary Magdalene. They were the first gospel act to record for the industry giant Columbia Records since Tramaine Hawkins in the mid-1990s. Their first single \"Shackles (Praise You)\" became a crossover hit; enticing gospel, R&B, and pop audiences. It ranked Top 5 in R&B, Top 10 for pop hit, and peaked", "title": "Mary Mary" }, { "id": "19194641", "text": "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging \"\" (English: \"Maria walks amid the thorns\", or \"Mary walked through a wood of thorn\") is a Christmas carol. By origin it was not an advent but a pilgrimage song that initially was spread verbally in the 19th century, starting in the catholic Eichsfeld. The earliest known printed version with seven stanzas was found in 1850 in the collection of hymns from August von Haxthausen and Dietrich Bocholtz-Asseburg. The real time of origin of the song is unclear. Occasionally this song is dated in the 16th century, which at least may not be proved. However,", "title": "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging" }, { "id": "12791547", "text": "although it was given away as a cut-out cereal box prize in 1969. Singles were released in several other countries including Australia where the local RCA release was a number five hit in 1968. \"Mary, Mary\" was featured in five episodes of the television series, \"The Monkees\", in 1966 and 1967. Run–D.M.C. covered \"Mary, Mary\" in a rap rock version, and it was released as a single from their fourth album, \"Tougher Than Leather\", in 1988. It was released by Profile Records and produced by the group along with Rick Rubin. It was their most successful single from the album,", "title": "Mary, Mary (song)" }, { "id": "17769167", "text": "features music written by the likes of Hoagy Carmichael, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini, Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields, Fats Waller, Jerome Kern, Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen, and many others,performed by the historical greats like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Billie Holiday, Bobby Darin, Dinah Washington as well as the more modern \"crooners\" like Steve Tyrell, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, Michael Feinstein, and established pop/rock and R&B artists crossing over into the genre, such as Sting, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Queen Latifah, Lady Gaga and", "title": "Martini In The Morning" }, { "id": "14939427", "text": "Mary's Prayer \"Mary's Prayer\" is a sophisti-pop song by the Scottish pop/rock group Danny Wilson. Included on the group's 1987 debut album \"Meet Danny Wilson\", \"Mary's Prayer\" would eventually become a Top Ten hit in the British Isles and also a Top 40 hit in the US. The song's composer, Gary Clark, said of \"Mary's Prayer\": \"I certainly don't think [it's] the best song on the album but it is probably the most accessible and therefore the best choice for a first single\". Clark had written \"Mary's Prayer\" while Danny Wilson was the house band at Dundee nightclub the Swamp", "title": "Mary's Prayer" }, { "id": "12467736", "text": "the name of Spencer Tracy. They signed to Virgin Records in 1986, and (after objections from the estate of Spencer Tracy) changed their name to Danny Wilson. The following year saw the release of the band's first album \"Meet Danny Wilson\". The first single, \"Mary's Prayer\", written by Clark, was a worldwide hit, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 23 on the United States \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, earning him a BMI award, and a nomination for an Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. A second album \"Bebop Moptop\" was released in 1989,", "title": "Gary Clark (musician)" }, { "id": "17621593", "text": "Mary Ann (Ray Charles song) \"Mary Ann\" is a song written and performed by Ray Charles and released in 1956 as a single on the Atlantic Records label. It was the third Ray Charles song to reach No. 1 on the \"Billboard\" Best Selling Rhythm & Blues chart. The song is set to a Latin beat, but switches into a swing rhythm, \"an alternation that adds fun for the dancers.\" It has been described as \"a sexy blues,\" and \"a lightly lascivious tune.\" The song was written about Mary Ann Fisher (1923–2004), a singer who had recently joined Charles' band", "title": "Mary Ann (Ray Charles song)" }, { "id": "19198919", "text": "US Heatseekers Albums on December 12, 2015 and has since peaked at number 1. The seasonal effort has sold 21,000 to date. The Braxtons performed \"Mary, Did You Know?\" and \"Under My Christmas Tree\" with their brother Michael Braxton Jr on the daytime talk show \"The Real\" on December 18, 2015. Braxton Family Christmas Braxton Family Christmas is the first Christmas album, and second studio album overall, by R&B female group The Braxtons. The album was released on October 30, 2015, by Def Jam. \"Braxton Family Christmas\" consists of eight tracks, including three covers of Christmas standards and carols (\"This", "title": "Braxton Family Christmas" }, { "id": "6933351", "text": "sides committed, a preliminary outline of the show was written in 2002. Around this time, songwriters George Stiles and Anthony Drewe heard about the project, and independently wrote a demo version of a new introductory song for the character of Mary, titled \"Practically Perfect\". They submitted the song to Mackintosh, and due to his positive response, were officially brought on to the creative team. Julian Fellowes was brought on to write the show's script because of his \"clear understanding of the social niceties of the English class system that prevailed in the Edwardian era\". An experienced production team was assembled,", "title": "Mary Poppins (musical)" }, { "id": "19549376", "text": "by the nature of Utah Lake and Provo Canyon. She sent the lyrics to Robert Sauer a leader of a German band, and a band director at Brigham Young University. He made various arrangements of the song for bands and quartets. The song was rejected by 14 publishers, until it was finally bought by Villa-Moret Inc. from San Francisco. She did not hear from him. She did, however, hear her lyrics in a song years later. She looked up the legend of the piece and saw that the lyrics had been attributed to T. Snow. Apparently Sauer had lost her", "title": "Mary Hale Woolsey" }, { "id": "6235514", "text": "conducting Schumann's Hollywood Choir, asked Hairston to write a new Christmas song for his choir. Hairston remembered the calypso rhythm from his old song and wrote new lyrics for it. Harry Belafonte heard the song being performed by the choir and sought permission to record it. It was recorded in 1956 for his album \"An Evening with Belafonte\". An edited version was subsequently released as a single, reaching No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1957. It was the first single to sell over one million copies in the UK alone. To date, Belafonte's version has sold over", "title": "Mary's Boy Child" }, { "id": "16801573", "text": "on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album has sold 225,000 copies in the US. Cee Lo's Magic Moment Cee Lo's Magic Moment is the first Christmas studio album and overall fourth studio album released by American recording artist Cee Lo Green on October 29, 2012 in the United Kingdom. It was released to the US on October 30 by Elektra Records. Green's versions of \"Mary, Did You Know?\" and \"What Christmas Means to Me\" peaked", "title": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment" }, { "id": "6749969", "text": "\"Mademoiselle Mabry\" for Miles Davis' album \"Filles de Kilimanjaro\". The Wind Cries Mary \"The Wind Cries Mary\" is a rock ballad written by Jimi Hendrix. According to his then girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham's, account, he wrote the lyrics after an argument with her, using \"Mary\" (Etchingham's middle name). In a later interview, Hendrix commented that the lyrics represent \"more than one person\". Billy Cox, Hendrix's long-time friend and later bassist, has noted Curtis Mayfield's influence on the song. Hendrix performed elements or an early version in the summer of 1966 with his band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in New", "title": "The Wind Cries Mary" }, { "id": "1355674", "text": "lyrics added—not always translated from the original, but newly created—sometimes as late as the early 20th century. Popular secular Christmas songs from mid-19th-century America include \"Jingle Bells\", \"Jolly Old Saint Nicholas\" and \"Up on the House Top\". More recent, copyrighted carols about the Nativity include \"I Wonder as I Wander\" (1933), \"Mary's Boy Child\" (1956), \"Carol of the Drum\" (\"Little Drummer Boy\") (1941), \"Do You Hear What I Hear?\" (1962), and \"Mary, Did You Know?\" (1984). Christmas music has been published as sheet music for centuries. One of the earliest collections of printed Christmas music was \"Piae Cantiones\", a Finnish", "title": "Christmas music" }, { "id": "18509401", "text": "Mary Had a Little Boy \"Mary Had a Little Boy\" is a 1990 song recorded by German Eurodance group Snap!. The song was released as the fourth and final single from their debut studio album, \"World Power\" in December 1990. The song's lyrics are based on the nineteenth century Nursery rhyme, \"Mary Had a Little Lamb\". The chorus includes the line \"Mary a little boy, little did she know and everywhere that Mary went, the little boy was sure to go\". The song was re-recorded and included on their in 2003, remix album, \"The Cult of Snap!\" featuring Milky &", "title": "Mary Had a Little Boy" }, { "id": "6749966", "text": "The Wind Cries Mary \"The Wind Cries Mary\" is a rock ballad written by Jimi Hendrix. According to his then girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham's, account, he wrote the lyrics after an argument with her, using \"Mary\" (Etchingham's middle name). In a later interview, Hendrix commented that the lyrics represent \"more than one person\". Billy Cox, Hendrix's long-time friend and later bassist, has noted Curtis Mayfield's influence on the song. Hendrix performed elements or an early version in the summer of 1966 with his band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames in New York City. The Experience recorded it at De Lane", "title": "The Wind Cries Mary" }, { "id": "2225338", "text": "Mary Had a Little Lamb \"Mary Had a Little Lamb\" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7622. The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830, and was possibly inspired by an actual incident. There are competing theories on the origin and inspiration of this poem. One holds that John Roulstone wrote the first four lines and that the final twelve lines, less childlike than the first, were composed by", "title": "Mary Had a Little Lamb" }, { "id": "14939428", "text": "soon after the group (then known as Spencer Tracy) formed in 1984. The song has been described as \"an extended Catholic metaphor\", although Clark has denied any intended religious significance in his composition: \"There is a lot of religious imagery in the song but that is really just a device to relate past present and future\"\"It is basically just a simple love song. In fact I like to think of it as being like a country and western song\". \"Mary's Prayer\" was released as a single three times between February 1987 and March 1988 in the UK, reaching number 3", "title": "Mary's Prayer" }, { "id": "18307502", "text": "of the songs from their two namesake EPs and four additional tracks, previously released as singles. A fourth EP\",\" \"PTX, Vol. III\", was released in September 2014. The group's second full-length Christmas album, \"That's Christmas to Me\" was released on October 21, 2014 and peaked at number 2 on the \"Billboard\" 200. A single from the album, the group's cover of \"Mary, Did You Know?\", both debuted and peaked on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 at number 26. In December 2014, \"That's Christmas to Me\" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and became the group's first accredited", "title": "Pentatonix discography" }, { "id": "10063362", "text": "Mary Don't You Weep \"Mary Don't You Weep\" (alternately titled \"O Mary Don't You Weep\", \"Oh Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn\", or variations thereof) is a Spiritual that originates from before the American Civil War – thus it is what scholars call a \"slave song,\" \"a label that describes their origins among the enslaved,\" and it contains \"coded messages of hope and resistance.\" It is one of the most important of Negro spirituals. The song tells the Biblical story of Mary of Bethany and her distraught pleas to Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead. Other", "title": "Mary Don't You Weep" }, { "id": "6125053", "text": "up closer to one another than to any of their siblings: Darrell Atkins (born 1965, the only living boy- the second boy died as a child), Maliea Atkins (born 1967), Erica (born 1972), Tina (born 1974), Delisa Atkins-Brown (born 1977), Thomasina Atkins (born 1978), Alana Atkins-Jamison (born 1985), and Shanta Atkins (born 1986). Later, they would work creatively with over half of their siblings; Thomasina, Alana, Delisa and Shanta Atkins all sing background on Mary Mary's albums and during stage performances and Delisa was originally a member of the group but left before they started recording professionally due to pursuing", "title": "Mary Mary" }, { "id": "6125057", "text": "at number 28 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart. It became the first gospel song in five years to crack the R&B top ten and gained wide exposure on MTV. Their debut album \"Thankful\" was released in May 2000; it peaked at number one on the Gospel Album Chart and climbed to 59 on the overall Top 200 chart. Overall, the album was certified Platinum for shipments of one million copies in the United States, it went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album. While the second single \"I Sings\" features rapper BB Jay, both", "title": "Mary Mary" }, { "id": "19847991", "text": "vocal performance (\"'Lift Up Your Eyes' ... can stand alongside holiday favorites thanks to a voice that catapulted Danny into the homes of millions\") and \"soulful sound.\" \"Lift Up Your Eyes\" entered the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs chart at number 39 on the chart dated December 12, 2015; it rose 15 positions the following week to reach number 24. The song peaked at number 17 on the chart dated January 9, 2016. During that week, Gokey placed three songs in the top 25 of the chart (\"Lift Up Your Eyes\"; his rendition of the holiday classic, \"Mary, Did You Know?\";", "title": "Lift Up Your Eyes" }, { "id": "2549147", "text": "the 16th century. The nursery rhyme has been referenced several times in popular culture. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary \"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary\" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19626. The most common modern version is: <poem>Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. </poem> The oldest known version was first published in \"Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book\" (1744) with", "title": "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" }, { "id": "651653", "text": "Mary Rodgers Mary Rodgers (January 11, 1931 – June 26, 2014) was an American composer, author and screenwriter. Rodgers was born in New York City. She was a daughter of composer Richard Rodgers and his wife, Dorothy Belle (née Feiner). She had a sister, Mrs. Linda Emory. She attended the Brearley School in Manhattan, and majored in music at Wellesley College. She began writing music at the age of 16 and her professional career began with writing songs for Little Golden Records, which were albums for children with three-minute songs. One of these recordings, \"Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves", "title": "Mary Rodgers" }, { "id": "9492802", "text": "Meet Danny Wilson Meet Danny Wilson was the debut album from the Scottish pop group Danny Wilson. It became a significant hit in America on the strength of the summer of 1987 hit single \"Mary's Prayer.\" All tracks composed by Gary Clark Note: These artists, as they appear in the album credits, are not listed with any specific instruments. However, if there is a specific instrument commonly associated with the musician, it is listed after the artist's name below. with: The recording of \"A Girl I Used to Know\" on the CD version is very different to the vinyl version.", "title": "Meet Danny Wilson" }, { "id": "6529918", "text": "Proud Mary \"Proud Mary\" is a rock n' roll song written by John Fogerty and first recorded by his band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song was released by Fantasy Records as a single from the band's second studio album, \"Bayou Country\", which was released by the same record company in January 1969. The single is generally considered to have been released in early January 1969, although at least one source states that it came out just before Christmas 1968. The song became a major hit in the United States, peaking at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in March 1969,", "title": "Proud Mary" }, { "id": "19191216", "text": "\"You Don't Know Anything\" received promotion by Atlantic Records after the former track was included on the soundtrack for the 1998 film, \"There's Something About Mary\". The recording received generally favorable reviews from music critics who compared the song to the works of Irish rock group My Bloody Valentine. \"You Don't Know Anything\" was written by Ivy band members Dominique Durand, Adam Schlesinger and Andy Chase. The production of the track was handled by Chase and Schlesinger, with additional production provided by Peter Nashel. Musically, \"You Don't Know Anything\" is a pop rock/indie rock song, also incorporating elements of indie", "title": "You Don't Know Anything" }, { "id": "2549145", "text": "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary \"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary\" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19626. The most common modern version is: <poem>Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. </poem> The oldest known version was first published in \"Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book\" (1744) with the following lyrics: <poem>Mistress Mary, Quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver", "title": "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" }, { "id": "6732283", "text": "Maria (West Side Story song) \"Maria\" is a song from the Broadway musical \"West Side Story\", sung by the lead character Tony. The music was written by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The song was published in 1956. \"Maria\" is sung by the male lead Tony when he learns the name of the girl he's fallen in love with is \"Maria\". The name \"Maria\" is spoken or sung in the song 29 times. It begins in B major and then modulates to E-flat major. The song is widely known for its use of the melodic interval of a", "title": "Maria (West Side Story song)" }, { "id": "7821672", "text": "and Liberty Fletcher, a community nurse. Guy Fletcher (songwriter) Mervyn Guy Fletcher OBE (born 1944) is an English songwriter who, in partnership with Doug Flett, wrote several hits for other artists. As a singer, he had a small hit in the Netherlands and other European countries with the song, \"Mary in the Morning\" (1971). Fletcher is chairman of PRS for Music (formerly the Performing Right Society). Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, Fletcher was educated at Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School. He worked as a session singer for the record producer Joe Meek, and as a jazz trumpet player. After deciding", "title": "Guy Fletcher (songwriter)" }, { "id": "5688745", "text": "Maria (Blondie song) \"Maria\" is a song by the American band Blondie, taken from their 1999 album \"No Exit\". The band's first single release since \"War Child\" in July 1982, \"Maria\" marked Blondie's return to the charts after an almost 17-year absence. It reached number one in the United Kingdom; Blondie's sixth UK chart-topper (and their first since 1980). \"Maria\" was written by the band's keyboardist Jimmy Destri, who had also penned some of their earlier hits such as \"Atomic\". A line from the song: \"...like a millionaire/walking on imported air\", was used in a previous Blondie track, \"Walk Like", "title": "Maria (Blondie song)" }, { "id": "14246907", "text": "Mary Cohan Mary Cohan (1909–1983), aka Mary Cohan Ronkin, a Broadway composer and lyricist, and the middle daughter of vaudeville and Broadway legend George M. Cohan. George's mother's middle name was Mary, and it is believed that his daughter was named after her. (Mary's mother was named Agnes Mary Nolan.) Following a brief career as a cabaret singer, Mary Cohan established herself as a Broadway talent in 1930, when she composed a score for her father's non-musical play \"The Tavern\". Working with writers John Pascal, Francine Pascal, and Michael Stewart, Mary Cohan supervised the musical and lyrical revisions of her", "title": "Mary Cohan" }, { "id": "6528771", "text": "by The Gap Band, Stevie Wonder, and First Choice respectively. The album was released in the United States on August 17, 1999, and in the United Kingdom on October 1, 1999. \"All That I Can Say\", \"Deep Inside\", \"Your Child\", and \"Give Me You\" were the albums commercial singles in the United States. \"As\"—Blige's collaboration with George Michael—was released as the lead single everywhere else worldwide. Three singles from the album charted on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100: \"All That I Can Say\" at number 44, \"Deep Inside\" at number 51, and \"Give Me You\" at number 68. All four United", "title": "Mary (Mary J. Blige album)" }, { "id": "17596716", "text": "arrangements of classic songs and the eponymous single written by Halperin. The album’s final cover, \"I'll Be Home for Christmas,\" features Hayley Orrantia on vocals. According to a review, \"\"Under That Christmas Spell\" is a six-song album that intermixes original tunes and classic covers. Halperin reinvented the hymn-like 'Mary Did You Know' by adding cello and redirecting the listener to the lyricism of the song. In his rendition of 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,' Halperin's sincerity bleeds through as his voice dances over minimalist guitar lines and dainty xylophone.\" Under that Christmas Spell Under that Christmas Spell is the", "title": "Under that Christmas Spell" }, { "id": "20843225", "text": "is included, along with the track \"Jesus and a Jukebox\" from 2016's \"Wynonna & the Big Noise\". The album also includes two duets previously unavailable on a Wynonna release; her duet \"A Bad Goodbye\" with Clint Black, and her Christmas single with Kenny Rogers, \"Mary, Did You Know?\". No songs were included from Wynonna's fifth studio album \"New Day Dawning\". All-Time Greatest Hits (Wynonna Judd album) All-Time Greatest Hits is the title of the third compilation album released by the American country music artist Wynonna Judd. It was released on August 10, 2018 via digital download and on streaming platforms.", "title": "All-Time Greatest Hits (Wynonna Judd album)" }, { "id": "6125062", "text": "one position on the \"Billboard's\" Gospel Album Chart for over six months since its release. Warryn Campbell produced the album and collaborated with many professionals: Kierra Sheard, David Banner, Marvin Winans, Daryl Coley, Andrae Crouch, The Rance Allen Group, Dorinda Clark Cole, Joe Ligon, Walter Hawkins, Tramaine Hawkins, and Karen Clark Sheard. In spring 2009, \"God In Me\" achieved crossover success by reaching number five on the R&B/Hip-Hop Chart and number one on the Hot Dance Club Play. The duo, along with Warryn Campbell, were nominated at the 52nd Grammy Awards in the Best Gospel Song category for \"God in", "title": "Mary Mary" }, { "id": "1383503", "text": "Peter, Paul and Mary Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon. The trio was composed of tenor Peter Yarrow, baritone Noel Paul Stookey and alto Mary Travers. The group's repertoire included songs written by Yarrow and Stookey, early songs by Bob Dylan as well as covers of other folk musicians. After the death of Travers in 2009, Yarrow and Stookey continued to perform as a duo under their individual names. Mary Travers said she was influenced by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and the Weavers.", "title": "Peter, Paul and Mary" }, { "id": "5456727", "text": "of Maria Danilova Gamentova (d. 1719), whose name is the Russian form of Hamilton. Otherwise, most versions of the song are set in Edinburgh, but Joan Baez sets her version, which is probably the best known, in Glasgow, ending with these words: This verse suggests Mary Hamilton was one of the famous \"Four Maries\". They were four girls named Mary who were chosen by the queen mother and regent Mary of Guise (1515–1560; widow of King James V) to be companion ladies-in-waiting to her daughter, the child monarch Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587, r. 1542-1567). But the fourth Mary among", "title": "Mary Hamilton" }, { "id": "3387660", "text": "Is The Time released 1996), Kenny Rogers (\"Mary, Did You Know?\" from his album The Gift released 1996), Huey Lewis & The News (\"I'm Not In Love Yet\" from their album Plan B released 2001), Kelly Price (\"Mary's Song\" from her album One Family: A Christmas Album released 2000), Eric Benét and Michael McDonald (\"Heart of America\" single released 2005), Natalie Grant (\"Bring It All Together\" from her album Awaken released 2005), Sam Moore (\"I Can't Stand The Rain\" from his album Overnight Sensational released 2006), Patti Labelle (\"My Everything\" from her album The Gospel According to Patti LaBelle released", "title": "Wynonna Judd" }, { "id": "12766658", "text": "Immaculate Mary Immaculate Mary or Immaculate Mother (French: Ô Vierge Marie) is a popular Roman Catholic Marian hymn. It is also known as the Lourdes Hymn, a term which also refers to the melody alone. It is often sung in honour of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The earliest version of the hymn was written in 1873 by French priest and seminary director Jean Gaignet, for pilgrims to the site of the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes. It was set to a traditional French tune and contained 8 verses; he later expanded it to 120 verses.", "title": "Immaculate Mary" }, { "id": "12194166", "text": "Goodbye (Mary Hopkin song) \"Goodbye\" is a song written by Paul McCartney (but credited to Lennon–McCartney) and performed by Mary Hopkin. It was released on 28 March 1969, and it reached No. 2 in the UK singles chart, prevented from reaching the top position by the Beatles' single \"Get Back\". In the US, released 7 April 1969, the song reached No. 13 on the singles chart. In the Netherlands and Ireland the single peaked at No. 1. The song was conceived as a follow-up to the success of Hopkin's first single, produced by McCartney, titled \"Those Were the Days\", which", "title": "Goodbye (Mary Hopkin song)" }, { "id": "1901753", "text": "Mary Lou Williams Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie. The second of eleven children, Williams was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A young", "title": "Mary Lou Williams" }, { "id": "11948419", "text": "choice of Lee Holdridge as the arranger and conductor, and saying that the songs \"are all natural reflections of Mary's outlook on life, love and herself and are handled by everyone connected with the album with delicacy and feeling.\" Album - \"Billboard\" (United States) Mary (Mary Travers album) Mary is the debut solo album by Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary. It was the most successful of the five solo albums she recorded between 1971 and 1978. The album was released on CD for the first time in 2008 as part of the \"Solo Recordings\" three-CD set released by", "title": "Mary (Mary Travers album)" }, { "id": "19175776", "text": "one of the best things I've ever seen in my entire life.\" Within 30 minutes, the single was the best selling song in the iTunes Store, knocking \"Hello\" from the top spot for a second time. \"Mary, Did You Know?\" was Smith's choice for the final competition show. It became his second consecutive performance to reach the top of the iTunes Store, bumping \"Hello\" a third time. For the results finale, Smith teamed up with Usher and sang David Guetta's \"Without You\". At the end of the broadcast, Smith was declared the winner of season nine, earning US$100,000 and a", "title": "Jordan Smith (musician)" }, { "id": "18183331", "text": "charts, the song peaked at #68 on the Hot 100 chart, reached the top 5 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart during their 43rd week, and went #1 on both the Dance Club Song and Hot Gospel Songs charts. Mary Mary had another popular song, Shackles (Praise You), released between 1999 and 2000, peaking at #9 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and #28 on the Hot 100 chart. Yolanda Adams is another popular R&B/Gospel singer, whose successes include four albums that reached the top 10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Billboard chart. Her album \"Mountain High, Valley Low\" was", "title": "Christian R&B" }, { "id": "10939253", "text": "Svika Pick Tzvika Pick (born 3 October 1949 or 1951) () is an Israeli pop singer and composer. Henrik Zvi (\"Tzvika\") Pick was born in Wrocław, Poland. He studied music at the Conservatoire of Ramat Gan and started to perform at age 15. Pick was married to Israeli songwriter Mirit Shem-Or. Shem-Or wrote the lyrics for many of Pick's hits, including \"Mary Lou\", which was about herself. They are divorced but continue to collaborate artistically. They have three children. Two of Pick's daughters have performed duos as the Pick Sisters. One of Pick's daughters, Daniella Pick, is married to director", "title": "Svika Pick" }, { "id": "20596566", "text": "2002 (song) \"2002\" is a song by English recording artist Anne-Marie. Co-written with Steve Mac, Ed Sheeran, Julia Michaels and Benjamin Levin, it was released on 20 April 2018 as the sixth single from Anne-Marie's debut studio album \"Speak Your Mind\" (2018). Other people officially credited as co-writers are Andreas Carlsson, George Clinton, El DeBarge, Randy DeBarge, Jay E, Ice-T, Etterlene Jordan, Kristian Lundin, Max Martin, Nelly, Alphonso Henderson, Jake Schulze and City Spud, due to co-writing or being sampled on one of the songs referenced in the chorus. <nowiki>\"2002\"</nowiki> peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, becoming", "title": "2002 (song)" }, { "id": "2225345", "text": "during Wings' 1972 summer tour and it was included in the Spring 1973 James Paul McCartney television special. It is commercially available on the 1993 CD issue of the band's \"Wild Life\" album. Note: This melody is the British version, which is slightly different from the American version. The song is used in: Mary Had a Little Lamb \"Mary Had a Little Lamb\" is an English language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7622. The nursery rhyme was first published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as a", "title": "Mary Had a Little Lamb" }, { "id": "5688749", "text": "bullet from the air and examines it as the surveillance systems are switched off. \"All tracks written by Jimmy Destri unless otherwise noted.\" UK CD 1 UK CD 2 UK CD 3 (promo only) UK Cassette US CD US 12\" 1 US 12\" 2 Mexico CD (promo only) Thailand CD (promo only) Maria (Blondie song) \"Maria\" is a song by the American band Blondie, taken from their 1999 album \"No Exit\". The band's first single release since \"War Child\" in July 1982, \"Maria\" marked Blondie's return to the charts after an almost 17-year absence. It reached number one in the", "title": "Maria (Blondie song)" }, { "id": "9260644", "text": "Hall Of Famer Charlie Black; Austin Roberts of \"I.O.U.\" fame; Mark Sameth; multiple CMA award winner Gene Pistilli; legendary Nashville writer David Malloy; Bill Holmes, Peggy Clinger; and with Michael Rashkow as his co-writer, he penned the 10,000,000+ seller and BMI Million Performance Award Winner, \"Mary In The Morning.\" With that song, John attained a lifetime ambition - to have one of his compositions recorded by Elvis Presley. George Tobin who together with Cymbal wrote and produced \"Cinnamon,\" his biggest pop production. George Tobin was a staff producer for Musicor Records and he and Cymbal formed a writing and production", "title": "Johnny Cymbal" }, { "id": "8760624", "text": "Mike Rashkow Michael Rashkow (July 18, 1941 - January 23, 2013) was an American songwriter and record producer. He wrote \"Mary in the Morning\" with Johnny Cymbal. It was recorded by Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell, Al Martino, Dire Straits's Guy Fletcher, and many other artists. He formed Pineywood Productions with Ellie Greenwich in the late 1960s. Among the artists they wrote for and produced were Dusty Springfield, The Daily News, The Definitive Rock Chorale, The Fuzzy Bunnies, The Whatnauts and The Other Voices as well as Ellie Greenwich. Their publishing arm, Pineywood Music, published their own material and songs by", "title": "Mike Rashkow" }, { "id": "8598476", "text": "Mary Love Mary Love (born Mary Ann Varney; July 27, 1943 – June 21, 2013), was an American soul and gospel singer, and Christian evangelist. After the 1980s she was known as Mary Love Comer. Love was born as Mary Ann Varney (or Mary Ann Allen, according to some sources), in Sacramento, California. After being discovered by Sam Cooke's manager, J. W. Alexander, she began singing on sessions in Los Angeles before recording \"You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet\" for the Modern record label in 1965. Later records for the label met with little success until the single \"Move a", "title": "Mary Love" }, { "id": "5296292", "text": "It was covered by R. Stevie Moore in 1986, The Manhattan Transfer on their 1995 album \"Tonin'\", and by 24-7 Spyz in 1996. The Bloodhound Gang released a version in 1997, writing new punk music to accompany the lyrics. It first appeared on the 1998 soundtrack to the film\" Half Baked\", before appearing on the Bloodhound Gang's album \"Hooray for Boobies\" the following year. The song reached No.5 in Austria, No. 6 in Germany and No. 13 in Switzerland, also reaching No. 13 on the German year-end charts. It was covered by German Blue Flames in 2001, The Guess Who", "title": "Along Comes Mary" }, { "id": "9542478", "text": "Mary (Supergrass song) \"Mary\" was the third and final single from the Britpop band Supergrass' eponymous third album. Released in November 1999, it reached a disappointing #36 on the UK Charts, their lowest charting single for 5 years. This was also the last Supergrass single to be released on cassette. Mary is written in the key of Cm. The verses and chorus both employ the same chord progression of G♯-F-Cm, with guitarist Gaz Coombes utilising single string lead breaks on the 5th (A) string with an E-bow. It is worth noting that the opening chord progression of the song bears", "title": "Mary (Supergrass song)" }, { "id": "651656", "text": "collaboration with Marshall Barer, he quit before the project was completed and the show's remaining songs feature lyrics by Larry Siegel (co-author of the show's book), Steven Vinaver, and Stephen Sondheim, who contributed the lyrics to a parody of \"The Girl from Ipanema\" called \"The Boy From...\" under the pseudonym Esteban Ria Nido. None of her other shows had the same level of success, but she also wrote music for musicals and revues, the first on Broadway being \"Davy Jones' Locker\" with Bil Baird's marionettes, which had a two-week run at the Morosco Theatre from March 28 to April 11,", "title": "Mary Rodgers" }, { "id": "9542480", "text": "children) and a girl drowning in a bathtub while blood spouts from the sink. The video was banned from television due to being \"too frightening\". An edited version was released, replacing the aforementioned scary scenes with pictures of onions. Mary (Supergrass song) \"Mary\" was the third and final single from the Britpop band Supergrass' eponymous third album. Released in November 1999, it reached a disappointing #36 on the UK Charts, their lowest charting single for 5 years. This was also the last Supergrass single to be released on cassette. Mary is written in the key of Cm. The verses and", "title": "Mary (Supergrass song)" }, { "id": "3222427", "text": "Ave maris stella Ave maris stella (Latin for \"Hail Star of the Sea\") is a plainsong Vespers hymn to Mary from about the eighth century. It was especially popular in the Middle Ages and has been used by many composers as the basis of other compositions. The creation of the original hymn has been attributed to several people, including Bernard of Clairvaux (12th century), Saint Venantius Fortunatus (6th century) and Hermannus Contractus (11th century). The text is found in 9th-century manuscripts, kept in Vienna and in the Abbey of Saint Gall. Its frequent occurrence in the Divine Office made it", "title": "Ave maris stella" }, { "id": "20242434", "text": "Mary Jane Queen Mary Jane Prince Queen (February 20, 1914 – June 29, 2007) was an American ballad singer and banjo player. She was once called a \"walking archive of mountain music\" for her knowledge of the traditional music of Appalachia. Queen was born in Jackson County, North Carolina, and lived in the Caney Fork area for much of her life. She was descended from some of the earliest settlers of the valley, and was of Irish extraction. Her father, Jim Prince, was a clawhammer banjo player, and she learned many songs from working with him; Her mother, Clearsie, was", "title": "Mary Jane Queen" }, { "id": "797494", "text": "split up before signing a record deal. Depp subsequently collaborated with the band Rock City Angels and co-wrote their song \"Mary\", which appeared on Rock City Angels' debut Geffen Records album \"Young Man's Blues\". On December 20, 1983, Depp married Lori Anne Allison, the sister of his band's bass player and singer. During their marriage she worked as a makeup artist while he worked a variety of odd jobs, including a telemarketer for pens. His wife introduced him to actor Nicolas Cage, who advised him to pursue an acting career. Depp and Allison divorced in 1985. Depp's first film role", "title": "Johnny Depp" }, { "id": "10328831", "text": "people’s place. The thing I like the most about it is that it has orchestra, strings, horns, real orchestra, its costs a lot of money to make.\" Editors at \"The Cincinnati Post\" wrote \"You might not be able to pick Clay Walker out of a lineup of second-tier country singers, but don't overlook this CD. Producer Jim Ed Norman paid careful attention to instrumentation, expertly meshing oboe, harp and everything else at his disposal with Walker's toned-down twang. Highlights include a heartfelt \"Mary Did You Know\" and a spirited \"Go Tell It on the Mountain\" with hand- clapping gospel choir", "title": "Christmas (Clay Walker album)" }, { "id": "7811642", "text": "Tandyn Almer Tandyn Douglas Almer (July 30, 1942 – January 8, 2013) was an American songwriter, musician, and record producer who wrote the 1966 song \"Along Comes Mary\" for the Association. He also wrote, co-wrote, and produced numerous other songs performed by artists such as the Beach Boys, the Purple Gang, the Garden Club, and Dennis Olivieri. In the early 1970s, he was a close friend of Brian Wilson, collaborating on the Beach Boys' songs \"Marcella\" (1972) and \"Sail On, Sailor\" (1973). Almer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended a music conservatory in Minnesota and became fascinated with the", "title": "Tandyn Almer" }, { "id": "8760626", "text": "Sounds On Broadway, National Recording and Broadway Recording. His first songwriting partner was Mikie Harris, a noted NYC background singer of the 1960s who was later assistant to John Hammond. Rashkow and Harris married in 1966 and had two children, Randy and Roger (Duke). Though signed as staff writers to Pamco Music, the BMI wing of ABC-Paramount Records, they were not successful as a writing team. Rashkow began writing with his friend Johnny Cymbal, whom Rashkow had brought to ABC from Cymbal's previous staff position at South Mountain Music, the Don Costa/Teddy Randazzo firm. They soon wrote \"Mary in the", "title": "Mike Rashkow" }, { "id": "10887838", "text": "song, and they allowed him to do so because \"if you tell a story in a song, it's so much better.\" When writing the lyric, Hammerstein knew he needed adjectives for the nuns to describe Maria. He admitted that his vocabulary was never big, but the simple adjectives he used to describe Maria's character proved a success. Maria (Rodgers and Hammerstein song) \"Maria\", sometimes known as \"How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?\" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, \"The Sound of Music.\" This song is sung by the nuns at Nonnberg Abbey, who", "title": "Maria (Rodgers and Hammerstein song)" } ]

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[ { "id": "20035472", "text": "Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight (born December 31, 1999) are American social media entertainers, musicians, and entrepreneurs. They are twin sisters. The Texas-based identical twins originally surfaced on YouTube in 2009 as models for their mother Mindy McKnight’s DIY channel \"Cute Girls Hairstyles\", a video series of hair design tutorials. In 2013 the twins launched their own YouTube channel, \"Brooklyn and Bailey\", with a focus on teen interests, fashion, beauty, and \"all things fun\". In 2015 the twins were listed by \"Business Insider\" as one of \"13 up-and-coming YouTube stars you should be following\", and their YouTube", "title": "Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight" }, { "id": "20035475", "text": "Texas. Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight (born December 31, 1999) are American social media entertainers, musicians, and entrepreneurs. They are twin sisters. The Texas-based identical twins originally surfaced on YouTube in 2009 as models for their mother Mindy McKnight’s DIY channel \"Cute Girls Hairstyles\", a video series of hair design tutorials. In 2013 the twins launched their own YouTube channel, \"Brooklyn and Bailey\", with a focus on teen interests, fashion, beauty, and \"all things fun\". In 2015 the twins were listed by \"Business Insider\" as one of \"13 up-and-coming YouTube stars you should be following\", and their", "title": "Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight" }, { "id": "20035473", "text": "channel was nominated for a Streamy Award in the Fashion category. In November 2015, the sisters launched \"Squared\", a YouTube channel and daily web series described by \"Variety\" as being \"dedicated to all things twins\". Seven sets of twins from North America, the UK, and Australia contribute episodes to the series. In early 2017, Brooklyn and Bailey announced their entrance into the music industry. The pair partnered with music producer Benny Cassette, and their first track, “Dance Like Me\", debuted March 3, 2017. The track charted at #26 for most popular song and #12 for pop US song on iTunes.", "title": "Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight" }, { "id": "20035474", "text": "On April 28, 2017, the twins released their second single, \"Simple Things\". They released their third song \"What We're Made Of\" July 13, 2017. Brooklyn and Bailey had previously collaborated with Peter Hollens for a cover of Lennon and Maisy's \"A Life That's Good\" in August 2015. In 2017 the twins also launched their own merchandise line, and they were on \"Forbes\" list of Top Influencers – Kids. In 2018 they were finalists in the YouTube Musician category for the 10th annual Shorty Awards. In April 2018, they both announced that they were going to attend Baylor University in Waco,", "title": "Brooklyn and Bailey McKnight" }, { "id": "17287623", "text": "airing \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\", and has continued to broadcast the show simultaneously with the American broadcast since the third season (\"Hometown Hockey\" was moved to Sportsnet in 2015). In the United Kingdom, the show premiered on E4 in January 2014. The second season debuted on January 15, 2015, the third began on January 7, 2016 and the fourth on January 5, 2017. The series airs on RTÉ Two in Ireland. In New Zealand, \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" premiered on TV2 on February 13, 2014. In South Asia, \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" airs on Comedy Central India. In Australia, it premiered on SBS on July 28,", "title": "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" }, { "id": "17287624", "text": "2014, and airs repeats on Universal Channel from January 7, 2015. It moved to SBS 2 in 2015 commencing with the second season, which premiered on March 3, 2015. It has now moved to SBS VICELAND, currently airing on Sundays at 7:30pm. In December 2014, Netflix UK added the first season of \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" to its listings, with Netflix Australia following suit in March 2015. Since 2016 Netflix Germany/Austria/Switzerland carries the first season in both English and German audio. In South East Asia and Sri Lanka, \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" airs right after the U.S. on Diva. Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine is", "title": "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" }, { "id": "18397536", "text": "the service, explained that the service was meant to mitigate profits lost due to the use of ad blocking. YouTube Red was officially unveiled on October 21, 2015. On May 18, 2016, YouTube Red and YouTube Music launched in Australia and New Zealand, the first countries to gain access to the service outside the United States. On August 3, 2016, YouTube Red support was added to the YouTube Kids app. Later that month the service launched in Mexico . On December 6, 2016, YouTube Red expanded to South Korea. On May 17, 2018 YouTube announced the upcoming rebranding of the", "title": "YouTube Premium" }, { "id": "12728347", "text": "Debby Ryan Deborah Ann Ryan (born May 13, 1993) is an American actress and singer. Ryan started acting in professional theatres at the age of seven, and was later discovered in a nationwide search by Disney Channel. From 2008 to 2011, she starred as Bailey Pickett on \"The Suite Life on Deck\" and appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movie \"16 Wishes\" (2010), which was the most watched cable program the day of its premiere. Ryan also appeared in the independent theatrical film \"What If...\" (2010). From 2011 to 2015, Ryan starred as the titular character on the Disney Channel", "title": "Debby Ryan" }, { "id": "6756841", "text": "over-the-top MVPD-style subscription service that would be available for United States customers at a price of US$35 per month. Initially launching in five major markets (New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco) on April 5, 2017, the service offers live streams of programming from the five major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC), as well as approximately 40 cable channels owned by the corporate parents of those networks, The Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation, 21st Century Fox, NBCUniversal and Turner Broadcasting System (including among others Bravo, USA Network, Syfy, Disney Channel, CNN, Cartoon Network,", "title": "YouTube" }, { "id": "6804355", "text": "various references and actions showing how much the young boys feel as Americans. The cast was led by Marion Ross; Art Garfunkel performed the theme song, which was titled \"Just Over the Brooklyn Bridge.\" In 1997, \"When Irish Eyes Are Smiling\" was ranked #46 on \"TV Guide\"s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. Gary David Goldberg had announced on his official website that CBS Home Entertainment (with distribution by Paramount Home Entertainment) would release the complete series of \"Brooklyn Bridge\" on DVD in Region 1 in the middle of May 2010. However, the DVD was later delayed indefinitely. Brooklyn Bridge", "title": "Brooklyn Bridge (TV series)" }, { "id": "7241423", "text": "Ben Bailey Benjamin Ray Bailey (born October 30, 1970) is an American comedian, licensed taxi cab driver, and Emmy Award winning game show host and executive producer for Discovery Channel's \"Cash Cab\" in New York City. Bailey was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky and raised in Chatham, New Jersey. He was born the younger of two siblings. He attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, before moving to Los Angeles in 1993. Standing at , he was offered a job as a bouncer for The Comedy Store after bumming a cigarette from a man in the parking lot. According to", "title": "Ben Bailey" }, { "id": "7241424", "text": "Bailey, he was telling stories with some comedians after hours at The Comedy Store when Skip E. Lowe, who was emceeing at the club, found his stories humorous and offered him an opportunity at stand-up. Bailey is the host of the American version of \"Cash Cab\", a TV game show played in a taxicab that Bailey drives around New York City, broadcast on the Discovery Channel. He also recently made an appearance on the new Shovio.com's \"TalkBackTV\". He narrated the Discovery Channel's series \"Smash Lab\". From 2011 to 2012, Bailey was the host of \"Who's Still Standing?\" on NBC. On", "title": "Ben Bailey" }, { "id": "7062034", "text": "15, with \"Sleep\" its B-side. In June and July, the band toured with Angels & Airwaves. On July 23 the music video for \"Twenty-Twenty Surgery\" was released, directed by Jay Martin, and on August 28 it was released as a single with \"Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something)\" its B-side. \"Liar (It Takes One to Know One)\" was released to radio on September 19. A music video for the song, directed by Tony Petrossian, was released on September 29. In October and November the group was part of the 2006 Taste of Chaos tour, visiting New Zealand and Europe.", "title": "Louder Now" }, { "id": "2657211", "text": "the channel is being distributed in Canada while international versions were launched for Australia, Latin America, and Europe. A&E launched on February 1, 1984, initially available to 9.3 million cable television homes in the U.S. and Canada. The network is a result of the 1984 merger of Hearst/ABC's Alpha Repertory Television Service (ARTS) and (pre–General Electric merger) RCA-owned The Entertainment Channel. When A&E debuted, the channel took over the satellite transponder timeslot that ARTS occupied from its launch in 1981. Children's television channel Nickelodeon signed off just before 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and A&E took over at 9:00 p.m. with", "title": "A&E (TV channel)" }, { "id": "12728350", "text": "guest character in \"Barney: Let's Go to the Firehouse\", she played the role of a teenager. She appeared in several commercials for iDog and various board games; she was in an iDog Dance commercial in 2008. Ryan also had a major role in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film \"The Longshots\" as Edith. Ryan played one of the main characters, Bailey Pickett, on the Disney Channel Original Series, \"The Suite Life on Deck\", which is a sequel to the hit Disney Channel series, \"The Suite Life of Zack & Cody\". The series's pilot aired on September 26, 2008 in the United States", "title": "Debby Ryan" }, { "id": "20134788", "text": "Universal Kids Universal Kids (originally PBS Kids Sprout and later simply Sprout) is an American pay television channel owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel was launched on September 26, 2005. The network was first launched as a joint venture between PBS, Comcast, Sesame Workshop, and HiT Entertainment devoted to children's television programming aimed at a preschool audience. Following Comcast's purchase of NBCUniversal, the company gradually bought out the remaining owners' shares in the channel, reaching full ownership in 2013. The network's operations were subsequently relocated from Philadelphia to New York City and", "title": "Universal Kids" }, { "id": "13868160", "text": "\"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" (which moved to Sunday night for its second season), freshman series \"Mulaney\" (which was canceled in early 2015), and, as of March 2015, the Will Forte sitcom, \"The Last Man on Earth\". This marks the first time that the network has regularly aired live-action comedies on Sundays (outside of burn-offs of failed weeknight series) since 2005. International Fox-branded networks, such as Australia's Fox8, and the Fox cable networks in Italy, Bulgaria and Spain carry local versions of the block dubbed into local languages. In New Zealand, FOUR runs a two-hour animated block on Thursday nights named \"Animation Station\"", "title": "Animation Domination" }, { "id": "16905327", "text": "PrankvsPrank PrankvsPrank, also known as \"PvP\", is a YouTube channel created by Jesse Michael Wellens and his then-girlfriend Jennifer \"Jeana\" Smith. In 2007, the two began to play pranks on each other and post videos of the pranks on websites, eventually forming a channel on YouTube. The channel has more than 1.8 billion video views and more than 10.2 million subscribers as of February, 2017. After Wellens and Smith split in May 2016, Wellens became the sole user of the channel. Wellens had filmed Smith attempting the cinnamon challenge and posted a video on the Internet, starting the serial pranking", "title": "PrankvsPrank" }, { "id": "6804354", "text": "Brooklyn Bridge (TV series) Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in the middle 1950s. The premise was partially based on the childhood of executive producer and creator Gary David Goldberg. \"Brooklyn Bridge\" won a Golden Globe for Best Television Comedy or Musical and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1992. Throughout the TV show there are various references betraying the fact that the family are from Poland/Russia and that they are Jews. Also, there are", "title": "Brooklyn Bridge (TV series)" }, { "id": "17287616", "text": "and Bergen Street, one block south of the Barclays Center and one block east of the Bergen Street station on the New York City Subway's . On May 10, 2018, Fox canceled the series after five seasons. Shortly afterward, there were announcements that negotiations had begun with Hulu, TBS, NBC and Netflix for the possibility of reviving the show for a sixth season. The next day, TVLine reported Hulu had already passed on the series. Shortly after, Goor announced that NBC would pick up the series for thirteen episodes. In a statement, NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt expressed regret for", "title": "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" }, { "id": "19388600", "text": "author and digital pioneer. Undergaro is creator of the aforementioned AfterBuzz TV, which has become the world's largest online broadcasting network. In 2015 ABTV reached one billion downloads for the second consecutive year. He has also created Black Hollywood Live, The Popcorn Talk Network, and Book Circle Online. Undergaro co-created and works as executive producer, along with Julianne Hough and Maria Menounos, on the ABC series America's Dance Battle. As for film, Undergaro wrote and directed indie comedy The Adventures of Serial Buddies, as well as served as producer on the acclaimed Netflix hit This Isn't Funny. He notably produced", "title": "Keven Undergaro" }, { "id": "9019347", "text": "Ha! (TV channel) Ha!, owned by Viacom, was one of the first American all-comedy channels available to basic cable subscribers. Launched on April 1, 1990 at 7 p.m. ET, it competed with another startup comedy-oriented cable channel, HBO-owned The Comedy Channel. In 1991, the two channels merged to form Comedy Central. MTV Networks had carved out a niche for itself in the cable programming marketplace throughout the 1980s with its flagship networks MTV and Nickelodeon. Up until that point, there had been only one instance of competition among genres in the cable industry, that of Ted Turner launching a rival", "title": "Ha! (TV channel)" }, { "id": "2657209", "text": "A&E (TV channel) A&E is an American pay television channel. It is the flagship television property of A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and Disney–ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in New York City and operates offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; London, United Kingdom; Los Angeles, California and Stamford, Connecticut. The network was originally founded in 1984 as the Arts & Entertainment Network, initially focusing on fine arts, documentaries (including its then-flagship series \"Biography\"), and dramas (including imported series from the United Kingdom). In 1995, the network", "title": "A&E (TV channel)" }, { "id": "17313432", "text": "Fox Searchlight Pictures. Fox Searchlight Pictures prevailed, acquiring the distribution rights for US and other multiple territories for $9 million. The deal was one of the biggest to ever come out of Sundance. It was selected to be shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The film opened in a limited release in the United States on 4 November 2015, before opening in a wide release on 25 November 2015. \"Brooklyn\" received a standing ovation following its premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an", "title": "Brooklyn (film)" }, { "id": "802214", "text": "was co-created by Marvel Entertainment, a sister company to NBA broadcasters ABC and ESPN. The character also starred in 32-page comic book published by Marvel titled \"BrooklyKnight #1\", written by Jason Aaron with art by Mike Deodato. After the Nets' second season in Brooklyn, the BrooklyKnight mascot was retired. On November 3, 2012, the Nets introduced a new team anthem titled \"Brooklyn: Something To Lean On\", written and recorded by Brooklyn-born musician John Forté. The song is notable for its refrain, which features the \"Brooklyn\" chant that has been popular with fans in the Barclays Center. The Nets' front office", "title": "Brooklyn Nets" }, { "id": "16905331", "text": "this break. Wellens announced he would be moving to New York, with Smith remaining in Philadelphia. PrankvsPrank PrankvsPrank, also known as \"PvP\", is a YouTube channel created by Jesse Michael Wellens and his then-girlfriend Jennifer \"Jeana\" Smith. In 2007, the two began to play pranks on each other and post videos of the pranks on websites, eventually forming a channel on YouTube. The channel has more than 1.8 billion video views and more than 10.2 million subscribers as of February, 2017. After Wellens and Smith split in May 2016, Wellens became the sole user of the channel. Wellens had filmed", "title": "PrankvsPrank" }, { "id": "5131086", "text": "Channel 101 NY Channel 101:NY, formerly known as Channel 102, is a monthly live screening of five-minute-long \"TV shows\" in New York City, created by Tony Carnevale, with the blessings of Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab. Harmon and Schrab created Channel 101, the Los Angeles-based show that inspired Channel 101:NY. Channel 101:NY launched on February 3, 2005 as Channel 102 at the Variety Underground showcase at the Parkside Lounge. For that debut screening, all pilots that were submitted which met the five-minute maximum length were accepted . Eleven were shown, and the top five became the first \"prime time\" shows", "title": "Channel 101 NY" }, { "id": "12365957", "text": "CBBC (TV channel) CBBC (short for Children's BBC) is a British free-to-air children's television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Launching on 11 February 2002 as a spin-off from the BBC's children's strand of the same name, CBBC broadcasts for fourteen hours per-day from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. CBBC is primarily aimed at viewers 6 to 12 years old; a sister channel known as CBeebies serves a younger audience. CBBC was named \"Channel of the Year\" at the Children's BAFTA awards in November 2008 and 2015. The channel averages 300,000 viewers daily. The channel originally shared bandwidth on", "title": "CBBC (TV channel)" }, { "id": "12546764", "text": "News, BBC World News, The Smithsonian Channel (a venture by CBS-owned Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution); Sundance TV (owned by AMC Networks); numerous sports channels; The Disney Channel (owned by The Walt Disney Company); and BBC America (jointly owned by AMC Networks and BBC Studios). YouTube TV members also have access to YouTube Premium original movies and shows (although a YouTube Premium subscription is not included with YouTube TV). Also in 2017, YouTube added Major League Baseball (MLB.tv) and regional deals with the Seattle Sounders and Los Angeles FC of Major League Soccer. YouTube TV subscribers can save TV", "title": "YouTube TV" }, { "id": "6756811", "text": "simplified user interface, curated selections of channels featuring age-appropriate content, and parental control features. Later on August 26, 2015, YouTube launched YouTube Gaming—a video gaming-oriented vertical and app for videos and live streaming, intended to compete with the Amazon.com-owned Twitch. In October 2015, YouTube announced YouTube Red (now Youtube Premium), a new premium service that would offer ad-free access to all content on the platform (succeeding the Music Key service released the previous year), premium original series and films produced by YouTube personalities, as well as background playback of content on mobile devices. YouTube also released YouTube Music, a third", "title": "YouTube" }, { "id": "11149001", "text": "pegged that number at no more than $174 million. In May 2013, YouTube launched a pilot program to begin offering some content providers the ability to charge $0.99 per month or more for certain channels, but the vast majority of its videos would remain free to view. History of YouTube YouTube was created by PayPal employees as a video-sharing website where users could upload, share and view content. The Internet domain name \"codice_1\" was activated on Monday, February 14, 2005, at 9:13 p.m. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, when they worked for PayPal. Prior", "title": "History of YouTube" }, { "id": "2657230", "text": "Entertainment. The network is available in the format on most subscription systems. A&E (TV channel) A&E is an American pay television channel. It is the flagship television property of A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and Disney–ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in New York City and operates offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; London, United Kingdom; Los Angeles, California and Stamford, Connecticut. The network was originally founded in 1984 as the Arts & Entertainment Network, initially focusing on fine arts, documentaries (including its then-flagship series \"Biography\"), and", "title": "A&E (TV channel)" }, { "id": "9019352", "text": "of) bought out Time Warner's (which had belonged to HBO, which operated The Comedy Channel) half of the network in 2003. Ha! (TV channel) Ha!, owned by Viacom, was one of the first American all-comedy channels available to basic cable subscribers. Launched on April 1, 1990 at 7 p.m. ET, it competed with another startup comedy-oriented cable channel, HBO-owned The Comedy Channel. In 1991, the two channels merged to form Comedy Central. MTV Networks had carved out a niche for itself in the cable programming marketplace throughout the 1980s with its flagship networks MTV and Nickelodeon. Up until that point,", "title": "Ha! (TV channel)" }, { "id": "17287615", "text": "NBCUniversal, where Schur had a development deal. NBC passed, and the duo sold the show to Fox. On May 8, 2013, Fox placed a thirteen-episode order for the single-camera ensemble comedy. On October 18, 2013, the series was picked up for a full season of 22 episodes, and was later chosen to air with \"New Girl\" in a \"special one-hour comedy event\" as the Super Bowl XLVIII lead-out programs. The exterior view of the fictional 99th Precinct building, complete with numerous NYPD vehicles parked in front of it, is the actual 78th Precinct building at the corner of Sixth Avenue", "title": "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" }, { "id": "20451673", "text": "music. Towards the later part of 2016, they released their single \"Brooklyn\", which became a breakthrough hit. The song classed as them as a whole new kind of indie pop band and critics have claimed the song to be \"their compulsively danceable brand of indie-pop\", which defined them as a band. The song also achieved countless streams and was advertised and promoted on YouTube. Prior to the release of the song, they embarked on their 2016 headlining tour, which began on 18 November – 1 December 2016. After the release of the single and into 2017, the band said that", "title": "You Are Someone Else" }, { "id": "12728366", "text": "brand and revealed that she has been looking into designers and interviewing brands she might like to work with. Debby Ryan Deborah Ann Ryan (born May 13, 1993) is an American actress and singer. Ryan started acting in professional theatres at the age of seven, and was later discovered in a nationwide search by Disney Channel. From 2008 to 2011, she starred as Bailey Pickett on \"The Suite Life on Deck\" and appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movie \"16 Wishes\" (2010), which was the most watched cable program the day of its premiere. Ryan also appeared in the independent", "title": "Debby Ryan" }, { "id": "15668127", "text": "2016, despite continued good reception and strong viewership. In March 2018, Canadian TV remade the series as The Detail but the show was axed after just one season. \"Scott & Bailey\" was commissioned after the concept was introduced to executive producer Nicola Shindler, who brought it to writer Sally Wainwright. The series is produced by Manchester-based Red Production Company and is largely filmed in the Greater Manchester area. \"Scott & Bailey\" is based on an original idea by Suranne Jones and Sally Lindsay, with Jones commenting that there needed to be more roles for women \"that weren't wife-of, sidekick-to, mother-of,", "title": "Scott & Bailey" }, { "id": "4686243", "text": "who study our planet's 'last frontier'). It also produces several documentaries about the South Florida area; projects in development include \"Stranahan House\", \"Florida’s State Parks\", \"Into the Wild\" and \"Lost in Florida\". Since January 1, 1993 (two months after the 24th season of \"Sesame Street\", nine months after the debut of \"Barney & Friends\" and a year after the debut of \"Lamb Chop's Play-Along\"), WPBT got its very own children's programming block called \"KidVision\". WPBT WPBT, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 18), is a non-commercial educational, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Miami, Florida, United States.", "title": "WPBT" }, { "id": "10890927", "text": "on November 6, 1981 as PRISM New England. A spin-off of the Philadelphia-based film and sports-oriented premium service PRISM, it was founded by that channel's parent company, Spectacor. Along with carrying entertainment programming, the network also served as the cable television home for the NHL's Hartford Whalers and the NBA's Boston Celtics, as well as various college sports teams. In late 1982, Spectacor sold PRISM New England to Cablevision Systems Corporation. On January 1, 1983, the network was rebranded as SportsChannel New England, becoming the second network of what would become the SportsChannel group (after SportsChannel New York). On June", "title": "NBC Sports Boston" }, { "id": "11957634", "text": "He blogs at http://www.chetcannon.com/ and continues to work in improv and with MTV. Cannon hosted after shows for \"\" and \"\". He got married in 2014. Kat Cusanelli speaks across college campuses on LGBT issues. In 2008, she had been dating her boyfriend, Mike, for more than two years. She eventually married, but by July 2012 had recently divorced. Sarah Rice became engaged on October 15, 2014 and got married in May 2015. In 2010, \"The Real World: Brooklyn\" was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for \"Outstanding Reality Program\" during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards. The Real World: Brooklyn", "title": "The Real World: Brooklyn" }, { "id": "3245970", "text": "Boomerang (TV channel) Boomerang is an American pay television network as well as an streaming service that is owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia. It specializes in classic and contemporary animated programming owned by WarnerMedia, including \"Looney Tunes\", \"Tom and Jerry\", and \"Scooby-Doo\". Launched in 1992 globally and in 2000 for the United States, Boomerang originated as a programming block and spinoff of Cartoon Network. It eventually grew into its own separate channel and identity, and similarly shares the same brand and likeness as Cartoon Network. The network's schedule is more experimental than most children's networks,", "title": "Boomerang (TV channel)" }, { "id": "7299450", "text": "made her on-screen debut on \"The Sopranos\" episode \"Boca\" as character Deena Hauser. While attending Marymount Manhattan, Bailey got her first television presenting job on the Nickelodeon children's show \"U-Pick Live\" in 2002 and would continue on the show until 2005 and she and her co-host Brent Popolizio formed a fictional band in the show called The Pickles, the name is from the Pickle Family characters in the animated series \"Rugrats\". Bailey hosted an episode of \"Slime Time Live\" on Nickelodeon in 2003 In 2004, Bailey co-hosted a children-oriented Super Bowl XXXVIII pre-game show on Nickelodeon. In her first role", "title": "Candace Bailey" }, { "id": "18251207", "text": "Grace and Frankie Grace and Frankie is an American comedy web television series created by Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris for Netflix. The series stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the title roles of Grace and Frankie, two unlikely friends who are brought together after their husbands announce that they are in love with each other and plan to get married. Sam Waterston, Martin Sheen, Brooklyn Decker, Ethan Embry, June Diane Raphael, and Baron Vaughn co-star in supporting roles. It premiered on Netflix on May 8, 2015, with all 13 episodes of the first season released simultaneously. The", "title": "Grace and Frankie" }, { "id": "2936539", "text": "Enthusiasm\". They have two sons, Henry (b. 1992) and Charles (b. 1997). Charles plays basketball for Northwestern University. Brad Hall William Brad Hall (born March 21, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, director and writer. He is best known as a \"Weekend Update\" news anchor on \"Saturday Night Live\" and for creating the sitcoms \"The Single Guy\" and \"Watching Ellie\". Hall was a producer, writer, and director on the Golden Globe winning sitcom \"Brooklyn Bridge\", for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He has appeared in various motion pictures, most notably the 1986 cult classic \"Troll\" and as", "title": "Brad Hall" }, { "id": "12858880", "text": "comedies of the 2011 fall season. The pilot episode drew 10.28 million U.S. viewers and a 4.8 adults 18–49 demo rating, making it the highest-rated fall debut for a Fox scripted show since 2001. The show has been nominated for several awards, including five Golden Globe Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards. \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" is a police sitcom set in the fictional 99th precinct in Brooklyn which premiered in 2013 on Fox. It has won two Creative Arts Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards: one for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and one for Andy Samberg for", "title": "Sitcom" }, { "id": "18397531", "text": "YouTube Premium YouTube Premium (formerly YouTube Red) is a paid streaming subscription service that provides advertising-free streaming of all videos hosted by YouTube, exclusive original content produced in collaboration with the site's major creators, as well as offline playback and background playback of videos on mobile devices. The service was originally launched in November 2014 as Music Key, offering only ad-free streaming of music and music videos from participating labels on YouTube and Google Play Music. The service was then revised and relaunched as YouTube Red on October 31, 2015, expanding its scope to offer ad-free access to all YouTube", "title": "YouTube Premium" }, { "id": "10321356", "text": "the Adult Swim show \"Rick and Morty.\" In 2009, he launched \"Glee\" which would go on to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy in 2010. Reilly is generally credited with creating Jane Lynch’s character, Sue Sylvester, on the show. In 2011, Reilly also championed \"New Girl\", the network’s highest-rated fall sitcom debut in 10 years, and the singing competition show, \"The X Factor\". Reilly was promoted to chairman of entertainment for Fox in August 2012. He later introduced the shows \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\", \"Bob's Burgers\", and \"The Mindy Project\". At Fox, Reilly oversaw the", "title": "Kevin Reilly (executive)" }, { "id": "4097667", "text": "first film. For Nickelodeon: For Nicktoons: For Cartoon Network: For Teletoon: For Global Broadcast: For Netflix: Channel Frederator: Cartoon Hangover: Amazon: \"GO! Cartoons\" premiered on November 7, 2017. Frederator is partnering with Sony Pictures Animation for the series. Frederator Studios Frederator Studios is an American animation television production studio which is a division of Frederator Networks, Inc. and founded by Fred Seibert in 1997 with its first series launching in 1998. The studio focuses primarily on artists who write their own shorts, series, and movies. Their slogan is \"Original Cartoons since 1998.\" The studio has locations in New York City,", "title": "Frederator Studios" }, { "id": "3047677", "text": "on 10 October and Watch HD on 12 October. On 2 October 2017, UKTV launched Gold HD, replacing Eden HD on Sky. UKTV UKTV is a British multi-channel broadcaster, jointly owned by BBC Studios (formerly BBC Worldwide) and Discovery, Inc. It was formed on 26 March 1992 through a joint venture between the BBC and Thames Television. It is one of the United Kingdom's largest television companies. UKTV's channels are available via a digital satellite subscription in the UK and Ireland. The Dave, Drama, Home, Really and Yesterday channels are also available in the UK on Freeview, the free-to-air digital", "title": "UKTV" }, { "id": "3246000", "text": "2007, Boomerang UK started carrying live-action programs, including those exclusive to the channel such as \"My Spy Family\". The network rebranded on 16 February 2015. Boomerang (TV channel) Boomerang is an American pay television network as well as an streaming service that is owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia. It specializes in classic and contemporary animated programming owned by WarnerMedia, including \"Looney Tunes\", \"Tom and Jerry\", and \"Scooby-Doo\". Launched in 1992 globally and in 2000 for the United States, Boomerang originated as a programming block and spinoff of Cartoon Network. It eventually grew into its own", "title": "Boomerang (TV channel)" }, { "id": "15248304", "text": "Brooklyn Kinda Love Brooklyn Kinda Love is an adult reality series currently airing on Playboy TV. It was created by Joe and Harry Gantz, who had previously produced HBO's \"Taxicab Confessions\". The series follows four real New York couples and their ongoing relationship struggles. The first of Playboy TV's new TV For 2 campaign, \"Brooklyn Kinda Love\" ushered a new wave of programming geared for both male and female viewers. Throughout the season, the series focused on four couples, all from differing types of relationships. It was said to be a reality series and even though producers may have suggested,", "title": "Brooklyn Kinda Love" }, { "id": "20125016", "text": "2018. Koshy also co-hosts the MTV television series \"Total Request Live\" (2017–present) and the Nickelodeon game show revival \"Double Dare\", which premiered in June 2018. Koshy's main YouTube channel has amassed more than 16 million subscribers, and her two channels have a total of more than two billion combined views. She has received four Streamy Awards, four Teen Choice Awards, and a Kids' Choice Award. She is a member of the 2019 \"Forbes\" 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list. Koshy was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She is of half-Indian and half-white descent; her parents are Jose Koshy,", "title": "Liza Koshy" }, { "id": "11148978", "text": "History of YouTube YouTube was created by PayPal employees as a video-sharing website where users could upload, share and view content. The Internet domain name \"codice_1\" was activated on Monday, February 14, 2005, at 9:13 p.m. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, when they worked for PayPal. Prior to working for PayPal, Hurley studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. YouTube's initial headquarters was above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. <br>The domain name \"YouTube.com\" was activated", "title": "History of YouTube" }, { "id": "4023653", "text": "- February 4, 2001 as part of its nightly Paramount Comedy Channel (originally The Paramount Channel) programming block until Paramount Comedy became its own 24/7 UK channel separate from Nickelodeon. More recently, \"Bosom Buddies\" began airing on Me-TV on October 2, 2011 and again on Thursday nights beginning May 29, 2014, as part of the network's \"Summer of Me\" promotion. CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount) released both seasons of \"Bosom Buddies\" on Region 1 DVD. The original theme song \"My Life\" by Billy Joel was replaced with \"Shake Me Loose\", a song penned by show creator Chris Thompson, which was", "title": "Bosom Buddies" }, { "id": "7118921", "text": "in his 1996 novel \"Infinite Jest\". Schur wrote his undergraduate senior thesis on the novel, and he also owns the film rights to it. With Daniel J. Goor, Schur created the NBC comedy \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\", which premiered in fall 2013. On September 19, 2016, the Schur-created sitcom \"The Good Place\" began airing on NBC. In 2016, Schur co-wrote the teleplay of \"Nosedive\", an episode of the television anthology series \"Black Mirror\" with Rashida Jones from a story by Charlie Brooker. Schur is married to Jennifer Philbin, who was formerly a writer on \"The O.C.\" and is the daughter of television", "title": "Michael Schur" }, { "id": "11957626", "text": "it is also the third season to take place in a city that had hosted a previous season, as the show's and were set in New York in 1992 and 2001. The season was aired as 13 one-hour episodes. MTV announced the location in May 2008. Filming began August 14, 2008, and concluded November 24, 2008. The series premiered January 7, 2009, and garnered an 18% increase in ratings over the previous season with 2.3 million viewers. The premiere was made available on iTunes on January 8. On January 4, MTV aired a special called \"The Real World: Secrets Revealed\"", "title": "The Real World: Brooklyn" }, { "id": "1360352", "text": "Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children. It is owned by Viacom through its Viacom Media Networks division's Nickelodeon Group unit and is based in New York City. It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 2–17. The channel was originally first tested as Pinwheel on December 1, 1977. Pinwheel was at the time only available on QUBE, which was the first two-way major market interactive cable television system, owned by Warner Cable. Pinwheel relaunched as Nickelodeon on April 1, 1979, and", "title": "Nickelodeon" }, { "id": "1494316", "text": "Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. The company's primary business is its subscription-based streaming OTT service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house. As of October 2018, Netflix has 137 million total subscribers worldwide, including 58.46 million in the United States. It is available worldwide except in mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Crimea. The company also has offices in the Netherlands, Brazil, India, Japan, and South Korea. Netflix's initial business", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "20567660", "text": "\"Starman\" leaving Earth behind. Batteries were expected to last about 12 hours. NASA added the second stage to its database for tracking Solar System objects, and it is not expected to make any close encounters with Earth before 2091. The live webcast proved immensely popular, as it became the second most watched livestream ever on Youtube, reaching over 2.3 million concurrent views. Approximately 100,000 people watched the launch from Cape Canaveral. U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted: Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver advocated the cancellation of the Space Launch System program as a consequence of the success of this demonstration.", "title": "Falcon Heavy test flight" }, { "id": "4117969", "text": "released their self-titled first album in 1993. \"The Brooklyn Side\" followed on East Side Digital, in 1994, to resounding critical acclaim. In 1995, the Bottle Rockets then signed with Atlantic Records, which re-released \"The Brooklyn Side\". The single \"Radar Gun\" was a hit on rock radio—reaching No. 27 on \"Billboard\"s rock chart—and the band toured extensively to support the album. The band appeared on the television show Late Night with Conan O'Brien performing one of their original songs as well as being featured in a comedic skit. The relationship with Atlantic Records turned out to be difficult. Most of the", "title": "The Bottle Rockets" }, { "id": "14838043", "text": "The Suite Life Sets Sail \"The Suite Life Sets Sail\" is the pilot episode of the popular Disney Channel sitcom \"The Suite Life on Deck\", sequel and spin-off to the original series. Debby Ryan joins the cast as Bailey Pickett, close friends with Zack, girlfriend to Cody and roommate with London, as well as Ashley Tisdale leaving the main cast due to Maddie Fitzpatrick having to attend college. After an original sequel named \"Arwin!\" was not picked up by Disney Channel, the creators decided to change the concept. The series premiere in the United States drew 5.7 million viewers, and", "title": "The Suite Life Sets Sail" }, { "id": "19349813", "text": "Matthew Louis Siegel Matthew Louis Siegel is an American business executive and actor best known for the television series \"Brooklyn Bridge\". Siegel married Sara Friedlander, an International Director and Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie's in 2012. Siegel is a Harvard University graduate and Columbia University's School of Public and International Affairs. Siegel is currently the Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Global Client Group of Aperture Investors. Siegel was previously the Chief Digital Officer of Roc Nation. He was formerly the CEO and Founder of Indaba Media, a music technology company based in Manhattan which was acquired", "title": "Matthew Louis Siegel" }, { "id": "17313431", "text": "ends with Eilis and Tony reuniting and happily embracing. Principal photography began on 1 April 2014 in Ireland, and was shot for three weeks at different locations including Enniscorthy, Wexford, and Dublin. On the first day of shooting, Ronan was spotted in period costume on the set in Enniscorthy. After finishing production in Ireland, it then moved to Montreal, Quebec for four weeks further. Two days were spent shooting in New York at Coney Island. \"Brooklyn\" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 26 January 2015. After it premiered, a bidding war began between The Weinstein Company, Focus Features and", "title": "Brooklyn (film)" }, { "id": "19640740", "text": "Andrea Russett Andrea Russett (born June 27, 1995) is an American actress and Internet personality active on Snapchat, Instagram, Vine, and YouTube. In 2016, she starred in the thriller film \"Sickhouse\", which initially released via brief increments on her Snapchat account. Russett began broadcasting on YouTube during her early teens, when she created a music video as part of a contest to meet Justin Bieber, which ended up in his movie . She attended a private Catholic high school until her junior year, at which point she moved to California after signing a contract with Fullscreen and began attending an", "title": "Andrea Russett" }, { "id": "8616607", "text": "a viral sensation. In a 2007 interview, Weddle estimated that over 1 million people had viewed the video, but, as of 2011, the video has been viewed over 8 million times. The performance was recorded at a local Open mic night, then obtained by a fan who mixed it with the original Outkast music video and uploaded it to YouTube. Over the 5 years since the video was introduced, the song has earned nationwide media attention and radio play. It has been featured on The Howard Stern Show and was an answer to a question on Jeopardy!. It has reached", "title": "Obadiah Parker" }, { "id": "9512494", "text": "and Victoria's Secret. She has appeared in music videos for Jimmy Buffett and the band 3 Doors Down. She is also an avid North Carolina Tar Heels basketball and Carolina Panthers fan. In 2005, within two months of moving to New York City, Decker auditioned for the \"Sports Illustrated\" Swimsuit Edition, in which she first appeared in 2006. She was again featured in the 2007 edition, and hosted the 2007 behind-the-scenes television special. She returned for a third consecutive time in 2008. Decker was chosen cover girl for the 2010 edition, shot on location in the Maldives islands. In 2007,", "title": "Brooklyn Decker" }, { "id": "11926077", "text": "the network in the mid-2000s. The first theatrical film based on a Cartoon Network series, \"The Powerpuff Girls Movie\", was released on July 3, 2002. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $16.4 million globally on a budget of $11 million. On October 1 of that year, Cartoon Network celebrated their tenth anniversary, with a montage showcasing the network's various phases over the years. 2003 saw the debuts of \"The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy\" and \"Evil Con Carne\", both spinoffs of \"Grim & Evil\". On October 3, the Cartoon Cartoon Fridays block was rebooted in a", "title": "Cartoon Network" }, { "id": "4828025", "text": "program, while Mr. Moseby manages the ship. Debby Ryan joins the cast as Bailey Pickett, who becomes Zack and Cody's friend (and Cody's girlfriend) and London's friend and roommate. The series also introduces Doc Shaw as Marcus Little, a former superstar who lost his fame after his voice changed. While an attempted spin-off, \"Arwin!\", which was to star Selena Gomez and Brian Stepanek, was not picked up by Disney Channel, \"The Suite Life on Deck\" skipped the pilot process and went straight to the series. On September 20, 2010, Disney Channel announced that production has begun for a Disney Channel", "title": "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" }, { "id": "579420", "text": "is the borough's public access channel. Brooklyn's major professional sports teams are the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and the NHL's New York Islanders. The Nets and Islanders moved into the borough in 2012 and 2015, respectively, and both play their home games at Barclays Center in Prospect Heights. Previously, the Nets had played in Uniondale, New York and in New Jersey, while the Islanders had played in Uniondale since their inception. Brooklyn also has a storied sports history. It has been home to many famous sports figures such as Joe Paterno, Vince Lombardi, Mike Tyson, Joe Torre, Sandy Koufax, Billy Cunningham", "title": "Brooklyn" }, { "id": "5145198", "text": "League Baseball (owned by minority partner Yankee Global), the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and New York City FC of Major League Soccer. YES Network's offices are based at the Chrysler Building in Midtown Manhattan. YES programs, including Yankees and Nets pre- and post-game shows, are produced in studios that are located in Stamford, Connecticut. The channel is available on cable and IPTV providers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and parts of Pennsylvania; it is available nationally on some cable systems (as part of a designated sports tier), via satellite on DirecTV, and regionally on Frontier U-verse, Verizon FiOS and Cox", "title": "YES Network" }, { "id": "2902043", "text": "however its availability on digital terrestrial (Freeview) was dependent upon BBC Red Button not showing other interactive services, such as major sports events coverage. This was dropped from the Red Button service in April 2016. Numerous CBBC/CBeebies programmes have been released on VHS. In 1981, the BBC released two children's compilations with the Smallfilms television shows that Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin did for the BBC since their TV broadcasts in the 1970s. In 1985, Marks & Spencer released a compilation video (as part of the St Michael Video Library Range) called \"Cartoon Favourites\" as A BBC Video Presentation with", "title": "CBBC" }, { "id": "16706669", "text": "MattyBRaps Matthew David Morris (born January 6, 2003), better known as MattyB or MattyBRaps, is an American hip-hop artist, known for posting remix videos of popular music on YouTube. Morris has released numerous covers and remixes of mainstream music since he began his career in 2010. His first cover was of \"Eenie Meenie\" by Justin Bieber. On August 1, 2014, MattyB's YouTube channel surpassed one billion views. As of July 13, 2015, he has posted over 90 additional covers and 20 original songs on his YouTube channel. On August 27, 2015, his debut EP premiered on YouTube, titled \"Outside the", "title": "MattyBRaps" }, { "id": "1360383", "text": "some of its cartoons and other content, in English and local languages, to free-to-air networks and subscription channels such as KI.KA and Super RTL in Germany, RTÉ Two (English language) and TG4 (Irish language) in Ireland, YTV (in English) and Vrak.TV (in French) in Canada, Canal J in France, Alpha Kids in Greece, and CNBC-e in Turkey. Nickelodeon Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel launched on December 1, 1977 as the first cable channel for children. It is owned by Viacom through its Viacom Media Networks division's Nickelodeon Group unit and is based in New", "title": "Nickelodeon" }, { "id": "3641307", "text": "and film and television production company Funny or Die, with plans to integrate it with IFC. On April 27, 2018, the company later acquired a majority stake in comedy venue operator Levity Live. IFC HD is a high definition simulcast feed of IFC that broadcasts in 1080i resolution. IFC operates a video on demand television service called IFC Free, which is available at no additional charge to pay-television subscribers. IFC Free offers program content consisting of independent and theatrically-released feature films and original programs, including premieres of IFC programs before their initial broadcast on the linear television channel. AMC Networks", "title": "IFC (U.S. TV channel)" }, { "id": "1689755", "text": "up in arms over the prospect of one of their most popular shows being cancelled. Faced with an atmosphere that Rifkin later described as \"like an insurrection,\" PBS ultimately relented. For several years, the show was taped at the Color Dynamics Studios facility at Greenville Avenue & Bethany Drive in Allen, Texas, after which it moved to The Studios at Las Colinas in Irving, Texas, and then Carrollton, a suburb of Dallas. The TV series and videos are currently distributed by HIT Entertainment and Universal Studios, while the TV series was produced by WNET from 2006 to 2009. The series", "title": "Barney & Friends" }, { "id": "9221080", "text": "The Comedy Channel (United States) The Comedy Channel was a television comedy cable channel owned by HBO, a division of Time Warner. It premiered on November 15, 1989 at 6 PM ET. In 1991, HBO agreed to merge the channel with Viacom's competing channel, Ha!. The new network, CTV: The Comedy Network, premiered on April 1, 1991, but rebranded to Comedy Central on June 1, 1991. Most of the Comedy Channel's original programs were produced in the HBO Downtown Studios on East 23rd Street in Manhattan. The format prior to the merger included several original and unconventional programs such as", "title": "The Comedy Channel (United States)" }, { "id": "12802303", "text": "sitcom \"The Donna Reed Show\". On July 1, 1985, Nick at Nite launched over Nickelodeon's channel space in the 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Eastern and Pacific time period, featuring reruns of classic television series from the 1950s to the 1970s. To this day, A&E survives as one of the most popular cable channels in the U.S. However while it retained the same arts-focused programming for its first decade-and-a-half as a merged channel, A&E's programming has gradually evolved to bear little or no resemblance to its progenitors (aka \"channel drift\"), shifting its focus in recent years towards reality, lifestyle and", "title": "Alpha Repertory Television Service" }, { "id": "14211766", "text": "to enjoy it.\" The channel passed one million subscribers on March 5, 2013. As of 2018, the brothers post two videos per week onto their Vlogbrothers channel. John Green posts a video on Tuesday, and Hank Green on Friday. The Green brothers, strongly inspired by \"the show with zefrank\", devised the Brotherhood 2.0 project late in 2006. The project was launched on January 1, 2007, based on the premise that the brothers would cease all text-based communication for one year and, instead, converse by video blogs every weekday. The project was made available to the public on YouTube, as well", "title": "Vlogbrothers" }, { "id": "7066086", "text": "the mid-season break. Writers Doug Palau and Nicholas Wootton moved from \"Total Security\" to \"Brooklyn South\" in January 1998 and were regular writers for the seasons second half. On October 28, 2003, A&E Home Video released the complete series on DVD in Region 1. This release has been discontinued and is now out of print. On January 25, 2017, CBS DVD re-released \"Brooklyn South: The Complete Series\" on DVD in Region 1 via Amazon.com's CreateSpace program. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Amazon.com. Brooklyn South Brooklyn South is an American ensemble police drama series that aired on", "title": "Brooklyn South" }, { "id": "5065194", "text": "Mental Floss Mental Floss (stylized mental_floss) is an American digital, print, and e-commerce media company focused on millennials. It is owned by Minute Media and based in New York City. mentalfloss.com, which presents facts, puzzles, and trivia with a humorous tone, draws 20.5 million unique users a month. Its YouTube channel produces three weekly series and has 1.3 million subscribers. The magazine \"mental_floss\" has a circulation of 160,000 and publishes six issues a year. In October 2015, \"Mental Floss\" teamed with the National Geographic Channel for its first televised special, \"Brain Surgery Live with\" mental_floss, the first brain surgery ever", "title": "Mental Floss" }, { "id": "11926076", "text": "since its founding, left due to creative disagreements with Jamie Kellner, then-head of Turner Broadcasting. On August 22, Jim Samples was appointed general manager and Executive Vice President of the network, replacing Cohen. Adult Swim debuted on September 2, with an episode of \"Home Movies\"; the block initially aired on Sunday nights, with a repeat telecast on Thursdays. The initial lineup consisted of \"\", \"Sealab 2021\", \"The Brak Show\", \"Aqua Teen Hunger Force\", and \"Space Ghost Coast to Coast\". In 2002, \"Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?\" and \"\" premiered; the former was short-lived, but the latter became a juggernaut for", "title": "Cartoon Network" }, { "id": "3822893", "text": "Be Amazing\", an in-depth interview podcast show, produced by Black, Jennifer Brennan and Mary Shimkin. It's largely recorded at Argot Studios in New York City. In June 2017, Black recorded an episode in Los Angeles with pop star Katy Perry for her livestream marathon, \"\". Black appears in \"\" as Steve YouTube, the germophobic creator and CEO of YouTube. The movie premiered on July 24, 2015, at VidCon 2015 in Los Angeles, California. Black married Martha Anne Hagen in 1998. They have two children, Elijah (born 2001), and Ruthie (born 2003). They reside in Redding, Connecticut. Black's parents are Jewish,", "title": "Michael Ian Black" }, { "id": "5065199", "text": "New York Times\" and the \"Washington Post\". Other media coverage includes: Mental Floss Mental Floss (stylized mental_floss) is an American digital, print, and e-commerce media company focused on millennials. It is owned by Minute Media and based in New York City. mentalfloss.com, which presents facts, puzzles, and trivia with a humorous tone, draws 20.5 million unique users a month. Its YouTube channel produces three weekly series and has 1.3 million subscribers. The magazine \"mental_floss\" has a circulation of 160,000 and publishes six issues a year. In October 2015, \"Mental Floss\" teamed with the National Geographic Channel for its first televised", "title": "Mental Floss" }, { "id": "1360353", "text": "expanded to other cable providers nationwide. It was initially commercial-free and remained without advertising until 1984. Warner sold Nickelodeon, along with its sister networks MTV and VH1, to Viacom in 1986. , the channel is available to about 92.056 million households (79.086% of households with TV) in the United States. The channel's name comes from the first five cent movie theaters called nickelodeons. Its history dates back to December 1, 1977, when Warner Cable Communications launched the first two-way interactive cable system, QUBE, in Columbus, Ohio. Under the name Pinwheel Network, the C-3 cable channel carried \"Pinwheel\" daily from 7:00", "title": "Nickelodeon" }, { "id": "17374559", "text": "Trailers called Honest Game Trailers. The YouTube channel achieved 1 million subscribers within three months of launching. It has gained more than 350 million video views. Clevver Media was founded in 2006 by Michael Palmer and Jorge Maldonado and acquired by Alloy Digital in June 2012. The millennial target platform operates five entertainment and celebrity-focused YouTube channels, including ClevverTV, ClevverMusic, ClevverNews, ClevverStyle and ClevverTeVe. Clevver Media ranks in the top 10 YouTube networks, according to ComScore. Joslyn Davis serves as the executive producer. Hosts/producers have included Deidre Behar, Tatiana Carrier, among others. The Clevver brand is the second-largest YouTube channel", "title": "Defy Media" }, { "id": "17967550", "text": "preceding year. It was uploaded on two channels: YouTube Trends on the first day, and YouTube Spotlight on the second. On December 20, 2011, \"YouTube Rewind 2011\" was uploaded. It was created and produced by YouTube and Portal A Intercreated, and features Rebecca Black as the host. Her music video \"Friday\" had become a viral video in March 2011. Like last year, it featured another top 10 most popular videos on YouTube for the year. In 2012, YouTube's \"Rewind\" videos changed to featuring several popular YouTubers; the most popular music, videos, and videos; breaking news; and internet memes from the", "title": "YouTube Rewind" }, { "id": "20715474", "text": "while 4 percent of all households watching television at that time watched it. With these ratings, \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" was the third most watched show on FOX for the night, beating \"Bob's Burgers\" but behind \"Family Guy\", and \"The Simpsons\", third on its timeslot and fifth for the night, behind \"The Simpsons\", \"Family Guy\", \"America's Funniest Home Videos\", and the \"2015 Billboard Music Awards\". \"Johnny and Dora\" received generally positive reviews from critics. LaToya Ferguson of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the episode an \"A-\" grade and wrote, \"In fact, 'Johnny And Dora' is one of the more in-tone, self-assured episodes of", "title": "Johnny and Dora" }, { "id": "16632334", "text": "comes directly from us when we were teenagers. We were metal heads, full-on,\" as Fine stated. \"MyMusic\" has a separate channel on YouTube from the main Fine Brothers channel (MyMusicShow), which had over 381,000 subscribers and 28.9 million video views as of July 7, 2013. \"MyMusic\" was nominated for nine Streamy Awards in the 3rd installment of the event, with three of the nominations going to the Fine Brothers. The second season premiered on August 20, 2013. The Fine Brothers have a popular series where they spoil a variety of topics ranging from books to films to video games. The", "title": "Fine Brothers" }, { "id": "13637622", "text": "the first round of Hollywood Week. In 2012 Henley joined music group U.G.L.Y., signed to Chris Brown's recording label CBE with fellow artists Barry \"Mijo\" Bradford and Braxton Olita. She starred in American musician Borns's music video for his single \"I Don't Want U Back\". It was released on February 14, 2018. Stormi appeared in \"Boyle's Hunch\" (2015), in the third season of FOX sitcom \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\". In 2014 she played a humanoid in \"2307 Winter's Dream\", a science fiction film starring Paul Sidhu which was directed by Joey Curtis and produced by Robert Beaumont. Stormi Henley Stormi Bree Henley", "title": "Stormi Henley" }, { "id": "9221085", "text": "on most Comedy Central shows today. The Comedy Channel (United States) The Comedy Channel was a television comedy cable channel owned by HBO, a division of Time Warner. It premiered on November 15, 1989 at 6 PM ET. In 1991, HBO agreed to merge the channel with Viacom's competing channel, Ha!. The new network, CTV: The Comedy Network, premiered on April 1, 1991, but rebranded to Comedy Central on June 1, 1991. Most of the Comedy Channel's original programs were produced in the HBO Downtown Studios on East 23rd Street in Manhattan. The format prior to the merger included several", "title": "The Comedy Channel (United States)" }, { "id": "2818603", "text": "an international entertainment firm headed by Kenneth Feld, with its headquarters in Ellenton, Florida. With weakening attendance and high operating costs, the circus closed on May 21, 2017 after 146 years. Hachaliah Bailey appears to have established the first circus in the United States after he purchased an African Elephant, which he named \"Old Bet\", around 1806. With it as his star attraction he formed the Bailey Circus, which also included a trained dog, several pigs, a horse and four wagons. This was the impetus for what in time evolved into the Bailey component of what became the Ringling Bros.", "title": "Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus" }, { "id": "16979915", "text": "Thicke. In August 2014, American recording artist Taylor Swift, featured twerking in the music video to her single \"Shake It Off\". This caused some controversy with American rapper Earl Sweatshirt saying that the video was \"perpetuating stereotypes\". In 2009, a trio of teenage African-American girls from Atlanta, Georgia founded \"The Twerk Team.\" After turning 18, they joined YouTube creating TheOfficialTwerkTeam channel with an upload on June 5, 2009 announcing themselves to the world as @BeTTyBuTT, @MizzTwerkSum and @TTLadyLuscious. Their videos featured \"them gyrating and shaking their butts, to a point that it's artistic.\" In 2011 the Twerk Team got a", "title": "Twerking" }, { "id": "4663286", "text": "Fuse (TV channel) Fuse is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that first launched in 1994 and is dedicated largely to music. Fuse's current programming targets young adults between 18 and 34 years old, with the channel's music content primarily offered through its website, its video on demand service, and through its \"Fuse Mobile\" service. As of February 2015, Fuse was available to approximately 71,491,000 pay television households (61.4% of households with television) in the United States. The channel originally launched on July 1, 1994, as MuchMusic USA; it was founded as a joint venture between Cablevision and", "title": "Fuse (TV channel)" }, { "id": "10935845", "text": "Fi became the first of the NBC Universal Global Network channels to begin broadcasting in High Definition within the UK. It will provide a simulcast of the Sci Fi Channel exclusively on Sky+HD channel 214, and will air UK HD premieres such as Eli Stone and Flash Gordon. NBCUniversal International introduced Hayu in March 2016 in the United Kingdom. The subscription video on demand service offers reality programs such as \"Keeping Up with the Kardashians\" and \"The Real Housewives\". NBCUniversal International Networks NBCUniversal International Networks, formerly NBC Universal Global Networks and Universal Networks International, is a part of NBCUniversal., owned", "title": "NBCUniversal International Networks" }, { "id": "4348867", "text": "paid programming and required public affairs and E/I programming in the interim. KRDK rearranged its channel lineup and added Movies! and Decades networks to new subchannels in March 2015. In April 2015, KRDK-TV added Heroes & Icons to subchannel 4.1 and the comedy-oriented Laff to subchannel 4.8. The station officially launched on September 25, 2015, rearranged its channel lineup, and added Bek Sports (area high school sports in collaboration with KNDB channel 26 in Bismarck and KNDM channel 24 in Minot), Comet, and Buzzr to its channel lineup. H&I, Decades, and Movies! were removed in August 2016, and replaced by", "title": "KRDK-TV" }, { "id": "6756810", "text": "was introduced with a darker shade of red, the first change in design since October 2006. In May 2013, YouTube launched a pilot program for content providers to offer premium, subscription-based channels within the platform. In February 2014, Susan Wojcicki was appointed CEO of YouTube. In November 2014, YouTube announced a subscription service known as \"Music Key\", which bundled ad-free streaming of music content on YouTube with the existing Google Play Music service. In February 2015, YouTube released a secondary mobile app known as YouTube Kids. The app is designed to provide an experience optimized for children. It features a", "title": "YouTube" }, { "id": "7141041", "text": "record of 111.3 million viewers who watched Super Bowl XLVI in 2012. Episodes of \"New Girl\" and \"Brooklyn Nine-Nine\" were the lead-out programs. For the third consecutive year, a webcast was provided for viewers. Fox streamed its coverage of the game online on PCs and tablets through its new TV Everywhere service Fox Sports Go. Although normally requiring a television subscription to use, Fox made the service available as a free preview for the Super Bowl. Due to contractual restrictions imposed by the NFL's exclusive digital and mobile content deals with Microsoft and Verizon Communications, Fox was unable to offer", "title": "Super Bowl XLVIII" }, { "id": "19349814", "text": "by Splice. Matthew Louis Siegel Matthew Louis Siegel is an American business executive and actor best known for the television series \"Brooklyn Bridge\". Siegel married Sara Friedlander, an International Director and Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie's in 2012. Siegel is a Harvard University graduate and Columbia University's School of Public and International Affairs. Siegel is currently the Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Global Client Group of Aperture Investors. Siegel was previously the Chief Digital Officer of Roc Nation. He was formerly the CEO and Founder of Indaba Media, a music technology company based in Manhattan which", "title": "Matthew Louis Siegel" }, { "id": "16696608", "text": "produced by Bryan Russell, who gave to the group an directional help on developing its sounds, influenced by bands as Death Cab for Cutie and Jimmy Eat World. \"Just Say Yes \"was released independently on August 30, 2008. Since its release, the band received two large promotions, when Myspace Canada featured the full EP for streaming in the website front page. Through the years and late 2011-2012, songs from \"Just Say Yes\" were featured on episodes of MTV's reality TV shows: \"Real World: Brooklyn\" and \"Real World: Cancun\", \"Jersey Shore\", Savage U, TV shows on MTV2, MTV's Canada Peak Season", "title": "The Narrative" }, { "id": "4021236", "text": "for 76 episodes from November 8, 2003, to October 29, 2005, on TV Asahi. The anime, licensed by Toei Animation, first aired as a sneak peek on Cartoon Network's \"Fridays\" block on September 30, and then aired on Cartoon Network's \"Toonami\" programming block Saturdays at 10/9c. The show returned to the United States on February 17, 2007, at 8:30/7:30c. It has been shown on Jetix (UK) since April 14, 2007, at 7:00PM, and has been seen on Cartoon Network's broadband service Toonami Jetstream since November 5. The anime is dubbed by Phuuz Entertainment Inc., in association with Cloverway Inc.. The", "title": "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo" } ]

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[ { "id": "20445136", "text": "India's Next Superstars India's Next Superstars (INS) is an Indian talent-search reality TV show, which premiered on Star Plus and is streamed on Hotstar. Karan Johar and Rohit Shetty are the judges for the show. Aman Gandotra and Natasha Bharadwaj were declared winners of the 2018 season. Shruti Sharma won a 'Special Mention' award. Runners up in the male category were Aashish Mehrotra and Harshvardhan Deo and in the female category were Naina Singh and Shruti Sharma. Ten males and ten females live together and are judged on the basis of their performances in acting and dancing assignments, with contestants", "title": "India's Next Superstars" }, { "id": "20445137", "text": "eliminated every other episode. Two males and two females join in the middle of the competition as wild-card contestants. The two winners receive a three-film deal with Dharma Productions. As published in various media sources, Rani Mukherjee was supposed to make an appearance on the show to promote her latest film, \"Hichki\", but was forced to cancel after filming some portions of the 7th and 8th episodes. She reportedly could not continue due to excruciating back pain and a high fever. India's Next Superstars India's Next Superstars (INS) is an Indian talent-search reality TV show, which premiered on Star Plus", "title": "India's Next Superstars" }, { "id": "4477509", "text": "of the contestants for this season as compared to previous tournaments. On the episode aired on 13 May 2010, the top 13 finalists selected by the judges for the Gala Rounds were: Vishwas Rai Swagata were eliminated in Gala Round 1, Meghna Kumar in Gala Round 2, Manisha Karmarkar the next week, Yashraj Kapil next and Arpita Khan the week after that. The week after that, the public voted out one Sashi. The next elimination was Naushad Ali Kawa. Tia Kar was subsequently eliminated. Rakesh was evicted the week after, but he was retained by the judges using their \"VETO", "title": "Indian Idol" }, { "id": "20515399", "text": "of the episode, the contestant who sits on the Red Sofa gets eliminated. Wild Card Twist: Some of the eliminated contestants were brought back for another chance. Raenit Singh, Aman Biswal & Chetan Brijvasi. The Top 12 contestants compete in this round. As the round progresses, the contestant who receives less votes at that point of the competition moves to the Red Sofa. At the end of the episode, the contestant who sits on the Red Sofa gets eliminated. WILD CARD Top 12 The Top 10 contestants compete in this round. As the round progresses, the contestant who receives less", "title": "Rising Star India (season 2)" }, { "id": "18405580", "text": "that she requested to be excused from attending several episodes due to commitments she made prior to the start of the competition. Following the last performances of the round in episode 95, the judges announced their decision in respect of eliminating contestants. Bharathwaj announced that contestant Somadas and contestant Sariga S. Ganga were eliminated for being absent and failing to perform, which viewers agreed with. S. P. Sailaja announced that due to unavoidable circumstances, contestants Shrinidhi & Sai Ramya were unable to attend to perform in this round, but as performances could only be judged after attendance, both contestants were", "title": "Jaya Super Singer South India" }, { "id": "20308977", "text": "to shoot with two iguanas instead of one like the other contestants. \"Original airdate:\" A new contestant, Tanishq, entered the competition. During this episode, makeovers occurred. After makeovers the contestants had a free fall photo shoot. \"Original airdate:\" This week the girls had a challenge photo shoot in pairs. The pairs were Aakrati & Tej, Parina & Jay, Eva & Mandeep, Shweta & Mohit, Nikhil & Riya, Sabita & Akash and Akansha & Baseer. Summer & Tanishq were left out and had to pair up with each other. Riya won immunity for this week's elimination for winning the challenge. \"Original", "title": "India's Next Top Model (season 3)" }, { "id": "20849311", "text": "range of other programmes such as \"Inside Out\", \"5 News\" and \"Good Morning Britain\". In 2017, he won BBC's \"Pointless Celebrities\", alongside Dr. Hilary Jones. Singh is author of two children's educational books: \"Food Fuel\" and \"Skelebones\", and is columnist for \"Attitude\" magazine and \"NetDoctor\". In August 2018, it was announced that Singh would be a contestant on the sixteenth series of \"Strictly Come Dancing.\" He was partnered with Janette Manrara and was the sixth contestant to be eliminated. Singh is gay. He discussed his sexuality in an interview for \"Attitude\" magazine in 2015. He was married to a woman", "title": "Ranj Singh" }, { "id": "19871194", "text": "toh hai as a female parallel lead character called Ananya Puri produce by Balaji Telefilms in July 2018, June 2018 she was on Maxim cover as popular personality Poulomi Das Poulomi Das is an Indian model and television actress. She is best known for portraying the role of Baby on Star Plus's soap opera Suhani Si Ek Ladki. She is signed to Toabh Talent Management. Das starting her modeling career two years ago and in early 2016 she appeared in the second installment of India's Next Top Model as a contestant where she was selected as a finalist. In November", "title": "Poulomi Das" }, { "id": "20515021", "text": "Episode 10: 5 March 2017 Episode 11: 11 March 2017 Episode 12: 12 March 2017 The top 16 contestants compete in this round. As the round progresses, the contestant who receives less votes at that point of the competition moves to the Red Sofa. At the end of the episode, the contestant who sits on the Red Sofa gets eliminated. Episode 13: 18 March 2017 Episode 14: 19 March 2017 The top 14 contestants compete in this round. On day one, four teams of two perform in duets. The first two teams perform with the wall up and set the", "title": "Rising Star India (season 1)" }, { "id": "20515398", "text": "the least score move to the Red Sofa (unsafe zone). The team with the lowest score gets eliminated. Episode 11: 24 February 2018 The Top 14 contestants compete in this round. As the round progresses, the contestant who receives less votes at that point of the competition moves to the Red Sofa. At the end of the episode, the contestant who sits on the Red Sofa gets eliminated. The Top 12 contestants compete in this round. As the round progresses, the contestant who receives less votes at that point of the competition moves to the Red Sofa. At the end", "title": "Rising Star India (season 2)" }, { "id": "4477513", "text": "already a noted playback singer in the Telugu film industry who happened to sing a song in Baahubali - India's biggest motion picture as of this date. Khuda Baksh from Punjab is the 1st Runner up and PVNS Rohit from Hyderabad is the 2nd Runner up. Sachin Tendulkar was the guest on grand finale held on 1 April 2017. The Final 14 Contestants were :- The 10th season of Indian Idol aired on Sony TV on 7 July 2018 after a gap of two years. The Judges for this season are: Manish Paul is the host of the show this", "title": "Indian Idol" }, { "id": "13441723", "text": "winner of India's first live singing reality show Rising Star Season 2(2018). The hosts are 2 little kids. Afsha at first was auditioning as a contestant, and ended up being the hostess. Dhairya was already famous from few movies like: Partner (2007 film) and Baabul. Also from shows: Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? and Ek Se Badhkar Ek. 21 August: 28 August: 4 September: 11 September: NO ELIMINATION (on Asha Bhosle's request) 18 September: 25 September: NO ELIMINATION 2 October: 9 October: 16 October: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2009 Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il", "title": "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2009" }, { "id": "11982523", "text": "teams will then appeal to the viewers for votes in order to win the coveted title of \"Sabse Badkar Jodi\". The elimination will be decided based on marks given by judges and audience voting. Champs from the music world, Aneek Dhar, Raja Hasan, Harpreet, Emon, Amit Paul, Poonam, Sumedha and Sanchita along with television celebrities Kushal Punjabi, Shayantani Ghosh, Apoorva Agnihotri, Rajshri Thakur, Abhishek Awasthi, Purbi Joshi, Jasveer Kaur and Amrapali Gupta will team up to set the show on fire. Host Judges Originals Wildcard Entrants NOTE: NOTE: NOTE: NOTE: NOTE: Score Cards Abhijeet bhattacharya made bad comments of Pakistani", "title": "Ek Se Badhkar Ek (TV series)" }, { "id": "10253873", "text": "by Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Alka Yagnik while Jatin Pandit remained neutral. Eliminated contestants on the show were given another chance to prove their talent through a wildcard entry episode which was started on request of judge Jatin Pandit. Wildcard contestants were judged by renowned personalities of music industry. The Wildcard Contestants were: On Friday, 5 October, Toshi Sabri, Abhas and Priyani made it to the top three among the wildcard contestants. Originally, the hosts had intended to select only two of these three, and Toshi Sabri and Abhas had scored the highest votes. Abhas had scored only 16 votes more", "title": "STAR Voice of India" }, { "id": "14650167", "text": "part of the Airtel Super Singer and Josco Indian Voice-Mazhavil Manorama shows, where he provides voice training to the contestants. In 2010, he appeared as an actor in Bala's Tamil comedy drama film, \"Avan Ivan\", where he portrayed a polygamist who was the father of the two lead characters, played by Vishal and Arya. In 2018, he took part as one of the sixteen contestants in the Tamil reality television show \"Bigg Boss\" hosted by Kamal Haasan. He was the second contestant to be eliminated from the show, departing on day 21. Ananth Vaidyanathan Ananth Vaidyanathan (born 1957) is an", "title": "Ananth Vaidyanathan" }, { "id": "17701578", "text": "Roopal Tyagi Roopal Tyagi (born 6 October 1989 in Mumbai) is an Indian choreographer and television actress. She played the role of \"Gunjan\" in the Indian soap opera \"Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke\" on Zee Tv. Roopal participated in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 8 as wild card entrant but got eliminated after 1 week. She was a contestant in Bigg Boss 9 paired up with Digangana Suryavanshi and later was eliminated in the second week of voting. Roopal started her career as a choreographer in 2007. After she made her acting career with the role of Mansha in \"Hamari Betiyoon Ka", "title": "Roopal Tyagi" }, { "id": "16986848", "text": "will not be allowed to play in IPL 2018 following the Australian ball-tampering controversy. On 29 March, New Zealand captain Kane Williamson was chosen to lead SRH for the 2018 season. On 31 March, England batsman Alex Hales was announced as replacement for the banned Warner. SRH finished the 2018 season as runners-up of the competition after losing to Chennai Super Kings in the final with 10 wins and seven losses. Williamson won the Orange Cap with 735 runs. Ahead of the auction, SRH traded Shikhar Dhawan to Delhi Capitals in favour of Shahbaz Nadeem, Vijay Shankar and Abhishek Sharma.", "title": "Sunrisers Hyderabad" }, { "id": "18105707", "text": "He was seen in Colors TV's comedy show \"Comedy Nights Bachao\". Recently he has participated in the reality show \"\" in 2017, anchored \"Entertainment Ki Raat\" and \"India's Next Superstars\" with Rithvik Dhanjani in 2018. He has also made his debut as one of the leads in \"Hate Story 4\" (2018). Wahi was born on 10 June 1982 into a Punjabi family in Delhi. He did his schooling from St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School and completed his higher education at the IILM Institute, Delhi University. Wahi began his career as a cricketer, representing St. Mark's Senior Secondary Public School", "title": "Karan Wahi" }, { "id": "15407190", "text": "the lead roles. She appeared as the host and headjudge of the first cycle of \"India's Next Top Model\" on MTV India. She is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer and has trained with Shiamak Davar for five years. She is currently seen in the webseries 'The Trip' on bindaas channel. Haydon married Dino Lalvani in October 2016. She announced her pregnancy on Instagram. On 17 May 2017, Lisa gave birth to her first son named Zack. Lisa does Pilates under trainer Namrata Purohit's guidance, saying \"It really works out my core\". Lisa Haydon Elisabeth Marie \"Lisa\" Haydon (born 17 June 1986)", "title": "Lisa Haydon" }, { "id": "19630830", "text": "She studied fashion communication from NIFT, Mumbai. She loves yoga, painting, designing and travelling. She is currently based in Mumbai. She is now a contestant in India's Next Superstars which airs on Star Plus. She has received a lot of recognition because of her stint in the Miss India pageant of 2015 and was a major front runner there. She is the Winner of India's Next Top Model Season 2. During episode 3, makeovers occurred. Prakash's long black hair was cut as a auburn lob with bangs. Pranati Rai Prakash Pranati Rai Prakash is an Indian fashion model best known", "title": "Pranati Rai Prakash" }, { "id": "4477503", "text": "per contract with Sony. He also conducted a world tour of shows. Suhit Gosain, who finished in the top 14 contestants, appeared in a KitKat chocolate advertisement. Four finalists, Meiyang Chang, Suhit Gosain, Parleen, and Abhishek, entered into a contract with Sony BMG and released an album named \"Tu To Na Aayi\" as a boy band named F4. The band's song Udd Chale became very successful. F4 was also declared \"The Next Big Thing\" on channel V. Emon Chatterjee from Kolkata and Deepali Kishore released I Love You, composed by Anu Malik, for the film \"Don Muthu Swami\". Emon also", "title": "Indian Idol" }, { "id": "18386070", "text": "Kehlata Hai as Naksh Singhania till 2016. As a contestant in the reality show Bigg Boss 10, Mehra was eliminated on Day 101. He was one of the top 5 contestants of Bigg Boss 10. Post Bigg Boss, he was in the tv series Sasural Simar Ka as Sameer Dhanraj Kapoor. On 16 May 2018 it was confirmed that he will be a contestant on season 9. On 22 June 2018, it was announced that Rohan will appear in an episode of &TV's Laal Ishq as Rohan. Rohan Mehra Rohan Mehra (born 8 April 1990) is an Indian television actor", "title": "Rohan Mehra" }, { "id": "20368225", "text": "succeeded in balancing the engagement on the stage and in the screen. She is found to be an actor with opinion on the current social issues and observed to be outspoken always. Hence, she is a frequent panel member in evening newsroom discussions on social issues. She was one of the contestant of Bigg Boss Malayalam 1 and got evicted on day 21. Later, she entered the house as a wildcard contestant on day 49. and got eliminated on day 76 Hima Shankar Hima Shankar (born 2 June 1987) known as Hima Shankar Sheematty, is an Indian actress who appears", "title": "Hima Shankar" }, { "id": "20046441", "text": "special guest in the episode. Contestants perform in duos to songs from the 1970s. In the Sunday episode, the top 6 contestants from the previous episode performed to gain immunity from next week's elimination. Grandparents Special Shaadi Special on Saturday Retro Special on Sunday. Celebrating 90s Music on Saturday Jury Challenge on Sunday. Neha Kakkar Special on Saturday Jashn-e-India on Sunday In this episode, a wild card contestant Hasrat Ali entered the competition. Javed Ali Special on Saturday Jury Special on Sunday MOM Special Weekend The Mother's Day weekend celebration along with A. R. Rahman on Saturday & Sridevi on", "title": "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2017" }, { "id": "10409701", "text": "3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter:", "title": "2007 Orlando Predators season" }, { "id": "20710008", "text": "on 15 November ahead of the auction. They will enter into the 2019 IPL auction with the remaining salary cap of to fill five available slots, of which two are for the overseas players. The player auction is scheduled to be held on 18 December 2018 at Jaipur. Retained: Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Hooda, Manish Pandey, Thangarasu Natarajan, Ricky Bhui, Sandeep Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, Shreevats Goswami, Khaleel Ahmed, Yusuf Pathan, Billy Stanlake, David Warner, Kane Williamson, Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi, Shakib Al Hasan Released: Sachin Baby, Tanmay Agarwal, Wriddhiman Saha, Chris Jordan, Carlos Brathwaite, Alex Hales, Bipul Sharma, Mehdi", "title": "Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2019" }, { "id": "8731813", "text": "Roach in poetry. Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: Nominees Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees\":\" Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner: 2 Finalists: Nominees: Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winners Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Finalists Nominees Winner Nominees Winner", "title": "Hurston-Wright Legacy Award" }, { "id": "20515400", "text": "votes at that point of the competition moves to the Red Sofa. At the end of the episode, the contestant who sits on the Red Sofa gets eliminated. The Top 8 contestants compete in this round. As the round progresses, the contestant who receives less votes at that point of the competition moves to the Red Sofa. At the end of the episode, the contestant who sits on the Red Sofa gets eliminated. The contestants compete to earn a direct entry to the finale week. In each episode, the contestant sitting on Golden Sofa (the contestant with the highest score)", "title": "Rising Star India (season 2)" }, { "id": "19021562", "text": "Karimi was a contestant in reality TV show, \"Bigg Boss 9\", where a group of celebrities from various walks of life live together in a large house. One of the contestants get eliminated every week, based on public votes. The show went on air in October 2015 on Colors. She was one of the third finalists of the season. In 2018, she joined Star Plus's \"Ishqbaaaz\" as Nancy. Mandana Karimi Manizhe Karimi (better known by her stage name Mandana Karimi), is an Iranian actress and model based in India. After working on several successful modelling projects around the world, she", "title": "Mandana Karimi" }, { "id": "17294925", "text": "movie M.Dharmaraju M.A directed by Raviraja Pinnesetty. Nuvvu Naaku Nachav is a milestone in her career. She was also a contestant in Super 2. She was eliminated in episode 3 on 11 July 2016 because she didn't dare to attempt the stunt. She was the first contestant to be eliminated. Sudeepa Pinky Sudeepa Raparthi, better known by her stage name, Sudeepa Pinky, is an Indian film actress who predominantly appears in Telugu Cinema. She started giving stage performances at the age of 3, and learned classical dance from her parents Raparthi Surya Narayana and Raparthi Satyavathi who are also classical", "title": "Sudeepa Pinky" }, { "id": "5627923", "text": "Lee Ryan Lee Ryan (born 17 June 1983) is an English singer-songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the British boy band Blue. He has also appeared in pantomime over the years; his most recent the role was the Prince at the Darlington Hippodrome in 2017. Lee took part in the BBC series \"Strictly Come Dancing\". He was partnered with professional dancer Nadiya Bychkova and was the second contestant to be eliminated on 7 October 2018. Lee Ryan was born in Chatham, Kent. His parents split up when he was six years old. Ryan mostly lived", "title": "Lee Ryan" }, { "id": "19794450", "text": "show is hosted by singer-actor Meiyang Chang and dancer-choreographer Raghav Juyal. Bannet Dosanjh became India's first Rising Star, winning Rs. 20 lakhs and the opportunity to sing a song in an upcoming Vishesh Films movie. Maithili Thakur was declared as the first runner-up. The second season of \"Rising Star\" was started on 20 January 2018. The expert panel remains the same, with Mahadevan, Thakur and Dosanjh. The second season is hosted by television actor Ravi Dubey. The registration of the third of Rising Star started from 16 December 2019.Audition and Casting are underway. In contrast to other singing competition TV", "title": "Rising Star (Indian TV series)" }, { "id": "4477510", "text": "Power\". Shivam Pathak had to leave next. The last to be eliminated was Swaroop Khan. Thus, the top three were Bhoomi Trivedi, Rakesh and Sreerama Chandra Mynampati. Sreeram Chandra had already made his debut in the Telugu movie industry. He also sang a song with Shreya Ghoshal for Salim Suleman Merchant during the course of the season. Swaroop Khan also got the chance to sing a song as the playback singer during the course of \"Indian Idol 5\" before his elimination. Bappi Lahiri gave him this opportunity. Swaroop Khan has also had the chance to sing in \"PK\"'s 'Tharki Chokro'", "title": "Indian Idol" }, { "id": "20515401", "text": "will move on to compete for the \"Ticket To Finale\". The two top scorers of Saturday and Sunday episode participate in a face-off round. The Top 5 contestants except for Ticket to Finale winner Hemant Brijwasi were divided into two batches. Batch A- Zaid Ali, Chetan Brijwasi & Vishnumaya Ramesh and Batch B- Akhtar Brothers & Rohanpreet Singh. The contestant with the lowest score in each batch will be eliminated, making the Top 4. The Top 4 finalists compete in the first round. The Top 3 contestants proceed to the Face-off round. Rising Star India (season 2) Rising Star is", "title": "Rising Star India (season 2)" }, { "id": "14154525", "text": "training with Primavera, Inter's top youth squad, and they face a 7-a-side match against them to decide who's eliminated this week. It's striker Hicham Abdellah's birthday but he finds himself in the danger zone with Nathan Simpson and Anthony O'Connor. The match sees a shock result, with Marco's boys beating Primavera. Leading goalscorer Hicham survives, and Nathan and Anthony are sent home. This is the penultimate episode, when the five remaining contestants are whittled down to three by coach Marco Monti. The five are watched in intensive training sessions, interviewed individually by Marco and tested on their knowledge of basic", "title": "Football's Next Star" }, { "id": "20476503", "text": "qualify for the play-offs on 10 May. They beat the Kolkata Knight Riders in Qualifier 2 to reach the Final where they lost to the Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets to finish the season as runners-up. Williamson won the Orange Cap for scoring 735 runs in the IPL season. The Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals were re-included in the 2018 season after serving two years of suspension from the competition due to the involvement of their owners in the 2013 IPL betting scandal. The IPL Governing Council also announced that a maximum of five players can be", "title": "Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2018" }, { "id": "1412267", "text": "Chinese streaming platforms. \"Dangal\" won him two more Filmfare Awards (Best Film and his third Best Actor award) In October 2017, Khan starred in a supporting role in his production \"Secret Superstar\", with his \"Dangal\" co-star Zaira Wasim playing the lead role. See \"Film production and direction\" section below for further details on the film In November 2018, he starred alongside veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan in the action adventure film \"Thugs of Hindostan\". The film reunited him with \"Dhoom 3\"s director Vijay Krishna Acharya. and also starred Fatima Sana Shaikh and Katrina Kaif. Shaikh also appeared in \"Dangal\" while Kaif", "title": "Aamir Khan" }, { "id": "17700640", "text": "India's Next Superstars Add, Comedy Nights With Kapil and Super Dancer – Chapter 2. She has also performed at big events such as Umang Awards, EEMA Awards, TOISA (Times Of India Sports Awards), TOIFA (Times Of India Film Awards), PTC Punjabi Film Awards, Memu Saitam Live, Dubai Premier League, and T10 League. Rautela was named as the World’s Most Beautiful Woman in T C Candler’s 27th list of 100 most beautiful faces twice. She was also the grand finale showstopper for Shantanu and Nikhil at IIFA Fashion Show 2018. Urvashi Rautela Urvashi Rautela (born 25 February 1994) is an Indian", "title": "Urvashi Rautela" }, { "id": "20670920", "text": "been renamed as Delhi Capitals, the franchise announced on December 4 2018, During a function for the announcement of the new name, the franchise also released a new logo. The transfers and the retention lists for the season were announced in November 2018. Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh and Glenn Maxwell were the prominent names among the players being released. Jaydev Unadkat, the costliest Indian player in 2018 auction, was also released. The player was held on 18 December 2018 at Jaipur.Jaydev Unadkat and uncapped Varun Chakravarthy were the most expensive player at Rs.8.4 crore. Sam Curran was the most expensive", "title": "2019 Indian Premier League" }, { "id": "20515022", "text": "target percentage. The next two teams perform with the wall down and attempt to beat the target score. The duos with the two least scores move to the Red Sofa (unsafe zone). These two teams compete in a face off. The team which loses in the face off gets eliminated. Episode 15: 25 March 2017 Duets Face Off Round The bottom two teams perform in the face off round. The team to perform first will set a target percentage. The second team has a challenge to perform better, raise the wall and save themselves. Episode 16: 26 March 2017 Duets", "title": "Rising Star India (season 1)" }, { "id": "16166128", "text": "be eliminated. Indrani Bhattacharjee also from team India was the next to go. Ameer Ali from team Pakistan became the third eliminated contestant and Imran Ali was eliminated next. As Diljaan and Nabeel Shaukat Ali were chosen as the contestants to face off for the fifth finalist chair, Aman Trikha and Nadeem Abbas were eliminated. Finally there were six finalists on the bench. Three from Pakistan and Three from India. In the Pre-finals it was announced that two finalists with minimum marks would be eliminated and remaining four participants would go through to the Grand Finals. Sara Raza Khan was", "title": "Sur Kshetra" }, { "id": "18477348", "text": "on February 14, 2018, and subsequently reported to the Performance Center. For reason that have not been made public, his contract was terminated on September 18. Singh never appeared on television but did wrestle 10 house show matches for NXT, debuting with a win over Dan Matha at the Reserve Pavilion in Ocala, Florida on March 1. Shera is a big fan of Bollywood. Amitabh Bachchan is his favorite actor from the industry. Mahabali Shera Amanpreet Singh Randhawa (born October 17, 1990) is an Indian professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with Impact Wrestling under the ring", "title": "Mahabali Shera" }, { "id": "5014328", "text": "One week later, however, the Film & Television Producers Guild lifted the ban. Kapoor claimed that the video clip in question was doctored and he has been framed. He said that the undercover reporter met him several times and threatened to commit suicide if he did not come to the hotel room she had booked. Shakti Kapoor was seen as a contestant in the popular controversial Indian reality show \"Bigg Boss\", season 5. He was the captain of the house for the first two weeks but eventually got eliminated in the fourth week of the show. Shakti Kapoor Shakti Kapoor", "title": "Shakti Kapoor" }, { "id": "4477495", "text": "Abhijeet Sawant from Mumbai. The season was aired from October 2004 to March 2005 on Sony TV. Amit Sana from Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, was declared the first runner-up, while Rahul Vaidya from Nagpur and Prajakta Shukre from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, placed third and fourth respectively. The judges for the first season were Anu Malik, Sonu Nigam, and Farah Khan. They retained the same spot for the second season. The first season was hosted by Aman Verma and Mini Mathur. The top 11 in order of their eliminations were: The winner, Abhijeet Sawant, went on to release his first album, \"Aapka...Abhijeet Sawant\".", "title": "Indian Idol" }, { "id": "11653337", "text": "Monika or Sahra or Thomas (All) Eliminated: Jermaine Bottom 5: Linda, Collins, Benjamin, Rania, Sahra Jury Elimination Forecast: Benjamin, Collins (Dieter), Collins, Rania (Anja), Benjamin (Bär) Jury Best Performance Forecast: Fady (Dieter, Anja), Monika, Fady (Bär) Eliminated: Sahra Bottom 4: Monika, Benjamin, Rania, Stella Jury Elimination Forecast: Benjamin (All) Jury Best Performance Forecast: Thomas (All) Eliminated: Stella Guest star, Mariah Carey performed her new hit single \"Touch My Body\" and worked with the contestants backstage. This is the first time that the host spoke English and had an English interview live on the show. As well, casting contestant Mario Teusch", "title": "Deutschland sucht den Superstar (season 5)" }, { "id": "10165192", "text": "an anchor in MTV's \"House of Style\". She later hosted \"MTV Dance Crew\", \"MTV Teen Diva\", \"MTV News\" and \"MTV Love School\" for the network. In 2008, she won \"Best VJ\" at the Cosmopolitan Fun Fearless Female Awards. As of 2014, Dandekar is a judge on \"India's Next Top Model\" alongside model-actress Lisa Haydon. In 2003, Dandekar made her acting debut in Bollywood with \"Mumbai Matinee\" and went on to do \"Viruddh\" in 2005, alongside Bollywood veterans Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sharmila Tagore and John Abraham. Her performance in the film won her the Best Debut Award at the Maharashtra", "title": "Anusha Dandekar" }, { "id": "11596990", "text": "They beat the Royal Challengers Bangalore by 35 runs in the semifinal, thanks to Pollard's all-round efforts (33* from 13 balls, and 3/17). At the final, they were defeated by the Chennai Super Kings by 22 runs. The Mumbai team management was criticised for the \"strategic errors\" during the final such as sending Abhishek Nayar and Harbhajan at batting positions 3 and 4 respectively while Duminy and Pollard were sent at 7 and 8. Mumbai skipper Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 618 runs at an average of 47.53 and strike rate of 132.6, won the Orange Cap for scoring most runs", "title": "Mumbai Indians" }, { "id": "14005064", "text": "and 11 respectively, and was succeeded by Krista White, Sophie Sumner, Jourdan Miller and India Gants from Cycles 14, 18 the \"British Invasion\", 20 \"Guys & Girls\" and 23 respectively. Fox also became the first \"America's Next Top Model\" winner to have also never even appeared in the bottom three. This was succeeded by Cycle 20 winner Jourdan Miller. Kirkpatrick said she believed Fox won because of the strength of her photos: \"Every time with the judges, she could do no wrong in front of them. They really saw her as perfect.\" Fox said of her win: Fox received a", "title": "Nicole Fox" }, { "id": "14002445", "text": "same name by Rabindranath Tagore. She later featured in the Doordarshan TV series, \"Ek Tha Rusty\" (2014), playing Maharani. Later in 2017, Anuya participated in the first season of \"Bigg Boss Tamil\", but became the first contestant to be evicted. She later claimed that her inability to speak Tamil fluently meant that other contestants were less accepting of her presence in the show. Anuya Bhagvath Anuya Y Bhagwat is an Indian film actress and model who has appeared in Tamil films. She is best known for her performances in Rajesh's romantic comedy \"Siva Manasula Sakthi\" (2009) and Shankar's \"Nanban\" (2012).", "title": "Anuya Bhagvath" }, { "id": "19523593", "text": "acts for them and also perform with them. The Super Dancers perform on Saturdays and along with their choreographers on Sunday. The performances are voted by the audience every week on the website or the SonyLiv App. On the basis of the number of votes, one kid is being eliminated every week. This season was started from 10 September 2016 and last episode of this season was aired on 17 December 2016. Five contestants - Laxman Kumbhar, Siddhanth Damedhar (both of whom were eliminated from the show earlier), Lakshay Sinha (who couldn't perform earlier in the competition due to his", "title": "Super Dancer" }, { "id": "9330693", "text": "for ₹ 5.2 crores using their RTM (right to match) card. In the 2018 Indian Premier League, Dhawan scored 497 runs, his side finished runners-up after losing to Chennai Super Kings in the final. He was traded to Delhi Capitals for the 2019 season. Dhawan has endorsement deals with the following brands: In 2012, Dhawan married Melbourne-based Ayesha Mukherjee, an amateur boxer. Mukherjee was introduced to Dhawan by Harbhajan Singh. She was a mother of two daughters, Rhea and Aliyah, from her previous marriage. In early 2014, she gave birth to a boy named Zoravar. He is well known for", "title": "Shikhar Dhawan" }, { "id": "17103713", "text": "Maneet Chauhan Maneet Chauhan (born 27 October 1976 in Ludhiana, Punjab) is an Indian American chef and television personality of Sikh origin. Previously the Executive Chef of several notable restaurants in Chicago and New York, she is featured as a judge on \"Chopped\" on the Food Network. She has appeared on \"The Next Iron Chef\", on \"The View\" on ABC, \"Iron Chef America\", the \"Today\" show on NBC, and as a judge on the finale of \"Worst Cooks in America\" on Food Network. Chef Maneet Chauhan was invited by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for the Annual Easter", "title": "Maneet Chauhan" }, { "id": "20515020", "text": "television debut. The show is hosted by singer-actor Meiyang Chang and dancer-choreographer Raghav Juyal. Bannet Dosanjh became India's first Rising Star, won Rs. 20 lakhs and also an opportunity to sing a song in an upcoming Vishesh Films movie. Maithili Thakur was declared as the first runner-up. The Live auditions began on 4 February 2017 and lasted for 8 episodes. The top 30 scorers from the auditions moved on to the second round named 'Duels Ki Takkar' which began on 4 March 2017. The contestants who qualify from this round move on to the quarterfinals. Episode 9: 4 March 2017", "title": "Rising Star India (season 1)" }, { "id": "10409878", "text": "Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th", "title": "2007 New York Dragons season" }, { "id": "10409773", "text": "Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd", "title": "2007 Dallas Desperados season" }, { "id": "20625922", "text": "3–5–2 formation, with key players Sunil Chhetri and Miku leading the attack. Left back Nishu Kumar would be suspended for this match after gaining a red card in the previous match while defenders Rahul Bheke and Juanan were doubts to play. Khalid Jamil, the East Bengal head coach, said that his team must remain positive before the match and apprehensive of Bengaluru. \"It is the last match of the season. Bengaluru FC is a great team, no doubt. We cannot afford to make mistakes,\" he said. East Bengal centerback, Eduardo Ferreira, meanwhile made some comments to the media as he", "title": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final" }, { "id": "18026604", "text": "her passion for dance and she lived according to her life's motto, \"Never give up... Nothing is impossible,\". Her mother Smt. Charanjeet Kaur is her role model. Shubh got selected in \"India's Got Talent\" TV show for her dance performance. Her performance received a standing ovation from the Judges. Salman Khan admired her on Twitter \"Wah Yaar. Hats Off. Kamaal Hai.\" In 2015, she became a contestant on \"Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa\" (season 8) and was impressed by the judges. She was eliminated in week 6. She married Yash Makkar. After two months of marriage she charged her husband with sexual", "title": "Subhreet Kaur Ghumman" }, { "id": "14485937", "text": "raise funds for 21-year-old Akshay, suffering from kidney problems. Vianayak Joshi previously worked as the Digital Head in Flipkart, India. He worked as Radio Jockey in Radio Mirchi and Radio City (Indian radio station), Bangalore. He (July 2016) starred in the Kannada show 'Dancing star 3' and is now eliminated from the show. Vinayak Joshi Born on 25 August 1987, Bangalore. His ancestral roots trace back to Dharwad district. He was a child artiste in the Kannada film industry. Before his radio career, he was an actor in Kannada films since 14 years. Started as a child artiste from the", "title": "Vinayak Joshi" }, { "id": "10282569", "text": "the lead role in \"Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin\", an Indian television serial. His work as Armaan Suri won him the Indian Telly Awards Best Actor Award for 2005. He participated in Colors TV's \"Bigg Boss 7\" on 15 September 2013 with his wife Shilpa Saklani. He was a patient and calm player and also shaved his hair off to make his team win a task. He was eliminated during the 7th week of the show. In 2018, he joined \"Bepannaah\" as Rajveer Khanna. Apurva Agnihotri Apurva Agnihotri (born 2 December 1972) is an Indian actor known for his role of", "title": "Apurva Agnihotri" }, { "id": "20515025", "text": "Saleem, Neha Bhasin, Akriti Kakar & Jubin Nautiyal. Finalist Maithili Thakur gave a guest performance along with Jubin Nautiyal and sang the song Bawra Mann. Takkar The two bottom scorers of the episode participate in a face-off round. In this round, the collective judges score of 21% will be given to only one contestant who, according to them, performed better. Episode 24: 23 April 2017 The top 3 finalists Maithili Thakur, Bannet Dosanjh and Ankita Kundu compete in the first round. Each expert has 1% vote each as opposed to 7%. The top 2 contestants proeed to the Face-off round.", "title": "Rising Star India (season 1)" }, { "id": "17103718", "text": "fundraisers to benefit underprivileged children in India and the typhoon relief efforts in the Philippines. Maneet Chauhan Maneet Chauhan (born 27 October 1976 in Ludhiana, Punjab) is an Indian American chef and television personality of Sikh origin. Previously the Executive Chef of several notable restaurants in Chicago and New York, she is featured as a judge on \"Chopped\" on the Food Network. She has appeared on \"The Next Iron Chef\", on \"The View\" on ABC, \"Iron Chef America\", the \"Today\" show on NBC, and as a judge on the finale of \"Worst Cooks in America\" on Food Network. Chef Maneet", "title": "Maneet Chauhan" }, { "id": "16970616", "text": "Sajid Khan Worst Song: Himesh Reshamya for Icecream Khaungi from \"The Xposé\" Worst Case of Miscasting: Sonam Kapoor for \"Khoobsurat\" Shit Nobody Saw: \"Dishkiyaoon\" Worst Brand Endorsement: Vivek Oberoi for Swacch Bharat Campaign Most Controversial Controversy: TOI and Deepika Padukone for Cleavage Gate! Worst Couple: Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh in \"Gunday\" Worst Debut: Mika Singh and Shaan in \"Balwinder Singh Famous Ho Gaya\" Worst Supporting Role: Kamaal R Khan or KRK for \"Ek Villain\". In April 2016, the nominees for the awards were announced, with the winners being named the following month. Worst Film Worst Director Worst Actor Worst", "title": "Ghanta Awards" }, { "id": "18621608", "text": "Round originally telecast on 5 May 2011. Dinesh hails from Singapore, and had to travel to India to participate in the competition. He entered the competition as one of 9 international finalists in March 2011 but missed many of the main level auditions and the first 9 main competition performance rounds. He was the first eliminated international contestant from the competition at the conclusion of the New Songs Round originally telecast on 7 April 2011. Deepika (local contestant ID SS17) was eliminated from the show at the conclusion of the Love Songs Round in the episode originally telecast on 17", "title": "Airtel Super Singer 3" }, { "id": "4477514", "text": "season. The Top 14 Contestants: Indian Idol Indian Idol is the Indian version of the Pop Idol format that airs on Sony Entertainment Television since 2004. It started airing in India with the first season in 2004–2005 and was followed by second (2005–2006), third (2007), fourth (2008–2009), fifth (2010) and sixth season (2012). For the seventh and eight season \"Indian Idol Junior\" replaced the show before the original Indian Idol returned for 9th season in 2016. The 10th season in 2018 is going to be aired on Sony TV every weekend from 7 July 2018. The winner of the first", "title": "Indian Idol" }, { "id": "672199", "text": "Anthem must be played before movies in theaters, in order to instill \"committed patriotism and nationalism\". On 10 February 2017, 2 Kashmiris were booked for not standing during anthem in Jammu Cinema, under provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. This was the first arrest of its kind made by a state government in India. In January 2018, the government reversed its stance and requested that the Supreme Court rescind the order until a government panel could consider the issue in more depth; the court agreed, and so around 9 January 2018 the National Anthem ceased", "title": "Jana Gana Mana" }, { "id": "17485903", "text": "became finalists on the show along with actress Hina Khan and businessman Puneesh Sharma. Shinde beat the other three finalists and was declared the winner of \"Bigg Boss 11\" on 14 January 2018. She was again called in Bigg Boss 12 as a guest contestant with her fellow contestant Vikas Gupta for eventually raising the TRP of the show. Shilpa Shinde Shilpa Shinde (born 28 August 1977) is an Indian actress who works in television. Shinde made her television debut in 1999 but came to the spotlight for her role in STAR Plus's soap opera \"Bhabhi\" (2002–08). Shinde is best", "title": "Shilpa Shinde" }, { "id": "19871193", "text": "Poulomi Das Poulomi Das is an Indian model and television actress. She is best known for portraying the role of Baby on Star Plus's soap opera Suhani Si Ek Ladki. She is signed to Toabh Talent Management. Das starting her modeling career two years ago and in early 2016 she appeared in the second installment of India's Next Top Model as a contestant where she was selected as a finalist. In November 2016, it was announced that she has been cast on Suhani Si Ek Ladki as a character called Baby. after that she has been cast on Dil hi", "title": "Poulomi Das" }, { "id": "19162273", "text": "Jayasuriya respectively. Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal suffered a wrist injury in the opening match and was ruled out of the rest of the tournament. After the conclusion of the India-Pakistan match in the group stage, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel and Shardul Thakur were all ruled out of India's squad for the rest of the tournament due to injuries. They were replaced by Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar and Siddarth Kaul. At the Super Four stage of the tournament, Soumya Sarkar and Imrul Kayes were added to Bangladesh's squad. Shakib Al Hasan was ruled out of Bangladesh's final Super Four match, and the", "title": "2018 Asia Cup" }, { "id": "13733142", "text": "Soni Singh Soni Singh is an Indian television actress. She has appeared in comedy show \"Comedy Nights with Kapil\". She was one of the contestants on in the reality show \"Bigg Boss 8\" but got eliminated after 5 weeks.She also played one of the main leads in Ghar ki Lakshmi Betiyann. Soni has been in several TV shows including her notable work like \"Banoo Main Teri Dulhann\", \"Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann\", \"Teen Bahuraniyaan\", \"Jhansi Ki Rani\" and \"Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya\". She was a contestant on \"Bigg Boss 8\". Soni Singh is also known for playing the fictional Indian Superheroine", "title": "Soni Singh" }, { "id": "20129376", "text": "Plus. After that he appeared on ALTBalaji's webseries \"Class of 2017\" as Jai. In late September 2017, he joined the cast of \"Rishta Likhenge Hum Naya\" to play the role of Ratan Singh, which was previously played by child actor Affan Khan in Pehredaar Piya Ki. In late October 2018, he joined the reality show Bigg Boss 12 as the 2nd wildcard entry. He got evicted on December 14, 2018. Rohit Suchanti Rohit Suchanti is an Indian television actor. He is known for portraying the lead role of Ratan Maan Singh on \"Rishta Likhenge Hum Naya\" that aired on Sony", "title": "Rohit Suchanti" }, { "id": "20274907", "text": "web-fame. On 11 June 2017, in response to an individual complaint, YouTube deleted all the song-videos on grounds of privacy violation.The videos, though have been re-uploaded by other users and continue to be available. She featured on BBC Radio's Asian Network, in an episode titled: \"Dhinchak Pooja and Nakash Aziz\" and in a programme by Tommy Sandhu. Jain was chosen as a participant in \"Bigg Boss 11\", through a wild card she was evicted on 5 November 2017. Jain grew up in the state of Madhya Pradesh and has a Bachelor of Arts degree. Dhinchak Pooja Pooja Jain, also known", "title": "Dhinchak Pooja" }, { "id": "18106815", "text": "Kunhiraman Marar, Kulappulli Leela, Lathika, M. G. Sreekumar, M.S. Lavanya, Maarten Visser, Madhushree, Madhuvanthi, Madhu Balakrishnan, Mahesh Mani, Manjari, Manju Warrier, Manoj George, Manoj Guinness, Mattannoor Sivaraman, Merlin D'Souza, Mithun Jayaraj, Mukul Dongre, Nadirsha, Naresh Iyer, Nikhita Gandhi, Nirmal Antony, Njaralath Hari Govindan, P. Jayachandran, Palaghat Sreeram, Peruvanam Kuttan Marar, Pndt. Ramesh Narayanan, Poly Varghese, Pradeep Babu, Praful Athle, Prakash Ulliyeri, Pramila, Preeth PS, Rakesh Brahmanand, Ramesh Pisharody, Ravi Chary, Remya Vinayakumar, Rimi Tomy, S. P. Balasubramanyam, Sachin Warrier, Salim Kumar, Salish, Sandeep Mohan, Sapna Mane, Saritha Nair, Satyajit Talwalkar, Sayanora Philip, Saylee Talwalkar, Shomi Davis, Shruti Bhave, Sithara Krishnakumar,", "title": "India Elements" }, { "id": "10411020", "text": "Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Scoring summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd", "title": "2007 Nashville Kats season" }, { "id": "18912237", "text": "Meher Vij Meher Vij (born Vaishali Sahdev, 22 September 1986) is an Indian film and television actress. She is the recipient of a Filmfare Award. She played supporting roles in the drama film \"Bajrangi Bhaijaan\" (2015) and the musical drama \"Secret Superstar\" (2017), both of which rank among the highest grossing Indian films of all time; for the latter she won the Filmfare Award Best Supporting Actress. She has appeared in television shows including \"Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil\" and \"Ram Milaayi Jodi\". Vij was born in 1986 in Delhi as Vaishali Sahdev. She has an elder brother, Piyush", "title": "Meher Vij" }, { "id": "18405581", "text": "unfortunately eliminated by default. Other than these 4 contestants, the judges also eliminated 7 participating contestants: Sathish, Aravindh, Nellaiappan, Tanuj, Madhumathi, Prathipaa, and Sindhujaa. Viewers disagreed with the decision to eliminate Shrinidhi, Madhumathi, and Nellaiappan. Jaya Super Singer South India Jaya Super Singer South India (\"Then India Isai Kuyilgalin Saranaalayam\") is a reality-based Indian singing competition in the Tamil language that is being aired on Jaya TV. The program seeks to discover playback singing talent in South India. The show is sponsored by Ramco Cements & Ramco Supergrade, and powered by The Chennai Silks and co-presented by NAC Jewellers. The", "title": "Jaya Super Singer South India" }, { "id": "14617207", "text": "the first runner - up of Dil Jeetegi Desi Girl. she also appeared in Hindi movies as a small role. Ishita Arun is an model, VJ, actress and presenter of shows such as Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu. Ishita Arun was the second runner - up of Dil Jeetegi Desi Girl. Aushima Sawhney is an actress and model. She is also a former Miss India finalist. Aushima Sawhney was the fifth person to be eliminated on Dil Jeetegi Desi Girl. Monica Bedi is a former starlet and the ex-girlfriend of underworld don Abu Salem. She", "title": "Dil Jeetegi Desi Girl" }, { "id": "17726452", "text": "others. Sana is eliminated after facing public votes while Shamir and Rose join the Top 9. All contestants performed on a theme of Party Music. Alamgir was a guest mentor for week five. Asad Raza Suno, Shamir and Zammad comes in danger zone and Asad is eliminated after facing public votes, his unexpected elimination leave a huge impact on show format. The Top 8 performed songs of their \"Personal Idols\" by giving tribute to their undeniable works. Waqas Vicky, Asad Zaidi and Shamir face the Bottom 3 while Shamir gets eliminated after achieving fewer votes than Ali Asad. \"Top 7\"", "title": "Pakistan Idol (season 1)" }, { "id": "16933392", "text": "Kapil Sharma. Pendse was a celebrity contestant in the twelfth season of the Indian version of the reality TV show \"Big Brother\", \"Bigg Boss\". She was evicted after 4 weeks in the house on 14 October (Day 28). Neha Pendse Neha Pendse is an Indian film and television actress. She was born & brought up in Mumbai & completed her schooling there. Nehha was introduced on India-based satellite television channel Zee Marathi’s \"Bhagyalakshami\". Pendse has acted in Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi films. She was a contestant on the popular reality show \"Bigg Boss\" in 2018. Nehha Pendse was", "title": "Neha Pendse" }, { "id": "18775149", "text": "India's Next Top Model India's Next Top Model was a Indian reality television series, which premiered on 19 July 2015 and broadcast on MTV India. The series is an Indian version of Tyra Banks-created 2003 American reality television series \"America's Next Top Model\". Short Step film UK based company CEO Stuwart to get new judge Randeep Hooda for the next season.The viewers will see several women compete for the title of \"India's Next Top Model\", providing them with an opportunity to begin their career in the modeling industry. The series is hosted by Lisa Haydon, judged by Haydon and Dabboo", "title": "India's Next Top Model" }, { "id": "20414040", "text": "more, the show will prove to be an entertainment variety show. Drop the Mic is a part of the show hosted by Aditya Narayan, where two celebrity guests have to do a face-off by belittling each other saracastically. They are to do so in the form of a rap. The first one to drop their mic will be declared the loser. ◇Ep.1 ▪Guest Sanjay Dutt ▪Original Air Date 21 April 2018 ◇Ep.2 ▪Guest Farah Khan & Raveena Tandon ▪Original Air Date 22 April 2018 ◇Ep.3 ▪Guest Shatrughan Singha, Tony Kakkar, Neha Kakkar & Himansh Kohli ▪Original Air Date 28 April", "title": "Entertainment Ki Raat" }, { "id": "20815183", "text": "Amit Tiwari Amit Tiwari is an Indian film actor known primarily for his negative roles in Telugu films, as well as a few Tamil, Hindi, and Kannada films. Some of his notable roles are in successful films such as \"Vikramarkudu\" (2006), \"\"Lakshyam\" (2007), \"Rowdy Rathore\" (2012), \"\"Temper\"\" (2015). He was a contestant in reality TV show \"Bigg Boss Telugu 2\" in 2018, where he finished in 7th place and was evicted on day 98. Amit has starred in many films from back in 2004 till date, including minor negative roles to major villain roles.He is a very popular villain as", "title": "Amit Tiwari" }, { "id": "20123503", "text": "Va\" in the lead role alongside Amzath Khan, while also revealed his intentions of directing a film titled \"Kuthirai Muttai\", based on Tamil folklore. Later in 2018, he participated in the second season of reality television show, \"Bigg Boss\", before being evicted on day 77. A few days after exiting the house, Daniel married his longtime girlfriend, Denisha. Daniel Annie Pope Daniel Annie Pope (born 1 June 1990) is an Indian film actor who has appeared in Tamil language films. After appearing in uncredited and minor roles, he made his breakthrough as an actor with his comic role in \"Idharkuthane", "title": "Daniel Annie Pope" }, { "id": "11594980", "text": "which led to the making of Shane Watson as the interim captain. Even their star players KL Rahul and Sarfaraz Khan were ruled out of the season due to their prolonged injuries. They lost their first match of the season as they were bundled out by 172 and lost by 35 runs to Sunrisers Hyderabad in Hyderabad. But they won their second match against Delhi Daredevils in their home ground. However, they lost the next three matches in a row against Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiant respectively. Through AB De Villiers made a quick fire 89", "title": "Royal Challengers Bangalore" }, { "id": "4477506", "text": "1 crore with Sony Entertainment Television and a TATA Winger. She released an album, \"Meherbaan\", as per a contract with Sony. She also performed a few stage shows around the country and overseas with Sony TV.Kapil Thapa was runner-up while Torsha Sarkar finished third. The fourth season saw Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar on the hot seats as they took the judges' chair once again for the show. New to this season were singer Kailash Kher and Indian actress Sonali Bendre. The fourth season was hosted by Hussain Kuwajerwala and Meiyang Chang. One of the contestants, Bhavya Pandit, received an", "title": "Indian Idol" }, { "id": "18696433", "text": "a wildcard entrant. Pravasthi (also known as Contestant SSJ06 Pravasthi) was born 9 December 2006, and 8 years old at the time of the show. She attended Geethanjali Olypiyaad school. The show's official website also listed her other nickname as \"Rhino\". Pravasti previously won Zee Telugu's \"Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs 2011\", another reality TV singing competition, at the age of 4 years. After being eliminated from the competition, Pravasthi qualified as a wildcard entrant. J. Anal Akash Bharathy (also known as Contestant SSJ09 Anal Akash) was born 15 September 1999, and 15 years old at the time", "title": "Super Singer Junior" }, { "id": "19630829", "text": "Pranati Rai Prakash Pranati Rai Prakash is an Indian fashion model best known as the winner of India's Next Top Model 2016 edition. She was also a semi-finalist at Miss India 2015. She has featured in several TV commercials and walked for Lakmé Fashion Week and India International bridal Week. Pranati was born to Colonel Prem Prakash and Sadhana Rai. She hails from Patna in Bihar. Her father serves in the army. Due to her father's job, her family relocated to a number of places in India, including Srinagar, Port Blair, Bathinda, Mhow, Delhi, Thiruvananthapuram, Shillong, Delhi, Dehradun and Patna.", "title": "Pranati Rai Prakash" }, { "id": "20305932", "text": "night. The first challenger of the season was Juno Su. Su finished 5th and was temporarily declared safe, while Li received the fewest audience votes combined from both shows and was eliminated. Due to Beijing's sudden ban on hip-hop culture, GAI withdraw from the competition; footage on GAI's performances from both episodes (and re-runs) were edited out, and clips of his involvement in the competition were also subsequently removed from video-sharing websites as well. His appearance was neither mentioned nor shown in the later episodes, thus effectively confirmed his withdrawal from the competition. The first substitute singer of the season", "title": "Singer 2018" }, { "id": "17205033", "text": "a substitute judge for Shreya Ghoshal during an episode. Guests included Farhan Akhtar, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, and Bappi Lahiri. Shahrukh Khan, Rohit Shetty and Deepika Padukone featured as special guests to promote their upcoming film \"Chennai Express\". The top 11 contestants were invited back to perform for the grand finale. Shahid Kapoor, Ram Charan and Priyanka Chopra were also present. Amitabh Bachchan gave away the first Indian Idol Junior trophy to Anjana Padmanaban. Ananya Sritam Nanda, from Bhubaneshwar, was the winner. The judges were Salim Merchant, Sonakshi Sinha and Vishal Dadlani. Shalmali Kholgade had appeared for the preliminary selection rounds,", "title": "Indian Idol Junior" }, { "id": "20600352", "text": "- Kings Of Leon Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes Radioactive - Imagine Dragons Million Reasons - Lady Gaga Shape Of You - Ed Sheeran Words - Emma Drobná After this round, 20 contestants were sent home. In the last round, 40 best contestants sang in pairs, where either 1 or both contestans were eliminated, or in some cases, both got through. Four contestants received a “wild card” from judges, which meant their immediate advancement to the semi-finals. Those contestants were: Jakub Pružinský, Zuzana Chalupová, Dominik Gerda and Adéla Ferencová. The last round was Dlouhá cesta/Dlhá cesta in which 16", "title": "Česko Slovenská SuperStar 2018" }, { "id": "18775150", "text": "Ratnani and mentored by Anusha Dandekar alongside image consultant and grooming expert Neeraj Gaba. Bulldog Media & Entertainment had licensed the format rights from CBS Television Distribution and the series was premiered on 19 July 2015 on MTV India. Thirteen finalists were chosen to compete for the show. The winner of the competition was 18 year-old Danielle Canute from Mumbai. As her prizes, she received a one-year contract to be the new face of TRESemmé, representation from Bling Talent Management, and the opportunity to appear in a spread in \"Grazia\" magazine.dhoti India's Next Top Model India's Next Top Model was", "title": "India's Next Top Model" }, { "id": "16880025", "text": "also worked with directors like Deepti Naval and Bharat Rangachary. He was also competed on the dance reality show \"Nach Baliye\", in which he participated with his ex-wife, Delnaaz Irani. As a contestant in Bigg Boss 6, he was evicted from the house just before the grand finale after completing 96 days in the house. Paul met Delnaaz Irani, a television actress, on the set of \"Parivartan\" in 1993. After being married for 14 years, the couple separated in 2010 and were divorced in 2012. Rajeev Paul Rajeev Paul (born 5 June 1970) is an Indian television actor who has", "title": "Rajeev Paul" }, { "id": "10416126", "text": "Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance: Scoring Summary: 1st Quarter: 2nd Quarter: 3rd Quarter: 4th Quarter: Attendance:", "title": "2007 Utah Blaze season" }, { "id": "20515393", "text": "live via the television channel's mobile app. The show premiered on 20 January 2018 on Colors TV. This is the first reality television show in India which involves Live Audience Voting through Voot App. Popular playback singer and music director Shankar Mahadevan, playback singer and actor Monali Thakur and actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh return as the experts in the show. The show is hosted by TV Actor Ravi Dubey. The winner of Rising Star Season 2 is Hemant Brijwasi. In contrast to other singing competition TV shows which feature a cast of celebrity judges, \"Rising Star\" features a cast of celebrity", "title": "Rising Star India (season 2)" }, { "id": "18912238", "text": "Sahdev. She married Manav Vij on 5 July 2009 in Mumbai. She changed her name from Vaishali Sahdev to Meher in 2009, after marrying Manav Vij. Meher Vij Meher Vij (born Vaishali Sahdev, 22 September 1986) is an Indian film and television actress. She is the recipient of a Filmfare Award. She played supporting roles in the drama film \"Bajrangi Bhaijaan\" (2015) and the musical drama \"Secret Superstar\" (2017), both of which rank among the highest grossing Indian films of all time; for the latter she won the Filmfare Award Best Supporting Actress. She has appeared in television shows including", "title": "Meher Vij" }, { "id": "14017566", "text": "young talent Akane Yamaguchi (14-21, 10-21), who later lost in the final to India's Saina Nehwal. Wang Shixian qualified in first place for the year end Super Series Finals staged for the first time in Dubai. She lost all three of her round-robin matches in straight sets and exited the tournament. Wang graduated from the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics with a bachelor's degree. She married former teammate Chen Long in 2017, after over a decade together. Record against Superseries finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists - as of 6 November 2015: Wang Shixian Wang Shixian (; ;", "title": "Wang Shixian" }, { "id": "19334821", "text": "Angela Krislinzki Angela Krislinzki formerly known as Annie Krislinzki is an Indian actress and model who began her career with MTV Splitsvilla Season 1. She went on to do several other reality TV shows like Channel V Beauty and the Geek & Lux Cine Star ki Lhoj. She now primarily acts in Telugu and Bollywood movies. Her Telugu debut movie was \"Rogue (2017 film)\". She participated in the reality show \"India's Next Superstars\" judged by Karan Johar and Rohit Shetty. Her Bollywood debut was \"1921 (2018 film)\". Apart from acting she is trained in different dance forms, which she demonstrated", "title": "Angela Krislinzki" }, { "id": "20625924", "text": "the match, it was announced that both Juanan and Rahul Bheke had passed fitness tests and were starting for Bengaluru. For East Bengal, Dudu Omagbemi wasn't fit enough for the starting eleven but was on the bench. Within the first minute of the match, Bengaluru had earned a corner kick before East Bengal were able to get their first attack at Bengaluru. East Bengal's Ansumana Kromah was able to draw a foul outside the box and Bengaluru's Gurpreet Singh Sandhu and John Johnson were both given yellow cards. Kromah would eventually find the opening goal of the match in the", "title": "2018 Indian Super Cup Final" }, { "id": "10554022", "text": "the following round. The episode telecast on 25 January featured the waitlist challenge between the bottom four contestants from the previous week's performances. However, there was no elimination. The judges warned the weakest performers, Sowmya and Ovviya, that either would be eliminated if a bottom performer again. The 26–28 January episodes featured performances of songs penned by poet Subramania Bharathiyar and other songs of Indian patriotism. Personal secretary to the late Mahatma Gandhi, Mr V.S. Kalyanam, appeared as a special guest. At the conclusion of the performances, in celebration of the Independence Day theme, no contestants were eliminated. The 1–4", "title": "Super Singer Junior (season 2)" }, { "id": "13116050", "text": "off. From an early age, he had aspired to be a playback singer, but was never formally trained. Amit Paul participated in the third season of Indian Idol. After being eliminated, he was brought back as a wild card entry. He was ultimately beaten by Prashant Tamang. After Idols, Amit Paul reappeared on Indian television in the new game show Ek Se Badhkar Ek (Zee TV). This saw Amit Paul being paired with Rajshree Thakur as a singer-dancer combo. The pair lasted until the 9th week, when Rajshree had to quit on doctors orders. Amit also appeared on K for", "title": "Amit Paul" }, { "id": "12011853", "text": "Suhit Gosain Suhit Gosain (born 17 October 1985 in Bhopal, India) is an Indian pop-singer, actor, and performer. He was a contestant on \"Indian Idol 3\", a reality musical show aired on Sony Entertainment Television, modeled on \"Pop Idol\". He was a favourite of Alisha Chinai, who was a judge of the same show. He was a part of the F4 boy-band which also included- Abhishek, Parleen and Meiyang Chang. The band earned great public appreciation. F4 was also declared 'The Next Big Thing' on Channel V. Despite such popularity, the band presently exists no more. Suhit holds a Management", "title": "Suhit Gosain" } ]

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[ { "id": "18255234", "text": "Woody Harrelson had been cast as the film's antagonist, and that Chavarria's role was supporting. In October 2015, TheWrap reported that Steve Zahn was cast as a new ape in the film. It was also announced that actress Amiah Miller was cast as one of the film's humans, with Judy Greer and Karin Konoval reprising their roles as Cornelia and Maurice, while Aleks Paunovic and Sara Canning were cast as new apes. Principal photography on the film began on October 14, 2015 in the Lower Mainland in Vancouver, under the working title \"Hidden Fortress\". Filming was expected to take place", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "18255218", "text": "to the fifth film in the original series, \"Battle for the Planet of the Apes\", but it is not a direct remake. Principal photography began on October 14, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" premiered in New York City on July 10, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 14, 2017, by 20th Century Fox. The film has grossed over $490 million and received critical praise, with many reviewers highlighting the performances (particularly Serkis's), visual effects, story, direction, and musical score. The film received a nomination for Best Special", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "18255235", "text": "there until early March 2016. Parts of the film were expected to shoot for up to five days in the Kananaskis in late January and early February. In March, Serkis confirmed that he had finished shooting his portions. As with \"Rise\" and \"Dawn\", the visual effects for \"War\" were created by Weta Digital; the apes were created with a mixture of motion-capture and CGI key-frame animation, as they were performed in motion-capture technology and animated in CGI. At New York Comic-Con 2016, Reeves explained that he and Bomback were influenced by many films before writing. He said, \"One of the", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "13813723", "text": "of \"Dawn\", he was contracted to return as director; he also wrote the script with Mark Bomback. Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver again served as producers. Given a $150 million budget, \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" was released on July 14, 2017. The film depicts the apes and humans in armed conflict, and follows Caesar and his followers as they track down the mysterious Colonel, a human paramilitary leader, and search for a new home. Serkis returned as Caesar, Woody Harrelson played the villainous Colonel, and Steve Zahn played Bad Ape. It earned widespread", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "12258586", "text": "who designed prosthetic make up in the film, held training sessions at 20th Century-Fox studios, where he mentored other make-up artists of the film. Filming began on May 21, 1967, and ended on August 10, 1967. Most of the early scenes of a desert-like terrain were shot in northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River, Lake Powell, Glen Canyon and other locations near Page, Arizona Most scenes of the ape village, interiors and exteriors, were filmed on the Fox Ranch in Malibu Creek State Park, northwest of Los Angeles, essentially the backlot of 20th Century Fox. The concluding", "title": "Planet of the Apes (1968 film)" }, { "id": "14548382", "text": "the evolution of the apes, and there's a lot more stories to tell after this. I imagine the next film will be about the all-out war between the apes and humans.\" Mark Bomback did an uncredited rewrite of the script. Filming began in July 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Filming also happened in San Francisco, California (the primary setting of the film), and around Oahu, Hawaii, which doubled for the African jungle as the schedule and budget did not allow for location shooting in Africa. As the apes in \"Rise\" were meant to be actual apes, the producers decided not", "title": "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "12258569", "text": "J. Schaffner to direct the film. Schaffner's changes included an ape society less advanced—and therefore less expensive to depict—than that of the original novel. Filming took place between May 21 and August 10, 1967, in California, Utah and Arizona, with desert sequences shot in and around Lake Powell, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The film's final \"closed\" cost was $5.8 million. The film was released on February 8, 1968, in the United States and was a commercial success, earning a lifetime domestic gross of $32.6 million. The film was groundbreaking for its prosthetic makeup techniques by artist John Chambers and", "title": "Planet of the Apes (1968 film)" }, { "id": "18255239", "text": "July 21, 2017. The film was initially set for a July 29, 2016, release. However, in January 2015, Fox postponed the film's release date to about a year later on July 14, 2017. Special behind-the-scenes footage for the film was aired on TV on November 22, 2015, as part of a contest announcement presented by director Matt Reeves and Andy Serkis. The footage aired during \"The Walking Dead\" on AMC. The announcement allowed winners to wear a performance-capture suit and appear in a scene as an ape. The announcement was released on 20th Century Fox's official YouTube page later the", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "18255217", "text": "War for the Planet of the Apes War for the Planet of the Apes is a 2017 American science fiction film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback and Reeves. A sequel to \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\" (2011) and \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\" (2014), it is the third installment in the \"Planet of the Apes\" reboot series. The film stars Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson and Steve Zahn, and follows a confrontation between the apes, led by Caesar, and the humans for control of Earth. Like its predecessor, its premise shares several similarities", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "3134793", "text": "references to the racial conflicts in North America during the early 1970s, and Thompson further highlighted by shooting some scenes in a manner similar to a news broadcast. The primary location was Century City, Los Angeles, that had previously been part of the 20th Century Fox backlot and translated well the bleak future with monochromatic buildings in a sterile ultramodern style. Also used as a shooting location was the University of California, Irvine, in Orange County. In addition, TV producer Irwin Allen contributed props and clothes to the film: he let the makers of 'Conquest' borrow his Seaview jumpsuits from", "title": "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "18255228", "text": "and the other apes look on. After seeing his cut of \"Dawn\", 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment signed Matt Reeves to return as director for a third installment of the reboot series. In January 2014, the studio announced the third film, with Reeves returning to direct and co-write along with Bomback, and Peter Chernin, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver serving as producers. During an interview in mid-November 2014 with MTV, Andy Serkis said they did not know the next film's setting. \"...It could be five years after the event. It could be the night after the events of where", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "12677639", "text": "pump in extra water. The film was mostly shot at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, while other filming locations included lava plains in Hawaii and Trona Pinnacles at Ridgecrest. To preserve secrecy, the shooting script did not include the ending. Stan Winston was the original makeup designer but left because of creative differences. Fox considered using computer-generated imagery to create the apes, but Burton insisted on using prosthetic makeup designed by Rick Baker. Baker was previously involved with Adam Rifkin's unproduced remake. Burton commented, \"I have a relationship with both of them [Winston and Baker], so that decision", "title": "Planet of the Apes (2001 film)" }, { "id": "18255249", "text": "to follow, but you care for the motion-captured characters at the center of it, while the humans cower in fear.\" In October 2016, it was reported that a fourth \"Planet of the Apes\" film was being discussed. War for the Planet of the Apes War for the Planet of the Apes is a 2017 American science fiction film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback and Reeves. A sequel to \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\" (2011) and \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\" (2014), it is the third installment in the \"Planet of the Apes\"", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "18255219", "text": "Visual Effects at the 71st British Academy Film Awards, and was also nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 90th Academy Awards. It was also nominated for four Saturn Awards, including Best Director for Reeves and Best Actor for Serkis. Two years after the misanthropic bonobo Koba attacked the human survivors in San Francisco, Caesar and his tribe of intelligent apes have been forced against a rogue U.S. military faction known as Alpha-Omega led by a ruthless colonel. Alpha-Omega employs other apes formerly loyal to Koba, derogatorily called \"donkeys\". An Alpha-Omega platoon launches an attack on an ape outpost, but", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "12258587", "text": "beach scenes were filmed on a stretch of California seacoast between Malibu and Oxnard with cliffs that towered 130 feet above the shore. Reaching the beach on foot was virtually impossible, so cast, crew, film equipment, and even horses had to be lowered in by helicopter. The home movies of Roddy McDowall (on YouTube) show makeup, the Ape Village set and the beach site/set - a wooden ramp was built around the point from Westward Beach to Pirates Cove for access to the beach set. The remains of the Statue of Liberty were shot in a secluded cove on the", "title": "Planet of the Apes (1968 film)" }, { "id": "16563624", "text": "2014. According to Nielsen VideoScan, it subsequently became the best-selling home video release for the week. After seeing his cut of \"Dawn\", 20th Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment signed Matt Reeves to return as director for a third installment of the reboot series. On January 6, 2014, Fox announced Reeves to direct as well as co-write along with Bomback, with a planned July 2016 release. Peter Chernin, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver will produce. In January 2015, Fox delayed the release to July 14, 2017. On May 14, 2015, the title was given as \"War of the Planet of the", "title": "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "3235970", "text": "place on the Fox Movie Ranch for an estimated budget of $1.7 million. Heading into filming, director J. Lee Thompson was unhappy with both the script and the scope of the production, which he felt could have used a bigger budget to assist in the portrayal of the \"Battle.\" Thompson had agreed to direct without a script in place and regretted that Paul Dehn couldn't have been on the project throughout the writing process. \"Battle for the Planet of the Apes\" was the second-to-last film produced by Arthur P. Jacobs. He died June 27, 1973 at age 51, less than", "title": "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "2227625", "text": "monument was a setting in \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\" (2011), \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\" (2014) and the first act of \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" (2017), though all three films were in fact filmed in British Columbia. Jack Kerouac discusses hiking though Muir Woods in his book The Dharma Bums. Muir Woods National Monument Muir Woods National Monument is a United States National Monument managed by the National Park Service. It is located on Mount Tamalpais near the Pacific coast, in southwestern Marin County, California. It is part of the Golden Gate", "title": "Muir Woods National Monument" }, { "id": "13813721", "text": "from the project due to production and scheduling issues, and was replaced by Matt Reeves. Set ten years after \"Rise\", the film establishes that the \"simian flu\" that increased the intelligence of the apes has killed most humans. Caesar struggles to maintain peace as his ape community is drawn into violent clashes with nearby human survivors. Weta Digital again provided special effects work, which combined practical sets, digitally manipulated backgrounds, and performance capture ape characters. The lead human characters were played by Jason Clarke, as Malcolm; Keri Russell, as Ellie; and Gary Oldman, as Dreyfus. Released on July 11, 2014,", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "3235962", "text": "a human teacher for saying \"No\" to apes, Caesar ponders if his own parents could have taught him how to make things better. MacDonald, Caesar's human assistant and younger brother of Mr. MacDonald (\"Conquest of the Planet of the Apes\"), reveals to Caesar that his brother told him of archived footage of Cornelius and Zira within the underground ruins of New York, now radioactive and known as the Forbidden City. Caesar travels with MacDonald and orangutan Virgil to the Forbidden City to find the archives. It is revealed that mutated and radiation-scarred humans are living within the city, under the", "title": "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "3235960", "text": "Battle for the Planet of the Apes Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It is the fifth and final entry in the original \"Planet of the Apes\" series, produced by Arthur P. Jacobs, following \"Conquest of the Planet of the Apes\". It stars Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Paul Williams and John Huston. The two sequels in the 2010s reboot series, \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\" and \"War for the Planet of the Apes\", have a similar premise to \"Battle\", but", "title": "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "18255244", "text": "if smaller Asian markets over-perform, as they have for recent tent poles. The film ended up having an international debut of $44.2 million, including $9.27 million in the United Kingdom. \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" received praise for the cast's performances (particularly Serkis's), Reeves's direction, visual effects, musical score, cinematography and its morally complex storyline. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 93% based on 323 reviews, with a rating average of 8.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, \"\"War for the Planet of the Apes\" combines breathtaking special effects and a powerful, poignant", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "16563625", "text": "Apes\". In September 2015, it was announced that Woody Harrelson had been cast as the film's antagonist. In October 2015, Steve Zahn was cast as a new ape in the film, retitled as \"War for the Planet of the Apes\". Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a 2014 American science fiction film directed by Matt Reeves and written by Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It stars Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. It is the sequel to the 2011 film \"Rise of", "title": "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "3134794", "text": "\"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea\", brown clothes and computers and cabinets for Ape Management that were used first on \"The Time Tunnel\" and other sets and props from other Allen productions. Of the five original films, \"Conquest\" is the only entry filmed in Todd-AO 35 using Arriflex ARRI 35IIC cameras with lenses provided by the Carl Zeiss Group; the other Apes pictures were filmed in Panavision. The original cut of \"Conquest\" ended with the brutal killing of Governor Breck, with an implicit message that this circle of hatred would never end. After a preview screening in Phoenix on", "title": "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "16563609", "text": "Kodi Smit-McPhee were cast in lead roles for the sequel, set ten years after the events from the first film. In March 2013, actress Keri Russell was cast in a role. That same month, Judy Greer was cast as Cornelia, a female chimp and love interest for Caesar. Toby Kebbell, Enrique Murciano and Kirk Acevedo joined the cast during filming. On May 15, 2013, Jocko Sims was cast in a supporting role of military operative Werner. Filming began in April 2013 around the town of Campbell River, British Columbia. The location of Vancouver Island was chosen for its similarity to", "title": "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "16756804", "text": "Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver are American screenwriters and film producers. They are husband and wife. They are best known for having written and co-produced the 2011 science-fiction film \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\", a commercially and critically successful reboot of the \"Planet of the Apes\" franchise for which they were nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Writing. They were also co-writers/producers of its 2014 sequel \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\", and produced the third installment, \"War for the Planet of the Apes\", in 2017. They co-wrote \"Jurassic World\" and", "title": "Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver" }, { "id": "16563610", "text": "the locations depicted in the film, the forests, and the variety of landscapes. Filming in New Orleans started in May 2013 and continued in July 2013 at various locations such as the former Six Flags park Six Flags New Orleans. Like \"Rise\", visual effects for \"Dawn\" were done by Weta Digital. In addition to the apes, Weta created other digital animals, such as a herd of elk, a grizzly bear, and CG doubles of the live horses. The elk were created using key-frame animation and the digital crowd enhancement software MASSIVE, the bear through key-frame animation, and the horses with", "title": "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "614590", "text": "Australia in Sydney. Location shooting took place in the Tunisian desert, at the Plaza de España in Seville, London, China, Vancouver, San Diego, and Italy (Villa del Balbianello on Lake Como, and in the former royal Palace of Caserta). At his own personal request, Samuel L. Jackson's character Mace Windu received a lightsaber that emitted an amethyst glow, as opposed to traditional blue and green for \"good guys\" and red for \"bad guys\". Reshoots were performed in March 2001. During this time, a new action sequence was developed featuring the droid factory after Lucas had decided that the film lacked", "title": "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones" }, { "id": "1479591", "text": "hall for the live-action prequel series for the popular console game Halo 4 in . In addition, many other films such as \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\" and \"This Means War\" were filmed there due to directors' taking a liking to the cement structure of the building which makes for very official looking sets. Richmond, British Columbia Richmond () is a coastal city located in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is part of the Metro Vancouver area. It is the major part of Lulu Island. As of 2016, it has an estimated population of 198,309 people", "title": "Richmond, British Columbia" }, { "id": "5741985", "text": "It was expanded to its current hectares in 2004. The park's rock cliffs and relatively close distance to Vancouver has resulted in many popular movies being filmed there. \"First Blood\", \"Shoot to Kill\", \"\", \"Cabin in the Woods\" and \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" were all filmed in Coquihalla Canyon. The location is easily recognizable when watching \"First Blood\" where Sylvester Stallone hangs off the cliff while a helicopter tries to snipe him down. As of May 2015, the tunnels have reopened after having been closed for over a year due to rockfall concerns. Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park", "title": "Coquihalla Canyon Provincial Park" }, { "id": "13813682", "text": "series commenced in 2011 with \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\", which was followed by \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\" in 2014 and \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" in 2017. The films have grossed a total of over $2 billion worldwide, against a combined budget of $567.5 million. Along with further narratives in various media, franchise tie-ins include video games, toys, and planned theme park rides. \"Planet of the Apes\" has received particular attention among film critics for its treatment of racial issues. Cinema and cultural analysts have also explored its Cold War and animal", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "13813687", "text": "Zone\", to pen the screenplay. Serling's script changed elements of Boulle's novel, introducing Cold War themes; notably, he devised a new twist ending that revealed the planet to be a future Earth where humans had destroyed themselves through nuclear warfare. Production costs were estimated at over $10 million, a risk no studio in either Hollywood or Europe would assume. Jacobs and associate producer Mort Abrahams persevered, and eventually persuaded Charlton Heston to star; Heston in turn recommended director Franklin J. Schaffner. The team recorded a brief screen test featuring Heston, which ultimately convinced 20th Century Fox the film could succeed.", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "13985352", "text": "deemed too expensive. World War II stock footage was used to produce a montage of destruction to show the worldwide invasion, with armies of all nations joining together to fight the invaders. Dr. Forrester's and the other scientists' \"Pacific Tech\" (\"Pacific Institute of Technology\") has since been referenced in other films and television episodes whenever directors/writers/producers needed to depict a science-oriented California university without using a specific institution's name. The California city of Corona was used as the shooting location of the fictitious town of Linda Rosa. St. Brendan's Catholic Church, located at 310 South Van Ness Avenue in Los", "title": "The War of the Worlds (1953 film)" }, { "id": "16563597", "text": "nominated for eight Saturn Awards, including Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director for Reeves, and Best Supporting Actor for Serkis. A third installment, titled \"War for the Planet of the Apes\", was released on July 14, 2017. Ten years after the pandemic of the deadly ALZ-113 virus, later called Simian Flu, the worldwide human population was drastically reduced, with only about one in five hundred genetically immune to the virus. Meanwhile, the apes, under the chimpanzee Caesar, all bestowed with genetically enhanced intelligence by the virus, have long established a colony in the Muir Woods near San Francisco. One day,", "title": "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "5815634", "text": "sewage plant to make sure beaches stayed clean and the pipe was ready to go back online as soon as possible. Because of its hyper-industrial appearance, and its location within the thirty-mile \"studio zone,\" the Hyperion plant has been used numerous times as a location for feature films and television shows, among them \"Battle for the Planet of the Apes\" and \"The Terminator\". A number of scenes for The Monkees film \"Head\" were filmed inside the plant in early 1968. The shots included upstairs and downstairs angles, the use of a crane and an assembly line, and a general walk-through", "title": "Hyperion sewage treatment plant" }, { "id": "2417389", "text": "\"The Hobbit\" films which were released in 2012, 2013 and 2014. He was also the film's second unit director, which included directing aerial shots and battle scenes. He was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals. In 2014, Serkis reprised his role as Caesar in \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\", and in 2017 again reprised the role in \"War for the Planet of the Apes\", the last of the trilogy. In Gareth Edwards' 2014 science-fiction monster film \"Godzilla\", Serkis was the consultant on the film's motion", "title": "Andy Serkis" }, { "id": "3134784", "text": "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Conquest of the Planet of the Apes is a 1972 science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson and written by Paul Dehn. It is the fourth of five films in the original \"Planet of the Apes\" series produced by Arthur P. Jacobs. The film stars Roddy McDowall, Don Murray and Ricardo Montalbán. It explores how the apes rebelled from humanity's ill treatment following \"Escape from the Planet of the Apes\" (1971). It was followed by \"Battle for the Planet of the Apes\" (1973). The series reboot \"Rise of the Planet of the", "title": "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "1470118", "text": "explores the idea of a self-destructing modern society, governed by unequal power and failed democratic ideals. He played Haymitch Abernathy in 2012's \"The Hunger Games\", and reprised the role in all three subsequent films in the series. In 2015, Woody Harrelson and daughter Zoe starred in a 7-minute short film for U2's 'Song for Someone.' In 2017, he played the antagonist The Colonel in the science fiction film \"War for the Planet of the Apes\". Also that year, he starred in \"The Glass Castle,\" an adaptation of Jeannette Walls's memoir about how she was raised by dysfunctional and nonconformist parents", "title": "Woody Harrelson" }, { "id": "20758344", "text": "Amiah Miller Amiah Miller is an American actress. She stars in 2017 film \"War for the Planet of the Apes.\" She also appears in the TV series \"Henry Danger\", \"Best Friends Whenever\" and \"MacGyver\". Miller grew up in a small town in Virginia. Around 2013 to 2014, Miller took acting training classes in Los Angeles, California and Orlando, Florida. Besides acting, Miller also studies Muay Thai and jujutsu. In 2017, Miller stars in the lead in \"War for the Planet of the Apes\", as the character Nova, a mute orphan who helps the apes rescue Caesar—the main character, and goes", "title": "Amiah Miller" }, { "id": "14548395", "text": "2017. On May 14, 2015, the title was given as \"War of the Planet of the Apes\", later re-titled to \"War for the Planet of the Apes\". Rise of the Planet of the Apes Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a 2011 American science fiction film directed by Rupert Wyatt and starring James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo, and Andy Serkis. Written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, it is 20th Century Fox's reboot of the \"Planet of the Apes\" series, intended to act as an origin story for a new series", "title": "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "2834229", "text": "Later, Spielberg filmed several scenes in Virginia. The continuous scene was filmed in California. The ferry scene was filmed in the New York town of Athens, and Mary Ann's parents' house was located in Brooklyn (but was featured in the film in Boston). For the neighborhood plane crash scene, the production crew bought a retired Boeing 747, with transportation costs of $2 million, destroyed it into pieces, and built houses around them. The destroyed plane was kept for the Universal Studios back-lot tour. Ray's house was filmed in Bayonne, New Jersey (with a soundstage doubling the interior); meanwhile, the valley", "title": "War of the Worlds (2005 film)" }, { "id": "18255241", "text": "Apes\" grossed $146.9 million in the United States and Canada and $343.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $490.7 million, against a production budget of $150 million. In North America, the film was projected to gross $50–60 million in its opening weekend, however, given its acclaimed status and strong word-of-mouth, rival studios believed the film had the potential to debut as high as $70–80 million. \"War\" was closely monitored by analysts while the summer was witnessing a decline in ticket sales, a situation that they blamed on franchise fatigue for an overabundance of sequels and reboots (such", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "3235977", "text": "a nod to the role of \"Planet of the Apes\" make-up artist John Chambers in the Canadian Caper. Battle for the Planet of the Apes Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It is the fifth and final entry in the original \"Planet of the Apes\" series, produced by Arthur P. Jacobs, following \"Conquest of the Planet of the Apes\". It stars Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Paul Williams and John Huston. The two sequels in the 2010s reboot series, \"Dawn of the Planet", "title": "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "12677613", "text": "active development. Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal rewrote the script, and filming took place from November 2000 to April 2001. \"Planet of the Apes\" was released to mixed reviews, but was a financial success. Much criticism focused on the confusing plot and ending, although Rick Baker's prosthetic makeup designs were praised. Despite its financial success, 20th Century Fox chose not to produce a sequel, and later rebooted the franchise in 2011 with \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\". In 2029, aboard the United States Air Force space station \"Oberon\", Leo Davidson works closely with primates who are trained for", "title": "Planet of the Apes (2001 film)" }, { "id": "2834205", "text": "them with their mother when extraterrestrials invade the Earth and devastate cities with towering war machines. The film was shot in 73 days, using five different sound stages as well as locations in California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia. The film was surrounded by a secrecy campaign so few details would be leaked before its release. Tie-in promotions were made with several companies, including Hitachi. The film was released in the United States on June 29 and in United Kingdom on July 1. \"War of the Worlds\" received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success,", "title": "War of the Worlds (2005 film)" }, { "id": "18673382", "text": "working title \"Mary Lou\", with Trent Opaloch serving as director of photography. Additional filming occurred in Scotland, including in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the Scottish Highlands, with studio work taking place at Wardpark Studios in Cumbernauld. Filming in Scotland began on February 28, 2017. From March 18 through April 21, 2017, filming occurred in Old Town, Edinburgh on and around the Royal Mile, including High Street, Parliament Square, Cockburn Street, and Roxburgh Close and Old Fishmarket Close, as well as Waverley Station. Filming also took place at Durham Cathedral in Durham, England in early May 2017, and in St Abbs. Additional", "title": "Production of Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame" }, { "id": "17868075", "text": "photography began on April 27, 2015, in Fayette County, Georgia, at Pinewood Atlanta Studios, under the working title \"Sputnik\". Other filming locations in the Atlanta metropolitan area included the Buckhead district of Atlanta; the Peachtree Christian Church in Midtown Atlanta; Downtown Atlanta, including an area near Philips Arena known as The Gulch, which served as the market in Lagos; Norcross, Georgia; Porsche's headquarters in Atlanta at Aerotropolis Atlanta, which served as the Avengers' headquarters in the film; and the Atlanta Civic Center, which served as the IFID (Institute for Infectious Diseases) laboratory in Lagos; the latter's interiors doubled as MIT,", "title": "Captain America: Civil War" }, { "id": "10517516", "text": "Matt Reeves Matthew George Reeves (born April 27, 1966) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. Reeves began his career as a screenwriter for the films \"\" (1995) and \"The Pallbearer\" (1996), the latter of which marked his feature-length directorial debut. He then transitioned into television as a director and co-creator of the drama series \"Felicity\" (1998–2002), alongside J. J. Abrams. Reeves has since gone on to direct the found-footage horror film \"Cloverfield\" (2008), the romantic horror film \"Let Me In\" (2010), and the critically acclaimed science fiction sequels \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\" (2014) and \"War for", "title": "Matt Reeves" }, { "id": "12677638", "text": "Paul Giamatti's character \"was supposed to turn into a good guy. There was supposed to be this touching personal growth thing at the end,\" Giamatti reflected. \"But Tim [Burton] and I both thought that was kind of lame so we decided to just leave him as a jerk into the end.\" Burton wanted to begin filming in October 2000, but it was pushed back to November 6, 2000 and ended in April 2001. Filming for \"Planet of the Apes\" began at Lake Powell, where parts of the original film were shot. Due to a local drought, production crews had to", "title": "Planet of the Apes (2001 film)" }, { "id": "12258568", "text": "story of an astronaut crew who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future. Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and speech. The apes have assumed the role of the dominant species and humans are mute creatures wearing animal skins. The script was originally written by Rod Serling, but underwent many rewrites before filming eventually began. Directors J. Lee Thompson and Blake Edwards were approached, but the film's producer Arthur P. Jacobs, upon the recommendation of Charlton Heston, chose Franklin", "title": "Planet of the Apes (1968 film)" }, { "id": "12183515", "text": "Billy Gierhart. Although \"Sons of Anarchy\" is set in Northern California's Central Valley (with some scenes in the Bay Area), it was filmed primarily at Occidental Studios Stage 5A in North Hollywood. Main sets located there included the clubhouse, St. Thomas Hospital, and Jax's house. The production rooms at the studio used by the writing staff doubled as the Charming police station. External scenes were often filmed nearby in Sun Valley, Acton, California, and Tujunga. Interior and exterior scenes set in Northern Ireland during season 3 were also filmed at Occidental Studios and surrounding areas. A second unit shot footage", "title": "Sons of Anarchy" }, { "id": "13813734", "text": "first two films. In 2014, Fox partnered with Ndemic Creations on a substantial \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\"–themed update to the mobile game \"Plague Inc.\" Players create and spread a \"simian flu\" virus to eradicate humans while helping apes survive. In 2017, Fox commissioned an adventure game to accompany \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" called \"\". Andy Serkis's digital effects company The Imaginarium worked on the game, and Serkis performed motion capture. It was released on PlayStation 4 on November 21, 2017, to mixed reviews. In 2018, Fox's virtual reality division FoxNext VR Studio partnered with", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "7737471", "text": "Old Tucson Studios Old Tucson is an American movie studio and theme park just west of Tucson, Arizona, adjacent to the Tucson Mountains and close to the western portion of Saguaro National Park. Built in 1939 for the movie \"Arizona\" (1940), it has been used for the filming of several movies and television westerns since then, such as \"Gunfight at the O.K. Corral\" (1957), \"Rio Bravo \" (1959), \"El Dorado\" (1966), and \"Little House on the Prairie\" TV series of the 1970s-1980s. It was opened to the public in 1960, and historical tours are offered about the movies filmed there,", "title": "Old Tucson Studios" }, { "id": "5316387", "text": "and aired successfully in September 1973. Based largely on high viewership of \"movie-of-the-week\" TV broadcasts of the first few films, CBS began to focus away from other contenders for a new science-fiction series, including Gene Roddenberry's \"Genesis II\" (1973) and look solely at the prospects for an \"Apes\" TV series. Fox and CBS went on to continue Jacob's plans of a series the following year. CBS ordered 14 episodes of \"Planet of the Apes\" to be produced. The series was filmed for the most part on location at what is now Malibu Creek State Park, with a budget of about", "title": "Planet of the Apes (TV series)" }, { "id": "18255237", "text": "broader inspirations from films like \"The Bridge on the River Kwai\" and \"The Great Escape\". Feeling that there was a need to imbue Biblical themes and elements, they also watched Biblical epics like \"Ben-Hur\" and \"The Ten Commandments\". The influences and inspirations were made evident in the relationship between Caesar and Woody Harrelson's Colonel, a military leader with pretensions toward godhood. Reeves has compared their relationship to the dynamic between Alec Guinness's British Commander and Sessue Hayakawa's prison camp Colonel in \"Bridge on the River Kwai\". Another comparison is in Caesar's journey to find the Colonel, flanked by a posse", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "3575440", "text": "not until the late 1980s that a series was finally realized, this time by television producer Greg Strangis. The show was a part of the boom of first-run syndicated television series being produced at the time. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel. The series was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. According to the series, rather than being killed outright by germs at the end of the 1953 film, the aliens had all slipped into a state of suspended animation. Their bodies were stored away in toxic waste drums and shipped to various disposal sites within", "title": "War of the Worlds (TV series)" }, { "id": "5966056", "text": "of her. Most pleasant, most charming, very cooperative, very hard-working. She was always there half an hour before her call and she always stayed on for a half hour just in case. Interested in everything that went on, and was a total joy. I couldn't ask for a more cooperative actor.\" \"Planet of the Apes\" commenced filming on May 21, 1967 and ended August 10, 1967. The first scenes were shot on locations near Page, Arizona. Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River stood in for the Forbidden Zone, through which Taylor, Zira, Cornelius, and Harrison's Nova fled after escaping from", "title": "Linda Harrison (actress)" }, { "id": "18255236", "text": "first things that Mark and I did because we had just finished \"Dawn\" was that we decided to watch a million movies. We decided to do what people fantasize what Hollywood screenwriters get to do but no one actually does. We got Fox to give us a theater and we watched movie after movie. We watched every \"Planet of the Apes\" movie, war movies, westerns, \"Empire Strikes Back\"... We just thought, 'We have to pretend we have all the time in the world,' even though we had limited time. We got really inspired.\" Additionally, during production, Reeves and Bomback sought", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "1366830", "text": "Christopher (along with producers Gene Reynolds and Burt Metcalfe and \"M*A*S*H\" director Charles S. Dubin) reunited at the set to celebrate its partial restoration. The rebuilt signpost is now displayed on weekends, along with tent markers and maps and photos of the set. The state park is open to the public. It was also the location where the film \"How Green Was My Valley\" (1941) and the \"Planet of the Apes\" television series (1974) were filmed, among many other productions. Much of this location, including the signpost and markers, were destroyed in the 2018 Woolsey Fire. The exhibit \"M*A*S*H: Binding", "title": "M*A*S*H (TV series)" }, { "id": "13813699", "text": "million budget, the lowest of the series. The filmmakers went into the project knowing it would be the last of the series. J. Lee Thompson returned as director. Series writer Paul Dehn submitted a treatment, but illness forced him to leave the film before completing the script. The producers subsequently hired John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington to write the screenplay. \"Battle\" continued \"Conquest\"s focus on racial conflict and domination, but, likely based in part on the studio's wishes, the Corringtons discarded Dehn's pessimistic treatment in favor of a story with a more hopeful, though ambiguous, resolution. \"Battle\" follows", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "12677641", "text": "and 1.5 hours to remove. Burton explained, \"it's like going to the dentist at two in the morning and having people poke at you for hours. Then you wear an ape costume until nine at night.\" Burton was adamant that the apes should be substantially \"more animal-like; flying through trees, climb walls, swing out of windows, and go ape shit when angry.\" For a month and a half before shooting started, the actors who portrayed apes attended \"ape school\". Industrial Light & Magic, Rhythm and Hues Studios and Animal Logic were commissioned for the visual effects sequences. Rick Heinrichs served", "title": "Planet of the Apes (2001 film)" }, { "id": "7303351", "text": "Flicka\" for CBS television. The Fox Ranch was used for most exteriors of the CBS-TV series \"Perry Mason\" (1957–66). The Century Movie Ranch was the main filming location with outdoor sets for the original 1970 \"MASH\" film and subsequent \"M*A*S*H (TV series)\". It was used as a location in dozens of films, including a number of the \"Tarzan\" movies, \"\", the original \"Planet of the Apes\" film and subsequent television series. The Fox Movie Ranch property was purchased and preserved in the new state park, Malibu Creek State Park, opened to the public in 1976. Productions have continued to be", "title": "Movie ranch" }, { "id": "6118030", "text": "was the use of a six-channel audio recording system by the sound technicians. On 7 September 1962, the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, principal photography began. The first scene to be filmed depicted the execution of suspected arsonists by the French Army, and shot in the Novodevichy Convent. After few days, the crew moved into the Moscow Kremlin for further work. Later that month, the hunt in the Rostov's estate was filmed in the village of Bogoslavskoye, in the Yasnogorsky District. On 1 December, Bondarchuk and the production team, with 150 wagons of equipment, traveled to Mukachevo in", "title": "War and Peace (film series)" }, { "id": "3134792", "text": "two earlier films, \"What a Way to Go!\" and \"The Chairman,\" as well as during the initial stages of \"Planet\", but scheduling conflicts had made him unavailable during its long development process. Thompson staged every scene with attention to detail, such as highlighting the conflicts with color: the humans wear black and other muted colors, while the apes' suits are colorful. Don Murray suggested to Thompson his wardrobe with a black turtleneck sweater, and rehearsed his scenes after translating his dialogue into German \"to get this kind of severe feeling of the Nazis\". Screenwriter Paul Dehn wrote the film incorporating", "title": "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "12196734", "text": "\"Torchwood\". Filming began at the National Museum Cardiff, which doubled for the history museum depicted in the episode's first scene. To portray the tunnel the bus travelled into, the Queen's Gate Tunnel of the A4232 road in Butetown was closed for four nights to accommodate filming. The last major piece of filming in Wales took place in the closed Mir (formerly Alphasteel) steelworks in Newport, which doubled almost unaltered for the Tritovore spaceship. Scenes set in London's Oxford Street were filmed at St Mary Street, Cardiff. Filming took place at the peak of the February 2009 Great Britain snowfall, where", "title": "Planet of the Dead" }, { "id": "13813680", "text": "Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control. The franchise is based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel \"La Planète des singes\", translated into English as \"Planet of the Apes\" or \"Monkey Planet\". Its 1968 film adaptation, \"Planet of the Apes\", was a critical and commercial hit, initiating a series of sequels, tie-ins, and derivative works. Arthur P. Jacobs produced the first five \"Apes\" films through APJAC Productions for distributor", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "13813713", "text": "ape astronaut from a distant planet unleashes a devastating virus on Earth. Scientists go to the astronaut's planet, where apes hunt humans; they locate a cure, but return to find Earth overrun by simians. Schwarzenegger remained attached, but Fox found the script underwhelming. Columbus left the project in 1995 after his mother's death, and James Cameron stepped in to produce. Cameron intended to go in a \"very different direction\" with the script, but following the critical and financial success of his film \"Titanic\", he dropped out of the project. Fox approached a series of directors to take over, without success.", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "4083565", "text": "The War Lord The War Lord is a 1965 American film about Medieval warfare in 11th century Normandy, starring Charlton Heston and directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. It is an adaptation of the play, \"The Lovers\", by Leslie Stevens. The film also features Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Guy Stockwell, Maurice Evans, Niall MacGinnis, Henry Wilcoxon and James Farentino, with Jon Alderson, Allen Jaffe, Sammy Ross, and Woodrow Parfrey. Schaffner would later reteam with Heston and Evans in 1968 for \"Planet of the Apes\". Until this film, most Hollywood representations of feudal life were glamorized. \"The War Lord\" attempts to portray", "title": "The War Lord" }, { "id": "2834230", "text": "war sequence was filmed in Lexington, Virginia and Mystery Mesa in California. The scene where the tripod is shot down and crashes through a factory was filmed in Naugatuck, Connecticut at the since dismantled Naugatuck Chemical. The scene of the bodies floating down the river was filmed on the Farmington River in Windsor, Connecticut by a second unit using a stand in for Dakota Fanning (the back of her character) with the portion showing the faces of the credited actors cut in later. Some filming was shot on the Korean War Veterans Parkway in Staten Island, NY. The film used", "title": "War of the Worlds (2005 film)" }, { "id": "15815241", "text": "Ben Bertie Wells, was recruited from the Theatre Puget Sound website by producer Goforth. Goforth played the character \"The Wife\" in flashbacks. Jim Cissell provides narration. Seattle-area actors Jack Clay (professor emeritus of the UW School of Drama) and John Kaufmann complete the main cast. The film's budget was \"less than\" US$10 million. Principal photography filmed at the Hogland House, a bed and breakfast in Mukilteo, Washington. Post-production work included \"incorporating footage from the original film, archival stills from the period of the story, World War I footage, historical maps, photographs and other footage that will give the film the", "title": "War of the Worlds – The True Story" }, { "id": "10399720", "text": "proximity to the film and television industry location, Point Dume's Westward Beach continues to be a popular filming location for films, television, advertisements, and videos, appearing frequently whenever a beach scene is needed. The Normandy landings of the film \"D-Day the Sixth of June\" were filmed at Point Dume. Jackie Treehorn’s beach party in \"The Big Lebowski\" was filmed near the cliff face. Important scenes in the \"Planet of the Apes\" series were filmed at Point Dume's Westward Beach. In the \"Iron Man\" films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the protagonist Tony Stark's huge seaside mansion was set on", "title": "Point Dume" }, { "id": "13813700", "text": "Caesar as he leads the apes and their human subjects after a devastating war that destroyed much of the planet. He contends with both an attack by radiation-scarred human mutants and a coup attempt as he attempts to build a better society for both apes and humans. McDowall returned as Caesar, and Severn Darden returned as Kolp. Paul Williams played the orangutan Virgil, Austin Stoker played MacDonald (the brother of Hari Rhodes' character), and Claude Akins played the evil gorilla general Aldo. John Huston played the orangutan Lawgiver in a frame narrative. The film opened on May 2, 1973. It", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "18366417", "text": "title to \"Avengers: Infinity War\". Filming began in January 2017 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, with a large cast consisting mostly of actors reprising their roles from previous MCU films, including Brolin as Thanos. The production lasted until July 2017, shooting back-to-back with a direct sequel, \"\". Additional filming took place in Scotland, England, the Downtown Atlanta area, and New York City. With an estimated budget in the range of $316–400 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made. \"Avengers: Infinity War\" held its world premiere on April 23, 2018 in Los Angeles and", "title": "Avengers: Infinity War" }, { "id": "2056233", "text": "Hunter also stated that \"I was very glad I was killed off\" and Zira was not required anymore after that film. Hunter stated that despite the friendly atmosphere on the set, she and Roddy McDowall felt a sense of isolation for being the only people dressed as chimpanzees. Production was rushed due to the low budget, being filmed in only six weeks, from November 30, 1970 to January 19, 1971. According to \"Variety\", the film earned $5,560,000 in rentals at the North American box office. The film currently holds a 80% score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 25 reviews. The", "title": "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "14548371", "text": "acclaimed, earning him many nominations from associations which do not usually recognize performance capture as traditional acting. A sequel to the film, \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\", was released on July 11, 2014, and a third film, \"War for the Planet of the Apes\", was released on July 14, 2017. Will Rodman, a scientist at the San Francisco biotech company Gen-Sys, is testing the viral-based drug ALZ-112 on chimpanzees to find a cure for Alzheimer's disease. ALZ-112 is given to a chimp named Bright Eyes, greatly increasing her intelligence. But then, during Will's presentation for the drug, Bright", "title": "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "10517517", "text": "the Planet of the Apes\" (2017). In February 2017, Warner Bros. announced that Reeves will write and direct the superhero film \"The Batman\", which is set in the DC Extended Universe. Reeves was born in Rockville Centre, New York, and raised in Los Angeles, California. He began making movies at age eight, directing friends and using a wind-up camera. Reeves met and befriended filmmaker J.J. Abrams when both were 13 years old and a public-access television cable channel, Z Channel, was airing their short films. When Reeves and Abrams were about 15 years old, Steven Spielberg hired them to transfer", "title": "Matt Reeves" }, { "id": "10418356", "text": "Dean Redman Dean Redman is a British born Canadian actor. He is known for his work on \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" (2017) and appeared in two roles, playing the characters Varis and Caged Frost Wolf in the live action film, \"Warcraft\" (2016). He also appeared in \"The X Files and Second Chance\". He is also a voice actor, working with some of Vancouver's leading voice studios, including Ocean Studios, Sound Kitchen Studios, KOKO Productions, and New Machine Studios among many others. In his voice acting debut, he lent his voice to the character Dutch, an ex-marine who", "title": "Dean Redman" }, { "id": "2834226", "text": "busy surviving to wonder about this. An answer suggests itself – a very chilling answer. The invaders were interested in humans as food animals. When they came here before, humans were very scarce. The aliens left their hidden machines and departed, patiently observing the Earth until humans would multiply to the requisite numbers – and then they came back, to take over. Under this interpretation, all of us – all humans over the whole of history – have been livestock living in an alien food farm, destined to be 'harvested'\". Filming took place in Virginia, Connecticut, New Jersey, California, and", "title": "War of the Worlds (2005 film)" }, { "id": "18255240", "text": "same day. At a New York Comic Con special event on October 6, Reeves, Serkis and producer Dylan Clark debuted an exclusive look at the film. Serkis has also mentioned that the film would be accompanied by a video game, for which he performed motion capture. Titled \"\", the game was released for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in fall 2017. \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" was released on Digital HD on October 10, 2017, and on Blu-ray and DVD on October 24, 2017 by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. \"War for the Planet of the", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "668189", "text": "first scene filmed was the final scene to appear in the film (shot during the filming of \"Attack of the Clones\" in 2000), principal photography on the film occurred from June 30, 2003 to September 17, 2003, with additional photography occurring at Shepperton Studios and Elstree Studios in London from August 2004 to January 31, 2005. The initial filming took place on soundstages at Fox Studios Australia in Sydney, although practical environments were shot as background footage later to be composited into the film. These included the limestone mountains depicting Kashyyyk, which were filmed in Phuket, Thailand (they were later", "title": "Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith" }, { "id": "18896508", "text": "who kind of just put it all on the line for that.\" Principal photography on the film officially began in the city on August 10, 2015, and filming took place in more than 60 locations both in and near Los Angeles, including the Angels Flight trolley in downtown, houses in the Hollywood Hills, the Colorado Street Bridge, the Rialto Theatre in South Pasadena, the Warner Bros. studio lot, the Grand Central Market, Hermosa Beach's Lighthouse Cafe, Chateau Marmont Hotel, and the Watts Towers, with many scenes shot in one take. It took 40 days to complete shooting, finishing in mid-September", "title": "La La Land (film)" }, { "id": "16596587", "text": "the highest grossing opening weekend of all time. In 2015 he was nominated for an Art Director’s Guild Award and the Saturn Award for his work on the Fox film \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\" directed by Matt Reeves. Most recently James has completed work on the next film in the Apes series \"War for the Planet of the Apes\". James Chinlund James Chinlund (born March 17, 1971) was born and raised in New York City. He studied Fine Art at CalArts in Los Angeles, with a focus on sculpture and large scale installation work. After graduating, Chinlund", "title": "James Chinlund" }, { "id": "3235967", "text": "returns to the Lawgiver, saying it has now been over 600 years since Caesar's death. His audience is revealed to be a group of young humans and apes, the Lawgiver noting that their society still waits for a day when their world will no longer need weapons, while they \"wait with hope.\" A close-up of a statue of Caesar shows a single tear falling from one eye. Initially, writer Paul Dehn who had provided the script for every previous sequel was hired to provide a story treatment for the fifth film in the series. Dehn withdrew from the project prior", "title": "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "13813747", "text": "invoked in political discussions on topics as varied as Sixties culture, urban decay, contemporary wars, and gun violence. The following table shows the cast members who played the primary characters in the nine films to date. Planet of the Apes Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control. The franchise is based on French author Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel \"La Planète des singes\", translated into English as \"Planet of the Apes\" or \"Monkey Planet\". Its", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "12677631", "text": "of the script bore little resemblance to the book, but a lot of the stuff in the second half comes directly from it, or directly inspired by it.\" Hamm's script had an ape astronaut from another planet crash-landing in New York Harbor, launching a virus that will make human beings extinct. Dr. Susan Landis, who works for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Alexander Troy, an Area 51 scientist, use the ape's spacecraft to return to the virus' planet of origin, hoping to find an antidote. They find an urban environment where apes armed with heavy weapons hunt", "title": "Planet of the Apes (2001 film)" }, { "id": "13813688", "text": "Fox insisted on changes to reduce the budget to a more manageable $5.8 million. The producers hired veteran writer Michael Wilson, who had previously adapted Boulle's novel \"The Bridge over the River Kwai\", to rewrite Serling's script. To save on special effects costs, Wilson's script described an ape society more primitive than that which appeared in the novel. The new version changed much of the plot and dialogue, but retained the Cold War themes and Serling's ending. John Chambers created the makeup effects. Heston played 20th-century American astronaut George Taylor, who travels to a strange planet where intelligent apes dominate", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "2417383", "text": "done critically acclaimed motion capture work in several other films, including the title character in the 2005 version of King Kong (in which he also played the ship's cook in live action) and as Caesar in \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\" (2011), \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\" (2014), and \"War for the Planet of the Apes\" (2017). He also worked with game developers Ninja Theory on the 2007 release \"Heavenly Sword\", providing the motion capture and voice for King Bohan (the game's main villain). Serkis was cast as serial killer Ian Brady in the BAFTA-nominated \"Longford\",", "title": "Andy Serkis" }, { "id": "13813698", "text": "play Caesar, the son of his previous character Cornelius. Ricardo Montalban returned as Armando, while Don Murray played Governor Breck, Severn Darden played Kolp, and Hari Rhodes played MacDonald. Following \"Escape\", \"Conquest\" is set in a near future where humans have turned apes into slaves; Caesar rises from bondage to lead an ape rebellion. The film opened on June 30, 1972. Reviews were mixed, but the ending left the series open to another sequel, and \"Conquest\" was successful enough at the box office that Fox commissioned another film. Fox approved \"Battle for the Planet of the Apes\" with a $1.2", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "148176", "text": "Franklin J. Schaffner Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920July 2, 1989) was an American film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for \"Patton\" (1970), and is also known for the films \"Planet of the Apes\" (1968), \"Nicholas and Alexandra\" (1971), \"Papillon\" (1973), and \"The Boys from Brazil\" (1978). Schaffner was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of American missionaries Sarah Horting (née Swords) and Paul Franklin Schaffner, and was raised in Japan. He returned to the United States and graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he was active in drama. He studied law", "title": "Franklin J. Schaffner" }, { "id": "10517520", "text": "to develop in summer 2013, but Reeves left the project in order to direct the science fiction film \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\", the sequel to \"Rise of the Planet of the Apes\", released in 2014. He returned to direct the third film in the series, \"War for the Planet of the Apes\", which was released on July 14, 2017. Since 2011, Reeves has been working on the script of \"8 O'Clock in the Morning\", a science fiction film based on the short story of same name written by Ray Nelson, previously adapted by John Carpenter as \"They", "title": "Matt Reeves" }, { "id": "18255229", "text": "we left \"'Dawn\".'\" In May 2015, the title was first given as \"War of the Planet of the Apes\". By October 2015, it had been retitled as \"War for the Planet of the Apes\". When director Reeves and screenwriter Bomback came on board to helm \"Dawn\", the film already had a release date, which led to an accelerated production schedule. However, with the third installment, Fox wanted to give the duo plenty of time to write and make the film. Taking advantage of this, the two bonded with each other more than before. In interviews for \"Dawn\", Reeves talked about", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "16851009", "text": "Jon Kilik, and Anthony Bregman. Sony Pictures Classics became the distributor, taking over from Sony's Columbia Pictures, which had co-financed the film. Miller said \"it's always been my hope and expectation that they (SPC) would distribute the film.\" Gary Oldman was first choice for the role of John E. du Pont, but he turned down the role due to his commitment to \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\". Shooting began in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area on October 15, 2012, in and near the suburbs of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Sewickley Heights, and Edgeworth. With du Pont's mansion, Liseter Hall, having been", "title": "Foxcatcher" }, { "id": "13813697", "text": "Dehn returned as the scriptwriter, and producer Jacobs hired J. Lee Thompson to direct. Thompson had worked with Jacobs on two earlier films as well as during the initial stages of \"Planet\", but scheduling conflicts had made him unavailable during its long development process. For \"Conquest\", Thompson and Dehn focused heavily on the racial conflict theme, an ancillary concern in the early films that became a central focus in \"Escape\". In particular, Dehn associated the apes with African-Americans and modeled the plot after the 1966 Watts Riots and other episodes from the Civil Rights Movement. Roddy McDowall signed on to", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "18255247", "text": "Serkis’s performance as Caesar is one of the marvels of modern screen acting.\" Peter Travers of \"Rolling Stone\" gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, and said that Serkis performed \"with a resonant power and depth of feeling that's nearly Shakespearean. Oscar, get busy: Serkis deserves the gold,\" and went on to say that \"\"War for the Planet of the Apes\" – No. 9 in the simian cinema canon – is the best of the Apes films since the 1968 original.\" Eric Kohn of \"Indiewire\" gave the film a B+ rating, and praised Matt Reeves's directing, saying \"It’s a", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "11305812", "text": "be [wary] of drones.\" In July 2014, filming took place over three days at Skellig Michael, an island off the coast of County Kerry, Ireland, with a cast including Mark Hamill and Daisy Ridley. Landscape shots for the planet Takodana were shot in July in the Lake District in the northwest of England. Production was halted for two weeks in early August 2014 so Abrams could rework shooting in Ford's absence and resumed with a fully healed Ford in mid-August. In September, the former RAF Greenham Common military base in Berkshire was used and featured set constructions of several spaceships", "title": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" }, { "id": "18366433", "text": "filming occurred in Downtown Atlanta, as well as Atlanta's Central Park in early July, before moving to Queens, New York in the middle of the month. Filming concluded on July 14, 2017. For the film's final scene, where Thanos emerges healed in a nipa hut, the filmmakers partnered with Indochina Productions, a studio based in Thailand, to acquire footage of the Banaue Rice Terraces at Ifugao, Philippines. Later in July 2017, Joe Russo stated there were a couple of unfinished scenes for \"Infinity War\" that would be shot \"in the next few months\". In early March 2018, Disney moved the", "title": "Avengers: Infinity War" }, { "id": "13813692", "text": "1969. Post struggled with the material, especially after the studio cut the budget to $3.4 million. The story follows Franciscus's character, an astronaut who while searching for Taylor inadvertently follows him into the future. After encountering the apes from the first film, Brent finds Taylor imprisoned by a colony of subterranean human mutants who worship an ancient nuclear bomb. Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, and Linda Harrison returned as Zira, Zaius, and Nova. David Watson replaced Roddy McDowall as Cornelius, as McDowall was unavailable due to a scheduling conflict. James Gregory played gorilla General Ursus and Paul Richards played mutant leader", "title": "Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "3134797", "text": "on the screenplay and not on the final edit of the actual film. An article in the Summer 1972 issue of \"Cinefantastique\" (volume 2, issue 2) by Dale Winogura shows and describes the scene being shot, but it is unknown why it was cut. The Blu-ray extended cut does not contain the pre-credit opening. Screenplay writer Paul Dehn, who wrote and co-wrote the sequels, said in interviews with \"Cinefantastique\" (quoted in \"The Planet of the Apes Chronicles\", by Paul Woods) that the story he was writing had a circular timeline: The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics at", "title": "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" }, { "id": "12677626", "text": "Terry Hayes to write the screenplay entitled \"Return of the Apes\". Set in the near future, a plague is making humans extinct. Geneticist Will Robinson discovers the plague is a genetic time bomb embedded in the Stone Age. He time travels with a pregnant colleague named Billie Rae Diamond to a time when Palaeolithic humans were at war for the future of the planet with highly evolved apes. The apes' supreme commander is a gorilla named Drak. Robinson and Billie Rae discover a young human girl named Aiv (pronounced Eve) to be the next step in evolution. It is revealed", "title": "Planet of the Apes (2001 film)" }, { "id": "16563596", "text": "to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes. \"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes\" was released in the United States on July 11, 2014 and was met with highly positive reviews, with critics praising its visual effects, story, direction, acting, musical score, action sequences and emotional depth. It was also a box office success, grossing over $710 million worldwide, and making it the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2014. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. It was also", "title": "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" } ]

[ "München Hauptbahnhof" ]

[ { "id": "7830009", "text": "München Hauptbahnhof München Hauptbahnhof (German for \"Munich main railway station\") is the main railway station in the city of Munich, Germany. It is one of the three long distance stations in Munich, the others being München Ost and München-Pasing. München Hauptbahnhof sees about 450,000 passengers a day, which puts it on par with other large stations in Germany, such as Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 station, one of 21 in Germany and two in Munich, the other being \"München Ost\". The mainline station is a terminal station with 32 platforms.", "title": "München Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "253161", "text": "main railway station located in the city centre. The first Munich station was built about 800 metres to the west in 1839. A station at the current site was opened in 1849 and it has been rebuilt numerous times, including to replace the main station building, which was badly damaged during World War II. München Hauptbahnhof is one of the three long distance stations in Munich, the others being München Ost (to the east) and München-Pasing (to the west). All three are connected to the public transport system and serve as transportation hubs. München Hauptbahnhof sees about 450,000 passengers a", "title": "Munich" }, { "id": "253162", "text": "day, which puts it on par with other large stations in Germany, such as Hamburg Hauptbahnhof and Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. It and München Ost are two of the 21 stations in Germany classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 station. The mainline station is a terminal station with 32 platforms. The subterranean S-Bahn with 2 platforms and U-Bahn stations with 6 platforms are through stations. ICE highspeed trains stop at Munich-Pasing and Munich-Hauptbahnhof only. InterCity and EuroCity trains to destinations east of Munich also stop at Munich East. Since 28 May 2006 Munich has been connected to Nuremberg via Ingolstadt", "title": "Munich" }, { "id": "8822629", "text": "Munich East station München Ost (English: Munich East, also called \"München Ostbahnhof\" in regional services) is a railway station in Munich, the state capital of Bavaria, Germany. It opened as Haidhausen station in 1871 on the new Munich–Mühldorf and Munich–Rosenheim railway lines. The station is operated by DB Station&Service, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG, and is classified as a Category 1 station, one of 21 in Germany and two in Munich, the other being München Hauptbahnhof. It is the city's third interregional station besides München Hauptbahnhof in the city centre and München-Pasing in the west. A first station, built", "title": "Munich East station" }, { "id": "5925508", "text": "the official start of construction in the spring. 2011. On 14 December 2014, the line M5 was extended from S Hackescher Markt to Hauptbahnhof. On 29 August 2015 the tram lines M8 and M10 were also extended from S Nordbahnhof to Hauptbahnhof. The station is served by the following service(s): Berlin Hauptbahnhof Berlin Hauptbahnhof () (English: Berlin Central Station) is the main railway station in Berlin, Germany. It came into full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006. It is located on the site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof, and until it opened as a main", "title": "Berlin Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "9292859", "text": "(commonly referred to as main) stations (\"Hauptbahnhof\" or \"Hbf\") of large cities with 500,000 inhabitants and above, though some in smaller cities, like Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof, are regarded as important because they are at the intersection of important railway lines. Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Cologne, the four biggest cities in Germany, have more than one Category 1 station. Included in this category are the following stations: Most of the about 87 stations in Category 2 are either important junctions of long-distance traffic or offer connections to large airports. InterCity and EuroCity trains generally call at these stations. All railway-related services, like", "title": "German railway station categories" }, { "id": "1927686", "text": "of Munich Airport: Munich Airport Terminal station is located in a tunnel directly beneath the central area between both passenger terminals. A second station called \"Besucherpark\" (German for \"Visitors' Park\") is located in the area that contains the cargo and maintenance areas, long-term parking, administrative buildings and the Visitors' Park from which the station gets its name. The airport is connected to the city by Munich suburban railway (\"S-Bahn\") lines and . The ride takes approximately 45 minutes to the Marienplatz station in the city centre. runs from the airport through the northwestern suburbs and reaches the city centre from", "title": "Munich Airport" }, { "id": "12773578", "text": "Rosenheim station Rosenheim station () is the main railway station in the city of Rosenheim in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seventh largest passenger station in Bavaria and an important railway hub between the Munich–Rosenheim railway line and the lines to Salzburg, Kufstein/Innsbruck and Mühldorf, as well as the Mangfall Valley Railway. Rosenheim is operated by DB Station&Service, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG, and is classified as a Category 2 station A first station on the Rosenheim–Kufstein–Innsbruck line, promoted by industrialist Joseph Maffei and King Maximilian II of Bavaria, was opened on 31 October 1857. Located south of the", "title": "Rosenheim station" }, { "id": "139269", "text": "with cars during rush hour. Some areas, especially around the shopping streets Zeil, Goethestraße and Freßgass, are pedestrian-only streets. Car parks are located throughout the city and especially in the city centre. Frankfurt Central Station (\"Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof\", often abbreviated as \"Frankfurt (Main) Hbf\" or \"F-Hbf\") is the largest railway station in Germany by railway traffic. By daily passenger volume, it ranks second together with Munich Central Station (350,000 each) after Hamburg Central Station (450,000). It is located between the Gallus, the Gutleutviertel and the Bahnhofsviertel district, not far away from the trade fair and the financial district. It serves as", "title": "Frankfurt" }, { "id": "17169799", "text": "Munich Airport Terminal station Munich Airport Terminal station () is a Munich S-Bahn terminal station at Munich Airport at the end of the Munich East–Munich Airport railway. It is connected to the city by lines and . The ride takes approximately 45 minutes to the Marienplatz station in the city centre. Munich Airport station is located in a tunnel beneath the central area. A second station, \"Besucherpark\" (\"Visitors' Park\") connects the cargo and maintenance areas, long-term parking, administrative buildings and the name-giving Visitors' Park. A second tunnel beneath the terminals is currently unused. Originally, there were plans to use it", "title": "Munich Airport Terminal station" }, { "id": "14297899", "text": "city of Munich and forms the starting point of the Munich–Rosenheim railway. The station was provisionally put into operation at its present location in 1848, but it has been rebuilt several times since. The current entrance building was opened on 1 August 1960, after the previous one had been destroyed in the Second World War. The underground station for S-Bahn services was built with the main line of the S-Bahn in 1972. Munich South station (\"Bahnhof München Süd\") was opened on 15 March 1871 as Thalkirchen station and was renamed Munich South in 1876. From 1891, the Isar Valley Railway", "title": "Munich–Rosenheim railway" }, { "id": "7486019", "text": "Nuremberg Central Station Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof (German for \"Nuremberg main station\") or Nuremberg Central Station is the main railway station serving the city of Nuremberg in Germany. It is the largest station in north Bavaria and belongs to the 20 stations in the highest category of importance allocated by DB Station&Service. It is a through station with 22 platforms and lies on major north–south and east–west transportation axes. It offers connections to the major German cities of Leipzig, Berlin, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Munich, Würzburg, Frankfurt and Regensburg, as well as Linz and Vienna in Austria and Prague in the Czech Republic. Over", "title": "Nuremberg Central Station" }, { "id": "8820749", "text": "Munich Marienplatz station München Marienplatz is an important stop on the Munich S-Bahn and U-Bahn network, located under the square of the same name in Munich's city centre. The S-Bahn lines , , , , , and intersect with the U-Bahn lines and . The station is one of the most frequently used stations in the network, with up to 24,400 people transferring and 8,000 passengers entering or exiting each hour. In 2007, 175,400 used the station daily on weekdays, including entries, exits and transfers. In October 1966 construction was started, finishing in October 1971 as part of the new", "title": "Munich Marienplatz station" }, { "id": "7904884", "text": "Hamburg Hauptbahnhof Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (abbrev. \"Hamburg Hbf\") is the main railway station of the city of Hamburg, Germany and is classed by Deutsche Bahn as a category 1 railway station. Opened in 1906 to replace 4 separate terminal stations, today Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is operated by DB Station&Service AG. With an average of 550,000 passengers a day, it is Germany's busiest railway station and the second-busiest in Europe after the Gare du Nord in Paris. The station is a through station with island platforms and is one of Germany's major transportation hubs, connecting long-distance Intercity-Express routes to the city's U-Bahn and", "title": "Hamburg Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "4096503", "text": "Munich U-Bahn The Munich U-Bahn () is an electric rail rapid transit network in Munich, Germany. The system began operation in 1971, and is operated by the municipally owned Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG; Munich Transport Company). The network is integrated into the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (MVV; Munich Transport and Tariff Association) and interconnected with the Munich S-Bahn. The U-Bahn currently comprises eight lines, serving 96 stations (100 stations if four interchange stations with separate levels for different lines are counted twice), and encompassing of routes. There are currently eight lines: The network has of active route, and 100 stations. In", "title": "Munich U-Bahn" }, { "id": "11029432", "text": "being built northeast of the Donnersbergerbrücke. Southwest to the station is the main customs office, with its distinctive dome. Munich Donnersbergerbrücke station Donnersbergerbrücke station is a station with four platform tracks in the Schwanthalerhöhe district of the Bavarian state capital of Munich and a hub of the Munich S-Bahn. Here line S 7 separates towards Wolfratshausen from the S-Bahn trunk line. It is also served by services of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn on the Munich–Holzkirchen railway on the S-Bahn trunk line. The station is located east of the (). \"München-Hauptwerkstätte\" station was opened on 1 September 1895 at the site of", "title": "Munich Donnersbergerbrücke station" }, { "id": "8822634", "text": "is a U-Bahn service to Ostbahnhof by the line U5. It continues south to Neuperlach Süd via Innsbrucker Ring and west to Laimer Platz via Max-Weber-Platz, Hauptbahnhof and Theresienwiese. The line services the station every ten minutes (five in rush-hours). The Ostbahnhof stop of the Munich tramway is immediately in front of the station, and served by route . The station is served by the following services: Munich East station München Ost (English: Munich East, also called \"München Ostbahnhof\" in regional services) is a railway station in Munich, the state capital of Bavaria, Germany. It opened as Haidhausen station in", "title": "Munich East station" }, { "id": "16247972", "text": "Landshut (Bayern) Hauptbahnhof Landshut (Bayern) Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Landshut in the German State of Bavaria. There is also the halt (\"Haltepunkt\") of \"Landshut (Bay) Süd\" (Landshut south) on the Neumarkt-Sankt Veit – Landshut railway. The Hauptbahnhof has seven platforms tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station. It is used daily by about 120 trains operated by DB Regio, Regentalbahn and Agilis. Landshut is on the Munich–Regensburg, Munich–Landshut–Passau and Landshut–Mühldorf lines. In addition, the station is located on the Landshut Neuhausen museum line. The station is located north of the city of", "title": "Landshut (Bayern) Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "9014438", "text": "station, along with the U-Bahn station opened in 1980, forms the central hub of public transport in Giesing. S-Bahn lines S 3 and S 7, U-Bahn lines U 2 and U 7 and MetroBus line 54 and tram line 17 meet at the station. Since 12 December 2011, the supplementary line U 7 services have run only in the morning peak hour. A bus station in front of the station serves Munich city bus lines 59, 139 and 147 as well as the regional bus route 220. Munich Giesing station Munich-Giesing station () is a railway station in the district", "title": "Munich Giesing station" }, { "id": "12256079", "text": "Dachau\" to \"Dachau Bahnhof\". This change indicates that Dachau station is the main line station serving the town, but not in it. The main line from Munich to Dachau was electrified in 1939, but further electrification to Ingolstadt was delayed by the outbreak of World War II and was not completed until 1960. In 1972, Dachau station was rebuilt again with two new platforms, in preparation for S-Bahn operations, which commenced on 28 May 1972. The S-Bahn line, numbered S2, operates between Petershausen and Munich, with Dachau being an important intermediate station. General freight operations ended in 1976 and the", "title": "Dachau Bahnhof" }, { "id": "5925467", "text": "Berlin Hauptbahnhof Berlin Hauptbahnhof () (English: Berlin Central Station) is the main railway station in Berlin, Germany. It came into full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006. It is located on the site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof, and until it opened as a main line station, it was a stop on the Berlin S-Bahn suburban railway temporarily named Berlin Hauptbahnhof–Lehrter Bahnhof. The station is operated by DB Station&Service, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG, and is classified as a Category 1 station, one of 21 in Germany and four in Berlin, the others being", "title": "Berlin Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "7506684", "text": "(station \"Hauptbahnhof/Münchener Straße\"), 16, 17, 20, 21 and the Ebbelwei-Expreß. The lines U4 and U5 call at the subterranean Stadtbahn stop. Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (German for \"Frankfurt (Main) main station\"), often abbreviated as Frankfurt (Main) Hbf and sometimes translated as \"Frankfurt central station\", is the busiest railway station in Frankfurt, Germany. The name affix \"Main\" comes from the city's full name, Frankfurt am Main. Because of its location in the middle of Germany and usage as a hub for long and short distance travelling, Deutsche Bahn refers to it as the most important station in Germany. In", "title": "Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "7527032", "text": "Hannover Hauptbahnhof Hannover Hauptbahnhof (German for \"Hanover main station\") is the main railway station for the city of Hanover in Lower Saxony, Germany. The railway junction is one of the 21 stations listed as a railway Category 1 station by DB Station&Service. It is also the most important public transport hub of the region of Hanover and it is served regional and S-Bahn services. The station has six platforms with twelve platform tracks, and two through tracks without platforms. Every day it is used by 250,000 passengers and 622 trains stop at the platforms (as of October 2012). About 2,000", "title": "Hannover Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "9014432", "text": "Munich Giesing station Munich-Giesing station () is a railway station in the district of Obergiesing in the Bavarian state capital of Munich and is a station of the Munich S-Bahn and the Munich U-Bahn. It is located on the Munich East–Deisenhofen railway, the Munich-Giesing–Kreuzstraße railway, which branches off to the east from the Munich East–Deisenhofen line next to the Perlacher Forst cemetery, and the second trunk line of the Munich U-Bahn. The station is served by about 280 S-Bahn services each day. The Munich-Giesing station was built in 1898 on the newly built Munich East–Deisenhofen railway. The station was at", "title": "Munich Giesing station" }, { "id": "11033003", "text": "Munich Hirschgarten station München Hirschgarten is a Munich S-Bahn railway station on the main line between Laim and Donnersbergerbrücke railway stations at Friedenheimer Brücke. It was opened in December 2009 and provides transportation access for the new quarter under development at Birketweg nearby. In early planning stages, the proposed name was \"Friedenheimer Brücke\". The station is served by the lines S1, S2, S3, S4, S6 and S8 of the Munich S-Bahn network, which connect the station with the city centre (all lines), Munich Airport (S1 and S8) and suburban areas. Each of these lines run services every 20 minutes, with", "title": "Munich Hirschgarten station" }, { "id": "17114466", "text": "Munich Berg am Laim station Munich-Berg am Laim station is a stop on the Munich S-Bahn in the district of Berg am Laim in the Bavarian state capital of Munich. The station is served daily from about 300 services of the Munich S-Bahn each day and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. It has two platforms tracks and lies on the Munich–Rosenheim railway and the Munich–Mühldorf railway. No station was opened at Berg am Laim when the Munich–Rosenheim railway opened on 15 October 1871. Berg am Laim was only opened as a halt () on 1", "title": "Munich Berg am Laim station" }, { "id": "12788265", "text": "Hof Hauptbahnhof Hof Hauptbahnhof (German for \"Hof main station\"; sometimes translated as \"Hof Central Station\" or described as \"Hof central station\" in English) is the main railway station in Hof in southern Germany and is situated at the intersection of the Saxon-Franconian trunk line (\"Magistrale\") and the Munich–Regensburg–Leipzig–Berlin line. When it was opened it formed the boundary between the former Bavarian Ludwig South-North Railway Lindau–Hof to the Saxon-Bavarian Railway on the Saxon side from Hof–Leipzig. Today the Deutsche Bahn has classified Hof Hauptbahnhof as category 3 – a regional hub/long-distance stop. The Regensburg–Hof, Bamberg–Hof and Leipzig–Hof main lines all meet", "title": "Hof Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "7506674", "text": "Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (German for \"Frankfurt (Main) main station\"), often abbreviated as Frankfurt (Main) Hbf and sometimes translated as \"Frankfurt central station\", is the busiest railway station in Frankfurt, Germany. The name affix \"Main\" comes from the city's full name, Frankfurt am Main. Because of its location in the middle of Germany and usage as a hub for long and short distance travelling, Deutsche Bahn refers to it as the most important station in Germany. In the late 19th century, three stations connected Frankfurt to the west, north and south, the Those three stations were placed beside", "title": "Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "7830010", "text": "The subterranean S-Bahn with 2 platforms and U-Bahn stations with 6 platforms are through stations. The first Munich station was built about 800 metres to the west in 1839. A station at the current site was opened in 1849 and it has been rebuilt numerous times, including to replace the main station building, which was badly damaged during World War II. The station is located close to Munich's city centre in the north of the borough of Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt. The main entrance to the east of the station is via the Prielmayerstraße or Bayerstraße to Karlsplatz (Stachus). In the station forecourt", "title": "München Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "8820752", "text": "3-10 min intervals in off-peak hours, and every 2-3 min during rush hours. Munich Marienplatz station München Marienplatz is an important stop on the Munich S-Bahn and U-Bahn network, located under the square of the same name in Munich's city centre. The S-Bahn lines , , , , , and intersect with the U-Bahn lines and . The station is one of the most frequently used stations in the network, with up to 24,400 people transferring and 8,000 passengers entering or exiting each hour. In 2007, 175,400 used the station daily on weekdays, including entries, exits and transfers. In October", "title": "Munich Marienplatz station" }, { "id": "16130381", "text": "Lindau Hauptbahnhof Lindau Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of Lindau in the German state of Bavaria. It was called \"Lindau Stadt\" (town) until 15 May 1936. It is the largest railway station in Lindau and its only long-distance traffic stop. In the urban area there is also \"Lindau-Aeschach\" station and \"Lindau-Reutin\" freight yard. Formerly there were also \"Lindau-Siebertsdorf\" (called \"Lindau-Zech\" until 15 May 1936), \"Lindau Langenweg\", \"Lindau Strandbad\", \"Schoenau\", \"Oberreitnau\" and \"Rehlings\". Lindau Hauptbahnhof is a railway terminus and lies on the island of Lindau in the immediate vicinity of Lindau harbour. The current station building, which is protected", "title": "Lindau Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "8995144", "text": "Munich Karlsplatz station München Karlsplatz (Stachus) is an underground S-Bahn and U-Bahn station below the Karlsplatz in central Munich. It is one of the busiest stations in Munich, as it is located at the western end of Munich's Altstadt (Old Town). Karlsplatz is also a stop on the Munich tramway, located on the Altstadtring, the Old Town's periphery road. This stop is served by routes , , , , , , , and . The underground facilities were built as part of the S-Bahn tunnel through central Munich in the early 1970s. The station is divided into five levels. The", "title": "Munich Karlsplatz station" }, { "id": "17171035", "text": "Munich East–Munich Airport railway The Munich East–Munich Airport railway is a double-track and electrified main line in the German state of Bavaria that connects the city of Munich to Munich Airport, which is located 30 kilometres to the northeast. It is operated of DB Netz AG and integrated in the Munich S-Bahn as part of line S 8. The route begins at Munich East station and runs from there to the east. On the heights of the S-Bahn Steinhausen workshop the line turns north and meets the connecting curve to München Trudering station. From there the line shares the tracks", "title": "Munich East–Munich Airport railway" }, { "id": "17186361", "text": "Feldafing station Feldafing station is the only station of the Bavarian town of Feldafing and a station on the Munich S-Bahn. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station and has two platform tracks. The station is located on the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway. The railway line from Munich to Starnberg was opened in 1854. On 1 July 1865, Feldafing station was opened along with the extension of the line to Weilheim. In 1900 and 1901 platform subway was built at the station. In 1902 the line was duplicated. Since 1972, the station has only been served by Munich", "title": "Feldafing station" }, { "id": "11029591", "text": "Munich Moosach station München Moosach station is a station in the Moosach district of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria. It consists of an above-ground station for regional and Munich S-Bahn services and an underground station for the Munich U-Bahn. Moosach Station is located on the Munich–Regensburg railway. A single track branch connects to the Munich North Ring, which leads to the Munich North marshalling yard. On 3 November 1858, the Royal Bavarian Eastern Railway Company opened the line between Munich and Landshut. A year later, the line was extended to Regensburg. No train station was built", "title": "Munich Moosach station" }, { "id": "11029427", "text": "Munich Donnersbergerbrücke station Donnersbergerbrücke station is a station with four platform tracks in the Schwanthalerhöhe district of the Bavarian state capital of Munich and a hub of the Munich S-Bahn. Here line S 7 separates towards Wolfratshausen from the S-Bahn trunk line. It is also served by services of the Bayerische Oberlandbahn on the Munich–Holzkirchen railway on the S-Bahn trunk line. The station is located east of the (). \"München-Hauptwerkstätte\" station was opened on 1 September 1895 at the site of the now four-track station served by the S-Bahn and the Bayerische Oberlandbahn (BOB), adjacent to the workshop of the", "title": "Munich Donnersbergerbrücke station" }, { "id": "8822633", "text": "AG as well as by the private Bayerische Oberlandbahn railway company (Meridian). The Ostbahnhof (the name of the S-Bahn part of the station) was refurbished under the Takt 10 project. As an endpoint of the backbone tunnel of Munich's S-Bahn system all lines pass through the station, except S20, S27. Lines S2, S4 and S8 continue via platform 5 further east. The lines S3 and S7 change direction at platform 4 and continue further south to Giesing. The lines S1 and S6 terminate at platforms 4 and 5. The trains to the tunnel depart from platforms 1-3. Since 1988 there", "title": "Munich East station" }, { "id": "7648411", "text": "Würzburg Hauptbahnhof Würzburg Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Würzburg in the German state of Bavaria. It was opened in 1864 to the north of the inner city as a replacement for the former \"Ludwigsbahnhof\" (Ludwig’s station) in the city centre, the capacity of which had been exhausted by the dramatic increase of rail traffic. Even today, Würzburg station is one of the major stations in Bavaria, since it lies at the intersection of several heavily used rail corridors. In particular, the routes in the north-south direction from Hamburg and Bremen to Munich as well as in", "title": "Würzburg Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "8853985", "text": "Munich U-Bahn from Laimer Platz to Pasing station has been considered, but is unlikely to be carried out for some years. Munich Pasing station München-Pasing is a railway station with nine platforms situated in the west of Munich. It is the third-largest station in Munich, after München Hauptbahnhof and München Ost. When the first Munich railway was built from Munich to Lochhausen on the western outskirts of Munich in 1839, a station with two wooden huts was built in the municipality of Pasing. The line was completed to Augsburg on 7 October 1840. In 1847, back stone station building designed", "title": "Munich Pasing station" }, { "id": "17042698", "text": "Geltendorf station Geltendorf station is the largest railway station of the town of Geltendorf and is a railway junction in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The railway junction is also a station of the Munich S-Bahn. It has five platforms and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. The station is served by about 150 trains daily of Deutsche Bahn, Bayerische Regiobahn (a subsidiary of Veolia Verkehr, BRB) and Regentalbahn, including 50 services of the Munich S-Bahn. The Bavarian Allgäu Railway and the Ammersee Railway cross at the station. Geltendorf municipality also includes Walleshausen station and the disused stations", "title": "Geltendorf station" }, { "id": "9026364", "text": "Roma Termini railway station Roma Termini (in Italian, \"Stazione Termini\") is the main railway station of Rome, Italy. It is named after the district of the same name, which in turn took its name from ancient Baths of Diocletian (in Latin, \"thermae\"), which lie across the street from the main entrance. The station has regular train services to all major Italian cities, as well as daily international services to Munich, Geneva, and Vienna. With 33 platforms and over 150 million passengers each year, Roma Termini is the second largest railway station in Europe after Paris Gare du Nord. Termini is", "title": "Roma Termini railway station" }, { "id": "9296538", "text": "Augsburg Hauptbahnhof Augsburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, situated in southern Germany. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station and has 12 platform tracks. The station has one of the oldest still existing station halls in Germany, which was built from 1843 to 1846 after plans by architect Eduard Rüber. It was reconstructed in 1869 according to Friedrich Bürklein's plans. The station today serves as the central railway hub for the Augsburg metropolitan area and Bavarian Swabia. It is currently being modernised and an underground tram station is being", "title": "Augsburg Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "14297901", "text": "The Munich East–Deisenhofen railway, opened in 1898, and the line to Ismaning, opened in 1909, branch from the Munich–Rosenheim line in the station. The current station building was opened in 1985 after the original building, built in 1871, was destroyed in World War II. Munich Leuchtenbergring station (\"Bahnhof München Leuchtenbergring\") was opened on 28 May 1972 with the commissioning of the Munich S-Bahn network. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the station has had four rather than two platform tracks, but only the outer two are used for S-Bahn operations as the two internal tracks are used for connecting the", "title": "Munich–Rosenheim railway" }, { "id": "11029428", "text": "Deutsche Reichsbahn and its forerunners that it was named after. In the 1920s, it was renamed \"Zentralwerkstätte\" (central workshop). Only at 23 May 1971, that is one year before the launch of the Munich S-Bahn on 28 May 1972, the station was given its present name. At the beginning of the S-Bahn operations there were only two platform tracks with a central platform located where there is now green space between tracks 2 and 3. At the end of the 1970s, the two current platforms were built and put into operation on 31 May 1981 at the same time as", "title": "Munich Donnersbergerbrücke station" }, { "id": "8995146", "text": "between the S-Bahn and U-Bahn. The fifth level holds the U-Bahn station with two tracks and two platforms. Lines and call here, travelling in north-west direction. The station is the deepest in the whole network and also has the longest escalator. Munich Karlsplatz station München Karlsplatz (Stachus) is an underground S-Bahn and U-Bahn station below the Karlsplatz in central Munich. It is one of the busiest stations in Munich, as it is located at the western end of Munich's Altstadt (Old Town). Karlsplatz is also a stop on the Munich tramway, located on the Altstadtring, the Old Town's periphery road.", "title": "Munich Karlsplatz station" }, { "id": "12256076", "text": "Dachau Bahnhof Dachau station () is a station in the Bavarian town of Dachau on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station and it has five platform tracks. It is served daily by about 190 trains operated by Deutsche Bahn, including 150 S-Bahn trains. Dachau station is on the Nuremberg–Munich high-speed railway and is the beginning of the Dachau–Altomünster railway. Dachau Stadt (town) station is on the Dachau–Altomünster Railway. Dachau station is located southeast of the town of Dachau. The station building is located to the west of the tracks and has", "title": "Dachau Bahnhof" }, { "id": "16256400", "text": "Garmisch-Partenkirchen station Garmisch-Partenkirchen station () is a junction station in the German State of Bavaria. It is the biggest station in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It has five platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. The station has about 50 services daily operated by DB Regio and some long-distance services operated by Deutsche Bahn. It is on the lines connecting Munich and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Innsbruck (the Mittenwald Railway) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Reutte (the Ausserfern Railway). The station was established on 25 July 1889 as the terminus of a branch line from Munich opened by Lokalbahn AG.", "title": "Garmisch-Partenkirchen station" }, { "id": "11029408", "text": "Munich Rosenheimer Platz station Rosenheimer Platz station is one five underground station opened in 1972 on the trunk line of the Munich S-Bahn between Munich Central Station () and Munich East station (München Ost station). It is under the street of the same name and Rosenheimerstraße in the Munich district of Haidhausen. It has two platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. The station was opened with the other underground stations on the trunk line in 1972; construction started in 1966. The escalators, columns and the station stripes are in yellow, as part of", "title": "Munich Rosenheimer Platz station" }, { "id": "9716984", "text": "Munich Laim station Munich-Laim station is a station on the trunk line of the Munich S-Bahn between Munich Central Station () and München-Pasing station. It is part of a large rail precinct, including Munich Laim marshalling yard. It has three platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. S-Bahn lines S 1 to Freising or the Airport and S 2 to Dachau or Petershausen separate from lines S 3, S 4, S 6 and S 8 to Pasing at this station. Platform 1 is used by S-Bahn trains heading out of the city. A few", "title": "Munich Laim station" }, { "id": "486326", "text": "Station (\"Hauptbahnhof\"), Hochzoll, Oberhausen, Haunstetterstraße, Morellstraße, Messe and Inningen. The Central Station, built from 1843 to 1846, is Germany’s oldest main station in a large city still providing services in the original building. It is currently being modernized and an underground tram station is built underneath it. Hauptbahnhof is on the Munich–Augsburg and Ulm–Augsburg lines and is connected by ICE and IC services to Munich, Berlin, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart. As of December 2007, the French TGV connected Augsburg with a direct High Speed Connection to Paris. In addition EC and night train services connect to Amsterdam, Paris and", "title": "Augsburg" }, { "id": "8820615", "text": "Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn station Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn is a station on the Munich S-Bahn network on the Munich-Giesing–Kreuzstraße railway. It is located in the community of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, south-east of Munich. It has two side-platforms with a large distance between the tracks. It is served by line S7 in a twenty-minute rhythm. A third of the outbound trains terminate here, the rest continues further to Aying or Kreuzstraße. Before 2005 the station had one island-platform, which was demolished after the opening of the two side-platforms in 2005. The station is staffed: tickets can be purchased at the DB store. The station facilities are: toilets, a", "title": "Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn station" }, { "id": "17188925", "text": "Munich South Ring Munich South Ring () is the common name for a railway line running near the centre and through the southern districts of the Bavarian state capital of Munich. It connects Munich East station to the Munich Central Station (\"Hauptbahnhof\") and Laim marshalling yard. Operationally it is mostly included in the Munich–Rosenheim railway (line 5510). The South Ring is used by freight traffic as a direct connection between Laim and Munich East, bypassing the Hauptbahnhof. It is used by virtually all passenger trains between the central station and Rosenheim or Mühldorf. Only the Munich S-Bahn services run between", "title": "Munich South Ring" }, { "id": "14297911", "text": "the permanent station was not opened until 13 November 1858. Due to a lack of space, the old station was closed and a new one was opened west of the old station on 19 April 1876. The Rosenheim locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) was also significant for the line. Today, the station is the seventh largest station in Bavaria with about 20,000 passengers each day. It is used by about 150 regional and long-distance passenger services each day. Passenger and freight trains operate on the Munich-Rosenheim railway line. An hourly Regional-Express service formerly operated between Munich and Salzburg as the \"München-Salzburg-Express\". Outside", "title": "Munich–Rosenheim railway" }, { "id": "16130387", "text": "Regional-Express) to and from Nuremberg. Additionally a Regionalbahn service operates to and from Augsburg as well as individual Regional-Express services to and from Ulm via Kempten. The ÖBB operates Regional (R) and Regional-Express (REX) services to Bludenz or St. Margrethen in Switzerland. Bus routes 1 and 2 of \"Stadtbus Lindau\" operate from the station forecourt to all part of the city of Lindau. Lindau Hauptbahnhof Lindau Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of Lindau in the German state of Bavaria. It was called \"Lindau Stadt\" (town) until 15 May 1936. It is the largest railway station in Lindau and its", "title": "Lindau Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "253158", "text": "Messe München\" (Messe München International). Franz Josef Strauss International Airport (IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM) is the second-largest airport in Germany and seventh-largest in Europe after London Heathrow, Paris Charle de Gaulle, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid and Istanbul Atatürk. It is used by about 34 million passengers a year, and lies some north east of the city centre. It replaced the smaller Munich-Riem airport in 1992. The airport can be reached by suburban train lines S8 from the east and S1 from the west of the city. From the main railway station the journey takes 40–45 minutes. An express train will be", "title": "Munich" }, { "id": "3452075", "text": "Zürich Hauptbahnhof Zürich Hauptbahnhof (often shortened to Zürich HB) (\"Zürich Main Station\" or \"Zürich Central Station\") is the largest railway station in Switzerland. Zürich is a major railway hub, with services to and from across Switzerland and neighbouring European countries such as Germany, Italy, Austria and France. The station was originally constructed as the terminus of the Spanisch Brötli Bahn, the first railway built completely within Switzerland. Serving up to 2,915 trains per day, Zürich HB is one of the busiest railway stations in the world. The station can be found at the northern end of the Altstadt, or \"old", "title": "Zürich Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "9292861", "text": "frequent connections with RegionalExpress and RegionalBahn trains. Their service level is comparable to a bus station and they offer services to commuters. This category also includes stations situated in major cities that see high usage of S-Bahn or RE/RB services. Examples are Balingen, Bautzen, Montabaur, Coburg and Munich's S-Bahn stop Isartor. 1070 stations make up Category 5. These stations either belong to smaller, rural towns or to outlying suburban areas of major cities. Their inventory normally is \"vandal-proofed\" due to the lower number of passengers. They normally only have local trains calling at the station. Examples are Sigmaringen, Köln-Holweide, and", "title": "German railway station categories" }, { "id": "9600500", "text": "Mannheim Hauptbahnhof Mannheim Hauptbahnhof (German for \"Mannheim main station\") is a railway station in Mannheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is the second largest traffic hub in southwestern Germany after Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, with 658 trains a day, including 238 long-distance trains. It is also a key station in the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. 100,000 passengers embark, disembark or transfer between trains at the station each day. The station was modernised in 2001. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station. The station is located on the southern edge of central Mannheim. In November 2001, the station was", "title": "Mannheim Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "9292860", "text": "a ticket hall and a service desk, are present at the station and the station is staffed during the usual times of traffic. The service is similar to Category 1 stations. Category 2 stations, by state, are: 239 stations belong to Category 3. These stations will usually feature a station hall where travellers can buy tickets and groceries, but these stations are usually not permanently staffed. They are often main stations of cities with about 50,000 inhabitants. Examples are Görlitz station, Reutlingen, Lichtenfels, Passau Hbf, and Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf. Category 4 includes around 630 stations. Most of these stations have", "title": "German railway station categories" }, { "id": "17125887", "text": "Munich Riem station München-Riem station is an S-Bahn station and container terminal in the east of Munich in the district of Trudering-Riem on the Munich–Mühldorf railway in the German state of Bavaria. The station is served by the Munich S-Bahn and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. Riem station was established on 1 May 1871 with opening of the railway to Mühldorf. On 1 October 1938, it was renamed to München-Riem. Since 28 May 1972 passenger services to the station have only been operated by S-Bahn trains. Currently it is served by S-Bahn line S 2", "title": "Munich Riem station" }, { "id": "14297903", "text": "The Munich–Mühldorf railway branches off the Munich–Rosenheim railway at this station. The station was opened on 15 October 1871 with the Munich–Rosenheim railway. Since 1972, the station has been served only by the S-Bahn. The Trudering U-Bahn station was opened in 1999. In addition, the Munich North Ring joins the line at Trudering station. Next to the station there are storage sidings for freight and S-Bahn trains. The halt of Gronsdorf, which is located on the boundary between Munich and the municipality of Haar, was opened on 1 May 1897. It is located between the Munich district of Waldtrudering and", "title": "Munich–Rosenheim railway" }, { "id": "4096505", "text": "stations and tunnels). There are three \"line families\", which consist of two lines (not counting peak hour lines) that share a common track in the city centre. The schedules of these lines are coordinated in a way, which yields regular train intervals on the common section. Most stations have two tracks with an island platform between them. Of the single-line stations, only the stations \"Olympia-Einkaufszentrum\" (U1), \"Richard-Strauss-Straße\" (U4), \"Neuperlach Süd\" (U5), \"Garching-Hochbrück\" and \"Nordfriedhof\" (both U6) have side platforms. At the junction stations \"Scheidplatz\" and \"Innsbrucker Ring\", the four tracks lie in parallel on the same level with two island", "title": "Munich U-Bahn" }, { "id": "12770942", "text": "Passau Hauptbahnhof Passau Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station at Passau in Bavaria, Germany. Built in 1860, it has eight platforms, of which three are bay platforms and three are through tracks. The ca. 130 m long station building is built in the classic style. Today the station is a stop for ICE and IC long-distance trains, as well as local trains operated by Deutsche Bahn (DB AG) and the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). From Passau, regional services run to Munich, Regensburg and on the \"Rottalbahn\" to Mühldorf am Inn and the Austrian Western Railway to Wels and Linz. Because", "title": "Passau Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "15210326", "text": "Munich–Regensburg railway The Munich–Regensburg railway is a double track, electrified main line railway, linking Munich and Regensburg in the German state of Bavaria, with a total length of 138.1 km. It was opened in 1858 and 1859 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany. The line leaves the Bavarian capital of Munich to the north, running on the left (western) side of the Isar river through the city of Unterschleißheim to Freising, and then curves to the east and runs through Moosburg, where it crosses the Amper river, continuing to Landshut Hauptbahnhof (central station), north of the centre", "title": "Munich–Regensburg railway" }, { "id": "14829415", "text": "Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway The Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway is a single track, electrified main line railway in the southern part of the German state of Bavaria. It runs from Munich via Starnberg and Murnau to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The first part of it was opened in 1854 and is one of the oldest lines in Germany. The line runs for 7.4 km from the Starnberg wing of Munich Hauptbahnhof to Munich-Pasing station. The route to Tutzing runs parallel to S-Bahn line S6. North and south of Starnberg the line follows the shore of Lake Starnberg, where the Alps can be seen. The S-Bahn line ends", "title": "Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway" }, { "id": "17122028", "text": "Munich–Mühldorf railway The Munich–Mühldorf railway is a 74 .8 km long main line in the German state of Bavaria, which opened on 1 May 1871. It runs from Munich East station via Markt Schwaben and Dorfen to Mühldorf. The travel time between Munich East and Mühldorf is currently about an hour. The track is one of the 18 bottlenecks with capacity problems identified under the \"Bundesschienenwegeausbaugesetz\" (Federal Railway Infrastructure Development Act) of 1993. In particular the section between Markt Schwaben and Ampfing is one of the busiest single-track lines in Germany. About 3 million tonnes is handled on this single-track,", "title": "Munich–Mühldorf railway" }, { "id": "17161662", "text": "Pullach station Pullach station is a station on the Isar Valley Railway from Munich to Bichl in the German state of Bavaria. Since 1981, it has been a station of the Munich S-Bahn. The station is located in the municipality of Pullach, which also contains the stations of Großhesselohe Isartal and Höllriegelskreuth. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station and has two platform tracks. The station building is registered as a historic building on the List of Bavarian Monuments and has been acquired by the municipality of Pullach. It is currently operating it and considering how", "title": "Pullach station" }, { "id": "4096530", "text": "by a glass pyramid. An extension to \"Martinsried\", which is only approx. west of the current terminus, is planned and agreed upon, and is supposed to open in 2019. This new booster line was added in December 2011 along with the new tram extension to St. Emmeram. The U7 runs between \"Westfriedhof\" and \"Neuperlach Zentrum\" via \"München Hauptbahnhof\" and \"Innsbrucker Ring\": it shares the tracks with the U1 from \"Westfriedhof\" to \"Kolumbusplatz\", the U2 from \"München Hauptbahnhof\" to \"Innsbrucker Ring\", and the U5 from \"Innsbrucker Ring\" to its southern terminus \"Neuperlach Zentrum\". The stations along U7 line are \"Westfriedhof\", \"Gern\",", "title": "Munich U-Bahn" }, { "id": "7527050", "text": "via Cross-platform interchange. Hannover Hauptbahnhof Hannover Hauptbahnhof (German for \"Hanover main station\") is the main railway station for the city of Hanover in Lower Saxony, Germany. The railway junction is one of the 21 stations listed as a railway Category 1 station by DB Station&Service. It is also the most important public transport hub of the region of Hanover and it is served regional and S-Bahn services. The station has six platforms with twelve platform tracks, and two through tracks without platforms. Every day it is used by 250,000 passengers and 622 trains stop at the platforms (as of October", "title": "Hannover Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "8853966", "text": "Station (\"Hauptbahnhof\"), the Maximilianeum and the brickwork of the Maximilianstraße. The station building, a two-story building with two wings and a waiting room is the oldest surviving railway station in Bavaria. The line to Starnberg was opened on 21 May 1854. When the construction of another line from Munich west to Buchloe began a short time later in 1873, the station had to be expanded to six tracks with 25 houses for railway workers due to the strong growth of the town. This was accompanied by the construction of a new, larger station building. The current station building was designed", "title": "Munich Pasing station" }, { "id": "17169800", "text": "for intercity railway, then for a Transrapid maglev train making the trip to München Hauptbahnhof in 10 minutes. However, this project was cancelled in March 2008 due to cost escalation. Munich Airport Terminal station is located in the 13th ring of the MVV tariff. Munich Airport Terminal station Munich Airport Terminal station () is a Munich S-Bahn terminal station at Munich Airport at the end of the Munich East–Munich Airport railway. It is connected to the city by lines and . The ride takes approximately 45 minutes to the Marienplatz station in the city centre. Munich Airport station is located", "title": "Munich Airport Terminal station" }, { "id": "11033004", "text": "some increased to every 10 minutes during peak hours, therefore connecting Hirschgarten with the city centre every 2–4 minutes. Munich Hirschgarten station München Hirschgarten is a Munich S-Bahn railway station on the main line between Laim and Donnersbergerbrücke railway stations at Friedenheimer Brücke. It was opened in December 2009 and provides transportation access for the new quarter under development at Birketweg nearby. In early planning stages, the proposed name was \"Friedenheimer Brücke\". The station is served by the lines S1, S2, S3, S4, S6 and S8 of the Munich S-Bahn network, which connect the station with the city centre (all", "title": "Munich Hirschgarten station" }, { "id": "12256086", "text": "station at Dachau station has four platforms. It is served by MVV routes operated by Dachau city transport (716–720, 722, 726 and 744) and district transport (172, 291, 702–706, 710, 721, 723, 725, 736 and 791). Dachau Bahnhof Dachau station () is a station in the Bavarian town of Dachau on the Munich S-Bahn network. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station and it has five platform tracks. It is served daily by about 190 trains operated by Deutsche Bahn, including 150 S-Bahn trains. Dachau station is on the Nuremberg–Munich high-speed railway and is the beginning", "title": "Dachau Bahnhof" }, { "id": "17188167", "text": "town centre of Tutzing. The station building is located east of the railway tracks on Bahnhofstraße (station street), which links the station to the town centre, and it has the address of Bahnhofstraße 26. Beringerweg runs west of the line. Heinrich-Vogl-Straße passes through an underpass under the tracks in the northern part of the station precinct. Tutzing station is a rail junction where the Kochelsee Railway branches off the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen line. The line from Munich to Garmisch-Partenkirchen (VzG 5504) is an electrified main line railway, used by regional services and on weekends by some Intercity-Expresses. It is double-track between Munich", "title": "Tutzing station" }, { "id": "14297902", "text": "München-Steinhausen D-Bahn rolling stock workshop (\"Bahnbetriebswerk\") to Munich East station. The station is administered as part of Munich East station. The halt of Berg am Laim (\"Haltepunkt Berg am Laim\") was opened on 1 May 1897, but it was closed on 1 May 1915. A year later, on 1 May 1916, a new Berg am Laim halt was opened which was only accessible from the Munich–Mühldorf railway. The station was not accessible from the Munich–Rosenheim railway until the commissioning of the Munich S-Bahn network in 1972. It is now only served by S-Bahn services. It now has two platform tracks.", "title": "Munich–Rosenheim railway" }, { "id": "17154945", "text": "Wolfratshausen station Wolfratshausen station is a station of the Munich S-Bahn. It is located in the Upper Bavarian town of Wolfratshausen in Germany. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. It has two platform tracks next to a central platform. The station is located in the network area of the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (Munich Transport and Tariff Association, MVV) and is served by line 7 of the S-Bahn, which is operated by Deutsche Bahn. The station was established on 27 July 1891 as a terminus when the Isar Valley Railway from Munich was put into", "title": "Wolfratshausen station" }, { "id": "9296495", "text": "Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof is the main station of Aschaffenburg in the German state of Bavaria/ It is located on the busy Ruhr– Frankfurt–Nuremberg–Munich/Vienna rail corridor. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 2 station. It forms the boundary between the city centre and the district of Damm. The passenger station was originally located at the modern marshalling yard, which has been mostly dismantled. The station was opened in 1854 with the commissioning of the Bavarian Ludwig Western Railway (\"Ludwigs-West-Bahn\"]) on what was then a green field. During the Second World War, the station as a hub represented a target", "title": "Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "9018530", "text": "Munich Trudering station Trudering station is an interchange station of the Munich S-Bahn and the Munich U-Bahn in the borough of Trudering-Riem in the Bavarian capital of Munich. Trudering station was opened on 15 October 1871 at the same time as the Munich–Rosenheim railway. On 1 October 1938, Trudering station was renamed as \"Bahnhof München-Trudering\" (Munich–Trudering station). The former station building was demolished in the 1970s. On 28 May 1972 it has been integrated into the network of the Munich S-Bahn. Since 1979, the S-Bahn has had its own tracks through Trudering. The U-Bahn station was opened on line U", "title": "Munich Trudering station" }, { "id": "9293940", "text": "Dortmund Hauptbahnhof Dortmund Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station's origins lie in a joint station of the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn and Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn which was built north of the city centre in 1847. That station was replaced by a new station, erected in 1910 at the current site. It featured raised embankments to allow a better flow of traffic. At the time of its opening, it was one of the largest stations in Germany. It was, however, destroyed in an Allied air raid on 6 October 1944. The main station hall was rebuilt in", "title": "Dortmund Hauptbahnhof" }, { "id": "8853981", "text": "other busy commuter stations (Fürstenfeldbruck/S4 and Starnberg/S6) and give rapid connections to the city of Munich. Munich S-Bahn lines, S3 Holzkirchen-Mammendorf, S4 (Ebersberg-Geltendorf), S6 Munich East-Tutzing, S8 Munich Airport-Herrsching and S20 (Pasing-Deisenhofen) call at the station. Four of these five S-Bahn lines are bundled on the so-called S-Bahn trunk line through the centre of Munich, giving the S-Bahn a very high frequency of trains between Munich East and Pasing. During peak hour lines S 3 and S 8 operate every 10 minutes and lines S 4 and S 6 operate every 20 minutes, producing 18 services an hour to the", "title": "Munich Pasing station" }, { "id": "4096520", "text": "was subsequently cancelled altogether. From \"Westendstraße\" the U4 runs east to \"Heimeranplatz\", which connects to S7 and S20 S-Bahn lines. The next two station, \"Schwanthalerhöhe\" (originally called \"Messegelände\", the German for \"exhibition grounds\"; the name was changed when the exhibition centre relocated to Riem in 1998) and \"Theresienwiese\", are gateways to the Oktoberfest, and are therefore highly loaded during this event. Between both aforementioned stations, there is a track that links to \"Implerstraße\" to provide a connection to the depot in Fröttmaning. Theresienwiese is one of only two U-Bahn station in Munich (besides \"Fröttmaning station\" which serves Allianz Arena) to", "title": "Munich U-Bahn" }, { "id": "8853965", "text": "Munich Pasing station München-Pasing is a railway station with nine platforms situated in the west of Munich. It is the third-largest station in Munich, after München Hauptbahnhof and München Ost. When the first Munich railway was built from Munich to Lochhausen on the western outskirts of Munich in 1839, a station with two wooden huts was built in the municipality of Pasing. The line was completed to Augsburg on 7 October 1840. In 1847, back stone station building designed by Friedrich Bürklein was built on the southern side of the railway tracks in Pasing. Bürklein also designed the Munich Central", "title": "Munich Pasing station" }, { "id": "17188166", "text": "Tutzing station Tutzing station is currently the only station of the Bavarian town of Tutzing and a station on the Munich S-Bahn. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station and has three platform tracks. It is served daily by about 130 trains operated by Deutsche Bahn, including 50 S-Bahn trains. Tutzing station is located on the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway and is the beginning of the Kochelsee Railway to Kochel. Previously, there was another station in Tutzing at Diemendorf on the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen line, which was closed for passenger traffic in 1984. The station is located west of the", "title": "Tutzing station" }, { "id": "4096564", "text": "the U3/U6 line in an earlier proposal for the line, have been mitigated by having the line reconnect one station south at \"Giselastraße\" instead. Munich U-Bahn The Munich U-Bahn () is an electric rail rapid transit network in Munich, Germany. The system began operation in 1971, and is operated by the municipally owned Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG; Munich Transport Company). The network is integrated into the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (MVV; Munich Transport and Tariff Association) and interconnected with the Munich S-Bahn. The U-Bahn currently comprises eight lines, serving 96 stations (100 stations if four interchange stations with separate levels for", "title": "Munich U-Bahn" }, { "id": "13224101", "text": "that carries no public service. At the same time,February 2009, class S trams, built to the Variotram design, were introduced. In December 2011 an extension was opened from the previous Effnerplatz terminus to St. Emmeram. The extension was long and added seven new tram stops to the network. Tram route 16 was extended to serve St. Emmeram, with knock-on effects on routes 17, 18 and 27. In December 2012 new routes 22 and 28 were opened. In December 2013, the extension of route 19, from its previous terminus at Pasing-Marienplatz to München-Pasing railway station, was opened in order to enable", "title": "Trams in Munich" }, { "id": "17186364", "text": "long and 76 cm high. Feldafing station Feldafing station is the only station of the Bavarian town of Feldafing and a station on the Munich S-Bahn. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station and has two platform tracks. The station is located on the Munich–Garmisch-Partenkirchen railway. The railway line from Munich to Starnberg was opened in 1854. On 1 July 1865, Feldafing station was opened along with the extension of the line to Weilheim. In 1900 and 1901 platform subway was built at the station. In 1902 the line was duplicated. Since 1972, the station has", "title": "Feldafing station" }, { "id": "14373170", "text": "Gießen station Gießen railway station () is the main railway station in Gießen, Hesse, Germany. The station is a Category 2 station is used by 20,000 passengers daily. The station was opened on 25 August 1850 and is located on the Main-Weser Railway (Kassel – Frankfurt (Main)) and Dill railway (Siegen – Gießen). The current station reception building was built between 1904 and 1911. The main original station building is a historic landmark and has been protected. Outside the station is a bus station and a taxi rank . Parking garages are located nearby. The first Gießen station was a", "title": "Gießen station" }, { "id": "4096526", "text": "standard . Today the line has a length of . Its signature colour is blue. Since 2006 the northern terminus of the U6 is \"Garching-Forschungszentrum\"; via \"Garching\" it reaches \"Garching-Hochbrück\". These three stations are outside the city limits of Munich in the city of Garching The distance of to the next station at \"Fröttmaning\" is the longest distance between two stations in Munich's U-Bahn network. \"Fröttmaning\" has been expanded to two island platforms and four tracks to cater for the Allianz Arena football stadium, built for the 2006 Football World Cup. The technical base of the U-Bahn is located at", "title": "Munich U-Bahn" }, { "id": "11072416", "text": "Deisenhofen station Deisenhofen is a Munich S-Bahn railway station in Deisenhofen, a district of Oberhaching. Deisenhofen station was opened in 1862 on the Munich–Holzkirchen section of the Bavarian Maximilian Railway. Since 10 October 1898 there has also been a connection to Munich East station, the Munich East–Deisenhofen railway. Since 1972, the station has been integrated in the network of the Munich S-Bahn. In 2004 the station was made fully accessible. The platforms were raised and modernised and the station building was renovated. New park-and-ride and bicycle storage facilities were built near the station. The bus stop in the station forecourt", "title": "Deisenhofen station" }, { "id": "11029596", "text": "on which large-scale images of different plants and animals are attached. This artistic design was produced by the Munich-based artist Martin Fengel who has included all the motifs of Moosach. The height of the platform walls is 7.80 metres. Moosach Station is the terminus of tram lines and . On both sides of the station there are stops for several bus routes, including Metrobus route 51. Munich Moosach station München Moosach station is a station in the Moosach district of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria. It consists of an above-ground station for regional and Munich S-Bahn", "title": "Munich Moosach station" }, { "id": "17211966", "text": "Augsburg Haunstetterstraße station Augsburg Haunstetterstraße station is a station south of central Augsburg in the German state of Bavaria. It lies on a railway bridge over Haunstetter Straße, formerly written \"Haunstetterstraße\", and extends west to the Hochfeld bridge, which has been directly accessible via a staircase from the platform since December 2009. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. The station has been considerably remodelled in recent years as part of the upgrading of the Munich–Augsburg railway to have four tracks and is now mainly used to transfer between regional trains and tram lines 2, 3", "title": "Augsburg Haunstetterstraße station" }, { "id": "14481268", "text": "Mammendorf to Munich central station the line runs parallel to line S3 of the Munich S-Bahn of the MVV. Munich–Augsburg railway The Munich–Augsburg line connects Munich and Augsburg in the German state of Bavaria. It was built by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company and opened in 1840. It was nationalised in 1846 and extended to Ulm in 1854. The line between Augsburg and Munich is a major traffic axis and part of the Magistrale for Europe from Budapest through Vienna to Paris. The line was built by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company (German: \"München-Augsburg Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft\") and opened in 1839 and 1840. The", "title": "Munich–Augsburg railway" }, { "id": "4096369", "text": "Only Marienhof station is the all-new station in the north of Marienplatz U-Bahn and S-Bahn station while other stations will be expanded to accommodate the new tunnel. With focus on express service and shorter travel time, the second tunnel will bypass six current stations between Laim and Ostbahnhof. Most of express S-Bahn with limited stops will use the second tunnel: the proposed express S-Bahn routes are S18X (Herrsching-Leuchtenbergring), S21X (Landshut-Leuchtenbergring), S23X (Mering-Flughafen München), and S24X (Buchloe-Leuchtenbergring). Two of current S-Bahn routes will be transferred to the second tunnel upon the completion: S1 (Flughafen München/Freising-Ebersberg) and S6 (Tutzing-Leuchtenbergring). An alternative route", "title": "Munich S-Bahn" }, { "id": "11029411", "text": "Munich Hackerbrücke station Munich Hackerbrücke station is a station opened in 1972 on the Munich S-Bahn network below Hackerbrücke (Hacker bridge) that is close to Munich Central Station (). It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station and has a 211 metre long central platform between two platform tracks and is located directly in front of a 3.2 percent drop into the S-Bahn trunk line tunnel. Immediately to the south is the Munich Hauptbahnhof signal box, which monitors and controls all the track work at the Central Station and on the adjoining lines (excluding the S-Bahn). Particularly", "title": "Munich Hackerbrücke station" }, { "id": "17063401", "text": "the address of Bahnhofstraße 4. Bahnhofstraße (station street) runs to the south of the station. The Hauptstraße (main street) crosses the tracks over a level crossing to the east of the station. To the west there is a pedestrian bridge. Hergatz station was opened on 12 October 1853 with the last section of the Bavarian Allgäu Railway from Oberstaufen to Lindau as part of the Ludwig South-North Railway. The opening of the section from Buchloe to Kaufering on 1 November 1872 created a direct connection with Munich. The station initially had five platform tracks and several freight tracks. It also", "title": "Hergatz station" }, { "id": "17125890", "text": "capacity of this plant is 250,000 TEUs. The third sets of tracks was opened in 2012. The reconstruction costs were €16 million, producing an increase in throughput from 350,000 to 400,000 TEUs. Munich Riem station München-Riem station is an S-Bahn station and container terminal in the east of Munich in the district of Trudering-Riem on the Munich–Mühldorf railway in the German state of Bavaria. The station is served by the Munich S-Bahn and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. Riem station was established on 1 May 1871 with opening of the railway to Mühldorf. On 1", "title": "Munich Riem station" }, { "id": "11029402", "text": "Munich Isartor station Munich Isartor station is a station opened in 1972 on the Munich S-Bahn on the trunk line between Munich Central Station () and Munich East station (\"Ostbahnhof\"). It is located below Isartorplatz and the Thierschstraße/Zweibrückenstraße intersection in Munich and is named after the nearby Isartor city gate. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. Like all other stations on the trunk line, it has two entrances. The Western entrance leads to a vast mezzanine on the Altstadtring/Tal/Zweibrückenstraße intersection and the eastern entrance starts at the courtyard of the Breiterhof shopping arcade between Thierschstraße", "title": "Munich Isartor station" }, { "id": "14425555", "text": "Frankfurt Hauptwache station Frankfurt (Main) Hauptwache station () is a major train station in the city centre of Frankfurt, Germany. With 181,000 passengers per day, Hauptwache station is the third-busiest rapid transit station in Frankfurt after Frankfurt Central Station and Konstablerwache station and a major hub for commuter transport in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region. It is served by eight S-Bahn lines (S1–S6, S8, S9) and six U-Bahn lines (U1-U3, U6-U8) on 2 levels. The underground station is named after a baroque building which stands on a plaza above the station. The Hauptwache building was constructed in 1730 and was used as", "title": "Frankfurt Hauptwache station" }, { "id": "9709619", "text": "has kept its name. The buses of \"Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe\" always show the destination as \"S+U Rathaus Spandau\", although the S-Bahn station is only signed as \"Spandau\". Berlin-Spandau station Berlin-Spandau station is a Deutsche Bahn station in the Berlin district of Spandau on the south-western edge of the old town of Spandau. The railway junction station is one of the 80 stations classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station. It has the longest train shed (440 metres) in Germany. The high-traffic station with six platform tracks is a transfer point between long-distance passenger services—Intercity-Express (ICE), Intercity (IC) and EuroCity", "title": "Berlin-Spandau station" }, { "id": "4096515", "text": "the crater. Two passengers and one construction worker died and the construction was delayed. Via \"Moosfeld\", the U2 reaches \"Messestadt-West\" and its terminus \"Messestadt-Ost\". These stations are located between the fairgrounds (Messestadt) in the north and a development area and the Bundesgartenschau 2005 in the south. The U3 is the original Olympic line; the first section was opened for the Olympic Summer Games 1972. Today the line has a total of length of and 25 stations. The line's colour is orange. Today the U3 starts in the north at \"Moosach\", Munich's 100th U-Bahn station, where you can change to the", "title": "Munich U-Bahn" } ]

[ "Adam Schlesinger" ]

[ { "id": "979948", "text": "hotel and casino manager in Nevada, and T. B. earned a Purple Heart for injuries suffered at Khe Sanh. Guy and Faye married and raised a family in Venice, California, then moved to Bainbridge Island in Washington, where Guy teaches jazz composition at a music conservatory that he and Faye founded. The movie features original music by Tom Hanks, Adam Schlesinger, Rick Elias, Scott Rogness, Mike Piccirillo, Gary Goetzman and Howard Shore. In the movie, The Wonders rise to brief stardom on the strength of \"That Thing You Do\", a song written as a wistful ballad but which becomes an", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "979949", "text": "uptempo rocker during the band's first performance at a talent show. Written and composed for the film by Adam Schlesinger, bassist for Fountains of Wayne and Ivy and released on the film's soundtrack, the song became a genuine hit for The Wonders in 1996 (the song peaked at #41 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, #22 on the Adult Contemporary charts, #18 on the Adult Top 40, and #24 on the Top 40 Mainstream charts). The track was nominated for a 1996 Golden Globe Award as well as a 1996 Academy Award for Best Original Song. Mike Viola of The Candy", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "4568445", "text": "That Thing You Do (song) \"That Thing You Do\" is a 1996 song that appears in the film \"That Thing You Do!\" The song is performed by the fictional 1960s band The Wonders, who are the focus of the film. In 1964, an Erie, Pennsylvania band named \"The One-ders\" (later known as The Wonders) goes from a college talent show to climbing up the Billboard charts thanks to the song \"That Thing You Do\". Written by guitarist/vocalist Jimmy Mattingly II, it was originally crafted as a ballad. During the performance at the talent show, drummer Guy Patterson produces a much", "title": "That Thing You Do (song)" }, { "id": "4568453", "text": "replaced Steve Zahn as Frank Heffley in the \"Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series. That Thing You Do (song) \"That Thing You Do\" is a 1996 song that appears in the film \"That Thing You Do!\" The song is performed by the fictional 1960s band The Wonders, who are the focus of the film. In 1964, an Erie, Pennsylvania band named \"The One-ders\" (later known as The Wonders) goes from a college talent show to climbing up the Billboard charts thanks to the song \"That Thing You Do\". Written by guitarist/vocalist Jimmy Mattingly II, it was originally crafted as", "title": "That Thing You Do (song)" }, { "id": "4568449", "text": "the soundtrack CD, \"That Thing You Do\" peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 during the summer of 1964. The song was written by Adam Schlesinger, the bassist of the alternative rock group Fountains of Wayne. Schlesinger did not expect his song to be chosen, but tried as \"a personal exercise.\" Performers include Mike Viola on vocals with Schlesinger on backup vocals. The song was released as a single, and although not as successful as was depicted in the film, the track still did moderately well in the US, peaking at #41 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. (It also", "title": "That Thing You Do (song)" }, { "id": "979950", "text": "Butchers provided the lead vocals for the Wonders. In the film, the title song is referenced with \"All My Only Dreams\" as the B-side. The actual 45 RPM single, released to record stores in North America, features \"Dance With Me Tonight\" as its B-side. The song has since been recorded by The Knack and Bubblegum Lemonade. The Wonders are also seen playing the song \"Little Wild One.\" This was written by the band Gigolo Aunts as a \"faux-Beatles\"-style tune at the request of their record label to be submitted for consideration for inclusion in the film. For the purpose of", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "979952", "text": "written by Hanks. This song is a send-up of Ray Conniff, Mitch Miller, and other practitioners of the \"beautiful music\" or proto-Muzak formats that were a staple of adult radio during the early '60s such as on KPOL (AM)1540 in Los Angeles. Hanks also composed Guy's jazzy signature drum solo, \"I Am Spartacus.\" The ballad \"My World Is Over\" by Diane Dane seems inspired by the compositions of Burt Bacharach and Hal David; the vocal performance is reminiscent of Jackie DeShannon. The Wonders' bassist (played by Ethan Embry) is unnamed in the film; he is credited simply as 'The Bass", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "4568450", "text": "reached #22 on the Adult Contemporary chart, #18 on the Adult Top 40, and #24 on the Top 40 Mainstream chart.) The song also reached #50 in Australia. The song was a bigger hit outside of the US, reaching #31 in Canada in December 1996, and #22 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1997. The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 69th Academy Awards as well as Best Original Song at the 54th Golden Globe Awards, losing out on both occasions to Madonna's \"You Must Love Me\" (written by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber) from", "title": "That Thing You Do (song)" }, { "id": "979939", "text": "That Thing You Do! That Thing You Do! is a 1996 American film starring, written and directed by Tom Hanks in his directorial debut. It tells the story of the rise and fall of a fictional 1960s one-hit wonder pop band. The film also resulted in a musical hit with the song \"That Thing You Do\". In the summer of 1964, in Erie, Pennsylvania, aspiring jazz drummer Guy Patterson is asked by his friends Jimmy Mattingly and Lenny Haise to sit in with their band at an annual talent show after their regular drummer breaks his arm trying to jump", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "4578708", "text": "Adam Schlesinger Adam Schlesinger (born October 31, 1976) is the bassist for the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows. He is also a key songwriting contributor and producer for Brooklyn-based synth-pop duo Fever High. Schlesinger grew up in Manhattan and Montclair, New Jersey, where he attended Montclair High School. Schlesinger was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award in 1997 for writing the title track of the Tom Hanks-directed film \"That Thing You Do!\" as well as two other songs for the film. Fountains of Wayne was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 2003 for", "title": "Adam Schlesinger" }, { "id": "4568448", "text": "station KJZZ, Jimmy says of the song, \"We wrote it in my garage back in Erie, PA\". In the film, the song is performed by James \"Jimmy\" Mattingly II on lead vocals and guitar, Leonard \"Lenny\" Haise on lead guitar and backing vocals, \"T.B. Player\" on bass and backing vocals (as a running gag, the bass player in the film is unnamed), and Guy \"Shades\" Patterson on drums. For their live performance of the song on \"The Hollywood Television Showcase\", studio bassist Scott \"Wolfman\" Pell replaced T.B. Player on bass and backing vocals. In the fictitious \"mockumentary\" liner notes from", "title": "That Thing You Do (song)" }, { "id": "9513102", "text": "Andy Chase Andy Chase is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and label owner. He formed the band Ivy with his wife, Dominique Durand, and Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne. Andy has two children with Dominique: a daughter, Justine, and a son, Julien. Chase owns Unfiltered Records and co-owned Stratosphere Sound studio with Schlesinger and James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins. He has written and produced music for television and movies, including \"Shallow Hal\" and \"That Thing You Do!\". Chase grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. He was a fan of pop and new wave acts in the 1980s such", "title": "Andy Chase" }, { "id": "9513103", "text": "as the Smiths, Talk Talk, Blondie, and the Cars. At a portable home studio, he wrote music and played keyboards and guitar. Eager to start a band, he moved to New York City in the 1990s and placed an ad in the \"Village Voice\". He met multi-instrumentalist Adam Schlesinger, and in 1994, formed the band Ivy with Dominique Durand. He and Schlesinger co-produced, engineered, and sang on the title track for the Tom Hanks film \"That Thing You Do!\" in 1995. He also founded the bands Paco, Brookville, and Camera2. Chase has served as composer, producer, engineer, mixer, and musician", "title": "Andy Chase" }, { "id": "4578711", "text": "telecast. Schlesinger received two 2016 Emmy nominations for his work on the CW series \"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend\": Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for \"Settle For Me\" (co-written with Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen), and Outstanding Main Title Theme (co-written with Rachel Bloom). He received a 2017 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for \"We Tapped That Ass\" (co-written with Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen) from the CW series \"Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.\" In addition to writing and co-producing the title song to \"That Thing You Do!\", he composed \"Master Of The Seas\" for \"\" performed by Jennifer Lopez, Peter Dinklage and", "title": "Adam Schlesinger" }, { "id": "11202964", "text": "vocals to albums by Providence, Rhode Island pop-rockers Velvet Crush, with whom he toured as lead guitarist on and off through the early 1990s. Gibbs moved to Los Angeles in 1999, and has written songs for films and television, most notably the sound track to Josie and the Pussycats. He collaborated with Steve Hurley, Jane Wiedlin, Jason Falkner and Babyface on the album, which was certified Gold in 2003. Gibbs has also contributed music to Mr. Deeds, That Thing You Do!, Everwood, Alias, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Black Sash, What About Brian, Falcon Beach, Men In Trees and others. Alongside", "title": "Dave Gibbs" }, { "id": "8426033", "text": "with friend Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, co-produced the title track for Tom Hanks's 1996 movie \"That Thing You Do!\" The selection received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. Viola sang lead on the track, and as the accepted singing voice of Johnathon Schaech's character, Jimmy, also sang on other tracks in the film, such as \"Little Wild One\" and \"All My Only Dreams.\" For the 2007 Jake Kasdan/Judd Apatow film, \",\" Viola wrote or co-wrote \"A Life Without You (Is No Life At All),\" \"Darling,\" \"(I Hate You) Big Daddy,\" \"Dear Mr. President,\" \"Beautiful Ride,\" \"Sir Ringe", "title": "Mike Viola" }, { "id": "979958", "text": "\"That Thing You Do!\" as a spring-board to launch the actual Playtone Records label, through which the soundtracks of all his subsequent films, and other films like \"Bring It On\" and television programs like \"The Sopranos\" were released as albums. The film was well received by critics and currently holds a 93% fresh rating at the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 56 reviews with an average rating of 7.2/10. The site's consensus reads, \"A light, sweet, and thoroughly entertaining debut for director Tom Hanks, \"That Thing You Do!\" makes up in charm what it lacks in complexity\". The", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "8426032", "text": "Mike Viola Michael \"Mike\" Viola is a Grammy-nominated producer, musician, songwriter and singer best known for his work with Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis, Andrew McMahon, New Politics, and Fall Out Boy. His original music has been featured on soundtracks for movies such as \"Get Him to the Greek\", \"\" and \"That Thing You Do!\". Viola got his start in the mid-90s as the musical architect for New York-based band Candy Butchers, releasing three critically acclaimed albums with RPM/Sony Records before focusing on music production. Viola is currently VP of A&R for Verve Records, part of Universal Music Group Viola, along", "title": "Mike Viola" }, { "id": "15128503", "text": "Fountains of Wayne discography The discography of Fountains of Wayne contains five studio albums, one compilation album, 16 singles, one DVD, six music videos and six other appearances. Fountains of Wayne were formed in 1995 by bassist Adam Schlesinger and guitarist Chris Collingwood. They were joined by Jody Porter and Brian Young and recorded a demo. The demo fell into the hands of Atlantic Records and in 1996, the band released their debut self-titled album. Two singles were released from it but it was the song \"That Thing You Do\", written by Schlesinger, that gained popularity through its use as", "title": "Fountains of Wayne discography" }, { "id": "15413641", "text": "Craft Committees for Best Recording Package and Best Box Set. Gomes has composed songs with many award-winning and renowned songwriters including two-time Emmy Award Winner Sean Callery ('24,' 'Medium,' 'La Femme Nikita'), John Cafferty ('Eddie and the Cruisers'), Jimmie Crane (Elvis Presley, Doris Day), Mike Viola ('That Thing You Do,' 'Walk Hard'), David Minehan (Paul Westerberg, The Neighborhoods), and Chris Dominici (National Geographic Network, Fox Sports), among others. In 2010, Gomes produced and co-wrote all of the tracks on pop singer Derek Carvalho's debut CD, 'Simple As That.' In 2013, music icons The Beach Boys hired Gomes (along with his", "title": "Al Gomes" }, { "id": "6347347", "text": "released on various artists albums between 1976 and 1995. In 1995 Piccirillo wrote and produced 15 songs that were featured in the Tom Hanks written and directed film \"That Thing You Do\". Six of those songs appeared on the film's soundtrack CD. Additional Piccirillo songs appear in approximately 28 theatrical films released between 1982 and 1995, including \"\", \"Police Academy 2\", \"Child's Play\", \"Fright Night\", \"Kickboxer\", \"\", \"Big Momma's House\" and many others. Mike Piccirillo Michael Lynn Piccirillo (born 1951) is a music producer, songwriter, and musician who began working professionally in the Los Angeles music business in 1976. In", "title": "Mike Piccirillo" }, { "id": "934352", "text": "Rick Elias Richard Robert \"Rick\" Elias is a Nashville-based singer and songwriter. From 1993 to 2002, Elias was a member of Rich Mullins' A Ragamuffin Band. Rick was a founding member of Rich Mullins and a Ragamuffin Band. Today Rick spends his time writing and producing music in Nashville, Tennessee, and continues to perform solo throughout the U.S. and internationally. His music was included in the 1996 movie \"That Thing You Do!\" (which was written and directed by Tom Hanks), \"Dawsons Creek\", \"My Big Fat Greek Wedding\", as well as numerous other albums, independent films, and TV shows. Rick has", "title": "Rick Elias" }, { "id": "979962", "text": "jazz musicians. \"That Thing You Do!\" was packaged with \"Bachelor Party\" and \"The Man with One Red Shoe\" in the \"Tom Hanks Triple Feature\" DVD anthology set. The actual DVD appears to be the original 2001 disc, with the featurette and music videos. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released the film on Blu-ray on April 2, 2013. The Blu-ray includes the Theatrical and Extended cuts as well as all of the bonus features found on the 2-Disc DVD. That Thing You Do! That Thing You Do! is a 1996 American film starring, written and directed by Tom Hanks in his", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "3708900", "text": "opening music to the British sitcom, \"Game On\". The single release of \"Where I Find My Heaven\" broke into the Top 30 in the UK Singles Chart early in 1995. The band also composed the song, \"Little Wild One\", for the movie, \"That Thing You Do!\" In the winter of 1995, drummer Paul Brouwer left and was replaced by Fred Eltringham, then of the Boston band, Jack Drag. In the fall of 1995, the band entered the studio with producer Fred Maher to record the follow-up to \"Flippin' Out\", tentatively titled \"Ultraphonic\". The subsequent recordings were never released and soon", "title": "Gigolo Aunts" }, { "id": "16685589", "text": "by then-Bad Boy R&B group 112. A music video for the well-known \"Bad Boy Remix\" version was filmed in New York City in the summer of 1996 and was directed by Andras Mahr. This version, like the single, also received heavy airplay on BET and MTV. The video features appearances by Sean \"Diddy\" Combs (then known as Puff Daddy), The Notorious B.I.G. and Rodney Jerkins. Missy Elliott also performs her rap in the video. The song became Thompson's sole chart appearance on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #41. However, the song was more successful on the R&B singles", "title": "The Things That You Do" }, { "id": "14449612", "text": "release due to its popularity with audiences across the country since it was introduced to the set list of her live show. The second radio release from the Comin' Home project, \"That Thing You Do,\" was written by Candy Coburn and Josh Carroll and was sent out to radio stations beginning in May 2012. Both singles from the CD were promoted by Nashville-based Jan Woods Promotion and did well on the Music Row Radio Charts. Candy has been featured in many publications, including IndyCar professional race car driver Sarah Fisher's book released in May 2010 by Beaufort Books, \"99 Things", "title": "Candy Coburn" }, { "id": "4568447", "text": "becoming the quickest charting song ever on Play-Tone Records. However, Jimmy walks out on the band before they can produce another record, so they eventually become one-hit wonders. Early in the film, when Jimmy and Lenny are asking Guy to join them at the talent competition at the college, Jimmy mentions they'll perform a song he wrote. Lenny takes offense to that by slapping Jimmy on the arm. Jimmy begrudgingly corrects himself by saying, \"\"We\" wrote.\" Later, when the vinyl 45 is officially released, the label states: Written by James Mattingly II. Later still, when being interviewed live on radio", "title": "That Thing You Do (song)" }, { "id": "9463137", "text": "also produces and is co-owner of the indie label Scratchie Records. Adam Schlesinger is an Academy Award, Grammy Award and Emmy Award nominated songwriter, (\"That Thing You Do\", \"Stacy's Mom\" and \"A Colbert Christmas\", respectively), a member of the bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, and a record producer. He also co-owns Scratchie Records with Iha. Andy Chase is a member of the band Ivy, as well as his solo band Brookville, and a songwriter/producer/engineer/mixer with several gold and platinum credits. He was also the original founder of The Place. Staff engineers at Stratosphere included Rudyard Lee Cullers, Geoff Sanoff", "title": "Stratosphere Sound" }, { "id": "1381972", "text": "The Lemonheads. That same year, Schlesinger wrote the Academy Award-nominated, RIAA gold certified title song for the film \"That Thing You Do!\". In 1999, the band released \"Utopia Parkway\", an album named after a road in Queens, New York. The album was a concept record that dealt with life in modern suburbia. \"Utopia Parkway\" was received well by critics, garnering many favorable reviews, and was album of the week in \"People\" magazine. The group once again toured extensively behind the album, but frustrations grew between the band and the label. The band was later dropped by Atlantic in late 1999.", "title": "Fountains of Wayne" }, { "id": "979957", "text": "at KQV in Pittsburgh. (There is a scene in the film in which a disc jockey at WCOL is seen playing \"That Thing You Do!\") The soundtrack album (released under the Play-Tone name in conjunction with Epic Records) was also a hit, peaking at #21 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart. The CD artwork is a replica of the fictional Play-Tone label used in the movie, and the liner notes are done in a mockumentary style, as if the Wonders had been a real group and the events of the film had actually happened. Hanks later used the success of", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "979953", "text": "Player'. This is a joke based on the perception that bass players are often unknown and unappreciated. Embry would later provide his own take on the character's real name: \"I just said my name was Tobias, because he’s \"such\" a Tobias. You just take the vowels out [and it’s T.B.] His nickname was Toby, but his mom calls him Tobias. And his last name actually was Player, because he was a player, dude! That carousel ride with the Chantrellines? Total player.\" Some music was written for the film by Lee Hartney from The Smith Street Band but didn't make the", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "4568451", "text": "the musical \"Evita\". On April 25, 2017, three quarters of the actors who played The Wonders - Tom Everett Scott (Guy \"Shades\" Patterson), Johnathon Schaech (Jimmy Mattingly II) and Ethan Embry (\"T.B. Player\") - performed the song live during a surprise appearance at the Roxy in Los Angeles. The occasion was the \"Goddamn Comedy Jam\", a live show series in which comedians tell funny stories about a meaningful song and then perform it with a live band. Comedian and show creator Josh Adam Meyers persuaded the actors to perform the song with him. After initial hesitation on Scott's part, Meyers", "title": "That Thing You Do (song)" }, { "id": "979954", "text": "final cut. The tour and TV appearance are done in the authentic style of rock bands of the mid-1960s, including Go-Go girls, elaborate sharing of microphones, and formal clothing in various matching colors. The character of fictional Pittsburgh disc jockey \"Boss Vic Koss\" whose actual last name was \"Kosslovich\" may be inspired by real-life Pittsburgh radio personality \"Mad Mike Metro,\" who worked at WZUM in the 60s. His actual last name was \"Metrovich\". The song \"Voyage Around the Moon\" by the fictional band Saturn 5 closely resembles \"Pipeline\" by The Chantays. The scene where The Wonders are miming the instrumental", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "4568452", "text": "managed to persuade him with help from \"The After Jam\" producer Jason Gallagher, who happened to be Scott's brother-in-law. The other actors soon followed suit, with Gallagher helping them learn how to play the instruments. Steve Zahn (Lenny Haise) was unable to participate due to living in Kentucky; comedian Jeremiah Watkins took his place on lead guitar while wearing a cut-out mask of Zahn's face. On April 10, 2017, Embry posted a video of himself playing the song's bass line; it is now apparent that the video was a teaser for the event two weeks later. Coincidentally, Tom Everett Scott", "title": "That Thing You Do (song)" }, { "id": "979959", "text": "film debuted at No. 3. The film grossed $25,857,416 domestically and $8,728,000 abroad for a worldwide gross of $34,585,416. The film is recognized by the American Film Institute in this list: \"That Thing You Do!\" was first released in mid-1997 on VHS. In 1998, the film became available in the DIVX format (as with all 20th Century Fox films), rather than DVD. After DIVX failed, the film was released onto DVD on June 5, 2001. It included the featurette \"The Making of \"That Thing You Do!\",\" and two music videos. On May 8, 2007, \"Tom Hanks' Extended Edition\" was released", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "8705386", "text": "by Orchestra Jazira (Ghana/UK) and Sonny Okuson (Nigeria). He has written about music for The Village Voice, Playboy, Creem, ELLE, Spin and \"Billboard\". Mr. George was the music editor for \"Benetton’s Colors\" Magazine and has done occasional writing about \"music & food\" for \"Saveur Magazine\". He contributed to the planning of and provided research material for \"Goodtime Kings\" by Billy Bergman (Planet Rock/Quarto Books, 1985), the first American book on contemporary African Pop. He has consulted on many film projects including Martin Scorsese’s \"The Last Temptation of Christ\" and \"Goodfellas\", Tom Hanks' \"That Thing You Do\", and Jonathan Demme’s \"Something", "title": "B. George" }, { "id": "14123564", "text": "In 1998, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA. Nobody Does It Better (album) Nobody Does It Better is the debut studio album by American R&B singer Gina Thompson. It was released through Mercury Records on August 13, 1996. The album was led by the hit single, \"The Things That You Do\". The \"Bad Boy Remix\", featuring Missy Elliott, version of the song was released as the official lead single. The song peaked at 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at 12 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The debut album failed to enter the \"Billboard\" 200, but", "title": "Nobody Does It Better (album)" }, { "id": "16685588", "text": "2007, the song's chorus was sampled and covered by American musical duo Nina Sky in DJ Envy & Red Café's single, \"Things You Do.\" The original version of \"The Things That You Do\" was written and produced by Rodney Jerkins, and appears on Thompson's debut album. The remix version, entitled \"The Things That You Do (Bad Boy Remix)\" is the most well-known version of the song and features a prominent sample of Bob James' \"Take Me to the Mardi Gras\" from his album, \"Two\" (1975). The remix features a guest vocal by American hip-hop artist Missy Elliott and backing vocals", "title": "The Things That You Do" }, { "id": "11179140", "text": "versions on their Mutual Records singles. In the 1990s, Tom Hanks was quoted in \"People\" saying that The Chartbusters were one of the inspirations for his film \"That Thing You Do!\". (Note that there was also a band called The Chartbusters in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Hanks grew up, but this note may be a reference to the Jazz group The Chartbusters, who recorded for the Concord Music Group in the 1990s and had a member born in Oakland.) The Chartbusters Official website: http://www.thechartbusters.com The Chartbusters The Chartbusters were an American rock band from Washington, D.C.. The group's", "title": "The Chartbusters" }, { "id": "16685587", "text": "The Things That You Do \"The Things That You Do\" is a song performed by American R&B singer Gina Thompson from her debut album, \"Nobody Does It Better\" (1996). The single version was released as the Bad Boy Remix featuring Missy Elliott, who gained notability and mainstream attention for her unique signature, \"Hee-Hee-How\" punchline. Elliott's contribution managed to help the single crack the top 20 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it peaked at #12 and spent a total of 29 weeks. The song also appeared on the US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at #41. In", "title": "The Things That You Do" }, { "id": "11796556", "text": "The Chartbusters, which featured his old bandmate Vernon Sandusky. The Chartbusters scored a Top 40 hit in 1964 with their recording \"She's The One\". Tom Hanks was quoted in People Magazine as saying The Chartbusters were one of the influences for his film \"That Thing You Do!\". Poe also co-managed The British Walkers, which featured Bobby Howard and guitarist Roy Buchanan. In 1968, Poe again switched gears and started several music tip sheets for music industry insiders and radio stations. The most successful tip sheet was Pop Music Survey, which grew significantly when Poe began an annual music convention. After", "title": "Bobby Poe" }, { "id": "16685590", "text": "chart where it reached #12 and spent a total of 29 weeks on the latter chart. The Things That You Do \"The Things That You Do\" is a song performed by American R&B singer Gina Thompson from her debut album, \"Nobody Does It Better\" (1996). The single version was released as the Bad Boy Remix featuring Missy Elliott, who gained notability and mainstream attention for her unique signature, \"Hee-Hee-How\" punchline. Elliott's contribution managed to help the single crack the top 20 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, where it peaked at #12 and spent a total of 29 weeks. The", "title": "The Things That You Do" }, { "id": "979955", "text": "tune \"Shrimp Shack\" during the filming of a beach party film titled \"Weekend at Party Pier\" is an overt reference to the scene in \"Pajama Party\" wherein The Nooney Rickett 4 play the instrumental \"Beach Ball.\" The movie was written at a time when Hanks was dealing with his own issues with increasing successes in his career. During his appearance on \"Inside the Actors Studio\", Hanks said he told the studio, \"I'm a big honkin' star and you have to let me do what I want to do,\" to which the studio replied, \"You're absolutely right.\" There were at least", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "979951", "text": "being able to convincingly perform The Wonders' songs on-camera, Scott, Schaech, Zahn and Embry took several weeks of individual lessons, followed by daily practice as a group. Of the four, only Zahn and Embry had any prior experience of playing their assigned instruments. They eventually honed their performance to the point where extras on the set thought they were actually playing the songs, when in reality they were miming along to recordings by professional musicians. The song that plays during the film's opening credits, \"Lovin' You Lots and Lots,\" is credited to the fictitious Norm Wooster Singers and was actually", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "14424013", "text": "The film was nominated for two awards at the 38th Saturn Awards, but lost to \"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\" and \"\", respectively. The music composed for the film by Marco Beltrami was released in October 11, 2011. The soundtrack was released under the label Varèse Sarabande. AllMusic rated the album 3.5/5 saying, \"Composer Marco Beltrami's appropriately tense and brooding score for director Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.'s 2011 [prequel to] \"The Thing\" dutifully echoes Ennio Morricone's stark score for the original version, which in its own way echoed the soundtrack work of that film's director, John Carpenter.\" The Norwegian", "title": "The Thing (2011 film)" }, { "id": "14123563", "text": "Nobody Does It Better (album) Nobody Does It Better is the debut studio album by American R&B singer Gina Thompson. It was released through Mercury Records on August 13, 1996. The album was led by the hit single, \"The Things That You Do\". The \"Bad Boy Remix\", featuring Missy Elliott, version of the song was released as the official lead single. The song peaked at 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 and at 12 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The debut album failed to enter the \"Billboard\" 200, but managed to peak at 36 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop albums.", "title": "Nobody Does It Better (album)" }, { "id": "3520559", "text": "put his foot down. Although Jimmie Nicol might go abroad.\" While appearing on the radio show \"Fresh Air\" hosted by Terry Gross in April 2016, Tom Hanks noted that he was at least partly influenced by Jimmie Nicol's experience with the Beatles when he wrote the script for his 1996 feature film \"That Thing You Do!\" Information compiled from Jimmie Nicol James George Nicol (born 3 August 1939), known professionally as Jimmie Nicol or Jimmy Nicol, is a British drummer and business entrepreneur. He is best known for temporarily replacing Ringo Starr in The Beatles for a series of concerts", "title": "Jimmie Nicol" }, { "id": "979956", "text": "two real bands named the Wonders who made the record charts at various radio stations in the early '60s. One had a ballad titled \"With These Hands\" (b/w \"Please Don't Cry\"; Bamboo 523) that was played by KCRG in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in the fall of 1962. The other Wonders had a regional hit record called \"Say There\" (b/w \"Marilyn\"; Colpix 699), released by Colpix Records in August 1963. Little is known about these Wonders, except that they were probably from Ohio or Pennsylvania; \"Say There\" hit the Top 20 at WCOL in Columbus, Ohio, and made the Top 30", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "10114692", "text": "Neil Citron Neil Citron is a Toronto born guitarist, Grammy Award winning recording engineer and songwriter who played with the California-based rock bands Hero and Lana Lane as well as briefly with heavy metal band Quiet Riot in 2006, among many numerous other music industry credits. He also has worked on films \"My Big Fat Greek Wedding\", \"That Thing You Do!\" and \"Ricki and the Flash\". In his younger years, after time playing other instruments he changed to guitar on the advice of his older cousin Howard Leese, who has played with Heart. By the age of 17 he was", "title": "Neil Citron" }, { "id": "10556049", "text": "Things That U Do \"Things That U Do\" is the second single from rapper Jay-Z's 1999 album \"Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter\". It features guest vocals by Mariah Carey and a beat produced by Swizz Beatz. AllMusic's John Bush describes it as an \"overblown production,\" while Steve Juon of RapReviews.com considers it a \"commercially aimed song\" that \"still sounds fresh and original.\" It was neither heavily promoted nor released as a CD single, causing it to chart lowly. AllMusic editor John Bush described this song's production is \"overblown.\" Rolling Stone's Kris Ex wrote: \"Far be it from", "title": "Things That U Do" }, { "id": "979942", "text": "brings a dispirited Guy to meet with Mr. White, an A&R representative for Playtone Records, who offers the band a contract. White changes the band's name to \"The Wonders\" and they join a Midwestern Play-Tone tour, taking along Jimmy's girlfriend, Faye, as their official \"costume mistress.\" During the tour, \"That Thing You Do\" garners national radio airplay and becomes a bonafide hit. As the band's popularity soars, Jimmy's indifference to anything much more than his songwriting becomes more apparent, while the remainder of the band enjoys their time in the spotlight. Guy and Faye also grow closer as friends, while", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "979947", "text": "studio. Guy returns to the band's hotel, where he learns Jimmy (\"the one with all the attitude\") has checked out, leaving Faye behind. The bell captain encourages Guy to intercept Faye. Guy tells Faye his plan to stay in Los Angeles to work as a studio musician with Paxton's references. The couple kisses passionately, acknowledging their feelings for each other. In the epilogue, it is revealed that Jimmy went back to Play-Tone, formed another hitmaking band, the Heardsmen (a name Jimmy tinkered with before the Wonders), and then had a successful career as a record producer, Lenny became a twice-divorced", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "18585558", "text": "and BBC 6 Music by the DJ Craig Charles, and has also been championed by Tony Blackburn, playlisted on BBC Radio London. Critical acclaim came through an article by soul journalists David Nathan and Sharon Davis on SoulMusic.com. In June 2017, 'The Day I Found Myself' was released as a Vinyl 7\" single. This was a teaser for the upcoming album 'Second Chance'. The B Side contained the popular 'London Town Mix' of 'That Thing You Do', a club hit in summer of 2015. In the same month, a limited edition CD 'Love, Life & Mixes' was released, containing remixes", "title": "Diane Shaw" }, { "id": "20005523", "text": "Benjamin Wallfisch Benjamin Mark Lasker Wallfisch (born 7 August 1979) is an English composer, conductor, and pianist. Since the mid-2000s, he has composed and contributed to music for over 60 feature films. His compositions include original scores for \"A Cure For Wellness\", \"Hidden Figures\", \"Lights Out\", \"Desert Dancer\", \"It\", and \"Blade Runner 2049\". In 2017, he was jointly nominated with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer for Best Original Score at the 74th Golden Globe Awards for his work on \"Hidden Figures\". In 2014, Wallfisch was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London. He is also a member", "title": "Benjamin Wallfisch" }, { "id": "5794440", "text": "the UK Singles Chart (the longest run of its kind in British chart history). It went on to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams' most successful song and one of the best-selling singles of all time. Subsequently, the song has been covered by hundreds of singers and artists around the world. The musicians on the original recording are Adams on lead vocals and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, Bill Payne (piano), Mickey Curry (drums), Larry Klein (bass), Keith Scott (lead guitar and backing vocals) and Mutt Lange (synthesizers). Based on orchestral music by Kamen, the song was", "title": "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" }, { "id": "14180541", "text": "It's the Things You Do \"It's the Things You Do\" is the fifth single from British boy band Five's debut studio album, \"5ive\" (1998). Written by Max Martin, George Shahin, Herbie Crichlow and Five, the song was released as a single exclusively in the United States. The song charted at number 53 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. The video for the song was directed by Nigel Dick, who had previously directed the video for the band's second single, \"When the Lights Go Out\". The video was recorded at the Willow Springs Raceway in California, on 23 and 24 November 1998.", "title": "It's the Things You Do" }, { "id": "12698325", "text": "Haces\" Lyrics – Jose Ramon Florez Recorder – Neil Perry Writers – Lars Aass, Marion Raven, Marit Larsen Everything You Do \"Everything You Do\" is a single by Norwegian pop duo M2M, composed of singers Marion Raven and Marit Larsen. It was the third and final single from their debut album \"Shades of Purple\". It peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales. M2M recorded and released the original version of \"Everything You Do\" in 2000. The official remixes of the song were released in the same year. In mid-2000 the song was re-recorded with new vocals", "title": "Everything You Do" }, { "id": "2284677", "text": "came about when Adams was approached to write something by the producers of the then-upcoming Kevin Costner film, \"\", and was asked to work on a theme song. He was provided a tape of orchestration written by the composer of the film score, Michael Kamen. With this, he and Lange used a section of Michael's orchestration and created \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\", which was then placed deep into the closing credits of the film when it opened on June 14, 1991. The song went to number 1 in the United Kingdom the week before the film's", "title": "Waking Up the Neighbours" }, { "id": "4568446", "text": "more up-tempo beat and the rest of the band follow suit, turning the song into an upbeat, Beatles-esque rock number. The song is a hit with the audience, and they win the talent show. From there, the band is picked up by a local manager who helps them get more shows in the area, and eventually the song receives radio airplay. The band is then signed to Play-Tone Records, under Mr. White's guidance, and the song climbs up the Billboard Hot 100, starting at #93, then #71, #49, and #21. The following week, \"That Thing You Do\" climbs to #7,", "title": "That Thing You Do (song)" }, { "id": "19229519", "text": "pays homage to the 1996 film, \"That Thing You Do!\". It premiered April 12, 2016. Set in 1964, the video seeks to depict the positive and negative aspects of the life of a musician, and \"the exhilarating power that 3 chords, a drum beat and a catchy melody can have on the lives of the people who create it,\" according to a statement from the band. Credits are adapted from the digital liner notes at AllMusic. Singing in the Rain (Simple Plan song) \"Singing in the Rain\" is a song by Canadian rock band Simple Plan from their fifth studio", "title": "Singing in the Rain (Simple Plan song)" }, { "id": "15786198", "text": "Guitar Slim Jr. Guitar Slim Jr. (born Rodney Glenn Armstrong, August 24, 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American New Orleans blues guitarist and singer. Over his lengthy playing career, he has worked with numerous other blues musicians. His debut album, \"Story of My Life\" (1988), was nominated for a Grammy Award. Armstrong's father was the noted blues performer Guitar Slim, best known for the million-selling song \"The Things That I Used to Do\", which is listed in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Guitar Slim Jr., has worked for", "title": "Guitar Slim Jr." }, { "id": "979946", "text": "Wonders implode. Lenny is still missing from a trip to Vegas where he marries his new girlfriend. Jimmy explodes when White refuses to allow any more than two of his original songs on the band's album, and quits the band on the spot, breaching their contract. White assures a crestfallen Guy that such things are common with one-hit wonders, but commends Guy for his smarts and integrity. Lingering in the studio, Guy improvises a swinging, jazzy drum routine, and is surprised that Paxton hears him and is impressed enough to invite him to have an impromptu jam session in the", "title": "That Thing You Do!" }, { "id": "14570848", "text": "John Swihart John Swihart is an American musical composer for film and television. He is perhaps best known for his score to \"Napoleon Dynamite\", \"Youth in Revolt\", \"Employee Of The Month\", and his music for the TV shows \"How I Met Your Mother\", and \"Go On\". John Swihart was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, the son of a physicist based at Indiana University. He spent a portion of his formative years in Europe and Asia, where his father would sabbatical. John had some musical training at a very young age but was not deeply absorbed by music until he was about", "title": "John Swihart" }, { "id": "5794442", "text": "UK Singles Chart from July to October 1991. The power ballad also spent seven weeks at number one on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in the United States and nine weeks atop the Canadian Singles Chart in Adams's native Canada. \"Billboard\" ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1991. Adams, Kamen and Lange won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1992. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song but lost to", "title": "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" }, { "id": "7837406", "text": "Playtone Playtone is an American film and television production company and record label established in 1998 by actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman. It was named after the fictional record company \"Play-Tone\" in \"That Thing You Do!\", written and directed by Hanks; it also uses the same company logo. The success of the film served as a spring-board to launch an actual Playtone Records label. Playtone has had an exclusive television development deal with HBO since the company was formed. Over the course of that time, Playtone's projects for HBO have won 52 Emmy Awards, while garnering 107 Emmy", "title": "Playtone" }, { "id": "4989272", "text": "Western Recorders. Film soundtracks recorded at the studios include “That Thing You Do”, “The Way We Were”, “Roots”, and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”. \"My Love\" by Petula Clark was the first Billboard number one song recorded at Western Studios. United Western Recorders United Western Recorders was a two-building recording studio complex in Hollywood, which became one of the most successful independent recording studios in the world in the 1960s. The complex came as a merger between neighboring studios United Recording Corp. on 6050 Sunset Boulevard and Western Studio on 6000 Sunset Boulevard. In 1984, United Western", "title": "United Western Recorders" }, { "id": "7837407", "text": "Award nominations. Playtone Playtone is an American film and television production company and record label established in 1998 by actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman. It was named after the fictional record company \"Play-Tone\" in \"That Thing You Do!\", written and directed by Hanks; it also uses the same company logo. The success of the film served as a spring-board to launch an actual Playtone Records label. Playtone has had an exclusive television development deal with HBO since the company was formed. Over the course of that time, Playtone's projects for HBO have won 52 Emmy Awards, while garnering", "title": "Playtone" }, { "id": "7839998", "text": "Lindsay Robins Lindsay Robins (born December 18, 1986 in Montreal, Quebec) is a singer-songwriter who wrote and performed the theme song \"What Would You Do\" for the VJ Search reality series on MuchMusic, which went on to be the 2007 recipient of The North American Promax Award for Best Music Package/Theme Song. She has written and performed music for the television series Instant Star, and in 2006, released a solo rock album, \"Dirty Chemistry\", on Aquarius Records. Her debut solo record, \"Dirty Chemistry\" was produced by songwriters Christopher Ward and Fred St-Gelais, who have worked with artists such as Alannah", "title": "Lindsay Robins" }, { "id": "4198095", "text": "Guitar Slim Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), better known as Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song \"The Things That I Used to Do\", produced by Johnny Vincent for Specialty Records. It is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted overtones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix. Jones was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. His mother died when he", "title": "Guitar Slim" }, { "id": "5744389", "text": "The Miracles scored many more hits over the years including the #1 classics \"Tears Of A Clown\", and \"Love Machine\". In addition to his work in the Miracles, Rogers was a part-time Motown songwriter; his most notable composition, authored with bandmate Smokey Robinson, was The Temptations' first hit single, \"The Way You Do the Things You Do\". Rogers also co-wrote The Temptations' 1965 hit \"My Baby\", Mary Wells' hit, \"What Love Has Joined Together\", The Contours' 1965 hit \"First I Look at the Purse\", (later covered by the J. Geils Band), Marvin Gaye's 1966 Top 40 hit, \"One More Heartache\"", "title": "Bobby Rogers" }, { "id": "17218020", "text": "Do Thangz \"Do Thangz\" is a song by American R&B quintet Men of Vizion. It was the second single from the group's debut album \"Personal\" (1996) and was released as the \"Main Pass Remix\" (alternatively titled \"A Dark Child remix\") featuring guest vocals by Missy \"Misdemeanor\" Elliott and production by Rodney \"Darkchild\" Jerkins, who coincidentally produced Elliott's breakout featured single, \"The Things You Do (Remix)\", three months prior. The single was executive produced by the group's mentor, Michael Jackson; additionally, the remix is noted for its sampling of MC Shan's \"The Bridge\". A music video for the remixed single was", "title": "Do Thangz" }, { "id": "431449", "text": "a piece, closely resembling his own scores, that became the main theme used throughout the film. He also played the score from \"Escape from New York\" for Morricone as an example. Morricone made several more attempts, bringing the score closer to Carpenter's own style of music. In total, Morricone produced a score of approximately one hour that remained largely unused, but was later released as part of the film's soundtrack. Carpenter and his longtime collaborator Alan Howarth separately developed some synth-styled pieces used in the film. In 2012, Morricone recalled: I've asked [Carpenter], as he was preparing some electronic music", "title": "The Thing (1982 film)" }, { "id": "10556050", "text": "me to question Allah's wisdom,\" he (Jay Z) rhymes on the Mariah Carey-assisted, Swizz Beatz-produced \"Things That U Do.\" \"I dodged prison, came out unscathed from car collisions/I know I must be part of some mission.\" Things That U Do \"Things That U Do\" is the second single from rapper Jay-Z's 1999 album \"Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter\". It features guest vocals by Mariah Carey and a beat produced by Swizz Beatz. AllMusic's John Bush describes it as an \"overblown production,\" while Steve Juon of RapReviews.com considers it a \"commercially aimed song\" that \"still sounds fresh and", "title": "Things That U Do" }, { "id": "6888656", "text": "Leonard Rosenman Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including \"\", \"Beneath the Planet of the Apes\" and the animated \"The Lord of the Rings.\" Leonard Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, New York. After service in the Pacific with the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, he earned a bachelor's degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley. He also studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions and Luigi Dallapiccola. Amongst Rosenman's earliest film work was the scores for James", "title": "Leonard Rosenman" }, { "id": "3571828", "text": "critically acclaimed records, and he also received an Oscar nomination for his title song to Tom Hanks's film \"That Thing You Do!\". Ivy released \"Guestroom\" on September 10, 2002 on Minty Fresh. The album contained 10 of the group's favorite cover songs, including The Cure's \"Let's Go to Bed\", House of Love's \"I Don't Know Why I Love You\", Steely Dan's \"Only a Fool Would Say That\", Serge Gainsbourg's \"L'Anamour\" (previously a B-side on the \"I've Got a Feeling\" single), The Ronettes' \"Be My Baby\" and Papas Fritas' \"Say Goodbye\". Picking from several different eras, they revealed some of their", "title": "Ivy (band)" }, { "id": "2095424", "text": "and Dogs\" (1996), directed by Michael Lehmann; he also collaborated on two films with Cronenberg, along with Tom Hanks' directorial debut, \"That Thing You Do!\". Shore also composed the score of the 2000 film \"The Cell\". Major success came in 2001 with his score to \"\", the first film in the highly acclaimed \"The Lord of the Rings trilogy\". The news that Shore would score the trilogy surprised some, since he was primarily associated with dark, ominous films and had never scored an epic of this scale. However, the score was hugely successful and won Shore his first Oscar, as", "title": "Howard Shore" }, { "id": "5472393", "text": "Siedah Garrett Deborah Christine Garrett (born June 24, 1960), known professionally as Siedah Garrett, is an American singer and songwriter, who has written songs and performed backing vocals for many recording artists in the music industry, such as Michael Jackson, The Pointer Sisters, Brand New Heavies, Quincy Jones, Tevin Campbell, Donna Summer, Madonna, Jennifer Hudson among others. Garrett has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 50th Grammy Awards for co-writing \"Love You I Do\" (performed by Jennifer Hudson) for the 2006 musical", "title": "Siedah Garrett" }, { "id": "6501965", "text": "Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of\". The song \"The Right Thing to Do\", is included on the album, but didn't make it into the final televised cut of the concert. It would later be included on both \"\" as a bonus performance. \"Greatest Hits Live\" has been released on Vinyl, Cassette tape, and Compact disc. The album sold very well upon release, going Gold immediately. In 1996, the album was certified Platinum by the RIAA, for sales of over 1,000,000 copies in the United States alone. All tracks composed by Carly Simon; except where indicated Album - Billboard (North America)", "title": "Greatest Hits Live (Carly Simon album)" }, { "id": "4926043", "text": "help achieve the desired effect. The score for the film which included elements of jazz music and considerable use of the trumpet, was originally composed by American saxophonist Lennie Niehaus. The music score was mixed by Robert Fernandez and edited by Donald Harris. The sound effects in the film were supervised by Robert G. Henderson and Alan Robert Murray. The mixing of the sound effects were orchestrated by Donald F. Johnson and Michael Evje. Although not officially released, music from the soundtrack included songs entitled \"\"All The Things You Are\"\" written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II as well", "title": "The Rookie (1990 film)" }, { "id": "2402153", "text": "Nothing Gold Can Stay (album) Nothing Gold Can Stay is the debut studio album by American rock band New Found Glory, released on March 18, 1999 through independent record label Eulogy Recordings. At the time, the band was then named \"A New Found Glory\", but later dropped the indefinite article \"A\" due to some fans struggling to find their records in stores. The original pressings of the album contained samplings from several films including \"The Outsiders\" (1983), \"Weird Science\" (1985), and \"That Thing You Do!\" (1996), as well as Robert Frost's poem \"Nothing Gold Can Stay\", after which the album", "title": "Nothing Gold Can Stay (album)" }, { "id": "20456194", "text": "Call Me by Your Name: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Call Me by Your Name: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 2017 romantic drama film, \"Call Me by Your Name\". It features songs by The Psychedelic Furs, Franco Battiato, Loredana Bertè, Bandolero, Giorgio Moroder, Joe Esposito, and F. R. David, with compositions by John Adams, Erik Satie, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Maurice Ravel. American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens composed two original songs for the film, and the soundtrack also features a remix of his track \"Futile Devices\". Stevens's original song \"Mystery of Love\" was nominated for the", "title": "Call Me by Your Name: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" }, { "id": "12149823", "text": "Toy Story (soundtrack) Toy Story: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 1995 Pixar animated film \"Toy Story\", with music composed, conducted, and performed by Randy Newman. The soundtrack includes the film score, as well as three original songs written and performed by Newman. It was released by Walt Disney Records on November 22, 1995, the week of the film's release, and the first soundtrack album from a Pixar film. The soundtrack for \"Toy Story\" received praise for its \"sprightly, stirring score\". It received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score and Best Original Song", "title": "Toy Story (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "2212521", "text": "\"Mama Said\" that Michael had co-written with Hal Fredricks. In 2002, Kamen took part in the Concert for George as strings conductor. Kamen had a successful partnership with Bryan Adams and R.J. Lange composing scores and songs. The ballad \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\" for the 1991 film \"\" was the number one song that year worldwide. Other songs were \"All For Love\" for the movie \"The Three Musketeers\" in 1993, and \"Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?\" the song from the film \"Don Juan DeMarco,\" in 1995. Kamen wrote eleven ballets, a saxophone concerto and", "title": "Michael Kamen" }, { "id": "11526069", "text": "Things That Lovers Do Things That Lovers Do is a collaborative studio album by American recording artists Kenny Lattimore & Chanté Moore, released on February 11, 2003, through Arista Records. The album includes covers of classic 1970's and 1980's soul duets by singers Karyn White and Babyface, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and more. The album was preceded by two singles — \"Loveable (From Your Head To Your Toes)\" and \"You Don't Have To Cry\". The album peaked at number thirty-one on the Billboard 200 and number three on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. According to executive producer Antonio Reid,", "title": "Things That Lovers Do" }, { "id": "16614367", "text": "the 2018 film \"Fifty Shades Freed\", the third and final installment in the series. \"Love Me like You Do\" was written by Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Ali Payami and Tove Lo, with production being done by Martin and Payami; they were also responsible for programming, drums, percussion, keys and bass. Strings were arranged by Mattias Bylund, violin was played by Mattias Johansson and cello by David Bukovinsky. Peter Carlsson was responsible for vocal editing, as well as background vocals, along with Martin, Payami, Ilya, Kotecha, Oscar Holter, Robin Fredriksson and Ludvig Soderberg. It was recorded in Los Angeles", "title": "Love Me like You Do" }, { "id": "10758323", "text": "Jill Colucci Jill Colucci (born 1949) is an American songwriter and vocalist. She initially rose to prominence in 1988, singing the main scores to the film \"Mystic Pizza\". She sang the ABC promo campaigns \"Something's Happening\" (the 1988 version with Bill Champlin and the 1989 edition solo) and \"America's Watching ABC\" (1990 version only). She also performed \"The Funny Things You Do\", which was the theme song for \"America's Funniest Home Videos\" for the first seven seasons. Colucci's prolific credits even extended to Toyota, where she was the original vocalist of the auto maker's \"\"I Love What You Do For", "title": "Jill Colucci" }, { "id": "1947205", "text": "left the music industry with Paul reading Law at Queens University, Belfast; and David for a time moving to Sweden to teach English. With Stan Lynch from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Jim DeVito, Breslin formed Buffalo Diamond and recorded \"The Things You Do\", released in November 2005. He has since worked with other musicians on a multitude of session recordings. Energy Orchard Energy Orchard were a guitar-based rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s, from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Fronted by Bap Kennedy (brother of singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy), their style drew heavily on the influence of Van", "title": "Energy Orchard" }, { "id": "12698324", "text": "car and dressed in white clothing. The video ends with footage of M2M and the men running happily through the fields. It was directed by Tryan George and filmed in Toronto, Canada. International CD Single US CD Maxi Single \"Everything You Do\" (original and re-recorded vocals versions) Acoustic guitar – Marit Larsen String arrangement – Gaute Storås Drum programming – Jimmy Bralower Guitar – Jan van Ravens Keyboards – Bottolf Lødemel Mixer – Tom Lord-Alge Percussion – Marion Raven Producer – Jimmy Bralower, Kenneth M. Lewis Additional programming – Kenneth M. Lewis Strings – Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra \"Todo Lo Que", "title": "Everything You Do" }, { "id": "8605679", "text": "the US, and was nominated for the year's best song at the 2000 Spellemannprisen awards. The second single from the album was '\"Mirror Mirror\", which reached No. 30 in Australia, No. 13 in Canada and No. 62 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It was certified gold in the US. The album's final single was \"Everything You Do\", which reached No. 21 on the US Hot Dance Singles Sales. Additionally a music video, directed by Tryan George, was filmed in Norway for the song \"The Day You Went Away\", which was released as a promotion single in Mexico. All of the", "title": "Shades of Purple" }, { "id": "3896306", "text": "That Lovin' Feelin'\" in a key scene). Mann's other movie work includes the scores for \"I Never Sang for My Father\" and \"Muppet Treasure Island\", and songs for \"National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation\" and \"Oliver & Company\". Mann co-wrote, with Dan Hill, the song \"Sometimes When We Touch,\" which scored No. 3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In 1987, Mann and Weil were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2011, they received the Johnny Mercer Award, the greatest honor from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Mann and Weil were named among the 2010 recipients of Ahmet Ertegun Award from", "title": "Barry Mann" }, { "id": "11207261", "text": "Northridge earthquake and her morning news reports. She has also received three Golden Mike Awards in 1998, 1999, and 2003 and another Emmy in 2003. York has been featured on shows such as \"Larry King Live\", \"Entertainment Tonight\", and \"The Leeza Show\" while having appeared in films such as \"That Thing You Do!\", \"Bandits\", and \"Hollywood Homicide\". York is also an electric and acoustic bassist, and performed with the all-female Christian rock group Rachel Rachel (of which she was the founder). The group, now defunct, recorded two albums and performed at several events such as the Long Beach Jazz Festival,", "title": "Jennifer York" }, { "id": "16911444", "text": "\"Let's Touch The Sky\" CD which they performed with orchestra in Japan in late 2010. Mann's TV and film scoring and arranging credits include work on \"Nurse Jackie\", \"Something's Got To Give\", \"That Thing You Do\", \"Father of the Bride\", \"The Five Heartbeats\", \"Elvis-the Early Years\", \"Flight of the Navigator\", \"Diving In\", \"20 Dates\", \"Family Prayers\", \"T-Bone and Weasel\", \"The Sonny and Cher Story\", \"Matlock\", \"Frank's Place\", and more. Bob Mann (guitarist) Bob Mann (born 1944 in New York City) is an American guitarist and arranger. Bob Mann's decision to follow music came at age 5, no doubt due to", "title": "Bob Mann (guitarist)" }, { "id": "2601251", "text": "Meredith Willson Robert Reiniger Meredith Willson (May 18, 1902 – June 15, 1984) was an American flautist, composer, conductor, musical arranger, bandleader and playwright, best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical \"The Music Man\". He wrote three other Broadway musicals, composed symphonies and popular songs, and his film scores were twice nominated for Academy Awards. Willson was born in Mason City, Iowa, to John David Willson and Rosalie Reiniger Willson, and he had a brother two years his senior, John Cedrick, and a sister 12 years his senior, the children's author Dixie Willson.", "title": "Meredith Willson" }, { "id": "817379", "text": "\"To See You Is to Love You\", originally from the 1952 Paramount film \"Road to Bali\". Also heard on the soundtrack are versions of songs popularized earlier in the decade by Nat King Cole (\"Mona Lisa\", 1950) and Dean Martin (\"That's Amore\", 1952), along with segments from Leonard Bernstein's score for Jerome Robbins' ballet \"Fancy Free\" (1944), Richard Rodgers' song \"Lover\" (1932), and \"\"M'appari tutt'amor\"\" from Friedrich von Flotow's opera \"Martha\" (1844), most borrowed from Paramount's music publisher, Famous Music. Hitchcock used costume designer Edith Head on all of his Paramount films. Although veteran Hollywood composer Franz Waxman is credited", "title": "Rear Window" }, { "id": "10890890", "text": "Gina Thompson Gina Thompson (born Lugenia Thompson in Vineland, New Jersey, USA) is an American R&B singer. Born to Edward L. Thompson, Sr. and Eugenia Thompson, Gina Thomson began singing at an early age and was signed to her first recording contract with Mercury Records shortly after graduating high school. \"Nobody Does It Better\" was Gina Thompson's first album. Released in 1996, it featured production by Missy Elliott and Diddy, and featured appearances by Elliott, Diddy, and Craig Mack, among others. Her first single from the album, \"The Things That You Do\", was a success, peaking at number 41 on", "title": "Gina Thompson" }, { "id": "1589439", "text": "Bryan Adams Bryan Guy Adams, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist and activist. Adams rose to fame in Canada and the United States with his 1983 album \"Cuts Like a Knife\" and turned into a global star with his 1984 album \"Reckless\", which produced some of his best known songs, including \"Run to You\" and \"Summer of '69\". In 1991, he released \"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You\" from the album \"Waking Up the Neighbours\" and the song became a worldwide hit which went to number 1 in many countries,", "title": "Bryan Adams" }, { "id": "1784152", "text": "Night Tour.\" Isaak revealed in a 2002 interview with \"Acoustic Guitar\" that he uses a one-of-a-kind Gibson: Isaak also plays a Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar, which he uses for songwriting. Isaak has appeared in numerous films, mostly playing cameo roles. He starred, however, with Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda in the 1993 Bernardo Bertolucci–directed \"Little Buddha\" and played a major role in David Lynch's \"\" (1992). Other motion pictures include \"Married to the Mob\" (1988), \"The Silence of the Lambs\" (1991), \"That Thing You Do!\" (1996), \"A Dirty Shame\" (2004), and \"The Informers\" (2008). Isaak starred in \"The Chris Isaak", "title": "Chris Isaak" }, { "id": "20442644", "text": "Blade Runner 2049 (soundtrack) Blade Runner 2049: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album of the music for the 2017 American science fiction film \"Blade Runner 2049\". Released in October 2017, the album contains music by Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch, along with additional tracks by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Lauren Daigle. It also includes the piece \"Tears in the Rain\", which was originally composed and performed (as \"Tears in Rain\") by Vangelis, the composer of the original 1982 soundtrack \"Blade Runner\". \"Blade Runner 2049\" is the sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 film \"Blade Runner\". Directed by Denis", "title": "Blade Runner 2049 (soundtrack)" }, { "id": "20404241", "text": "Music of Stranger Things The \"Stranger Things\" original soundtracks are composed by Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon of the electronic band Survive. They make extensive use of synthesizers in homage to 1980s artists and film composers including Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Goblin, John Carpenter, Giorgio Moroder, and Fabio Frizzi. The Duffer Brothers were first made aware of Dixon and Stein's music while watching the 2014 thriller film \"The Guest\", which featured songs from their band Survive. In creating a mock trailer that that was later used to sell the show to Netflix, the Duffers decided to use Dixon and", "title": "Music of Stranger Things" }, { "id": "14260826", "text": "Mundo Earwood Raymond \"Mundo\" Earwood (October 13, 1952 – April 21, 2014) was an American country music singer-songwriter. Earwood's eponymous debut album was released by Excelsior Records in 1981. His most successful single, \"Things I'd Do for You\", reached the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1978. For a time, he also recorded as Mundo Ray. Earwood was born in Del Rio, Texas. After graduating high school in Corpus Christi, he enrolled in San Jacinto Junior College but soon moved to Houston where he hired a band, and began playing for $8 at any venue that", "title": "Mundo Earwood" } ]

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[ { "id": "542727", "text": "of Justice as subsequent successors. Furthermore, an Executive Order defines subsequent positions, the most recent from March 31, 2017, signed by President Donald Trump. The current line of succession is: United States Attorney General The United States Attorney General (A.G.) is the chief lawyer of the Federal government of the United States and head of the United States Department of Justice per , concerned with all legal affairs. Under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution, the officeholder is nominated by the President of the United States and appointed with the advice and consent of the United States Senate.", "title": "United States Attorney General" }, { "id": "542724", "text": "United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments.\" The Department of Justice was established in 1870 to support the Attorney General in the discharge of their responsibilities. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Defense are generally regarded as the four most important Cabinet officials in the United States because of the significance and age of their respective departments. It is the practice", "title": "United States Attorney General" }, { "id": "12940449", "text": "United States Cabinet (15) or are in positions considered to be Cabinet-level (7) and must be confirmed by the current Senate. The members of the Cabinet are the heads of the fifteen major departments (State, Defense, Justice, etc.), and the seven cabinet-level positions are the Vice President, White House Chief of Staff, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador to the United Nations, and Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Since Robert Gates was a member of the previous administration, his letter of resignation (a formality", "title": "First 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency" }, { "id": "630973", "text": "States government in legal matters (such as in cases before the Supreme Court), and running the federal prison system. The department is also responsible for reviewing the conduct of local law enforcement as directed by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The department is headed by the United States Attorney General, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet. The current Attorney General is Matthew Whitaker (Acting). The office of the Attorney General was established by the Judiciary Act of 1789 as a part-time job for", "title": "United States Department of Justice" }, { "id": "435705", "text": "and agreements with foreign entities, and representing the United States at the United Nations. It is led by the Secretary of State, a member of the Cabinet who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. In addition to administering the Department, the Secretary of State serves as the nation's chief diplomat and representative abroad. The Secretary of State is the first Cabinet official in the order of precedence and in the presidential line of succession, after the Vice President of the United States, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and President pro tempore of the Senate. The", "title": "United States Department of State" }, { "id": "8391205", "text": "Matthew Whitaker (attorney) Matthew George Whitaker (born October 29, 1969) is an American lawyer and politician and the current Acting United States Attorney General. He was appointed by President Donald Trump on November 7, 2018, after Jeff Sessions resigned at Trump's request. Whitaker previously served as Chief of Staff to Sessions from September 2017 to November 2018. Trump announced his nomination of William P. Barr for Attorney General on December 7, 2018, leaving Whitaker's future at the Department of Justice in doubt. In 2002, Whitaker was the candidate of the Republican Party for Treasurer of Iowa. From 2004 to 2009", "title": "Matthew Whitaker (attorney)" }, { "id": "19829223", "text": "19, completing Trump's initial slate of Cabinet nominees. In February 2017, Trump formally announced his cabinet structure, elevating the Director of National Intelligence and Director of the CIA to cabinet level. The Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, which had been added to the cabinet by Obama in 2009, was removed from the cabinet. Trump's cabinet consists of 24 members, more than Barack Obama at 23 or George W. Bush at 21. Trump is the first incoming president to benefit from the 2013 filibuster reform, which eased the use of cloture on executive and lower-level judicial nominees, reducing the", "title": "Presidency of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "542722", "text": "United States Attorney General The United States Attorney General (A.G.) is the chief lawyer of the Federal government of the United States and head of the United States Department of Justice per , concerned with all legal affairs. Under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution, the officeholder is nominated by the President of the United States and appointed with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The U.S. Constitution provides that civil officers of the United States, which would include the U.S. Attorney General, may be impeached by Congress for treason, bribery or high crimes and", "title": "United States Attorney General" }, { "id": "1602840", "text": "such has generated a spirited scholarly dispute regarding attaching an exclusive branch designation to the office of vice president. The day-to-day enforcement and administration of federal laws is in the hands of the various federal executive departments, created by Congress to deal with specific areas of national and international affairs. The heads of the 15 departments, chosen by the president and approved with the \"advice and consent\" of the U.S. Senate, form a council of advisers generally known as the president's \"Cabinet\". Once confirmed, these \"cabinet officers\" serve at the pleasure of the president. In addition to departments, a number", "title": "Federal government of the United States" }, { "id": "538881", "text": "Finance before being voted on by the United States Senate. The Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Defense are generally regarded as the four most important cabinet officials because of the importance of their departments. The Secretary of the Treasury is a non-statutory member of the U.S. National Security Council and fifth in the United States presidential line of succession. The Secretary along with the Treasurer of the United States must sign Federal Reserve notes before they can become legal tender. The Secretary also manages the United States Emergency Economic Stabilization", "title": "United States Secretary of the Treasury" }, { "id": "441750", "text": "and Attorney General, are generally regarded as the four most important Cabinet members because of the importance of their respective departments. Secretary of State is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule and thus earns the salary prescribed for that level (currently $210,700). The current Secretary of State is Mike Pompeo. On March 13, 2018, President Donald Trump dismissed Rex Tillerson and nominated Pompeo, then Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to replace Tillerson. Tillerson announced later that day that his last day at the State Department would be March 31, 2018. The stated duties of the Secretary of", "title": "United States Secretary of State" }, { "id": "19829594", "text": "reports surfaced that Puzder would withdraw his nomination, a day before his scheduled hearing. Later that day Puzder released a statement to the \"Associated Press\" officially withdrawing his nomination. On February 16, 2017 Alex Acosta, dean of the Florida International University College of Law and former Justice Department attorney, was officially selected to be the Secretary of Labor. On April 27, 2017, Acosta was confirmed by the Senate in a 60–38 vote. Before Acosta's confirmation the acting Secretary of Labor was Ed Hugler. Although historically the nominee also holds meetings with the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, officially the", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "19829222", "text": "position that does not require Senate confirmation. Priebus and Senior Counselor Steve Bannon were named as \"equal partners\" within the White House power structure, although Bannon was not an official member of the Cabinet. Aside from the vice president and the chief of staff, the remaining Cabinet-level positions required Senate confirmation. On November 18, Trump announced his first Cabinet designee, choosing Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for the position of Attorney General. Trump continued to name designees for various positions in November, December, and January. Former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue was announced as the nominee for Secretary of Agriculture on January", "title": "Presidency of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "1946366", "text": "who is head of the Justice Department (and the Postmaster General who until 1971 was head of the Post Office Department). The heads of the executive departments are appointed by the President and take office after confirmation by the United States Senate, and serve at the pleasure of the President. The heads of departments are members of the Cabinet of the United States, an executive organ that normally acts as an advisory body to the President. In the Opinion Clause (Article II, section 2, clause 1) of the U.S. Constitution, heads of executive departments are referred to as \"principal Officer", "title": "United States federal executive departments" }, { "id": "15710608", "text": "relating to their executive department. Since the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States has acted most often through his own executive office or the National Security Council rather than through the Cabinet as was the case in earlier administrations. Although the term 'Secretary' is usually used to name the most senior official of a government department, some departments have different titles to name such officials. For instance, the Department of Justice uses the term \"Attorney General\" instead of \"Justice Secretary\" but the Attorney General is nonetheless a cabinet-level position. Communist states can be ruled \"de", "title": "Cabinet (government)" }, { "id": "19829619", "text": "Central Intelligence Agency. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 23, 2017, with a vote of 66–32. Pompeo was opposed by 30 Democratic Senators while the sole Republican vote against him came from Rand Paul. He was sworn in on the same night by Vice President Mike Pence. On March 13, 2018, Pompeo was named as secretary designate of the State Department following the dismissal of Rex Tillerson. On March 13, 2018, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he would nominate Gina Haspel to be the CIA director. On May 17, Haspel was confirmed by the", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "9428016", "text": "reestablished on July 27, 1789, and would be renamed to the Department of State in September. The Department of War was retained on August 7, while the Finance office was renamed as the Department of the Treasury on September 2. Congress also considered establishing a Home Department to oversee Native American affairs, the preservation of government documents, and other matters, but the proposed department's duties were instead folded into the State Department. In September 1789, Congress established the positions of Attorney General, to serve as the chief legal adviser to the president; and Postmaster General, to serve as the head", "title": "Presidency of George Washington" }, { "id": "542693", "text": "may assist the Secretary and President in their command functions, the Chairman is not in the chain of command. The Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of the Treasury are generally regarded as the four most important cabinet officials because of the importance of their departments. The current Secretary of Defense is retired United States Marine Corps general Jim Mattis, who was confirmed and sworn in on 20 January 2017. The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps were established in 1775, in concurrence with the American Revolution. The War Department, headed by the Secretary of", "title": "United States Secretary of Defense" }, { "id": "3397426", "text": "President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Hoar the 30th Attorney General of the United States. All of Grant's appointments, including Hoar's, were initially a shock to the Senate, since Grant chose his cabinet independently from leaders of the Republican Party. The Senate immediately approved all of Grant's appointments, including Hoar's, and the press reaction was generally optimistic, having viewed Grant's cabinet free from \"trickery and corruption\". Hoar was Grant's principle legal and political advisor, since Grant had never held public elected office until his election to the presidency. In July 1870, Att. Gen. Hoar was the first to head the Department", "title": "Ebenezer R. Hoar" }, { "id": "4061553", "text": "Solicitor General of the United States and his or her staff (he or she is the third-ranking official in the Justice Department), who argue cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (and in lower federal courts) for the Justice Department when it is a party to the case. White House Counsel The White House Counsel is a staff appointee of the President of the United States whose role is to advise the President on all legal issues concerning the President and his Administration. Pat Cipollone is expected to take office as White House Counsel in October 2018. The Office of Counsel", "title": "White House Counsel" }, { "id": "8556443", "text": "organizations grouped into the Executive Office of the President. These include the White House staff, the National Security Council, the Office of Management and Budget, the Council of Economic Advisers, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. There are also independent agencies such as the United States Postal Service, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In addition, there are government-owned corporations such as the Federal", "title": "United States federal civil service" }, { "id": "1602841", "text": "of staff organizations are grouped into the Executive Office of the President. These include the White House staff, the National Security Council, the Office of Management and Budget, the Council of Economic Advisers, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The employees in these United States government agencies are called federal civil servants. There are also independent agencies such as the United States Postal Service (USPS), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Environmental", "title": "Federal government of the United States" }, { "id": "441722", "text": "in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices\". The Constitution does not specify what the executive departments will be, how many there will be, or what their duties should be. George Washington, the first U.S. President, organized his principal officers into a Cabinet, and it has been part of the executive branch structure ever since. Washington's Cabinet consisted of five members: himself, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox and Attorney General Edmund Randolph. Vice President John Adams was not included in", "title": "Cabinet of the United States" }, { "id": "19829584", "text": "nomination of an Attorney General-designate is reviewed during hearings held by the members of the Judiciary committee, then presented to the full Senate for a vote. On January 30, 2017, Trump appointed Dana Boente, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as acting Attorney General until Jeff Sessions' Senate confirmation. Boente had replaced Sally Yates who was fired by Trump for ordering the Justice Department to not defend Trump's Executive Order 13769 which restricted entry to the United States. Yates claimed that, \"At present, I am not convinced that the defense of the executive order", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "19829591", "text": "to be, offered the role. Confirmation hearings were originally scheduled for January 12, but were postponed because the Commerce Committee had not yet received the ethics agreement from the Office of Government Ethics and the Department of Commerce. On February 27, 2017, he was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 72–27 vote. He assumed office on February 28, 2017. The nomination of a Secretary-designate is reviewed during hearings held by the members of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, then presented to the full Senate for a vote. On December 8, 2016 Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "18212627", "text": "nomination on February 1, 2017 before being confirmed by the Senate on February 8, 2017. Boente was one of the 46 United States Attorneys ordered by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on March 10, 2017 to tender their resignation; Trump declined to accept his resignation. Boente was not in the line of succession of the Attorney General of the United States pursuant to Executive Order 13762 signed by President Barack Obama before leaving office. He was appointed by President Donald Trump as Acting Attorney General on January 30, 2017, after Acting Attorney General Sally Yates was dismissed by Trump earlier that", "title": "Dana Boente" }, { "id": "19829224", "text": "amount required to invoke from an absolute supermajority of three-fifths to a bare majority. His final initial Cabinet-level nominee, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, was confirmed on May 12, 2017. In July 2017, John F. Kelly, who had served as Secretary of Homeland Security, replaced Priebus as Chief of Staff. Bannon was fired in August 2017, leaving Kelly as one of the most powerful individuals in the White House. In September 2017, Tom Price resigned as Secretary of Health and Human Services amid criticism over his use of private charter jets for his personal travel. Don J. Wright replaced Price", "title": "Presidency of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "793211", "text": "who is a member of the Cabinet of the President. The current Secretary is Ryan Zinke. The Inspector General position is currently vacant, with Mary Kendall serving as acting Inspector General. Despite its name, the Department of the Interior has a different role from that of the interior ministries of other nations, which are usually responsible for police matters and internal security. In the United States, national security and immigration functions are performed by the Department of Homeland Security primarily and the Department of Justice secondarily. The Department of the Interior has often been humorously called \"The Department of Everything", "title": "United States Department of the Interior" }, { "id": "19982434", "text": "Bill McGinley William \"Bill\" McGinley is the current White House Cabinet Secretary in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. He is an American lawyer and a former partner at the law firm Jones Day where he represented federal office holders, candidates, and national organizations on campaign finance, ethics, and other political law matters. McGinley received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of California at Los Angeles and his Master of Arts degree in history from California State University at Long Beach. He received his Juris Doctor degree from George Washington University Law School in 1997.", "title": "Bill McGinley" }, { "id": "4061552", "text": "not apply to legislative proceedings by the U.S. Congress against a President due to allegations of misconduct while in office, such as formal censures or impeachment proceedings. A President relies on a personal attorney for confidential legal advice. The office is distinct from the judiciary, and from others who are not appointed to positions, but nominated by the President, and confirmed by the Senate. These would be foremost the Attorney General of the United States, and his or her principal deputy and other assistants, who are nominated by the President to oversee the United States Department of Justice, or the", "title": "White House Counsel" }, { "id": "19829626", "text": "removed from the Cabinet, the chair-designate, if nominated, must be reviewed during hearings held by the members of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and then presented to the full Senate for a vote. Various other Trump administration appointees are directly involved with economic matters, for example, director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn, National Trade Council director Peter Navarro, SEC chairman Jay Clayton, OMB director Mick Mulvaney, Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and SBA administrator Linda McMahon. On May 16, 2017, Trump nominated Dr. Kevin", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "9492960", "text": "William Barr William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as the 77th United States Attorney General from 1991 to 1993 during the first Bush administration. He is a member of the Republican Party. On December 7, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Barr to again serve as Attorney General of the United States. Barr was born in New York City, the son of Columbia University faculty members Mary Margaret (Ahern) and Donald Barr. He grew up on the Upper West Side, and attended the Corpus Christi School and Horace Mann School.", "title": "William Barr" }, { "id": "542743", "text": "United States Secretary of the Interior The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior. The Department of the Interior in the United States is responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources; it oversees such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Geological Survey, and the National Park Service. The Secretary also serves on and appoints the private citizens on the National Park Foundation board. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet. The U.S. Department of the Interior should not", "title": "United States Secretary of the Interior" }, { "id": "20037514", "text": "effective January 23, 2017. He served as the Acting Solicitor General from that date until March 10, 2017. On March 7, 2017, the White House announced Francisco's nomination to the position of Solicitor General. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 50–47 on September 19, 2017. With the resignation of Rachel Brand as Associate Attorney General on February 8, 2018, Francisco became the fourth-ranking official in the Justice Department. Francisco received an ethics waiver on April 24, 2018, which relieved him of a previous obligation to recuse himself from any investigation in which his former employer,", "title": "Noel Francisco" }, { "id": "5960772", "text": "United States Assistant Attorney General Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice are headed by an Assistant Attorney General. The President of the United States appoints individuals to the position of Assistant Attorney General with the advice and consent of the Senate. United States Department of Justice components that are led by an Assistant Attorney General are: Assistant Attorneys General report either to the Deputy Attorney General (in the case of the Criminal Division, the Justice Management Division and the Offices of Legal Counsel, Legislative Affairs, and Legal Policy) or to the Associate Attorney", "title": "United States Assistant Attorney General" }, { "id": "19496622", "text": "Christie (previously head of the transition from May 2016 through election day), Michael Flynn (incoming National Security Advisor), Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Sessions (incoming Attorney General), with the addition of K. T. McFarland (incoming Deputy National Security Advisor), Gov. Mary Fallin, Sen. Tim Scott, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (previously on the executive committee), Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Rep. Tom Reed, and outgoing Rep. Cynthia Lummis. The transition team also had an Executive Committee which included: Additional executive committee members added on November 29, 2016: An organizational chart of the transition team was made public by the \"New York Times\". It", "title": "Presidential transition of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "20856689", "text": "February 2017, Hunt served as his chief of staff until October of that year. He became a Senior Advisor to the Office of Legal Policy in October 2017, in which capacity he remained until being confirmed by the Senate to be an Assistant Attorney General. On September 14, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Hunt to become the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. Hunt's nomination was first officially sent to the Senate on December 11, 2017. On January 3, 2018, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of", "title": "Jody Hunt" }, { "id": "2323693", "text": "read. On February 8, 2017, Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General by a vote of 52 to 47. On March 10, 2017, Sessions oversaw the firing of 46 United States Attorneys, leaving only his acting Deputy Dana Boente and nominated Deputy Rod Rosenstein in place after Trump declined their resignations. On April 10, 2017, Sessions disbanded the National Commission on Forensic Science and ended the department's review of the forensic accuracy in closed cases. Sessions imposed a hiring freeze on most of the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division and U.S. Attorneys' offices, and a total freeze on the", "title": "Jeff Sessions" }, { "id": "20343458", "text": "level, election law, and administrative law. He was confirmed, 53-46, on November 27, 2018 by the US Senate. Stephen Vaden Stephen Alexander Vaden is an American lawyer is President Donald Trump's General Counsel-Designate of the United States Department of Agriculture. Prior to his nomination, he served on the Trump administration's USDA landing team. Vaden has a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He clerked for Julia Smith Gibbons of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and for Samuel H. Mays Jr. of the United States District Court for the Western District", "title": "Stephen Vaden" }, { "id": "441729", "text": "his request pending the confirmation of his nominees. For a full list of people nominated for Cabinet positions, see Formation of Donald Trump's Cabinet. The Cabinet includes the Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments, listed here according to their order of succession to the Presidency. These 15 positions are the core \"cabinet member\" seats, as distinct from other Cabinet-level seats for other various top level White House staffers and heads of other government agencies, none of whom are in the presidential line of succession and not all of whom are Officers of the United States. Note that", "title": "Cabinet of the United States" }, { "id": "19829624", "text": "Connecticut; they defeated McMahon in their respective Senate races. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship, said, \"Mrs. McMahon made it very clear that she has the experience, understanding and instincts necessary to bolster America's small business community and advocate for much-needed regulatory reforms.\" On February 8, 2017, President Trump outlined the 24 members of the Cabinet, excluding the Council of Economic Advisers chairman position. In addition to the chairman, the council had two other members, also appointed by the president, as well as a staff of economists, researchers, and statisticians. Historically, appointees", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "19829609", "text": "cabinet-level agencies under Bill Clinton, but not George W. Bush. The head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (aka the drug czar) was a cabinet-level position under both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, but not under Barack Obama. (Not to be confused with the head of the DEA, who has remained in the org chart underneath the cabinet position held by the Attorney General.) Designation of an agency as being cabinet-level requires that Congress enact legislation, although executive orders unilaterally created by the president can be used to create many other types of position inside the executive", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "19829566", "text": "were unable to take office on Inauguration Day because of delays in the formal confirmation process. By February 8, 2017, President Trump had fewer cabinet nominees confirmed than any prior president two weeks into his mandate, except George Washington. Part of the lateness was ascribed to opposition by Senate Democrats and part to delays in submitting background-check paperwork. The last Cabinet member, Robert Lighthizer, took office as U.S. Trade Representative on May 11, 2017, more than four months after his nomination. Choosing members of the presidential Cabinet (and other high-level positions) is a complicated process, which begins before the November", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "6207560", "text": "Ulysses S. Grant. The president's wife, Julia Grant, and his daughter, Nellie Grant, also attended. Most of the members of the cabinet were present at the meeting: Hamilton Fish (United States Secretary of State), Columbus Delano (United States Secretary of the Interior) with his wife, Amos Tappan Akerman (United States Attorney General) with his wife, George S. Boutwell (United States Secretary of the Treasury), George Maxwell Robeson (United States Secretary of the Navy), General Frederick Tracy Dent (the president's brother-in-law and military secretary), John Creswell (Postmaster General of the United States), as well as generals Horace Porter and Orville E.", "title": "Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia" }, { "id": "8391237", "text": "is reported, did not realize for a year that Whitaker wanted to replace him. By early September 2018 Whitaker was on the short list of President Trump's White House staff as the replacement for Don McGahn as the White House Counsel. In September 2018, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly referred to Whitaker as the White House's \"eyes and ears\" in the Justice Department, which the president considered himself at war with. Trump had spoken with Whitaker in September 2018 about potentially assuming Sessions's role as Attorney General, although it was not clear whether Whitaker would take over on", "title": "Matthew Whitaker (attorney)" }, { "id": "322376", "text": "House, then, if necessary, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and then if necessary, the eligible heads of federal executive departments who form the president's Cabinet. The Cabinet currently has 15 members, of which the Secretary of State is first in line; the other Cabinet secretaries follow in the order in which their department (or the department of which their department is the successor) was created. Those department heads who are constitutionally ineligible to be elected to the presidency are also disqualified from assuming the powers and duties of the presidency through succession. No statutory successor has yet been", "title": "President of the United States" }, { "id": "19829565", "text": "think tank stated that \"A third of the department heads in the Trump administration (33%) will be people whose prior experience has been entirely in the public sector. Only three other U.S. Presidents are in the same range: William McKinley (three out of eight Cabinet positions, or 37.5%), Ronald Reagan (four out of 13 positions, or 31%), and Dwight Eisenhower (three out of 10 positions, or 30%).\" There are no economists in President Trump's cabinet. There are also significantly fewer lawyers in Mr. Trump's cabinet than in previous administrations. Despite being nominated promptly during the transition period, most cabinet members", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "441752", "text": "an instrument delivered to the office of the secretary of state. Accordingly, the resignations of President Nixon and of Vice-President Spiro Agnew, domestic issues, were formalized in instruments delivered to the secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. As the highest-ranking member of the cabinet, the secretary of state is the third-highest official of the executive branch of the Federal Government of the United States, after the president and vice president, and is fourth in line to succeed the presidency, coming after the vice president, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President pro tempore of the Senate. Six secretaries", "title": "United States Secretary of State" }, { "id": "18212628", "text": "evening. When Jeff Sessions was confirmed and sworn in as Attorney General on February 9, 2017, Boente became Acting Deputy Attorney General. Also on February 9, 2017, Trump signed a new Executive Order; Executive Order 13775 to replace Obama's EO, an action which modified the order of succession to add Boente to the list. Sessions recused himself from all matters pertaining to American presidential campaigns because of revelations that he had communications with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak during the 2016 United States presidential election, Boente was designated to perform the functions of the Attorney General with respect", "title": "Dana Boente" }, { "id": "20055292", "text": "a shitshow in a dumpster fire.” On November 9, 2018, Conway and Neal Katyal, wrote an op-ed in the \"New York Times\" challenging the Constitutionality of Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, to replace Jeff Sessions. Trump used the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 (FVRA) to appoint Whitaker, which allows the President to make interim appointments. US Presidents nominate thousands of individuals to offices in executive and judicial branches of government—many of which have to be reviewed and approved by the Senate. The FVRA allows interim appointments, without first seeking Senate approval, under three limited conditions:", "title": "George T. Conway III" }, { "id": "5960773", "text": "General (in the case of the Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, and Tax Divisions and the Office of Justice Programs). United States Assistant Attorney General Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice are headed by an Assistant Attorney General. The President of the United States appoints individuals to the position of Assistant Attorney General with the advice and consent of the Senate. United States Department of Justice components that are led by an Assistant Attorney General are: Assistant Attorneys General report either to the Deputy Attorney General (in the case of", "title": "United States Assistant Attorney General" }, { "id": "3011569", "text": "had served as Counselor to the President and ambassador to NATO under Nixon. Rumsfeld and Deputy Chief of Staff Dick Cheney rapidly became among the most influential people in the Ford administration. Ford also appointed Edward H. Levi as Attorney General, charging Levi with cleaning up a Justice Department that had been politicized to unprecedented levels during the Nixon administration. Ford brought in Philip W. Buchen, Robert T. Hartmann, L. William Seidman, and John O. Marsh as senior advisers with cabinet rank. Ford placed a far greater value in his cabinet officials than Nixon had, though cabinet members did not", "title": "Presidency of Gerald Ford" }, { "id": "1549464", "text": "was appointed Attorney General. O'Neill, who opposed the Iraq War and feared that the Bush tax cuts would lead to deficits, was replaced by John W. Snow in February 2003. In June 2006, Snow was succeeded by Henry Paulson, the head of Goldman Sachs, after Bush agreed to let Paulson lead his administration's economic policy. Ashcroft, who differed with Bush on issues such as NSA surveillance, resigned after the 2004 election, and was replaced by Gonzales. After serving as Chief of Staff for more than five years, Card left the White House of his own accord, and was replaced by", "title": "Presidency of George W. Bush" }, { "id": "435704", "text": "United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), commonly just referred to as the State Department, is the federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues. Equivalent to the foreign ministry of other countries, it was established in 1789 as the nation's first executive department. The current Secretary of State is Mike Pompeo, who ascended to the office in April 2018 after Rex Tillerson resigned. The State Department's duties include implementing the foreign policy of the United States, operating the nation's diplomatic missions abroad, negotiating treaties", "title": "United States Department of State" }, { "id": "20021777", "text": "Steven Engel Steven Andrew Engel (born June 29, 1974) is an American lawyer who is the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Donald Trump administration. Engel, who previously worked in the George W. Bush administration as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and confirmed on November 7, 2017. Engel was born on June 29, 1974, in New Hyde Park, New York, a Long Island suburb of New York City. He was raised in Port Washington, New York and graduated", "title": "Steven Engel" }, { "id": "653918", "text": "the role of the Attorney General is defined as \"providing essential legal expertise and support to the Government\". More specific functions include \"legislative drafting\", \"legal aid\", \"the prerogative of mercy\" (advising the President), \"liquor licensing\" and \"film censorship\". The current Attorney General is Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. In January 2008, he sparked controversy by accepting other government positions in addition to his role as Attorney General. Sayed-Khaiyum is currently responsible also for \"Public Enterprise, Electoral Reform and Anti-Corruption\". An article in the \"Fiji Times\" pointed out that \"never before in the history of this nation has the Attorney-General held a portfolio dealing", "title": "Attorney general" }, { "id": "19829569", "text": "most of them from the now-finished campaign effort. During the remainder of 2016, the team continued finding and vetting potential nominees for the various positions, as the Electoral College process was ongoing (including recounts in some states where the winning margin was relatively tiny) and before the presidential inauguration in January 2017. President-elect Trump announced his first post-election Cabinet nominee, Jeff Sessions for the role of United States Attorney General, on November 18, 2016. (Trump had earlier announced Mike Pence as his pick for vice-presidential running mate in July 2016, which was shortly thereafter confirmed by the delegates to the", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "11070292", "text": "Berrien of Georgia as Attorney General, and John Eaton of Tennessee, a friend and close political ally, as Secretary of War. Recognizing the growing importance of the Post Office, Jackson elevated the position of Postmaster General to the cabinet, and he named William T. Barry of Kentucky to lead the department. Of the six officials in Jackson's initial cabinet, only Van Buren was a major political figure in his own right. Jackson's cabinet choices were criticized from various quarters; Calhoun and Van Buren were both disappointed that their respective factions were not more prominent in the cabinet, while leaders from", "title": "Presidency of Andrew Jackson" }, { "id": "12608044", "text": "some reports, he offered his resignation. Following the meeting, the White House issued a statement that Rosenstein retained his position as Deputy Attorney General and would meet with Trump on September 27. Due to the ongoing hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, Rosenstein met with Trump on October 8; Rosenstein would not be fired afterwards. Further, Rosenstein agreed to meet with House Republicans within the next two weeks. On November 7, 2018, Trump transferred oversight of Mueller's investigation to Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. Rosenstein is married to Lisa Barsoomian, an Armenian American lawyer who worked for the National Institutes of Health", "title": "Rod Rosenstein" }, { "id": "19829574", "text": "as the basis for the United States presidential line of succession). The nomination of a Secretary-designate is reviewed during hearings held by the members of the Foreign Relations committee, then presented to the full Senate for a vote. On December 12, 2016, Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, was officially selected to be the Secretary of State. Tillerson was first recommended to Trump for the secretary of state role by Condoleezza Rice, during her meeting with Trump in late November. Rice's recommendation of Tillerson to Trump was backed up by Robert Gates three days later. Tillerson's confirmation hearing with the Foreign", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "6260218", "text": "United States Deputy Attorney General The United States Deputy Attorney General is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice and oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department. The Deputy Attorney General acts as Attorney General during the absence of the Attorney General. The Deputy Attorney General is a political appointee of the President of the United States and takes office after confirmation by the United States Senate. The position was created in 1950. Since April 26, 2017, Rod Rosenstein has been Deputy Attorney General. On May 14, 2007 Paul McNulty, then Deputy Attorney General, announced his resignation", "title": "United States Deputy Attorney General" }, { "id": "19829618", "text": "first budget director for a new president was one week — one week.” On February 16, 2017, the Senate confirmed Mulvaney, 51–49. On February 8, 2017, President Trump outlined the 24 members of the Cabinet with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency being newly included. The nomination of a Director-designate is reviewed during hearings held by the members of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and then presented to the full Senate for a vote. On November 18, 2016 Mike Pompeo, the Representative of Kansas' 4th congressional district, was officially selected to be the Director of the", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "19830113", "text": "and Cabinet-level nominees, all of which require Senate confirmation except for White House Chief of Staff and the vice presidency. By April 29, almost all of his nominated cabinet members had been confirmed, including Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, Defense James Mattis, Justice Jeff Sessions, the Interior Ryan Zinke, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, Commerce Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta, Health and Human Services HHS Tom Price, Housing and Urban Development HUD Ben Carson, Transportation Elaine Chao, Energy Rick Perry, Education Betsy DeVos, Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, Homeland Security John Kelly, Director", "title": "First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency" }, { "id": "19829606", "text": "of a female employee, so noisily that the United States Secret Service reportedly stopped him to prevent him potentially waking up then-President Barack Obama. President Trump responded during a news conference the next day, defending Jackson as \"one of the finest people that I have met\", but also implying that Jackson may withdraw from being considered for the position. Jackson withdrew his nomination on April 26. The President nominated Former Defense Undersecretary and VA Acting Secretary Robert Wilkie on May 18, 2018 to replace Shulkin. Wilkie was confirmed by the Senate on July 23, 2018 with an 86-9 vote. Before", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "435717", "text": "the biggest shifts in terrorism in 2012 included an increase in state-sponsored terrorism in Iran. The State Department states the best way to counter international terrorist attacks is to work with international partners to cut funding, strengthen law-enforcing institutions and eliminate terrorist safe havens. The Secretary of State is the chief executive officer of the Department of State and a member of the Cabinet that answers directly to, and advises, the President of the United States. The secretary organizes and supervises the entire department and its staff. Since the 1996 reorganization, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International", "title": "United States Department of State" }, { "id": "441720", "text": "Vice President and the heads of the federal executive departments, all of whom—if eligible—are in the line of succession. Members of the Cabinet (except for the Vice President) serve at the pleasure of the President, who can dismiss them at will for no cause. All federal public officials, including Cabinet members, are also subject to impeachment by the House of Representatives and trial in the Senate for \"treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors\". The President can also unilaterally designate senior White House staffers, heads of other federal agencies and the Ambassador to the United Nations as members of", "title": "Cabinet of the United States" }, { "id": "17483612", "text": "the United States. Mark A. Patterson Mark A. Patterson is an American lobbyist, former Vice President and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs, and former Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 2018, he was hired as general counsel for Senator Chuck Schumer, overseeing investigations and appropriations and leaving his position at law firm Perkins Coie. Patterson was born in New York City. His mother was a librarian while his father was a high school English teacher. He graduated from the University at Albany in 1984 and was the Special Assistant of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan", "title": "Mark A. Patterson" }, { "id": "9428017", "text": "of the postal service. Initially, Washington met individually with the leaders of the executive departments and the Attorney General, but he began to hold joint meetings in 1791, with the first meeting occurring on November 26. The four positions of Secretary of War, Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, and Attorney General became collectively known as the cabinet, and Washington held regular cabinet meetings throughout his second term. Edmund Randolph became the first Attorney General, while Henry Knox retained his position as head of the Department of War. Washington initially offered the position of Secretary of State to John Jay,", "title": "Presidency of George Washington" }, { "id": "13830273", "text": "that office since January 2010 and before that since January 2009 as Principal Associate Deputy U.S. Attorney General) would succeed him. The position, because it is part of the Executive Office staff that personally advises the President and is not an agency or Cabinet department or military head, does not require Senate confirmation despite the prominence of the office. Bauer returned to private practice to again represent the president's election team and the Democratic National Committee. \"Bob was a critical member of the White House team,\" Mr. Obama said. \"He has exceptional judgment, wisdom, and intellect, and he will continue", "title": "Robert Bauer" }, { "id": "19829226", "text": "resign or be fired since Trump took office. Since taking office, Trump has made two unsuccessful cabinet nominations. Andrew Puzder was nominated for the position of Secretary of Labor in 2017, while Ronny Jackson, who had previously served as the president's physician, was nominated as Secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2018. Each withdrew their name from consideration after facing opposition in the Senate. White House staff Security and international affairs Domestic affairs Federal Reserve Board of Governors In the first 13 months of the administration of Donald Trump, the White House staff had a higher turnover than the previous four", "title": "Presidency of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "19956040", "text": "CIA and FEMA were cabinet-level agencies under Bill Clinton, but not George W. Bush. The head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (aka the drug czar) was a cabinet-level position under both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, but not under Barack Obama. (Not to be confused with the head of the DEA, who has remained in the org chart underneath the cabinet position held by the Attorney General.) Designation of an agency as being cabinet-level requires that Congress enact legislation, although executive orders unilaterally created by the president can be used to create many other types of", "title": "Formation of Donald Trump's Cabinet" }, { "id": "11070294", "text": "of War, ambassador and former Congressman Louis McLane of Delaware took the position of Secretary of the Treasury, Senator Edward Livingston of Louisiana became Secretary of State, and Senator Levi Woodbury of New Hampshire became Secretary of the Navy. Roger Taney, who had previously served as the Attorney General of Maryland, replaced Berrien as the U.S. Attorney General. In contrast to Jackson's initial choices, the cabinet members appointed in 1831 were prominent national leaders, none of whom were aligned with Calhoun. Outside of the cabinet, journalist Francis Preston Blair emerged as an influential adviser. At the start of his second", "title": "Presidency of Andrew Jackson" }, { "id": "14348845", "text": "country that has one or the other. The U.S. Secretary of State is head of the United States Department of State. He or she is responsible for the administration of United States Embassies and their subsidiary units throughout the world. The U.S. Secretary of State has the power to remove any foreign diplomat from U.S. soil for any reason. Six Secretaries of State became presidents (Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan) and five won Nobel Peace Prizes (Frank Kellogg, Cordell Hull, George Marshall, Elihu Root, and Henry Kissinger). The now long-established", "title": "Secretary of state" }, { "id": "1946365", "text": "United States federal executive departments The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the Federal government of the United States. They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but (the United States being a presidential system) they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state. The executive departments are the administrative arms of the President of the United States. There are currently 15 executive departments. The heads of the executive departments receive the title of \"Secretary\" of their respective department, except for the Attorney-General", "title": "United States federal executive departments" }, { "id": "2145348", "text": "Elliot Richardson Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920 December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S. Attorney General, he was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal, and resigned rather than obey President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1970 to 1973, Secretary of Defense from January to May 1973, Attorney General from May to October 1973, and Secretary of Commerce from 1976 to 1977. That makes him one of only", "title": "Elliot Richardson" }, { "id": "661808", "text": "positioned once more in the order of the establishment of their department: Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney General, Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Interior. Three Cabinet secretaries were added to the lineup, reflecting the creation of three Cabinet-level departments post-1886: Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, and Secretary of Labor. The act stipulates, that in order for either the speaker or the president pro tempore to become acting president, he or she must meet the requirements for presidential eligibility, and must, prior to acting as president, resign from office,", "title": "Presidential Succession Act" }, { "id": "19830229", "text": "Trump had pledged to revert this. Following the morning meeting with CEOs on January 31, Trump abandoned his pledge to allow \"Medicare negotiate bulk discounts in the price it pays for prescription drugs.\" On January 28, Trump signed an Executive Order to fulfilling his campaign pledge to limit lobbying of executive agency members. On February 8, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, who was nominated by Trump in January, was confirmed as United States Attorney General (A.G.), the head of the Justice Department per . He is the United States government's chief law enforcement officer and lawyer with 113,000 employees working under", "title": "First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency" }, { "id": "2561392", "text": "the USA PATRIOT Act to the interim appointment statute. The bill was signed by President George W. Bush, and became law in June 2007. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D, California), summarized the history of interim United States Attorney appointments, on March 19, 2007 in the Senate. The U.S. Attorney is both the primary representative and the administrative head of the \"Office of the U.S. Attorney\" for the district. The U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) is the chief prosecutor for the United States in criminal law cases, and represents the United States in civil law cases as either the defendant or plaintiff, as", "title": "United States Attorney" }, { "id": "6320911", "text": "Cabinet of Mexico The cabinet of Mexico is the Executive Cabinet () and is a part of the executive branch of the Mexican government. It consists of nineteen Secretaries of State, the head of the federal executive legal office and the Attorney General. In addition to the legal Executive Cabinet there are other Cabinet-level administration offices that report directly to the President of the Republic (\"Gabinete Ampliado\"). Officials from the legal and extended Cabinet (\"Gabinete Legal y Ampliado\") are subordinate to the President. The term \"Cabinet\" does not appear in the Constitution, where reference is made only to the Secretaries", "title": "Cabinet of Mexico" }, { "id": "18740813", "text": "before Yates's confirmation. As Deputy Attorney General, Yates was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Justice Department, which included approximately 113,000 employees. In 2015, she authored the policy, known as the \"Yates memo\", prioritizing the prosecution of executives for corporate crimes. During the final days of the Obama administration, she oversaw the review of 16,000 petitions for executive clemency, making recommendations to the President. In January 2017, according to a Justice Department spokesman, Yates accepted a request from the incoming Trump administration to serve as Acting Attorney General, beginning on January 20, 2017, and until the successor for Attorney", "title": "Sally Yates" }, { "id": "3282535", "text": "an eminent jurist, in the opinion of the President and must be a citizen of India.) The 15th and current Attorney General is K. K. Venugopal. He was appointed by Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India at that time. He was formally appointed as with effect from 30 June 2017 and shall have a tenure of 3 years. The Attorney General is necessary for giving advice to the Government of India in legal matters referred to him. He also performs other legal duties assigned to him by the President. The Attorney General has the right of audience in all Courts", "title": "Attorney General of India" }, { "id": "151254", "text": "the Department of War in early August, and the Treasury Department on September 2. The President also received two officers without departments: the Attorney General and Postmaster General. Washington appointed Richmond lawyer Edmund Randolph as Attorney General and Samuel Osgood as Postmaster General. He also appointed fellow Virginian Thomas Jefferson to be Secretary of State and Henry Knox, who had succeeded Washington as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, as Secretary of War. Finally, he appointed Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury. Washington's cabinet later developed into a consulting and advisory body, which was not mandated by the Constitution. Washington's", "title": "George Washington" }, { "id": "17483609", "text": "Mark A. Patterson Mark A. Patterson is an American lobbyist, former Vice President and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs, and former Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 2018, he was hired as general counsel for Senator Chuck Schumer, overseeing investigations and appropriations and leaving his position at law firm Perkins Coie. Patterson was born in New York City. His mother was a librarian while his father was a high school English teacher. He graduated from the University at Albany in 1984 and was the Special Assistant of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1984 to", "title": "Mark A. Patterson" }, { "id": "19829627", "text": "Hassett to be chair of the council. A hearing was held on June 6. Cabinet of Donald Trump This article lists the members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet. Trump assumed office on January 20, 2017. The President of the United States has the authority to nominate members of their Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution. Before confirmation and during congressional hearings, a high-level career member of an executive department heads this pre-confirmed cabinet on an acting basis. The Cabinet's creation is part of the transition of power following the 2016", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "20188432", "text": "Curtis E. Gannon Curtis E. Gannon (born October 7, 1973) is the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice. He was appointed to this position on 20 January 2017 by President Donald Trump. Gannon graduated from Harvard University in 1994 and earned his master's degree at University of London, before earning a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1998. Prior to assuming office as acting head of the Office of Legal Counsel, Gannon was assistant to the Solicitor General. Before that, Gannon was in private practice", "title": "Curtis E. Gannon" }, { "id": "8024018", "text": "United States Associate Attorney General The Associate Attorney General of the United States is the third-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice. The Associate Attorney General advises and assists the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General in policies relating to civil justice, federal and local law enforcement, and public safety matters. The Associate Attorney General is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Office of the Associate Attorney General oversees the Antitrust Division, the Civil Division, the Environment and Natural Resources Division, the Tax Division, the Office of Justice Programs, the Community Oriented Policing Services,", "title": "United States Associate Attorney General" }, { "id": "441726", "text": "of the executive departments and all other federal agency heads are nominated by the President and then presented to the Senate for confirmation or rejection by a simple majority (although before the use of the \"nuclear option\" during the 113th US Congress, they could have been blocked by filibuster, requiring cloture to be invoked by supermajority to further consideration). If approved, they receive their commission scroll, are sworn in and then begin their duties. An elected Vice President does not require Senate confirmation, nor does the White House Chief of Staff, which is an appointed staff position of the Executive", "title": "Cabinet of the United States" }, { "id": "19829597", "text": "Health and Human Services until a new nominee is confirmed. On November 13, 2017, President Trump announced via Twitter that Alex Azar was his nominee to be the next HHS Secretary to succeed acting secretary Eric Hargan. Azar was the former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush (2005–2007) and president of Lilly USA, LLC, the largest affiliate of global biopharmaceutical leader Eli Lilly and Company from 2012 to 2017. Azar was confirmed by 53–43 vote on January 24, 2018. He took office on January 29, 2018. The nomination of a Secretary-designate", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "20003752", "text": "Rachel Brand Rachel Lee Brand (born May 1, 1973) is an American lawyer, academic, and former government official. She served as the United States Associate Attorney General from May 22, 2017, until February 20, 2018, when she resigned to take a job as head of global corporate governance at Walmart. Brand was the first woman to serve as Associate Attorney General. She also served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in the George W. Bush administration and was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Prior to becoming", "title": "Rachel Brand" }, { "id": "19829623", "text": "acting head of the agency. The nomination of an Administrator-designate is reviewed during hearings held by the members of the United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and then presented to the full Senate for a vote. On December 7, 2016 Linda McMahon, former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. and Senate nominee, was selected to be the head of the Small Business Administration. McMahon was confirmed by a Senate vote of 81–19 on February 14, 2017. Marianne Markowitz served as acting administrator before McMahon's confirmation. McMahon earned approval votes from Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy from", "title": "Cabinet of Donald Trump" }, { "id": "10296716", "text": "appointed President's Counsel takes the oath of office at a ceremonial sittings of the Supreme Court at which point the appointee is considered a President's Counsel and are called to the Inner Bar. Law officers who are public prosecutors of the Attorney General's Department are customarily appointed as President's Counsel after they are promoted to the grade of Additional Solicitor General. These may be singular appointments made several times a year after their promotion. Once in several years, several attorneys from the unofficial bar will be appointed based on recommendations forwarded by the Chief Justice, Attorney General and the President", "title": "President's Counsel" }, { "id": "441730", "text": "the Speaker of the House and the President \"pro tempore\" of the Senate follow the Vice President and precede the Secretary of State in the order of succession, but both are in the legislative branch and are not part of the Cabinet. The following officials hold positions that are considered to be Cabinet-level positions. Cabinet-level officials attend Cabinet meetings, but are not official Cabinet Members: Cabinet of the United States The Cabinet of the United States is part of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. The Cabinet's role, inferred from the language of the Opinion", "title": "Cabinet of the United States" }, { "id": "20198922", "text": "of criticizing Sessions for recusing himself from overseeing the Mueller investigation, stating in July 2017, \"if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else.\" Trump appointed Matthew Whitaker, Sessions' chief of staff since September 2017, as Acting Attorney General. While Whitaker was Sessions' chief of staff, White House chief of staff John Kelly described him as the West Wing’s \"eyes and ears\" in the DOJ, which Trump considered hostile to him. Prior to joining the Justice Department, Whitaker had publicly criticized the Mueller investigation on", "title": "Special Counsel investigation (2017–present)" }, { "id": "538880", "text": "United States Secretary of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also included several federal law enforcement agencies. This position in the federal government of the United States is analogous to the Minister of Finance in many other countries. The Secretary of the Treasury is a member of the President's Cabinet, and is nominated by the President of the United States. Nominees for Secretary of the Treasury undergo a confirmation hearing before the United States Senate Committee on", "title": "United States Secretary of the Treasury" }, { "id": "547250", "text": "United States Secretary of Commerce The United States Secretary of Commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce. The Secretary is appointed by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate and serves in the President's Cabinet. The Secretary is concerned with promoting American businesses and industries; the Department states its mission to be \"to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce\". Until 1913 there was one Secretary of Commerce and Labor, uniting this department with the Department of Labor, which is now headed by a", "title": "United States Secretary of Commerce" }, { "id": "18212629", "text": "to campaign issues until the permanent deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, was confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn into office which took place on April 25, 2017. On October 27, 2017 Boente announced his intention to resign as U.S. Attorney and as acting assistant attorney general for the National Security Division; he said he would remain in the positions until a replacement is confirmed. On January 23, 2018, Boente was named general counsel to the FBI by the director Christopher Wray, filling the vacancy after James Baker's reassignment to another part of the bureau. On April 11,", "title": "Dana Boente" }, { "id": "12648065", "text": "Janet Napolitano, Federico Peña, Susan Rice, Sonal Shah, Mark Gitenstein and Ted Kaufman. Members of the transition team's senior staff included: Joshua Gotbaum and Michael Warren headed the transition team of the Treasury Department. In addition, Thomas Donilon and Wendy Sherman oversaw the transition of the State Department. Seth Harris oversaw the transition in all of the labor, education, and transportation agencies with Edward B. Montgomery leading the Labor Department agency review team, Mortimer Downey leading the Transportation Department agency review team, and Judith Sherman leading the Education Department agency review team. Finally, John P. White and Michele Flournoy led", "title": "Presidential transition of Barack Obama" }, { "id": "2561389", "text": "prosecute in each district all delinquents for crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, and all civil actions in which the United States shall be concerned...\" Prior to the existence of the Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorneys were independent of the Attorney General, and did not come under the AG's supervision and authority until 1870, with the creation of the Department of Justice. The U.S. Attorney is appointed by the President of the United States for a term of four years, with appointments subject to confirmation by the Senate. A U.S. Attorney continues in office,", "title": "United States Attorney" }, { "id": "14825111", "text": "Catholic. Mick Mulvaney's brother Ted Mulvaney (Theodore) is portfolio manager for Braeburn Capital, the investment arm of tech giant Apple Inc. Mick Mulvaney John Michael Mulvaney (; born July 21, 1967) is an American politician of the Republican Party who is serving in President Donald Trump's cabinet as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He will serve as Trump's acting White House Chief of Staff, beginning in 2019. Mulvaney also served as the acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from November 2017 to December 2018. Mulvaney served in the South Carolina General Assembly from", "title": "Mick Mulvaney" }, { "id": "5789710", "text": "Office of Legal Counsel The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) is an office in the United States Department of Justice that assists the Attorney General's position as legal adviser to the President and all executive branch agencies. The Office of Legal Counsel was created in 1934 by an act of US Congress, as part of a larger reorganization of executive branch administrative agencies. It was first headed by an assistant solicitor general. In 1951, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath made it a division led by an assistant attorney, and named it the Executive Adjudications Division. This name was changed to", "title": "Office of Legal Counsel" } ]

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The Eagles improved on their 4–12 record from 2012, finishing 10–6 and clinching the NFC East division title and the playoffs for the first time since 2010, but after a close game, they lost to the New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card round of the playoffs, by a score of 26–24. The", "title": "2013 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807846", "text": "the Patriots' last hopes. The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Patriots by a score of 41–33. Nick Foles also was named Super Bowl MVP after the game. With this win, the Eagles finally won their first Super Bowl, and their first NFL title since 1960. A Super Bowl victory parade took place four days later on February 8. 2017 Philadelphia Eagles season The 2017 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 85th season in the National Football League, the 15th playing their home games at Lincoln Financial Field, and the second under head coach Doug Pederson. The Eagles improved their 7–9 record", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "16977330", "text": "2013 Philadelphia Eagles season The Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 81st season in the National Football League, and the first under head coach Chip Kelly. The Eagles improved on their 4–12 record from 2012, finishing 10–6 and clinching the NFC East division title and the playoffs for the first time since 2010, but after a close game, they lost to the New Orleans Saints in the Wild Card round of the playoffs, by a score of 26–24. The season was noted for LeSean McCoy winning the NFL rushing title, and the extremely successful season by Nick Foles where he", "title": "2013 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "16778801", "text": "The Philadelphia Eagles finished the 2017 season atop the NFC East with a 13–3 record and clinched a playoff berth and home field advantage. On January 13, 2018, McLeod started his first career playoff game and recorded seven solo tackles and a sack on Matt Ryan during the Eagles' 15–10 victory against the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Divisional round. The Eagles went on to defeat the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship and went on to face the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. On February 4, 2018, McLeod started in Super Bowl LII and recorded six combined", "title": "Rodney McLeod" }, { "id": "19127837", "text": "The loss dropped the Eagles to 4–4 and 4th place in the NFC East. The Eagles, with the win, stay alive in the NFC East and the wild card race as they take down the NFC South leaders and the NFL's best offense. With the loss, the Eagles fell to 5-7. They also fell to 0-4-1 all time in Cincinnati. The loss knocked the Eagles out of playoff contention for the third consecutive year. Despite a rushing touchdown by Carson Wentz in the final seconds, they failed the 2 point conversion; sealing a fifth straight loss and a playoff elimination.", "title": "2016 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "6224942", "text": "first time since the 2004 season. The Eagles would face Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in a rematch of Super Bowl XXXIX at Super Bowl LII. The Eagles would end up winning the game 41-33 to give the Eagles their first Super Bowl Championship and their first championship since the 1960 season before the NFL-AFL merger. Nick Foles would be named Super Bowl MVP. The Eagles came back from a successful 2017 season hoping to become the first repeat Super Bowl victors since the New England Patriots during their 2003 and 2004 season. Before the season started many", "title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "313844", "text": "such as Patrick Robinson, Chris Long, Corey Graham, Tim Jernigan and Ronald Darby. The team addressed its defense mostly in the draft, using its top three picks on defensive players. The Eagles drafted Derek Barnett with the 14th overall pick. They opened the season on the road versus the Washington Redskins and won the game 30–17. The team lost to the Kansas City Chiefs the following week, 27–20, in Pederson's return to face Andy Reid. The Eagles then won six consecutive games, including a road victory against the Carolina Panthers, 28–23. On the morning of October 31, 2017, just before", "title": "Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "14067252", "text": "avoid injury in the regular season finale, a 6–0 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. On January 13, 2018, the Eagles defeated the Atlanta Falcons 15–10, in the NFC Divisional playoff game, with Foles completing 23 of 30 passes for 246 yards. This was the Eagles' first playoff victory in nine seasons. On January 21, 2018, the Eagles defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 38–7, in the NFC Championship Game, with Foles going 26 of 33 for 352 yards and 3 touchdowns. The Vikings were 3-point favorites with the league's top-ranked defense entering the game. In Super Bowl LII, Foles caught a touchdown", "title": "Nick Foles" }, { "id": "19807802", "text": "quarter. In the fourth quarter, Kirk Cousins fumbled the ball which Eagles' DE Fletcher Cox recovered for a TD to seal an Eagles victory. This was the Eagles first win against the Redskins since September 2014, ending a five-game losing streak to their division rival. This was also the Eagles first win at FedExField since 2013. With the win, the Eagles started 1–0 for the sixth time in their last seven season openers. In Week 2, Doug Pederson faced off for the first time against his mentor, Andy Reid, as the Eagles traveled to Arrowhead Stadium to take on the", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "16177878", "text": "for and points against are used by some tiebreakers. That extra point was good, and counted in the final score. This was the last win as head coach of the Eagles for Andy Reid. The Philadelphia Eagles made their third appearance in a nationally-broadcast game in four weeks against the Cincinnati Bengals on December 13, 2012. With the loss, the Eagles finish the season 4–12, their worst in 14 years, falling to 8-2 against the Giants. The Eagles fired head coach Andy Reid on Monday, December 31, 2012, ending his 14-year tenure coaching the team. 2012 Philadelphia Eagles season The", "title": "2012 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19127828", "text": "2016 Philadelphia Eagles season The 2016 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 84th season in the National Football League and the first under head coach Doug Pederson. The Eagles named 2nd overall pick Carson Wentz the starting quarterback for Week 1 against the Cleveland Browns. The Eagles started 3–0 including a 34–3 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Following their Week 4 bye week, the Eagles lost nine of their final 13 games, including a 2–4 record against their divisional rivals and after losing to the Ravens, were eliminated from playoff contention for the third consecutive season and fourth time in", "title": "2016 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807841", "text": "as the rest of the game represented total domination from Nick Foles and the Eagles' offense, who racked up 456 total yards and 38 unanswered points. With a blowout win against one of the league's top defenses, the Eagles advanced to their third Super Bowl. The Philadelphia Eagles entered Super Bowl LII as a 5.5 point underdog to the defending champions; the New England Patriots. This was also their first appearance in 13 years, with their last Super Bowl berth happening in 2005 (Super Bowl XXXIX), which also happened to be against the New England Patriots. In the first quarter,", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "16977346", "text": "led them to the Eagles' 26 yard line. A shot to the end zone by Robert Griffin III would be intercepted by Brandon Boykin, clinching an Eagles win. The Eagles would move to 6-5. This is the Eagles first win at Lincoln Financial Field since Week 4 of the 2012 season, because prior to this game, the Eagles had \"never\" won a game in their home stadium in 414 days since that same week, snapping a 10-game losing streak at home with this win. With the win, the Eagles improved to 7-5. In a blinding snowstorm, with at least 8\"", "title": "2013 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "16876381", "text": "5 after defeating Uruguay 61–19 in Montevideo. The Eagles became the first team to win all five matches in the Championship and to retain the Championship title across two years. During the 2018 Summer Test Series, Gold became the first head coach of Americas to lead the Eagles to a win all their games during the June test window. This included a record 62–13 victory over Russia, a first ever win over Scotland (30–29), which was the Eagles first win over a Tier 1 nation in the professional era, and a 42–17 win over Canada. South Africa \"(as assistant coach)\"", "title": "Gary Gold" }, { "id": "18419044", "text": "a whole had a terrible season, meaning that the Eagles were in playoff contention for most of the year. However, in a mirror image of 2014, the Eagles were eliminated from playoff contention in a Week 16 Saturday Night Football loss to the Washington Redskins. On December 29, 2015, Chip Kelly was abruptly fired by the Eagles. Eagles' offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur would take over as interim head coach for the final week of the 2015 season. The Eagles released veterans James Casey, Todd Herremans, Trent Cole, Evan Mathis and Cary Williams prior to the official start of the new", "title": "2015 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "20468771", "text": "the Minnesota Vikings 23-21. With this loss, the Eagles matched their loss total from 2017. There were multiple plays that proved critical to the outcome; such as a highly questionable, touchdown-drive-sustaining, roughing-the-passer call on Michael Bennett at the end of the first half and a third-quarter Jay Ajayi fumble near the goal line. The loss dropped the Eagles to 2-3, still tied for 2nd place since Dallas lost later to the Texans in overtime. What was considered a must win game, the Eagles looked dominant and never looked back. The game started off with linebacker Kamu Grugier-Hill intercepting Eli Manning", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "16977348", "text": "at the quarterback helm. This was the first game in NFL history to end with a final score of 54-11. With the convincing win, the Eagles improved to 9-6, and will face their arch rivals, the Dallas Cowboys, next Sunday Night for the division crown. This game would end when Kyle Orton threw an interception late in the fourth quarter. With the win, the Eagles improved to 10-6 and sealed NFC East Championship and 3rd seed in the playoffs. They would also be the third team in a row to defeat the Cowboys in the last game of the regular", "title": "2013 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807822", "text": "with three touchdowns (two rushing, one receiving). With the win, the Eagles went into the bye week with the best start since 2004. They had also surpassed their win total from last season where they only got 7 wins. Furthermore; this was the third largest victory at Lincoln Financial Field since the 54–11 win over the Bears in 2013 and the largest victory in the Doug Pederson era. The Eagles travelled to Dallas to take on the Cowboys, who were missing RB Ezekiel Elliott (Suspension), LT Tyron Smith (Groin), and LB Sean Lee (Hamstring). In a game that the Eagles", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "9403865", "text": "the Minnesota Vikings and the Atlanta Falcons in the playoffs, earning a trip to Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville against the defending champion New England Patriots. The game was hard fought, but the Eagles fell 24–21, ending their magical season one score short of the ultimate goal. This season was considered the franchise's most successful until their Super Bowl LII-winning 2017 season. weather= 77 °F (Sunny) The highly anticipated Eagles' season began with a convincing rout of the division-rival New York Giants in a game that was not as close as the 31–17 score. New York scored the first points", "title": "2004 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "2342450", "text": "touchdown by safety Ed Reed, breaking the record he previously held for longest interception returned for a touchdown. Despite his up-and-down season, McNabb helped the Eagles reach the playoffs for the seventh time in his nine seasons as a starter. He also set a career high with 3,916 yards passing and led the Eagles to a franchise-record 416 points. In the wild card round, McNabb threw for 300 yards, including a 71-yard touchdown to Brian Westbrook, to lead Philadelphia to a 26–14 win over the Minnesota Vikings. On January 11, 2009, McNabb led the Eagles past the Giants in the", "title": "Donovan McNabb" }, { "id": "5171448", "text": "promotion to the 2013–14 Eredivisie at the end of the 2012–13 season, winning the promotion play-offs. The club remained in the top division for the 2014–15 season, finishing 13th. Go Ahead Eagles would compete in Europe in the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League due to the Netherlands' first place in UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking. National Fair Play winner Twente withdrew due to financial difficulties, making the place for Go Ahead Eagles. However, they also suffered relegation after losing 2–0 on aggregate to De Graafschap in the May 2015 promotion/relegation play-offs. In July 2015, they were beaten 2–5 on aggregate by", "title": "Go Ahead Eagles" }, { "id": "20468780", "text": "games over the Redskins dating back to 2017. Also with this win they won back to back games for the first time this season. With the loss, the Eagles fell to 6–7, and they were swept by the Cowboys for the first time since 2012. With the win, the Eagles climb back to 7-7, and keep their playoff hopes alive. They entered the game as 13.5 point underdogs. Nick Foles once again came into LA and beat the Rams after taking over for an injured Carson Wentz, similar to 2017. 2018 Philadelphia Eagles season The National Football League 2018 Philadelphia", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "17250804", "text": "the loss effectively ended his chances at winning the Heisman trophy, but he was nonetheless named one of six finalists and finished 4th in the voting. For his performance, Williams was awarded the 2013 Doak Walker Award and was named a unanimous All-American. The Eagles finished the regular season at 7–5 and 4–4 in ACC play, a remarkable turnaround from the 2–10 performance in 2012. The Eagles will play in their 23rd bowl game on December 31, 2013, in the 2013 AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl against the Arizona Wildcats. The Eagles final game of the season came against the Arizona", "title": "2013 Boston College Eagles football team" }, { "id": "19807795", "text": "New York Giants in Week 15 helped the Eagles clinch a first-round bye for the first time in 13 years, and a Christmas Night home win over the Oakland Raiders allowed the Eagles to clinch home-field advantage throughout the playoffs for the first time since 2004. The Eagles defeated the Atlanta Falcons 15–10 in the Divisional Round and routed the Minnesota Vikings 38–7 in the NFC Championship. The win against the Falcons in the divisional round was their first playoff win since 2008. The Eagles were the first No. 1 seed in the playoffs since 1980 to be an underdog", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "6224898", "text": "to overcome numerous injuries, particularly to its defense, to reach the NFC Championship for the third year in a row, only to suffer a heartbreaking 14-3 loss against the Carolina Panthers. On January 23, 2005, the Eagles reached a fourth consecutive conference championship game (the first time this happened in the salary cap era of the NFL). At long last, the Eagles justified the hopes of their long-suffering fan base, defeating Michael Vick's much-hyped Atlanta Falcons, 27-10, sending them to their first Super Bowl in 24 years. The victory sent the city of Philadelphia into wild celebrations. With two Super", "title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "11780093", "text": "that the Eagles made a trade with. Not shown are acquired picks that the Eagles traded away. The Eagles get the only loss of the season against the Chicago Bears in a game played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The last points of the game were made by 22 years 29 days old George Blanda. Blanda would score his last points against Philadelphia in his career 22 years and 1 day later on October 17, 1971. Also a placekicker, Blanda had one of the longest pro football careers, a total of 26 years. \"(All time List of Philadelphia Eagles players", "title": "1949 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "20468773", "text": "the defense stepped up and shut down Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. However, Barkley had 130 rushing yards and a TD. With this win, the Eagles had increased their record to 3-3 and have now won 4 straight games over the Giants dating back to December 2016. However the Eagles remained tied 2nd place in the division since the Cowboys and Redskins won their games. After a big road win, the Eagles came back to square off Cam Newton and the Panthers. The Eagles again looked poised to win but in a much similar narrative to their Week 4", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "6224917", "text": "on December 28, 2008 and advanced to the playoffs. The Eagles then defeated the Minnesota Vikings 26-14 in the first round of the playoffs on January 4, 2009. They defeated their division rival and the defending Super Bowl champions the New York Giants 23-11 in the NFC Divisional Round to advance to their fifth NFC Championship game in nine years. For the third time in a decade, an all-Pennsylvania Super Bowl seemed possible, as the Pittsburgh Steelers won the AFC Championship against the Baltimore Ravens. However, the Eagles lost 32-25 to the Arizona Cardinals. In August, the team stirred up", "title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "313848", "text": "since week 15 and threw for 352 passing yards and three touchdowns. The Eagles traveled to Minneapolis to compete in Super Bowl LII, their third attempt at a title, against Tom Brady and the New England Patriots in a rematch of Super Bowl XXXIX from 2005. With Foles at the helm, Philadelphia started off the game strong, leading the Patriots 22–12 at halftime. New England's only lead was by one point in the fourth quarter, 33–32. The Eagles rallied back and scored an 11-yard touchdown to tight end Zach Ertz. The last score of the game was a 46-yard field", "title": "Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "19127838", "text": "After a heartbreaking loss that knocked the Eagles out of the playoffs, they came back home to square off the New York Giants for round 2. Prior to this game, the Eagles were 0-4 against division rivals. Playing with pride, the Eagles knocked off the Giants including a pick 6 by Malcolm Jenkins. With the win, the Eagles snapped their 5 game losing streak and won against the Giants at home for the 3rd consecutive season. The win allowed the Cowboys to clinch the NFC East. With the win, the Eagles finished the year at 7-9. Furthermore, they won their", "title": "2016 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "20468759", "text": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season The National Football League 2018 Philadelphia Eagles season is the team's 86th season and their third under head coach Doug Pederson. The Eagles entered the season as the defending champions of Super Bowl LII, and opened the season with the NFL Kickoff Game on September 6, beating the Atlanta Falcons 18–12. A vast majority of their Super Bowl-winning squad from the 2017 season was retained, although some notable losses included tight end Trey Burton (who contributed to the Philly Special in the Super Bowl), defensive end Vinny Curry, and cornerback Patrick Robinson. Franchise quarterback Carson Wentz,", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "16977502", "text": "11:19 remaining, Chris Polk scored on a 10-yard run to increase the score to 40–11, added by Brandon Boykin intercepting Cutler and scoring on a 54-yard return. Afterwards, Josh McCown filled in for Cutler. The Eagles scored again after Bryce Brown ran 65 yards for the touchdown to make the final score 54–11, the biggest blowout since a 47–0 loss to the Houston Oilers in 1977 and the second-most points allowed in team history, behind a 55–20 loss to Detroit in 1997. The Bears failed to score 18 points for the first time in 2013, while allowing a season-high five", "title": "2013 Chicago Bears season" }, { "id": "20468779", "text": "with a score 25-22 after Jake Elliott kicked a game-winning field goal despite falling behind 19-3 in the second quarter. With this win, the All-Time series is tied 86-86-2. Furthermore, the Eagles have now won 5 straight games over the Giants dating back to December 2016: and extended their home win streak against the Giants to 5 games (dating back to October 2014). The Eagles also snapped a 3-game home losing streak and move to 5-6, only a game behind the Cowboys and Redskins. With this win, the Eagles now evened their record at 6-6. They've now won 3 straight", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "16977332", "text": "10 games, but they ended the streak by winning 24-16 against Washington at the Linc in Week 11. On December 31, 2012, long time head coach Andy Reid was fired. On January 16, 2013, Chip Kelly was hired as the new head coach. On January 20, Pat Shurmur accepted the offensive coordinator job. Billy Davis accepted the defensive coordinator position on February 7. Tom Gamble was named Vice President of Player Personnel on February 13, a position that had been vacant since Ryan Grigson left to become general manager of the Indianapolis Colts. Notes The game against the Chiefs was", "title": "2013 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19127839", "text": "first game against the Cowboys at Lincoln Financial Field since 2011. 2016 Philadelphia Eagles season The 2016 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 84th season in the National Football League and the first under head coach Doug Pederson. The Eagles named 2nd overall pick Carson Wentz the starting quarterback for Week 1 against the Cleveland Browns. The Eagles started 3–0 including a 34–3 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Following their Week 4 bye week, the Eagles lost nine of their final 13 games, including a 2–4 record against their divisional rivals and after losing to the Ravens, were eliminated from", "title": "2016 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807814", "text": "after three quarters, the Eagles opened up the fourth quarter with Carson Wentz hooking up with wide receiver Nelson Agholor for a 24-yard touchdown. Cam Newton led the Panthers on a long touchdown drive, trimming the score to 28–23. A late interception by cornerback Jalen Mills and a fourth down stop by the Eagles defense sealed the Eagles fifth victory of the season, and proved they were a legitimate contender in the NFC. Following the 28–23 victory on Thursday Night Football against the Panthers, the Eagles returned home for the next 3 games and were once again in a prime", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "8724213", "text": "forty-yard game-tying touchdown on the next play. A Brian Dawkins interception and return set up David Akers' 25-yard go-ahead field goal. With less than a minute left, Carolina drove into Eagles' territory, but Lito Sheppard made a clutch interception of Delhomme in the end zone, preserving the 27–24 win. Garcia passed for 312 yards and three touchdowns. The win puts the Eagles at 6–6, and keeps them in the NFC playoff hunt. \"at FedExField, Landover, Maryland Beginning a three-game NFC East road trip, the Eagles hung on to sweep the Washington Redskins 21–19. Washington was able to run the ball", "title": "2006 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "6562417", "text": "put up millions of dollars' worth of personal stock in Harcourt General and GC Companies Inc., as equity capital. Additionally, he and his mother pledged their stock in the family trust as collateral so Lurie could borrow the rest. The club is now estimated to be worth $2.65 billion, as valued in 2017 by Forbes which ranks them 10th in the NFL in terms of team value. On February 4, 2018, the Eagles upset the Patriots, and won Super Bowl LII by the score of 41–33, giving Lurie his first title as Eagles owner. The victory evened the score with", "title": "Jeffrey Lurie" }, { "id": "6224894", "text": "season opener against the New York Giants. Owens would end up with exactly 1,200 receiving yards and 14 touchdown receptions, although his season ended prematurely with an ankle injury on December 19, 2005 against the Dallas Cowboys. Their 12-7 victory in this game gave them home field advantage throughout the conference playoffs for the third year in a row. [This distinction also includes a \"bye\" in the first round (also known as the Wild Card Round) of the playoffs, which the top two teams in each conference receive.] The Eagles tied a record by clinching the NFC East division crown", "title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "1804544", "text": "a Hail Mary to Gerard Phelan for a 47–45 victory over the University of Miami at the Orange Bowl. The Eagles finished the 1984 season with a 10-2 record, defeating the University of Houston in the Cotton Bowl. The team completed the season with a #5 rank in the AP poll. Flutie was awarded the Heisman Trophy; the only Eagle to date so honored. (\"See also: Flutie effect\") On November 20, 1993, the Eagles beat undefeated archrival Notre Dame 41–39 on a 41-yard field goal by David Gordon as time expired, preventing the Fighting Irish a berth in the national", "title": "Boston College" }, { "id": "6224907", "text": "the late Reggie White. Unfortunately, they got shut out by the NFC West and eventual NFC champion Seattle Seahawks 42-0. Afterwards, they lost to the Giants at home 26-2. Their last win of the season came on the road against the St. Louis Rams 17-16. Then they lost their last two games of the season to the Arizona Cardinals on the road 27-21 and then at home to the wild card Washington Redskins 31-20. They ended their 2005 season at 6-10, which marked the first time since 1999 that the Eagles failed to make the playoffs. After expectations of a", "title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "18419072", "text": "Reynolds clinching the game for the Eagles. With the win, the Eagles improved to 6-7, but remained in second place in the NFC East due to a win by the Redskins. For the second time this season, the Eagles will wear their black uniforms as they host the Arizona Cardinals, who clinched a playoff spot after a Week 14 victory against Minnesota. The Cardinals didn't let up, as they mercilessly beat the Eagles 40-17. Rookie back David Johnson had a breakout game at an inconvenient time for the Eagles, as he scored 3 touchdowns and over 200 all-purpose yards to", "title": "2015 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "15218773", "text": "50 yards, and were the only team to score multiple touchdowns on kickoff returns with two. The Eagles also finished second in the NFL in punt return average with 12.9. Following the 2016 season, Fipp's group was again rated the top special teams unit in the NFL by the Dallas Morning News' annual rankings, finishing first in two of the past three seasons. Fipp won his first Super Bowl ring when the Eagles defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII. Fipp lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey, with his wife, Jenny, and their three children: daughters Ashlee and Lilly", "title": "Dave Fipp" }, { "id": "2016997", "text": "founded in 1986 as an expansion team. It entered the AFL, then known as the Victorian Football League, in 1987 along with Queensland's Brisbane Bears. It reached the finals series for the first time in 1988, and won its first premiership in 1992, having been defeated in the grand final the previous year. It is the first non-Victorian team to play in and win a grand final. The Eagles have since won three more premierships, in 1994, 2006 and 2018. The club is currently coached by Adam Simpson and captained by Shannon Hurn. From 2013 to 2018, the East Perth", "title": "West Coast Eagles" }, { "id": "19807797", "text": "won 24–21. Backup quarterback Nick Foles was named Super Bowl MVP and became the first backup to receive this award since his opponent, Tom Brady, did in Super Bowl XXXVI. The Eagles defeated both Super Bowl teams from the previous NFL season (the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons) in the playoffs. They also defeated both teams who had beaten them in their only two previous Super Bowl appearances. They defeated the Oakland Raiders in the regular season, who beat them in Super Bowl XV and the Patriots in the Super Bowl, who previously beat them in Super Bowl", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19127833", "text": "giving the Eagles the ball at the Bears 47 yard line. The Eagles mainly burned out the clock throughout the 4th quarter. Mathews ran for another touchdown to extend their lead to 29-7. Eddie Royal returned a punt for a touchdown with 5 minutes to go in the 4th quarter. However, the Eagles pulled away the game to end their chances. With the win, the Eagles moved to 2-0 and tying the New York Giants for first place in the NFC East. The Eagles returned home to face their long time state rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Eagles blocked a", "title": "2016 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "20468768", "text": "yards until late in the fourth quarter. Wentz led the offense to an 11-minute drive in the fourth quarter (aided by penalties) which resulted in running back Wendell Smallwood rushing for a touchdown to take the lead with 3 minutes left. The Colts got into the red zone but failed to score or at least get a first down. The final play came down to Jacoby Brissett attempting a Hail Mary that ended up barricaded in the end zone. The win earned the Eagles a 2-1 record, tying with the Redskins for first in the NFC East. The Eagles played", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "313830", "text": "Redskins in exchange for a second round draft pick. Kevin Kolb was immediately named the starter, but after suffering a concussion in week 1 against the Packers, Vick took over as the starter. Vick led the Eagles to its sixth NFC East division title in ten seasons. With a record of 10–6 the Eagles clinched the third seed. In the wild card round, the Eagles lost 21–16 to eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers. The 2011 season for the Eagles was a major disappointment, as they only managed to finish 8–8 and miss the playoffs. In 2012, the", "title": "Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "18419058", "text": "season. The Eagles were unable to stop the Panthers hot streak as Bradford's struggles continued all game. Jason Peters left the game with a back injury. With the loss, the Eagles drop to 3-4. This was the Eagles' only game outside of the Eastern Time Zone during the season. DeMarco Murray returned to Dallas for the first time since leaving the Cowboys. Hoping to win on his 28th birthday, Sam Bradford accomplished it by throwing the game-winning touchdown pass to Jordan Matthews for 41 yards to give the Eagles the final score in an overtime thriller. Breakout rookie Jordan Hicks", "title": "2015 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "313831", "text": "Eagles started off winning three out of their four first games, but lost their next eight, and were eliminated from the playoff hunt. They only won one out of their last four games. After a loss to the New York Giants on December 30, 2012, longtime head coach Andy Reid was fired after fourteen seasons with the team. On January 16, 2013, the Eagles brought in University of Oregon head coach Chip Kelly to succeed Reid as head coach after a 4–12 season. The Philadelphia Eagles named Michael Vick starting quarterback going into the 2013 season with much promise running", "title": "Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "20468776", "text": "win on their last drive converting two key 2nd downs which helped them milk out the clock. With the close win, the Eagles headed into their bye week with a 4-4 record. During their bye week, the Eagles traded a 2019 third round pick to the Detroit Lions for WR Golden Tate at the NFL Trade Deadline. The Eagles also gained better position in the NFC East with the Redskins and Cowboys both losing their games. The Eagles returned home for a crucial Sunday Night game against their bitter rivals the Dallas Cowboys who have struggled with a dismal 3-5", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "6224912", "text": "which included a three-game NFC East road trip and a Christmas showdown in Dallas. The Eagles finished the season 10-6, but lost the tie-breaker to the Saints, meaning they would be the third seed. The Eagles won their home wild card game against the Giants 23-20, on a David Akers' field goal. The game officially sent Tiki Barber into retirement. Their divisional playoff game was a Week 6 rematch against the Saints. The Eagles lost by the same score as in the regular season: 27-24. Andy Reid made the controversial decision to punt with less than two minutes remaining. 2007", "title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "9410478", "text": "(70 percent) and was first in the league once again, with 39 out of 40 in extra points as the Eagles made their first playoff appearance since 1949. In his lone playoff appearance, he caught 3 passes for 38 yards while making a 17-yard field goal and two extra points as the Eagles won the 1960 NFL Championship Game, their first title since 1949 (although this remains the Eagles' last title win). In his final season, the Eagles finished 3-10-1. He caught four touchdowns that seasons, his most since 1954, although his kicking game declined, as he had his second", "title": "Bobby Walston" }, { "id": "15329191", "text": "a one-match suspension, with 54.69 carry-over points (for every 100 points, a one-match suspension is given). 2011 West Coast Eagles season The 2011 season was the West Coast Eagles' 25th season in the premier Australian rules football competition, the Australian Football League (AFL). The previous season, West Coast had finished 16th and last overall to receive their first wooden spoon. The club began the season by reaching the semi-finals of the league's pre-season knock-out competition, the NAB Cup. They began their season with a four-point win over on Sunday, 27 March. At the conclusion of round 10, West Coast had", "title": "2011 West Coast Eagles season" }, { "id": "17473874", "text": "it into overtime. After nine plays (one of them a 13-yard catch by Amendola on fourth-and-10), Brady reached the 49-yard line, and with only nine seconds remaining, he threw a Hail Mary pass to the end zone, to no avail as time expired. The Eagles had won their first Vince Lombardi Trophy in franchise history, and their first league championship since 1960, ending what was the third-longest active championship drought in the NFL at 57 years. The combined 74 points scored by both teams was one point shy of the Super Bowl record of 75, set in Super Bowl XXIX", "title": "Super Bowl LII" }, { "id": "16331463", "text": "two games (Weeks 5–6). He finished the season with 86 combined tackles (64 solo), three pass deflections, and three interceptions in 13 games and 13 starts. Head coach Chip Kelly was fired after a Week 16 loss to the Washington Redskins. The Eagles finished second in the NFC East with a 7–9 record and offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur acted as interim head coach for the Eagles' final game in 2017. He played in 627 defensive snaps in 2016 (52%). On January 18, 2016, the Philadelphia Eagles announced the hiring of Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Doug Pederson as their new", "title": "Mychal Kendricks" }, { "id": "11860270", "text": "In their first season under coach Mike Brennan, the second-seeded Eagles led from start to finish in the decisive victory while holding the top-seeded Terriers to the lowest point total in Patriot League Championship game history. American point guard Darius Gardner scored 18 points on 7-of-9 shooting and was named Tournament MVP. The Eagle advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since winning their second of back-to-back titles in 2009. They played Wisconsin and lost 75–35 The Eagles have appeared in the NCAA Division I Tournament three times. Their combined record is 0–3. The Eagles have appeared in", "title": "American Eagles men's basketball" }, { "id": "10037973", "text": "over the Phoenix Suns. Two days later, he recorded 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a 100–96 overtime loss to the Houston Rockets. On March 26, he suffered a bone bruise in his right ankle against the Los Angeles Lakers. He subsequently missed the final eight games of the season. On October 23, 2018, Griffin scored a career-high 50 points, including the game-winning free throw, in a 133–132 overtime win over the Philadelphia 76ers. He became the first Pistons player to score 50 points in a game since Richard Hamilton scored 51 points in 2006, and the first", "title": "Blake Griffin" }, { "id": "12853301", "text": "sweep of the Giants since 2004. The Eagles scored 85 points against the Giants this year, the most they have scored versus the Giants in a single season in franchise history. The Eagles have improved to 9–4 with many hopes of making it into the playoffs. After taking control of the NFC East in New York, the Eagles came back home to face a 6-7 49ers team who were coming off of a 15-point win against the Cardinals. Upon receiving the opening kickoff, the Eagles' first possession began from the 50-yard line after a great return of 48 yards by", "title": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "20468760", "text": "who had been injured late in the 2017 season, returned as a starter in Week 3. The Eagles struggled through the first 10 games of the season to a 4–6 record, with inconsistent play and multiple injuries to players such as safety Rodney McLeod and running back Jay Ajayi. With a 21–17 loss to the Panthers in Week 7, the Eagles failed to improve or match their record from the previous season. With a 48–7 loss to New Orleans in Week 11, the Eagles set a new record for the largest loss by a defending Super Bowl champion. The Eagles", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807798", "text": "XXXIX. Notes The Eagles began their 2017 season on the road against the Washington Redskins and won 30-17. However, the team lost the following week to the Kansas City Chiefs in Doug Pederson's return to face his mentor and the team's former coach, Andy Reid. Then the Eagles went on a nine-game win streak which consisted of dominant home wins over the Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, Denver Broncos and Chicago Bears. However, their win streak came to an end at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks in Week 13 by a score of 24-10 in Seattle. But the team", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "6224929", "text": "a reputation as a pass-happy coach, the Eagles' scoring was mainly based on run plays and long field goals. Despite a close game, they prevailed 30-27 and eliminated Dallas from playoff contention. In Week 15, the Eagles beat New York in a shocking upset by overcoming a 21-point deficit in the second half. In the closing seconds of the game, DeSean Jackson returned a punt 65 yards for a touchdown to win 38-31. This became known as the \"Miracle at the New Meadowlands\". After locking up their first division title in four years, the Eagles played a surprisingly bad game", "title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "18419054", "text": "left, but the Redskins defense held. The offensive line failed to protect Bradford again and gave up another 2 sacks. With the loss, the Eagles dropped to 1-3 and last place in the NFC East. However, due to the Cowboys losing and dropping to 2-2, the Eagles were only one game out of 1st place. Following the loss, the Eagles bounced back against the 1-3 Saints, who were also last in their division, in their first meeting since their heartbreaking last second loss in the 2013 Wild Card round. After a weak 1st quarter, the Eagles blew out the Saints", "title": "2015 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "9507934", "text": "Leigh Tudor and Peter Sumich. In his first year as senior coach the Eagles finished 9th. The following year, Simpson and the Eagles surprised many commentators by their performance when the club finished 2nd at the end home & away rounds. The team went onto play in the 2015 AFL Grand Final, which they lost to Hawthorn. In the following two seasons the Eagles made the finals, bowing out in the elimination final and the semi-final in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Simpson coached the Eagles to their second grand final in four seasons in 2018, and in contrast to 2015", "title": "Adam Simpson" }, { "id": "11258052", "text": "bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. The Eagles advanced to the Super Bowl after defeating the Atlanta Falcons 15-10 in the NFC Divisional Round and the Minnesota Vikings 38–7 in the NFC Championship Game. On February 4, 2018, Jenkins started in Super Bowl LII recorded four solo tackles and a pass deflection as the Eagles defeated the New England Patriots 41–33. The victory in Super Bowl LII marked Jenkins' second Super Bowl victory and became the second time he helped a team achieve their first Super Bowl in franchise history. Jenkins started his own charity called The Malcolm Jenkins", "title": "Malcolm Jenkins" }, { "id": "313827", "text": "and they also drafted DeSean Jackson, a receiving threat when paired with McNabb. On January 11, 2009, the team defeated the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants 23–11 en route to their sixth NFC Championship Game. In the NFC Championship, the Eagles made a rally, going from 24–6 at halftime to 25–24 with three minutes left in the fourth quarter, but they lost to the Arizona Cardinals by a score of 32–25 after quarterback Kurt Warner scored a last minute touchdown. On August 13, 2009, the Eagles signed quarterback Michael Vick. On December 6, 2009, Andy Reid became only", "title": "Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "12853276", "text": "back as Josh Johnson and Kellen Winslow hooked up again on another nine-yard touchdown. After a Sav Rocca punt left the Buccaneers deep in their own territory, DE Darren Howard tackled Tampa Bay halfback Carnell \"Cadillac\" Williams in the end zone for a safety. The final score was 33–14 as the Eagles improved to 3–1. Andy Reid earned his 100th career victory with the Eagles. The Eagles are 11–0 after their bye week under Andy Reid. Coming off their home win over the Buccaneers, the Eagles flew to the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum for a Week 6 interconference duel with the", "title": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "12425956", "text": "1998 Philadelphia Eagles season The 1998 Philadelphia Eagles season was their 66th in the National Football League (NFL). The team failed to improve on their previous output of 6–9–1, winning only three games. This was their worst record since 1972 and, alongside 2012, one of only two seasons since then when the Eagles won fewer than five games. Head coach Ray Rhodes was fired at end of season, finishing his four-year tenure with a record of 29–34–1. The Eagles’ 161 points-scored (10.06 per game) is tied for the third-lowest total in a 16-game schedule. Philadelphia’s three quarterbacks—Bobby Hoying, Koy Detmer,", "title": "1998 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "12955543", "text": "1954 Philadelphia Eagles season The 1954 Philadelphia Eagles season was their 22nd in the league. They matched their previous output of 7–4–1. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. Philadelphia finished second in last 2 seasons to the Cleveland Browns, with that Trimble is awarded a three-year contract after the team's second straight runner-up finish in 1953. The Eagles hold training camp in Hershey, PA again. The 1954 season was the first in which the Eagles used the \"wings\" logo on their helmets. The 1954 NFL Draft was held on January 28, 1954. The", "title": "1954 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807836", "text": "134 yards, no touchdowns, and no interceptions. Dak Prescott's 20 yard touchdown pass to Brice Butler early in the fourth quarter was the only score all game and the Cowboys prevailed 6-0. With the loss, the Eagles dropped to 13-3 and were unable to set a franchise record for most wins in a 16-game season (the 2017 Eagles tied the 2004 team with 13 wins). Despite only playing for a quarter, Foles played poorly for the second straight week. This wound up questioning many Eagle fans and sportswriters about how they would perform in the playoffs: setting the stage for", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "8724231", "text": "loss of Pro Bowl cornerback Lito Sheppard to a dislocated elbow. Heading into 2017, this remains Andy Reid's last home playoff win as the Eagle's head coach. \"at Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana Riding a six-game winning streak, the Eagles traveled to the Louisiana Superdome to face the NFC South champion New Orleans Saints. New Orleans had bested a Philadelphia team still led by Donovan McNabb 27–24 in Week 6. The Saints were rested and had what appeared to be the sympathy of the nation, but the Eagles brought greater playoff experience. Cornerback Sheldon Brown set the tone early with", "title": "2006 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807796", "text": "in the Divisional Round, as well as in the Conference Championship. In total, six Eagles players were selected for the Pro Bowl, including four first-time recipients. However, none of them participated due to preparations for Super Bowl LII. The Eagles defeated the New England Patriots by a score of 41–33 in Super Bowl LII for their first Super Bowl victory in franchise history. It was also their fourth NFL Championship, and their first league title since 1960. This was the second time the Eagles and Patriots battled in a Super Bowl; when they met in Super Bowl XXXIX, the Patriots", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "6224940", "text": "the NFL with a 13-3 record which gave them their first NFC East Championship since 2013, and gave them a first round bye for the first time since the 2004 season which was the last time they last went to the Super Bowl. Carson Wentz improved drastically during the season in which he threw for 33 touchdowns and only 7 interceptions. His potential MVP season came to an end though during Week 14 against the Los Angeles Rams where he tore his ACL, and would be out for the rest of the year. Nick Foles who returned to the Eagles", "title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "19807811", "text": "second close win in a row. The Eagles were overall efficient on offense. The defense played well despite giving up big plays and allowing Philip Rivers to throw 347 yards. With the win, the Eagles advanced to 3–1 maintaining a narrow 1 game lead in the NFC East. The Eagles scored early and often in this game, for their first blowout win of the season. Carson Wentz found tight ends Trey Burton and Zach Ertz for early touchdowns, and later connected with wide receiver Torrey Smith for a 59-yard touchdown to finish the first quarter. Following Smith's touchdown, the Eagles", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807821", "text": "responded to another Brandon McManus field goal with a 27-yard touchdown connection between Wentz and tight end Trey Burton. Following McManus' third field goal of the first half, Jay Ajayi found the end zone for the first time with the Eagles, with a 46-yard touchdown run to close the first half. The Eagles led 31–9 at half time, and following a third quarter touchdown run by Corey Clement and touchdown reception by Alshon Jeffery, the Eagles led 44–9. The final score was 51–23, which was virtually a mirror of their last meeting in 2013, and Corey Clement finished the day", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807828", "text": "Rams attempted a last second comeback through lateral passes, but to no avail as a pass was fumbled with no time left on the clock, and returned by Brandon Graham for one more touchdown to add six to their lead. With the win, the Eagles advanced to 11-2 and clinched the NFC East. They also got back the #1 seed thanks to a Vikings loss to the Panthers earlier in the day. The day after the game, Wentz was revealed to have torn his ACL, officially ending his season and making Nick Foles the starting quarterback for the rest of", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "12853265", "text": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season The 2009 Philadelphia Eagles season was the 77th season for the team in the National Football League. After advancing to their fifth NFC Championship game in eight years, the Eagles improved upon their 9–6–1 record and second-place finish in the NFC East in their 2008 campaign. For head coach Andy Reid, this was his 11th season as the coach of the Eagles. The season also marked the end of the Donovan McNabb era in Philadelphia as he was traded to the rival Washington Redskins in the 2010 off-season. \"RFA\": Restricted free-agent, \"UFA\": Unrestricted free-agent, \"ERFA\": Exclusive", "title": "2009 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "15096547", "text": "2011 Philadelphia Eagles season The Philadelphia Eagles season was the 79th season for the team in the National Football League (NFL). The Eagles had high hopes of competing for a Super Bowl, with several notable offseason acquisitions; however, they ultimately failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 2007. However, they did win their last 4 games, in an attempt to pull out a miracle playoff berth, finishing 8–8, only 1 game behind the divisional winners and eventual Super Bowl champions, the New York Giants, and they swept the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins for the first time", "title": "2011 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "19807800", "text": "missing his receivers; as a result, the Eagles defense and special teams had to carry the offensive line for a 19-10 win on a cold Christmas night to seal home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. The Eagles went on to lose a meaningless Week 17 game to the Dallas Cowboys in a shutout score of 6-0 in Nate Sudfeld's debut as an Eagle, but they finished with a record of 13-3, tying their 2004 season for that record. Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text. The Eagles kicked off the 2017 season on the road against the Redskins. The Eagles", "title": "2017 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "7734148", "text": "the \"Eagles\" in the 2010 final 10-14. 2011 and 2012 would bring the title count up to 9 with victories over Ayrshire Storm 26-10 and Aberdeen Warriors 36-10. Following three years out of the Finals the Eagles were runners up in 2017 behind Strathmore Silverbacks however after a 6 year wait 2018 saw the Eagles lift their 10th title with victory over Strathmore Silverbacks on points difference. The Eagles team has gained international recognition with several of its players being selected: Paddy Coupar, Giles Lomax, Nick Broere, Callum Cockburn, Craig Borthwick, David Lynn, Andrew Todd and John Cox have all", "title": "Edinburgh Eagles" }, { "id": "16977344", "text": "held the ball for the final 4:35 to end the game. The Eagles lost their third in a row to fall to 1-3 on the season. Nick Foles would relieve an injured Michael Vick. With the win, the Eagles became 2-3. With the win, the Eagles improved to 3-3. With the loss, the Eagles fell to 3-4. Nick Foles was injured again, so Michael Vick was re inserted into the starting role . But, after a few series, Matt Barkley took his place. The only touchdown in the entire game was during the 4th quarter after a botched snap for", "title": "2013 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "7154621", "text": "reception (16.0), and yards per game (66.4). He and Brent Celek are the only Eagles with 3 touchdowns in a single post-season (1979), and he is one of four players with 2 touchdowns in a single post-season game. He holds the Eagles record for most games with a touchdown for both the regular season (69) and playoffs (5, shared with Duce Staley and Brian Westbrook). At 6 foot 8 inches, he is believed to be the tallest wide receiver in the history of the NFL. Carmichael was selected to the NFL 1970s All-Decade Team by voters of the Pro Football", "title": "Harold Carmichael" }, { "id": "19196546", "text": "field goal attempts in the 15–10 victory. In the NFC Championship against the Minnesota Vikings, he converted all five extra point attempts and one field goal attempt in the 38–7 victory. During Super Bowl LII on February 4, 2018, Elliott missed his first of two extra point attempts, but made all three of his field goal attempts, including a 46-yard field goal in the fourth quarter that helped seal the Eagles' first Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots. Jake Elliott Jake Daniel Elliott (born January 21, 1995) is an American football placekicker for the Philadelphia Eagles of the", "title": "Jake Elliott" }, { "id": "20468765", "text": "game) return the favor after throwing an interception to Deion Jones. Atlanta took advantage and scored on a 9-yard TD run by Tevin Coleman to give them a 12-10 lead (Bryant missed the extra point). The Eagles scored with under 3 minutes left on an 11-yard TD run by Ajayi and converted a two-point conversion to take a 6-point, 18-12 lead. Ryan and the Falcons had one more shot to win the game but in a repeat of last year's playoff matchup, the game came down to the final play with the Eagles stopping the Falcons on 5 consecutive plays,", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "9960133", "text": "Eagles an unbelievable lead. A last-ditch drive by the Chargers, who now trailed 20–17, actually reached deep into Philadelphia territory, but Sheldon Brown stripped receiver Reche Caldwell of the ball and the Eagles recovered. McNabb had 35 completions, but he threw two picks and only one touchdown. The Philadelphia defense forced three turnovers. The Eagles had snatched an incredible victory and their record improved to 4–2, and it was hoped that the thrilling win would serve as the springboard for a season-saving run. The 4–2 Eagles travelled out to Denver to take on the 5–2 Denver Broncos. The Eagles again", "title": "2005 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "16650563", "text": "after being arrested for drug possession and other offences the previous day. On 19 November, the AFL Commission found Cousins guilty of \"bringing the game into disrepute\" and banned him from playing in the league for one year. These years saw the Eagles miss the finals three years in a row for the first time. At the end of the 2009 season, the Eagles won 4 out of their last 5 matches, including beating premiership contenders Western Bulldogs and ending their 20 loss streak for away matches and their 18 loss streak away from Paterson Stadium. Their 2010 season looked", "title": "History of the West Coast Eagles" }, { "id": "6224880", "text": "firing by Norman Braman, Ryan's former Offensive Coordinator, Rich Kotite, took the helm of the franchise. Although Cunningham suffered a season-ending ACL tear in the season opener, the Eagles still made a respectable showing, missing the playoffs on a tiebreaker. In 1992, Kotite led the Eagles back into the postseason with an 11-5 record. In the Wild Card Round, the Eagles soundly defeated the New Orleans Saints by a final score of 36-20. The Eagles were eliminated by Dallas in the next round (34-10). At the end of the season, DE Reggie White would leave the team through free agency.", "title": "History of the Philadelphia Eagles" }, { "id": "9403920", "text": "their revenge 13 years later by beating the Patriots in Super Bowl LII. 2004 Philadelphia Eagles season The 2004 Philadelphia Eagles season was the 72nd season for the team in the National Football League (NFL). The Eagles had been one of the most successful teams in the league after the Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb era began in 1999, making it to the playoffs for four straight seasons and to the NFC Championship Game in 2001, 2002, and 2003. However, the team could not reach the Super Bowl, despite being favored in the final two NFC title games. In the", "title": "2004 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "8725292", "text": "a Conference Finals match-up versus the Dallas Mavericks, losing in five games. On February 19 of the lockout-shortened 2011–12 season, Durant recorded his first career 50-point game, scoring 51 points against the Denver Nuggets. At the All-Star Game, he scored 36 points and was awarded the NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award. He finished the year with a scoring average of 28 points per game, representing his third straight scoring title. Behind his play, the Thunder won 47 games and entered the playoffs as the Western Conference's second seed. In Game 1 of the first round against the Mavericks,", "title": "Kevin Durant" }, { "id": "8425106", "text": "in 1980. After another down period, the franchise made the playoffs in six of nine seasons between 1988 and 1996. Andy Reid was hired as head coach in 1999, and across fourteen seasons he led the franchise to nine playoff appearances and a run to the 2004 Super Bowl. After Chip Kelly's three-year tenure as head coach, the Eagles hired Doug Pederson, a former offensive coordinator under Reid. The Eagles defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII. In 1994, defensive end Reggie White, running back Steve Van Buren, and two-way players Chuck Bednarik and Pete Pihos were named", "title": "Sports in Philadelphia" }, { "id": "15303424", "text": "the Best Clubman award and Nic Naitanui was awarded Rookie of the Year. Mark LeCras was also leading goal-kicker, kicking 63 goals for the year. Josh Kennedy was next, with 41 goals. The voting for the Club Champion Award went as follows: 2010 West Coast Eagles season The 2010 season was the West Coast Eagles' 24th season in the AFL. The Eagles finished 16th and last to record their first wooden spoon in the competition, just four years after their premiership season of 2006. West Coast played 22 games, including 12 at Subiaco Oval, winning just four and losing the", "title": "2010 West Coast Eagles season" }, { "id": "18419051", "text": "kick and being able to get a first down off a last-minute Jets penalty. The Eagles improved to 1-2 and were tied at 2nd place in the NFC East along with the Redskins and the Giants. A day later, the Eagles announced that kicker Cody Parkey would undergo season-ending groin surgery. In a heart-pounding NFC East battle, the Redskins scored a last-minute touchdown to end the Eagles' comeback hopes. The Eagles struggled in the first half as the offensive line struggled to protect Sam Bradford and the defense gave up big plays in the first half. And after DeMarco Murray's", "title": "2015 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "17473819", "text": "gave them the NFC's top seed in the 2017–18 NFL playoffs. It was a substantial improvement for the team under second-year head coach Doug Pederson; the Eagles finished the two previous seasons with 7–9 records. In the 2017 season, the team scored 457 points (third in the NFL), while giving up just 295 (fourth) points. The offense was led by Pro Bowl quarterback Carson Wentz. In just his second season, he recorded a passer rating of 101.9, throwing for 3,296 yards and 33 touchdowns, with only seven interceptions. His top target was Pro Bowl tight end Zach Ertz, who caught", "title": "Super Bowl LII" }, { "id": "20468778", "text": "Furthermore, this loss marked the first time since 2013 they lost 3 straight games at home. The Eagles loss to the Saints by 41 points is the biggest defeat for a defending Super Bowl Champion. In addition, this was their worst loss since their 42-0 defeat to the Seahawks in 2005 and was the most lopsided loss in the Doug Pederson era. For the first time since 2006, the Eagles would play back to back games against all 3 of their NFC East opponents; beginning with a home match with the NY Giants. They would do just that and win", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "18419061", "text": "the place of Bradford, Sanchez had an excellent first half, throwing for 2 touchdowns to keep the Eagles in contention, although he threw his first interception shortly before halftime. After halftime, the Eagles offense broke down. The defense, which had already broken down, allowed 5 touchdowns from rookie quarterback Jameis Winston, and their once elite run defense let Doug Martin rush for 235 yards. The 28-point loss was the worst output at home for the Eagles since December 5, 2005 against the Seattle Seahawks, and worst to a sub-.500 opponent, as the Birds fall to 4-6. Thanksgiving Day game Playing", "title": "2015 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "8724181", "text": "2006 Philadelphia Eagles season The 2006 Philadelphia Eagles season ended in the Eagles finishing 10–6, reclaiming the NFC East, and winning a playoff game at home. The season ended in a Divisional Round playoff loss to the New Orleans Saints, but was seen as a success in the face of the adversity of losing starting quarterback Donovan McNabb to injury in Week 11. The Eagles had been to the playoffs from 2000 to 2004, but in 2005, the team was torn apart by injuries and the Terrell Owens saga and finished 6–10 a year after appearing in Super Bowl XXXIX.", "title": "2006 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "20379786", "text": "one from defender Corie Moore, and one from forward Erin Brockway. Weeks before the start of the 2018 season, the Eagles surpassed a record number of season ticket holders. The number of CEFC season members continues to grow. The club promoted assistant coach Daniel Seiffert to head coach in late 2017 and Seiffert recently talked to Midfield Press about the team's evolution and progress during the early months of 2018. With a win over Empire United on June 16, 2018, the Eagles set a new club record for points in a single-season with 11. That match was played in front", "title": "Columbus Eagles FC" }, { "id": "11780086", "text": "1960 Philadelphia Eagles season The Philadelphia Eagles season was their 28th in the National Football League, and culminated in the Eagles' defeat of the Green Bay Packers in the NFL championship game to win their third league title. The victory over the Packers was also the first and only playoff defeat of the great Vince Lombardi's coaching career. The 1960 season was the Eagles' first postseason appearance since their last NFL championship season of 1949. It was their only postseason appearance in the 28 seasons from 1950 to 1977, and their last NFL title until their victory in Super Bowl", "title": "1960 Philadelphia Eagles season" }, { "id": "20468761", "text": "proceeded to win back to back division games over the Giants and the Redskins to move to 6–6 and climb back to the playoff hunt, before falling 23–29 to the Cowboys in overtime and dropping to a 6–7 record. The following week, they upset the Rams 30–23 to move to 7–7 and keep their playoff hopes alive. The Eagles played in their first NFL Kickoff Game and their first game at London's Wembley Stadium in franchise history. Draft trades The Eagles had a disappointing preseason. The starting offense during their exhibitions looked nowhere like their Super Bowl counterparts. Super Bowl", "title": "2018 Philadelphia Eagles season" } ]

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Official episode viewing figures are from BARB. The Great British Bake Off (series 6) The sixth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" first aired on 5 August 2015, with twelve contestants competing to be crowned the series 6 winner. Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins presented the show, and Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood returned", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 6)" }, { "id": "14943399", "text": "series was won by Nadiya Hussain, with Ian Cumming and Tamal Ray as runners up. In the U.S., the sixth series was broadcast as season 3 on PBS, and on Netflix as Collection 3. The seventh series began on 24 August 2016 on BBC One, once again from Welford Park in Berkshire, a later than usual start following the BBC's coverage of the Olympic Games. This series was won by Candice Brown, with Jane Beedle and Andrew Smyth as runners up. In the U.S., the seventh series was broadcast as season 4 on PBS, and on Netflix as Collection 4.", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "19074905", "text": "the final they moved to Milton Keynes, nearer to London, so that she could pursue a culinary career. In 2015, Hussain appeared in and won the sixth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" which aired from 5 August to 7 October. During the final she baked 16 iced buns in three hours, as well as raspberry-flavoured mille-feuille, to one of Paul Hollywood's recipes, in two hours, and a multi-layered presentation showstopper which took the form of \"My Big Fat British Wedding Cake\", in a time of four hours. During her acceptance speech, she said: With more than 15 million", "title": "Nadiya Hussain" }, { "id": "14943418", "text": "won. The programme has been nominated a number of times in various categories for the BAFTA awards and won in 2012, 2013, and 2016. It also won two 2015 National Television Award for Skills Challenge Show. The UK version of \"The Great British Bake Off\" is broadcast in many countries and it has been sold to 196 territories as of 2015. The format has also been sold to 20 territories by 2015, making it the third most successful BBC format after \"Dancing with the Stars\" (\"Strictly Come Dancing\") and \"The Weakest Link\". Many of these shows have been successful. The", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "19074901", "text": "Nadiya Hussain Nadiya Jamir Hussain (\"née\" Begum; born 25 December 1984) is a British TV chef, author, and television presenter. She rose to fame after winning the sixth series of BBC's \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2015. Since winning, she signed contracts with the BBC to host the documentary \"The Chronicles of Nadiya\", TV cookery series, \"Nadiya's British Food Adventure\" and Nadiya's Family Favourites, co-presented \"The Big Family Cooking Showdown\", and regular contributor on \"The One Show\". Nadiya is a columnist for \"The Times Magazine\", and has signed publishing deals with Penguin Random House, Hodder Children's Books, and Harlequin.", "title": "Nadiya Hussain" }, { "id": "14943386", "text": "move it to BBC One for the next three series. After its seventh series, Love Productions signed a three-year deal with Channel 4 to produce the show for the broadcaster. The programme was originally presented by Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, with judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood. The current presenters are Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, with Hollywood and Prue Leith as the judges. In chronological order, the winners are Edd Kimber, Joanne Wheatley, John Whaite, Frances Quinn, Nancy Birtwhistle, Nadiya Hussain, Candice Brown, Sophie Faldo and Rahul Mandal. The show has become a significant part of British culture", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "17507915", "text": "Kelly - Executive Pastry Chef at Dublin's Merrion Hotel - as a judge and the third series began airing on Sunday 25 October 2015 with a repeat showing on Saturday evenings. The winner was Cathy Mac Kenna from Monaghan who beat Emer Hough and Clare Ryan in the Grand Final. In 'The Great Irish Christmas Bake Off' - a one off seasonal special - judges Paul Kelly and Lilly Higgins demonstrated Christmas bakes and makes and there was a Celebrity Bake Off between Pantomime Stars and Presenters. Actor George McMahon and singer Leanne Moore represented Team Panto while Lucy Kennedy", "title": "The Great Irish Bake Off" }, { "id": "20641860", "text": "Bake Off\". Faldo won the competition, but her victory was not a surprise one, as twelve hours before the final episode, judge Prue Leith accidentally tweeted the results. Sophie Faldo Sophie Faldo is a former British Army officer who was the winner of the eighth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2017, the first series to be broadcast on Channel 4. Faldo was born in London, and grew up in Suffolk. She studied psychology at the University of Manchester and Toulouse. She joined the Royal Artillery and has served in Afghanistan. After leaving the Army, she worked as", "title": "Sophie Faldo" }, { "id": "14943400", "text": "The eighth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began airing on 29 August 2017. This is the first series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" to be broadcast on Channel 4 following its move from the BBC. The series features new hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, and new judge Prue Leith along with returning judge Paul Hollywood. This series was won by Sophie Faldo, with Kate Lyon and Steven Carter-Bailey finishing as runners-up. The eighth series is broadcast on Netflix as Collection 5. The ninth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began airing on 28 August 2018.", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "14943398", "text": "Nancy Birtwhistle in the final. A spin-off show \"\", hosted by comedian Jo Brand on BBC Two, was also launched as a companion series this year. Each episode was broadcast two days after the main show but later moved to the same night. The show includes interviews with eliminated contestants. In the U.S., the fifth series was broadcast as season 1 on PBS, and on Netflix as Collection 1. The sixth series began on 5 August 2015 on BBC One, again from Welford Park in Berkshire. Spin-off show \"\" returned for a second series, with Jo Brand as host. This", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "18176419", "text": "The Great British Bake Off (series 5) The fifth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began on Wednesday 6 August 2014. Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins presented the show and Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood returned as judges. Twelve contestants competed in this series, and the competition was held in Welford Park in Berkshire. The series was won by Nancy Birtwhistle, with Luis Troyano and Richard Burr finishing as runners-up. The programme was moved from BBC Two to BBC One starting this year, however the Masterclass episodes remained on BBC Two. A companion series \"\" hosted by comedian Jo", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 5)" }, { "id": "18818917", "text": "and Matisse are the second dog act to win \"Britain's Got Talent\". The previous one was Ashleigh & Pudsey who won in 2012. They currently live in Tongeren, Belgium. Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse are a British dog dancing act, comprising trainer Jules O'Dwyer, a 48-year-old woman, and her dog Matisse, a male Border Collie. Together they won the ninth series of \"Britain's Got Talent\" in 2015. Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse participated in the ninth series of \"Britain's Got Talent\". For their audition in episode 7, O'Dwyer took the role of a dog catcher with Matisse portraying", "title": "Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse" }, { "id": "19838819", "text": "Channel 4 +1. The Great British Bake Off (series 8) The eighth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began on 29 August 2017, with this being the first of \"The Great British Bake Off\" to be broadcast on Channel 4, after the production company Love Productions moved the show. It is the first series for new hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, and new judge Prue Leith. This series was won by Sophie Faldo, with Kate Lyon and Steven Carter-Bailey finishing as runners-up. Colour key: For the first challenge, the bakers were instructed to make a cake using fresh", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 8)" }, { "id": "14943397", "text": "with Ruby Tandoh and Kimberley Wilson as runners up. In the U.S., the fourth series was broadcast as season 2 on PBS, and on Netflix as Collection 2. The fifth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began airing on 6 August 2014 on BBC One. This series was filmed at Welford Park in Berkshire. There were twelve bakers taking part. Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood returned as judges, whilst Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc continued to present the series. Richard Burr was awarded the largest number of star baker designations of any series so far, but was beaten by", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "19838805", "text": "The Great British Bake Off (series 8) The eighth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began on 29 August 2017, with this being the first of \"The Great British Bake Off\" to be broadcast on Channel 4, after the production company Love Productions moved the show. It is the first series for new hosts Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, and new judge Prue Leith. This series was won by Sophie Faldo, with Kate Lyon and Steven Carter-Bailey finishing as runners-up. Colour key: For the first challenge, the bakers were instructed to make a cake using fresh fruit, with no", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 8)" }, { "id": "14943409", "text": "the figure of 5.6 million for the opening episode of the previous year. the Bingate controversy surrounding episode four helped the show gain its biggest ever audience of 10.3 million viewers, with 2 million people who watched it on BBC iPlayer. The final of the show gained an overnight viewing figure of 12.29 million, then the highest viewing figure of the year for a non-sporting event on UK TV. In the following year, the top ten ratings for 2015 was also dominated by \"The Great British Bake Off\", with seven of the year's ten most-watched television programmes being episodes of", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "19667235", "text": "of 2016 so far, with the official figure also making it the most watched TV show since the 2015 Bake Off Final. Its run on the BBC ended with an average overnight viewing figure of 14 million for the final, peaking at 14.8 million, which is a record for the show. The series dominated the list of most-watched programmes in 2016, with nine of the top ten being episodes of the show. Its finale was watched by 15.9 million viewers (7 days cumulative figure), the most popular of the year. Official episode viewing figures are from BARB. The Great British", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 7)" }, { "id": "7758240", "text": "Blackiston, Monica Galetti, Ching-He Huang, Nathan Outlaw, Glynn Purnell, and Bryn Williams. Also joining Martin were various celebrity guests, including Jon Culshaw, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Micky Flanagan, Dave Gorman, Alex Jones, Denise Lewis, Al Murray, Sarah Parish, and Frank Skinner. Series 3 (2016):<br> Matt Tebbutt and Andi Oliver replaced Martin in the presenting role. As well as appearances from Sabrina Ghayour, Theo Randall, and Vivek Singh, Tebbutt and Oliver were also joined by previous Great British Bake Off contestants, including former winners Candice Brown, Edd Kimber, Frances Quinn, and Jo Wheatley. There were celebrity appearances from Ronni Ancona, Helen George, David", "title": "Saturday Kitchen" }, { "id": "14943396", "text": "British Bake Off\" began on 14 August 2012. The series was filmed at Harptree Court in East Harptree, Somerset. The finalists were Brendan Lynch, James Morton and John Whaite, the last of whom won the final in a surprise result. In the U.S., the third series was broadcast as season 5 on PBS, and on Netflix as \"The Great British Baking Show: The Beginnings\". The fourth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" started on 20 August 2013 on BBC Two. The series was again filmed at Harptree Court in East Harptree, Somerset. The final was won by Frances Quinn,", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "17507916", "text": "and Martin King from TV3's 'Seven O'Clock Show' were on the Presenters team. The judges crowned Leanne Moore Star Baker. The show averaged over 200,000 viewers per episode and returned for a second series in Summer 2014 and a third in the Autumn of 2015. Series 3 opened with ratings up 25% on the previous year. The Great Irish Bake Off The Great Irish Bake Off was an Irish reality TV cooking series. The show is based on the successful BBC show \"The Great British Bake Off\". The show is produced by Sideline Productions for the TV3 Group. It premiered", "title": "The Great Irish Bake Off" }, { "id": "20641859", "text": "Sophie Faldo Sophie Faldo is a former British Army officer who was the winner of the eighth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2017, the first series to be broadcast on Channel 4. Faldo was born in London, and grew up in Suffolk. She studied psychology at the University of Manchester and Toulouse. She joined the Royal Artillery and has served in Afghanistan. After leaving the Army, she worked as a personal trainer, taught military boot camps, and was training to be a stuntwoman when she was convinced by her chef boyfriend to apply for \"The Great British", "title": "Sophie Faldo" }, { "id": "18818913", "text": "Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse are a British dog dancing act, comprising trainer Jules O'Dwyer, a 48-year-old woman, and her dog Matisse, a male Border Collie. Together they won the ninth series of \"Britain's Got Talent\" in 2015. Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse participated in the ninth series of \"Britain's Got Talent\". For their audition in episode 7, O'Dwyer took the role of a dog catcher with Matisse portraying a stray dog. In addition to telling a story, Matisse performed a variety of canine freestyle tricks. The routine earned them four yes votes from the judges. On 23", "title": "Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse" }, { "id": "14943419", "text": "\"Junior Bake Off\" format has also been sold to Thailand. Beginning in 2014, the US broadcaster PBS has aired five series of the show under the name \"The Great British Baking Show\". The change of name was necessary due to the fact that \"Bake-Off\" is a registered trademark of Pillsbury in the United States. The fifth British series was broadcast as Season 1 in Winter 2014–2015; the fourth series was then broadcast as Season 2 in Fall 2015, the sixth series was broadcast as Season 3 in Summer 2016, and the seventh series was broadcast as Season 4 in Summer", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "17483353", "text": "knew of the result were placing bets on the outcome. This subsequently led to many online media sources speculating Quinn had won, inadvertently leaking the result prematurely. Frances Quinn wrote a book, \"Quinntessential Baking\", released on 17 August 2015. Ruby Tandoh has written a book, \"Crumb: The Baking Book\", published on 25 September 2014. She took half a year out from the university after the show but has returned to complete her philosophy and history of art course at University College London. She wrote a column on baking for \"The Guardian\". Beca Lyne-Pirkis presented a Welsh language cookery show \"Becws\"", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 4)" }, { "id": "14943417", "text": "outbidding the £15 million offered by the BBC. In January 2017 the BBC waived its rights to keep the program off the air until 2018, and wished the programme \"well for the future\". On 31 October 2017, judge Prue Leith accidentally revealed the winner of Series 8 on Twitter twelve hours before the finale was due to air. This caused uproar among many fans of the show. She quickly deleted the tweet and apologised to the fans who saw it. \"The Great British Bake Off\" was nominated for a Rose d'Or in the Lifestyle section of the 2012 competition and", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "20651159", "text": "Tamal Ray Tamal Ray (born in 1985 or 1986) is a British baker, columnist, and doctor. He rose to fame after becoming a runner-up on series six of BBC's \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2015. Ray's parents moved from India to the United Kingdom in the 1960s. He grew up in Hertfordshire. Ray studied at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and graduated with a BSc and MBBS in Medicine from King’s College London. He was taught how to bake by his sister, for whose marriage he baked a wedding cake. He came out as gay shortly after the public release", "title": "Tamal Ray" }, { "id": "19667232", "text": "followed the channel move. The first Christmas special featured Mary-Anne Boermans (Series 2), Cathryn Dresser (Series 3), Ali Imdad (Series 4) and Norman Calder (Series 5). The competition was won by Mary-Anne Boermans. The second Christmas special featured Janet Basu (Series 2), James Morton (Series 3), Howard Middleton (Series 4) and Chetna Makan (Series 5). The competition was won by Chetna Makan. The signature challenge required the bakers to create 2 batches of edible Christmas tree decorations, 12 of each type, using biscuits. The technical challenge, set by Mary, tasked the bakers to make a choux wreath consisting of 36", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 7)" }, { "id": "14943390", "text": "fête, the series is filmed in bunting-draped marquees in scenic gardens. On 17 August 2010, the first episode of \"The Great British Bake Off\" was shown on BBC Two. It stayed on BBC Two for four years, grew in popularity and became the most popular programme on that channel. In its fifth series it was moved to BBC One where it stayed for three years. It was the most-watched programme on British television in 2015 and 2016. Following extended negotiations, Love Productions announced that the seventh series of the show would be the last broadcast by the BBC. On 12", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "18202977", "text": "British Bake Off\" to Channel 4 in 2017. The after show was announced in July 2014. Comedian Jo Brand was later announced as the host of the series on 24 July 2014. The show returned for a second run, beginning on 7 August 2015, and for a third series on 24 August 2016. A fourth series began on 31 August 2017 on Channel 4. A fifth series began on 31 August 2018, moving to Friday evenings. Brand and three rotating panelists appear on each episode. The panelists are generally a chef or cooking expert, such as Michel Roux Jr. or", "title": "The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice" }, { "id": "19667222", "text": "The Great British Bake Off (series 7) The seventh series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" aired from 24 August 2016, with twelve contestants competing to be crowned the series 7 winner. This series was the last to be broadcast on BBC One, as the production company Love Productions opted to move the show to Channel 4. It was also the last series on the show for Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, as they decided to leave as presenters of the show. It is also the last series of the show to feature Mary Berry as a judge. This series", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 7)" }, { "id": "14943395", "text": "The rounds took place in various locations across the UK, with the final round being held at Fulham Palace, London. The three finalists were Ruth Clemens, Miranda Gore Browne, and Edd Kimber. On 21 September 2010, Edd Kimber was crowned the best amateur baker. The number of amateur baker contestants increased to twelve for the second series. Unlike Series 1, this year \"The Great British Bake Off\" stayed in one location – Valentines Mansion, a 17th-century mansion house in Redbridge, London. The finalists were Holly Bell, Mary-Anne Boermans, and the winning contestant Joanne Wheatley. The third series of \"The Great", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "3676388", "text": "she did the show just for the money, informing readers that she had nearly gone bankrupt. The show moved to BBC One for its fifth series and has won numerous awards. In September 2016, Love Productions announced that a three-year deal had been agreed to broadcast \"The Great British Bake Off\" on Channel 4, instead of the BBC, from 2017. Giedroyc and Perkins announced that they would not be continuing with the show on its new network. Mary Berry later announced she was also leaving the Bake Off on the same day that fellow-judge Paul Hollywood separately announced he would", "title": "Mel Giedroyc" }, { "id": "19924939", "text": "marked a return of the \"GBBO\" format to American television after the cancellation of CBS' 2013 series \"The American Baking Competition.\" Six bakers participated in the first ABC season. The season was won by Lauren Katz, beating out Nicole Silva and Tim Samson in the finale. Season 2 returned the following year as \"The Great American Baking Show\" with ten bakers and an eight-week competition. The season was won by Amanda Faber, with Stephanie Chen as the runner-up. The third season began airing December 7, 2017 with a two-hour premiere. It is the first season hosted by Curry and Adams", "title": "The Great American Baking Show" }, { "id": "17047459", "text": "was published on 12 March 2015. Brendan Lynch is teaching cookery classes. Cathryn Dresser and Sarah-Jane Willis teamed up to open a stall at Horsham Market. Dresser wrote a baking book for children and parents titled \"Let's Bake\", published on 22 May 2014. and ran \"The Little Handcross Bakery\" in Handcross, West Sussex between September 2014 and May 2015. The final of this series had a record overnight figure of 6.5 million viewers, beating every other programme in other channels in its time slot. Official episode viewing figures are from BARB. The Great British Bake Off (series 3) The third", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 3)" }, { "id": "14943404", "text": "gone but the show's recipe remains as winning as ever. The four Cs – chemistry, camaraderie, comedy, cakes – were all present and correct.\" Anna Leszkiewicz of the \"New Statesman\" however considered that while the format had been left largely unchanged and the contestants \"irresistibly likeable\", \"every single change to the show has been for the worse\". The show has become a significant part of British culture and is credited with spurring an interest in home baking, with supermarkets and department stores in the UK reporting sharp rises in sales of baking ingredients and accessories. It was also credited with", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "19667234", "text": "Before the series had begun, some viewers complained of the \"gendered\" icing in preview pictures of the bakers. In the promo shots of the bakers, the male bakers were given blue icing while the female bakers were given pink icing, whereas the previous year, every baker was given the same colour regardless. As a result, the BBC altered the colouring of the icing. The opening episode had an average viewing figure of 10.4 million according to overnight ratings, an improvement over the figure of 9.3 million for the corresponding episode in 2015. This made it the most watched TV show", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 7)" }, { "id": "20988581", "text": "Rahul Mandal Rahul Mandal is the winner of the ninth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2018, the second series to be broadcast on Channel 4. The Great British Bake Off final, which saw Rahul crowned as the winner after making doughnuts and an ‘edible landscape’, was watched by 7.5 million people. Dr Mandal works as an engineering researcher at the University of Sheffield's \"Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre\" (AMRC). Born in India, Rahul came to the UK in 2010 on a scholarship to study for his PhD in Optical Metrology at Loughborough University and his thesis was", "title": "Rahul Mandal" }, { "id": "19074918", "text": "to commemorate the number of Muslim soldiers who fought in World War One as well as promote the wearing of the poppy amongst British Muslims. In 2018, Hussain became a brand ambassador for Swarovski on a campaign focusing on female empowerment. Hussain contributed a baking recipe for the YoungMinds mental health charity's HelloYellow day, for World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2018. Cookery Fiction Nadiya Hussain Nadiya Jamir Hussain (\"née\" Begum; born 25 December 1984) is a British TV chef, author, and television presenter. She rose to fame after winning the sixth series of BBC's \"The Great British Bake", "title": "Nadiya Hussain" }, { "id": "18176438", "text": "a view shared by others. Richard Burr's book on baking, \"BIY: Bake it Yourself\", was released on 16 August 2015. Luis Troyano also wrote a book, \"Bake It Great\", released on 20 August 2015. Chetna Makan has written a baking book \"The Cardamom Trail,\" released on 21 March 2016, as well as a cookbook \"Chai, Chaat & Chutney: A Street Food Journey Through India\", published on 6 July 2017. Martha Collison has written two baking books, \"Twist,\" released on 14 July 2016, and \"Crave\", published 13 July 2017 with Harper Collins. She also has a weekly column with Waitrose and", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 5)" }, { "id": "20651160", "text": "of his participation in \"The Great British Bake Off\". Ray has regularly published columns with \"The Guardian\" since late 2015. Most of his columns consist of recipes of his personal creation. As a practicing doctor, however, he has both written, and appeared on TV, on the challenges facing doctors with the UK's National Health Service under the austerity program of the Conservative government. Tamal Ray Tamal Ray (born in 1985 or 1986) is a British baker, columnist, and doctor. He rose to fame after becoming a runner-up on series six of BBC's \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2015. Ray's", "title": "Tamal Ray" }, { "id": "18546219", "text": "of The Voice UK 2015. He had beaten the only other remaining contestant, opera singer Lucy O'Byrne. On 5 April 2015, the day after he won the show, McCrorie released his winner's single, a cover of Adam Levine's \"Lost Stars\", via digital download. On 8 April 2015, the song was at number one on The Official Chart Update but reached No 6 on the UK Singles Chart at the end of the week. However the song reached No 1 in his native Scotland. His second single, \"My Heart Never Lies\" was released in November 2015 along with an accompanying music", "title": "Stevie McCrorie" }, { "id": "18176437", "text": "smutty remarks\" from the presenters Mel and Sue. This series was seen as having more innuendos than previous one; some reviewers noted the \"extra pinch of saucy spice\" and \"the increasingly filthy-minded hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins\", and a columnist for the \"Daily Mail\" argued that the \"smutty\" innuendos made the show no longer fit for family entertainment. Series 3 winner John Whaite, however, argued that innuendo is part of what made the show a success, while Paul Hollywood described the innuendos as banter in the spirit of the \"Carry On\" films and is a part of British culture,", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 5)" }, { "id": "19724247", "text": "Frances Quinn Frances Elizabeth Quinn (born 1982), from Market Harborough, is known for winning the fourth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2013. She is the youngest of five siblings, having three brothers and one sister. Her first book release was 'Quinntessential Baking', she can also be seen regularly taking part in cookery demonstrations and appearances at food festivals. Quinn is an ambassador of the Cream Tea Society and has made many appearances on radio and TV in the UK. She has appeared on the pages of \"Vogue\", has baked for illustrator Quentin Blake, and has appeared on", "title": "Frances Quinn" }, { "id": "18327160", "text": "community can be proud of. The entire story of Comic Relief's brand new, ambitious and life changing project Operation Health is finally coming to TV screens across the country. Celebrities who took part included: Lenny Henry, Richard Hammond, Doon Mackichan, Anita Rani, John Bishop, Steve Backshall and Dermot O'Leary. \"The Bake Off\" returned for a four-part series on Wednesday 11 February at 8pm on BBC One. Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood returned as Judges whilst Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Jo Brand and Ed Byrne each hosted one of the four episodes solo. The Episode line up was as follows Jo", "title": "Red Nose Day 2015" }, { "id": "19724248", "text": "\"Pointless Celebrities\" with 2014 GBBO runner-up Richard Burr. Other clients include Jools Holland and Wimbledon Tennis Club. Frances Quinn Frances Elizabeth Quinn (born 1982), from Market Harborough, is known for winning the fourth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2013. She is the youngest of five siblings, having three brothers and one sister. Her first book release was 'Quinntessential Baking', she can also be seen regularly taking part in cookery demonstrations and appearances at food festivals. Quinn is an ambassador of the Cream Tea Society and has made many appearances on radio and TV in the UK. She", "title": "Frances Quinn" }, { "id": "17507911", "text": "The Great Irish Bake Off The Great Irish Bake Off was an Irish reality TV cooking series. The show is based on the successful BBC show \"The Great British Bake Off\". The show is produced by Sideline Productions for the TV3 Group. It premiered on TV3 Ireland on 19 September 2013, has been broadcast for two seasons with a third season running from Sunday 25 October 2015. Series 1 and 2 were broadcast on Thursday nights from 21:00. Series 3 launched in a Sunday night slot on 25 October 2015 at 21:00. In August 2016, the TV3 Group confirmed the", "title": "The Great Irish Bake Off" }, { "id": "5127864", "text": "Mel and Sue Mel Giedroyc (born 15 June 1968) and Sue Perkins (born 22 September 1969), known collectively as Mel and Sue, are an English comedy double act best known for hosting the BAFTA Award-winning BBC One cookery series \"The Great British Bake Off\". Previously they hosted their lunchtime chat shows \"Light Lunch\" and \"Late Lunch\" on Channel 4. Mel and Sue met at a comedy gig in 1988 while both students at the University of Cambridge in England (Giedroyc at Trinity College and Perkins at New Hall) where both were members of the Footlights. They made their debut with", "title": "Mel and Sue" }, { "id": "14943421", "text": "available in the United States on Netflix as \"Collection 5\" and a \"Netflix original production\" alongside the four series previously broadcast on PBS. In addition, Netflix added \"The Great British Baking Show: The Beginnings\" which features the British series 3. Current and upcoming versions include: Legend: Episode viewing figures from BARB. The Great British Bake Off The Great British Bake Off (also called Bake Off or GBBO) is a British television baking competition, produced by Love Productions, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, attempting to impress a group of judges", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "2420211", "text": "the ITV show \"Splash!\" . On 14 January 2014, Brand presented an episode of \"The Great Sport Relief Bake Off\" on BBC Two, a charity version of \"The Great British Bake Off\". In February 2015, she also presented an episode of \"The Great Comic Relief Bake Off\". She is the presenter of \"\", which premiered on 8 August 2014. A second series aired from August 2015, third from August 2016 and a fourth from August 2017. In 2014, Brand co-wrote and starred as Rose in a comedy pilot for Sky Arts called \"Damned\". The show was commissioned for a full", "title": "Jo Brand" }, { "id": "14943420", "text": "2017. After the show moved to Channel 4, PBS purchased the BBC's third series, broadcasting it as Season 5 instead of licensing the eighth series from Channel 4. As of 2018, PBS has the rights to air the second BBC series as Season 6 in 2019, and has chosen to not license the Channel 4 series. The CBC began broadcasting \"The Great British Bake Off\" in Canada in August 2016, starting with the sixth series and also with the \"Great British Baking Show\" title. The seventh series aired the year after. In 2018, the Channel 4 Series 8 was made", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "20855903", "text": "The Great British Bake Off (series 9) The ninth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began on 28 August 2018, with this being the second series to be broadcast on Channel 4. The series is presented by Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig, with judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. The series was won by Rahul Mandal, with Kim-Joy Hewlett and Ruby Bhogal as the runners-up. Colour key: Breaking with tradition, this year the series kicked off with Biscuits week. For the first challenge of the series, the bakers were tasked to bake 24 regional biscuits that needed to be", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 9)" }, { "id": "19286217", "text": "Great Northern Cookbook\" – weighing in at 1.5 tons. The pies were also featured in a September 2015 episode of the hit BBC One show \"The Great British Bake Off\". Denby Dale Pies was judged to produce the country's best meat and potato pie in a contest held by ITV's \"The Paul O'Grady Show\" in 2004, with the final of the competition held live on the teatime chat show. In 2012, the Denby Dale Chicken and Gravy Pie was awarded silver in the British Pie Awards. In July 2013, Princess Anne visited the company's flagship factory in Denby Dale. Two", "title": "Denby Dale Pies" }, { "id": "3497296", "text": "children. Perkins was brought up as a Roman Catholic and lives in London and Cornwall. Sue Perkins Susan \"Sue\" Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969) is an English comedian, broadcaster, actress, and writer. Originally coming to prominence through her comedy partnership with Mel Giedroyc in \"Mel and Sue\", she has since become best known as a radio broadcaster and television presenter, notably of \"The Great British Bake Off\" (2010–2016) and \"Insert Name Here\" (2016–present). She was ranked sixth in \"The Independent on Sunday\"s 2014 Rainbow List. Perkins was born on 22 September 1969 in south London, where she grew up", "title": "Sue Perkins" }, { "id": "19838817", "text": "concentric rings, topped with a star. For the final showstopper challenge, the bakers were required to make a magical ice cake with elaborate sugar work that create a scene of winter wonderland. Liam Charles was chosen as a co-presenter for the revamped professional version of \"Great British Bake Off\", \"\". Liam has also Written a cookbook called Cake Boy: The Kitchen Diaries. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38086856-cake-boy On 31 October 2017, judge Prue Leith accidentally revealed the winner of the series on Twitter twelve hours before the finale was due to air. This caused uproar among many fans of the show. She quickly deleted", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 8)" }, { "id": "6330804", "text": "with former Jupiter Rising member Spencer Nezey, forming the group Her Majesty & the Wolves. Their album \"111\" was released in the UK on July 11, 2011. On March 7, 2013, Wyatt appeared on BBC Radio 1's Innuendo Bingo. In October 2014, Wyatt launched her perfume 'Kaydance'. In March 2015, it was announced that Wyatt would take part in ITV's \"Give a Pet a Home\" show which works alongside the RSPCA in Birmingham. In July 2015, she won the final of \"Celebrity MasterChef\" on BBC One, beating Sam Nixon, Rylan Clark and Scott Maslen. In November 2015, Wyatt became a", "title": "Kimberly Wyatt" }, { "id": "3497277", "text": "Sue Perkins Susan \"Sue\" Elizabeth Perkins (born 22 September 1969) is an English comedian, broadcaster, actress, and writer. Originally coming to prominence through her comedy partnership with Mel Giedroyc in \"Mel and Sue\", she has since become best known as a radio broadcaster and television presenter, notably of \"The Great British Bake Off\" (2010–2016) and \"Insert Name Here\" (2016–present). She was ranked sixth in \"The Independent on Sunday\"s 2014 Rainbow List. Perkins was born on 22 September 1969 in south London, where she grew up in Croydon with her two younger siblings and parents. Her father worked for a local", "title": "Sue Perkins" }, { "id": "18327161", "text": "Brand hosted a special edition of \"The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice\" on Friday 13 March at 10pm on BBC Two where the four star bakers attempted to be named as Ultimate Star Baker: Mary Berry crowned Victoria Wood as the winner. Starting on Sunday 1 March 2015, Gabby Logan hosted a week long darts competition that aired on BBC Two where a group of celebrities teamed up with professional darts players and went head to head in a winner-takes-all tournament. There were four quarter finals, after five rounds of darts the winner was announced. They then went", "title": "Red Nose Day 2015" }, { "id": "14943403", "text": "Tom Sutcliffe of \"The Independent\" considered the contest \"perfectly baked\". \"Bake Off\" was moved to Channel 4 in 2017, and reviews of the programme on the channel were largely positive, although a few felt that it did not compare well to the BBC version. Mark Lawson of \"The Guardian\" described the programme on Channel 4 as \"both exactly the same but also just subtly different enough\", and that \"only someone desperate to dislike the re-plated show could argued that [it] has soured, spoiled or binned its recipe\". Michael Hogan of \"The Telegraph\" thought that \"Mary, Mel and Sue might be", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "16845954", "text": "published in October 2017. Whaite lives with his partner Paul Atkins, a graphic designer, in Lancashire. He announced their engagement on 21 July 2017. John Whaite John Whaite is an English baker who won the third series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2012. He works as a chef, television presenter, and author. He was a presenter and judge on the ITV daytime cookery competition show \"Chopping Block\". John Whaite was born in Chorley and grew up on a farm in Wrightington. He has two sisters, Jane and Victoria. He became interested in baking when he was five after", "title": "John Whaite" }, { "id": "5127868", "text": "Comic Relief in 2009. Perkins confirmed on \"Friday Night with Jonathan Ross\" that the duo would be working together on something new in 2010. Their new show, a baking competition series, \"The Great British Bake Off\", began on BBC Two in August 2010. The show ran for four series until it was moved to BBC One for its fifth series in 2014 and a sixth in 2015. In January 2015, Mel and Sue launched a new ITV daytime chat show called \"Mel and Sue\", the show features appearances from celebrity guests, audience interaction and cookery, this time with members of", "title": "Mel and Sue" }, { "id": "18372417", "text": "afterwards to select who they believed \"won\" the debate. On a forced choice between Cameron and Miliband, Survation found Cameron the winner. There were 1.4 million tweets about the debate, with the most tweeted moment being Farage's comments about HIV+ immigrants. Sturgeon's Twitter account received most mentions, followed by Farage, Bennett, Miliband, Wood, Cameron and Clegg. An IPSOS Mori analysis of tweets found them most favourable towards Sturgeon, then Wood, Bennett, Miliband and Clegg tied, Farage and least favourable to Cameron. The Democratic Unionist Party, which is a Northern Irish unionist party, was not included on the television debates. Nigel", "title": "2015 United Kingdom general election debates" }, { "id": "20855914", "text": "the production team. As a result, he was given an extra 15 minutes for the challenge. The two holiday specials will each feature four returning contestants from the series 5–8. The Great Christmas Bake Off will feature Liam Charles (Series 8), Flo Atkins (Series 8), Andrew Smyth (Series 7) and Jane Beedle (Series 7). The Great New Year's Bake Off will feature the return of champion Candice Brown (Series 7), Steven Carter-Bailey (Series 8), Tamal Ray (Series 6) and Kate Henry (Series 5). The final was watched by an overnight viewing audience figure of 7.5 million, down from the previous", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 9)" }, { "id": "14943410", "text": "the show, topped by the final episode with 15.05 million viewers. In the last series on the BBC in 2016, nine of the top ten most-watched programmes of the year were episodes of the show, with 16.03 million viewers watching the finale. The first series broadcast by Channel 4 opened with average viewing figures of 5.8 million, rising to 6.5 million to include those watching on Channel 4+1, and 9.46 million for the 7-day rating. Although the overnight figure was the lowest for an opening episode since 2013, it was Channel 4's biggest audience since the Opening Ceremony of the", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "18176440", "text": "the show gained an overnight viewing figure of 12.29 million, and a consolidated average figure of 13.5 million, the highest viewing figure for a non-sporting event of the year on UK TV, after 2014 FIFA World Cup's England vs Uruguay match. Series 5 had an average of viewing figure of 10.1 million. Official episode viewing figures are from BARB. The Great British Bake Off (series 5) The fifth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began on Wednesday 6 August 2014. Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins presented the show and Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood returned as judges. Twelve contestants", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 5)" }, { "id": "20411069", "text": "father's death, returned to the competition. The show was filmed in Iver Heath, UK over a three week time period. The shooting sequence was two days of filming followed by one day break during those three weeks. On December 21, 2017, the day in which the finale was originally to air, ABC announced that Vallery Lomas won the competition, beating out runners-up Cindy Maliniak and Molly Brodak in the final week. Lomas' winning dish was a three pastry/dessert tower. Color key: For the first signature bake, the bakers were given two hours to bake a \"naked\" cake, a cake that", "title": "The Great American Baking Show (season 3)" }, { "id": "20988582", "text": "on \" 'Calibration and Adjustment of Coherence Scanning Interferometry\"'. He joined the Nuclear AMRC in 2015. Mandal was signed as a columnist for \"The Times Magazine\", a part of the Saturday supplement of \"The Times\", and occasionally cooks on the ITV daytime show \"This Morning\". In 2018, Mandal became a STEM ambassador to help inspire the next generation of engineers. Mandal is single and is the only child of a housewife and businessman father. His father runs a business supplying engineering parts across India. Rahul Mandal Rahul Mandal is the winner of the ninth series of \"The Great British Bake", "title": "Rahul Mandal" }, { "id": "17047433", "text": "The Great British Bake Off (series 2) The second series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" started 14 August 2011 with twelve amateur bakers. Unlike series one, the competition was held in a single location – on the grounds of Valentines Mansion, a 17th-century mansion house in Redbridge. In addition to their on-screen presenting roles, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins also took over the narration of the show, which had been done by Stephen Noonan the previous series. Series two also introduced the \"star baker\" award for the most impressive performer each week. Three and a half thousand people applied", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 2)" }, { "id": "17483354", "text": "for S4C starting 11 September 2014. Glenn Cosby left teaching and launched his own touring stage show \"Bake it Big\". Ali Imdad has set up a bakery business and become a full-time baker. The show achieved some of the highest ratings seen on BBC Two. According to overnight data, the final episode was seen by 9.1 million viewers at its peak, and averaging over 8 million, more than twice the number of viewers on BBC One and ITV. This episode is the highest-rated show ever on BBC2 under the ratings system first introduced in 2002, beating the previous record set", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 4)" }, { "id": "3676383", "text": "Mel Giedroyc Melanie Clare Sophie Giedroyc (, born 5 June 1968) is an English television presenter and actress. With Sue Perkins, she has co-hosted series including \"Light Lunch\" for Channel 4, \"The Great British Bake Off\" for the BBC and chat show \"Mel and Sue\" for ITV. In early 2017, Giedroyc began co-presenting the BBC show \"Let It Shine\". Giedroyc was born in Epsom, Surrey, and grew up in Leatherhead. Her father, Michal, an aircraft designer and historian of Polish-Lithuanian descent from the Giedroyć family, came to Britain in 1947; he died in December 2017. Rosemary, or Rosy, her mother,", "title": "Mel Giedroyc" }, { "id": "18099951", "text": "the previous series ended, claiming that some of the judges would be leaving before the ninth series, these were later dismissed as being unfounded by ITV, on 16 January 2015. The ninth series was won by dog tricks duo Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse, with magician Jamie Raven finishing in second place and Welsh choir Côr Glanaethwy in third place. Following the series' broadcast, viewers complained about being misled by winner O'Dwyer's performance, after it was found that their act involved a second dog that had not been disclosed to the public or the judges. During its broadcast, the series averaged", "title": "Britain's Got Talent (series 9)" }, { "id": "17047443", "text": "published a book \"Recipes from a Normal Mum\" on 17 July 2014. Mary-Anne Boermans wrote a book on baking, \"Great British Bakes: Forgotten Treasures for Modern Bakers\", which was published on 7 November 2013. Official episode viewing figures are from BARB. The Great British Bake Off (series 2) The second series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" started 14 August 2011 with twelve amateur bakers. Unlike series one, the competition was held in a single location – on the grounds of Valentines Mansion, a 17th-century mansion house in Redbridge. In addition to their on-screen presenting roles, Mel Giedroyc and Sue", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 2)" }, { "id": "10208174", "text": "Global Business Coalition for Health, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Global Leadership Award, an honorary fellowship from Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a recognition award from the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, which she was awarded alongside UN Women executive director Michelle Bachelet. In February 2015, it was announced that Sarah Brown would be competing in a second Comic Relief special edition of \"The Great British Bake Off\" television show, with \"The Guardian\" describing the line up as a \"cause for celebration\". Sarah's relationship with Gordon Brown started after sharing a flight from London to", "title": "Sarah Jane Brown" }, { "id": "20385932", "text": "three-dimensional presents cake. The Great American Baking Show (season 1) The first season of \"The Great American Baking Show\", released under the title The Great Holiday Baking Show, premiered on ABC on November 30, 2015 as part of ABC's holiday programming schedule. Six amateur bakers competed in twelve challenges throughout the competition for the title of America's best holiday baker. This season was hosted by husband and wife duo Nia Vardalos and Ian Gomez. The judging panel consisted of original \"The Great British Bake Off\" judge Mary Berry and American pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini. As with the British series, this", "title": "The Great American Baking Show (season 1)" }, { "id": "14943407", "text": "episode it had averaged 4.56 million viewers, peaking at 5.1 million in its last 15 minutes. The ratings continued to strengthen in the third series, and the show began to beat its competition in its timeslot. The final of the series where John Whaite was crowned the winner saw its highest rating yet, with an average of 6.5 million viewers that peaked at 7.2 million, which made it the second highest-rated BBC Two-originated show after \"Top Gear\" since at least 2006. The fourth series achieved some of the highest ratings seen on BBC Two. The viewer count for its premiere", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "1910018", "text": "un Sueño 2012\", a spin-off of \"Strictly Come Dancing\". In 2015, Price appeared on the fifteenth series of \"Celebrity Big Brother\". She had been previously invited to appear on the show. On 6 February 2015, Price finished as the winner of the series. Price has also established herself in the publishing industry. She was in the top 100 best selling authors of the decade for book sales between 2000 and 2009, with nearly three millions sales. In 2012, she was listed as 24th in the list of the 50 best-selling authors in Britain based on Nielsen BookScan statistics since 1998.", "title": "Katie Price" }, { "id": "19436341", "text": "The third series moved to Channel 4 to join \"The Great British Bake Off\" after the BBC declined to renew the series. The Channel 4 series has been renamed \"Bake Off: The Professionals\", and is hosted by comedian Tom Allen and former contestant on the main series, Liam Charles. The first series was won by the Squires Kitchen Cookery School team led by Mark Tilling, the second by a team of military chefs led by Liam Grime. and the third by the team from London Hilton Park Lane with Emmanuel Bonneau. The series is a competition between teams of professional", "title": "Bake Off: The Professionals" }, { "id": "9779249", "text": "a guest on BBC2's \"\". In January 2017, he made his debut on Live at the Apollo in an episode hosted by Sarah Millican. In February 2017, he appeared as a panelist on \"The Dog Ate My Homework\". In July 2017, he appeared on a celebrity special version of \"The Crystal Maze\" and then an hour later on \"Mock the Week\" In 2018, he appeared on the BBC One comedy quiz show \"Ready or Not\". Allen currently co-hosts \"\" with former \"The Great British Bake Off\" contestant Liam Charles. He has since joined the 2018 series of \"The Great British", "title": "Tom Allen (comedian)" }, { "id": "737492", "text": "March 2014, Wood voiced the TV advertisement for the tour of the old set of \"Coronation Street\". On 5 December 2014 Wood was a guest on BBC's \"The Graham Norton Show\". On 26 December 2014, a television adaptation of \"That Day We Sang\", starring Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton, was shown on BBC Two. In early 2015, Wood took part in a celebrity version of \"The Great British Bake Off\" for Comic Relief and was crowned Star Baker in her episode. She co-starred with Timothy Spall in Sky television's three-part television adaptation of \"Fungus the Bogeyman\", which was first shown", "title": "Victoria Wood" }, { "id": "14836669", "text": "the Future Music Songwriting competition at Dingwall’s in Camden. Heather Cameron Hayes later making it to the semi final of The Voice on BBC along with other Future Music competition acts Rachel Ann TeenStar winner, Farheem, Tobias Robertson, Eli Cripss, Deano and Lydia Lucy to name a few. The 2015 Open Mic UK singing competition winner’s Grand Final took place in January 2016 at The NEC in Birmingham. With 15-year- old Lola Young from South London being crowned Open Mic UK winner for 2015 the national final, fending off stiff competition from artists across various age categories. It marks a", "title": "Open Mic UK" }, { "id": "19808024", "text": "Candice Brown Candice Brown is the winner of the seventh series of \"The Great British Bake Off\"; in her victory speech she attributed her success to starting baking at four years old. In November 2016, it was reported that she had left her job as a PE teacher at Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted in order to pursue a career in baking. She occasionally cooks on the ITV daytime show \"This Morning\". On 1 November 2017, it was announced that Brown would be taking part in the tenth series of \"Dancing on Ice\" on ITV, where she was partnered with Matt Evers.", "title": "Candice Brown" }, { "id": "19808023", "text": "Candice Brown Candice Brown is the winner of the seventh series of \"The Great British Bake Off\"; in her victory speech she attributed her success to starting baking at four years old. In November 2016, it was reported that she had left her job as a PE teacher at Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted in order to pursue a career in baking. She occasionally cooks on the ITV daytime show \"This Morning\". On 1 November 2017, it was announced that Brown would be taking part in the tenth series of \"Dancing on Ice\" on ITV, where she was partnered with Matt Evers.", "title": "Candice Brown" }, { "id": "19968372", "text": "Top Chef (season 15) Top Chef: Colorado is the fifteenth season of the American reality television series \"Top Chef\". Initial details about the season and its cast were revealed on October 12, 2017. The show was filmed in various cities across Colorado, including Denver, Boulder, Telluride, and Aspen. The season premiered on December 7, 2017, and concluded on March 8, 2018. \"Last Chance Kitchen\" premiered on November 30, 2017. In the season finale, Joseph Flamm was declared the Top Chef, defeating Adrienne Cheatham. Fatima Ali was voted Fan Favorite. \"Top Chef: Colorado\" features a cast of 15 new contestants. In", "title": "Top Chef (season 15)" }, { "id": "19838815", "text": "must have a minimum of five elements, one of which must be a sponge, and covered with a glaze or ganache. The two holiday specials each featured four returning contestants from the series 2–7. The first special featured Selasi Gbormittah (Series 7), Val Stones (Series 7), Paul Jagger (Series 6) and Beca Lyne-Pirkis (Series 4). The competition was won by Paul Jagger. The second special featured Benjamina Ebuehi (Series 7), Rav Bansal (Series 7), Sandy Docherty (Series 6) and Rob Billington (Series 2). The competition was won by Rav Bansal. For the signature challenge, the bakers were asked to create", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 8)" }, { "id": "2332488", "text": "She is joint founder of the Women's Equality Party (established in March 2015), was installed as Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth in October 2012, and is the current president of the Women of the Year Lunch. On 16 March 2017, Toksvig was announced as the new co-presenter of \"The Great British Bake Off\", alongside comedian Noel Fielding. Toksvig was born in Denmark. Her father, Claus Toksvig, was a Danish journalist, broadcaster, and foreign correspondent, so Toksvig spent most of her youth outside Denmark, mostly in New York City. Her mother, Julie Anne Toksvig (\"née\" Brett), is British. She attended", "title": "Sandi Toksvig" }, { "id": "18202976", "text": "The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (sometimes shortened to An Extra Slice) is a British television after-show to follow the series \"The Great British Bake Off\". Hosted by Jo Brand, the show features three celebrity panelist to discus the after-events of the week. Originally,the show began airing on BBC Two on 8th August 2014 two days after the premiere episode of the fifth series of the main show, and is filmed at The London Studios. In April 2017, it was announced that the series and Brand would follow \"The Great", "title": "The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice" }, { "id": "17047446", "text": "The Great British Bake Off (series 3) The third series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began airing on Tuesday 14 August 2012. The series was filmed at Harptree Court in East Harptree, Somerset. Seven thousand applied for the competition and twelve contestants were chosen. For the first time, all three finalists were male: Brendan Lynch, John Whaite and James Morton. The competition was won by John Whaite. No one was eliminated this week due to John having injured his finger and could not complete the last bake, and the judges thought it would be unfair to eliminate anyone. Two", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 3)" }, { "id": "19436350", "text": "ratings are from BARB. Viewing figures for Channel 4 are total numbers including +1. Bake Off: The Professionals Bake Off: The Professionals (previously Bake Off: Crème de la Crème from 2016–2017) is a British television baking competition featuring teams of professional pastry chefs pit against one another through two different challenges. It is a spin-off from \"The Great British Bake Off\", and its first episode was screened on BBC Two on 29 March 2016. The eight-episode first series of the programme was presented by Tom Kerridge, with Benoit Blin, Cherish Finden and Claire Clark serving as judges. The second series", "title": "Bake Off: The Professionals" }, { "id": "20574612", "text": "Love Productions Love Productions is UK-based TV production company. Its \"The Great British Bake Off\" production is one of the most watched shows in the UK of its era. the company is credited with being involved in over 54 productions. Richard McMerrow and Anna Beattie formed Love Productions in 2004. In 2014 Sky plc acquired a 40% stake in Love Productions. Love Productions is also associated with the brands \"Love West\" based in Bristol and \"Love Productions USA\". The list of programmes produced by Love Productions include: Love production's best earning programme, \"The Great British Bake Off\", had moved network", "title": "Love Productions" }, { "id": "17483341", "text": "The Great British Bake Off (series 4) The fourth series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" began airing on 20 August 2013. Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins again presented the show and Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood returned as judges. As with series three, the competition was held at Harptree Court in East Harptree, Somerset. 13,000 amateur bakers applied to appear on the programme, and 100 were selected for screen test, with the best 60 advancing to a three-day audition. From these, 13 contestants were chosen this year so the judges could eliminate two people whenever they wanted. The winner", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 4)" }, { "id": "17047408", "text": "bake 24 miniature cake in 2 1/2 hours. Only two can advance to becoming the winner of the Great British Bake Off. For the final challenge, the 2 finalists were asked to bake 24 miniature tarts, 24 scones, 24 choux buns, and 24 finger sandwiches in 5 hours. Fulham Palace, London After winning the competition, Edd Kimber is able to make his living from baking. He worked in the pastry kitchen at Raymond Blanc's restaurant Le Manoir. He has written three books on baking, \"The Boy Who Bakes\", \"Say It With Cake\", and \"Patisserie Made Simple: From Macaron to Millefeuille", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 1)" }, { "id": "3505548", "text": "series premiered on 13 June 2013, and was won by Sam Evans. The fifteenth series launched on 5 June 2014 and was won by Helen Wood, making her the first female winner since the show's revival on Channel 5. The sixteenth series began on 12 May 2015, the earliest Big Brother launch to date. Chloe Wilburn was announced as the winner of that series. The seventeenth series launched on 7 June 2016, it was the first Big Brother series to feature two separate houses and with a series length of 50 days it was the shortest ever series of \"Big", "title": "Big Brother (UK TV series)" }, { "id": "19208496", "text": "Louisa Johnson Louisa Johnson (born 11 January 1998) (known professionally as Louisa) is an English singer-songwriter. In 2015, she was crowned as the winner of the twelfth series of \"The X Factor\" UK; becoming the programme's youngest winner at the age of 17. Johnson was born in 1998 in Essex to David Johnson and Lisa Hayward. She has one younger brother, Fynn Johnson. Her father is a construction worker and her mother is a driving instructor. She was raised in Thurrock. In 2015, Johnson auditioned for the twelfth series of \"The X Factor\", singing American pop music family group The", "title": "Louisa Johnson" }, { "id": "20385928", "text": "The Great American Baking Show (season 1) The first season of \"The Great American Baking Show\", released under the title The Great Holiday Baking Show, premiered on ABC on November 30, 2015 as part of ABC's holiday programming schedule. Six amateur bakers competed in twelve challenges throughout the competition for the title of America's best holiday baker. This season was hosted by husband and wife duo Nia Vardalos and Ian Gomez. The judging panel consisted of original \"The Great British Bake Off\" judge Mary Berry and American pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini. As with the British series, this season was filmed", "title": "The Great American Baking Show (season 1)" }, { "id": "18813460", "text": "Brown both won 2 each. Smokey Robinson was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award, while Janet Jackson was honored with the inaugural Ultimate Icon: Music Dance Visual Award. Radio host Tom Joyner was also honored, receiving the Humanitarian Award. The following is a list of nominees. The winners were announced on June 28, 2015. BET Awards 2015 The 15th BET Awards was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California on June 28, 2015 and was televised on BET. This year marked the ceremony's 15th anniversary and the milestone was celebrated throughout the show, which was hosted by Anthony", "title": "BET Awards 2015" }, { "id": "18936691", "text": "He presented a television show on health on Channel 4 titled \"Be Your Own Doctor\". Flora Shedden studied for a year at Edinburgh University, but deferred on a course on art history at St Andrews University for a year to concentrate on writing a cookbook, \"Gatherings\", to be published on January 2017. She wrote a column on baking for \"The Scotsman\". According to the overnight ratings, the opening episode of the series 6 of \"Bake Off\" was watched by 9.3 million viewers, a rise of over 2 million from the previous year. The final was watched by an overnight audience", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 6)" }, { "id": "14943387", "text": "and is credited with reinvigorating interest in baking throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, with many of its participants, including winners, having gone on to start a career based on bakery, while the BAFTA award-winning programme has spawned a number of specials and spin-off shows: a celebrity charity series in aid of Sport Relief/Comic Relief or Stand Up to Cancer; \"Junior Bake Off\" for young children (broadcast on the CBBC channel); after-show series \"\"; and \"\" for teams of pastry chefs. The show's format was used as the basis for two BBC Two series, \"The Great British Sewing Bee\" and", "title": "The Great British Bake Off" }, { "id": "18936689", "text": "Paris in 1984, more than 10 years ago. She has not worked professionally as a baker or chef.\" Nadiya Hussain regularly appears on \"The One Show\" on BBC1. Her own cookery show, The Chronicles of Nadiya started on 24 August 2016 on BBC One. Hussain writes a weekly column for \"The Times Magazine\", a part of the Saturday supplement of \"The Times\", as well as a monthly column in \"Essentials\" magazine. Her recipes have also appeared in BBC's \"Good Food\" magazine and The Sun on Sunday's \"Fabulous magazine\".Hussain was signed by UK publisher Michael Joseph, part of Penguin Random House,", "title": "The Great British Bake Off (series 6)" }, { "id": "9354857", "text": "Spot\" tents, owing to the show's sponsorship deal with the supermarket chain at the time. The series was won by boy band Collabro, with opera singer Lucy Kay coming in second, and rapper duo Bars & Melody placing third. The ninth series was aired during 2015, between 11 April to 31 May. This series saw the \"Wildcard\" feature updated; along with the judges being able to put forth an eliminated act from the semi-finals into the final (referred to as the Judges' Wildcard), the show now also allowed the public to vote between the three most popular eliminated acts, with", "title": "Britain's Got Talent" }, { "id": "16845950", "text": "John Whaite John Whaite is an English baker who won the third series of \"The Great British Bake Off\" in 2012. He works as a chef, television presenter, and author. He was a presenter and judge on the ITV daytime cookery competition show \"Chopping Block\". John Whaite was born in Chorley and grew up on a farm in Wrightington. He has two sisters, Jane and Victoria. He became interested in baking when he was five after his parents divorced. He won a place at Oxford to read modern and medieval languages, but switched to study Law at the University of", "title": "John Whaite" } ]

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[ { "id": "17014830", "text": "OWN's history, and also came in first among all of cable television and number 4 among all shows on television for the night it aired. The mid-season premiere aired on May 27, 2014. The third season of the series premiered on January 6, 2015. The second half premiered on June 30, 2015. The fourth season of the series premiered on January 5, 2016 and the second half premiered on June 21, 2016 and aired through September 6, 2016. The fifth season premiered on January 3, 2017 and ended with the mid-season finale on March 14, 2017. On January 30, 2017,", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "17014831", "text": "the series was given an additional 44-episode order. The second half of season 5 premiered on June 20, 2017 and ended with the season finale on September 12, 2017. On November 21, 2017, the series was renewed for a sixth season, which premiered on January 9, 2018, and the 1st mid-season finale aired March 13, 2018 and on March 13, 2018, OWN also announced the second half of the season, which premiered on May 1, 2018 and with the 2nd mid-season finale July 17, 2018. On July 17, 2018, OWN announced the third half of the season, which premiered on", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "17014832", "text": "August 14, 2018. On September 11, 2018, OWN announced the fourth half of the season, which premiered on October 2, 2018, on October 9, 2018, OWN announced the countdown to the season 6 finale, set to air November 6, 2018. The series has been renewed for a seventh season which is now filming. The seventh season is set to premiere on January 8, 2019. The series follows three families and their lifestyles as they intersect with one another in Savannah, Georgia: the rich, powerful, and locally very public Cryer and Harrington families (dubbed \"The Haves\") and the poor and destitute", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "17014828", "text": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series) The Haves and the Have Nots is an American crime drama and soap opera created, executive produced, written, and directed by Tyler Perry. The premise of the series is based on Perry's 2011 play \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". The show premiered on May 28, 2013 on the Oprah Winfrey Network. It is the first scripted television series to air on the network. Both the show's first and second episodes aired back-to-back on its premiere night. Each episode is one hour long. \"Variety\" has recognized \"The Haves and the Have Nots\"", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "17014838", "text": "Network. \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" is the first scripted television series to air on OWN. Both the show's first and second episodes aired back to back on its premiere night. Each episode of the series runs for an hour (42 minutes plus commercials). \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" set a record for OWN, scoring the highest ratings ever for a series premiere on the network. During the show's first season, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" received numerous widely publicized series highs in ratings, including with its July 30 episode, its August 6 episode, its August 13", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "17014841", "text": "\"The Haves and the Have Nots\" premiered on Tuesday, January 7, 2014. Continuing on with its ratings records from season 1, the show debuted its 2nd season with series and network high ratings. Throughout season 2, the soap has achieved several more series highs. On February 4, 2014, for example, the drama series came in as the most watched television program in all of cable television with an estimated 3.4 million viewers. Among all of OWN programming since the network's January 2011 debut, only a March 2012 \"Oprah's Next Chapter\" interview with Bobbi Kristina has drawn more viewers (3.5 million)", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "17014843", "text": "in at number 1 among all of cable television and number 4 among all shows on television for its airing night. Season 3 premiered on January 6, 2015. Production of season 3 began in August 2014 following a 25 episode order which will bring the episode count to 61 through 2015. In May 2015, it was reported that the 3rd season of \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" was primetime's #1 original cable series among African-American women and total viewers, regularly attracting more than three million viewers. The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series) The Haves and the Have", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "17014829", "text": "as \"OWN's most popular series to date.\" In addition, the drama series has been acclaimed as being \"one of OWN's biggest success stories with its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the typical betrayals, affairs, manipulations, and a bitch slap or two.\" The series set ratings record for OWN, scoring the highest ratings ever for a series premiere and the highest overall ratings in the network's history. The second season premiered on January 7, 2014. To date, the series is still OWN's highest rated broadcast. The mid-season finale, aired on March 11, 2014, was the most watched broadcast in", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "17014834", "text": "plights. Often, the plights, predicaments, and hardships that the three families encounter are of a juicy, scandalous, and controversial nature. Among the serious issues that have been tackled on the program to date have included: infidelity, cancer, substance abuse, homosexuality, suicide, prostitution, poverty, rape, law/crime, abortion, religion/Christianity, politics, and mental health. All of the main characters in the program have proven to be devious, immoral, vile, or at least nasty in their behaviors at one point or another, if not regularly. The show's cast is multiracial: one of the upper class families are Caucasian American and the other is African", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "18637491", "text": "Angela Robinson (actress) Angela Robinson is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Beverly Cramer on the ABC soap opera \"One Life to Live\". In 2013, she began playing the role of Veronica Harrington in the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". Robinson was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. She graduated from William M. Raines High School in Jacksonville and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. While in college, she won the crown of Miss Florida A&M University. She moved to New York City in 1992 and", "title": "Angela Robinson (actress)" }, { "id": "12166080", "text": "Allison McAtee Allison McAtee (born September 24, 1985) is an American actress, best known for her role as Maggie Day in the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" and was promoted to the main cast in the fourth season. McAtee was born September 24, 1985 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Edinboro. She holds a BA degree in Theater Arts from the University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences. McAtee began her career appearing on stage productions Off-Broadway in NYC, before making her television debut on the ABC daytime soap opera, \"One", "title": "Allison McAtee" }, { "id": "11926056", "text": "Cartoon Network Cartoon Network (CN for short) is an American pay television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia. The channel was launched on October 1, 1992. The channel primarily broadcasts animated television series, mostly children's programming, ranging from action to animated comedy. It operates daily from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM. (ET) and primarily aimed at children and young teenagers between the ages of 7 to 15, and targets older teens and adults with mature content during its late night daypart block, Adult Swim, which is treated as a separate entity for promotional purposes and", "title": "Cartoon Network" }, { "id": "11439346", "text": "2014, OWN ordered another drama from Perry, \"If Loving You Is Wrong\", which was adapted from Perry's feature film \"The Single Moms Club\". In February 2015, OWN ordered new seasons of \"For Better Or Worse\", \"The Haves and the Have Nots\", \"If Loving You Is Wrong\", and \"Love Thy Neighbor\". In November 2017, OWN announced premiere dates for \"The Paynes\" (a spin-off of Perry's TBS sitcom \"Tyler Perry's House of Payne\"), as well as the fifth and fourth seasons of \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" and \"If Loving You Is Wrong\". In 2015, OWN began to pick up new", "title": "Oprah Winfrey Network" }, { "id": "17213240", "text": "in the play, \"Blues for an Alabama Sky\". In 2013, Fox was cast in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" produced by Tyler Perry. She plays the leading role of Hanna Young, the single mother who works as the rich family's maid and also serves as the best friend and confidante of the lady of the house, Katheryn Cryer (played by Renee Lawless). The series also stars Tika Sumpter, Angela Robinson, and John Schneider. Fox has received positive reviews for her performance in the show. In 2018, Fox was cast in a", "title": "Crystal R. Fox" }, { "id": "17014835", "text": "American; the poor family is also African American; in addition to this, there is a poor maid who's Hispanic. To that end, when Angela Robinson (the actress who plays Veronica Harrington) was interviewed about her new role on the series in late June 2013, she stated, \"This is one of the only shows on television with a diverse cast that looks like America: Black, White, Latino, straight, gay, rich, and poor.\" The characters are filled with experiences, typically of a serious and shocking nature, that they attempt to keep secret from one another; however, their secrets tend to dramatically come", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "17779745", "text": "Gavin Houston Gavin Alexander Houston (born December 10, 1977) is an American actor. As of 2013, Houston began starring as a series regular in the role of Jeffrey Harrington on the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime television soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". He is also known for role as Remy Boudreau on the CBS daytime soap opera \"Guiding Light\" (2002-2006). Houston is the son of Lloyd and Colette Houston. He has an older sister named Tonza. Houston also has a daughter. After graduating from the University of Florida, Houston studied at the Manhattan Theatre Club. He began his", "title": "Gavin Houston" }, { "id": "17014839", "text": "episode, its August 27 episode, and most notably with its season 1 finale on September 3. The season 1 finale of \"The Haves And the Have Nots\" was the third most watched telecast in OWN history, bested only by an interview with Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina and episodes of \"Oprah's Next Chapter\" featuring Lance Armstrong. Within its first season alone, \"Variety\" had recognized \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" as \"OWN's most popular series to date.\" Also within only its first season, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" had been critically acclaimed as being \"one of OWN's biggest success", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "11926121", "text": "of time spent for all US domains. Since the inception of Cartoon Network and Boomerang, Turner has set up international feeds of both networks. Cartoon Network Cartoon Network (CN for short) is an American pay television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia. The channel was launched on October 1, 1992. The channel primarily broadcasts animated television series, mostly children's programming, ranging from action to animated comedy. It operates daily from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM. (ET) and primarily aimed at children and young teenagers between the ages of 7 to 15, and targets older teens", "title": "Cartoon Network" }, { "id": "17014840", "text": "stories with its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the typical betrayals, affairs, manipulations and a bitch slap or two.\" Recognizing the show's increasing popularity, OWN renewed the drama series for a 2nd season midway into the first season. The 2nd season was originally to consist of 16 episodes and bring the series to 32 in total by the completion of season 2; however on August 21, it was announced that the network had ordered 4 additional episodes for the 2nd season, which will bring the series to 36 episodes in total by season 2's completion. Season 2 of", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "4970351", "text": "largely for the purposes of bringing scripted television to the OWN, Perry having had previous success in this department. \"Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse\", based on his films \"Why Did I Get Married?\" and \"Why Did I Get Married Too?\", premiered on TBS on November 25, 2011. The series was cancelled by TBS in February 2013 but was revived by OWN for a third season, which began on September 18, 2013. Perry also has two other new television series featured on OWN: the hour-long soap opera/drama series \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" and the sitcom \"Love Thy Neighbor\".", "title": "Tyler Perry" }, { "id": "17014842", "text": "than the February 4, 2014 episode of \"The Haves and the Have Nots.\" The \"Haves and the Have Nots\" episode in question is \"Why Didn't You Tell Me?\" On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, however, the mid-season 2 finale of \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" set a record for all of OWN programming, scoring the highest ratings in the station's history. The record-breaking episode brought in 3.6 million viewers, surpassing the 3.5 million that tuned in for Oprah Winfrey's interview with Bobbi Kristina. Not only was the episode the most watched broadcast in all of OWN history but it came", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "16584870", "text": "Tyler Lepley Tyler Lepley (born March 24, 1987) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Benjamin \"Benny\" Young on the Tyler Perry produced \"The Have and the Have Nots\"; which is the first scripted television series to air on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Lepley was born and raised in Philadelphia by his mother and stepfather, who has been in his life since the age of 6. Lepley is Italian on his mother's side and Jamaican on his biological father's side. Lepley revealed that he was teased as a child because he was the only black kid in", "title": "Tyler Lepley" }, { "id": "17014971", "text": "Love Thy Neighbor (TV series) Love Thy Neighbor is an American television sitcom broadcast from May 29, 2013 to August 19, 2017 on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The series is written, directed and executive produced by Tyler Perry. It also acquired the second highest-rated series premiere on the Oprah Winfrey Network, after another Perry program, \"The Haves and the Have Nots.\" The second season of the series premiered on Wednesday, January 8, 2014. The third season of \"Love Thy Neighbor\" premiered on Wednesday, January 7, 2015. The fourth season of the series premiered on Friday, January 8, 2016, while the", "title": "Love Thy Neighbor (TV series)" }, { "id": "15600598", "text": "Have Nots The Have Nots are a Ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, consisting of Jon Cauztik (guitar, vocals), Matt Pruitt (guitar, vocals), Jameson Hollis (bass), and Steve Patton (drums). The band was formed in 2006, combining members of local bands Chicago Typewriter and Stray Bullets. Before ever releasing an album they played shows with Boston ska legends such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Big D and The Kids Table. The band originally released a demo before recording their full-length debut album, 2009's \"Serf City USA\". Initially a self-release, the album caught the attention of Vinnie Fiorello of Paper", "title": "Have Nots" }, { "id": "17213237", "text": "Crystal R. Fox Crystal R. Fox (born October 14, 1965) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Luann Corbin in the NBC/CBS police drama series \"In the Heat of the Night\" (1989-1995), and as Hanna Young in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" (2013–present). Fox was born in Tryon, North Carolina. She made her big screen debut playing Katie Bell in the Academy Award-winning comedy-drama film \"Driving Miss Daisy\" (1989) starring Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy. She later joined the cast of NBC police drama", "title": "Crystal R. Fox" }, { "id": "17014837", "text": "everyone loves to hate\" and \"a bougie buppie, diabolical diva who slept her way to the top of Savannah's high society.\" In August 2015, the Broadway veteran actress playing the role, Angela Robinson, was dubbed by an NBC News article as \"Tyler Perry's breakout star\" from her role in \"The Haves and The Have Nots.\" Described in her on-air role as a \" villainess,\" she was hailed as \"slowly becoming a household name and gaining a cult-like following from the hit series.\" \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" premiered on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at 9/8c on the Oprah Winfrey", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "11439343", "text": "deal—which marked the channel's expansion into scripted programming—Perry's future productions would air on OWN, including two new series set to premiere in 2013. By then, OWN had begun to seen larger gains in audience share, especially among women in the key demographic. Perry's first two productions for OWN—the drama series \"The Haves and the Have Nots\", and the sitcom \"Love Thy Neighbor\"—were set to premiere on May 28 and 29, 2013 respectively. OWN also ordered a third season of Perry's sitcom \"For Better or Worse\", which had been cancelled by TBS. The two-hour series premiere of \"The Haves and the", "title": "Oprah Winfrey Network" }, { "id": "18830048", "text": "Aaron O'Connell Aaron John O'Connell (born April 8, 1986) is an American model and actor. O'Connell is best known for his portrayal of Wyatt Cryer in the prime time television drama \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network. O'Connell is the only son of Mark O'Connell, a former player for the Cincinnati Bengals and Kathryn Deeble O'Connell. He has three sisters, Amy, Abby and Anna. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 2004 where he played football, basketball and baseball. As a child, his maternal grandfather Wayne taught him how to play the piano.", "title": "Aaron O'Connell" }, { "id": "5707518", "text": "BET sitcom \"The Game\". Sumpter was later featured in supporting roles for \"What's Your Number?\" (2011) and \"Think Like a Man\" (2012), before starring in \"Sparkle\" (2012) and \"A Madea Christmas\" (2013). In 2013, Sumpter began her role as Candace Young, the leading character on the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". Sumpter later played Angela Payton in the comedy films \"Ride Along\" (2014) and \"Ride Along 2\" (2016), Yvonne Fair in the biopic \"Get On Up\" (2014), and Michelle Robinson Obama in the romantic comedy-drama \"Southside with You\" (2016). Sumpter was born in", "title": "Tika Sumpter" }, { "id": "5469757", "text": "Peter Parros Peter Parros (born November 11, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and screenwriter. His acting credits include stage, screen and television. Currently Parros portrays Judge David Harrington on Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots airing on the Oprah Winfrey Network, but he may be most recognized for his nearly decade-long portrayal of Dr. Ben Harris on the CBS soap \"As the World Turns.\" Peter Parros was born in Brooklyn, New York, but grew up in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. He became interested in acting and the film industry after holding a", "title": "Peter Parros" }, { "id": "17014833", "text": "Young family (dubbed \"The Have Nots\"). The Young family is headed by Hanna, a single mother who works as the Cryer family's maid and also serves as the best friend and confidante of the lady of the house, Katheryn. Included as part of \"The Have Nots\" is another maid of the Cryer family's, Celine Gonzales. While the Young family versus the Cryer and Harrington families lead polar opposite lifestyles in terms of social class, economics, social status, and surroundings, they are each similar in that they lead exceedingly dysfunctional lifestyles. Each of the three families experience similarly overwhelming hardships and", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "19334341", "text": "Danielle Deadwyler Danielle Deadwyler is an American actress and writer. She is starring as LaQuita \"Quita\" Maxwell in Tyler Perry’s primetime soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". Deadwyler was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Southwest Atlanta. She received a Master’s of Arts in American Studies from Columbia University. Deadwyler began her career appearing on stage productions, include \"Charlotte's Web\", \"The Real Tweenagers of Atlanta\", and \"For Colored Girls\". She received positive reviews for leading performance in Alliance Theatre’s \"The C.A. Lyons Project\". She made her film debut playing the leading role in the 2012 drama \"A", "title": "Danielle Deadwyler" }, { "id": "17453408", "text": "in 2012, she was cast in recurring role of NBC post-apocalyptic series \"Revolution\" as Grace Beaumont, and in 2013 played Ida Hayes in Lifetime comedy-drama \"Devious Maids\". 2017 The Have and the Have Nots Melissa’s mother Maria Howell Wanda Maria Howell is an American actress and singer. Howell was born in Gastonia, North Carolina and graduated Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She worked as jazz singer and made her film debut in \"The Color Purple\" (1985). She lived in Okinawa, Japan, from 1995-2001. She made guest appearances on \"Drop Dead Diva\", \"Army Wives\", \"The Game\", \"Necessary Roughness\", and", "title": "Maria Howell" }, { "id": "9063341", "text": "Audience (TV network) Audience Network, also simply known as Audience since 2016 is an American general entertainment television channel that is owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia. It features a mix of original and acquired series, specials, and feature films. The network operates as a commercial-free service and broadcasts its programming without editing for content. It was originally exclusive to DirecTV. However, after AT&T's acquisition of DirecTV it became available on AT&T U-verse. It is also available on subscription streaming service DirecTV Now, and the upcoming lower budget AT&T Watch TV service. As of 2018, the", "title": "Audience (TV network)" }, { "id": "17779746", "text": "career as a child actor appearing in commercials, and in an episode of \"The Cosby Show\". He had a recurring role on the ABC soap opera \"General Hospital\", also guest-starred on \"Wizards of Waverly Place\" and \"Without a Trace\". Gavin Houston Gavin Alexander Houston (born December 10, 1977) is an American actor. As of 2013, Houston began starring as a series regular in the role of Jeffrey Harrington on the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime television soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". He is also known for role as Remy Boudreau on the CBS daytime soap opera \"Guiding Light\"", "title": "Gavin Houston" }, { "id": "18637492", "text": "began acting career on the stage, appearing on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. On Broadway, she performed in \"The Color Purple\", and later appeared in the national touring production. Robinson also performed on the national tours of \"Dreamgirls\" and \"The Wizard of Oz\". On television, she appeared in the episode \"Contagious\" of \"\" in 2005. In 2013, Robinson began starring as Veronica Harrington in the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" produced by Tyler Perry. In 2015, she received Gracie Award for Outstanding Female Actor- One to Watch. Angela Robinson (actress) Angela Robinson is an", "title": "Angela Robinson (actress)" }, { "id": "12166081", "text": "Life to Live\" in 2005. She later guest-starred on \"Ugly Betty\", \"\", \"\" and its spin-offs \"\" and \"\", and well as \"Castle\", \"NCIS\", \"Californication\", and \"Revenge\". In film, McAtee has appeared in \"The Killing Floor\" (2007) and \"Hell Ride\" (2008), before leading role in the independent drama \"Bloomington\" (2010). In 2014, McAtee joined the cast of the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". She plays Maggie Day, campaign manager to Jim Cryer (John Schneider) and David Harrington (Peter Parros). She was promoted to regular cast member as of third season. Allison McAtee Allison", "title": "Allison McAtee" }, { "id": "12140608", "text": "on Antenna TV, a digital subchannel network that broadcasts classic programming from the 1950s-1990s era. IFC also picked up the series for reruns in spring 2015. FETV, a cable and satellite network, began airing the series in December of 2017. In 2018, Canadian superstation CHCH began carrying the series; the station is viewable over-the-air in portions of the United States. Although Rhino Records now serves as the underlying rights holder for this series (as they acquired the Monkees' music catalog, TV series and official logo from Raybert and Columbia Pictures in 1994), Sony Pictures Television remains the television distributor for", "title": "The Monkees (TV series)" }, { "id": "5707524", "text": "in the Christmas comedy-drama film \"A Madea Christmas\" by Tyler Perry. In same year, Sumpter began starring as Candace Young, a lead villainess, in the Oprah Winfrey Network soapy drama series \"The Haves and the Have Nots\", also created by Tyler Perry. The series received negative reviews from critics, like other of Perry's works, but was the biggest hit in ratings for Oprah Winfrey Network, to date. Sumpter played the female lead in \"Ride Along\", the 2014 action comedy film directed by Tim Story, opposite Kevin Hart and Ice Cube. She returned to the role in its sequel \"Ride Along", "title": "Tika Sumpter" }, { "id": "4487588", "text": "as Daystar Canada. On September 24, 2014 Daystar started broadcasting in HD OTA on channel 2.1 in Dallas, Texas. Austin soon followed. On April 27, 2015, Verizon FiOS currently carries the channel in HD. Daystar's HD service is available in the UK via the Astra 2G satellite as part of the Sky and Freesat platforms and via terrestrial TV on the Freeview platform. In February 2015, the channel launched in Australia on subscription television provider Foxtel. Daystar (TV network) Daystar is an American evangelical Christian-based religious broadcast television network that is owned by the Word of God Fellowship, founded by", "title": "Daystar (TV network)" }, { "id": "4632175", "text": "well as national cable and satellite channels such as TNT, ESPN and AMC, and Internet services such as Netflix. The following is a list of television stations in the United States that have had primary network affiliations, at one point or another, all with ABC, CBS or NBC. Big Three television networks The Big Three television networks are the three major traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States: the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS (formerly known as the Columbia Broadcasting System) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Beginning in 1948 until 1986, the Big Three networks dominated U.S.", "title": "Big Three television networks" }, { "id": "15605718", "text": "on Hulu. \"Last Man Standing\" aired on ABC in the U.S.; on Fox8, Network Ten and Eleven (previously aired on One) in Australia; City in Canada; and TV3 in New Zealand. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it premiered on October 9, 2012 on Sky One, which aired the first three seasons before dropping it due to low ratings; the show was bought by E4, where it premiered on March 13, 2017; Channel 4 then reran the program on Sunday mornings from July until September 2017; in 2018, 5STAR acquired the show for reruns. In Israel, it airs on yes", "title": "Last Man Standing (U.S. TV series)" }, { "id": "16268496", "text": "Cartoon Network (Canada) Cartoon Network is a Canadian English-language specialty channel based on the American network of the same name, which broadcasts animated programming aimed at children and teens, and its late night counterpart, Adult Swim, which targets young adults. The channel is owned by Corus Entertainment, with the brands in use through a brand licensing agreement with WarnerMedia in the United States. The CRTC classifies the network as a discretionary service. As with most Canadian networks, it is a dual-feed operation with separate Eastern and Pacific schedules and feeds. As of September 2015, it is available in 5 million", "title": "Cartoon Network (Canada)" }, { "id": "18268752", "text": "now airs on a day-delay with repeats at weekends); CBS has owned 10 Peach (and Network Ten itself) since it purchased Ten Network Holdings in the last half of 2017. In France the show airs at 11:35 pm every Monday to Friday on MCM. In New Zealand the show began to air on state-owned broadcaster TVNZ's channel Duke at 7pm on weeknights, from March 20, 2016. In Asia, the show premiered on August 3, 2015, on RTL CBS Entertainment. It broadcasts on weekday nights following \"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert\". In Finland, the show was aired on Yle TV2", "title": "The Late Late Show with James Corden" }, { "id": "11439345", "text": "success. I didn't expect failure. I was tested and I had to dig deep\", and that the scenario \"forced me not to just talk the talk. Failure is a great teacher. I knew this intellectually. But it's another thing if you're living it.\". \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" was renewed for a second season to premiere in 2014, while OWN ordered 10 additional episodes for season 1. Its first season finale was seen by 2.6 million viewers. The fifth episode of season 2 was seen by 3.6 million viewers, setting a new all-time ratings record for OWN. In January", "title": "Oprah Winfrey Network" }, { "id": "10520239", "text": "of the major broadcast networks; in that case W41BN is now WRGX-LD, the market's NBC affiliate under the ownership of Gray Television. Several other translator stations have been taken off-the-air completely as TBN's distribution has become concentrated on pay television and IPTV distribution, due to the prohibitive costs of upgrading the entire network's translator system to digital. Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States In the United States, owned-and-operated television stations (frequently abbreviated as \"O&Os\") constitute only a portion of their parent television networks' station bodies, due to ownership limits imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Currently, the total", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "2246431", "text": "Bravo (U.S. TV network) Bravo is an American cable and satellite television network, launched on December 1, 1980. It is a program service operated and owned by NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast and headquartered in the Comcast Building in New York City. The channel originally focused on programming related to fine arts and film; it currently broadcasts several reality television series targeted at 25-54-year-old women as well as the LGBT community, along with acquired and original dramas, and mainstream theatrically released feature films. As of January 2016, approximately 89,824,000 American households (77.169", "title": "Bravo (U.S. TV network)" }, { "id": "15600600", "text": "The album was produced by Teen Idols drummer Matt Drastic, and engineered by Descendents guitarist Stephen Egerton. In 2013, Matt Pruitt became the new guitarist for Street Dogs. Have Nots The Have Nots are a Ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, consisting of Jon Cauztik (guitar, vocals), Matt Pruitt (guitar, vocals), Jameson Hollis (bass), and Steve Patton (drums). The band was formed in 2006, combining members of local bands Chicago Typewriter and Stray Bullets. Before ever releasing an album they played shows with Boston ska legends such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Big D and The Kids Table. The", "title": "Have Nots" }, { "id": "2657230", "text": "Entertainment. The network is available in the format on most subscription systems. A&E (TV channel) A&E is an American pay television channel. It is the flagship television property of A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and Disney–ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in New York City and operates offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; London, United Kingdom; Los Angeles, California and Stamford, Connecticut. The network was originally founded in 1984 as the Arts & Entertainment Network, initially focusing on fine arts, documentaries (including its then-flagship series \"Biography\"), and", "title": "A&E (TV channel)" }, { "id": "2657209", "text": "A&E (TV channel) A&E is an American pay television channel. It is the flagship television property of A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and Disney–ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in New York City and operates offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; London, United Kingdom; Los Angeles, California and Stamford, Connecticut. The network was originally founded in 1984 as the Arts & Entertainment Network, initially focusing on fine arts, documentaries (including its then-flagship series \"Biography\"), and dramas (including imported series from the United Kingdom). In 1995, the network", "title": "A&E (TV channel)" }, { "id": "4376777", "text": "the first sub-channel targeted specifically at women, and the first general entertainment network since music videos were added in 1985. In November 2017, Escape moved to 67.5. The Justice Network, previously airing on WJLP, was added on 67.5 in October 2017, airing crime dramas and documentary programming. In November 2017, Justice Network moved to 67.1. This is the first primary English-language network to air on 67.1 since 2002. WFTY-DT WFTY-DT, virtual channel 67 (UHF digital channel 23), is a television station licensed to Smithtown, New York and serving Long Island. The station is owned by Univision Communications, along with WFUT-DT", "title": "WFTY-DT" }, { "id": "2785599", "text": "2016 to signify its shift toward a broad schedule of family-oriented shows as well as series of appeal to teen and young adult audiences). Unlike broadcast networks, most cable networks air the same programming nationwide. Top cable networks include USA Network (which maintains a general entertainment format), ESPN and FS1 (which focus on sports programming), MTV (which originally focused on music videos when it launched in April 1981, but now largely features music-related, original scripted and reality television programming), CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel (which are dedicated news channels with some opinion and other feature-driven programming), A&E (a network", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "20790851", "text": "Nicholas James (actor) Nicholas James (born Nicholas James Muscarella and additionally variously credited as Nick James or Nicholas J. Muscarella) is an American actor. James is known for his recurring role (beginning in 2016) as Officer Justin Lewis in the Tyler Perry-created OWN series \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" (Season 3 – Season 5, in 63 episodes as of July 2018) as well as for appearances in \"Prom Night\" (2008) and \"\" (2014). His earliest credited film appearance was in \"\" in 2006. Additionally, James has appeared in television commercials for Grupo Modelo and Walmart. Outside of acting, James", "title": "Nicholas James (actor)" }, { "id": "10520218", "text": "June 13, 2007, Fox announced its intention to sell nine of its owned-and-operated stations: WJW (channel 8) in Cleveland, Ohio; KDVR (channel 31) in Denver, Colorado; KTVI (channel 2) in St. Louis, Missouri; WDAF-TV (channel 4) in Kansas City, Missouri; WITI in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; KSTU (channel 13) in Salt Lake City, Utah; WHBQ-TV (channel 13) in Memphis, Tennessee; WBRC (channel 6) in Birmingham, Alabama and WGHP (channel 8) in Greensboro, North Carolina. On December 21 of that year, it was announced that eight of the stations – WHBQ being the only one not included – would be sold to Local", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "1827001", "text": "BET Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American pay television channel that is owned by the BET Networks division of Viacom. It is the most prominent television network targeting African American audiences, with approximately 88,255,000 American households (75.8% of households with television) receiving the channel. The channel has offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Programming on the network consists of original and acquired television series and theatrically and direct-to-video-released films. The network has also aired a variety of stand-up comedy, news, and current affairs programs, and formerly aired mainstream rap, hip-hop and R&B music videos;", "title": "BET" }, { "id": "1826980", "text": "BET Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American pay television channel that is owned by the BET Networks division of Viacom. It is the most prominent television network targeting African American audiences, with approximately 88,255,000 American households (75.8% of households with television) receiving the channel. The channel has offices in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Programming on the network consists of original and acquired television series and theatrically and direct-to-video-released films. The network has also aired a variety of stand-up comedy, news, and current affairs programs, and formerly aired mainstream rap, hip-hop and R&B music videos;", "title": "BET" }, { "id": "18268751", "text": "Show with James Corden\" is aired by CTV in simulcast with CBS. The program formerly aired on sister network CTV Two, but moved to the main CTV network on February 8, 2016, switching with \"Late Night with Seth Meyers\". In Australia, the series was purchased by CBS's then-Australian partner network Network Ten. It premiered on Network Ten's sister network Eleven (now 10 Peach) on May 24, 2015, on a seven-day-a-week airing schedule to catch up with the current run through the northern hemisphere summer (by September and the start of the new American television season it had caught up and", "title": "The Late Late Show with James Corden" }, { "id": "9677355", "text": "on the dial, and in order to retain CNBC's \"premium\" channel slot. At the time FBN was carried on Time Warner Cable only on its analog service in New York City (most systems have since switched to digital-only); in other markets, the channel's carriage was limited to premium digital cable packages at extra cost. Verizon's FiOS TV also carries the network on its premier lineup (SD channel 117 and HD channel 617). Dish Network began carrying FBN on channel 206 on February 2, 2009. FBN also received carriage on DirecTV channel 359. As its prominence grew, some providers indeed moved", "title": "Fox Business Network" }, { "id": "8378601", "text": "high definition feed on September 1, 2009 to its systems in central and northern Pennsylvania. On December 28, 2009, Charter Communications reached an agreement to provide the network to its systems in St. Louis and Southern Illinois on the provider's expanded basic-digital tier. On July 24, 2017, the Big Ten Network announced they would be available on Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV. On April 11, 2018, Comcast dropped Big Ten Network in a number of \"out-of-market\" states that fall outside of the conference's direct geographical footprint, with other selected markets dropping the network on May 10, 2018. This notably", "title": "Big Ten Network" }, { "id": "11716433", "text": "best known as the convent of Immaculate Heart of Mary. \"90210\" first aired in the United States on The CW, Tuesdays at 8:00 pm Eastern/7:00 pm Central. In the United Kingdom, the series airs on Channel 4 and E4, after beating off competition from Channel 5, ITV2 and Living for the rights to broadcast the show. In November 2018, 90210 was made available on Channel 4's All 4. In Australia, it aired on Network Ten for 6 episodes until the network pulled it from their schedules due to low ratings. However, in January 2011 it started airing on Eleven as", "title": "90210 (TV series)" }, { "id": "10520185", "text": "and CBS' KMOX-TV (channel 4, now KMOV) in St. Louis. As a result of a revision to the FCC's media ownership rules in 1999, a company can now own any number of television stations with a combined market reach of less than 39% of the country, but cannot own two of the four highest-rated stations in any market. Still, O&Os in the United States are primarily found in large markets such as New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, among others. Despite that, network-owned stations can still be found in smaller markets (for example, KFSN-TV (channel 30) in Fresno, California", "title": "Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States" }, { "id": "15810834", "text": "As a result, Comcast merged the operations of its pay channels with those of NBC. In particular, it aligned the operation of its sports channels with NBC's sports division, NBC Sports. On January 2, 2012, Versus was rebranded as the NBC Sports Network (on-air branding later shortened to NBCSN) to reflect these changes. As of September 15, 2014, the majority of NBC Sports' operations, including NBCSN, is based in facilities in Stamford, Connecticut. As of February 2015, NBCSN is available to approximately 81,578,000 pay television households (70.1% of households with television) in the United States. The channel originally launched as", "title": "NBCSN" }, { "id": "11439344", "text": "Have Nots\" overtook \"Life with La Toya\" (1.18 million) as OWN's highest-rated series premiere to date, with the first episode attracting 1.77 million viewers, and growing to 1.8 million for the second. By July 2013, Discovery considered the network to be \"cash flow positive\". In an interview with \"People\", Winfrey revealed that in 2012, she had a nervous breakdown over the channel's performance. Jason Russell had brought up the condition during an interview they were filming, which made Winfrey realize she was experiencing similar symptoms. She explained that \"after 25 years of being No. 1, I had become accustomed to", "title": "Oprah Winfrey Network" }, { "id": "1497326", "text": "Nine Network The Nine Network (commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network, that is a division of Nine Entertainment Co. with headquarters in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney, Australia. The Nine Network is one of three main free-to-air commercial networks in Australia. The Nine Network has historically been the highest-rating television network in Australia, ahead of Network 10, the Seven Network, ABC, and SBS. Since 2017, the network's slogan has been \"We Are the One\". TCN-9 launched on 16 September 1956. John Godson introduced the station", "title": "Nine Network" }, { "id": "16268500", "text": "September 1, 2015, Cartoon Network now operates under the auspices of the Category B license that was originally assigned for Teletoon Retro. The original Cartoon Network license was mothballed, and returned to the CRTC on October 2, 2015. Cartoon Network (Canada) Cartoon Network is a Canadian English-language specialty channel based on the American network of the same name, which broadcasts animated programming aimed at children and teens, and its late night counterpart, Adult Swim, which targets young adults. The channel is owned by Corus Entertainment, with the brands in use through a brand licensing agreement with WarnerMedia in the United", "title": "Cartoon Network (Canada)" }, { "id": "6059192", "text": "Austria, Australia, Latin America, The Netherlands, Spain, the UK, Ireland, and Canada; season 9 was released on September 26, 2014. Seasons 1-9 were removed from Netflix in the United States as of November 13, 2017, and are now available on Hulu. Seasons 1 through 9 are available to stream on Hotstar in India. How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother (often abbreviated to HIMYM) is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in New York", "title": "How I Met Your Mother" }, { "id": "17014836", "text": "to light when all is said and done. The Cryer family The Harrington family The Young family & Celine Gonzales These main characters do not appear in the opening sequence like the shows title characters (\"The Haves\": The Cryers and The Harringtons and \"The Have Nots\": The Youngs and Celine), but also receive star billing. As a central and very one-of-a-kind antagonist in the program, the \"Veronica Harrington\" character has drawn increasing attention in the media, promoted as \"the ice queen with ice water running through her veins.\" An NBC News article characterized the character as an \"insecure woman that", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)" }, { "id": "9371312", "text": "and 100 episodes. The series finale episode aired on May 20, 2013. In June 2011, the series was picked up for syndication by local affiliates, The CW Plus, and WGN America, making its debut on September 10, 2012. On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, the series began airing weekdays on TBS at 2/1c. Shortly thereafter, it moved to the early morning hour of 6 A.M. throughout the week. As of May 2016, the series has left the line-up entirely. All 7 seasons were available for streaming on Netflix until September of 2018 when they were removed. In Canada, the series is", "title": "Rules of Engagement (TV series)" }, { "id": "4970353", "text": "\"The Haves and the Have Nots\" came in as the most watched program in all of cable television for the night. On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, a \"Haves and the Have Nots\" season 2 episode set an OWN record when it scored the highest ratings in the network's history. The record-breaking episode brought in 3.6 million viewers, surpassing the 3.5 million that tuned in for the \"Oprah's Next Chapter\" interview with Bobbi Kristina which was the network's previous highest rated viewing. On January 9, 2014, as part of Perry's continued partnership with OWN, the network ordered its fourth scripted series", "title": "Tyler Perry" }, { "id": "17213241", "text": "series regular role for the second season of HBO drama series \"Big Little Lies\" as Zoë Kravitz’s character mother Elizabeth Howard. Crystal R. Fox Crystal R. Fox (born October 14, 1965) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Luann Corbin in the NBC/CBS police drama series \"In the Heat of the Night\" (1989-1995), and as Hanna Young in the Oprah Winfrey Network prime time soap opera, \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" (2013–present). Fox was born in Tryon, North Carolina. She made her big screen debut playing Katie Bell in the Academy Award-winning", "title": "Crystal R. Fox" }, { "id": "8226681", "text": "JUCE on pay television providers as well as on some streaming services that offer TBN's six U.S. networks. The network is available in the U.S. on DirecTV and Dish Network and throughout North and Central America as a free-to-air channel on Galaxy 14 C-band, Galaxy 19 K band and available with Glorystar Christian Satellite. Internationally, Smile is on the Hot Bird satellite service in Europe, ABS1 satellite to Asia, India and the Middle East, and Agila 2 both C-band and K band signal in some areas of Asia and the Philippines. The network is also livestreamed on both its own", "title": "Smile (TV network)" }, { "id": "18643735", "text": "and library HBO programming, now available on a direct-to-consumer basis, similar to HBO Now. On April 1, 2015, as part of an agreement with Time Warner that renewed its carriage contract for the Turner Broadcasting System networks and gave its over-the-top television service Sling TV distribution rights to the linear HBO channel, Dish Network secured an option to become a distribution partner for HBO Now following the exclusivity period with Apple. PlayStation Vue customers also have access to HBO Now in addition to their HBO Subscription. The over-the-top service was launched in Latin America in June 2017, although under the", "title": "HBO Now" }, { "id": "8378580", "text": "Big Ten Network The Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American sports network based in Chicago, Illinois. The channel is dedicated to coverage of collegiate sports sanctioned by the Big Ten Conference, including live and recorded event telecasts, news, analysis programs, and other content focusing on the conference's member schools. It is a joint venture between Fox Sports and the Big Ten, with Fox Entertainment Group as 51% stakeholder and operating partner, and the Big Ten Conference owning a 49% stake. It is headquartered in the former Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalog House building at 600 West Chicago Avenue in", "title": "Big Ten Network" }, { "id": "17840286", "text": "New Orleans\" airs simultaneously on Global in Canada. In Australia, the series premiered on Network Ten on October 7, 2014. The series has been sold to Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, which premiered it on February 13, 2015. From season 4 onwards, the series will premiere on Fox UK on Fridays at 9PM starting on July 20, 2018. The series has also been sold to Prime in New Zealand and Fox in Asia. On April 2, 2015, the series began airing on South Africa's M-Net cable TV service and is broadcast to several other sub-Saharan African nations via DStv.", "title": "NCIS: New Orleans" }, { "id": "13874943", "text": "the internationally-standard DVB-S and S2 formats, as do others. Home2US Communications Inc. also offers several ethnic channels on SES 1 at 101° W, as well as other free and pay-TV channels. Many religious broadcasters reach the DTH and distribution markets with unencrypted DVB-S television and radio channels on Galaxy 19. These channels are available as part of the Glorystar Satellite Service. Several U.S.-English language network affiliates (representing CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, FOX, the CW (formerly the WB and UPN), ION Network and MyNetworkTV) are available as free-to-air broadcasts, as are the three U.S.-Spanish language networks (Univisión, Unimás and Telemundo). The", "title": "Satellite television in the United States" }, { "id": "1709564", "text": "Lifetime (TV network) Lifetime is an American pay television channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by the Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company. It features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. , it is received by 93.8 million households in America. Daytime, originally called BETA, was launched in March 1982 by Hearst-ABC Video Services. The cable service operated four hours per day on weekdays. The service was focused on alternative women's programming. Cable Health Network was launched as a full-time channel in", "title": "Lifetime (TV network)" }, { "id": "1494316", "text": "Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American media-services provider headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. The company's primary business is its subscription-based streaming OTT service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house. As of October 2018, Netflix has 137 million total subscribers worldwide, including 58.46 million in the United States. It is available worldwide except in mainland China, Syria, North Korea, and Crimea. The company also has offices in the Netherlands, Brazil, India, Japan, and South Korea. Netflix's initial business", "title": "Netflix" }, { "id": "6998045", "text": "ITV2 +1, E4 +1, ITV +1, ITV3 +1, Channel 5 +1, Film4 +1, Sony Movie Channel +1, 5Star +1, 5USA +1, ITVBe +1, ITV4 +1, Sony Crime Channel +1, CBS Reality +1, truTV +1, Dave ja vu, Blaze +1, Quest +1, Quest Red +1, More4 +1, Pick +1, Channel 4 +1 HD, Pop +1 and Tiny Pop +1 are available via the UK digital terrestrial service, Freeview. Cartoon Network +1 shut down on March 6, 2006 in the UK, but was relaunched on April 1, 2014 replacing Cartoon Network Too. There are currently 50 timeshift channels in the UK on", "title": "Timeshift channel" }, { "id": "20824608", "text": "\"The Haves and the Have Nots\". In 2012, Betham married actor and musician Lane Toran Caudell. Jaclyn Betham Jaclyn Michelle Betham (born July 4, 1986) is an American actress and ballet dancer. She is best known for her role as Amanda Cryer on the television series \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". Betham is originally from Long Beach, California and is of Samoan, Irish, German, Mexican, and English descent. As a child, Betham was a gymnast before she began ballet dancing at age 12. She trained with Ballet San Jose before receiving a full scholarship into the Houston Ballet at", "title": "Jaclyn Betham" }, { "id": "6252320", "text": "comes from Media Blasters, Tsuburaya Productions, MonoFilm Sales and other anime and movie licensors. The linear channel is available on AT&T U-verse, Claro Puerto Rico, Hotwire Communications, Consolidated Communications, Sjobergs Inc., IFiber Communications and OptiLink; its HD feed was launched on 27 September 2010. The VOD service is available on Optimum, Xfinity, Vubiquity, Frontier FiOS and Armstrong. The VOD service was previously available on Charter Communications and Massilion. The channel is available in streaming through its WatchToku.com streaming service, as well as its Amazon Prime and Go90 channels. Toku (TV network) Toku (stylised in all capital letters) is an American", "title": "Toku (TV network)" }, { "id": "18171298", "text": "American Sports Network American Sports Network (ASN) was the sports division of the U.S. television station owner Sinclair Broadcast Group through its Sinclair Networks subsidiary. Formed in July 2014, ASN produces broadcasts of sporting events that are aired primarily across stations owned by Sinclair (in particular, The CW and MyNetworkTV stations owned and/or operated by the company, or, in some markets, on a digital subchannel of a Sinclair station), and syndicated to non-Sinclair stations and regional sports networks. ASN primarily dealt in college sports from NCAA Division I conferences, including live football and basketball games from the Atlantic 10 Conference,", "title": "American Sports Network" }, { "id": "19874466", "text": "CBC New Media Group, as well as Andrew McCollum. McCollum, a founding member of Facebook, became CEO of the company in 2014. As of September 2015, the service was available in 42 universities. On November 14, 2017, Philo launched a new OTT streaming television service in the U.S. The service includes channels from programming groups that include A&E Networks, AMC Networks, Discovery Inc., Scripps Networks Interactive and Viacom, but not 21st Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company, NBCUniversal, CBS Corporation, or Time Warner, and therefore includes no sports. The service is available via TVs, computers, tablets, and phones. Those programming", "title": "Philo (company)" }, { "id": "835902", "text": "created with other networks. A deal was finally reached on January 14, 2015 with undisclosed terms. On March 3, 2017, at midnight, ET, Dish network has dropped the Hearst Television-owned local stations from their line-up. This includes 32 stations in 28 markets, affiliated with NBC, ABC, CBS, The CW, and MyNetworkTV in cities including Boston, Tampa, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and New Orleans. The stations were restored on April 26, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. ET. On October 21, 2014, during the early morning hours, Dish entered a dispute with Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting System. Dish removed CNN, HLN, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, Boomerang,", "title": "Dish Network" }, { "id": "20600554", "text": "Fetv fetv (abbreviation for Family Entertainment Television) is an American broadcast television network that is owned by Family Broadcasting Corporation. Marketed as \"satellite and cable network featuring classic and inspirational programming the whole family can enjoy\", the network airs a variety of classic television programs from the 1950s through the 1980s, along with religious and televangelism programming. Fetv is available on DirecTV, Dish Network, Verizon Fios, Frontier Communications, AT&T U-Verse, and some Xfinity systems, including Chicago, giving the network a reach of 49 million households. Programming on fetv includes \"Peter Gunn\", \"The Partridge Family\", \"Hart to Hart\", \"Perry Mason\", \"Matlock\",", "title": "Fetv" }, { "id": "686247", "text": "and UTV, the franchise for Northern Ireland, in 2015. The ITV network is not owned or operated by one company, but by a number of licensees, which provide regional services while also broadcasting programmes across the network. Since 2016, the fifteen licences are held by two companies, with the majority held by ITV Broadcasting Limited, part of ITV plc. The network is regulated by the media regulator Ofcom who is responsible for awarding the broadcast licences. The last major review of the Channel 3 franchises was in 1991, with all operators' licences having been renewed between 1999 and 2002 and", "title": "ITV (TV network)" }, { "id": "686252", "text": "and northern Scotland – until 2002, when they adopted the ITV plc channels. The broadcasters all make use of the Digital 3&4 multiplex, shared with Channel 4. ITV Encore launched on June 2014 and ITVBe launched in October 2014. ITV Box Office launched in February 2017. ITV plc owns thirteen of the fifteen franchises and broadcasts to England, Wales, southern Scotland, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and Northern Ireland through its subsidiary companies ITV Broadcasting Limited, and UTV Limited The company also owns the breakfast contractor that broadcasts across the network between 6:00 and 9:25am each morning using", "title": "ITV (TV network)" }, { "id": "4375857", "text": "broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW – as well as cable channels owned by Hulu co-parents NBCUniversal, 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company, along with CBS Corporation, Turner Broadcasting System, Scripps Networks Interactive and A+E Networks (encompassing networks such as CNN, Food Network, Disney Channel, A&E, MSNBC and ESPN), with the Showtime OTT service available as an add-on for an extra fee. Currently, live content from the major broadcast networks is limited to owned-and-operated stations and affiliates based in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia; Hulu representatives stated that it", "title": "Hulu" }, { "id": "5363357", "text": "WTHR WTHR, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Owned by the Dispatch Broadcast Group of Columbus, Ohio, it is a sister station to low-powered, Class A MeTV affiliate WALV-CD, channel 46 (which is simulcast on WTHR's third digital subchannel) and Columbus' CBS affiliate WBNS-TV (channel 10). WTHR and WALV share studios on North Meridian Street (south of I-65) in downtown Indianapolis; WTHR's transmitter is located near Ditch Road and West 96th Street in Carmel. On cable, WTHR is available on Charter Spectrum channel 12, and Comcast Xfinity and AT&T", "title": "WTHR" }, { "id": "8363022", "text": "It is also available on select U.S. cable providers, Dish Network, Glorystar (free-to-air Galaxy 19) and DirecTV, in the UK on Sky and in many nations around the world via direct-to-home satellite, such as ABS1 to India and the Middle East, Hot Bird satellite to Europe, and Agila 2 satellite both C-band and Ku-Band signal in Asia and the Philippines. The network also livestreams its programming on its official website. Spectrum launched the network in 720p high definition at the start of August 2017. On June 24, 2016, Hillsong Channel was made available on Apple TV. In Australia, Hillsong Channel", "title": "Hillsong Channel" }, { "id": "2785619", "text": "Everywhere services began emerging in the mid-2010s. In 2015, Dish Network and Sony respectively launched Sling TV and PlayStation Vue, cable-style online and mobile streaming services priced at lower monthly rates than packages offered by traditional pay television system operators. Each include slimmed down tiers of cable and satellite-originated networks from a relatively limited number of network owners. Sling TV, in an effort to cap programming costs, does not include local broadcast stations or regional sports networks; conversely, PlayStation Vue does carry ABC-, NBC-, CBS- and Fox-affiliated stations in select cities where the service is available. Conventional broadcast and cable", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "5584391", "text": "WATE-TV WATE-TV is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 26 (or virtual channel 6 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Sharp's Ridge in North Knoxville. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, WATE has studios in the Greystone mansion on North Broadway/SR 33/SR 71/US 441. On cable, the station is available on Charter Spectrum channel 13 in SD and 713 in HD, as well as Comcast Xfinity channels 13 and 1006, WOW! channels 13 and 901, and AT&T U-Verse channels 6 and 1006. Channel 6 was East Tennessee's", "title": "WATE-TV" }, { "id": "2785620", "text": "networks also launched OTT services during 2014 and 2015 to primarily reach cord-cutters – most of which are younger adults, particularly around college age, and to combat online copyright infringement of their programming. These networks include CBS (launched CBS All Access in October 2014, featuring both on-demand content and live streams of the network's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates), HBO (in April 2015, launched HBO Now, a standalone internet-only subscription service similar to its TV Everywhere service HBO Go), and Showtime (which launched a VOD/live streaming service of the same name in May 2015). Over-the-air (OTA) commercial stations and networks generate", "title": "Television in the United States" }, { "id": "17887913", "text": "and Jerry Show\" first premiered on March 1, 2014 on Teletoon in Canada. The series premiered on April 9, 2014 on Cartoon Network in the United States. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, it began airing on April 12, 2014 on Boomerang. It premiered on April 21, 2014 on Cartoon Network in India. In Australia, Cartoon Network premiered it on May 5, 2014. The series began airing on Boomerang in the United States on January 5, 2015. In Indonesia, it is currently broadcast on GTV since February 13, 2017 and on RCTI since August 13, 2017. In China, it is", "title": "The Tom and Jerry Show (2014 TV series)" }, { "id": "686251", "text": "for this programming, the ITV network is available on all platforms free to air and can be found at the top of the EPG of all providers. Since the launch of the platform in 1998, all of the ITV licensees have received gifted capacity on the digital terrestrial television platform. At present, the companies are able to broadcast additional channels and all choose to broadcast the ITV plc owned ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV in their region. UTV and STV (formerly Scottish Television and Grampian Television) previously broadcast their own services – UTV2 in Northern Ireland and S2 in central", "title": "ITV (TV network)" }, { "id": "5205568", "text": "Eva Tamargo Eva Tamargo (born December 24, 1960) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald on the NBC daytime soap opera \"Passions\" (1999—2008), and as Celine Gonzales in the Oprah Winfrey Network primetime soap opera \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". Tamargo was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Cuban immigrants. She was married to Michael Lemus from 1985 to 2003 and is sometimes credited as \"Eva Tamargo Lemus\". She is the daughter of the Cuban journalist Agustin Tamargo and Rosalba Nápoles. She has two children, Matthew and Gabriella. From 1999 to 2008 Tamargo played", "title": "Eva Tamargo" }, { "id": "16008056", "text": "have. In doing so, Louis experiences firsthand the power and the beauty of a family’s love. The play was very loosely adapted into a television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Apart from featuring the lives of a wealthy family and poor-class one, the series is significantly different from the play featuring entirely new characters and situations. It premiered on May 28, 2013. \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" released on DVD July 9, 2013 along with \"\". The Haves and the Have Nots (play) The story follows the life of a wealthy family that has everything they need and", "title": "The Haves and the Have Nots (play)" }, { "id": "12894565", "text": "of local television stations, in 2014 and transformed into its current form, a linear channel devoted to rolling news coverage and short-form videos. Originally distributed solely via over-the-top platforms, Newsy was offered to cable outlets beginning in late 2017. One America News Network (OANN) was launched in the summer of 2013 by Herring Networks, initially under the cooperation of \"The Washington Times\". The channel's content consists of rolling news coverage and political talk shows from a conservative viewpoint. The network is distributed by DirecTV, Verizon FiOS, CenturyLink Prism, Consolidated Communications, and AT&T U-verse. It formerly streamed online but no longer", "title": "United States cable news" }, { "id": "20824606", "text": "Jaclyn Betham Jaclyn Michelle Betham (born July 4, 1986) is an American actress and ballet dancer. She is best known for her role as Amanda Cryer on the television series \"The Haves and the Have Nots\". Betham is originally from Long Beach, California and is of Samoan, Irish, German, Mexican, and English descent. As a child, Betham was a gymnast before she began ballet dancing at age 12. She trained with Ballet San Jose before receiving a full scholarship into the Houston Ballet at age 15. Betham went on to perform with Ballet San Jose, Anaheim Ballet, Opera San Jose,", "title": "Jaclyn Betham" }, { "id": "13540546", "text": "and has a recurring role as city councilman Jason Tyler on the 7th season of the award-winning and critically acclaimed show \"Army Wives\", Lifetime's number one drama and the number one show on cable with women 18 to 49. His credits include guest starring on \"Brothers and Sisters\" on ABC, guest starring on \"The Haves and the Have Nots\" from Tyler Perry, costarring with Jennifer Esposito on the Hallmark movie of the week, \"The Wish List\", playing a White House correspondent on the Emmy-award-winning show \"House of Cards\" costarring as an auctioneer on CBS's number one show \"Person of Interest\"", "title": "Barry Ratcliffe" }, { "id": "16046903", "text": "KSQA KSQA, virtual and VHF digital channel 12, is a television station licensed to Topeka, Kansas, United States that is an affiliate of The Country Network. The station is owned by the KSQA Television Group, a joint venture between Barbara Wade (who owns a controlling 51% interest) and Cooper-Fowler Media (which owns the remaining 49%). KSQA's offices and transmitter are located on Jackson Street in southwest Topeka. On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications channel 12 in standard definition; KSQA is not currently carried on AT&T U-verse, DirecTV or Dish Network within the Topeka market. The station first", "title": "KSQA" } ]

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[ { "id": "6995381", "text": "Vale of tears The phrase vale of tears (Latin \"vallis lacrimarum\") is a Christian phrase referring to the tribulations of life that Christian doctrine says are left behind only when one leaves the world and enters Heaven. The term \"valley of tears\" is also used sometimes. The phrase appears in some translations of Psalm 84:6, which describes those strengthened by God's blessing: even in the valley of tears () they find life-giving water. The Latin Vulgate (4th century) uses the phrase \"valle lacrimum\" in Psalm 84:7 (the equivalent of Psalm 84:6 in English translations). Wycliffe's Bible (1395) reads \"valei of", "title": "Vale of tears" }, { "id": "6995383", "text": "English translation of the German Lutheran hymn. Vale of tears The phrase vale of tears (Latin \"vallis lacrimarum\") is a Christian phrase referring to the tribulations of life that Christian doctrine says are left behind only when one leaves the world and enters Heaven. The term \"valley of tears\" is also used sometimes. The phrase appears in some translations of Psalm 84:6, which describes those strengthened by God's blessing: even in the valley of tears () they find life-giving water. The Latin Vulgate (4th century) uses the phrase \"valle lacrimum\" in Psalm 84:7 (the equivalent of Psalm 84:6 in English", "title": "Vale of tears" }, { "id": "2912649", "text": "Valedictorian Valedictorian is an academic title of success used in the United States, Canada, Central America, and the Philippines for the student who delivers the closing or farewell statement at a graduation ceremony (called a valediction). The chosen valedictorian is often the student with the highest ranking (highest Grade Point Average, or GPA for short) among their graduating class. The term is an Anglicised derivation of the Latin \"vale dicere\" (\"to say farewell\"), historically rooted in the valedictorian's traditional role as the final speaker at the graduation ceremony before the students receive their diplomas. The valedictory address generally is considered", "title": "Valedictorian" }, { "id": "2912656", "text": "class to bid a final farewell to the students and to the school, as the graduates prepare to disperse and to begin the next phase of their lives. Valedictorian Valedictorian is an academic title of success used in the United States, Canada, Central America, and the Philippines for the student who delivers the closing or farewell statement at a graduation ceremony (called a valediction). The chosen valedictorian is often the student with the highest ranking (highest Grade Point Average, or GPA for short) among their graduating class. The term is an Anglicised derivation of the Latin \"vale dicere\" (\"to say", "title": "Valedictorian" }, { "id": "10598445", "text": "Valerian has only 4 days to live and will die on the dawn of the new year, he must save his own life within those few days, or pay the price that he made with evil so many years ago, but are no match against the great power pursuing him. Helping him is his servant, Boy, a child with no name or past, and the orphan girl, Willow. Together they dig in death-fields at midnight, and are swept into the subterranean city on a journey from which there is no escape. The story starts off in a theatre in a", "title": "The Book of Dead Days" }, { "id": "233595", "text": "please béne váleo – I'm fine mále – bad mále váleo – I'm not good quáeso (['kwajso]/['kwe:so]) – please íta, íta est, íta véro, sic, sic est, étiam – yes non, minime – no grátias tíbi, grátias tíbi ágo – thank you, I give thanks to you mágnas grátias, mágnas grátias ágo – many thanks máximas grátias, máximas grátias ágo, ingéntes grátias ágo – thank you very much accípe sis / accípite sítis , libénter – you're welcome qua aetáte es? – how old are you? 25 ánnos nátus / 25 ánnos náta – 25 years old loquerísne ... –", "title": "Latin" }, { "id": "10598448", "text": "spells a name because of Willow's perfect pitch. She identifies the notes as 'G-A-D-B-E-E-B-E', the name of a man who had died. They search the largest cemetery in town for his grave; it is not in a single one. Valerian is attacked by people who owed money and buried alive. Boy and Willow manage to dig him out and drag him home, Valerian now increasingly more desperate and with a broken arm. They have to go and see the director of funerals. Valerian sends Boy alone while he and Willow visit Kepler, Valerian's old rival and associate. They believe Kepler", "title": "The Book of Dead Days" }, { "id": "625244", "text": "Valerian (emperor) Valerian (; ; 193/195/200260 or 264), also known as Valerian the Elder, was Roman Emperor from 22 October 253 AD to spring 260 AD. He was taken captive by the Persian Emperor, Shapur I, after the Battle of Edessa, becoming the first Roman emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war, causing shock and instability throughout the empire. Unlike many of the would-be emperors and rebels who vied for imperial power during the Crisis of the Third Century of the Roman Empire, Valerian was of a noble and traditional senatorial family. Details of his early life are", "title": "Valerian (emperor)" }, { "id": "14444997", "text": "Vale un Perú Vale un Perú () is a Spanish language phrase which has come to symbolize a matter of great value. The term originated in the colonial times of the Viceroyalty of Peru, and is still used in various parts of Latin America. Spanish colonists created the phrase in order to describe the depths of Peru’s riches. Peruvian bullion provided revenue for the Spanish Crown and fueled a complex trade network that extended as far as Europe and the Philippines. According to the Royal Spanish Academy, the official royal institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language, the term \"\"Vale", "title": "Vale un Perú" }, { "id": "10598446", "text": "city only known as 'Grand Theater'. Valerian is performing a magic trick using Boy's talent to fit into small spaces. Boy is Valerian's slave (Valerian calls him his 'famulus'). He is treated cruelly by Valerian. Boy, after the show, is sent to a pub to collect something from an acquaintance of Valerian's. This something is a music box, which the increasingly distracted Valerian assures Boy that he needs. The acquaintance, an ugly man named Green, walks to the toilet; Boy follows. The man is killed (although it is not clear what killed him, since the killer was shielded by purple", "title": "The Book of Dead Days" }, { "id": "2912650", "text": "a final farewell to classmates, before they disperse to pursue their individual paths after graduating. In Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, India and the United Kingdom, the title valedictorian is not used frequently. In Australia, the title is sometimes awarded to a member of a graduating university class on the basis of contribution to the school rather than academic success. The highest-ranking student in a graduating class is often referred to as \"dux\" (Latin for \"leader\"), and may or may not give a speech. In France the term \"Major de promotion\" (\"first in class\") is used, although the term", "title": "Valedictorian" }, { "id": "1448673", "text": "Valerius Severus Valerius Severus (; died September 307), also Severus II, was a Western Roman Emperor from 306 to 307. After failing to besiege Rome, he fled to Ravenna. It is thought that he was killed there or executed near Rome. Severus was of humble birth, born in Northern Illyria (now Serbia) around the middle of the third century AD. He rose to become a senior officer in the Roman army, and as an old friend of Galerius, that emperor ordered that Severus be appointed \"Caesar\" of the Western Roman Empire, a post that he succeeded to on 1 May", "title": "Valerius Severus" }, { "id": "101426", "text": "pain, depression, sympathy, compassion, solitude, or saudade. Many cultures and religions have the idea of an afterlife, and also hold the idea of reward or judgement and punishment for past sin. The word death comes from Old English \"dēaþ\", which in turn comes from Proto-Germanic *\"dauþuz\" (reconstructed by etymological analysis). This comes from the Proto-Indo-European stem *\"dheu-\" meaning the \"process, act, condition of dying\". The concept and symptoms of death, and varying degrees of delicacy used in discussion in public forums, have generated numerous scientific, legal, and socially acceptable terms or euphemisms for death. When a person has died, it", "title": "Death" }, { "id": "4914826", "text": "Things seemed to be coming together when Mister Fantastic became trapped in Doom's armor, and publicly pretended to be the villain, remarrying Sue and making her his baroness shortly after Valeria is sent to Haven, a safe house at the end of the universe, for her own protection, but as events proceeded, Reed was freed from the armor, again calling Valeria's future into question. She was revealed to be the second, unborn child of Reed and Sue Richards, whom Sue had seemingly miscarried years before, and who had originally been named Valerie Meghan Richards. Under the guidance of Roma, Franklin", "title": "Valeria Richards" }, { "id": "1823971", "text": "of Messana in Sicilia. The first to bear this name received it after relieving Messana from a Carthaginian blockade in 264 BC. The Valerii Messallae held numerous consulships and other high offices in the Roman state, remaining prominent well into imperial times. Some of them had additional surnames, including \"Barbatus\", \"bearded\", as well as \"Niger\" and \"Rufus\", originally referring to someone with black or red hair. The names \"Valerius Maximus\" and \"Valerius Messalla\" occur as late as the third century, but the consular family of that age may have been descended from the Valerii through the female line, and more", "title": "Valeria (gens)" }, { "id": "9037323", "text": "bomb scare at Seattle Grace while her husband is being treated in surgery for injuries from a car crash. George O'Malley helped her through labor, and she thanked him by naming her son William George Bailey Jones (though he is nicknamed \"Tuck\"). Bailey adjusts to becoming a parent and reconciling this with her desire to continue her career as a surgeon. Her professional confidence was shaken and questioned by other surgeons when Izzie Stevens cut Denny Duquette's LVAD wire and Denny subsequently died. Christina kept Burke's secret about his disabled hand, and Bailey felt that she wasn't in control of", "title": "Miranda Bailey" }, { "id": "11329094", "text": "Valerian and Porcian laws The Valerian and Porcian laws were Roman laws passed between 509 BC and 184 BC. They exempted Roman citizens from degrading and shameful forms of punishment, such as whipping, scourging, or crucifixion. They also established certain rights for Roman citizens, including Provocatio, the right to appeal to the tribunes of the plebs. The Valerian law also made it legal to kill any citizen who was plotting to establish a tyranny. This clause was used several times, the most important of which was its usage by Julius Caesar's assassins. The first Valerian law was enacted by Publius", "title": "Valerian and Porcian laws" }, { "id": "4914835", "text": "version of her mother's invisibility powers, allowing her to shield someone's bio-electric aura, kinetic energy, heat energy, and other evidence of their existence. The idea of Susan's child surviving her birth has been previously explored in \"What If...?\" Vol.2 #30 (1991) in two diverging stories. In the \"Marvel Zombies\" prequel \"Dead Days\", Valeria and Franklin are killed and partially devoured by an infected She-Hulk. A grieving Invisible Woman kills She-Hulk (restrained by the Thing) with a force field in retaliation. The death of the children causes Reed to go insane, and he deliberately infects his teammates. They, in turn, infect", "title": "Valeria Richards" }, { "id": "7145199", "text": "Holy Ghost), \"das Chagas\" (of wounds, from the Feast of the Five Wounds of Christ), \"Graça\" (grace, from Our Lady of Grace), \"Patrocínio\" (patronage, from Our Lady of Patronage), \"Paz\" (peace, from Our Lady Mediatrix of Peace), \"Luz\" (light, from Our Lady of the Divine Light), \"Neves\" (snows, from Our Lady of the Snows), \"Penha\" (cliff, bluff, from Our Lady of the Bluff of France, that in Spanish is called Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia), \"das Dores\" (of sorrows, from Our Lady of Sorrows), \"Bonfim\" (good end, from Our Lord of Good Death), \"das Virgens\" (of the virgins martyrs), \"dos Anjos\"", "title": "Portuguese name" }, { "id": "7145193", "text": "upper part of the village), \"Cabo\" (on the far end of the village), \"Cabral\" (near the field where the goats graze). In some cases, the family name may not be a locative, but an indication of ownership. Surnames were also derived from geological or geographical forms, such as \"Pedroso\" (stony or full of pebbles land), \"Rocha\" (rock), \"Souza\"/\"Sousa\" (from Latin saxa, a place with seixos, i.e. pebbles, or the name of a Portuguese river), \"Vale\" (valley, dale), \"Bierzo\" (mountain), \"Ribeiro\"/\"Rivero\" (little river, creek, brook), \"Siqueira\" or \"Sequeira\" (a non-irrigated land), \"Castro\" (castle or ruins of ancient buildings, fortress or fortification", "title": "Portuguese name" }, { "id": "101427", "text": "is also said they have \"passed away\", \"passed on\", \"expired\", or are \"gone\", among numerous other socially accepted, religiously specific, slang, and irreverent terms. Bereft of life, the dead person is then a \"corpse\", \"cadaver\", a \"body\", a \"set of remains\", and when all flesh has rotted away, a skeleton. The terms \"carrion\" and \"carcass\" can also be used, though these more often connote the remains of non-human animals. As a polite reference to a dead person, it has become common practice to use the participle form of \"decease\", as in \"the deceased\"; another noun form is \"decedent\". The ashes", "title": "Death" }, { "id": "746289", "text": "There are many examples of use of the name \"Elysium\" in popular culture. For example, Elysium is briefly mentioned in Ridley Scott's film \"Gladiator\", wherein the general Maximus addresses his troops thus: \"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. \"For you are in Elysium\", and you're already dead!\" In \"\", Hercules' deceased wife and children live happily in Elysian Fields, unaware they are dead. Hercules encounters them while trying to return Persephone to her angry mother Demeter, after she is kidnapped by Hades, who is in love", "title": "Elysium" }, { "id": "2678397", "text": "cannon fodder and nothing else while in \"Heroes of the Equinox\" (\"Les Héros de l'Equinoxe\"), he comes across as woefully inadequate compared with the champions he is competing against. Although devoted to Laureline, he has been led astray by other women, such as in \"Heroes of the Equinox\" and \"Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos\". When Galaxity disappears in \"The Wrath of Hypsis\" he contemplates following his fellows into oblivion, much to Laureline's horror. Even afterwards, he feels the loss of Galaxity much more than Laureline, as it is his birthplace. The name Valérian comes from Eastern Europe, although its origin is", "title": "Valérian and Laureline" }, { "id": "16645250", "text": "Voyle Voyle is both a given name and a surname. The origin of the name is from the Welsh language.It was originally moel , meaning bald , but became mutated ( a change that happens in the Welsh language under certain grammatical rules, in this instance the soft mutation, from moel to foel.) It can refer to a person or a land feature such as the poorly vegetated top of a round hill. The name is often mis-spelt on census returns and the like, as it became anglicised. As the Welsh letter f is sounded as v then the name", "title": "Voyle" }, { "id": "16231024", "text": "Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus Saints Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus are three Christian martyrs who were buried on 14 April of some unspecified year in the Catacombs of Praetextatus on the Via Appia near Rome. According to the legendary \"Acts of Saint Cecilia\", a mid-fifth-century Acts of the Martyrs composition that has no historical value, Valerian was the husband of Saint Cecilia, Tiburtius his brother, and Maximus as a soldier or official who was martyred with these two. The story was retold by Chaucer. Devotional publications make the story more credible by simplifying it. The three martyrs were traditionally honoured with", "title": "Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus" }, { "id": "5827469", "text": "his death (this was similar to the common law concept of outlawry). In addition, a banished noble (\"banita\") who killed an infamed one could expect his exile sentence to be revoked. Infamy Infamy, in common usage, is the notoriety gained from a negative incident or reputation (as opposed to fame). The word stems from the Latin \"infamia\", antonym of \"fama\" (in the sense of \"good reputation\"). Infamy is a term of art in Roman Catholic Canon Law. According to the \"Catholic Encyclopedia\" of 1913, infamy in the canonical sense is defined as the privation or lessening of one's good name", "title": "Infamy" }, { "id": "15136808", "text": "probably exercised the greatest influence in spreading the name. Her cult was practised on the very important Way of St James and, as a cephalophore, she became a favourite subject for the early modern ceramics industry. The majority of the variant spellings are of recent, mainly 20th century, origin, with fashions often following the forms adopted in popular songs. The modern masculine given name Valéry is ambiguous. While generally a cognate of Valérie, it can also be development of, or synonym for, the name \"Walaric(us)\" (English Walric), which is of Germanic origin and signifies “foreign power”. A notable example is", "title": "Valerie (given name)" }, { "id": "1448676", "text": "307 at \"Tres Tabernae\", near the current Cisterna di Latina. Another belief is that Severus II was killed in Ravenna. Severus was survived by his son Flavius Severianus. Valerius Severus Valerius Severus (; died September 307), also Severus II, was a Western Roman Emperor from 306 to 307. After failing to besiege Rome, he fled to Ravenna. It is thought that he was killed there or executed near Rome. Severus was of humble birth, born in Northern Illyria (now Serbia) around the middle of the third century AD. He rose to become a senior officer in the Roman army, and", "title": "Valerius Severus" }, { "id": "7712007", "text": "one should not say, 'Go with peace' [lech b'shalom], but 'Go to peace' [lech l'shalom], because [King] David said to [his son] Absalom, 'Go with peace', and he went and was hanged; whereas Jethro said to Moses, 'Go to peace', and he went and succeeded.\" [Talmud, Moed Katan 29a] Hungarian valedictions are extendable, which makes a number of variations on the above expressions possible, such as \"Őszinte tisztelettel\" (\"With sincere appreciation\") or \"Szívélyes üdvözlettel\" (\"With cordial regards\"). Formal valedictions should end with a comma followed by a paragraph where the valedictor's name (and optionally his status) is identified. Depending on", "title": "Valediction" }, { "id": "1354628", "text": "establish a new palais des congrès in the area. The demonym corresponding to Valence is \"Valentinois\", but \"Valentinois\" also designates a geographical area, and one of the old provinces of France, with its capital Valence having been part of the province of Dauphiné. The word \"valence\" comes from Latin \"valentia\", meaning \"strength or capacity\". Known in Roman times as \"Valentia Julia\", the city had been the capital of the , and the seat of a celebrated school prior to the Roman conquest. It became a colony under Augustus, and was an important town of Viennensis Prima under Valentinian I. It", "title": "Valence (city)" }, { "id": "10598452", "text": "Valerian's son and that Boy was made that night 15 years ago, when Valerian bet on his life. Valerian, shocked, willingly walks into the vortex, and the demon claims him. Boy questions Kepler about his real father, and Kepler says that Valerian is not really Boy's father, that he just said that to save Boy. The book ends with Boy and Willow returning to the City with Kepler. Boy was Valerians helper. Willow is an orphan who served a theatre's singer, also the one who declared Willow with 'perfect pitch.' She used to work in a gentleman's club, before she", "title": "The Book of Dead Days" }, { "id": "2045250", "text": "artistic or symbolic reminders of mortality. In the European Christian art context, \"the expression [...] developed with the growth of Christianity, which emphasized Heaven, Hell, and salvation of the soul in the afterlife\". In English, the phrase is pronounced , . \"Memento\" is the 2nd person singular future active imperative of \"meminī\", \"to remember, to bear in mind\", usually serving as a warning: \"remember!\" \"Mori\" is the present active infinitive of the deponent verb \"morior\", literally \"to die\". In other words, \"remember death\" or \"remember that you will die\". Plato's \"Phaedo\", where the death of Socrates is recounted, introduces the", "title": "Memento mori" }, { "id": "15136807", "text": "generally of Romance origins. The Latin clan name, \"Valerius\", is masculine and denotes strength, health or boldness. \"Valeria\" is simply the feminine form of this. Both masculine and feminine given names are derived via French into other languages. In Catholic Europe, given names always related the individual to a saint, so the popularity of a name often reflected the importance of the cult of a saint. There were several important saints who bore the name and were widely venerated in the Middle Ages, as well as more locally in recent times. St Valerie of Limoges (French \"Sainte Valérie de Limoges\")", "title": "Valerie (given name)" }, { "id": "718927", "text": "three days to bring Cosette to Fantine, but Javert refuses. Fantine discovers that Cosette is not at the hospital and fretfully asks where she is. Javert orders her to be quiet, and then reveals to her Valjean's real identity. Weakened by the severity of her illness, she falls back in shock and dies. Valjean goes to Fantine, speaks to her in an inaudible whisper, kisses her hand, and then leaves with Javert. Later, Fantine's body is unceremoniously thrown into a public grave. Valjean escapes, is recaptured, and is sentenced to death. The king commutes his sentence to penal servitude for", "title": "Les Misérables" }, { "id": "15136806", "text": "Valerie (given name) Valerie is almost always a feminine given name in French, derived directly from the French \"Valérie\" (a female-only name). Valéry or Valery is a masculine given name in parts of Europe (particularly in France and Russia), as well as a common surname in Francophone countries. Another, much rarer, French masculine form can be Valėre. Both feminine and masculine forms have derivatives in many European languages, and are especially common in Russian and other Eastern European languages. However the masculine form is not always a cognate of the feminine: it can have a distinct etymology. The name is", "title": "Valerie (given name)" }, { "id": "18409471", "text": "the fourth century \"Aurelius\" was surpassed in number by \"Flavius\", and other names became quite common, including \"Valerius, Claudius, Fabius, Julius\", and \"Junius\". These names no longer had any utility in indicating one's patrilineal ancestry, and became largely perfunctory. They could be changed to indicate rank or status, and even came to be abbreviated, much as praenomina had been. Both in its original form, identifying an individual as a member of a Roman gens, and in its later form, as an indicator of status, the nomen continued to be used for several decades after the collapse of Imperial authority in", "title": "Nomen (Roman name)" }, { "id": "15136809", "text": "Walric, abbot of Leuconay. Both “Saint-Valery” [valri] and “Saint-Valéry” [valeri] are common elements in French place-names, often used optionally for the same place. The second form is a modern misspelling for ‘Saint-Valery’, that is to say St Walric. Valerie (given name) Valerie is almost always a feminine given name in French, derived directly from the French \"Valérie\" (a female-only name). Valéry or Valery is a masculine given name in parts of Europe (particularly in France and Russia), as well as a common surname in Francophone countries. Another, much rarer, French masculine form can be Valėre. Both feminine and masculine forms", "title": "Valerie (given name)" }, { "id": "2111352", "text": "contribution to his entire life was naming him Sue, commonly a feminine name, which results in the young man suffering from ridicule and harassment by everyone he meets in his travels. Because of this, Sue grows up tough and mean, and smartens up very quickly, though he frequently relocates due to the shame his name gives him. Angered by the embarrassment and abuse that he endures in his life, he swears that he will find and kill his father for giving him \"that awful name\". Sue later locates his father at a tavern in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, during the middle of", "title": "A Boy Named Sue" }, { "id": "2234185", "text": "by turning into a snake. After his return, he curses anyone trying to enter the place alive. \"Tuonela\" is used as the translation for the Greek word ᾍδης (Hades) in Finnish translations of the Bible. In Finnish Christianity it is often interpreted as the place of the dead before the Last Judgement. Tuonela Tuonela is the realm of the dead or the Underworld in Finnish mythology. Tuonela, Tuoni, Manala and Mana are used synonymously. In Estonian mythology, it is called \"Toonela\" or \"Manala\". According to traditional Finnish religion, the fate of good and bad people is the same and the", "title": "Tuonela" }, { "id": "1756001", "text": "Old age Old age refers to ages nearing or surpassing the life expectancy of human beings, and is thus the end of the human life cycle. Terms and euphemisms include old people, the elderly (worldwide usage), seniors (American usage), senior citizens (British and American usages), older adults (in the social sciences), and the elders (in many cultures—including the cultures of aboriginal people). Old people often have limited regenerative abilities and are more susceptible to disease, syndromes, injuries and sickness than younger adults. The organic process of ageing is called senescence, the medical study of the aging process is called gerontology,", "title": "Old age" }, { "id": "656676", "text": "\"\"Capitan Spavento della Vall'Inferna\"\" (\"Captain Fear, (Lord) of Hell's Valley\"; the name of \"Vall'Inferna\" also sounds similar to \"Va' all'Inferno!\", \"[When you die] Go to Hell!\", an Italian-language imprecation), \"\"Salvador de los Vírgenes Borrachos\"\" (Spanish: \"Savior of Drunken Virgins\"), or \"\"Sieur de Fracasse et Brise-tout\"\" (French: \"Lord of 'Knock it down' and 'Break everything'\"). The French coined characters like \"Boudoufle\" (Norman French: \"Puffed up with hurt pride\"), \"Taille-bras\" (either \"Limb-Cutter\" or \"Arm's Length\"), and \"Engoulevent\" (either \"Night-bird\" or \"Big-mouth\"). England has the Irish dramatist George Farquhar's play \"The Recruiting Officer\". Major Bloodnok of the \"Goon Show\" bears some resemblance to", "title": "Il Capitano" }, { "id": "5602823", "text": "seize, and collapses to the ground. Dellamorte, realizing that the rest of the world doesn't exist and fearing that his assistant is dead or dying, loads a gun with two dum-dum bullets to finish them both off. Gnaghi wakes up and drops Dellamorte's gun off the cliff. He then asks to be taken home, speaking clearly. Dellamorte replies: \"Gna.\" The original title \"Dellamorte Dellamore\" is a word play in Italian, \"della morte\" (spelled as two separate words) meaning \"of death,\" and \"dell'amore\" (again, spelled separately) meaning \"of love.\" The whole title could then be translated as \"On the Death of", "title": "Cemetery Man" }, { "id": "6995382", "text": "teeris,\" and the Bishop's Bible (1568) reads \"vale of teares.\" The King James Version (1611), however, reads \"valley of Baca,\" and the Psalter in the Book of Common Prayer (1662) follows the Coverdale Bible (1535) and reads \"vale of misery.\" The phrase also occurs in the writings of Jerome (c. 347–420) and Boniface (c. 675–754), but was perhaps popularized by the hymn \"Salve Regina\", which at the end of the first stanza mentions \"gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle\", or \"mourning and weeping in this valley of tears\". The phrase also appears in \"Be still, my soul\" (1855), the", "title": "Vale of tears" }, { "id": "15356206", "text": "Vae victis Vae victis () is Latin for \"woe to the vanquished\", or \"woe to the conquered\". It means that those defeated in battle are entirely at the mercy of their conquerors and should not expect—or request—leniency. Most of the events related by ancient historians about early Roman history are considered legends, with the Gaulish sack of Rome one of the first events which modern scholars are confident actually occurred, without accepting the colourful incidents reported by tradition. According to tradition, in 390 BC, an army of Gauls led by Brennus attacked Rome, capturing all of the city except for", "title": "Vae victis" }, { "id": "594847", "text": "reaching the kingdom of Armorica (historically, the region between the Loire and Seine rivers, later comprising Brittany, Normandy, Anjou, Maine and Touraine), he defeated the king and killed thousands of inhabitants. Before departing to Rome, he summoned Conanus, the rebellious nephew of Octavius, and asked him to rule as king of the land, which was renamed Brittany, or \"Little Britain\". Conan's men married native women after cutting out their tongues to preserve the purity of their language. Geoffrey of Monmouth presents this legend to explain the Welsh name for Brittany, Llydaw, as originating from \"lled-taw\" or \"half-silent\". Given that Conan", "title": "Magnus Maximus" }, { "id": "13873007", "text": "Valemont Valemont is a supernatural American television miniseries on MTV that premiered on September 21, 2009. Two episodes premiered on Tuesdays during \"The Hills\" and \"The City\". For six consecutive weeks, two and a half minute episodes of \"Valemont\" premiered in the commercial pods directly preceding \"The Hills\" and following \"The City\". The concluding 23 episodes of the series (35 episodes in total for season 1) were made available online at MTV.com and on V Cast Video from Verizon Wireless, along with other bonus footage. The show follows Maggie Gracen (Kristen Hager), who after visiting the morgue to help identify", "title": "Valemont" }, { "id": "13873004", "text": "Valemont Valemont is a supernatural American television miniseries on MTV that premiered on September 21, 2009. Two episodes premiered on Tuesdays during \"The Hills\" and \"The City\". For six consecutive weeks, two and a half minute episodes of \"Valemont\" premiered in the commercial pods directly preceding \"The Hills\" and following \"The City\". The concluding 23 episodes of the series (35 episodes in total for season 1) were made available online at MTV.com and on V Cast Video from Verizon Wireless, along with other bonus footage. The show follows Maggie Gracen (Kristen Hager), who after visiting the morgue to help identify", "title": "Valemont" }, { "id": "17737980", "text": "take Arya with him, but Arya expresses wish to go home, so he gives Arya a strange Braavosi iron coin to ensure her induction into his guild, the Faceless Men, and tells her to remember the passphrase \"\"Valar Morghulis\"\" (\"All men must die\" in High Valyrian) before leaving. The next morning, Roose Bolton captures the castle, and Arya becomes his personal cupbearer. Eventually, Arya escapes Harrenhal with her friends Gendry and Hot Pie after killing a guard. While Arya and her companions are making their way north, she begins dreaming of her lost direwolf, Nymeria. Later, she and her companions", "title": "Arya Stark" }, { "id": "3011535", "text": "that night, their camp is ambushed by the Ra'zac. A stranger named Murtagh rescues them, but Brom is gravely injured. Saphira watches over Brom as the night progresses, yet when morning comes they realize there is nothing they can do to save him. Brom gives Eragon his blessing, reveals that he was also once a Dragon Rider and that his dragon's name was Saphira, and dies. Saphira then encases Brom in a tomb made of a diamond. Murtagh becomes Eragon's new companion and they travel to the city Gil'ead to find information on how to find the Varden, a group", "title": "Eragon" }, { "id": "1354698", "text": "In 1981, he received the \"prix du quartier de l'Horloge\" [prize of the quarter of the clock] for the best work of urban art in the 1970s. The water tower sculpture was distinguished by the label \"20th century\" in 2003 and was the subject of a stamp in 2013. A unique ecological and natural heritage in France, channels accompany Valence since Roman times. The name of Valence comes from three Celtic words: \"val\" (water), \"len\" (plain) and \"ty\" (House) and would mean \"water-rich inhabited place\". At the time these rivers allowed the inhabitants to satisfy many needs and activities: Fishing,", "title": "Valence (city)" }, { "id": "2912651", "text": "is not related to any ceremonial role, as there are rarely graduation ceremonies in schools or universities. How an individual school confers the title is typically based upon the highest grade point average. Some institutions confer the title on the class member chosen to deliver the final graduation address, regardless of the speaker's academic credentials. Historically and traditionally, however, schools confer the title upon the highest ranking graduate of the class, who thereby earns the honor of delivering the valedictory address. Some institutions award the title based upon various criteria such as overall academic record of grades and credits, a", "title": "Valedictorian" }, { "id": "165280", "text": "dead (also called Erebus) where all mortals go when they die. Very few mortals could leave Hades once they entered. The exceptions, Heracles and Theseus, are heroic. Even Odysseus in his \"Nekyia\" (\"Odyssey\", xi) calls up the spirits of the departed, rather than descend to them. Later Greek philosophy introduced the idea that all mortals are judged after death and are either rewarded or cursed. There were several sections of the realm of Hades, including Elysium, the Asphodel Meadows, and Tartarus. Greek mythographers were not perfectly consistent about the geography of the afterlife. A contrasting myth of the afterlife concerns", "title": "Hades" }, { "id": "13019209", "text": "apart from a close FA Cup game with eventual runners-up West Bromwich Albion. However, in the middle of the season there were calls for a change of name; supporters were barely in favour, with names such as 'Stoke Central' and 'Stoke United' suggested. A meeting of shareholders discussed the name of 'Stoke North End', though the eventually settled on 'Hanley Port Vale'. This new name was not favoured by the fans and talk of a name change lingered for a few years before eventually falling away. Vale suffered relegation in 1935–36. The pre-season consisted of selling top striker Tom Nolan", "title": "History of Port Vale F.C." }, { "id": "11300768", "text": "Peire de Valeira Peire de Valeira, Valeria, or Valera (fl. early–mid twelfth century) was a Gascon troubadour. Since troubadour poetry probably originated in northwest Aquitaine (Poitou and Saintonge) and first spread—within a generation—south into Gascony, Peire was one of the earliest troubadours. Only two of his poems survive, one \"canso\" (\"Vezer volgra n'Ezelgarda\") and one \"cobla\" (\"Qui qu'Amors don son voler\"). His birthplace was Valera, near Podensac and Saint-Macaire in the Gironde. His \"vida\" places his birthplace in the fief of Arnaut Guillem de Marsan, who was himself a troubadour. He was a contemporary of Marcabru and originally a jongleur.", "title": "Peire de Valeira" }, { "id": "2912655", "text": "closing or farewell statement delivered at a graduation ceremony. It is an oration at commencement (in Canada, called convocation in university and graduation in high school) exercises in U.S. and some Canadian high schools, colleges, and universities delivered by one of the graduates. The mode of discourse generally is inspirational and persuasive. The various aims of this address are to inspire the graduates and to thank individuals responsible for their successes while reflecting on youthful frivolity and the accomplishments of the class. Above all, however, the primary aim of the valedictory address is to allow a representative of the graduating", "title": "Valedictorian" }, { "id": "19745554", "text": "can't deal with this on an emotional and psychological level right now.\" On June 20, 2016, Jamie Chung was cast as Valerie Vale, with the role being described as \"a crackerjack reporter dead set on uncovering the truth behind Indian Hill. Confident and dogged, she will do anything to get the scoop, and soon sets her sights on Gordon, who she believes is the key lead in her story.\" The note also revealed that the character is the aunt of fellow comic book character Vicki Vale. 3 days later, James Carpinello was cast as Mario Falcone, son of Carmine Falcone,", "title": "Better to Reign in Hell..." }, { "id": "2143991", "text": "rich, had important professions, were part of the nobility or were of any other high social status were usually buried in individual crypts inside or beneath the relevant place of worship with an indication of the name of the deceased, date of death and other biographical data. In Europe this was often accompanied with a depiction of their family coat of arms. Later graveyards have been replaced by cemeteries. Grave A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried. Graves are usually located in special areas set", "title": "Grave" }, { "id": "17928515", "text": "Cersei also tries to influence Tywin into declaring Tyrion guilty in his upcoming trial. In the gardens, Cersei speaks to Oberyn Martell about her daughter, Myrcella Baratheon. She asks him to take a ship back to Sunspear as a gift for Myrcella, which he agrees to do. Lord Petyr Baelish and Sansa Stark arrive in the Vale of Arryn. At the Bloody Gate, he tells Ser Donnel Waynwood that Sansa's name is Alayne, hiding her true identity as she is still wanted in King's Landing for Joffrey's murder. Upon their arrival they are received by Lady Lysa Arryn and her", "title": "First of His Name" }, { "id": "16680242", "text": "and properties along the coast of Luni, on Cordonata Caprione, and in the hills by Arcola Vezzano and Valerian, as recalled by Persio in his \" Satire\". The town's name derives from \"fundus Valerii\" or \"Fundum Valerianum\", from one of these families who had possession of the hill for nearly a thousand years. There are no documents in order to date the Romanization of Valerian. However, the \"Tabula Alimentaria\", as emperor Trajan to Velleia, found two centuries ago and kept in the Museum National Parma, among many Velleia funds to contribute to the maintenance of poor children, many bearing the", "title": "Valeriano Lunense" }, { "id": "582271", "text": "unable to 'flame off' without technological support after becoming overcharged with energy from the Negative Zone by channeling Johnny's excess energy into Sue to keep her alive. After the birth, Doom's only apparent condition for his aid is that he be allowed to name Sue and Reed's daughter, calling her 'Valeria' after his long-lost love. However, this inspires a new plan where Doom makes Valeria his familiar while seeking out her namesake as part of a deal with a trio of demons; by sacrificing his old lover, Doom is granted magical powers on the level he would possess if he", "title": "Doctor Doom" }, { "id": "11852536", "text": "Last offices The last offices, or laying out, is the procedures performed, usually by a nurse, to the body of a dead person shortly after death has been confirmed. They can vary between hospitals and between cultures. The word \"offices\" is related to the original Latin, in which \"officium\" means \"service, duty, business\". Hence these are the \"last duties\" carried out on the body. Often the body of the deceased is left for up to an hour as a mark of respect. The procedure then typically includes the following steps, though they can vary according to an institution's preferred practices:", "title": "Last offices" }, { "id": "4834737", "text": "Days in Europa Days in Europa is the second album by Scottish punk rock and new wave band Skids. It was released in 1979 by record label Virgin. A rough translation of \"Dulce et Decorum Est (Pro Patria Mori)\" is \"It is a sweet and glorious thing (to die for one's country)\". \"Dulce et Decorum Est\" is also the name of a poem by Wilfred Owen. Thanatos is the Greek word for \"death\" and the ancient Greek god of death, and is used in Freudian psychology to refer to the death wish/destructive urge, as opposed to Eros, the reproductive urge.", "title": "Days in Europa" }, { "id": "798394", "text": "Surname A surname, family name, or last name is the portion (in some cultures) of a personal name that indicates a person's family (or tribe or community, depending on the culture). Depending on the culture, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations based on the cultural rules. In the English-speaking world, a surname is commonly referred to as a last name because it is usually placed at the end of a person's full name, after any given names. In many parts of Asia, as well as some parts of Europe and Africa,", "title": "Surname" }, { "id": "2045252", "text": "someone (in later versions, a slave) standing behind him, holding a crown over his head and whispering \"Respice post te. Hominem te memento\" (\"Look after you [to the time after your death] and remember you're [only] a man.\"). Though in modern times this has become a standard trope, in fact no ancient authors attest to this, and it may have been Christian moralizing rather than an accurate historical report. The thought was then utilized in Christianity, whose strong emphasis on divine judgment, heaven, hell, and the salvation of the soul brought death to the forefront of consciousness. All \"memento mori\"", "title": "Memento mori" }, { "id": "12461811", "text": "the family name, Au for 'Gold', Fe for 'Iron', No for 'Nobellium', and so forth. Before their wings emerge, emphasis on a dragon's name is placed on the, familial, first syllable. Once a male dragon's wings emerge, the emphasis of his name shifts to the second syllable. For this reason, adult males' names are written with the second consonant capitalized, to represent adulthood. For example, when Auron's wings emerge, his name becomes AuRon after that point. Female dragons do not follow this convention, though they may shorten their names for familiarity, such as Wistala's preference that her elf father a", "title": "Age of Fire" }, { "id": "9695316", "text": "of \"Timur Lenk\", the 14th-century warlord who founded the Timurid Empire, though the poem is not a historical depiction of his life. Tamerlane ignores the young love he has for a peasant in order to achieve power. On his deathbed, he regrets this decision to create \"a kingdom [in exchange] for a broken heart\". The peasant is named Ada in most of Poe's original version of the poem, though it is removed and re-added throughout its many revised versions. The name \"Ada\" is likely a reference to Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, a renowned poet whom Poe admired.", "title": "Tamerlane (poem)" }, { "id": "10598450", "text": "city to find the grave, buried in a town called Lindon. Buried with Gad Beebe, is the mysterious Book of Dead Days, that apparently holds the answer to everyone's biggest question. Boy and Willow later find out that Valerian had fallen in love with a woman and he gave up the last 15 years of his life for one night with her, but she rejected him despite the enchantment, the reason Valerian fought with Kepler. The three get arrested (again) for their fruitless efforts digging up Beebe's grave, and are stowed away in dungeons. They escape through the city's underground", "title": "The Book of Dead Days" }, { "id": "625256", "text": "\"The Hard Hours\". He is referenced in Evelyn Waugh's \"Helena\": \"Do you know what has happened to the Immortal Valerian?...They have him on show in Persia, stuffed.\" Valerian (emperor) Valerian (; ; 193/195/200260 or 264), also known as Valerian the Elder, was Roman Emperor from 22 October 253 AD to spring 260 AD. He was taken captive by the Persian Emperor, Shapur I, after the Battle of Edessa, becoming the first Roman emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war, causing shock and instability throughout the empire. Unlike many of the would-be emperors and rebels who vied for imperial", "title": "Valerian (emperor)" }, { "id": "7712001", "text": "salutations\"), and informal letters (such as between intimates) may use expressions such as (with approximate English equivalents – not literal translations): Unlike in English, when the letter writer has a title that is unique in his or her organization, it is placed before, not after, the name: Valedictions in German, while a lot less complex than those in French, are similarly flexible. The highly formal form \"Hochachtungsvoll\" (lit. \"highly respectfully\") has been practically obsolete for many years and is very rarely used in modern German, except for highly formal correspondence from authorities or in letters with a highly negative connotation", "title": "Valediction" }, { "id": "6148672", "text": "Pallor mortis Pallor mortis (Latin: \"pallor\" \"paleness\", \"mortis\" \"of death\"), the first stage of death, is an after-death paleness that occurs in those with light/white skin. Pallor mortis occurs almost immediately (within 15–25 minutes) post-mortem; paleness develops so rapidly after death that it has little to no use in determining the time of death, aside from saying that it either happened less than 30 minutes ago or more, which could help if the body were found very soon after death. Pallor mortis results from the cessation of capillary circulation throughout the body. Gravity then causes the blood to sink down", "title": "Pallor mortis" }, { "id": "5583441", "text": "pushes the proper and civilized girl to her breaking point. When Livia sees Conan, drenched in blood and walking toward her bamboo hut while carrying the chief's head, she believes he is coming to claim his reward. Frightened, she breaks their agreement by fleeing on horseback into the nearby jungle. After escaping from the village, her horse stumbles and Livia is thrown onto the ground. Unharmed, she descends into a mysterious valley filled with beautiful orchids. The valley is also inhabited by a tribe of brown-skinned women with a lesbian culture. Believing she has found shelter from the blood-soaked \"male", "title": "The Vale of Lost Women" }, { "id": "6772242", "text": "also under command of Guy Bogaerts. He was also set on the flying carpet which was suddenly removed. He broke his leg and walks with a limp since then. The case \"Sammy\" is set to court, but the judge opines there is not enough proof so Guy is set free. Dennis and Tom want revenge and challenge Guy to steal the town's flag. Guy climbs the town hall and takes the flag. However, an unknown person opens the window. Guy falls down and is considered to be dead. \"Ad Fundum\" (Latin for \"to the bottom\") is a term used among", "title": "Ad Fundum" }, { "id": "8462078", "text": "Shade (mythology) In literature and poetry, a shade (translating Greek σκιά, Latin \"umbra\") is the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld. An underworld where the dead live in shadow is common to beliefs in the ancient Near East, in Biblical Hebrew expressed by the term \"tsalmaveth\" (צַלמָוֶת: lit. \"death-shadow\", \"shadow of death\"; alternate term for Sheol). The Witch of Endor in the First Book of Samuel notably conjures the ghost (\"owb\") of Samuel. Only select individuals are exempt from the fate of dwelling in shadow after death, and instead ascend to the divine sphere. This", "title": "Shade (mythology)" }, { "id": "783944", "text": "explains itself, indicated by the word \"take\" (since one word \"takes\" another): \"aside\" means APART and I'd is simply ID, so APART and ID \"take\" HE (which is, in cryptic crossword usage, a perfectly good synonym for \"him\"). The answer could be elucidated as APART(HE)ID. Another common clue type is the \"hidden clue\" or \"container\", where the answer is hidden in the text of the clue itself. For example, \"Made a dug-out, buried, and passed away (4)\" is solved by \"DEAD\". The answer is written in the clue: \"maDE A Dug-out\". \"Buried\" indicates that the answer is embedded within the", "title": "Crossword" }, { "id": "11544741", "text": "Last words Last words or final words are a person's final articulated words, stated prior to death or as death approaches. Last words may not necessarily be written down or accurately recorded, and they may not be quoted accurately for a variety of reasons. Famous last words include both the literal utterings; such as the sayings of Jesus on the cross, from Shakespeare's \"Julius Caesar\" \"\"Et tu, Brute?\"\", and the ironical sense of words said before a disaster, such as: The last words reported to have been uttered by a person revered as a martyr or hero of a religious,", "title": "Last words" }, { "id": "19036540", "text": "continue to retain that honorific title even after they leave that position. However, The State Department is not an authority on state and local officials such as mayors, members of state legislatures, and high state officials. It should never, however, based on the rules of etiquette, be used for persons who are deceased. American protocol expert Robert Hickey says, \"The courtesy title The Honorable is used when addressing or listing the name of a living person. When the name of a deceased person is listed it is just (Full Name) + Office Held.\" The 2016 Bloomsbury guide to titles and", "title": "The Honourable" }, { "id": "1437916", "text": "Livor mortis Livor mortis (Latin: \"livor\" – \"bluish color\", \"mortis\" – \"of death\"), postmortem lividity (Latin: \"postmortem\" – \"after death\", \"lividity\" – \"black and blue\"), hypostasis (Greek: \"hypo\", meaning \"under, beneath\"; \"stasis\", meaning \"a standing\") or suggillation, is the fourth stage and one of the signs of death. It is a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body post mortem, causing a purplish red discoloration of the skin. When the heart stops functioning and is no longer agitating the blood, heavy red blood cells sink through the serum by action of gravity. The blood travels", "title": "Livor mortis" }, { "id": "16060701", "text": "Robert Ashton. He had one younger sister, the socialite Lady Elizabeth Clyde, whose son is the actor and musician Jeremy Clyde. At the time of Wellington's birth, his father Gerald was the third son of the 4th Duke of Wellington, with little prospect of succeeding to the family's estates and titles. Wellington was 28 when his first cousin Henry, the 6th Duke, died suddenly in action aged 31 while serving in Italy during the second world war. Wellington's father then became the 7th Duke, and Wellington himself came to be known by the courtesy title \"Marquess of Douro.\" He was", "title": "Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington" }, { "id": "3862570", "text": "by the Court of Chancery. When that court was abolished in 1873, their jurisdiction passed to the Chancery Division of the High Court. When someone dies, the term \"probate\" usually refers to the legal process whereby the deceased's assets are collected together and, following various legal and fiscal steps and processes, eventually distributed to the beneficiaries of the estate. Technically the term has a particular legal meaning, but it is generally used within the English legal profession as a term to cover all procedures concerned with the administration of a deceased person's estate. As a legal discipline the subject is", "title": "Probate" }, { "id": "8047582", "text": "head back to the generals' station while passing their regiment which is disembarking for an attack. After the firing squad refuses to shoot the last survivor of the band (Tom), the commanding officer steps in and shoots him for refusing to enter the battlefield. The video closes with a sardonic use of the Latin phrase, \"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori\" (roughly translated into English as: \"It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country.\"), well known as part of the famous anti-war poem written by First World War soldier Wilfred Owen. It also bears some similarity to", "title": "Empire (Kasabian song)" }, { "id": "7804898", "text": "Entering Heaven alive Entering Heaven alive (called by various religions \"ascension\", \"assumption\", or \"translation\") is a belief held in various religions. Since death is the normal end to an individual's life on Earth and the beginning of afterlife, entering Heaven without dying first is considered exceptional and usually a sign of a deity's special recognition of the individual's piety. Unlike the other entries in this article, this paragraph does not, in the view of most Christians, relate to \"entering Heaven alive\". Jesus is considered by the vast majority of Christians to have died before being resurrected and ascending to heaven.", "title": "Entering Heaven alive" }, { "id": "2143187", "text": "Dulce et Decorum est \"Dulce et Decorum est\" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. The Latin title is taken from Ode 3.2 (\"Valor\") of the Roman poet Horace and means \"it is sweet and fitting ...\". It is followed there by \"pro patria mori\", which means \"to die for one's country\". One of Owen's most renowned works, the poem is known for its horrific imagery and condemnation of war. It was drafted at Craiglockhart in the first half of October 1917 and later revised, probably at Scarborough but possibly Ripon,", "title": "Dulce et Decorum est" }, { "id": "5937195", "text": "guard against the Moldavians, managing to rally the Janissaries, and turning the tide of the battle. Ottoman janissaries penetrated inside the forest and engaged the defenders in man-to-man fighting. The Moldavian army was utterly defeated (casualties were very high on both sides, and the chronicles say that the entire battlefield was covered with the bones of the dead, a probable source for the toponym (\"Valea Albă\" is Romanian and \"Akdere\" Turkish for \"The White Valley\"). Ştefan cel Mare retreated into the north-western part of Moldavia or even into the Polish Kingdom and began forming another army. The Ottomans were unable", "title": "Battle of Valea Albă" }, { "id": "4035294", "text": "They lost control and started to strike out at members of the crowd. The magistrates, believing that the Yeomanry were under attack, then ordered the 15th Hussars to disperse the crowd, which they did by charging into the mass of men, women and children, sabres drawn. These events resulted in the deaths of fifteen people and over six hundred injured. The name \"Peterloo\" was coined immediately by the radical \"Manchester Observer\", combining the name of the meeting place, St Peter's Field, with the Battle of Waterloo fought four years earlier. One of those who later died from his wounds had", "title": "History of Manchester" }, { "id": "2912652", "text": "student's grade point average, the level of rigor within a student's academic program of studies, a vote by school administrators, the level of participation in and dedication to extracurricular activities, and one's public-speaking skills and abilities. In other schools, the position may be elected by the school body or appointed directly by the school administration based on various systems of merit. Some schools may feature \"co-valedictorians\" in lieu of conferring the title on a single individual from among the graduating class. This may occur in the case of a numerical tie in grade point averages, as part of a Latin", "title": "Valedictorian" }, { "id": "625253", "text": "have forced Valerian to swallow molten gold (the other version of his death is almost the same but it says that Valerian was killed by being flayed alive) and then had Valerian skinned and his skin stuffed with straw and preserved as a trophy in the main Persian temple. It was further alleged that it was only after a later Persian defeat against Rome that his skin was given a cremation and burial. The captivity and death of Valerian has been frequently debated by historians without any definitive conclusion. According to the modern scholar Touraj Daryaee, contrary to the account", "title": "Valerian (emperor)" }, { "id": "6949347", "text": "to amount to murder was abolished by the Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996. Historically it had been considered that if a person survived more than that period after an incident, and died later, the incident could not be considered the proximate cause of death. Advances in modern medicine and patient care, including stabilized states such as coma which can last more than a year before death, made this assumption no longer appropriate. The \"mens rea\" (Latin for \"guilty mind\") of murder is either an intention to kill (per the 2004 binding case of \"R v Matthews", "title": "Murder in English law" }, { "id": "445395", "text": "Valens Valens (; ; ; 328 – 9 August 378) was Eastern Roman Emperor from 364 to 378. He was given the eastern half of the empire by his brother Valentinian I after the latter's accession to the throne. Valens was defeated and killed in the Battle of Adrianople, which marked the beginning of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Valens and his brother Valentinian were both born in Cibalae (in present-day Croatia) into an Illyrian family in 328 and 321 respectively. They had grown up on estates purchased by their father Gratian the Elder in Africa and Britain.", "title": "Valens" }, { "id": "1770349", "text": "Putrefaction Putrefaction is the fifth stage of death, following pallor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, and livor mortis. This process references the breaking down of a body of a human or animal post-mortem (meaning after death). In broad terms, it can be viewed as the decomposition of proteins, and the eventual breakdown of the cohesiveness between tissues, and the liquefaction of most organs. This is caused by the decomposition of organic matter by bacterial or fungal digestion, which causes the release of gases that infiltrate the body's tissues, and leads to the deterioration of the tissues and organs. The approximate", "title": "Putrefaction" }, { "id": "7804913", "text": "of these religions claim to be able to receive channeled messages from the Ascended Masters, which they then relay to their followers. Entering Heaven alive Entering Heaven alive (called by various religions \"ascension\", \"assumption\", or \"translation\") is a belief held in various religions. Since death is the normal end to an individual's life on Earth and the beginning of afterlife, entering Heaven without dying first is considered exceptional and usually a sign of a deity's special recognition of the individual's piety. Unlike the other entries in this article, this paragraph does not, in the view of most Christians, relate to", "title": "Entering Heaven alive" }, { "id": "159939", "text": "cut to prove that dead was dead. The Christian author Tertullian, commenting on \"ludi meridiani\" in Roman Carthage during the peak era of the games, describes a more humiliating method of removal. One arena official, dressed as the \"brother of Jove\", Dis Pater (god of the underworld) strikes the corpse with a mallet. Another, dressed as Mercury, tests for life-signs with a heated \"wand\"; once confirmed as dead, the body is dragged from the arena. Whether these victims were gladiators or \"noxii\" is unknown. Modern pathological examination confirms the probably fatal use of a mallet on some, but not all", "title": "Gladiator" }, { "id": "240396", "text": "(VI.703-751) writes that it is only when the dead have had their memories erased by the Lethe that they may be reincarnated. Lethe was also the name of the personification of forgetfulness and oblivion, with whom the river was often associated. Hesiod's \"Theogony\" identifies her as the daughter of Eris (\"strife\"), and the sister of Ponos (\"Hardship\"), Limos (\"Starvation\"), Algea (\"Pains\"), Hysminai (\"Battles\"), Makhai (\"Wars\"), Phonoi (\"Murders\"), Androktasiai (\"Manslaughters\"), Neikea (\"Quarrels\"), Pseudea (\"Lies\"), Logoi (\"Stories\"), Amphillogiai (\"Disputes\"), Dysnomia (\"Anarchy\"), Ate (\"Ruin\"), and Horkos (\"Oath\"). Some ancient Greeks believed that souls were made to drink from the river before being reincarnated,", "title": "Lethe" }, { "id": "4324084", "text": "Batman's secret. However, Bruce eventually rescues her. She promises him that she will never reveals his secrets. Vicki realizes that Bruce's mission is bigger than the truth she's seeking, and decides not to expose his secrets, and becomes his ally. During the conflict, Ra's realizes that Vicki is a descendant of Marcel \"The Hammer\" du Valliere, a French soldier and one of the few who challenged Ra's and his warriors centuries before Batman. Ra's claims that du Valliere stole the woman he attempted to court. Despite having killed du Valliere after their final battle a long time ago, it is", "title": "Vicki Vale" }, { "id": "17928524", "text": "but they decline his offer, due to their mistrust of the Night's Watch. Jon and the Night's Watch then burn Craster's Keep and the bodies of the dead, ensuring that they can't be resurrected as wights. \"First of His Name\" was written by executive producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, based upon the source material, Martin's \"A Storm of Swords\". Chapters adapted from \"A Storm of Swords\" to the episode were chapters 68 and 71 (Sansa VI and Daenerys VI). It also covers part of the fourth novel, \"A Feast of Crows\": namely chapter 14 (Brienne III). Kate Dickie", "title": "First of His Name" }, { "id": "7711994", "text": "Valediction A valediction (derivation from Latin \"vale dicere\", \"to say farewell\"), or complimentary close in American English, is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, or the act of saying parting words whether brief or extensive. Its greeting counterpart is called a salutation. The term is also used to refer to the speech given by a valedictorian at a commencement and to refer to final prayers and remarks at the graveside before a burial. Valedictions normally immediately precede the signature in written correspondence. The word or words used express", "title": "Valediction" }, { "id": "9727020", "text": "martyred for burying Christian martyrs, and then refusing to sacrifice to the Roman gods. According to one tradition, shortly after the martyrdom of her husband, Vitalis of Milan, in Ravenna, she refused to join in a celebration and sacrifice to pagan gods, and was severely beaten, causing her death two days later in Milan. According to another tradition, on 3 June, Valeria was discovered by Roman soldiers searching for Christians. She avowed herself to be one of the faithful. Following terrible tortures, Valeria was beheaded in the Coliseum in the company of several other martyrs. Her remains were gathered by", "title": "Valeria of Milan" }, { "id": "3846282", "text": "Vale Cemetery and Vale Park Vale Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Schenectady, New York. It opened on 21 October 1857 when the Rev. Julius Seely dedicated what was then termed \"the Vale\". It has tripled its size since opening and today it holds the remains of some of the most notable persons in Upstate New York. In 1973, a 35-acre tract of unused and abandoned cemetery land around the ponds of Cowhorn Creek was sold to the city of Schenectady to form Vale Park. The cemetery and park were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.", "title": "Vale Cemetery and Vale Park" }, { "id": "16129285", "text": "Number Four, also known as John Smith. John is the next target for the Mogadorians, who must kill the Loric in the order of their numbers. He and his guardian Henri move from place to place, changing their identities to keep hidden. Numbers 1, 2, and 3 have already died, proven by the circular brands that appear on the ankles of the Loric when one of their kind is killed. John begins inheriting Legacies, the ancestral right of some Loric and must learn to keep his powers hidden from his human friends. John befriends a young man named Sam Goode,", "title": "Lorien Legacies" }, { "id": "2696453", "text": "Dead Men of Dunharrow The Dead Men of Dunharrow (also referred as the Shadow Host, the Grey Host, the oathbreakers, or simply the Dead) are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. They appear in \"The Lord of the Rings\" as Men of the White Mountains (\"Ered Nimrais\"), who were cursed to remain in Middle-earth by Isildur after they abandoned their oath to aid him in the War of the Last Alliance. They were formerly known as the Men of the Mountains, and they were related to the Dunlendings. At the end of the Second Age, their king,", "title": "Dead Men of Dunharrow" }, { "id": "8462080", "text": "phrase \"peace to thy gentle shade [and endless rest]\" is sometimes seen in epitaphs, and was used by Alexander Pope in his epitaph for Nicholas Rowe. Shade (mythology) In literature and poetry, a shade (translating Greek σκιά, Latin \"umbra\") is the spirit or ghost of a dead person, residing in the underworld. An underworld where the dead live in shadow is common to beliefs in the ancient Near East, in Biblical Hebrew expressed by the term \"tsalmaveth\" (צַלמָוֶת: lit. \"death-shadow\", \"shadow of death\"; alternate term for Sheol). The Witch of Endor in the First Book of Samuel notably conjures the", "title": "Shade (mythology)" } ]

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[ { "id": "15716077", "text": "returning. Cate Blanchett and Kit Harington will also reprise their roles as Valka and Eret, respectively, from the second film. F. Murray Abraham had joined the cast as the film's main villain, named Grimmel. How to Train Your Dragon 2 How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated action fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, loosely based on the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. It is the sequel to the 2010 computer-animated film \"How to Train Your Dragon\" and the second installment in the trilogy.", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716039", "text": "How to Train Your Dragon 2 How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American 3D computer-animated action fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, loosely based on the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. It is the sequel to the 2010 computer-animated film \"How to Train Your Dragon\" and the second installment in the trilogy. The film is written and directed by Dean DeBlois, and stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, T. J. Miller, and Kristen Wiig, with the", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716047", "text": "Hiccup and launches a plasma bolt towards him, but Stoick pushes Hiccup out of the way and is hit instead, dying as a result. The Bewilderbeast momentarily relinquishes control of Toothless, but Hiccup drives him away in a fit of despair. Drago maroons Hiccup and the others on the island and rides Toothless, again under the control of the Bewilderbeast, to lead his army to conquer Berk. Stoick is given a Viking funeral and Hiccup, now having lost both his father and dragon, is unsure what to do. Valka encourages him by telling him that he alone can unite humans", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716049", "text": "encasing them in ice. However, Toothless blasts away the ice, revealing that both Hiccup and he are unharmed. He then challenges the Bewilderbeast, shooting it in the face repeatedly, which breaks its control over the other dragons, who side with Toothless as the new Alpha dragon. All the dragons repeatedly fire at the Bewilderbeast until Toothless fires a final massive blast, breaking its left tusk. Defeated, the Bewilderbeast retreats under the sea with Drago on its back. The Vikings and dragons celebrate their victory and Hiccup is made chieftain of Berk. Afterwards, Berk undergoes repairs while feeling secure knowing that", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716046", "text": "still alive. Meanwhile, Astrid and the other riders force Eret to lead them to Drago. But Drago captures them and learns of Berk's dragons. Drago and his armada lay siege to the nest, where he reveals that he has his own Bewilderbeast to challenge the Alpha. A battle ensues between the two colossal dragons, which ends with Drago's Bewilderbeast killing its opponent and becoming the new Alpha. Drago's Bewilderbeast then seizes control of all the adult dragons, which hypnotically obey. Hiccup tries to persuade Drago to end the violence, but Drago orders him killed. Toothless, under the Bewilderbeast's influence, approaches", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202522", "text": "look for the second Hiccup. Meanwhile, the second Hiccup was adopted by Grimler dragons and learned to speak Dragonese, but was found by Hooligans, and he and his adopted step dragon brother, a Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus named Furious, lived with Grimbeard. One day, Hiccup wanted to hold a petition for the dragons to demand freedom. However, Thugheart tricked Grimbeard into thinking that it was an attack and Grimbeard killed Hiccup, but soon he realizes that Hiccup just wanted a peaceful petition, and regrets his actions and buried his treasures and left in his boat(Furious took the second Hiccup's corpse away).", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "17308045", "text": "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is an upcoming American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. A sequel to 2010's \"How to Train Your Dragon\" and 2014's \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\", it is the third and final installment in the \"How to Train Your Dragon\" trilogy. Written and directed by Dean DeBlois, the film stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill,", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" }, { "id": "15716041", "text": "entire voice cast from the first film returned, and Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou signed on to voice Valka and Drago, respectively. DeBlois and his creative team visited Norway and Svalbard to give them ideas for the setting. Composer John Powell returned to score the film. \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" benefited from advances in animation technology and was DreamWorks' first film to use scalable multicore processing and the studio's new animation and lighting software. The film was released on June 13, 2014, and like its predecessor, received wide acclaim. Critics praised the film for its animation, voice acting,", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202476", "text": "Hiccup, the boys and their dragons start a fight between the Green Death and the other sea dragon, the Purple Death, resulting in Hiccup nearly being swallowed and having to be rescued by Toothless, killing both sea dragons in the process. Hiccup and Toothless become heroes because of their bravery. The sequel to \"How to Train Your Dragon\" starts during a Sword-Fighting-at-Sea lesson during a storm, but Hiccup is quite bad at sword-fighting. The fight is cut off as the boat tips over and is holed by an object, a coffin, upon which Hiccup rides back to the Isle of", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716044", "text": "insane conqueror named Drago Bludvist. The two dragon riders escape and return to Berk to warn Stoick about the dragon army that Drago is amassing. Stoick orders the villagers to fortify the island and prepare for battle. Hiccup, however, refuses to believe that war is inevitable, and flies off to talk to Drago. Stoick stops him, and explains that he once met Drago. At a gathering of chiefs, Drago had offered to protect them from dragons if they pledged to serve him, and when they refused, he had his dragons attack them, with Stoick as the only survivor. Undeterred, Hiccup", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "12190511", "text": "Social Network\", respectively. The movie also won ten Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature. A sequel, \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\", was released on June 13, 2014, with DeBlois writing and directing by himself. Much like its predecessor, the sequel was also universally acclaimed and became a box office success. A second and final sequel, \"\", is to be released on February 22, 2019. The film's success has also inspired other merchandise, including a video game and a television series. On Berk, a Viking village located on a remote island from which dragons periodically steal livestock, Hiccup, the awkward", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (film)" }, { "id": "15716045", "text": "flies off with Toothless in search of Drago to try to reason with him. They run into a dragon rider named Valka, who is revealed to be Hiccup's long-lost mother. She explains that she, like her son, could not bring herself to kill dragons. After being carried off during a dragon raid, she spent 20 years rescuing dragons from Drago's traps and bringing them to an island nest created out of ice by a gigantic Alpha dragon called a \"Bewilderbeast\", which is able to control smaller dragons. Stoick tracks Hiccup to the nest, where he discovers that his wife is", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "14205647", "text": "were also shot in the actual city of Pompeii itself. The film was a modest box office success and received mixed reviews from critics. That year, Harington also voiced Eret in \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\", which was a critically acclaimed, box-office success, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and received an Academy Award nomination. In 2014, Harington also appeared alongside Jeff Bridges in the film \"Seventh Son\", a poorly received fantasy–adventure film. Harington played Billy Bradley, Jeff Bridges first apprentice killed early in the movie by a character played by Julianne Moore. Ben Barnes,", "title": "Kit Harington" }, { "id": "8202545", "text": "\"death by airy oblivion\". Hiccup convinces Furious to call off the attack once more and are once again about to reach a peace agreement when the Witch attacks Hiccup with the Stormblade. Furious intervenes and kills the Witch, then completes the treaty and makes himself and Hiccup blood brothers. However, the Stormblade was poisoned and so Furious leaves his command of the dragons to Luna, his second-in-command, and goes out to sea to die. The epilogue shows how Hiccup built a new kingdom of harmony on Tomorrow where humans and dragons could live in peace, but also had humans domesticate", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716076", "text": "June 9, 2017. In January 2015, in the wake of the closure of Pacific Data Images and massive lay-offs, the release date was pushed back to June 29, 2018, then brought forward to May 18, 2018. On December 5, 2016, the release date was pushed back again to March 1, 2019, then on September 27, 2018, moved forward to February 22, 2019. Dean DeBlois, the co-screenwriter/co-director of the first and writer-director of the second film, will return, along with producer Bonnie Arnold and all the main cast, while composer John Powell, who scored the first two films, will also be", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716042", "text": "musical score, action sequences, emotional depth, and darker, more serious tone compared to its predecessor. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The film won six Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature. The film grossed over $621 million worldwide, making it the 12th-highest-grossing film of 2014. It earned less than its predecessor at the US box office, but performed better internationally. The third and final installment in the trilogy, \"\", is scheduled to be released on February 22, 2019. Five years after the Viking village", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716052", "text": "\"What I loved especially about \"Empire\" is that it expanded \"Star Wars\" in every direction: emotionally, its scope, characters, fun. It felt like an embellishment and that's the goal.\" The entire original voice cast—Baruchel, Butler, Ferguson, Ferrera, Hill, Mintz-Plasse, Miller, and Wiig—returned for the sequel. On June 19, 2012, it was announced that Kit Harington, of \"Game of Thrones\" fame, was cast as one of the film's antagonists. At the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con International, it was announced that Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou had joined the cast; they lent their voices to Valka and Drago Bludvist, respectively. While the", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716048", "text": "and dragons, and inspired by her words and his father's, Hiccup decides to return to Berk to stop Drago. The dragon riders fly baby dragons back to Berk, as they are immune to the Bewilderbeast's control. They find that Drago has already attacked the village and taken control of its dragons. Hiccup confronts Drago and a brainwashed Toothless while the other riders work to distract the Bewilderbeast. Hiccup succeeds in freeing Toothless from the Bewilderbeast's control, much to Drago's surprise. Hiccup and Toothless briefly separate Drago from the Bewilderbeast and confront Drago on the ground, but the Bewilderbeast attacks them,", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716075", "text": "released separately as a single. A video game based on the film, titled \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\", was released in June 2014 by Little Orbit. Developed by Torus Games, the game is available for Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Wii U, and PlayStation 3. It allows players to choose various riders and dragons, and enter a dragon flight school, participating in trainings, challenges, and tournaments. The third and final film, \"How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World\", was originally scheduled for release on June 17, 2016, but in September 2014, DreamWorks Animation moved the release date to", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "12190533", "text": "Century Fox, to critical acclaim. The entire original voice cast—Baruchel, Butler, Ferguson, Ferrera, Hill, Mintz-Plasse, Miller, and Wiig—returned for the sequel with the addition of Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, and Kit Harington. A third film, \"\", is in production. The film will also be directed and written by DeBlois, produced by Bonnie Arnold, and exec-produced by Chris Sanders, with all the main cast set to return. Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou will also reprise their roles as Valka and Drago respectively from the second film. It is scheduled to be released on February 22, 2019 by Universal Pictures. Four post-movie", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (film)" }, { "id": "15716056", "text": "500 people had worked on the film at DreamWorks Animation's headquarters in Glendale, as well as its branch offices at PDI/DreamWorks in Redwood City and DreamWorks India in Bangalore. The film was screened out of competition on May 16, 2014 at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, the film premiered on June 8, 2014, at the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles, and was theatrically released on June 13, 2014. The film was also digitally remastered into IMAX 3D and released to international theaters on June 13, 2014. \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" was released digitally", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202491", "text": "Vorpentitis. Hiccup desperately tries to speak, murmuring \"Oot me!\", and tries to point at the arrow on the table next to him which had been stuck in the potato for a long time. Fishlegs realizes that Hiccup wants him to shoot him with the arrow, which is soaked in the juices of the potato. Fishlegs shoots Hiccup on the foot, and Hiccup recovers. In the epilogue, Hiccup buries the arrow that saved his life and a seed on the end of it grows another potato which is used to cover the island with potatoes so no one dies of Vorpentitis", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "8202504", "text": "be to go through the hole. Hiccup takes back the second edition of \"How to Train Your Dragon\" to the Isle of Berk. Meanwhile, Madguts tracks down the Stealth Dragon and it leads him to the Isle of Forget Me. They find that it has gone to the Isle of Berk and go there. On the Isle of Berk, both Stoick and Bertha find the stolen things they have got for the bet are missing. The Hairy Scary Librarian arrives and shoots Stoick with a Northbow but Hiccup's handwritten book saves Stoick's life and Hiccup, Fishlegs, and Camicazi come from", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716043", "text": "of Berk and the dragons made peace, they now live together in harmony. Hiccup goes on adventures with his dragon, Toothless, as they discover and map unexplored lands. Now 20 years old, he is being pressed by his father, Stoick the Vast, to succeed him as chieftain, although Hiccup remains unsure if he is ready for this responsibility. While investigating a burnt forest, Hiccup and Astrid discover the remains of a fort encased in ice and meet a group of dragon trappers led by Eret, who blames them for his fort's destruction and attempts to capture their dragons for an", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716040", "text": "addition of Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, and Kit Harington. The film takes place five years after the first film, featuring Hiccup and his friends as young adults as they meet Valka, Hiccup's long-lost mother, and Drago Bludvist, a madman who wants to conquer the world. DeBlois, who co-directed the first film, agreed to return to direct the second film on the condition that he would be allowed to turn it into a trilogy. He cited \"The Empire Strikes Back\" and \"My Neighbor Totoro\" as his main inspirations, with the expanded scope of \"The Empire Strikes Back\" being particularly influential. The", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202512", "text": "uses the machine that generates a high pitched noise to keep the monster away, identifying it as a Leviathorgan. America is in sight, but a storm breaks out, and the Leviathorgan from the cave attacks the ship. Norbert and Hiccup fight on the top of the ship. Lightning strikes Norbert's axe and it enters the sea, killing the Leviathorgan. Hiccup falls off the mast, as he swims up he hits his head on a sinking cauldron which shortly gives him amnesia, and then he passes out. He is rescued by Fishlegs and Camicazi. Back at the Murderous Mountains, Madguts is", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "8202539", "text": "The Hogfly, in turn, accidentally wakes up the nearby Rebellion dragons. They all flee from the Rebellion dragons (joined by the dragon Furious) to their secret hideout, hiding as Furious and the dragons search for them. However, Alvin's Spydragons kidnap Camicazi so Snotlout brings them on a rescue mission to save her. When escaping from the Alvinsmen, Snotlout changes clothes with Hiccup to provide a diversion. Snotlout is shot down, and killed. Therefore, everyone thinks Hiccup is dead, though he survived, but he is left unconscious on a beach. The twelfth and final book in the How to Train Your", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "8202535", "text": "to care for a Berserker woman's baby who was supposed to be killed by drifting through the ocean. They lost sight of the baby however, and it drifted to Berk and grew up to be Fishlegs. Hiccup admits he is not this child, and tells them of Fishleg's fate (which was to be sucked into a hole in the ground). He goes to this hole and gets pulled in to it by its inhabitant, a large dragon with an eye on each finger. His dragon instincts tell him that this dragon can't be reasoned with, so Hiccup plays dead long", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "19359653", "text": "this feat. In 2008, Blanchett appeared in Steven Spielberg's action adventure \"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\" and in David Fincher's fantasy drama \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button\". She briefly reprised her role of Galadriel in \"The Hobbit trilogy\" (20122014). For her performance as the titular socialite in Woody Allen's 2013 drama \"Blue Jasmine\", Blanchett won the Golden Globe, the BAFTA Award, the SAG Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2014, she voiced Valka in the $620 million-grossing animated fantasy \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\". In 2015, she received praise for playing", "title": "Cate Blanchett on screen and stage" }, { "id": "12190532", "text": "- 3D\" was released in a two-disc Blu-ray combo pack. It was re-released by Paramount Home Entertainment on Blu-ray and DVD on May 27, 2014. How to Train Your Dragon wlll be released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on January 22, 2019 this mark's DreamWorks first 4K Blu-ray reissue on the format. A sequel, \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\", was confirmed on April 27, 2010. The film was directed and written by Dean DeBlois, the co-director of the first film. Bonnie Arnold, the producer of the first film, also returned. The film was released on June 13, 2014 by 20th", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (film)" }, { "id": "3335633", "text": "he was pulled under big waves. Subsequently, he was taken to Stanford University Medical Center and later released. Butler starred in the action thriller \"Olympus Has Fallen\" (2013), opposite co-stars Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. Butler said he broke two bones in his neck while shooting the film, but did not realise this until he had an MRI scan. Butler reprised his voice role as Stoick in \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" in 2014. Two years later, Butler had the leading role in the \"Olympus Has Fallen\" sequel \"London Has Fallen\" and also portrayed Set in \"Gods of Egypt\".", "title": "Gerard Butler" }, { "id": "17308053", "text": "over the slot of \"The Turning\", a live-action DreamWorks film. On May 31, 2018, the first poster was released and the first official trailer premiered on June 7. The second trailer was released online on October 25, 2018. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is an upcoming American computer-animated action fantasy film loosely based on the book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. A sequel to 2010's \"How to Train Your Dragon\" and 2014's \"How to Train Your Dragon", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" }, { "id": "15716068", "text": "to Train Your Dragon 2\" is its own standalone picture, with a surprising range of emotions that surpasses the original and a brisk pace and manner of storytelling that give it purpose and direction. The fact that it's also so much fun, no matter what your age, almost feels like a bonus.\" Bill Zwecker of the \"Chicago Sun-Times\" gave the film four out of four stars, saying \"Not only does this second movie match the charm, wit, animation skill and intelligent storytelling of the original, I think it even exceeds it.\" Lisa Kennedy of \"The Denver Post\" gave the film", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202498", "text": "dragon eats all the Exterminators, including the one Alvin is riding, swallowing Alvin (again, Hiccup thinks he's dead) and the dragon dives back into the lava. Hiccup and his riding dragon, Windwalker, run down the island away from lava and fall into the sea. Hiccup's father and others rescue him and everything works out well. In the epilogue, Hiccup tells us that Windwalker turns out to be his faithful flying dragon. The sixth book in the series is the only one not to have \"How to\" in its title. But it is also named \"How not to Celebrate your Birthday\".", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "1394110", "text": "belief in the justice system. In 2014, Blanchett co-starred with Matt Damon and George Clooney in the latter's film, \"The Monuments Men\", based on the true story of a crew of art historians and museum curators who recover renowned works of art stolen by Nazis. The film featured an ensemble cast, including John Goodman, Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville, and Jean Dujardin. She voiced the part of Valka in 2014's \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\". The animated film was a critically acclaimed, box-office success, won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and received an Academy Award nomination.", "title": "Cate Blanchett" }, { "id": "15716058", "text": "film.This mark's Dreamworks first 4K UHD Re issue on the format. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a \"certified fresh\" score of 91% based on reviews from 170 critics, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The website's critical consensus states: \"Exciting, emotionally resonant, and beautifully animated, \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" builds on its predecessor's successes just the way a sequel should.\" Metacritic gave the film a score of 76/100 based on reviews from 39 critics, indicating \"generally favorable reviews\". Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore during the opening weekend gave the film a grade A. Audiences were a mix", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "11098040", "text": "T.J. Miller Todd Joseph Miller (born June 4, 1981) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, producer, and writer. In 2008, he made his acting debut in \"Cloverfield\", and from 2010 to 2019, he voiced Tuffnut Thorston in all three \"How to Train Your Dragon\" films. From 2014 to 2017, he starred as Erlich Bachman in the HBO sitcom \"Silicon Valley\", and also played Marvel Comics character Weasel in 2016's \"Deadpool\" and its 2018 sequel, \"Deadpool 2\". Miller also has had roles in films such as \"Yogi Bear\", \"She's Out of My League\", \"\", \"Big Hero 6\", \"Office Christmas Party\", \"The", "title": "T.J. Miller" }, { "id": "15716065", "text": "Today\" gave the film three out of four stars, saying \"Nearly as exuberant as the original, \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" nimbly avoids sequel-itis.\" Colin Covert of the \"Star Tribune\" gave the film four out of four stars, saying \"The impressive part is the storytelling confidence of writer/director Dean DeBlois. He has created a thoughtful tale as meaningful for grown-ups as it is pleasurable for its young primary audience.\" Stephanie Merry of \"The Washington Post\" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying \"This may be the first and last time anyone says this, but if \"How to", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15896859", "text": "is the tenth highest-grossing animated franchise. How to Train Your Dragon (franchise) The How to Train Your Dragon franchise from DreamWorks Animation consists of two feature films \"How to Train Your Dragon\" (2010) and \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" (2014), with a third and final feature film, \"\", set for a 2019 release. The franchise is inspired by the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. The franchise also consists of four short films: \"Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon\" (2011), \"Book of Dragons\" (2012), \"Gift of the Night Fury\" (2012) and \"Dawn of the Dragon Racers\"", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (franchise)" }, { "id": "15716066", "text": "Train Your Dragon 2\" is this good, why stop at 3 and 4?\" Moira MacDonald of \"The Seattle Times\" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying \"Young and old fans of the first movie will be lining up for the wit, for the inventiveness of the characters, for the breathtaking visuals — and just the sheer fun of it all.\" Tirdad Derakhshani of \"The Philadelphia Inquirer\" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying \"One of this year's true surprises, the superior animated sequel not only is infused with the same independent spirit and off-kilter aesthetic that", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202502", "text": "Me on a Stealth Dragon Big-Boobied Bertha had stolen from Madguts the Murderous, the Chief of the Murderous Tribe, for the bet with Stoick, to visit the Meathead Public Library. With the help of Stormfly, Camicazi's dragon, they find the copy of \"How to Train Your Dragon\", though it is a second edition. The Hairy Scary Librarian catches them stealing the book and fights with Camicazi and Hiccup. Fishlegs throws a book at the Hairy Scary Librarian. However, Stormfly is knocked out in the process, and awakens with no memory of who she is, and how did she get in.", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716059", "text": "of 47% female and 53% male. Children and Young Adults responded most strongly, with those aged under 25 giving a grade A+. At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Peter Debruge of \"Variety\" praised the film and its ambitions: \"The pressures to make a giant four-quadrant monstrosity must be enormous, and yet, like his unflappable hero Hiccup, \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" writer-director Dean DeBlois has prevailed, serving up DreamWorks Animation's strongest sequel yet—one that breathes fresh fire into the franchise, instead of merely rehashing the original. Braver than \"Brave\", more fun than \"Frozen\", and more emotionally satisfying than so", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716060", "text": "many of its live-action counterparts, \"Dragon\" delivers. And good thing, too, since DWA desperately needs another toon to cross the half-billion-dollar threshold.\" Elizabeth Weitzman of the \"New York Daily News\" gave the film three out of five stars, saying 'It's the unflinching edge that gives the film its unexpected depth'.\" Jocelyn Noveck of the Associated Press gave the film three out of four stars, saying \"\"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" doesn't play it safe, and that's why it's the rare sequel that doesn't feel somewhat stale.\" Lou Lumenick of the \"New York Post\" gave the film three out of", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202492", "text": "ever again. In the epilogue, Hiccup explains that the Doomfang that ate the potato thanked Hiccup by following his boat and assisting in keeping Hiccup safe in impossible situations. The fifth book in the series. The story begins with the children on a herding exercise for their Pirate Training Program. They are distracted by a huge fire rolling down the mountainside. The fire is found to be the doing of the Exterminators, big evil fire dragons. While most of the kids escape on Gobber's riding dragon, Goliath, before he is killed by the Exterminators, Hiccup and Gobber are left to", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716057", "text": "on October 21, 2014, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 11, 2014. The Blu-ray combo pack and digital release is accompanied by a new animated short film \"Dawn of the Dragon Racers\", in which Hiccup and friends compete to become the first Dragon Racing Champion of Berk. A double DVD pack with the film and \"Dawn of the Dragon Racers\" was released exclusively at Walmart stores. , 7.5 million home entertainment units have been sold worldwide. How to Train Your Dragon 2 will be released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on January 22 2019 along with the predecessor", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15896842", "text": "by the 2003 book of the same name by Cressida Cowell. The film grossed nearly $500 million worldwide, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager named Hiccup aspires to follow his tribe's tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. After finally capturing his first dragon, and with his chance of finally gaining the tribe's acceptance, he finds that he no longer has the desire to kill the dragon and instead befriends it. A sequel, \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\", was confirmed on", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (franchise)" }, { "id": "11098057", "text": "everyone who works on the show.\" T.J. Miller Todd Joseph Miller (born June 4, 1981) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, producer, and writer. In 2008, he made his acting debut in \"Cloverfield\", and from 2010 to 2019, he voiced Tuffnut Thorston in all three \"How to Train Your Dragon\" films. From 2014 to 2017, he starred as Erlich Bachman in the HBO sitcom \"Silicon Valley\", and also played Marvel Comics character Weasel in 2016's \"Deadpool\" and its 2018 sequel, \"Deadpool 2\". Miller also has had roles in films such as \"Yogi Bear\", \"She's Out of My League\", \"\", \"Big", "title": "T.J. Miller" }, { "id": "8202525", "text": "first part, obviously). He sets fire to the Berserk woods and tells Hiccup that a year after he leaves the Archipelago, he shall return to destroy the humans along with a dragon army (The Dragon Furious really hates humans). Hiccup, Camicazi, Fishlegs, Toothless, the Windwalker and the Chickenpoxer return to Berk along with the honey. Meanwhile, Humongous bring his five pots of honey to UG's room and goes on his honeymoon with Tantrum (because Humongous had been the one she had loved). In the epilogue, Hiccup reveals that sometimes he dreams he is the father of the second Hiccup, and", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "8202521", "text": "cell, where he meets a witch who introduces herself as Hogtrude(and Hiccup introducing himself as Fishlegs), who helps get some nasty things from Toothless's tummy. The witch then finds Hiccup suspicious and decides to tell him a story and at the end of the story, they will both guess each other's names and whoever guesses right will get to kill the other. The witch then tells Hiccup how Grimbeard the Ghastly had three kids, Thugheart, Chucklehead and Hiccup Horrendous Haddock II. Grimbeard tried to kill the second Hiccup by leaving him in the mountainside, upsetting his wife who left to", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "8202489", "text": "the preserved body of Norbert's father falls on a row of Squealers (a type of dragon that Vikings use as an alarm), who give ear-piercing screams. All the Hysterics suddenly wake up. Hiccup, Camicazi and Toothless get out of the Hall through the chimney. The three, along with One-eye, escape in Hiccup's boat, but get attacked by the Doomfang, which lives under a frozen sea called the \"Wrath of Thor\". The Doomfang breaks out of the ice and uses its tongue to grab the potato and eats it. Hiccup realizes that his mission has failed and guesses that the Doomfang", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15896837", "text": "How to Train Your Dragon (franchise) The How to Train Your Dragon franchise from DreamWorks Animation consists of two feature films \"How to Train Your Dragon\" (2010) and \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" (2014), with a third and final feature film, \"\", set for a 2019 release. The franchise is inspired by the British book series of the same name by Cressida Cowell. The franchise also consists of four short films: \"Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon\" (2011), \"Book of Dragons\" (2012), \"Gift of the Night Fury\" (2012) and \"Dawn of the Dragon Racers\" (2014). A television series following the", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (franchise)" }, { "id": "8202497", "text": "stone inside the volcano to stop the volcano from exploding and are attacked by Alvin riding an Exterminator. Alvin reveals the first Sharkworm he met tore out his eye, but he killed it and hid inside. However, after he got out on shore the dead Sharkworm's mouth shut on his leg, but he carved a new one from its teeth. The volcano erupts and the Exterminators hatch. Hiccup manages to put the stone into the volcano. But on contact with the lava, the fire stone hatches into a fire dragon, revealing that the fire stone is actually an egg. The", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716074", "text": "song \"Sticks & Stones\" , provided two new original songs for the sequel in collaboration with Powell. Belarusian-Norwegian artist Alexander Rybak, who voices Hiccup in Norwegian, also wrote and performed the song \"Into a Fantasy\". The latter song is featured only in the European versions of the film. A soundtrack album for the film was released on June 17, 2014, by Relativity Music Group. The album features over an hour of score by Powell; additional music by Anthony Willis and Paul Mounsey, as well as the two original songs written by Powell and Jónsi. Rybak's song, \"Into a Fantasy\", was", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202496", "text": "eye and all of his hair) told Humongous the thing he must promise to do is to kill Hiccup, stating that Hiccup is a Prince of Darkness and a Devil Child, who will send terror across the Archipelago. After Hotshot finishes his story Hiccup figures out that the woman Humungous is talking about is Hiccup's own mother, who had thought he was dead, and that Terrific Al is really the terrible villain Alvin the Treacherous as Hiccup had guessed. Hiccup, Fishlegs, Hotshot, Camicazi, the White Dragon and the Windwalker, Hiccup's riding dragon travel to Lava-lout Island to put the fire", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "2975086", "text": "commander. Just before Ocelot can commandeer Metal Gear RAY, Snake emerges and confronts him. Upon seeing Snake, Ocelot becomes possessed by Liquid Snake and escapes with RAY, leaving the ship to sink. In the aftermath, Snake is blamed for the disaster and is believed to have perished. The Big Shell clean-up facility is later constructed, ostensibly to help clean the Lower New York Bay after the major oil spill that occurred due to the tanker sinking. On April 29, 2009, Raiden (who operates briefly under the code name Snake) is tasked under a reformed FOXHOUND. He has orders to infiltrate", "title": "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty" }, { "id": "15716073", "text": "too tried to achieve the same maturation in the structure of his music by developing further every aspect of his compositions from the original film. Recording took place during April 2014 at Abbey Road Studios in London with a 120-piece orchestra, a 100-voice choir, and a wide array of ethnic instruments, including celtic harp, uilleann bagpipes, tin whistle, bodhrán, and Highland bagpipes; the latter of which were performed by pipers from the Scottish group The Red Hot Chilli Pipers. The ensemble was conducted by the composer's usual collaborator Gavin Greenaway. Sigur Rós lead vocalist, Jónsi, who wrote and performed the", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15648856", "text": "Voldemort's army attacks, Harry, seeing into Voldemort's mind, realises that Voldemort's snake Nagini is the final Horcrux. After entering the boathouse, the trio witness Voldemort telling Snape that the Elder Wand cannot serve Voldemort until Snape dies; he then orders Nagini to kill Snape. Before dying, Snape tells Harry to take his memories to the Pensieve. Meanwhile, Fred Weasley, Remus Lupin, and Nymphadora Tonks are killed in the chaos at Hogwarts. Harry learns from Snape's memories that while Snape despised Harry's late father James, who bullied him, he loved his late mother Lily. Following her death, Snape worked with Albus", "title": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" }, { "id": "15896844", "text": "Hounsou as Drago Bludvist. John Powell, the composer of the first score, will also return for the second and third film. Set five years after the events of the original film, Hiccup and Toothless have successfully united dragons and Vikings. Now 20 years old, Hiccup is forced to take on the mantle of chief by his father. When he discovers a group of dragon trappers led by Drago Bludvist, he goes on a quest to find him. But first he comes across a masked stranger named Valka, his presumed-dead mother. In December 2010, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg confirmed that there", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (franchise)" }, { "id": "8202487", "text": "Hiccup accidentally falls into a giant pot of onion soup, and gets discovered by Norbert the Nutjob. Hiccup makes Norbert show him the potato by pretending not to believe in the potato. Norbert finally reveals his father's preserved body, and in Norbert's father's hand is a glass case with the frozen potato which has an arrow stuck in it. Hiccup tries to persuade Norbert to give him the potato, but Norbert refuses. Norbert soon gets annoyed with Hiccup, and decides whether Hiccup should or should not die by throwing his double-sided axe into the air. If it lands on the", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716071", "text": "film is the second-highest-grossing animated film of 2014, behind \"Big Hero 6\", and the twelfth-highest-grossing film of the year in any genre. While \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" only earned $177 million at the US box office, compared to $217 million for its predecessor, it performed much better at the international box office, earning $438 million to \"How to Train Your Dragon\"'s $277 million. Calculating in all expenses, \"Deadline Hollywood\" estimated that the film made a profit of $107.3 million. In the United States and Canada, the film earned $18.5 million on its opening day, and opened at number", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716063", "text": "behold.\" Peter Hartlaub of the \"San Francisco Chronicle\" gave the film three out of four stars, saying \"DeBlois, who also wrote the script, successfully juggles the multiple story lines, shifting allegiances and uncharted lands.\" Rafer Guzman of \"Newsday\" gave the film three out of four stars, saying \"Gruesome? A little. Scary? You bet. But that's exactly what makes the \"Dragon\" films so different, and so much better, than the average children's fare.\" Michael Phillips of the \"Chicago Tribune\" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying \"For once, we have an animated sequel free of the committee-job vibe so", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716064", "text": "common at every animation house, no matter the track record.\" Stephen Holden of \"The New York Times\" gave the film a negative review, saying \"The story seems to be going somewhere until it comes to a halt with the inevitable showdown between the forces of darkness and the forces of light.\" Peter Howell of the \"Toronto Star\" gave the film three out of four stars, saying \"Taking its cues as much from \"Star Wars\" and \"Game of Thrones\" as from its own storybook narrative, \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" breathes fire into a franchise sequel.\" Claudia Puig of \"USA", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "7338807", "text": "film for Sigur Rós front-man Jónsi, entitled \"Go Quiet\", as well as a feature length concert film entitled \"Jónsi: Live at The Wiltern\". DeBlois wrote and directed the fantasy/action film \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\", a sequel to the original, which was released on June 13, 2014. DeBlois was born in Brockville, Ontario and raised in Aylmer, Quebec. DeBlois is openly gay, and told \"The Advocate\" that people in the industry \"knew that one of us was gay\" but mistakenly assumed it was his straight screenwriting partner Chris Sanders, because DeBlois \"hobbled in there looking like a redneck.\" DeBlois", "title": "Dean DeBlois" }, { "id": "17308050", "text": "Drago redeemed by the film's end, but halfway through development, Steven Spielberg convinced DeBlois that the story of Drago's redemption required more screen time that they could not provide, causing his inclusion to be scrapped. On April 17, 2018, DreamWorks Animation announced that the sequel's title has changed to \"How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World\". In September 2012, 20th Century Fox, the studio's then-distributor partner, and DreamWorks Animation announced the release date for June 18, 2016, which was later changed to June 17, 2016. In September 2014, the film's release date was moved to June 9, 2017. DeBlois", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" }, { "id": "15716061", "text": "four stars, saying \"\"Dragon 2\" really soars when our hero is aloft, imparting some important lessons about family, ecology and war for young audiences. It should also do very healthy business for hit-starved DreamWorks Animation.\" Joe McGovern of \"Entertainment Weekly\" gave the film a B, saying \"The flight path needs straightening, but this is still a franchise that knows how to fly.\" Jody Mitori of the \"St. Louis Post-Dispatch\" gave the film three out of four stars, saying \"For audiences who want a sweet story, they can't beat the first film of a boy finding his best friend. For those", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202546", "text": "horses and hawks so that he can fulfill his promise which stated that if humans didn't change by the time he died, dragons would have to go into hibernation. Hiccup also instructed Fishlegs to perpetuate that the whole story was just a myth. DreamWorks Animation released on 26 March 2010 a computer-animated film adaptation \"How to Train Your Dragon\", directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the directors of \"Lilo & Stitch\". The film features Gerard Butler as Stoick the Vast, Hiccup's father, Craig Ferguson as Gobber the Belch, and Jay Baruchel as Hiccup. The film proved to be a", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716050", "text": "its dragons can defend it. After the success of the first film, the sequel was announced on April 27, 2010. \"\"How to Train Your Dragon\" … has become DreamWorks Animation's next franchise. We plan to release the sequel theatrically in 2013,\" said Jeffrey Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation's CEO. It was later revealed that DeBlois had started drafting the outline for a sequel in February 2010 at Skywalker Ranch, during the final sound mix of the first film. The film was originally scheduled for release on June 20, 2014, but in August 2013 the release date was moved forward one week to", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202479", "text": "Skullions, where a small treasure chest is found by Snotlout, along with Grimbeard's famous sword, the Stormblade. However, Grimbeard has booby-trapped the chest with a smell that would wake up all of the Skullions on the island, and a brief, desperate fight with the Skullions ensues, during which Hiccup dislocates his right arm. A few of the Skullions are killed, and the Vikings escape with the treasure. Upon nearing Berk, the Hooligans begin fighting over the treasure, and as they fight, they are ambushed by a group of cannibalistic Vikings known as the Outcasts. Alvin reveals himself to be the", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "8202547", "text": "resounding critical and box office success, and became a major media franchise for DreamWorks Animation including a 2014 feature film sequel \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\", with Dean DeBlois directing it. The plot of the film is almost completely different from the first book in the series. The greatest change is how the Vikings in the book have the custom of capturing and training in combat against dragons even before the story begins – but in the film, they are fighting a fierce war against the dragons and only switch to training them after Hiccup shows that this can", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716062", "text": "who are ready for the next stage, try this one about a boy becoming a man.\" Bill Goodykoontz of \"The Arizona Republic\" gave the film four out of five stars, saying \"It seemed as if there was nowhere new to go after the first film, but this is a richer story that dares to go darker and is thus more rewarding.\" Peter Travers of \"Rolling Stone\" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying \"\"Dragon 2\", like \"The Empire Strikes Back\", takes sequels to a new level of imagination and innovation. It truly is a high-flying, depth-charging wonder to", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "3335620", "text": "Saturn Award for Best Actor and a win for MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. In the 2010s, he voiced the role of Stoick the Vast in the animated action-fantasy film \"How to Train Your Dragon\", a role he later reprised in \"Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon\" (2010), \"Gift of the Night Fury\" (2011), and \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" (2014). He played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film \"Coriolanus\", a modernized adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. He also played Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic \"Machine Gun Preacher\". Gerard James Butler was", "title": "Gerard Butler" }, { "id": "8202520", "text": "of laughing gas in the stomach of dragons). The Fire dragon burst out in laughter, melting off Alvin's nose, and Alvin floated out in a bubble, which was later shot down by a Berserk. Alvin then fell from the sky onto the Berserk Chief's chef, and spared his own life by agreeing to become the Chief's new chef. Hiccup tells Alvin that he can help him escape if he shows him where Camicazi is imprisoned (Hiccup had already knew that she was imprisoned in Berserk). Alvin agrees but while they are in the woods, he pushed Hiccup into a tree", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "8202534", "text": "the Treacherous's control to spy on Alvin. There, he finds and befriends many slaves, including his father that comb the beaches during low tide, looking for the Dragon Jewel. Alvin discovers Hiccup and makes him look for the Dragon Jewel by himself, with a deadly armed guard. A Deadly Shadow swoops down and snatches Hiccup before he has a chance to look for the Jewel. The dragon brings him to a hill to kill him, but notices that he has the lobster claw necklace. They (the dragon has three heads, Arrogance, Patience and Innocence) tell him that they had promised", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716067", "text": "enriched the original, it also deepens the first film's major themes.\" Stephen Whitty of the \"Newark Star-Ledger\" gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four, saying \"This was not a sequel that anybody needed, outside of the accountants. And there's another already planned.\" John Semley of \"The Globe and Mail\" gave the film four out of four stars, saying \"More than just teaching kids what to think about the world they're coming into, it's a rare film that encourages them to think for themselves.\" Rene Rodriguez of the \"Miami Herald\" gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, saying \"\"How", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "11414853", "text": "\"Boy Meets World\" and the second season of its sequel series \"Girl Meets World\", which aired on Disney Channel. Carry's family included Ronald, his brother, and Helen, his mother, who is a minister with the Christ Universal Temple in Chicago. He married twice; his second wife was Naomi Carry. Carry died on August 19, 2008 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56. Julius Carry Julius John Carry III (March 12, 1952 – August 19, 2008) was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the character Sho'Nuff in the film \"The Last Dragon\". He made his acting", "title": "Julius Carry" }, { "id": "8202538", "text": "retrieve the rest of the things from the Alvinsmen – Alvin's team – so Hiccup would become king), the ten companions of the Dragonmark (Hiccup, Fishlegs, Camicazi, Toothless, Wodensfang, Stormfly, Windwalker, Innocence, Arrogance and Patience) hear a human calling for help then abruptly stopping. Soon they find Wolf-fangs in the river, showing them why he was screaming. Then they see why he stopped. Thousands of Dragon Rebellion dragons were sleeping on the riverbank. Then they see who the human is... Snotlout. Everyone except Hiccup decides to leave him, but Hiccup persuades them to save him, accidentally waking up Snotlout's Hogfly.", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "7672273", "text": "is killed by Letch while attempting to climb down the hill without ropes. After being separated from Crank (Jacob Vargas) and Delmar (Lee Thompson Young), Napoleon and Amber cross paths with Chameleon, who they manage to kill. They later locate a non-violent mutant named Hansel (David Reynolds), while escaping Grabber (Gaspar Szabo). Grabber is killed by Crank after shooting Delmar. After reuniting with Napoleon and Amber, Delmar dies from his wounds, and Hansel leads Napoleon, Amber, and Crank to the exit. Along the way Crank is killed by a trapped crate of dynamite that he attempts to take with him,", "title": "The Hills Have Eyes 2" }, { "id": "8202475", "text": "a fight ensues between all the dragons. As this is seen as failure to train the dragons correctly, the boys are exiled, allowed to stay one night while a storm rages. During the storm, three Sea Dragons are washed up on the shore of the island and one seems a threat to the Vikings. Hiccup is chosen to negotiate with the dragon, who has eaten one of the other dragons. However, the dragon, who calls himself the Green Death, says he is going to kill all the Vikings. While the village elders argue over how to attack the Green Death,", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "8202541", "text": "who they are and the Wodensfang is asleep from a poison dart. Once Hiccup reaches Tomorrow, he is captured by the Dragon Guardians of Tomorrow who attempt to kill by performing Death by Airy Oblivion, but halfway up realize that they have made a mistake and Hiccup should not be killed, and so drop him in the swamp. Hiccup crawls out of the swamp and enters Grimbeard the Ghastly's castle just as Alvin is about to be crowned king by the Druid Guardian. At this point, Hiccup regains his memory and gives a speech convincing the Druid Guardian to crown", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "8202488", "text": "black side, Hiccup will die, if it lands on the golden side, he will live. Hiccup cheats by catching the axe just as it is about to land on the black. Norbert is annoyed that Hiccup cheated, and locks him in the cage. After the Hysterics fall asleep, Camicazi picks the lock of Hiccup's cage; freeing him (Toothless took the key to cage from Norbert's pocket, but swallows it, and accidentally sets fire to a carpet). Camicazi lowers herself down with a rope and grabs the potato, but sees Norbert's ticking-thing in the glass case and takes that too. Suddenly,", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716053", "text": "first film was set in a generic North Sea environment, the creative team decided to focus on Norway this time around. Early in the sequel's development, about a dozen of them traveled there for a week-long research trip, where they toured Oslo, Bergen, and the fjords. DeBlois, together with Gregg Taylor (DreamWorks' head of feature development) and Roger Deakins (a cinematographer who served as visual consultant), then broke off from the group to visit Svalbard and see polar bears in the wild with the assistance of armed guides. DeBlois explained that he had learned from directing \"Lilo & Stitch\" (2002)", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "15716070", "text": "swoop through the air, whoosh down dragons' tails, and \"juuust baaaarely\" [\"sic\"] squeeze into small crevices, but still, those experiences are only like being on a really great rollercoaster—they don't mean anything.\" A.A. Dowd of \"The A.V. Club\" gave the film a B-, saying \"There aren't just more dragons, but more characters, more plot, more everything. The trade-off is that the charm of the original gets a little lost, a casualty of rapid-franchise expansion.\" \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" grossed $177 million in North America, and $441.9 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $618.9 million. The", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "4999599", "text": "Adidas Originals ad campaign, \"Cantina\", in conjunction with the FIFA World Cup and in video clips for Canadian prog-rockers Rush's 2012–13 Clockwork Angels tour. In July 2012, he appeared in the music video for the song \"Toxsik Waltz\" by rapper Necro. In the summer of 2013, he starred in the hit apocalyptic comedy \"This Is the End\" and in 2014, he appeared in the \"RoboCop\" remake and reprised his role as Hiccup in \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\". Baruchel wrote, directed and starred in the 2017 sports comedy film \"\", the sequel to the 2011 film \"Goon\". In July", "title": "Jay Baruchel" }, { "id": "2975091", "text": "rogue with Dead Cell to escape the Patriots' control. Ocelot kills the President soon after this revelation. Raiden moves on to disabling Arsenal Gear, going to rescue an engineer, Emma Emmerich (Otacon's step-sister). After fighting Vamp, who seemingly drowns after being shot, Raiden rescues Emma, who agrees to help upload a virus into the \"GW\" mainframe. However, the upload is halted partway when Emma is attacked by Vamp. Raiden then defeats Vamp by shooting him again, although the injuries Emma suffers prove fatal. Otacon escapes with the surviving hostages, while Raiden is captured by Olga when Solid Snake seemingly betrays", "title": "Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty" }, { "id": "8980852", "text": "After fending them off, they pack up and head out of town to seek refuge with Tommy's Native American grandmother. There they encounter Tommy's uncle James, a once-promising fighter whose career was ruined due to a clash with Brakus. Claiming to know how to defeat him, James begins to train Alex and Tommy. Their training does not last long as Weldon's henchmen track them down. James tries to intervene but is shot to death. While Tommy is forced into the waiting helicopter, Alex and the others are herded back into the house. As Weldon's men prepare to execute them and", "title": "Best of the Best II" }, { "id": "12190517", "text": "free, but Stoick saves them both, reconciling with his son. Working together, Toothless and Hiccup destroy the Red Death; Hiccup is injured in the fight, losing his lower left leg and requiring a prosthesis. Hiccup regains consciousness on Berk to find himself admired amongst the tribe and by Astrid, with the Vikings and the dragons now living in harmony. The book series by Cressida Cowell began coming to attention to the executives at DreamWorks Animation in 2004. Coming off her success in \"Over the Hedge\", producer Bonnie Arnold shortly became interested in the newly acquired property. She kept focusing on", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (film)" }, { "id": "16470055", "text": "saves Max Dillion's life before a taxi could have hit him. Later, Peter meets with his girlfriend Gwen Stacy at their high school graduation ceremony and, insisting he keep his vow to her late father, ends their relationship. Peter's childhood friend, Harry Osborn, returns to Manhattan to see his terminally-ill father, Norman, CEO of OsCorp. Norman explains his illness is genetic, and Harry is at the age where it first develops. Norman gives Harry a small device he claims contains his life's work. The next day, Norman dies, and Harry is appointed the new OsCorp CEO. While working in an", "title": "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" }, { "id": "3217551", "text": "script the final battle took place on hills covered with a big brush fire, and after destruction of the stilt house Riggs chases the main villain Benedict (Pieter Vorstedt in the film), a much different and more dangerous character in original script and Riggs' \"arch-nemesis and worst nightmare\" according to Black, into the heart of the fire, after which Riggs gets stabbed and dies slowly from his wounds. The last scene in the script was Murtaugh watching the video tape that Riggs made before the final battle since he knew that he was going to die, and on which he", "title": "Lethal Weapon 2" }, { "id": "8202531", "text": "in the first place, but instead abandoned as a baby. Fishlegs, who is also a runt, was abandoned, but he ended up on Berk. Everyone has to turn their backs, excluding Fishlegs, who gives Hiccup his lobster-claw necklace, the only thing Fishlegs has from his parents. Alvin's the new king, and declares war on the dragons. Furious arrives and the war begins. Only Windwalker and Toothless stay faithful, and bring Hiccup to safety. He is followed by the dragons, who think he has the Dragon Jewel, the only thing that could stop the dragons now. In mid-chase he falls unconscious", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "7299079", "text": "renders him unconscious. As Griffin slowly turns visible, Maggie reveals that he has been poisoned, as the vial contained rat poison; she loses consciousness. Enraged, Griffin takes a shovel and attempts to kill her, but Turner, having recovered, stops him and kills him with the shovel. He then carries Maggie away for medical attention, leaving Griffin's body outside in the rain. A few days later, Maggie is recovering in hospital and is poised to be released. Heather tells her that Turner has not been found. Maggie insists that he will come back to her, as she knows he needs her.", "title": "Hollow Man 2" }, { "id": "8202544", "text": "However, before the agreement can be made, Alvin and the Witch attack Furious, thus violating the laws of single combat. Furious gets the dragon army to attack and so soon there is an all-out Vikings vs. Dragons battle. Meanwhile, Camicazi and Fishlegs capture and detain Alvin, who reveals that he found the necklace in Grimbeard's tomb and gave it to a princess as a present while masquerading as a fisherman, which means that Alvin is Fishlegs' father. After telling this, Alvin prepares to kill Fishlegs before the Dragon Guardians intervene and kill him once and for all by giving him", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "16470060", "text": "refused the blood transfusion, kidnaps her and takes her to the top of a clock tower. Spider-Man defeats Harry, but Gwen falls to her death, despite Spider-Man's attempt to save her. Mourning her death, the depressed Peter ends his career as Spider-Man. Five months later, Harry is coping with the aftereffects of his transformation while incarcerated at Ravencroft. His associate, Gustav Fiers, visits Harry and the pair discuss forming their own team. Harry orders Fiers to start with Sytsevich. Later, an unknown team of men break Sytsevich out of prison. Equipped with an electromechanical suit of armor, Sytsevich calls himself", "title": "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" }, { "id": "15143218", "text": "(who was only injured in the face) pops out of nowhere and shoots Shivers three times in the chest, knocking him back into the gully. It is never revealed whether Peters is dead, or he's just simply unconscious. The police arrive, only to find out that there's no body in the gully, only that there is a trail of blood that leads a hundred feet south, where Shivers climbed out of the gully and went into the woods. Sgt. Raup (Vincent T. Brown) decides to break the news to Lynn in the morning after she gets a good night sleep.", "title": "Fear of Clowns 2" }, { "id": "12190509", "text": "How to Train Your Dragon (film) How to Train Your Dragon is a 2010 American 3D computer-animated action fantasy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Loosely based on the 2003 book by Cressida Cowell, the film was directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the duo who wrote and directed Walt Disney Animation Studios' 2002 film \"Lilo & Stitch\". It stars the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, T. J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. The story takes place in a mythical Viking world where a young Viking teenager", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon (film)" }, { "id": "15716051", "text": "June 13, 2014. The film was written, directed, and executive produced by Dean DeBlois, the co-writer/co-director of the first film. Bonnie Arnold, the producer of the first film, also returned, while Chris Sanders, who co-directed and co-wrote the first film, acted only as an additional executive producer this time due to his involvement with \"The Croods\". When offered the sequel, DeBlois accepted it on condition he can turn it into a trilogy. For the sequel, he intended to revisit the films of his youth, with \"The Empire Strikes Back\" and \"My Neighbor Totoro\" having the pivotal inspirations for the film.", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" }, { "id": "8202511", "text": "him, and promises to free them, and is rescued by Norbert. The boat reaches the land of Polar-serpents, where dangerous dragons called Polar-serpents roam. Hiccup decides to use Dragon-nip to make the Hysterics fall asleep and escape with the Wanderers. Hiccup pours dragon-nip into the crew's dinner, making them all fall asleep. After all Wanderers are safe on the emergency boats, Hiccup falls off the boat and lands on an iceberg, and is chased into a cave by Polar Serpents. Hiccup accidentally wakes up a gigantic dragon, which also chases Hiccup. Hiccup manages to get back onto the boat, and", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "18218899", "text": "time one of the crew members try to escape the den, only to get killed by an unknown killer (it is later revealed that the unknown killer is a psychopathic serial killer, who becomes mentally unstable, after he loses his family in the fire accident at the abandoned chemical factory). The killer slashes all the crew and burglars. However, only a single crew member and a single burglar manage to escape the wrath of the psychopath, as the burglar kills the psychopath and burns him to death. The film ends when the burglar drops the crew member at her residence,", "title": "Ice Cream 2" }, { "id": "17232685", "text": "\"RocknRolla\" with Idris Elba, Butler took the lead in several 2009 films including the romantic comedy \"The Ugly Truth\" with Katherine Heigl and the thriller \"Law Abiding Citizen\" with Jamie Foxx. In 2010, Butler voiced the role of Stoick the Vast in the animated action-fantasy film \"How to Train Your Dragon\", a role he later reprised in \"Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon\" (2010), \"Gift of the Night Fury\" (2011) and \"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" (2014). He played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film \"Coriolanus\", the modernised adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. He also", "title": "Gerard Butler filmography" }, { "id": "8202509", "text": "hunting dragons are tied up too. The ship happens to have Madguts, Norbert the Nutjob (Chief of the Hysterics) and Gumboil. Norbert has asked Madguts to take Hiccup, Camicazi and Fishlegs to the boat, and in return letting him rest on the boat for a few hours, before he continues the race, being the Last Man Back. After Madguts and Gumboil leave, Hiccup returns the ticking thing, which he had stolen from Norbert in an earlier adventure. Norbert attempts to use the ticking thing to get to America. Norbert is about to kill Hiccup, Camicazi and Fishlegs with the Axe", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon" }, { "id": "15716069", "text": "a positive review, saying \"\"How to Train Your Dragon 2\" is soaring, emotionally swooping, utterly satisfying fun.\" Bob Mondello of NPR gave the film an 8.5 out of 10, saying \"It's clear that [director Dean DeBlois] took inspiration from the first \"Star Wars\" trilogy—not a bad model for breathing new life, and yes, a bit of fire, into one of Hollywood's more nuanced animated franchises.\" Inkoo Kang of \"The Wrap\" gave the film a mixed review, saying \"If there isn't enough to feel, at least there's a lot to look at. Thanks to the superb 3-D direction by DeBlois, we", "title": "How to Train Your Dragon 2" } ]