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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It has been described as arguably the most popular literary work in East Asia." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It has been described as arguably the most popular literary work in East Asia." }, { "section_header": "Media adaptations", "text": "In the 1980s, China Central Television (CCTV) produced and aired a TV adaptation of Journey to the West under the same name as the original work." }, { "section_header": "Notable English-language translations", "text": "Hu Shih's interpretation reflected the popular reading of the novel, but does not account for the levels of meaning and the allegorical framework which scholars in China and the west have shown to be an important part of the late Ming text." }, { "section_header": "Notable English-language translations", "text": "\"The literary scholar Andrew H. Plaks points out that Waley's abridgement reflected his interpretation of the novel." }, { "section_header": "Authorship", "text": "Hu Shih, literary scholar and former Ambassador to the United States, wrote that the people of Wu's hometown attributed it early on to Wu, and kept records to that effect as early as 1625; thus, claimed Ambassador Hu, Journey to the West was one of the earliest Chinese novels for which the authorship is officially documented." }, { "section_header": "Authorship", "text": "The work in question could have been any version of our story, or something else entirely.\"Translator" }, { "section_header": "Notable English-language translations", "text": "On the other hand, it has been praised as \"remarkably faithful to the original spirit of the work." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Arthur Waley's popular abridged translation, Monkey, is well known in English-speaking countries." }, { "section_header": "Historical context", "text": "His translation and commentary work established him as the founder of the Dharma character school of Buddhism." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The novel is an extended account of the legendary pilgrimage of the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled to the \"Western Regions\", that is, Central Asia and India, to obtain Buddhist sacred texts (sūtras) and returned after many trials and much suffering." } ]
It has been descibed as the most popular literary work in West Asia.
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[ { "section_header": "In literature", "text": "According to Vicarasreni of Merutunga, Mauryans rose to power in 312 BC." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power based in Magadha and founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated the Indian subcontinent between 322 and 185 BCE." }, { "section_header": "In literature", "text": "According to Vicarasreni of Merutunga, Mauryans rose to power in 312 BC." }, { "section_header": "Timeline", "text": "322 BCE: Chandragupta Maurya founded the Mauryan Empire by defeating the Nanda Dynasty." }, { "section_header": "History | Founding", "text": "The mauryas appear again in connection with the Maurya empire founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 BC with help from Chanakya, at Taxila, a noted center of learning." }, { "section_header": "Timeline", "text": "317–316 BCE: Chandragupta Maurya conquers the Northwest of the Indian subcontinent." }, { "section_header": "History | Chandragupta Maurya", "text": "According to Plutarch Chandragupta Maurya subdued entire India" }, { "section_header": "History | Founding", "text": "According to several legends, Chanakya travelled to Magadha, a kingdom that was large and militarily powerful and feared by its neighbours, but was insulted by its king Dhana Nanda, of the Nanda dynasty." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Chandragupta Maurya raised an army, with the assistance of Chanakya, author of Arthasastra, and overthrew the Nanda Empire in c. 322 BCE." }, { "section_header": "History | Founding", "text": "Chandragupta Maurya's rise to power is shrouded in mystery and controversy." }, { "section_header": "Administration", "text": "The expansion and defense of the empire was made possible by what appears to have been one of the largest armies in the world during the Iron Age." } ]
The Maurya Empire was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power based in Magadha and founded by Chandragupta Maurya which dominated the Indian subcontinent between 322 and 185 BCE, and according to Vicarasreni of Merutunga, Mauryans rose to power in 300 BC.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23; of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria \"Sara\" Maltese." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "Esther Friesner's Threads and Flames (ISBN 978-0670012459) deals with a young girl, named Raisa, who works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at the time of the fire." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers – 123 women and girls and 23 men – who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "Vivian Schurfranz's novel Rachel (ISBN 978-0590403948), from the Sunfire series of historical romances for young adults, is about a Polish Jewish immigrant girl who works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at the time of the fire." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "Mary Jane Auch's 2004 historical novel for young adults, Ashes of Roses (ISBN 978-0-312-53580-3) tells the tale of Margaret Rose Nolan, a young girl who works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory at the time of the fire, along with her sister and her friends." }, { "section_header": "Fire", "text": "The factory normally employed about 500 workers, mostly young immigrant women and girls, who worked nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays, earning for their 52 hours of work between $7 and $12 a week, the equivalent of $191 to $327 a week in 2018 currency, or $3.67 to $6.29 per hour." }, { "section_header": "Aftermath", "text": "Although early references of the death toll ranged from 141 to 148, almost all modern references agree that 146 people died as a result of the fire: 123 women and girls and 23 men." }, { "section_header": "Aftermath", "text": "The first person to jump was a man, and another man was seen kissing a young woman at the window before they both jumped to their deaths." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "Author Eric Powell specifically cites the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire as an inspiration for the story." }, { "section_header": "Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition | Permanent memorial", "text": "The Coalition has launched an effort to create a permanent public art memorial for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire at the site of the 1911 fire in lower Manhattan." }, { "section_header": "Consequences and legacy", "text": "The jury acquitted the two men of first- and second-degree manslaughter, but they were found liable of wrongful death during a subsequent civil suit in 1913 in which plaintiffs were awarded compensation in the amount of $75 per deceased victim." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Most of the victims were recent Italian and Jewish immigrant women and girls aged 14 to 23; of the victims whose ages are known, the oldest victim was 43-year-old Providenza Panno, and the youngest were 14-year-olds Kate Leone and Rosaria \"Sara\" Maltese." } ]
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire deaths were mostly young men
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Technology
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It is based in City of Industry, California." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "History", "text": "Chang also retained his position as President of Newegg's Chinese operations." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "as Newegg did not have a physical presence in Connecticut, Newegg believed it did not need to collect state sales tax from the ruling in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "In early 2018, customers in the state of Connecticut were notified that Newegg had not collected state sales tax due on out of state purchases in the past three years." }, { "section_header": "History | Litigation | Patent troll cases", "text": "In November 2013, Newegg lost a case in Texas against TQP Development over Newegg's use of https:// protocol mixing SSL and RC4." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "Chang was Newegg's chairman and CEO until August 1, 2008, when it was announced he would step down as CEO and chairman while remaining a member of the board of directors and executive committee." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It is based in City of Industry, California." } ]
Newegg's headquarters is in Connecticut.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Best Supporting Actor for Wilkinson, and Best Supporting Actress for Swinton, which she won." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Reception | Critical response", "text": "The website's critical consensus reads: \"Michael Clayton is one of the most sharply scripted films of 2007, with an engrossing premise and faultless acting." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Top ten lists", "text": "At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper" }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Michael takes one copy of the document with him." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Best Supporting Actor for Wilkinson, and Best Supporting Actress for Swinton, which she won." }, { "section_header": "Cast", "text": "George Clooney as Michael Raymond Clayton." }, { "section_header": "Release | Home media", "text": "On March 11, 2008 the movie was also released on HD DVD." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Michael finds Arthur on a Manhattan street and confronts him about calls he made to Anna Kaiserson, one of the plaintiffs in the U-North suit." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Michael, having gone to a loan shark to raise the money, is held responsible for the debt and given one week to come up with the money." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Critical response", "text": "Time magazine said that \"Michael Clayton is not an exercise in high-tension energy; you'll never confuse its eponymous protagonist with Jason Bourne." }, { "section_header": "Cast", "text": "Sydney Pollack as Martin \"Marty\" Bach, managing partner of Kenner, Bach, and Ledeen, Michael's boss Michael O'Keefe as Barry Grissom, who works closely with Marty at the law firm, and imposes conditions on Michael for the $80,000 \"bonus\" Sean Cullen as Gene Clayton, Michael's brother, a police detective Ken Howard as Don Jeffries, U-North's CEO Merritt Wever as Anna, one of the plaintiffs against U-North" } ]
The Michael Clayton movie won one Oscar.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Smith won his first Gold Glove Award in 1980 and made his first All-Star Game appearance in 1981." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1987–1990", "text": "In addition to winning the Gold Glove Award at shortstop for the eighth consecutive time, Smith posted a career-high on-base percentage of .392." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Smith won his first Gold Glove Award in 1980 and made his first All-Star Game appearance in 1981." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | San Diego Padres", "text": "In 1980, he set the single-season record for most assists by a shortstop (621), and began his string of 13 consecutive Gold Glove awards." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1982–1984", "text": "Smith was voted in as the National League's starting shortstop in the All-Star Game for the first time in 1983, and at season's end won a fourth consecutive Gold Glove Award." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Smith continued to earn Gold Gloves and All-Star appearances on an annual basis until 1993." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1990–1995", "text": "Smith became a free agent for the first time in his career on November 2, 1992, only to sign a new contract with the Cardinals on December 6.Smith won his final Gold Glove in 1992, and his 13 consecutive Gold Gloves at shortstop in the National League has yet to be matched." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1987–1990", "text": "While the team did not see the postseason for the remainder of the decade, Smith continued to rack up All-Star appearances and Gold Gloves." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "In 2012, Smith made news headlines again, when he sold all of his Gold Gloves at auction together for more than $500,000." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Nicknamed \"The Wizard\" for his defensive brilliance, Smith set major league records for career assists (8,375) and double plays (1,590) by a shortstop (the latter since broken by Omar Vizquel), as well as the National League (NL) record with 2,511 career games at the position; Smith won the NL Gold Glove Award for play at shortstop for 13 consecutive seasons (1980–1992)." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1990–1995", "text": "Smith was recognized for his community service efforts with the 1994 Branch Rickey Award and the 1995 Roberto Clemente Award." } ]
Although Ozzie Smith was a great player, he was never able to win the Gold Glove Award which was a goal of his.
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[ { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "His older brother Frank Torre was also a Major League Baseball player." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "His siblings include two older brothers, Frank and Rocco, and an older sister, Marguerite." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "His older brother Frank Torre was also a Major League Baseball player." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Heavyset as a teenager , Torre was not considered a viable professional prospect until he converted to catcher on the advice of his brother, Frank." }, { "section_header": "Playing career | Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves (1960–1968)", "text": "Torre followed in his brother Frank Torre's footsteps when he was signed by the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1959." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Joe, Sr. abused Margaret until Torre was 13 years old when Torre's brother, Frank, convinced their father to move out." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "Frank died in 2014. His eldest brother, Rocco, was a New York Police Department officer who died in 1996." }, { "section_header": "Thoroughbred racing horse owner", "text": "Game On Dude is a retired thoroughbred who is one of the top older handicap horses in the United States." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "His older sister, Marguerite is a Roman Catholic nun and teacher, and through 2007 was the principal of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary School in Ozone Park Queens." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Joseph Paul Torre (; born July 18, 1940) is an American professional baseball executive, serving as a special assistant to the Commissioner since 2020." }, { "section_header": "Joe Torre Foundation", "text": "The program, which is administered by health care professionals from North Hudson Community Action Corp, also includes an anti-violence campaign within the school, and training for teachers and counselors." } ]
Torre's older brother, Frank, was a professional boxer.
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[ { "section_header": "Christian eschatological views | Protestant", "text": "The many denominations of Protestantism have differing views on the exact details of Christ's second coming." }, { "section_header": "Specific date predictions and claims", "text": "Views about the nature of the Second Coming vary among Christian denominations and among individual Christians." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Islam | Ahmadiyya", "text": "The Ahmadiyya movement interpret the Second Coming of Jesus prophesied as being that of a person \"similar to Jesus\" (mathīl-" }, { "section_header": "Christian eschatological views | Protestant", "text": "The many denominations of Protestantism have differing views on the exact details of Christ's second coming." }, { "section_header": "Islam | Traditional view", "text": "The belief in Jesus (and all other messengers of God) is required in Islam, and a requirement of being a Muslim." }, { "section_header": "Christian eschatological views | Early Christianity", "text": "the simple meaning of his previous statement is that the Second Coming was to be witnessed by people literally living in that same generation." }, { "section_header": "Islam | Traditional view", "text": "The Quran states that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary." }, { "section_header": "Islam | Ahmadiyya", "text": "Islamic tradition commonly depicts that Jesus, upon his second coming, would be an Ummati (Muslim) and a follower of Muhammad and that he would revive the truth of Islam rather than fostering a new religion." }, { "section_header": "Other views and commentaries | Judaism", "text": "Regarding the Christian idea that these prophecies will be fulfilled during a \"second coming,\" Ohr Samayach states \"we find this to be a contrived answer, since there is no mention of a second coming in the Jewish Bible." }, { "section_header": "Christian eschatological views | Catholic and Orthodox", "text": "Many Christian denominations consider this second coming of Christ to be the final and eternal judgment by God of the people in every nation resulting in the glorification of some and the punishment of others." }, { "section_header": "Christian eschatological views | Catholic and Orthodox", "text": "The concept is found in all the Canonical gospels, particularly the Gospel of Matthew." }, { "section_header": "Christian eschatological views | Emanuel Swedenborg and the New Church", "text": "Historian Marguerite Beck Block writes, Now therefore it was time for a new church to be founded upon the earth, and for this purpose it was necessary for the Lord Himself to make his Second Coming to the sons of men." }, { "section_header": "Specific date predictions and claims", "text": "Views about the nature of the Second Coming vary among Christian denominations and among individual Christians." } ]
Views about The Second Coming of Jesus is can be found across many religions stating the same message.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men)." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Timeline | Formal prosecution: The Court of Oyer and Terminer", "text": "all confessed to being witches." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693." }, { "section_header": "Timeline | September 1692", "text": "Hoar was given a temporary reprieve, with the support of several ministers, to make a confession of being a witch." }, { "section_header": "Primary sources and early discussion", "text": "The most famous primary source about the trials is Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World: Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches, Lately Executed in New-England, printed in October 1692." }, { "section_header": "Timeline | Initial events", "text": "If such upstanding people could be witches, the townspeople thought, then anybody could be a witch, and church membership was no protection from accusation." }, { "section_header": "Legal procedures | Spectral evidence", "text": "The publication A Tryal of Witches, related to the 1662 Bury St Edmunds witch trial, was used by the magistrates at Salem when looking for a precedent in allowing spectral evidence." }, { "section_header": "Timeline | Initial events", "text": "The girls complained of being pinched and pricked with pins." }, { "section_header": "Legal procedures | Witch cake", "text": "According to a March 27, 1692 entry by Parris in the Records of the Salem-Village Church, a church member and close neighbor of Rev. Parris, Mary Sibley (aunt of Mary Walcott), directed John Indian, a man enslaved by Parris, to make a witch cake." }, { "section_header": "Legal procedures | Touch test", "text": ", they being in their fits and falling into their fits at our coming into their presence, as they said." }, { "section_header": "Background | Local context", "text": "The first two ministers, James Bayley (1673–79) and George Burroughs (1680–83), stayed only a few years each, departing after the congregation failed to pay their full rate. (Burroughs was subsequently arrested at the height of the witchcraft hysteria and was hanged as a witch in August 1692.) Despite the ministers' rights being upheld by the General Court and the parish being admonished, each of the two ministers still chose to leave." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men)." } ]
The Salem witch trials was where 200 people died after being accused of being witches.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Little is known about him beyond the events of the war, and surviving historical accounts are sometimes contradictory." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "The name Spartacus is otherwise manifested in the Black Sea region." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Plutarch also writes that Spartacus' wife, a prophetess of the Maedi tribe, was enslaved with him." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "The Greek essayist Plutarch describes Spartacus as \"a Thracian of Nomadic stock\", in a possible reference to the Maedi tribe." }, { "section_header": "Third Servile War", "text": "The rural slave lived a life in the frontier thus better equipping themselves to march with Spartacus' army." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Appian says he was \"a Thracian by birth, who had once served as a soldier with the Romans, but had since been a prisoner and sold for a gladiator\"." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Florus described him as one \"who, from a Thracian mercenary, had become a Roman soldier, that had deserted and became enslaved, and afterward, from consideration of his strength, a gladiator\"." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "The authors refer to the Thracian tribe of the Maedi, which occupied the area on the southwestern fringes of Thrace, along its border with the Roman province of Macedonia – present day south-western Bulgaria." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Five out of twenty Kings of the Thracian Spartocid dynasty of the Cimmerian Bosporus and Pontus are known to have borne it, and a Thracian \"Sparta\" \"Spardacus\" or \"Sparadokos\", father of Seuthes" }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "I of the Odrysae, is also known." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography | Classical authors", "text": "Fall of the Roman Republic. Fall of the Roman Republic. Translated by R. Warner. (London: Penguin Books, 1972), with special emphasis placed on \"The Life of Crassus\" and \"The Life of Pompey\". Sallust." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Little is known about him beyond the events of the war, and surviving historical accounts are sometimes contradictory." } ]
Spartacus life was not well documented.
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[ { "section_header": "Congressman | Second through fourth terms", "text": "With the Whigs able to organize the House for the first time, Fillmore sought the Speakership, but it went to a Clay acolyte, John White of Kentucky." }, { "section_header": "Legacy and historical view", "text": "Millard Fillmore, with his wife Abigail, established the first White House library." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Works cited", "text": "The Unknown President: The Administration of Millard Fillmore." }, { "section_header": "Legacy and historical view", "text": "Millard Fillmore, with his wife Abigail, established the first White House library." }, { "section_header": "Presidency (1850–1853) | Election of 1852 and completion of term", "text": "though past seventy, planned a final attempt to gain the White House." }, { "section_header": "Presidency (1850–1853) | Foreign relations", "text": "Kossuth was feted by Congress, and Fillmore allowed a White House meeting after receiving word that Kossuth would not try to politicize it." }, { "section_header": "Presidency (1850–1853) | Succession amid crisis", "text": "Fillmore had been called from his chair presiding over the Senate on July 8 and had sat with members of the cabinet in a vigil outside Taylor's bedroom at the White House." }, { "section_header": "Congressman | Second through fourth terms", "text": "With the Whigs able to organize the House for the first time, Fillmore sought the Speakership, but it went to a Clay acolyte, John White of Kentucky." }, { "section_header": "Post-presidency | Tragedy and political turmoil (1853–1855)", "text": "The Fillmores had planned a tour of the South after leaving the White House, but Abigail caught a cold at President Pierce's inauguration, developed pneumonia, and died in Washington on March 30, 1853." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "while in the White House. A former U.S. representative from New York, Fillmore was elected the nation's 12th vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency in July 1850 upon the death of President Zachary Taylor." }, { "section_header": "Buffalo politician", "text": "Fillmore's 1828 election was in contrast to the victories of the Jacksonian Democrats (soon the Democrats), who swept the general into the White House and their party to a majority in Albany—thus Fillmore was in the minority in the Assembly." }, { "section_header": "Election of 1848 | Nomination", "text": "President Polk had pledged not to seek a second term, and with gains in Congress during the 1846 election cycle, the Whigs were hopeful of taking the White House in 1848." } ]
Millard Fillmore is the spouse of the unknown president, and she wore wigs in the White House.
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[ { "section_header": "Life | Paganini", "text": "While it has since been referred to as the \"flying trapeze\" school of piano playing, this generation also solved some of the most intractable problems of piano technique, raising the general level of performance to previously unimagined heights." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Life | Rome, Weimar, Budapest", "text": "After this ordination, he was often called Abbé Liszt." }, { "section_header": "Life | With Countess Marie d'Agoult", "text": "Liszt taught at the newly founded Geneva Conservatory, wrote a manual of piano technique (later lost) and contributed essays for the Paris" }, { "section_header": "Life | Paganini", "text": "Liszt's strength and ability to stand out in this company was in mastering all the aspects of piano technique cultivated singly and assiduously by his rivals." }, { "section_header": "Life | Paganini", "text": "While it has since been referred to as the \"flying trapeze\" school of piano playing, this generation also solved some of the most intractable problems of piano technique, raising the general level of performance to previously unimagined heights." }, { "section_header": "Musical works | Lieder", "text": "Franz Liszt composed about six dozen original songs with piano accompaniment." }, { "section_header": "Musical works | Piano music", "text": "As special case, Liszt also made piano arrangements of his own instrumental and vocal works." }, { "section_header": "Life | Early life", "text": "At age six, Franz began listening attentively to his father's piano playing." }, { "section_header": "Life | Last years", "text": "The composer Camille Saint-Saëns, an old friend, whom Liszt had once called \"the greatest organist in the world\", dedicated his Symphony No. 3" }, { "section_header": "Musical works | Organ music", "text": "Humphrey Searle calls these works—the Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale \" Ad nos" }, { "section_header": "Life | Early life", "text": "Adam began teaching him the piano at age seven, and Franz began composing in an elementary manner when he was eight." } ]
Franz Liszt learned from the pioneers of the technique of piano that's now called "Flying Trapeze".
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The NYSE trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street and is composed of 21 rooms used for the facilitation of trading." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed \"The Big Board\") is an American stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1863, Name changed to the New York Stock Exchange." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1817, the constitution of the New York Stock and Exchange Board is adopted." }, { "section_header": "Official holidays", "text": "The New York Stock Exchange is closed on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King," }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "The Bank of North America, along with the First Bank of the United States and the Bank of New York, were the first shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1967, Muriel Siebert becomes the first female member of the New York Stock Exchange." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1980, the New York Futures Exchange was established." }, { "section_header": "Trading", "text": "The New York Stock Exchange (sometimes referred to as \"the Big Board\") provides a means for buyers and sellers to trade shares of stock in companies registered for public trading." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1865, New York Gold Exchange was acquired by the NYSE." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The NYSE trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street and is composed of 21 rooms used for the facilitation of trading." } ]
The New York Stock Exchange trading floor has 15 rooms.
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[ { "section_header": "Production", "text": "The opening sequence was shot in Laytown, County Meath, Ireland, and the rest in London and Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, England." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Troubles in Northern Ireland." }, { "section_header": "Production", "text": "The opening sequence was shot in Laytown, County Meath, Ireland, and the rest in London and Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, England." }, { "section_header": "Release | Critical reception", "text": "\"The Crying Game was placed on over 50 critics' ten-best lists in 1992, based on a poll of 106 film critics." }, { "section_header": "Release", "text": "The film was shown at festivals in Italy, the US and Canada in September, and originally released in Ireland and the UK in October 1992, where it failed at the box office." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Crying Game is a 1992 thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Stephen Woolley, and starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, and Forest Whitaker." }, { "section_header": "Soundtrack", "text": "\"The Crying Game\" – Boy George" }, { "section_header": "Soundtrack", "text": "\"The Crying Game\" – Dave Berry" }, { "section_header": "Release | Critical reception", "text": "The Crying Game received worldwide acclaim from critics." }, { "section_header": "Soundtrack", "text": "The soundtrack to the film, The Crying Game: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, released on 23 February 1993, was produced by Anne Dudley and Pet Shop Boys." }, { "section_header": "Release", "text": "The film went on to success around the world, including re-releases in Britain and Ireland." } ]
The 1992 film Crying Game is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles but was primarily shot in England.
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[ { "section_header": "Legacy | Archives and tributes", "text": "\"In 2015, a massive Bob Dylan mural was unveiled in downtown Minneapolis, the city where Dylan attended university for a year." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Legacy | Archives and tributes", "text": "The mural was designed by Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 1960s | Relocation to New York and record deal", "text": "In May 1960, Dylan dropped out of college at the end of his first year." }, { "section_header": "Legacy | Archives and tributes", "text": "\"In 2015, a massive Bob Dylan mural was unveiled in downtown Minneapolis, the city where Dylan attended university for a year." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist who has been a major figure in popular culture for more than 50 years." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Romantic relationships | Sara Dylan", "text": "Their first child, Jesse Byron Dylan, was born on January 6, 1966, and they had three more children: Anna Lea (born July 11, 1967), Samuel Isaac Abram (born July 30, 1968), and Jakob Luke (born December 9, 1969)." }, { "section_header": "Visual art", "text": "In November 2013, the Halcyon Gallery in London mounted Mood Swings, an exhibition in which Dylan displayed seven wrought iron gates he had made." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "He went on to release the politically charged The Times They Are a-Changin' and the more lyrically abstract and introspective Another Side of Bob Dylan in 1964." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Religious beliefs", "text": "By 1984, Dylan was distancing himself from the \"born again\" label." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Romantic relationships | Sara Dylan", "text": "Dylan also adopted Sara's daughter from a prior marriage, Maria Lownds (later Dylan, born October 21, 1961)." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Romantic relationships | Carolyn Dennis", "text": "Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dylan, their daughter, was born on January 31, 1986." } ]
An artistic mural is displayed in the state where Dylan was born and went to college.
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Smith was born in Mobile, Alabama, the second of Clovi and Marvella Smith's six children (five boys and one girl)." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1982–1984", "text": "\"Smith became a father for the first time during the 1982 season with the birth of his son O.J., today known as Nikko, on April 28." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1982–1984", "text": "When St. Louis was trailing 3–1 with one out in the sixth inning of Game 7, Smith started a rally with a base hit to left field, eventually scoring the first of the team's three runs that inning." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1982–1984", "text": "The Cardinals scored two more runs in the 8th inning for a 6-3 win and the championship." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1985–1986", "text": "With the score tied at two runs apiece in the bottom of the ninth inning, Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda called upon closer Tom Niedenfuer to pitch." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | San Diego Padres", "text": "The Padres played host to the Atlanta Braves on April 20, 1978, and with two out in the top of the fourth inning, Atlanta's Jeff Burroughs hit a ground ball up the middle." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1985–1986", "text": "In the top of the ninth inning, Phillies pinch-hitter Von Hayes hit a short fly ball to left field, which was pursued by both Smith and left fielder Curt Ford." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1985–1986", "text": "After Smith's teammate Jack Clark hit a late-inning home run of his own in Game 6 to defeat the Dodgers, the Cardinals moved on to face the Kansas City Royals in the 1985 World Series." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1996", "text": "When the Cardinals were trailing by 10 runs during Game 7 on October 17, Smith flied out to right field while pinch-hitting in the sixth inning, marking the end of his playing career." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | St. Louis Cardinals | 1996", "text": "On September 2 Smith tied a career high by scoring four runs, one of which was a home run, and another on a close play at home plate in the bottom of the 10th inning against division leader Houston." }, { "section_header": "Professional baseball career | San Diego Padres", "text": "Smith described the play by saying, \"He hit a ball back up the middle that everybody thought was going into center field." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Smith was born in Mobile, Alabama, the second of Clovi and Marvella Smith's six children (five boys and one girl)." } ]
Ozzie Smith's mom gave birth to him in a birthing center in Oakland, California.
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[ { "section_header": "Legacy", "text": "The only other 40-win season since 1900 was 40 by Ed Walsh in 1908, and only three other pitchers in the modern era have won as many as 35--Christy Mathewson (37 in 1908), Walter Johnson (36 in 1913) and Joe McGinnity (35 in 1904)." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Professional career | Major League Baseball (1899–1909)", "text": "innings pitched in a season. That year, no other pitcher in the league won more than 26." }, { "section_header": "Professional career | Major League Baseball (1899–1909)", "text": "That year, he started 51 games and finished 48 while posting a 1.82 ERA, striking out 239 batters, and recording 41 wins and 48 complete games over ​454 2⁄3 innings pitched, setting MLB records for wins, complete games, and" }, { "section_header": "Legacy", "text": "Chesbro's 1904 record for games won in a season (41 wins) has stood for over a century—one of the oldest major records in baseball, or in any other sport." }, { "section_header": "Legacy", "text": "Since the pitcher's mound was lowered to its current height of 10 inches in 1969, no pitcher has won more than 27 games in a season." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "If one demarcates 1901 as the beginning of major league baseball's modern era, Jack Chesbro holds the modern era major league historical single-season records for wins by a pitcher (41), games started by a pitcher (51), and complete games pitched (48)." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "These 1904 single-season totals for games started and complete games, like the wins total, are also the most recorded by a pitcher in either the American or National League since the beginning of the 20th century and the co-existence of the American and National Leagues as major leagues." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Chesbro's 1904 pitching totals of 51 games started and 48 complete games also fall into the same historical category as his 1904 wins total, as they are all-time American League single-season records." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Though some pitchers have won more games in some seasons prior to 1901, historians demarcating 1901 as the beginning of 'modern-era' major league baseball refer to and credit Jack Chesbro and his 1904 win-total as the modern era major league record and its holder." }, { "section_header": "Legacy", "text": "The only other 40-win season since 1900 was 40 by Ed Walsh in 1908, and only three other pitchers in the modern era have won as many as 35--Christy Mathewson (37 in 1908), Walter Johnson (36 in 1913) and Joe McGinnity (35 in 1904)." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "John Dwight Chesbro (June 5, 1874 – November 6, 1931) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher." } ]
John Dwight Chesbro won 41 games in the 1904 MLB season making him the only pitcher to win more that 40 games in a single season.
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[ { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Later that night, Bugsy is shot and killed in his home." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": ", whereupon Bugsy discovers that Virginia stole the money." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Production", "text": "Principal photography began in January 1991, and filming wrapped in May 1991." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Bugsy is a 1991 American biographical film directed by Barry Levinson which tells the story of mobster Bugsy Siegel and his relationship with Virginia Hill." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": ", whereupon Bugsy discovers that Virginia stole the money." }, { "section_header": "Release", "text": "California.‹See TfM› Bugsy had a limited release on December 13, 1991, and was released nationwide on December 20, 1991." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Bugsy is in California to wrestle control of betting parlors away from gangster Jack Dragna." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Accolades", "text": "The Silence of the Lambs won many categories where Bugsy received nominations in 1991." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "He gives a satchel of money to his friend." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Virginia wants no part of it until Bugsy puts her in charge of accounting and begins construction of the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, but the budget soon soars to $6 million due to his extravagance." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "The end title cards state that one year week after Bugsy Siegel's death Virginia Hill returned all of the missing money to Meyer Lansky." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Gangster Bugsy Siegel, who works for Meyer Lansky and Charlie Luciano, goes to Los Angeles and instantly falls in love with Virginia Hill, a tough-talking Hollywood starlet." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Later that night, Bugsy is shot and killed in his home." } ]
In the 1991 film Bugsy, the gangster dies violently at his residence partly due to his wife's money indiscretions.
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[ { "section_header": "Awards and honors", "text": "The film was a tremendous financial success, and won Academy Awards for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, and Best Sound Recording (John Livadary)." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Two theatrical entrepreneurs, Oscar Hammerstein and Lew Dockstader, are in the audience." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Jolson Story is a 1946 American Technicolor musical biography film which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson." }, { "section_header": "Radio adaptation", "text": "Lux Radio Theatre presented The Jolson Story on February 16, 1948." }, { "section_header": "Quotations", "text": "One to a customer.\" (Jolson) \"Broadway?" }, { "section_header": "Radio adaptation", "text": "Jolson starred as himself in the one-hour adaptation." }, { "section_header": "Awards and honors", "text": "The film was a tremendous financial success, and won Academy Awards for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, and Best Sound Recording (John Livadary)." }, { "section_header": "Quotations", "text": "That's really something!\" (Jolson, discussing the new talking picture) \"Tonight, folks, I'm only going to sing two thousand songs." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "One night, Jolson is out walking when he hears a band playing new, exciting jazz music; he enjoys it so much that he forgets that he has a show that night." }, { "section_header": "Quotations", "text": "Audience of millions. I'd be singing to every one of them at the same time." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Only one person does sing, a young boy named Asa Yoelson." } ]
The Jolson Story was awarded with one Oscar and two Golden Globes.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Béla Viktor János Bartók (; Hungarian: Bartók Béla, pronounced [ˈbɒrtoːk ˈbeːlɒ]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist." }, { "section_header": "Biography | Childhood and early years (1881–98)", "text": "By the age of four he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano and his mother began formally teaching him the next year." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Discography", "text": "Bartók, Béla. Bartók, Béla. 2003. Bartók Plays Bartók." }, { "section_header": "Discography", "text": "Bartók, Béla. Bartók, Béla. 2008. Bartók Plays Bartók." }, { "section_header": "Biography | Childhood and early years (1881–98)", "text": "Béla was a sickly child and suffered from severe eczema until the age of five (Gillies 1990, 5), as a result of an inoculation with a faulty smallpox vaccine, with his facial disfigurement causing him to avoid people (Suchoff 2001, 15)." }, { "section_header": "Biography | Childhood and early years (1881–98)", "text": "By the age of four he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano and his mother began formally teaching him the next year." }, { "section_header": "Biography | Middle years and career (1909–39) | Personal life", "text": "In 1909, at the age of 28, Bartók married Márta Ziegler (1893–1967), aged 16." }, { "section_header": "Biography | World War II and last years in America (1940–45)", "text": "Béla Bartók died at age 64 in a hospital in New York City from complications of leukemia (specifically, of secondary polycythemia) on 26 September 1945." }, { "section_header": "Biography | Childhood and early years (1881–98)", "text": "Béla gave his first public recital aged 11 in Nagyszőlős, to positive critical reception (Griffiths 1988,)." }, { "section_header": "Discography", "text": "Compilations of Bartók's field recordings, interviews, and original piano playing have been released over the years, largely by the Hungarian record label Hungaroton: Bartók, Béla." }, { "section_header": "Discography", "text": "Bartók Plays Bartók – Bartók at the Piano 1929–41." }, { "section_header": "Biography | World War II and last years in America (1940–45)", "text": "Ditta Pásztory-Bartók later played and recorded it." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Béla Viktor János Bartók (; Hungarian: Bartók Béla, pronounced [ˈbɒrtoːk ˈbeːlɒ]; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist." } ]
Béla Bartók was a French violinist that was able to play at the age of five.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The club enjoyed their greatest successes during the 1960s and 70s under Jock Stein when they won nine consecutive league titles and the 1967 European Cup." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Celtic and charity", "text": "The Charity Fund has since then merged with the Celtic Foundation, forming the Celtic FC Foundation, and continues to raise money for local, national and international causes." }, { "section_header": "Crest and colours", "text": "The regular crest was reinstated the following season, although the away strip featured a Celtic cross once again in reference to the club's heritage." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "Celtic did not do particularly well during the war years, but did win the Victory in Europe Cup held in May 1945 as a one-off football tournament to celebrate Victory in Europe Day." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "Under McGrory, Celtic defeated Arsenal, Manchester United and Hibernian to win the Coronation Cup, a one-off tournament held in May 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Elizabeth II." }, { "section_header": "Ownership and finances | McCann takeover and transition to plc", "text": "Throughout the 1960s and 70s Celtic had been one of the strongest clubs in Europe." }, { "section_header": "Players | Former players", "text": "For further information, see List of Celtic F.C. players for players with over 100 appearances or other stated notability, List of Celtic F.C. international footballers and Category: Celtic FC players for a general list of ex-players." }, { "section_header": "Players | First-team squad", "text": "Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality." }, { "section_header": "Players | Out on loan", "text": "Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality." }, { "section_header": "Supporters", "text": "In 2003 Celtic were estimated to have a fan base of nine million people, including one million in the US and Canada." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Celtic are one of only five clubs in the world (which also includes their rivals Rangers) to have won over 100 trophies in their history." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The club enjoyed their greatest successes during the 1960s and 70s under Jock Stein when they won nine consecutive league titles and the 1967 European Cup." } ]
Celtic FC has one the Euro Cup just once.
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[ { "section_header": "Production | Scandinavian and Sámi inspiration", "text": "The setting was principally based on Norway, and the cultural influences in the film come from Scandinavian culture." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Legacy | Cultural impact", "text": "\" Many parents revealed that their choices of name were \"heavily influenced\" by the siblings." }, { "section_header": "Production | Animation", "text": "It's because, to us, it represents the movie." }, { "section_header": "Production | Development | Writing", "text": "While developing the story, Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck drew influence from several sources." }, { "section_header": "Production | Scandinavian and Sámi inspiration", "text": "The setting was principally based on Norway, and the cultural influences in the film come from Scandinavian culture." }, { "section_header": "Production | Development | Writing", "text": "So that was when we really found the movie and who these characters" }, { "section_header": "Reception | Box office | Commercial analysis", "text": "We just hoped to make a movie that did as well as Tangled!" }, { "section_header": "Production | Development | Writing", "text": "They said the biggest influence on the film was the country of Norway, when the art department visited the country, drawing inspiration from the country's culture and environment." }, { "section_header": "Production | Animation", "text": "\"Regarding the look and nature of the film's cinematography, Giaimo was greatly influenced by Jack Cardiff's work in Black Narcissus (1947)." }, { "section_header": "Production | Animation", "text": "We encased the sibling story in scale.\" Ted D. McCord's work in The Sound of Music was another major influence for Giaimo." }, { "section_header": "Production | Localization", "text": "The Italian version of the movie was awarded best foreign dubbing worldwide." } ]
The movie is influenced by locations from northern Europe.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy, Catholicism, and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte's coterie at Oxford University." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945." }, { "section_header": "Motifs | Nostalgia for an age of English nobility", "text": "As you can imagine my heart was in my mouth all through the deathbed scene, hoping against hope that the old man would not give way, that is, take the course he eventually did.\" And Edmund Wilson, who had praised Waugh as the hope of the English novel, wrote \"The last scenes are extravagantly absurd, with an absurdity that would be worthy of Waugh at his best if it were not – painful to say – meant quite seriously.\" The Flyte family may be taken to symbolise the English nobility." }, { "section_header": "Acclaim", "text": "In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Brideshead Revisited No. 80 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century." }, { "section_header": "Principal characters", "text": "Anthony Blanche – A friend of Charles and Sebastian's from Oxford, and an overt homosexual." }, { "section_header": "Waugh's statements about the novel", "text": "In various letters, Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his magnum opus; however, in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene stating \"I re-read Brideshead Revisited and was appalled.\" In Waugh's preface to his revised edition of Brideshead (1959) the author explained the circumstances in which the novel was written, following a minor parachute accident in the six months between December 1943 and June 1944." }, { "section_header": "Motifs | Catholicism", "text": "Evelyn Waugh was a convert to Catholicism and Brideshead depicts the Roman Catholic faith in a secular literary form." }, { "section_header": "References in other media", "text": "Paula Byrne's biography of Evelyn Waugh, titled Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, was published by HarperPress in the UK in August 2009 and HarperCollins New York in the US in April 2010." }, { "section_header": "Motifs | Nostalgia for an age of English nobility", "text": "One reads in the book that Brideshead has \"the atmosphere of a better age\", and (referring to the deaths of Lady Marchmain's brothers in the Great War) \"these men must die to make a world for Hooper ... so that things might be safe for the travelling salesman, with his polygonal pince-nez," }, { "section_header": "Waugh's statements about the novel", "text": "Waugh wrote that the novel \"deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace', that is to say, the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself\"." } ]
Brideshead Revisited is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1955, in which the novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy, Catholicism, and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte's coterie at Oxford University.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Crossovers and other appearances | Due Date", "text": "At the end of 2010 film Due Date, a scene from Two and a Half Men is shown, in which Sheen and Cryer appear as their characters, while Ethan Chase (played by Zach Galifianakis in the movie) plays Stu, Jake's tutor." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015." }, { "section_header": "Production | Sheen's dismissal and replacement", "text": "On March 7, CBS and Warner Bros. Television jointly announced that they had terminated Sheen's Two and a Half Men contract, citing \"moral turpitude\" as a main cause of separation." }, { "section_header": "Production | Sheen's dismissal and replacement", "text": "Two and a Half Men improved ratings for this time slot, which were up from the previous year." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Critical reception", "text": "Two and a Half Men received mostly mixed reviews from critics throughout its run." }, { "section_header": "Production | Sheen's dismissal and replacement", "text": "The following month, after Sheen's verbal denunciations against Chuck Lorre during a radio interview with Alex Jones and an online interview with TMZ.com, CBS announced that Two and a Half Men would cease production for the rest of its eighth season." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Ratings | American television ratings", "text": "Seasonal rankings (based on average total viewers per episode) of Two and a Half Men on CBS: Note: Each U.S. network television season starts in late September and ends in late May, which coincides with the completion of May sweeps." }, { "section_header": "Production | Sheen's dismissal and replacement", "text": "The attention Two and a Half Men received due to the change in characters gave the series a boost." }, { "section_header": "Production | Praises", "text": "The premise of Two and a Half Men depicts two broken characters that suffer from mental issues such as anxiety, depression, and alcoholism." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Critical reception", "text": "Following the filming of the final episode, Stage 26 of the Warner Brothers lot was renamed the \"Two and a Half Men stage\"." } ]
Two and a Half Men was initially shown on CBS.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The tell includes two phases of use, believed to be of a social or ritual nature by site discoverer and excavator Klaus Schmidt, dating back to the 10th–8th millennium BCE." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The tell (artificial mound) has a height of 15 m (50 ft) and is about 300 m (1,000 ft) in diameter." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Dating", "text": "Structures identified with the succeeding period, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA), have been dated to the 10th millennium BCE." }, { "section_header": "Chronological context", "text": "Around the beginning of the 8th millennium BCE Göbekli Tepe lost its importance." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The tell includes two phases of use, believed to be of a social or ritual nature by site discoverer and excavator Klaus Schmidt, dating back to the 10th–8th millennium BCE." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The tell (artificial mound) has a height of 15 m (50 ft) and is about 300 m (1,000 ft) in diameter." }, { "section_header": "Dating", "text": "Remains of smaller buildings identified as Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) and dating from the 9th millennium BCE have also been unearthed." }, { "section_header": "Dating", "text": "The imposing stratigraphy of Göbekli Tepe attests to many centuries of activity, beginning at least as early as the Epipaleolithic period." }, { "section_header": "Complex | Layer II", "text": "Carbon dating has yielded dates between 8800 and 8000 BCE." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Göbekli Tepe (Turkish: [ɟœbecˈli teˈpe], \"Potbelly Hill\") is an archaeological site in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey approximately 12 km (7 mi) northeast of the city of Şanlıurfa." }, { "section_header": "Dating", "text": "A number of radiocarbon dates have been published: The Hd samples are from charcoal in the fill of the lowest levels of the site and date the end of the active phase of the occupation of Level III – the actual structures will be older." }, { "section_header": "Complex | Layer III", "text": "Radiocarbon dating places the construction of these early circles in the range of 9600 to 8800 BCE." } ]
Göbekli Tepe, which includes an artificial mound in Turkey, dates back to the 10th - 8th millenium BCE.
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[ { "section_header": "Interaction types", "text": "The first type is called the \"charged-current interaction\" because it is mediated by particles that carry an electric charge (the W+ or W− bosons)." }, { "section_header": "Interaction types", "text": "The second type is called the \"neutral-current interaction\" because it is mediated by a neutral particle, the Z0 boson." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Electroweak theory", "text": "On 4 July 2012, the CMS and the ATLAS experimental teams at the Large Hadron Collider independently announced that they had confirmed the formal discovery of a previously unknown boson of mass between 125–127 GeV/c2, whose behaviour so far was \"consistent with\" a Higgs boson, while adding a cautious note that further data and analysis were needed before positively identifying the new boson as being a Higgs boson of some type." }, { "section_header": "Properties | Weak isospin and weak hypercharge", "text": "In any given interaction, weak isospin is conserved: The sum of the weak isospin numbers of the particles entering the interaction equals the sum of the weak isospin numbers of the particles exiting that interaction." }, { "section_header": "Properties | Weak isospin and weak hypercharge", "text": "Weak isospin plays the same role in the weak interaction as does electric charge in electromagnetism, and color charge in the strong interaction." }, { "section_header": "Properties | Weak isospin and weak hypercharge", "text": "All particles have a property called weak isospin (symbol T3), which serves as an additive quantum number that restricts how the particle can behave in the weak interaction." }, { "section_header": "Properties | Weak isospin and weak hypercharge", "text": "A quark never decays through the weak interaction into a quark of the same T3: Quarks with a T3 of" }, { "section_header": "Interaction types", "text": "There are two types of weak interaction (called vertices)." }, { "section_header": "Properties | Weak isospin and weak hypercharge", "text": "Whereas some particles have a weak isospin of zero, all known spin 1/2 particles have a non-zero weak hypercharge." }, { "section_header": "Properties | Weak isospin and weak hypercharge", "text": "where YW is the weak hypercharge of a given type of particle, Q is its electrical charge (in elementary charge units) and T3 is its weak isospin." }, { "section_header": "Properties | Weak isospin and weak hypercharge", "text": "Weak hypercharge is the generator of the U(1) component of the electroweak gauge group." }, { "section_header": "Properties | Weak isospin and weak hypercharge", "text": "It depends on a particle's electrical charge and weak isospin, and is defined by: Y W =" }, { "section_header": "Interaction types", "text": "The first type is called the \"charged-current interaction\" because it is mediated by particles that carry an electric charge (the W+ or W− bosons)." }, { "section_header": "Interaction types", "text": "The second type is called the \"neutral-current interaction\" because it is mediated by a neutral particle, the Z0 boson." } ]
Weak interaction can be either "charged-current interaction" or neutral-current interaction."
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "History | 20th century | La Guardia in, Tammany out: 1933 to 1945", "text": "Congressman Christopher \"Christy\" Sullivan was one of the last \"bosses\" of Tammany Hall before its collapse." }, { "section_header": "History | Immigrant support", "text": "With this, Tammany Hall became an influential political organization in the area." }, { "section_header": "History | 20th century | La Guardia in, Tammany out: 1933 to 1945", "text": "The last element weakened after 1940 with the decline of relief programs like WPA and CCC that Tammany used to gain and hold supporters." }, { "section_header": "History | 20th century | Indian Summer, 1950s", "text": "However, DeSapio's close ties with the city's lead mobster Frank Costello, Luciano's self-appointed successor, helped establish him as a corrupt figure." }, { "section_header": "History | 20th century | Machine politics versus the reformers", "text": "They typically had strong local organizations, known as \"political clubs\", as well as one prominent leader often called the \"boss\"." }, { "section_header": "History | Immigrant support", "text": "By 1854, the support which Tammany Hall received from immigrants would firmly establish the organization as the leader of New York City's political scene." }, { "section_header": "History | 1870–1900 | 1886 mayoral election", "text": "Despite their second-place finish, things seemed bright for the future of the labor political movement, but the ULP was not to last, and was never able to bring about a new paradigm in the city's politics." }, { "section_header": "History | 20th century | Criminal issues", "text": "The loss of Hines would serve as a major blow to Tammany, as he had given the political machine strong ties to the city's powerful organized crime figures since the 1920s." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York City political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society." }, { "section_header": "History | 20th century | Indian Summer, 1950s", "text": "Although the Kefauver hearings, an investigation into organized crime, did not directly impact Tammany, it did not help its image regarding its appeared connection to organized crime." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It was the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s." } ]
Tammany Hall was a political organization that lasted close to 2 centuries.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The novel has remained in print ever since and is regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Characters", "text": "Totty Poyser is their somewhat spoiled and frequently petulant toddler." }, { "section_header": "Literary significance and criticism", "text": "Critics have argued that this deus ex machina ending negates the moral lessons learned by the main characters." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "A critical commentary on George Eliot's Adam Bede." }, { "section_header": "Characters", "text": "The Bede family: Adam Bede is described as a tall, stalwart, moral, and unusually competent carpenter." }, { "section_header": "Characters", "text": "Some expect his daughter Mary to make a match with Adam Bede." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The novel has remained in print ever since and is regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature." }, { "section_header": "Allusions/references to other works", "text": "The importance of Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads to the way Adam Bede is written has often been noted." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "London: London: John Blackwood. Adam Bede online, by the Gutenberg Project" }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "ISBN 0-231-12423-6. The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1967) Rebecca Ruth Gould, \"Adam Bede's Dutch Realism and the Novelist's Point of View,\" Philosophy and Literature 36.2 (2013): 423–442." }, { "section_header": "Characters", "text": "Other characters Bartle Massey is the local schoolteacher, a misogynist bachelor who has taught Adam Bede." } ]
Adam Bede is frequently utilized for college learning of English writing.
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Science
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields." }, { "section_header": "Honours, tributes", "text": "Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences." }, { "section_header": "Life | Nobel Prizes", "text": "Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize." }, { "section_header": "Life | Nobel Prizes", "text": "\" She was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes, and remains alone with Linus Pauling as Nobel laureates in two fields each." }, { "section_header": "Life | Nobel Prizes", "text": "Curie's second Nobel Prize enabled her to persuade the French government into supporting the Radium Institute, built in 1914, where research was conducted in chemistry, physics, and medicine." }, { "section_header": "Life | Nobel Prizes", "text": "International recognition for her work had been growing to new heights, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, overcoming opposition prompted by the Langevin scandal, honoured her a second time, with the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry." }, { "section_header": "Life | Nobel Prizes", "text": "She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris." }, { "section_header": "Life | World War I", "text": "There is something else: by sheer laziness I had allowed the money for my second Nobel Prize to remain in Stockholm in Swedish crowns." }, { "section_header": "Honours, tributes", "text": "In 2011, on the centenary of Marie Curie's second Nobel Prize, an allegorical mural was painted on the façade of her Warsaw birthplace." }, { "section_header": "Life | Nobel Prizes", "text": "A month after accepting her 1911 Nobel Prize, she was hospitalised with depression and a kidney ailment." } ]
Marie Curie was the second woman to win a Nobel Prize.
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History
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[ { "section_header": "Prologue", "text": "In May 1803, Britain declared war on France." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Rewards", "text": "Orphaned children were adopted by Napoleon personally and were allowed to add \"Napoleon\" to their baptismal and family names." }, { "section_header": "Preliminary moves", "text": "The meeting was another part of the trap, as Napoleon intentionally expressed anxiety and hesitation to his opponents." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "In what is widely regarded as the greatest victory achieved by Napoleon, the Grande Armée of France defeated a larger Russian and Austrian army led by Emperor Alexander I and Holy Roman Emperor Francis II." }, { "section_header": "Battle", "text": "At first, Napoleon was not totally confident of victory." }, { "section_header": "Historical views", "text": "A French army at the end of her supply lines, in a place which had no food supplies, might have faced a very different ending from the one they achieved at the real battle of Austerlitz." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "These achievements, however, did not establish a lasting peace on the continent." }, { "section_header": "Forces | French Imperial army", "text": "The men at Boulogne formed the core for what Napoleon would later call La Grande Armée." }, { "section_header": "Rewards", "text": "This battle is one of four for which Napoleon never awarded a victory title, the others being Marengo, Jena, and Friedland." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Critically, victory at Austerlitz permitted the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine, a collection of German states intended as a buffer zone between France and Central Europe." }, { "section_header": "Popular culture", "text": "a certain Bataille des trois Empereurs, a French battle symphony by Louis Jadin celebrating Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz.\" Leo Tolstoy memorably dramatised the battle as the conclusion of Book 3 and Volume 1 of War and Peace, making it a crucial moment in the lives of both Andrei Bolkonski who is badly wounded and of Nikolai Rostov." }, { "section_header": "Prologue", "text": "In May 1803, Britain declared war on France." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars." } ]
The Battle of Austerlitz was also called by another name and was a victory achieved by Napoleon after war was announced.
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Music
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[ { "section_header": "Life | Cremona 1567–1591", "text": "The register records his name as \"Claudio Zuan Antonio\" the son of \"Messer Baldasar Mondeverdo\"." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (, also US: ; Italian: [ˈklaudjo monteˈverdi] (listen); baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Life | Mantua 1591–1613 | Court musician", "text": "When Monteverdi arrived in Mantua, the maestro di capella at the court was the Flemish musician Giaches de Wert." }, { "section_header": "Life | Mantua 1591–1613 | Court musician", "text": "Monteverdi's brother Giulio Cesare joined the court musicians in 1602.When" }, { "section_header": "Life | Mantua 1591–1613 | Court musician", "text": "Duke Vincenzo was keen to establish his court as a musical centre, and sought to recruit leading musicians." }, { "section_header": "Life | Mantua 1591–1613 | Court musician", "text": "Other notable musicians at the court during this period included the composer and violinist Salomone Rossi, Rossi's sister, the singer Madama Europa, and Francesco Rasi." }, { "section_header": "Life | Cremona 1567–1591", "text": "The register records his name as \"Claudio Zuan Antonio\" the son of \"Messer Baldasar Mondeverdo\"." }, { "section_header": "Historical perspective", "text": "In his lifetime Monteverdi enjoyed considerable status among musicians and the public." }, { "section_header": "Life | Venice 1613–1643 | Late flowering: 1637–1643", "text": "Monteverdi was still not entirely free from his responsibilities for the musicians at San Marco." }, { "section_header": "Life | Venice 1613–1643 | Maturity: 1613–1630", "text": "It was directed by the most famous Claudio Monteverdi ... who was also the composer and was accompanied by four theorbos, two cornettos, two bassoons, one basso de viola of huge size, organs and other instruments ...\"." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (, also US: ; Italian: [ˈklaudjo monteˈverdi] (listen); baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest." }, { "section_header": "Historical perspective", "text": "L'incoronazione in February 1913 and Il ritorno in May 1925.The Italian nationalist poet Gabriele D'Annunzio lauded Monteverdi and in his novel Il fuoco (1900) wrote of \"il divino Claudio ... what a heroic soul, purely Italian in its essence!\" His vision of Monteverdi as the true founder of Italian musical lyricism was adopted by musicians who worked with the regime of Benito Mussolini (1922–1945), including Francesco Malipiero, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Mario Labroca, who contrasted Monteverdi with the decadence of the music of Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky." } ]
Claudio Monteverdi was a musician and has a different surname.
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History
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Chief Justice (1921–1930) | Appointment", "text": "Harding was also considering a proposal by Justice William R. Day to crown his career by being chief justice for six months before retiring." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices." }, { "section_header": "Early life and education", "text": "William Howard Taft was born September 15, 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alphonso Taft and Louise Torrey." }, { "section_header": "Legacy and historical view", "text": "The house in Cincinnati where Taft was born and lived as a boy is now the William Howard Taft National Historic Site." }, { "section_header": "Chief Justice (1921–1930) | Appointment", "text": "only person to serve both as president and chief justice." }, { "section_header": "Chief Justice (1921–1930) | Appointment", "text": "Taft had a condition for Harding—having served as president, and having appointed two of the present associate justices and opposed Brandeis, he could accept only the chief justice position." }, { "section_header": "Chief Justice (1921–1930) | Administration and political influence", "text": "Taft advised the Republican presidents in office while he was chief justice to avoid \"offside\" appointments like Brandeis and Holmes." }, { "section_header": "Chief Justice (1921–1930) | Administration and political influence", "text": "Believing that the chief justice should be responsible for the federal courts, Taft felt that he should have an administrative staff to assist him, and the chief justice should be empowered to temporarily reassign judges." }, { "section_header": "Chief Justice (1921–1930) | Administration and political influence", "text": "When Taft became chief justice, the court did not have its own building and met in the Capitol." }, { "section_header": "Chief Justice (1921–1930) | Appointment", "text": "Taft called on the chief justice on March 26, and found White ill, but still carrying on his work and not talking of retiring." } ]
William Howard Taft was the 26th president and a Chief Justice.
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Popular Culture
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "20th Anniversary version", "text": "Spielberg did not add the scene featuring Harrison Ford, feeling that would reshape the film too drastically." }, { "section_header": "Production | Casting", "text": "During post-production, he decided to cut a scene featuring Harrison Ford as the principal at Elliott's school." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed \"E.T.\", who is stranded on Earth." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Release and sales", "text": "Produced and directed by Laurent Bouzereau, it included interviews with Spielberg, producer Kathleen Kennedy, composer John Williams, and other cast and crew members." }, { "section_header": "Other portrayals", "text": "In 1998, E.T. was licensed to appear in television public service announcements produced by the Progressive Corporation." }, { "section_header": "Production | Pre-production", "text": "Producer Kathleen Kennedy visited the Jules Stein Eye Institute to study real and glass eyes." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Melissa Mathison." }, { "section_header": "Themes", "text": "Producer Kathleen Kennedy noted that an important theme of E.T. is tolerance, which would be central to future Spielberg films such as Schindler's List." }, { "section_header": "Other portrayals", "text": "Atari, Inc. produced a video game based on the film for the Atari 2600 and hired Howard Scott Warshaw to program the game." } ]
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was produced by Harrison Ford.
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Popular Culture
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[ { "section_header": "Reception | Censorship", "text": "Due to public concerns that the extras in the film were in fact real mental patients being exploited, the British censor added a foreword explaining that everyone who appeared on screen was a paid actor and that conditions in British hospitals were unlike those portrayed in the film and cut 1,000 feet of the film deleting all sequences involving patients in straitjackets and lighter scenes evoking laughter." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Nurse Davis goads Virginia into an outburst which results in Virginia being straitjacketed and expelled from Level One into the \"snake pit,\" where patients considered beyond help are simply placed together in a large padded cell and abandoned." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Impact", "text": "In 1949, Herb Stein of Daily Variety wrote \"Wisconsin is the seventh state to institute reforms in its mental hospitals as a result of The Snake Pit." }, { "section_header": "Production", "text": "She watched carefully each of the procedures then in vogue, including hydrotherapy and electric shock treatments." }, { "section_header": "Impact", "text": "This is a very difficult claim to verify because few of the bills introduced, regulations changed or funding increases implemented specifically mentioned The Snake Pit as a motivating factor." }, { "section_header": "Other adaptations", "text": "The Snake Pit was dramatized as an hour-long radio play on the April 10, 1950 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater, with de Havilland reprising her film role." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Snake Pit is a 1948 American drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "Nurse Davis goads Virginia into an outburst which results in Virginia being straitjacketed and expelled from Level One into the \"snake pit,\" where patients considered beyond help are simply placed together in a large padded cell and abandoned." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Censorship", "text": "Due to public concerns that the extras in the film were in fact real mental patients being exploited, the British censor added a foreword explaining that everyone who appeared on screen was a paid actor and that conditions in British hospitals were unlike those portrayed in the film and cut 1,000 feet of the film deleting all sequences involving patients in straitjackets and lighter scenes evoking laughter." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "The mental hospital is organized on a spectrum of \"levels." }, { "section_header": "Impact", "text": "The film also won the International Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1949, where it was cited for \"a daring inquiry in a clinical case dramatically performed.\" The film led to changes in the conditions of mental institutions in the United States." }, { "section_header": "Production", "text": "Much of the film was filmed in the Camarillo State Mental Hospital in California." } ]
The Snake Pit was edited to make the conditions in the hospital easier for the audience to watch.
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History
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Battle of Shiloh (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Battle, April 6 (first day: Confederate assault) | Lew Wallace's division", "text": "Grant later claimed that he ordered Wallace to Pittsburg Landing by way of the River Road (also called the Hamburg–" }, { "section_header": "Battle, April 6 (first day: Confederate assault) | Defense at Pittsburg Landing", "text": "Beauregard called off a second attempt after 6 p.m., as the sun set." }, { "section_header": "Battle, April 6 (first day: Confederate assault) | Defense at Pittsburg Landing", "text": "In the face of the advance of Hardee and Polk against the Union right, Sherman and McClernand mounted a fighting retreat in the direction of Pittsburg Landing, leaving the right flank of the Hornet's Nest exposed." }, { "section_header": "Battle, April 6 (first day: Confederate assault) | Lew Wallace's division", "text": "Rowley told Wallace that the Union army had retreated, Sherman was no longer fighting at Shiloh Church, and the battle line had moved northeast toward Pittsburg Landing." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Battle of Shiloh (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee." }, { "section_header": "Battle, April 6 (first day: Confederate assault) | Evening lull", "text": "Braxton Bragg and Albert Sidney Johnston's son, Col. William Preston Johnston, were among those who bemoaned the so-called \"lost opportunity at Shiloh." }, { "section_header": "Battle, April 6 (first day: Confederate assault) | Defense at Pittsburg Landing", "text": "After the Hornet's Nest fell, the remnants of the Union line established a solid three-mile (5 km) front around Pittsburg Landing, extending west from the river and then north, up the River Road, keeping the approach open for the expected, although belated, arrival of Lew Wallace's division." }, { "section_header": "Aftermath", "text": "In his memoirs, Grant intimated that The battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg landing, has been perhaps less understood, or to state the case more accurately, more persistently misunderstood, than any other engagement between National and Confederate troops during the entire rebellion." }, { "section_header": "Battle, April 6 (first day: Confederate assault) | Defense at Pittsburg Landing", "text": "Sherman commanded the right of the line, McClernand took the center, and on the left, the remnants of W. H. L. Wallace's, Hurlbut's, and Stuart's men mixed with thousands of stragglers who were crowding on the bluff over the landing." }, { "section_header": "Battle, April 6 (first day: Confederate assault) | Lew Wallace's division", "text": "Wallace had to make a choice: he could launch an attack and fight through the Confederate rear to reach Grant's forces closer to Pittsburg Landing, or reverse his direction and march toward Pittsburg Landing via a crossroads to the River Road." } ]
The Battle of Shiloh was also called the Battle of Pittsburg Landing.
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Popular Culture
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Recordings", "text": "An American in Paris has been frequently recorded." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by American composer George Gershwin first performed in 1928." }, { "section_header": "Response", "text": "Gershwin did not particularly like Walter Damrosch's interpretation at the world premiere of An American in Paris." }, { "section_header": "Response", "text": "\" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his Concerto in F." }, { "section_header": "Preservation status", "text": "The score to An American in Paris was scheduled to be issued first in a series of scores to be released." }, { "section_header": "Composition", "text": "Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called \"Very Parisienne\", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer." }, { "section_header": "Preservation status", "text": "The entire project was expected take 30 to 40 years to complete, but An American in Paris was planned to be an early volume in the series." }, { "section_header": "Use in film", "text": "In 1951, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released the musical film An American in Paris, featuring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron." }, { "section_header": "Composition", "text": "Gershwin explained in Musical America, \"My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere." }, { "section_header": "Instrumentation", "text": "This became the standard performing edition until 2000, when Gershwin specialist Jack Gibbons made his own restoration of the original orchestration of An American in Paris, working directly from Gershwin's original manuscript, including the restoration of Gershwin's soprano saxophone parts removed in F. Campbell-Watson's revision; Gibbons' restored orchestration of An American in Paris was performed at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on July 9, 2000 by the City of Oxford Orchestra conducted by Levon Parikian." } ]
An American in Paris is a movie.
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Technology
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[ { "section_header": "Competition", "text": "Baidu competes with Google Search, 360 Search (www.so.com), Sogou Search (www.sogou.com), Yahoo! China, Microsoft's Bing and MSN Messenger, Sina, NetEase's Youdao, Tencent's Soso.com and PaiPai, Alibaba's Taobao, TOM Online, and EachNet." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Baidu has the second largest search engine in the world, and held a 76.05% market share in China's search engine market." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Baidu search engine is currently the fourth largest website in the Alexa Internet rankings." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It is one of the largest AI and internet companies in the world." }, { "section_header": "Censorship", "text": "A U.S. judge has ruled that the Chinese search engine Baidu has the right to block pro-democracy works from its query results, dismissing a lawsuit that sought to punish the company for Internet censorship." }, { "section_header": "History | Early development", "text": "On July 18, 2014, the company launched a Brazilian version of the search engine, Baidu Busca." }, { "section_header": "Services", "text": "Baidu is the first Chinese search engine to receive such a license." }, { "section_header": "Services", "text": "Chinese government and Chinese industry sources stated that Baidu received a license from Beijing, which allows the search engine to become a full-fledged news website." }, { "section_header": "Controversies | Death of Wei Zexi", "text": "In May 2016, Baidu's P4P search results reportedly caused the death of a student who tried an experimental cancer therapy he found online." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Baidu has origins in RankDex, an earlier search engine developed by Robin Li in 1996, before he founded Baidu in 2000.Baidu offers various services, including a Chinese search engine, as well as a mapping service called Baidu Maps." }, { "section_header": "Services", "text": "This has led other local search engines to follow the practice, including Google China (Hong Kong), which uses an intermediate company called Top100 to offer a similar MP3 Search service." }, { "section_header": "Competition", "text": "Baidu competes with Google Search, 360 Search (www.so.com), Sogou Search (www.sogou.com), Yahoo! China, Microsoft's Bing and MSN Messenger, Sina, NetEase's Youdao, Tencent's Soso.com and PaiPai, Alibaba's Taobao, TOM Online, and EachNet." } ]
Baidu is a Chinese company that tries not to contend with some of the largest search engines today.
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Baidu
Popular Culture
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[ { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "In November 1932, wealthy English industrialist Sir William McCordle, his wife Lady Sylvia, and their daughter Isobel host a weekend shooting party at their country estate, Gosford Park." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Release | Accolades", "text": "At the 55th British Academy Film Awards, the film was nominated for nine British Academy awards, winning Best British Film and Best Costume Design (Jenny Beavan)." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Gosford Park premiered on 7 November 2001 at the London Film Festival." }, { "section_header": "Release", "text": "Gosford Park premiered on 7 November 2001 at the London Film Festival." }, { "section_header": "Production | Casting", "text": "In Gosford Park, as in many of his other films, Altman had a list of actors he intended to appear in the film before it was cast formally." }, { "section_header": "Release | Critical reception", "text": "Michael Phillips placed Gosford Park at number nine on his list of Best Films of the Decade." }, { "section_header": "Release | Box office", "text": "With that final total, Gosford Park became Altman's second-most successful film at the box office after his 1970 film MASH." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Development on Gosford Park began in 1999, when Bob Balaban asked Altman if they could develop a film together." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Gosford Park is a 2001 satirical black comedy mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes." }, { "section_header": "Home media", "text": "Gonzalez wrote that \"Gosford Park sounds amazing for a film so dialogue-dependent\" and Mack that \"the audio transfer is about as good as it can get on a movie of this style." }, { "section_header": "Production | Development and writing", "text": "Fellowes began looking through some books and came up with Gosford Park." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "In November 1932, wealthy English industrialist Sir William McCordle, his wife Lady Sylvia, and their daughter Isobel host a weekend shooting party at their country estate, Gosford Park." } ]
The film Gosford Park depicts British aristocrats after the Battle of Britain.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is an organic compound and hydrotrope that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells, e.g. muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, condensate dissolution, and chemical synthesis." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "When consumed in metabolic processes, it converts either to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) or to adenosine monophosphate (AMP)." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is an organic compound and hydrotrope that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells, e.g. muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, condensate dissolution, and chemical synthesis." }, { "section_header": "Biochemical functions | Intracellular signaling", "text": "They share a small number of common folds." }, { "section_header": "Structure", "text": "In neutral solution, ionized ATP exists mostly as ATP4−, with a small proportion of ATP3−." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "From the perspective of biochemistry, ATP is classified as a nucleoside triphosphate, which indicates that it consists of three components: a nitrogenous base (adenine), the sugar ribose, and the triphosphate." }, { "section_header": "Production from AMP and ADP | Production, aerobic conditions | Glycolysis | Regulation", "text": "A number of other small molecules can compensate for the ATP-induced shift in equilibrium conformation and reactivate PFK, including cyclic AMP, ammonium ions, inorganic phosphate, and fructose-1,6- and -2,6-biphosphate." }, { "section_header": "Structure", "text": "In its many reactions related to metabolism, the adenine and sugar groups remain unchanged, but the triphosphate is converted to di- and monophosphate, giving respectively the derivatives ADP and AMP." }, { "section_header": "ATP analogues", "text": "Adenosine 5′-(γ-thiotriphosphate) is an extremely common ATP analog in which one of the gamma-phosphate oxygens is replaced by a sulfur atom; this anion is hydrolyzed at a dramatically slower rate than ATP itself and functions as an inhibitor of ATP-dependent processes." }, { "section_header": "Structure", "text": "In terms of its structure, ATP consists of an adenine attached by the 9-nitrogen atom to the 1′ carbon atom of a sugar (ribose), which in turn is attached at the 5' carbon atom of the sugar to a triphosphate group." }, { "section_header": "Production from AMP and ADP | ATP replenishment by nucleoside diphosphate kinases", "text": "ATP can also be synthesized through several so-called \"replenishment\" reactions catalyzed by the enzyme families of nucleoside diphosphate kinases (NDKs), which use other nucleoside triphosphates as a high-energy phosphate donor, and the ATP:guanido-phosphotransferase family." } ]
Adenosine triphosphate aids in the absorption of nutrients in the small intestine.
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Popular Culture
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[ { "section_header": "Production | Marketing", "text": "In the same month, HBO.com began selling Tru:Blood, a beverage branded to resemble the fictional synthetic blood that appears in the show." }, { "section_header": "Production | Marketing", "text": "The beverage is a carbonated blood orange-flavored drink, developed and manufactured by Omni Consumer Products, a company that specializes in defictionalizing brands from television and movies, and FMCG Manufacturing Company, a specialist manufacturer of licensed entertainment products." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Production | Marketing", "text": "The image uses a perspective technique that shows observers one of two images." }, { "section_header": "Production | Marketing", "text": "At one point, Lamar wonders if TruBlood is making the world safe for vampires or from them." }, { "section_header": "Production | Marketing", "text": "A MySpace account with the username \"Blood\" had, as of June 19, uploaded two videos; one entitled \"Vampire Taste Test – True Blood vs Human\", and one called \"BloodCopy Exclusive INTERVIEW WITH SAMSON THE VAMPIRE\"." }, { "section_header": "Season synopsis | Season 7 (2014)", "text": "They kiss and drink, and everyone around them appears to be happy." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Critical reception", "text": "In his review, Brian Lowry of Variety remarked: People can debate when “True Blood’s” creative rigor mortis officially set in — somewhere during that stretch when the show began piling one supernatural creature upon another (werewolves and witches and faeries, oh my!) — but suffice it to say this once-significant and hugely lucrative HBO series limps into its seventh and final season looking pretty anemic." }, { "section_header": "Production | Title sequence", "text": "The last frame of one shot and the first frame of another were taken as a single Polaroid photo, which was divided between emulsion and backing." }, { "section_header": "Awards and nominations", "text": "the 37th Saturn AwardsThe show received an American Film Institute Award in 2009 as \"One of the 10 Best TV Programs\" and was chosen as \"Favorite TV Obsession\" at the 36th People's Choice Awards." }, { "section_header": "Cast | Main characters", "text": "E-8 When Bill is tried for his crime, his punishment is to transform seventeen-year-old Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll) into a vampire to replace the one he destroyed." }, { "section_header": "Production | Development history", "text": "One day, while early for a dental appointment, Ball was browsing through a Barnes & Noble bookshop and came across Dead Until Dark (2001), the first installment in Harris' series." }, { "section_header": "Cast | Main characters", "text": "During the first season, one of the ways in which anti-vampire sentiment is expressed is through regular televised appearances by the \"Fellowship of the Sun\",E-2 a Dallas-based church that in Season 2 becomes headed by the Reverend Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian)E-3 after his father and family are killed in a strange \" accident\"." }, { "section_header": "Production | Marketing", "text": "In the same month, HBO.com began selling Tru:Blood, a beverage branded to resemble the fictional synthetic blood that appears in the show." }, { "section_header": "Production | Marketing", "text": "The beverage is a carbonated blood orange-flavored drink, developed and manufactured by Omni Consumer Products, a company that specializes in defictionalizing brands from television and movies, and FMCG Manufacturing Company, a specialist manufacturer of licensed entertainment products." } ]
Before "True Blood" began production, HBO and PepsiCo partnered to create a drink based on the one the vampires drink on the show.
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Popular Culture
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The film is about a newly appointed United States Senator who fights against a corrupt political system, and was written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story \"The Gentleman from Montana\"." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Awards and honors | Other honors", "text": "In 1989, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was added to the United States National Film Registry as being deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "The fourteenth season episode \" Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington\" is also inspired by this film." }, { "section_header": "Cast", "text": "Cast notes: Among the unbilled veteran character actors seen in the film are Guy Kibbee's brother, Milton Kibbee, who has a bit as a reporter; Lafe McKee; and Matt McHugh of the McHugh acting family." }, { "section_header": "Impact", "text": "\"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington has been called one of the quintessential whistleblower films in American history." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "\"Mr. Bill Goes to Washington\", a spoof of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." }, { "section_header": "Awards and honors | Other honors", "text": "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was named as one of the best films of 1939 by The New York Times and Film Daily, and was nominated for Best Film by the National Board of Review." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "\"Mr. Benny Goes to Washington\"." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "The Simpsons: The third season episode \" Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington\" is inspired by, and contains several references to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." }, { "section_header": "Remakes", "text": ", Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977)." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "For their 2002 season, the San Francisco Mime Troupe presented a musical, Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan, which tells the story of \"an idealistic innocent who learns firsthand what the current administration [i.e. the George W. Bush administration] means when it claims to support democratic principles at home and abroad\" in a post-9/11 setting." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The film is about a newly appointed United States Senator who fights against a corrupt political system, and was written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story \"The Gentleman from Montana\"." } ]
In the film the main character means to go to D.C. but goes to Washington State by accident.
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[ { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "\" In 1982, Waner died of complications related to emphysema." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "Lloyd and Paul Waner both struggled with alcohol abuse." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Lloyd and Paul Waner set the record for career hits by brothers in MLB." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "In 1950, Lloyd and Paul Waner lost their older brother, Ralph Waner, when he was fatally shot by his ex-wife Marie." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "Lloyd gave up drinking in the last four or five years of his life and Lloyd Jr." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "Lloyd Waner Jr. said that while Paul \"drank like a fish when he was playing ball\", Lloyd's drinking intensified after his playing career was over." }, { "section_header": "MLB career | Later career", "text": "Paul was known as \"Big Poison\" and Lloyd as \"Little Poison\"." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Lloyd James Waner (March 16, 1906 – July 22, 1982), nicknamed \"Little Poison\", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "Lloyd Jr. said that the brothers would have been better known and would have enjoyed their later lives more were it not for alcohol." }, { "section_header": "MLB career | Later career", "text": "For most of the period from 1927 to 1940, Paul patrolled right field at Forbes Field while Lloyd covered the ground next to him in center." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Lloyd graduated from McLoud High School and attended three semesters at East Central State University in Ada, Oklahoma before going into professional baseball." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "\" In 1982, Waner died of complications related to emphysema." } ]
Lloyd Waner expired by cancer.
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Lloyd Waner
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[ { "section_header": "Life | 1880s: International figure", "text": "On 28 July he disappeared from their hotel, and a few days later his wife received a letter from him to say that he would not be returning." }, { "section_header": "Life | 1880s: International figure", "text": "They never saw each other again." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Honours and reputation", "text": "Saint-Saëns, in preserving his equilibrium, allows his hearers to preserve theirs." }, { "section_header": "Life | 1870s: War, marriage and operatic success", "text": "Saint-Saëns and his wife moved to the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, in the Latin Quarter; his mother moved with them." }, { "section_header": "Life | 1870s: War, marriage and operatic success", "text": "Throughout the 1860s and early 1870s, Saint-Saëns had continued to live a bachelor existence, sharing a large fourth-floor flat in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré with his mother." }, { "section_header": "Life | 1880s: International figure", "text": "After the death of his children and collapse of his marriage, Saint-Saëns increasingly found a surrogate family in Fauré and his wife, Marie, and their two sons, to whom he was a much-loved honorary uncle." }, { "section_header": "Music | Chamber", "text": "It is a serious work, in which the main melodic material is sustained by the cello over a virtuoso piano accompaniment." }, { "section_header": "Life | 1870s: War, marriage and operatic success", "text": "The marriage was not a success." }, { "section_header": "Life | 1880s: International figure", "text": "In July of that year he and his wife went to the Auvergnat spa town of La Bourboule for a holiday." }, { "section_header": "Life | 1880s: International figure", "text": "Saint-Saëns did not divorce his wife and remarry, nor did he form any later intimate relationship with a woman." }, { "section_header": "Life | 1880s: International figure", "text": "On 28 July he disappeared from their hotel, and a few days later his wife received a letter from him to say that he would not be returning." }, { "section_header": "Music", "text": "In a profile of him written to mark his eightieth birthday, the critic D C Parker wrote, \"That Saint-Saëns knows Rameau ... Bach and Handel, Haydn and Mozart, must be manifest to all who are familiar with his writings." }, { "section_header": "Life | 1880s: International figure", "text": "They never saw each other again." } ]
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns let his wife know their marriage was over by composing a dirge in its honor.
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Camille Saint-Saëns
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "As of 2020, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the ninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, the 48th-tallest in the world, and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "As of 2020, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the ninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, the 48th-tallest in the world, and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas." }, { "section_header": "Architecture | Exterior", "text": "The Empire State Building's art deco design is typical of pre–World War II architecture in New York." }, { "section_header": "History | Loss of \"tallest building\" title", "text": "The following year, the Ostankino Tower succeeded the Empire State Building as the tallest freestanding structure in the world." }, { "section_header": "Architecture | Height records", "text": "With the destruction of the World Trade Center in the September 11 attacks, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York City, and the second-tallest building in the Americas, surpassed only by the Willis Tower in Chicago." }, { "section_header": "Architecture | Height records", "text": "It is also the sixth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas behind the five tallest buildings and the CN Tower." }, { "section_header": "History | 21st century | 2000s", "text": "Following the destruction of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York City, but was only the second-tallest building in the Americas after the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) in Chicago." }, { "section_header": "History | Loss of \"tallest building\" title", "text": "In 1961, the same year that Helmsley, Wien, and Malkin had purchased the Empire State Building, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey formally backed plans for a new World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan." }, { "section_header": "Architecture | Height records", "text": "The Empire State Building was also the tallest man-made structure in the world before it was surpassed by the Griffin Television Tower Oklahoma (KWTV Mast) in 1954, and the tallest freestanding structure in the world until the completion of the Ostankino Tower in 1967." }, { "section_header": "History | Opening and early years", "text": "According to The New York Times, builders and real estate speculators predicted that the 1,250-foot-tall (380 m) Empire State Building would be the world's tallest building \"for many years\", thus ending the great New York City skyscraper rivalry." } ]
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, the 48th-tallest in the world, and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Pittsburgh Burghers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals from 1888 to 1907." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Major league career", "text": "Against the St. Louis Cardinals, Beckley belted three home runs in the same game on September 26, 1897, a feat not again matched until 1922 by Ken Williams." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "In addition to his umpiring and coaching after retirement from professional play, Beckley operated a grain business in Kansas City." }, { "section_header": "Major league career", "text": "After playing one and a half seasons for the Alleghenys, Beckley and eight of his teammates jumped to the Pittsburgh Burghers, a team in the newly-formed Players' League (PL)." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "Beckley died of heart disease in Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 50." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "After splitting two seasons between Leavenworth and a team in Lincoln, Nebraska," }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Beckley began playing semi-professional baseball while still a teenager." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "After his MLB career ended, Beckley became a player/manager for Kansas City in the American Association in 1908–1909, Bartlesville in the Western Association in 1910, and Hannibal in the Central Association in 1911." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "He later remarried after his playing career concluded." }, { "section_header": "Major league career", "text": "Beckley holds the MLB record for career putouts, with 23,743, and ranks second all-time in games played at first base, with 2,376." }, { "section_header": "Major league career", "text": "But later when Wagner's Louisville Colonels came to play at Cincinnati, Beckley was successful in getting Wagner out, employing a strategy that involved the use of two baseballs." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, Pittsburgh Burghers, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals from 1888 to 1907." } ]
Beckley played for three teams from the same city.
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Jake Beckley
Technology
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Ltd. (松下電器産業株式会社, Matsushita Denki Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha), founded in 1918 as a lightbulb socket manufacturer, is a major Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Former operations | MCA Inc.", "text": "Vivendi and Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Ltd. (松下電器産業株式会社, Matsushita Denki Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha), founded in 1918 as a lightbulb socket manufacturer, is a major Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka." }, { "section_header": "Current operations | Panasonic Avionics Corporation", "text": "A majority of the component manufacturing is carried out in Osaka, Japan." }, { "section_header": "Sponsorships | Football", "text": "Panasonic is an official partner and sponsor of AFC Champions League and Major League Soccer." }, { "section_header": "History | 2000 to present", "text": "Also, it sold some of Sanyo's home appliances business to Haier." }, { "section_header": "History | 2000 to present", "text": "In 2019, Panasonic sold its semiconductors and security systems (security camera) businesses." }, { "section_header": "Current operations | Panasonic Europe", "text": "In 2012, Panasonic had around a 10 per cent share of the consumer electronics market in Europe, ranking third behind Samsung Electronics (with 26 per cent) and LG Electronics (with 12 per cent).Panasonic operates a chain of stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland called \"Panasonic Store\" which exclusively sell Panasonic products." }, { "section_header": "Current operations | Panasonic Automotive Systems", "text": "It is a subcontractor to most major auto manufacturers, supplying virtually every Japanese and American automaker, along with many European automakers." }, { "section_header": "Former operations | Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions", "text": "In 2019, Panasonic decided to transfer the chip business to Taiwanese chipmaker Nuvoton following heavy losses." }, { "section_header": "History | 20th century", "text": "In 1998, Matsushita sold Anam National to Anam Electronics." } ]
Panasonic is a major Chinese electronics business.
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Sports
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto enˈrike kleˈmente (g)walˈkeɾ]; August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball right fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Puerto Rican baseball (1952–1954)", "text": "Clemente's professional baseball career began when Pedrín Zorilla offered Clemente, 18, a contract which he signed on October 9, 1952, with the Cangrejeros de Santurce, a winter league team and franchise of the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League (LBBPR)." }, { "section_header": "Major League Baseball (1955–1972)", "text": "During the off-seasons (except the 1958–59, 1962–63, 1965–66, 1968–69, 1971–72, and 1972–73 seasons), Clemente played professionally for the Santurce Crabbers, Criollos de Caguas, and San Juan Senadores in the Puerto Rican baseball winter league, where he was considered a star, and he sometimes managed the San Juan team." }, { "section_header": "Early years", "text": "During his first year in high school, he was recruited by Roberto Marín to play softball with the Sello Rojo team after Marín saw Clemente playing baseball in barrio San Antón." }, { "section_header": "Major League Baseball (1955–1972) | Pittsburgh Pirates, 1960s", "text": "During this time, he was also involved in managing the Senadores de San Juan of the Puerto Rican League, as well as playing with the team during the major league off-season." }, { "section_header": "Influence on players today", "text": "Roberto faced discrimination and disrespect while playing in MLB." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto enˈrike kleˈmente (g)walˈkeɾ]; August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball right fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates." }, { "section_header": "Other honors and awards | Honors", "text": "During the 2003 and 2004 MLB seasons, the Montreal Expos (who at the time were owned by MLB due to an aborted contraction attempt) played 22 home games each season at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico." }, { "section_header": "Major League Baseball (1955–1972) | Pittsburgh Pirates, 1960s", "text": "Clemente was an All-Star every season he played in the 1960s other than 1968—the only year in his career after 1959 in which he failed to hit above .300—and" }, { "section_header": "Influence on players today", "text": "Roberto persevered and continued to let his play shine and prove why he and many Latino players like him deserved to play among the best of the MLB." }, { "section_header": "Influence on players today", "text": "He wasn't the first Puerto Rican to play in the MLB, however, he was arguably the most notable at the time." } ]
Clemente played with only 1 professional team during his MLB career.
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Roberto Clemente
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[ { "section_header": "Personal life | Relationships", "text": "He was cremated with it on. In his will, Mercury left his London home to Austin, rather than to Hutton, having told her, \"You would have been my wife, and it would have been yours anyway." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Personal life | Relationships", "text": "He was cremated with it on. In his will, Mercury left his London home to Austin, rather than to Hutton, having told her, \"You would have been my wife, and it would have been yours anyway." }, { "section_header": "Illness | Death", "text": "On the evening of 24 November 1991, about 24 hours after issuing the statement, Mercury died at the age of 45 at his home in Kensington." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Relationships", "text": "\" Hutton later relocated from London to the bungalow he and Mercury had built for themselves in Ireland." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Relationships", "text": "Hutton, who tested HIV-positive in 1990, lived with Mercury for the last seven years of his life, nursed him during his illness, and was present at his bedside when he died." }, { "section_header": "Illness", "text": "'\"After the conclusion of his work with Queen in June 1991, Mercury retired to his home in Kensington, West London." }, { "section_header": "Illness | Death", "text": "He left £500,000 to his chef, Joe Fanelli; £500,000 to his personal assistant, Peter Freestone; £100,000 to his driver, Terry Giddings; and £500,000 to Jim Hutton." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Mercury died in 1991 at age 45 due to complications from AIDS." }, { "section_header": "Legacy | Tributes", "text": "On 1 September 2016, an English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled at Mercury's home in 22 Gladstone Avenue in Feltham, west London by his sister Kashmira Cooke and Brian May." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Sexual orientation", "text": "During public events in the 1980s, Mercury often kept a distance from his partner, Jim Hutton." }, { "section_header": "Illness", "text": "According to his partner Jim Hutton, Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS in late April 1987." } ]
Mercury left his London home to Hutton when he died.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Salesforce.com, inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Services | Retired or end-of-life | Desk.com", "text": "Desk.com is headquartered in San Francisco, California." }, { "section_header": "Operations", "text": "Salesforce moved its Midwest Regional headquarters to Indianapolis in 2017." }, { "section_header": "Operations", "text": "Salesforce is headquartered in San Francisco, with regional headquarters in Morges, Switzerland (covering Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Singapore), India (covering Asia Pacific minus Japan), and Tokyo (covering Japan)." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Salesforce.com, inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California." } ]
Salesforce.com has its headquarters in the Silicon Valley.
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[ { "section_header": "Overview", "text": "The Courtship of Miles Standish is set in the year 1621 against the backdrop of a fierce Indian war and focuses on a love triangle among three Mayflower passengers: Miles Standish, Priscilla Mullins, and John Alden." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Poetic Meter", "text": "Courtship of Miles Standish is written in dactylic hexameter, the same meter used in classical epic poetry such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid." }, { "section_header": "Composition and publication history", "text": "By March 1 the next year, it was renamed The Courtship of Miles Standish." }, { "section_header": "Overview", "text": "Together, Evangeline and The Courtship of Miles Standish captured the bittersweet quality of America's colonial era." }, { "section_header": "Overview", "text": "The Courtship of Miles Standish is set in the year 1621 against the backdrop of a fierce Indian war and focuses on a love triangle among three Mayflower passengers: Miles Standish, Priscilla Mullins, and John Alden." }, { "section_header": "Overview", "text": "However, the plot of The Courtship of Miles Standish deliberately varies in emotional tone, unlike the steady tragedy of Longfellow's Evangeline." }, { "section_header": "Fictionalized History", "text": "Two years later, Standish married a woman named Barbara in Plymouth in 1623." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Courtship of Miles Standish is an 1858 narrative poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the early days of Plymouth Colony, the colonial settlement established in America by the Mayflower Pilgrims." }, { "section_header": "Fictionalized History", "text": "Main characters Miles Standish, John Alden, and Priscilla Mullins are based upon real Mayflower passengers." }, { "section_header": "Fictionalized History", "text": "The Standish and Alden families both moved from Plymouth to adjacent Duxbury, Massachusetts in the late 1620s, where they lived in close proximity, intermarried, and remained close for several generations." }, { "section_header": "Overview", "text": "Bumbling, feuding roommates Miles Standish and John Alden vie for the affections of the beautiful Priscilla Mullins, who slyly tweaks the noses of her undiplomatic suitors." } ]
The Courtship of Miles Standish is about two women who both want for the attention of the same man, mister Miles Standish.
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[ { "section_header": "Production history", "text": "Writing for the Norwegian newspaper Folkets Avis, the critic Erik Bøgh admired Ibsen's originality and technical mastery: \"Not a single declamatory phrase, no high dramatics, no drop of blood, not even a tear.\" Every performance of its run was sold out." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The title of the play is most commonly translated as A Doll's House, though some scholars use A Doll House." }, { "section_header": "Adaptations | Novels", "text": "Swallow's historical novel tells the story of Nora Helmer's life from the moment in December 1879 that Nora walks out on her husband and young children at the close of A Doll's House." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "In 2006, the centennial of Ibsen's death, A Doll's House held the distinction of being the world's most performed play that year." }, { "section_header": "Production history", "text": "Writing for the Norwegian newspaper Folkets Avis, the critic Erik Bøgh admired Ibsen's originality and technical mastery: \"Not a single declamatory phrase, no high dramatics, no drop of blood, not even a tear.\" Every performance of its run was sold out." }, { "section_header": "Composition and publication | Publication", "text": "It was first published in Copenhagen on 4 December 1879, in an edition of 8,000 copies that sold out within a month; a second edition of 3,000 copies followed on 4 January 1880, and a third edition of 2,500 was issued on 8 March." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "A Doll's House (Danish and Bokmål: Et dukkehjem" }, { "section_header": "Adaptations | Film", "text": "A Doll's House starring Alla Nazimova as Nora." }, { "section_header": "Production history", "text": "A production of A Doll's House by The Jamie Lloyd Company starring" }, { "section_header": "Adaptations | Re-staging", "text": "The Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow have performed Nora: A Doll's House by Stef Smith, a radical re-working of the play, with three actors playing Nora, simultaneously taking place in 1918, 1968 and 2018." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "John Simon says that A Doll's House is \"the British term for what [Americans] call a 'dollhouse'\"." } ]
The play A Doll's House was sold out.
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[ { "section_header": "Origin", "text": "In antiquity, Ozymandias (Ὀσυμανδύας) was a Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "\"Ozymandias and the Travelers\"." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "\"Postponement and Perspectives in Shelley's 'Ozymandias'\"." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "Johnstone Parr (1957). \"Shelley's 'Ozymandias'\"." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "\"Shelley and Smith: Two Sonnets on Ozymandias\"." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Shelley's most famous work, \"Ozymandias\" is frequently anthologised." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "\"Travelers from an Antique Land: Shelley's Inspiration for 'Ozymandias'\"." }, { "section_header": "Origin", "text": "In antiquity, Ozymandias (Ὀσυμανδύας) was a Greek name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II." }, { "section_header": "Analysis and interpretation | Hubris", "text": "A central theme of the \"Ozymandias\" poems is the inevitable decline of rulers with their pretensions to greatness." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "Waith, Eugene M. (1995). \"Ozymandias: Shelley, Horace Smith, and Denon\"." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "63–73. Edgecombe, R. S. (2000). \" Displaced Christian Images in Shelley's 'Ozymandias'\"." } ]
Ozymandias was a nickname for Tutankhamun.
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[ { "section_header": "Life | Influence and legacy", "text": "His surviving church music is praised for its high musical qualities rather than its progressive elements." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Works | General introduction", "text": "Unfortunately, many of Buxtehude's compositions have been lost." }, { "section_header": "Works | Keyboard works | Preludes and toccatas", "text": "They are sectional compositions that alternate between free improvisation and strict counterpoint." }, { "section_header": "Works | Keyboard works | Chorale settings", "text": "The chorale fantasias (a modern term) are large-scale virtuosic sectional compositions that cover a whole strophe of the text and are somewhat similar to chorale concertos in their treatment of the text: each verse is developed separately, allowing for technically and emotionally contrasting sections within one composition." }, { "section_header": "Works | Keyboard works | Chorale settings", "text": "The chorale preludes are usually four-part cantus firmus settings of one stanza of the chorale; the melody is presented in an elaborately ornamented version in the upper voice, the three lower parts engage in some form of counterpoint (not necessarily imitative)." }, { "section_header": "Works | Keyboard works | Chorale settings", "text": "Here is an example from chorale Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BuxWV 184: The ornamented cantus firmus in these pieces represents a significant difference between the north German and the south German schools; Johann Pachelbel and his pupils would almost always leave the chorale melody unornamented." }, { "section_header": "Life | Lübeck: Marienkirche", "text": "In addition to his musical duties, Buxtehude, like his predecessor Tunder, served as church treasurer." }, { "section_header": "Life | Influence and legacy", "text": "His surviving church music is praised for its high musical qualities rather than its progressive elements." }, { "section_header": "Life | Influence and legacy", "text": "Although more than 100 vocal compositions by Buxtehude survive, very few of them were included in the important German manuscript collections of the period, and until the early twentieth century, Buxtehude was regarded primarily as a keyboard composer." }, { "section_header": "Life | Early years in Denmark", "text": "His father — Johannes Buxtehude — was the organist at St. Olaf's church in Helsingør." }, { "section_header": "Life | Early years in Denmark", "text": "St. Mary's in Helsingør is the only church where Buxtehude was employed that still has the organ in its original location." } ]
Buxtehude's church compositions are appreciated for their intense difficult melodies.
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[ { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "They live in Houston. For several years, Biggio was the head varsity baseball coach at St. Thomas High School." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Early life | High school", "text": "Craig Biggio graduated from Kings Park High School in Kings Park, New York, where he excelled as a multi-sport varsity athlete." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "They live in Houston. For several years, Biggio was the head varsity baseball coach at St. Thomas High School." }, { "section_header": "Early life | High school", "text": "However, Biggio's passion lay with baseball, such that he turned down football scholarships for the opportunity to play baseball for Seton Hall University." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "Biggio coached St. Thomas to back-to-back Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) Class 5A state baseball titles in 2010 and 2011." }, { "section_header": "Early life | High school", "text": "Most notably, after the 1983 season Biggio was awarded the Hansen Award, which recognized him as being the best football player in Suffolk County." }, { "section_header": "Major league career | Hit by pitch", "text": "Biggio sent an arm guard to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in recognition of his high hit-by-pitch total." }, { "section_header": "Early life | College career", "text": "Although Biggio was an infielder, Seton Hall coach Mike Sheppard switched him to catcher because the team was in need of one." }, { "section_header": "Major league career | Late career: Return to second base and milestones | World Series appearance (2005)", "text": "Biggio resumed playing at second base after Kent left for the Dodgers and set a new career-high with 26 home runs." }, { "section_header": "Major league career | Career setbacks: Injury and the outfield", "text": "In 2004, he put up numbers more typical for his career, batting .281 with 178 hits, including a career-high 24 homers." }, { "section_header": "Awards and highlights | Annual statistical achievements", "text": "Notes: Per Baseball-Reference.com." } ]
Craig Biggio has been the baseball coach of a high school.
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[ { "section_header": "Reception | Accolades | Best Picture Oscar gaffe", "text": "During the Oscars ceremony, presenter Faye Dunaway incorrectly announced that La La Land had won Best Picture, reading from the card Warren Beatty opened, which was actually a duplicate of the Best Actress card for Emma Stone." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Reception | Accolades", "text": "At the 89th Academy Awards, La La Land received a leading six awards, including Best Director, Best Actress (for Stone), Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song (\"City of Stars\"), and Best Production Design." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It won a record-breaking seven awards from its seven nominations at the 74th Golden Globes and received eleven nominations at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, winning five awards, including Best Film." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Accolades", "text": "La La Land received eleven nominations at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, more than any other film of 2016." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Accolades | German television prank", "text": "German comedians Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf arranged for a Ryan Gosling impersonator to be awarded the \"Best International Film\" prize for La La Land." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Accolades", "text": "At the 74th Golden Globe Awards, La La Land received a leading seven nominations." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Accolades | German television prank", "text": "In March 2017, La La Land was at the center of a prank involving Goldene Kamera, an annual German film and television award." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It also received a record-tying fourteen nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, winning in six categories, including Best Director for Chazelle and Best Actress for Stone." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Accolades | Best Picture Oscar gaffe", "text": "During the Oscars ceremony, presenter Faye Dunaway incorrectly announced that La La Land had won Best Picture, reading from the card Warren Beatty opened, which was actually a duplicate of the Best Actress card for Emma Stone." }, { "section_header": "Reception | Accolades", "text": "The film won in the categories of Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Stone), Best Cinematography, and Best Film Music." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "La La Land is a 2016 American romantic comedy musical film written and directed by Damien Chazelle." } ]
La La Land is a musical film that won multiple Academy awards including the award for best film.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus (Ancient Greek: Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a native Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Halicarnassus", "text": "In 353 BC, Mausolus died, leaving Artemisia to rule alone." }, { "section_header": "Halicarnassus", "text": "The tomb became so famous that Mausolus's name is now the eponym for all stately tombs, in the word mausoleum." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus (Ancient Greek: Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a native Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria." }, { "section_header": "Halicarnassus", "text": "He chose the city of Halicarnassus." }, { "section_header": "Halicarnassus", "text": "The urns with their ashes were placed in the yet unfinished tomb." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Its elevated tomb structure is derived from the tombs of neighbouring Lycia, a territory Mausolus had invaded and annexed circa 360 BC, such as the Nereid Monument." }, { "section_header": "Later history of the Mausoleum", "text": "It was untouched when the city fell to Alexander the Great in 334 BC and still undamaged after attacks by pirates in 62 and 58 BC." }, { "section_header": "Halicarnassus", "text": "As the Persian satrap, and as the Hecatomnid dynast, Mausolus had planned for himself an elaborate tomb." }, { "section_header": "Conquest", "text": "In the 4th century BC, Halicarnassus was the capital of a small regional kingdom of Caria within the Achaemenid Empire on the western coast of Asia Minor." }, { "section_header": "Construction of the Mausoleum", "text": "It is likely that Mausolus started to plan the tomb before his death, as part of the building works in Halicarnassus, so that when he died, Artemisia continued the building project." } ]
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus is actually a giant tomb that was made in 367 BC.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Timothy Raines Sr. (born September 16, 1959), nicknamed \"Rock\", is an American professional baseball coach and former player." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Raines reportedly received over 100 scholarship offers to play college football." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Timothy Raines Sr. (born September 16, 1959), nicknamed \"Rock\", is an American professional baseball coach and former player." }, { "section_header": "Honors and awards", "text": "The baseball complex at Seminole High School in Sanford, Florida, Raines' alma mater, has been renamed Tim Raines Athletic Park in his honor, and Raines' number 22 has been retired at the school." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "He attended Seminole High School in Sanford." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "In 1979, Raines married Virginia Hilton, a classmate at Seminole High School." }, { "section_header": "Career | Montreal Expos", "text": "Raines would, in 1992, be one of dozens of players retroactively awarded collusion damages, receiving over $865,000." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "Discussing his decision to play professional baseball instead of football he stated, \"... in football I was a running back, so in the NFL my career would have probably lasted six or seven years and in baseball I ended up playing 23 years." }, { "section_header": "Coaching career", "text": "After the 2010 season, the Bears moved to the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, and the team announced Raines would return to manage in 2011." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "In high school, he was a running back." }, { "section_header": "Career | Montreal Expos", "text": "Although he never won a Gold Glove Award, Raines was an excellent defensive player who led the National League with 21 assists in 1983 and, with 4 double plays, tied for the league lead in double plays by an outfielder in 1985." } ]
Although Tim Raines was an American professional basketball coach and former player, he received over 100 scholarship offers to play college football coming out of Seminole High School.
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[ { "section_header": "Production", "text": "The opening scenes were filmed in Big Spring, Texas." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Midnight Cowboy is the only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American buddy drama film, based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "In 1994, Midnight Cowboy was deemed \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry." }, { "section_header": "Soundtrack", "text": "The title music from Midnight Cowboy and some of the incidental cues were included in the documentary ToryBoy" }, { "section_header": "Production", "text": "Upon initial review by the Motion Picture Association of America, Midnight Cowboy received a \"Restricted\" (\"R\") rating." }, { "section_header": "Soundtrack", "text": "The movie's main theme, \"Midnight Cowboy\", featured harmonica by Toots Thielemans, but on its album version it was played by Tommy Reilly." }, { "section_header": "Plot", "text": "The film has successive flashbacks to an experience in which he and Annie were jumped while naked in a parked car and both raped by a gang of cowboys." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy depicts the unlikely friendship between two hustlers: naïve prostitute Joe Buck (Voight), and ailing con man \"Ratso\" Rizzo (Hoffman)." }, { "section_header": "Production", "text": "The line \"I'm walkin' here!\", which reached No. 27 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes, is often said to have been improvised, but producer Jerome Hellman disputes this account on the 2-disc DVD set of Midnight Cowboy." }, { "section_header": "Reception", "text": "Critical response to the film has been largely positive; Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune said of the film: \"I cannot recall a more marvelous pair of acting performances in any one film.\" In a 25th anniversary retrospective in 1994, Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote: \"Midnight Cowboy's peep-show vision of Manhattan lowlife may no longer be shocking, but what is shocking, in 1994, is to see a major studio film linger this lovingly on characters who have nothing to offer the audience but their own lost souls.\"Midnight" }, { "section_header": "Production", "text": "The opening scenes were filmed in Big Spring, Texas." } ]
Midnight Cowboy was filmed in New-York.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "After appearing on the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she rose to prominence for her role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel musical television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010)." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 1992–2006: Early life and career beginnings", "text": "In 2002, she began her career on the children's television series Barney & Friends, portraying the role of Angela." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Life and career | 1992–2006: Early life and career beginnings", "text": "Demetria Devonne Lovato was born on August 20, 1992 in Albuquerque, New Mexico to former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Dianna De La Garza (née Lee Smith) and engineer and musician Patrick Martin Lovato." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 1992–2006: Early life and career beginnings", "text": "In 2002, she began her career on the children's television series Barney & Friends, portraying the role of Angela." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Demetria Devonne Lovato ( lə-VAH-toh; born August 20, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, television personality, author, and activist." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 2013–2014: Demi and Glee", "text": "Lovato debuted in the season's second episode, which aired on October 3, and made her final appearance in March 2014." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "After appearing on the children's television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she rose to prominence for her role as Mitchie Torres in the Disney Channel musical television film Camp Rock (2008) and its sequel Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam (2010)." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 2019–present: Return to acting and seventh studio album", "text": "On February 1, Lovato made a surprise appearance with Dan + Shay to perform their song \"Speechless\" on the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 2013–2014: Demi and Glee", "text": "Lovato announced her skincare line called Devonne by Demi to be available in December 2014." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 2007–2008: Breakthrough with Camp Rock and Don't Forget", "text": "The music video for the song was directed by Brendan Malloy and Tim Wheeler." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 1992–2006: Early life and career beginnings", "text": "In 2006, Lovato appeared on Prison Break, and on Just Jordan the following year." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 2013–2014: Demi and Glee", "text": "The second single, \"Made in the USA\" peaked at number 80 in the US." } ]
Demetria Devonne Lovato made appearances on Barney & Friends that would eventually propel her career into new directions.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Lloyd James Waner (March 16, 1906 – July 22, 1982), nicknamed \"Little Poison\", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "MLB career | Later career", "text": "Paul was known as \"Big Poison\" and Lloyd as \"Little Poison\"." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Lloyd James Waner (March 16, 1906 – July 22, 1982), nicknamed \"Little Poison\", was a Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder." }, { "section_header": "MLB career | Later career", "text": "Waner was also an accomplished center fielder." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "\"I think I would have asked for expenses\", Waner reflected." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "In 1950, Lloyd and Paul Waner lost their older brother, Ralph Waner, when he was fatally shot by his ex-wife Marie." }, { "section_header": "MLB career | Early career", "text": "Waner had difficulty recovering from the surgery and re-entered the hospital in" }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "After retiring as a player, Waner was a scout for Pittsburgh from 1946 to 1949." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "Lloyd and Paul Waner both struggled with alcohol abuse." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "Waner was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "\" In 1982, Waner died of complications related to emphysema." } ]
Waner was called Slim Poison.
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[ { "section_header": "Colonial merchant", "text": "On the night of January 28, 1767, he and members of his crew roughed up a man suspected of attempting to inform authorities of Arnold's smuggling." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Brigadier General Benedict Arnold (14 January 1741" }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Benedict Arnold was born a British subject, the second of six children of Benedict Arnold (1683–1761) and Hannah Waterman King in Norwich, Connecticut Colony on 14 January 1741." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor, a 2003 TV film directed by Mikael Salomon" }, { "section_header": "Honours", "text": "The faculty club at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton has a Benedict Arnold Room in which letters written by Arnold hang on the walls." }, { "section_header": "Marriage and children", "text": "Arnold had three sons with Margaret Mansfield: Benedict Arnold (1768–1795) (Captain, British Army in Jamaica) Richard Arnold (1769–1847) (" }, { "section_header": "Plotting to change sides | Offer to surrender West Point", "text": "Benedict Arnold next wrote a series of letters to Clinton, even before he might have expected a response to the July 7 letter." }, { "section_header": "Death and afterward | Legacy", "text": "The boy is not identified until the end of the story, when his place of birth is given as Norwich, Connecticut, and his name is given as Benedict Arnold." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "Washington, 2020 miniseries in which Ciarán Owens portrays Arnold Benedict Arnold, played by Owain Yeoman, is a major character in the TV series, Turn: Washington's Spies" }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "He was named after his great-grandfather Benedict Arnold, an early governor of the Colony of Rhode Island, as were his father and grandfather and an older brother who died in infancy." }, { "section_header": "Plotting to change sides | Secret communications", "text": "By July 1779, Benedict Arnold was providing the British with troop locations and strengths, as well as the locations of supply depots, all the while negotiating over compensation." }, { "section_header": "Colonial merchant", "text": "On the night of January 28, 1767, he and members of his crew roughed up a man suspected of attempting to inform authorities of Arnold's smuggling." } ]
Benedict Arnold was a smuggler.
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[ { "section_header": "Production | Filming", "text": "Because the book was banned in the Soviet Union, it could not be filmed there." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Production | Background", "text": "While the citation noted his poetry, it was understood that the prize was mainly for Doctor Zhivago, which the Soviet government saw as an anti-Soviet work, thus interpreting the award of the Nobel Prize as a gesture hostile to the Soviet Union." }, { "section_header": "Production | Filming", "text": "Because the book was banned in the Soviet Union, it could not be filmed there." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "For this reason, the film could not be made in the Soviet Union and was instead filmed mostly in Spain." }, { "section_header": "Production | Background", "text": "The book had to be smuggled out of the Soviet Union by an Italian called D'Angelo to be delivered to Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, a left-wing Italian publisher who published it shortly thereafter, in 1957." }, { "section_header": "Plot | Part one", "text": "Yuri Zhivago is drafted and becomes a battlefield doctor." }, { "section_header": "Critical reception", "text": "Upon its initial release, Doctor Zhivago was criticized for its romanticization of the revolution." }, { "section_header": "Critical reception", "text": "\" The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: \"The best one can say of Doctor Zhivago is that it is an honest failure." }, { "section_header": "Accolades", "text": "Both Doctor Zhivago and The Sound of Music received the most nominations at the 38th Academy Awards, where they were each nominated in ten categories." }, { "section_header": "Critical reception", "text": "\"In 2013, Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck cited Doctor Zhivago as an influence on the 2013 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Frozen." } ]
Doctor Zhivago was not allowed in the Soviet Union.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It appeared in two phases: a few first copies were printed and illuminated by Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Musical settings", "text": "A modified version of the poem" }, { "section_header": "Songs of Innocence", "text": "It is a conceptual collection of 19 poems, engraved with artwork." }, { "section_header": "Songs of Experience", "text": "The poems were published in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry)." }, { "section_header": "Songs of Experience", "text": "The poems are each listed below: Songs of Experience is a poetry collection of 26 poems forming the second part of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake." }, { "section_header": "Musical settings", "text": "The composer William Bolcom completed a setting of the entire collection of poems in 1984." }, { "section_header": "Musical settings", "text": "24\", a setting of five poems from Songs of Innocence for solo voice and piano in 2013." }, { "section_header": "Musical settings", "text": "The poems are listed below: Poems from both books have been set to music by many composers, including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Joseph Holbrooke, John Frandsen, Per Drud Nielsen, Sven-David Sandström, Benjamin Britten, and Jacob ter Veldhuis." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It appeared in two phases: a few first copies were printed and illuminated by Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul." }, { "section_header": "Facsimile editions", "text": "A colour plate of each poem is accompanied by a literal transcription, and the volume is introduced by critic and historian Richard Holmes." } ]
This an anthology of poems written by Shell DuBois.
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[ { "section_header": "Textual history and structure", "text": "The first section of the Mahābhārata states that it was Ganesha who wrote down the text to Vyasa's dictation." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Textual history and structure", "text": "The first section of the Mahābhārata states that it was Ganesha who wrote down the text to Vyasa's dictation." }, { "section_header": "Synopsis | The Pandava and Kaurava princes", "text": "These are the Kaurava brothers, the eldest being Duryodhana, and the second Dushasana." }, { "section_header": "Synopsis | The Pandava and Kaurava princes", "text": "However, Ambika and Ambalika send their maid instead, to Vyasa's room." }, { "section_header": "Synopsis | The Pandava and Kaurava princes", "text": "Kunti uses this boon to ask Dharma the god of justice, Vayu the god of the wind, and Indra the lord of the heavens for sons." }, { "section_header": "Synopsis | The battle at Kurukshetra", "text": "Krishna takes part in a non-combatant role, as charioteer for Arjuna." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "CE).The Mahābhārata is the longest epic poem known and has been described as \"the longest poem ever written\"." }, { "section_header": "Historical context", "text": "Of the second kind are analyses of parallel genealogies in the Puranas between the times of Adhisimakrishna (Parikshit's great-grandson) and Mahapadma Nanda." }, { "section_header": "Versions, translations, and derivative works | Derivative literature", "text": "Gujarati poet Chinu Modi has written long narrative poetry Bahuk based on character Bahuka." }, { "section_header": "Textual history and structure | Accretion and redaction", "text": "The addition of the latest parts may be dated by the absence of the Anuśāsana-parva and the Virāta parva from the \"Spitzer manuscript\"." }, { "section_header": "Versions, translations, and derivative works | Critical Edition", "text": "This work is sometimes called the \"Pune\" or \"Poona\" edition of the Mahabharata." } ]
The second part of the Mahabharata outlines that Lord Shiva had written the Vyasa's dictation.
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[ { "section_header": "Names: history and etymology | Oldest written mention of \"Jerusalem\"", "text": "The earliest extra-biblical Hebrew writing of the word Jerusalem is dated to the sixth or seventh century BCE and was discovered in Khirbet Beit Lei near Beit Guvrin in 1961." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Names: history and etymology | Oldest written mention of \"Jerusalem\"", "text": "The mountains of Judah belong to him, to the God of Jerusalem\"." }, { "section_header": "Names: history and etymology | Oldest written mention of \"Jerusalem\"", "text": "The inscription states: \"I am Yahweh thy God, I will accept the cities of Judah and I will redeem Jerusalem\", or as other scholars suggest: \"Yahweh is the God of the whole earth." }, { "section_header": "Names: history and etymology | Oldest written mention of \"Jerusalem\"", "text": "The earliest extra-biblical Hebrew writing of the word Jerusalem is dated to the sixth or seventh century BCE and was discovered in Khirbet Beit Lei near Beit Guvrin in 1961." }, { "section_header": "History | Israeli rule (1967–present)", "text": "The order designated these areas for public use, but they were intended for Jews alone." }, { "section_header": "Names: history and etymology | Salem", "text": "However that may be, later Rabbinic sources also equate Salem with Jerusalem, mainly to link Melchizedek to later Temple traditions." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam." }, { "section_header": "Political status | Jerusalem as capital of Israel", "text": "Due to the general lack of international recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, some non-Israeli media outlets use Tel Aviv as a metonym for Israel." }, { "section_header": "Municipal administration", "text": "In East Jerusalem, 52% of the land is excluded from development, 35% designated for Jewish settlements, and 13% for Palestinian use, almost all of which is already built on." }, { "section_header": "History | Early Muslim period", "text": "Contemporary Arabic and Hebrew sources say the site was full of rubbish, and that Arabs and Jews cleaned it." }, { "section_header": "History | Ottoman period (16th–19th centuries)", "text": "The English reference book Modern history or the present state of all nations, written in 1744, stated that \"Jerusalem is still reckoned the capital city of Palestine, though much fallen from its ancient grandeaur\"." } ]
The oldest written use of Jerusalem is from a non-biblical source.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Genghis Khan (born Temüjin Borjigin, c. 1155 – c. April 16, 1162 – August 18, 1227), also officially Genghis Emperor, was the founder and first Great Khan and Emperor of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Mongol Empire | Politics and economics", "text": "Chu'Tsai administered parts of the Mongol Empire and became a confidant of the successive Mongol Khans." }, { "section_header": "Mongol Empire | After Genghis Khan", "text": "At the time of his death in 1227, the empire stretched from the Caspian Sea to the Sea of Japan." }, { "section_header": "Mongol Empire | Khanates", "text": "Several years before his death, Genghis Khan divided his empire among his sons Ögedei, Chagatai, Tolui, and Jochi (Jochi's death several months before Genghis Khan's meant that his lands were instead split between his sons, Batu and Orda) into several Khanates designed as sub-territories: their Khans were expected to follow the Great Khan, who was, initially, Ögedei." }, { "section_header": "Mongol Empire | After Genghis Khan", "text": "Contrary to popular belief, Genghis Khan did not conquer the whole area of the eventual Mongol Empire." }, { "section_header": "Mongol Empire | Politics and economics", "text": "The Mongol Empire was one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse empires in history, as befitted its size." }, { "section_header": "Mongol Empire | Politics and economics", "text": "The Mongol Empire was governed by a civilian and military code, called the Yassa, created by Genghis Khan." }, { "section_header": "Uniting the Mongol confederations | Sole ruler of the Mongol plains (1206)", "text": "The part of the Merkit clan that sided with the Naimans were defeated by Subutai, who was by then a member of Genghis Khan's personal guard and later became one of Genghis Khan's most successful commanders." }, { "section_header": "Mongol Empire | Khanates", "text": "Genghis Khan's eldest son, Jochi, had received most of the distant Russia and Ruthenia." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Genghis Khan (born Temüjin Borjigin, c. 1155 – c. April 16, 1162 – August 18, 1227), also officially Genghis Emperor, was the founder and first Great Khan and Emperor of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death." }, { "section_header": "Mongol Empire | Military", "text": "He allowed them to make decisions on their own when they embarked on campaigns far from the Mongol Empire capital Karakorum." } ]
The Mongol empire became the biggest empire after Genghis Khan's death.
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[ { "section_header": "Aftermath", "text": "Kings Mountain was a pivotal moment in the history of the American Revolution." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Aftermath", "text": "In 1931, the Congress of the United States created the Kings Mountain National Military Park at the site of the battle." }, { "section_header": "Aftermath", "text": "Kings Mountain was a pivotal moment in the history of the American Revolution." }, { "section_header": "Aftermath", "text": "The Battle of Kings Mountain lasted 65 minutes." }, { "section_header": "Prelude to battle | Muster at Sycamore Shoals", "text": "The Loyalists camped on a ridge west of Kings Pinnacle, the highest point on Kings Mountain." }, { "section_header": "Prelude to battle | Muster at Sycamore Shoals", "text": "By sunrise of the 7th, they forded the Broad River, fifteen miles from Kings Mountain." }, { "section_header": "Prelude to battle | Muster at Sycamore Shoals", "text": "Needing to hurry, the Patriot militia put 900 men on horseback and rode for Kings Mountain." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "However, the Patriots caught up with the Loyalists at Kings Mountain near the border with South Carolina." }, { "section_header": "Prelude to battle | Muster at Sycamore Shoals", "text": "They hurried to catch him. Rebel spies reported Ferguson was making camp on Kings Mountain with some 1200 men." }, { "section_header": "Aftermath", "text": "History has done scant justice to its significance, which rightly should place it beside Lexington, Bunker Hill, Trenton and Yorktown." }, { "section_header": "Aftermath", "text": "In The Winning of the West, Theodore Roosevelt wrote of Kings Mountain, \"This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution.\" Thomas Jefferson called it, \"The turn of the tide of success.\" President Herbert Hoover at Kings Mountain said, This is a place of inspiring memories." } ]
The battle of Kings Mountains was an important event in the history of the United States.
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[ { "section_header": "Early life and career", "text": "Kuhn was the youngest (42), tallest (6-foot-5), and heaviest (240 pounds, 109 kg) commissioner in history." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Bowie Kent Kuhn (; October 28, 1926 – March 15, 2007) was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969 to September 30, 1984." }, { "section_header": "Life after baseball", "text": "Following baseball, Kuhn returned to the law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher and assumed presidency of the Kent Group, a business, sports and financial consulting firm." }, { "section_header": "Life after baseball", "text": "Legatus later memorialized him for his dedication and service to the organization by establishing the \"Bowie Kuhn Award for Evangelization\"." }, { "section_header": "Life after baseball", "text": "Bowie was a member of the Catholic Organization for President's and CEO's, Legatus and was influential in chartering the chapter of Legatus in Jacksonville, FL." }, { "section_header": "Actions as commissioner | Race", "text": "What is this – 1840? Either let him in the front of the hall – or move the damn thing to Mississippi.\" Larry Doby, the first black player in the American League, commented, \"With another wing ... whatever good they've done, they've torn it down." }, { "section_header": "Life after baseball", "text": "Kuhn was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008, after having been elected by the Veterans Committee nine months after his death." }, { "section_header": "Actions as commissioner | Kuhn's war on drugs", "text": "But the Hall of Fame was also damaged. ... The message that got through to the public, loosely translated, was that the Hall of Fame was a racist institution. ... Bowie Kuhn would have been a better friend to the Hall of Fame if he had led them to come to terms with their institutional racism in private, rather than leading them to expose it to the public.\" After being in office for over ten years, Kuhn had grown a strong reputation for being hard on players who abused drugs." }, { "section_header": "Actions as commissioner | Curt Flood | Flood v. Kuhn", "text": "In response, Flood filed a lawsuit against Kuhn and Major League Baseball on January 16, 1970, alleging that Major League Baseball had violated federal antitrust laws." }, { "section_header": "Actions as commissioner | Ted Turner", "text": "Kuhn concluded that Turner's statement was not in the \"best interest of baseball\" and fined Turner, suspended him from baseball for one year, and penalized his club with the loss of a draft choice." }, { "section_header": "Actions as commissioner | Curt Flood | Flood v. Kuhn", "text": "Major League Baseball's counsel countered that Commissioner Kuhn acted the rules, which were set up (and therefore his duty to uphold, in so many words) '\"for the good of the game.\" Ultimately, the Supreme Court, acting on stare decisis \"to stand by things decided\", ruled 5–3 in favor of Major League Baseball, upholding a 1922 ruling in the case of Federal Baseball Club v. National League, (259 U.S. 200)." }, { "section_header": "Early life and career", "text": "Kuhn was the youngest (42), tallest (6-foot-5), and heaviest (240 pounds, 109 kg) commissioner in history." } ]
American lawyer and baseball commissioner Bowie Kent Kuhn was the shortest commissioner.
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[ { "section_header": "Career | 1965–1975: Early work", "text": "Foster's career began with an appearance as the Coppertone girl in a television advertisement in 1965, when she was three years old." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Career | 1981–1989: Transition to adult roles", "text": "Before making the film, Foster was having doubts about whether to continue her career and planned on starting graduate studies, but decided to give acting \"one last try\" in The Accused." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "Foster Child: A Biography of Jodie Foster." }, { "section_header": "Early life and education", "text": "She worked as a publicist for film producer Arthur P. Jacobs, until focusing on managing the acting careers of Buddy and Jodie." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "Hollinger, Karen (2012). \" Jodie Foster: Feminist Hero?\"." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Alicia Christian \"Jodie\" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and director." }, { "section_header": "Early life and education", "text": "Although Foster was officially named Alicia, her siblings began calling her \"Jodie\", and the name stuck." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "Erb, Cynthia, 2010. \" Jodie Foster and Brooke Shields: \"New Ways to Look at the Young\"\"." }, { "section_header": "Career | 2010–present: Focus on directing", "text": "In the 2010s, Foster has focused on directing and taken fewer acting roles." }, { "section_header": "Career | 1976–1980: Taxi Driver and teenage stardom", "text": "Foster also acted in another film nominated for the Palme d'Or in 1976, Bugsy Malone." }, { "section_header": "Career | 1965–1975: Early work", "text": "Foster said she loved acting as a child, and values her early work for the experience it gave her: \"Some people get quick breaks and declare, 'I'll never do commercials!" }, { "section_header": "Career | 1965–1975: Early work", "text": "Foster's career began with an appearance as the Coppertone girl in a television advertisement in 1965, when she was three years old." } ]
Jodie Foster started acting when she was just 3.
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[ { "section_header": "Musical style and development | Genres", "text": "Originating as a skiffle group, the Beatles quickly embraced 1950s rock and roll and helped pioneer the Merseybeat genre, and their repertoire ultimately expanded to include a broad variety of pop music." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Musical style and development | Genres", "text": "Originating as a skiffle group, the Beatles quickly embraced 1950s rock and roll and helped pioneer the Merseybeat genre, and their repertoire ultimately expanded to include a broad variety of pop music." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and all four main members were inducted individually between 1994 and 2015." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The group were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form." }, { "section_header": "Musical style and development", "text": "Although their initial style was a highly original, irresistibly catchy synthesis of early American rock and roll and R&B, the Beatles spent the rest of the 1960s expanding rock's stylistic frontiers, consistently staking out new musical territory on each release." }, { "section_header": "History | 1970–present: After the break-up | 1980s", "text": "In 1988, the Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, their first year of eligibility." }, { "section_header": "History | 1963–1966: Beatlemania and touring years | Controversies, Revolver and final tour", "text": "In Chris Ingham's description, they were very much \"studio creations ... and there was no way a four-piece rock 'n' roll group could do them justice, particularly through the desensitising wall of the fans' screams. '" }, { "section_header": "History | 1957–1963: Formation, Hamburg, and UK popularity", "text": "The three guitarists, billing themselves as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer." }, { "section_header": "Awards and achievements", "text": "In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Beatles as the most significant and influential rock music artists of the last 50 years." }, { "section_header": "History | 1963–1966: Beatlemania and touring years | Beatles for Sale, Help! and Rubber Soul", "text": "With Help!, the Beatles became the first rock group to be nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year." } ]
The group quickly embraced 1960s rock and roll.
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[ { "section_header": "Leader (1953–1964) | Domestic policies | Political reform", "text": "This rarely happened; there were no major political trials under Khrushchev, and at most several hundred political prosecutions overall." }, { "section_header": "Leader (1953–1964) | Domestic policies | Consolidation of power; Secret Speech", "text": "After the demotion of Malenkov, Khrushchev and Molotov initially worked together well, and the longtime foreign minister even proposed that Khrushchev, not Bulganin, replace Malenkov as premier." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "World War II | War against Germany", "text": "Tompson suggests that these favorable mentions indicate that military officers held Khrushchev in high regard." }, { "section_header": "Leader (1953–1964) | Domestic policies | Political reform", "text": "This rarely happened; there were no major political trials under Khrushchev, and at most several hundred political prosecutions overall." }, { "section_header": "Leader (1953–1964) | Domestic policies | Political reform", "text": "Instead, other sanctions were imposed on Soviet dissidents, including loss of job or university position, or expulsion from the Party." }, { "section_header": "Party official | Kaganovich protégé", "text": "Khrushchev never completed his studies there, but his career in the Party flourished." }, { "section_header": "Rise to power | Return to Ukraine", "text": "In his memoirs, Khrushchev indicates he had pneumonia; some biographers have theorized that Khrushchev's illness was entirely political, out of fear that his loss of position was the first step towards downfall and demise." }, { "section_header": "Leader (1953–1964) | Domestic policies | Political reform", "text": "As there were limited numbers of Central Committee seats from each oblast, the division set up the possibility of rivalry for office between factions, and, according to Medvedev, had the potential for beginning a two-party system." }, { "section_header": "Leader (1953–1964) | Domestic policies | Liberalization and the arts", "text": "In 1957, Khrushchev authorized the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students to be held in Moscow that summer." }, { "section_header": "Leader (1953–1964) | Domestic policies | Political reform", "text": "According to author Roy Medvedev, who wrote an early analysis of Khrushchev's years in power, \"political terror as an everyday method of government was replaced under Khrushchev by administrative means of repression\"." }, { "section_header": "Party official | Involvement in purges", "text": "Stalin's office records show meetings at which Khrushchev was present as early as 1932." }, { "section_header": "Leader (1953–1964) | Domestic policies | Political reform", "text": "Under the reforms, no prosecution for a political crime could be brought even in the regular courts unless approved by the local Party committee." }, { "section_header": "Leader (1953–1964) | Domestic policies | Consolidation of power; Secret Speech", "text": "After the demotion of Malenkov, Khrushchev and Molotov initially worked together well, and the longtime foreign minister even proposed that Khrushchev, not Bulganin, replace Malenkov as premier." } ]
Khrushchev never held a political office position.
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[ { "section_header": "Performance history", "text": "The earliest performance of which a record has survived was held at the court of King James in the spring of 1605, followed by a second performance a few days later, but there is no record of any further performances in the 17th century." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599." }, { "section_header": "Performance history", "text": "The earliest performance of which a record has survived was held at the court of King James in the spring of 1605, followed by a second performance a few days later, but there is no record of any further performances in the 17th century." }, { "section_header": "Adaptations and cultural references | Cultural references", "text": "David Henry Wilson's play Shylock's Revenge, was first produced at the University of Hamburg in 1989, and follows the events in The Merchant of Venice." }, { "section_header": "Adaptations and cultural references | Cultural references", "text": "parodies Shylock's tirade. Christopher Moore combines The Merchant of Venice and Othello in his 2014 comic novel The Serpent of Venice, in which he makes Portia (from The Merchant of Venice) and Desdemona (from Othello) sisters." }, { "section_header": "Date and text", "text": "The date of composition of The Merchant of Venice is believed to be between 1596 and 1598." }, { "section_header": "Adaptations and cultural references | Film, TV and radio version", "text": "2002 – The Maori Merchant of Venice, directed by Don Selwyn." }, { "section_header": "Adaptations and cultural references | Film, TV and radio version", "text": "2018 – The Merchant of Venice, adapted and directed by Emma Harding." }, { "section_header": "Adaptations and cultural references | Operas", "text": "The Merchant of Venice premiered at the Bregenz Festival on 18 July 2013." }, { "section_header": "Plot summary", "text": "At Venice, Antonio's ships are reported lost at sea, so the merchant cannot repay the bond." } ]
According to written records, The Merchant of Venice was first enacted in front of Queen Mary.
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[ { "section_header": "Career | \"B\" pictures", "text": "It co starred Ronald Reagan, Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris and Eddie Albert." }, { "section_header": "Career | \"B\" pictures", "text": "At Warners she had the lead in Brother Rat (1938), a \"B\" which proved popular." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Jane Wyman (WY-MEN; born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and philanthropist." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Marriages | Ronald Reagan", "text": "Wyman, who was a registered Republican, stated that their break-up was due to a difference in politics (Ronald Reagan was still a Democrat at the time)." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Marriages | Ronald Reagan", "text": "This made Wyman the first former wife of an American president who was still living at the time that her former husband became president." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Marriages | Ronald Reagan", "text": "In 1981, Ronald Reagan became the first divorcé to assume the nation's highest office." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Marriages | Ronald Reagan", "text": "In 1938, Wyman co-starred with Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Marriages | Ronald Reagan", "text": "She and Reagan had three children; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941–2001), their adopted son Michael Edward Reagan (born March 18, 1945), and Christine Reagan (born prematurely on June 26, 1947, and died later the same day)." }, { "section_header": "Career | Semi-retirement | Falcon Crest", "text": "After Falcon Crest, Wyman acted only once more, playing Jane Seymour's screen mother in a 1993 episode of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman." }, { "section_header": "Career | Universal melodramas and television", "text": "I kept telling myself 'I didn't want to play Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.\" So she went into semi retirement around 1962." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Marriages | Ernest Wyman", "text": "Wyman recorded her name as 'Jane Fulks' on the wedding certificate." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Marriages | Frederick Karger", "text": "Following her divorce from Reagan, Wyman married German-American Hollywood music director and composer Frederick M. \"Fred\" Karger (1916–1979) on November 1, 1952, at El Montecito Presbyterian Church, Santa Barbara." }, { "section_header": "Career | \"B\" pictures", "text": "It co starred Ronald Reagan, Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris and Eddie Albert." }, { "section_header": "Career | \"B\" pictures", "text": "At Warners she had the lead in Brother Rat (1938), a \"B\" which proved popular." } ]
American actress Jane Wyman played along side Ronald Reagan.
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Jane Wyman
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It concerns a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on the widespread distrust and dislike of Jews in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan, Connecticut and Darien, Connecticut." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Reception and box-office", "text": "In recognition for producing Gentleman's Agreement, the Hollywood chapter of" }, { "section_header": "Reception and box-office", "text": ", Gentleman's Agreement was one of Fox's highest-grossing movies of 1947." }, { "section_header": "Reception and box-office", "text": "Gentleman's Agreement received a generally favorable reception from influential New York Times critic Bosley Crowther." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling 1947 novel of the same name." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It concerns a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on the widespread distrust and dislike of Jews in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan, Connecticut and Darien, Connecticut." } ]
Gentleman's Agreement is about an undercover reporter who investigates anti-Semitism.
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[ { "section_header": "Death", "text": "Wright died of a lung ailment on October 3, 1895 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, He is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Cincinnati | Seventh-Inning Stretch Report", "text": "In 1869 Wright became the first to make written mention of the Seventh-inning stretch in a game he watched." }, { "section_header": "Cincinnati", "text": "As it turned out, the Association also passed from the scene." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Born in Sheffield, England, he was the eldest of five children of professional cricketer Samuel Wright and his wife, Annie Tone Wright." }, { "section_header": "After Boston | Providence", "text": "While in Providence, Wright instituted the concept of a farm team." }, { "section_header": "Death", "text": "Wright was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953." }, { "section_header": "Cincinnati", "text": "By now, Wright was 31, probably past his athletic prime." }, { "section_header": "After Boston | Philadelphia", "text": "In 1884, Wright was brought in to manage the new Philadelphia team." }, { "section_header": "After Boston | Providence", "text": "The team dropped to third the following year, and Wright moved on again." }, { "section_header": "After Boston | Philadelphia", "text": "Under Wright, they improved enough to finish in sixth place in 1884." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "During the winter of 1864/65, the Wrights played the curious game of \"ice base ball\"." }, { "section_header": "Death", "text": "Wright died of a lung ailment on October 3, 1895 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, He is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania." } ]
Wright passed away from assassination in 1899.
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[ { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "Gladstone was popularly known in his later years as the \"Grand Old Man\" or \"G.O.M.\"." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Gladstone was known affectionately by his supporters as \"The People's William\" or the \"G.O.M.\" (\"Grand Old Man\", or, to political rivals \"God's Only Mistake\")." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "Gladstone was popularly known in his later years as the \"Grand Old Man\" or \"G.O.M.\"." }, { "section_header": "Marriage and family", "text": "Herbert John Gladstone MP (7 January 1854 – 6 March 1930) ; he married Dorothy Paget on 2 November 1901.Gladstone's eldest son William (known as \"Willy\" to distinguish him from his father), and youngest, Herbert, both became Members of Parliament." }, { "section_header": "Works", "text": "Gladstone, William Ewart (1858)." }, { "section_header": "Works", "text": "Gladstone, William Ewart (1868)." }, { "section_header": "Works", "text": "Gladstone, William Ewart (1870)." }, { "section_header": "Works", "text": "Gladstone, William Ewart (1890)." }, { "section_header": "Works", "text": "Gladstone, William Ewart (1890)." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Gladstone's own political doctrine—which emphasised equality of opportunity and opposition to trade protectionism—came to be known as Gladstonian liberalism." }, { "section_header": "Final years (1894–1898)", "text": "Gladstone met Queen Victoria, and she shook hands with him for (to his recollection) the first time in the 50 years he had known her." } ]
William was also known as "G.O.M.".
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Written in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway in Ibsen's lifetime—it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays." }, { "section_header": "The Peer Gynt Festival", "text": "The play is one of the most popular theater productions in Norway, attracting more than 12,000 people every summer." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Adaptations", "text": "In 1951, North Carolinian playwright Paul Green published an American version of the Norwegian play." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Written in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway in Ibsen's lifetime—it is one of the most widely performed Norwegian plays." }, { "section_header": "Adaptations", "text": "In 1998, playwright Romulus Linney directed his adaptation of the play, entitled Gint, at the Theatre for the New City in New York." }, { "section_header": "Adaptations", "text": "Spoken excerpts from the play, in Norwegian, are also included." }, { "section_header": "Background", "text": "The dramatist, about this time, was relieved of financial worry by two money grants, one from the Norwegian government and the other from the Scientific Society of Trondhjem." }, { "section_header": "The Peer Gynt Festival", "text": "The festival is one of Norway's largest cultural festivals, and is recognized by the Norwegian Government as a leading institution of presenting culture in nature." }, { "section_header": "The Peer Gynt Festival", "text": "The play is one of the most popular theater productions in Norway, attracting more than 12,000 people every summer." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Peer Gynt (, Norwegian: [ˈpeːr ˈɡʏnt]) is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen published in 1867." }, { "section_header": "Language", "text": "Due to its basis in Norwegian folktales, the play uses a few Norwegianisms in its vocabulary and idiom, but is otherwise written in a language identical to standard Danish." }, { "section_header": "Analysis", "text": "Chronicling Peer's journey from the Norwegian mountains to the North African desert, the cinematic script blends poetry with social satire, and realistic scenes with surreal ones." } ]
It is one of the most commended plays from a Norwegian playwright.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The play belongs to the subgenre of the \"humours comedy,\" in which each major character is dominated by an over-riding humour or obsession." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The play belongs to the subgenre of the \"humours comedy,\" in which each major character is dominated by an over-riding humour or obsession." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "Critics of the nineteenth century tended to credit Jonson with the introduction of \"humour\" comedy into English literature." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "It is now well known, not only that George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth preceded Jonson's play by a year or more, but that Jonson himself was not especially intrigued by the trope of \"humours.\" Since only Kitely is dominated by a \"humour\" as Jonson defined it in Every Man Out of His Humour, it seems more likely that Jonson was using a contemporary taste aroused by Chapman to draw interest to his play, which became his first indisputable hit. Jonson revised the play for the 1616 folio, where it was the first play presented." }, { "section_header": "Plot and style", "text": "\" The play follows out this implicit rejection of the romantic comedy of his peers." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "After Shakespeare, the main players are given in the following order: Richard Burbage, Augustine Phillips, John Heminges, Henry Condell, Thomas Pope, William Sly, Christopher Beeston, William Kempe, and John Duke. (Kempe would leave the company the next year, for his famous morris dance from London to Norwich.) In 1599, Jonson wrote what would prove to be a much less popular sequel, Every Man out of His Humour." }, { "section_header": "Plot and style", "text": "These types are clearly slightly Anglicized versions of ancient types of Greek New Comedy, namely the senex, the son, and the slave." }, { "section_header": "Performance and publication", "text": "Every Man In was re-registered ten days later, on 14 August 1600, by the booksellers Cuthbert Burby and Walter Burre; the first quarto was published in 1601, with Burre's name on the title page." }, { "section_header": "Plot and style", "text": "He promises to present \"deeds, and language, such as men do use:/ And persons, such as comedy would choose,/ When she would show an Image of the times,/ And sport with human follies, not with crimes." }, { "section_header": "Plot and style", "text": "The play works through a series of complications which culminate when the justice, Clement, hears and decides all of the characters' various grievances, exposing each of them as based in humour, misperception, or deceit." } ]
Every Man In His Humour is categorized as a comedy.
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "She was adopted at one and a half years of age by Noreen (Nickelson) and Vernon McDormand and renamed Frances Louise McDormand." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "McDormand was born Cynthia Ann Smith in Gibson City, Illinois." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Frances Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith, June 23, 1957) is an American actress." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "She was adopted at one and a half years of age by Noreen (Nickelson) and Vernon McDormand and renamed Frances Louise McDormand." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "In 1995, they adopted a son from Paraguay, Pedro McDormand Coen, when he was six months old." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Her adoptive mother was a nurse and receptionist while her adoptive father was a Disciples of Christ pastor; both were originally from Canada." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "She has a sister, Dorothy A. \"Dot\" McDormand, who is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister and chaplain, as well as another sibling, both of whom were adopted by the McDormands, who had no biological children." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Because her father specialized in restoring congregations, he frequently moved their family, and they lived in several small towns in Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, before settling in Monessen, Pennsylvania, where McDormand graduated from Monessen High School in 1975." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "McDormand was educated at Bethany College and Yale University." }, { "section_header": "Career", "text": "In 2019, McDormand played God in Good Omens." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "McDormand has been married to director Joel Coen since 1984." } ]
Frances McDormand was born in Illinois and was adopted.
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Frances McDormand
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Lester Bowles Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, prime minister, and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Diplomat, public servant", "text": "Pearson nearly became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1946, but he was vetoed by the Soviet Union." }, { "section_header": "Early life, family, and education | Sporting interests", "text": "Pearson also excelled in baseball and lacrosse as a youth." }, { "section_header": "Diplomat, public servant", "text": "Promoted minister plenipotentiary in 1944, he became the second Canadian Ambassador to the United States on 1 January 1945." }, { "section_header": "Honours and awards | Sports", "text": "Pearson was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983." }, { "section_header": "Honours and awards | Sports", "text": "The award for the best National Hockey League player as voted by members of the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) was known as the Lester B. Pearson Award from its inception in 1971 to 2010, when its name was changed to the Ted Lindsay Award to honour one of the union's pioneers." }, { "section_header": "Prime Minister (1963–1968)", "text": "Pearson also oversaw Canada's centennial celebrations in 1967 before retiring." }, { "section_header": "Early life, family, and education | Sporting interests", "text": "His baseball talents as an infielder were strong enough for a summer of semi-pro play with the Guelph Maple Leafs of the Ontario Intercounty Baseball League." }, { "section_header": "Honours and awards | Sports", "text": "The Pearson Cup was a baseball competition between the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos." }, { "section_header": "Party leadership", "text": "As a consequence, Diefenbaker now had to preside over a minority government." }, { "section_header": "Prime Minister (1963–1968)", "text": "Before Pearson had finished his speech, he was summoned to Camp David, Maryland, to meet with Johnson the next day." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Lester Bowles Pearson (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, prime minister, and diplomat, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis." } ]
Pearson was a minor baseball player before he became a diplomat.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1919." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Influence on European composers", "text": "In 1902 the American cakewalk was very popular in Paris and Satie two years later wrote two rags, La Diva de l'empire and Piccadilly." }, { "section_header": "Related forms and styles", "text": "Ragtime pieces came in a number of different styles during the years of its popularity and appeared under a number of different descriptive names." }, { "section_header": "History | The heyday of ragtime", "text": "The new rhythms of ragtime changed the world of dance bands and led to new dance steps, popularized by the show-dancers Vernon and Irene Castle during the 1910s." }, { "section_header": "Related forms and styles", "text": "Fox-trots contain a dotted-note rhythm different from that of ragtime, but which nonetheless was incorporated into many late rags." }, { "section_header": "Historical context", "text": "A folk ragtime tradition also existed before and during the period of classical ragtime (a designation largely created by Scott Joplin's publisher John Stillwell Stark), manifesting itself mostly through string bands, banjo and mandolin clubs (which experienced a burst of popularity during the early 20th century) and the like." }, { "section_header": "Historical context", "text": "Ragtime originated in African American music in the late 19th century and descended from the jigs and march music played by African American bands, referred to as \"jig piano\" or \"piano thumping\"." }, { "section_header": "History | The heyday of ragtime", "text": "James R. Europe's 369th Regiment band generated great enthusiasm during its 1918 tour of France." }, { "section_header": "Historical context", "text": "Some artists, such as Jelly Roll Morton, were present and performed both ragtime and jazz styles during the period the two styles overlapped." }, { "section_header": "History | The heyday of ragtime", "text": "The growth of dance orchestras in popular entertainment was an outgrowth of ragtime and continued into the 1920s." }, { "section_header": "History | The heyday of ragtime", "text": "Ragtime became the first African-American music to have an impact on mainstream popular culture." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1919." } ]
Ragtime was very popular during the late 1800s.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It was the first transportation system between the East Coast of the United States and the western interior that did not require portage." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Proposals and logistics | Engineering requirements", "text": "The stonework required hundreds of German masons, who later built many of New York's buildings." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It was the first transportation system between the East Coast of the United States and the western interior that did not require portage." }, { "section_header": "Construction", "text": "A third wheel, slightly smaller than the others, was fixed to the center of the axle." }, { "section_header": "Construction", "text": "Geddes had only used a surveying instrument for a few hours before his work on the Canal." }, { "section_header": "20th century | New York State Canal System", "text": "While part of the Thruway, the canal system was operated using money generated by Thruway tolls." }, { "section_header": "Impact", "text": "Because so many immigrants traveled on the canal, many genealogists have sought copies of canal passenger lists." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "In 2000, the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America." }, { "section_header": "Route", "text": "Before reaching Rochester, the canal uses a series of natural ridges to cross the deep valley of Irondequoit Creek." }, { "section_header": "Impact", "text": "Canal travel was, for many, an opportunity to take in the sublime and commune with nature." }, { "section_header": "Old Erie Canal", "text": "Camillus Erie Canal Park preserves a 7-mile (11 km) stretch and has restored Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct, built in 1841 as part of the First Enlargement of the canal." } ]
Many other transport system were built before the canal.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Hitachi, Ltd. (株式会社日立製作所, Kabushiki gaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho, lit. \" Hitachi Works Corporation\") (Japanese pronunciation: [çi̥taꜜtɕi]) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Subsidiaries | Hitachi Vantara", "text": "Hitachi Consulting, the international management and technology consulting subsidiary with headquarters in Dallas, Texas, was integrated with Hitachi Vantara in 2019." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Hitachi, Ltd. (株式会社日立製作所, Kabushiki gaisha Hitachi Seisaku-sho, lit. \" Hitachi Works Corporation\") (Japanese pronunciation: [çi̥taꜜtɕi]) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "Odaira moved headquarters to Tokyo in 1918." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "On March 14, 2018, Zoomdata announced its partnership with Hitachi INS Software to help develop big data analytics market in Japan." }, { "section_header": "Subsidiaries | Hitachi Vantara | Hitachi Rail", "text": "In July 2020, Hitachi signed an exclusive agreement with Hyperdrive, a UK-based lithium-ion battery company, to bring battery-powered trains to the country." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "In October 2012, Hitachi agreed to acquire the United Kingdom-based nuclear energy company Horizon Nuclear Power, which plans to construct up to six nuclear power plants in the UK, from E.ON and RWE for £700 million." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Hitachi is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX indices." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "The company began as an in-house venture of Fusanosuke Kuhara's mining company in Hitachi, Ibaraki." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (Hitachi Gurūpu) and formed part of the Nissan zaibatsu and later DKB Group of companies before DKB merged into the Mizuho Financial Group." }, { "section_header": "Subsidiaries | Hitachi Vantara | Hitachi Rail", "text": "The purchase was completed later that year, at which point the company was renamed as Hitachi Rail Italy." } ]
Hitachi is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and is a multinational company based in Tokyo.
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Hitachi
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Treaty of Brest in Russia) was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Terms of the treaty | Signing", "text": "The treaty marked Russia's final withdrawal from World War I as an enemy of her co-signatories, on severe terms." }, { "section_header": "Background", "text": "The Decree called \"upon all the belligerent nations and their governments to start immediate negotiations for peace\" and proposed an immediate withdrawal of Russia from World War I. Leon Trotsky was appointed Commissar of Foreign Affairs in the new Bolshevik government." }, { "section_header": "Background", "text": "By 1917, Germany and Imperial Russia were stuck in a stalemate on the Eastern Front of World War I and the Russian economy had nearly collapsed under the strain of the war effort." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (also known as the Treaty of Brest in Russia) was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I." }, { "section_header": "Lasting effects", "text": "In the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that ended World War I, one clause abrogated the Brest-Litovsk treaty." }, { "section_header": "Background", "text": "Upon his arrival in Petrograd, Lenin proclaimed his April Theses, which included a call for turning all political power over to workers' and soldiers' soviets (councils) and an immediate withdrawal of Russia from the war." }, { "section_header": "Terms of the treaty | Territorial cessions in the Caucasus", "text": "At the insistence of Talaat Pasha, the treaty declared that the territory Russia took from the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), specifically Ardahan, Kars, and Batumi, were to be returned." }, { "section_header": "Background", "text": "The Soviet started to form its own paramilitary power, the Red Guards, in March 1917.The continuing war led the German Government to agree to a suggestion that they should favor the opposition Communist Party (Bolsheviks), who were proponents of Russia's withdrawal from the war." }, { "section_header": "Lasting effects", "text": "For the Western Allied Powers, the terms that Germany had imposed on Russia were interpreted as a warning of what to expect if the Central Powers won the war." }, { "section_header": "Peace negotiations", "text": "Lenin told the Central Committee that \"you must sign this shameful peace in order to save the world revolution\"." } ]
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk resulted in Russia withdrawing from World War I.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Maiden voyage | Collecting passengers", "text": "She headed for the French port of Cherbourg, a journey of 77 nautical miles (89 mi; 143 km)." }, { "section_header": "Replicas", "text": "The RMS Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic." }, { "section_header": "Features | Passenger facilities", "text": "For an extra cost, first-class passengers could enjoy the finest French haute cuisine in the most luxurious of surroundings." }, { "section_header": "Building and preparing the ship | Sea trials", "text": "An hour later, Titanic departed Belfast to head to Southampton, a voyage of about 570 nautical miles (660 mi; 1,060 km)." }, { "section_header": "Maiden voyage | Collecting passengers", "text": "After making it safely through the complex tides and channels of Southampton Water and the Solent, Titanic disembarked the Southampton pilot at the Nab Lightship and headed out into the English Channel." }, { "section_header": "Aftermath of sinking | Arrival of Carpathia in New York", "text": "Many of Titanic's surviving passengers did not linger in New York but headed onwards immediately to relatives' homes." }, { "section_header": "Features | Mail and cargo", "text": "au Bain by French artist Merry-Joseph Blondel." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three Olympic-class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line." }, { "section_header": "Features | Passenger facilities", "text": "A Café Parisien decorated in the style of a French sidewalk café, complete with ivy covered trellises and wicker furniture, was run as an annex to the restaurant." }, { "section_header": "Maiden voyage | Collecting passengers", "text": "Because Cherbourg lacked docking facilities for a ship the size of Titanic, tenders had to be used to transfer passengers from shore to ship." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner operated by the White Star Line that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912, after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City." } ]
The RMS Titanic was a French passenger ship that was headed to NYC.
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Technology
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Zynga Inc. is an American social game developer running social video game services and founded in April 2007 with headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Reception and controversies | Other legal issues", "text": "In August 2010, the San Francisco city attorney's office complained about the firm's guerrilla marketing campaign for its Mafia Wars game that pasted fake money on city sidewalks, calling it \"vandalism\"." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "Pincus remained as Zynga's chairman and chief product officer." }, { "section_header": "Reception and controversies | Other legal issues", "text": "Davis Elen Advertising took responsibility for the ad campaign and agreed to pay the city of San Francisco $45,000 in fines for illegal marketing tactics." }, { "section_header": "Corporate culture", "text": "Although a San Francisco employment lawyer said in The Wall Street Journal that Zynga's actions would violate the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, no court has ruled on the issue since it has been rare for companies to demand non-vested stock as a condition of continued employment." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Zynga Inc. is an American social game developer running social video game services and founded in April 2007 with headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States." }, { "section_header": "Corporate culture", "text": "The company also offers free, on-site, gym and fitness classes, free breakfast and lunch each day, a shuttle service to the Bay Area Rapid Transit and CalTrain in San Francisco." }, { "section_header": "Corporate culture", "text": "At its San Francisco headquarters, Zynga Founder Pincus's goal was to create a \"playful gaming environment\" that evokes a \"fantasy land.\" Zynga employees, also referred to as \"Zyngites\", enjoy perks such as free gourmet meals, access to an in-house nutritionist, and personal training." }, { "section_header": "Owned studios | Headquarters", "text": "In the fall of 2010, Zynga signed a rental agreement for 270,000 square feet (25,000 m2) of office space at the site of former Sega offices." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "Less than one year later the Orlando office closed." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "In July 2014, Zynga signed a lease for office space in Maitland, Florida." } ]
Zynga's main office is in San Francisco.
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[ { "section_header": "History | Origin", "text": "The design of the Eiffel Tower is attributed to Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, two senior engineers working for the Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Replicas", "text": "Tokyo Tower in Japan, built as a communications tower in 1958, was also inspired by the Eiffel Tower." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower." }, { "section_header": "History | Origin", "text": "Eiffel openly acknowledged that inspiration for a tower came from the Latting Observatory built in New York City in 1853." }, { "section_header": "Replicas", "text": "The mayor of Blackpool, Sir John Bickerstaffe, was so impressed on seeing the Eiffel Tower at the 1889 exposition that he commissioned a similar tower to be built in his town." }, { "section_header": "Design | Wind considerations", "text": "In an interview with the newspaper Le Temps published on 14 February 1887, Eiffel said: Is it not true that the very conditions which give strength also conform to the hidden rules of harmony? …" }, { "section_header": "History | Artists' protest", "text": "A petition called \"Artists against the Eiffel Tower\" was sent to the Minister of Works and Commissioner for the Exposition, Adolphe Alphand, and it was published by Le Temps on 14 February 1887: We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection … of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower …" }, { "section_header": "History | Origin", "text": "After some debate about the exact location of the tower, a contract was signed on 8 January 1887." }, { "section_header": "Tourism | Restaurants", "text": "Additionally, there is a champagne bar at the top of the Eiffel Tower." }, { "section_header": "History | Construction", "text": "This renewed concerns about the structural integrity of the tower, and sensational headlines such as \"Eiffel Suicide!\" and \"Gustave Eiffel Has Gone Mad" }, { "section_header": "Design | Maintenance", "text": "The tower has been completely repainted at least 19 times since it was built." }, { "section_header": "History | Origin", "text": "The design of the Eiffel Tower is attributed to Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nouguier, two senior engineers working for the Compagnie des Établissements Eiffel." } ]
Eiffel Tower was built by Pierre Eiffel in 1887.
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[ { "section_header": "Specific vectors in a vector space", "text": "Zero vector (sometimes called null vector), the additive identity in a vector space." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Specific vectors in a vector space", "text": "In a normed vector space, it is the unique vector of norm zero." }, { "section_header": "Specific vectors in a vector space", "text": "In a Euclidean vector space, it is the unique vector of length zero." }, { "section_header": "Specific vectors in a vector space", "text": "Zero vector (sometimes called null vector), the additive identity in a vector space." }, { "section_header": "Specific vectors in a vector space", "text": "Unit vector, a vector in a normed vector space whose norm is 1, or a Euclidean vector of length one. Isotropic vector or null vector, in a vector space with a quadratic form, a non-zero vector for which the form is zero." }, { "section_header": "Vectors in algebras", "text": "Vector quaternion, a quaternion with a zero real part Multivector or p-vector, an element of the exterior algebra of a vector space. Spinors, also called spin vectors have been introduced for extending the notion of rotation vector." }, { "section_header": "Vectors in specific vector spaces", "text": "Displacement vectors belong to the vector space of translations." }, { "section_header": "Specific vectors in a vector space", "text": "Basis vector, an element of a given basis of a vector space." }, { "section_header": "Vectors in specific vector spaces", "text": "Velocity vector, the derivative, with respect to time, of the position vector." }, { "section_header": "Vectors in specific vector spaces", "text": "Four-vector, in the theory of relativity, a vector in a four-dimensional real vector space called Minkowski space" }, { "section_header": "Vectors in specific vector spaces", "text": "The column vectors with a fixed number of rows form a vector space." } ]
There is not a zero Vector.
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Kim Kardashian was born on October 21, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Robert and Kris (née Houghton)." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Kim Kardashian was born on October 21, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Robert and Kris (née Houghton)." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Kimberly Kardashian West (née Kimberly Noel Kardashian; born October 21, 1980) is an American media personality, socialite, model, businesswoman, and actress." }, { "section_header": "Career | Breakthrough with reality television (2006–2009)", "text": "In one of the episodes, Kim discussed an offer from Playboy to appear nude in the magazine." }, { "section_header": "Career | Early endorsements (2010–2013)", "text": "When asked if an album was in the works, Kardashian replied, \"There's no album in the works or anything—just one song we did for Kourtney and Kim" }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Health and pregnancies", "text": "Kardashian and husband Kanye West have four children: daughter North (born June 15, 2013), son Saint (born December 5, 2015), daughter Chicago (born January 15, 2018), and son Psalm (born May 9, 2019).Kardashian has been open about her difficult pregnancies." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Health and pregnancies", "text": "The couple's third and fourth child were born via surrogacy." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Religion", "text": "In October 2019, Kim baptized her three younger children at the baptistery in the Etchmiadzin Cathedral complex, Armenia's mother church." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "Celebrity list, Kim Kardashian West: Selfish written by Kim Kardashian." }, { "section_header": "Bibliography", "text": "Kardashian, Kim; Kardashian, Kourtney; Kardashian, Khloé (2010)." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Paris robbery", "text": "Production resumed on Keeping Up with the Kardashians on October 26." } ]
Kim Kardashian was born on October 13, 1980 which was a Friday the 13th.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger, partially published in serial form in 1945–1946 and as a novel in 1951." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Attempted adaptations | In film", "text": "When The Catcher in the Rye was first released, many offers were made to adapt it for the screen, including one from Samuel Goldwyn, producer of My Foolish Heart." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger, partially published in serial form in 1945–1946 and as a novel in 1951." }, { "section_header": "Reception", "text": "\" In an appraisal of The Catcher in the Rye written after the death of J.D. Salinger, Jeff Pruchnic says the novel has retained its appeal for many generations." }, { "section_header": "Reception", "text": "In their biography of Salinger, David Shields and Shane Salerno argue that: \"The Catcher in the Rye can best be understood as a disguised war novel.\" Salinger witnessed the horrors of World War II, but rather than writing a combat novel, Salinger, according to Shields and Salerno, \"took the trauma of war and embedded it within what looked to the naked eye like a coming-of-age novel.\" The Catcher in the Rye has been consistently listed as one of the best novels of the twentieth century." }, { "section_header": "Interpretations", "text": "This \"catcher in the rye\" is an analogy for Holden, who admires in children" }, { "section_header": "Attempted adaptations | In film", "text": "I never saw him. That was J.D. Salinger and that was Catcher in the Rye." }, { "section_header": "Reception", "text": "Bill Gates said that The Catcher in the Rye is one of his favorite books." }, { "section_header": "Censorship and use in schools", "text": "Shelley Keller-Gage, a high school teacher who faced objections after assigning the novel in her class, noted that \"the challengers are being just like Holden... They are trying to be catchers in the rye.\" A Streisand effect has been that this incident caused people to put themselves on the waiting list to borrow the novel, when there was no waiting list before." }, { "section_header": "Attempted adaptations | In film", "text": "It pleasures me no end, though, I might quickly add, to know that I won't have to see the results of the transaction.\" Salinger also wrote that he believed his novel was not suitable for film treatment, and that translating Holden Caulfield's first-person narrative into voice-over and dialogue would be contrived." }, { "section_header": "Attempted adaptations | In film", "text": "In 2003, the BBC television program The Big Read featured The Catcher in the Rye, interspersing discussions of the novel with \"a series of short films that featured an actor playing J. D. Salinger's adolescent antihero, Holden Caulfield." } ]
The Catcher in the Rye was not first printed as a novel.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Alejandro \"Alex\" Pompez (May 3, 1890 – March 14, 1974) was an American executive in Negro league baseball who owned the Cuban Stars (East) and New York Cubans franchises from 1916 to 1950." }, { "section_header": "Biography", "text": "Pompez was born on May 3, 1890, in Key West, Florida, the oldest of four children born to Cuban immigrants Jose and Loretta Pompez." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Biography", "text": "Alex Pompez owned the Cuban Stars of the Eastern Colored League between 1923 and 1928 and the New York Cubans of the Negro National League from 1935 to 1951." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Alejandro \"Alex\" Pompez (May 3, 1890 – March 14, 1974) was an American executive in Negro league baseball who owned the Cuban Stars (East) and New York Cubans franchises from 1916 to 1950." }, { "section_header": "Biography", "text": "Pompez was born on May 3, 1890, in Key West, Florida, the oldest of four children born to Cuban immigrants Jose and Loretta Pompez." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Outside baseball and numbers (illegal gambling), he owned and operated a cigar shop in downtown Manhattan." }, { "section_header": "Biography", "text": "Jose Pompez was on the board of directors for the Key West chapter of the Cuban Revolutionary Party; he was elected to the Florida House of Representatives as a Republican in 1892." }, { "section_header": "Biography", "text": "In 1948, sensing that baseball's integration would change the Negro leagues, Pompez arranged for the New York Cubans to become a minor league affiliate of the New York Giants." }, { "section_header": "Biography", "text": "His father was a lawyer and cigar manufacturer who had connections to Cuban author and dissident Jose Marti." }, { "section_header": "Biography", "text": "Pompez scouted Latin America for the Giants, and they signed several players through Pompez, including Camilo Pascual, Tony Oliva and Orlando Cepeda." }, { "section_header": "Biography", "text": "Pompez decided to return to the U.S. as a state witness in the investigation." }, { "section_header": "Biography", "text": "Several owners in the Negro National League, including Pompez, were numbers bankers." } ]
Pompez was an immigrant who owned the Cuban Stars.
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Frank James Cooper was born in Helena, Montana, on May 7, 1901, the youngest of two sons of English parents Alice (née Brazier; 1873–1967) and Charles Henry Cooper (1865–1946)." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Career assessment and legacy", "text": "Worked for Gary Cooper.\" Gary Cooper is referenced several times in the critically acclaimed television series The Sopranos, with protagonist Tony Soprano asking \"What ever happened to Gary Cooper?" }, { "section_header": "Acting style and reputation", "text": "I really fell in love with Gary Cooper, and his stuff." }, { "section_header": "Acting style and reputation", "text": "High Noon's later Gary Cooper, I liked that." }, { "section_header": "Career | Silent films, 1925–28", "text": "Knowing that other actors were using the name \"Frank Cooper\", Collins suggested he change his first name to \"Gary\" after her hometown of Gary, Indiana." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "He received his confirmation in the Church of England at the Church of All Saints in Houghton Regis on December 3, 1911." }, { "section_header": "Career | Hollywood stardom, 1929–35", "text": "In the film, Cooper plays an alcoholic novelist who retreats to his family's New England farm where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful Polish neighbor." }, { "section_header": "Career | Hollywood stardom, 1929–35", "text": "Cooper changed his name legally to \"Gary Cooper\" in August 1933." }, { "section_header": "Career | American folk hero, 1936–43 | From Mr. Deeds to The Real Glory, 1936–1939", "text": "Our Mr. Deeds had to symbolize uncorruptibility, and in my mind Gary Cooper was that symbol." }, { "section_header": "Acting style and reputation", "text": ", we see the future of screen acting in the form of Gary Cooper." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Alice wanted her sons to have an English education, so she took them back to England in 1909 to enroll them in Dunstable Grammar School in Dunstable, Bedfordshire." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Frank James Cooper was born in Helena, Montana, on May 7, 1901, the youngest of two sons of English parents Alice (née Brazier; 1873–1967) and Charles Henry Cooper (1865–1946)." } ]
Gary Cooper had roots from England.
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[ { "section_header": "Philanthropy | Other charity work", "text": "Gomez was involved in the UR Votes Count campaign which encouraged teenagers to learn more about 2008 presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Life and career | 1992–2006: Early life and career beginnings", "text": "I learned everything from Barney.\" Gomez appeared in thirteen episodes of the show between 2002 and 2004, though the show's producers released her as she was getting \"too old\" for the series." }, { "section_header": "Philanthropy | Other charity work", "text": "Gomez was involved in the UR Votes Count campaign which encouraged teenagers to learn more about 2008 presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 2012–2015: Stars Dance and films", "text": "In January 2014, it was reported that Gomez had spent two weeks at Dawn at The Meadows, which is a treatment center in Wickenburg, Arizona that specializes in treating addiction and trauma in young people." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 2007–2012: Breakthrough with Disney and Selena Gomez & the Scene", "text": "To prepare for the role, Gomez learned how to play polo and also took two weeks of vocal training to learn two different British accents." }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Religious beliefs", "text": "She stated, \"He actually used me as an example for other kids." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 2007–2012: Breakthrough with Disney and Selena Gomez & the Scene", "text": "The name of the band is an \"ironic jab\" at the people who called Gomez a \"wannabe scene\"." }, { "section_header": "Philanthropy | UNICEF", "text": "I had people on my tour asking me where IS Ghana, and they Googled it [...]" }, { "section_header": "Personal life | Relationships", "text": "Gomez dated Nick Jonas in 2008." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 1992–2006: Early life and career beginnings", "text": "Gomez first gained an interest in pursuing a career in the entertainment industry watching her mother prepare for stage productions." }, { "section_header": "Life and career | 2015–2016: Revival and personal struggles", "text": "Gomez had a supporting role in the comedy film Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising; she played the president of a Phi Lambda sorority." } ]
Gomez used her fame as a platform to get young people interested in learning about the 2008 election for president.
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[ { "section_header": "Other brand ventures | Film", "text": "Considered a cult film, many publications described it as a brilliant film of the parody genre, that mocks both the star system and clichés of the cinema, while giving many winks to popular culture of the time." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Career records and achievements", "text": "Spiceworld: The Movie topped the UK video charts on its first week of release, selling over 55,000 copies on its first day in stores and 270,000 copies in the first week." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "Parodies of the Spice Girls have also appeared in major advertising campaigns." }, { "section_header": "Other brand ventures | Film", "text": "Released in December 1997, Spiceworld: The Movie proved to be a hit at the box office, breaking the record for the highest-ever weekend debut for Super Bowl Weekend (25 January 1998) in the US, with box office sales of $10,527,222." }, { "section_header": "Other brand ventures | Film", "text": "The movie took in a total of $151 million at the box office worldwide." }, { "section_header": "Band history | 1997–1998: Groundbreaking success, Spiceworld and Halliwell's departure", "text": "\"Viva Forever\" was the last single released from Spiceworld." }, { "section_header": "Other brand ventures | Film", "text": "In June 1997, the group began filming their movie debut with director Bob Spiers." }, { "section_header": "In popular culture", "text": "performing an original song titled \"Friendtopia\", a parody of the Spice Girls' songs and \"girl power\" philosophy." }, { "section_header": "Band history | 1997–1998: Groundbreaking success, Spiceworld and Halliwell's departure", "text": "In November, the Spice Girls released their second album, Spiceworld." }, { "section_header": "Other brand ventures | Merchandise and sponsorship deals", "text": "The group responded to the press' criticisms by launching the music video for \"Spice Up Your Life\" in which they parody the number of sponsorships they had." }, { "section_header": "Cultural impact and legacy | Girl power", "text": "The video, which was launched on YouTube and ran in movie theatres internationally, featured British girl group M.O," }, { "section_header": "Other brand ventures | Film", "text": "Considered a cult film, many publications described it as a brilliant film of the parody genre, that mocks both the star system and clichés of the cinema, while giving many winks to popular culture of the time." } ]
Spiceworld: The Movie is a parody.
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[ { "section_header": "Official holidays", "text": "The New York Stock Exchange is closed on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King," }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1938, NYSE names its first president." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1863, Name changed to the New York Stock Exchange." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1938, NYSE names its first president." }, { "section_header": "History", "text": "The Bank of North America, along with the First Bank of the United States and the Bank of New York, were the first shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1967, Muriel Siebert becomes the first female member of the New York Stock Exchange." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed \"The Big Board\") is an American stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1817, the constitution of the New York Stock and Exchange Board is adopted." }, { "section_header": "Official holidays", "text": "The New York Stock Exchange is closed on New Year's Day, Martin Luther King," }, { "section_header": "History | Notable events | 21st century", "text": "She is the first female leader in the exchange's 226-year history." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1980, the New York Futures Exchange was established." }, { "section_header": "Trading | Timeline", "text": "In 1865, New York Gold Exchange was acquired by the NYSE." } ]
The New York Stock Exchange named it's first leader in 1938.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Alfredo James Pacino (; Italian: [paˈtʃiːno]; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "He is the son of Italian American parents Rose Gerardi and Salvatore Pacino." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Alfredo James Pacino (; Italian: [paˈtʃiːno]; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "He then moved with his mother to the Bronx to live with her parents, Kate and James Gerardi, who were Italian immigrants from Corleone, Sicily." }, { "section_header": "Stage career", "text": "Due Mondi in Spoleto. It was Pacino's first journey to Italy; he later recalled that \"performing for an Italian audience was a marvelous experience\"." }, { "section_header": "Film career | 1990s", "text": "In 1991, Pacino starred in Frankie and Johnny with Michelle Pfeiffer, who co-starred with Pacino in Scarface." }, { "section_header": "Film career | 1980s", "text": "At this time Pacino returned to the stage." }, { "section_header": "Personal life", "text": "Pacino has fathered three children." }, { "section_header": "Stage career", "text": "In 1968, Pacino starred in Israel Horovitz's" }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "In his teenage years, Pacino was known as \"Sonny\" to his friends." }, { "section_header": "Early life", "text": "Pacino recalled it as the lowest point of his life and said, \"I was 22 and" } ]
Pacino is Irish Italian.
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "History | 1975–1979: Turning to disco | Saturday Night Fever and Spirits Having Flown", "text": "During this era, Barry and Robin also wrote \"Emotion\" for an old friend, Australian vocalist Samantha Sang, who made it a top 10 hit, with the Bee Gees singing backing vocals." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists." }, { "section_header": "History | 1967–1969: International fame and touring years | Bee Gees' 1st, Horizontal and Idea", "text": "The Bee Gees felt \"The Singer Sang His Song\" was the stronger of the two sides, an opinion shared by listeners in the Netherlands who made it a No. 3 hit." }, { "section_header": "History | 1967–1969: International fame and touring years | Bee Gees' 1st, Horizontal and Idea", "text": "After the release of Bee Gees' 1st, the group was first introduced in New York as \"the English surprise.\" At that time, the band made their first British TV appearance on Top of the Pops." }, { "section_header": "History | 1987–1999: Comeback, return to popularity and Andy's death", "text": "The single \"You Win Again\" went to No. 1 in numerous countries, including the UK, and made the Bee Gees the first group to score a UK No. 1 hit in each of three decades: the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s." }, { "section_header": "History | 1975–1979: Turning to disco | Saturday Night Fever and Spirits Having Flown", "text": "The Bee Gees even had a country hit in 1979 with \"Rest Your Love on Me\", the flip side of their pop hit \"Too Much Heaven\", which made the top 40 on the country charts." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "The Bee Gees were a music group formed in 1958." }, { "section_header": "History | 1975–1979: Turning to disco | Saturday Night Fever and Spirits Having Flown", "text": "The brothers wrote the songs \"virtually in a single weekend\" at Château d'Hérouville studio in France." }, { "section_header": "History | 2013–present: Looking back at a lifetime of music", "text": "Also in 2016, Capitol Records signed a new distribution deal with Barry and the estates of his brothers for the Bee Gees catalog, bringing their music back to Universal." }, { "section_header": "History | 2013–present: Looking back at a lifetime of music", "text": "In September and October 2013, Barry performed his first solo tour \"in honour of his brothers and a lifetime of music\"." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Their lineup consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb." } ]
The music group the Bee Gees was made up of brothers who wrote their own hits.
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[ { "section_header": "Career | Managing and coaching career", "text": "Lyons succeeded Dykes as the White Sox manager in May 1946 after an apparent contract dispute between Dykes and Grace Comiskey." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "He played in 21 MLB seasons, all with the Chicago White Sox." }, { "section_header": "Career | Managing and coaching career", "text": "Lyons succeeded Dykes as the White Sox manager in May 1946 after an apparent contract dispute between Dykes and Grace Comiskey." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Lyons won 20 or more games three times (in 1925, 1927, and 1930) and became a fan favorite in Chicago." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "One year later, the Chicago White Sox retired his uniform number, #16." }, { "section_header": "Career | Playing career", "text": "In 1943, the White Sox announced that Lyons' jersey number would not be reissued." }, { "section_header": "Later life", "text": "Lyons served as a scout with the White Sox until his retirement in 1967." }, { "section_header": "Career | Playing career", "text": "On August 21, 1926, Lyons no-hit the Boston Red Sox 6–0 at Fenway Park; the game took just 1 hour and 45 minutes to complete (Ted Lyons August 21, 1926 No-hitter Box Score)." }, { "section_header": "Career | Playing career", "text": "As Lyons aged, his career benefited from the White Sox' decision to never let him pitch more than 30 games per season from 1934 on." }, { "section_header": "Career | Managing and coaching career", "text": "Lyons resigned as manager in October 1948.Lyons coached the pitchers for the Detroit Tigers (1949–52) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1954)." }, { "section_header": "Career | Playing career", "text": "He joined the White Sox on a road trip and never pitched a day in the minors." } ]
Ted Lyons became the Chicago White Sox manager.
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[ { "section_header": "History | 20th century", "text": "Panasonic, then Matsushita Electric, was founded in 1918 by Kōnosuke Matsushita as a vendor of duplex lamp sockets." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "Ltd. (松下電器産業株式会社, Matsushita Denki Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha), founded in 1918 as a lightbulb socket manufacturer, is a major Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka." }, { "section_header": "History | 20th century", "text": "Panasonic, then Matsushita Electric, was founded in 1918 by Kōnosuke Matsushita as a vendor of duplex lamp sockets." }, { "section_header": "Brand names", "text": "\"Rasonic is a brand name of Shun Hing Electric Works and Engineering Co. Ltd (信興電工工程有限公司), a company that has imported Panasonic and National branded product since Matsushita Electric Industrial era, and has also sold MEI/Panasonic products under the original brand names." }, { "section_header": "Current operations | Panasonic Automotive Systems", "text": "Panasonic Automotive Systems is an original equipment manufacturer of factory installed mobile audio equipment such as headunits, speakers and navigation modules." }, { "section_header": "Name", "text": "On January 10, 2008, the company announced that it would change its name to \"Panasonic Corporation\", in effect on October 1, 2008, to conform with its global brand name \"Panasonic\"." }, { "section_header": "Name", "text": "From 1935 to October 1, 2008, the company name was \"Matsushita Electric Industrial\"." }, { "section_header": "Name", "text": "The name change was approved at the shareholders' meeting on June 26, 2008 after consultation with the Matsushita family." }, { "section_header": "Brand names", "text": "The company has sold products under a number of other brand names during its history." }, { "section_header": "Brand names", "text": "The company began to use the brand name \"Technics\" (テクニクス, Tekunikusu)\" in 1965 for audio equipment." }, { "section_header": "Brand names", "text": "In 1927, the company founder adopted the brand name \"National\" (ナショナル, Nashonaru) for a new lamp product." } ]
Panasonic was founded as a lightbulb socket manufacturer originally with a different name.
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[ { "section_header": "Recording style", "text": "The vast majority of Brooks' recordings have used the same studio band, known collectively as the \"G-Men\"." } ]
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[ { "section_header": "Other ventures | Professional baseball", "text": "He also began with a short career in baseball, when he signed with the San Diego Padres for spring training in 1998 and 1999." }, { "section_header": "Summary", "text": "He was also inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016 with his studio musicians, The G-Men." }, { "section_header": "Other ventures | Professional baseball", "text": "In 1998, Brooks launched his Touch 'em" }, { "section_header": "Career | 1999: \"Chris Gaines\" and holiday album", "text": "In 1999, Brooks took on the alter ego of \"Chris Gaines\", a fictitious rock-and-roll musician and character for an upcoming film titled The Lamb." }, { "section_header": "Recording style", "text": "The vast majority of Brooks' recordings have used the same studio band, known collectively as the \"G-Men\"." }, { "section_header": "Career | 2014–2015: Man Against Machine, GhostTunes, and world tour", "text": "On September 4, 2014, Brooks released his entire studio output on digital for the first time ever." }, { "section_header": "Career | 2000–04: Scarecrow and retirement", "text": "He first talked of retiring from performing in 1992, and again in 1995, but each time returned to touring." }, { "section_header": "Career | 1995–98: More albums released and second world tour", "text": "In 1998, Brooks also released the first installment of The Limited Series, a six-disc box set containing reissues of his first six studio albums." }, { "section_header": "Other ventures | Professional baseball", "text": "In 2004, Brooks returned to baseball with the Kansas City Royals." }, { "section_header": "Other ventures | Professional baseball", "text": "All Foundation with Major League Baseball." } ]
Brooks used different musicians each time studio session during his career in baseball in 1998 - 1999.
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Garth Brooks