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Kansas City, Missouri
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Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri and the sixth largest city in the Midwest. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the city had an population of 475,378 in 2015. It is the city of the Kansas City metropolitan area. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a Missouri River port at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west, on June 1,1850 the town of Kansas was incorporated, shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued and the name Kansas City was assigned to them soon thereafter. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, but portions spill into Clay, Cass, along with Independence, it serves as one of the two county seats for Jackson County. Major suburbs include the Missouri cities of Independence and Lees Summit and the Kansas cities of Overland Park, Olathe, and Kansas City. The city is composed of neighborhoods, including the River Market District in the north, the 18th and Vine District in the east. Kansas City is also known for its cuisine, its craft breweries, Kansas City, Missouri was officially incorporated as a town on June 1,1850, and as a city on March 28,1853. The territory straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers was considered a place to build settlements. The Antioch Christian Church, Dr. James Compton House, the first documented European visitor to Kansas City was Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River. Criticized for his response to the Native American attack on Fort Détroit, Bourgmont lived with a Native American wife in a village about 90 miles east near Brunswick, Missouri, where he illegally traded furs. In the documents, he describes the junction of the Grande Riv des Cansez and Missouri River, French cartographer Guillaume Delisle used the descriptions to make the areas first reasonably accurate map. The Spanish took over the region in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French continued their fur trade under Spanish license. After the 1804 Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark visited the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, in 1831, a group of Mormons from New York settled in what would become the city. They built the first school within Kansas Citys current boundaries, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833, in 1833 John McCoy established West Port along the Santa Fe Trail,3 miles away from the river. In 1834 McCoy established Westport Landing on a bend in the Missouri to serve as a point for West Port. Soon after, the Kansas Town Company, a group of investors, began to settle the area, in 1850, the landing area was incorporated as the Town of Kansas
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From top left: the
Liberty Memorial, the
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kansas City skyline, the
Country Club Plaza,
Arrowhead Stadium, and
Kauffman Stadium
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Kansas City Pioneer Square monument in Westport features
Pony Express founder
Alexander Majors, Westport/Kansas City founder
John Calvin McCoy and Mountainman
Jim Bridger who owned Chouteau's Store.
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Walnut Street, Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, 1906.
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Kansas City satellite map
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Princeton University
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Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, then to the current site nine years later, Princeton provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. The university has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton has the largest endowment per student in the United States. The university has graduated many notable alumni, two U. S. Presidents,12 U. S. Supreme Court Justices, and numerous living billionaires and foreign heads of state are all counted among Princetons alumni body. New Light Presbyterians founded the College of New Jersey in 1746 in order to train ministers, the college was the educational and religious capital of Scots-Irish America. In 1754, trustees of the College of New Jersey suggested that, in recognition of Governors interest, gov. Jonathan Belcher replied, What a name that would be. In 1756, the moved to Princeton, New Jersey. Its home in Princeton was Nassau Hall, named for the royal House of Orange-Nassau of William III of England, following the untimely deaths of Princetons first five presidents, John Witherspoon became president in 1768 and remained in that office until his death in 1794. During his presidency, Witherspoon shifted the focus from training ministers to preparing a new generation for leadership in the new American nation. To this end, he tightened academic standards and solicited investment in the college, in 1812, the eighth president the College of New Jersey, Ashbel Green, helped establish the Princeton Theological Seminary next door. The plan to extend the theological curriculum met with approval on the part of the authorities at the College of New Jersey. Today, Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary maintain separate institutions with ties that include such as cross-registration. Before the construction of Stanhope Hall in 1803, Nassau Hall was the sole building. The cornerstone of the building was laid on September 17,1754, during the summer of 1783, the Continental Congress met in Nassau Hall, making Princeton the countrys capital for four months. The class of 1879 donated twin lion sculptures that flanked the entrance until 1911, Nassau Halls bell rang after the halls construction, however, the fire of 1802 melted it. The bell was then recast and melted again in the fire of 1855, James McCosh took office as the colleges president in 1868 and lifted the institution out of a low period that had been brought about by the American Civil War. McCosh Hall is named in his honor, in 1879, the first thesis for a Doctor of Philosophy Ph. D. was submitted by James F. Williamson, Class of 1877. In 1896, the officially changed its name from the College of New Jersey to Princeton University to honor the town in which it resides
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A commemorative 3-cent stamp from 1953 celebrating the bicentennial of
Nassau Hall
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Seal of Princeton University
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John Witherspoon, President of the College (1768-94), signer of the
Declaration of Independence
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A Birds-eye view of campus in 1906
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Bachelor of Arts
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A Bachelor of Arts is a bachelors degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both. Bachelor of Arts degree programs take three to four years depending on the country, academic institution, and specific specializations, majors or minors. The word baccalaureus or baccalarium should not be confused with baccalaureatus, degree diplomas generally are printed on high-quality paper or parchment, individual institutions set the preferred abbreviation for their degrees. In Pakistan, the Bachelor of Arts degree can also be attained within two years as an external degree, in colleges and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Nepal and South Africa, the BA degree can be taken over three years of full-time study. Unlike in other countries, students do not receive a grade for their Bachelor of Arts degree with varying levels of honours. Qualified students may be admitted, after they have achieved their Bachelors program with an overall grade point average. Thus, to achieve a Bachelor Honours degree, a postgraduate year. A student who holds a Honours degree is eligible for entry to either a Doctorate or a very high research Master´s degree program. Education in Canada is controlled by the Provinces and can be different depending on the province in Canada. Canadian universities typically offer a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degrees, in many universities and colleges, Bachelor of Arts degrees are differentiated either as Bachelors of Arts or as honours Bachelor of Arts degree. The honours degrees are designated with the abbreviation in brackets of. It should not be confused with the consecutive Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours, Latin Baccalaureatus in Artibus Cum Honore, BA hon. de jure without brackets and with a dot. It is a degree, which is considered to be the equivalent of a corresponding maîtrise degree under the French influenced system. Going back in history, a three-year Bachelor of Arts degree was called a pass degree or general degree. Students may be required to undertake a long high-quality research empirical thesis combined with a selection of courses from the relevant field of studies. The consecutive B. cum Honore degree is essential if students ultimate goal is to study towards a two- or three-year very high research masters´ degree qualification. A student holding a Baccalaureatus Cum Honore degree also may choose to complete a Doctor of Philosophy program without the requirement to first complete a masters degree, over the years, in some universities certain Baccalaureatus cum Honore programs have been changed to corresponding master´s degrees. In general, in all four countries, the B. A. degree is the standard required for entry into a masters programme, in science, a BA hons degree is generally a prerequisite for entrance to a Ph. D program or a very-high-research-activity master´s programme
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A certificate or diploma evidencing the granting of a bachelor's degree
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Worcester College, Oxford
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Worcester College /ˈwʊstər/ is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes and its predecessor, Gloucester College, had been an institution of learning on the same site since the late 13th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. As of July 2010, Worcester had an endowment of £16.7 million. After a lapse of 20 years, the buildings of the old Gloucester College were used in the foundation of Gloucester Hall and this was a going concern from 1699 to 1705, although only 15 Greeks are recorded as members. In 1714, thanks to a benefaction from a Worcestershire baronet, Sir Thomas Cookes. Even then, there were sufficient funds to rebuild the Chapel, Hall and Library. The designs were by Dr. George Clarke, who had consulted Nicholas Hawksmoor, in 1736, Clarke generously left to the College his great collection of books and manuscripts. These included the papers of his father William Clarke and a proportion of the surviving drawings of Inigo Jones. Owing to lack of funds, Worcesters eighteenth-century building programme proceeded by fits and starts, the west end of the Terrace and the Provosts Lodgings were added in 1773–76. In more recent years new residential blocks for undergraduates and graduates have been added. The latest of these include the Earl building, Sainsbury Building, Linbury Building, Canal Building, Ruskin Lane Building, and the Franks Building. A modern addition to Worcester College, the Canal Building, sits next to the entrance to the college and, as the name suggests. It houses 50 students in large single rooms. The accommodation is usually reserved for third and fourth year undergraduates, the College Chapel was built in the 18th century. Dr George Clarke, Henry Keene and James Wyatt were responsible for different stages of its lengthy construction, the interior columns and pilasters, the dome and the delicate foliage plastering are all Wyatts work. His classical interior was insufficiently emphatic for the tastes of militant Victorian churchmen and its stained glass windows were to have been designed by John Everett Millais, but Burges rejected his designs and entrusted the work to Henry Holiday. Oscar Wilde said of the Chapel, As a piece of decorative and beautiful art it is perfect. Worcester is unique among the Oxford colleges in that it has not one, there is a mixed-voice choir constituted of auditioned choral scholars and volunteers, which sings twice a week, weekly on Thursday and on alternating Sunday and Monday evenings
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Colleges and
halls of the
University of Oxford Worcester College
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Worcester College in the early 19th century. The projecting wings are the Hall (left) and the Chapel (right)
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Worcester's playing fields
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The main quadrangle of Worcester College; on the left are the medieval buildings known as "the cottages", the most substantial surviving part of
Gloucester College, Worcester's predecessor.
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The Office (U.S. TV series)
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The Office is an American television comedy series that aired on NBC from March 24,2005 to May 16,2013. It is an adaptation of the BBC series of the same name, the Office was adapted for American audiences by Greg Daniels, a veteran writer for Saturday Night Live, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons. It is co-produced by Daniels Deedle-Dee Productions, and Reveille Productions, the original executive producers were Greg Daniels, Howard Klein, Ben Silverman, Ricky Gervais, and Stephen Merchant, with numerous others being promoted in later seasons. The series depicts the lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania. To simulate the look of a documentary, it is filmed in a single-camera setup. The show debuted on NBC as a replacement and ran for nine seasons and 201 episodes. The Office initially featured Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer and B. J. Novak as the main cast, the first season of The Office was met with mixed reviews, but the following four seasons received widespread acclaim from television critics. These seasons were included on several critics year-end top TV series lists, winning awards including four Primetime Emmy Awards. While later seasons were criticized for a decline in quality, earlier writers oversaw the final season, Greg Daniels served as the senior series showrunner for the first four seasons of the series and developed the British series for American television. He then left the position when he co-created the comedy series Parks and Recreation with fellow Office writer Michael Schur, Paul Lieberstein and Jennifer Celotta were named the series showrunners for the fifth season. Celotta left the series after the season and Lieberstein stayed on as showrunner for the following two seasons. He left the spot after the eighth season for the potential Dwight Schrute spin-off, The Farm. Daniels returned to the position for the ninth and final season. Other executive producers include cast members B. J. Novak, Kaling, Novak, Daniels, Lieberstein and Schur made up the original team of writers. Kaling, Novak and Lieberstein also serve multiple roles on the series, as they play regular characters on the show, as well as write, direct, credited with twenty-four episodes, Kaling is the most prolific writer on the staff. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who created the original British series, are credited as producers, and wrote the pilot. Merchant later directed the episode Customer Survey while Gervais appeared in the episodes The Seminar, randall Einhorn is the most frequent director of the series, with 15 credited episodes. Episodes have been directed by several of the actors on the show including Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Ed Helms, before the series aired its second episode, the writers spent time researching in offices
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John Krasinski (left) and
Jenna Fischer (right) were virtually unknown before the series aired.
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The Office cast in the third season
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The Pennsylvania Paper & Supply Company tower, shown during the opening credits.
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Erin Hannon
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Kelly Erin Hannon is a fictional character from the U. S. comedy television series The Office. Erin is portrayed by Ellie Kemper, Erin Hannon is the receptionist hired to replace Pam Halpert in Dream Team. She first appears in Michael Scott Paper Company, and is referred to by her name, Erin. Although at times rather intellectually challenged, with her cheerful, silly demeanor, contrasting with her predecessor, Pam Halpert, she not only loves being a receptionist but admires her coworkers including Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute. In a deleted scene from Niagara, she admits she was four months prematurely. St. Patricks Day reveals further that she was sick and in the hospital between the ages of 3 and 6. She grew up in families and has said that when she was younger my hair was my room, i. e. the place she hid from stress. In WUPHF. com, she said all of her peers were getting their drivers licenses eight years ago which would give her a year of approximately 1986. Schrute, Manager, when she is shocked to learn Gabe is an atheist, and is more shocked when he states there might be a God. She is seen repeatedly following Dwights insane directions, Dwight and Andy both admit to being attracted to Erin, as does Ryan. Erin seems to have a fun-loving and bubbly personality similar to Kelly Kapoor and she admires Kellys casual Friday outfit, commenting that she looks like J. Lo, and the two restart Michaels cafe disco after he shuts it down. The two also ride to Pam and Jims wedding together with Andy, both listening to their iPods in the backseat, Erin also tells Michael she used to work at a Taco Bell Express but couldnt keep up when they turned it into a regular Taco Bell. In a deleted scene from Mafia, Meredith tells Erin that the office will always like Pam better than her and she also accidentally ruins Pams painting of the office building while trying to clean it. Later when asking Kelly to help her fix the painting, we find out Erin has a seizure condition—because Kelly demands her medical alert bracelet as payment for her services. Erin may have attended Keystone College, as a pennant for the school can be seen at her desk in The Boat, after Kevin fails miserably as Pams replacement, Charles Miner hires Erin as the new receptionist. She becomes good friends with Kelly and in Cafe Disco, they help to generate interest in Michaels Cafe Disco, Erin greatly admires her predecessor, calling her a living legend to DeAngelo Vickers, and often asks her advice on various aspects of the job. However, Pam is at first somewhat impatient with Erins enthusiasm for a job she never took seriously, initially, Dwight and Andy compete for her attention, but Dwight withdraws in acknowledgment of his new friendship with Andy. For the remainder of the season, Andy awkwardly flirts with Erin, in Koi Pond, Erin is shown to be self-conscious about being an orphan, and is attracted to Andy, whom she calls the coolest guy Ive ever met
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Ellie Kemper as Erin Hannon
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Netflix
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Netflix is an American entertainment company founded by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph on August 29,1997, in Scotts Valley, California. It specializes in and provides streaming media and video-on-demand online and DVD by mail, in 2013, Netflix expanded into film and television production, as well as online distribution. As of 2017 the company has its headquarters in Los Gatos, Netflixs initial business model included DVD sales and rental, although Hastings jettisoned DVD sales about a year after Netflixs founding to focus on the DVD rental by mail business. In 2007, Netflix expanded its business with the introduction of streaming media, while retaining the DVD, Netflix entered the content-production industry in 2013, debuting its first series, House of Cards. It has greatly expanded the production of film and television series since then, offering Netflix Original content through its online library of films. Netflix released an estimated 126 original series or films in 2016, in January 2017, Netflix reported having over 93 million subscribers worldwide, including more than 49 million in the United States. Netflix was founded on August 29,1997, in Scotts Valley, California, by Marc Randolph, Randolph worked as marketing director for Hastings company, Pure Atria Corporation. Randolph was a co-founder of MicroWarehouse, a mail order company. Hastings, a computer scientist and mathematician, sold Pure Atria to Rational Software Corporation in 1997 for $700 million in what was then the richest acquisition in Silicon Valley history. Hastings, Randolphs mother and Integrity QA founder Steve Kahn invested $2.5 million in cash for Netflix. Randolph admired the fledgling e-commerce company Amazon and wanted to find a category of portable items to sell over the internet using a similar model. He and Hastings considered and rejected VHS tapes as too expensive to stock and too delicate to ship. When they heard about DVDs, which were available in only a few markets in 1997, when the disc arrived intact, they decided to take on the $16 billion home video sales and rental industry. Netflix introduced the monthly subscription concept in September 1999, and then dropped the model in early 2000. Since that time, the company has built its reputation on the model of flat-fee unlimited rentals without due dates, late fees, shipping and handling fees. In 2000, Netflix offered to be acquired by Blockbuster for $50 million, Netflix initiated an initial public offering on May 29,2002, selling 5.5 million shares of common stock at the price of US$15.00 per share. On June 14,2002, the company sold an additional 825,000 shares of stock at the same price. After incurring substantial losses during its first few years, Netflix posted its first profit during fiscal year 2003, in 2005,35,000 different films were available, and Netflix shipped 1 million DVDs out every day
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Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos.
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Example of a Netflix DVD rental of
Kill Bill. Discs are returned in the same envelopes they are sent to customers.
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is an American web television sitcom created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, starring Ellie Kemper in the title role, that has streamed on Netflix since March 6,2015. Originally set for a 13-episode first season on NBC for spring 2015, since its premiere, the show has received critical acclaim, with critic Scott Meslow calling it the first great sitcom of the streaming era. As of July 14,2016, the series has been nominated for eleven Primetime Emmy Awards, on January 17,2016, the series was renewed for a third season, which is scheduled to premiere on May 19,2017. The show was created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock when NBC executives asked them to develop a show for Ellie Kemper, Fey stated that they found an innocence about Kempers face, but also noted there was a strength to it. One idea was for the show to center on Kempers character waking up from a coma, the show was initially under development for NBC under the title Tooken. However, this was changed to the current title. Eventually NBC sold the series to Netflix, Fey has stated that this was in part due to NBC not feeling confident about watching comedies. Prior to the switch, NBC planned to air the series as either a mid-season replacement or as a summer series. Casting announcements for the roles were held on March 2014, with Tituss Burgess cast as the role of Kimmys roommate. Titus is a singer who works odd entertainment jobs such as dressing up like a robot in Times Square or as a singing waiter at a theme restaurant. Also cast was Carol Kane as Kimmy and Titus landlord Lillian Kaushtupper, shortly afterwards, Sara Chase and Lauren Adams joined the series. Jane Krakowski was later cast in the role of Jacqueline Voorhees, megan Dodds was originally cast before she was replaced with Krakowski. The shows theme song, Unbreakable, was produced by The Gregory Brothers and it is a tribute to The Gregory Brothers’ YouTube show Songify the News – auto-tuned news interviews that became viral videos. Richmond also wrote Peeno Noir, a song performed by character Titus Andromedon during season 1, in the first season, Kimmy Schmidt was in 8th grade when she was kidnapped for fifteen years by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne. The Reverend held Kimmy and three other women hostage in a bunker, and convinced them that doomsday had come, gone. Once the women are rescued, they go on to appear on the Today Show in New York City, after the show, Kimmy finds herself not wanting to return to Indiana, but instead to start a new life in New York City. Roaming around the city, Kimmy comes across landlady Lillian Kaushtupper, Kaushtupper offers Kimmy a chance to room with Titus Andromedon in her downstairs apartment. However, Kimmy has to seek a job in order to get the apartment, soon after, Jacqueline hires Kimmy to be a nanny for her 10-year-old son
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
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Bridesmaids (2011 film)
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Bridesmaids is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Paul Feig, written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, and produced by Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel and Clayton Townsend. The plot centers on Annie, who suffers a series of misfortunes after being asked to serve as maid of honor for her best friend, Lillian, actresses Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig wrote the screenplay following Wiigs casting in Apatows 2007 comedy film Knocked Up. Budgeted at $32.5 million, filming took place in Los Angeles, upon its opening release in the United States and Canada on May 13,2011, Bridesmaids was both critically and commercially successful. The film grossed $26 million in its weekend, eventually grossing over $288 million worldwide. It received a 90% overall approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes and served as a touchstone for discussion about women in comedy, the film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. On January 24,2012, the film was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Melissa McCarthy and Best Original Screenplay for Wiig and this made it the first Apatow-produced film to be nominated for an Academy Award. Annie Walker is a woman in her late 30s. Her businesss failure was so painful that she has given up baking entirely and she has a no-strings-attached sexual relationship with the self-absorbed Ted but hopes for something more from him. Her best friend, Lillian, is virtually her only source of happiness, Lillian becomes engaged and asks Annie to be her Maid of Honor. At the engagement party, Annie meets Lillians bridesmaids, cynical cousin Rita, idealistic friend Becca, the grooms raunchy sister Megan, and Helen, the rich and beautiful wife of the grooms boss. Helen and Annie, who are jealous of each others friendship with Lillian, take an instant dislike to each other, Annie takes Lillian and the bridesmaids to a Brazilian steak restaurant for lunch before going to a chic bridal shop. Helen uses her influence to gain entry to the shop because Annie didnt make a reservation, while trying on gowns, the whole party— with the exception of Helen, who chose not to eat before the fitting —becomes sick from food poisoning. Later, Annies suggestion of a party at Lillians parents lake house is overruled in favor of a trip to Las Vegas planned by Helen. Worried about her finances and too proud to accept a paid for by Helen. The trip is cut short by an outburst from Annie, who had accepted a sedative from Helen because of her fear of flying, the plane makes an emergency landing in Casper, Wyoming, and the party takes a bus back home. Annie apologizes, but Lillian decides she wants Helen to take over planning the shower and the wedding. Annie continues to hope for a relationship with Ted, but Nathan Rhodes, Nathan encourages her to open a new bakery, but Annie refuses. Following a night together, Nathan buys baking supplies for Annie to start baking again, Annie is later fired for being rude to a customer and kicked out of her apartment by her roommates, forcing her to move in with her mother
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Theatrical movie poster
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Top to bottom:
Saturday Night Live alumnae
Kristen Wiig and
Maya Rudolph star in the film.
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Oxnard, California
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21 Jump Street (film)
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21 Jump Street is a 2012 American action comedy film directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, written by Michael Bacall starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. An adaptation of the 1987 television series of the name by Stephen J. It was released theatrically on March 16,2012, by Columbia Pictures, a sequel, titled 22 Jump Street, was released on June 13,2014. Two further films, MIB23 and a female-led spin-off, are currently in development, seven years later, the duo meets again at the Police Academy and become friends and partners on bicycle patrol. They catch a break when they arrest Domingo, the leader of a motorcycle gang. The duo is reassigned to a scheme from the 1980s. Captain Dickson assigns them to contain the spread of a drug called HFS at Sagan High School. Schmidt gets a lead on HFS from classmate Molly, and he and Jenko meet the main dealer. The two take HFS in front of him to maintain their cover, after experiencing the drugs effects, the duo discovers that Schmidts intelligence now makes him popular, while Jenkos lax attitude is frowned upon. Eric takes a liking to Schmidt, who develops a romantic interest in Molly, Jenko becomes friends with the students in his AP Chemistry class and finds himself becoming more interested in geeky hobbies and academic pursuits. Schmidt and Jenko throw a party at Schmidts parents house, where they are living during the course of their assignment, during the party, a fight breaks out between Schmidt, Jenko, and some party crashers. Schmidt wins the fight, solidifying his status and gaining Erics trust. Jenkos friends hack Erics phone to enable them to listen in on his conversations, the rift between the duo grows as their new school life intrudes upon their official police work. Schmidt and Jenko track Eric to a transaction with the distributors of HFS – the motorcycle gang from the park –. They return to school, argue, and eventually begin fighting and they are expelled from school and are removed from the Jump Street program. Eric, stressed and terrified, recruits Schmidt and Jenko as security for a deal taking place at the school prom, while dressing for the prom, Schmidt and Jenko rekindle their friendship. At the prom, they discover that the supplier is the physical education teacher, Mr. Walters, having caught Eric smoking marijuana, he was able to persuade him into being his dealer. The motorcycle gang arrives for the deal but Molly interrupts them, as a result, the gang leader recognizes Schmidt and Jenko, and orders his men to kill them
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Theatrical release poster
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Hill and Tatum promoting the film in costume at
WonderCon 2012 in
Anaheim, California
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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
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The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is an art museum located on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, within the universitys Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. It was founded in 1881 as the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts and it is the oldest art museum west of the Mississippi River. Its collection was formed in part by acquiring significant works by artists of the time. The Museum contains strong holdings of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, installations, and photographs. The collection also includes some Egyptian and Greek antiquities, Old Master prints, and the Wulfing Collection of approximately 14,000 ancient Greek, Roman, the museum moved to its current home, designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki, in 2006. The museum was established in 1881 as part of Washington University in St. Louis, under the name of the St. Louis School, ives served as the museums first director, and during his tenure, the collection focused on contemporary American artists, notably William Merritt Chase. In 1906, the museum was relocated to the Palace of Fine Arts in Forest Park, in that year, the City Museum of Art was formed, and began to acquire works separately from the private university collection. The university collection would remain on loan to the museum until 1960. In 1941, H. W. Janson joined the museum and began to focus on collecting contemporary European artwork, in order to finance this project, he organized the sale of over 600 objects. Notable acquisitions during this period include works by Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Janson also arranged for a permanent home for the museums collection, and in 1960, the museum moved to Steinberg Hall, located on the main university campus. At this time, the museum was renamed as the Washington University Gallery of Art. Recently, the museum has continued to focus on the acquisition of works, including pieces by Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg. In 2004, the museum was renamed, this time as the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, as a division of the new Sam Fox School of Visual Art. Two years later, in 2006, the moved to a new building adjacent to the old Steinberg Hall. The 65, 000-square-foot expansion was designed by Fumihiko Maki, and is home to the Washington University Art and Architecture library. The Sam Fox School was established in 2005 to link strong studio programs in art and architecture with the resources. Creation of the Sam Fox School follows a nearly $60 million investment in new and renovated art, architecture, the five-building complex includes two new buildings by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki, including the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum building. The Sam Fox School is dedicated to the creation, study, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum has four exhibition spaces, the Barney A. Ebsworth Gallery, Garen Gallery, Bernoudy Permanent Collection Gallery, and teaching gallery
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Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap
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Academics
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Washington University in St. Louis
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Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853, and named after George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all 50 U. S. states, twenty-five Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Washington University, nine having done the major part of their pioneering research at the university. Washington Universitys undergraduate program is ranked 19th by U. S. News & World Report, the university is ranked 23rd in the world in 2016 by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Washington University is made up of seven graduate and undergraduate schools that encompass a range of academic fields. To prevent confusion over its location, the Board of Trustees added the phrase in St. Louis in 1976, Washington University was conceived by 17 St. Louis business, political, and religious leaders concerned by the lack of institutions of higher learning in the Midwest. Missouri State Senator Wayman Crow and Unitarian minister William Greenleaf Eliot, grandfather of the poet T. S. Eliot, the universitys first chancellor was Joseph Gibson Hoyt. Crow secured the university charter from the Missouri General Assembly in 1853, early on, Eliot solicited support from members of the local business community, including John OFallon, but Eliot failed to secure a permanent endowment. Washington University is unusual among major American universities in not having had a financial endowment. The institution had no backing of an organization, single wealthy patron. During the three following its inception, the university bore three different names. In 1854, the Board of Trustees changed the name to Washington Institute in honor of George Washington, naming the University after the nations first president, only seven years before the American Civil War and during a time of bitter national division, was no coincidence. During this time of conflict, Americans universally admired George Washington as the father of the United States, the Board of Trustees believed that the university should be a force of unity in a strongly divided Missouri. In 1856, the University amended its name to Washington University, although chartered as a university, for many years Washington University functioned primarily as a night school located on 17th Street and Washington Avenue in the heart of downtown St. Louis. Owing to limited resources, Washington University initially used public buildings. Classes began on October 22,1854, at the Benton School building, at first the university paid for the evening classes, but as their popularity grew, their funding was transferred to the St. Louis Public Schools. Eventually the board secured funds for the construction of Academic Hall, later the university divided into three departments, the Manual Training School, Smith Academy, and the Mary Institute. In 1867, the university opened the first private law school west of the Mississippi River. By 1882, Washington University had expanded to numerous departments, which were housed in buildings across St. Louis
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William Greenleaf Eliot, first president of the Board of Trustees
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Washington University in St. Louis
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The Washington University crest at the entrance to
Francis Field
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Brookings Hall Quad
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Commerce Bancshares
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Commerce Bancshares, Inc. is a Kansas City, Missouri based U. S. bank holding company with branches of its Commerce Bank in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma. Commerce Bancshares is the parent of Commerce Bank, the successor of the Commerce Trust Company. With roots dating back to its first charter in 1865, Commerce Bank is the oldest and largest bank in Kansas City, as of December 31,2010, it was listed as the 48th largest bank holding company in the United States as reported by the Federal Reserve Bank. This Commerce Bank is not related to financial institutions named Commerce Bank based in Ohio. Commerce was founded in 1865 by Francis Reid Long as the Kansas City Savings Association with $10,000 in capital, following the Panic of 1907 it was briefly placed into receivership by the Comptroller of Currency. The bank paid its depositors and ownership returned to its owners, Kemper set his son James M. Kemper up at Commerce and his other son R. Crosby Kemper at the competing City Center Bank which would become UMB Financial Corporation. Harry S. Truman worked at the bank from April 24,1903 to May 15,1905 in the building to todays Commerce Tower. The evaluation in his first year said, He is a worker, almost always here. We never had a boy in the vault like him before and he watches everything very closely and by his watchfulness, detects many errors which a careless boy would let slip through. His appearance is good and his habits and character are of the best, Truman signed the last steel beam added to the Commerce Tower. In April 2007, Commerce purchased an Aurora, Colorado based Commerce Bank with plans on expanding its business into the state of Colorado, for the fifth year in a row, Commerce Bank was ranked among the top ten on Forbes 2014 list of Americas Best Banks
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Commerce Tower headquarters in Kansas City
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Quimper
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Quimper is a commune and capital of the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. Quimper is the prefecture of the Finistère department, the name Quimper comes from the Breton kemper confluent because the city was built on the confluence of the Steir, Odet and Jet rivers. It is at the intersection of Route National 165, D785, D765, Quimper is the ancient capital of Cornouaille, Brittany’s most traditional region, and has a distinctive Breton character. The Breton origin of the name is Kemper, which means confluence, shops and flags celebrating the regions Celtic heritage can be found throughout the city. Quimper was originally settled during Roman times, by AD495, the town had become a Bishopric. It subsequently became the capital of the counts of Cornouailles, in the eleventh century, it was united with the Duchy of Brittany. During the War of the Breton Succession, the town suffered considerable ruin, in 1364, the duchy passed to the House of Montfort. The town has an atmosphere with footbridges spanning the rivers that flow through it. The Church of Locmaria, a Romanesque structure, dates from the eleventh century, the Cathedral of Saint-Corentin, with its Gothic-style façade, was constructed between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is the oldest Gothic structure in lower Brittany and its two towers are 76 m, its spires were added in the nineteenth century. The fifteenth-century stained glass windows are exceptional, the cathedral is dedicated to Quimpers first bishop, Corentin. To the cathedrals west are the streets of Vieux Quimper with a wide array of crêperies, half-timbered houses. Near the Episcopal palace, which now holds the Musée départemental Breton are the ruins of the towns fifteenth-century walls, nearby is the Musée des beaux-arts de Quimper. The museum has a nineteenth-century façade and an entirely rebuilt interior, the towns best known product is Quimper faience. It has been here since 1690, using bold provincial designs of Jean-Baptiste Bousquet. The town’s eating establishments boast some of the best crêpes and cider in Brittany, the town has also been known for copper and bronze work, food items, galvanized ironware, hosiery, leather, paper and woolen goods. The municipality launched a plan through Ya dar brezhoneg on 6 February 2008. In 2008,4. 61% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools, Quimper has several schools, under which two Diwan preschools, two Diwan primary schools and one Diwan collège
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Quimper, with its
vernacular architecture, is a popular tourist destination
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The Odet River in the centre of Quimper
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Quimper Cathedral
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River Odet
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Catholicism
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The use of terms catholicism and catholicity is closely related to the use of term Catholic Church. The earliest evidence of the use of term is the Letter to the Smyrnaeans that Ignatius of Antioch wrote in about 108 to Christians in Smyrna. In 380, Emperor Theodosius I limited use of the term Catholic Christian exclusively to those who followed the faith as Pope Damasus I of Rome. Numerous other early writers including Cyril of Jerusalem, Augustine of Hippo further developed the use of the term catholic in relation to Christianity. In Christian theology, and specially in ecclesiology, terms Catholicism, when used with small c, terms catholicism and catholicity generally designate theological doctrine of the catholicity of the Church without denominational connotations. A common belief in Catholicism is institutional continuity with the early Christian church founded by Jesus Christ, many churches or communions of churches identify singularly or collectively as the authentic church. The Bishop of Rome was also considered to have the right to convene ecumenical councils, when the Imperial capital moved to Constantinople, Romes influence was sometimes challenged. The first great rupture in the Church followed this Council and they are often called Ancient Oriental Churches. The next major break was after the Council of Chalcedon and this Council repudiated Eutychian Monophysitism which stated that the divine nature completely subsumed the human nature in Christ. This Council declared that Christ, though one person, exhibited two natures without confusion, without change, without division, without separation and thus is both fully God and fully human, the next great rift within Christianity was in the 11th century. This division between the Western Church and the Eastern Church is called the East–West Schism, several eastern churches reunited, constituting some of the Eastern Catholic Churches. Liturgical and canonical practices vary between all these particular Churches constituting the Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches, in all these cases the beliefs and practices of Catholicism would be identical with the beliefs and practices of the Church in question. However, in Roman Catholicism, the term catholic is understood as to cover those who recognize and are in standing with the Magisterium. The sense given to the word by those who use it to distinguish their position from a Calvinistic or Puritan form of Protestantism. It is then meaningful to attempt to draw up a list of common characteristic beliefs, the Roman Catholic Church includes the 23 rites who recognize the Magisterium. Belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, the belief that Christ is made manifest in the elements of Holy Communion, possession of the threefold ordained ministry of Bishops, Priests and Deacons. Belief that the Church is the vessel and deposit of the fullness of the teachings of Jesus and this teaching is preserved in both written scripture and in unwritten tradition, neither being independent of the other. A belief in the necessity and efficacy of sacraments, liturgical and personal use of the Sign of the Cross The use of sacred images, candles, vestments and music, and often incense and water, in worship
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Ruins of gothic Catholic church in
Liptovská Mara (
Slovakia).
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Ancient statue of
Saint Peter in the Basilica dedicated to him in the
Vatican.
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An
Italian priest during the sacrament of
Baptism
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St. Louis, Missouri
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St. Louis is an independent city and major U. S. port in the state of Missouri, built along the western bank of the Mississippi River, on the border with Illinois. Prior to European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. The city of St. Louis was founded in 1764 by French fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, in 1764, following Frances defeat in the Seven Years War, the area was ceded to Spain and retroceded back to France in 1800. In 1803, the United States acquired the territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase, during the 19th century, St. Louis developed as a major port on the Mississippi River. In the 1870 Census, St. Louis was ranked as the 4th-largest city in the United States and it separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics, the economy of metro St. Louis relies on service, manufacturing, trade, transportation of goods, and tourism. This city has become known for its growing medical, pharmaceutical. St. Louis has 2 professional sports teams, the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the city is commonly identified with the 630-foot tall Gateway Arch in Downtown St. Louis. The area that would become St. Louis was a center of the Native American Mississippian culture and their major regional center was at Cahokia Mounds, active from 900 AD to 1500 AD. Due to numerous major earthworks within St. Louis boundaries, the city was nicknamed as the Mound City and these mounds were mostly demolished during the citys development. Historic Native American tribes in the area included the Siouan-speaking Osage people, whose territory extended west, European exploration of the area was first recorded in 1673, when French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette traveled through the Mississippi River valley. Five years later, La Salle claimed the region for France as part of La Louisiane. The earliest European settlements in the area were built in Illinois Country on the east side of the Mississippi River during the 1690s and early 1700s at Cahokia, Kaskaskia, migrants from the French villages on the opposite side of the Mississippi River founded Ste. In early 1764, after France lost the 7 Years War, Pierre Laclède, the early French families built the citys economy on the fur trade with the Osage, as well as with more distant tribes along the Missouri River. The Chouteau brothers gained a monopoly from Spain on the fur trade with Santa Fe, French colonists used African slaves as domestic servants and workers in the city. In 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, St. Louis was attacked by British forces, mostly Native American allies, the founding of St. Louis began in 1763. Pierre Laclede led an expedition to set up a fur-trading post farther up the Mississippi River, before then, Laclede had been a very successful merchant. For this reason, he and his trading partner Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent were offered monopolies for six years of the fur trading in that area
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From top left:
Forest Park Jewel Box,
MetroLink at
Lambert-St. Louis International Airport,
Apotheosis of St. Louis at the
Saint Louis Art Museum, The
Gateway Arch and the St. Louis skyline,
Busch Stadium, and the
St. Louis Zoo
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An illustrated map by F. Graf; Saint Louis in 1896.
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South Broadway after a May 27, 1896, tornado
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Westward view of St. Louis skyline, September 2008.
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John Burroughs School
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Founded in 1923, John Burroughs School is a private, non-sectarian preparatory school with 600 students in grades 7-12. Its 47.5 acre campus is located in Ladue, Missouri and it is named for U. S. naturalist and philosopher John Burroughs. John Burroughs has long had a philosophy of liberal and progressive education. It has been recognized as one of the nations premier preparatory schools, the school ranked among the nations top 50 in sending graduates to eight top universities in a December 2007 survey by the Wall Street Journal. The school operates on a campus of 47.5 acres, facilities include a main classroom building, a performing arts center, a library, a science building, an athletic center, and a fine arts facility. Burroughs also operates an education and biology facility in the Ozarks known as Drey Land. The faculty includes about 88 full-time and 31 part-time members, since 2009, the Head of School has been Andy Abbott, formerly an English teacher and the schools head of college counseling. He replaced Keith Shahan, who held the job for 23 years, each class contains about 100 students, for a total student body of about 600. The primary admission level is seven, but applicants are considered for grades eight through 10 as openings permit. Admission is based on records, recommendations, entrance examination results. The school is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Central States, tuition for the 2014–2015 school year is $24,690. Twenty percent of students receive tuition aid annually in the form of grants, the average award covers more than 70 percent of tuition. For more than a decade, Burroughs has had the highest percentage of semifinalists in the State of Missouri, since 1995, four Presidential Scholars have been Burroughs graduates. Nearly all students go on to attend colleges, including a number to Ivy League schools. The school has more than 6,200 living alumni, the varsity sports teams are referred to as the John Burroughs Bombers. The school colors are blue and gold, the school has an athletic rivalry with nearby Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School. John Burroughs also holds a rivalry with The Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City. The Bombers football team has won the championship in Division 2A in 1975,1980,1985,1989,1991,1992,1995 and 2001
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John Burroughs School
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Jon Hamm
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Jonathan Daniel Jon Hamm is an American actor, director, and television producer best known for playing advertising executive Don Draper for the AMC television drama series, Mad Men. For much of the mid-1990s, he lived in Los Angeles, making appearances in television series Providence, The Division, What About Brian, during 2000, he made his feature movie debut in the space adventure movie Space Cowboys. The next year, he had a role in the independent comedy. He gained wide recognition when Mad Men began broadcast during July 2007 and he directed two episodes of the show. During 2008, Hamm appeared in a remake of the science fiction movie The Day The Earth Stood Still and his first leading movie role was in the 2010 independent thriller Stolen. He also had supporting roles in the movies The Town, Sucker Punch, Hamm has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his performances in Mad Men,30 Rock, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. His other television credits include featuring in the Sky Arts series A Young Doctors Notebook and guest roles in Parks and Recreation and Wet Hot American Summer, First Day of Camp. He provided his voice to the animated movie Shrek Forever After during 2010, Hamm was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Deborah and Daniel Hamm. His father managed a family trucking company, and his mother was a secretary and he is of German, English, and Irish descent, his surname originates with German immigrants. Hamms parents divorced when he was two old, and he lived in Missouri in Creve Coeur with his mother until her death from colon cancer. Hamm then lived with his father and his first acting role was as Winnie the Pooh for first grade. At 16, he was cast as Judas for the play Godspell and he attended John Burroughs School, a private school in Ladue, where he was a member of the football, baseball, and swim teams. During this time, he dated future actress Sarah Clarke and his father died when Jon was 20. After graduation during 1989, Hamm enrolled at the University of Texas, there, Hamm was arrested for participating with a violent hazing incident that occurred during November 1990, involving another student, Mark Sanders. Sanders was beaten with a paddle and a broom, while Hamm was leading him around the fraternity house, the incident resulted in the fraternity being ended on campus. Hamm completed the terms of a deferred adjudication, and the charges were dismissed during August 1995, Hamm then enrolled at the University of Missouri. At Missouri he answered an advertisement from a company seeking players for a production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, auditioned. Other roles followed, such as Leon Czolgosz in Assassins, after graduating during 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Hamm returned to his high school to teach eighth-grade acting
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At Paley Center in 2014
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Hamm in November 2008
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Hamm with former partner
Jennifer Westfeldt at the
60th Primetime Emmy Awards, 2008
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Hamm on the set of
The Town in September 2009.
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Veiled Prophet Ball
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The Veiled Prophet Ball is a dance held each December in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, by a secret society named the Veiled Prophet Organization, first founded by prominent St. Louisans in 1878. The founders intent was to create a local celebration similar to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, eventually to include pageantry. Each year, one member of the Veiled Prophet Organization is chosen to serve as the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, five of the debutantes who attend the ball are chosen by secret process to make up the Veiled Prophets Court of Honor. One is chosen to be crowned the Queen of Love and Beauty by the Veiled Prophet, events also included the Veiled Prophet Fair. In the face of increasing criticism of using resources to support a socially exclusive organization. The Fair was moved from the riverfront to Forest Park in 2014 and 2015 due to construction in the area around the Gateway Memorial Arch and reworking of roadways and the park. The event had its roots in the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Fair and it attracted agricultural crops, crafts, demonstrations and attendees from throughout the region. In the economic difficulties after the American Civil War in the 1870s, City boosters devised the Veiled Prophet Fair in an attempt to reclaim from the rapidly growing city of Chicago, pre-eminence for St. Louis as a manufacturing center and agricultural shipping point. On March 20,1878, Charles Slayback, a broker and former Confederate cavalryman called a meeting of local business leaders at the Lindell Hotel. Together with his brother Alonzo, Slayback created a mythology for an elite society. From Irish poet Thomas Moore, the Slaybacks borrowed the name of the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, in their version, the Prophet was a world traveler who had made St. Louis his home base. The first parade, attracting over 50,000 spectators, the fair was also intended to re-assert the social hierarchy which had been challenged by the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Historian Thomas M. Spencer said this was the first and most successful strike of its type, and unusual for involving large numbers of African American workmen as well as ethnic whites. At the time, the Missouri Republican commented, It will be observed from the accoutrements of the Prophet that the procession is not likely to be stopped by street cars or anything else. Historian Spencer interpreted the reference of the Republican to streetcars as related to the 1877 labor strike, lucy Ferriss wrote about the VP events in her memoir, characterizing St. Louis as the northwest outpost of the Confederacy. The Prophet was selected secretly from among members, who were made up of St. Louis business. The first prophet was Police Commissioner John G. Priest, although the identity of a given years Grand Oracle, or Veiled Prophet, was officially a secret, early holders of the office were reported to include Col. Alonzo W. Slayback, Capt. Frank Gaiennie, John A. Scudder, Henry C, haarstick, George Bain, Robert P. Tansey, George H. Morgan, Col. J. C
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The original figure of the Veiled Prophet emphasized force with shotgun and pistol in hand (and another shotgun at the ready). A few years later, the imagery (below right) was still resolutely patriarchal.
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Program title page, Sixth Veiled Prophet Festival, 1883, produced by the Compton Litho Company
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Field hockey
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Field hockey is a team sport of the hockey family. The earliest origins of the date back to the Middle Ages in England, Scotland, France. The game can be played on a field or a turf field as well as an indoor board surface. Each team plays with eleven players, including the goalie, players use sticks made out of wood, carbon fibre, fibre glass or a combination of carbon fibre and fibre glass in different quantities to hit a round, hard, plastic ball. The length of the stick depends on the players individual height, only one end of the stick is allowed to be used. Goalies often have a different kind of stick, however they can use an ordinary field hockey stick. The specific goal-keeping sticks have another curve at the end of the stick, the uniform consists of shin guards, shoes, shorts, a mouth guard and a jersey. Today, the game is played globally, with particular popularity throughout Western Europe, the Indian subcontinent, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Field Hockey is the national game of India and Pakistan. The term field hockey is used primarily in Canada and the United States where ice hockey is more popular, in Sweden the term landhockey is used. To some degree also in Norway and it is a section of Norways Bandy Association. Until recently they called it hockey, when it was changed to landhockey, during play, goal keepers are the only players who are allowed to touch the ball with any part of their body, while field players play the ball with the flat side of their stick. Goal keepers also cannot play the ball with the back of their stick, whoever scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time or a penalty shootout, there are many variations to overtime play that depend on the league and tournament play. In college play, an overtime period consists of a 10-minute golden goal period with seven players for each team. If a tie remains, the game enters a one-on-one competition where each team chooses 5 players to dribble from the 25 yard line down to the circle against the opposing goalie. The player has 8 seconds to score on the goalie keeping it in bounds, the play ends after a goal is scored, the ball goes out of bounds, a foul is committed or time expires. If the tie still persists extra rounds thereafter until one team has scored, the FIH is also responsible for organising the Hockey Rules Board and developing the rules for the game. A popular variant of field hockey is indoor field hockey, which differs in a number of respects while embodying the principles of hockey
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A game of field hockey
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Relief of 510 B.C. depicting hockey players, in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens
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A game of hockey being played between Germany and Scotland at the 1908 London Olympics
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A
Virginia Cavaliers field player passing the ball
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University of Oxford
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The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. It grew rapidly from 1167 when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris, after disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled north-east to Cambridge where they established what became the University of Cambridge. The two ancient universities are frequently referred to as Oxbridge. The university is made up of a variety of institutions, including 38 constituent colleges, All the colleges are self-governing institutions within the university, each controlling its own membership and with its own internal structure and activities. Being a city university, it not have a main campus, instead, its buildings. Oxford is the home of the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the worlds oldest and most prestigious scholarships, the university operates the worlds oldest university museum, as well as the largest university press in the world and the largest academic library system in Britain. Oxford has educated many notable alumni, including 28 Nobel laureates,27 Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, the University of Oxford has no known foundation date. Teaching at Oxford existed in form as early as 1096. It grew quickly in 1167 when English students returned from the University of Paris, the historian Gerald of Wales lectured to such scholars in 1188 and the first known foreign scholar, Emo of Friesland, arrived in 1190. The head of the university had the title of chancellor from at least 1201, the university was granted a royal charter in 1248 during the reign of King Henry III. After disputes between students and Oxford townsfolk in 1209, some academics fled from the violence to Cambridge, the students associated together on the basis of geographical origins, into two nations, representing the North and the South. In later centuries, geographical origins continued to many students affiliations when membership of a college or hall became customary in Oxford. At about the time, private benefactors established colleges as self-contained scholarly communities. Among the earliest such founders were William of Durham, who in 1249 endowed University College, thereafter, an increasing number of students lived in colleges rather than in halls and religious houses. In 1333–34, an attempt by some dissatisfied Oxford scholars to found a new university at Stamford, Lincolnshire was blocked by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge petitioning King Edward III. Thereafter, until the 1820s, no new universities were allowed to be founded in England, even in London, thus, Oxford and Cambridge had a duopoly, the new learning of the Renaissance greatly influenced Oxford from the late 15th century onwards. Among university scholars of the period were William Grocyn, who contributed to the revival of Greek language studies, and John Colet, the noted biblical scholar. With the English Reformation and the breaking of communion with the Roman Catholic Church, recusant scholars from Oxford fled to continental Europe, as a centre of learning and scholarship, Oxfords reputation declined in the Age of Enlightenment, enrolments fell and teaching was neglected
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Balliol College – one of the university's oldest constituent colleges
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University of Oxford
seal
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Aerial view of
Merton College 's
Mob Quad, the oldest
quadrangle of the university, constructed in the years from 1288 to 1378
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In 1605 Oxford was still a walled city, but several colleges had been built outside the city walls (north is at the bottom on this map)
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Worcester College
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Worcester College /ˈwʊstər/ is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes and its predecessor, Gloucester College, had been an institution of learning on the same site since the late 13th century until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. As of July 2010, Worcester had an endowment of £16.7 million. After a lapse of 20 years, the buildings of the old Gloucester College were used in the foundation of Gloucester Hall and this was a going concern from 1699 to 1705, although only 15 Greeks are recorded as members. In 1714, thanks to a benefaction from a Worcestershire baronet, Sir Thomas Cookes. Even then, there were sufficient funds to rebuild the Chapel, Hall and Library. The designs were by Dr. George Clarke, who had consulted Nicholas Hawksmoor, in 1736, Clarke generously left to the College his great collection of books and manuscripts. These included the papers of his father William Clarke and a proportion of the surviving drawings of Inigo Jones. Owing to lack of funds, Worcesters eighteenth-century building programme proceeded by fits and starts, the west end of the Terrace and the Provosts Lodgings were added in 1773–76. In more recent years new residential blocks for undergraduates and graduates have been added. The latest of these include the Earl building, Sainsbury Building, Linbury Building, Canal Building, Ruskin Lane Building, and the Franks Building. A modern addition to Worcester College, the Canal Building, sits next to the entrance to the college and, as the name suggests. It houses 50 students in large single rooms. The accommodation is usually reserved for third and fourth year undergraduates, the College Chapel was built in the 18th century. Dr George Clarke, Henry Keene and James Wyatt were responsible for different stages of its lengthy construction, the interior columns and pilasters, the dome and the delicate foliage plastering are all Wyatts work. His classical interior was insufficiently emphatic for the tastes of militant Victorian churchmen and its stained glass windows were to have been designed by John Everett Millais, but Burges rejected his designs and entrusted the work to Henry Holiday. Oscar Wilde said of the Chapel, As a piece of decorative and beautiful art it is perfect. Worcester is unique among the Oxford colleges in that it has not one, there is a mixed-voice choir constituted of auditioned choral scholars and volunteers, which sings twice a week, weekly on Thursday and on alternating Sunday and Monday evenings
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Colleges and
halls of the
University of Oxford Worcester College
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Worcester College in the early 19th century. The projecting wings are the Hall (left) and the Chapel (right)
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Worcester's playing fields
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The main quadrangle of Worcester College; on the left are the medieval buildings known as "the cottages", the most substantial surviving part of
Gloucester College, Worcester's predecessor.
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Princeton Triangle Club
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The Princeton Triangle Club is a theater troupe at Princeton University. The club is known for its tradition of featuring an all-male kickline in drag, the troupe presents several shows throughout the year. In September at the end of the Universitys Freshman Week it presents a revue of popular material from previous years, in autumn it puts on an original student-written musical comedy in McCarter Theatre, then takes this show on tour over the Winter holiday season. In spring it puts on another show in a smaller venue. During reunions after the end of the semester, it relaunches the previous autumns show at McCarter. The history of the Princeton Triangle Club reflects many major social, cultural, economic, political, literary and it also traces the evolution of both undergraduate life and theatrical endeavors at Princeton University. Triangle’s history is documented in several ways, the Long Kickline, A History of the Princeton Triangle Club, written in 1968 by Donald Marsden 64, provides a detailed chronology of the organization through the production of Sham on Wry in 1966-67. The senior thesis of Nancy Barnes ’91, One Hundred Years and Still Kicking, A History of the Princeton Triangle Club, updates this written record. The Triangle Club archives begin in 1883 with a production of the Princeton College Dramatic Association, in keeping with the practice of British and American all-male institutions at the time, womens roles were played by men. Entracte music, provided by the Instrumental or Banjo Clubs, consisted of dance tunes or operatic excerpts. In 1891 the Dramatic Association joined forces with the University Glee Club to present Po-ca-hon-tas, according to a New York review, the reworked John Brougham play featured new topical songs and local hits and was well received, both on campus and in a Trenton performance. But the faculty vetoed a proposed New York performance, and over the years, students, nevertheless, the Association visited Trenton once again the following year with Katharine, a Shakespearean spoof marking the first appearance of Booth Tarkington 1893 in the Triangle records. The 1893 production, The Honorable Julius Caesar, was again a reworking of Shakespeare, Tarkington, a senior and president of the Dramatic Association, was prominent as both co-author of the book and as actor in the role of Cassius. The show was so successful that it was repeated the following year, most importantly, the Princeton University Dramatic Association had been renamed the Triangle Club of Princeton. If Wilson did indeed coach, the club had its first professional director in its very first show under the name Triangle, financial problems caused Club members to curtail expenses in 1895. Neither the February production, Whos Who, nor the May offering, Snowball, were written by students, the Mummy was also notable as the first production in Triangles new home, the Casino, located on the lower campus near the present-day McCarter Theatre site. Yet another innovation was attempted in 1897, a Tiger Lily, the first Triangle show to be based on Princeton student life, was part of a double bill with Lend Me Five Shillings, a British farce. Since neither show was a success, the Club returned to the tried
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McCarter Theatre, before the Triangle Show.
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"Heist Almighty" (Triangle Club Mainstage show of 2006). The male ensemble approaches the traditional kickline number.
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Screen Actors Guild
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The Screen Actors Guild was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide. On March 30,2012, the leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to merge with the American Federation of Television. The Screen Actors Guild was associated with the Associated Actors and Artistes of America, AAAA is affiliated with the AFL–CIO. Internationally, the SAG was affiliated with the International Federation of Actors. C, since 1995, the guild annually awarded the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which are considered an indicator of success at the Academy Awards. This award is continued by SAG-AFTRA, in 1925, the Masquers Club was formed by actors discontent with the grueling work hours at the Hollywood studios. This was one of the concerns which led to the creation of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933. A meeting in March 1933 of six led to the guilds foundation. Aubrey Smith, Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace, many high-profile actors refused to join SAG initially. This changed when the producers made an agreement amongst themselves not to bid competitively for talent, a pivotal meeting, at the home of Frank Morgan, was what gave SAG its critical mass. Cantors participation was critical, particularly because of his friendship with the recently elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt, after several years and the passage of the National Labor Relations Act, the producers agreed to negotiate with SAG in 1937. Robinson, Edwin Stanley, Gloria Stuart, Lyle Talbot, Franchot Tone, Warren William, Ten of those summoned, dubbed the Hollywood Ten, refused to cooperate and were charged with contempt of Congress and sentenced to prison. The president of SAG – future United States President Ronald Reagan – also known to the FBI as Confidential Informant T-10, testified before the committee but never publicly named names. He felt that lacking a definite stand on the part of the government, subsequently, a climate of fear, enhanced by the threat of detention under the provisions of the McCarran Internal Security Act, permeated the film industry. On November 17,1947, the Screen Actors Guild voted to force its officers to take a non-communist pledge, none of those blacklisted were proven to advocate overthrowing the government – most simply had Marxist or socialist views. The Waldorf Statement marked the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist that saw hundreds of people prevented from working in the film industry, unfortunately, there are no credits to restore, nor any other belated recognition that we can offer our members who were blacklisted. They could not work under assumed names or employ surrogates to front for them, an actors work and his or her identity are inseparable. The Screen Actors Guild Ethnic Minorities Committee was co-founded in 1972 by actors Henry Darrow, Edith Diaz, Ricardo Montalban, the Screen Actors Guild Womens Committee was founded in 1972. In 1998, Naomi Marquez filed suit against SAG and Lakeside Productions claiming they had breached their duty of fair representation, the claim was denied by the Supreme Court
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The Hollywood Professional Building housed SAG headquarters in the 1940s
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Kmart
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Kmart Corporation is a chain of big box department stores headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, United States. The chain purchased Sears for $11 billion in 2005, forming a new corporation under the name Sears Holdings Corporation, the Kmart name was incorporated in 1916 while the first store didnt open its doors until 1962. At its peak in 2000, Kmart operated 2,171 stores including 105 Super Center locations, for the 2005 fiscal year under the new company, the Kmart store count was at 1,416 with only 55 Super Center locations. Currently, the chain is operating 734 stores with only 1 Super Center location remaining and this number will decrease further due to the previously announced closings that will take place in Q12017. It operates stores in 49 states, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands and it also used to operate stores in Canada, Mexico, and Eastern Europe. At the height of Kmarts popularity, the phrase Attention Kmart shoppers. Entered into the American pop psyche, appearing in films and other such as Troop Beverly Hills, Six Days Seven Nights, Rain Man, Beetlejuice, Madea Goes to Jail. Kmarts world headquarters were located in Troy, Michigan, in Metro Detroit, but since the purchase of Sears, it has relocated to Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Kmart also exists in Australia and New Zealand, although it now has no relation to the American stores except in name, in 1912, Kresge incorporated the S. S. Kresge Corporation with eighty-five stores. The company was first listed on the New York Stock Exchange on May 23,1918, during World War I, Kresge experimented with raising the limit on prices in his stores to $1. By 1924, Kresge was worth approximately $375 million and owned real estate of the value of $100 million. Early century growth remained brisk, with 257 stores in 1924 growing to 597 stores operating in 1929, Kresge retired as president in 1925. The Great Depression reduced profitability and resulted in store closings, with the reduced to 682 in 1940. After the war shopping patterns changed and many moved out of the cities into the suburbs. The Kresge company followed them and closed and merged many urban stores so that by 1954 the total number of stores in the US had declined to 616. Under the leadership of executive Harry Cunningham, S. S. Kresge Corp. opened the first Kmart store on March 1,1962, in Garden City, Michigan, just four months before the first Walmart opened. This store is still in operation as a Big Kmart store but will be closed in March 2017, eighteen Kmart stores opened that year. Kmart Foods, a chain of Kmart supermarkets, opened in that decade
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The exterior of the first Super Kmart Center store in
Medina, Ohio as it appears after its closure.
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The KDollar logo (November 2012–present)
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The Kresge Corporation headquarters from 1914 to 1930 (currently named the
Kales Building) in
downtown Detroit.
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Tarantula
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Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy arachnids belonging to the Theraphosidae family of spiders, of which approximately 900 species have been identified. This article only describes members of Theraphosidae, although other members of the same suborder are commonly referred to as tarantulas. Except in cases of no species of tarantula are dangerous to humans. Like all arthropods, the tarantula is an invertebrate that relies on an exoskeleton for muscular support, like other Arachnida a tarantula’s body comprises two main parts, the prosoma and the opisthosoma. The prosoma and opisthosoma are connected by the pedicel, or pregenital somite and this waist-like connecting piece is actually part of the prosoma and allows the opisthosoma to move in a wide range of motion relative to the prosoma. Tarantulas sizes range from as small as a fingernail to as large as a plate when the legs are fully extended. Depending on the species, the length of tarantulas ranges from 2.5 to 10 centimetres. Leg span is determined by measuring from the tip of the leg to the tip of the front leg on the opposite side. The fang size of this reaches a maximum of 1.5 inches. Two other species, Lasiodora parahybana and Lasiodora klugi, rival the size of the two goliath spiders, most species of North American tarantulas are brown. Elsewhere species have found that variously display cobalt blue, black with white stripes, yellow leg markings. Their natural habitats include savanna, grasslands such as the pampas, rainforests, deserts, scrubland, mountains and they are generally classed among the terrestrial types. They are burrowers that live in the ground, tarantulas are becoming increasingly popular as pets and some species are readily available in captivity. The spider originally bearing the name tarantula was Lycosa tarantula, a species of spider native to Mediterranean Europe. When theraphosids were encountered in the Americas, they were named tarantulas, nevertheless, these spiders belong to the suborder Mygalomorphae, and are not closely related to wolf spiders. The name tarantula is also applied to other large-bodied spiders, including the purseweb spiders or atypical tarantulas, the funnel-webs, and these spiders are related to tarantulas, but are classified in different families. Huntsman spiders of the family Sparassidae have also been termed tarantulas because of their large size, in fact, they are not related, belonging to the suborder Araneomorphae. Tarantulas of various species occur throughout the United States, in Central America, other species occur variously throughout Africa, much of Asia and all of Australia
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A tarantula next to a US size 11 shoe, to show scale
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Sub-adult Female
Poecilotheria regalis
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Claws at the end of the leg of
Lasiodora parahybana
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Important Things with Demetri Martin
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Important Things with Demetri Martin is a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode examined a single theme, the important thing, such as timing, power, control, all sketches, short vignettes, animated segments and stand-up comedy were loosely related to the theme of the episode. The show was produced by Jon Stewarts Busboy Productions, and contained stand-up, prop comedy and musical comedy by Martin, Jon Stewart took an active role in editing the first few episodes. This is followed with a joke via flashcards. The card generally has play-buttons with a caption under them, which Demetri then reads and decides which one he will choose, good, Bad, Interesting – Demetri presents a good, a bad and an interesting reaction to topics based on everyday life situations. – Often used as a transition, this segment features a humorous concept related to the shows topic in which one or more cast members will act out. Important Things Things – An infomercial narrated by Demetri in which imaginary products related to the topic are advertised for sale. The products are often impractical or unnecessary like the Burning-Hand Potholder featured in the Strategy episode. Demetrocles/Da Mici – In this segment, Demetri presents a concept related to the shows topic as an ancient philosopher much like Socrates or Plato or an inventor like Da Vinci. Other Jokes – This segment consists of jokes about the topic that werent included in the Opening Act. New Expressions – In this segment Demetri is approached by a series of people talk about different situations. Demetri responds to each person with an original saying/expression that applies to the situation. The Comedy Central show premiered on Wednesday February 11,2009 and attracted 2.4 million viewers, the show has received generally positive reviews from critics, and currently has a 71/100 rating on metacritic. com, based on 8 reviews. During a comedy show at College Park, Maryland on October 28,2010, official website Important Things with Demetri Martin at the Internet Movie Database Important Things with Demetri Martin at TV. com Demetri Martin Gets His Own Show. Demetri Martin gets his own show on Comedy Central Blogcritics – review – TV Preview, Important Things with Demetri Martin Premieres Feb.11
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E!
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Entertainment Television, LLC is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable division of NBCUniversal, all owned by Comcast. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films, and occasionally series, as of February 2015, E. has an audience reach of approximately 94,296,000 American households. The channel is available in Canada, which broadcasts original programming at the same as the United States and localized versions across Europe, Asia. The channel was founded by Larry Namer and Alan Mruvka, early Movietime hosts included Greg Kinnear, Paula Abdul, Katie Wagner, Julie Moran, Suzanne Kay, Mark DeCarlo, Sam Rubin and Richard Blade. In 1997, Comcast, one of the minority partners, teamed up with Disney/ABC Cable Networks to buy the channel after Time-Warner had exercised their put agreement. In November 2006, Comcast acquired Disneys 39. 5% share of E. for $1.23 billion to gain ownership of the network as part of a broader programming carriage agreement between Disney/ABC and Comcast. E. s only sister networks prior to the NBC Universal merger were Style Network and G4, along with Comcasts sports networks, Versus, Comcast SportsNet, the network also started the process of introducing scripted programming, in addition to its existing reality and documentary series. The changes were announced during E. s programming upfront presentation on April 30,2012. E. is one of the few U. S. general-entertainment cable channels that broadcasts a news program, its flagship entertainment news program is E. News. It was first hosted by Dagny Hultgreen, steve Kmetko was a host from 1994-2002. It has been hosted by Terrence Jenkins and Giuliana Rancic since 2012 and 2006, respectively, E. announced that the weekday editions of E. News would be expanded to one hour starting on October 25,2010. During its time on E. the 5 to 8 a. m. block was the most watched period for the network, outside of E. News telecasts, the channel runs an E. E. The network also produces a decent amount of documentary and biographical series, true Hollywood Story, many of E. s original specials are entertainment-related ranging from light fare to serious fare. In recent years, the network has become known for its reality television programs. Its most popular series as of 2011 is Keeping Up with the Kardashians, other original programming airing on the network includes Hello Ross, The Soup, Fashion Police, and Married to Jonas. However, feature films airing on the display the original studio production credits at the traditional end of program placement. The only programming currently airing on E. with higher-grossing films premiering on USA Network, the HD feed is available on most cable and telco providers, along with both satellite services. Columnists featured on the website include Kristin dos Santos, Ted Casablanca, as part of the rebrand of the cable channel on July 9,2012, EOnline. com was redesigned for HTML5, including tablet and mobile devices
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E!'s logo from the launch under that branding. Used from June 1, 1990 until July 9, 2012 for the US flagship channel. Still in use for many of E!'s international networks.
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Fuse TV
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Fuse accommodates a wide range of music tastes, while targeting a demographic of young adults between 18 and 34 years old. It also offers music content through its website, its video on demand service, as of February 2015, Fuse is available to approximately 71,491,000 pay television households in the United States. The channel originally launched on July 1,1994, as MuchMusic USA, CHUM would later sell its 50% stake in the network to Cablevision, but allowed the continued use of the MuchMusic name under a brand licensing agreement. By December 2002, MMUSA had replaced almost the entirety of its schedule with domestically produced programming, after CHUM revoked its licensing agreement for the U. S. channel to use the MuchMusic brand, Cablevision announced that it would relaunch MMUSA as Fuse in 2003. The channel officially relaunched as Fuse on May 19,2003, Fuse originally focused on more underground and indie music genres. Today, the focuses on a much broader range of music genres such as pop, urban, punk. In its early days, Fuse programming was also very music-intensive, the network indirectly bashed MTV with a slogan touting Fuse as the channel where the music went. Fuse also works with the Vans Warped Tour, Voodoo Experience, in 2009, Fuse debuted a two-minute music news program called The Daily Noise which is updated courtesy of Billboard Magazine. In April 2010, Cablevisions MSG unit, including Fuse, was spun off as a publicly traded company. On June 20,2010, Fuse simulcast the 2010 MuchMusic Video Awards, other MuchMusic programming would return in 2011, including The Wedge and Video on Trial. Blink-182 and former +44 singer/bassist Mark Hoppus began hosting his own television series on Fuse that year. On June 28,2011, Vevo and Fuse entered into a video syndication, as part of the partnership, Fuse. tv syndicates Vevos music video and entertainment programming, including exclusive music video premieres, live music events, and originally produced series. Through its Fuse Presents series, the network has also presented live concerts from various venues, the concert was simulcast by MuchMusic in Canada. August 30,2011, Red Hot Chili Peppers from The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, December 16,2011, Swedish House Mafia live from Madison Square Garden. December 17,2011, The National live from The Beacon Theatre, December 18,2011, Z100s Jingle Ball 2011 live from Madison Square Garden. In the fall of 2012, Fuse refocused itself with a new branding campaign designed by Loyalkaspar. During music video programming, the channel runs a ticker which features the latest news stories from Fuse News and that winter, Fuse launched a mobile app for Android and iOS devices. In November 2012, Fuse announced the launch of Fuse News, the channel continues to focus on music but has also diversified with reality shows such as Off Beat and Ex-wives of Rock
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Fuse studios are located on
Seventh Avenue across from
Madison Square Garden
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The Colbert Report
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The show focused on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. The character, described by Colbert as a well-intentioned, poorly informed, furthermore, the show satirized conservative personality-driven political talk programs, particularly Fox Newss The OReilly Factor. The Colbert Report is a spin-off of Comedy Centrals The Daily Show, the program was created by Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Ben Karlin. The shows writing was grounded in improvisation, and often lampooned current events stories, the shows structure also included a guest interview, in which the Colbert character attempts to deconstruct his opponents argument. The show was taped in New York Citys Hells Kitchen neighborhood, the show was taped and broadcast Monday through Thursday, with weeks taken off at multiple points in a given year for breaks. The Colbert Report saw immediate critical and ratings successes, leading to various awards, the shows cultural influence—which occasionally would require a fair degree of participation from the show’s audience, dubbed the Colbert Nation—extended beyond the program a number of times. This impact included the running for U. S. In addition, the show inspired various forms of multimedia, including music, the Colbert Report satirized conservative personality-driven political pundit programs, and focused on a fictional anchorman character named Stephen Colbert, played by his real-life namesake. Colbert joined Comedy Centrals The Daily Show in 1997, a year following its launch, when Jon Stewart became the programs host in 1999, The Daily Show developed a markedly different style, bringing a sharper political focus to the humor than the show previously exhibited. Colbert recalled that Stewart specifically asked him to have a political viewpoint, Colbert became a fixture on The Daily Show, occasionally hosting in Stewarts absence. In 2003, the program began running advertisements for a program titled The Colbert Réport. When fellow Daily Show star Steve Carell left to pursue a film and television career and he pitched The Colbert Report to the channel in 2004. Stewart pushed Comedy Central to pick up the show, and Colbert was given an eight-week tryout, following the shows immediate success, the show quickly became a fixture in the late-night lineup. At its peak, the show averaged 1.5 million viewers each evening, the fictional Colbert anchorman character became gradually toned down over the course of the shows run, as the host believed he would eventually need to move beyond it. He began to regard it as an act of discipline to perform as the character, he remarked, to model behavior. It became very hard to watch punditry of any kind, of whatever political stripe. With his contract set to end in December 2014, he had decided to leave the show when he was contacted by CBS to replace David Letterman as the host of its Late Show franchise. The shows ending was announced concurrently with Colberts jump to CBS in April 2014, the last episode aired on December 18,2014
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Colbert on the set of The Colbert Report in 2011.
The Colbert Report
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The show is a
spin-off of
The Daily Show, hosted by
Jon Stewart, seen here in 2005.
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Outside the studio
