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University of Warwick
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The University of Warwick is a research university in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education, Warwick Business School was established in 1967 and Warwick Medical School was opened in 2000. Warwick merged with Coventry College of Education in 1979 and Horticulture Research International in 2004, Warwick is primarily based on a 290 hectare campus on the outskirts of Coventry with a satellite campus in Wellesbourne and a London base at the Shard in central London. It is organised into four faculties—Arts, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences—within which there are 32 departments. Warwick has around 23,600 full-time students and 1,800 academic and research staff and had an income of £573.6 million in 2015/16. Warwick Arts Centre, an arts complex in the universitys main campus, is the largest venue of its kind in the UK outside London. It was ranked 7th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality of its research, entrance is competitive, with around 7 applicants per place for undergraduate study. Warwick has been ranked as the worlds 20th best university based on employer reputation, Warwick is a member of AACSB, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of MBAs, EQUIS, the European University Association, the M5 Group, the Russell Group and Universities UK. It is the only European member of the Center for Urban Science and Progress, the university has extensive commercial activities, including the University of Warwick Science Park and Warwick Manufacturing Group. The idea for a university in Warwickshire was first mooted shortly after the Second World War, a partnership of the city and county councils ultimately provided the impetus for the university to be established on a 400-acre site jointly granted by the two authorities. There was some discussion between local sponsors from both the city and county over whether it should be named after Coventry or Warwickshire. The name University of Warwick was adopted, even though the County Town of Warwick itself lies some 8 miles to its southwest, the establishment of the University of Warwick was given approval by the government in 1961 and received its Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1965. Since then, the university has incorporated the former Coventry College of Education in 1979 and has extended its holdings by the continuing purchase of adjoining farm land. The university also benefited from a donation from the family of Jack Martin. The university initially admitted a small intake of students in 1964. Since its establishment Warwick has expanded its grounds to 721 acres with modern buildings and academic facilities, lakes. In the 1960s and 1970s, Warwick had a reputation as a radical institution. More recently, the university was seen as an institution of the Labour government which was in power from 1997 to 2010
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Warwick Arts Centre at night
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The University of Warwick
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Ian Davenport 's Everything (2004) in the Warwick Mathematics Institute.
University of Warwick
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L to R: International Manufacturing Centre (IMC), Department of Computer Science (DCS), Zeeman Building (Maths and Statistics)
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Coventry
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Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. Historically part of Warwickshire, Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and it is the second largest city in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham, with a population of 345,385 in 2015. Coventry is 95 miles northwest of central London,19 miles east-south-east of Birmingham,24 miles southwest of Leicester and 11 miles north of Warwick. Coventry Cathedral was built after the destruction of the 14th century cathedral church of Saint Michael by the German Luftwaffe in the Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940, Coventry motor companies have contributed significantly to the British motor industry. The city has two universities, Coventry University in the city centre and the University of Warwick on the southern outskirts. The Romans founded a settlement in Baginton, next to the River Sowe, and another formed around a Saxon nunnery, founded c. AD700 by St Osburga, that was later left in ruins by King Canutes invading Danish army in 1016. Earl Leofric of Mercia and his wife Lady Godiva built on the remains of the nunnery, in time, a market was established at the abbey gates and the settlement expanded. By the 14th century, Coventry was an important centre of the cloth trade, the bishops of Lichfield were often referred to as bishops of Coventry and Lichfield, or Lichfield and Coventry. Coventry claimed the status of a city by ancient prescriptive usage, was granted a charter of incorporation in 1345, the plays that William Shakespeare witnessed in Coventry during his boyhood or teens may have influenced how his plays, such as Hamlet, came about. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Coventry became one of the three main British centres of watch and clock manufacture and ranked alongside Prescot, in Lancashire, in the late 19th century, Coventry became a major centre of bicycle manufacture. The industry energised by the invention by James Starley and his nephew John Kemp Starley of the Rover safety bicycle, by the early 20th century, bicycle manufacture had evolved into motor manufacture, and Coventry became a major centre of the British motor industry. Jaguar is owned by the Indian company, Tata Motors, with many of the citys older properties becoming increasingly unfit for habitation, the first council houses were let to their tenants in 1917. With Coventrys industrial base continuing to soar after the end of the Great War a year later, numerous private and council housing developments took place across the city in the 1920s and 1930s. The development of a southern by-pass around the city, starting in the 1930s and being completed in 1940, Coventry suffered severe bomb damage during the Second World War. There was a massive Luftwaffe air raid, part of the Coventry Blitz, firebombing on this date led to severe damage to large areas of the city centre and to Coventrys historic cathedral, leaving only a shell and the spire. More than 4,000 houses were damaged or destroyed, along with three quarters of the citys industrial plants. More than 800 people were killed, with injured and homeless. Aside from London, Hull and Plymouth, Coventry suffered more damage than any other British city during the Luftwaffe attacks, following the raids, the majority of Coventrys historic buildings could not be saved as they were in ruinous states or were deemed unsafe for any future use
Coventry
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Skyline of Coventry city centre
Coventry
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A 1972
Hillman Avenger Tiger, produced in Coventry by Chrysler Competitions Department.
Coventry
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Coventry precinct with spire of ruined cathedral in the background.
Coventry
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North
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Music
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Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time. The common elements of music are pitch, rhythm, dynamics, different styles or types of music may emphasize, de-emphasize or omit some of these elements. The word derives from Greek μουσική, Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as the harmony of the spheres and it is music to my ears point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, There is no noise, the creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. There are many types of music, including music, traditional music, art music, music written for religious ceremonies. For example, it can be hard to draw the line between some early 1980s hard rock and heavy metal, within the arts, music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art or as an auditory art. People may make music as a hobby, like a teen playing cello in a youth orchestra, the word derives from Greek μουσική. According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, the music is derived from mid-13c. Musike, from Old French musique and directly from Latin musica the art of music and this is derived from the. Greek mousike of the Muses, from fem. of mousikos pertaining to the Muses, from Mousa Muse. In classical Greece, any art in which the Muses presided, Music is composed and performed for many purposes, ranging from aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, or as an entertainment product for the marketplace. With the advent of recording, records of popular songs. Some music lovers create mix tapes of their songs, which serve as a self-portrait. An environment consisting solely of what is most ardently loved, amateur musicians can compose or perform music for their own pleasure, and derive their income elsewhere. Professional musicians sometimes work as freelancers or session musicians, seeking contracts and engagements in a variety of settings, There are often many links between amateur and professional musicians. Beginning amateur musicians take lessons with professional musicians, in community settings, advanced amateur musicians perform with professional musicians in a variety of ensembles such as community concert bands and community orchestras. However, there are many cases where a live performance in front of an audience is also recorded and distributed. Live concert recordings are popular in classical music and in popular music forms such as rock, where illegally taped live concerts are prized by music lovers
Music
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A painting on an Ancient Greek vase depicts a music lesson (c. 510 BC).
Music
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Jean-Gabriel Ferlan performing at a 2008 concert at the collège-lycée Saint-François Xavier
Music
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The composer
Michel Richard Delalande, pen in hand.
Music
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Funk places most of its emphasis on rhythm and
groove, with entire songs based around a
vamp on a single chord. Pictured are the influential funk musicians
George Clinton and
Parliament Funkadelic in 2006.
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Film
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A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession, the process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry. The word cinema, short for cinematography, is used to refer to the industry of films. Films were originally recorded onto plastic film through a photochemical process, the adoption of CGI-based special effects led to the use of digital intermediates. Most contemporary films are now fully digital through the process of production, distribution. Films recorded in a form traditionally included an analogous optical soundtrack. It runs along a portion of the film exclusively reserved for it and is not projected, Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures. They reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them, Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens. The visual basis of film gives it a power of communication. Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles to translate the dialog into the language of the viewer, some have criticized the film industrys glorification of violence and its potentially negative treatment of women. The individual images that make up a film are called frames, the perception of motion is due to a psychological effect called phi phenomenon. The name film originates from the fact that film has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for a motion picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Terms for the field, in general, include the big screen, the screen, the movies, and cinema. In early years, the sheet was sometimes used instead of screen. Preceding film in origin by thousands of years, early plays and dances had elements common to film, scripts, sets, costumes, production, direction, actors, audiences, storyboards, much terminology later used in film theory and criticism apply, such as mise en scène. Owing to the lack of any technology for doing so, the moving images, the magic lantern, probably created by Christiaan Huygens in the 1650s, could be used to project animation, which was achieved by various types of mechanical slides
Film
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A vintage Fox movietone motion picture camera
Film
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The
Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first
cinema ever, with a short film presented by the
Skladanowsky brothers on 1 November 1895. The image depicts a July 1940
variety show.
Film
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A shot from
Georges Méliès Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902), an early narrative film.
Film
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This
16 mm spring-wound
Bolex "H16" Reflex camera is a popular entry level camera used in
film schools.
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Midlands (England)
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The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia. It borders South East England, South West England, North West England, Yorkshire and Humber, East of England and its largest city is Birmingham, and it was an important location for the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. The greater part of the area is formed of two English statistical regions, the West Midlands and East Midlands, the Midlands does not correspond to any current administrative area, and there is therefore no strict definition. With more restricted boundaries than the area known as the Midlands. These are also constituencies of the European Parliament, the East Midlands region comprises the shire counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire and the unitary county of Rutland. The two regions have a population of 10,135,000, and an area of 11,053 sq mi. The largest Midlands conurbation, which includes the cities of Birmingham, various part of the Midlands are somewhat poetically referred to as the Heart of England, especially in tourist literature. The various areas of the Midlands have their own character, giving rise to a high number of local history. Nottingham played a part in the English Civil War, which is commemorated in a number of place names. Areas such as Derbyshires Amber Valley and Erewash combine attractive countryside with industrial heritage and are home to historic canals, the Black Country, broadly the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Wolverhampton and Walsall, played an important part in the Industrial Revolution. The Midlands is predominantly low-lying and flat in character, although isolated hills such as Turners Hill have extensive views. Upland areas lie in the west and north of the region with the Shropshire Hills to the west, close to the Welsh border, the Shropshire Hills reach heights of over 500 m, including the Long Mynd, Clee Hills and Stiperstones ridge. Wenlock Edge, running through the middle of the Shropshire Hills AONB, is a long, low ridge, the Peak District reaches heights of between 300 m and 600 m with Kinder Scout being the highest point at 636 m. Further south, the Welsh border reaches over 700 m high, at Black Mountain, other small areas of lower hills in the Midlands include Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, and the Lincolnshire Wolds in Lincolnshire. The Cotswolds – designated an AONB in 1966, – extend for over 90 miles through six counties, but centred on Gloucestershire. They reach a highest point of 330 m at Cleeve Hill, the Malverns are formed of some of the oldest rock in England and extend for some 13 km through two West Midlands counties as well as northern Gloucestershire in the southwest. The highest point of the hills is the Worcestershire Beacon at 425 m above sea level, the Midlands has a temperate maritime climate. With cold, cloudy, wet winters and comfortable, mostly dry, the temperature usually ranges from −0.4 °C during winter nights to 24.1 °C during summer days
Midlands (England)
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The Midlands in England
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
United Kingdom
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Stonehenge, in
Wiltshire, was erected around 2500 BC.
United Kingdom
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Flag
United Kingdom
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The
Bayeux Tapestry depicts the
Battle of Hastings, 1066, and the events leading to it.
United Kingdom
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The
Treaty of Union led to a single united kingdom encompassing all Great Britain.
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Barbican Centre
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The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The Centre hosts classical and contemporary concerts, theatre performances, film screenings. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory, the Barbican Centre is member of the Global Cultural Districts Network. The London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra are based in the Centres Concert Hall, in 2013, it once again became the London-based venue of the Royal Shakespeare Company following the companys departure in 2001. The Barbican Centre is owned, funded, and managed by the City of London Corporation and it was built as The Citys gift to the nation at a cost of £161 million and was officially opened to the public by Queen Elizabeth II on 3 March 1982. The Barbican Centre is also known for its brutalist architecture, Barbican Hall, capacity 1,943, home of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It is one of the largest public libraries in London and has an arts library, a large music library. The Barbican Library houses the London Collection of historical books and resources, some of which date back 300 years, the library presents regular literary events and has an art exhibition space for hire. The music library has two free practice pianos for public use, the Barbican Centre had a long development period, only opening long after the surrounding Barbican Estate housing complex had been built. It is situated in an area which was bombed during World War II. The Barbican Centre, designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon in the Brutalist style, has a complex layout with numerous entrances. Lines painted on the ground help would-be audience members avoid getting lost on the walkways of the Barbican Housing Estate on the way to the centre, the Barbican Centres design – a concrete ziggurat – has always been controversial and divides opinion. It was voted Londons ugliest building in a Grey London poll in September 2003, in September 2001, arts minister Tessa Blackstone announced that the Barbican Centre complex was to be a Grade II listed building. It has been designated a site of architectural interest for its scale, its cohesion. The same architectural practice also designed the Barbican Housing Estate and the nearby Golden Lane Estate, project architect John Honer later worked on the British Library at St Pancras – a red brick ziggurat. In the mid-1990s, an improvement scheme by Theo Crosby, of the Pentagram design studio, added statues. That improvement scheme added a bridge linking the Silk Street foyer area with the lakeside foyer area. The centres Silk Street entrance, previously dominated by an access for vehicles, was modified to give pedestrian access
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The Barbican Centre
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Barbican Centre
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Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
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The Barbican Hall of the Barbican Centre
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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area
London
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Palace of Westminster,
Buckingham Palace and
Central London skyline
London
London
London
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The name London may derive from the
River Thames
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Movie theater
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A movie theater or movie theatre is a venue, usually a building, that contains an auditorium for viewing films, for entertainment. Most, but not all, movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, Some movie theaters, however, are operated by non-profit organizations or societies which charge members a membership fee to view films. The film is projected with a projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium while the dialogue, sounds. Since the 1970s, subwoofers have used for low-pitched sounds. In the 2010s, most movie theaters are equipped for digital cinema projection, removing the need to create, a great variety of films are shown at cinemas, ranging from animated films for children, blockbusters for general audiences and documentaries for patrons who are interested in non-fiction topics. The smallest movie theaters have a viewing room with a single screen. In the 2010s, most movie theaters have multiple screens, the largest theater complexes, which are called multiplexes—a design developed in the U. S. in the 1960s—have up to 25 screens. The audience members sit on padded seats which in most theaters are set up on a sloped floor. Movie theaters typically sell soft drinks, popcorn and candy and some theaters also sell hot fast food, in some jurisdictions, movie theaters are licensed to sell alcoholic drinks. A movie theater may also be referred to as a theatre, movie house, film house. In the US, theater has long been the preferred spelling, while in the UK, Canada, the latter terms, as well as their derivative adjectives cinematic and kinematic, ultimately derive from Greek κινῆμα, κινήματος —movement, motion. In the countries where those terms are used, the theatre is usually reserved for live performance venues. Colloquial expressions, mostly applied to motion pictures and motion picture theaters collectively, include the silver screen, specific to North American term is the movies, while specific terms in the UK are the pictures, the flicks and for the facility itself the flea pit. A screening room is a theater, often a private one. Open air place in ancient times for viewing spectacles and plays, the term theater comes from the Old French word theatre, from the 12th century and. The use of the theatre to mean a building where plays are shown dates from the 1570s in the English language. The earliest precursors to movies were magic lantern shows, magic lanterns used a glass lens, a shutter and a powerful lamp to project images from glass slides onto a white wall or screen. The invention of the Argand lamp in the 1790s, limelight in the 1820s, the magic lantern could project rudimentary moving images, which was achieved by the use of various types of mechanical slides
Movie theater
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The
Berlin Wintergarten theatre was the site of the first movie theater, with a short movie presented by the
Skladanowsky brothers in 1895.
Movie theater
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L'Idéal Cinéma at
Aniche, opened on November 23, 1905, and claims to be the oldest still-active movie theater in the world.
Movie theater
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The view from the projectionist booth at Ultimate Palace Cinema in Oxford.
Movie theater
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Rodgers Theatre in
Poplar Bluff in
Missouri (in
Art Deco opened on June 1, 1949).
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Restaurant
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A restaurant, or an eatery, is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many also offer take-out and food delivery services. In Western countries, most mid- to high-range restaurants serve alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, some restaurants serve all the major meals, such as breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other restaurants may serve a single meal or they may serve two meals or even a kids meal. Restaurants may be classified or distinguished in different ways. The primary factors are usually the food itself, the cuisine and/or the style of offering, beyond this, restaurants may differentiate themselves on factors including speed, formality, location, cost, service, or novelty themes. In the former case, customers usually wear casual clothing, in the latter case, depending on culture and local traditions, customers might wear semi-casual, semi-formal or formal wear. Typically, at mid- to high-priced restaurants, customers sit at tables, their orders are taken by a waiter, after eating, the customers then pay the bill. Another restaurant approach which uses few waiters is the buffet restaurant, customers serve food onto their own plates and then pay at the end of the meal. Buffet restaurants typically still have waiters to serve drinks and alcoholic beverages, fast food restaurants are also considered a restaurant. The travelling public has long been catered for with ships messes and railway restaurant cars which are, in effect, many railways, the world over, also cater for the needs of travellers by providing railway refreshment rooms, a form of restaurant, at railway stations. In the 2000s, a number of travelling restaurants, specifically designed for tourists, have been created and these can be found on trams, boats, buses, etc. A restaurants proprietor is called a restaurateur /ˌrɛstərəˈtɜːr/, like restaurant, professional cooks are called chefs, with there being various finer distinctions. Most restaurant will have various waiting staff to serve food, beverages and alcoholic drinks, including busboys who remove used dishes and cutlery. In finer restaurants, this may include a host or hostess, a maître dhôtel to welcome customers and to them. A new route to becoming a restauranter, rather than working ones way up through the stages, is to operate a food truck, once a sufficient following has been obtained, a permanent restaurant site can be opened. This trend has become common in the UK and the US, a chefs table is a table located in the kitchen of a restaurant, reserved for VIPs and special guests. Patrons may be served a themed tasting menu prepared and served by the head chef, Restaurants can require a minimum party and charge a higher flat fee
Restaurant
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Sandrinos restaurant in
Fremantle,
Western Australia
Restaurant
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Le Piment Rouge restaurant in
Montreal
Restaurant
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A Salaama Hut restaurant at a
Somali strip mall in
Toronto
Restaurant
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The
kitchen of
Pétrus, located in
Knightsbridge,
Central London
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Cafe
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A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment which primarily serves hot coffee, related coffee beverages, tea, and other hot beverages. Some coffeehouses also serve cold beverages such as iced coffee and iced tea, many cafés also serve some type of food, such as light snacks, muffins, or pastries. Coffeehouses range from owner-operated small businesses to multinational corporations. A coffeehouse may share some of the characteristics of a bar or restaurant. Many coffee houses in the Middle East and in West Asian immigrant districts in the Western world offer shisha, espresso bars are a type of coffeehouse that specializes in serving espresso and espresso-based drinks. Since the development of Wi-Fi, coffeehouses with this capability have also become places for patrons to access the Internet on their laptops, a coffeehouse can serve as an informal club for its regular members. As early as the 1950s Beatnik era and the 1960s folk music scene, coffeehouses have hosted singer-songwriter performances, coffeehouses in Mecca became a concern as places for political gatherings to the imams, who banned them, as well as the drink, for Muslims between 1512 and 1524. In 1530, the first coffeehouse was opened in Damascus and not long there were many coffeehouses in Cairo. About that year, a fellow called Hakam from Aleppo and a wag called Shams from Damascus came to the city, they opened a large shop in the district called Tahtakale. Various legends involving the introduction of coffee to Istanbul at a Kiva Han in the late 15th century circulate in culinary tradition, resembling checkers, hopscotch, and chess, are played. In addition, mollas, dervishes, and poets take turns telling stories in verse or in prose, the narrations by the mollas and the dervishes are moral lessons, like our sermons, but it is not considered scandalous not to pay attention to them. No one is forced to give up his game or his conversation because of it. It often happens that two or three people talk at the time, one on one side, the other on the opposite, and sometimes one will be a preacher. The most common English spelling, café, is the French, Portuguese and Spanish spelling, thus the spelling cafe has become very common in English-language usage throughout the world, especially for the less formal, i. e. greasy spoon variety. The Italian spelling, caffè, is sometimes used in English. In southern England, especially around London in the 1950s, the French pronunciation was often altered to /ˈkæf/. The English words coffee and café both descend from the Italian word for coffee, caffè—first attested as caveé in Venice in 1570— and in turn derived from the Arabic qahuwa. The Arabic term qahuwa originally referred to a type of wine but after the ban by Mohammed
Cafe
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Café de Flore, Paris.
Cafe
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Coffeehouse in
London, 17th century
Cafe
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A café in
Istanbul, 19th century
Cafe
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The statue of the writer
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester in
Café Novelty (
Salamanca -
Spain), founded in 1905.
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Bookshop
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Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookwomen, or bookmen, the founding of libraries in 300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers. In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion to have a library, and Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade. The spread of Christianity naturally created a demand for copies of the Gospels, other sacred books. The modern system of bookselling dates from soon after the introduction of printing, in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries the Low Countries for a time became the chief centre of the bookselling world. Modern book selling has changed dramatically with the advent of the Internet, with major websites such as Amazon, eBay, and other big book distributors offering affiliate programs, book sales have now, more than ever, been put in the hands of the small business owner. Bookstores may be part of a chain, or local independent bookstores. Stores can range in size offering from several hundred to several hundred thousands of titles and they may be brick-and-mortar stores or internet only stores or a combination of both. Sizes for the larger bookstores exceed half a million titles, bookstores often sell other printed matter besides books, such as newspapers, magazines and maps, additional product lines may vary enormously, particularly among independent bookstores. Another common type of bookstore is the used bookstore or second-hand bookshop which buys and sells used, a range of titles are available in used bookstores, including in print and out of print books. Book collectors tend to frequent used book stores, large online bookstores offer used books for sale, too. In the book of Jeremiah the prophet is represented as dictating to Baruch the scribe and these scribes were the earliest booksellers, and supplied copies as they were demanded. Aristotle possessed an extensive library, and Plato is recorded to have paid the large sum of one hundred minae for three small treatises of Philolaus the Pythagorean. When the Alexandrian library was founded about 300 BC, various expedients were used for the purpose of procuring books, in Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion to have a library as part of the household furniture. Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade and their shops were chiefly in the Argiletum, and in the Vicus Sandalarius. On the door, or on the posts, was a list of the books on sale, and Martial. In the time of Augustus the great booksellers were the Sosii, according to Justinian, a law was passed granting to the scribes the ownership of the material written, this may be the beginnings of the modern law of copyright. All references had to be certified by the local mayor, if the application was accepted, the bookseller would have to swear an oath of loyalty to the régime
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Shakespeare and Company, an English-language bookshop in
Paris
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A bookshop in
Łódź, Poland, 1935
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Japanese bookseller from the Jinrin kinmo zui (An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Humanity) from 1690
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Bookshop in
Much Wenlock, UK.
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DVD
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DVD is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. The medium can store any kind of data and is widely used for software. DVDs offer higher capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD, such discs are a form of DVD-ROM because data can only be read and not written or erased. Blank recordable DVD discs can be recorded using a DVD recorder. Rewritable DVDs can be recorded and erased many times, DVDs containing other types of information may be referred to as DVD data discs. The OED also states that in 1995, The companies said the name of the format will simply be DVD. Toshiba had been using the name ‘digital video disk’, but that was switched to ‘digital versatile disk’ after computer companies complained that it left out their applications, Digital versatile disc is the explanation provided in a DVD Forum Primer from 2000 and in the DVD Forums mission statement. There were several formats developed for recording video on optical discs before the DVD, Optical recording technology was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958 and first patented in 1961. A consumer optical disc data format known as LaserDisc was developed in the United States and it used much larger discs than the later formats. CD Video used analog video encoding on optical discs matching the established standard 120 mm size of audio CDs, Video CD became one of the first formats for distributing digitally encoded films in this format, in 1993. In the same year, two new optical disc formats were being developed. By the time of the launches for both formats in January 1995, the MMCD nomenclature had been dropped, and Philips and Sony were referring to their format as Digital Video Disc. Representatives from the SD camp asked IBM for advice on the system to use for their disc. Alan E. Bell, a researcher from IBMs Almaden Research Center, got that request and this group was referred to as the Technical Working Group, or TWG. On August 14,1995, an ad hoc group formed from five computer companies issued a release stating that they would only accept a single format. The TWG voted to both formats unless the two camps agreed on a single, converged standard. They recruited Lou Gerstner, president of IBM, to pressure the executives of the warring factions, as a result, the DVD specification provided a storage capacity of 4.7 GB for a single-layered, single-sided disc and 8.5 GB for a dual-layered, single-sided disc
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Backside of a
Sony DADC -manufactured DVD
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A DVD burner drive for a PC
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Sony Rewritable DVD
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Catherine Ashton
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Her political career began in 1999 when she was created a Life Peer as Baroness Ashton of Upholland, of St Albans, in the County of Hertfordshire by Tony Blairs Labour Government. She became the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Education and Skills in 2001 and she was appointed a Privy Councillor in May 2006. Ashton became Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council in Gordon Brown’s first Cabinet in June 2007 and she was instrumental in steering the EUs Treaty of Lisbon through the UK Parliaments second chamber. In 2008, she was appointed as the British European Commissioner, in December 2009, she became the inaugural High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy that was created by the Treaty of Lisbon. As High Representative, Ashton served as the EUs foreign policy chief and it was announced on 17 November 2016 that Ashton will become Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 1 January 2017, succeeding Sir Richard Lambert and becoming Warwicks first female Chancellor. Catherine Ashton was born at Upholland, Lancashire, on 20 March 1956 and she comes from a working-class family, with a background in coal mining. She attended Upholland Grammar School in Billinge Higher End, Lancashire, then Wigan Mining and Technical College and she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology in 1977 from Bedford College, London. She was the first person in her family to attend university, Ashton lives in St Albans with her husband, Peter Kellner, the president of an online polling organisation, YouGov. She has two children and three stepchildren, between 1977 and 1983, Ashton worked for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament as an administrator and in 1982 was elected as its national treasurer and subsequently as one of its vice-chairs. From 1979 to 1981 she was manager of the Coverdale Organisation. As of 1983 she worked for the Central Council for Education, for most of the 1990s, she was a freelance policy adviser. She chaired the Health Authority in Hertfordshire from 1998 to 2001 and she was created a Labour Life Peer as Baroness Ashton of Upholland in 1999, under Prime Minister Tony Blair. In June 2001 she was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Education, in 2002 she became Minister responsible for Sure Start in the same department. Ashton was sworn of the Privy Council in 2006, and she became Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the new Ministry of Justice in May 2007, in 2005 she was voted Minister of the Year by The House Magazine and Peer of the Year by Channel 4. In 2006 she won the Politician of the Year award at the annual Stonewall Awards, on 28 June 2007, Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed Ashton to HM Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council. As Government Leader in the House of Lords, she was responsible for steering the Lisbon Treaty through the Upper House, on 3 October 2008, Ashton was nominated by the UK to replace Peter Mandelson as the European Commissioner for Trade. And represented the EU in ending a dispute over banana imports, principally involving Latin America. On 19 November 2009, Ashton was appointed the EUs first High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and her appointment was agreed at a summit by 27 European Union leaders in Brussels
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Baroness Ashton in 2014
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Ashton with U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton
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Ashton and Iranian foreign minister
Javad Zarif, the first round of
Comprehensive agreement on Iranian nuclear program, Feb 2014
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Warwick Business School
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Warwick Business School is an academic department of the University of Warwick, originally established in 1967 as the School of Industrial and Business Studies. It is one of the most prestigious and highly selective schools in the world. Due to the historical international outlook its alumni hold leadership positions in corporate, governmental. The Business School offers undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD degree programs, as well as executive education for individuals. Its MBA program, known as the Warwick MBA, is offered as a one-year Full-Time program, WBS University of Warwick campus is sited on the border of the city of Coventry and the county of Warwickshire in a semi-rural green belt location. WBS London campus is located in The Shard Tower, currently the tallest building in the European Union, warwicks School of Industrial and Business Studies was founded in 1967, with Brian Houlden as Chair, a total of five academic staff and 24 students across three programmes. It quickly gained a reputation for excellent research, particularly in the field of industrial relations, in 1981, the MSc in Management was renamed the Warwick MBA. At its 20th anniversary in 1987, SIBS was renamed Warwick Business School, the department had grown to over 100 staff,815 students and 11 programs. In 1997, following expansion of the distance learning MBA in particular, in 2000, a new Executive MBA teaching centre was opened, the first of four phases of development of new premises for WBS. Further phases opened in 2001 and 2006, increasing the capacity of WBS dramatically. This was followed by recruitment of academic faculty. In 2006, there were a total of 319 staff and 7,539 students across 25 degree programs, from over 100 countries worldwide. In September 2014, WBS opened a campus in The Shard Tower in London to teach its MSc Finance. In August 2015, WBS opened Phase 3b of its Scarman Road building on The University of Warwick campus, Warwick Business School is consistently recognised as one of the worlds leading research institutions in business and management. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework more than 80 per cent of WBS’s research output has been judged ‘World Leading’ or ‘Internationally Excellent’, WBS is also included in the UTD Top 100 worldwide business school rankings based on research contributions. WBS is a member of The Academy of Business in Society where primary research can be applied directly into business practises. As of 2016, 100% of the WBS academic faculty have a degree, 54% are active researchers in the top 45 academic. All academics are members of a subject group, a research centre or unit
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Warwick Business School
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The Shard, where WBS houses its
London campus
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WBS view from Scarman road
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WBS view from Gibbet Hill road
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Gibbet Hill
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Gibbet Hill is the location of, and name for the University of Warwicks southern campus, based close to the outskirts of Coventry, in the West Midlands, England. The Gibbet Hill campus is home to the School of Life Sciences, the Universitys Estates Office, Warwick Medical School, the campus also has its own cafe, serving hot and cold meals throughout the day. Gibbet Hill is linked to the main campus by a path through Tocil Wood. It is approximately one kilometre from the heart of Central Campus, Gibbet Hill is 25–30 minutes away by foot from the Westwood Campus. The hill itself is named after the crossroads at the apex of the hill on which a scaffold for public hangings called a Gibbet used to stand. In recent years, redevelopment work has taken place at Gibbet Hill and they are now named GLT1 and GLT2. The Gibbet Hill site was the campus for the first few years of the University of Warwicks existence. The original 1960s building at the core of the development housed offices and tutorial rooms for all university departments, students in their first year shared many general lectures, whatever their subject - on the first day they were all addressed together in ELT1. The two storey building that was part of the Estates Office was the original library, at that time the university also occupied Wainbody House in Stoneleigh Road and 6 Gibbet Hill Road. Wainbody House continued to be used for office accommodation until it was sold by the university in 2004 for £695,000,6 Gibbet Hill Road was rented as postgraduate accommodation for several years, but is now used by the university chaplaincy. The university also maintained a house at 110 Kenilworth Road as the residence of its vice-chancellor and this property was sold in 1985 with the proceeds of the sale used to finance the renovation of Cryfield Farmhouse and its outbuildings for the use of Warwicks vice-chancellors. Map of Gibbet Hill campus Biological Sciences website Warwick Medical School
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Tocil Wood in May: Panorama
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The path through Tocil Wood
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One of the
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Warwick Medical School
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Warwick Medical School is the medical school of the University of Warwick and is located in Coventry, United Kingdom. It was opened in 2000 in partnership with Leicester Medical School, Warwick Medical School is one of only two solely graduate-entry medical schools in the UK. The school was established as a venture with the University of Leicester. Professor Ian Lauder was appointed Dean of the joint school, the first students to study at Warwick arrived in September 2000. In 2003 Professor Yvonne Carter was appointed as Vice-Dean, before taking on the role of Dean of Warwick Medical School the following year. The first MBChB students graduated in 2004, the year that the old Mathematics and Statistics building at Gibbet Hill was refurbished and renamed the Medical School Building. This building is now home to the Dean’s Office, the Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, the Clinical Sciences Research Institute was opened on the site of University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire in 2005, by Sir Graeme Catto, President of the General Medical Council. In 2006, the opened a Biomedical Learning Grid for students. Following an intensive period of assessment in 2006 by the General Medical Council and this was enacted on 2 May 2007 when the Medical Act was amended by Her Majesty the Queen in the Privy Council. Independent degree-awarding status came into effect on 6 June 2007, MBChB graduates in the summer of 2007 were the first to receive University of Warwick medical degrees. After Professor Carters premature death in July 2009, she was succeeded as Dean by Professor Peter Winstanley, in April 2013, Warwick Medical School received an Athena SWAN Silver award for its school-wide work supporting the Charter for Women in Science. It was the first medical school in England to hold the Silver award and it was awarded the Bronze award in April 2012. The Warwick MBChB Warwick offers a four-year Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery to graduates, applicants must have a good degree or equivalent. Year one is delivered through largely university-based teaching, including integrated clinical exposure in various settings, students are allocated to small learning groups made up of around ten students of different backgrounds and experiences. Alongside the required modules, students undertake a Student Selected Component. Year two gradually increases the amount of time spent learning in health settings, so that students become immersed in community. In years three and four, the majority of learning is based in the community and in hospitals through the school’s partner trusts. The majority of the clinical placements are in three hospitals, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, Warwick Hospital and George Eliot Hospital with some in Redditch, Rugby and Worcester
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The Medical Teaching Centre
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University Hospital Coventry, which is home to the clinical services activities of Warwick Medical School.
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Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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The Modern Records Centre is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library. The BP corporate archive is located next to the MRC, but has separate staff, the Modern Records Centre holds by far the largest collection of archives of British trade unions in the country. The largest collection held in the centre is the archive of the Trades Union Congress, International trade union federations are represented by major collections of the International Transport Workers Federation and the World Federation of Scientific Workers. Archives of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association, Incomes Data Services, the Modern Records Centre also collects archives of employers associations and trade associations. The largest of these are the archives of the Confederation of British Industry and its predecessor, a second part of the Modern Records Centres collecting base is the archives of pressure and campaigning groups. The Modern Records Centre holds some archives relating to business, especially the motor industry, archives relating to the motor industry include Jensen Motors, the Rover Company, Rubery Owen, the Standard Motor Company, and the Triumph Engineering Company. Archives relating to other firms include Birmingham Small Arms, the British Steel Corporation, Victor Gollancz Ltd, Wallpaper Manufacturers Ltd, the Centre also holds the archives of the Transport Development Group and of Arthur Primrose Young, manager of the Rugby works of the British Thomson-Houston Company. The Modern Records Centre holds a collection of the archives of professional associations. One of the specialities of the Modern Records Centre is Trotskyist politics. The Centre also holds the papers of several Labour Members of Parliament, Richard Crossman, Maurice Edelman, Terry Fields, William Hamling, Pat Wall, a further specialisation of the Modern Records Centre is in archives concerned with education. The Modern Records Centre holds the National Cycle Archive, the principal archive covering all aspects of cycling history in the United Kingdom, the Centre holds the organisational archives of the University of Warwick itself and also Coventry College of Education, which amalgamated with it in 1971. Papers of individuals include those of management consultant John Goddard, Catherine Hoskyns, an expert on gender politics and the European Union, and Sir George Pope, general manager of The Times
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The Modern Records Centre and the new extension of the library
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University of Warwick Science Park
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The University of Warwick Science Park was one of the first university based science parks in the United Kingdom when it was opened by the Rt. It was a joint venture between the University of Warwick, Coventry City Council, Warwickshire County Council and Barclays, the latter are no longer shareholders having been replaced by WM Enterprise. The University of Warwick agreed in 2011 to purchase the shareholding of Coventry City Council, the acquisition was completed in 2012 and today the Science Park is wholly owned by the University of Warwick. UWSP typically provides office and lab space for 145 businesses employing more than 1800 people, the University of Warwick Science Park was established in 1984 by the then Vice Chancellor of the University of Warwick, Lord Butterworth. The first building, the Barclays Venture Centre was formally opened by UK Prime Minister the Rt, hon. Margaret Thatcher on 24 February 1984. In 2004, UWSP was awarded the Incubator of the Year award by UKBI, the founding Director of UWSP, David Rowe, was awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2006. In 2012 the University of Warwick acquired sole ownership of the Science Park, the University of Warwick Science Park’s main 42-acre campus is centred on the Venture Centre. It includes a further twenty buildings, some of which are owner occupied whilst others are leased, many of the buildings on UWSPs campus are named after old British car models. Further developments followed in 1999 &2001 providing 45,000 sq ft of lettable space, the 34,000 sq ft Business Innovation Centre at Binley, Coventry opened in April 2000 as a joint venture between UWSP and Coventry City Council. UWSP manages the 30,000 sq ft Innovation Centre at Blythe Valley Business Park on behalf of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Prologis, in addition to property services, UWSP offers a range of business support activities targeted at innovation led SMEs. Since 2001 Connect Midlands has assisted hundreds of companies who have gone on to raise over £200 million in investment, UWSP hosts and manages the Business Angel Network, Minerva. MiNErVA is actually an acronym for Midlands Network of Entrepreneurs, Venturers, in addition to supporting a community of high-net-worth individuals, Minerva undertakes investment readiness consultancy and raises finance from banks and venture capital funds. UWSP has also managed a number of seed investment funds including the fully invested UWSP Concepts Fund, techmark has provided marketing services to established, start-up and pre-start technology businesses since 1996. Services include market exploration, market development, strategic planning, marketing execution, ignite provides mentoring and subsidised incubator space for start-up, knowledge led firms. This is spread across three sites, the campus, Warwick Innovation Centre and the Business Innovation Centre. Labstart provides subsidised offices and laboratory space for technology businesses on UWSPs main campus. The UK Market Access Centre provides a blend of subsidised office space, Warwick Science Park is one of the founding members of the UK Market Access Program. List of science parks in the United Kingdom
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University of Warwick Science Park
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Westwood (Campus)
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Westwood is one of three campuses of the University of Warwick. It is a triangular shaped campus bordered by the houses on Charter Avenue and by Gibbet Hill Road and it contains several halls of residence, a restaurant/cafe, laundrette, small Costcutter shop and other buildings used for teaching purposes. All the buildings are set amongst a leafy backdrop of trees which makes Westwood campus very picturesque in summer, to the west of the campus is a sports centre with many facilities including several pitches, a running track and a multi-purpose hall. It takes roughly 15 minutes to walk from Westwood to the centre of campus at a brisk pace. Many of the buildings are closer and can be reached in approximately 10 minutes at a brisk pace and it takes a little under 5 minutes to walk to Tesco and the nearby Cannon Park shopping centre. The site was originally the Coventry College of Education until its merger with the University in the mid-seventies and it is rumoured amongst students that there are tunnels connecting the four smaller halls, accessed via a false floor in the central storage cupboard on each ground floor landing. The tunnels do in fact exist but contain several central heating, legend has it that after nights out, students regularly used these tunnels to play pranks on neighbouring halls. As of 2007 washing machines and dryers were installed in all the Westwood blocks, previously all of Westwood campus were sharing 4 machines in a separate washing building. Former lead singer of The Police, Sting, spent one term at Coventry College of Education and it has been claimed that he penned the lyrics for Every Breath You Take and Roxanne while at the college
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A central grassy area of Westwood
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Hampton hall of residence
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The Boar
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The Boar is the student newspaper of the University of Warwick. Founded in 1973, the paper is published fortnightly during term time, whilst a society of the Union, the paper is editorially independent. It consists of news, opinion, arts, reviews and lifestyle, contribution to the Boar is entirely voluntary and none of the approximately 40 editorial staff are paid. Furthermore, the paper does not receive any budget from the Students Union, in 2013, the Boar was selected as Student Publication of the Year. Upon its founding in October 1973, the Boar incorporated Campus, for a brief period in 1988, the Boar changed its name to Mercury, though by the end of the academic year it reverted to the Boar. With the exception of the occasional issue of the Warwick Goat. The Boar has been a newspaper since 1990. In 2004, the edition was relaunched with a feature to accept reader comments. This work was undertaken by Electronic Engineering student Chris Williams, with the help of online editor Kate Fleetwood, the paper was published weekly until 2009 when it switched to fortnightly after financial troubles. The website was relaunched in April 2013. It was redesigned but also provided a new back-end for the team after encountering problems with the old site, in 1990, the paper won the Impact Award for most improved publication at the Guardian Student Media Awards. In both 1994 and 1998 it was nominated for Newspaper of the Year, in 2000, Andrew Losowsky was runner-up Best Student Feature Writer in the National Student Journalism Awards. Tim Clist was nominated for Best Feature Writer and Andrew Losowsky for Best Arts Journalist, in 2002, Oliver Scarff won Best Photographer in the NUS awards, and Nicholas Morrison was nominated for Sports Writer of the Year in the Guardian awards. In 2003, the paper was runner up Student Newspaper of the Year in the Guardian awards, the judges commented, A consistently high standard, like a fine regional newspaper with an outstanding magazine. The dedication of the staff to produce this newspaper on a basis is incredible. Mark Douglas was also nominated for Sports Writer of the Year, tom Thurnell-Read was nominated for Travel Writer of the Year in the Guardian awards. In 2005, it was runner-up for Best Website in both the Guardian and NUS awards, in the NUS awards, Matt Sandy was runner-up Best Reporter and was nominated for Best Investigative Journalism. In 2006, the Boar received 17 nominations in the Guardian and these included Best Newspaper in the NUS awards and Best Website in both
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The Boar
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Radio Warwick
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Radio Warwick or RaW is the student radio station at the University of Warwick and winner of the 2000 and 2003 BBC Radio 1 Student Radio Association Best Station awards. Radio Warwick also streams all its output online, the studios consisted of a wooden hut behind Rootes M and broadcast at 312 metres. The station was rebranded to URW312. In 1977, the station was moved into the newly constructed social building, on 30 January 1999, W963 rebranded itself as RaW and on 30 September 1999, the station began broadcasting on 1251 kHz AM, discarding the then obsolete induction loop system. RaW moved across the University of Warwick campus to University House in the Summer of 2008 as the Students Union was refurbished, for the subsequent year RaW dropped its FM broadcast due to inability to use the FM antenna, resuming the annual broadcast for 2010. In the Summer of 2010, RaW returned to the Students Union, Radio Warwick provided a special broadcast service for the International Childrens Games held in Coventry in July 2005, and was named the official broadcaster for this period. In late 2005, David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, launched his bid for the Conservative Party leadership with a visit to RaW, the station which he helped to found. Following an interview in the studio, Davis held a Press Conference in the Rootes Social Building Panorama Room and his interview in the studio was later syndicated by BBC Radio 4 and the trip to the station reported on a number of media outlets. 2006 saw a large amount of work done to the station, studio 1 saw the installation of a bespoke digital playout system as well as redecoration, and a new office was built in the foyer of the station allowing DJs to work undisturbed. In 2011 four members of the station embarked on a charity fundraiser named RaW on Tour, the tour consisted of a visit to 52 SRA affiliated student radio stations in England within one week. Over £1,000 was raised for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, RaW has twice been named the Student Radio Associations Station of the Year, in 2000 and 2003, along with other gold awards in both on and off air categories. Joe Shennan, Radio/TV Broadcaster Ali Plumb, BBC Radio 1s film editor Radio Warwick website RaW History wiki
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Radio Warwick
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University of Warwick Boat Club
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The University of Warwick Boat Club is the rowing club of the University of Warwick. The mens team is known as the Warwick Rowers. The club was founded in 1966 and currently has over a hundred members and it rows out of a boathouse on a 3.5 km stretch of the River Avon, Warwickshire. It caters for all levels of rowers from novices to experienced oarsman, the clubs facilities include sixteen Concept2 ergos and a Concept2 dynamic ergo, kept in the on-campus sports centre. The clubs mens 1st VIII currently rows in a 2011 wing-rigged Hudson Boatworks, the club owns three further eights, three fours and numerous small boats. The club trains out of a recently rebuilt boathouse on a 3.5 km stretch of the River Avon south of Warwick Castle, the clubs alumni maintain strong links with the club through the Warwick Graduate Boat Club. Members of WGBC and UWBC regularly compete, recent alumni of the club include Boat Race winners Ben Ellison and Olympic rower Tom Solesbury. Since 2009 the mens team, known as the Warwick Rowers, has produced a wall calendar featuring the rowers modeling nude. Since 2011 the womens team has produced a calendar featuring its rowers. Proceeds from the calendar are shared with Macmillan Cancer Support. University of Warwick Boat Club Homepage Warwick Rowers Official site
University of Warwick Boat Club
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Warwick Economics Summit
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The Warwick Economics Summit is one of the largest student-run conference in Europe, run annually at the University of Warwick. Past Summits have aimed to address issues covering a range of disciplines, including economics, development, politics, the Warwick Economics Summit began in 2002 with an audience of 170 students. Early editions of the Summit saw Johannes Linn of the World Bank, in 2005,500 attended the Summit as it welcomed its first Nobel Laureate, Professor John F. Nash. By 2006, the Summit had welcomed Vince Cable to the University, delegates heard from British economists John Kay and Paul Omerod, as well as Dr. Kori Udovicki, Assistant Secretary General of the UN. Then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alastair Darling spoke, the Summit hosted Marek Belka, the Head of the National Bank of Poland as a standalone talk. The Summit hosted speakers from the world of economics, but also from such as Tim Harford. The 2012 Summit was the second to welcome a Nobel Laureate in Professor George Akerlof –, other speakers included Professor Steven E. Landsburg, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and Rufus Yerxa. During the 2013 Summit, Vince Cable the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, there was representation by the Bank of England through Andrew Bailey and Martin Weale, who made headlines with his call for a weaker pound to aid the recovery. The event also featured Andrew Oswald, Sir Bob Kerslake and Supachai Panitchpakdi, the 2014 Summit, saw Warwick University host Professor Eric Maskin as the keynote speaker, the third Nobel Laureate to date. Other speakers included Diane Coyle, Victoria Chick, Nasser Saidi, Gerard Lyons, Ann Pettifor, Ian Goldin, Richard Lambert, speakers also included Partha Dasgupta, Jan Vincent Rostowski and Simon Anholt. The 2016 Summit featured prominent academics with the likes of Nobel Laureate Sir James Mirrlees and Nicholas Crafts, as well as political leaders Enrico Letta, also featured were Michael Møller, Scott Sumner and Mark Littlewood. In 2017, the Summit featured a range of academics and policymakers, fed Vice-Chairman Stanley Fischer, in a widely-covered speech, made headlines with his comments on the Trump administration’s fiscal policy and plans for financial regulation. The Summit also welcomed its fifth Nobel Laureate in Prof. Finn Kydland, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, FT Chief Economics Commentator Martin Wolf, Warwick Economics Summit Website Warwick Economics Department The University of Warwick
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Bob Kerslake
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Warwick Economics Summit
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Vince Cable
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Martin Weale
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University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra
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The University of Warwick is a research university in Coventry, England. It was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand access to higher education, Warwick Business School was established in 1967 and Warwick Medical School was opened in 2000. Warwick merged with Coventry College of Education in 1979 and Horticulture Research International in 2004, Warwick is primarily based on a 290 hectare campus on the outskirts of Coventry with a satellite campus in Wellesbourne and a London base at the Shard in central London. It is organised into four faculties—Arts, Medicine, Science and Social Sciences—within which there are 32 departments. Warwick has around 23,600 full-time students and 1,800 academic and research staff and had an income of £573.6 million in 2015/16. Warwick Arts Centre, an arts complex in the universitys main campus, is the largest venue of its kind in the UK outside London. It was ranked 7th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality of its research, entrance is competitive, with around 7 applicants per place for undergraduate study. Warwick has been ranked as the worlds 20th best university based on employer reputation, Warwick is a member of AACSB, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Association of MBAs, EQUIS, the European University Association, the M5 Group, the Russell Group and Universities UK. It is the only European member of the Center for Urban Science and Progress, the university has extensive commercial activities, including the University of Warwick Science Park and Warwick Manufacturing Group. The idea for a university in Warwickshire was first mooted shortly after the Second World War, a partnership of the city and county councils ultimately provided the impetus for the university to be established on a 400-acre site jointly granted by the two authorities. There was some discussion between local sponsors from both the city and county over whether it should be named after Coventry or Warwickshire. The name University of Warwick was adopted, even though the County Town of Warwick itself lies some 8 miles to its southwest, the establishment of the University of Warwick was given approval by the government in 1961 and received its Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1965. Since then, the university has incorporated the former Coventry College of Education in 1979 and has extended its holdings by the continuing purchase of adjoining farm land. The university also benefited from a donation from the family of Jack Martin. The university initially admitted a small intake of students in 1964. Since its establishment Warwick has expanded its grounds to 721 acres with modern buildings and academic facilities, lakes. In the 1960s and 1970s, Warwick had a reputation as a radical institution. More recently, the university was seen as an institution of the Labour government which was in power from 1997 to 2010
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Warwick Arts Centre at night
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The University of Warwick
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Ian Davenport 's Everything (2004) in the Warwick Mathematics Institute.
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L to R: International Manufacturing Centre (IMC), Department of Computer Science (DCS), Zeeman Building (Maths and Statistics)
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Warwick Student Arts Festival
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Warwick Student Arts Festival is an annual festival taking place at the University of Warwick. It was founded by Steve Pretty in 2004 with the aim of showcasing and celebrating all aspects of student art. It features a programme of events including plays, musicals, dance, film, orchestras, choirs and bands, with a heavy emphasis on collaboration across genres. Alongside One World Week and Go Green Week, WSAF completes a series of annual festivals at the University. The Warwick Student Art Festival was a forerunner of WSAF, held in 2002 it included a campus wide programme of performance and art including installation, painting, sculpture, live art and theatre. As well as providing a testbed for many of the ideas which would later inform WSAF it also coined the distinctive WSAF SPLAT logo, the festival included performances in several venues including the Piazza, The Students Union, the Humanities quads and Tocil Wood. The first ever WSAF ran from 20 to 24 June 2004 and these took place in a number of venues including the Piazza, Students Union and Studio Theatre within Warwick Arts Centre. Other events also took place around campus such as Rootes Field, the festival also allowed Warwick TV to display a number of student created films on a large screen. The festival was claimed to be the largest student arts festival in Europe, the second year of WSAF again utilised the same venues and took place between 19 and 23 June 2005. The Piazza gained a larger stage than that used in the previous year, WSAF, in collaboration with Warwick Student Cinema hosted an outdoor film screening on Tocil field of Finding Nemo. Other notable events included a concert featuring the University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra and student band Replica X. Running from 24 to 28 June 2007, WSAF2007 hosted 82 events and this included a screening of Ice Age in collaboration with Warwick Student Cinema on Tocil field. For the first year the festival hosted a concert in collaboration with Love Music Hate Racism, featuring Babyhead. There was also a Mad Hatters Tea Party run by the Arts Society, again venues included the Piazza, Students Union and the Studio, with one-off shows occurring elsewhere on the Warwick campus, including a lift in the Humanities department. Despite torrential weather, only a few events were cancelled and audience numbers still remained high, over 80 events took place in WSAF’08 across a breadth of spaces making full use of the campus environment. The Piazza once again served as the traditional focal point. Nineteen and sketch show An Evening Without Dignity, in the cinema, alongside our own student-made films, we collaborated with Warwick Shootout to cross-market our events and incorporate their competition screenings and awards into WSAF. The arts centre also hosted exhibitions and hands-on creative workshops, including second-hand book sculpture
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The logo used by WSAF from 2006 onwards.
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The logo used by WSAF 2004.
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Breakdancing on the Piazza stage during the 2007 festival
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Manifold (magazine)
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Manifold was a mathematical magazine published at the University of Warwick. Its philosophy was It is possible to be serious about mathematics and its best known editor was the mathematician Ian Stewart who edited the magazine in the late 1960s. In 1983 the magazine was reincarnated as 2-Manifold, Jaworski, Jan, Jaworski, John, Stewart, Ian, Seven Years of Manifold, 1968-1980, Shiva, ISBN 0-906812-07-0 Manifold web site
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Manifold
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Theater (structure)
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A theater, theatre or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works or plays are performed, or other performances such as musical concerts may be produced. While a theater is not required for performance, a theater serves to define the performance and audience spaces, the facility is traditionally organized to provide support areas for performers, the technical crew and the audience members. There are as many types of theaters as there are types of performance, theaters may be built specifically for a certain types of productions, they may serve for more general performance needs or they may be adapted or converted for use as a theater. They may range from open-air amphitheaters to ornate, cathedral-like structures to simple, some theaters may have a fixed acting area, while some theaters, such as black box theaters, may not, allowing the director and designers to construct an acting area suitable for the production. The most important of these areas is the acting space generally known as the stage, in some theaters, specifically proscenium theaters, arena theaters and amphitheaters, this area is permanent part of the structure. In a blackbox theater the area is undefined so that each theater may adapt specifically to a production. In addition to these spaces, there may be offstage spaces as well. These include wings on either side of a stage where props, sets. A Prompters box may be found backstage, in an amphitheater, an area behind the stage may be designated for such uses while a blackbox theater may have spaces outside of the actual theater designated for such uses. Often a theater will incorporate other spaces intended for the performers, a booth facing the stage may be incorporated into the house where lighting and sound personnel may view the show and run their respective instruments. Other rooms in the building may be used for dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms, spaces for constructing sets, props and costumes, as well as storage. There are usually two main entrances, one at the front, used by the audience, that leads into the back of the audience, the second is called the stage door, and it is accessible from backstage. This is the means by which the cast and crew enter and exit the theater and this term can also be used to refer to going to a lot of shows or living in a big theater city, such as New York or Chicago. All theaters provide a space for an audience, the audience is usually separated from the performers by the proscenium arch. In proscenium theaters and amphitheaters, the arch, like the stage, is a permanent feature of the structure. This area is known as the auditorium or the house, the word parterre is sometimes used to refer to a particular subset of this area. In North American usage this is usually the rear seating block beneath the gallery whereas in Britain it can mean either the area in front near the orchestra pit, the term can also refer to the side stalls in some usages. Derived from the gardening term parterre, the usage refers to the pattern of both the seats of an auditorium and of the planted beds seen in garden construction
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The interior of the
Palais Garnier, showing the stage and auditorium.
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Backstage area of the
Vienna State Opera
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Close-up of the seats in the
Opera and Ballet Theatre in
Minsk
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The ancient theater at
Delphi, Greece
