Archive for June, 2007



“Money Don’t Matter 2 Night” is a song by Prince and the New Power Generation from 1991’s Diamonds and Pearls. The lyrics deal directly with money, poverty, and greed. Noteworthy is Prince’s criticism of the Gulf War. The vocal delivery is similar to that of “When Doves Cry” but more subtle. Overall, […]

Introduction (music)

In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece. In popular music this is often called an intro. The introduction establishes melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic material related to the main body of a piece (Pease 2003, p.172).

Introductions may be an ostinato that is used in the following […]

Aziz Saleh Nuhmah

Aziz Salih Nuhmah was appointed Iraqi governor of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. He is a member of the “dirty dozen”, allegedly responsible for torture and murder in Iraq. He was taken into custody on May 22nd, 2003, according to www.centcom.mil.

Nuhmah is the King of Diamonds in the most-wanted Iraqi playing […]

Working Group

Working Group can mean:

Working group, an interdisciplinary group of researchers; or

Working Group (dogs), kennel club designation for certain purebred dog breeds; or

The Working Group, an underground resistance group working under the Judenrat who sponsored rescue operations of European Jewry during World War II.

See also

The WORK Group, a pseudonym used in reference to the defunct record […]

For the boys’ grammar school see Dartford Grammar School

Dartford Grammar for Girls is a girls’ secondary school situated on Shepherd’s Lane, Dartford, Kent, England. It was founded in 1904. It accepts girls of ages 11-18. It is located close to a number of other secondary schools including Dartford Grammar School and Dartford Technology College. It […]

Orbit insertion

Orbit insertion is a maneuver performed by an inter-planetary spacecraft designed to allow the spacecraft to be captured into orbit around a planet or other body such as a moon. The spacecraft approaches the planet at a speed greater than the escape velocity of the planet. The spacecraft must reduce its speed to below the […]

La Ronde

La Ronde may refer to:

La Ronde (amusement park), an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

La Ronde, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département, in France

La Ronde (play), Arthur Schnitzler’s 1897 play also known as Reigen

La Ronde (1950 film), the film directed by Max Ophūls

La Ronde (1964 film), directed by Roger Vadim, based on the same […]

Endless Summer

Endless Summer or The Endless Summer may refer to:

In film and television:

The Endless Summer, an influential 1966 documentary film about surfers

The Endless Summer II, a 1994 sequel to the 1966 film

The Endless Summer Revisited, a 2000 documentary using cast-off footage from the “Endless Summer” films

The Endless Summer (SpongeBob SquarePants short), a […]

Heaven and Earth

Heaven and Earth may refer to:

In film

Heaven and Earth (1990 film), a Japanese samurai film

Heaven & Earth (1993 film), directed by Oliver Stone, based off the memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

Heaven & Earth (soundtrack), the official musical score for the film

Heaven and Earth Magic, a 1957 film by Harry Everett Smith

Warriors of […]

A Diamond for Disease

A Diamond for Disease is an EP by Arsis released in October 2005 via Willowtip Records in North America, while being issued through Earache Records in Europe.

Track listing

“A Diamond for Disease” - 12:52

“Roses on White Lace” (Alice Cooper Cover) - 4:17

“The Promise of Never” - 2:50

References

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Trump squeeze

In contract bridge, the trump squeeze is a variant of the simple squeeze. (Squeezes are techniques in this game to gain extra tricks.)

In a trump squeeze, declarer has a suit that can be established by ruffing, but the defender being squeezed is guarding that suit. However, if he happens to also guard another suit, […]

Guelb El-Kebir massacre

The Guelb El-Kebir massacre took place in a small town near Beni Slimane (Medea, Algeria; see map) on the night of the 19 and 20 September of 1997. 53 people, mainly women and children, were killed. La Tribune ( 21 September ) is quoted as claiming that the massacre was committed by the […]

Oppenheimer Diamond

The Oppenheimer Diamond, a nearly perfectly-formed 253.7 carat (50.74 g) yellow diamond crystal, is one of the largest uncut diamonds in the world. It measures approximately 20 × 20 millimeters. It was discovered in the Dutoitspan Mine, Kimberly, South Africa in 1964. Harry Winston acquired the stone and presented it to the Smithsonian […]

This the full table of the medal count of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given […]

Australian Road Rules

Australian Road Rules are model road rules for Australia. The first edition was published on October 19, 1999 and it marked a milestone in road safety policy across Australia. [1]

History
Road rules are set by each of the eight state and territories in Australia. Historically, there were many differences between the eight different sets of […]

Bad Hönningen

Bad Hönningen is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 15 km northwest of Neuwied, and 30 km southeast of Bonn.

Bad Hönningen is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde (”collective municipality”) Bad Hönningen.

References

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Núrn

Núrn was a region in the realm of Mordor in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional world of Middle-earth. It held the inland sea of Núrnen, and was fertile enough to support farming to support the armies of Sauron, as opposed to the arid plateau of Gorgoroth. It was inhabited by slaves, who were granted […]

Cradle of History

Cradle of History is an IDM/techno album by Johnny Hawk (Johnathon Taylor) under the recording name of Global Goon. It is his second full album and third release on Rephlex Records. It was released in 1998.

Track listing

“Sloe Intro” – 5:10

“Funkydrunk” – 4:45

“Jazz Intro” – 4:00

“Long Whiney” […]

“Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer” is a 1971 song by Stevie Wonder. It comes from his album Where I’m Coming From. The song is a ballad, describing a failed relationship using the metaphor of changing seasons. Co-written by Syreeta Wright and released on Tamla 54202 in 1971 as the flip side of “We Can […]

Jaywalk

Jaywalk is a Japanese rock band best known in the West for the intro theme of the videogame Road Avenger.

In 1991 they had a big hit with .

References

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Thunder (song)

“Thunder” is a song by Prince and the New Power Generation, from the 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls. It was issued as a 12-inch single picture disc in the UK only. The lyrics refer to the night Prince decided to withdraw The Black Album, when he was rumored to have suffered a bad ecstasy […]

Funky Monks

Funky Monks is the title of a 1991 documentary (also the title of a song from the 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik) about the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and the recording of their highly successful 1991 Warner Bros. debut Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The album was produced by Rick Rubin and recorded […]

Or Give Me Death

Or Give Me Death is also the name of an album by Aqueduct.

Or Give Me Death ISBN 0-15-216687-4) is a work of historical fiction by Ann Rinaldi about the possibility that the famous words of Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me death” may in fact have been spoken first by his dying, […]

Earth Defense Force

Earth Defense Force may refer to:

The Mysterians (地球防衛軍, Earth Defense Force), a Japanese science fiction film.

The Chikyuu Boueigun (Earth Defense Force) series of video games by Sandlot, which include:

The Chikyuu Boueigun (2003), released as Monster Attack in Europe.

Chikyuu Boueigun 2 (2005), released as Global Defense Force in Europe.

Chikyuu Boueigun 3 (2006), released as Earth Defense […]

Retortamonad

The retortamonads are a small group of flagellates, mostly found in the intestines of animals, although some are free-living. They are usually around 5-20 μm in length. There are two genera: Retortamonas with two flagella, and Chilomastix with four. In both cases there are four basal bodies anterior to a prominent feeding […]

Queen of Italy

Queen of Italy (also known as Terrace) is a solitaire card game that is played using two decks of playing cards. It is one of those which has the lowest chances of winning because the cards that would potentially block the game is presented at the start.

First, eleven cards are dealt in a row, overlapping […]

Emotional competence

Emotional competence refers to a person’s competence in expressing or releasing their emotions. It implies an ease around emotions which results in emotionally competent people being relaxed about other people being emotional.

Contents

1 Description
2 Assertiveness and emotional competence
3 See also
4 Notes and References
5 External links

Description
The concept of emotional competence is rooted in the understanding of […]

The Song of Bernadette

The Song of Bernadette can refer to:

The Song of Bernadette (novel), a novel by Franz Werfel.

The Song of Bernadette (film), a screen adaptation of the book.

“Song of Bernadette”, a song from Jennifer Warnes’ album Famous Blue Raincoat.

References

Song Meanings at Songfacts Songfacts.com - Song meanings and song information, including album and chart position. […]

Blind taste test

In marketing, a blind taste test is often used as a tool for companies to compare their brand to another brand. For example, the Pepsi Challenge is a famous taste test that has been run by Pepsi since 1975 as a method to show their superiority to Coke. Also, sometimes, taste tests are a tool […]

Aber Diamond

Aber Diamond Corporation (; ) is a Toronto, Canada specialist diamond mining and retail company.

The company holds a 40% stake in the Diavik Diamonds Project. Production at the Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada’s second diamond mine, is operated by Aber’s joint venture partner, Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group. The mine began […]

Ghost of a Rose

Ghost of a Rose is an album released in 2003 by Blackmore’s Night.

Track listing

“Way to Mandalay” – 6:27

“Three Black Crows” – 3:43

“Diamonds and Rust” – 4:54 (Cover of Joan Baez song “Diamonds & Rust”)

“Cartouche” – 3:48

“Queen for a Day” (Part 1) – 3:05

“Queen for a Day” (Part 2) – 1:36

“Ivory Tower” – 4:24

“Nur eine Minute” […]

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1936 Summer Olympics. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and […]

Texican Style: Live from Austin was recorded in March, 2004 at Auditorium Shores in downtown Austin, Texas. It is estimated that more than 25,000 people filled the park that night to hear Henry, Jojo and Ringo perform live. While many of these songs are on the 2003 album, “I Am The Man To […]

Dryness

Dryness is a property of alcoholic beverages that describes the lack of a sweet taste. This may be due to a lack of sugars, the presence of some other taste that masks sweetness, or an underabundance of simple carbohydrates that can be converted to sugar by enzymes in the mouth (amylase in particular). The […]

Blue Diamonds

The Blue Diamonds were a Dutch 1960s doo-wop duo best known for their chart topping single Ramona. Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) brothers Rudy de Wolff and Riem de Wolff founded the group shortly after immigrating to the Netherlands in 1949.

External links

Fan site

References

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The Bestwood Welfare Black Diamonds Brass Band, colloquially the Bestwood Black Diamonds (or even the Bestwood Band), is an old and well-known brass band based in the village of Bestwood in the north of Nottingham.

The band was formed in 1947 and was originally known as the Bestwood Black Diamonds Colliery Band; the name ‘Black Diamonds’ […]

Jack of Diamonds (), also called Knave Of Diamonds, was a group of artists founded in 1909 in Moscow. The group included Robert Falk, Aristarkh Lentulov, Ilya Mashkov, Alexander V. Kuprin, and Pyotr Konchalovsky. The group’s members considered Paul Cézanne to be the only worthy painter to imitate, the others being too trivial and bourgeois […]

Martha (solitaire)

Martha is a solitaire card game that is played with a deck of 52 playing cards. A game similar to Klondike, it has a novelty of having half of the cards in the tableau faced down.

First, the aces are removed from the deck and set up as the bases for the foundations.

Then, the rest of […]

Gemesis

The Gemesis Corporation is a privately-held company founded by Carter Clarke in Sarasota, Florida, United States. The corporation creates cultured diamonds using proprietary Soviet technology.

During the Cold War, Soviet scientists developed the diamond synthesis technology because diamond is the best substrate for strategic semi-conductor electronics that are less susceptible to the electromagnetic pulse of nuclear […]

Bort

Bort or boart is a term used in the diamond industry to refer to shards of gem-grade/quality diamonds. In the manufacturing and heavy industries, “bort” is used to describe dark, imperfectly formed/crystallized diamonds of varying levels of opacity. The lowest grade, “crushing bort”, is crushed by steel mortars and used to make industrial-grade abrasive […]

Aziz Saleh Nuhmah

Aziz Salih Nuhmah was appointed Iraqi governor of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. He is a member of the “dirty dozen”, allegedly responsible for torture and murder in Iraq. He was taken into custody on May 22nd, 2003, according to www.centcom.mil.

Nuhmah is the King of Diamonds in the most-wanted Iraqi playing […]

Jack Hearne

Jack Hearne may refer to either of the following two Middlesex and England cricketers:

Jack Hearne J.T.Hearne John Thomas Hearne; medium-fast bowler who played between 1890 and 1914.

Jack Hearne J.W.Hearne John William Hearne; leg-spinning all-rounder who played from 1909 to 1936

References

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Subrata Mitra

Subrata Mitra (Bangla: সুব্রত মিত্র, 12 October, 1930 – 7 December, 2001) was an Indian cinematographer. Acclaimed for his work in the Apu Trilogy, Mitra is often considered one of the greatest of Indian cinematographers. Mitra began his career as a cinematographer with Satyajit Ray, the legendary Indian film maker and continued to work with […]

Nick Santora

Nick Santora is a writer and producer born in Queens, New York. Santora graduated from Columbia Law School and practiced law for six years before giving up full-time practice to write and produce television.

He won the Best Screenplay of the Competition in the New York Independent International Film Festival. He has also written and/or produced […]

Kicking and screaming

Kicking and screaming may refer to:

Kicking & Screaming, a 2005 comedy film, directed by Jesse Dylan and starring Will Ferrell

Kicking and Screaming, a 1995 film directed and co-written by Noah Baumbach and starring Josh Hamilton

References

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From Every Stage

From Every Stage was a live album Joan Baez made on her 1975-76 tour. The album included live versions of songs from her then current album, Diamonds & Rust, as well as previous and original work. Baez’ recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind” from this album was later included in the Forrest […]

Jack Little

Jack Little may refer to:

John N. Little, president and co-founder of The MathWorks

Little Jack Little (1899–1956), composer and songwriter

Jack Little (baseball) (1891 -1961), former baseball player

Jack Little (Australian politician)

References

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The position in continuity of the 1990s Transformers series, Beast Wars and Beast Machines is a difficult one to precisely define. They most certainly exist in the same universe as a Generation 1, similar to the original animated series or Marvel Comics series, but although they most frequently show their lineage through references to the […]

Imagem

Imagem is a data and technology company which manufactures diamond grading equipment which aims to aid in automating laboratory grading of gem quality diamonds. Up to now, the grading of diamonds has been always performed by trained gemologists.

An ImaGem owned and operated demonstration lab is in business in Surat, India.
Commercial installation have been […]

Together (film)

Together is the title of more than one film:

Together (2000 film), directed by Lukas Moodysson

Together (2002 film), directed by Chen Kaige

References

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