Encyclopædia

Robert Silverman resigned as company president on 28 February 2012 “to pursue other career opportunities.”

Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee (9/2/19)

The Washington Post suspects a film will be made retelling the story.^[21] 

Alexander of Abonoteichus (8/19/19)

In an age of superstition no people had so great a reputation for credulity as the Paphlagonians, and Alexander had little difficulty in convincing them of the second coming of the god under the name of Glycon. A large tame snake with a false human head, wound round Alexander’s body as he sat in a shrine in the temple,^[9] gave “autophones”, or oracles unasked.^[2] 

Lucian’s account of Alexander represents the Christians—along with the Epicureans—as the special enemies and as the principal objects of his hate: Epicureans had too little religion or superstition to give in to a religious pretender; and the Christian faith was too deep-rooted to dream of any communion with Alexander.^[12]

His usual methods were those of the numerous oracle-mongers of the time, of which Lucian gives a detailed account: the opening of sealed inquiries by heated needles, a neat plan of forging broken seals, and the giving of vague or meaningless replies to difficult questions, coupled with a lucrative blackmailing of those whose inquiries were compromising.^[2]

Alexander died of gangrene of the leg in his seventieth year.^[2]

Angela Emo (11/4/19)

Emo died on 1 March 1792, reportedly from a bilious attack

Anna Creek (Montana) (8/19/19)

Anna Creek was named by an United States Geological Survey employee in honor of a local lady. ^[2]

Ashanti Gold S. C. (8/15/19)

The employees pleaded with management of AGC to sponsor the team, but they were always refused.

That next season, AshGold finished third in the division after only Ashanti powerhouses Asante Kotoko. 

Ashanti Gold SC has never matched the greatness of their three-year cup run, but have remained a top team in the First Capital Plus Bank Premier League.

The Big Day (1959 Film)  (8/18/19)

The Big Day is an Australian television film, or rather a live television play, which aired in 1959.

Archival status of the program is unknown.

The last day at work of Hector Skeats, a costing clerk in a city office, who is rewiting after many years. He is a father of two, a girl in her early twenties and a boy in his late teens. When his retirement is officially recognised by his boss, his son is arrested.^[2][3]

Ford wrote The Big Day for this competition but was unable to submit it in time. However it was picked up for production. 

Blunt Instrument (8/7/19)

Examples of blunt instruments include:

• Personal implements such as walking sticks
• Tools such as hammers, wrecking bars, pipe wrenches, or heftier flashlights such as the Maglite or Kel-Lite.
• Parts of tools, such as pickaxe handles
• Weapons such as nightsticks, bâtons français, axes, spears (using the haft), or guns (see firearm as a blunt weapon)
• Other items, such as millwall bricks or tree branches

Bombyx Mori (8/28/19)

Sericulture, the practice of breeding silkworms for the production of raw silk, has been under way for at least 5,000 years in China,^[1] whence it spread to India, Korea, Japan, and the West. 

Bon Iver (8/15/19)

According to Vernon, it was during this time that the “Bon Iver” moniker first entered his mind; while bedridden with mononucleosis, he began watching the 1990s TV series Northern Exposure on DVD. One episode depicts a group of citizens in Alaska, where the show is set, emerging from their homes into the first snowfall of the winter and wishing one another bon hiver (pronounced [bɔn‿ivɛːʁ], French for “good winter”). This was initially transcribed by Vernon as “boniverre”; however, when he learned of its proper French spelling, he elected not to use it, deciding “hiver” reminded him too much of liver, the site of his illness at the time.^[7]

Catoctin Colorfest (8/20/19)

In the year 1973 craftspeople, who set up their stands at the carnival grounds and in the community park, were invited to the festival for the first time.

Carl Panzram (8/10/19)

Carl Panzram felt odd from a young age: by the age of five or six he was a liar and thief and claimed to become meaner the older he grew.^[2] In 1899 Panzram was in Juvenile Court on a charge of being drunk and disorderly; in 1903 he was in County Jail for being drunk and incorrigible;^[3] In 1903, at the age of 11, he stole some cake, apples, and a revolver from a neighbor’s home. Soon after, his parents sent him to the Minnesota State Training School, October 11, 1903. While there, he was repeatedly beaten, tortured, and raped by staff members in what attendees dubbed “The Painting House”, because children would leave “painted” with bruises and blood. Panzram hated this place of torture so much that he decided to burn it down, and did so without detection on^[4] July 7, 1905.^[5] 

Celeste Ng (8/16/19)

After a sobering brush with textbook publishing and taking a fiction writing class, Ng decided to pursue writing as a career.^[6] 

Charging Bull (7/28/19)

Children enjoy climbing on the bull,^[19] which sits “famously”^[20] at street level on the cobblestones at the far northern tip of the small park. One popular tourist guidebook assumes that a visitor will want to get his or her picture taken with the statue (“after you pose with the bull …”).^[21] A popular Bollywood movie, Kal Ho Naa Ho features the bull in a musical number, increasing its familiarity with South Asians. One visitor told a newspaper reporter it was a reason for his visit.^[7]

In addition to having their pictures taken at the front end of the bull, many tourists pose at the back of the bull, near the large testicles “for snapshots under an unmistakable symbol of its virility.”^[22] According to a Washington Post article in 2002, “People on The Street say you’ve got to rub the nose, horns and testicles of the bull for good luck, tour guide Wayne McLeod would tell the group on the Baltimore bus, who would giddily oblige.”^[23] A 2004 New York Times article said, “Passers-by have rubbed—to a bright gleam—its nose, horns and a part of its anatomy that, as Mr. Benepe put it gingerly, ‘separates the bull from the steer.'”^[5] A 2007 newspaper account agreed that a “peculiar ritual” of handling the “shining orbs” of the statue’s scrotum seems to have developed into a tradition. One visitor, from Mississippi, told the Tribeca Trib she did it “for good luck”, and because “there’s a kind of primal response when you see something like that. You just have to engage it.”^[7] The enthusiastic reaction to the sculpture continues into the darker hours. “I’ve seen people do some crazy things to that bull”, said a souvenir vendor, “At night sometimes, when people have been drinking, I’ve seen them do stuff to that bull that you couldn’t print in a newspaper.”^[7]

Charles T. Pepper (8/22/19)

It remains uncertain, however, which, if any, of these tales is the true origin of the name.^[20][21][22]

China Airlines Flight 120 (8/28/19)

Immediately after the evacuation of the last person (the Taiwanese captain), the number 2 engine and right wing fuel tanks exploded and burst violently into flames, igniting a blaze that destroyed the aircraft. A statement from the airline confirmed that all passengers and crew members were evacuated safely.^[3][4] A 57-year-old Taiwanese man suffered from hypertension and an 8-year-old girl from Hong Kong felt unwell; both were sent to a hospital nearby. An airport ground crew member was hurt during evacuation on the ground, and a flight attendant, who was the last person to leave the cabin, fell over on the ground when the aircraft exploded.^{[citation needed]}

Cratena lineata (8/19/19)

Cratena lineata is a species of sea slug, an aeolid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Facelinidae.^[2]

This species was described from Zanzibar.

Death by Coconut (11/15/19)

Dong Tao chicken (6/9/19)

They are difficult to breed as their large legs make hatching difficult which makes them an expensive chicken breed. 

Emily Valentine (12/11/19)

One of Valentine’s eight grandchildren is named Catherine Galway.^[4][5]

Emory River (8/30/19)

According to a 1910 article in the Rockwood Times by Captain William E. McElwee,^[4] the river was named after “William Emery”, an early traveler who drowned while swimming the river with his “accoutrements” on.

Eomyidae (12/5/19)

Euphonium (8/1/19)

The serpent, the oldest ancestor of all low brass instruments.

Jazz euphoniums are most likely to be found in tuba-euphonium groups, though modern funk or rockbands occasionally feature a brass player doubling on euphonium, and this trend is growing.

Due to this dearth of performance opportunities, aspiring euphonium players in the United States are in a rather inconvenient position when seeking future employment. 

Often, college players must either obtain a graduate degree and go on to teach at the college level, or audition for one of the major or regional military service bands. Because these bands are relatively few in number and the number of euphonium positions in the bands is small (2–4 in most service bands), job openings do not occur very often and when they do are highly competitive; before the current slate of openings in four separate bands, the last opening for a euphonium player in an American service band was in May 2004. A career strictly as a solo performer, unaffiliated with any university or performing ensemble, is a very rare sight,

Even The Salvation Army has strong ties to the brass band world, as this was a common and practical musical genre in the 1800s. Almost all brass bands in Britain perform regularly, particularly during the summer months.

Due to limited vocational opportunities, there are a considerable number of relatively serious, quasi-professional avocational euphonium players participating in many higher-caliber unpaid ensembles.^{[citation needed]}

College use in the United States [edit source]

Unlike a generation or two ago, many colleges with music programs now offer students the opportunity to major in euphonium. However, due to the small number of euphonium students at most schools (2–4 is common^{[citation needed]}), it is possible, and even likely, that they will study with a professor whose major instrument is not the euphonium. Most often tubas and euphoniums will be combined into a studio taught by one professor, and at small schools they may be grouped with trombones and/or French horns as well, taught by one low brass professor. Universities will usually require professors in this situation to have a high level of proficiency on all the instruments they teach, and some of the best college euphonium studios are taught by non-euphonium players.

The euphonium world is and has become more crowded than is commonly thought, and there have been many noteworthy players throughout the instrument’s history. 

Eva Hart (9/8/19)

To call a ship unsinkable was, in her mind, flying in the face of God.^[2] 

Her father perished and his body, if recovered, was never identified.

She was plagued with nightmares and upon the death of her mother in 1928 when Hart was 23, she confronted her fears head-on by booking a ticket on a passenger ship heading to Singapore, and locking herself in her cabin for four straight days until the stewardess made her get on the deck and the nightmares went away.^[2]

Being seven years old at the time of the sinking, she maintained several vivid memories.

Fake Fur (11/4/19)

Danielle Van Gorder, writing for Mania Entertainment, described the art of Fake Fur as “sketchy”,

Friedensreich Hundertwasser (11/14/19)

To remain inconspicuous Hundertwasser also joined the Hitler Youth.^[2]

Frico (6/16/19)

While the soft version has a long tradition, the history behind the thin version is discussed.

Garden State Discovery Museum (9/22/19)

The museum was founded in 1994 and hosts over 150,000 visitors annually, providing various opportunities for infants to 10-year-olds and their adult companions. 

Giuseppe Zangara (9/3/19)

In 1926 he underwent an appendectomy, but it was no help. If anything, it may have increased his pain. 

Roosevelt cradled Cermak in his arms as the car rushed to the hospital. After arriving there, Cermak spoke to Roosevelt and allegedly uttered the line that is engraved on his tomb: “I’m glad it was me, not you.” The Tribune reported the quote without attributing it to a witness, and most scholars doubt it was ever said.^[10] Roosevelt escaped injury.

Zangara said after hearing his sentence: “You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!”^[13]

Ghosts in Chinese Culture (9/9/19)

Needle-hair ghosts (Chinese: 針毛鬼, zhēnmáo guǐ) have hair like iron needles, distressing to themselves and others.

Gregory Euclide (8/15/19)

Euclide created beautiful detailed temporary ink designs on classroom dry erase boards, for relaxation during his 25-minute lunch break, while teaching high school students in the Minnesota River Valley and Prior Lake, and then wiped them clean.

When he casually wiped away his art creations, the students reacted with extreme dismay making Euclide decide to release a series of the temporary ephemeral artworks.^[9][10]

“Laid Down & Wiped Away – a special edition of ten portfolios chronicling Mr Euclide’s experiments on his classroom whiteboard”, will be available from July 10.

Gregory Euclides work is featured in the collections of the Progressive Corporation (Mayfield Village, Ohio), Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, Michigan), Microsoft Corporation(Redmond, Washington), United States Embassy in Sarajevo, Wellington Management Company (Boston, Massachusetts), Dex Media (Denver, Colorado), Nordstrom(Seattle, Washington), and Health Partners (Minneapolis, Minnesota).^[2]

Hailey Baldwin (8/15/19)

…she had role in a second music video, “Love To Love You Baby” by French model and singer Baptiste Giabiconi, a cover of the homonymous song by Donna Summer released in 1975.^[64]

On November 23, 2018, it was confirmed that Baldwin was married to Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Bieber.^[73] … The couple had been engaged since July 7, 2018.^[74]They had briefly dated from December 2015 to January 2016 before splitting, then reconciled in May 2018. Baldwin requested a trademark license to use the name “Hailey Bieber” for commercial purposes.^[75] Her request to use the trademark Bieber Beauty was denied to due to Justin Bieber having ownership of that trademark.^[76]

Henry Lee Lucas (8/8/19)

In December 1949, Lucas’ father, Anderson, whose legs had been severed in a railroad accident, died of hypothermia after going home drunk and collapsing outside during a blizzard.

Hobson’s Choice (Play) (8/19/19)

With the help of lawyer Albert Prosser, Alice’s love, they issue a writ claiming damages from Hobson for trespass, damage to corn sacks and spying on trade secrets.

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (memoir) (6/25/19)

The aggregate site iDreamBooks lists 12 mixed reviews.^{[further explanation needed][3]}

Human presence deception (11/8/19)

Test is used for detection that computer is operated by human operator ,preventing accessing protected resource by programs , spam robots.

Korean horror (9/2/19)

The expression, “When a woman is full of resentment, she will bring frost in May and June” may offer some explanation for the popularity of the female ghost that is often featured in Korean horror films. Her deep feeling of resentment is cold enough to freeze the hot air that occurs during those months. The woman’s vengeance is a thing to be feared, thus becoming the object of horror. In the past women have been oppressed and ignored for so long that the horrific rage and vengeance we see in the films have been brought upon by the many years of repression.^[4]

Giovanni Gonnelli (9/22/19)

He became a blind sculptor. 

Back in Tuscany, after a spell of melancholy, he began to sculpt again in clay, and his work aroused accolades and patronage from the likes of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand and Pope Urban VIII. 

Baldinucci recounts that one patron forced him to work in a dark room. He lived comfortably, and remained jolly. He had ten children, played guitar and sang, and engaged in various love affairs.

The Isle of Voices (8/15/19)

Keola and his wife live with her father Kalamake, a notorious sorcerer who appears to have an inexhaustible supply of money despite never doing any work.

Jo Mielziner (6/11/19)

He was married three times, all of which were tumultuous, though only two ended in divorce. His first wife, Marya Mannes, a literary critic, was unfaithful to him. Annie Laurie Jacques, an actress and Mielziner’s his second wife had problems with substance abuse. Though, as a Roman Catholic, he could not divorce his third wife, their relationship ended due to Mielziner’s relationship with Sheen’s private secretary.

Juan Martínez Montañés (8/24/19)

His works are more realistic than imaginative, but this, allied with an impeccable taste, produced remarkable results.

La Cuarta (10/14/19)

The journal has sections such as La Ventanita Sentimental (The little sentimental window), where readers ask for love advice, the nail on the head, an area of written complaints such as a telephone conversation, and Arroz con Leche (Rice Pudding), which are offered and request appointments and couples.

Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami! (9/5/19)

Laugh? I Nearly Went To Miami! is a zany and fast moving comedy of confusion. When Tom Weals, an Elvis fanatic, and Alice his fiancée are unable, due to fog, to fly to Miami for an Elvis Presley Convention, they arrive back at Tom’s Essex flat to find that they have inadvertently picked up the wrong suitcases at the airport and are now in possession of half a million dollars.

Further confusion arises with the arrival of, firstly, Tom’s flashy brother Barney, who is hoping to use the flat to seduce Muriel his latest girlfriend and is none too pleased to find Tom at home, then Alice’s eccentric Auntie, with a bag containing $20,000 (a wedding present for Tom and Alice), then Frankie, a thug working for the owner of the suitcase dollars, whom Tom and Alice assume is a member of the local constabulary, and finally, Inspector Hendy, a real policeman, who somehow manages to sort everything out!

List of Unidentified Murder Victims in the United States (8/10/19)

Rainbow Falls Doe was between five feet six to five feet eight inches in height, and weighed 140 pounds, as she was of a stocky build…. She had very healthy teeth. Two wisdom teeth were removed and two teeth were impacted. There is evidence that at some stage in her life she was very well cared for. She was in good health.^[61]

New Castle County John Doe

He carried fifteen single dollars along with a nickel, which were created across the United States.

Fulton County Jane Doe

The woman wore a brown coat, thermal underwear, panties, a gray vest, jeans, pajamas and tennis shoes. Along with these, she wore a watch.^[87]

John Wayne Gacy Victims

Four of these victims are estimated to have been aged between 14 and 24 years old, whereas two victims are estimated to have been aged between 22 and 32.^[107][108]All of these decedents were Caucasian, and at least four of these victims were murdered in 1976 or 1977, whereas two victims may have been murdered between 1972 and 1975.^{[109][110][111][112]}

Prince George’s County Jane Doe

The female had brown eyes and black hair accompanied with hair extensions which were approximately a foot long.

Popes Island Jane Doe

She wore a gold ring with an emerald stone which experts say comes from Belarus, a part of the old Soviet Union. 

Barnstable County John Doe

On June 4, 2014, the torso of a man of African heritage was found on a beach in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts with his head and all four limbs missing.

“Chimney Crossdresser”

He may have worked as a page in the state Legislature sometime between 1977 and 1985.^[331]

Locas in Love (12/10/19)

They are one of Germany’s best-known unknown bands.

Memory hold-the-door (9/2/19)

The author states clearly in the preface that this personal memoir is not intended as an autobiography per se, given, for example, the lack of objective references. 

Micrelaps tchernovi (9/22/19)

Ventrally, it is all black.^[1]

Nicholas Monsarrat (8/15/19)

Based on the legend of the Wandering Jew, it told the story of an Elizabethan English seaman who, as punishment for a terrible act of cowardice, is doomed to sail the world’s seas until the end of time. His hero participates in critical moments in history; Monsarrat used him to illustrate the central role of seamen.

Nene Tomita (9/5/19)

Her parents were the basketball players in China. When she was baby her father died, and her mother took her to Japan. Her mother remarried with a Japanese husband, so her nationality is not Chinese but Japanese.^{[citation needed]}

When she was in the 6th grade she was featured in a TV show on the tallest Japanese young girls.^[1] She was 177 cm. When asked how tall would she like to be, her reply was 185 cm. 

Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu

At 8 September 2018 they had no permanent exhibition

Nostoceratidae (8/24/19)

Our Town (8/13/19)

Joe Crowell delivers the paper to Doc Gibbs, Howie Newsome delivers the milk, and the Webb and Gibbs households send their children (Emily and George, respectively) off to school on this beautifully simple morning.

In 1946, the Soviet Union prevented a production of Our Town in the Russian sector of occupied Berlin “on the grounds that the drama is too depressing and could inspire a German suicide wave”.^[8]

Pajamas (10/3/19)

Pajamas are often worn with bare feet and sometimes without underwear. 

In Chicago, Illinois, it is illegal to fish in your pajamas.^[25]

Platyrrhinus (8/20/19)

Platyrrhinus is a genus of leaf-nosed bats in the tribe Stenodermatini of family Phyllostomidae. Twenty one species are known:^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

• Alberico’s broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus albericoi
• Slender broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus angustirostris
• Darien broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus aquilus
• Eldorado broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus aurarius
• Short-headed broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus brachycephalus
• Choco broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus chocoensis
• Thomas’s broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus dorsalis
• Brown-bellied broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus fusciventris
• Guianan broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus guianensis
• Heller’s broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus helleri
• Incan broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus incarum
• Buffy broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus infuscus
• Platyrrhinus ismaeli
• White-lined broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus lineatus
• Quechua broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus masu
• Matapalo broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus matapalensis
• Geoffroy’s rayed bat, Platyrrhinus nigellus
• Western broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus nitelinea
• Recife broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus recifinus
• Shadowy broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus umbratus
• Greater broad-nosed bat, Platyrrhinus vittatus

Prince Lee Boo (9/3/19)

This book was quite popular.

Procter & Gamble (8/28/19)

They have also sponsored the Winter Olympics since 2014. It’ll do so at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo besides the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The company’s sponsorship includes television ads in which Olympic athletes are portrayed as children to convey the sense that the mothers of these athletes still remember them as infants; other ads stress how Olympic mothers stood by their children through years of training all the way through to Olympic success. 2016’s ad for the Rio Games notes upheavals as youths by an American gymnast, Chinese swimmer, Brazilian volleyballer, and German distance runner. The ads all make prominent use of the Ludovico Einaudi orchestral track “Divenire” and related such instrumentals.

The company received unwanted media publicity in the 1980s due to rumors, spread largely by Amway distributors, that the moon-and-stars logo was a satanic symbol. The accusation was based on a particular passage in the Bible, specifically Revelation 12:1, which states: “And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of 12 stars.” P&G’s logo consisted of a man’s face on the moon surrounded by 13 stars. Some claimed that the logo was a mockery of the heavenly symbol alluded to in the aforementioned verse, thus construing the logo to be satanic. Where the flowing beard meets the surrounding circle, three curls were said to be a mirror image of the number 666, or the reflected number of the beast. At the top and bottom, the hair curls in on itself and was said to be the two horns like those of a ram. The moon-and-stars logo was discontinued in 1989 in a failed attempt to quash the rumors.^[71]

The company unsuccessfully sued Amway from 1998 to 2003 over rumors forwarded through a company voice-mail system in 1998. In 2007, the company successfully sued individual Amway distributors for reviving and propagating the false rumors.^[72] The Church of Satan denies being supported by Procter & Gamble.^[73]

The advertisement garnered controversy for several different reasons.^[76] Some people criticized the advertisement for not showing any fathers giving “the talk” while others accused it of being anti-white.^[77] One scene shows a mother warning her daughter about being pulled over by the police. The daughter responds by saying that she is a good driver so her mother doesn’t need to worry about her getting a ticket. The mother then implies that she might experience police brutality by being racially profiled and killed.^[78]

Raymond Pettibon (6/25/19)

In 2014, Pettibon sold his Craftsman-style house in Venice for $1.219 million.

Robert Hansen (8/8/19)

Flothe now had three bodies and what looked like one killer.

Runaway (dependent) (8/8/19)

Love causes many female adolescents in India to run away from home. 

Families are also likely to refuse to speak to the child, disown them, or to physically injure the young woman or her romantic partners (only in rural area).

Social control theory describes the runaway situation in China.

Sage Hen Valley (8/15/19)

Sage Hen Valley was named for the sage hens which once roamed the valley.^[2]

Salvation Army (8/1/19)

Worship services usually no longer have a traditional brass band. This is reflective for many social and cultural reasons.^{[citation needed]} 

Often this ensemble consists simply of a guitar, piano or a keyboard, drums and sometimes a bass guitar and other instruments, especially during “Youth Fellowships”.^{[citation needed]} 

In the 21st century, the Salvation Army in the United Kingdom created a branch for the youth, called Alove,^[40] the Salvation Army for a new generation. Its purpose is to free the youth of the church and their communities to express themselves and their faith in their own ways.

The first notable convert was Ashbarrel Jimmie who had so many convictions for drunkenness that the judge sentenced him to attend the Salvation Army.^[47] 

The newly founded Salvation Army in Japan also encountered child prostitution, derived from a system of Debt Bondage. While an imperial ordinance (written in classical Japanese which few could understand) declared the girls right to freedom, the pioneer Salvationist Gunpei Yamamuro rewrote it in colloquial speech.

A family of musicians (the Frys, from Alderbury, Wiltshire) began working with the Army as their “bodyguards” and played music to distract the crowds.

History of Donut Day

Canadian charity work

Proselytizing during government-funded social service in New York

Australian sex abuse cases

Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (9/5/19)

Although the Macartney Embassy returned to London without obtaining any concession from China, the mission could have been termed a success because it brought back detailed observations.

Stormzy (7/3/19)

Concordant with his support of minority groups and cultures, on 28 June 2017, Stormzy tweeted the Welsh word Hiraeth.^[40]

In September 2017 after being presented with the Solo Artist of the Year award by Corbyn at the GQ Men of the Year Awards,^[41] Stormzy called Theresa May a “paigon”, a word used to describe an untrustworthy person.^[42] 

Susan Sontag (6/24/19)

According to journalist Mark M. Goldblatt, Sontag later “recanted” the statement, saying that “it slandered cancer patients,”

In response to this criticism, New York Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent, defended the newspaper’s obituary, stating that at the time of Sontag’s death, a reporter could make no independent verification of her romantic relationship with Leibovitz (despite attempts to do so).

University of Virginia School of Medicine (8/22/19)

The UVA Health System’s history can be traced to the original conception of the University of Virginia on August 1, 1818, whereupon Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and twenty one other men first complied a report for the Virginia State Legislatureto determine a site, building plans, and courses for study for the University of Virginia.

Name: John Britton. Graduated: 1949. Known for: Physician murdered by anti-abortion extremists, after the murder of his predecessor by anti-abortion extremists.

Qinhuai River (6/9/19)

The Qinhuai is a branch of the mighty Yangtze River has nursed the rich civilization of the region. The inner parts of the river were once the red-light district – famous throughout the nation, during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Painted boats with red lanterns once shuttled to and from, heavily made-up, gifted alms all became historical things.

At night, the whole area’s lit up with colorful lights, creating a very vivid scene. A lively street market is set up in the area and both locals and tourists take part in the bargain hunt. Taking a leisurely stroll along the riverside, seeing the Chinese vendors doing their business or boarding colorfully decorated boats on the ancient river are memorable.

The area is a highly popular destination with both locals and tourists, and many see or buy goods here, or just take in the sights. Many visitors find it a good place to taste the local cuisine.

University of Rochester (7/25/19)

The official mascot of the university is a predatory wasp found throughout Rochester, the Yellowjacket.

While the women of Prince Street moved to the River Campus in 1955, the event remained single gender until 1971 when women joined the men in 17th century garb.

Pepé le Pew (8/18/19)

The setting is always a mise-en-scène echoing with fractured French. 

In a role-reversal, the Academy Award-winning^[3] 1949 short For Scent-imental Reasons ended with an accidentally painted blue (and now terrified) Pepé being pursued by a madly smitten Penelope (who has been dunked in dirty water, leaving her with a ratty appearance and a developing head cold, completely clogging up her nose). It turns out that Pepé’s new color is just right for her (plus the fact that the blue paint now covers his putrid scent). Penelope locks him up inside a perfume shop, hiding the key down her chest, and proceeds to chase the now-imprisoned and effectively odorless Pepé.

In another short, Little Beau Pepé, Pepé, attempting to find the most arousing cologne with which to impress Penelope, sprays a combination of perfumes and colognes upon himself. This resulted in something close to a love potion, leading Penelope to fall madly in love with Pepé in an explosion of hearts. Pepé is revealed to be extremely frightened of overly-affectionate women (“But Madame!”), much to his dismay, as Penelope quickly captures him and smothers him in more love than even he could imagine.

And yet again, in Really Scent, Pepé removes his odor by locking himself in a deodorant plant so Penelope (or known as “Fabrette”, in this instance a black cat with an unfortunate birthmark) would like him (this is also the only episode that Pepé is acutely aware of his own odor, having checked the word “Pew” in the dictionary). However, Penelope (who in this picture is actually trying to have a relationship with Pepé because all the male cats of New Orleans take her to be a skunk and run like blazes, but is appalled by his odor) had decided to make her own odor match her appearance and had locked herself in a Limburger cheese factory. Now more forceful and demanding, Penelope quickly corners the terrified Pepé, who, after smelling her new stench, wants nothing more than to escape the amorous female cat. Unfortunately, she will not take “no” for an answer and proceeds to chase Pepé off into the distance, with no intention of letting him escape.^[a]

To emphasise Pepé’s cheerful dominance of the situation, Penelope is always mute (or more precisely, makes only natural cat sounds, albeit with a stereotypical “le” before each one) in these stories; only the self-deluded Pepé speaks (several non-recurring human characters are given minimal dialogue, often nothing more than a repulsed “Le pew!”).

Sometimes this formula is varied. In his initial cartoon, Odor-able Kitty, Pepé (who was revealed to be an Franco-American skunk named Henri in this short) unwittingly pursues a male cat who has deliberately disguised himself as a skunk (complete with the scent of Limburger cheese) in order to scare off a bunch of characters who have mistreated him. Scent-imental Over You has Pepé pursuing a female dog who has donned a skunk pelt (mistaking it for a fur coat). In the end, she removes her pelt, revealing that she is a dog. Pepé then “reveals” himself as another dog and the two embrace. However, he then reveals to the audience that he is still a skunk. In Wild Over You, Pepé attempts to seduce a wildcat that has escaped a zoo (during what is called “Le grande tour du Zoo” at a 1900 exhibition) and painted herself to look like a skunk to escape her keepers. This cartoon is notable for not only diverging from the Pepé/female-black-cat dynamic, but also rather cheekily showing that Pepé likes to be beaten up, considering the wildcat thrashes him numerous times. Really Scent is also a subversion with Penelope (here called “Fabrette”) attracted to him from the beginning, removing the need for Pepé to chase her as she goes to him. But Pepé’s scent still causes a problem for her as they try to build a relationship.

Some dialogue from the Oscar-winning 1949 short For Scent-imental Reasons:

Pepé: (sings) Affaire d’amour ? Affaire de cœur ? Je ne sais quoi… je vive en espoir. (Sniffs) Mmmm m mm… un smella vous finez… (Hums)

Gendarme: Le kittee quel terrible odeur !!

Proprietor: Allez Gendarme !! Allez !! Retournez-moi !! This instonce!! Oh, pauvre moi, I am ze bankrupt… (Sobs)

Cat/Penelope: Le mew? Le purrrrrrr.

Proprietor: A-a-ahhh. Le pussy ferocious! Remove zot skunk! Zot cat-pole from ze premises!! Avec !!

Cat/Penelope: (Smells skunk) Sniff, sniff, sniff-sniff, sniff-sniff.

Pepé: Quel est ? *notices cat* Ahh… le belle femme skunk fatale… *clicks tongue twice*

A possible^[vague] second cameo appearance is at the end of Fair and Worm-er (Chuck Jones, 1946). This skunk doesn’t speak, but looks identical (or is a close relation) and shares the same mode of travel and a slight variation of Pepé’s hopping music.

Pepé was going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but was later dropped for unknown reasons.[1]

He was present at the arranged marriage of Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny. Of course Lola eventually fell in love with Pepé Le Pew. He also made a short cameo appearance with Penelope Pussycat in the Merrie Melodies segment “Cock of the Walk” sung by Foghorn Leghorn.

Pepé Le Pew was referenced in the song Beeswax by popular American rock band Nirvana.^[7]

Pierre Cardin (7/30/19)

He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical.

He worked with Elsa Schiaparelli until he became head of Christian Dior‘s tailleure atelier in 1947, but was denied work at Balenciaga.

This trend holds true for form or for a combination of forms, which did not exist at the time. … These creations allowed for the geometric shapes that captivated him to be contrasted, with both circular and straight lines. Cardin was an icon for starting this popular fashion movement of the early seventies.

In 1971, Cardin redesigned the Barong Tagalog, a national costume of the Philippines,

From about 1988 the brand was licensed extensively, and appeared on “wildly nonadjacent products such as baseball caps and cigarettes”.

1995 quotes from WWD included “Pierre Cardin—he has sold his name for toilet paper. At what point do you lose your identity?” and “Cardin’s cachet crashed when his name appeared on everything from key chains to pencil holders”. However, the Cardin name was still very profitable, although the indiscriminate licensing approach was considered a failure.

In 2011, Cardin tried to sell his business, valuing it at €1 billion, although the Wall Street Journal considered it to be worth about a fifth of that amount. Ultimately he did not sell the brand.

He expanded into new markets that “to most Paris fashion designers, it is rank heresy.”

Continuously fascinated by geometric shapes, in 1975, Cardin applied his fetish for the bubble

In 2001, Cardin purchased the ruins of the castle in Lacoste, Vaucluse that was once inhabited by the Marquis de Sade; he has partially renovated the site and holds music or dance festivals (particularly with Marie-Claude Pietragalla) there.^[20]

Cardin also owns a palazzo in Venice named Ca’ Bragadin. Although he has claimed in several interviews that this house was once owned by Giacomo Casanova, in reality it was the home of Giovanni Bragadin di San Cassian, Bishop of Verona and Patriarch of Venice.

Pussyhat (7/28/19)

They are the result of the Pussyhat Project, a nationwide effort initiated by Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman, a screenwriter and architect located in Los Angeles, to create pink hats to be worn at the march for visual impact.

Critics have stated that the pink color of the pussyhats does not represent transgender women, or women of color whose “genitals are more likely to be brown than pink”.^[14] The color pink actually came from the strong association of pink with femininity, as well as “caring, compassion, and love”,^[15] not a literal representation of anatomy.

Rasgulla (8/18/19)

The dish originated in East India; the present-day states of Odisha and West Bengal have variously claimed to be its birthplace. In 2015, a committee formed by the government of Odisha asserted that the sweet had originated in Odisha,^[1] where it is offered at the Puri Jagannath Temple.^[2] In 2016, the West Bengal government applied for a Geographical Indications (GI) tag for the variant called “Banglar Rosogolla” (Bengali Rasgulla), clarifying that the Bengal and Odisha variants were different in “both in colour, texture, taste, juice content and method of manufacturing.”^[3]

In 2017, when West Bengal got its Rosogolla’s GI status, the Registry office of India clarified that West Bengal was given GI status for Banglar Rosogolla and Odisha can claim it too if they site the place of origin of their variant along with colour, texture, taste, juice content and method of manufacturing.^[4][5]

In 2018, Odisha government applied for GI status for “Odisha Rasagola” (Odia Rasgulla), which got approved by GI Registry of India and on 29th July 2019 Odisha has got its Rasagola’s GI status.^[6][7][8]

Rodney Graham (12/18/19)

Graham lives in Vancouver and is married to the artist Shannon Oksanen. Though they have not divorced, she lives separately with her two children and their father.

Sulphur, Oklahoma (8/19/19)

Founded by the Poteet tribe in 1837. 

There were 1,877 households out of which 100.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.3% were married couples living together, 12.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.7% were non-families.

Vanity Fair (6/25/19)

In January 2014, Vanity Fair was under fire for allegedly altering the appearance of a celebrity featured in its pages for its February issue, Lupita Nyong’o, an actress known for her role in 12 Years A Slave. In Nyong’o’s case, the magazine tweeted the photo and it began with fans accusing the company of altering her complexion. However, some believe that the Vanity Fair images are simply a product of bright set lighting, rather than deliberate skin lightening. Nyong’o was pleased with the work and saw no harm done to herself; she did not hold Vanity Fair or the photographer liable. Shortly before the Nyong’o case, Vogue magazine, a partner and buyer of Vanity Fair in 1936, was accused of altering actress Lena Dunham‘s photos. Dunham considered the modified photos to be offensive.^[21][22]

Walker County Jane Doe *(8/7/19)

A rectangular brown pendant containing a smoky blue or brown glass colored stone on a thin gold chain necklace was found around her neck.

All these lines of inquiry failed to bear fruition,

Investigators do not believe Booth left this nightclub willingly

The Water Tower Bucket Boys (8/18/19)

In late 2011 banjo player Cory Goldman left the band, and the band changed their name to Water Tower.

Wayne Nance (8/10/19)

Although badly wounded, Doug, who is a gunsmith, managed to free himself and load one bullet in a rifle he had been repairing. He staggered up to the second floor where his wife was being assaulted in their bedroom. Nance heard Doug ascending the stairs and went to finish him off, but was shocked to find Doug with his rifle. Doug raised his rifle and fired.

The bullet struck Nance in the abdomen, knocking him back, but was not enough to incapacitate him. Nance panicked and fired three shots wildly at Doug, hitting him once above the knee. Undeterred, Doug continued to fight back by using his rifle as a club, unwilling to leave his wife and desperate to keep them both alive.

Women in Red (7/20/19)

Bamkin had initially coined a name for the project, “Project XX”, but that was quickly scuttled in favor of WikiProject Women in Red.^[1] After the project was up and running, feminist scientist and volunteer editor Emily Temple-Wood signed on. Her specialty is adding a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist each time somebody harasses her about her volunteer editing efforts.

Though Wikipedia is “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”, as at 2015 only roughly 10 percent of editors were women.