Archive for April, 2008

St. John’s Cathedral | John’s Christmas Party Rare

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

St. John’s Cathedral, or Cathedral of St. John, or other variations on the name, with or without the suffix ‘the Evangelist’, may refer to:

In Antigua:

  • St John’s Cathedral, St. John’s

In Australia:

  • St John’s Cathedral, Brisbane

In Canada:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, Edmonton, Alberta
  • Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • St. John’s Cathedral, Toronto, Ontario

In France:

  • Cathédrale Saint-Jean de Belley
  • Cathédrale Saint-Jean de Besançon

In Ireland:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, Limerick

In Malaysia:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, Kuala Lumpur
  • St Joseph’s Cathedral, Kuching

In Malta:

  • St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta

In the People’s Republic of China:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, Hong Kong

In the Czech Republic:

  • St. Jan na Brzehu, Prague, destroyed 1896

In Poland:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, Warsaw

In South Korea:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, Korea in Seongnam

In The Netherlands:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, ’s-Hertogenbosch

In the Turkey:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, Izmir

In the United Kingdom:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, Oban, Scotland

In the United States:

  • St. John’s Cathedral, Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio
  • Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, Denver, Colorado
  • St. John’s Cathedral, Jacksonville, Florida
  • St. John’s Cathedral, Knoxville, Tennessee
  • Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Cathedral Of St. John the Evangelist, Lafayette, Louisiana
  • St. John’s Cathedral, Providence, Rhode Island
  • Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Spokane, Washington
  • Cathedral Church of St. John, Wilmington, Delaware
  • Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, New York


See also

  • St. John the Baptist Cathedral

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Dominican Republic at the 1992 Summer Olympics | their 1992

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

The Dominican Republic competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Contents


Results by event


Baseball

The Dominican team won two of its seven games in the preliminary round of the first Olympic baseball tournament, defeating Italy and Spain. Its record put the team in sixth place and out of further contention.

Men’s Team Competition:

  • Dominican Republic - 6th place (2-5)


Boxing

Men’s Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

  • Fausto del Rosario
  • First Round – Lost to Eric Griffin (USA), 2:14


References

  • Official Olympic Reports

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Computer Games (single) | released

Sunday, April 20th, 2008
See also Video game.

“Computer Games” is a single by New Zealand group, Mi-Sex released in 1981 (released 1979 in Australia & N.Z.). It was the single that launched the band, and was hugely popular, particularly in Australia and New Zealand. It was produced by Peter Dawkins.

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Step into Christmas | also covered

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Step into Christmas is a Christmas song written and performed by Elton John, released in 1973. Though it was originally released as a stand-alone single in 1973 with the B-Side “Ho! Ho! Ho! Who’d Be a Turkey at Christmas”, it was later included as a bonus track on the 1996 remastered reissue of the album Caribou. It also appears on the albums Elton John’s Christmas Party, Rare Masters, To Be Continued, and The Best Christmas Album In The World…Ever!.


Other versions

It was covered by the band The Wedding Present on their 1992 album Hit Parade II, and also covered by The Business for the ‘Bollocks to Christmas’ EP.


External links

  • Step Into Christmas lyrics

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The Hunger Site | Who’d Be

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

The Hunger Site is the original click-to-donate site created in 1999 that gets sponsorship from advertisers in return for delivering users who will see their advertisements. The Hunger site encourages visitors to click a button on the site, once per day, asserting that each unique click results in a donation “equivalent” to 1.1 cups of food. The Hunger Site is not a charity; it is a for-profit corporation which donates the revenue from its advertising banner to selected charities. As of January 2006, these are America’s Second Harvest and Mercy Corps.

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History

The Hunger Site was started by John Breen, a computer programmer from Bloomington, Indiana, in June of 1999. Originally a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, the site became popular rapidly. Faced with increasing costs, Breen sold the site to GreaterGood, “a Seattle-based online shopping mall that gave part of its sales to charity” for an undisclosed amount in February 2000. “In a charitable mood? Just pick, then click.” Tamar Lewin. The New York Times. 11 December 2000. In July 2001, following the dot-com bubble crash, GreaterGood ceased operations after losing $26 million dollars in venture capital. In 2001, CharityUSA.com, LLC, a privately held, for-profit charity based in Seattle) assumed control of the company for $1 million dollars Asia Week: Enterprise[1]. CharityUSA owns and operates various click-to-donate-sites. CharityUSA currently claims that 100% of the website’s sponsor advertising revenue is paid to the aforementioned non-profit partners, however, the company does not publicly disclose the amounts it actually donates or the salaries of its executives. Epinions: Good will, or private gain?[2] (online review of the site) In recent years, the site has moved from banner advertising into the marketing of merchandise, promising that each dollar spent results in donations equivalent to two cups of food.

In early 2007, Tim Kunin, CEO and co-owner of TheHungerSite, announced that the site had, since its inception, donated the equivalent of more than 500 million cups of staple food. The charities supported by The Hunger Site have praised it both for the funds that it raises from sponsors and for the traffic it brings to their own sites.


Mechanics

According to Martin Lewis at The Guardian, The Hunger Site probably doesn’t make money for every click, only on clicks to the sponsor’s sites, and those clicks might be worth 30¢ each. Each click on the “feed the starving” button he estimates as worth 0.7¢, based on average click-through rates. Martin Lewis. “Make it your new year resolution to feed the world for free.” The Guardian. 17 December 2005. The Hunger site gets most of its traffic from the US.

Several websites were operated by GreaterGood in association with the Hunger Site but became defunct once CharityUSA.com bought GreaterGood, including The Child Survival Site and The Kids AIDS Site, both rebranded into The Child Health Site, and The Landmine Site, which raised funds to provide prostheses to people who lost limbs in landmine explosions. At present, CharityUSA operates a number of other benefit-to-charity themed advertising and shopping sites, including The Rainforest Site and The Breast Cancer Site.


Inspired sites

The Hunger Site has also inspired similar sites that are not owned or maintained by the owners of the Greater Good network. Several, the first two of which are now defunct, include:

  • The Hungry Site, a parody site that claimed to raise funds to buy steak and gourmet coffee for its owner, who’d been fired from his job
  • The Birth Site, a site run by the Catholic Nurturing Network to fund crisis pregnancy centers.
  • The Bible Site, which uses a different visual format but was inspired by The Hunger Site’s naming conventions. It funds sending Bibles to Christians in countries where it’s difficult to find copies.
  • The Environment Site seems to donate to Surrey Wildlife Trust.


References

  • Snopes Urban Legend Entry


External links

  • The Hunger Site
  • CharityUSA.com

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Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras | by Elton

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Tantrums & Tiaras is a 1997 documentary about the musician Sir Elton John directed by his civil partner David Furnish. In 1998, the documentary won a Chris Award at the Columbus Film and Video Festival.


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John Chandioux | park edit

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

John Chandioux is a specialist in computational linguistics. His work in the machine translation field includes creating the GramR® programming language and the METEO® Translation System, which has been used since 1977 by the Canadian government’s Translation Bureau to translate weather bulletins on microcomputers. Chandioux is the president of John Chandioux Consultants and vice-president of EDIT Inc., its publishing arm.


External links

  • John Chandioux Consultants
  • EDIT Inc. - Terminology Products
  • EDIT Inc. - Educational Products

Droodle | themed

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Droodles are a kind of cartoon popularized in the U.S. by Roger Price’s 1953 book Droodles. The trademarked name “Droodle” is a nonsense word suggesting both “doodle” and “riddle.” Their general form is minimal: a square box containing a few abstract pictorial elements, and under that a caption (or several) giving a humorous “explanation” of the picture’s subject. For example, a Droodle depicting three concentric shapes — little circle, medium circle, big square — might have the caption “Aerial view of a cowboy in a Port-a-john.”

Droodles in America are (or were) purely a form of entertainment, like any other nonsense cartoon, and appeared in pretty much the same places (newspapers, paperback collections, bathroom walls) during their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. The commercial success of Price’s collections of Droodles led to the founding of the publishing house Price-Stern-Sloan, and also to the creation of a Droodles-themed game show. Series of newspaper advertisements for the News and Max brands of cigarettes featured cigarette-themed Droodles.

One of Price’s original Droodles serves as the cover art for Frank Zappa’s 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Price’s other captions for that drawing include “Mother pyramid feeding her baby.”


See also

  • Leonard B. Stern
  • Mad Libs
  • Kilroy was here


External links

  • Brief Roger Price bio
  • An old archive of droodles

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Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements | Magic Kingdom

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Dungeon Magic is a first-person RPG (similar in vein to Bard’s Tale and the various SSI D&D games) produced by Taito in 1989, and programmed by Natsume for the Nintendo Entertainment System.


Story

500 years ago, the Kingdom of Granville fought a terrible war with Darces the Dark Overlord. A great hero, the warrior “Magi”, rose to challenge Darces. He owned six magical swords and a powerful suit of armor that was impervious to all but the most powerful of magic. Five of his six swords were Elemental blades, each created from the rarest metals on earth. The sixth blade, “Tores”, used an even more powerful metal.

Using his powers, Magi defeated Darces, and exiled him to a far away land. After defeating Darces, Magi grew old and passed away.

Now, on a dark, stormy night in the Kingdom of Granville, Darces the Dark Overlord returns to the land.

According to an old saying,

“When the shadowed veil returns to mask the midday sun
The Fire of Serpents will rise again; Five shall become the One.
The elements now heed his call, and hope is born alive;
We will have our peace once more when One becomes the Five.”


Miscellany

One of the interesting aspects of the game was a magic system where a caster could combine runes from various elements to form new magic spells.

Each element had three unique runes, which allowed for 125 different spells. Unfortunately, many of those “different spells” are actually just fireball spells or curative effects. This game had no “magic point” system, so some spells drained the player’s hit points instead.


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Mannheim Steamroller Christmas | to Christmas’ EP.

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas was the first Christmas album released by new age musical group Mannheim Steamroller. The album has sold over six million copies since it was released in 1984. The group has released five subsequent Christmas studio albums, most recently Christmas Song in October 2007. [1]


Track listing

  • Songs are traditional except where noted
  1. “Deck The Halls” – 3:29
  2. “We Three Kings” (Hopkins) – 3:40
  3. “Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” – 2:32
  4. “Coventry Carol” – 2:38
  5. “Good King Wenceslas” – 3:29
  6. “Christmas Sweet: Wassail, Wassail” – 2:20
  7. “Christmas Sweet: Carol Of The Birds” (Bas-Quercy) 2:03
  8. “Christmas Sweet: I Saw Three Ships” – 1:28
  9. “Christmas Sweet: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” – 1:37
  10. “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” – 4:19
  11. “Stille Nacht” (Gruber) – 5:26

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Fantasy (Carole King album) | single in 1973

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Fantasy is an album by Carole King, released in 1973. This time King wrote all the songs herself. At the time of its release, it only reached #6 on the Billboard album chart, but has remained highly regarded by her fans over the ensuing decades. One of the tracks of the album is a song called “Haywood” which is about drug addiction.

The Spanish language track “Corazón” (the Spanish word for “heart,” also used as a term of endearment, as in this song’s lyrics) was a moderate hit single from the album, as was “Believe in Humanity.” The flip side of the latter single, “You Light Up My Life” (not the Debby Boone hit), charted separately from its A-side.


Track listing

# Title Length
1. “Fantasy Beginning” 1:03
2. “You’ve Been Around Too Long” 3:42
3. “Being at War With Each Other” 3:27
4. “Directions” 3:29
5. “That’s How Things Go Down” 3:01
6. “Weekdays” 2:45
7. “Haywood” 4:47
8. “A Quiet Place to Live” 1:56
9. “Welfare Symphony” 3:47
10. “You Light Up My Life” 3:14
11. “Corazón” 4:06
12. “Believe in Humanity” 3:19
13. “Fantasy End” 1:25

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Ganswindt (crater) | It was covered by

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Ganswindt is a lunar crater that lies near the southern pole of the Moon’s far side. It is attached to the southwestern exterior of the huge Schrödinger walled plain. Ganswindt partly overlays the smaller Idel’son crater to the south.

The rim of Gandswindt is roughly circular but somewhat irregular, particularly at the southern edge. Much of the interior floor is covered in uneven ridges, and there is a small crater in the southeastern section. Because sunlight enters the interior at a low angle, the northern part of the floor is almost always covered in shadow, concealing the terrain in that section of the crater.


References

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Christmas cookies | Christmas’ EP.

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Christmas cookies are traditionally sugar cookies (though other flavors may be used based on family traditions and individual preferences) cut into various shapes related to Christmas. In the United States, since the 1930s, children have left cookies and milk on a table for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, though many people simply consume the cookies themselves. The cookies are often cut into such shapes as those of candy canes, reindeer, and holly leaves. Oreos are also popular.


See also

  • Lebkuchen
  • Pizzelle
  • Sugar cookie
  • Chocolate chip cookie
  • Cookie
  • Cookie cutter
  • gingerbread
  • Spritzgebäck
  • Pfeffernüsse


External links

  • Ginger Cookies Recipe
  • Christmas cookie recipes
  • Origin of Christmas Traditions by Sarah Lane
  • Christmas Cookies lists some popular recipes.
  • Snowflakes Recipe Traditional cookies in the shape of snowflakes.

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Bennington Street, East Boston, Massachusetts | on Main Street

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Bennington Street is one of the main thoroughfares in the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of East Boston. The street runs almost the length of the residential section of the community — as distinguished from Logan International Airport, which makes up almost half of the community’s land mass.

Bennington Street — one of several local streets named after battles of the American Revolution — begins at the neighborhood’s Central Square as a narrow two-way road crowded with shops and houses. After about half a mile, the street crosses Chelsea Street, another of the community’s busiest roads, and that intersection is Day Square, one of East Boston’s main retail centers.

From there, Bennington Street is a wider, tree-lined road, with two lanes of traffic in each direction separated by an island. The road then goes through the center of the Orient Heights section of the neighborhood and curves left, ending at the border with the city of Revere.

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20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rainbow | Masters To

Friday, April 18th, 2008

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rainbow is the greatest hits album released by Rainbow. Released on October 3, 2000. This greatest hits album was recorded between 1975-1983 before Rainbow disbanded in 1985.


Track listing

  1. “Man on the Silver Mountain”
  2. “Catch the Rainbow”
  3. “Stargazer”
  4. “Mistreated (Live)”
  5. “Kill the King”
  6. “Rainbow Eyes”
  7. “Since You Been Gone”
  8. “I Surrender”
  9. “Stone Cold”
  10. “Power”
  11. “Street of Dreams”

Blue eyes | Elton

Thursday, April 17th, 2008


Blue eyes are eyes that have blue irises (see eye color), and may also refer to:

  • IBM have a project named “BlueEyes” to develop computational devices that mimic perception.
  • Old blue eyes is also a common reference to Frank Sinatra and Sven-Göran Eriksson.
  • Blue Eyes is a character in Frank Miller’s Sin City
  • Blue-eyes is a common name for the Rainbowfish family, Melanotaeniidae.
  • Blue Eyes (Hentai) is a hentai manga by Tohru Nishimaki.
  • Baby blue eyes is a common wild flower of California.
  • Blue-Eyes White Dragon, a fictional monster from the Yu-Gi-Oh! universe.
  • Blue Eyes (Elton John song) is a 1982 song by Elton John from the album Jump Up!.
  • “Blue Eyes” is a song on the International Submarine Band’s 1968 album Safe at Home.

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List of World War II aces by country | In The World…Ever!.

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

This is a list of fighter aces in World War II, ordered by national origin. For a shorter list with rank and kill count see List of top World War II aces.

By nationality:

  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • China
  • Croatia
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Rhodesia
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • South Africa
  • Soviet Union
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Yugoslavia


See also

  • List of World War II air aces
  • Flying ace


External links

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This Is Where I Stand | a stand-alone

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

This is Where I Stand is a 2002 album by Eastbourne-based indie rock trio easyworld. The album contained 4 singles - Try Not To Think, Bleach, You & Me and Junkies, with a considerable growth in commercial success between each, the latter single even managing to reach #40 in the UK charts. Notably, the album included five re-recorded versions of songs that had previously appeared on their first e.p. - Better Ways to Self Destruct.

The album was released in the summer of 2002 to fairly positive, though not overwhelming, critical acclaim, and the band quickly built an incredibly dedicated fanbase during this period.


Track listing

  1. Armistice
  2. Try Not To Think
  3. 100 Weight
  4. Junkies & Whores
  5. This is Where I Stand
  6. A Stain To Never Fade
  7. Demons
  8. By the Sea
  9. Bleach
  10. You & Me
  11. You Were Right

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Private Parts and Pieces | reissue of the

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Private Parts and Pieces is officially the fourth (though technically the third) solo album from guitarist Anthony Phillips. Unlike his previous releases, this one was assembled as a collection of instrumental music, rather than as an explicit attempt at a commercial album. It was first released in the U.S. and Canada in January 1979. The April 1979, UK release was a limited edition sold with the first 5,000 copies of Sides. Although the album itself came at an awkward time for Phillips, whose contract with Arista had run its course, the non-commercial Private Parts and Pieces format proved successful or useful enough to him to become a series of albums in its own right.

While Phillips had previously credited a good deal of his non-guitar work under pseudonyms, on this album the credits were straightforward. Peter Cross did the artwork for the album.

The 1990 CD reissue of Private Parts and Pieces included two new, solo recordings of material that dates from Phillips’ time in Genesis.


Track listing

All songs written by Anthony Phillips except where indicated

  1. “Beauty and the Beast” – 4:08
  2. “Field of Eternity” (Anthony Phillips/Mike Rutherford) – 5:10
  3. “Tibetan Yak-Music” – 6:09
  4. “Lullaby — Old Father Time” – 1:15
  5. “Harmonium in the Dust” – 2:29
  6. “Tregrenna Afternoons” – 7:49
  7. “Stranger” – 6:08 (CD reissue bonus track)
  8. “Reaper” – 7:38
  9. “Autumnal” – 5:57
  10. “Flamingo” – 11:06
  11. “Seven Long Years” – 2:58
  12. “Silver Song” (demo) (Anthony Phillips/Mike Rutherford) – 3:19 (CD reissue bonus track)


Personnel

  • Anthony Phillips: 12 String Guitar, Classical Guitar, Piano, Electric Guitar, Pin Piano, Harmonium, Vocals
  • Harry Williamson: “Graphics” on 3


Miscellanea

Though Private Parts and Pieces is officially considered Anthony Phillips’ fourth album, it was actually released in North America a few months before Sides was released anywhere. In addition, the cover of Sides makes references to the covers of previous works, with Private Parts and Pieces clearly being the third (after The Geese And The Ghost and Wise After The Event).

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Jehangir Kothari Parade | Day Parade

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Jehangir Kothari Parade is located in Clifton beach in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Access to the sea at Clifton is provided by the terraced Parade known as the Jehangir Kothari Parade. The site, owned by Mr. Jehangir Kothari, an eminent Karachi citizen, who gifted it along with a handsome donation Rs. 300,000 to the Municipality for the development of recreational facilities. The foundation stone was laid by the Governor of Bombay, Sir George Lloyd on 10th February, 1919 and formally opened by Lady Lloyd on 5th January, 1920. The Lady Lloyd Pier was also opened by her on 21st March, 1921.

The Kiosk at one end of the parade, with its elliptical roof structure, built in Jodhpur stone, has an octagonal seat in the center and was used as a Bandstand in yester-years. The pier is 1300 ft long, 15 ft wide and ends in a 70 ft by 50 ft sea-side Pavilion constructed on piles. Gizri limestone and Jodhpur stone were used for its construction.


External link

  • Clifton monuments decaying fast

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