Castlecroft is a suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, located on the edge of the city, WSW of the city centre. It is situated where the Merry Hill, and Tettenhall Wightwick wards meet, and also borders South Staffordshire.

It has two distinct parts, divided by a former railway line. The eastern part is mostly 1930s private housing, the western part mostly 1950s Council housing. Castlecroft is where Smestow Secondary school and Castlecroft Primary school are situated. Bhylls Acre Primary school is also in the area, but thanks to historical accident, it falls under the jurisdiction of Staffordshire County Council.

The name Castlecroft is derivative of Castlecroft House, a large house that was converted into flats in 2004/2005. In the final years of Castlecroft House it was an hotel going by the name of Castlecroft House Hotel.

The Road to El Dorado was the soundtrack released by singer Elton John and lyricst Tim Rice for the animated motion picture The Road to El Dorado. They had hoped to match the former success of The Lion King soundtrack by collaborating again on another animated movie.

Randy Newman duets with Elton John on the track “It’s Tough To Be A God”.

Track listing

1. El Dorado
2. Someday Out Of The Blue (Theme From El Dorado)
3. Without Question
4. Friends Never Say Goodbye
5. The Trail We Blaze
6. 16th Century Man
7. The Panic In Me
8. It’s Tough To Be A God
9. Trust Me
10. My Heart Dances
11. Queen Of Cities
12. Cheldorado (Hans Zimmer)
13. The Brig (Hans Zimmer)
14. Wonders Of The New World (Hans Zimmer)

Best Buy exclusive bonus tracks

1. Perfect Love
2. Hey, Armadillo

Eaton Socon was a rural district in Bedfordshire, England from 1894 to 1934.

It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 from that part of the St. Neots rural sanitary district which was in Bedfordshire (the rest forming St. Neots Rural District in Huntingdonshire). It consisted of the parishes of Dean, Eaton Socon, Little Barford, Little Staughton, Pertenhall, Shelton and Swineshead, which consisted of a thin strip of land to the north of the Bedford Rural District.

It was abolished under a County Review Order in 1934, and was merged into the Bedford Rural District. Most of the area now forms part of the Bedford district in Bedfordshire, with part in the town of St. Neots.

References

• http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10193916

Is It Christmas Yet? was released by The Tycoons in 1998. First album with Presidents of the United States of America’s Chris Ballew, Gigolo Aunts’ Phil Hurley, and Tube Top’s Gavin Guss.

Track listing

1. “Cloudy Cloud”
2. “Every Other December”
3. “To Be There At Christmas With You”
4. “Frozen Christmas”
   

Summer Fun Natural Fruit Ices was a company that sold fruit ice, commonly known as ‘Italian Ice’ in New York City in the 1980s.

Ices were made of all natural ingredients that included fresh fruit, powdered milk and sugar. Flavors included chocolate, coconut, pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe, lemon and strawberry. The company folded due to a combination of apathy on the part of its owners, competition from new products viz Tofutti and an attitude of reregulation and compliance on the part of the New York City government as regarded sidewalk vending.

Summer Fun was a popular urban snack franchise in a city undergoing transformation during the decade of the 1980s.

Wrong is the fourth full-length album by the Canadian punk rock band NoMeansNo.

Track listing

1. “It’s Catching Up” – 3:29
2. “The Tower” – 5:11
3. “Brainless Wonder” – 1:34
4. “Tired of Waiting” – 1:47
5. “Stocktaking” – 3:05
6. “The End of All Things” – 5:10
7. “Big Dick” – 3:15
8. “Two Lips, Two Lungs and One Tongue” – 1:46
9. “Rags and Bones” – 5:05
10. “Oh No! Bruno!” – 3:06
11. “All Lies” – 6:27
12. “Life in Hell” – 3:54
13. “I Am Wrong” – 7:01
14. “State of Grace” - (2005 reissue bonus track)
15. “End of the World” - (2005 reissue bonus track)

Christmas Turkey is a Christmas-themed album released in 1997 by the Canadian Comedy Music group The Arrogant Worms.
It includes a re-recorded version of “The Christmas Song” (which appeared on their debut album).

Track listing

1. “Santa’s Gonna Kick Your Ass”
2. “The Christmas Song”
3. “Santa Got Arrested”
4. “Christmas Sucks”
5. “Things Are Looking Bad For Santa”
6. “Christmas Turkey Blues”
7. “Oh God, I’m Santa Claus!”
8. “Christmas Is Almost Here”
9. “Dad Threw Up On Christmas Day”
10. “The Same Christmas Cake”
11. “Christmastime”
12. “Christmas Blues”
13. “Christmas Hangover”
14. “Vincent The Christmas Virus”
15. “Christmas In Ignace”

Pope John has been the papal name of twenty one popes of the Roman Catholic Church . It is the most common papal name.

1. Pope John I (523–526)
2. Pope John II (533–535)
3. Pope John III (561–574)
4. Pope John IV (640–642)
5. Pope John V (685–686)
6. Pope John VI (701–705)
7. Pope John VII (705–707)
8. Pope John VIII (872–882)
9. Pope John IX (898–900)
10. Pope John X (914–928)
11. Pope John XI (931–935)
12. Pope John XII (955–964)
13. Pope John XIII (965–972)
14. Pope John XIV (983–984)
15. Pope John XV (985–996)
16. Antipope John XVI (997–998) (no longer recognized as a legitimate pope)
17. Pope John XVII (1003)
18. Pope John XVIII (1003–1009)
19. Pope John XIX (1024–1032)
20. Pope John XX (not an actual pope)
21. Pope John XXI (1276–1277)
22. Pope John XXII (1316–1334)
23. Pope John XXIII (1958–1963)

See also

• List of popes
• Pope John Paul, named after John XXIII and Paul VI, the only papal double name
• Pope Joan, according to legend, a female pope who reigned as John VIII
• Pope John of Alexandria

Laura Miller is a fictional character portrayed by Laura Robbins in the television series Matlock and is the goddaughter of Ben Matlock. The last time she saw her godfather was 11 years prior to her wedding, at her mother’s funeral. She no longer lived in Mt. Harlan at this point, instead working in an Atlanta-area mall in a clothing store as an assistant manager in Marietta. When she came back, she had not met his daughter, Leanne. Her parents owned a bakery. She intended to marry Paul (portrayed by Robert Praigo), a teacher from Mt. Harlan, whose dad was a veterinarian.

Since her parents had both died, she decided to get married in Atlanta rather than Mt. Harlan and she asked Ben to give her away at the wedding. She planned not to have a reception, since there wasn’t much in the budget for it, but Leanne proffered to chip in for the reception, and to host the reception for the wedding at Ben’s house.

She had a brother, Chuck. Brad, another person attending the wedding, was angry at Chuck for disabling his brother, Frank. Frank was a football player being scouted by pro football teams, and was paralyzed from the waist down when Chuck drove his car into a tree, and Brad punched him out at the bachelor party. Chuck was framed for Brad’s murder for the fight they had at the party, and the knife found in the back of Laura’s house.

At the wedding practice, Ben told Laura that the last time he did this (at Leanne’s wedding), it didn’t turn out so well. Laura didn’t know Leanne was divorced, and Ben told her that Leanne married outside her species. “He was a jackass,” he said of Peter MacIntyre (Robert Desiderio).

Appearances

• The Godfather Episode 8-19

See also

• List of characters in Matlock

External links

• The Godfather (episode 8-19)

Capsule Soup is a EP by The Mad Capsule Markets. On this experimental release, the band started using samplers. “Bach Sleeps” is a cover version of Bach’s Fugue for organ in G minor.

Track listing

1. “Bach Sleeps” – 1:59
2. – 3:01
3. “G.M.J.P.” – 4:22
4. – 3:21
5. – 3:11
6. “Jesus is Dead” – 4:52

Album sales

Green Chri$tma$ is a piece of audio theater written and performed by Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, released by Capitol Records in 1958 (catalog number F 4097). Mr. Scrooge (Freberg), the head of an unnamed advertising agency, has gathered a group of clients to discuss tying their products into Christmas. One attendee, Bob Cratchit (Butler), wants to resist tying his spice company into Christmas, preferring to send Christmas cards with a simple message of “Peace on Earth.” Scrooge extols the virtues of making money off of Christmas, and Cratchit counters by reminding Scrooge “whose birthday we’re celebrating.”

The piece is a scathing indictment of the commercialization of Christmas, with references of Christmas-themed advertising by Coca-Cola and Chesterfield Cigarettes, among others. The names of the characters are taken from A Christmas Carol In Prose by Charles Dickens, as is one of the products “advertised” (”Tyn-E-Tim Chestnuts”). Green Chri$tma$ also contains a parody of the Christmas carol The Twelve Days Of Christmas and an original song by Freberg, Christmas Comes But Once A Year.

Of especially noteworthy importance is the impact of this song’s message in the heart of corporate America, as reflected in the fact that it received no commercial AM radio airplay until 1983; only getting a little FM airplay before that (such as on the Doctor Demento Show) and only slightly more AM airtime after 1983. Beginning in 1972, Capitol reissued the single as catalog number 3503, dividing the piece into two parts; it remained in the Christmas singles section of record stores for years thereafter.

The First Bendigo Easter Fair

The first Bendigo Easter Fair was instigated by Burnside and Aspinal to raise funds for the Sandhurst Benevolent Asylum and Hospital. The first fair was held in 1871 and raised over £1000 for this charitable cause. The fair was considered such a success that it has been held every year since, making Australia’s longest continuous running festival. The Festival is held every Easter and throughout its history has varied from one to ten days in duration.

Events

Gala Parade

In 1893 reports in The Weekly Advertiser describe a parade held that included a large and colourful Chinese section that delighted crowds. Since then the Chinese community has supported and been part of the Festival. Today the gala parade features upwards of 100 floats entered by local community groups, schools, emergency services, and businesses. The parade traditionally ends with the large Chinese section. Chinese cultural groups from Bendigo and Melbourne participate in the parade, demonstrating lion and dragon dances. The gala parade is held on Easter Monday each year.

Torchlight Procession

The Torchlight procession is a night-time parade that appeared prior to 1900. It heavily features local emergency services, with local volunteer fire brigade members marching with brass torches. In recent times the parade has ended at Bendigo’s Lake Weeroona where entertainment, activities and fireworks have been held. The Torchlight Procession is held on Easter Sunday each year.

Popular Girl

A fund raising event called “Popular Girl” was held in which well-known local women raised money and in doing so gained “votes” and the person that raised the largest number of votes was crowned the “Popular Girl”. The “Popular Girl” competition is no longer held.

Carnival

Originally held in several locations including Rosalind Park, Bendigo Showgrounds and, more recently, the Bendigo Central Business District, the carnival features a large number of ’sideshow alley’-type attractions and children’s rides.

Chinese Spring Festival and Golden Dragon Museum

The Chinese Spring Festival has been held regularly for many years. It marks the appearance of Sun Loong, the New Dragon, thought to be the World’s longest Imperial Dragon. The Spring festival culminates in the “Waking the Dragon” ceremony that prepares the Dragon for the Gala Parade. Sun Loong first appeared in 1971 and was created to replace Loong. Loong is now not a part of the parade and Both dragons are on display at the Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo.

New Name, Same Festival

The Bendigo Easter Fair was renamed The Bendigo Easter Festival in 2001. It is still a very popular event attracting over 100,000 people over the four day event.

External links

• Bendigo Easter Festival website
• Golden Dragon Museum website

• Florence Elsie Inman (1891–1986), Liberal, representing Prince Edward Island. Appointed 28 July, 1955 by Louis St-Laurent. Served until death on 31 May, 1986.
• Olive Lillian Irvine (1895–1969), Progressive Conservative, representing Manitoba. Appointed 14 January, 1960 by John Diefenbaker. Served until death on 1 November, 1969.
• Gordon Benjamin Isnor (1885–1973), Liberal, representing Nova Scotia. Appointed 2 May, 1950 by Louis St-Laurent. Served until death on 17 March, 1973.

Kevin Brennan (born May 2, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is a stand-up comedian and former writer for Saturday Night Live. He frequently performs at the Comedy Cellar and the Comic Strip Live in Manhattan. He can also be seen in a half-hour HBO stand-up special for the series One Night Stand.

In 2007, Brennan will be part of the Just for Laughs tour traveling across Canada.

Kevin is the older brother of Chappelle’s Show co-writer Neal Brennan.

External links

• Official Website: Comedian Kevin Brennan
  

John Ball may be:

• John Ball (priest) (d. 1381), active in Peasants’ Revolt
• John Ball (Puritan) (1585–1640), British
• John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American pioneer
• John Ball (naturalist) (1818–1889), Irish politician
• John Ball (golfer) (1861–1940), British
• John Ball (American author) (1911–1988), American author
• John Ball (soccer), American soccer player playing for the Rochester Rhinos
• John M. Ball (born 1948), British mathematician
• Johnny Ball (born 1938), British children’s television presenter

Gingerman Raceway is a road course, built in 1995, which opened for its first full season of racing sports cars and motorcycles in 1996. The track is the recipient of the ‘Safe Track Award’ from Victory Lane Magazine, and is specifically designed as a club racing course with clear runoffs and wide, smooth paving to avoid costly vehicle damage, especially for newer drivers.

Location

The track is only minutes away from South Haven in Southwest Michigan.

Track Layout

The track is a great course for spectators, who can watch the races from numerous areas to watch the races. The track itself is a 1.88 mile road course for racing sports cars and motorcycles, and is specifically designed for driver safety, especially for amateur drivers.

External Links

• Trackpedia guide to driving this track

• Gingerman Raceway, Ltd.

“Chin Up” is a song from Charlotte’s Web the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated musical. The film was released by Paramount Pictures. The song is written by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. In the motion picture the song is sung by Charlotte the spider when she first meets Wilbur the pig in the barnyard. She convinces him to look on the bright side.

Literary Sources

• Sherman, Robert B. . Santa Clarita: Camphor Tree Publishers, 1998.

Media Player was a media player originally included in Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions and a slightly updated version was included with Windows 3.1x. Media Player received a facelift with Video for Windows, with an OLE2 version provided with the runtime software. This version forms the basis for the 32-bit version included with Windows 95 and Windows NT.

From Windows 95 onwards, Media Player took the same version number as Windows itself. Thus in the original version of Windows 95 it reports itself as 4.00.950, in Windows 2000 it is 5.0.* and in Windows XP it is version 5.1.*, where * refers to the build number.

As of Windows 98, Media Player was rendered obsolete, Windows Media Player being the replacement. Media Player is still included in Windows XP; however, it is no longer included as of Windows Vista.

Features

Unlike its replacement, Media Player allows one to choose which MCI device to send the file to. Media Player can be used to embed music or video in a document, as it supports OLE.

Criticism

Media Player did not show video in its own window. Video would either be fullscreen or in a separate window, with the filename as the title. The only exception was when the video was viewed via OLE, in which case it is displayed within the application.

The version of Media Player included in Windows 3.x is compatible with most versions of Windows; however, it does not recognize certain recent file types.

Versions

The Reparti i Operacioneve Speciale (ROS; “Special Operations Unit”) was an Albanian special forces unit, under the authority of the country’s Ministry of the Interior. It was based in the western port city of Durres. Founded in February 2000, it was used principally against organised crime. It was disbanded in 2002.

Renate Blauel is a German music engineer who was married to Elton John.

Already a sound engineer, she had engineered albums including Hysteria for the Human League and Croatia Records. http://www.discogs.com/release/454720 Blauel was then a recording engineer on John’s 1983 album Too Low For Zero in Sydney, Australia. John admitted that his bisexuality was a “compromise”. They were married on Valentine’s Day, 1984, in Sydney, Australia, after he had proposed to her four days earlier in a restaurant. Attendees included Olivia Newton-John. A second service was held for John’s family members later in England. Blauel also worked as a recording engineer on John’s 1984 album Breaking Hearts. They divorced in 1988 when both she and Elton felt that he could no longer deny his sexual orientation.

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