The Music of Christmas is an album by Steven Curtis Chapman released on September 26, 1995.
Christmas Island Internet Administration Limited (CIIA) is a community-owned non-profit Christmas Island company, the objects of which are to be trustee and policy-setting body for the .cx ccTLD, and administrator of the Christmas Island Information Economy Development Trust. Christmas Island Internet Administration owns and operates the only Internet Service Provider (http://www.pulau.cx) in the Territory on a not-for-profit basis.
Snowflakes is the first Christmas album (fourth overall) by American R&B singer Toni Braxton, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music). Along with traditional Christmas songs “The Christmas Song” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, the album features original songs which focus not only on Christmas, but also on love. Braxton was newly married and expecting her first child while making the album.
The album was produced by Braxton, her husband Keri Lewis, and Antonio “L.A.” Reid. The song “Christmas in Jamaica” is a collaboration with reggae artist Shaggy.
List of hospitals in Maine (U.S. state), sorted by location.
Mickey Finn or occasionally Micky Finn (born Michael Norman Finn, 3 June 1947, Thornton Heath, Surrey, England — died 11 January 2003, Croydon, Surrey), was the percussionist and sideman to Marc Bolan in his band Tyrannosaurus Rex (on one album, A Beard of Stars), and later, the 1970s glam rock group, T. Rex. Often confused with other musicians by the same name, Michael Norman Finn (apart from T. Rex) only ever played for a tour in the 1960s with Hapshash and the Coloured Coat. After Bolan and T.Rex’s demise, he played sessions for The Blow Monkeys and The Soup Dragons.
It was rumored that Bolan hired Finn for his good looks, and because he liked his motorcycle, rather than for his musical ability; Finn was unable to recreate the complex rhythmical patterns of his predecessor, Steve Peregrin Took, and was effectively hired as much for a visual foil for Bolan as for his drumming.
In the early 1970s, Finn’s contribution as bongocerro, backing vocalist, and, occasionally, bassist, to Bolan’s music was essential, because Tyrannosaurus Rex and T. Rex started off as a duo and Marc needed a replacement for Steve Peregrin Took. Something of a character both on and off stage, Finn was often to be seen wearing a hat (including a green bowler), a trademark that was adopted by a significant proportion of T. Rex fans.
However, due to T. Rex’s sound becoming more and more electric-influenced, and the presence of a ‘proper’ drummer, Bill Legend, Mickey’s bongo playing became effectively obsolete, and he left the band in late 1975.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Finn made a handful of guest appearances with the West London rock band, Checkpoint Charlie, fronted by Mick Lexington.
Finn returned to the mainstream music scene in 1997, fronting a new, controversial version of T. Rex, Mickey Finn’s T. Rex, playing old T. Rex songs. However, Finn died from alcohol related liver problems, on 11 January 2003, aged 55.
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Bichl is a community in the county Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen in Bavaria, Germany. It is located at , and has about 2000 residents. The village first appears in documents from 1048.
The name “Bichl” refers to hill upon which the village church, St. George, stands. The church was built by Johann Michael Fischer. The origin of the name Bichl comes from the Bavarian word for hill “Bühel” which appears in many place names, where Austro-Bavarian dialects are spoken. For example: Kitzbühel.
Wintry showers is a somewhat informal meteorological term, used primarily in the United Kingdom, to refer to various mixtures of rain, freezing rain, sleet and snow. Professional meteorologists tend to shy away from using the term under any circumstances, but radio and television weather reporters use it regularly, the same way wintry mix is used in the United States.
Though no “official” criteria exist for the term, it is not used when any accumulation of snow on the ground takes place. It is often used when the temperature of the ground surface is above 0°C, preventing accumulation from occurring even if the air temperature is marginally below 0°C; but even then the falling precipitation must generally be something other than consisting exclusively of snow.
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“Tiny Dancer” is a 1971 song by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin, which appears on John’s fifth album, Madman Across the Water.
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“Tiny Dancer” features a piano-based melody during verses, typically inscrutable Taupin lyrics during the chorus, and an arrangement that at the start features pedal steel guitar and light percussion but, transitioning subtly halfway through one of the choruses, by the end is driven by Paul Buckmaster’s dynamic strings, along with a barely heard backing choir. Clocking at 6:13, it was one of the longer radio singles of that period.
The song was written about Maxine Feibelman, a dancer on Elton John’s tour who later married Taupin at his church called Holy Rood Catholic Church. (Later, the song from the Elton John album Blue Moves called “Between Seventeen and Twenty” referred to the divorce of Bernie and Maxine Taupin and the fact that so much had changed from when they first met when he was age twenty and she was age seventeen.)
A non-starter as a single at the time (reaching only No. 41 in the U.S. pop chart and not charting at all in the UK), “Tiny Dancer” did not fade away, but instead slowly became one of Elton John’s most popular songs. A fixture on adult contemporary radio stations, but played by rock stations as well, the song simply grew in popularity.
It was ranked #387 on the 2004 List of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Tiny Dancer is one of the songs featured at the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas. Along with John’s “Bennie and the Jets”, “Tiny Dancer” appears prominently in the 1970s movie Aloha, Bobby and Rose as well as in the 1990s film My Girl 2.
The song received an additional boost in popularity in 2000 after appearing in a memorable scene in the Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous, where it is played over the sound system of a tour bus and no one can resist the urge to sing along to the chorus. Elton John has attested to the film’s popularization of the song, saying in 2004, “I hadn’t played it much until Cameron Crowe put it in Almost Famous. [Now] We get more requests for it than anything else.” An instrumental reprise of the track can also be heard at the end of the movie where Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) visits William Miller (Patrick Fugit) at his home.
“Tiny Dancer” was also referred to by Rihanna in her 2006 hit single “SOS”, and used in the closing scene of the episode “The Dundies” in the US version of the television series The Office. The song figures prominently in “The Americanization of Ivan,” a 1980 episode of the television series, WKRP in Cincinnati.
In Friends Phoebe was asked what her favorite love song was and she responded “The one Elton John wrote about the guy from Who’s the Boss? … you know… [begins singing] Hold me closer Tony Danza…”
In the fifth episode (”My New Coat”) of the Season 2 of the TV series Scrubs, Dr. Cox berates Dr. John Dorian, calling him “Tiny Dancer.”
“Tiny Dancer” has often been covered by John Frusciante since the early 90’s, when playing a solo with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, by Dave Grohl on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, by Ben Folds on his 2002 album Ben Folds Live, and by Tim McGraw in 2002 in a somewhat countrified version that he recorded on Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors and performed with Elton at the 2002 American Music Awards.
A sample of the “Tiny Dancer” chorus also makes a memorable appearance in a mash-up by Girl Talk called “Smash Your Head” (from the 2006 album Night Ripper).
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SlimFTPd is a standards-compliant FTP server from WhitSoft Development under a BSD license. It has no interface and is configured through a single configuration file. A utility to register it as a Windows Service is included. However, prudent use of this tool should be limited to private internal networks as the tool has not had enough exposure to the community for bug reports. All previous versions should be updated to at least 3.181 as “remote code execution” and “denial of service” holes where found on previous releases.
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“Coal Chamber” is the debut album by the band of the same name. It was released on February 11, 1997 by Roadrunner Records and contains the single “Loco”.
The Special Edition of the album contains the bonus tracks “Headstones and the Walking Dead”, “Big Truck (Hand-On-Wheel Mix)”, “Pig (Demo)”, “Sway (Demo)”, “Unspoiled (Demo)”, and “Loco (Demo)” (all of which are available on Giving the Devil his Due”). The DVD features 2 of the band’s concerts, a live video of “Loco”, and the music video of “Loco”.
15. “Headstones and the Walking Dead”
16. “Big Truck (Hand-On-Wheel Mix)”
17. “Pig (Demo)”
18. “Sway (Demo)”
19. “Unspoiled (Demo)”
20. “Loco (Demo)”
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The Park may refer to:
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Wedding Cake Island is an island off Coogee Beach, Sydney, which protects the beach from most swells. It is also known as Lemo’s Island.
The most probable source of the name is the shape of the island - it resembles a wedding cake. Another theory is that bird droppings on the island gave the appearance of icing on a cake. Apparently the island was also formerly called Gingerbread Island.
In 1975 Wedding Cake Island was the title of a popular surf music instrumental single by Australian rock music band Midnight Oil. The track was re-released in 1980 on the EP Bird Noises.
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Snowflakes is the first Christmas album (fourth overall) by American R&B singer Toni Braxton, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music). Along with traditional Christmas songs “The Christmas Song” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, the album features original songs which focus not only on Christmas, but also on love. Braxton was newly married and expecting her first child while making the album.
The album was produced by Braxton, her husband Keri Lewis, and Antonio “L.A.” Reid. The song “Christmas in Jamaica” is a collaboration with reggae artist Shaggy.
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Forever Sucks EP is the second album released by [[Tracy + the Plastics]] in 2002 on Chainsaw Records.
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Nepal competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.
Men’s Marathon
Women’s Marathon
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Night Terror or Night Terrors may refer to:
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“Give Love on Christmas Day” was a Christmas classic soul original by Motown family quintet The Jackson 5. Released to R&B radio in 1970, the song, written by the famed label’s songwriting-producing team, The Corporation, was an ode to everybody to “give love on Christmas” because “no greater gift is better than love.” The song became an oft-covered song in decades to come re-recorded by the kid band that follow the J5’s footsteps, New Edition, for their 1985 Christmas album and was given another overhaul by one of its other members, R&B singer Johnny Gill, in 1990 for an all-star Motown Christmas album. R&B group BlackGirl in 1994 and R&B singer Faith Evans has also covered the song live during a Christmas telecast in 2001. It’s the J5’s and Gill’s versions that are most memorable.
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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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