Jackie DeShannon - UK charts. She recorded many other singles that encompassed teen pop, country ballads, rockabilly, gospel and Ray Charles style soul that didn't fare as well on the charts. During these years it was her songwriting and public profile, rather than her singing, which kept her contracted to Liberty Records. DeShannon dated Elvis Presley and formed friendships with The Everly Brothers and Ricky Nelson. She also co-starred and sang with Bobby Vinton in the teen surf movie Surf Party. DeShannon's biggest break came in February, 1964 when she supported The Beatles on their first US tour, and formed a touring band with guitarist Ry Cooder. DeShannon also wrote "Don' Doubt Yourself Babe" for The Byrds debut album. Her music at this stage was heavily influenced by the American West Coast sounds and.
Ignorance - particularly adamant that it does more harm that good. For instance, Islam views ignorance as a particular and unique evil that can and should easily be dispelled: "Seek knowledge, even as far as China." - Muhammad In a society with a strong hierarchy or caste system, ignorance of the concerns of those one does not work or deal with directly may aid labour specialization, reduce jealousy and dissent, and otherwise serve the interests of social harmony. In such a society, control of any mass media tends to be carefully controlled, and one tends to perform one job for life. There are few or no ethical traditions today that emphasize plain ignorance as a value. However, certain ideologies persist that find it useful or desirable. When cultures meet however, ignorance can become.
George H. Tichenor - on wounds. He was badly wounded in the leg in 1863 and amputation was recommended, but he insisted on treating his wounds with an alcohol based solution of his own devising, and successfully healed and regained the use of his leg. His potential reputation as a humanitarian was no doubt clouded by his fierce regional loyalty; Tichenor insisted that his techniques be used only on injured Confederates, never on Yankee prisoners. After the war he started bottling Dr. Tichenor's Patent Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana; the formula, consisting of alcohol, oil of peppermint and arnica, was originally marketed as useful for a wide variety of complaints, to be used both internally and externally, for man and beast. The company producing this liquid was incorporated in 1905 and is still in existence,.
Kawai Nui Marsh - owned by the State of Hawaii and the City & County of Honolulu. This marsh is a Ramsar Convention nomination site. Ka wai nui means "the big water" in Hawaiian and no doubt reflects the fact that this feature was a large, possibly marine or estuarine, body of water at the time when the area was first settled by Polynesians. Today, nearly all of the marsh is covered by vegetation, and this is either floating on water, growing on a mat of peat that is floating on water, or in the upper-most parts of the marsh a wet meadow. The latter area is utilized by cattle for grazing when not flooded by high water level. Most of the marsh lies behind a levee constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Kerikeri - 1960 Stone Store The Stone Store, a former storehouse, is the oldest stone building in New Zealand, construction having begun on 19 April 1832. The keystone above the door bearing the date 1833 is thought to have been carved by the stonemason William Parrott who cut the Sydney sandstone in situ, but construction of the building was not actually completed until mid-1836. Stone was used because the missionaries needed a vermin-free, fireproof area for their supplies and provisions, and for improved security from inquisitive Maori. There was a plan to build a mill where the bridge exists now, and to protect the flour produced from locally grown wheat in the store. But the mill never eventuated, and the millstones brought out from England went inland to Waimate North instead. Curiously enough,.
King James Version of the Bible - the Church of England and became perhaps the most influential English version in America. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Starting the project 2 Literary qualities 3 Subsequent history 4 Copyright status 5 See Also 6 External Link Starting the project Its development began when King James I called a conference at Hampton Court in 1604. It is no longer in copyright in most parts of the world but has a special position in the United Kingdom, relating in part to the established religion. Eventually seven different editions of the King James Version were produced, the most recent of which was produced in 1769, and it is this edition which is most commonly cited as the King James Version (KJV). The motivation behind the KJV translation was in large part due to.
Kohen - section will discuss how this change affected the role of the Kohanim and Levites, and how it led to the development of modern rabbinic Judaism. This section should include a summary of this subject's treatment in the Mishna and Talmud, and the role of the Kohen in Jewish life today. Women and the priesthood A Bat Kohen is the daughter of a Kohen. The Talmud states that she loses her status as a Kohen when she marries a non-Kohen. Some rulings in traditional Jewish law allow for the ruling that a Bat Kohen may perform the ritual of pidyon ha'ben, the ceremonial redemption of a first-born son. In practice Orthodox Judaism views this as forbidden. A Bat Kohen may not perform the ritual of Nesiat Kapayim, the priestly blessing sung aloud.
Kreacher - rest of his family, Kreacher hated him. Kreacher seized his chance when Sirius told him to "get out". He left the house and went to a member of the Black family he still had respect for: Sirius's cousin Narcissa Black, also known as Narcissa Malfoy, the wife of Lucius Malfoy. Lucius Malfoy, under orders from Lord Voldemort no doubt, told him that if Harry Potter were to contact the house by means of the Floo Network, he was to lie and say Sirius wasn't there. Since, Kreacher didn't belong to Harry he could lie to him without having to punish himself. He turned up in the attic and Sirius was convinced he'd been there the whole time. He followed the plan and it succeded, Harry went to the Department of Mysteries..
Janez Strnad - 1974) contains an almost 'perfect' definition and introduction to the understanding of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle for the graduate beginner. He wrote over 1000 works. Anyone who knows him can describe his piercing nature and precise ways of expression through his own simple words of what Lev Davidovich Landau once meant: "We can find similar thoughts by the other cosmologists, which have reputation they are wrong many times, but they never doubt" Janez Strnad from a review on Mirjam Galičič's translation of Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (Obzornik mat, fiz. 39 (1994) 6, pp 191 - 192). Strnad's works also includes topics of physics which are not exactly related at first glance to it, for instance as in this his article Znanost in politika v vinjetah (Science and politics in.
Jan van Eyck - the Good to Lisbon to beg the hand of Isabella of Portugal. His portrait of the bride fixed the duke's choice. After his return he settled finally at Bruges, where he married, and his wife bore him a daughter, known in after years as a nun in the convent of Maeseyck. At the christening of this child the duke was sponsor, and this was but one of many distinctions by which Philip the Good rewarded his painter's merits. Numerous altarpieces and portraits now give proof of Van Eyck's extensive practice. As finished works of art and models of conscientious labour they are all worthy of the name they bear, though not of equal excellence, none being better than those which were completed about 1432. Of an earlier period, a "Consecration of.
Jack Tramiel - ASCII and BASIC. The computer was 4KB PET 2001. At $599, it became a hit (this was also the time of Apple). In 1984, the sales surpassed US $1 billion. But at the same time, due to personal conflict, Tramiel was kicked out from his company (soon later Steve Jobs was to be out of Apple too). Later on, Tramiel purchased Atari but failed to reproduce his earlier success. It is rumoured that Tramiel has a large gold and platinum sword from a contest hanging over his fireplace from Atari's Warner days when Warner Bros. owned the Franklin mint. The sword was part of an elaborate video game contest of multiple golden and gemstoned prizes worth several thousand dollars, the Sword itself is when created was worth $50,000 (although the dip.
Jay-Z - Jaz-O, and then as part of a group called Original Flavor), Jay-Z co-founded Roc-a-Fella Records with Damon Dash, releasing his debut album Reasonable Doubt, to considerable acclaim within the rap community, though it did not achieve widespread success. It included four charting singles, "Ain't No Nigga" (with Foxy Brown), "Can't Knock the Hustle" (with Mary J. Blige), "Dead Presidents" and "Feelin' It". In 1997, Jay-Z's follow-up, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1, peaked at #3 and helped establish his career and mainstream success. In spite of the success, Jay-Z's image was tarnished by a perceived pandering to mainstream sales, and a watering down of his sound. The next year, Jay-Z released Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life, continued this evolution towards a pop-oriented market. This included several huge singles, including "Can I Get.
Vergina - capital of ancient Macedon. The town became internationally famous in 1977, when the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos unearthed what he claimed was the burial site of the kings of Macedon, including the tomb of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. Although the identification of Phillip II as one of the kings buried there has been disputed, there is no doubt that the site is of great archaeological importance. The Casket believed to be that of Phillip II. The gold casket which Andronikos identified as containing the remains of Phillip II has a symbol of a sun or star on its lid, and this Vergina Sun has been adopted as a symbol of Greek Macedonia. It therefore became the subject of international controversy in 1991 when the newly independent Republic of.
Jacques de Molay - besides the order's founder and first Grand Master, Hughes de Payens. De Molay's exact date of birth is in some doubt, but it is known that he joined the Knights Templar in 1265 at the age of 21 and rose through the ranks quickly. He was first appointed to the position of Visitor General in Britain, and later elevated to the post of Grand Preceptor of England. After the death of Theobald Gaudin, the 22nd Grand Master, de Molay moved from England to Cyprus, where he remained until Pope Clement V summoned him to France in 1307. There he was arrested and jailed by Philip the Fair. De Molay confessed under torture to "denying Christ and trampling on the Cross," and on March 18, 1314 he was led out to publicly.
James Martineau - had so long served and adorned. Martineau, who was in his youth denied the benefit of a university education, yet in his age found famous universities eager to confer upon him their highest distinctions. He was made LL.D. of Harvard in 1872, S.T.D. of Leiden in 1874, D.D. of Edinburgh in 1884, D.C.L. of Oxford in 1888 and D.Litt. of Dublin in 1891. The life of Martineau was essentially that of a thinker, and was typical of the century in which he lived and the society within which he moved. He was good-tempered and unembittered by persecution; he rarely used his splendid rhetoric for the purposes of invective against these things, though he could be very outspoken. He was fundamentally a man of strong convictions; the root of his whole intellectual.
James H. Critchfield - Critchfield joined the CIA in 1948. He was tasked with exploiting the fallen Third Reich's intelligence organizations - Reinhard Gehlen and his Gehlen Organization - to gather information about the Soviet Union. This work, which led to the creation of the post-war West German intelligence apparatus, came to include the use of Nazi war criminals. Critchfield defended his actions when the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act of 1999 made it public knowledge, disputing that Gehlen himself was a war criminal but admitting to a Washington Post reporter that "there's no doubt that the CIA got carried away with recruiting some pretty bad people". In the early 1960s, as chief of the division responsible for Iraq, Critchfield became concerned about Soviet influence in the existing government, and recommended that the US support.
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity - Patrick G. Eddington, Alexandria, VA David MacMichael, Linden, VA Raymond McGovern, Arlington, VA Kathleen McGrath Christison, Santa Fe, NM Other Apparent VIPS Members Eugene Betit[1] Ray Close[1] Correspondence 7 February 2003: VIPS MEMORANDUM sent to President George Walker Bush (published in Common Dreams). 15 February 2003: VIPS: "CIA says NO. U.S. Intelligence Officers Say Bush Out of His Mind on Iraq War" by Ray McGovern for NowToronto.com. 16 March 2003: VIPS MEMORANDUM: "Memorandum for Confused Americans. Cooking Intelligence for War" posted at LI Politics Message Board Forum by Ray McGovern: Appended and translated March 6, 2003, transcript from German Channel One's Panorama interview with former CIA officers, including Ray McGovern and David MacMichael, "to discuss the use/abuse of intelligence to support the US administration's case for attacking Iraq." 18 March 2003:.
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose - Montrose entered Aberdeen, where he succeeded in effecting his object, on the second occasion carrying off the head of the Gordons, the marquess of Huntly, as a prisoner to Edinburgh, though in so doing, for the first and last time in his life, he violated a safeconduct. In July 1639, after the signature of the treaty of Berwick, Montrose was one of the Covenanting leaders who visited Charles. This change of policy on his part, frequently ascribed to the fascination of the kings conversation, arose in reality from the nature of his own convictions. He wished to get rid of the bishops without making presbyters masters of the state. His was essentially a laymans view of the situation. Taking no account of the real forces of the time, he aimed at.
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose - entered Aberdeen, where he succeeded in effecting his object, on the second occasion carrying off the head of the Gordons, the marquess of Huntly, as a prisoner to Edinburgh, though in so doing, for the first and last time in his life, he violated a safe-conduct. In July 1639, after the signature of the treaty of Berwick, Montrose was one of the Covenanting leaders who visited Charles. This change of policy on his part, frequently ascribed to the fascination of the kings conversation, arose in reality from the nature of his own convictions. He wished to getrid of the bishops without making presbyters masters of the state. His was essentially a laymans view of the situation. Taking no account of the real forces of the time, he aimed at an ideal.
Jean de la Bruyère - before he could make his way into that guarded hold. He was defeated thrice in 1691, and on one memorable occasion he had but seven votes, five of which were those of Bossuet, Boileau, Racine, Pellisson and Bussy-Rabutin. It was not till 1693 that he was elected, and even then an epigram, which, considering his admitted insignificance in conversation, was not of the worst, lacesit lateri: "Quand la Bruyère se présente Pourquoi faut il crier haro? Pour faire on nombre de quarante Ne falloit il pas un zero" His unpopularity was, however, chiefly confined to the subjects of his sarcastic portraiture, and to the hack writers of the time, of whom he was wont to speak with a disdain only surpassed by that of Pope. His description of the Mercure galant.
