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Esper (fiction)
Esper or Espers may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Espers (band), a Philadelphia-based folk group ** ''Espers'' (album), their eponymous debut album * ''Espers'' (comics), a series of comics written by James D. Hudnall and published by Eclipse Comics *''Esper Mami'', a manga created by Fujiko Fujio * Esper (''Final Fantasy''), a type of mystical being in a number of the ''Final Fantasy'' video games *"Esper", a song by Japanese heavy metal band Loudness from the 1984 album '' Disillusion'' *Esper, one of five fictional shards in the Alara block expansion for ''Magic: The Gathering'' Other uses *Esper, Iran, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran *Esper, Missouri, a community in the United States *Esper (name), a list of people with the surname *Esper (software), a software product for complex event processing *ESPer, person who has extrasensory perception See also *Vespers (other) Vespers are the evening players part of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Luth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espers (band)
Espers was an American psychedelic folk band from Philadelphia, United States, that was part of the emerging indie folk scene. They formed in 2002 as a trio of singer-songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons but later expanded to a sextet including Otto Hauser, Helena Espvall and Chris Smith. Their music is reminiscent of late-sixties British folk as well as many contemporary folk acts. Most of the band's members have also featured on recordings by a number of other folk artists such as Nick Castro and Vashti Bunyan and as a result have become an important part of the psychedelic folk revival. They released their self-titled debut in 2004 on Time-Lag Records and followed that with an album of cover songs, '' The Weed Tree'', in 2005. This release featured the band's versions of songs by artists as diverse as Nico, The Durutti Column and Blue Öyster Cult. In 2006 the band released their third full-length album, '' II'' (presumably so called because it was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espers (album)
''Espers'' is the self-titled debut studio album by the band Espers. It was released in 2004 on Locust Music. The album was produced by the group's original trio and establishes their contemporary psychedelic folk Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic instrumentation of folk, but adds musical elements common to psychedelic music. Chara ... sound. Track listing #"Flowery Noontide" - 4:10 #"Meadow" - 4:11 #"Riding" - 4:09 #"Voices" - 3:44 #"Hearts & Daggers" - 8:34 #"Byss & Abyss" - 6:03 #"Daughter" - 3:03 #"Travel Mountains" - 6:30 References 2004 debut albums Espers (band) albums Wichita Recordings albums {{2000s-folk-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espers (comics)
''Espers'' was an independent comic book series created and written by James D. Hudnall. It centered on a disparate group of people with various psychic powers who are brought together under duress and later coalesce as a team. Espers was published intermittently in the 1980s and 1990s by four different companies, including Eclipse, Marvel, and Image, and was re-numbered from issue 1 again each time. As the series evolved it was revealed that in the Espers' world people imbued with advanced psychic powers (known as 'espers') had been around for hundreds of years, but that their existence had been successfully kept from the general public by a secret conspiracy among a handful of powerful groups, including the Inner Circle, The Triad, and the S.E.A. (among others), all engaged in a generations-long war against one another in the shadows for power, control, and world domination. Events in the series, however, later make the existence of espers publicly known for the first time. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esper Mami
is a manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio in 1977 and serialized in ''Shōnen Big Comic''. It tells stories about Mami, a middle schoolgirl who one day finds out she has various psychic powers, and how she uses them to help people. The series was later adapted into an anime series in 1987 and an anime film in 1988. This series has a similar premise to one of Fujiko F. Fujio's earlier shorts titled '' Akage no Anko'' ("Redheaded Anko"), later retitled ''Anko Ōi ni Okoru'' ("When Anko Really Gets Angry"), which is about Anko Aoyama, a teenage girl who discovers her psychic powers and the dark secret of her mother's lineage of true witches, and who also poses nude for her own father. Plot Mami Sakura used to be a normal junior high school student, but she happened to acquire supernatural powers. Using her powers and with the help of her childhood friend, Kazuo Takahata, she solves mysterious occurrences. When she senses someone needs help, she uses the "Teleportation Gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esper (Final Fantasy)
''Final Fantasy'' is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games (RPGs). The eponymous first game in the series, published in 1987, was conceived by Sakaguchi as his last-ditch effort in the game industry; the title was a success and spawned sequels. While most entries in the series are separate from each other, they have recurring elements carrying over between entries: these include plot themes and motifs, gameplay mechanics, and visual elements. The ''Final Fantasy'' series features recurring thematic elements, including magical crystals, and creatures such as the Chocobo and Moogle which have appeared in multiple roles. Numerous writers have worked on the series, including Sakaguchi himself, early writer Kenji Terada, Kazushige Nojima and Yasumi Matsuno. Some settings and specific themes have been used in multiple titles a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disillusion (album)
is the fourth studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Loudness. It was recorded, mixed and mastered in London, England, in 1983 and released at the beginning of 1984. The sound engineer chosen for the recording sessions was the expert Julian Mendelsohn, who had previously worked with acts like Yes, Elton John, Jimmy Page and Bob Marley. The original Japanese version was licensed and released by Music for Nations in the UK and Roadrunner Records in Europe. Attention by major US labels for the band and the need to make their work accessible to Western audiences, prompted a new release of the album with vocal tracks sung in English on July 1, 1984. The English version opened the album with the instrumental "Anthem (Loudness Overture)" by Akira Takasaki, which was missing in the original Japanese release. Critical reception In 2005, ''Disillusion'' was ranked number 290 in ''Rock Hard'' magazine's book of ''The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time''. In September 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alara Block
The Alara block is a ''Magic: The Gathering'' expert-level expansion block, consisting of the expansion sets ''Shards of Alara'' (October 3, 2008), ''Conflux'' (February 6, 2009) and ''Alara Reborn'' (April 30, 2009). The Alara block focuses on multicolored cards, in particular cards with three or more colors. ''Shards of Alara'' Set details Bill Rose was the lead designer for ''Shards of Alara'', and Devin Low was its lead developer. ''Shards'' is a multicolor set which revolves around three-color combinations. Its tagline is, "Five worlds share one fate." The set consists of 249 cards, of which 20 are basic lands, 101 are common, 60 uncommon, 53 rare, and 15 mythic rare. It was the first set to contain cards of the mythic rarity. The design of ''Shards of Alara'' focuses on five different "shards" which originally formed a single world. Mechanically, each shard consists of one of the five magic colors and its two allied colors. Each shard has its own keyword mechanic or stron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esper, Iran
Aspar ( fa, اسپر) is a village in Boyer Ahmad-e Garmsiri Rural District, in the Central District (Gachsaran County), Central District of Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 218, in 50 families. References Populated places in Gachsaran County {{Gachsaran-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esper, Missouri
Esper is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee .... The community most likely has the name of the local Esper family. References Unincorporated communities in Putnam County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{PutnamCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esper (name)
Esper is a surname and given name. Notable people with the surname include: Surname *Duke Esper (1868–1910), American professional baseball player *Dwain Esper (1892–1982), American film director and producer *Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper (1742–1810), German entomologist * George Esper (1932–2012), American journalist *Jan Esper (born 1968), German scientist *Mark Esper (born 1964), American politician *Michael Esper (born 1976), American actor Given name *Esper Beloselsky (1871–1921), Russian prince, sailor, and Olympic medalist *Esper Ukhtomsky Prince Esper Esperovich Ukhtomsky, Эспер Эсперович Ухтомский ( – 26 November 1921) was a poet, publisher and Oriental enthusiast in late Tsarist Russia. He was a close confidant of Tsar Nicholas II and accompanied him w ... (1861–1921), Russian prince, diplomat, poet, publisher, and Orientalist See also * Esper (other) {{given name, Kew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esper (software)
Esper is an open-source Java-based software product for Complex event processing (CEP) and Event stream processing (ESP), that analyzes series of events for deriving conclusions from them. Esper extends the SQL-92 standard for its engine and enterprise framework, providing Aggregate function, Pattern matching, event windowing and joining. Esper implements Event-driven programming and event-driven architecture. Esper was created in 2006 by EsperTech Inc. It offers a Domain-specific language for processing events called Event Processing Language (EPL). EPL is a Declarative programming language for analyzing time-based event data and detecting situations as they occur. Esper is a Java-based application but has been ported to the C# programming language and is available for the .NET Framework under the name NEsper. EsperTech Inc. provides Esper Enterprise Edition with enterprise-ability features. Example This example illustrates a simple EPL query that outputs a row immediately w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extrasensory Perception
Extrasensory perception or ESP, also called sixth sense, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed with the mind. The term was adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as intuition, telepathy, psychometry, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, empathy and their trans-temporal operation as precognition or retrocognition. Second sight is a form of extrasensory perception, whereby a person perceives information, in the form of a vision, about future events before they happen (precognition), or about things or events at remote locations (remote viewing). There is no evidence that second sight exists. Reports of second sight are known only from anecdotes. Second sight and ESP are classified as pseudosciences. History In the 1930s, at Duke University in North Carolina, J. B. Rhine and his wife Louisa E. Rhine conducted an investigation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
