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Gossamer Albatross II In Flight
Gossamer most commonly refers to: * Fine spider silk used by spiderlings for ballooning or kiting * Gossamer (fabric), very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric Gossamer may also refer to: Technology * Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight * Gossamer Albatross, a human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Dr. Paul B. MacCready's AeroVironment * The code name of the motherboard used in first-generation Apple G3 Macs Culture * The Gossamer Project (or Gossamer Archive), a large ''X-Files'' fan fiction archive * Gossamer (Looney Tunes), a character in the ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons * Gossamer, alias of two different DC Comics superheroes, Ayla Ranzz and Jay Nakamura Literature * '' The Gossamer Years'', an English title for the Japanese classical work of literature ''Kagerō Nikki'' * ''Gossamer'' (novel), a 2006 novel by Lois Lowry * Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter in his collection ''Vacu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider Silk
Spider silk is a protein fibre spun by spiders. Spiders use their silk to make Spider web, webs or other structures, which function as sticky nets to catch other animals, or as nests or cocoons to protect their offspring, or to wrap up prey. They can also use their silk to suspend themselves, to Ballooning (spider), float through the air, or to glide away from predators. Most spiders vary the thickness and stickiness of their silk for different uses. In some cases, spiders may even use silk as a source of food. While methods have been developed to collect silk from a spider by force, it is difficult to gather silk from many spiders compared to silk-spinning organisms such as Sericulture, silkworms. All spiders produce silk, and even in non-web building spiders, silk is intimately tied to courtship and mating. Silk produced by females provides a transmission channel for male vibratory courtship signals, while webs and draglines provide a substrate for female sex pheromones. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lullaby For The Devil
''A Lullaby for the Devil'' is the fifth full-length studio album by the progressive metal band Deadsoul Tribe. It was released on 11 September 2007 by InsideOut Music. The initial pressing of the album will include a multimedia section with acoustic live material. The cover artwork is a hidden tribute to Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, his typical pose with a flute from the 70s like a Pied-Piper (ratcatcher). Track listing # "Psychosphere" − 3:36 # "Goodbye City Life" − 8:27 # "Here Come the Pigs" − 4:01 # "Lost in You" − 4:55 # "A Stairway to Nowhere" − 6:35 # "The Gossamer Strand" − 6:21 # "Any Sign at All" − 6:17 # "Fear" − 4:24 # "Further Down" − 2:57 # "A Lullaby for the Devil" − 6:13 Credits * Devon Graves − lead vocals, guitar, flute * Roland Ivenz − bass * Adel Moustafa − drums * Roland Kerschbaumer − guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half Acre Beer Company
Half Acre Beer Company is a brewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The company was founded by Gabriel Magliaro in 2006, with its office located in Chicago. The recipes for the beers were developed in Chicago and the beer was initially brewed at Sand Creek Brewery in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Half Acre's first beer, Half Acre Lager, debuted in August 2007.Bayne, Martha (August 23, 2007)"A Chicago Beer, Brewed Right Here in Wisconsin" ''Chicago Reader''. Retrieved April 26, 2014. History In March 2009, Half Acre Beer began production in its own brewery on Lincoln Avenue in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago. Building upon its growing popularity, a tap room adjacent to the brewhouse opened in 2012. A 2013, ''Chicago'' magazine annual poll named the Half Acre tap room the city's eighth best bar. Because of its continued success, a kitchen was added in January 2016, completing the transition to a full service brew pub. In 2015, the brewery expanded by opening a sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphaeidae
Euphaeidae, sometimes incorrectly named Epallagidae and commonly called gossamerwings, is a family of damselflies in the odonate superfamily Calopterygoidea. The family is small, consisting of around 78 species living species in nine genera occurring in the Palearctic, Australasia, and Asia. The family contains two subfamilies, Euphaeinae, encompassing all the living species and a single fossil genus, and the extinct Eodichromatinae, encompassing fossil genera from the Eocene to late Oligocene. Euphaeid species are large and mostly metallic-coloured, looking similar to species of damselflies in the family Calopterygidae. The larvae have seven pairs of supplementary gills along the abdomen in addition to the usual three sac-like gills at the tip of the abdomen. Adults have the fore- and hindwings of equal length, barely petiolate and a long pterostigma that is broader in the hindwing. Adults have close veins and numerous antenodals (15-38), and most breed in forest streams. Sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycaenidae
Lycaenidae is the second-largest family of butterflies (behind Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies), with over 6,000 species worldwide, whose members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies. They constitute about 30% of the known butterfly species. The family comprises seven subfamilies, including the blues (Polyommatinae), the coppers (Lycaeninae), the hairstreaks (Theclinae), and the harvesters (Miletinae). Description, food, and life cycle Adults are small, under 5 cm usually, and brightly coloured, sometimes with a metallic gloss. Larvae are often flattened rather than cylindrical, with glands that may produce secretions that attract and subdue ants. Their cuticles tend to be thickened. Some larvae are capable of producing vibrations and low sounds that are transmitted through the substrates they inhabit. They use these sounds to communicate with ants.Pierce, N. E.; Braby, M. F.; Heath, A.; Lohman, D. J.; Mathew, J.; Rand, D. B. & Travassos, M. A. (2002)"The eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gossamer (album)
''Gossamer'' is the second studio album by American electropop band Passion Pit. It was released on July 20, 2012, by Columbia and Frenchkiss Records. Recorded in 2011 in Los Angeles and New York City, the album was produced by Chris Zane, who also produced the band's debut album ''Manners'' (2009), and lead singer Michael Angelakos. In an August 2010 interview with ''NME'', Angelakos stated that work had already begun on the follow-up to ''Manners'', and that the band intended to release the album in the spring of 2011. "It's gonna be a really fantastic, exciting, beautiful, gorgeous record. An absolutely beautiful record. I'm so excited", he said. The album's title and release date were announced on April 24, 2012. Singles " Take a Walk" was released as the album's lead single on May 8, 2012. The accompanying music video, directed by David Wilson and supported by The Creators Project, was shot in Philadelphia from the perspective of a bouncing ball using helicam technology. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Country, New Road
Black Country, New Road (commonly abbreviated to BCNR or BC,NR) are an English rock band formed in Cambridgeshire in 2018, consisting of Tyler Hyde (vocals, bass), Lewis Evans (vocals, flute, saxophone), May Kershaw (vocals, keys), Georgia Ellery (vocals, violin), Charlie Wayne (vocals, drums) and Luke Mark (guitar). The band's first two albums featured guitarist and lead vocalist Isaac Wood, who left the band in 2022. The band gained initial attention through debut singles "Athens, France" and "Sunglasses" in 2019, which combined features of experimental rock, post-punk and post-rock, drawing comparisons to bands such as Slint and contemporaries Black Midi. Their debut album '' For the First Time'', released in 2021, received widespread critical acclaim, was nominated for the Mercury Prize and reached No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart. Four days before the release of their 2022 second album ''Ants from Up There'', Wood left the band, citing mental health struggles. The album received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadistik
Cody Foster, better known by his stage name Sadistik, is an American alternative hip hop artist from Seattle, Washington. He is currently unsigned to a label. Musical career In 2008, he released his debut album ''The Balancing Act'' on Clockwork Grey Music. In 2013, he released his sophomore LP '' Flowers for My Father'' on Fake Four Inc, which received positive reviews. Vibe Magazine called the album "gripping & emotional". The album appeared on the top 15 hip-hop/rap charts on iTunes. On July 1, 2014, he released his third LP ''Ultraviolet''. On April 14, 2017, he released his fourth LP ''Altars''. On April 20, 2019, he released his fifth LP, ''Haunted Gardens''. Style Sadistik has been described as "showing his scars with each song he writes" and "the cigarette burn rap king". Sadistik has been closely associated with the late hip hop artist Eyedea and has been known for "a unique style of hip hop, one that features dark imagery, dense wordplay, and nontraditional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackthorn (Russian Band)
Blackthorn is a five-peace all-female Russian symphonic extreme metal band formed in 2004 in Moscow. As of 2017, they released three studio albums: ''Gossamer Witchcraft'' (2009), ''Codex Archaos'' (2011) and ''Witch Cult Ternion'' (2015). Band history Blackthorn were formed in 2004, by the Sakha-born singer Aina. A year later the original line-up, featuring Aina, Verbena (bass guitar), Max (a blind from birth drummer), Lydia (guitars) and Olga (keyboards), entered the studio to record their 3-track demo, ''The Prologue of Eschaton''.Blackthorn profile at the Spirit of Metal Mixed by the i black metal band Arafel, it was released in February 2007. Two of its tracks later appeared in the "Metal World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salutations (album)
''Salutations'' is the eighth solo studio album by American musician Conor Oberst, released on March 17, 2017 on Nonesuch Records. Ten of the tracks originally appeared on ''Ruminations'' in acoustic form. Track listing Personnel * Pearl Charles – backing vocals (12) * Daphne Chen – violin (8, 9, 14) * Richard Dodd – cello (8, 9, 14) * Greg Farley – violin (1–11, 13–16), backing vocals (1, 3, 4) * Ian Felice – electric guitar (1–11, 13–16), backing vocals (3, 4, 14, 16) * James Felice – piano (13–15), organ (6, 10, 11, 13), Wurlitzer (3, 7, 9, 15, 16), accordion (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13–15), backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 14) * Eric Gorfain – violin (8, 9, 14) * Jim James – backing vocals (2, 3, 10, 14) * Leah Katz – viola (8, 9, 14) * Jim Keltner – drums (1–17), percussion (3, 6, 8, 12, 14, 16, 17) * Andy LeMaster – backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 6, 11) * Blake Mills – guitar (10), electric guitar (14), baritone guitar (7), guitarrón (7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruminations (album)
''Ruminations'' is the seventh solo studio album by American musician Conor Oberst, released on October 14, 2016 on Nonesuch Records. An expanded edition of the album featuring five bonus tracks was released on July 23, 2021. Background On October 28, 2015, in the midst of Desaparecidos' tour for their second studio album ''Payola'', it was announced that Conor Oberst had been hospitalized due to " laryngitis, anxiety, and exhaustion," according to a press release. The entirety of Desaparecidos' remaining tour dates were cancelled and Oberst returned to his hometown of Omaha to recuperate. Oberst spent the following months in Omaha, where he wrote and recorded the songs that make up ''Ruminations''. Recording The album was recorded in February of 2016 at ARC Studios in Oberst's native Omaha, Nebraska, with the recording process taking just two days. The album was engineered by Ben Brodin, mixed by Mike Mogis and mastered by Bob Ludwig. Described as an acoustic album, the song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundling (album)
''Foundling'' is the ninth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Gray. The double album was released on 16 August 2010 in the United Kingdom and on the following day in the United States, by Mercer Street/Downtown Records. Album information ''Foundling'' was announced after plans for a reissue of Gray's preceding album, '' Draw the Line'', were cancelled. The reissue was scheduled to include B-sides and unreleased tracks from the ''Draw the Line'' sessions, which included "A Moment" (released as the first single under the new title "A Moment Changes Everything"), "Old Father Time", and "More to Me Now". Described as a "private record", Gray states that he has "never taken the dynamics slow as I have done on this record. I had to have faith in writing and understatement — the things I hold as my strengths. I'm as proud of it as anything I've done." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
