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Polly (other)
Polly is a female given name. Polly may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * See Polly Films * ''Polly'' (film), a 1989 television musical adaptation of the book ''Pollyanna'', starring Keshia Knight Pulliam and Phylicia Rashad *''Along Came Polly'', a 2004 American romantic comedy film Literature * ''Polly'' (North novel), by Freya North *''Polly'', a romantic novel by Marion Chesney *''Polly'', by Douglas Goldring (1917) *''Polly'', a Mills & Boon novel by Betty Neels *''Polly'', by Jennie Tremaine (1987) Music * "Polly' (Nirvana song), the sixth song on Nirvana's second album ''Nevermind'' (1991), written by Kurt Cobain * ''Polly'' (opera), with text by John Gay and music by Johann Christoph Pepusch, the sequel to Gay's ''The Beggar's Opera'' * "Polly" (The Kinks song), 1964 *"Polly", a 1959 jazz song by Duke Ellington *"Polly", a 2019 song by Moses Sumney from ''Græ'' *"Polly", a 1969 song by Dillard & Clark from ''Through the Morning, Thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly
Polly is a given name, most often feminine, which originated as a variant of Molly (a diminutive of Mary). Polly may also be a short form of names such as Polina, Polona, Paula or Paulina. People named or nicknamed Polly Female *Caresse Crosby (1891–1970), American patron of the arts, poet, publisher, peace activist and inventor of the first modern brassiere to receive a patent and gain wide acceptance, who was also known as Polly Jacob and Polly Peabody *Mary Jefferson Eppes (1778–1804), a daughter of Thomas Jefferson, known as Polly during her childhood * Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols (1845–1888), a victim of the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper *PJ Harvey (born 1969), English singer/songwriter *Polly Adams (born 1939), English actress *Polly Adler (1900–1962), Russian-born American madam and author *Polly Apfelbaum (born 1955), American contemporary visual artist *Polly Arnold (born 1972), British academic *Polly Baca (born 1941), American politician *Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Græ
''Græ'' is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Moses Sumney. The double album was released in two parts by Jagjaguwar. The first part was released digitally on February 21, 2020, followed by the full album, including its second part, on May 15, 2020. ''Græ'' features contributions from a wide range of musicians, writers and producers, including Daniel Lopatin, Thundercat, Jill Scott, James Blake, Taiye Selasi, John Congleton, Rob Moose, Ezra Miller, Michael Chabon, Matthew Otto, Ian Chang, and FKJ. The album was preceded by five singles: "Virile", "Polly", " Me in 20 Years", "Cut Me", and "Bless Me". Background and recording Some of the songs on ''Græ'', including "Virile", were recorded by Sumney with drummer Ian Chang of Son Lux and producer/engineer Ben Baptie at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, North Carolina. Sumney first lived in Asheville before and during the making of ''Aromanticism'', and ''Græ'' is Sumney's first album since officially re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pollyanna (other)
''Pollyanna'' is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter. As a feminine given name, Pollyanna is derived from the name Polly, which is also derived from the name Mary which could mean "sea", and combined with the name Anna which means "grace" in Hebrew. The variants of this name includes Anna Maria, Anne-Marie Anne-Marie Rose Nicholson (born 7 April 1991) is an English singer. She has attained charting singles on the UK Singles Chart, including Clean Bandit's "Rockabye (song), Rockabye", which peaked at number one, as well as "Alarm (Anne-Marie song ..., Mariana (name), Mariana, and Marianne (given name), Marianne. Pollyanna may also refer to: People * Pollyana Papel (born 1987), a Brazilian singer, songwriter and actress * Pollyanna Pickering (1942-2018), British wildlife artist and environmentalist * Pollyanna Woodward (born 1982), English TV presenter Fictional characters * Pollyanna Whittier, the titular character from the 1913 Eleanor Porter novel ''Pollyanna'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poly (other)
Poly, from the Greek πολύς meaning "many" or "much", may refer to: Businesses * China Poly Group Corporation, a Chinese business group, and its subsidiaries: ** Poly Property, a Hong Kong incorporated Chinese property developer ** Poly Real Estate, a Chinese real estate developer ** Poly Technologies, a defense manufacturing company * Poly (company), formerly Polycom, an American communications technology company People * Poly (footballer) (1906-1986), full name Policarpo Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer * Natasha Poly (born 1985), stage name of Russian supermodel Natalya Sergeyevna Polevshchikova * Poly Styrene (1957–2011), stage name of British musician Marianne Joan Elliott-Said Other uses * Hong Kong Polytechnic University, locally known as Poly * Poly (website), a website by Google * Polynesian, often shortened to poly, as in ‘Poly people are also called “Pasifika” or “Tangata Moana” (people of the ocean)’ * Polyamory, often shortened to poly, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly And Molly
Polly and Molly (born 1997), two ewes, were the first mammals to have been successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell and to be transgenic animals at the same time. This is not to be confused with Dolly the Sheep, the first animal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell where there wasn’t modification carried out on the adult donor nucleus. Polly and Molly, like Dolly the Sheep, were cloned at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. The creation of Polly and Molly built on the somatic nuclear transfer experiments that led to the cloning of Dolly the Sheep. The crucial difference was that in creating Polly and Molly, scientists used cells into which a new gene had been inserted. The gene chosen was a therapeutic protein to demonstrate the potential of such recombinant DNA technology combined with animal cloning. This could hopefully be used to produce pharmacological and therapeutic proteins to treat human diseases. The protein in question was the human blood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Polly
Matthew Polly is an American author and former martial artist who writes about martial arts. His books include ''American Shaolin, Tapped Out,'' and ''Bruce Lee: A Life''. Career Polly graduated from Topeka, Kansas, Topeka West High School. In 1992, at the age of 21 years, Polly took a leave of absence from Princeton University and traveled to China to train at the Shaolin Monastery, Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of Chan (Zen) Buddhism and kung fu. Feng Yingbiao of ' wrote that Polly's training at the Shaolin Temple was merely a crash course designed to lure laowai, attendance of which does not lead to expertise in Chinese culture. In exchange for $1,300 a month Polly was allowed to stay and train with the monks. He spent two years at the temple and became the first American accepted as a Shaolin disciple. His experiences included training seven hours a day six days a week, involving running, breathing exercises, calisthenics, kung fu and gymnastics. He became a formidable kickb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5278 Polly
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly (robot)
Polly was a robot created at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Ian Horswill for his PhD and published in 1993 as a technical report. Polly was the first mobile robot to move at animal-like speeds (1m per second) using computer vision for its navigation. It was an example of behavior-based robotics. Horswill's PhD supervisors were Rodney Brooks Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Profes ... and Lynn Andrea Stein. For a few years Polly gave tours of the AI laboratory's seventh floor, using canned speech to point out landmarks such as Anita Flynn's office. When someone approached Polly, it would introduce itself and offer a tour, asking them to answer by waving their foot.Horswill, Ian. "Polly: A vision-based artificial agent." ''Proceedings of the National Conferenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly (peanut)
Polly is a series of peanut-based snacks made by KiMs Norge, a subsidiary of the Orkla Group, sold through Orkla Confectionery & Snacks. In addition to the traditional peanut products, other products include cashewnuts, in addition to a number of mixed products including various nuts and raisins. Originally Polly AS was a Skien-based company that eventually was bought by Sætre (company), Sætre. In 1991 the Sætre corporation was bought by Orkla and two years later the production was moved to the KiMs plant at Skreia. References {{reflist External linksPolly website Norwegian brands Brand name snack foods Orkla ASA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly (brig)
''Polly'' was an American brig that was swamped during a gale in late 1811 and spent the following six months adrift in the Atlantic Ocean. Edgar Allan Poe mentioned the saga of ''Polly'' in his 1838 novel ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket''. History ''Polly'' was a 131-ton brig constructed at Pembroke, Massachusetts in 1791, probably by shipbuilders Alden Briggs, Calvin Turner, and Ichabod Thomas, Jr. During her service life, the ship was home ported in Boston, Massachusetts. Shipwreck On December 12, 1811, ''Polly'' departed Boston with a cargo of lumber and provisions (including salted meat) bound for the Virgin Islands.The Passing Parade by John Doremus, Radio 2CH, 20:40 AEST September 21, 2010. The ship was commanded by Captain Casneau, and carried eight others: the mate, four seamen, an Indian cook, a passenger named Mr. Hunt, and a 12-year-old African-American slave or servant girl belonging to Hunt. Three days out, on December 15, ''Polly'' was caught i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Through The Morning, Through The Night
''Through the Morning, Through the Night'' is the second and final album from the country rock duo Dillard & Clark, released in 1969. Background The musicians included country rock and folk rock pioneers Gene Clark, Doug Dillard, Bernie Leadon, Chris Hillman, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Byron Berline and Michael Clarke. However, the addition of Dillard's girlfriend Donna Washburn as a full-time harmony vocalist (and lead vocalist on "Rocky Top"), replacing Leadon, caused Leadon to leave the group and join Hillman, Clarke and Kleinow in the Flying Burrito Brothers, although he, Hillman and Kleinow appear as "special pickers" on the album. The core band on this album included Clark, Dillard, Washburn, David Jackson, fiddler Byron Berline and drummer Jon Corneal, who had quit the Burritos, which made room for Clarke to join them. The large number of cover songs included on the album caused critical reaction to be decidedly less positive than on the prior album. As a result, Gene Clark also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's " Caravan", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. At the end of the 1930s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed multipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
