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Mary (elephant)
Mary (c. 1894–September 13, 1916), also known as "Murderous Mary", was a five-ton Asian elephant who performed in the ''Sparks World Famous Shows'' circus. After killing circus employee Walter “Red” Eldridge on his second day as her handler in September 1916, in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was hanged in nearby Erwin, Tennessee, Erwin. Death of Red Eldridge On September 11, 1916, a homeless, homeless man named Red Eldridge, who was a janitor at the Riverside Hotel, was hired as an elephant keeper by the ''Sparks World Famous Shows'' circus that afternoon. He was killed by Mary in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on the following evening. Although unqualified, Eldridge led the elephant parade, riding atop Mary's back; Mary was the star of the show, walking at the front. There have been several accounts of his death. One, recounted by W. H. Coleman, who claimed to be a witness, is that he prodded her behind the ear with a hook after she reached down to nibble on a watermelon rind. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 America's Cup
The 29th America's Cup was contested between the winner of the 1995 Citizen Cup, Stars & Stripes (America's Cup syndicate), Team Stars & Stripes, which switched to the yacht Young America (1994 yacht), ''Young America'' (USA 36) for the competition, and the winner of the 1995 Louis Vuitton Cup, Team New Zealand, with the yacht NZL 32, ''Black Magic'' (NZL 32). New Zealand swept all five races to take the cup away from the US for only the second time in 144 years. For the first time since 1930, the format changed to a best-of-nine series, which remained through 2007. Races Crew Team New Zealand Team Stars & Stripes References ultimatesail.com {{coord, 32.717038, -117.228692, display=title 1995 America's Cup, America's Cup regattas, 1995 1995 in sailing, America's Cup, 1995 Sports competitions in San Diego 1990s in San Diego 1995 in American sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argosy (magazine)
''Argosy'' was an American magazine, founded in 1882 as ''The Golden Argosy'', a children's weekly, edited by Frank Munsey and published by E. G. Rideout. Munsey took over as publisher when Rideout went bankrupt in 1883, and after many struggles made the magazine profitable. He shortened the title to ''The Argosy'' in 1888 and targeted an audience of men and boys with adventure stories. In 1894 he switched it to a monthly schedule and in 1896 he eliminated all non-fiction and started using cheap pulp paper, making it the first pulp magazine. Circulation had reached half a million by 1907, and remained strong until the 1930s. The name was changed to ''Argosy All-Story Weekly'' in 1920 after the magazine merged with ''All-Story Magazine, All-Story Weekly'', another Munsey pulp, and from 1929 it became just ''Argosy''. In 1925 Munsey died, and the publisher, the Frank A. Munsey Company, was purchased by William Thompson Dewart, William Dewart, who had worked for Munsey. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Brodsky
Chuck Brodsky (born May 20, 1960, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American musician and singer-songwriter currently living in Asheville, North Carolina. He is particularly known for his often humorous and political lyrics, as well as his songs about baseball, such as "The Ballad of Eddie Klep", " Moe Berg: The Song", and " Doc Ellis' No-No". On his 2004 album ''Color Came One Day'', he took on pollution in "Seven Miles Upwind", the destruction of independent business and regional culture by multinational corporations in "Trees Falling", and the abridgement of civil liberties associated with Bush administration policies in "Dangerous Times". Biography Brodsky's song "Radio" was featured in the film Radio. Another song, called "Bill and Annie", was featured in episode 3 of the podcast "Welcome to Night Vale", made by Commonplace Books. Several of his songs have appeared in films and documentaries on ESPN, NPR, NFL Films, PBS, and ABC's "Good Morning America ''Good ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flinders University
Flinders University, established as The Flinders University of South Australia is a public university, public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across a number of locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. The main campus is in Bedford Park, South Australia, Bedford Park, about south of the Adelaide city centre. Other campuses include Tonsley, South Australia, Tonsley, Adelaide central business district, Renmark, South Australia, Renmark, Alice Springs, and Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the Australian and South Australian coastline in the early 19th century. In 2022, there were 25,247 students enrolled at the university. History Origins and construction By the late 1950s, the University of Adelaide's North Terrace campus was approaching capacity. In 1960, Premier Thomas Playford IV, Thomas Playford announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Lewis
Caleb Lewis is an Australian playwright and game designer, born on 16 April 1978. He is known for his play '' Dogfall'', first produced in 2007 in Adelaide, South Australia. Early life and education Lewis' father was a diver, whose job at one time was to retrieve bodies from the Yarra River in Melbourne. He later worked on an oil rig near Dubai, where Lewis visited him when he was 22. Lewis studied drama and playwriting at the Flinders University Drama Centre earning a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Hons) in 2001. After this he was mentored by Australian dramatist Nick Enright. Career In 2004 Lewis' collection of short plays ''Songs for the Deaf'' was produced by FreshTrack Productions for the Adelaide Fringe Festival. He began a two-year residency with the Griffin Theatre Company, culminating in the world premiere of ''Nailed''. Lewis has completed commissions for Jigsaw Theatre Company in the Australian Capital Territory and Riverland Youth Theatre Company in South Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel French, Inc
Samuel French, Inc. is an American company founded by Samuel French and Thomas Hailes Lacy, who formed a partnership to combine their interests in London and New York City. It publishes plays, represents authors, and sells scripts from its Los Angeles, UK, and online bookstores. The company's London subsidiary, Samuel French Ltd., publishes stage plays for the UK market and serves as a licensing agent for performance rights, and runs a theatrical bookshop on its premises at Fitzrovia in central London. The firm has offices in New York City, London, and Hollywood, California. The office in Toronto, Canada, was closed in 2007. In December 2018, Concord Music acquired Samuel French to form Concord Theatricals. History Samuel French was born in Massachusetts shortly after the turn of the 19th century, and began publishing ''French's American Drama'' in the mid-1800s in New York. French soon acquired a London dramatic publishing company founded by Thomas Hailes Lacy. French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Texas At Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2023, it is also the largest institution in the system. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures totaling $1.06 billion for the 2023 fiscal year. It joined the Association of American Universities in 1929. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Campus and McDonald Observatory. UT Austin's athletics constitute the Texas Longhorns. The Longhorns have won four NCAA Division I National Football Championships, six NCAA Division I National Baseball Champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brant
George Brant is an American playwright. Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, he is the author of several award-winning plays, most notably ''Grounded''. Career Brant completed his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University and received his Masters in Fine Arts in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. His most successful play to date is ''Grounded'', which played at London's Gate Theatre and went on to be directed by Julie Taymor in an off-Broadway production at The Public Theater, which starred Anne Hathaway. ''Grounded'' won the National New Play Network's 2012 Smith Prize and a Fringe First award at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In October of 2023, an operatic adaptation of ''Grounded'' opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. The Kennedy Center's publicity summarizes the opera as "Jess is a hot shot F-16 fighter pilot, an elite warrior trained for the sky. When an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dramatists Play Service
Dramatists Play Service is a theatrical-publishing and licensing house imprint of Broadway Licensing Global. Established in 1936 by members of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society for Authors' Representatives, DPS publishes English-language acting editions of plays and handles the licensing for professional and nonprofessional English-language productions of these plays in the United States, Canada, and throughout the world. DPS is based in New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ..., with affiliates in London, Australia, South Africa, India, Asia, and South America that serve DPS' interests in their respective regions. The DPS catalogue consists of over 3,300 titles from over 1,300 authors. Broadway Licensing Global acquired Dramatists Play Serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Maryland to its south, West Virginia to its southwest, Ohio and the Ohio River to its west, Lake Erie and New York (state), New York to its north, the Delaware River and New Jersey to its east, and the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario to its northwest via Lake Erie. Pennsylvania's most populous city is Philadelphia. Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 through a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of William Penn (Royal Navy officer), the state's namesake. Before that, between 1638 and 1655, a southeast portion of the state was part of New Sweden, a Swedish Empire, Swedish colony. Established as a haven for religious and political tolerance, the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Valley High School
Great Valley High School is a comprehensive, public high school located in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Located on the same campus as Great Valley Middle School at 225 North Phoenixville Pike, it is the only high school in the Great Valley School District. This high school serves students residing in the Great Valley School District in Grades nine through twelve and enrolls roughly 1,150 to 1,175 students per year. The student to teacher ratio is approximately 14:1. Academics Great Valley is consistently ranked among the top public high schools in Pennsylvania. In 2016, for instance, ''The Washington Post'' ranked Great Valley High School among "America's Most Challenging High Schools", ranking it as the ninth-best high school in Pennsylvania. In 2024, '' U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the school seventh-best in the state and 398th-best nationally. ''Newsweek'' magazine ranked the school as 169th-best in the country. In 2023, the College Board listed the school on its AP Honor Rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Medoff
Mark Medoff (March 18, 1940 – April 23, 2019) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film and theatre director, actor, and professor. His play '' Children of a Lesser God'' received both the Tony Award and the Olivier Award. He was nominated for an Academy Award and a Writers Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay Award for the film script of '' Children of a Lesser God'' and for a Cable ACE Award for his HBO Premiere movie, ''Apology''. He also received an Obie Award for his play '' When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?'' Medoff's feature film ''Refuge'' was released in 2010. '' When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?'' was adapted into a film with a screenplay by Medoff in 1979. Early life and education Medoff was born on March 18, 1940, in Mount Carmel, Illinois, to a Jewish family, the son of Thelma Irene (Butt), a psychologist, and Lawrence R. Medoff, a physician. He was raised in Miami Beach, Florida, and graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School. Medoff received hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
