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Tocsin
A Tocsin is an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells. It may refer to: Cold War *TOCSIN, the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the Bomb Power Indicator after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War *Tocsin Bang, the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the AWDREY instrument after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War *Exercise Tocsin, a name for the nuclear attack simulation performed by the Government of Canada *TOCSIN, a Harvard undergraduate group against nuclear weapons, led by Todd Gitlin#Activism, Todd Gitlin Music *Tocsin (album), ''Tocsin'' (album), a 1984 album by goth rock band Xmal Deutschland *Tocsin (Year of No Light album), ''Tocsin'' (Year of No Light album), a 2013 album by French shoegaze band Year of No Light *the fourth and final movement of the Symphony_No._11_(Shostakovich), Symphony No. 11 (1957) by Dmitri Shostakovich Newspapers *''The Tocsin'', an ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tocsin News
''The Enterprise-Tocsin'' is a newspaper in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The newspaper offices are in Indianola, Mississippi, Indianola. The newspaper is distributed in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Sunflower County and sections of northern Humphreys County, Mississippi, Humphreys County. It is published weekly, on each Thursday. " Archive ''The Enterprise-Tocsin''. Retrieved on March 4, 2011. "Our office is located at 114 Main St, Indianola." References External links The Enterprise-Tocsin Newspapers published in Mississi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Gitlin
Todd Alan Gitlin (January 6, 1943 – February 5, 2022) was an American sociologist, political activist and writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He wrote about the mass media, politics, intellectual life, and the arts for both popular and scholarly publications. Background Todd Alan Gitlin was born on January 6, 1943, in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, the son of Dorothy (Siegel), who taught typing and stenography, and Max Gitlin, who taught high school history. His family was Jewish. He graduated as valedictorian from the Bronx High School of Science at the age of 16. Enrolling at Harvard College, he graduated in 1963 with an A.B. ''cum laude'' in mathematics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After his leadership in Students for a Democratic Society, he earned an M.A. in political science from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Personal life and death Gitlin lived in Manhattan and Hillsdale, New York. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tocsin (Year Of No Light Album)
A Tocsin is an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells. It may refer to: Cold War *TOCSIN, the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the Bomb Power Indicator after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War * Tocsin Bang, the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the AWDREY instrument after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War * Exercise Tocsin, a name for the nuclear attack simulation performed by the Government of Canada *TOCSIN, a Harvard undergraduate group against nuclear weapons, led by Todd Gitlin Music * ''Tocsin'' (album), a 1984 album by goth rock band Xmal Deutschland * ''Tocsin'' (Year of No Light album), a 2013 album by French shoegaze band Year of No Light *the fourth and final movement of the Symphony No. 11 (1957) by Dmitri Shostakovich Newspapers *'' The Tocsin'', an early Australian socialist newspaper * ''Tocsin'' (newspaper), a newspaper from Red Bluff, Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pierpont
John Pierpont (April 6, 1785 – August 27, 1866) was an American poet, who was also successively a teacher, lawyer, merchant, and Unitarian minister. His poem '' The Airs of Palestine'' made him one of the best-known poets in the U.S. in his day. He was the grandfather of J. P. Morgan. Early life Born in 1785 in the South Farms section of Litchfield, Connecticut later incorporated as the town of Morris. He was the son of Elizabeth ( Collins) Pierpont and James Pierpont (1761–1840). He graduated in 1804 from Yale College, and later from Litchfield Law School. Career In 1814 he started a dry goods business with his brother in-law, Joseph Lord, and lifelong friend, John Neal. After a stint in debtor's prison as a result of the failure of the "Pierpont, Lord, and Neal" dry goods store chain in 1815, Pierpont sent his wife and children to live with her family in Connecticut, pawned the family silver, and isolated himself in Baltimore until he had produced '' The Airs of Palesti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exercise Tocsin
Exercise Tocsin was an emergency preparedness drill held by the Government of Canada on November 13, 1961, that simulated a nuclear attack by the USSR on Canada. Every law enforcement agency, provincial, and municipal government took part in the exercise. Part of the exercise was a 13-minute radio program that was broadcast by every radio transmitter in the country. The broadcast told citizens of Canada what to do in the event of nuclear war Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a War, military conflict or prepared Policy, political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are Weapon of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction; in contrast to conven .... References Cold War: Tocsin B - This is not an emergency Military history of Canada {{Canada-mil-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tocsin (album)
''Tocsin'' is the second studio album by German post-punk band Xmal Deutschland. It was released in June 1984 on 4AD. Critical reception AllMusic awarded ''Tocsin'' four-and-a-half stars out of five, praising the album as "a creative high point, a teutonic marriage of Siouxsie and the Banshees' inviting goth-pop and the majestic sonic spaces of the Cocteau Twins." Track listing Personnel ;Musicians * Vocals: Anja Huwe * Guitars: Manuela Rickers * Keyboards: Fiona Sangster * Bass: Wolfgang Ellerbrock * Drums: Petter Bellendir (tracks 1–9); Manuela Zwingman (tracks 10 and 11) ;Production * Produced by Mick Glossop (tracks 1–9); Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer (tracks 10 and 11) * Engineered by Mick Glossop; assisted by Felix Kendall * Design by 23 Envelope 23 Envelope was the name given to the graphic design partnership of graphic designer Vaughan Oliver and photographer/filmmaker Nigel Grierson from 1980–1988. During this time, they created a distinct visual identity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tocsin
''The Tocsin'' (often referred to only as ''Tocsin'') was an Australian socialist newspaper, published from 1897 to 1906. It was co-founded by several prominent political figures, including Edward Findley, John Percy Jones and Bernard O'Dowd. Jack Castieau served as the first editor, while artist Norman Lindsay drew its first cover design. Writers for the paper included Frank Anstey, Lilian Locke and Frank Wilmot, and John Arthur Andrews was editor for a time. ''Tocsin'' readers formed themselves into "Tocsin Clubs", conducting well-attended public meetings in various locations across Melbourne for political discussions. Co-founder Findley was expelled from the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1901 after ''Tocsin'' was found to have libelled King Edward VII. In the pre-federation era in Australia, ''Tocsin'' argued against Federation. ''Tocsin'' was succeeded by the ''Labor Call''. It has been digitised by the National Library of Australia as part of the Trove Trov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bomb Power Indicator
Bomb Power Indicator, also known by the acronym BPI, was an instrument built to detect nuclear explosions and measure the peak overpressure of their blast waves. It was used at the twenty five British Royal Observer Corps (ROC) controls and nearly 1,500 ROC underground monitoring posts, across the United Kingdom during the Cold War. Overview The instruments, operated by volunteers, measured the level of peak-overpressure at the instrument's location. Once readings had been combined with information provided by the Ground Zero Indicators it would be possible to estimate the size of the nuclear explosion in megatons. Detailed BPI information was backed up by the automatic AWDREY readings. The BPI was designed and built by the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston. The design was tested for performance and accuracy using real nuclear explosions at the 1957 Kiritimati (or Christmas Island) nuclear weapons tests, after being mounted on board a ship. A number of BPIs were als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tocsin Bang
Atomic Weapons Detection Recognition and Estimation of Yield known by the acronym AWDREY was a desk-mounted automatic detection instrument, located at 13 of the 25 Royal Observer Corps (ROC) controls, across the United Kingdom, during the Cold War. The instruments would have detected any nuclear explosions and indicated the estimated size in megatons. With the display unit mounted in a steel cabinet, the system used two sets of five photo-sensitive cells within the detection head to record the intense flash of light produced by the detonation of the weapon followed, within a second, by a second intense flash. This double flash is characteristic of a nuclear explosion and measurement of the short gap between the two flashes enabled the weapon's power to be estimated, and the bearing to be indicated. It had a range of 150 miles (240 km) in good visibility. From 1974 AWDREY units were used together with a device known as DIADEM (Direction Indicator of Atomic Detonation by Elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of No Light
Year of No Light is a French post-metal band formed in Bordeaux in 2001. On their 2006 debut album ''Nord'', the band combined a dark and aggressive sludge metal sound with psychedelic atmospheres inspired by post-rock and shoegazing. In 2008, they underwent a significant line-up change, replacing their vocalist by a third guitarist and a second drummer to become an instrumental sextet. Thereafter, Year of No Light integrated black metal, doom metal, drone and dark ambient influences on the albums '' Ausserwelt'' (2010) and ''Tocsin'' (2013). History Year of No Light was founded in September 2001 in Bordeaux by Johan Sébenne, Bertrand Sébenne, Jérôme Alban and Christophe Mora (Finger Print, Undone). Since its conception, Year of No Light was never a "top priority" band but rather an instrumental side project. After one year of rehearsal, Christophe Mora left the band. Pierre Anouilh succeeded him. One month later, the band played live for the first time. From 2002 to 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Symphony No
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning common today: a work usually consisting of multiple distinct sections or movements, often four, with the first movement in sonata form. Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section (violin, viola, cello, and double bass), brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians. Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts. Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts (e.g., Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or Mahler's Second Symphony). Etymology and origins The word ''symphony'' is derived from the Greek word (), meaning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
