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After which famous person in history was the teddy bear named? | Real Teddy Bear Story - Theodore Roosevelt Association
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How did toy bears come to be named after President Theodore Roosevelt?
It all started with a hunting trip President Roosevelt took in 1902 in Mississippi at the invitation of Mississippi Governor, Andrew H. Longino. After three days of hunting, other members of the party had spotted bears, but not Roosevelt.
Now what? The President's bear hunt would be a failure! The next day, the hunt guides tracked down an old black bear that the dogs had trailed quite a distance and attacked. The guides tied the bear to a willow tree and called for the President. Here was a bear for him to shoot!
But Roosevelt took one look at the old bear and refused to shoot it. He felt doing so would be unsportsmanlike. However, since it was injured and suffering, Roosevelt ordered that the bear be put down to end its pain. Word of this hit newspapers across the country, and political cartoonist Clifford Berryman picked up on the story, drawing a cartoon showing how President Roosevelt refused to shoot the bear while hunting in Mississippi.
The original cartoon, which ran in the Washington Post on November 16, 1902, shows Roosevelt standing in front. The guide and bear are in the background, and they’re about the same size. Later, similar cartoons appeared, but the bear was smaller and shaking with fear. This bear cub then appeared in other cartoons Clifford Berryman drew throughout Roosevelt’s career. That connected bears with President Roosevelt.
The Teddy Bear tie came when a Brooklyn, NY candy shop owner, Morris Michtom, saw Clifford Berryman’s original cartoon of Roosevelt and the bear and had an idea. He put in his shop window two stuffed toy bears his wife had made. Michtom asked permission from President Roosevelt to call these toy bears "Teddy's bears". The rapid popularity of these bears led Michtom to mass-produce them, eventually forming the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company.
At about the same time, a Germany company, Steiff, started making stuffed bears. Margaret Steiff earned her living by sewing, first by making stuffed elephants, then other animals. In 1903, an American saw a stuffed bear she had made and ordered many of them. These bears, which also came to be called Teddy Bears, made the international connection.
More than a century later, teddy bears have never lost popularity, and all can be traced to that one hunting trip in Mississippi.
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What type of sweet did Mars and Murrie develop in 1941? | How Did the Teddy Bear Get Its Name? | Wonderopolis
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How Did the Teddy Bear Get Its Name?
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The teddy bear is named after U.S. President Theodore “Teddy" Roosevelt.
In 1902, President Roosevelt participated in a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi. While hunting, Roosevelt declared the behavior of the other hunters “ unsportsmanlike " after he refused to kill a bear they had captured.
As news of the hunting trip spread, many newspapers around the country featured political cartoons starring “Teddy" and “the bear."
Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, New York, a shop owner named Morris Michtom saw one of the cartoons and had an idea. Michtom and his wife created plush , stuffed bears and placed them in the front window of their shop.
With permission from Roosevelt, Michtom named the bears “Teddy bears." They were an instant success. Ladies and children carried the bears with them in public. President Roosevelt even used the teddy bear as his mascot when he ran for re-election.
Until 2006, the biggest teddy bear collection in the world could be found at The Teddy Bear Museum in England. The museum had a collection of more than 2,000 bears. Unfortunately, the museum was put up for auction in 2006.
Today, one family claims to own more than 5,000 teddy bears, though they haven't officially counted them all. The Volpps' collection includes a teddy bear that they purchased at auction for $88,000.
Why would someone pay so much for a teddy bear ? All in the name of love: Mr. Volpps presented it to his wife on their 42nd wedding anniversary .
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Which geographical location was the first word spoken on the moon? | Space Quotations: Apollo Moon Mission quotes
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This, the most famous space line ever spoken, heard live by an estimated audience of 450 million people, was initially recorded without the 'a'. The next day's New York Times (21 July 1969) reported the line several times without it, including on the front page and as the 'Quotation of the Day' (on page 35). Armstrong didn't realize the 'a' was not heard until after he got back to Earth. The New York Times of 31 July 1969 had a short column about the 'a' back on page 20, saying that:
One small but important word was omitted in the official version of the historic utterance he made when he stepped on the moon 11 days ago… . The "a" apparently went unheard and unrecorded in the transmission because of static, a spokesman for the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston said in a telephone interview. What ever the reason, inserting the omitted article makes a slight but significant change in the meaning of Mr. Armstrong's words.
And so the debate started.
In the 1970 book First On The Moon , (the "exclusive and official account … as seen by the men who experienced it") Neil wrote his famous words with the 'a,' noting that Mission Control missed it. He writes "tape recorders are fallible." Lunar surface communications were voice-activated and sometimes subject to interference. When presented with a plaque by the builders of the Lunar Module, he pointed out their mistake in failing to include the 'a,' and was told that the word was not in the tapes. He insisted — at that time — that he had said it. However, when listening to the tape, many people do not hear the 'a.
So maybe he did not say it. Armstong was an amazing test pilot and aerospace engineer, but he had been awake for 24 hours at the time of the moonwalk. He was making history for the ages on live TV in the ultimate dangerous uncertain environment. He was not an actor used to reciting lines. Thirty years later he said:
The 'a' was intended. I thought I said it. I can't hear it when I listen on the radio reception here on earth, so I'll be happy if you just put it in parenthesis. (16 July, 1999.)
Of course, then again, maybe he did say it. In his 2006 official biography, First Man , Armstrong states,
It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement … certainly the a' was intended, because that — s the only way the statement makes any sense.
The Times of London reported on 2 October 2006 that by using high-tech sound analysis techniques an Australian computer expert has rediscovered the missing letter. Peter Shann Ford ran the NASA recording through sound-editing software and "clearly picked up an acoustic wave from the word 'a,' finding that Mr. Armstrong spoke it at a rate of 35 milliseconds — ten times too fast for it to be audible." Neil Armstrong issued a statement saying: — I find the technology interesting and useful. I also find his conclusion persuasive. — However this analysis has been disputed by other audio experts and had not been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. In a June 2009 Popular Mechanics article, Armstrong "confirmed" that he did say the 'a.'
The most recent news comes from academic research at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing and The Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus, Ohio. They studied how speakers from central Ohio pronounce "for" and "a." Their results suggest it is "entirely possible that Armstrong said what he claimed, though evidence indicates that people are statistically more likely to hear for man instead of for a man on the recording." Laura Dilley of MSU states in a press release that,
We've bolstered Neil Armstrong's side of the story. We feel we've partially vindicated him. But we'll most likely never know for sure exactly what he said based on the acoustic information.
My take on this? He was saying the 'a,' but the physical exertion, lack of sleep, and the gravity of the moment combined to rob Armstrong of his normally clear Ohio speaking voice. The way he naturally says the phrase makes the 'a' soft; watch as Tim Russert politely ambushes him to repeat the phrase 30 years later (MP4). We could almost have the same debate over this tape! And so the debate continues, and thus I follow Armstrong's excellent idea of a parenthesis format.
Asked at the Apollo 11 postflight crew press conference when he had begun to think about what he would say and how long he pondered the words, Neil replied:
Yes, I did think about it. It was not extemporaneous neither was it planned. It evolved during the conduct of the flight and I decided what the words would be while we were on the lunar surface just prior to leaving the LM. (Houston, 12 August 1969)
Asked years later if NASA suggested a line for him to say, Neil answered:
The late Julian Scheer, who really led the NASA relations with the outside world in many ways, was absolutely adamant that Headquarters never put words in the mouths of their people, not just astronauts, but anybody, that they let people speak for themselves. They made it known sort of what the party line was and what the NASA position was, but beyond that, they never, to my knowledge, controlled the — public statements of others. Certainly they insisted, in the case of the flight crews, that they not be told what to say, that their statements be their own elocution of what they saw and what they wanted to say. As far as I know, that prohibition was never violated.
He added:
I thought about it after [the lunar] landing, and because we had a lot of other things to do, it was not something that I really concentrated on but just something that was kind of passing around subliminally or in the background. But it, you know, was a pretty simple statement, talking about stepping off something. Why, it wasn't a very complex thing. It was what it was… . I didn't think of it as being as important as others. I didn't want to be dumb, but it was contrived in a way, and I was guilty of that. (NASA Oral History Project, Houston, 19 September 2001)
Interviewed at age 75 about the line, he said:
I thought that when I step off it's just going to be a little step, you'll step from there, down to there. But then I thought about all those 400,000 people that had given me the opportunity to make that step and thought it's gonna be a big something for all those folks and indeed a lot of others that weren't even involved in the project. So it was a kind of simple correlation of thoughts. (60 minutes TV show, 6 November 2005)
Some Apollo 11 devotees speculate that J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was an influence on Armstrong, as it contains the phrase, "not a great leap for a man, but a leap in the dark." In 1971 Armstrong named his farm Rivendell, which is a fictional location in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Coincidence? Well, there are more! A 19 April 1969 internal NASA memorandum contained the words "forward step for all mankind," and noted that simply by landing on the moon, "a giant step will have been taken." On the morning of Armstrong's walk, Walter Cronkite spoke of "a giant leap," in turn echoing President Dwight Eisenhower's 1957 post-Sputnik call for "a giant leap into outer space." Neil Armstrong has been told of all this, and says:
You never know subliminally in your brain where things come from… . But it certainly wasn't conscious. When an idea runs for the first time through your own mind, it comes out as an original thought. ( First Man , 2006)
It is a great line, among the most meaningful aerospace lines ever, but did not impress everybody. Another explorer with a famous first — Edmund Hillary, first to climb Mount Everest — said it would have been, "better if he had said something natural like, 'Jesus, here we are!'" The July 1969 edition of Esquire magazine even had as its cover story famous writers discussing what the first words should be.
Armstrong's next words, right after the small step, show the expert descriptive test pilot at work:
The surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers, like powdered charcoal, to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles. There seems to be no difficult in moving around, as we suspected.
Neil's partner on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin, was next out the hatch. He said, "Be sure not to lock it on my way out." (According to Buzz's 2009 book Magnificent Desolation the checklist said 'do not leave the hatch wide open.') Neil laughed at the joke, and said, "A particularly good thought!" With Buzz on the surface, Neil said, "Isn't that something? Magnificent sight out here." Buzz replied with a powerful description of the Lunar scene in just two words:
Magnificent desolation.
Listen to Buzz's original transmission (MP3)
Buzz later wrote, "It was a spontaneous utterance, an oxymoron that would take on ever-deeper dimensions of meaning in describing this strange new environment." And in 2014, durring a Reddit intervew , said this:
My first words of my impression of being on the surface of the Moon that just came to my mind was "Magnificent desolation." The magnificence of human beings, humanity, Planet Earth, maturing the technologies, imagination and courage to expand our capabilities beyond the next ocean, to dream about being on the Moon, and then taking advantage of increases in technology and carrying out that dream - achieving that is magnificent testimony to humanity. But it is also desolate - there is no place on earth as desolate as what I was viewing in those first moments on the Lunar Surface.
Because I realized what I was looking at, towards the horizon and in every direction, had not changed in hundreds, thousands of years. Beyond me I could see the moon curving away - no atmosphere, black sky. Cold. Colder than anyone could experience on Earth when the sun is up- but when the sun is up for 14 days, it gets very, very hot. No sign of life whatsoever.
That is desolate. More desolate than any place on Earth.
When the eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, "Wow! Jeez!" Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.
— Walter Cronkite, CBS news anchor, interview in Esquire magazine, April 2006.
Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but it's a long one for me.
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— Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., Commander Apollo 12 and the shortest Apollo astronaut, upon becoming the 3rd man to walk on the Moon, 19 November 1969. Regards the line he said later in a PBS interview:
"Well, nobody remembers the second and that was why I said what I said. It was based on a bet I had with somebody who felt that Neil's words had been propaganda and not written by him. And I tried to assure this person that that wasn't the case. And so it was in August of '69 before the fight when I made this bet: that I would say something that they would know that the United States government wasn't Big Brother telling us what to say. So I said, "It may have been small for Neil but it was a big one for a little fella like me" and it came out close to that. And I was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. And the only bad thing was the person that I made the bet with didn't pay off".
Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.
— Alan Shepard, Commander Apollo 14, upon becoming the 5th (and oldest) man to walk on the Moon, 5 February 1971.
As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there's a fundamental truth to our nature, Man must explore … and this is exploration at its greatest.
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— Dave Scott, Commander Apollo 15, upon becoming the 7th man to walk on the Moon, 31 July 1971.
There you are, mysterious and unknown Descartes highland plains. Apollo 16 is gonna change your image… .I'm sure glad they got ol' Brer Rabbit here, back in the briar patch where he belongs.
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— John Young, Commander Apollo 16, upon becoming the 9th man to walk on the Moon, 21 April 1972. NASA says that the rabbit references come from the Joel Chandler Harris story "How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox". In the story, Brer Rabbit has become entangled with the Tar Baby and is caught by Brer Fox. Brer Fox thinks he might roast Brer Rabbit, who says, "I don't care what you do with me, Brer Fox, just so you don't fling me in that briar patch." As it turns out, there is no firewood handy, so Brer Fox thinks about hanging Brer Rabbit, who says that would be much better than being thrown in the briar patch. And so on. On his fourth spaceflight, NASA has finally thrown John Young in the briar patch.
As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.
— Gene Cernan, Commander Apollo 17, upon becoming the 11th man to walk on the Moon, 11 December 1972.
We're number one on the runway.
— Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr), 21 hours and 36 minutes after landing on the moon, his reply to Houston's "Our guidance recommendation is PGNCS and you are cleared for takeoff." The ascent stage rocket was then lit and Neil and Buzz left the moon.
Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface; and, as I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come - but we believe not too long into the future - I'd like to just [say] what I believe history will record. That America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow. And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus- Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Godspeed the crew of Apollo 17.
— Gene Cernan, Commander Apollo 17. Last man to walk on the Moon, 14 December 1972.
Contact light.
— Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr), man's first words spoken on the Moon.
Shutdown.
— Neil Armstrong, next words.
Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong, transmitting from the Moon, 3:18 p.m. Houston time 20 July 1969. This call and the phrase 'Tranquility Base' were unknown in advance to NASA. Buzz Aldrin later said in a PBS interview that:
As soon as we touched down, I knew we'd done it, but I knew that there were certain discrete times after the nominal touchdown, if something was wrong, you don't want to abort right away, you want to wait until this discrete time, because there are more favorable rendezvous conditions. After about two minutes, then it's too late really, because if you were to lift off after two minutes after the normal landing, Mike Collins is going around and around and he's too far ahead for you to catch up to him in a reasonable time, and he's going to have to do some other maneuvers so that you can catch up with him. So those first couple of minutes are very crucial to look around and see if everything is okay and hope that the Earth is measuring everything of the status of all your pressure systems, and your tanks, and your electrical systems, because if you do have to abort, you should do it right away. And I felt that that was a fairly critical time, so it surprised me that during that time, Neil chose to make the call to Houston Tranquility Base that the Eagle has landed. It surprised me a little bit, because we never trained to do that, because we didn't want to tell them back in the simulators in the training what we were going to say after we landed, and I expected he would wait until we'd been there [and] that we could monitor those things. But it's something that is a surprise, but then you understand — well, that's the way you should do it; you should call right away, things like that.
Anyway, the reply was:
Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.
— Charlie Duke, CapCom, Mission Control.
Fantastic!
— Michael Collins, orbiting in the command module.
Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a … crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks … and it required … flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.
— Neil Armstrong
Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.
— Charlie Duke, CapCom
We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape — angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock…. The colors — well…. There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders [are] going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.
— Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr)
Rog, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.
— Charlie Duke, CapCom
There are two of them up here.
— Neil Armstrong
And don't forget one in the command module…. And thanks for putting me on relay, Houston. I was missing all the action.
— Michael Collins
OK, let's get this mother out of here.
— Eugene Cernan, Commander Apollo 17. Reportedly (according to astronaut Walter Cunningham in his book, The All-American Boys ) the last words spoken on the Moon. However the transcripts show Cernan saying right before takeoff, "Okay. Now, let's get off. Forget the camera" and the last words being Dr. Harrison Hagen "Jack" Schmitt saying, "3, 2, 1 … ignition" The LM lifted off the Moon at 22:54:37 GMT on 14 December 1972.
A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.
— Walter M. Schirra Jr.
Unfortunately the suit is so stiff I can't do that with two hands, but I'm going to try an ol' sand trap shot here.
— Alan Shepard, Apollo 14, golfing on the Moon. How far did he hit the ball with his six iron? "miles and miles and miles!" 6 February 1971.
We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.
— President John F. Kennedy, speech to Special Joint Session of Congress, 25 May 1961. Read the whole speech at the JFK Presidential Library .
If we are to win the battle that is now going on around the world between freedom and tyranny, the dramatic achievements in space which occurred in recent weeks should have made clear to all of us, as did Sputnik in 1957, the impact of this adventure on the minds of men everywhere… Now it is time to take longer strides-time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth….we have never made the national decisions or marshaled the national resources required for such leadership. We have never specified long-range goals on an urgent time schedule… Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share …
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project…will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important…and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish…
— President John F. Kennedy, speech to Special Joint Session of Congress, 25 May 1961. At the time the US manned space program had about 15 minutes of actual time logged. Hear the whole speech, mp3 format .
If I could get but one message to you it would be simply this: The future of this country and the welfare of the free world depend upon our success in space. There is not room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated, all-out effort toward space leadership.
— Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, speech, Space Flight Report to the Nation, October 1961.
… the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.
— President John F. Kennedy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 12 September,1962.
Pure oxygen at five pounds per square inch of pressure presents a fire hazard which is especially great on the launching pad… . Even a small fire creates toxic products of combustion; no fire-fighting methods have yet been developed that can cope with a fire in pure oxygen.
— Frank J. Handel, staff scientist with Apollo Space Sciences and Systems at North American, 'Gaseous Environments during Space Missions,' Journal of Space Craft and Rockets, July/August 1964.
With reliability figures and flight schedules as they are, the odds are that the first casualty in space will occur on the ground.
— Ronald G. Newswald, reviewing 'Factors in the Operation of Manned Space Chambers,' Science Journal, February 1966.
We are going to have failures. There are going to be sacrifices made in the program; we've been lucky so far. If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
— Virgil 'Gus' Grissom. He said this after John Glenn returned from space, it was published after his death in Time magazine 3 February 1967. On 27 January 1967, astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee died from a flash fire aboard the Apollo 1 spacecraft during a ground test.
How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?
— Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, unhappy with radio communications during the plugs out test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft, 27 January 1967.
We've got a bad fire&mdashlet's get out … We're burning up.
— Roger Chaffee, Apollo 1 test, Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom and Ed White were killed in the ground test, 27 January 1967.
It had been too late from the beginning.
— Jules Bergman, ABC News, TV report on Apollo 1 rescue efforts . 27 January 1967.
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily. Nothing we did had any shelf life. Not one of us stood up and said, 'Dammit, stop!' I Don't know what Thompson's committee will find as the cause, but I know what I find. We are the cause! We were not ready! We did not do our job. We were rolling the dice, hoping that things would come together by launch day, when in our hearts we knew it would take a miracle. We were pushing the schedule and betting that the Cape would slip before we did.
From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough' and 'Competent.' Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write 'Tough and Competent' on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.
— Gene Kranz, NASA Flight Director, address to flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 fire. Since known as the Kranz Dictum. 30 January 1967.
In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.
— Jerome Lederer, Director of Manned Space Flight Safety, NASA. First paragraph of Risk speculations of the Apollo Project, a paper presented at the Wings Club, New York, New York, 18 December 1968.
The United States this week will commit its national pride, eight years of work and $24 billion of its fortune to showing the world it can still fulfill a dream. It will send three young men on a human adventure of mythological proportions with the whole of the civilized world invited to watch&mdashfor better or worse.
— Rudy Abramson, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 1969.
Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.
— Jerome Lederer, Director of Manned Flight Safety NASA, stating that the Apollo 8 astronauts will be "in a far less hazardous position" heading for the moon than had they been crewmembers for Columbus, the New York Times, 19 December 1968.
What the hell was that?
— Richard Gordon, Command Module Pilot Apollo 12, first words after the Saturn V launch triggered a lightning discharge that knocked out all three fuel cells and much of the CSM instrumentation. Mission Elapsed Time 00:00:37, 14 November 1969.
Apollo 12, Houston. Try SCE to auxiliary. Over.
— John Aaron, NASA Mission Control EECOM (Electrical, Enviomental and Consumables Manager), showing the very essence of 'a steely eyed missile man' instructing the Apollo crew of the obscure but correct actions to recover from the system failures. It was not immediately recognized by the Flight Director, CAPCOM or Commander Pete Conrad, but was recognized by Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean who performed the actions to bring fuel pumps and telemetry back online following the lightning events. The mission continued to the Moon. Mission Elapsed Time 00:01:36, 14 November 1969.
The Moon is essentially gray — no color — looks like plaster of Paris — soft of gray sand.
— James Lovell, Apollo 8, first transmission from first lunar orbit, 24 December 1968.
Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time — it's all beat up — no definition — just a lot of bumps and holes.
— William Anders, Apollo 8, first lunar orbit, 24 December 1968
I think Isaac Newton is doing most of the driving now.
— Bills Anders, Apollo 8 Commander, when told that a ground controller's son had asked who was driving the capsule on the return from the Moon to the Earth, 26 December 1968
Is the Moon made out of green cheese?
No, it's American cheese.
— Bill Anders, Apollo 8, after splashdown, while the first humans to travel to the Moon waited to be picked up out of the ocean, someone called from the ship or the helicopter asking is the Moon made of green cheese, 27 December 1968.
As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports.
— Russell 'Rusty' Schweikart, returning from Apollo 9
I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.
— Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot, saluting the U.S. flag on the surface of the Moon, 21 April 1972
You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball-size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.
— Bill Anders, Apollo 8 re-entry, quoted in 'Lunar Reflections,' Omni magazine, July 1989.
This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation.
— President Richard M. Nixon, to Apollo XI crew aboard USS Hornet, 24 July 1969.
This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.
— Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr), in a broadcast from Apollo XI.
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory&mdashnot difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
— Neil Armstrong
HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON JULY 1969, A. D. WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND.
— Plaque left on the Moon by Apollo 11 (it was mounted on the LM Descent Stage ladder).
It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
— Neil Armstrong, transmitting from the Moon.
I think in the long run the money that — s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made …This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.
— Arthur C. Clarke, CBS TV, 20 July 1969.
This is the result of six billion years of evolution. Tonight, we have given the lie to gravity.We have reached for the stars.
— Ray Bradbury, BBC TV, 20 July 1969.
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
— Arthur Koestler, regards the Moon landing, the New York Times, 21 July 1969.
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.
— Russell Baker, the New York Times, 21 July 1969.
This is Apollo 8 coming to you live from the moon. The moon is a different thing to each of us. My own impression is that it's a vast, lonely, forbidding type existence — great expanse of nothing, that looks rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone, and it certainly would not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.
— Frank Borman, live Apollo 8 telecast from lunar orbit, December 24, 1968.
Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.
— Jim Lovell, live Apollo 8 telecast from lunar orbit, 24 December 1968.
I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark nature of the terrain… . The horizon here is very, very stark, the sky is pitch black and the earth, or the moon rather, excuse me, is quite light, and the contrast between the sky and the moon is a vivid dark line.
— Bill Anders, live Apollo 8 telecast from lunar orbit, 24 December 1968.
Now approaching lunar sunrise. And for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. "In the Beginning god created the Heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was without form and void. And darkness was upon the face of the Deep… . And God saw that it was Good." And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, and a Merry Christmas. And God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.
— flight crew of Apollo 8, live telecast Christmas Eve, 1968.
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Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made… . Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.
— President Richard M. Nixon.
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Fate has ordained that the men who went to the Moon to explore in peace will stay on the Moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.
These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding. They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.
In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel
as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of
man. In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.
Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search
will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts. For every human being who looks up at the Moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.
— In the event of Moon disaster, a speech drafted by William Safire for President Richard M. Nixon to give to the nation should Neil and Buzz not be able to rejoin the command module and be faced with death on, or around, the Moon, the Whitehouse memo (shown below) was sent to H. R. Haldeman and dated 18 July 1969. This text remained secret for thirty years.
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We have seen a wonder. There has never been one quite like it. What first steps in human history would one have chosen to witness, if one could travel in time? The Vikings coming ashore wherever they did come ashore — Newfoundland? — in North America? Or the first little boat from Columbus's ship scraping the land under her keel? Yet all of that, or any other bit of geographical discovery, we should be seeing with hindsight. On the spot, it must have seemed much more down-to-earth. People getting out of boats must have looked (and felt) very much like people getting out of boats anywhere at anytime.
No, we have had the best of it. We have seen something unique. It is right that is should have looked like something we have never seen before. In science films, perhaps — but this was real. The figure, moving so laboriously, as though it was learning, minute by minute, to walk, was a man of our own kind. Inside that gear there was a foot, a human foot. Watch. It has come, probing its way down — near to something solid. One expects to hear (there is no air, one could hear nothing) a sound. At last, it has come down. Onto a surface. Onto the surface of the Moon.
Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.
— Lord C. P. Snow, Look magazine, 1969.
Men go into space .. to see whether it is the kind of place where other men, and their families and their children, can eventually follow them. A disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. The Moon offers a new frontier. It is as simple and splendid as that.
— Editorial, The Economist magazine, 1969.
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.
— George Steiner, lecture at the Salzburg Festival, 5 August 1994.
Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, "This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!
— Alan Bean
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
— Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt, regards landing on the Moon.
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the Moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth … home.
— Edgar Mitchell
The view of the Moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.
— Neil Armstrong
This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast-moving ground fog.
— Neil Armstrong
I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.
— Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr)
Program Alarm, it's a 1202.
— Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr), during final descent to the Moon.
Roger, we're go on that alarm
— Charlie Duke, Houston CapCom. The computer overflowed several more times during the first lunar descent. The historic decision to continue was communicated by young engineer Steve Bales with the classic line, "Go flight." His judgment and decisiveness was awarded with a Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony.
Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini-cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.
— Norman Mailer, Of a Fire on the Moon, 1970.
It's like being inside a gigantic lightbulb.
— Michael Collins, regards the flaming blaze of Apollo 11 reentry. Interview for the 2007 movie In the Shadow of the Moon.
The flight was extremely normal … for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting.
— Pete Conrad, Apollo 12 commander, regards the launch during which two electrical discharges almost ended the mission.
Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here.
— John 'Jack' Swigert, Jr., Apollo 13 command module pilot. In popular culture the phrase has become "Houston, we have a problem," but the actual radio transmission used the past tense. Mission Elapsed Time 55:55:20, 9:07 PM Central Time, 13 April 1970. Listen to the whole actual radio transmission (MP3)
An unknown fault in electrical equipment inside one of the Service Module's oxygen tanks had produced an explosion during the routine stirring operation, which in turn caused the loss the oxygen in both tanks. The Apollo 13 crew were forced to shut down the Command Module to conserve its batteries and save its oxygen for use in re-entry, and use the Lunar Module's limited resources as a 'lifeboat' during a 'slingshot' around the moon and back to Earth. Despite the depravations and challanges of limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to somehow re-rig the carbon dioxide removal system, Apollo 13 returned safely to Earth on 17 April 1970.
This is Houston, say again please.
— Jack Lousma, Houston CapCom in reply to Swigert.
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.
— Jim Lovell, in reply to Lousma.
It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something into the — into the space.
— Jim Lovell, describing the Apollo 13 situation to Houston, 13 April 1970.
After the Apollo 13 recovery, Grumman Aerospace Corporation (designers and builders of the lunar module) sent a spoof invoice A441066 to North American Rockwell (designers and builders of the command and service modules) for towing the rest of Apollo 13 around the moon and home to Earth. The bill was written by people at Grumman's Flight Control Integration Lab in 1970. It included towing at $4.00 first mile, $1.00 each additional mile, battery charge, oxygen and addition guest at $8.00/night. Water and baggage handling was free. A 20% commercial discount and 2% cash discount (net 30 days) resulting in a total of $312,421.24. Rockwell responded in a press conference that they still had not received payment for shipping four of Grumman's LMs to the Moon.
The world is being Americanized and technologized to its limits, and that makes it dull for some people. Reaching the Moon restores the frontier and gives us the lands beyond.
— Isaac Asimov, regards Apollo.
Houston, Apollo 11 … I've got the world in my window.
— Michael Collins
I really didn't appreciate the first planet [earth] until I saw the second one… . I cannot recall [the Moon's] tortured surface without thinking of the infinite variety the delightful planet earth offers.
— Michael Collins
We have taken to the Moon the wealth of this nation,
the vision of its political leaders,
the intelligence of its scientists,
the dedication of its engineers,
the careful craftsmanship of its workers,
and the enthusiastic support of its people.
We have brought back rocks, and I think it is a fair trade …
Man has always gone where he has been able to go. It's that simple.
He will continue pushing back his frontier,
no matter how far it may carry him from his homeland.
— Michael Collins
In my own view, the important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
— Neil Armstrong, July 1999.
We came all this way to explore the moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the earth.
— William Anders, Apollo 8.
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.
— James B. Irwin, Apollo 15.
We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.
— Edgar Mitchell
For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the Moon. It reads: 'We came in peace for all mankind.' As the United States was dropping 7.5 megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity: We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.
It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
— Pablo Picasso, reacting to the first Moon-landing, quoted in the New York Times, 21 July 1969.
Oh, 'impressed' is not the right word! Treading the soil of the moon gives one, I imagine (or rather my projected self imagines), the most remarkable romantic thrill ever experienced in the history of discovery. Of course, I rented a television set to watch every moment of their marvelous adventure. That gentle little minuet that despite their awkward suits the two men danced with such grace to the tune of lunar gravity was a lovely sight. It was also a moment when a flag means to one more than a flag usually does. I am puzzled and pained by the fact that the English weeklies ignored the absolutely overwhelming excitement of the adventure, the strange sensual exhilaration of palpating those precious pebbles, of seeing our marbled globe in the black sky, of feeling along one's spine the shiver and wonder of it. After all, Englishmen should understand that thrill, they who have been the greatest, the purest explorers. Why then drag in such irrelevant matters as wasted dollars and power politics?
— Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions, 1973.
When old dreams die, new ones come to take their place. God pity a one-dream man.
— Esther Goddard, reading from her late husband's diary to the AP just prior to the launch of Apollo 11.
The Lunar landing of the astronauts is more than a step in history; it is a step in evolution.
&mdashNew York Times editorial, 20 July 1969.
If we want to go to space with humans, that’s for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
— Freeman Dyson, Raw Science interview , 26 November 2014.
When I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end.
— David R. Scott, Apollo 15 commander, 'What Is It Like to Walk on the Moon,' National Geographic magazine, September 1973.
It's too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they'll probably just piss it all away.
— President Lyndon B. Johnson, overheard during a visit to the Apollo 7 crew in training, 1968. Quoted in D. M. Harland, Exploring The Moon: The Apollo Expeditions , 2nd ed. 2008.
Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.
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In 1785, Blanchard and Jeffries became the first to cross the English channel using which method of transport? | Neil Armstrong smiles inside the Lunar Module on July 20, 1969
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I always hoped I would be alive to see the first man walk on the moon. I was, and I got to write about it.
I never thought I also would be alive to see the last man land on the moon.
I covered Neil Armstrong when he first stepped foot on the lunar surface, and even helped shape what history remembers as his first words (more on that later). I covered all the other lunar landings up until the last, Apollo 17, for both Reuters and the Philadelphia Inquirer. It never occurred to me at the time that the America that sent men to the moon would shrink back onto itself and that the spirit that pushed the frontier was a temporary aberration. Now we fire school teachers to save a dime.
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Armstrong died last week at 82. Buzz Aldrin, who went with him to the surface, and Michael Collins, who circled above them in the Apollo command module, are still alive. We sent a total of 24 men to the moon, and 12 of them walked on the surface. One of them, Alan Shepard, even played golf up there. All the other living moon-walkers are now in their 70s or 80s. If anyone ever goes back, I’ll be long gone. Ten years from now there likely will be no one alive who walked on another world. I find that lamentable.
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As Armstrong said, “that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Or did he?
Let’s clear that up first. Except for the lunatics who think the whole thing was staged on a Hollywood set, that quotation is about the only controversy left. To be blunt, it doesn’t matter if he really said that. A small group of us said he did and that ends it.
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Reporters covering the space program worked in a large room at the Manned Space Center in Houston, a public display hall converted into a press center. It was a time before computers or cellphones. Every desk was assigned and each had a telephone. We wrote the stories on portable typewriters (almost all, for some reason, light green Olivettis) and dictated to our offices over the phone, although those of us at the wire services had access to Teletype machines.
A group of NASA and Manned Spacecraft Center officials join in with the flight controllers in the Mission Operations Control Room in celebrating the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
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One of the perks was that we could hear the air-to-ground transmissions from the spacecraft on earphones. We could hear—at least in theory—every word spoken between the astronauts and mission control. (They could make the transmissions private if they needed to talk about bowel movements or impending death, but they didn’t do that often).
On July 20, 1969, we sat mesmerized at our typewriters, glancing up at television screens on the walls, hands poised. “The Eagle has landed,” announced Armstrong, and fingers flew. Reuters sent out a flash, bells clamoring: “Men on the moon.”
Eventually Armstrong climbed down the lunar module’s ladder and set foot on the surface, a step guaranteed to put his name in every history book ever. And then he said either “that’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” or “that’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” The transmission was not clear and we were not sure we heard the word “a” before the word “man.”
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Now we had problem and no time to think about it. Clearly, this was to be one of the most famous quotations in history and we had to get it right. More important at the moment, we had to be consistent. We could not have one news service say one thing, the other two something else, or have the New York Times have one version and the Washington Post another. Forget history, we had to deal with editors.
A small group of us from the wire services and the major papers gathered quickly in the middle of the press room and decided the “a” was missing. It went out that way to all our readers and that is the quote everyone knows.
Later, Armstrong insisted that he knew what he was going to say before he climbed down the ladder and that he said the “a” word. But when NASA cleaned up the recording of the transmission, it was clear we were right and he was wrong. He simply forgot to say it.
Was Neil Armstrong making "one small step for a man" or "one small step for man" on July 20, 1969?
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Make no mistake, it was a giant leap for mankind, and one for America too. The main motivation for John Kennedy’s moon program was the Cold War and competition with the Soviet Union, but it became far more than that.
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It also became the largest and most successful government peaceful stimulus package in American history. You would have to go back to the funding for the transcontinental railroads in the 19th century to find an equal.
The government pumped $25 billion (about $170 billion today) into the quest to send Americans to the moon. That does not include the funding for Gemini and Mercury, the programs that set up Apollo. The old canard from critics was, “why are we spending all that money on the moon when we could be spending it here in America?” We were, of course, spending almost every dime of it in America.
At its peak, Apollo employed 400,000 people directly in the government or through contractors, and hundreds of thousands more indirectly. Many of those people were our best engineers and scientists, skilled technicians, and even talented bureaucrats. NASA in the 1960s and early 1970s is still the most efficient government agency I have ever encountered. Every time I hear a politician say the government can’t do anything very well, I think of them.
It was a triumph of nerds and test pilots.
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For the money, we got the greatest technological achievement in history. One of the myths surrounding the space program is that it led to the invention of mundane advances like Teflon and Velcro, neither of which is true, although both were used. The advances were far greater than that.
What it generated is much of the electronic age we live in, the way we build computers and electronics, how we program them, how we organize them. The first fuel cells flew in Apollo. Much of the early work in integrated circuits derived from solving technical problems in flying men to the moon and returning them. With every mission, the computers got smaller and more powerful.
It is absolutely true that the laptop computer I am using to write this has more computing power than the computers that flew to the moon, but I would not be writing on it now had those computers not gone there then.
The scientific results were staggering. We could hold pieces of the moon in our hands—and I did—and study them. As a result, we know far more about the origin of the solar system and our Earth than we knew before.
The economy boomed as a result of the technological advances and the money the government pumped into it.
One more thing: The world changed because of one photograph taken by the Apollo 17 crew, the famous Blue Marble photo of the Earth, sitting alone in the blackness of space, green and blue and vulnerable. Along with Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring , it molded our view of the fragility of our planet and led to the environmental movement. No one predicted that.
It is estimated that one-fifth of the human population of Earth saw the landing on television, saw Armstrong plant the American flag.
But none of that was sufficient reason to go then, or to go now. There is a greater reason.
The late Jonathan Eberhart of Science News, a friend and colleague, in one brilliant column cut through it all. We should explore space because that’s what we humans do, he wrote. We explore. We are not content with where we are, we want to see what is over there. It is part of our DNA.
When the great explorations of Earth began, there probably were people who told Cook and Magellan and Hudson and Columbus and all the rest that it was a waste of resources or that if God wanted us to find a northwest passage, he would have put up road signs or something. But they went. That’s us. We have the capacity (and as the modern-day analog to the old empires, “we” is mostly the United States) to do it.
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What historic event does the nursery rhyme Ring-a-ring of roses commemorate? | Ring-a-Ring o' Roses
Ring-a-Ring o' Roses
Tony Rogers here poses the following question:
"Does the nursery rhyme Ring-a-Ring o' Roses really commemorate an outbreak of bubonic plague?"
There I was, happy and secure in the conviction that the following nursery rhyme commemorates a specific historical event:
Ring-a-ring o� roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
That event being, of course, either the Great Plague of London (1664-6) which killed 70,000 people in south-east England, or possibly the Black Death, which in five years in the middle of the 14th century wiped out a full third of Europe�s population.
Well, I�m here to confess to you that I�ve learned the error of my ways. It would seem that modern experts, including Iona and Peter Opie (editors of The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 1951) and Gloria T. Delamar (Mother Goose: From Nursery to Literature, 1987), are very sceptical of the idea of any bubonic plague being the inspiration for Ring-a-Ring o� Roses.
It is tempting, of course, to see a plague as the source of the rhyme. The �roses� could plausibly refer to the rash that always accompanies the disease, the �posies� to herbs and spices used to sweeten the air, while �a-tishoo� would represent the sneezing, and �we all fall down� would imply inevitable death. A related conjecture would have it that the �ring� referred to the red spot that marked the onset of the disease.
No doubt, the belief arose because a handful of nursery rhymes do derive from historical events or personalities, like Little Jack Horner (Thomas Horner of Mells), The Brave Old Duke of York (probably George III�s son, Frederick), Jack Sprat (Archdeacon Pratt), and Humpty-Dumpty (Richard III � maybe). Nevertheless, as a rule,
[a]lthough many ingenious theories have been advanced attributing hidden significance, especially political allusions, to nursery rhymes, there is no reason to suppose they are any more arcane than the popular songs of the day. (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
For Ring-a-Ring o� Roses the case today seems clear. It is no more than a nursery chant, first recorded in print in 1881, one �which instantly rises from the lips of small children whenever they join hands in a circle�. (Opie) There are several variants of the song, and in none of them do the words imply any reference to the Great Plague. Furthermore,
. . . the time-lapse between the plague and the appearance of the game, diminishes . . . [the plague] theory. Satires are almost always written about then-current events . . . The [plague] interpretations continue to surface, however, probably because people in some perverse way would like to believe that the innocent rhyme has a grim history. (Delamar)
(The Black Death, of course was even more remote in time from the first appearance of Ring-a-Ring o� Roses, and thus even less likely to be the idea behind the verse.)
In short, the whole far-fetched bubonic edifice can be seen � if I may be so bold to put it in this non-Shakespearian way � as no more than the speculative jerry-building of �a house on both your plagues�.
Yet if you thought all that was too much, consider this. There�s a fellow on the Internet, one Rich Stoney , who believes strongly that �some versions of Ring a-round a Rosy are based on the mythology of the Hindu god Shiva�.
In particular, he identifies the rhyme�s source as Shiva�s Dance of Bliss, which �re-energizes life�. From his point of view, the sneezing interpretation of �A-tishoo!� is quite wrong:
I suggest that in reality, it is coughing as a result of his violent dance actions during which mountains are flattened and the cosmos themselves [sic] are destroyed.
Those who have recovered sufficiently to read on may now relax to the sound of a nice example of a 1949 parody which the Opies provide:
Ring-a-ring o� geranium,
A pocket full of uranium,
Hiro, Shima,
All fall down.
The Oxford Dictionary has a germane quote, too, albeit a quite mysterious one, from The Times (1/4/1974, 1/8):
Strong men blenched and broke into a sweat of embarrassment when made to dance "Ring-a-ring o� roses" in public outside Guildhall.
Tarnation seize me! What was going on outside Guildhall? If one of our readers gets to check this out before I do, I�d love to hear the full story.
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Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the Second World War? | Ring Around the Rosie: Metafolklore, Rhyme and Reason | Folklife Today
Ring Around the Rosie: Metafolklore, Rhyme and Reason
July 24, 2014
by Stephen Winick
Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes (1881) was the first publication of “Ring Around the Rosie” in English. Her illustration was published in 1881 and is therefore in the public domain.
A recent blog post at Londonist describes “Five London Nursery Rhymes Depicting Death and Ruin.” The rhymes in question have diverse origins and histories, but what seems incontrovertible from James FitzGerald’s work is that they describe dark and portentous matters from English history.
Or do they? Looking closely at these rhymes, and at scholarship surrounding them, suggests other interpretations. I’ll discuss one of the rhymes in particular, because it tells us interesting things about folklore and our ideas about folklore: “Ring Around the Rosie,” or “Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses,” as it’s sometimes known.
FitzGerald’s text goes like this:
Ring-a-ring-a-roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
FitzGerald states emphatically that this rhyme arose from the Great Plague, an outbreak of pneumonic plague that affected London in the year 1665:
Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses is all about the Great Plague; the apparent whimsy being a foil for one of London’s most atavistic dreads (thanks to the Black Death). The fatalism of the rhyme is brutal: the roses are a euphemism for deadly rashes, the posies a supposed preventative measure; the a-tishoos pertain to sneezing symptoms, and the implication of everyone falling down is, well, death.
This interpretation emerged in the mid-twentieth century, and has become widespread, but it has never been accepted by folklorists, for several reasons. First, like most folklore items, this rhyme exists in many versions and variants. This allows us to ask whether the specific images associated with the plague occur in all or even most versions. It turns out they don’t. Many versions have no words that sound like sneezes, and many versions don’t mention falling down. For example, Iona and Peter Opie give an 1883 version (in which “curchey” is dialect for “curtsey”):
A ring, a ring o’roses
A pocket full of posies
One for Jack and one for Jim and one for little Moses
A curchey in and a curchey out
And a curchey all together
Moreover, in many versions , everyone gets up again once they have fallen down, which hardly makes sense if falling down represents death.
“Posies,” or bouquets of flowers, are almost universal in the song. However, many versions do not make them portable but install them in in pots or bottles, which doesn’t fit well with the plague interpretation. William Wells Newell , writing in 1883, gave several versions, including:
Round the ring of roses
Pots full of posies
The one who stoops last
Shall tell whom she loves best
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None of these versions fits the plague interpretation very well, but they do reveal other functions and meanings: the rhyme is often used as a playful courtship game in which children dance in a ring, then suddenly stoop, squat, curtsey (“curchey”), or in some cases fall to the ground. The last to do so (or the one that jumps the gun) has to pay a penalty, which is sometimes to profess love for (or hug or kiss) another child. In some versions, this child then takes up a place in the middle of the ring, representing the “rosie” or rose bush. Newell explicitly states that the game was played like this in America in the 1880s, and European analogs from the same time and later are similar. In many versions, then, the roses and posies signify what flowers often signify in traditional European culture: not suffering and death, but joy and love.
Children playing “Ring Around the Rosie” in Chicago, Illinois, April, 1941. Photo by Edwin Rosskam. Prints and Photographs Division. //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a15771
The above observations show that “Ring Around the Rosie” is a “singing-game” or a “play-party song,” both of which are names for children’s dance songs. Plague theorists say it’s still possible that the plague was the original meaning, and that children pressed the rhyme into service for their games and dances. But there are other reasons, too, not to believe the plague story. For example, this rhyme and dance are internationally distributed, and records turn up on the European continent before they do in England. The Opies give versions from Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, among other places. Meanwhile, there’s no evidence the rhyme existed in English until the late 19th Century. Newell, writing in 1883, asserted that the rhyme was known in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1790, but he gave no evidence, and none has come to light. After this unsubstantiated claim, the rhyme doesn’t turn up in English until 1881 . What evidence is there it survived undocumented since 1665?
Title page of The Dreadful Visitation: in a short account of the progress and effects of the plague by Daniel Defoe. This is one of several contemporary accounts of the plague year, none of which mentions anything resembling “Ring Around the Rosie.” Prints and Photographs Division. //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b41405
The claim that the rhyme is related to pestilence is even younger; the folklorists who diligently recorded the rhyme itself in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries never mention the plague interpretation, although they surely would have had they known it. The first evidence I’ve seen that people were connecting the rhyme with death and disaster is from 1949, when the newspaper The Observer ran a parody of the rhyme beginning “ring-a-ring-o’-geranium, a pocketful of uranium” and referring to the bombing of Hiroshima. In 1951, we find the first direct reference to the plague interpretation: Iona and Peter Opie state that some people believe the rhyme refers to the plague, but are not themselves convinced.
Finally, there’s simply no direct evidence. Even if the rhyme itself remained unrecorded for two hundred years after the plague, various types of evidence might exist: a description of children playing dancing-games referring to roses and mocking the plague, or oral traditions of the earliest informants making the link. As it turns out, though, neither of these kinds of evidence has turned up, despite meticulous day-to-day accounts of life in London in 1665, and accounts of the Plague by people who lived through it . So today’s scholars want to know: how did the first person who claimed a connection between the events of 1665 and this rhyme find out about that connection, and why can’t we find whatever evidence he or she had?
All this makes scholars skeptical, to say the least. In 2010 English folklorist and librarian Steve Roud noted that “the Plague origin is complete nonsense,” and in the 1980s, the Opies (who first recorded and debunked the belief in 1951) wrote: “We ourselves have had to listen so often to this interpretation we are reluctant to go out of the house.”
Still, the story only seems to have grown stronger in the second half of the twentieth century, and this itself is interesting to folklorists. After all, the story is itself folklore: a tale that was passed on by word of mouth first, then in writing and online media. And because it is also about folklore, folklorists classify it as “metafolklore”: folklore about folklore.
The cover of Leonard Leslie Brooke’s Ring O’ Roses shows nursery rhyme characters performing “Ring Around the Rosie.” The book was first published in 1922 and the image is therefore in the public domain.
If the plague story is folklore, we would expect to encounter it in different versions and variants. And so we do. The two main variants are the Londonist’s claim that the rhyme refers to the Great Plague of 1665, and others’ claims that it stems from the Black Death of 1347 . Within these two main variants, there are sub-variants: in particular, FitzGerald and others say the 1665 rhyme originated in London, while others say it came from Eyam , a village in the English Midlands that was also infected with plague in 1665. One article even claims Eyam children sang it “while dancing around the victims!”
There are also innumerable individual versions of this story, each with its own quirks. Because the plague can infect different parts of the body and cause different symptoms, because people know about or imagine different historical health practices, and because different versions of the rhyme have different specific words, plague stories vary widely in the correspondences they find between words and plague experiences: for some, “a-tishoo” signifies a sneeze , while for others “ashes” signify cremation . For supporters of pneumonic plague, the ring is a rosy skin rash , while for supporters of the bubonic plague it’s a red inflammation around a black buboe . In fact, observing the many different ways in which “Ring Around the Rosie” has been said to conform to real or supposed symptoms, it seems clear that the story did not grow from compelling evidence; rather, evidence has been gathered to support a compelling story.
Metafolkloric stories can be either accurate or inaccurate, but in either case, there’s usually a compelling reason we keep telling them, or a deeper truth they express. So one question folklorists like to ask is: “What has been so interesting to people about this story?” That’s a hard question to answer, but we can note certain patterns in the kinds of people who tell it. It’s very appealing to historians, for whom a glimpse of the distant past in the present is always exciting. It’s especially compelling to historians of the plagues themselves; in fact, standard works about the 1347 plague and the 1665 plague recount the story as fact. Part of the task of such historians is to explain how the plague has continued to influence our lives, and the chance to mention a rhyme everyone knows and connect it to this deep history is irresistible. Secondly, the story is often told by advocates for particular places. Travel blogs spread the Eyam story , while Londonist “celebrates London and everything that happens in it.” Advocates for medical education and even for sanitary sewers have used the song’s supposed connection to disease to suggest that their particular expertise remains relevant to anyone who has heard this common rhyme. Finally, there are many people with a love of the macabre, and nothing is more disturbing than the idea of little children playing to a description of pestilence and death.
Our love for the plague story goes deeper than the agendas of a few interest groups, though. Even professors who know it’s not true can’t resist telling it! Folklorists know better than anyone the fascination with things that are older than they seem, and with “ extraordinary origins of everyday things .” Some founders of the discipline of folklore espoused the theory of survivals , which held that cultural materials such as nursery rhymes preserved information from the past that was otherwise forgotten. To adherents of this theory, a shard of pottery, a riddle, or a child’s jingle could be the key that unlocked the mythology of the distant past, and the folklorist’s task was to interpret or decode the cryptic messages within these fragments. In fact, the irony is that the plague story resembles nothing so much as a nineteenth-century folklorist’s interpretation of the rhyme, but today’s folklorists often express annoyance with the tale’s persistence. Maybe it reminds us too much of ourselves.
In any case, we certainly understand its appeal: in the marketplace of ideas, a good story often outsells mere facts.
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On January 3, 1959, President Eisenhower signs a special proclamation admitting the territory of Alaska into the Union as the 49th and largest state.
The European discovery of Alaska came in 1741, when a Russian expedition led by Danish navigator Vitus Bering sighted the Alaskan mainland. Russian hunters were soon making incursions into Alaska, and the native Aleut population suffered greatly after being exposed to foreign diseases. In 1784, Grigory Shelikhov established the first permanent Russian colony in Alaska on Kodiak Island. In the early 19th century, Russian settlements spread down the west coast of North America, with the southernmost fort located near Bodega Bay in California.
Russian activity in the New World declined in the 1820s, and the British and Americans were granted trading rights in Alaska after a few minor diplomatic conflicts. In the 1860s, a nearly bankrupt Russia decided to offer Alaska for sale to the United States, which earlier had expressed interest in such a purchase. On March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward signed a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.” Nevertheless, the Senate ratified purchase of the tremendous landmass, one-fifth the size of the rest of the United States.
Despite a slow start in settlement by Americans from the continental United States, the discovery of gold in 1898 brought a rapid influx of people to the territory. Alaska, rich in natural resources, has been contributing to American prosperity ever since.
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Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.01%
Average Cost of new house $12,400.00
Average Yearly Wages $5,010.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 25 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,200.00
Movie Ticket $1.00
Loaf of Bread 20 cents
Kodak Movie camera $67.50
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What Events Happened in 1959
Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba after Revolution with the first communist state in the west
Mattel's Barbie Doll is Launched
Alaska becomes the 49th State of the United States
Hawaii becomes the 50th State of the United States
Hudson and Nash become the AMC (American Motors Association
Archbishop Makarios is elected president of the Independent Cyprus Republic
The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence.
Flood in Taiwan leaves 2,000 dead.
St Lawrence Seaway a joint US / Canadian venture is completed linking the great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
US Unemployment reaches 1.4 million
NASA introduces America's first astronauts to the world including John H. Glenn Jr, and Alan Shepard Jr.
An International agreement is signed to preserve Antartica
The first known human with HIV dies in Congo.
The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama flees Tibet and obtains political asylum in India.
Popular Culture 1959
The US Grammy Music Awards Started
The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died," popularised in Don McLean's song, "American Pie."
The Film Ben-Hur premieres in New York City
Popular Films
Bonanza premieres on NBC, the first weekly television series broadcast completely in color
Technology 1959
Boeing 707 Jet Airliner comes into service cutting 8 hrs from transatlantic Flight
USSR Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon as the first man-made object and Luna 3 sends back first photos of the far side of Earth's Moon
IBM shipped the transistor-based IBM 1401 mainframe.
Xerox launches the first commercial copier
US Launches first Weather Station in Space
De Beers manufactures a synthetic Diamond
QANTAS introduces the Boeing 707 on its Sydney-San Francisco route, the first transpacific service flown by jet.
Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Microchip USA by Jack Kilby
Etch A Sketch France by Arthur Grandjean
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Lunar Probe Russia Lunik I passed the Moon; Lunar Probe Russia Lunik II crashed on the Moon;
Lunar Probe Russia Lunik III photographed the far side of the Moon
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What is Britain's largest lake? | Record Breakers
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It is with great trepidation that I list these various ' record breakers ' as someone is bound to claim that somewhere in Britain there is something that is smaller, shorter, higher, deeper etc. than my choice of record breakers! My research has been very intensive, and many are listed in the Guinness Book of Records, so ........ here goes!
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Britain's smallest house
Flash claims to be Britain's highest village
Wanlockhead - Britain's highest village
Picture 1 - Britain's smallest house is on the quayside at Conwy - North Wales. The house is approximately 6 feet wide and 10 feet high. Picture 2 - The village of Flash in Staffordshire (4 miles from Buxton in Derbyshire) claims to be Britain's highest village, at a height of 1518 feet above sea level. Picture 3 - Thanks to Brian Montgomery from Scotland's Museum of Lead Mining who wrote to say "I work in a village in Scotland that is registered at 1531 feet above sea level ! The village is called Wanlockhead and is in Dumfries & Galloway." Brian's picture above (click it for a better view) shows the road sign exhibiting 1531 feet. So ..... which is higher? The Macclesfield Express, 15th August 2007 , should settle the matter once and for all, but, maybe not!
The world's narrowest hotel
freshwater lake
Britain's smallest city
Picture 1 - The Star Hotel in Moffat (Dumfries and Galloway) is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's narrowest hotel and is only 20 feet wide. Picture 2 - Britain's largest freshwater lake is Loch Lomond (Argyll and Bute). The loch is 24 miles long and up to 5 miles wide. Picture 3 - Britain's smallest city is St. David's in Pembrokeshire, South Wales.
Britain's largest group of Grade 1 listed buildings
Britain's Highest Inn
Britain's only rack and
pinion railway
Picture 1 - The Albert Dock in Liverpool has the largest group of Grade 1 listed buildings in Britain. Picture 2 - Tan Hill Inn is Britain's highest inn at a height of 1732 ft above sea level. It is on the Pennine Way in North Yorkshire Picture 3 - The Snowdon Mountain Railway is Britain’s only rack and pinion railway. The 5 mile journey from Llanberis to the summit of Snowdon (Wales' highest mountain) has gradients of up to 1 in 5.
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In which city is Marco Polo airport? | BeenThere-DoneThat: Oldest, Highest, Longest, Smallest.
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CHURCHES:
The oldest church in Britain is probably St. Peter's-on-the-Wall at Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex which dates from the 7th Century.
The oldest log church in the world is St. Andrew's Church at Greensted, near Ongar, Essex although that only really applies now to the walls of the nave, which date from the 11th Century.
The oldest cathedral in Britain is Durham Cathedral, started in 1093, which is also the oldest Norman building.
The oldest church door in England (Saxon - 1060) is still on St. Botolph's church in the village of Hadstock in Essex.
The oldest working turret (or tower) clock in England is in the tower of St. Mary's Church in Rye, Sussex.
INNS:
The oldest inn in Britain is, officially, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St. Albans, Hertfordshire - it's listed in the Guiness Book of Records.
BRIDGES:
The oldest bridge in Britain is thought to be Tarr Steps on Exmoor, Somerset which is a Clapper Bridge.
STRUCTURES:
The oldest surviving Roman structure in Britain is the Balkerne Gate together with the Roman wall at Colchester , Essex.
The oldest timber-framed barn in the world is Barley Barn in Cressing Temple barns, Braintree, Essex.
LONGEST
The longest footpath in England is the South West Coast Path at 630 miles.
The longest footpath in Wales is the Pembrokeshire Coast Path at 186 miles.
The longest footpath in Scotland is the Southern Upland Way at 211 miles.
HIGHEST
MOUNTAINS & HILLS:
The highest mountain in Britain and Scotland is Ben Nevis (4368 feet) near Fort William, Scotland. The highest mountain in Wales is Snowdon (3526 feet) and the highest in England is Scafell Pike (3210 feet), Cumberland (Cumbria) in the Lake District.
The highest man-made hill in Europe is Silbury Hill near Avebury, Wiltshire.
INNS:
The highest Inn in Britain is the Tan Hill Inn (1742 feet), north of Keld, Yorkshire and is located on the route of the Pennine Way long distance path.
RAILWAY STATIONS
The highest railway station (3494 feet) in Britain is on Snowdon (3560 feet) in Wales although that is a specialised rack and pinion mountain railway and is not part of the normal railway network. The highest, and probably the most remote, station on the normal railway network is on Rannoch Moor (1350 feet) in Scotland.
DEEPEST
LAKES:
The deepest lake in Britain is Loch Morar in the Highlands of Scotland at 1017 feet deep.
The deepest lake in England is Wast Water in the Lake District at 250 feet deep.
CAVES:
The deepest cave in Britain is Ogof Ffynnon Ddu in Wales at 1,010 feet deep.
SHORTEST
RIVERS:
The shortest river in Britain is the River Morar which runs from the deepest freshwater loch/lake in Europe (Loch Morar) to the sea and is just short of 1000 yards long.
SMALLEST
INNS:
The smallest Inn in Britain is The Nutshell, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk at 15ft x 7ft 6in. I understand that they don't provide food as there's no room to eat it.
CHURCHES:
The smallest church in Britain is Bremilham Church, on a farm at Foxley-cum-Bremilham near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, and measures just 11 feet by 10 feet. The smallest church still holding regular services is Culbone Church near Porlock Weir, Somerset.
CITIES:
The smallest City in Britain is St. David's , Pembrokeshire, Wales. Although it is only the size of a village it does have a cathedral.
The smallest City in England is Wells , Somerset.
LARGEST
LAKES:
The largest Lake in England is Lake Windermere in the English Lake District and the largest lake in Great Britain is Loch Lomond in Scotland.
STONE CIRCLES:
The largest Stone Circle in the world is Avebury in Wiltshire covering 28 acres and being nearly a mile in circumference.
CAVES:
The largest cave mouth in Wales, and one of the largest in Great Britain, is Porth-Yr-Ogof near the village of Ystradfellte.
RAREST
The Norman Wheel Window in Castle Hedingham Church is one of only five in the whole country.
This round church in Cambridge is one of only four in England discounting the ruined one in Ludlow Castle.
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What is the only American state with a name which has just one syllable? | How Many US States Have One Syllable?
How Many US States Have One Syllable?
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Only one U.S. state has one syllable — Maine. It's also the only state to border only one other state — New Hampshire. No one is really sure where Maine's name came from. Some surmise that it was named after an ancient French province — the Province of Maine; others believe it was a derivation of the world "mainland." The word "Maine" was first officially used in 1665 in a request by the King's Commissioners that "The Province of Maine" be used in official documents.
More Syllabic Facts:
Only five countries in the world have one syllable: Chad, France, Spain, Greece, Laos, though Wales might make six depending on how you pronounce it (Way-als).
The most syllables in a state's name is five. Three states share this trait: Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Three states have only four letters in their name: Ohio, Iowa and Utah.
Screeched and strengths are the longest one-syllable words in the English language.
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United States
federal republic with two legislative houses (Senate [100]; House of Representatives [4351])
Head of state and government
(2010) 308,745,538; (2016 est.) 323,349,0002
Total area (sq mi)
Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate
Male: (2000–2004) 95.7%
GNI per capita (U.S.$)
(2014) 55,200
1Excludes 5 nonvoting delegates from the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands , American Samoa , the Northern Mariana Islands , and Guam and a nonvoting resident commissioner from Puerto Rico .
2Includes military personnel overseas.
3Total area (excluding 42,334 sq mi [109,645 sq km] of coastal water and 76,804 sq mi [198,921 sq km] of territorial water) equals 3,677,649 sq mi (9,525,067 sq km), of which land area equals 3,531,925 sq mi (9,147,643 sq km), inland water area equals 85,631 sq mi (221,783 sq km), and Great Lakes water area equals 60,093 sq mi (155,641 sq km).
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United States, officially United States of America, abbreviated U.S. or U.S.A., byname America, country in North America , a federal republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 conterminous states that occupy the middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of Alaska , at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of Hawaii , in the mid-Pacific Ocean . The conterminous states are bounded on the north by Canada , on the east by the Atlantic Ocean , on the south by the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico , and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The United States is the fourth largest country in the world in area (after Russia , Canada, and China ). The national capital is Washington , which is coextensive with the District of Columbia, the federal capital region created in 1790.
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The major characteristic of the United States is probably its great variety. Its physical environment ranges from the Arctic to the subtropical, from the moist rain forest to the arid desert, from the rugged mountain peak to the flat prairie. Although the total population of the United States is large by world standards, its overall population density is relatively low. The country embraces some of the world’s largest urban concentrations as well as some of the most extensive areas that are almost devoid of habitation.
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The United States contains a highly diverse population. Unlike a country such as China that largely incorporated indigenous peoples, the United States has a diversity that to a great degree has come from an immense and sustained global immigration. Probably no other country has a wider range of racial, ethnic, and cultural types than does the United States. In addition to the presence of surviving Native Americans (including American Indians, Aleuts , and Eskimos ) and the descendants of Africans taken as slaves to the New World, the national character has been enriched, tested, and constantly redefined by the tens of millions of immigrants who by and large have come to America hoping for greater social, political, and economic opportunities than they had in the places they left. (It should be noted that although the terms “America” and “Americans” are often used as synonyms for the United States and its citizens, respectively, they are also used in a broader sense for North, South, and Central America collectively and their citizens.)
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The United States is the world’s greatest economic power, measured in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). The nation’s wealth is partly a reflection of its rich natural resources and its enormous agricultural output, but it owes more to the country’s highly developed industry. Despite its relative economic self-sufficiency in many areas, the United States is the most important single factor in world trade by virtue of the sheer size of its economy. Its exports and imports represent major proportions of the world total. The United States also impinges on the global economy as a source of and as a destination for investment capital. The country continues to sustain an economic life that is more diversified than any other on Earth, providing the majority of its people with one of the world’s highest standards of living.
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The United States is relatively young by world standards, being less than 250 years old; it achieved its current size only in the mid-20th century. America was the first of the European colonies to separate successfully from its motherland, and it was the first nation to be established on the premise that sovereignty rests with its citizens and not with the government. In its first century and a half, the country was mainly preoccupied with its own territorial expansion and economic growth and with social debates that ultimately led to civil war and a healing period that is still not complete. In the 20th century the United States emerged as a world power, and since World War II it has been one of the preeminent powers. It has not accepted this mantle easily nor always carried it willingly; the principles and ideals of its founders have been tested by the pressures and exigencies of its dominant status. The United States still offers its residents opportunities for unparalleled personal advancement and wealth. However, the depletion of its resources, the contamination of its environment, and the continuing social and economic inequality that perpetuates areas of poverty and blight all threaten the fabric of the country.
The District of Columbia is discussed in the article Washington . For discussion of other major U.S. cities, see the articles Boston , Chicago , Los Angeles , New Orleans , New York City , Philadelphia , and San Francisco . Political units in association with the United States include Puerto Rico, discussed in the article Puerto Rico , and several Pacific islands, discussed in Guam , Northern Mariana Islands , and American Samoa .
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The two great sets of elements that mold the physical environment of the United States are, first, the geologic, which determines the main patterns of landforms, drainage, and mineral resources and influences soils to a lesser degree, and, second, the atmospheric, which dictates not only climate and weather but also in large part the distribution of soils, plants, and animals. Although these elements are not entirely independent of one another, each produces on a map patterns that are so profoundly different that essentially they remain two separate geographies. (Since this article covers only the conterminous United States, see also the articles Alaska and Hawaii .)
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The centre of the conterminous United States is a great sprawling interior lowland, reaching from the ancient shield of central Canada on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south. To east and west this lowland rises, first gradually and then abruptly, to mountain ranges that divide it from the sea on both sides. The two mountain systems differ drastically. The Appalachian Mountains on the east are low, almost unbroken, and in the main set well back from the Atlantic . From New York to the Mexican border stretches the low Coastal Plain , which faces the ocean along a swampy, convoluted coast. The gently sloping surface of the plain extends out beneath the sea, where it forms the continental shelf, which, although submerged beneath shallow ocean water, is geologically identical to the Coastal Plain. Southward the plain grows wider, swinging westward in Georgia and Alabama to truncate the Appalachians along their southern extremity and separate the interior lowland from the Gulf.
West of the Central Lowland is the mighty Cordillera, part of a global mountain system that rings the Pacific basin. The Cordillera encompasses fully one-third of the United States, with an internal variety commensurate with its size. At its eastern margin lie the Rocky Mountains, a high, diverse, and discontinuous chain that stretches all the way from New Mexico to the Canadian border. The Cordillera’s western edge is a Pacific coastal chain of rugged mountains and inland valleys, the whole rising spectacularly from the sea without benefit of a coastal plain. Pent between the Rockies and the Pacific chain is a vast intermontane complex of basins, plateaus, and isolated ranges so large and remarkable that they merit recognition as a region separate from the Cordillera itself.
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These regions—the Interior Lowlands and their upland fringes, the Appalachian Mountain system, the Atlantic Plain, the Western Cordillera, and the Western Intermontane Region—are so various that they require further division into 24 major subregions, or provinces.
The Interior Lowlands and their upland fringes
Andrew Jackson is supposed to have remarked that the United States begins at the Alleghenies , implying that only west of the mountains, in the isolation and freedom of the great Interior Lowlands, could people finally escape Old World influences. Whether or not the lowlands constitute the country’s cultural core is debatable, but there can be no doubt that they comprise its geologic core and in many ways its geographic core as well.
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This enormous region rests upon an ancient, much-eroded platform of complex crystalline rocks that have for the most part lain undisturbed by major orogenic (mountain-building) activity for more than 600,000,000 years. Over much of central Canada, these Precambrian rocks are exposed at the surface and form the continent’s single largest topographical region, the formidable and ice-scoured Canadian Shield .
In the United States most of the crystalline platform is concealed under a deep blanket of sedimentary rocks. In the far north, however, the naked Canadian Shield extends into the United States far enough to form two small but distinctive landform regions: the rugged and occasionally spectacular Adirondack Mountains of northern New York and the more-subdued and austere Superior Upland of northern Minnesota , Wisconsin , and Michigan . As in the rest of the shield, glaciers have stripped soils away, strewn the surface with boulders and other debris, and obliterated preglacial drainage systems. Most attempts at farming in these areas have been abandoned, but the combination of a comparative wilderness in a northern climate, clear lakes, and white-water streams has fostered the development of both regions as year-round outdoor recreation areas.
Mineral wealth in the Superior Upland is legendary. Iron lies near the surface and close to the deepwater ports of the upper Great Lakes . Iron is mined both north and south of Lake Superior , but best known are the colossal deposits of Minnesota’s Mesabi Range , for more than a century one of the world’s richest and a vital element in America’s rise to industrial power. In spite of depletion, the Minnesota and Michigan mines still yield a major proportion of the country’s iron and a significant percentage of the world’s supply.
South of the Adirondack Mountains and the Superior Upland lies the boundary between crystalline and sedimentary rocks; abruptly, everything is different. The core of this sedimentary region—the heartland of the United States—is the great Central Lowland, which stretches for 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometres) from New York to central Texas and north another 1,000 miles to the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . To some, the landscape may seem dull, for heights of more than 2,000 feet (600 metres) are unusual, and truly rough terrain is almost lacking. Landscapes are varied, however, largely as the result of glaciation that directly or indirectly affected most of the subregion. North of the Missouri – Ohio river line, the advance and readvance of continental ice left an intricate mosaic of boulders, sand, gravel, silt, and clay and a complex pattern of lakes and drainage channels, some abandoned, some still in use. The southern part of the Central Lowland is quite different, covered mostly with loess (wind-deposited silt) that further subdued the already low relief surface. Elsewhere, especially near major rivers, postglacial streams carved the loess into rounded hills, and visitors have aptly compared their billowing shapes to the waves of the sea. Above all, the loess produces soil of extraordinary fertility . As the Mesabi iron was a major source of America’s industrial wealth, its agricultural prosperity has been rooted in Midwestern loess.
The Central Lowland resembles a vast saucer, rising gradually to higher lands on all sides. Southward and eastward, the land rises gradually to three major plateaus. Beyond the reach of glaciation to the south, the sedimentary rocks have been raised into two broad upwarps, separated from one another by the great valley of the Mississippi River . The Ozark Plateau lies west of the river and occupies most of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas ; on the east the Interior Low Plateaus dominate central Kentucky and Tennessee . Except for two nearly circular patches of rich limestone country—the Nashville Basin of Tennessee and the Kentucky Bluegrass region —most of both plateau regions consists of sandstone uplands, intricately dissected by streams. Local relief runs to several hundreds of feet in most places, and visitors to the region must travel winding roads along narrow stream valleys. The soils there are poor, and mineral resources are scanty.
Eastward from the Central Lowland the Appalachian Plateau —a narrow band of dissected uplands that strongly resembles the Ozark Plateau and Interior Low Plateaus in steep slopes, wretched soils, and endemic poverty—forms a transition between the interior plains and the Appalachian Mountains. Usually, however, the Appalachian Plateau is considered a subregion of the Appalachian Mountains, partly on grounds of location, partly because of geologic structure. Unlike the other plateaus, where rocks are warped upward, the rocks there form an elongated basin, wherein bituminous coal has been preserved from erosion. This Appalachian coal, like the Mesabi iron that it complements in U.S. industry, is extraordinary. Extensive, thick, and close to the surface, it has stoked the furnaces of northeastern steel mills for decades and helps explain the huge concentration of heavy industry along the lower Great Lakes.
The western flanks of the Interior Lowlands are the Great Plains , a territory of awesome bulk that spans the full distance between Canada and Mexico in a swath nearly 500 miles (800 km) wide. The Great Plains were built by successive layers of poorly cemented sand, silt, and gravel—debris laid down by parallel east-flowing streams from the Rocky Mountains . Seen from the east, the surface of the Great Plains rises inexorably from about 2,000 feet (600 metres) near Omaha , Nebraska , to more than 6,000 feet (1,825 metres) at Cheyenne , Wyoming, but the climb is so gradual that popular legend holds the Great Plains to be flat. True flatness is rare, although the High Plains of western Texas , Oklahoma , Kansas , and eastern Colorado come close. More commonly, the land is broadly rolling, and parts of the northern plains are sharply dissected into badlands.
The High Plains, near Fort Morgan, Colorado.
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The main mineral wealth of the Interior Lowlands derives from fossil fuels. Coal occurs in structural basins protected from erosion—high-quality bituminous in the Appalachian, Illinois , and western Kentucky basins; and subbituminous and lignite in the eastern and northwestern Great Plains. Petroleum and natural gas have been found in nearly every state between the Appalachians and the Rockies, but the Midcontinent Fields of western Texas and the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, and Kansas surpass all others. Aside from small deposits of lead and zinc, metallic minerals are of little importance.
The Appalachian Mountain system
The Appalachians dominate the eastern United States and separate the Eastern Seaboard from the interior with a belt of subdued uplands that extends nearly 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from northeastern Alabama to the Canadian border. They are old, complex mountains, the eroded stumps of much greater ranges. Present topography results from erosion that has carved weak rocks away, leaving a skeleton of resistant rocks behind as highlands. Geologic differences are thus faithfully reflected in topography. In the Appalachians these differences are sharply demarcated and neatly arranged, so that all the major subdivisions except New England lie in strips parallel to the Atlantic and to one another.
Screw Auger Falls in the Mahoosuc Range, northern Appalachian Mountains, Maine.
© George Wuerthner
The core of the Appalachians is a belt of complex metamorphic and igneous rocks that stretches all the way from Alabama to New Hampshire . The western side of this belt forms the long slender rampart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, containing the highest elevations in the Appalachians ( Mount Mitchell , North Carolina, 6,684 feet [2,037 metres]) and some of its most handsome mountain scenery. On its eastern, or seaward, side the Blue Ridge descends in an abrupt and sometimes spectacular escarpment to the Piedmont , a well-drained, rolling land—never quite hills, but never quite a plain. Before the settlement of the Midwest the Piedmont was the most productive agricultural region in the United States, and several Pennsylvania counties still consistently report some of the highest farm yields per acre in the entire country.
West of the crystalline zone, away from the axis of primary geologic deformation, sedimentary rocks have escaped metamorphism but are compressed into tight folds. Erosion has carved the upturned edges of these folded rocks into the remarkable Ridge and Valley country of the western Appalachians. Long linear ridges characteristically stand about 1,000 feet (300 metres) from base to crest and run for tens of miles, paralleled by broad open valleys of comparable length. In Pennsylvania, ridges run unbroken for great distances, occasionally turning abruptly in a zigzag pattern; by contrast, the southern ridges are broken by faults and form short, parallel segments that are lined up like magnetized iron filings. By far the largest valley—and one of the most important routes in North America—is the Great Valley , an extraordinary trench of shale and limestone that runs nearly the entire length of the Appalachians. It provides a lowland passage from the middle Hudson valley to Harrisburg , Pennsylvania, and on southward, where it forms the Shenandoah and Cumberland valleys, and has been one of the main paths through the Appalachians since pioneer times. In New England it is floored with slates and marbles and forms the Valley of Vermont, one of the few fertile areas in an otherwise mountainous region.
Ridge-and-valley topography in the Appalachian Highlands, near Bristol, Tennessee, U.S.
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Topography much like that of the Ridge and Valley is found in the Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma, an area generally thought to be a detached continuation of Appalachian geologic structure, the intervening section buried beneath the sediments of the lower Mississippi valley.
The once-glaciated New England section of the Appalachians is divided from the rest of the chain by an indentation of the Atlantic. Although almost completely underlain by crystalline rocks, New England is laid out in north–south bands, reminiscent of the southern Appalachians. The rolling, rocky hills of southeastern New England are not dissimilar to the Piedmont, while, farther northwest, the rugged and lofty White Mountains are a New England analogue to the Blue Ridge. ( Mount Washington , New Hampshire, at 6,288 feet [1,917 metres], is the highest peak in the northeastern United States.) The westernmost ranges—the Taconics , Berkshires , and Green Mountains —show a strong north–south lineation like the Ridge and Valley. Unlike the rest of the Appalachians, however, glaciation has scoured the crystalline rocks much like those of the Canadian Shield, so that New England is best known for its picturesque landscape, not for its fertile soil.
Mount Washington, in the White Mountains, New Hampshire.
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Typical of diverse geologic regions, the Appalachians contain a great variety of minerals. Only a few occur in quantities large enough for sustained exploitation, notably iron in Pennsylvania’s Blue Ridge and Piedmont and the famous granites, marbles, and slates of northern New England. In Pennsylvania the Ridge and Valley region contains one of the world’s largest deposits of anthracite coal, once the basis of a thriving mining economy; many of the mines are now shut, oil and gas having replaced coal as the major fuel used to heat homes.
The Atlantic Plain
The eastern and southeastern fringes of the United States are part of the outermost margins of the continental platform, repeatedly invaded by the sea and veneered with layer after layer of young, poorly consolidated sediments. Part of this platform now lies slightly above sea level and forms a nearly flat and often swampy coastal plain, which stretches from Cape Cod , Massachusetts , to beyond the Mexican border. Most of the platform, however, is still submerged, so that a band of shallow water, the continental shelf, parallels the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, in some places reaching 250 miles (400 km) out to sea.
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The Atlantic Plain slopes so gently that even slight crustal upwarping can shift the coastline far out to sea at the expense of the continental shelf. The peninsula of Florida is just such an upwarp: nowhere in its 400-mile (640-km) length does the land rise more than 350 feet (100 metres) above sea level; much of the southern and coastal areas rise less than 10 feet (3 metres) and are poorly drained and dangerously exposed to Atlantic storms. Downwarps can result in extensive flooding. North of New York City, for example, the weight of glacial ice depressed most of the Coastal Plain beneath the sea, and the Atlantic now beats directly against New England’s rock-ribbed coasts. Cape Cod , Long Island (New York), and a few offshore islands are all that remain of New England’s drowned Coastal Plain. Another downwarp lies perpendicular to the Gulf coast and guides the course of the lower Mississippi. The river, however, has filled with alluvium what otherwise would be an arm of the Gulf, forming a great inland salient of the Coastal Plain called the Mississippi Embayment.
South of New York the Coastal Plain gradually widens, but ocean water has invaded the lower valleys of most of the coastal rivers and has turned them into estuaries. The greatest of these is Chesapeake Bay , merely the flooded lower valley of the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, but there are hundreds of others. Offshore a line of sandbars and barrier beaches stretches intermittently the length of the Coastal Plain, hampering entry of shipping into the estuaries but providing the eastern United States with a playground that is more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) long.
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Poor soils are the rule on the Coastal Plain, though rare exceptions have formed some of America’s most famous agricultural regions—for example, the citrus country of central Florida’s limestone uplands and the Cotton Belt of the Old South, once centred on the alluvial plain of the Mississippi and belts of chalky black soils of eastern Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi . The Atlantic Plain’s greatest natural wealth derives from petroleum and natural gas trapped in domal structures that dot the Gulf Coast of eastern Texas and Louisiana . Onshore and offshore drilling have revealed colossal reserves of oil and natural gas.
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Behind Russia, what is the second largest country in Europe? | 10 Largest Countries In Europe - 10 Most Today
10 Largest Countries In Europe
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There are 50 countries in Europe, and with one great exception (Russia – which resides on both Europe and Asia), Europe’s 10 largest countries are far from the sizes of the world’s largest countries . After listing Europe’s 10 smallest countries , here’s a list of Europe’s largest countries, by area
1. Russia – Russia resides on both Europe and Asia. It’s area in Europe alone is 3,836,652 km² (1,481,340 mi²) which makes it the largest country in Europe. It’s total area including Asia is 17,098,242 km² (6,601,668 mi²), which makes it by far the largest country in the world. Russia is the only European country in the list of the 10 largest countries in the world. Click here for Moscow attractions
The Moscow Kremlin, in Russia, the largest country in Europe and the world
2. Ukraine – The Second largest country in Europe is Ukraine, which has an area of 603,628 km² (233,062 mi²) including Crimea, over which it is currently in dispute with Russia
The famous Potemkin Stairs in Odessa, Ukraine
3. France – The largest country in the European Union and third largest in the entire continent is France, with an area of 551,695 km² (213,010 mi²). Like other Western European countries, France is among the world’s most visited countries , and is often first in the list. Click here for Paris attractions
Mont Saint Michel in the western coast of France
4. Spain – The largest country in the Iberian Peninsula has an area of 505,992 km² (195,364 mi²) – about 10% smaller than France. Here are my lists for best attractions in: Barcelona , Madrid and Seville
The white houses of Granada, seen from the famous Alhambra palace, the most visited site in all of Spain
5. Sweden – In the north, Sweden has an area of 449,964 km² (173,732 mi²) – the largest of the Scandinavian countries
The Royal palace in Stockholm, Sweden (source: Brorsson )
6. Germany – Located at the heart of the continent, Germany has an area of 357,168 km² (137,903 mi²). Click here for my list of best attractions in Berlin
The Spree River with the Berlin TV Tower in the background, Berlin, Germany
7. Finland – Finland is Europe’s 7th largest country, and the EU’s 5th largest, with an area of 338,145 km² (130,558 mi²)
Aleksanterinkatu street in Helsinki, Finland
8. Norway – The second largest of the Scandinavian countries, Norway has an area 323,802 km² (125,020 mi²)
Oslo, Norway (source: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra )
9. Poland – Poland has an area of 312,685 km² (125,728 mi²), not much smaller than Germany, to which it borders to the west
Market Square in the Warsaw’s old town, Poland (source: Adrian Grycuk )
10. Italy – Closing the list of 10 largest countries in the old continent, the boot shaped country has an area of 301,318 km² (116,339 mi²). Here are my lists for best attractions in: Rome , Florence , Milan and Venice
Vernazza, one of the villages in Cinque Terre, Italy. Cinque Terre is one of the world’s most colorful places
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Which of the four main Balearic Islands is closest to Spain? | List of European Countries by Area
By Amanda Briney
Updated November 30, 2016.
Europe is one of the world's continents and as such it occupies a large area of the world. It varies in latitude from places like Greece which is in the range of about 35˚N to 39˚N latitude to Iceland which ranges from around 64˚N to over 66˚N. As such Europe has varying climates, topography and city-types.
Europe is made up of 45 different countries which range in size from some of the largest in the world to some of the smallest. The following is a list of the countries of Europe arranged by area.
1) Russia: 6,592,771 square miles (17,075,200 sq km)
2) Turkey: 302,535 square miles (783,562 sq km)
3) Ukraine: 233,090 square miles (603,700 sq km)
4) France: 211,209 square miles (547,030 sq km)
5) Spain: 194,897 square miles (504,782 sq km)
6) Sweden: 173,732 square miles (449,964 sq km)
7) Germany: 137,846 square miles (357,021 sq km)
8) Finland: 130,674 square miles (338,445 sq km)
9) Norway: 125,182 square miles (324,220 sq km)
10) Poland: 120,728 square miles (312,685 sq km)
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11) Italy: 116,305 square miles (301,230 sq km)
12) United Kingdom: 94,525 square miles (244,820 sq km)
13) Romania: 92,043 square miles (238,391 sq km)
14) Belarus: 80,155 square miles (207,600 sq km)
15) Greece: 50,942 square miles (131,940 sq km)
16) Bulgaria: 42,822 square miles (110,910 sq km)
17) Iceland: 39,768 square miles (103,000 sq km)
18) Serbia and Montenegro: 39,493 square miles (102,286 sq km)
19) Hungary: 35,919 square miles (93,030 sq km)
20) Portugal: 35,672 square miles (92,391 sq km)
21) Austria: 32,378 square miles (83,858 sq km)
22) Czech Republic: 30,450 square miles (78,866 sq km)
23) Ireland: 27,135 square miles (70,280 sq km)
24) Lithuania: 25,174 square miles (65,200 sq km)
25) Latvia: 24,937 square miles (64,589 sq km)
26) Croatia: 21,831 square miles (56,542 sq km)
27) Bosnia and Herzegovina: 19,741 square miles (51,129 sq km)
28) Slovakia: 18,859 square miles (48,845 sq km)
29) Estonia: 17,462 square miles (45,226 sq km)
30) Denmark: 16,638 square miles (43,094 sq km)
31) Netherlands: 16,033 square miles (41,526 sq km)
32) Switzerland: 15,942 square miles (41,290 sq km)
33) Moldova: 13,067 square miles (33,843 sq km)
34) Belgium: 11,780 square miles (30,510 sq km)
35) Albania: 11,099 square miles (28,748 sq km)
36) Macedonia: 9,928 square miles (25,713 sq km)
37) Slovenia: 7,827 square miles (20,273 sq km)
38) Cyprus: 3,571 square miles (9,250 sq km)
39) Luxembourg: 998 square miles (2,586 sq km)
40) Andorra: 181 square miles (468 sq km)
41) Malta: 122 square miles (316 sq km)
42) Liechtenstein: 62 square miles (160 sq km)
43) San Marino: 23 square miles (61 sq km)
44) Monaco: 0.77 square miles (2 sq km)
45) Vatican City: 0.17 square miles (0.44 sq km)
Reference
Wikipedia.org. (16 November 2010). Area and Population of European Countries - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_and_population_of_European_countries
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In which American state is Cape Canaveral, a launching site for space travel? | Cape Canaveral Early Space Tour | Kennedy Space Center
Cape Canaveral Early Space Tour
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Cape Canaveral Early Space Tour
The Space Race Started Here NASA’s space program was born at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, adjacent to Kennedy Space Center. Cape Canaveral Early Space tour stops include historic launch complexes where the Mercury 7 blasted into orbit, the Air Force Space & Missile Museum, and the Apollo 1 memorial. From the comfort of an air-conditioned motor coach, visitors can view the icons of Florida’s Space Coast where the journey to space began in America.
This tour is currently unavailable. Future tour dates TBD.
Due to restricted access at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, each visitor on this tour must register with security officers by 12:00 noon on the day of the tour. Register at the Information center located at the main entrance. For American citizens, a U.S. government-issued driver’s license, passport, military ID or U.S. state ID card is required for tour participants age 18 and over. International adult and child participants must present a valid passport to participate.
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What is the largest country in Africa? | 60 Years of Rocket Launches: The Rise of America's Florida Spaceport
60 Years of Rocket Launches: The Rise of America's Florida Spaceport
By Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor |
July 23, 2010 09:13am ET
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Bumper 8 lifts off on July 24, 1950 from the Long Range Proving Grounds in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Full Story .
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Sixty years ago Saturday morning, a rocket stood ready to launch from the east coast of Florida, destined to make history ? not so much for where it was going, but for where it was departing.
Bumper 8, a two-stage vehicle built from a U.S.-modified, World War II-captured German V-2 missile and a sounding rocket upper-stage, became the first to liftoff from what is now known as Cape Canaveral.
A ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of Bumper 8's historic flight will take place today at the Florida launching pad. [Photo: Florida's first rocket launch.]
Florida's first rocket
The launch, which took place on July 24, 1950 at 9:28 a.m. EDT (1428 GMT), established the Florida spaceport long before space was the objective.
?It was only about missile research,? Michael Neufeld, chair of the National Air and Space Museum?s Space History Division, told SPACE.com. ?The Cape as a launch site emerged in the late '40s when the armed services were looking at developing missiles longer than the White Sands [New Mexico] range could accommodate.?
?There was an inter-service examination where an appropriate long-range proving ground ? that was what it was called, the first iteration [of Cape Canaveral] was called the Long Range Proving Ground ? where it could be,? Neufeld said.
Bumper 8, the seventh in a test series of launches that was named after the way the two stages separated ? or bumped apart ? at altitude, picked up at the Cape where the earlier tests in New Mexico had left off.
?What the 1950 tests were about, which is something that very few people know, is that these Bumper launches were not altitude-launches, like the Bumper that went to 250 miles after multiple failures,? described Neufeld. ?These Bumper launches were designed to go on a much flatter trajectory and gather some data about hypersonic flight more in the upper atmosphere. And that was explicitly connected to trying to develop long-range cruise missiles.?
60 years of rocket history
As rocket launches go ? or went in the six decades that followed ? Bumper 8?s two-minute flight was not a total success. [NASA's Most Memorable Missions]
?Bumper 8 did not meet all its objectives,? explained? veteran space journalist Jim Banke, who will address an invited audience of Cape Canaveral personnel at a 60th anniversary ceremony ?this morning at the launch site.
?By and large, it was a successful mission in that it launched, it staged ? which was the whole point of the flight to prove that staging could work and that the benefits of staging were real ? but then after they staged they lost almost immediate contact and track with the WAC Corporal upper stage and they think that it basically broke apart,? he added.
?Because of that ? the mission did not meet all of its objective ? so a lot of people used to call it a failure,? said Banke. ?But now it seems like we want to call it a success only it didn?t meet all of its objectives.?
Though it was impossible for the Bumper 8 team to know then, their ?successful failure? entered the history books for something other than own test objectives.
?I think that Bumper 8?s real significance is that it was simply the first launch [from Cape Canveral]. I don't think the Bumper launches were even successful at the Cape. But that launch certainly places that significant marking point when the Cape began,? Neufeld said.
?Bumper 8 was the first launch from Cape. It was the beginning of a 60-year now long tradition of excellence, of teamwork, or people doing miraculous things for the good of all. That?s why it was important and that?s why it is important here. It?s usually a local legacy, a heritage thing, something we are proud of in own our backyard,? said Banke.
Since Bumper 8, more than 3,000 rockets, missiles and manned spacecraft have followed its path skyward from the Florida launch-site. It was the latter though, that captured the public?s imagination and really put Cape Canaveral on the map.
?In the '60s of course, it became the human spaceflight center and that is what everybody thought about, knew about. The fact that military activity continued there was increasingly obscured by the overwhelming focus on the human spaceflight program ,? Neufeld said. ?I don't think most of the people are aware that most of the territory is in the Air Force side and that's where most of the launches are because [NASA?s] Kennedy Space Center has all the visibility.?
Out of space shuttles, out of sight?
?I think if you look to the non-space buff crowd, nobody knows about what is going on [at Cape Canaveral] except that the space shuttle is launched. They may have the vaguest knowledge that other rockets are launched there, but the overwhelming public image is that of the shuttle and that's where the shuttles are launched. So I wonder what people think is going to happen to the place,? said Neufeld.
?The impression that I get is that if the public thinks of it all, it is when the shuttle launches and those are technically not even at Cape Canaveral,? said Joel Powell, author of the 2006 book, ?Go For Launch: An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral.? ?The public doesn?t really take a lot of notice [of rocket launches] ? even when the Mars Exploration Rovers were launched to Mars or even the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ? they really don?t notice them anymore.?
?The shuttle is still capturing their attention but of course the shuttle is going away,? he remarked.
As for the site itself, Powell said that Cape Canaveral is also losing much of its landscape to the passage of time. ?The impression that I get when I visit recently is that it is slowly reverting back to its natural state, except for the active launch pads.?
?I am a little bit saddened that most of the older launch pads have really been demolished and obliterated so that slowly, all the historical facilities are being literally plowed into the ground,? said Powell, who added that Pad 3, where Bumper 8 lifted off, is now little more than a slab of concrete.
Launch site markers
Although Banke agreed that many of the historic sites are now shells of their former selves ? ?ruins of Canaveral,? as Powell phrased it in his book ? he feels the Cape is still adapting to fit the needs of those seeking to reach space.
?As the old stuff kind of fades away and almost disappears into the soil, new stuff is coming up, new pads, new prospects, new offices are being built to replace them as the Cape continues to meet the needs of the launch community,? said Banke.
?We continue to be a launch site, we continue to be a gateway to Earth orbit and whatever happens at Kennedy Space Center in the near future in terms of NASA?s space exploration agenda, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is going to continue to be the major site in the United States for launching large cargo and satellites into orbit.?
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If Alaska is the biggest state in America, what is second biggest? | 10 Largest States In The United States - 10 Most Today
10 Largest States In The United States
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The following list contains the 10 largest states in the USA, by area
1. Alaska – 1,723,337 km2 (665,384 mi2) – Alaska is by far the largest state in the USA. It’s also the largest state by land area and by water area
Alaska – the largest state in the USA
2. Texas – 695,662 km2 (268,596 mi2) – The Lone Star State is the second largest state, but it’s less than half the size of Alaska
Texas – second largest state in the USA
3. California – 423,967 km2 (163,694 mi2) – The Golden State is the third largest state in the United States
The Golden State is the third largest state in the United States
4. Montana – 380,831 km2 (147,039 mi2) – Montana, nicknamed The Treasure State, is the fourth largest state
Largest States In The United States: Montana is fourth largest
5. New Mexico – 314,917 km2 (121,590 mi2)
New Mexico: 5th largest state
6. Arizona – 295,234 km2 (113,990 mi2) – The Copper State, home to the Grand Canyon, is the 6th largest state
Arizona: 6th largest state
7. Nevada – 286,380 km2 (110,571 mi2) – The Silver State, home to Las Vegas, is the 7th largest state
Nevada: 7th largest state in the United States
8. Colorado – 269,601 km2 (104,093 mi2)
Largest States In The United States: 8th place: Colorado
9. Oregon – 254,799 km2 (98,378 mi2) – The Beaver State is less than 1/6 of Alaska
Largest States In The United States: 9th place: Oregon
10. Wyoming – 253,335 km2 (97,813 mi2) – The Equality State closes our list with almost the same area as Oregon
10th largest state in the United States: Wyoming
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United States is one of the largest countries in the world. Has a total population into three largest in the world. United States has some of the state in some areas. These are the top 10 largest states in United States.
1. Alaska 663,267.26
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States, the United States bought the territory from Russia on March 30, 1867, at a price of $ 7.2 million. Alaska is close to Canada.
2. Texas 268,580.82
Texas
Texas is the second largest state in the United States. Name, based on the Caddo word “Tejas” which means “friend” or “allies”, applied by Spain to the Caddo themselves and their residential areas in East Texas. Texas border with Mexico to the south, New Mexico to the west, to northern Oklahoma, Arkansas, to the northeast, and Louisiana to the east. Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles (696,200 km2) and population growth of 25.1 million inhabitants.
3. California 163,695.57
California
California is located in the West Coast of the United States. This is a U.S. state’s most populous, [6] and third largest by land area (after Alaska and Texas).
4. Montana 147,042.40
Montana
Montana is a country in the Western United States. Having a lot of mountainous terrain. Smaller, “the island ranges” are found in the three central states, with a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the name of the country, from Montana said in Spanish (the mountain).
5. New Mexico 121,589.48
New Mexico
is a country located in the southwestern and western United States. New Mexico is considered one of the Mountain states. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is one of the most sparsely populated states.
6. Arizona 113,998.30
Arizona
Arizona is a state located in the southwestern United States. It is also part of the western United States and western mountains. The capital and largest city is Phoenix.
7. Nevada 110,560.71
Nevada
Nevada is a state located in the west, mountain west, and southwest United States. With an area of 110,561 square miles (286,350 km2) and a population of around 2.7 million, Nevada is the seventh largest country.
8. Colorado 104,093.57
Colorado
Colorado is a state that includes many of the Rocky Mountains and the northeastern part of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. This is the most widely state to 8 in the United States.
9. Oregon 98,380.64
Oregon
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I can run, but I can't walk. I've got a mouth, but I can't talk. I have a head, but I never weep. I have a bed, but I never sleep. What am I? | Lyrics
LYRICS
Said, I’m pulling down the shades for the long ride
I never knew that I could feel so black and blue
I’ve been holding onto something now for sometime
All I know is it’s a feeling fit for two
Cuz when the sunlight laid its head down on this dog night
And I was talking to myself in the rear view
Yeah I’ve got questions but I know everything is alright
All I have to do is just remember you
Cuz I’m never gonna lose you
I’ve got you deep inside my chest
And I can feel you beating like the soul of a drummer boy
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Let the law take us away
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Nah nah nah nah
I’ve been fake and I’ve been free
I’ve been you and I’ve been me
But now I stand up tall for what I believe
Against all odds I walked that trail of fear
And tread on desperate leaves
But no one’s leaving just yet
We all want that make believe
Tried and true tribulations
Of who I’ve come to be
The less I know the more I learn
How much love means to me
Every day I’m walking out the front door
Leaning on your ghost
The best feeling of the day is one that I lean toward most
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Let the law take us away
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Nah nah nah nah
I’ve been fake and I’ve been free
I’ve been you and I’ve been me
But now I stand up tall for what I believe
Against all odds I walked that trail of fear
And tread on desperate leaves
But no one’s leaving just yet
We all want that make believe
Tried and true tribulations
Of who I’ve come to be
The less I know the more I learn
How much love means to me
Every day I’m walking out the front door
Leaning on your ghost
The best feeling of the day is one that I lean toward most
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Let the law take us away
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Nah nah nah nah
2. Wish I Knew You
(Shaw/Gekas)
You shine like a star
You know who you are
You’re everything beautiful
She’s hot, hot like the sun
The loneliest one
Well I’ll be god damned
You’re standing at my door
We stayed up in the city
Until the stars lost the war
So Friday night, holy ghost
Take me to your level
Show me the one I need the most
I need the most
I wish I knew you when I was young
We could’ve got so high
Now we’re here it’s been so long
Two strangers in the bright lights
Oh I hope you don’t mind
We can share my mood
Two strangers in the bright lights
I wish I knew you
I wish I knew you
Oh I wish I knew you when I was young
Truth, it’s all that you need
You bury that seed
That sound comes from the underground
It’s all inside you now
It’s everything beautiful
But what are you running from?
They got you on the run?
So Friday night, holy ghost
Take me to your level
Show me the one I need the most
I need the most
I wish I knew you when I was young
We could’ve got so high
Now we’re here it’s been so long
Two strangers in the bright lights
Oh and I hope you don’t mind
We can share my mood, yeah
Two strangers in the bright lights
I wish I knew you
I wish I knew you
Oh I wish I knew you when I was young
Maybe we can share my mood
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Maybe we can share my mood
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Maybe we can share my mood
Whoa, whoa, whoa
I wish I knew you when I was young
We could’ve got so high
Now we’re here it’s been so long
Two strangers in the bright lights
Oh and I hope you don’t mind
We can share my mood, yeah
Two strangers in the bright lights
I wish I knew you
I wish I knew you
Oh I wish I knew you when I was young
3. Gold To Glass
This is the final come and go
I keep fighting faith cuz I don’t wanna know
On this eve in fall, lights shining over
She’s colder than she would show
I guess I’ll just take the pill
And fall into the meadow
This isn’t who I am I’m a soldier with a medal
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
Find someone to help these hard times pass
So let me put my costume on
I’ve gone a million miles
With the same crooked smile
And I always give you all you need
But I can see that you’re dancing with the devil
So I hope you brought your shovel
You won’t get what you need
If you’re not down on his level
And it’s okay just a little mischief
Hotel rooms were made for this
I’ve got you open like a butterfly
Inside you made my soul cry
All day all night for my lifetime
Just a little mischief, mischief
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
Find someone
Find someone to help your hard times pass
Find someone
Find someone to help your hard times pass
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
Below my feet were steaming coals
And now I’m filled with holes
I need someone to help these hard times pass
If all your gold turns to glass
They find you breathing fast
I am someone to help your hard times pass
Find someone
Find someone to help your hard times pass
Find someone
Find someone to help your hard times pass
4. It Was A Sin
(Feinberg/Shaw)
I believe it was a sin
Oh to do you in the way I did
I stole the gold and drank the gin
Then I ran off with your kin
If I can you know I will and if the stars align
I still get loaded on the things that I can't change
And I'm out here tonight so if you want to start a fight
We'll get loaded on the things that I can't change
I believe it was a sin do you in the way I did you in
I couldn't stop it coming from afar
I lost the keys to the getaway car
And every now and then I'm in this place
It's hell living when I need your face
Don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
I believe it was a sin
Oh to do you in the way I did
I took out more than I put in
I got fat while you stayed thin
But I came here tonight if you want to start a fight
We can get loaded on the things that I can't change
Yeah I'm out here all night so if you want to start a fight
We can get loaded on the things that I can't change
I believe it was a sin
To do you in the way I did you in
I couldn't stop it coming from afar
And lost the keys to the getaway car
Every now and then I'm in this place
It's hell living when I need your face
Don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
I believe it was a sin
To do you in the way I did you in
I couldn't stop it coming from afar
And lost the keys to the getaway car
Every now and then I'm in this place
It's hell living when I need your face
Don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide your face
Don't hide
She said she wanna tell me everything all night long
She said she wanna get her name into a song
So we go dancing in the daylight and everything is good right now
I can hold my pain in and we can have our love for a while
But you better stop and save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You better save yourself
She said she wanna get up into my biz for a day
And I could have her I could keep her but I can’t make it rain
So I’m listening to the rain drum listening to the silent sound, yeah
While I’m hearing everybody else screaming out loud
Boy you better stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
Yeah I’m sleeping with a snake tonight
And nowadays what’s wrong feels right
I was a bastard of the worse kind
I looked you in the eyes still told you a lie
Drinking cheap champagne, no I can’t complain
Pushed into the lights these are the pressures of fame
And it’s still all good there’s only one thing wrong
You know what it is and I told you
Well I’m a monster
I’m turning into a monster
And I don’t want to be a monster anymore, no
I’ve got to leave you alone
But I can’t leave you alone
6. King of What
You say every man's a king
King of what?
They say every man's a king
A king of what?
I got my bullets, bag and stone don't wake me up I'm in the zone
And I believe the trees not those innuendo seeds
Everything is light see no voodoo in the night
Hear no evil, fear no evil what's the reason for the fight?
If every man's a king
A King of what?
They say every man's a king
A king of what?
I can hear you on the other line tell stories from another time
Lawsuit love is all we know like fleeing dogs in heavy snow
Wait in wonder, watch in awe
Who we were is all we are
It's getting dangerous, dangerous
You say every man's a king
King of what?
You say every man's a king
A king of what?
Of every step that he will take
Every move that he must make
Every waking moment he's alive
Every thought and spoken word
Laughter, sob or sigh he heard
Every ounce of love that's in his heart
He's a king
And I should’ve been murdered by now
And I’ve got fifteen people wondering
How the hell’d he make it out
I carry this bucket of pain
And I’ve got 18 dollars to my mother-fucking name
And it’s not a life it’s a game
And I’m a two-ton wrecking ball filled with pain
And I’ve got a lot to say
And I’m still feeling good from yesterday
So stand up if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up, if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Well I don’t know everything
But I sure wish I did
Then every time I’d catch a case
I wouldn’t pop off so much at the lid
I’d have my get out of jail card
Popped cool and ready to go
And then I’d pay my tax and bail money
Cuz I’m a tax paying fool
So we gotta
Stand up if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up, if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up
He’s a little boy with a son and a daughter
He’s got no wife no he’s got no father
He’s just trying to make it through
This hard hard winter
Toes freezing no reason he’s got no dinner
He’s a product of the music
A product of his time
A product of addiction in a very long line
Of users and abusers who just couldn’t
Keep it straight oh man I wish I didn’t know one
I hope it ain’t too late
So won’t you call your mama
Call your daddy you can call your sister too
Cuz we’ve been out here walking that hard line
You never ever could’ve made it through
And now we’re seven hundred billion strong
We still can’t tell right from wrong
So I’m gonna keep on dreaming until the cows come home
When drug store America starts taking care of their own
Start taking care of their own
Yeah yeah
Stand up if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up, if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up
We’ve got nowhere to go
Stand up
8. All In The Family
(Shaw/Feinberg/Girardot)
You know the fight in me
It will never be gone
My good side and bad don’t need no chaperone
I’m living city pretty New Orleans
With my hood good girl
She’s my honeybee
And she never ever lies to me
But she sure knows how to lie with me
I caught a cold case of love from the past
Now I’m here to shake the funk out your ass
Are you happy with the plans you’re making?
Are you satisfied with who you are?
Now its on cuz the Karma’s free
If you want to role the dice and play the cards with me
You better jump in line baby while the bets are free
Cuz ain’t no pretty girl ever changing me
I’ve got a coked out neighbor
I’m losing my gas
And all I ever have to do is pass the test
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
All in the family now
We’re keeping it moving baby
We’re keeping it moving baby
We’re keeping it moving baby
We’re keeping it moving baby
We’re keeping it moving
Keeping it moving
Are you happy with the plans you’re making?
Are you satisfied with who you are?
Did you create your world around you?
Or did you let them drive your feelings far?
Are you happy with the plans you’re making?
Are you satisfied with who you are?
Did you create your world around you?
Or did you let them drive your feelings far?
Are you happy with the plans you’re making?
Are you satisfied with who you are?
Did you create your world around you?
Or did you let them drive your feelings far?
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
All in the family now
9. Move On
This is a stick up, I’m here for your love
It’s coming with me where I’m going
Just keep your distance so we can end this,
Without making it a headline story
You’ve had your shot but now we’ll do things my way
Her pistols cocked and the flash was blinding
Do you really wanna live your life inside a wishing well
You’ll be spending more than your last dime buying shit that ain’t for sale
Do you really have to scream I love you to a dial tone at 5 am
Thinking things could never be this good again
Move on alone
So rub your eyelids, enjoy the silence
Cuz freedom doesn’t count for nothing
Give in to hunger cuz in the jungle
Everybody’s stealing something
I'm looking back and seeing mass destruction
Covered in ash from your last eruption
Do you really wanna live your life inside a wishing well
You’ll be spending more than your last dime buying shit that ain’t for sale
Do you really have to scream I love you to a dial tone at 5 am
Thinking things could never be this good again
Move on alone
Do you really wanna live your life inside a wishing well
You’ll be spending more than your last dime buying shit that ain’t for sale
Do you really have to scream I love you to a dial tone at 5 am
Thinking things could never be this good again
Move on alone
Amber I can hear the sound
Watching over you
I know you can break the spell
Possibly true
Amber I can hear the sound
It’s watching over you
It’s watching over you
And I know you can break the spell
It’s possibly true
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
I can’t take it right now
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
But I can’t take it right now
Yeah I’m hopping on a plane tonight
I don’t know where I’m going to/gonna go, no
Somewhere to get my feelings right
There’s so much she doesn’t/don’t know
I never took that easy way
And I don’t care about that open road
My heart’s well worn bad
And it’s chilling in a rusty pool
Amber I can hear the sound
It’s watching over you
It’s watching over you
I know you can break the spell
It’s possibly true
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
I can’t take it right now
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
But I can’t take it right now
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
I can’t take it right now
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
I can’t take it
I can’t take it
I can’t take it
I’ll see you through the night
I’ll see you through the fight
I’ll see you through the night
I’ll see you through the fight
I’ll see you through the fight
I’ll see you
I’ll see you through the fight
I’ll see you through the fight
12. Bulletproof
Patience is still bitter in your mouth
The sweet taste was stolen
That’s the story of the south
Part of me was home and the other half was gone
And I can’t feel the pain when I’m lying all along
Cuz I was breaking down and she was snorting cocaine in my bed
I was making money
Somehow I know it’s gonna be all alright
Something came to me in the wind last night
And now it’s coming down
Oh it’s all coming out
And I can’t stop it now no
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it out
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it
So take it in tonight
Girl your head ain’t right
We could have a date
So we could share this life
There’s something that I know
In the wind as it blows
It’s better to believe
Than to lie to everyone you know
I’m breaking down and she was snorting cocaine in my bed
I was making money
Somehow I know its gonna be all alright
Something came to me in the wind last night
I got a heart,
Well that don't tell me just who you are
I got to know
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it out
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it out
Ooooooh's
Patience is still bitter in your mouth
The sweet taste was stolen
That’s the story of the south
Part of me was home
The other half was gone
And I can’t feel the pain when I’m lying all alone
Cuz I was breaking down and she was snorting cocaine in my bed
I was making money
Somehow I know its gonna be all alright
Something came to me in the wind last night
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it out
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it
13. Fade Away
You got the potion yeah you really do
Make everybody fall in love with you
Call me your lover call me another
All I hear are lies from you
They're throwing stones and you’re feeling bad
Blue baby friends are all you ever had
Lie to you I won’t
Lie to me you may
But now is not the time and death is not the place but
Would you come with me
I want you to come with me
Cuz I can’t do this alone
Oh and society is putting scars on my body
It’s got me acting so naughty
Setting fire to my home
I’m just another skeleton in her closet
A freak like no one knows
Buried bones up in her backyard with dirt between my toes
Yeah I used to really love her
But now I just don't know
The time between us faded all the love I felt below
And I wish I may I wish I might have some love today
You know I could
You know I would find a way to stay
But now is not the time and here is not the place
I’m on my way to somewhere these scars I can't erase
So would you come with me
Oh I want you to come with me
Cuz I can’t do this alone, no
Ohh and society is putting scars on my body
It’s got me acting so naughty
Setting fire to my home
Yeah yeah yeah
We are men amongst mountains
Pressing into the night
But we know not what we do
We know not what we do
We are the ones
That turned the fire into light
But we know not what we do
With the changes we go through
Love makes it easy
It makes it all right
In the mouth of the wolf we lay
And chase the sun to sleep
If we never come down
We won’t ever come down
It don’t make no difference to me
We are the ones
That turned the fire into light
But we know not what we do
With the changes we go through
Love makes it easy
It makes it all right
Love makes it easy
It makes it all right
To do what we do
Do what we do
Oh I say my prayers in the morning
I get up in the afternoon
And I’m sailing out to no one but you
I scream to the gods above me
Here we go, let me know
Father of mine let me sing you a song
You’ve been singing in the rain
You’ve been singing so long
And I wanna know could I ever be saved?
If I lived a life of lies and a life of love today
Love makes it easy
It makes it all right
Love makes it easy
1. When I’m Able
(Shaw/Gekas/Feinberg/Campanelli/Ingraham/Williams)
When the night comes and I’m able
I could see you across the table
You’re a shooting star staring at me
I’m paranoid now why are you laughing?
So I called you just to call you
I’m on a roll now still looking for you
Looking out that window pane
I feel the soft rain I’m going down the drain
It’s washing me away
That’s why I called you just to call you
It’s not like I left you at the altar
Got to get this boulder off our shoulder
And make this load here a little bit lighter
If you got something left to say
Would you could you see me
In the daylight you’re a mystery
I catch a cool glimpse and let it stone me
When are we coming closer to what this could be
Somehow I feel a little bit further
Further from the truth it’s not typical
I feel invisible some days I’m miserable
So if you ever want to see me
Just take a load off wild and free
If you got something left to say
Would you could you see me
Because I see you when I am able
Yes I see you
When the truth came out it was you
David Shaw: Vocals Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
When it’s late at night and dark as hell
Where I’m going to well you know damn well
I ain’t got nobody else to blame
Cause you know it’s my fault and ain’t it a shame
The pearly locks on the pearly gates
ain’t just for show make no mistake
Can nothing I do in this life of sin
make it up enough to ever get me in
So when I die I know in my life
I ain’t done things well, tried to do things right
It’s been a long dark road and try as I might
I can’t make it any closer to the golden light
I’m a long lost soul meant to toil all day
Inmate of my mind, with nothing to say
You can’t break those chains so let them be
I’m not the one who ever held this key
There’s one thing that I know for sure
No matter what I do, there is no cure
For the things I’ve said, the things I’ve done
There’s only one chance it’s his only son
So when I die I know in my life
I ain’t done things well tried to do things right
It’s been a long dark road and try as I might
I can’t make it any closer to the golden light
I’m close to the edge I lit my soul on fire
So when I die I know in my life
I ain’t done things well tried to do things right
It’s been a long dark road and try as I might
I can’t make it any closer to the golden light
I’m close to the edge and holding on
All I can do is set my soul on fire with the golden light
David Shaw: Vocals Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
You broke my heart to save our one true chance to grow old year-by-year
Forever we’re dancing away a summer’s night without all the rain
You can rely on me honey I’ll always remain
You’re confident you know you’re my best friend
You’re the thoughts in my mind that I can’t comprehend
Like you and me living two worlds so departed
Forever you’re the only one who’ll mend my heart
Lie on the ceiling stare up at the floor
Fall upstairs to answer quiet knocks on my back door
There’s water in the streets and roots in the sky
Wind blows away my mind I’m up all night
The earth don’t spin unless I’m by your side
One day together babe we’ll flip the world upright
We’re gonna flip the world upright
Don’t speed to find me babe but don’t you drive slow
I’ll be here waiting in the place that you know
Shoes hang in windows and no one knows my name
Now that you’re gone I’m the only one to blame
For a heart that hardened with each shortening breath
The undeserved tears that your blue eyes wept
That seeped into the cracks I carved in the ground and
Slowly but surely tipped our world up side down
Lie on the ceiling stare up at the floor
Fall upstairs to answer quiet knocks on my back door
There’s water in the streets and roots in the sky
Wind blows away my mind I’m up all night
The earth don’t spin unless I’m by your side
One day together babe we’ll flip the world upright
We’re gonna flip the world upright
Don’t deny it, in your diary I saw you wrote how you still love me
The imprint of the words that have all been erased Fifth line, third page
You want to see me as I do you
You wish it felt the way it used to
And I can tell you it’s coming soon
David Shaw: Vocals Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar, Acoustic Guitar Percussion Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar
George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys
We broke out the hounds
Track them down, track them down, track them down
And lock them up pound for pound
Eye for an eye I’ve come to know
In the city the city of sound
Timeless is how long you’ll sing
When you’re not with the one in your dreams
She sends her love for me to see
A pretty photograph to my telephone screen
Well I really don’t know what time will tell
I never grew up I’ve never been in jail
I’ve seen the inside of a cinder block cell
With eyes rolled back in head oh well
It’s been a long time coming I’m proud to say
I know what it takes to greet a sunny day
You keep on pushing those clouds away
While your knocking on wood every goddamn day
Timeless is how long you’ll sing
When you’re not with the one in your dreams
She sends her love for me to see
A pretty photograph to my telephone screen
I really don’t know what time will tell
I never grew up I’ve never been in jail
I’ve seen the inside of a cinder block cell
With eyes rolled back in head oh well
It’s been a long time coming, I’m proud to say
I know what it takes to greet a sunny day
You keep on pushing those clouds away
While your knocking on wood every god damn day
Timeless is
David Shaw: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar Rich Vogel: Keys
John Michael Rouchell: Acoustic.Guitar Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Electric Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar
George Gekas: Bass Rob Ingraham: Saxophone, Vocals
The sun itself is colorblind
To the light it’s putting out somehow
I watched it pass as a rider
Gaze away from the seat
Digital map live driver
Stomach’s full head is hungry
The women of the highway do their best to get by
My best is unrealized
The worst is when the best goes untried
You can call it fear of failure, dying to succeed
The wind blows at closed windows
The billboards advertise their greed
Take a look at my outlet
Lend your ear to the beat
You think you heard something
It’s just the jingling of my spare key
We can work it out
We’re not heroes no
Look up to the sky
Navigate Below
You can find them in the ether in any part of any town
In any heart that’s crooked or straight
In the sunlit hours or when it’s late
Wander the prism
See the Yin-Yang cousins dancing Buddha rhythm
Feel the sheet rock rattle below
See the confidence surely grow
With an army of days reflected through the haze
Wisdom will accumulate.
We can work it out
We’re not heroes no
Look up to the sky
Navigate Below
David Shaw: Vocals, Tambourine Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitars Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Trumpet
you were living a lie friend
and I’ll be with you till the end
Is this all a con and lie?
I’m a criminal I do this everyday
I take the low road
I roam the highways
Maybe we’ll meet again
Maybe we’ll die today
Maybe we’ll live forever never throw this love away
Hello… am I coming in clear girl?
Take a look in the mirror
I know you don’t like what you see
Slip away slip away
for a moment, not a day
It’s all right child
I’ll hide you in the safe and sound
But I never like that side
you know because
You pick me up, you put me down
Although you never made a sound
I’m living natural feeling free
So I drift away, thinking in blurred photographs
All the way to the mansion of my mind
You push buttons I pull weight
Every single day
You’re a fool to think I’d waste, and throw this all away
Spending all this time
Weighs heavy on my dime
Everyday, I ain’t got a second to waste
Well I know I’m no fun
When I’m moping like the pope
Humming Otis in the rain
These arms of mine will hold up hope
And I can’t tell if I’m owed, or do I owe
So I’ll put that on the list of all the things I’ll never know
You pick me up, you put me down
And still we’re wrapped up in the love
That’s always hung around
Tell me is this all a dream
Swimming the unconscious stream
That flows into the mansion of my mind
Let there be light
Let there be longing for a better way of life
It’s not neurotic it’s melodic when we’re struggling
Hanging from the fallen string
Unraveling the fabric of my time
Well I know I’m no fun
When I’m moping like the pope
Humming Otis in the rain
These arms of mine will hold up hope
And I can’t tell if I’m owed, or do I owe
So I’ll put that on the list of all the things I’ll never know
Ben Ellman: iPad Funkbox Beat David Shaw: Vocals
Andrew Campanelli: Drums Zack Feinberg: Guitar Cara Burns: additional hand claps
Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
with all the troops out on parade
Up till now we’ve saved
Every woulda, coulda, shoulda
that could’ve ever been made
Riding tall on a ten foot bicycle
Feeling small when I passed by city hall
I caught a glimpse of the night mayor dressed in black
taking nips from a flask filed with cognac
With the memory of R.C.N speckled in trash
I made a mad-hatter dash for the Frenchman stash
I hope a couple grams will last
Because there’s four lungs puffin’ mama you can do the math
It’s a masquerade
with all the troops out on parade
Up till now we’ve saved
Every woulda, coulda, shoulda
That could’ve ever been made
Look at us now
Riding on the rooftops letting it out
You could have the same
We could be as one
We could find a solution in the sun
Now I’m breathing into you
And I don’t even know your name
If my breath’s enough to save your life
Why won’t it stop all these games?
Politicians playing with all of our minds
Wrecking all of our lives
They’re like blind surgeons in the dark
Their blue pens are scalpels in disguise
It’s a masquerade
Insecurity guard, there’s a force at the border
That won’t be let on
It’s a masquerade
with all the troops out on parade
Up till now we’ve saved
Every woulda, coulda, shoulda
That could’ve ever been made
Look at us now
Riding on the rooftops letting it out
You could have the same
We could be as one
We could find a solution in the sun
I don’t need to fall into all your lies
It’s all I see for you and I
I’m in a dream I’m holding on
I’ll be here you’ll be gone
Hurry, hurry, hurry I need you now
In the dark we find the sound
David Shaw: Vocals, Guitar Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
9. Up In The Air
(Shaw)
Made sure to bring her mate’
Told her mom and dad that
She never met nobody else
Quite like lee
He moved down from Oregon in the rain
Established a connection with an underground king
They’ll have it all, in the blink of an eye
I’m the only one who knows how this happened all so fast
We both grew up together
I thought I knew this love would last
Guess I was wrong, Heaven song, goodness gone
In the blink of an eye
She’s a very pretty girl
With a magnolia smile
In this white wedding world
It only takes a little while
To get what you want
When no one’s looking in
There’s a river running through
The backwoods of her brain
It brought a rapid fast delivery
Of aqua colored pain, that no one could see
Pity please, pretty please goes on in the night
They’re trading places, they’re missing faces
Their wanted poster’s on the wall
They’re keeping pace with
Two hopped up hippies in the Superdome
Mama calling on the phone, when you coming home?
She’s a very pretty girl
With a magnolia smile
In this white wedding world
It only takes a little while
To get what you want
When no one’s looking in
Go get what you want
When no one’s looking in
So I keep an eye out for the bright searchlight
I swear I’ll never let you down again
And if we try with all our mite
Maybe we can reach the shore again
But there’s something in the air
That’s keeping me up, and I know why…
So I keep an eye out for the bright searchlight
I swear I’ll never let you down again
And if we try with all our might
Maybe we can reach the shore again
I’ve searched for you all my life
Stealing in those backwood halls again
It’s up in the air the feelings we shared
I never know just where to begin
David Shaw: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone, Vocals
Are you happy with what you see?
I know that things aren’t right between you and me
Under the scope, I’ve done all that I can
And I have been watched by many of jealous men
Who are you?
This one goes out to all my fallen friends
I know that we’ll all be together in the end
So hold your loved ones close
For forever and a day
I know only god can tell when we’ll be washed away
Who are you?
Who are you still inside of me?
Who are you still in love with me?
I told you so…
All that she needs is a banker, a toy, a boy and a dress
All that he needs is a lock on the door
Some love in his heart to fill this hole in his chest
You could be the love, I could be the fight
We could say forever, staying up all night
This is about as low as I could be tonight
You could be the love, I could be the fight
Who are you?
Who are you still inside of me?
Who are you still in love with me?
My place is cold, I’ve been up all night
I’m alone, but it’s alright
Is it in the air?
I feel it in the air
I’ve said it too many times
The places I go could white out your eyes like the color of snow
The rain or the sun could never prepare you
For the seduction that comes with a fare
Hot fire sex in the third degree
Burning blunts, blowing lines, popping ecstasy
I’m free from their world
It had its hooks in me
Still a fish out of water, but now I can breath
All that she needs
A banker, a toy, a boy and a dress
It’s all that she needs
David Shaw: Vocals, Guitar Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar, Banjo Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
All I can see are blurs of red and yellow
through the raindrops on my windshield
nothing is clear to me but it seems nobody’s moving
is it an accident or just me nowhere to go
I hope that you will follow me ‘cause
it’s you that I’ve been missing
I hope that you were listening
when I said that you could be the only one
and what did I say to make you doubt me
and after that night
when you began to come around
what could I have done to make you stay
not turn away
the windshield wipers screech me back to consciousness
it seems that it’s stopped raining
the sky has cleared up the southern stars are shining
the thought of you has got me blinded
the radio plays a story of redemption
drowns out the leaking tire’s hissing
I hope that you were listening when I said
that you could be the only one
what did I say to make you doubt me
and after that night
when you began to come around
what could I have done to make you stay
not turn away
I want to be the light the light in your eyes every smile and
I want to be the one who loves you
I got a feeling inside you know it makes me feel like dying
‘cause you know I’m always thinking of you
I remember a time looking down that long road
it was you and me and mystery
we’d go for a ride drink a toast to happy endings
but now the bottle’s dry and empty
now that you’re gone never to return again
everything we had was history
hope that you are listening when I say
I have found my only one and
nothing I could say would make her doubt me
and every night the sun descends into the ground and
she’s the only one I want to stay
and not turn away.
I saw my baby-o late last night
camp said he took a shot of my tears
oh no I couldn’t believe I had a shipwrecked life
‘cause I never left that pier
and so now I’m getting high just like I’m dolomite
maybe even Sally DeBeers
we’re taking shots to the brain
we fill ourselves with that love man it’s all enough for the fame
but it’s never enough
no it’s never enough
she’s a cabbage patch baby born under the sun
she came into this world at one hell of a time
the middle east was under fire from the B.Y.O.B’s
that’s the bullshit years of Bush for all you righty tighties
she broke all the rules and never paid for one
‘til that fateful day when she brandished a gun
stole herself a guitar and then a whole damn band
pilfered a bottle of Jack cooked up in a frying pan
but it’s never enough
no it’s never enough
‘cause she’s the queen of my world
and I swear
so check your Vital Signs when your heart fails
you well the band woke up in the morning realized what had been done
they’d all been kidnapped now with nowhere to run
Benny was a drummer she knew from way back when
he played drums for her once and then he dove right in
them pink silky panties with a couple of runs
he left early in the morning swore he’d be back for more fun
but the clock it never lie even to this voodoo child
and the next time that she saw him she put that gun to his eye
never enough
no it’s never enough
cause she’s the queen of my world
and I swear
so check your vital signs when your heart fails
you we’re out of control
I saw my baby out late last night
Camp said he took a shot of my tears
but it’s never enough
no it’s never enough
‘cause she’s the queen of my world
and I swear she’s bound to fall.
3. Catching Fireflies
you gotta get better if you ever wanna win
and I know that
she’s not getting any better man she just sin
I still love her
but I know I was once there wearing them shoes
I’m still hurting
‘cause the woman I love’s giving me the blues
sitting here sober
but I wonder what shape she’ll find me in
I need her under my skin
like a junkie needs heroin
and I’m never going back to Snake n’ Jakes
the amount of money I spent I could’ve bought the place
not to mention that they know my face
now it’s hell getting out the place
so I’m walking the streets tonight
I’m catching some fireflies
some would say that I’m living a lie
but no more today no more tonight
you could say that I’m under the gun
nine million miles away from the sun
I’ve hesitated much too long
but I’m still having fun hope you’re having fun
belly up in an ambulance
I spent Sunday making doctor friends
I could’ve used a pair of depends
I hope that made you laugh ‘cause you know I’m a gentlemen
heaven found me living didn’t find me dead
got a permanent ash mark on my forehead
but it still couldn’t save me from lying in bed
staring at your clothes in the closet while I was out of my head
so I’m walking the streets tonight
I’m catching some fireflies
some would say that I’m living a lie
but no more today no more tonight
you could say that I’m under the gun
nine million miles away from the sun
I’ve hesitated much too long
but I’m still having fun hope you’re having fun
I’m a peaceful man today
ain’t got no more weekend wars to wage
so give me one more shot babe
4. Soul’s Too Loud
(Feinberg/Shaw)
It was a story told long ago
about a sweet love that lay below
so people come gather round
and listen to this broken sound from the underground
it’s creeping up from your underground
deep into the living rooms where it can be found
cells work together so vast and small
we are the keepers the kingdom the answer and call
it’s all you need
she walks alone sometimes at night
moving to the rhythm of a losing fight
she takes a drag thinks he’s the same
can’t believe she’s caught up in his greedy game
you can’t just act like she don’t exist
world won’t revolve around the solipsist
the pieces all sum up to a whole
in a crowded fishbowl with sex drugs love and lies there is no easy road
her soul’s too loud
our soul’s too loud
forever is right now
mother nature is all our sound
we’re watching this go down
it was a story told long ago
about a sweet love that lay below
so people come and gather around
listen to this broken sound from the underground
it’s creeping up from the underground
deep into your living rooms where it can be found
we’ll stop on by anytime that you like
just put us in your stereo turn it up to nine
she got that tremolo soul
on and on she goes
she’ll travel round the world
so nobody have to know
it’s all inside her glow
on and on she goes
you can feel her in the night
she’s someone everybody knows
her soul’s to loud
our soul’s too loud
forever is right now
mother nature is all our sound
we’re watching this go down
5. Purple Heart
(Shaw)
Well the soul don’t want to shine on me no more
went from a shot of patron to a broken home now I’m labeled as a whore
I pay my debts in full while I’m shied away from the sun
cause I never wanted anybody else so I lay in what I’ve done
now I feel
that I’ve been doing you wrong you’ve been doing me right
and I think it’s about time
I’ve been a fool for way to long
so now I wear these battle scars each and every night
and I hope they’ll mend up right
my purple heart can’t seem to mend
these broken promises
I’ve sure never been no angel I ain’t no preachers son
so I make my bed by the river side and I lay in what I’ve done
she sure never saw it coming yeah I know I could’ve lied
but I’d rather lay in this river bed than to see her cry at night
now I feel
that I’ve been doing you wrong you’ve been doing me right
and I think it’s about time
I’ve been a fool for way to long
now I wear these battle scars each and every night
and I hope they’ll mend up right
my purple heart can’t seem to mend
these broken promises
so pretty mama tell me how you feel
when you’re stuck in the back of that Coupe de Ville
you’re such a bomb senorita with a body to kill
you’ve taken all my money now give me the thrill
6. Straw Man
(Feinberg/Shaw)
You think you’re pretty bright ‘cause mama called you son that don’t mean nothing
you got your bloody knuckles from breaking bricks with all your muscle it don’t mean nothing
wasting so much energy
to ease the doubt and keep your hand
ou can’t knock it down like a strawman
change my gear shift into drive
stay awake while I’m alive
with good humor and a shoddy plan
I can set afire to my strawman
hey you know things could always be easier
hey but though we all complain
even so watch out for meteors, meat-eaters, and other forms of wild game
sold a millions diamonds but never gave up one that don’t mean nothing
you got your bloody nose from breaking bricks with all the girls it don’t mean nothing
hey little Scotty why you on the loose you got your head and your shoulders and a good excuse
excuse the dues freezing your plan you can knock it down like a strawman
hey you know things could always be easier
hey but though we all complain
even so watch out for meteors, meat-eaters, and other forms of wild game
if only this if only that
change the one thing holding me back
and I can make it like it’s not
I’ll be so free sitting on top
the world it flies it does not wait
for you to accept your own fate
come to in all your foolish pride
hear in lies truth you may despise
the skies don’t care much who you are
they’ll strike you down with a meteor
wasting so much energy
to ease the doubt and keep my hand
I can’t knock it down like a strawman
7. Ride The Earth
Melting in my living room I can’t beat the heat
these women in my neighborhood are burning up the street
tank tops shorts and flip flops so much love to spare
imagine her in waist high grass with a flower in her hair
come away
you won’t find a better day
the city’s burning up my brain
you’ve been dying since your birth come on ride the earth
time passes days grow shorter the kids are back in school
I’ll keep you safe and warm as summer winds turn cool
long sleeves trees with red leaves look like they’re on fire
I’ll lay you down in a mountain bed so I can take you higher
come away
you won’t find a better day
the city’s burning up my brain
you’ve been dying since your birth so come on ride the earth
we believe there’s time to spare
we’ll be fine come what may
European woman with the storm cloud eyes
is your beauty a reality or a natural disguise
we’re sleeping here at the summit ‘cause we got no place to go
so lay your love upon me under eight inches of snow
come away
we won’t find a better day
the city’s burning up my brain
ou’ve been dying since your birth so come on ride the earth
8. Appreciate Me I
Caught up in a whirlwind now
and I could leave her but I wouldn’t know how
so I’ll just settle for a peaceful smile
and I’ll never move on
been through so much today
and you’ll never stop this electricity
from flowing out your model body directly into mine
you just don’t appreciate me
9. Appreciate Me II
you know I came in late
because you just don’t appreciate me
I came in around four
blew out the whole back door
because you just don’t appreciate me and now you’ll see
that I’ll be holding on
to you baby all of my days have been blown rolling around in this haze
and you could fly a starship ahead and be a soul captain mama ‘cause I know you love me
these lessons are true they do exactly what they’re supposed to do
so now say what you want mama say what you will my love is on the table now
it’s been cooking up right for years now it’s gone after all them tears
and you could fly a starship ahead and be a soul captain mama ‘cause I know you love me
these lessons are true they do exactly what they’re supposed to do
you just don’t appreciate me
now I’m gone
I’m gone we’re up in this fire light
chasing that starry night
wishing this love went right
it went wrong it went wrong
now the jukebox plays
those songs from the days
when life was just to easy getting by was just a phase you
heard that sweet song
but they mixed it all wrong
and when you came by booboo I know you’re in the wrong
so when you come by next Sunday afternoon
I’ll be up in the living room smoking on some boom boom
playing this guitar for a half an hour more
if you come on over I’m gonna give you something more tonight
to keep holding on to
my love baby all of my days have been blown rolling around in this haze
and you could fly a starship ahead and be a soul captain mama ‘cause I know you love me
these lessons are true they do exactly what they’re supposed to do
‘cause you just don’t appreciate me
10. Don’t Get Caught Up
(Feinberg/Shaw)
Welcome to the party grab everything you can
stock up so high that none can try to burglarize your clan
see the road ahead unfurl just like an infinite gray snake
diluting and polluting the only road we’re bound to take
and I feel like I’m gone
I wanna sleep with the devil wake up next to god
indulge in moderation but travel safely through that fog
I’m getting back in touch with the physical world it’s a finely rough place to be
gonna engage myself into the spiritual world I’m gonna do that chemically
and I feel like I’m gone
so feel it tonight I hope you don’t get caught up in it
let go
I got a newfound love for this rebel road
a little grit a little gravel pack a heavy load
do your rebel dance to the loony moon
break your back to the rhythm in the midnight gloom
coincidence I think so
‘cause you’ll reap what you sow when your tall can gets low
you’ve had too much to think now you’re drowning in the drink
at the bottom of the barrel in the bathroom sink
come one come all
ride the merry go round
cash in your tickets
get lost in the sound
your best friends the cotton bros.
are now on the scene
sleeping with the golden girls
and their blue velvet sheen
you can be the hero
of the underworld so gone
with white ponies and elephants
to garnish your lawn
let the vibe take you away
believe there’s another world
on the other side that waits
feel it tonight
I hope you don’t get caught up in it
let go let go
11. Two Ton Wrecking Ball
(Shaw)
Your bloodshot eyes are so beautiful
they warm my heart just like the night before
now I can’t hide these weathered tears
they’ve stained my skin after all these years
we’ve changed out sides so many times
that I can’t tell just where to draw the line
yeah I know I’ve been acting funny
lately Chelsea
and if this is criminal
then I’m a prisoner
I’m not a bank inside
you can’t just rob my heart
when there’s love involved
you’re like a two ton wrecking ball
you smash my atmosphere
mud up any thought once clear
it’s not a wasted
cause you can check my faith
I loved you once
isn’t that the very same thing
we’ve tried for years
we’ve shown our tears
we’ve grown up quite well
with this life time shattered
yeah I know I’ve been acting funny
lately Chelsea
then I’m a prisoner
I’m not a bank inside
you can’t just rob my heart
when there’s love involved
you’re like a two ton wrecking ball
you smash my atmosphere
mud up any thought once clear
now la la la
I’m rescued by the flame in your eyes
and it’s been a long time since we’ve cast our shadows on the moon and I realize
that I was always there for you and you were there for me too
but I know it’s time for me to go here’s a shot for you and I’m gone
12. Hurricane Winslow
You gave up to your limit
and then you broke and I don’t blame you
now I rely on a much simpler living
I’m much more plain these days it’s true
I had to let my feelings go just for the moment
I always had plans to come back home to you
but if my key don’t fit the keyhole and I’m left in this world to make it my home alone
I really really want you to know
I love you more than hurricane winds blow
no I’ll never forget you
and the craziest thing that you’ll never know
is just how much I miss you
seven years ago two souls
collided and they began to grow
and it feels like yesterday
when I dropped you off in front of your home
had to ask you for a kiss
‘cause I knew you were a lady
you had your hand up on my knee
I had your lips on my mind
and I think I kissed your cheek and darling that’s just fine
‘cause we had time
and we still got time
to celebrate
this was never our fate
‘cause I love you more than hurricane winds blow
no I’ll never forget you
and the craziest thing that you’ll never know
is just how much I miss you
1. Concrete (Fish Out Of Water)
(Feinberg)
As if it's some powering fate that holds us and binds us
Lo and behold we pray that it finds us
Answer my prayers
To me my mind cares but like a fish out of water
I just can't breathe
You would walk all over me if I was mixed in this old concrete
Sitting here mixing my favorite poisons
Coming out my stereo the finest of noises
I'll know the darkness before I see the light
Sometimes you've got to fall down to stand on your feet all right
like a fish out of water
I just can't breathe
You would walk all over me if I was mixed in this old concrete
Inside this earth are infinite places
6 billion people inside their own spaces
There's hard time weather
we're all in this together so unbury your own treasure
Because it's all right now
it's all right now
Like a fish out of water you know I just can't breathe
You can't walk all over me
I'm not mixed in this old concrete
2. Sunny Days
Woah oh oh oh oh oh you know those sunny days
yep they seem to get in my way
no I kinda like a darker haze
ooh to float around up in space
so bartender be kind tonight
and fill my cup to the brim
cuz we all want to dance the night
and fill the cup
so I guess I better hold my drink real steady
cuz the vibe in the room makin me a little giddy
feel the beat in the room like a O'day in the womb
knockin clocks off the walls when the bass goes boom
So now I’m spinning round like a dreidel in a fable
guess its time to catch a cab back to rock the cradle
throw a twenty for the ride grab my keys to go inside
stop to feed my hound dog sleeping on his raw hide
so now I go inside being quiet as a mouse
slip into the bed to reveal her flower blouse
she’s high man smokin on a bowl
she says “Hey David won’t you get the fuck out!”
Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh ya know them sunny days
yup they seem to get in my way
no I kinda like a darker haze
ooh to float around up in space
so bartender be kind tonight
and fill my cup to the brim
cuz we all want to dance the night
and fill the cup with sin
with sin with sin with sin with sin with sin with sin
One shot for all you lovers
two shots for your queens
three for my man up at NYC
four for them girlies on the back of the bus
five shots for the women who never gonna fuss
six for my mom, seven for my dad
eight for the ladies dressin scantily clad
nine for my boys out in PCB
and ten for my love don’t know why you love me
Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh ya know them sunny days
yup they seem to get in my way
no I kinda like a darker haze
ooh to float around up in space
so bartender be kind tonight
and fill my cup to the brim
cuz we all want to dance the night
and fill the cup with sin
with sin with sin with sin with sin with sin with sin
Right now I feel so connected to you
it don’t matter what you do
you're on my mind
these blankets ohhh won't keep us warm
then I know I'm gonna have to lay down in your thighs...
make me cry... ohhhhhh ohhhh
3. Mary Joanna + The Music
(Shaw)
Isn't anybody home in here
It's getting cold and I just don't care
So I'm gonna find something else to do
Just take a really good look at me
I'm 22 and I still don't see why
All of you people can't get along anymore
Falling down ain't so hard to do
Your only crutch be the bottle of brew
So I'm gonna find something else to do uh huh
Cuz if I ever was to say to you
All the things that you wanted me to love
Then I'd have to find something else to do uh huh
So I'm gonna stand here by your fire
Cuz it's a cold one tonight
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
I don't ask questions, I don't tell no lies
And that's the reason why
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
Oh my god I almost died last night
Wrecked my car and totaled my life
So I'm gonna find something else to do uh huh
Cuz if I ever was to say to you
All the things that you wanted me to love
I'd have to find something else to do uh huh
So I'm gonna stand here by your fire
Cuz it's a cold one tonight
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
I don't ask questions, I don't tell no lies
And that's the reason why
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
Ohh you're the reason why
You're the reason why...
Ohh you're the reason why..
So mother Mary won't you come sing a song for me
And make it last all damn night
Cuz you know I can't hang on you see
While this noose pulls me so tight
We'll ill scratch and bleed from my finger nails
Until every bit of me was gone
Cuz I didn't want her and I didn't need her
So now I leave it alone
So I'm gonna stand here by your fire
Cuz it's a cold one tonight
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
I don't ask questions, I don't tell no lies
And that's the reason why
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
Oh you're the reason why
Oh you're the reason why
Oh you're the reason why
| The River |
Mary's father has got four daughters. The first is called Ann, the second is called Anna and the third is called Annie. What is the name of the other daughter? | Lyrics
LYRICS
Said, I’m pulling down the shades for the long ride
I never knew that I could feel so black and blue
I’ve been holding onto something now for sometime
All I know is it’s a feeling fit for two
Cuz when the sunlight laid its head down on this dog night
And I was talking to myself in the rear view
Yeah I’ve got questions but I know everything is alright
All I have to do is just remember you
Cuz I’m never gonna lose you
I’ve got you deep inside my chest
And I can feel you beating like the soul of a drummer boy
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Let the law take us away
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Nah nah nah nah
I’ve been fake and I’ve been free
I’ve been you and I’ve been me
But now I stand up tall for what I believe
Against all odds I walked that trail of fear
And tread on desperate leaves
But no one’s leaving just yet
We all want that make believe
Tried and true tribulations
Of who I’ve come to be
The less I know the more I learn
How much love means to me
Every day I’m walking out the front door
Leaning on your ghost
The best feeling of the day is one that I lean toward most
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Let the law take us away
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Nah nah nah nah
I’ve been fake and I’ve been free
I’ve been you and I’ve been me
But now I stand up tall for what I believe
Against all odds I walked that trail of fear
And tread on desperate leaves
But no one’s leaving just yet
We all want that make believe
Tried and true tribulations
Of who I’ve come to be
The less I know the more I learn
How much love means to me
Every day I’m walking out the front door
Leaning on your ghost
The best feeling of the day is one that I lean toward most
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Let the law take us away
We’ve gotta keep going
Keep going
Don’t care what anybody say
Nah nah nah nah
2. Wish I Knew You
(Shaw/Gekas)
You shine like a star
You know who you are
You’re everything beautiful
She’s hot, hot like the sun
The loneliest one
Well I’ll be god damned
You’re standing at my door
We stayed up in the city
Until the stars lost the war
So Friday night, holy ghost
Take me to your level
Show me the one I need the most
I need the most
I wish I knew you when I was young
We could’ve got so high
Now we’re here it’s been so long
Two strangers in the bright lights
Oh I hope you don’t mind
We can share my mood
Two strangers in the bright lights
I wish I knew you
I wish I knew you
Oh I wish I knew you when I was young
Truth, it’s all that you need
You bury that seed
That sound comes from the underground
It’s all inside you now
It’s everything beautiful
But what are you running from?
They got you on the run?
So Friday night, holy ghost
Take me to your level
Show me the one I need the most
I need the most
I wish I knew you when I was young
We could’ve got so high
Now we’re here it’s been so long
Two strangers in the bright lights
Oh and I hope you don’t mind
We can share my mood, yeah
Two strangers in the bright lights
I wish I knew you
I wish I knew you
Oh I wish I knew you when I was young
Maybe we can share my mood
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Maybe we can share my mood
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Maybe we can share my mood
Whoa, whoa, whoa
I wish I knew you when I was young
We could’ve got so high
Now we’re here it’s been so long
Two strangers in the bright lights
Oh and I hope you don’t mind
We can share my mood, yeah
Two strangers in the bright lights
I wish I knew you
I wish I knew you
Oh I wish I knew you when I was young
3. Gold To Glass
This is the final come and go
I keep fighting faith cuz I don’t wanna know
On this eve in fall, lights shining over
She’s colder than she would show
I guess I’ll just take the pill
And fall into the meadow
This isn’t who I am I’m a soldier with a medal
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
Find someone to help these hard times pass
So let me put my costume on
I’ve gone a million miles
With the same crooked smile
And I always give you all you need
But I can see that you’re dancing with the devil
So I hope you brought your shovel
You won’t get what you need
If you’re not down on his level
And it’s okay just a little mischief
Hotel rooms were made for this
I’ve got you open like a butterfly
Inside you made my soul cry
All day all night for my lifetime
Just a little mischief, mischief
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
Find someone
Find someone to help your hard times pass
Find someone
Find someone to help your hard times pass
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
All my gold turned to glass
And now I’m breathing fast
I need someone to help these hard times pass
Below my feet were steaming coals
And now I’m filled with holes
I need someone to help these hard times pass
If all your gold turns to glass
They find you breathing fast
I am someone to help your hard times pass
Find someone
Find someone to help your hard times pass
Find someone
Find someone to help your hard times pass
4. It Was A Sin
(Feinberg/Shaw)
I believe it was a sin
Oh to do you in the way I did
I stole the gold and drank the gin
Then I ran off with your kin
If I can you know I will and if the stars align
I still get loaded on the things that I can't change
And I'm out here tonight so if you want to start a fight
We'll get loaded on the things that I can't change
I believe it was a sin do you in the way I did you in
I couldn't stop it coming from afar
I lost the keys to the getaway car
And every now and then I'm in this place
It's hell living when I need your face
Don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
I believe it was a sin
Oh to do you in the way I did
I took out more than I put in
I got fat while you stayed thin
But I came here tonight if you want to start a fight
We can get loaded on the things that I can't change
Yeah I'm out here all night so if you want to start a fight
We can get loaded on the things that I can't change
I believe it was a sin
To do you in the way I did you in
I couldn't stop it coming from afar
And lost the keys to the getaway car
Every now and then I'm in this place
It's hell living when I need your face
Don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
I believe it was a sin
To do you in the way I did you in
I couldn't stop it coming from afar
And lost the keys to the getaway car
Every now and then I'm in this place
It's hell living when I need your face
Don't hide don't hide don't hide from me
Don't hide don't hide your face
Don't hide
She said she wanna tell me everything all night long
She said she wanna get her name into a song
So we go dancing in the daylight and everything is good right now
I can hold my pain in and we can have our love for a while
But you better stop and save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You better save yourself
She said she wanna get up into my biz for a day
And I could have her I could keep her but I can’t make it rain
So I’m listening to the rain drum listening to the silent sound, yeah
While I’m hearing everybody else screaming out loud
Boy you better stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
You could have anyone else
Stop, save yourself
Yeah I’m sleeping with a snake tonight
And nowadays what’s wrong feels right
I was a bastard of the worse kind
I looked you in the eyes still told you a lie
Drinking cheap champagne, no I can’t complain
Pushed into the lights these are the pressures of fame
And it’s still all good there’s only one thing wrong
You know what it is and I told you
Well I’m a monster
I’m turning into a monster
And I don’t want to be a monster anymore, no
I’ve got to leave you alone
But I can’t leave you alone
6. King of What
You say every man's a king
King of what?
They say every man's a king
A king of what?
I got my bullets, bag and stone don't wake me up I'm in the zone
And I believe the trees not those innuendo seeds
Everything is light see no voodoo in the night
Hear no evil, fear no evil what's the reason for the fight?
If every man's a king
A King of what?
They say every man's a king
A king of what?
I can hear you on the other line tell stories from another time
Lawsuit love is all we know like fleeing dogs in heavy snow
Wait in wonder, watch in awe
Who we were is all we are
It's getting dangerous, dangerous
You say every man's a king
King of what?
You say every man's a king
A king of what?
Of every step that he will take
Every move that he must make
Every waking moment he's alive
Every thought and spoken word
Laughter, sob or sigh he heard
Every ounce of love that's in his heart
He's a king
And I should’ve been murdered by now
And I’ve got fifteen people wondering
How the hell’d he make it out
I carry this bucket of pain
And I’ve got 18 dollars to my mother-fucking name
And it’s not a life it’s a game
And I’m a two-ton wrecking ball filled with pain
And I’ve got a lot to say
And I’m still feeling good from yesterday
So stand up if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up, if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Well I don’t know everything
But I sure wish I did
Then every time I’d catch a case
I wouldn’t pop off so much at the lid
I’d have my get out of jail card
Popped cool and ready to go
And then I’d pay my tax and bail money
Cuz I’m a tax paying fool
So we gotta
Stand up if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up, if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up
He’s a little boy with a son and a daughter
He’s got no wife no he’s got no father
He’s just trying to make it through
This hard hard winter
Toes freezing no reason he’s got no dinner
He’s a product of the music
A product of his time
A product of addiction in a very long line
Of users and abusers who just couldn’t
Keep it straight oh man I wish I didn’t know one
I hope it ain’t too late
So won’t you call your mama
Call your daddy you can call your sister too
Cuz we’ve been out here walking that hard line
You never ever could’ve made it through
And now we’re seven hundred billion strong
We still can’t tell right from wrong
So I’m gonna keep on dreaming until the cows come home
When drug store America starts taking care of their own
Start taking care of their own
Yeah yeah
Stand up if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up, if you’re out in the crowd
Get down, make the doctor proud
Stand up
We’ve got nowhere to go
Stand up
8. All In The Family
(Shaw/Feinberg/Girardot)
You know the fight in me
It will never be gone
My good side and bad don’t need no chaperone
I’m living city pretty New Orleans
With my hood good girl
She’s my honeybee
And she never ever lies to me
But she sure knows how to lie with me
I caught a cold case of love from the past
Now I’m here to shake the funk out your ass
Are you happy with the plans you’re making?
Are you satisfied with who you are?
Now its on cuz the Karma’s free
If you want to role the dice and play the cards with me
You better jump in line baby while the bets are free
Cuz ain’t no pretty girl ever changing me
I’ve got a coked out neighbor
I’m losing my gas
And all I ever have to do is pass the test
C’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon, c’mon
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
All in the family now
We’re keeping it moving baby
We’re keeping it moving baby
We’re keeping it moving baby
We’re keeping it moving baby
We’re keeping it moving
Keeping it moving
Are you happy with the plans you’re making?
Are you satisfied with who you are?
Did you create your world around you?
Or did you let them drive your feelings far?
Are you happy with the plans you’re making?
Are you satisfied with who you are?
Did you create your world around you?
Or did you let them drive your feelings far?
Are you happy with the plans you’re making?
Are you satisfied with who you are?
Did you create your world around you?
Or did you let them drive your feelings far?
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
We’ve got the feeling in our bones
We’re all just one big family now
All in the family now
9. Move On
This is a stick up, I’m here for your love
It’s coming with me where I’m going
Just keep your distance so we can end this,
Without making it a headline story
You’ve had your shot but now we’ll do things my way
Her pistols cocked and the flash was blinding
Do you really wanna live your life inside a wishing well
You’ll be spending more than your last dime buying shit that ain’t for sale
Do you really have to scream I love you to a dial tone at 5 am
Thinking things could never be this good again
Move on alone
So rub your eyelids, enjoy the silence
Cuz freedom doesn’t count for nothing
Give in to hunger cuz in the jungle
Everybody’s stealing something
I'm looking back and seeing mass destruction
Covered in ash from your last eruption
Do you really wanna live your life inside a wishing well
You’ll be spending more than your last dime buying shit that ain’t for sale
Do you really have to scream I love you to a dial tone at 5 am
Thinking things could never be this good again
Move on alone
Do you really wanna live your life inside a wishing well
You’ll be spending more than your last dime buying shit that ain’t for sale
Do you really have to scream I love you to a dial tone at 5 am
Thinking things could never be this good again
Move on alone
Amber I can hear the sound
Watching over you
I know you can break the spell
Possibly true
Amber I can hear the sound
It’s watching over you
It’s watching over you
And I know you can break the spell
It’s possibly true
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
I can’t take it right now
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
But I can’t take it right now
Yeah I’m hopping on a plane tonight
I don’t know where I’m going to/gonna go, no
Somewhere to get my feelings right
There’s so much she doesn’t/don’t know
I never took that easy way
And I don’t care about that open road
My heart’s well worn bad
And it’s chilling in a rusty pool
Amber I can hear the sound
It’s watching over you
It’s watching over you
I know you can break the spell
It’s possibly true
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
I can’t take it right now
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
But I can’t take it right now
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
I can’t take it right now
I know you’re just like me
You want a piece of the party
I can’t take it
I can’t take it
I can’t take it
I’ll see you through the night
I’ll see you through the fight
I’ll see you through the night
I’ll see you through the fight
I’ll see you through the fight
I’ll see you
I’ll see you through the fight
I’ll see you through the fight
12. Bulletproof
Patience is still bitter in your mouth
The sweet taste was stolen
That’s the story of the south
Part of me was home and the other half was gone
And I can’t feel the pain when I’m lying all along
Cuz I was breaking down and she was snorting cocaine in my bed
I was making money
Somehow I know it’s gonna be all alright
Something came to me in the wind last night
And now it’s coming down
Oh it’s all coming out
And I can’t stop it now no
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it out
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it
So take it in tonight
Girl your head ain’t right
We could have a date
So we could share this life
There’s something that I know
In the wind as it blows
It’s better to believe
Than to lie to everyone you know
I’m breaking down and she was snorting cocaine in my bed
I was making money
Somehow I know its gonna be all alright
Something came to me in the wind last night
I got a heart,
Well that don't tell me just who you are
I got to know
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it out
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it out
Ooooooh's
Patience is still bitter in your mouth
The sweet taste was stolen
That’s the story of the south
Part of me was home
The other half was gone
And I can’t feel the pain when I’m lying all alone
Cuz I was breaking down and she was snorting cocaine in my bed
I was making money
Somehow I know its gonna be all alright
Something came to me in the wind last night
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it out
Get out your bulletproof vest
They can send them shots to your chest
We’re gonna make it now
We’re gonna make it
13. Fade Away
You got the potion yeah you really do
Make everybody fall in love with you
Call me your lover call me another
All I hear are lies from you
They're throwing stones and you’re feeling bad
Blue baby friends are all you ever had
Lie to you I won’t
Lie to me you may
But now is not the time and death is not the place but
Would you come with me
I want you to come with me
Cuz I can’t do this alone
Oh and society is putting scars on my body
It’s got me acting so naughty
Setting fire to my home
I’m just another skeleton in her closet
A freak like no one knows
Buried bones up in her backyard with dirt between my toes
Yeah I used to really love her
But now I just don't know
The time between us faded all the love I felt below
And I wish I may I wish I might have some love today
You know I could
You know I would find a way to stay
But now is not the time and here is not the place
I’m on my way to somewhere these scars I can't erase
So would you come with me
Oh I want you to come with me
Cuz I can’t do this alone, no
Ohh and society is putting scars on my body
It’s got me acting so naughty
Setting fire to my home
Yeah yeah yeah
We are men amongst mountains
Pressing into the night
But we know not what we do
We know not what we do
We are the ones
That turned the fire into light
But we know not what we do
With the changes we go through
Love makes it easy
It makes it all right
In the mouth of the wolf we lay
And chase the sun to sleep
If we never come down
We won’t ever come down
It don’t make no difference to me
We are the ones
That turned the fire into light
But we know not what we do
With the changes we go through
Love makes it easy
It makes it all right
Love makes it easy
It makes it all right
To do what we do
Do what we do
Oh I say my prayers in the morning
I get up in the afternoon
And I’m sailing out to no one but you
I scream to the gods above me
Here we go, let me know
Father of mine let me sing you a song
You’ve been singing in the rain
You’ve been singing so long
And I wanna know could I ever be saved?
If I lived a life of lies and a life of love today
Love makes it easy
It makes it all right
Love makes it easy
1. When I’m Able
(Shaw/Gekas/Feinberg/Campanelli/Ingraham/Williams)
When the night comes and I’m able
I could see you across the table
You’re a shooting star staring at me
I’m paranoid now why are you laughing?
So I called you just to call you
I’m on a roll now still looking for you
Looking out that window pane
I feel the soft rain I’m going down the drain
It’s washing me away
That’s why I called you just to call you
It’s not like I left you at the altar
Got to get this boulder off our shoulder
And make this load here a little bit lighter
If you got something left to say
Would you could you see me
In the daylight you’re a mystery
I catch a cool glimpse and let it stone me
When are we coming closer to what this could be
Somehow I feel a little bit further
Further from the truth it’s not typical
I feel invisible some days I’m miserable
So if you ever want to see me
Just take a load off wild and free
If you got something left to say
Would you could you see me
Because I see you when I am able
Yes I see you
When the truth came out it was you
David Shaw: Vocals Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
When it’s late at night and dark as hell
Where I’m going to well you know damn well
I ain’t got nobody else to blame
Cause you know it’s my fault and ain’t it a shame
The pearly locks on the pearly gates
ain’t just for show make no mistake
Can nothing I do in this life of sin
make it up enough to ever get me in
So when I die I know in my life
I ain’t done things well, tried to do things right
It’s been a long dark road and try as I might
I can’t make it any closer to the golden light
I’m a long lost soul meant to toil all day
Inmate of my mind, with nothing to say
You can’t break those chains so let them be
I’m not the one who ever held this key
There’s one thing that I know for sure
No matter what I do, there is no cure
For the things I’ve said, the things I’ve done
There’s only one chance it’s his only son
So when I die I know in my life
I ain’t done things well tried to do things right
It’s been a long dark road and try as I might
I can’t make it any closer to the golden light
I’m close to the edge I lit my soul on fire
So when I die I know in my life
I ain’t done things well tried to do things right
It’s been a long dark road and try as I might
I can’t make it any closer to the golden light
I’m close to the edge and holding on
All I can do is set my soul on fire with the golden light
David Shaw: Vocals Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
You broke my heart to save our one true chance to grow old year-by-year
Forever we’re dancing away a summer’s night without all the rain
You can rely on me honey I’ll always remain
You’re confident you know you’re my best friend
You’re the thoughts in my mind that I can’t comprehend
Like you and me living two worlds so departed
Forever you’re the only one who’ll mend my heart
Lie on the ceiling stare up at the floor
Fall upstairs to answer quiet knocks on my back door
There’s water in the streets and roots in the sky
Wind blows away my mind I’m up all night
The earth don’t spin unless I’m by your side
One day together babe we’ll flip the world upright
We’re gonna flip the world upright
Don’t speed to find me babe but don’t you drive slow
I’ll be here waiting in the place that you know
Shoes hang in windows and no one knows my name
Now that you’re gone I’m the only one to blame
For a heart that hardened with each shortening breath
The undeserved tears that your blue eyes wept
That seeped into the cracks I carved in the ground and
Slowly but surely tipped our world up side down
Lie on the ceiling stare up at the floor
Fall upstairs to answer quiet knocks on my back door
There’s water in the streets and roots in the sky
Wind blows away my mind I’m up all night
The earth don’t spin unless I’m by your side
One day together babe we’ll flip the world upright
We’re gonna flip the world upright
Don’t deny it, in your diary I saw you wrote how you still love me
The imprint of the words that have all been erased Fifth line, third page
You want to see me as I do you
You wish it felt the way it used to
And I can tell you it’s coming soon
David Shaw: Vocals Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar, Acoustic Guitar Percussion Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar
George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys
We broke out the hounds
Track them down, track them down, track them down
And lock them up pound for pound
Eye for an eye I’ve come to know
In the city the city of sound
Timeless is how long you’ll sing
When you’re not with the one in your dreams
She sends her love for me to see
A pretty photograph to my telephone screen
Well I really don’t know what time will tell
I never grew up I’ve never been in jail
I’ve seen the inside of a cinder block cell
With eyes rolled back in head oh well
It’s been a long time coming I’m proud to say
I know what it takes to greet a sunny day
You keep on pushing those clouds away
While your knocking on wood every goddamn day
Timeless is how long you’ll sing
When you’re not with the one in your dreams
She sends her love for me to see
A pretty photograph to my telephone screen
I really don’t know what time will tell
I never grew up I’ve never been in jail
I’ve seen the inside of a cinder block cell
With eyes rolled back in head oh well
It’s been a long time coming, I’m proud to say
I know what it takes to greet a sunny day
You keep on pushing those clouds away
While your knocking on wood every god damn day
Timeless is
David Shaw: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar Rich Vogel: Keys
John Michael Rouchell: Acoustic.Guitar Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Electric Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar
George Gekas: Bass Rob Ingraham: Saxophone, Vocals
The sun itself is colorblind
To the light it’s putting out somehow
I watched it pass as a rider
Gaze away from the seat
Digital map live driver
Stomach’s full head is hungry
The women of the highway do their best to get by
My best is unrealized
The worst is when the best goes untried
You can call it fear of failure, dying to succeed
The wind blows at closed windows
The billboards advertise their greed
Take a look at my outlet
Lend your ear to the beat
You think you heard something
It’s just the jingling of my spare key
We can work it out
We’re not heroes no
Look up to the sky
Navigate Below
You can find them in the ether in any part of any town
In any heart that’s crooked or straight
In the sunlit hours or when it’s late
Wander the prism
See the Yin-Yang cousins dancing Buddha rhythm
Feel the sheet rock rattle below
See the confidence surely grow
With an army of days reflected through the haze
Wisdom will accumulate.
We can work it out
We’re not heroes no
Look up to the sky
Navigate Below
David Shaw: Vocals, Tambourine Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitars Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Trumpet
you were living a lie friend
and I’ll be with you till the end
Is this all a con and lie?
I’m a criminal I do this everyday
I take the low road
I roam the highways
Maybe we’ll meet again
Maybe we’ll die today
Maybe we’ll live forever never throw this love away
Hello… am I coming in clear girl?
Take a look in the mirror
I know you don’t like what you see
Slip away slip away
for a moment, not a day
It’s all right child
I’ll hide you in the safe and sound
But I never like that side
you know because
You pick me up, you put me down
Although you never made a sound
I’m living natural feeling free
So I drift away, thinking in blurred photographs
All the way to the mansion of my mind
You push buttons I pull weight
Every single day
You’re a fool to think I’d waste, and throw this all away
Spending all this time
Weighs heavy on my dime
Everyday, I ain’t got a second to waste
Well I know I’m no fun
When I’m moping like the pope
Humming Otis in the rain
These arms of mine will hold up hope
And I can’t tell if I’m owed, or do I owe
So I’ll put that on the list of all the things I’ll never know
You pick me up, you put me down
And still we’re wrapped up in the love
That’s always hung around
Tell me is this all a dream
Swimming the unconscious stream
That flows into the mansion of my mind
Let there be light
Let there be longing for a better way of life
It’s not neurotic it’s melodic when we’re struggling
Hanging from the fallen string
Unraveling the fabric of my time
Well I know I’m no fun
When I’m moping like the pope
Humming Otis in the rain
These arms of mine will hold up hope
And I can’t tell if I’m owed, or do I owe
So I’ll put that on the list of all the things I’ll never know
Ben Ellman: iPad Funkbox Beat David Shaw: Vocals
Andrew Campanelli: Drums Zack Feinberg: Guitar Cara Burns: additional hand claps
Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
with all the troops out on parade
Up till now we’ve saved
Every woulda, coulda, shoulda
that could’ve ever been made
Riding tall on a ten foot bicycle
Feeling small when I passed by city hall
I caught a glimpse of the night mayor dressed in black
taking nips from a flask filed with cognac
With the memory of R.C.N speckled in trash
I made a mad-hatter dash for the Frenchman stash
I hope a couple grams will last
Because there’s four lungs puffin’ mama you can do the math
It’s a masquerade
with all the troops out on parade
Up till now we’ve saved
Every woulda, coulda, shoulda
That could’ve ever been made
Look at us now
Riding on the rooftops letting it out
You could have the same
We could be as one
We could find a solution in the sun
Now I’m breathing into you
And I don’t even know your name
If my breath’s enough to save your life
Why won’t it stop all these games?
Politicians playing with all of our minds
Wrecking all of our lives
They’re like blind surgeons in the dark
Their blue pens are scalpels in disguise
It’s a masquerade
Insecurity guard, there’s a force at the border
That won’t be let on
It’s a masquerade
with all the troops out on parade
Up till now we’ve saved
Every woulda, coulda, shoulda
That could’ve ever been made
Look at us now
Riding on the rooftops letting it out
You could have the same
We could be as one
We could find a solution in the sun
I don’t need to fall into all your lies
It’s all I see for you and I
I’m in a dream I’m holding on
I’ll be here you’ll be gone
Hurry, hurry, hurry I need you now
In the dark we find the sound
David Shaw: Vocals, Guitar Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
9. Up In The Air
(Shaw)
Made sure to bring her mate’
Told her mom and dad that
She never met nobody else
Quite like lee
He moved down from Oregon in the rain
Established a connection with an underground king
They’ll have it all, in the blink of an eye
I’m the only one who knows how this happened all so fast
We both grew up together
I thought I knew this love would last
Guess I was wrong, Heaven song, goodness gone
In the blink of an eye
She’s a very pretty girl
With a magnolia smile
In this white wedding world
It only takes a little while
To get what you want
When no one’s looking in
There’s a river running through
The backwoods of her brain
It brought a rapid fast delivery
Of aqua colored pain, that no one could see
Pity please, pretty please goes on in the night
They’re trading places, they’re missing faces
Their wanted poster’s on the wall
They’re keeping pace with
Two hopped up hippies in the Superdome
Mama calling on the phone, when you coming home?
She’s a very pretty girl
With a magnolia smile
In this white wedding world
It only takes a little while
To get what you want
When no one’s looking in
Go get what you want
When no one’s looking in
So I keep an eye out for the bright searchlight
I swear I’ll never let you down again
And if we try with all our mite
Maybe we can reach the shore again
But there’s something in the air
That’s keeping me up, and I know why…
So I keep an eye out for the bright searchlight
I swear I’ll never let you down again
And if we try with all our might
Maybe we can reach the shore again
I’ve searched for you all my life
Stealing in those backwood halls again
It’s up in the air the feelings we shared
I never know just where to begin
David Shaw: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone, Vocals
Are you happy with what you see?
I know that things aren’t right between you and me
Under the scope, I’ve done all that I can
And I have been watched by many of jealous men
Who are you?
This one goes out to all my fallen friends
I know that we’ll all be together in the end
So hold your loved ones close
For forever and a day
I know only god can tell when we’ll be washed away
Who are you?
Who are you still inside of me?
Who are you still in love with me?
I told you so…
All that she needs is a banker, a toy, a boy and a dress
All that he needs is a lock on the door
Some love in his heart to fill this hole in his chest
You could be the love, I could be the fight
We could say forever, staying up all night
This is about as low as I could be tonight
You could be the love, I could be the fight
Who are you?
Who are you still inside of me?
Who are you still in love with me?
My place is cold, I’ve been up all night
I’m alone, but it’s alright
Is it in the air?
I feel it in the air
I’ve said it too many times
The places I go could white out your eyes like the color of snow
The rain or the sun could never prepare you
For the seduction that comes with a fare
Hot fire sex in the third degree
Burning blunts, blowing lines, popping ecstasy
I’m free from their world
It had its hooks in me
Still a fish out of water, but now I can breath
All that she needs
A banker, a toy, a boy and a dress
It’s all that she needs
David Shaw: Vocals, Guitar Andrew Campanelli: Drums
Zack Feinberg: Guitar, Banjo Ed Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar George Gekas: Bass
Rob Ingraham: Saxophone Michael Girardot: Keys, Trumpet
All I can see are blurs of red and yellow
through the raindrops on my windshield
nothing is clear to me but it seems nobody’s moving
is it an accident or just me nowhere to go
I hope that you will follow me ‘cause
it’s you that I’ve been missing
I hope that you were listening
when I said that you could be the only one
and what did I say to make you doubt me
and after that night
when you began to come around
what could I have done to make you stay
not turn away
the windshield wipers screech me back to consciousness
it seems that it’s stopped raining
the sky has cleared up the southern stars are shining
the thought of you has got me blinded
the radio plays a story of redemption
drowns out the leaking tire’s hissing
I hope that you were listening when I said
that you could be the only one
what did I say to make you doubt me
and after that night
when you began to come around
what could I have done to make you stay
not turn away
I want to be the light the light in your eyes every smile and
I want to be the one who loves you
I got a feeling inside you know it makes me feel like dying
‘cause you know I’m always thinking of you
I remember a time looking down that long road
it was you and me and mystery
we’d go for a ride drink a toast to happy endings
but now the bottle’s dry and empty
now that you’re gone never to return again
everything we had was history
hope that you are listening when I say
I have found my only one and
nothing I could say would make her doubt me
and every night the sun descends into the ground and
she’s the only one I want to stay
and not turn away.
I saw my baby-o late last night
camp said he took a shot of my tears
oh no I couldn’t believe I had a shipwrecked life
‘cause I never left that pier
and so now I’m getting high just like I’m dolomite
maybe even Sally DeBeers
we’re taking shots to the brain
we fill ourselves with that love man it’s all enough for the fame
but it’s never enough
no it’s never enough
she’s a cabbage patch baby born under the sun
she came into this world at one hell of a time
the middle east was under fire from the B.Y.O.B’s
that’s the bullshit years of Bush for all you righty tighties
she broke all the rules and never paid for one
‘til that fateful day when she brandished a gun
stole herself a guitar and then a whole damn band
pilfered a bottle of Jack cooked up in a frying pan
but it’s never enough
no it’s never enough
‘cause she’s the queen of my world
and I swear
so check your Vital Signs when your heart fails
you well the band woke up in the morning realized what had been done
they’d all been kidnapped now with nowhere to run
Benny was a drummer she knew from way back when
he played drums for her once and then he dove right in
them pink silky panties with a couple of runs
he left early in the morning swore he’d be back for more fun
but the clock it never lie even to this voodoo child
and the next time that she saw him she put that gun to his eye
never enough
no it’s never enough
cause she’s the queen of my world
and I swear
so check your vital signs when your heart fails
you we’re out of control
I saw my baby out late last night
Camp said he took a shot of my tears
but it’s never enough
no it’s never enough
‘cause she’s the queen of my world
and I swear she’s bound to fall.
3. Catching Fireflies
you gotta get better if you ever wanna win
and I know that
she’s not getting any better man she just sin
I still love her
but I know I was once there wearing them shoes
I’m still hurting
‘cause the woman I love’s giving me the blues
sitting here sober
but I wonder what shape she’ll find me in
I need her under my skin
like a junkie needs heroin
and I’m never going back to Snake n’ Jakes
the amount of money I spent I could’ve bought the place
not to mention that they know my face
now it’s hell getting out the place
so I’m walking the streets tonight
I’m catching some fireflies
some would say that I’m living a lie
but no more today no more tonight
you could say that I’m under the gun
nine million miles away from the sun
I’ve hesitated much too long
but I’m still having fun hope you’re having fun
belly up in an ambulance
I spent Sunday making doctor friends
I could’ve used a pair of depends
I hope that made you laugh ‘cause you know I’m a gentlemen
heaven found me living didn’t find me dead
got a permanent ash mark on my forehead
but it still couldn’t save me from lying in bed
staring at your clothes in the closet while I was out of my head
so I’m walking the streets tonight
I’m catching some fireflies
some would say that I’m living a lie
but no more today no more tonight
you could say that I’m under the gun
nine million miles away from the sun
I’ve hesitated much too long
but I’m still having fun hope you’re having fun
I’m a peaceful man today
ain’t got no more weekend wars to wage
so give me one more shot babe
4. Soul’s Too Loud
(Feinberg/Shaw)
It was a story told long ago
about a sweet love that lay below
so people come gather round
and listen to this broken sound from the underground
it’s creeping up from your underground
deep into the living rooms where it can be found
cells work together so vast and small
we are the keepers the kingdom the answer and call
it’s all you need
she walks alone sometimes at night
moving to the rhythm of a losing fight
she takes a drag thinks he’s the same
can’t believe she’s caught up in his greedy game
you can’t just act like she don’t exist
world won’t revolve around the solipsist
the pieces all sum up to a whole
in a crowded fishbowl with sex drugs love and lies there is no easy road
her soul’s too loud
our soul’s too loud
forever is right now
mother nature is all our sound
we’re watching this go down
it was a story told long ago
about a sweet love that lay below
so people come and gather around
listen to this broken sound from the underground
it’s creeping up from the underground
deep into your living rooms where it can be found
we’ll stop on by anytime that you like
just put us in your stereo turn it up to nine
she got that tremolo soul
on and on she goes
she’ll travel round the world
so nobody have to know
it’s all inside her glow
on and on she goes
you can feel her in the night
she’s someone everybody knows
her soul’s to loud
our soul’s too loud
forever is right now
mother nature is all our sound
we’re watching this go down
5. Purple Heart
(Shaw)
Well the soul don’t want to shine on me no more
went from a shot of patron to a broken home now I’m labeled as a whore
I pay my debts in full while I’m shied away from the sun
cause I never wanted anybody else so I lay in what I’ve done
now I feel
that I’ve been doing you wrong you’ve been doing me right
and I think it’s about time
I’ve been a fool for way to long
so now I wear these battle scars each and every night
and I hope they’ll mend up right
my purple heart can’t seem to mend
these broken promises
I’ve sure never been no angel I ain’t no preachers son
so I make my bed by the river side and I lay in what I’ve done
she sure never saw it coming yeah I know I could’ve lied
but I’d rather lay in this river bed than to see her cry at night
now I feel
that I’ve been doing you wrong you’ve been doing me right
and I think it’s about time
I’ve been a fool for way to long
now I wear these battle scars each and every night
and I hope they’ll mend up right
my purple heart can’t seem to mend
these broken promises
so pretty mama tell me how you feel
when you’re stuck in the back of that Coupe de Ville
you’re such a bomb senorita with a body to kill
you’ve taken all my money now give me the thrill
6. Straw Man
(Feinberg/Shaw)
You think you’re pretty bright ‘cause mama called you son that don’t mean nothing
you got your bloody knuckles from breaking bricks with all your muscle it don’t mean nothing
wasting so much energy
to ease the doubt and keep your hand
ou can’t knock it down like a strawman
change my gear shift into drive
stay awake while I’m alive
with good humor and a shoddy plan
I can set afire to my strawman
hey you know things could always be easier
hey but though we all complain
even so watch out for meteors, meat-eaters, and other forms of wild game
sold a millions diamonds but never gave up one that don’t mean nothing
you got your bloody nose from breaking bricks with all the girls it don’t mean nothing
hey little Scotty why you on the loose you got your head and your shoulders and a good excuse
excuse the dues freezing your plan you can knock it down like a strawman
hey you know things could always be easier
hey but though we all complain
even so watch out for meteors, meat-eaters, and other forms of wild game
if only this if only that
change the one thing holding me back
and I can make it like it’s not
I’ll be so free sitting on top
the world it flies it does not wait
for you to accept your own fate
come to in all your foolish pride
hear in lies truth you may despise
the skies don’t care much who you are
they’ll strike you down with a meteor
wasting so much energy
to ease the doubt and keep my hand
I can’t knock it down like a strawman
7. Ride The Earth
Melting in my living room I can’t beat the heat
these women in my neighborhood are burning up the street
tank tops shorts and flip flops so much love to spare
imagine her in waist high grass with a flower in her hair
come away
you won’t find a better day
the city’s burning up my brain
you’ve been dying since your birth come on ride the earth
time passes days grow shorter the kids are back in school
I’ll keep you safe and warm as summer winds turn cool
long sleeves trees with red leaves look like they’re on fire
I’ll lay you down in a mountain bed so I can take you higher
come away
you won’t find a better day
the city’s burning up my brain
you’ve been dying since your birth so come on ride the earth
we believe there’s time to spare
we’ll be fine come what may
European woman with the storm cloud eyes
is your beauty a reality or a natural disguise
we’re sleeping here at the summit ‘cause we got no place to go
so lay your love upon me under eight inches of snow
come away
we won’t find a better day
the city’s burning up my brain
ou’ve been dying since your birth so come on ride the earth
8. Appreciate Me I
Caught up in a whirlwind now
and I could leave her but I wouldn’t know how
so I’ll just settle for a peaceful smile
and I’ll never move on
been through so much today
and you’ll never stop this electricity
from flowing out your model body directly into mine
you just don’t appreciate me
9. Appreciate Me II
you know I came in late
because you just don’t appreciate me
I came in around four
blew out the whole back door
because you just don’t appreciate me and now you’ll see
that I’ll be holding on
to you baby all of my days have been blown rolling around in this haze
and you could fly a starship ahead and be a soul captain mama ‘cause I know you love me
these lessons are true they do exactly what they’re supposed to do
so now say what you want mama say what you will my love is on the table now
it’s been cooking up right for years now it’s gone after all them tears
and you could fly a starship ahead and be a soul captain mama ‘cause I know you love me
these lessons are true they do exactly what they’re supposed to do
you just don’t appreciate me
now I’m gone
I’m gone we’re up in this fire light
chasing that starry night
wishing this love went right
it went wrong it went wrong
now the jukebox plays
those songs from the days
when life was just to easy getting by was just a phase you
heard that sweet song
but they mixed it all wrong
and when you came by booboo I know you’re in the wrong
so when you come by next Sunday afternoon
I’ll be up in the living room smoking on some boom boom
playing this guitar for a half an hour more
if you come on over I’m gonna give you something more tonight
to keep holding on to
my love baby all of my days have been blown rolling around in this haze
and you could fly a starship ahead and be a soul captain mama ‘cause I know you love me
these lessons are true they do exactly what they’re supposed to do
‘cause you just don’t appreciate me
10. Don’t Get Caught Up
(Feinberg/Shaw)
Welcome to the party grab everything you can
stock up so high that none can try to burglarize your clan
see the road ahead unfurl just like an infinite gray snake
diluting and polluting the only road we’re bound to take
and I feel like I’m gone
I wanna sleep with the devil wake up next to god
indulge in moderation but travel safely through that fog
I’m getting back in touch with the physical world it’s a finely rough place to be
gonna engage myself into the spiritual world I’m gonna do that chemically
and I feel like I’m gone
so feel it tonight I hope you don’t get caught up in it
let go
I got a newfound love for this rebel road
a little grit a little gravel pack a heavy load
do your rebel dance to the loony moon
break your back to the rhythm in the midnight gloom
coincidence I think so
‘cause you’ll reap what you sow when your tall can gets low
you’ve had too much to think now you’re drowning in the drink
at the bottom of the barrel in the bathroom sink
come one come all
ride the merry go round
cash in your tickets
get lost in the sound
your best friends the cotton bros.
are now on the scene
sleeping with the golden girls
and their blue velvet sheen
you can be the hero
of the underworld so gone
with white ponies and elephants
to garnish your lawn
let the vibe take you away
believe there’s another world
on the other side that waits
feel it tonight
I hope you don’t get caught up in it
let go let go
11. Two Ton Wrecking Ball
(Shaw)
Your bloodshot eyes are so beautiful
they warm my heart just like the night before
now I can’t hide these weathered tears
they’ve stained my skin after all these years
we’ve changed out sides so many times
that I can’t tell just where to draw the line
yeah I know I’ve been acting funny
lately Chelsea
and if this is criminal
then I’m a prisoner
I’m not a bank inside
you can’t just rob my heart
when there’s love involved
you’re like a two ton wrecking ball
you smash my atmosphere
mud up any thought once clear
it’s not a wasted
cause you can check my faith
I loved you once
isn’t that the very same thing
we’ve tried for years
we’ve shown our tears
we’ve grown up quite well
with this life time shattered
yeah I know I’ve been acting funny
lately Chelsea
then I’m a prisoner
I’m not a bank inside
you can’t just rob my heart
when there’s love involved
you’re like a two ton wrecking ball
you smash my atmosphere
mud up any thought once clear
now la la la
I’m rescued by the flame in your eyes
and it’s been a long time since we’ve cast our shadows on the moon and I realize
that I was always there for you and you were there for me too
but I know it’s time for me to go here’s a shot for you and I’m gone
12. Hurricane Winslow
You gave up to your limit
and then you broke and I don’t blame you
now I rely on a much simpler living
I’m much more plain these days it’s true
I had to let my feelings go just for the moment
I always had plans to come back home to you
but if my key don’t fit the keyhole and I’m left in this world to make it my home alone
I really really want you to know
I love you more than hurricane winds blow
no I’ll never forget you
and the craziest thing that you’ll never know
is just how much I miss you
seven years ago two souls
collided and they began to grow
and it feels like yesterday
when I dropped you off in front of your home
had to ask you for a kiss
‘cause I knew you were a lady
you had your hand up on my knee
I had your lips on my mind
and I think I kissed your cheek and darling that’s just fine
‘cause we had time
and we still got time
to celebrate
this was never our fate
‘cause I love you more than hurricane winds blow
no I’ll never forget you
and the craziest thing that you’ll never know
is just how much I miss you
1. Concrete (Fish Out Of Water)
(Feinberg)
As if it's some powering fate that holds us and binds us
Lo and behold we pray that it finds us
Answer my prayers
To me my mind cares but like a fish out of water
I just can't breathe
You would walk all over me if I was mixed in this old concrete
Sitting here mixing my favorite poisons
Coming out my stereo the finest of noises
I'll know the darkness before I see the light
Sometimes you've got to fall down to stand on your feet all right
like a fish out of water
I just can't breathe
You would walk all over me if I was mixed in this old concrete
Inside this earth are infinite places
6 billion people inside their own spaces
There's hard time weather
we're all in this together so unbury your own treasure
Because it's all right now
it's all right now
Like a fish out of water you know I just can't breathe
You can't walk all over me
I'm not mixed in this old concrete
2. Sunny Days
Woah oh oh oh oh oh you know those sunny days
yep they seem to get in my way
no I kinda like a darker haze
ooh to float around up in space
so bartender be kind tonight
and fill my cup to the brim
cuz we all want to dance the night
and fill the cup
so I guess I better hold my drink real steady
cuz the vibe in the room makin me a little giddy
feel the beat in the room like a O'day in the womb
knockin clocks off the walls when the bass goes boom
So now I’m spinning round like a dreidel in a fable
guess its time to catch a cab back to rock the cradle
throw a twenty for the ride grab my keys to go inside
stop to feed my hound dog sleeping on his raw hide
so now I go inside being quiet as a mouse
slip into the bed to reveal her flower blouse
she’s high man smokin on a bowl
she says “Hey David won’t you get the fuck out!”
Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh ya know them sunny days
yup they seem to get in my way
no I kinda like a darker haze
ooh to float around up in space
so bartender be kind tonight
and fill my cup to the brim
cuz we all want to dance the night
and fill the cup with sin
with sin with sin with sin with sin with sin with sin
One shot for all you lovers
two shots for your queens
three for my man up at NYC
four for them girlies on the back of the bus
five shots for the women who never gonna fuss
six for my mom, seven for my dad
eight for the ladies dressin scantily clad
nine for my boys out in PCB
and ten for my love don’t know why you love me
Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh ya know them sunny days
yup they seem to get in my way
no I kinda like a darker haze
ooh to float around up in space
so bartender be kind tonight
and fill my cup to the brim
cuz we all want to dance the night
and fill the cup with sin
with sin with sin with sin with sin with sin with sin
Right now I feel so connected to you
it don’t matter what you do
you're on my mind
these blankets ohhh won't keep us warm
then I know I'm gonna have to lay down in your thighs...
make me cry... ohhhhhh ohhhh
3. Mary Joanna + The Music
(Shaw)
Isn't anybody home in here
It's getting cold and I just don't care
So I'm gonna find something else to do
Just take a really good look at me
I'm 22 and I still don't see why
All of you people can't get along anymore
Falling down ain't so hard to do
Your only crutch be the bottle of brew
So I'm gonna find something else to do uh huh
Cuz if I ever was to say to you
All the things that you wanted me to love
Then I'd have to find something else to do uh huh
So I'm gonna stand here by your fire
Cuz it's a cold one tonight
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
I don't ask questions, I don't tell no lies
And that's the reason why
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
Oh my god I almost died last night
Wrecked my car and totaled my life
So I'm gonna find something else to do uh huh
Cuz if I ever was to say to you
All the things that you wanted me to love
I'd have to find something else to do uh huh
So I'm gonna stand here by your fire
Cuz it's a cold one tonight
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
I don't ask questions, I don't tell no lies
And that's the reason why
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
Ohh you're the reason why
You're the reason why...
Ohh you're the reason why..
So mother Mary won't you come sing a song for me
And make it last all damn night
Cuz you know I can't hang on you see
While this noose pulls me so tight
We'll ill scratch and bleed from my finger nails
Until every bit of me was gone
Cuz I didn't want her and I didn't need her
So now I leave it alone
So I'm gonna stand here by your fire
Cuz it's a cold one tonight
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
I don't ask questions, I don't tell no lies
And that's the reason why
I'm taking care of soulfight
And you're the reason why
Oh you're the reason why
Oh you're the reason why
Oh you're the reason why
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@ bobo
Hey Piero. Better mobility and arm strength than Rogers? John Elway!!
@ Collective
Mike, c'mon, Matt Ryan is decent but no way he is the best
@ Collective
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(16 January 2017 - 20:50)
What an absolute beast this Rodgers... no other QB has the mobility + strength to pull out that last play, maybe Luck, on his best day ever.
@ mik2713
apparently emojis from my iphone dont translate. Lesson learned.
@ mik2713
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(16 January 2017 - 04:20)
Hope all is well in Hingis Land. Congrats to Jonny and the Cubbies. God help the USA beginning Fridayð
@ mik2713
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(16 January 2017 - 04:18)
R: the best QB in the league had already moved on to the next round the day previous.ð
@ Rutherford
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(16 January 2017 - 03:10)
Piero: Congrats. GB 34-31 over DAL. Best QB in the League moves onto the next round.
@ Rutherford
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(14 January 2017 - 16:20)
President has awarded Biden Presidential Medal of Freedom, think it's called. A high honor, well deserved.
@ bobo
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(14 January 2017 - 01:27)
Serena usually starts tournaments slow and plays her way into form. So Belinda or anyone is fortunate to draw Serena in the first round. And Serena is old for a player and is a little bit past her peak.
@ John Straiton
GO BELINDA!! Can miracles still happen??
@ bruce
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(13 January 2017 - 16:24)
Seems like a tough opener for Belinda to me. Depends on how Williams health is on any given day.
@ Collective
First round AO: Belinda Bencis vs Serena Williams!!!!
@ John Straiton
Sydney doubles final.
Well waddia know, Mirza and partner get sent to the diaper room 6/4,6/4. Looks like Martina may have to look a little farther for a really good partner replacement!
If it'll do any good!
@ tennispanther
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(12 January 2017 - 22:22)
The hingis.org tennis fanatasy prediction game (HOFWPG for WTA and HOFMPG for ATP) is the best! Running since over 10 years!
@ vilandra
but booo and nobody doing the Fantasy Game
@ vilandra
i still lurk around here from time to time. Thanks for remembering me!
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No, I don't either Vilandra. Nice to hear from you again on here.
Worth a try, I s'pose
Started By Pheasant Plucker , Aug 19 2007 13:33
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Firstname:Crystal
Posted 31 August 2007 - 03:33
A joke for you: My wonderful girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and so we decided to get married. There was only one little thing bothering me. It was her beautiful younger sister.My prospective sister-in-law was twenty-two, wore very tight miniskirts, and generally was bra less. One day "little" sister called and asked me to come over to check the wedding invitations.She was alone when I arrived, and she whispered to me that she had feelings and desires for me that she couldn't overcome.She told me that she wanted to make love to me just once before I got married and committed my life to her sister.Well, I was in total shock, and couldn't say a word.She said, "I'm going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want one last wild fling, just come up and get me."I was stunned and frozen in shock as I watched her go up the stairs. I stood there for a moment, then turned and made a beeline straight to the front door. I opened the door, and headed straight towards my car. Lo and behold, my entire future family was standing outside, all clapping!With tears in his eyes, my future father-in-law hugged me and said, we are very happy that you have passed our little test.....we couldn't ask for a better man for our daughter. Welcome to the family."And the moral of this story is:Always keep your condoms in your car.
LMAO JOHN!
Posted 30 September 2007 - 02:52
Surely I do, Stephen Hawkings....
Haha! Brilliant, E, where did you find a pic of Stephen Hawking where he looks so much like the writer Alan Bennett? I'd never noticed the resemblance before.
I dunno, what are we to do with this type of thing .... you may recall we talked about "Spot The Star" or "Seperated At Birth" but we never figured out how to make a game of it or how to award points to entries.Keep thinking, inspiration is sure to pay us a visit eventually, hehe.Edit: In case I didn't make that properly clear, what I mean is celebrity lookalikes.Dear oh dear, the way I write, you'd think I was just learning English . (Or indeed, not bothering to learn it at all, hehe)
Edited by fivesofar, 30 September 2007 - 07:40.
"You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom"
(Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond)
That line always makes me think of Martina at Roland Garros in `99. Poor kid.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Posted 07 June 2009 - 10:20
These might pass a few minutes while you're enjoying a cuppa
1. A man rode into town on Friday, stayed for three days and three nights and then rode out again on Friday. How could this be?2. Mary's father has four daughters. The first is called Ann, the second is called Anna and the third is called Annie. What is the name of the other daughter? 3. A woman was pushing her car. When she stopped at a hotel, she realised she was bankrupt. Why?4. A man walks into a shop and asks the shopkeeper how much one would cost. The shopkeeper replies "�1.20", so the man asks how much ten would cost. The shopkeeper replies "�2.40". The man then asks for one hundred and thirty and hands �3.60 to the shopkeeper. What was he buying?
"You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom"
(Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond)
That line always makes me think of Martina at Roland Garros in `99. Poor kid.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Firstname:John
Posted 16 June 2009 - 20:56
3. A woman was pushing her car. When she stopped at a hotel, she realised she was bankrupt. Why?4. A man walks into a shop and asks the shopkeeper how much one would cost. The shopkeeper replies "�1.20", so the man asks how much ten would cost. The shopkeeper replies "�2.40". The man then asks for one hundred and thirty and hands �3.60 to the shopkeeper. What was he buying?
So, do you all give in? I mean, do you all admit I'm the most intelligent member of Hingisorg and have outsmarted you all, and Martina Hingis should marry me and you lot should send me all your money and bow down and call me "Emperor John The Great"?Seems reasonable
(Guess who's been at the vodka
)I shall now bestow upon you the answers:3. She was playing Monopoly 4. House numbers. (1 = 1 numeral, 10 = 2 numerals, 130 = 3 numerals)
Edited by Pheasant Plucker, 16 June 2009 - 20:57.
"You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom"
(Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond)
That line always makes me think of Martina at Roland Garros in `99. Poor kid.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
| she was playing monopoly |
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@ bobo
Hey Piero. Better mobility and arm strength than Rogers? John Elway!!
@ Collective
Mike, c'mon, Matt Ryan is decent but no way he is the best
@ Collective
:
(16 January 2017 - 20:50)
What an absolute beast this Rodgers... no other QB has the mobility + strength to pull out that last play, maybe Luck, on his best day ever.
@ mik2713
apparently emojis from my iphone dont translate. Lesson learned.
@ mik2713
:
(16 January 2017 - 04:20)
Hope all is well in Hingis Land. Congrats to Jonny and the Cubbies. God help the USA beginning Fridayð
@ mik2713
:
(16 January 2017 - 04:18)
R: the best QB in the league had already moved on to the next round the day previous.ð
@ Rutherford
:
(16 January 2017 - 03:10)
Piero: Congrats. GB 34-31 over DAL. Best QB in the League moves onto the next round.
@ Rutherford
:
(14 January 2017 - 16:20)
President has awarded Biden Presidential Medal of Freedom, think it's called. A high honor, well deserved.
@ bobo
:
(14 January 2017 - 01:27)
Serena usually starts tournaments slow and plays her way into form. So Belinda or anyone is fortunate to draw Serena in the first round. And Serena is old for a player and is a little bit past her peak.
@ John Straiton
GO BELINDA!! Can miracles still happen??
@ bruce
:
(13 January 2017 - 16:24)
Seems like a tough opener for Belinda to me. Depends on how Williams health is on any given day.
@ Collective
First round AO: Belinda Bencis vs Serena Williams!!!!
@ John Straiton
Sydney doubles final.
Well waddia know, Mirza and partner get sent to the diaper room 6/4,6/4. Looks like Martina may have to look a little farther for a really good partner replacement!
If it'll do any good!
@ tennispanther
:
(12 January 2017 - 22:22)
The hingis.org tennis fanatasy prediction game (HOFWPG for WTA and HOFMPG for ATP) is the best! Running since over 10 years!
@ vilandra
but booo and nobody doing the Fantasy Game
@ vilandra
i still lurk around here from time to time. Thanks for remembering me!
@ bruce
No, I don't either Vilandra. Nice to hear from you again on here.
Worth a try, I s'pose
Started By Pheasant Plucker , Aug 19 2007 13:33
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33 replies to this topic
Firstname:Crystal
Posted 31 August 2007 - 03:33
A joke for you: My wonderful girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, and so we decided to get married. There was only one little thing bothering me. It was her beautiful younger sister.My prospective sister-in-law was twenty-two, wore very tight miniskirts, and generally was bra less. One day "little" sister called and asked me to come over to check the wedding invitations.She was alone when I arrived, and she whispered to me that she had feelings and desires for me that she couldn't overcome.She told me that she wanted to make love to me just once before I got married and committed my life to her sister.Well, I was in total shock, and couldn't say a word.She said, "I'm going upstairs to my bedroom, and if you want one last wild fling, just come up and get me."I was stunned and frozen in shock as I watched her go up the stairs. I stood there for a moment, then turned and made a beeline straight to the front door. I opened the door, and headed straight towards my car. Lo and behold, my entire future family was standing outside, all clapping!With tears in his eyes, my future father-in-law hugged me and said, we are very happy that you have passed our little test.....we couldn't ask for a better man for our daughter. Welcome to the family."And the moral of this story is:Always keep your condoms in your car.
LMAO JOHN!
Posted 30 September 2007 - 02:52
Surely I do, Stephen Hawkings....
Haha! Brilliant, E, where did you find a pic of Stephen Hawking where he looks so much like the writer Alan Bennett? I'd never noticed the resemblance before.
I dunno, what are we to do with this type of thing .... you may recall we talked about "Spot The Star" or "Seperated At Birth" but we never figured out how to make a game of it or how to award points to entries.Keep thinking, inspiration is sure to pay us a visit eventually, hehe.Edit: In case I didn't make that properly clear, what I mean is celebrity lookalikes.Dear oh dear, the way I write, you'd think I was just learning English . (Or indeed, not bothering to learn it at all, hehe)
Edited by fivesofar, 30 September 2007 - 07:40.
"You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom"
(Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond)
That line always makes me think of Martina at Roland Garros in `99. Poor kid.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Posted 07 June 2009 - 10:20
These might pass a few minutes while you're enjoying a cuppa
1. A man rode into town on Friday, stayed for three days and three nights and then rode out again on Friday. How could this be?2. Mary's father has four daughters. The first is called Ann, the second is called Anna and the third is called Annie. What is the name of the other daughter? 3. A woman was pushing her car. When she stopped at a hotel, she realised she was bankrupt. Why?4. A man walks into a shop and asks the shopkeeper how much one would cost. The shopkeeper replies "�1.20", so the man asks how much ten would cost. The shopkeeper replies "�2.40". The man then asks for one hundred and thirty and hands �3.60 to the shopkeeper. What was he buying?
"You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom"
(Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond)
That line always makes me think of Martina at Roland Garros in `99. Poor kid.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
Firstname:John
Posted 16 June 2009 - 20:56
3. A woman was pushing her car. When she stopped at a hotel, she realised she was bankrupt. Why?4. A man walks into a shop and asks the shopkeeper how much one would cost. The shopkeeper replies "�1.20", so the man asks how much ten would cost. The shopkeeper replies "�2.40". The man then asks for one hundred and thirty and hands �3.60 to the shopkeeper. What was he buying?
So, do you all give in? I mean, do you all admit I'm the most intelligent member of Hingisorg and have outsmarted you all, and Martina Hingis should marry me and you lot should send me all your money and bow down and call me "Emperor John The Great"?Seems reasonable
(Guess who's been at the vodka
)I shall now bestow upon you the answers:3. She was playing Monopoly 4. House numbers. (1 = 1 numeral, 10 = 2 numerals, 130 = 3 numerals)
Edited by Pheasant Plucker, 16 June 2009 - 20:57.
"You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom"
(Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond)
That line always makes me think of Martina at Roland Garros in `99. Poor kid.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
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TEST YOURSELF! The next three pages are full of of tricky questions, challenging crosswords and loads of other brain teasers which are just for your fun and enjoyment. Why not get together with other members of your group and see how well you can do. You’ll find all the answers on page 14 of this issue. For our Prize Competitions see page 3!
Science & Inventions 1
What X is a proprietary name for a photocopier?
What X is an instrument played by Patrick Moore?
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How many sides does a snowflake have?
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What useful device did Humphry Davy invent?
What Y is a root vegetable?
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What type of grass can grow up to 36 inches in a single day?
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What are iron pyrites often mistaken for?
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With which sport do you associate British sportsmen Mike Tredgett and Ray Stevens?
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Which football teams played in the first Wembley cup final?
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How many strokes are golfers in a tournament penalized for for slow play?
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Which 1930s black American athlete was known as the Ebony Express?
Who beat Bobby Moore’s West Ham appearance record?
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BRAIN TEASERS! Mind Games Time travel day Angela left on a trip the terday after the day before yes on the eve and she will be back ow. orr tom r of the day afte away? How many days is she All in the family er night John had dinner the oth husband's with his only sibling's daughtermother-in-law's only in-law. e? With whom did he din Mirror image of a John wrote the name sheet of certain U.S. state on a ers. He lett ital cap all in er pap ide ups e pag his then turned in a down and looked at it as he had mirror. It read exactly written it. state What is the name of the te? that he wro
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Deer need to be managed in the UK. They have no natural predators and if left to their own devices their numbers will escalate out of control and they will soon be considered vermin, just like rats are today.
The British Deer Society, a Charity, works to enable the deer of Britain to exist and flourish in today's environment and ensures that their future is secure for generations to come. We undertake and fund research projects ensuring that deer, their issues and their threats are scientifically explored and understood and thus deliver workable solutions. The British Deer Society strives to ensure that there is a sustainable healthy population of Deer in the UK that can exist in harmony with the environment and the people that live there, look after it, or visit it. We need your support - The Society relies on the generosity and goodwill of individuals. By making a donation or leaving a legacy to the British Deer Society you will be ensuring that the vital work of the Society will continue and deer in the British Isles can look forward to a healthy future.
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Get a free meal for two at Kempton Park Racecourse! All you need to do is bring a group of 20 or more people to the races at Kempton Park and you’ll get a free meal* to for two in the superb Panoramic Bar & Restaurant overlooking the racing.
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September 6th – Totesport September & Sirenia Stakes Day The final of the London Mile and two listed races make this late summer fixture a must for all racing fans. Prices start at £16 and we’ll give you a discount of 20% on all bookings for six or more people.**
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Racing makes a great day or night out and Kempton Park are offering three lucky groups the chance to enjoy an exclusive free night of entertainment at the races. We have three sets of ten tickets to give away on the nights of 11th June, 2nd July and 6th August 2008. Kempton Park is also offering groups of six or more who book tickets a discount of 20% on race nights, and if your group has 20 people or more, the organiser will get a free meal for two in their restaurant. Call 01372 470047 to make your booking.
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TEST YOURSELF! The next three pages are full of of tricky questions, challenging crosswords and loads of other brain teasers which are just for your fun and enjoyment. Why not get together with other members of your group and see how well you can do. You’ll find all the answers on page 14 of this issue. For our Prize Competitions see page 3!
Science & Inventions 1
What X is a proprietary name for a photocopier?
What X is an instrument played by Patrick Moore?
What X reveals the inner body?
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How many sides does a snowflake have?
What Y is a system of Hindu philosophy with many forms?
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What useful device did Humphry Davy invent?
What Y is a root vegetable?
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What type of grass can grow up to 36 inches in a single day?
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What are iron pyrites often mistaken for?
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Which football teams played in the first Wembley cup final?
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How many strokes are golfers in a tournament penalized for for slow play?
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Which 1930s black American athlete was known as the Ebony Express?
Who beat Bobby Moore’s West Ham appearance record?
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Which tennis player married John Lloyd?
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What Is the Italian Name for Mickey Mouse?
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In the United States and other countries, the trademark Disney mouse is simply referred to as Mickey Mouse, but through translation, this name is very different in other countries, especially Italy. The Italian name for Mickey Mouse is actually Topolino, and this is very different than the actual name.
Identification
Topolino translates to English as "Little Mouse" and not directly as Mickey Mouse. To actually translate each word in Mickey Mouse to Italian would come out as the same thing because Mickey and Mouse both translate to the same word in the Italian language.
Features
Topolino is the commonly used term for all things related to Mickey Mouse in Italy. On the official Disney.it website, Italians can sign up for the "Topolino Club," which is the Italian version of the Mickey Mouse club. In the club, you can read Italian Mickey Mouse comics, play games, and even purchase official "Topolino" merchandise from the store.
Considerations
Instead of traveling to Italy to use the Italian name of Mickey Mouse, you can visit Walt Disney World's Epcot instead. At Epcot's Italy Pavilion, you will feel like you have been pulled right into the heart of Italy and you can showoff by using the name Topolino at one of their many restaurants or shops.
Significance
Signature names and trademarks are usually kept the same after translation, so for Italy to use Topolino instead of Mickey Mouse is significant. Normally Mickey Mouse would remain and become a part of the language like companies such as Nike and eBay, and with characters like Hulk Hogan.
Size
The "Little Mouse" translation was also adapted to a popular car. Officially known as the Fiat Topolino, this car was created in 1937 and at the time it was the world's smallest car, deserving of the name and dedication to the famous mouse.
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What Is the Italian Name for Mickey Mouse?
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In the United States and other countries, the trademark Disney mouse is simply referred to as Mickey Mouse, but through translation, this name is very different in other countries, especially Italy. The Italian name for Mickey Mouse is actually Topolino, and this is very different than the actual name.
Identification
Topolino translates to English as "Little Mouse" and not directly as Mickey Mouse. To actually translate each word in Mickey Mouse to Italian would come out as the same thing because Mickey and Mouse both translate to the same word in the Italian language.
Features
Topolino is the commonly used term for all things related to Mickey Mouse in Italy. On the official Disney.it website, Italians can sign up for the "Topolino Club," which is the Italian version of the Mickey Mouse club. In the club, you can read Italian Mickey Mouse comics, play games, and even purchase official "Topolino" merchandise from the store.
Considerations
Instead of traveling to Italy to use the Italian name of Mickey Mouse, you can visit Walt Disney World's Epcot instead. At Epcot's Italy Pavilion, you will feel like you have been pulled right into the heart of Italy and you can showoff by using the name Topolino at one of their many restaurants or shops.
Significance
Signature names and trademarks are usually kept the same after translation, so for Italy to use Topolino instead of Mickey Mouse is significant. Normally Mickey Mouse would remain and become a part of the language like companies such as Nike and eBay, and with characters like Hulk Hogan.
Size
The "Little Mouse" translation was also adapted to a popular car. Officially known as the Fiat Topolino, this car was created in 1937 and at the time it was the world's smallest car, deserving of the name and dedication to the famous mouse.
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In which series of action films does the character of John McClane appear? | DIE HARD Sequels Are A Hard Nut To Crack | Birth.Movies.Death.
DIE HARD Sequels Are A Hard Nut To Crack
The closest we ever came to a satisfying DIE HARD sequel.
By Brian Collins Apr. 30, 2015
Apparently, the trick to coming up with a good Die Hard sequel is to grab something unrelated and refashion it to include John McClane. And if you think I'm exaggerating, consider the fact that only one of the sequels began life as one: the abysmal, universally loathed A Good Day To Die Hard. The three superior sequels were all originally written as non-McClane stories: Die Harder was based on a novel called 58 Minutes (a novel unrelated to the one that inspired the first film, and by a different author to boot), and both DH3 and 4 were based on existing spec scripts that were refashioned to fit into the series. But A Good Day? As awful as it is, and as completely out of character as John McClane may appear - somehow that was always meant to be a Die Hard. Go figure.
The best proof of this theory comes from Die Hard With A Vengeance, many fans' favorite sequel (it battles with Die Harder; I prefer 3 but I can't argue much with Harlin fans). First, a bit of fun history: Die Hard 3 was originally going to be set on a cruise ship, but Under Siege stole its thunder and the script was canned. LA based stories (one involving the subway system) were commissioned, but those were rejected by Bruce Willis. Finally, Fox/Willis found a solution: Jonathan Hensleigh's spec script that was titled Simon Says, which was also considered to be reworked into the next installment of the Lethal Weapon series, and even at one point Rapid Fire 2 (!), a film that never existed at all due to the death of Brandon Lee. Apparently the idea of just making his original script into an original movie was too insane for anyone to consider, and once the script was reworked, Willis approved, and the rest is history.
But here's the funny thing: many would agree that the first half of the film is superior to the 2nd, when exciting but not particularly inventive action scenes and a truly weak finale replace the first half's emphasis on suspense and tension, with McClane never even drawing his weapon until past the hour mark. That's not to say it lacked action - the frantic drive through Central Park and the terrific subway scene, where McClane boards the moving train by jumping onto it from the street above, are fine sequences. But in between them are the things people really remember about the film: McClane and Zeus (Sam Jackson) running around New York, solving Simon's riddles and bickering as the other cops got to do the more fun stuff like find a bomb that Simon has placed somewhere in one of the city's schools. There's also the matter of why McClane is involved, revealed about 15 minutes before the movie starts to falter: Simon is none other than Simon Gruber, older brother to Hans Gruber, last seen racing a Rolex watch to the asphalt around the Nakatomi building. Of course, it's not JUST a revenge movie, as Simon has bigger plans, but the connection makes up for the fact that the movie lacks other ingredients from the first two films - namely Holly, Christmas, Al Powell (and Twinkies), and a more contained environment.
What's funny about that is that according to Hensleigh, the first hour is almost word for word what he originally wrote as Simon Says (barring the obvious character name changes). The second hour isn't as good and that's the stuff they changed to make it more Die Hard-y! Not that it's BAD, really (well, the ending is, but before you bring up the original ending that's on the DVD - that's not very good either), but once Simon's grand plan is revealed and McClane is once again running around shooting everyone in sight, it's less novel - this is the sort of stuff we've seen before, and it was nice to have an hour or so built around McClane's underutilized detective skills. His hangover prevents him from being too useful in the riddles, but he puts together a key part of Simon's plan (driving all of the police away from the Federal Reserve) and keeps track of things he learned earlier in the day (how the liquid bombs work, the stolen dump trucks) to help him later. By the time they're using a cable to make their way from a bridge to a moving ship, Willis and Jackson's chemistry is what's really keeping it afloat, not the story, and it's endlessly amusing to me that these scenes were the ones they spent time making sure lived up to the Die Hard legacy.
One cannot discount the importance of John McTiernan, who is just as essential as his stars in keeping the 2nd half from being outright bad. He is by far the best director of the four who have made these movies, and his ability to wring tension out of every situation is something the other films sorely lack. Check out the scene in Vengeance where McClane has to wear the racist sandwich board in Harlem - he holds the reveal of what it says until Zeus sees him, and from that point you sweat just as much as McClane, waiting for the inevitable moment where someone will take major offense to its message. Or the bit where McClane enters an elevator with four goons he's already pegged as being terrorists (his demeanor is way too chatty right off the bat - he knew long before he saw the badge that they were not who they said they were). To me, these bits are far more exciting than McClane spinning his car around to shoot some guys on some (suddenly rainy?) New York back road.
McT sat out Die Harder (Renny Harlin* did a pretty good job in his own right, but it's the action in that one that keeps the Blu-ray returning to the player - not the plot or character work), and paid it no mind here - I don't know how you can watch this movie and walk away with any plausible theory that McTiernan and co. were acknowledging Die Harder's existence at all. In Die Harder, John has moved to LA and taken a job with the LAPD, happily reunited with Holly and his children. Here, he's on the NYPD and his marriage is on even rockier terms than it was in the first film - there is no mention of their reunion or him working for the LAPD at all. The novelization does explain that he hated LA and went back to NY hoping to make it work long distance, but this quick factoid is delivered via John's inner monologue, as if the author was annoyed by the film's lack of explanation and added one himself - it seems a fairly important bit of catch up detail like that would have been explained on-screen/aloud, even if it was eventually cut. Continuity in the Die Hard series has never been its strong suit (at least two actors have played two characters, and McClane makes a joke about "another" Agent Johnson in DH4 even though he never met the first two), so the idea that the guy who directed 1 and 3 would choose to ignore 2 doesn't seem like a stretch.
Regardless, to me this is the closest thing we ever got, and probably ever will, to a truly satisfying Die Hard sequel. I enjoy the 2nd film a lot, but its frequent "It happens again!" plotting irritates me (why the hell is Dick Thornburg on that plane?), and again, it lacks any real character work for McClane. Live Free and A Good Day aren't even in the running (though, PG-13 edit or not, Live Free has by far the best callback to John's famous catchphrase), but with Vengeance - even with its lesser finale - I always feel like I'm truly seeing a new chapter in McClane's life when I watch it. When McClane pulls a very large splinter out of his arm with his bare teeth to use as a lockpick, I recognize the guy that had to drag himself into a bathroom in the original film, and his affinity for working class folk remained intact, something the next two sequels ignored entirely (particularly the 5th one, with McClane punching a random Russian guy for the crime of not speaking English). Sure, it woulda been nice if he reunited with Holly (or at least Al Powell) at the end of the film, but with each lesser sequel that followed, I grew to appreciate what Vengeance DOES offer all that much more.
*Fun fact: About 14 years after Die Hard w/a Vengeance, Harlin went on to direct 12 Rounds, a film that shamelessly ripped off its "Make the hero jump through hoops under the guise of revenge to distract everyone away from my robbery" plot, right down to intentionally crashing a moving vehicle even though the hero did things right. I don't know if this was his revenge for not being asked back for Vengeance, or just a hilarious coincidence, but either way I find it highly amusing.
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The Series Project: Die Hard (Part 1)
Professor Witney Seibold gets his 'splosion on with the first three Die Hard movies.
by Witney Seibold
Feb 9th, 2013
As regular readers of The Series Project can attest, I have a set of frequently-unabided rules that I try to follow when it comes to selecting what series I will cover. When I first conceived of the idea, I decided to limit my selection of long-running film series to any sequence of films that totaled five or more. True, I have written about one three-film series (that'd be Basket Case ) and one four-film series (that'd be 3 Ninjas , which I still think someone owes me for), but I typically like to stick to five. I did this for two reasons.
One was that I felt a film series was really in the thick of things by the time it got to part V; by the fifth film, we'll have strayed so far from the original premise, that we might have to contend with something new, adding an odd epic element to an otherwise interesting film series. The second reason was to avoid the spate of fraudulent Part IVs that had sprung up a few years ago. Like a film series was content with three parts, but decided to tack on a fourth chapter years after the fact in what always felt like a cynical cash-grab. Think of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Think of Rambo. Think of Die Hard. Closed at three, re-opened under new management at four. In short, I made up my five-part rule specifically to avoid doing a series like Die Hard.
Of course, Die Hard, in a twist I never could have expected, bucked my expectations by stretching into a fifth. There are even rumors of a sixth in the mill. This means it's ripe for the Series Project plucking, and it's high time I turn my critical eye on another deserving series that will be, next week, opening its fifth and final (?) chapter. What's more, the first film will be celebrating its 25th annivarsary this year, and a retrospective Blu-ray set has been released to commemorate the event. I have managed to get my greasy critical mitts on a copy of said the Die Hard 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Collection , and all my reviews will be taken directly from my Blu-ray experience.
Before I begin in earnest, let me explain my relationship with Die Hard. The first Die Hard film came out in 1988, just weeks before my tenth birthday. It was a huge hit, and even though they were young, all of my peers managed to see it. I think cable TV might have a lot to do with that. Die Hard was praised endlessly by my friends as the most awesomest film ever (right next to Predator), fulla 'splosions an' fights an' blood an' swears, and the really cool scene were the bad guy falls off a tall building.
From a cultural standpoint, this film came out right when I was the right age. But, being the typical pop-culture oddball I was, I didn't see it until I was 30 years old. I saw a few scenes of Die Hard with a Vengeance on TV in college, I guess, but never saw a frame of the original for many years. Yes, like many other so-called action classics of the 1980s, I did not watch it in its heyday. Ditto on flicks like 48 Hrs., Beverly Hills Cop, Predator, Lethal Weapon, Commando, Aliens, Star Wars, and several others. Where was I? I dunno, really. Playing Nintendo, watching Mel Brooks movies, watching cartoons, watching "Star Trek" reruns, and running around outside, I guess.
Unlike many of my peers, I seemed to have little drive toward action and car chases. To my credit, I have by now seen all of those films I listed. I think this is what happens when a) you don't have cable TV in your house, and b) you watch weird-ass cult movies like Eraserhead at too early an age. My love for films has always skewed toward the weird as a result of my local video store's “cult” section. Mainstream action blockbusters were a tertiary concern.
Discovering Die Hard, however, was a wonderful experience for me. I have since fallen in love with Die Hard, and have seen it several times since, including on the big screen on a nice, new 35mm print which I projected myself. I love every explosion, fight and nuance of the original. Die Hard is not a fake action movie. It's the real deal.
The premise of the series is this: in each film, resilient and wise-cracking New York cop John McClane, played by Bruce Willis in all of the films, discovers a huge plot involving terrorists of some stripe. He is often thrust unexpectedly into the middle of a crime, and must use his resourcefulness to get himself out. McClane is a brutal guy who is not above having fistfights or shooting bad guys or using explosives. He is untrusted by his superiors. He has a tempestuous marriage that will eventually end, as well as two children. There is no other arc to John McClane's life. He is un-nuanced. He's just a fun action star.
Let's get this helicopter exploding with my coverage of the 1988 original. I will be brief, because I know you know it.
Die Hard (dir. John McTiernan, 1988)
What can I say about Die Hard? It's a perfect movie. Seriously, the film is impeccable. It's long without dragging. It's explosive without being indulgent. It's funny without being goofy. Every clever premise is just clever enough. It's not ponderous or deep, and contains no “big” ideas. It's just the single most efficient and spectacular action film since, gosh, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
I'm not just blowing smoke here either. Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant , two very funny, and very successful Hollywood screenwriters (and erstwhile members of "The State"), have written a book on the basic mechanics of Hollywood screenwriting, giving nothing but practical advice on how to operate within the system. One of their central pieces of advice was to watch Die Hard. A lot.
In terms of screenwriting, Die Hard is pretty much flawless. Every single detail that is introduced early in the film comes directly into play later in the film. The characters are all in the right places, and they all move in relation to each other. No action feels extraneous or padded. No shootout is gratuitous. Even little things stand out; early in the movie, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), McClane's estranged wife, casually turns down a picture frame for a very definite reason.
Much later in the film, Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), the villain, turns the picture up after having had to deal with McClane and his explosive shenanigans for hours. The moment cements the fact that the villain finally knows who the hero is, and the action is ratcheted up all the more. It's just a little detail, but it's the kind of detail that enriches a Hollywood screenplay, and turns it from an action flick into a great action flick. Die Hard is full of little moments like that. Seriously, if you're thinking of writing a successful action movie that will sell and be celebrated, watch Die Hard. A lot.
The story is familiar to everyone: New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) has come to Los Angeles to try to patch up his marriage with Holly, who has been living alone in L.A. with their kids and her maiden name. They meet at a Christmas Eve party (Die Hard is most definitely a Christmas film) that is being held in her state-of-the-art office building.
The office workers are the only ones left in the building for the holiday. Just when John and Holly are on the cusp of patching things up, Hans Gruber breaks into the building and takes all the people hostage. John manages to escape notice, and flees into the building with no shoes (!) and a gun. Eventually John manages to do battle with Gruber's various thugs, acquiring weapons and small scraps of information as to what Gruber is really up to. The good guy and the bad guy banter over walkie-talkies, but never meet until much later in the film. McClane must not only discover Gruber's plan and do battle with increasingly pissed-off gun-toting thugs, but get the attention of the cops for backup, in the form of Al (Reginald VelJohnson from "Family Matters").
Also, there's an eventual media circus and FBI involvement. Paul Gleason plays a clueless cop, William Atherton plays a jerky ambitious reporter, Robert Davi appears as a murderous FBI guy, there's a cokehead yuppie (Hart Bochner), and a brave owner of the building (James Shigeta). De'voreaux White plays a sassy limo driver named Argyle who is unwittingly locked in the basement. The screenplay puts all these pieces on the board, and never loses track as to where each of them is at any given moment.
Die Hard is long at 131 minutes, but it earns its length. It ratchets up the action to a delirious degree, and does go over the top, but it's that rare action film that earns its dramatic upticks. Often an action film will pile on a huge finale just for the sake of it; there'll be a big fight, but it will feel compulsory. Die Hard hits a lot of familiar action movie beats, but it never feels clichéd. It's always fun and awesome.
Indeed, Die Hard was such a success (it was nominated for four tech Oscars), it came to be a new Hollywood mold for action pictures. I feel like something was born with Die Hard. For over a decade, the new action film ideal had to involve clever terrorists and resourceful, hard-working lawmen facing off in concrete-steel jungles.
They were definitely an adjunct of Badass Cinema , these Die Hard imitators, but they were less about muscular might (à la Commando) than they were about a new level of slick spectacle. Die Hard had some wit, and bigger explosions than ever before. In the late '80s and early '90s, you would see many movie posters that proudly declared “IT'S LIKE 'DIE HARD' ON A _____________!” Indeed, the Die-Hard-on-a-bus film from 1994, Jan de Bont's Speed, is another action classic of a similar caliber, if not a different vintage. De Bont, not incidentally, was the DP on Die Hard. Eventually that type of hype came full-circle, though. I think I saw someone tout their action flick as “Speed in a building!” Or was that a joke I heard?
The theme music to Die Hard was Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which now has me thinking of this film and A Clockwork Orange simultaneously.
I'm glad I eventually saw Die Hard, even though it took me about 20 years. I'm happy to watch it anytime. I know people who watch it every Christmas. It's pretty universally loved. If you have any beefs with the film (or its fans; I know unending praise for a film from peers can be obnoxious), let me know. I'm not going to fight you, or even hold you up as a bizarre example of the single outlier (as a critic, I've been in that position way too many times to throw any stones), but I would like to hear what flaws the film has. Even if you love it, point them out to me, because, honestly, I can't find any. It's that solid.
Oh wait. I did think of one flaw. It comes in the form of…
Die Hard 2 (dir. Renny Harlin, 1990)
a.k.a. Die Hard 2: Die Harder
I guess the sequel was inevitable. It's a pity it had to be this one. I did just call Die Hard a perfect action movie, so I suppose if one were to compare any action film to it, it would only pale in comparison. So any sequel to Die Hard would have to be a disappointment. Like any film series that bursts out of the gate with a well-known classic as its first chapter, follow-ups can only ever be disappointments. Think The Exorcist. Think Rocky . Think Dirty Harry .
As such, Die Hard 2 (whose sometimes-used subtitle of Die Harder only baffles me) plays like a vague, high-octane action film that could be the sequel to any ol’ action flick. Indeed, you will learn in the credits that this film was based on a Walter Wager novel called 58 Minutes, which did not feature John McClane or any of the Die Hard characters. The novel was, from what I understand, adapted into a screenplay, and was then repurposed at the last minute to be a Die Hard sequel. Despite all the common characters the resulting film shared with the original Die Hard, Die Hard 2 feels like it was repurposed. There’s nothing about the action that warrants the return of John McClane. I feel like Die Hard 2 would have worked better had it just been a proper Die Hard ripoff.
To be fair, Die Hard 2 is not awful. It's just kind of a mess that leaves you distinctly unsatisfied. It's a jumble of action sequences that lack the taut closed-in atmosphere of the first. John McClane (Bruce Willis) is no longer confined to a small, easy-to-read space like a single locked-up building, making for the first film’s ever-appealing geographical efficiency. Now he's running willy-nilly all over Dulles International Airport, often with an unclear goal in mind, trying to stop a bad guy with unclear goals, an ever-growing roster of cronies, and who is not nearly as interesting as Alan Rickman, even though he's played by Italian exploitation deity Franco Nero.
Nero plays a South American drug lord named General Esperanza who has recently been apprehended by international police, and who is to be extradited to Washington DC through Dulles International Airport on Christmas Eve. John McClane happens to be at that same airport on that same day. John has patched things up with Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who is in a plane, about to meet him on the ground.
At the same time, we see a slick muscular thug named Stuart (the awesome William Sadler) lurking about in a black outfit, taking over an abandoned church just outside of town so that he may set up a remote techno-lab. The first time we see Sadler’s character, he’s practicing tai chi in a motel room in the nude. I love it when the first shot of a movie’s villain is a nude tai chi scene, which is, oddly, a conceit I’ve encountered several times. It won’t take you long to figure out that Sadler has found a way to override the Dulles air traffic control towers, and force planes to crash. That he also wants to rescue Esperanza from the cops shouldn’t come as a surprise either.
The notion of plane crashes and stolen air traffic control was actually somewhat topical in 1990. I don’t know how many people remember this, but Ronald Reagan once notoriously fired a great many air traffic controllers when they went on strike in 1981. The following years saw a huge amount of near-misses at airports, as less qualified people had to take the reins. Okay, maybe by 1990 it wasn’t so topical, but it was something I thought of. However, in this era of the TSA and removed shoes, a 1990 flick about air travel will seem chaotic and quaint.
Some other familiar faces are back for Die Hard 2. Holly, for instance, finds herself on a plane with William Atherton’s Richard Thornburg, the jerky ambitious reporter from the first Die Hard. The two of them spend the entirety of Die Hard 2 on a plane that is circling Dulles, waiting for clearance to land, threatening to run out of fuel. Thornburg spends the bulk of the film using radio transmitters to listen in on the terrorists, and attempting to relay the news back to his network.
That he causes a panic shouldn’t come as a surprise. Also back is Reginald VelJohnson, who has a good-natured phone conversation with John McClane. McClane, it should be clarified at this point, is an old-fashioned type of guy who is suspicious of new trends, and hateful of new technologies. Fax machines weird him out, and he prefers to use guns and fists and old-fashioned footwork to solve crimes. There’s an integrity to that, although by the fourth Die Hard film, as we’ll discover next week, the Luddite shtick will wear thin.
John McClane has an unexpected shoot-out with some thugs, which leads him to discover that bad guys are lurking around the airport, which, in turn, leads him to intuit the bad guy’s plan. The rest of the film is pretty much McClane shouting things like “Why won’t you listen to me! They’re up to something!” The moral of the story is: always listen to John McClane. There are a lot more twists and turns, and plenty of other characters (Fred Dalton Thompson is an air traffic controller, Dennis Franz is a snippy cop, and there’s a functionally retarded janitor who lives under the airport, and who helps McClane), but the story feels like a hastily-assembled mess.
There’s a twist late in the film, for instance, that reveals how many people are really working for Esperanza, and it’s a plot twist that doesn’t hold up to any logical scrutiny. There are some cool set-pieces, I guess; there’s a scene where McClane, in order to escape a landed plane with grenades in it, must eject himself out the top, and that’s pretty cool.
But many of the set-pieces are clunky and kind of dumb; the way McClane dispatches the bad guy’s fleeing airplane at the end of the film is pretty ridiculous, as it involves a living flashfire that can somehow travel faster than a plane and leap through the air, into a fuel tank, and blow up an entire plane, all in moments. There’s also not one but two fights on the wing of a moving plane, only one of which ends in a guy being fed into a jet engine.
I wasn’t very fond of director Renny Harlin to begin with (I suppose A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 is pretty good, and I like The Long Kiss Goodnight a lot, but he has Driven, an Exorcist prequel, an Andrew “Dice” Clay vehicle and Cutthroat Island working against him), and Die Hard 2 isn’t helping his case. Again, not awful or incompetent, but most certainly disappointing when compared to the taut perfection of the original.
Y’know who'd make an awesome Die Hard sequel?
Die Hard with a Vengeance (dir. John McTiernan, 1995)
Despite its pretty stultifying title (how does one die with a vengeance? is that worse than dying hard with a vengeance?), Die Hard with a Vengeance kicks huge amounts of ass. The original director is back, and he seems to know exactly what to do with the material, i.e. ratchet it up to amazingly spectacular levels, making sure to stay just barely below the overkill line. I recall when the film was released in 1995, it was often lambasted for… I dunno really. I just seem to recall critcs and Die Hard fans giving the flick a bum rap. I don’t know why. The film is awesome.
True, it feels like three or four movies crammed into one, but this seemed to come from a time when single action films felt the need to give more bang for the buck. Die Hard with a Vengeance is not trim or sleek like its 1988 predecessor. It only has some of the plot efficiency that made the original such a well-loved classic. Indeed, it’s rather bloated and enormous. But in a really, really enjoyable way. Dang, the film is entertaining.
The story boils down to essentially a scavenger hunt, a subgenre I happen to be very fond of. We’re in New York now, John McClane’s home turf, and the movie is very much a New York movie, largely about the geography of the city, traveling on subways, and, most of all, dealing with brusque New Yorkers. The local color of pre-Giuliani NYC seems to be right on the money. McClane (Bruce Willis) is now separated from Holly again (Bonnie Bedelia does not appear in the film), and is teetering on the brink of alcoholism.
When a mad bomber nicknamed Simon (Jeremy Irons) begins blowing up small chunks of the city, he specifically asks that McClane be brought in to investigate. Simon gives bizarre instructions to McClane, threatening to blow up another bomb should he not comply. McClane must race to various payphones throughout the city, answering calls from Simon, and solving puzzles and math problems. One of the challenges is to go to Harlem wearing a sandwich board with a racial slur written on it. That sort of thing. The scavenger hunt approach is a grand way to tell an action story.
Along the way, McClane accumulates a friendly and fierce shop-owner named Zeus (Samuel L. Jackson), and much of the film depends on the banter and chemistry between the grizzled white cop, and the no-nonsense black civilian. Maybe that’s why people objected to the film: John McClane, by 1995, was seen as an all-American lone wolf badass, and pairing him up with a mismatched “buddy,” in what is essentially an ancient movie trope, seemed to cheapen the character.
I didn’t mind, as their chemistry is great, their banter feels natural, and Zeus is an interesting character played by an intense actor. I kind of hate when any movie series starts buying its own hype anyway. Like when the drama in the film is predicated on how important the character is to the audience going in. Think of the Star Wars prequels . So much of those films were based on what audiences already knew about Star Wars beforehand, and, as a result, the films felt presumptuous.
I don’t want to assume anyone is a badass going in, even if I know who they are. James Bond should always have an opening action scene showing what he can do, even if we’ve seen it in twenty-some movies in the past. John McClane started to become too mythic for his own good. He moved from a hard-working cop into a bullet-proof badass. Keep in mind, when the first Die Hard came out in 1988, Bruce Willis hadn’t yet proven himself as a viable action star. Indeed, he was only known for comedic stuff like "Moonlighting." John McClane was not a badass. He was more of an everyman. He bled copiously, and got seriously injured (indeed, that’s a trope of these movies: McClane bleeds a lot).
By the sequels, though, his reputation has grown, and he was considered a badass in the minds of the audiences. People now expected him to actually become indestructible and tough, even though that wasn’t really the point the first time around. My guess is that many fans, ironically, objected to Die Hard with a Vengeance because of how much it did resemble the tone of the first. Here’s an everyman doing wild stuff that is within the purview of a regular cop who just happens to be enormously resilient and extraordinarily brave.
Okay, maybe McClane is something of a superhero, but I wouldn’t put the 1988 version of the character in the same camp as folks like John Rambo.
What else? The rock star Sam Phillips plays the butch mute assassin in this flick. Colleen Camp shows up as a cop. There’s a resilient bomb guy. The film blows up a subway train, a boat, and a helicopter. The villain’s ultimate plan is, of course, more than to just mess around with John McClane; it turns out he is using the bombings as a distraction to rob all the gold out of the Federal Reserve.
It’s also mentioned that Simon is actually Hans Gruber’s brother, which is a dumb plot development, and could have been cut from the film entirely without losing anything. Another thing I hate about some sequels: when the drama is predicated on the hero’s established history. Like in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The first film in that series was a story of an interesting character solving an interesting crime. The sequels, sadly, weren’t about her solving crimes anymore, it all became about skeletons in the character’s closet.
Die Hard with a Vengeance, what with the vengeful brother angle, begins to feel like John McClane is starting to eat his own tail. Luckily, the evil brother angle is not vital, and we can focus on the kick-ass action scenes, like when McClane and Zeus dangle a truck’s winch over the Brooklyn Bridge in order to hook a passing boat so that they may climb down the wire onto the boat. 1995 was a better time for special effects than today, as it involved more real explosions and real stunts. Check out the subway crash sequence. It’s amazing.
So, yes, I defend the third Die Hard film. It’s just an awesome thrill ride that feels like it’s going out of its way to entertain you. Like it’s not content to give you one finale, so it throws in three. It blows up way more than it needs to. The villain changes alliance several times. It’s like expecting to get off a rollercoaster, but the operator decides, at the last minute, to run you through again. I don’t seem to get that kind of devotion from any action directors anymore.
And that’s where we’ll leave it for the week, kiddos. Be sure to join me next week for my coverage of the years-after-the-fact Live Free or Die Hard, and my review of the brand new A Good Day to Die Hard. Settle into the saddle, and scream yippie-ki-yay.
Witney Seibold is a featured contributor on the CraveOnline Film Channel, co-host of The B-Movies Podcast and co-star of The Trailer Hitch . You can read his weekly articles B-Movies Extended , Free Film School and The Series Project , and follow him on “Twitter” at @WitneySeibold , where he is slowly losing his mind.
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Thought we needed this. A thread that has a master list of the cartoons many of us are here to remember. So, I'm making one. Names, and a brief description for them. I'll probably miss things, as I'm going based off of my intro collection, and the ones I'm looking for. If its not on that list, it probably won't be here, so feel free to add your own!
(and I'll say now that I'll try to keep my own opinions of the shows more or less to myself, so if I don't give your favorite show the workup you think it deserves, forgive me, but I'm trying to be brief and to the point)
ALF: The Animated Tales
Cashing in on the popularity of the live action sitcom, the ALF cartoon was all about his life on planet Melmac before he came to Earth.
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Three young boys, who happen to be anthro chipmunks, who also happen to be famous singers.
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Based on the movie of the same name, a teenage boy had to protect his town from the evil mutant tomatoes the evil scientist was always turning loose on it. Accompanied, of course, by the screw up experimental tomoato that turned into a pretty girl in skimpy clothes. Just like the movie!
Bananaman
The british boy who gains super powers whenever he eats a banana.
Battle of the Planets/G-Force
Group of 5 teenagers that put on bird-like costumes and fight space invaders in their vehicles that merge together to form a fighter ship that turns into a phoenix.
Bionic Six
A multi-racial family enhanced with cybornetic super powers who fight an evil genius named Scarab.
Bravestarr
A native american marshal in an outter space wild west setting, and his trusty robot horse/partner named 30-30.
Bucky O'Hare
A green anthro rabbit spaceship captain and his crew of furries that fight against toads, along with their human boy that keeps the ship running.
Camp Candy
A summer camp run by John Candy, and the normal missadventures one would expect from kids at camp.
Captain N: The Game Master
Made by Nintendo, featured a teenage boy that gets sucked into his video game and meets all the classic Nintendo characters like Megaman and Kid Icarus.
Captain Planet
5 teenagers from around the globe are given magic rings and fight to stop pollution with the help of Captain Planet, who is summoned "when their powers combine" by holding up their rings and calling out the names of their elements.
Care Bears
Lovey little magic teddy bear people that lived in the sky and wanted nothing more than to bring good dreams to all the world's little boys and girls. Based on the toys of the same name.
Centurians
A group of specialists wearing mechanical body suits that get beamed to differant locations and "fuse" with elite weapon systems to fight Doc Terror, and his cyborg assistant Hacker.
COPS
A group of Chicago police, all of whom were built like quarterbacks, who did all of the normal cop things, but in a super fun way, typically with large exaggerated weapons that real cops would never get to use, like rocket launchers.
Count Duckula
After a slip up while reviving the vampire duck lord, he gets turned into a vegetarian vampire. Along with his stalwart butler, airheaded nanny, and a magical time travelling castle, he jaunts off to any time, any place to have an adventure.
Darkwing Duck
By day, a mild mannered malard, by night, the masked crime fighting duck in the purple hat. Had his famous smoke entry, and the catchphrase of "Lets get dangerous". Partner was Launchpad, the dimwitted mechanic from the show it sort of spun off of, Duck Tales.
David the Gnome
The foot tall guy that lived in a tree, was an animal doctor, and looked just like a garden gnome. Series generally focused on caring, living in harmony with nature, and solving problems with whit and intelligence instead of brute force.
Defenders of the Earth
Classic comic strip heroes like Flash Gordon and The Phantom form a super hero team, along with their children, to fight the evil emporer Ming the Merciless.
Dennis the Mennace
Animated series based on the famous sunday morning comic strip. He was always getting in trouble, usually with one of his friends like Joey or Ginna.
Denver the Last Dinosaur
Bunch of LA kids discover a huge dinosaur egg, which hatches into a rock 'n roll loving green dinosaur. His egg shell was magical, and would let them go back to the age of dinosaurs on special occasions. Spent a lot of time trying to hide Denver (the dinosaur) from the adults.
Dinosaucers
Anthro dinosaurs from outter space come to earth. The good dinosaurs, the Dinosaucers, recruit a small group of earth children to be their "secret scouts" against the evil Tyrannos.
Droids
Animated series based on the Star Wars franchise, which told part of the story of the Droids, the part leading up to A New Hope. Was actually voiced by Anthony Daniels (C-3PO).
Duck Tales
Scrooge McDuck and his giant vault full of money, and his three nephews who would go treasure hunting at the drop of a hat, and 3 bungling burglers that always tried to steal his money.
Dungeons and Dragons
Animation based off the popular roleplaying game. A group of children get sucked into the D&D world, are given magical items by the little gnome of a Dungeon Master, and quest around the world of D&D trying to find their way home.
Ewoks
Usually paired with Droids, this cartoon focused on Wicket, the young ewok (the little furry guys from Return of the Jedi), and all of the things ewoks do when they're not throwing rocks at storm troopers.
Galaxy High
Two students are taken to a highschool in outter space, where popularity roles are reversed. The nerdy girl becomes miss popular, while the jock boy becomes the biggest loser on campus. You may remember the one alien bully that was essentially a fried egg.
Galaxy Rangers
A group of high tech lawmen in a futuristic wild west frontier setting on another planet that rode robot horses and kept order.
Galtar and the Golden Lance
Big blonde muslebound hero with his magical lance (which wasn't actually a lance, but a two bladed sword that broke in the middle to make two normal swords), his female friend with a magical armband, and her little brother with a big boomerang that broke into little pieces against the bad guy that wanted the power of the golden lance for himself.
Garfield and Friends
A 15 minute animated version of the classic sunday morning comic strip about the loveble fatcat and the dumb dog, and their loser owner. Also paired with a 15 minute companion cartoon about farm animals doing silly things.
Ghostbusters
No, not Ray, Egon, and Slimer, but the original Ghostbusters cartoon (why the one with Slimer had to be called the REAL Ghostbusters). Had a pair of humans and their gorilla partner who caught ghosts. You may remember the talking skull telephone, the bone wardrobe transportation system, or the funky old fashioned car with talking ghost emblem and wacky wheels.
G.I. Joe
A highly trained special military force that defended America against the terrorist organization known as Cobra. They had all of the best military toys like F-16s and helicopters. Lots of people shooting, but nobody ever really got shot, and the badguys always bailed out of their planes before getting shot down.
Gobots
Series based on a line of Transformer knock-offs aimed at young children, as they were very easy to transform. The show basically followed the same plot as Transformers, but was aimed at younger children.
Gravedale High
Rick Morranis (from Honey I Shrunk the Kids) is the human teacher at a high school for classic horror movie monster teenagers.
Gummie Bears
A family of magical bears that live in a tree during medieval times, who brew a magic gummiberry juice that made them bounce like they were made out of rubber, but that made humans super strong.
Hammerman
A short lived series that featured the musical singer M.C. Hammer as a super hero.
Heathcliff and the Cadillac Cats
Two mini-shows in one. Half revolved around a fat orange cat that liked to pick on dogs and knock over trash cans. The other half was about a group of cats, one that wore roller skates, that lived in a junkyard and had a beat up old caddy that could transform into a boat.
He-Man
An all-time classic. Whenever nerdy Prince Adam held aloft his magic sword, and said "By the power of Grayskull!", he became He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe! He fought the evil forces of Skeletor for control of the planet Eternia.
Hulk Hogan's Rock N Wrestling
Featured Hulk Hogan and his "good" wrestling friends trying to do normal living stuff, be good citizens, but somehow the "bad" wrestlers like Rowdy Roddy Piper always screw it up.
Inhumanoids
A group of giant evil monsters have been awakened, and its up to a force of humans with a vehicle with a big claw on it to drive them back. The humans had a kind of rock golem friend that could split in half into positive and negative powered versions of itself for some tag-team action.
Inspector Gadget
A bumbling police inspector with all manner of hidden robotic parts tries to solve crimes, but its actually his niece and her super intelligent dog Brain that do all the work, while he gets the credit. But she doesn't mind helping out her uncle when he needs it.
J.E.M.
A group of "plain" girls turn into super fashionable singers thanks to the help of their super computer "Synergy", and are harrassed by a rival group of singers called the Misfits. The show featured trendy songs being sung by both groups, and the relationship between the main girl and her manager.
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
A vehicle show about a young man, his Han Solo-esque smuggler friend, a bumbling wizard, and a young girl that was actually a plant that drove big wheeled vehicles against the "Monster Minds" who were evil guys that turned into evil looking vehicles. Jayce, the young man, is searching for his father.
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
The real King Arthur and his knights are captured, so Merlin zaps a football team back in time, and gives them magic suits of armor that store weapons in their chests, and pit them against the evil forces of the wicked Morgonna.
Kidd Video
A real life band gets sucked through a mirror by "Master Blaster" to be his musical slaves, becoming cartoons in the process. They're rescued by a fairy wearing a sweatsuit that gets super strong when she sneezes, and their journey through a surreal landscape as they try to get back to the real world. And their mini-truck turns into a giant cheshire cat space ship looking thing that drives along. Often mistaken as a drug endused dilusion by many people because of how surreal it was, if they've ever actually taken drugs or not.
Laser Tag Academy
Based on the laser tag toys, this one sported a girl that comes back from the future where the Laser Tag Academy is like the modern day police, and is trying to catch a time criminal. She moves in with her present day family (she's only a teenager), and hunts the badguy on the side. The laser tag pistols seem to do everything from zap badguys to make modern technology fly like it was from the future.
Legend of Zelda
Based off the original Zelda video games, featuring a lanky sarcastic Link that was always trying to get Princess Zelda to go out with him.
The Littl' Bits
Classic Nick Toon, about a whole villiage of tiny little people that live in the forest.
The Littles
Based on a book called "The Borrowers", this family of six inch tall people with tails lived inside the walls of a house, in which only the human boy named Henry Biggs knew they existed, except for the one bad man that was always trying to catch them and put them on display.
The Little Prince
Actually a translation of a french cartoon, played on Nick. The Little Prince lived on a tiny planet (literally, he could run around the entire world in like 30 seconds) and use a butterfly net to nab comets to ride to Earth to befriend children and play with them. No, this isn't a show about Micheal Jackson...
M.A.S.K.
A group of special agents that don large helmets in order to control their normal looking cars and motorcycles that turn into differant things. Like the car that opens it's seagull wings and flies like an airplane, or the semi truck that turns into a missle base. Fought bad guys with similar powered vehicles.
Maya the Bee
Nick Toon about a female bumblebee without a hive, and her grasshopper friend, learning how to play fair and be a good person.
Muppet Babies
The characters from the Muppet Show, only as diaper wearing toddlers. The original cartoon of it's type (none of the new Baby Loonytunes stuff), which was good for both children for it's fun nature, and for adults because of it's MASSIVE amounts of pop culture referances.
Mysterious Cities of Gold
Centered around a spanish boy named Estaban, and his two south/central american friends Zia and Tao as they looked for El Dorado, the cities of gold. They had a big golden condor flying machine that ran on sunlight. Remarkable for actually having an ongoing plot from start to finish.
Mighty Max
Not 80's, but very early 90's. A boy named Max sucked into a magic portal and finds a red baseball cap with an M on it, and befriends a wise old talking chicken named Virgil, and a giant strongman with a sword named Norman. The cap let him activate magic portals to zap him around the world to thwart the evil intentions of the bad guy.
Might Orbots
A Voltron-esque show where the big robot was actually made up of 5 smaller robots with distinct personalities, that was piloted by a pair of human kids, who fought a galactic evil that looks like something out of a hindu wall painting.
My Little Pony
Centered around animated versions of the classic toy line. Sometimes they were magical, sometimes not, sometimes with human friends, all depending on the series. Always had multicolored ponies with pretty hair that taught a lesson on friendship or the like.
The Noozles
Nick Toon from the golden age of Nick, about a girl with her "stuffed" panda bear, which would actually come to life when she noozled it's nose (aka rubbed her nose against it's). The bear, Blinky, and his magical flying sister named Pinky, were from an alternate dimension inside of Aires Rock in Australia.
Paw Paws
Essentially a more boys oriented version of Smurfs, which featured tiny little fuzzy bear native american type creatures, that had a giant wooden totem pole that would come to life and protect them from the evil wizard little furry bear shaman thing.
Pirates of Dark Water
Actually from the early 90's, centered around a young prince and his motly crew of pirates trying to collect the 13 Treasures of Rule to save their alien world from the flesh-eating tar-like "darkwater", while being chased by a fat pirate lord and his giant ship made out of bones. Had a red monkey with bird wings named Niddler.
Pole Position
Three kids, a teenage brother and sister, and their younger sister, take over the role of their parents as members of Pole Position, a crime fighting organization that had super fast fancy cars.
Police Academy
Based off of the movies of the same name, and centering on a group of iconic police cadets and their wacky miss-adventures, typically involving the humiliation of their high strung instructor.
Pound Puppies
While they look like cute puppies that want a home, they actually have a secret underground organization to rescue lost pups and get them adopted. The pound was owned by an evil old mother with equally evil sister, and a kind hearted daughter that protected the dogs from her mother's wrath.
Punky Brewster
A hit live action comedy sitcom, the animated version followed the ever irrepressible Punky Brewster and her furry friend Glommer, who lived on the other side of the rainbow, and could grant wishes.
Pro-Stars
A group of sports stars, including names like Wayne Gretsky and Micheal Jordon, protrayed as near super-heroes with high tech gadgets (Micheal had rocket shoes, for instance) that saved the day.
Rainbow Bright
A young girl is taken to Rainbow Land to help the color sprites get their world's color, which is in the form of big colored stars, back from the badguy named Murky, who keeps trying to make the world gloomy.
Real Ghostbusters
Based off the Ghostbusters movies, Ray, Egon, Peter, and Winston set out to catch all manner of ghosts and undead critters. Was actually very dark in the first season, although it lightened up and became less serious as time went on.
Rescue Rangers
Disney show based on Chip and Dale, the two classic cartoon gophers, who have started a detective service along with the female mouse Gadget (who was a master of inventing things) and a strongmouse with a thing for cheese. Their motto was "No Case Too Big, No Crime Too Small".
Robotech
A multigenerational series featuring transforming space jets that turned into fighting robots to defend earth and humanity from alien attackers.
Robotix
Show built around the Robotix toy line, which featured girders with nuts and bolts, and metal plates you could build robots out of. A warring race was about to be wiped out, and to survive transferred their conciousness to "Robotix", essentially very large, very clunky looking robots. The show's creators wanted a chunk of the Transformers pie, but didn't get it.
Saber Rider
Another futuristic wild west sherrif type cartoon, except this one featured most of the crew piloting space ships, while only one actually rode a mechanical horse, and carried a calvary saber.
Sectaurs
On an alien planet, there are giant bugs, and insect like people that ride them and fight each other. Which was basically the entire plot to this little know series, designed around the Sectaur line of toys. You may or may not remember this big dragonfly toy who's legs were a black glove you put on your hand, that would flap it's wings? This is where that came from.
Shazam!
Based on the comic title of the same name, a young man reporter becomes the superhero Shazam by saying... SHAZAM! He was essentially a Superman knockoff.
She-Ra
The girls version of He-Man. Essentially the same plot, except starring Princess Adora instead of Prince Adam, who yelled "For the Honor of Grayskull!", and had a horse with rainbow wings as a partner instead of He-Man's big green Battlecat. It was basically a carbon copy of He-Man, just aimed at girls.
Silverhawks
Featuring most of the voice actors from Thundercats, Silverhawks was a group of police in deep space with android bodies, all of which were bright shiney metal, that had foil wings that came out of the bottom of their arms. They had a space ship they rode around in to get places, which was controlled by the wingless Bluegrass, who controlled it by playing the guitar.
Sky Commanders
Based on a rather ingenious toy line that featured little ropes you would hang across your room like ziplines and let the figures slide down. Same basic plot to the cartoon, the goodguys and badguys alike had high tech backpack units that would shoot out cables that they could ride along. Other than that, it was the standard "group of good guys versus group of badguys in a laser gun fight" type cartoon.
Smurfs
Little six inch blue people with little white hats and stockings that lived in mushrooms. An evil human wizard named Gargemeal was always trying to catch the Smurfs, because he wanted to eat some, and turn the rest into gold.
The Snorks
It was Smurfs, underwater, with "hip" teenage critters with snorkle like tubes on top of their heads they used to jet around with.
Sonic the Hedgehog
Based on the original SEGA Genesis games, Sonic and Princess Sally Acorn lead a group of resistance fighters agains the evil Dr. Robotnick to free their land from his grubby technological control.
Space Sentinals
Hercules, Mercury, and a woman named Astria were actually real humans taken to outter space, given super powers, and returned to earth to guard it from assorted evils. Played out quite similar to the original Super Friends cartoon.
Spiderman and his Amazing Friends
Spiderman, Iceman, and Firestorm team up to fight classic Marvel badguys. It was narrated by Stan Lee himself.
Spiral Zone
A group of special military agents fight what is essentially an evil biker gang using a series of body armor suits and vehicles quite clearly designed to match a line of toys. The 80's was notoroius for it's half hour long animated toy commercials, and this was no exception.
Star Blazers
Earth has been blasted from space by alien invaders, their defense force is virtually gone, and the planet is dying when they get word from another planet that they have a way to reverse the damage. So, desperate, they raise the Battleship Yamamoto (a WWII japanese battleship) from the now dry sea floor, do a quick retrofit, and rush it off to get this miracle cure to bring back to save the world.
StarCom
An american-esque military force in outer space that defend the world against alien invaders in high powered attack craft launched from an orbiting defense station.
Strawberry Shortcake
Based on a line of plushie dolls that smelled like fresh fruits and pies, it was a cartoon about girls that looked just like the pudgy dolls that got into "trouble", and had to get back out. However, as a show aimed more at girls, it tended to avoid mischevous kinds of trouble, and revolved more along the hurt feelings kind of trouble.
Super Mario Brothers Super Show
Cartoon show based on the classic nintendo characters Mario and Luigi, as they save/protect the Princess from Bowser. Each episode was introduced and closed by a live action Mario with a lousy Italian accent.
Super Ted
A teddy bear that was given life by a magical space man and turned into a super hero by mother nature herself. Yeah...
Talespin
Featuring many of the characters from the classic Junglebook story, recast into a show where Baloo is a freight delivering pilot that always out-flew, and out-witted a group of air pirates, and the big business man Shear-Khan. Featured what is perhaps the single coolest real airplane in existance, the Seaduck (actually a Conwing Heavy Transport)
Teddy Ruxpin
Teddy Ruxpin was a story telling toy from the 80s, essentially a tape player stuck into a teddy bear that moved it's mouth while the tape made it sound like he was reading you a story. The show simply took these stories, and turned them into cartoon adventures.
Teen Wolf
Based off the movie, a teenage guy tries to juggle highschool and a social life on one hand, while trying to keep the secret that he and his entire family are actually werewolves. Not the bad kind, just the kind that get furry and grow fangs, but are otherwise normal kind of werewolf.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Four mutant turtle ninjas and their rat sensei that lived in the sewers, and fought the evil ninja clan of The Foot, lead by the walking can opener of a villian named Shredder.
Thundarr the Barbarian
Actually late 70's, but still good. In a future world devistated by natural disaster, magic and technlogy have become evil forces, and its up to the barbarian named Thundarr, his magical sunsword (think lightsaber), and his two friends, the attractive sorceress and the wookie-esque Mock named Ookla to free oppressed people and right wrongs.
Thunderbirds 2086
An animated series based on the marionette show, Thunderbirds. Essentially a group of special emergency rescue forces people with futuristic vehicles that went around saving the day.
Thundercats
After fleeing to Third Earth from their doomed home planet, the Thundercats try to build a new home, explore this new world, while at the same time fighting the evil Mutants that chased them to the planet, and the everlasting source of evil, Mumm-Ra. Featured the rather phallic Sword of Omens that grew in size from a dagger to a longsword when things got rough.
Tigersharks
A group of underwater heroes that turned into fish people thanks to a special tank. It was essentially an underwater Thundercats, and had the same basic character models.
Toxic Avenger
Cartoon based on the movie of the same name. The school janitor is hit with toxic waste, and becomes a half-melted green freak, and his mop becomes sentient and develops a personality. He leads a group of equally freaky people to fight the badguys.
Transformers
A group of warring robots flee their home planet and eventually crash land on earth. After their ship scans local earth vehicles, it repairs the robots in the image of earth cars and planes. With the ability to transform from cars and planes into giant humanoid robots, they carry on their war right here on earth.
Turbo Teen
The one everyone thinks they're crazy for remembering. Yes, it had a teenage boy that turned into a bright red sports car. I believe it was when he got too hot.
Ulysses 31
A retelling of the classic story of Odysseus and his long voyage back home, only this time set in outter space. Most of the big elements from Homer's tale are here, but given an outter space edge (the cyclops for instance is a big robot space station). It saw limited north american release.
Visionaries
Based on the toys of the same name who's selling point were holographic stickers on them, Visionaries were magical people that "fought with the magic of light", essentially calling semi-real holographic images out of their armor and banners to fight for them.
Voltron
5 space explorers set out to find the legendary Voltron, which is a giant fighting robot made up of 5 individual lion robots that fuse together. If you ever wondered where Power Rangers got the idea from, this is it. Only the pilots weren't ninja powered super-heroes in their own right, and more like normal people. In outter space.
Wildfire
A very limited run cartoon featuring a young blond girl that was actually the lost princess of a fairytale world, and her magical purple horse named Wildfire. She had a medallion that let her talk to the horse, which could jump really high into magical portals to take the girl back and forth between her normal life with her adoptive father, and the fairy tale world of her origin.
Wuzzles
A wacky cartoon who's characters were two animals squished into one. Like Rhinokey, who was a prankster monkey with a rhino horn. Or Bumblebear that was part bear and part bumblebee.
(whew, and yes, this took as long to type up as it looks!)
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Which 1973 number one by Slade was later covered by Oasis? | The 10 Most Egocentric Cartoon Characters - Weird Worm
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The 10 Most Egocentric Cartoon Characters
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Cartoon characters are meant to be fun, entertaining and sometimes teach us how not to act. These characters have an ego on them the size of a freight train and they are not the least bit ashamed. Get ready to relive some childhood fun with some of the most egotistical cartoon characters of all time.
1. Scrappy Doo (Scooby Doo)
This high energy pup first appeared in 1979 as a way to save Scooby Doo from cancellation. He was seen as the nephew to the beloved Scooby Doo and by 1980 the entire series was redesigned around Scrappy Doo. This little dog has an ego bigger than his uncle as he believes he can solve any crime and fight any monster single handedly. You will rarely find a cartoon character so vehemently described as Scrappy Doo, but hate him if you must, this pup did keep the much beloved Scooby Doo on the air. Perhaps he got his ego from knowing that Shaggy and Scooby Doo’s jobs depended on him being the puppy that everyone loved to hate.
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2. Daffy Duck (Looney Toons)
Duffy Duck is perhaps the original egomaniac of cartoons. He always places himself first and would sell out his best friend if meant getting rich or saving his own skin. His arrogance and greed often get him into trouble, which in the end make him worse off than whoever he betrayed and yet this stubborn duck continues to believe that he is better than everyone else. It is no wonder then that nearly every episode found some way of punishing Daffy and he still never got the hint.
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3. Johnny Bravo (Johnny Bravo)
This twenty something mash up of James Dean and Elvis Presley has an ego that often gets him into large amounts of trouble. Despite the fact that he has never had a successful relationship, lives with his mother and spends most of his time being outsmarted by a little girl, he still manages to think highly of himself. This can actually be considered quite the accomplishment, especially his die hard belief that every woman that beats him up “wants him.”
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4. Cobra Commander (G.I. Joe)
The supreme leader of the terrorist organization Cobra. Like most evil villians he has an ego, but his ego trumps most others that you will find. He would often lead assaults himself, and then be the first to retreat if things ever went badly. He would also work his troops almost to the point of mutiny and most of his plans failed because of his own arrogance. His life revolved around a desire for power and he would allow nothing but himself to get in the way of his ambition.
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5. Lex Luthor (Superman the Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited)
This power hungry businessman loves himself almost as much as the rest of the world seems to. Lex managed to go to prison and become a supervillain while still having the support and love of the public. It’s hard not to be an egomaniac when you can do everything wrong and people still cannot help but love you.
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6. Stewie (Family Guy)
Stewie has become one of the most infamous cartoon characters on television. He is a genius infant who constantly builds devices bent on world domination, or to kill Lois. He also runs a number of get rich quick schemes that always seem to work out and he refuses to help anyone but himself, not even Brian who is the closest thing he has to a friend. He has a habit of berating everyone around him in a superior tone and honestly believes that he was born in a family of no talent imbeciles.
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7. Duckman (Duckman)
This guy never knew when to quit, unless of course there was something better to do. This lowly widower private eye made a very poor living and does little to support his children or do anything meaningful with his life. His end goal is to simply make enough money to ensure that they don’t turn off his beloved cable. His assistant Comfed, does most of the work and allows Duckman to be a selfish, lazy oaf while still having money to at least attempt to care for his children.
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8. Brainy Smurf (The Smurfs)
Brainy Smurf was the most stubborn, arrogant and egotistical of all the smurfs. He was always lording his intelligence over the other smurfs, even though when push came to shove the other smurfs had more common sense than Brainy could ever dream of. The only person that could even begin to convince Brainy that he was wrong about something was Papa Smurf. Brainy never learned though, and many episodes focused on trying to get Brainy out of trouble after he had tried to prove that he truly was better than all of the other smurfs.
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9. Bender (Futurama)
There is little doubt that Bender finds himself to be superior to all his human and alien friends. It’s also hard not to agree when he’s basically indestructible, serves a multitude of uses and lives on beer. Bender will sell out his closest friend for some quick cash, though he might regret it later, he’ll still choose the cash every time. He also takes pleasure in the misfortune of others and believes that humans will always be inferior to robots.
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10. Brain (Pinky and the Brain)
This common lab mouse believes that he has the ability to take over the world. He puts all of his faith in his supposed intelligence, though he will either overestimate the abilities of his mindless assistant Pinky or the success of the plan itself. Brain truly believes that he is the only creature with the mental capacity necessary to rule the world. Though in some episodes he does express his wish to make the world a better place through his power, his ego and unemotional nature makes that goal seem unlikely.
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BONUS: Eric Cartman (South Park)
This shockingly profane and always politically incorrect child is one of the most popular characters on the show. His only goal is to please and amuse himself and he will gladly throw anyone under the bus if it means a good time for him. Cartman is always telling his "friends" how much he hates them and always lets them know that he finds himself vastly superior to them. He is widely despised by everyone in his class and throughout most of the town, who have told Cartman that their opinion of him could never get any lower.
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Which band released the 1999 comeback single Maria? | Blondie - Maria (music video) - [259c66661]
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"Maria" is a song by the American band Blondie, taken from their 1999 album No Exit. This song was Blondie's comeback single, their first since "War Child" in July 1982. In the UK, it was the band's sixth no.1 single, topping the charts exactly 20 years after their first UK no.1 "Heart of Glass" in 1979. The song was written by the band's keyboardist Jimmy Destri, who had also penned some of their earlier hits such as "Atomic". In the US, the single peaked at #82 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
In the UK the single was released as a 2 CD set, the first containing remixes of "Maria", and the second containing live versions of "Screaming Skin" (a track from their "No Exit" album) and their very first hit single "In the Flesh".
The song's lyrics speak of a beautiful but stubborn Hispanic girl named Maria who is desired by many people who can't win her affection because of her self-guarded nature.
The line "...like a millionaire/walking on imported air" was used in a previous Blondie song, "Walk Like Me" (also written by Destri), from the album Autoamerican (1980).
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What was Cher's first UK solo number one hit single? | Maria by Blondie Songfacts
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This was written by Blondie keyboard player Jimmy Destri, who when asked what this song was about replied: "Desire. Teenage desire because I have a teenage daughter and she's pretty beautiful and I watch all these boys gawk at her. I put myself in their shoes thinking about what I used to do with girls back then. I wasn't a very forward guy at all, I was like from afar and I'd go home and write a poem about her - I was really a sad little bastard. It sounds cute but you don't get any attention that way. So 'Maria' is about desire and the whole idea of using the Ave Maria thing is a way of saying she's on a pedestal, she's almost holy. It's not a religious thing at all, I don't believe in religion really." (from the official Blondie website - thanks, Simon - welling, England)
This was Blondie's comeback song - their lead singer Debbie Harry was 53 when it was released. The band re-formed in 1998 for a tour and album after breaking up in 1982. The new version of the band was made up of original members Chris Stein (guitar) and Deborah Harry (vocals) as well as former members Jimmy Destri (keyboards) and Clem Burke (drums) along with two new members. The band was gone for about a generation, which meant there were a lot of new fans who were just discovering Blonde and hearing their earlier hits for the first time.
When this hit #1 in the UK, Blondie became the first act to have #1s in the UK in the '70s, '80s and '90s.
This may seem like a great Karaoke choice, but it's more challenging to sing than many people think. Says Debbie Harry, "It has undone many a Karaoke singer. And me."
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Which successful British pop group got their name from part of the title of a children's TV show and part of the title of a song by Roxy Music? | The 50 Greatest British Bands of All-Time – jimcofer.com
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The 50 Greatest British Bands of All-Time
So something really awful happened recently, and to take my mind off it I decided to make a list of the 50 greatest British bands of all time. The actual list only took an hour or so to make, but it’s taken me a couple of weeks to write the necessary paragraph or two about each artist.
I did my best to keep my personal tastes out of this list, insofar as that’s even possible. This isn’t a list of my favorite British bands of all time. I’ve tried to use record sales and chart performance to justify my positions as much as I could. But, at the end of the day, my musical tastes did dictate at least a little of the list. Not many of these lists would include the Cocteau Twins over, say, Squeeze, but hey – it’s my list and I’ll do it as I please.
Keep in mind that the list implicitly includes spin-off acts. If you’re wondering how I could leave Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins off the list, note that they’re included under “Genesis”. My reasoning is that if I gave Gabriel his own entry, I’d have give Collins one, too. And if I did that, I’d have to have separate entries for Joy Division and New Order, Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno, and maybe Marc Bolan. And if I did all that, my list of “50 Greatest British Bands” would become the “15 Greatest English Bands, and their 35 Spin-Off Acts”.
Of course, the list also includes artists who are primarily known for being solo acts, like David Bowie. You typically wouldn’t call Bowie a “band”, but “50 Greatest British Musical Artists of All-Time” just doesn’t have the same ring that “50 Greatest British Bands of All-Time” does.
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50) The Verve: They weren’t my favorite band (“No shit? Your #50 band isn’t your favorite?”), but there’s no denying that The Verve had a certain degree of magic when they weren’t busy arguing with each other. These guys were tight, but seemed to have more personnel issues than Spinal Tap. And it’s kind of ironic that their most popular song… is now a Rolling Stones song. The band worked out an agreement to sample an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones’ song “The Last Time” for their single “Bitter Sweet Symphony”. Originally, the deal called for a 50-50 profit split between The Verve and the license holder. But when the song turned into a major hit, Allen Klein sued (he’s the former Stones manager who managed to steal the rights to most of their pre-1970 catalog), saying that The Verve had sampled it “too much”. Unbelievably, a court agreed. All profits were given to Klein, and songwriting credit was given to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. This led Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft to quip that “Symphony” was “the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 20 years” (and it was true: “Symphony” was the highest-charting Jagger\Richards single since 1971’s “Brown Sugar”!)
49) Japan – One wonders what British pop music might have been like had Yuka Fujii never existed. She was the girlfriend of Japan’s bassist, Mick Karn. In the early 80s, she packed up her things and, without telling Karn, moved in with lead singer David Sylvian. Not surprisingly, the band broke up shortly thereafter. Japan’s catalog is inconsistent, pretentious, and slightly dated. They started as a glam rock knock-off, moved in to disco for an album, then settled into art pop. But they did create some of the most unique pop music in British pop culture history. Their “Ghosts” single hit the Top 5 in 1982, and is one of the most… unique records to ever chart that high. And Sylvian’s solo work varies from esoteric to brilliant.
48) Bananarama – I know what you’re thinking: “Bananarama?” But hear me out on this one. Until the Spice Girls came along, Bananarama had sold more records than any girl band in history. The Go-Go’s… The Supremes… Salt-n-Pepa… Bananarama outsold them all. And the band still holds the Guinness World Record for the most chart entries by a girl group: Destiny’s Child and the Spice Girls might have sold more records overall, but Bananarama have had more hits than any girl group in history. Ever. And it’s a sad, sad soul who doesn’t perk up when “Venus” or “Cruel Summer” come on the radio. The girls are still together after 33 years too, so they’re one of the few bands on this list that are still making new music!
47) Nick Lowe: To most Americans, Lowe is “the ‘Cruel to Be Kind’ guy.” And it’s true that Lowe hasn’t sold a billion records. But he’s a great songwriter, and has done some excellent production work, too (including The Damned’s “New Rose”, which most consider the first British punk rock single). Like Bob Dylan, Lowe is famous for other people covering his work: Elvis Costello’s “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding” and Johnny Cash’s “The Beast in Me” were originally Lowe songs.
46) Cliff Richard – Oh sure, Cliff Richard is a bit of a joke in the music world. He’s kind of like England’s Barry Manilow or Neil Diamond, or whatever other unhip singer your parents (or grandparents, or great grandparents) listened to. But Richard is literally an icon of British music. His 1958 single “Move It” is considered by many of be the very first British rock song, and in Richard’s 53 year career he’s had 130 Top 20 singles and albums. He’s the third largest-selling singles artist in British music history and is the only artist to have a #1 song in every decade from the 1950s to the 2010s. Like him or not, you can’t argue with fourteen #1 singles.
45) Cocteau Twins – You could argue that my personal bias is showing here. After all, the Cocteau Twins never really had much mainstream success. But they certainly changed alternative music forever. In fact, I’d argue that the Cocteau Twins were the first true dream pop band (unlike say, “crossover” bands like The Cure who often get lumped in the dream pop category for some reason). But the real reason the band made the list is because of Elizabeth Fraser’s voice. Name any post-Cocteau Twins band with a whispy-voiced female singer – The Sundays, Sixpence None the Richer, Grimes, School of Seven Bells, The Innocence Mission, The Cranberries – and I’ll show you someone who was influenced by the band.
44) Blur: Oasis might have won the Battle of Britpop, but Blur were right behind them every step of the way. They were huge in the UK from almost the moment they started. Their first album, Leisure, “only” made it to #7, and the follow-up, Modern Life Is Rubbish, only made it to #15. But every album since (including 1995’s The Great Escape, the album that broke them worldwide) has gone to #1. Oh, and every single one of their albums has gone at least gold, with Parklife going 4x platinum in the UK. These guys were huge.
43) The Animals: This is one of those bands that other musicians just love. Sure, “The House of the Rising Sun” belongs on any “Best of the 60s” compilation, but what about songs like “It’s My Life” and “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”, which was practically the theme song of US soldiers in Vietnam (and of which Bruce Springsteen said: “That’s every song I’ve ever written… That’s ‘Born to Run,’ ‘Born in the U.S.A.,’ everything I’ve done for the past 40 years including all the new ones. That struck me so deep. It was the first time I felt I heard something come across the radio that mirrored my home life, my childhood.”) I don’t know if I’d go quite as far as to call them the “British Doors”, but there are certainly a lot of similarities in sound between the two bands. Oh, and I have to give the band some love for hiring a pre-Police Andy Summers all the way back in 1968.
42) Manic Street Preachers: Yeah, these guys were a blip on college radio in the US for a brief period back in the 90s. But in their homeland they had eight Top 10 albums and fifteen Top 10 singles (and three #1s: the 1998 album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and two singles). One wonders, however, if they’d be ranked as high as they are on this list if Richey Edwards hadn’t mysteriously disappeared .
41) The Human League – Sure, they might be “Three Hit Wonders” in the United States, and many in the UK would probably prefer to forget they ever existed. But The Human League were incredibly influential in the electronic music scene. Whereas a lot of 80s electronic bands were influenced by Kraftwerk, Neu! and other German acts, almost every single synthpop and electroclash band around today sounds like, was influenced by, pays homage to, does covers of, or owes a deep debt to The Human League. I daresay that one could even call them “The Beatles of Electronic Pop”, at least as far as their influence on modern bands is concerned. Without The Human League, acts like La Roux, Marsheaux, Foretaste, Class Actress, Ambra Red, Sound of Arrows and dozens of others would never had existed.
40) Oasis: Me? I always found the Gallagher brothers to be insufferable, especially since they basically killed the goose that laid the golden egg. The band won 15 NME Awards, 6 Brit Awards and 9 Q Awards. In fact, at the 2010 Brit Awards (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? was named the best British album over the past 30 years. They had eight #1 singles, and had an unprecedented 22 consecutive singles reach the Top 10, the latter a Guinness World Record, one of two the band holds (the other is for spending 765 weeks in the Top 75 charts). Unfortunately, the band inspires fear and loathing amongst many, mostly for the prima donna act Noel and Liam always seemed to engage in. I’m not a huge fan, but it’s obvious they were THE British band of the 1990s.
39) The Cure: What can I say about The Cure that hasn’t been written a hundred times already? They’re not the most popular band in the world: selling 27 million albums worldwide over a 36 year career isn’t all that, especially compared to others on this list. But the band certainly has a unique style and have had a huge impact on alternative music. In fact, I’d say they’re almost up there with Depeche Mode in being “most influential alternative band ever”. Unfortunately, I’m a fan of their early, dreary albums, especially Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography. Later albums, like Disintegration and Wild Mood Swings, might be far more complex musically than their more straightforward early work, but I think the band really ran out of gas with Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. I don’t want “teddy bear Robert Smith”, I want “creepy Robert Smith”.
38) Buzzcocks: In the early days of British punk rock, far too many bands were of the “three-chord, shouty vocals” variety. But the Buzzcocks created some of the best tunes of the era, hell… the best songs of any era. “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” and “What Do I Get?” can stand proudly with “Stairway to Heaven”, “Hotel California” and “Dream On” as some of the best rock songs of all time. Yes, I’m serious. The band’s singles compilation album, Singles Going Steady, only ranks at #358 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In my book, it’s in the Top 50.
37) Muse: OK, so Muse is kind of the poor man’s Radiohead, and despite having huge cultural awareness, the band has “only” sold 15 million records. Still, Muse was a great “filler band” in the late 90s British music scene, and the fact that the Brits are using “Survival” as the official song of the 2012 Olympics says a lot about what they mean to the UK.
36) The Happy Mondays: To paraphrase the old joke: if you can remember The Happy Mondays, you weren’t there. The band were Ground Zero of the “Madchester” scene, and although they didn’t have the chart success of other bands, their tunes rocked enough Ecstasy-fueled raves for the band to become legendary.
35) Pet Shop Boys: I liked the Pet Shop Boys back in the early 80s, but if you’d asked me back then, I would have said they’d be around as long as Ebn-Ozn or Men Without Hats. 100 million records later, the band are the most successful duo in British music history, with 22 Top 10 hits. The thing PSB has going for them is consistency. Their flavor of dancey pop hasn’t changed much over the years, except as technology has improved. Their latest albums are as good as their earlier ones. But the flip side of consistency is similarity. The 2009 singles “Love etc.” and Did You See Me Coming?” were as good as anything they’ve ever put out… but they also could have been recorded in 1987, too. Still, PSB are titans of Britain’s electronic music scene and deserve props for putting out great tunes for 31 years.
34) T. Rex: Marc Bolan and T. Rex only released four albums, but the number of hit singles they had were extraordinary: “Bang a Gong (Get It On)”, “Jeepster”, “20th Century Boy”, “Telegram Sam”, “Hot Love”, “Children of the Revolution”, and “Metal Guru” to name just a few. More importantly, T. Rex (along with Gary Glitter) personified the entire glam-rock movement. Kiss, Twisted Sister, Mötley Crüe, Japan, Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Flock of Seagulls, Prince and Marilyn Manson were all heavily influenced the the band’s style, if not their music, too.
33) The Police: You know U2 are like, globally popular? How they can sell out concerts in not just English-speaking countries, but all over Europe, Asia and South America, too? Well, The Police were the first New Wave band to do that, and they did it in the early 80s. They were the darlings of 80s college radio, often called the “thinking man’s punk band”. But then Synchronicity hit, and it turned out to be one of the biggest albums of the 1980s. In fact, Synchronicity was the album that finally knocked Michael Jackson’s Thriller off the top of the Billboard charts, and the most popular song from the album, “Every Breath You Take”, was #1 in the US for 8 weeks. Sadly, Sting’s ego got the best of him, and he left Copeland and Summers holding the bag. Had the band stayed together and released a few more awesome albums, they might have held the spot in pop culture that U2 holds today (By the way, U2 being an Irish band, are not British, which is why they’re not on this chart).
32) Coldplay: This is the most boring band in the whole world, but people seem to love them for some reason. The band has won seven Grammy Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, and seven Brit Awards (including three for “Best British Group”). I’m putting them on this list because I feel obligated to, not because I want to.
31) Dire Straits: I’m not a fan of Dire Straits, either. But at least when I listen to them I think “hey, that dude can play the guitar!” Mark Knopfler and company started off with basic pub rock, but brought in elements of beat and jazz over time to make a unique sound. And, as mentioned, I think Knopfler is one of the most underrated guitarists ever. The band’s most popular album, Brothers in Arms, sold 30 million copies, which is more than Pink Floyd’s The Wall or Nirvana’s Nevermind and only 2 million fewer than Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I’m not sure if Dire Straits has a rabid fan base, but the band deserves one.
30) The Specials: The Specials brought ska into the British mainstream, and the band had seven consecutive UK Top 10 singles from ’77 to ’81. “Too Much Too Young” and “Ghost Town” are still great tunes all these years later. At the end of the day, though, I actually prefer spin-off band Fun Boy Three. But The Specials make the list because they were the first multiracial band to become big in the UK.
29) Kate Bush: Does Kate Bush really need an introduction? We all know her and her work, but sometimes you have to put things in perspective. In a world of Kate Nashes, Pixie Lotts, Amy Winehouses and Lilly Allens, it’s easy to forget that Kate Bush was the first female British solo artist to ever top the UK album charts, and was the first female artist (British or not) to enter the UK album charts at #1. The fact that Bush almost never tours hurts her ranking here (her 1979 “Tour of Life”, in which she played 24 shows, is the only tour she ever embarked on, and she’s only played a handful of shows since). And Bush’s music can be… dense and radio-unfriendly. Frankly, I find much of her music a challenge to listen to. Still, with the possible exception of Madonna, Bush has inspired more singers than just about any other woman on the planet. Florence Welch, Tori Amos, Alison Goldfrapp, PJ Harvey, KT Tunstall and (especially) Björk all show clear signs of Bush’s influence. And the list of other musicians who are fans – Peter Gabriel, Rufus Wainwright and John Lydon – is impressive, too.
28) Fleetwood Mac: OK, so they’re not entirely British, but Fleetwood Mac were truly gigantic back in the 1970s. When I was a kid, it seemed like every white female I knew had a copy of Rumors on 8-track or vinyl. And why not? The album was #1 on the US charts for 31 weeks and produced four US Top 10 singles. As of today, it is the eighth best-selling album of all-time. Of course, the band’s lineup has changed considerably over the years, and this affected the quality and frequency of their output. Take Tusk, for example. It’s not exactly my thing, but it’s decent enough. As a follow-up to Rumors, however, it was considered a failure, which led the band to record the more commercial Mirage, of which, I can only remember the catchy, but limp, “Hold Me”.
27) The Stone Roses: Why? Because if you take New Order out of the picture, The Stone Roses were my favorite Madchester band. I also liked that they could “rock”, but had a mellow, non-ballady, side (“I Wanna Be Adored”). Methinks The Stone Roses were early fans of the Pixies.
26) Iron Maiden: I’m not a metal fan. But my friend Richard sure is. So in high school I heard him play a lot of Slayer, Metallica, Zepplin, Judas Priest and every other metal or hard rock act you can think of (and many you’ve probably never heard of). Of those bands, the only one I could ever really stand was Iron Maiden. As far as rock bands go, Maiden was as solid and tight as they come. Bruce Dickinson could sing, and his lyrics weren’t bad, either. But the best thing about the band was that they didn’t rely on gimmicks like make-up (like Poison) or contrived offensiveness (like W.A.S.P.). They just brought it. In fact, other than the fact that they make loud-ass noise, I can’t think of a reason to NOT like Maiden. And the fact that they were so influential – selling 85 million records with little radio play or TV support – tells me that they’re one of the most popular metal acts of all time.
25) Small Faces: Small Faces are interesting in that they had immense influence on two different genres of music: mod and psychedelic rock. They became mod icons in their early years for their blue-collar work ethic. They toured almost constantly, becoming one of the highest grossing live acts of the day in the UK. Those early days were lean ones for the band, but when singles like “Lazy Sunday” and “Itchycoo Park” hit the shelves, the band finally got the recognition they deserved. Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake is remembered as a classic album, and rightfully so. And let’s not forget that when Small Faces broke up, three members coaxed Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart, two more British music icons, into joining the reformed Faces.
24) Duran Duran: Duran Duran were one of the most derided bands of their day. Most “serious” music magazines proclaimed them pretty boys with little talent. But guess what? The band made some of the most solid pop hits of the 80s. “Rio”? “Hungry Like The Wolf”? “Girls on Film”? Those were great tunes! But what really puts Duran Duran on this list actually is the chief complaint from Rolling Stone: that Duran Duran, for better or worse, changed the way pop music was sold. Sure, the band had 14 Top 10 singles in the UK. But Duran Duran became, at least for a while, the biggest band in the world thanks to their looks, music videos and album art. Although they long to be remembered for their music, many will remember the band for their packaging. Which is a shame, because John Taylor is the most underrated bass player ever!
23) Genesis: Genesis is, of course, a tale of two bands. You have the awesome, if slightly over the top, art-rock band fronted by Peter Gabriel. But then he left and the world had to deal with the hooky, yet cheesy, pop of Phil Collins. Fans of the band have long split into three camps: those who only like Gabriel-era Genesis; those who only like Collins-era Genesis; and those weirdos who like both. But let’s not forget that before the blockbuster pop of Invisible Touch, Genesis was a band who greatly influenced prog acts like Yes and King Crimson. In fact, if you look at all the acts directly influenced by Genesis, it starts to read like a Who’s Who of prog and art rock. And of course, I feel compelled to mention the solo work of Gabriel and Collins. Gabriel created some of my favorite songs ever, like “Red Rain”, “Solsbury Hill” and “Games Without Frontiers”. I didn’t like Collins’ solo work nearly as much, but you can’t deny his talent as a songwriter. His tunes seemed to dominate pop radio in the 80s.
22) Status Quo: It’s hard to think of a band I like less than Status Quo. There’s nothing “wrong” with their music, it’s really just not my thing. But they’ve had more songs in the UK charts (over 60) than any other band in history, and 22 of them have made in into the Top 10. More importantly, the list of popular bands covering Status Quo tunes is literally like a mile long, so they’ve been pretty influential, too.
21) Depeche Mode: If you’d asked me twenty-five years ago which current band would still be around in the 2010s, Depeche Mode would have been way down the list. Sure, they put out some great pop tunes with awesome hooks… but they didn’t seem like a band with a lot of staying power. Yet here we are, twelve Top 10 albums and 100 million records later. DM are probably the most successful electronic band ever, eclipsing even New Order for the title. And the fact that so many current bands have been influenced by Depeche Mode only helps their cause.
20) The Jam: One of my all-time favorite bands, and yet another British band that was huge in their homeland, but mostly unknown in the US outside college radio and New Wave circles. What was their appeal? For one thing, they began as a typical punk band, but quickly evolved into a Northern Soul\Mod Revival act while still retaining punk’s energy. And Paul Weller was a master at painting pictures with his lyrics. “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” and “That’s Entertainment” paint a bleak, yet poignant and beautiful picture of the English working class of the era. But what’s more, Weller didn’t (at the time) wear his politics on his sleeve. Whereas, say, Bono and Sting also wrote songs that shared Weller’s sense of social justice, they beat you over the head with it. Weller let his songs speak for themselves. And here’s an amazing fact: every single released by The Jam – all 18 of them – hit the UK Top 40, with four of them going to #1. One of my favorite stories about the band is actually about their fans. So the story goes, Weller broke up the band in late 1982 because he’d “said all he could with the band”. Fans, hurt and angry that the band had broken up, took to wearing t-shirts that said “Paul Weller 1958-1982”, indicating that he was dead to them. That’s love for a band, folks!
19) Madness: The nutty boys from Camden Town are yet another band thought of as a “One-Hit Wonder” in the United States, but consider this: they’ve had 22 Top 20 singles in the UK, and 15 of those made it to the Top 10. The lowest any Madness album has ever charted in the UK was #17 (1999’s Wonderful). And from 1980 to 1986 (a period of 312 total weeks), there was a Madness single in the UK charts for 214 weeks. Where The Specials might have been the first big ska band in the UK, Madness made the genre a household name.
18) Black Sabbath: I think it’s fair (and quite obvious, actually) to say that Sabbath were one of the most influential hard rock acts of all time. Paranoid is a classic no matter where you’re coming from musically, and the fact that it’s 4x platinum kind of bears that out. Along with Alice Cooper, Sabbath pioneered the dramatic, occult-inspired image that so many later metal bands would use. Would pentagrams and allusions to black masses have become so ubiquitous in the metal world without Black Sabbath? Maybe. But its genesis is obviously in Sabbath. And, of course, Sabbath made Ozzy Osbourne a star, and made Ronnie James Dio a star, too (his earlier work with Rainbow notwithstanding).
17) The Jesus and Mary Chain: Sure, these guys had a bit of popularity with the 80s alternative crowd. But how do they manage to get all the way to #17 on this list with just two Top 10 singles and one Top 10 album in the UK? Have you listened to indie radio lately? I swear, every single band coming out of Brooklyn and LA these days sounds like “a mixture of The Jesus and Mary Chain and [some other band]”, or “The Jesus and Mary Chain, only with [something different, like a female singer, or heavy keyboard effects]”. Which is fitting in a way. Like The Ramones, Jim and William Reid loved 60s girl bands. But when they tried to emulate The Shangri-Las, they ended up just sounding like a Scottish version of The Ramones. So they started playing with noise and feedback and created something new… just like how Asobi Seksu mixed the Cocteau Twins and The Jesus and Mary Chain to get their sound. And The Radio Dept., Bowery Electric, M83, Over the Atlantic, A Place to Bury Strangers, Sleigh Bells, Beach House, Ringo Deathstarr, The Raveonettes… and 3,000 other current bands have done. The mainstream might not have listened to The Jesus and Mary Chain then, but the bands who make music now sure did.
16) Radiohead: Radiohead’s first single, “Creep”, was first released in the UK in 1992 and only made it to #78 in the charts, selling a paltry 6,000 copies. But the music industry can be a funny thing sometimes. An Israeli radio DJ named Yoav Kutner fell in love with the song and put it into heavy rotation on his show. The song became a hit in Israel, and the band booked several gigs there to capitalize on the success. And then the same thing happened in Spain, then New Zealand, then Scandinavia, and in San Francisco, where a DJ at KITS fell in love with the song, too. What had been a chart disaster slowly became a worldwide hit. And thus, the Radiohead phenomenon was born. Oddly, I’m not a huge fan of the group, which is weird, because you’d think it’d be right up my alley. But I do love how the band is not afraid to play with their sound – could any other modern band have gotten away with Kid A? The band is also not afraid to take on the music industry (their infamous “pay what you want” strategy for In Rainbows). The band are one of the most innovative in pop music today.
15) Elvis Costello: If punk rock had a crooner, it was Elvis Costello. Sure, the music he makes today might be “just a little more exciting than John Tesh”, but let’s not forget how awesome his early catalog was: “Alison”, “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes”, “Watching the Detectives”, “(I Don’t Want to Go To) Chelsea”, “Pump It Up”, “Radio Radio”, “Oliver’s Army” and “I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down” are just a few of his early hits. Costello is perhaps the best songwriter alive today. He is thoughtful and intelligent and is a student of music. If you’ve ever read any of his music articles in Vanity Fair you know the man knows his music, and is keen to let the world know about other acts he likes. Aside from, I dunno… EYEBALLING YOUR THEN-GIRLFRIEND FOR AN ENTIRE CONCERT, Costello seems like a great guy all around. He might not have sold as many records as others on this list, nor has he had a huge influence on subsequent artists, but he’s a treasure all the same.
14) Joy Division: I remember the first time I really heard Joy Division: I’d asked for (and received) the Unknown Pleasures CD for Christmas. After the holiday festivities died down, I went to my room and put my headphones on and had a listen. I’d “heard” songs like “She’s Lost Control” and “Love Will Tear Us Apart” before, obviously, but this was the first time that I really gave the band my full attention. And as soon as “Disorder” started I was hooked. For some reason, that song has always reminded me of a factory where all the giant industrial machines were started one by one and just happened to make a great tune together… and then Ian Curtis’ haunting voice came over the top of it all. Joy Division weren’t hugely popular, at least not in the strictly commercial sense. But they kicked off the entire post-punk movement and (for better or worse) became the father of all gothic rock bands. And that’s just Joy Division. Minus Curtis, the band continued as New Order, making some of the most popular electronic music of all time (it’s amazing that, despite all the huge club hits since the 80s, “Blue Monday” is still the most popular 12″ single of all time). Joy Division and New Order left huge marks on the history of British music.
13) Pink Floyd – This legendary band wasn’t as big as Lepplin, and their influence on future musicians was perhaps the most subtle of any of this list. Sure, there are a lot of bands that might have copied Floyd’s sound, but I’m thinking their influence wasn’t as obvious as most. For example, the opening riff of Animals inspired a young David Evans to go out and buy his first delay pedal (you probably know him better as “The Edge”). The Pet Shop Boys and Nine Inch Nails have called Floyd an inspiration, two bands for whom the Floyd influence is not immediately obvious. And the thing is, I don’t know that the Barrett or Waters-led band ever released a bad album: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut are all, without question, rock classics, with not a clunker among them. Of course, Dark Side of the Moon was in the US charts from 1973 to 1988, a run of 741 weeks that has never been equaled, nor likely to be repeated. And film adaptation of The Wall was a cultural phenomenon of its own, providing endless entertainment to stoned teenagers everywhere.
12) The Smiths: There was a point in time in the 1980s where British music fans were on the verge of the ultimate heresy: naming The Smiths, and not The Beatles, as the best British band of all time. I don’t know if I would go quite that far, but the fact is that The Smiths just might be the biggest cult band of all time. It’s hard to believe it now, but the band only had one single that cracked the Top 10 (“This Charming Man” hit #8 as a re-issue in 1992, long after they’d broken up). And while each of their four studio albums charted at either #1 (Meat is Murder) or #2 (The Smiths, The Queen is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come) in the UK, their success outside the UK was limited. No Smiths album charted higher than #55 in the US, #28 in Australia, #27 in Canada, #33 in Germany, or #13 in the Netherlands. Still, Johnny Marr’s guitar work was widely imitated, Morrissey’s controversial views kept him in the music press, and the band’s popularity seemed to grow and grow and grow, albeit slowly. To state that the band was influential is stating the obvious: The Smiths begat the entire Britpop movement, and bands like Blur, The Stone Roses, Oasis, and The Libertines owe much of their ethos to The Smiths. And emo, or the act of wearing teenage depression on your sleeve, is all Morrissey.
11) Roxy Music: If you’re a fan of New Wave, you probably know that most New Wave bands were influenced by two music acts. Roxy Music was one of them. The band, although not unknown in the US, was huge in the UK and Australia. They released eight studio albums, and the lowest any of them charted in the UK was #10 (Roxy Music). With the exception of 1979’s Manifesto (which “only” hit #7), their remaining 6 discs all charted into the top 5. And while rock music had been loosely associated with art and fashion since the 1960s, it was Roxy Music who consciously tried to bring them together into one coherent package. Roxy’s influence on bands like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Japan, ABC, and Ultravox was legion. And let’s also not forget that Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno were once in the same band at the same time! If you include Ferry’s solo singing career with Eno’s pioneering ambient work and massive production credits, the band is even bigger than you might think.
10) The Who: I’ve always felt a bit sorry for The Who. They were incredibly popular and had a huge influence on a lot of early punk bands, especially The Jam. They were a big influence on Mod culture, have had 18 Top 20 singles in the UK and put on some of the most famous concerts in rock history. But they always seemed to be a second-tier band compared to The Beatles or The Stones. In my mind, The Who is Wake Forest compared to The Beatles (UNC) and The Rolling Stones (Duke). Maybe I just have a cultural blind spot for The Who… but it just seemed like, growing up, they were everyone’s fifth or sixth favorite band, never anyone’s favorite band.
9) Elton John: People under the age of 35 have probably always thought of Elton John as a bitchy old gay man who used to be popular. And I can’t say that I blame them. John has been coasting since at least 1985, popping up now and then on Disney soundtracks, at some charity event or a “Feed the Sun City Ferry Disaster AIDS Victims” single. If that’s you, you can’t possibly imagine how big Elton John was in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He’s sold over 250 million records, has had 56 Top 40 singles, had seven consecutive #1 albums in the US charts, and has won almost every music award you can think of. More important, I think, is that Elton John was perhaps the last “universal” pop star. When I was a kid in the 70s, Elton John’s music was everywhere. Teens liked him. Grandmothers liked him. Little kids liked him. Rock stations played his edgier tunes while AOR stations played his ballads. There was a good chance you could find an Elton John song on the radio at any given moment, and you’d hear Muzak versions of his songs at the doctor’s office or grocery store. Even black folks (as a rule, not John’s core audience) could name five or more of his songs, and they could probably sing along, too. The guy was huge.
8) The Kinks: Sure, musicians love them, but The Kinks just might be the most under-appreciated band of all time. Everyone knows their 1964 hit “You Really Got Me”, a tune which had a huge influence on later metal and punk bands as it was the first to use what would become the rock staple of “power chords”. But what The Kinks really have going for them is their longevity. Few bands existed from 1964 to 1996, and it’s only a tiny few that cranked out hit after hit like The Kinks did. And it wasn’t just the power chords that brought the fans, either. Ray Davies might be one of the best, most eloquent songwriters in English music… like, ever. Although The Kinks had pretty good success in the charts – seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums in the UK and five Top 10 singles and nine Top 40 albums in the US – their lasting contribution to music has been their great influence on later generations.
7) Sex Pistols: The Pistols weren’t the first punk band. They weren’t even the best punk band. They were only together for two years, and released just one album. But no single band, not even The Beatles, changed the course of music history more than the Sex Pistols. English pop music of the early 1970s was a dreary world of disco and progressive rock, the latter of which was described by Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes as “men with beards singing songs about gnomes in obscure time signatures”. Acts like David Bowie and Roxy Music led jet-setting lifestyles that the average English teen couldn’t dream of. And bands like Pink Floyd lived in secluded estates that gave Buckingham Palace a run for the money. It was bad enough that England’s teenagers faced alienation from the workplace and society at large… but it was flat-out tragic that they couldn’t even relate to their own music. And suddenly, out of nowhere, the Sex Pistols showed up and begged the youth of the UK to “wake the fuck up”. And wake up they did. Where Pink Floyd’s music required an army of engineers and lots of expensive equipment, the Sex Pistols required only drums, bass, a guitar and a singer. Just as The Ramones convinced thousands of American kids to start their own bands, the Pistols did the same for the UK. And although the band crashed and burned way too soon, in their place came thousands of bands, all doing their own (beautiful) thing.
6) Queen: You can’t think of 1970s music without thinking of Queen. The band were gigantic in their day. They’ve sold 300 million records worldwide, had eighteen #1 singles and eighteen #1 albums, currently hold the UK record for the top-selling album of all-time, Queen’s Greatest Hits, and have spent a grand total of 1,322 weeks in the UK charts, another record. They’re also the only band in which each member wrote a #1 single (sorry, Ringo). We Will Rock You, a musical based on Queen, opened in London in 2002, and is the longest-running musical in West End history, eclipsing even Mamma Mia and Grease. There are more websites hosting Queen bootlegs – in 2001, 12,225 such sites – than any other band. In fact, the popularity of their bootlegs led to Queen’s huge popularity in countries where Western music is banned or frowned upon, like Iran or the old Soviet Union. A list of musicians who have named Queen as an influence would take up all 50GB of my allotted space on this server. In numerous British polls, “Bohemian Rhapsody” has been named the “best single in history”, and you’ve gotta love it for it’s sheer cheesiness and the balls it took to release it as a single in the first place. And let’s not forget that Queen’s performance at Live Aid in 1985 was probably the greatest televised rock performance ever.
5) David Bowie: If Roxy Music formed one pillar of New Wave, then David Bowie surely formed the other. After starting his chart career with what amounts to a novelty single (“Space Oddity”), Bowie transformed himself into alter-ego Ziggy Stardust and became the biggest cult phenomenon in the world. Bowie’s sound was constantly evolving in the 70s, as evidenced by Young Americans and then Low, “Heroes”, and Lodger. His sound changed again with Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), which included the smash hit “Ashes to Ashes”, a callback to “Space Oddity”. Although Bowie had millions of fans by that point, he’d never really had much in the way of mainstream success. Sure, teenagers and hipsters knew who Bowie was, but few parents did. Enter Let’s Dance, Bowie’s most popular album to date. Thanks to the catchy, Nile Rodgers-produced tunes and the heavy rotation of his videos on MTV, Bowie finally became a household name. But since then… ehhhh. Tonight and Never Let Me Down were flat-out embarrassments to his catalog, and Tin Machine (and all subsequent solo releases) just scream “LOOK AT ME! I’M STILL RELEVANT!” desperation to me. Still, Bowie’s mountain of quality earlier work, his willingness to try anything, and an acting career that’s only enhanced, not detracted from, his music cements his place as a music icon for the ages. One thing you can say about Bowie is that there’s only one of him!
4) The Rolling Stones: In their early days, The Beatles were cute guys, with their charming accents, mop-top haircuts and matching suits. It was almost as if mothers would have been proud to have their daughters bring home John, Paul, George or Ringo. But no parent anywhere wanted his daughter to bring home Mick Jagger, Keith Richards or Brian Jones. They were the anti-Beatles. While the Fab Four were singing safe, cheery songs like “Can’t Buy Me Love”, the Stones played dirty, sexy rock and roll heavily inspired by American R&B. The Beatles were “safe”; the Stones were “dangerous”. Girls liked The Beatles; dudes liked the Stones. And, until the late 80s, the Stones cranked out hit after hit after hit after hit. I’m not even that much of a Stones fan, but looking at their singles discography , I know half of them by heart. Although they only rank #14 on the list of all-time best-selling artists in the US, their impact is far greater than that. Every “bad boy” rock act since comes from Jagger and Richards, two of the most heralded songwriters of the rock era.
3) Led Zepplin: Zepplin were one of the biggest acts in music history anywhere. They’ve sold more records than any musical act in the US save for The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Garth Brooks (gross). I think part of this is because Zepplin offers something for everyone: drunk rednecks love their balls-out rock and roll; more intellectual types can try to decipher Robert Plant’s opaque, yet seemingly meaningful, lyrics; and musicians can appreciate the pure talent that Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham brought to the table. And Zepplin hated singles, so refused to release them, ushering in the era of album rock. To say that Zepplin “influenced a lot of bands” would be the understatement of the century. More than that, I think Jimmy Page should be given a lifetime achievement award by the guitar industry; there’s no telling how many millions of white dudes heard Zepplin and rushed out to buy an electric guitar because of Page’s work.
2) The Beatles: Oh no! The Beatles aren’t number one? Put your torches and pitchforks down, people. Yes, The Beatles are probably the most popular band in history, ever. Yes, they inspired at least six million bands. Yes, there’s a Beatles song being played on the radio every second of every day. But I’m just done with The Beatles. Their early work – the “Love Me Dos” and ” I Want To Hold Your Hands” – were solid bubblegum pop of their day, but they’re all but unlistenable to me now, cheesier than a cave in Leicestershire. Of course, that all started to change on Revolver, and yes, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road are all classics. But if a band ever suffered from overexposure, it was these guys. Held up as some kind of Rock Gods, the band’s material has been packaged and repackaged so many times, it’s almost nauseating. What’s worse is a certain type of Beatles fan, usually found on the Internet, who refuses to believe that any band could ever be anywhere near as good as the Beatles. Mention The Smiths or Oasis, and they’ll either argue with you until they’re blue in the face or they’ll stick their fingers in their ears and say they can’t hear you. None of this is band’s fault, of course. And Beatles fans are right when they say that no band will ever have the per capita fanbase that the Beatles did. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
1) The Clash: They were called “the only band that matters”, and with good reason. Where the Sex Pistols epitomized punk rock’s “angry, three-chord” side, The Clash represented the musically adventurous, thoughtful side. Had Joe Strummer been born a couple of decades earlier, he might have gone down as England’s answer to Woody Guthrie. But he wasn’t, and while The Clash started off as your standard rock band, they quickly branched out into ska, reggae, funk, dub and rockabilly… all backed up with Strummer’s incredible (if annoyingly leftist at times) message. And the band put their money where the mouth was… literally. They wanted their third album, the great London Calling, to be released as a double album, but sold for the price of a single album. Their label, CBS, flat-out refused, and told them they’d either sell the disc at the double album price or cut the existing album down to a single disc. The band refused this, and the two sides negotiated for several days. Eventually CBS agreed to release London Calling as a double album at the single album price if the band agreed to eat the cost out of their share of the profits. The band agreed, and one of the most important albums in music history came to be. But the best example of The Clash’s mindset comes from a music festival the band played in 1977. The audience was drunk and rowdy, and a chain-link fence had been put up to protect the musicians from the hundreds of beer bottles that had been thrown at the stage. During the set, Strummer jumped off the stage and tried to pull the fence down. That he was more offended by the fence keeping the fans away than he was afraid of taking a bottle to the head says everything you need to know about The Clash.
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The 50 Greatest British Bands of All-Time
So something really awful happened recently, and to take my mind off it I decided to make a list of the 50 greatest British bands of all time. The actual list only took an hour or so to make, but it’s taken me a couple of weeks to write the necessary paragraph or two about each artist.
I did my best to keep my personal tastes out of this list, insofar as that’s even possible. This isn’t a list of my favorite British bands of all time. I’ve tried to use record sales and chart performance to justify my positions as much as I could. But, at the end of the day, my musical tastes did dictate at least a little of the list. Not many of these lists would include the Cocteau Twins over, say, Squeeze, but hey – it’s my list and I’ll do it as I please.
Keep in mind that the list implicitly includes spin-off acts. If you’re wondering how I could leave Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins off the list, note that they’re included under “Genesis”. My reasoning is that if I gave Gabriel his own entry, I’d have give Collins one, too. And if I did that, I’d have to have separate entries for Joy Division and New Order, Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno, and maybe Marc Bolan. And if I did all that, my list of “50 Greatest British Bands” would become the “15 Greatest English Bands, and their 35 Spin-Off Acts”.
Of course, the list also includes artists who are primarily known for being solo acts, like David Bowie. You typically wouldn’t call Bowie a “band”, but “50 Greatest British Musical Artists of All-Time” just doesn’t have the same ring that “50 Greatest British Bands of All-Time” does.
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50) The Verve: They weren’t my favorite band (“No shit? Your #50 band isn’t your favorite?”), but there’s no denying that The Verve had a certain degree of magic when they weren’t busy arguing with each other. These guys were tight, but seemed to have more personnel issues than Spinal Tap. And it’s kind of ironic that their most popular song… is now a Rolling Stones song. The band worked out an agreement to sample an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones’ song “The Last Time” for their single “Bitter Sweet Symphony”. Originally, the deal called for a 50-50 profit split between The Verve and the license holder. But when the song turned into a major hit, Allen Klein sued (he’s the former Stones manager who managed to steal the rights to most of their pre-1970 catalog), saying that The Verve had sampled it “too much”. Unbelievably, a court agreed. All profits were given to Klein, and songwriting credit was given to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. This led Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft to quip that “Symphony” was “the best song Jagger and Richards have written in 20 years” (and it was true: “Symphony” was the highest-charting Jagger\Richards single since 1971’s “Brown Sugar”!)
49) Japan – One wonders what British pop music might have been like had Yuka Fujii never existed. She was the girlfriend of Japan’s bassist, Mick Karn. In the early 80s, she packed up her things and, without telling Karn, moved in with lead singer David Sylvian. Not surprisingly, the band broke up shortly thereafter. Japan’s catalog is inconsistent, pretentious, and slightly dated. They started as a glam rock knock-off, moved in to disco for an album, then settled into art pop. But they did create some of the most unique pop music in British pop culture history. Their “Ghosts” single hit the Top 5 in 1982, and is one of the most… unique records to ever chart that high. And Sylvian’s solo work varies from esoteric to brilliant.
48) Bananarama – I know what you’re thinking: “Bananarama?” But hear me out on this one. Until the Spice Girls came along, Bananarama had sold more records than any girl band in history. The Go-Go’s… The Supremes… Salt-n-Pepa… Bananarama outsold them all. And the band still holds the Guinness World Record for the most chart entries by a girl group: Destiny’s Child and the Spice Girls might have sold more records overall, but Bananarama have had more hits than any girl group in history. Ever. And it’s a sad, sad soul who doesn’t perk up when “Venus” or “Cruel Summer” come on the radio. The girls are still together after 33 years too, so they’re one of the few bands on this list that are still making new music!
47) Nick Lowe: To most Americans, Lowe is “the ‘Cruel to Be Kind’ guy.” And it’s true that Lowe hasn’t sold a billion records. But he’s a great songwriter, and has done some excellent production work, too (including The Damned’s “New Rose”, which most consider the first British punk rock single). Like Bob Dylan, Lowe is famous for other people covering his work: Elvis Costello’s “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding” and Johnny Cash’s “The Beast in Me” were originally Lowe songs.
46) Cliff Richard – Oh sure, Cliff Richard is a bit of a joke in the music world. He’s kind of like England’s Barry Manilow or Neil Diamond, or whatever other unhip singer your parents (or grandparents, or great grandparents) listened to. But Richard is literally an icon of British music. His 1958 single “Move It” is considered by many of be the very first British rock song, and in Richard’s 53 year career he’s had 130 Top 20 singles and albums. He’s the third largest-selling singles artist in British music history and is the only artist to have a #1 song in every decade from the 1950s to the 2010s. Like him or not, you can’t argue with fourteen #1 singles.
45) Cocteau Twins – You could argue that my personal bias is showing here. After all, the Cocteau Twins never really had much mainstream success. But they certainly changed alternative music forever. In fact, I’d argue that the Cocteau Twins were the first true dream pop band (unlike say, “crossover” bands like The Cure who often get lumped in the dream pop category for some reason). But the real reason the band made the list is because of Elizabeth Fraser’s voice. Name any post-Cocteau Twins band with a whispy-voiced female singer – The Sundays, Sixpence None the Richer, Grimes, School of Seven Bells, The Innocence Mission, The Cranberries – and I’ll show you someone who was influenced by the band.
44) Blur: Oasis might have won the Battle of Britpop, but Blur were right behind them every step of the way. They were huge in the UK from almost the moment they started. Their first album, Leisure, “only” made it to #7, and the follow-up, Modern Life Is Rubbish, only made it to #15. But every album since (including 1995’s The Great Escape, the album that broke them worldwide) has gone to #1. Oh, and every single one of their albums has gone at least gold, with Parklife going 4x platinum in the UK. These guys were huge.
43) The Animals: This is one of those bands that other musicians just love. Sure, “The House of the Rising Sun” belongs on any “Best of the 60s” compilation, but what about songs like “It’s My Life” and “We Gotta Get Out of This Place”, which was practically the theme song of US soldiers in Vietnam (and of which Bruce Springsteen said: “That’s every song I’ve ever written… That’s ‘Born to Run,’ ‘Born in the U.S.A.,’ everything I’ve done for the past 40 years including all the new ones. That struck me so deep. It was the first time I felt I heard something come across the radio that mirrored my home life, my childhood.”) I don’t know if I’d go quite as far as to call them the “British Doors”, but there are certainly a lot of similarities in sound between the two bands. Oh, and I have to give the band some love for hiring a pre-Police Andy Summers all the way back in 1968.
42) Manic Street Preachers: Yeah, these guys were a blip on college radio in the US for a brief period back in the 90s. But in their homeland they had eight Top 10 albums and fifteen Top 10 singles (and three #1s: the 1998 album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours and two singles). One wonders, however, if they’d be ranked as high as they are on this list if Richey Edwards hadn’t mysteriously disappeared .
41) The Human League – Sure, they might be “Three Hit Wonders” in the United States, and many in the UK would probably prefer to forget they ever existed. But The Human League were incredibly influential in the electronic music scene. Whereas a lot of 80s electronic bands were influenced by Kraftwerk, Neu! and other German acts, almost every single synthpop and electroclash band around today sounds like, was influenced by, pays homage to, does covers of, or owes a deep debt to The Human League. I daresay that one could even call them “The Beatles of Electronic Pop”, at least as far as their influence on modern bands is concerned. Without The Human League, acts like La Roux, Marsheaux, Foretaste, Class Actress, Ambra Red, Sound of Arrows and dozens of others would never had existed.
40) Oasis: Me? I always found the Gallagher brothers to be insufferable, especially since they basically killed the goose that laid the golden egg. The band won 15 NME Awards, 6 Brit Awards and 9 Q Awards. In fact, at the 2010 Brit Awards (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? was named the best British album over the past 30 years. They had eight #1 singles, and had an unprecedented 22 consecutive singles reach the Top 10, the latter a Guinness World Record, one of two the band holds (the other is for spending 765 weeks in the Top 75 charts). Unfortunately, the band inspires fear and loathing amongst many, mostly for the prima donna act Noel and Liam always seemed to engage in. I’m not a huge fan, but it’s obvious they were THE British band of the 1990s.
39) The Cure: What can I say about The Cure that hasn’t been written a hundred times already? They’re not the most popular band in the world: selling 27 million albums worldwide over a 36 year career isn’t all that, especially compared to others on this list. But the band certainly has a unique style and have had a huge impact on alternative music. In fact, I’d say they’re almost up there with Depeche Mode in being “most influential alternative band ever”. Unfortunately, I’m a fan of their early, dreary albums, especially Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography. Later albums, like Disintegration and Wild Mood Swings, might be far more complex musically than their more straightforward early work, but I think the band really ran out of gas with Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me. I don’t want “teddy bear Robert Smith”, I want “creepy Robert Smith”.
38) Buzzcocks: In the early days of British punk rock, far too many bands were of the “three-chord, shouty vocals” variety. But the Buzzcocks created some of the best tunes of the era, hell… the best songs of any era. “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)” and “What Do I Get?” can stand proudly with “Stairway to Heaven”, “Hotel California” and “Dream On” as some of the best rock songs of all time. Yes, I’m serious. The band’s singles compilation album, Singles Going Steady, only ranks at #358 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In my book, it’s in the Top 50.
37) Muse: OK, so Muse is kind of the poor man’s Radiohead, and despite having huge cultural awareness, the band has “only” sold 15 million records. Still, Muse was a great “filler band” in the late 90s British music scene, and the fact that the Brits are using “Survival” as the official song of the 2012 Olympics says a lot about what they mean to the UK.
36) The Happy Mondays: To paraphrase the old joke: if you can remember The Happy Mondays, you weren’t there. The band were Ground Zero of the “Madchester” scene, and although they didn’t have the chart success of other bands, their tunes rocked enough Ecstasy-fueled raves for the band to become legendary.
35) Pet Shop Boys: I liked the Pet Shop Boys back in the early 80s, but if you’d asked me back then, I would have said they’d be around as long as Ebn-Ozn or Men Without Hats. 100 million records later, the band are the most successful duo in British music history, with 22 Top 10 hits. The thing PSB has going for them is consistency. Their flavor of dancey pop hasn’t changed much over the years, except as technology has improved. Their latest albums are as good as their earlier ones. But the flip side of consistency is similarity. The 2009 singles “Love etc.” and Did You See Me Coming?” were as good as anything they’ve ever put out… but they also could have been recorded in 1987, too. Still, PSB are titans of Britain’s electronic music scene and deserve props for putting out great tunes for 31 years.
34) T. Rex: Marc Bolan and T. Rex only released four albums, but the number of hit singles they had were extraordinary: “Bang a Gong (Get It On)”, “Jeepster”, “20th Century Boy”, “Telegram Sam”, “Hot Love”, “Children of the Revolution”, and “Metal Guru” to name just a few. More importantly, T. Rex (along with Gary Glitter) personified the entire glam-rock movement. Kiss, Twisted Sister, Mötley Crüe, Japan, Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Flock of Seagulls, Prince and Marilyn Manson were all heavily influenced the the band’s style, if not their music, too.
33) The Police: You know U2 are like, globally popular? How they can sell out concerts in not just English-speaking countries, but all over Europe, Asia and South America, too? Well, The Police were the first New Wave band to do that, and they did it in the early 80s. They were the darlings of 80s college radio, often called the “thinking man’s punk band”. But then Synchronicity hit, and it turned out to be one of the biggest albums of the 1980s. In fact, Synchronicity was the album that finally knocked Michael Jackson’s Thriller off the top of the Billboard charts, and the most popular song from the album, “Every Breath You Take”, was #1 in the US for 8 weeks. Sadly, Sting’s ego got the best of him, and he left Copeland and Summers holding the bag. Had the band stayed together and released a few more awesome albums, they might have held the spot in pop culture that U2 holds today (By the way, U2 being an Irish band, are not British, which is why they’re not on this chart).
32) Coldplay: This is the most boring band in the whole world, but people seem to love them for some reason. The band has won seven Grammy Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, and seven Brit Awards (including three for “Best British Group”). I’m putting them on this list because I feel obligated to, not because I want to.
31) Dire Straits: I’m not a fan of Dire Straits, either. But at least when I listen to them I think “hey, that dude can play the guitar!” Mark Knopfler and company started off with basic pub rock, but brought in elements of beat and jazz over time to make a unique sound. And, as mentioned, I think Knopfler is one of the most underrated guitarists ever. The band’s most popular album, Brothers in Arms, sold 30 million copies, which is more than Pink Floyd’s The Wall or Nirvana’s Nevermind and only 2 million fewer than Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I’m not sure if Dire Straits has a rabid fan base, but the band deserves one.
30) The Specials: The Specials brought ska into the British mainstream, and the band had seven consecutive UK Top 10 singles from ’77 to ’81. “Too Much Too Young” and “Ghost Town” are still great tunes all these years later. At the end of the day, though, I actually prefer spin-off band Fun Boy Three. But The Specials make the list because they were the first multiracial band to become big in the UK.
29) Kate Bush: Does Kate Bush really need an introduction? We all know her and her work, but sometimes you have to put things in perspective. In a world of Kate Nashes, Pixie Lotts, Amy Winehouses and Lilly Allens, it’s easy to forget that Kate Bush was the first female British solo artist to ever top the UK album charts, and was the first female artist (British or not) to enter the UK album charts at #1. The fact that Bush almost never tours hurts her ranking here (her 1979 “Tour of Life”, in which she played 24 shows, is the only tour she ever embarked on, and she’s only played a handful of shows since). And Bush’s music can be… dense and radio-unfriendly. Frankly, I find much of her music a challenge to listen to. Still, with the possible exception of Madonna, Bush has inspired more singers than just about any other woman on the planet. Florence Welch, Tori Amos, Alison Goldfrapp, PJ Harvey, KT Tunstall and (especially) Björk all show clear signs of Bush’s influence. And the list of other musicians who are fans – Peter Gabriel, Rufus Wainwright and John Lydon – is impressive, too.
28) Fleetwood Mac: OK, so they’re not entirely British, but Fleetwood Mac were truly gigantic back in the 1970s. When I was a kid, it seemed like every white female I knew had a copy of Rumors on 8-track or vinyl. And why not? The album was #1 on the US charts for 31 weeks and produced four US Top 10 singles. As of today, it is the eighth best-selling album of all-time. Of course, the band’s lineup has changed considerably over the years, and this affected the quality and frequency of their output. Take Tusk, for example. It’s not exactly my thing, but it’s decent enough. As a follow-up to Rumors, however, it was considered a failure, which led the band to record the more commercial Mirage, of which, I can only remember the catchy, but limp, “Hold Me”.
27) The Stone Roses: Why? Because if you take New Order out of the picture, The Stone Roses were my favorite Madchester band. I also liked that they could “rock”, but had a mellow, non-ballady, side (“I Wanna Be Adored”). Methinks The Stone Roses were early fans of the Pixies.
26) Iron Maiden: I’m not a metal fan. But my friend Richard sure is. So in high school I heard him play a lot of Slayer, Metallica, Zepplin, Judas Priest and every other metal or hard rock act you can think of (and many you’ve probably never heard of). Of those bands, the only one I could ever really stand was Iron Maiden. As far as rock bands go, Maiden was as solid and tight as they come. Bruce Dickinson could sing, and his lyrics weren’t bad, either. But the best thing about the band was that they didn’t rely on gimmicks like make-up (like Poison) or contrived offensiveness (like W.A.S.P.). They just brought it. In fact, other than the fact that they make loud-ass noise, I can’t think of a reason to NOT like Maiden. And the fact that they were so influential – selling 85 million records with little radio play or TV support – tells me that they’re one of the most popular metal acts of all time.
25) Small Faces: Small Faces are interesting in that they had immense influence on two different genres of music: mod and psychedelic rock. They became mod icons in their early years for their blue-collar work ethic. They toured almost constantly, becoming one of the highest grossing live acts of the day in the UK. Those early days were lean ones for the band, but when singles like “Lazy Sunday” and “Itchycoo Park” hit the shelves, the band finally got the recognition they deserved. Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake is remembered as a classic album, and rightfully so. And let’s not forget that when Small Faces broke up, three members coaxed Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart, two more British music icons, into joining the reformed Faces.
24) Duran Duran: Duran Duran were one of the most derided bands of their day. Most “serious” music magazines proclaimed them pretty boys with little talent. But guess what? The band made some of the most solid pop hits of the 80s. “Rio”? “Hungry Like The Wolf”? “Girls on Film”? Those were great tunes! But what really puts Duran Duran on this list actually is the chief complaint from Rolling Stone: that Duran Duran, for better or worse, changed the way pop music was sold. Sure, the band had 14 Top 10 singles in the UK. But Duran Duran became, at least for a while, the biggest band in the world thanks to their looks, music videos and album art. Although they long to be remembered for their music, many will remember the band for their packaging. Which is a shame, because John Taylor is the most underrated bass player ever!
23) Genesis: Genesis is, of course, a tale of two bands. You have the awesome, if slightly over the top, art-rock band fronted by Peter Gabriel. But then he left and the world had to deal with the hooky, yet cheesy, pop of Phil Collins. Fans of the band have long split into three camps: those who only like Gabriel-era Genesis; those who only like Collins-era Genesis; and those weirdos who like both. But let’s not forget that before the blockbuster pop of Invisible Touch, Genesis was a band who greatly influenced prog acts like Yes and King Crimson. In fact, if you look at all the acts directly influenced by Genesis, it starts to read like a Who’s Who of prog and art rock. And of course, I feel compelled to mention the solo work of Gabriel and Collins. Gabriel created some of my favorite songs ever, like “Red Rain”, “Solsbury Hill” and “Games Without Frontiers”. I didn’t like Collins’ solo work nearly as much, but you can’t deny his talent as a songwriter. His tunes seemed to dominate pop radio in the 80s.
22) Status Quo: It’s hard to think of a band I like less than Status Quo. There’s nothing “wrong” with their music, it’s really just not my thing. But they’ve had more songs in the UK charts (over 60) than any other band in history, and 22 of them have made in into the Top 10. More importantly, the list of popular bands covering Status Quo tunes is literally like a mile long, so they’ve been pretty influential, too.
21) Depeche Mode: If you’d asked me twenty-five years ago which current band would still be around in the 2010s, Depeche Mode would have been way down the list. Sure, they put out some great pop tunes with awesome hooks… but they didn’t seem like a band with a lot of staying power. Yet here we are, twelve Top 10 albums and 100 million records later. DM are probably the most successful electronic band ever, eclipsing even New Order for the title. And the fact that so many current bands have been influenced by Depeche Mode only helps their cause.
20) The Jam: One of my all-time favorite bands, and yet another British band that was huge in their homeland, but mostly unknown in the US outside college radio and New Wave circles. What was their appeal? For one thing, they began as a typical punk band, but quickly evolved into a Northern Soul\Mod Revival act while still retaining punk’s energy. And Paul Weller was a master at painting pictures with his lyrics. “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight” and “That’s Entertainment” paint a bleak, yet poignant and beautiful picture of the English working class of the era. But what’s more, Weller didn’t (at the time) wear his politics on his sleeve. Whereas, say, Bono and Sting also wrote songs that shared Weller’s sense of social justice, they beat you over the head with it. Weller let his songs speak for themselves. And here’s an amazing fact: every single released by The Jam – all 18 of them – hit the UK Top 40, with four of them going to #1. One of my favorite stories about the band is actually about their fans. So the story goes, Weller broke up the band in late 1982 because he’d “said all he could with the band”. Fans, hurt and angry that the band had broken up, took to wearing t-shirts that said “Paul Weller 1958-1982”, indicating that he was dead to them. That’s love for a band, folks!
19) Madness: The nutty boys from Camden Town are yet another band thought of as a “One-Hit Wonder” in the United States, but consider this: they’ve had 22 Top 20 singles in the UK, and 15 of those made it to the Top 10. The lowest any Madness album has ever charted in the UK was #17 (1999’s Wonderful). And from 1980 to 1986 (a period of 312 total weeks), there was a Madness single in the UK charts for 214 weeks. Where The Specials might have been the first big ska band in the UK, Madness made the genre a household name.
18) Black Sabbath: I think it’s fair (and quite obvious, actually) to say that Sabbath were one of the most influential hard rock acts of all time. Paranoid is a classic no matter where you’re coming from musically, and the fact that it’s 4x platinum kind of bears that out. Along with Alice Cooper, Sabbath pioneered the dramatic, occult-inspired image that so many later metal bands would use. Would pentagrams and allusions to black masses have become so ubiquitous in the metal world without Black Sabbath? Maybe. But its genesis is obviously in Sabbath. And, of course, Sabbath made Ozzy Osbourne a star, and made Ronnie James Dio a star, too (his earlier work with Rainbow notwithstanding).
17) The Jesus and Mary Chain: Sure, these guys had a bit of popularity with the 80s alternative crowd. But how do they manage to get all the way to #17 on this list with just two Top 10 singles and one Top 10 album in the UK? Have you listened to indie radio lately? I swear, every single band coming out of Brooklyn and LA these days sounds like “a mixture of The Jesus and Mary Chain and [some other band]”, or “The Jesus and Mary Chain, only with [something different, like a female singer, or heavy keyboard effects]”. Which is fitting in a way. Like The Ramones, Jim and William Reid loved 60s girl bands. But when they tried to emulate The Shangri-Las, they ended up just sounding like a Scottish version of The Ramones. So they started playing with noise and feedback and created something new… just like how Asobi Seksu mixed the Cocteau Twins and The Jesus and Mary Chain to get their sound. And The Radio Dept., Bowery Electric, M83, Over the Atlantic, A Place to Bury Strangers, Sleigh Bells, Beach House, Ringo Deathstarr, The Raveonettes… and 3,000 other current bands have done. The mainstream might not have listened to The Jesus and Mary Chain then, but the bands who make music now sure did.
16) Radiohead: Radiohead’s first single, “Creep”, was first released in the UK in 1992 and only made it to #78 in the charts, selling a paltry 6,000 copies. But the music industry can be a funny thing sometimes. An Israeli radio DJ named Yoav Kutner fell in love with the song and put it into heavy rotation on his show. The song became a hit in Israel, and the band booked several gigs there to capitalize on the success. And then the same thing happened in Spain, then New Zealand, then Scandinavia, and in San Francisco, where a DJ at KITS fell in love with the song, too. What had been a chart disaster slowly became a worldwide hit. And thus, the Radiohead phenomenon was born. Oddly, I’m not a huge fan of the group, which is weird, because you’d think it’d be right up my alley. But I do love how the band is not afraid to play with their sound – could any other modern band have gotten away with Kid A? The band is also not afraid to take on the music industry (their infamous “pay what you want” strategy for In Rainbows). The band are one of the most innovative in pop music today.
15) Elvis Costello: If punk rock had a crooner, it was Elvis Costello. Sure, the music he makes today might be “just a little more exciting than John Tesh”, but let’s not forget how awesome his early catalog was: “Alison”, “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes”, “Watching the Detectives”, “(I Don’t Want to Go To) Chelsea”, “Pump It Up”, “Radio Radio”, “Oliver’s Army” and “I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down” are just a few of his early hits. Costello is perhaps the best songwriter alive today. He is thoughtful and intelligent and is a student of music. If you’ve ever read any of his music articles in Vanity Fair you know the man knows his music, and is keen to let the world know about other acts he likes. Aside from, I dunno… EYEBALLING YOUR THEN-GIRLFRIEND FOR AN ENTIRE CONCERT, Costello seems like a great guy all around. He might not have sold as many records as others on this list, nor has he had a huge influence on subsequent artists, but he’s a treasure all the same.
14) Joy Division: I remember the first time I really heard Joy Division: I’d asked for (and received) the Unknown Pleasures CD for Christmas. After the holiday festivities died down, I went to my room and put my headphones on and had a listen. I’d “heard” songs like “She’s Lost Control” and “Love Will Tear Us Apart” before, obviously, but this was the first time that I really gave the band my full attention. And as soon as “Disorder” started I was hooked. For some reason, that song has always reminded me of a factory where all the giant industrial machines were started one by one and just happened to make a great tune together… and then Ian Curtis’ haunting voice came over the top of it all. Joy Division weren’t hugely popular, at least not in the strictly commercial sense. But they kicked off the entire post-punk movement and (for better or worse) became the father of all gothic rock bands. And that’s just Joy Division. Minus Curtis, the band continued as New Order, making some of the most popular electronic music of all time (it’s amazing that, despite all the huge club hits since the 80s, “Blue Monday” is still the most popular 12″ single of all time). Joy Division and New Order left huge marks on the history of British music.
13) Pink Floyd – This legendary band wasn’t as big as Lepplin, and their influence on future musicians was perhaps the most subtle of any of this list. Sure, there are a lot of bands that might have copied Floyd’s sound, but I’m thinking their influence wasn’t as obvious as most. For example, the opening riff of Animals inspired a young David Evans to go out and buy his first delay pedal (you probably know him better as “The Edge”). The Pet Shop Boys and Nine Inch Nails have called Floyd an inspiration, two bands for whom the Floyd influence is not immediately obvious. And the thing is, I don’t know that the Barrett or Waters-led band ever released a bad album: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, A Saucerful of Secrets, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall and The Final Cut are all, without question, rock classics, with not a clunker among them. Of course, Dark Side of the Moon was in the US charts from 1973 to 1988, a run of 741 weeks that has never been equaled, nor likely to be repeated. And film adaptation of The Wall was a cultural phenomenon of its own, providing endless entertainment to stoned teenagers everywhere.
12) The Smiths: There was a point in time in the 1980s where British music fans were on the verge of the ultimate heresy: naming The Smiths, and not The Beatles, as the best British band of all time. I don’t know if I would go quite that far, but the fact is that The Smiths just might be the biggest cult band of all time. It’s hard to believe it now, but the band only had one single that cracked the Top 10 (“This Charming Man” hit #8 as a re-issue in 1992, long after they’d broken up). And while each of their four studio albums charted at either #1 (Meat is Murder) or #2 (The Smiths, The Queen is Dead and Strangeways, Here We Come) in the UK, their success outside the UK was limited. No Smiths album charted higher than #55 in the US, #28 in Australia, #27 in Canada, #33 in Germany, or #13 in the Netherlands. Still, Johnny Marr’s guitar work was widely imitated, Morrissey’s controversial views kept him in the music press, and the band’s popularity seemed to grow and grow and grow, albeit slowly. To state that the band was influential is stating the obvious: The Smiths begat the entire Britpop movement, and bands like Blur, The Stone Roses, Oasis, and The Libertines owe much of their ethos to The Smiths. And emo, or the act of wearing teenage depression on your sleeve, is all Morrissey.
11) Roxy Music: If you’re a fan of New Wave, you probably know that most New Wave bands were influenced by two music acts. Roxy Music was one of them. The band, although not unknown in the US, was huge in the UK and Australia. They released eight studio albums, and the lowest any of them charted in the UK was #10 (Roxy Music). With the exception of 1979’s Manifesto (which “only” hit #7), their remaining 6 discs all charted into the top 5. And while rock music had been loosely associated with art and fashion since the 1960s, it was Roxy Music who consciously tried to bring them together into one coherent package. Roxy’s influence on bands like Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Japan, ABC, and Ultravox was legion. And let’s also not forget that Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno were once in the same band at the same time! If you include Ferry’s solo singing career with Eno’s pioneering ambient work and massive production credits, the band is even bigger than you might think.
10) The Who: I’ve always felt a bit sorry for The Who. They were incredibly popular and had a huge influence on a lot of early punk bands, especially The Jam. They were a big influence on Mod culture, have had 18 Top 20 singles in the UK and put on some of the most famous concerts in rock history. But they always seemed to be a second-tier band compared to The Beatles or The Stones. In my mind, The Who is Wake Forest compared to The Beatles (UNC) and The Rolling Stones (Duke). Maybe I just have a cultural blind spot for The Who… but it just seemed like, growing up, they were everyone’s fifth or sixth favorite band, never anyone’s favorite band.
9) Elton John: People under the age of 35 have probably always thought of Elton John as a bitchy old gay man who used to be popular. And I can’t say that I blame them. John has been coasting since at least 1985, popping up now and then on Disney soundtracks, at some charity event or a “Feed the Sun City Ferry Disaster AIDS Victims” single. If that’s you, you can’t possibly imagine how big Elton John was in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He’s sold over 250 million records, has had 56 Top 40 singles, had seven consecutive #1 albums in the US charts, and has won almost every music award you can think of. More important, I think, is that Elton John was perhaps the last “universal” pop star. When I was a kid in the 70s, Elton John’s music was everywhere. Teens liked him. Grandmothers liked him. Little kids liked him. Rock stations played his edgier tunes while AOR stations played his ballads. There was a good chance you could find an Elton John song on the radio at any given moment, and you’d hear Muzak versions of his songs at the doctor’s office or grocery store. Even black folks (as a rule, not John’s core audience) could name five or more of his songs, and they could probably sing along, too. The guy was huge.
8) The Kinks: Sure, musicians love them, but The Kinks just might be the most under-appreciated band of all time. Everyone knows their 1964 hit “You Really Got Me”, a tune which had a huge influence on later metal and punk bands as it was the first to use what would become the rock staple of “power chords”. But what The Kinks really have going for them is their longevity. Few bands existed from 1964 to 1996, and it’s only a tiny few that cranked out hit after hit like The Kinks did. And it wasn’t just the power chords that brought the fans, either. Ray Davies might be one of the best, most eloquent songwriters in English music… like, ever. Although The Kinks had pretty good success in the charts – seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums in the UK and five Top 10 singles and nine Top 40 albums in the US – their lasting contribution to music has been their great influence on later generations.
7) Sex Pistols: The Pistols weren’t the first punk band. They weren’t even the best punk band. They were only together for two years, and released just one album. But no single band, not even The Beatles, changed the course of music history more than the Sex Pistols. English pop music of the early 1970s was a dreary world of disco and progressive rock, the latter of which was described by Duran Duran keyboardist Nick Rhodes as “men with beards singing songs about gnomes in obscure time signatures”. Acts like David Bowie and Roxy Music led jet-setting lifestyles that the average English teen couldn’t dream of. And bands like Pink Floyd lived in secluded estates that gave Buckingham Palace a run for the money. It was bad enough that England’s teenagers faced alienation from the workplace and society at large… but it was flat-out tragic that they couldn’t even relate to their own music. And suddenly, out of nowhere, the Sex Pistols showed up and begged the youth of the UK to “wake the fuck up”. And wake up they did. Where Pink Floyd’s music required an army of engineers and lots of expensive equipment, the Sex Pistols required only drums, bass, a guitar and a singer. Just as The Ramones convinced thousands of American kids to start their own bands, the Pistols did the same for the UK. And although the band crashed and burned way too soon, in their place came thousands of bands, all doing their own (beautiful) thing.
6) Queen: You can’t think of 1970s music without thinking of Queen. The band were gigantic in their day. They’ve sold 300 million records worldwide, had eighteen #1 singles and eighteen #1 albums, currently hold the UK record for the top-selling album of all-time, Queen’s Greatest Hits, and have spent a grand total of 1,322 weeks in the UK charts, another record. They’re also the only band in which each member wrote a #1 single (sorry, Ringo). We Will Rock You, a musical based on Queen, opened in London in 2002, and is the longest-running musical in West End history, eclipsing even Mamma Mia and Grease. There are more websites hosting Queen bootlegs – in 2001, 12,225 such sites – than any other band. In fact, the popularity of their bootlegs led to Queen’s huge popularity in countries where Western music is banned or frowned upon, like Iran or the old Soviet Union. A list of musicians who have named Queen as an influence would take up all 50GB of my allotted space on this server. In numerous British polls, “Bohemian Rhapsody” has been named the “best single in history”, and you’ve gotta love it for it’s sheer cheesiness and the balls it took to release it as a single in the first place. And let’s not forget that Queen’s performance at Live Aid in 1985 was probably the greatest televised rock performance ever.
5) David Bowie: If Roxy Music formed one pillar of New Wave, then David Bowie surely formed the other. After starting his chart career with what amounts to a novelty single (“Space Oddity”), Bowie transformed himself into alter-ego Ziggy Stardust and became the biggest cult phenomenon in the world. Bowie’s sound was constantly evolving in the 70s, as evidenced by Young Americans and then Low, “Heroes”, and Lodger. His sound changed again with Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), which included the smash hit “Ashes to Ashes”, a callback to “Space Oddity”. Although Bowie had millions of fans by that point, he’d never really had much in the way of mainstream success. Sure, teenagers and hipsters knew who Bowie was, but few parents did. Enter Let’s Dance, Bowie’s most popular album to date. Thanks to the catchy, Nile Rodgers-produced tunes and the heavy rotation of his videos on MTV, Bowie finally became a household name. But since then… ehhhh. Tonight and Never Let Me Down were flat-out embarrassments to his catalog, and Tin Machine (and all subsequent solo releases) just scream “LOOK AT ME! I’M STILL RELEVANT!” desperation to me. Still, Bowie’s mountain of quality earlier work, his willingness to try anything, and an acting career that’s only enhanced, not detracted from, his music cements his place as a music icon for the ages. One thing you can say about Bowie is that there’s only one of him!
4) The Rolling Stones: In their early days, The Beatles were cute guys, with their charming accents, mop-top haircuts and matching suits. It was almost as if mothers would have been proud to have their daughters bring home John, Paul, George or Ringo. But no parent anywhere wanted his daughter to bring home Mick Jagger, Keith Richards or Brian Jones. They were the anti-Beatles. While the Fab Four were singing safe, cheery songs like “Can’t Buy Me Love”, the Stones played dirty, sexy rock and roll heavily inspired by American R&B. The Beatles were “safe”; the Stones were “dangerous”. Girls liked The Beatles; dudes liked the Stones. And, until the late 80s, the Stones cranked out hit after hit after hit after hit. I’m not even that much of a Stones fan, but looking at their singles discography , I know half of them by heart. Although they only rank #14 on the list of all-time best-selling artists in the US, their impact is far greater than that. Every “bad boy” rock act since comes from Jagger and Richards, two of the most heralded songwriters of the rock era.
3) Led Zepplin: Zepplin were one of the biggest acts in music history anywhere. They’ve sold more records than any musical act in the US save for The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Garth Brooks (gross). I think part of this is because Zepplin offers something for everyone: drunk rednecks love their balls-out rock and roll; more intellectual types can try to decipher Robert Plant’s opaque, yet seemingly meaningful, lyrics; and musicians can appreciate the pure talent that Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham brought to the table. And Zepplin hated singles, so refused to release them, ushering in the era of album rock. To say that Zepplin “influenced a lot of bands” would be the understatement of the century. More than that, I think Jimmy Page should be given a lifetime achievement award by the guitar industry; there’s no telling how many millions of white dudes heard Zepplin and rushed out to buy an electric guitar because of Page’s work.
2) The Beatles: Oh no! The Beatles aren’t number one? Put your torches and pitchforks down, people. Yes, The Beatles are probably the most popular band in history, ever. Yes, they inspired at least six million bands. Yes, there’s a Beatles song being played on the radio every second of every day. But I’m just done with The Beatles. Their early work – the “Love Me Dos” and ” I Want To Hold Your Hands” – were solid bubblegum pop of their day, but they’re all but unlistenable to me now, cheesier than a cave in Leicestershire. Of course, that all started to change on Revolver, and yes, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road are all classics. But if a band ever suffered from overexposure, it was these guys. Held up as some kind of Rock Gods, the band’s material has been packaged and repackaged so many times, it’s almost nauseating. What’s worse is a certain type of Beatles fan, usually found on the Internet, who refuses to believe that any band could ever be anywhere near as good as the Beatles. Mention The Smiths or Oasis, and they’ll either argue with you until they’re blue in the face or they’ll stick their fingers in their ears and say they can’t hear you. None of this is band’s fault, of course. And Beatles fans are right when they say that no band will ever have the per capita fanbase that the Beatles did. But that doesn’t mean I have to like it.
1) The Clash: They were called “the only band that matters”, and with good reason. Where the Sex Pistols epitomized punk rock’s “angry, three-chord” side, The Clash represented the musically adventurous, thoughtful side. Had Joe Strummer been born a couple of decades earlier, he might have gone down as England’s answer to Woody Guthrie. But he wasn’t, and while The Clash started off as your standard rock band, they quickly branched out into ska, reggae, funk, dub and rockabilly… all backed up with Strummer’s incredible (if annoyingly leftist at times) message. And the band put their money where the mouth was… literally. They wanted their third album, the great London Calling, to be released as a double album, but sold for the price of a single album. Their label, CBS, flat-out refused, and told them they’d either sell the disc at the double album price or cut the existing album down to a single disc. The band refused this, and the two sides negotiated for several days. Eventually CBS agreed to release London Calling as a double album at the single album price if the band agreed to eat the cost out of their share of the profits. The band agreed, and one of the most important albums in music history came to be. But the best example of The Clash’s mindset comes from a music festival the band played in 1977. The audience was drunk and rowdy, and a chain-link fence had been put up to protect the musicians from the hundreds of beer bottles that had been thrown at the stage. During the set, Strummer jumped off the stage and tried to pull the fence down. That he was more offended by the fence keeping the fans away than he was afraid of taking a bottle to the head says everything you need to know about The Clash.
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How many UK top 40 hits did Prince have in the 1980s? | Prince's 40 Biggest Billboard Hits | Billboard
Prince's 40 Biggest Billboard Hits
Prince Dies at 57: Iconic Musical Genius Found Dead in Paisley Park
The man born Prince Rogers Nelson was an icon on Billboard's Hot 100 songs chart (and fittingly won Billboard's Icon Award at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards), where he racked up an impressive array of hits, including five No. 1s. They range from his unforgettable chart-toppers ("Let's Go Crazy," "Kiss") to funk workouts ("Hot Thing," "Controversy") to gorgeous love songs ("The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "Take Me With U").
Billboard is looking back on Prince's long career with his 40 top Hot 100 hits. The list is led by his No. 1 smash from the Purple Rain soundtrack, "When Doves Cry."
Here are Prince's 40 biggest Billboard Hot 100 hits:
Rank, Title, Hot 100 Peak Year, Position (Weeks Spent at No. 1)
1, "When Doves Cry," 1984, No. 1 (5)*
2, "Kiss," 1986, No. 1 (2)*
3, "Let's Go Crazy," 1984, No. 1 (2)*
4, "Cream," 1991, No. 1 (2)**
5, "Batdance," 1989, No. 1 (1)
6, "Raspberry Beret," 1985, No. 2*
7, "U Got the Look," 1987, No. 2
8, "Purple Rain," 1984, No. 2*
9, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," 1994, No. 3
10, "Sign 'O' the Times," 1987, No. 3
11, "Little Red Corvette," 1983, No. 6
12, "Diamonds and Pearls," 1992, No. 3**
13, "Thieves in the Temple," 1990, No. 6
14, "Pop Life," 1985, No. 7*
15, "Delirious," 1983, No. 8
16, "I Would Die 4 U," 1985, No. 8*
17, "7," 1993, No. 7**
18, "Alphabet St.," 1988, No. 8
19, "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man," 1988, No. 10
20, "1999," 1983, No. 12
21, "I Wanna Be Your Lover," 1980, No. 11
22, "Partyman," 1989, No. 18
23, "Gett Off," 1991, No. 21**
24, "Mountains," 1986, No. 23*
25, "Take Me With You," 1985, No. 25***
26, "The Arms of Orion," 1989, No. 36****
27, "Money Don't Matter 2 Night," 1992, No. 23**
28, "I Hate U," 1995, No. 12
29, "LetItGo," 1994, No. 31
30, "America," 1985, No. 46*
31. "The Morning Papers," 1993, No. 44**
32. "Anotherloverholenyohead," 1986, No. 63*
33. "Let's Pretend We're Married/Irresistible Bitch," 1984, No. 52*
34. "My Name Is Prince," 1992, No. 36**
35. "Hot Thing," 1988, No. 63
36. "Pink Cashmere," 1993, No. 50
37. "Controversy," 1981, No. 70
38. "Call My Name," 2004, No. 75
39. "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold," 2000, No. 63
40. "New Power Generation," 1990, No. 64
* Prince and the Revolution
** Prince and the N.P.G./The New Power Generation
*** Prince and the Revolution With Apollonia
**** Prince With Sheena Easton
This ranking is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 chart. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. To ensure equitable representation of the biggest hits from each era, certain time frames were weighted to account for the difference between turnover rates from those years.
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What is the most popular sport to feature in films? | The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s | Feature | Slant Magazine
The 100 Best Singles of the 1980s
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August 20, 2012
Do you know why VH1 produced more installments of I Love the '80s than any other decade? Because there was simply more to love. Many would argue that other recent decades surpassed the '80s for diversity of musical expression, for production innovations, for ebullience and personality, for political honesty. In fact, by nearly every individual measure, the '80s probably take a backseat to some other era. So why do we still deify those 10 years? Probably because the decade's best songs offered some of pop history's finest simple pleasures, which is why you won't often find humorless rockists making arguments on its behalf like they do for the '60s, '70s, or even the '90s. Sure, there were plenty of tunes that cut deep into the blackest heart of the Reagan era, but some of the most prominent came in such a deceptively sunny disguise (the Boss's “Born in the U.S.A.,” for example) that they were mistaken to be part of the status quo. In the '80s, Public Enemy was the outlier and flourished because of it. Michael Jackson was showing signs of paranoia, but still mostly wanted to rock with you. Madonna was mostly espousing the joy of taking a “Holiday,” and even when she embraced a more militant attitude (“Express Yourself”), she was still arguing on behalf of embracing the pleasure principle. And that's the way we like it. In so many other arenas, we're still paying for the mistakes of the '80s. But when it comes to the decade's music, we feel no compelling reason to feel bad about feeling good. Eric Henderson
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David Bowie, “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)”
For the title track and third single from what's widely considered to be David Bowie's last truly great album, the singer's delivery is closer to that of a low-budget horror movie's demented narrator than the dynamic rock showman that shot to megastardom in the '70s. Bowie spins a yarn of a young girl falling victim to her own fears and insecurities in his tried-and-tested “mockney” accent, and heightens the air of sheer menace further still with a violent percussion section and the sound of dogs barking. Robert Fripp's guitar work here is tremendous too, an exemplary exercise in frenzied crosspicking that adds urgency and suspense to Bowie's deranged psycho-thriller narrative. Huw Jones
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Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car”
As hopeless and heartbreaking as any song that's ever topped the pop charts, Tracy Chapman's “Fast Car” couches its social commentary in deeply personal revelations and confessions. As the city lights flash by Chapman's narrator and the song's arrangement gathers momentum, there's a palpable desperation in the way she sings, “And I had the feeling I could be someone” Because in that moment, having tried and failed to escape the poverty she was born into, she's not expressing a sense of optimism that her station in life will improve, but conceding that she was foolish to have ever thought it could. Jonathan Keefe
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Public Enemy, “Don't Believe the Hype”
“Don't Believe the Hype” is an invitation to question everything, up to and including Public Enemy's then-growing reputation. It's the kind of sneakily self-congratulatory gesture that plays as self-deprecation while also being a bit boastful, affirming that there is indeed some hype that needs to be ignored in order to appreciate the group's second album. Whatever the meaning, the track is indicative of the always probing, never accepting nature of the Chuck D-helmed outfit, his harshly forceful rhymes echoed by the cornucopia of grating sound effects sourced by the ever-resourceful Bomb Squad. Jesse Cataldo
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The Replacements, “I Will Dare”
“I Will Dare” marks the most accessible and radio-friendly moment for a rowdy Minneapolis four piece that, with a reputation for notoriously wayward live shows and a staunch belief in the punk ethos, was to this point always a million miles away from what one would consider accessible or radio-friendly. Upon its release in 1984, Paul Westerberg spoke of how the band was tired of playing “that noisy, fake hardcore rock,” and there can be no disputing that “I Will Dare” is all the better for reigning in the anarchy and chaos that underpinned their previous work. It's about as close to pop music as the band could get, flaunting a sweet mandolin arrangement and a typically jangly guitar solo from R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, and perhaps it's no coincidence that this is their best single by some stretch. Jones
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Chaka Khan, “I Feel for You”
What I previously wrote about “one of the most intoxicating singles in pop history,” a state-of-the-art example of sampling craft, still sums it up. “'I Feel for You' had enough blockbuster tricks to bury any lesser talent: ultra-hip vocal cutting techniques, a blazing Stevie Wonder harmonica solo that damn near tops anything on his own records, no less than four synth-keyboard players, and a scintillating, shifting beat from Arif Mardin” For someone who allegedly disliked the memorable hip-hop riffing Grandmaster Melle Mel bookended the track with, Chaka interacted beautifully, making this one of the most compelling crossover tracks ever. Henderson
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Extra T's, “E.T. Boogie”
Even if he really did send a cabal of Hazmat-wearing lawyers after Extra T's for cribbing lines from his 1982 blockbuster E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, it's easy to imagine Steven Spielberg bopping this head to the dance-funk delirium of this underground classic. Not exactly the enviro-friendly, “fax orgy”-wanting otherworldly being of Deee-Lite's imagination, this alien hero hungers only for home. And that's all right. Such single-mindedness, matched by the “held-together-by-paperclips 808 beats,” per our own Eric Henderson, is always rewarded. The bassline is all cherry-on-top rush, a call to arms for people who live, Busta Rhymes would say, for movin' around. Ed Gonzalez
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Michael Jackson, “Smooth Criminal”
For such an apparently gentle soul, Michael Jackson repeatedly displayed his dark side with songs like “Beat It,” “Thriller,” “Bad,” and “Smooth Criminal” This is, after all, the same guy who once sang about his close friendship with a telepathic rat. Accompanied by a killer synth bassline, staccato beats, and a frenzied vocal performance from Jacko himself, “Smooth Criminal” rather unambiguously tells the heartwarming story of a home invader who chases a woman named Annie underneath a table and into her bedroom, where he ostensibly bludgeons her to death, leaving “bloodstains on the carpet” Sal Cinquemani
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Kate Bush, “The Big Sky”
Not many people could make a song about watching clouds into an epic rumination on living life to the fullest. But that conflation of silly juvenilia and introspective weight is what Kate Bush does best, and “The Big Sky” consequently grows into its own thriving world of weird skyborne shapes, full of wacky asides, cascading handclaps, odd voice inflections, and guitar solos. It testifies to the ephemeral nature of all things while also celebrating the teeming abundance of the world, a quality shared with Bush's music, which is always spilling over with passion and ideas. Cataldo
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Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows”
It may not be Leonard Cohen's most famous song (a fact that grows more regrettable with every ponderous, overwrought new version of “Hallelujah”), but “Everybody Knows” is the song of Cohen's that best captures both his knack for writing a pop hook and his pitch-black sense of humor. But it's the combination of his deep baritone voice and deadpan performance that makes “Everybody Knows” so funny and so absurd: Cohen sounds nothing if not inconvenienced as he delivers a scolding lecture with the bleak message that “everybody knows that the good guys lost” Keefe
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Violent Femmes, “Blister in the Sun”
It's a testament to Gordon Gano's affable everyman charm that the truth as to whether “Blister in the Sun” is indeed an open ode to masturbation or whether it's a blithe summary of heroin withdrawal is as irrelevant as it is unclear. It's a fantastic single, even though it took a spot on the Grosse Point Blank soundtrack almost 15 years later for mainstream consciousness to actually take notice of this stellar bout of unplugged folk-punk. Now, “Blister in the Sun” is instantly recognizable from its introduction alone, where balmy lo-fi acoustic guitar meets hand-me-down snare drums and a bassline that swaggers and struts rather than merely walks. Jones
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Which famous video game character was originally called Jumpman? | 10 Mario Fun Facts! - Neatorama
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Here are 10 things you may not know about our favorite video game character Mario:
Mario was first seen in the video game Donkey Kong, but he was called "Jumpman." He was also a carpenter then, not a plumber.
Mario was named after Mario Segale, the landlord of Nintendo of America's office, who barged in on a company meeting demanding an overdue rent.
Shigeru Miyamoto drew Mario as wearing a cap because he found drawing hair difficult. He also drew in the moustache, because it was easier to see than a mouth in the crude video game screen resolution back then.
Mario and his younger brother Luigi are known as the "Mario Brothers." This means that Mario's last name is also Mario, so his full name is Mario Mario.
Mario is voice-acted by Charles Martinet, who crashed the audition for "an Italian plumber from Brooklyn" character. Here's an interview with the man:
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Mario's nemesis is Wario (a combination of "warui", the Japanese word for bad, and Mario). Similarly, Luigi's rival is Waluigi. Both are also voiced by Charles Martinet.
Mario has appeared in over 200 video games so far, has sold over 193 million units of games (all of the Mario series) and even has his own TV cartoon show. Super Mario Bros. 3 alone grossed over $500 million in USA.
TV Schmeve, you're nothing till there's an opera done on you. In 2003, Jonathan Mann of California Institute of Arts created The Mario Opera, a rock opera:
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Super Mario Bros. theme music, written by Koji Kondo, is known worldwide. It has inspired countless fan-renditions, including one played by Zack Kim on two guitars (viewed over 4 million times on YouTube!), played by Jean Baudin on 11 string bass , beatboxed by Greg Patillo on the flute , and played by the Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra on the trombones .
But my favorite is this one by Play! symphony orchestra:
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Mario is the most famous character in the history of video games, and perhaps is the most famous character ever. In a 1990 poll by Marketing Evaluations, Mario was found to be more popular (and recognizable) among children than Mickey Mouse.
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What is the only ten letter word that can be typed on only the top row of a keyboard or typewriter? | 15 Famous Actors Who Voiced Video Game Characters | Mental Floss
15 Famous Actors Who Voiced Video Game Characters
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It’s not uncommon to come across a familiar voice while playing a video game—but it's sometimes hard to tell if that’s because you’re listening to a celebrity or if you’re just delusional after six straight hours of Grand Theft Auto. But a number of actors have actually lent their voices to video games; here are a few of them.
1. Elijah Wood
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Elijah Wood provided the voice for his most famous role, Frodo, in multiple video game versions of The Lord of the Rings. In addition to Frodo, he voiced Mumble in the animated film Happy Feet and its accompanying video game alongside many of his castmates.
Wood’s interest in video games makes sense—he’s a gamer himself, and his older brother produces video games . He also enjoys the unique acting challenge that they provide. “You find that the characters are in situations that are not real common and you have to...vocally make the character seem like he’s going through some pretty intense situations,” he said .
The actor also voiced a purple dragon in The Legend of Spyro trilogy. He was in good company: Other celebrities who lent their voices to the games include David Spade, Mae Whitman, Wayne Brady, Christina Ricci, and #2 and #6 on our list...
2. Gary Oldman
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In addition to Harry Potter , Gary Oldman can call himself a mentor to Frodo. Or at least to Elijah Wood’s character in the Spyro trilogy. Oldman voiced the dragon Ignitus, who appeared in all three Spyro games. He also voiced both Sergeant Viktor Reznov and Daniel Clarke in the Call of Duty games World at War and Black Ops, and has lent his voice to a number of other games as well.
In 2012, Oldman went on Conan and talked about his video game voice acting , explaining the difficulty of recording loud “battle chatter.” After hearing him shout a few of these commands, it’s easy to understand his claim that “after about three minutes of it, you have to step outside and walk around, take a Tylenol.”
3. Dennis Hopper
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Hopper recorded for a few video games, probably the most famous of which is Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which also featured the voices of Burt Reynolds and Gary Busey. Hopper’s character, Steve Scott, is a producer-director of pornographic films. Scott is apparently an anger-prone spoof of Steven Spielberg , who screams lines like, “Cut!! Who is this idiot? You! You! Why are you in my space?” If you don’t want to play through Vice City in order to hear Hopper, you can listen to his not-safe-for-work voice acting on YouTube .
4. Christopher Walken
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Walken is probably the least surprising name on this list. He’s known for his seemingly random career choices, from Fatboy Slim music videos to cheesy musicals to the movie The Country Bears, so video game voiceovers aren’t a stretch. But it’s definitely still worth noting that Walken provided his voice for True Crime: Streets of LA, the same game that features Snoop Dogg ... voiced by Snoop Dogg .
As for whether Walken is a gamer himself, it’s unlikely, considering he doesn't own a computer or cell phone . Regardless, you can get a fairly accurate Walken gaming experience on the parody YouTube videos, Christopher Walkenthroughs .
5. Ellen Page
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In Beyond Two Souls, Page plays protagonist Jodie Holmes. The game was creating using motion capture , a process that requires placing almost a hundred little beads on an actor’s face to capture each movement during a scene. The script for the game was 2000 pages long and the crew shot 30 to 40 pages each day.
Page has been a versatile performer throughout her career, but she saw a difference between film acting and game acting: “You’re creating something that could go in so many different directions," she explained to Hero Complex. "You’re acting out elements of a story with an emotional intensity that a lot of people might never see. Every single person who plays this game will have their unique journey.”
6. Mark Hamill
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Mark Hamill has given many, many video game characters their voices—and that's not a surprise, considering his huge career in voice acting. His most famous role (of the non-Skywalker variety) is the Joker, which he voiced in various incarnations of the Batman cartoon and video game series for almost twenty years, from 1992 to 2011.
His final voice work as the Joker can be found in the award-winning video game, Batman: Arkham City. He retired from the role via Twitter the same year as the game's release, but the retirement may not last. During Hamill’s most recent Comic Con appearance, he said he wants to leave the role on a high note , but to “never say never.” It will be hard to let go of the role considering he has become an expert on the character and the trademark laugh. He explained , “His laugh should be like a musical instrument. It should illustrate his mood.”
7. Samuel L. Jackson
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This one is a no-brainer. Is there anything Samuel L. Jackson can’t do? Though Jackson refers to himself as “not at all” good at gaming , he has fond memories of Pong. He might be acting modest though. Jackson has hosted the Spike TV Video Game Awards four times and has said he enjoys first-person shooter games.
Jackson’s first video game role was as Officer Tenpenny in San Andreas, a character that came in number 87 on IGN Entertainment’s 2010 list of the “Top 100 Videogame Villains.” Jackson’s voice helped place Officer Tenpenny on the list; as the article stated , “his baritone absolutely drips with evil.”
8. George Takei
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George Takei is an activist, former Star Trek star, and king of the Internet . So, a career in video game voiceovers is the perfect fit for him. The Star Trek games are a given for Takei, who starred in the original 1966-69 series as well as six of the films, but the fan favorite also notes similarities between his acting projects and voiceover work, notably on Red Alert 3. “There are echoes of Heroes here and some echoes of Star Trek here [with] time travel,” he said of the game .
As for whether he takes a personal interest in gaming, Takei has a new YouTube channel , which he has said will take on the topic of video games .
9. Liam Neeson
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Neeson hasn’t done many video games, but he was attracted to the “compelling story” of Fallout 3. The creators of the game were hoping that Neeson would take the role from as early as the development stages, writing the character with his voice in mind. Executive producer Todd Howard was happy with the decision, noting that Neeson “provides a dramatic tone for the entire game.”
Neeson has had many action roles over the years, but he actually cited doing “radio plays for the BBC in London and Ireland” as the most helpful precedent to his video game voiceover work: “There’s a shift of focus you do have to make and trying to convey something through your voice and through the rhythm of the words that you wouldn’t have to worry about so much if the camera was on you.”
10. John Goodman
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Though it’s hard to imagine Goodman voicing any character besides Monsters Inc.'s Sulley, he has recorded for a few video games as well. He started video game voiceovers early with the 1996 computer game Pyst, a parody of the best-selling PC game at the time, Myst; he voiced the “King of the Island of Pyst.”
More recently, Goodman voiced Dan Hagar in Rage, the first character that the protagonist meets. But the producers behind the game didn’t choose Goodman because of his prior voiceover work. Rather, the initial sketch of Hagar reminded the game's creators of Goodman’s character in The Big Lebowski, Walter Sobchak, so they asked the star to voice the role.
11. 50 Cent
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Rapper 50 Cent doesn’t just do voiceover work for video games: He produced two games starring himself as the protagonist, and was involved in the creation of the games. Though he let the designers take control, he explained , “I made a few slight changes based on the things that influenced me.”
50 Cent’s video game work makes sense as he’s a gamer himself, and he doesn’t only enjoy shooter games like the ones he produced. He told CNN , “When I went to perform at the Spike TV Video Game Awards, I got a chance to see how they had the older games now on Wii. So I went and got the Wii system so I can play Mario Brothers.”
12. Sean Bean
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Though he didn’t record anything for The Lord of the Rings games, Sean Bean started a video game voiceover career in 2006. In Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Bean played the son of #14 on our list. Bean only has one video game on his resumé, but that might not be the case for long. When asked whether he would consider working on an Oblivion sequel, he responded , “It was a good, stylish, and successful piece of work and if a sequel came by, I’d definitely be up for that.”
13. Kiefer Sutherland
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Considering his action-packed work on the television show 24, it isn’t a surprise that Sutherland’s voice is the perfect fit for video games. His latest voice project is the character Snake for the upcoming Metal Gear Solid V, which will be released in 2014. In addition to lending his voice to the game, Sutherland also wore facial capture technology to help developers create the character. He has admitted that he’s not a gamer, but still said , “It’s an honor to be able to play this character. This character has an unbelievable legacy, but there’s a real personal quality to the character that I’ve connected to.”
14. Patrick Stewart
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Between George Takei and Patrick Stewart, the Star Trek alums blow the other A-listers out of the water when it comes to video game voice acting. Stewart’s voice seems tailor-made for voiceover work, so it’s no wonder that his career in video games has remained steady since the early nineties. His versatility doesn’t hurt either: After numerous Star Trek and X-Men video games, he went on to record the opening sequence for Lego Universe .
Stewart isn’t a gamer himself, but not because he frowns upon the concept. He told Frontline , “I have an addictive temperament. I have a stack of games, [but] I’ve never taken the covers off them because I feel that if I do, I’m finished.
15. Seth Green
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Green’s voice already provides him with steady work on Family Guy and Robot Chicken, so his foray into video games makes sense. Plus, Green and his wife, Clare Grant, are both gamers, which explains his involvement in the Mass Effect trilogy. In a recent red carpet interview, he gushed , “I thought it was a really revolutionary game when they pitched it to me. And I was excited to be a part of it as it became such a cultural phenomenon. And then every person that I know who has loved playing that game is genuinely affected by it, passionate about it, so that makes it kind of a fun experience for us to share.”
Of course, Green is a well-known comedic actor, so the folks behind Mass Effect were kind enough to release some outtakes from the Austin Powers star.
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According to the traditional rhyme, a child born on which day is said to be full of grace? | What does the traditional rhyme say about the meaning of the day of your birth? | Reference.com
What does the traditional rhyme say about the meaning of the day of your birth?
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The traditional rhyme about the meaning of the day of your birth is "Monday's Child is Fair of Face" by Mother Goose. The words of the poem are used to associate people, especially children, with a personality or pattern according to the day of the week on which they were born.
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The poem states that Monday's child is fair of face and Tuesday's child is full of grace. It further states that Wednesday's child is full of woe and Thursday's child has far to go. The poem then goes on to state that Friday's child is loving and giving and Saturday's child works hard for a living. The poem finally concludes that the child that is born on the Sabbath day is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.
Mother Goose rhymes usually have a rich history behind them. Mother Goose is a mythical person whose name was probably derived from the title of Charles Perrault’s collection of fairy tales, “Tales of Mother Goose," published in 1697. Mother Goose is a fictitious old woman who is reputedly the source of many traditional children’s songs and verses known as nursery rhymes. She is often pictured as a beak-nosed, sharp-chinned elderly woman riding on the back of a flying gander.
The persistent legend that Mother Goose was an actual Boston woman, Elizabeth Goose, is false, states Encylopaedia Britannica. The first U.S. edition of Mother Goose rhymes was a reprint of the Newbery edition published by Isaiah Thomas in 1785.
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Monday's Child is Fair of Face
Monday's Child is Fair of Face
Nursery Rhyme
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath Day,
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
Monday's Child is Fair of Face
Nursery Rhyme
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath Day,
Is bonny and blithe and good and gay.
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Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, best known for his starring roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of theatrical short films produced by Warner Bros. during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. His popularity during this era led to his becoming an American cultural icon, as well as a corporate mascot of the Warner Bros. company. He was created by the staff of Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons ) and voiced originally by the "Man of a Thousand Voices", Mel Blanc .
Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray hare and is famous for his relaxed, passive personality, pronounced New York accent (Blanc described the voice as being a mixture of Brooklyn and Bronx accents [1] ), depiction as a mischievous trickster, and his catchphrase "Eh, what's up, doc?" (usually said while chewing a carrot). Bugs has appeared in more films (both short and feature-length) than any other cartoon character, has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and is the 9th most-portrayed film personality in the world.
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Bugs' precursor
Bugs' evolution from Happy Rabbit to the present
Happy Rabbit , a hare with some of the personality of Bugs (though looking very different), made his first appearance in the cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt , released on April 30, 1938. Co-directed by Ben Hardaway and an uncredited Cal Dalton (who was responsible for the initial design of the rabbit), this short has an almost identical plot to Tex Avery 's Porky's Duck Hunt , which had introduced Daffy Duck . Hare Hunt replaced the little black duck with a small white rabbit. Porky Pig was again cast as a hunter tracking a silly prey who is more interested in driving his pursuer insane and less interested in escaping. Happy introduced himself with the odd expression "Jiggers, fellers," and Mel Blanc gave the character a voice and laugh much like those he would later use for Woody Woodpecker. Hare Hunt also gave Happy the famous Groucho Marx line, "Of course you realize, this means war!" The rabbit character was popular enough with audiences that the Termite Terrace staff decided to use it again.
Happy returned in the short Prest-O Change-O , directed by Chuck Jones , where he is the pet rabbit of unseen character Sham-Fu The Magician. Two dogs, fleeing the local dogcatcher, enter his absent master's house. Happy harasses them, but is ultimately bested by the bigger of the two dogs.
Happy's third appearance came in Hare-um Scare-um , once again directed by Cal and Ben. This short (the first in which he is depicted as a gray bunny instead of a white one) is also notable as Happy's first singing role. Charlie Thorson, lead animator on the short, gave the character a different name. He had written "Bugs' Bunny" on the model sheet that he drew for Ben. In promotional material for the short, including a surviving 1939 press kit, the name on the model sheet was altered to become the rabbit's own name: "Bugs" Bunny (quotation marks only used, on and off, until 1944).
In Chuck Jones' Elmer's Candid Camera , Happy met Elmer Fudd for the first time. In this cartoon, Happy looked more like the present-day Bugs, taller and with a similar face—-but retaining the more primitive voice. Candid Cameras Elmer character design was also different: fatter and taller than the modern model, although Arthur Q. Bryan 's character voice was already established.
Animation historians identify these Happy Rabbit cartoons as Bugs Bunny's early cartoons before he reaches his fame in A Wild Hare, as evident in documentaries such as The Wabbit Turns 50 from WWOR in 1989.
Bugs' official debut
Bugs emerges (literally) for the first time in A Wild Hare
A Wild Hare , directed by Tex Avery and released on July 27, 1940, is widely considered to be the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon. It is the first short where both Elmer Fudd and Bugs are shown in their fully developed forms as hunter and tormentor, respectively; the first in which Mel Blanc used what would become Bugs' standard voice; and the first in which Bugs says his catchphrase, "What's Up, Doc?" The short was a huge success in theaters and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film.
Immediately following on A Wild Hare, Bob Clampett 's Patient Porky featured a cameo appearance by Bugs, announcing to the audience that 750 rabbits have been born. The gag uses Bugs' Wild Hare visual design, but his goofier pre-Wild Hare voice characterization.
The second full-fledged role for the mature Bugs, Chuck Jones ' Elmer's Pet Rabbit , was the first to use the name Bugs Bunny on-screen: it appears in a title card, "featuring Bugs Bunny," at the start of the short (which was edited in following the success of A Wild Hare). However, Bugs' voice in this cartoon is significantly different, and his design was slightly altered as well. After Pet Rabbit, however, subsequent Bugs appearances returned to normal: the Wild Hare visual design returned, and Mel reused the Wild Hare voice characterization.
The name "Bugs" or "Bugsy" as an old-fashioned nickname means "crazy" (or "loopy"). Several famous people from the first half of the twentieth century had that nickname, like famous gangster, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, who disliked the nickname. It is now out of fashion as a nickname, but survives in 1950's–1960's expressions like "you're bugging me", as in "you're driving me crazy". It was the nickname of the aforementioned Ben Hardaway, and notes that referred to this "Bugs' bunny" stuck.
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt , directed by Friz Freleng , became the second Bugs Bunny cartoon to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film. The fact that it didn't win the award was later spoofed somewhat in What's Cookin' Doc? , in which Bugs demands a recount after losing the Oscar to Jimmy Cagney and presents a clip from Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt to prove his point.
World War II
By 1942, Bugs had become the #1 star of Merrie Melodies. The series had originally been intended only for one-shot characters in shorts after several early attempts to introduce characters ( Foxy , Goopy Geer , and Piggy ) failed under Harman–Ising (by 1937, under Leon Schlesinger , it had started introducing newer characters). Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid featured a slight redesign of Bugs, with less-prominent front teeth and a rounder head. The character was reworked by Robert McKimson , then an animator in Bob Clampett's unit. The redesign at first was only used in the shorts created by Bob's unit, but in time it would be taken up by the other directors, with Friz Freleng and Frank Tashlin the first. When Robert was himself promoted to director, he created yet another version, with more slanted eyes, longer teeth, and a much larger mouth. He used this version until 1949 (as did Arthur Davis for the one Bugs Bunny cartoon he directed) when he started using the version he had designed for Bob. Chuck Jones would come up with his own slight modification, and the voice had slight variations between the units. Bugs also made cameos in Tex Avery's final WB short, Crazy Cruise .
Since Bugs' debut in A Wild Hare, he had appeared only in color Merrie Melodie cartoons (making him one of the few recurring characters created for that series in the Leon Schlesinger era prior to the full conversion to color), alongside Elmer predecessor Egghead , Inki , Sniffles , and Elmer himself. While he made a cameo appearance in the Porky and Daffy cartoon Porky Pig's Feat , this was his only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tunes short. He did not star in a Looney Tunes cartoon until that series made its complete conversion to only color cartoons beginning in 1944. Buckaroo Bugs was Bugs' first starring role in a Looney Tunes short, and was also the last WB cartoon to credit Leon (as he had retired and sold his studio to Warner Bros. that year).
Bugs, Porky and Elmer in Any Bonds Today?
Bugs' popularity soared during World War II because of his free and easy attitude, and began receiving special star billing in his cartoons by 1943. By that time, Warner Bros. had become the most profitable cartoon studio in the U.S. In company with cartoon studios such as Disney and Famous Studios, WB put its characters against Adolf Hitler , Benito Mussolini, and the Japanese. Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips featured Bugs at odds with a group of Japanese soldiers. This cartoon has since been pulled from distribution due to its racism towards Japanese people. Bugs also faced off against Hermann Göring and Hitler in Herr Meets Hare , which introduced his well-known reference to Albuquerque as he mistakenly winds up in the Black Forest of "Joimany" instead of Las Vegas, Nevada. Bugs also appeared in the 1942 two-minute U.S. war bonds commercial film Any Bonds Today? , along with Porky and Elmer.
At the end of Super-Rabbit , Bugs appears wearing a United States Marine Corps dress blue uniform. As a result, the Marine Corps made Bugs an honorary Marine Master Sergeant. From 1943 to 1946, Bugs was the official mascot of Kingman Army Airfield, Kingman, Arizona, where thousands of aerial gunners were trained during World War II. Some notable trainees included Clark Gable and Charles Bronson. Bugs also served as the mascot for 530 Squadron of the 380th Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force, U.S. Air Force, which was attached to the Royal Australian Air Force and operated out of Australia's Northern Territory from 1943 to 1945, flying B-24 Liberator bombers. Bugs riding an air delivered torpedo served as the squadron logo for Marine Torpedo/Bomber Squadron 242 in the Second World War.
In 1944, Bugs Bunny made a cameo appearance in Jasper Goes Hunting, a Puppetoons short produced by rival studio Paramount Pictures. In this cameo (animated by Robert McKimson, with Mel providing the voice), Bugs (after being threatened at gunpoint) pops out of a rabbit hole, saying his usual catchphrase; after hearing the orchestra play the wrong theme song, he realizes "Hey, I'm in the wrong picture!" and then goes back in the hole.
The Postwar Era
After World War II, Bugs continued to appear in numerous Warner Bros. cartoons, making his last "Golden Age" appearance in 1964's False Hare . He starred in over 167 theatrical shorts, most of which were directed by Friz Freleng , Robert McKimson and Chuck Jones . Friz' Knighty Knight Bugs , in which a medieval Bugs trades blows with Yosemite Sam and his fire-breathing dragon (which has a cold), won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (becoming the first Bugs Bunny cartoon to win said award). Three of Chuck's shorts — Rabbit Fire , Rabbit Seasoning , and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! — compose what is often referred to as the "Rabbit Season/Duck Season" trilogy and are famous for originating the "historic" rivalry between Bugs and Daffy Duck. Chuck's classic What's Opera, Doc? , casts Bugs and Elmer Fudd in a parody of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. It was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1992, becoming the first cartoon short to receive this honor.
Bugs and Daffy in the intro to The Bugs Bunny Show
In the fall of 1960, ABC debuted the prime-time television program The Bugs Bunny Show . This show packaged many of the post-1948 Looney Tunes shorts with newly animated wraparounds. After two seasons, it was moved from its evening slot to reruns on Saturday mornings. The Bugs Bunny Show changed format and exact title frequently, but remained on network television for 40 years. The packaging was later completely different, with each short simply presented on its own, title and all, though some clips from the new bridging material were sometimes used as filler.
After the Classic Cartoon Era
Bugs did not appear in any of the post-1964 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises or Seven Arts Productions, nor did he appear in the lone Looney Tunes TV special produced by Filmation Associates . He would not appear in new material on-screen again until Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals aired in 1976.
Bugs with his Disney rival Mickey Mouse in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
In the 1988 live-action/animated movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (from executive producer Steven Spielberg ), Bugs appeared as one of the inhabitants of Toontown. However, since the film was being produced by Disney, Warner Bros. would only allow the use of their biggest star if he got an equal amount of screen time as Disney's biggest star, Mickey Mouse. Because of this, both characters are always together in frame when onscreen. Roger Rabbit also featured one of Mel Blanc 's final performances as the voice of Bugs (as well as the other Looney Tunes characters) before his death in 1989.
Bugs later appeared in another animated production featuring numerous characters from rival studios; the 1990 drug prevention TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue . This special is notable for being the first time that someone other than Mel voiced Bugs and Daffy (both characters were voiced by Jeff Bergman for this). Bugs also made guest appearances in the early 1990s television series Tiny Toon Adventures (also from Steven Spielberg), as the principal of Acme Looniversity and the mentor of Buster Bunny . He made further cameos in Warner Bros.' subsequent animated TV shows Taz-Mania , Animaniacs and Histeria!
Bugs returned to the silver screen in 1990's Box Office Bunny . This was the first Bugs Bunny cartoon since 1964 to be released in theaters and it was created for Bugs' 50th anniversary celebration. It was followed by Blooper Bunny , a cartoon that was shelved from theaters, but later premiered on Cartoon Network in 1997 and has since gained a cult following among animation fans for its edgy humor.
In 1996, Bugs and the other Looney Tunes characters appeared in the live-action/animated movie, Space Jam , directed by Joe Pytka and starring Michael Jordan . The film also introduced the character Lola Bunny , who becomes Bugs' new love interest. The movie received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success (grossing over $230 million worldwide). The success of Space Jam led to the development of another live-action/animated movie, Looney Tunes: Back In Action , released in 2003 and directed by Joe Dante . Unlike Space Jam, Back In Action was a box-office bomb, though it did receive more positive reviews from critics.
A younger version of Bugs, voiced by Samuel Vincent , is the main character of Baby Looney Tunes , which debuted on Cartoon Network in 2002. In the Action-Adventure series Loonatics Unleashed , his definite descendant Ace Bunny is the leader of the Loonatics team and seems to have inherited his ancestor's Mid-Atlantic accent and comedic wit.
The Looney Tunes Show
Bugs' redesign in The Looney Tunes Show
In 2011, Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang returned to television in the Cartoon Network sitcom, The Looney Tunes Show , with Jeff Bergman returning to voice both Bugs and Daffy Duck for the first time since 1992's Invasion Of The Bunny Snatchers . The characters feature new designs by artist Jessica Borutski. Among the changes to Bugs' appearance were the simplification and enlargement of his feet, as well as a change to his fur from gray to a shade of mauve (though in the second season, his fur was changed back to gray).
In the series, Bugs and Daffy are portrayed as best friends as opposed to their usual pairing as rivals or frenemies. At the same time, Bugs is more openly annoyed at Daffy's antics in the series (sometimes to the point of aggression), compared to his usual carefree personality from the original cartoons. Bugs and Daffy are close friends with Porky Pig in the series, although Bugs tends to be a more reliable friend to Porky than Daffy is.
Bugs also dates Lola Bunny in the show, although at first he finds her to be "crazy" and a bit too talkative (he later learns to accept her personality quirks, similar to his tolerance for Daffy). Unlike the original cartoons, Bugs lives in an upper middle-class house, which he shares with Daffy, Taz (whom he treats as a pet dog) and Speedy Gonzales , in the middle of a cul-de-sac with their neighbors Yosemite Sam, Granny and Witch Lezah . According to the episode "Peel of Fortune," Bugs' financial success comes from his invention of the carrot peeler.
Wabbit. A Looney Tunes Prod.
In 2015, Bugs returned to television yet again as the star of Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Prod. , which premiered on both Cartoon Network and Boomerang .
Personality & Catchphrases
"Some people call me cocky and brash, but actually I am just self-assured. I'm nonchalant, imperturbable, contemplative. I play it cool, but I can get hot under the collar. And above all I'm a very 'aware' character. I'm well aware that I am appearing in an animated cartoon....And sometimes I chomp on my carrot for the same reason that a stand-up comic chomps on his cigar. It saves me from rushing from the last joke to the next one too fast. And I sometimes don't act, I react. And I always treat the contest with my pursuers as 'fun and games.' When momentarily I appear to be cornered or in dire danger and I scream, don't be consoined – it's actually a big put-on. Let's face it Doc. I've read the script and I already know how it turns out. "
―Bob Clampett on Bugs Bunny, written in first person.
Bugs outsmarts Daffy and Elmer in Rabbit Seasoning
He is a cunning, charismatic, and smart rabbit. These personality traits are what gives him an advantage over his enemies, rivals and opponents. He is also known for his famous catch phrase; "Eh, what's up, doc?", which he typically uses as a greeting to anyone he encounters (usually while munching a carrot). Bugs is characterized as being clever and capable of outsmarting anyone who antagonizes him, including Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Willoughby, Marvin The Martian , Beaky Buzzard , Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, the Tasmanian Devil , Cecil Turtle , Witch Hazel , Rocky and Mugsy , Wile E. Coyote , The Crusher , The Gremlin , Count Bloodcount , and a whole bunch of others. Bugs almost always wins these contentions, a story pattern which recurs in Looney Tunes cartoons directed by Chuck Jones . Concerned that viewers would lose sympathy for an aggressive protagonist who always won, Chuck arranged for Bugs to be bullied, cheated, or threatened by the antagonists while minding his own business, justifying his subsequent antics as retaliation or self-defense. He's also been known to break The 4th Wall by "communicating" with the audience, either by explaining the situation (e.g. "Be with you in a minute, folks!"), describing someone to the audience (e.g. "Feisty, ain't they?"), clueing in on the story (e.g. "That happens to him all during the picture, folks."), explaining that one of his antagonists' actions have pushed him to the breaking point ("Of course you know, this means war."), admitting his own deviousness toward his antagonists ("Gee, ain't I a stinker?"), etc.
When Bugs made his appearance, he promptly replaced Daffy Duck as the most popular Warner Bros. character. Daffy, jealous of his cartoon counterpart's ascension to fame, has on many occasions attempted to dethrone the rabbit. But he has never truly succeeded, always being outsmarted by the clever hare.
However, as time passed on, Bugs and Daffy's rivalry has turned friendlier in nature as the two usually hang out together in most cartoons and Bugs considers Daffy his best friend despite his faults, to which Daffy says the same thing.
Bugs will usually try to placate the antagonist and avoid contention, but when a villain pushes him too far, Bugs may address the audience and invoke his catchphrase "Of course you realize this means war!" before he retaliates, and the retaliation will be devastating. This line was taken from Groucho Marx and others in the 1933 film Duck Soup and was also used in the 1935 Marx film A Night at the Opera. Bugs would pay homage to Groucho in other ways, such as occasionally adopting his stooped walk or leering eyebrow-raising (in Hair-Raising Hare , for example) or sometimes with a direct impersonation (as in Slick Hare ).
Bugs about to give Yosemite Sam the shaft (in more ways than one) in Bugs Bunny Rides Again
Other directors, such as Friz Freleng , characterized Bugs as altruistic. When Bugs meets other successful characters (such as Cecil Turtle in Tortoise Beats Hare , or, in World War II, the Gremlin of Falling Hare ), his overconfidence becomes a disadvantage. Most of Bugs' adversaries are extremely dim-witted, and Bugs is easily able to outwit and torment them, although on occasion they will manage to get the best of Bugs. Daffy Duck, who is arguably more intelligent but less clever, is unaffected by Bugs' usual schemes, which usually results in the two trying to outsmart the other with Bugs always triumphing in the end. However, there are only 4 antagonists that successfully defeats Bugs in the end of the cartoon, such as Cecil Turtle, the Gremlin from Falling Hare, the unnamed mouse from Rhapsody Rabbit , and the fly from Baton Bunny .
During the 1940s, Bugs started off immature and wild (similar to Daffy), but by the 1950s his personality matured and his attitude became more refined and less frenetic. Although often shown as highly clever, Bugs is never actually malicious, and only acts as such in self-defense against his aggressors.
The only exceptions where Bugs ever serves as an antagonist are the following: Elmer's Pet Rabbit , Wabbit Twouble , The Wacky Wabbit , Buckaroo Bugs and Duck Amuck ; Elmer's Pet Rabbit depicts him completely out-of-character with a more aggressive, arrogant, almost thuggish personality. Wabbit Twouble and The Wacky Wabbit depict him as a prankster harassing Elmer Fudd in the vein of early Daffy Duck/Porky Pig cartoons featuring the screwball Daffy as the tormentor. Buckaroo Bugs depicts him as a true villain, while Duck Amuck depicts him as far more sadistic than usual, as he becomes an animator and uses his newfound powers to torture Daffy.
Bugs Bunny's nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, as explained by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett , originated in a scene in the 1934 film It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable's character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full to Claudette Colbert's character. This scene was well known while the film was popular, and viewers at the time likely recognized Bugs Bunny's behavior as satire.
The carrot-chewing scenes are generally followed by Bugs Bunny's most well-known catchphrase, "What's up, Doc?", which was written by director Tex Avery for his first Bugs Bunny short, 1940's A Wild Hare . Tex explained later that it was a common expression in his native Texas and that he did not think much of the phrase. When the short was first screened in theaters, the "What's up, Doc?" scene generated a tremendously positive audience reaction. As a result, the scene became a recurring element in subsequent films and cartoons. The phrase was sometimes modified for a situation. For example, Bugs says "What's up, dogs?" to the antagonists in A Hare Grows In Manhattan , "What's up, Duke?" to the knight in Knight-Mare Hare and "What's up, prune-face?" to the aged Elmer in The Old Grey Hare . He might also greet Daffy with "What's up, Duck?" He used one variation, "What's all the hub-bub, bub?" only once, in Falling Hare. Another variation is used in Looney Tunes: Back In Action when he greets a bubble gun-yielding Marvin The Martian saying "What's up, Darth?" (a reference to Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series).
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Bugs Bunny is main protagonist who starred in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions , which became Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1944. [1] Bugs starred in 167 shorts during the Golden Age of American animation , and made cameos in three others along with a few appearances in non-animated films. He is an anthropomorphic hare or rabbit .
According to Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hare, he was born in July 27, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York in a warren under Ebbets Field , home of the Brooklyn Dodgers . In reality, he was created by many animators and staff, including Tex Avery , who directed A Wild Hare , Bugs' debut role, and Robert McKimson , who created the definitive Bugs Bunny character design. According to Mel Blanc , the character's original voice actor , Bugs has a Flatbush accent. Bugs has had numerous catchphrases , the most prominent being a casual "Eh... What's up, doc?", usually said while chewing a carrot.
He is the most prominent of the Looney Tunes characters as his calm, flippant insouciance endeared him to American audiences during and after World War II. He is a mascot of the Looney Tunes series, and Warner Bros. in general.
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The official on-screen debut of Bugs Bunny, in " A Wild Hare " (1940).
A Wild Hare , directed by Tex Avery and released on July 27, 1940, is the first cartoon where both Elmer Fudd and Bugs are shown in their fully developed forms as hunter and tormentor. In this cartoon Mel Blanc first uses what would become the standard voice of Bugs. And Bugs first emerges from his rabbit hole to ask Elmer, "What's up, Doc?" Animation historian Joe Adamson counts A Wild Hare as the first "official" Bugs Bunny short. [7]
Bugs's second appearance in Jones's Elmer's Pet Rabbit introduces the audience to the name Bugs Bunny, which until then had only been used among the Termite Terrace employees. It was also the first short where he received billing under his now-famous name, but the card, "featuring Bugs Bunny", was just slapped on the end of the completed short's opening titles when A Wild Hare proved an unexpected success. The rabbit here is in look and voice identical to the one in Jones' earlier Elmer's Candid Camera.
Bugs in his Wild Hare likeness appeared in five more shorts during 1941. Tortoise Beats Hare , directed by Tex Avery, features the first appearance of Cecil Turtle ; Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt , is the first Bugs Bunny short directed by Friz Freleng ; All This and Rabbit Stew , directed by Avery, has Bugs tracked by a little African-American hunter (based heavily on racial stereotypes); The Heckling Hare was the final Bugs short Avery worked on before being fired (Avery and producer Schlesinger vehemently disagreed over the ending gag of The Heckling Hare, and Avery refused to compromise his creative principles) and leaving for MGM ; and Wabbit Twouble , the first Bugs short directed by Robert Clampett . Wabbit Twouble was also the first of five Bugs shorts to feature a chubbier remodel of Elmer Fudd, a short-lived attempt to have Fudd more closely resemble his voice actor, comedian Arthur Q. Bryan .
World War II
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By 1942, Bugs had become the number one star of Merrie Melodies. The series had originally been intended only for one-shot characters in shorts after several early attempts to introduce characters ( Foxy , Goopy Geer and Piggy ) failed under Harman–Ising. (In 1937, under Schlesinger, it had started introducing newer characters.) Bugs' 1942 shorts included Friz Freleng's The Wabbit Who Came to Supper , and the Robert Clampett shorts The Wacky Wabbit and Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (which introduced Beaky Buzzard ). Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid shows a slight redesign of Bugs, with less-prominent front teeth and a rounder head. The character was reworked by Robert McKimson, then an animator in Robert Clampett's unit. The redesign at first was only used in the shorts created by Clampett's unit, but in time it would be taken up by the other directors, with Freleng and Frank Tashlin the first. When McKimson was himself promoted to director, he created yet another version, with more slanted eyes, longer teeth and a much larger mouth. He used this version until 1949 (as did Art Davis for the one Bugs Bunny cartoon he directed) when he started using the version he had designed for Clampett. Jones would come up with his own slight modification, and the voice had slight variations between the units. [2]
Other 1942 Bugs shorts included Chuck Jones' Hold the Lion, Please , Freleng's Fresh Hare and The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (which restores Elmer Fudd to his previous size), and Jones' Case of the Missing Hare . Bugs also made cameos in Tex Avery's final Warner Bros. short, Crazy Cruise, and stars in the two-minute United States war bonds commercial film Any Bonds Today . [8]
Bugs became more popular during World War II because of his free and easy attitude, and began receiving special star billing in his cartoons by 1943. By that time Warner Bros. had become the most profitable cartoon studio in the United States. In company with cartoon studios such as Disney and Famous Studios , Warners put its characters against the period's biggest enemies, Adolf Hitler , Benito Mussolini , and the Japanese . The 1944 short Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips features Bugs at odds with a group of Japanese soldiers. This cartoon has since been pulled from distribution due to its racial stereotypes. He also faces off against Herman Goering and Hitler in Herr Meets Hare , which introduced his well-known reference to Albuquerque as he mistakenly winds up in the Black Forest of 'Joimany' instead of Las Vegas, Nevada .
Since Bugs' debut in A Wild Hare, he had appeared only in color Merrie Melodie cartoons (making him one of the few recurring characters created for that series in the Leon Schlesinger era prior to the full conversion to color), alongside Elmer's prototype Egghead, Inki , Sniffles , and Elmer himself—who was heard but not seen in the 1942 Looney Tunes cartoon Nutty News, and made his first formal appearance in that series in 1943's To Duck or Not to Duck . While he made a cameo appearance in the 1943 Porky and Daffy cartoon Porky Pig's Feat this was his only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tune cartoon. He did not star in a cartoon in the Looney Tunes series until that series made its complete conversion to only color cartoons beginning with 1944 releases. Buckaroo Bugs was Bugs' first cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, and was also the last WB cartoon to credit Leon Schlesinger.
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After World War II Bugs appeared in numerous cartoon shorts in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, making his last appearance in the theatrical cartoons in 1964 with False Hare . He was directed by Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Arthur Davis and Chuck Jones and appeared in feature films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which features the first-ever meeting between Bugs and his box-office rival Mickey Mouse ), Space Jam (which co-starred Michael Jordan ), and the 2003 movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action .
The Bugs Bunny short Knighty Knight Bugs (1958), in which a medieval Bugs Bunny trades blows with Yosemite Sam and his fire-breathing dragon (which has a cold), won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) of 1958. Three of Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny shorts— Rabbit Fire , Rabbit Seasoning , and Duck, Rabbit, Duck! —comprise what is often referred to as the "Duck Season/Rabbit Season" trilogy, and are considered among the director's best works. Template:Citation needed Jones' 1957 classic, What's Opera, Doc? , cast Bugs and Elmer in a parody of Richard Wagner 's Der Ring des Nibelungen . It has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry , the first cartoon short to receive this honor.
In the fall of 1960, ABC debuted the prime-time television program The Bugs Bunny Show . This show packaged many of the post-1948 Warners shorts with newly animated wraparounds. After two seasons, it was moved from its evening slot to reruns on Saturday mornings. The Bugs Bunny Show changed format and exact title frequently, but remained on network television for 40 years. The packaging was later completely different, with each short simply presented on its own, title and all, though some clips from the new bridging material were sometimes used as filler.
After the classic cartoon era
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After Mel Blanc died in 1989, Jeff Bergman , Greg Burson , Billy West , and Joe Alaskey became the new voices of Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes, taking turns doing Bugs' voice at various times.
Bugs has made appearances in animated specials for network television, mostly composed of classic cartoons with bridging material added, including How Bugs Bunny Won the West, and The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special. 1980's Bugs Bunny's Busting Out All Over, however, contained no vintage clips and featured the first new Bugs Bunny cartoons in 16 years. It opened with "Portrait Of The Artist As a Young Bunny", which features a flashback of Bugs as a child thwarting a young Elmer Fudd, while its third and closing short was "Spaced Out Bunny", with Bugs being kidnapped by Marvin the Martian to be a playmate for Hugo, an Abominable Snowman -like character. (A new Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner short filled out the half hour.) Compilation films included the independently produced Bugs Bunny: Superstar , using the vintage shorts then owned by United Artists ; as well as Warner Bros. efforts The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie , The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie , Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island , Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales and Daffy Duck's Quackbusters . He also made guest appearances in episodes of the 1990s television program Tiny Toon Adventures as the principal of Acme Looniversity and the mentor of Babs and Buster Bunny , and would later make occasional guest cameos on spinoffs Taz-Mania and Animaniacs . He appears in the beginning of Gremlins 2: The New Batch , where he tries to ride the opening Warner Bros logo, but is interrupted by Daffy Duck.
Cover to Bugs Bunny Comic Book #108 (November 1966), featuring the debut of Honey Bunny . Art by Robert McKimson .
Bugs has had several comic book series over the years. Western Publishing had the license for all the Warner Brothers cartoons, and produced Bugs Bunny comics first for Dell Comics , then later for their own Gold Key Comics . Dell published 58 issues and several specials from 1952 to 1962. Gold Key continued for another 133 issues. DC Comics , the sister/subsidiary company of Warner Bros., has published several comics titles since 1994 that Bugs has appeared in. Notable among these was the 2000 four-issue miniseries Superman & Bugs Bunny, written by Mark Evanier and drawn by Joe Staton . This depicted a crossover between DC's superheroes and the Warner cartoon characters.
Bugs Bunny's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Like SpongeBob for Nickelodeon and Mickey Mouse (a Disney character), Bugs has served as the mascot for Warner Bros. Entertainment and its various divisions. He and Mickey are the first cartoon characters to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
In the 1988 animated/live action movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit , Bugs was shown as one of the inhabitants of Toontown . However, since the film was being produced by Disney , Warner Bros. would only allow the use of their biggest star if he got an equal amount of screen time as Disney's biggest star, Mickey Mouse. Because of this, both characters are always together in frame when onscreen. For the same reasons, Bugs never calls Mickey by his name, only referring to him as "Doc," while Mickey calls him "Bugs."
Bugs Bunny was featured in The Earth Day Special showing his displeasure on how man started mistreating the environment. He was voiced by Jeff Bergman who also voiced Porky Pig and Tweety.
Bugs Bunny came back to the silver screen in Box Office Bunny in 1990. This was the first Bugs Bunny cartoon short since 1964 to be released to theaters, and it was created for the Bugs Bunny 50th anniversary celebration. It was followed in 1991 by (Blooper) Bunny , a short that has gained a cult following among some animation fans for its edgy humor.
Bugs made an appearance in the 1990 drug prevention video Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue . This special is notable for being the first time that somebody other than Mel Blanc voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. (In this video, both characters were voiced by Jeff Bergman .)
In 1997, Bugs appeared on a U.S. postage stamp , the first cartoon to be so honored, beating the iconic Mickey Mouse. The stamp is number seven on the list of the ten most popular U.S. stamps, as calculated by the number of stamps purchased but not used. The introduction of Bugs onto a stamp was controversial at the time, as it was seen as a step toward the 'commercialization' of stamp art. The postal service rejected many designs, and went with a postal-themed drawing. Avery Dennison printed the Bugs Bunny stamp sheet, which featured "a special ten-stamp design and was the first self-adhesive souvenir sheet issued by the U.S. Postal Service ." [12]
A younger version of Bugs is the main character of Baby Looney Tunes , which debuted on Cartoon Network in 2002. In the action comedy Loonatics Unleashed , his definite descendant Ace Bunny is the leader of the Loonatics team and seems to have inherited his ancestor's Brooklyn accent and comic wit. Strangely, Bugs was one of the few Looney Tunes characters who never appeared in the 2003 Duck Dodgers series .
On August 13, 2010, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that they are planning a live-action/CG-animated combo feature film based on the Looney Tunes character. [13]
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Bugs and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang returned to Cartoon Network in 2011 in a brand new show called The Looney Tunes Show , with Jeff Bergman returning to voice both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck . This series will also feature the characters singing original songs as well. The show debuted on May 3, 2011.
Personality and catchphrases
— Bob Clampett on Bugs Bunny, written in first person . [14]
Bugs has feuded with Elmer Fudd , Yosemite Sam , Willoughby the Dog , Marvin The Martian , Beaky Buzzard , Daffy Duck , Porky Pig , Tasmanian Devil , Cecil Turtle , Charlie Dog , Witch Hazel , Rocky and Mugsy , Wile E Coyote , The Crusher , Gremlin , Big Bad Wolf , Count Blood Count and a host of others. Bugs almost always wins these conflicts, a plot pattern which recurs in Looney Tunes films directed by Chuck Jones. Concerned that viewers would lose sympathy for an aggressive protagonist who always won, Jones arranged for Bugs to be bullied, cheated, or threatened by the antagonists while minding his own business, justifying his subsequent antics as retaliation or self-defense. He's also been known to break the fourth wall by "communicating" with the audience, either by explaining the situation (ex. "Be with you in a minute, folks!"), describing someone to the audience (ex. "Feisty, ain't they?"), clueing in on the story (ex. "This happens to him all during the picture, folks."), explaining that one of his antagonists' actions have pushed him to the breaking point ("Of course you know, this means war."), etc.
Bugs will usually try to placate the antagonist and avoid conflict, but when an antagonist pushes him too far, Bugs may address the audience and invoke his catchphrase "Of course you realize this means war!" before he retaliates, and the retaliation will be devastating. This line was taken from Groucho Marx and others in the 1933 film Duck Soup and was also used in the 1935 Marx film A Night at the Opera . [15] Bugs would pay homage to Groucho in other ways, such as occasionally adopting his stooped walk or leering eyebrow-raising (in Hair-Raising Hare , for example) or sometimes with a direct impersonation (as in Slick Hare ).
Other directors, such as Friz Freleng, characterized Bugs as altruistic. When Bugs meets other successful characters (such as Cecil Turtle in Tortoise Beats Hare , or, in World War II, the Gremlin of Falling Hare ), his overconfidence becomes a disadvantage. Most of Bugs' antagonists are extremely dim-witted, and Bugs is easily able to outwit and torment them, though on occasion they will manage to get the best of Bugs. Daffy Duck, who is considerably more intelligent, is unaffected by Bugs' usual schemes, and the two usually end up fighting a battle of wits, though Bugs is still the superior.
During the 1940s, Bugs was immature and wild, but starting in the 1950s his personality matured and his attitude was less frenetic. Though often shown as highly mischievous and violent, Bugs is never actually malicious, and only acts as such in self-defense against his aggressors; the only two cartoons where Bugs ever served as an antagonist were Buckaroo Bugs and Duck Amuck ; the latter cartoon depicts him as far more sadistic than usual, as he becomes the cartoonist and abuses his newfound divine powers to torture Daffy.
Bugs Bunny's nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, as explained by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett , originated in a scene in the film It Happened One Night , in which Clark Gable 's character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full to Claudette Colbert 's character. This scene was well known while the film was popular, and viewers at the time likely recognized Bugs Bunny's behavior as satire . [16]
The carrot-chewing scenes are generally followed by Bugs Bunny's most well-known catchphrase, "What's up, Doc?", which was written by director Tex Avery for his first Bugs Bunny short, 1940's A Wild Hare. Avery explained later that it was a common expression in his native Texas and that he did not think much of the phrase. When the short was first screened in theaters, the "What's up, Doc?" scene generated a tremendously positive audience reaction. [17] As a result, the scene became a recurring element in subsequent films and cartoons. The phrase was sometimes modified for a situation. For example, Bugs says "What's up, dogs?" to the antagonists in A Hare Grows in Manhattan , "What's up, Duke?" to the knight in Knight-mare Hare and "What's up, prune-face?" to the aged Elmer in The Old Grey Hare . He might also greet Daffy with "What's up, Duck?" He used one variation, "What's all the hub-bub, bub?" only once, in Falling Hare . Another variation is used in Looney Tunes: Back In Action when he greets a lightsaber -wielding Marvin the Martian saying "What's up, Darth ?"
Several Chuck Jones shorts in the late 1940s and 1950s depict Bugs travelling via cross-country (and, in some cases, intercontinental) tunnel-digging, ending up in places as varied as Mexico ( Bully For Bugs , 1953), the Himalayas ( The Abominable Snow Rabbit , 1960) and Antarctica ( Frigid Hare , 1949) all because he "shoulda taken that left toin at Albukoikee ." He first utters that phrase in Herr Meets Hare (1945), when he emerges in the Black Forest , a cartoon seldom seen today due to its blatantly topical subject matter. When Hermann Göring says to Bugs, "There is no Las Vegas in 'Chermany'" and takes a potshot at Bugs, Bugs dives into his hole and says, "Joimany! Yipe!", as Bugs realizes he's behind enemy lines. The confused response to his "left toin" comment also followed a pattern. For example, when he tunnels into Scotland in 1948's My Bunny Lies Over The Sea , while thinking he's heading for the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California , it provides another chance for an ethnic stereotype: "Therrre's no La Brrrea Tarrr Pits in Scotland!" (to which Bugs responds, "Uh...what's up, Mac-doc?"). A couple of late-1950s shorts of this ilk also featured Daffy Duck travelling with Bugs ("Since when is Pismo Beach inside a cave?!").
Bugs Bunny has some similarities to figures from mythology and folklore , such as Br'er Rabbit , Nanabozho , or Anansi , and might be seen as a modern trickster (for example, he repeatedly uses cross-dressing mischievously). Unlike most cartoon characters, however, Bugs Bunny is rarely defeated in his own games of trickery. One exception to this is the short Hare Brush , in which Elmer Fudd ultimately carries the day at the end; however, critics note that in this short, Elmer and Bugs assume each other's personalities—through mental illness and hypnosis, respectively—and it is only by becoming Bugs that Elmer can win. However, Bugs was beaten at his own game. In the short Duck Amuck he torments Daffy Duck as the unseen animator, ending with his line, "Ain't I a stinker?" Bugs feels the same wrath of an unseen animator in the short Rabbit Rampage where he is in turn tormented by Elmer Fudd. At the end of the clip Elmer gleefully exclaims, 'Well, I finally got even with that scwewy wabbit!"
Although it was usually Porky Pig who brought the WB cartoons to a close with his stuttering, "That's all, folks!", Bugs would occasionally appear, bursting through a drum just as Porky did, but munching a carrot and saying in his Bronx-Brooklyn accent, "And dat's de end!"
The name " Bugs " or " Bugsy " as an old-fashioned nickname means "crazy" (or "loopy"). Several famous people from the first half of the twentieth century had that nickname. It is now out of fashion as a nickname, but survives in 1950s-1960s expressions like "you're bugging me", as in "you're driving me crazy".
Bugs wears white gloves, which he is rarely seen without. One example is the episode Long-Haired Hare , where Bugs pretends to be the famed conductor Leopold Stokowski and instructs opera star "Giovanni Jones" to sing and to hold a high note. As Giovanni Jones is turning red with the strain, Bugs slips his left hand out of its glove, leaving the glove hovering in the air in order to command Jones to continue to hold the high note. Bugs then nips down to the mail drop to order, and then to receive, a pair of ear defenders. Bugs puts on the ear defenders and then zips back into the amphitheater and reinserts his hand into his glove as singer Jones is writhing on the stage, still holding that same high note.
Bugs Bunny is also a master of disguise: he can wear any disguise that he wants to confuse his enemies: in Bowery Bugs he uses diverse disguises: fakir, gentleman, woman, baker and finally policeman. This ability of disguise makes Bugs famous because we can recognize him while at the same time realizing that his enemies are trapped. Bugs has a certain preference for the female disguise: Taz, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam were fooled by this sexy bunny (woman) and in Hare Trimmed , Sam discovers the real face of "Granny" (Bugs's disguise) in the church where they attempt to get married. For all the gullible victims of all these disguises, however, for some reason, Daffy Duck and Cecil Turtle are among those who are never fooled.
Bugs Bunny may also have some mystical potential. In Knight-mare Hare he was able to return to his bunny form (after being transformed into a donkey) by removing his donkey form as if it were a suit. Merlin of Monroe (the wizard) was unable to do the same thing. Later Bugs Bunny defeated the Count Blood Count in a magical spell duel. However, the story was a dream and Bugs Bunny's victory over Count Blood Count was a result of his intellect, not innate magical power.
Rabbit or hare?
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The animators throughout Bugs' history have treated the terms rabbit and hare as synonymous. Taxonomically, they are not synonymous, being somewhat similar but observably different types of lagomorphs . Hares have much longer ears than rabbits, so Bugs might seem to be of the hare family, yet rabbits live in burrows, as Bugs is seen to do. Many more of the cartoon titles include the word "hare" rather than "rabbit," as "hare" lends itself easily to puns ("hair," "air," etc.) Elmer Fudd has always referred to Bugs as a "wabbit".
Within the cartoons, although the term "hare" comes up sometimes, again typically as a pun—for example, Bugs drinking "hare tonic" to "stop falling hare" or being doused with "hare restorer" to bring him back from invisibility—Bugs as well as his antagonists most often refer to the character as a "rabbit." The word " bunny " is of no help in answering this question, as it is a synonym for both young hares and young rabbits.
In Nike commercials with Michael Jordan , Bugs had been referred to as "Hare Jordan." [18] [19]
The opening and closing
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In the opening of many of the Bugs Bunny cartoons, the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes irises contain Bugs Bunny's head after the Warner Bros. shield (generally from 1944 and 1949 onward). Others have Bugs Bunny relaxing on top of the Warner Bros. shield: He chews on his carrot, looks angrily at the camera and pulls down the next logo (Merrie Melodies or Looney Tunes) like a window shade (generally on cartoons between 1945 until early 1949). Then he lifts it back up, to now be seen lying on his own name, which then fades into the title of the specific short. In some other cases, the title card sometimes fades to him, already on his name and chewing his carrot then fade to the name of the short. At the finish of Hare Tonic and Baseball Bugs , Bugs breaks out of a drum (like Porky Pig ) and says, "And that's the end". Also, at the end of Box Office Bunny , right after Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd run out through the Looney Tunes "That's All Folks!" sequence, Bugs later comes in through the rings and says, "And that's all, folks!". He did the ending for the last time at the end of Space Jam but this time saying "Well, that's all, folks!".
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Justice League: The New Frontier (2008, voiced by Joe Alaskey, as one of the forms of The Martian Manhunter )
Current popularity
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In 2002, TV Guide compiled a list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time as part of the magazine's 50th anniversary. Bugs Bunny was given the honor of number 1. [21] [22] In a CNN broadcast on July 31, 2002, a TV Guide editor talked about the group that created the list. The editor also explained why Bugs pulled top billing: "His stock...has never gone down...Bugs is the best example...of the smart-aleck American comic. He not only is a great cartoon character, he's a great comedian. He was written well. He was drawn beautifully. He has thrilled and made many generations laugh. He is tops." [23] Additionally, in Animal Planet 's 50 Greatest Movie Animals (2004), Bugs was named #3, behind Mickey Mouse and Toto .
Bugs has also had an effect on "live" movie acting. During an interview for Inside the Actors Studio , comedian Dave Chappelle cited him as one of his earliest influences, praising voice actor Mel Blanc .
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Which famous book by Herman Melville opens with the line Call Me Ishmael? | Moby-Dick (Unabridged) by Herman Melville on iTunes
Nathaniel Hawthorne didn't write Moby Dick - Herman Melville did.
Hast thou seen the White Whale?
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Moby-Dick is a magnificent book, but it can require a great deal of patience: it is an 'adventure' novel in which not very much happens. Its plot is very simple & very famous. Its beauty is in the slavish amount of detail put into it.
Melville uses nautical terms extensively, & he loves nothing better than to have Ishmael display his breadth of knowledge-- & because of this, I would recommend a printed copy with annotations IN ADDITION to this recording. The Norton Critical edition has ample notes, glossaries & diagrams which make it even more possible to become joyously immersed in the book. There are few novels that more strongly make me feel actually inside them. I've had the luxury of having both the explanatory materials & Frank Muller's narration (reading the notes after each chapter). His voice is rich & smooth. (There is one sentence beginning with the phrase 'His special lunacy...' that I listened to half a dozen times in a row, so alluring were Muller's inflections.
He voices Ishmael's erudition with genuine enthusiasm for the types, behaviour, appearance, historical significance, et cetera of whales (Melville does do the thing right); shows considerable comedic talent with Stubb's frenzied 'pep-talks' for pulling a whale in; & gives Queequeg's idiosyncratic take on the English language a sweet mixture of toughness & frankness. Queequeg & Ishmael's relationship is an interesting element of Moby-Dick. Ishmael refers to him as a 'savage' but evidently feels a strong sense of respect & comradeship toward him. Is it hypocrisy, or an obsolete, now politically incorrect, term, as people call Native Americans 'Indians' without meaning any malice? It makes me uneasy.
The most gorgeous parts of the book, though, are Ahab's mad soliloquies. It is almost frightening how well Muller ‘gets into character’.
"Leap! leap up & lick the sky! I leap with thee; I burn with thee; would feign be welded with thee; defyingly I worship thee!"
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“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.”
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What is the name given to the system for categorising library books? | How to Locate a Book in a Library: 6 Steps (with Pictures)
How to Locate a Book in a Library
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A library is a big place, filled with thousands or even hundreds of thousands of books. How do you find just the books you need? A librarian is always there to assist you, but you might want to find a book on your own by browsing the shelves or checking the catalog, which is usually in a computer on a table, easy to access and use.
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Investigate. If this is your first time in a library that is new to you, take some time to look around and get to know the place. Notice the signs in the building and the overall system. If it's a larger building, look for maps or directories near the entrance.
Notice that shelves and areas are marked with the types of materials that are in them. Pay particular attention to sections that interest you.
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Consult the catalog. Many libraries now have computerized catalogs available on computer terminals throughout the building. Some might still have an old card catalog on index cards in drawers. Either way, there are some standard ways to search a card catalog.
Title search. If you know the book's title, you can search for it. In a paper card catalog, you will search alphabetically. In general, though, ignore "a" or "the" if it is the first word. Thus, The Count of Monte Cristo will be filed alphabetically under "Count". Computerized catalogs vary, but you will usually select a title search and type in at least the first few words of the title.
Author search. If you know the author of the book, or if you are interested in other works by a favorite author, you can search for that. Authors are usually listed by their last names.
Subject search. If you know what you want to read about, or you're searching for particular information, but you don't know the title of a specific book, try a subject search. A subject that is too broad may turn up too many results, including other related subjects. A subject that is too narrow may not be cataloged. If you don't find quite what you want the first time, try searching on different words.
Keyword search. Most electronic catalogs will let you search on a keyword or words. For example, searching on the keyword "French" would find any book with that word in the title, be it about French cooking, French tourism, or French kissing .
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Notice whether your book is checked out. Many computerized catalogs, especially, tie in to the circulation database to tell you whether a book is on the shelves or is unavailable. If it is checked out, seeing that now can save you a trip.
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Make notes. When you find the book you want in the catalog, write down the call number and any other information about the location of the book. Most libraries offer scraps of paper near their catalogs. This information tells you where to find the book.
Remember that Non-fiction books will be shelved separately by some kind of classification system (the most popular are the Dewey Decimal System and the Library of Congress Classification system.) Each book is given a number according to its subject matter. The books are then arranged in order on the shelves by these numbers.
Fiction books are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name. If you look for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by title, the catalog will tell you to look for the book in the Fiction section under Adams. Some libraries divide out certain genres of fiction, such as mystery, romance, westerns and science fiction. If your book is one of these, write that down, too.
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Go find the book(s) you have chosen. Follow the signs in the library, then the labels on the ends of the shelves, and then the labels on the spine of each book to locate your book.
Remember that if you have found a non- fiction book on a topic in which your are interested, only some of the rest of the library stock will also be in the same area. Oversize books and special collections may be housed elsewhere.
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Consider new possibilities . If you're not sure what to read, there are many ways to find suggestions and possibilities in a library, too.
See what other books your favorite authors have written. Read the summaries or browse in the books to see if they interest you, and consider checking them out. Usually a writer that has written one good book probably has written more.
If you can't remember any particular author, just browse the shelf, picking up random books, reading the information inside the cover, reading the first page or more, to see if you are interested in the book. You can narrow it down by browsing in a particular section, genre, or subject that interests you.
Look at the library displays to see if any of the books featured there catch your interest. Also look around to see if there is a section or display for new books.
Try the reference section. The library has books there that list, categorize, index and rate books.
Tell a librarian what you like to read. he/she may be able to make some recommendations.
Look in the periodicals section, where you can find magazines with book reviews like Publisher's Weekly or even People and Rolling Stone. You could also check out the New York Times book reviews section. Or, see what magazines you gravitate towards and find out if there are books on those topics.
Check out the computer databases. Some U.S. libraries subscribe to a huge online database about books called NoveList, for example.
Look for award-winners. There are lists available of everything from Pulitzer winners to book club features. If you'd like to read something outside of your usual genres, award winners are a great place to start.
Reread an old favorite. Harry Potter is still light, fun reading.
Community Q&A
How do I know if a book is in the library or not?
wikiHow Contributor
Usually in a library there is a catalogue that lists all the books in circulation at a time. Using this catalogue, look up the book you would like to check out and look at its information. There is usually a count of how many copies the library owns and how many are checked out; if there is less checked out than the library owns, the book is still available for checkout.
What do the numbers on the books mean?
wikiHow Contributor
The numbers are a way a library sorts books and is called the Dewey Decimal system. These numbers tell not only where the book should be housed on shelves, but what kind of material it contains. For example, books 000-099 are classified as Generalities, and usually consist of Encyclopedias, Newspapers, etc., while books 100-199 are Philosophy and Psychology, and so on.
How do I identify a fiction book in the library?
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You can ask a Librarian to show you the Fiction section. However, if you have already found a book and are not sure if it is fiction or not, you can check a few places on the book to see. 1) The cover. Many times a book will say "A Novel" if it is fiction. 2) The back side of the title page. Look at the Library of Congress Cataloging Publication Data. After the subject there will be a dash, then the word "Fiction" if it is fiction.
Where do I put a book I am not checking out?
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If you have no intention of checking out the book, there are usually librarians who can reshelve the book for you around. Attempting to reshelve the book yourself often can lead to the book being misplaced and lost for a while.
What is the circulation section?
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The circulation section of a library has many functions and is one of the key components of a library. Some functions include lending material, checking in material, maintaining shelves by replacing checked-in material and solving any conflicts that may appear, i.e. inappropriate patron actions, open drinks and/or food, high noise levels, etc.
How do I find a book in the card catalog when I only remember the author and not the title?
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Most library catalogs will allow a search by author. You can also ask a librarian who can tell you if the book is available at that library or not.
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Just because a book isn't a best seller doesn't mean it isn't good. Bestseller lists can be misleading since the list measures how many copies of books get bought by the bookstores and not by bookstore customers. Since the library is free, this is a good chance to try out new authors and lesser known books.
Many libraries offer much more than just books. Browse around and ask about the offerings at yours. Here is a sampling of other items that are available in libraries:
Audio books on tape, CD or MP3.
Music recordings on CD.
Telephone directories.
Engraving tools.
Ask the librarian to show you a list of the best sellers or check the external links below.
Unless you are in a hurry, relax and enjoy being in the library, perusing the shelves, getting information and reading through the books.
If you're still not sure what you want, check out a few different books and explore in more depth them at home. Don't overdo it, of course, but one of the great things about libraries is that you can take home three books and read only the one that really catches your interest. If you're looking for specific information, it's an especially good idea to try several different books on the same subject and only read the relevant sections in each.
If the book you want is checked out, you may be able to find out when it is due. You may also be able to put a hold on the item so that it will be set aside for you when it is returned. The librarian can also try to locate it at another library. You would then have the choice to obtain it at the library if it is nearby, or the librarian may be able to get it for you on interlibrary loan if it is only available at a distant location.
If you have trouble finding the book you want, ask the librarian for assistance. The Library staff are there to help you.
Ask the Librarian about different groups, events, or speakers that will be at the library.
There are comfortable chairs in the library. Find a few books, that you think might interest you, take them with you, sit and read them.
Warnings
Make sure you have a valid library card in each library, or you will not be able to check a book out. If you do not have one, then before looking for a book, sign up for one. It takes only a few minutes of your time. Make sure you have something with your current address on.
Mark your calendar immediately when you check out a book and get in the habit of making a weekly check of what materials you have checked out. Libraries stop being free very quickly if you don't return materials on time.
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Behind Shakespeare, who is the second most published author of all time? | Let's Do Dewey
Let's Do Dewey
The Dewey Decimal Classification System is named after its creator,
Melvil Dewey.
Click on the correct answer in the next column to start the tutorial and learn about the DDC.
Melvil
Dewey
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born Dec. 10, 1851, Adams Center, NY., U.S.
died Dec. 26, 1931, Lake Placid, NY.
American librarian who devised the Dewey Decimal Classification for library cataloging and, probably more than any other individual, was responsible for the development of library science in the United States.
Dewey graduated in 1874 from Amherst College and became acting librarian at that institution. In 1876 he published A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library, in which he outlined what became known as the Dewey Decimal Classification. This system was gradually adopted by libraries throughout the English-speaking world. In 1877 Dewey moved to Boston, where, with R.R. Bowker and Frederick Leypoldt, he founded and edited the Library Journal. He was also one of the founders of the American LibraryAssociation. In 1883 he became librarian of Columbia College, New York City, and there set up the School of Library Economy, the first institution for training librarians in the United States. The school was moved to Albany, N.Y., as the State Library School under his direction.
From 1889 to 1906 he was director of the New York State Library. He also served as secretary of the State University of New York (1889–1900) and as state director of libraries (1904–06). He completely reorganized the New York state library, making it one of the most efficient in the United States, and established the system of traveling libraries and picture collections.
"Melvil Dewey." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
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What is a call number?
The call number for a book in the library is composed of two parts—the Dewey Decimal Classification number and the Cutter number.
In large libraries, it is possible that many books will be classified with the same Dewey classification number. The library must give each book a unique number that serves as the address for locating each book on the shelf.
To create this unique number, a Cutter number is added to the classification number.
Dewey Decimal Classification System
The Dewey decimal system is used in more than 200,000 libraries throughout the world and it has been translated into 35 languages. The Dewey decimal system, using numbers and letters, coordinates materials on the same subject and on related subjects to make items easier to find on the shelves.. All knowledge is divided into ten main classes, which are listed below
900 Geography and History
Each of the above classes each have ten divisions . These divisions are further divided--and then further divided. Each division becomes more specific. The more numbers, the more specific the subject. In this way, the Dewey classification system progresses from the general to the specific. For a detailed summary for each number see the Dewey Decimal Classification System The decimal place is used to make the number even more specific. Let's look for butterflies......
To find the classification number for butterflies, we need to start with the class for natural sciences the 500's This means that the first number of the call number will be a 5
Let's look at the ten divisions of this 500 class.
510 Mathematics
But wait..................what happens when two books have the same number?
In large libraries, it is possible that many books will be classified with the same Dewey classification number. The library must give each book a unique number that serves as the address for locating each book on the shelf.
To create this unique number, a Cutter number is added to the classification number.
Cutter numbers
The cutter number for a book usually consists of the first letter of the author's last name and a series of numbers. This series of numbers comes from a table that is designed to help maintain an alphabetical arrangement of names.
Conley, Ellen
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Which Thomas Harris novel was the top selling adult fiction novel of the year 2000 in the UK? | Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol 'will be biggest selling adult fiction novel of the decade' - Telegraph
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Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol 'will be biggest selling adult fiction novel of the decade'
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol will become the biggest selling adult fiction novel of the decade, and the fastest selling since the final Harry Potter book, Waterstone's have predicted.
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The Da Vinci Code was subsequently turned into a film starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou
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The book, released this Tuesday, follows Brown's hugely successful The Da Vinci Code, and has a first print run of one million copies.
More than one in 10 British household bought a copy of the final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, within the first 24 hours of its release, making it the fastest-selling book in the country's history. A total of 2,652,656 copies were sold in the opening 24 hours.
The Lost Symbol is a thriller set during a 12-hour period and features the hero from The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Robert Langdon.
An electronic version of the novel will also be released on Tuesday and could prove a turning point for machines such as the Sony Reader and the Kindle ebook.
The book is set largely in Washington and is set to examine freemasonry in the same way Brown featured the Illuminati and the Catholic Church in his other novels.
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The Da Vinci Code, which was subsequently turned into a film starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, has sold more than 81 million copies worldwide and is Britain's biggest selling paperback novel of all time. The film grossed $758 million.
Following the success of The Da Vinci Code, Brown's earlier novels Angels & Demons, Deception Point and Digital Fortress all went on to become multi-million copy international best sellers, and are Britain's second, third and fourth best selling adult paper back novels of all time.
Despite the Da Vinci Code's success, it angered scholars, critics and religious officials, with the plot including secret religious cults and speculation Jesus fathered a child with Mary Magdalene.
Janine Cook, from Waterstone's, whose London Piccadilly store is the only British shop selling signed copies, said: "It's almost inevitable that this will be the fastest selling fiction hardback of the decade since records began. Outside of Harry Potter, and Harry Potter is a children's book, the last time there was an adult book that there was a Great Expectation was the last Hannibal book by Thomas Harris and that was phenomenally successful and that's going to knock this one into a cocked hat.
"It's Transworld's biggest print run for a hardback novel ever in the UK, and that's on million copies which is a very bullish thing to do in the economic climate but I think they can be very confident they will be going to a second print run and more after that.
"For us it's going to be the biggest the seller of the year and since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."
The majority of Borders book stores will open at least an hour early on publication day.
Ruth Atkins, Borders fiction buyer, said: "We're expecting it will be the biggest fiction hardback of the year and will bring a lot of people into the shops who don't usually come in."
Last week Brown said in a message on his website: "This novel has been a strange and wonderful journey.
"Weaving five years of research into the story's 12-hour timeframe was an exhilarating challenge. Robert Langdon's life clearly moves a lot faster than mine."
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Which company is responsible for Mates condoms? | New York Times Best Seller Number Ones Listing
Number Ones Listing
Fiction By Date
This page is a listing of adult fiction books which have made number one on the New York Times Best Seller List along with the date that they first reached number one, in date order. Clicking on the date will take you to that week's list, if available. Currently, this listing starts at August 9, 1942. You may also view the non fiction number ones listing.
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And Now Tomorrow by Rachel Field (MacMillan) - August 9, 1942
The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel (Viking) - August 16, 1942
Drivin' Woman by Elizabeth Chevalier (MacMillan) - September 6, 1942
The Robe by Lloyd Douglas (Houghton Mifflin) - November 22, 1942
1943
Mrs. Parkington by Louis Bromfield (Harper) - March 14, 1943
So Little Time by John P. Marquand (Little, Brown) - October 17, 1943
1944
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith (Harper) - January 2, 1944
Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith (Reynal) - May 14, 1944
Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham (Doubleday) - July 2, 1944
Green Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge (Coward-McCann) - October 15, 1944
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor (MacMillan) - November 14, 1944
The Green Years by A. J. Cronin (Little, Brown) - December 17, 1944
1945
Earth and High Heaven by Gwethalyn Graham (Lippincott) - April 22, 1945
Captain From Castile by Samuel Shellabarger (Little, Brown) - May 13, 1945
A Lion Is In the Streets by Adria Locke Langley (McGraw) - July 1, 1945
So Well Remembered by James Hilton (Little, Brown) - September 23, 1945
The Black Rose by Thomas Costain (Doubleday) - September 30, 1945
1946
The King's General by Daphne du Maurier (Doubleday) - February 3, 1946
Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque (Appleton-Century) - March 10, 1946
This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell (Scribner's) - May 12, 1946
The Hucksters by Frederic Wakeman (Rinehart) - July 14, 1946
East River by Sholem Asch (Putnam) - November 24, 1946
B. F.'s Daughter by John P. Marquand (Little, Brown) - December 1, 1946
1947
Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts (Doubleday) - February 2, 1947
Gentlemen's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson (Simon & Schuster) - April 27, 1947
Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis (Random House) - July 6, 1947
The Moneyman by Thomas Costain (Doubleday) - August 17, 1947
House Divided by Ben Ames Williams (Houghton Mifflin) - November 9, 1947
1948
East Side, West Side by Marcia Davenport (Scribner's) - February 8, 1948
Eagle In the Sky by Van Wyck Mason (Lippincott) - March 7, 1948
The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder (Harper) - April 4, 1948
Raintree County by Ross Lockridge (Houghton Mifflin) - April 25, 1948
Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge (Coward-McCann) - May 23, 1948
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer (Rinehart) - June 20, 1948
Shannon's Way by A. J. Cronin (Little, Brown) - September 5, 1948
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw (Random House) - November 7, 1948
The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas (Houghton Mifflin) - December 19, 1948
1949
Point of No Return by John P. Marquand (Little, Brown) - April 10, 1949
A Rage to Live by John O'Hara (Random House) - September 18, 1949
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari (Putnam) - October 30, 1949
The Wall by John Hersey (Knopf) - March 26, 1950
The Cardinal by Henry Morton Robinson (Simon & Schuster) - April 30, 1950
Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner's) - October 15, 1950
The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg (Random House) - December 3, 1950
1951
Joy Street by Francis Parkinson Keyes (Messner) - January 14, 1951
From Here to Eternity by James Jones (Scribner's) - March 25, 1951
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) - August 12, 1951
1952
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (Doubleday) - March 30, 1952
The Silver Chalice by Thomas Costain (Doubleday) - September 7, 1952
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (Viking) - November 2, 1952
1953
Desiree by Annemarie Selinko (Morrow) - March 8, 1953
Beyond This Place by A. J. Cronin (Little, Brown) - October 11, 1953
Lord Vanity by Samuel Shellabarger (Little, Brown) - November 29, 1953
1954
Not as a Stranger by Morton Thompson (Scribner's) - February 14, 1954
Mary Anne by Daphne du Maurier (Doubleday) - August 1, 1954
Love Is Eternal by Irving Stone (Doubleday) - October 17, 1954
1955
The View from Pompey's Head by Hamilton Basso (Doubleday) - January 2, 1955
Sincerely, Willis Wayde by John P. Marquand (Little, Brown) - April 10, 1955
Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (Dutton) - May 22, 1955
Something of Value by Robert Ruark (Doubleday) - July 3, 1955
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk (Doubleday) - October 2, 1955
1956
Andersonville by McKinley Kantor (World Publishing) - January 1, 1956
The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor (Little, Brown) - March 25, 1956
Don't Go Near the Water by William Brinkley (Random House) - August 12, 1956
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious (Messner) - November 25, 1956
1957
The Scapegoat by Daphne du Maurier (Doubleday) - March 24, 1957
By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt) - September 22, 1957
1958
Hawaii by James Michener (Random House) - January 17, 1960
1961
The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart (Atheneum) - March 26, 1961
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone (Doubleday) - April 23, 1961
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Sallinger (Little, Brown) - October 29, 1961
1962
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter (Little, Brown) - April 29, 1962
A Shade of Difference by Allen Drury (Doubleday) - October 28, 1962
Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel (Harper) - November 18, 1962
1963
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J. D. Sallinger (Little, Brown) - March 10, 1963
The Glass Blowers by Daphne du Maurier (Doubleday) - May 19, 1963
The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris West (Morrow) - June 30, 1963
The Group by Mary McCarthy (Harcourt) - October 6, 1963
1964
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (Coward-McCann) - February 23, 1964
The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss (Houghton Mifflin) - October 4, 1964
Herzog by Saul Bellow (Viking) - October 25, 1964
1965
Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman (Prentice Hall) - May 16, 1965
The Source by James Michener (Random House) - July 11, 1965
1966
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann (Geis) - May 8, 1966
The Secret of Santa Vittoria by Robert Crichton (Simon & Schuster) - November 20, 1966
1967
The Arrangement by Elia Kazan (Stein & Day) - March 26, 1967
The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder (Harper) - June 4, 1967
The Chosen by Chiam Potok (Simon & Schuster) - October 1, 1967
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random House) - November 5, 1967
1968
Couples by John Updike (Knopf) - June 30, 1968
The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes (Harcourt) - November 10, 1968
1969
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth (Random House) - March 16, 1969
The Love Machine by Jacqueline Susann (Simon & Schuster) - June 22, 1969
Love Story by Erich Segal (Harper) - May 10, 1970
1971
QB VII by Leon Uris (Doubleday) - February 21, 1971
The Passions of the Mind by Irving Stone (Doubleday) - April 25, 1971
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (Harper) - July 25, 1971
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (Viking) - October 17, 1971
Wheels by Arthur Hailey (Doubleday) - November 7, 1971
1972
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk (Little, Brown) - January 23, 1972
The Word by Irving Wallace (Simon & Schuster) - May 14, 1972
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (MacMillan) - July 2, 1972
1973
The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth (Viking) - March 25, 1973
Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann (Morrow) - May 6, 1973
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte) - July 1, 1973
The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart (Morrow) - September 9, 1973
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene (Simon & Schuster) - November 25, 1973
Burr by Gore Vidal (Random House) - December 9, 1973
1974
Watership Down by Richard Adams (MacMillan) - May 5, 1974
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré (Knopf) - August 4, 1974
Centennial by James Michener (Random House) - October 13, 1974
1975
The Moneychangers by Arthur Hailey (Doubleday) - May 4, 1975
Looking for Mr. Goodbar by Judith Rossner (Simon & Schuster) - August 3, 1975
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (Random House) - August 24, 1975
Curtain by Agatha Christie (Dodd, Mead) - November 30, 1975
1976
Trinity by Leon Uris (Doubleday) - June 13, 1976
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie (Dodd, Mead) - November 7, 1976
1977
Falconer by John Cheever (Knopf) - May 22, 1977
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (Harper) - June 19, 1977
Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkein (Houghton Mifflin) - October 2, 1977
1978
Scruples by Judith Krantz (Crown) - June 18, 1978
The Holcroft Covenant by Robert Ludlum (Putnam) - July 9, 1978
Chesapeake by James Michener (Random House) - July 23, 1978
War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk (Little, Brown) - November 12, 1978
1979
Overload by Arthur Hailey (Doubleday) - February 25, 1979
The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum (Richard Marek) - April 8, 1979
Good as Gold by Joseph Heller (Simon & Schuster) - April 22, 1979
Sophie's Choice by William Styron (Random House) - July 22, 1979
The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart (Morrow) - September 9, 1979
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte) - October 7, 1979
The Dead Zone by Stephen King (Viking) - October 14, 1979
The Establishment by Howard Fast (Houghton Mifflin) - October 28, 1979
Cujo by Stephen King (Viking) - August 23, 1981
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (Dutton) - September 27, 1981
An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough (Harper) - November 15, 1981
1982
North and South by John Jakes (Harcourt) - February 28, 1982
The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum (Random House) - March 21, 1982
The Prodigal Daughter by Jeffrey Archer (Linden Press) - July 4, 1982
Different Seasons by Stephen King (Viking) - August 15, 1982
Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow) - September 12, 1982
Space by James Michener (Random House) - October 10, 1982
1983
Mistral's Daughter by Judith Krantz (Bantam) - February 20, 1983
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré (Knopf) - March 20, 1983
The Return of the Jedi by Joan D. Vinge (Random House) - June 12, 1983
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (Harcourt) - August 7, 1983
Pet Sematary by Stephen King (Doubleday) - November 13, 1983
1984
Who Killed the Robins Family? by Bill Adler and Thomas Chastain (Morrow) - January 29, 1984
The Aquitaine Progression by Robert Ludlum (Random House) - March 11, 1984
Full Circle by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - June 3, 1984
"...and Ladies of the Club" by Helen Hooven Santmeyer (Putnam) - July 8, 1984
First Among Equals by Jeffrey Archer (Linden Press) - August 26, 1984
The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth (Viking) - September 16, 1984
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub (Viking) - October 28, 1984
1985
The Sicilian by Mario Puzo (Simon & Schuster) - January 20, 1985
If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow) - February 3, 1985
Family Album by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - March 31, 1985
Thinner by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) (NAL Books) - April 28, 1985
Hold the Dream by Barbara Taylor Bradford (Doubleday) - June 9, 1985
Cider House Rules by John Irving (Morrow) - June 16, 1985
Lucky by Jackie Collins (Simon & Schuster) - September 1, 1985
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor (Viking) - September 15, 1985
Texas by James Michener (Random House) - October 13, 1985
The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M. Auel (Crown) - November 24, 1985
1986
Lie Down with Lions by Ken Follett (Morrow) - February 16, 1986
The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum (Random House) - March 9, 1986
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré (Knopf) - May 4, 1986
I'll Take Manhattan by Judith Krantz (Crown) - June 8, 1986
Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour (Bantam) - June 22, 1986
Wanderlust by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - July 20, 1986
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - August 17, 1986
Whirlwind by James Clavell (Morrow) - November 23, 1986
1987
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King (Viking) - February 1, 1987
Windmills of the Gods by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow) - February 8, 1987
Fine Things by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - March 29, 1987
The Haunted Mesa by Louis L'Amour (Bantam) - May 31, 1987
Misery by Stephen King (Viking) - June 7, 1987
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus) - July 26, 1987
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King (Putnam) - November 29, 1987
1988
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus) - January 24, 1988
The Icarus Agenda by Robert Ludlum (Random House) - March 20, 1988
Alaska by James Michener (Random House) - July 3, 1988
The Cardinal and the Kremlin by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - August 7, 1988
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice (Knopf) - October 30, 1988
The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow) - November 20, 1988
1989
Star by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - February 26, 1989
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (Viking) - March 26, 1989
While My Pretty Once Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 28, 1989
The Russia House by John le Carré (Knopf) - June 11, 1989
Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House) - August 6, 1989
Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - September 3, 1989
The Dark Half by Stephen King (Viking) - November 5, 1989
The Bad Place by Dean R. Koontz (Putnam) - February 4, 1990
Devices and Desires by P. D. James (Knopf) - February 18, 1990
Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss (Random House) - March 4, 1990
The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum (Random House) - March 18, 1990
The Stand by Stephen King (Doubleday) - May 13, 1990
The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus) - June 17, 1990
Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow) - September 2, 1990
Four Past Midnight by Stephen King (Viking) - September 16, 1990
The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel (Crown) - October 21, 1990
1991
The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré (Knopf) - January 20, 1991
Cold Fire by Dean R. Koontz (Putnam) - February 3, 1991
Heartbeat by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - February 24, 1991
The Seeress of Kell by David Eddings (Del Rey-Ballantine) - April 21, 1991
Loves Music, Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 12, 1991
Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn (Bantam) - June 30, 1991
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan (Putnam) - July 7, 1991
The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - August 25, 1991
Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley (Warner) - October 13, 1991
1992
Rising Sun by Michael Crichton (Putnam) - March 1, 1992
The Pelican Brief by John Grisham (Doubleday) - March 15, 1992
Gerald's Game by Stephen King (Viking) - July 19, 1992
Where Is Joe Merchant? by Jimmy Buffet (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) - September 20, 1992
The Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon (Morrow) - October 18, 1992
The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice (Knopf) - October 25, 1992
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King (Viking) - December 6, 1992
1993
Dragon Tears by Dean R. Koontz (Putnam) - January 24, 1993
The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller (Warner) - January 31, 1993
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - August 29, 1993
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller (Warner) - November 14, 1993
1994
Accident by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - February 27, 1994
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield (Warner) - April 3, 1994
Remember Me by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 22, 1994
The Gift by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - August 7, 1994
Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - September 4, 1994
Insomnia by Stephen King (Viking) - October 23, 1994
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner (MacMillan) - December 11, 1994
1995
Beach Music by Pat Conroy (Talese/Doubleday) - July 16, 1995
Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice (Knopf) - July 30, 1995
From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell (Scribner) - August 27, 1995
"L" Is For Lawless by Sue Grafton (Holt) - September 17, 1995
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans (Delacorte) - October 1, 1995
The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Knopf) - October 8, 1995
Five Days In Paris by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - December 3, 1995
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster) - December 17, 1995
1996
Intensity by Dean R. Koontz (Knopf) - January 28, 1996
Primary Colors by Anonymous (Joe Klein) (Random House) - February 18, 1996
Moonlight Becomes You by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - April 21, 1996
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan (Viking) - May 19, 1996
The Runaway Jury by John Grisham (Doubleday) - June 2, 1996
Cause of Death by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - July 21, 1996
Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice (Knopf) - August 25, 1996
Executive Orders by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - September 1, 1996
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard (Viking) - October 6, 1996
Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - August 3, 1997
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Atlantic Monthly) - August 31, 1997
Flood Tide by Clive Cussler (Simon & Schuster) - October 12, 1997
The Ghost by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - November 30, 1997
1998
Paradise by Toni Morrison (Knopf) - February 1, 1998
The Street Lawyer by John Grisham (Doubleday) - February 22, 1998
The Long Road Home by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - April 26, 1998
You Belong To Me by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 10, 1998
"N" Is for Noose by Sue Grafton (Wood/Holt) - May 31, 1998
A Widow For One Year by John Irving (Random House) - June 14, 1998
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb (Regan Books/HarperCollins) - July 5, 1998
The Klone and I by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - July 12, 1998
Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - July 26, 1998
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - August 23, 1998
Bag of Bones by Stephen King (Scribner) - October 11, 1998
The Path of Daggers by Robert Jordan (Tor/Doherty) - November 8, 1998
A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - November 22, 1998
1999
Bittersweet by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - April 25, 1999
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King (Scribner) - May 2, 1999
We'll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 9, 1999
Star Wars Episode I - The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks (Lucas/Ballantine) - May 23, 1999
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (Levine/Scholastic) - June 20, 1999
Hannibal by Thomas Harris (Delacorte) - June 27, 1999
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Levine/Scholastic) - August 15, 1999
The Alibi by Sandra Brown (Warner) - September 19, 1999
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (Levine/Scholastic) - September 26, 1999
The Wedding by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - April 23, 2000
Before I Say Goodbye by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 7, 2000
Easy Prey by John Sandford (Putnam) - June 4, 2000
Indwelling by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale) - June 11, 2000
Hot Six by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 9, 2000
The House on Hope Street by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - July 16, 2000
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's) - August 20, 2000
The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - September 10, 2000
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz (Doubleday) - October 29, 2000
The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - November 5, 2000
Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan (Tor/Tom Doherty) - November 26, 2000
The Mark by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale) - December 3, 2000
2001
From the Corner of His Eye by Dean R. Koontz (Bantam) - January 14, 2001
A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan (Viking) - February 4, 2001
A Painted House by John Grisham (Doubleday) - February 25, 2001
1st to Die by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - March 25, 2001
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King (Scribner) - April 8, 2001
A Common Life by Jan Karon (Viking) - April 29, 2001
On the Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 6, 2001
Chosen Prey by John Sandford (Putnam) - June 3, 2001
"P" Is For Peril by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam) - June 24, 2001
Seven Up by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 8, 2001
Leap of Faith by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - July 15, 2001
The Fourth Hand by John Irving (Random House) - July 29, 2001
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - August 5, 2001
Valhalla Rising by Clive Cussler (Putnam) - September 2, 2001
Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub (Random House) - September 30, 2001
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - October 14, 2001
Isle of Dogs by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - October 28, 2001
The Kiss by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - November 11, 2001
Desecration by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale) - November 18, 2001
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham (Doubleday) - December 9, 2001
2002
One Door Away From Heaven by Dean R. Koontz (Bantam) - January 20, 2002
Journey Through Heartsongs by Mattie J. T. Stepanek (VSP Books) - February 3, 2002
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer by Joyce Reardon (Ridley Pearson) (Hyperion) - February 17, 2002
The Summons by John Grisham (Doubleday) - February 24, 2002
2nd Chance by James Patterson with Andrew Gross (Little, Brown) - March 24, 2002
Three Fates by Nora Roberts (Putnam) - April 21, 2002
The Nannie Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus (St. Martin's) - April 28, 2002
Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 5, 2002
The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel (Crown) - May 19, 2002
In This Mountain by Jan Karon (Viking) - June 16, 2002
The Beach House by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge (Little, Brown) - June 30, 2002
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 7, 2002
The Remnant by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale) - July 21, 2002
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown) - August 18, 2002
Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - August 25, 2002
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks (Warner) - October 6, 2002
From a Buick 8 by Stephen King (Scribner) - October 13, 2002
"Q" Is For Quarry by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam) - November 3, 2002
Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts (Putnam) - November 24, 2002
Four Blind Mice by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - December 8, 2002
Prey by Michael Crichton (HarperCollins) - December 15, 2002
2003
Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan (Tor/Tom Doherty) - January 26, 2003
The King of Torts by John Grisham (Doubleday) - February 23, 2003
The Jester by James Patterson and Andrew Gross (Little, Brown) - March 23, 2003
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday) - April 6, 2003
Birthright by Nora Roberts (Putnam) - April 20, 2003
Armageddon by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale) - April 27, 2003
Naked Prey by John Sandford (Putnam) - June 1, 2003
The Lake House by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - June 29, 2003
Johnny Angel by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - July 20, 2003
To the Nines by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - August 3, 2003
The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy (Putnam) - August 31, 2003
Bleachers by John Grisham (Doubleday) - September 28, 2003
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom (Hyperion) - October 12, 2003
Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - November 2, 2003
2004
The Last Juror by John Grisham (Doubleday) - February 22, 2004
3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross (Little, Brown) - March 21, 2004
Glorious Appearing by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale) - April 18, 2004
Song of Susannah by Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner) - June 27, 2004
Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 11, 2004
Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - July 18, 2004
"R" Is For Ricochet by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam) - August 1, 2004
Trace by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - September 26, 2004
The Dark Tower by Stephen King (Donald M. Grant/Scribner) - October 10, 2004
Hour Game by David Baldacci (Warner) - November 14, 2004
Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich (Harper Collins) - November 21, 2004
London Bridges by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - November 28, 2004
Night Fall by Nelson DeMille (Warner) - December 12, 2004
2005
The Broker by John Grisham (Doubleday) - January 30, 2005
Honeymoon by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown) - March 6, 2005
The Rising by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Tyndale) - April 3, 2005
No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - April 24, 2005
True Believer by Nicholas Sparks (Warner) - May 1, 2005
4th of July by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - May 22, 2005
The Closers by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) - June 5, 2005
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking) - June 26, 2005
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown) - July 3, 2005
Eleven On Top by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 10, 2005
Lifeguard by James Patterson and Andrew Gross (Little, Brown) - July 31, 2005
Chill Factor by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster) - September 4, 2005
Point Blank by Catherine Coulter (Putnam) - September 11, 2005
Polar Shift by Clive Cussler with Paul Kemprecos (Putnam) - September 18, 2005
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (Morrow) - October 9, 2005
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon (Delacorte) - October 16, 2005
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) - October 23, 2005
Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan (Tor/ Tom Doherty) - October 30, 2005
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks (Warner) - November 6, 2005
Predator by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - November 13, 2005
A Feast For Crows by George R. R. Martin (Bantam) - November 27, 2005
Mary, Mary by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - December 4, 2005
"S" Is For Silence by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam) - December 25, 2005
2006
Cell by Stephen King (Scribner) - February 12, 2006
The 5th Horseman by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - March 5, 2006
Gone by Jonathan Kellerman (Ballantine) - April 16, 2006
Two Little Girls In Blue by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - April 23, 2006
Beach Road by James Patterson and Peter de Jonge (Little, Brown) - May 21, 2006
The Husband by Dean Koontz (Bantam) - June 18, 2006
Twelve Sharp by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 9, 2006
Phantom by Terry Goodkind (Tor/Tom Doherty) - August 6, 2006
Judge & Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross (Little, Brown) - August 20, 2006
Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen (Random House) - September 17, 2006
The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer (Warner) - September 24, 2006
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Atria) - October 1, 2006
For One More Day by Mitch Albom (Hyperion) - October 15, 2006
Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - December 3, 2006
2007
Plum Lovin' by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - January 28, 2007
Step On a Crack by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown) - February 25, 2007
Innocent In Death by J.D. Robb (Putnam) - March 11, 2007
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult (Atria) - March 25, 2007
I Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - April 22, 2007
The Children of the Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkein (Houghton Mifflin) - May 6, 2007
Simple Genius by David Baldacci (Warner) - May 13, 2007
The 6th Target by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - May 27, 2007
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead) - June 10, 2007
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 8, 2007
The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown) - July 22, 2007
You've Been Warned by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown) - September 30, 2007
Playing For Pizza by John Grisham (Doubleday) - October 14, 2007
World Without End by Ken Follett (Dutton) - October 28, 2007
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - November 11, 2007
Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn (Atria) - November 18, 2007
Stone Cold by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - November 25, 2007
Double Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - December 2, 2007
"T" Is For Trespass by Sue Grafton (Putnam) - December 23, 2007
2008
The Appeal by John Grisham (Doubleday) - February 17, 2008
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (Atria) - March 23, 2008
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf) - April 20, 2008
Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - April 27, 2008
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben (Dutton) - May 4, 2008
The Whole Truth by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - May 11, 2008
Sundays At Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet (Little, Brown) - May 18, 2008
The Host by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown) - May 25, 2008
Odd Hours by Dean R. Koontz (Bantam) - June 8, 2008
Blood Noir by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley) - June 15, 2008
Nothing to Lose by Lee Child (Delacorte) - June 22, 2008
Sail by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown) - June 29, 2008
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 6, 2008
The Last Patriot by Brad Thor (Atria) - July 20, 2008
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow) - September 28, 2008
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Ecco) - October 12, 2008
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) - October 19, 2008
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) - November 2, 2008
Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn (Atria) - November 9, 2008
The Gate House by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central) - November 16, 2008
Divine Justice by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - November 23, 2008
The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck with Kevin Balfe and Jason Wright (Threshold Editions) - November 30, 2008
Cross Country by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - December 7, 2008
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - December 21, 2008
2009
Black Ops by W.E.B. Griffin (Putnam) - January 18, 2009
Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - January 25, 2009
The Associate by John Grisham (Doubleday) - February 15, 2009
Promises In Death by J.D. Robb (Putnam) - March 15, 2009
Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult (Atria) - March 22, 2009
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher (Roc) - April 26, 2009
Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 3, 2009
First Family by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - May 10, 2009
The 8th Confession by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - May 17, 2009
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (Ace) - May 24, 2009
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child (Delacorte) - June 7, 2009
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) - June 14, 2009
Skin Trade by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley) - June 21, 2009
Knockout by Catherine Coulter (Putnam) - July 5, 2009
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 12, 2009
Swimsuit by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - July 19, 2009
Black Hills by Nora Roberts (Putnam) - July 26, 2009
Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner (Atria) - August 2, 2009
The Defector by Daniel Silva (Putnam) - August 9, 2009
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (Knopf) - August 16, 2009
Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin's) - August 23, 2009
South of Broad by Pat Conroy (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) - August 30, 2009
Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo (Little, Brown) - September 13, 2009
Dark Slayer by Christine Feehan (Berkley) - September 20, 2009
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central) - September 27, 2009
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Doubleday) - October 4, 2009
The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (Tor/Tom Doherty) - November 15, 2009
Ford County by John Grisham (Doubleday) - November 22, 2009
Under the Dome by Stephen King (Scribner) - November 29, 2009
I, Alex Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - December 6, 2009
"U" Is For Undertow by Sue Grafton (Putnam) - December 20, 2009
Changes by Jim Butcher (Roc) - April 25, 2010
The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - May 2, 2010
Deliver Us From Evil by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - May 9, 2010
The 9th Judgment by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - May 16, 2010
Dead In the Family by Charlaine Harris (Ace) - May 23, 2010
61 Hours by Lee Child (Delacorte) - June 6, 2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson (Knopf) - June 13, 2010
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions) - July 4, 2010
Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) - July 11, 2010
Private by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - July 18, 2010
The Search by Nora Roberts (Putnam) - July 25, 2010
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva (Putnam) - August 8, 2010
The Postcard Killers by James Patterson and Liza Marklund (Little, Brown) - September 5, 2010
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) - September 19, 2010
Safe Haven by Nicolas Sparks (Grand Central) - October 3, 2010
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (Dutton) - October 17, 2010
The Reversal by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) - October 24, 2010
American Assassin by Vince Flynn (Atria) - October 31, 2010
Worth Dying For by Lee Child (Delacorte) - November 7, 2010
The Confession by John Grisham (Doubleday) - November 14, 2010
Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (Tor) - November 21, 2010
Hell's Corner by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - November 28, 2010
Cross Fire by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - December 5, 2010
Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell (Putnam) - December 19, 2010
Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy with Grant Blackwell (Putnam) - December 26, 2010
2011
What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz (Bantam) - January 16, 2011
The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer (Grand Central) - January 30, 2011
Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning (Delacorte) - February 6, 2011
Tick Tock by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown) - February 13, 2011
Treachery In Death by J.D. Robb (Putnam) - March 13, 2011
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW) - March 20, 2011
The Jungle by Clive Cussler with Jack Du Brul (Putnam) - March 27, 2011
Toys by James Patterson and Neil McMahon (Little, Brown) - April 3, 2011
Live Wire by Harlan Coben (Dutton) - April 10, 2011
The Land of the Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel (Crown) - April 17, 2011
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) - April 24, 2011
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts (Putnam) - May 1, 2011
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - May 8, 2011
Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris (Ace) - May 22, 2011
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See (Random House) - June 19, 2011
Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley) - June 26, 2011
Against All Enemies by Tom Clancy with Peter Telep (Putnam) - July 3, 2011
Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich (Bantam) - July 10, 2011
Now You See Her by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown) - July 17, 2011
A Dance With Dragons by George R. R. Martin (Bantam) - July 31, 2011
Ghost Story by Jim Butcher (Roc) - August 14, 2011
Cold Vengeance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central) - August 21, 2011
The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind (Tor/Tom Doherty) - September 4, 2011
Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs (Scribner) - September 11, 2011
Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson and Marshall Karp (Little, Brown) - September 18, 2011
New York to Dallas by J.D. Robb (Putnam) - October 2, 2011
Shock Wave by John Sandford (Putnam) - October 23, 2011
The Best of Me by Nicolas Sparks (Grand Central) - October 30, 2011
The Litigators by John Grisham (Doubleday) - November 13, 2011
Zero Day by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - November 20, 2011
11/22/63 by Stephen King (Scribner) - November 27, 2011
Kill Alex Cross by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - December 4, 2011
Explosive Eighteen by Janet Evanovich (Bantam) - December 11, 2011
The Drop by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) - December 18, 2011
2012
77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz (Bantam) - January 15, 2012
Private: #1 Suspect by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - January 22, 2012
Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George (Dutton) - January 29, 2012
Taken by Robert Crais (Putnam) - February 12, 2012
Home Front by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's) - February 19, 2012
Kill Shot by Vince Flynn (Emily Bestler/Atria) - February 26, 2012
Private Games by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan (Little, Brown) - March 4, 2012
Celebrity In Death by J.D. Robb (Putnam) - March 11, 2012
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult (Emily Bestler/Atria) - March 18, 2012
The Thief by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott (Putnam) - March 25, 2012
Stay Close by Harlan Coben (Dutton) - April 8, 2012
Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward (New American Library) - April 15, 2012
The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - April 22, 2012
Calico Joe by John Grisham (Doubleday) - April 29, 2012
The Innocent by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - May 6, 2012
The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King (Scribner) - May 13, 2012
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris (Ace) - May 20, 2012
11th Hour by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - May 27, 2012
Stolen Prey by John Sandford (Putnam) - June 3, 2012
The Storm by Clive Cussler and Graham Brown (Putnam) - June 17, 2012
Kiss the Dead by Laurell K. Hamilton (Berkley) - June 24, 2012
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown) - July 15, 2012
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (Viking) - July 29, 2012
The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva (Harper/HarperCollins) - August 5, 2012
The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom (Hyperion) - September 23, 2012
A Wanted Man by Lee Child (Delacorte) - September 30, 2012
Winter of the World by Ken Follett (Dutton) - October 7, 2012
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (Little, Brown) - October 14, 2012
The Panther by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central) - November 4, 2012
The Racketeer by John Grisham (Doubleday) - November 11, 2012
The Last Man by Vince Flynn (Emily Bestler/Atria) - December 2, 2012
Cold Days by Jim Butcher (Roc) - December 16, 2012
Threat Vector by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney (Putnam) - December 23, 2012
2013
A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (Tor/Tom Doherty) - January 27, 2013
Private Berlin by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan (Little, Brown) - February 10, 2013
Until the End of Time by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) - February 17, 2013
A Week In Winter by Maeve Binchy (Knopf) - March 3, 2013
Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - March 10, 2013
Calculated In Death by J.D. Robb (Putnam) - March 17, 2013
Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs (Ace) - March 24, 2013
The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (Emily Bestler/Atria) - March 31, 2013
Six Years by Harlan Coben (Dutton) - April 7, 2013
Lover At Last by J.R. Ward (New American Library) - April 14, 2013
Starting Now by Debbie Macomber (Ballantine) - April 21, 2013
Daddy's Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) - April 28, 2013
Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts (Putnam) - May 5, 2013
The Hit by David Baldacci (Grand Central) - May 12, 2013
12th of Never by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown) - May 19, 2013
Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris (Ace) - May 26, 2013
Inferno by Dan Brown (Doubleday) - June 2, 2013
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (Morrow/HarperCollins) - July 7, 2013
The English Girl by Daniel Silva (Harper) - August 4, 2013
The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) (Mullholland Books/Little, Brown) - August 11, 2013
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (Minotaur) - September 15, 2013
Never Go Back by Lee Child (Delacorte) - September 22, 2013
"W" Is For Wasted by Sue Grafton (Marian Wood/Putnam) - September 29, 2013
The Longest Ride by Nicolas Sparks (Grand Central) - October 6, 2013
Sycamore Row by John Grisham (Doubleday) - November 10, 2013
The First Phone Call From Heaven by Mitch Albom (Harper) - December 1, 2013
Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich (Bantam) - December 8, 2013
Cross My Heart by James Patterson (Little, Brown) - December 15, 2013
Command Authority by Tom Clancy with Mark Greaney (Putnam) - December 22, 2013
2014
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown) - January 19, 2014
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking) - January 26, 2014
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| i don't know |
Which pop group were formed in Sheffield in 1977 and took there name from a pair of detectives in the Adventures of Tin Tin? | A Decade in the Life of Thompson Twins
A Decade in the Life
of
Thompson Twins
Joe Leeway, Alannah Currie, Tom Bailey (1983)
In 1977, aspiring classical pianist Tom Bailey (b. 6.18.57, Halifax, Yorkshire), joined forces with guitarists Peter Dodd and John Roog and drummer Chris Bell to form a band called Thompson Twins (after a pair of identical detectives in the cartoon Tin Tin.) Moving to London in 1978, the quartet diligently played the club scene for two years. By the time the 1980s rolled around, they were ready to take their shot at the singles charts. In time, percussionists Joe Leeway (b. 11.15.57, London) and Alannah Currie (b. 9.20.59, Auckland, New Zealand) would join Bailey, while Dodd, Roog and Bell would leave the band. When, in the mid-Eighties, the Thompson Twins became an international success it consisted of the trio of Bailey, Currie and Leeway. The band, according to Currie, strove to "make something completely different . . . using technology." At the time, many purists scoffed at the nation that "good" music could be made with machines. The Thompson Twins proved the skeptics wrong -- and became the leading purveyors of synth-pop. They were innovative, mixing dance, pop, reggae and dance elements with experimental sounds to produce a string of distinctive hit singles that were not only commercially successful but were also critically acclaimed. Daring to be different not only in their music but also in appearance, they became heroes to disaffected youth in the process.
May 1980
Thompson Twin's first single, "Squares And Triangles" is released on its own independent label (Dirty Discs).
November 1980
Independent label Latent releases "She's In Love With Mystery," which tops UK independent chart. Tom Bailey begins dating Alannah Currie.
February 1981
The band signs with Arista Records in the UK.
June 1981
The band's debut album, A Product Of..., is recorded.
March 1982
Set climbs to UK#48, while the single "In The Name Of Love" soars to #1 on the US dance chart. The album is released as In The Name Of Love in the US, and stalls at US#148.
April 1982
Bell, Dodd, Roog and bassist Matthew Seligman are fired, leaving the Thompson Twins consisting of the trio of Bailey, Currie and former roadie Joe Leeway.
October 1982
"Lies" peaks at UK#67, and will reach US#30 in March of the following year; supported by Tears for Fears, the band embarks on an extensive UK tour.
January 1983
"Love On Your Side" makes it to UK#9. In a few months it will climb to #45 on the US singles chart.
March 1983
Quick Step & Side Kick peaks at UK#2. Released as Side Kicks in the US, it will spend 25 weeks on the album chart, reaching the #34 spot.
April 1983
Currie's vocals are featured for the first time on the single "We Are Detective," which hits UK#7.
November 1983
"Hold Me Now" climbs to UK#4. Six months later, it peaks at US #3.
February 1984
"Doctor Doctor" soars to UK#3. Into The Gap hits the top spot on the UK album chart and stay there for three weeks; it will spend over a year on the US chart, peaking at #10. In October it will be certified platinum by the RIAA.
March 1984
"You Take Me Up" makes it to UK#2. It will stall at US#44 in October.
July 1984
As the band begins a world tour, "Doctor Doctor" reaches US#11.
November 1984
"Lay Your Hands On Me" climbs to UK#13. It will take a year for the single to reach its #6 high mark on the US chart.
March 1985
After two years of touring, and hard at work on a new album, Tom Bailey falls sick from exhaustion. American producer Niles Rodgers comes aboard to help finish the album.
July 1985
With Bailey recovered, Thompson Twins performs with Madonna at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia.
August 1985
The anti-drug song "Don't Mess With Doctor Dream" peaks at UK#15.
September 1985
Here's To Future Days soars to UK#5. In November it will be certified gold by the RIAA. It's first single, "King For A Day," reaches UK#22.
February 1986
Here's To Future Days climbs to US#20, while the single "King For A Day" will hit US#8 in March.
September 1986
"Nothing In Common," title track for the Tom Hanks film by the same name, stalls at US#54.
December 1986
Conflict within the band leads to the departure of Joe Leeway.
May 1987
Close To The Bone reaches US#76 and UK#90. The single "Get That Love" makes it to US#31. Another single, "Long Goodbye," fails to chart.
April 1988
Bailey and Currie have their first child.
September 1988
A collection of remixed hits, Greatest Mixes, stalls at US#175.
October 1989
Big Trash is released on a new label, Warners, and peaks at US#143. The single "Big Daddy" hits US#28 in November. Bailey co-produces two tracks on Deborah Harry's debut album, Def, Dumb and Blonde.
A Product Of.... (Arista, 1981)
When I See You
Perfect Game
Vendredi Saint
"The name notwithstanding, there are no twins and no Thompsons in this globally successful modern pop band. Once an obscure, loose collection of as many as seven Sheffield-to London players led by singer/synthesist, songwriter Tom bailey, the Twins pared down to just Bailey, New Zealander Alanahha Currie and Joe Leeway and became one of the world's leading purveyors of occasionally adventurous, invariably danceable modern chart fare."
Trouser Press
"After a few mundane 45's, it's good to see the Thompson Twins put together an album that does some justice to their (very) live show. Everywhere the accent is on riddum, with an appealing you-can-all-join-in indiscipline dancing round the central axis. Not that they don't write a good chown or two, too -- so the results are never as boringly indulgent as they might be in less inspired bands."
NME (6.20.81)
Set / In The Name Of Love (Tee, 1982)
In The Name Of Love
Living in Europe
Crazy Dog
Blind
(The US version, entitled In The Name Of Love, substituted two tracks from the band's first LP, "Make Believe" and "Perfect Game," for "Tok Tok," "Crazy Dog" and "Blind")
"One of the best live bands around, the Thompson Twins have trouble recreating the style and energy of their stage performance. Their records usually come as something of a disappointment, though Set in fact succeeds surprisingly well. What has been lost is the looseness and rawness, which is a major part of their appeal to me, and at times the result is too smooth, too lacking in spontaneity. What they have gained, though, is layers of sound and textures which give the songs more depth and imagination."
Kevin Swayne, Sounds (3.6.82)
"The Thompson Twins belong to that traditionally English pop sensibility which blends galloping eclecticism with offbeat amiability. Their catholic approach incorporates touches from a wide spectrum of present and past music -- from Adam to Brinsley Schwarz to The Move -- but the band of which they're consistently reminiscent is XTC. . . . The result is an all-round lack of bite. The Thompsons have nothing distinctive to offer. Set comes across as a pleasant-to-dull LP that, for all its hard work and invention, is still a bit of a bore."
Graham Lock, NME (2.27.82)
Quick Step & Side Kick (Arista, 1983)
Love On Your Side
Love Lies Bleeding
All Fall Out
"Don't know if you've noticed or not, but all of a sudden, the floodgates are open and new British pop groups are being welcomed into the American musical mainstream at an amazing rate; haven't seen anything like it since the '60s....The Thompson Twins are right in the middle of all this -- they just may be the most 1983 group of the year. They have 12" dance club hits like "In The Name Of Love," "Lies," and "Love On Your Side." They now have synthesizers and no guitars, drum programmes but no drums, since their drummer and guitarists were booted out after the TTs decided to trim their ranks down to the threesome of Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway (although they did swell back up to six again for touring purposes.) So they may not have stability but they've got instant pan-sexual, pan-cultural credibility and a logo as well; a trio of blank faces topped by three different colors of hair, meaning, I suppose, that all sexes, creeds and colors can get along as long as they all have funny hair-dos. Let Fun Boy Three top that."
Creem (May, 1983)
"On their American debut, "In The Name Of Love," the Thompson Twins were a welcome alternative to the arch synth-pop then rolling across the Atlantic. Working with a bubbly, salsa-inflected bounce instead of the usual electronic angst, the Thompsons were as fun as they were tuneful. Their new album, Side Kicks, is fun too, and is just as likely to leave you humming. But with their lineup condensed from seven members to three, the band now relies almost exclusively on synthesizers and percussion, and though they've come up with an impressive synth version of a string-popping funk bass, they have yet to find an adequate substitute for Peter Dodd's chattering guitar. Consequently, most of the instrumental tracks are locked in a percussion-and-synthesizer style that isn't appreciable different from late-Seventies disco. Still, the band has retained most of its wit, and that adds sparkle to the arrangements....And, in the end, Side Kicks is better than no kicks at all."
J.D. Considine, Rolling Stone (4.14.83)
Into The Gap (Arista, 1984)
Doctor! Doctor!
No Peace For The Wicked
The Gap
Storm On The Sea
Who Can Stop The Rain?
Soft Cell, Human League and their ilk may have transformed synthesizer-based "new wave" music into chart-topping commodities. But few bands make this technical wizardry sound so delightfully commercial as the Thompson Twins. They use all the tools at their disposal, mix them together with current trendy beats (reggae, calypso, etc.), and create a stunning concoction which, to these battered ears, is the best album of 1984 so far.....Into The Gap could be perceived as a distinctive milestone on how far new musix has come in the past few years. It's enough to make you forget that the old dinosaur bands ever existed."
Keith Sharp, Music Express (April, 1984)
"Obviously, this is a band that knows how to sell a melody -- "In The Name of Love" and its successors proved that without trouble. But with Into The Gap, the Thompsons have made a breathtaking show of just how adept they are with a telling detail, an illuminating flourish. "You Take Me Up" features a melody that's just a little too busy to stand out on its own, but after the Thompsons have girded it with an underpinning of marimba, set it on a slippery shuffle and sprinkled the verses with homey harmonica obbligatos, it's hard NOT to sit transfixed.....At times, the gimmicks can be as slight as a sythensizer setting, but they invariable make the album seem dazzling even when it isn't."
J.D. Considine, Musician (May 1984)
Here's To Future Days (Arista, 1985)
Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
Lay Your Hands On Me
Future Days
You Killed The Clown
Breakaway (bonus cassette track)
From bohemian free spirits to a calculated, commercial music entity -- that has been the price of fame for the Thompson Twins, who find themselves firmly entrenched in rock's mainstream. Into The Gap took them to this position, an album which confounded detractors with its high-gloss production and infectious beat. Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway were probably just as surprised as anyone. It was almost as though they had stumbled onto some secret elixir; to the point where the trio ensconced themselves in the studio for almost a year to dissect their recent success and puzzle over how they would produce a suitable follow-up. To a certain extent, their labors have been successful. Here's To Future Days is, for the most part, a clean and addictive batch of songs with catchy melodies soaring over a calculated synth beat."
Keith Sharp, Music Express (October, 1985)
"You can't always judge a band by its haircuts. Take the Thompson Twins: on the surface they're the perfect example of vintage 1985 pop, three designer-style cartoon characters lip-syncing breathlessly trendy techno ditties. And sure enough, their fourth U.S. release is crammed full of relentless melodies, singalong choruses, swooning synths, percussive exotica and the sort of hooks that should be baited with Excedrin. But it also contains actual guitar solos -- groovy, grotesquely distorted ones -- and deceptively simple lyrics that offer love and optimism as an answer to drug addiction, nuclear war, racial strife and loneliness."
Mark Coleman, Rolling Stone 460 (11.7.95)
Close To The Bone (Arista, 1987)
Follow Your Heart
Dancing In Your Shoes
Perfect Day
"Mathematical purists will be relieved that with the departure of percussionist Joe Leeway . . . there are now only two Twins, even if they are non-siblings -- Alannah Currie and Tom Bailey. The Twins haven't lost much musically. Bailey is basically a routine rock singer. . . . He's a top-rank bass-player and arranger, and with Currie's percussion effects -- supplemented in this case by drummer Geoff Dugmore -- the Twins have one of rock's most explosive born-to-dance-to rhythm sections. Currie's lyrics also show occasional bite."
Ralph Novak, People (5.4.87)
"In April 1986, at the end of a six-month world tour, Joe Leeway left the band. . . . Finally reduced to the titular duo, Bailey and Currie carried on, releasing the modest and, for the most part, likable Close To The Bone, produced by Rupert Hine. Currie's lyrics (Bailey wrote the music) take a surprisingly reflective approach here, suggesting doubt and anxiety instead of the usual oblique contemplations. . . .[N]otably lacking the group's characteristic energy and rhythmic magic, the record proves that the Thompson factory can turn out quality merchandise even when the creative thinkers are napping."
Trouser Press
| Thompson Twins |
Fierce Creatures was the follow up to which successful comedy film? | A Decade in the Life of Thompson Twins
A Decade in the Life
of
Thompson Twins
Joe Leeway, Alannah Currie, Tom Bailey (1983)
In 1977, aspiring classical pianist Tom Bailey (b. 6.18.57, Halifax, Yorkshire), joined forces with guitarists Peter Dodd and John Roog and drummer Chris Bell to form a band called Thompson Twins (after a pair of identical detectives in the cartoon Tin Tin.) Moving to London in 1978, the quartet diligently played the club scene for two years. By the time the 1980s rolled around, they were ready to take their shot at the singles charts. In time, percussionists Joe Leeway (b. 11.15.57, London) and Alannah Currie (b. 9.20.59, Auckland, New Zealand) would join Bailey, while Dodd, Roog and Bell would leave the band. When, in the mid-Eighties, the Thompson Twins became an international success it consisted of the trio of Bailey, Currie and Leeway. The band, according to Currie, strove to "make something completely different . . . using technology." At the time, many purists scoffed at the nation that "good" music could be made with machines. The Thompson Twins proved the skeptics wrong -- and became the leading purveyors of synth-pop. They were innovative, mixing dance, pop, reggae and dance elements with experimental sounds to produce a string of distinctive hit singles that were not only commercially successful but were also critically acclaimed. Daring to be different not only in their music but also in appearance, they became heroes to disaffected youth in the process.
May 1980
Thompson Twin's first single, "Squares And Triangles" is released on its own independent label (Dirty Discs).
November 1980
Independent label Latent releases "She's In Love With Mystery," which tops UK independent chart. Tom Bailey begins dating Alannah Currie.
February 1981
The band signs with Arista Records in the UK.
June 1981
The band's debut album, A Product Of..., is recorded.
March 1982
Set climbs to UK#48, while the single "In The Name Of Love" soars to #1 on the US dance chart. The album is released as In The Name Of Love in the US, and stalls at US#148.
April 1982
Bell, Dodd, Roog and bassist Matthew Seligman are fired, leaving the Thompson Twins consisting of the trio of Bailey, Currie and former roadie Joe Leeway.
October 1982
"Lies" peaks at UK#67, and will reach US#30 in March of the following year; supported by Tears for Fears, the band embarks on an extensive UK tour.
January 1983
"Love On Your Side" makes it to UK#9. In a few months it will climb to #45 on the US singles chart.
March 1983
Quick Step & Side Kick peaks at UK#2. Released as Side Kicks in the US, it will spend 25 weeks on the album chart, reaching the #34 spot.
April 1983
Currie's vocals are featured for the first time on the single "We Are Detective," which hits UK#7.
November 1983
"Hold Me Now" climbs to UK#4. Six months later, it peaks at US #3.
February 1984
"Doctor Doctor" soars to UK#3. Into The Gap hits the top spot on the UK album chart and stay there for three weeks; it will spend over a year on the US chart, peaking at #10. In October it will be certified platinum by the RIAA.
March 1984
"You Take Me Up" makes it to UK#2. It will stall at US#44 in October.
July 1984
As the band begins a world tour, "Doctor Doctor" reaches US#11.
November 1984
"Lay Your Hands On Me" climbs to UK#13. It will take a year for the single to reach its #6 high mark on the US chart.
March 1985
After two years of touring, and hard at work on a new album, Tom Bailey falls sick from exhaustion. American producer Niles Rodgers comes aboard to help finish the album.
July 1985
With Bailey recovered, Thompson Twins performs with Madonna at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia.
August 1985
The anti-drug song "Don't Mess With Doctor Dream" peaks at UK#15.
September 1985
Here's To Future Days soars to UK#5. In November it will be certified gold by the RIAA. It's first single, "King For A Day," reaches UK#22.
February 1986
Here's To Future Days climbs to US#20, while the single "King For A Day" will hit US#8 in March.
September 1986
"Nothing In Common," title track for the Tom Hanks film by the same name, stalls at US#54.
December 1986
Conflict within the band leads to the departure of Joe Leeway.
May 1987
Close To The Bone reaches US#76 and UK#90. The single "Get That Love" makes it to US#31. Another single, "Long Goodbye," fails to chart.
April 1988
Bailey and Currie have their first child.
September 1988
A collection of remixed hits, Greatest Mixes, stalls at US#175.
October 1989
Big Trash is released on a new label, Warners, and peaks at US#143. The single "Big Daddy" hits US#28 in November. Bailey co-produces two tracks on Deborah Harry's debut album, Def, Dumb and Blonde.
A Product Of.... (Arista, 1981)
When I See You
Perfect Game
Vendredi Saint
"The name notwithstanding, there are no twins and no Thompsons in this globally successful modern pop band. Once an obscure, loose collection of as many as seven Sheffield-to London players led by singer/synthesist, songwriter Tom bailey, the Twins pared down to just Bailey, New Zealander Alanahha Currie and Joe Leeway and became one of the world's leading purveyors of occasionally adventurous, invariably danceable modern chart fare."
Trouser Press
"After a few mundane 45's, it's good to see the Thompson Twins put together an album that does some justice to their (very) live show. Everywhere the accent is on riddum, with an appealing you-can-all-join-in indiscipline dancing round the central axis. Not that they don't write a good chown or two, too -- so the results are never as boringly indulgent as they might be in less inspired bands."
NME (6.20.81)
Set / In The Name Of Love (Tee, 1982)
In The Name Of Love
Living in Europe
Crazy Dog
Blind
(The US version, entitled In The Name Of Love, substituted two tracks from the band's first LP, "Make Believe" and "Perfect Game," for "Tok Tok," "Crazy Dog" and "Blind")
"One of the best live bands around, the Thompson Twins have trouble recreating the style and energy of their stage performance. Their records usually come as something of a disappointment, though Set in fact succeeds surprisingly well. What has been lost is the looseness and rawness, which is a major part of their appeal to me, and at times the result is too smooth, too lacking in spontaneity. What they have gained, though, is layers of sound and textures which give the songs more depth and imagination."
Kevin Swayne, Sounds (3.6.82)
"The Thompson Twins belong to that traditionally English pop sensibility which blends galloping eclecticism with offbeat amiability. Their catholic approach incorporates touches from a wide spectrum of present and past music -- from Adam to Brinsley Schwarz to The Move -- but the band of which they're consistently reminiscent is XTC. . . . The result is an all-round lack of bite. The Thompsons have nothing distinctive to offer. Set comes across as a pleasant-to-dull LP that, for all its hard work and invention, is still a bit of a bore."
Graham Lock, NME (2.27.82)
Quick Step & Side Kick (Arista, 1983)
Love On Your Side
Love Lies Bleeding
All Fall Out
"Don't know if you've noticed or not, but all of a sudden, the floodgates are open and new British pop groups are being welcomed into the American musical mainstream at an amazing rate; haven't seen anything like it since the '60s....The Thompson Twins are right in the middle of all this -- they just may be the most 1983 group of the year. They have 12" dance club hits like "In The Name Of Love," "Lies," and "Love On Your Side." They now have synthesizers and no guitars, drum programmes but no drums, since their drummer and guitarists were booted out after the TTs decided to trim their ranks down to the threesome of Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway (although they did swell back up to six again for touring purposes.) So they may not have stability but they've got instant pan-sexual, pan-cultural credibility and a logo as well; a trio of blank faces topped by three different colors of hair, meaning, I suppose, that all sexes, creeds and colors can get along as long as they all have funny hair-dos. Let Fun Boy Three top that."
Creem (May, 1983)
"On their American debut, "In The Name Of Love," the Thompson Twins were a welcome alternative to the arch synth-pop then rolling across the Atlantic. Working with a bubbly, salsa-inflected bounce instead of the usual electronic angst, the Thompsons were as fun as they were tuneful. Their new album, Side Kicks, is fun too, and is just as likely to leave you humming. But with their lineup condensed from seven members to three, the band now relies almost exclusively on synthesizers and percussion, and though they've come up with an impressive synth version of a string-popping funk bass, they have yet to find an adequate substitute for Peter Dodd's chattering guitar. Consequently, most of the instrumental tracks are locked in a percussion-and-synthesizer style that isn't appreciable different from late-Seventies disco. Still, the band has retained most of its wit, and that adds sparkle to the arrangements....And, in the end, Side Kicks is better than no kicks at all."
J.D. Considine, Rolling Stone (4.14.83)
Into The Gap (Arista, 1984)
Doctor! Doctor!
No Peace For The Wicked
The Gap
Storm On The Sea
Who Can Stop The Rain?
Soft Cell, Human League and their ilk may have transformed synthesizer-based "new wave" music into chart-topping commodities. But few bands make this technical wizardry sound so delightfully commercial as the Thompson Twins. They use all the tools at their disposal, mix them together with current trendy beats (reggae, calypso, etc.), and create a stunning concoction which, to these battered ears, is the best album of 1984 so far.....Into The Gap could be perceived as a distinctive milestone on how far new musix has come in the past few years. It's enough to make you forget that the old dinosaur bands ever existed."
Keith Sharp, Music Express (April, 1984)
"Obviously, this is a band that knows how to sell a melody -- "In The Name of Love" and its successors proved that without trouble. But with Into The Gap, the Thompsons have made a breathtaking show of just how adept they are with a telling detail, an illuminating flourish. "You Take Me Up" features a melody that's just a little too busy to stand out on its own, but after the Thompsons have girded it with an underpinning of marimba, set it on a slippery shuffle and sprinkled the verses with homey harmonica obbligatos, it's hard NOT to sit transfixed.....At times, the gimmicks can be as slight as a sythensizer setting, but they invariable make the album seem dazzling even when it isn't."
J.D. Considine, Musician (May 1984)
Here's To Future Days (Arista, 1985)
Don't Mess With Doctor Dream
Lay Your Hands On Me
Future Days
You Killed The Clown
Breakaway (bonus cassette track)
From bohemian free spirits to a calculated, commercial music entity -- that has been the price of fame for the Thompson Twins, who find themselves firmly entrenched in rock's mainstream. Into The Gap took them to this position, an album which confounded detractors with its high-gloss production and infectious beat. Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie and Joe Leeway were probably just as surprised as anyone. It was almost as though they had stumbled onto some secret elixir; to the point where the trio ensconced themselves in the studio for almost a year to dissect their recent success and puzzle over how they would produce a suitable follow-up. To a certain extent, their labors have been successful. Here's To Future Days is, for the most part, a clean and addictive batch of songs with catchy melodies soaring over a calculated synth beat."
Keith Sharp, Music Express (October, 1985)
"You can't always judge a band by its haircuts. Take the Thompson Twins: on the surface they're the perfect example of vintage 1985 pop, three designer-style cartoon characters lip-syncing breathlessly trendy techno ditties. And sure enough, their fourth U.S. release is crammed full of relentless melodies, singalong choruses, swooning synths, percussive exotica and the sort of hooks that should be baited with Excedrin. But it also contains actual guitar solos -- groovy, grotesquely distorted ones -- and deceptively simple lyrics that offer love and optimism as an answer to drug addiction, nuclear war, racial strife and loneliness."
Mark Coleman, Rolling Stone 460 (11.7.95)
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"Mathematical purists will be relieved that with the departure of percussionist Joe Leeway . . . there are now only two Twins, even if they are non-siblings -- Alannah Currie and Tom Bailey. The Twins haven't lost much musically. Bailey is basically a routine rock singer. . . . He's a top-rank bass-player and arranger, and with Currie's percussion effects -- supplemented in this case by drummer Geoff Dugmore -- the Twins have one of rock's most explosive born-to-dance-to rhythm sections. Currie's lyrics also show occasional bite."
Ralph Novak, People (5.4.87)
"In April 1986, at the end of a six-month world tour, Joe Leeway left the band. . . . Finally reduced to the titular duo, Bailey and Currie carried on, releasing the modest and, for the most part, likable Close To The Bone, produced by Rupert Hine. Currie's lyrics (Bailey wrote the music) take a surprisingly reflective approach here, suggesting doubt and anxiety instead of the usual oblique contemplations. . . .[N]otably lacking the group's characteristic energy and rhythmic magic, the record proves that the Thompson factory can turn out quality merchandise even when the creative thinkers are napping."
Trouser Press
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In Greek mythology, what creature had a mans head, trunk and arms, and a horse's body and legs? | Horse Mythology: Types of Mythical Horses
Creatures by Type : Horses (fabulous)
Overview - Legendary creatures related to horses.
Cartazonon - A beautiful orange creature that resembles a horse with a lionish mane and a single horn growing from it's forehead.
Ceffyl-Dwr - A flying water horse related to the fairy. (Welsh)
Centaur - A creature with the head and torso of a man and the lower body of a horse. (Greek)
Each Uisge - A supernatural water horse that feeds on human flesh. (Scottish, Irish)
Hippocampus - A creature with an upper body that resembles a horse and a dolphin-like lower body. (Greek)
Hippogriff - A beast with a head and front legs of an eagle while the rest of its body is that of a horse. (Greek)
Ichthyocentaur - A being that appears to have the upper body of a human, the forelegs of a horse or lion, and the tail of a dolphin. (Greek, Roman)
Ipotanes - A being that resembles a human with the ears, tail, and legs of a horse. (Greek)
Karkadann - A carnivorous unicorn found in the desert regions of North Africa and India. (African, Indian)
Kelpie - A supernatural water horse found near lakes and rivers in Scotland. (Scottish)
Kimpurushas - A servant spirt the resembles a horse with a human head. (Hindu)
Nix - A shapeshifter that can appear as a human, horse, snake, fish, or mermaid. (German)
Noggle - A small grey horse with supernatural powers. (Celtic)
Pegasus - A creature that resembles a horse with wings. (Greek)
Phooka - A pitch black being with glowing red eyes. Takes the shape of a horse, dog, or giant bird. (Irish)
Sileni - A bipedal being that appears human form the waist up and horse from the waist down. (Greek)
Unicorn - A horse-like creature with a single spiral horn growing from its forehead. (Prevalent)
Unipeg - A winged horse-like creature with a single spiral horn growing from its forehead.
Xanthus - The name of an immortal horse with the power of speech. (Greek)
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Hermit, spider and blue are all types of which creature? | Centaurs - definition of Centaurs by The Free Dictionary
Centaurs - definition of Centaurs by The Free Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Centaurs
(sĕn′tôr′)
n.
1. Greek Mythology One of a race of monsters having the head, arms, and trunk of a man and the body and legs of a horse.
2. Astronomy Any of a group of icy asteroids that orbit the sun primarily in the region between Jupiter and Neptune, whose orbits they cross. Some centaurs appear to be more like comets than asteroids.
[Middle English, from Latin Centaurus, from Greek Kentauros. Sense 2, from the official convention of naming such objects after the centaurs of Greek mythology, a practice derived from the fact that the first such object to be observed was named after Chiron .]
centaur
(ˈsɛntɔː)
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(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth one of a race of creatures with the head, arms, and torso of a man, and the lower body and legs of a horse. Also called: hippocentaur
[C14: from Latin, from Greek kentauros, of unknown origin]
cen•taur
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n.
1. any of a race of creatures in Greek myth having the head, upper torso, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
[1325–75; < Latin centaurus < Greek kéntauros]
cen•tau′ri•al, cen•tau′ri•an, cen•tau′ric, adj.
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1.
centaur - (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
classical mythology - the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks
mythical creature , mythical monster - a monster renowned in folklore and myth
Chiron - (Greek mythology) the learned centaur who tutored Achilles, Asclepius, Hercules, Jason, and other heroes
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Alpha Centauri , Rigil , Rigil Kent - brightest star in Centaurus; second nearest star to the sun
Beta Centauri - the second brightest star in Centaurus
Omega Centauri - a global cluster in the constellation Centaurus
Proxima , Proxima Centauri - the nearest star to the sun; distance: 4.3 light years
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In an apartment of the great temple of Denderah, some fifty years ago, there was discovered upon the granite ceiling a sculptured and painted planisphere, abounding in centaurs, griffins, and dolphins, similar to the grotesque figures on the celestial globe of the moderns.
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But save me and take me to your ship; cut out the arrow from my thigh; wash the black blood from off it with warm water, and lay upon it those gracious herbs which, so they say, have been shown you by Achilles, who was himself shown them by Chiron, most righteous of all the centaurs.
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With a considerable amount of jingling and whip-cracking, and many plunging demonstrations on the part of two bare-backed horses and two centaurs with glazed hats, jack-boots, and flowing manes and tails, they rattle out of the yard of the Hotel Bristol in the Place Vendome and canter between the sun-and-shadow-chequered colonnade of the Rue de Rivoli and the garden of the ill-fated palace of a headless king and queen, off by the Place of Concord, and the Elysian Fields, and the Gate of the Star, out of Paris.
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It seems absurd to compare a tug boat skipper to a centaur: but he reminded me some how of an engraving in a little book I had as a boy, which represented centaurs at a stream, and there was one, especially in the foreground, prancing bow and arrows in hand, with regular severe features and an immense curled wavy beard, flowing down his breast.
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An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.
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When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone. Written by alfiehitchie
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Early on in the movie, Jake tells Joey to punch him. Joey does so, repeatedly, and leaves his ring on thereby cutting Jake with each new punch. Yet right before he throws the last punch, all of the puncture wounds in Jake's forehead have been removed. See more »
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Easily one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. I have watched it at least ten times, and it only gets better and better with each viewing. Martin Scorsese is absolutely the greatest filmmaker of the last quarter century, and this film is his best. The story of how boxer Jake LaMotta watched his career and marriage crumble under the weight of his violent temper and deep-rooted misogyny is told with no punches pulled (excuse the bad pun), as Deniro (in what may be his best performance) and Scorsese unflinchingly explore what drove this man over the edge, and what ultimately may have pulled him back. The boxing scenes easily rank with the most brutal and violent moments ever put on film, shot in stark, unadorned black and white and utilizing unlikely sounds including shattering windows and animal cries to great effect. Thelma Schoonmaker's jarring, discordant editing in these scenes also deserves special mention. The scenes of domestic violence are not for the faint of heart, but there is really no other way to tell this story. If there is a more perfect exploration of why as men we act the way we do, then I'd love to see it, because this movie made me re-evaluate my life. 10/10
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Who won the PFA Players Player of the Year award after his first Premiership season in 2001/02? | Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone play fight in London with Anthony Joshua as they promote new film Grudge Match | Daily Mail Online
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It may be a good few years since their action heyday as boxers Rocky Balboa and Jake La Motta.
But Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro were still playing the tough guys as they promoted their new film Grudge Match in London on Thursday.
The pair put their fists up in a play fight as they promoted their new film at London's Dorchester Hotel and had to be separated by Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua.
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Playing peacemaker: Anthony Joshua gets in the middle of film legends Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro
Clean shot: De Niro pretends to throw a punch at Stallone
As well as Joshua, the two screen legends were joined at the launch of the film by a host of British boxing stars, including George Groves, Luke Campbell, Kell Brook, Darren Barker, Nicola Adams and Natasha Jones.
The two Hollywood superstars were more than happy to live up to their roles as boxers by playing up to the cameras at the photo call.
Best of British: Olympic champion Nicola Adams poses with the two veteran film stars
Battle of the sexes: De Niro poses with English amateur Natasha Jones while Stallone and Adams face off
The film plays on the famous boxing roles previously taken on by both actors, with De Niro playing real-life boxer Jake La Motta in 1980's Raging Bull and Stallone portraying Rocky Balboa in 1976's Rocky and its series.
Big hitters: Kell Brook and Luke Campbell were at the launch of the new boxing film Grudge Match
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Brian Deane scored the first ever Premiership goal for which team? | Game Winners: Brian Deane’s Premiere Premier League Goal | Made Man
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Game Winners: Brian Deane’s Premiere Premier League Goal
Back in 1992, Brian Deane scored the first goal in England’s hallowed Premier League. We asked him about it, the team he now coaches and the World Cup.
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From 1985 to 2006, Brian Deane was a journeyman English striker who netted 195 goals for nine professional soccer teams in three countries. He played for storied clubs like Leeds United, West Ham and Benfica, and he even appeared for his country three times.
But without a doubt, his most famous day on a soccer field occurred on August 15, 1992. The top division in English soccer had broken away from its previous governing body and rebranded itself the FA Premier League in an attempt to make more money off TV rights, and nine games began that day at the same time to kick off the league. Deane, playing for Sheffield United, headed home a goal in the fifth minute against Manchester United, making him the first player to score in the Premier League—what is now the most-watched soccer league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.
With the 2014 FIFA World Cup in full swing, we tracked down Deane in Norway, where he is now the coach of Sarpsborg 08 in the top Norwegian league, to ask about his finest hour.
“If you’re going to score the first goal in the Premier League, I suppose you better have scored it against Man United.”
Going into the first day of games of the FA Premier League, was everyone aware that the player who scored the first goal would be a big deal?
Ha ha, I think at the time, we knew that there was a structural change to the league. And obviously, you always want to get off on the right foot. And not only myself but people like Ian Wright, Alan Shearer, Les Ferdinand and Teddy Sheringham would have been thinking about being the first person to do that. I had a pretty decent record on the opening day of the season, so I was quite confident going in that I would score. I didn’t know for sure that I would get the first goal, but it was a nice surprise when I found that out.
Can you describe the goal?
We were playing Manchester United at home. Whenever we played Manchester, we always decided to attack them rather than sit back, and that game was no different. We ended up with a throw-in on the right-hand side as we were attacking the Kop Stand. Carl Bradshaw lined up to take a long throw-in. Alan Cork flicked it on and I managed to get in between Gary Pallister and Peter Schmeichel. And the rest is history, I suppose, as they say.
Those are two pretty good guys to get in between.
Two big guys, a couple of legends. I ended up playing with Gary at Middlesbrough. And obviously at the time, Schmeichel was perhaps one of the best goalkeepers in the world. So from that point of view, it was very satisfying.
You also scored the second goal of the game, which turned out to be the game-winner. On a penalty kick.
Yeah, I think that was the first penalty scored in the Premier League as well, somebody told me the other day.
What do you remember about that one?
I was feeling pretty confident at the time, having already scored. I was playing quite well. I remember putting the ball down, and I lined up with the Manchester United supporters behind the goal. And I just sent Peter Schmeichel the wrong way, which was, again, pretty satisfying, ha ha.
Did you have a chance at a hat trick?
Actually, I had a goal disallowed in the first half as well, so yeah, I could have had a hat trick.
To top it off, you beat Manchester United, the eventual champs and winner of seven of the first 10 Premier League titles. Did that make it extra sweet?
Well, if you’re going to score the first goal in the Premier League, I suppose you better have scored it against Man United than somebody who hasn’t had as good a record. So yeah, that probably makes it sweeter.
Like all the great ones, Deane eventually lost his… sweet hightop fade.
Since then, do you get asked about it all the time, like we’re doing?
Yeah, I do. I got asked more about it after I retired and before I started coaching. It’s not really the focus when people see me anymore. It’s more about what I’m doing now. But yeah, it’s something that nobody ever can take away from me, ever. It’s there in record, and it’s something I’m very proud of.
Would you consider it the greatest moment of your football career?
Good question. Probably. Because the Premier League is known all around the world. To be the first person to score in the league, that’s probably going to be known for a long time now. This is a bit morbid, but I remember seeing the first person to score in the Bundesliga [Germany’s top league] died a while ago, and I kind of thought, well, you know, perhaps when that day comes for me, I suppose that will be part of my legacy. So without feeling morbid about the whole thing, it’s nice that I’ll be remembered for something, anyway.
These days, you’re the coach of Sarpsborg 08 in Norway and, just like America’s MLS, your season runs from spring to fall. How’s it going so far?
We could always do with a few more points. But we’re doing okay. It’s a decent league. We’re trying to build on what we did last summer. We have got one of the smallest budgets in the league, but we’re playing some good stuff and it’s a work in progress. So I’m enjoying it, anyway.
A midfielder on the U.S. World Cup team, Mix Diskerud, plays for one of the top teams in the Norwegian league, Rosenborg BK. Got any thoughts on Mix?
I haven’t seen him much. I mean, we played against Rosenborg three times since I’ve been here. I can’t even remember if he played. I think he played in one of the games. He’s a very good player, actually. Everyone speaks highly of him. But he did make a disparaging comment when he was leaving to go to the States. Somebody asked him whether or not his club would miss him, and he made a comment saying, “Ah, well, you know, we gotta play Stabaek and Sarpsborg, so we should be all right.” And they got beaten by Stabaek at home and they were lucky to get a draw against us.
Oh wow. Talk about bulletin-board material. Have you thought about acquiring any U.S. players?
Hard to say. If the right player was to come up, then of course. I know with American players, you do get honesty, you get hard work, and they’re catching up in terms of ability compared to a lot of the Europeans. There are some very good, intelligent American players as well. So certainly if we could afford to have the right one, of course. We’d love to have a look. But the best players from America are probably too good to play for us right now.
Who do you think will win the World Cup?
Brazil.
Finally, you scored 195 goals in your professional career. Any advice for young strikers out there?
One of the main things is, when you’re going through a dry spell, don’t get too down because it happens to all of us. And it’s better to just try and move on as quickly as you can in your mind. And you’ll get other chances. You don’t become a bad player overnight. I’ve had to tell myself that a lot, ha ha.
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Who was the top scorer in the first English Premiership in 1992/93, playing for both Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur? | Who scored the 1st ever goal in the premiership?
Who scored the 1st ever goal in the premiership?
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Brian Deane scored the first goal in the English Premier League for Sheffield United against Manchester United after 5 minutes on the August 15, 1992. In the same game he scored a second after 50 minutes from the penalty spot as Sheffield United went on to win 2-1.
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Brian Deane of Sheffield United was the first goal scorer of the Premiership when he scored in the 5th minute to give the Blades a 1-0 lead against Manchester United on 15 August 1992 during the 1992-1993 English Premier League season. Sheffield United eventually won the match 2-1.
How does the Olympic Football Tournament differ from the World Cup?
Premiership Records
Brian Deane scored the first ever Premiership goal, for Sheffield United vs. Manchester United on the opening day of the 1992/93 season.
Ledley King of Tottenham scored the fastest ever Premiership goal, timed at 10 seconds in their 3-3 draw with Bradford in the 2000/01 season.
Eric Cantona was the first player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League, when Leeds Utd beat Tottenham 5-0 on August 15 1992.
Efan Ekoku of Norwich City was the first player to score four goals in one Premier League match.
Andy Cole was the first player to score five goals in a Premiership match, for Manchester United vs. Ipswich in the 1994/95 season. The final score was 9-0, which is also a Premiership record for the biggest victory/defeat.
Les Ferdinand scored the Premiership's 10,000th goal in Tottenham's 4-0 win over Fulham in December 2001.
Manchester United's Ruud Van Nistlerooy holds the record for scoring in the most consecutive games. He scored in eight in a row during the 2001/02 season beating Mark Stein's record of seven set in the 1993/94 season.
Andy Turner became the youngest Premiership goal scorer when he netted for Tottenham against Everton on September 5, 1992. He was aged just 17 years and 166 days.
The oldest player to play in the Premiership was Manchester City goalkeeper John Burridge who was 43 years, 4 months and 26 days when he came on as a half time substitute for Manchester City v Newcastle United on April 29, 1995.
Tottenham goalkeeper Erik Thorstvedt became the first Premier League substitute when he replaced Ian Walker in the first Premiership season in 1992.
Swindon Town were the first team to concede 100 Premiership goals, when they were relegated in the 1993/94 season.
Crystal Palace were the first team to be relegated from the Premiership twice, when they went down in the seasons 1992/93 and 1994/95.
Nottingham Forest hold the record for the most consecutive matches unbeaten, when they went 25 games without losing in the 1994/95 season. They won 15 games and drew 10 before being defeated by Blackburn Rovers 7-0.
Everton holds the record for the longest run without scoring in the Premiership. They went seven consecutive games without a goal in the 1994/95 season.
Matthew LeTissier scored a hat-trick on the opening day of the day 1995/96 season but still ended up on the losing side when Southampton were beaten 3-4 by Nottingham Forest.
In both the 1993/94 and 1994/95 seasons 1195 Premiership goals were scored in each.
The Premiership was founded in 1992 with 22 clubs before being reduced to 20 clubs in the 1995/96 season.
Alan Shearer became the first Carling Premiership player to win the PFA Player of the Year award twice, when he won the award in 1995 and 1997.
Alan Shearer is the only player to score 200 Premiership goals.
Who was the superfake that tricked his way in to the manchester United football team?
Yep, Brian Deane of Sheffield United vs Mancheter United.
Kudos to cajadman for posting all those other records. I found the site where you got them from ( http://www.footballnetwork.org/dev/footb... however it was last updated in 2003 so one or more of those records may have been beaten. One I know for sure is the unbeaten run by Nottingham Forest. This is now held by Arsenal, who in 2002 went 28 consecutive matches unbeaten and took their second premiership title. ( http://www.insidearsenal.co.uk/?page_id=...
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re: the other records
arsenal's unbeaten run went on for 49 premiership games in total, before we beat them at the devil bowl
james vaughan now holds the record for youngest ever goalscorer (16 years 271 days) and also the youngest ever player to make an appearance in the league
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After the 1994/95 Premiership season, which Tottenham Hotspur player became the first foreigner to win the footballer of the year award? | 1994 95 in english football : definition of 1994 95 in english football and synonyms of 1994 95 in english football (English)
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Premiership
Blackburn Rovers ended their 81-year wait for the league title thanks to the strike partnership of Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton which scored a total of more than 50 league goals. Manchester United would have made it three league titles in a row if they had been able to turn a 1-1 draw with West Ham United into a win on the final day of the season. Newly promoted Nottingham Forest finished third and qualified for the UEFA Cup along with fourth placed Liverpool (also League Cup winners) and fifth placed Leeds United .
After this season the Premier League would be reduced to 20 clubs, so there would be four relegation places this time round. They were occupied by Crystal Palace , Norwich City (who had narrowly missed out on the league title two years earlier), Leicester City and Ipswich Town .
Division One
The streamlining of the Premier League meant that just two clubs would be promoted from Division One in 1995. Middlesbrough won the Division One title in their first season under Bryan Robson , while Reading were the club that were to fail to win promotion despite finishing second in the table. Instead, they competed in the playoffs , losing to Bolton Wanderers in the final, who achieved their second promotion in three years under Bruce Rioch - as well as being League Cup runners-up.
1995 saw four clubs relegated from Division One - Swindon Town (relegated for the second straight season), Burnley , Bristol City and Notts County . Sunderland narrowly avoided the drop following the arrival of enthusiastic new manager Peter Reid , who over the next few years would bring dramatic improvements to the Wearsiders.
Division Two
There would only be two promotion places in Division Two for 1994-95. They were occupied by champions Birmingham City and playoff winners Huddersfield Town , both enjoying success after seasons of disappointment.
Going down were Cambridge United , Plymouth Argyle , Cardiff City , Chester City and Leyton Orient
Division Three
This season saw three clubs go up from Division Three instead of four clubs. They were champions Carlisle United , runners-up Walsall and playoff winners Chesterfield .
Exeter City , who almost went out of business in mid-season, finished bottom of Division Three but kept their league status because Conference champions Macclesfield Town were unable to meet the league's stadium capacity requirements.
Successful players
Alan Shearer was the English league's top scorer with 34 Premiership goals for champions Blackburn Rovers.
20-year-old Robbie Fowler collected a League Cup winner's medal with Liverpool as well as the PFA Young Player of the Year award, following another season of strong goalscoring, and team mate Steve McManaman capped the cup final with a man of the match display in a season where he charted 20 assists in the league.
Peter Schmeichel established himself as a world-class goalkeeper by conceding just 4 goals in 18 home Premiership fixtures with Manchester United .
Stan Collymore scored 22 Premiership goals for Nottingham Forest and was soon on his way to Liverpool for an English record fee of £8.4million.
Experienced Scottish striker John Hendrie was the driving force in Middlesbrough's return to the Premiership after a two-year absence.
36-year-old Tranmere Rovers striker John Aldridge was Division One's leading goalscorer with 24 league goals.
Bolton Wanderers midfielder Jason McAteer established himself as one of the most exciting young talents in England and would soon be on his way to Liverpool .
Wrexham striker Gary Bennett scored a staggering 39 goals in all competitions.
Huddersfield Town striker Andy Booth who scored an impressive 30 goals during this season as well as make international honours with the England Under 21 squad .
Walsall wingers Scott Houghton and Martin O'Connor almost single handedly earned their club's promotion to Division Two.
Successful managers
Kenny Dalglish become only the third manager to win the English league title with different clubs after he guided Blackburn Rovers to their first league title since 1914.
Joe Royle completed his first season as Everton manager by winning the FA Cup .
Roy Evans won the League Cup in his first full season as Liverpool manager.
Frank Clark took newly promoted Nottingham Forest to third place in the Premiership to achieve UEFA Cup qualification and bring European football to the club for the first time since the early 1980s.
Bryan Robson made an excellent start to his management career by winning the Division One championship and gaining promotion to the Premiership with Middlesbrough .
Bruce Rioch won the Division One playoffs and took Bolton Wanderers to their first cup final in nearly 40 years.
Jimmy Quinn took Reading to a second-place finish in Division One and only the streamlining of the Premiership prevented them from reaching the top flight for the very first time.
Neil Warnock achieved his fourth promotion in less than a decade as he guided Huddersfield Town to glory in the Division Two playoffs.
John Duncan helped Chesterfield F.C. win the Division Three playoffs and brought some long-awaited success to Saltergate.
Chris Nicholl had a strong first season as Walsall F.C. manager by gaining promotion to Division Two.
Barry Fry won the Division Two title with Birmingham City , who were also Auto Windscreen Shield winners.
Attendances
A total of 26,150,028 attended matches in competitions organised by the Football Association and the Football League and hosted by league clubs. Of that number, 21,856,223 attended Premiership and Football League matches. This ensured that attendance at league matches had increased for the ninth consecutive season. [1]
In the Premiership, 11,213,371 attended the 420 matches held in 1994-95, the highest attendance in the top division since the 1980-81 season. Meanwhile, Football League clubs attracted 10,583,498, a decline of half a million from the previous season .
The ten most supported teams in league matches this season were as follows:
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25,940
Endsleigh League Division One
The attendance at FA Cup matches from the First Round to the Final was 2,015,261, an increase of 25,641 from the previous season. The attendance at the Final was 79,592. [2]
Events
Walker's title dream comes true for Blackburn
The five-year revival of Blackburn Rovers under the ownership of Jack Walker paid off as they were crowned Premiership champions and finished top of the English league for the first time in 81 years. Key force in the title glory was 34-goal striker Alan Shearer, also PFA Player of the Year. His strike partner Chris Sutton also had a major influence on Blackburn's success, as did defenders Colin Hendry, and Graham Le Saux. Manager Kenny Dalglish , who had won three titles with Liverpool , became only the third manager in English football to win the league title with different clubs.
Everton's triumph leaves United with nothing
Everton had a terrible start to the 1994-95 season. Failure to win any of their first 12 Premiership games cost manager Mike Walker his job and looked to have cost Everton their top flight status less than a decade after they had been league champions. But in came Oldham Athletic 's Joe Royle as his successor, and the signing of controversial striker Duncan Ferguson helped revive Everton's fortunes. Their Premiership survival was confirmed at the end of April and on 20 May they beat Manchester United 1-0 in the FA Cup final thanks to a Paul Rideout goal. Rideout's goal - and the brilliant goalkeeping of veteran Neville Southall - meant that Everton had won their first major honour in eight years, while United endured their first trophyless season in six years.
The Eric Cantona kung-fu incident
Eric Cantona , the Manchester United and France striker had a unique talent but unpredictable temper. On 25 January 1995 he was sent off in a Premiership game against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park for lashing out at Eagles defender Richard Shaw. Cantona then kicked Palace supporter Matthew Simmons, who taunted him from the stands.
His club fined him two weeks wages and banned him from playing for the rest of the season. The FA fined Cantona £10,000 and extended his ban from football to September 30, 1995, for a total of eight months - one of the longest suspensions ever handed out in English football. FIFA later confirmed that this ban was worldwide. A jury at Croydon Magistrates Court found him guilty of common assault and the judge sentenced him to 14 days in prison, although he was immediately released on bail pending an appeal - which was successful in quashing his prison sentence. He received a 120-hour community service order instead, opting to coach children in the Greater Manchester area.
Cantona was not the only player facing jail. Chelsea captain Dennis Wise was convicted of assaulting a taxi driver and jailed for three months, although a successful appeal saw both his conviction and his prison sentence quashed.
Arsenal caught up in bungs scandal and drugs controversy
Arsenal were another Premiership club to be hit by controversy in the 1994-95 season. In November, winger Paul Merson admitted that he was addicted to alcohol, cocaine and gambling. He went on a three-month rehab course before resuming his career. Just before Merson's return, it was revealed that manager George Graham had accepted £425,000 worth of illegal payments from a Scandinavian agent who had overseen the signing of Pal Lydersen and John Jensen three years earlier. Graham, one of the most successful managers in the club's history, was sacked after nine years at the Highbury helm.
Nayim ends Arsenal's Euro dream
Despite the controversy of George Graham 's sacking and Paul Merson 's personal problems, Arsenal reached the European Cup Winners' Cup final under caretaker manager Stewart Houston , where they faced Real Zaragoza of Spain. The scores were level (1-1) at half time and a penalty shoot-out was looking certain with 120 minutes on the clock. But a freak last-minute goal from 40 yards out from Nayim - a former Tottenham player - in the dying seconds of the game saw the trophy go to the Spaniards.
Honours
Lost
1-3
ab = Abandoned after 27 minutes because of crowd violence with the Republic leading 1-0 and no official result recorded, although caps were awarded.
League tables
Main article: 1994–95 FA Premier League
Blackburn Rovers were crowned champions of the English league for the first time since 1914 after four years of heavy spending on and off the pitch. Strikers Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton scored more than 60 goals between them during the course of the season, while centre half Colin Hendry and full back Graham Le Saux ensured that there was solidity and consistency away from the attack.
Manchester United narrowly missed out on a third successive league title, while newly promoted Nottingham Forest made a huge impact and finished third to qualify for Europe for the first time in over a decade. Liverpool showed signs of a return to their former glory with a fourth place finish and a Coca-Cola Cup triumph. The final European place went to Leeds United.
Smaller clubs including Southampton and Wimbledon defied the odds to finish in the top half of the table and overtake larger clubs including Aston Villa, Manchester City and Sheffield Wednesday, who all changed managers during or after a season which had seen them all fall well short of expectations.
Ipswich Town and Leicester City were relegated by a wide margin, while Norwich City were the next to go down due to a terrible second half to the season, which dragged them out of the Premiership just two years after they had almost been champions. The final relegation place went to Crystal Palace, who found it difficult to score goals all season long. Their relegation was confirmed of the final day of the season; despite a thrilling comeback against sixth-placed Newcastle United, they lost 3-2 and went down from the Premiership just 12 months after winning promotion.
Pos.
Qualified for the Champions League
Qualified for the UEFA Cup
Qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup
Relegated to Division One
Endsleigh League Division One
A dream start in management saw Bryan Robson guide Middlesbrough to the Division One title and regain the Premiership place that was lost two years ago. Reading finished second - the highest in their history - but the streamlining of the Premiership prevented them from winning promotion and they lost 4-3 to Bolton Wanderers after extra time in the playoff final, having led 2-0 at half time. Losing semi-finalists were Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tranmere Rovers. who had made the Play-Offs this there 3rd time Division One semi-final lost
Barnsley and Watford were the unlucky sides to narrowly miss out on the playoffs, while an expensively-assembled Derby County side finished a disappointing ninth at the end of what many fans had hoped would be a promotion winning season.
Portsmouth, West Bromwich Albion and Sunderland - three famous clubs which had seen better days - narrowly avoided relegation to Division Two, but managerial changes at each of these clubs gave fans hope that a return to the elite might not be far away.
Swindon Town suffered a second consecutive relegation in a row due to entering a 2 year administration, joining Bristol City, Burnley and Notts County in Division Two.
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40
Endsleigh League Division Two
Birmingham City sealed an immediate return to Division One by lifting the Division Two championship trophy, joined by playoff winners Huddersfield Town. The unlucky sides in the playoffs were Brentford, Crewe Alexandra and Bristol Rovers.
Unfavoured Leyton Orient, Chester City and Cardiff City were (perhaps inevitably) relegated to Division Three. But the other two relegated teams were surprise candidates for the drop. Plymouth Argyle had almost won promotion to Division One a year earlier. Cambridge United had narrowly missed out on a place in the then-new Premier League three years earlier and poor form in the run in sealed their fate after Bournemouth avoided the drop in the final two games of the season after spending most of it in the bottom five. This sparked pitch invasion scenes and has been called the team's Great Escape season.
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For subsequent transfer deals see 1995-96 in English football .
Diary of the season
6 July 1994 - Tottenham Hotspur's 12-point penalty is reduced to 6 points on appeal at a Football Association hearing, while the £600,000 fine is increased to £1.5million and the FA Cup ban remains in place.
11 July 1994 - Graham Taylor prepares for a Division One promotion challenge with Wolverhampton Wanderers , signing defender Steve Froggatt from Aston Villa for £1million, while Clayton Blackmore (Manchester United's longest-serving player) signs for Middlesbrough on a free transfer to join Bryan Robson's fellow promotion hopefuls.
13 July 1994 - Blackburn Rovers pay a national record £5million for Norwich City's 21-year-old striker Chris Sutton .
19 July 1994 - Bryan Robson further bolsters Middlesbrough's squad with a £1million move for Aston Villa defender Neil Cox .
22 July 1994 - Leicester City , newly promoted to the Premier League and in the top flight for the first time since 1987, pay a club record £1.25million for Notts County midfielder Mark Draper .
2 August 1994 - Tottenham Hotspur sell winger Vinny Samways to Everton for £2.2million.
3 August 1994 - Tottenham Hotspur pay a club record £2.6million for Romania winger Ilie Dumitrescu .
4 August 1994 - Aston Villa pay Wimbledon £1.35million for long-serving striker John Fashanu .
4 August 1994 - Tottenham Hotspur pay Monaco £2million for German striker Jürgen Klinsmann .
6 August 1994 - A second Romanian World Cup star, defender Dan Petrescu , joins a Premier League club. Petrescu, 27, signs for Sheffield Wednesday in a £1.3million deal.
10 August 1994 - Newcastle United pay a club record £2.65million for Belgium and Anderlecht defender Philippe Albert .
11 August 1994 - After more than 13 years at Liverpool, goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar signs for Southampton on a free transfer.
12 August 1994 - Chelsea sign midfielder David Rocastle from Manchester City for £1.25million. A tribunal orders Sheffield Wednesday to pay £1million for Port Vale midfielder Ian Taylor . [3]
20 August 1994 -
- Huddersfield Town play their first game at the new Alfred McAlpine Stadium , a Division Two fixture with newly-promoted Wycombe Wanderers which ends in a 1-0 defeat.
- The FA Premier League season opens with Liverpool beating newly-promoted Crystal Palace 6-1 at Selhurst Park . Steve McManaman and Ian Rush both find the net twice, while Jürgen Klinsmann scores on his English league debut in a 4-3 away win for Tottenham Hotspur against Sheffield Wednesday.
24 August 1994 - A late surge by Newcastle United in the final 15 minutes of their home clash with Coventry City in the Premier League sees them break the deadlock to win 4-0 after Coventry striker Micky Quinn (a former Newcastle player) was sent off.
27 August 1994 - National record signing Chris Sutton scores a hat-trick for Blackburn Rovers as they beat Coventry City 4-0. Andy Cole and Steve Watson are both on the scoresheet twice for Newcastle United in their 5-1 home win over Southampton, as are Uwe Rosler and Paul Walsh for Manchester City in a 4-0 home win over Everton.
28 August 1994 - 19-year-old striker Robbie Fowler scores a hat-trick for Liverpool in less than five minutes as they beat Arsenal 3-0 in the league at Anfield .
31 August 1994 - Newcastle United finish the first month of the league season as Premier League leaders with four wins from their opening four games, with defending champions Manchester United and newly-promoted Nottingham Forest bracketed together as their nearest rivals. With four teams going down this season due to the reduction of the Premier League from 22 clubs to 20, the relegation places are occupied by Everton, Leicester City, West Ham United and Coventry City. [6] In Division One, Bryan Robson has made a perfect start to his managerial career by guiding Middlesbrough to the top of Division One after winning their first four games of the season. Oldham Athletic occupy second place - but for the first time in 100 years of the Football League's second tier the runners-up of the division will not gain automatic promotion. Due to a reorganisation of the Premier League and Football League for next season, the second to fifth placed teams in Division One will go into the playoffs, which are also currently occupied by Portsmouth , Millwall and Reading . [4]
1 September 1994 - Liverpool pay a club record fee of £3.6million for Coventry City and Republic of Ireland defender Phil Babb .
2 September 1994 - Liverpool further enhance their defence with a £3.5million move for Wimbledon's John Scales .
3 September 1994 - Former Wolverhampton Wanderers and England captain Billy Wright dies of cancer aged 70.
9 September 1994 - Romanian World Cup midfielder Gheorghe Popescu signs for Tottenham Hotspur in a club record £2.9million deal from PSV Eindhoven .
10 September 1994 - Manchester United sell striker Dion Dublin to Coventry City for £2million (a record buy for Phil Neal 's team). Dublin's value doubled in two years at Old Trafford after signing from Cambridge United but a broken leg in his first season - coupled with the arrival of Eric Cantona - saw his first team opportunities limited.
11 September 1994 - Leeds United beat Manchester United for the first time in more than a decade, defeating them 2-1 in the league at Elland Road .
17 September 1994 - Dion Dublin scores on his Coventry City debut, a 2-1 home league win over Leeds United. Leicester City achieve their first Premier League win - 3-1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur, with young striker Julian Joachim scoring twice.
21 September 1994 - Gary Lineker , England's second highest goalscorer of all time, announces his retirement from playing. Since leaving Tottenham in 1992, he has played for Nagoya Grampus Eight of Japan.
23 September 1994 - UEFA announces that the Summer Cup will be re-introduced next year and will now be known as the Intertoto Cup . It will feature 40 clubs and at least one Premier League team (the highest placed applicant or applicants who failed to qualify for one of the three major European competitions) will be able to compete. [5]
30 September 1994 - September draws to a close with Newcastle United still top after winning six of their first seven games, while Blackburn Rovers and Nottingham Forest have leapfrogged Manchester United into fourth place. Completing the top five are a Chelsea side who are showing some of their best form in years under the management of Glenn Hoddle . Manchester City are also giving the top five a run for their money after last season's close shave with relegation. Everton are bottom of the division with no wins from their first seven games, while Crystal Palace, Coventry City and West Ham United are all still in the bottom four as well. [7] Graham Taylor is rebuilding his managerial career well at Wolverhampton Wanderers , who have leapfrogged Middlesbrough on goals scored at the top of Division One. Swindon Town , Tranmere Rovers and Reading complete the top five. [8]
1 October 1994 - Everton manager Mike Walker looks to pull his side together by making a triple loan bid for Rangers striker Duncan Ferguson and midfielder Ian Durrant as well as Trevor Steven , who was sold from Everton to Rangers by Colin Harvey in 1989.
2 October 1994 - Duncan Ferguson and Ian Durrant complete their loan moves from Rangers to Everton, but Trevor Steven's move falls through, on the same day that Everton's winless start to the league season extends to eight matches as they lose 2-0 to Manchester United at Old Trafford.
15 October 1994 - Division Three side Northampton Town move into the new Sixfields Stadium . Their first game is against Barnet , ending in a 1-1 draw with 19-year-old striker Martin Aldridge scoring the first goal at the new stadium.
23 October 1994 - Title contenders Blackburn Rovers and Manchester United clash in the league at Ewood Park , with Alex Ferguson 's side finishing 4-2 winners.
31 October 1994 - October draws to a close with Newcastle United still top, with Nottingham Forest, Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Liverpool and Leeds United their nearest contenders. Everton are still bottom of the league and it currently looks like something little short of a miracle will save their 41-year top flight tenure as they have yet to win a league game after their opening 12 games. Leicester City, Wimbledon and Ipswich Town have also joined Everton in the relegation zone. [9] Wolverhampton Wanderers and Middlesbrough remain level at the top of Division One, with Tranmere Rovers, Reading and Swindon Town complete the top five. [10]
1 November 1994 - Osvaldo Ardiles is sacked after 16 months as manager of Tottenham Hotspur .
8 November 1994 - Mike Walker is sacked after 10 months as manager of Everton .
9 November 1994 - The Times reports that 16 Football League clubs are set to break away from the league to form a second tier of the Premier League.
10 November 1994 - Ron Atkinson is sacked as manager of Aston Villa , while Tottenham Hotspur appoint Gerry Francis from Queens Park Rangers . Manchester United crush Manchester City 5-0 in the Manchester derby at Old Trafford , with Andrei Kanchelskis scoring a hat-trick.
11 November 1994 - Joe Royle , the longest-serving manager in England with 12 years at Oldham Athletic , is named as the new manager of Everton .
13 November 1994 - The third round of the FA Cup is highlighted by Division Two promotion chasers Oxford United's 2-0 defeat at non-league Marlow Town.
14 November 1994 - Ray Wilkins , 38, quits as Crystal Palace player-coach to return to Queens Park Rangers as their new player-manager, while Brian Little resigns as manager of Leicester City , sparking rumours that he will take over at Aston Villa.
21 November 1994 - Joe Royle has a dream start to his reign as Everton manager as they triumph 2-0 over Liverpool in the Merseyside derby at Goodison Park .
25 November 1994 - Brian Little is named as the new Aston Villa manager on his 41st birthday.
26 November 1994 - Alan Shearer scores a hat-trick and Chris Sutton nets once as Blackburn Rovers beat Queen's Park Rangers 4-0 in the league at Ewood Park.
30 November 1994 - Blackburn Rovers are the new month-end Premier League leaders, ahead of second-placed Manchester United by a single point, while they are two points ahead of former leaders Newcastle United who have dipped to third place. Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Leeds United are continuing to put up a strong challenge along with a Manchester City side who spent last season battling to avoid relegation. Everton's new manager Joe Royle has taken them off bottom place over the last month with their first three league wins of the season, with Ipswich Town and Leicester City now propping up the league. Also in the relegation zone are League Cup holders Aston Villa, who almost won the league title two seasons ago. [11] Middlesbrough finish the month as outright leaders of Division One with a two-point lead over Wolverhampton Wanderers. Tranmere Rovers, Bolton Wanderers and Luton Town complete the top five, while Swindon Town's drastic loss of form over the last month has seen them slump from the playoff zone into 19th place and manager John Gorman sacked to be replaced by 33-year-old Manchester City midfielder Steve McMahon , who takes over as player-manager. Portsmouth, another side who were looking like promotion contenders not so long ago, have slumped even further into the relegation zone. [12]
3 December 1994 - Teddy Sheringham scores a hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur beat Newcastle United 4-2 in the league at White Hart Lane .
5 December 1994 - John Lyall resigns after four-and-a-half years in charge of Ipswich Town , who stand bottom of the FA Premier League . While Ipswich's struggle shows no sign of easing, Everton's revival continues as they crush Leeds United 3-0 at Goodison Park.
9 December 1994 - The Football Association quashes Tottenham's FA Cup ban and 6-point deduction.
11 December 1994 - Arsenal manager George Graham denies allegations that he received an illegal £285,000 payment as part of a transfer deal. Everton pay a club record fee of £4million for Rangers striker Duncan Ferguson who has been on loan at Goodison Park for two months.
15 December 1994 - Mark McGhee leaves Reading to take charge of Leicester City . He is replaced at Elm Park by 35-year-old players Jimmy Quinn and Mick Gooding .
17 December 1994 - Manchester United suffer their first home league defeat of the season when they go down 2-1 at home to Nottingham Forest, who win the game with goals from Stuart Pearce as well as Stan Collymore , who is reportedly a Manchester United transfer target. Tony Cottee scores a hat-trick for West Ham United in their 3-0 home league win over Manchester City.
18 December 1994 - John Lyall resigns after four-and-a-half years in charge of Ipswich Town, who are currently bottom of the Premier League.
19 December 1994 - Former Liverpool manager Graeme Souness denies allegations that he received a £30,000 illegal payment in connection with a player transfer.
21 December 1994 - Brian Little's rebuilding of Aston Villa begins when he signs midfielder Ian Taylor from Sheffield Wednesday, with striker Guy Whittingham moving in the opposite direction [6] in a deal worth £1million. [7]
28 December 1994 -
- Ipswich Town appoint their former player George Burley as their new manager. Burley, 38, had recently quit Colchester United and without a proven track record he was perhaps a surprise candidate for the job.
- Manchester United are held to a surprise 1-1 home draw by struggling Leicester City, preventing them from going top of the Premier League.
31 December 1994 - 1994 draws to a close with Blackburn Rovers still top and now with a three-point lead over Manchester United as well as a game in hand. Liverpool and Nottingham Forest are still in distant contention while a resurgent Tottenham Hotspur are now putting pressure on the top five, while Leeds United and Manchester City's challenges are practically dead and buried as they have slid down the table considerably. Norwich City, meanwhile, finish 1994 in seventh place as manager John Deehan looks set to defy the critics who felt he could never successfully replace Mike Walker and mount a challenge for another European place. The month-end bottom four of Everton, Aston Villa, Ipswich Town and Leicester City remain unchanged from last month. [13] Middlesbrough continue to lead the Division One promotion race, now five points ahead of their nearest rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers. Tranmere Rovers, Reading and Sheffield United complete the top five, while the change of manager at Swindon Town has made little difference to their league form (though they continue to progress well in the League Cup) as they are only outside the relegation zone on goal difference. [14]
2 January 1995 - Alan Shearer adds another hat-trick for Blackburn Rovers in their 4-2 home win over West Ham United in the league. Ipswich Town give their survival hopes a boost with a 4-1 home win over fellow strugglers Leicester City.
6 January 1995 - Aston Villa sign striker Tommy Johnson and defender Gary Charles from Derby County for £1.45million each.
7 January 1995 - Division Three Walsall hold Premier League Leeds United to a 1-1 draw the Bescot Stadium in the FA Cup third round to force a replay. Enfield's hopes of achieving an upset against Leicester City are ended when they lose 2-0 to the home side at Filbert Street . Marlow's FA Cup dream ends in a 2-0 defeat at Swindon Town. Wrexham shock Ipswich Town 2-0, while Aylesbury United's dream ends in a 4-0 thrashing by Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road . Birmingham City hold Liverpool to a goalless draw.
9 January 1995 - Manchester United meet Sheffield United in the FA Cup at Bramall Lane for the second season running, and triumph 2-0.
10 January 1995 - Manchester United break the English transfer fee record by signing Andy Cole from Newcastle United in a deal worth £7million; £6million cash plus £1million-rated winger Keith Gillespie , 19.
11 January 1995 - Everton are reported to be in the process of making a £2.5million bid for 31-year-old Manchester United striker Mark Hughes , whose future at Old Trafford has been threatened by the arrival of Andy Cole.
13 January 1995 - Arsenal pay Luton Town £2.5million for 19-year-old Welsh striker John Hartson .
14 January 1995 - Ipswich Town collect three priceless points in a shock 1-0 win over Liverpool at Anfield, in which 21-year-old winger Adam Tanner scores the only goal.
15 January 1995 - Mark Hughes suffers a knee injury as he scored Manchester United's goal in their 1-1 league draw at Newcastle United. It is feared that he has suffered cruciate ligament damage and will be out of action until next season, effectively ending Everton's hopes of signing him any time soon.
16 January 1995 - Tests show that the knee injury suffered by Mark Hughes yesterday is less serious than feared, and he is expected to return to action before the end of next month.
17 January 1995 - Walsall's FA Cup dream is ended in a 5-2 defeat by Leeds United at Elland Road in the third round replay.
20 January 1995 - Steve Nicol , Liverpool's longest serving player, joins Notts County on a free transfer.
21 January 1995 - Leeds United pay a club record £3.4million for Eintracht Frankfurt 's Ghanaian striker Tony Yeboah .
22 January 1995 - Blackburn Rovers are now just one point ahead of Manchester United at the top of the Premier League after Alex Ferguson's men beat them 1-0 at Old Trafford with Eric Cantona's 12th league goal of the season.
25 January 1995 - After being sent off for kicking an opponent in Manchester United 's 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace , Eric Cantona leaps into the crowd and kicks spectator Matthew Simmons, who had allegedly been making racist remarks to the Frenchman.
26 January 1995 - Blackburn Rovers beat Ipswich Town 4-1 in the league at Ewood Park, with Alan Shearer scoring yet another hat-trick.
27 January 1995 - Eric Cantona is suspended by his employers for the rest of the season and fined £20,000 after being charged with bringing the game into disrepute.
28 January 1995 - In the first game after the Eric Cantona incident, Manchester United beat Wrexham 5-2 in the FA Cup fourth round at Old Trafford . Brian Flynn 's Division Two underdogs gave United a scare after taking an early lead, but United soon blew them apart.
30 January 1995 - Brian Little continues his reshaping of the Aston Villa squad with the £1.7million sale of defender Earl Barrett to Everton .
31 January 1995 - The month ends with Blackburn Rovers still leading the Premier League, while Manchester United have cut their lead to a single point Kenny Dalglish 's men have a two-game advantage of their Old Trafford rivals. Liverpool, Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United complete the top five. Ipswich Town and Leicester City continue to prop up the top flight, while Aston Villa and Everton have surged clear of the drop zone at the expense of Coventry City and West Ham United. [15] Middlesbrough are now two points ahead of Wolverhampton Wanderers (who are level with Bolton Wanderers) at the top of Division One, with Reading and Tranmere Rovers completing the top five. [16]
4 February 1995 - Andy Cole scores his first goal for Manchester United in a 1-0 home win over Aston Villa in the Premier League.
11 February 1995 - Aston Villa match the record for a Premier League victory when they beat Wimbledon 7-1 at Villa Park. Recently signed striker Tommy Johnson scores a hat-trick. The Manchester derby at Maine Road is won 3-0 by United.
13 February 1995 - Less than six months after leaving them to return to West Ham United, Tony Cottee scores twice against Everton in a 2-2 league draw at Upton Park .
14 February 1995 - George Graham , whose job as Arsenal manager is reportedly under threat due to sub-standard Premier League form as well as allegations of illegal payments, pays Vitesse Arnhem £2million for Holland winger Glenn Helder .
15 February 1995 - England's friendly international against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin is cancelled, with the Republic 1-0 in the lead thanks to Wolverhampton Wanderers striker David Kelly , due to rioting by England hooligans believed to be member of the Combat 18 organisation. [8]
21 February 1995 - George Graham is sacked as Arsenal manager after he admits to receiving an illegal payment of £425,000 from Norwegian agent Rune Hauge when Arsenal signed Pal Lydersen in 1991 and John Jensen in 1992. Assistant manager Stewart Houston will take over as manager until the end of the season before Arsenal find a permanent manager to succeed Graham, who had been in charge at Highbury since May 1986 and had won six major trophies.
22 February 1995 - In Brian Little's first game against old club Leicester City since leaving them for Aston Villa, the two sides draw 4-4 in the league at Villa Park .
24 February 1995 - The Football Association extends Eric Cantona's suspension until 30 September and he is fined a further £10,000.
25 February 1995 - Manchester United's hopes of a third successive league title win are damaged by a 1-0 defeat to a resurgent Everton, with Duncan Ferguson scoring the only goal.
28 February 1995 - Blackburn Rovers remain month-end leaders of the Premier League, but failed to take maximum advantages of the two games they had in hand and are still only three points ahead of second-placed Manchester United. The challenge from the remainder of the top five - Newcastle United, Liverpool and particularly Nottingham Forest - is becoming more and more distant, while Norwich City's challenge for a UEFA Cup place has collapsed into a battle to avoid relegation in the space of a few weeks. The bottom four remain unchanged apart from West Ham United climbing out of the drop zone at the expense of a goal-shy Crystal Palace. [17] Tranmere Rovers have stormed to the top of Division One at the expense of Middlesbrough, with the top five being completed by Bolton Wanderers, Sheffield United and Wolverhampton Wanderers. [18]
4 March 1995 - Andy Cole becomes the first player to score five goals in a Premier League game in Manchester United's 9-0 home win over Ipswich Town - which is also the biggest win yet in the Premier League.
10 March 1993 - Aston Villa sign defender Alan Wright from Blackburn Rovers for £1million.
11 March 1995 - Liverpool's faint hopes of a unique domestic treble are ended when they lose 2-1 at home to Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup quarter-final.
12 March 1995 - Everton's season which began with a 12-match winless start in the league is showing signs of turning into a success after they beat Newcastle United 1-0 at Goodison Park in the FA Cup quarter-final. Manchester United reach the semi-finals with a 2-0 win over Queens Park Rangers, managed by former United player Ray Wilkins and ending his hopes of beginning his managerial career with FA Cup glory.
13 March 1995 - Chelsea captain Dennis Wise (28) is sentenced to three months in prison for assault and criminal damage, but is released on bail pending an appeal against his conviction and sentence. The court case follows an alleged attack on a taxi driver in London.
14 March 1995 - Liverpool's hopes of making a late run to the title are virtually ended when they lose 3-2 at home to Coventry City, with Peter Ndlovu scoring a hat-trick for the Sky Blues.
15 March 1995 - Blackburn Rovers strengthen themselves for the title run-in with a £1.5million move for Southampton defender Jeff Kenna .
17 March 1995 - Southampton pay a club record £1.2million for Sheffield Wednesday striker Gordon Watson .
21 March 1995 - Liverpool pay Millwall £1.5million for 18-year-old Irish winger Mark Kennedy .
23 March 1995 - A judge at Croydon Crown Court sentences Eric Cantona to 14 days in prison for his attack on Matthew Simmons. He is released on bail, pending an appeal against the sentence. Meanwhile, Cantona's team-mate Paul Ince faces charges relating to the incident, while Matthew Simmons will also face prosecution.
31 March 1995 - Eric Cantona's prison sentence is quashed on appeal and he is sentenced to 120 hours of community service . Meanwhile, his Manchester United side are still second in the league to a Blackburn Rovers team who have a three-point lead and a game in hand. The threat from Liverpool, Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest is now even more distant to the point that it could be mathematically ended within a couple of weeks. At the other end of the table, Ipswich Town and Leicester City continue to prop up the rest of the Premier League and will now need a practical miracle to beat the drop. Meanwhile, Crystal Palace are sinking deeper and deeper into hot water, while Southampton have fallen into the bottom four. A first win of 1995 has helped ease Norwich City's worries as they stand 12th, but they are just six points ahead of 19th-placed Southampton who have two games in hand. Arsenal, still reeling from the George Graham and Paul Merson scandals, are suddenly under surprise threat of relegation from a division they traditionally compete at the top end of. [19] Middlesbrough have regained their lead of Division One, where Bolton Wanderers, Tranmere Rovers, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Reading complete the top five. [20]
1 April 1995 - Nottingham Forest achieve a record Premier League away win when they beat Sheffield Wednesday 7-1 at Hillsborough . Meanwhile, Ipswich Town and Leicester City's survival hopes are virtually ended by home defeats.
2 April 1995 - Liverpool beat Bolton to win the League Cup with a brace from man of the match, Steve McManaman . A thrilling game at The Dell sees Southampton move closer to safety with a 4-3 win over Tottenham, with Matt Le Tissier scoring twice for the hosts and Teddy Sheringham scoring twice for the visitors.
5 April 1995 - On-loan Ghanaian striker Tony Yeboah scores a hat-trick for Leeds United in a 4-0 home win over Ipswich Town - a result which relegates the visitors. Leicester City cling onto their Premier League status with a 1-0 home win over a Norwich City who are heading towards the relegation zone just three months after being in close contention for a UEFA Cup place.
6 April 1995 - It is announced that Eric Cantona's community service order will take place in the form of coaching football to young boys in the Manchester area.
8 April 1995 - Norwich City fall closer to the relegation zone in a 3-0 defeat at Newcastle United. Leicester City's relegation is confirmed by a 1-0 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday.
9 April 1995 - 35-year-old Crystal Palace supporter Paul Nixon is crushed to death by a coach outside a Walsall public house before the FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park between Crystal Palace and Manchester United . Mr Nixon had been trying to escape a brawl between supporters of the two teams, after being stabbed and seriously injured by a brick. The semi-final ended in a 2-2 draw, while Everton crush Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 in the other semi-final.
12 April 1995 - Manchester United reach the FA Cup final after beating Crystal Palace 2-0 in the semi-final replay. Their opponents will be Everton , who crushed Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 in the other semi-final.
15 April 1995 - Ian Wright keeps up his strong record of goals against Ipswich Town by scoring in a 4-1 league win for Arsenal at Highbury. Manchester United keep their title hopes alive with a 4-0 win at relegated Leicester City, while Southampton continue their surge up the table with a 2-1 home win over Queen's Park Rangers.
17 April 1995 - Manchester United's title bid is made harder when Chelsea hold them to a goalless draw at Old Trafford. Howwever, their neighbours City do them a favour by beating leaders Blackburn Rovers 3-2 at Ewood Park, a result which boosts their own battle against relegation.
30 April 1995 - Middlesbrough clinch the Division One championship - and the only automatic promotion place to the Premier League for this season - by beating Luton Town in the final game at 93-year-old Ayresome Park and at the end of Bryan Robson's first season in management. Middlesbrough will relocate to the new 30,000-seat Riverside Stadium in August. Meanwhile, up in the Premier League, the final full month of the season ends with Manchester United still pushing Blackburn Rovers hard, with the margin now five points wide with four games to go, as Blackburn blew a chance to extend their lead today as they lost 2-0 at West Ham. Liverpool are the only other team now in with a mathematical chance of winning the title, and all minds at Anfield are focused on the final day of the season when they welcome former manager Kenny Dalglish and his Blackburn Rovers side for what could very well be the title decider. At the other end of the table, Ipswich Town and Leicester City both had their relegation confirmed earlier in the month, while Norwich City have sunk into the relegation zone and Crystal Palace are still in it - but only on goal difference, and they have a game in hand over 18th-placed West Ham United. [21]
1 May 1995 - Manchester United cut Blackburn's Premier League lead to two points with a 3-2 away win over relegation threatened Coventry City, with Andy Cole scoring twice - taking his tally for United to 11 goals in 15 league games.
6 May 1995 - Norwich City's relegation is confirmed as they lose 2-1 at Leeds United.
7 May 1995 - Manchester United continue to put the pressure on Blackburn Rovers as a David May goal gives them a 1-0 home win over Sheffield Wednesday.
8 May 1995 - Blackburn Rovers maintain their lead at the top of the Premier League when Alan Shearer scores the only goal of a 1-0 win against his hometown club Newcastle United.
9 May 1995 - Everton confirm their survival with a 1-0 away win over doomed Ipswich Town at Portman Road . Coventry City are virtually safe thanks to a 3-1 away win over Tottenham, as are West Ham United after a 3-0 home win over Liverpool. [9]
14 May 1995 - Blackburn Rovers are crowned league champions for the first time in 81 years, despite losing 2-1 at Liverpool on the final day of the season. Blackburn's title status was confirmed after their nearest contenders Manchester United could only manage a 1-1 draw with West Ham United . The final Premier League relegation place goes to Crystal Palace, despite their dynamic fightback from being 3-0 down at Newcastle United they still lose 3-2. Aston Villa's safety is confirmed by a 1-1 draw with already-relegated Norwich at Carrow Road .
19 May 1995 - Trevor Francis is sacked after four years as manager of Sheffield Wednesday.
20 May 1995 - Everton win the FA Cup thanks to a Paul Rideout goal in the final, which leaves Manchester United (who narrowly missed out on repeating the double) without a major trophy for the first time since 1989. Rideout's goal came in the 30th minute, and United made a few late attempts to equalise (including two extremely close attempts by Paul Scholes in the dying minutes of the game) but all shots were foiled by a courageous Neville Southall .
24 May 1995 - Paul Ince is cleared of assaulting a Crystal Palace supporter in the skirmish that followed Eric Cantona 's attack on Matthew Simmons four months ago. It was already known that the spectator who accused Ince of assault had a history of football-related violence dating back to the early 1970s.
30 May 1995 - Manchester City , still looking for a new manager following the dismissal of Brian Horton , agree to sell striker Niall Quinn to Sporting Lisbon of Portugal in a £2million deal.
31 May 1995 - Dutch superstar Ruud Gullit accepts an offer to join Chelsea on a free transfer from Sampdoria .
5 June 1995 - Niall Quinn's transfer to Sporting Lisbon falls through after he fails to agree a contract.
5 June 1995 - Newcastle United sign Warren Barton from Wimbledon for £4million - a national record for a defender.
23 June 1995 - Manchester United announce the sale of striker Mark Hughes to Chelsea for £1.5million and midfielder Paul Ince to Inter Milan for £7.5million.
26 June 1995 - Aston Villa play a club record £3.5million for Partisan Belgrade's 22-year-old Serbian striker Savo Milošević , taking the place of Dean Saunders , who had linked up with his former Liverpool manager Graeme Souness at Turkish side Galatasaray along with Newcastle United's Barry Venison and Coventry City's Mike Marsh .
Notable debutants
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20 August 1994: Kevin Gallen , 18-year-old striker, makes his debut for Queen's Park Rangers on the opening day of the Premier League season as they lose 2-0 to Manchester United at Old Trafford . [22]
21 September 1994: Paul Scholes , 19-year-old midfielder, scores twice on his debut for Manchester United in their 2-1 win over Port Vale in the Football League Cup second round first leg at Vale Park . [23]
28 January 1995: Phil Neville , 18-year-old defender, makes his debut for Manchester United in their 5-2 home win over Wrexham in the FA Cup fourth round. [24]
8 March 1995: Emile Heskey , 17-year-old striker, makes his debut for Leicester City in their 2-0 defeat by Queen's Park Rangers at Loftus Road in the Premier League. [25]
Retirements
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21 September 1994: Gary Lineker , 33-year-old former England striker, announces his retirement from playing after two years in Japan with Grampus Eight , having previously played for Tottenham Hotspur , FC Barcelona , Everton and Leicester City . He is also England's second highest scorer of all time, having scored 48 times before his international retirement in 1992. [26]
29 March 1995: Peter Reid , 38-year-old Bury midfielder and former England international, retires from playing after accepting an offer to manage Sunderland . [27]
14 May 1995: Glenn Hoddle , 37-year-old Chelsea player-manager and former England midfielder, retires from playing. [28]
Top goalscorers
Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers) - 34 goals
Division One
John Aldridge (Tranmere Rovers) - 27 goals
Division Two
Gary Bennett (Wrexham) - 29 goals
Division Three
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Deaths
3 September 1994 – Billy Wright, 70, captain of Wolverhampton Wanderers and England during the 1950s. At club level won three league championships and two F.A Cups. Was Arsenal manager from 1962 to 1966 but had little success. Made history as England's (and the world's) first 100-cap player.
23 September 1994 – Johnny Berry , 68, Manchester United winger from the 1950s who was forced to retire after being severely injured in the Munich Air Disaster . After retiring as a player, he ran a sports shop in Aldershot with his brother Peter.
9 October 1994 – Raich Carter , 80, was capped 13 times for England and score seven times before and after the Second World War as an inside-forward. He was also an FA Cup winner with Sunderland in 1937 and Derby County in 1946 . He later managed Hull City , Cork Athletic , Leeds United , Mansfield Town and finally Middlesbrough before he retired from football in 1966. [10]
2 November 1994 – Harold Pearson , 86, kept goal for West Bromwich Albion when they won the F.A Cup in 1931 and played once for England.
2 January 1995 – Ian Frodsham , 19, who died of cancer, was a Liverpool midfielder who had turned professional some 18 months before his death after playing in the Anfield club's youth side, although he never played a first-team game for them. [11]
6 May 1995 – Noel Brotherston , 38, who died of a heart attack, was a striker for Northern Ireland who played for clubs including Blackburn Rovers and Bury . He retired from playing in 1988.
23 May 1995 – Joe Walter , 99, inside-forward who played for Bristol Rovers , Huddersfield Town and Blackburn Rovers. Won a league championship with Huddersfield in 1924. At the time of his death, he was believed to be the oldest former professional footballer in England.
30 May 1995 – Ted Drake , 82, played as a centre forward for Arsenal before the Second World War and managed Chelsea to league championship glory in 1955.
30 May 1995 – Bobby Stokes , 44, former Southampton striker who famously scored the winning goal in the 1976 FA Cup Final when Southampton surprisingly defeated Manchester United 1-0.
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For all the hype and anticipation of the transfer deadline windows, so few transfers—even the big-money ones—end up making some serious consequential impacts.
Here are 50 key transfers in the history of world football and an explanation of the impacts they had. And with the long history and high volume of the transfer rate these days, there's a chance we may have forgotten a few, so please tell us in the comments if we did.
48. Samuel Eto'o to Anzhi Makhachkala
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The Deal: Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto'o signs a three-year deal with cash-flush Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala for roughly $29 million per season atop his $38.9 million transfer fee at the beginning of the 2011-12 season.
The Impact: First of all, it made Eto'o the highest-salaried athlete in the world, eclipsing the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Alex Rodriguez. But although the long-term impact of the deal is still too early see, the instant impact it had on Anzhi's profile is remarkable. By signing on Eto'o and a few other high-profile players, including Brazilian great Roberto Carlos, now the team's captain and Anzhi, a team which finished near the bottom of the Russian Premier League, raised its profile exponentially.
With billionaire owner Suleyman Kerimov constantly expressing his desire to make more big-money transfers—Nemanja Vidic's name has been thrown around, as have Frank Lampard's and Steven Gerrard's—a club which most of the sporting world outside Russia would not likely normally discuss has constantly appeared in the headlines.
The Deal: In 2007, David Beckham moved from Real Madrid to the Los Angeles Galaxy for a reported $250 million in total potential earnings over a five-year deal .
The Impact: It was the move that branded David Beckham as the next Pelé, the move that would breathe new life into the MLS and bring in legions of fans.
Except that it didn't. While the move meant megabucks for the Galaxy and for Beckham in terms of advertising deals, the player himself did more to sell the club than to actually deliver on the pitch. Since joining the Galaxy, Beckham has actually done more to alienate—and in some cases infuriate—Galaxy fans than excite them, thanks to a pair of loan spells to AC Milan.
What Beckham's transfer did was highlight the changes in the world of American soccer since the '70s and the ramifications for bringing in a foreign marquee player.
The MLS is far more organized, logistically sound and has a much stronger following than the American soccer of Pelé's day, and they've been bringing in foreign players ( Thierry Henry ! Freddie Ljungberg! Robbie Keane!) for a while now.
Although Beckham's arrival likely sparked the arrival of more international additions, it wasn't the mega-hit with the fans the MLS were probably hoping for.
46. Damien Duff to Chelsea
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The Deal: After a series of bids, Chelsea brought Damien Duff over from Blackburn Rovers in 2003 for a fee of £17 million.
The Impact: Earlier that year, billionaire Russian businessman Roman Abramovich took over the companies which own Chelsea F.C. Duff was one of his first multimillion-pound signings, and for a player who had yet to spend time with a top-tier side, the transfer fee was seen as astronomical.
Duff fared fairly well at Stamford Bridge, helping them get to back-to-back Premier League title wins and a winning goal in the Football League Cup. He was also praised for his versatility, but the implications were perhaps greater for Chelsea's ownership, as the decision helped assert Abramovich's position in the world of football.
45. Jürgen Klinsmann to Tottenham Hotspur
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The Deal: In a rather surprising move in the summer of 1994, the German international moved from AS Monaco to Tottenham Hotspur for a fee of £2 million.
The Impact: Klinsmann's time at Spurs was rather short-lived and there have certainly been players who have outranked him in terms of achievement, significance and investment return on transfers. But few players have become such an instant hit with the fans after they were so critical of him.
Klinsmann was initially a controversial choice for Spurs and not a particularly well-liked figure due to his reputation as a diver and his being part of the German squad that knocked England out of the 1990 World Cup. But Klinsmann's self-deprecating humor (he celebrated his first goal for Spurs by mocking himself and diving across the pitch), wacky goal celebrations and his assertive, strong presence on the pitch, endeared him to an English crowd surprisingly quickly, and he retains cult status at White Hart Lane.
44. Kevin Keegan to Southampton
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The Deal: In 1980, toward the end of his career, Kevin Keegan orchestrated a £500,000 transfer from Hamburger SV to Southampton.
The Impact: Lawrie McMenemy called the arrival of Keegan, previously a star at Liverpool and a captain of the England national team, the steal of the century. And Keegan proved him right: Alongside the likes of Alan Ball and Mick Channon, Keegan excited fans at the Dell for two seasons and played some of the best football of his career.
In the 1980-1981 season, he helped lead the Saints to a sixth-place finish, at the time their highest in First Division history. The following season, he scored roughly a third of the team's goals and at the top of his game, drove Southampton to the top of the table and helped them finish seventh at the end of the season.
With an impressive goal tally and a rising fan base to match, Keegan proved that even after one has moved to a middling club after a decade of top-tier football in the Premiership and the Bundesliga, you can still make some serious strides in your career.
43. Deco to FC Porto
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The Deal: Portuguese attacker Deco moved from Salgueiros to F.C. Porto in 1999.
The Impact: Although he had a tendency to cause controversy on the pitch, with 17 yellow cards and a red card in a single season, Deco, under the direction of José Mourinho, led FC Porto to a highly successful streak the early '00s. He was also instrumental in their consecutive Europa League and Champions League victories in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He scored in the Champions League final and netted the most assists in the competition.
Deco went on to win the Champions League one more time with F.C. Barcelona in 2006.
42. Giuseppe Savoldi and Trevor Francis (tie)
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The Deal(s): In 1975, Giuseppe Savoldi transferred from Bologna to SSC Napoli for a fee of £1.2 million, while in 1979, Trevor Francis became the £1 million English player when he moved from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest.
The Impact: Both were million-pound men: Savoldi's transfer was the first, but Francis' had more mythology around it, like the story that manager Brian Clough actually made the transfer at £999,999, so the distinction of being the 'million-pound man' wouldn't go to his head. It didn't have to.
Both players had decent careers at their big-transfer clubs: Savoldi scored more than 50 goals for Napoli, although he could not match the impressive achievements he had gained while at Bologna.
Trevor Francis never quite lived up to expectations at Forest, but he did score an iconic, match-winning goal in the 1979 European Cup final, a stunner of a header which earned him a photograph on display at Forest's ground.
Although Savoldi is the actual historical marker with the title, Francis earns a place on this list because of how much emphasis was placed on his transfer fee in the British press and still in footballing history. Even now, more than 30 years later, he's still referred to in the media as the "million-pound man," and remains one of the clearest instances of the cash on a player's head defining his career.
41. Justin Fashanu to Nottingham Forest
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The Deal: Justin Fashanu, then only 20 years of age, came from Norwich City to Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest at the beginning of the 1981-82 season for the fee of £1 million .
The Impact: Fashanu, who had impressed during his breakout season with the Canaries and won the BBC's Goal of the Season Award in 1980 for a stunner against Liverpool, was the first black footballer to ever command a million-pound transfer fee. But his transfer to Forest proved to have far greater implications for the world of football than that.
Fashanu's career began to rapidly deteriorate at Forest, a pattern often attributed to his relationship to the club's manager, Brian Clough, who made Fashanu a target of scrutiny and abuse for his homosexuality.
His career never fully recovered, and after a string of failed international transfers, a very public and drawn out coming-out and a sex scandal in which he was implicated, Fashanu committed suicide in 1998. His arrival at Forest set the wheels in motion for his downfall and after his death, Fashanu's career opened an international dialogue, still going to this day, about openly gay players and how to combat homophobia in international football.
40. Pavel Nedvěd to Juventus
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The Deal: Czech winger Pavel Nedvěd transferred from Lazio to Juventus in 2001 for a fee of €41 million as Juventus searched for a replacement for Zinedine Zidane .
The Impact: Nedvěd is widely considered to be the best Czech player of all time, and his eight seasons at Juventus galvanized his status as a footballing hero for his adopted club and home country alike. He inherited Zidane's playmaker role well, leading the Bianconeri to back-to-back Scudettos in 2002 and 2003.
When Juventus was relegated as punishment for the Calciopoli scandal, there was speculation that Nedvěd would leave for a higher-ranked team. But he accepted the challenge, stayed with the Bianconeri and alongside Alessandro Del Piero and David Trézéguet, he led the goal-scoring charge that returned the team to Serie A.
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39. The Gre-No-Li Trio to AC Milan
The Deal: IFK Norrköping forward Gunnar Nordahl joined AC Milan in 1948 following the Swedish national team's success at the 1948 World Cup; Gunnar Gren and Niels Liedholm joined the following season from IFK Göteborg and Norrköping, respectively.
The Impact: The Gre-No-Li trio, as they were called, brought their national-team cohesion and well-executed attack to AC Milan, and in turn, brought them great success throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the trio had their most successful season all together at the club when they won the Scudetto in 1951.
The various Gre-No-Li members would go on to other achievements and cement their legacies at the club with more goals, clubs and records—Gunnar Nordahl still remains the second-highest scorer in Serie A history.
38. George Eastham to Arsenal
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The Deal: In 1960, Newcastle United midfielder George Eastham expressed a desire to transfer from Newcastle to Arsenal. His contract was set to expire, but Newcastle refused to let him go.
At the time, according to the 'retain-and-transfer' system, clubs could not only refuse a player's transfer request but refuse to pay them while they had a transfer request in place. Eastham went on strike and took a job as a salesman, and, after the Magpies finally gave in and sold him to Arsenal later that year, he decided to take it to court to prevent further situations such as his. The case, Eastham v. Newcastle United, was decided in 1964 and established reforms that would be in effect for more than three decades.
The Impact: Before Bosman, there was Eastham. Before the 1995 decision which would establish free agency in football and put transfer power in the hands of the players, the Eastham case ruling set the precedent for the handling of transfer and contract disputes. The judge in the case, Justice Wilberforce, ruled that the 'retain' aspect of 'retain-and-transfer' was unethical, making it easier for players to be cleared for free transfers at the end of their contracts and established a fair tribunal system to settle further contract disputes.
37. Hernán Crespo to Lazio
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The Deal: After successful spells at River Plate and Parma, Argentine striker, Hernán Crespo, joined Lazio for a stunning £35 million (cash and two players) in 2000.
The Impact: Crespo's arrival at Lazio was one of the first mega-money transfers in Serie A, and he returned on their investment by being the top goal-scorer in Serie A in his first season with the club.
He was more of an impact player in his time at Parma, but his arrival served as a symbol of the club's peak of prosperity before a 2002 financial scandal involving the owners sent it into a several-year crisis—things have since gotten better though, and Lazio finished out the last decade with Coppa Italia and Italian Super Cup wins.
36. Roberto Baggio to Juventus
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The Deal: In 1990, Italian star Roberto Baggio was sold from Fiorentina to Juventus for €10 million.
The Impact: Baggio, a gifted striker considered one of the greatest players of the '90s, was a beloved fan favorite at his previous club, Fiorentina. Baggio was reportedly reluctant to make the move and contended that it was at the behest of the club, and citizens of Florence rioted in response .
It was a world-record transfer fee for a world-class player and as such, it incited massive outrage.
When his old club and new faced one another at a 1990 match, a fan threw a Fiorentina scarf on the pitch. In a moment that has gone down into club history, Baggio picked up the scarf, kissed it and addressed the fans of his former club, declaring, "Deep in my heart, I am always purple."
He later went on to help Juventus win a Scudetto, a Coppa Italia and a UEFA Cup title and helped set a pattern of success for Juventus in the '90s in motion. But the famous scarf incident and performances on the pitch both endeared him to and led to revulsion from fans on both sides, depending on who you ask. The love-hate relationship with Baggio helped galvanize a rivalry between Juve and Fiorentina.
35. Zico to Kashima Antlers
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The Deal: Toward the end of his career, Brazilian playmaker Zico moved to Japan in 1991 to join fledgling side Kashima Antlers.
The Impact: Already sitting atop a successful career with more than 120 goals for Flamengo, Zico came out of retirement to join a metalworks firm's soccer club in the then-fledgling Japanese J. League first division.
Zico helped the team, renamed Kashima Antlers with the launch of the league in 1993, to not only break into the league, but with his help, the small-town team was able to measure up to the likes of Tokyo Verdy and Yokohoma Marinos and actually win the inaugural league title.
Since then, Kashima Antlers have been the most successful team in the Japanese league, with seven league championships to their name.
34. Mo Johnston to Rangers
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The Deal: In 1989, already a local hero thanks to his time at bitter crosstown rivals Celtic, Scottish striker Mo Johnston signed with Graeme Souness's Rangers for a £1.5 million fee, becoming only the second player to appear on both sides of the Old Firm following the Second World War.
The Impact: It was an incredibly risky—if not, in some eyes, suicidal—move for Johnston, Rangers and Graeme Souness at the time.
Rangers had signed plenty of Catholic players before, but the signing of Johnston was the most high-profile and controversial. Johnston's move to Ibrox provoked outrage on both sides. Celtic fans sent him death threats and called Johnston a Judas. Some Rangers fans burned their season tickets and vowed to sever their ties with the club and he was met with hazing from club staff .
Fans on both sides asked the Belfast Telegraph to retract the story about Johnston's transfer, calling it a ' fairy story .'
In his debut season at Ibrox,Johnston scored a stoppage time match-winner in the Old Firm derby and began winning over Rangers supporters.
Since then, plenty of Catholic players have passed through the doors at Ibrox and Protestant players have gone to play for Celtic, but Souness's ballsy move did not eradicate the bitterness and sectarianism that still permeates the Old Firm to this day.
33. Ian Rush to Liverpool
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The Deal: In 1980, Liverpool manager Bob Paisley paid £300,000 for 18-year-old Chester City phenom Ian Rush—a staggering amount for such a young player.
The Impact: Rush took a while to develop at Anfield, but once he did, he became an instrumental figure in Liverpool's success throughout the 1980s.
One of the top strikers in English football in his heyday, Rush's determination and goal-scoring contributed to five domestic league titles for Liverpool, three FA Cups, five Football League Cups and one European Cup, along with the 1984 European Golden Boot and the title of the club's top goalscorer for nine seasons. He remains the Reds' top goal-scorer of all time with 346 career goals.
32. Carlos Tévez and Javier Mascherano to West Ham United
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The Deal: The two Corinthians stars signed to West Ham United in 2006 for an undisclosed fee, but their time at the club was to be short-lived.
The Impact: Tévez helped keep the Hammers in the Premiership in 2007, but it was the circumstances surrounding the two players' arrival at West Ham that proved quite significant.
The transfer was engineered by Media Sports Investments, a London-based investment fund, who bought Corinthians in 2004. They severed ties to the club in 2007 after allegations of money laundering.
MSI were attempting to take over West Ham, and engineered the signings of Mascherano and Tévez, and the situation sparked an international dialogue about the role of third parties in the transfer business.
Carlos Tévez went on to play for Manchester United and crosstown rivals Manchester City, while Javier Mascherano had a successful stint at Liverpool and currently holds the line for Barcelona.
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The Deal: In 1999, West Ham bought live-wire Italian striker Paolo Di Canio for the low, low price of £1.75 million.
The Impact: Although Di Canio ran into a fair amount of controversy while at West Ham, pushing referees and making things difficult for manager Harry Redknapp, he turned his bargain-bin transfer fee into gold—and goals. His magnificent 2000 volley goal against Wimbledon is still considered to be one of the best goals in Premiership history.
Di Canio was and is still a fan favorite with the Hammers, who loved him for his ability to make an impact on the pitch and be thoroughly entertaining while doing so and his maverick swagger.
For his services to the club, West Ham recently honored Di Canio with a plush executive lounge at the Boleyn Ground in 2010, appropriately named 'The Di Canio Lounge.'
30. Kevin Keegan to Liverpool
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The Deal: As a 20-year-old up-and-comer, striker Kevin Keegan moved from Liverpool to Scunthorpe United in 1971 for a fee of £35,000.
The Impact: Another move for Kevin Keegan takes a higher spot on the list. A prolific goal-scorer and a fan favorite, Keegan was arguably the first modern English superstar of the game, and his stint at Liverpool is what elevated him to that level.
While at Anfield, the striker saw three Premiership titles, a European Cup and an FA Cup, including a treble in 1977. He went on to win the Ballon d'Or twice at Hamburger SV and win a Bundesliga title with the German side.
29. Ian Wright to Crystal Palace
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The Deal: In one of the greatest bargain moves in world football history, Ian Wright was traded from Kent League club Greenwich Borough to Crystal Palace for a set of weights and a few kits in a 1985 deal.
The Impact: Wright became a fixture at Crystal Palace, leading the club to a Second Division title and netting more than 100 goals for the club and gave CP a fighting chance by scoring the equalizing goal against Manchester United in the 1990 FA Cup final. He was later named the club's Player of the Century.
His stint at Crystal Palace led to a bid from Arsenal in 1991, where he formed a fearsome striking partnership with Dennis Bergkamp and became one of the best-loved Gunners in recent history. But that may never have happened without one amazing bargain-bin transfer.
28. Wayne Rooney to Manchester United
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The Deal: Manchester United's star striker signed from his hometown club Everton in 2004 for a sizable £25.6 million.
The Impact: Rooney began his career as a wünderkind teen with Everton, showing great promise and earning legions of fans at Goodison.
He caught the eye of Sir Alex Ferguson, who signed the striker when he was only 18, making the £25.6 million fee the largest ever for a player under the age of 20. And Rooney hasn't disappointed, scoring more than 100 goals with the club and contributing to four Premiership titles and a Champions League victory in 2007.
With Rooney's arrival to and success with Manchester United comes an added bonus: the delightful irony of him delivering on the pitch while United fans chant rather passionately about how much they hate Scousers.
27. Gianluigi Buffon to Juventus
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The Deal: Italian goalkeeping ace Gianluigi Buffon made the transfer from Parma to Juventus in 2001 for £32.6 million, making him the most expensive goalkeeper of all time.
The Impact: 'Gigi,' now in his 10th year at Juventus, holds the most records for Serie A goalkeeper of the year and has become one of the most successful goalkeepers in the history of the game.
During his time in the net, Juve have won two Serie A titles, and two Italian Supercoppas, along with one Serie B title—due to relegation as a result of the Calciopoli scandal—during which Buffon was rumored to leave the club for first-division status, but he stayed with Juve and has remained an icon at the club.
26. Robinho to Manchester City
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The Deal: In 2008, Manchester City brought ace Brazilian striker Robinho to their ground from Real Madrid for €42.5 million.
The Impact: Although Robinho's time at Eastlands will likely always be remembered as a full-on transfer flop and he would be ushered off to AC Milan (where he has fared somewhat better) in 2010, his arrival did mark a massive change of direction for the club and its business practices.
As City's first high-profile signing under new owner Sheikh Mansour, Robinho opened the door for a 'Galácticos'-style revolution in Manchester and a string of other marquee, big-money signings which have raised the club's profile domestically and internationally and led them to their first domestic title of any kind since the 1970s, the 2011 FA Cup.
25. David Beckham to Real Madrid
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The Deal: After beginning to fall out with Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United megastar David Beckham moved to Real Madrid for €35 million in 2003.
The Impact: The move to Real Madrid helped exponentially raise the profile of player and club. Beckham's presence at the Bernabéu contributed to the building of the first 'Galácticos' squad and helped bring the club massive crowds while touring abroad. His move from one massive club to this all-star team and raising of his global profile turned Beckham from an athlete to a full-on brand. He also won a La Liga title and a Supercopa while with the club.
24. The Eto'o-Ibrahimović Swap (Inter Milan-Barcelona)
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The Deal: Barcelona and Inter Milan decided to swap star strikers, with Samuel Eto'o and €46 million going to San Siro in exchange for Zlatan Ibrahimović and his supposed prestige.
The Impact: This one shows that player swaps aren't always equal: it's clear who got the better end of the deal in the long run. Ibrahimović may have outscored Eto'o in the season following the swap and helped Barcelona win their second consecutive La Liga, but Eto'o not only sported two consistently strong seasons with the Nerazzurri whereas Ibrahimović fell out with Pep Guardiola and was loaned out to AC Milan, but he won his second consecutive treble, bringing Inter Milan a Serie A title, Champions League title and Coppa Italia.
23. Steve McManaman to Real Madrid
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The Deal: The Liverpool attacker joined Real Madrid in 1999 and became the first high-profile transfer to test the Bosman ruling.
The Impact: A 'Galácticos' signing on the eve of the 'Galácticos' era, Macca struggled to join Guus Hiddink's Real Madrid thanks to a long, drawn-out series of contract negotiations with his old club, Liverpool.
In the end, McManaman was able to leave Anfield by exercising his rights as a player under the Bosman ruling and becoming a free agent and became the highest-profile Englishman to join La Liga since Gary Lineker.
And McManaman fared well at the Bernabéu until the other Galácticos signings began keeping him out of the first team: He scored in injury time on his club debut and helped Los Merengues reach two Champions League titles and two La Liga titles.
22. Nicolas Anelka to Arsenal
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The Deal: Nicolas Anelka, a promising young striker with Paris Saint-Germain, joined Arsene Wenger's Arsenal in 1997 for £500,000.
The Impact: The striker, just 17 years old when he started at Arsenal, made an impact with the Gunners in his short but bombastic run at Highbury, helping bring them a Premiership title and FA Cup win and earning himself the PFA Young Player of the Year Award in 1998.
Although his run at Arsenal was short-lived, Anelka was one of the first glimpses fans got of then-new manager Arsene Wenger's ability to scope out and sharpen young talent.
Anelka moved on to a string of other clubs before a successful run at Chelsea, but his time at Highbury helped put him, the club and to a certain extent, their manager on the map.
21. Ruud Van Nistelrooy to Manchester United
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The deal: Prolific Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy joined Manchester United from PSV Eindhoven for £19 million in 2001, another record-breaker at the time.
The Impact: Van Nistelrooy said of United's rather sizable sum, "The price is not heavy for me—it lifts me up because it means United have big confidence in me."
Clearly, their confidence was well-placed. Van Nistelrooy has been one of the most prolific strikers in recent Red Devils history, scoring 95 league goals in his five years—36 in his first season—with the club and leading them to one Premiership title, Football League Cup and FA Cup each.
He was also a force in Europe and despite United not winning the Champions League in the 2001-2002 season, van Nistelrooy was named the tournament's Most Valuable Striker and was the competition's top scorer for three seasons.
20. Luis Figo to Real Madrid
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The Deal: Portuguese attacker Luís Figo left Barcelona for rivals Real Madrid in 2000 for an unprecedented £37.2 million.
The Impact: The signing of Figo was significant for two very different reasons: His arrival at the club ushered in the first 'Galácticos' era, a string of megastars joining Real Madrid and a movement that has come to define Real Madrid's business sense in recent years.
But the transfer of Figo also fired up the already contentious rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona, as Figo left the Catalan side for the Bernabéu, and although plenty of players had played for both sides, few had made the switch from one to the other in that succession and in such a big way.
Barça fans labeled him a Judas, and Figo endured some serious abuse at the Camp Nou, including getting a pig's head thrown at him.
In the end, Figo had a successful run at the Bernabéu and was part of the club that won the Champions League in 2002, along with two La Liga titles and two Supercopas de España.
19. Pelé to the New York Cosmos
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The Deal: The Brazilian legend, one of the greatest to ever play the game according to widely-accepted footballing tenets, left his semi-retired state in 1975 to join the New York Cosmos.
The Impact: It was regarded as the decision that would revolutionize soccer in America. And for a while at least, it did.
Pelé was the first footballer to become a household name in America, and although he was past his prime, he still packed stadiums. More than 75,000 fans came to see his last professional match at Giants Stadium, and his presence opened the way for other stars of world football to test the waters in America, including Franz Beckenbauer, George Best, Johan Cruyff and now, David Beckham and Thierry Henry.
18. Dennis Bergkamp to Arsenal
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The Deal: After a rough two seasons at Inter Milan, Dutch attacker Dennis Bergkamp joined Arsenal in 1995 for £7.5 million.
The Impact: While at Highbury, Bergkamp was one of the best players in Europe and Gunners fans include him on the short list of the club's greatest players of all time of for his achievements. Ian Wright called him 'The Messiah.'
His striking partnership with Ian Wright—who you saw earlier on this list—was one of the most feared in the Premiership throughout the mid-'90s and with the dynamic duo leading the attack, Arsenal rose from a disappointing start to the decade to the top of the Premier League, and he won three league titles with the Gunners, including the legendary 'Invincibles' year, along with four FA Cups.
17. Ronaldo to Real Madrid
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The Deal: Brazilian superstar Ronaldo joined Real Madrid from Inter Milan in 2002 for an astonishing €46 million.
The Impact: In addition to breaking the record for jersey sales upon his arrival, Ronaldo, alongside the likes of Luís Figo and Zinedine Zidane, helped usher in the first 'Galácticos' era at Real Madrid, a series of transfers and subsequent team of superstars which would change the club and potentially La Liga for good.
A source of obsession for the Merengues supporters, fans would chant for him even when he was on the sidelines. Ronaldo's thrilling style of play earned him admiration at the Bernabéu and turned matches into spectacles. He helped Real Madrid win a pair of La Liga titles and a UEFA Super Cup.
16. Peter Schmeichel to Manchester United
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The Deal: In what Sir Alex Ferguson has called " the bargain of the century ," Manchester United bought Danish keeper Peter Schmeichel in 1991 for £530,000.
The Impact: Schmeichel is often described by fans as the greatest goalkeeper United ever had, if not one of the greatest keepers in football history.
While at United, he held a record-setting 42 percent clean sheet record and in his inaugural season at Old Trafford, he gave 22 performances where his opponents ended scoreless. Then there are the titles; with Schmeichel in goal, the Red Devils won five Premiership titles, three FA Cups and their first Champions League title in more than three decades.
Schmeichel proved to be such an essential piece of the Manchester United defense that the first few subsequent attempts at replacing him—most notably epic flop Massimo Taibi, who only appeared in four matches for the Red Devils—failed, and it wasn't until Edwin Van der Sar arrived six years later that anyone could measure up to him in the back of the net.
15. Roy Keane to Manchester United
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The Deal: Sir Alex Ferguson signed Roy Keane from Nottingham Forest for a then-record-setting £3.75 million.
The Impact: Fiery and competitive, Roy Keane quickly established himself as a leader and a contributor to the spirit of success that permeated Manchester United throughout the mid-to-late '90s and into the new millennium, even taking over as captain when Eric Cantona retired.
He helped deliver United their first European title in more than 30 years, not to mention seven domestic league championships and four FA Cups, and the additions to the trophy cabinet made him the most successful captain in United's history.
14. Lionel Messi to Barcelona
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The Deal: Lionel Messi wanted to play for his hometown club, Newell's Old Boys, but he moved to Barcelona to finish his youth academy run in 2000 because the club offered to help pay for treatment for his growth-hormone deficiency.
The Impact: As they say, the rest is history. At 24 years old and still in the midst of his career, Messi is now already a legend at the Camp Nou, has won the Ballon d'Or twice and led the Blaugrana to five La Liga titles (three consecutive), three Champions League titles, five Supercopas de España and a Copa del Rey, not to mention his countless spectacular goals.
Messi has expressed interest in going back to play for the club he's always loved, and perhaps he will. But he's still got a whole lot to offer Barcelona.
13. Alan Shearer to Newcastle United
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The Deal: Geordie legend Alan Shearer broke the world transfer record when he joined Newcastle United in 1996 for a hefty £15 million after a successful run at Blackburn Rovers.
The Impact: Shearer had already established himself as a force at Blackburn, helping the club reach their most recent Premiership title in the 1994-95 season and tying the club's single-season goal-scoring record.
But it was his return home that gave him the jump from great to English football icon, and his time with the Magpies helped earn him a place among the Premiership's all-time top strikers. Although he did not win any titles while at Newcastle, he still captured the hearts of its fans and set the record for the most career goals ever scored in the Premiership with 260 , a record which still stands today and no one has come close to beating (Andrew Cole takes second with 187).
12. Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles to Tottenham Hotspur
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The Deal: Following the success of Argentina in the 1978 World Cup, Tottenham Hotspur manager Keith Burkinshaw brought star duo Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa to White Hart Lane.
The Impact: Although perhaps not as recognizable or high-achieving as some names this high on the list, the transfers of Ardiles and Villa are significant because they helped open the door for more South American players to make an impact on English football.
At White Hart Lane, Villa and Ardiles became cult heroes: Ardiles and his teammates were the subject of a 1981 novelty song, "Ossie's Dream (Spurs Are On Their Way To Wembley)," while Villa is still saluted on t-shirts with his image parodying the iconic print of Che Guevara.
Their skills on the pitch matched their status. Ardiles helped Spurs on to victory in two FA Cups, with Villa scoring a spectacular match-winning goal against Manchester City in the 1981 final.
11. Gianfranco Zola to Chelsea
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The Deal: Ruud Gullit acquired Italian attacker Gianfranco Zola from Parma for £4.5 million in 1996, he stayed at Chelsea until 2003.
The Impact: Gullit made a few international acquisitions while in charge at Stamford Bridge, but not only would none of them rival Gianfranco Zola, but he would go on to be arguably the club's greatest player of all time.
Zola's wit and innovation on the pitch won him admirers like Sir Alex Ferguson (who called him a 'clever little so-and-so') and Claudio Ranieri (who called him 'a wizard') and the hearts of Chelsea supporters the world over.
Even after he arrived only part of the way through the season in 1996, he still won the PFA Fans' Player of the Year Award in his inaugural season with Chelsea the first player to do so without having played a full season with their team and the first Chelsea player ever to do so. He helped the Blues earn two FA Cup wins and advance to the quarterfinals in their first-ever run in the Champions League.
Chelsea may get flack for not having history, but the arrival of Gianfranco Zola certainly helped them rewrite it.
10. Zinedine Zidane to Real Madrid
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The Deal: Already a legend thanks to successful runs with Juventus and the World Cup-winning French national team, Zizou signed with Real Madrid in 2001 for a then-record-setting €75 million.
The Impact: Zidane commanded the highest transfer fee of the original Galácticos, and he was also its biggest headliner—his transfer and successful presence would help set the precedent for Real Madrid's transfer patterns throughout the decade and potentially beyond (a second Galácticos era is said to have begun with Kaká in 2009).
While at the Bernabéu, Zidane scored the match-winning goal in the 2002 Champions League final, completing his "personal quadruple" and managed to win the three other major trophies—La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa de España—all at least once with Los Merengues.
9. Diego Maradona to Napoli
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The Deal: Already a star in Argentina and following a lukewarm stint at Barcelona, the legendary Diego Maradona made his European breakthrough when he arrived at SSC Napoli in 1994 for a then-record-setting £6.9 million.
The Impact: It was his time at Napoli that turned Maradona from a great to a legend: He had his most successful run with any club, netting the Azzurri two Scudettos (their only two so far), a Coppa Italia and a UEFA Cup title. The powerful striker had a massive impact for the Italian side and became a fan favorite in Naples.
And thanks to his European breakthrough, Maradona's arrival at Napoli began the trend of Argentine travelers abroad, upon telling locals where they were from, to be met with a knowing response of "Maradona."
8. Thierry Henry to Arsenal
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The Deal: After an unsuccessful stint at Juventus, winger-turned-striker Thierry Henry transferred to Arsenal for £11 million, under the direction of Arsene Wenger, who managed him earlier at AS Monaco.
The Impact: Wenger took the winger and made him into a top-flight striker, and although he struggled to score initially, he adjusted to the club and became one of its greatest players of all time.
He gradually improved in his first few seasons and, equipped with creativity and bashing some thoroughly impressive goals, he eventually helped the Gunners to great success in the early 2000s, culminating in the now-legendary 'Invincibles' squad that went unbeaten in league play in the 2003-2004 season.
7. Cristiano Ronaldo to Manchester United and Real Madrid
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The Deals: Sir Alex Ferguson signed the promising 18-year-old striker to Manchester United in 2003 for just over £12 million, which seems like chump change now considering what his value would be nearly a decade later. But he shattered records when he was signed to Real Madrid in 2009 for a jaw-dropping £80 million.
The Impact: The "handsome, rich and talented" superstar changed the game forever, and did so with successful runs at two of the world's top-flight clubs.
While at Manchester United, he contributed to three Premiership titles and a Champions League victory in 2008, and for his performances, he won the Ballon d'Or, the FIFA world player of the year award, the European golden shoe and he became the first player ever to win the Ferenc Puskás Award, given to the player who scores the most "aesthetically beautiful" goal of the season.
But his impact on the game came with his move to Real Madrid.
Ronaldo was signed for a record-setting £80 million and cemented his place along side the likes of Kaká and Karim Benzema to usher in Real's second 'Galacticos' era.
It took the squad several seasons to get their first trophy with a Copa del Rey this past season, but Ronaldo has been a regular contributor in domestic and European competition and scored his second European Golden Boot with the club, making him the first to do so in two leagues.
6. Ruud Gullit, Marco Van Basten and Frank Rijkaard to AC Milan
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The Deal: Silvio Berlusconi acquired three Dutch stars for a struggling A.C. Milan side in 1987 and 1988; striker Marco van Basten from Ajax, Frank Rijkaard from Sporting CP and Ruud Gullit from PSV Eindhoven; the latter for whom he paid a record-setting £6 million.
The Impact: Something of a spiritual successor to the Gre-No-Li trio of the 1950s, the dynamic Dutchmen were the backbone of a rejuvenated Rossoneri.
In the years they were with the club, AC Milan won three Scudettos and back-to-back European Cups in 1989 and 1990, and the team bore the very flattering nickname 'Gli Immortali,' or, 'The Immortals.' And although they will be best remembered as a collective force, the trio were each individually great. Van Basten won the Ballon d'Or in 1989 and was the hero of the European Cup final, scoring twice over Steaua Bucuresti. While coach Arrigo Saachi reinvented Frank Rijkaard as a holding midfielder and he excelled, scoring the game-winner in the 1990 European Cup final and Ruud Gullit won the European Footballer of the Year award in 1997. The Immortals, indeed.
5. Dixie Dean to Everton
The Deal: In 1925, Everton bought forward Dixie Dean from Tranmere Rovers for £3,000.
The Impact: Another late Merseyside football great, Bill Shankly, said it best : “Those of us privileged to see Dean play talk of him the way people talk about Beethoven, Shakespeare or Mozart."
The greatest player to ever don the Everton blue and perhaps the greatest pre-war player in English football history, Dixie Dean holds Premiership records which still stand today, including the most goals in a single season (60) and most career hat-tricks.
A passionate player and prolific scorer, Dean's prowess on the pitch is the stuff of legends: he even scored a header goal in the first match he played after fracturing his skull in a motorcycling accident. To this day, donning the No. 9 shirt at Everton is a massive honor and a statue of Dean honors his legacy at Goodison Park.
4. Kenny Dalglish to Liverpool
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The Deal: In 1977, Bob Paisley bought Scottish star Kenny Dalglish from Celtic for £440,000.
The Impact: When he arrived at Anfield, Kenny Dalglish had big shoes to fill in replacing star striker Kevin Keegan. But 'King Kenny' not only sufficed, he excelled, landing himself in the history books by scoring more than 30 regular-season goals and the match-winner at the 1978 European Cup final for one heck of a finish to his debut season.
The wins didn't stop there: Dalglish would go on to win six domestic league championships, three European Cups, an FA Cup and four Football League cups with the Reds as a player along with three league titles and two FA Cups as a manager.
But what made Dalglish an icon at Liverpool wasn't just his goals, it was his leadership.
He guided the club with dignity and humanity through two of its darkest moments, the Heysel and Hillsborough stadium disasters. Now back once again as a manager, more than 30 years later, Kenny Dalglish is still King of the Kop.
3. Eric Cantona to Manchester United
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The Deal: In 1992, Sir Alex Ferguson, needing a striker for Manchester United, bought Frenchman Eric Cantona from Leeds United for £1.2 million and as they say, the rest is history.
The Impact: Sir Alex certainly got a return on his investment.
In his first season with the club, Cantona helped an initially struggling United to rise through the ranks and win their first domestic league title in nearly 30 years, followed by two more Premiership titles and two more FA Cups.
But it wasn't just about title wins: Cantona was one of the best impact players United has ever had, creating chances left and right, scoring cracking goals and using the space of the pitch in innovative ways. His flair, flamboyance and dazzling skill, not to mention his fiery personality, made him a fan favorite at Old Trafford during his five-season run there.
In a poll shortly after his retirement in 1997, 'King Eric' was named 'Player of the Century' by Man United fans, and he still regularly ranks near the top on polls and lists such as these.
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2. Jean-Marc Bosman to Dunkerque
The Deal: Belgian footballer Jean-Marc Bosman wanted to transfer from his club, Royal Football Club de Liège, to Dunkerque, but RFC Liège blocked the deal, saying that Dunkerque did not offer them a high enough transfer fee.
Bosman took them to court, facing three different European Court of Justice Legal cases, one against RFC Liège, one against the Belgian Football Association and one against UEFA. In 1995, the 'Bosman ruling' was decided.
The Impact: Ironically enough, one of the most game-altering transfers in football history didn't even happen.
The Bosman ruling allowed players in the European Union to freely leave their clubs at the end of their contract, whereas before they could only leave with permission from their club. Clubs could no longer prevent their players from joining another club. Effectively, the power was given to the players.
The Bosman ruling also played a significant role in making European football more international.
The ruling abolished quotas and limits on the amount of foreign-born players a team in a European domestic league or UEFA could have, allowing more stars from all over the world to break into the game in Europe. In short, it changed football forever.
1. Alfedo Di Stéfano to Real Madrid / Johan Cruyff to Barcelona (tie)
Real Madrid vs. Barcelona. Los Merengues vs. the Blaugrana. The Blonde Arrow vs. the Total Footballer.
Two of the greatest players in the history of the game, these two share the top spot because they both had such dramatic, game-changing impacts on the teams they loved, on the rivalry that defined them, on Spanish football and world football at large.
Alfredo Di Stéfano was the more significant transfer because of all of the conflict surrounding his signing with Real Madrid, but it seemed fitting to place these two together at the top of the list as bookends to one of football's greatest rivalries and as the essential representatives of two of its greatest dynasties.
Di Stéfano:
The Deal: In 1953, Alfredo Di Stéfano was supposed to be heading to Barcelona from Colombian club Millonarios, but Millonarios never approved the transfer.
The deal was made with Barcelona and FIFA without the permission of the Colombian side, but the Spanish football governing body, needing their approval, blocked the transfer. Real Madrid capitalized on the tension in the situation and convinced Di Stéfano to sign with them.
After a contentious battle, FIFA declared that Di Stéfano would play four seasons in Spain, alternating between Real Madrid and Barcelona. The Blaugrana, dissatisfied with the decision, dropped their bid and Di Stéfano joined Los Merengues.
The deal also led to a temporary ban on foreign players transferring to La Liga.
The Impact: The battle over Di Stéfano galvanized Real and Barça supporters' ire towards one another and contributed to the passion that surrounds El Clásico to this very day.
But Di Stéfano's contributions to Real Madrid run much, much deeper.
He forged a partnership with striker Ferenc Puskás, and together the two became one of the most powerful offensive duos in football history, and his record for most goals scored in European competition stood until fellow Madridista Raúl broke it in 2005.
He scored more than 300 goals for the club, won eight La Liga titles and five consecutive European Cups. For his contributions, the Spanish sports newspaper Marca awards the best La Liga player of the year with the Alfredo Di Stéfano trophy.
Cruyff:
The Deal: In 1973, Ajax star Johan Cruyff, who had already won three consecutive European Cups and eight Eredivisie titles with the Amsterdammers, moved to Barcelona for a fee of 6 million Dutch guilders ($2 million or £922,200).
The Impact: The total footballer became the total Culé. He didn't just absorb himself in the club, but he absorbed himself in all it stood for. He even gave his son a Catalan name, Jordi. And on the pitch, he gave Barcelona a 5-0 victory in El Clásico and led them to their first La Liga title in more than a decade and a Copa del Rey title.
He brought his mastery of 'Total Football' to the Catalan side, where evidence of it can still be seen in how the squad plays today, with its mastery of Cruyff's 'tiki-taka' passing technique.
AAnd as the ties to the club were created in his time on the pitch, he returned to make an even greater mark as a manager, netting the Blaugrana their first European Cup, four La Liga titles and a Copa del Rey.
He would be Barcelona's most successful manager until Josep Guardiola, who he signed as a player.
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ERIC CANTONA was the first player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League, when Leeds Utd beat Tottenham 5-0 on August 15 1992.
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ERIC CANTONA was the first player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League, when Leeds Utd beat Tottenham 5-0 on August 15 1992.
EFAN EKOKU of Norwich City was the first player to score four goals in one Premier League match.
ANDYCOLE was the first player to score five goals in a Premiership match, for Manchester United v Ipswich in the 1994/95 season. The final score was 9-0, which is also a Premiership record for the biggest victory/defeat.
LES FERDINAND scored the Premiership's 10,000th goal in Tottenham's 4-0 win over Fulham in December 2001.
THE OLDEST PLAYER to play in the Premiership was Manchester City goalkeeper John Burridge who was 43 years, 4 months and 26 days when he came on as a half time substitute for Manchester City v Newcastle United on April 29, 1995.
TOTTENHAM goalkeeper Erik Thorstvedt became the first Premier League substitute when he replaced Ian Walker in the first Premiership season in 1992.
SWINDON TOWN were the first team to concede 100 Premiership goals iwhen they were relegated in 1993/94.
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With competitive club football returning across Europe, FIFA.com’s latest stats review features a clutch of players who made spectacular impacts in various corners of the continent.
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years and 196 days was the age at which Zakaria Bakkali became the youngest-ever player to score an Eredivisie hat-trick on Sunday. In doing so, PSV's Belgian winger smashed a record that had stood since 1966, when Ruud Geels (17 years, 235 days) scored all three for Telstar in a 3-1 win over MVV. Bakkali was making just his second appearance in the Dutch top flight but has already been called up to the senior Belgium squad by coach Marc Wilmots. And while his treble was the unrivalled highlight of a 5-0 win over NEC, there were plenty of other causes for excitement in a PSV side that had a remarkable average age of just 20 years and 216 days.
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goals in his last six appearances against Wigan Athletic is the record with which Robin van Persie emerged from Sunday’s Community Shield. The Manchester United striker struck twice at Wembley to strengthen the Latics’ status as his favourite victims as the Red Devils won 2-0 in the traditional English curtain-raiser. Van Persie duly became the first Dutchman to score in the Community Shield since Ruud van Nistelrooy 12 years ago, though he missed out on a hat-trick. The last player to manage a treble in this fixture remains Eric Cantona, who scored three of Leeds United’s goals in a memorable 4-3 win over Liverpool in 1992.
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goals in Dublin’s Southside Derby saw St Patrick’s Conan Byrne inflict Shamrock Rovers’ heaviest defeat in 25 years. The 28-year-old winger was responsible for all four of the game’s goals and, as well as enjoying the biggest individual haul of his career, he became the first St Pat’s player to score four in a League of Ireland match since Derek Carthy in February 1985. Byrne was also the first player to find the net four times against Shamrock Rovers, the Republic of Ireland’s record champions, in almost 38 years. This feat was all the more impressive as Rovers had gone into the match protecting a club record 18-match unbeaten run at their Tallaght Stadium. The defeat effectively ends their hopes of regaining a title for which rivals St Pat’s, a point clear of Dundalk with a game in hand, are currently favourites.
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goals was the contribution Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang made to Borussia Dortmund’s 4-0 win over Augsburg in a spectacular Bundesliga debut. The former Saint-Etienne striker, who was already making history as the first Gabonese player to turn out in Germany’s top flight, became just the sixth player to score a treble in his first appearance in the division. He is also the first to do so in over five years, since Martin Fenin made a similarly explosive impact on his Eintracht Frankfurt debut in February 2008. Dortmund, though, were not the only free-scoring team on the Bundesliga’s opening weekend. Newly promoted Hertha Berlin celebrated their return with a thumping 6-1 win over Frankfurt, their biggest victory since putting six unanswered goals past Borussia Monchengladbach in 2004. Both sides certainly contributed impressively to the Bundesliga’s highest-scoring Matchday 1 in two decades, with 37 goals registered overall.
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minutes were on the clock against Guingamp when Andre-Pierre Gignac got Marseille’s season off to a flying start. However, while the French striker’s early goal was the joint-fastest goal on the opening Ligue 1 matchday since 2000, it was another OM player who stole the headlines. Dimitri Payet went on to find the net twice in the same match and, in doing so, became the first player to score a double on his competitive Marseille debut since Laurent Blanc in 1997. All of the south coast giants’ goals at the Stade du Roudourou arrived in the first half, the first time they have enjoyed such a productive and prolific opening 45 minutes in over five years.
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As at the start of the 2002/03 season, who is the Premiership's all-time top scorer? | Premier League Top Scorers | Most Premier League Goals
Barrie 25 May, 2012 Best of SL , English Premier League , Football Stats , Lists
Who are the the all time Premier League top scorers? Which Premier League players have scored 100 goals or more? Who has scored the most goals in each Premier League season? And who is the top Premier League scorer this season?
Below we’ve answered all of the above questions – all players in the Premier League 100 club, the golden boot winners from previous Premier League seasons and the goalscoring charts from the most recent (2013/2014) Premier League season.
The top five Premier League goal scorers get their own little write up and a link to video of their goals. Everyone outside of that gets just their name, the clubs they played and scored for (or club, in the case of Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Matt LeTissier) and, of course, their total number of Premier League goals.
You can also jump directly to the Premier League Golden Boot winners and Most Premier League goals this season sections.
Premier League Top Scorers This Season
All Time Premier League Top Scorers
The top ten all time Premier League top scorers are:
1. Alan Shearer: 260 goals in 434 appearances
2. Andy Cole: 187 goals in 408 appearances
2. Wayne Rooney: 187 goals in 374 appearances *
4. Frank Lampard: 177 goals in 586 appearances
5. Thierry Henry: 175 goals in 258 appearances
6. Robbie Fowler: 163 goals in 375 appearances
7. Michael Owen: 163 goals in 362 appearances
8. Les Ferdinand: 150 goals in 347 appearances
9. Teddy Sheringham: 147 goals in 407 appearances
10. Robin van Persie: 144 goals in 314 appearances
*Still playing
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ALAN SHEARER: Blackburn (1992-1996), Newcastle (1996-2006)
Alan Shearer, OBE, was born on 13th August 1970. Having started his career at Southampton, he went on to become one of the most prolific scorers of all time with Blackburn and his beloved Newcastle.
Great in the air, predatory from close range and deadly from distance, Shearer was at one time the complete striker. A series of knee injuries robbed him of some pace, but Shearer adapted his game in his later years and continued to find the net.
After the first ten years of the Premier League, Shearer was named as the outstanding player of the decade. He is also listed in the FIFA 100 greatest living footballers.
Shearer played 63 times for England, scoring 30 goals. He captained the side on 34 occasions.
Now working as a pundit on BBC television’s Match of the Day, Shearer had a brief spell as Newcastle United manager in 2008/9, when he took charge for the last eight games but was unable to save the club from relegation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqkfzH7A8Ow
ANDY COLE: Newcastle (1993-95), Manchester Utd (1995-2001), Blackburn (2001-04), Fulham (2004-05), Man City (2005-06), Portsmouth (2006-07), Birmingham (2007), Sunderland (2007-08)
Andy Cole, or Andrew Cole, as he now prefers to be called was born on 15th October 1971. He began his career with Arsenal, but played just one game before moving to Bristol City. His goal scoring exploits for The Robins caught the attention of Kevin Keegan at Newcastle, who signed the striker in 1993. Cole partnered Peter Beardsley, won the First Division and continued scoring in the Premier League for he following two seasons.
He was sold controversially to Manchester United in 1995, where he went on to achieve huge success. He was the top scorer in Europe for United in the treble winning season of 1998-99, a season in which he and Dwight Yorke contributed 53 goals between them overall. Cole scored the goal that won the Premier League title, and the goal that took them to the Champions League final. He has five Premier League winners medals, one Champions League winners medal and two FA Cup winners medals.
Since leaving United Cole has played at Blackburn, Fulham, Mancheser City, Portsmouth, Birmingham and Sunderland, without quite recapturing his best goal scoring form. Cole finished his career with a loan move to Burnley and a brief spell at Nottingham Forest before retiring in 2008.
Cole was awarded the PFA Young player of the year award in 1994, and played 15 games for England, scoring just one goal.
WAYNE ROONEY: Everton (2002-04), Manchester United (2004-present)
Wayne Rooney was born on 24th October, 1985 and made his international debut in 2003 as the youngest player to represent England, until Theo Walcott debuted.
Widely regarded as the country’s best player, he has won the England Player of the Year award twice. In his 89 international caps, he has scored 38 goals and along with David Beckham, he is the most red carded player for England.
Rooney joined the youth team of Everton at the age of nine and he made his professional debut in 2002. He spent two years with the senior team at the Merseyside club before Sir Alex and Manchester United scooped him up for £25.6 million in 2004. Since then, United have won the Premier League four times, the 2007/08 Champions League and two League Cup.
On 17 October, a brilliant pass from Ander Herrera helped Rooney find the back of the net against his former club Everton. It was the third goal for Red Devils, who won the tie 3-0 at Goodison Park.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbPH1AIc14w
FRANK LAMPARD: West Ham Utd (1995-2001), Chelsea (2001-2014), Manchester City (2014-2015)
Frank Lampard was born on 20th June, 1978 to the former West Ham player and manager, Frank Lampard, Sr’; Harry Redknapp is Lampard’s uncle. He is considered to be one of the best English footballers of his time.
Lampard is a box-to-box midfielder and is known for his work-rate, range of passing and exceptional goal-scoring ability. He began his career at West Ham United and secured a place in the first team in his third season with the club. The following season, he helped the team finish in the highest ever Premier League placing, at 5th.
In 2001, Lampard moved to rival club Chelsea for £11 million and he has been ever-present in the Chelsea first team since his debut. He holds a record of consecutive 164 English Premier League appearances.
In 2008, he signed a new contract with the West London club and became the highest paid Premier League footballer at the time. He had his most prolific season with Chelsea in 2009/10, where he won the Premier League title, the FA Cup, scored 22 league goals and assisted another 17 goals.
In the 2011/12 season, Lampard captained Chelsea to their first UEFA Champions League title. Lampard is the only midfielder to have scored 150 or more goals in the Premier League and he is second in the Premier League’s all-time assists table with 91 assists.
He left Chelsea as a free agent and joined Major League Soccer outfit New York City FC. He returned to Premier League on a short loan spell, joining Manchester City.
On the international level, Lampard has been capped 103 times by England since 1999 and he has scored 29 goals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPwdH_t4DTA
THIERRY HENRY: Arsenal (1999-2007), Arsenal (2012)
Thierry Henry was born on 17th August 1977. He moved to Arsenal after a relatively successful career in France and Italy, but was regarded by many as an overrated wide player. Arsene Wenger converted Henry to be a striker and the rest, as they say, is history. Pacy, classy, goalscoring history.
Henry’s goals won the Premier League twice for Arsenal, including the 30 league goals he scored as Arsenal’s famous Invincibles went the entire 2003/4 season unbeaten. Henry was twice awarded the PFA Players Player of the Year award, and also won the Football Writers Player of the Year award on two occasions.
For France, Henry scored 51 goals in 123 appearances and has World Cup and European Championship winners medals.
Henry left Arsenal for Barcelona in 2007, where he won La Liga, the Champions League, Copa Del Rey and the Club World Cup. He currently plays for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer. Henry made an emotional loan return to Arsenal in January 2012, playing for 7 weeks and scoring a few crucial goals, including 2 in the league.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX5vpIok0j0
ROBBIE FOWLER: Liverpool (1993-2001), Leeds Utd (2001-03), Manchester City (2003-06), Liverpool (2006-07), Blackburn (2008)
Robbie Fowler was born on 9th April 1975. He grew up in Toxteth, a rough area of Liverpool, and went on to become one of the best players ever to represent the Reds. In 1995 and 1996 he was awarded the PFA Young Player of the Year award.
Renowned for his natural finishing ability, in 1994 Fowler scored three times in 4 minutes, 33 seconds against Arsenal, still the fastest hat-trick in Premier League history. His goal scoring exploits were always matched by the controversy surrounding him. He was particularly criticised when after scoring a goal he pretended to snort the paint from the six yard line, following rumours of a cocaine addiction. Presenting his backside to Graeme Le Saux, rumoured to be gay, was also an episode that Fowler should not be proud of.
Fowler left Liverpool for Leeds United and then Manchester City, but was back at Anfield for one more year in 2006/7. Fowler went on to play for Cardiff City and Blackburn Rovers before moving to Australia in 2009, where he played a season for North Queensland Fury before moving to current club Perth Glory.
Fowler played 26 times for England scoring 7 goals.
MICHAEL OWEN: Liverpool (1996-2004), Real Madrid (2004-05), Newcastle United (2005-2009), Manchester United (2009-12), Stoke City (2012-13)
Michael Owen began his youth career in Liverpool in 1991. He progressed through the ranks and on his debut with the senior team in 1997, he scored. In his first full season in the English Premier League, he finished the season as the joint top-scorer with 18 goals.Michael James Owen was born on 14th December, 1979 in Chester, England. He is the son of a former forward of the 1970s, Terry Owen.
Liverpool won a cup treble of the UEFA Cup , FA Cup and the Football League Cup and Owen was awarded the Ballon d’Or. He went on to score 118 goals for the Reds in the Premier League.
In 2004, Owen moved to Real Madrid and was frequently used as a substitute. The following season, he returned to England to Newcastle United with the highest goals scored to number of minutes played ration in Spain.
He scored another 26 Premier League goals for Newcastle until he was picked up as a back-up striker by Alex Ferguson. To this day, he plays for Manchester United.
LES FERDINAND: Queens Park Rangers (1992-95), Newcastle (1995-97), Tottenham (1997-2003), West Ham (2002-03), Leicester (2003-04), Bolton (2004-05)
Like Shearer, Ferdinand was the complete package. Fast, strong, deadly in front of goal, and absolutely unbeatable in the air. After two years at Newcastle he moved on to Tottenham, where he spent six successful years before playing for West Ham, Leicester, Bolton and Reading.Les Ferdinand, MBE, was born on 8th December 1966. He began his career scoring goals galore for lower league Hayes, and continued to do so wherever he went. His first big move was to top flight Queens Park Rangers, where he spent eight years banging in goals from 1987 to 1995 before earning a high profile move to Newcastle United. On Tyneside, Ferdinand developed a frightening strike partnership with Alan Shearer.
Ferdinand was awarded the PFA players player award in 1996 and scored 5 goals for England gaining 17 caps.
TEDDY SHERINGHAM: Nottingham Forest (1991-92), Tottenham (1992-97), Manchester United (1997-01), Tottenham (2001-03), Portsmouth (2003-04), West Ham (2004-07)
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ROBIN VAN PERSIE: Arsenal (2004-12), Manchester United (2012- 2015)
Premier League Topscorers: Other 100 club members
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: 127 goals (Leeds United, Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Charlton Athletic)
Robbie Keane: 126 goals (Coventry City, Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, West Ham United, Aston Villa)
Nicolas Anelka: 125 goals (Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, West Bromwich Albion)
Jermain Defoe: 124 goals (West Ham United, Portsmouth, Tottenham)
Dwight Yorke: 123 goals (Aston Villa, Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Sunderland)
Ian Wright: 113 goals (Arsenal, West Ham United)
Steven Gerrard: 111 goals (Liverpool)
Dion Dublin: 111 goals (Manchester United, Coventry City, Aston Villa)
Emile Heskey: 110 goals (Leicester City, Liverpool, Birmingham City, Wigan Athletic, Aston Villa)
Ryan Giggs: 109 goals (Manchester United)
Paul Scholes: 107 goals (Manchester United)
Darren Bent: 106 goals (Ipswich Town, Charlton Athletic, Tottenham Hotspur, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Fulham)
Matthew Le Tissier: 100 goals (Southampton)
Didier Drogba: 100 goals (Chelsea)
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1. Sergio Agüero Manchester City 26
2. Harry Kane Tottenham Hotspur 21
3. Diego Costa Chelsea 20
4. Charlie Austin Queens Park Rangers 18
5. Alexis Sánchez Arsenal 16
6. Saido Berahino West Bromwich Albion 14
6. Olivier Giroud Arsenal 14
6. Eden Hazard Chelsea 14
9. Christian Benteke Aston Villa 13
10. Graziano Pellè Southampton 12
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Golden Boot winners
The following table is a list of winners of the Premier League Golden Boot per season, detailing their club, goal tally, actual games played, and their strike rate (goals/games).
Key to symbols:
† – denotes the award was shared that season
C – denotes the club were also League Champions that season
E – denotes the player also won the European Golden Shoe that season
(x) – denotes multiple winners of the award and their running total
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How many own goals were scored in the 2001/02 Premiership season? | Who is the Premiership's greatest player ever? | Sportslens
Update: The decision is made here .
Who would you put on your list of the greatest Premiership players? Thierry Henry ? Eric Cantona? Alan Shearer?
There is some ambiguity surrounding the meaning of ‘great’, so I’ll specify it as that player who had the most positive impact on his team’s fortunes over an extended period of time, in the Premiership.
Note that we’re judging the impact of players in the Premiership only – this means from the 1992-1993 season to the 2006/2007 season, AND that we’re talking just about the Premiership and not Europe or the Championship or that player’s contributions in other leagues (limiting it this way restricts the number of contenders and makes it easier to choose).
With this criteria in mind, let me know who you think would be a suitable candidate for the ‘Greatest Premiership Player’ title and why?
Once the nominations are in, I’ll shortlist the candidates and evaluate each one of them before picking the winner at the end of the week.
So go on, put your list in the comments.
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Homer Jay Simpson, Sr., [14] also known as Homer Samson, [15] Homie, [16] Home-boy, [17] Colonel Homer , [18] Dancin' Homer , [19] Homer Thompson , [20] Max Power , [21] Cornelius Talmadge , [22] El Homo , and The Pie Man , is the main protagonist of the show and the spouse of Marge Simpson and the father of Bart Simpson , Lisa Simpson , and Maggie Simpson . Homer is overweight, lazy, and often ignorant to the world around him. Although Homer has many flaws he has shown great caring, love, and even bravery to those he cares about. He served as the main protagonist of the TV Series and the the 2007 film .
Homer works as a low level safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, in Sector 7G , although he is often incompetent and mostly sleeps on duty and eats the donuts that are provided. He spends a great deal of his time at Moe's Tavern with his lifelong friends Barney , Carl , Lenny , and bartender Moe . At his home , he can often be found sitting on the couch mindlessly watching TV while snacking on food and drinking Duff . Homer is the only son of Abe and Mona .
Homer may just be a normal man but he has had many great achievements and experiences in his life. He's won an academy award, been to space, and has saved Springfield more than once. He also may have some form of superhuman endurance as he's been seriously injured many times but survived. He is named after Matt Groening 's father Homer Groening.
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Biography
Homer in 1974.
Homer was raised on the Simpson farm by his parents until they were forced to move out in 1964 due to Homer spooking the cows by jumping out of a bale of hay and scaring them into giving sour milk, causing the bank to foreclose it. At some point during his childhood, Abe (who was in his early forties at the time of Homer's birth) seemed to feed beer to Homer Simpson, but he quit drinking beer until he was older upon Barney 's suggestion after he caused a multi-car pileup in his playschool car. In the late 1960s, while Homer was between nine and twelve years of age, Mona went into hiding following a run-in with the law . However, before she started protesting, she took Homer and her husband to the Woodstock Music Festival, where Homer ended up briefly adopting the Hippie lifestyle (and Abe Simpson attempted to send him off to the Vietnam War as punishment for wanting to be a hippie, but obviously failed, given Homer's age at the time).
In 1966, Homer along with Lenny , Carl and Moe Szyslak went over to a deep gorge for a nice swim, but the water was drained. When investigating why the lake was reduced to a muddy pit, he stumbled upon a decomposing corpse inside the pipe, greatly traumatizing him and leading to his 'occasional' overeating.
Homer attended Springfield High School and fell in love with Marge Bouvier in 1974. [23] After high school, Homer and Marge bought an apartment at Springfield Place. During this time, Marge gets a letter accepting her into college. To pay for her tuition, Abe gives Homer a job at Simpson Lazer Tag as well as this, along with Lou , Lenny and Carl , Homer is part of a barbershop quartet. When Marge becomes infatuated by her professor, Homer changes the band's name to Sadgasm and they invent grunge music. Marge realizes that she really loves Homer, and she goes back to him. [24] At some point between finishing high school and marrying Marge, Homer briefly served in the US Army, but never saw combat. Due to a clerical error, he was discharged two weeks early and years later after a disastrous dinner party with his old sergeant, Homer was forced to complete his tour of duty. In 1979, Marge became pregnant with Bart (after discovering this, Homer tore out half of his hair). At this time Homer was working at Sir Putt-A-Lot's Merrie Olde Fun Centre , turning the crank that spins the windmill. The two got married in Shotgun Pete's 24 Hour Wedding Chapel , a small wedding chapel across the state line. They spent their wedding reception alone at a truck stop, before ending up at the Bouvier House, where they lived at the time. After failing to get a job at the newly built Nuclear Power Plant , Homer left Marge to find a job by which he could support his family. He went to work at a taco restaurant called the Gulp 'n' Blow , until Marge found him and convinced him to return home with her. As a result, Homer confronted Mr. Burns and secured a job at the Plant. [25] Two years after Bart was born, Marge became pregnant with Lisa in 1981 (after discovering this, Homer tore out the remains of his hair, leaving out only three mere strands on his head), shortly before the couple bought their first house . [26] Homer's second leap to stardom was his success as the lead singer and songwriter for the barbershop quartet The Be Sharps , even winning a Grammy (he later complains that a Grammy isn't worth winning). During his time with the group, Homer was frequently absent from home, which put stress on his marriage. After the group broke up due to creative differences, Homer went back to Springfield to continue his old life. [27]
Some time in the late 1980s, Homer prepared a budget so that he could work at his dream job, a pin monkey at the Bowlarama Bowling Alley, owned by Barney's uncle Al Gumble. The budget included buying regular toilet paper and that only one of the kids could go to college. Unfortunately for Homer, Marge became pregnant with Maggie in 1988, shortly after he started his new job, and not being able to support his family, he went back to the Nuclear Plant. [28] Since then Homer has started many jobs , including being a professional astronaut for NASA , but has ended up back where he began at the Nuclear Plant. He has nearly caused the destruction of Springfield a couple of times, after a nuclear meltdown at the plant and polluting Lake Springfield with his pet pig 's (and his own) waste. [29]
Childhood Summary
Homer's childhood was a tragic one. He lost his mother at a young age and his father never took notice to Homer. This caused Homer to be very insecure about himself and underachieving things thinking he lacked the skills to do so which left him behind in school and life in general.
Jobs
―Homer Simpson [src]
In Homer Scissorhands , he worked as a hairdresser, but then he got tired of it and returned to his old job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant . [30]
When first joining the Power Plant, Homer had a nameless job handling plutonium. He was fired by Sherri and Terri's father , who was his supervisor, for creating a deadly gas leak. He was later rehired to safety inspector for Sector 7G , after complaining about the safety of the plant itself. Ironically, the accidents that occur at the plant have doubled every year since Homer was made safety inspector. [31]
Homer as Santa.
Homer rarely attends his job, and yet hardly gets fired, and always has his job waiting for him when he wants to return. He has impulsively quit occasionally to pursue other careers, although he always ends up losing or quitting these jobs. On one occasion, Homer has misinterpreted a threat about losing his job as a hint that he can take the following day off.
Homer also applied for a job as Santa, to make up for his missed Christmas bonus at the power plant. [32]
Homer The Puppet as seen in " The Fight Before Christmas ".
Appearance
Homer's first appearance.
His appearance is that of an overweight balding man. He has a perpetual five-o'clock shadow that will reappear virtually in seconds if he ever shaves, and at one point just popped back in fast complete with a 'pop' sound effect. Despite his overweight status, and hate for exercise, he has on occasion shown surprising physical prowess and agility for a man of his body type, such as when training for Whacking Day and he hits several pop-up Snakes with kicks and even back-flipping. His baldness is contributed by several factors. Upon finding out whenever Marge was pregnant, he would tear out a substantial amount of his hair. Another contribution is working at the nuclear plant for so many years that the exposure to radioactivity has caused most of his hair to fall out. Another frequent topic on Homer's obesity is his large butt which is often joked about by Bart. His eyes are black and he is 6 feet tall (183 cm). He always wears a white shirt, blue pants, and gray shoes.
Personality
“(To Lisa) Now, you lost someone special and it hurt. I never lost anyone special to me. Everyone special to me is under this roof. It's true. Now, you'll have lots of special people in your life. There's probably a place they hang out and the food is good, and guys like me are serving drinks. Maybe I can't explain all this, but I can fix your dollhouse. At least I'm good at monkey work. You know, monkey? You know what I mean? I can hold these nails in place with my tail.”
―Homer Simpson [src]
Homer's personality is one of frequent stupidity, dimwitness, selfishness, laziness, and explosive anger; one might say it is that of the "Average Joe" . He also suffers from a short attention span which complements his intense but short-lived passion for hobbies, enterprises and various causes. Despite his family flaws, he is a loving father and husband, even if he can be ignorant or oblivious to families feelings and ideas. When he thinks he has let anyone he loves down, it really does effect him, and in the end, will do anything for them. Another contribute to his "Working Joe" persona was that he has also shown to be sensitive about his masculinity; being initially upset over Marge becoming a police officer as he though it made her "the man of the house", as well as refusing to call a contractor when Marge wanted her kitchen remodeled as to not emasculate his pride.
Homer is prone to emotional outbursts; he gets very envious of his neighbors, the Flanders family , and is easily enraged at his son, Bart , and strangles him in an exaggerated manner. His trademark phrase to strangling Bart, "Why you little...!" and on one occasion, "Why you little bastard!". [33] He also spanks Bart sometimes and, in one case, Lisa. One time, he was too busy to spank them, so he told them to go to their rooms and spank themselves. He shows no compunction about this, and does not attempt to hide his actions from people outside the family, even showing disregard for his son's well being in other ways, such as leaving Bart alone at a port, [34] or allowing Bart to go court for skateboarding naked on his dare when all he would have to do is attend a one hour parenting class signifying not only his disregard for Bart but his extreme laziness. [35]
Homer also possesses an extreme dislike for his sisters-in-law, Patty and Selma Bouvier . This is because they often talk down on him for the kind of man he is, selfish and dimwitted. He also openly calls them ugly. He uses labels such as "The Grusome Twosome," "Fatty and Smellma" and "Two Sobbing Trolls." He also gave his children the impression that Patty and Selma are horrible and nasty witches, which is the reason why the kids don't like spending time with their aunts. The sisters in turn, hate Homer as much he hates them. Patty and Homer have a very vile, antagonistic relationship but his relationship with Selma has rarely softened up over the years.
While Homer has repeatedly upset people and caused all sorts of mayhem in Springfield , these events are usually caused by either his explosive temper or lack of foresight. Except for expressing annoyance at Ned Flanders , Homer's actions are usually unintentional. Most of his explosive anger is targeted on Bart, because of something stupid or bad he had said or done. Despite their disadvantages, these common outbursts saved Homer from dying of a pentup rage-induced heart attack. [36]
While Homer's stupid antics often upset his family, he has also performed acts that reveal him to be a surprisingly loving father and husband, such as selling his cherished ride on the Duff Blimp and using the money to enter Lisa in a beauty pageant so she could feel better about herself, [37] giving up his chance at wealth to allow Maggie to keep a cherished teddy bear ; [38] spearheading an attempt to dig Bart out after he had fallen down a well, even though he hates doing physical labor [39] and arranging a surprise second wedding with Marge to make up for their lousy first ceremony, even going so far as to hire one of The Doobie Brothers as part of the wedding band and getting a divorce from Marge, essentially making their second wedding a "real" one. [40]
Despite his hatred of manual labor, Homer does a surprising amount of DIY work around his home. He built a jungle gym, a costume of Florida for Lisa, a birdhouse and spice rack for Marge however these are shabby at best and two of them actually fell apart. He also remodeled his kitchen when Marge felt insecure about hers after meeting the neighbor's deluxe one however this was more because he felt emasculated when Marge tried to phone a contractor.
Homer's stupidity and ignorance make him clueless to sensitive matters as well as when he's being insulted or his life is in danger. An example is when he came close to drinking a beaker of sulphuric acid but was spared after his colleague, Frank Grimes knocked the acid out of his hand. Instead of being shocked, Homer only responded with jovial delight and laughter. He was also completely oblivious to Grimes' hostility towards him, only being aware that the two of them were enemies after the latter made it painstakingly clear. Homer was an atheist and a homophobe. He adheres to no religion and only goes to church because Marge constantly forces him to. In Homer the Heretic , he quits church altogether but later chooses to go as he was saved from an inferno, which is in his eyes a miracle. In the climax of the same episode he is seen falling asleep during Reverend Lovejoy's sermon. He also paid no respect to Jesus' resting place after being granted a trip to Bethlehem by Ned Flanders however he did come to believe himself a messiah after suffering a hallucination from days in the desert while searching for Ned (who actually just got a glass of tepid water).
Homer tends to derive amusement from the misfortune of others. He is a chronic thief and borderline kleptomaniac which ranges from petty to grand theft, stealing everything from TV trays to power tools and air conditioners, even an entire room of the Flanders House from Ned Flanders . He has also stolen golf balls from the local driving range, office supplies (including computers) from work, and beer mugs from Moe's Tavern .
Homer has a vacuous mind, but he is still able to retain a great amount of knowledge about very specific subjects. He often shows short bursts of astonishing insight, memory, creativity and fluency with many languages! Homer is also extremely confident; no matter how little skill or knowledge he has about anything he tries to do, he has no doubt that he will be successful. However, his brief periods of intelligence are overshadowed by much longer and more consistent periods of ignorance, forgetfulness and stupidity. Homer has a low IQ due to many factors. Some of which include: his alcohol problem, exposure to radioactive waste, repetitive cranial trauma, and the crayon lodged in the frontal lobe of his brain. He also implied that he would have been at least a bit smarter and more athletic, if not by a substantial amount, if his father had tried to give him encouragement rather than beat him down. [41] Another large factor of Homer's unintelligence is his inheritance of the "Simpson Gene" which causes all male members of the Simpson family to become more and more unintelligent as they grow older. It is also implied Homer repeated second grade, [42] most probably due to the Simpson Gene kicking in. But what is probably the biggest cause of his simple-mindedness, was an incident that happened when he was six years old and goofing around by shoving a 16 pack of crayons up his nose. When he had shoved all of them up his nasal passage he sneezed the crayons out. Not all of them however. Unbeknownst to him, one of the crayons got lodged in in the right lobe of his brain. Homer would not learn this fact until adulthood when he was forced to take a job as a human guinea pig to support his family where the crayon was found in a 3D x-ray of his brain (shortly after Dr.Hibbert admits that every time he ever viewed an xray of his brain he would always unknowingly block the crayon with his thumb which is why it was never found before). The doctors tell Homer that they could possibly try to remove the crayon via surgery and it would either greatly increase his intelligence or kill him. After slight consideration, Homer chooses to take the risk. The operation ended up being a great success and with the increased blood flow in his brain, Homer's intelligence skyrocketed.
His intelligence was said to jump up fifty points when he had the crayon removed, bringing him to an IQ of 105, slightly above that of an average person (though he showed far above average intelligence), but he went back to his old self when he had it reinserted, presumably lowering his IQ back down to its original 55. [43] This IQ score is, however, likely a joke or oversight on the producers' part, as someone with an IQ of 55 would be unable to look after themselves and would be classified as severely mentally handicapped. Also from the level of intelligence he showed it's much more likely that his IQ was boosted to 135-155. Despite his handicap, Homer does have a degree of long term, calculated planning of what might happen, such as when, shortly before taking his "forget-me-shot" from Moe Szyslak , requested for their anniversary party to have a Moon Jump, due to realizing exactly what will happen afterwards. [44]
While Homer's lack of intelligence and short attention span normally just results in him looking like a fool, it also sometimes causes him to unintentionally bring harm to the people around him. One example is in the episode E. Pluirbus Wiggum, he dumps a piece of industrial garbage in the garbage can at krusty burger fallowed by a lit match which he used to light a victory cigar. The combination of the two caused a fire on the supply lines for the fast food chains of spring field and caused chain reaction destroying all the restaurants in the process. As well, it also makes him less aware of how what he says might affect people emotionally, like in Kill the Alligator and Run he for a note quiz he asked Ned Flanders about his sexual life, forgetting that his wife had passed away six months prior. His ignorance at one point even cost his family their home since he didn't understand how a home equity lone worked, putting them massively in debt and making it so they could no longer afford their mortgage. Though luckily,the house was purchased by Ned who allowed them rent the living space.
Homer has at times debated against his brain. Occasionally, a specific body part such as his face, stomach or liver is also shown debating with his brain. In one notable scene Homer's mind actually leaves his body out of boredom, causing him to collapse. Homer is also inclined to retreat into fantasy, such as daydreaming of Germany as "the land of chocolate" . [45] [46]
Homer's attitudes toward women, romance, and sex are occasionally shown. While Homer's marriage with Marge is occasionally strained, it seems generally happy. Despite this, Homer is often tempted with other women, and usually shows no qualms with gawking at (and drooling over) attractive women. Homer almost had an affair with Mindy Simmons , [47] but ended up not wanting to. He has made the occasional remark denoting his attraction to other women (including his neighbor's wife ), even in front of Marge on an occasion, but always shows his devotion to Marge in the end.
In earlier seasons such as season 1, Homer's personality was different. Homer was an angry, grumpy, ignorant man who got embarrassed by his family (instead of the other way around) but generally loved them. He also was prone to angry outbursts, such as yelling at Bart and Lisa, strangling Bart (which has continued in later seasons), and giving Krusty the Clown the middle finger in court after Homer had assumed it was him who robbed the Kwik-E-Mart .
Homer has since developed into a less intelligent nicer person in later seasons. Homer's "angry personality" still sometimes surfaces up, usually whenever Bart makes him mad.
Religious Beliefs
Despite attending church every Sunday, Homer is not very religious, and it is likely that he only attends church because he knows that Marge would be hurt and shocked if he did not. He does not seem to practice Christian morals and frequently sleeps in church, much to the annoyance of Reverend Lovejoy . He also admitted that in addition to sleeping in church, he also mentally undresses the female churchgoers. [48] He often mispronounces the name of the Christ, calling Him "Jebus". In The Simpsons Movie before entering church, he says, "Relax, those pious morons are too busy talking to their phony-baloney God."
When asked by Bart what religion he belongs to he replies "The one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life. Uh… Christianity".
Despite this, he is a Christian and willingly attends church after Ned, Apu and Krusty saved him from a house fire. He was also inadvertently baptised by Ned, initially reacting violently before speaking in a religious manner, and returning to his normal self thereafter when questioned by Ned. Homer also tried to become a good Christian in Tis the Fifteenth Season.
However, in "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed", Homer thinks that he is the Messiah due to Jerusalem syndrome.
Homer had actually met God face to face several times and has even gotten permission from him in a dream to skip church. [49] [50]
Alter-ego
Homer became a superhero named Pie Man when the Rich Texan makes Lisa cry. He chucks pies in the faces of evildoers or people who deserve to be pied, uses the basement as a Pie Cave and his car as the Piemobile. Bart is his sidekick as Cupcake Kid . He also tried to don a graffiti alias as "El Homo", which was meant to be a Mexican take on his name, but erased it when he realized the alias was Spanish for homosexual. [51]
Enemies
Skills and Abilities
Physical Prowess
Homer's skills seem to vary greatly. Sometimes, Homer can find it difficult to run to smallest distance before passing out from exhaustion, and other times, he has exceeded the prowess of gold medal Olympians. He can have trouble understanding the simplest of concepts to being able to build a functional robot with a working A.I. [52] His physical strength is just as random: At times, he is too weak to even kill a fly by punching it, [53] while at other times, he is able to lift a motorbike above his head, and use it as a sword effortlessly and throw punches that send people flying with ease. [54]
Additionally, in his youth, Homer was once a very talented gymnast, even catching high school Marge's eye with his ability. Unfortunately, his father's lack of faith in him caused him to blunder in front of the entire school, which promptly led to the end of his career.
Endurance
Homer has shown to have near-superhuman endurance and durability, repeatedly surviving things that could easily kill other people. His well padded stomach allowed him to survive direct cannon fire to the stomach with no immediate injuries, though later it was found that repeated fire had destroyed his stomach which could have killed him.
Homer's skull is a quarter inch thicker than the average skull (dubbed "Homer Simpson Syndrome") that protects him completely from cranial injury up to a certain point allowing him to be beaten by normal folk with no effect but can be hurt by significant force such as getting punched in the face by the world heavyweight boxing champion or falling repeatedly down Springfield Gorge . At one point, Homer even survived having every bone in his body broken from a fall that would have liquified a regular person. Another time, he managed to get back up and walk around from being mauled by a Badger in a failed and foolish attempt to get it out of Santa's Little Helper's doghouse despite having his entire gut torn out and exposing his intestines (which the Badger somehow accomplished without ripping his shirt).
Homer is constantly ending up in sticky situations, such as being caught in a fire on at least four occasions, almost drowning, animal attacks and more. In some episodes, he "almost dies" twice, and in one episode, Frank Grimes' son was trying to murder Homer, and all through the episode Homer ended up in situations that would normally kill a person. In Homer Scissorhands , he tries to commit barbicide by drinking a container of disinfectant. Once realizing it did nothing to him, he questions why nothing ever seems to kill him even several simultaneous heart attacks.
Homer is no stranger to pain. He gets hurt in one form or another in almost every episode, and frequently breaks bones and ends up in the hospital. He has also needed several life-saving operations, such as a triple bypass and suffering four simultaneous heart attacks. In one episode, Marge gets concerned at how much Homer almost dies as a result of sticky situations and begs him to get life insurance, where we find out that he has also had three strokes and is therefore, not insurable.
In an interview with Matt Groening, he jokingly states that Homer is unable to die due to God finding him far too entertaining to kill off and enjoys his pain-induced suffering.
Music
One skill that remains somewhat constant throughout the series is his musical talent. Homer can play the guitar amazingly well, play the piano like a natural, and became an accomplished singer and songwriter. He has been part of several bands which were all extremely popular. He won a Grammy for barbershop, [55] numerous golden records for his grunge band , which is a music style he also invented, [56] and was able to help Lisa win a music contest using songs he wrote for her. [57] While laying on his back, Homer possesses a powerful operatic voice that while at hospital stops crying babies and even revives a flat-lined patient, leading him to become a wildly popular opera star. [58] He also been shown to play the bass.
Fighting
Homer is a talented fighter, fighting with great prowess in his duel with Peter Griffin.
Language
Like Bart , Homer is a polyglot, someone with the ability to pick up languages fairly quickly, perhaps even a hyper polyglot (a polyglot fluent in more than six languages). He has been shown to speak Spanish, Chinese, Penguin [59] and when he and Bart were imprisoned in Japan for a seemingly short amount of time due to unknowingly assaulting Emperor Akihito , he was able to speak the language fluently by the time he left. [60] He was also able to pick up a few Indian words by watching Apu and Manjula argue. [61] He was also shown to mimic people's voices especially well. This was evidenced in a flashback in Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy , where Homer, after watching a televised speech made by then-President John F. Kennedy , proceeded to flawlessly mimic Kennedy's speech pattern and mannerisms.
Defying the laws of science
In addition to being able to accomplish what no man of his health and standing could, Homer has been able to accomplish things that defy all logic and reason whatsoever, such as causing cornflakes and milk to burst into flames and cause a nuclear meltdown in a testing van, despite no fissionable materials being present in it at the time.
Leadership
Even though Homer is consistently depicted as being unpopular his entire life, he has been able to incite a mob on multiple occasions. He has incredible sway over crowds and is able to motivate people for just causes, such as shutting down the nuclear plant, and also to calm down an angry mob- something very difficult to do- such as when he prevented the destruction of Springfield's burlesque house. Like Bart, he is almost always made leader in whatever bizarre situation he comes across, although, unlike Bart, that leadership isn't always appreciated, such as when Homer becomes the leader of the Stonecutters , which shortly afterwards causes all the members to quit.
Homer also is a proficient bowler. He once bowled a perfect game, leading to short-term fame for him.
Songs
Homer's Winter Olimpics Song
Health
Homer while varying in physical ability from episode to episode has been consistently portrayed as a binge drinking, over eating, accident prone dare devil who puts absolutely no thought into what his actions will cost him, all of which has made it impossible to get any form of insurance which concerns his health. A magazine health test calculated Homer's lifestyle would lead him to pass away at 42.
Homer is in the hospital in at least one episode every season, and has had several life saving operations not including the one for his triple heart bypass which he needed after his arteries were clogged with cholesterol.
Years of working in a sub standard nuclear facility has left his blood irradiated enough to show up on an x-ray without the dye that is normally required to make the blood visible having to be administered, as well as having rendered him sterile.
Homer loves food, he can almost always be seen eating far more than any one man could possibly eat alone. His favorites are foods which he knows are bad for him, and will blatantly refuse healthy food such as oatmeal and fruit in favor of fatty meals. He was once willing to die upon eating a poisoned éclair despite knowing it would kill him, only to throw it away in horror when Lisa claimed it was low fat.
Homer once grew to 300 pounds so that he could go on disability for work.
Homer also seems to have problem with his sound sense as the result of attending rock concert too much at his youth time. [62] His lack of hearing could be the reason why he didn't pay attention at any words anyone says including only Bart.
Homer has been shown as having concentration problems. [63]
Age
45 (currently) [67]
Hair Loss
There are multiple theories on how Homer lost his hair. Early episodes suggested that he was simply a victim of male pattern baldness (A problem he told Bart was "Hereditary"). One theory suggests that Homer ripped out some of his hair when he realized Marge was pregnant with Bart , then more when he found out she was pregnant with Lisa , and tearing out a single hair when he found out she was pregnant with Maggie . It is also very possible he lost his hair from the radiation at the nuclear plant.
Marge on the Lam was the closest to the truth, and possibly the truth, as it is (almost-) explained visually: Homer also volunteered for an army experiment because he didn't want to have dinner with Marge's sisters. The army doctor attempted to warn him that the side effects of the experiment were "hair loss, giddiness and the loss of equilibrium" but Homer ignored him.
Another theory is that Homer's hair was once squirted with some kind of acid, thus causing permanent hair loss. [68]
Relationships
Romantic
Despite being married to Marge , throughout the entire show, Homer has had a number of romantic encounters.
Marge Simpson
Homer is the husband of Marge Simpson. They met when they were younger without learning who each other was before meeting again properly in high school. They have had three weddings. [69] [70] Before the show. The two have a very strong marriage which has survived cheating, amnesia and many arguments. They have been in love since high school. [71] In addition, both Homer and Marge managed to leave a key party in time as soon as they discovered what a key party was (although not without Homer taking the key jar with them, presumably to find his car keys).
Mindy Simmons
Mindy Simmons was an attractive employee at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant who has nearly everything in common with Homer. They attended a convention together and nearly had an affair. [72] After Homer turned her down, he later says that she "hit the bottle pretty hard and got fired."
Amber Nabney
Amber was a waitress at a casino in Las Vegas and was Homer's Vegas wife. Homer accidentally married her when he and Ned Flanders got drunk. Ned married the other waitress at the casino named Ginger . Doing the only decent thing they could, they ran for it. [74] The family managed to get her drunk and made her marry Abe, which made her run back to Vegas. Amber died from a drug overdose. [75]
Julia
When Homer becomes a famous Opera singer, he attracts the attention of horde of fans including a stalker by the name of Julia. She confesses to Homer that she is his to do with as he wants, becoming his personal assistant and attempting to seduce him at every turn. When he proclaims that his heart belongs to Marge she attempts to kill him with no success. [76]
Friendships
“I could never stay mad at you, Moe . After all, you get me drunk.”
―Homer, on Moe [src]
Homer in jail
Moe is the owner of Moe's Tavern and is Homer's main supply of beer, making him a very important person in Homer's life. Homer spends a lot of his time talking to Moe in his tavern and seems to go to him whenever he has a problem. Homer has also helped Moe with his love life. Moe has told Homer before that he is his best friend and they both seem to be in understanding that the two are "life partners." Despite this, Moe once risked Homer's life in exchange for a shot at being a notable name in the boxing community again, but in the end his friendship for Homer proved stronger than his dream and he literally flew in and saved Homer from getting beaten during a match . Even so, Moe has been known to point a shotgun at Homer for various reasons (see " Pygmoelian " and " The Parent Rap ").
Barney Gumble
Barney Gumble is one of Homer's best friends. They were both born in 1954 making Homer the same age as Barney. They have been friends since childhood (one time getting drunk from Abe Simpson 's beer and "wrapping Homer's wagon around a tree") but have been best friends since high school. Homer was the one who first convinced Barney to try beer and inadvertently caused him to throw away a potential life at Harvard and instead become an alcoholic. [77]
Lenny and Carl
Lenny and Carl are Homer's co-workers at the Nuclear Power Plant, and they knew Homer back in their childhood. [78] [79] They are Homer's most frequent companions at Moe's Tavern , after Barney. Abe Simpson claimed to have bribed Lenny and Carl to be his friends at a young age.
Monty Burns
Homer has been depicted as friends with Monty Burns on many occasions, such as when they got drunk together at a baseball game or were on a bowling team together. On the other hand, Burns has also sworn eternal vengeance against Homer on just as many occasions, and even more so than that Burns seems to be unable to remember who Homer Simpson is (a running gag on the series) despite the fact that almost all of his major life events are related in some way to Homer. Usually, Homer is afraid of Burns and acknowledges his presence with a scream, but it has been shown that once the two warm up to each other, they get along famously until Homer inadvertently does something to end the friendship.
Ned Flanders
Ned Flanders is Homer's perfect neighbor whose belongings are usually "borrowed" by Homer and never given back. Homer takes obvious advantage of his push-over neighbor and is usually an avid participant in the one-sided rivalry the two have going on, although Ned sometimes gets caught up in Homer's taunts (such as when the two pit their sons against each other in a putt-putt tournament). It has also been hinted that Homer lusts after Flanders' wife , Maude (now deceased). Homer enjoys insulting Flanders and making his life more difficult, which Flanders all takes in stride. Even so, Homer has genuine feelings for his neighbor; he feels truly guilty when he causes Flanders' business to sink and takes it upon himself to save the Leftorium , he makes it his personal duty to revive Flanders' love life after Maude passes, and he also invites Flanders to his barbecues and other events with genuine enthusiasm. He has also acknowledged that Ned is his best friend, referring to him once as "Stupid Best Friend Flanders". Homer loves to see Flanders struggle because he perceives the Flanders' lives to be the unobtainable perfection that he will never have, and he especially loves beating Flanders, but he hates when Flanders is totally crushed. There are also incidents where Homer inadvertently causes harm to Flanders. A notable example of this is when Homer ends up unwittingly releasing a radioactive ape into Flanders' house after the ape in question tricked Homer, resulting in it occupying the attic. This incident also resulted in Flanders having to report it to Chief Wiggum at the Police Station, a report caught on CCTV camera and eventually acquired illegally by Jeffrey Albertson .
Apu
Apu and Homer are good friends; their families get together for dinners and they regularly have conversations when Homer is purchasing some confection at Apu's Kwik-E-Mart . When Apu lost his job at the Kwik-E-Mart , he stayed with the Simpsons, Apu's wedding was also held at the Simpsons, and when Apu needs help with some problem the wacky solution and implementation usually include Homer (stealing Apu's children from the zoo, letting Apu use Homer's family as his own when his mother visits to dodge having to go through with an arranged marriage).
Clancy Wiggum
Clancy Wiggum is a friend of Homer and he and Homer have shown their relationship in " Chief of Hearts " episode when Homer gave sandwiches to him. They have been friends since. Even before then, they also were at the very least acquaintances, notably being invited to barbecues by Homer, as well as Homer and Wiggum, alongside the other townspeople, often plotting to do activites when they are annoyed at recent events (such as their wives pushing them away because of Apu overindulging his wife for Valentine's Day, and the events of the Presidential Election in Springfield).
Children
Bart
Bart and Homer's relationship is a strange one indeed; Homer has threatened Bart with murder before, yet at other times, the two get along better than anybody else. Homer usually refers to Bart as "the boy" and has mentioned spanking and beating Bart before. All that is ever shown, however, is either Homer growling and lunging for Bart, chasing him, or else strangling him. Homer was held in a mental hospital once due to his aggression with Bart, although, once the doctors realized that Bart was in fact real they released him. It is implied that Bart is the reason that Homer is bald. Homer blames most of his misfortunes on Bart and is the disciplinarian of him in the family. As a result, Bart usually takes advantage of his father's stupidity to humiliate him (as he does with most authority figures). Because of their often turbulent relationship, Bart commonly refers to Homer as Homer instead of Dad, especially when Bart is making fun of him. Homer has also implied that he wouldn't mind if Bart changed 100% and that he isn't very attached to him as he is. However, Homer also frequently shows genuine care for Bart and has expressed that he loves him, in spite of their differences and treatment of one another. He truly is ashamed whenever he embarrasses Bart and he tries to be a better father to Bart than Abe was to him, for example, he overly supports Bart when he is on the football team because his father never once supported him. Homer has even risked his life to impress Bart, such as taking a cannon ball to the stomach because he realized that doing so caused Bart to idolize him. He was even willing to jump across Springfield Gorge to help Bart understand the stupidity of risking one's life for short-lived thrills and glory.
Homer and Bart share the same sense of humor and adventure and therefore are almost always partners during wild escapades, such as when Homer became a truck driver or when they were arrested together in Japan. They spend a lot of time together watching TV, yet Bart doesn't view Homer as a father figure, and although they spend a lot of time together, Homer doesn't take much of an interest in his life. Whenever Homer does partake in a father-son activity with Bart, it is usually to beat Flanders at something, although, interestingly, Homer is truly offended when Bart gets a "big brother" to spend time with. Although Bart oftentimes acts resentful of Homer, he really loves when his father shows an interest in him, in fact, when he cheated on an IQ test and was labeled a genius, consequently winning Homer's affection, he was reluctant to admit he had cheated (even though he was miserable at school) simply because he didn't want things to go back to how they had been with Homer. Homer's greatest fear is Bart becoming a homosexual.
Lisa
Homer is very protective of Lisa and shows a soft side to her that Bart has never seen. She is his little girl and when Homer disappoints her or makes her sad he will oftentimes go to the end of the earth to make things right. Homer sometimes does activities with Lisa which he doesn't enjoy simply to make her happy, such as attending the ballet. That being said, Lisa and Homer do not get along very well. When Homer does accompany Lisa on such intellectual trips he oftentimes embarrasses her, usually by either falling asleep, saying something rude or unintellectual, or else displaying disgusting habits (scratching his butt, burping, etc.). When Lisa becomes upset, Homer can't usually figure out what it is he did wrong. They have little to talk about because of their differences in interests and intellectual caliber, so Homer far prefers to do tasks with Bart and leave Lisa alone.
He is often annoyed by her love of music and constantly yells at her to tell her to stop making a racket. Lisa is also the moral center of the family, which leads to further clashes between her and Homer, who doesn't really care about the ethics of the various situations he has been involved in. Lisa's intelligence is likely the largest cause that Homer and her do not get along better. Whenever Lisa does make an attempt to protest or explain something to her father, she usually uses such advanced vocabulary that Homer simply nods and replies, "Yes, sweetie," even though it makes no sense whatsoever in the context of the conversation. However, Homer is very proud of Lisa's intelligence and will brag about it to friends and co-workers. Although he is often insensitive to her and her needs (once turning her room into a cellular tower without a second thought and then forcing her to bunk with Bart- also without a second thought) Homer does try to be a good father and puts her happiness above anything else, for example, when he was first told that she was gifted and that she should find a mental stimulation to help with her gift, he gave up the $200 dollars the family had saved for a new air conditioner to buy her her saxophone instead.
Maggie
Homer forgets Maggie exists—frequently. Once, when talking about their "two" children, Marge interrupted and told Homer that they had three children, to which he replied that the dog didn't count as a child. Similar dialogue is recurrent throughout the series. Also, whenever Maggie is referred to by her full name, Margaret, Homer has no clue as to who is being referenced. When Homer does try to interact with Maggie, he oftentimes frightens her unintentionally.
Homer is highly irresponsible with Maggie, often giving her unsafe things to play with and once completely losing her because she crawled out of her crib. Maggie was an accident baby (as was Bart and Lisa ) and having her meant that Homer had to quit his dream job at the bowling alley and instead take his job back at the nuclear power plant so that he would make enough money to support a third child. This was not ideal for Homer because he had only recently quit from the power plant in a very rude and flamboyant fashion. When he returned, Smithers and Burns had a good gloat that he was crawling back and, to further depress him, installed a plaque dead center in front of his desk that read, "don't forget, you're here forever." Because of all this, Homer fiercely resented the prenatal Maggie, but, as soon as he first laid eyes on her, he immediately fell in love. There are no baby pictures of Maggie in the Simpson household because Homer hangs them "where he needs the most cheering up"-- at work. In his office, he has created a mural of Maggie's baby pictures which strategically cover up one half of the N and the entire T of don't, the GET of forget, the YOU'RE, the E of here, and the FOREVER on his plaque with pictures of Maggie, so that it reads "do it for her." It can be argued from this that Maggie cheers up Homer more than his other two children. Although they don't communicate well, Homer and Maggie share a special bond and he loves her deeply. Maggie's first word was "daddy" which he couldn't hear.
Hugo Simpson II
In Treehouse of Horror VII, Hugo lives in the attic and lives off fish heads. He is said to be Bart's conjoined twin.
Homer with Maggie
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Future
Homer, as he appears in The Simpsons Game
In 2013, Homer's and Marge 's relationship has finally ended after Homer blew the family savings on an underwater house. She started dating Krusty the Clown , and eventually, Homer fought him to win her back. Homer was beaten, but Marge still chose to go back to him.
Treehouse of Horror VI
In this episode, Homer goes to the third dimension, but accidentally ends up in the real world.
Treehouse of Horror XXV Intro : eaten the small intestine himself.
Role in Video Games
The Simpsons Arcade Game
Homer is one of the playable characters along with Bart, Lisa, and Marge in The Simpsons Arcade Game . When Maggie is kidnapped by Mr. Burns and Smithers, Homer, Bart, Lisa, and Marge go on an adventure to save her.
The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants
Homer only makes small cameos in The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants .
The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World
Homer only makes a cameo in The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World .
Bart's House of Weirdness
Homer plays a small role in Bart's House of Weirdness . After Bart pranks Homer and Marge too much, they ground him.
The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Juggernauts
Homer has a cameo in The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Juggernauts .
Krusty's Fun House
Homer has his somewhat first major role since The Simpsons Arcade Game in Krusty's Fun House . Homer is the runner of one of the extermination devices that exterminate the rats.
The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man
Homer has a minor appearance in The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man.
Bart's Nightmare
Homer has a minor appearance in Bart's Nightmare . In the second half of the "Bartzilla" stage, Homer plays the role of a "King Kong" type ape monster on the top of the building Bart is climbing. After Bart completes the game, his role changes depending on how well Bart does in the game. In the worst ending, Homer and the rest of the family are disappointed in Bart. If Bart's grade is slightly higher, Homer is proud of him while Lisa is still disappointed. If Bart gets an outstanding grade, Homer and the whole family is all proud of Bart.
The Simpsons: Bart and the Beanstalk
Homer has a somewhat major role once again. After Bart sells the family cow for some beans, Homer sends Bart to his room after mistaking the beans for food and spitting them out into the ground. Once Bart goes up the beanstalk from the beans, he is locked in a war with a giant who looks just like Homer. Once Bart defeats the Homer giant, the family uses the earned gold to buy a new cow and plenty of doughnuts for Homer.
Virtual Bart
Homer has an antagonist role (although not directly) in Virtual Bart . Homer appears as a caveman, and is the main antagonist of the "Dinosaur" section along with Moe.
The Simpsons Cartoon Studio
Homer has a big role in The Simpsons Cartoon Studio . Homer is one of the things the player can manipulate to create cartoons in the game.
The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield
Homer is one of the things the player can interact with in The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield .
The Simpsons Bowling
Homer is one of the playable characters in The Simpsons Bowling , along with Marge, Bart, Lisa, Mr. Burns, Apu, Krusty, Groundskeeper Willie, and Abe (Grandpa) Simpson. Homer has the most accuracy (along with Willie) of any bowler in the game.
The Simpsons Wrestling
Homer is one of the playable characters in The Simpsons Wrestling , along with Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson (and Maggie Simpson), Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Groundskeeper Willie, Bumblebee Man, Itchy, Scratchy, Moe Szyslak, Ned Flanders, Professor Frink, Mr. Burns (and Waylon Smithers), and Kang (and Kodos). Like everyone of the characters, Homer has his own original moves and fighting style.
The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror
Homer is one of the main protagonists of The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror . Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie (only in certain segments) are playable.
The Simpsons Road Rage
Homer is (arguably) the main protagonist of The Simpsons Road Rage . Homer has a major role in the story. Mr. Burns has converted the Springfield buses into nuclear-powered ones and now, they're wreaking havoc on the streets of Springfield. Homer leads a taxi service with the residents of Springfield to put the Nuclear Busses out of business. Homer has the most cars out of any playable character in the game.
The Simpsons Skateboarding
Homer is one of the main characters of The Simpsons Skateboarding . He is playable along with Marge Simpson, Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Otto Mann, Professor Frink, Krusty the Clown, and Chief Wiggum.
The Simpsons: Hit and Run
Homer (along with Bart) is the main protagonist of The Simpsons: Hit and Run . He is playable in level 1 and level 7. He is playable, along with Bart, Lisa, Marge, and Apu. He starts with running errands for the family, but then starts investigating the wasp cameras. After falsely accusing Mr. Burns and failing, Homer is reduced to shop keeper/minor character for most of the rest of the game. In the final level though, he returns. Homer is set off the get supplies for the apocalypse for his family. Homer finds the UFOs, so he steals cars, puts radioactive waste in the cars, and makes the UFOs abduct the cars, causing the UFO to explode. Homer is considered a hero by the town, and a comedy King by the aliens.
The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown
Homer is the main protagonist of The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown , and the only playable character. After a nuclear meltdown will occur due to Homer's incompetence (and Plopper ), Homer must prevent a nuclear meltdown.
The Simpsons Game
Homer is one of the main protagonists of The Simpsons Game . He is playable, along with Bart, Lisa, Marge, and Maggie (only on certain parts). Once Homer and his family find out they are in a video game, they must go on a quest to find the creator of the game.
Homer has powers in the game (see Homer's Powers )
The Simpsons: Tapped Out
Homer is a major character in The Simpsons: Tapped Out . After accidentally destroying Springfield, Homer must get the town back, and rebuild it with the help of the player.
Family Guy
PTV
In the opening sequence in "PTV", Homer is being chased into his garage a la the opening sequence to The Simpsons, with Homer being flattened by Stewie's tricycle. Peter then opens the garage door, notices Simpson unconscious, and asks Stewie who the man is.
Movin' Out (Brian's Song)
Homer is also heard from in "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)". He walks in on his wife Marge cheating on him with Glenn Quagmire. Panicked, Quagmire pulls out a gun, killing him. His kids, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, witness the murder, and thus, are killed as well.
The Juice is Loose
He briefly appears in "The Juice Is Loose", and was voiced by impressionist Jeff Bergman. He was the Simpson whose presence Mayor Adam West did not want in Quahog.
Cool Hand Peter
In "Cool Hand Peter", the jury of the trial of Peter, Joe, Quagmire and Cleveland consisted of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Comic Book Guy, Groundskeeper Willie, Edna Krabappel, Ned Flanders, Otto Mann, Moe Szyslak, and Mr. Burns. Peter is at first relieved to find that it's a jury of their peers but Joe points out that they don't see it that way.
Ratings Guy
In "Ratings Guy", Homer rushes to report having broken television only to have Peter brag that they beat them to it. Here, he is voiced by his regular voice actor Dan Castellaneta.
The Simpsons Guy
Main article: The Simpsons Guy .
Lego Dimensions (The Simpsons)
Homer is also in Lego Dimensions, but you can also play as Bart Simpson and Krusty. Homer is one of the level pack characters in the game. The story level is called The Mysterious Voyage of Homer. Ability: Homer: Super Strength, Big Transform Sonar Smash.
Foreign dubs
Homer's name is rarely translated, though exceptions occur. In the Arabic version Homer becomes Omar, and it was heavily modified, with alcohol and pork being removed. The Latin American version translates Homer to Homero.
Czech
Vlastimil Zavřel (since season 13)
Danish
Behind the Laughter
Creation
Matt Groening first conceived the Simpson family in the lobby of James L. Brooks ' office. He had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts, and had intended to present his Life in Hell series. When he realized that animating Life in Hell would require him to rescind publication rights for his life's work, Groening chose to go in another direction. He hurriedly sketched out his version of a dysfunctional family and named the characters after members of his own family, with Homer being named after his father. Homer then made his debut with the rest of the Simpsons clan on April 19, 1987 in the Tracey Ullman short " Good Night ". He was the first character to speak in the series. Homer's middle initial "J", which was revealed to stand for "Jay", [80] was a "tribute" to Bullwinkle J. Moose from Rocky and Bullwinkle , a show Matt Groening loved as a child. [81] According to Matt Groening, the whole family was designed so that they would be recognizable in silhouette. [82] [83]
Voice
Homer's voice sounds different on the shorts than the later half-hour show. Dan Castellaneta 's earliest portrayal began as a loose impression of Walter Matthau , but developed into a more robust and humorous voice during the second and third season of the half-hour show, allowing Homer to convey a wider range of emotions. [84] Castellaneta changed the voice, as he could not sustain his Matthau impression for the 9-10 hour long recording sessions and had to find something easier. [85] During an interview with the cast of the show on Inside the Actors Studio, Castellaneta stated that Homer's voice was based in part on his own father who often spoke with an exuberant tone.
Catchphrase
Main article: D'oh!
Starting in "Punching Bag" short, the phase has now become part of the English Dictionary
Homer popularized the annoyed grunt " D'oh! " (made memorable through Dan Castellaneta's distinctive voice work), which began as an abbreviated form of James Finlayson's annoyed "Dooooh" in Laurel and Hardy films and other comedy shorts. This modern interjection has found enough popular acceptance to be included in the Oxford English Dictionary .
He also popularized the catchphrase " Mmm... ". Many examples of other "Mmm...s" are "Mmm...candy", "Mmm...pointy" from or "Mmm...hug". He has used it less lately.
He also has another catchphrase: " Woo Hoo !" He says this when something goes right for him. When something goes wrong for him he says, "D'oh!"
Reception
On May 30, 2003, Homer was made an honorary citizen of Winnipeg, Canada , in recognition of Matt Groening 's father Homer Groening, who is believed to be from the Manitoba capital. [86]
Homer placed second on TV Guide's 2015 Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters, behind Bugs Bunny . [87] In 2005, Homer was listed fifth on Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters, one of only four cartoon characters on that list. [88] British TV viewers voted him as the greatest TV character of all time. [89] In 2007, Entertainment Weekly placed Homer ninth on their list of the "50 Greatest TV icons". [90]
The Simpsons has been recommended for use in the teaching of sociology to modern-day college students. The journal Teaching Sociology appraised it as "particularly effective for illustrating sociological themes and encouraging critical thinking among today's undergraduates". [91] The non-academic book The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer includes a chapter analyzing Homer's character from the perspective of Aristotelian virtue ethics, whatever that is.
Homer was voted the greatest television character of all time by Channel 4 viewers. For voicing Homer, Castellaneta has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and a special-achievement Annie Award. In 2000, Homer and his family were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Homer Simpson syndrome
A 5-year study of more than 2,000 middle-aged people in France found a possible link between weight and brain function, dubbed the "Homer Simpson syndrome". [92] Results from a word memory test showed that people with a BMI of 20 (considered to be a healthy level) remembered an average of nine out of sixteen words. Meanwhile, people with a BMI of 30 (inside the obese range) remembered an average of just seven out of sixteen words [92]
Merchandising
A golden figurine of Homer from Burger King in 2007
Homer's inclusion in many Simpsons publications, toys, and other merchandise is evidence of his enduring popularity. He has played central roles in the Simpsons Comics series. The Homer Book , written about Homer's personality and attributes, has been published and is commercially available. Numerous other items such as bottle openers, alarm clocks and other merchandise are widely available for purchase.
Quotes
"I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean, S-M-A-R-T!"
"I promised I wouldn't eat? Never! You lie!
"You tried your best and you failed miserably, the lesson is never try!"
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
"Here's to alcohol... the cause of and solution to all life's problems."
"Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?"
"The Internet? Is that thing still around?"
"I don't apologize. I'm sorry, Lisa, but that's the way I am."
"I hope I didn't brain my damage."
"I won't sleep in the same bed with a woman who thinks I'm lazy! I'm going right downstairs, unfold the couch, unroll the sleeping ba--uh, goodnight."
"Operator! Give me the number for 911!"
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand."
Trivia
His Social Security number is 568-47-0008.
Homer is the only character to appear and speak in every episode of The Simpsons .
Originally, Bart was the character the show focused on, but by season three , they focused more on Homer.
The episode "Today I Am a Clown" reveals that Homer is an animal whisperer.
Homer has an email address on AOL called Chukylover53, and this email belongs in fact to Simpsons writer Matt Selman , and can be emailed to receive Homer style replies.
His blood type is either B positive [93] or AB, as displayed on his sperm donor profile, Thad Supersperm. [94]
It is implied in " Homer's Triple Bypass " that Homer's bloodstream has a continuous regulation of radioactivity, as Dr. Hibbert was explaining to Marge Simpson that they injected Homer with a Radioactive Dye to see his circulatory system from an X-ray until he learns that the nurse hadn't even injected the dye yet (resulting in Hibbert saying "good lord" in a shocked manner).
In the same episode, it was also revealed that his fat can jiggle upwards to at least an hour, as when Dr. Hibbert did a fat analysis test to see how long it would go, it became apparent that it was going for long enough to force Hibbert to cancel an upcoming 1:00 medical appointment he was supposed to attend.
His personality is very similar to that of Peter Griffin from Family Guy, which premiered ten years after The Simpsons began. In " Treehouse of Horror XIII ," Peter Griffin appeared as one of Homer's clones.
He has met Peter Griffin.
Homer owns the Denver Broncos , despite wanting to own the Dallas Cowboys.
It is believed that Homer is diabetic as mentioned in "That '90s Show". However, if this was true, Homer would most likely be dead because he has never been seen taking insulin and the amount of food that Homer eats would just ensure that would already be dead by the point the episode That '90s Show was shown.
In " Fear of Flying ," it is shown his favorite song (at the time) was "It's Raining Men."
Homer has temporarily died twice outside of Treehouse of Horror episodes. As shown in " Homer's Triple Bypass ," when he died of a heart attack, but was revived when Mr. Burns mentioned a ham. And again in " Million Dollar Maybe ", when he was trying to calm himself down after stressing about being rich and not being able to tell Marge, but was revived when he realized he was dead and made a desperate attempt to return to his body. He dies the most times (now 20) in the Treehouse of Horror segments , but they are non-canon.
According to " The Blunder Years ," his constant eating was a direct result of his trauma from finding Waylon Smithers, Sr. 's corpse.
Homer was originally supposed to have an illegitimate, long lost daughter in the episode that would have become Insane Clown Poppy , but the writers decided to change it to having Krusty have the long lost illegitimate daughter instead in order to not make the plot too far fetched for it to be canon.
He looks like his father when he is dehydrated. [95]
On one episode of Jeopardy!, there was a category called "Readings From Homer" in which Homer's voice provided the clues..
Homer weighs between 239-300 lbs.
In all Simpsons video games where you can play as multiple characters, Homer is always the first unlocked character.
In "Trilogy of Error", Homer had his thumb cut off. However, it was sutured by one of Fat Tony's helpers as Lisa's Science Fair Project.
Homer's side burn and ear used to say M + G for Matt Groening. They decided to keep the "M," but Groening wanted homer's ear to look like a real ear.
Homer only has an IQ of 55. It was revealed in HOMЯ , that the reason Homer's IQ is so low is because he's had a crayon lodged in his brain since he was six. Upon removal of the crayon, his IQ jumped from 55 to 105.
Homer shares his middle initial J with a character Philip J. Fry from Futurama, Matt Groening's second successful show, but unlike Homer, whose initial actually means Jay, Fry's was never defined.
He is one of three Simpson family members to break a leg in the series and have the injury last through the majority of the episode, [96] the others being Marge [97] and Bart [98] .
Throughout the series, Homer has shown to be highly patriotic. He has also displayed a small form of Nationalism by insulting other countries, making fun of their culture and its people, as well as putting his country ahead of all others.
In Rednecks and Broomsticks , Homer has shown to have a strong sense of taste by being able to taste Moonshine inside the town's water reservoir. His taste buds could, to some extent, be compared to that of a wine taster.
In the previous season, his old taste buds got burned off exposing new ones in Father Knows Worst when he ate a fire kabob.
Homer starts out as a anti hero in The Simpsons Movie when he makes Springfield the most polluted city in the history of the planet. However, he later has an epiphany when he realizes that other people are just as important as him and saves everyone from being blown up by Russ Cargill.
Also in The Simpsons Movie, Homer is hinted to be an atheist when he complains while going into church saying "Everyone's busy talking to their Phony Baloney God!".
The episode, Marge vs. the Monorail shows Homer with what appears to be a mouthful of unlit cigarettes. This joke was recreated several years later as a meme for the game Team Fortress 2 with the Spy class doing the same thing, only the cigarettes are lit.
There was a temporary belief among fans that Homer has a disorder called Intermittent Explosive Disorder where the sufferer overreacts when angered resulting in violent outbursts and property damage.
In the episode Super Franchise Me , Homer calls Ned's quotes "Flanderism's".
He is the only member of the Simpsons family who has had a speaking role in every episode.
Despite his low intelligence there have been a few times where he is able to show higher intelligence. These include accurately predicting the outcome of the comet in Bart's Comet, accurately assuming the cause of the smoke inside a fireproof safe then guessing its eventual explosion in Homerazzi, and being capable of describing the difference between envy and jealousy which caused Lisa to look in a dictionary and confirm his description in Covercraft. He also, when hearing of the term " think tank ", imagines think tank as the word was intended rather than a literal and inaccurate definition in E. Pluribus Wiggum, with him also telling his shocked family "Hey, I can't get one right?" afterwards to highlight it.
Homer is responsible for Maude Flanders' death.
He is the only main Simpson family member who doesn't have anything colored red in his default clothes, unlike Marge (Her pearls), Bart (His t-shirt), Lisa (Her dress and sandals) and Maggie (Her pacifer)
A screenshot of Homer's license from Duffless
Details from Homer's license indicate he holds a class C license and has no hair.
It is also true that he has a tattoo on his back which says 'Marge madness', as seen in 'Waiting for Duffman.'
Homer was IGN's number one 90's cartoon character.
It's been shown multiple times that Homer has Arachnophobia which is a fear of arachnids (mainly spiders). This is best shown in the episode sweet homediddly-dum-doodily where he panics when a spider appears next to his keys, another example would be in Treehouse of Horror XXII where he panics when he realises that the spider Halloween decoration was a real black widow spider and panics again when a second spider appears later in the episode. The final example would be in Mobile Homer where he's unsettled by the sight of a spider when he's asked by Marge to kill the spiders in the garage and gets into a frenzy when more spiders attack him.
Gallery
The full image gallery for Homer Simpson may be viewed at Homer Simpson/Gallery .
See also
742 Evergreen Terrace : more info on Homer's house.
Marge Simpson : more info on Homer's wife.
Bart Simpson : more info on Homer's oldest child.
Lisa Simpson : more info on Homer's middle child.
Maggie Simpson : more info on Homer's youngest child.
Abraham Simpson : more info on Homer's father.
Mona Simpson : more info on Homer's mother.
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Moe's Tavern, or simply called Moe's, is the local tavern in Springfield . The bar is named after its owner: Moe .
It is the only known tavern in Springfield , though there is a Joe's Tavern in Shelbyville . Moe's is located right next to King Toot's Music Store ; however, it will vary occasionally, and has been featured opposite both Bart's factory, It Blows (the downtown air conditioner store) and a celebrity club. In the episode Brake My Wife, Please , Moe's Tavern is shown to be only a brief walking distance away from 742 Evergreen Terrace . It’s also hinted that it was only kept in business because Moe frequently bribes Mayor Quimby whenever he pays an inspection visit.
Contents
Moe's best customer, Barney Gumble .
Moe's is said to be one of the places where "everyone knows your name." You can often find Homer Simpson , Lenny Leonard , Carl Carlson and Barney Gumble here, as well as other background characters and the owner Moe Szyslak . The tavern is notable in many ways. Located on Springfield's Walnut Street, it has the owner's office in the female toilet, which is what Moe used as an office where he managed Homer's boxing career in " The Homer They Fall ." The backroom often trades in endangered species and harbors fugitives, as well as being taken over by a pack of raccoons. The bar itself has supposedly never been cleaned; this was confirmed in the episode Mayored to the Mob when Homer and Mayor Quimby were in the bar and some cockroaches nearly walked away with Mayor Quimby's "change" (with Moe claiming that they were "taking care of the roach problem", although Mayor Quimby simply stated that Moe "should have seen the hospital", implying that the hospital's health hazards were even worse.). The tavern also includes a safe room which Moe uses when held up by Snake and once a whale. The Tavern originally didn't have a designated driver policy, but Moe ended up implementing one after its drunken patrons managed to cause an increase in car crashes. [1] (On St. Patrick's Day, Moe often tells the designated drivers to beat it due to not wanting any cheapskates on the biggest drinking day of the year.) [2] It is also open every day of the week except Wednesday, because it is on this day that Moe Szyslak goes to the local homeless shelter to read to the people there, or to the hospital to read to sick kids. The tavern is often robbed by Snake Jailbird . Moe also possesses a pump shotgun behind the counter.
Prank Calls
The tavern has been the ongoing victim of Bart's prank calls in the earlier seasons to which he calls Moe for gag names that gets him laughed at by the patrons and ends with Moe threatening bodily harm to whoever prank called him. One prank call backfired on Bart , Hugh Jass , for there was a patron of the same name in Flaming Moe's.
Some of the names include: I.P. Freely (I pee freely) Jacques Strap (Jock Strap) Al Coholic (Alcoholic) Oliver Clothesoff (All of her clothes off) Seymour Butz (See more butts) Homer Sexual (Homosexual) Lotta Cooties (A lot of cooties) Anita Bath (I need a bath) Amanda Hugginkiss (A man to hug and kiss)
Banned patrons
Homer had been banned from the tavern at least twice. The first time was for an incident where he played a prank where he unscrewed a pot of sugar that split onto the bar, causing everyone to vote to ban Homer from Moe's [3] . The second time was for an undisclosed incident where Homer had been late for his tab payment, requiring that he either pay the tab or at least clean up a mess in the bathroom that Homer somehow caused, although this particular ban was overlooked when Homer became a bodyguard for Mayor Quimby and accompanied him to the tavern. [4]
Employees
Moe's patrons (there are two Larrys visible, an error).
Trivia
In " Moe Letter Blues " Moe mentions moving to Springfield because its zip code on a calculator spells "boobs". This means the zip code for Moe's Tavern is 80085, also in an episode Homer walks to Moe's Tavern and his proud of himself only to find Bart waving at him from their house just up the road, suggesting that Moe's is on Evergreen Terrace and that the Simpson's House Zip ends in 8008.
In " Homer the Smithers ", Mr. Burns attempting to reach Smithers , accidentally dials the telephone number for Moe's Tavern. The number is revealed as [tel:7648-4377 7648-4377] which spells out (S-M-I-T-H-E-R-S).
Moe often tricks famous bands into performing at the tavern.
Some episodes show an apartment above the tavern where Barney lives.
It was implied that when it was opened, it was originally called Meaux's Tavern. This was shown in the episode Three Gays of the Condo .
In The Simpsons Movie , Moe's was called Moe's Bar, probably in order clear up misconceptions any casual fan/movie goer would have when watching the movie.
The prank call to Moe was based on a series of prank calls to a bar called The Tube Bar, owned by a very hoarse voiced man named Red.
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Lisa's jazz-playing mentor was Bleeding Gums ...who? | Simpsons' Bleeding Gums Murphy Action Figure - JazzTimes
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Simpsons‘ Bleeding Gums Murphy Action Figure
Bleeding Gums Murphy, Lisa’s jazz saxophone mentor on The Simpsons, has been immortalized as an “action” figure-though we doubt the rotund Mr. Gums does anything resembling action, especially now that he plays with Bird in heaven’s eternal jam sessions after he died in the “‘Round Springfield” episode.
In that same episode, Lisa Simpson asked Mr. Gums how he got his name:
“Well, lemme put it this way. You ever been to the dentist?,” he says.
“Yeah,” replies Lisa.
“Not me, I suppose I should go to one, but I got enough pain in my life as it is.”
This 5-inch figure, courtesy of Playmates Toys, comes with an alto saxophone and a copy of Bleeding Gums’ lone album, Sax on the Beach. Despite appearing on The Cosby Show a few times as the “jazz-playing grandpa,” Mr. Gums wasn’t able to get very far in his hardscrabble career. He wasn’t able to capitalize on his record release either, having been derailed by a serious addiction to Faberge eggs. In “‘Round Springfield,” Mr. Gums is shown begging for one more of the jeweled eggs:
“Sir, don’t you think you’ve had enough?,” says the shopkeeper.
“I’ll tell you when I’ve had enough,” screams Mr. Gums, who is then shown lying destitute in an alley surrounded by Faberge eggs.
The jazz life is a difficult one. Be reminded of it daily with this beautiful toy.
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"Bleeding Gums" Murphy (voiced by Ron Taylor and Daryl L. Coley[1]), was a jazz musician, idol, and mentor of Lisa Simpson. His actual first name has never been revealed, though Murphy claimed his nickname came from the fact he had never once been to a dentist, as "I got enough pain in my life as it is". His significant roles were in the episodes "Moaning Lisa" and "'Round Springfield", though he appears in other episodes, such as "Bart the Daredevil" (where he is yellow), "Dancin' Homer", "Old Money", "Flaming Moe's, "Bart Gets an F", "Radio Bart", and "Lisa's Pony". In "Dancin' Homer", he was voiced by Daryl L. Coley. At one point he had enjoyed a fairly successful career, releasing an album ("Sax on the Beach") and appearing on Steve Allen's Tonight Show, and as (one of) the Cosby children's four grandfathers on an episode of The Cosby Show, but quickly lost his money feeding his $1500-a-day habit of purchasing and smashing Faberg� eggs. He had taught Lisa to display her emotions through music, prompting Lisa to hold him as an important figure in her life. His last appearance was in "'Round Springfield" - after Bart ends up in the hospital, Lisa wanders off to find Murphy dying in a nearby ward. He explains about his life, family, and work to her as well as giving her advice for her upcoming school performance, giving her his saxophone. When Lisa returns, she finds out that Bleeding Gums has died from circumstances which are never revealed. No one, except for Lisa, attends Murphy's funeral. Lisa soon learns that though he may be gone, he still is alive in her. It is strongly hinted that Murphy and Doctor Hibbert are long-lost brothers, most notably by Murphy's quote: "I don't really have a family. All I had was a little brother who grew up to become a doctor. He used to laugh at the most inappropriate times." Hibbert then laughs inappropriately and says, "Hey, I've got an older brother that I'll never see. He's a jazz musician or some such. Oh well, bye, bye." Bleeding Gums Murphy is loosely based on Blind Willie Johnson, at whose feet the young Bleeding Gums character learned. The voice of Bleeding Gums Murphy was provided by Ron Taylor, while his saxophone playing is provided by Dan Higgins. As a sign of respect for the character, Murphy has been a fixture of The Simpsons opening sequence since the second season. Originally, even after his death, Bart would skateboard past him on the street.
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Biography
Apu's wedding with Manjula
During the 1960s, while still living in India, Apu spent some time as a student of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in which capacity he became a friend of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney. Apu's friendship with the McCartneys caused him to be referred to by some (mainly himself) as "The Fifth Beatle", They visited Apu in Springfield around the time he became naturalized, He says that he graduated from Calcutta Technical University, where he was the top of his class of 7 million and got a scholarship in the United States at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.). [5] In the United States he got a doctorate in computer science by designing the world's first tic-tac-toe program that only the top human players could beat (and which was broken by Bart years later), He then took a job at the Kwik-E-Mart to pay back his student loans. He has great remembrance.
During the mid-1980s, Apu was a member of the barbershop quartet called The Be Sharps , which also
Young Apu
Apu's Convenience Store the Kwik-E-Mart
consisted of Homer Simpson , Seymour Skinner , and Barney Gumble , who replaced original band member Chief Wiggum . [6] Upon the advice of Nigel, the band's manager, Apu took the stage name Apu du Beaumarche (a pun, as "du beau marché" means "of the beautiful market" in French) and denied "by the many arms of Vishnu" that he was actually a Hindu.
Apu and Manjula married after two years, Despite trying to wriggle out of the situation, Apu was won over soon after meeting Manjula and the two actually did fall in love. Later, Manjula gave birth to eight children after receiving a larger-than-recommended dose of fertility drugs. [7] Apu and Manjula have a mostly happy marriage, despite understandable marital problems caused by Apu's workaholic nature, the strain of caring for eight children, and two instances of infidelity by Apu. He and his family are devotees of the Hindu gods Shiva, Ganesha, and Vishnu. At Apu's wedding, Homer, in a misguided attempt to play on the bride and groom's families' fear of the gods, arrived dressed as the Hindu god Ganesh. The impersonation was seen through by one of Apu's relatives and failed miserably. Before his marriage, Apu became known as the leading ladies' man in Springfield, because he holds a Ph.D. and runs his own business. He also admitted, "I'm not much of a talker, but I love to listen. I also like to design and build furniture and then to have a discussion about where it could be placed in a room," which made the single women of Springfield go crazy for him. Despite his hectic marriage and home life, however, his first love is still to work in the Kwik-E-Mart, sometimes taking shifts long enough to send him into sleep deprived hallucinations in which he thinks he is "...a hummingbird of some kind." Also after Apu had an affair with the Annette , Manjula made him legally change his name to Slime Q Slimedog. He is revealed to have slept with Selma Bouvier after Homer and Marge's second wedding.
Apu in Yahtzee
He claims to know pi to 40000 decimal places, noting that the last place (40001 first digit of pi) is one.
Snake Holding a shot gun at Apu
When he becomes old, he looks like Sanjay .
Personality
Apu is generally polite towards his customers, always saying thank you, even after less-than-genial interactions with the public, such as armed hold-ups. He is also a dutiful worker to the point of being a virtual workaholic, spending so much time awake at one point he began to believe he was a hummingbird. He is often found spending more time at his workplace than even with his own family, to Manjula's irritation, especially when she finds out that in America, workplaces normally have weekends off, a practice that Apu evidently never told her.
However, he has some negative traits, shown throughout the course of the show. His hard work ethic and though loyal attitude notwithstanding, Marge In Chains shows him ruthlessly prosecute Marge Simpson over a misplaced and absentmindedly forgotten bottle of bourbon, and to even where he refuses the pleas of Homer for him to drop the unjustified shoplifting charges and the trial for the sake of the reputation of security company joint sponsor of Kwik-E-Mart's, Nordyne Defense Dynamics. Apu's antics with the Squishy Woman also highlights his infidelity that comes with his workaholic mentality.
In some episodes, Apu is even seen manipulating customers into buying things they don't really need (sometimes into things which may be potentially life threatening and even fatal), and at exorbitantly marked up prices. He also sometimes lets slip some snideness in his polite greetings. He has a bit of a paranoid nature, as evidenced by his once jumping behind a counter and then shouting threats to Bart and Lisa who were walking in to investigate a robbery at the Kwik-E-Mart, and at least twice went up to the roof and started shooting his rifle at potential customers. Apu is also not immune to practicing the customary traits of Springfieldians, being backwardness, myopia, and even to outright stupidity, having been seen flocking to various questionable trends and to even participate in various mobbings.
Heritage
In addition to being Brahmins, Apu and Manjula appear to be South Indian, because of their last names and especially dark complexions. The name Apu means loving child in Tamil. However, Apu has also been shown to be Bengali. [8] However, Manjula speaks Hindi (interpreted as "baby talk" by Marge), to Maggie, as opposed to Tamil or Bengali, further complicating the matter. Still, Apu's parents very strongly appear to be Tamil. [9] [10] Apu has a cousin named Kavi , who lives in Bangalore, which is part of Karnataka, South India; this would suggest that they are actually Kannadigas. [11]
Immigrant Status
All American Apu
Apu is a naturalized U.S. citizen and holds a Ph.D. in computer science. He graduated first in his class of seven million at the Calcutta Institute of Technology, going on to earn his doctorate at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology. His doctoral dissertation was the world's first computer program to play perfect tic-tac-toe ( Bart Simpson ruined it years later by plucking a random punch card out of the box along with several others). Apu began working at the Kwik-E-Mart during his college years to help pay off his student loans.
Sanjay , Apu's brother, helps him run the Kwik-E-Mart. Sanjay's daughter (and Apu's niece) is Pahusacheta . Sanjay's son is Jamshed . They all share the Nahasapeemapetilon surname. Apu has another younger brother, who is only mentioned in the episode of his marriage. When Apu's and Manjula's parents were first arranging their marriage, Apu was shown as the oldest of three on a chart. Apu also has a cousin living in India named Kavi , who helped Homer while he was in India. He works for many American companies taking service calls and can speak with American, Western, and Jamaican accents. [12] This episode, seeing that it takes place in Bangalore, strengthens the theory that Apu was born in South India.
Non Canon appearances
Video Games
Apu has been a playable character in several Simpsons games. He is the only non-Simpson family playable character in the video game The Simpsons: Hit and Run , and his standard vehicle is a yellow version of his Pontiac Firebird called "Longhorn". He is in the fifth level which is downtown Springfield at night, where he tries to find the source of Buzz Cola and, with Bart Simpson , uncovers the alien reality TV show that has fuelled many of the game's events.
He is also a driver and passenger in The Simpsons Road Rage , and is a fighter unlocked from the beginning in the Simpsons Wrestling .
In the Simpsons Game. When Jimbo,Dolph and Kearney are assigned by Skinner to rob from the Museum They stop by the Kwik E Mart and Apu Witnesses Them take Milhouses Pants by force. Later when Bart and Homer Save and destroy part of the museum Apu tells them that thanks to them his Children will one day know the boredom of the Museum. Apu later tells Bart that Springfields Fattest Pigs are sighning up for the Duff Eating Contest. After the Contest Apu tells Bart way to give Homer a unfair advantage in the Eating Contest. Later when Mr Burns Is planning to cut down the forest he goes to the Kwik E Mart and buys a Magazine called GEO and leaves Without Buying it. After the foil of Mr Burns plan Apu says to Bart saving a forest will asures he will be atleast a pigeon in his next life. Apu later Joins Marge to banned the Itchy and Scratchy Game and succeeds. When the Aliens invade Springfield Apu sees the Mall being attacked by Aliens. Apu later heard on the Radio that Dolphins are attacking Springfield and wishes that his Donuts do not join the Lard Lad Reighn of terror. Apu tells Bart that in honor of his victory he is serving Dolphin Flavored Squishys. He Tells Bart that he really showed Lard Lad who's boss. He thanks Bart for putting a Small Dent in the Aliens Plan.
Futurama
Although he did not appear fully in person in The Simpsons' sister show, Futurama , his head could be seen in the head museum in "Space Pilot 3000" and "Bender's Big Score".
Behind the Laughter
Apu is voiced by Hank Azaria . Apu's surname, Nahasapeemapetilon, is a spoonerism of the name Pahasanee Mapetilon, combining the first and last names of a schoolmate of Simpsons writer Jeff Martin .
Merchandising
Apu has had four action figures in the World of Springfield line. There is also an Apu figure in the Kidrobot
World of Springfield Apu with Kwik-E-Mart
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Not to be confused with the comic, Kwik-E-Bart .
The Kwik-E-Mart is a convenience store in Springfield , managed by Apu Nahasapeemapetilon . It is run mostly by Apu, but occasionally Sanjay helps. In many future predictions, his several kids all have roles in the maintenance of the Kwik-E-Mart.
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The Kwik-E-Mart isn't all that convenient of a store with Apu gouging the customers for all they've got. It sells the standard convenience store fare at extraordinarily high prices, such as milk for $12, "surprisingly expensive penny candy" or Valentine's Day chocolates for $100 and including the always popular tasty frozen soft drink Squishee. Once during a holdup, Apu refused to give Homer change to call the police from a payphone. Instead, due to the store's policy of "no change without purchase", Apu directed Homer to the cheapest item in the store: a 6 oz bag of Chippos potato chips at $5.99 (to which Homer whispered shouts of "$5.99?! Someone should shoot you!").
The Kwik-E-Mart has also been known to sell faulty, dirty and expired merchandise, though legal to sell items that have been damaged or close to expiration, it is illegal to sell it if it has already expired, especially if you don't tell the customer it is as such, like Apu. It is also so notorious for its daily robberies by Snake Jailbird , and it constantly falls victim to shoplifting by Jimbo , Dolph , and Kearney [1] [2]
History
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon , the store's owner
The Kwik-E-Mart chain was started somewhere in the Himalayas, where the world's first convenience store still stands on a mountain peak, an ironically inconvenient location. Visiting pilgrims are allowed to ask three questions of the resident all-knowing guru (except safe combinations). Apu's visit was spoiled by Homer's three questions, "Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?", "Really?" and "You?" The guru answered "yes" to all three of Homer's questions, and refused to answer any of Apu's, instead saying, "Thank you, come again." [1]
The former look of the Kwik-E-Mart
Apu was fired from his job by Kwik-E-Mart HQ after Homer Simpson contracted food poisoning from the Kwik-E-Mart's spoiled meat and failing to "blame [it] on a scapegoat or sacrificial lamb." Apu was replaced by actor James Woods who was studying to be a convenience store clerk for a role in an upcoming movie. Apu was rehired a short time later, after he foiled a robbery attempt at the Kwik-E-Mart and saved James Woods' life. Apu was shot during the attempted robbery. [1] Apu has also stated that the parent corporation of his store is "Nordine Defence Dynamics," when he is commenting on the prosecution of Marge for shoplifting. [3] Apu has been suggested as the owner of his own Kwik-E-Mart.
Apu is hailed as a cheese in the realm of Kwik-E-Mart employment for once working a shift for over ninety-six hours. During the shift he experienced a hallucination in which he thought he was a hummingbird and tried to drink nectar out of his brother Sanjay 's head. [1]
Apu once installed sixteen gas pumps in the parking lot on the Kwik-E-Mart to compete with a rival store, the Gas'N'Gulp . However, a round of redirected mortar shells from Fort Springfield promptly ruined his hard work. The store itself also appeared to be destroyed: the "K" in the store's name landed on the fort grounds moments later. [4] However, a later episode showed gas pumps at the Kwik-E-Mart. [5]
Apu on the roof with a Shotgun
The Kwik-E-Mart has not been immune to the concept of showmanship as a marketing technique. When Jasper Beardly chose to freeze himself in the store's freezers as a low budget form of preservationist for an indefinite future, Apu transformed his store into the Freak-E-Mart , of which Jasper, marketed as Frostillicus , was the main attraction. When Jasper thawed, thus ending the viability of the project, Apu chose to institute a clothing optional policy, briefly rechristening the store as the Nude-E-Mart . [6]
The Kwik-E-Mart also includes a Utopian garden on its roof; Paul and Linda McCartney often relax there. The garden is accessed through the refrigerator labeled "Non-Alcoholic Beer". When Lisa asks what Apu does when somebody wants to purchase some, he replies, "You know, it's never come up." In accordance with Apu's vegetarian philosophy, all hot dogs at the Kwik-E-Mart are actually made of tofu. No customer, Apu claims, has ever noticed any difference. Although given the average Springfielder they would most likely react violently if they were told. [7]
Despite generally being a good-matured and friendly individual, Apu often exhibits a ruthless, capitalist streak. He has caressed his cigarette machine in gratitude for not dispensing its products after taking a customer's money. [8] His catchphrase after a purchase is always, "Thank you, come again!" Even after dealing with Homer, who was being a difficult customer he states, "Please pay for your purchases and get out and come again!" [9]
After the town of Springfield fined Mr. Burns $3 million for illegally dumping toxic waste, a town meeting was held to discuss how to spend it. Apu suggested spending some of it on hiring more police officers, as he had been shot eight times that year and nearly missed work. Chief Wiggum responded, "Crybaby." [10]
In Ohio, the Kwik-E-Mart is known as the "Stop-O-Mart". [1] Shelbyville has a store called Speed-E-Mart , an obvious Shelbyville antithesis to the Kwik-E-Mart. [11]
James Woods worked at the Kwik-E-Mart in one episode when Apu was fired.
Trivia
In some episodes, when the Kwik-E-Mart is shown, a dog's howl can be heard similar to the crow's caw at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant .
In Marge in Chains , Apu says he can't drop the charges against Marge due to store policy and its parent corporation Nordyne Defense Dynamics.
Behind the Laughter
A 7-Eleven store in Seattle transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart.
In 2007, as an advertisement for The Simpsons Movie , selected 7-Eleven stores in the United States and one store in Canada were temporarily converted into Kwik-E-Mart stores. During the promotion, they sold Buzz Cola , Krusty-O's cereal, Simpsons donuts, Squishee cups, and other Simpsons related merchandise.
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Lisa Marie Simpson (born May 9th) is the tetartagonist of The Simpsons. She was named after a train called Lil' Lisa on her parents' 1st anniversary. She is a charismatic 8-year-old girl, who exceeds the standard achievement of intelligence level of children her age. Not to everyone's surprise, she is also the moral center of her family. In her upbringing, Lisa lacks parental involvement of Homer and Marge , which leads to hobbies such as playing saxophone and guitar, riding and caring for horses, and interest in advanced studies. In school, Lisa's popularity is affected by those who view her as a geeky overachiever, which leaves her with only a few friends. She focuses on her goals and strives to reach her potential, and at the age of eight she is already a member of MENSA with an IQ of 159.
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Appearance
Lisa has yellow skin, blue-grey eyes, and blonde sun-shaped hair. She is usually seen wearing a strapless red dress with a zigzag hem, matching red strapped Mary Jane shoes, frilly white underpants, and a white pearl necklace (given to her by Marge), though sometimes wears different outfits. She has had two different outfits for church and family outings: first a magenta long-sleeved dress with a ruffled collar and magenta pumps, then a baby pink short-sleeved tutu dress with a darker pink belt, a wide brimmed hat with the same color scheme, and strapped pumps much like her usual ones. At night, she dresses in a turquoise nightgown with a frilly white collar and matching cuffs, as well as turquoise slippers. Lisa brings in a new outfit at least once every season. When Marge insisted on sending her to ballet, she wore a leotard and tutu in the same shade as her new church outfit, and pink ballet shoes. At her tap dancing lessons, she dressed in a magenta vest, pale pink tights, a violet tutu and black tap shoes. When Lisa swims, she wears a magenta or red swimsuit.
Biography
Young Lisa
Lisa is quite eclectic in her knowledge and is notably more concerned with world affairs and problems than her cohorts, which has led her to alienate herself from her peers. Lisa also deeply values her integrity, sometimes at the expense of others' needs and happiness, as demonstrated when she cheats on a test in The Wind in the Willows to attain her highest grade of A plus, but later admits her dishonesty to an unreceptive Principal Skinner despite the fact that such a grade allowed the school to gain the extra income it 'desperately' needs. (She later regrades the test as an F. [3] ) Also Lisa was willing to tell everyone about Bart faking his kidnapping attempt to go to a concert, despite the fact that absolutely everybody involved in the case was better off just because she could. Despite her intellect, Lisa has received detention, like her brother Bart, quite a number of times, often because of her rebellious and sometimes bitter attitude and antisocial behavior that is capable of deeply embarrassing authority figures. Although her rebellion against social norms is usually constructive, Lisa can be crazy, cruel, and rebellious at times. When she believes herself to be right she won't admit that others could be as well, and will often force her beliefs onto people. Notably, her increasing sense of moral righteousness regarding her vegetarianism leads her to proselytize, culminating in her spiteful disruption of a "meat-based" barbecue prepared by Homer (an act she comes to rue). [4] At times, Lisa appears to resist certain situations merely for the sake of resisting them, not because of any genuine ideological opposition. She appears to enjoy breaking the norm for its own sake; in one time, she triumphantly declares that she, a girl, would like to join the football team. When it is revealed that there are already girls on the team, she declares her distaste for a sport that would use a pig's skin to make its ball. When it is revealed that the ball is actually synthetic and the proceeds of buying it go in part to charity, she is at a loss for words and runs off visibly upset. [5] She also seems to dislike having her intellect challenged, which is evident on occasions such as when she was temporarily promoted to the third grade or when Miss Hoover gave her a B+ on her final grade for conduct and actually caused her physical harm because of it. Lisa's first word was Bart at two years of age. Despite her high IQ, cuteness and beauty, Lisa does have typical childhood issues, sometimes requiring adult intervention. She once tricked Homer into allowing her to ride the bus alone, only to become hopelessly lost. After his coworkers Lenny and Carl point out that he allowed his daughter to ride a bus by herself, Homer comes to her rescue. [6] Lisa has a Jewish imaginary friend named Rachel Cohen who "just got into Brandeis University." Even with a high intellect, Lisa displays personality traits typical for her age, including obsessing over getting a pony, being addicted to TV, and fighting with Bart. Lisa once got addicted to second hand smoke to maintain an impressive level of ballet competence; Homer tries to prevent the addiction unsuccessfully, and in the end Lisa overcomes the addiction herself through means of "Hello Kitty" nicotine patches. [7] She also displays a surprising amount of skill in driving, especially for her age, sometimes even taking the wheel whenever Homer ended up distracted from driving. [8] In "The Girl Who Slept Too Little", she struggled with nightmares after a cemetery was moved next to the Simpsons' house. She overcame her fear after spending a night in the cemetery and realized that it was acceptable to suffer from fear despite her intelligence. It was revealed in this episode that Lisa largely had to raise herself due to Homer and Marge dealing with Bart's antics thus ensuring a lack of nurturing for her. Lisa has been known in earlier seasons to have a bit of a sassy attitude. Like Bart and most siblings in families, Lisa has been known to tease Bart herself, examples such as; crushes Bart has developed, or advice on writing to someone (in this one case, his teacher), even just plain sassing him for attention. Deep down inside, Lisa loves her brother deeply.
Personality
Lisa is an innovative, insightful and extremely intelligent girl, far exceeding the standards of an third grader especially in Springfield. Part of her intelligence is due to being so dissociated from her idiotic father whilst growing up and it was strongly implied that her brains were a result of her grandmother; Homer could never keep up with his daughter's startling intelligence due to his slow wit and stupidly, his laziness and their contradicting vices and opinions caused a strained relationship and she practically grew up without a father figure, specifically not a model one (although Homer probably wouldn't have been much help even if he was involved in Lisa's life). As intelligent as she is, her family never encouraged her gifts and her school lacked the resources to blossom her IQ further but overall Lisa has the most promising future. Since she was a baby, Lisa has displayed intellectual independence from changing her own diapers and solving mathemetical solutions when she was only an infant. She could be classified as a child prodigy.
Her overall role in the Simpson family is depicted as the voice of reason. Despite her young age, Lisa has a strong sense of right, wrong and morality and she is always there to contradict Homer, Bart and on one occasion Marge whenever they do something reckless, idotic or illegal, doing her very best to sway them to the path of the righteous due to fearing greatly for her father and brother's immortal soul but her standing as an outsider in her own family cause her to be ignored despite her best intentions. In an argument, Lisa's ethical and logical viewpoint almost always gives her the moral high ground, her family also realize that Lisa is usually right whenever they do something immoral but Homer's tendency to ignore her, uses the excuse of age to send her to her room when they realise that they are in the wrong. In earlier seasons however, Lisa has been depicted as intelligent yet not as mature due to her squabbling and physical fights with Bart but she has developed into a more practical being yet her young age also makes her sense of right and wrong slightly malleable at times as she has shown to engage in childish and reckless behavior, proving herself to be like any other Simpson but more grounded and mature. Amongst her more childish traits would be her obsessions with ponies and teen heartthrob and socialite, Corey.
Lisa the vegaterian
Despite her young age, Lisa is extremely passionate about ideologies and other societal movements. She supports PETA and the Free Tibetan movement, is highly against animal cruelty and has adopted a diet of vegetarianism from Season 7 and keeping this dietary regime onwards. She encourages the idea of feminism, women's rights and the crusade against objectification and stereotypes of women. Lisa's role models and ideals are based on Mohandas Gandhi's enforcement of nonviolent pacifism and Emmeline Pankhurst.
Whilst her social movements are generally considered to be heroic, Lisa's reasoning are not solely to make the world a better place. A life of being shunned out and ignored by her family has developed attention seeking traits and a desire to be heard, once going to a dig site solely for the basis to complain about it, an area where she is usually ignored further. She used to force her beliefs on others due to a sense of self-righteousness and moral superiority specifically her vegetarianism but Apu also taught her a degree of tolerance for others beliefs. Lisa is against the ignorance on others behalf, believing the truth is the truth and is unablrd to be dissuaded no matter what it was, which she learnt from Marge. Without anyone else caring she continued to pester that the town founder, Jebediah Springfield was in actuality a murderous pirate and only refrained herself from revealing the truth when she realized how it brought the town together.
At her school, Lisa is considered to be a nerd because of her bookish and quiet nature. A teacher's pet and proud of it, she is depicted as an introvert with few friends and those she does have are as much as a nerd as she is. Her lack of popularity is generally purposeful yet her lack of social skills and different hobbies to what is considered fun to the rest of the girls leads her to want more friends. On one example she changed her personality to fit a more rebellious nature like Bart and actually gained an entourage of friends at the Flanders beach house but when her true academic nature was revealed, they continued to befriend her due to viewing her as a kind, gentle person rather than just a nerd. Lisa has had a number of boyfriends despite her status of a geek such as Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Luke Stetson and Colin.
Lisa as a hockey player
Extremely unathletic, she fails at sport completely, that and her liberal stance and high intelligence gives her little bonding ground with her peers and Homer who is also passionate about sports and connects with Bart more for this reason. Lisa is so weak that she could barely through a piece of paper into a rubbish can that was one away. However she also displayed displayed an uncharacteristic level of hand-eye coordination when she caught an incoming hockey puck from Apu and proved herself to be an extremely hockey player when she was goalie.
Similar to Bart, Lisa's high academic intelligence and her desire to go far in life is greatly driven by her future goals. Bart never focused on his bookwork as he and basically everyone else knew that he would amount to very little when he grew up whereas this is they opposite for Lisa who saw the potential in her life to achieve great goals. When her career aptitude test came back that she would likely become a homebody when she grew up and her music teacher told her she could never achieve her dream of a jazz musician on account of "stubby fingers", crushed her dreams. After this, the quality of Lisa's work and behavior declined drastically as Bart's improved exponentially after his career aptitude came back that he would become a a police officer, such as refusing to go to band practise, encouraging the bad girls to deface Skinner's puma statue and being rude to her teachers. She went as far to steal everybody's Teacher's Editions, a line that even Bart Simpson would not cross. Lisa would have undoubtedly become as and even worse rebel than that of her brother if Bart had not took the blame for her crime. That said the prospect of a dull future also encourages Lisa to study further rather than immediately omit defeat as she did her very best to not become a housewife like Marge when their paths became very similar.
Overall though, Lisa's tendency to lash out towards her family is based on the beliefs that they don't understand her rather than actual spite. This proves to be true as jazz is the only thing that expresses her inner thoughts and how she is feeling whilst her family only silence her creativity further due to their great annoyance of her saxophone. She often embraces relationships with other paternal figures that encourage her to embrace her passions to fill the void that her real lazy and uninterested father left. When she became depressed in the second season and none of her family seemed to understand the reason behind this, opened up more to the troubled jazz musician, Bleeding Gums Murphy who told her to sing what she felt helped her emotional state greatly. She became deeply close to her substitute teacher, Mister Bergstrom who again noticed and encouraged her intelligence to blossom. Over time, Lisa although embarrassed by her family is no longer ashamed to be a Simpson.
One of her negative traits would be her penchant for narcissism. In one of her daydreams, she envisioned herself as bringing about world world peace and being revered by world famous scientists, chanting in her presence "we're not worthy". She prides herself on her intelligence and integrity but if her ego is at risk, displays a willingness to breach her morals such as sabotaging her rival Alison's diorama at the school fair, humiliating her in front of her peers. Even so, Lisa's conscience is too strong to commit an unethical act and not punish herself such as giving herself an F for her test which she cheated in and apologising to Alison for her act of sabotage.
She is one of the few characters in Springfield without a signature trademark or catchphrase, shown specifically at the end of Bart Gets Famous when Marge, Bart, Homer, Nelson, Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns and Barney all do their trademarks of the characters and wait for her to do anything, Lisa dryly replies "if anyone needs me, I'll be in my room", leading Homer to state "what kind of catchphrase is that?"
Intelligence
It is mentioned that Lisa has an IQ of 159. [9] She is a high-ranking member of Mensa Springfield. Lisa demonstrates an early intelligence by changing her own diaper as an infant. When unable to attend school due to a teachers' strike, she suffered a sort of "school withdrawal" as she has an emergency box in case of a teacher strike. She begins to panic when she can only think of two synonyms to the word "stop". She constantly wants people to "grade her" as Marge gave her an "A" just to make her stop whining, and invents a perpetual motion machine that Homer describes that it just "keeps going faster and faster". He goes on to chastise her, saying, "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics !" [10] Like the rest of her paternal family she can pick up language fairly quickly, she was able to learn fluent Italian from Milhouse in a fairly short amount of time. Lisa also has a pathological compulsion to show off how smart she is and to always be the best. One example is when she tried to answer a question for Principal Skinner the "smarty pants" way he told her he wanted a different answer. Lisa requested finishing the "smarty pants answer" with notable panic in her tone. Skinner refused but she finished it anyway. Furthermore this was during a meeting in which Lisa was demanding she get a better grade for an assignment, which also included her insulting her teacher. Another example showed her hyperventilating when Allison Taylor demonstrated being superior to her and when she insulted/downplayed Meg Griffin when the latter demonstrated talent with a saxaphone. Also, when Homer suffered several simultaneous heart attacks due to Lisa refusing $12,000,000, he incorrectly thinks it was a mere $12,000. Lisa again chose to show off her smarts by correcting this, seemingly not caring it would cause Homer even more severe heart attacks (which it did). Since Lisa doesn't suffer from insecurity and is not subjected to misogyny, this could be attributed to a tendency towards narcissism.
Beliefs
Lisa's political convictions are generally leftist and rather liberal. She is a vegetarian, and a supporter of the Free Tibet movement. Lisa yells "Free Tibet!" after winning the school spelling bee. She, like her mom, supported Democrat Mary Bailey over Right-Winged Mr. Burns ; the duo revealed that Mr. Burns was a liar and Mary Bailey wins in a landslide, the only known supporters being Waylon Smithers , Bart, and Homer. While still supportive of the Christian church she was raised in, Lisa is now a practicing Buddhist following her decision to follow the Noble Eightfold Path . [11] Though apparently not an adherent, she mentions that she considers Wicca "very empowering". [12] She also appears to be a big believer of science, even stating in one episode when she was scared of the graveyard outside her bedroom, that she only believed in science.
Vegetarianism
Lisa turned vegetarian due to ethical reasons. [4] This was also hinted in a flash forward in which we see Lisa as a vegetarian in the future. [13] On Paul McCartney 's demand, she has stayed vegetarian still. According to the episode, " The Real Housewives of Fat Tony ," Lisa occasionally has trouble adhering to the lifestyle, and has been shown eating things such as gummy candy and marshmallows which are made from animal marrow. She also finds the foods to taste bland, she is desperate enough for tasty vegetarian foods she would force Bart to locate highly valuable truffles so she could eat them instead of selling them for a lot of money.
Music
Lisa's musical abilities are extensive: she sings with a powerful voice (she once entered a singing competition and won) and has been seen playing the acoustic six-string, [14] electric bass guitar, accordion and piano proficiently. But her great love is playing jazz on her baritone saxophone. Her musical inclinations were nurtured by her relationship with the late jazz musician Bleeding Gums Murphy . She most likely inherited her musical ability from Homer, who is also musically inclined. She can also play the trumpet.
Appearance
Lisa is very mature for her age. Lisa has blonde hair styled in the shape of a starfish and bluish-grey or greyish-blue eyes and wears a white pearl necklace, a sleeveless and strapless red dress and red strapped Mary Jane shoes. During church meetings and other formal activities, she wears a short-sleeved pink dress with ribbons and bows, frilly white socks and a pink hat with a ribbon tied around it.
Independent Learning
She is fluent in Italian (learned from Milhouse Van Houten before going to Italy), as well as some French and German verbs (with the help of a German verb wheel [15] ), as well as Spanish. In 'The Great Simpsini' she studied under the great Raymondo to become a skilled magician.
Romantic Relationships
Lisa had a dream crush on a heartthrob from local teen magazines named Corey Masterson .
Langdon Alger
Lisa admitted to Homer that she liked a boy from school, Langdon Alger , but later professed she didn't like him anymore.
Colin
Before the Trappuccino incident, Lisa fell in love with an Irish environmental boy named Colin . He can play the piano, guitar, trumpet, drums and bass guitar. Lisa tells Marge that the best part about him is that he's not imaginary and Marge says back that the most important thing is that he listens to Lisa.
Nelson Muntz
Lisa's first boyfriend is a less-than-stellar schoolmate, Nelson Muntz . Lisa once had a crush on him after she found herself strangely attracted to his grungy lifestyle enough to ask him out. After Nelson lied to Lisa about something, she chose to break up with him. However, since then their romantic relationship has been referred to several times throughout the series, most notably in the Season 22 episode, Loan-a Lisa , in which Lisa invests in Nelson's business venture. The episode finishes with Nelson taking Lisa rollerblading and the pair holding hands, hinting at a possible future romance. It is shown in The Spy Who Learned Me that Lisa still has feelings for Nelson.
Luke Stetson
Luke Stetson [16] was also an object of Lisa's affection; it was short-lived after Lisa misled Luke's sister to a dance.
Ralph Wiggum
Ralph Wiggum once had a crush on Lisa after she sent the boy a Valentine's Day card when nobody else would. Ralph gave her tickets to the 25th anniversary Krusty the Clown Show, but his heart was broken after Lisa admitted on TV that she was not in love with him. They're now currently just friends.
Milhouse Van Houten
Of all the boys Lisa encountered, the most desperate and most prominent one was Milhouse Van Houten , who always makes attempts to win Lisa's heart. On one occasion, in order to go on a school trip to Italy, Lisa was forced to learn Italian from Milhouse, who has been to Italy countless times. This nearly caused Lisa to develop a crush on him, until she finds out that Milhouse is with another girl, [17] prompting her to chase Milhouse angrily with an olive branch. Also in the episode " Homer Scissorhands " Lisa is so frustrated she kisses Milhouse. Lisa once tried to bring him to a school dance, but finds out that he's been taken. [18] When Milhouse's parents were presumed lost at sea and Milhouse became a loner, Lisa and several other girls became attracted to his new personality. In Lisa's Wedding , it is hinted that she may have lost her virginity to Milhouse. While picking out a wedding dress she asks if "is white still okay", to which Marge replies, "Milhouse doesn't count!" to which they both laugh. In Holidays of Future Passed , Lisa finally marries Milhouse.
Family
Lisa's relationship with her father is labored. The two occasionally got into arguments, [4] [19] [20] though they also have had moments where they really connect. [21] [22] [23] Their relationship has usually been one where Homer ignores Lisa, and Lisa avoids Homer. Being siblings, Lisa and Bart constantly get into brawls, one time after Bart destroys Lisa's centerpiece for Thanksgiving. [24] The two once competed against each other in hockey and tried to win over Homer's love. [25] However, the two have teamed up together many times, and they genuinely love each other. This is shown when the two were placed in the third grade in the same class (Lisa was moved up from Second Grade and Bart was moved down). The two got lost in a field trip in Capital City, forcing them to work together to survive. [26] When Milhouse temporarily left Springfield, Bart spent more time with Lisa and the two developed a stronger bond. [27] When Milhouse returned, Bart tried to keep their new bond intact by promising to do her chores and giving her a hug. In one episode, Lisa almost tells two college girls that she thinks Bart is cute, but takes back the statement after remembering that she is talking about her brother. While Bart and Lisa have had their share of rivalry, Lisa has been shown to be less than a good sister to him on several occasions, such as boasting about how she and Maggie have a sisterly bond that Bart will never have (due to not having a brother of his own), [28] leaving him in a chasm instead when he needed medical attention after the bullies chased him, [29] treating Bart poorly at the school's medieval festival and blaming him for a prank he didn't commit, [30] and kicking him down twice in Season 21 . [31] [32] Despite treating Bart poorly on several occasions, she has shown several times that she really does care about him and his wellbeing. [33] She often gives Bart advice when he needs it and will help him with any situation he's put in. [34] [35] [36] Also, as a baby her first word was "Bart" after hearing it so many times.
Other relationships
Husband (non-canon future)(imaginary): Lucas Bortner
(See Simpson family ) A glee club dancing girl.
Non Canon Appearances
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Future
Due to the shows floating timeline, there is no definite future for Lisa and has been shown to have several different possible futures in various episodes.
Lisa's future as with the rest of the series follows no defined pattern and changes depending on the episode. At the age of 12, Lisa is saved from a house fire by Milhouse , which she later discovers was caused by him. At age 16, she is graduating from Springfield High School two years early and is about to go to Yale on a scholarship provided by Mr. Burns. She is dating Milhouse whom she dumps after prom. She becomes furious at Bart for taking her Yale scholarship. She gets back together with Milhouse but Bart saves her and gives her back her scholarship. At age 21, Lisa rejects Milhouse's offer to marry him saying she doesn't intend to ever get married. At age 23, Lisa is at Yale and falls in love with a British man named Hugh Parkfield who she then is about to marry. She is embarrassed by her family and Hugh wants to take her back to England because he hates her family. Lisa dumps him since she would rather have her family. At the age of 30, with Bart needing a digestive tract transplant, she tries to solve the mystery of 'fish logs'. She asks townspeople who tell her the story which takes place when she was still 8. She then finds out that fish logs brought Bart into the hospital in the first place. At age 38, Lisa becomes the first straight female President of the United States of America. The country is broke and is forced to bring a tax hike but things get worse when Bart interrupts everything. The leaders of the other countries are about to beat her until Bart saves her. To make it up to him, she legalizes the use of cannabis. In her 60s, Lisa is married to Milhouse. She wants to take a poetry class but they are broke and Milhouse spent all the money on the electricity, which wasn't enough (though this future was prevented by Bart.) Lisa has also imagined herself married to Ralph Wiggum in the future. It has also been thought that she will become president, though this is not confirmed. Lisa stated in The Front that she wanted to change her name to Louise Sanborn, due to being ashamed of her roots.
In " Holidays of Future Passed ", Lisa is married to Milhouse, and has a rebellious teenage daughter named Zia. However, she is apparently unhappy in her marriage, as she is seen frowning when they are together, and she even apparently has an affair with Nelson Muntz.
In " Lisa the Simpson ", a short clip of an obese Lisa inside a hammock with eight children who continuously poke her with a stick. A grown up Ralph then comes in from his hot dog vending job and Lisa gets one of the kids to pry her out of the hammock with an oar.
In " Barthood ", Lisa is shown in five different ages, four of them are in the future: With 10 years old, she has glasses and mentions that she's the student of the month at Springfield Elementary for 48 consecutive months, which angers her brother at his own birthday. With 13 years old, she goes to the Mayo Clinic Pre-Medical Summer Camp with Marge, where she learns chest compressions. Because of that, she's able to revive Bart after he blacks-out after one of his BMX tricks at a competition, once again angering him. With 16 years old, she goes to Milhouse's graduation party, where Bart gets angry because she's always overshadowing him. She confronts her brother, saying she's sick and tired of him blaming her for every setback in his life, and confesses that she thinks Bart is a great artist, but he doesn't use his talent for anything. As an adult, she's dating Nelson and they visit Bart in his shop, only to discover a giant drawing on her homage.
Video Games
The Simpsons Road Rage
In " The Simpsons Road Rage ", Lisa drives the Elec-Taurus car and is one of the default characters. You may also pick her up off the streets when not playing as her.
The Simpsons Hit & Run
Lisa is playable in the third level of " The Simpsons: Hit and Run " as she looks for Bart after his disappearance. However, she makes an appearance in the first level in Springfield Elementary School , where Homer has to give her the science project she forgot. By the time the seventh level has come around, Lisa is back in the Simpson house, and tells her father to go out and stock up on supplies. However, by the fourth mission, Lisa is back at the school, where she suggests that Homer goes to Mr.Burns to buy nuclear waste, which is the aliens’ weakness. When characters use the Malibu Stacy car or the Electaurus in levels four, five and six Lisa appears in the car.
The Simpsons Game
In "The Simpsons Game", Lisa's powers are playing her saxophone to stun enemies, which is upgraded to force enemies to attack each other. She can also use the "Hand of Buddha" to pick up and drop big things telekinetically. This power is later upgraded, enabling her to attack with lightning and ice as well. She is the third character to unlock, in Lisa the Tree Hugger, after Homer and Bart and before Marge who carries Maggie around on her back.
Behind the Laughter
Creation
Matt Groening first conceived the Simpson family in the lobby of James L. Brooks ' office. He had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts, and had intended to present his Life in Hell series. When he realized that animating Life in Hell would require him to rescind publication rights for his life's work, Groening decided to go in another direction. [37] He hurriedly sketched out his version of a dysfunctional family, and named the characters after various members of his own family, and Lisa is the name of one of his sisters. [37] Lisa then made her debut with the rest of the Simpsons clan on April 19, 1987 in the Tracey Ullman short " Good Night ". [38] Nancy Cartwright , originally auditioned for the role of Lisa, but was soon told that her voice would be better suited voicing Bart. [39] Yeardley Smith had initially been asked to audition for the role of Bart but casting director Bonita Pietila believed her voice was too high, so Smith was given the role of Lisa instead. In order to perform the voice, Smith lifts her voice up a little. [40]
Development
In the Tracey Ullman Show shorts, Lisa was more of a "female Bart" and was as equally mischievous as her brother. [41] As the series progressed, Lisa began to develop into a more intelligent and more emotional character with " Krusty Gets Busted " being one of the first episodes where her true intelligence is fully shown. [42] Many episodes focusing on Lisa have an emotional nature, the first one being " Moaning Lisa ". The idea for the episode was pitched by James L. Brooks , who had wanted to do an emotional episode where Lisa is sad because the show had done a lot of "jokey episodes". [43]
For a long time, Lisa's saxophone solos were provided by jazz baritone saxophonist Terry Harrington.
Cultural influence
In 2001 Lisa received a special "Board of Directors Ongoing Commitment Award" at the Environmental Media Awards. [44] " Lisa the Vegetarian ", an episode from the seventh season, won both an Environmental Media Award for "Best Television Episodic Comedy" [45] and a Genesis Award for "Best Television Comedy Series, Ongoing Commitment". [46] Lisa was also listed at number 11 in TV Guide's "Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time." [47] In Japan, the broadcasters of the series found they were able to turn the apparent viewer dislike of the series around by focusing marketing attention on Lisa. Lisa's well-intended but ill-fated struggles to be a voice of reason and a force of good in her family and city struck a chord with the Japanese.
Trivia
According to Milhouse, Lisa's eyes are said to be gray. However, according to Spud in " Bart Carny ", Lisa's eyes are said to be blue. Although he might not be able to tell the difference between blue and gray. Her eyes could also be "smokey" blue, making them look grayish under certain light.
Although she is always desperate for a boy, she never seems to remember that she has been in a relationship with Colin and several others.
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Lisa Marie Simpson (born May 9th) is the tetartagonist of The Simpsons. She was named after a train called Lil' Lisa on her parents' 1st anniversary. She is a charismatic 8-year-old girl, who exceeds the standard achievement of intelligence level of children her age. Not to everyone's surprise, she is also the moral center of her family. In her upbringing, Lisa lacks parental involvement of Homer and Marge , which leads to hobbies such as playing saxophone and guitar, riding and caring for horses, and interest in advanced studies. In school, Lisa's popularity is affected by those who view her as a geeky overachiever, which leaves her with only a few friends. She focuses on her goals and strives to reach her potential, and at the age of eight she is already a member of MENSA with an IQ of 159.
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Appearance
Lisa has yellow skin, blue-grey eyes, and blonde sun-shaped hair. She is usually seen wearing a strapless red dress with a zigzag hem, matching red strapped Mary Jane shoes, frilly white underpants, and a white pearl necklace (given to her by Marge), though sometimes wears different outfits. She has had two different outfits for church and family outings: first a magenta long-sleeved dress with a ruffled collar and magenta pumps, then a baby pink short-sleeved tutu dress with a darker pink belt, a wide brimmed hat with the same color scheme, and strapped pumps much like her usual ones. At night, she dresses in a turquoise nightgown with a frilly white collar and matching cuffs, as well as turquoise slippers. Lisa brings in a new outfit at least once every season. When Marge insisted on sending her to ballet, she wore a leotard and tutu in the same shade as her new church outfit, and pink ballet shoes. At her tap dancing lessons, she dressed in a magenta vest, pale pink tights, a violet tutu and black tap shoes. When Lisa swims, she wears a magenta or red swimsuit.
Biography
Young Lisa
Lisa is quite eclectic in her knowledge and is notably more concerned with world affairs and problems than her cohorts, which has led her to alienate herself from her peers. Lisa also deeply values her integrity, sometimes at the expense of others' needs and happiness, as demonstrated when she cheats on a test in The Wind in the Willows to attain her highest grade of A plus, but later admits her dishonesty to an unreceptive Principal Skinner despite the fact that such a grade allowed the school to gain the extra income it 'desperately' needs. (She later regrades the test as an F. [3] ) Also Lisa was willing to tell everyone about Bart faking his kidnapping attempt to go to a concert, despite the fact that absolutely everybody involved in the case was better off just because she could. Despite her intellect, Lisa has received detention, like her brother Bart, quite a number of times, often because of her rebellious and sometimes bitter attitude and antisocial behavior that is capable of deeply embarrassing authority figures. Although her rebellion against social norms is usually constructive, Lisa can be crazy, cruel, and rebellious at times. When she believes herself to be right she won't admit that others could be as well, and will often force her beliefs onto people. Notably, her increasing sense of moral righteousness regarding her vegetarianism leads her to proselytize, culminating in her spiteful disruption of a "meat-based" barbecue prepared by Homer (an act she comes to rue). [4] At times, Lisa appears to resist certain situations merely for the sake of resisting them, not because of any genuine ideological opposition. She appears to enjoy breaking the norm for its own sake; in one time, she triumphantly declares that she, a girl, would like to join the football team. When it is revealed that there are already girls on the team, she declares her distaste for a sport that would use a pig's skin to make its ball. When it is revealed that the ball is actually synthetic and the proceeds of buying it go in part to charity, she is at a loss for words and runs off visibly upset. [5] She also seems to dislike having her intellect challenged, which is evident on occasions such as when she was temporarily promoted to the third grade or when Miss Hoover gave her a B+ on her final grade for conduct and actually caused her physical harm because of it. Lisa's first word was Bart at two years of age. Despite her high IQ, cuteness and beauty, Lisa does have typical childhood issues, sometimes requiring adult intervention. She once tricked Homer into allowing her to ride the bus alone, only to become hopelessly lost. After his coworkers Lenny and Carl point out that he allowed his daughter to ride a bus by herself, Homer comes to her rescue. [6] Lisa has a Jewish imaginary friend named Rachel Cohen who "just got into Brandeis University." Even with a high intellect, Lisa displays personality traits typical for her age, including obsessing over getting a pony, being addicted to TV, and fighting with Bart. Lisa once got addicted to second hand smoke to maintain an impressive level of ballet competence; Homer tries to prevent the addiction unsuccessfully, and in the end Lisa overcomes the addiction herself through means of "Hello Kitty" nicotine patches. [7] She also displays a surprising amount of skill in driving, especially for her age, sometimes even taking the wheel whenever Homer ended up distracted from driving. [8] In "The Girl Who Slept Too Little", she struggled with nightmares after a cemetery was moved next to the Simpsons' house. She overcame her fear after spending a night in the cemetery and realized that it was acceptable to suffer from fear despite her intelligence. It was revealed in this episode that Lisa largely had to raise herself due to Homer and Marge dealing with Bart's antics thus ensuring a lack of nurturing for her. Lisa has been known in earlier seasons to have a bit of a sassy attitude. Like Bart and most siblings in families, Lisa has been known to tease Bart herself, examples such as; crushes Bart has developed, or advice on writing to someone (in this one case, his teacher), even just plain sassing him for attention. Deep down inside, Lisa loves her brother deeply.
Personality
Lisa is an innovative, insightful and extremely intelligent girl, far exceeding the standards of an third grader especially in Springfield. Part of her intelligence is due to being so dissociated from her idiotic father whilst growing up and it was strongly implied that her brains were a result of her grandmother; Homer could never keep up with his daughter's startling intelligence due to his slow wit and stupidly, his laziness and their contradicting vices and opinions caused a strained relationship and she practically grew up without a father figure, specifically not a model one (although Homer probably wouldn't have been much help even if he was involved in Lisa's life). As intelligent as she is, her family never encouraged her gifts and her school lacked the resources to blossom her IQ further but overall Lisa has the most promising future. Since she was a baby, Lisa has displayed intellectual independence from changing her own diapers and solving mathemetical solutions when she was only an infant. She could be classified as a child prodigy.
Her overall role in the Simpson family is depicted as the voice of reason. Despite her young age, Lisa has a strong sense of right, wrong and morality and she is always there to contradict Homer, Bart and on one occasion Marge whenever they do something reckless, idotic or illegal, doing her very best to sway them to the path of the righteous due to fearing greatly for her father and brother's immortal soul but her standing as an outsider in her own family cause her to be ignored despite her best intentions. In an argument, Lisa's ethical and logical viewpoint almost always gives her the moral high ground, her family also realize that Lisa is usually right whenever they do something immoral but Homer's tendency to ignore her, uses the excuse of age to send her to her room when they realise that they are in the wrong. In earlier seasons however, Lisa has been depicted as intelligent yet not as mature due to her squabbling and physical fights with Bart but she has developed into a more practical being yet her young age also makes her sense of right and wrong slightly malleable at times as she has shown to engage in childish and reckless behavior, proving herself to be like any other Simpson but more grounded and mature. Amongst her more childish traits would be her obsessions with ponies and teen heartthrob and socialite, Corey.
Lisa the vegaterian
Despite her young age, Lisa is extremely passionate about ideologies and other societal movements. She supports PETA and the Free Tibetan movement, is highly against animal cruelty and has adopted a diet of vegetarianism from Season 7 and keeping this dietary regime onwards. She encourages the idea of feminism, women's rights and the crusade against objectification and stereotypes of women. Lisa's role models and ideals are based on Mohandas Gandhi's enforcement of nonviolent pacifism and Emmeline Pankhurst.
Whilst her social movements are generally considered to be heroic, Lisa's reasoning are not solely to make the world a better place. A life of being shunned out and ignored by her family has developed attention seeking traits and a desire to be heard, once going to a dig site solely for the basis to complain about it, an area where she is usually ignored further. She used to force her beliefs on others due to a sense of self-righteousness and moral superiority specifically her vegetarianism but Apu also taught her a degree of tolerance for others beliefs. Lisa is against the ignorance on others behalf, believing the truth is the truth and is unablrd to be dissuaded no matter what it was, which she learnt from Marge. Without anyone else caring she continued to pester that the town founder, Jebediah Springfield was in actuality a murderous pirate and only refrained herself from revealing the truth when she realized how it brought the town together.
At her school, Lisa is considered to be a nerd because of her bookish and quiet nature. A teacher's pet and proud of it, she is depicted as an introvert with few friends and those she does have are as much as a nerd as she is. Her lack of popularity is generally purposeful yet her lack of social skills and different hobbies to what is considered fun to the rest of the girls leads her to want more friends. On one example she changed her personality to fit a more rebellious nature like Bart and actually gained an entourage of friends at the Flanders beach house but when her true academic nature was revealed, they continued to befriend her due to viewing her as a kind, gentle person rather than just a nerd. Lisa has had a number of boyfriends despite her status of a geek such as Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Luke Stetson and Colin.
Lisa as a hockey player
Extremely unathletic, she fails at sport completely, that and her liberal stance and high intelligence gives her little bonding ground with her peers and Homer who is also passionate about sports and connects with Bart more for this reason. Lisa is so weak that she could barely through a piece of paper into a rubbish can that was one away. However she also displayed displayed an uncharacteristic level of hand-eye coordination when she caught an incoming hockey puck from Apu and proved herself to be an extremely hockey player when she was goalie.
Similar to Bart, Lisa's high academic intelligence and her desire to go far in life is greatly driven by her future goals. Bart never focused on his bookwork as he and basically everyone else knew that he would amount to very little when he grew up whereas this is they opposite for Lisa who saw the potential in her life to achieve great goals. When her career aptitude test came back that she would likely become a homebody when she grew up and her music teacher told her she could never achieve her dream of a jazz musician on account of "stubby fingers", crushed her dreams. After this, the quality of Lisa's work and behavior declined drastically as Bart's improved exponentially after his career aptitude came back that he would become a a police officer, such as refusing to go to band practise, encouraging the bad girls to deface Skinner's puma statue and being rude to her teachers. She went as far to steal everybody's Teacher's Editions, a line that even Bart Simpson would not cross. Lisa would have undoubtedly become as and even worse rebel than that of her brother if Bart had not took the blame for her crime. That said the prospect of a dull future also encourages Lisa to study further rather than immediately omit defeat as she did her very best to not become a housewife like Marge when their paths became very similar.
Overall though, Lisa's tendency to lash out towards her family is based on the beliefs that they don't understand her rather than actual spite. This proves to be true as jazz is the only thing that expresses her inner thoughts and how she is feeling whilst her family only silence her creativity further due to their great annoyance of her saxophone. She often embraces relationships with other paternal figures that encourage her to embrace her passions to fill the void that her real lazy and uninterested father left. When she became depressed in the second season and none of her family seemed to understand the reason behind this, opened up more to the troubled jazz musician, Bleeding Gums Murphy who told her to sing what she felt helped her emotional state greatly. She became deeply close to her substitute teacher, Mister Bergstrom who again noticed and encouraged her intelligence to blossom. Over time, Lisa although embarrassed by her family is no longer ashamed to be a Simpson.
One of her negative traits would be her penchant for narcissism. In one of her daydreams, she envisioned herself as bringing about world world peace and being revered by world famous scientists, chanting in her presence "we're not worthy". She prides herself on her intelligence and integrity but if her ego is at risk, displays a willingness to breach her morals such as sabotaging her rival Alison's diorama at the school fair, humiliating her in front of her peers. Even so, Lisa's conscience is too strong to commit an unethical act and not punish herself such as giving herself an F for her test which she cheated in and apologising to Alison for her act of sabotage.
She is one of the few characters in Springfield without a signature trademark or catchphrase, shown specifically at the end of Bart Gets Famous when Marge, Bart, Homer, Nelson, Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns and Barney all do their trademarks of the characters and wait for her to do anything, Lisa dryly replies "if anyone needs me, I'll be in my room", leading Homer to state "what kind of catchphrase is that?"
Intelligence
It is mentioned that Lisa has an IQ of 159. [9] She is a high-ranking member of Mensa Springfield. Lisa demonstrates an early intelligence by changing her own diaper as an infant. When unable to attend school due to a teachers' strike, she suffered a sort of "school withdrawal" as she has an emergency box in case of a teacher strike. She begins to panic when she can only think of two synonyms to the word "stop". She constantly wants people to "grade her" as Marge gave her an "A" just to make her stop whining, and invents a perpetual motion machine that Homer describes that it just "keeps going faster and faster". He goes on to chastise her, saying, "In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics !" [10] Like the rest of her paternal family she can pick up language fairly quickly, she was able to learn fluent Italian from Milhouse in a fairly short amount of time. Lisa also has a pathological compulsion to show off how smart she is and to always be the best. One example is when she tried to answer a question for Principal Skinner the "smarty pants" way he told her he wanted a different answer. Lisa requested finishing the "smarty pants answer" with notable panic in her tone. Skinner refused but she finished it anyway. Furthermore this was during a meeting in which Lisa was demanding she get a better grade for an assignment, which also included her insulting her teacher. Another example showed her hyperventilating when Allison Taylor demonstrated being superior to her and when she insulted/downplayed Meg Griffin when the latter demonstrated talent with a saxaphone. Also, when Homer suffered several simultaneous heart attacks due to Lisa refusing $12,000,000, he incorrectly thinks it was a mere $12,000. Lisa again chose to show off her smarts by correcting this, seemingly not caring it would cause Homer even more severe heart attacks (which it did). Since Lisa doesn't suffer from insecurity and is not subjected to misogyny, this could be attributed to a tendency towards narcissism.
Beliefs
Lisa's political convictions are generally leftist and rather liberal. She is a vegetarian, and a supporter of the Free Tibet movement. Lisa yells "Free Tibet!" after winning the school spelling bee. She, like her mom, supported Democrat Mary Bailey over Right-Winged Mr. Burns ; the duo revealed that Mr. Burns was a liar and Mary Bailey wins in a landslide, the only known supporters being Waylon Smithers , Bart, and Homer. While still supportive of the Christian church she was raised in, Lisa is now a practicing Buddhist following her decision to follow the Noble Eightfold Path . [11] Though apparently not an adherent, she mentions that she considers Wicca "very empowering". [12] She also appears to be a big believer of science, even stating in one episode when she was scared of the graveyard outside her bedroom, that she only believed in science.
Vegetarianism
Lisa turned vegetarian due to ethical reasons. [4] This was also hinted in a flash forward in which we see Lisa as a vegetarian in the future. [13] On Paul McCartney 's demand, she has stayed vegetarian still. According to the episode, " The Real Housewives of Fat Tony ," Lisa occasionally has trouble adhering to the lifestyle, and has been shown eating things such as gummy candy and marshmallows which are made from animal marrow. She also finds the foods to taste bland, she is desperate enough for tasty vegetarian foods she would force Bart to locate highly valuable truffles so she could eat them instead of selling them for a lot of money.
Music
Lisa's musical abilities are extensive: she sings with a powerful voice (she once entered a singing competition and won) and has been seen playing the acoustic six-string, [14] electric bass guitar, accordion and piano proficiently. But her great love is playing jazz on her baritone saxophone. Her musical inclinations were nurtured by her relationship with the late jazz musician Bleeding Gums Murphy . She most likely inherited her musical ability from Homer, who is also musically inclined. She can also play the trumpet.
Appearance
Lisa is very mature for her age. Lisa has blonde hair styled in the shape of a starfish and bluish-grey or greyish-blue eyes and wears a white pearl necklace, a sleeveless and strapless red dress and red strapped Mary Jane shoes. During church meetings and other formal activities, she wears a short-sleeved pink dress with ribbons and bows, frilly white socks and a pink hat with a ribbon tied around it.
Independent Learning
She is fluent in Italian (learned from Milhouse Van Houten before going to Italy), as well as some French and German verbs (with the help of a German verb wheel [15] ), as well as Spanish. In 'The Great Simpsini' she studied under the great Raymondo to become a skilled magician.
Romantic Relationships
Lisa had a dream crush on a heartthrob from local teen magazines named Corey Masterson .
Langdon Alger
Lisa admitted to Homer that she liked a boy from school, Langdon Alger , but later professed she didn't like him anymore.
Colin
Before the Trappuccino incident, Lisa fell in love with an Irish environmental boy named Colin . He can play the piano, guitar, trumpet, drums and bass guitar. Lisa tells Marge that the best part about him is that he's not imaginary and Marge says back that the most important thing is that he listens to Lisa.
Nelson Muntz
Lisa's first boyfriend is a less-than-stellar schoolmate, Nelson Muntz . Lisa once had a crush on him after she found herself strangely attracted to his grungy lifestyle enough to ask him out. After Nelson lied to Lisa about something, she chose to break up with him. However, since then their romantic relationship has been referred to several times throughout the series, most notably in the Season 22 episode, Loan-a Lisa , in which Lisa invests in Nelson's business venture. The episode finishes with Nelson taking Lisa rollerblading and the pair holding hands, hinting at a possible future romance. It is shown in The Spy Who Learned Me that Lisa still has feelings for Nelson.
Luke Stetson
Luke Stetson [16] was also an object of Lisa's affection; it was short-lived after Lisa misled Luke's sister to a dance.
Ralph Wiggum
Ralph Wiggum once had a crush on Lisa after she sent the boy a Valentine's Day card when nobody else would. Ralph gave her tickets to the 25th anniversary Krusty the Clown Show, but his heart was broken after Lisa admitted on TV that she was not in love with him. They're now currently just friends.
Milhouse Van Houten
Of all the boys Lisa encountered, the most desperate and most prominent one was Milhouse Van Houten , who always makes attempts to win Lisa's heart. On one occasion, in order to go on a school trip to Italy, Lisa was forced to learn Italian from Milhouse, who has been to Italy countless times. This nearly caused Lisa to develop a crush on him, until she finds out that Milhouse is with another girl, [17] prompting her to chase Milhouse angrily with an olive branch. Also in the episode " Homer Scissorhands " Lisa is so frustrated she kisses Milhouse. Lisa once tried to bring him to a school dance, but finds out that he's been taken. [18] When Milhouse's parents were presumed lost at sea and Milhouse became a loner, Lisa and several other girls became attracted to his new personality. In Lisa's Wedding , it is hinted that she may have lost her virginity to Milhouse. While picking out a wedding dress she asks if "is white still okay", to which Marge replies, "Milhouse doesn't count!" to which they both laugh. In Holidays of Future Passed , Lisa finally marries Milhouse.
Family
Lisa's relationship with her father is labored. The two occasionally got into arguments, [4] [19] [20] though they also have had moments where they really connect. [21] [22] [23] Their relationship has usually been one where Homer ignores Lisa, and Lisa avoids Homer. Being siblings, Lisa and Bart constantly get into brawls, one time after Bart destroys Lisa's centerpiece for Thanksgiving. [24] The two once competed against each other in hockey and tried to win over Homer's love. [25] However, the two have teamed up together many times, and they genuinely love each other. This is shown when the two were placed in the third grade in the same class (Lisa was moved up from Second Grade and Bart was moved down). The two got lost in a field trip in Capital City, forcing them to work together to survive. [26] When Milhouse temporarily left Springfield, Bart spent more time with Lisa and the two developed a stronger bond. [27] When Milhouse returned, Bart tried to keep their new bond intact by promising to do her chores and giving her a hug. In one episode, Lisa almost tells two college girls that she thinks Bart is cute, but takes back the statement after remembering that she is talking about her brother. While Bart and Lisa have had their share of rivalry, Lisa has been shown to be less than a good sister to him on several occasions, such as boasting about how she and Maggie have a sisterly bond that Bart will never have (due to not having a brother of his own), [28] leaving him in a chasm instead when he needed medical attention after the bullies chased him, [29] treating Bart poorly at the school's medieval festival and blaming him for a prank he didn't commit, [30] and kicking him down twice in Season 21 . [31] [32] Despite treating Bart poorly on several occasions, she has shown several times that she really does care about him and his wellbeing. [33] She often gives Bart advice when he needs it and will help him with any situation he's put in. [34] [35] [36] Also, as a baby her first word was "Bart" after hearing it so many times.
Other relationships
Husband (non-canon future)(imaginary): Lucas Bortner
(See Simpson family ) A glee club dancing girl.
Non Canon Appearances
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Future
Due to the shows floating timeline, there is no definite future for Lisa and has been shown to have several different possible futures in various episodes.
Lisa's future as with the rest of the series follows no defined pattern and changes depending on the episode. At the age of 12, Lisa is saved from a house fire by Milhouse , which she later discovers was caused by him. At age 16, she is graduating from Springfield High School two years early and is about to go to Yale on a scholarship provided by Mr. Burns. She is dating Milhouse whom she dumps after prom. She becomes furious at Bart for taking her Yale scholarship. She gets back together with Milhouse but Bart saves her and gives her back her scholarship. At age 21, Lisa rejects Milhouse's offer to marry him saying she doesn't intend to ever get married. At age 23, Lisa is at Yale and falls in love with a British man named Hugh Parkfield who she then is about to marry. She is embarrassed by her family and Hugh wants to take her back to England because he hates her family. Lisa dumps him since she would rather have her family. At the age of 30, with Bart needing a digestive tract transplant, she tries to solve the mystery of 'fish logs'. She asks townspeople who tell her the story which takes place when she was still 8. She then finds out that fish logs brought Bart into the hospital in the first place. At age 38, Lisa becomes the first straight female President of the United States of America. The country is broke and is forced to bring a tax hike but things get worse when Bart interrupts everything. The leaders of the other countries are about to beat her until Bart saves her. To make it up to him, she legalizes the use of cannabis. In her 60s, Lisa is married to Milhouse. She wants to take a poetry class but they are broke and Milhouse spent all the money on the electricity, which wasn't enough (though this future was prevented by Bart.) Lisa has also imagined herself married to Ralph Wiggum in the future. It has also been thought that she will become president, though this is not confirmed. Lisa stated in The Front that she wanted to change her name to Louise Sanborn, due to being ashamed of her roots.
In " Holidays of Future Passed ", Lisa is married to Milhouse, and has a rebellious teenage daughter named Zia. However, she is apparently unhappy in her marriage, as she is seen frowning when they are together, and she even apparently has an affair with Nelson Muntz.
In " Lisa the Simpson ", a short clip of an obese Lisa inside a hammock with eight children who continuously poke her with a stick. A grown up Ralph then comes in from his hot dog vending job and Lisa gets one of the kids to pry her out of the hammock with an oar.
In " Barthood ", Lisa is shown in five different ages, four of them are in the future: With 10 years old, she has glasses and mentions that she's the student of the month at Springfield Elementary for 48 consecutive months, which angers her brother at his own birthday. With 13 years old, she goes to the Mayo Clinic Pre-Medical Summer Camp with Marge, where she learns chest compressions. Because of that, she's able to revive Bart after he blacks-out after one of his BMX tricks at a competition, once again angering him. With 16 years old, she goes to Milhouse's graduation party, where Bart gets angry because she's always overshadowing him. She confronts her brother, saying she's sick and tired of him blaming her for every setback in his life, and confesses that she thinks Bart is a great artist, but he doesn't use his talent for anything. As an adult, she's dating Nelson and they visit Bart in his shop, only to discover a giant drawing on her homage.
Video Games
The Simpsons Road Rage
In " The Simpsons Road Rage ", Lisa drives the Elec-Taurus car and is one of the default characters. You may also pick her up off the streets when not playing as her.
The Simpsons Hit & Run
Lisa is playable in the third level of " The Simpsons: Hit and Run " as she looks for Bart after his disappearance. However, she makes an appearance in the first level in Springfield Elementary School , where Homer has to give her the science project she forgot. By the time the seventh level has come around, Lisa is back in the Simpson house, and tells her father to go out and stock up on supplies. However, by the fourth mission, Lisa is back at the school, where she suggests that Homer goes to Mr.Burns to buy nuclear waste, which is the aliens’ weakness. When characters use the Malibu Stacy car or the Electaurus in levels four, five and six Lisa appears in the car.
The Simpsons Game
In "The Simpsons Game", Lisa's powers are playing her saxophone to stun enemies, which is upgraded to force enemies to attack each other. She can also use the "Hand of Buddha" to pick up and drop big things telekinetically. This power is later upgraded, enabling her to attack with lightning and ice as well. She is the third character to unlock, in Lisa the Tree Hugger, after Homer and Bart and before Marge who carries Maggie around on her back.
Behind the Laughter
Creation
Matt Groening first conceived the Simpson family in the lobby of James L. Brooks ' office. He had been called in to pitch a series of animated shorts, and had intended to present his Life in Hell series. When he realized that animating Life in Hell would require him to rescind publication rights for his life's work, Groening decided to go in another direction. [37] He hurriedly sketched out his version of a dysfunctional family, and named the characters after various members of his own family, and Lisa is the name of one of his sisters. [37] Lisa then made her debut with the rest of the Simpsons clan on April 19, 1987 in the Tracey Ullman short " Good Night ". [38] Nancy Cartwright , originally auditioned for the role of Lisa, but was soon told that her voice would be better suited voicing Bart. [39] Yeardley Smith had initially been asked to audition for the role of Bart but casting director Bonita Pietila believed her voice was too high, so Smith was given the role of Lisa instead. In order to perform the voice, Smith lifts her voice up a little. [40]
Development
In the Tracey Ullman Show shorts, Lisa was more of a "female Bart" and was as equally mischievous as her brother. [41] As the series progressed, Lisa began to develop into a more intelligent and more emotional character with " Krusty Gets Busted " being one of the first episodes where her true intelligence is fully shown. [42] Many episodes focusing on Lisa have an emotional nature, the first one being " Moaning Lisa ". The idea for the episode was pitched by James L. Brooks , who had wanted to do an emotional episode where Lisa is sad because the show had done a lot of "jokey episodes". [43]
For a long time, Lisa's saxophone solos were provided by jazz baritone saxophonist Terry Harrington.
Cultural influence
In 2001 Lisa received a special "Board of Directors Ongoing Commitment Award" at the Environmental Media Awards. [44] " Lisa the Vegetarian ", an episode from the seventh season, won both an Environmental Media Award for "Best Television Episodic Comedy" [45] and a Genesis Award for "Best Television Comedy Series, Ongoing Commitment". [46] Lisa was also listed at number 11 in TV Guide's "Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time." [47] In Japan, the broadcasters of the series found they were able to turn the apparent viewer dislike of the series around by focusing marketing attention on Lisa. Lisa's well-intended but ill-fated struggles to be a voice of reason and a force of good in her family and city struck a chord with the Japanese.
Trivia
According to Milhouse, Lisa's eyes are said to be gray. However, according to Spud in " Bart Carny ", Lisa's eyes are said to be blue. Although he might not be able to tell the difference between blue and gray. Her eyes could also be "smokey" blue, making them look grayish under certain light.
Although she is always desperate for a boy, she never seems to remember that she has been in a relationship with Colin and several others.
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Michael Bond wrote about which famous bear in a series of books for children? | Paddington Bear author Michael Bond writes new book - BBC News
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Paddington Bear author Michael Bond writes new book
8 April 2014
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Image caption Michael Bond first wrote about Paddington Bear in 1958
Paddington Bear author Michael Bond has written a book which details letters from the wayward bear to his Aunt Lucy in darkest Peru.
Love From Paddington is to be published in November by Harper Collins.
In the original children's stories which first appeared in 1958, the bear was named after the London station where he was found by the Brown family.
Bond, 88, said of his latest work: "It isn't generally known, but bears are very good at writing letters."
The letters recount Paddington's adventures in London and how he met the Brown family.
Bond's first book, A Bear Called Paddington, has continually been in print for more than 50 years.
The forthcoming computer-animated film about Paddington, due out later this year, stars Colin Firth as the marmalade-loving bear, Hugh Bonneville as Mr Brown, Sally Hawkins as Mrs Brown and Nicole Kidman as a villain.
The cast includes Jim Broadbent and Julie Walters.
Former BBC cameraman Bond began writing during World War Two when he was serving in the Royal Air Force and the Middlesex Regiment of the British Army.
He started with numerous short stories and radio plays and his work took off after his agent suggested he turn a radio play into a children's play.
Image caption Paddington Bear was made into a popular children's TV series in the 1970s
The hugely popular Paddington stories were first made into an animated TV series in 1975 and have been re-imagined a number of times.
The Paddington books have sold more than 35 million copies around the world and have been translated into more than 40 languages.
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What was the name of author A. A. Milne's real-life son, who he used in his Winnie the Pooh books? | Children Reading Bedtime Stories 10 Books Collection Set From Best Selling Authors David Walliams Julia Donaldson and Michael Bond Paddington | 9789526528267 | Buy Books
Paddington
Paddington and the Marmalade Maze
Mr Gruber takes Paddington on a visit to Hampton Court. As usual, Paddington manages to turn a perfectly normal outing into an adventure. Mr Gruber and Paddington are just about to be followed home by a crowd of eager tourists, when Paddington manages to lose them all in the maze. But, mysteriously, Paddington and Mr Gruber manage to escape from the maze unscathed.
Paddington and the Tutti Frutti Rainbow
The Brown�€�s trip to the seaside looks like being a disaster when the rain sets in. They escape into a cafe and Paddington soon has his eye on a large ice-cream sunda. Young children will love this story featuring their favourite bear. Some how when Paddington is around life is never dull!
Paddington at the Palace
New cover reissue of this funny picture book about Paddington, the beloved, classic bear from darkest Peru. When Mr Gruber takes Paddington to Buckingham Palace to watch the Changing of the Guard, there are so many people in the way he can�€�t see a thing. Luckily, a mysterious someone �€�on high�€� appears to like small bears�€�
Paddington at the Zoo
A funny story about the irresistible, classic bear from Darkest Peru - soon to be a major movie star! When Paddington visits the zoo, he takes enough marmalade sandwiches with him to last all day. However, he is none too pleased when he realises how popular they are with the zoo�€�s inhabitants!
Paddington Minds the House
Paddington's good intentions to look after the house in the absence of Mrs. Brown start out well, but soon get him into trouble.
Paddington the Artist
When Mr Gruber shows Paddington an outdoor painting exhibition he is inspired to take up a new hobby�€� He collects all his paints and brushes from his room and goes out into the garden to work on his masterpieces. Soon Paddington has enough pictures to open his own exhibition outside No. 32 Windsor Gardens. Paddington becomes rather discouraged when no one stops to buy one. But there is one mysterious person who appreciates Paddington�€�s art�€�
David Walliams Picture Book
The First Hippo on the Moon
From Number One bestselling picture book duo, David Walliams and Tony Ross, comes this explosively funny space adventure for children of 3 and up.
Two big hippos. One ENORMOUS dream. Who can make it to the moon first? 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . BLAST OFF! Introducing a wonderfully charming and funny new picture book from two superstars!
The Slightly Annoying Elephant
Number one bestselling author David Walliams presents his first picture book, illustrated by artistic genius Tony Ross, with some seriously silly audio to accompany it! What�€�s big, blue, bossy and turns up uninvited? A slightly annoying elephant, of course! Introducing a magnificently warm and funny picture book from two incredible talents, and read aloud by the author himself - this is one that will enchant your eyes and ears alike!
The Bear Who Went Boo
From Number One bestselling picture book duo, David Walliams and Tony Ross, comes this bear-illiantly funny adventure for children of 3 and up. At the top of the world, surrounded by snow and ice, lives a very cheeky polar bear cub who loves to go�€� BOO! But this little bear cub doesn�€�t always know when to stop�€� Presenting a mischievous new picture book packed with snow and surprises, from two standout talents!
Julia Donaldson
The Highway Rat
Give me your buns and your biscuits! Give me your chocolate éclairs! For I am the Rat of the highway, and the Rat Thief never shares!' Life is not safe for the other animals, as the villainous Highway Rat gallops along the highway, stealing their food. Clover from a rabbit; nuts from a squirrel - he even steals his own horse's hay. Will he finally meet his comeuppance, in the form of a cunning duck? A fabulous, rollicking rhyme, in the style of the famous Alfred Noyes poem, 'The Highwayman', from the authors of 'The Gruffalo' and 'Zog'.
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In the Harry Potter novels, what species of owl is Hedwig? | The Owls of Harry Potter | Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Laura Erickson's For the Birds
By Laura Erickson (a.k.a. “Professor McGonagowl”)
(SPOILER discussion of Hedwig in Book 7—Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—is here .)
No spoilers beyond this point:
Now that five Harry Potter movies and all seven books have been released, people have become very familiar with owls. This website will give you facts about owls both in the real world and in J.K. Rowling’s magical world. I live in the United States, but Harry Potter lives in England. Some owls live in both places, and some are found on only one side of the pond. I’ve studied owls for a long time and read all seven Harry Potter books and seen the movies, but I simply couldn’t have written this and made it authoritative without a lot of help from a lot of people. If you have information I should add, corrections, or other comments, please email me .
In J.K. Rowling’s wonderful universe, owls bridge the magical and muggle world, carrying messages, packages, and even Nimbus 2000s with ease as they make it clear to muggles that when a message needs to get through, it WILL get through. One Snowy Owl named Hedwig also provides warm companionship when a lonely wizard named Harry needs it.
If you have questions about owls, first look to see if you can find the answers here. If not, you can email Professor McGonagowl . As always, if you have questions, comments, or corrections, please let me know. To get more information, see:
American Humane Association’s review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Movie #5) (Thanks, Katty!)
Hedwig
Harry’s owl Hedwig is a Snowy Owl . She’s a female but, in the movie, the actors playing her are males. (One of the owls playing Hedwig was also the very first cast member to be chosen!!) You can tell that the owl playing Hedwig in the photo is really a male because his plumage is so white—female Snowy Owls have dark markings. Females are also bigger and heavier, and so would be a little harder for human actors to handle. Healthy males average about 4 pounds, females almost 4 1/2 pounds. They have powerful talons. You can’t see in the photo that Daniel Radcliffe is wearing thick leather protection on his arm. Claws that can kill a large duck through thick feathers can be pretty hard on human arms, too, even when the owl is just trying to balance itself.
Seven different owls played the role of Hedwig. Their names are Gizmo, Kasper, Oops, Swoops, Oh Oh, Elmo and Bandit. I found out some interesting things on The Pet Place site about Harry Potter .
Real Snowy Owls live in the arctic tundra, in North America, Europe, and Asia. A few breed in the northern British Isles. Long ago, when the Arctic climate extended farther south than now, Snowy Owls lived much farther south. Cave art by Paleolithic people of Europe includes an etched outline of two Snowy Owls and their chicks on a cave wall in Ariege, France. This particular prehistoric drawing happens to make the Snowy Owl the first recognizeable bird species to be depicted in art anywhere in the world.
Snowy Owls are predators, and eat only animals, never plants. Their main prey species is the lemming, a fierce little rodent smaller than a chipmunk. Lemmings have enormous population fluctuations from one year to the next. When lemmings are abundant, Snowy Owls may eat hardly anything else. They usually swallow each lemming whole, head first, but if they’re not too hungry, they sometimes bite off just the head, or even eat parts in small bits. But when lemming numbers are down, Snowy Owls eat a lot of other things. Depending on where they live, they may eat a lot of snowshoe hares, grebes and ducks (especially Horned Grebes), ptarmigans, ground squirrels, rats, partridge, and even fish. When a Snowy Owl’s face gets gooped up with blood and guts, it sometimes cleans up by wiping its face in the snow.You can see more photos of wild Snowy Owls on my Snowy Owl flickr photostream . Global warming is expected to hurt Snowy Owls over much of their range. Hedwig is lucky she lives in a magical world!
Errol
The Weasley family has a very clumsy owl named Errol. In the movies he’s a Great Gray Owl . I don’t think his species is actually mentioned in the books, but my friend Katty from Belgium found that he IS called a Great Gray Owl on J.K. Rowling’s Web site. Measured from head to tail, the Great Gray Owl is the biggest owl in the world. But even though they’re an inch or so longer than Snowy Owls and look just as big, they weigh much less than Snowy Owls—sometimes less than half! Also, their wingspan isn’t as long as that of Snowy Owls, probably because their wings don’t carry nearly as much weight. Great Gray Owls specialize on mice and voles, and have very thin toes compared to other huge owls.
In North America, wild Great Gray Owls live in Alaska and much of Canada down to northeastern Minnesota, and down into the mountainous areas of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. In Europe and Asia, they are found in northern Scandinavia, Russia, Siberia, northern Mongolia, Northern Manchuria, Amurland, and Sakhalin. They make it to Great Britain only in the magical world of Harry Potter.
Real Great Gray Owls cannot carry very heavy items because they themselves are so light (usually less than 3 pounds!), and their feet are fairly weak. When I was taking care of injured birds, I once had to go rescue a Great Gray Owl that I then transferred to a raptor specialist. I had it for a little while, and was amazed at how innocuous its feet were. I normally took care of songbirds, so didn’t have the heavy gloves normally worn when doing raptor work, but this owl’s talons didn’t hurt my bare hands at all. Normally over 90% of a Great Gray Owl’s diet is one species—meadow voles. When they eat larger prey, such as rabbits and squirrels, they must sit on the animal for many hours, biting off small chunks of meat.
The Weasley’s Great Gray Owl, Errol, is very clumsy. Real owls simply cannot crash the way Errol does in the movie. Not even the owl actor who plays Errol could really crash like that—like other birds, owls have hollow bones and are much too fragile to slam into tables and windows. In the movie, they filmed a real Great Gray Owl flying gracefully through the Errol scenes. Then they substituted a dummy owl for the crashes.
You can see many photos of wild Great Gray Owls on my Great Gray Owl flickr photostream .
Pigwidgeon
Pigwidgeon is so minute that some people have suggested to me that he might be a Little Owl , one very small owl found in England. This owl’s scientific name is Athene noctua, and it is fairly common in much of its range, in southern and central Europe and Asia, and northern Africa. Little Owls aren’t native to England, but were introduced there in the late 1800s. Little Owls are not found anywhere naturally in North America, but they are in the same genus, and closely related to, the Burrowing Owl. Like the Burrowing Owl, the Little Owl is found in open habitats, and is often active in the daytime as well as the night. The Little Owl often perches on posts and other look-outs. Like most tiny owls, the Little Owl eats many insects, which it can catch on the wing.
The Little Owl does have some interesting mythology of its own, being the sacred owl of the goddess Athene—that’s how it got its scientific name. And it is shown on coins from ancient Athens.
But according to J.K. Rowling’s own website , and supported by Mary Grandpre ‘s lovely illustration in Chapter 22 of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Pigwidgeon is a Eurasian (Common) Scops Owl .
This owl, even tinier than a Little Owl and more closely related to the screech owls of America, has “ear tufts”—feathers that stick up on the head and look like ears. The owl illustration for this chapter clearly shows those feather tufts.
We hoped the moviemakers would use a scops owl when Pigwidgeon finally appeared, but he wasn’t in the movies at all, which has been a big disappointment to me and many others!
What would Pigwidgeon sound like? You can listen to recordings of various species of scops owls here .
Ron seemed resentful to have such a tiny animal compared to Harry’s Hedwig. But we bet he didn’t have to work nearly as hard to clean up after Pigwidgeon as Harry did for Hedwig! Owl poop is smelly and messy. (Unless they’re magical owls—we notice that Harry’s black cloak never has a single white spot on it!)
Malfoy’s Owl
Malfoy’s owl is the largest, heaviest owl in Europe, an Eagle Owl. Eagle Owls are not found in the United States—they live in Europe and Asia. Eagle Owls are not native to Great Britain, but a few pairs have escaped captivity. Scientists hope they don’t become established in the wild in England because like all introduced animals, they will almost assuredly disturb the balance of nature already there. But in their native range these magnificent birds are an important part of that balance. Eagle Owls have oranger eyes than Great Horned Owls, are slightly larger, and have heavy, vertical streaks on the front, rather than the finer, horizontal barring of the Great Horned Owl. Again, notice how it perches with the two normal front toes facing forward. (The “thumb” toe and the back toe face backward).
Percy’s Screech Owl
I didn’t pay enough attention to another owl—Percy’s! Fortunately, my friend Katty writes:
In the Harry Potter Lexicon about owls, they mentioned a screech owl. And in chapter 5 of Prisoner of Azkaban, you can find: “…Percy’s screech owl, …” (when Rowling described the Weasleys, Hermione and Harry leaving the Leaky Cauldron.)
Considering that my very own owl, Archimedes, is a screech owl, I really should have found this on my own!
Other Owls Appearing Here and There
Throughout the Harry Potter movies, there are lots of owls here and there.
The owl shown in many of the posters, screensaver, and other promotional material for the movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, is a Great Horned Owl.
This owl lives in North, Central, and South America, but is not found in the wild in England or any other place on that side of the Atlantic Ocean. I don’t know if this promotional material was used in England, but it makes a lot of sense for an American owl to deliver invitations to the movie to people in Canada and the U.S. Notice that the owl has two front claws on each foot facing forward. Owls have three front toes and one back toe on each foot. But one of the front claws is opposable, and rotates backward the way we use our thumb. So the way this owl is carrying the letter to Harry is, indeed, exactly the way a real owl would carry mail. Notice that owls prefer air mail.
In real life, large species of owls sometimes eat smaller species. Real owls are extremely stressed by being near other owls. But filming the scene shown above did not stress the owls. Why? This scene was filmed over and over, with different owls each time, and then the films were digitally manipulated to make it appear that all the owls were there together at the same time.
Notes about the fourth movie: My friend Katty from Belgium, who is blind so notices a great many sounds I don’t pay enough attention to, writes:
Yesterday, I saw the fourth film and was lucky to hear different owl sounds. In this movie, we entered the owlery (not a circular stone room as described in the books, but it seemed to be located outside the school). I don’t know if you can see much of the owl species during this scene, but I heard the sounds of:
little owl
eagle owl
snowy owl
???other species I didn’t recognise. They seemed to be very active, But I don’t know if it is evening or day in the film.
During the film, you can hear other owl species, but I don’t know if you can see them. I heard:
little owl (on the graveyard
tawney owl
The only species (and owl character) I didn’t see or hear was Pigwidgeon.
Frequently Asked Questions
Could a real owl really carry a Nimbus 2000?
Snowy Owl often kill snowshoe hares and can carry them to their nestlings. A snowshoe hare weighs over 1 kilogram. I weighed one corn broom as 0.6 kilograms, so the weight of a real broom wouldn’t be a problem for a Snowy Owl. And a Snowy Owl’s talons can easily grip a broom handle. So yes, a real Snowy Owl could really carry a Nimbus 2000. But the Snowy Owl in this scene simply flew through, and then the filmmakers digitally added the broom. This wasn’t too hard to do. In the arctic tundra, where there are no trees for Snowy Owls to bonk into in flight, they often dangle their legs in flight. So in this scene, the real owl’s legs are already in position to be carrying something.
Tiny owls can easily carry mice, so letters and birthday greetings would be quite easy for them to manage. But according to The Pet Place :
Although throughout the movie, it appears the owls carry messages and even the broom, they didn’t actually hold the objects. Instead, they were attached to the birds using an invisible harness. When they reached the right point, a trainer pulled a cord, which released the message or object.
Also, notice that the broom that was delivered in the movie was really made out of paper.
Can real owls be happy in cages?
The cage Harry often keeps Hedwig in is way too small for any real owl, and the tiny Victorian cage used in the movie would be illegal to keep an owl in either the U.S. or Great Britain. Great Britain requires all bird cages to be big enough to allow the bird to stretch its wings fully without touching anything. To keep it in anything smaller requires a veterinary certificate. But the owl playing Hedwig is probably used to a fairly small cage when he goes places, the way dogs or cats get used to a small pet carrier or kennel, as long as they don’t need to stay in it too long or too often.
Are real owls ever active in the daytime?
Owls that live in the Arctic, “the land of the midnight sun,” obviously have to be able to hunt in bright conditions. Snowy Owls can hunt by day or night. And some other owls are very diurnal—the Northern Hawk-Owl and the more tropical Pygmy-Owls are active in the daytime.
Many owls are crepuscular—most active at twilight. And some are active ONLY at night—the tiny Saw-whet Owl and Boreal Owl are good examples.
My own little owl, Archimedes, reminds me of a cat. He’s active when he feels like it and sleeps when he feels like it, day or night.
In the wild, Screech Owls roost and nest in tree cavities or nest boxes, and are very vulnerable to jays, robins,and crows in the daytime, but they need some sunshine to produce Vitamin D, so they spend much of the day with their head poking out of the hole. If a cranky robin or jay spots one, the little owl just retreats back into the cavity.
Can people really have owls for pets?
In the magical world of Harry Potter, a wizard or witch can own a real owl. In the real world, in England, people are allowed to keep owls provided the bird can be shown to be captive bred or found disabled and unable to be returned to the wild—in order to show owls for money or to breed them for sale, people in the U.K. need to have what is known as an “Article 10 certificate,” which functions much as a licence for the bird.
In the U.S., keeping owls for pets is always against the law. In the U.S., owls and all other native birds are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and cannot be possessed by anyone who doesn’t have legal permits for research or education, or in the case of an injured owl, legal rehabilitation permits. I have permits to keep one Eastern Screech-Owl for education. I first needed to prove that I have a good reason to use an owl for educational programs, and that I could provide healthy, safe, and comfortable housing and good food, in order to apply for a permit from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. I needed a permit from my state in order to apply for a federal permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. After I had both permits, I was allowed to keep one screech owl, but wasn’t allowed to take it from the wild. I had to find a rehabilitation center that had an owl that had recovered but couldn’t be released into the wild. I’ve had Archimedes since 2000.
How can I see a real, live owl in the wild?
Owls are secretive in the daytime, because they are often attacked by crows, ravens, jays, robins, and other birds. If you’re walking in the woods or in a park and hear what sounds like exceptionally angry chickadees, or a large number of extremely loud crows, check it out! They may be mobbing an owl. At nighttime you can listen for owls, especially in late winter and spring. To hear how some owls sound, you can look at Journey North’s owl dictionary .
Find out if your town or city has an Audubon society or other bird club. Most bird clubs have field trips, and will have experts along to help you see all the birds. And they might have some special trips just to find owls!
How can I help owls?
There are several things we can do to help owls.
Buy your Harry Potter books from the Canadian publisher, Raincoast . This company prints all the Harry Potter books on 100% post-consumer recycled paper. This helps many kinds of owls because so much owl habitat is cut down to make paper.
Don’t waste paper. Recycle paper when you’re done with it, and buy recycled paper. How does this help owls? On average, Americans consume 738 pounds of paper per person per year. And much of this paper is wasted—over 40% of the trash Americans throw away is paper. That adds up to a lot of trees! And when forests are cut to make paper, it hurts the birds that require older forest growth. One way you can save paper is to stop getting junk mail. Four million TONS of junk mail is sent through the U.S. Postal Service, and half is never even opened. That is an enormous waste of forests. This website has information about simple things you can do to get less junk mail.
Keep your cat indoors. House cats kill millions of birds every year. Rarely, a Great Horned Owls kills a cat, but since even the heaviest owl weighs only 4 - 5 pounds, owls are at a serious disadvantage when in a fight with a cat. Even if an owl survives an attack, a cat bite or scratch can introduce bacteria leading to lethal infections. Bird lungs are on the back, making them especially vulnerable to puncture wounds. Also, cats kill a lot of mice. Except in very urban areas where rats and mice are a problem for humans, house cats destroy a lot of valuable owl food, making it harder for owls, especially smaller species, to survive. To learn more about the importance of keeping your cat indoors, see the American Bird Conservancy’s Cats Indoors campaign page.
Don’t let your dog chase birds. When an owl kills a large prey animal, it sometimes spends several minutes on the ground eating. During this time, it can easily be killed or badly injured by a dog. We know of at least one screech owl that was grabbed by a dog, and the tiny owl’s wing was broken. If people had not noticed, it would have died, but now it’s in a rehab facility.
Leave dead trees standing. If they absolutely must be cut, then to do it in the late fall/early winter to ensure no babies are in the nest.
Put up a Wood Duck/Screech Owl box or a Barred Owl nest platform. It’s not a good idea to build both kinds close to one another, though!
Support an owl rehabilitation center near you. In Minnesota, The Raptor Center does a great job of caring for injured and orphaned raptors. This page lists many other rehabilitation facilities. If you know of a place that is not listed, please email me .
Join an organization that works to protect owls. My favorite American organization that does research and education to help all birds is the American Bird Conservancy . The Rainforest Alliance protects tropical birds, including the many owls that live there. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds protects birds of the world with special emphasis on the United Kingdom.
Don’t even think about having an owl for a pet. Owls are protected by law, so it’s illegal to keep them in captivity in the U.S. without a license. But at least as important, owls are wild, natural birds requiring a wild, natural life. In cages they simply cannot do all the things their bodies were designed for and their spirits require. Also, owls are not at all easy to care for: they need to eat whole rodents or other whole animals, which must be fresh, and their droppings are messy and smelly, requiring frequent clean-up. If you yearn to handle real, live owls, volunteer to help at a nature center or rehabilitation center.
If you’re buying owl stuff, buy them from Owl Stuff. Proceeds from the Owl Stuff website go to conservation organizations.
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Roger Hargreaves created which characters in a series of books in the 1970s? | Owl | Harry Potter Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia
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Owls are birds of prey. They belong to the families of Strigidae (typical owls) and Tytonidae (Barn Owls), and there are at least 200 species. They normally feed on small mammals, insects, fish, and other birds. They do not make nests, instead sheltering inside trees, ground burrows, caves, and barns, or using other birds' old nests.
Normally, most British owls are nocturnal, and owls generally keep to themselves, but in the wizarding world they serve many needed functions and have many sorts of personalities. Owls also appear to understand magical people speaking English and can communicate with wizards and witches .
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Owls are enlisted to aid communication between wizards. Letters, parcels, and Howlers are all delivered by owls. Soft, hair-like edges on an owl's flight feathers reduce the noise of flight, coupled with their natural camouflage, making them ideal for delivering letters. [2]
Owls must be trained to carry letters. Owls have a natural affinity to magic (unlike pigs , which are thoroughly non-magical), and thus can find the recipient of a letter without an address. Because owls can find any witch or wizard who a letter is addressed to, those who do not wish to be contacted must cast Repelling, Disguising, or Masking spells, of which a wide variety exists.
Owls are used for commercial purposes, such as the Owl Post Office in Hogsmeade, and delivering newspapers and magazines such as the Daily Prophet and The Quibbler . The Ministry of Magic formerly used owls for interdepartmental memos , but switched to enchanted paper aeroplanes because owls made too much mess with their droppings and shed feathers.
Postal owls all have different jobs, but it is the duty of a Scops Owl for local deliveries only, as they are small and weak fliers.
Known owls
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Owl carrying a message
During the production of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , an attempt was made to train bats to carry letters, but this was abandoned because bats urinate during flight.
It took trainers three months to train owls to carry letters for the films .
In April 2009 , a falconer whose owls starred in the Harry Potter films admitted a string of animal cruelty offences. [4]
In many legends, owls represent death. But in other legends, like those of Ancient Greece, owls are a symbol of wisdom. In India, owls are birds of ill omen.
In reality, the Brown Owl and the Tawny Owl are the same species (Strix aluco), but the Harry Potter books treat them as different types of owl.
In an issue of The Quibbler seen in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , an advertisement offering Owl-training can be seen, suggesting this is a business in the Wizarding World.
At some point following the publication of the Harry Potter books , there was a series of media reports regarding an upswing in the popularity of owls as pets, allegedly as a result of people having read about them in the books. Author J. K. Rowling stated on her official website "If it is true that anybody has been influenced by my books to think that an owl would be happiest shut in a small cage and kept in a house, I would like to take this opportunity to say as forcefully as I can: please don't." [5]
In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, there are many owls trying to bring Harry Hogwarts letters. In the book, Harry first learns that owls carry letters when Rubeus Hagrid uses one in the Hut on the rock.
It is unknown if, like humans, some owls are born with magical abilities, or if there is any other special rquirement for an owl to be trained as a delivery owl.
The Pottermore Patronus quiz contains several types of owls including the Little Owl , Eagle Owl , and Snowy Owl .
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What is Charlie's surname in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? | What is Charlie's surname in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? | Reference.com
What is Charlie's surname in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?
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In Roald Dahl's children's novel, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Charlie's surname is Bucket. The novel tells the story of Charlie Bucket touring the inside of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
Full Answer
In the novel, Charlie Bucket is a young boy from a poor family. Willy Wonka announces a contest where five golden tickets are to be hidden in the wrappers of Wonka bars, and the winners receive a tour of the chocolate factory and a lifetime of chocolate. Charlie finds the final golden ticket and takes his Grandpa Joe on the tour with him. The other children who found the tickets turn out to be spoiled and undeserving. They are eliminated from the tour one by one. Charlie becomes the only child remaining, and Willy Wonka reveals that Charlie is to take over the chocolate factory as the heir to the company.
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Which children's book features Tweedledum and Tweedledee? | Mike Teavee | Roald Dahl Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia
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Mike Teavee is a violence-obsessed, anger-fueled television fanatic, who is seldom away from his television set. Like Violet Beauregarde , he is American in the films, but his nationality is not stated in the book. His surname is "teavee" because it implies to television, more commonly known as "TV." Before the tour with his parents to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, Mike's parents at first didn't like the idea of him doing nothing but watching television. But then they felt that television was a good choice for raising a child, as they believed they could always keep track of him and lay his food right by the TV.
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He is the fourth of the children to find a Golden Ticket, and is also the fourth to be expelled from the tour (in the final version of the book), leaving Charlie Bucket as the final and only child remaining. Unlike the other finders, the novel gives no explanation as to how Mike found his Golden Ticket because he talks only about his television obsession at his newspaper interview, especially his preference for the violent programs and expresses annoyance at the press for disrupting his viewing. He also becomes very angry when his parents stop him from watching his shows, as shown at the end of the book when his father declares that the television will be tossed out of the window when they return home, as a direct result of Mike's behavior. His father, out of both of Mike's parents, is thus the most critical of his son; he even screams at his son to "shut up!" in the book, to which Mr. Wonka thanks him for. According to the theatrical shows, Mrs. Teavee's first name is Doris and Mr. Teavee's first name is Norman.
Mike is particularly obsessed with violent gangster films. He wore "no less than eighteen toy pistols of various sizes hanging from belts around his body," and he liked to act out gangster shootings wherein the characters were "pumping each other full of lead". However, it is also implied that (like in the 1971 film) he is a fan of westerns, as when he is lined up waiting to go inside the Wonka Factory, one child asks "Who is that with the Lone Ranger stenciled on the back of his windbreaker?" to which another child identifies him as Mike Teavee.
Behind the Scenes
According to The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets, his name was originally going to be Herpes Trout.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
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Mike was played by Paris Themmen in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , in which his last name was spelled as "Teevee" in the credits. Mike, hailing from Marble Falls, Arizona, is dressed in a cowboy outfit complete with a hat, a fringed jacket, a cap gun, and a red bandana in imitation of his favorite western TV show. He openly wishes he could have a real gun, a Colt 45 , to which his father replies with a warm smile, "Not till you're twelve, son." Mrs Teavee says Mike has all his meals brought to him while watching television and never comes to the table to eat. Again, Mike is far more interested in his television than his Golden Ticket and expresses annoyance at the news reporters for disrupting his viewing; Mrs Teavee tells them that he won't comment until the station break. Mike only diverts his attention from the TV set long enough to listen to what Slugworth is whispering in his ear. When the children are asked to sign a contract prior to the tour that forbids them from divulging Wonka's secrets, Mike remarks, "I saw this in a movie once. A guy signed his wife's insurance policy, then he bumped her off." He signs his name as "Mike T.V." as he is saying this. As implied by the outfit he wears, he is a fan of western movies and TV shows. Back home in Marble Falls, he has three best friends named Billy, Maggie and Fishface; this shows that he is in fact a very nice and socialable kid despite his television obsession.
Unlike the 2005 adaptation, Mike does not have an aversion to chocolate, and is seen eating candy in the Chocolate Room. He gets along fairly well with Charlie and the other kids on the tour. When Willy Wonka chauffeurs the Buckets and the Teavees in his sud-making "Wonka Mobile", Mike and his mom are grousing about being covered in suds, while Charlie and Grandpa Joe see this as a time for a snowball fight of sorts.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
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In the 2005 film , Mike (portrayed by Jordan Fry ) is more arrogant and has a more contemporary wardrobe in lieu of cowboy attire, now wearing a skull t-shirt and dark jeans with Converse sneakers. He now resides in Denver, Colorado, and his interests include the Internet and video games (especially first-person shooters) in addition to television viewing. He is confrontational with Wonka, who pretends not to understand what Mike is saying, opining that Mike shouldn't mumble so much, providing a contrast between Wonka's thought process of imagination versus Mike's thought process based solely on logic. He only talks with Charlie one time in the movie, during their ride in the Great Glass Elevator, but seems to understand the latter's family's problems beneath his anger.
Mike is more willing to talk about his Golden Ticket than his previous incarnations and provides an explanation as to how he found it, which he never did in the book or the previous film (albeit as he is playing video games). He proves to be both scientifically and economically literate: he finds his Golden Ticket by analyzing both the Nikkei Index and the datecodes of the other ticket finds, offset by the weather that day, and then calculating the location of the next ticket, thus requiring him to purchase only a single Wonka Bar. He also states that he doesn't even like chocolate and only wanted the ticket to test himself, which Grandpa George finds particularly insulting. His father (Adam Godley), who later serves as Mike's tour chaperone, laments during the press conference about his inability to understand his son's thought processes, while bemoaning children's obsession with modern technology in general. Mrs. Teavee, however, doesn't seem to mind Mike's obsessions, albeit she has no speaking role, so it's unclear on what she thinks of her son's obsessions.
When the five children first enter the facility, Mike is the only one whom Wonka addresses by name, adding, "You're the little devil who cracked the system." (implying he hacked the distribution of the Wonka bars). He gets along well with Charlie (as in the 1971 movie) and jumps in shock at seeing Veruca being chased by furious worker squirrels. For some reason, in spite of his claim that everything in the factory is "completely pointless", he seems impressed by Fudge Mountain.
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In the 1985 video game based off of the book, Mike's level consists on the player having to avoid various "TV men" to collect the chocolate bars that lie around. In the 2005 film's game, Mike's story is far more explained. During chapter 3, Mike notices that Wonka's robots are not efficient enough and decides to upgrade them himself, which causes a massive short-circuit that makes the robots hostile (and turning them into the game's enemies). His endgame at the Television Room is the same as in the movie, only his shrinking damages the Television Chocolate's circuits, which causes Charlie to go inside the machine to fix the problem.
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In the novel and both films, Mike is shrunk when he disobeys Wonka's request to stay away from the Television Chocolate camera. In an attempt to distribute free samples of Wonka's candy, Television Chocolate was intended to send larger-than-life-sized Wonka Bars through television sets around the world. After the bar is teleported by the camera, it is shrunk down to normal size, and can then be extracted from the television set and consumed. The Television Chocolate camera transmits Mike to a television set across the room, shrinking him to a size that enabled him to fit within the screen. Prior to this, Wonka says he has not yet released Television Chocolate to the public because he is still trying to work out problems with the Television Chocolate camera; one time when the Oompa-Loompas experimented with the camera only half a bar of chocolate materialized, and that could be Mike's fate. In the book, Mr. Teavee remarks "Let us hope it is the top half" while Mrs. Teavee expresses horror.
In the 2005 film, Mr. Teavee thinks Wonka is being absurd asking a question about which half of Mike would he prefer. In the book and the 2005 film, Mike is left with a very high, squeaky voice after being shrunk. Wonka orders him to be stretched to his normal size in the gum-stretching machine (taffy puller in both films). But the Oompa-Loompas overdid the process and transformed him into a tall, thin giant who is 10 feet tall and thin as a wire (thin as paper in the 2005 film). In the book, Wonka suggests that every basketball team in the country would now be looking for him. He also suggest that they could at least fatten Mike up with his special vitamins, with all save for Vitamin H, because it makes one grow horns like a goat, and Vitamin S, because it makes one sick. It includes Vitamin Wonka, which makes one's toes grow as long as one's fingers. Willy Wonka says this will be ideal for Mike as he will be able to play the piano with his feet.
In the book and the 1971 film, Mike sends himself through the Television Chocolate machine simply due to his television fanaticism. In the novel, when his parents lament the loss of his ability to attend school or engage in society, he asserts his retained ability to watch television, whereupon his father finally blames the television set for Mike's behavior and attitude, and swears to "throw it out the window" once they get home, much to Mike's rage. This can be used in the theatrical versions if a director chooses to show the parents of the "rotten" children realizing the errors in raising them, but recent real-world studies reveal it just makes a child's fury worse. Mike's demise was also supposed to come before Miranda Piker 's as well.
In the 1971, the ultimate fate of Mike Teavee is not shown.
In the 2005 movie, Mike sends himself through the machine to demonstrate its potential use as a "teleporter", after becoming frustrated that Wonka never considered using the machine in any other context beyond distribution of his products. After realizing that he has been shrunk by his trip through the machine after his mistake, Mike tells Wonka to "put him back through the other way" and return him to normal size, but unfortunately the process is irreversible, so Wonka then suggests to stretch him in the taffy puller. This ends up with similar results to the book.
Oompa-Loompa Song
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This song took place in the factory's Television Room, and was sung by the Oompa-Loompas after Mike was shrunk while trying to use the camera to teleport himself into the in-room television screen. In the book, they sing that too much TV viewing is unhealthy and detrimental for the minds of children, and that children should read books instead of just watching TV; the song in the original film and theatrical shows conveys the same message but only gives reading books as a suggestion rather than an imperative. In the 2005 film, the song suggests that television is bad for young minds, and it makes children "dull and blind", as mentioned in the novel.
The 2005 version of the song is performed as Mike finds himself jumping from, and interacting with, one television program after another while an Oompa-Loompa changes channels with a remote control: he flips through a heavy metal music video, a Psycho-style shower scene, two other Oompa-Loompas playing Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, a WNN (Wonka News Network) news broadcast, a cooking show, and a parody of a Beatles concert. All of the performers on all the channels are Oompa Loompas.
In the theatrical adapatations, his song is called "I See It All on TV", [1] which also mentions his love of video games, his cell phone and his personal computer like the 2005 Mike. In addition, the play version of Mike thinks that reading books and traveling is for "wimpy kids", something that his parents agree with until they leave the factory.
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In what year was Mary Poppins written? | Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins
November 7 - December 22, 2013
Marian Theatre
Mary Poppins is appropriate for all ages - a great show to see as a family.
Children as young as 3 years old may attend the 1:30 performances on November 10, November 30, December 7, and December 19. Children attending all other performances must be at least 5 years old.
Mary Poppins
A musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film.
Original Music & Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Book by Julian Fellows
New Songs and Additional Music & Lyrics by George Stiles & Anthony Drewe
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The whole family will delight in this high-flying musical, fresh from Broadway. It's the beloved story of practically perfect nanny Mary Poppins, who floats over London's chimneys into Cherry Tree Lane, stirring up the winds of change for the upstanding but unhappy Banks family. Anything can happen as Mary and the Chim-Chiminey-sweep Bert, step in time through a jolly holiday with the Banks children, Jane and Michael, in which Mary's magic transforms ordinary virtues into extraordinary values. She helps the children, their parents, and all of us, learn to take our medicine with a spoonful of sugar, find the silver lining in every situation, and realize that sometimes we should just use the winds of change to go fly a kite.
Director Choreographer
Sierra Wells
Ensemble
Benjamin McNamara, Lucas Blair, Casey Canino, Katie Wackowski, Alysa Perry, Sierra Wells, Amanda Farbstein, Steven Jasso, Zach Johnson, Edgar Lopez, William Hoshida
Pit Singers: Kenny Bordieri, Gian Console, Erik Groth, Kurt Haaker, Allyson Hankins, Claire Harlan, Danielle Levin, Shannon Peters, Melissa Ramirez, Cameron Rose, Noelle Sisneros, Dominic Williams
*Member, Actors' Equity Association
November 7 - December 22, 2013
Sun
7pm
1:30 & 7pm
*Children as young as 3 years old may attend the 1:30 performances on November 10, November 30, December 7, and December 19. Children attending all other performances must be at least 5 years old.
Elizabeth Stuart* as Winifred Banks, Marisa Dinsmoor as Jane Banks & Sacha Carlson as Michael Banks
Karin Hendricks as Mary Poppins
Andrew Philpot* as George Banks & Peter S. Hadres* as Bank Chairman
"Step In Time"
Kitty Balay* as Miss Andrew & Karin Hendricks as Mary Poppins
"Jolly Holiday"
Marisa Dinsmoor as Jane Banks, Karin Hendricks as Mary Poppins, Sacha Carlson as Michael Banks
Julia Galloway as Jane Banks,
Devin Orr as Michael Banks,
George Walker as Bert,
Peter S. Hadres* as Park Keeper
Karin Hendricks as Mary Poppins
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
Kitty Balay* as Mrs. Corry
Photos: Luis Escobar, Reflections Photography Studio
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About the Play
Mary Poppins is the title character of a series of children’s books written by P.L. Travers. The first book, Mary Poppins, was published in 1934, and the last, Mary Poppins and the House Next Door, in 1988. The books focus on the magical English Nanny, Mary Poppins, who is blown by the wind into the lives of the Banks family. She arrives and gets right to work mending the family and bringing order to the chaotic home. Mary and the children have numerous adventures in which they encounter everything from singing chimney sweeps, to a loving bird woman, dancing statues, and a carpet bag that fits the strangest things.
In 1964, Walt Disney Productions produced a film version of Mary Poppins. Walt Disney had fallen in love with the stories and had started pursuing Ms. Travers for the rights to produce the film in the early 1940s but was rejected because Travers did not believe that a film version would do justice to her creations and she was opposed to an animated film. Eventually, Disney’s persistence succeeded in gaining Travers’ permission in 1961 to produce the film, with the caveat that she had final script approval rights. The creation of the film and composition of the songs took roughly two years of work.
The Mary Poppins film was critically acclaimed and loved by many. It is the most Oscar-nominated and Oscar winning film in Disney history, receiving 13 nominations and winning 5 Academy Awards. It was also awarded 2 Grammies for Best Album for Children and Best Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Show, as well as the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical to Don DaGradi and Bill Walsh. The Sherman brothers won the Academy Award for Best Original Song with "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and Best Original Score, while Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of the title character, along with the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
P.L Travers did not agree with the praise. She felt the film was too saccharine and did not like the addition of the animation in the film. After years of being pursued for the rights to turn her beloved Mary Poppins into a stage musical and turning many down, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Travers agreed to sell the stage rights to English theatre producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh in 1993. In the height of his success, Mackintosh was described by the New York Times as being “the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world.” He is responsible for the success of Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Oliver!, Miss Saigon, Cats, and of course, Mary Poppins.
It is noted that in Ms. Travers final will and testament that the conditions of the agreement with Mr. Mackintosh were that only English-born writers, no Americans, and specifically anyone involved in the 1964 film production, were not allowed to be directly involved in the creative process of the stage musical. In 2001 Mackintosh and the head of Disney Theatrical, Thomas Schumacher, began the development of a stage musical which would incorporate the songs from the Disney film. The musical premiered in London’s West End on December 15, 2004, where it ran for three years. It opened in New York City in November, 2006 and continued its Broadway run until March of 2013.
Some notable changes were made in the adaptation of the stage musical from the film. The stage musical places more emphasis on the mischievousness of the children and the dysfunction of the parents. The children’s naughty conduct is the necessity for the addition of the song "Playing the Game," where Mary has the toys in the nursery come to life and scold the children for their ill-behavior. The musical pays homage to P.L. Travers books by adding a visit to Mrs. Corry’s shop and having dancing statues in "Jolly Holiday," versus the dancing penguins that are seen in the film version. There are also a number of musical sequences that have been modified for the stage production, including the placement of certain songs and who sings them. In the film, "Let’s Go Fly a Kite" was sung as the finale by the Banks family. In the stage musical it has been moved to the beginning of Act 2 and sung by Bert and the Banks children.
About the Authors
Pamela Lyndon Travers, otherwise known as P.L. Travers, was the pen-name for Helen Lyndon Goff, was a British novelist, actress, and journalist. She was born on August 9, 1899 in Australia to an unsuccessful bank manager, Travers Robert Goff, and Margaret Agnes Morehead.
Travers began to publish her poems while still a teenager and wrote for The Bulletin and The Triad while also gaining a reputation as an actress. She toured Australia and New Zealand with a Shakespearean touring company before leaving for England in 1924. There she dedicated herself to writing. The 1934 publication of Mary Poppins was Travers' first literary success. Five sequels followed, as well as a collection of other novels, poetry collections and works of non-fiction.
The Disney musical film adaptation of Mary Poppins was primarily based on the first novel, in what was then a sequence of four books and also incorporated story elements from the sequel Mary Poppins Comes Back. As mentioned above, though Travers was an adviser to the production, she ultimately disapproved of what she regarded as the dilution of the harsher aspects of Mary Poppins' character, felt ambivalent about the music, and disliked the use of animation, to such an extent that she ruled out any further adaptations of the later Mary Poppins novels.
Travers remained active until the end of her life. She planned a Goodbye, Mary Poppins book in which she would terminate her character, but publishers and letters from upset children dissuaded her. She was given the Order of the British Empire in 1977. Although she was friendly to the parade of interviewers who came to her home in London's Chelsea district, she was usually reticent about the details of her own life, many of which emerged only with the publication of Lawson's biography in 1999. Although Travers never married, she adopted a boy when she was in her late 30s. Travers died in London on April 23, 1996, at the age of 96.
Native New Yorkers Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928) and his brother, Robert B. Sherman (born December 19, 1925) both followed in the footsteps of their father, Al Sherman, as songwriters and collaborated on complete scores, mainly for Walt Disney movies during the 1960s and 70s. As staff writers for Disney, they contributed on several films including The Parent Trap, In Search of the Castaways, Summer Magic, and The Sword in The Stone. While at Disney, the Sherman Brothers wrote more motion-picture musical scores than any other songwriters in the history of film. They also wrote what is perhaps their best-known song, "It's a Small World (After all)" for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Since then, some have claimed that this has become the most translated and performed song on Earth. Still, their first major success also came in 1964, with their Oscar-winning score for Mary Poppins. When the brothers accepted their award they commented, "There are no words. All we can say is, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."
Julian Fellowes, British actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, was responsible for writing the book for the musical film of Mary Poppins. Born on August 17, 1949 in Cairo, Egypt, Fellowes grew up in South Kensington, England with his parents and three older brothers. He graduated from Magdalene College in Cambridge with a MA in English Literature. In 1981 he moved to Los Angeles and worked in television as an actor where his most notable role was as the butler for the series Fantasy Island. As a writer he has worked on a number of television and film projects, including creating the enormously successful and critically acclaimed period drama, Downton Abbey. He won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen in 2002 with Gosford Park. Other screenwriting credits include: Vanity Fair, The Tourist, From Time to Time, and The Young Victorian.
The dynamic musical theatre songwriting partnership of George Stiles (music) and Andrew Drewe (lyrics) have been writing together since they met at Exeter University over twenty years ago. In 2004 they composed the new songs, additional music and lyrics, and vocal and dance arrangements for the stage version of Mary Poppins. Their other projects include: Just So, Honk!, and an adaptation of Peter Pan. They have also started work on a 21st century musical fable, set in modern London, centered on an internet love-story that blends a strong vein of satire with a story of celebrity politics, called Soho Cinders.
About the Production
For Director and Choreographer, Michael Jenkinson, “Anything can happen if you let it,” is not only a notion of magic, but one of self-belief. We are mostly restricted by our self-imposed limitations. If we want something, the path to seeing it to reality often lies through self-trust and openness to all possibilities.
Mary Poppins is full of fantasy, magic, visual and technical spectacle, flying, and huge dance numbers. More specifically - some of our favorite songs, dancing trees, talking animals, kites, glowing stars, and the characters with whom we love to adventure. Still, at the core of this big new musical is the story of a fragmented family that is longing to be whole again. Under their proper exterior, the Banks family is found disconnected and desperate, seeking from one another the love for which they long. That is the heart of this story. Mary comes to Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane to educate the children on the ways of the world, to engage everyone’s imagination, to heal the wounds of neglect, and to bring the warmth and lightness of love back to their home.
When asked what Mary Poppins is about in one sentence, Michael Jenkinson shared this, “Mary Poppins is about a family that has been put back together by the love and care of an unconventional Nanny.” He expressed that many people wish for that greater sense of connectivity and togetherness in their family, like that which the Banks’ find. It may be a magical fantasy land for some, but the portrayal of that kind of practical magic family intimacy can be terrifically important to us, especially during the holiday season.
Michael Jenkinson observed that this story also encourages us to become more aware of the way in which we communicate with children, acknowledging the receptiveness of the young to the words and actions of adults. While not necessarily exemplifying poor behavior to the contemporary observer, George and Winifred Banks do not really serve as strong role models for their children because in many ways, they still need a nanny themselves. Jenkinson hopes this production will not only take the audience, young and old, to a place of comfort and nostalgia, but further allow the wind to come in and blow us someplace new.
As the creative team started the challenging work on this incredible story, it was important to them to bring a fresh and unique approach to the PCPA audience. It was important to hold onto the indelible, iconic images of Mary Poppins with her coat, umbrella, and magic carpet bag, while also bringing the exhilaration of surprise and sense of new adventure. The designers have made very specific choices about locations, costumes, color, light, and choreography that are unique to our theatrical space.
Given that the stage musical is still fairly new in the world of theatre, this being among the first regional theatre productions after its national tours and Broadway run, it presents an opportunity for the director and designers to build something from the ground up. Michael Jenkinson notes that the process has been almost like working on a brand new musical, “There are so many things that are new to me in this piece that are equally exciting and challenging. I have never directed a piece with this level of fantasy, magic or technical complexity before. And I have never directed a play where my two leads are children. What a huge and thrilling undertaking we have and I so look forward to sharing this adventure with all of you.”
The New York Times stated that, “When Mary Poppins is about, her young charges can never tell where the real world merges into make-believe. Neither can the reader-and this is one of the hallmarks of good fantasy." This is also one of the hallmarks of a good theatrical production. Mary Poppins brings hope, color, and love back into focus for the Banks family, and all of us who participate in this magical voyage.
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Which fruit has the scientific name of malus pumulia? | Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins
November 7 - December 22, 2013
Marian Theatre
Mary Poppins is appropriate for all ages - a great show to see as a family.
Children as young as 3 years old may attend the 1:30 performances on November 10, November 30, December 7, and December 19. Children attending all other performances must be at least 5 years old.
Mary Poppins
A musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney film.
Original Music & Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman
Book by Julian Fellows
New Songs and Additional Music & Lyrics by George Stiles & Anthony Drewe
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The whole family will delight in this high-flying musical, fresh from Broadway. It's the beloved story of practically perfect nanny Mary Poppins, who floats over London's chimneys into Cherry Tree Lane, stirring up the winds of change for the upstanding but unhappy Banks family. Anything can happen as Mary and the Chim-Chiminey-sweep Bert, step in time through a jolly holiday with the Banks children, Jane and Michael, in which Mary's magic transforms ordinary virtues into extraordinary values. She helps the children, their parents, and all of us, learn to take our medicine with a spoonful of sugar, find the silver lining in every situation, and realize that sometimes we should just use the winds of change to go fly a kite.
Director Choreographer
Sierra Wells
Ensemble
Benjamin McNamara, Lucas Blair, Casey Canino, Katie Wackowski, Alysa Perry, Sierra Wells, Amanda Farbstein, Steven Jasso, Zach Johnson, Edgar Lopez, William Hoshida
Pit Singers: Kenny Bordieri, Gian Console, Erik Groth, Kurt Haaker, Allyson Hankins, Claire Harlan, Danielle Levin, Shannon Peters, Melissa Ramirez, Cameron Rose, Noelle Sisneros, Dominic Williams
*Member, Actors' Equity Association
November 7 - December 22, 2013
Sun
7pm
1:30 & 7pm
*Children as young as 3 years old may attend the 1:30 performances on November 10, November 30, December 7, and December 19. Children attending all other performances must be at least 5 years old.
Elizabeth Stuart* as Winifred Banks, Marisa Dinsmoor as Jane Banks & Sacha Carlson as Michael Banks
Karin Hendricks as Mary Poppins
Andrew Philpot* as George Banks & Peter S. Hadres* as Bank Chairman
"Step In Time"
Kitty Balay* as Miss Andrew & Karin Hendricks as Mary Poppins
"Jolly Holiday"
Marisa Dinsmoor as Jane Banks, Karin Hendricks as Mary Poppins, Sacha Carlson as Michael Banks
Julia Galloway as Jane Banks,
Devin Orr as Michael Banks,
George Walker as Bert,
Peter S. Hadres* as Park Keeper
Karin Hendricks as Mary Poppins
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
Kitty Balay* as Mrs. Corry
Photos: Luis Escobar, Reflections Photography Studio
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About the Play
Mary Poppins is the title character of a series of children’s books written by P.L. Travers. The first book, Mary Poppins, was published in 1934, and the last, Mary Poppins and the House Next Door, in 1988. The books focus on the magical English Nanny, Mary Poppins, who is blown by the wind into the lives of the Banks family. She arrives and gets right to work mending the family and bringing order to the chaotic home. Mary and the children have numerous adventures in which they encounter everything from singing chimney sweeps, to a loving bird woman, dancing statues, and a carpet bag that fits the strangest things.
In 1964, Walt Disney Productions produced a film version of Mary Poppins. Walt Disney had fallen in love with the stories and had started pursuing Ms. Travers for the rights to produce the film in the early 1940s but was rejected because Travers did not believe that a film version would do justice to her creations and she was opposed to an animated film. Eventually, Disney’s persistence succeeded in gaining Travers’ permission in 1961 to produce the film, with the caveat that she had final script approval rights. The creation of the film and composition of the songs took roughly two years of work.
The Mary Poppins film was critically acclaimed and loved by many. It is the most Oscar-nominated and Oscar winning film in Disney history, receiving 13 nominations and winning 5 Academy Awards. It was also awarded 2 Grammies for Best Album for Children and Best Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Show, as well as the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical to Don DaGradi and Bill Walsh. The Sherman brothers won the Academy Award for Best Original Song with "Chim Chim Cher-ee" and Best Original Score, while Julie Andrews won the Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of the title character, along with the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
P.L Travers did not agree with the praise. She felt the film was too saccharine and did not like the addition of the animation in the film. After years of being pursued for the rights to turn her beloved Mary Poppins into a stage musical and turning many down, including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Travers agreed to sell the stage rights to English theatre producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh in 1993. In the height of his success, Mackintosh was described by the New York Times as being “the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world.” He is responsible for the success of Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, Oliver!, Miss Saigon, Cats, and of course, Mary Poppins.
It is noted that in Ms. Travers final will and testament that the conditions of the agreement with Mr. Mackintosh were that only English-born writers, no Americans, and specifically anyone involved in the 1964 film production, were not allowed to be directly involved in the creative process of the stage musical. In 2001 Mackintosh and the head of Disney Theatrical, Thomas Schumacher, began the development of a stage musical which would incorporate the songs from the Disney film. The musical premiered in London’s West End on December 15, 2004, where it ran for three years. It opened in New York City in November, 2006 and continued its Broadway run until March of 2013.
Some notable changes were made in the adaptation of the stage musical from the film. The stage musical places more emphasis on the mischievousness of the children and the dysfunction of the parents. The children’s naughty conduct is the necessity for the addition of the song "Playing the Game," where Mary has the toys in the nursery come to life and scold the children for their ill-behavior. The musical pays homage to P.L. Travers books by adding a visit to Mrs. Corry’s shop and having dancing statues in "Jolly Holiday," versus the dancing penguins that are seen in the film version. There are also a number of musical sequences that have been modified for the stage production, including the placement of certain songs and who sings them. In the film, "Let’s Go Fly a Kite" was sung as the finale by the Banks family. In the stage musical it has been moved to the beginning of Act 2 and sung by Bert and the Banks children.
About the Authors
Pamela Lyndon Travers, otherwise known as P.L. Travers, was the pen-name for Helen Lyndon Goff, was a British novelist, actress, and journalist. She was born on August 9, 1899 in Australia to an unsuccessful bank manager, Travers Robert Goff, and Margaret Agnes Morehead.
Travers began to publish her poems while still a teenager and wrote for The Bulletin and The Triad while also gaining a reputation as an actress. She toured Australia and New Zealand with a Shakespearean touring company before leaving for England in 1924. There she dedicated herself to writing. The 1934 publication of Mary Poppins was Travers' first literary success. Five sequels followed, as well as a collection of other novels, poetry collections and works of non-fiction.
The Disney musical film adaptation of Mary Poppins was primarily based on the first novel, in what was then a sequence of four books and also incorporated story elements from the sequel Mary Poppins Comes Back. As mentioned above, though Travers was an adviser to the production, she ultimately disapproved of what she regarded as the dilution of the harsher aspects of Mary Poppins' character, felt ambivalent about the music, and disliked the use of animation, to such an extent that she ruled out any further adaptations of the later Mary Poppins novels.
Travers remained active until the end of her life. She planned a Goodbye, Mary Poppins book in which she would terminate her character, but publishers and letters from upset children dissuaded her. She was given the Order of the British Empire in 1977. Although she was friendly to the parade of interviewers who came to her home in London's Chelsea district, she was usually reticent about the details of her own life, many of which emerged only with the publication of Lawson's biography in 1999. Although Travers never married, she adopted a boy when she was in her late 30s. Travers died in London on April 23, 1996, at the age of 96.
Native New Yorkers Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928) and his brother, Robert B. Sherman (born December 19, 1925) both followed in the footsteps of their father, Al Sherman, as songwriters and collaborated on complete scores, mainly for Walt Disney movies during the 1960s and 70s. As staff writers for Disney, they contributed on several films including The Parent Trap, In Search of the Castaways, Summer Magic, and The Sword in The Stone. While at Disney, the Sherman Brothers wrote more motion-picture musical scores than any other songwriters in the history of film. They also wrote what is perhaps their best-known song, "It's a Small World (After all)" for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Since then, some have claimed that this has become the most translated and performed song on Earth. Still, their first major success also came in 1964, with their Oscar-winning score for Mary Poppins. When the brothers accepted their award they commented, "There are no words. All we can say is, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."
Julian Fellowes, British actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, was responsible for writing the book for the musical film of Mary Poppins. Born on August 17, 1949 in Cairo, Egypt, Fellowes grew up in South Kensington, England with his parents and three older brothers. He graduated from Magdalene College in Cambridge with a MA in English Literature. In 1981 he moved to Los Angeles and worked in television as an actor where his most notable role was as the butler for the series Fantasy Island. As a writer he has worked on a number of television and film projects, including creating the enormously successful and critically acclaimed period drama, Downton Abbey. He won the Academy Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen in 2002 with Gosford Park. Other screenwriting credits include: Vanity Fair, The Tourist, From Time to Time, and The Young Victorian.
The dynamic musical theatre songwriting partnership of George Stiles (music) and Andrew Drewe (lyrics) have been writing together since they met at Exeter University over twenty years ago. In 2004 they composed the new songs, additional music and lyrics, and vocal and dance arrangements for the stage version of Mary Poppins. Their other projects include: Just So, Honk!, and an adaptation of Peter Pan. They have also started work on a 21st century musical fable, set in modern London, centered on an internet love-story that blends a strong vein of satire with a story of celebrity politics, called Soho Cinders.
About the Production
For Director and Choreographer, Michael Jenkinson, “Anything can happen if you let it,” is not only a notion of magic, but one of self-belief. We are mostly restricted by our self-imposed limitations. If we want something, the path to seeing it to reality often lies through self-trust and openness to all possibilities.
Mary Poppins is full of fantasy, magic, visual and technical spectacle, flying, and huge dance numbers. More specifically - some of our favorite songs, dancing trees, talking animals, kites, glowing stars, and the characters with whom we love to adventure. Still, at the core of this big new musical is the story of a fragmented family that is longing to be whole again. Under their proper exterior, the Banks family is found disconnected and desperate, seeking from one another the love for which they long. That is the heart of this story. Mary comes to Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane to educate the children on the ways of the world, to engage everyone’s imagination, to heal the wounds of neglect, and to bring the warmth and lightness of love back to their home.
When asked what Mary Poppins is about in one sentence, Michael Jenkinson shared this, “Mary Poppins is about a family that has been put back together by the love and care of an unconventional Nanny.” He expressed that many people wish for that greater sense of connectivity and togetherness in their family, like that which the Banks’ find. It may be a magical fantasy land for some, but the portrayal of that kind of practical magic family intimacy can be terrifically important to us, especially during the holiday season.
Michael Jenkinson observed that this story also encourages us to become more aware of the way in which we communicate with children, acknowledging the receptiveness of the young to the words and actions of adults. While not necessarily exemplifying poor behavior to the contemporary observer, George and Winifred Banks do not really serve as strong role models for their children because in many ways, they still need a nanny themselves. Jenkinson hopes this production will not only take the audience, young and old, to a place of comfort and nostalgia, but further allow the wind to come in and blow us someplace new.
As the creative team started the challenging work on this incredible story, it was important to them to bring a fresh and unique approach to the PCPA audience. It was important to hold onto the indelible, iconic images of Mary Poppins with her coat, umbrella, and magic carpet bag, while also bringing the exhilaration of surprise and sense of new adventure. The designers have made very specific choices about locations, costumes, color, light, and choreography that are unique to our theatrical space.
Given that the stage musical is still fairly new in the world of theatre, this being among the first regional theatre productions after its national tours and Broadway run, it presents an opportunity for the director and designers to build something from the ground up. Michael Jenkinson notes that the process has been almost like working on a brand new musical, “There are so many things that are new to me in this piece that are equally exciting and challenging. I have never directed a piece with this level of fantasy, magic or technical complexity before. And I have never directed a play where my two leads are children. What a huge and thrilling undertaking we have and I so look forward to sharing this adventure with all of you.”
The New York Times stated that, “When Mary Poppins is about, her young charges can never tell where the real world merges into make-believe. Neither can the reader-and this is one of the hallmarks of good fantasy." This is also one of the hallmarks of a good theatrical production. Mary Poppins brings hope, color, and love back into focus for the Banks family, and all of us who participate in this magical voyage.
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Which drink is sometimes referred to as Adam's ale? | A Cosmopolitan
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Girl drinks, also known as chick drinks and girlie drinks, exist primarily to serve and to overserve persons eager to know the fun of catching a buzz while staying ignorant of the bliss of tasting liquor. This article represents an independent-study tool for readers seeking to refine this basic understanding along lines that are personally potationally meaningful. The key is to keep your definitions fluid but your taxonomy strict, remembering for instance that some so-called girl drinks are frat shooters in drag, and that others, if you listen closely to their accents, are androgynous tropical coolers transplanted to temperate latitudes.
The most worthy of singles-bar girl drinks is, to my tongue, the Lemon Drop. By convention, authorship of the drink is ascribed to Henry Africa, a San Francisco saloonist who, nuttier than a Herb Caen anecdote, changed his name to that of his bar . At the dawn of the Me Decade, with Bay Area nightlife entering its Tales of the City phase, Henry Africa’s soothed the sensibilities with décor including authentic Tiffany lamps and an efflorescence of hanging plants, and hence it earns distinction as the first of the fern bars . Unlike other mixological icons of the fern-bar era — the Harvey Wallbanger and the Freddy Fudpucker , the Pineapple Francine and Rupert Holmes’ piña colada , any of which you can readily imagine spilling into the lap of Jack Tripper at the Regal Beagle —the Lemon Drop is timeless and modernist-clean.
I want to take care not to oversell this vodka-based beverage: Vodka has no character (an inescapable limitation of endlessly many girl drinks), and a bar that promotes its Lemon Drop is likely selling a crude synthetic slush. But if you are obliged to entertain and you have a bottle of vodka to kill, the Lemon Drop is where you want to be. Made properly, it is a good gateway for leading a potential apprentice cocktailian to the richer pleasures of the Sidecar and the White Lady . I vouch for this recipe, written by a food blogger who counts the drink as a high home-bar pleasure , “even though I would certainly never order one out because I keep my shame to myself.”
The Very Early 1980s: Vodka Tonic
Whit Stillman’s Last Days of Disco , presenting a dry carousel of a yuppie roundelay, opens with a long sequence set somewhere Studio 54ish. On behalf of a friend, nightclub flunkie Des McGrath (Chris Eigeman) delivers a drink to publishing assistant Alice Kinnon (Chloë Sevigny). Des says, “Jimmy Steinway gave me this vodka tonic to give you … ”
Alice: That's odd he knew I drank vodka tonics. I never told him.
Des: It's uncanny.
Alice: You mean it's a complete cliché? All women recent college graduates drink vodka tonics, or something like that?
Des: Well, maybe.
1987: The Sex on the Beach
The flavor scientists who arranged the sticky molecules of DeKuyper’s Peachtree Schnapps produced a nuclear reaction—a fad without precedent. It sold 1.3 million cases in its first year. The Fuzzy Navel , to which it syrupily contributes, became the most popular mixed drink in the country , and the Sex on the Beach —which is a Fuzzy Navel deluxe—installed its naughty name on the American menu and the spring-break canon. The flood of fruitish flavor receded by the end of the decade, and the peach schnapps bottle moved to the back of the national liquor cabinet, where snooping kids figured nobody would miss it. Not knowing what they were doing, just messing around with the fruit juice their parents put in the fridge before they left for the weekend, teenagers dared to mix further girly variations on the Sex on the Beach and its duck-faced sorority sister, the Woo Woo .
A Cosmopolitan
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1988: The Cosmopolitan
In the middle of the 1980s, Absolut was test-marketing its first fruit-flavored vodka in Miami, and a bottle of the lemon-kissed Absolut Citron made its way into the hands of Cheryl Cook , a hotel bartender in South Beach. Wanting to put something pretty in the inverted cone of an iconic cocktail glass, she mixed it with cranberry juice, triple sec, and Rose’s lime juice, and she named it after Helen Gurley Brown’s magazine. It caught on, and women liked it, but it was not yet a girl drink, despite being “ oh so pretty in pink .” (This was, after all, mid-‘80s Miami, where even an artist as butch as Michael Mann did the police in pastels .)
The formula circulated the fleshpots of port cities, eventually nestling in the ear of Toby Cecchini, a bartender at Keith McNally’s Odeon in New York. In 1988, he upgraded the ingredients to the formula that’s standard today, arriving at something “pretty good, like a high-end, girlish kamikaze,” as he has said in a Slate diary and in a memoir . It was girlish, but it was unisex. “It’s an insider’s cocktail that absolutely everyone drinks ,” William Grimes observed. “Like a well-written sitcom, it flatters its audience into believing they are a little more sophisticated and knowing than they really are.”
1991: The Chocolate Choo-Choo
“ Girl Drink Drunk ” is a Kids in the Hall sketch about a nondrinker who orders the frilly fictional Choo-Choo and quickly develops a ruinous habit, hiding around his workplace not only rum but also a stash of paper umbrellas. The comedy is good but the mixology is conceptually flawed. Many of the featured beverages are elaborate caricatures of tiki drinks, which by their nature are no more or less girlie than a Samoan wrestler in a grass skirt.
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1996: The French Martini
Keith McNally’s Pravda put this upscale Purple Hooter on the menu and “kicked off the whole flavored ‘martini’ craze,” according to Dale DeGroff , in a phrase that uses scare quotes like tongs.
1998: The Cosmopolitan, No. 2
It took 10 years for the Cosmopolitan to complete its gender assignment, and the transformation required the efforts of actual sitcom writers. In 1998, HBO’s adaptation of Candace Bushnell’s Sex and the City debuted, and its characters, being trendy sorts, ordered them ostentatiously. (Candace’s pal Bret gave the drink a celebrity cameo in Glamorama that same year: “On this much Xanax, it’s remarkably easy to concentrate … while pouring cranberry juice, Cointreau, and lemon citron into a shaker filled with ice that you yourself attacked with an ice pick and then you're rolling a lime and slicing it … ”) The show effectively designated the drink as a totem and a sacrament. Soon, thousands of high-heeled bright young things were clambering across the cobblestone clubland of the Meat-Packing District to order a Cosmopolitan at Keith McNally’s Pastis , one of Carrie’s favorite joints. This liquid cupcake was the blood of her body.
2008: The Cosmopolitan, No. 3
The feature-film adaptation of Sex and the City closes with the gals lifting a toast to solidarity, clinking Cosmos to celebrate themselves. “Why did we ever stop drinking these?” says Miranda. “Because everyone else started,” answers Carrie.
When the hoi polloi pick up a trend, the hoity-toity press onto the next. I’d bet that the gang—and especially Samantha—would have moved on to one of the girl-friendly variations on the mojito that began making the rounds in 2000, around the time that the soundtrack to Buena Vista Social Club went platinum. Pomegranate, maybe?
St. Germain strawberry? Cucumber watermelon ? Acaí ?
That last one is made with VeeV, a very strong organic liquor from an eco-conscious distiller. It is fundamental to the VeeV sales pitch that you can save the rainforest and add antioxidants to your diet while holding a drink that looks good with your manicure. In 2008, the stuff was sufficiently of the moment that Florence Fabricant in the New York Times published a recipe that used it to make … the Amazon Cozmo .
Midori Super Sour
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2011: The Midori Super Sour
“ Working to be relevant to a new generation of 21-25 year old women ,” Midori, the troublingly green melon liqueur, hired Kim Kardashian as a brand ambassador. The theme of Kim’s campaign is stand out, which encourages young women to attract attention by ordering a refreshment that, under a nightclub blacklight, glows like an Industrial Toxini.
When asked at promotional appearances what her preferred way to choke back Midori is, Kim stands there, Saran-wrapped into a Midori-green dress, and claims to prefer the Midori Super Sour , a concoction I cannot countenance. If you simply must dabble in this realm, try Andrew Bohrer’s recipe, which uses gin. Gotta use gin unless you want “a cocktail balanced for a Cabbage Patch Kid.”
2012: The Best Amaretto Sour in the World
We have just wrapped the books on a momentous girl-drink year. Some people are still feeling the New Year’s hangovers they earned guzzling prebottled cocktails produced by VeeV and by Skinnygirl, a brand developed by the acclaimed Real Housewife Bethenny Frankel. (Some people are still receiving in-patient trauma counseling after being exposed to “the World’s Largest Bachelorette Party” that went down at Tao in Las Vegas, where attendees pounded the calorie-conscious “ Skinnygirl Naked Cosmo .”) Smirnoff expanded its range of confectionary vodkas beyond Fluffed Marshmallow and Whipped Cream to include Iced Cake and Kissed Caramel; not to be outdone, Van Gogh Vodka introduced a PB&J flavor, “ setting a new low bar in beverage crassness .”
Meanwhile, Applebee’s went nationwide with an after-hours concept—“ bee’s ”—and it moved its fair share of wildberry-mango Main St. Rita® Swirls. There were hints that the hip kids are sincerely appreciative of the fern-bar cultural aesthetic . The New York Post put out a big story on mojito fatigue .
Getting frisky over in R&D, a few bloggers gave girl drinks high-tech makeovers—dipping a lemon wedge into dehydrated Midori granules for a “ Deconstructed Midori Sour ,” for instance, and using gin, vermouth, a Granny Smith, and a nitrogen-infusion process to create a classed-up appletini . (“Does it taste like a ‘real’ Appletini? Hell, no. That’s why I’m still drinking it.”).
And getting back to basics, Portland, Ore.’s Jeffrey Morgenthaler published a recipe for “the best amaretto sour you’ve ever had in your life,” which yielded the best amaretto sour I’ve ever had in my life. The key ingredients are egg white and a half-jigger of cask-strength whiskey , which completes the drink “like Jerry Maguire completes Renée Zellweger’s character, whatever her name was.”
2013: The Cosmopolitan, No. 4
If you are going to insist on making a Cosmopolitan this year—possibly because you are one of these people born in the ‘90s who already have the nerve to throw ‘90s theme parties—then look to Slate’s variation, which embiggens the drink’s flavor profile and updates its chic with a double-cheeked pink-grapefruit kiss of fashionable Aperol . (If you have none at hand, substitute an overdose of orange bitters.) This is a Cosmopolitan for the 21st-century girl, right down to its pandering, catchy name. A Robert Pattinson fan celebrating the big two-one could do worse than to have one or two.
The Cosmopolis
1½ ounces Absolut Citron
¾ ounce Cointreau
¾ ounce fresh lime juice
¾ ounce 100 percent cranberry juice
1 teaspoon Aperol
Shake with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. In accordance with a tradition aged for 25 years, set your expectations to “pretty good.”
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What is the most widely eaten meat in the world? | A Beginner's Guide to American Beer Styles | Serious Eats
A Beginner's Guide to American Beer Styles
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Some of America's finest. [Photographs: Mike Reis ]
American beer. Whatever that phrase means to you, it probably doesn't mean the same thing to the guy sitting on the barstool next to you. Or to the guy on a barstool in Portland, Oregon. Or in Munich. Or in Copenhagen.
Maybe that's what makes American beer great. It is so many different things to so many different people. But those passionate about craft beer want folks to get it "right." "We're more than just light lager," they'll shout. "We have the most varied and innovative beer culture in the world!" But if the comments from some of my recent guides to worldwide beer styles are any indication, that's a matter for debate.
Are we more than a culture of IBU-chasing hopheads? Do we value diversity as much as we'd like to believe?
Today, we'll take a closer look at a variety of American beer styles. Keep this in mind, though: much of American beer's appeal lies in the fact that it so frequently defies categorization. While there are some established and agreed-upon styles, there are new ones popping up every day thanks to a spirit of creativity that's not bound by rules rooted in tradition.
American Lagers: American Adjunct Lager and Imperial Pilsner
To many, American beer exists exclusively within a small screen world of blue mountains, red bowties, and chunks of ice sliding sexily down cold bottles of lager. While there's certainly more to it than that, this isn't an entirely inaccurate image—the lagers produced by Budweiser, Miller, and Coors comprise the majority of the beer sold in the United States today.
The beers these folks are producing, by and large, belong to a group of overlapping beer styles known as American adjunct lager. For the most part, these beers are inspired by the pilsners of the Czech Republic and Germany , but they've strayed a long way from those traditions.
Where traditional pilsners are bright lagers made from barley malt, water, yeast, and a significant dose of hops, most American adjunct lager cuts way back on hop flavor and replaces a portion of the barley with sugars derived from corn and rice. The result is a product built for drinkability—light in body, low in bitterness, and gentle enough in alcohol that a six pack can be interpreted as more of a challenge than a stockpile.
If you find yourself at a backyard BBQ with an adjunct lager in hand, you can bet it'll be an easy-drinking beer. It may be very dry, or it could have significant grainy sweetness, but it will almost certainly have very little bitterness from hops. Roll with the breweries' suggestions and serve these beers as cold as possible. They're built for refreshment.
Some craft breweries are experimenting with more flavorful adjunct lager recipes, but these are still relatively few and far between.
For a craftier take on American lager, there are a whole bunch of other options. Americans have thrown their own spins on many lager styles: schwarzbiers, Märzens, bocks, and dunkels have all been hopped up, imperialized, and otherwise tweaked with a certain sense of cowboyish bravado. But another lager style is popping up with increasing frequency amongst American craft brewers: Imperial pilsner.
Examples of this style vary pretty wildly in flavor. Some are balanced pale lagers in the 6 to 6.5% ABV range, while others are super-malty or ultra-hoppy palate-rippers that can rise above 9 or 10% ABV. Without an established tradition behind these beers, brewers are free to run wild with creativity. In all examples, you'll likely encounter a firm base of pale maltiness—bready or cracker-like grain flavor that's backed up with a noticeable hoppy presence. Much of the time that hoppiness will bear the earthy, floral, and grassy signature of European hops, but beers bearing the imperial pilsner name may boast a bright citrusy flavor from American hops as well.
You may also run into the related India Pale Lagers, which are essentially India Pale Ales (we'll get to those later) made with lager yeast. These beers tend to be all about hop character. Without the spicy or fruity flavors that are sometimes associated with ale yeast, hop and malt flavor is free to express itself without distraction.
Cream Ale
An increasingly uncommon product of nostalgia, cream ale has a longer history than most modern American beer styles. Devised by pre-Prohibition American ale brewers and peddled as a competitor to the market-dominating pale lagers, cream ales share a bit in common with the adjunct lagers that line our shelves today.
Similarly brewed with corn or rice adjuncts, these are pale, easy drinking beers with a touch more bitterness and fruity character than their mass-produced brethren. Despite their name, these tend to be light and crisp, so don't expect a lush creaminess from your cream ales. Like adjunct lagers, they'll have a doughy malt character, and maybe an additional touch of cooked corn-like flavor.
Blonde Ale and American Hefeweizen
For another easy drinker with a touch more complexity, look toward American blonde ales (sometimes called golden ales) or American pale wheat ales (sometimes called American hefeweizen).
Both are pale in color and defined by a grainy or bready maltiness, often with a hint of sweetness. There's typically some bitterness for balance here as well, but these usually aren't hop-forward in flavor. American 'hefeweizens,' as pale wheat ales are commonly labeled, are quite unlike the traditional hefeweizens of Bavaria—you're more likely to find fruity and clove-like yeast-derived flavors in the latter.
American blonde ales and pale wheat beers have long served drinkers as a gateway to more intensely flavorful brews, but they're often perceived as boring by those that have moved on to other, more potent styles. Perhaps in response to that, both of these beer types are now frequently pushed to their limits by American brewers. Beers labeled as "blonde" or "American wheat" are now almost as likely to be bright and hoppy or sour and fruity as they are simple and easy-drinking.
Steam Beer/California Common
There's no better beer to represent craft beer's modern Manifest Destiny than the humble steam beer (now more frequently referred to as California common). Born of necessity at the hands of gold rushing 49ers, steam beer arose from attempts to produce lager beers without the aid of the refrigeration usually required for lager production in warmer climates. The yeast used to make lagers generally ferments best in temperatures ranging from around 45 to 55°F. Without the capacity for cooling, the lagers made in 19th century California were fermented at higher temperatures and thus didn't taste much like lager at all. Scrappy as they were, beers made in this fashion found a stable market amongst the rough-hewn working class of the West.
So why the name "steam beer?" That's a matter of much debate, but a few stories pop up frequently. There's a pretty good case to be made that the "steam" in the name refers to the unusually high levels of pressure that would build up in the packaging of these beers. Upon opening, a forceful, steam-like puff of pressurized gas would be released. Another side of the debate attributes the name to the steam that arose from the surface of the beer as it cooled in shallow, open vessels known as coolships. Still another suggests that the name comes from a German beer style called "dampfbier," which translates directly to "steam beer."
Wherever the name came from, steam beer's knockabout charm quickly wore off as refrigeration found its way to California. Lagers could now be made with consistency and quality, and they drove steam beer to the brink of extinction.
Then Fritz Maytag stepped in. Of the same bloodline as the folks behind the blue cheese and the washing machines , Fritz clearly had his family's eye for business. He purchased a controlling stake in San Francisco's Anchor Brewing Company in 1965 and eventually brought their Anchor Steam beer to the American masses. To this day, he's widely considered to be the godfather of the American craft beer movement.
Despite the fact that the name was not Anchor's invention, the brewery was awarded a trademark for the term "steam beer" in 1981. Since then, the name "California common" has been applied to other beers made in the steam beer style.
Most California commons made these days are modeled after Anchor's modern pacesetter—these are amber beers with a toasty, lightly caramelly maltiness and a woodsy hop aroma imparted by American-grown Northern Brewer hops. Most also have a touch of fruity flavor that results from the warm fermentation temperatures that set this beer apart from other lagers.
American Pale, Amber/Red Ale, Session IPA
Maytag and his Anchor Brewing Company served as an inspiration to many in the early days of American craft beer and the stage was now set for a new class of innovators. American homebrewers and fledgling commercial breweries in the 1970s began toying around with making variations on English ale styles. In 1980, a legend was born. Chico, California's new Sierra Nevada Brewing Company produced a riff on English pale ale. It was a dry, bottle-conditioned beer that popped with bright and bitter Cascade hop flavor. Pale amber in color, the new American pale ale's malt flavor was toasty and lightly caramelly but not sweet, and the beer weighed in around 5.6% ABV. You could say it was pretty successful.
The impact of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale on the American beer scene is tough to overstate. This beer is still the benchmark of the craft brewery-standard American pale ale style and brewers all over the country cite it as an inspiration. Pale ale and its variants now dominate the shelves at specialty beer stores nationwide thanks in no small part to the example set forth by Sierra Nevada and the other pale ale pioneers of the 70s and 80s.
Nowadays, many make pale ale in the style of Sierra Nevada, but experimentation continues, especially with regard to the types of hops used as the primary flavoring agent in these beers. Hops from all over the world with wildly different aromatic qualities are used atop a malt base that ranges from very pale and doughy in flavor to toasty and caramelly.
American amber or American red ales are very closely related to pale ale. While these are often recognized as independent styles, they overlap in both recipe and flavor enough to be considered fraternal twins, at least. American amber and red ales will typically have more caramelly, toasty, or lightly roasted malt flavors alongside that same citrusy, floral American hop profile. As a whole, these will also often seem a bit sweeter and fuller in body than their pale counterparts and will be a bit darker in color, but there's a lot of overlap.
Session IPAs are a more recently established style. These are very similar to American pale ales, but tend to place even more emphasis on hop character. That is not necessarily to say that these are exceptionally bitter beers, though they can be. These are designed to be drunk in quantity over the course of a lengthy "session," so they typically sport even lower levels of alcohol than many pale ales to keep you a bit more sober after you've had a couple.
American Brown Ale
American brown ale represents another riff on an established English beer style . Like English brown ales, these are malt-focused beers—rich and sturdy with a dense, caramelly malt quality. American examples tend to be a bit stronger, and typically complement that rich caramel flavor with the inclusion of sharply-flavored, darker roasted grains that can taste like dark chocolate, burnt toast or coffee. These malt flavors can also be contrasted with a substantial hit of American hoppiness.
Though there are obviously exceptions, we may be sensing a theme here: American variations on established beer styles tend to be stronger and hoppier than the beers that inspired them. This has given American beer a bit of a reputation in the global beer scene. Our love for big, bold flavors is seen by cynics as an inability to appreciate the more subtle grace of the beers that inspire us.
American IPA and Double IPA
Speaking of stronger and hoppier, it's time we addressed the prettiest girl at the American beer prom: India Pale Ale. It has achieved a popularity that's unparalleled in the American craft beer scene. As a result, almost every brewery has taken their own crack at it, each trying to do something to set theirs apart from the myriad other options on the shelf.
IPA has been around in the US for some time—the famous Ballantine IPA was brewed on the East Coast from the late 19th century until 1996. That beer is widely given credit for introducing IPA to the American masses, but it bore little resemblance to the stuff we're drinking today.
IPA in its modern form is a much more recent development. Some (including the brewery) point to Anchor's Liberty Ale, first released in 1975, as the first example of a distinctly American IPA. But Anchor never called it an IPA on any labels, and at 5.9% ABV, some think of that innovative brew as merely an exceptionally hoppy pale ale. Others point to the IPA put out by Bert Grant's Yakima Brewing & Malting Co. as the originator of modern American IPA. Of course, there are still others that would love to pin its origin elsewhere.
However it came to be, modern American IPA is a big deal these days. Whoever makes it, you can expect a beer called American IPA to be a beer driven in flavor by bright American hops. It will be a strong beer (think 6-8% ABV), and there will likely be a firm, lasting hop bitterness. Hop flavor varies from intensely citrusy and floral to pine-like and resinous, stone fruity, or tropical fruit-like, depending on the varieties used and how they interact with fruitiness or sweetness from yeast or malt. The malt flavor of these beers varies quite a lot, and your IPA may be ultra-pale in color, or it may veer towards deep amber. There may be a bit of residual sweetness, or your beer may be ripping dry.
Double (also called imperial) IPAs are similar in ingredients and method of production, but tend to be significantly more assertive than standard American IPAs in just about every way. Expect more alcohol, more hop aroma and bitterness, and more malt character. Often, these will have a bit more perceived sweetness to dampen the impact of the beer's elevated alcohol content, but the best examples find a balance of sweetness, bitterness, and alcoholic astringency. Expect much of the same hop character that you'd find in a standard American IPA, but with potentially more caramelly, bready, or honey-like maltiness pushing through, possibly finishing with a sharp alcoholic bite.
Black IPA, White IPA, Belgian IPA, Imperial Red Ale
There's a lot to gain when brewers play around with IPA: customers want new hoppy beers, brewers get to creatively express themselves and expand boundaries, and the finance guys dig the big sales that those three little letters deliver to their revenue streams.
So today we're surrounded by white IPAs, black IPAs, red IPAs, Belgian IPAs, spiced IPAs, soured IPAs, and barrel-aged IPAs. And there's more to come—if you can dream it up, someone will add hops to it and sell it as an IPA. But a few of these new sub-styles have shown that they're here to stay. At least for a little while.
The black IPA, also sometimes referred to as Cascadian dark ale, American black ale, or India black ale, has garnered a huge amount of attention. Some criticize these beers as being no more than extra-hoppy porters riding on the IPA name, while others have embraced them as a new frontier in beer flavor. When it comes to the recipes, some black IPAs are actually pretty similar to standard American IPAs with a dash of dark roasted malt thrown in. These beers are often dry and assertively hoppy, but have a touch of complementary roasty, toasted, or burnt flavors. Other examples of the style are more dark-malt focused, which is where the comparison to porter comes from. These will have a rich maltiness akin to dark or milk chocolate, toffee, wheat toast, coffee, or nuts brightened by an assertive American hoppiness.
White IPAs bear even less resemblance to anything else we call "IPA"—they are often just American-hopped versions of the Belgian witbier style, made with wheat and spices. Some examples are made to the strength of an IPA, but others, including perhaps the two most visible examples (made by Deschutes and Samuel Adams), reside below 6% ABV. The best versions marry the fruitiness and spiciness produced by Belgian yeast with citrusy American hops and any spices (coriander and orange peel are the most common). The wheat used in the brewing process will impart a smooth sweetness and the result should find a balance amongst all of these big flavors.
So then what's a Belgian IPA? Often, these beers are takes on the American-style IPA fermented with a Belgian yeast strain. This gives the beer significantly more yeast flavor in the form of fruity, peppery, or clove-like aromatics. Other beers labeled "Belgian IPA" are American-hopped versions of strong pale Belgian beers such as tripel or Belgian strong pale ale. As with many of these new beer styles, there's significant room for every brewer's interpretation.
Imperial or double red ales usually do not bear the "IPA" name specifically, but are closely related in both flavor and ingredients to IPA or Double IPA. Expect much of the strength and hop character that you'd get from IPA, but with more dark malt flavor—these will be extra caramelly, toffee-like, or toasty. Fruity flavors from yeast may be present as well.
American Barleywine and American Strong Ale
If English barleywine is the guy snuggled up by the fire at the back of a cozy pub, its American counterpart is "that guy" up at the bar picking fights and playing entire AC/DC records on the jukebox. But hey, that guy can be sorta fun in the right circumstances too.
American barleywines are about as intense as beer gets. Like their British brothers, these are very strong (think 8 to 12% ABV or higher), densely malty beers—packed with rich caramel, toffee, date, or prune-like flavors with a heady alcohol content. Unlike British barleywines, these also tend to be packed with hop flavor. Expect a lot of bitterness and American hop aroma when fresh. Some examples may be aged in used spirit barrels (bourbon is especially popular) to deepen complexity—these versions will usually express less bright hop flavor and carry some (often a lot of) flavor from the barrel.
The name American strong ale is mainly used as a catch all for strong beers that don't neatly fit another style. You're likely to encounter much of the same heft and hoppiness as you would in a barleywine, but from there, you're flying blind.
American Stout and Imperial Porter
Though the stout family has its roots in Britain, American stout has enough Yankee flair to be accepted as its own thing. Like all stouts, these are black in color with some amount of roasted malt flavor—you can count on some dark malt bitterness and a coffee-like, burnt toast flavor to be present. But American-style stouts are really set apart by a hop presence that exceeds what you'd find in most other stouts. Earthy, pine-like, and citrusy hop aromatics can all be found in examples in this style, but should feel well-integrated to the beer's other characteristics.
These can be strong beers, ranging from around 5 to 7% ABV, but any stronger than that starts to step into imperial stout territory.
When brewers do veer into the "imperial" world with their black beers, clear style designations get a little wonky. Many American brewers use the name Russian Imperial stout, which we discussed in our British beer style guide , even when their beers are driven in flavor by American ingredients. Others use "Imperial stout," "double stout," or "American Imperial stout" to distinguish their products from those rooted in the British tradition.
Imperial porter is another name applied to beers that could be considered American imperial stouts. Some folks insist that porters have less roasty bitterness than stouts, despite the existence of many very roasty commercially-made porters. At any rate, Imperial porters tend to be pretty similar in character to American Imperial stouts. Some may be lighter in hop character and roast bitterness, but that's far from a universal rule.
American brewers have fun messing around with all of these massive stouts and porters. You're very likely to come across examples that have been aged in barrels that were previously home to wine, spirits, or even maple syrup, and ones that have been spiked with coffee, vanilla, chilies, doughnuts , fruit, or any number of other ingredients. Big flavors reign supreme!
American Wild Ale
American wild ale is a pretty vaguely-defined catchall category: the only thing these beers have in common with one another is the inclusion of wild yeast and/or bacteria for fermentation in addition to or instead of the usual ale yeast. The result is an unusually rustic, tart, or earthy brew.
The most common "wild" fermentation organism used in these beers is a yeast called Brettanomyces. It is frequently referenced by drinkers as the source of sourness in many beers, but this isn't really the case—though it can produce vinegary acetic acid under some fermentation conditions, Brett (as it's affectionately known) is far less important in the souring process than acid-producing bacteria. It is, however, known to produce a host of funky, love-'em-or-hate-'em flavors that are commonly likened to barnyards, earth, or horse blankets. Brett can also produce fruity flavors depending on the specific Brett strain chosen and the conditions of the fermentation.
The more sour American wild ales gain their puckery quality from the use of certain types of bacteria that produce acid. Lactobacillus is perhaps the most common of these, used for its ability to produce sourness in the form of lactic acid, the same stuff that gives your yogurt and sour cream its tartness. Pediococcus is another lactic acid producing organism, but this one is typically only used alongside Brettanomyces. Acetobacter is the last bacteria you'll see talked about in the world of American wild ales—this one produces acetic acid, the same acid that gives vinegar its sharpness. You'll know it when you taste it. It tastes like vinegar.
The use of these organisms is not restricted to any one type of base beer style across the universe of American wild ales, and the words "American wild ale" don't pop up on every label where it would apply. Beers that fall under the American wild ale umbrella will typically include a little information on the bottle to give you an idea of what's inside. It may say "brown ale aged in wine barrels with Brettanomyces," or "blonde ale soured with Lactobacillus." It might also just say "sour ale." Whatever it says, give it a try, especially if it's one of these Serious Eats favorites .
These rustic beers are especially strange to those that don't know what to expect, but they're also a fun, diverse, and interesting bunch. Grab some and explore: your next favorite beer might be an American wild ale.
If not, there's a whole lot of other American beers out there for you to try.
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What type of sweets was American President Ronald Reagan known for having on his desk? | President Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in Tampic, Illinois on February 6, 1911.
His family was poor. His father was an alcoholic and was often unemployed.
When he was young he worked as a life guard for seven summers. In that time he made 77 rescues. He worked seven days a week and often twelve hours a day.
Reagan was 6' 1" tall and weighed about 185.
He attended Eureka College in California. He just had average grades.
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat in his early years. He later switched parties and ran for Governor and President as a Republican. The first time he voted was for Eisenhower/Nixon election in 1952.
Reagan was afraid of flying. He would rather have taken a train. When he ran for president, he flew on planes but didn't like it.
Reagan was one of three presidents who majored in economics while is college. George H. Bush and Gerald Ford were the others.
Ronald Reagan announced Chicago Cubs games for WHO radio in Des Moines. Later he became a famous movie and television actor. Reagan appeared in 53 movies. He also hosted The General Electric Theater and Death Valley Days. Both of these were popular TV shows.
In 1954, his acting career was doing badly so he took a job in Las Vegas as a comic for a few weeks.
Reagan was in the military during WWII.
He married Nancy Davis on March 4, 1952. William Holden was the best man at their wedding. Nancy was his second wife. Ronald Reagan was the only divorced man to become president.
He was the president of the Actors Guild. A union for people in the movie business.
Reagan was governor of California for two terms. He was 55 years old when he ran for governor in 1966. He won the election by over a million votes.
Reagan was the only president that was president of a union.
He enjoyed reading the comics in the newspaper.
At 73, he was the oldest person ever elected president. (This was his election to his second term.) He was 69 when elected the first time. He turned 70 seventeen days after he took office.
His nickname was "the Gipper." It came from a famous football movie. In the movie, Reagan said "Save one for the Gipper." His wife called him "Ronnie."
President Reagan always worked in a coat and tie when he worked in the White House. He did that in respect for the presidency. He cleaned off his desk at the end of each work day.
He loved watching movies. H went to Camp David on 183 weekends and usually watched to movies each weekend plus the ones he watched in the White House.
Ronald Reagan loved jelly beans. He was sometimes referred to as the "Jelly Bean Man." Some say that the sale of jelly beans increased while he was president. For his presidential inauguration in 1981, he made sure his favorite sugary sweets made an appearance. Three and a half tons of Jelly Belly beans were shipped to the White House for the event.
Reagan's Vice President was George Bush (1981-1989). He temporary transferred the powers of the president to George Bush while he had surgery for cancer.
President Reagan was the oldest president in history; he was just shy of his 78th birthday on leaving office.
Reagan asked the American people to "dream heroic dreams."
Reagan was the only professional actor to be elected President.
Reagan's would-be assassin, John Hinkley wanted to assassinate the President to impress actress Jodie Foster. After the assassination attempt he was put in a mental institution. (For more information see the page on the attempted assassination of President Reagan. )
After John Hinkley tried to kill him, former sportscaster Dutch Reagan, said to his wife: "Honey, I forgot to duck."
He was the first president to wear a bullet proof vest.
Ronald Reagan was the only president that was wounded in an assassination attempt and survived.
A young boy gave Reagan a goldfish which Reagan kept in a fish tank which had the presidential seal on it.
Franklin Roosevelt was one of Reagan favorite presidents.
He was the first president to wear a hearing aid. He also was the third president to wear contact lenses. (Johnson and Ford also wore contacts.
In 1983, the greatest disaster of Reagan presidency occurred in Lebanon. Reagan had sent US Marines to Lebanon as part of an multi-nation military group. On October 23, 1983 a terrorist set off a car bomb at the building where the Marines were housed. The bomb exploded with a force 12,000 pounds of TNT which was the largest non-nuclear blast on record. 241 Marines were killed. More than any single battle in Vietnam. 107 Marines were injured. The president and the American people were devastated.
Ronald Reagan was President during the Grenada Invasion, 1983
President Reagan was the first President to appoint a female Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.
During the first year of his presidency Reagan only traveled to Canada. In the next seven years he traveled to 25 nations and to the Vatican.
In the 1984 election he had the largest electoral landside in U.S. history. He carried 49 states for 525 electoral votes to Mondale's 10 electoral votes. Mondale only carried Minnesota, his home state, by 1% of the vote. Mondale also won the District of Columbia.
Ronald Reagan was the only President to have been divorced. He was also one of three Presidents who had adopted children.
In 1986, he signed the legislation making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday.
One of his most famous speeches was at the Berlin Wall on June 12, 1987. He demanded "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
President Ronald Regain at a political rally, By Michael Evens, February 8, 1982.
Ronald Regain Presidential Library.
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Which country would you associate with the dish Couscous? | Ronald Reagan / Useful Notes - TV Tropes
— Back to the Future
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 — June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989 . He was the sixteenth from the Republican Party, serving between Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush . Reagan is well-known for moving the country to the right politically, socially, and economically, accidentally causing the biggest World War III scare since 1962 (in the 1983 Able Archer Crisis), and his successful diplomatic initiative to negotiate a peaceful end to the Cold War by working together with Mikhail Gorbachev . He also was the last President to be in office during a war in which the United States officially declared itself to be neutral: namely the Falklands Conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina.
Yes, he's the actor who became President. However, many of the jokes about that don't work very well, since, when his political career commenced in 1966, he was only the "former actor who's running for Governor of California ". After he vacated that office, he became known as the "former two-term Republican Governor of California who's running for President." People today will more likely know Reagan as the conservative guy who was President in The '80s .
You usually either love or hate him , it really depends on your political stance of course. Modern-day Republicans tend to worship the man, while modern-day Democrats will say the aftereffects his policies is the reason for everything wrong with America today. There do exist Democrats who think fondly of him , known as "Blue Dogs" or "Reagan Democrats". Supporters praise him for getting America out of a major recession that had been stemming since the mid 70's, bringing back America's military as the top dogs in world defense, ending the Cold War, bringing back traditional values, and his economic policies that heavily favored a free-market state and allowing for substantial growth in the economy ("Reaganomics" as it was called), even years into the the Clinton administration. Detractors cite the "War On Drugs" campaign, the increased crime rate, the fact that the national debt saw a 191 percent increase during his presidency, his union-busting (specifically his handling of the PATCO air traffic controllers strike) and what they perceived as a slow response to the AIDS epidemic.
But the biggest problem that neither side could deny was the prevalence of corruption. While not necessarily from the man himself, his "hands off" style of leadership led to his officials committing federal offenses without check. Various scandals from his administration led to the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 officials, the most for any US president. The most infamous one was the "Iran-Contra" affair, where military officials sold weapons to Iran in exchange for the release hostages in Lebanon, plus money to fund the Contras, an anti-Communist guerilla group in Nicaragua that was revealed to have committed human rights violations. All of that despite explicit congressional bans on any funding going to the Contras and an embargo against Iran that is still in place today. He was nicknamed the "Teflon President" for a reason: any faults in his administration or his policies were almost never attributed to him.
If you see someone in a film or TV show talking about how great Reagan was, then it's a surefire indication that the character is a Republican or someone with conservative right-wing leanings. Conversely, if you see someone in a film or TV show disparaging Reagan, expect the character to hold mainly left-of-center beliefs. For British media, substitute Margaret Thatcher for Reagan to precisely the same effect, as she was similarly conservative, pro-free markets, anti-union, and presided over their respective countries during roughly the same time period; 1979�1990. Reagan's other use in popular culture is to evoke the 1980's, so expect him to be referenced in anything set in a Popular History version of that decade or any political satires or topical shows from that era.
Fun fact: Reagan was once a member of the Democratic Party. He also was very, very addicted to jelly beans. He started eating them when he quit smoking , and he seriously had jelly bean cup-holders placed on government planes. When he won in 1980, he wanted a jelly bean flag of red, white, and blue to be created to the occasion. There were no blue-colored jelly beans at the time, so the Jelly Belly company created the blueberry flavor specifically for the ceremony. It ended up becoming one of their most popular flavors.
As always, be cool and use the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment : lots of people have strong opinions on him, his legacy and his economic policies.
Reagan's Movie Career:
There is a story that Ronald Reagan was playing Trivial Pursuit with his staff aboard Air Force One, and received the question "Who said 'I am the Errol Flynn of B-movies ?'". Reagan correctly answered "I did." In any case, the Errol Flynn quote is accurate, and reflected Reagan's dissatisfaction over his movie career, which rarely provided the good parts that Reagan wanted, as he typically ended up playing the archetypical "the hero's best friend/sidekick" character.
Ronald Reagan made his film debut in a picture called Love Is on the Air in 1937. His first big break was a supporting part in the Bette Davis prestige drama Dark Victory (1939), but that part unfortunately failed to lift him out of the B-movie ghetto. In 1940, he played real-life American Football Player George "The Gipper" Gipp in the movie Knute Rockne, All American (about a Notre Dame football coach), which featured the line, " Win One For The Gipper ." "The Gipper" became one of Reagan's nicknames. He was ineligible for combat duty in World War II due to extreme nearsightedness, so Reagan spent much of the war making Army training films.
Another film Reagan famously played in was the comedy movie Bedtime for Bonzo, in which he costarred with a chimpanzee in a standard Ain't No Rule story. Reagan always displayed a sense of humor about this movie; he's famously said to have once signed a promo photo of himself and Bonzo with the inscription "I'm the one with the wristwatch.")note During his Presidency, when Clint Eastwood was running for Mayor of Carmel, California, Reagan jokingly telephoned Eastwood and quipped "What's an actor who once appeared with a monkey in a movie doing in politics?", referring to Eastwood's role in Every Which Way But Loose and having some Self-Deprecating Humor at the same time. He viewed That Hagen Girl, a 1947 melodrama co-starring Shirley Temple , as his real Old Shame . It's even rumored that Reagan tried to suppress or destroy copies of that film.
There's also a common story that he was originally slated to star in Casablanca , which derives from a claim made by the Warner Bros. publicity office while promoting his film Kings Row. Like many similar claims made by the Warner Bros. publicity office during the period, it has no basis in fact.
His most famous role was probably in the 1942 film Kings Row , which contains the famous line: "Where's the rest of me?" (his character had lost both of his legs .) Where's The Rest Of Me? was the title of his 1965 autobiography. He had a memorable Playing Against Type role as a brutal crime kingpin in his last film, The Killers (1964).
At some point during his film career, Reagan went partially deaf in his right ear due to lack of hearing protection during gunfight scenes of his many westerns and war movies. His hearing never fully recovered, and by the time of his presidency was exacerbated by age. He wore the most advanced and expensive custom hearing aids on the market to compensate for this, first disclosing his disability to the public in 1983.
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In which country was ice cream invented? | The History of Ice Cream | The Old Farmer's Almanac
The History of Ice Cream
Who Invented Ice Cream?
Whether in a bowl, cone, or glass, ice cream is sure to please.
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The history of ice cream is a messy one. Many nations claim to have invented it, just as various individuals take credit for it. Even if its origin remains murkey, it makes for a chilling drama!
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A.D 54–68: For centuries, iced desserts were a luxury. Roman Emperor Nero is said to have sent his slaves into the mountains to fetch snow to mix with nectar, fruit pulp, and honey, although this widely told tale may be a myth.
A.D. 618–907: The origins of ice cream date back to China’s T’ang period, probably as a dish for the country’s rulers. The founder of the dynasty, King T’ang of Shang, kept 94 “ice men” on hand to lug ice to the palace to make a dish made of koumiss (heated, fermented milk), flour, and camphor.
1744: American colonists brought along recipes from Europe. On May 19, 1744, a group of VIP’s dined at the home of Maryland Governor Thomas Bladen. Present was a Scottish colonist who described “a Dessert…Among the Rarities of which is was Compos’d, was some fine Ice Cream which, with the Strawberries and Milk, eat most deliciously.” This is the first written account of ice cream consumption in the new colonies.
1782: Ever hear how Martha Washington left a bowl of sweet cream on the back steps of Mount Vernon one night, and the next morning discovered ice cream? Nice story, but not true. George Washington did have, described in his ledger, “a cream machine for ice.”
1843: Until September 9, 1843, ice cream was made by the “pot freezer method,” but on this day, Nancy M. Johnson of Philadelphia got her “artificial freezer” patented, containing a tub, cylinder, lid, dasher, and crank. This design is still widely used today.
1851: Baltimore dairyman Jacob Fussell opened the first commercial ice cream factory. He had a surplus of cream—so he built an ice cream factory in Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania, and shipped it to Baltimore by train. Business boomed, and Fussell became the father of the wholesale ice cream industry.
1880: Buffalo, NY; Evanston, IL; Two Rivers, WI; and Ithaca, NY all claim to have invented the ice cream sundae. Wherever it happened, it first started appearing in soda fountains during the 1880’s. It was invented because ice cream sodas weren’t allowed to be sold on Sundays; the ice cream sundae was a way to circumvent that restriction. On September 22, 1903, there is a recorded application for a patent for the ice cream cone by Italo Marchiony.
1939: Grocery stores didn’t start selling ice cream until the 1930’s, and by WWII, ice cream had become so popular that it turned into somewhat of an American symbol (Mussolini banned it in Italy for that same reason). Ice cream was great for troop morale, and in 1943, the U.S. Armed Forces were the world’s largest ice cream manufacturers!
Whatever the history, ice cream is here to stay!
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You are running a race and overtake the person who is in third place. In which position are you now? | CBBC Newsround | ICE-CREAM | The origin of ice-cream
The origin of ice-cream
The origin of ice-cream
An ice-cream-like food was first eaten in China in 618-97AD. King Tang of Shang, had 94 ice men who helped to make a dish of buffalo milk, flour and camphor.
A kind of ice-cream was invented in China about 200 BC when a milk and rice mixture was frozen by packing it into snow.
Roman emperors are supposed to have sent slaves to mountain tops to bring back fresh snow which was then flavoured and served as an early form of ice-cream.
The King of England, Charles I, is supposed to have offered his chef �500 a year to keep his ice-cream recipe a secret from the rest of England.
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This office has been around for a long time since 1944 to be precise. Rodgers & Hammerstein were the biggest force on Broadway when Broadway was the biggest force in popular entertainment. They produced plays, musicals, concerts and revivals. They presided over Broadway runs, London transfers, national tours and major motion pictures frequently all at once. They held onto everything they could, and controlled their own destinies. They were lionized and they were envied. And they kept their perspective. We may be big, Richard Rodgers once said. But were not U.S. Steel.
As artists, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II revolutionized the American musical. As businessmen, R&H revolutionized Broadway. Rodgers and Hammerstein fully understood that the show is just half of show business, wrote business historian John Steele Gordon in American Heritage (1990). They became the first men from the creative side of Broadway to establish a permanent organization to handle the business side of what they created. In doing so, they built a business empire that earned them the first great American fortune to be based on creative theatrical talent.
Like ASCAP, which had been established a generation before, R&H wanted to protect the writer; that they were writers themselves made the duo especially sensitive to the issues. They both detested Hollywood because there the writer was well paid but stuck at the bottom of the evolutionary scale; but on Broadway, on stage, they knew the writer could and should have control over his or her work. Producers held too many of the cards, they felt, and the best way to wrest some of that control was to become producers themselves.
As Gordon explains: In the 1920s and 30s, the authors of Broadway musicals usually got the short end of the stick, receiving a relatively small percentage of the gross receipts while the producers and the backers made off with the lions share of the profits if the show was a hit In addition to being financially marginalized, authors had little or no say over how their material was used. In his autobiography, Rodgers recounts his Broadway debut in 1920, when a score he wrote with Lorenz Hart for a show called POOR LITTLE RITZ GIRL had been brusquely jettisoned by the producer without their knowledge. Even now, he wrote in 1976, I can still feel the grinding pain of bitter disappointment and depression.
That incident transformed Rodgers. Protecting his own creations became a lifelong policy, and a credo he passed down to his children. The Bible in our house, his daughter Mary later recalled, was never sell your copyrights. Daddy used to say it was like selling your birthright.
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II backstage during rehersals for Oklahoma!, Spring 1943.
In 1942, Rodgers and Hammerstein began writing together under the auspices of the Theatre Guild; their assignment was to make a musical out of the Guilds play, GREEN GROW THE LIACS. With the bold artistic strides he and Hammerstein were making on the score for what would become OKLAHOMA!, Rodgers had a bold business notion too. Wed be suckers, he told Hammerstein, if we didnt publish it ourselves. Other songwriters had been their own music publishers before (Irving Berlin being a prime example and stellar success), but with OKLAHOMA!, R&H were seeking to set a system in place that would protect and nurture their works and those of others for decades to come.
Max and Louis Dreyfus, the brilliant and legendary music publishers whose Chappell & Co. had published most of Broadways music for years, were not only receptive but agreed to create and administer this new entity, which would ultimately be owned by R&H completely. The enterprise was called Williamson Music (so named because both men had fathers named William) and, in 1944, it was established in a suite of offices at 488 Madison Avenue. It is still in business today, with dozens of writers and thousands of songs under its administration. But it all started with the score of OKLAHOMA!
With Williamson Music up and running, R&H had further ambitions to fulfill: controlling their own songs was one thing, but controlling an entire production was another. R&H decided that it was time they become Broadway producers.
Though unprecedented, this career move had a certain logic. Between them, R&H had decades of experience in theatrical production, learned by osmosis and observation. Hammerstein was born into the third generation of a theatrical impresario dynasty; he knew well the legends and lore of his remarkable namesake and grandfather Oscar I, and he had watched closely as more than a dozen of his own musicals were produced by his uncle, Arthur Hammerstein. Rodgers, meanwhile, had soaked up every detail of production during his collaborating years with Lorenz Hart. He had a knack for the business from the start, and that fascination only grew. With such musicals as ID RATHER BE RIGHT, BABES IN ARMS and PAL JOEY Rodgers learned production from some of the best, including such gentlemen of the trade as Sam Harris, Dwight Deere Wiman and George Abbott. In 1942, Rodgers co-produced a musical with Abbott, BEST FOOT FORWARD, that he had not even written (save for one unattributed number). Later that same year, he shared producer billing with Wiman on the last new Rodgers & Hart musical, BY JUPITER.
The following year, Rodgers produced the revised version of A CONNECTICUT YANKEE by himself. Early in 1944, with OKLAHOMA! going strong and new R&H writing projects in the works, the team launched their adjunct career. A small office in Room 511 of the RKO Building at Rockefeller Center became home to their production firm, Surrey Enterprises. Its staff consisted of one business manager and one secretary. Its first venture was a play called I REMEMBER MAMA (which later became the basis for Rodgers final Broadway musical) and the author was John van Druten (who would later direct THE KING AND I). It was an enormous hit, and R&H producers-were off and running.
While they continued to serve as authors for their producing colleagues at the Theatre Guild following OKLAHOMA! (1943) with CAROUSEL (1945) and ALLEGRO (1947) plus a brief stint writing STATE FAIR for Hollywood (1945), R&H were fast becoming prime producers in their own right I REMEMBER MAMA was followed by Irving Berlins blockbuster ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (1946) the first time a Broadway composer had fellow writers as his producers. Next, R&H presented a hugely successful tour of SHOW BOAT (1947), Hammersteins masterpiece written with Jerome Kern.
In addition to I REMEMBER MAMA, R&H presented several more plays, including HAPPY BIRTHDAY (1946), a comedy by Anita Loos and starring Helen Hayes (which featured I Havent Got a Worry in the World, a comedy number written for its star by her producers); JOHN LOVES MARY (1947) by Norman Krasna; THE HAPPY TIME (1950) by Samuel Taylor (the play would later become the basis for a musical by Kander & Ebb, while Taylor himself would go onto write the book for Rodgers NO STRINGS); THE HEART OF THE MAITER by Grahame Greene (1950); and BURNING BRIGHT (1950) by John Steinbeck. The Greene closed out of town in Boston, the Steinbeck was a quick flop on Broadway, but the other plays were smash hits courtesy of R&H.
Finally, after five strong years of producing the works of others, R&H were ready to produce their own. SOUTH PACIFIC (1949) was the first musical featuring Rodgers and Hammerstein above and below the title; they would go on to produce, or co-produce, every one of their musicals from then on.
From Business Week, August 1951: In the matter of contemporary success, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II are at the peak of their profession... Since forming their production partnership in 1944, the two have become the most successful firm on Broadway. Since R&H did not divulge financial figures (a policy we still adhere to), the rumor mill ran rampant with exponential theories of multiple revenue streams, cash geysers, and dollar figures that climbed higher than an elephants eye.
Against these tall tales R&H did go on a spending spree, of sorts: they bought the producers rights to their earlier musicals from the Theatre Guild. Now they owned everything they wrote, and could accomplish such mind-boggling feats (for their day, and ours) as establishing their own film company, the Rodgers and Hammerstein Picture Corporation. They subsequently presented the film versions of OKLAHOMA] (1955) and SOUTH PACIFIC (1958), and managed to secure extraordinary control over their other movies as well.
The R&H office flourished. By 1956 it had moved to 488 Madison Avenue (where Williamson Music was ensconced), occupying a suite of ten rooms. The staff, having grown to over a dozen, included a General Manager, a Press Representative, a Casting Director a Librarian, along with the requisite corps of assistants and clerks. Stage and movie productions required supervision; publishing deals, recording contracts and actors terms were in constant negotiation. Ongoing properties were maintained at high standards; new projects were being developed, or pursued.
At its height, the R&H empire stretched from London to Hollywood, with Broadway at its epicenter. Across America, the team was represented by a vast network of national tours; OKLAHOMA! alone traveled for ten and a half years, setting a longevity record that held for half a century Meanwhile, with interest in R&H expanding overseas, a London branch was soon established. Starting with ANNIE GET YOUR GUN in 1950, Williamson Music Ltd. presented R&H productions in the West End, and participated in the UK imports of such non-R&H Broadway fare as TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON and the musicals GUYS ANDDOLLS, CAN-CAN, FANNY and DAMN YANKEES (the latter two directed in their London incarnations by Oscars sons William and James, respectively.)
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II working on the score of South Pacific, 1949.
Casting for R&H productions was a cottage industry unto itself, overseen for many years by a remarkable man named John Feamley. R&H would spot fresh new talent in their weekly Thursday morning audition sessions and, like a baseball franchise, farm their rookies out to road tours or Broadway choruses until they were ready to call them up to the Big Leagues. Thus, John Rait was dispatched to the tour of OKlAHOMA! until CAROUSEL went into rehearsals, and Shirley Jones toiled in the choruses of SOUTH PACIFIC and ME AND JULIET before it was time for the OKlAHOMA! film to start shooting.
As the business grew, so did the myths: first, that Rodgers was the bad cop, and Hammerstein the good. (Friend, colleague and occasional foe Josh Logan challenged that one: When [Rodgers] teamed up with Hammerstein, there were all kinds of remarks that the big one [Hammerstein, at six-two] is a nice guy but the little one is a son of a bitch. To me, Dick and Oscar were both tough as nails.) Second, that their producing laurels were only ceremonial and that they delegated the tough work to others. (Friend, colleague and also occasional foe Agnes de Mile took on that canard: They check every aspect of their production like mechanics going over an engine prior to transoceanic flight.)
Third, that Rodgers loved to micro- manage the staff while Hammerstein was all too happy to stay out of their way...Well, that story may have been true. From SOME ENCHANTED EVENINGS (1955), Deems Taylors contemporary account of R&H: The one place to which [Hammerstein] never goes, if he can possibly avoid it, is the Rodgers and Hammerstein office on Madison Avenue, which he regards with simple loathing. This is Rodgers domain. What with guiding the fortunes of their musical plays, to say nothing of their activities as play producers, Rodgers and Hammerstein are decidedly Big Business. And Rodgers takes an active hand in that business whenever he is in New York... Even when he is not actually in the office he keeps in constant touch, telephoning in, or leaving telephone numbers where he can be found at any hour. All this leaves Hammerstein a little wide-eyed, his conclusion being that he must like it, or he wouldnt be doing it.
A key factor in their success was unity. Whatever disputes or disagreements Rodgers and Hammerstein may have had with each other; they kept to themselves. Strategies and priorities were thrashed out behind closed doors, and when they emerged, the duo spoke as one. This single persona was carefully cultivated through public appearances, which were frequent, rarely was either man celebrated without the other. With extraordinary foresight, R&H knew that public relations was a vital part of running a business.
They were early and frequent guests on THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. They were profiled in Time, Life and Collier's. They were interviewed by Edward R. Murrow, skewered by Groucho Marx, feted by President Eisenhower. They were even a plot device on I LOVE LUCY. Like their compatriot, Walt Disney, R&H recognized that their public profile was a self-endorsement of their product, and they strove constantly to maintain the joint iconic status their works had given them.
Rodgers especially, wrote Frederick Nolan in THE SOUND OF THEIR MUSIC (1978) felt that the name of Rodgers and Hammerstein should be kept constantly in front of the public; that it would help to sell tickets. To that end, he and Oscar became the most available composer and lyricist in theatrical history. This courtship of the press had other benefits too; though agents and performers who faced off against R&H (or their brilliant lawyer Howard Reinheimer) may have had war stories about their fierce bargaining tactics, the public image belied the gossip. When Cleveland Amory profiled the team in a February 1959 issue of Holiday Magazine, his headline called them, The Nicest Guys in Show Business.
R&H wrote eleven musicals in seventeen years an astonishing feat by anyones standards. At the same time, they built a hugely successful business and corporate empire. It would undergo changes and transformations, but the basic structures they put in place sixty years ago still stand today. With the possible exception of The Shubert Organization, no other firm on Broadway rivals R&H in longevity or endurance, and nowhere else is the writer more revered.
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From the Washington Post, May 16, 1976: In a large quiet room at the end of a long hallway in New York City a man sits absolutely still behind a round polished wooden table. He is wearing a dark, pinstriped suit, like a banker, a sphinx-like figure of great and somber dignity. More than dignity a feeling of serenity flows from him, a small, quiet Buddha. He is Richard Rodgers, the man who practically invented American musical theater..
His suite of offices, with an enormous Toulouse-Lautrec Jane Avril poster facing the elevator, is in the same Madison Avenue office building as the New York Jets and the Garden Club of America, and he is as much of an institution, if not more so, than either one.
By the time that article appeared, Rodgers had been a solo act for 16 years, since the death of Oscar Hammerstein in August of 1960. He continued to write at a fairly impressive clip, from the TV documentary score for WINSTON CHURCHILL: THE VALIANT YEARS and extra songs for the movie remake of STATE FAIR and the film version of THESOUND OF MUSIC, to Broadway and TV scores written with himself (NO STRINGS, ANDROCLES AND THE LION), Stephen Sondheim (DO I HEARAWALTZ?), Martin Chamin (TWO BY TWO) and Sheldon Harnick (REX).
In 1962 he took on the role of president and producing director of a new entity, the Music Theatre of Lincoln Center at the New York State Theatre, presiding over a series of opulently-mounted revivals several of which were from his own canon. In addition, the fruitful legacy of his forty respective years with Hart and Hammerstein continued to bloom: young Rodgers and Hart shows from the 20s and 30s, and vintage Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals from the 40s and 50s, were revived with increasing frequency.
In the midst of it all, the business of Rodgers & Hammerstein continued to be the business of Richard Rodgers. In the fall of 1961, while writing a profile of Rodgers for the New Yorker, Winthrop Sargeant visited the R&H office at 488 Madison Avenue. The place contains a large library of scores, Sargeant wrote, a secretary, nine or ten office workers, a grand piano, and a reception room for the constant stream of visitors who want to see the great man for one reason or another...The visitors actors, singers, conductors, publicity men, gossip columnists, and so on sit patiently, happily discussing theatre news (sometimes for an hour at a stretch) until he is free to see them. The spectacle is a little like a levee held in the palace of some old-time European aristocrat.
Or, as Rodgers himself put it: The place makes me feel like a nose-and-throat specialist. From its inception, the R&H office had never ceased to evolve. An early mandate to produce the works of others starting with John van Drutens play I REMEMBER MAMA in October of 1944 soon widened to include the teams own works, beginning with SOUTH PACIFIC in 1949. By the early 1950s, R&H decided to change course once again. After BURNING BRIGHT (1950), a John Steinbeck play that lasted on Broadway for only 13 performances and lost its entire $65,000 investment, R&H decided to pull out of the business of producing for others.
There is just so much time and energy that anyone can devote to the theatre, explained Rodgers in his autobiography, and we had enough to do concentrating on the shows we wrote ourselves. Hence, thereafter we served as producers only for our own musicals and the only reason we did even this was simply that we had assembled a highly capable staff and it was easier for us to make decisions with people we knew well than to put our fate in the hands of others. (Rodgers would go onto co-produce one more Broadway play: AVANTI! [1968] by Samuel Taylor. His co-producers were office colleagues Morris Jacobs and Jerome Whyte.)
As sole owners and publishers of their own work, R&H were also the first to see the gold glistening in their musicals stock and amateur potential. As soon as was decently possible, after Broadway and initial road tours had laid the groundwork, R&H began licensing their properties to the summer stock and now-vanished summer tent circuit, as well as to schools, community groups, and summer camps. What Gilbert & Sullivan chestnuts and American operetta staples were to the pre-WWII era, the R&H musicals were to become for the 50s, 60s and (happily) every decade since. Though there were several respectable licensing houses eager and available to handle the ever-growing R&H catalogue, the duo did not hesitate to keep this latest adjunct of their portfolio where they kept everything else: in-house.
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II circa 1949. Photo by John Swope.
Thus was born the R&H Theatre Library. Around the same time, the R&H Concert Library was born too, as the office found itself responding to more and more requests for R&H compositions from pops orchestras and symphonies. With a keen understanding of the marketplace, Rodgers relied on his trustworthy orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett to devise new arrangements of the R&H standards suitable to symphonic orchestras. Starting with the first such pops concert, at Lewisohn Stadium in New York in 1948, many of these R&H-themed evenings were conducted by the composer himself.
In the stage licensing area, Rodgers oversaw the initial preparation of materials from the Broadway pit to the high school auditorium. In a 1955 book on R&H, Deems Taylor reported: One project that [Rodgers] is directing at the present is the formation of a complete library of the scripts and orchestrations of the Rodgers and Hart shows, the Rodgers and Hammerstein shows [and Hammersteins SHOW BOAT and CARMEN JONES.] This is easier said than done, for the material for some of the older shows has been so long forgotten that it has simply disappeared; and digging it up necessitates a wearisome amount of research.
Rodgers brought a clear-eyed analysis to the evaluation of his early works with Hart, in some cases making the decision (bold for his day) to have scripts revised if he felt the need. George Oppenheimers version of BABES IN ARMS was first licensed in 1959; an alternate script for I MARRIED AN ANGEL by Lois Jacoby was unveiled in summer stock in 1964; and a revamped BY JUPITER, with additional material by Fred Ebb, made its way into the R&H catalogue after an Off- Broadway stint in 1967.
Having outgrown the 488 Madison Avenue offices, R&H moved to 598 Madison in the early 1960s. (Legend has it that Rodgers himself selected the new offices phone number, which played the tune for Doe a deer, a female deer when the appropriate push-tone keys were pressed.) The Theatre Librarys shipping and storage concerns, originally housed within the office, outgrew their original quarters and were relocated to their own space on West 52nd Street in Manhattan, before transferring to a warehouse in Long Island City.
Along with real estate expansion, the roster of writers, shows, and concert works was expanding too. R&H had refocused once again, transformed from a producing engine to a licensing conglomerate. As sole surviving co-founder and chief proprietor of the firm, Rodgers welcomed in Hammersteins eldest son William, who was steeped in the theatrical profession that marked three generations of Hammerstein's before him. However, even with experienced hands like Bill Hammerstein and longtime associates Morris Jacobs, John Fearnley and Jerry Whyte heading the team, there was no doubt where the buck stopped. Who makes all the decisions around here? Me!, Rodgers once groused. I wish to God that just once somebody would turn up who wanted to do something for me, instead of wanting me to do something for him.
There were people who wanted to do something for Rodgers; they wanted to honor him for his lifetime achievements, to celebrate his glorious career. Rodgers the composer kept looking forward, trying to keep up with trends he himself had started, but Rodgers the entrepreneur knew that good PR was good business; as the years rolled by, he therefore accepted one shiny accolade after another, always willing to bask in the glow of earlier eras if it helped the cause.
CBS saluted him with an all-star Ed Sullivan-hosted extravaganza in 1962; ABC offered RODGERS AND HART TODAY in 1967 (with the likes of Bobby Darin, The Mamas and the Papas, and The Supremes); and CBS returned with a Bicentennial special, AMERICA SALUTES RICHARD RODGERS, in 1976 with Gene Kelly playing Hammerstein, Henry Winkler as Larry Hart, and John Wayne introducing a patriotic tribute to Victory at Sea. In 1978, Rodgers was among the first five recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. At the 1979 Tony Awards, in a move masterminded by the wily impresario Alexander H. Cohen (producer of both the Tony Awards and Rodgers latest Broadway offering, the musical version of I REMEMBER MAMA), a special tribute to Rodgers opened with Manhattan (his first hit, written in 1925) and ended with an unmistakable plug for MAMA.
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II under the marquee for The King and I (1951).
And then, on December 30, 1979, at his home in New York City Richard Rodgers died at the age of 77. With an efficiency that he would have appreciated, however, the R&H office kept going. In early 1980, it was announced that Richard Lewine a longtime friend and associate of both Rodgers and Hammersteins would take over the management of the business. Its important that someone with a full appreciation of the artistry of Rodgers and Hammerstein oversees the licensing of their work, Lewine told the New York Times, adding, Ive agreed to supervise all the enterprises owned by the estates for two years. In May of 1981, the Rodgers and Hammerstein families brought in a young man to be groomed as Lewines successor. His name was Ted Chapin.
A slightly bemused journalist for the London Independent wrote recently, Irrational as the response may be, it still feels slightly eerie to dial an office number in midtown Manhattan and hear the receptionist politely identify herself as Rodgers and Hammerstein. With a staying power virtually unmatched in the theatrical industry R&H is still here its offices grown from two employees to more than forty, its real estate morphed from a few rooms in the RKO Building sixty years ago, to two midtown Manhattan commercial spaces today.
No longer a producing entity R&H has emerged as a proactive rights-holding agency, representing dozens of writers and musicals, encompassing the past, present and future and all the while holding to the mantra of our founders: nurture the writer, and protect the copyright.
Ted Chapin has served R&H for over 30 years; Rodgers and Hammerstein thought outside the box, so we try to do that too, Chapin observes. They took risks, so we take risks. Our goal is to build on the incredible legacy of these two extraordinary men.
2009 Today
In April 2009 R&H and the songs and musicals of the legendary Rodgers & Hammerstein were purchased by Imagem, the #1 independent music publishing company in the world, opening an exciting new chapter in the legacy of these timeless musicals and the legacy of the men who wrote them.
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People Will Say Were In Love. 1943. Words by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Music by Richard Rogers. From ‘Oklahama’, a musical play based on ‘Green Grow The Lilacs’ by Lynn Riggs. In the original Broadway production, the song was introduced by Alfred Drake and Joan Roberts, who’s characters are in love. In this song they warn each other not to behave indiscreetly, lest people misinterpret their intentions. Neither wants to admit to the other - or themselves - his or her true feelings.
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In 2008, St. Andrew's Day occurs on Monday 1 December
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Friday 30 November
Scotland's newest holiday, St. Andrew's Day, was given royal assent in January 2007, making 30 November a bank holiday. If St. Andrew's Day falls on a weekend, the bank holiday is on the next Monday. In 2008, St. Andrew's Day occurs on Monday 1 December 2008.
Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland as well as the patron of the Order of the Thistle, one of the highest ranks of chivalry in the world. James VII created the chivalric Order of Saint Andrew in 1687, which is an order of Knighthood restricted to the King or Queen and 16 others.
His Life
Andrew was born in Bethsaida in Galilee , the older brother of Saint Peter , and was a fisherman by trade. He was baptized by John the Baptist , and was the first apostle and disciple of Jesus . Saint Andrew and the other 11 apostles helped Jesus to spread the Christian faith. A Roman governor martyred Saint Andrew for his belief in Patras , Greece . A Roman governor martyred Saint Andrew in Patras, Greece for his religious beliefs. The cross on which he was crucified was x-shaped later the inspiration for the cross that forms the Saltire , Scotland's national flag.
Legend
Andrew's remains were entombed for 300 years before Constantine the Great ordered them to be moved to the new capital city of Constantinople , modern-day Istanbul . According to legend, a monk named St. Rule (also known as St. Regulus) was warned in a dream by an angel to move Andrew's bones far away for safe-keeping. The monk removed a tooth, an arm bone, a kneecap, and some fingers from Andrew's tomb and set off on a voyage by boat. He was shipwrecked on the east coast of Scotland near a Pictish village, which is called St. Andrew today. St Rule is said to have left the remains in the village. A tower named after St. Rule still stands around St. Andrews Cathedral.
Andrew's remains were placed in a chapel on the same site where the Cathedral of St. Andrews, built in the 11th century, still stands. During medieval times, the town of St Andrews was the religious capital of Scotland and a destination for pilgrims. The remains of Saint Andrew no longer reside in the cathedral, and although it is unknown what happened to them, many believe they were destroyed during the Scottish Reformation when many churches were plundered.
Remains Today
The rest of his remains, which were not taken by the monk, can be found in Almafi, Italy , where they have lain since 1210, when they were stolen from Constantinople. Pope Paul VI gave relics of Saint Andrew to Scotland in 1969. They are displayed in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh .
Celebrations
Saint Andrew's Day is celebrated all over Scotland with music, dancing, and traditional foods such as haggis , fish, Scotch broth, and whiskey. Glasgow hosts a Shindig in the Square; Edinburgh puts on a Jig in the Gardens; Aberdeen boasts a Doric Cabaret Evening; Dundee has music, dancing, and food; Stirling puts on a eilidh c; and Inverness has living history displays on the Culloden Battlefield .
Many countries other than Scotland also celebrate Saint Andrew's Day. It is celebrated in Romania with traditions such as caroling and special baptisms. Saint Andrew is said to have been the first to preach Christianity in the region that is now Romania.
Saint Andrew's Day was celebrated in Russia with festivals before the revolution, but it was banned during Communism. Many Russians once again celebrate Saint Andrew taking the traditional date of 30 November. Celebrations include eating borsch, drinking vodka, and having a sing-along on the accordion and balalaika .
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St Andrew's Day
Celebrating is what we do really well in Scotland, and if there is one day of the year where you’ll hear a lot of noise from us, it’s St Andrew’s Day (30 November) when Scots and Scots-at-heart celebrate the patron saint of Scotland and our national day with a holiday and fantastic events, which showcase the very best of Scottish culture.
Enjoy a lively programme of events and festivals happening towards the end of November, featuring uniquely Scottish line-ups of music, dance, food and drink.
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So how do we get the party started, you might ask? Well, here's a rundown of some of the most exciting celebrations on the calendar:
November in St Andrews
Held in and around the Fife town that bears our patron saint's name, Savour St Andrews offers a range of innovative food and drink events throughout November. Get a flavour of what Fife has to offer at the Chefs Taster Lunch and enjoy chef demonstrations and drink tastings during the Demo and Dine weekend. On St Andrew's Day itself, six top chefs from around the area will join forces to offer you a St Andrew's Day dinner like no other.
The Saltire Festival, East Lothian
Costumed warriors © Rob McDougall Photography/The Saltire Festival
The Saltire Festival takes place from 24 - 30 November and features a great selection of events throughout East Lothian. Have a day at the races and don your best gear (but be sure to include a Scottish twist and wrap up warm!), sample tasty treats at a range of food and drink events, listen to live music and delve into the past at historical experiences. Make sure to look out for key East Lothian landmarks and venues lit up blue for the #SaltireBlue Tour, including the maquettes of The Kelpies by Andy Scott at Musselburgh Racecourse.
St Andrew's Day in Edinburgh
Light in the Dark © Maria Falconer/Scottish Storytelling Centre
Celebrate our national day in Scotland's capital, where you'll find storytelling events and traditional music, as well as food and drink markets offering street food, sweet treats and seasonal crafts from local makers. The Scottish Storytelling Centre will also host two fantastic Winter Warmer events to mark St Andrew's Day. Look out for the Café Ceilidh: St. Andrew's Day Celebration on 29 November, which will feature traditional songs, music, poems and stories, and Light In The Dark on 30 November, which will celebrate Scotland's multiculturalism through stories, music and dance.
St Andrew's Day in Glasgow
Night at the Museum © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Delve into a vivid programme of events in the great city of Glasgow, including one-off film screenings and special events at The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove Park and the Riverside Museum, and sample delicious food and drink from some of the region's finest producers. See Scotland represented on the silver screen at the Mackintosh Queens Cross Church at Hollywood Dreams of Scotland , organised by the Glasgow Film Festival.
Some of the great events to look forward to in Glasgow include Night at the Hunterian Museum on 25 November, which commemorates the centenary of the famous Erskine Hospital and it's role during the First World War, and the St Andrew's Day Torchlight Parade in Glasgow's west end on 26 November. For plenty of family fun with a winter wonderland twist, take part in the Milngavie St Andrew's Festival on 3 December.
St Andrew's Day Fusion Festival, Dundee
On Saturday 26 November the St Andrew's Day Fusion Festival in Dundee will link Scotland's communities by fusing together different styles of music and dance. The packed programme will include a ceilidh band, piper, Bollywood dancing, sitar and African drumming and special workshops in the Marryat Hall, highlighting many of the different groups and cultures that make up modern day Scotland.
illumination: Harbour Festival of Light, Irvine
illumination Trail - sculpted blue boats created by international light artists Aether & Hemera © Sean Deckert and Philip Vile
Launching this St Andrew's Day, Irvine's art and light winter spectacular, illumination: Harbour Festival of Light , will run from 30 November - 3 December. Head along to the historic waterfront and the Scottish Maritime Museum to see them illuminated against the dark night sky. On St Andrew's Day you can enjoy free events including a spectacular firework display (which will light up the night sky with a saltire above Irvine Harbour) and a free water-themed sculpture trail by international light artists Aether & Hemera. For a truly memorable afternoon or night out, make sure to scoop up tickets to see the breathtaking aerial acrobatics and extraordinary light show at the Scottish Maritime Museum's iconic Linthouse too.
Oban Winter Festival
Head to the beautiful town of Oban on Scotland's west coast from 18 - 27 November to enjoy a huge range of fun events at the Oban Winter Festival , including traditional ceilidhs, whisky tastings, street performances, a parade and vivid light projections onto historic McCaig's Tower.
Historic Scotland's Free Tickets Giveaway
Celebrate Scotland's national day by visiting some of the most fascinating historic places - without spending a penny! Take advantage of Historic Scotland's free ticket giveaway and get entry into incredible castles, abbeys, mills, military strongholds and more over the weekend of 26 and 27 November.
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Take advantage of 2-for-1 tickets and kids go free offers at some wonderful attractions across Scotland on and around this St Andrews Day. You could be spotting some of Scotland's enchanting fauna at RSPB nature reserves, exploring ancient battlefields, discovering whisky making secrets at distilleries, getting spooked on ghost tours and much, much more!
Did you know?
St Andrew's Day officially marks the start of Scotland's glittering Winter Festivals , which includes other seasonal highlights of Hogmanay and Burns Night .
Dance, spin and whirl!
Sit back at a ceilidh and watch the vibrant displays or take to the floor yourself to enjoy this fun and lively activity.
Find out for yourself what ceilidhs are all about!
Want to know more?
Check out the Scotland's Winter Festivals: A Beginner's Guide eBook for more top tips on how to make St Andrew's Day 2016 the best one ever!
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What sport would you be playing if competing for the Harry Vardon trophy? | Bio of Golf Legend Harry Vardon
• British Open: 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, 1914
Awards and Honors:
Member, World Golf Hall of Fame
Quote, Unquote:
• Harry Vardon: "Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day is plenty."
• Golf writer Bernard Darwin on Harry Vardon: "I do not think anyone who saw him play in his prime will disagree as to this, that a greater genius is inconceivable."
Trivia:
• Harry Vardon is one-third of Britain's famed " Great Triumvirate " of golfers. The other two members are J.H. Taylor and James Braid .
• Vardon is the only 6-time winner of the British Open .
• Scoring leaders on both the U.S. and European PGA Tours are awarded the Harry Vardon Trophy.
Harry Vardon Biography:
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Harry Vardon was the first international golf celebrity, and easily one of the game's most influential players.
The grip he popularized is now known as the Vardon Grip (a k a, the overlapping grip); the "Vardon Flyer" golf ball may have represented the first equipment deal for a golfer; his instructional books continue, to this day, to influence golfers; he won majors with both the gutta-percha and Haskell golf balls.
Vardon was born in the Channel Islands, that group of islands in the English Channel between England and France. He took up golf in his teens and, inspired by his brother Tom's success as a professional, decided to dedicate himself, as well, to the game. He turned pro at age 20.
His first big win was the 1896 British Open , where he played in what would become his signature attire: knickers (reportedly the first golfer to play in knickers), dress shirt, tie and buttoned jacket.
Despite the cumbersome jacket, Vardon was known for a smooth, free-swinging motion. The World Golf Hall of Fame described his swing thusly: "Vardon had a swing that repeated monotonously. His swing was more upright and his ball flight higher than his contemporaries, giving Vardon's approach shots the advantage of greater carry and softer landing. He took only the thinnest of divots ."
His fame exploded in 1900 when he toured the United States, playing more than 80 exhibition matches - often against the better ball of two opponents - and winning more than 70 of them.
He won the U.S. Open that year, his only victory in the event, but as late as 20 years later - in 1920 at the age of 50 - he was runner-up in the tournament. At the 1913 U.S. Open , it was a Vardon loss that spurred growth in the game. Unheralded American amateur Francis Ouimet defeated Vardon and fellow Englishman Ted Ray in a playoff, an outcome credited with popularizing golf in the U.S.
Vardon was struck by tuberculosis late in 1903. His game was never as sound, but he recovered to win the British Open again in 1911 and 1914. He won the Open Championship six times total.
After leaving competitive golf, Vardon designed courses and wrote instructional books, one of which, The Gist of Golf, is still considered a classic:
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What name is given to a bet with four selections and comprising six doubles, four trebles and one four-fold? | Harry Vardon | British golfer | Britannica.com
British golfer
Harry Vardon, (born May 9, 1870, Grouville, Jersey , Channel Islands —died March 20, 1937, Totteridge, Hertfordshire , England ), British professional golfer, who pioneered accurate and reliable hitting techniques that are still the basis of the modern golf swing.
Harry Vardon.
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Vardon began playing golf desultorily while working as a manservant for an affluent amateur golfer on the island of Jersey in the English Channel . Realizing both his own talent and the money that could be made in the game, he turned professional at age 20. He subsequently achieved dominance in the sport, winning the Open Championship (British Open) in 1896, 1898, 1899, 1903, 1911, and 1914 and the U.S. Open in 1900. The Vardon Trophy, named for him, is awarded annually by the Professional Golfers’ Association of America to the professional with the best scoring average.
Harry Vardon, 1927.
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Vardon owed his success largely to new methods that revolutionized golf’s medium- and long-distance hitting techniques. The traditional style was to drive the ball at great speed and at a low angle, or trajectory, thereby achieving great distances but sacrificing any real ability to aim and control where the ball would come to a stop. Vardon, by contrast, hit the ball high in the air so that it would land at a steep angle and come to a stop quickly, without excessive bouncing and rolling. This method, along with adjustments in his stance and swing, enabled him to land the ball within quite short distances of the flagstick. Vardon became such a trendsetter that his name was adopted for the Vardon, or overlapping, grip, which he helped popularize but did not actually invent.
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What is the capital of Peru? | Everything you need to know about travel to Lima, Peru
By Bonnie Hamre
Updated February 23, 2016.
The capital of Peru lies on the Pacific Coast, and in the summer there is no doubt that it is a wonderful place to be with the golden sands being lapped by the blue waters of the sea. Just a few hundred yards away is the business center of the country, and the largest buildings in the city compete to get the best view out over the ocean.
For the visitor, Lima is a bustling and fascinating place to visit, with plenty of attractions to explore and a range of interesting neighborhoods that have their own personalities, and as one of the largest cities in South America, it is actually a fairly easy place to visit for the first time visitor.
Visiting the Seafront in Lima
If there is one area of Lima that will begin to capture the heart of a first time visitor, it is definitely the amazing surroundings of the Miraflores cliffs on a bright day that will catch the imagination.
This is very popular as a paragliding site, as the drop from the top of the cliffs down to the beach below offers a great launching point, and you will see tens of the fabric arches floating on the air currents above the beach on a good day.
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If you do want to get a thrill and a good view of the city, there are companies that offer tandem paragliding trips with an expert guide to control the flight for you.
The Architectural Heritage and Museums
There are some beautiful buildings and colonial architecture to be enjoyed in the city, and the district of Pueblo Libre is one of the most popular areas to visit, and it was here that the legendary liberator Simon Bolivar lived for a period.
The National Museum of Archeology, Anthropology and Peruvian History is a fascinating place to visit in the district, while La Cruz del Viajero is another monument in the district, and is a cross set there by Franciscan monks in the seventeenth century.
The Bridge of Sighs in the Barranco district is another popular place to visit in Lima, as it is a wooden bridge that is a destination for couples particularly to enjoy the romantic location, which is just a short distance from the beach.
What to Do While You're in Lima
The city of Lima was founded by the conquistadors, but there are a couple of Inca ruins in Pucllana and Pachacamac that are worth visiting, although they are not as grand as those found elsewhere in the country.
You should also look to visit the Chocolate Museum, which is a wonderful attraction for families, as you can learn about the history of Peruvian chocolate, and even get the chance to make your own chocolate. For those who enjoy the attractive architecture, exploring the Church of San Francisco is also a good experience.
The Best Places to Stay in the City
The two most popular districts where visitors can stay are those near the center, namely Barranco and Miraflores, and those near the waterfront will usually be the large luxury hotels.
For those on a budget, Barranco has some nice hostels, but bear in mind that it is the nightlife district of Lima so you may find that it is a little noisier than other areas.
Enjoying the Cuisine and Culture of Lima
If you are traveling to Lima, then make sure that you make time to spend a cultural evening in the city, as there are clubs called Penas, where Criollo and Afro Peruvian music is played and you can enjoy the traditional Peruvian music. These nights are often accompanied by a nice meal for a single price, and provide a taste of Peruvian cuisine and culture together.
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What type of ball did Nolan Ryan once throw at a record speed of 100.9 miles per hour? | Cusco Peru - Capital of the Inca Empire
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Cusco, Cuzco or Qosqo are some of the names that this ancient Incan capital is known by. It is a study site for archeologists from all over the world who flock to Peru to marvel at Machu Picchu and the rest of the Inca ruins scattered throughout the valley. Cusco was the administrative center of the Spanish Empire's Viceroyalty of Peru. A vast amount of art and colonial architecture remains throughout the city, especially in the Plaza de Armas. Currently, Cusco is the greatest tourist region of the country and receives over a million visitors a year.
Cusco, Peru , is the most ancient urban settlement in all of the Americas, officially over 3,000 years old, but pre-ceramic artifacts have been found there that date back 5,000 years. The true history of the first inhabitants of the city has been lost to Incan legends that claim the city to have been founded by the Incas: Manko Qhapaq and Pachakuteq.
Cusco started to gain importance with the Incan society, in the year 1,200 A.C., although as previously mentioned the city existed much before that. Cusco reached its peak at the height of the Inca Empire's expansion, around 1.400 A.C., and its decline began with the arrival of the Spanish in 1533. The Spaniards moved the capital to Lima where the colonial culture flourished. Cusco maintained a relative importance as the administrative center of the Viceroyalty of Peru, as the region was called under the Spanish administration.
During this period, Incan nobility maintained certain privileges in the valley of Cusco which allows them to live in relative peace and mix with the arriving Spaniards. We say “relative” because there were some uprisings led by Manko Inka in 1536 that continued until 1572 when the last descendent of the ancient Incan Dynasty, Túpac Amaru I, was executed.
During this period, Incan nobility maintained certain privileges in the valley of Cusco which allows them to live in relative peace and mix with the arriving Spaniards. We say “relative” because there were some uprisings led by Manko Inka in 1536 that continued until 1572 when the last descendent of the ancient Incan Dynasty, Túpac Amaru I, was executed.
In 1821, after many rebellions throughout all of Latin America , Peru gained independence and maintained Lima as the country's capital. Cusco, however, was chosen as the “Archaeological Capital of South America” in recognition of its historic importance to not only Peru but the whole continent. In 1983 the city was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .
Along the Inca Trail near Cusco is the sacred city of Machu Picchu (“Old Mountain” in the Quechua language), archaeological ruins of incomparable beauty located on the mountain summit. It is believed that the city was a holiday residence of Pachacútec, the first Incan emperor who lived from 1438 to 1470. The city played two functions: one of a palace and one as a religious sanctuary. Machu Picchu is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the new recognized Wonders of the World.
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How many hurdles must a runner jump over in the 110m men's hurdles race? | How to Hurdle: 7 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
How to Hurdle
Two Parts: Before the Event During The Event Community Q&A
Hurdling is usually done in different events: 60 meter hurdles, 80 meter hurdles, 100 meter hurdles, 110 meter hurdles, 300 meter hurdles, and 400 meter hurdles. Hurdlers compete at almost any track-and-field meet, from middle school events, all the way to the Olympics. Hurdling is a great sport that requires good fitness, flexibility, upper body strength, and, most of all, perseverance.
Steps
Stretch. If you don't stretch, you can become seriously injured. (Pulling hamstrings are common)
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Run a few practice hurdles. Make sure you have your lead and trail legs figured out before the race starts. The lead leg is the leg that goes over the hurdle extended before your body.
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The lead leg is usually the leg that people use to catch themselves while falling. People can trip forward or have someone push them to find which leg makes sense for them. Many people also switch back and forth between legs which is a possibility.
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Count your steps. The number of steps you take will depend on long the course is, as well as on the person's height, weight, speed, the height of their jump, the length of the jump, and even their usual sprinting stride length. You might take 4-5 steps before the first hurdle on a 60m course and 6-8 on a 100m course.
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Steps in between will be different for every person. One thing to note, however, is that if the hurdles are evenly spaced, you should have the same amount of steps in between every hurdle. You should not take three huge steps and then eight little steps... Instead maybe take 6 regular stride steps.
Picture yourself going barely an inch over the jump. You might find that when you try to get as low as possible, you end up clearing the jump by plenty, while increasing your speed. Practice really does make perfect! And leaning forward opens a whole new world of speed.
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During The Event
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Start the race in a sprint . You want to be going pretty fast before you reach the first hurdle, and you want to be able to make it to the first hurdle at the right speed to have your favored foot forward.
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Do not slow down at the first hurdle: your momentum is what will carry you over. When you are about 1 to 2 feet away from the hurdle, bring the foot that isn't on the ground (lead leg) up to your butt and then quickly extend it up over the hurdle.
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Drag the trail leg sideways over the side of the hurdle after the lead leg has passed over. The ankle and the knee are supposed to be the same distance from the ground. The straight line along the shin/calf in between the ankle and the knee must be parallel to the ground and must be parallel to the hurdle.
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Continue the race, trying to pick up speed towards the end. Clearing the last hurdle can be difficult, but if you push yourself too much, it will be no problem, but it can hurt in the end.
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I am afraid of jumping over hurdles, what can I do to conquer my fear?
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Try jumping next to it, just to realize that you can make it over the hurdle easily. Then try stepping over it and finally take a deep breath and leap over it, no problem! Remember that hurdles are made to fall if you don't make it, keeping things safer for you and allowing you to keep running.
How do I become faster and switch legs?
wikiHow Contributor
Becoming faster isn't something you can just become, but it might help you to go faster if right when the gun goes and you push out of your blocks, you pop up right away and keep your momentum going. After you jump a hurdle, snap your lead leg back down to the ground as soon as possible because the more time you aren't in the air, the faster you will go. As for switching legs, try taking four steps in between the hurdles then use the same approach as you would if you weren't switching legs except put your other leg first. It may seem uncomfortable at first, but once you start doing it in meets, it will give you a better time.
What is the lead leg and the trail leg?
wikiHow Contributor
The lead leg is the leg that you step over the hurdle with. The trail leg is the leg that drags behind you.
How do I improve my hurdling speed?
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Take longer strides and try not to stutter step before the hurdle. Also, consider timing yourself while running, and beating your time each session. For example, if you have a time of 35.2, try to shave off those extra 5 seconds and keep going with that.
How many steps should I take between the hurdles?
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This will vary, as everyone is different. Some people might take only 3 steps, while others might take 5. Try experimenting and finding what is right for you. Avoid taking stutter step as you get close to the hurdle, however.
I'm good at them, but I get so scared when I perform in front of people. What should I do?
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First of all, you aren't out there racing for the other people; you're racing for yourself. Even if you mess up, nobody will remember it the next day. Keep in mind that it takes time, practice and perseverance. Don't stress -- your coaches wouldn't put you in that event if they didn't think you could do it.
How do I keep myself from tripping and getting hurt when going over the bar?
wikiHow Contributor
Try to practice with the hurdles set to the lowest height. Once you are comfortable with that, then start adjusting the height to your corresponding event.
How do I make sure that I do not fall?
wikiHow Contributor
Unfortunately, everyone will fall at one point or another, especially if they are just starting out. The more you practice, however, the less likely you will be to fall.
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How do I make sure my trail leg doesn't hit the hurdle? It slows me down every time I run especially at the end.
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Most likely, you will fall. Even the greats take a tumble every now and again. Don't become discouraged if you fall. It may have something to do with your hurdling form, how many steps you get in between or before hurdling, not having enough explosion out of the blocks, or not having the right technique for the trail leg. Make sure to have your coach correct problems before they become bad habits while hurdling.
Remember to "check your watch". Proper arm form is bringing the arm opposite the lead leg up in front of you like you are checking your watch. The other arm will be neutral, just normal running form.
Hurdles is considered a jumping event so many people would technically say that a person leaps or jumps a hurdle. Coaches often say, however, to run the hurdles. This is mainly because once someone is successful at hurdling, they no longer need to jump to get over the hurdles. Beginners usually need a large leap in order to clear it.
Do it on the grass the first couple of times in case you end up falling.
When you get better you can start to run faster and even raise the height!
There are different numbers of hurdles for every course. For example, girls might run run 6 hurdles in 60m at a medium height and boys on the same team would run 5 hurdles in 60m at a higher height.
Have a spotter to help you during your first time.
Warnings
When landing from clearing a hurdle, make sure your feet are within your designated lane. Even if no one is beside you, you will be disqualified.
Make sure that you are familiar with the basics of hurdling, including what leg is your dominant/lead leg, which foot you have forward in the blocks, how many steps you are capable of getting before the first hurdle and between hurdles, and technique.
When hurdling in a meet, be sure you move your arms correctly when clearing the hurdle. (arm opposite of lead leg bent across your chest, like your folding your arms with one arm, and the other arm bent behind your back in the same manner) If you do not, and you let your arms swing out haphazardly, you may hit, and possibly injure the hurdler in the lane next to you.
Hurdling may cause injury, including pulled muscles, or falls.
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In which sport is the position of goal attack found? | Sprint Hurdles
Sprint
Hurdles
Hurdling is, because of its technical and energy demands, an exciting and challenging event. The technical component of hurdling is clearly much greater than in sprinting, yet the concept of the hurdles race must be one of a sprint, with adjustment for each hurdle. The stride pattern for sprint hurdling is a 7 to 8 stride pattern to the first hurdle followed by a 3 stride pattern between the hurdles. Appropriate drills can be used to help develop the athlete's hurdling technique.
Sprint Hurdling Technique
The Start and Approach
In sprint hurdling the first hurdle is only some seven or eight strides away so the athlete must come upright at the 3rd or 4th stride, much earlier than the sprinter. To enable this to happen the block spacings will have to be slightly altered. When using an eight stride approach the take-off foot is placed in the front block.
Hurdle Clearance
The athlete must attack the hurdle and aim to clear it, by approx. 17 to 18 cm, as quickly and efficiently as possible, raising their centre of gravity only a little more than in a normal sprint action.
Leg Action
The last stride of the approach to the first hurdle is shortened in order to allow the take-off leg to move rapidly under the hips. This ensures that a fast effective drive can be made across the hurdle. [1]. The take off distance is 1.98 metres to 2.29 metres (6½ to 7½ feet) from the hurdle. The body's centre of gravity is ahead of the foot on take off [1]
Action of the leading leg:
The knee must be picked up fast [1]
The knee is driven at the hurdle [1] & [2]
The lower part of the leg is left low and extends once the knee reaches the height of the barrier [1] & [2]
The knee must be picked up in line with the vertical centre line of the body.
There should be no tendency for the knee to be pulled across the body or for the lower leg to go out and round.
The foot of the lead leg reaches its highest point some 15 to 30 centimetres (6 to 8 inches) in front of the hurdle rail.
As the heel of the lead leg passes the barrier it must be pulled down and back to land under the body [3] & [4]
There is no necessity for the lead leg to be straight over the top of the hurdle [3].
The leg straightens as it descends towards the ground [4]
The foot of the lead leg grounds at 114 to 137 centimetres (3¾ to 4½ feet) beyond the hurdle.
Action of the trailing leg:
The trailing leg drives the body at the hurdle as the lead leg rises [1]
The recovery of the trail leg must begin from well behind the body if the drive is to be completed
The athlete should feel the trailing knee sweeping wide and flat over the hurdle [4].
As the leg crosses the hurdle, the foot must be cocked at the ankle so that the foot does not hit the barrier [4]
After crossing the barrier, the knee continues to rise and comes round in front of the body [5]
Many young athletes have a tendency to drop the trail leg off to the side after it has crossed the barrier. This has the effect of making the first stride short and pulling the athlete off balance. The trail leg must be pulled through high and fast so that the first stride is fast [5] & [6].
Arm Action
As in sprinting, the arms act to balance the body and counter the rotations produced by the legs. The arm opposite to the lead leg actually leads the action into the hurdle and pushes/dives forwards as the lead leg rises [1]. The other arm should be taken back in a normal sprinting action. As the trail leg comes round the leading arm swings back and wide to counter the rotation of the trail leg [4].
Running Between Hurdles
Three strides are used to cover the ground between the hurdles. To achieve this, the athlete has to modify his sprinting technique to make it fit the gap. A fast leg cadence and a shorter stride length is needed. The athlete may have to use a lower knee lift than in normal sprinting with an emphasis on leg speed. The correct range of movement and speed can be achieved by training over hurdles that are slightly closer together than normal.
Key Hurdling Points
The athlete is leaning towards the hurdle and driving the right knee at the hurdle. The leading arm is driven forward and up (ideally to forehead height).
The athlete is leaning towards the hurdle and has now lifted the leading (right) foot to clear the hurdle.
The leading (right) foot is now being pushed down to the track.
The knee and foot of the trailing (left) leg are pointing out to the side (towards the camera) in order to clear the hurdle.
The left knee is driven forward and up once the foot has cleared the hurdle and the toes of the left foot are dorsiflexed.
The right leg is straight with the ball of the foot contacting with the track underneath the hip, the left arm is driven back, and the athlete is still leaning forward.
The left knee is quickly pulled high into the stride away from the hurdle.
The right leg remains straight, the hips stay high and the heel of the right foot does not touch the track allowing the athlete to sprint away from the hurdle.
The ratio of the distances from the hurdle for the take off point and landing point is approx. 3:1. e.g. the athlete takes off 3 metres from the hurdle and lands 1 metre past the hurdle.
Have a look at the Sprint Hurdles Photo Sequence of a young Colin Jackson and see if you can see the same key points.
Safety
Hurdling is dangerous on wet grass or any other slippery surface. It is also dangerous for children to run over hurdles in the opposite way to the correct running direction (i.e. with the feet of the hurdles on the far side).
It is important to help the athletes in the learning situation, by using adapted equipment, lowering the hurdles and altering the distance between hurdles.
Hurdles Touchdown Times
The following facility will provide you with some checkpoint hurdle touchdown times that can be used when aiming for a particular time goal for 100m Hurdles for women, 110m Hurdles for men and 400m Hurdles for men and women.
The calculations are based on the touch down down times of the top hurdlers at Olympic games . For a given finishing time the % of that time for each hurdle has been calculated and then averaged for a number of top hurdlers.
Enter the target time, select the event, select gender and then click on the "Calculate" button.
Target time
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Which famous sportsman lit the torch at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games? | Olympic opening ceremony: Muhammad Ali carries the flag in London | Daily Mail Online
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Muhammad Ali was already a part of Olympic history before last night's opening ceremony of the London Games.
Not only did he win a gold medal as a young boxer, but he also provided one of the most memorable moments of any opening ceremony when he lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta 16 years ago.
And the sporting legend cemented his place in the Olympic story on Friday night, when he helped to carry the official flag to its place in the centre of the arena alongside other humanitarian icons.
Hero: Muhammad Ali made an appearance at the Olympics opening ceremony in London last night
Famous: Mr Ali lit the Olympic flame at the start of the 1996 games in Atlanta to widespread acclaim
Champion: Mr Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, won a gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics
Mr Ali, widely considered one of the greatest American sportsmen of all time, took the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing at the Rome Games in 1960.
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At Atlanta in 1996, he was given the honour of lighting the cord which set off a flaming arrow directed at the Olympic torch, marking the official start of the Games.
Although he was visibly suffering from Parkinson's Disease, his appearance as an icon of sporting genius and resilience was widely praised.
Carrying the flag: The boxer joined other iconic figures in the important ceremonial duty
Frail: But Mr Ali nonetheless was met with a raucous reception from the 80,000-strong crowd in the stadium
The organisers of the London Games were doubtless hoping to re-capture some of that magic when they invited Mr Ali to appear in last night's ceremony.
Dressed in a white suit and tie and wearing sunglasses, he joined the likes of UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon and conductor Daniel Barenboim in carrying the Olympic flag to its pole.
Other flag-bearers included double gold-medal-winner Haile Gebrselassie and Doreen Lawrence, whose teenage son Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a case which later became iconic as a landmark in British history.
Sitting down: Mr Ali had his wife Lonnie by his side throughout his ceremonial role
Back in time: Mr Ali's appearance in London was reminiscent of his contribution to previous Olympics
Mr Ali appeared extremely frail, and was able to walk only the last few steps of the journey with the flag.
He was supported by his wife Lonnie, and sat down on a chair while the flag was being raised.
Nonetheless, the legendary figure received a raucous reception from the 80,000-strong crowd, delighted to see him on his feet and participating in a great sporting spectacle despite his debilitating illness.
Earlier in the week, Mr Ali took part in fundraising for the Muhammad Ali Center and promoted his social media site, generationali.org.
He also met with his successors on Team USA, who were doubtless keen to pick up tips for Olympic success.
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Which famous race takes place annually between Putney and Mortlake? | Olympic opening ceremony: Muhammad Ali carries the flag in London | Daily Mail Online
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Muhammad Ali was already a part of Olympic history before last night's opening ceremony of the London Games.
Not only did he win a gold medal as a young boxer, but he also provided one of the most memorable moments of any opening ceremony when he lit the Olympic flame in Atlanta 16 years ago.
And the sporting legend cemented his place in the Olympic story on Friday night, when he helped to carry the official flag to its place in the centre of the arena alongside other humanitarian icons.
Hero: Muhammad Ali made an appearance at the Olympics opening ceremony in London last night
Famous: Mr Ali lit the Olympic flame at the start of the 1996 games in Atlanta to widespread acclaim
Champion: Mr Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, won a gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics
Mr Ali, widely considered one of the greatest American sportsmen of all time, took the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing at the Rome Games in 1960.
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At Atlanta in 1996, he was given the honour of lighting the cord which set off a flaming arrow directed at the Olympic torch, marking the official start of the Games.
Although he was visibly suffering from Parkinson's Disease, his appearance as an icon of sporting genius and resilience was widely praised.
Carrying the flag: The boxer joined other iconic figures in the important ceremonial duty
Frail: But Mr Ali nonetheless was met with a raucous reception from the 80,000-strong crowd in the stadium
The organisers of the London Games were doubtless hoping to re-capture some of that magic when they invited Mr Ali to appear in last night's ceremony.
Dressed in a white suit and tie and wearing sunglasses, he joined the likes of UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon and conductor Daniel Barenboim in carrying the Olympic flag to its pole.
Other flag-bearers included double gold-medal-winner Haile Gebrselassie and Doreen Lawrence, whose teenage son Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a case which later became iconic as a landmark in British history.
Sitting down: Mr Ali had his wife Lonnie by his side throughout his ceremonial role
Back in time: Mr Ali's appearance in London was reminiscent of his contribution to previous Olympics
Mr Ali appeared extremely frail, and was able to walk only the last few steps of the journey with the flag.
He was supported by his wife Lonnie, and sat down on a chair while the flag was being raised.
Nonetheless, the legendary figure received a raucous reception from the 80,000-strong crowd, delighted to see him on his feet and participating in a great sporting spectacle despite his debilitating illness.
Earlier in the week, Mr Ali took part in fundraising for the Muhammad Ali Center and promoted his social media site, generationali.org.
He also met with his successors on Team USA, who were doubtless keen to pick up tips for Olympic success.
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How is the sport of tauromachy better known? | List of Sports - every sport from around the world
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Complete Sports List
3D Archery — a form of archery in which the goal is to strike targets in the shape of animals at unknown distances.
3x3 — a variation of basketball played on a half court with just three players in each team.
Abseiling — an adventure sport where the participants descend a steep formation using a rope. (not really a sport).
Acroski — athletes on snow skis perform various choreographed routines (once called Ski Ballet)
Adventure Racing — an event combining two or more endurance disciplines, such as Orienteering, Cross-Country Running, Mountain Biking, Paddling and Climbing. It is also called Expedition Racing.
Aerials — a freestyle skiing discipline in which athletes ski along a take-off ramp, then perform various in-air tricks.
Aerobatics — sport aerobatics involves aircraft maneuvers such as rolls, loops, stall turns (hammerheads), and tailslides.
Acrobatic Gymnastics — team of gymnasts work together to perform acrobatic moves in combination with dance moves.
Aerobic Gymnastics — another name for Sport Aerobics .
Aeromodeling — activity using remotely controlled flying model aircraft (not really a sport).
Aggressive Inline Skating — Aggressive inline skating is a form of inline skating executed on specially designed inline skates with the focus on grinding and spins.
Aikido — Shodokan Aikido (also called Sport Aikido) is a style of the martial art Aikido that is used for competitions.
Air Hockey — played on an air-hockey table, participants try to hit a puck elevated on a cushion of air into the opponents goal.
Air Racing — a sport involving flying airplanes over a fixed course low to the ground.
Airsoft — a skirmish sport in which participants eliminate opponents by hitting them with spherical non-metallic pellets from replica firearms. Similar sports are Laser Tag and Paintball .
All-Terrain Boarding — another name for Mountainboarding .
Alpine Skiing — commonly known as Downhill Skiing, involves racing down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. There are alpine skiing competitions in disciplines such as slalom, giant slalom, super giant slalom, and downhill.
Alpinism — the sport of mountain climbing.
American Football — a team sport played on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. Each team attempts to advance an oval ball down the field into the end zone by running or passing it. It is also known in some parts of the world (outside of the US) as Gridiron. In the US it is referred simply as football. Variations include Arena Football , 6-Man Football .
American Handball — players use their hands to hit a small rubber ball against a wall. There are three versions (four-wall handball, three-wall handball and one-wall handball) that can each be played by either two, three or four players. It can be compared to squash without rackets. It is very different from the Olympic sport of (Team) Handball .
Angling — often used to refer to fishing, it is the principal method of sport fishing
Aquabike — a variation of Triathlon , with no running leg. Athletes swim followed by cycling.
Aquajogging — water running competitions, athletes race in water while maintaining an upright position.
Aquathlon (1) — an underwater sport where two competitors wearing masks and fins wrestle underwater in an attempt to remove a ribbon from each other's ankle band. It is also known as Underwater Wrestling.
Aquathlon (2) — a continuous race involving swimming followed by running. It is usually over a shorter distance than the similar Biathle .
Artistic Gymnastics — an Olympic sport where gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, such as the Vault , Floor (men and women), Pommel Horse , Rings , Parallel Bars , High Bar (men), and Uneven Bars , Balance Beam (women).
Artistic Pool — a trick shot competition on a pocket billiards table in which players score points for performing 56 preset shots of varying difficulty.
Artistic Roller Skating — is a sport which consists of a number of events (Figures, Dance, Freestyle and Precision Teams) usually accomplished on quad skates, though sometimes inline skates are used.
Association Football — more commonly known as Football or Soccer. It is the world's most popular sport, played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object is to score by using any part of the body except the arms and hands to get the ball into the opposing goal.
Athletics — commonly known as Track and Field, though it is an umbrella sport, which in addition to Track and Field it also comprises Cross Country Running, Road Running and Racewalking.
Australian Football — a fast paced football code from Australia, played between two teams of eighteen players on a large oval field. Six points are scored by kicking the ball between two tall goal posts, or one point for passing the ball either side of these. Alternative names are Australian Football, Aussie Rules, AFL, Australian Rules Football.
Australian Handball — similar to Squash . though played without a racquet.
Auto Polo — like polo though the players are on automobiles instead of horses.
Auto Race — a Japanese motorcycle speedway competition which is held on tarmac tracks, predominantly a gambling sport.
Auto Racing — a sport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. There are numerous different categories including Formula 1, Touring Car, Rally Cars, Drag Racing, Stock Car Racing, Vintage Racing. Also known as Car Racing, Motor Racing or Automobile Racing.
Autocross — a type of Auto Racing in which drivers navigate one at a time through a defined course on either a sealed or an unsealed surface in the shortest time. See also the motorcycle version Motorcycle Gymkhana .
Autograss — a type of Auto Racing on natural surfaces such as grass or mud, usually held on quarter-mile oval tracks.
Axe Throwing — competitors throw axes at a circular target.
B Sports
Ba Game — a version of Medieval Football played in Scotland, a type of Mob Football where two parts of a town have to get a ball to their respective sides.
Backstroke — a swimming stroke performed on the back with the arms lifted alternately out of the water in a backward circular motion and the legs extended and kicking.
Badminton — an indoor game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is hit back and forth across a net.
Balance Beam — a female Olympic Games gymnastics event on which a gymnast balances on a narrow horizontal bar raised off the floor, while performing exercises.
Balkline — a Carom Billiards discipline. A point is scored each time a player's cue ball makes contact with both object balls on a single stroke. It is played on a pocketless table that is divided by balklines on the cloth marking playing regions. It's precursor was a game called Straight Rail.
Ball Badminton — a racket game native to India, played with a yellow ball made of wool, with similarities to Badminton .
Ball Hockey — a variation of Ice Hockey , a lot like Street Hockey, in which the game is played on foot on a non-ice surface, and a ball is used instead of a hockey puck.
Ballooning — competitive hot air ballooning is a test of accuracy, not speed. The aim is to fly as close as possible to a target and drop a weighted marker.
Bandy — a team sport played on ice using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal, a precursor to ice hockey. A variation is Rink Bandy .
Banger Racing — racing event which is done on a dirt track using scrap cars.
Barefoot Skiing — involves skiing barefoot on water without the use of water skis.
Bare-knuckle boxing — two individuals participate to fight against each other without using boxing gloves or any other type of padding on their hands. Also called Fisticuffs.
Barrel Racing — a rodeo event where participants and horses complete a clover-leaf pattern around barrels.
Baseball — a bat and ball game in which the aim is to hit the ball and score runs by running around four bases.
BASE Jumping — involves parachuting from a structure or cliff, with competitions based on landing accuracy.
Basketball — players attempt to shoot the ball through the hoop on the opponent’s court, moving the ball by throwing and dribbling.
Basque Pelota — a variety of court sports which involves hitting a ball against a wall using the hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket. Other forms include Pala Corta, Rubber-paleta, Paleta-Leather, Xare , Cesta Punta, Frontenis , Hand-Pelota, Valencian Pilota , Valencian Frontó . Jai Alai is a variety of Basque Pelota.
Basse — a bag ball game from Norway in which the ball is kept from landing in the player's area, using any part of the body except the hands.
Bat-and-Trap — an old English bat and ball game, in which a ball is projected into the air out of a trap using a bat, and then hit between posts 21 feet away.
Baton Twirling — a metal rod called a baton, is manipulated, while simultaneously making coordinated dance moves
Bossaball — played on an inflatable court with trampolines on each side of the net
Boßeln — a sport similar to the field style of Klootschieten played in Germany.
Bouldering — a type of sport rock climbing which is done without the use of a harness.
Bowling — a general term of a large range of sports in which the player rolls a ball to knock down objects. The most common variation is Tenpin Bowling .
Bowls — commonly refers to Lawn Bowls . For other types of bowls sports, see Bowling .
Box lacrosse — a version of lacrosse which is played on a smaller indoor arena (box), with six players in each team.
Boxing — a combat sport in which two players throw punches at each other.
Brännboll — a Scandinavian game which has similarities to rounders, but with no pitcher.
Breaststroke — one of the major swimming strokes, performed with the swimmer with his chest forward and facing towards to bottom of the pool.
British Baseball — a bat-and-ball game played in Wales and England similar to rounders.
Broomball — a game like ice hockey played with a broom.
Bull Fighting — involves one or more bulls which are being fought in a bullring.
Bull Riding — a Rodeo Sport , which involves a rider getting on a large bull and attempting to stay mounted while the animal attempts to buck them off.
Bunnock — a kind of skittles game which is played with bones ( commonly known as "Game of Bones")
Butterfly stroke — one of the major swimming stroke styles, swum on the breast, with both arms moving simultaneously, accompanied by a "dolphin kick".
Buzkashi — a Central Asian sport like polo in which riders on horses attempt to drag a goat carcass toward the goal. There is a variant known as kokpar which is quite similar.
C Sports
Caber Toss — a traditional Scottish sport in which the competition revolves around tossing forward a large tapered pole called a caber.
Calcio Fiorentino — an early form of football which was developed in 16th century Italy.
Calisthenics — a competitive team sport in which athletes perform elements of rhythmic gymnastics and ballet.
Calva — a traditional Spanish sport in which you throw a piece of metal to knock down bull's horn shaped piece of wood.
Cycle Polo — see Bicycle Polo .
Cycle Speedway — replicating motor speedway using bicycles.
Cyclo-Cross — a type of bicycle racing, a winter sport performed over various terrain.
Czech Handball — a ball game created in the Czech Republic with similarities with Team Handball .
D Sports
Dancesport — Dancesport is the competitive form of Ballroom and Latin Dancing, in which contestants perform dances before judges.
Danish Longball — a bat and ball game developed in Denmark, like a hybrid of baseball and cricket.
Dartchery — a combination of darts and archery, using bows and arrows typically used for archery, but the target is a dart board.
Darts — a throwing game in which small missiles are thrown at a target, which is called a dartboard.
Daur Hockey - another name for Beikou Tarkbei — a old Chinese sport similar to field hockey .
Deadlifting — a powerlifting event where participants lift a loaded barbell off the ground to the hips, and then lower it back to the ground.
Deaf Basketball — basketball which is played by deaf people. Players use sign language to communicate with each other including the refs.
Decathlon — track and field event comprising 10 events.
Digor — a sport from Bhutan in which a pair of spherical flat stones that are hurled at two targets fixed in the ground at a distance of about 20 meters apart.
Disc Dog — dog frisbee competitions of distance catching and choreographed freestyle catching.
Disc Golf — frisbee golf, the objective is to traverse a course from start to end with the fewest number of throws of the disc.
Disc Sports — various sports or games played using flying discs (frisbees).
Discus — athletes attempt to throw a heavy discus far as they can.
Diving — an aquatic sport where athletes dives into water from a raised launch pad, while performing acrobatic movements.
Dodgeball — teams throw balls at each other while trying to avoid the balls.
Dog Agility — dogs have to navigate through a course that has various types of obstacles under the direction of a handler. (not a sport)
Dog Racing — greyhounds chase a lure around a track.
Dog Sledding — teams of sled dogs pull a sled with the driver.
Dog Sports — general term for sporting activities that involve dogs (which are mostly not even sports).
Downhill Skiing — participants slide down a snow-covered hill using skis with fixed bindings.
Downhill Mountain Biking — biking sport which is held on steep and rough terrain.
Drag boat racing — drag racing which is held on water with boats.
Drag racing — automobiles or motorcycles race down a straight track.
Dragon Boat Racing — a paddling sport using a dragon boat.
Dressage — an equestrian sport in which riders and horses perform from memory a series of predetermined events.
Drone Racing — competitors race with specially built multi-rotor drones around a natural or specifically designed course (not a sport).
Drunken Boxing (or Drunkard's Boxing or Zui Quan). It is a concept in traditional Chinese martial arts.
Duathlon — similar to triathlon, running first, then cycling, then running again.
Duckpin bowling — a type of 10-pin bowling, though with smaller balls.
Dumog — a Filipino style of wrestling while standing upright
E Sports
Eight-Ball — Eight-ball is a cue sport , which is one of the most popular variants of pool, using 15 colored balls numbered from 1 to 15.
Eight-man Football — a mini version of American Football played by high schools with smaller enrollments.
Elephant Polo — a form of Polo, played on the back of Elephants instead of on horseback.
Endurance Racing — a motorsport where teams of two or four race for long distances, that tests their endurance, and also the durability of their vehicles.
Endurance Riding — an equestrian discipline, where riders and horses compete in races over very long distances.
Endurance Running — track and field running races over distances of 3kms and greater.
Enduro — a motorcycle sport with main objective to traverse a series of checkpoints, arriving exactly at a predetermined time. The courses are usually run over thick wooded terrain, sometimes with large obstacles.
Endurocross — hybrid sport combining elements from Supercross, Enduro, and Trials (also called or indoor enduro).
English Billiards — sometimes just called Billiards, requires two cue balls and a red object ball. The game features both cannons (caroms) and the pocketing of balls as objects of play, scoring points for each of these. See Cue Sports .
Equestrian — competitions testing horse riding skills.
Equestrian Vaulting — a gymnastics and dance discipline done on horseback
e-Sports - another name for Gaming .
Eton Fives — a handball sport derived from the English sport Fives
European (Team) Handball — another name for the sport of Handball .
Eventing — riders compete in three types of races, dressage, cross-country and show jumping, in a single competition.
Expedition racing — an endurance event combining two or more disciplines. More commonly called Adventure Racing .
F Sports
Fast Pitch Softball — the competitive form of softball, where the pitcher's arm rotates 360 degrees around the shoulder until the ball is released from the hand.
Fast5 — a variation of netball , formerly known as Fastnet, with only 5 players per team.
Fell Running — running races done off road and mostly uphill.
Fencing — competitors face each other and attempt to touch each other with the tip of a thin sword.
Field Archery — a form of Archery which involves shooting at targets of varying distance, often in rough terrain.
Field Handball — the original version of Handball, played outdoors on a larger field and more players. It is also known as Outdoor Handball or Grass Handball.
Field Hockey — played outdoors on turf, players hit a hard round ball though goals using sticks with curved ends.
Field Lacrosse — a full contact outdoor men's version of lacrosse .
Field Target — an outdoor air gun discipline.
Fierljeppen — contestants using a long pole, vault across a canal. Also called Canal Jumping.
Figure Skating — an artistic ice skating sport where athletes perform routines on an ice rink. Includes the disciplines of Ice Dancing and Synchronized Skating.
Finnish Skittles — opposing players take turns to knockdown their opponent's skittles.
Finswimming — an underwater swimming sport where athletes race against each while wearing breathing apparatus.
Fishing — usually a recreational activity, though when in competition it can be a sport. See Sport Fishing .
Fistball — an outdoor team sport similar to volleyball.
Frescoball (see Matkot ).
Fricket — a ‘two-on-two’ flying disc game. Also known as disc cricket, cups, suzy sticks and crispy wickets.
Frisian Handball — similar to American handball and Fives.
Frontenis — a sport using rackets and a rubber ball on a ‘pelota court’.
Fullbore target rifle — using rifles, shooters hit the paper targets in prone position
Fußball (also spelled Fussball) — this is the German name for (Association) Football, and also the name used for Table Football .
Futsal — a variant of association football played on a smaller field usually indoors.
Fuzzball — a street version of baseball played in some regions of the US.
G Sports
Gaelic Football —a type of football from Ireland with a goal similar to that used in rugby but having a net attached below the crossbar. The object is to kick or punch the round ball into the net (three points) or over the crossbar (one point).
Gaelic Handball — a wall based sport, played in Ireland, similar to squash though the ball is hit with the hand.
Gaming — competitive form of playing computer games (e-sports).
Gateball — a team sport played with a wooden mallet and wooden balls. Each player attempts to strike their allocated ball through all the gates and finally strike the goal pole.
Giant Slalom — downhill skiiers have to navigate through a fixed set of gates, spaced farther apart than in Slalom though not as mauch as in Super-G , therefore medium sized turns.
Gliding — an air sport in which pilots use an unpowered aircraft.
Glima — a wrestling style from Scandinavia, based on a popular sport of the Vikings from over 1200 years ago.
Goalball — a Paralympic sport for blind athletes using a ball with bells.
Go-Karting — a motor-racing sport in which small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts (or go-karts) are used for racing.
Golf — players use a club to hit balls into a series of holes on a course, using the fewest number of strokes.
Gorodki — a folk sport from Russia, where competitors strike down a group of cylindrical wooden objects by throwing a bat.
Grass Skiing — involves skiing on grass covered slopes on skis with wheels.
Greco-Roman Wrestling — In this wrestling style, competitors are prohibited from holding any part of the opponent’s body below the waist.
Greyhound Racing - a dog sport also called Dog Racing
Gridiron Football — the term used outside of the US for American Football .
Group Gymnastics — a team sport where a large group of gymnasts perform coordinated continuous movements.
Guts — a disc sport derived from dodgeball, where players try to strike their opponents with a frisbee.
Gymkhana — a multi-game equestrian event which is performed to display the talents of the horses and their riders.
Gymnastics — a range of sports combining tumbling and acrobatic feats, usually done with apparatus. Two main sports: Rhythmic Gymnastics and Artistic Gymnastics .
H Sports
Half-Pipe Skiing — athletes perform tricks while riding on a half-pipe wearing snow skis.
Hammer throw — an Olympic track and field event in which a heavy weight at the end of a wire is thrown for distance.
Handball — a sport usually played indoors between teams of seven players, who pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team. Also known as Team Handball, Olympic Handball, European (Team) handball or Borden Ball. Variations include Beach Handball , Czech Handball and Field Handball .
Hang Gliding — a type of air sport in which the rider flies a non-motorized aircraft which is called a hang glider.
Hardball Squash — like the indoor court sport of squash , but with a much harder ball.
Harness Racing — horses trot or pace while pulling a driver in a sulky.
Headis — combining table tennis and soccer, players use their heads to hit a soccer ball across the table tennis table and net.
Heptathlon — a women's track and field multi-event comprising 7 events.
High Diving — athletes dive into water from considerably large heights.
High Jump — an Olympic Track and Field event in which the participants attempt to jump over the highest bar.
High Power Rifle — shooting competition using rifles such as the service rifle.
Hill Climb — riding on a motorcycle, one competitor at a time attempts to ride up a very steep hill. The rider to reach the top (if anyone makes it) with the shortest elapsed time wins. There is also a car version of this sport, Hillclimbing .
Hillclimbing — car drivers race on an uphill course in a time trial format.
Hitball — an indoor team sport from Italy in which players strike the volleyball sized ball into the opponent’s goal post only using the upper limbs.
Hockey - a large range of indoor and outdoor team sports which involves hitting a ball into a net. See Ice Hockey and Field Hockey .
Horizontal Bar — artistic gymnastics event also known as high bar, where athletes perform aerial stunts on a horizontal bar. Also called the High Bar.
Hornussen — a traditional Swiss sport (farmer's golf), where the hornusser knocks a nut through the air with a long flexible rod.
Horse Polo — the traditional polo sport. Polo is also played on other animals such as Elephants and Yaks.
Horse Racing — equestrian sport which involves jockeys riding horses or being pulled along by horses.
Horse Soccer — a variation of Pushball , a team sport where an inflated ball is driven through a goal while riding a horse.
Horseball — The sport is like a combination of Polo, Rugby and Basketball, played on horseback where a ball is carried and shot through a high net to score. A similar sport is Pato .
Horseshoes — players toss horseshoes at stakes in the ground.
Hot Air Ballooning - see Ballooning .
Hovercraft Racing .
Hunting — an activity which involves tracking and killing animals with various weapons (not a sport?).
Hurdles (Track and Field) — a track and field sport which involves running and jumping over obstacles at speed.
Hurling — a Gaelic outdoor team sport where players to use a wooden stick to hot a ball between the opposing team’s goalposts.
Hydroplane Racing — racing of hydroplanes on oval course mostly on lakes or rivers.
I Sports
Ice Canoeing — a team sport in which a five member crew complete a course, in which riders have to push their canoe on the frozen parts of the river as well as row in the water.
Ice Climbing — athletes climb vertical ice formations with the uses of ropes and other protective gear.
Ice Cross Downhill — an extreme winter racing sport which involves direct racing of multiple skaters on a downhill course.
Ice Dancing — one of the events in Figure Skating , which has its roots in ballroom dancing.
Ice Hockey — a contact sport which is played on ice while wearing skates and using a stick to hit a puck into a goal.
Ice Racing — racing of motorized vehicles on predominantly natural ice surfaces like frozen lakes or rivers.
Ice Speedway — similar to Motorcycle Speedway Racing, though using bikes developed specifically for racing on ice. The bikes race anti-clockwise around oval tracks between 260 and 425 meters in length.
Ice Skating — there are a range of sports that utilize ice skating, such as ice hockey, figure skating and speed skating.
Ice Stock Sport — a winter sport that is similar to curling. Also called Bavarian Curling.
Ice Yachting — sail boats called ice yachts are used to race on frozen lakes and rivers.
Indoor Cricket — a modified version of cricket played indoor with nets for walls.
Indoor Field Hockey — indoor team sport that was derived from field hockey.
Indoor Netball — a variation of netball , played indoors with netting all around the court.
Indoor Soccer — an indoor version of Association Football developed in North America.
Inline Hockey — similar to ice hockey , players move around on an wooden or concrete surface wearing inline skates.
Inline Skating — also known as roller blading, a variety of sports performed while wearing skates with two to five polyurethane wheels arranged in a single line.
Inline Speed Skating — athletes use inline skates to race around tracks.
International Rules Football — invented so that Aussie Rules Football players can play games against Irish Gaelic football players.
Irish Road Bowling — competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads.
Ironman Surflifesaving — combines four major aspects of surflifesaving into a single race: swimming, board paddling, ski paddling, and beach running.
J Sports
Jai Alai — a sport derived from Basque Pelota , usually played indoors. Popular in many Latin American countries.
Javelin — track and field event involving throwing a spear like implement as far as possible.
Jereed — a traditional Turkish team equestrian sport in which the objective is to throw blunt wooden javelins at players of the opposing team.
Jet Ski Racing — a water sport similar to powerboat racing, in which riders use jet skis to compete.
Jetsprint — a high speed boat racing sport in which a team of two riders, race through a course by themselves in a time-trial format (also known as sprint boat racing).
Jeu Provençal — a popular French forms of Boules, where the objective is to throw a set of hollow metal balls as close as possible to a target ball.
Jianzi — a traditional Chinese national sport, where players aim to keep an shuttlecock type object (called a Jianzi) in the air by striking it predominantly with legs, usually with a net between teams. Also called Shuttlecock.
Joggling — running (jogging) races while juggling.
Jokgu — a Korean sport which resembles a mix of football and volleyball.
Jorkyball — a type of indoor soccer on a small rectangular filed surrounded by glass walls.
Judo — the objective is to throw or takedown the opposing player to the ground.
Jugger — a brutal sport inspired by the movie “The Salute of the Jugger”, the objective is for the team to get to the other team’s foam dog skull.
Jujutsu — a Japanese martial art using close combat for defeating an armed and armored opponent, with only a short weapon or none at all.
Jukskei — a folk sport from South Africa where competitors throw wooden pins to try and knock down a target wooden peg.
K Sports
Kayaking — boat races using a small, narrow boat propelled by means of a double-bladed paddle.
Kegel — a German nine-pin bowling game played in Australia.
Kelly Pool — type of pocket billiard game played on a standard pool table, with fifteen numbered markers which player select from.
Kemari — Japanese traditional sport with the aim to keep one ball in the air.
Kendo — a form of Japanese martial art that originated from kenjutsu, using bamboo swords and armour.
Kho Kho — team that takes lesser time to tag all the opponent players wins the game.
Kickball — a type of baseball where the players kick the ball, instead of striking it with a bat.
Kickboxing — a group of stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching. Variations include Pradal Serey (Cambodia), Sanda (China), Savate (France), Sikaran (Philippines).
Kilikiti — a traditional Tuvalu sport similar to cricket.
Kin-Ball — played with three teams and a large inflated ball.
Ki-o-rahi — a traditional New Zealand Maori game played on a circular field.
Kite Fighting — battle to cut the lines on the opponents' kites.
Kite Landboarding — using a kite and wind power to manoeuver a huge skateboard type board over land.
Kite Boarding — a group of sports which use a kite for power and a board for support, such as Kitesurfing , Kite Landboarding , Snowkiting .
Kitesurfing — a board and kite are used on the water utilizing different styles consisting of freeride, speed, down winders and racing.
Kilikiti — a traditional Samoan and Tuvalu sport similar to cricket.
Klootschieten — German sport in which participants throw a ball as far as they can.
Kneeboarding — a waterskiing event where a participant is pulled along while kneeling on a convex board.
Knife Throwing — like archery, the knife is thrown towards a target.
Korfball — a mixed gender ball sport which is similar to netball and basketball, developed in The Netherlands.
Krachtbal — a team sport from Flanders, where points are scored by throwing the ball using a neck or back throw into the opponent’s goal area.
Krolf — a mix of croquet and golf, players use a mallet to hot a ball into hole.
Kronum — a team sport that combines aspects of football, handball, basketball, and rugby into a single sport.
Kubb — a lawn game where the object is to knock over wooden blocks ('kubbs') by throwing wooden batons at them.
Kurash — folk wrestling style from Central Asia in which wrestlers use towels to hold their opponents, and their goal is to throw their opponents off the feet.
L Sports
Lacrosse — a team game, originally played by North American Indians, in which the ball is thrown, caught, and carried with a long-handled stick with a piece of shallow netting at one end. Versions include Field Lacrosse , Box Lacrosse , Women's Lacrosse .
Lagori — from Southern India, this game involves a ball and a pile of flat stones. A member of one team throws a soft ball at a pile of stones to knock them over, then try to restore the pile of stones while the opposing team throws the ball at them (also known as Lingocha).
Land Sailing — racing in a three-wheeled vehicles moving across land powered by wind through the use of a sail. Also known as sand yachting or land yachting.
Land Speed Records — in various vehicle classes, competitors attempt to create the fastest time over a fixed distance. Two runs are required in opposite directions within one hour to set a new mark.
Land Windsurfing — similar to traditional Windsurfing though performed on land rather than water, using a four-wheeled deck to travel across the surface. Also known as "Terrasailing", "street sailing", "land sailing" and "dirt windsurfing".
Lapta – a Russian traditional bat and ball game. The aim of the game is to hit a ball, served by a player of the opposite team, with a bat as far as possible, then run across the field, and if possible back again.
Laser Tag — a skirmish sport in which players attempt to score points by tagging targets, typically with a hand-held infrared-emitting targeting device.
Lawn Bowls — the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty".
Lawn Mower Racing — motorsport where participants use race-modified lawn mowers.
Legends Car Racing — a racing sport using identical spec vehicles, with bodyshells made of 5/8-scale replicas of American automobiles from the 1930s and 1940s and powered by a Yamaha motorcycle engines.
Lelo Burti — a Georgian folk sport, a full contact ball game very similar to rugby.
Lethwei — an unarmed Burmese martial art similar to other kickboxing styles from the region.
Letterboxing — an outdoor sport that combines orienteering, art, and puzzle solving. Small weatherproof boxes are hidden in publicly accessible places (like parks) and clues are distributed to finding the box. Similar to GeoCaching.
Log Rolling — two challengers attempt to stay on a floating log the longest.
Long Jump — a track and field event where the participant attempts to jump the longest into a sand pit. See also the similar Triple Jump .
Longboarding — a skateboarding sport in which athletes use a longboard to compete in races.
Longue Paume — an outdoor version of the racket sport, jeu de paume , played without a net.
Luge — a Winter Olympic sport in which competitors race down an ice track in a small one- or two-person sled lying supine (face up) and feet-first.
Lumberjack — competitions involving many different events, including log rolling, chopping, timed hot (power) saw and bucksaw cutting, and pole climbing.
M Sports
Mallakhamba — a traditional Indian sport, where athletes perform various types of gymnastics moves and hold various poses on a vertical wooden pole or a rope.
Marathon — a distance running athletics event over 42.2 km.
Marching Band — a large team of participants play musical instruments as they perform various routines while moving around on an huge outdoor field.
Martial Arts — a tradition of combat practices.
Matkot — a beach paddle sport from Israel which is very similar to beach tennis.
Medieval Football — Alternative names include Folk Football, Mob Football and Shrovetide Football. Versions include Ba game, Caid, Calcio Fiorentino, Camping, Chester-le-Street, Cnapan, Cornish Hurling, Haxey Hood, La Soule, Lelo burti, Mob football, Royal Shrovetide Football, Uppies and Downies.
Metallic Silhouette Shooting — players compete to test their skills by shooting at silhouette metal targets.
Metro Footy — a modified version of Australian football played on rectangular field, predominantly in the USA.
Mind Sports — a family of sports in which the objective is to test mental strength rather than physical strength. Some may be considered actual sports such as speed cubing , while others not (memory, chess).
Minigolf or Miniature Golf — a game utilizing only the putting aspect of Golf, played on short holes on artificial putting surfaces often with obstacles. Officially called minigolf, but also can be called by the name miniature golf, mini-golf, midget golf, goofy golf, shorties, extreme golf, put put, crazy golf, adventure golf, mini-putt and many others.
Mini Rugby — a modified version for Rugby Union , to make the sport suitable to be introduced to children.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) — a full contact individual combat sport which include aspects of several other combat sports and martial arts.
Mob Football — A type of Medieval Football , usually an annual traditional event with a ball, unlimited number of players and very few rules.
Modern Pentathlon — an event in the Olympics that comprises five events: fencing, 200m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a combined event of pistol shooting and 3200m cross country run.
Mogul Skiing — snow skiers compete on a specially designed downhill course, in which the primary focus in on the technique used for turns, aerial maneuvers, and speed.
Mölkky — players use a wooden pin (also called "mölkky") to try to knock over wooden pins.
Mongolian Wrestling — a folk wrestling style from the Mongolian region, in which the aim is to get your opponent to touch his upper body, knee or elbow to the ground.
Moscow Broomball — a variation of Broomball, an ice hockey type sport, played in Moscow and only by non-Russians
Motoball — similar to football, except all players (except goalkeepers) are riding motorcycles, and the ball is much bigger (also called Motorcycle Polo).
Motocross — a form of motorcycle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits which include embankments and jumps. See also Freestyle Motocross .
Motorcycling Road Racing — a motorcycle sport involving racing motorcycles as teams or individuals around a circular track. At the elite level it is in the form of MotoGP racing. Also known as Moto racing and Bike racing.
Motorcycle Gymkhana — a motorcycle time trial sport around cones on a paved area. The winner is the competitor who completes the course in the shortest time. Time penalties are incurred by putting a foot down, hitting a cone, or going outside the designated area. It is similar to car Autocross .
Motorcycle Speedway — a Motorsport in which the motorcycles have one gear and no brakes, and race around a circular track. Also commonly known by just Speedway. Variations includes Ice Speedway.
Motorcycle Trials — a test of skill on a motorcycle whereby the rider attempts to cover rocky terrain without placing a foot on the ground. The winner is the rider with the least penalty points. Known in the US as "Observed Trials".
Motorsports — includes a wide range of sports, each linked with its use of a motor to propel a driver, and all have an element of thrill and danger for the driver and spectator.
Mountain Biking — held on steep and rough terrain, involving jumps, rock gardens, and other obstacles.
Mountain Unicycling — an adventure sport that consists of traversing rough terrain on a unicycle.
Mountainboarding — an action board sport like a snowboard with wheels or a cross-country skateboard. It is also known as Dirtboarding, Offroad Boarding, and All-Terrain Boarding (ATB).
Mountaineering — the sport of mountain climbing
Mounted Orienteering — participants navigate from start to end through control points, usually on horseback.
Muay Thai — a full contact fighting sport in which fighters try to defeat their opponents by using different techniques that make use of fists, elbows, knees, and shins.
Mud Bogging — an off-road motorsport which involves driving a vehicle through a muddy course.
Muggle Quidditch — the playable version of the sport of Quidditch invented for the Harry Potter books.
N Sports
Naginatajutsu — a Japanese martial art of wielding the naginata, a weapon resembling the medieval European glaive.
Netball — a team game with seven players on a side, similar to basketball except that players are restricted to certain sections of the court, and a player receiving the ball must stand still until they have passed it to another player.
Newcomb Ball — an early variation of Volleyball , Teams throw ball back and forth until ball hits floor or is mishandled.
Nine-a-side Footy — a mini version of Australian Rules Football , with 3 players each designated as forwards, centres and backs.
Nine-Ball — a version of Pocket Billiards played with nine balls, numbered 1 through 9. A player who legally pockets the nine-ball is the winner. Most professional tournaments are conducted for the nine-ball format of pool.
Nine-Man Football — a variation of American Football for smaller schools.
Nine Pin Bowling — a variation of bowling with only 9 pins set up in a diamond pattern.
Ninjutsu — The traditional Japanese art of the Ninjas - incorporating stealth, camouflage and sabotage, now practiced as a martial art.
Nordic Combined — a Winter Olympics sport in which athletes compete in a combined event of Cross-Country Skiing and Ski Jumping .
Nordic Skiing — a field of competitive skiing which includes all events where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski (as opposed to Alpine skiing ). Includes Cross-Country Skiing , Ski Jumping , and Biathlon , Nordic Combined and Telemark Skiing .
Northern Praying Mantis — a style of Chinese martial arts, sometimes called Shandong Praying Mantis.
Novuss — a national sport in Latvia, with similarities to carrom and pocket billiards. Played on a 1 meter square wooden board with pockets in each corner. A small cue stick is used to strike a puck to hit small discs into the pockets.
O Sports
Oztag — a form of Tag Rugby
P Sports
Paddle Tennis — a variation of tennis on a smaller court, lower net, using a solid paddle and ball.
Paddleball (1 wall) — a small rubber ball is hit against single wall with a solid paddle.
Paddleball (4 wall) — like racquetball/squash but played with a solid paddle racket.
Padel — a mix of tennis and squash, played on a much smaller court with walls and a solid paddle racket.
Paintball — a skirmish sport in which players compete to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye propelled from paintball guns.
Palant — a Polish sport lot of similarities to modern baseball played using a wooden stick and a rubber ball.
Paleta Frontón — a wall based racquet sport that originated in Peru.
Pall mall — a lawn game which was played between the 1500's and the 1600's.
Palla — a traditional street game played in villages of Italy.
Pankration (Amateur) — A modern version of the Ancient Olympic sport of Pankration .
Parachuting — also known as skydiving, involving jumping from an aircraft with just a parachute.
Prizefighting — another name for bare knuckle boxing .
Pushball — a team sport played with a large ball in which the objective is to push the ball through the opponent’s goal posts.
Q Sports
Qianball — a racket and ball sport developed in China which can be best described as a mix of aspects from tennis and squash.
Quadrathlon — an endurance sports event composed of the four individual disciplines of swimming, kayaking, cycling and running - also called quadriathlon.
Quidditch — the sport invented for the Harry Potter books has been adapted for the real world. See Muggle Quidditch
Quoits — a traditional target throwing game in which rings are thrown at a target spike, the aim is to get them as close as possible to the target.
R Sports
Racerunning — a track and field racing sport for disabled athletes, in which they use a specially designed tricycle.
Race Walking — competitors attempt to outrace one another without running.
Racketlon — a combination sport, where players compete in the sports of table tennis, tennis, squash, and badminton.
Racquetball — a squash type game involving hitting a hallow rubber ball using a stringed racket.
Racquets / Rackets — a sport similar to squash.
Rafting — the objective is to navigate downstream on river rapids using an inflated raft.
Rallycross — automobile sprint racing held on a closed racing circuit using rally type cars.
Rally Racing (car) - auto racing that mainly happens either on unpaved roads in races against the clock.
Rally Raid — an extended form of rally racing, conducted on an off-road course which spans across one or more countries.
Rally Racing (motorbike) — a navigation event on motorbikes on public roads whereby competitors must visit a number of checkpoints in diverse locations while still obeying road traffic laws.
Real Tennis — the sport from which the modern lawn tennis was derived. It is played in an indoor court of asymmetric dimensions, using rules and scoring similar to those of modern tennis.
Rink Hockey — a roller hockey sport.
Rinkball — very similar to Rink Bandy, though played with ice hockey sticks instead of bandy sticks which are more like those used in field hockey.
Ritinis — a team sport from Lithuania, played on a football field with goal posts with a puck thrown by bat with a handle and curved elongated end.
Road Bicycle Racing — cycle races held on paved roads, usually over several hours or days.
Road Bowling — throw a small ball along a road, to cover a prescribed distance with a set number of throws.
Road Skating — athletes use either inline or roller skates and ride on road courses.
Robot Combat — involves custom built remote control machines fighting each other (not a sport).
Robot Sports — sporting competitions involve robot machines battling other robots, often replicating the rules and equipment of sports (not a sport).
Robot Soccer — autonomous robots compete in football matches (not a sport).
Rock Climbing — competitive rock climbing is called Sport Climbing
Rodeo — a sporting event comprising many different sports, including the following Calf Roping, Breakaway roping, Team roping, Barrel racing , Steer wrestling, Goat tying, Bronc riding, Bull Riding , Steer roping and Pole bending.
Rogaining — involves cross-country navigation over long distances.
Rollball — like handball on roller skates, players must bounce the ball while moving and score goals by shooting the ball into the opposing team's goal.
Roller Derby — two teams compete while skating in the same direction around a track.
Roller Hockey — includes traditional roller hockey (quad hockey or rink hockey played with quad stakes) and inline hockey (played with inline skates).
Roller Skating — there are a range of sports performed while wearing roller skates.
Roller Skiing — races are conducted on tarmac road courses with athletes wearing snow skis with wheels attached.
Roller Soccer — indoor sport, playing soccer while wearing roller skates.
Rope Climbing — competitors climb up a rope using their hands.
Rope Jumping (skipping) — involves a single person or more jumping over a rope that is being swung.
Roping — a rodeo event where calves or cows are caught by throwing around it a rope with a loop as quickly as possible.
Roque — an American variation of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface.
Rounders — played between two teams with a bat and ball, like baseball.
Rowing — a sport in which competitors propel a boat using oars.
Rugby Fives — an indoor court game played with gloves, hitting the ball against the wall.
Rugby League — a rough game involving tackling the players in a bid to get the ball, with each team attempting to carry it over the end line.
Rugby League Nines — like Rugby League, but with nine players.
Rugby Sevens — like Rugby Union except with less players and over shorter time period.
Rugby Tens — also known as ten-a-side and Xs, is a variant of rugby union that originated in Malaysia, and is popular in many Asian countries.
Rugby Union — played on a grass field by two opposing teams with two H-shaped goalposts at opposite ends.
Running — running races can range from short sprints to ultra-marathons
Russian Pyramid — a cue sport played in countries of the former Soviet Union (also known simply as Pyramid(s), Russian billiards or Russian pool)
S Sports
Sailing — a sport that involves moving a boat by using the power of the wind.
Sambo — a martial art developed for Russia's military and police force in the 1930s. The term translates as "self-defense without weapons".
Samoa Rules — a combination of Australian Rules Football and Rugby Union
Speedway - motorsports around an oval track - forms include Motorcycle Speedway , Ice Speedway and Bicycle Speedway .
Spongee — an outdoor non-contact sport played on an ice rink in rubber boots with a sponge puck instead of a hard puck like in ice hockey.
Sport Acrobatics - the previous name for Acrobatic Gymnastics .
Sport Aerobics — the objective is to perform high intensity gymnastic moves in sync with background music. Also called Aerobic Gymnastics.
Sport Climbing — rock climbing competitions, can be Lead Climbing, Speed Climbing or Bouldering .
Sport Diving — aspects of scuba diving are performed in a swimming pool.
Sport Fishing — in competition fishing contestants compete for prizes based on the total length or weight of a fish, usually of a pre-determined species, caught within a specified timeframe.
Sport Kite — using a stunt kite to fly the kite in several patterns in tune with a background music.
Sport Stacking — stack a number of plastic cups in a pre-determined sequence as fast as possible.
Sporting Clays — one of the disciplines of clay pigeon shooting , shooters move about a course, attempting to hit varying targets projected at different angles, speed, elevation, and distances.
Sports Car Racing — a type of auto racing, in which sports cars are used.
Sprint (Athletics) — track and field running events over short distances, such as 100m, 200m, 400m.
Sprint Car Racing — a racing sport which involves direct racing of high powered small cars.
Sprint Football — a USA varsity sport for lightweight players which emphasizes speed and agility.
Squash — a racquet sport played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small hollow rubber ball.
Squash Tennis — derived from both squash and lawn tennis, played on a squash court with tennis rackets and balls.
Squat — a powerlifting event in which participants attempt to perform a squat with the maximum weight on their shoulders.
Ssireum — a folk wrestling style and traditional national sport of Korea, with the aim to bring any part of the opponent's body above the knee to the ground.
Steeplechase — an athletics distance track running event with barriers and water jumps.
Steeplechase — a horse racing sport in which competitors on horsebacks race on a long distance course that has several types of obstacles.
Stické Tennis — an indoor racquet and ball based sport derived from lawn tennis in the late 19th century, using a smaller court surrounded by 4 walls.
Stock Car Racing — a car racing sport in which production-based cars, called stock cars, are used for racing.
Stoolball — a team sport played on a circular grass field, possibly the precursor to cricket and baseball.
Straight pool — a type of pocket billiards game in which a player is required to call which object ball they are going to pocket and to which pocket.
Street Hockey — a team sport that was derived from Ice Hockey , though it is played on an asphalt or cement surface instead of ice, and players wear inline skates or shoes.
Streetluge — participants race downhill feet first on a sort of modified skateboard.
Strongman — a sport which tests competitors' strength in a variety of different ways.
Sumo Wrestling — two wrestlers within a circular ring try and push the other out.
Super Giant Slalom (better known as Super-G) — an alpine downhill skiing event like giant slalom but the gates to ski through are further apart.
Supercross — an indoor dirt-bike racing sport which evolved from Motocross , using specifically built indoor dirt tracks.
Supermoto — motorcycle riders compete on three different types of courses as part of a single race: a flat track course, a motocross course and a road course.
Surf Kayaking — involves surfing in the ocean using a kayak.
Surfboat Rowing — a team of riders compete using surfboats on a course out and back through the surf.
Surfing — participants stand on a surfboard, and use the waves for propulsion.
Surf Lifesaving — competitions consist of performing various tasks performed by lifeguards in the beach.
Swamp Football — a version of association football played in bogs or swamps.
Sweep Rowing — each rower has just one oar which is maneuvered with both hands to propel the boat.
Swimming — the sport of propelling oneself through water using the limbs.
Synchronized Diving - a diving sport in which two divers perform the exact same dive simultaneously.
Synchronized Skating — a sport of the figure skating discipline in which 8 to 20 skaters perform routines as a team on an ice rink.
Synchronized Swimming — athletes perform synchronized dance routines to music while floating in water.
T Sports
Table Football — also called Fußball or Foosball, tries to replicate the game of Association Football on a table top.
Table Tennis (also called Ping Pong) - a racket sport played with small paddles and a lightweight ball on a rectangular table with a net in the middle.
Taekwondo — a self defense discipline that originated in Korea.
Tag Rugby — a team sport similar to touch rugby in which instead of a tackle a Velcro attached tag if pulled off the ball carrier. Similar in play to Touch Rugby . Also known as Flag Rugby. Played in several forms, such as OzTag and Mini Tag. American flag rugby played in the US K1-9 is a variation of Tag Rugby.
Tamburello — racquet and a ball based sport from Italy.
Target Archery — a popular Archery competition where competitors shoot at stationary circular targets from different distances.
Target Shooting — guns of any type used for aiming at a target.
Tee-Ball — an introductory sport for younger kids to baseball and softball, with the ball hit off a stationary tee.
Tchoukball - an indoor team sport in which the players can score by throwing a ball onto a rebound frame at either end of the court and the ball landing back on the court without being caught.
Team Handball — a commonly used name for the sport of Handball .
Team Penning — the objective for each three-rider team on horseback is to separate three specific cattle from a herd.
Te Ano — the national game of Tuvalu, with similarities to volleyball.
Tejo — a Colombian sport in which metal discs are thrown 20m to a target which explodes when hit.
Telemark Skiing — The bindings for telemark skiing holds the boot by the toes, unlike Alpine Skiing which is fixed-heel. Also known as free hill skiing and telemarking.
Tennikoit — played with a rubber ring, in which the objective is to catch and throw the ring back on to the opponents half of the court. Also called ring tennis or tenniquoits.
Tennis — a court sport where players use a stringed racket to hit a ball to each other over a net.
Tennis Polo — an outdoor team sport, where players attempt to throw a tennis ball through a goal defended by a goal keeper with a tennis racket. Also called Toccer.
Tenpin Bowling — a player rolls a bowling ball on to a wooden or synthetic lane to knock down pins.
Tent Pegging — the objective for a horse rider is to pierce, pick-up and carry a target, with a lance or a sword, as they gallop towards the target.
Test Cricket — the longest form of cricket, played over 5 days.
Tetherball — two players hit a ball attached by a rope to the top of a stationary pole.
Thoroughbred Racing — horse racing sport which involves the racing of thoroughbred horses.
Three-Cushion Billiards — a very challenging cue sport and Carom Billiards discipline, where the aim is to carom the cue ball off both object balls and contact the rail cushions at least three times before the last object ball.
Throwball — a sport very similar to Newcomb Ball (a variation of Volleyball) that is played in India.
Torball — a team sport for the visually impaired with an inflated ball with bells inside. The aim is to throw the ball through the opponent´s goal line.
Toros Coleados — involves chasing down a bull while riding on horseback (also called Bull-Tailing).
Touch Football — A version of American Football, where instead of tackling players to the ground, the person carrying the ball only needs to be touched.
Touch Rugby — a team sport derived from Rugby Football, in which the tackling is replaced with just a touch.
Tower Running — grueling races up tall man made structures. Also known as Stair Climbing.
Track Cycling — bicycle races conducted on velodromes or other specially designed tracks that feature a steep banking.
Track & Field — also known as athletics.
Trampolining — competitors perform acrobatics while jumping on a trampoline.
Trap Shooting — one of the variants of clay pigeon shooting , where 1 or 2 targets are thrown away from a traps situated 15m in front of the shooter.
TREC — a French equestrian sport in which the objective is to test both the horse and the rider in competitions consisting of three separate events.
Tree Climbing — competitions in which competitors climb trees as fast as possible using various techniques based on the daily working conditions of arborists.
Triathle — a shortened version of the Modern Pentathlon, athletes compete in shooting, swimming and running events as a part of a single race.
Triathlon — a race consisting of three events, usually swimming, cycling, and running in consecutive order.
Triple jump — a track and field event where the participant attempts to hop, skip and jump the longest distance. Also called the hop, skip and jump for obvious reasons. Similar to the long jump .
Trugo — Australian sport in which players strike a rubber ring, which is called a whell, with a mallet through goal posts.
Tug of War — two teams pull on opposite ends of a rope
Tumbling — a gymnastics event involving tumbling along a mat performing flips, rolls, jumps, performing somersaults and handsprings.
Twenty20 — a fast-paced limited over cricket match played 20 overs per team. Also known as T20 Cricket.
U Sports
Ulama — a traditional ball sport from Mexico, players keep the ball inbounds by hitting it with their hips or forearms.
Ultimate — played with a disc (frisbee), with points scored by passing the disc to a teammate in the opposing end zone.
Ultralight Aviation — events with of lightweight aircraft which have 1 or 2 seat fixed-wings.
Ultramarathon — very long distance endurance events, ranging from greater than Marathon distance to several days. Ultramarathons can either cover a specified distance, or take place during a specified time frame, with the winner covering the most distance in that time.
Underwater Football — played in a swimming pool with snorkeling equipment, the aim is to manoeuvre a slightly negatively buoyant ball underwater (by carrying and passing) from one side of a pool to the other. Scoring is achieved by placing the ball in the gutter on the side of the pool.
Underwater Hockey — two teams of six push a puck along the bottom of a swimming pool. (also known as 'Octopush' or Water Hockey).
Underwater Ice Hockey — A variation of Ice Hockey played upside-down underneath frozen pools or ponds. Participants wear snorkeling equipment and wet suits and use the underside of the frozen surface as the playing area for a floating puck (also called sub-aqua ice hockey).
Underwater Orienteering — individual and team events in which competitors wearing scuba diving equipment swim an underwater course following a route marked on a map prepared by the competition organizers, using a compass and a counter meter to measure the distance covered.
Underwater Photography — teams of competitors using using scuba gear and using a digital underwater camera dive and photograph the same saltwater ocean sites at the same time over a two-day period, with the submitted digital images assessed to find the winner.
Underwater Rugby — two teams compete for a slightly negatively buoyant ball (filled with saltwater) and score by placing it into the opponents' goal (heavy metal bucket) at the bottom of a swimming pool.
Underwater Target Shooting — competitors free dive in a swimming pool, using spearguns to fire at targets.
Underwater Wrestling — an alternative name for Aquathlon .
Uneven Bars — an artistic gymnastics apparatus used only by female gymnasts comprising a pair of parallel bars set at different heights. (also called or asymmetric bars).
Unicycle Basketball — a version of Basketball with all competitors riding unicycles. The sport uses a regulation basketball on a regular basketball court with the same rules.
Unicycle Handball — competitors ride unicycles and a handball-sized ball, with the aim to throw it into a vertical hoop placed about 6 feet (1.8 m) above the ground.
Unicycle Hockey — a team sport, similar to roller or inline hockey, though all competitors are riding a unicycle and using a tennis ball and ice-hockey sticks.
Unicycling Racing — a competition which involves racing using a unicycle.
Unicycle Trials — a form of unicycling which involves participants riding a unicycle over obstacles without any part of the rider touching the ground.
Unicycling — sports using a single wheel cycle.
Urban Golf — golf played anywhere that there's free space and not too many people about.
V Sports
Vajra-mushti — a form of Indian wrestling in which a knuckleduster-like weapon called the Vajra-mushti is employed.
Va lencian Frontó — modified Valencian Pilota version of the original Basque Pelota game. The players don't stand face-to-face as in the more popular Valencian Pilota but share a common playing area.
Valencian Pilota — is a traditional handball sport played in the Valencian Community of Spain. The ball is usually struck with a bare hand in a game involving two teams made from two up to five players each (depending on the particular version played). Unlike the original Basque Pelota, it is not played against a wall. Instead, teams are placed face to face separated either by a line on the ground or a net. Versions include Valencian Frontó .
Varpa — an old outdoor game dating back to the Viking Age. It is similar to boules but played with a flat and heavy thrower known as "varpa" instead of balls, once made of shaped stones but nowadays aluminium is more popular.
Varzesh-e Bastani — a traditional Iranian martial arts. The sport is practiced in a gymnasium called Zourkhaneh, which is another name by which the sport is known. Also called Varzesh-e Pahlavani
Vault — an artistic gymnastics event for men and women, in which the athlete leaps over a vault or pommel horse, using the hands for pushing off.
Vert Skateboarding — an acrobatic sport in which athletes riding a skateboard perform various tricks while being airborne.
Vert Skating — acrobatic inline or roller skating sport performed on a ramp.
Vigoro — an Australian sport that combines elements of Cricket and Baseball, mainly played by women. Played on a pitch shorter than for cricket, with a bat with a long handle like a paddle.
Vintage Racing — a form of Auto-Racing, with vehicles limited to Vintage types.
Volleyball — a game for two teams of six players, in which a large ball is hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball reach the ground on the opponent's side of the court. See also Beach Volleyball . Similar sports and variations include Throwball , Newcomb Ball .
Vovinam — a Vietnamese martial art.
Vx — a ball sport from the UK, originally known as Rock-It-Ball. It is played by two teams of five players. The court is roughly the size of a basketball court, with 5 balls in play. Players carry a VstiX for carrying, throwing and catching the ball.
W Sports
Wakeboarding — riding a board and doing tricks on the wake behind a boat.
Walking Football — a version of association football in which players are only allowed to walk during game play, developed for older people to keep fit.
Wallball — a wall based sport similar to squash in which a hi-bounce rubber ball has to be hit onto the wall after a single bounce.
Wallyball — a variation of volleyball, which is played in a racquetball court enclosed with walls on all four sides.
Washer Pitching — a target throwing game similar to horseshoes, in which players as a part of teams take turns to toss washers into a box or hole.
Water Basketball — a mix of basketball and water polo played in a swimming pool with basketball goals.
Water Polo — a team sport played in swimming pools, the aim is to pass the ball over the water and into the goal net.
Water Skiing — riders are pulled along behind a boat skimming atop the water wearing one or two skis.
Water Volleyball — a team sport derived from volleyball in which the games are played in water.
Weightlifting — competitors attempt to lift weights mounted on barbells.
Weight Throw — a family of heavy weight throwing events, in which the objective is to either throw the weight as far as possible or as high as possible.
Western Pleasure — a horse show competition in which horses are evaluated for their manners and composure.
Wheelchair Basketball — basically regular basketball played on a wheelchair.
Wheelchair Curling — a variation of curling in which athletes with a disability affecting their lower limbs use wheelchair to play the sport.
Wheelchair Dancing — all of the participants of a team perform dance routines while riding on a wheelchair.
Wheelchair Fencing — a version of Fencing in which disabled athletes fight with thin swords while sitting in wheelchairs which are tightly fastened to the floor.
Wheelchair Racing — a type of racing in which athletes with physical disabilities compete with the help of a wheelchair.
Wheelchair Rugby — a full contact indoor team sport conducted for players with disabilities.
Wheelchair Rugby League — a version of rugby league football but played using a wheelchair.
Wheelchair Tennis — a version of lawn tennis for those who have lower body disabilities.
Whitewater Slalom — a kayaking and canoeing sport in which athletes use a kayak or canoe to navigate through a course that consist of hanging gates on river rapids.
Wiffleball — a variation of Baseball designed for indoor or outdoor play in confined areas, using a perforated, light-weight, rubbery plastic ball and a long, plastic yellow) bat.
Windsurfing — riding a modified surfboard manoeuvered using a sail on a movable mast.
Wingsuit Flying — a type of skydiving, where a person will fly in the air using a special jumpsuit called the wingsuit.
Winter Guard — an indoor sport of the color guard discipline in which teams perform several routines using supporting equipment to recorded background music.
Winter Triathlon — athletes compete in running, mountain biking and cross-country skiing.
Women's lacrosse — a limited-contact version of lacrosse
Woodball — a sport where a mallet is used to pass a ball through gates. This game can be played in grass, sand or indoor. See also Beach Woodball .
Wood Chopping — participants attempt to cut or saw a log or other types of wood in the quickest time.
Wrestling — a general term for a combat sport between two competitors involving grappling type techniques. Forms include the Olympic styles of Greco-Roman and Freestyle. There are many regional forms of wrestling, too many to mention, but include Sumo , Yağlı Güreş (Turkish oil wrestling). Variations also include Aquathlon (underwater wrestling), Arm Wrestling .
Wushu — a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts.
X Sports
Xare — a racket sport, a form of Basque pelota , where players face each other across a net which is strung across the middle of an indoor court.
Xingyiquan — is one of the major "internal" styles of Chinese martial arts (probably not a sport ).
Y Sports
Yağlı Güreş — Turkish for Oil Wrestling, also called grease wrestling. This form of wrestling , where the wrestlers cover themselves in oil. It is the national sport of Turkey.
Yak Polo — a Mongolian variation of the sport Polo played on yaks instead of on horses.
Yotsudama — a variation of Four-Ball carom billiards played in East Asia.
Yubi Lakpi — a seven-a-side traditional football game with similarities to rugby played in Manipur, India, using a coconut.
Yukigassen — a snowball fighting-competition played between two teams with seven players each, originated in Japan.
Z Sports
Zorb Football — a team sport that was derived from association football (soccer) in which players are encased in an inflated bubble called Zorb.
Zourkhaneh — the Zourkhaneh (house of strength) is the traditional gymnasium where the sport of Varzesh-e Bastani or Pahlavani is practiced. The sport is sometimes known by this name. Alternative spellings are Zurkhaneh, Zorkhana or Zourkhaneh.
Zui Quan — The words mean Drunken Fist in Chinese. Also known as Drunken Boxing or Drunkard's Boxing.
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3D Archery — a form of archery in which the goal is to strike targets in the shape of animals at unknown distances.
3x3 — a variation of basketball played on a half court with just three players in each team.
Abseiling — an adventure sport where the participants descend a steep formation using a rope. (not really a sport).
Acroski — athletes on snow skis perform various choreographed routines (once called Ski Ballet)
Adventure Racing — an event combining two or more endurance disciplines, such as Orienteering, Cross-Country Running, Mountain Biking, Paddling and Climbing. It is also called Expedition Racing.
Aerials — a freestyle skiing discipline in which athletes ski along a take-off ramp, then perform various in-air tricks.
Aerobatics — sport aerobatics involves aircraft maneuvers such as rolls, loops, stall turns (hammerheads), and tailslides.
Acrobatic Gymnastics — team of gymnasts work together to perform acrobatic moves in combination with dance moves.
Aerobic Gymnastics — another name for Sport Aerobics .
Aeromodeling — activity using remotely controlled flying model aircraft (not really a sport).
Aggressive Inline Skating — Aggressive inline skating is a form of inline skating executed on specially designed inline skates with the focus on grinding and spins.
Aikido — Shodokan Aikido (also called Sport Aikido) is a style of the martial art Aikido that is used for competitions.
Air Hockey — played on an air-hockey table, participants try to hit a puck elevated on a cushion of air into the opponents goal.
Air Racing — a sport involving flying airplanes over a fixed course low to the ground.
Airsoft — a skirmish sport in which participants eliminate opponents by hitting them with spherical non-metallic pellets from replica firearms. Similar sports are Laser Tag and Paintball .
All-Terrain Boarding — another name for Mountainboarding .
Alpine Skiing — commonly known as Downhill Skiing, involves racing down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. There are alpine skiing competitions in disciplines such as slalom, giant slalom, super giant slalom, and downhill.
Alpinism — the sport of mountain climbing.
American Football — a team sport played on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. Each team attempts to advance an oval ball down the field into the end zone by running or passing it. It is also known in some parts of the world (outside of the US) as Gridiron. In the US it is referred simply as football. Variations include Arena Football , 6-Man Football .
American Handball — players use their hands to hit a small rubber ball against a wall. There are three versions (four-wall handball, three-wall handball and one-wall handball) that can each be played by either two, three or four players. It can be compared to squash without rackets. It is very different from the Olympic sport of (Team) Handball .
Angling — often used to refer to fishing, it is the principal method of sport fishing
Aquabike — a variation of Triathlon , with no running leg. Athletes swim followed by cycling.
Aquajogging — water running competitions, athletes race in water while maintaining an upright position.
Aquathlon (1) — an underwater sport where two competitors wearing masks and fins wrestle underwater in an attempt to remove a ribbon from each other's ankle band. It is also known as Underwater Wrestling.
Aquathlon (2) — a continuous race involving swimming followed by running. It is usually over a shorter distance than the similar Biathle .
Artistic Gymnastics — an Olympic sport where gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, such as the Vault , Floor (men and women), Pommel Horse , Rings , Parallel Bars , High Bar (men), and Uneven Bars , Balance Beam (women).
Artistic Pool — a trick shot competition on a pocket billiards table in which players score points for performing 56 preset shots of varying difficulty.
Artistic Roller Skating — is a sport which consists of a number of events (Figures, Dance, Freestyle and Precision Teams) usually accomplished on quad skates, though sometimes inline skates are used.
Association Football — more commonly known as Football or Soccer. It is the world's most popular sport, played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end. The object is to score by using any part of the body except the arms and hands to get the ball into the opposing goal.
Athletics — commonly known as Track and Field, though it is an umbrella sport, which in addition to Track and Field it also comprises Cross Country Running, Road Running and Racewalking.
Australian Football — a fast paced football code from Australia, played between two teams of eighteen players on a large oval field. Six points are scored by kicking the ball between two tall goal posts, or one point for passing the ball either side of these. Alternative names are Australian Football, Aussie Rules, AFL, Australian Rules Football.
Australian Handball — similar to Squash . though played without a racquet.
Auto Polo — like polo though the players are on automobiles instead of horses.
Auto Race — a Japanese motorcycle speedway competition which is held on tarmac tracks, predominantly a gambling sport.
Auto Racing — a sport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. There are numerous different categories including Formula 1, Touring Car, Rally Cars, Drag Racing, Stock Car Racing, Vintage Racing. Also known as Car Racing, Motor Racing or Automobile Racing.
Autocross — a type of Auto Racing in which drivers navigate one at a time through a defined course on either a sealed or an unsealed surface in the shortest time. See also the motorcycle version Motorcycle Gymkhana .
Autograss — a type of Auto Racing on natural surfaces such as grass or mud, usually held on quarter-mile oval tracks.
Axe Throwing — competitors throw axes at a circular target.
B Sports
Ba Game — a version of Medieval Football played in Scotland, a type of Mob Football where two parts of a town have to get a ball to their respective sides.
Backstroke — a swimming stroke performed on the back with the arms lifted alternately out of the water in a backward circular motion and the legs extended and kicking.
Badminton — an indoor game with rackets in which a shuttlecock is hit back and forth across a net.
Balance Beam — a female Olympic Games gymnastics event on which a gymnast balances on a narrow horizontal bar raised off the floor, while performing exercises.
Balkline — a Carom Billiards discipline. A point is scored each time a player's cue ball makes contact with both object balls on a single stroke. It is played on a pocketless table that is divided by balklines on the cloth marking playing regions. It's precursor was a game called Straight Rail.
Ball Badminton — a racket game native to India, played with a yellow ball made of wool, with similarities to Badminton .
Ball Hockey — a variation of Ice Hockey , a lot like Street Hockey, in which the game is played on foot on a non-ice surface, and a ball is used instead of a hockey puck.
Ballooning — competitive hot air ballooning is a test of accuracy, not speed. The aim is to fly as close as possible to a target and drop a weighted marker.
Bandy — a team sport played on ice using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal, a precursor to ice hockey. A variation is Rink Bandy .
Banger Racing — racing event which is done on a dirt track using scrap cars.
Barefoot Skiing — involves skiing barefoot on water without the use of water skis.
Bare-knuckle boxing — two individuals participate to fight against each other without using boxing gloves or any other type of padding on their hands. Also called Fisticuffs.
Barrel Racing — a rodeo event where participants and horses complete a clover-leaf pattern around barrels.
Baseball — a bat and ball game in which the aim is to hit the ball and score runs by running around four bases.
BASE Jumping — involves parachuting from a structure or cliff, with competitions based on landing accuracy.
Basketball — players attempt to shoot the ball through the hoop on the opponent’s court, moving the ball by throwing and dribbling.
Basque Pelota — a variety of court sports which involves hitting a ball against a wall using the hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket. Other forms include Pala Corta, Rubber-paleta, Paleta-Leather, Xare , Cesta Punta, Frontenis , Hand-Pelota, Valencian Pilota , Valencian Frontó . Jai Alai is a variety of Basque Pelota.
Basse — a bag ball game from Norway in which the ball is kept from landing in the player's area, using any part of the body except the hands.
Bat-and-Trap — an old English bat and ball game, in which a ball is projected into the air out of a trap using a bat, and then hit between posts 21 feet away.
Baton Twirling — a metal rod called a baton, is manipulated, while simultaneously making coordinated dance moves
Bossaball — played on an inflatable court with trampolines on each side of the net
Boßeln — a sport similar to the field style of Klootschieten played in Germany.
Bouldering — a type of sport rock climbing which is done without the use of a harness.
Bowling — a general term of a large range of sports in which the player rolls a ball to knock down objects. The most common variation is Tenpin Bowling .
Bowls — commonly refers to Lawn Bowls . For other types of bowls sports, see Bowling .
Box lacrosse — a version of lacrosse which is played on a smaller indoor arena (box), with six players in each team.
Boxing — a combat sport in which two players throw punches at each other.
Brännboll — a Scandinavian game which has similarities to rounders, but with no pitcher.
Breaststroke — one of the major swimming strokes, performed with the swimmer with his chest forward and facing towards to bottom of the pool.
British Baseball — a bat-and-ball game played in Wales and England similar to rounders.
Broomball — a game like ice hockey played with a broom.
Bull Fighting — involves one or more bulls which are being fought in a bullring.
Bull Riding — a Rodeo Sport , which involves a rider getting on a large bull and attempting to stay mounted while the animal attempts to buck them off.
Bunnock — a kind of skittles game which is played with bones ( commonly known as "Game of Bones")
Butterfly stroke — one of the major swimming stroke styles, swum on the breast, with both arms moving simultaneously, accompanied by a "dolphin kick".
Buzkashi — a Central Asian sport like polo in which riders on horses attempt to drag a goat carcass toward the goal. There is a variant known as kokpar which is quite similar.
C Sports
Caber Toss — a traditional Scottish sport in which the competition revolves around tossing forward a large tapered pole called a caber.
Calcio Fiorentino — an early form of football which was developed in 16th century Italy.
Calisthenics — a competitive team sport in which athletes perform elements of rhythmic gymnastics and ballet.
Calva — a traditional Spanish sport in which you throw a piece of metal to knock down bull's horn shaped piece of wood.
Cycle Polo — see Bicycle Polo .
Cycle Speedway — replicating motor speedway using bicycles.
Cyclo-Cross — a type of bicycle racing, a winter sport performed over various terrain.
Czech Handball — a ball game created in the Czech Republic with similarities with Team Handball .
D Sports
Dancesport — Dancesport is the competitive form of Ballroom and Latin Dancing, in which contestants perform dances before judges.
Danish Longball — a bat and ball game developed in Denmark, like a hybrid of baseball and cricket.
Dartchery — a combination of darts and archery, using bows and arrows typically used for archery, but the target is a dart board.
Darts — a throwing game in which small missiles are thrown at a target, which is called a dartboard.
Daur Hockey - another name for Beikou Tarkbei — a old Chinese sport similar to field hockey .
Deadlifting — a powerlifting event where participants lift a loaded barbell off the ground to the hips, and then lower it back to the ground.
Deaf Basketball — basketball which is played by deaf people. Players use sign language to communicate with each other including the refs.
Decathlon — track and field event comprising 10 events.
Digor — a sport from Bhutan in which a pair of spherical flat stones that are hurled at two targets fixed in the ground at a distance of about 20 meters apart.
Disc Dog — dog frisbee competitions of distance catching and choreographed freestyle catching.
Disc Golf — frisbee golf, the objective is to traverse a course from start to end with the fewest number of throws of the disc.
Disc Sports — various sports or games played using flying discs (frisbees).
Discus — athletes attempt to throw a heavy discus far as they can.
Diving — an aquatic sport where athletes dives into water from a raised launch pad, while performing acrobatic movements.
Dodgeball — teams throw balls at each other while trying to avoid the balls.
Dog Agility — dogs have to navigate through a course that has various types of obstacles under the direction of a handler. (not a sport)
Dog Racing — greyhounds chase a lure around a track.
Dog Sledding — teams of sled dogs pull a sled with the driver.
Dog Sports — general term for sporting activities that involve dogs (which are mostly not even sports).
Downhill Skiing — participants slide down a snow-covered hill using skis with fixed bindings.
Downhill Mountain Biking — biking sport which is held on steep and rough terrain.
Drag boat racing — drag racing which is held on water with boats.
Drag racing — automobiles or motorcycles race down a straight track.
Dragon Boat Racing — a paddling sport using a dragon boat.
Dressage — an equestrian sport in which riders and horses perform from memory a series of predetermined events.
Drone Racing — competitors race with specially built multi-rotor drones around a natural or specifically designed course (not a sport).
Drunken Boxing (or Drunkard's Boxing or Zui Quan). It is a concept in traditional Chinese martial arts.
Duathlon — similar to triathlon, running first, then cycling, then running again.
Duckpin bowling — a type of 10-pin bowling, though with smaller balls.
Dumog — a Filipino style of wrestling while standing upright
E Sports
Eight-Ball — Eight-ball is a cue sport , which is one of the most popular variants of pool, using 15 colored balls numbered from 1 to 15.
Eight-man Football — a mini version of American Football played by high schools with smaller enrollments.
Elephant Polo — a form of Polo, played on the back of Elephants instead of on horseback.
Endurance Racing — a motorsport where teams of two or four race for long distances, that tests their endurance, and also the durability of their vehicles.
Endurance Riding — an equestrian discipline, where riders and horses compete in races over very long distances.
Endurance Running — track and field running races over distances of 3kms and greater.
Enduro — a motorcycle sport with main objective to traverse a series of checkpoints, arriving exactly at a predetermined time. The courses are usually run over thick wooded terrain, sometimes with large obstacles.
Endurocross — hybrid sport combining elements from Supercross, Enduro, and Trials (also called or indoor enduro).
English Billiards — sometimes just called Billiards, requires two cue balls and a red object ball. The game features both cannons (caroms) and the pocketing of balls as objects of play, scoring points for each of these. See Cue Sports .
Equestrian — competitions testing horse riding skills.
Equestrian Vaulting — a gymnastics and dance discipline done on horseback
e-Sports - another name for Gaming .
Eton Fives — a handball sport derived from the English sport Fives
European (Team) Handball — another name for the sport of Handball .
Eventing — riders compete in three types of races, dressage, cross-country and show jumping, in a single competition.
Expedition racing — an endurance event combining two or more disciplines. More commonly called Adventure Racing .
F Sports
Fast Pitch Softball — the competitive form of softball, where the pitcher's arm rotates 360 degrees around the shoulder until the ball is released from the hand.
Fast5 — a variation of netball , formerly known as Fastnet, with only 5 players per team.
Fell Running — running races done off road and mostly uphill.
Fencing — competitors face each other and attempt to touch each other with the tip of a thin sword.
Field Archery — a form of Archery which involves shooting at targets of varying distance, often in rough terrain.
Field Handball — the original version of Handball, played outdoors on a larger field and more players. It is also known as Outdoor Handball or Grass Handball.
Field Hockey — played outdoors on turf, players hit a hard round ball though goals using sticks with curved ends.
Field Lacrosse — a full contact outdoor men's version of lacrosse .
Field Target — an outdoor air gun discipline.
Fierljeppen — contestants using a long pole, vault across a canal. Also called Canal Jumping.
Figure Skating — an artistic ice skating sport where athletes perform routines on an ice rink. Includes the disciplines of Ice Dancing and Synchronized Skating.
Finnish Skittles — opposing players take turns to knockdown their opponent's skittles.
Finswimming — an underwater swimming sport where athletes race against each while wearing breathing apparatus.
Fishing — usually a recreational activity, though when in competition it can be a sport. See Sport Fishing .
Fistball — an outdoor team sport similar to volleyball.
Frescoball (see Matkot ).
Fricket — a ‘two-on-two’ flying disc game. Also known as disc cricket, cups, suzy sticks and crispy wickets.
Frisian Handball — similar to American handball and Fives.
Frontenis — a sport using rackets and a rubber ball on a ‘pelota court’.
Fullbore target rifle — using rifles, shooters hit the paper targets in prone position
Fußball (also spelled Fussball) — this is the German name for (Association) Football, and also the name used for Table Football .
Futsal — a variant of association football played on a smaller field usually indoors.
Fuzzball — a street version of baseball played in some regions of the US.
G Sports
Gaelic Football —a type of football from Ireland with a goal similar to that used in rugby but having a net attached below the crossbar. The object is to kick or punch the round ball into the net (three points) or over the crossbar (one point).
Gaelic Handball — a wall based sport, played in Ireland, similar to squash though the ball is hit with the hand.
Gaming — competitive form of playing computer games (e-sports).
Gateball — a team sport played with a wooden mallet and wooden balls. Each player attempts to strike their allocated ball through all the gates and finally strike the goal pole.
Giant Slalom — downhill skiiers have to navigate through a fixed set of gates, spaced farther apart than in Slalom though not as mauch as in Super-G , therefore medium sized turns.
Gliding — an air sport in which pilots use an unpowered aircraft.
Glima — a wrestling style from Scandinavia, based on a popular sport of the Vikings from over 1200 years ago.
Goalball — a Paralympic sport for blind athletes using a ball with bells.
Go-Karting — a motor-racing sport in which small, open, four-wheeled vehicles called karts (or go-karts) are used for racing.
Golf — players use a club to hit balls into a series of holes on a course, using the fewest number of strokes.
Gorodki — a folk sport from Russia, where competitors strike down a group of cylindrical wooden objects by throwing a bat.
Grass Skiing — involves skiing on grass covered slopes on skis with wheels.
Greco-Roman Wrestling — In this wrestling style, competitors are prohibited from holding any part of the opponent’s body below the waist.
Greyhound Racing - a dog sport also called Dog Racing
Gridiron Football — the term used outside of the US for American Football .
Group Gymnastics — a team sport where a large group of gymnasts perform coordinated continuous movements.
Guts — a disc sport derived from dodgeball, where players try to strike their opponents with a frisbee.
Gymkhana — a multi-game equestrian event which is performed to display the talents of the horses and their riders.
Gymnastics — a range of sports combining tumbling and acrobatic feats, usually done with apparatus. Two main sports: Rhythmic Gymnastics and Artistic Gymnastics .
H Sports
Half-Pipe Skiing — athletes perform tricks while riding on a half-pipe wearing snow skis.
Hammer throw — an Olympic track and field event in which a heavy weight at the end of a wire is thrown for distance.
Handball — a sport usually played indoors between teams of seven players, who pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team. Also known as Team Handball, Olympic Handball, European (Team) handball or Borden Ball. Variations include Beach Handball , Czech Handball and Field Handball .
Hang Gliding — a type of air sport in which the rider flies a non-motorized aircraft which is called a hang glider.
Hardball Squash — like the indoor court sport of squash , but with a much harder ball.
Harness Racing — horses trot or pace while pulling a driver in a sulky.
Headis — combining table tennis and soccer, players use their heads to hit a soccer ball across the table tennis table and net.
Heptathlon — a women's track and field multi-event comprising 7 events.
High Diving — athletes dive into water from considerably large heights.
High Jump — an Olympic Track and Field event in which the participants attempt to jump over the highest bar.
High Power Rifle — shooting competition using rifles such as the service rifle.
Hill Climb — riding on a motorcycle, one competitor at a time attempts to ride up a very steep hill. The rider to reach the top (if anyone makes it) with the shortest elapsed time wins. There is also a car version of this sport, Hillclimbing .
Hillclimbing — car drivers race on an uphill course in a time trial format.
Hitball — an indoor team sport from Italy in which players strike the volleyball sized ball into the opponent’s goal post only using the upper limbs.
Hockey - a large range of indoor and outdoor team sports which involves hitting a ball into a net. See Ice Hockey and Field Hockey .
Horizontal Bar — artistic gymnastics event also known as high bar, where athletes perform aerial stunts on a horizontal bar. Also called the High Bar.
Hornussen — a traditional Swiss sport (farmer's golf), where the hornusser knocks a nut through the air with a long flexible rod.
Horse Polo — the traditional polo sport. Polo is also played on other animals such as Elephants and Yaks.
Horse Racing — equestrian sport which involves jockeys riding horses or being pulled along by horses.
Horse Soccer — a variation of Pushball , a team sport where an inflated ball is driven through a goal while riding a horse.
Horseball — The sport is like a combination of Polo, Rugby and Basketball, played on horseback where a ball is carried and shot through a high net to score. A similar sport is Pato .
Horseshoes — players toss horseshoes at stakes in the ground.
Hot Air Ballooning - see Ballooning .
Hovercraft Racing .
Hunting — an activity which involves tracking and killing animals with various weapons (not a sport?).
Hurdles (Track and Field) — a track and field sport which involves running and jumping over obstacles at speed.
Hurling — a Gaelic outdoor team sport where players to use a wooden stick to hot a ball between the opposing team’s goalposts.
Hydroplane Racing — racing of hydroplanes on oval course mostly on lakes or rivers.
I Sports
Ice Canoeing — a team sport in which a five member crew complete a course, in which riders have to push their canoe on the frozen parts of the river as well as row in the water.
Ice Climbing — athletes climb vertical ice formations with the uses of ropes and other protective gear.
Ice Cross Downhill — an extreme winter racing sport which involves direct racing of multiple skaters on a downhill course.
Ice Dancing — one of the events in Figure Skating , which has its roots in ballroom dancing.
Ice Hockey — a contact sport which is played on ice while wearing skates and using a stick to hit a puck into a goal.
Ice Racing — racing of motorized vehicles on predominantly natural ice surfaces like frozen lakes or rivers.
Ice Speedway — similar to Motorcycle Speedway Racing, though using bikes developed specifically for racing on ice. The bikes race anti-clockwise around oval tracks between 260 and 425 meters in length.
Ice Skating — there are a range of sports that utilize ice skating, such as ice hockey, figure skating and speed skating.
Ice Stock Sport — a winter sport that is similar to curling. Also called Bavarian Curling.
Ice Yachting — sail boats called ice yachts are used to race on frozen lakes and rivers.
Indoor Cricket — a modified version of cricket played indoor with nets for walls.
Indoor Field Hockey — indoor team sport that was derived from field hockey.
Indoor Netball — a variation of netball , played indoors with netting all around the court.
Indoor Soccer — an indoor version of Association Football developed in North America.
Inline Hockey — similar to ice hockey , players move around on an wooden or concrete surface wearing inline skates.
Inline Skating — also known as roller blading, a variety of sports performed while wearing skates with two to five polyurethane wheels arranged in a single line.
Inline Speed Skating — athletes use inline skates to race around tracks.
International Rules Football — invented so that Aussie Rules Football players can play games against Irish Gaelic football players.
Irish Road Bowling — competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads.
Ironman Surflifesaving — combines four major aspects of surflifesaving into a single race: swimming, board paddling, ski paddling, and beach running.
J Sports
Jai Alai — a sport derived from Basque Pelota , usually played indoors. Popular in many Latin American countries.
Javelin — track and field event involving throwing a spear like implement as far as possible.
Jereed — a traditional Turkish team equestrian sport in which the objective is to throw blunt wooden javelins at players of the opposing team.
Jet Ski Racing — a water sport similar to powerboat racing, in which riders use jet skis to compete.
Jetsprint — a high speed boat racing sport in which a team of two riders, race through a course by themselves in a time-trial format (also known as sprint boat racing).
Jeu Provençal — a popular French forms of Boules, where the objective is to throw a set of hollow metal balls as close as possible to a target ball.
Jianzi — a traditional Chinese national sport, where players aim to keep an shuttlecock type object (called a Jianzi) in the air by striking it predominantly with legs, usually with a net between teams. Also called Shuttlecock.
Joggling — running (jogging) races while juggling.
Jokgu — a Korean sport which resembles a mix of football and volleyball.
Jorkyball — a type of indoor soccer on a small rectangular filed surrounded by glass walls.
Judo — the objective is to throw or takedown the opposing player to the ground.
Jugger — a brutal sport inspired by the movie “The Salute of the Jugger”, the objective is for the team to get to the other team’s foam dog skull.
Jujutsu — a Japanese martial art using close combat for defeating an armed and armored opponent, with only a short weapon or none at all.
Jukskei — a folk sport from South Africa where competitors throw wooden pins to try and knock down a target wooden peg.
K Sports
Kayaking — boat races using a small, narrow boat propelled by means of a double-bladed paddle.
Kegel — a German nine-pin bowling game played in Australia.
Kelly Pool — type of pocket billiard game played on a standard pool table, with fifteen numbered markers which player select from.
Kemari — Japanese traditional sport with the aim to keep one ball in the air.
Kendo — a form of Japanese martial art that originated from kenjutsu, using bamboo swords and armour.
Kho Kho — team that takes lesser time to tag all the opponent players wins the game.
Kickball — a type of baseball where the players kick the ball, instead of striking it with a bat.
Kickboxing — a group of stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching. Variations include Pradal Serey (Cambodia), Sanda (China), Savate (France), Sikaran (Philippines).
Kilikiti — a traditional Tuvalu sport similar to cricket.
Kin-Ball — played with three teams and a large inflated ball.
Ki-o-rahi — a traditional New Zealand Maori game played on a circular field.
Kite Fighting — battle to cut the lines on the opponents' kites.
Kite Landboarding — using a kite and wind power to manoeuver a huge skateboard type board over land.
Kite Boarding — a group of sports which use a kite for power and a board for support, such as Kitesurfing , Kite Landboarding , Snowkiting .
Kitesurfing — a board and kite are used on the water utilizing different styles consisting of freeride, speed, down winders and racing.
Kilikiti — a traditional Samoan and Tuvalu sport similar to cricket.
Klootschieten — German sport in which participants throw a ball as far as they can.
Kneeboarding — a waterskiing event where a participant is pulled along while kneeling on a convex board.
Knife Throwing — like archery, the knife is thrown towards a target.
Korfball — a mixed gender ball sport which is similar to netball and basketball, developed in The Netherlands.
Krachtbal — a team sport from Flanders, where points are scored by throwing the ball using a neck or back throw into the opponent’s goal area.
Krolf — a mix of croquet and golf, players use a mallet to hot a ball into hole.
Kronum — a team sport that combines aspects of football, handball, basketball, and rugby into a single sport.
Kubb — a lawn game where the object is to knock over wooden blocks ('kubbs') by throwing wooden batons at them.
Kurash — folk wrestling style from Central Asia in which wrestlers use towels to hold their opponents, and their goal is to throw their opponents off the feet.
L Sports
Lacrosse — a team game, originally played by North American Indians, in which the ball is thrown, caught, and carried with a long-handled stick with a piece of shallow netting at one end. Versions include Field Lacrosse , Box Lacrosse , Women's Lacrosse .
Lagori — from Southern India, this game involves a ball and a pile of flat stones. A member of one team throws a soft ball at a pile of stones to knock them over, then try to restore the pile of stones while the opposing team throws the ball at them (also known as Lingocha).
Land Sailing — racing in a three-wheeled vehicles moving across land powered by wind through the use of a sail. Also known as sand yachting or land yachting.
Land Speed Records — in various vehicle classes, competitors attempt to create the fastest time over a fixed distance. Two runs are required in opposite directions within one hour to set a new mark.
Land Windsurfing — similar to traditional Windsurfing though performed on land rather than water, using a four-wheeled deck to travel across the surface. Also known as "Terrasailing", "street sailing", "land sailing" and "dirt windsurfing".
Lapta – a Russian traditional bat and ball game. The aim of the game is to hit a ball, served by a player of the opposite team, with a bat as far as possible, then run across the field, and if possible back again.
Laser Tag — a skirmish sport in which players attempt to score points by tagging targets, typically with a hand-held infrared-emitting targeting device.
Lawn Bowls — the objective is to roll biased balls so that they stop close to a smaller ball called a "jack" or "kitty".
Lawn Mower Racing — motorsport where participants use race-modified lawn mowers.
Legends Car Racing — a racing sport using identical spec vehicles, with bodyshells made of 5/8-scale replicas of American automobiles from the 1930s and 1940s and powered by a Yamaha motorcycle engines.
Lelo Burti — a Georgian folk sport, a full contact ball game very similar to rugby.
Lethwei — an unarmed Burmese martial art similar to other kickboxing styles from the region.
Letterboxing — an outdoor sport that combines orienteering, art, and puzzle solving. Small weatherproof boxes are hidden in publicly accessible places (like parks) and clues are distributed to finding the box. Similar to GeoCaching.
Log Rolling — two challengers attempt to stay on a floating log the longest.
Long Jump — a track and field event where the participant attempts to jump the longest into a sand pit. See also the similar Triple Jump .
Longboarding — a skateboarding sport in which athletes use a longboard to compete in races.
Longue Paume — an outdoor version of the racket sport, jeu de paume , played without a net.
Luge — a Winter Olympic sport in which competitors race down an ice track in a small one- or two-person sled lying supine (face up) and feet-first.
Lumberjack — competitions involving many different events, including log rolling, chopping, timed hot (power) saw and bucksaw cutting, and pole climbing.
M Sports
Mallakhamba — a traditional Indian sport, where athletes perform various types of gymnastics moves and hold various poses on a vertical wooden pole or a rope.
Marathon — a distance running athletics event over 42.2 km.
Marching Band — a large team of participants play musical instruments as they perform various routines while moving around on an huge outdoor field.
Martial Arts — a tradition of combat practices.
Matkot — a beach paddle sport from Israel which is very similar to beach tennis.
Medieval Football — Alternative names include Folk Football, Mob Football and Shrovetide Football. Versions include Ba game, Caid, Calcio Fiorentino, Camping, Chester-le-Street, Cnapan, Cornish Hurling, Haxey Hood, La Soule, Lelo burti, Mob football, Royal Shrovetide Football, Uppies and Downies.
Metallic Silhouette Shooting — players compete to test their skills by shooting at silhouette metal targets.
Metro Footy — a modified version of Australian football played on rectangular field, predominantly in the USA.
Mind Sports — a family of sports in which the objective is to test mental strength rather than physical strength. Some may be considered actual sports such as speed cubing , while others not (memory, chess).
Minigolf or Miniature Golf — a game utilizing only the putting aspect of Golf, played on short holes on artificial putting surfaces often with obstacles. Officially called minigolf, but also can be called by the name miniature golf, mini-golf, midget golf, goofy golf, shorties, extreme golf, put put, crazy golf, adventure golf, mini-putt and many others.
Mini Rugby — a modified version for Rugby Union , to make the sport suitable to be introduced to children.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) — a full contact individual combat sport which include aspects of several other combat sports and martial arts.
Mob Football — A type of Medieval Football , usually an annual traditional event with a ball, unlimited number of players and very few rules.
Modern Pentathlon — an event in the Olympics that comprises five events: fencing, 200m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a combined event of pistol shooting and 3200m cross country run.
Mogul Skiing — snow skiers compete on a specially designed downhill course, in which the primary focus in on the technique used for turns, aerial maneuvers, and speed.
Mölkky — players use a wooden pin (also called "mölkky") to try to knock over wooden pins.
Mongolian Wrestling — a folk wrestling style from the Mongolian region, in which the aim is to get your opponent to touch his upper body, knee or elbow to the ground.
Moscow Broomball — a variation of Broomball, an ice hockey type sport, played in Moscow and only by non-Russians
Motoball — similar to football, except all players (except goalkeepers) are riding motorcycles, and the ball is much bigger (also called Motorcycle Polo).
Motocross — a form of motorcycle racing held on enclosed off-road circuits which include embankments and jumps. See also Freestyle Motocross .
Motorcycling Road Racing — a motorcycle sport involving racing motorcycles as teams or individuals around a circular track. At the elite level it is in the form of MotoGP racing. Also known as Moto racing and Bike racing.
Motorcycle Gymkhana — a motorcycle time trial sport around cones on a paved area. The winner is the competitor who completes the course in the shortest time. Time penalties are incurred by putting a foot down, hitting a cone, or going outside the designated area. It is similar to car Autocross .
Motorcycle Speedway — a Motorsport in which the motorcycles have one gear and no brakes, and race around a circular track. Also commonly known by just Speedway. Variations includes Ice Speedway.
Motorcycle Trials — a test of skill on a motorcycle whereby the rider attempts to cover rocky terrain without placing a foot on the ground. The winner is the rider with the least penalty points. Known in the US as "Observed Trials".
Motorsports — includes a wide range of sports, each linked with its use of a motor to propel a driver, and all have an element of thrill and danger for the driver and spectator.
Mountain Biking — held on steep and rough terrain, involving jumps, rock gardens, and other obstacles.
Mountain Unicycling — an adventure sport that consists of traversing rough terrain on a unicycle.
Mountainboarding — an action board sport like a snowboard with wheels or a cross-country skateboard. It is also known as Dirtboarding, Offroad Boarding, and All-Terrain Boarding (ATB).
Mountaineering — the sport of mountain climbing
Mounted Orienteering — participants navigate from start to end through control points, usually on horseback.
Muay Thai — a full contact fighting sport in which fighters try to defeat their opponents by using different techniques that make use of fists, elbows, knees, and shins.
Mud Bogging — an off-road motorsport which involves driving a vehicle through a muddy course.
Muggle Quidditch — the playable version of the sport of Quidditch invented for the Harry Potter books.
N Sports
Naginatajutsu — a Japanese martial art of wielding the naginata, a weapon resembling the medieval European glaive.
Netball — a team game with seven players on a side, similar to basketball except that players are restricted to certain sections of the court, and a player receiving the ball must stand still until they have passed it to another player.
Newcomb Ball — an early variation of Volleyball , Teams throw ball back and forth until ball hits floor or is mishandled.
Nine-a-side Footy — a mini version of Australian Rules Football , with 3 players each designated as forwards, centres and backs.
Nine-Ball — a version of Pocket Billiards played with nine balls, numbered 1 through 9. A player who legally pockets the nine-ball is the winner. Most professional tournaments are conducted for the nine-ball format of pool.
Nine-Man Football — a variation of American Football for smaller schools.
Nine Pin Bowling — a variation of bowling with only 9 pins set up in a diamond pattern.
Ninjutsu — The traditional Japanese art of the Ninjas - incorporating stealth, camouflage and sabotage, now practiced as a martial art.
Nordic Combined — a Winter Olympics sport in which athletes compete in a combined event of Cross-Country Skiing and Ski Jumping .
Nordic Skiing — a field of competitive skiing which includes all events where the heel of the boot cannot be fixed to the ski (as opposed to Alpine skiing ). Includes Cross-Country Skiing , Ski Jumping , and Biathlon , Nordic Combined and Telemark Skiing .
Northern Praying Mantis — a style of Chinese martial arts, sometimes called Shandong Praying Mantis.
Novuss — a national sport in Latvia, with similarities to carrom and pocket billiards. Played on a 1 meter square wooden board with pockets in each corner. A small cue stick is used to strike a puck to hit small discs into the pockets.
O Sports
Oztag — a form of Tag Rugby
P Sports
Paddle Tennis — a variation of tennis on a smaller court, lower net, using a solid paddle and ball.
Paddleball (1 wall) — a small rubber ball is hit against single wall with a solid paddle.
Paddleball (4 wall) — like racquetball/squash but played with a solid paddle racket.
Padel — a mix of tennis and squash, played on a much smaller court with walls and a solid paddle racket.
Paintball — a skirmish sport in which players compete to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye propelled from paintball guns.
Palant — a Polish sport lot of similarities to modern baseball played using a wooden stick and a rubber ball.
Paleta Frontón — a wall based racquet sport that originated in Peru.
Pall mall — a lawn game which was played between the 1500's and the 1600's.
Palla — a traditional street game played in villages of Italy.
Pankration (Amateur) — A modern version of the Ancient Olympic sport of Pankration .
Parachuting — also known as skydiving, involving jumping from an aircraft with just a parachute.
Prizefighting — another name for bare knuckle boxing .
Pushball — a team sport played with a large ball in which the objective is to push the ball through the opponent’s goal posts.
Q Sports
Qianball — a racket and ball sport developed in China which can be best described as a mix of aspects from tennis and squash.
Quadrathlon — an endurance sports event composed of the four individual disciplines of swimming, kayaking, cycling and running - also called quadriathlon.
Quidditch — the sport invented for the Harry Potter books has been adapted for the real world. See Muggle Quidditch
Quoits — a traditional target throwing game in which rings are thrown at a target spike, the aim is to get them as close as possible to the target.
R Sports
Racerunning — a track and field racing sport for disabled athletes, in which they use a specially designed tricycle.
Race Walking — competitors attempt to outrace one another without running.
Racketlon — a combination sport, where players compete in the sports of table tennis, tennis, squash, and badminton.
Racquetball — a squash type game involving hitting a hallow rubber ball using a stringed racket.
Racquets / Rackets — a sport similar to squash.
Rafting — the objective is to navigate downstream on river rapids using an inflated raft.
Rallycross — automobile sprint racing held on a closed racing circuit using rally type cars.
Rally Racing (car) - auto racing that mainly happens either on unpaved roads in races against the clock.
Rally Raid — an extended form of rally racing, conducted on an off-road course which spans across one or more countries.
Rally Racing (motorbike) — a navigation event on motorbikes on public roads whereby competitors must visit a number of checkpoints in diverse locations while still obeying road traffic laws.
Real Tennis — the sport from which the modern lawn tennis was derived. It is played in an indoor court of asymmetric dimensions, using rules and scoring similar to those of modern tennis.
Rink Hockey — a roller hockey sport.
Rinkball — very similar to Rink Bandy, though played with ice hockey sticks instead of bandy sticks which are more like those used in field hockey.
Ritinis — a team sport from Lithuania, played on a football field with goal posts with a puck thrown by bat with a handle and curved elongated end.
Road Bicycle Racing — cycle races held on paved roads, usually over several hours or days.
Road Bowling — throw a small ball along a road, to cover a prescribed distance with a set number of throws.
Road Skating — athletes use either inline or roller skates and ride on road courses.
Robot Combat — involves custom built remote control machines fighting each other (not a sport).
Robot Sports — sporting competitions involve robot machines battling other robots, often replicating the rules and equipment of sports (not a sport).
Robot Soccer — autonomous robots compete in football matches (not a sport).
Rock Climbing — competitive rock climbing is called Sport Climbing
Rodeo — a sporting event comprising many different sports, including the following Calf Roping, Breakaway roping, Team roping, Barrel racing , Steer wrestling, Goat tying, Bronc riding, Bull Riding , Steer roping and Pole bending.
Rogaining — involves cross-country navigation over long distances.
Rollball — like handball on roller skates, players must bounce the ball while moving and score goals by shooting the ball into the opposing team's goal.
Roller Derby — two teams compete while skating in the same direction around a track.
Roller Hockey — includes traditional roller hockey (quad hockey or rink hockey played with quad stakes) and inline hockey (played with inline skates).
Roller Skating — there are a range of sports performed while wearing roller skates.
Roller Skiing — races are conducted on tarmac road courses with athletes wearing snow skis with wheels attached.
Roller Soccer — indoor sport, playing soccer while wearing roller skates.
Rope Climbing — competitors climb up a rope using their hands.
Rope Jumping (skipping) — involves a single person or more jumping over a rope that is being swung.
Roping — a rodeo event where calves or cows are caught by throwing around it a rope with a loop as quickly as possible.
Roque — an American variation of croquet played on a hard, smooth surface.
Rounders — played between two teams with a bat and ball, like baseball.
Rowing — a sport in which competitors propel a boat using oars.
Rugby Fives — an indoor court game played with gloves, hitting the ball against the wall.
Rugby League — a rough game involving tackling the players in a bid to get the ball, with each team attempting to carry it over the end line.
Rugby League Nines — like Rugby League, but with nine players.
Rugby Sevens — like Rugby Union except with less players and over shorter time period.
Rugby Tens — also known as ten-a-side and Xs, is a variant of rugby union that originated in Malaysia, and is popular in many Asian countries.
Rugby Union — played on a grass field by two opposing teams with two H-shaped goalposts at opposite ends.
Running — running races can range from short sprints to ultra-marathons
Russian Pyramid — a cue sport played in countries of the former Soviet Union (also known simply as Pyramid(s), Russian billiards or Russian pool)
S Sports
Sailing — a sport that involves moving a boat by using the power of the wind.
Sambo — a martial art developed for Russia's military and police force in the 1930s. The term translates as "self-defense without weapons".
Samoa Rules — a combination of Australian Rules Football and Rugby Union
Speedway - motorsports around an oval track - forms include Motorcycle Speedway , Ice Speedway and Bicycle Speedway .
Spongee — an outdoor non-contact sport played on an ice rink in rubber boots with a sponge puck instead of a hard puck like in ice hockey.
Sport Acrobatics - the previous name for Acrobatic Gymnastics .
Sport Aerobics — the objective is to perform high intensity gymnastic moves in sync with background music. Also called Aerobic Gymnastics.
Sport Climbing — rock climbing competitions, can be Lead Climbing, Speed Climbing or Bouldering .
Sport Diving — aspects of scuba diving are performed in a swimming pool.
Sport Fishing — in competition fishing contestants compete for prizes based on the total length or weight of a fish, usually of a pre-determined species, caught within a specified timeframe.
Sport Kite — using a stunt kite to fly the kite in several patterns in tune with a background music.
Sport Stacking — stack a number of plastic cups in a pre-determined sequence as fast as possible.
Sporting Clays — one of the disciplines of clay pigeon shooting , shooters move about a course, attempting to hit varying targets projected at different angles, speed, elevation, and distances.
Sports Car Racing — a type of auto racing, in which sports cars are used.
Sprint (Athletics) — track and field running events over short distances, such as 100m, 200m, 400m.
Sprint Car Racing — a racing sport which involves direct racing of high powered small cars.
Sprint Football — a USA varsity sport for lightweight players which emphasizes speed and agility.
Squash — a racquet sport played by two or four players in a four-walled court with a small hollow rubber ball.
Squash Tennis — derived from both squash and lawn tennis, played on a squash court with tennis rackets and balls.
Squat — a powerlifting event in which participants attempt to perform a squat with the maximum weight on their shoulders.
Ssireum — a folk wrestling style and traditional national sport of Korea, with the aim to bring any part of the opponent's body above the knee to the ground.
Steeplechase — an athletics distance track running event with barriers and water jumps.
Steeplechase — a horse racing sport in which competitors on horsebacks race on a long distance course that has several types of obstacles.
Stické Tennis — an indoor racquet and ball based sport derived from lawn tennis in the late 19th century, using a smaller court surrounded by 4 walls.
Stock Car Racing — a car racing sport in which production-based cars, called stock cars, are used for racing.
Stoolball — a team sport played on a circular grass field, possibly the precursor to cricket and baseball.
Straight pool — a type of pocket billiards game in which a player is required to call which object ball they are going to pocket and to which pocket.
Street Hockey — a team sport that was derived from Ice Hockey , though it is played on an asphalt or cement surface instead of ice, and players wear inline skates or shoes.
Streetluge — participants race downhill feet first on a sort of modified skateboard.
Strongman — a sport which tests competitors' strength in a variety of different ways.
Sumo Wrestling — two wrestlers within a circular ring try and push the other out.
Super Giant Slalom (better known as Super-G) — an alpine downhill skiing event like giant slalom but the gates to ski through are further apart.
Supercross — an indoor dirt-bike racing sport which evolved from Motocross , using specifically built indoor dirt tracks.
Supermoto — motorcycle riders compete on three different types of courses as part of a single race: a flat track course, a motocross course and a road course.
Surf Kayaking — involves surfing in the ocean using a kayak.
Surfboat Rowing — a team of riders compete using surfboats on a course out and back through the surf.
Surfing — participants stand on a surfboard, and use the waves for propulsion.
Surf Lifesaving — competitions consist of performing various tasks performed by lifeguards in the beach.
Swamp Football — a version of association football played in bogs or swamps.
Sweep Rowing — each rower has just one oar which is maneuvered with both hands to propel the boat.
Swimming — the sport of propelling oneself through water using the limbs.
Synchronized Diving - a diving sport in which two divers perform the exact same dive simultaneously.
Synchronized Skating — a sport of the figure skating discipline in which 8 to 20 skaters perform routines as a team on an ice rink.
Synchronized Swimming — athletes perform synchronized dance routines to music while floating in water.
T Sports
Table Football — also called Fußball or Foosball, tries to replicate the game of Association Football on a table top.
Table Tennis (also called Ping Pong) - a racket sport played with small paddles and a lightweight ball on a rectangular table with a net in the middle.
Taekwondo — a self defense discipline that originated in Korea.
Tag Rugby — a team sport similar to touch rugby in which instead of a tackle a Velcro attached tag if pulled off the ball carrier. Similar in play to Touch Rugby . Also known as Flag Rugby. Played in several forms, such as OzTag and Mini Tag. American flag rugby played in the US K1-9 is a variation of Tag Rugby.
Tamburello — racquet and a ball based sport from Italy.
Target Archery — a popular Archery competition where competitors shoot at stationary circular targets from different distances.
Target Shooting — guns of any type used for aiming at a target.
Tee-Ball — an introductory sport for younger kids to baseball and softball, with the ball hit off a stationary tee.
Tchoukball - an indoor team sport in which the players can score by throwing a ball onto a rebound frame at either end of the court and the ball landing back on the court without being caught.
Team Handball — a commonly used name for the sport of Handball .
Team Penning — the objective for each three-rider team on horseback is to separate three specific cattle from a herd.
Te Ano — the national game of Tuvalu, with similarities to volleyball.
Tejo — a Colombian sport in which metal discs are thrown 20m to a target which explodes when hit.
Telemark Skiing — The bindings for telemark skiing holds the boot by the toes, unlike Alpine Skiing which is fixed-heel. Also known as free hill skiing and telemarking.
Tennikoit — played with a rubber ring, in which the objective is to catch and throw the ring back on to the opponents half of the court. Also called ring tennis or tenniquoits.
Tennis — a court sport where players use a stringed racket to hit a ball to each other over a net.
Tennis Polo — an outdoor team sport, where players attempt to throw a tennis ball through a goal defended by a goal keeper with a tennis racket. Also called Toccer.
Tenpin Bowling — a player rolls a bowling ball on to a wooden or synthetic lane to knock down pins.
Tent Pegging — the objective for a horse rider is to pierce, pick-up and carry a target, with a lance or a sword, as they gallop towards the target.
Test Cricket — the longest form of cricket, played over 5 days.
Tetherball — two players hit a ball attached by a rope to the top of a stationary pole.
Thoroughbred Racing — horse racing sport which involves the racing of thoroughbred horses.
Three-Cushion Billiards — a very challenging cue sport and Carom Billiards discipline, where the aim is to carom the cue ball off both object balls and contact the rail cushions at least three times before the last object ball.
Throwball — a sport very similar to Newcomb Ball (a variation of Volleyball) that is played in India.
Torball — a team sport for the visually impaired with an inflated ball with bells inside. The aim is to throw the ball through the opponent´s goal line.
Toros Coleados — involves chasing down a bull while riding on horseback (also called Bull-Tailing).
Touch Football — A version of American Football, where instead of tackling players to the ground, the person carrying the ball only needs to be touched.
Touch Rugby — a team sport derived from Rugby Football, in which the tackling is replaced with just a touch.
Tower Running — grueling races up tall man made structures. Also known as Stair Climbing.
Track Cycling — bicycle races conducted on velodromes or other specially designed tracks that feature a steep banking.
Track & Field — also known as athletics.
Trampolining — competitors perform acrobatics while jumping on a trampoline.
Trap Shooting — one of the variants of clay pigeon shooting , where 1 or 2 targets are thrown away from a traps situated 15m in front of the shooter.
TREC — a French equestrian sport in which the objective is to test both the horse and the rider in competitions consisting of three separate events.
Tree Climbing — competitions in which competitors climb trees as fast as possible using various techniques based on the daily working conditions of arborists.
Triathle — a shortened version of the Modern Pentathlon, athletes compete in shooting, swimming and running events as a part of a single race.
Triathlon — a race consisting of three events, usually swimming, cycling, and running in consecutive order.
Triple jump — a track and field event where the participant attempts to hop, skip and jump the longest distance. Also called the hop, skip and jump for obvious reasons. Similar to the long jump .
Trugo — Australian sport in which players strike a rubber ring, which is called a whell, with a mallet through goal posts.
Tug of War — two teams pull on opposite ends of a rope
Tumbling — a gymnastics event involving tumbling along a mat performing flips, rolls, jumps, performing somersaults and handsprings.
Twenty20 — a fast-paced limited over cricket match played 20 overs per team. Also known as T20 Cricket.
U Sports
Ulama — a traditional ball sport from Mexico, players keep the ball inbounds by hitting it with their hips or forearms.
Ultimate — played with a disc (frisbee), with points scored by passing the disc to a teammate in the opposing end zone.
Ultralight Aviation — events with of lightweight aircraft which have 1 or 2 seat fixed-wings.
Ultramarathon — very long distance endurance events, ranging from greater than Marathon distance to several days. Ultramarathons can either cover a specified distance, or take place during a specified time frame, with the winner covering the most distance in that time.
Underwater Football — played in a swimming pool with snorkeling equipment, the aim is to manoeuvre a slightly negatively buoyant ball underwater (by carrying and passing) from one side of a pool to the other. Scoring is achieved by placing the ball in the gutter on the side of the pool.
Underwater Hockey — two teams of six push a puck along the bottom of a swimming pool. (also known as 'Octopush' or Water Hockey).
Underwater Ice Hockey — A variation of Ice Hockey played upside-down underneath frozen pools or ponds. Participants wear snorkeling equipment and wet suits and use the underside of the frozen surface as the playing area for a floating puck (also called sub-aqua ice hockey).
Underwater Orienteering — individual and team events in which competitors wearing scuba diving equipment swim an underwater course following a route marked on a map prepared by the competition organizers, using a compass and a counter meter to measure the distance covered.
Underwater Photography — teams of competitors using using scuba gear and using a digital underwater camera dive and photograph the same saltwater ocean sites at the same time over a two-day period, with the submitted digital images assessed to find the winner.
Underwater Rugby — two teams compete for a slightly negatively buoyant ball (filled with saltwater) and score by placing it into the opponents' goal (heavy metal bucket) at the bottom of a swimming pool.
Underwater Target Shooting — competitors free dive in a swimming pool, using spearguns to fire at targets.
Underwater Wrestling — an alternative name for Aquathlon .
Uneven Bars — an artistic gymnastics apparatus used only by female gymnasts comprising a pair of parallel bars set at different heights. (also called or asymmetric bars).
Unicycle Basketball — a version of Basketball with all competitors riding unicycles. The sport uses a regulation basketball on a regular basketball court with the same rules.
Unicycle Handball — competitors ride unicycles and a handball-sized ball, with the aim to throw it into a vertical hoop placed about 6 feet (1.8 m) above the ground.
Unicycle Hockey — a team sport, similar to roller or inline hockey, though all competitors are riding a unicycle and using a tennis ball and ice-hockey sticks.
Unicycling Racing — a competition which involves racing using a unicycle.
Unicycle Trials — a form of unicycling which involves participants riding a unicycle over obstacles without any part of the rider touching the ground.
Unicycling — sports using a single wheel cycle.
Urban Golf — golf played anywhere that there's free space and not too many people about.
V Sports
Vajra-mushti — a form of Indian wrestling in which a knuckleduster-like weapon called the Vajra-mushti is employed.
Va lencian Frontó — modified Valencian Pilota version of the original Basque Pelota game. The players don't stand face-to-face as in the more popular Valencian Pilota but share a common playing area.
Valencian Pilota — is a traditional handball sport played in the Valencian Community of Spain. The ball is usually struck with a bare hand in a game involving two teams made from two up to five players each (depending on the particular version played). Unlike the original Basque Pelota, it is not played against a wall. Instead, teams are placed face to face separated either by a line on the ground or a net. Versions include Valencian Frontó .
Varpa — an old outdoor game dating back to the Viking Age. It is similar to boules but played with a flat and heavy thrower known as "varpa" instead of balls, once made of shaped stones but nowadays aluminium is more popular.
Varzesh-e Bastani — a traditional Iranian martial arts. The sport is practiced in a gymnasium called Zourkhaneh, which is another name by which the sport is known. Also called Varzesh-e Pahlavani
Vault — an artistic gymnastics event for men and women, in which the athlete leaps over a vault or pommel horse, using the hands for pushing off.
Vert Skateboarding — an acrobatic sport in which athletes riding a skateboard perform various tricks while being airborne.
Vert Skating — acrobatic inline or roller skating sport performed on a ramp.
Vigoro — an Australian sport that combines elements of Cricket and Baseball, mainly played by women. Played on a pitch shorter than for cricket, with a bat with a long handle like a paddle.
Vintage Racing — a form of Auto-Racing, with vehicles limited to Vintage types.
Volleyball — a game for two teams of six players, in which a large ball is hit by hand over a high net, the aim being to score points by making the ball reach the ground on the opponent's side of the court. See also Beach Volleyball . Similar sports and variations include Throwball , Newcomb Ball .
Vovinam — a Vietnamese martial art.
Vx — a ball sport from the UK, originally known as Rock-It-Ball. It is played by two teams of five players. The court is roughly the size of a basketball court, with 5 balls in play. Players carry a VstiX for carrying, throwing and catching the ball.
W Sports
Wakeboarding — riding a board and doing tricks on the wake behind a boat.
Walking Football — a version of association football in which players are only allowed to walk during game play, developed for older people to keep fit.
Wallball — a wall based sport similar to squash in which a hi-bounce rubber ball has to be hit onto the wall after a single bounce.
Wallyball — a variation of volleyball, which is played in a racquetball court enclosed with walls on all four sides.
Washer Pitching — a target throwing game similar to horseshoes, in which players as a part of teams take turns to toss washers into a box or hole.
Water Basketball — a mix of basketball and water polo played in a swimming pool with basketball goals.
Water Polo — a team sport played in swimming pools, the aim is to pass the ball over the water and into the goal net.
Water Skiing — riders are pulled along behind a boat skimming atop the water wearing one or two skis.
Water Volleyball — a team sport derived from volleyball in which the games are played in water.
Weightlifting — competitors attempt to lift weights mounted on barbells.
Weight Throw — a family of heavy weight throwing events, in which the objective is to either throw the weight as far as possible or as high as possible.
Western Pleasure — a horse show competition in which horses are evaluated for their manners and composure.
Wheelchair Basketball — basically regular basketball played on a wheelchair.
Wheelchair Curling — a variation of curling in which athletes with a disability affecting their lower limbs use wheelchair to play the sport.
Wheelchair Dancing — all of the participants of a team perform dance routines while riding on a wheelchair.
Wheelchair Fencing — a version of Fencing in which disabled athletes fight with thin swords while sitting in wheelchairs which are tightly fastened to the floor.
Wheelchair Racing — a type of racing in which athletes with physical disabilities compete with the help of a wheelchair.
Wheelchair Rugby — a full contact indoor team sport conducted for players with disabilities.
Wheelchair Rugby League — a version of rugby league football but played using a wheelchair.
Wheelchair Tennis — a version of lawn tennis for those who have lower body disabilities.
Whitewater Slalom — a kayaking and canoeing sport in which athletes use a kayak or canoe to navigate through a course that consist of hanging gates on river rapids.
Wiffleball — a variation of Baseball designed for indoor or outdoor play in confined areas, using a perforated, light-weight, rubbery plastic ball and a long, plastic yellow) bat.
Windsurfing — riding a modified surfboard manoeuvered using a sail on a movable mast.
Wingsuit Flying — a type of skydiving, where a person will fly in the air using a special jumpsuit called the wingsuit.
Winter Guard — an indoor sport of the color guard discipline in which teams perform several routines using supporting equipment to recorded background music.
Winter Triathlon — athletes compete in running, mountain biking and cross-country skiing.
Women's lacrosse — a limited-contact version of lacrosse
Woodball — a sport where a mallet is used to pass a ball through gates. This game can be played in grass, sand or indoor. See also Beach Woodball .
Wood Chopping — participants attempt to cut or saw a log or other types of wood in the quickest time.
Wrestling — a general term for a combat sport between two competitors involving grappling type techniques. Forms include the Olympic styles of Greco-Roman and Freestyle. There are many regional forms of wrestling, too many to mention, but include Sumo , Yağlı Güreş (Turkish oil wrestling). Variations also include Aquathlon (underwater wrestling), Arm Wrestling .
Wushu — a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts.
X Sports
Xare — a racket sport, a form of Basque pelota , where players face each other across a net which is strung across the middle of an indoor court.
Xingyiquan — is one of the major "internal" styles of Chinese martial arts (probably not a sport ).
Y Sports
Yağlı Güreş — Turkish for Oil Wrestling, also called grease wrestling. This form of wrestling , where the wrestlers cover themselves in oil. It is the national sport of Turkey.
Yak Polo — a Mongolian variation of the sport Polo played on yaks instead of on horses.
Yotsudama — a variation of Four-Ball carom billiards played in East Asia.
Yubi Lakpi — a seven-a-side traditional football game with similarities to rugby played in Manipur, India, using a coconut.
Yukigassen — a snowball fighting-competition played between two teams with seven players each, originated in Japan.
Z Sports
Zorb Football — a team sport that was derived from association football (soccer) in which players are encased in an inflated bubble called Zorb.
Zourkhaneh — the Zourkhaneh (house of strength) is the traditional gymnasium where the sport of Varzesh-e Bastani or Pahlavani is practiced. The sport is sometimes known by this name. Alternative spellings are Zurkhaneh, Zorkhana or Zourkhaneh.
Zui Quan — The words mean Drunken Fist in Chinese. Also known as Drunken Boxing or Drunkard's Boxing.
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Francis Wilson was the regular presenter on BBC’s’ Breakfast Time’, now to be found on Sky News Which feature did he present? The Worlds largest Mobile Phone maker, Nokia, is based In which country? Which Birmingham born comedian was born Robert Davies? Who pleaded for a Royal Pardon in 1977, saying that he had done nothing wrong since 1965? The 1993 movie Free Willy was centred around what type of animal? What is sake made from? What does a somnambulist do? According the the Bible how many of each type of animal did Moses take on the Ark? How many dots are there in total on a pair of Dice The Savoy Grill, the Boxwood Café at the Berkeley Hotel and Maze are all restaurants owned by which famous chef? According to the old proverb all roads lead to which capital city? February is the shortest month in the year, but which is the longest? Who did Bill Clinton famously admit to having an affair with during his time as President of the USA? 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Chemically pure gold contains how many carats? What is the tallest and thickest type of grass? What was the surname of the family who employed Julie Andrews' character in 'The Sound Of Music'? Which nation has won the Eurovision Song Contest more than any other? What is the most common gas in the air we breathe? Which three different actors played Batman in the movies between 1989 and 1997? What colour is Bart's skateboard in the introduction? The theme tune to which TV show starts with the line "Stick a pony in me pocket"? Which soap opera is set in the fictional county of Borsetshire? Who did Sue Barker replace as host of the BBC quiz show "A Question Of Sport"? Which "Generation Game" presenter was famous for his catchphrase "Shut That Door"? "No Mean City" by Maggie Bell is the theme tune to which long running Scottish TV detective show? Anthony, Barbara, Dave, Denise, Jim and Norma make up which famous family on British TV? Which part did Deforest Kelley play in the TV series Star Trek? True or False In space it is impossible to cry? Famous sitcom actor Kelsey Grammar provides the voice for for a character in which famous cartoon TV Series The largest ever picnic for a childs toy was held in Dublin in 1995 where 33,573 of the toys were there . What was the toy ? Which American state comes first alphabetically? In Greek legend, what is the name given to the creature that is half man and half bull? Which country has the airline KLM? The sinking of which famous German battleship was portrayed in the title of a 1960 film? What organisation is also known as "La Cosa Nostra"? What was the Titanic’s first port of call after it left Southampton? Which mountain overshadows Fort William in scotland ? What was the name of the 1995 film starring Sandra Bullock as a computer expert whose identity is erased? A penguin called Wheezy was a character in which film ? Who played Vince in the 1980s TV series "Just Good Friends"? In which 1994 film did Whoopi Goldberg provide the voice of a hyena called Shenzi? What is the only venomous snake in Britain? How many pieces are there in a standard set of dominoes? James Earl Ray was responsible for who's death in 1968? In which city in England is the National Railway Museum? In the music world, which group sacked Simon Fuller in 1997? Which Roman God is one of the symbols of St Valentine's Day? What was the challanging method of catching a fly asked of Daniel in the film "The Karate Kid"? Actor Richard Kiel is best known for playing which character in two bond films ? Which is the odd one out, Comet, Dixon, Cupid, Vixen? Which planet in the solar system is named after the Roman messenger to the Gods? What product did Coke invented in 1982? Which Japanese word, also used in the English language, means "empty orchestra"? On which date does Halloween fall? 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Which of "The Simpsons" can play the saxophone? By what name is Cherilyn Sakasian La Pierre better known? Which Eastenders actor has played the policeman Nick Rowan on TV? Which patron saint's day is observed on November 30th? Which "Pop Idol" had a number one hit in 2004 called "All This Time"? From which country does the drink Pernod originate? What is the alcoholic ingredient of Irish coffee? Which TV comedy character had the saying "This time, next year, we'll be millionaires" (character)? What is a more common name for the Aurora Borealis? In which year did Wimpey open the first burger restaurant in Britain? (5 Years either way) Which drink is advertised on TV with the slogan ‘Come out to play’? What mythical creature has the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion? What song marked the chart debut of singer Cyndi Lauper? Which detective from New Mexico who rode a horse in the opening sequences had a boss called Chief Peter B Clifford? the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo sparked the start of which war ? Who plays thief Neil McCauley in the 1995 film "Heat"? Which University in the UK has the largest number of students? With which Christmas film would you associate the character of Jack Skellington? Who commanded the Scottish army at the Battle Of Bannockburn? In April 1980, what was the name of first British TV series to feature a female police detective starring Jill Gascoine as the leading character? Which 1996 film was based on a novel by Jane Austen and featured Gwyneth Paltrow in the leading role? What is the most common street name in Britain? On which BBC TV show did the plasticine character Morph first appear? Nelson Mandela Huey, Dewey and Louie "Sleepless In Seattle" first colour movie M.C. 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Alfred Nobel, the man after whom the Nobel Prizes are named, was originally well known for inventing what? Which famous ship was damaged by fire in May 2007 while undergoing restoration at Greenwich in London? What type of animal lives in a sett? With which comic would you associate Beryl the Peril and Korky the Cat? Which london landmark was sold in 1962 to an American entrepreneur, and moved to Arizona? What product has the slogan "Tell 'em about the honey, Mummy" ? An emerald is normally what colour? What is the name given to a group of witches? Which country's national symbol is a Lotus flower? By what stage name did William Claude Dukenfield achieve fame? During which TV game show were the contestants invited to go "wild in the aisles"? In the 1994 film "The Flintstones", which legendary actress played Fred Flintstone's mother-in-law? In September 2003, Fathers 4 Justice campaigner Jason Hatch caused an embarrassing security breach at Buckingham Palace dressed as who? 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Who played Ororo Munroe, a.k.a. Storm, in the 2000 film X-Men? How are twin sisters Monica and Gabriela Irimia better known in the music world? Alfred Nobel, the man after whom the Nobel Prizes are named, was originally well known for inventing what? Which famous ship was damaged by fire in May 2007 while undergoing restoration at Greenwich in London? What type of animal lives in a sett? With which comic would you associate Beryl the Peril and Korky the Cat? Which london landmark was sold in 1962 to an American entrepreneur, and moved to Arizona? What product has the slogan "Tell 'em about the honey, Mummy" ? An emerald is normally what colour? What is the name given to a group of witches? Which country's national symbol is a Lotus flower? By what stage name did William Claude Dukenfield achieve fame? During which TV game show were the contestants invited to go "wild in the aisles"? In the 1994 film "The Flintstones", which legendary actress played Fred Flintstone's mother-in-law? 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On a standard dart board, what is the lowest number that cannot be scored with a single dart? Who had a top ten hit with “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll" in April 1982? Which three sports make up the triathlon? Which 1973 hit single includes the lyrics "and the man in the back said everyone attack"? What was the name of author A. A. Milne's son, the name of whom he used in his "Winnie The Pooh" books? Christopher Robin Crystal Pyrotechnics Q Viva Las Vegas "Q" and "Z" (both worth 10 points) Orson Welles Wellington Po Halle Berry The Cheeky Girls Dynamite The Cutty Sark Badger The Dandy London Bridge Sugar Puffs Green A coven India W. C. Fields Supermarket Sweep Elizabeth Taylor Batman Jupiter Gary Lineker 400 metres 11 South Park Alien Ireland Queen Victoria Poland Take Hart Florence Nightingale "Ghostbusters" 23 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Running, Cycling and Swimming "Ballroom Blitz" (by Sweet) Christopher Robin Which gift is traditionally given on a 15th wedding anniversary? China, Crystal or Tin? Which "P" is the correct technical term for the art of making and displaying fireworks? Which bird is known worldwide as the symbol of wisdom? The film and book ‘Ring of Bright Water’ told the story of which kind of creature? In which town is Fawlty Towers set? Who is the father of Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie? Which company was founded in Southampton during 1969 by David Quale and Richard Block? Which British ladies tennis player won the French Open in 1976? What is the highest mountain in Africa? In which country is Auschwitz concentration camp? From which country did the Soviet Union withdraw in 1988 ending a 10-year war? Which motorcar shares its name with a Spanish born painter and sculptor? Which Islands did Captain Cook name The Friendly Islands? Chartwell in Kent was the home of which former Prime Minister? Who was the Greek Gladiator who raised an army of his fellow slaves in a revolt against Roman rule in 73 BC and was latter crucified? 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If you were celebrating your China Wedding Aniversary how many years would it be? In the cartoon strip What is Andy Capps wife called In which ocean is 'Easter Island' Mount Olympus is the largest mountain in which country Whose real name is Annie Mae Bullock Which Brighton hotel was bombed during the Conservative Party Conference in 1984? In which country did Victoria Beckham marry David Beckham? What do they call Barney Rubble’s son in The Flintstones? Name the Biblical father of Shem, Ham and Napeth? What bird lays the smallest eggs? Which TV Sports presenter was associated with the catch phrase “Up and Under”? 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