Wiktionary Thumbing may refer to The act of typing Thumbing typing on a small keyboard known as a thumb keyboard solely or primarily using the thumbs. It is primarily used with mobile phones for SMS text messaging, and also with devices such as PDA s with built in keyboards. A finishing technique used in pottery production. The thumb is used as a smoothing tool, repeatedly stroking corners and edges on pots at the leather hard stage, to round areas on the foot and rim. A synonym for hitchhiking . disambig ... more details
Infobox Song Name Thumbing My Way Cover Artist Pearl Jam Album Riot Act album Riot Act Background lightsteelblue Released November 12, 2002 track no Track 7 Recorded February May 2002 at Bad Animals Studio Studio X , Seattle , Washington U.S. state Washington Genre Folk rock Length 4 10 Label Epic Records Epic Producer Adam Kasper , Pearl Jam Writer Eddie Vedder prev I Am Mine prev no Track 6 next You Are next no Track 8 Thumbing My Way is a song by the American rock music rock band Pearl Jam . Written by vocalist Eddie Vedder , Thumbing My Way is the seventh track on the band s seventh studio album, Riot Act album Riot Act 2002 . Origin and recording Thumbing My Way was written by vocalist Eddie Vedder . Drummer Matt Cameron revealed to Vedder that he considers it the nicest chord progression Vedder has come up with. ref Scaggs, Austin. http www.rollingstone.com news qa story 9961927 eddie vedder addicted to rock Eddie Vedder Addicted to Rock . Rolling Stone . April 21, 2006. ref Vedder on the song blockquote Thumbing My Way was written real quick. There s something about writing real quickly that keeps the music in a nice pure state. You don t think of it as homework. You think, Wow ... inciting blockquote Lyrics The lyrics for Thumbing My Way are about a person in turmoil. ref name ... . Epic. ref Reception In its review of Riot Act , The Guardian stated that Thumbing My Way resembles ... forays really work, the band deliver their best one with Thumbing My Way . Through its muted organ ... for Thumbing My Way was directed by James Frost. ref name mills Mills, Fred. http www.seattleweekly.com ... the Evolution . The video was released in late 2002. Live performances Thumbing My Way was first ... , Washington U.S. state Washington at The Showbox. ref https www.pearljam.com song thumbing my way Pearl Jam Songs Thumbing My Way . Pearl Jam pearljam.com . ref Live performances of Thumbing My Way ... at the Garden . References Reflist External links http pearljam.com song thumbing my way Lyrics at pearljam.com ... more details
Infobox Film name On The Wrong Trek image image size caption director Harold Law producer Hal Roach writer narrator starring Charley Chase br Laurel and Hardy music cinematography editing distributor Metro Goldwyn Mayer released 1936 runtime country Film US language English budget preceded by followed by On The Wrong Trek is a 1936 in film 1936 short film starring Charley Chase , directed by Harold Law , produced by Hal Roach and distributed by MGM . It features a cameo appearance by Laurel and Hardy . Plot The plot involves Charley recounting the story of his vacation to his co workers. For his vacation, Charley and his family drive to California ....and it ends up everything but a vacation . Laurel and Hardy cameo At the start of the journey they consider taking on Hitchhiking hitchhikers and see Stan and Oliver on the side of the road thumbing a lift both, however, are thumbing in opposite directions until Hardy notices, slapping Laurel . Oliver is sitting on some luggage and Stan is standing, holding an umbrella . Charley remarks that they look like horse thieves, drives by and scratches the top of his head in the same way that Stan does in all of his films. They appear on screen for 13 seconds. Trivia This film was restored by the Kirchgroup because it features Laurel and Hardy. Cast Charley Chase Rosina Lawrence Bonita Weber Clarence Wilson actor Clarence Wilson Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy See also Laurel and Hardy films Laurel and Hardy Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy External links http www.imdb.com title tt0028059 On The Wrong Trek at the Internet Movie Database Laurel and Hardy DEFAULTSORT On The Wrong Trek Category 1936 films Category 1930s comedy films Category Laurel and Hardy film series Category Black and white films Category American films Category English language films fr En vadrouille it Sulla strada sbagliata ... more details
Orphan date October 2008 The ACME is, since 1999, an online directory for production designer s, art directors, set decorators, Property master prop masters , event planners, artists and creators. The ACME is a Keyword Internet search keyword and category search engine used by entertainment and event designers and suppliers to search for and showcase products, services, and portolios. The founder of The ACME is Libby Woolems, a successful art director who wanted a better way to research, locate and build the myriad of designs for her commercial and entertainment clients. Thumbing through stacks of Yellow Pages in a hot car on a deadline was not a way to get the job done. Keeping The ACME experience simple, easy and relevant is at the core of Woolems s philosophy simple to navigate, easy to search, supplying the most needed information. With close ties to http www.setdecorators.org The Set Decorators Society and http www.artdirectors.org The Art Directors Guild Libby works to maintain the high quality of those listed on the site. Citation needed date August 2009 Clients are approved and recommended all must understand the special rigors and demands of the entertainment business. Today, there are over 3,000 listings of whom to contact and where to find a vast selection of items and Service economics services . With the global nature of the Internet , The ACME receives requests for new listings on a daily basis. External links http www.theacme.com, theacme.pro DEFAULTSORT Acme, The Category Directories ... more details
clawhammer allows the picking of other strings with the thumb, which is also called drop thumbing ... clawhammer and frailing , but they all refer to the same general style of playing. The term double thumbing is sometimes used interchangeably with drop thumbing , though double thumbing refers specifically to striking the fifth string after every beat rather than every other beat, while drop thumbing ... more details
Infobox British television show name Smith & Goody format Comedy picture format 4 3 runtime 30 minutes per episode creator Mel Smith br Bob Goody starring Mel Smith br Bob Goody br Peter Brewis country United Kingdom language English language English channel ITV first aired 23 September 1980 last aired 30 December 1980 num series 1 num episodes 7 producer Thames Television Smith and Goody was a children s sketch show on ITV shown for one series in 1980. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television . It starred, and was written by Mel Smith at the time, part of the Not The Nine O Clock News show on BBC2 and Bob Goody , with music provided by Peter Brewis . As well as being a comedy, the series had tried to advocate literature. It was set in a flat in which books, newspapers and magazines were in abundance and the sketches were designed to encourage young people to enjoy reading. Smith and Goody, one short and the other very tall, made for the stereotypical double act partnership, and had worked together since meeting at drama school, putting together a joint production at the 1977 Edinburgh Festival Fringe . Theme Tune The opening credits began with cartoon renditions of the presenters engaged in a friendly exchange br Mel Whatcha Bob br Bob Whatcha Mel br Mel Whatcha been up to? br Bob Can t you tell? br Bob I ve been taking a look at a book br Bob Thumbing my way through the text br Bob I ve been worming my way through a paperback a day br Bob and I ll tell you all about it if you re in ter es ted br The chorus went something like br Good books, bad books and never been had books br good books, bad books and sad books br There s a book about about a plane that disappeared without a trace, br book about a man who came from outer space br Mel Tell you what, Bob. What s next? External links http www.bbc.co.uk comedy guide articles s smithandgoody 1299002880.shtml Comedy Guide Smith And Goody at bbc.co.uk imdb title 0296422 Smith & Goody Category Children s ITV ... more details
Infobox Album Name Live at the Showbox Type video Artist Pearl Jam Cover PearlJamShowbox.jpg Released May 7, 2003 Recorded December 6, 2002, The Showbox, Seattle , Washington U.S. state Washington Genre Alternative rock Length 123 minutes Language English language English Label Ten Club Producer Reviews Last album Touring Band 2000 br 2001 This album Live at the Showbox br 2003 Next album Live at the Garden br 2003 Live at the Showbox is the third DVD release by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam , the first of a complete show. It was released on May 7, 2003. Overview It was recorded on December 6, 2002 at The Showbox in the band s hometown of Seattle , Washington U.S. state Washington . The show was the second of four warm up gigs for the band s 2003 Riot Act Tour . The DVD is only available through the band s official website. Track listing Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town Off He Goes Thumbing My Way Thin Air Breakerfall Green Disease Corduroy song Corduroy Save You Ghost Cropduster I Am Mine Love Boat Captain Gods Dice 1 2 Full Daughter song Daughter War Edwin Starr song War You Are Rearviewmirror song Rearviewmirror Bu hleaguer Insignificance Better Man Do the Evolution Yellow Ledbetter Soon Forget Don t Believe in Christmas Personnel col begin col 2 Pearl Jam Jeff Ament bass guitar Matt Cameron Drum kit drums Stone Gossard guitar Mike McCready guitar Eddie Vedder Singing vocals , guitar col 2 Additional musicians and production Ed Brooks at RFI CD Mastering Audio mastering mastering Liz Burns, Kevin Shuss filming John Burton recording Brett Eliason Audio mixing recorded music mixing Boom Gaspar Hammond organ Hammond B3 , Rhodes piano Fender Rhodes Steve Gordon filming, film editing editing Brad Klausen design and Page layout layout end External links http pearljam.com music releases dvd live showbox Live at the Showbox information at pearljam.com imdb title id 0384420 ti ... more details
Dablink For other uses, see Steam carousel disambiguation The Steam Carousel is an attraction of the Efteling amusement park in the Netherlands . It is an indoor carousel situated in what is now known as the Carousel Palace in Dutch language Dutch Carrouselpaleis formerly De Efteling Stoomcarrousel Efteling Steam Carousel and originally Janvier s Stoomcaroussel Janvier s Steam Carousel . History double image right Efteling caroussel.jpg 200 Carousstoom2.JPG 200 The Steam Carousel Palace K nig engine The carousel, dating from 1895, was bought by Efteling from Hendrik Janvier, who had toured with it to local funfair s, and has been operating in the park since 11 May 1956. Hendrik Janvier 1868 1932 , considered to be the founding father of the salon carousel, sold the Carousel because of the high costs and declining income. Building the ride up took 4 days and it had to be transported with 25 train carriages and trucks. Rumour has it that Anton Pieck , the most important creative designer of Efteling, pushed for the purchase, because he rode the carousel as a child in Haarlem . There also is a bar area within the salon carousel. The area surrounding these carousels was normally used for entertainment, eating and dancing in past times. In 1956 the carousel was the only attraction in the building, but in 1966 the Water organ Water Organ , in 1971 the Diorama Efteling Diorama and in 1972 the Victorian Theater were also set up in the Carousel Palace. The ride double image right Carousel01.jpg 200 Carousel02.jpg 200 Detail of the Gavioli band organ playing at the centre of the carousel Walkway around the Carousel, with paintings by Andreas Giezen Although the mechanics are still visible, the carousel was only powered by a K nig steam centre engine under license from Savages until the 1970s nowadays it is powered by electricity. The seats of the carousel are in the form of animals, such as 22 H bner horses and 2 Karl M ller carved pigs with clown thumbing his nose at the rid ... more details
For the lobbyist with the same name Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. Infobox MLB player name Tommy Boggs position Pitcher image bats Right throws Right birth date Birth date and age 1955 10 25 birth place Poughkeepsie, New York debutdate July 19 debutyear 1976 debutteam Texas Rangers finaldate May 7 finalyear 1985 finalteam Texas Rangers stat1label Win loss record pitching Win loss record stat1value 20 44 stat2label Earned run average stat2value 4.22 stat3label Strikeout s stat3value 278 teams nowiki nowiki Texas Rangers baseball Texas Rangers 1976 77, 1985 Atlanta Braves 1978 83 Thomas Winton Boggs born October 25, 1955 is a former professional baseball pitcher . Boggs pitched in all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball between 1976 and 1985. Boggs was the 2nd overall pick in the 1974 Major League Baseball Draft , drafted out of Lanier High School Austin, Texas Lanier High School in Austin, Texas by the Texas Rangers baseball Texas Rangers . He started his major league career with the Rangers, and ended it with them as well. In between, he pitched six seasons for the Atlanta Braves . On May 1, 1978, in a game versus the New York Mets, Braves manager Bobby Cox was ejected from a game for the first time in his career. ref Sports Illustrated, Thumbing his Way back home by Thomas Lake, July 26, 2010, p. 49, Published by Time Inc. ref Cox would go on to set the record for most ejections by a manager. Tommy Boggs was the pitcher on the mound at the time of the first ejection. Tommy Boggs was formally introduced as the Concordia University Texas Tornados head baseball coach on May 14, 2009. citation needed date June 2011 Notes reflist Sources Baseballstats br b boggsto01 fangraphs cube brm boggs 001tho Texas Rangers first round draft picks Atlanta Braves Opening Day starting pitchers Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Boggs, Tommy ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American baseball player DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1955 PLACE OF BIRTH Poughkeepsie, New ... more details
Refimprove date March 2012 Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Little Type studio Artist Vic Chesnutt Cover Alt Released 1990 Recorded Genre Folk Rock Length Label Texas Hotel Records Texas Hotel , New West Records New West Producer Michael Stipe Last album This album Little br 1990 Next album West of Rome br 1991 Little is the debut album by Vic Chesnutt , released in 1990. Produced by R.E.M. frontman, Michael Stipe , it was Chesnutt s first solo release. The album was re released on July 5, 2004. Overview Deciding to pursue a solo career after the band, La Di Das , broke up, Chesnutt would play solo at the 40 Watt Club . It was there that R.E.M. frontman, Michael Stipe, first spotted Chesnutt and helped him to produce his first album. It was released on Texas Hotel Records in 1990. Reception The music review online magazine Pitchfork Media gave Little a 8.6 stating blockquote The most elemental of any of Chesnutt s albums, it features just his warbly voice and precarious acoustic guitar, occasionally accompanied by Stipe s keyboard flourishes. As its title suggests, Little is about Chesnutt s Pike County childhood, a theme he would return to repeatedly as if thumbing worn and creased snapshots found at the bottom of a drawer. Rabbit Box begins, While I was still in elementary school I discovered Daddy s tools, following the songwriter as he builds a rabbit box out of scrap lumber, but only catches a cat and a possum. In one sense, his youth represents an uncomplicated time pre crash when all of life s possibilities lay before him, before they were whittled down to the point they are now. ref cite web url http pitchfork.com reviews albums 11701 littlewest of romedrunkis the actor happy title Vic Chesnutt Little West of Rome Drunk Is the Actor Happy? & 124 Album Reviews publisher Pitchfork date 2004 07 20 accessdate 2012 03 24 ref blockquote Track listing All songs written by Vic Chesnutt Isadora Duncan 4 37 Danny Carlisle 2 59 Gepetto &n ... more details
Infobox person honorific prefix name Frank Overton honorific suffix image image size alt caption birth name Frank Emmons Overton birth date Birth date 1918 03 12 birth place Babylon village , New York Babylon, New York , United States USA death date Death date and age 1967 04 24 1918 03 12 death place Pacific Palisades, California , USA death cause Myocardial infarction body discovered April 24,1967 resting place Hollywood Forever Cemetery resting place coordinates Coord LAT LONG display inline monuments residence nationality United States American other names ethnicity citizenship education alma mater occupation Actor years active employer organization agent known for notable works style influences influenced home town Babylon, New York television spouse Olga Knotek 1946 1952 br Phyllis Hill 1962 1967 partner children Jill Overton b.1948 parents relatives awards signature signature alt signature size module module2 module3 module4 module5 module6 website URL www.example.com Frank Emmons Overton March 12, 1918 April 24, 1967 was an United States American actor . Early life Overton was born in Babylon village , New York Babylon, New York . Career Overton appeared in numerous television program s during the early 1950s and through the late 1960s, including The Fugitive TV series in 1963. In his role as General Bogan in the film Fail Safe 1964 film Fail Safe 1964 , Overton appeared in a famous scene where he makes small talk over a secure communications unit with his Soviet counterpart while thumbing through the man s dossier. Overton played Major Stovall in the TV series Twelve O Clock High TV series Twelve O Clock High , and also had a major role in the movie Wild River film Wild River , where he appears as the jilted fiance of Lee Remick. His last TV role was that of Elias Sandoval in Star Trek The Original Series Star Trek s This Side of Paradise TOS episode This Side of Paradise , which originally aired in March 1967 just one month before his sudden death, at age ... more details
Image Prophet of the Jubilee.jpg right thumb 200px First issue of the Prophwyd y Jubili by Dan Jones Mormon Dan Jones . Carmarthenshire, Wales. July, 1846. italic title Prophwyd y Jubili in English, Prophet of the Jubilee also called Seren y Sant or Star of the Saints was a Welsh language monthly periodical of the Church of Christ Latter Day Saints Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints between 1846 and 1848 . It was the first Latter Day Saint periodical that was published in a language other than English language English . History The first edition of Prophwyd y Jubili was printed in Rhydybont, Wales , in July 1846. One edition was published every month until the final issue was published in December 1848. The editor of Prophwyd y Jubili was Dan Jones 1810 1862 Dan Jones , who was Mission president presiding over the Mormon missionary Mormon missionaries in Wales at the time. All but the final two editions of the periodical were printed on the press owned by Jones s non Mormon older brother, the Reverend John Jones. The final two editions were published at Carmarthen on the press owned by John Davis, a young Latter Day Saint bachelor. Prophwyd y Jubili was similar in content to the Millennial Star , the church periodical targeted towards English language English speaking Latter Day Saint s in the British Isles . A substantial amount of material was borrowed from the Millennial Star and translated into Welsh for publication in Prophwyd y Jubili , especially doctrinal writings and letters from church leaders. Other contents were General Conference LDS Church conference reports, progress in baptisms, poetry, accounts of miraculous healings, accounts of persecution and conversion, and an occasional thumbing of the nose at the enemy s lack of success in forestalling the spread of Mormonism in Wales. In almost every issue, there is a defense against an attack on Mormonism that had been printed in one of the other Christian periodicals in Wales. The only fact known a ... more details
File Big Daddy s Logo Black & White.jpg thumb Big Daddy s Big Daddy s Restaurants were a chain of restaurants located in New York , Florida and the Bahamas , local landmarks in Brooklyn and competitor to the better known Nathan s Famous also in Coney Island. Big Daddy s was founded in 1964, and the last location closed circa 1991. History The first Big Daddy s Restaurant opened in 1964, and was located on Coney Island Avenue in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn , NY. It was known to be the only true competitor of Nathan s Famous Hot Dogs. The driving force behind Big Daddy s success was the partnership of Murray L. Handwerker, the nephew of Nathan Handwerker , founder of Nathan s Famous and Robert Big Daddy Napp. In addition to serving hot dogs and crinkle cut French fries, Big Daddy s also served pizza , chow mein on a bun, roasted pork sandwiches, and had a full deli as well as a clam bar. The restaurant was known for its decor of red and white candy stripes and pictures of partner Robert Napp surrounded by the famous celebrities of that era. It was also known for offering kiddie rides in the parking lot to create a Coney Island atmosphere. In the 1968 film Bye Bye Braverman , a scene was shot with actor George Segal in front of Big Daddy s as well as on location throughout the borough of Brooklyn . During the mid 1970s Miami club fighter Jerry Powers whose claim to fame was 44 fights in one year worked at Big Daddy s Restaurant on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach . Drummer Howie Fields, who played with the legendary Harry Chapin had his doubts about the broadway show The Night That Made America Famous until according to his website he remembered late one cold night in December 1974 eating a burger fries coke in a now defunct Brooklyn hot dog place called Big Daddy s on Coney Island Avenue in Sheepshead Bay where he lived , thumbing through the free newspaper Good Times , coming across this tiny blurb, and being thrilled because, up until that moment, there was st ... more details
Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name A Fine Feathered Frenzy series List of Woody Woodpecker theatrical cartoons Woody Woodpecker image FrenzyTITLE54.jpg caption director Don Patterson animator Don Patterson story artist Homer Brightman animator Ray Abrams animator Ray Abrams br Herman Cohen br Don Patterson br Raymond Jacobs br Art Landy voice actor Grace Stafford musician Clarence Wheeler producer Walter Lantz studio Walter Lantz Productions distributor Universal Studios Universal International release date October 25, 1954 United States U.S. color process Technicolor runtime 6 12 movie language English preceded by Real Gone Woody followed by Convict Concerto A Fine Feathered Frenzy is the 57th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on October 25, 1954, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Studios Universal International . Plot Woody drops in at a fancy restaurant, but sorely undertips the waiters. Insulted, they toss him out without a bite to eat. Tired of living without a dollar to his name, Woody starts thumbing through the newspaper, and sees an ad about a wealthy lady seeking matrimony who goes by the name Gorgeous Gal. Desperate but optimistic, Woody calls Gorgeous Gal and hears a sultry voice on the other end of the phone. She tells him that she loves Woodpeckers, he is the only thing on her mind and she invites her dream boy to come over. Ecstatic, he rushes over to the woman s huge mansion to meet her. The spring in his step is all but shattered when he finally gets a good look at her Gorgeous Gal is an overweight, heavily jeweled and overdressed bird who is much older than Woody. Upon hearing the words Hello cutie pie. Your Gorgeous Gal is waiting, Woody s feathers turn white and he passes out. Image FrenzyMADDASH.jpg thumb 250px left Gorgeous Gal tries to seduce Woody Woodpecker in A Fine Feathered Frenzy . Deflated, Woody makes a mad dash for the door, but not aft ... more details
Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name Stage Hoax series List of Woody Woodpecker theatrical cartoons Woody Woodpecker image Stagehoax TITLE.jpg caption director Walter Lantz story artist Walter Lantz animator Ray Abrams animator Ray Abrams br Fred Brunish br Don Patterson animator Don Patterson br Laverne Harding br Paul J. Smith director Paul J. Smith voice actor Grace Stafford br Dallas McKennon Dal McKennon musician Clarence Wheeler producer Walter Lantz studio Walter Lantz Productions distributor Universal Studios Universal International release date April 21, 1952 United States U.S. color process Technicolor runtime 6 39 movie language English preceded by Born to Peck followed by Woodpecker in the Rough Stage Hoax is the 40th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on April 21, 1952, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Studios Universal International . Plot Woody Woodpecker , tired and perspiring, is walking down a dusty road of the old West carrying a heavy suitcase. Hearing a stagecoach approaching, he stands in the road thumbing a ride, but the stage passes him by in a swirl of dust. He opens his suitcase, which contains an assortment of artificial limbs used to display women s stockings, wigs, dresses, etc. Woody transforms himself into a young woman by putting on artificial limbs, a wig and a dress. Wally Walrus, driver of a stagecoach, approaches Woody in the road. Woody coyly lifts his skirt to display the shapely limbs. Wally quickly stops the stage, and Woody enters. Woody, in the coach s dining room, orders a sumptuous meal from Wally, now dresses as a waiter. Woody s wig falls off. Wally realizes his mistake, and he hands Woody a check for 30. Woody and Wally argue over the price, and Wally pulls a lever, which ejects Woody over the stagecoach roof. Woody jumps from the stagecoach and runs away. Woody then drives the stagecoach and meets the real Buzz Buzzard the ... more details
DISPLAYTITLE The Hitch Hiker The Twilight Zone no footnotes date March 2012 Infobox Television episode Title The Hitch Hiker Series The Twilight Zone Image Image The Hitch Hiker.jpg 250px Caption Leonard Strong actor Leonard Strong as the Hitch Hiker Season 1 Episode 16 Airdate January 22, 1960 Production 173 3612 Writer Rod Serling story by Lucille Fletcher , adapted from her The Hitch Hiker radio play radio play Director Alvin Ganzer Guests Inger Stevens Nan Adams br Leonard Strong actor Leonard Strong The Hitch Hiker br Adam Williams actor Adam Williams Sailor br Russ Bender Counterman br Lew Gallo Mechanic br George Mitchell actor George Mitchell Gas Station Man br Eleanor Audley Mrs. Whitney voice Music Stock, featuring Bernard Herrmann s score for the original radio version of The Hitch Hiker Episode list List of Twilight Zone episodes Prev I Shot an Arrow Into the Air Next The Fever The Twilight Zone The Fever The Hitch Hiker is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone 1959 TV series The Twilight Zone . Plot The story begins with Nan Adams, whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a cross country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange looking man hitchhiking . Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him, and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her. She continues to drive, becoming more and more afraid, stopping only when necessary but every time she does, the same hitchhiker is there. When she ends up stranded in New Mexico, she meets a sailor on his way back to San Diego from leave. Eager for protection from the hitchhiker she s been seeing, she offer ... more details
One source date August 2009 Notability date August 2009 This article is about a hypothetical substance. For the musical composition of the same name, see Ylem Stockhausen for the musical album of the same name, see Ylem album . Ylem is a term which was used by George Gamow , Ralph Alpher , and their associates in the late 1940s for a hypothetical original substance or condensed state of matter, which became subatomic particles and chemical element element s as we understand them today. The term ylem was actually coined by Ralph Alpher. ref The Cosmos Voyage Through the Universe series, New York 1988 Time Life Books Page 75 ref In modern understanding, the ylem described as by Gamow was the primordial Plasma physics plasma , formed in baryogenesis , which underwent Big Bang nucleosynthesis and was opaque to radiation. Recombination cosmology Recombination of the charged plasma into neutral atom s made the universe transparent at the age of 380,000 years, and the radiation released is still observable as cosmic microwave background radiation . History It reportedly comes from an obsolete Middle English philosophical word that Gamow s assistant Ralph Alpher came across while thumbing through a dictionary, which means something along the lines of primordial substance from which all matter is formed which in ancient mythology of many different cultures was called the cosmic egg , and derives from the Greek hylem , matter . Restated, the ylem is what Gamow, et al., presumed to exist immediately after the Big Bang. Within the ylem, there were assumed to be a large number of high energy photon s present. Ralph Alpher and Robert Herman made a scientific prediction in 1948 that we should still be able to observe these Red shift red shifted photons today as an ambient cosmic microwave background radiation CMBR pervading all space with a temperature of about five Kelvin ref The Cosmos Voyage Through the Universe series, New York 1988 Time Life Books Page 80 ref when the CMBR wa ... more details
Infobox book image File John Reed Snowball s Chance.jpg 177px image caption name Snowball s Chance author John Reed novelist John Reed illustrator cover artist country United States language English language English genre Parody publisher Roof Books release date 2002 in literature 2002 media type Print Hardcover and Paperback & E book pages c.137 pp May change depending on the publisher and the size of the text isbn Snowball s Chance, is a parody of George Orwell s Animal Farm written by John Reed novelist John Reed , in which Snowball Animal Farm Snowball the pig returns to the Manor Farm after many years absence, to install capitalism which proves to have its own pitfalls. Background Of Snowball s Chance as a follow up to Orwell s work, Reed stated My intention is to blast Orwell, I m really doing my best to annihilate him. ref name nypress http www.nypress.com 15 40 news&columns publishing.cfm New York Press JOHN STRAUSBAUGH Bot generated title ref The title raised the ire of Christopher Hitchens . ref name nypress A New York Times article about a hostile letter sent to the publisher from the Orwell estate, which cited issues of copyright infringement, precipitated a journalistic and online debate about the book at a time when Orwell s legacy was under question, due to a list of crypto Communists he handed over to the British Foreign Office. ref http select.nytimes.com gst abstract.html?res F40711FB3A5D0C768EDDA80994DA404482 A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell New York Times Bot generated title ref Marxists and Orwell admirers also objected to the work. ref http www.telegraph.co.uk opinion main.jhtml?xml opinion 2002 11 27 dl2703.xml Editorial Kill the beavers Telegraph Bot generated title ref Hitchens accused Reed of being a Bin Ladenist. ref http www.portlandtribune.com features story.php?story id 15584 Portland Tribune ref As was reported in Australian paper The Age ref http www.theage.com.au articles 2002 11 27 1038362429902.html The Age r ... more details
Image PinkUmbrella.jpg right thumb 300px Popular Library edition with cover illustration by Rudolph Belarski Frances Crane October 27, 1890, Lawrenceville, Illinois November 6, 1981, Albuquerque, New Mexico was an USA American Mystery fiction mystery author , who introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, The Turquoise Shop 1941 . The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of 26 volumes, each with a color in the title. ref Hubin, Allen J. Crime Fiction, 1749 1980 A Comprehensive Bibliography . New York and London Garland Publishing, 1984. ISBN 08240 9219 8 ref Life and career Crane Married and maiden names nee Kirkwood hailed from a wealthy, well educated family most of her male relatives were doctors, and her aunt Nancy may have earned a master s degree , highly unusual for a woman of that time. Some biographies mistakenly list her birth year as 1896. Her husband was the wealthy advertising executive Ned Crane, and throughout their marriage Frances regularly published articles in The New Yorker , where she became known for her dry, sophisticated sense of humour. She had an extended stay in Germany towards the end of the 1930s, but her Liberalism liberal opinions and outspokenness soon put her at odds with the rising tide of Nazism she was once reprimanded after thumbing her nose at a speech by Hitler being broadcast over loudspeakers, and on another occasion tried convincing the staff at an anti Semitic restaurant that she was Jewish her family were in fact descended from Scotland Scottish Presbyterianism Presbyterians . She was expelled from Germany following the arrest of her Jewish housekeeper and the woman s son, supposedly for crimes against the state , and Frances s subsequent furious articles decrying the Nazi regime. After leaving behind Nazi Germany , having been recently divorced and faced with mounting college bills from her only daughter, Nancy, Frances began formulating detective stories, upon realising that ... more details
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