query: How large is the Kerman province of southeastern Iran?

title: Kerman Province

text: Kerman Province (Persian: استان کرمان, Ostān-e Kermān) is the largest province of the 31 provinces of Iran. Kerman is in the southeast of Iran with its administrative center in the city of Kerman. In 2014 it was placed in Region 5.[3] Mentioned in ancient times as the Achamenid satrapy of Carmania,[4] it is the first-largest province of Iran with an area of 183,285km2 (70,767sqmi), that encompasses nearly 11 percent of the land area of Iran.[5] The population of the province is about 3 million (9th in the country).

title: Kerman Cement Plant

text: Kerman Cement Plant ( – "Kārkhāneh-ye Sīmān-e Kermān") is a village and company town in Ekhtiarabad Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 31, in 10 families.

title: Sonbol, Kerman

text: Sonbol () is a village in Rayen Rural District, Rayen District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.

title: Kavirat Rural District (Kerman Province)

text: Kavirat Rural District () is a rural district ("dehestan") in Chatrud District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 8,737, in 1,988 families. The rural district has 53 villages.

title: Langar, Kerman

text: Langar () is a village in Mahan Rural District, Mahan District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,312, in 575 families.

title: List of cities, towns and villages in Kerman Province

text: A list of cities, towns and villages in Kerman Province of Iran:

title: Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman

text:
Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman (SBUK) is a research institution and university of engineering and science in Iran, offering both undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Located in Kerman province of Iran, the university is among the top ten universities and research institutes in Iran, illustrating its high status in research and education.
The Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman occupies an area of 5 million square meters, making it one of the largest universities in Iran and the region. The university has two major campuses in the city of Kerman and several smaller campuses spread out across the province of Kerman offering degrees in over 100 different specialties leading to B.A., B.Sc., M.A., M.Sc., D.V.M., or Ph.D. degrees. Although there has been some moves by the smaller campuses in the province to become independent universities, there are still strong ties between these newly established universities and The Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman.
The college of art and architecture is Saba Faculty of Art and Architecture, named after Afzalipour's wife.
Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman was appointed as the Center of Excellence (fa:قطب علمی) by Iran's Ministry of Science and Technology ( Higher Education) in the field of Mathematics. In 1980 the Department of Mathematics was awarded the first doctoral degree in mathematics in all of Iran. Moreover, the second and third doctoral candidates in mathematics awarded in the country were also graduates of this department.

title: Kuh-e Shah

text: Kūh-e Shah (; also:"Laleh zar") is a mountain in the central Iranian mountain range in the south east of Iran, Kerman Province. It is located in the Baft county of the Kerman Province of Iran. Elevation of this mountain is 4,402 meters at the peak.

title: Kerman

text: Kerman () (, also Romanized as Kermān, Kermun, and Kirman; also known as Carmania) is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2011 census, its population was 821,374, in 221,389 households, making it the 10th most populous city of Iran.

title: Kuhbonan Mountains

text: Kuhbonan Mountains or Kuhbonan Highlands, (Kuhbonan also pronounced as Kuhbanan), are a group of mountains that are located in the northern part of Kerman Province in Iran. Stretching in a northwest-southeast direction, the mountain range is situated in northwestern, eastern, and southeastern part of the city of Kerman, northeast of the town of Zarand, and southwest of the town of Ravar. With an elevation of 4233 metres, the highest point of the range is Mount Pelvar (Kuh-e Pelvar) or Mount Palvar (Kuh-e Palvar) that is located southeast of the city of Kerman and about 25 kilometres east of the town of Mahan.

title: Nai, Iran

text: Nai (, also Romanized as Nā’ī) is a village in Mahan Rural District, Mahan District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.

title: Tolombeh-ye Iran Nezhad

text: Tolombeh-ye Iran Nezhad (, also Romanized as Tolombeh-ye Īrān Nezhād) is a village in Zangiabad Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.

title: Kerman Ahak

text: Kerman Ahak (, also Romanized as Kermān Āhak) is a village in Zangiabad Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 14, in 5 families.

title: Simak, Iran

text: Simak (, also Romanized as Sīmak) is a village in Derakhtengan Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 19, in 8 families.

title: Sar Dar, Kerman

text: Sar Dar () is a village in Moezziyeh Rural District, Chatrud District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 350, in 72 families.

title: Tolombeh-ye Hay Iran Manesh

text: Tolombeh-ye Hay Iran Manesh (, also Romanized as Tolombeh-ye Hāy Īrān Manesh) is a village in Zangiabad Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 28, in 5 families.

title: Mahan, Iran

text: Mahan (, also Romanized as Māhān or Mâhân; also known as Māhūn) is a city and capital of Mahan District, in Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 16,787, in 4,138 families.

title: Bondar, Kerman

text: Bondar () is a village in Moezziyeh Rural District, Chatrud District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 77, in 23 families.

title: Road 84 (Iran)

text: Road 84 is a road in southeastern Iran. It is the most important transit road in that area of Iran. It connects Pakistan to Kerman and Tehran Road 71.

title: Kerman Province

text: As of 1920, the province was known for the quality of its caraway.[8] Today, Kerman is where a large portion of Iran's auto industry is based. Sirjan, a specially designated economic zone, is considered a passageway for transfer of imported commercial goods from the south (through the Persian Gulf). Arg e Jadid, is another specially designated economic zone of Iran, located in Kerman province.

title: Takab Rural District (Kerman Province)

text: Takab Rural District () is a rural district ("dehestan") in Shahdad District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 4,868 in 1,127 families. The rural district has 35 villages.

title: Tolombeh-ye Iran Manesh

text: Tolombeh-ye Iran Manesh (, also Romanized as Tolombeh-ye Īrān Manesh) is a village in Ekhtiarabad Rural District, in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 34, in 7 families.

title: Kerman (disambiguation)

text: Kerman is the capital city of Kerman Province, Iran.

title: Kerman Seljuk Sultanate

text: The government is the first powerful local government in the Kerman and Makran region, which, in addition to political and security stability, could create economic prosperity in the provinces. It was during this period that the Spice Road burgeoned with the flourishing of the ports of Tiz, Hormuz and Kish, and this state, as the highway of this important economic road, could use tremendous wealth with the conditions it had created. Regarding the scientific and social conditions, at this time, with the efforts of the Shahs such as Mohammad Shah II, the scientific and cultural centers were established in Kerman, and with these actions, Kerman, which was away from the main scientific centers, became the center of science in the southeastern region of Iran's plateau. In addition, Kerman and Makran under ruling of Seljuk, grew in agriculture and Animal husbandry, and Progressed in Commerce and trade which led to improved economic and social conditions.

title: Nask, Kerman

text: Nask () is a village in Keshit Rural District, Golbaf District, Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 304, in 81 families.

title: Baghin, Iran

text: Baghin (, which can be Romanized as Bāghīn; also known as Bagin and Gachin. is a city in the Central District of Kerman County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 7,616, in 1,903 families.

title: Sanat Mes Kerman F.C.

text: The owner of the Mes Kerman FC is , one of the most important company in Iran. The company opened in 1940, and is based close to the city of Kerman, Kerman Province.

title: Kerman

text: It is the largest and most developed city in Kerman Province and the most important city in the southeast of Iran. It is also one of the largest cities of Iran in terms of area. Kerman is famous for its long history and strong cultural heritage . The city is home to many historic mosques and Zoroastrian fire temples. Kerman became the capital city of Iranian dynasties several times during its history. It is located on a large, flat plain, 800 km (500 mi) south-east of Tehran, the capital of Iran.

title: Arslan Shah I

text: Arslan Shah I was Sultan of Kerman (1101–1142), a city in Iran situated at the center of Kerman province. Located in a large and flat plain, this city is placed 1,076 km (669 mi) south of the Iranian capital, Tehran.

title: Kerman County

text: Kerman County () is a county in Kerman Province in Iran. The capital of the county is Kerman. At the 2006 census, the county's population was 654,052, in 166,740 families. The county is subdivided into six districts (bakhsh): the Central District, Mahan District, Shahdad District, Golbaf District, Rayen District, and Chatrud District. The county has thirteen cities: Kerman, Anduhjerd, Baghin, Chatrud, Ekhtiarabad, Golbaf, Jupar, Kazemabad, Mahan, Mohiabad, Rayen, Shahdad, and Zangiabad. It is the biggest county in the province in terms of area.


query: When was Guitar Hero Live first released?

title: Guitar Hero Live

text: Guitar Hero Live is a music video game developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision. It was released for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One in October 2015 and to iOS devices including Apple TV in November 2015. As with previous games in the series, the goal is to use a special guitar controller to match fret patterns displayed on a scrolling note pattern on screen in time with the music.

title: Guitar Hero Smash Hits

text: All 48 tracks in the game are master recordings of songs previously featured in the first five published games of the "Guitar Hero" series: "Guitar Hero", "Guitar Hero II", "", "", and "". "Freya" and "Cult of Personality" are re-recordings performed by The Sword and Living Colour, respectively, while two other songs are taken from live concert recordings; all other songs are based on original studio recordings. Although the game supports user-created songs through the "GHTunes" service (common to "Guitar Hero World Tour" and "Guitar Hero: Metallica"), other existing downloadable content does not work with "Smash Hits". Songs in either the Career single player or band mode are arranged in tiers roughly in order of difficulty for the particular instrument, with different orders for each of the five Career paths. However, all songs are playable from the game's "Quickplay" mode without completing any Career goals. Twenty-one of the songs were exportable to both "Guitar Hero 5" and "Band Hero" for a small fee, with music licensing limiting which songs could be exported. The songs included in the game are as follows.

title: Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s

text: After the successful release of "Guitar Hero II", RedOctane announced they were looking into genre-specific expansions to the series. "Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s" is the first of these genre-specific titles; "", "", "" and "Guitar Hero Smash Hits" have since been released.

title: Guitar Hero: On Tour series

text: "Guitar Hero: On Tour" was officially announced on September 7, 2007, at the Austin GDC '07, and released on June 22, 2008. During a conference call on May 8, 2008, Activision revealed that the game would be sold as an individual game (along with the "Guitar Grip") as well as bundled with the DS hardware itself. In North America, Nintendo released a bundle which included "Guitar Hero: On Tour" and a limited edition Silver/Black Nintendo DS Lite branded with the "Guitar Hero" logo. This bundle was available with the release of "Guitar Hero: On Tour" in the United Kingdom. This is the first third-party DS game to be included in such a bundle. When pre-ordered in certain stores, the consumer received either a special Guitar Hero: On Tour set of headphones, Nintendo DS Lite "wrap" pack (two stickers for use on the console) or an exclusive guitar pick stylus. The headphones and stylus feature the Guitar Hero: On Tour logo. On June 14, Toys "R" Us stores across the US hosted a "First to Play" event, where players tried out the game more than a week before its release. Also at the event, anyone who attended received a free Guitar Hero sticker, a temporary tattoo, and a special dog tag.

title: Ubisoft Leamington

text: The first game the company developed under Activision's ownership was "DJ Hero" (2009), a spin-off of the "Guitar Hero" series, in which players used a turntable-based controller to mimic the actions of a disc jockey across numerous songs. The title was considered successful, and they completed "DJ Hero 2" the following year, though around that time, the rhythm game genre was suffering from a glut of releases and was in decline, and Activision had decided to end further production of any "Guitar Hero" title. The company had to lay off some employees during this time, but still were financially viable with success of "Sing Party" (2012). As "Sing Party"s development was wrapping up, Activision approached FreeStyleGames to have them consider how to reboot the "Guitar Hero" franchise. FreeStyleGames developed a new guitar controller atypical of ones that has been created to that point, and crafted a different approach towards presenting the game to players through a first-person perspective full-motion video. This work culminated in "Guitar Hero Live" (2015), the first new "Guitar Hero" title for the eighth generation of video game consoles.

title: Guitar Hero

text: "Guitar Hero Smash Hits" (titled "Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits" in Europe and Australia) was released in June 2009. It features full-band versions of 48 songs from earlier "Guitar Hero" games that only used the guitar controller. Unlike the previous versions, each of the songs is based on a master recording that includes some live tracks. The game follows a similar model as "Guitar Hero: Metallica", and was developed by Neversoft and Beenox Studios for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and Wii.

title: Guitar Hero

text: In 2015, Activision announced the first new title to the series in 5 years, "Guitar Hero Live", released in October 2015. The title is considered a reboot of the series, with development being performed by FreeStyleGames, who had developed the "DJ Hero" games previously. As of December 1, 2018, Activision disabled the GHTV servers for Guitar Hero Live, reducing playable content from approximately 500 songs to 42 on disc tracks.

title: Guitar Hero

text:
"Guitar Hero III Mobile" was released for mobile phones in 2007 and 2008, and was developed by MachineWorks Northwest LLC. The base version of the game includes 15 songs from both "Guitar Hero II" and "Guitar Hero III", and has released a three-song add-on pack every month since January 2008. The title has been downloaded by users one million times, with both Verizon and Hands-On Mobile claiming that over 250,000 songs are played a day on the platform.
The two companies produced two other mobile-based "Guitar Hero" games; "Guitar Hero III: Backstage Pass", released in July 2008, adds role-playing elements to manage the band's success in addition to the core rhythm game, while the mobile version of "Guitar Hero World Tour", released in December 2008, expands each included track for play on both lead guitar and drums, mimicking the expansion of the console series to the full band.

title: Guitar Hero II

text: Guitar Hero II is a music rhythm game developed by Harmonix, published by Activision and distributed by RedOctane. It is the second installment in the "Guitar Hero" series and is the sequel to "Guitar Hero". It was first released for the PlayStation 2 in November 2006, and then for the Xbox 360 in April 2007, with additional content not originally in the PlayStation 2 version.

title: List of songs in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

text: "" is the sixth main game in the "Guitar Hero" series, released by Activision to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii consoles in September 2010. The game was developed by Activision's subsidiary studios RedOctane, Neversoft, and Vicarious Visions; the latter provided support for additional features in the Wii version of the game. Following a decline in sales of music games in 2009, partially due to the large number of music games released that year, Activision scaled back their efforts in the "Guitar Hero" series. "Warriors of Rock" represents the final game developed by RedOctane and Neversoft. Both studios' respective "Guitar Hero" divisions were closed once the game was complete, with key personnel brought into Activision directly for future games. It was initially announced that Vicarious Visions would take over future game development of the "Guitar Hero" series, however due to declining music game sales, all further development of the "Guitar Hero" series was cancelled, until 2015 when "Guitar Hero Live" was released.

title: Guitar Hero Live

text: In the game's primary single-player mode, titled GH Live within the game, the player completes songs while experiencing full-motion video taken from the first-person perspective of a band's lead guitarist. The video includes shots of the audience and the band members. As the player performs the songs, the audience responds positively to good performances when few mistakes are made. If the player makes several mistakes in a row, the audience will become critical and start to jeer at the performer.[15] To win back the crowd, the player can either match more notes correctly, or can use collected Hero Power to rapidly regain their interest. Hero Power, replacing Star Power from previous Guitar Hero games, is collected by correctly playing marked series of notes on the track; Hero Power can be accumulated, marked as on-screen guitar picks next to the track, to be used at later times. The player can release Hero Power for a limited time by either tilting the guitar controller upward or hitting a special button on the controller.[16]

title: Guitar Hero

text: In 2007, Harmonix and MTV Games released a new music title through rival publisher Electronic Arts, called "Rock Band". It expanded upon the gameplay popularized by the "Guitar Hero" series by adding drum and microphone instruments, allowing players to simulate playing songs as bands. Activision followed suit with the release of "Guitar Hero World Tour" in 2008, which supported multiple instruments. In 2009, Activision tripled its "Guitar Hero" offerings, and in addition to further continuation of the existing main series with "Guitar Hero 5" and expansions, they introduced the titles "Band Hero", geared towards more family-friendly pop music, and "DJ Hero", a game based on turntablism and featuring a number of mixes. With the release of "Guitar Hero 5", Activision considered the series to have moved away from its heavy metal basis into a broader selection of music. "Guitar Hero 5" is the first game in the series to use a new version of the series' logo; previous games used a logo in a font with sharper "points" on the letters, which was considered "idiosyncratic with a vengeance" to match the games' emphasis on heavy metal music. Activision used the services of the Pentagram design studio to refashion the game's logo. Pentagram developed a new font, removing some of the "aggressive odd" features to make the typeface more suitable and amendable to design feature incorporation to other games such as "Band Hero" and "DJ Hero".

title: Guitar Hero Live

text: On 14 April 2015, Hirshberg and Jackson invited Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance to promote the game. Wentz performed his band's song "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark" in the Guitar Hero Live mode, while Way and Jackson dueled each other on My Chemical Romance's song "Na Na Na".[55] A commercial for the game was revealed in October 2015, starring Lenny Kravitz and James Franco.[56] In conjunction with Activision, The CW ran special promotional ads for Guitar Hero Live, featuring the actors David Ramsey and Candice Patton playing the game in the week prior to the game's release.[57] Activision arranged to have rapper Macklemore play Guitar Hero Live with FreeStyleGames' Jamie Jackson during the halftime show of the Seattle Seahawks home game on the Sunday prior to the release of the game.[58]

title: Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s

text: "Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s" was initially announced by EGM in January 2007 as "Guitar Hero: 1980s Edition". Orange Lounge Radio claimed that the game would be released in June 2007, based on an Activision announcement, though no other source has cited this announcement. Activision officially revealed the first details of the game May 11, 2007, in addition to changing the game's title to "Guitar Hero: Rocks the 80s". Only a few weeks later, the game name was revised again as "Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s", as official artwork for the game was first released. Nevertheless, the word 'Encore' has been dropped from the title of the European releases.

title: Cultural impact of the Guitar Hero series

text: "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" have been considered a boon to the music industry in a manner similar to music videos in the 1980s. Both licensed and indie bands whose works have been included in the "Guitar Hero" games have gained further popularity from this inclusion. Both record companies and retailers have experienced increases of 200% to 300% in sales of songs after their inclusion in the series. Every "Guitar Hero III" song tracked by Nielsen SoundScan (62 of 70) saw an increase in digital download sales the week ending December 30, 2007, when many who got the game as a gift were playing it, and every song included in "Guitar Hero III" and "Rock Band" saw downloaded sales increase during 2007 between 15% to 843%. A survey conducted by Brown Universitys Kiri Miller found that 76% of the players of "Guitar Hero" bought the music they heard in the game. Indie group Bang Camaro's recognition increased after their song "Push Push (Lady Lightning)" appeared in "Guitar Hero II". The band DragonForce, whose song "Through the Fire and Flames" is featured as a bonus song in "", saw a 126% increase in CD sales in the week after the release of the game, and downloads of the song, selling fewer than 2,000 weekly, rose to more than 10,000 after "Guitar Hero III"'s release and approached 40,000 the week ending 2007-12-30. Even older, established groups such as Aerosmith saw an increase in sales at the same time "Guitar Hero" games containing their songs were released, such as a modest increase in download sales for its "Same Old Song and Dance", which rose to 2,041 from 374 copies the previous week; a 40% increase in the band's catalog was seen in the weeks following the release of "Guitar Hero: Aerosmith". According to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, "Guitar Hero: Aerosmith" has made more money for Aerosmith than any of their previous albums. Both "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" are seen as new methods of music distribution; an analysis for market research company NPD Group states that "As the video games industry grows, it's becoming an ever-more attractive promotional outlet for all kinds of industries." The games have also been seen as a way to introduce younger generations to music of the past; bands such as Living Colour, Warrant, The Grateful Dead, Poison, and Ratt have seen interest in their music rise due to the inclusion of their songs in the "Guitar Hero" or "Rock Band", as well as other music video games. Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, attributes surges in attendance to the museum in 2008-2009, particularly in families with young children, in part to the success of "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band". The popularity of downloadable content for music games has led the UK Official Download Chart to consider including these sales in their compilation of sales performance data.

title: Guitar Hero Smash Hits

text: Guitar Hero Smash Hits (titled Guitar Hero Greatest Hits in Europe and Australia) is a music rhythm game and the fourth expansion game to the "Guitar Hero" series. The game features 48 songs originally featured in five previous games in the series—"Guitar Hero", "Guitar Hero II", "", "" and ""—redesigning the songs to be based on master recordings and to include support for full band play first introduced to the series in "Guitar Hero World Tour". The game was developed by Beenox, published by Activision and distributed by RedOctane for release on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 systems and was released around the world in the second half of June 2009.

title: Guitar Hero

text: Sony's PlayStation 3 console has no compatibility with the PlayStation 2 "Guitar Hero" controller on the system. While "Guitar Hero" and "Guitar Hero II" are fully backward-compatible through the hardware PlayStation 2 emulation in the initial North American release of the console, it was impossible at launch to use the guitar controller to play either game. Kai Huang, of RedOctane, states that they are "working on that with Sony right now – looking at how we can get all the PlayStation 2 guitars that are out there, and all the owners of them, to use them on the PlayStation 3." Nyko, an accessories company, was poised to make a special PlayStation 2 controller adapter for the PlayStation 3, but put the product on hold due to technical difficulties. Tac, another accessories company, also made a PlayStation 2 controller adapter for a PlayStation 3 game console so players could use their "Guitar Hero" guitar controllers that were made for the PlayStation 2 with a PlayStation 3. However, the May 2007 PlayStation 3 V1.80 system update has made the guitar controller compatible with generic PlayStation 2 controller to USB adapters when playing "Guitar Hero" and "Guitar Hero II". In addition, Pelican Accessories has released a special controller adapter that supports both games, including the ability to switch the handedness of the guitar.

title: Guitar Hero

text:
"" was released in late 2007 for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X platforms. The title is the first installment of the series to include wireless guitars bundled with the game and also the first to release a special bundle with two guitars. The game includes Slash and Tom Morello as playable characters in addition to the existing fictional avatars; both guitarists performed motion capture to be used for their characters' animation in the game.
"Guitar Hero World Tour", previously named "Guitar Hero IV", is the fourth full game in the series and was released on October 26, 2008 for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii. Analysts had expected that future "Guitar Hero" games in 2008 would include additional instrument peripherals to compete against "Rock Band"; "Guitar Hero World Tour" was confirmed as in development following the announcement of the merger between Activision and Vivendi Games in December 2007. Activision's CEO Bobby Kotick announced on April 21, 2008 that "Guitar Hero World Tour" will branch out into other instruments including vocals. "Guitar Hero World Tour" includes drums and vocals, and can be bought packaged with a new drum set controller, a microphone, and the standard guitar controller. A larger number of real-world musicians appear as playable characters, including Jimi Hendrix, Billy Corgan, Hayley Williams, Zakk Wylde, Ted Nugent, Travis Barker, Sting, and Ozzy Osbourne. "Guitar Hero World Tour" also features custom song creation that can be shared with others.

title: Guitar Hero

text: In April 2015, Activision announced a new entry in the series, titled "Guitar Hero Live". The title was developed by Activision's internal studio FreeStyleGames, who previously had worked on the "DJ Hero" spinoff titles. FreeStyleGames were given free rein to reboot the "Guitar Hero" series for next-generation consoles. One of their first innovations was to drop the standard five-button guitar controller, ultimately designing a six-button guitar controller, with two rows of three buttons each, allowing them to mimic actual guitar fingering. "Guitar Hero Live" was released with both a career and an online mode. The career mode used full-motion video taken from the perspective of a lead guitarist underneath the note highway, to create an immersive experience to the player. The online mode, called "GHTV", discarded the previous downloadable content approach and used a music video channel approach to stream playable songs to players, adding new songs to the catalog on a weekly basis. The game was released in October 2015.

title: List of songs in Guitar Hero 5

text: "Guitar Hero 5" supports downloadable content; the first songs were made available shortly after the game's release. In addition, 152 of the 158 available downloadable songs for "Guitar Hero World Tour" are forward-compatible with "Guitar Hero 5" and "Band Hero"; the existing content is automatically upgraded to include all features new to these games and was immediately available to players upon release of "Guitar Hero 5". Downloaded songs can be used in all game modes, provided all players have the song, including in the game's Career mode when players are given the option to select any song to play. The entire Guitar Hero 5 DLC library is also available in Band Hero, and vice versa, so both games embrace the same DLC library.

title: Guitar Hero 5

text: For the month of September 2009, players in the US that purchase "Guitar Hero 5" would be able to redeem a code with the game to receive a free copy of "" prior to its retail release with the packaging's offer sticker (printable if lost), a copy of the receipt and a barcode received upon registration. Also in the UK, when pre-ordering "Guitar Hero 5" on various websites you would receive a free copy of "Guitar Hero World Tour" when requested.

title: List of songs in Guitar Hero Live

text: "Guitar Hero Live" is a 2015 music video game that's developed by FreeStyleGames and published by Activision. It is the first title in the "Guitar Hero" series since it went on hiatus after 2011, and the first game in the series available for 8th generation video game consoles (PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One). The game was released worldwide on 20 October 2015 for these systems as well as the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and iOS devices including the Apple TV.

title: Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

text: Sales of "Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock" were weaker than those of "Guitar Hero 5", with combined sales of the game and "DJ Hero 2" through the end of 2010 being 63% lower than the sales of "Guitar Hero 5", "DJ Hero" and "Band Hero" through the end of 2009. Initial shipments of "Warriors of Rock" were also bundled with a copy of Soundgarden's compilation album "Telephantasm"; based on its distribution with copies of the game, "Telephantasm" became the first album to receive a Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America based on distribution alongside a video game. As a result of the underwhelming sales, also credited to the oversaturation of the music game market, the "Guitar Hero" franchise was ultimately shuttered until the 2015 unveiling of a reboot, "Guitar Hero Live".

title: Cochise (song)

text: The song was later featured on a number of external media releases, including as a playable track on the 2005 music video game "Guitar Hero", on the 2006 comedy film "", as a playable track on the Guitar Hero TV mode of 2015 music video game "Guitar Hero Live", and in the trailer for 2015 wrestling video game "WWE 2K16".

title: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

text: The game also supports downloadable tracks for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions; several free and for-cost downloadable songs and song packs are available on both the Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store. In July 2008, Activision announced that it would release downloadable content for the Wii in the first quarter of 2008, but eventually was unable to do so because of limitations with the Wii's internal memory storage, an issue that was overcome in the sequel, "Guitar Hero World Tour". When rock band Metallica released their album "Death Magnetic" on September 12, 2008, it was also made available as a downloadable song pack for "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock", "Guitar Hero World Tour" and the 2009 spin-off "Guitar Hero Metallica". In addition, the compact disc soundtrack for the game offers a code used to redeem three exclusive playable tracks on the Xbox Live Marketplace.

title: Guitar Hero Live

text: In an earnings report shortly following the game's release, Activision stated that Guitar Hero Live was outselling their previous two Guitar Hero games, Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock and Guitar Hero 5, though did not report exact sales numbers.[71] In their quarterly earnings results presented in February 2016, Activision reported that sales for Guitar Hero Live missed their expectations,[72] and in March 2016, announced that they had to let go of about 50 of FreeStyleGames' employees, though the studio still remains open to continue additional work for Activision.[73] Prior to the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016, Activision stated they will continue to produce content for Guitar Hero Live but have no present plans for another game.[74]

title: Guitar Hero Live

text: Guitar Hero Live was released to generally positive reception, with critics praising the new controller design for providing trickier and more realistic gameplay in comparison to previous Guitar Hero games, as well as the wider variety of content available via the GHTV mode. The main Live portion of the game received mixed reviews, with critics panning its weak soundtrack, lack of multiplayer, and describing the live action footage as being self-aware, exaggerated, and "campy". The GHTV mode also received mixed reception for its reliance on microtransactions, and the inability to permanently purchase songs to own.

text:
The series has created a market for products outside of the video games. McFarlane Toys has developed a series of six-inch-tall figurines based on the characters from the game. Brett Ratner, director for "Rush Hour" and "", has stated that he wishes to bring a movie based on "Guitar Hero" to theaters. However, Activision, the publisher of the series, did not approve the idea of a film adaptation.
The popularity of the "Guitar Hero" series has led to the development of several commercial and independent clones. Besides Harmonix' "Rock Band" series, Konami released "Rock Revolution" in 2008 which features drums and guitar (the game does not include vocals) similar to "Guitar Hero World Tour". "PopStar Guitar" for the PlayStation 2 and Wii systems, developed by XS Games, features gameplay similar to the "Guitar Hero" series, but features pop music, as opposed to rock and metal. Digital Praise released a Christian rock-themed guitar-based game called "Guitar Praise" also in 2008. "Guitar Rising", to be published for personal computers by Game Tank by 2009, is based on using a real guitar in order to perfect one's skills. "" is a game promoted by "Rolling Stone" for the Wii that uses two Wii remotes as virtual drumsticks. "Frets on Fire" is an open-source clone of "Guitar Hero" for personal computers that features freely available independent songs and allows users to create their own note tracks. Other games based on Guitar Hero include "Battle of the Bands" and "Ultimate Band". "Guitar Hero" has also influenced other games outside of the music game genre. Tim Schafer credits Harmonix and the first "Guitar Hero" game to help establish his pitching of his heavy metal-inspired game, "Brütal Legend", due to the increase in popularity of metal music from the success of "Guitar Hero". Guitar controllers have been repurposed as controls for an independently developed platform game, "Fret Nice". "Rock of the Dead" for the Wii is based on combining the aspects of "The Typing of the Dead" with using a "Guitar Hero" guitar controller to fend off zombies. A PlayStation Home themed space based on "Guitar Hero", called "Guitar Hero: Backstage", was released on March 26, 2009 in North Americas version, and includes a "Simon says"-like minigame called "Guitar Hero-Master of Rock", themed objects, and videos for the user.

title: Make Yourself

text: The song "Stellar" is featured in the video game "Guitar Hero". It also was included as a part of a 3-song pack via Xbox Live for the Xbox 360 version of "Guitar Hero II" on April 11, 2007. The song is also again featured in "Guitar Hero Smash Hits". The song "Drive" was released as downloadable content for "Guitar Hero World Tour", as being released as a part of the Acoustic Pack. The song "Privilege" is featured in the video game "" for the PlayStation.

title: Guitar Hero II

text: RedOctane stated that the Xbox 360 version of "Guitar Hero II" "planned to feature more downloadable content than any other 360 title" utilizing the Xbox Live Marketplace, including many of the songs from the original "Guitar Hero" a week after the release of the game. Four such packs have been released since April 11, 2007. Additionally, two packs featuring new content to the "Guitar Hero" series have also been released, including songs from My Chemical Romance, Protest the Hero, Trivium, and Atreyu. There have also been individual track downloads featuring songs from bands Los Rodríguez, Pleymo, and Soilwork.

title: List of songs in Guitar Hero II

text: The Xbox 360 version of the game allows for the use of downloadable content available through Xbox Live Marketplace. These are typically released as packs of three, or as single song. These packs include songs from the original "Guitar Hero" for the PlayStation 2. Additional packs consist of songs that have not been featured in "Guitar Hero" before, and are masters, even though some are indicated as covers in the game. As of March 31, 2014, these songs are no longer available in the Xbox Live Marketplace.


query: When were bluebonnets named the state flower of Texas?

title: Bluebonnet (plant)

text: On March 7, 1901, Lupinus subcarnosus became the only species of bluebonnet recognized as the state flower of Texas;[2] however, Lupinus texensis emerged as the favorite of most Texans. So, in 1971, the Texas Legislature made any similar species of Lupinus that could be found in Texas the state flower.[3][4]

title: The Grove, Texas

text: The Grove is an unincorporated community in Coryell County, Texas, United States. It is located some 16 miles southeast of Gatesville, Texas in the eastern portion of the county. The Grove is located on Texas State Highway 36. The area is known for its abundance of Texas bluebonnet flowers during the spring.

title: 1974 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl

text: The 1974 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl was an American college football bowl game that was played on December 23, 1974 at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. It was the sixteenth edition of the Bluebonnet Bowl. The game matched the against the NC State Wolfpack. It was the final contest of the 1974 NCAA Division I football season for both teams. The game ended in a 31–31 tie.

title: Lupinus

text: Bluebonnets, including the Texas bluebonnet ("L. texensis"), are the state flowers of Texas, USA.

title: Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant

text: Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant was a munitions plant near McGregor, Texas, which manufactured TNT, bombs, ammonium nitrate and similar products for the American troops during World War II. BlueBonnet Ordnance Plant was one of four ordnance plants in the United States during World War II.

title: Texas Cavalry Medal

text: The medal was designed by Anthony de Francisci based on design and imagery criteria specified by The Equipment Branch, Quartermaster General Department of the Army. The approved design is a bronze hexagonal medal in diameter. The obverse of the medal depicts the bluebonnet, the state flower of Texas. Inscribed around the edge are the words "AWARDED • BY • CONGRESS • FOR • SERVICE"; at the top of the medal and "TEXAS • CAVALRY"; at the bottom of the medal. The reverse of the medal bears the Coat of arms of Texas, a Lone Star encircled by a wreath, surrounded by the dates of service in 1918 when the cavalry became eligible for federal activation and the signing of the armistice to end World War I.

title: Ennis, Texas

text: The second major festival hosted in Ennis is the Bluebonnet Trails Festival, celebrating the state flower of Texas and the vibrant bloom of wildflowers in the surrounding countryside. The event attracts tens of thousands of tourists each year to events including sightseeing excursions and a festival in downtown. The festival is held on the third weekend of April, and the Bluebonnet Trails are hosted for the entire month. First hosted along the Kachina Prairie Park's historic mile-long trail system in 1938, the Bluebonnet Trails have since expanded into a route map of several dozen miles along rural farm roads throughout the surrounding countryside east and northeast of the city. The routes for these sightseeing excursions have been officially hosted and mapped out by the Ennis Garden Club since 1951. To commemorate the popularity of the Bluebonnet Trails Festival and the efforts made to celebrate and preserve the state flower of Texas, Ennis was designated by the 1997 Texas State Legislature as the "Official Bluebonnet City of Texas" and home to the "Official Bluebonnet Trail of Texas."

title: Bluebonnet Bowl

text: The Bluebonnet Bowl was an annual college football bowl game played in Houston, Texas. A civic group was appointed by the Houston Chamber of Commerce Athletics Committee in 1959 to organize the bowl game. It was held at Rice Stadium from 1959 through 1967, and again in 1985 and 1986. The game was played in the Astrodome from 1968 through 1984, as well in 1987. When held in the Astrodome, it was called the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. The proceeds from the bowl games were distributed to various Harris County charitable organizations. The game was discontinued following the 1987 season due to poor ticket sales and lack of a title sponsor.

title: Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant

text: The plant was operated by the National Gypsum Company but overseen by the military and was one of the four Ordnance plants in the United States during World War II. The army engineers were in charge of all plant construction while the Gypsum personnel and others worked out other strategies. Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant got its name from Major Paul Van Tuyl, who named the plant after the state flower of Texas (Bluebonnet).

title: 1959 Bluebonnet Bowl

text: The 1959 Bluebonnet Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the TCU Horned Frogs and the Clemson Tigers. This was the first ever Bluebonnet Bowl, a bowl game that usually featured a team from Texas against an out-of-state opponent, with 19 out of the 29 games in this series involving a team from Texas, or from the SWC.

title: Bluebonnet Bowl

text: The bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas.

title: Alamo Fire

text: Alamo Fire or Texas Maroon are names given to a maroon hybrid cultivar of "Lupinus texensis" (or bluebonnet), Texas' state flower.

title: 1970 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl

text: The 1970 Oklahoma squad finished the regular season with a 7–4 record and losses against Oregon State, Texas, Kansas State and Nebraska. During the week prior to their Bedlam Series game against Oklahoma State, school officials announced the Sooners accepted a bid to play in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl against Alabama. The appearance marked the second for Oklahoma in the Bluebonnet Bowl and their 14th overall bowl game appearance.

title: Mary Daggett Lake

text: In 1926, Mary Daggett Lake wrote "The" "Legend of the Bluebonnet", a short book on the folklore of the state flower of Texas. She also wrote "Have You Ever Been to Texas in the Spring"?, the official song of the Texas Federation of Garden Clubs, and "Pioneer Mother", the official song of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.

title: Lupinus texensis

text: Texas recognizes all native lupine species occurring in the state as the official state flower. That fact leads to other species such as "L. subcarnosus" and "L. havardii" also being referred to as bluebonnets, but distinctions are seen among the species that differentiate them from "L. texensis".

title: 1987 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl

text: The 1987 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Texas Longhorns and the Pittsburgh Panthers. This was the final Bluebonnet/Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.

title: Barry Miller (politician)

text: Miller served as campaign manager for U.S. Senator Charles A. Culberson, and was elected to the Texas Senate in 1898 to support Culberson's candidacy. As a State Senator in 1901, Miller authored and sponsored Senate Concurrent Resolution 10, which made the bluebonnet the Texas State flower. He did so as a gesture of respect to the wife of longtime Texas lawyer, Sawnie Robertson, in whose firm Miller read law when he first came to Texas. Mrs. Robertson had always remarked that the bluebonnet was her favorite flower. In 1911, he was appointed a Judge of the Criminal District Court in Dallas County and Miller was reelected in 1915. In 1916, Miller was elected to a vacant State Representative seat in Dallas as a Democrat. Miller was a vocal opponent of the Ku Klux Klan. He was also an early opponent of women's suffrage in Texas, one of the most vocal at the time. However, he changed his mind when the Dallas Equal Suffrage Association (DESA) provided over 10,000 signatures from Dallas women supporting suffrage. He even became the chair of the woman suffrage caucus.

title: Hall of State

text: The curved exedra at the entrance to the Hall of Texas features tall limestone pillars sit in front of blue tiles designed to evoke the state's flower, the bluebonnet ("Lupinus texensis"). In the center, above the entrance is an bronze with gold leaf statue by Allie Tennant of the "Tejas Warrior": an archer holds high a bow without an arrow, meant to symbolize peace.

title: Alamo Fire

text: Maroon and white bluebonnets were developed as part of an effort to compose a Texas flag with red, white, and blue bluebonnets to celebrate Texas' sesquicentennial in 1986. Pink bluebonnets were found in San Antonio, and reddish examples were selectively bred by Dr. Jerry Parsons of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service to eventually give maroon bluebonnets in 2000. The color of these bluebonnets was fitting, as the color maroon is strongly associated with Texas A&M University.

title: 1980 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl

text: The Tar Heels were champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference for the second time in four seasons and the first under Dick Crum. This was their second straight bowl game appearance and first Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. Texas was in their first Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl since 1975 after finishing fourth in the Southwest Conference.

title: Bluebonnet Bowl

text: The Bluebonnet Bowl generally featured a team from Texas against an out-of-state opponent; 19 out of the 29 games involved a team from Texas. From 1980 to 1987, with the exception of 1981, a runner-up from the Southwest Conference played against an at-large opponent. The hometown Houston Cougars played in four games, all before joining the SWC. Runners-up from the Big 8 or Southeastern Conferences were also perennial participants.

title: 1960 Bluebonnet Bowl

text: The 1960 Texas squad finished the regular season 7–3. The Longhorns lost to Nebraska, Arkansas and Rice. They accepted an invitation to play in the Bluebonnet Bowl against Alabama following their 21–14 victory over long-time rival Texas A&M November 24. The appearance was the tenth overall bowl appearance and the first in the Bluebonnet Bowl for Texas.

title: Texas

text: During the spring Texas wildflowers such as the state flower, the bluebonnet, line highways throughout Texas. During the Johnson Administration the first lady, Lady Bird Johnson, worked to draw attention to Texas wildflowers.

title: Porfirio Salinas

text: Salinas began painting professionally in 1930, when he was twenty years old. His early work was influenced by his mentor Robert Wood's paintings. He painted many scenes of Texas bluebonnets, the state flower, which were sold to tourists by the artists and galleries in San Antonio, Texas. In 1939 he began working with the art dealer Dewey Bradford (1896–1985), who sold paintings, frames and art supplies in the state capital of Austin.

title: Mary of Jesus of Ágreda

text: San Angelo, Texas credits the abbess as a pioneering force behind the establishment of early Texas missions. Jumano Native Americans reminisce about her role in their survival, and her possible connection to the legend of Texas's state flower, the bluebonnet.

title: Lupinus texensis

text: Lupinus texensis, the Texas bluebonnet or Texas lupine is a species of lupine endemic to Texas. With other related species of lupines also called bluebonnets, it is the state flower of Texas.

title: Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative

text: Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative is an electric utility cooperative headquartered in Bastrop, Texas. Founded in 1939, Bluebonnet is one of Texas’ oldest electric cooperatives.

title: Bluebonnet (plant)

text: Lupinus argenteus, silvery lupine Lupinus concinnus, Bajada lupine Lupinus havardii, Big Bend bluebonnet or Chisos bluebonnet Lupinus plattensis, Nebraska lupine Lupinus subcarnosus, sandyland bluebonnet or buffalo clover Lupinus texensis, Texas bluebonnet or Texas lupine

title: John Nance Garner

text:
Garner was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1898, and re-elected in 1900. During his service, the legislature selected a state flower for Texas. Garner fervently supported the prickly pear cactus for the honor, and thus earned the nickname "Cactus Jack". (The Bluebonnet was chosen.)
In 1901 Garner voted for the poll tax, a measure passed by the Democratic-dominated legislature to make voter registration more difficult and reduce the number of black, minority, and poor white voters on the voting rolls. This disfranchised most minority voters until the 1960s, and ended challenges to Democratic power; Texas became in effect a one-party state.

title: Bluebonnet (plant)

text: Bluebonnet is a name given to any number of blue-flowered species of the genus Lupinus predominantly found in southwestern United States and is collectively the state flower of Texas. The shape of the petals on the flower resembles the bonnet worn by pioneer women to shield them from the sun.[1] Species often called bluebonnets include:


query: Who created the series Clannad?

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: Clannad(クラナド,Kuranado) is a Japanese visual novel developed by Key and released on April 28, 2004 for Windows PCs. While both of Key's first two previous works, Kanon and Air, had been released first as adult games and then censored for the younger market, Clannad was released with a rating for all ages. It was later ported to the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch consoles. An English version for Windows was released on Steam by Sekai Project in 2015. The story follows the life of Tomoya Okazaki, an average high school student who meets many people in his last year at school, including five girls, and helps resolve their individual problems.

title: List of Clannad episodes

text: A continuation of the first anime series titled Clannad After Story produced by the same staff as with the first series, and containing the same cast of voice actors,[10] adapts the After Story arc from the Clannad visual novel, which is a continuation of Nagisa's scenario. The second season aired in Japan between October 3, 2008 and March 26, 2009 on TBS in 4:3 aspect ratio with 24 episodes. Of the 24 episodes, 22 are regular episodes, the 23 is an extra episode, and the last episode is a summary episode showcasing highlights from the series. Clannad After Story also aired in 16:9 aspect ratio starting on October 24, 2008. The episodes were released on eight DVD compilation volumes between December 3, 2008 and July 1, 2009. The eighth DVD volume came with an additional original video animation (OVA) episode set in an alternate universe from the anime series where Tomoya and Kyou are dating. The OVA episode was previewed on May 24, 2009 for a limited number of people.[11]

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: The license holding company Sentai Filmworks licensed the Clannad anime series,[102] and ADV Films localized and distributed the television series and the OVA starting with the first half season box set consisting of 12 episodes with English subtitles, Japanese audio, and no English language track, which was released on March 3, 2009.[103] The second half season box set containing the remaining episodes was released on May 5, 2009.[104] Sentai Filmworks licensed the Clannad After Story anime series;[105] Section23 Films localized and distributed both the television series and OVA starting with the first half season box set with English subtitles released on October 20, 2009. The second half box set was released on December 8, 2009. Sentai Filmworks re-released Clannad in a complete collection set on June 15, 2010, which featured an English dub, produced at Seraphim Digital.[106][107] The English dub premiered on March 25, 2010 on the Anime Network.[108] Sentai Filmworks re-released Clannad After Story with an English dub on April 19, 2011,[109] and re-released Clannad on BD in November 2011.[110]

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: Two Clannad anthology character novels were written by several authors and published by Jive in September and December 2004.[57][58] The first volume of a short story anthology compilation series written by Hiro Akizuki and Mutsuki Misaki titled Clannad.(くらなど。) was released in November 2008 published by Harvest;[59] the third volume was released in October 2009.[60] Three volumes of a short story compilation series by several authors titled Clannad SSS were published by Harvest between June and August 2009. Harvest published a novel titled Clannad Mystery File in August 2010 and another novel titled Clannad: Magic Hour in December 2010.[61]

title: Music of Clannad

text: is an image song single for the "Clannad" film by Lia originally released at Comiket 72 on August 17, 2007, produced by Frontier Works. The music CD was only available to those who bought film tickets early for the "Clannad" film. The single contains four tracks, with only the first song "Yakusoku" sung by Lia while tracks two and three are background music from the "Clannad Film Soundtrack", and the final track is an instrumental version of "Promise".

title: Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life

text: Tomoyo also has a younger brother named who is very skilled with computers. He installs a personal computer in Tomoya's room, and then comes to live in the apartment. Takafumi has an ex-girlfriend named with a foul mouth and who is excessively sarcastic, whose surname is not revealed. She is not happy that her mother remarried and thus does not like to live at home. She too comes to live in Tomoya's apartment. She has a cameo appearance roughly eighteen minutes into episode six of the "Clannad" anime series. A central theme in the story is the ties between families, much like in "Clannad".

title: Clannad

text: Even though the rock-infused "Sirius" and the pop-inclined "Macalla" were successful for Clannad, it was their breakthrough style that they created themselves that has left the greatest legacy. Clannad's influence can be found in the film "Titanic", where James Horner admitted to basing the soundtrack on Clannad's style. The soundtrack was so like Clannad's work that it has been incorrectly credited to them for many years. Clannad's 'Celtic mysticism' is a recurring theme in the film "Intermission". The "otherworldly" and "ethereal" Clannad sound comes from the ancient hills and glens that surround Gweedore, according to lead singer Moya Brennan. Traces of Clannad's legacy can be heard in the music of many artists, including Enya, Altan, Capercaillie, The Corrs, Loreena McKennitt, Anúna, Riverdance, Órla Fallon and even U2. Bono stated that Moya has "one of the greatest voices the human ear has ever experienced".

title: Lore (Clannad album)

text: Lore is a 1996 studio album by the Irish folk group Clannad. It was re-issued in 2005 with the Cantoma mix bonus track of "Croí Cróga". "Lore" was greeted with great acclaim by music critics worldwide, often stating that this was one of Clannad's greatest recordings. This has the most Gaelic songs of all Clannad albums since 1982, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album, the band's second nomination, although it lost to "The Memory of Trees" by Enya (Eithne Ní Bhraonaín), who was once a member of Clannad and is the sister of band members Moya Brennan, Ciarán Brennan and Pól Brennan as well as niece to Noel Ó Dúgáin and Pádraig Ó Dúgáin.

title: Legend (Robin of Sherwood soundtrack)

text: Legend is a 1984 soundtrack album for the ITV television series "Robin of Sherwood", by the Irish folk group Clannad. It is their eighth album. In 1985, this album won the BAFTA award for Best Original Television Music, making Clannad the first Irish band to win the award.

title: List of Clannad episodes

text: The Clannad animated television series is based on the visual novel Clannad by the Japanese visual novel brand Key. The episodes, produced by the animation studio Kyoto Animation, are directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, written by Fumihiko Shimo, and features character design by Kazumi Ikeda who based the designs on Itaru Hinoue's original concept. The story follows the main character Tomoya Okazaki, a discontent high school student whose life changes when he meets a girl one year older than he is, named Nagisa Furukawa.

title: List of Clannad episodes

text: The license holding company Sentai Filmworks licensed the Clannad anime series,[2] and Section23 Films localized and distributed the television series and the OVA starting with the first half-season box set consisting of 12 episodes with English subtitles, Japanese audio, and no English language track, which was released on March 3, 2009.[3] The second half season box set containing the remaining episodes was released on May 5, 2009. A complete box set of Clannad was released on June 15, 2010, featuring a new English dub of the series.[4]

title: List of Clannad episodes

text: The license holding company Sentai Filmworks licensed the Clannad After Story anime series,[5] and Section23 Films localized and distributed the television series and the OVA starting with the first half season box set consisting of 12 episodes with English subtitles, Japanese audio, and no English language track, released on October 20, 2009. The second half season box set containing the remaining episodes was released on December 8, 2009. Sentai Filmworks re-released Clannad After Story with an English dub in April 2011.[12]

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: There are two separate sets of drama CDs based on the Clannad series. The first set, produced by Frontier Works, contains five CDs each focusing on a different heroine in Clannad's story ranging from Nagisa, to Kotomi, Fuko, Kyou, and Tomoyo. The first volume was released in Japan on April 25, 2007 as a limited edition with an extra track added. The second through fifth volumes followed in one month increments between May 25, 2007 and August 24, 2007.[88] The second set, produced by Prototype, contains four CDs; the first was released on July 25, 2007. Volumes two through four were released in one month intervals after that, with the last being released on October 24, 2007.[89] Each CD is based on the stories from the Official Another Story Clannad: Hikari Mimamoru Sakamichi de collection. The artist GotoP, who provided the illustrations for the short stories, also illustrates the drama CD covers.[89] The drama CDs, with text and visuals, are available as downloadable content via Xbox Live and the PlayStation Store when playing the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Clannad, respectively.[33][34]

title: Clannad

text: In 1970, Clannad signed a recording contract with Polydor Records after they came first in the annual Letterkenny Folk Festival. However, the label initially refused to release their music as they had little faith in their proposed album with songs sung in English and Irish. Their debut album, "Clannad", was recorded at Eamonn Andrews Studios and is formed of arranged Irish songs, including a cover of "Morning Dew" by Bonnie Dobson, and original material. Following the album's release in 1973, Clannad took part in the heat stages of the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with "An Pháirc" from "Clannad" as their entry. The band released "Clannad 2" as their second studio album on Gael Linn Records in 1974. To produce the album the band hired Dónal Lunny, founder of the Irish bands Planxty and The Bothy Band. Like their first release, "Clannad 2" features a mixture of English and Irish songs, this time with Lunny and Bothy Band members on additional instruments.

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: On March 15, 2007, the Japanese television station BS-i announced a Clannad anime series via a short 30-second teaser trailer that was featured at the end of the final episode of the second Kanon anime series. Clannad is produced by Kyoto Animation, directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, and written by Fumihiko Shimo, who also worked on other adaptations of Key's visual novels Air and Kanon. The anime aired between October 4, 2007 and March 27, 2008, containing 23 aired episodes out of a planned 24;[94] the broadcast time was first announced on August 11, 2007 at the TBS festival Anime Festa, which is also when the first episode was showcased. The anime series was released in a set of eight DVD compilations released between December 19, 2007 and July 16, 2008 by Pony Canyon, with each compilation containing three episodes.[94] Of the 24 episodes, 23 were aired on television with the first 22 being regular episodes, followed by an additional extra episode. The last episode was released as an original video animation (OVA) on the eighth DVD on July 16, 2008 and is set in an alternate universe from the anime series where Tomoya and Tomoyo are dating, which is based on Tomoyo's scenario in the game.[94] The OVA episode was previewed on May 31, 2008 for an audience of four-hundred people picked via a mail-in postcard campaign.[94] A Blu-ray Disc (BD) box set of Clannad was released on April 30, 2010.[95][96]

title: Clannad 2

text: Clannad 2 is the second studio album by Irish folk group Clannad, released in 1974 on Gael Linn Records.

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: Theron Martin of Anime News Network gave the first season a 'B+' rating, criticizing its extensive use of moe elements, but considered it appealing entertainment for a "fan base who revels in this kind of thing."[166] His review for the second season After Story was much more positive, giving it an 'A-' rating. He praised the second half of the season as "the best-written quarter of Clannad," stating that it "effectively builds up and delivers its emotional appeal, reinforces the series' central theme (i.e. the importance of family), and peaks visually," and concluding that "only the most cynical of souls will avoid shedding at least a few tears at certain points."[167] On the DVD Talk website, the reviewer Todd Douglass Jr. gave Clannad After Story a "Highly Recommended" rating, stating that "the range of emotions Clannad takes you through is quite daunting. It's charming, cute, hilarious, mysterious, and tragic all at the same time. Few shows are as memorable, and few are this good for this long." He concludes that the storytelling is "heartfelt" and "memorable in so many ways," and that "few shows rise to the levels this one does."[168]

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: There have also been four sets of manga anthologies produced by different companies and drawn by a multitude of different artists. The first volume of the earliest anthology series, released by Ohzora under the title Clannad, was released in June 2004 under their Twin Heart Comics imprint.[81] Volumes for this series continued to be released until April 2005 with the fifth volume.[82] The second anthology was released in a single volume by Jive on January 25, 2005 titled Clannad Comic Anthology: Another Symphony.[83] The third anthology series was released in two volumes by Ichijinsha on June 25, 2004 and July 24, 2004 under their DNA Media Comics;[84][85] a third special volume was released much later on December 25, 2007.[86] The first volume of the last anthology series, a collection of four-panel comic strips released by Enterbrain under the title Magi-Cu 4-koma Clannad, was released on February 25, 2008 under their MC Comics imprint; the tenth volume in the series was released on August 26, 2009.[87] Each of the anthology series are written and drawn by an average of 20 people per volume.[87]

title: Clannad

text: Clannad released their third album "Dúlamán" in 1976. The album is named after the Irish folk song "Dúlamán" which became a fan favourite at Clannad concerts. "Dúlamán" was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales and is their first album produced by Nicky Ryan. They supported "Dúlamán" with their first tour of Europe which they completed in 1976, during which a standing ovation they received after an extended rendition of "Níl Sé'n Lá" convinced them to continue with Clannad full-time. Dates from their 1978 tour of Switzerland was released in the following year as "Clannad in Concert". Also in 1979, Clannad underwent a 36-date tour of North America, the most extensive by an Irish band at the time.

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: Gamania Entertainment hosted a collaboration event with Clannad and their two massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) Hiten Online and Holy Beast Online.[169] Between March 26 and June 26, 2008, the two games offered costumes characters could wear which looked like the winter school uniforms from Clannad, along with offering Kyou's pet boar Botan for players to adopt.[170] Players of either game who had a character over level 20 could enter a lottery where 500 people were chosen to win Clannad-related goods which included virtual and real-world items such as file folders, "netcash" cards, sports towels, tapestries, and various items used during gameplay.[171]

title: Clannad

text:
After "Magical Ring", Clannad were commissioned to score the 26-episode drama series "Robin of Sherwood", aired from 1984 to 1986. They once again began to stretch themselves, creating music for a range of characters and events. For the first time in the career, the album was recorded in its entirety in English. The soundtrack was released in 1984 as "Legend" and won the band a BAFTA award for Best Original Television Music, the first Irish band to win it. In 2003, Clannad revealed that there were other pieces recorded for the third series of "Robin of Sherwood" that were not included on "Legend", yet the master recordings have yet to be found.
In 1985, Clannad released "Macalla" (Irish for "Echo") which was recorded in Switzerland, England, and Ireland. It contained all original material except one traditional song and yielded the group a hit single "In a Lifetime", a duet with U2 singer Bono which begins with Máire being heard teaching Gaelic to Bono during the introduction. The album features numerous backing musicians who have continued to tour with them, including ex-King Crimson saxophonist Mel Collins, Moving Hearts' guitarist Anthony Drennan, and drummer Paul Moran. Also on board was producer Steve Nye, who oversaw the pop-flavoured "Closer to Your Heart" and the ballad "Almost Seems (Too Late to Turn)" and became hit singles, the latter serving as the Children in Need charity single in 1985.

title: Clannad

text: When Clannad first started out in the early 1970s their music and sound stemmed solely from their traditional background. Despite this they managed to popularise such old songs as "Dúlamán", "Teidhir Abhaile Riú" and "Coinleach Glas An Fhómhair", and these songs have remained popular numbers at their concerts. On the departure from their folk and traditional background in 1982, they created a new sound that would define the meaning of new-age and Celtic music forever. When "Theme from Harry's Game" and "Newgrange" were first heard, radio stations all over the world became fascinated by the earthly and spiritual sound that they had never encountered before. One critic said "the tunes were seeped in the old ways, but the production and the arrangement was fresh and inventive". This transition in Clannad's career is often seen as the birth of Celtic music, and to this day they are regarded as the pioneers of that genre. They are also noted for their melodious harmonies, which have been at the heart of their music since their first album. "Legend" (1984) was based on English folklore. With later albums, Clannad delved further into the realms of electronica and even pop. Due to this, many of their singles entered pop charts all over the world, and widened their fan base once again. Despite their success with this genre of music, the group managed to maintain a link with their Gaelic roots throughout their career, giving traditional Irish songs such as "Tráthnóna Beag Aréir" and "Buachaill Ón Éirne" the Clannad treatment.

title: List of Clannad episodes

text: The Clannad anime series has 24 episodes, 23 of which were originally broadcast between October 2007 and March 2008. The last episode was released as an original video animation (OVA) on the eighth DVD in July 2008. The anime series was released in a set of eight DVD compilations in Japan released between December 2007 and July 2008 by Pony Canyon, with each compilation containing three episodes.[1] The license holding company Sentai Filmworks licensed the Clannad anime series,[2] and Section23 Films localized and distributed the television series and the OVA starting with the first half season box set consisting of 12 episodes with English subtitles, Japanese audio, and no English language track, which was released in March 2009.[3] The second half season box set containing the remaining episodes was released in May 2009. Sentai Filmworks and Section23 Films released the entire first season, including the OVA, in a complete collection set featuring an English dub on June 15, 2010.[4]

title: List of Clannad characters

text: This is a list of characters from the visual novel, manga, and anime series "Clannad". The main character is Tomoya Okazaki, an average guy who became a delinquent after a fight with his father that permanently damaged the tendon in his right arm. There are five heroines in this story: Nagisa Furukawa, a shy girl who wants to re-establish the long disbanded theatre club; Kyou Fujibayashi, a loud and aggressive girl; Kotomi Ichinose, a silent genius who is usually found in the library studying advanced topics; Tomoyo Sakagami, a cool headed delinquent transfer student who wants to become the student council president in order to preserve the cherry blossom trees; and Fuko Ibuki, a childish girl who carves wooden starfish to distribute to others as inviting them to her sister's wedding. There is also Ushio Okazaki, Tomoya and Nagisa's daughter, who appears primarily in the After Story.

title: Clannad discography

text: Clannad achieved a breakthrough in their career in 1983 with the song "Theme from Harry's Game" which peaked at number five in the United Kingdom charts and won an Ivor Novello award. Clannad won a BAFTA for their 1984 "Legend", the soundtrack for the "Robin of Sherwood" series. In 1998, Clannad were awarded a Grammy award for their latest studio album, "Landmarks".

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: Key announced in 2001 a release date of 2002[14] for Clannad and, after several postponements, Clannad was released on April 28, 2004 as a limited edition version, playable on a Windows PC as a DVD.[15][16] The limited edition came bundled with the remix album Mabinogi remixing background music tracks featured in the visual novel.[16] The regular edition was released on August 6, 2004;[15] While Clannad originally had no voice acting, Key released a version for Windows titled Clannad Full Voice on February 29, 2008 with full voice acting (except for Tomoya).[15] Clannad Full Voice contained one new CG,[15] and had updated support for Windows Vista PCs.[17] Clannad Full Voice was re-released by Key under the name Clannad on July 31, 2009 in a box set containing five other Key visual novels called Key 10th Memorial Box.[18] An updated version compatible for Windows 7 PCs titled Clannad Memorial Edition was released on May 28, 2010.[15][19]

title: Clannad (visual novel)

text: After the ending of the 23rd episode of the first Clannad anime series, a 15-second teaser trailer aired promoting a second season titled Clannad After Story. The anime is again animated by Kyoto Animation, and animates the After Story arc from the visual novel, which is a continuation of Nagisa's story, into 24 episodes. The same staff and cast from the first anime were used and the series broadcast in Japan between October 3, 2008 and March 26, 2009.[97][98] Of the 24 episodes, 22 are regular episodes, the 23rd is an extra episode, and the last episode is a summary episode showcasing highlights from the series. The episodes were released on eight DVD compilation volumes between December 3, 2008 and July 1, 2009.[99] The eighth DVD volume came with an additional OVA episode set in an alternate universe from the anime series where Tomoya and Kyou are dating. The OVA episode was previewed on May 24, 2009 to a limited number of people.[100] A BD box set of Clannad After Story was released on April 20, 2011 in Japan with English subtitles.[99][101]

title: List of Clannad episodes

text: A continuation of the first anime series titled Clannad After Story produced by the same staff as with the first series, and containing the same cast of voice actors, adapts the After Story arc from the Clannad visual novel, which is a continuation of Nagisa's scenario. Clannad After Story has 25 episodes, 24 of which aired in Japan between October 2008 and March 2009. The last episode was again released as an OVA on the eighth DVD in July 2009. The episodes were released on eight DVD compilation volumes between December 2008 and July 2009. Sentai Filmworks also licensed Clannad After Story and Section23 Films localized and distributed the television series and OVA starting with the first half season box set with English subtitles released in October 2009.[5] The second half season box set containing the remaining episodes was released in December 2009. Sentai Filmworks re-released Clannad After Story with an English dub on April 19, 2011.[6]

title: Clannad

text:
The five original members of Clannad appeared on stage together at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow on 19 January 2007. The concert was greeted by 2,000 fans who travelled from places such as the US and Brazil to see the legendary group perform some of the most loved songs in their history. While at the Meteor Ireland Music Awards that were held in Dublin on 1 February 2007 Clannad were presented with the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award.
In March 2008, Clannad began their first UK tour in over 12 years, starting at The Sage in Gateshead. The tour culminated in a dozen dates, including concerts in Ireland and Thailand.

title: Moya Brennan

text: It was during this time in 1970 that Brennan joined her two brothers Pól and Ciarán and their mother's twin brothers Noel and Pádraig Ó Dúgáin and eventually formed Clannad. They were identified and introduced to television by Tony MacMahon. After enjoying a decade of being among the world's foremost Irish musical groups, Clannad graduated to chart success in 1982 with the album "Magical Ring". Brennan was at the forefront of the group's success and her voice suddenly became synonymous with Celtic music and Irish music at the time. Brennan recorded 17 albums with Clannad and has won a Grammy, a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello award with the quintet. Her sister Eithne Ní Bhraonáin, who spent a while with Clannad, continues to pursue a very successful solo career under the name Enya.

title: Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life

text: After releasing "Clannad", Jun Maeda decided to make a game based on Tomoyo's scenario from "Clannad". Maeda handled the game's planning and scenario, and Leo Kashida, a new member of the team, accompanied him. As opposed to Itaru Hinoue who was the character designer and art director for "Clannad", Fumio was the art director for "Tomoyo After", while Hinoue helped Fumio with the character design. As such, characters who appeared in "Clannad" such as Tomoya and Tomoyo look similar but visibly different from when in "Clannad". Maeda also composed the music for the game along with Key's signature composers Shinji Orito and Magome Togoshi.


query: When was the USS Taylor built?

title: USS Taylor (FFG-50)

text: Taylor's keel was laid down by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine, on May 5, 1983. She was launched November 5, 1983, and commissioned December 1, 1984 in Bath, Maine. Taylor was sponsored by Barbara A. Taylor, the widow of the ship's namesake, and Diane Taylor-Oeland as matron of honor.

title: USS Vision (SP-744)

text: "Vision" was built as a private, wooden-hulled, "Express-Cruiser"-type screw motor launch of the same name in 1916 by the Albany Boat Corporation at Watervliet, New York, to a design by Thomas V. Taylor. On 3 July 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her under a free lease from her owner, L. E. Anderson, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I. She was commissioned the same day as USS "Vision" (SP-744). She soon was renamed USS "SP-744" to avoid confusion with the patrol vessel , which was commissioned on 27 August 1917.

title: Sevenoaks School

text: Higgs-Walker led the school until 1956 when he was succeeded by L.C. (Kim) Taylor. Taylor's headship was something of a 'golden age', when the school became more prominent nationally through Taylor's introduction of a number of innovative teaching methodologies, "Mr. Taylor, the Headmaster,has built so successfully on the work of his predecessor that in the ten years he has been at Sevenoaks it has changed from an old-established minor public school ... into an experimental outpost of the Headmasters' Conference'.

title: USS A. Brook Taylor (SP-326)

text: USS "A. Brook Taylor" (SP-326) was the planned designation for a fishing vessel the United States Navy considered for use as a minesweeper during World War I but never acquired.

title: USS Taylor (DD-468)

text: USS "Taylor" (DD/DDE-468) was a of the United States Navy, named for Rear Admiral William Rogers Taylor (1811–1889). She was laid down on 28 August 1941 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched on 7 June 1942, sponsored by Mrs. H. A. Baldridge; and commissioned on 28 August 1942 at the Charlestown Navy Yard near Boston, Mass., Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Katz in command.

title: USS Nathaniel Taylor (1863)

text: USS "Nathaniel Taylor" was a Union schooner.

title: USS A. Brook Taylor (SP-326)

text: "A. Brook Taylor" was built as a wooden-hulled commercial fishing trawler in 1913. She was the property of the Virginia Fishing Company of Ditchly, Virginia, in June 1917 when the U.S. Navy inspected her for possible naval service during World War I. She was found to be suitable for service as a minesweeper and, according to a Department of the Navy letter dated 16 November 1917, was to be fitted out as such "preparatory to . . . [being called] into service in case of emergency." The anticipated "emergency" undoubtedly referred to extensive mining of American waters. However, even though German submarines did lay some mines off the United States East Coast, the Navy never took over "A. Brook Taylor", and she remained in commercial service.

title: USS St. Sebastian (SP-470)

text: "St. Sebastian" was built as a private motorboat of the same name by Captain R. D. Hardee at St. Sebastian, Florida. On 25 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, J. W. Taylor of Marathon, Florida, for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS "St. Sebastian" (SP-470) on 9 August 1917.

title: USS Wanderer (SP-132)

text: "Wanderer" was built in 1897 as the "gentleman's private steam yacht" "Kethailes" at Leith, Scotland, by Ramage and Ferguson for William Johnston, a wealthy shipowner. "Kethailes" was sold to Mr. H. A. C. Taylor of New York City in 1903 and renamed "Wanderer".

title: Alice Bemis Taylor

text: The Taylors built a home and lived at 1238 Wood Avenue and built a summer estate, called La Foret, in Black Forest on 500 acres. The main building, Ponderosa Lodge, was built in 1928 by Jacques Benedict. Her husband died before he visited the property. In his honor, Taylor built the Taylor Memorial Chapel, designed by John Gaw Meem, in 1929. The Bemis-Taylor Foundation deeded the property to the Colorado Congregation Church following Taylor's death in 1942. It is now known as the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ.

title: USS Lawrence C. Taylor

text: "Lawrence C. Taylor" continued operations with the 3rd Fleet until the Japanese surrendered, then departed Okinawa on 5 September to join the U.S. 7th Fleet as it landed occupation troops in Korea and China. She remained with the occupation units until 26 December when she departed Okinawa for home.

title: USS General Taylor

text: USS "General Taylor" was a small sidewheel steamer which served in the U.S. Navy from 1842 to 1852. Prior to her Navy service, she operated as a transport and supply vessel during the Second Seminole War.

title: USS Taylor (DD-468)

text: See USS "Taylor" for other ships of the same name.

title: USS PGM-18

text: USS "PGM-18 was a built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was built and originally commissioned as USS "PC-1255, a , and was decommissioned and converted in late 1944. USS PGM-18 struck a mine off the coast of Okinawa in April 1945; 13 men lost their lives when "PGM-18" sank.

title: USS Taylor (DD-94)

text: "Taylor" was one of 111 s built by the United States Navy between 1917 and 1919. She, along with seven of her sisters, were constructed at Mare Island Navy Yard in San Francisco, California, using detailed designs drawn up by Bath Iron Works.

title: USS Taylor (FFG-50)

text: of USS Taylor (FFG-50) at NavSource Naval History

title: USS Taylor

text: USS "Taylor" may refer to:

title: USS Pulaski (1854)

text: USS "Pulaski", was a side-wheel steamship, in service with the United States Navy. She was named for Kazimierz Pułaski. Named "Metacomet" when built for commercial owners in 1854, she served as USS "Pulaski" from 1858 to 1863, when she was sold by the Navy.

title: Taylor Anderson

text: Taylor Anderson is a gunsmith, re-enactor, and history professor. As a gun maker and forensic ballistic archaeologist, he has advised numerous museums as well as the National Parks Service and the United States Army. He's also a technical and dialogue consultant for movies and documentaries involving18th, 19th and early 20th century combat. He's even done some acting. He is the author of the "Destroyermen" book series, about the USS "Walker" (DD-163), USS "Mahan" (DD-102), and USS "S-19" (SS-124), and their fight against the Grik.

title: USS David W. Taylor (DD-551)

text: USS "David W. Taylor" (DD-551), a , was a ship of the United States Navy named for Rear Admiral David W. Taylor (1864–1940).

title: Norfolk Naval Shipyard

text: USS<i>Chesapeake – 38 gun frigate, contemporary to USS<i>Constitution, fought in the War of 1812. USS<i>Delaware – first ship to be dry docked in the Western Hemisphere. CSS<i>Virginia – First Confederate ironclad warship, rebuilt from burned out hulk of USS<i>Merrimack; participant in Battle of Hampton Roads against USS<i>Monitor USS<i>Texas – First U.S. naval battleship to be commissioned. USS<i>Raleigh – First modern cruiser completely built by the U.S. government. USS<i>Langley – First U.S. aircraft carrier; converted from USS Jupiter. USS<i>Arizona – Modernization completed in 1931. USS<i>Idaho – Modernization completed in 1934. USS<i>Mississippi – Modernization completed in 1933. USS<i>Nevada – Modernization completed in 1930. USS<i>New York – Modernization completed in 1928. USS<i>Texas – Modernization completed in 1926, survives as a museum ship in San Jacinto, Texas. USS<i>Shangri-La – Only U.S. aircraft carrier paid for solely by U.S. Warbonds and subscriptions, launched 24 February 1944. USS<i>Lake Champlain – Built and launched 2 November 1944. USS<i>Tarawa – Built and launched 12 May 1945. USS<i>Alabama – Built and launched 16 February 1942. USS<i>Enterprise, longest naval ship in the world, and world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier. (Ship was built at Newport News Shipyard)

title: USS General Taylor

text: "General Taylor" was employed as a dispatch vessel at the Navy Yard until April 1852, when, needing extensive repairs, she was sold at public auction at Pensacola for $3,000. Her fate thereafter is unknown.

title: USS Taylor (DD-94)

text: She was the first U.S. Navy ship to be named USS "Taylor", commemorating Navy admiral Henry Clay Taylor. A second would be commissioned in 1942, a named for William Rogers Taylor. That ship saw extensive service in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

title: Taylors Arm, New South Wales

text: When its main industries of cedar felling and dairying were at their peak the small village of Taylors Arm was thriving. It had a boarding house built around 1890, then five years later the pub was built. Taylors Arm Post Office opened on 1 August 1891. Other stores were built including a bakery, butchery and a grocery store. There were apparently seven schools from Thumb Creek to Macksville. Medlow Primary School at Upper Taylors Arm now has approximately 30 students.

title: USS Taylor (FFG-50)

text: USS Taylor (FFG-50), an Oliver Hazard Perry-classfrigate, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Commander Jesse J. Taylor (1925–1965), a naval aviator who was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his heroism in the Vietnam War.

title: USS Taylor (DD-94)

text: USS "Taylor" (DD-94) was a built in 1918 for the United States Navy, which saw service in World War I and the years following. She was named for Rear Admiral Henry Taylor.

title: Red House Museum

text: Red House was built by William Taylor whose descendants owned it until 1920. The Taylor family had lived in Gomersal for more than a century when in 1660, William Taylor built a brick house next to their old one. The family were farmers and clothiers who developed their business into cloth finishing and became merchants.

title: USS California (CGN-36)

text: Author Charles D. Taylor has USS "California" in his novel "Show of Force". The book begins on the bridge of USS "California".

title: USS Gabrielle Giffords

text: On 29 December 2010, the Navy announced that it was awarding Austal USA a contract to build ten additional "Independence"-class littoral combat ships. On 10 February 2012, Naval Secretary Ray Mabus announced that LCS-10, the fifth "Independence"-class ship to be built, would be named USS "Gabrielle Giffords". Secretary Mabus also announced that the ship's sponsor would be Roxanna Green, the mother of Christina-Taylor Green, age 9, who was killed in the Tucson shooting that wounded Giffords in January 2011.

title: USS Hewitt

text: USS "Hewitt" (DD-966), named for Admiral H. Kent Hewitt USN (1887–1972), was a built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi and launched on 14 September 1974 by Mrs. Leroy Hewitt Taylor and Mrs. Gerald Hewitt Norton, daughters of Admiral Hewitt.