query: Does Stephen King have a degree?

title: Stephen King

text: From 1966, King studied at the University of Maine, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. That year, his daughter Naomi Rachel was born. He wrote a column, Steve King's Garbage Truck, for the student newspaper, The Maine Campus and participated in a writing workshop organized by Burton Hatlen.[16] King held a variety of jobs to pay for his studies, including janitor, gas pump attendant, and worker at an industrial laundry.

title: Francis X. King

text: King's 1973 publication of The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O. infuriated their order head Grady McMurtry, because the fraternity's secrets were being revealed. In an O.T.O newsletter McMurtry stated their policy at the time: "We do not endorse the publication of this material because the so called 9th degree section does not include the paper (titled IX degree Emblems and Modes of Use) which Aleister Crowley handed me at 93 Jermyn St circa 1943-44 e.v. without which the whole thing is nonsense." Francis King is thought to have been given the rest of the rituals (sans the missing one) by Gerald Yorke.

title: Stephen Guptill

text: On December 23, 1978 it was announced that Governor-elect Edward J. King would nominate Guptill for the position of Secretary of Elder Affairs. WNAC-TV and Guptill agreed on a deal that would have him do twelve monthly shows, which the station hoped they could syndicate nationally. On January 10, 1979, less than six days after taking office, he resigned after admitting to falsely claiming two degrees (a bachelor's degree from the University of Heidelberg and a master's degree from Cambridge University) on his resume.

title: William Martel

text: Martel was one of Stephen's most dependable supporters throughout the civil war of 1136–1153, known as The Anarchy. He witnessed 181 charters for Stephen, demonstrating his frequent attendance in the king's entourage, although he received neither an earldom nor any significant estates from Stephen. He was, however, castellan of Sherborne Castle from at least 1141, and may have been castellan from as early as 1139 when the castle was surrendered to King Stephen. Between 1141 and 1143, Martel was Stephen's regional military governor in north Dorset and Wiltshire, exercising authority on the king's behalf from Sherborne.

title: Geoffrey Rufus

text: When King Stephen took the thone at the death of King Henry, Rufus acknowledged Stephen as king, but did not attend the royal court often. In 1136, a peace treaty between King David and King Stephen was signed at Durham, but in 1138 Rufus' castle of Norham surrendered to King David, an act that brought condemnation to the bishop for failing to defend the castle adequately. Geoffrey, however, refused David's offer to return Norham to Geoffrey in return for repudiating Stephen. In retaliation, Norham was destroyed. Geoffrey does not seem to have supported either side at the Battle of the Standard in August 1138. At the end of Rufus' life, because of King David's invasion of northern England in support of the Empress Matilda, most of the diocese was under the control of the Scottish king.

title: Books about Stephen King

text:
There have been many books published about Stephen King and his works.1981 Teacher's Manual: Novels of Stephen King Edward J. Zagorski: New American Library, Education Dept
1984 Stephen King: The Art of Darkness: The Life and Fiction of the Master of the Macabre Douglas E. Winter Signet Updated edition (December 2, 1986)
1986 Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller Signet
1987 The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne Bowling Green State University Popular Press
1988 Reign of Fear: The Fiction and Film of Stephen King (1982-1989) Don Herron Pan
5/1/1988 Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (1988) Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller McGraw-Hill
1988 Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic Tony Magistrale Bowling Green State University Popular Press
1989 Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King (1989) Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller Grand Central Publishing
1989 The Stephen King Companion George Beahm Macdonald
4/1/1988 The Unseen King Tyson Blue Borgo Pr
8/7/1990 The Stephen King Quiz Book Stephen Spignesi Signet
1991 The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia (includes art by Steve Fiorilla, Jim McDermott and others) Stephen Spignesi Contemporary Books;
6/1991 Shape Under the Sheet: The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia Stephen J Spignesi Popular Culture Ink
3/27/1992 The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape Tony Magistrale (Ed.) Praeger
1992 The Second Stephen King Quiz Book Stephen Spignesi Signet
1994 Stephen King's AmericaBy Jonathan P. Davis Bowling Green State University Popular Press
11/1/1997 Ultimate Unauthorized Stephen King Trivia Challenge: Hundreds of Brainteasing Questions on Minute Details and Little-Known Facts about the World's Leading Horror Writer and His Work Robert W. Bly Kensington
1998 Stephen King (part of series Modern {literary} Critical Views) Harold Bloom (Ed.) Chelsea House
1998 The Lost Work of Stephen King: A Guide to Unpublished Manuscripts, Story Fragments, Alternative Versions and Oddities Stephen Spignesi Birch Lane Press
2000 Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic: Lovecraft, Matheson, and King David A. Oakes Greenwood Press
2001 The Stephen King Universe; A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner Cemetery Dance
3/8/2001 The Modern Weird Tale S. T. Joshi McFarland
5/1/2001 The Essential Stephen King: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels, Short Stories, Movies, and Other Creations of the World's Most Popular Writer Stephen Spignesi: New Page Books
2002 Revisiting Stephen King: A Critical Companion Sharon A. Russell Greenwood Press
2002 The Literary Equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries?: Academics, Moralists, and the Stephen King Phenomenon Smith, Greg The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4, Summer 2002
2003 The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King First and Second Editions 2004: Third Edition Rocky Wood, David Rawsthorne, Norma Blackburn Kanrock Partners
2004 "Diabolical Dreaming in Stephen King's ""The Man in the Black Suit""" Hansen, Tom The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3, Spring 2004
12/2005 The Road to the Dark Tower Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance
2005 The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book Brian Freeman & Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance
5/30/2006 The Complete Stephen King Universe: A Guide to the Worlds of Stephen King Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner St. Martin's Griffin;
3/2006 Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished Rocky Wood, with David Rawsthorne and Norma Blackburn Cemetery Dance
2007 The Stephen King Collector's Guide Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks Kanrock Partners
2008 Stephen King: A Primary Bibliography of the World's Most Popular Author Justin Brooks Cemetery Dance
12/2008 Stephen King: A Biography Albert Rolls Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
4/2009 Stephen King: The Non-Fiction Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks Cemetery Dance
7/15/2009 Stephen King on the Big Screen Mark Browning Intellect, Limited
2009 The Stephen King Illustrated Companion: The Life and Works of the Master of Horror Bev Vincent Fall River Press
2009 Stephen King: A Biography Albert Rolls Greenwood Press
3/1/2010 Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance Robin Furth Cemetery Dance
8/3/2010 Lilja's Library: The World of Stephen King Hans-Ake Lilja Cemetery Dance
2010 Stephen King: America's Storyteller Tony Magistrale Praeger
6/7/2011 Stephen King Is Richard Bachman Michael R Collings, Stephen King Overlook Connection
2011 The Stephen King Movie Quiz Book Andrew J. Rausch and Ronald Riley BearManor Media
5/27/2011 The Wit and Wisdom of Stephen King Andrew J. Rausch: : BearManor Media
4/11/2011 Stephen King: A Literary Companion Rocky Wood and Justin Brooks McFarland
8/15/2011 Stephen King's Gothic John Sears University of Wales Press
9/13/2013 The Illustrated Stephen King MOVIE Trivia Book Brian James Freeman, Kevin Quigley, and Hans-Ake Lilja Cemetery Dance
9/13/2013 The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book: Revised & Updated 2nd Edition! Brian James Freeman & Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance
2/1/2014 Stephen King Films FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Horror on Film Scott Von Doviak Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
10/1/2015 The Stephen King Companion : Four Decades of Fear from the Master of Horror George Beahm St. Martin's Press
12/28/2015 The Dark Tower Companion Bev Vincent Cemetery Dance
3/22/2016 Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance (Revised & Updated!) Robin Furth Cemetery Dance
9/1/2017 ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The Ultimate Guide to Stephen King The Editors Of Entertainment Weekly Entertainment Weekly
2/26/2018 Bumpty-Bumpty-Bump!: The Stephen King Daily Reader (Kindle edition) Michael Roch
10/16/2018 Stephen King, American Master: A Creepy Corpus of Facts About Stephen King & His Work Stephen Spignesi Permuted Press

title: Owen King

text: King was born in 1977 in Maine, to parents Tabitha and Stephen King. He has two older siblings, Naomi King and Joseph Hillstrom King. He was raised in Bangor, Maine, showing an interest in writing during high school. King attended Vassar College and Columbia University, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.

title: Stephen King Goes to the Movies

text: Stephen King Goes to the Movies is a short-story collection by Stephen King, first published on January 20, 2009. It contains five previously collected pieces of short fiction that have been adapted into films, each with a new introduction by the author.

title: Robert X. Cringely

text: In 1998, it was revealed that Stephens had falsely claimed to have received a Ph.D. from Stanford University and to have been employed as a professor there. Stanford's administration stated that while Stephens had been a teaching assistant and had pursued course work toward a doctoral degree, he had never held a professorship nor had he been awarded the degree. Stephens then stated that while he had received a master's degree from the department of Communications and completed the classes and tests required for the Ph.D., he acknowledged that he failed to complete his dissertation. Asked about the resulting controversy, Stephens told a reporter: "[A] new fact has now become painfully clear to me: you don't say you have the Ph.D. unless you "really" have the Ph.D."

title: Stephen of Aumale

text: In the conspiracy of 1095 against William Rufus, the object of the rebels was to place Stephen on the English throne. Stephen was the first cousin of brothers William Rufus, King of England and Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. The leaders were Robert de Mowbray and Guillaume III of Eu, Count of Eu. Stephen was apparently not put on trial himself as he may have been out of the king's reach in Normandy. Stephen's father Odo of Champagne lost his English lands for his complicity.

title: Palatine of Hungary

text: Hungarian historians agree that the imperial court of the Holy Roman Empire set the pattern for the organization of the royal household in Hungary. Historians also concur that the first king of Hungary, Stephen I, who died in 1038, appointed the first palatine, although no primary source mentioned this office during his reign. György Györffy says that one "Comes" Ceba, who was responsible for the transfer of ten villages to the Pannonhalma Archabbey on the king's behalf around 1005, must have been a palatine, because the villages were situated in many counties, suggesting that he was not the head of one county. The "Long Life of Saint Gerard" say that King Stephen I made Csanád "the master of the household of the king and Ajtony" after Csanád defeated Ajtony. Some historians (including Györffy and Gábor Thoroczkay) say that the text suggests that Csanád held the office of palatine for some time during Stephen's reign; other historians (for example, Tibor Szőcs and Tibor Almási) write that the author of the legend borrowed the expression from Psalm 105 which mentioned the "master" of the king's household. Nevertheless, Gerard of Csanád's same legend preserved the earliest historical event in connection with a palatinethe dethronement of Stephen I's successor, Peter Orseolo by "Count Palatine Aba" in 1041. According to modern scholars' consensus, Aba, who was Stephen I's brother-in-law or nephew, must have been made palatine by Stephen I.

title: Robert of Ghent

text: It is possible that Robert had a falling out with Stephen in the last months of the king's reign – Stephen died in October 1154. Stephen besieged Drax Castle in the summer of 1154, which had earlier been given to Robert's nephew Robert. The younger Robert may have objected to giving up his castle to the previous owners and the elder Robert may have taken offence at these events. This would explain why Robert does not appear on Stephen's charters after the Lincoln charter of 1154, but this theory is just speculation by one of Robert's biographers. Robert was replaced as chancellor by Becket shortly after Henry II's coronation on 19 December 1154 and before January 1155.

title: XXX (ZZ Top album)

text: Allmusic only gave the album one and a half stars, and in its review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, he states: "After all, countless blues-based musicians, from Lightnin' Hopkins and Muddy Waters to B.B. King and The Rolling Stones, have aged gracefully, albeit in varying degrees. So why does ZZ Top sound so stiff and useless on XXX, a record celebrating their 30th anniversary? Part of that could be that the songwriting is decidedly weak, but a band as seasoned as ZZ Top should be able to make third-rate material at least listenable."

title: Stephen King

text: Castle Rock (Stephen King) Charles Scribner's Sons (aka Scribner) Derry (Stephen King) Dollar Baby Jerusalem's Lot (Stephen King)

title: Ethnic groups in Houston

text: A significant number of African immigrants have made the Houston area home. As of 2003 Houston does not have as many African immigrants as Hispanic and Asian immigrants. The African immigrants in Houston have higher education levels than other immigrant groups and US-born whites. According to Stephen Klineberg, a sociology professor at Rice University, as of 2003, almost 35% of African immigrants have university degrees, and 28% of African immigrants have postgraduate degrees. In the Houston area, 28% of US-born Whites have university degrees, and 16% have postgraduate degrees. In 2012, the total trade between Houston and Africa was $19.7 billion. Houston is Africa's largest U.S. trade partner.

title: Rocky Wood

text: In the Stephen King and horror communities, Wood was regarded as a leading expert on Stephen King's work. He is the co-author of "The Complete Guide to the Works of Stephen King" (Kanrock Partners, 2003, 2004); "Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006); "The Stephen King Collector's Guide" (Kanrock Partners, 2007); "Stephen King: The Non-Fiction" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009) and the author of "Stephen King: A Literary Companion" (McFarland, 2011). In 2012 the Overlook Connection Press issued a fourth edition of "Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished", extensively revised and with direct input from Stephen King, resolving many previous mysteries.

title: Stephen Shin

text: After Aquaman and Mera help some ships get to the coast before a storm hits, the two of them pay a visit to Stephen Shin to see if he can help figure out the Atlantean artifact that they have. They ask him if he knows of the identity of the person who sank Atlantis. Shin states that it was possible for someone to sink Atlantis and mentions that it has enemies due to it being the most powerful civilization in the world. When he asked about the creatures that came from the Trench, Aquaman stated that he caused a volcanic explosion that trapped them there. Just then, a woman named Ya'Wara breaks into Stephen's house in order to kill him only for Mera to take action. When Aquaman breaks up the fight, Ya'Wara tells him that Black Manta killed Kahina, took the gold seal that she had, and believed Stephen told Black Manta about it. As Ya'Wara believes that Stephen Shin is in league with Black Manta, Aquaman says that they need him to find the missing relics as Aquaman has Stephen start looking. He does warn Shin that if he is in anyway connected to Kahina's death, he will allow Ya'Wara to feed him to her pet jaguar. Shin returns to work on the Atlantean black box as Mera asks him about Black Manta and what he knows about the Others. When Mera keeps asking Stephen Shin about Black Manta, he states that he hasn't seen Black Manta in years. He explains that he met Tom Curry and his son Arthur years ago when Tom saved him from an expedition that went wrong. While he did get the knowledge of Atlantis during that time, Tom refused to have Arthur's abilities revealed to the media as Shin states that it can save his career. Shin then tells Mera about a treasure hunter that he found shipwrecked off the coast of Iceland and had fought off a group of pirates. Mera believed that the treasure hunter was Black Manta which Shin confirms. Though he denied that Black Manta had a hand in Tom Curry's death by stating that Tom died of a heart attack and Aquaman later killed Black Manta's father. As Mera still doesn't trust Stephen Shin after he revealed Aquaman to the public, he states that he is not the man that she thinks he is. He also explains that on the day of Tom Curry's funeral, Aquaman attacked Black Manta's ship where it was revealed that the captain was Black Manta's father while Black Manta was the diver. When Black Manta arrives to abduct Stephen Shin, Mera fights him until Black Manta stuns Mera and teleports away with Stephen. When Aquaman arrives at King Atlan's tomb, Black Manta tries to get Stephen to help him only for Stephen to decline as he does not want to betray Aquaman again. After getting information from the Operative on where Stephen Shin was taken, Mera heads to King Atlan's tomb. At King Atlan's tomb, Black Manta has the Dead King's Scepter in his hand as he orders his men to kill Stephen only to Aquaman to fight Black Manta's minions. As Ya'Wara believes Stephen to be responsible for Black Manta obtaining the Dead King's Scepter, she starts to attack only for Vostok to stop her saying that Stephen has regretted his actions. After the Others regrouped at the Operative's airplane, Stephen Shin still feels remorse for what happened to Tom Curry only for Aquaman to tell him that what happened to Tom wasn't his fault.

title: Unpublished and uncollected works by Stephen King

text: According to books by Tyson Blue ("The Unseen King"), Stephen J. Spignesi ("The Lost Work of Stephen King"), and Rocky Wood "et al." ("Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished"), there are numerous unpublished works by Stephen King that have come to light throughout King's career. These allegedly include novels and short stories, most of which remain unfinished. Most are stored among Stephen King's papers in the special collections of the Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine, some of which are freely accessible to the library's visitors. However, others require King's permission to read. Additionally, there are a number of uncollected short stories, published throughout King's long career in various anthologies and periodicals, that have never been published in a King collection.

title: Dollar Baby

text: Some Dollar Baby filmmakers have mistakenly assumed that Stephen King's explicit permission to make and showcase the adapted filmwork automatically qualifies the film for a possessory credit (e.g. ""Stephen King's Silver Bullet"" as opposed to just ""Silver Bullet""). In actuality, this is a specified legal usage of the author's name and King does not grant permission for Dollar Baby filmmakers to use his name in this manner. The possessory title is only used on projects in which King has a direct and considerable involvement.

title: Economics Does Not Lie

text: Journalist Stephen Spruiell wrote a positive review for the conservative news and opinion website "National Review Online". Spruiell stated that Sorman made a compelling case in favor of free markets, and Spruiell stated that "the only flaw" was that Sorman seemed to overestimate "at times the degree to which economists have reached a consensus." Spruiell remarked in his review, "Economics does not lie; on this point, Sorman is correct. But we must contend with the fact that economists sometimes do."

title: The Autopsy of Jane Doe

text: Writer Stephen King and comedian Michael Legge have both spoken in favor of the film.

title: Stephen Gardiner

text: Before long his abilities attracted the notice of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who made him his secretary, and in this capacity he is said to have been with him at The More in Hertfordshire, when the conclusion of the celebrated Treaty of the More brought King Henry VIII and the French ambassadors there. This was probably the occasion on which he first came to the king's notice, but he does not appear to have been actively engaged in Henry's service till three years later. He undoubtedly acquired a knowledge of foreign politics in the service of Wolsey.

title: King's College London

text: The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) is administered through King's, and its students graduate alongside members of the departments which form the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. As RADA does not have degree awarding powers, its courses are validated by King's.

title: Pope Stephen VIII

text: According to the late 13th century chronicler Martin of Opava, Stephen VIII was described as being a German, who was elected pope due to the power and influence of his royal relative, the German king Otto I. Martin states that Otto ignored the will of the cardinals in imposing Stephen upon them, and because Stephen was hated for being a German, he was taken by supporters of Alberic II, who proceeded to maim and disfigure him to such an extent that Stephen was unable to appear in public again. This version of events has largely been discredited; contemporary and near-contemporary catalogues state that Stephen was a Roman. Further, Otto’s intervention in and influence over Italian affairs was still over a decade away, and during this period Otto was still trying to consolidate his hold on power in Germany, with major rebellions by the German dukes. Consequently, Otto would have been too preoccupied to concern himself over the papal succession at this juncture. Finally, Stephen’s intervention on behalf of the Frankish king Louis IV (who was in conflict with Otto) would not have occurred had Stephen been a relative of the German king, and had Stephen received the papal throne through Otto’s intervention. The maiming of Stephen may have occurred, however, in the aftermath of the conspiracy against Alberic in the middle of 942.

title: The Understudy (novel)

text: The next day Stephen suffers from a major hangover. To his surprise, he finds Josh's BAFTA award in his bed. He stole it the night before. To make things worse, it's his day with his daughter Sophie, who lives with his ex-wife. Stephen picks her up late and hung-over, and their day together does not go well. The only good development in Stephen's life seems to be Nora, because Josh's American wife does not have many friends in London. She and Stephen begin to meet as friends, much to Stephen's delight. However, the situation grows complicated, once Stephen incidentally discovers that Josh is having an affair with the female lead of their play. Josh tries to explain himself and asks Stephen not to tell Nora about the affair. He also offers that he could pretend to be unavailable to act for a couple of days, which would give Stephen an occasion to star in the play. Stephen, who realizes that he has fallen in love with Nora, promises not to tell her, on the condition that Josh end the affair.

title: Stephen King

text: In 2006, King published an apocalyptic novel, Cell. The book features a sudden force in which every cell phone user turns into a mindless killer. King noted in the book's introduction that he does not use cell phones.

title: Mark Bonney

text: Having completed his music degree, he taught the subject for three years. He left teaching to train for the priesthood and entered St Stephen's House, Oxford. Having studied theology, he graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA degree in 1984; this degree was promoted to an MA Oxon in 1989. He then undertook a further year of ministerial training at St Stephen's House.

title: Tomato Bank

text: Another unique feature of the bank is that unlike other banks, the founder, and former chairman, and CEO of this bank is a physician instead of a businessperson. However, Dr. Stephen Liu does have managerial training in that he has earned a master's degree in healthcare management from University of California, Los Angeles after gaining his doctor of medicine (M.D.) degree from the medical school of University of Southern California. Dr. Liu's experience in banking included being a member of the board of American International Bank.

title: L'Aigle family

text: With the succession of King Stephen and his struggle to solidify his southern Norman frontier, Richer was again to gain royal access, and again the relationship with Rotrou paid dividends. Henry had build frontier castles in the region, bypassing L'Aigle and the untrustworthy Richer in the process, but stephen granted two of these to Rotrou and his nephew, with Richer receiving Bonsmoulins. Richer was in England in 1139 recruiting troops for Stephen, and was again headed for England in 1140 when he was set upon and taken captive and imprisoned at Breteuil by another of Stephen's men, Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, as a result of a private dispute, Robert having received the lands confiscated by Henry from Richer's ally, Eustace de Pacy. In spite of his uncle Rotrou's intercession on Richer's behalf, a weakened King Stephen did not have the power to force his release. Rotrou then turned to Stephen's ascendant Angevin rivals, only to see a reversal of fortune that restored Stephen's control. Though Richer was released, a resentful Stephen deprived him of his lands in Sussex. In 1152, Richer alienated another prince, the Angevin Henry, apparently by supporting another scheme of French king Louis. Henry burned Bonsmoulins and took hostages. To make matters worse, the next year Henry was named Stephen's heir, and thus a new king would bring Richer no respite from royal displeasure. Richer seems to have reached a rapprochement with the new king in the late 1050s, surrendering Bonsmoulins to the king but again holding at least a portion of his lost English lands, but he largely disappears from royal records. He appears also to have reached accommodation with his former captor, the Earl of Leicester, but this led to additional misfortune: Richer appears to have sided with the Earl's successor in the rebellion of Henry the Young King, and thereby again lost his Sussex land. They were again restored in 1174. His death in 1176 brought an end to a career that had squandered his father's power and royal good will through a particular penchant for choosing the wrong side in one conflict after another.

title: Stephen IV of Hungary

text: Stephen was the third son of King Béla the Blind and his wife, Helena of Rascia, born about 1133. The earliest recorded event of Stephen's life occurred during the reign of his oldest brother, Géza II, who succeeded their father on 13 February 1141. King Géza "granted ducal revenues to his brothers", Ladislaus and Stephen, according to the "Illuminated Chronicle". While the chronicle does not specify the date of this event, historian Bálint Hóman wrote that it happened in 1146. However, scholars Ferenc Makk and Gyula Kristó claim it was later, in about 1152, at the same time Géza II officially appointed his son, Stephen, as his heir.

title: Causal decision theory

text: Further, David has studied works on psychology and political science which teach him the following: Kings have two personality types, charismatic and uncharismatic. A king's degree of charisma depends on his genetic make-up and early childhood experiences, and cannot be changed in adulthood. Now, charismatic kings tend to act justly and uncharismatic kings unjustly. Successful revolts against charismatic kings are rare, whereas successful revolts against uncharismatic kings are frequent. Unjust acts themselves, though, do not cause successful revolts; the reason uncharismatic kings are prone to successful revolts is that they have a sneaky, ignoble bearing. David does not know whether or not he is charismatic; he does know that it is unjust to send for another man's wife. (p. 164)


query: Who created Rosie the Riveter?

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: Norman Rockwell's image of "Rosie the Riveter" received mass distribution on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on Memorial Day, May 29, 1943. Rockwell's illustration features a brawny woman taking her lunch break with a rivet gun on her lap and beneath her penny loafer a copy of Adolf Hitler's manifesto, Mein Kampf. Her lunch box reads "Rosie"; viewers quickly recognized that to be "Rosie the Riveter" from the familiar song.[54] Rockwell, America's best-known popular illustrator of the day, based the pose of his 'Rosie' on that of Michelangelo's 1509 painting Prophet Isaiah from the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Rosie is holding a ham sandwich in her left hand, and her blue overalls are adorned with badges and buttons: a Red Cross blood donor button, a white "V for Victory" button, a Blue Star Mothers pin, an Army-Navy E Service production award pin, two bronze civilian service awards, and her personal identity badge.[55] Rockwell's model was a Vermont resident, 19-year-old Mary Doyle, who was a telephone operator near where Rockwell lived, not a riveter. Rockwell painted his "Rosie" as a larger woman than his model, and he later phoned to apologize.[55] In a post interview, Mary explained that she was actually holding a sandwich while posing for the poster and that the rivet-gun she was holding was fake, she never saw Hitler's copy of Mein Kampf, and she did have a white handkerchief in her pocket like the picture depicts.[56] The Post's cover image proved hugely popular, and the magazine loaned it to the U.S. Treasury Department for the duration of the war, for use in war bond drives.[57]

title: Penny Colman

text: "Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on The Home Front In World War" II is an illustrated social history of the lives and contributions of women workers during World War II written by Penny Colman. There are more than sixty archival black-and-white photographs (including one of Norma Jeane Baker Dougherty, who later changed her name to Marilyn Monroe), famous posters, advertisements, and cartoons. The author explains the origins of the phrase “Rosie the Riveter.” There are a Select List of Women’s Wartime Jobs, Facts & Figures about Women War Workers, Chronology, and an extensive bibliography. Rosie the Riveter received the Orbis Pictus Honor Award for Outstanding Nonfiction and an International Reading Association’s Teachers’ Choice and Young Adult Choice.

title: Rosie the Riveter (disambiguation)

text: Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon representing the working women of the United States during World War II.

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter by Connie Field is a 65-minute documentary from 1980 that tells the story of women's entrance into "men's work" during WWII. Rosies of the North is a 1999 National Film Board of Canada documentary film about Canadian "Rosies," who built fighter and bomber aircraft at the Canadian Car and Foundry,[37] where Elsie MacGill was also the Chief Aeronautical Engineer.

text: “Thanks!” conducts interviews of these “Rosie the Riveters,” now 85–95 years old, to archive in libraries, but more - the project provides opportunities for “Rosies” themselves to participate in the decision making of teaching their own legacy. The methods and tangible tools “Thanks!” has created help American communities find and learn from their “Rosies.

title: Rosie the Riveter (film)

text: Rosie the Riveter is a 1944 American film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Jane Frazee.

title: Rosie the Riveter (disambiguation)

text: Rosie the Riveter may also refer to:

title: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

text: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a 1980 documentary film and the first movie made by Connie Field about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs." In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: A drama film, Rosie the Riveter, was released in 1944, borrowing from the Rosie theme.

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: After the war, the Rockwell "Rosie" was seen less and less because of a general policy of vigorous copyright protection by the Rockwell estate. In 2002, the original painting sold at Sotheby's for nearly $5million.[57] In June 2009 the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas acquired Norman Rockwell's iconic Rosie the Riveter painting for its permanent collection from a private collector.[58]

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: The name and logo of the Metropolitan Riveters, one of the founding members of the National Women's Hockey League, are inspired by the character of Rosie The Riveter.

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: Rosie the Riveter became most closely associated with another real woman, Rose Will Monroe, who was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky[21][22][23] in 1920 and moved to Michigan during World War II. She worked as a riveter at the Willow Run Aircraft Factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan, building B-24 bombers for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Monroe was asked to star in a promotional film about the war effort at home. The song "Rosie the Riveter" was popular at the time,[2] and Monroe happened to best fit the description of the worker depicted in the song.[24] "Rosie" went on to become perhaps the most widely recognized icon of that era. The films and posters she appeared in were used to encourage women to go to work in support of the war effort. At the age of 50, Monroe realized her dream of flying when she obtained a pilot's license. In 1978, she crashed in her small propeller plane when the engine failed during takeoff. The accident resulted in the loss of one kidney and the sight in her left eye, and ended her flying career. She died from kidney failure on May 31, 1997, in Clarksville, Indiana where she was a resident, at the age of 77.[14]

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: Other recent cultural references include a "Big Daddy" enemy type called "Rosie" in the video game BioShock,[36] armed with a rivet gun. There is a DC Comics character called Rosie The Riveter, who wields a rivet gun as a weapon (first appearing in Green Lantern vol. 2 No. 176 (May 1984)). In the video game Fallout 3 there are billboards featuring "Rosies" assembling atom bombs while drinking Nuka-Cola.

title: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

text: Connie Field got the idea for the film from a California Rosie the Riveter reunion, and, with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and other charitable sources, conducted interviews with many hundreds of women who had gone into war work. Out of these she chose five representatives—three black, two white—all marvelously lively, intelligent, and articulate women who recall their experiences with a mixture of pleasant nostalgia and detached bitterness.

text: "Thanks!" interviewed the first woman in the WV Rosie the Riveter Project in 2008. Anne Montague, Executive Director and Founder, first hoped to find 15 living West Virginia women who performed critical “home front” jobs during World War II, but “Rosies” were hard to find. A breakthrough came March 29, 2009, when the Charleston Gazette-Mail ran an advertisement with a picture of Montague’s mother, Jessie Jacobs Frazier, headlined, “Help us find our Rosies.”

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: On October 14, 2000, the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park was opened in Richmond, California, site of four Kaiser shipyards, where thousands of "Rosies" from around the country worked (although ships at the Kaiser yards were not riveted, but rather welded).[38] Over 200 former Rosies attended the ceremony.[39][40][2]

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: Elinor Otto, known as "Last Rosie the Riveter" built airplanes for 50 years, retiring at age 95.[31]

text: The West Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project is an ongoing effort created by Thanks! Plain and Simple, Inc. (“Thanks!”), a nonprofit organization founded in 2005. “Thanks” developed the project to involve women who worked throughout America during World War II on “men’s jobs” (most notably riveting airplanes and welding ships, but including a broad range of defense industry employment), which was critical to shortening and winning World War II.

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: John Crowley's 2009 historical novel Four Freedoms covers the wartime industries, and studies the real working conditions of many female industrial workers. "Rosie the Riveter" is frequently referenced.

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: The is the fan "Army" of supporters for the , a National Women's Soccer League team in Portland, Oregon, a.k.a. The Rose City. These modern-day "Rosies" have taken their inspiration (and their name) from more than 30,000 Rosies who worked in the Portland shipyards in Portland during World War II.[42]. The Riveters have activated the fan base and made the Thorns FC "...the most well-supported women's club team in the world...currently averaging over 17,000 fans per game," in 2017.[43]

title: Metropolitan Riveters

text: The Metropolitan Riveters (originally the New York Riveters) are a professional women's ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey, who play their home games in the Barnabas Health Hockey House at the Prudential Center. Its team name and logo are based upon Rosie the Riveter, the subject of the World War II-era motivational poster "We Can Do It!"

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: The term "Rosie the Riveter" was first used in 1942 in a song of the same name written by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb. The song was recorded by numerous artists, including the popular big band leader Kay Kyser, and it became a national hit.[14] The song portrays "Rosie" as a tireless assembly line worker, who earned a "Production E" doing her part to help the American war effort.[15] The name is said to be a nickname for Rosie Bonavita who was working for Convair in San Diego, California.[16][17][18] The idea of Rosie resembled Veronica Foster, a real person who in 1941 was Canada's poster girl for women in the war effort in "Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl."[19]

title: Elinor Otto

text: Elinor Otto (born ca. 1919), one of the original Rosie the Riveters, built airplanes for 50 years. She was laid off at the age of 95, and is known as the "Last Rosie the Riveter".

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of World War II, representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.[1][2] These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. Rosie the Riveter is used as a symbol of American feminism and women's economic power.[3] Similar images of women war workers appeared in other countries such as Britain and Australia. Images of women workers were widespread in the media as government posters, and commercial advertising was heavily used by the government to encourage women to volunteer for wartime service in factories.[4] Rosie the Riveter became the subject and title of a song and a Hollywood movie during WWII.

text: Today, “Thanks!” has: 1) produced a documentary film (funded, in part, by the West Virginia Humanities Council); 2) created the first model Rosie the Riveter Community in America (funded, in part, by the Greater Kanawaha Valley Foundation); 3) created tools such as music, art, curriculum, written procedures for other communities to use to find and honor living “Rosies,” 4) partnered with various groups (arts, labor, history, schools), and 5) held events where emissaries from allied nations (Belgium in 2009 and Britain in 2010) formally thanked American “Rosies” for their contributions.

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: In 2018, MGA Entertainment released a L.O.L. Surprise doll called Can Do Baby who looks like Rosie the Riveter and is inspired by the We Can Do It poster.

title: Rosie Goldsmith

text: Rosie has also created and presented online multimedia programmes, including the "10x10" Commonwealth Writers podcasts, the Goethe-Institut's "Doppelgaenger" programmes and the British Council’s international current affairs show "The Exchange." She created the online and print magazine "The Riveter" which profiles international literature in translation.

title: We Can Do It!

text: During World War II, the "We Can Do It!" poster was not connected to the 1942 song "Rosie the Riveter", nor to the widely seen Norman Rockwell painting called "Rosie the Riveter" that appeared on the cover of the Memorial Day issue of the "Saturday Evening Post", May 29, 1943. The Westinghouse poster was not associated with any of the women nicknamed "Rosie" who came forward to promote women working for war production on the home front. Rather, after being displayed for two weeks in February 1943 to some Westinghouse factory workers, it disappeared for nearly four decades. Other "Rosie" images prevailed, often photographs of actual workers. The Office of War Information geared up for a massive nationwide advertising campaign to sell the war, but "We Can Do It!" was not part of it.

title: Rosie the Riveter

text: The 2013 picture book Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty, features Rosie as "Great Great Aunt Rose" who "Worked building aeroplanes a long time ago". She inspires Rosie Revere, the young subject of the book, to continue striving to be a great engineer despite early failures. Rose is shown wielding a walking stick made from riveted aircraft aluminum.[34]

title: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter

text: The film's title refers to "Rosie the Riveter", the cultural icon that represented women who manned the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II.


query: How well was Star Wars: Rogue Squadron rated?

title: Rogue One

text: On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 84% based on 402 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Rogue One draws deep on Star Wars mythology while breaking new narrative and aesthetic ground and suggesting a bright blockbuster future for the franchise."[139] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score 65 out of 100, based on 51 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[140] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while PostTrak reported filmgoers gave the film a 91% overall positive score.[135][141]

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (series)

text: "Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader" was released as launch game in 2001 for the Nintendo GameCube. Developed by Factor 5 and published by LucasArts, "Rogue Leader" expanded on the original game with improved graphics and a new tactics menu that allows the player to form up their squadron or set a target for their squadron such as laser turrets or enemy TIE fighters. The game also expanded on the unlockable levels of the original--"Beggars Canyon" is included in the tutorial, the opening level "Battle of Yavin" was included in both games, and "Battle of Hoth" was made more authentic with the GameCube's advanced power.

text: Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (also known as Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron II) is an action game co-developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts and is the second of three games in the , it was published by LucasArts and released as a launch title for the GameCube in North America on November 9, 2001 and Europe on May 3, 2002.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

text: Many reviews compared "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron" to one of its inspirations, the Battle of Hoth flight combat level in "Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire", considered one of that game's best elements. "GamePro" remarked that "Rogue Squadron" "enhanced the flight model with true pitch, roll, and bank mechanics". IGN praised its inclusion of "upgrades, more enemies, better sound, and stunning second-generation graphics". The Nintendo 64 version received mostly positive reviews, and received an aggregate score of 85 percent from both GameRankings and Metacritic. "GamePro" named it one of the best games released in 1998. In a 2008 retrospective, IGN's Levi Buchanan stated that the game revived the "Star Wars" license on consoles through well-paced gameplay, a story tied into the "Star Wars" canon and visuals that made it "one of the generation's top stunners".

title: Star Wars: X-wing (book series)

text: "The Bacta War" (1997) is the fourth installment in the series. It is set at the beginning of the New Republic era in the Star Wars universe and focuses on the conflict known as the Bacta War. While the Alliance fleet mounts a major campaign against a deadly warlord, former director of imperial intelligence, Ysanne Isard has taken control of Thyferra, intending to control production of medicinal bacta, the only cure for the deadly krytos virus Isard has released into the population of Coruscant and of Rogue Squadron Itself. Undermanned and deprived of Alliance support, Rogue Squadron resigns and goes rogue. They must oppose Isard's plans, defeat her Star Destroyer fleet, and free Thyferra from her rule in a winner-take-all battle against a seemingly superior force.

title: X-wing fighter

text: X-wings also appear in numerous "Star Wars" games and Expanded Universe stories. The player pilots an X-wing in the Atari "Star Wars" game. It is also a playable ship in numerous LucasArts games, and is the eponymous vessel in the first of several . Both the "" and "" rail shooters include X-wing levels, and X-wing squadrons are controllable units in the "" and "" strategy games. Decipher and Wizards of the Coast published X-wing and X-wing-related cards for the Star Wars Customizable Card Game and Star Wars Trading Card Game, respectively. Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston wrote the "" novel series that focuses on the X-wing pilots of Rogue Squadron and Wraith Squadron, the former expanding the story of pilots like Wedge Antilles who appear in the films. Dark Horse Comics has also published an "X-Wing Rogue Squadron" series. In 2012, Fantasy Flight Games released the "" featuring several pilots and variations of the ship. The X-wing also included in its "Star Wars: Armada" miniatures game and "" board game.

title: Rogue Squadron (novel)

text: Rogue Squadron (1996) is the first novel in the "" series. It was written by Michael A. Stackpole. It is set at the beginning of the New Republic era of the Star Wars universe and centers on the creation of a new Rogue Squadron by legendary Rebel Alliance pilot Wedge Antilles. As the first novel in the series, it introduces the primary character, Corran Horn, as well as a host of other characters, including Mirax Terrik, Erisi Dlarit, and Tycho Celchu as an alleged Imperial spy. The novel focuses on the training and early development of the squadron, as well as the characters and their relationships (primarily Erisi's romantic interest in Corran, and Mirax and Corran's mutual romantic interest). The novel culminates in a daring attack on the Imperial stronghold of Borleias, the first step in an invasion of the capital world Coruscant.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

text: In November 1998, a month before the game's scheduled release, LucasArts signed a worldwide agreement with Nintendo concerning three new "Star Wars" video games. It granted Nintendo the rights to market the games and hold exclusive, worldwide distribution rights for five years following each release. "Rogue Squadron" was the first game released under this agreement.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

text: "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron" is set in the fictional "Star Wars" galaxy, where a war is fought between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The game's first fifteen levels occur six months after the Battle of Yavin—as depicted in "A New Hope"—and before the events of "The Empire Strikes Back". As the Empire gathers strength for an all-out assault on the rebel forces, Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles form Rogue Squadron, a group comprising twelve of the most skilled X-wing pilots from the Rebel Alliance.

text: "Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader" is set in the fictional "Star Wars" galaxy, where a war is fought between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance. The game spans all three original trilogy "Star Wars" films: "A New Hope", "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles have recently joined the Alliance to help defeat the Empire and restore freedom to the galaxy.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (series)

text: "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron" was released for the Nintendo 64 video game console and the PC on December 7, 1998. It was one of the first Nintendo 64 games to support the console's Expansion Pak, which allowed higher-quality graphics to be displayed while playing.

text: "Rogue Leader" was among the highest rated GameCube launch titles, and praised for its gameplay and graphics. "Official Nintendo Magazine" ranked it the 100th best game available on Nintendo platforms. The staff called it an essential launch title for the GameCube.

title: Star Wars: X-wing (book series)

text:
The first four books were written by Michael A. Stackpole.
"Rogue Squadron" (1996) is the first novel in the "Star Wars: X-wing" series. It is set at the beginning of the New Republic era of the "Star Wars" Expanded Universe and centers on the creation of a new Rogue Squadron by legendary Rebel Alliance pilot Wedge Antilles. As the first novel in the series, it introduces the primary character, Corran Horn, as well as a host of other characters, including Mirax Terrik, Erisi Dlarit, and Tycho Celchu. The novel focuses on the training and early development of the squadron, as well as the characters and their relationships (primarily Erisi's romantic interest in Corran, and Mirax and Corran's mutual romantic interest). The novel culminates in a daring attack on the Imperial stronghold of Borleias, the first step in an invasion of the capital world Coruscant.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

text: In the final chapter, the game moves into the future, six years after the Battle of Endor. Rogue Squadron, now under the command of Wedge Antilles, continues to fight the wounded Empire. On the planet of Mon Calamari, new Imperial weapons called World Devastators are destroying the planet. Rogue Squadron is deployed, disables all three Devastators and destroys the Imperial presence.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

text: During "Rogue Squadron" development, ""—the first new "Star Wars" film in more than 15 years—was less than one year from its scheduled release date. To take advantage of this marketing opportunity, Factor 5 included content from the upcoming film in "Rogue Squadron". LucasFilm provided the developers with design art for the Naboo Starfighter, a ship prominently featured in the new film. These designs were used to create an in-game model. Because the game was scheduled to be released six months before the film, Factor 5 was required to keep the ship's inclusion a secret. As a result, most of the game's development team at Factor 5 and LucasArts were not informed of its inclusion. A complex scrambling system was also developed to help hide the ship's code from gamers using cheat cartridges such as GameShark or Action Replay. More than six months after the release of "Rogue Squadron", LucasArts unveiled the code to unlock the Naboo Starfighter as a playable craft. The code has been named the Nintendo 64's most well-hidden code because of the length of time before its discovery.

text: A secret Imperial installation is then located in The Maw. As the Antilles-led Rogue Squadron approaches the base, they receive a transmission from a prisoner who identifies herself as Rebel Karie Neth, a Rebel who was taken prisoner after the battle of Hoth. Neth informs Rogue Squadron that she and a few others have escaped from the prison, but need help freeing the remaining Rebel prisoners. By providing cover fire, Rogue Squadron is able to successfully escort the prisoners out of the base. Skywalker then obtains data important to the rebellion, and Rogue Squadron is asked to escort the blockade runner carrying the data to Rebel high command. However, the blockade runner is captured by an Imperial Star Destroyer while orbiting Kothlis. After the Rebels disable the Star Destroyer, it crashes on Kothlis and Crix Madine retrieves the data.

title: Rogue Squadron

text: Although Luke Skywalker was the first commander of Rogue Squadron, Antilles is often considered the "face" of the squadron due to his tenure as its leader. He appears in the films "A New Hope", "Empire Strikes Back", and "Return of the Jedi", in which he commands the squadron. When seeing the Death Star for the first time in "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope", Wedge utters the line "Look at the size of that thing!"

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (series)

text:
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is a series of Star Wars arcade-style action video games jointly developed by LucasArts and Factor 5 and published by LucasArts for Nintendo consoles.
The series deals with the Rebel Alliance unit, Rogue Squadron, who under the command of Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles use starfighters to engage and defeat the Galactic Empire. The games are set during episodes "A New Hope", "The Empire Strikes Back", and "Return of the Jedi" and recreate the battles that take place during those films, notably the Battle of Hoth, which is in every "Rogue Squadron" game in one form or another. Both of the GameCube "Rogue Squadron" games featured "making-of" documentaries.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (series)

text: In 1999, "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron" won the Origins Award for "Best Action Computer Game of 1998".

text: The Wedge Antilles campaign takes place after the Battle of Hoth, leading a raid on Bakura to extract rebel hostages from the orbiting prison. Sarkli leads Rogue Squadron into Geonosis' orbit, where they both crash following an ambush by TIE fighters and Imperial escort carriers. Rogue Squadron fights with stormtroopers and battle droid remnants. By making use of various pieces of deactivated Galactic Republic machinery left over from the Battle of Geonosis, Rogue Squadron escapes and Wedge flees the system. This uncovers a ploy to wipe out part of the Alliance fleet over Dubrillion, and, in response, Rogue Squadron raids the shipyards of Fondor to destroy a Super Star Destroyer under construction. Emperor Palpatine reveals that the recent battles were manipulated, making the Rebels overconfident. This proves disadvantageous to the Rebels in the upcoming Battle of Endor. Nevertheless, Han Solo, having been rescued from Jabba the Hutt, disables the shield protecting the second Death Star over Endor while killing Sarkli, allowing the Rebels to achieve victory.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

text: The Rebels learn that Imperial officer Crix Madine wishes to defect to the Rebel Alliance. The Empire launches an attack on Corellia, where Madine is stationed, to prevent his departure. Rogue Squadron, with the help of Han Solo and Chewbacca in the "Millennium Falcon", fights off the Empire and helps escort Madine safely off the planet. Soon after, Rogue Squadron is joined by Gold Squadron, a group of Y-wings now led by Crix Madine; they are dispatched to the moon of Gerrard V to aid its quest for independence from the Empire. They encounter the 128th TIE interceptor Squadron and disable Kasan Moor's TIE. When Rogue Squadron tells Moor that she has been taken prisoner, she offers to defect and provide the Rebel Alliance with Imperial intelligence.

text: In "Rebel Strike" the player controls several "Star Wars" vehicles such as the X-wing and AT-ST across missions that span the movies and moments outside the films. It also contains on-foot missions in addition to the space battle missions found in the previous "Rogue Squadron" series games. The game also includes some unlockable classic missions inspired by the "Star Wars" original trilogy.

title: Rogue Squadron (disambiguation)

text: Rogue Squadron is a starfighter squadron in the science fiction saga "Star Wars".

text: Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike is an action video game developed by Factor 5 and published by LucasArts for the Nintendo GameCube. The game is set during the original "Star Wars" trilogy and recreates battles that take place during those films. The game follows the Rogue Squadron, which, under the command of Luke Skywalker and Wedge Antilles, uses starfighters to engage and defeat the Galactic Empire.

title: Rogue Squadron

text: Rogue Squadron is a starfighter squadron in the "Star Wars" franchise. Many surviving members of Red Squadron, the X-wing attack force that Luke Skywalker joins during the Battle of Yavin in "" (1977), later join Rogue Squadron. The squadron appears in "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) as Rogue Group. In the 2016 film "Rogue One", Rebel fighters on a suicide mission to steal the plans for the Death Star self-identify as "Rogue One", a possible precursor to Rogue Squadron.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (series)

text: "Rebel Strike" was the first in the "Rogue Squadron" series to include a multiplayer mode. The game featured two-player competitive dogfights, races, and land assaults as well as a co-operative campaign including all but two of the missions from "Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader".

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

text: Set in the fictional "Star Wars" galaxy and inspired by the "" comics, the game takes place primarily between events in the films "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back". The player controls Luke Skywalker, commander of the elite X-wing pilots known as Rogue Squadron. As the game progresses, Skywalker and Rogue Squadron fight the Galactic Empire in sixteen missions across various planets.

title: Star Wars: X-wing Rogue Squadron (comics)

text: Star Wars: X-wing Rogue Squadron is a series of comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. The first issue was released on 1 July 1995. It ran for 35 issues.

text: Set in the fictional "Star Wars" galaxy, the game spans all three original trilogy "Star Wars" films. The player controls either Luke Skywalker or Wedge Antilles. As the game progresses, Skywalker, Antilles and the Rebel Alliance fight the Galactic Empire in ten missions across various planets.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron

text: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (known as Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D on the PC) is an arcade-style action game co-developed by Factor 5 and LucasArts. The first of three games in the , it was published by LucasArts and Nintendo and released for Microsoft Windows and Nintendo 64 in December 1998. "Rogue Squadron" was one of the first games to take advantage of the Nintendo 64's Expansion Pak, which allows gameplay at a higher display resolution.

title: Star Wars: Rogue Squadron (series)

text: After "Rogue Squadron III", Factor 5 worked on releasing a "Rogue Squadron" trilogy with higher graphics and gameplay improvements for the Xbox console. It was cancelled when management in LucasArts changed in 2003 even though the game was 50 percent complete at the time.


query: Who was pope before Gregory XIII?

title: Pope Gregory XIII

text: Pope Gregory XIII (Latin: Gregorius XIII; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585), born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 13 May 1572 to his death in 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally accepted civil calendar to this day.

title: Pope Gregory XII

text: Thereupon on 4 July 1415, Malatesta, acting in the name of Gregory XII, pronounced the resignation of the Pope, which the cardinals accepted. According to prior agreement, they agreed to retain all the cardinals that had been created by Gregory XII, thus satisfying the Corraro clan, and appointed Gregory XII Bishop of Frascati, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals and perpetual legate at Ancona. The Council then set aside Antipope John XXIII (1410–15), the successor of Alexander V. After the former follower of Benedict XIII appeared, the council declared him deposed; and the Western Schism was ended. A new Roman pontiff, Pope Martin V, was not elected before Gregory XII's death. Therefore, the Papal seat was vacant for two years.

title: Antonio Lombardo (bishop)

text:
On 16 January 1573, Antonio Lombardo was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Mazara del Vallo.
On 30 March 1579, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Agrigento.
On 23 January 1585, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Archbishop of Messina.
He served as Archbishop of Messina until his death on 13 September 1597.

title: Pope Gregory XIII

text: Upon the death of Pope Pius V (1566–1572), the conclave chose Cardinal Boncompagni, who assumed the name of Gregory XIII in homage to the great reforming Pope, Gregory I (590–604), surnamed the Great. It was a very brief conclave, lasting less than 24 hours. Many historians have attributed this to the influence and backing of the Spanish King. Cardinal Borromeo and the cardinals wishing reform accepted Boncompagni's candidature and so supported him in the conclave while the Spanish faction also deemed him acceptable due to his success as a nuncio in Spain.

title: Pope Gregory XIII

text: In Rome Gregory XIII built the magnificent Gregorian chapel in the Basilica of St. Peter, and extended the Quirinal Palace in 1580. He also turned the Baths of Diocletian into a granary in 1575.

title: Western Schism

text: Finally, a council was convened by Pisan antipope John XXIII in 1414 at Constance to resolve the issue. This was endorsed by Pope Gregory XII, thus ensuring the legitimacy of any election. The council, advised by the theologian Jean Gerson, secured the resignations of John XXIII and Pope Gregory XII, who resigned in 1415, while excommunicating the second antipope, Benedict XIII, who refused to step down. The Council elected Pope Martin V in 1417, essentially ending the schism. Nonetheless, the Crown of Aragon did not recognize Pope Martin V and continued to recognize Benedict XIII. Archbishops loyal to Benedict XIII subsequently elected Antipope Benedict XIV (Bernard Garnier) and three followers simultaneously elected Antipope Clement VIII, but the Western Schism was by then practically over. Clement VIII resigned in 1429 and apparently recognized Martin V.

title: Gerolamo Ragazzoni

text:
Gerolamo Ragazzoni was born in Venice, Italy in 1537.
On 15 January 1561, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Pius IV as Titular Bishop of "Nazianzus" and Coadjutor Bishop of Famagusta.
On 10 December 1572, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Apostolic Administrator of Kisamos after the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus in 1570.
On 19 September 1576, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Novara.
On 19 July 1577, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Bergamo.
In 1583, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Apostolic Nuncio to France.
In 1586, he resigned as Apostolic Nuncio to France.
He served as Bishop of Bergamo until his death on 5 March 1592.

title: Cardinal-nephew

text: However, even following "Romanum decet pontificem", only three of the eight Popes of the 18th century failed to make a nephew or brother cardinal. The College of Cardinals apparently preferred rule by nephews than by favorites, which they perceived as the alternative; for example, the College urged Pope Benedict XIII (1724–1730) to appoint a cardinal-nephew, who they hoped would replace Benedict XIII's notorious lieutenant Niccolò Coscia. Pope Gregory XIII (1572–1585) also had to be urged by key figures in the College to appoint his cardinal-nephew: Filippo Boncompagni.

title: Pope Gregory XIII

text: The pope suffered from a fever on 5 April 1585 and on 7 April said his usual private Mass still in ill health. The pope seemed to recover enough that he was able to conduct meetings throughout 8-9 April though it was observed he did not feel well. But a sudden change on 10 April saw the pope confined to bed and was noticed to have had a cold sweat and weak pulse; Gregory XIII himself received the Extreme Unction moments before he died.[10]

title: Lorenzo Campeggi (bishop of Cervia)

text:
Lorenzo Campeggi was born in Bologna, Italy in 1547.
In May 1577, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Apostolic Nuncio to Naples; he resigned from the position on 5 Jan 1580.
On 6 May 1581, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Apostolic Nuncio to Venice; he resigned from the position on 22 Jun 1585.
On 8 Jan 1582, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Cervia.
He served as Bishop of Cervia until his death on 6 Nov 1585.

title: Marcello Maiorana

text:
Marcello Maiorana was ordained a priest in the Congregation of Clerics Regular of the Divine Providence.
On 6 October 1578, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Crotone.
On 13 November 1581, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Acerra.
He served as Bishop of Acerra until his death on 13 November 1586.

title: Pope Gregory XIII

text: During his pontificate, the pope created 34 cardinals in eight consistories; this included naming his nephew Filippo Boncompagni to the cardinalate in the pope's first consistory in 1572. Gregory XIII also named four of his predecessors as cardinals all in 1583: Giovanni Battista Castagna (Urban VII), Niccolò Sfondrati (Gregory XIV), Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti (Innocent IX), and Alessandro de' Medici (Leo XI).

title: Alessandro Sforza (cardinal)

text: He participated in the papal conclave of 1572 that elected Pope Gregory XIII. The new pope named him archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore; during the jubilee year of 1575, he opened the holy door there. Gregory XIII also made him cardinal protector of Spain. Sometime before March 30, 1573, he resigned the government of the Diocese of Parma. He was named Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura on January 12, 1575. On July 11, 1580, he was named papal legate to the Papal States (in addition to remaining legate to Bologna), charged with eliminating banditry.

title: Pope Gregory XIII

text: The pope during his pontificate canonized four saints during his pontificate and in 1584 beatified his predecessor Pope Gregory VII.

title: Cesare Busdragus

text: On 1 October 1574, Caesar Busdragus was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Alessano. On 11 August 1578, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Archbishop of Chieti. He served as Archbishop of Chieti until his death in October 1585.

title: Roman College

text: The Jesuits used the existing block of buildings, awaiting a benefactor to build a college building for their burgeoning student population on their more than ample land. That benefactor came in the person of Pope Gregory XIII who took a liking to the nascent institution and in 1574 assigned larger annuities. Then in 1581 with funding from the Pope and his relatives, on 11 January 1582 his nephew Cardinal Filippo Boncompagni laid the foundation stone for the new college building, designed by Florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammannati. Classes began on 28 October 1584. A picture on display at the Roman College shows Pope Gregory XIII present at the inauguration.

title: Pope Gregory XIII

text: Pope Gregory XIII had no connection with the plot of Henry, Duke of Guise, and his brother, Charles, Duke of Mayenne, to assassinate Elizabeth I in 1582.

title: Pope Gregory XIII

text: Computus Clavius Cardinals created by Gregory XIII

title: 1585 papal conclave

text:
The papal conclave of 1585 (21–24 April), convoked after the death of Gregory XIII, elected Cardinal Felice Peretti Montalto, who took the name Sixtus V.
Pope Gregory XIII died on 10 April 1585. Cardinal Felice Peretti Montalto, O.F.M.Conv., was elected his successor on 24 April 1585 and took the name Sixtus V. Forty-two of the sixty cardinals participated in the conclave. The absence of thirty percent of the cardinalate makes this conclave one of the most sparsely attended in the history of the modern church. Fourteen of Gregory XIII's thirty cardinals failed to attend, a startlingly high number.

title: Cardinals created by Gregory XIII

text: Pope Gregory XIII (r. 1572–1585) created 34 cardinals in eight consistories.

title: San Lorenzo in Panisperna

text: The present church is the result of a rebuilding by Carlo Rainaldi in 1575-6 under Pope Gregory XIII. At this time it became denominated "in Panisperna", rather than "in Formoso", and its present facade was constructed. A new, outer portico was added in the 17th century, then restored and decorated with images of St. Lawrence and St. Francis of Assisi in 1893-4 by Pope Leo XIII, who in 1843 had been ordained bishop in the church. Pope Leo XIII also constructed a steep flight of steps in front of the church that led to a tree-lined courtyard. A modern, bronze statue of St. Bridget of Sweden adorns this courtyard.

title: March 1605 papal conclave

text: When it was convened, the college contained members who had been created by six different popes: Pius IV, Sixtus V, Gregory XIII, Gregory XIV, Innocent IX, and Clement VIII. Of these, Clement's creations were the most numerous, numbering thirty-eight of the cardinal-electors. Innocent IX had created one of the conclave's electors; Gregory XIV had created five, Sixtus V had created eleven, Gregory XIII had created four, and Pius IV had created one.

title: Matthieu Cointerel

text: During his time in Angers, he met a foreign prince who invited him to go to travel to Italy with him. In Venice, he fell ill. Through his doctor, he met his doctor's brother, Ugo Boncompagni, a professor of law at the University of Bologna who later became Pope Gregory XIII. Through Ugo Boncompagni, Cointerel gained a position in the household of Boncompagni's colleague Andrea de Boni. Shortly after Cointerel entered Boni's household, Boni was called to Rome by Pope Paul III and Cointerel moved to Rome with him. At that time, Boni became a Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura. Boni was also a participant in the Council of Trent and Cointerel accompanied him there. Cointerel later became a datary of Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este in the Kingdom of France, and later to Cardinal Michele Bonelli in Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal, and the Kingdom of France. Then, the pope appointed him to the Apostolic Camera, a post that he resigned sometime before 1 June 1573. On 1 June 1573, Pope Gregory XIII named Cointerel his datary, and then on 1 June 1573 made him a canon of St. Peter's Basilica.

title: Pope Gregory VII

text: Gregory VII was beatified by Pope Gregory XIII in 1584 and canonized on 24 May 1728 by Pope Benedict XIII.

title: Habemus papam

text: The adoption of this formula is dated from the election of Odo Colonna as Pope Martin V (1417), who was chosen as the new pope by the cardinals and representatives from different countries at the Council of Constance. In this context, prior to Martin V, there were three claimants to the papal throne: Antipope John XXIII (who had called for the council, and appointed most of the cardinal electors), Antipope Benedict XIII (the only one to have been named cardinal before the outbreak of the Western Schism) and Pope Gregory XII. The first two were deposed by the Council itself, and Gregory XII abdicated after formally convoking the already convened council and authorizing its acts including the act of electing his successor. Two years after the first two contenders were deposed and the resignation of the third, the council elected the new pope. The announcement, therefore, could be interpreted as: "(Finally) we have a pope (and only one!) ".

title: Pietrantonio Vicedomini

text:
On 17 November 1574, Pietrantonio Vicedomini was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi e Bisaccia.
On 4 November 1580, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Avellino e Frigento.
He served as Bishop of Avellino e Frigento until his resignation in 1591.

title: Giuseppe Faraoni

text:
On 9 March 1577, Giuseppe Faraon was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Massa Lubrense.
On 26 November 1581, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Crotone.
He served as Bishop of Crotone until his death in 1588.

title: Cesare Marullo

text:
On 14 July 1574, Cesare Marullo was appointed by Pope Gregory XIII as Bishop of Agrigento.
On 11 September 1577, he was appointed by Pope Gregory XIII as Archbishop of Palermo.
He served as Archbishop of Palermo until his death on 12 November 1588.

title: Antipope John XXIII

text: Cardinal Cossa was one of the seven cardinals who, in May 1408, withdrew their allegiance from Pope Gregory XII, stating that he had broken his solemn oath not to create new cardinals without consulting them in advance. In company with those cardinals who had been following Antipope Benedict XIII of Avignon, they convened the Council of Pisa, of which Cossa became a leading figure. The aim of the council was to end the schism; to this end they deposed both Gregory XII and Benedict XIII and elected a new pope Alexander V in 1409. Gregory and Benedict ignored this decision, however, so that there were now three simultaneous claimants to the papacy.

title: Pope Gregory XIII

text: A central part of the strategy of Gregory XIII's reform was to apply the recommendations of Trent. He was a liberal patron of the recently formed Society of Jesus throughout Europe, for which he founded many new colleges. The Roman College of the Jesuits grew substantially under his patronage, and became the most important centre of learning in Europe for a time. It is now named the Pontifical Gregorian University. Pope Gregory XIII also founded numerous seminaries for training priests, beginning with the German College at Rome, and put them in the charge of the Jesuits.


query: When was Willie Soon born?

title: Willie Soon

text: Wei-Hock "Willie" Soon (born 1966)[1] is a Malaysian aerospace engineer who is a part-time externally funded researcher at the Solar and Stellar Physics (SSP) Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.[2][3]

title: Willy Fritsch

text: He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only son of a factory owner in Kattowitz (present-day Katowice) in the Prussian province of Silesia. After the bankruptcy of his father in 1912, the family moved to Berlin, where Fritsch sr. worked as an employee of the Siemens-Schuckert company. Young Willy originally planned an apprenticeship as a mechanic, but soon resorted to the occupation as an extra at the Großes Schauspielhaus theatre.

title: Bad Santa 2

text: Thurman soon arrives in Chicago, having followed Willie to the city. Willie at first considers leaving him at a laundromat but soon takes him to the shelter at the charity. Thurman ends up joining the children's choir, which is set to have a concert on the night of Willie, Sunny and Marcus's heist. Willie soon encounters Gina, who, thanks to Sunny's prodding, believes Willie wants to sleep with her. They have sex in the bathroom of a bar, and Willie obtains the keys. On the night of the show/robbery, Willie catches Thurman singing, which makes the kid very happy. As Willie cracks the safe, Marcus is about to betray him again, but they escape just as Regent and Dorfman discover the con. However, Sunny reveals she is betraying them both, telling Willie the bullets in the gun she gave him are blanks before shooting Marcus. She tries to escape by disappearing into a crowd of people dressed as Santa at an outdoor party. Willie, Regent and Dorfman chase her; despite her blending in, Willie catches her and attempts to take the bag of stolen cash by saying the kids need it more. In their struggle, the bag is torn open and the money goes flying into the crowd. Enraged, Sunny attempts to shoot him again, but hits Thurman in his behind instead. Both Sunny and Willie are arrested, but Willie is not charged due to his help in catching Sunny. While he recovers, he is visited in the hospital by Diane who wakes him up with a handjob.

title: Willis Augustus Hodges

text: When Willis was fourteen, his brother William was arrested for antislavery agitation and thrown into jail. He escaped and fled to Canada, but the incident marked the Hodges family as pariahs in Princess Anne County, and young Willis found himself the victim of mob violence on more than one occasion during this time. Further discriminatory measures taken by whites in the aftermath of the Nat Turner rebellion caused Willis to leave Virginia for New York in 1836. At the instigation of his sister, Willis devoted himself to study, and he soon began attending antislavery meetings. Hodges quickly grew impatient with Northerners he viewed as being "more men of words than deeds," and became an impassioned advocate for the immediate abolition of slavery by any means necessary. He started a newspaper, "The Ram's Horn", in the 1840s, which soon drew him into collaboration with John Brown, the antislavery zealot who would famously go on to raid Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859.

title: Willy Lindwer

text:
Willy (Wolf) Lindwer (born 18 March, 1946) is a Dutch documentary film producer, director and publisher
Willy Lindwer was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. When Lindwer finished his study, he worked for several Dutch Public TV stations. In 1985 he established his own company, AVA-Productions, in which he has made most of his films.

title: When the White Lilacs Bloom Again (1953 film)

text: The marriage of struggling Wiesbaden ballad singer, Willy Forster, and seamstress Therese is plagued with constant financial difficulties. After a heated argument Willy leaves Therese, unaware that she is pregnant by him. Thus, Therese becomes a single mother when Evie is born. She raises her daughter with the help of Willy's friend, Peter.

title: Willis Bradley Haviland

text: His father was elected a Montana State Senator in 1906 for one term in the Democratic Party. Meanwhile, young Willis B. Haviland enlisted in the United States Navy from 1907–1911. When war broke out in Europe, Willis joined the American Field Service (American Ambulance Corp, nicknamed "Friends of France") in 1915. There he drove ambulances for seventeen months at the Alsace front. When the Field Service and American Ambulance severed ties in the summer of 1916, Willis received a pilot's license on 7 September in that year and entered the American Escadrille (soon afterward renamed Lafayette Escadrille) becoming the sixteenth American volunteer pilot in the squadron.

title: Willie Mosconi

text: Shortly before winning his first World Straight Pool Championship in 1941, Mosconi married Ann Harrison, his first wife. Shortly thereafter the first of his three children was born, William, Jr., who attended St. Joseph's Prep in Philadelphia and graduated with the class of 1959. Willie's and Ann's daughter, Candace, followed soon after William, Jr. The marriage ended in divorce.

title: Barbara Willis

text: Barbara Willis was born Barbara Lucile Thompson June 29, 1917, in Bakersfield, California to Glenn and Lucile Thompson. Willis moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight years old. In 1940, Willis graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts with a major in education and a minor in art. Willis studied with studio ceramicist Laura Andreson. Willis used many of the same techniques taught by Andreson including crackle glazes and intense colors including turquoise, citron and a deep Chinese red.

title: Willy Linthout

text: Willy Linthout is born in Eksaarde near Lokeren, Belgium in 1953. He was a comics collector when he met Flemish comedian Urbanus. They decided to create a comic strip based on the character Urbanus, "Urbanus". The first album appeared in 1983, and it soon became of the most popular Flemish comic strips. So far, 135 albums have appeared.

title: Stranger Than Paradise

text: In the first act, Willie's cousin Eva comes from Hungary to stay with him for ten days because Aunt Lotte, whom she will be staying with, will be in the hospital. Willie at first makes it clear that he does not want her there. He even orders Eva to speak English for the ten-day period, not Hungarian. However, Willie soon begins to enjoy her company. This becomes especially true when Eva steals food items and a carton of cigarettes from a grocery store, along with a TV dinner for Willie, who smiles and shakes her hand, telling her "You're alright." He ends up buying her a dress, which she dislikes. After ten days, Eva leaves, and Willie is clearly upset to see her go. Eddie, who had met Eva previously, sees her discard the dress right before she goes, but does not tell Willie this.

title: Notebook Found in a Deserted House

text: When Willie tries to escape, the situation is compounded when a man claiming to be Cousin Osborne shows up, saying that he did not arrive earlier due to business. Willie explains to him the situation, wisely leaving out his experience in the woods and his idea of what might be out there. When Osborne shows knowledge of Willie’s experience anyway, and claims to be from Arkham when Willie knows him to be from Kingsport, it becomes obvious that he is an impostor. Cousin Osborne, claiming to have custody of Willie, orders him to stay indoors. Later, when the mailman, Cap Pritchett, arrives, the fake Osborne insists that Willie is not home. Willie immediately shows himself and asks to be ridden into town. Pritchett, seeing that Cousin Osborne was lying about Willie’s presence, agrees to Willie’s request. Cousin Osborne warns Willie as he leaves that he is making a mistake.

title: Ray Whitley (songwriter)

text: Whitely was born in Columbus, Georgia on November 22, 1943 to Robert S. and Willie Bell Whitley. Whitley was 14 when he formed his first band in his hometown. Producer Felton Jarvis soon discovered him in an Atlanta High School. Jarvis introduced Whitley to Atlanta music producer Bill Lowery, who saw Whitley's potential and signed him to a contract.

title: Brooks–McFarland feud

text: Willis Brooks II was born on April 3, 1854 to Willis and Louisa Jane "Jenny" Brooks, who lived in the hill country of Lawrence County, Alabama. Willis Jr. had four brothers; John, the eldest, Gaines, or Gainum, Mack, and Henry, the youngest. During the American Civil War, the Brooks family joined the Confederacy, although many of their neighbors remained loyal to the Union. For this they were called "Tories" by the rebels. Willis Brooks, Sr. attempted to enlist in the Confederate Army, but he was rejected due to his age. He did, however, become a saddle maker that was attached to a rebel cavalry in 1863. When Willis returned home he learned that a "Tory" had been annoying his wife, Louisa Jane "Jenny", a half-breed Cherokee, who was nearly twenty years younger than her husband. Sometime within the next few days, Willis found the man and killed him, but his friends soon retaliated. Willis was shot dead in front of his house and then, a few days after his funeral, John was killed while working in a field. Mrs. Brooks witnessed the first event and she claimed that seven or eight men were responsible, according to differing accounts. She then had her sons avenge their father. According to Ken Butler, author of "Oklahoma Renegades: Their Deeds and Misdeeds:" "By late 1883, the Brooks clan disposed of the last of the seven slayers of their father, but they continued to harass some of their neighbors [the Hubbard family]."

title: London Calling (play)

text: The comedy centres on two brothers Willie and George Craft, whose American mother and British father long have been divorced. Willie Craft has been raised in America by his mother, George by his father in London, England. When George appears for a surprise visit to Manhattan, he and Willie soon fall for a designing woman, Anne Hunter. Their mother decides she is not suitable and prevents her from seeing them, and in the process tries reconciling with their father.

title: The Blue Max

text: Soon after, Stachel and Willi volunteer to escort a reconnaissance aircraft. British fighters attack their Fokker Dr. 1 triplanes. Stachel's guns jam, but Willi downs three Allied planes and the rest disengage. As the two return to their base, Willi challenges Stachel, partly by executing a near-perfect barrel roll to return in formation with Stachel. Spotting a bridge, Willi dives under the wide middle span, but Stachel tops him by flying under a much narrower side one. Reluctantly, Willi does the same, but, by not looking where he is going, clips the top of a tower afterwards and crashes fatally. When Stachel reports his death, Heidemann assumes that the two verified victories were Willi's. Insulted, Stachel impulsively claims them, even though he only fired 40 bullets before his guns jammed. Outraged, Heidemann reports to Berlin and accuses Stachel of lying. Yet the Air Service takes Stachel's word for it. Later, when he again has sex with Kaeti, he admits he lies.

title: The Trunk (The Twilight Zone)

text: Willy, excited with his find, makes another wish. This time, he wishes for a mug of root beer just like when he was a kid. He realizes that he doesn't really need money when he can wish for anything he wants out of the trunk. Soon, his little apartment in the back of the hotel is the epitome of bad taste as Willy has decorated it and himself in a white tuxedo. Willy has a party and invites some of his longtime guests and a local girl on whom he has a crush and is trying to impress. Even when he runs into a nice elderly lady guest he slips her a bottle of champagne—another gift of the trunk. One of the local girl's (Candy) hoodlum friends Danny happens to notice where Willy went to get his stash of liquor.

title: Bobbie Nelson

text: Bobbie Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas on January 1, 1931 to Ira Doyle Nelson and Myrle Marie (née Greenhaw). Her mother moved to Portland, Oregon soon after her brother Willie was born in 1933 (Willie later relocated their mother when he reached adulthood). Her father remarried and also moved away, leaving them to be raised by their paternal grandparents. The Nelsons, who taught singing back in Arkansas, started their grandchildren in music.

title: Newton Gang

text: It's unclear when the brothers first ran afoul of the law but sharecropping didn't seem to suit their fierce pride. Willis Newton claims that at age twenty he was convicted for a crime he didn't commit - his brother Wylie "Dock," or "Doc" Newton (b. 1891) (Prison #639) stole loose cotton from the loading dock of one processing gin and tried to sell it at another. Unable to find Dock, local authorities arrested J. Willis Newton (born January 19, 1889) and charged him instead. A local jury reportedly convicted Willis on slim evidence and he was sentenced to a year in the brutal Texas State Prison system, where he was forced to pick more cotton. His attitude hardened quickly in the face of the inhuman conditions and his perception of the injustice of it all. Dock soon joined him, entering the prison system soon after, possibly for robbing a Post Office of stamps. (The record indicates simply it was for a theft of less than fifty dollars.) From 1909 until 1918-1920 the two brothers were in and out of the Texas penal system due to their many escape attempts, which led to further sentences and a deeper hardening of attitudes. Eventually released, Willis began a career of petty theft, usually involving the night time theft of clothing from general stores. Brothers Jess (older) and Joe (much younger) stayed out of the penal system until later, working regularly as bronc busters and ranch hands.

title: Bob Willis

text:
Willis married his wife Juliet in 1980. They have a daughter, Katie, born in 1984. In 2005 it was reported that Willis' relationship with his wife had ended. Willis had previously admitted an extra-marital affair between 1991 and 1995, when it became public after he was seen leaving the address of secretary Lauren Clark. Although born in Sunderland, Willis lived in Manchester as a youngster and is a keen supporter of Manchester City F.C having first attended a match at Maine Road in 1954 as well as the 1955 FA Cup Final against Newcastle.Websites
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title: Willie Dynamite

text: Soon after the meeting ends, Willie learns Pashen has been arrested. Cora is a social worker, who tries to get the prostitutes in jail, to get out of the business, and turn their lives around. Cora meets Pashen, and tries to educate her on the dangers of being a prostitute. Cora encourages Pashen to change her life, and, as she's so young and pretty, to become a model and get paid for it. Being naïve, Pashen dismisses the idea, believing she can make more money as a hooker for Willie. Willie comes to post bail and gets Pashen out of jail. While Willie is out of his apartment, Cora makes an unexpected visit, and tells the women they are being ripped off by Willie. They ponder what Cora said as she leaves the apartment. When Willie comes back, he learns Pashen has been arrested again and the other women are reluctant to work. Willie threatens them if they decide to not work.

title: Stella McCartney

text: McCartney and Willis have four children: sons Miller Alasdhair James Willis (born 2005) and Beckett Robert Lee Willis (born 2008) and daughters Bailey Linda Olwyn Willis (born 2006) and Reiley Dilys Stella Willis (born 2010).

title: The Caine Mutiny

text: Willie's lackadaisical attitude toward what he considers menial duties brings about a humiliating clash with De Vriess when Willie forgets to decode a communications message which serves notice that De Vriess will soon be relieved. While Willie is still pouting over his punishment, De Vriess is relieved by Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg, a strong, by-the-book figure, whom Willie at first believes to be just what the rusty "Caine" and its rough-necked crew needs. But Queeg has never handled a ship like this before, and he soon makes errors, to which he is unwilling to admit. "Caine" is sent to San Francisco for an overhaul, in an admiral's hope that the captain will make further mistakes someplace else. Before the ship departs, Queeg browbeats his officers into selling their liquor rations to him. In a breach of regulations, Queeg smuggles the liquor off the ship, and when it is lost, blackmails Willie into paying for it. Willie sees May on leave, and after sleeping with her, decides he has no future with a woman of a lower social class. He resolves to let the relationship die by not replying to her letters.

title: Benedetta Willis

text: Willis was born in 1914 in Famagusta, Cyprus. She came to the UK when she was ten. A lifelong interest in flying lead her to the Insurance Flying Club in London. Her husband, Charles Henry Willis, was an instructor there when they met. They married and started a family. They also bought a plane. Willis worked as an architects assistant, but when World War II began her husband joined up and encouraged his wife to join the Air Transport Auxiliary. Willis became a First Officer when she joined up on 1 September 1941. She left Air Transport Auxiliary on 3 August 1943, a year after flying her first Spitfire because she was pregnant. She went on to have a total of four children. After the war, in 1953, Willis joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Her RAF wings were awarded 18 August 1953. She and her husband retired to Bembridge, Isle of Wight. Charles Willis died in 1990 aged 81. Willis herself died in 2008.

title: Wesley Willis

text: Willis was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 31, 1963, to Walter and Annie Willis. According to the "Los Angeles Times", "Willis grew up in Chicago's projects as one of 10 children of parents who had a violent relationship and separated when he was young; he spent time in several foster homes and was essentially raised by two older brothers, who went with him from home to home." Willis began hearing voices during a period of living at his mother's home in the 1980s, when her boyfriend held a gun to his head and robbed him of $100 Willis had saved. By the end of the 1980s, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and institutionalized for two months after his diagnosis.

title: Willie Nelson

text:
Willie Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas, on April 29, 1933, during the Great Depression, to Myrle Marie (née Greenhaw) and Ira Doyle Nelson. He was born on April 29, but his birth was recorded by doctor F. D. Sims on April 30. He was named Willie by his cousin Mildred, who also chose Hugh as his middle name, in honor of her recently deceased younger brother. His parents moved from Arkansas in 1929, to look for work. Nelson's grandfather, William, worked as a blacksmith, while his father worked as a mechanic.
His mother left soon after he was born, and his father remarried and also moved away, leaving Willie and his sister Bobbie to be raised by their grandparents. The Nelsons, who taught singing back in Arkansas, started their grandchildren in music. Nelson's grandfather bought him a guitar when he was six, and taught him a few chords, and with his sister Bobbie, he sang gospel songs in the local church. He wrote his first song at age seven, and when he was nine, played guitar for the local band Bohemian Polka. During the summer, the family picked cotton along with other citizens of Abbott. Nelson disliked picking cotton, so he earned money by singing in dance halls, taverns, and honky tonks from age 13, and continuing through high school. Nelson's musical influences were Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Django Reinhardt, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.

title: Rumer Willis

text: She was born at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, while her father, Bruce Willis, was filming "In Country". She was named after British author Rumer Godden. Her mother, actress Demi Moore, hired a cameraman to videotape her birth. She has two younger sisters, Scout LaRue Willis (born 1991), and Tallulah Belle Willis (born 1994), as well as two younger paternal half-sisters from her father's marriage to model Emma Heming, Mabel Ray Willis (born 2012) and Evelyn Penn Willis (born 2014).

title: Willis, Oklahoma

text: The community of Willis, Oklahoma was settled in 1843 when James Hamilton Willis and his wife, Amanda, a Chickasaw family, emigrated to Indian Territory. They built their house and a store east of what later became the site of Willis Bridge. The community that grew up around them became known as Willis. Their son, Raleigh "Brit" Willis, is credited with persuading the Federal Government to open a post office at Willis on March 15, 1856. According to the Marshall County Genealogical and Historical Society, the post office was established on March 15, 1866 and was discontinued on February 8, 1974. Willis became a successful farming community. The principal crops were:corn, cotton, sugar cane, peanuts and peas. Cattle, hogs, chickens and turkeys were also raised in the area. The community soon had a grist mill, a cotton gin and a blacksmith shop. A ferry was established to cross the Red River, enabling the people of the Willis area to trade in Denison and Sherman, Texas.

title: Willie Soon

text: Putting forward health reasons, in 2011 Soon went from full-time employment by the Smithsonian at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to a part-time position. The Center's spokesman said "Willie's opinions regarding climate change are his personal views not shared within our research organization". Its former director Irwin Shapiro said no attempt had been made to suppress Soon's views, and there had been no complaints from other scientists there: "As far as I can tell, no one pays any attention to him." Soon has been defended by others agreeing with his views. In 2013, theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson wrote in an email to The Boston Globe: "The whole point of science is to question accepted dogmas. For that reason, I respect Willie Soon as a good scientist and a courageous citizen." Republican Senator Jim Inhofe has cited Soon, and Inhofe's former director of communications Marc Morano said that "Willie Soon is a hero of the skeptical movement. When you are an early pioneer, you are going to face the scrutiny and attacks." Soon has links with conservative groups which promote his writings to influence the public debate on climate change, including The Heartland Institute, and the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. In a speech at The Heritage Foundation, he accused the IPCC of being "a pure bully" engaged in "blatant manipulations of fact", and said "Stop politicizing science! Just stop!"[32]

title: Francis Willis (physician)

text: When on 26 February 1789 Willis’s bulletin described the ""entire cessation of his Majesty's illness"" he became a British celebrity and was soon recognised through five portraits by John Russell, one of the most renowned portrait painters of the day. Willis commissioned a special medal to commemorate his own achievements. The Reverend Doctor Francis Willis was rewarded by the King with £1,000 a year for 21 years and assistant and son Dr John Willis with £650 a year for the rest of his life.