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6 played out holiday gifts nobody wants
by Kathryn Vasel @KathrynVasel December 1, 2014: 10:47 AM ET
When it comes to gift giving, they say it's the thought that counts. But with these gifts, not so much.
You know what's worse than re-gifting? Mundane gifting.
"Everyone is tired of getting those generic gifts that just end up going unused or thrown into a drawer," said Michelle Madhok, shopping expert and founder of SHEfinds.
She said there is no excuse for giving impersonal gifts these days. "You can stalk people pretty easily online on sites like Facebook or Pinterest to get a better sense of what might make a good gift."
So put down the scarf.
We talked to shopping experts to get their take on the top over-gifted items.
Anything scented. Whether it's a candle, potpourri, bubble bath or reed diffusors, it's time to retire scented gifts.
"When it comes to beauty or scent-related products, those can actually be very personal; it's harder to give than you think," said Madhok.
Leather accessories for men. Men can be hard to shop for, but don't default to wrapping up the clichéd belt or wallet. He probably already has one.
"These items are made to last a long time, they last more than a year and don't need to be replaced that often," said Howard Schaffer, vice president of Offers.com.
A better option, according to image consultant and personal shopper Amanda Sanders, is men's jewelry.
Related: 5 ways retailers are tracking you
Calendars. Yes, there are mall kiosks dedicated to calendars and everyone is excited for the new year, but here's the reality: they often go to waste.
"With smartphones and computers, everyone keeps their schedules online. And if they aren't, it's on a white board in their office," said Schaffer.
Sanders suggested gifting a coffee table book that fits with the recipient's tastes and interests.
Picture frames. Unless it includes a personal image, skip the picture frame this year. It'll just end up getting regifted.
"It's too generic and non-descript," said Sanders. "They are universally passed along."
Holiday décor. It's easy to get caught up in the holiday magic when shopping, but most people don't need another ornament, talking Santa or holiday tchotchke.
"What's even worse is when it's from last season, so you know it was 75% off last year and they've been storing it in a closet and now it can't be returned," said Schaffer.
Related: These professional Christmas light displays can cost thousands
Boring staples. Everyone needs socks, scarves and gloves, but that doesn't mean they want them gifted.
"All those generic items that are touted in stores as the perfect gift for everyone, obviously they can't be perfect for everyone," said Madhok.
CNNMoney (New York) First published December 1, 2014: 10:47 AM ET


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Q: How to find missing days or hours that breaks continuity in Datetime index? Many thanks in advance for helping a python newbie like me !
I have a DataFrame containing daily or hourly prices for a particular crypto.
I was just wondering if there is an easy way to check if there is any missing day or hour (depending on the chosen granularity) that would break a perfectly constant timedelta (between 2 dates) in the index?
Here an example of an other "due diligence" check I am doing. I am just making sure that the temporal order is respected:
 # Check timestamp order:
        i = 0
        for i in range(0,len(df.TS)-1):

            if df.TS[i] > df.TS[i+1]:
                print('Timestamp does not respect time direction, please check df.')
                break
            else:
            i += 1

Perhaps there is surely a better way to do this but I didn't find any build in function for both of these checks I would like to do.
Many thanks again and best regards,
Pierre

A: If df.TS is where you store your datetime data, then you can do this (example for daily data, change freq accordingly):
pd.date_range(start = df.TS.min(), end = df.TS.max(), freq = 'D').difference(df.TS)

This will return the difference between a complete range and your datetime series.

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1869: William German, surprising Klan lynch victim
2 comments January 13th, 2014 Meaghan
On this date in 1869, a man named William German was lynched by the newly formed Ku Klux Klan.
German, a white man, had been hanged for killing a black man, Bill Cullum.
Yes, you read that right.
Bill Cullum was a former slave; William German, a former soldier in the Confederate Army. German was living on a farm he'd rented from a white plantation owner, Alvin Cullum, who had been Bill's owner.
German was ordered to clear off the land so the ex-slave could live there instead. Furious, German put on KKK robes and, with another man, tracked down Bill Cullum and shot him several times. The dying man was able to crawl to a nearby house and name his attacker before he expired.
The local KKK chapter was outraged. William German had committed his act wearing their garb, but without their authorization and against their rules.
What happened next was recounted in the Memphis Daily Appeal (now called The Commercial Appeal):
The Union and American of Saturday says: "By a private letter from a trustworthy gentleman residing at Cookville in Putnam County, we give some further information in regard to the recent execution near Livingston, in Overton County, by a body of supposed Ku-Klux, of the young man Wm. German, an account of which we published Thursday morning. "He says that a few days before the execution, German shot and badly wounded, and supposed he had killed, a Negro man living in his neighborhood. The shooting took place in a public road, and the Negro managed to crawl to the house of his employer, where he told who had shot him. The Negro had the character of being a quiet, peaceable man, and as there had been no previous trouble between him and German, it was supposed the crime was perpetrated in pure wantonness.
It is thought that the persons by whom German was killed were members of a secret organization, to which he belonged — but whether Ku-Klux or not, nobody in the neighborhood appears to know. The body of men concerned in the execution numbered about 200, and none of them were identified by citizens who witnessed their appearance and departure. Accounts reported Bill German was found hanged in a nearby barn; a sign posted there declared: Hung for shooting a Negro, Bill Cullum, and violating the laws of Ku Klux."
These days, this story has been used by the KKK as evidence that they are a peaceable organization and not at all racist, honest, pinky-swear.
An aside: executions ran in the German family. William German's brother, Columbus C. "Lum" German, had also served in the Confederate Army and also met his death at the end of a rope, in 1866.
2011: Leroy White - 2019
1400: Thomas le Despenser, for the Epiphany Rising - 2018
1973: Lt. Col. Mohamed Amekrane, no asylum - 2017
1864: Private Samuel Jones, in retaliation for Private Daniel Bright - 2016
1809: Seven Valladolid ruffians, by Napoleon - 2015
1979: Pin Peungyard, Gasem Singhara, and (twice) Ginggaew Lorsoungnern - 2013
1943: Jarvis Catoe - 2012
2010: Liu Lieyong and Chen Xiaohui, Hubei gangsters - 2011
1825: Joaquim do Amor Divino Rabelo, Frei Caneca - 2010
1759: The Tavora family - 2009
1871: Kawakami Gensai - 2008
1909: Will James, "the Froggie", lynched in Cairo
1892: Ruggles brothers lynched
1900: Bill Brown, Sonnie Crain and John Watson
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1890: William Kemmler, only in America
27 comments August 6th, 2008 Headsman
On this date in 1890 the iconic symbol of the American death penalty made its grisly debut upon the person of William Kemmler at New York's Auburn Prison.
The long New World tradition of hanging condemned prisoners came under fire as a barbarism in the late 19th century, leading reformers to look for killing procedures less likely to result in a horrendously protracted strangulation or a midair decapitation. As Empire State Governor David Hill put it,
The present mode of executing criminals by hanging has come down to us from the dark ages, and it may well be questioned whether the science of the present day cannot provide a means for taking the life of such as are condemned to die in a less barbarous manner.
On this stage, Executed Today presents a rogues' gallery of homo Americanus, the salesmen and swindlers who would help the U.S.A. ride the lightning.
A true renaissance man, Buffalo dentist Dr. Alfred Southwick, applied his active mind to the need to better kill a fellow, and soon hit upon an inspiration — that is to say, a town drunk hit upon an electrical generator and died instantaneously, and the observant Southwick said "eureka!"
Without the subsequent industry of this neglected gentleman, who added to his repertoire scientifically-minded electrical butchery of animals alongside political gladhandings to bring a flutter to a busybody's heart, the Chair's entire oeuvre of machismo-sadism might have missed the country altogether. Just imagine living in a world where New York had pioneered its other leading reform alternative: lethal injection.
(This, incidentally, is why the chair is a chair, and not a bed or a stake or a St. Andrew's Cross: because the guy who thought of it spent all day administering his own tender mercies to seated penitents.)
The Plutocrats
As Southwick nagged his senator and shocked stray cats into the great hereafter, the gears of commerce strove relentlessly ever-onward. The business of America was ever business, and never more so than the Gilded Age.
And the business of killing people was about to become the biggest business there was.
The age of electricity was buzzing into incandescence, and two rival standards were at currents amped over eventual dominance of this stupendous industry. Thomas Edison's earlier Direct Current (DC) standard was being challenged by Nikolai Tesla's Alternating Current (AC), backed by the financial muscle of George Westinghouse.
Cheaper and more efficient, AC tilted the playing field against Edison. Seeing his days numbered, the Wizard of Menlo Park fought back the way any dinosaur industry would: dirty.
AC, Edison said, was too dangerous for consumer use — a lurking killer. "Is this what your wife should be cooking with?" And he started taking up traveling road shows zapping large animals with AC to demonstrate the rival product's deadliness. (This press coined the term "electrocution" from these spectacles.)
This clip of the electric demise of a circus elephant — don't hit "play" if you're not up for animal cruelty — is from some years later (Edison kept tilting at windmills and megafauna carcasses as his DC empire disappeared), but it'll give a sense of the horrifying spectacle.
(Topsy, it should be noted, was being put down as a danger and not strictly for kicks.)
Elephants? Horses? Dogs?
How about a human?
With the New York legislature's embrace of Southwick's seated voltage people-eater, Edison turned his PR gears on the state, demanding they adopt his competitor's "deadlier" current for the contraption. And they did, reflecting a widespread belief inculcated by Edison's experiments — as this New York Times article on an Edison crony's public livestock-killing show in the days leading up to the advent of the electrocution law indicates:
The experiments proved the alternating current to be the most deadly force known to science, and that less than half the pressure used in this city for electric lighting by this system is sufficient to cause instant death.
After Jan. 1 the alternating current will undoubtedly drive the hangmen out of business in this State.
Too bad for Edison that the business he was really trying to kill was made of sturdier stuff.
The Alcoholic Vegetable Merchant
As the 1880's wane, we come at last to our subject — in several senses of the term — an illiterate nobody of German stock who chanced to kill his common-law wife with just the right timing to join in a new kind of experiment.
William Kemmler mounted a "cruel and unusual punishment" appeal against his sentence funded by Westinghouse himself: no dice. Perhaps appreciating the odd foothold on history he was about to attain, he showed little worry as he entered the execution room and sat himself — "undoubtedly the coolest man in the room," a journalist present reported.
That reporter's description for the New York Herald graphically captures humanity's first horrible encounter with this "humanitarian" machine, beginning with the prisoner's parting remarks.*
Doubtless he knew that his words will go down in history and he had his lesson well learned. He addressed his audience [in] a commonplace way and without hesitation.
"Well, gentleman, I wish everyone good luck in this world, and I think I am going to a good place, and the papers have been sa[yi]ng a lot of stuff that isn't so. That's all I have to say."
And so with a parting shot at what he was good enough to refer to not long ago as "those d—d reporters," William Kemmler took his leave of earth. The quiet demeanor of the man as he entered had made a strong impression on those in the room. His self-possession after his oratorical effort simply amazed them. He got up out of his chair as though he were anxious to try the experiment, not as though he courted death, but as though he was thoroughly prepared for it. …
There was no delay. Kemmler constantly encouraged the workers at the straps with "Take your time; don't be in a hurry; do it well; be sure everything is all right." He did not speak with any nervous apprehension.
Warden Durston leaned over, drawing the buckle of the straps about the arm. "It won't hurt you, Bill," he said, "I'll be with you all the time."
A minute later Kemmler said, "There's plenty of time." He said it as calmly as the conductor of a streetcar might have encouraged a passenger not to hurry.
Kemmler was pinioned so close that he could hardly have moved a muscle except those of his mouth.
The Warden took a last look at the straps. "This is all right," he said.
"All right," said Dr. Spitzka, and then bent over and said, "God bless you, Kemmler."
"Thank you," said the little man, quietly.
"Ready?" Said the Warden.
"Ready," answered the doctors.
"Goodbye," said the Warden to Kemmler. There was no response.
GAVE THE SIGNAL.
The Warden stepped to the door leading into the next room. It was then forty-three and one-half minutes past six o'clock by the prison clock. "Everything is ready," said the Warden to some one hidden from view in the next room.
The answer came like a flash in the sudden convulsion that went over the frame of the chair. If it seemed rigid before under the influence of the straps, [it] was doubly so now has it strained against them.
The seconds ticked off. Dr. McDonald, who was holding the stopwatch, said "Stop."
Two voices near him echoed, "Stop."
The Warden stepped to the door of the next room and repeated the word "Stop."
As the syllable [passed] his lips the forehead of the man in the chair [grew] dark [in] color, while his nose, or so much of it as was exposed, appeared a dark red.
There was very little apparent relaxation of the body, however. [A] fly lighted on the nose and walked about unconcernedly. The witnesses drew nearer to the chair.
"He's dead," said Spitzka, authoritatively.
"Oh, yes, he's dead," said McDonald.
"You'll notice," said Spitzka, "the post-mortem appearance of the nose immediately. There is that remarkable change that cannot be mistaken for anything else, that remarkable appearance of the nose."
The other doctors nodded [assent]. They looked at the body critically for a minute and then Spitzka said, ["]oh, undo that now. The body can be taken to the hospital."
"Well, I can't let you gentlemen out of here until I have your certificates," said the Warden.
FOUND SIGNS OF LIFE.
It was while this businesslike conversation was going on that Dr. Balch made a discovery.
"McDonald," he cried, "McDonald, look at that rupture," he pointed at the abrasion of the skin on Kemmler's right thumb. In the contraction of the muscles the figurehead[?] scraped against it and removed the skin, and from that little [wound] blood was flowing-[an] almost certain indication of life.
A low cry of horror went through the assemblage.
"[Turn] on the current," excitedly cried Dr. Spitzka. "This man is not dead."
The crowd fell back from the chair, as though they were in danger. The Warden sprang into the closed door and pounded on it with his hand.
"Start the current!" he cried. As he spoke of fluid began to drop from Kemmler's mouth and to run down his beard; a groaning sound came from his lips, repeated and growing louder each time.
It seemed [an] age before the card was again turned on. In fact it was just seventy-three seconds from the end of the first contact when the first sound was heard to issue from Kemmler's lips, and it was not more than a half [minute] before the card was again turned on.
RECOVERING CONSCIOUSNESS.
But every second to that time the horrible sound from those groaning lips was becoming more distinct, [a straining] of the chest against the leather harness stronger and more evident.
The man was coming to life. The spectators grew faint and sick. [Men] who had stood over dead and dying [men] and had cut [men] to pieces without an emotion [grew] pale and turned their heads away.
One witness was forced to lie down while one of the doctors fanned him.
But [the end] came at last. There was another convulsion of the body, and … it became rigid with the rigidity of iron.
"That man wasn't dead," cried Spitzka excitedly. As he spoke the body twitched again. The electrician had given the current gain new alternation and now 2,000 volts [were] playing in short, successive shocks down Kemmler spine. The sound ceased with the first convulsion, but the fluid continued to trip from the mouth and down the beard, making the body a sickening spectacle.
"Keep it on now until he's killed," said one of the doctors. …
"Keep it on! Keep it on!" Cried Warden Durston through the door.
Silence reigned for a moment. A bell without began to [toll] solemnly. …
BURNED BY THE CURRENT.
Then from the chair came a sizzling sound, as of [meat] cooking on hand. Following it immediately a billow of smoke came from the body and filled the air of the room with the odor of burning hair.
There was a cry from all the members of the little group, and Warden Durston cried through the door leading to the next room to [turn] the current off.
(Also of interest: the New York Times' (non-eyewitness) report on the affair.)
More shocking — so to speak — papers ran the next day's headline "Kemmler Westinghoused," the verb "to Westinghouse" being another shameless Edisonian bid to stamp his marketing project onto the Queen's English. This fine, rounded, archaic neologism the right sports anchor could resuscitate as a fresh synonym for thrashing, horsewhipping, poleaxing, or else (in greater justice) for moderation and decency as the only principal in the sordid affair that rejected death-dealing by electricity.
(Officially, Edison also opposed the death penalty. Like Dr. Guillotin, he was doing his part for humanity in the meantime … just with a little skin in the game. Did we mention the business of America is business?)
Westinghouse, for his own part, thought the Kemmler debacle would nip the electric chair in the bud, and he was scarcely the only one.
Official reviews for the "art of killing by electricity" were, ahem, mixed.
"They could have done better with an axe."**
-George Westinghouse
"Strong men fainted and fell like logs on the floor."
-New York Herald
"Revolting … a disgrace to civilization."
-New York Times
"We live in a higher civilization from this day on."
-Alfred Southwick
Books (remarkably numerous!) about the creation of the electric chair
It should, in fairness, be noted that the U.S. was not the only country (pdf) to mull an electrocution chair in the 19th century … but it was (and for a long time remained) the only one to actually use one.
* The Herald excerpt, along with several other articles from the same paper about the Kemmler execution, is here, but the text has obviously been generated from a scan with uneven results. As I do not have access to the originals, [bracketed] remarks in the excerpt indicate this author's own interpretations or interpolations of seemingly mistaken transcriptions.
** Some sources make it "would have done better with an axe."
1718: Purry Moll and Elizabeth Cave - 2018
1859: Ratu Mara Kapaiwai, Fiji warrior - 2017
2013: Nguyen Anh Tuan, Vietnam's first lethal injection - 2016
1883: James Burton, William Marwood's last - 2015
1788: John and Robert Winter, father and son - 2014
Corpses Strewn: All in the Family - 2014
1936: Josep Sunyol, FC Barcelona President - 2013
1759: Eugene Aram, philologist - 2012
1942: Janusz Korczak and his orphans - 2011
1795: Pomp, a Negro - 2010
1628: Johannes Junius "will never see you more" - 2009
1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, "the first victims of American fascism"
1999: Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis, the end of the road for Old Sparky
1962: Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin
1943: Sue Logue, George Logue and Clarence Bagwell
1868: John Millian, who martyred a madam
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2007: Zheng Xiaoyu, former Director of the State Food and Drug Administration
10 comments July 10th, 2008 Headsman
One year ago today, China made to clean up its image — with public health advocates, if not with human rights advocates — by executing* its former Food and Drugs minister for economic crimes.
Zheng Xiaoyu, China's drug regulation capo from 1994 to 2005 and only ("only"?) the fourth minister-level official to be put to death in China since the immediate aftermath of Mao Zedong's reign, was sentenced for extracting bribes from pharmaceutical companies he nominally regulated in exchange for approving their worthless and/or unsafe products.
One bogus antibiotic he rubber-stamped killed ten in China before it was pulled from the market, but it was dangerous Chinese products exported abroad — including lethal pet food ingredients to the United States and a cough syrup that killed dozens in Panama — that lit a fire under the export-driven colossus. The court that rejected his appeal explicitly referenced Zheng's danger to China's international reputation — simultaneously shifting focus from structural weaknesses by individualizing them to Zheng's personal failings.
On this same day it announced Zheng's death, China anxiously unveiled plans to safeguard the food supply for its upcoming turn under the Olympic klieg lights. That acid test is now upon it: opening ceremonies are mere weeks away as of this writing.
It may have been a politically-driven execution and an unusually heavy sentence, but Zheng's passing was exulted in China. Someone even tried to put his name on a rat poison — rejected for that most distinguished reason of modern capitalism, Zheng's own intellectual property in his name.
For an interesting dive into the social and legal currents surrounding this case, check out this .pdf edition of Criminal Bar Quarterly.
* The method of execution was not announced, and to my knowledge has not been conclusively documented. Gunshot was the longtime standby for Chinese executions, but China has shifted heavily towards lethal injection in recent years; it's generally assumed that Zheng suffered the latter fate.
1507: Paolo da Novi, Doge of the people - 2019
1941: George Johnson Armstrong, under the Treachery Act - 2018
1835: Ruel Blake, "often seen among negroes" - 2017
1535: Jacob van Campen, Amsterdam Anabaptist - 2016
1584: Francis Throckmorton, plotter - 2015
1654: Gerard the conspirator, and the Portuguese envoy's brother - 2014
1917: "John Nelson", mystery man - 2013
1946: Public Execution in Debica - 2012
1950: American soldiers during the Korean War - 2011
1976: Costas Georgiou and three other mercenaries in Angola - 2010
2000: Dmitry Chikunov, secretly - 2009
2006: Angel Diaz
2006: Saddam Hussein
1951: Albert Guay
1536: Anne Boleyn
2004: Nam Cam, Vietnamese crime lord
2001: Timothy McVeigh, Oklahoma City bomber
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Q: Sawtooth wave in oscilloscope instead of a square wave I am trying to observe I2C lines coming from an Arduino using a cheap oscilloscope (6022BE-25MHz.)
The signals I see do not resemble a square wave - it looks more like a sawtooth wave.
Does anyone know what could cause this?

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*Is it the scope that is the problem?

*Is it related to the I2C lines?

A: You require a stronger (lower value) pull-up resistor on the I2C line to charge any cpacitance on the line more quickly.
Whatever is driving the I2C line can pull the line Low very strongly, but does not drive the line High, depending on a pull-up resistor to take it High.

A: If your oscilloscope probe has 10x mode, try enabling it. You may also need to adjust 10x compensation trimmer if you haven't done that before.
With typical oscilloscope probes, 1x mode has about 100 pF capacitance while 10x mode has about 15 pF. A 100 pF capacitance connected to I2C is similar to about 1 meter of extra cable, which slows down the rise times.

A: I2C bus clock and data pins are driven in open-drain (open-collector) mode.
So it will not be a square wave.
The falling edge will be a sharp step, but the rising edge will be a shark-fin like RC charge waveform.
So what you see is normal, but the waveform rise time may be too slow.
You should investigate if the bus is within specs for all chips, but it does look like the rise time could be somewhat faster so you may require stronger pull-ups.

A: The oscilloscope traces show that SCL and SDA signals have a time constant that's way beyond what'd be required at the frequency your run the bus at. I'm seeing approximately a 20us time constant.
The circuit as you describe it should have a capacitance between SCL/SDA and ground less than 100pF. Together with I2C's recommended pull up on the order of 10kOhm, we should be seeing a time constant of 1E-10F * 1E4Ohm = 1E-6s = 1us.
But we're seeing 20us time constant (roughly) instead. So, you're not telling us something. Either you have connected ~2nF of capacitance between each line and a low impedance node (either power supply rail for example), or you don't have the 10kOhm pull-ups in place.
If you didn't stick extra capacitors there, it looks like you have about 200kOhm-1MOhm pull-up resistance - one to two orders of magnitude too high, depending on what the parasitic capacitance is on those lines.
Such pull-up resistance would be in the range of weak pull-ups on microcontroller GPIO pins. So it looks like you're trying to run I2C with nothing but weak pull-ups in the microcontroller. That's not enough. Connect 10-15kOhm between SCL and I/O supply voltage, and similarly for SDA.


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"Conquest of Paradise" is a song recorded by Greek composer Vangelis. It was the soundtrack from Ridley Scott's  1992 film 1492: Conquest of Paradise and the lead single from the album of the same name. The song achieved success in many territories, including Flanders, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland where it topped the singles chart, but was a relative failure in UK where it only peaked at number 60. The song's popularity had been boosted in Germany by boxer Henry Maske using it as his theme song.

Its chord progression is based on the old European theme La Follia.

Track listings
CD single
"Conquest Of Paradise" – 4:47
"Moxica And The Horse" – 7:12

CD maxi-single
"Conquest Of Paradise" – 4:47
"Moxica And The Horse" – 7:12
"Line Open" – 4:43
"Landscape" – 1:37

 Includes two songs ("Line Open" and "Landscape"), which were not included in the album.

Lyrics
Throughout the whole song, the following lyrics in Pseudo-Latin were repeated several times:

In nòreni per ìpe,
in noreni coràh;
tirà mine per ìto,
ne dominà.

One time this refrain is:

In ròmine tirmèno,
ne ròmine to fa,
imàgine pro mèno,
per imentirà.

Credits
Choir: The English Chamber Choir
Composed and arranged by Vangelis
Choir conductor: Guy Protheroe
Produced by Frederick Rousseau
Recorded and mixed by Philippe Colonna, at Epsilon Laboratory, Paris

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

In popular culture

Covers
The song has been covered by many artists, including Blake, Klaus Schulze, Free the Spirit, the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra Project, Kati Kovács, John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra (1996), Daylight (1997), Daniel Hůlka (1998), Dana Winner (2002), The Ten Tenors (2004), Rhydian (2009) and Gregorian (2012).

At sport events
"Conquest of Paradise" is played at home games for the New Zealand Super Rugby team Crusaders and Super League teams Widnes Vikings and Wigan Warriors. These days it is the unofficial theme tune for the city of Christchurch where the Crusaders rugby team is based. English football club Sheffield Wednesday also play Conquest of Paradise prior to their theme tune before kick off. "Conquest of Paradise" was also played at the Cricket World Cup (2011) and (2015) just before the national anthems of the two contesting national teams were played at the start of every match. It was also played during the 2010 and 2014 cricket World Twenty20 championships to uphold International Cricket Council's "spirit-of-cricket" concept just before the national anthems of the two playing teams. The Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc series uses "Conquest of Paradise" at the start, finish and prize ceremonies of its various ultramarathon races. It is also used by the Engadin Skimarathon to introduce the start of the competitors waves. At least in the years 2010–2013. Usually every minute it is interrupted to announce the time until "go!". German boxer Henry Maske used it as his theme song. At the long-distance sled-dog race Finnmarkslopet in Norway, the song is played every time a dog team crosses the finish line.

In TV shows and cinema
It was used for many years in the Jeux Sans Frontières, using it during the credits. The single "Conquest of Paradise" has also been inserted in the 2007 Chinese television drama series Soldiers Sortie, and is used as the theme song in the Hindi film, Koyla (1997), Kaalapani (1996) and a Tamil film, Sundara Purushan  (1996). The song was also used in the trailer for Mission to Mars (2000). It's also part of the soundtrack of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), by Guy Richie.

References

Songs about Christopher Columbus
Film theme songs
1992 singles
1994 singles
1995 singles
Ultratop 50 Singles (Flanders) number-one singles
Number-one singles in Germany
Dutch Top 40 number-one singles
Number-one singles in Switzerland
Vangelis songs
Songs written for films
1992 songs
Songs with music by Vangelis
Song recordings produced by Vangelis
East West Records singles

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