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Alaska: The United States' 49th and Largest State
Alaska, 49th State of the United States
Fun Facts About Alaska
In 1867, United States Secretary of State William H. Seward offered Russia $7,200,000. How much was that per acre?
two cents.
Where does the word 'Alaska' come from?
An Eskimo word Alakshak meaning great lands or peninsula.
How many times could Rhode Island fit into Alaska?
What is Alaska's official state sport?
dog mushing. The Alaska Legislature adopted this in 1972.
What is Alaska's largest city in population?
Anchorage. Alaska's second largest city is Fairbanks. The third is Juneau.
Secretary of State, William H. Seward circa 1860-1865
On what date did Alaska officially became the property of the United States?
October 18, 1867. The purchase of Alaska was called 'Seward's Folly' by many Americans.
What is Alaska's official state gemstone?
Jade.
Alaska State Flag
In what year did Bennie Benson design Alaska's state flag?
1926. Bennie Benson was only 13 years old when he designed Alaska's state flag.
Mt. Augustine
In what year did Mount Augustine erupt?
1986. Mt. Augustine is 104 miles southwest of Anchorage.
Tongass National Forest
True or False? Alaska contains the largest national forest in the United States.
True . The name of this forest is the Tongass National Forest.
Juneau, capital of Alaska
True or False? Juneau is only accessible by boat or plane.
True . It is the only capital city in the United States that is only accessible by boat or plane.
Prospect Creek Camp
What is the lowest recorded temperature for Alaska?
-80 degrees F. This temperature was recorded at Prospect Creek Camp in 1971.
The Yukon River
How many rivers does Alaska have?
Over 3,000. The largest of these is the Yukon, which flows for 1,980 miles into the Bering Sea.
Barrow, AK
What Alaskan city is the northernmost in the US?
Barrow. It's only 800 miles from the North Pole. Wonder if Santa stops there first?
Libby Riddle
What is Alaskan Libby Riddles noted for?
First woman to win the Iditarod. In 1985 she won the Iditarod, Alaska's famous 1,049-mile dogsled race. Her time, from Anchorage to Nome, was 18 days, 2 minutes, 17 seconds.
Sitka, former capital of Alaska
What was the capital of Alaska when it belonged to Russia?
Sitka.
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Which Alaskan National Park is the nation's largest?
Wrangell- St. Elias. It encompasses 12.4 million acres, including ten of America's highest peaks.
What's the meaning of the term 'Cheechako'?
Newcomer to Alaska. Term meaning first-time Alaskan traveler or newcomer to the area.
Muktuk, an Eskimo delicacy
If you ordered muktuk, what would you be served?
Raw whale blubber. This is considered a delicacy by the Eskimos.
What is the capital of Alaska?
Juneau. Anchorage is the largest city, but Juneau is the state capital.
In Alaska the length of daylight is ___________ ?
more in the summer. The days are much shorter(darker)in the winter and, in the the summer the days are much longer(lighter). This is due to the tilt in the earth's axis.
In 1998 which Alaskan High school won the 4A state championship for football?
Service. The Service Cougars won the state championship in 1997,1998,and 1999.
In 2002 Anchorage had a record snowfall for a 24 hour period. How much did they get?
30 inches. In the deepest spots it was inches but, the at the airport were the official depth is recorded it was 28 inches.
Mt. McKinley, US's largest mountain
North America's largest mountain (Mt. McKinley) is in Alaska. What is the name of the national park it is in?
Denali National Park.
From what country did the U.S buy Alaska?
Russia. It was bought from Russia in 1867 at two cents an acre. At the time it was known as "Seward's Folly", after the Secretary of State who arranged the purchase.
The forget-me-not
The Alaskan state flower is a_____ ?
forget-me-not.
The Alaskan oil pipeline
Alaska is known for the great Alaskan pipe line. What runs through it?
Oil. The great Alaskan Pipeline carries oil from the north slope to Valdez. This is a distance of about 800 miles.
What is Alaska's state bird?
Willow ptarmigan. The origin of the word "ptarmigan" is unknown. One theory is that it comes from a Gaelic word meaning "mountaineer". Feathered feet help this bird conserve heat and it can survive the winter by eating nothing more than willow buds. Also in the winter, the birds are camouflaged by turning completely white.
What is the state tree?
Sitka spruce. Spruce needles are usually sharp and four-sided and emit a pungent odor when crushed. The mature cones hang down from a branch, instead of erect like the cones of a fir. Spruces are typically tall and conical, but soil and climate can change their growth pattern.
Bowhead Whale
What is the state sea animal?
Bowhead whale. Other wildlife found in Alaska are bears, moose, elk, deer, wolves, mountain goats, and many kinds of birds and fish.
What is the state fish?
King salmon. A salmon's appearance is molded by the environment to an extraordinary degree; therefore, scientists do not know the exact number of species in the group. There are believed to be about 40 species native to North America.
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Toronto: Canada's Bustling Metropolis and Jewel of the North
Toronto, Capital of Ontario Province, Canada
Fun Facts About Toronto
Toronto was founded in 1793, by the British because of its protected harbour as well as advantages of vast forests, countless river valleys and fresh water lakes in its territory.
Toronto (GTA) is Canada's largest city and is home to over 5.7 million Canadians.
Toronto is the capital city of Ontario, and the most important city in Canada.
Toronto is located in Southern Ontario which has shorelines on four of the five Great Lakes.
Also, Southern Ontario is located, further south than parts of ten, northern states of the USA.
The province of Ontario (415,000 square miles, in area) is larger than the state of Texas (267,000 square miles, in area) located in the southern USA.
Toronto residents hold more university educations than in any other country in the world, based on percentage of the population, as referenced from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and last compiled in 2003.
Within an afternoon drive from Toronto, seven million, more Canadians live and prosper.
Ontario highways are well maintained and link with major freeways connecting Toronto with all of Canada and the USA.
Toronto is the largest, financial centre in Canada and the fourth largest, economic centre in all of North America. Only, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, USA have larger economic centres.
Toronto is Canada's cultual, educational, entertainment, financial, high tech, commercial and industrial centre. Toronto is also, the "Silicon Valley" of Canada, and Toronto is known as "Hollywood North". Los Angeles and New York are larger film and television centres.
Toronto's famous, theatre district is second in size only, to New York city, in the USA.
Award-winning, theatre productions enjoy long runs, large audiences and world premieres in the theatre and entertainment district of downtown Toronto.
Toronto's Police Force is one of the most efficient, friendly and respected of all police forces in the world. Also, with respect to your safety and security, the city of Toronto is one of the most clean, safe, peaceful, large, cosmopolitan cities in the world.
All major federally chartered, Canadian banks have world headquarters in downtown Toronto, including, the Bank of Montreal which is located at "First Canadian" Tower, in Toronto's financial district. As well, all foreign banks have their Canadian headquarters in Toronto.
Casa Loma (Home on Hill)
Canada's largest general, life and re-insurance companies and other financial institutions have their world headquarters in downtown Toronto. Canada's version of "Wall Street" is called "Bay Street" in the centre of Toronto's financial and business district.
Within an hour's drive of downtown Toronto is the greatest concentration of industry and auto manufacturing in Canada. GM, Ford, Chrysler, Honda and others have Canadian head offices, and large manufacturing plants in the Toronto GTA.
Toronto has the only, real castle in all of North America. Most people never forget "Casa Loma" (home on hill) with vista views of the downtown skyline of Toronto, and of Great Lake Ontario.
Toronto has beautiful islands protecting its natural harbour. The islands are a mix of parklands, nature reserves and protected wetlands, maintained by the Parks Department responsible for this unique, natural resource. No private vehicles are permitted on the Toronto islands.
The Toronto Islands are reached by public ferry boats crossing the Toronto harbour.
On the islands, the city seems far removed, and a feeling of being in the country prevails just a mile offshore from Toronto's exciting, vibrant downtown.
English is the primary, and first language spoken in Toronto and in Canada. "French-Canadian" (an old dialect) is Canada's second, official language. Other minority groups speak over 100 languages in Toronto.
The laws of Toronto, and Canada are based on British law and English parliamentary system of government except for the separatist "state" of French Quebec, located three hundred miles (500 km) to the north and east from downtown Toronto.
Less than a two hour drive, north of Toronto is the "Muskoka Lakes" Region where beautiful lakes, rivers and forests are set in the wilderness, and as it looked, many hundreds of years ago.
One of the wonders of the world, Niagara Falls is just, an hour away by car from Toronto.
People are amazed at the great volume of water that spills over the (Canadian) Horseshoe,
Niagara Falls, each second, as they stand, less than 20 feet (3 meters) from the "Brink".
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San Marino: The World's Oldest Republic
The Flag of San Marino
Fun Facts About San Marino
San Marino is a tiny state bordered by the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna to the north and east and Marche to the south and west.
A person from San Marino is called Sammarinese. Sammarinese is used for both singular and plural tense.
The landscape is for the most part green with rolling hills, dominated by the three peaks of Mount Titano.
Within San Marino lie the capital of the same name and eight villages.
The third smallest state in Europe (after the Vatican and Monaco).
San Marino on the map
San Marino claims to be the world's oldest republic.
According to tradition, it was founded by a Christian stonemason named Marinus in 301 A.D. who escaped from the Roman Empire to seek freedom from religious persecution. Marinus settled at the base of Mount Titano.
San Marino's foreign policy is aligned with that of Italy, as are social and political trends.
San Marino has 9 municipalities (castelli, singular – castello); Acquaviva, Borgo Maggiore, Chiesanuova, Domagnano, Faetano, Fiorentino, Montegiardino, San Marino Citta, Serravalle.
The tourist sector contributes over 50% of GDP.
In 2000 more than 3 million tourists visited San Marino.
The key industries are banking, wearing apparel, electronics, and ceramics. Main agricultural products are wine and cheeses.
The per capita level of output and standard of living are comparable to those of the most prosperous regions of Italy, which supplies much of its food.
San Marino became a member of the United Nations in 1992. Although San Marino doesn't do much for the United Nations, it does pay 0.002% of the U.N.'s annual fees. (That means that for every $50,000 the U.N. needs, San Marino pays $1)
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Jerome Liebling's "Grain Worker, Minneapolis, 1950," at Greenberg.
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—"Poiret: King of Fashion," a survey of the career of the Parisian designer Paul Poiret (1879-1944), is at the Costume Institute through Aug. 5. | "Neo Rauch at the Met: Para" presents new paintings by the Leipzig-based artist. Through Oct. 14. | "Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings: The Clark Brothers Collect." Through Aug. 19. | "Frank Stella on the Roof." Through Oct. 28. | (Open Tuesdays through Sundays, 9:30 to 5:30, and Friday and Saturday evenings until 9.)
11 W. 53rd St. (212-708-9400)—"Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years." Through Sept. 10. | "Picasso's 'Demoiselles d'Avignon' at 100." Through Aug. 27. "Present Tense: Photographs by JoAnn Verburg." Through Nov. 5. | A primer on the minimal and post-minimal line in all its severe glory, "Lines, Grids, Stains, Words" begins with a drawing by Ellsworth Kelly from 1949 and ends with one by Martin Creed from 2004. In between, the focus is on the sixties and seventies (with a flareup in the nineties). Examples of art made by women in periods usually considered to have been dominated by men are notable; works on paper by Eva Hesse, Hanne Darboven, Howardena Pindell, and Cady Noland stand side by side with pieces by the likes of Donald Judd, Mel Bochner, Rudolf Stingel, and Mark Lombardi. Through Oct. 22. (Open Wednesdays through Mondays, 10:30 to 5:30, and Friday evenings until 8. The museum will be open until 9 on Thursday evenings through Aug. 30.)
Fifth Ave. at 89th St. (212-423-3500)—The telescoping spiral of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim rotunda is in the midst of a summerlong restoration, so it's a timely moment to consider how geometry sculpts the void. "The Shapes of Space" culls works from the permanent collection and will evolve over the summer, moving upward as the renovation progresses. Through Sept. 5. | "Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia and Anarchy." Through Aug. 6. (Open Saturdays through Wednesdays, 10 to 5:45, and Fridays, 10 to 8.)
Madison Ave. at 75th St. (800-944-8639)—"Rudolf Stingel." Through Oct. 14. | "Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era." Through Sept. 16. | "Lincoln Kirstein" honors the late, great aesthete, connoisseur, and impresario on the centenary of his birth, with an exhibition of work by artists he championed, including Walker Evans, Elie Nadelman, and Pavel Tchelitchew. Through Aug. 27. (Open Wednesdays, Thursdays, and weekends, 11 to 6, and Fridays, 1 to 9.)
Central Park W. at 79th St. (212-769-5100)—"Gold." Through Aug. 19. | "Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids." Through Jan. 6. | The recently opened Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins explores the science of evolution. (Open daily, 10 to 5:45.)
ASIA SOCIETY
Park Ave. at 70th St. (212-288-6400)—"Condensation: Five Video Works by Chen Chieh-jen." In the stark, staged videos by this Taipei artist—making his U.S. museum début—the ubiquitous label "Made in Taiwan" has a dark side. Factories appear abandoned, an office clerk sleeps at his desk in an otherwise deserted skyscraper, and an aggrieved-looking group of Taiwanese dockworkers travel to Liverpool to reënact protests. The showstopper, however, is Chen's first video, made in 2002, a tableau vivant based on an early-twentieth-century French photograph of a Chinese lingchi execution. Projected on three screens, we see mercifully little of the "thousand cuts" carnage and much of the condemned man's face, blinking through an opium-smoke haze. What should be a gruesome spectacle feels instead like an ecstatic rite—a discomfiting effect that may explain why Georges Bataille reproduced that same French photograph in his 1961 book "The Tears of Eros_._" Through Aug. 5. (Open Tuesdays through Sundays, 11 to 6, and Friday evenings until 9.)
1133 Sixth Ave., at 43rd St. (212-857-0000)—"Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-79." Through Sept. 9. | "Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African-American Portraits." Through Sept. 9. (Open Tuesdays through Thursdays, and Saturdays and Sundays, 10 to 6, and Fridays, 10 to 8.)
1109 Fifth Ave., at 92nd St. (212-423-3200)—"Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art." Through Aug. 5. | "The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend." Through Sept. 16. (Open Saturdays through Wednesdays, 11 to 5:45, and Thursdays, 11 to 8.)
MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
225 Madison Ave., at 36th St. (212-685-0008)—From Berlin to Broadway: The Ebb Bequest of Modern German and Austrian Drawings." Through Sept. 2. | "Federico da Montefeltro and His Library." Through Sept. 30. (Open Tuesdays through Thursdays, 10:30 to 5, Fridays, 10:30 to 9, Saturdays, 10 to 6, and Sundays, 11 to 6.)
Fifth Ave. at 103rd St. (212-534-1672)—"Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War." Through Aug. 12. | "The Jewish Daily Forward: Embracing an Immigrant Community." Through Sept. 17. (Open Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 to 5.)
NOGUCHI MUSEUM
9-01 33rd Rd., at Vernon Blvd., Long Island City (718-204-7088)—"Survey of Paris Abstractions." In 1927, Isamu Noguchi, then in his early twenties, went to Paris, where he apprenticed with Constantin Brancusi for five months. What followed was an intense year and a half of working through the master's lessons. The best pieces here, though, find the young Noguchi experimenting with his own serenely quirky sensibilities—pencil-on-graph-paper studies for modular, crutch-shaped sculptures; three variations of a red wooden cube; a model for a garden proposed for Lever House, in New York City. Through Sept. 2. (Open Wednesdays through Fridays, 10 to 5, and weekends, 11 to 6.)
P.S. 1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
22-25 Jackson Ave., at 46th Ave., Long Island City (718-784-2084)—"Organizing Chaos." Through Sept. 24. | "Peter Young: 1963-1977." Through Sept. 24. | "Linder." Through Sept. 24. | "Young Architects Program 2007: Liquid Sky by Ball-Nogues Studio." Through Sept. 24. (Open Thursdays through Mondays, noon to 6.)
GALLERIES—UPTOWN
Summer-hours warning: Many galleries are open Mondays through Fridays, from around 10 or 11 to between 5 and 6. Others follow the normal Tuesday-to-Saturday schedule. It's best to call ahead.
The "Preis Bilder" paintings in this show aren't among Kippenberger's best-known works, but they offer considerable insight into the concerns of the German prankster, who died in 1997, at the age of forty-four. Preis translates as both "price" and "prize" (Bilder means "pictures"), and the show is a critique of consumerist culture that doubles as a trophy room. Some canvases are a bouncy red or pink, others grisaille; brushwork shifts between hard-edged and expressionistic. Works that initially appear lacklustre (compared with, say, Kippenberger's self-portraits in his underwear) begin to seem quietly astute. Through July 27. (1018 Art, 1018 Madison Ave. 212-537-0453.)
Liebling's most famous photographs—portraits of stylish young black boys, made in New York in the late nineteen-forties—have been much reproduced, but the broader scope of his work is less well known. Liebling, now in his eighties, has long been a concerned documentarian; his subjects include industrial landscapes, grain-elevator and slaughterhouse workers, and aging handball players in Miami Beach. Among the strongest, most soulful images are his portraits of children and young people, made early in his career, and knockout color pictures from the eighties. The latter make this savvy retrospective an especially welcome rediscovery. Through Aug. 17. (Greenberg, 41 E. 57th St. 212-334-0010.)
GALLERIES CHELSEA
THOMAS FLECHTNER
No matter how accomplished, many of the large-scale color photographs in this Swiss artist's exhibition seem overly familiar. Flechtner is hardly the first to take the manufactured landscape as his subject, and his pictures of flower and grass nurseries make largely unoriginal points about man's insensitivity to nature. That doesn't mean that many of these photographs—like the image of mounds of yellow and red tulip petals on the grass—aren't exceedingly handsome, but they're outdone here by a trio of tall light boxes filled with pictures of cherry trees. Shot through branches, with the sun in the background, the photographs have a dreamy, impressionistic effect; the out-of-focus passages suggest flickering movement and swooning bliss. Through Aug. 17. (Boesky, 509 W. 24th St. 212-680-9899.)
The subject of Jordan's last New York show was the waste—from circuit boards to sawdust—produced by American mass consumption. His enormous new color photographs pick up the theme in an even more literal (but seductively abstract) series called "Running the Numbers." Each digitally composed image represents a statistic: the two million plastic beverage bottles discarded in the U.S. every five minutes look like a field of confetti stretching as far as the eye can see. Other meticulously constructed accumulations, of handguns, paper bags, cell phones, and prison uniforms, make similarly instructive points, but too often they tip the balance between illustration and art in the wrong direction. Through July 31. (Von Lintel, 555 W. 25th St. 212-242-0599.)****
"CONTEMPORARY ART FROM PAKISTAN"
If the mostly small-scale works—drawings, paintings, videos, and photographs—in this eclectic eight-person show have something in common, besides their nationality, it's a commitment to beauty, tempered by an interest in cultural flux. Bani Abidi films the members of Pakistan's Shan Pipe Band as they teach themselves to play "The Star-Spangled Banner," and Rashid Rana collages tiny photographs of caged birds into a Rorschach-like blot. Through Aug. 3. (Erben, 526 W. 26th St. 212-645-8701.)
"FIRST CONTACT: A PHOTOGRAPHER'S SKETCHBOOK"
As I.C.P.'s recent Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition made especially evident, a photographer's contact prints—the unedited output of a roll of film—provide insight into the working process. For this engrossing show, contact sheets from twenty Magnum photographers (including Susan Meiselas, Eve Arnold, Elliott Erwitt, and Bruce Davidson) are shown alongside the single images chosen from them. Sheets by Man Ray, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, and others expand the range considerably. "First Contact" is educational in the best sense, providing an opportunity not just to see masters at work (don't miss Robert Frank's strips from "The Americans") but to second-guess them. Through Aug. 3. (Silverstein, 535 W. 24th St. 212-627-3930.)
"THREE FOR SOCIETY"
"I had three chairs in my house," Henry David Thoreau wrote of his cabin on Walden Pond. "One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." This show sticks to friendship—exhibiting works by gallery-represented artists only—and claims to explore how communication differs indoors and out. It's a fine premise, but it doesn't translate in works like Mary Heilman's abstract canvas "Sunset at Makapu" or Florian Maier-Aichen's moody landscape photograph. Where's Thoreau in all this? Maybe in Robert Boyd's death-and-destruction video set to a disco soundtrack, with images of Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, and other messianic types, whose visions of utopia went haywire. Through July 27. (303 Gallery, 525 W. 22nd St. 212-255-1121.)
BANKS VIOLETTE: Gladstone, 515 W. 24th St. 212-206-9300. Through Aug. 17. "GÜNTER GRASS: GRAPHIC WORK, 1972–2007": Kasher, 521 W. 23rd St. 212-966-3978. Through July 28. "STRANGE MAGIC": Luhring Augustine, 531 W. 24th St. 212-206-9100. Through July 27.
GALLERIES—DOWNTOWN
JIM ISERMANN
The show's title, "Vinyl Smash Up," may sound like a contemporary-art demolition derby, but what it offers is more along the lines of a wallpaper-design expo. Sheets of Mylar—primary and secondary colors vie with reflective silver—cover most of the walls in Deitch's cavernous Wooster Street space. Curvy, looping patterns and truncated geometric forms recall everything from Op art to sixties-era bachelor pads. The show cries out for some furniture or shag carpeting—though Isermann covered that ground a few years back. Through Sept. 29. (Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster St. 212-343-7300.)
CHRISTOPH BROICH: Envoy, ****131 Chrystie St. 212-226-4555. Through Aug. 4. BANKS VIOLETTE: Team, 83 Grand St. 212-279-9219. Through Aug. 17. "NEW ECONOMY": Artists Space, 38 Greene St. 212-744-7400. Through Aug. 31.
GALLERIES—BROOKLYN
"(UN)NATURAL SELECTION"
Colors are bright and shapes playful in the works on view in this group show, which has an elaborate (and gratifying) investment in the handmade. But, despite its optimistic look, all is not well in this ecosystem of drawings, videos, photographs, and installations. Jim Torok's diaristic cartoon meditates on the recent shootings at Virginia Tech, and a graphite drawing by Michael Schall portrays the titular "Malfunction at the Smoke Factory." In a videotaped performance, William Lamson tries to keep a roomful of balloons aloft by blowing on them, only to have them pop when they land on his mask made of pins. Also among the sinister fantasists are Amy Chan, James Esber, Nina Katchadourian, and David C. Scher. Through July 30. (Pierogi, 177 N. 9th St. 718-599-2144.)
THE PHILIP JOHNSON GLASS HOUSE
In 1949, Johnson—then an influential curator and fledgling architect—built himself a house, a steel-framed glass box, that ranks among the crowning achievements of twentieth-century design. In June, the National Trust for Historic Preservation opened the site to the public; visitors who plan ahead (tickets for the limited-capacity tours are sold out through 2007) can view the building and eleven other Johnson-designed structures on the grounds. (New Canaan, Conn. 203-594-9585.)
Published in the print edition of the July 30, 2007, issue.
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Adam Driver, the Original Man
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5.1 The Dalek Occupation of Winter
The TARDIS lands in the capital city of a planet deep in the midst of an endless winter. The population are celebrating a new crop of candidates winning roles at the scientific research centre. Those who go there dedicate their lives to continued service and are rarely, if ever, seen again. Not everyone is happy to see them leave.
As the Doctor, Steven and Vicki watch, the city leader – Majorian – invites onto the stage in front of the happy crowd their 'friend who made all this possible'… and a Dalek appears.
The people of this planet seem to be living in perfect harmony with the Doctor's old enemies. But the TARDIS crew know this cannot be true. So what's really going on?
Written By: David K Barnes
Directed By: Lisa Bowerman
2.02 The Forsaken
4.1 The Night Witches
3.3 The Ravelli Conspiracy
3.1 The Age of Endurance
4.4 The Wreck of The World
2.03 The Black Hole
4.2 The Outliers
2.01 The Yes Men
3.4 The Sontarans
3.2 The Fifth Traveller
2.04 The Isos Network
4.3 The Morton Legacy
The TARDIS lands in the capital city of a planet deep in the midst of an endless winter. The population are celebrating a new crop of candidates winning roles at the scientific research centre. Those who go there dedicate their lives to continued service and are rarely, if ever, seen again. Not everyone is happy to see them leave. As the Doctor, Steven and Vicki watch, the city leader – Majorian – invites onto the stage in front of the happy crowd their 'friend who made all this possible'… and a Dalek appears. The people of this planet seem to be living in perfect harmony with the Doctor's old enemies. But the TARDIS crew know this cannot be true. So what's really going on? Written By: David K Barnes Directed By: Lisa Bowerman Cast Maureen O'Brien (Vicki), Peter Purves (Steven Taylor), Shvorne Marks (Amala Vost), Robert Daws (Gaius Majorian), Sara Powell (Jacklyn Karna), Matthew Jacobs-Morgan (Kenrik Vost) and Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks). Other parts played by members of the cast. Producer David Richardson Script Editor John Dorney Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
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Gomez-Pinilla and co-author Rahul Agrawal, a visiting postdoctoral fellow, studied two groups of rats that were given a solution that contained high-fructose corn syrup as drinking water for a six-week period, according to AFP reports. One of the groups was also given flaxseed oil and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), both omega-3 fatty acids, while the other was not.
They also showed signs of insulin-resistance, according to the UCLA press release. Danbury Dentist Jay M. Marks, DMD suggests eating more fish, or trying omega-3 supplements.
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Beef and pork futures were mixed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
February live cattle were unchanged at $1.1865 a pound; January feeder cattle rose 0.90 cent to $1.4390 a pound; while February lean hogs shed 0.20 cent to 86.40 cents a pound.
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Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker est un violoniste, compositeur et chef d'orchestre bavarois, né à Munich le  et mort à Elberfeld, aujourd'hui Wuppertal, le .

Vie

Enfance et adolescence (1844-1860)
Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker est né le  à Munich. Il est le premier enfant du musicien Jakob Rauchenecker (1815-1876) et de Rosina Crescenz Rauchenecker, née à Wening (1815-1876), et fut baptisé deux jours plus tard à Sankt Peter. Très jeune, son père le confie à son oncle Georg Wening, prêtre de la communauté de Thalheim, 260 habitants, près de Erding. Il apprend au  et à 11 ans, il est le premier violon du chœur de l'église. Rauchenecker reçu une intense éducation musicale, au piano et à l'orgue par Theodor Lachner (1798-1877), au violon par Joseph Walter (1831-1875), au contrepoint par August Baumgartner (1814-1864) et à la composition par Franz Lachner (1803-1890). À l'âge de 15 ans, il donne des cours de violon, piano, orgue, ainsi que sur des sujets théoriques comme l'harmonie, les formes musicales, la fugue et le contrepoint. , le chef d'orchestre de la cour, fut l'un de ses élèves.

Années en France (1860-1870)
Le  aout 1860, Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker reçoit un permis d'entrée en France, et travaille dès lors en tant que premier violon au Grand Théâtre de Lyon. En 1862, il est nommé maitre de chapelle à Aix-en-Provence, puis en 1864 à Carpentras en qualité de premier chef d'orchestre du théâtre. À Carpentras, il épouse Elisabeth Antoinette Emilie Fournial (1842-1870), une professeur d'école. Leurs jumeaux Alban et Margarethe naissent le  à Carpentras. En 1868, Rauchenecker prends la position de chef d'orchestre du conservatoire d'Avignon. Avec la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870, Rauchenecker est expulsé de France et s'installe en Suisse.

Années en Suisse (1870-1884)
Peu après leur arrivée a Zurich, sa femme Elisabeth meurt à l'âge de 28 ans. Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker gagne sa vie en donnant des leçons de piano. Il est membre de l'orchestre de Tonhalle à Zurich. Son futur beau-frère Oskar Kahl, chef de l'orchestre de Zurich, le présente à Richard Wagner. Le  ont lieu les premières répétitions de "l'idylle de Siegfried" dans le foyer du vieux théâtre de Zurich. Le  a lieu la première sous la supervision de Wagner, sur l'escalier de sa maison de Tribschen, à Lucerne. Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker est parmi les 15 musiciens de l'orchestre. Le , une série de sept soirées en quartet débute, durant lesquelles Oskar Kahl (premier violon), Georg Rauchenecker (second violon), Hans Richter (Viola) et Hermann Ruhoff (Cello) contrebasse) répètent les quartets de Beethoven dans la maison de Wagner à Tribschen.
En 1871 Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker prend une position de chef d'orchestre à Lenzburg où il est découvert par Dr. Jakob Heinrich Ziegler-Sulzer (1798-1882), un médecin et amateur d'art de Winterthur.
Au printemps 1873, il se convertit à l'église protestante, car sa seconde femme est évangélique. Le mariage avec Anna Karolina Ulrica Kempin (1845-1904) a lieu le  à l'église Neumünster de Zurich.
Le , Rauchenecker est élu – à la suggestion du Dr. Sulzer – chef d'orchestre du  où il occupera aussi la position de chef de l'école de musique à partir de . Durant les dix années suivantes, il a une influence déterminante sur la vie musicale de la ville.
De 1873 à 1876, il dirige le chœur d'hommes "Frohsinn", et en 1875 celui de "Frauenfeld".
Le , le père de Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker meurt à Winterthour, et sa fille Hélène nait le . En 1878, il succède à Julius Buckel à l'orgue de l'église évangélique réformiste de Winterthur. Sa fille Elsa nait le .
En 1880, Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker et U. Ruckstuhl ouvrent un magasin de musique à Winterthur. Ses adieux à Winterthur eurent lieu le , sous la forme d'un concert.

Années berlinoises (1884-1885)
Le  marque le déménagement à Berlin de Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker où il dirige l' orchestre philharmonique de Berlin, rue Bernburger à Berlin-Kreuzberg. Il accède à cette position grâce au l'accueil favorable reçu par sa symphonie en F mineur interprétée à Berlin en 1883. Le , il dirige son premier concert symphonique. À côté, il travaille comme professeur de piano au conservatoire de Stern'sches et dirige des exercices d'ensembles.

Années à Elberfeld (1885-1906)
Après un court séjour à Cassel, il déménage à Barmen au début du printemps 1885.
Il prend la direction de la société orchestrale jusqu'en 1887, puis dirige l'Association Instrumentale de Elberfeld (Association Instrumentale de Wuppertal depuis 1929). En 1889, il fonde un conservatoire à Elberfeld. Parmi ses élèves figurent le tromboniste Joseph Franz Serafin Alschausky (1879-1948) et le compositeur  (1867-1920).

En 1892, il dirige le chœur d'hommes "Deutscher Sängerkreis" durant un an, et est nommé "maitre de chapelle de la ville" en 1902.
Sa seconde épouse Anna (née Kempin) meurt le  à Elberfeld. En 1905 il reçoit le titre de "Königlich Preussischer Musikdirektor" ("Directeur Royal de Musique de Prusse")
Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker meurt le  des suites d'une pneumonie à Elberfeld.

Œuvres
Rauchenecker composa de nombreuses pièces pour différents genres musicaux :

Œuvres orchestrales

 Symphonie  en fa mineur (1875)
 Symphonie  en si Majeur Jubelsinfonie (1885)
 Symphonie  en ré Majeur Elegische Sinfonie (1903/1904)
 Grande Ouverture pour Musique Militaire (1867)
 Ouverture La graine de coquelicot (avant 1870)
  (1880)
 Hochzeits-Idyll (1889)
 Alarich auf der Akropolis (environ 1899/1900), poème symphonique
 Aus der Jugendzeit (environ 1896), poème symphonique
 Friedrich Rotbart (environ 1870), poème symphonique
 Interlude de l'opéra Sanna (environ 1893)

Œuvres concertantes

 Concerto pour violon  en la mineur (1876/1885)
 Concerto pour violon  en si mineur (1900)
 Concerto pour piano  en si mineur (1898)
 Concerto pour piano  en fa mineur (1894)
 Concerto pour violoncelle en ré mineur (1904)
 Concerto pour hautbois en ré mineur (1905)

Chansons

 Fünf Lieder der Brautzeit (Bräutigamslieder) (1894) pour baryton et piano
 Sieben Lieder basé sur le roman Der Liedermacher (1894) pour soprano et piano
 Abendlied (1896)
 Maria Wiegenlied (1898)
 Wirtstöchterlein(1898)
 Schwing dich auf(1900)
 Ave verum corpus (1903) pour alto, violoncelle, harpe et orgue
 So geht's (environ 1888) pour voix et piano
 Bergisches Lied pour baryton et piano
 Drei Gesänge pour baryton
 Fünf Lieder (environ 1883/84) pour une voix profonde
 Königsmordliche Ballade (environ 1874) avec accompagnement de flûte

Œuvres de Chœur

 Sechs Lieder (1878) pour chœur mixte
 Zwei Särge (1900) pour chœur mixte et piano
 Pharao (1897) pour chœur mixte à quatre parties ou chœur de femme en trois parties et piano
 Lied von der Glocke (environ 1895) pour chœur mixte à quatre parties avec déclamation et piano ou pour chœur de femme en trois parties
 Hymne zur Einweihung des Kaiser-Wilhelm- und des Kaiser-Friedrich-Denkmals in Elberfeld (1883) pour chœur d'hommes
 Deutsches Schwert und deutscher Sang (1891) pour chœur d'hommes à quatre parties
 Gotenzug, op. 137 (1899) pour chœur d'hommes à quatre parties avec instruments à vent ou piano
 Gotentreue, op. 138 (1899) pour chœur d'hommes, solo et orchestre (ou piano)
 Germania (environ 1896) pour chœur d'hommes
 Sechs Lieder pour chœur d'hommes
 Schwert und Palme pour chœur d'hommes
 Baracher Wein (environ 1889) pour chœur d'hommes à quatre parties
 Chorlied der Deutschen in Amerika (1885) pour chœur d'hommes à quatre parties
 Der Lenz ist da (environ 1890) pour chœur d'hommes
 O du taufrischer Morgen (1877) pour chœur d'hommes
 Wie lieb ich dich (1877) pour chœur d'hommes
 Walther von der Vogelweide (1899) pour chœur d'hommes à quatre parties a-cappella
 Das heutige Vaterland (1883) pour chœur d'hommes
 Gruss der Heimat: Wo immer ich weile (environ 1888) pour chœur d'hommes
 Die Schönheit der Natur (1900) pour chœur de femmes à quatre parties
 Im Abendrot (1900) pour chœur de femmes à quatre parties
 Geduld (1900) pour chœur de femmes à trois parties
 Zur heiligen Nacht (1900) pour chœur mixte et chœur de femmes à trois parties et piano
 Vater unser (1895) pour chœur de femmes à trois parties avec harmonium et flûte
 Weihnachtsgruss (1898) pour chœur de femmes à trois parties et piano
 Ode an das 19. Jahrhundert (1899)
 An die Freiheit (1891) pour solo, chœur et orchestre
 Niklaus von der Flüe (1874), cantate suisse pour la paix, pour solo, chœur d'hommes  et orchestre
 Trauerkantate auf den Tod Friedrichs III. (1888) pour chœur mixte, baryton et orchestre
 Meine Göttin (1897), cantate pour ténor, chœur d'hommes  et orchestre
 Huldigung der schönen Künste (1898) , cantate pour solo, chœur et orchestre
 Heil dir Germania, cantate pour chœur mixte à quatre parties, piano et déklamation
 Hinaus auf hohen Bergesgipfel (1889), cantate
 Die Murtenschlacht (1876), cantate pour solo, chœur et orchestre
 Kaiser Otto I., cantate pour solo, chœur de femmes à trois parties et piano ou pour solo, chœur mixte et piano
 Borussia (1899/1900), cantate pour chœur mixte avec solo, flûte et piano ou pour chœur de femmes à trois parties avec solo, flute et piano
 Durch Nacht zum Licht (per tenebras ad lucem) (environ  1900), oratoire pour chœur, solo et  orchestre
 Grosse Vokale Messe (1863/64) pour chœur à six parties
 Titanenschicksal (1899)
 Festgesang (1877) pour chœur mixte, solo et orchestre

 Œuvres dramatique

 Le florentin (1871), opéra en 3 actes
 Adelheid von Burgund (1886), opéra
 Die letzten Tage von Thule (environ  1889), opéra en 4 actes
 Sanna (1893), opéra en 2 actes
 Ingo (1893), opéra en 4 actes
 Don Quijote (1895), opéra en 3 actes
 Der Florentiner (1901), opéra en 3 actes (Neufassung von "Le florentin")
 Ovid bei Hof (après 1885), musique de scène
 Theodor Körner(1891), Festival
 Amalasuntha, opéra

 Musique de chambre

 Streichquartett Nr. 1 c-mineur (1874)
 Streichquartett Nr. 2 D-major (1878)
 Streichquartett a-mineur (environ  1879)
 Streichquartett E- major (environ  1883)
 Streichquartett g- mineur (sous la forme d'une suite) (environ 1890)
 Streichquartett Es- major
 Klavierquintett D- major (1897) pour piano, flûte, 2 violons, alto et violoncelle
 Streichersextett Es- major
 Bläseroktett B- major (1897) pour flûte, hautbois, cor anglais, 2 cornes, clarinette basse et basson

 Œuvres de instruments solo

 6 Charakteristische Tonbilder, op. 24-29 (1873) pour violon et piano
 Orientalische Phantasie(1874) pour violon et quatuor à cordes ou piano
 Die vier Temperamente , 4 petites pièces pour piano
 5 kleine Klavierstücke 26 kleine Orgelpräludien (environ 1902/03)
 Jesu, komm zu mir pour orgue
 Präludium für Harmonium (après 1885)

 Prix
En 1905 Rauchenecker reçoit le titre de "Königlich Preussischer Musikdirektor" ("Directeur Royal de Musique de Prusse").

 Discographie (sélection)
 Streichquartett Nr. 1'' (1874) (Jecklin, DDD, 95)

Source

Liens externes

 Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker à Klassika
 Rauchenecker, Georg (Wilhelm). dans: Rudolf Vierhaus: Deutsche biographische Enzyklopädie 8, S. 206
 Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker: Liederverzeichnis
 Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker dans le rapport mensuel de

Compositeur bavarois de la période romantique
Compositeur allemand de musique classique de la période moderne
Violoniste classique allemand
Chef d'orchestre bavarois
Naissance en mars 1844
Naissance à Munich
Naissance dans le royaume de Bavière
Décès en juillet 1906
Décès à Elberfeld
Décès dans la province de Saxe
Décès à 62 ans

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Report: Vancouver Canucks to make "exciting announcement" about flying skate jersey's return
Photo credit:Bob Frid-USA TODAY Sports
Arguably the most popular jersey among fans, the Canucks' black flying skate jersey could be making a return this season.
Questions and rumours began swirling as goaltender Thatcher Demko debuted a new gear setup at Canucks practice yesterday, which was highlighted by a mask that pays tribute to Kirk McLean's memorable bucket:
"I loved it," captain Bo Horvat said after practice of Demko's new gear. "I'm a big fan of the Skate jersey. I thought it looked pretty sweet out there, it'll look even better with a black jersey on for sure."
Then this got dropped on fans by Thomas Drance of The Athletic:
This is not a drill folks, you can expect to see flying skate freed and back on the ice at Rogers Arena where it belongs sometime in 2022.
The team recreated the jersey for their 50th anniversary celebration during the 2019-20 season, and fans couldn't get enough of it.
To this day, the stands at Rogers Arena are littered with fans wearing the iconic jersey, and for the first time in almost two years, the players on the ice could be doing the same.