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enwiki-00000016-0001-0000 | "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe | History | The magazine was named "900" as it was conceived as part of the Novecento Italiano artistic movement. On its launch in 1926, it was received by "a storm of discussion, almost all hostile" by the strapaesano and fascist environment, but it had very important editors like Ramón Gómez de la Serna, James Joyce, Georg Kaise... |
enwiki-00000016-0002-0000 | "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe | History | The first four preambles, Giustification, Basis, Advices, Analogies were published in French in the journals of autumn 1926, March and June 1927. (They were translated into Italian in 1938 by Bontempelli himself.) They set out the main principles of Novecentism, but later editions abandoned internationalism, were writt... |
enwiki-00000016-0003-0000 | "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe | History | In three years only, "900" hosted the dadaist Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes and the surrealist Soupault; it published, for the first time in Italy, translated paragraphs from Ulysses by James Joyce and from Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf; it published also a George Grosz profile written by Yvan Goll, inedited texts by An... |
enwiki-00000017-0000-0000 | "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal | The "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal (Azerbaijani: "Azərbaycan Respublikası Silahlı Qüvvələrinin 90 illiyi (1918–2008)" medalı) is a commemorative medal of Azerbaijan issued to denote the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Armed Forces of the Azerbaijan Democr... | |
enwiki-00000017-0001-0000 | "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal | The medal is worn on the left chest, and in the presence of other orders and medals, it is attached after the "10th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1991–2001)" Medal. | |
enwiki-00000017-0002-0000 | "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal | Description | The "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal is a round shaped medal that is made of bronze with a 35 mm diameter which is plated with gold ornaments. |
enwiki-00000017-0003-0000 | "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal | Description | The relief emblem of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan is depicted on the background of the medal where relief rays and a ribbon pass through the center. The words "Republic of Azerbaijan" along the arc, and "Armed Forces" below the arc have been engraved above the emblem. The octagonal star and crescent a... |
enwiki-00000017-0004-0000 | "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal | Description | The number "90" is engraved below the center of the medal in white. |
enwiki-00000017-0005-0000 | "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" Medal | Description | The reverse side has a smooth surface and the words "90th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1918–2008)" written in the center. An eight-pointed star and crescent are depicted on the national ornament. |
enwiki-00000018-0000-0000 | "95th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2013)" Medal | The medal was dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in that was established in 1918. It was designed in accordance with the order of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev dated October 16, 2012. | |
enwiki-00000018-0001-0000 | "95th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2013)" Medal | The military personals including warrant officers, ensigns, retired officers (released or reserve) who served in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan actively contributed to the formation and strengthening of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan until June 26, 2008 are awarded the medal. | |
enwiki-00000018-0002-0000 | "95th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2013)" Medal | The medal is worn on the left side of the chest, and in the presence of other orders and medals, it is attached after the medal "90th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1918-2008)”. | |
enwiki-00000018-0003-0000 | "95th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2013)" Medal | The description of the Medal | “95th Anniversary of Azerbaijani Armed Forces (1918-2013)” Jubilee Medal is a round shaped medal that made of bronze with 35mm diameter and plated with gold ornaments. |
enwiki-00000018-0004-0000 | "95th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2013)" Medal | The description of the Medal | The ribbon on the right side of the face of the medal is located at the center and colored with National Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In the upper part of the ribbon “Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan”, and in the bottom "95 years” were inscribed. |
enwiki-00000018-0005-0000 | "95th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan (1918–2013)" Medal | The description of the Medal | Bas-relief of Heydar Aliyev is portrayed on the left side and below the bas relief are the years "1918" and "2013" in two lines. On the obverse, an inscription "Republic of Azerbaijan" written at the top and "Armed Forces" at the bottom. |
enwiki-00000019-0000-0000 | "@" | "@" is a studio album by John Zorn and Thurston Moore. It is the first collaborative album by the duo and was recorded in New York City in February 2013 and released by Tzadik Records in September 2013. The album consists of improvised music by Zorn and Moore that was recorded in the studio in real time with no edits o... | |
enwiki-00000019-0001-0000 | "@" | Reception | "@" finds two of New York City's longest-running fringe dwellers churning out sheets of collaborative sounds that conjoin their respective and distinct states of constant freak-out... These seven improvisations sound inspired without feeling at all heavy-handed or urgent. More so, "@" succeeds with the type of conversa... |
enwiki-00000020-0000-0000 | "A" Device | The "A" Device is a miniature bronze 1⁄4 inch letter "A" which comes with and without serifs, that is authorized for wear by the United States Armed Forces as a medal and ribbon device for two military awards. It is added to overseas service ribbons to indicate the theatre of action. | |
enwiki-00000020-0001-0000 | "A" Device | The Arctic "A" Device (with serifs), if authorized, may be attached to the center of the Air Force Overseas Ribbon - Short Tour, for service beginning February 10, 2002. If an oak leaf cluster is also authorized for wear on the ribbon, the "A" device is worn to the wearer's right of any oak leaf clusters on the ribbon. | |
enwiki-00000020-0002-0000 | "A" Device | The Atlantic "A" Device (without serifs), if authorized, may be attached to the center of the suspension and service ribbon of the American Defense Service Medal for service from June 22 to December 7, 1941. The "A" device is worn in lieu of any authorized 3⁄16 inch bronze star that is worn on the medal and service rib... | |
enwiki-00000020-0003-0000 | "A" Device | History | The "A" Device is only authorized for the currently in use Air Force Overseas Ribbon - Short Tour, and the American Defense Service Medal which is no longer in use. The two representations of the "A" device are different. The Arctic Device has serifs while the Atlantic Device ("Axis Device") does not have "feet" (sans-... |
enwiki-00000020-0004-0000 | "A" Device | History, Atlantic Device (World War II) | The American Defense Service Medal was the first military award to use the "A" device which was named the "Atlantic Device" (sometimes was referred to as the "Axis Device"). |
enwiki-00000020-0004-0001 | "A" Device | History, Atlantic Device (World War II) | The "A" device was authorized for wear (in lieu of a 3⁄16 inch bronze star that was worn in lieu of a service clasp on the award) on the medal and service ribbon by any member of the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, or United States Coast Guard who served on certain vessels in the Atlantic Ocean between ... |
enwiki-00000020-0005-0000 | "A" Device | History, Arctic Device (USAF) | The "A" device became obsolete after the Second World War and did not appear again until the year 2002 (authorized on February 10, 2002). At that time, the United States Air Force declared that the "A" device, now known as the "Arctic Device", would be authorized for wear for those who had received the Air Force Overse... |
enwiki-00000020-0006-0000 | "A" Device | History, Arctic Device (USAF) | As of February 8, 2007, only those airmen (Air Force active, Reserve, or Guard) who were assigned to Thule Air Base (north-east Greenland) qualify for the "A" (Arctic) device. Although portions of Alaska are within the Arctic Circle, there are no American military bases within that region. The "A" is worn on the center... |
enwiki-00000021-0000-0000 | "A" Fort and Battery Hill Redoubt-Camp Early | "A" Fort and Battery Hill Redoubt-Camp Early, also known as Measles Fort, is a historic American Civil War military facility and redoubt located near Manassas Park, Prince William County, Virginia. | |
enwiki-00000021-0001-0000 | "A" Fort and Battery Hill Redoubt-Camp Early | It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. | |
enwiki-00000022-0000-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | "A" Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1982, is the first mystery novel in the author's "Alphabet" series. Featuring sleuth Kinsey Millhone, it is set in the southern California city of Santa Teresa, the nom de plume for Santa Barbara. She wrote the book during a divorce and admits ... | |
enwiki-00000022-0001-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | Plot summary | Kinsey Millhone, 32, private detective investigates the death of prominent divorce lawyer Laurence Fife. His murder eight years earlier was blamed on his wife, Nikki Fife. Upon being released from prison, Nikki hires Kinsey to find the real murderer. In the course of the investigation, Kinsey becomes involved with Char... |
enwiki-00000022-0001-0001 | "A" Is for Alibi | Plot summary | She then goes to Las Vegas to interview Fife's former secretary, Sharon Napier, who is killed minutes before Kinsey arrives. Back in California, Kinsey is mystified that Nikki's son, Colin, recognizes Laurence's first wife, Gwen, in a photograph. Kinsey surmises that Gwen was having an affair with her ex-husband at the... |
enwiki-00000022-0002-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | Plot summary | Kinsey has solved the case she was hired to investigate; but in a plot twist, she discovers that her previous notions about the accountant's death were entirely wrong: in fact, it was Scorsoni who killed her when she discovered he was skimming dividend money from estate accounts under his management. Scorsoni used the ... |
enwiki-00000022-0003-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | Plot summary | A secondary storyline involves Millhone's surveillance of Marcia Threadgill, suspected of insurance fraud in a trip-and-fall case. Although Millhone believes she has successfully documented Threadgill's deception, the insurance firm that contracted Millhone to investigate Threadgill moves to pay her claim anyway, citin... |
enwiki-00000022-0004-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | Publication history | The first printing of "A" Is for Alibi was 7,500 copies, with initial sales of about 6,000. |
enwiki-00000022-0005-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | Critical analysis | Grafton openly admits that she conceived the story from her own "fantasies" of murdering her husband while going through a divorce. |
enwiki-00000022-0006-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | Critical analysis | The novel's style typical hardboiled detective fiction, according to the authors of 'G' is for Grafton, who describe it as "laconic, breezy, wise-cracking". Grafton frames the narrative as a report Kinsey Millhone writes during the course of her investigation, written in the first-person narrative. |
enwiki-00000022-0007-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | Critical analysis | "A" for Alibi is dedicated to author Chip Grafton, Sue Grafton's father, "who set me on this path". Chip Grafton was a municipal bond attorney in Kentucky who pursued a secondary career as a crime novelist, winning minor acclaim for four novels. He died on January 1, 1982 at age 72, four months before 'A' is for Alibi ... |
enwiki-00000022-0008-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | Reviews | Kirkus Reviews said this was a "shakily plotted but otherwise terrific start for a new detective series", writing when the book was released. They look forward to the rest of the Alphabet Series, "fine dialogue, a great eye for people and places", if the author can tighten up her plots. |
enwiki-00000022-0009-0000 | "A" Is for Alibi | Reviews | Looking back at the series soon after the author's death, Library Journal Reviews remarked on the slow build up to successful reviews, including a quote from its own review: "Critic Sarah Weinman notes that pseudonymous New York Times critic Newgate Callendar dismissed A Is for Alibi as "competent enough, but not parti... |
enwiki-00000023-0000-0000 | "All God's Children" Campaign | The "All God's Children" Campaign is an effort by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to challenge religious opposition to the legalization of same-sex marriage and promote LGBT acceptance in the Southern United States. According to the HRC, the program was designed to "change hearts and minds, improve the public perceptio... | |
enwiki-00000023-0001-0000 | "All God's Children" Campaign | Background | The Southern United States is far more culturally conservative than the North. In the early 2000s, while northern states began legalizing same-sex marriage, many southern states were passing laws banning it. However, southern support as a whole rose an entire 26 percentage points from 2003 to 2013, leaving the south sp... |
enwiki-00000023-0002-0000 | "All God's Children" Campaign | Background | The South also holds the lowest regional social climate index ranking for the LGBT community in the United States, with a score of 55. Same-sex couples with kids have a household income that averages about $11,000 lower than heterosexual couples. Gay and bisexual men in the south hold higher HIV infection rates than th... |
enwiki-00000023-0003-0000 | "All God's Children" Campaign | Background | Additionally, the chosen states are heavily religious; for example, more than half of Mississippi residents are members of the southern Baptist church. Because of this, the Human Rights Campaign refers to Mississippi, their target audience for the early stages of the All God's Children campaign, as being "the most reli... |
enwiki-00000023-0004-0000 | "All God's Children" Campaign | Strategy | The "All God's Children" project included phone banking, TV commercials, banner ads, and "direct-mail" messages. The ad campaign featured testimonies from Christian parents of LGBT children, gay army veterans, and transgender students to appeal towards the religious community. The Mississippi campaign itself was expect... |
enwiki-00000023-0005-0000 | "All God's Children" Campaign | Response | The American Family Association of Mississippi issued a retaliatory statement in November [2014] arguing that the "[normalization of] homosexuality in the southern states" would not be acceptable to their program. Others argued that the campaign wouldn't be enough to change the hearts of "biblically literate Christians... |
enwiki-00000024-0000-0000 | "And" theory of conservatism | The "And" theory of conservatism is a political neologism that was coined in the 2000s conservatism for the notion of holistic policy, bringing together traditional conservatism with some aspects of liberalism (right-libertarianism) and combining policies like low taxation with traditionally liberal solutions to issues... | |
enwiki-00000024-0001-0000 | "And" theory of conservatism | Origin | The term originated in the United Kingdom and was first noted during Iain Duncan Smith's leadership of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2003. It has been subsequently popularised by former Conservative Party aide Tim Montgomerie, the former editor of ConservativeHome, who has written on its usage. It has also been u... |
enwiki-00000024-0002-0000 | "And" theory of conservatism | Origin | The idea is that a center-right party needs not abandon its core issues - crime, taxes, family. Rather, the wise course is to hold fast on those issues and speak to concerns normally ceded to the left. |
enwiki-00000024-0003-0000 | "And" theory of conservatism | In the United Kingdom | The "And" theory has been embraced by several leading conservative politicians in the United Kingdom, including the former Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister David Cameron (although the term the "And" theory tends not to be expressly mentioned due to its clunky and potentially confusing name). When challengin... |
enwiki-00000024-0004-0000 | "And" theory of conservatism | In the United Kingdom | When we talk about foreign affairs, we don't just stand up for Gibraltar and Zimbabwe but for the people of Darfur and sub-Saharan Africa who are living on less than a dollar a day and getting poorer while we're getting richer. |
enwiki-00000024-0005-0000 | "And" theory of conservatism | In the United Kingdom | Cameron therefore encouraged Conservatives to be concerned with the former British Empire territory of Zimbabwe and the situation in Darfur. |
enwiki-00000024-0006-0000 | "And" theory of conservatism | In the United Kingdom | Former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith has continued to promote "And" politics, most notably in his 2005 pamphlet Good for Me, Good for My Neighbour, written with Danny Kruger: |
enwiki-00000024-0007-0000 | "And" theory of conservatism | In the United Kingdom | I have never believed that modernisation requires the jettisoning of Conservative Euroscepticism, or of our belief in low taxation, or of our tough approach to crime. These principles remain enduringly popular with the public. My proposal for the modernisation of the Party is not to subtract from these core principles ... |
enwiki-00000024-0008-0000 | "And" theory of conservatism | In the United Kingdom | Duncan Smith has encouraged the party to embrace a social justice agenda (traditionally associated with the left) based on a commitment to the family (seen as an issue of the right). |
enwiki-00000025-0000-0000 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Soo voer gesongen, soo na gepepen is a c.1668–1670 oil-on-canvas painting (H 133.7 cm × W 162.5 cm) by Dutch artist Jan Steen, that is currently featured in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. The painting is a celebratory holiday scene that depicts three generations of a Dutch family, and serves as an allegory about ... | |
enwiki-00000025-0001-0000 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Subject matter | As the Old Sing so Pipe the Young’ is named after a famous proverb from Jacob Cats. It means that the vices of the youth are learned from the examples set by their elders. Steen references this throughout the painting. The parrot shows wealth and exoticism, but it could also reference the mimicry in the title. He uses ... |
enwiki-00000025-0001-0001 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Subject matter | Inherited traits were viewed by the Dutch people at the time as being a two-sided coin, where a child would inherit genetic traits from their parents, but would also learn to emulate the behaviors that they witnessed. This is also referred to as nature versus nurture. The depiction of three generations of family member... |
enwiki-00000025-0001-0002 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Subject matter | Such proverbs were popular in Dutch painting and are represented by many paintings by Steen and other artists. This painting has been linked to Steen's work titled The Twelfth Night Feast, the two paintings forming a diptych of the same theme. The theme is thought to be inspired by Jacob Jordaens, a contemporary Flemis... |
enwiki-00000025-0002-0000 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Description | As a genre scene painting, the painting contains many iconographic elements that are open to the viewer's interpretation and ideas that relate to Dutch popular culture of the time. The painting consists of a gathering of family members (parents, children, grandparents) around a table that is draped with a carpet typica... |
enwiki-00000025-0002-0001 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Description | Like most of Steen's paintings As the Old Sing... is of the merry company genre and depicts family life as a part of popular culture during the 17th century. Paintings of this particular period are commonly festive scenes in Dutch domestic settings. The large canvas displays Steen's mastery of painting light on surface... |
enwiki-00000025-0002-0002 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Description | The overall scene of the merry atmosphere is thought to be open and inviting with the figures situated in an open arrangement, with warm colors of orange, pink, purple, and brown; while casually enjoying themselves. The old lady in the foreground, thought to be Steen's mother, is holding a sheet of music that is open a... |
enwiki-00000025-0002-0003 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Description | Here he has depicted himself as the father seen in the right side of the canvas who is teaching his younger son to smoke a pipe. Such a painting was thought by the artist to have universal appeal and understanding, but of course, it would have had more resonance with a well-read person familiar with the proverbs, symbo... |
enwiki-00000025-0003-0000 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Description, Symbolism | The figures in the scene are Jan Steen at the right wearing a black hat and teaching his younger son to smoke, his older son playing a bagpipe, a young girl at the far right edge of the canvas, Steen's mother in the right-side foreground, and an unknown female family member holding a baby. There is also a male servant ... |
enwiki-00000025-0003-0001 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Description, Symbolism | There is a dog in the foreground. At the center of the table is an oyster which has been a popular symbol in Dutch genre painting. The oyster has been known as a symbol of Aphrodite, love, fertility, and sexual pleasure. The symbol is befitting of such as scene as it is associated with foods served at a feast of the go... |
enwiki-00000025-0003-0002 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Description, Symbolism | In the painting the woman in the lavender skirt sitting at the left is a depiction of Steen's wife. She and Steen both wear a pink ribbon, she in her hair, and he on his hat. This ribbon is a unifying element between the two and represents their being cut from the same spool of ribbon. The parrot situated at the top le... |
enwiki-00000025-0003-0003 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Description, Symbolism | The pipe in the scene may have multiple meanings referring to a clay smoking pipe, the act of singing, or to a drinking vessel. According to the Dutch, the bagpipe was not an esteemed instrument as it was thought to be lowly and obnoxious. Such a symbol here represents bawdiness and low class, which is being encouraged... |
enwiki-00000025-0003-0004 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Description, Symbolism | The laughing face of Jan Steen is commonly depicted by the artist in his paintings and is considered to be his iconography while laughter is also thought to be a symbol of foolishness and or fault. A reader might interpret the many laughing faces as gained wisdom, human fault, or lessons learned. Steen's iconographic g... |
enwiki-00000025-0004-0000 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Culture | Jan Steen has been detailed by historians as being from a middle-class, Catholic family of Leiden, who was also preoccupied with drinking and imprudent of his finances. Historical accounts state that Steen's father owned a brewery but also suggest that the brewery business became less profitable due to economic demands... |
enwiki-00000025-0004-0001 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Culture | As a painter he often depicted himself within his comical scenes to show himself immersed in the culture he depicted and is also as an allusion to the idea that art imitates life. Steen was a resident of The Hague where he married Margariet or Grietje, and also became a member of The Hague Guild. As a member of the gui... |
enwiki-00000025-0005-0000 | "As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young" (Jan Steen) | Patronage | Jan Steen is considered to have been a fixture in Leiden, with most of his commissions coming from familial connections and recommendations. Historical records indicate patrons numbering above one hundred, with some owners directly inheriting the works. Patrons tended to be members of respectable professions including ... |
enwiki-00000026-0000-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | "Awaken, My Love!" is the third studio album by American recording artist Donald Glover, under his stage name Childish Gambino. It was released by Glassnote Records on December 2, 2016. Consisting of tracks being sung rather than rapped, its fusion of psychedelic soul, funk and R&B influences was considered a bold depa... | |
enwiki-00000026-0001-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | "Awaken, My Love!" received generally positive reviews from critics and debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200. The album was supported by three singles, "Me and Your Mama", "Redbone" and "Terrified". It received Grammy Award nominations for Album of the Year and Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 2018 Grammy... | |
enwiki-00000026-0002-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Background | On June 17, 2016, after a hiatus from social media, Glover tweeted "pharos.earth", a link to download his new app. The app itself placed the user in outer space looking at a small blue planet while a clock counted down to zero. The app then had the user crash down from space, placing them on a map that was located on J... |
enwiki-00000026-0002-0001 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Background | From September 3 to 5, nearly three months before the release of his album, Glover held three concert performances at Joshua Tree to debut the album. Glover wore glow-in-the-dark paint on his braids and a pink and yellow skirt, with his bandmates wearing similar attire. He performed eleven songs during the concert with... |
enwiki-00000026-0003-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Background | Glover modified his Pharos app upon its release so that users could watch the success of his first lead single, "Me and Your Mama" at Joshua Tree through a phone virtual reality lens. |
enwiki-00000026-0004-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Cover artwork | The cover of "Awaken, My Love!" features a photo by New York City-based creative director Ibra Ake, in which model Giannina Oteto wears a beaded headdress designed by Laura Wass of WXYZ Jewelry. Prior to the album's release, the cover artwork was included as an easter egg in the episode "Juneteenth" of Glover's FX seri... |
enwiki-00000026-0005-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Singles | "Me and Your Mama" was released as the album's lead single on Beats 1 radio and the iTunes Store on November 10, 2016, while "Redbone" was released a week later, premiering on Annie Mac's Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1. On September 19, 2017, "Terrified" was sent to urban contemporary radio as the album's third single. |
enwiki-00000026-0006-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Critical reception | "Awaken, My Love!" was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 77, based on 25 reviews. Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 7.4 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical c... |
enwiki-00000026-0007-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Critical reception | Mosi Reeves of Rolling Stone wrote that ""Awaken, My Love!" is an enthralling trip into the land of funk", while Dan Bogosian from The A.V. Club wrote "Is Childish Gambino suddenly the new Prince, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist always ready to keep the world an arm’s length away from knowing what he's thinking? Is he... |
enwiki-00000026-0007-0001 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Critical reception | . He is Donald Glover, a man who can perform and write comedy, act in drama, and drop a truly wonderful album on short notice with all the influences and instructions spelled out". Perry Kostidakis of the FSView & Florida Flambeau wrote that "with each successive album, Childish Gambino has exhibited phenomenal growth,... |
enwiki-00000026-0007-0002 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Critical reception | Unflinchingly ambitious and boldly different, "Awaken, My Love" calls back the sounds and themes of the 1970s funkadelic movement to provide a wholly original, emotional and immersive musical experience", with The Guardian's Gwilym Mumford adding "only the limitations of his voice occasionally let him down – he doesn't... |
enwiki-00000026-0007-0003 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Critical reception | Jon Pareles of The New York Times said, "It's at once a homage and a parody, equally aware of that era's excesses and its glories, of the way that the most memorable 1970s R&B merged sensuality, activism, humor, toughness, outlandishness, futurism, soul roots, wild eccentricity and utopian community spirit. That's an e... |
enwiki-00000026-0008-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Critical reception | Matthew Strauss of Pitchfork said, "There are times, however, when that nodding feels more like mimicry than anything else. Maybe he'll figure out how to smuggle Donald Glover's heart into Childish Gambino's brain eventually, but if he hasn't figured out what he wants out of Childish Gambino yet, it's increasingly rewa... |
enwiki-00000026-0008-0001 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Critical reception | proves his versatility as a rapper turning over a new leaf". Kitty Empire of The Observer said, "Throughout, Glover's genre fluency is unimpeachable; the only minor drawback is the overmannered air of some of these period pieces, where there could be more straight-up abandon, as on the persuasive 'Me and Your Mama'". V... |
enwiki-00000026-0009-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Commercial performance | "Awaken, My Love!" debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200 with 101,000 album-equivalent units, marking the third highest debut of the week. It was the fourth best-selling album of the week, selling 72,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album was also streamed 41.5 million times in the first week. It... |
enwiki-00000026-0010-0000 | "Awaken, My Love!" | Track listing | All lyrics written by Donald Glover, except "Zombies" by Glover and Ludwig Göransson; all music composed and produced by Glover and Göransson, except where noted. |
enwiki-00000027-0000-0000 | "B" Is for Burglar | "B" Is for Burglar is the second novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. | |
enwiki-00000027-0001-0000 | "B" Is for Burglar | Plot summary | Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired by Beverly Danziger to locate her missing sister, Elaine Boldt, whose name is needed on some paperwork regarding an inheritance. Elaine was last seen getting into a cab with the intention of flying down to Boca Raton, Florida, where she spends her winters, but appears to ha... |
enwiki-00000027-0002-0000 | "B" Is for Burglar | Plot summary | Things are not as easy as they seem, however, as Millhone can find no trace of Elaine anywhere in Florida, although she does find a woman called Pat Usher, who claims Elaine agreed to let her sublet the Boca Raton apartment where Elaine lived while she was off travelling. This claim rings false, since no one but Pat Us... |
enwiki-00000027-0002-0001 | "B" Is for Burglar | Plot summary | Millhone suspects there is a link between Elaine's disappearance and the death of her Santa Teresa neighbour, Marty Grice, who was apparently killed by a burglar who then set fire to the Grice home a week before Elaine left. Someone breaks into the home of Tillie, the supervisor of Elaine's Santa Teresa apartment compl... |
enwiki-00000027-0003-0000 | "B" Is for Burglar | Plot summary | Gravely concerned for Elaine's safety, Millhone suggests to Beverly that Elaine's disappearance should be reported to the police; but Beverly objects so violently that Millhone terminates their relationship and starts working for Julia instead. Kinsey reports the disappearance and meets Jonah Robb, a recently separated... |
enwiki-00000027-0004-0000 | "B" Is for Burglar | Plot summary | Millhone is increasingly convinced that Elaine is dead and that Pat Usher is involved. Pat disappears after totally trashing the Boca Raton apartment. Eventually, Millhone discovers that Pat Usher has applied for a driving licence in Elaine's name, thus proving Pat's involvement. Marty's nephew Mike, a teenage drug dea... |
enwiki-00000027-0004-0001 | "B" Is for Burglar | Plot summary | Marty and her husband killed Elaine to steal her identity (which Marty assumed) and her money. They then passed Elaine's dead body off as Marty's by switching the dental records. Marty departed for Florida as Elaine and arrived as Pat Usher, with some cosmetic surgery to help. Unable to find Elaine's passport, she and ... |
enwiki-00000027-0005-0000 | "B" Is for Burglar | Reception | Ed Weiner, writing for The New York Times in 1989, called the book "one of the best written crime novels by anybody in recent memory". It was awarded the 1986 Anthony Award for Best Novel at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, in Baltimore, Maryland. The novel also won the 1986 Shamus Award for Best Novel from th... |
enwiki-00000028-0000-0000 | "Babbacombe" Lee | "Babbacombe" Lee is a 1971 album by British folk rock group Fairport Convention, which tells the life story of John Babbacombe Lee, a Victorian-era alleged murderer who was condemned to death but reprieved after the gallows failed on three occasions to work properly. After the commercial and chart success of its pred... | |
enwiki-00000028-0001-0000 | "Babbacombe" Lee | Concept | The album follows John "Babbacombe" Lee's life story. The events of his life are described in song, from his boyhood through his conviction for murder, sentence of death, and the failure to carry out the execution. The songs describe his boyhood poverty, his time in the Royal Navy, and his being invalided out. The albu... |
enwiki-00000028-0001-0001 | "Babbacombe" Lee | Concept | While Lee was in her service, she was murdered, and he was accused, tried and convicted of the crime, and sentenced to death; however, when authorities attempted to hang him, the gallows failed three times, resulting in his release. These events are all told in song, and all but one of those songs are originals. |
enwiki-00000028-0002-0000 | "Babbacombe" Lee | Concept | Dave Swarbrick has explained that he conceived the album after discovering a file of old newspaper clippings in a junk shop; this file contained John Lee's own copies of the newspaper articles and was bound by him, signed and dated 30 January 1908. |
enwiki-00000028-0003-0000 | "Babbacombe" Lee | Concept | Because of its relatively complete narrative structure, "Babbacombe" Lee is regarded by the authors of The Electric Muse (1975) as a rock opera, and because of the band's musical style, in particular the first folk rock opera. |
enwiki-00000028-0004-0000 | "Babbacombe" Lee | Track listing | The original album listed tracks episodically rather than as discrete tracks, reflecting the structure of the narrative. |
enwiki-00000028-0005-0000 | "Babbacombe" Lee | Track listing | Each of the five sections is composed of a number of songs and fragments of songs that were not listed separately on the original album. |
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