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25613320#21 | The Final Frontier | By the end of its first week, over 800,000 copies had been shipped to retailers worldwide. |
25613329#0 | Kerry Spackman | Kerry Spackman (born 26 June 1956 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a cognitive neuroscientist and Winner of the 2010 World Class New Zealand Award for Creative Thinking, and the 1992 NEEDA Award for the most Significant Electronic Export.
He coaches athletes, business people, and other personalities to succeed within their chosen fields. He has been a consultant to four Formula One teams as well as the New Zealand All Blacks specialising in performance optimisation and he is a director of the New Zealand Government GoldMine program which develops specialized electronics and mathematical analysis for Olympic athletes. |
25613329#1 | Kerry Spackman | Spackman was born to father Dr Dennis Spackman, a medical practitioner and mother Rowan, whose father was Sir Trevor Henry a High Court Judge in New Zealand. Spackman spent much of his childhood in Auckland. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School before training as a mathematician at the University of Waikato and Auckland. |
25613329#2 | Kerry Spackman | Early in his career, Spackman worked with a New Zealand-based Physicist to develop electronic equipment to measure the performance of cars. The pair then sold these programmes on to automotive companies including Rolls-Royce, Nissan, General Motors and Ford. During this period Spackman met the three times World Formula One Champion Sir Jackie Stewart with whom he later worked to develop a program to train professional test drivers. Spackman continued to work with Jackie Stewart at Stewart Grand Prix and Jaguar for a number of years. |
25613329#3 | Kerry Spackman | In Formula One, Spackman is recognised as making contributions in areas ranging from simulator design to driver optimisation. |
25613329#4 | Kerry Spackman | Spackman currently divides his time between New Zealand and the United States and is a father and grandfather. |
25613332#0 | Tetbury Avon | The Tetbury Avon, also known as the Little Avon or the Ingleburn (Anglo-Saxon - English river), is a tributary of the Bristol Avon. It is also referred to as the River Avon (Tetbury Branch). It rises at Tetbury in Gloucestershire in the West Country of England, and flows in a generally south easterly direction, joining the Sherston Avon at Malmesbury in Wiltshire. The water flow has been reduced by public water extraction form its source aquifer in the Cotswold Hills. In the past watermills were used for fulling wool and grinding corn. One working mill survives. |
25613332#1 | Tetbury Avon | The Tetbury Avon rises at Wor Well to the north east of Tetbury in the Cotswold Hills. It flows first in a southerly direction, joined on the right bank by the Cutwell Brook at the southeast of the town. The river now turns in the southeasterly direction into a steep valley through Estcourt Park, where it is joined on the right by the Wormwell Brook, which has its origin at Westonbirt. Passing through Shipton Wood the river forms a lake, created as part of the Estcourt Estate in the late 18th century. It then enters Wiltshire near the village of Brokenborough, flowing to the north of Malmesbury where it joins the Sherston Avon at the eastern edge of the town. |
25613332#2 | Tetbury Avon | As is common amongst Cotswold streams, many watermills were established from early times for fulling wool and grinding corn. Shipton Mill in the wood of the same name still produces organic wheat and rye flours. A mill at this site was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086. |
25613332#3 | Tetbury Avon | A population of white-clawed crayfish in the Tetbury Avon has been eradicated by fungi hosted by the invasive North American signal crayfish. |
25613332#4 | Tetbury Avon | The Environment Agency has a gauging station at Brokenborough and reports a mean flow of with a maximum of and a minimum of . It is believed that abstraction of public water supplies from the Great Oolite aquifer of the Cotswolds has reduced flows in the Tetbury Avon, making it difficult to maintain high water quality and having a negative effect on the ecology. |
25613347#0 | Hydrobiologia | Hydrobiologia: The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences is a scientific journal specialising in hydrobiology, including limnology and oceanography, systematics of aquatic organisms and aquatic ecology. |
25613347#1 | Hydrobiologia | "Hydrobiologia" changed dramatically on the appointment of Henri Dumont to be its editor-in-chief. He introduced peer review, and expanded production from 6 issues per year to 25 per year. |
25613351#0 | Noverre | Noverre (May 2, 1998 – 2012) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. |
25613351#1 | Noverre | Noverre was a bay horse bred by Darley Stud and raced by a sister operation, Godolphin Racing. He was sired by Rahy, out of the mare Danseur Fabuleux who was also the dam of 1991 European Horse of the Year, Arazi. |
25613351#2 | Noverre | Noverre was trained at age two by David Loder. |
25613351#3 | Noverre | Noverre won two listed races in France and two Group 2 events in England. Sent to the United States, the colt finished eleventh on dirt in the 2000 Breeders' Cup Juvenile, hosted that year by Churchill Downs. At age three, Noverre's owners turned his race conditioning over to Saeed bin Suroor. For him, Noverre finished first in the 2001 Poule d'Essai des Poulains at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris but was subsequently disqualified after testing positive for the banned substance Methylprednisolone. He went on to win the Group 1 Sussex Stakes at Goodwood Racecourse in Chichester, England. That year he also had second-place finishes in the UAE 2000 Guineas in Dubai and in England's St. James's Palace and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. |
25613351#4 | Noverre | Noverre returned to the track in 2002 for a four-year-old campaign. In top races, he notably earned runnerups in the Dubai Duty Free Stakes and in England's Lockinge and Sussex Stakes. |
25613351#5 | Noverre | Noverre was retired to stand at stud beginning in the 2003 season at his owner's Kildangan Stud in County Kildare, Ireland. In 2008, he was sold to breeders in India to stand at Sohna Stud Farm near Delhi, where he died in 2012. From his offspring, Noverre's best runner to date has been a 2006 colt named Le Havre who in 2009 won the Group 1 French Derby at Chantilly Racecourse. |
25613352#0 | I Just Want to Love You | "I Just Want to Love You" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in October 1978 as the third single from the album "Variations". "I Just Want to Love You" was Eddie Rabbitt's third number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the chart. It was written by Rabbitt, Even Stevens and David Malloy. |
25613394#0 | Thomas Humber | Thomas Humber (1841–1910) was a British engineer and cycle manufacturer who developed and patented a safety bicycle (1884) with a diamond-shaped frame and wheels of similar size. It became a pattern for subsequent machines. Humber made many other improvements to bicycles. About 1868 he founded Humber Cycles, the bicycle manufacturing business at Beeston, Nottinghamshire later owned by Humber & Co Limited. |
25613394#1 | Thomas Humber | Thomas Humber improved cycle technology through the independence of his thinking and his practical ability. The reliability of his products arose from his high standards and emphasis on quality. It all led to Humber becoming regarded as the aristocrat among bicycles. |
25613394#2 | Thomas Humber | Thomas Humber was born in Andrew Street, Brightside, Sheffield on 16 October 1841 the son of Samuel Humber, a tailor, and his wife Lucy née Turton. His parents moved to Kingston upon Hull when he was 5 years old and he attended the Salthouse Lane school. On leaving school he worked for a blacksmith William Campion. In 1854 the family moved again this time to Nottingham. About 1860 he went over to Alfreton Derbyshire and The Butterley Company where he impressed his employers by devising a more efficient method of building deck beams for the Royal Navy's ships. But he soon returned to Nottingham and set himself up there as a blacksmith and there, in 1863, he married Emma Elizabeth Freeman (c. 1842-1903). They were to have a daughter and a son. |
25613394#3 | Thomas Humber | Thomas Humber built himself a velocipede based on a picture in a letter about the Paris-developed machine that was published in the "English Mechanic" magazine in late 1868. It took him time to work out how to ride it but in the end he did manage to make the six miles from Nottingham to Radcliffe. He sold it and made an improved version—bought by the same buyer. It took him 2 months to make each velocipede, he was concerned to develop improvements: solid rubber tyres, ball-bearings, while maintaining quality and reliability. He instituted races to win public interest. |
25613394#4 | Thomas Humber | Thomas's own design of "ordinary", now commonly known as a "penny-farthing", appeared in 1871 and not long after James Starley's metal ordinary. His first price-list contained a testimonial by Fred Cooper, a racing cyclist. Another racing contact was Thomas Marriott. |
25613394#5 | Thomas Humber | Marriott joined Thomas Humber as a business partner in 1875 and Fred Cooper joined them two years later. They named their new firm Humber, Marriott & Cooper. |
25613394#6 | Thomas Humber | Their staff of 80 or so needed more factory space so they built them a new works at Beeston. |
25613394#7 | Thomas Humber | It seemed Thomas's technical abilities were not matched by his business acumen. Cooper and Marriott left the firm in 1885 but he let them have equal rights to the name Humber. He also let them use the old partnership's patents. They set themselves up as cycle wholesalers but later they got Rudge of Coventry to make the cycles for them. |
25613394#8 | Thomas Humber | Now free, Thomas Humber got the backing of Nottingham lace bleacher dyer and finisher, T Harrison Lambert, and took charge of the whole business and its Beeston works. Lambert, father of A. J. Alan, was a cycle-racing friend building a reputation as a successful company promoter. Humber and Lambert opened a factory in Coventry in 1886. |
25613394#9 | Thomas Humber | By 1887 the cycle industry was consolidating and Humber and company promoter Lambert sold their business to investors who added a number of other substantial cycle manufacturers and then floated the new combine on the stock exchange. Such was the public's recognition of Humber products and their high quality and reliability the whole new organisation was named Humber & Co Limited though Humber's was not the largest component. Thomas Humber agreed to manage the whole enterprise with its works in Coventry and Wolverhampton as well as Beeston. |
25613394#10 | Thomas Humber | Thomas Humber retired in 1892 at the end of his 5-year contract. Following financial difficulties, an outcome of the slump of 1898-1899, Humber & Co Limited's business was transferred to a new incorporation named Humber Limited. |
25613394#11 | Thomas Humber | Thomas Humber then involved himself in the development of the pneumatic tyre and floated Beeston Pneumatic Tyre Company Limited. With Lambert he had other business interests. His old company took him to court in 1896 after his involvement in British Motor Syndicate Limited became public insisting on enforcing his agreement to not become a director of a business in a related field. |
25613394#12 | Thomas Humber | Lambert remained a director of Humber and its foreign subsidiaries and joined boards of industrial businesses including Watney breweries, by then the largest brewer in London, and Watney subsidiaries in USA. However Lambert's dealings in cycle company shares brought him into association with Ernest Terah Hooley and into bankruptcy in 1900. |
25613394#13 | Thomas Humber | Thomas's wife had unsuccessfully petitioned for divorce in 1886. Emma died on 8 August 1903. Thomas married Eleanor Robinson, 30 years his junior, in Paddington 9 September 1903. They moved to Kingston upon Thames and Thomas died there 24 November 1910 aged 69. |
25613394#14 | Thomas Humber | In 1891 Charles Terront won the world's first long distance race, Paris–Brest–Paris, riding a Humber bicycle fitted with prototype removable pneumatic tyres made by Michelin. |
25613398#0 | 1972 European Tour | The 1972 European Tour was the first official season of golf tournaments known as the PGA European Tour and organised by the Professional Golfers' Association. |
25613398#1 | 1972 European Tour | The Order of Merit was won by England's Peter Oosterhuis. |
25613398#2 | 1972 European Tour | The table below shows the 1972 European Tour schedule which was made up of 20 tournaments, which included the major national opens around Europe. The other tournaments were mostly held in England and Scotland. |
25613398#3 | 1972 European Tour | *The three majors played in the United States were not official money events, but wins in them were retroactively made official. |
25613398#4 | 1972 European Tour | The PGA European Tour's money list was known as the "Order of Merit". It was based on a points system, which meant that some players could finish lower than others despite accumulating more prize money. |
25613404#0 | Beautiful History | Beautiful History is the third compilation album by Christian singer Plumb. It contains remixed versions of several songs from her album "candycoatedwaterdrops" as well as singles from "Beautiful Lumps of Coal", "Chaotic Resolve" and "Blink". It also contains two new songs recorded for the album, "Hang On" and "Beautiful History". It peaked at No. 39 on "Billboard"'s Christian Albums chart. |
25613409#0 | Pitts Ferry, Ontario | Pitts Ferry is a community that is part of Kingston, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. |
25613409#1 | Pitts Ferry, Ontario | Pitts Ferry is on the east side of Kingston on the Bateau Channel of the Saint Lawrence River, on north shore of the river. The north shore of Howe Island lies across on the south side of the channel. The town crossroads at the intersection of Highway 2 and Joyceville Road / Howe Island Ferry Road, and the location given for the community in the Atlas of Canada, is at an elevation of , slightly above the level of the St. Lawrence. |
25613409#2 | Pitts Ferry, Ontario | Pitts Ferry is in the federal and provincial riding of Kingston and the Islands, represented federally by MP Ted Hsu (Liberal; last contested 2011) and provincially by MPP John Gerretsen (Liberal; last contested 2011). Municipally, it is in City of Kingston Electoral District 12 - Pittsburgh District, and is represented by councillor Brian Reitzel (last contested 2010) and by Mayor Mark Gerretsen. |
25613409#3 | Pitts Ferry, Ontario | The Waterfront Trail passes along Highway 2 through the community. |
25613409#4 | Pitts Ferry, Ontario | Highway 2 runs east-west through the community leading to the town centre of Kingston to the west and to Gananoque to the east. Joyceville Road and Howe Island Ferry Road run north-south. Joyceville Road leads from the town crossroads via the community of Kilbirnie to an interchange on Highway 401 and further to Joyceville. Howe Island Ferry Road leads south from the crossroads to the ferry docks to Howe Island, one of two ferries to that island. |
25613410#0 | John Macleod (British Army officer) | Lieutenant General Sir John Angus Macleod GCH (29 January 1752 - 1833) was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior ceremonial post in the Royal Artillery after the sovereign. |
25613410#1 | John Macleod (British Army officer) | Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Macleod was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1771. |
25613410#2 | John Macleod (British Army officer) | In 1781, he was ordered to join the force under Earl Cornwallis which was sent to North Carolina and which took part in the Battle of Guilford. He was, in 1782, appointed Commander of the Royal Artillery at a time when they had just five battalions. He was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General of the Royal Artillery, an honorary position, in 1795. Under Macleod's direction the Royal Artillery had been expanded to ten battalions by 1808. He also held the position of Master Gunner, St James's Park from 1808. |
25613410#3 | John Macleod (British Army officer) | In 1809, he was involved in the expedition to Walcheren. After the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington appointed him Director-General of the Royal Artillery. |
25613410#4 | John Macleod (British Army officer) | In April 1827, he was given command of the Field Train, again an honorary position. |
25613410#5 | John Macleod (British Army officer) | He died in 1833. |
25613410#6 | John Macleod (British Army officer) | On 2 January 1783 Macleod was married to Lady Wilhelmina Frances Kerr, the daughter of William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian, by whom he fathered five daughters and four sons. |
25613423#0 | A Daughter of the Seine | A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland is a biography written for children by Jeanette Eaton. It recounts the life story of Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière, an influential figure in the French Revolution. Born in relative obscurity, she became a prominent Girondist and was executed in one of Robespierre's purges. The biography was first published in 1929 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1930. |
25613429#0 | Minuscule 536 | Minuscule 536 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), δ 264 (in Soden's numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.
Scrivener labeled it by number 549.
Several pages of the manuscript were lost. Incomplete marginalia. The manuscript is available in a digital form on the internet. |
25613429#1 | Minuscule 536 | It is "a very curious volume in ancient binding with two metal plates on the covers much resembling that of B-C. I. 7". The codex contains a complete text of the "Gospels," "Acts of the Apostles," and "Pauline epistles" on 174 parchment leaves (size ) with some additional material. It has only one lacuna (Acts 26:24-28:31). The lacking material was supplemented by another, but contemporary hand. The leaf after 63 is not numbered. The pages 127 recto and 127 verso are accompanied by horizontal lines in margin. The leaves 146-147 are written vertically. |
25613429#2 | Minuscule 536 | The text is written one column per page, 26–31 lines per page, in a very minute hand. The large initial letters are decorated and in colours, the small initials are in red. It has decorated headpieces before each biblical book. The iota subscript is found twice only, and the error of itacism is quite rare.
The writing being unusually full of abbreviations. The Old Testament quotations are marked by inverted comma (>). |
25613429#3 | Minuscule 536 | It contains Prolegomena to the "Acts of the Apostles", the tables of the ("tables of contents") are placed before Gospel of Matthew, Luke and John, numbers of the ("chapters") are given at the margin, with their ("titles") at the head and foot of the pages. There is also a division according to the smaller Ammonian Sections, but there are no references to the Eusebian Canons. It contains subscriptions at the end of each book and numbers of (only in "Luke").
References to the Eusebian Canons are noted only on one page of the codex. Lectionary markings and ("lessons"), are given only to "Matthew", and they were added by a later hand. It has some "scholia" on "Matthew 5" (folio 11 verso and folio 12 recto). |
25613429#4 | Minuscule 536 | It contains seven pages with Gregory Nazianzen's heroic verses on the Lord's genealogy, and other [verses?] on His miracles and Parables, partly in red, precede tables of to "Matthew." Other verses of Gregory precede "Mark" and "Luke," and follow "John." There are no chapter divisions in the "Acts", but a few capitals in red. Every book is preceded by pretty decorated headpieces. |
25613429#5 | Minuscule 536 | The Greek text of the "Gospels" has many of the Byzantine readings but its text is not entirely Byzantine. Hermann von Soden classified it as part of the textual family K, but it was not confirmed by Aland and Wisse. Aland did not place it in any category. |
25613429#6 | Minuscule 536 | According to the Claremont Profile Method it has an eclectic text in "Gospel of Luke". In "Luke 1" it has mixed Byzantine text, in "Luke 10" it represents textual cluster Family Π200, and in "Luke 20" it belongs to the textual family K. In the "Acts" its text is very close to the textual family 1739. |
25613429#7 | Minuscule 536 | According to Scrivener the variations from the text of majority are not numerous or remarkable. |
25613429#8 | Minuscule 536 | Of the history of the codex 536 nothing is known until the year 1864. In 1864, the manuscript was purchased from a dealer at Janina in Epirus, by Angela Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), a philanthropist, together with other Greek manuscripts (among them codices 532–546). They were transported to England in 1870/71. |
25613429#9 | Minuscule 536 | The manuscript was presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, and was housed at the Highgate (Burdett-Coutts II. 7), in London. It was examined and collated by Scrivener. In 1922 it was purchased for the library of the University of Michigan. The manuscript was described by K. W. Clark in 1937. |
25613429#10 | Minuscule 536 | It was added to the list of the New Testament minuscule manuscripts by F. H. A. Scrivener (549) and C. R. Gregory (536). Gregory saw it in 1883. |
25613429#11 | Minuscule 536 | It is currently housed at the University of Michigan (Ms. Inv. No. 24) in Ann Arbor. |
25613433#0 | Pran of Albania | Pran of Albania is a children's historical novel by Elizabeth Miller. Set in the early nineteenth century among the mountain tribes of northern Albania, it tells the story of a fourteen-year-old girl, Pran, who, by tribal tradition, is old enough to be betrothed. To avoid an arranged marriage, she follows local custom in taking a vow to be a "sworn virgin" and to live as a man. The novel, illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham, was first published in 1929 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1930. |
25613442#0 | Josh Albee | Josh Albee (born September 19, 1959) is an American television actor, known for his work as a child actor during the 1970s, and for the role as the young, mute boy Caleb in the feature film, "Jeremiah Johnson". |
25613442#1 | Josh Albee | Albee remained active in acting through the early 1980s. His later work was mostly in television. |
25613448#0 | The Jumping-Off Place | The Jumping-Off Place is a children's novel by Marian Hurd McNeely about homesteading in South Dakota. It is set on the Dakotan prairie in the early 1900s. The novel, illustrated by William Siegal was first published in 1929 and was a retrospective Newbery Honor recipient for 1930. |
25613448#1 | The Jumping-Off Place | The four orphaned Linville children - Becky, Dick, Phil, and Joan - move to South Dakota in 1910 to "prove up" on a homestead claim originally filed by their uncle Jim, who raised them and who died suddenly just before the story starts. They deal with unexpected expenses, unpleasant neighbors, claim jumpers, bad weather, and other problems, but eventually triumph over them all and gain the respect and friendship of the nearby town's inhabitants. Though they had originally intended to sell or rent the claim once they owned it, they decide at the end of the book to stay in South Dakota, having come to love the prairie. |
25613449#0 | Arthur Kimish | Arthur Edwards Kimish (5 July 1917 – May 2001) was an English first-class cricketer. Kimish was a right-handed batsman who played primarily as a wicketkeeper. |
25613449#1 | Arthur Kimish | Kimish represented Hampshire in three first-class match in the 1946 County Championship. Kimish made his debut against Leicestershire at Dean Park. Kimish played a further two first-class matches for the club, against Lancashire and finally Surrey. |
25613449#2 | Arthur Kimish | Kimish died in Warwickshire in May 2001. |
25613460#0 | 1989 Player's Canadian Open | The 1989 Player's International Canadian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. The men's tournament was held at the du Maurier Stadium in Montreal in Canada and was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix while the women's tournament was held at the National Tennis Centre in Toronto in Canada and was part of the Category 5 tier of the 1989 WTA Tour. The men's tournament was held from August 14 through August 20, 1989, while the women's tournament was held from August 21 through August 27, 1989. |
25613460#1 | 1989 Player's Canadian Open | Ivan Lendl defeated John McEnroe 6–1, 6–3 |
25613460#2 | 1989 Player's Canadian Open | Martina Navratilova defeated Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–2, 6–2 |
25613460#3 | 1989 Player's Canadian Open | Kelly Evernden / Todd Witsken defeated Charles Beckman / Shelby Cannon 6–3, 6–3 |
25613460#4 | 1989 Player's Canadian Open | Gigi Fernández / Robin White defeated Martina Navratilova / Larisa Savchenko 6–1, 7–5 |
25613462#0 | The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales | The Tangle-Coated Horse and Other Tales: Episodes from the Fionn Saga is a children's book by Ella Young, a collection of Irish legends from the Fenian Cycle. These are tales about the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill and his band of warriors, the Fianna. Illustrated by Vera Bock, the book was first published in 1929 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1930. |
25613489#0 | Butch Weis | Arthur John "Butch" Weis (March 2, 1901 – May 4, 1997) was a Major League Baseball left fielder who played for four seasons. He played for the Chicago Cubs from 1922 to 1925. |
25613517#0 | Floating Island (novel) | Floating Island is a 1930 children's novel written and illustrated by Anne Parrish. A China-doll family's shipwreck and adventure in the Floating Island are told in the novel in the simple and colloquial style . |
25613517#1 | Floating Island (novel) | Once upon a time, a China-Doll family happily lives in a Doll House in Toy Shop as reading books and dancing "The Waltz of the Dolls" with piano accompany of Mrs.Doll. |
25613517#2 | Floating Island (novel) | One day, Elizabeth's Uncle Henry purchases the Doll House and the dolls for his niece, Elizabeth, and the dolls are wrapped, put inside a box and sent to "tropics" where Elizabeth lives in. Nevertheless, the dolls wreck on a ship, and then finally they drifted on an uninhabited tropical island, together with their dollhouse. |
25613517#3 | Floating Island (novel) | They gradually get adapted in the Island there. Getting familiar with the native animals, they explore all over the island with curiosity. |
25613517#4 | Floating Island (novel) | At the end of the story, Mrs.Doll proposes leaving of Floating Island. All other dolls disagree with her, but they decided to leave there because ""Dolls need children, and children need dolls"" said Mrs.Doll.
They raise a signal fire, and then one sailor sees the signal and finds out the doll house, dolls and a strange monkey wearing "little green trousers". |
25613517#5 | Floating Island (novel) | The story doesn't tell a future of the dolls, but it is concluded by asking readers whether or not they have the doll and ""If you think they are, will you tell me?"" |
25613517#6 | Floating Island (novel) | Mr. Doll
A fatherly doll with the shining black china hair. |
25613517#7 | Floating Island (novel) | Mrs. Doll
A motherly doll with the fuzzy and yellow hair. |
25613517#8 | Floating Island (novel) | William Doll
A boy doll with the brown china hair. |
25613517#9 | Floating Island (novel) | Annabel Doll
A girl doll with the long yellow hair and a white dress. |
25613517#10 | Floating Island (novel) | Baby Doll
A baby doll. |
25613517#11 | Floating Island (novel) | Dinah the Cook
A housemaid of Doll family. Her china is black and lips seem full. At the end, unlike the other dolls she chooses to stay on Floating Island because she feels ""as if this (island) was home"". |
25613517#12 | Floating Island (novel) | Finny, Lobby, Chicky and Pudding
Plaster friends of the family. |
25613517#13 | Floating Island (novel) | Sailor Joe
A sailor who found out the doll house and dolls on the Floating Island. No one on the ship "Shooting Star" believes what he saw in the Island. |
25613517#14 | Floating Island (novel) | The Horn Book Magazine described "Floating Island" as "... one of those books so whimsically compounded that its like happens rarely." and went on "There are many people who can write a fine story of adventure, history or everyday life, but how many can write an Alice or a Story of Dr. Dolittle? It is this last kind of book which Anne Parrish has made." |
25613523#0 | Queer Person | Queer Person is a children's novel by Ralph Hubbard. It tells the story of a deaf-mute boy who is raised among the Pikuni. The novel, illustrated by Harold von Schmidt, was first published in 1930 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1931. |
25613523#1 | Queer Person | When a lost four-year-old deaf-mute wanders into a Pikuni camp he is shunned by them as marked by evil spirits. They give him the name "Queer Person". An old medicine woman takes him in and raises him. She predicts greatness for him and ensures he is worthy of it. During his test of bravery as an adolescent, he rescues the chief's son. He wins the heart of the chief's daughter and eventually becomes a leader of the tribe. |
25613526#0 | Blue (Don Cherry's dog) | Blue was a white Bull Terrier owned by hockey commentator Don Cherry. Blue was reportedly a gift from the members of the Boston Bruins when Cherry was their head coach from 1974 to 1979. The original Blue, who died in 1989, was a female. Cherry has since owned other white bull terriers, all of which were named Blue. |
25613526#1 | Blue (Don Cherry's dog) | The dog often starred in Cherry's annual series of hockey videos called "Rock'em Sock'em". Bones, the mascot of the Niagara IceDogs, formerly the Mississauga Icedogs, which Cherry partly owned, is modelled on Blue. |