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The Sun (newspaper) The Sun is a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at 3,107,412 copies daily in the first half of 2006 , (cf USA Today, the best-selling US newspaper at 2,270,000 ). The daily readership is just over 7,800,000 and it has more than twice as many readers in the ABC1 demographic as its upmarket stablemate The Times, although much less as a proportion of total sales.
The Sun Chronicle The Sun Chronicle is a daily newspaper in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Most of its readers are in Attleboro and North Attleborough, Massachusetts, but it also covers nearby Foxborough, Mansfield, Norfolk, Norton, Plainville, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Wrentham, Massachusetts.
The Sun Never Shone That Day On 21st September 2000, at around the time other European countries saw the release of "Velvet", Norway released "The Sun Never Shone That Day" to radio stations. The single was never available to buy in the shops.
The Sun Shines Brighter The Sun Shines Brighter is the second studio album from English band Ultra, released in October 2006, seven years after their debut album Ultra. The lineup consists of James Hearn; vocals and piano, Michael Harwood; vocals and guitar, Nick Keynes; bass, and Jon O'Mahony; drums and percussion.
The Sun-Herald The Sun-Herald is an Australian tabloid newspaper published on Sundays in Sydney by John Fairfax Holdings. It is the Sunday counterpart of The Sydney Morning Herald and its predecessor was called The Sunday Herald.
The Sunday Edition The Sunday Edition is a television programme broadcast on the ITV Network in the United Kingdom focusing on political interview and discussion, produced by London Weekend Television. The show is hosted by Andrew Rawnsley and Andrea Catherwood.
The Sunday Format The Sunday Format, "BBC Radio 4's first high-quality weekend broadsheet newspaper", is a British satirical radio comedy. The programme is a parody of British middle class newspapers, in particular the lifestyle supplements and glossy celebrity magazines that fill Sunday papers.
The Sunday Game The Sunday Game is Radio Telefís Éireann's principal Gaelic Athletic Association television programme. It is shown on RTÉ Two every summer during the Football Championship and Hurling Championship seasons, showing live Gaelic football and hurling matches.
The Sunday Mail (Brisbane) The Sunday Mail is Brisbane's only Sunday newspaper, a tabloid and like all Brisbane pay to read papers is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's eastern suburbs.
The Sunday Paper The Sunday Paper is the name of an alternative weekly newspaper published in Atlanta, Georgia which focuses on news, culture and entertainment. The publication serves a clientele less partial to the counterculture flavor of competing journals, distributing an average of 71,000 copies throughout the metro Atlanta area and reaching an estimated 200,000 readers.
The Sunday Philosophy Club Series The Sunday Philosophy Club is a series of novels by the author Alexander McCall Smith. It is also the name of the first novel in the series, and an informal talking group founded by the main character Isabel Dalhousie.
The Sunday Press The Sunday Press was a weekly newspaper published in Ireland from 1949 until 1995. It was launched by Eamon de Valera's Irish Press group following the defeat of his Fianna Fáil party in the Irish general election, 1948.
The Sunday Star-Times The Sunday Star-Times is a New Zealand newspaper published each weekend by the Fairfax group in Auckland. It covers both national and international news, and is a member of the New Zealand Press Association and Newspaper Publishers Association of New Zealand.
The Sunday Surgery The Radio 1 Surgery (formerly known as the Sunday Surgery) is a British radio show that airs on BBC Radio 1 on Sunday evenings from 10pm - 12am and is presented by Letitia, Dr Mark, Briggy and Stuart. It began with Sara Cox in 1999, then was joint-hosted by Emma B.
The Sunday Times (India) The Sunday Times is the Sunday Edition of The Times of India and is published by The Times Group. It carries supplements like Times Life, Times Matrimonials, Times Classifieds, in all the markets it is circulated in.
The Sunday Times (UK) The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded independently and only came under common ownership in 1966.
The Sunday Times (Western Australia) The Sunday Times is a News Corporation owned Sunday tabloid newspaper distributed throughout Western Australia. Recent improvements to the newspaper have seen it grow in circulation from about 340,000 in 2001 to over 353,000 in 2005.
The Sundays The SUNDAYS were an English alternative rock group of the late 1980s and 1990s. The band's music is characterised by singer Harriet Wheeler's "dreamy" voice, 'jangly' guitars and suspension-rich harmonies.
The Sundering (series) The Sundering is a duology of fantasy novels by Jacqueline Carey, comprised of Banewrecker, and Godlsayer. The series depicts a conflict between light and dark, with many of the common conventions of fantasy fiction.
The Sundowe "The Sundowe" is a musical written by Edinburgh based writers and performers John, James and Gerry Kielty and featuring their band 'The Martiansstoryline centres on The Martians themselves, as their street busking is interrupted by vampires, the local council and the return of dead souls. The musical is part comedy, part pathos, and includes references to modern Scottish politics, Greyfriars Bobby, street busking and ancient Scottish history.
The Sundowners The Sundowners is a 1960 film that tells the story of an Australian outback family torn between the father's desires to continue his nomadic sheep-herding ways and the wife and son's desire to settle down in one place. It stars Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum , Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill, and Michael Anderson, Jr..
The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese is the fifth album from Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine, released February 7, 2006. The album title and artwork are spoofs on Pink Floyd's album, The Dark Side of the Moon.
The Sunshine Underground The Sunshine Underground are an English, Leeds based Indie Rock band. The Sunshine Underground play a variety of punk, funk and indie, featured on their debut album, Raise The Alarm, released by City Rockers on August 282006.
The Super The Super is a 1991 motion picture starring Joe Pesci as a New York slum landlord sentenced to live in one of his own buildings until it is brought up to code. Famed screenwriter Nora Ephron co-scripted the story with Simpsons writer Sam Simon.
The Super 6 The Super 6 was an animated cartoon series which was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1966, and shown on the NBC television network from 10 September 1966 to 31 August 1969. The show was a superhero spoof which featured half a dozen diverse characters under the supervision of a cranky dispatcher.
The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross was the third Japanese animated (anime) series released under the "Super Dimension" moniker by the sponsor Big West. This 1984 science fiction robotic mecha series followed The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982-1983), created by Studio Nue with Artland and produced by Tatsunoko, and The Super Dimension Century Orguss (1983-1984), also created by Studio Nue with Artland and produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha.
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (PlayStation 2 game) Bandai released The Super Dimension Fortress Macross 3D shooting game (based on the animated science fiction series of the same name) in October of 2003 in Japan for the Sony PlayStation 2 console. Created by the Sega-AM2 team that produced Aero Dancing, the game featured a blend of arcade shooting and realistic aerial combat similar to the Ace Combat series.
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Again , also known as Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II or Macross II, is the first animated sequel to Macross to feature a new cast of characters. It was originally released as a six-episode mini-series in Japan and overseas, but it was edited overseas into a movie compilation.
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 is a 1987 collection of music videos from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross animated television series (1982-1983) and The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? theatrical film remake (1984).
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie (developed by Zamuse) was a 2D shooter released on the Nintendo Super Famicom based on the 1984 animated movie The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?. The story took place after the movie's ending but before the launch of the SDF-2 Megaroad-01.
The Super Fight The Super Fight was a unique type of boxing match. Since Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano fought at different times, boxing fans often debated over who would have won in a fight between the two heavyweight champions.
The Super Gators The Super Gators are a group of students from the University of Florida that attend football games dressed super heroes. The group's legendary wardrobe consists of a neon orange hunting style (or beanie) hat, face paint, orange shorts, blue knee socks, and usually no shirt.
The Super Inframan The Super Inframan (中國超人) (Mandarin: Zhong Guo Chao Ren, Cantonese: Jung Gwok Chiu Yan - literally "Chinese Superman") is a Hong Kong tokusatsu-style superhero movie produced by Shaw Brothers Studio in 1975. Based upon the huge success of the Japanese tokusatsu shows, Ultraman and Kamen Rider, in Hong Kong, this film features the same type of "henshin" action and costumed derring-do, coupled with Chinese kung fu action.
The Super Milk-chan Show The Super Milk-Chan Show, known in Japan as , is a comedy anime about a potty-mouthed talking baby girl named Milk-chan, who is entrusted by the President of Everything to defend the world, despite the fact that she cannot do very much other than curse and make popular culture references, leading to its American slogan "Wholesome? Probably not.
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1985 to 1986. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera and is based on the Justice League and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics.
The Super Scary Monster Show featuring Little Gloomy The Super Scary Monster Show is a spin off of the comic book series "Little Gloomy". It was created by Landry Walker and Eric Jones, and is published sporadically by Slave Labor Graphics publishing and occasionally appears in Disney Adventures magazine.
The Super Show The Super Show is a sports and fitness trade show that takes place each year at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. Exhibitors show products related to fitness, team sports, motor sports and action sports.
The Superhighway Summit The Superhighway Summit was held at UCLA's Royce Hall on 11 January, 1994. It was the "first public conference bringing together all of the major industry, government and academic leaders in the field [and] also began the national dialogue about the Information Superhighway and its implications.
The Superman Effect The Superman Effect is a phenomenon in which a slight aesthetic change in one's appearance completely conceals one's identity in any situation where this change is normally obvious. This phenomenon is in reference to the fact that Clark Kent can be seen as a different person than Superman by removing and replacing his glasses.
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure was a Filmation animated series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1968. Premiering on September 9, 1967, this 60-minute program included a series of six-minute adventures featuring various DC Comics superheroes.
The Supermen Lovers The Supermen Lovers is a French house musical group, featuring Parisian musician and producer Guillaume Atlan. They are generally considered a one-hit wonder, with their only hit being "Starlight", which reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart in 2001, and achieving no less than eight #1s in Europe.
The Supernaturalist ‘The Supernaturalist’, by Eoin Colfer (author of the ‘Artemis Fowl’ series) is a children’s science-fiction novel (influenced in many ways by film noir and other predecessors of the cyberpunk science fiction movement, resulting in what could be termed a children’s cyberpunk novel).
The Supernaturals The Supernaturals were a five-piece guitar-based pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. Fronted by singer-songwriter James McColl, they signed to Parlophone in 1996 and had a string of singles which were pulled from their three albums and four EPs.
The Superstar Chef Challenge The Superstar Chef Challenge is a reality/competition special produced for the Food Network Canada. Filmed at the state of the art Compass Group Canada Culinary Arts Demonstration Theatre and Kitchen Laboratory in Humber College's North Campus, it serves as a pilot for a potential series.
The Suppliants (Aeschylus) The Suppliants (Greek "Hiketides", also translated as The Suppliant Maidens) is a play by Aeschylus. It was probably first performed sometime after 470 BC as the first play in a trilogy which included the lost plays The Egyptians and The Daughters of Danaus.
The Supreme Florence "Flo" Ballard The Supreme Florence "Flo" Ballard is a 2002 release, compiling the ABC Records solo recordings of Florence Ballard (formerly of The Supremes). The album, originally titled You Don't Have To, was shelved by ABC in 1968.
The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb The Supremes Produced and Arranged by Jimmy Webb is a 1972 album released by The Supremes on the Motown label. The album was the only Supremes LP produced (and chiefly written) by a non-Motown producer, successful songwriter and producer Jimmy Webb, and was the last album to feature early-1970s Supremes lead singer Jean Terrell.
The Surfaris The Surfaris were an American surf music band formed in Glendora, California in 1962. They are best known for two songs that hit the charts in the Los Angeles area, and nationally by May, 1963: "Surfer Joe" on the A side and "Wipe Out" on the B side of a 45 RPM single.
The Surgeon of Crowthorne The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a book by Simon Winchester first published in 1998. The American edition is called The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and was published the same year.
The Surprising Adventures Of Sir Digby Chicken-Ceaser The Surprising Adventures Of Sir Digby Chicken-Ceaser is a sketch from the British TV sitcom That Mitchell And Webb Look. The sketch follows the endeavours of Sir Digby Chicken Ceaser (Robert Webb) and his sidekick Ginger (David Mitchell), two drunken tramps who believe they are detectives (especially Sir Digby).
The Surreal Life The Surreal Life is a reality television series that sets a select group of out-of-the-spotlight celebrities and films them as they live together in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills for ten days. The format of the show resembles that of The Real World and Road Rules, in that the cameras not only record the castmates participation in group activities assigned to them, but also their interpersonal relationships and conflicts.
The Surreal Life: Fame Games The Surreal Life: Fame Games is a reality television series on the VH1 cable network. A spinoff of the VH1 show, The Surreal Life, the show assembles ten alumni of that show's prior seasons, to compete in a ten-week elimination competition that takes place in Las Vegas, with the winner of the competition taking home $100,000.
The Surrealist Group in Stockholm The Surrealist group in Stockholm (in Swedish Surrealistgruppen i Stockholm) is a Swedish group of writers and other artists active mostly since the late 1980s until the mid-to-late 1990s. Although it regarded itself as a subversive group outside the cultural establishment, some of its members have since come to occupy more central positions on the Swedish literary field.
The Surrey With the Fringe On Top The Surrey With the Fringe On Top is a song written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for the musical Oklahoma!. It is the second song of the show, following the famous opening number sung by Curly "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning".
The Surviving Elements: From Soul Survivor II Sessions The Surviving Elements: From Soul Survivor II Sessions is the second instrumental album from Hip Hop producer Pete Rock. The album features leftover beats that were created during the recording of Pete's 2004 album Soul Survivor II.
The Survivors (TNG episode) "The Survivors" is a third season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation first broadcast on October 9, 1989. In this episode, the Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where all but two of the 11,000 inhabitants have been killed by a mysterious attacker.
The Sustainability Initiative Fund The Sustainability Initiative Fund is a pioneering project set up by students at the University of East Anglia aimed at providing interest free capital for projects that will make the university campus more sustainable.
The Swallow's Tail [Swallow's Tail - Series on Catastrophes (French]: La queue d'aronde - Série des catastrophes) was the last painting of [[Salvador Dalí, done in May 1983. It is the final work in a series based on René Thom's catastrophe theory.
The Swamp Fox (TV series) The Swamp Fox was a 1950s television series produced by Walt Disney and starring Leslie Nielsen. Nielsen played the role of American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion and wore a tri-corner hat even though the actual historical Marion sensibly wore a pot on his head as a helmet; Disney wanted a marketable item to follow the Davy Crockett coonskin caps, however.
The Swan (theatre) The Swan was a theatre in Southwark, London, built between 1594 and 1596, during the first half of William Shakespeare's career. It was the fourth in the series of large public playhouses of London, after James Burbage's The Theatre (1576) and Curtain (1577), and Philip Henslowe's Rose (1587-8).
The Swan Princess The Swan Princess is a 1994 film based on the ballet "Swan Lake". Starring the voices of Jack Palance, Howard McGillin, Michelle Nicastro, Steven Wright and John Cleese, the film is directed by ex-Disney animation director Richard Rich, with a music score by Lex de Azevedo.
The Sweeney The Sweeney is a British television police drama focusing on two crime-fighting members of the Flying Squad, an elite branch of the British police force specialising in armed robbery and violent crime. The programme title came from Cockney rhyming slang: Sweeney Todd = 'Flying Squad'.
The Sweet Trinity The Sweet Trinity or The Golden Vanity or The Golden Willow Tree is Child ballad 286. The first surviving version, about 1635, was Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally
The Sweetest Fig The Sweetest Fig is a children's book written in 1993 by Chris Van Allsburg. It tells the dark, unsettling story of an affluent, cold-hearted French dentist who eats a fig that makes his wildest dreams come true.
The Sweetest Thing The Sweetest Thing (2002) is a romantic comedy movie, directed by Roger Kumble and written by Nancy Pimental. It starred Cameron Diaz, Selma Blair, Christina Applegate, Thomas Jane, Frank Grillo and Jason Bateman.
The Sweetness Lies Within "The Sweetness Lies Within" is a single from British indie rock band Hefner. The second single from their album Breaking God's Heart, it was released by Too Pure in 1998 on both a compact disc and vinyl record format.
The Sweets of Sin The Sweets of Sin are an experimental crossover "pop"-band with strong modern classical, jazz and performance influences. It was founded in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1985 by Frank Mankyboddle and Steve Z.
The Swimmer "The Swimmer" is a short story by American author John Cheever, published in 1964 in the short story collection The Brigadier and the Golf Widow. Originally conceived as a novel and pared down from over 150 pages of notes, it is probably Cheever's most famous and frequently anthologized story.
The Swindle Continues The Swindle Continues is the first album released by the Ex Pistols in 1988. It consists of half Sex Pistols and half Ex Pistols material, and is the only Ex Pistols release that doesn't disguise itself as material completely by the Sex Pistols.
The Swingle Singers The Swingle Singers is a vocal group formed in 1962 Paris, France with Ward Swingle, Anne Germain, Jeanette Baucomont, and Jean Cussac. Christine Legrand, the sister of composer Michel Legrand, was the lead soprano in the group.
The Swining The Swining is a 1993 album released by Raymond Watts (as PIG). It was released exclusively in Japan, being re-released in the United States by Cleopatra Records in 1999 as part of The Swining/Red Raw & Sore.
The Swiss Army Romance The Swiss Army Romance is the first full-length album by the rock band Dashboard Confessional. It had an original short release (1000 copies or so) on the then very small Fiddler Records, but soon a decision was made to sell the album to Drive-Thru Records so that it could reach more ears.
The Swoose (B-17) The Swoose is a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress D-BO, USAAF 40-3097, that saw extensive use in the Southwest Pacific theatre of World War II, and survived to become the oldest B-17 extant. It is currently in storage in a dismantled state at the Paul Garber facility of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution at Silver Hill, Maryland, and is the only shark-fin Fortress known to exist.
The Sword and the Rose The Sword and the Rose, (first released on July 23, 1953) is a United States family and adventure film, produced by Disney and directed by Ken Annakin. The film features the story of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England.
The Sword and the Sorcerer The Sword and the Sorcerer is a 1982 fantasy film, starring Lee Horsley, Richard Lynch, and Richard Moll, directed by Albert Pyun. A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering the land.
The Sword in the Stone (film) The Sword in the Stone is the eighteenth full-length animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. The film was created and produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released to theaters on December 25, 1963, by Buena Vista Distribution.
The Sword of Conan The Sword of Conan is a collection of four fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard featuring his seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian, first published in hardcover by Gnome Press in 1952.
The Sword of Damocles (virtual reality) The Sword of Damocles is widely considered to be the first virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMD) system. It was created in 1968 by hall of fame computer scientist Ivan Sutherland with the help of his student Bob Sproull.
The Sword of Forever The Sword of Forever is an original novel by Jim Mortimore featuring the fictional archaeologist Bernice Summerfield. The New Adventures were a spin-off from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
The Sword of the Prophet The Sword of the Prophet: The politically incorrect guide to Islam: History, Theology, Impact on the World (2002) is a book by Srđa Trifković, a Serbian-American historian, journalist, and political analyst. The book chronicles events related to the rise of Islam and what Trifkovic says are the patterns of violence adopted by its founder, Muhammad.
The Sword of Truth The Sword of Truth, written by Terry Goodkind, is an epic fantasy series encompassing the stories of a diverse cast of characters. Each volume is self-contained, in that the primary conflicts of each novel are resolved within that novel; however, binding it together are the delicately interwoven threads of the many underlying characters and ongoing events throughout the works of this highly complex series.
The Swords Trilogy The Swords Trilogy is a series of fantasy novels by Michael Moorcock about Corum Jhaelen Irsei, an aspect of the Eternal Champion. It consists of three books published in 1971: The Knight of the Swords, The Queen of the Swords, and The King of the Swords.
The Swordswoman of Huangjiang The Swordswoman of Huangjiang (AKA Huangjiang Nuxia) was a 13-film wuxia series co-starring Chen Zhi-gong. The only film of the series which still exists today was its first installment, Uproar At the Baolin Temple, which is the lone surviving film of Chen's silent-era oeuvreas well as one of only two[http://www.
The Sworn Book of Honorius The Sworn Book of Honorius, or Liber Juratus, is one among many grimoires that circulate among occultists, both of the academic and practitioner interests. Said to be the work of Honorius of Thebes, it was probably written in the 13th century.
The Symbolic In Jacques Lacan's theory of psychic structures, the Symbolic refers to the realm of language into which the child enters under the impetus of the Name of the Father. The child's world, which has already been transformed by the Imaginary spatial identifications of the Mirror Stage, now becomes bound up in signifying chains linked to a master signifier.
The Syndicate Of London The Syndicate of London (SOL) are a UK based hacking/hacktivist and "general user group" which has been in existence since the early 90's in one form or another. They are noted in particular for two hacktivist ezines published by the group The Syndicate Of London Journal/Annuals and The Discordant Opposition Journal.
The Synoecious Orchids The Synoecious Orchids are a young four-piece rock band drawing influences from blues and funk rhythms, blending many genres with their diverse lyrics and melodic guitar parts often accompanied by driving basslines.
The Synthesis of Yoga The Synthesis of Yoga is Sri Aurobindo's principle work on yoga, comparing the methods of the various schools of traditional yoga, and providing the comprehensive way for following the true path to Divine consciousness. It is the primary work on Integral Yoga, the system of yoga that Sri Aurobindo developed.
The Syrian Bride The Syrian Bride is a 2004 film directed by Eran Riklis. The story deals with a Druze wedding and the troubles the politically unresolved situation creates for the personal lives of the people in and from the village.
The Syringa Tree The Syringa Treeis a deeply personal memory play] of a childhood under [[apartheid. Written and often performed by Pamela Gien it has received excellent reviews in New York and across the USA as well as in London.
The Syro-Aramaic Reading Of The Qur'an The Syro-Aramaic Reading Of The Koran: a contribution to the decoding of the language of the Qur'an (Die syro-aramäische Lesart des Koran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Koransprache) is a book by German philologist Christoph Luxenberg. It is considered a major work in the field of Qur'anic philology.
The System (satellite radio) The System is a radio station on WorldSpace Satellite Radio's Asiastar satellite channel 202, and is also offered on XM Satellite Radio channel 82 in North America, thanks to a business relationship with XM pre-dating the launch of the platform. The channel is broadcast only on WorldSpace's Asiastar satellite, covering the southern parts of the continent and portions of the middle east, and not on the Afristar satellite.
The System of Nature The System of Nature (Systeme de la Nature) is a philosophical book by Baron d'Holbach (Paul Henri Thiry, 1723-1789). He wrote this book (with the assistance of Diderot) anonymously in 1770, describing the universe in terms of philosophical materialism (i.
The taibhdhearcdhc The taibhdheardhc is a theatre house in Galway where Micheál MacLíammóir organised plays with all Irish speaking parts. In 1928 the theatre premiered with MacLíammóir's 'Diarmuid agus Gráinne' with himself in the lead part.
The temple of a city God The Temple of a City God in Shanghai was constructed after the Ming Dynasty Yunglo year (1403). The temple was used as a place to make sacrifices and offer gifts to the town god Qin Yubo and Huo Guang (Chinese general abundant land marquis).
The three boys (opera) The Three Boys are characters, also known as the Three Spirits, in Mozart's Opera Die Zauberflöte(The Magic Flute). These mysterious beings appear first as guides, apparently sent by the Queen of Night, to lead Tamino and Papageno in their quest to rescue Pamina from Sarrastro.
The three Rs The three Rs (as in the letter 'R') are reading, writing and 'rithmetic (arithmetic). They are the foundation of a basic skills oriented education program, as compared to the latest standards based education reform models.
The town mouse and the country mouse The Town Mouse And The Country Mouse is a children's book based on one of Aesop's fables to teach children to enjoy the live the way you like it. It happens when Town Mouse is invited to stay in his friend's house.
The trier social stress test The Trier Social Stress test is a psychological procedure that allows experimenters to induce stress under lab conditions. What is unique about the procedure is that it also allows experimenters to compare people's stress levels, despite individual differences (e.
The two Coreys The two Coreys--or, simply, "The Coreys"--is a reference to two popular child actors from the 1980s, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim, who appeared in many films together most notably a number of successful teen-oriented films in the late 1980s.

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