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"There isn't anything fun to do. Let's go play in my sandbox."
- Anon. (Age 8)
Article Ideas, Fragments, etc
Modern House
"Modern House" refers to a residential dwelling or structure incorporating some or all of a number of "modern" features, including any or all of the following incorporated into the original design and construction:
- Electrical wiring, outlets and appliances
- Indoor plumbing, particularly running water and sewage service for the removal of human and household wastes
- Central heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)
- Modern kitchen facilities such as electric or gas stoves for cooking, ovens, refrigeration and freezers for food storage
- Garages or carports designed for automobiles
- "Open plan" designs, such as:
- - Removal of walls between functional areas (
- - "Curtain walls" (non-bearing)
- - Archways, pass throughs and
- - "Family rooms"
Individual modern houses may also be part of
Modern houses also tend to be characterized by the absence of certain features such as:
- Carriage houses or barns for horses
- Hitching posts
- Porte corcheres
- Separate rooms or wings for "live in" servants or employees
- Parlors and specialized rooms for "receiving" guests
W.G. Sebald
Winfried Georg Sebald (usually identified as W.G. Sebald) was born May 18, 1944 in Wertach, Allegau, Germany and died December 14, 2001 in Norfolk, England.
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Theater
Title | Composer/Librettist | Setting | Main Characters | Date First Produced |
Date Movie |
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Annie Get Your Gun | Irving Berlin | Annie Oakley, "Buffalo Bill" Cody | 1946 | 1950 | |
Aspects of Love | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | |
Cats | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Argentina | 1900 | ||
Meet Me In St. Louis | Irving Brecker/Fred Finklehoffe | Worlds Fair of 1904 | The Smith family | 1944 | |
My Fair Lady | Edwardian London | 1900 | |||
New York, New York | 1900 | 1900 | |||
Oklahoma | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Oklahoma Territory | Curley McLain, Laurey Williams | 1941 | 1955 |
Oliver | |||||
Pal Joey | 1900 | ||||
Private Lives | Noël Coward | London | 1930 | ||
Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Paris Opera, Paris Sewer | 1941 | 1943 | |
The Sound of Music | Austria | 1900 | 1900 | ||
South Pacific | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | WWII in Pacific | 1949 | 1958 | |
State Fair | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Iowa State Fair | The Frake family | 1996 | 1945 |
West Side Story | Leonard Bernstein | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Wonderful Town | NYC | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Where’s Charley? | 1900 | ||||
The King and I | Siam | 1900 | |||
Guys and Dolls | Broadway | 1900 | |||
London Calling | Noel Coward | London | Willy & George Craft | 1923 | |
Kiss Me Kate | |||||
A Chorus Line | |||||
Hair | |||||
No No Nanette | |||||
Jesus Christ, Superstar | Tom Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber | ||||
Max and | |||||
Gypsy | Steven Sondheim | 1971 | |||
Rent | |||||
Les Miserables | |||||
No No Nanette | |||||
Porgy and Bess | |||||
Starlight Express | |||||
Follies | |||||
Billy Elliot | |||||
Funny Girl | |||||
On the Town | |||||
42nd Street | |||||
Auntie Mame | |||||
The Wiz | |||||
Sunset Boulevard | |||||
Sweet Charity |
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Old Timeline
Date | Event |
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1642-1651 | English Civil War: Scarborough sides with the Royalists |
March 1643 | Castle garrison led by Sir Hugh Cholmley; briefly loses the Castle to his cousin, Captain Browne Bushell |
August 1644 | Parliamentary forces reach Scarborough following Royalist defeat at Marston Moor and the fall of York; Cholmley stalls with surrender negotiations |
18th February 1645 | Capture of Scarborough's port; first siege of the Castle by Parliamentary forces begins |
24th March 1645 | Sir John Meldrum, leader of the Parliamentary forces, badly injured in clifftop fall; allows Royalist surprise attack and delays siege by six weeks |
1st May 1645 | Parliamentarians' Committee of Both Kingdoms orders that the Castle be taken at all costs |
10th May 1645 | Royalist counter-attack leads to Parlimentary retreat after three-day bombardment and collapse of the keep's west wall |
11th May 1645 | Heavy hand-to-hand fighting around the barbican; Parliamentarians take heavier casualties, Meldrum killed |
25th July 1645 | Castle garrison surrenders following five-month siege |
27th July 1648 | New castle garrison goes over to the Royalist side |
19th December 1648 | Second siege brings Castle back under Parliamentary control; later used as a prison |
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