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Revision as of 18:13, 10 August 2009
"When there isn't anything else fun to do, I go outside and play in my sandbox."
- Anon. (Age 8)
Article Ideas, Fragments, etc
The following list are for articles that need to be written by someone:
Needed Articles
- John Muir [r]: (1838-1914) U.S. naturalist and conservationist, born in Scotland; founded the Sierra Club. [e]
- American Museum of Natural History [r]: Large museum located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1869. The museum consists of 25 connected buildings and 46 exhibition halls for display of its large collection of diaramas, artifacts and scientific evidence of natural history. [e]
- John James Audubon [r]: West Indian-American illustrator and animalier, known for his illustrations of birds. The father of wildlife artist James Woodhouse Audubon [e]
- Henry Burgh [r]: Animal activist, eccentric, and creator of the A.S.P.C.A., the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals [e]
- Thomas Mayne Reid [r]: Popular Irish-American author of action-adventure books (1818-1883) born in County Down in northern Ireland, "Captain" Reid was a drinking companion of Edgar Allen Poe before fighting in the Mexican-American War of 1846 and was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec. His books on the American West were popular with young boys in Europe and elsewhere. [e]
- Robert B. Roosevelt [r]: An uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt who was a pioneering ichthyologist, crusader against over-fishing and eccentric. [e]
- John Burroughs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Frank Chapman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Bird Grinnell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- National Wildlife Refuge System [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Forest Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hetch Hetchy Valley [r]: A glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in California flooded in the 1920s by O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River, forming the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, part of the water supply for the city of San Francisco, California, California (U.S. state). Damming the Tuolumne and flooding the valley was protested by John Muir and the Sierra Club [e]
- Yosemite Valley [r]: Mountain valley on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada range in Mariposa County, California. The valley is the point of entry and a major attraction of Yosemite National Park. [e]
- Yosemite National Park [r]: A national park, established in 1890, located in the Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada range of central California. [e]
- Mariposa Grove [r]: A grove of giant sequoia trees located in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park near Wawona, California. [e]
- Musical Theater [r]: Performing arts presentations combining song, dance, and [[orchesta]l music with spoken dialogue. Types of musical theater include, among others, Broadway musicals, revues, musical comedy, operetta, and light opera. [e]
| Title | Composer/Librettist | Scene | Main Characters | Date First Produced |
Date Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Oklahoma Territory | Curley McLain, Laurey Williams | 1941 | 1955 |
| State Fair | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Iowa State Fair | The Frake family | 1996 | 1945 |
| Annie Get Your Gun | Irving Berlin | Annie Oakley, "Wild Bill" Cody | 1946 | 1950 | |
| Meet Me In St. Louis | Irving Brecker/Fred Finklehoffe | Worlds Fair of 1904 | The Smith family | 1944 | |
| South Pacific | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | WWII in Pacific | 1949 | 1958 | |
| Wonderful Town | NYC | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| New York, New York | 1900 | 1900 | |||
| Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Paris Opera, Paris Sewer | 1941 | 1943 | |
| Aspects of Love | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | |
| Cats | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Argentina | 1900 | ||
| West Side Story | Leonard Bernstein | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| The Sound of Music | Austria | 1900 | 1900 | ||
| My Fair Lady | Edwardian London | 1900 | |||
| Private Lives | Noël Coward | London | 1930 | ||
| Kiss Me Kate | 1900 | ||||
| The King and I | Siam | 1900 | |||
| Pal Joey | 1900 | ||||
| Guys and Dolls | Broadway | 1900 | |||
| London Calling | Noel Coward | London | Willy & George Craft | 1923 | |
| Kiss Me Kate | |||||
| Oliver | |||||
| A Chorus Line | |||||
| Hair | |||||
| No No Nanette | |||||
| Jesus Christ, Superstar | Tom Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber | ||||
| Starlight Express | Andrew Lloyd Webber | ||||
| Follies | Steven Sondheim | 1971 | |||
| Billy Elliot | 2008 | ||||
| Gypsy |
The King and I Les Miserables Rent Max and 42nd Street Wild Party Hair On the Town Follies Funny Girl Sound of Music Bye Bye, Birdie 1776 Cinderella Into the Woods Wonderful Town Applause Pajama Game Guys and Dolls Young Frankenstein Scarlet Pimpernel Music Man Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Music Man Billy Elliot On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) Brigadoon Finian's Rainbow Aida Hello Dolly Seesaw Ragtime (1996) Annie Get Your Gun Porgy and Bess Desert Song Show Boat Mame Mama Mia Assassins Bells are Ringing Grey Gardens
Catalog of Art Nouveau organizations
| Organization | Founder | City | Year | Media | ??? | |
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| [[Art Furniture Alliancez | Bonn | |||||
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- Grand opera [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operetta [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alan Furst [r]: Add brief definition or description
References
(No workgroup is going to want to claim this!)