Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii after Portuguese cowboys introduced Spanish guitars there in the late 19th century. The Hawaiians did not embrace the tuning of the traditional Spanish guitars they encountered. They re-tuned the guitars to sound a chord (now called an …

The Scarlet Letter is a 1934 American film directed by Robert G. Vignola and based on the 1850 novel of the same name by Nathaniel Hawthorne.. The film has been preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion. He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, from a family long associated with that town.Hawthorne entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. He published his first …

A murder conviction without a body is an instance of a person being convicted of murder despite the absence of the victim's body. Circumstantial and forensic evidence are prominent in such convictions. Hundreds of such convictions have occurred in the past, some of which have been overturned. In all cases, unless otherwise noted, the remains of the victims were never …

Relatives of the groom House of Windsor. The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, the groom's paternal grandparents. The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, the groom's father and step-mother. Prince Henry of Wales, the groom's brother; The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, the groom's paternal aunt and uncle. Peter and Autumn Phillips, the …

Incumbents. Monarch – Elizabeth I (until 24 March 1603), then James I; Parliament – 10th of Queen Elizabeth I (starting 27 October, until 19 December 1601), Blessed (starting 19 March 1604); Events. 1600. January – in Ireland, Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, renews the Nine Years' War against England with an invasion of Munster. 11 February–March – clown William …

Brookvale Oval (also known by the commercial sponsorship name 4 Pines Park) is a sporting ground located within Brookvale Park at Brookvale, New South Wales, Australia.The ground is owned by Northern Beaches Council and is primarily used by the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles rugby league team. Brookvale Oval has an approximate capacity of 20,000 people. By the …

George Winston (born December 26, 1949) is an American pianist, guitarist, harmonicist, and record producer. He was born in Michigan and raised mainly in Montana (Miles City and Billings), as well as Mississippi and Florida. He is best known for his solo piano recordings. Each of several of his albums from the early 1980s have sold millions of copies.

Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise …

This is an impartial (not implicitly biased to a single governing body, the BRFC) and comprehensive record list of 294 British record freshwater fish, past and present, involving 59 different species/sub-species of fish caught using the traditional angling method of rod and line. Records to include the angler, species, weight, date, venue, also referenced with a …

The novel's style was inspired by William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley and Philip K. Dick, and would be followed by a coffee table book of images created for the project. In a December 2000 interview with Manson, novelist Chuck Palahniuk mentioned the Holy Wood novel (due for release in spring 2001) and complimented its style.

Central Coast Stadium (known originally as Grahame Park), known commercially as Industree Group Stadium is a sports venue in Gosford, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia.The stadium is home to the Central Coast Mariners association football club which competes in the A-League.The stadium also hosts rugby league and rugby union fixtures on an …

Biographie. Élève de Charles Dullin et de Tania Balachova, Maurice Garrel se consacre au théâtre à partir de 1947.Il est notamment mis en scène par Georges Vitaly et collabore avec Laurent Terzieff.Il est pensionnaire de la Comédie-Française de 1983 à 1985.. Au début des années 1960, il aborde le cinéma, dirigé, entre autres, par François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, …

The vogue of Socinian views, typified by men like Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland and Chillingworth, led to the abortive fourth canon ... Then in 1845, a congregation in Toronto was founded whose first minister, William Adam, was a Scottish Baptist missionary who had served in India. Then other congregations formed, Hamilton in 1889, Ottawa ...