query: On what date was the album featuring the song Perfect Illusion by Lady Gaga released?

pos: Perfect Illusion "Perfect Illusion" is a song recorded by American singer Lady Gaga. It was made available for digital consumption on September 9, 2016 through Interscope Records as the lead single from her fifth studio album, "Joanne" (2016). The track was written and produced by Gaga, Kevin Parker, Mark Ronson and BloodPop. A disco-rock song, "Perfect Illusion" lyrically delves on the singer's "highest of highs and lowest of lows" in a relationship, and is ultimately a commentary on social media. Gaga wrote the lyrics using her Underwood typewriter; after numerous permutations the composers derived the final track. Speculation that the song referred to Gaga's ex-boyfriend Taylor Kinney was refuted by the singer.

pos: Joanne (album) Joanne is the fifth studio album by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on October 21, 2016, by Streamline and Interscope Records. Gaga collaborated with several producers on the album, including Mark Ronson, Jeff Bhasker, BloodPop and RedOne, and co-produced the majority of the material. The music of "Joanne" features "stripped-down" soft rock and dance-pop styles in order to emphasize the singer's vocal abilities. Lyrically, the album delves on the theme of family and life's emotions, with the death of her aunt, Joanne Stefani Germanotta, having a deep influence on the record.

neg: A Very Gaga Holiday A Very Gaga Holiday is a live EP released by Lady Gaga, containing songs performed at the ABC Christmas special "A Very Gaga Thanksgiving". It was made available for purchase in the US on November 22, 2011, exclusively on the iTunes Store and Amazon, and on November 26 in the rest of the world. The EP is made up of jazz covers of the songs "Orange Colored Sky" and "White Christmas", the latter featuring an extra verse, and acoustic versions of "You and I" and "The Edge of Glory", both songs originally from the singer's second studio album, "Born This Way" (2011). A recurring theme on the EP is Gaga stopping midway through singing to engage in conversations with the listeners.

neg: The Edge of Glory "The Edge of Glory" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her second studio album, "Born This Way" (2011). The song was released on May 9, 2011 as the album's third single. Initially released as one of two promotional singles for "Born This Way", it shortly became a single following its success in digital outlets worldwide. The song was written and produced by Gaga and Fernando Garibay, and is a pop, electro-rock, and disco song that speaks of the very last moments of life. According to Gaga, lyrical inspiration came from the death of her grandfather, who died in September 2010. Alongside a saxophone solo played by the late Clarence Clemons, the melody of the song resembles much of the musical works of Bruce Springsteen, and contains several qualities similar to that of 1980s adult contemporary musical works.

neg: Double Up (R. Kelly album) Double Up is the eighth studio album by American R&B singer and songwriter R. Kelly. It was released on May 29, 2007, by Jive Records, distributed by Zomba Label Group. The album features the contributions with guest appearances and also the productions, which was handled by R. Kelly, alongside with Swizz Beatz, The Runners, Snoop Dogg, Khao, Nelly, Chamillionaire and Polow da Don.

neg: Do You Dreams Come True? Do You Dreams Come True? is Dreams Come True's fifteenth studio album. It was released on March 21, 2009, which coincides with the release of their debut single in 1989. It was released in three formats: Regular edition (CD only), limited edition A (2CDs) and limited edition B (CD+DVD). The album reached the top spot on the weekly albums chart despite having been on sale for only four days, giving them their twelfth number-one album and setting the record for most number-one albums by a female vocal group; putting them ahead of the late Zard and Every Little Thing. On its third week the album rose back to number one, their first album in fourteen years to do so.

neg: Hypnotico "Hypnotico" is a song recorded by American entertainer Jennifer Lopez for her seventh studio album "Love?" (2011). It was originally written by RedOne, Lady Gaga, Aliaune "Akon" Thiam, Claude Kelly and Tami Chynn for Chynn's second studio album "Prima Donna" in 2007. RedOne and Akon flew Gaga and Kelly to Los Angeles to write songs for Chynn, with "Hypnotico" becoming the first song of several songs they had written together. The release of "Prima Donna" was cancelled and "Hypnotico" was thought to be a "lost cause" by its writers. That was until 2011, when Lopez became interested in recording the song while working with RedOne, following her move to Island Records.

neg: Sweat (Nelly album) Sweat is the third studio album by American rapper Nelly. It was intended to be released on August 17, 2004, before being delayed and released on September 13, 2004, by Universal Records. Production was handled by several producers, including Jason "Jay E" Epperson, Midi Mafia, The Neptunes, Trife, Jazze Pha, Doe and The Alchemist. Released in conjunction with "Suit", Nelly was intended to release a single album before conceptualizing and releasing two albums simultaneously, both which would contrast each other's themes. Nelly characterized "Sweat" as "more up-tempo" and "energetic" while describing "Suit" as more of "a grown-up and sexy vibe [...] it's more melodic".

neg: Judas (Lady Gaga song) "Judas" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga, from her second studio album, "Born This Way" (2011). It was released four days ahead of schedule by Interscope Records on April 15, 2011. Written and produced by Lady Gaga and RedOne, "Judas" is a dance and electro house song about a woman in love with a man who betrayed her. It embodies the incidents that have haunted Gaga in the past, and its core meaning refers to the negative parts of her life that she cannot escape. Gaga has further explained that the song was also about honoring one's inner darkness in order to bring oneself into the light. The artwork for the single was designed by Gaga in Microsoft Word. In spite of a polarizing impact on several religious groups, the song was generally well received by critics, who likened the song to "Bad Romance" with some noting it should have been the album's lead single.

neg: Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (stylized as LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS) is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. The album is a concept album and was released through Virgin Records on May 21, 2013. Upon release, it peaked at number 6 on the "Billboard" 200.

neg: Karmacode Karmacode is the fourth studio album by Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil, released on 31 March 2006 in several countries in Europe, 3 April in the UK and other European countries, 4 April in North America, and 5 April in several other European countries. 500,000 copies of "Karmacode" have officially been sold worldwide.

neg: Far (album) Far is the fifth studio album by American alternative singer-songwriter Regina Spektor, released in Europe through Sire Records on June 22, 2009 and North America on June 23, 2009 The album's first single, "Laughing With", was uploaded to Spektor's MySpace page on May 8 and was released as a digital download on May 18 in the United States and parts of Europe, along with the b-side "Blue Lips". Two viral videos for "Dance Anthem of the 80s" and "Eet" were also released on Spektor's MySpace account. The official music video for "Laughing With" was released on iTunes on May 26, 2009. A special edition of the album was released with two bonus tracks and a DVD, which included four music videos.

neg: 4×4=12 4×4=12 is the fifth studio album by Canadian record producer and DJ deadmau5, released internationally on 6 December 2010 by Virgin Records and a day later in the United States by Ultra Records and mau5trap Recordings. The album's title refers to a miscalculation made by deadmau5 on his Ustream channel, where he mistakenly said that his live setup of four banks of four "equals twelve". The album received a nomination at the 54th Grammy Awards for Best Dance/Electronica Album.

neg: Total (Sebastian album) Total is the debut studio album by French electronic artist SebastiAn. The album was released in Europe on 30 May 2011, and in North America on 7 June 2011 by Ed Banger Records. The album was announced in February with the release of an "X rated" teaser. This was followed with a video for the first single "Embody" directed by So Me featuring dancer Shamari Maurice, which was released on 4 April with remixes from DJ Premier and Kavinsky. The album features M.I.A., Mayer Hawthorne and production from Gaspard Augé of Justice.

neg: Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel is the twelfth studio album by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey. It was released on September 25, 2009 by Island Records. After promotion for her previous album, "E=MC²" (2008) ended, Carey began to work on a new album, producing songs with Terius "The-Dream" Nash and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, and revealed the album's title through Twitter. Carey said that "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel" would have "big ballads", and that "each song is its own snapshot of a moment in a story".

neg: Just Dance (video game series) Just Dance is a rhythm game series developed and published by Ubisoft. The series' title is derived from the Lady Gaga song of the same name, which also appears in the fifth game. The first game in the series was released in 2009 in North America, Europe, and Australia.

neg: Scheiße (song) "Scheiße" (English: "Shit") is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga from her second studio album, "Born This Way" (2011). The song was written and produced by Lady Gaga and RedOne, and was recorded in Europe on the tour bus during the Monster Ball Tour. "Scheiße" was first introduced as a remix during a Thierry Mugler fashion show held in January 19, 2011.

neg: Basic Instinct (album) Basic Instinct is the fourth studio album by American recording artist Ciara. It was released on December 10, 2010, by LaFace Records and Jive Records. Executive-produced by A&R agent Mark Pitts, Ciara, Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, "Basic Instinct" returns Ciara to her urban roots with mid-tempo R&B cuts and bass-heavy pop and dance songs. Aside from production by Stewart and The-Dream, Ciara collaborated with production by Soundz, Infinity and T-Minus. Frequent collaborator and friend Ludacris makes a guest vocal appearance, as does labelmate and fellow Atlanta-native, Usher. After her previous album, "Fantasy Ride", suffered numerous leaks and pushbacks, information about "Basic Instinct" was kept confidential until the first single was released and album was complete.

neg: Circus (Britney Spears album) Circus is the sixth studio album by American singer Britney Spears. It was released on November 28, 2008, by Jive Records. Looking to transition from her "darker and more urban" fifth studio album "Blackout" (2007), Spears wanted to make her next project "a little bit lighter". Spears recorded the record during the summer of 2008, after her much-publicized personal struggles saw her placement under a temporary conservatorship earlier that year. As executive producers, Larry Rudolph and Teresa LaBarbera Whites enlisted collaborators including Spears' longtime colleague Max Martin and Nate "Danja" Hills.

neg: Red (Taylor Swift album) Red is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was released on October 22, 2012, by Big Machine Records, as the follow-up to her third studio album, "Speak Now". The album title was inspired by the "semi-toxic relationships" that Swift experienced during the process of conceiving this album, which Swift described the emotions she felt as "red emotions" due to their intense and tumultuous nature. "Red" touches on Swift's signature themes of love and heartbreak, however, from a more mature perspective while exploring other themes such as fame and the pressure of being in the limelight. The album features collaborations with producers and guest artists such as Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol and Ed Sheeran and is noted for Swift's experimentation with new musical genres. Swift completed The Red Tour in support of the album on June 12, 2014, which became the highest-grossing tour of all time by a country artist, grossing over $150 million.

neg: Poker Face (Lady Gaga song) "Poker Face" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her debut studio album, "The Fame" (2008). It was released on September 26, 2008 as the album's second single. "Poker Face" is a synthpop song in the key of G♯ minor, following in the footsteps of her previous single "Just Dance", but with a darker musical tone. The main idea behind the song is bisexuality and was a tribute by Gaga to her rock and roll boyfriends. The song's lyrics feature various sexual innuendos.

neg: R. (album) R. is the third studio album and the first double album by R&B singer R. Kelly. It was released in the United States on November 10, 1998 (see 1998 in music). This album was the first time Kelly allowed other record producers to produce or co-produce on his album, as opposed to producing the entire album himself, as well as his first time collaborating with various artists on his album. This is currently Kelly's biggest selling album to date, selling 8 million copies in the US according to RIAA and 12.4 million copies worldwide.


query: Who is still alive, Bertolt Brecht and John Banville?

pos: Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich "Bertolt" Brecht ( ; ] ; 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel.

pos: John Banville William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today." He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov."

neg: Herbert Bunston Herbert Bunston (15 April 1874 – 27 February 1935) was an English stage and screen actor. He is remembered for his role as Dr. John Seward in the Broadway and film versions of "Dracula".

neg: Ghosts (Banville novel) Ghosts is a novel by Irish writer John Banville. Published in 1993, it was his first novel since "The Book of Evidence" (1989), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The second in what Banville described as a "triptych", to make "an investigation of the way in which the imagination works." This novel features many of the same characters and relates to events of the previous novel.

neg: John Bannister (actor) John Bannister (12 May 1760 – 7 November 1836), (also called 'Jack' Bannister), English actor and theatre manager. The principal source for his life are his own "Memoirs", and as a leading performer his career is well documented.

neg: Brainville (band) Brainville was an English avant-garde supergroup fronted by Hugh Hopper (bass) and Daevid Allen (guitar) – both formerly in Soft Machine.

neg: John Banting John Banting (12 May 1902 – 30 January 1972) was an English artist and writer.

neg: Frigyes Bán Frigyes Bán (19 June 1902 – 30 September 1969) was a Hungarian film director. His wife was actress Éva Vass.

neg: Heiner Müller Heiner Müller (] ; January 9, 1929 – December 30, 1995) was a German (formerly East German) dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht. His "enigmatic, fragmentary pieces" are a significant contribution to postmodern drama and postdramatic theatre.

neg: Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (] ; 27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been considered by many to be one of the most brilliant orators of all time and a masterly French stylist.

neg: John Bani Father John Bennett Bani (born July 1, 1941) was the President and head of state of Vanuatu from 25 March 1999 until March 24, 2004.

neg: Jean-Richard Bloch Jean-Richard Bloch (May 25, 1884 – March 15, 1947) was a French critic, novelist and playwright.

neg: The Duchess of Malfi (Brecht) The Duchess of Malfi is an adaptation by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht of the English seventeenth-century tragedy by John Webster. He collaborated with H. R. Hays and Anglo American poet, W. H. Auden. It was written during Brecht's period of exile in the United States. In premiered in New York, in 1946.

neg: John Alcott John Alcott, BSC (1931 – 28 July 1986) was an English cinematographer best known for his four collaborations with director Stanley Kubrick; these are "" (1968), for which he took over as lighting cameraman from Geoffrey Unsworth in mid-shoot, "A Clockwork Orange" (1971), "Barry Lyndon" (1975), the film for which he won his Oscar, and "The Shining" (1980). Alcott died from a heart attack in Cannes, France in July 1986; he was 55. He received a tribute at the end of his last film "No Way Out" starring Kevin Costner.

neg: Otto Rank Otto Rank ( ; born Otto Rosenfeld; April 22, 1884 – October 31, 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher. Born in Vienna, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes, editor of the two most important analytic journals, managing director of Freud's publishing house and a creative theorist and therapist. In 1926, Otto Rank left Vienna for Paris. For the remaining 14 years of his life, Rank had a successful career as a lecturer, writer and therapist in France and the United States.

neg: John Tillinger John Tillinger (born June 28, 1938) is a theatre director and actor.

neg: The Canterville Ghost (Getty opera) The Canterville Ghost is a one-act opera by Gordon Getty to the composers own libretto after Oscar Wilde. The opera was first performed in 2015 at Leipzig Opera, with Matthias Foremny conducting the Gewandhaus Orchestra. It was performed as a pair with his opera Usher House at the Centre for Contemporary Opera in New York in August 2017.

neg: Kieran Prendiville Kieran Prendiville (born 25 December 1947) is a television writer, producer and presenter.

neg: Brian Glanville Brian Lester Glanville (born 24 September 1931) is an English football writer and novelist.

neg: John Banim John Banim (3 April 1798 – 30 August 1842), was an Irish novelist, short story writer, dramatist, poet and essayist, sometimes called the "Scott of Ireland." He also studied art, working as a painter of miniatures and portraits, and as a drawing teacher, before dedicating himself to literature.

neg: John Saville John Saville born "Orestes Stamatopoulos" (2 April 1916 – 13 June 2009) was a Greek-British historian, long associated with Hull University. He was an influential writer on British Labour History in the second half of the twentieth century, and also known for his multi-volume work, the "Dictionary of Labour Biography", edited in collaboration with others.

neg: Hobart Chatfield-Taylor Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor (March 24, 1865 - January 17, 1945) was an American writer, novelist, and biographer. He was considered a top authority on Molière.


query: When was the Kurt Vonnegut novel that appeared as lyrics in a song on the album Ambrosia first published?

pos: Ambrosia (album) Ambrosia is the self-titled debut album by Ambrosia. It was released in 1975 on 20th Century Fox Records. It spawned the top 20 chart single "Holdin' on to Yesterday" as well as the minor hit "Nice, Nice, Very Nice". The latter sets to music the lyrics to a poem in Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle". The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording (other than Classical). Alan Parsons was the engineer for Ambrosia's first album and the producer for their second.

pos: Cat's Cradle Cat's Cradle is the fourth novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1963. It explores issues of science, technology, and religion, satirizing the arms race and many other targets along the way. After turning down his original thesis in 1947, the University of Chicago awarded Vonnegut his master's degree in anthropology in 1971 for "Cat's Cradle".

neg: The Road Back The Road Back (German: "Der Weg zurück" ) is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, commonly regarded as a sequel to his 1929 novel "All Quiet on the Western Front". It was first serialized in the German newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" between December 1930 and January 1931, and published in book form in April 1931.

neg: Fates Worse Than Death Fates Worse than Death, subtitled "An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s", is a 1991 collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. In the introduction to the book, Vonnegut acknowledges that the book is similar to an earlier book, "Palm Sunday". In it he discusses his attempted suicide.

neg: The World Inside The World Inside is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in 1971. The novel originally appeared as a series of shorter works in 1970 and 1971, all but one published in "Galaxy", including the Hugo nominated novella "The World Outside". "The World Inside" was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1972, although Silverberg declined the nomination.

neg: Le Sang noir Le Sang noir (literally "Black Blood"; published in English under the title Bitter Victory) is a 1935 novel by Louis Guilloux that has been described as a "prefiguration of Sartre's "La Nausée"", because of its concentration on the psychological alienation of an individual.

neg: Sucker's Portfolio Sucker's Portfolio, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a collection of six short stories, one non-fiction essay, and one unfinished short story written by Vonnegut and published posthumously by Amazon Publishing. The collection was initially released in early 2013 as serial episodes available on the Kindle e-reader. It was released as a complete book on March 12, 2013.

neg: Employment (short story) "Employment" is a science fiction story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, pioneering the concept of de-extinction. It was first published in the magazine "Astounding Science-Fiction" for May, 1939. The story appeared under the pseudonym Lyman R. Lyon (the name of his maternal great-grandfather) as the magazine's policy did not allow the name of any author to be repeated on the same contents page, and de Camp had another piece in the same issue under his actual name (part one of his article "Design for Life"). It first appeared in book form in the anthology "Imagination Unlimited" (Farrar Strauss and Young, 1952). It later appeared in the anthologies "Men of Space and Time" (The Bodley Head, 1953), and "Science Fiction Inventions" (Lancer Books, 1967), as well as the de Camp collection "The Best of L. Sprague de Camp" (Doubleday, 1978). It was credited to de Camp's real name in all publications subsequent to its first appearance. The story has been translated into German.

neg: Roadside Picnic Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине, "Piknik na obochine", ] ) is a short science fiction novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in 1971. By 1998, 38 editions of the novel were published in 20 countries. The novel was first translated to English by Antonina W. Bouis. The preface to the first American edition of the novel (MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York, 1977) was written by Theodore Sturgeon. The film "Stalker", directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is loosely based on the novel, with a screenplay written by the Strugatsky brothers.

neg: When HARLIE Was One When HARLIE Was One is a 1972 science fiction novel by American writer David Gerrold. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1972 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973. The novel, a "fix-up" of previously published short stories, was published as an original paperback by Ballantine Books in 1972, with an accompanying Science Fiction Book Club release. A revised version, subtitled "Release 2.0", was published in 1988 by Bantam Books.

neg: EPICAC (short story) "EPICAC" is a short story in the book "Welcome to the Monkey House" by Kurt Vonnegut. It was the first story to feature the fictional EPICAC computer later used in Vonnegut's novel "Player Piano" in 1952. It was published on 25 November 1950, for "Collier's Weekly", and reprinted in the February 1983 "PC Magazine".

neg: Intruder in the Dust "Intruder in the Dust " is a novel by the Nobel Prize–winning American author William Faulkner published

neg: The Ticket That Exploded The Ticket That Exploded is a 1962 novel by American author William S. Burroughs, published by Olympia Press and later by Grove Press in 1967. Together with "The Soft Machine" and "Nova Express" it is part of a trilogy, referred to as "The Nova Trilogy", created using the cut-up technique, although for this book Burroughs used a variant called 'the fold-in' method. The novel is an anarchic tale concerning mind control by psychic, electronic, sexual, pharmaceutical, subliminal, and other means. Passages from the other two books and even from this book show up in rearranged form and are often repeated. This work is significant for fans of Burroughs, in that it describes his idea of language as a virus and his philosophy of the cut-up technique. Also, it features the cut-up technique being used by characters within the story. "The Ticket That Exploded" lays the groundwork for Burroughs' ideas of social revolution through technology, which he would later detail in his book-length essay "The Electronic Revolution".

neg: Teranesia Teranesia is a 1999 science fiction novel by Greg Egan. The novel won the 2000 Ditmar Award for Best Novel but Egan declined to accept the award.

neg: Station at the Horizon Station at the Horizon (German: "Station am Horizont" ) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the search of love of an ex-soldier and an ex-race car driver, Kai, who is torn between Barbara, a girl from the village, Maud, an American middle-class woman, and Lilian Dunquerke, a countess.

neg: Player Piano (novel) Player Piano is the first novel of American writer Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1952. It depicts a dystopia of automation, describing the negative impact it can have on quality of life. The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost totally mechanized, eliminating the need for human laborers. This widespread mechanization creates conflict between the wealthy upper class—the engineers and managers who keep society running—and the lower class, whose skills and purpose in society have been replaced by machines. The book uses irony and sentimentality, which were to become hallmarks developed further in Vonnegut's later works.

neg: We (novel) We (Russian: Мы , "My " ) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, completed in 1921. The novel was first published in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York in an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state.

neg: This Immortal This Immortal, serialized as ...And Call Me Conrad, is a science fiction novel by American author Roger Zelazny. In its original publication, it was abridged by the editor and published in two parts in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" in October and November 1965. It tied with Frank Herbert's "Dune" for the 1966 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

neg: Wolf in White Van Wolf in White Van is the first novel by the American author and singer-songwriter John Darnielle. "Wolf in White Van" tells the story of Sean Phillips, a reclusive game designer whose face has been severely disfigured. One reviewer characterizes Sean as someone "steeped in video games, bad sci-fi movies, and Conan the Barbarian comic books". The plot, which is told non-chronologically, alternates between Sean's childhood, adolescence, and adulthood to describe the circumstances surrounding the incident that disfigured him. A fictional play-by-mail role-playing game called "Trace Italian" figures prominently in the novel.

neg: The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces is a collection of short stories and recollections by Franz Kafka, with additional writings by Max Brod. First published in 1948 by Schocken Books, this volume includes all the works Kafka intended for publication, and published during his lifetime (the only exception in The Stoker which serves as a first chapter for the novel "Amerika"). It also includes critical pieces by Kafka, "The First Long Train Journey" by Kafka and Brod (which was initially intended to be the first chapter of a book), and an Epilogue by Brod. This collection was translated by Willa and Edwin Muir.

neg: The Octopus: A Story of California The Octopus: A Story of California is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and was meant to be the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, "The Epic of the Wheat". It describes the wheat industry in California, and the conflicts between wheat growers and a railway company. Norris was inspired to write the novel by the Central Pacific Railroad and the Mussel Slough Tragedy. In the novel he depicts the tensions between the railroad, the ranchers and the ranchers' League. The book emphasized the control of "forces"—such as the power of railroad monopolies—over individuals. Some editions of the work give the subtitle as alternatively, "A California Story".

neg: A, A Novel a, A Novel is a 1968 book by the American artist Andy Warhol published by Grove Press. It is a nearly word-for-word transcription of tapes recorded by Warhol and Ondine over a two-year period in 1965–67.


query: Who was a jazz singer,  Leon Redbone or Howard Kazanjian?

pos: Leon Redbone Leon Redbone (True name and date of birth are unsubstantiated) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist specializing in jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley classics. Recognized by his Panama hat, dark sunglasses, and black tie, Redbone first appeared on stage in Toronto, Canada in the mid-1970s.

pos: Howard Kazanjian Howard G. Kazanjian (born July 26, 1942) is an American film producer known for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Return of the Jedi". Kazanjian is also a former 8-year Vice President of Lucasfilm, Ltd., and a published non-fiction author.

neg: Jimmy Roselli Michael John "Jimmy" Roselli (December 26, 1925 in Hoboken, New Jersey – June 30, 2011) was one of the most significant Italian-American pop singers of his time, during an era of competition from such performers as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Frankie Laine, Vic Damone and Jerry Vale.

neg: Howard Fishman Howard Fishman is an American singer, guitarist, bandleader, and composer from Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn Magazine describes his discography as "steeped in country, soul, gospel, rock, blues...jazz, Gypsy swing, and American folk."

neg: Earle Howard Earle Howard (born June 3, 1904) was an American jazz guitarist, pianist, and vocalist.

neg: Leon Breeden Harold Leon Breeden (3 October 1921 Guthrie, Oklahoma – 11 August 2010 Dallas, Texas), known as Leon Breeden, was a jazz studies educator at the collegiate level, a classical and jazz clarinetist, a saxophonist, a prolific composer and arranger, a music clinician, and jazz festival judge. The Associated Press release of Breeden's death referred to him as, "legendary director of the University of North Texas' jazz program who made its 'One O'Clock Lab Band' internationally famous."

neg: Leon Abramson Leon Abramson (born 6 April 1925), known as Lee Abrams is a jazz drummer, brother of Ray Abrams, the jazz saxophonist.

neg: Tony Bellamy Anthony Bellamy or Tony "T-Bone" Bellamy (September 12, 1946 – December 25, 2009), was born Robert Anthony Bellamy to parents James Bellamy and Olga Bellamy ("nee" Avila). He became the lead guitarist, pianist and vocalist for the Native American rock band Redbone in 1968. Bellamy was a Yaqui tribesman with Mexican descent.

neg: Connie Leon Connie Leon (Cheshire, England, 1881 - Los Angeles, California, 10 May 1955) was an English singer, dancer and film actress.

neg: Viguen Vigen or Viguen, born Vigen Derderian (Persian: ویگن دردریان  , "Vigen Derderyân"; Armenian: Վիգեն Դէրդէրեան , "Vigen Dērdērean"; November 23, 1929 - October 26, 2003), known as "King of Iranian pop" and the "Sultan of Jazz", was an Iranian pop music singer and actor, well known throughout the Near East. Vigen sang both in Persian and Armenian.

neg: Shirley Griffith Shirley Griffith (April 26, 1907 – June 18, 1974) was an American blues singer and guitarist, mainly based in Indianapolis. He is best known for his recordings "Walkin' Blues" and "Bad Luck Blues".

neg: Raymond Hill (musician) Raymond Earl Hill (April 29, 1933 – April 16, 1996) was an American tenor saxophonist and singer. He was best known as a member of Ike Turner's band the Kings of Rhythm in the 1950s, and also recorded under his own name and worked as a session musician.

neg: Selections from Road to Utopia Selections from Road to Utopia is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1946 featuring songs that were presented in the American musical comedy film "Road to Utopia". However, the song "Road to Morocco" came from the film of the same name and was not actually used in "Road to Utopia". Another song - "Goodtime Charlie" - was sung by Crosby and Bob Hope in the film but was not commercially recorded. The songs "Would You?" and "Personality" were sung by Dorothy Lamour in the film, not Crosby.

neg: Ray McKinley Ray McKinley (June 18, 1910 – May 7, 1995) was an American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader.

neg: Roswell Rudd Roswell Hopkins Rudd, Jr. (born November 17, 1935) is an American jazz trombonist and composer.

neg: Leon Errol Leon Errol (July 3, 1881 - October 12, 1951), was an Australian-born American comedian and actor, popular in the first half of the 20th century for his appearances in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in films.

neg: Dick Rogers Dick Rogers (1912—1970) was a singer, comedian, songwriter and pianist, who wrote the lyrics for Harlem Nocturne. He was a member of the Ray Noble orchestra and the Will Osborne band.

neg: Milt Bernhart Milt Bernhart (May 25, 1926 – January 22, 2004) was a West Coast jazz trombonist who worked with Stan Kenton, Frank Sinatra, and others. He supplied the exciting solo heard in the middle of Sinatra's popular 1956 recording of "I've Got You Under My Skin", conducted by Nelson Riddle.

neg: Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker (1906 – July 22, 1993) was an African American musician from the Mississippi River delta country of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas who was particularly known as a trombonist of jazz, blues, and rock music. From 1919 until his death, Whittaker performed with minstrel shows, carnival bands, swing orchestras, and rhythm-and-blues groups. He played alongside Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

neg: Soundsigns Soundsigns is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman of performances recorded in 1978 for the Galaxy label.

neg: Wallace Jones (musician) Wallace Leon Jones (November 16, 1906, Baltimore - March 23, 1983, New York City) was an American jazz trumpeter.

neg: Anita O'Day Anita O'Day (born Anita Belle Colton; October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to any female stereotype, O'Day presented herself as a "hip" jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough", slang for money.


query: Are all members of the Epacris and Bulbophyllum genera flowering plants?

pos: Epacris Epacris is a genus of about 35–40 species of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It was formerly treated in a closely related but separate family Epacridaceae, but the various genera within Epacridaceae including "Epacris" have been revised in their relationships to each other and brought under the common umbrella of the Ericaceae. The genus "Epacris" is native to eastern and southeastern Australia (southeast Queensland south to Tasmania and west to southeast South Australia), New Caledonia and New Zealand. The species are known as heaths or Australian heaths.

pos: Bulbophyllum Bulbophyllum is the largest genus in the orchid family Orchidaceae. With more than 2,000 species, it is also one of the largest genera of flowering plants, exceeded only by "Astragalus". This genus is abbreviated in the trade journals as Bulb. It is found throughout most of the warmer parts of the world: Africa, southern Asia, Latin America, the West Indies, and various islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

neg: Bulbophyllum oligoglossum Bulbophyllum oligoglossum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum escritorii Bulbophyllum escritorii is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum elatum Bulbophyllum elatum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum semperflorens Bulbophyllum semperflorens is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum orectopetalum Bulbophyllum orectopetalum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum microdendron Bulbophyllum microdendron is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum erioides Bulbophyllum erioides is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum membranifolium Bulbophyllum membranifolium is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum falculicorne Bulbophyllum falculicorne is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum glanduliferum Bulbophyllum glanduliferum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum cylindricum Bulbophyllum cylindricum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum vareschii Bulbophyllum vareschii is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum pulchrum Bulbophyllum pulchrum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum mucronifolium Bulbophyllum mucronifolium is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum scyphochilus Bulbophyllum scyphochilus is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum cirrhatum Bulbophyllum cirrhatum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum ionophyllum Bulbophyllum ionophyllum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum ceratostyloides Bulbophyllum ceratostyloides is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum stipulaceum Bulbophyllum stipulaceum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".

neg: Bulbophyllum incisilabrum Bulbophyllum incisilabrum is a species of orchid in the genus "Bulbophyllum".


query: Who is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the heavy metal band Machine Head, Robb Flynn or Rome Ramirez ?

pos: Robb Flynn Robert Conrad "Robb" Flynn (born Lawrence Matthew Cardine; July 19, 1967) is the lead vocalist and guitarist for the heavy metal band Machine Head. Flynn formed the band along with Adam Duce, Logan Mader and Tony Costanza after leaving Bay Area thrash band Vio-Lence.

pos: Rome Ramirez Roman René Ramírez (born June 11, 1988 in Fremont, California), better known as Rome Ramirez or simply Rome, is an American singer and guitarist best known for playing with Eric Wilson from Sublime and Josh Freese from The Vandals in the band Sublime with Rome. The lineup initially featured original Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh before his departure in 2011. Despite participation by Gaugh and Wilson, the family of deceased Sublime member Bradley Nowell legally challenged the use of the Sublime name by the surviving members. Nowell had actually registered the trademark "Sublime" under his own name prior to his death, and had sole ownership at the time of his death. The lineup featuring Rome, Wilson and Bud Gaugh released their debut album "Yours Truly" on July 12, 2011.

neg: Suffocation (band) Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1990 in Centereach, Long Island, New York, United States. The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, lead guitarist Terrance Hobbs, bassist Derek Boyer, rhythm guitarist Charlie Errigo, and drummer Eric Morotti. Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for the genre for the 1990s with their 1991 debut album "Effigy of the Forgotten", and have released seven studio albums since formation. The band's raw death metal style uses growled vocals with a downtuned guitar sound, fast and complex guitar riffs and drumming, open chord notes, breakdowns, and a sophisticated sense of songwriting.

neg: Machine Men (band) Machine Men was a Finnish heavy metal band that originally formed as an Iron Maiden cover band.

neg: Mike Riggs Mike Riggs is a heavy-metal guitarist born April 23, 1971 in Ozark, Arkansas. Highlights in career include his guitar work for Rob Zombie's solo albums ("Hellbilly Deluxe", "The Sinister Urge", "American Made Music To Strip By", "Hellbilly Super Deluxe", "Past, Present & Future") and currently his skills as a guitarist, vocalist, and producer for Scum of the Earth.

neg: Burn My Eyes Burn My Eyes is the debut studio album by American groove metal band Machine Head, released on August 9, 1994 by Roadrunner Records. The album's themes generally tie into the social disorder and corresponding inner tension that the band was exposed to in their native Oakland, California, reflected in Robb Flynn's lyrics, such as the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 and the Waco Siege of 1993. The album shipped over 400,000 copies worldwide, becoming Roadrunner Records's best selling debut album until the release of Slipknot's debut album.

neg: Geoff Tate Geoff Tate (born Jeffrey Wayne Tate, January 14, 1959; he later changed his first name to Geoffery or Geoffrey) is a German-born American singer and musician. He rose to fame with the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, who had commercial success with their 1988 album "" and 1990 album "Empire". Tate is ranked fourteenth on "Hit Parader"' s list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. He was voted No. 2 on "That Metal Show's" top 5 hard rock vocalists of the 1980s. In 2012, he won the Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Award for "Voice in Progressive Heavy Metal". In 2015, he placed ninth on OC Weekly's list of the 10 Best High-Pitched Metal Singers. After his farewell tour as Queensrÿche, he renamed his band , after the Queensrÿche .

neg: Blood Oath (album) Blood Oath is the sixth studio album by American death metal band Suffocation. The band began recording in-studio on January 31 with Joe Cincotta (who worked on the band's last two releases). The follow-up to 2006's self-titled record "Suffocation" was mixed by Zack Ohren and the cover artwork was once again designed by Jon Zig. It is the band's last album to feature original drummer Mike Smith in full. The track "Marital Decimation" is a re-recording of a track of the same name from the "Breeding the Spawn" album.

neg: Pepper Keenan Pepper J. Keenan (born May 8, 1967), is an American guitarist and vocalist, best known for his work with heavy metal bands Corrosion of Conformity and Down. He joined Corrosion of Conformity in 1989, but did not become the lead singer until the recording of "Deliverance" in 1994. In 1991 he formed Down with Phil Anselmo of Pantera, Jimmy Bower of Eyehategod, and Kirk Windstein and Todd Strange of Crowbar.

neg: Sergio Vallín Sergio Vallín Loera (born May 26, 1972) is the lead guitarist of the Mexican band Maná. Vallín was born in Mexico City, where he lived for the first ten years of his life until he moved with his family to Aguascalientes, capital of the state of the same name. Thus he has nicknamed himself "Hidrocálido", after one of the demonyms for his adopted city.

neg: Blood In, Blood Out (Exodus album) Blood In, Blood Out is the tenth studio album by American thrash metal band Exodus. It was released on October 14, 2014 through Nuclear Blast, and is the band's first album with vocalist Steve "Zetro" Souza since 2004's "Tempo of the Damned". The album also saw a reunion with original guitarist Kirk Hammett, who plays the guitar solo on "Salt the Wound". "Blood In, Blood Out" received generally favorable critical reviews, and it entered the "Billboard" 200 at number 38—the band's highest U.S. chart position to date. Exodus promoted the album with its first concert tour with Souza since he left the band in 2004, due to a feud with guitarist Gary Holt.

neg: Rob Holliday Rob Holliday is a professional musician. He was the live guitarist of industrial metal band Marilyn Manson as well as for Gary Numan, The Prodigy, and Sulpher. He joined in 2007 as Marilyn Manson's live bassist, but switched to guitars in January 2008 due to the return of former bass player Twiggy Ramirez.

neg: Machine head A machine head (also referred to as a tuning machine, tuner, or gear head) is a geared apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments by adjusting string tension. Machine heads are used on mandolins, guitars, double basses etc., and are usually located on the instrument's headstock. Non-geared tuning devices that are used on violins, violas, cellos, lutes, older Flamenco guitars, ukuleles etc., are known as friction pegs. Friction pegs hold the string in tune by way of friction caused by their tapered shape and by the string pull created by the tight string. Some other commonly used slang names for guitar tuners are pegs, gears, machines, cranks, knobs, tensioners and tighteners.

neg: Richard Ramirez (musician) Richard Ramirez is an American noise music artist originally from Houston, Texas, recording and performing both as a solo artist and as part of several groups, including Black Leather Jesus, Priest in Shit, An Innocent Young Throat-Cutter, House of the Black Death, Martyr of Sores, Last Rape and the "static noise" solo project Werewolf Jerusalem. He is notable for being one of the earliest American harsh noise artists.

neg: Heavy Machinery (album) Heavy Machinery is a collaborative studio album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, keyboardist Jens Johansson and drummer Anders Johansson, released in 1996 through Heptagon Records (Sweden), and on 12 August 1997 through Shrapnel Records (United States) and Pony Canyon (Japan).

neg: Russell Allen Russell Allen (born July 19, 1971) is a singer best known as the vocalist of American progressive metal band Symphony X. He has also worked with supergroups Star One, Allen-Lande, Level 10, and as one of fourteen vocalists in the progressive symphonic metal band Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Since 2011, he's also fronting heavy metal band Adrenaline Mob.

neg: Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group consists of rapper and vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello, and drummer Brad Wilk. They draw inspiration from early heavy metal instrumentation, hip hop acts such as Afrika Bambaataa, Public Enemy, and the Beastie Boys, punk rock such as the Sex Pistols and Fugazi, and Dutch crossover band Urban Dance Squad. Rage Against the Machine is well known for the members' revolutionary political views, which are expressed in many of the band's songs. As of 2010, they had sold over 16 million records worldwide.

neg: Rick Hunolt Richard Edward "Rick" Hunolt (born July 1, 1963) is an American heavy metal guitarist.

neg: Richard Ramirez Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramírez, known as Richard Ramirez (February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), was an American serial killer, rapist, and burglar. His highly publicized home invasion crime spree terrorized the residents of the greater Los Angeles area, and later the residents of the San Francisco area, from June 1984 until August 1985. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media. He used a wide variety of weapons, including handguns, knives, a machete, a tire iron, and a hammer. Ramirez, who was an avowed Satanist, never expressed any remorse for his crimes. The judge who upheld his thirteen death sentences remarked that Ramirez's deeds exhibited "cruelty, callousness, and viciousness beyond any human understanding". Ramirez died of complications from B-cell lymphoma while awaiting execution on California's death row.

neg: Joey Tafolla Joey Tafolla (born May 30, 1962 ) is an American guitarist. Born in San Diego, California, Tafolla is the son of Rosie Hamlin and Noah Tafolla, the singer and guitarist of Rosie and the Originals, respectively. Initially a member of the heavy metal band Jag Panzer from 1984 to 1985, he joined Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records label soon after; releasing his debut album "Out of the Sun" in 1987, alongside the releases of other shred players such as Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Paul Gilbert, Richie Kotzen, Tony MacAlpine and Vinnie Moore, among others. His second release in 1991, "Infra-Blue", was a noticeable departure from the neo-classical stylings of his first album, and demonstrated a more standard instrumental rock-oriented sound.

neg: High on Fire High on Fire is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, also plays guitar for the influential stoner metal band Sleep.

neg: Steve Rowe Steve Rowe (born 19 January 1965) is the founder, bass guitarist, and vocalist of the Australian Christian death metal band Mortification which was considered to be a major pioneer in the genre. Prior to forming Mortification he was in a traditional heavy metal styled Christian band known as LightForce. He was diagnosed with leukemia in 1997, but made a full recovery. He is currently the owner and head of the Rowe Productions record label. In 2015, Rowe announced his retirement from Christian music. However, his career has continued, while Mortification has been inactive the members side project, Wonrowe Vision, has been very active.


query: Which monthly women's magazine was founded first, InStyle or All You?

pos: InStyle InStyle is a monthly women’s fashion magazine published in the US by Time Inc. "InStyle" was founded in 1994.

pos: All You All You was a women’s monthly magazine published by Time Inc. and sold at Walmart, Sam's Club and via subscription. The monthly magazine was first published in August 2004. "All You" focused on value: Each story offered money-saving and/or time-saving tips, and the magazine developed a community of Reality Checkers, thousands of women who contribute ideas and tips that appear on many of "All You"’s pages. The magazine was closed in December 2015.

neg: Vice Versa (magazine) Vice Versa (1947–1948), subtitled "America's Gayest Magazine", is the earliest known U.S. periodical published especially for lesbians, as well as the earliest extant example of the lesbian and gay press in that country.

neg: History of women's magazines This article addresses the history of women's magazines.

neg: Sylk Magazine Sylk Magazine is an online men's magazine launched in June 2004. "Sylk" features a mix of socio-political editorial combined with pictorials of scantily clad female models (the "Sylk Girls"). "Sylk Magazine" was one of the first men's magazines to forsake print and embrace 100% Internet distribution.

neg: Seventeen (American magazine) Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. The magazine's reader base is 13-to-19-year-old females. It began as a publication geared towards inspiring teen girls to become model workers and citizens. Soon after its debut, "Seventeen" took a more fashion and romance-oriented approach in presenting its material while promoting self-confidence in young women. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications.

neg: Vogue Paris The French edition of "Vogue" magazine, Vogue Paris, is a fashion magazine that has been published since 1920.

neg: The Chap The Chap is a British humorous men's lifestyle magazine published quarterly. It was founded in 1999 by Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood, and is still edited by Temple. The magazine proposes that men everywhere return to a more gentlemanly way of life by rejecting modern vulgarity and careless, shabby or faddish dress sense through the restoration of the lifestyle, habits, manners and traditional fashion sense of a mid-20th century (or earlier) British "chap". Thus it advises men to wear traditional British suits and other similar well-tailored clothing, especially those cut from tweed; to keep their trousers sharply pressed; to be impeccably groomed; to wear quality handmade shoes, brightly polished; and a return to the wearing of hats.

neg: Vsyakaya vsyachina Vsyakaya vsyachina (Russian: "Всякая всячина" , which may be translated as "Tutti-Frutti" or All Sorts and Sundries) was a Russian weekly magazine, established in 1769.

neg: Tint (magazine) Tint magazine is a quarterly global zine and independent magazine published in Detroit, Michigan. Though its motto "Celebrating Women of Every Color" targets all women, the magazine typically covers issues from the voices of women of color, and often from a politically left-wing perspective.

neg: More! More! was a fortnightly (then weekly) women's fashion magazine and associated website published every Tuesday in the United Kingdom by Bauer London Lifestyle. It included celebrity news, high street fashion, and sex tips. The magazine was published fortnightly until September 2007, when it became a weekly publication to compete with "Look". More USA is still published.

neg: Eileen Fisher Eileen Fisher (born June 6, 1950) is an American clothing designer and founder of the women's clothing brand Eileen Fisher, Inc. Fisher's designs are characterized by simplicity, and her company is known for using non-traditional models in its print advertisements, including its own employees.

neg: Nell Donnelly Reed Nell Donnelly Reed (March 6, 1889 – September 8, 1991) was an American fashion designer and businesswoman, famous for her house dresses, who founded the Nelly Don brand.

neg: Al-Fatah (magazine) Al-Fatah (Arabic: الفتاة  / ALA-LC: "al-Fatāh", meaning "the young girl") was an Arabic women's magazine published in Alexandria, Egypt. The magazine was the first Arab women's magazine and was one of the earliest publications in the country. It was published from 1892 to 1894.

neg: StyleHaul StyleHaul is a Multi Channel Network that focuses on fashion and lifestyle, created by Stephanie Horbaczewski in 2011. The network contains over 6,000 channels that receive a total of approximately 2.2 billion monthly views. In May 2013, StyleHaul received an investment of $6 million from the RTL Group and in November 2014, the RTL Group invested an additional $127 million in the company. They own the channels and content of DanTDM, KSI, and Ali-A.

neg: The Delineator The Delineator was an American women's magazine of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founded by the Butterick Publishing Company in 1869 under the name "The Metropolitan Monthly." Its name was changed in 1875. The magazine was published on a monthly basis in New York City. In November 1926, under the editorship of Mrs. William Brown Meloney, it absorbed "The Designer," founded in 1887 and published by the Standard Fashion Company, a Butterick subsidiary.

neg: McCall's McCall's was a monthly American women's magazine, published by the McCall Corporation, that enjoyed great popularity through much of the 20th century, peaking at a readership of 8.4 million in the early 1960s. It was established as a small-format magazine called The Queen in 1873. In 1897 it was renamed McCall's Magazine—The Queen of Fashion (later shortened to "McCall's") and subsequently grew in size to become a large-format glossy. It was one of the "Seven Sisters" group of women's service magazines. The McCall Pattern Company is the latest evolution of the brand name selling sewing patterns and publishing Vogue Patterns.

neg: Food & Wine Food & Wine is a monthly magazine published by Time Inc. It was founded in 1978 by Ariane and Michael Batterberry. It features recipes, cooking tips, travel information, restaurant reviews, chefs, wine pairings and seasonal/holiday content and has been credited by "The New York Times" with introducing the dining public to "Perrier, the purple Peruvian potato and Patagonian toothfish".

neg: Edward Enninful Edward Kobina Enninful OBE (born February 1972) is a British fashion stylist, and editor-in-chief of "British Vogue" magazine. He was appointed fashion director of British fashion magazine i-D at the age of 18, a position he held for over two decades.

neg: Virginia Living Virginia Living is a glossy bimonthly regional lifestyle magazine with a focus on all things Virginia. Founded in 2002, it is the only statewide lifestyle magazine in Virginia.

neg: ShopStyle ShopStyle is a digital shopping platform owned by media and technology company PopSugar Inc and later aquaired by Ebates. Launched in 2007 as a Web search engine for fashion, it has in recent years been transformed into a fashion marketplace and inspiration engine. ShopStyle lists over 14 million products across apparel, accessories, beauty, home furnishings and kids' items. It drives $1 billion in gross sales to its global network of 1,400 retailers.

neg: Woman's Own Woman's Own is a British lifestyle magazine aimed at women.


query: Silvestre "Silver" Reyes, is the former U.S. Representative for Texas 's 16 congressional district, serving from which span of years, in the Democratic Primary election on May 29, 2012, Reyes lost by a margin wide enough to avert a runoff election to former El Paso city councilman Beto O'Rourke?

pos: Silvestre Reyes Silvestre "Silver" Reyes (born November 10, 1944) is the former U.S. Representative for Texas 's 16 congressional district , serving from 1997 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence between 2007 and 2011. In the Democratic Primary election on May 29, 2012, Reyes lost by a margin wide enough to avert a runoff election to former El Paso city councilman Beto O'Rourke.

pos: Beto O'Rourke Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke (born September 26, 1972) is an American politician, businessman, and the U.S. Representative for Texas's 16th congressional district in his native El Paso.

neg: Graham B. Purcell Jr. Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. (May 5, 1919 – June 11, 2011), was a United States representative from Texas' 13th congressional district.

neg: James Taylor (New Mexico politician) James G. Taylor (born February 5, 1966) is an American politician and Democratic former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives representing the 12th district from 1994 through 2004, when he was appointed to the New Mexico Senate, representing the 14th District. Taylor lost in 2008 to current State Senator Eric Griego in the Democratic primary. After losing the primary he filed a lawsuit trying to get a court to overturn the results of the election.

neg: Sukhee Kang Sukhee Kang (born September 15, 1952) is an American Democratic Party politician from Orange County, California. From 2008 to 2012, Kang served as mayor of Irvine, California, the first Korean American to serve as mayor of a major American city. On July 6, 2011, he announced his candidacy for the United States Congress, but lost the election to incumbent John Campbell. On April 2015, Sukhee Kang announced he would run for California's 29th State Senate district outside of Irvine. Kang lost the primary with 26.8% of the vote in the top two primary system.

neg: Texas Five The Texas Five was a term coined for a group of five Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Texas. They were identified in this manner because the Congressional redistricting plan passed by the Texas legislature for the 2004 elections forced these five Democrats out of their previous districts and into ones dominated by Republicans and/or occupied by Republican incumbents. The five Democrats were Martin Frost, Charles Stenholm, Max Sandlin, Nick Lampson, and Chet Edwards. Four Democrats lost their bids for reelection. Only Edwards survived the redistricting, but was eventually defeated by a Republican in 2010. The races were especially notable for their extreme cost. Martin Frost's race against a Republican incumbent, Pete Sessions, was the most expensive U.S. House race in the 2004 elections. The four defeated Democrats had a combined 68 years of experience in the House of Representatives.

neg: Richard Raymond (Texas politician) Richard Peña Raymond (born October 27, 1960) is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 42, which encompasses western Webb County and includes most of the city of Laredo. He is vice-chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and also sits on the Border Affairs and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee.

neg: Indiana gubernatorial election, 2012 The 2012 Indiana gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2012. Incumbent governor Mitch Daniels was term-limited and unable to seek a third term. The Republican candidate, Congressman Mike Pence; the Democratic candidate, former Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives John R. Gregg; and the Libertarian candidate, youth mentor, small business owner and reality TV personality, Rupert Boneham, were all unopposed in their respective primaries or conventions and contested the general election.

neg: Texas House of Representatives The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature. It consists of 150 members who are elected from single-member districts for a term of 2 years. As of the 2010 Census, each member represents an average of 167,637 people. There are no term limits, with the most senior member, Tom Craddick, having been elected in 1968.

neg: United States Senate election in Vermont, 2012 The 2012 United States Senate election in Vermont was held on November 6, 2012, alongside the presidential election, other elections to the United States Congress, as well as various state and local elections. Incumbent Independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders won re-election to a second term in a landslide, capturing nearly three-quarters of the vote.

neg: Texas's 9th congressional district Texas District 9 of the United States House of Representatives is a Congressional district that serves the southwestern portion of the Greater Houston area in Texas. The current Representative for the district, since 2005, is Democrat Al Green.

neg: Evelina Ortega Evelina "Lina" Ortega is an American politician. She is a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, representing the 77th District. She won the November 2016 general election and was sworn into office on January 10, 2017.

neg: Quico Canseco Francisco Raul "Quico" Canseco (born July 30, 1949) is an attorney, businessman and former U.S. Representative for Texas 's 23 congressional district . He is a member of the Republican Party.

neg: Wayne Pettigrew Wayne Pettigrew is a former Republican member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, where he served from 1994 to 2004. He also sought election in 2012 to the U.S. House representing Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district, but was defeated in the Republican primary on June 26, 2012.

neg: United States Senate election in Michigan, 2012 The 2012 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 6, 2012, alongside a presidential election, other elections to the United States Senate in other states, as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow was re-elected to a third term after being unopposed in the Democratic primary. The Republican nominee was former Congressman Pete Hoekstra. Stabenow defeated Hoekstra by a landslide 21% margin and by almost one million votes.

neg: Dee Margo Donald 'Dee' Margo is an American businessman who is the 54th and current mayor of the city of El Paso, Texas. On June 10, 2017, he became the mayor-elect of El Paso after winning the runoff part of the city's mayoral election of 2017 against David Saucedo. Margo served a term in the Texas House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013, representing the 78th district, which covers parts of El Paso County, having defeated current Democratic Party member and Texas state representative Joe Moody. Moody defeated Margo in a rematch in 2012.

neg: Alan Steelman Alan Watson Steelman (born March 15, 1942) is a Dallas businessman who was a Republican congressman from Texas between 1973 and 1977; at the time of his election, he was the youngest sitting member of Congress. He gave up his Fifth Congressional District seat to challenge Democratic incumbent Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., in the 1976 U.S. Senate general election.

neg: David Farabee David Lee Farabee (born February 5, 1964) is a Democratic former member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 69 (Wichita and Archer counties). His father, Ray Farabee, was an attorney in Austin, Texas, and a Democratic former state senator for the Wichita Falls and West Texas area, having served from 1975 to 1988.

neg: Texas caucuses The Texas caucuses are a political event associated with primaries, the process by which voters in the U.S. state of Texas ultimately select their parties' nominees for various offices. The process as a whole has been referred to as the Texas Two-step, after the partner dance of the same name, because Texans were required to first vote in the primary election in order to be eligible for participation in party caucuses in which delegates were selected.

neg: Vicente González (politician) Vicente González (born September 4, 1967) is an American attorney and politician who is the United States Representative of Texas's 15th congressional district. He won the 2016 general election and took office on January 3, 2017.

neg: Aaron Peña Aaron Peña, Jr. (born June 8, 1959), is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives. He served in House District 40 (in Hidalgo County) in Deep South Texas. Representative Peña was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat in November 2002. He was sworn into his first term on January 14, 2003. Upon retirement, he had served five terms in office.

neg: San Antonio mayoral election, 2011 On May 14, 2011, the city of San Antonio, Texas held an election to choose who would serve as Mayor of San Antonio for a two year term to expire in 2013. Julian Castro, the incumbent Mayor, was re-elected with over 81% of the vote, earning a second term.


query: Olga Arefieva was a student of a Russian singer, who was best known for his rendition of what song that was the closing ceremony theme song of the 1980 Summer Olympics?

pos: Olga Arefieva Olga Arefieva (Arefeva) (born 21 September 1967 in Verkhnyaya Salda) is a Russian singer-songwriter, poet and musician. She graduated from Gnessin State Musical College (her teacher was Lev Leshchenko), founded band "Kovcheg" ("The Ark"), composed more than 400 songs, issued 15 music albums, and won the literary prize of the magazine "Znamya" for her poems.

pos: Lev Leshchenko Lev Valerjanovich Leshchenko (Russian: Лев Валерианович Лещенко ; born 1 February 1942), is a Russian singer, who was best known for his rendition of "Den Pobedy" and the 1980 Summer Olympics closing ceremony theme song "Do svidanja, Moskva".

neg: 1980 Summer Olympics opening ceremony The Opening Ceremony of the 1980 Summer Olympics was the official opening ceremony held in the afternoon at 16:00 Moscow Time (UTC+3) on 19 July 1980 in the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium. It was attended by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev, and IOC President Lord Killanin.

neg: Believe Me (Yulia Savicheva song) "Believe Me" was the Russian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, performed in English by Yulia Savicheva. Composed by Maxim Fadeev and with lyrics by Brenda Loring.

neg: Yevgeny Seredin Yevgeny Alekseyevich Seredin (Russian: Евгений Алексеевич Середин , 10 February 1958 – 5 April 2006) was a Russian swimmer who competed in the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980 he won a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley relay and placed fifth in the individual 100 m butterfly event. He held eight Soviet titles: in the 100 m butterfly (1976, 1978–79), medley relay (1976, 1977–79), and 4×100 m and 4×200 m freestyle relays (1979). After retiring in 1983 Seredin coached swimmers in Saint Petersburg. He died of a heart attack.

neg: Zhenya Belousov Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov (Russian: Евге́ний Ви́кторович Белоу́сов ; September 10, 1964, Zhikhar - June 2, 1997, Moscow), better known as Zhenya Belousov (Russian: Женя Белоусов ) was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, one of the most popular in the Soviet Union and Russia in the late 1980s - early 1990s.

neg: Diana Gurtskaya Diana Gudaevna Gurtskaya (Georgian: დიანა ღურწკაია, Russian: Диана Гудаевна Гурцкая , born 2 July 1978 in Sukhumi, Georgia) is a blind Russian singer of Georgian origin who resides in Moscow, Russia. Following a failed attempt in Belarus the previous year Diana, on 1 March 2008, won the Georgian national final with 39.4% of the vote, therefore she represented Georgia at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, Serbia. She won a place in the final at the second semi-final on 22 May and finished 11th.

neg: Nora Nova Nora Nova (real name Ahinora Kumanova) (born 1928) is a Bulgarian-born singer. She was the first Bulgarian to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, although she then represented West Germany.

neg: Close Enough for Love (song) "Close Enough for Love" was the theme song from the 1979 film "Agatha" starring Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave. The song has since become a jazz standard. It was composed by Johnny Mandel with lyrics by Paul Williams.

neg: Anatoly Beloglazov Anatoly Alekseyevich Beloglazov (Russian: Анатолий Алексеевич Белоглазов ; born 16 September 1956) is a retired Russian freestyle wrestler. He won gold medals at the 1980 Olympics and 1977, 1978 and 1982 World Championships, placing third in 1983. In 2010 he was inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame.

neg: Karen Kavaleryan Karen Kavaleryan (Armenian: Կարեն Կավալերյան ; Russian: Каре́н Кавалеря́н ; born June 5, 1961 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian-Armenian lyricist. He currently holds the record (jointly with Ralph Siegel) for representing the most countries in the Eurovision Song Contest with five. The countries are Russia in 2002 and 2006, Belarus in 2007, Armenia in 2007 and 2010, Ukraine in 2008 and 2013 and Georgia in 2008.

neg: Sergey Lazarev Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev (Russian: Серге́й Вячесла́вович Ла́зарев ; ] , born 1 April 1983) is a Russian singer, dancer and actor. He is most famous for his singing career, when he rose to fame as a member of the group Smash!!. The group broke up in 2006. Since then Lazarev has pursued a solo career. He represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden finishing in third place (and scoring first in the televoting) .

neg: Finland at the 1980 Summer Olympics Finland competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 105 competitors, 99 men and 6 women, took part in 71 events in 16 sports.

neg: Aleksandr Panfilov Aleksandr Panfilov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Панфи́лов ; born 11 October 1960) is a retired track cyclist who competed for the USSR at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, winning a silver medal in the 1 km time trial. Panfilov was only 19 years old at the time. He trained at Armed Forces sports society in Tashkent. At the 1983 Summer Universiade he won the gold medal in the 1 km time trial.

neg: Olga Vasyukova Olga Petrovna Vasyukova (Russian: Ольга Петровна Васюкова , May 8, 1980) is a former Russian Synchro-swimmer.

neg: Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics Basketball at the 1980 Summer Olympics was held from July 20 to July 30 at the Olympiiski Indoor Stadium and at the CSKA Sports Palace, both located in Moscow. Finals of both men's and women's events were held 30 July at the Olympiiski Indoor Stadium.

neg: Alexey Filonov Aleksey Yuryevich Filonov (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич Филонов ; born 1961) is a Russian swimmer who won silver medals in the 4×100 m and 4×200 m freestyle relays at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships. He also won three medals at the Summer Universiades of 1981 and 1983.

neg: Portugal at the 1980 Summer Olympics Portugal competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.

neg: Zara (Russian singer) Zarifa Pashaevna Mgoyan (Russian: Зарифа́ Паша́евна Мгоя́н ); (born 26 July 1983 in Leningrad, Soviet Union), known as Zara (За́ра ), is a Russian pop singer, actress and social activist. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2016).

neg: Vladimir Fontikov Vladimir Karnikovich Fontikov (May 17, 1941 – October 12, 1987) was a Soviet opera singer best known for his interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky's "Boris Gudunov".

neg: Elena Neklyudova Elena Vsevolodovna Neklyudova Russian: Елена Всеволодовна Неклюдова — born Elena Soleynikova (Russian: Елена Солейникова ) in Pskov in the west of Russia is a singer-songwriter. Her repertoire ranges from alternative rock to smooth jazz. Some of her charting hits are 'Убегаю" Russian: "Running away" , "Жизнь" Russian: "The Life" and "Любить'" Russian: "To Love" .

neg: Nicaragua at the 1980 Summer Olympics Nicaragua competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.


query: Judah ben Bava was a rabbi in the 2nd century who ordained a number of rabbis at a time when the Roman government forbade this ceremony, Rabbi Judah ben Bava was killed by Hadrian's soldiers at which age?

pos: Judah ben Bava Judah ben Bava was a rabbi in the 2nd century who ordained a number of rabbis at a time when the Roman government forbade this ceremony. The penalty was execution for the ordainer and the new rabbis. The rabbis ordained by Rabbi Judah ben Bava include Judah ben Ilai. Rabbi Judah ben Bava was killed by Hadrian's soldiers at the age of seventy, and is known as one of the Ten Martyrs. Rabbi Judah ben Bava was caught by Hadrian's soldiers while ordaining his students. He told his students to run, but he himself was too old. Hadrian's soldiers threw 300 javelins at him, causing his death.

pos: Hadrian Hadrian ( ; Latin: "Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus" ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He is known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Britannia. He also rebuilt the Pantheon and constructed the Temple of Venus and Roma. Philhellene in most of his tastes, he is considered by some to have been a humanist, and he is regarded as the third of the Five Good Emperors.

neg: Nicodemus ben Gurion Nicodemus ben Gurion (Hebrew: נקדימון בן גוריון Nakdimon ben Gurion) was a wealthy Jew who lived in Jerusalem in the 1st century CE. He is believed by some to be identical to the Nicodemus mentioned in the Gospel of John. Elsewhere he is discussed in Josephus' history, "The Jewish War", and later, rabbinic works: Lamentations Rabbah, Ecclesiastes Rabbah, the Babylonian Talmud, and Avot of Rabbi Natan.

neg: Samuel ben Nahman Samuel ben Nahman (Hebrew: שמואל בן נחמן  ) or Samuel [bar] Nahmani (Hebrew: שמואל [בר] נחמני  ) was a rabbi of the Talmud, known as an amora, who lived in the Land of Israel from the beginning of the 3rd century until the beginning of the 4th century. He was a pupil of R. Jonathan ben Eleazar (Pes. 24a) and one of the most famous haggadists of his time (Yer. Ber. 12d; Midr. Teh. to Ps. ix. 2). He was a native of the Land of Israel and may have known the patriarch Judah I (Gen R. ix.). It appears that he went to Babylon in his youth but soon returned to Israel (Sanh. 96b).

neg: Nathan ben Jehiel Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome (Hebrew: נתן בן יחיאל מרומי; "Nathan ben Y'ḥiel Mi Romi" according to Sephardic pronunciation), known as the Arukh, ( 1035 – 1106) was a Jewish Italian lexicographer. He was born in Rome not later than 1035 to one of the most notable Roman families of Jewish scholars. Owing to an error propagated by Azulai, he has been regarded as a scion of the house of De Pomis. Now, however, it is regarded as almost a certainty that he belonged to the Anaw (Degli Mansi) family. Nathan's father, R. Jehiel ben Abraham, aside from being an acknowledged authority on the ritual law, was, like the majority of the contemporary Italian rabbis, a liturgic poet.

neg: Zechariah ben Jehoiada Zechariah ben Jehoiada (; Arabic: زكريّا بن يهوياداع  "Zakariya bin Yehuyada") is regarded as one of the Prophets of the Tanakh in Judaism, and is possibly alluded to in the New Testament. He is mostly known for being stoned to death and his blood subsequently boiling during the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II.

neg: Herod Archelaus Herod Archelaus (Greek: Ἡρώδης Ἀρχέλαος , "Hērōdēs Archelaos"; 23 BCE – c. 18 CE) was ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea (biblical Edom), including the cities Caesarea and Jaffa, for a period of nine years ("circa" 4 BCE to 6 CE). Archelaus was removed by Roman Emperor Augustus when Judaea province was formed under direct Roman rule, at the time of the Census of Quirinius. He was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace the Samaritan, and was the brother of Herod Antipas, and the half-brother of Herod II. Archelaus (a name meaning "leading the people") came to power after the death of his father Herod the Great in 4 BCE, and ruled over one-half of the territorial dominion of his father.

neg: Epes the Southerner Epes the Southerner (Hebrew:   , translit: "Efes ha-Daromi") or Rabbi Epes, was a scholar of the 3rd century, secretary to the patriarch Judah I (Gen. R. lxxv. 5), and one of the last tannaim. After Judah's death, while Efes conducted a college in southern Judea, on account of which he was called "Efes (in Yerushalmi, "Pas") Daromi" (Yer. Ta'an. iv. 68a; Eccl. R. vii. 7), he was made principal of the academy at Sepphoris, although the dying patriarch had ordered the appointment of Ḥanina b. Ḥama to that position. The latter refused to supersede Efes, who was his senior by two years and a half (Shab. 59b; Ket. 103b; compare Yer. l.c.; Eccl. R. l.c.).

neg: Judah ben Tabbai Judah ben Tabbai was a Jewish religious leader of the early 1st century BCE. He was a contemporary of Simeon ben Shetach. During the persecution of the Pharisees under Alexander Jannaeus (r. 103-76 BCE), Judah fled to Alexandria, returning after Jannaeus' death. Judah b. Tabbai was accused by Simeon b. Shetach of wrongfully executing a witness for political purposes (namely, to send a message to the opposition Sadducee party). Judah b. Tabbai then resolved to judge only according to Simeon b. Shetach, and spent the rest of his days weeping prostrate over the grave of his victim.

neg: Rav Berona R. Berona (or Rav Bruna, Beruna or Baruna; Hebrew: רב ברונא) was a second generation Jewish Amora sage of Babylon. His "Teacher par excellence" was R. Abba Arika. He also submitted statements in the name of Samuel of Nehardea. It is storied that R. Rabbi Ilai II was fond of him, and had asked Ulla when he arrives in Babylon to send his regards in the presence of all the members of the college, "for he is a great man and rejoices to perform a precept", since one day he managed to link Prayers of Redemption to the Amidah "and a smile did not leave his lips the whole day". He debated R. Judah ben Ezekiel.

neg: Judah the Prince Judah the Prince (Hebrew: יהודה הנשיא , "Yehudah HaNasi" or "Judah HaNasi") or Judah I, also known as Rabbi () or Rabbenu HaQadosh (, "our Master, the holy one"), was a second-century rabbi and chief redactor and editor of the "Mishnah". He was a key leader of the Jewish community during the Roman occupation of Judea. According to the Talmud he was of the Davidic line, the royal line of David, hence the title "nasi" "prince". The title "nasi" was also used for presidents of the Sanhedrin. Judah HaNasi died on 15 Kislev, AM 3978 (around December 1, 217 CE).

neg: Abba Arika Abba Arikha (175–247) (Talmudic Aramaic: אבא אריכא ; born: "Abba bar Aybo", Hebrew: רב אבא בר איבו) was a Jewish Talmudist who was born and lived in Kafri, Sassanid Babylonia, known as an amora (commentator on the Oral Law) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the "Mishnah" as text, led to the compilation of the "Talmud". With him began the long period of ascendancy of the great academies of Babylonia , around the year 220. He is commonly known simply as Rav (or Rab, Hebrew: רב ).

neg: Joseph Karo Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro (1488 – March 24, 1575, 13 Nisan 5335 A.M.), was author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the "Shulchan Aruch", which is still authoritative for all Jews pertaining to their respective communities. To this end he is often referred to as HaMechaber (Hebrew: "The Author"  ) and as Maran (Aramaic: ""Our Master"").

neg: Lulianos and Paphos Lulianos and Paphos (2nd-century CE) were two wealthy Jewish brothers who lived in Laodicea in Asia Minor, contemporaries with Rabbi Yehoshua ben Hananiah, and who suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Roman legate.

neg: Temple of Hadrian The Temple of Hadrian is a temple to the deified Hadrian on the Campus Martius in Rome, Italy, built by his adoptive son and successor Antoninus Pius in 145 and now incorporated into a later building in the Piazza di Pietra (Piazza of Stone – derived from use of the temple's stones to build the piazza). It was once erroneously known as the Temple of Neptune.

neg: Judah Judah (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה – often transliterated "Yehudah") was the fourth son of the Biblical patriarch Jacob (Israel).

neg: Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire The persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire began late during the reign of Constantine the Great, when he ordered the pillaging and the tearing down of some temples. The first anti-pagan laws by the Christian state started with Constantine's son Constantius II, who was an opponent of paganism; he ordered the closing of all pagan temples, forbade pagan sacrifices under pain of death, and removed the traditional Altar of Victory from the Senate. Under his reign ordinary Christians began to vandalise pagan temples, tombs and monuments. This persecution had proceeded after a period of persecution of Christians in the Empire.

neg: Phinehas ben Jair Phinehas ben Jair (Hebrew: פנחס בן יאיר ) was a "Tanna" of the 4th generation who lived, probably at Lydda, in the second half of the 2nd century. He was the son-in-law of Shimon bar Yochai and a fellow disciple of Judah I. He was more celebrated for piety than for learning, although his discussions with his son-in-law ("Shab." 33b) evince great sagacity and a profound knowledge of tradition.

neg: Rabbi Meir Rabbi Meir or Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes (Rabbi Meir the miracle maker) was a Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Mishna. He was considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the fourth generation (139-163). According to the Talmud, his father was a descendant of the Roman Emperor Nero who had converted to Judaism. His wife Bruriah is one of the few women cited in the Gemara. He is the third most frequently mentioned sage in the Mishnah.

neg: Amaziah of Judah Amaziah of Judah, pronounced , was a king of Judah, the son and successor of Joash. His mother was Jehoaddan (2 Kings ) and his son was Uzziah (2 Chronicles ). He took the throne at the age of 25, after the assassination of his father, and reigned for 29 years, ( , ) 24 years of which were with the co-regency of his son. The Hebrew Bible considers him a righteous king. He is praised for killing the assassins of his father "only" and sparing their children, as dictated by the law of Moses.

neg: Yadua the Babylonian Yadua the Babylonian (Hebrew:   , translit: "Yadua HaBavli") was a 2nd-century "tanna" of the fifth generation. He was born in Babylonia but subsequently moved to Syria Palæstina, becoming the pupil of Rabbi Meir, a prominent rabbi and student of the Acher (Elisha ben Avuyah), one of the leading "tannaim" who became a heretic.

neg: Joseph ibn Ezra Rabbi Josef ben Isaac ibn Ezra was an oriental rabbi of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, descended from Ibn Ezra family of Spain. Brought up in Salonica, he studied under the direction of Rabbi Samuel de Medina, and became head of the Talmudic school there; among his pupils were Aaron Hazzan, Meir Melammed, and Shabbethai Jonah. Late in life Ibn Ezra was compelled to seek refuge in Constantinople, where he was called to the rabbinate of Sofia, and where he would die.


query: who has the highest film making skills  Arthur Ripley or  Mel Stuart

pos: Arthur Ripley Arthur DeWitt Ripley (January 12, 1897 – February 13, 1961) was an American film screenwriter, editor, producer and director.

pos: Mel Stuart Mel Stuart (born Stuart Solomon; September 2, 1928 – August 9, 2012) was an American film director and producer, who often worked with producer David L. Wolper, whose production firm he worked for 17 years, before going freelance.

neg: Michael Seymour (production designer) Michael Seymour (born 1932) is a British production designer. He won a BAFTA and was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for work on the film "Alien".

neg: Marty (film) Marty is a 1955 American romantic drama film directed by Delbert Mann. The screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky, expanding upon his 1953 teleplay of the same name. The film stars Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. In addition to gaining an Academy Award for Best Picture, the film enjoyed international success, becoming the fourth American film to win top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and by a unanimous vote, becoming the first film to be awarded the "Palme d'Or". "Marty" and "The Lost Weekend" (1945) are the only two films to win both organizations' grand prizes.

neg: Barry and Stuart Barry and Stuart (Barry Jones and Stuart MacLeod) are two Scottish BAFTA nominated magicians and comedians whose work has been seen on television and on stage around the world. The double act are known for their comically dark performing style, for taking as inspiration the accounts of Biblical miracles and faking paranormal phenomena to form the basis for some of their illusions.

neg: Murray Melvin Murray Melvin (born 10 August 1932) is an English stage and film actor noted for his work with Joan Littlewood, Ken Russell and Stanley Kubrick. He is the author of two books: "The Art of Theatre Workshop" (2006) and "The Theatre Royal, A History of the Building" (2009).

neg: Phil Abramson Phil Abramson (March 13, 1933 – July 5 1987) was an American set decorator. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".

neg: Michael A. Carter Michael A. Carter (died September 21, 2004) was a British sound engineer. He was nominated for Academy Awards in the Best Sound category for A Passage to India and Aliens. He worked on over 60 films between 1984 and 2004.

neg: Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show "Your Show of Shows". He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit "The 2000 Year Old Man". He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series "Get Smart", which ran from 1965 to 1970.

neg: Delbert Mann Delbert Martin Mann Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film "Marty" (1955), adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. In 2002, he received the DGA's honorary life member award. Mann was credited to have "helped bring TV techniques to the film world."

neg: Carol Reed Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for "Odd Man Out" (1947), "The Fallen Idol" (1948) and "The Third Man" (1949). For "Oliver!" (1968), he received the Academy Award for Best Director.

neg: Victor Brooks (actor) Victor Brooks (11 November 1918 – 19 January 2000) was a prolific English film and television actor. He specialised in character roles, police officers in particular. His best known roles in film were "Goldfinger" (1964), "The Brides of Dracula" (1960) and "Billy Budd" (1962). On television, he was noted for playing a pipe-smoking authority figure in crime series like "Dixon of Dock Green", "Gideon's Way", "Detective", "Z Cars" and "Crown Court". He also appeared in the television series "Raffles", in the recurring role of the Albany porter.

neg: Mel Wesson Mel Wesson (born 12 February 1958) is a British film, TV and video game composer and ambient music designer. He is a highly influential 'musical sound designer' in Hollywood having worked on many blockbuster films, yet his sound is often hard to describe or even identify. He is probably best known for his collaboration work with Hans Zimmer and has contributed with both ambient music design and music to some of last decades biggest Hollywood blockbusters. He has also made numerous production music CDs for Extreme Music which loosely feature some of the atmospheric textures in his world of ambient music design.

neg: Stuart Urban Stuart Urban (born 1958) is a British film and television director.

neg: Roger Corman Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American independent film producer, director, screenwriter, entertainment businessman, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and "Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a long-time member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award.

neg: John Stuart (actor) John Stuart (born John Alfred Louden Croall; 18 July 1898 – 17 October 1979), was a Scottish actor, and a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He appeared in two films directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

neg: Arthur Lawson (designer) Arthur Lawson (1908–1970) was a British art director. He had a long association with film directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, beginning in 1943 when he was floor manager on "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". Three years later, when Powell and Pressburger, also known as The Archers, made "A Matter of Life and Death", Lawson had graduated to assistant art director. He worked with Alfred Junge on the sets for "Black Narcissus" in 1947, and earned an Oscar for the set designs on "The Red Shoes" in 1948. Lawson’s association with Powell continued right through to "Peeping Tom" (1960). He received a BAFTA nomination for "The Bedford Incident" in 1965.

neg: Max Arthur Max Arthur OBE is an oral and military historian and author who specialises in first-hand recollections of the twentieth century in particular the First and Second World War. His most noted work is 'Forgotten Voices of the Great War' and 'Forgotten Voices of the Second World War' both in association with the Imperial War Museum.

neg: Mani Ratnam filmography Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He is credited with redefining the "range and depth of Tamil cinema", and is regarded as one of the greatest Indian filmmakers. As of 2016, he has directed 24 films, and produced over 15 under his production company Madras Talkies.

neg: Jonathan Ripley Jonathan Ripley is an English writer, director, and producer of stage and screen.

neg: Night Train to Munich Night Train to Munich is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison. Written by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder, based on the novel "Report on a Fugitive" by Gordon Wellesley, the film is about an inventor and his daughter who are kidnapped by the Gestapo after the Nazis march into Prague in the prelude to the Second World War. A British secret service agent follows them, disguised as a senior German army officer pretending to woo the daughter over to the Nazi cause.

neg: Ret Turner Walter Raymond "Ret" Turner (April 14, 1929 – May 4, 2016) was an American costume designer, best known for his dressing of entertainment icons such as Cher, Lucille Ball, Barry Manilow, Neil Diamond, Shirley Booth, Lily Tomlin, Marie Osmond, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, Billy Crystal, and Jean Stapleton. He had 23 Emmy nominations and five wins.